Dinner has been served. Not enough for the dogs and cats, a fasting night for me. Tomorrow will be a dig yuka and maybe find some green bananas day for me. if someone drops by with bags of dog food or cat foot, it will be manna from heaven. Some actual bread will also suffice as manna.

I don’t even want to turn on the news anymore:(

Today, we honor and remember Virginia Roberts Giuffre on the one-year anniversary of her passing. Her courage has allowed countless survivors to be seen, heard, and to be believed. Sending love to her family on this difficult day—and to all the survivors out there still on this journey for justice.❤️

Living off the land for dinner -- just a bit of raw spinach from one of the planter boxes.

A relatively early start on a dog and cat food run, but as May Day approaches I am out of blood pressure medicine and can't afford to buy more at the moment. The attempted low-stress lifestyle? That also fails because as I was gone the dogs trashed.

The South Texas Democrat who will sing at your quinceañera www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Okke Ornstein coimaconfidential.substack.com?r=86sh8x&utm...

Small-time (I hope) catastrophe. My main electric plug-in stove burner died and I shall see if the back-up works and how well. In any case, the dogs are eating late and neither they, the cats nor I are being fed wel enough tonight.

85 cities now have May Day strikes next week. As more unions & groups like Indivisible support them, the list is growing paydayreport.com/map-65-citie...

Alex Jones yesterday, April 22nd of 2026, is once again saying the Sandy Hook massacre was a false flag done by "professional shooters." It is imperative we take over that studio as soon as possible.

Rain clouds coming down from the ancient volcano, the center of which is El Valle. We are told that Panama will have a delayed and perhaps reduced rainy season this year, but it was raining on the afternoon when these words were written, as in a fairly normal rainy season afternoon for Coclé.

Getting old and slowing down a step or three has its ups and downs everywhere. In Panama, there are these hustlers looking to take advantage of you, but also an overdone 'Watch out for people trying to take advantage of you' culture that's taught to kids and widely embraced.

Happy Earth Day. The US plan at the moment seems to be, Earth First! Then we'll move on and destroy other planets. 🧪🌍⚒️🐟

RAIN!!! -- not steady, but a series of spritzes, some momentarily heavy. My garden appreciates the favor. The forecasts are for a delayed rainy season, but I am on the verge of a seed-buying expedition to Penonome, where I get Chinese green bean seeds.

Was it because if his crews knew, they'd tell Gallego jokes about him behind his back, and maybe even get mutinous about it? Scientists May Have Finally Solved the Mystery of Christopher Columbus’s Origins www.aol.com/articles/sci...

Trump just issued a last-minute warning to Virginians that if they vote YES on the redistricting referendum tomorrow, he will lose power: “If the Democrats get additional seats, they’re going to be making changes at the federal level.”

The lion pride expands, and begins to climb...

Walz blasts Trump over Iran war, calls it 'fascism' www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Two towering intellectuals with ancestral roots in a continent that Trump calls a shithole, one adhering to a faith that Trump would criminalize and the other with folks of that denomination in his family, showed the short/eye perv an African sense of manhood and nobody even got a bloody nose.

Meta layoffs: Tech giant to cut about 8,000 jobs in May finance.yahoo.com/sectors/tech...

Saturday afternoon already, and I'm rediscovering what a clumsy typist I am.

Uh oh – stockbroker slain in gangland ambush near Costa del Este… www.laestrella.com.pa/panama/nacio...

Caligula also declared himself a god. The dude was such a piece of work that his own bodyguards killed him.

It IS, however, a good start at a platform for November. Harder to ratify the Treaty of Rome, but he and Trump should go on trial for war crimes at The Hague.

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) admitted it has no evidence that Vermont is not complying with federal voter roll maintenance laws — an admission that could further weaken its case for amassing voters’ sensitive data. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Eric's Substack ericeditorpanama.substack.com?r=86sh8x&utm...

He’s at that Common Law point where he can’t be defamed

Peru also went to the polls today... It's the first round for an incredibly crowded field and there have been terrible problems in some areas, so don't look for much in the way of definitive results right away.

¡¡¡ORBÁN CONCEDES DEFEAT!!! Victory for peace in Europe. Defeat for Trump and Putin. Especially ignominious defeat for J.D. Vance, who went to Hungary to meddle in its elections on the old dictator's behalf.

Think of just how nutty Trump is this weekend. By opening his mouth during sensitive negotiations he brought talks hosted by Pakistan to naught. That is, he recklessly embarrassed the one Muslim country with confirmed nuclear weapons.

Some of Katie Porter's former colleagues on the male side of the California congressional delegation deride her for "momsplaining"? As governor, she might whiteboard them into damaging and degrading confessions.

US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...

You need not be Catholic to understand how serious THIS is> Confirmed: The Trump administration threatened to overthrow the papacy www.alternet.org/trump-pope-l...