Don Ostler

Formerly from Cady's Falls, VT now living in New London, NH and loving it.
Encourage mature forests. Forests are critical to life on earth.

[LPG - NYG @LicensePlateGuy]

Put Eli Manning in the HOF
& while you're at it, coach Coughlin as well. BOTH deserve & earned it.
#nygiants #Giants #giants #10 #eli #coughlin

[Amy McGrath @AmyMcGrathKY]

I’m sorry but it’s hard to get over the picture of the airmen on their knees, in front of the Russian jet, rolling out the red carpet for a mass murderer. Just never thought I’d see that.

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

Dear media,

I know challenging Trump spokespeople is virtually not existent these days, as are direct follow ups or challenging false declarative statements but I wanted to provide you with some facts that your producers, associates and interns routinely fail to brief you on:

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

Trump is the most corrupt president in history. Lest we forget, Qatar gave him a jet… and the taxpayer is about to spend almost $1 billion to fit it for AF1 service.

AND HE TAKES THE JET WITH HIM WHEN HE LEAVES OFFICE.

Staggering corruption from a scum of a president

[Molly Ploofkins @Mollyploofkins]

'they paved paradise and put up a parking lot'

[Don Ostler @DonOstler]

Visma leads Pogacar to another stage win. They set him up perfectly.

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

Wow.

[LynnZ @ZemanLynnZ]

Ty Cobb: Former member of the Trump legal team speaks out...

"[Trump} is worse than anyone in our history in my experience and opinion. As people seem to have forgotten, I was very critical of Biden and despite knowing him and his family well, I spent 4 years writing about his cognitive decline and weak foreign policy. He had competent advisors though including very decent men as AG and head of the FBI.

While you could fairly question their effectiveness you couldn’t doubt their character.

Trump has real contempt for the country, appoints wholly unqualified people to key positions and just kicked 12 million people off Medicaid, eliminated child food support and killed worldwide healthcare efforts monitoring pandemic producing diseases including Ebola (among countless other dangerous things). His tariffs, like his bibles, crypto and extortion of colleges and media companies and his efforts to rewrite history, are purely personal, corrupt and have zero policy-based support.

They are just exercises in the power he craves so intensely.

He has and will continue to damage our economy and the world’s, and our culture, until and unless he is stopped.

Fortunately, the courts have shut down his Constitutional overreach in over 180 cases—96% of the cases he has brought or defended in the last six months—but without Congress, which has been neutered by its collective cowardice, the tide cannot turn completely.

We are more vulnerable economically and on national security than ever before in history as he and Hegseth have rendered the military unprepared by eliminating the majority of its most experienced and enlightened leaders.

Healthcare is in the toilet under RFK JR and many diseases are or soon will be on the rise due to the elimination of vaccines and the defunding of the sciences which made our energy, environment and healthcare the envy of the world.

And, finally his Bible and crypto grifts to name a few are pure greed. His net worth is up over $3 billion since taking office 6 months ago. No one has ever seen corruption at this level by a President. Most of these actions have been pure exercises in power and greed and have no guiding principle beyond self interest and vengeance.

Competence, leadership, science, and the rule of law which historically distinguished us from petty dictatorships have all been abandoned or curtailed to serve his ego and narcissism.

His narcissism is so real and so extreme it dominates and is at the heart of everything he does and always has been.

We can only hope the norms he has broken and the damage already done to us economically and to our stature in the world (where we have gone from the beacon of liberty to isolated bully in just months) can be restored perhaps in a generation and that the damage yet to come will be less severe, but the country is in real trouble and sadly the weakest among us will feel it the worst.

Moreover, the cognitive decline we saw in Biden is very real with Trump, as well.

His US-versus-THEM approach to Americans has been more divisive than any prior President. Just yesterday he announced how much he “hates” all Democrats. “

“Hate” worked for Hitler, briefly, but no one considers it a leadership trait. His racism is palpable. The country needs new leaders with character and I don’t care if they are Republicans or Democrats, never have.

Just want someone honest, principled, intelligent and compassionate who can unite us. Trump in my experience is none of those things.

This is what I believe and why I am engaged. I could of course be tilting at windmills, but don’t really have much choice if I want to sleep at night given the stakes as I see them."

July 5 at 2:22 p.m.

[Martina Navratilova @Martina]

This is sick

[Norman Ornstein @NormOrnstein]

You are a monster. You said nothing – nothing – when vital staff were axed from NOAA and the National Weather Service. You said nothing when Trump vowed to eliminate FEMA. You are an utter heartless hypocrite, and the worst speaker in the history of the House.

[JustMePam @PamelaApostolo1]

That’s what a real president/leader does for a neighbor!

[A @bluhue123]

Raise your hand ✋ if you agree with George Clooney

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

When the American empire finally collapses, historians won’t be stunned by the greed of the elite; They’ll be stunned by the loyalty of the poor.

The working class didn’t just vote against their own interests. They worshipped the billionaires robbing them.

They slashed their own benefits, gutted their own healthcare, and cheered while the rich wrote off private jets as tax deductions.

Not because it helped them.
But because they were told it would hurt someone else.

And that, right there, is how you rig a democracy without ever breaking a single law.

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

Yo, am I crazy, or is that a fake Melania standing next to him? 😆

[Renee @PettyLupone]

“My mother, who I lost this year, wasn’t welcome in department stores as a young woman, but for eight years she had the best view in America from her room at the White House.”

-Michelle Obama, Orator Extraordinaire

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

BREAKING: @PsychoPAC24 just released their last ad featuring Trump’s sexual assault victims telling their stories.

Please share far and wide!

[Eli Racks @IamEliRacks]

Yeah, we lost, but this got me hyped! I'm not gonna lie. You can question a lot of things about Daniel Jones, but you can never question his toughness.