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Oops. Did Iran out-maneuver us with a low-investment half-gambit, no less? Send a couple of guys, no real arms or bomb-making materials. No igniters. Ouch!

What now? This might have ignited a war. But for the fact Russia and US are over-extended and the US is no longer a reliable NATO partner?

Mr. Postman should be arrested and tried for conspiring to commit felony interference in the delivery of the mail, along with that little crime of sedition.

Australian strips off shirt, smashes glass & chokes café mgr who translates for him at police HQ - a “striking illustration of the paradox of today’s Vietnam, which has eagerly welcomed foreigners..but remains a communist state that prioritizes social order and control.” Uh NYT, so does Switzerland.

The CAR ranks—per the US State Department’s own assessment—dead last on the human development index. This is hardly a safe refuge for those fleeing violent persecution in their home countries. We have become a grotesque nation.

Dipping toe into roiling waters, but not seeing counter-arguments. Fifield worked for Heritage Fdtn. & ran ‘Ladies for Kavanaugh’ (ooh, a real rapist). As one who teaches vets with PTSD, I believe him. A lot of working class people do too. No, few other oystermen or candidates have his abilities.

Obviously he is the legatee that failed…

Racism and misogyny the new guiding principles of defense…

And there goes the possibility for dialectic .. as in does pedantry in fact build compassion, understanding, connection? Should books open up vistas or lock down doors? Was looking for kids’ books in a great indie bookstore. Tossed aside most. The messages were apt but the words were lead weights.

For whom is this op ed written? Not progressives. This bright light confuses the DNC with breakout Dems running real-people campaigns. It’s as if he just emerged from a time capsule. More NYT ed board shenanigans? Implying we don’t know what we’re up to?

Finally question his strategy? Twice now Dem stanchions handed presidency to DjT by shafting progressives, propping up neoliberalism, sacrificing worker base & pretending burbs count—in order to appease their $B donors.

Counting minutes until the next NYT oped on how the Dems lack vision. To be sure we do—it’s just not the one they want to hear described. Calling out their secret friend after all gives them the willies. (Hint it starts with neo and ends with ism, and has nothing to do with being socially liberal.)

Yes, I care about our soldiers. I have taught many. But we are at war, a war we should never have started. A war that has already killed thousands. A war being run and lost by monsters. Suddenly our entire press pivots to reporting as if the only story is the safe rescue of two airmen.

If they rule for Trump (and likelihood is high), a possible outcome will be that refugees will believe they have no other recourse than to enter the US illegally to qualify for refugee status. Which Core Civic will no doubt celebrate.

One’s 20s. One can feel as adrift as a tiny plankton caught in the ocean’s swells. This is also the result of a 3-decade process of rendering middle-class life much more unattainable. I’d say go invent the world anew. Danger tho is wars are made to handle too many young on the loose.

The ghouls are unleashed—and, yes, of course Pakistani officials feel the US has given them “the green light.”

Depravity of entitled takes bold new turn. A pedophilia victim’s story is stolen to launch bestseller aimed at promoting a new drug-fueled therapy for un-repressing memories, in which the thieving author is 1) Invested in related clinics & drug production; 2) Seeking to overturn related drug laws.

“Done everything right?” What fkg nonsense — torture is never justifiable. It is never justifiable to traumatize blameless people based on their ethnicity or skin color—just to prove how this nation considers their lives valueless. Only as Minn. proves, real Americans do not. We show up.

Confusion reigns for non-lawyer here. I thought Congress has the power of the purse. Period. Meaning “a surge in funding” from the pig pootiful pill was still Congress’s to approve and, well, fund. His lawyers think it’s a private trough.

The irony of asserting we need Greenland in order to secure our borders against Russian threat—when we have a Kremlin puppet in the White House…

Greenland can take lessons…

Oh we so won! China Announces Record Trade Surplus as Its Exports Flood World’s Markets

It’s not April 1st, but every day is a brand-new fool’s day

NYT is unable to abandon position that “Machado…led a successful election campaign against Mr. Maduro in 2024 and had the greatest popular legitimacy to lead the nation” although a CIA analysis suggests otherwise? Not 1st time NYT backs right over left in Latin Am either—despite deadly history.

DeSantis is an idiot. Of the one-eyed one-dimensional island-unto-himself kind. The Odyssey is a fantastic boyhood romp. The Iliad was revered by Greeks for imparting life’s key teachings. New College of Florida Was Progressive. Then Gov. DeSantis Overhauled It. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/u...

In the first place, unlike presidential appointees career diplomats are often regional experts schooled in global affairs. In the second, embassies famously (or infamously) are the mother ships of spies. So we lose the ability to gather and act on knowledge. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/u...

The South (with western friends) rises again. But seriously — what after all were the precipitating events that led to the Civil War? Back then tried to bring in pro-slavery stares to tip congressional balance in their favor. Today trying every trick to do the same. bit.ly/497PD5P

As the fascist Project 2025 promised, RFK Jr. plans to end CDC recs for most childhood vaccines, leaving it "to doctors and parents." RFK's anti-vaccine policies will result in predictable outbreaks & resurgences of deadly diseases. We will all suffer the consequences. This is Structural Eugenics.

All good boys, girls & beings of whatever ilk deserve favor. Now we get to guess why this nice favor was bestowed. I say campaign schmampaign .. she hitched her boat to an all-screws-loose Titanic. (BTW Stefanik once helped my upstate NY-born mother. So did RFK Jr & his Pace clinic. Go figure.)

If you love Rob Reiner, focus on what is good and right. And offer up a prayer for the afflicting sorrow. But do not give that piece of putrid crud crap an iota more of your time. Help move the world forward—not back.

Who can’t be reminded of the Nazi round ups, the Velodrome d’Hiver? What kind of monster have we become? Officials Target Youth Immigration Program, Speeding Up Deportations www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/n...

What it means to be a Russian agent? “The NSS does not merely ‘shift priorities.’ It flips 75 years of American policy on its head and declares political war on Europe’s democratic institutions while elevating the far-right parties in Europe that Russia has been cultivating for more than a decade.”

It is one thing for Denmark to pussyfoot around US threats & another for NYT. Leaving out shocking degree to which we’ve teamed up with Russia (whose economy btw is failing). Plus Bannon & friends hard work pushing European neo-Nazism with idea of dismantling the EU.

Brilliant piece .. helps clarify why a former Zero Unit member might very well, one day, blow a gasket.

What could constitute a more blatant effort to overturn an election? From pressuring GA’s top election official to find votes to blasting media with false reports to tampering with voting machines and intimidating witnesses, it’s not clear what more DJT & allies needed to do to warrant indictment.

Discovering and falling in love with pockets of the country .. new citizens out flexing their rights, friend and neighbors out honking their horns

“I could have easily not gotten the story and…said, you’re a fucking pedophile and I can’t see you anymore. “But in order to get the story, … the story of Donald Trump’s relationship with this pedophile, a story that certainly many of the journalists now criticizing me have chosen not to pick up.”

Agog any serious artist can consider representing US at this year's Venice Biennale (even if we are usually a pretty craven lot). Little chance Mexico-based Alma Allen's work can (or aspires to) counteract the toxicity of this regime. Is it to his credit that we'll be spared Curtis Yarvin?

This hurts but here is a bit of glinting light on a stormy sea. In 2001, legions of Muslim men were rounded up, held, aggressively interrogated, persecuted .. and except for a few news reports, everyone stayed mum. No excuse but different times & circumstances. Question: Do we care more now?

So the good news is he is wiping out the talent, which could hurt his plans for a putsch. The downside is perhaps they are the generals with scruples? Their firings too will intimidate the rest. Who hopefully won’t delay coming to their senses, as did the good Prussian officers of the 20 July plot.

Celebrating, but had to sniff out NYT back-handed compliment.“The Mamdani campaign gave a lonely generation something to bond over. ‘Addicted to their screens, strapped for cash, spiritually unmoored and socially stunted by the pandemic, young New Yorkers needed a reason to get out of the house.”

With electricity and communications down across Jamaica, it’s impossible to know the extent of harm—but they’re saying as hurricanes go, it is one of the worst.

Thinking of Sally Mann’s Civil War battlefield photos. Wondering if we will find our way back .. no, not to some gilded non-existent past, but maybe to that one unnoticed moment when more of us were decent. www.sallymann.com/new-gallery-3

Just incase you wondered what democracy demo looks like…

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How many diehard NYT readers are sick to death of their unrelenring anti-left bias. Dems not willing to kill off healthcare affordability for millions are to blame? Really? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u...