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The first rule of Trump Club: everyone eventually ends up under the bus but Trump. /1

Katie Zacharia could have continued a successful career on NewsMax peddling scurrilous pro-Trump conspiracy theories and misrepresenting herself as an attorney or she could have continued her well paid, low work job as a “communications adviser” for Trump Media & Technology Group. /2.

Possibly the most British news article ever: a “well known individual“ has sued the Guardian and ITN to prevent them for publishing details of serious allegations against said individual. He claims he may hurt himself if the story is published, citing the European convention on human rights /1

Right to life provisions. The well known individual alleges two prior suicide attempts. /2 www.theguardian.com/media/2026/o...

Saudi Arabia will execute a man for attending demonstrations for religious freedom for the country’s Shia religious minority and funerals Saudi authorities deemed to be protests when he was between the ages of 15 and 17. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Katie Zacharia is out after only five days as Press Secretary. As a friend has pointed out, this constitutes only 0.46 Scaramuccis in the position. At least Katie has her successful legal career to fall back on.

Bend elementary school shooting was 1 of very rare circumstances where it appears a good guy with a gun stopped bad guy with a gun, but not before 5-year-old, 8-year-old and 11-year old children and a school teacher were murdered and a 7-year-old and 2nd school teacher were critically wounded /1

It would make more sense to keep guns out of hands of unstable people in the 1st place. But thoughts and prayers … I hope shooter’s parents are prosecuted and sued.

Angelina Jolie just sold her LA estate for $24.75M, only $250,000 more than she paid for it in June 2017. Taking into account commissions and inflation, she probably lost $9M on the investment in today’s $$, not counting any reasonable profit from safe investments of the purchase price in June 2017.

Odds are looking good the Democrats will win both Houses of Congress in midterms, but I expect Trump and Mike Johnson may try to do what Maduro did after the 2015 legislative elections in Venezuela: manufacture phony claims of fraud in close races to try to prevent Democratic majorities /1

From being seated in the hope that a majority of the stacked SCOTUS will vote for the Republican losers and prevent a Democratic majority from being seated. However, I’m less certain that the narrow Republican majority in Senate would all vote in lock step for outright fraud. /2