Charles Jay

Congressman-elect Brad Lander now has the distinction of perhaps being the first person detained by both ICE and the IDF in the same year for making “good trouble” on behalf of those targeted by Trump and Netanyahu.

I wish people would add context when posting such videos. Who is Adam? These officers appear to be New Jersey state troopers. The Delaney Hall detention center used by ICE is in Newark, NJ. My guess is that this scene took place in the NJ state Capitol. When did this take place?

Remember Judge Ho is considered a strong contender for a Trump appointment to the Supreme Court should a vacancy open up. Another argument to flip the Senate.

The real question is why Trump has to campaign in a deep-red state like Nebraska less than a month before Election Day.

In 2028, the next Democratic president must appoint Jack Smith as Attorney General or at the very least FBI Director. No more Merrick the meek. Trump and his enablers must be held accountable.

Trump and Hegseth could face charges before the International Criminal Court in The Hague for the extrajudicial killings at sea. In a story I wrote last year I noted the comparison with the ICC case against former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. www.unchartedblue.com/philippines-...

And when will RFK Jr. speak out against Trump’s destruction of the memorial to his uncle?

What's even more dangerous is what happens when a malignant narcissist confronts failure. Trump is undergoing what mental health providers call "narcissistic collapse." I wrote about this in a story for the progressive website Uncharted Blue. www.unchartedblue.com/trumps-actio...

So if Trump’s previous tax returns are no longer subject to being audited maybe he should make them public as he promised to do in 2016. He used the audit excuse as his reason for not releasing them.

@gtconway.bsky.social I wrote a piece on this very topic -- the dangers when a malignant narcissist like Trump faces failure after failure -- for the progressive website Uncharted Blue. www.unchartedblue.com/trumps-actio...

You may not realize this but for us this is actually the high point of Mitch McConnell’s Senate career. He is casting no harmful votes and his absence leaves the Republicans with one less vote to pass Trump’s agenda.

Here's my latest story for the progressive website Uncharted Blue. Trump is a textbook case of the dangers posed by a malignant narcissist reacting to failure. www.unchartedblue.com/trumps-actio...

Russia also signed the agreement under which Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons in exchange for security guarantees. Then Putin broke it. Here's a story I wrote shortly after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. www.dailykos.com/stories/2022...

My only problem with Christopher Nolan's casting of "The Odyssey" was having Graham Platner play Odysseus.

Trump made only one passing reference to Russia in last night's speech. But Putin orchestrated a disinformation plot that nearly succeeded in knocking Joe Biden out of the 2020 race on behalf of Trump. I wrote about this in April 2024. This should be investigated. www.dailykos.com/stories/2024...

News outlets should seek reaction from a psychiatrist or psychologist after Trump's speech tonight. Here's an old Psychology Today story about how a narcissist reacts to failure: rage, continuing to lie, and airing their grievances. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/spyc...

Pete Hegseth is too incompetent to realize that you don’t need a high testosterone level to fly a drone. And Ukraine has shown that drone warfare has reshaped the modern battlefield. Guess which country has thousands of drones? Iran.

Judging by questions from GOP senators at Todd Blanche's confirmation hearing, it seems that two things they want the DOJ to do is ban the abortion drug mifepristone (at least for mail orders) and prosecute Jack Smith.

While we’re at it why don’t we look at how Russia interfered in the 2020 election by having its operatives feed disinformation to Rudy in an effort to knock Joe Biden out of the race. Maybe Aaron Parnas could interview his dad Lev about this.

The best way for South Carolinians to acknowledge the legacy of Sen. Lindsey Graham is to vote for Democrat Dr. Annie Andrews for Senate in November.

We shouldn’t treat Trump’s bluster seriously. What he says should be analyzed by psychiatrists. Putin couldn’t keep the Black Sea open for his fleet because of Ukrainian drones. All Iran has to do is fire drones at slow-moving tankers transiting the narrow Strait of Hormuz for it to remain closed.

Memories of 2016. Remember when Lindsey Graham called Trump a "jackass" in a TV interview, and Trump responded at a Suth Carolina rally by giving out Graham's cell phone number. Graham then made a video of how to destroy your cellphone. youtu.be/JPAvOaNpoiM?...

Does anyone remember this old catchphrase from the first season of SNL in 1975. "And Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead." It looks like we can soon substitute Mitch McConnell for Franco. youtu.be/woZo83cVgbI?...

In 2025, California’s GDP was $4.25 Trillion. In 2026, Elon Musk’s net worth exceeded $1 Trillion, depending on stock price fluctuations. Those figures alone make the case for raising taxes on billionaires.

I was working as an editorial assistant at the Chicago Sun-Times in 1970. I doubt many people know that film critic Roger Ebert co-wrote the screenplay for Beyond the Valley of the Dolls with director Russ Meyer.

Cuban sold the Dallas Mavericks to Miriam Adelson and her son-in-law. The Israeli-born Adelson supports Bibi and the most extreme right-wing politicians in Israel and has been one of Trump’s biggest donors. Cuban should have known they would ruin the team starting with the trade of Luka Doncic.

Now I’m rooting for Belgium to beat Norway in the final. And then have the team do their YMCA dance when Trump steps onto the field to a chorus of boos to present the real FIFA trophy.

I wonder what all those evangelical preachers who blamed LBGTQ* people for natural disasters have to say about this? www.advocate.com/politics/201...

And Trump once wondered why more Norwegians won't emigrate to the U.S. www.sbs.com.au/news/article...

Fox News is now broadcasting from a large trailer on the National Mall where WWII veterans had to be evacuated because of the bad weather. Fox commentator says the National Mall looks like “a ghost town” because everyone had to be cleared out.

i have never seen a Dumocrat. But I have seen lots of happy Democrats, including this guy: youtu.be/p1vbAdFkVvA?...

The Weather Forecast for the night of July 4th when Trump is scheduled to deliver a 45-minute speech at the National Mall. A heavy thunderstorm around in the evening; otherwise, partly cloudy and humid; thunderstorms can bring flooding downpours, hail and damaging wind gusts.

So who are the politicians that Americans like the most. Here are the top six: Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders, Zohran Mamdani, Pete Buttigieg, Jon Ossoff, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. newrepublic.com/post/212486/...

I don't know why among all the posts on Mel Brooks' 100th birthday, this film tends to get overlooked: "Mel Brooks' History of the World, Part 1." "It's good to be the king." youtu.be/7OWMB3ewpNM?...

How low can you go? A MAGA influencer in an Uncle Sam costume is arrested for allegedly performing lewd acts during an acrobatic performance at Trump's fiasco fair on the National Mall. www.aol.com/articles/mag...

Trump hijacked the official celebrations of America's 250th anniversary. He formed Freedom 250. Its events, including the National Mall fiasco, are put on by Event Strategies Inc., which produced the Jan. 6 Ellipse rally that preceded the attack on the US Capitol. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

As we celebrate Mel Brooks' 100th birthday, remember the parody Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane did in which they reprised their roles from the updated version of "The Producers" for Jimmy Kimmel. "You Got Trumped" aired in Feb. 2016 and unfortunately proved accurate. youtu.be/OemqVWi_R0k?...

Mel Brooks is only 100 years old today? I thought he was already 2,000 years old. youtu.be/7XqNdI6kvyI?...

It would be much more interesting if it was converted to a dunk tank with Paula White yapping in tongues as exemplified by this scene with Pastor Jeff from "Young Sheldon." youtu.be/GZejfTnQSqo?...

My wife, an immigrant from Poland herself, worked as a psychologist in NYC nursing homes alongside Haitian nurses, nursing assistants and other staffers. She describes them as the hardest working and kindest people when it came to treating patients. SCOTUS' decision will devastate senior care.

A promise delivered by our mayor. The city's Rent Guidelines Board has approved a rent freeze on 1-year and 2-year leases for the nearly 1 million rent-stabilized apartments. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/25/n...

Here is a story from the independent Russian newspaper, Meduza, operating out of Estonia, about this video that has gone viral. meduza.io/en/news/2026...

Ayn Rand is really the godmother of the Epstein class. She was enthralled by serial killer, William Edward Hickman, who killed and dismembered a 12-year-old girl and praised Hickman in her notebooks. www.rawstory.com/amp/ayn-rand...

So now it seems that a Trump appointee wanted to acquire Greenland in order to restore all you can eat shrimp at financially troubled Red Lobster. You can't make this stuff up. newrepublic.com/post/212172/...

Elections do matter. Hungary sets a good example for what to do if there's a Blue Wave in the midterms. www.reuters.com/world/hungar...

I've been intrigued by the story of who has been making the Iran Lego videos. It turns out it's a group of Iranian Gen-Z creators. youtu.be/LMZ15Nwfj0o?...