Sorry. Got to get tyrant’s names right. It’s MBS, not MBZ.

Now a $15,000,000 reward for information leading to the capture of Ryan Wedding, drug kingpin, allegedly residing in Mexico. This is old news. Pamela Jo Bondi, Cash Patel, and Trump personal lawyer staged belated announcement today. I smell a pretext—Donnie wants badly to invade Mexico. Wag the Dog.

Also, MRI SCANS are done on a specific part of the body. He knows damn well where and why it was done.

Maybe coincidental that the other Dem senate apostates besides Durbin and Kaine are not up for re-election in 2026. Gives them that insulation from being thrown out unceremoniously in 2026.

Tim Kaine, Dick Durbin both retiring after their present terms. I suggest that Dick resign immediately for health reasons and that Illinois, while the iron is hot, somehow move someone else into that slot. Not sure of the mechanism or timing, but it can be done I would hope. Va would seem stickier.

Looking at Donnie on the TV tonight and I see pallor, drained facial features, new hair loss and advancing signs of neurodegenerative disease, with the latter all but confirmed by two brain MRI’s in the past 6 months. He may be in kidney failure. He may have cancer with wasting. Hospice!

Largest oil producer in Sub-Saharan Africa.

@headdoc35.bsky.social Clearly he has lost weight, is looking somewhat gaunt, has shown disorientation at times and has other manifestations dementia. GLP-1 drug effect? Has to be at least pre diabetic. Psychoactive meds side effects? Something more ominous? We will probably never know. MAGA knows!

Are we all for a “Make Eugenics Great Again” movement? Charter members might be JD Vance, Steph Miller, Rusty Vought and Below the Radar Susie Wiles. I am certainly not advocating for this, of course. Glory.

Can someone summarize the cost of deploying the Marines and National Guard in LA? We know that the Noem/Homan Gestapo disappeared a number of people, but what about these other two entities? Instructive also would be the extent of involvement of LAPD/LACSD.

Trump opens new golf course, meets with Scottish first minister https://twp.ai/4ipxvV

@kenmartin.bsky.social Ken: We are gonna lose our rural hospital and attached medical resources after the midterms. So are a bunch of others. May I suggest that you folks publicize this, beginning now, at the points of care? Not sure how to best do that, but daily visual reminders might work.

Hmmm. You got race, religious and gender preferences, too? And, how bout naturalized citizens?

Yah know, thinking in grand terms, a lot of our mess is from obnoxious presidential overreach. I guess my hypothetical for the wonks is: if Congress becomes Democrat in 2026, what can Congress do to curb that power? My answer for some things: presidential veto that cannot be overturned. Dreamin’?

Now we have the Chelsea FC Allegory of the Giant Orange. Orange waddles in and personally awards medals while players mouth “WTF.” Orange co-opts trophy to take back to his gilded burrow. Orange “disappeared” from team photo. Report card: behavior erratic, hostile. Does not play well with others.

@mymeltingpotfamily.bsky.social Like your style!

Orange preparing for bilateral foot shootings.

So, why are we “racing” toward completion by July 4th? This is a complex pork-laden omnibus that no one understands entirely and no one fesses up to, it seems. Tell The Chunkster that he is just gonna have to hold his massive pants on for a bit while Susan Collins studies it more.

So, Leonard Leo and Mitch McConnell, pretty happy with the judicial system that you have created? Except for the carnival barker in chief, suspect you factored in all the judicial corruption and occasional ignorance. Oh well, as long as the puppeteers are pulling the strings, mission accomplished!

Senate elections 2026: mostly red states. You get even a small portion to retire/opt out of running now, then Don Trump can’t threaten/terrorize re being primaried. With that, they become the power within the Senate. They can truly be swing votes. Does that translate into empathetic behavior? Maybe.

"It was always taken as a given that when the president spoke on Monday, he would likely still mean it on Tuesday. That’s no longer true. But what’s really hard is that it’s not even obvious when it’ll be true, and when it won’t be. Madness.” www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Am I the last to know? The Qatar jet offered to Trump turns out to be an item unsuccessfully for sale since 2020. The "gift" is not only a Trump grift, but also an attempted scam on the US taxpayer, who will assume costs the owners no longer wish to pay. onemileatatime.com/qatari-royal...

More on this: "The changes will leave Hegseth without a chief of staff, deputy chief of staff, or senior adviser in his front office...'There is a complete meltdown in the building, and this is really reflecting on the secretary’s leadership.'" Via Politico

There Is a Way for Democrats to Stop Trump and Save America www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/o...

The lying and the staggering incompetence around this is astounding. And dangerous.

@kenmartin.bsky.social Hey Ken, Maybe you could catalyze town hall meetings in Demo districts directly adjacent to the red ones. Might have the effect of shaming MAGA’s who are shunning these but allowing constituents of all stripes to attend.

Where are the silent majority republican senators and congressmen? Do your job or resign.

@kenmartin.bsky.social Ken, Best things I heard tonight came from Jen Psaki and Michael Steele in the post mortem. You need to form an agile steering subcommittee to create cogent talking points. You need to start proactive messaging instead of simply reacting. Righteous indignation is not strategy

@chrismurphyct.bsky.social Still looking for the formation of a select Dem steering committee that would hypothetically develop strategies—not necessarily reactions—with excellent persistent messaging. Righteous indignation is not a strategy!

@schiff.senate.gov Fine, but where’s the visible integrated collaborative response to all these shiny objects? Expressions of righteous indignation are not solutions!

@maddow.msnbc.com Rachel: Fine and dandy are the expressions of righteous indignation, but where are the coordinated responses? Call it what you will, but Dems desperately need an agile steering group—now! Forget about being all things to all constituents for the time being. ?DNC?

Good morning. The House voted yesterday to kick millions of off their health care, close rural hospitals, and shut down addiction clinics. All in order to afford a giant tax cut for Elon Musk, Donald Trump and their billionaire and corporate friends.

@chrismurphyct.bsky.social And, by the way all of you rabid MAGA’s—now that DJT has been elected, he’s discarding you like rubbish.

@chrismurphyct.bsky.social Excellent summary by Annie Karnie this AM in the NYT. You are the firebrand that we absolutely need now. And Chuck Schumer is not! So, Senator, lead us out of the wilderness.

Propose a readily available weekly dashboard of stuff that is meaningful and relevant, like price of milk and eggs, gallon of unleaded in Dallas, inflation and unemployment rates, cost of F150’s.

@chrismurphyct.bsky.social Senator: Appreciate your frankness and economy of words! We have a Dem vacuum, IMO, in critical management, strategic unified planning and messaging. We are like salmon smolt at a fish hatchery, boiling the water with Trump’s effective chumming. Weekly dashboard of real?

Selecting another right-wing Fox personality and internet troll — Dan Bongino — as Deputy FBI Director means two things: Trump installs another loyalist who won’t say no to any immoral or unethical act. And our law enforcement agencies — and the public safety — are further degraded.