I was thinking of the Roman Empire today, as one does, and there are so many similarities between the Mad Emperor and Trump. Commodus renamed everything after himself, including Rome, the armies, even the months of the year! He dyed his hair and used gold dust allthatsinteresting.com/commodus

The reign in Spain says mainly no to planes

March Madness should not mean watching the Dow dive all day

To protect the oil tankers Trump will build a wall in the Strait of Hormuz and make Iran pay for it

So what’s everyone else doin for the Apocalypse?

www.mcall.com/2026/01/20/l... Youngest elected County Exec in PA history.

As long as we are going to seize oversea territories like Greenland, can we pencil in the invasions of Bermuda and the Cayman Islands? I’d like to plan a dive trip

kyivindependent.com/how-ukraines... A++ trolling of the ruzzians. And now the head of Ukraine’s MI is Zelenskyy’s new COS

This is wanton destruction of the Foreign Service and the dedicated professionals who serve their country, not a king. Amb. Yovanovitch first served in Somalia and Trump “blamed” her for the situation there in a tweet during her testimony in the 1st impeachment. Stefanik should get the job now

I’m happy to see #scrivener is trending again after 2 centuries.

Absolutely despicable behavior. We have our own Cardinal Richelieu running the State Dept now And not a word of this is mentioned in US media outlets www.politico.eu/article/us-a...

RFK Jr just fired the entire staff that administers LIHEAP, the federal program which provides heating assistance to millions of low-income Americans. On the bright side, with all the trade-ins going on now there should be plenty of worthless Teslas available for them to burn for heat next winter.

LOL -- White House econ adviser Kevin Hassett admits on Fox News Sunday that on tariffs "I can't give you any forward-looking guidance on what's gonna happen this week. The president has got a heck of a lot of analysis before him, and he's gonna make the right choice I'm sure."

www.riverreporter.com/stories/ice-... “The ICE agents did not tell the owner why they took this person, except to say that they knew his name, said that he was a 'bad person' and that he had a specific tattoo.” (Later described as a “gun tattoo”)