DTwyman

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Retired Government, film & broadcasting teacher. Politics & economics watcher, gardener & cat ❤️- Darth Kitty is one of my cats. If you don’t appreciate science, journalism, enjoy a good movie or think politics is a spectator sport, I’m not your thing.

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"Trump offers an easy escape from the pain....Trump’s promises are the needle in America’s collective vein. Trump is cultural heroin. He makes some feel better for a bit. But he cannot fix what ails them, and one day they’ll realize it." - JD Vance 2016

One of the differences between Democrats and Republicans is that when Democrats have an elected official who has committed a crime they seek his ouster. #Menedez

What else is there to say?

Judge Cannon dismisses classified docs case —> says Jack Smith appointment is unconstitutional. I’d say we are in Banana Republic territory but that’s insulting to many places that grow bananas.

Swallowtail butterfly amidst the phlox & coneflower.

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He says 1Tablespoon per gallon of water of Arm and Hammer "Super Washing Soda" has worked well for him. He says, "warn him, it's habit forming."

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The power of high school general science class (an electrolysis tank made from household items and a $30 manual battery charger off of Amazon). I'll ask about the mixture when he gets back from my granddaughter's softball game 😊

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Here's a picture of one of his projects mid process. Soup you do not want to drink!

I'm thinking of having this framed. #Climate

Should've, would've, could've...

My son is experimenting with electrolysis, this is an Antique Cast iron stove top cover, before & after.

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Naturally Gov. Abbot is out of the country during a bad weather event when the grid collapses (AGAIN), he is clearly taking a page from Ted Cruz’s book. BTW, Texas is trying to negotiate price with all of the out of state linemen instead of just paying them a fair wage.

Sunset at Stonehenge last night .

Polls this week, Biden-Trump. Trump's lead appears to be gone: 50%-48% NPR/Marist 44%-42% GW/YouGov 47%-46% Split Ticket/DfP 47%-46% Clarity 50%-50% Emerson 46%-46% WaPo 42%-43% R & W 42%-43% Bendixen/Amandi 41%-42% Big Village 42%-44% Morning Consult 40%-43% Econ/YouGov

This was the White House economic analysis from 3 years ago, at a time when so many economists were predicting we were heading into a recession at best and potentially a depression, Biden’s team’s analysis looks exactly right.

Two things you can count on: Trump lies and Project 2025 is his dog!

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on her articles of impeachment against Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito:

Trump added almost twice as much as Biden to the national debt – Trump's tax cuts for billionaires cost MORE than Biden's Inflation Reduction Act, the American Rescue Plan, the Infrastructure Bill, CHIP, PACT, Child Tax Credit. Tax the Rich, pay for what’s important!

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Professor Lictman, who has called every election since 1982, disagrees with the Biden must go rhetoric. He thinks replacing Biden would be a huge mistake, FWIW, I think he’s correct but then again I pay attention to history.

Polls closed in France. Exit polls show a big surprise: —Left coalition (New Popular Front) projected first. (!) —Far-right (RN) has lost its bid to take power. Anti-RN front appears to have worked very well. —No bloc close to majority. Pollsters were wrong!

Today’s gentle reminder that we can all use a good editor!* * Thomas Jefferson's handwritten draft of our Declaration of Independence (with revisions by John Adams and Benjamin Franklin), 1776

“For mankind is ever the same and nothing is lost out of nature, though everything is altered.” ~ John Dryden, in “On the Characters in the Canterbury Tales.”

Hey guys, remember that time when Bill Clinton and Loretta Lynch met on a tarmac because they both happen to have arrived at the same time? Remember how right wing went absolutely nuts about this for years? Good times, good times!

Confirmation Bias: the tendency to interpret new evidence as confirmation of one's existing beliefs or theories.

RNC Member Proposed Jailing Women for Abortions One of the leaders of the Republican National Convention’s platform committee, has advocated for a national ban without exceptions for rape or incest & suggested jailing women who get abortions & the doctors who perform them.

In case anybody needs historical references here's this reminder from Sun Tzu.

And now this regarding Trump's sexual assault on two underage girls, provided to him by Epstein. Perhaps we should be more concerned with the convicted rapist, accused pedophile & convicted felon threatening to end democracy, than the old guy with a cold. TRIGGER WARNING

Before he married Melania 2005, Trump regularly called Jeffrey Epstein in 2004. Trump’s phone messages are in the W. Palm Beach indictment of Epstein, released today. His messages appear between girls calling to confirm “massage appointments” & calls from disgraced modeling agent Jean Luc Brunel.