🌖 Citizen K 🌓

Roiling international markets as of Sunday evening ET

Ouch: US benchmark oil price is up 6% today and 21% this week.
Source: Investing.com

You reap what you sow.

boo effin’ hoo

🟠 DC’s newest “attraction:” menacing Trump banner hanging from the US Department of Agriculture HQ—alongside a Lincoln banner. Shades of Kim Jong Eun.
[📷: Eric Garcia/The Independent]

Outstanding! 😂

There was a dull shyster from Queens
who ripped us off by any means.
Rapacious, salacious,
ungracious, sebaceous,
his life nothing less than obscene.

The King thought that he held dominion
because he was told by his minions
that his red-hatted idiots—
those poor mental midgets—
would grovel before his opinions.

And to think that his pathologies were on display all along—during his constant society outings (like Studio 54) in The Big Apple, on “The Apprentice,” and in his murky business dealings. It’s no excuse, but imagine how cold his childhood must have been. He’s so sad; too bad we all have to suffer.

Trump threatens 25% tariff on Apple iPhones and 50% on EU products starting June 1 Trump’s threat against Apple appeared to be a tacit admission that importers and consumers, rather than foreign countries, are responsible for paying the tariffs he has imposed and threatened to impos...

🔵 Will Trump ever stop d*cking around with tariffs and making threats to trading partners? A 50% tariff on EU products starting in just one week is designed to roil markets.
www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

🔴 Re: taking back Harvard grants and barring enrollment of international students, Trump’s administration shows its:
🔵 anti-intellectualism
🔵 xenophobia
🔵 isolationism
🔵 commitment to retribution
🔵 disregard for educational freedom
🔵 exclusion of top-notch students.

I hope Harvard fights and wins.

We’re “governed” by banana Republicans.

🔴 This corruption infuriates me. I was a federal employee for 30 years and we were required to take annual ethics training including refreshers on The Hatch Act. My agency was strict on enforcement of ethics codes. This administration completely undermines the credibility of all career feds.

Stunning!

Supreme Court deadlock leaves in place ruling blocking nation’s first religious charter school | CNN Politics The Supreme Court split evenly Thursday in a high-profile challenge over the nation’s first religious charter school, leaving in place a ruling from Oklahoma’s top court that found the proposed Cathol...

🔵 Church and State: Good news as The Supreme Court rendered a split decision on the use of public funds for a religious charter school. SCOTUS thus left in place a decision in Oklahoma to deny the use of funds for that purpose.
www.cnn.com/2025/05/22/p...

Yup yup yup

Thanks! I used to do a lot of photography as a creative release during a tough personal time. I figure I’ll try it again during an even tougher time.

🔵 Lately I’ve been capturing images of what life in DC is like before democracy meets its demise.

I want to remember.

What has our country turned into? Trump has single-handedly coarsened our national discourse.

The following post makes me ponder, what qualifies as a “shithole country “?

Happy b’day, “Pet Sounds” — released by The Beach Boys today in 1966 and a groundbreaking influence in music. 🎂

“I bought my kids each a copy of it for their education in life,” Paul McCartney once said. “I figure no one is educated musically until they’ve heard this album.”

“Wouldn’t It Be Nice”

If only!

I’d be tempted to trade Trump for Putin at this point.

🇺🇦 I just love this guy. I’m on tenterhooks waiting to see how obstructive the Russian “negotiating team” will be, and how little Rubio will contribute.

On the lighter side, here’s an item from a recent police blotter for Federal Way, WA.

Veterans know about trust - how trust is given and how trust is earned.

Our nation continues to face a crisis of trust - and all of us can and must take action to change that.

yup yup yup

It was nice while it lasted.

Obama turned down a *book* to comply with ethics rules surrounding gifts.

Trump is accepting a jet.

That’s the difference.

peace

Just drink more and you won’t care.