The ramblings of someone who is out of touch, incoherent, and desperately looking for a way out of an impossible situation.

Spot on

Dripping with the right kind of “populism” Keep’m coming...

BREAKING:Democrat Alex Holladay defeats Republican Bryan Renshaw in the Arkansas House District 70 special election, flipping the GOP-held suburban Little Rock seat from 🔴 to 🔵.

Propaganda, Trickles like a leaky faucet, Releasing a steady and persistent wave of anesthesia, Dulling senses, rewiring neural paths, Hijacking the mind, Filling it with illusory truths, Altering reality, to evoke visceral reactions, over critical thinking, Wake up.

I remember when ‘Brexit Means Brexit’ became a way for silly people to insist that they supported something they could neither justify nor explain. Obviously the context is very different, but something similar is already happening with the ‘war’ in Iran. And it’s mostly the same people doing it.

US House Speaker Mike Johnson speaking after the Iran briefing: “We have no ability to get into nation building. We are not the world’s policeman. We have enough trouble of our own. “But I think this is a great development for the Iranians.”

Two senior Iranian Shiite religious leaders, Grand Ayatollah Hossein Nouri Hamedani and Grand Ayatollah Naser Makarem Shirazi, have issued fatwas calling on Muslims worldwide to take revenge for the killing of Khamenei. (Iran International) 1/3

The latest US/Iran mediation has ended as expected. Iran says they are making progress and more mediation set for next week. The US side does not have the same optimism.

Here is my opening statement to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today.

@chadbourn.bsky.social Wow!

The USS Gerald R Ford and its three destroyers were approaching the Strait of Gibraltar today. The Washington Post suggests that means any attack on Iran could take place within days.

@chadbourn.bsky.social Portuguese TV news reporting increased US military aircraft activity at Lajes airport in Azores. Similar to the activity seen ahead of the first Iran attack.

The US is continuing its massive airlift in preparation for any potential strike on Iran - one of the biggest in recent years. Overnight 17 tankers headed for the Middle East or crossed the Atlantic to European staging posts.

UK must move away from US and towards a 'more European NATO', Keir Starmer to say at defence summit www.itv.com/news/2026-02...

Is their something deeper to this seemingly throw away sentence.

@chadbourn.bsky.social Looks like the EU has limited confidence that negotiations will succeed.

The Hegseth "warrior" ethos in its full stupidity.

One way people in more urban areas differ from those in the sticks is this constant DoorDash debate. Cooking every day is a goddamn drag even when you like cooking. But having the option NOT to cook is a luxury. DoorDash doesn’t exist here. You can go get takeout. Not even pizza is delivered.

Trump's DOJ has arrested Don Lemon for the grievous sin of journalism which makes Trump look incompetent. Bye bye 1st Amendment if this succeeds, except I expect Don will humiliate Trump for this and it will completely backfire

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Rest in Peace Alex Jeffrey Pretti🙏🏾 The VA ICU Nurses send him off right 💔

Absolutely amazing chart from @peterkellner.bsky.social's piece in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social today: www.thenewworld.co.uk/peter-kellne...

Is AI now rebuilding its own LLM's?

Five members of Congress from both parties and both chambers are asking Pam Bondi for a briefing and status update — by the end of the week — on the legally mandated release of the Epstein files. Bondi has 16 days until the release deadline. tinyurl.com/59m8rnyk

@halsparks.com so sorry for your loss. Love the photo of your dad that you shared on the radio show. He could have been an actor in Clockwork Orange.

Explosions are being reported near Moscow for the second night in a row as Ukrainian strike drones target the capital and rear areas. Russian strategic and tactical aircraft are evacuating from airfields near Kubinka and Zhukovsky. Panic in the skies, again.

Sounds about right.

Masked ICE goons. You will be held accountable. “I was just following orders” won’t cut it.

Trump is going to have a long list of people to give a presidential pardon to.

Stephen Colbert: “Tonight we’re all Jimmy Kimmel…. With an autocrat, you can’t give an inch. If ABC thinks that this is going to satisfy the regime, they are woefully naive, and clearly they've never read The Children's Book If You Give a Mouse A Kimmel.”

You can never appease a tyrant.

Pritzker: What's at stake here is free speech. It's our constitution and our way of life. Do we really want the president intimidating people, organizations to get others fired? People ought to be standing up and speaking out.

And Fox is still broadcasting because....

Another "win" for Brexit.

Pritzker: Trump seems a little obsessed with me and with Chicago — maybe he’s got Pritzker derangement syndrome.

There is no democratic justification for withholding these files. This is a coverup.⁩

First hurricane of the Atlantic season just catapulted from a category 1 to a 5 in just a few hours. Going to be a busy season.

Gavin Newsom just rocks.

@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "It's the rule of Don, no longer the rule of law. And people need to understand the lines that are being redrawn in Texas are not about party. They're about power. And you've got to meet fire with fire and power needs to be asserted in blue states, not just red states."

@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "I think he should start with Shreveport, Louisiana, and Speaker Johnson's district that has 6x the per capita murder rate of Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco. What about the carnage, Mr. President, in Shreveport? Why aren't you protecting the folks there? What bullshit."

If he builds his golden ballroom, how soon can it be torn down? Indeed, let’s remember many of these heinous acts can be overturned. None of this despicable demolition of our government and values is unchangeable. But it requires ending his lawless regime & returning power to responsible leaders.

Another gross, ghoulishly timed Charlie Kirk comment

@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "More and more evidence every single day, he's lost a step. This is not the same Trump 1.0. This is different. Something's off. Increasingly off. He's unmoored in ways even by Trump's standards I haven't seen."

If you don't already, watch Colbert. He is a man with no more f*cks left to give. And it's glorious. Check out this song parody from last night's show: Mike Johnson Delays House Epstein Vote Until September

Colbert comes out swinging. Gonna be a fun 10 months...

Ukrainian drones have struck a military airfield in Millerovo, Rostov oblast. #explodey