Trump shouts “Fake news!” History will judge.

64% of Americans have a positive view of Canada (11% have a negative view) vs 36% who have a positive view of Trump (59% have a negative view) So, who's better for the United States - Canada or Trump?

Hear! Hear! Well done. Reward that man 50 grand in a paper bag. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Apt depiction of the current U.S. Supreme Court.

What will it take to overcome the epistemological Berlin Wall that divides Americans? The split is so great that I fear it will take societal collapse to set the stage to put things back together again. Only then will MAGA believers grasp Trump's lies. jameslbruno.substack.com/p/weekly-min...

Trump’s best friend Jeff Epstein was worried about Trump’s dementia way back in 2017. How bad do you think it is now?

What motivates those who know better to abandon the values in which they were raised to abet a depraved and corrupt wannabe strongman whose motivations and goals are to end our democracy? One doesn’t need to turn to science fiction to find the answers. jameslbruno.substack.com/p/the-monste...

MAGA: 5 Freedom of the press: 0

I predict the Post will go bankrupt a few years from now, murdered by a Vichy billionaire.

"Republicans fall in line. Democrats fall apart" - borne out in Democrats not countering Rep. Comer's brazen effort to divert attention from Trump's Epstein troubles by targeting the Clinton's while Republicans cover up for Trump. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Trump says he does not intend to tear down Kennedy Center. Mark my words - here’s what’s coming.

Donald Trump, Stephen Miller, et al. walk into a bar where they encounter George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and the other Founders. Any bets on who wins the debate? My latest in "Dispatches From Exile." jameslbruno.substack.com/p/a-debate-b...

“The fun’s not infectious and the guests are a nightmare, and two hours of Melania feels like pure, endless hell.“ ~ Guardian.

You know fascism is sinking its teeth in deeper when ex-CNN anchor Don Lemon and another independent journalist are arrested and charged by Bondi’s DOJ for covering an anti-ICE demonstration. www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...

People like Vietnamese dissident Duong Thu Huong know that freedom and democracy must be earned, sometimes fought for. Unfortunately, too many Americans take them for granted, leaving themselves vulnerable to losing them. Now is the time to speak up. jameslbruno.substack.com/p/spit-in-th...

As the other nations of the world dance on, the USA is a drunken palooka outcast wallowing in lies, corruption and failure. As Peggy Lee sang, “Is that all there is…?”

I’ll sit through it with a barf bag handy on 2 conditions: 1) ICE is abolished; and 2) Trump is impeached.

With the Trump-induced mayhem and murder in Minneapolis, his assertions that he'll be limited only by his “morality” and “mind” and his turn toward military conquest, there is a growing sense that we've turned a corner as a nation, likely one of no return. jameslbruno.substack.com/p/weekly-min...

"Almost Zero Chance a Democrat Will be Sworn in on 20 January, 2029" The game is now so rigged by the Republicans that you are delusional if you think the Dems have a chance of winning in 2028. Read this sobering analysis and offer your own views if you disagree. bylinetimes.com/2026/01/22/t...

Latest Kennedy Center cancellation: soprano Renée Fleming. But despair not. Rumor has it that she will be replaced by a Mongolian acrobat troupe and a Yosemite Sam Cartoon Fest. www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...

Costing $75 million in total ($40m production + $35m marketing), "Melania" is projected to earn maybe $5 million, and critics aren't allowed a pre-screening. What's that tell you? www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...

Does anyone really expect the likes of Armenia, Paraguay, Belarus, etc. will cough up $1 billion to join his latest hallucination - the "Board of Peace"? How about a prominent bridge as collateral instead? www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Now a blood blotch marks Trump's left hand. Karolyin' Leavitt says he “hit his hand in the corner of the signing table, causing it to bruise.” Previously, his bruised right hand was from "shaking many hands." They still think we all just fell off a turnip wagon. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

The US military should not be saddled with checking a deranged president’s excesses. That responsibility falls on Congress whose constitutional obligation is to pose checks and balances on presidential power. jameslbruno.substack.com/p/dr-trumplo...

Reason #999 TO IMPEACH HIM NOW! fortune.com/2026/01/18/a...

Reason #998 to IMPEACH HIM NOW! ca.yahoo.com/news/starmer...

Trophies will be accepted tomorrow at the White House from 9–5.

Hello! Any GOP members of Congress who aren't cowering in the shadows tearfully hugging their comfort blanky and still have shards of memory of what ethics in government and courage in defending democracy are, this message is for you: IMPEACH HIS ASS NOW!! www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

Trump's State of the Union message to the nation.

A medical school professor maintains Trump likely suffered a stroke last year, citing his changed gait, slurring of words, drooping face and frequently napping in daytime, including in official meetings. The nation deserves answers, not more cover-ups. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Trump is fast-tracking his fascist agenda 1) to distract attention, and 2) to intimidate his opponents. What we’re witnessing is all-out panic by a delusional sociopath. The goal is to break the system before voters are able to effectively counteract. jameslbruno.substack.com/p/weekly-min...

This is how the end of democracy looks.

Nothing like indefinitely lording over 28 million people like a colonial overseer to build long-term trust and good will with the people. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...

The US further sinks into inwardness and eschewing the rest of the world, propagating a radical right agenda heavy on superstition and bogus theories, making it the "sick man of the world." www.yahoo.com/news/article...

In case you were wondering exactly where we are in today’s zeitgeist, GPS has turned up the following:

Trump is making an offer to Venezuela that they can’t refuse. With a naval armada amassed off the nation’s shore and its president taken in a snatch-and-grab, Trump states that he’s sure “they’ll do the right thing.” My latest in "Dispatches From Exile." jameslbruno.substack.com/p/trump-make...

We have an unchecked, untreated psychotic in the White House threatening to invade Greenland, Cuba and Colombia. His deteriorating mental health is a wake-up call to impeach & convict. Wake up Congress before it's too late! www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/u...

The military op was executed brilliantly, but what is lacking is a political and diplomatic strategy, which is like closing one’s eyes and rolling the dice in Vegas. A bundle of tactics does not equate to strategy. My latest in "Dispatches From Exile." jameslbruno.substack.com/p/weekly-min...

When you tune into the news and hear nothing but hosannas to Great Leader Trump, you’ll know the MAGA revolution is complete and that you and your family better mind what you say or else suffer the consequences. jameslbruno.substack.com/p/weekly-min...

Issa Rae has canceled her sold out performance at the Kennedy Center. Pulitzer Prize winner Rhiannon Giddens, Peter Wolf, Low Cut Connie, and the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, D.C., have also canceled. Lin-Manuel Miranda has canceled the entire Kennedy Center run of Hamilton.

So Trumpy to name a fool as "special envoy" to a country you openly plan to seize by force. The latest in the ongoing farce that calls itself a presidency. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Notice how Trump talks about seizing Greenland whenever his association with Epstein gains in the headlines? And the dolt Jeff Landry allows himself to be played by Trump, the definition of a "useful idiot." www.yahoo.com/news/politic...

A fan of alternate history, I lay out what would happen should Trump and the MAGA movement bounce back and fulfill their goals to transform America into a full-fledged fascist dictatorship. Happy New Year! jameslbruno.substack.com/p/dispatch-f...

Launch of the first “Trump class” battleship. www.tiktok.com/@murkasdelam...

Trump’s psychosis, dementia and physical decline have turned the nation into the world’s largest insane asylum and is destroying the country. It’s a waste of time to try to come to terms with those who blindly worship the Col. Kurtz in the White House. jameslbruno.substack.com/p/americas-j...

"Elise Stefanik's Glass Eyes" Stefanik’s rise and fall constitutes a morality tale of this warped era. This essay, which I wrote four years ago, captures the soullessness of a hyper-ambitious young politician whose unctuous guile fooled no one. jameslbruno.substack.com/p/elise-stef...

Elise Stefanik finds out that actions have consequences. Who knew that selling your soul for political power could crash your career? Gosh! JD Vance, Lindsey Graham, et al: pay very close attention. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

The Bread & Circuses shtick is beginning to wear thin with voters. finance.yahoo.com/news/1-776-c...