Rick_Geyer

@rick-geyer.bsky.social

40 yr veteran of US Opera and Theatre Hair Depts Gay husband, dog dad. Home chef. Skeptic. Liberal. Atheist. Resistor 💙🏳️‍🌈

If POTUS pulls Blanche's nom, why should we expect anything but the continuation of everything the Acting AG is doing to shred the DOJ? Can the President be forced to submit a nominee? How? If the law says the role of Acting AG has an end date, who is going to remove Blanche from the premises? 🤷

Remember: Wealth can’t be separated from power. Power begets wealth and wealth begets power. We're seeing in real time how the extreme concentration of wealth is distorting our politics, rigging our markets, and granting unprecedented power to a handful of billionaires.

Hegseth: “The Pentagon is no longer run by bureaucrats; instead, it's run by combat-tested veterans and world-class business leaders who are running the department like a business.” Big profit in war.

Fifty years ago today, I was moving props for my summer job. The theatre was called The American Heritage Music Hall. The Five-a-day show was called We The People. And this also happened:

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so… (1) north carolina declines to pay to put up state booth at trump “state fair”. + (2) random republican congressional staffer does state booth instead = (3) cue the “confederate flag at north carolina booth” headlines… www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

Organizers remove Confederate flag image from N.C. booth at fair on the Mall

One sponsor said it was withdrawing its participation in the state’s pavilion at the Great American State Fair.

washingtonpost.com

Imagine writing “Springtime for Hitler” as satire, believing that freak was safely in the past, and then living long enough to see the next incarnation of him show up to take power, but this time in your own country. Mel Brooks, who turns 100 on Sunday, has seen a lot.