2026 Archives

His escalating contradictions are forcing a question about congressional and cabinet powers designed for moments like this… Well, I guess it’s reassuring to learn that gasoline prices have nothing to do with Trump’s war. And that we’re winning against Iran. In fact it’s won! Better than anybody could ever have imagined!!! Although we’ll be there another few weeks... And maybe we’ll bomb them back to the Stone Age… And he needs another $200 billion… And let’s activate the draft (except for Baron, who has congenital bone-spurs.…) One day, we’ll look back on last night’s speech as the moment it became impossible to ignore. Not just the policy or the war, but the man and his growing mental and emotional disabilities.

The line between church and state is collapsing at the hands of hypocrites and fanatics who use religion to seize power —and history shows the cost... Our alcoholic, serial adulterer, wife-abusing “Secretary of War” just led a prayer service in the Pentagon calling on the brutal, demonic force he calls his god to help our US military strike down Iranians with “overwhelming violence of action against those who deserve no mercy.” Presumably this includes the hundreds of Iranian schoolchildren he’s already criminally murdered. It was so morally and spiritually obscene that Pope Leo XIV felt it important to repudiate, saying: “This is our God: Jesus, King of Peace, who rejects war, ​whom no one can use to justify war. He does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, but rejects them, saying: ‘Even though you make many prayers, I will not listen: your hands are full of blood.’”

The Best of the Rest of the News. — Is the Supreme Court preparing to take a knife to mail-in voting just in time for the midterms? — Trump’s war against Iran to help Putin, MBS, Kushner, and Netanyahu rolls on, and the risks to America and world peace get worse every day. — Trump’s war on Iran is the best gift he’s given Putin in years, even better than when he hung Putin’s picture in the White House with the former American presidents. — Donald Trump, according to his alcoholic, woman-abusing “Secretary of War,” doesn’t “want to stand next to a Black female officer at military events.” — In his best imitation of one of Stalin’s or Putin’s toadies, FCC Chairman and Trump brown-noser Brendan Carr bragged about his role, and rightwing billionaire’s help, in censoring major American media. — Our grifter billionaire president offered “anything you want” to morbidly rich fossil fuel executives if they’d just give him piles of campaign money and backdoor dark funds for his own use, and is now following through by blocking the Endangered Species Act.

It's a sign of an industry that knows it’s above the law and has been doing so with absolute arrogance — making billions every year — for 30 years... On Monday, a New Mexico jury delivered what the coalition ParentsSOS called “a watershed moment,” finding that Meta (Facebook, Instagram) and Google (YouTube) knowingly harmed children’s mental health and concealed what its executives knew about child sexual exploitation on its platforms.