Oslo's Aftenposten depicts #DonaldTrump as a lame Donald Duck after the #midtermelections #BlueWave; the #BlueTsunami is making headlines around the world (11.5.26)

I'm breaking my fast with #dairyfree coconut yogurt, wild blueberries, organic walnuts & raw cacao nibs, eating for the first time in 19.5 hours; read the Mercy for Animals report on #AnimalCruelty in the #dairy industry: 🫐 dairy.mercyforanimals.org

#WillRogers was born in Oklahoma #OnThisDay in 1879 back when it was still 'Indian Territory,' a member of the #Cherokee nation as well as an actor, performer, humorist & columnist & remember for his wit & wisdom, a folksy American version of Oscar Wilde... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Ro...

#Trumpism "was a demagogic response to the material realities of a profoundly unequal & increasingly precarious society & it's best fought by uniting a defense of liberal democracy with a pro-worker economic message," writes @benburgis.bsky.social of the #BlueWave2026: jacobin.com/2026/11/midt...

Hans Sachs (1494), Pietro Longhi (1701), Eugene V. Debs (1855), Will Durant (1885), Walter Gieseking (1895), Vivien Leigh (1913), Art Garfunkel (1941), Sam Shepard III (1943), Bernard-Henri Lévy (1948), Tilda Swinton (1960) & Tatum O’Neal (1963) were born #OnThisDay...

I predicted that Democrats would retake the House & the Senate but I didn't imagine the #BlueWave would turn into a #Blunami. I love how the NY Post is recognizing the "historic rebuke" of #DonaldTrump using "The Great Wave Off Kanagawa of Hokusai to illustrate it~! (11.4.26)

I fell & tore my meniscus 10 years ago yesterday; this is me in the emergency room getting stitches; the injury required arthroscopic surgery three months later; the good news is that the surgery brought my knee back to 95% with only occasional twinges if I bend my knee the wrong way (11.3.16)

I took my one & (so far) only ambulance ride 10 years ago yesterday; it cost a small fortune but fortunately insurance paid for most of it; I'm happy to say that the EMTs were helpful & I got really good care in the emergency room (11.3.16)

#AlexanderBorodin's #opera "Prince Igor" (Князь Игорь) premiered at the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg #OnThisDay in 1890; the wild Polovetsian dances are justly famous, as seen in the 1969 Soviet film of the opera: www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3A1... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_...

#LauraBush was born in Midland, TX #OnThisDay in 1946; Robert Mapplethorpe was born in Queens (New York) on this day in 1946; what a strange coincidence that the epitome of conservative gentility & a pioneer of #homoerotic #photography were born on the very same day~! www.mapplethorpe.org/biography/

#RobertMapplethorpe was born in Queens #OnThisDay in 1946 & sadly died of complications related to HIV/AIDS in 1989, but not before creating great art through his photography, some of it #homoerotic & meeting with #homophobia... www.mapplethorpe.org/biography/ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_...

#OnThisDay in 1922, British archaeologist Howard Carter & his workmen discovered the tomb of #Tutankhamen in the Valley of the Kings in #Egypt, the greatest find in the history of Egyptology... #KingTutDay www.history.com/this-day-in-...

#WilfredOwen was killed in battle #OnThisDay in 1918, just a week before the end of World War I; he was one of the greatest of the anti-war poets of his era & wrote powerfully about the dreadful reality of #war; "Anthem for Doomed Youth" is Owen's most famous poem: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilfred...

#OnThisDay in 1956, Soviet tanks rolled into Budapest to crush the Hungarian revolution; 70 years later, Hungarians threw out Viktor Orbán's fascist Fidesz government in a landslide election in #Hungary... www.history.com/this-day-in-...

House Speaker #MikeJohnson will be handing his gavel over in January; he has a brilliant future in lawn mowing back in his native Louisiana~! #BlueWave2026 #BlueTsunami2026

Johnny Oberg (@johnoberg.bsky.social): "Animals don't belong behind bars. RT if you agree. ❌" #돼지 #Schweine #griser #cochons #maiali

#DonaldTrump told voters to imagine that his name was on the ballot & they did~! The #BlueWave was a repudiation of the orange fascist, his tariffs & his illegal #IranWar; it was a #BlueTsunami of rejection of Orangina Trumpolini~!

Quds News Network (@qudsnen.bsky.social): "Dr. Adam Hamawy, an Egyptian-American surgeon & former US Army combat doctor, has won a seat in the US House of Representatives. In May 2024, Hamawi volunteered at Gaza's European Hospital as part of an international medical team...":

#KathyHochul won 60.1% of the vote to #BruceBlakeman's 39.7% defeating the Republican by more than a million votes (3,550,354 to 2,345,191): #DonaldTrump was an albatross around his neck & dragged him down to ignominious defeat; bye, Felicia Blakeman~!

Edward Crankshaw writes "Otto von Bismarck suffered from a vulgar failing impossible to reconcile with the sort of greatness claimed for him: the inability to understand that by trusting nobody, he made it inevitable that nobody could trust him..." (p. 336); the same could be said of #DonaldTrump~!

Guido Reni (1575), Anthony van Hoboken (1756), G.E. Moore (1873), #WillRogers (1879), Walter Cronkite (1916), Shakuntala Devi (1929), Didier Ratsiraka (1936), Loretta Swit (1937), Robert Mapplethorpe (1946), Laura Bush (1946) Traian Băsescu (1951) & Sean Combs (1969) were born #OnThisDay...

NBC is projecting that Democrats have retaken the US Senate & there are blue states yet to be called; the #BlueWave is turning into a #BlueTsunami~! #BlueNami

#VincenzoBellini was born #OnThisday in 1801, helping to create the #belcanto style in #opera; this is Montserrat Caballé singing Bellini's greatest aria — "Casta Diva" from his masterpiece "Norma": www.youtube.com/watch?v=82ZL... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincenz...

#OnThisDay in 1957, the Soviet Union launched the first animal into space — a dog named #Laika — aboard Sputnik 2; the Siberian husky died after the batteries of her life support system ran down raising profound questions of the ethics of using animals in space flight www.history.com/this-day-in-...

#OnThisDay in 1918, sailors & workers in Kiel launched a revolt against Kaiser Wilhelm II's incompetent & authoritarian regime; the #KielerMatrosenaufstand would lead to a revolution that would establish #democracy in #Germany... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiel_mu... www.history.com/this-day-in-...

Mitchell Plitnick: "The result makes it clear. The Florida Senate seat was a winnable race. It's clear that Angie Nixon for Florida could have won if the Democratic party had supported her. A counter factual is never certain, but this outcome strongly suggests that the Democrats gave this one away"

Raül Enric Romero & Silvia Dapia of John Jay College CUNY & me at the "Empowering the Tribe" #LGBTI symposium LGBTI symposium in Manhattan 15 years ago today (11.3.11)

AP just called it for #KathyHochul as #BruceBlakeman craters: #DonaldTrump was an albatross around the Republican's neck & I predicted Hochul's re-election as governor of New York; Blakeman's strategy of bringing Trump to NY to campaign for him clearly backfired; bye, Felicia Blakeman~!

"The #DemocraticParty remains the only viable alternative to the Trump administration," writes Kevin Baker: if that's true it's only true because the corrupt two-party system leaves most voters feeling they have no other alternative to defeating Trump... www.nytimes.com/2026/11/02/o...

Henry VIII was declared supreme head of the Church of England by the Act of Supremacy enacted by parliament #OnThisDay in 1534 — a title now held by Charles III; the break with Rome was a turning point in the #history of #England & of Europe as a whole... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acts_of...