Noem needed her own airliner "to deport illegal immigrant criminals."

No more autopen melodrama for now.

The wild look on her face sums up being a hotel guest when a missile strikes. Our world is safe until it isn't.

This is weird.

Just FYI. Signifying nothing too surprising but thank Ukrainian drone experts for the factoid.

I just realized, Trump probably learned from Epstein that you can feed the boys McDonald's burgers and the girls like pizza.

Many are frankly warning that Trump will attempt a coup before November. He simply can't win free midterms. There are many means to stop a coup cold. It would be best to get your strategy in readiness now and expect their rush to surprise. As Connery once said, "What are YOU prepared to DO?" 😉

"A Republic, If you can keep it." -- Benjamin Franklin

Today, Middle Eastern nationals seem diverse but if Trump and Israel attack a cleric in Iran suddenly all are Arab -- so in Kuwait, Arabs are shooting down US war planes.

How much oil do you have to take out of the short-term supply chain to increase the market price of your cronies' oil? And why is Trump sinking Iranian oil tankers?

SO FAR... only so far.

NYT has questions on behalf of the People.

FYI - Autocracy defined.

Remember when Maga Lindsey Graham publicly urged patriotic Russians in the Kremlin simply to dethrone Putin?

VP Vance missed the mark worse than VP Dick Cheney on a quail hunt.

Is there a news flash for ironies?

Current Dubai situation includes interception of missiles and drones.

It's not insignificant that Iran has struck the city of Dubai in the UAE in retaliation for strikes by the US and Israel. Dubai is a destination for festivals and annual events like Formula car races and championships in MMA, tennis etc. American influencers have been buying residences there.

"When I did public events I used to have a line -- I said the reason why you like Reacher is that even though you are good citizens, you are civilized people, you are all of the good things -- you all have a list of 10 people you would cheerfully shoot in the head." -- Lee Child, quoted in YT vlog.

BBC News seems to be winning the live YT coverage of US and Israel versus Iran this morning.

Not sure how this makes Trump popular with the (grateful?) Iranian people.

You could say that this is unpredictable territory but you could also say that ANY prediction you make is equally possible. Retaliations against US interests have begun and there are lots of targets within reach of pro-Iran groups. Who all bought tactical nukes from Russia or North Korea? "Anyone?"

Trump wants to stop those midterms so badly but we will have them if it's absolutely the last thing ice ever does. (I think I just said the quiet part....)

Congress was not in the loop but they could see the military massing and the ships headed that way. Congress just didn't guess that with their war vote scheduled Trump would jump the Constitutional gun. He can't have the optics of Congress proving him impotent while he's plotting overruled midterms.

Trump is making major war by his own announcement, and there was no Congressional approval. He talked about razing the missile industry to the ground and obliterating nuclear sites. He encourages Iranian people to take their country back "as they have always wanted." Now's your chance, he says.

The government wants to be all over AI for surveillance and the gathering of meta files on every American, first to find misc. cash, savings or assets worth changing a law to steal -- at tax time or by hardening requirements to receive public services, disability or low-income benefits.

Trump's 5-Year Plan is to model US society after Russian no-dissent, no-real-vote, one-message life. So during headline partisan skirmishes he's just made their planned move TO CONSOLIDATE TV into one voice. I regret to say the purchase of Warner and CNN by CBS/Paramount (not Netflix) hit today.

The phrase "nationalizing elections" has no meaning in American law. There is no definition, process or mechanism anywhere, certainly not in the Constitution. The Declaration of Independence suggests the reverse is true, that an Executive who gives intrusive Orders must be shed by a Free People.🇺🇸

A glut of Royal Decrees disguised as Executive Orders by a man who would be king in a Democratic Republic becomes altogether without substance. That is clear from the need to issue every one of his unconstitutional decrees as required by another of hundreds of imaginary National Emergencies.

In the course of over 200 executive orders in Trump's first year he has been forced involuntarily to admit that he believes the fact he does not live in a Kingdom is a National Emergency. So every decree must be couched as an executive order -- which requires another assertion of National Emergency.

More from Epstein

Keith Edwards now says Musk is reported to have pushed election fraud in Georgia (pre-filled absentee ballots). It's beginning to smell like Trump sent people down there under Tulsi's watchful eye NOT to investigate fraud but to disappear ballots proving THEY committed voting fraud to elect Trump.

I just made my own Board of Peace and I want my $10 billion now. All persons are created equal.

He just stole 10 billion from the US Treasury and nobody's put him under arrest yet.

Leave it to Trump to start a war inside Mexico against one of its top drug cartels at the height of American tourists' annual vacation season. I'm sure it needed doing but the timing is lousy for people with canceled flights and locked down resorts. Some plan to drive a rental to our border. Irony?

Executive branch won't issue any tariff refunds without court battle, to spite SCOTUS ruling they should never have been charged.

It was the Family Circus ghost child that ran and hid, yelling "Not me! Not me!"

RFK Jr.

Sky News is already reporting that Trump has raised his blanket International tariff rate to the "As much as I can grab!" rate of 15%.

Melania shouldn't have sued journalist Michael Wolff. It has opened her to discovery and shows she lives apart in NY City (not Florida), outing her own apartment 33H in Trump Tower since 2016. Assistants, doctors, family, hair, makeup, family's immigration attorney (she did arrive B1/B2) all in NYC.

SCOTUS has ruled Trump's tariffs illegal and they're already talking about how the heck they're going to refund all those $billions.

"I said 'Somebody should do something!' Then I realized, I am somebody." Remember that slogan on the wall posters? In this unexpected time, we are challenged to ask not only "What are we prepared to do?" but "What are we prepared to leave undone for our own children to suffer?"

Trump's Board of Peace will be in his mind the global enforcers -- eventual adversaries of NATO and he hopes ruling over them with superior military power no doubt. You see it isn't enough he leaves NATO. He wants to win the argument. The ballroom gets a mere $400 mil while the BoP gets $10 Billion.

"Trump's appointees sign off" is all you need to know.

I'm sure Trump hopes to arrest Democrats for being Democratic. But all of Congress is elected and they'll have something to say about election takeover.