Jock O’Connell

How delusional can you be when one-third of Americans approve of Donald Trump and when there is a very high likelihood Trump and his GOP minions will refuse to recognize the results of a “rigged” election?

Welfare recipients! Living government handout to government handout. Shameful.

Putin’s dying effort to place Russia on an equal footing with Xi’s China? Pathetic.

What’s good for Cantor Fitzgerald is good for America?

Delta pissing on passengers. So earlier this year we booked a non-stop flight on Delta that was scheduled to depart Rome for Atlanta on Jan. 14 at 1:30pm. Delta offered the same schedule the day before and the day after. But now Delta has moved its 1:30pm departures to a much less convenient 10:30.

No doubt he was a burly sailor with tattoos of anchors on his bulging forearms, a corncob pipe in his mouth, a can of spinach in his hand, and tears streaming down his face.

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We landed at Seattle-Tacoma airport almost one hour ago and have been sitting on the ground waiting for a gate to open. At wait point does this become a hostage situation?

Not to worry. Kash is on the case.

I wouldn’t be surprised if Thomas doesn’t feel any gratitude to John Brooks, the Jesuit priest at the College of the Holy Cross who rescued him from a Georgia backwater in 1968, brought him up to the Massachusetts school and set him on the path to Yale Law.

So what do sheriffs do with lawbreakers?

Susan Collins will do anything to get her name in the paper.

He’s up right now designing their uniforms, isn’t he? A.I. Gone Rogue? Trump Proposes Not New Rules but an ‘A.I. Force.’ www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/u...

Now hanging on a wall in my kitchen. Acrylic on canvas.

Costco today. Only 105 shopping days left.

They’re in Moscow to set up a Rat Line.

106 year old proprietor of an office supply store in Portland, Maine closing after 94 years gives stock away to local public school teachers.

Does this mean that House Democrats under Jeffries won’t be investigating the Trump Crime Family? Who does Jeffries think he is, Merrick Garland?

It apparently has not occurred to the New York Times that Kushner may have delivered the precise intelligence that enabled this strike just one day after his meeting with Israeli leaders.

Gallons of testosterone being airfreighted immediately. Food and beverage shipments in two weeks.

Just taking a reading break. Check back with me in a few hours.

Has Ottawa also taken notice?

Looks like Hegseth has found himself a general who will unhesitatingly obey an order from Trump to shoot unarmed protesters.

Trump: My deal with Iran is so much better than Obama’s. His didn’t provide for reopening the Strait of Hormuz.

What promises of personal favors did Tillis and Cornyn receive in return for allowing themselves to be played? And do they really think Trump will honored those promises?

Mainers outside Portland: This is why I support Trump.

Trump: Guys, we obviously need a major PR distraction. Hegseth, what’ya got? Hegseth:Nothing, sir, we’re totally outa bullets. If the Apaches attack now, we’re finished.

Has Susan Collins learned a lesson?

Gentlemen, we obviously need a major distraction. Hegseth, what do you got? Cuba, Greenland, Canada?

In other words, we’re out of bullets. If elite Chinese troops hiding in shipping containers invade through the Ports of Los Angeles and Tacoma tomorrow, they’ll control everything west of the Rockies by Wednesday.

Will other nations now get to impose tariffs on U.S. citing treatment of farm laborers and workers at meat packing companies?

Trump got a call from Natanyahu reminding him who is in charge.

Just wondering how many millions the Saudis paid the Trump-Kushner family for this deal?

Fixed Headline: “Trump Increases Tax Americans Will Pay For Canadian Goods”

Is Microsoft having a meltdown? Passwords created just a couple of months ago do not work today.

How can they have found thousands of non-citizens on the voter rolls in California when the courts have denied them access to California’s voter rolls?

Nobody knows more about wildfires than Donald Trump.

There are FCC regulations on what words cannot be uttered on television…and then there’s the televised remarks of the President of the United States.

So we’re re-obliterating military installations we obliterated at the onset of this war?

Just wanted everyone to know that I won’t be seeking the Democratic Party nomination for U.S. Senate in my home state of Maine.

Is Chuck Schumer still alive?

So the Camelot Cult takes another well-justified hit.

Why aren’t more progressive parents naming their children Adlai?

Here’s an example of what the maritime trade analysts call “front loading”. It’s the practice of getting your orders delivered before tariffs or transport charges go up. Christmas, for those keeping score at home, is six months away.

Conservative California business organization backs Democrat for governor.

96 years ago today, President Herbert Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act into law.

Happy Bloomsday! Today’s menu is the inner organs of beasts and fowls, eaten with relish.

Okay, folks: The big El Niño update is now out on Weather West! This sure looks like it's going to be a dramatic year from a global climate perspective, and there are major implications for extreme events (across California, the U.S. West, & well beyond).

U.S. foreign trade statistics for the month of April are expected to be released by the Commerce Department tomorrow morning. April is normally the month each year when trade data are revised and updated. Cue the trolls who will argue the numbers have been rigged.

April U.S. foreign trade statistics arrive on Tuesday.