Brad Riendeau

Good.

I mean, you don't really need a translator

Is DOD, aka DOWC, making targeting decisions based on the potential video deliverables for Trump's next briefing? Blowing up a bridge fits that theory.

The real reason ICE uses face covering when operating is not to protect their wives and children from the reaction of mobs. It is to protect the agents from the reactions of their wives and children.

What. A. Stupid. Mess. (Also, this doesn't sound constitutional.) www.huffpost.com/entry/news-l...

Go big or go home. Oh, he got sent home already? www.rawstory.com/bovino-depor...

Somebody flunked Sunday School. apnews.com/article/pete...

UPDATE: The ACLU of NY has responded to this unreal admission — noting the "far-reaching" implications, "including a possible motion for reconsideration of" Judge Castel's September 2025 decision in the case. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Time for R2-D2 in a baseball cap? www.nytimes.com/athletic/714...

How chemists turned bourbon waste into supercapacitors. Hydrothermal carbonization can directly convert sloppy stillage into hard carbon or activated carbon for making electrodes. arstechnica.com/science/2026...

Sick clips for the "strong" man. www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...

Why is TSA part of Homeland Security? Why is it not part of the Transportation Department?

To the extent that impeachment is a political exercise, can we impeach for gross incompetence?

Ronald Reagan’s budget director.

TACO or talks on the down low?

Sadly, Robert Mueller did not get up and shave this morning. He did it in the face of fire in Viet Nam and onward.

CROW: So we're less certain of the positions of Iranian leadership and their intentions than we were 60 days ago, correct? GABBARD: That's an accurate assessment

I may not have listed all the various ways the One Big So-Called Beautiful Bill would lead to corruption, but I feel like my general concerns (back in June 2025) that it would lead to corruption have been borne out so far.

"and it is one, two three, what are we fighting for. Don't tell me I don't give a damn. Next stop is ...." Bomb Iran. - Country Joe and the Fish at Woodstock quote with an update.

I guess the Senate should have paid attention to the name of the crusader cross tattoo. www.rawstory.com/pete-hegseth...

Has anyone done a state by state list of what is required to register to vote?

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

New name for a piece of legislation passed in the Trump era. "Big Beautiful Shill."

I wonder if there was any way for them to foresee it would happen?

Time to lawyer up? Here is some free advice. Start by shutting up. www.rawstory.com/hegseth-2676...

www.rawstory.com/jacob-lang-1...

Trump is a fucking narcissist, and has put us all in danger.

We don’t need a revolution,,, We need a functioning IRS, capital gains taxed as income, and the death of the carried-interest loophole. bit.ly/4blFkfo

So, if the problem with gas prices was a shortage of oil in the U.S. , this might work. www.rawstory.com/trump-oil-26.... But it isn't. The shortages are in other parts of the world.

I think Timothée Chalamet is intentionally being a provacateur. His mother was a ballet dancer who commuted to NYC from New Haven to dance while in college.

Ouch! Waste, fraud and abuse. www.rawstory.com/john-diehl/

Great day to watch this movie and think about the long legacy of AMC

Trumps gift to Tesla, or how the world goes green and electric. www.rawstory.com/iran-2675864...

The FBI files on the women who bit Trump point out a quirk. What she describes is probably just a state crime and not a Federal crime. The statute of limitations comes into play.

Maybe the continental US needs more time zones to help solve the mess. The current time zones are the result of arbitrary decisions by railroads more than a century ago.

and the answer was "I guess." Who said it?

Marco Rubio: "No presidential administration has ever accepted the War Powers Act as constitutional"

I can only imagine what the numbers are going to look like when Trump submits his bill to Congress to replenish our military stockpiles when this is over. Money we don’t have, so we will just borrow more billions and add more interest to the debt.

I thought GenX had it bad with the Jennifers and Millennials with the Laurens. But EIGHT Sofia/Sophies?

The Ford Pinto had a death rate of 85 people for 10 million cars sold. The Cybertruck hasn't sold 10 million, but the fatality rate so far maths out to 1,452 people killed per 10 million sold. The Cybertruck may be the deadliest road car, for the occupants, ever sold. fuelarc.com/evs/its-offi...

It required that to satisfy Trump's ego is what I meant

Kristi Noem has DHS buying surveillance software made by identified FSB veterans for use by ICE. What could possibly go wrong? Start with this: there is no such thing as a "former FSB agent."

Bonus by head count. www.thedailybeast.com/ice-shackled...

Exactly

"People are simply observing what they are seeing." Representative Dan Goldman in a Congressional Hearing on ICE.

Trump plans to send $10 billion in funds that Congress hasn’t appropriated from the US Treasury to an organization that he will continue to chair personally even after he is out of office. This is looting.

Quote of the day "“When 11 million international visitors aren’t showing up, the result is billions of dollars in economic losses to the travel industry.” -https://www.thedailybeast.com/us-was-only-major-world-destination-where-tourism-declined-in-2025/