Fiat justitia ruat caelum
@itasanders
Retired legislative history attorney and researcher. Busy retiree, wife, mother, grandmother, reader, gardener, traveler, and voting Californian. Will join coalitions of the sane. They are out there … We are all keepers of the flame.🗽
The famous phrase "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers" comes from Shakespeare’s play, Henry VI, and is spoken by the character Dick the Butcher, plotting a violent overthrow of the government. And here we are … Project 2025 is the Godzilla overthrowing our country.
GOP attacked Obama for wearing a tan suit, crying it was disrespectful to the office. GOP supports a convicted felon and rapist using the office to avoid his criminal past while stealing millions$, and more. Both, the pedantic and the historically consequential, sits squarely on the GOP’s shoulders.
There truly are more important values than extreme monetary achievement. This, here, is a high valued life:
It is an obvious question with an obvious answer in today’s GOP and magaland.
“Across the country we are seeing Democratic candidates calling … (for) policy demands (that) are not radical; they are firmly within the political tradition not just of the Democrats, but also of the Republicans.” Heather Cox Richardson, June 26, 2026
“In addition to the memorial arch, Trump intends to rebuild the East Potomac golf course and install a new sculpture garden, and has floated plans to paint the Eisenhower Executive Office Building white, to match the West Wing next door.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
That is exactly what these thieves did to the first two editions of my husband’s genetics textbook. No warning, no legal consequences they can’t buy themselves out of by paying out millions in damages since they have billions. No respect for the authors and researchers. Instead, they did the math.
This is full-on creepy. In 1991 even Mad Magazine knew who Trump was. He never changed except to become a worse version of this guy right here …
California voters, If you have not yet voted by mail by now, use a drop box. Do not put it in the mailbox. Changes to USPS postmark rules mean that it may not be postmarked for up to 5 business days. If not postmarked on or before Tuesday then it will not be counted. I dropped mine in a drop box.
Americans demanding Constitutional protections for ICE detainees ARE the enemy of Trump and his masked and heavily armed magats army.
I am on page 17 of this book and I have not yet run into a “period” - “.” Yet, for some reason, all of the “and” paragraphs flow naturally, without me scratching my itch asking (demanding!) where is that period?! It’s a pretty interesting story, so far, 17 pages in….
Heather Cox Richardson has launched one minute videos as tributes to Americans. Here you go! www.youtube.com/watch?v
Heather Cox Richardson today wrote about the events leading up to the creation of the Arlington National Cemetery and our country’s Memorial Day’s history, ending with this letter written near the start of the Civil War by Major Sullivan Ballou:
If Harris were president, we would never have witnessed the shockingly easy dismantling of our gov’t by one party’s president, Congress, and SCOTUS, all in the name of greed and Christian nat’lism. I would have preferred Pres. Harris over these painful truths about the feeble impotence of our gov’t.
Keep hammering home and around the kitchen tables: it’s all about affordability and Trump’s self-enrichment presidency. Does anybody honestly think Trump would ever share $1.8billion of our tax monies when he could stash it away across the globe?
I just want to say that when that damn rapture finally makes its appearance, it better not leave Trump behind.
Why is Steyer wasting his million$$ running for a political office with no background or relevant work experience? I wd never call in to interview nor hire someone with that thin a resume for the job of governor. Watching the chaos from the WH every single day, why would I want that for California?
There are so many murdered and imprisoned victims of Trump’s secret and masked ICE police. Why are we tolerating it? Why still? Why children? What is wrong with us that we cannot stop this?
Everyone was warned - objectively anyone with eyes and ears learned quickly what kind of man Trump was and could have predicted at least 50% of the shit he has pulled and the type of damage to Americans and to our country.
Brown’s relentless and insightful pursuit of the truth exposed the young victims of sexual assault and abuses by powerful friends of Epstein. Now we all will need our own relentless pursuit of justice for these victims and to expose their powerful and complicit perpetrators.
In time for Mother’s Day. It’s going to be a sad read recognizing how much our three branches of government are working so hard to stop the progress of the three sons of these three mothers. I am glad, though, to learn more about these women’s histories. 📚
Dear Mr. Banksey, The U.S. has its own version. It’s a daily problem. Sometimes it’s a minute-by-minute problem. Sadly, stepping off the edge as often as he does gleefully and recklessly seems not to solve our problem. With affection and respect, A Fan of Democracy