As malevolent, stupid, and clueless President Trump is, and no matter how deep the distrust and revulsion I feel about him as our President, I applaud the effort he put into ending that sickening, tragic war in Gaza and his part in getting the Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners released.

The price of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin is determined by supply and demand. Supply can be manipulated at the press of a button. Demand can evaporate as soon as buyers lose faith in its value. Its value is based on market whims. Why do you think gold just hit $4,000 an ounce?

Trump conducts a vicious campaign of retribution against those he doesn't like. He sends our military into our cities. He creates ICE who mask themselves and use Gestapo tactics on immigrants. He guts our DoJ. And he wants the Nobel Peace Prize? Gimme a break.

The Trump administration's new head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency is the meteorologist who backed up Trump during ‘Sharpiegate,’ when NOAA said Hurricane Dorian would not hit Alabama, but Trump said it would and drew its path over Alabama with a Sharpie. Dorian didn't hit Alabama.

"Trump and his cronies are trying to trigger the very unrest that would justify further crackdowns. In the end, violence serves their ultimate end: They want to create the illusion of disorder so they can tighten control and stay in power indefinitely." --NY Times, 10/7/25 Well said.

Trump sends militarized Federal agents into Chicago, attacking sleeping people with assault tactics, and when they fight back, film them and distribute the film as proof that the city is on fire with rebellion. My favorite was when they shot a minister in the head when he was praying.

Terrorism is defined as the calculated act of using violence to incite fear in a population for political control. Hmmm--Trump's thugs are doing just that in LA, DC, Portland, Memphis, and Chicago. Trump says terrorists are "the enemy within." You don't get more "within" than the White House.

The Oklahoma legislature just ordered that any teacher coming from New York or California to work in Oklahoma must pass a MAGA test so children are protected from "radical left" thinking. Don't worry--teachers from NY and CA won't want to work in Oklahoma.

MSNBC commentators are wondering today if Chicago police can arrest National Guard soldiers who are breaking the law by following Trump's illegal orders. Yes. The Uniform Code of Military Justice requires service members to refuse to follow unlawful orders. Following them is itself a crime.

Compare the weak-ass BS Pete Hegseth spooned out to America's top brass, and Trump's nutball talk that followed, and compare them to this speech by Admiral McRaven, someone who truly embodies the right spirit for a military man or woman.

If Trump can get away with Federalising California's National Guard troops and sending them to police Portland, Oregon, then he can Federalise all states' Guard troops and have them police the entire country. So be nice when some soldier from Louisiana with an AK-47 shows up to take you to prison.

Troops won't end the hell that is Portland. Maybe Trump should just drop The Big One and get it over with.

All American military, including National Guard, should refuse to follow orders sending them into American cities. It's un-Constitutional, un-American, and those ordering it--Trump, Hegpeth, and their cronies--should be arrested, prosecuted, and given stiff jail terms. Enough of this crap.

Just saw a video of Stephen Miller in a school bus describing how it's better to torture your enemies than to kill them. "By cutting off their fingers," he suggested. He liked the idea of giving his enemies stumps for hands for the rest of their lives. Miller's even more ghoulish than he looks.

I have been a journalist since high school, now including a B.A. in Journalism and histories on several dailies. Journalists are failing us. The profession requires us to tell the truth. Yet media presents Trump's BS as if it were truth. No more! When he lies, it should be ignored or IDed as lies.

All these ICE agent bullies and soldiers who follow orders to invade cities are CRIMINALS. They are all required to refuse illegal orders, and all their orders are illegal. Take names and numbers. They are all going to prison. And the next President won't pardon them.

Music used to be fun. Here's an example from about 100 years ago. From this to Billie Eilish (a real talent but in the shade these days) in just 1,200 months.

"The Pentagon is requiring journalists to have their work approved before publication. It’s nuts. It makes America look like a place of make-believe freedom in which even the press is controlled by the government." --GOP speechwriter Peg Noonan. The 1st Amendment guarantees freedom of the press.

C'mon--we all know it. Trump is batshit crazy. Time to invoke the 25th Amendment and get this nut job out of the government.

When I watch Trump speak I'm always waiting for his head to explode. "And windmills. They're destroying Americ..." BLAM!!!!

Chuck Schumer is a nice, kindly old grandad. What Democrats need now is a liberal with brass balls and intellectual muscle.

Among the jumble of enforced right-wing unanimity, unamerican actions, lawbreaking orders, and lethal blows to environmental regulations, Trump today presented major universities with a choice: teach only conservative propaganda or forego millions in government subsidies.

Those who patronized Jeffrey Epstein's underage girls for sex won't be a surprise. Many have already been named. What will be of enormous interest will be names that are redacted. Redacted by whom? Redacted why? Who are these people and what possible reason can there be for hiding their identities?

So basically Trump told all the top brass of our military that they should get their troops ready to declare war on those Americans who challenge him. He calls them "the radical left," and that "it's war," and that "they're the enemy within," and that the war will be in the streets of our cities.

The folks who won our Revolutionary War were just a bunch of farmers. The green soldiers who stormed the beaches of Normandy were youngsters. Now Hegseth wants our troops looking like the cookie-cutter fascist warriors of autocracies everywhere. "Man up!" he's telling our bravest military men.

America's officially nuts now. The President orders soldiers into American cities so they can use the cities for military training. Meanwhile, the Secretary of War orders all top brass to Quantico to tell them to stop being woke pussies, while Trump says they look "right out of central casting."

Trump's narcissism has curdled into cruelty. At the same time, his grasp of current events has lost its focus and become diaphanous, allowing memories to impinge on reality. "War-ravaged Portland" gets troops. Med-beds will re-grow your limbs. Iranians seeking help are deported back to the mullahs.

The six conservative justices of the Supreme Court just put another jewel in King Trump's golden crown. Congress allocated $4 billion for foreign food aid to famine-wracked countries under a law Trump is forced to honor. Trump asked the Court to give him the power of the purse. The Court said okay.

Everyone can agree that Charlie Kirk's murder was a heinous crime. Americans can agree that he was entitled to freedom of speech. Some of us even liked what he was saying. Most of us were horrified at his blatant bigotry and hate.

Ta-Nehisi Coates on Charlie Kirk in today's NY Times: "He just slurred, across the board, all sorts of groups of people and then ran an organization which appeared, to me, to be just a haven of hatred — I would not want that to be a model for my politics... I think Charlie Kirk was a hatemonger."

Hey--with 31/ATLAS getting ready to give us a visit and militaries around the world doing what humans always do (getting ready to kill it), it's time once again to revisit everyone's favorite movie: "It Came from Outer Space."

‪Sinclair--the Hard Right MAGA outfit with a handful of ABC affiliates--says they'll put Jimmy Kimmel back on their stations if he apologizes to ABC and donates money to Kirk's fund. I have advice for Jimmy: Tell Sinclair to "fuck off."

So Pete Hegseth spends umpteen million bucks flying all of America's top brass from around the world to sit in an auditorium at Quantico so he can tell them he wants to play tough guy 'cause he has this sweet fantasy about being a "warrior." The stupidity is astonishing.

Trump's cabinet of idiots have so destroyed common sense in favor of trumpthink that it's not even worth commenting on anymore. I'm just waiting for the great implosion and structural crumbling to happen so I can make popcorn and watch.

To understand what Spinosa was saying turns everday life into a sacred experience.

Trump's crazy is getting so unhinged that he's becoming a greater danger to his followers than to the rest of us.

Those who knew him said French painter Edgar Degas was a misanthrope, sourpuss, and tyrant. Same is being said today about Trump's chief advisor Stephen Miller. See what you think.

From the news reports about Trump's "speech" at the UN today, we can safely report that America's humiliation at having such a moron address the world is utterly complete.

We are lucky it's Donald Trump who's our first tyrant. He's so stupid that he overreaches constantly, and this will bring him down. Imagine what trouble we'd be in if our tyrant was wicked smart and Machaivellian. Time for Trumbo-the-Dumbo to get frog-marched out of there.

At Kirk's memorial, Trump said, "Charlie didn't hate his opponents...that's where I differ from Charlie. I hate my opponents and I wish them all jailed."

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Imagine where we'd be if Republicans had honored their oath of office. Not changed their conservative views. Just honored their oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign AND DOMESTIC. Instead, they choose to enable a criminal whose motto is "Fuck the Constitution."

Trump just labeled the Antifa movement "A Terrorist Organization." Does that make him anti-antifa? Sinc antifa means anti-fascist, does that make him anti anti-facist? Does anti-anti-fascist just mean pro-fascist? Did Trump just proclaim himself a fascist?

Democrats must immediately identify what young men of all political stripes WANT. And then invite all young men to join them to MAKE IT HAPPEN. If the 52 million men 18-35 in this country form a cadre of action, they can MAKE IT HAPPEN. Join with others and the world is yours for the taking.

"In the wake of Kirk’s killing, Trump and his allies have laid out a broad plan to target liberal groups, monitor speech, revoke visas and designate certain groups as domestic terrorists." -- NY Times. Now Trump's waging a war on libs and using Kirk's killing as justification. Would Kirk approve?

To use the murder of an ally as an excuse to clobber over half the country for expressing the Constitutionally-protected right of free speech is an abomination. Kirk's death was a tragedy. Trump and Miller's response is, too. Revenge just perpetuates the agony.

“Pay attention. Something dark might be coming. The murder of Charlie Kirk could have united Americans to confront political violence. Instead, Trump and his anti-democratic radicals look to be readying a campaign to destroy dissent.” --Sen. Chris Murphy CT. This is Stephen Miller at work.

"As a teenager in Santa Monica, Stephen Miller craved nothing more than triggering the good-looking kids in school who wanted nothing to do with him." --News item. Like, with his trigger finger?

Trump's partisan tantrum against "the Left" shows that he's President of the Conservative Faction of the U.S., not of the whole country.

For those too young to have experienced the vibe of 1967, this will give you a good idea.