Bernie Sanders to Lead Zohran Mamdani’s Public Swearing-In Ceremony

Mr. Sanders, a democratic socialist senator from Vermont, has supported New York City’s mayor-elect since the Democratic primary.

from Frank Bruni’s column in the Times today quoting Bret Stephens Times column a few days ago:  And Bret Stephens summarized a year of Trump, the length of his sentence befitting the magnitude of this president’s offenses to decency and democracy: “Right now, in every grotesque social media post; in every cabinet meeting devoted, North Korea-like, to adulating him; in every executive-order-signing ceremony intended to make him appear like a Chinese emperor; in every fawning reference to all the peace he’s supposedly brought the world; in every Neronic enlargement of the White House’s East Wing; in every classless dig at his predecessor; in every shady deal his family is striking to enrich itself; in every White House gathering of tech billionaires paying him court (in the literal senses of both ‘pay’ and ‘court’); in every visiting foreign leader who learns to abase himself to avoid some capricious tariff or other punishment — in all this and more, our standards as a nation are being debased, our manners barbarized.”

this blows my mind: WHEN I WAS BORN IN 1947, there were a little less than 2.5 Billion people. TODAY there are about 8.5 Billion people. 

A Life Rooted in Activism and Listening to Others

Michele Singer Reiner was the guiding force in the lives of her family, stressing the need to help and respect one another.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/us/michele-singer-reiner.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

I DON’T HAVE A TV. My biggest screen is this iPad. All I need.