Godat

Chuck, you are an inspiration. 🤍

Summer read.

He’s 4-Dimensional, man!

‘nihl-lion-aire’ — a person of extreme wealth who believes that life is meaningless, that moral values are baseless, and that knowledge is impossible.

If these 3 swing-district Republicans resigned or switched parties TODAY, Trump’s Big Bill will cease to be.

1. PA Dist 1: Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R), Philly Bucks County area
2. NY Dist 17: Rep. Mike Lawler (R), North NYC, Rockland, Westchester areas
3. NE Dist 2: Rep. Don Bacon (R), Omaha metro

Sending my deepest condolences to the good people of Iowa.

Maybe she can snag that free plane the TPD needs.

1. $20B+ $TRUMP Crypto
2. $2.5B+ Truth Social IPO
3. $2B Saudi Investment in Kushner Affinity
4. $2B Trump’s Liberty World Financial
5. $400M Qatar Jet
6. $370M Trump DC Hotel
7. $346M Inaugural Contributions
8. $281M Musk 2024 Campaign
9. $200M+ Adelson Campaigns
10. $100M+ Real Estate Sales

Adjust your outrage accordingly.

Michael Flynn's Nuclear Option How Trump's former national security adviser got involved with a madcap plan to build scores of nuclear power plants in Saudi Arabia and the Arab world.

Trump has been running a
tab for a while now…
www.newsweek.com/2017/06/23/f...

Extortion is now America’s Number One export.

F.B.I. Arrests Wisconsin Judge, Patel Says Judge Hannah Dugan was arrested on suspicion that she “intentionally misdirected federal agents away from” an immigrant being pursued by the authorities, the F.B.I. director said.

Unbelievable. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/u...

What hath Tesla wrought…

The Oval Office

A screenshot from Alibaba

A comparison of the photo from the Oval Office and an item on Alibaba.

The Oval Office

Noticed a bunch of these ornate gold medallions slapped all over the Oval Office. We found em on Alibaba. “High-density Home Decoration Polyurethane Appliques Ornament PU Foam Veneer Accessories” from seller Guangzhou Homemax Decorative Material Limited.

sherwood.news/power/shop-t...

White House Told Max Boss to Kiss Up and Give Don Jr. a Show Someone in the “Trump orbit” told the company that the first son would like to host a hunting show on Discovery.

Papapropaganda.

🇸🇻 El Salvador: Bypassing judicial and democratic processes.
🇬🇪 Georgia: Firing civil servants for supporting pro-EU protests.

🇷🇺 Russia: Authoritarian control over media and elections.
🇧🇾 Belarus: Rigged elections and protest suppression.
🇨🇳 China: One-party control over political expression, media, and society.
🇳🇮 Nicaragua: Crackdowns on opposition and the Catholic Church.

My Chat GPT morning recap of countries governed by authoritarian regimes. Isn’t it time to add the USA 🇺🇸 to this list?

🇦🇫 Afghanistan: Most authoritarian in the
world.
🇰🇵 North Korea: Totalitarian with absolute control over all aspects of life.
🇲🇲 Myanmar: Military suppression of dissent.
…

I have written a will, designated a medical power of attorney, and created an advance medical directive … but what if I’m stripped of my Social Security number, or if I am arrested, or deported, or disappeared … how can I prepare legally for these new Trump-era ‘end-of-life’ scenarios?

Trump grants military control over strip of federal land along US southern border It marks an escalation in the president’s use of the military to facilitate his sweeping immigration agenda.

And then, all in a whoosh, the military occupied our back yard.

www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

YouTube video by DRM News Tech Meets Tradition: Robot Dancers Shine at 2025 Chinese New Year Gala! | DRM News | AQ15

Meanwhile, our robot overlords are limbering up in China by shaking their biomorphic booties. youtu.be/QKU5BzcucBM?...

I’m afraid our data will be spilled on M-(usk) Day long before Q-Day arrives.

Didn’t Trump just nail down a deal with Venezuela eliminating Chevron’s export restrictions in exchange for the right to direct US government deportation flights directly to Caracas??

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

America's "Constitutional Crash" This isn't "just" a crisis.

We're living through not a "constitutional crisis" but a "constitutional crash" — the sudden, ER-style flatlining of the healthy biorhythms of our 249-year-old constitutional order. Our national system is dead on the table—can it be shocked back to life? www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-s-...

Saturday March 22 Tucson… Bernie, AOC and you. act.berniesanders.com/signup/rsvp-...

Tucson! Tesla Takeback: Our Democracy/Our Future
Saturday, March 15, 9:30 am – 11:00 am.
Intersection of Oracle & River Roads Near Tesla

Where: The four corners of Oracle and River roads
Why: The Trump administration is threatening our democracy and through our actions, we must protect it.

Kier

Jeff B. must be feeling the heat of the impending boycott. I just watched back-to-back commercials on Rachael Maddow touting ‘Shop at Whole Foods’ and ‘Amazon Is a Great Company to Work For.’