Doug Mathewson

Singer/songwriter/musician/photographer
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[A @bluhue123]

Gov. Tim Walz is considering running for US Senate seat after incumbent Sen. Tina Smith announced her retirement. Smith's seat is up for election in the 2026.

Do it?

Yes 👍
No 👎

[Molly Ploofkins @Mollyploofkins]

Sheryl Crow sells her Tesla and donates the proceeds to NPR.

“My parents always said... you are who you hang out with. There comes a time when you have to decide who you are willing to align with. So long Tesla."

[Annie @AnnieForTruth]

Let’s do it!

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

If anyone is wondering how things are going in America right now, we’re letting palettes of lifesaving medicine simply expire instead of distributing them, we’ve stopped funding childhood cancer research & we’ve fired the VA researchers who help keep our vets alive.

But at least eggs are less expen…

Oh wait.

[Truth Matters @politicsusa46]

I am incandescent with rage right now. I feel sick to the stomach. A US Vice President stood today on the soil of where so many Americans gave their lives to defeat fascism in Europe. He delivered a disgraceful speech that spat on their graves. Not that we should expect any different, given his boss skipped visiting the graves of fallen Americans in Europe for fear of getting his hair wet. The same man who called the same fallen heroes suckers and losers.

As a Brit that loves America and the American people, I am deeply disturbed at the insults delivered by a man who once described Donald Trump as an “idiot" and said he was "reprehensible." Privately, comparing him to Adolf Hitler.

How times have changed. Vance is now part of the most authoritarian administration in American history. An administration actively seeking to deny bodily autonomy to women. An administration pursuing the same mass deportation of immigrants that Europe witnessed in 1930s Germany. Vance is a man that his own president doesn’t even see as his successor.

He came to Europe to vomit his Christo-fascist bile on leaders from the UK and across Europe, in what appears to be a retribution tour designed to assert American power.

The U.S. are to my knowledge the only NATO country to have invoked Article 5 of the NATO charter after 9/11. We, his European allies, met that call with no questions asked. We sent thousands of soldiers to the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq to fight a war on the false premise of Donald Rumsfeld’s ‘known unknowns’. We did this despite millions of our own citizens protesting in the streets of our cities.

Our military stood shoulder to shoulder with his military and we, like many Americans, stood to salute our fallen young men and women returning home day after day. I have tears in my eyes as I write this, thinking of them and their loved ones. Our brave men and women willingly gave their all and far too many made the ultimate sacrifice in support of an American led war.

For the record, 6000 Ukrainian solders server alongside American soldiers in Iraq. This, despite Ukraine not being a member of NATO. In 1994 upon signing the Budapest Memorandum they gave up their nuclear weapons in return for security assurances from the US and the UK. These were then reneged upon in 2014 when Russia invaded Crimea. They were told ‘An assurance is not a guarantee’.

Now, despite their friendship and their brave sacrifice on the battlefields of Ukraine, the President of the United States has decided to abandon them and hand a victory to an indicted war criminal, who illegally invaded the sovereign territory of a US ally. An ally who’s soldiers had previously lost their lives supporting America in its war on terror.

SHAME ON HIM. Shame on the man who dodged the draft and never served a day in defense of his nation. He is a coward and I would gladly call him that to his face. To all those Americans on social media currently posting vile insults to those who have always been there for America, I say, democracy is bigger than you, as you sit anonymously behind your phones posting poison.

America might have the most powerful army on the planet, but remember, that same army fled from Saigon after being handed their ass by a bunch of peasant rice farmers, armed with grenades made from discarded US coke cans. Ukraine have been to the Russian army what the Vietnamese were to you and we salute them.

You might want to throw Ukraine under the bus while stealing there mineral deposits, BUT EUROPE WILL NOT ALLOW THAT TO HAPPEN. I know for sure that the UK will not abandon the Ukrainian people. Our aid to GDP contribution already exceeds that of the US as does Poland, Germany Finland and others.

The U.S. is no longer a reliable ally and if need be, we will stand with Ukraine without America.

As for your pathetic tariffs, do your worst. You will soon have no friends but thugs and autocrats, so I’m sure Wun Dum Fuc will be right at home.

[Lovable Liberal and his Old English sheepdog @DougWahl1]

DID HE JUST TAKE A DRINK?

Remember Pete Hegseth promised the US Senate that he would not take a drink if he was confirmed. Today in Brussels, in front of an audience and cameras, he appears to have broken that promise.

Your thoughts?

[Amy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar]

A CNN headline for the ages:

Trump officials fired nuclear staff not realizing they oversee the country’s weapons stockpile, sources say

[Stella Parton @StellaParton]

Amen!

[Joe Cyr @Joe_Cyr1]

@StellaParton Actually, you have this backwards.

You created the Trump we have today!

Constant lies, lawfare and MSM marginalizing to try to destroy him. He bounced back and became this irreconcilable force.

YOU did that!

Own it!

[Phoenix Wise & The Resistance Ⓥ ✊🏽 @TheGr8Illusion]

@StellaParton tRump supporters are stupid!
Donald tRump is a liar, rapist, fraudster, & criminal & belongs in prison for life.
I wrote this anthem, We are the Resistance, & created the amazing video to stop tRump, the Republicans, & fascism #ArresttRump #tRumpCrime https://t.co/0XSteqj2ys

[Doug Mathewson @DougMathewson]

@Lanignj12016 @StellaParton Hasn't changed a bit since he was two years old.

[Alex Cole @acnewsitics]

Kansas Farmers are now trying to save USAID, they thought Trump was only going to hurt the black and brown DEI folks and not them.

[Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse]

I’ll say it again: Trump was charged with crimes because he committed crimes.

[Jen (ESC) 🇨🇦❤️🦋 @Smil3yAngel]

Since the orange turd keeps calling Trudeau "governer", what should Trudeau call him?

Vice President trump?
First Lady trump?
Just trump, without a title?
Something else?

What do you think?

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

I want to connect some dots for you.

What is similar about the four agencies DOGE targeted first? They all intersect with major business interests of Musk and Trump's billionaire cabal. DOGE isn't about government efficiency. It's about making the billionaires richer.

[A @bluhue123]

Zelensky: Trump told me Putin wants to end the war. I told him Putin is a liar.

Do you agree with Zelensky
Yes 👍
No 👎

[Joël.Arts.Paints This is our Canada 🇨🇦 @JoelVinette]

Should orange buffoon be allowed in Canada for the G7 summit, yes or no? No for me, not allowed in 🇨🇦. Also, should he be permanently banned? You all know my answer on this one! Huge, direct, without a shadow of doubt, YES! Image by grok and ai