IRAN: Invade or Regime-change As Necessary (to keep Epstein's name out of the news cycles.)

Origins of the Great Repacement Theory. And they wonder why they get called "Nazi." www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...

The regime's mindset seems to be "If you are against me, you are the enemy; if you do not acquiesce to my every demand, you are against me; ergo ...."

Careful going down that road, Jack. Repetition is also the mechanism of gaslighting. Just note anything said by Trump, Miller, Bannon, Bondi, Leavitt -- or by the Grand Master of them all, Joseph Goebbels: "A repeated lie can be seen as truth."

When the American electorate get around to electing legislators who have not drunk the MAGA Kool-Aid. Certainly not before that.

Comment on SOTU: If "Brevity is the soul of wit," this production was not even half-brief.

But the US didn't declare war. The merely committed acts of war, an entirely different thing.

Stop blaming just Democrats. There's plenty of blame to go around; spread it broadly.

Putin didn't want to share?

"I thought he was going to hit me, so I hit him back first." The bully's traditional excuse for attacking.

His part of it is. The rest of us? Not so much.

"It is better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same." Is this related to "a good friendship can withstand any stress except a small loan"?

Right-wing rule of rhetoric: When you don't have anything valid or truthful to say, shout.

The homeless would not be willing to move into the kind of conditions that are being proposed for ICE's concentration camps. And justifiably so.

Among those I've known, they don't so much want their basic needs met as the opportunity to meet those basic needs themselves, without being bullied or robbed by their government.

Unless someone in the files really ticks off the President, we can expect no prosecutions from the current DoJ.

And if we don't kick out this corrupt government, it is the "real Americans" who will end up being prosecuted.

And he has been accused, in sworn affidavits, by more than one of his then-underage victims. Though coerced prostitution would be illegal even for adult victims, too.

If women are miscarrying in ICE detention centers, caused by ICE practices, and most ICE detention centers are in Blue states with extreme anti-abortion laws, doesn't that make ICE an abortion provider? Or a murderer (collectively) in states with fetal-personhood laws.

I'm sure a lot of them do, but as long as it keeps them in power....

This shows the error of reflexively condemning anyone in the files. Patel and Bondi have had a year to manipulate the files and could easily have inserted many others. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Weren't the conservatives the "Taxation without representation is tyranny" group? And illegal immigrants pay more taxes (per capita) than a lot of the MAGA base.

But not if it's part of a press release. Or from a government official in any other guise.

Or, it's the Democratic Party acting somewhat like its old self, not falling into lockstep behind their "leaders" in Parliamentary style like the Republicans have.

In other words, the affidavits on which the arrest warrants were based were perjured. But I'm sure that the agents involved will be granted Qualified Immunity.

Why would you think she crawled out of the gutter? She was going to a House committee hearing, after all.

For those interested in details of the Epstein files, AlJazeera has a good survey article: www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/...

'“You’re a washed-up loser lawyer. You’re not even a lawyer,” she said to Raskin.' As she will be as soon as she loses her powerful protector in the Oval Office. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

So, he lies about everything else. However, seeing how a lot of self-proclaimed Christians act these days, he just could be right.

More evidence of corruption at the top of the government: www.wsj.com/finance/curr...

Their idea of "softer touch" is not ramping up to full martial law, which they had been bruiting for some time. Kind of like the "savings" the Congress gets from not running up the expenditures as fast as they have done in the past. Politician-speak.

You seem to assume a unitary "us." In the current environment, that is not the case. A sizable minority support the actions of the government. I, personally, never cared for that flavor of Kool-Aid.

Which raises the question, "How much of the money passing through TrumpRx makes its way back to Trump?" Administrative fees, for example.

There do need to be some guardrails, though. Consider Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and the town of Antelope, OR, in the 1980s. Abuses on the other side of the argument are not unknown.

An interesting read on why we hear so much about antisemitism in the current press. I'd never heard of Dispensationalism, but it explains a lot about the whole "Rapture" thing I lived through about 50 years ago. www.notus.org/perspectives...

"The buck stops here." When Truman said it, he meant that the "passed buck" of responsibility ended up on his desk. When Trump heard it, he decided it meant that this was a way to get rich. And he has managed to waylay a whole lot of bucks during his tenure.

"Vance booed at Olympics." DJT has assured us that America is respected abroad as never before. He's right: respect for America internationally has never been this low. There have been times we were laughed at, but none when we were treated with disdain and disgust like now.

Maybe not for the troops in the field, but it certainly seems to pay well enough for those in the White House and the Cabinet.

ARIZONA ET AL. v. UNITED STATES No. 11–182. Argued April 25, 2012—Decided June 25, 2012 Syllabus, p1 "Removal is a civil matter...." And DHS is in the courts with unclean hands. And, by treating removal as a criminal matter, they are overreaching -- prosecutorial malpractice.

Oh, they're a lot more than just that, though it is a good capsule description of a great many of them.

This sort of behavior has been typical of ruling elites in every society I have read about, capitalist, theocratic, feudal, militarist, you name it. Those with social dominance, besides those with personal dominance, have always tended to "lord it over" the rest, especially males over females.

..."Secretary Noem, the record to-date shows, does not have the facts on her side—or at least has ignored them. Does not have the law on her side—or at least has ignored it. Having neither and bringing the adage into the 21st century, she pounds X (f/k/a Twitter)."... reason.com/volokh/2026/...

“The Name’s LaGuardia,” lyric by Sheldon Harnick, from Fiorello!, 1959 "... But you can change it all Go use the ballot box And cast your spell come next election day" .... But it assumes there will be a ballot box to go to. One can hope.

They are only following orders.

You mean besides MAGA?

That ought to be big enough to hold most of ICE after they are arrested for civil rights violations, in conditions at least as good as they have been providing for detainees. I wonder who will get the lucrative contract to run it.

We'll point to Citizens United.

Is this a dig at Donald "Little Hands" Trump?

Having fun casting high-profile MAGA as Nazi higher-ups. Trump <==> Hitler; obvious, stereotyped Bannon <==> Goebbels; premier propagandist Miller <==> Himmler; architect of the Final Solution below Miller: Homan <==> Heydrich; sadistic implementor of the Holocaust, head of Gestapo