He is an ignorant creep. He shows respect only to money not to the qualities you have April, intelligence, empathy, generosity and if you are knitting, perseverance.
The disrespect he continues to show women, especially those who use their brains, automatically should eliminate him from the Presidency. Knit in power.
Trump money laundering, extortion, fraud, weaponization of government against critics…? The Trump brand. Trump & Co corruption & criminality is epic. The projection of Trump & Co propaganda & criminality onto critics never stops.
Question: Do you think the reason very few journalists (none really) clap back at Trump is because they’d never be able to cover him again? I’m being naive no doubt but couldn’t someone say “ Sir, you are incredibly rude and insulting. Isn’t it time you treated others with respect?”
Thanks. I did forget that. I guess another option might be to refuse to cover him since he’s such a narcissist. The press has been so badly abused (esp women) that I don’t really get why they all don’t walk out. I guess then they can’t do their job. He’s so abusive and keeps getting away with it which is horrifying.
As much as it might FEEL good, the press can NOT decide to stop covering the President, any more than they can stop covering weather or finance. Politics is a critical part of modern life, especially in the US, and the President is at the center of it all. It is the voters' "fault" that they elected a 4-year-old narcissist, but that is not a good reason for the newspapers to cede their responsibility. And to maintain their responsibility in the face of horrific obstruction by the administration, the news media has to bend the knee at least some of the time.
Thanks. I felt it was naive to question that but I often think if Trump behaves like a spoiled child, treat him like one. I guess that does not put food on the table. One of my former students went to j school and was telling me about the abuse she got on a regular basis and it’s horrifying. She’s a lovely, principled young woman and she got a lot of abuse from males in particular about issues that didn’t seem particularly political. It’s hard not to feel angry about this.
Being stuck in the Midwest, I'm wondering what the reflecting pool looks like by now. It seems to have disappeared from media reports. You girls should know!!
I trust no one. The multi-millionaires and their money contaminate everyone and every aspect of our existence. Every member of Congress and the Supreme Court is on the take, and billionaires own all the cable news channels; all religious leaders are seeking donations from the wealthy; our president is in bed with otherworldly billionaires. We live in a poisoned world owned and directed by the wealthy, and by their wealth, they are infecting every aspect of our world. As innocent and pure as Rachel Maddow may seem, her salary last year was 25 million dollars, and her net worth was 50 million dollars. So, I no longer trust her. About the only people I trust are the 8 million of my fellow peasants who marched in the No King demonstration. I trust them. Today there is a lot of useless discussion about democratic candidates for the presidency, with none addressing the ongoing contamination of your lives and our country and discussing ways to control the epidemic. Everyone is on the take. None of them are willing to say no to the billionaires, and that is understood because Trump, the corrupt billionaire, has demonstrated what happens to you if you do not follow his direction. Elon Musk's existence in my world is scary and unreal.
My gardener told me there was a war in my flower gardens between the flowers and goutweed, and that the only way to control it was for us to intervene and forcibly weed the gardens. I mention this because we must stop the money-mogul weeds in our country by force, not by distraction or avoidance.
Weeding is not the only problem, and I can explain this best with a fulcrum. The two sides of this fulcrum are: on one side, there are the money lunatics and their fortunes, and on the other side is the cultural cultivation of our moral compass. This moral compass defines the good from the bad, the just from the unjust, and we need it to offset the growing strength of the moguls. I talk about a moral compass that I think we are born with, an inherent mechanism that, if we can listen to it, will help us make decisions in our well-being. Still, that mechanism can be buried under social garbage, making it hard to find our personal gyroscope.
This is a scary problem because our culture has no conditions to improve this community's moral compass; in fact, it has been declining rapidly over the past fifty years. Money moguls have grown, and our moral compass has declined. In the past, our formal religions were part of our moral compass, but they are weak and dependent upon donations from the rich. Most of their facilities are occupied only by dying seniors; none of our young population ever seems to be seen in these facilities. A case in point is my wife's 100-year-old synagogue, which has only senior members and whose building needs repairs they cannot afford, so they meet in a separate church where they pay rent.
People no longer relate; they text each other or FaceTime, and they don't try to build spiritual or emotional relationships. There is a growing absence of facilities that encourage our moral compass. I spent time with Thich Nhat Hanh, the Vietnamese Zen Monk who advocates watering our good seeds and not our bad seeds, and he emphasized the need and benefit of a community, which he called a sangha. He also stressed the need for quiet time for us to refuel and experience ourselves. For him, something special happened when you were part of a community of like-minded people; we have no such community. I think we had that like-minded community during the Second World War, but that was the last time; now and then it may happen at sports events. Presenting our national anthem at these events is meaningless and disgraceful; the presenter demonstrates their screeching ability. (God bless America, America the beautiful, or My Country 'tis of Thee would be more appropriate)
Again, I respect and appreciate the eight million marches on No-King Day. I remember when Bernie was running for president; I met with five other people, we had our Bernie signs, and we stood on a street corner, and I know something happened to us in this little group of like-minded individuals. I think people today hope the rule of law will save us, and unfortunately, Trump has shown his ruthless disregard for the law and has arranged for the Justice Department to disregard it, too.
I do not have any answers or suggestions for how to strengthen our communal moral compass, especially since the billionaires are taking control of our national education and trying to impose a national religion. I believe a dedicated group of Americans, if they could organize, could form a communal, like-minded belief system that, together, could strengthen our moral compass. Everyone is moving at warp speed and has no time set aside to find their personal compass and recenter themselves. I know some countries have a thirty-hour workweek that affords time for personal development, but that idea is offensive to the money-making millionaires; a thirty-hour workweek would hurt their profits. So again, the controlling money moguls will not allow such an idea to be considered, and they will use their money to control Congress and public discussion so that such an idea would not be presented
I trust no one. The multi-millionaires and their money contaminate everyone and every aspect of our existence. Every member of Congress and the Supreme Court is on the take, and billionaires own all the cable news channels; all religious leaders are seeking donations from the wealthy; our president is in bed with otherworldly billionaires. We live in a poisoned world owned and directed by the wealthy, and by their wealth, they are infecting every aspect of our world. As innocent and pure as Rachel Maddow may seem, her salary last year was 25 million dollars, and her net worth was 50 million dollars. So, I no longer trust her. About the only people I trust are the 8 million of my fellow peasants who marched in the No King demonstration. I trust them. Today there is a lot of useless discussion about democratic candidates for the presidency, with none addressing the ongoing contamination of your lives and our country and discussing ways to control the epidemic. Everyone is on the take. None of them are willing to say no to the billionaires, and that is understood because Trump, the corrupt billionaire, has demonstrated what happens to you if you do not follow his direction. Elon Musk's existence in my world is scary and unreal.
My gardener told me there was a war in my flower gardens between the flowers and goutweed, and that the only way to control it was for us to intervene and forcibly weed the gardens. I mention this because we must stop the money-mogul weeds in our country by force, not by distraction or avoidance.
Weeding is not the only problem, and I can explain this best with a fulcrum. The two sides of this fulcrum are: on one side, there are the money lunatics and their fortunes, and on the other side is the cultural cultivation of our moral compass. This moral compass defines the good from the bad, the just from the unjust, and we need it to offset the growing strength of the moguls. I talk about a moral compass that I think we are born with, an inherent mechanism that, if we can listen to it, will help us make decisions in our well-being. Still, that mechanism can be buried under social garbage, making it hard to find our personal gyroscope.
This is a scary problem because our culture has no conditions to improve this community's moral compass; in fact, it has been declining rapidly over the past fifty years. Money moguls have grown, and our moral compass has declined. In the past, our formal religions were part of our moral compass, but they are weak and dependent upon donations from the rich. Most of their facilities are occupied only by dying seniors; none of our young population ever seems to be seen in these facilities. A case in point is my wife's 100-year-old synagogue, which has only senior members and whose building needs repairs they cannot afford, so they meet in a separate church where they pay rent.
People no longer relate; they text each other or FaceTime, and they don't try to build spiritual or emotional relationships. There is a growing absence of facilities that encourage our moral compass. I spent time with Thich Nhat Hanh, the Vietnamese Zen Monk who advocates watering our good seeds and not our bad seeds, and he emphasized the need and benefit of a community, which he called a sangha. He also stressed the need for quiet time for us to refuel and experience ourselves. For him, something special happened when you were part of a community of like-minded people; we have no such community. I think we had that like-minded community during the Second World War, but that was the last time; now and then it may happen at sports events. Presenting our national anthem at these events is meaningless and disgraceful; the presenter demonstrates their screeching ability. (God bless America, America the beautiful, or My Country 'tis of Thee would be more appropriate)
Again, I respect and appreciate the eight million marches on No-King Day. I remember when Bernie was running for president; I met with five other people, we had our Bernie signs, and we stood on a street corner, and I know something happened to us in this little group of like-minded individuals. I think people today hope the rule of law will save us, and unfortunately, Trump has shown his ruthless disregard for the law and has arranged for the Justice Department to disregard it, too.
I do not have any answers or suggestions for how to strengthen our communal moral compass, especially since the billionaires are taking control of our national education and trying to impose a national religion. I believe a dedicated group of Americans, if they could organize, could form a communal, like-minded belief system that, together, could strengthen our moral compass. Everyone is moving at warp speed and has no time set aside to find their personal compass and recenter themselves. I know some countries have a thirty-hour workweek that affords time for personal development, but that idea is offensive to the money-making millionaires; a thirty-hour workweek would hurt their profits. So again, the controlling money moguls will not allow such an idea to be considered, and they will use their money to control Congress and public discussion so that such an idea would not be presented
Bernie Sanders has an estimated wealth of $3 million dollars. So is he "one of the peasants"? I think you make a serious mistake to conflate money (even money like Rachel Maddow makes) with power.
Odd that he uses ‘colored’ makeup to not look so very very white and, yet, doesn’t like anyone of color.
I’m not surprised that Trump made that rude comment to you..he feels he’s above all forms of life. Good for you for not taking it, April. 💙
In other words, April Ryan reminded him that she was actually a person, not a cardboard cut-out, and he flew into a terrible rage....
He is an ignorant creep. He shows respect only to money not to the qualities you have April, intelligence, empathy, generosity and if you are knitting, perseverance.
The disrespect he continues to show women, especially those who use their brains, automatically should eliminate him from the Presidency. Knit in power.
I AM WOMAN. HEAR ME ROAR. Blessings and best wishes to Ms. Ryan.
Trump money laundering, extortion, fraud, weaponization of government against critics…? The Trump brand. Trump & Co corruption & criminality is epic. The projection of Trump & Co propaganda & criminality onto critics never stops.
Please, bring on a Blue Tsunami.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/15/us/politics/prosecutors-examined-firm-with-tie-to-judge-in-trump-hush-money-trial.html?smid=url-share
Question: Do you think the reason very few journalists (none really) clap back at Trump is because they’d never be able to cover him again? I’m being naive no doubt but couldn’t someone say “ Sir, you are incredibly rude and insulting. Isn’t it time you treated others with respect?”
Some have and they've lost their White House press credentials. Such a pitiful administration, sigh.
Thanks. I did forget that. I guess another option might be to refuse to cover him since he’s such a narcissist. The press has been so badly abused (esp women) that I don’t really get why they all don’t walk out. I guess then they can’t do their job. He’s so abusive and keeps getting away with it which is horrifying.
As much as it might FEEL good, the press can NOT decide to stop covering the President, any more than they can stop covering weather or finance. Politics is a critical part of modern life, especially in the US, and the President is at the center of it all. It is the voters' "fault" that they elected a 4-year-old narcissist, but that is not a good reason for the newspapers to cede their responsibility. And to maintain their responsibility in the face of horrific obstruction by the administration, the news media has to bend the knee at least some of the time.
Thanks. I felt it was naive to question that but I often think if Trump behaves like a spoiled child, treat him like one. I guess that does not put food on the table. One of my former students went to j school and was telling me about the abuse she got on a regular basis and it’s horrifying. She’s a lovely, principled young woman and she got a lot of abuse from males in particular about issues that didn’t seem particularly political. It’s hard not to feel angry about this.
Ms Ryan, you just keep on being a thorn in Trump’s hide! Thank you for all you do to keep us informed!
Looking forward to your next Substack interview. Always find the information reassuring.
Looking forward to this gathering
Being stuck in the Midwest, I'm wondering what the reflecting pool looks like by now. It seems to have disappeared from media reports. You girls should know!!
He's too dim to read, comprehend and follow a knitting pattern, let alone a book on history, economics or science.
will bring my knitting! you and April have both been working OT this summer to keep us all up to date
Who do you trust?
I trust no one. The multi-millionaires and their money contaminate everyone and every aspect of our existence. Every member of Congress and the Supreme Court is on the take, and billionaires own all the cable news channels; all religious leaders are seeking donations from the wealthy; our president is in bed with otherworldly billionaires. We live in a poisoned world owned and directed by the wealthy, and by their wealth, they are infecting every aspect of our world. As innocent and pure as Rachel Maddow may seem, her salary last year was 25 million dollars, and her net worth was 50 million dollars. So, I no longer trust her. About the only people I trust are the 8 million of my fellow peasants who marched in the No King demonstration. I trust them. Today there is a lot of useless discussion about democratic candidates for the presidency, with none addressing the ongoing contamination of your lives and our country and discussing ways to control the epidemic. Everyone is on the take. None of them are willing to say no to the billionaires, and that is understood because Trump, the corrupt billionaire, has demonstrated what happens to you if you do not follow his direction. Elon Musk's existence in my world is scary and unreal.
My gardener told me there was a war in my flower gardens between the flowers and goutweed, and that the only way to control it was for us to intervene and forcibly weed the gardens. I mention this because we must stop the money-mogul weeds in our country by force, not by distraction or avoidance.
Weeding is not the only problem, and I can explain this best with a fulcrum. The two sides of this fulcrum are: on one side, there are the money lunatics and their fortunes, and on the other side is the cultural cultivation of our moral compass. This moral compass defines the good from the bad, the just from the unjust, and we need it to offset the growing strength of the moguls. I talk about a moral compass that I think we are born with, an inherent mechanism that, if we can listen to it, will help us make decisions in our well-being. Still, that mechanism can be buried under social garbage, making it hard to find our personal gyroscope.
This is a scary problem because our culture has no conditions to improve this community's moral compass; in fact, it has been declining rapidly over the past fifty years. Money moguls have grown, and our moral compass has declined. In the past, our formal religions were part of our moral compass, but they are weak and dependent upon donations from the rich. Most of their facilities are occupied only by dying seniors; none of our young population ever seems to be seen in these facilities. A case in point is my wife's 100-year-old synagogue, which has only senior members and whose building needs repairs they cannot afford, so they meet in a separate church where they pay rent.
People no longer relate; they text each other or FaceTime, and they don't try to build spiritual or emotional relationships. There is a growing absence of facilities that encourage our moral compass. I spent time with Thich Nhat Hanh, the Vietnamese Zen Monk who advocates watering our good seeds and not our bad seeds, and he emphasized the need and benefit of a community, which he called a sangha. He also stressed the need for quiet time for us to refuel and experience ourselves. For him, something special happened when you were part of a community of like-minded people; we have no such community. I think we had that like-minded community during the Second World War, but that was the last time; now and then it may happen at sports events. Presenting our national anthem at these events is meaningless and disgraceful; the presenter demonstrates their screeching ability. (God bless America, America the beautiful, or My Country 'tis of Thee would be more appropriate)
Again, I respect and appreciate the eight million marches on No-King Day. I remember when Bernie was running for president; I met with five other people, we had our Bernie signs, and we stood on a street corner, and I know something happened to us in this little group of like-minded individuals. I think people today hope the rule of law will save us, and unfortunately, Trump has shown his ruthless disregard for the law and has arranged for the Justice Department to disregard it, too.
I do not have any answers or suggestions for how to strengthen our communal moral compass, especially since the billionaires are taking control of our national education and trying to impose a national religion. I believe a dedicated group of Americans, if they could organize, could form a communal, like-minded belief system that, together, could strengthen our moral compass. Everyone is moving at warp speed and has no time set aside to find their personal compass and recenter themselves. I know some countries have a thirty-hour workweek that affords time for personal development, but that idea is offensive to the money-making millionaires; a thirty-hour workweek would hurt their profits. So again, the controlling money moguls will not allow such an idea to be considered, and they will use their money to control Congress and public discussion so that such an idea would not be presented
Who do you trust?
I trust no one. The multi-millionaires and their money contaminate everyone and every aspect of our existence. Every member of Congress and the Supreme Court is on the take, and billionaires own all the cable news channels; all religious leaders are seeking donations from the wealthy; our president is in bed with otherworldly billionaires. We live in a poisoned world owned and directed by the wealthy, and by their wealth, they are infecting every aspect of our world. As innocent and pure as Rachel Maddow may seem, her salary last year was 25 million dollars, and her net worth was 50 million dollars. So, I no longer trust her. About the only people I trust are the 8 million of my fellow peasants who marched in the No King demonstration. I trust them. Today there is a lot of useless discussion about democratic candidates for the presidency, with none addressing the ongoing contamination of your lives and our country and discussing ways to control the epidemic. Everyone is on the take. None of them are willing to say no to the billionaires, and that is understood because Trump, the corrupt billionaire, has demonstrated what happens to you if you do not follow his direction. Elon Musk's existence in my world is scary and unreal.
My gardener told me there was a war in my flower gardens between the flowers and goutweed, and that the only way to control it was for us to intervene and forcibly weed the gardens. I mention this because we must stop the money-mogul weeds in our country by force, not by distraction or avoidance.
Weeding is not the only problem, and I can explain this best with a fulcrum. The two sides of this fulcrum are: on one side, there are the money lunatics and their fortunes, and on the other side is the cultural cultivation of our moral compass. This moral compass defines the good from the bad, the just from the unjust, and we need it to offset the growing strength of the moguls. I talk about a moral compass that I think we are born with, an inherent mechanism that, if we can listen to it, will help us make decisions in our well-being. Still, that mechanism can be buried under social garbage, making it hard to find our personal gyroscope.
This is a scary problem because our culture has no conditions to improve this community's moral compass; in fact, it has been declining rapidly over the past fifty years. Money moguls have grown, and our moral compass has declined. In the past, our formal religions were part of our moral compass, but they are weak and dependent upon donations from the rich. Most of their facilities are occupied only by dying seniors; none of our young population ever seems to be seen in these facilities. A case in point is my wife's 100-year-old synagogue, which has only senior members and whose building needs repairs they cannot afford, so they meet in a separate church where they pay rent.
People no longer relate; they text each other or FaceTime, and they don't try to build spiritual or emotional relationships. There is a growing absence of facilities that encourage our moral compass. I spent time with Thich Nhat Hanh, the Vietnamese Zen Monk who advocates watering our good seeds and not our bad seeds, and he emphasized the need and benefit of a community, which he called a sangha. He also stressed the need for quiet time for us to refuel and experience ourselves. For him, something special happened when you were part of a community of like-minded people; we have no such community. I think we had that like-minded community during the Second World War, but that was the last time; now and then it may happen at sports events. Presenting our national anthem at these events is meaningless and disgraceful; the presenter demonstrates their screeching ability. (God bless America, America the beautiful, or My Country 'tis of Thee would be more appropriate)
Again, I respect and appreciate the eight million marches on No-King Day. I remember when Bernie was running for president; I met with five other people, we had our Bernie signs, and we stood on a street corner, and I know something happened to us in this little group of like-minded individuals. I think people today hope the rule of law will save us, and unfortunately, Trump has shown his ruthless disregard for the law and has arranged for the Justice Department to disregard it, too.
I do not have any answers or suggestions for how to strengthen our communal moral compass, especially since the billionaires are taking control of our national education and trying to impose a national religion. I believe a dedicated group of Americans, if they could organize, could form a communal, like-minded belief system that, together, could strengthen our moral compass. Everyone is moving at warp speed and has no time set aside to find their personal compass and recenter themselves. I know some countries have a thirty-hour workweek that affords time for personal development, but that idea is offensive to the money-making millionaires; a thirty-hour workweek would hurt their profits. So again, the controlling money moguls will not allow such an idea to be considered, and they will use their money to control Congress and public discussion so that such an idea would not be presented
Bernie Sanders has an estimated wealth of $3 million dollars. So is he "one of the peasants"? I think you make a serious mistake to conflate money (even money like Rachel Maddow makes) with power.