SPEAKER DISMISSES TRUMP'S TALK OF 2028 RUN Vancouver Sun-29 Oct 2025 U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson poured cold water on President Donald Trump's repeated talk of possibly running for another term... Unusual contradiction of the Pres. by the Speaker.

Donald Trumps plan to subvert the midterms is underway From David Graham, on the cover of the next edition of @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

𝗔𝗜 𝗜𝘀 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝗼𝘀𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗢𝘂𝗿 𝗦𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲: 𝗪𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 The environmental impact of huge water consumption by AI facilities. Stories from Forbes in 2024 & Bloomberg in 2025. • www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202... • www.forbes.com/sites/cindyg...

IT WAS NEVER ABOUT A BALLROOM Very interesting FB post re E. Wing demolition, bunkers & Trump admin. actions ahead of 2026 midterms. (One comment corrected: “The East Wing was originally constructed in 1902 as an extension to the White House. It underwent a major expansion and renovation in 1942.”)

𝗖𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗿 𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗺𝗥𝗡𝗔 𝗖𝗢𝗩𝗜𝗗-𝟭𝟵 𝘃𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿, 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝘆 𝘀𝘂𝗴𝗴𝗲𝘀𝘁𝘀 (Washington post in) Vancouver Sun-24 Oct 2025 -M. JOHNSON This is not about all patients' cancer survival but re patients already appr. for treatment & receiving COVID mRNA vaccine. See 1st image comment Op. Warp Speed.

Picture of the East Wing demolition of the White House taken on my flight out of DCA.

GATHER YE RAINBOWS WILL YE MAY Glad I walked into the living room in time to catch the rainbow following our steady rain. Three minutes later it looked like the second photo. (Vancouver, Canada)

"L'etat, c'est moi" (English: "I am the state") how very king-like of him, to say he is suing himself... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L'%C3%8...

Oct 19 2025 Doonesbury. Why the 25th amendment is a non-starter.

𝐂𝐄𝐃𝐄 𝐃𝐎𝐍𝐁𝐀𝐒, 𝐓𝐑𝐔𝐌𝐏 𝐓𝐄𝐋𝐋𝐒 𝐔𝐊𝐑𝐀𝐈𝐍𝐄. 𝐌𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐫 𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐤 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐛𝐲 𝐏𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐧'𝐬 𝐑𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐚 Washington Post story in Vancouver Sun - 21 Oct 2025 Every time Trump predictably comes to heel and acts as Vladimir Putin's advocate I return to wondering what the Russian kleptocrat holds over him...

"...Previous studies have shown that shingles infection can trigger cardiovascular and neurologic complications. Experts say the study’s findings suggest that the shingles vaccine may help protect against those complications in addition to preventing shingles itself..."

Nebulous. Sharing my 2012 poem (which I later gave a graphic layout.) Nebulous: 𝘜𝘯𝘧𝘪𝘹𝘦𝘥, 𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘦, 𝘰𝘣𝘴𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘦, 𝘢𝘮𝘣𝘪𝘨𝘶𝘰𝘶𝘴; 𝘓𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘥𝘦𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮 𝘰𝘳 𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘵𝘴 (from: The Free Dictionary dot com)

A club (of kings) and HE ain't in it This was shared on FB, "From Canada’s great cartoonist Barry Blitt." #NOKINGS #TRUMP

America-hating Antifa showing up for a *second* time today.

No Tyrants Vancouver protest Jack Poole Plaza @ Canada Place Oct 18 – 12-2 pm Just returned from Vancouver, Canada’s entry in No Kings protests across the USA. Images incl. today's protest sign (Annex Your Conscience, Trumpkin) & my 2019 sign protesting 1st Trump govt's family separation policies.

FAURÉ'S REQUIEM AT THE VSO I’m excited to be going to a Vancouver Symphony performance of Fauré's Requiem next month, including the Vancouver Chamber Choir. I know requiems are supposed to be sombre but this one I find thrilling and inspiring.

"If you pluck a chicken one feather at a time NO ONE NOTICES" ~Benito Mussolini (on establishing a Fascist government) If millions of chickens cross the street together, calling out the chicken pluckers for who THEY are--notice must be taken.

www.facebook.com/media/set/?s... My husband & I visited Wa. State’s Olympic Peninsula a year ago & this public FB photo album is fr. 2nd day of the trip in Port Townsend. We travelled to the peninsula via Vancouver Island on Blackball ferry from Victoria the day before. Need a FB acct to access.

IF AT FIRST YOU DON'T SUCCEED... Since we visited Ireland in Sep 2017 I've kept trying to make an Irish Potato Vegetable soup as good as the one I had in a gastro pub in Limerick (3rd image is my 2024 FB post about that.) Took another run at it & I’m finally happy with the result. www.lockebar.com

HUMAN (size) pet bed. I forgot about spotting this in our favourite pharmacy+ store the other day. Should I take heart that they've marked the price down? Does it mean folks have better sense than to buy one of these--or just that their pets are sleeping on their beds with them?

𝒄𝒍𝑨𝑺𝑺 𝑨𝑪𝑻 NYT CROSSWORD No. 0906, 2025, 39 across: “Dignified and gracious sort” …made me think of discussion in our house of the kitschy cheapening of the WH premises carried out by its present resident, more to come when he demolishes half the building to install a gilded ballroom.

𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗨𝗦 𝗗𝗜𝗩𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗚𝗔𝗜𝗡𝗦𝗧 𝗜𝗧𝗦𝗘𝗟𝗙? Olympic Peninsula, WA 𝐒𝐞𝐞 𝐭𝐱𝐭 𝟏𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐦𝐠 •Window display downtown Port Townsend Oct15/24 •Truck w. a political msg. Hwy 12 from the w. coast of the Penin. to Centralia Oct18/24 The State did vote 58%+ Democrat in the Nov5/24 Presidential election, 12 Elect. Coll. votes.

A REAL LIFE "SUCCESSION" BATTLE & THE RUPERT FAMILY LEGACY I’ve been wondering what the Rupert media family think of the present impact on the US of Fox News' choice to abandon reporting actual news & function as as a propaganda channel for Donald Trump. A recent BBC story on the legacy battle.

What some Trump allies and appointees had to say about him after his first term (from FB.)

UNELECTED FIGURES AT THE WHEEL IN THE WHITE HOUSE: I wonder what percentage of the US population is in the dark about the unravelling of US democracy under a deteriorating President because of chosen silence from mainstream media plus being deliberately misled by sources like FOX NEWS?

2018 article-Stephen Miller’s uncle repudiated his nephew’s cruelty & hypocrisy re immigrants/refugees. “Trump & my nephew both know their immigrant & refugee roots. Yet, they repeat the insults and false accusations of earlier generations against these refugees to make them seem less than human.”

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗜 𝗖𝗼𝗻 - 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝗙𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗕𝗶𝗴 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵'𝘀 𝗛𝘆𝗽𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗪𝗲 𝗪𝗮𝗻𝘁, 𝗘𝗺𝗶𝗹𝘆 𝗠. 𝗕𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿, 𝗔𝗹𝗲𝘅 𝗛𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗮 𝑆𝑒𝑒 𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑠. I've placed a hold at our library, it looks so interesting. For preview see ebook websites or you may be able to preview at this library page: vpl.overdrive.com/media/11091109

Trump to the Navy: "We have to take care of this little gnat that's on our shoulder called the Democrats."

𝗛𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿, 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗠𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗿, 𝗗𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗱 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗪𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗮 𝗝𝗘𝗔𝗡 𝗚𝗨𝗘𝗥𝗥𝗘𝗥𝗢 (𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟬) Ebook preview avail. at link below. Text of the prologue in these images. I wanted to know more about S. Miller. play.google.com/books/reader... #StephenMiller #Trump #WhiteNationlism #Racism #Populism

In recent days Stephen Miller is being outed for his behind-the-scenes hate-fuelled hand in Trump govt. excesses. "...This conversation raises the question of how involved Trump is in the decisions his administration is making about the use of the military..."

"YOU'RE OUT OF YOUR GOURD" In 2020 I made a joke version of G's photo of pumpkins & squash, prompted by a crossword puzzle answer turn of phrase, “You’re out of your gourd." There may have also been an influence from one of Gord's driving students who wrote him a note & spelled his name as "GOURD."

web.archive.org/web/20250926... Survival of American rights & liberties may now turn less on the Q of whether Pam Bondi is a person of integrity...than whether she is willing to risk her career...for a pres. on his way to repudiation unl. he can fully pervert the US legal syst. & 2026 elections.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗢𝗚𝗘 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗛𝗖𝗥'𝘀 𝗢𝗰𝘁 𝟯 𝗹𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗻𝗲𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗹𝘆 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘂𝗺 𝘁𝗼𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴. "𝑇ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑢𝑟𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝐷𝑂𝐺𝐸 𝑐𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑎𝑝𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑣𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑐𝑒𝑠, 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑔𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑜𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙𝑠 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘𝑝𝑒𝑑𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔..."

Alberta separatists make pitch to D.C. ALBERTA GROUP BOASTS OF CABINET-LEVEL MEETING WITH TRUMP ADMINISTRATION Vancouver Sun 2025Oct2 I wonder how the US government would react if the shoe was on the other foot and Canadians tied to our Prime Minister were working for secession of a US state?

A pregnant woman in Alberta, Canada contracted measles. This led to her baby being born prematurely. The baby died. Another preventable tragedy.

FALL PHOTOS (2017 to 2023) Some of my phone photos in our Kitsilano, Vancouver, BC neighbourhood and one in the West End/English bay area with my husband @whisperingslim.bsky.social in it. First 4 of 6; will add the other 2 in a Reply to this post.

FALL FOLIAGE SCANNER ART Fall foliage I gleaned on neighbourhood walks and scanned into our computer on a flatbed scanner and arranged there, 2001 to 2006.

janegoodall.ca ONE WAY TO REMEMBER JANE GOODALL: SUPPORT FOR THE WORK OF HER INSTITUTE I found the site for Jane Goodall's Institute in Canada and made a tax deductible donation, getting a receipt immediately. There have Canada-specific programs. The US institute is at: janegoodall.org

𝐈𝐂𝐄 𝐀𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐑𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐥 𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐇𝐚𝐰𝐤 𝐇𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐨𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐠𝐨 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐌𝐚𝐣𝐨𝐫 𝐑𝐚𝐢𝐝 -- Trump has officially started "using" our own cities as "training grounds for the US Military". "… they was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other…𝐎𝐍𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐌 𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐀𝐔𝐆𝐇𝐄𝐃… 𝐒𝐀𝐈𝐃, '𝐅*** 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐌 𝐊𝐈𝐃𝐒.'

𝗧𝗥𝗨𝗠𝗣 𝗧𝗔𝗟𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗧𝗢 𝗚𝗘𝗡𝗘𝗥𝗔𝗟𝗦 & 𝗔𝗗𝗠𝗜𝗥𝗔𝗟𝗦 I suppose Canadians should take passing comfort Trump’s renewed talk of annexing Canada (to become a unitary “51st state”) while talking to a room full of US military commanders was in the context of including Canada in a “golden dome” missile defence system.

UNreality TV...morphs into...IDIOCRACY A 19 second video I made after seeing social media posts & TV coverage of today's speeches by Pete Hegseth & Donald Trump to US military leaders. (My MS Powerpoint is suddenly refusing to play any embedded audio, so this is silent.)

FALL FRUITS gleaned in a 2004 walk in our Vancouver neighbourhood, assembled post-scanning to computer.The large pink fruit is a magnolia fruit fallen from a tree that stands above the entrance to Kitsilano Beach outdoor swimming pool. Also two 2024Sep photos of the tree and 2024Mar pool panorama.

New Mexico House of Representatives Rep. Melanie Stansbury has been in office since 2021 & Jeffrey Epstein died in 2019 so this appears to be a current video re the controversial decision of Alex Acosta in the #JeffreyEpstein case. See “reel” of Vote In Or Out on FB www.facebook.com/reel/1963424...

CITY RAINBOW Caught glimpses of a rainbow to the south on the way to choir practice tonight & when I got a clear view closer to Mount Pleasant Community Centre there was a northeast rainbow fading in the sunset sky. City Centre motel is City Centre Artist Lodge, now. narrowgroup.ca/project/city...

WH deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller (reported to be) leading the administration’s strikes on boats that WH claims (w. no evidence) were smuggling drugs to the US...the wife of one of the dead men said her husband was a fisherman with four children who left one day for work and never came back.”

youtu.be/k-LTRwZb35A?... I guess I missed this excellent Randy Rainbow vid 7 years ago, it just showed up in my FB feed. The whole first term seems like milder days of a restrained Trump, COMPARED TO the shock and awe pace of Project 2025 installing Trump 2.0, a klepto-fascist theocracy.

𝗗𝗢𝗡𝗔𝗟𝗗 𝗧𝗥𝗨𝗠𝗣 𝗜𝗦 𝗢𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗡𝗞 𝗢𝗙 𝗕𝗘𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗔 𝗗𝗜𝗖𝗧𝗔𝗧𝗢𝗥. 𝗖𝗔𝗡 𝗛𝗘 𝗕𝗘 𝗦𝗧𝗢𝗣𝗣𝗘𝗗? 𝗔𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗲𝘄 𝗖𝗼𝘆𝗻𝗲 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗚𝗟𝗢𝗕𝗘 & 𝗠𝗔𝗜𝗟 𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱𝗔𝘂𝗴𝟮𝟵 𝗨𝗽𝗱 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱𝗦𝗲𝗽𝟮 Story not shareable, Text in images "By now it should be clear that the subjection of the United States to the dictatorship of Donald Trump...is an imminent reality."

www.yahoo.com/news/article... Salon (on Yahoo News) Trump’s “embarrassing” UN speech shocks critics Blaise Malley - Tue, September 23, 2025 Link to a similar Guardian article added in a comment.