Though the COVID vaccinations were possibly implicated in the deaths of several children, COVID infestions are confirmed to have caused at least 1,800 deaths of children.

Although not a religious person, I've always admired Christ's humble philosophy and egalitarian activism, so I liked Ms. Kirk's presentation at the memorial service. She focused on the best of his teachings and forgave her husband's killer. It seems she'll be a good leader for the organization.

The threats by Trump, Bondi, and Carr to punish broadcast outlets for criticizing Trump face a long history of the courts upholding the right of media and citizens to crticize government without punishment. And today, ABC and Disney seem to have backed off from firing Jimmy Kimmel.

Former National Guard leaders on Trump's deployments of it: the insertion of the Guard in a state without a governor's request is "outside the constitutional box." Indeed, the deployment to LA without Governor Newsom's OK has been ruled unlawful by a district judge.

Former leaders of the National Guard on Trump's deployments of it: "It was an attempt to intimidate the local population."...beginning a divide between our military and our citizens, and that is absolutely despicable."

Former National Guard leaders on Trump's deployments: "The Guard is not a law enforcement agency. The military is designed to fight external enemies, not citizens."

Elon Musk's posts on X often have false information. So, anyone hearing about him speak to xAI employees will be surprised he said "We are the only company where the mission is truth. If you force the A.I to lie or believe things that are not true, you're at risk of creating a dystopian future."

Elon Musk's Grok hasn't done well following his directions to be edgier. When he had minions change the algorithm, it spouted anti-semitic and pro-Hitler themes and falsities about genocide against Whites in South Africa. Before he fiddled with it, it seems quite accurate.

Internet and celebrity chefs claim non-stick pans are necessary for good cooking. They're not. Well seasoned old-fashioned cast iron and steel pans are perfectly non-stick. They need to go back to these traditional pans.

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Is it Christian to publicly call for the murder of all homeless people? That's what Brian Kilmeade did on Fox a week ago. He still has his job.

Chronic underestimators, the IEA calls solar #1 by 2033—but they’ve never kept up with reality. 🚀 With 2025 smashing records & storage racing ahead, coal could be dethroned by 2027–28, maybe sooner. The sun isn’t waiting for forecasts by the fossil lobby. ☀️ #Solar #BESS #EnergyTransition #Renewables

I sincerely encourage Riley Gaines to do precisely that.

A president weaponizing government power to silence speech he doesn't like is a crisis for our democracy. We must stand with those who refuse to bow to political blackmail — and call out those, like ABC, who cave to a wannabe king and put our rights at risk.

In a report on Americans' use of hamburger helper, the NYT neglected to ask why people think they need to eat beef regularly, given its known health downsides, nor why people use a totally refined product with no vegetables except flavoring.

Hegseth's performance is so weak he gets a lot of ridicule and criticism. So, he's layering restrictions on reporters, limiting where they can go in the Pentagon and requiring permission to use even unclassified information. It won;t work, I think.

Trump claims he's stopped many wars. However, during this time in office, the wars are escalating, says AP. An Obama-era State Department official, Bergmann, says "This whole nine months of peace efforts was just a merry-go-round". The strong men he's trying to influence aren't biting, I think.

A US political scientist Treisman says "few authoritarian leaders have a sense of human and even fewer can laugh at themselves."

Re the Trump administration, German sociologist Anheier says "For many demagogues the goal is to achieve cultural and political dominance" or to shape what the public sees as common sense."

Not just Unpopular! He's also the Most Unworthy-Unqualified-Unethical-Uneducated-Unprepared-Undemocratic-Unfortunate-Unhinged-Unjust-Unread-Unappealing-Unconscionable-Untrustworthy-Unscrupulous-Unstable-Unbearable-Unlikable-Unreliable-Unsound & Unctuous President in Modern American History. 🇺🇸 🙄

Trump and Vance's claim that leftists are more prone to political violence than rightists is not upheld by any study so far. CNN gave the results: Cato Inst. Sept. 11 2002: 391 vs. 65. Last 5 yrs: 44 vs 18. DOJ's NIJ: since 1990, 420 vs 78, thus rightists 6 times more likely to commit violence.

When reporters ask Trump to comment on what he is doing that is problematic he does not answer but threatens them with prosecution or trying to get them fired. I guess he is ultra sensitive to criticism, though since he does a lot of problematic things, you'd think he'd get used to criticism.

After Trump pardoned several executives who had been convicted of fraud the SEC has dropped those cases, and the three men in question no longer have to pay back the millions of dollars they took from victims. Trump voters, Trump saves rich men and corporations from prosecution for defrauding you.

Jeremy Fistel,a 44-year old Texan has been arrested and extradited to NYC to face charges after he threatened Zohran Mamdani, front runner for mayor in that city. In threats larded with anti-Muslim slurs. Fistel said a bomb would be placed under Mamdani's car and wanted bullet to go into his skull.

Well, good. EPA has decided to uphold the requirement for clean-up of "forever chemicals".

Trump, his administration, and the MAGAs are trumpeting the terribleness of political killings of his supporters but not of members of the opposition party. So, bemoaning Charlie Kirk's death but not Melissa Hortman's. Selective outrage.

Chicago Tribune Voice of the People! B. Collins of Orland Park, IL writes that Charlie Kirk questioned whether Blacks could be competent pilots and warned that Whites were being replaced by people of color in a leftist conspiracy. Collins calls that toxic rhetoric.

Trump claims his tariffs would stimulate US manufacturing but U.S. has 14,000 fewer manufacturing jobs now than 6 months ago.

Did Trump voters realize that his financial and tax policies would privilege large companies and the rich and save them from prosecution and recompense for their crimes against consumers and shareholders? He's pardoned lots of corporate offenders and rolled back enforcement.

Trump is adding to the exam questions for people to answer to qualify for citizenship. However, it seems very likely that he would never be able to answer even the existing questions.

As for Trump's announcement that Antifa will be declared a terrorist organization, M. McCord former acting head of DOJs national security under Obama says "Trump can declare whatever he wants...but there is no legal authority to... designate a domestic group as a terrorist organization".

Trump's new attack on Harvard contradicts his minions earlier attach on the university for its enormous endowment, which he wants taxed. Now he's charging Harvard with having inadequate financial support. Go figure.

Trump says Carr of the FCC will be taking away the licenses of broadcast outlets that criticize him. But Democrat Anna Gomez of the FCC says, "This FCC does not have the authority, the ability, or the constitutional right to police content or punish broadcasters for speech the government dislikes".

Trump claims there are news outlets that are 97% negative on him, yet he won the vote "easily", so their broadcast licenses should be taken away. Well, he barely won, by less than 50%, not by 97% by a long shot.

NYT Lydia Pogreen dumps on an "utterly baseless" "obvious falsity", Fox New's Jesse Watters' claim, "Statistically the trans population has been prone to violence". She said records show, of 5,748 mass shootings since 2013, just 5 were by trans persons, and they are more likely to be victims.

Trump's response to his prosecutor's inability to find anything to charge NY Atty General Leticia James with was to fire him. Presumably he'll press his replacement to "find something". Trump dislikes her because of her success at prosecuting him for fraud.

Although administration functionaries insist Feds don't have to obey state laws like California's no-mask law for law enforcement, constitutional specialists have pointed out that they do, actually. They have to stop at stop-lights and not turn right on red if the state prohibits it.

California has passed a bill prohibiting most law enforcement officers, Federal or local, to obscure their faces with masks or gaiters, and to not wear legible badges and name tags. It also passed a bill to prohibit Feds from going to schools or helath facilities without a judicial warrant. All good

The administration alleged that there were paperwork discrepancies on NYC Atty Gen James' Brooklyn townhouse and second home, and Trump, resentful of her litigaiton against him, says she should resign. However, no evidence or charges have been brought despite months of investigation.

75% of Americans now say the country's going in the wrong direction, compared to 62% in the last survey, according to an AP Norc poll that ended Monday. Republicans appear to have changed the most. See the graph of the figures.

President Donald Trump threatened to take away broadcast networks’ licenses if they put on highly negative stories about him. Despite Trump's own extreme degree of dishonesty and outright prevarication, he is decrying the "dishonesty” of network stories critical of him.

Florida judge Steven D. Merryday rejects Trump's defamation suit against NYT as “decidedly improper and impermissible... "A complaint is not supposed to be “a public forum for vituperation and invective” or “a megaphone for public relations,” he said. Yet another Trump suit dismissed.

Nice cartoon in the NYDN by Bill Bramhall today. Here it is.

Most of Kash Patel's responses to questions from members of the House Judiciary Committee about his conduct of the investigation of Charlie Kirk's murder were total nonsense. Somehow that doesn't quite come across in Eric Trucker and Alanna Durkin Richer's AP article.

Former President Barack Obama, like many thinking people these days, said that his disagreement with many of Kirk's statements "doesn't negate the fact that what happened was a tragedy and that I mourn for him and his family."