DAY ONE

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9RweR9EUSg&t=929s You've Been Trumped Too. Recently Pope Francis daises Holy Hell over Trump's Biggest 'Day 1' Promise https://cimages.me/content/DAY-ONE Trump did not place his hand on Bibles held for him while he said "I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." Then it was Castro 2.5 as he rambled on and on... etc.

RENAISSANCE MAN

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The Renaissance man is an outstandingly versatile, well-rounded person, who performed brilliantly in his different fields.

PEOPLES MARCH

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The People's March in DC was a day of joyful resistance, community building, and action. To hear inspiring speakers, access resources for long-term resistance, and march together to show the nation that real power lies with the people-and our resistance is unshakable.

TIK TOK

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SCOTUS unanimously upheld a federal law that could ban TikTok in the US unless ByteDance, its Chinese parent company, sells the video-sharing platform.

The justices (read the ruling) rejected TikTok's free speech challenge, allowing the law to take effect tomorrow—the deadline for ByteDance to divest its ownership. Congress passed the bipartisan legislation last year because of concerns about Chinese government influence, including potential manipulation of user content and sensitive data collection from more than 170 million American users of the app.

CARTOONS

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The Republicans in Congress might have been slow to help Americans in need, but are they now trying to kill a law that saves lives and keeps those in need from getting screwed over?!?

FANTASY ISLAND?

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Cuba’s so-called puppet president, el Ratoncito Miguel Díaz-Canel gave a letter to the Supreme Pontiff announcing the prisoner release.

BACKGROUND CHECKS

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Background checks are normal for key staff positions in all presidential administrations. I had one one on me.

According to published reports,  US Justice Department officials supervise background checks of nominees. As the FBI investigations focus on "character and conduct" and are completed "as expeditiously as possible," according to the agency

POTUS FINAL WARNING

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POTUS delivers his final address to our nation with an alarming warning. Will Democracy die in plain sight by non-nonparticipating voters while elected autocrats subvert by packing and “weaponizing” the courts along with other neutral agencies, buying off the media and the private sector or bullying them into silence and rewriting the rules to tilt the playing field against opponents? The tragic paradox of the electoral route to authoritarianism is that democracy’s assassins use the very institutions of democracy gradually, subtly, and even legally—to kill it?