For 2 years I was the producer of the legendary radio comedy team Lohman & Barkley on KFI in Los Angeles. I just recently found a chache of air checks of the duo from 1984-85. I'm planning to post some of these airchecks very soon on my site, ramblertown.com

Swiss politicians filed a criminal complaint with the country’s top prosecutor over a Rolex table clock and an engraved gold bar presented to US President Donald Trump by business executives shortly before he agreed to cut tariffs on the country’s exports. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

As a teen, I could afford as many concert and sports tickets as I wanted. Now over 60 with two degrees, a full time job and a 2br condo, I can't afford more than 2 or 3 events per year.

Four of Trump's five children have an immigrant mother, and the one who doesn't is married to the son of two immigrants.

Heard about Bolsonaro, so I wondered about air fares to Brazil. ramblertown.com/just-out-of-...

WOW. I saw the news about Bolsonaro and I was curious what it costs to fly to Rio these days. Put in two days a week apart in March. $485. That's crazy! I flew to Rio in 1982, and it was just over $1000. So I went ahead and booked it.

11 anos depois...

We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com. We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans. washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

Spain has too rosy a view of Franco’s regime. Let’s remind ourselves of its horrors | Giles Tremlett

This is such a routine story at this stage, including the second act: "my friends turned on me when I betrayed our shared ideals - so much for the tolerant left."

A US citizen filmed federal agents smashing his car window, as authorities begin a surge of immigration enforcement operations in North Carolina. The Honduran-born Charlotte resident filed a police report after the officers let him go.

Ad in a Chicago El station, with "AI is not your friend" written at the top.

Trump told me this is not true and he never lies about stuff like this.

We’re in this position because the Comey letter was considered newsworthy but this wasn’t.

A whole other form of partial and political justice. Trump pardons list of allies who worked to reverse his election loss in 2020. Many of them, especially Mark Meadows, know where the bodies are buried. A vile miscarriage of justice. Includes Rudy, Sidney Powell, John Eastman, & Ken Cheseboro.

Matosinhos is a town bordering Porto on the NW. Great restaurants and a nice beach town vibe. One of the places I'd like to retire to. www.theportugalnews.com/news/2025-11...

It a not just Gen Z that doesn't understand why the GOP hates the ACA and always has.

Damn, Ali @velshi.com great Rebirth of a Nation segment! Great summary of how we got here. Many thanks!!!

They’re wearing masks so they can’t be prosecuted later. As long as they think they can’t be prosecuted, their crimes will intensify. They will torture, starve and kill, as they have already, on greater and greater scale. Signed, someone who’s covered the unaccountable War on Terror for 23 years.

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 95th day out of the last 107. 12 days of work in 107 days. With full pay and benefits. The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown. It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

Both Donald Trump and Gavin Newsom attended Jesuit universities. Newsom stayed to graduate.

🚨 CNBC: "Announced corporate job cuts surging past 1 million so far this year, with 153,000 new layoffs just in October according to Challenger. That is the worst October since 2003."

Ellis starting the day off by reading out Carl Sandburg's poem "Chicago" in its entirety.

Mikie Sherrill had a great acceptance speech.

Looks like the Dems will pick up 12 seats in the VA House of Delegates, which will go from 51-49 to 63-37 D-R. That's an honestly shocking result.

I mean, seriously, is Mamdani that much more radically left than Brandon Johnson in Chicago? Johnson has had a withering campaign against him from the Tribune and talk radio since BEFORE he took office. But crime is down 45% in Chicago, we hosted the DNC, and CTA has improved.

SNAP benefits will be gone, small businesses will suffer, insurance premiums will double, air traffic will be delayed/halted: All of these things are happening because when the gov't shutdown ends, the Epstein Files get released.

My brother sold a house to Spanberger's parents and became friendly with them. Nice people.

shout out chicago.

Mike Johnson has the House adjourned for 42 days, Trump just came back from a week in Asia, remodeled a WH bathroom and flew to Palm Beach for a golf weekend, they refuse to negotiate with Dems, Dems had to sue to get Trump to release SNAP funds, but Republicans are blaming Dems.

A partial list of what Bovino does not have to tell a federal judge happened today: *An agent pushed a City Council member in Albany Park *Agents deployed pepper spray in Albany Park & Evanston *Agents were involved in a car crash in Evanston *An agent pointed a gun at a woman in Evanston

Between believing violent crime is high while it’s as low as it was in the 60’s, the “shoplifting” panic, this, and more, one must understand that the majority of America is living in a completely constructed, terrifying reality untethered from actual world.

Right-wingers in Brazil (Gov. of Rio de Janeiro state) just did an extra-judicial killing of 130+ people in a favela. If you think these right wing people are sane, you're not paying attention.

Quadrilha - 29 de outubro de 2025 www.brasil247.com/charges/quad...

First post on my new blog / home site. ramblertown.com/hello-world/

“It sounds crazy to say that Republicans are making children go hungry to protect pedophiles, but it’s actually a reasonable interpretation of the situation.” @pkrugman.bsky.social

Trump is ordering new nuclear weapons testing. The US has not tested a nuclear weapon since 1992.

Bro has no idea what is going on. This is crazy.

I think about this piece of shit pretty often.

Follow @jonseidel.bsky.social and I for updates today from the Dirksen Federal courthouse, where Border Patrol's Gregory Bovino is expected to appear. Here's a picture of protestors at the courthouse's entrance. It's unclear whether Bovino will go through this entrance.

A dementia screening is not an IQ test.

Stop Pretending Trump Has a Coherent Economic Strategy www.commondreams.org/opinion/trum...

After January 6, 2021, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Comcast publicly pledged to stop donating to politicians who sought to undermine the legitimate results of the 2020 presidential election. In 2025, these companies have stopped worrying about democracy and are buying Trump a ballroom.

Mondays don’t feel so rough on the #MostBeautifulCampus

I thought this was really interesting. www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-count...

ICE is tear gassing schools