Ted Cruz and Bessent?

🪻🪻not many will get that reference!!

"...If the Republicans successfully allowed the tax credits to expire--if "they" won--they would be handing the Democrats a cudgel with which to beat them in the elections."

Trump did not write this. Take it from a writing professor ....

This--THIS! the best Great Gatsby quote OF ALL TIME--is truly the best commentary on our era. As is the last line of the novel: "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

So ... I'm a fifth generation Californian, born and raised in LA, and my grandmother was born in SF in 1899. I've lived in Northern CA now for 36 years--and I love it and would not move back to LA. But once a Dodger fan always a Dodger fan!

Yes. We've done it for decades, and voting by mail is our norm. The upside is that our voting is very secure; the downside is that final tabulations can take weeks. (I'm willing to live with that, btw.)

FYI for those not residing in CA or familiar with CA's counties: the five listed are all largely populated by Spanish-speaking voters: Kern, Riverside, Fresno, Orange, and Los Angeles.

Someone explain to me what authority he has to do this? Jackie Kennedy ordering new china or re-doing parts of the White House is one thing, but destroying a whole wing? Or laying a concrete slab to replace a beautiful rose garden? I hope President Pritzger/Newsom/Buttigieg can reverse things fast.