DDT= Dumb Donald Trump MASA= Make America Sane Again OC = Orange Clown

Criminal inmate P01135809 = DDT https://ban-ddt.com/

As known from social media or politics, beauty, and truth are not necessarily the same.

Although it is not true that all conservatives (Read Republicans) are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative. John Stuart test Mill ( British philosopher, economist, and liberal member of Parliament for Westminster from 1865 to 1868 )”

Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. Mark Twain 1891

With Congress, every time they make a joke it's a law, and every time they make a law it's a joke. Will Rogers before 1935

He that lies down with dogs shall rise up with fleas.(Ben Franklin about politicians)

Three can keep a secret if two of them are dead. (Benjamin Franklin)

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid. (Ben Franklin)

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five. (Ben Franklin)

Remember the slogan, MASA. Make America Sane Again TACO = Trump Always Chickens Out

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14 September 2026 (88805) (71804) MASA plus 584 insane days out of 1461 days (872 to go), followed by many days of utter stupidity.

 

Another loss, dear DDT. The Supreme Court on Monday rejected DDT’s bid to restrict mail ballots for the midterm elections. The decision allows states to continue sending out mail ballots under the same processes they've used for years and have accounted for nearly a third of votes cast. It represented a stark defeat for the OC on an issue he consistently has emphasized as vital to ensuring election integrity even though there is virtually no evidence of fraud with mail ballots.

 

DDT outdid himself today, saying "The only control or 'guardrails' that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT, and the U.S.A. has that, in spades!" The bottom line in this is that only a moderately stupid, arrogant person would say such a thing when it is clear he know little or nothing about AI. Most of the US population knows little, but usually does not claim to be “god”. He added: "There is a SICK conspiracy going on against AI and Data Centers, and the only one that is happy about it is China. WHOEVER WINS AI, WINS! We are leading China, and all others, and will continue to do so." In a subsequent post an hour later, he alleged that “the only reason” for what he called the “AI/Data Center outburst” was “because the United States is leading, by a lot, every other country.” Sigh DDT is amazing, but not in a good way.

 

Rules aimed at limiting pollution from coal and gas power plants are being scrapped, the head of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced. The agency also said it would take steps to prevent future administrations from regulating power plant emissions. Environmental groups warned it would come at a huge cost to Americans' health and the planet. The EPA is also seeking to get rid of all other greenhouse gas rules for the power sector. The EPA's move is expected to face immediate legal challenges.

 

 A gas processing facility, operated by a company whose chief executive is a major donor to Donald Trump. It may be the largest emitter of methane in the US according to satellite data. The company has previously described efforts it was taking to reduce methane emissions in company reports including optical gas imaging inspections across hundreds of its facilities. These numbers are unacceptably large, these emissions seem very wasteful and very inefficient.”

 

Air Force Secretary Troy Meink said Monday that the U.S. has weapons stationed in Earth’s orbit, the first public acknowledgment of a capability long assumed to exist after decades of debate over the weaponization of space. "Today, we continue to ensure we remain ready to meet the challenges of evolving threats wherever they exist. This is why the United States now has on-orbit space control weapons capable of defending the Joint Force against hostile adversary action,” Meink said at the Air, Space and Cyber Conference, a stark warning to China and Russia. The problem here is that everyone will have weapons in space. China already does have such weapons.

 

Another loss, dear DDT, the Court said, “No, not now.”

Your postal voting crackdown has met a judicial brow.

The ballots still will travel, as they’ve done for years before;

Democracy for everyone keeps opening every door.

 

 

You thundered, “Fraud!” with mighty force, as blathers are prone,

But proof was thin as postage stamps and just as quickly flown.

So voters get their envelopes, their pens, their kitchen chairs

A grave affront to liberty, or so the DDT tweet declares.

 

 

Then AI came calling for a rule, a brake, a rail;

You said, “It needs a genius chief!” with a plan that cannot fail.

“Strong, smart, high-IQ,” you cried, in CAPITALS that gleam;

At last, a safety program built entirely on self-esteem.

 

 

A “sick conspiracy,” you warned, stalks data centers’ halls;

It hates the humming server racks and cooling-water calls.

For China, you declared, alone would ignore a cautious pace

As though a careful review of safety were treason to the race.

 

 

The EPA, meanwhile, swept the rules aside with pride:

Let coal and gas make weather, let the smokestacks open wide.

Why burden plants with breathing laws, or carbon’s costly trace?

Who cares about the atmosphere; it ought to know its place.

 

 

A gas conmpany, with donor ties, lets methane drift and rise;

Satellites can watch it bloom like guilt across the skies.

The company scans with costly cameras, issue reports in polished prose

Then somehow miss the giant leak beneath their corporate nose.

 

 

And now the nation says aloud what rumor long implied:

It keeps some weapons up in space, where satellites abide.

To guard against the hostile powers that circle overhead

The finest way to stop an arms race: start one, DDT has said.

If you think that people you know might be interested in a totally unbiased news site containing a short summary of important news items of the day, let them know. My DDT views are based entirely on the news and his history as a dangerous, racist, anti-democratic demagogue. No bias here, just reality. In the end DDT is boring, like watching a cobra prance. The poems give added punch, every day not just once.

13 September 2026 (88736) (71735) MASA plus 583 insane days out of 1461 days (873 to go), followed by many days of negativity.

 

DDT is importing beef from countries with very poor food quality programs. Rotton food, contaminated food, and bribery of inspection officials. I my opinion, it is time to stop buying beef. For myself, it will be zero beef until things get back to normal. Perhaps locally produced farmer’s market beef will be OK.

 

The European Union suspended specific beef imports from Brazil due to concerns over antibiotic misuse. Additionally, international scrutiny arose when China rejected an Argentine beef shipment over detected traces of chloramphenicol, an antibiotic prohibited in food animals under U.S. standards.

 

In spite of widespread industry and expert warnings that AI is already dangerous,  Ignorant DDT played down the need for his administration to check the development of artificial intelligence, saying he worried about ceding America’s edge over China in a global competition and that winning would help address the risks from the advancing technology.

 

 DDT called on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to halt strikes on Russian oil refineries and other infrastructure used to produce and distribute diesel, saying the attacks are causing a global shortage. He spoke after diesel prices in the U.S. hit a record on Friday, soaring past $6 a gallon on average. However, he issued no call for Russia to stop pounding Ukraine. Worried about the effect on the mid-term elections?  You should be.

 

An Iranian cargo vessel was struck early Sunday off Qeshm Island in the Strait of Hormuz, Iranian state media said, and Tehran postponed a plan to brief neighboring countries on its contested efforts to manage shipping in the strait. Not necessarily the US. Iran is blaming a “terrorist enemy” for Sunday’s attack, which it said killed one and wounded four.

 

Iran hardliners launched Hormuz attacks in defiance of leaders, undermining US deal. A rogue group of Iranian hardliners sank the June truce deal between Washington and Tehran in July by attacking ships in the Strait of Hormuz behind the backs of the president, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Supreme National Security Council. The rogue assault in Hormuz reportedly infuriated Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, who was in Iraq at the time as part of the weeklong funeral of Iran’s slain supreme leader, Ali Khamenei.

Pezeshkian rushed back to Tehran and angrily called IRGC chief Ahmad Vahidi to demand answers, but Vahidi denied authorizing the attack or knowing about it ahead of time. In other words, Iran is out of control by its government.

 

DDT says, “Bring in beef, what could go wrong?

The labels look sturdy; the shipments are strong.”

If rot and corruption should darken the steer,

Just season it boldly: “Confidence” here.

 

 

Brazil had beef blocked where EU rules apply,

While China sent Argentine cargo awry;

Chloramphenicol left inspectors aghast—

But here comes the burger, expedited fast.

 

 

So zero beef for me till the safeguards revive;

Let mystery mince find some other throat’s dive.

A nearby farm market, with cattle one knows,

May beat an opaque global bargain that glows.

 

 

“AI needs no brakes,” says DDT at the tee,

“Because whoever wins wins AI”, you see.

The experts say, “Guardrails”; he waves them away:

Race toward the cliff, but arrive first today.

 

 

Then Zelenskyy’s drones make the diesel run dear,

And suddenly Moscow deserves a soft ear.

“Quit striking refineries,” DDT declares

No equal request for the bombs Russia shares.

 

 

Past six bucks a gallon, diesel has climbed,

With war, blocked sea lanes, and markets ill-timed.

The pump gets the lecture; the voter gets blame

Conveniently near when the midterms have fame.

 

 

Near Qeshm, a cargo ship takes a hard blow;

One dead, four wounded, while explanations flow.

A “terrorist enemy,” Tehran decrees

As shipping and nerves seize up in the seas.

 

 

And hard-liners, it’s said, struck ships on their own,

While leaders denied that the orders were known.

When governments splinter and armed factions steer,

The world gets a crisis, and food gets more dear.

12 September 2026 (88668) (71667) MASA plus 582 insane days out of 1461 days (874 to go), followed by many days of captivity.

 

DDT’s controversial proposal to give a $5,000 “dividend” to all US adults if Republicans maintain control of Congress in November’s elections would not be paid out from US tax revenues, according to the US commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick. “It’s not tax money,” Lutnick said in an interview with NBC News, adding that the administration could “earn the money that DDT wants to pay out, not from the deficit and not from taxpayers”. DDT suggested the dividend, which could cost as much as $1tn if paid out to all Americans, could come in part from tariff revenue. Not so according to Lutnick.

 

When another world leader meets DDT the only certainty about what might happen is the uncertainty about what might happen. Nobody could have predicted that by the end of the first day, the main global headline would be his desire to see a unified Ireland. As the shockwaves of his remarks rippled through this island and Great Britain, it was unclear whether this represented a new US administration policy, or an off-the-cuff remark from a president who likes to take questions from reporters, and likes to give quick ill thought out answers.

 

Residents of Frederick, a city about 50 miles north-west of Baltimore, are still shaken more than a week after ICE officers arrived in numerous vehicles and could be seen on video footage using batons on members of the public and driving their cars on to the sidewalk towards people.  Witnesses reported that some residents were scared to leave their homes and go to work. Some required help to make sure their kids, who were coming off the school bus on Thursday afternoon, would be safe walking home. Protesters can be heard on video footage of the demonstration chanting “Go home”, “Leave Frederick” and “Leave Maryland” at the gathered federal personnel.

 

This week Iran’s allies to the south moved to shut down the other major channel in the region: the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, which lies between the Arabian Peninsula and the Horn of Africa. The Yemen-based Houthi militia announced Sept. 11 that they had seized Perim Island, a strategic isle that will allow them to control the Bab el-Mandeb. The Houthis’ capture of Perim means Iran and their allies have effectively consolidated control over two of the most important trade chokepoints in the world, and the strain on the global economy that followed shipping disruptions through the Strait of Hormuz is now poised to grow worse. World leaders and experts have warned that continued disruptions to trade could eventually cause a global recession where tens of millions of people go hungry.

 

Putin, speaking to reporters at a summit of the BRICS group of emerging economies in India on Friday, said that if European governments send troops into Ukraine, it will mean "a war with Russia." "Now they're talking about how they're considering sending troops into Ukraine. That means a war with Russia," he said. Some European leaders have pledged their commitment to a potential peacekeeping force, a prospect that Moscow has repeatedly described as unacceptable.

DDT declared, with salesman’s sunny grin,

“Five thousand dollars, only if my friends all win!”

“It isn’t tax money,” Lutnick swore with flair:

It simply falls from somewhere in the air.

 

 

Not debt, not tariffs, nor the public purse

Just magic cash, unless the math is worse;

A trillion-dollar gift, both grand and free,

Like checks dispensed by a fiscal fairy-tree.

 

 

Then Ireland heard, above the Dublin din,

He’d “love” to see the island unified in;

The White House policy? A settled plan?

Or merely lunch-gas escaping from the man?

 

 

Britain blinked; the border held its breath;

The Good Friday accord was spared a death

By one small detail, awkward yet sincere:

The people there decide, not orange tourists here.

 

 

In Frederick, ICE rolled up the street,

Batons and engines mounting sidewalks’ feet;

Parents watched the school-bus children go,

While “Leave Maryland!” rose from throats below.

 

 

Far south, the Houthis took Perim in hand,

A small, strategic speck of rock and sand;

Two chokepoints tighten; ships are made to wait

And groceries start to climb their higher rate.

 

 

The global market groaned: “What could go wrong?”

As oil routes closed and shipping lines grew long;

A recession waits backstage, thin and grim,

While leaders give the crisis another hymn.

 

 

Then Putin said, at BRICS, with injured pride,

“Peacekeepers? Trhat means war!” the Kremlin cried;

“No threat from us,” he said, without a blush

While “peace” arrived by missile, tank, and hush.

 

 

The diplomats may promise troops one day
To guard a truce and help keep war at bay;
Moscow replies, in tones of injured pride:
“A guard is war, unless he’s on our side.”

11 September 2026 (88600) (71599) MASA plus 581 insane days out of 1461 days (875 to go), followed by many days of depravity.

 

Would you like to be paid to vote for DDT and the GOP? Well, there is a scam offer on the table to get money from the government through DDT’s promise that will never be approved by congress. If you do not vote for the GOP, and the Democrats win, DDT promises to punish you by blocking all legislation with a veto. That he can do unless Republicans grow a spine and put country first. Impeach the vengeful idiot.

 

Saudi Arabia has shut down its crucial East-West pipeline after it was attacked by Houthis on Thursday, threatening a vital alternative route for crude exports from the Gulf and putting more upward pressure on oil prices. Please use the sharing tools found via the share button at the top or side of articles. The attack on the pipeline came as Iran-backed Houthi rebels this week fired waves of missiles and drones into Saudi Arabia, targeting energy facilities in the kingdom’s south.

 

 In a defeat for the DDT administration, a federal court on Friday ruled that the Energy Department exceeded its authority when it forced a Michigan coal-fired power plant to stay open past its scheduled retirement date last year. Energy Secretary Chris Wright had said the 64-year-old J.H. Campbell Generating Plant was needed to ensure reliable electricity in the region, and he used emergency powers to keep it operating. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit sided with the states and the groups, saying there was no real emergency under the law.

 

Republicans in Texas county can’t swap voting maps between primary and general election, state Supreme Court says. The state Supreme Court found Friday that the sudden switch violated Texas’ election laws by “unmooring the general election from its corresponding primary.”

 

A major artificial intelligence company said that Iranian bad actors used its publicly accessible software to target U.S. service members in the Middle East. The Anthropic report covers the time period between December 2025 and August 2026 and highlights the misuse of its large language model Claude, which it says the threat actor used to make targeting recommendations against U.S. Navy forces in the region. The Iranian threat also used Claude to learn more about weaknesses in U.S. Navy shipboard systems that could be exploited. Anthropic said it banned the account after it learned what it was doing, created safeguards to prevent similar activity in the future and shared the information with the appropriate government agencies to address the problem.

 

Israel's military says it has destroyed a large underground complex operated by Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. It said it used more than 1,000 tonnes of explosives to destroy two tunnels spanning more than 2km (1.2 miles) beneath the Ali Taher Ridge. The blast triggered seismic activity equivalent to a magnitude 4.1 earthquake, according to the US Geological Survey.

 

Would you like cash to vote the proper way

A shiny state-sponsored “please obey”?

The White House waves a phantom prize,

While Congress squints at fiscal lies.

 

 

Vote GOP, the pitch goes round,

Or Democrats will bring you down;

And should they win, the veto king

Will block the nation out of spiteful sting.

 

 

A president may veto bills, it’s true

That is one lever granted to the crew;

But lawmakers need not bend or plead:

A spine, two-thirds, place country over greed.

 

 

“Impeach,” the angry citizens declare,

At vengeance dressed in executive air;

For power is not a personal toy

To punish every girl and boy.

 

 

In Saudi skies, the drones descend,

And oil’s East-West lifeline bends;

The Houthis strike, the markets brace,

While petrol climbs at quite a pace.

 

 

In Michigan, coal got one more turn,

Though slated long ago to cease and burn;

The D.C. Circuit said, “No true emergency”

So dirty coal will burn no more, you see

 

 

In Texas, map-men tried a trick:

A primary map, then switch it quick;

The court replied, “That will not do

The general vote must follow through.”

 

Claude was asked by Tehran’s sly crew

Find Navy seams a missile might slip through;

Company shut the door, flagged what it knew—

Yet AI code now serves as battlefield glue.

 

 

At Ali Taher, beneath the stone,

Hezbollah’s long-dug rooms were blown;

With 1,100 tons, the ridge gave way

At a 4.1 quake to end the day.

7 September 2026 (88545) (71544) MASA plus 579 insane days out of 1461 days (879 to go), followed by many days of degeneracy.

 

It’s US Labor Day and you would think that the OC would take a day off from incompetent idiocy. Nope. The OC posted a map with an American flag covering most of North America Canada, Mexico, part of Central America, and Greenland), as well as Iceland and islands in the Caribbean, on Monday morning, a post that follows his previous pushes to take over territory outside of U.S. borders. Doing Mexico and part of Central America is the best way to make Spanish a full fledged US language. But, then DDT never was smart. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen unveiled a 200-million-euro ($232 million) investment package for Greenland, as the European Union seeks to boost its relations with the vast island.

 

The far-right Moscow friendly Nazi-friendly Alternative for Germany (AfD) is "very, very close" to taking power in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt, its deputy parliamentary leader has told the BBC. Germany's Chancellor Friedrich Merz said he was "deeply shocked" by the result, describing it as "seismic... not just in the country but also in my own political party and I take that very seriously". No far-right party has controlled a German state since World War Two, and governing at state level would mean powers over policing and local education. Von Storch said the state's results "were on the table and now democrats have to talk to [one] another. This is what democracy demands". She added that if parties refused to work with the AfD, "then we might end up in severe chaos and maybe we have a new election".

 

Oil prices rose to 6-week high after Iran and U.S. trade blows, Saudi Aramco facilities reportedly hit. “Strike our assets and you get struck.”  That post was in response to an earlier one by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who wrote that the U.S. “will destroy (and sink)” Iranian oil tankers if Iran fires on U.S. vessels.

 

Republicans blast ‘free tickets’ offer to save the OC from Dallas convention embarrassment of empty seats. The Texas spectacle later this week could prove to be a misstep for the president if he doesn’t get the crowds he wants. Many of the higher-profile potential attendees have already made public plans to skip the entire thing, with some balking at the $25,000 cost of attending and others annoyed at the prospect of spending days away from the campaign trail for what will amount to a multi-day rally for someone who will never appear on a ballot again. The location was chosen to help boost the prospects of scandal-ridden Texas’ Republican Senate nominee Ken Paxton, who according to recent polling is running roughly level with Democrat James Talarico, a state representative from Austin.

 

On Labor Day, the workers rest

Or try to, as a simple test

But OC drew a flag so wide

It swallowed half the countryside.

 

 

From Mexico to Canada,

Greenland, the Isles, and Panama

He claimed the map with stars and stripes,

Apparently borders now need likes.

 

 

“Take all the land!” the genius cried,

While Spanish spread from side to side;

Annex the south, as if it were planned

He’ll make Spanish official, grand.

 

 

But Europe, seeing Greenland glow,

Said, “We’ll invest, don’t let it go.”

Two hundred million euros came

To keep the island out of frame.

 

 

In Germany, the AfD

Came close to power electorally;

With forty-four percent in flight,

The far right smelled a victory night.

 

 

Three seats short, but close enough

To make democracy look rough;

The lesson history ought to teach:

Some ghosts return when fools overreach.

 

 

With Iran, the generals trade
A threats-and-tankers masquerade
“Strike ours, get struck,” the missiles roar
While oil hits highs not seen in before.

 

 

And DDT dreads an empty show,
So free tickets tell the crowds to go;
Six per phone, come cheer the brand,
His rally needing help to stand.

 

The seats cost nothing; that’s the pitch
The VIPs once paid a fortune for the itch;
While Paxton fights to save his throne,
The clown demands a crowded home.

6 September 2026 (88496) (71495) MASA plus 578 insane days out of 1461 days (880 to go), followed by many days of threat.  

 

The populist, far-right, anti-immigration, pro-Russia Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) has emerged as the winner in a crucial state election in Germany, exit polls have projected, securing a historic result and more than doubling its support. The AfD now appear on the brink of becoming the first far-right party to gain power in Germany at state level since the second world war. Initial exit polls showed the party to have secured 44.4% of the vote, a larger share than predicted. One has to watch to see how this turns out.

 

President Trump envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner met with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin Saturday and discussed U.S. ideas for ending the war in Ukraine, and ae now in Kiev.

 

The DDT administration renewed its appeal to the Supreme Court to allow new restrictions on mail ballots in time for the midterms so that they can destroy the fairness of the upcoming election. DDT is terrified of a Democrat victory. The filing came after U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani extended an order against the Postal Service enforcing President Donald Trump's executive order for the November elections. The battle could have major ramifications for this year's elections, when control of Congress is at stake. Nearly one-third of voters in the U.S. cast mail ballots.

 

Trump can’t stop changing the name of things and now has US state as his target. It creates a smokescreen for the corruption that is DDT. He wants to relabel New Mexico as New America days after changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America.

 

A tropical warming event helped drive record snowfall and a temporary 695-billion-ton ice gain in East Antarctica without reversing long-term Antarctic ice loss. Much of that unusual gain is from sustained warming thousands of miles away in the tropical western Pacific and eastern Indian Ocean, which altered atmospheric circulation and sent more moisture toward East Antarctica. Over the past two decades, the ice sheet has lost mass at an average rate of about 140.5 billion tons per year, making its future contribution to global sea-level rise a major source of uncertainty.

 

The new head of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council on Sunday said Tehran plans to announce an “exclusion zone” outside the Strait of Hormuz aimed at vessels it believes are attempting to transit the waterway. “Any ship that enters this area with the intention of passing through the Strait of Hormuz and is identified will be placed on our sanctions list.” The U.S. has been introducing new measures to increase the economic pain on Iran after negotiations collapsed and no end to the intermittent fighting appears in sight.

 

Russia’s Lavrov Calls Accusations of Moscow’s Involvement in Leipzig Drone Incident ‘Start of Real War'. The German government said on Sept. 1 that it had concluded that Russia was responsible for an attempted drone attack at Leipzig/Halle Airport last month and ordered a series of measures in response, including the closure of a consulate and a Russian cultural center in Berlin.

 

In Germany, the AfD struck gold,

Forty-four point four we were told;

The far-right doubled, what a feat!

History now shudders in its seat.

 

 

At Kremlin tables, Witkoff, Kushner

Met with Putin, peace’s usher?

Then off to Kyiv, briefcase neat:

“End the war”, but first, get receipts.

 

 

Meanwhile, the DDT crew schemes anew:

Mail ballots are their Waterloo;

If voters vote by post, beware

Democracy might still get there.

 

 

The courts say, “DDT, you cannot bend

The rules to suit your favored end”;

One-third may mail their ballots in

A terrifying thought for him.

 

 

So DDT renames the land and lake:

New America, for heaven’s sake;

When corruption needs a grand disguise,

Just paint new labels on old lies.

 

 

In East Antarctica, snow increased

A warming gift, or climate feast?

Six hundred ninety-five billion new tons

While long-term loss seems to have won.

 

 

And near Hormuz, Iran declares

A “sanctions zone” for passing wares;

While Leipzig drones ignite the night

And Lavrov says war has just begun.

5 September 2026 (88445) (71444) MASA plus 577 insane days out of 1461 days (881 to go), followed by many days of regret.  

 

Still more than 2 years of the OC trying to wreck the US any way he can. His term as president is pathetic, the hallmark of incompetence, and of purposeful destruction. His marks on the country need to be erased along with the politicians that have enabled a crooked president. This includes the Supreme Court. How 6 well educated judges cannot see what they are doing by enabling a tyrant.

 

The US and Iran traded retaliatory attacks on ships on today, in the latest round of strikes since fighting flared up a week ago following a month of relative calm. The US military said it had "permanently disabled" two Iran-linked oil tankers, including one near Kharg Island, and "completely destroyed" a third in the Gulf of Oman. The strikes come a day after DDT dismissed the conflict as "small potatoes", with little apparent progress towards ending the six-month war. 

 

For once DDT was right. The Kennedy Center renews call for DDT-backed shutdown after part of a ceiling collapses. Photos provided by the center showed a large hole in the high ceiling and debris littering the red carpet in part of the hallway that connects the Kennedy Center’s three main performance auditoriums. The damage occurred during stormy weather in Washington.

 

The U.S. ambassador to Israel condemned Israeli settler violence in the occupied West Bank again today, calling the behavior an "act of terror" as he visited with Palestinian American residents shaken by months of attacks. "I'm very aware that a lot of the American people who live in Turmus Ayya and other communities across this region are not enjoying the life they deserve to live, not enjoying it in a peaceful way," Huckabee said. "It's a life that is disturbed by people who have created extraordinary challenges that are unfair and illegal."

 

Denmark and four other European Union countries agreed Friday on a model for “return hubs” in non-EU nations and hope to begin sending migrants to the facilities as early as 2027. “We are moving forward toward what is actually a fundamental transformation of the common European migration and asylum system,” said Morten Bødskov, Denmark’s minister of immigration and integration. Although the ministers did not specify which third countries were being considered, Bødskov said they expect to reach their first deal by early 2027. He acknowledged that the concept of “return hubs” was mocked only a few years ago and deemed incompatible with EU and international law. EU laws, however, have changed due to public and political pressure for tougher measures against irregular migration.

 

For two-plus years, the Orange Clown’s reign

Has turned public service into private gain;

A hallmark of bluster, incompetence, and rot

He wrecks what he touches, then claims it’s a lot.

 

 

A six-month war “small potatoes,” DDT states

While tankers burn red in the Gulf’s boiling straits;

Three ships disabled, the missiles still fly

But “peace through distraction” is his battle cry.

 

 

At the Kennedy Center, the ceiling gave way;

A hole punched the foyer and dust filled the day.

“Close it,” cries the board, “for the grandeur to start”

At last, his great triumph: a collapsing art.

 

 

In the West Bank, where the frightened still grieve,

Settlers torch homes while the powerful leave;

Huckabee calls terror exactly its name

A rare flash of honesty entering the game.

 

 

And Europe builds “hubs” where the unwanted go,

A bureaucratic nowhere with nowhere to know;

By 2027, the plan may people deport

Compassion outsourced to a detention resort.

 

 

At home, every wreck gets a gold-plated spin:

The failure’s called victory, the grift called a win.

The damage is branded a beautiful mark

As six robed enablers applaud in the dark.

 

 

Six judges, well-schooled, with the law in their hands,

Can watch a would-be tyrant dismantle the lands;

They parse every comma, then somehow don’t see

The wreckage they bless as “democracy.”

 

 

So mark every scar where his vandals caused to be raw

Let voters erase them, not violence, but ballot and law.

When history scrubs that disgrace from the page,

Let “small potatoes” rhyme with a national rage.

4 September 2026 (88396) (71395) MASA plus 576 insane days out of 1461 days (882 to go), followed by many days of hate.

 

A federal judge on Friday extended her prohibition against the U.S. Postal Service implementing President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to limit mail voting during the midterms.

 

A federal judge refused today to block the Pentagon from firing three Stars and Stripes staff members who claim they were illegally disciplined for speaking out about the military news outlet’s need to maintain its editorial independence. He ruled that the journalists are unlikely to successfully prove that the Pentagon violated their First Amendment free speech rights. He said Stars and Stripes’ editorial independence “is not at stake here.”

 

Prepare to get sick, and I mean really sick. DDT issued a pair of executive orders in a push to address ranchers' concerns after his recent move to ease tariffs on imported beef ignited a backlash among supporters in major cattle-producing states. One of the orders takes steps to enable ranchers to process their own meat to sell on the market, a practice that has generally been prohibited under a 120-year-old federal law that mandates meat inspections. "For the first time ever, we're going to give farmers and ranchers the right to process their own food," Yes, why do we need any food inspections? Here and there a little tainted meat and a few deaths. A small price to pay. Perhaps you will be lucky, or NOT.

 

The White House launched Arcade.gov with computer game that lets players 'deport' migrants. Online training to work for ICE.

 

Zelenskyy calls air truce as Kushner and Witkoff head for Kyiv via Moscow.  Ukraine’s president said Kyiv ‌would ‌guarantee the safety ‌of Russian airspace during the visit of Steve Witkoff ‌and Jared Kushner to Moscow, after which they are expected to travel on to Kyiv. ​He called on Russia to also halt ⁠its air ​attacks on ​Ukraine during the ​negotiators’ ​visit. “Ukraine does not threaten civilian aviation as such – not a single civilian aircraft,” Zelenskyy said during the week. “There will simply be drones in Russia’s skies on a scale that has to be taken into account.”

 

A Washington judge on Friday said he will rule quickly on whether to dismiss a now-discredited indictment charging former U.S. Olympic canoeist David Hearn with vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool with prejudice, which would bar prosecutors from refiling charges against Hearn for the same alleged conduct in a case that has drawn intense focus from the OC.

 

Not only did its military attacks across Ukraine intensify last month, becoming ever more deadly for civilians, Russia also appears to have escalated its sabotage campaign across Europe. This time, military and defense sector sites were the prime target. A full month after drones packed with explosives were found at Leipzig's airport, used by Ukraine to transport military goods, Germany's interior minister has declared that "Russia is responsible". But the drones were just a dramatic start. August then brought a series of suspicious fires at defence facilities from Italy to Estonia. Some of the affected countries have already blamed Russia; others are still investigating and some fires may eventually be ruled accidental, exactly as such attacks are designed to seem.

 

 

The judge said, “Mail votes? Not so fast

That order’s barred, at least for now;

The Post may still deliver ballots,

Though DDT would rather tell them how.

 

 

At Stars and Stripes, dissent is free

So long as no one dares to print;

The paper’s voice is “not at stake”

Just keep it safely under hint.

 

 

“Inspect the beef? What needless fuss!

Let ranchers process, sell, and chew;

A little poison builds the trust

And death’s a small price paid by you.

 

 

Arcade.gov has games for kids:

Deport the migrants, chase and score;

Then join up with the ICE brigade

A training sim for “knock knock” law.

 

 

Two envoys travel Moscow first,

Then Kyiv, seeking skies made still;

“Please pause your bombing,” Zelenskyy said

“While drones perform their goodwill drill.”

 

 

The Pool case may be thrown away,

With prejudice, if facts prevail;

A charge once filed can’t rise again

How sad when prosecutions fail.

 

 

From Italy to Estonia,

The defense installations flame;

Some fires are blamed on Russia’s hand,

While others wait to learn the name.

3 September 2026 (88348) (71347) MASA plus 575 insane days out of 1461 days (883 to go), followed by many days of trash.

 

DDT again appeals to the Supreme Court on overturning mail-voting restrictions with midterm elections looming.  The DDT administration asked the Supreme Court to reject an order by a federal judge that halts it from implementing a new rule regulating mail ballots, hours after being unable to tell that judge whether the computer system that would govern the entire project was operational yet. The administration filed its appeal the afternoon before mail ballots were scheduled to be sent out by North Carolina, which on Friday kicks off a wave of states shipping ballots out for the rapidly approaching midterm election. Its appeal was part of a flurry of last-minute litigation as the federal government struggles to implement DDT’s restrictions on mail ballots before the midterm elections in November, and came even as legal wrangling over Trump’s executive order continued in lower courts.

 

Work on the foundation for the DDT-backed Triumphal Eyesore will start in coming weeks, Burgum says. The 250-foot-tall arch, which will be clad in granite and topped by three golden statues plus an observation deck, is slated for a traffic circle near Arlington Memorial Cemetery and across the river from the Lincoln Memorial. In addition, it could be a threat to aviation from National airport. An earlier study by the FAA found it would not have an adverse effect on the nearby airport but would need to be topped by red obstruction lights.  The project is part of a broader effort by DDT to put his architectural stamp on the nation's capital, with sweeping changes planned for the White House campus, the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and the Kennedy Center. 

 

The richest Man in the World Currently Ranks 4th in Race to Bribe the Most Politicians. What will Elon Musk get in return for his political donations? The New York Times looked at the 20 biggest donors, who have poured a combined $1.2 billion into candidates for federal elections this cycle. The top five include Marc Andreesen and Ben Horowitz ($115 million), George and Alex Soros ($103 million), Jeff Yass ($94 million), Elon Musk ($90 million).

 

A federal judge late Wednesday temporarily blocked a DDT administration effort to overturn California’s clean car rules through Congress. Judge Beryl Howell, an appointee of former President Obama, blocked an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) move that would have allowed Congress and DDT to overturn California rules related to vehicle and lawn equipment emissions. California Attorney General Rob Bonta celebrated the ruling, saying in a statement that “California is taking many steps forward to protect the environment and public health while DDT is taking six steps back.” 

 

The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to scrap federal minimum requirements for public notice and comment before states issue certain air pollution permits, including permits increasingly being used by massive data centers. 

 

The ballots were ready, the deadlines drew near,

North Carolina said, “Mail them, try this year.”

Then DDT cried, “Stop! Let the Court intervene!”

With a portal not working to police the machine.

 

 

The midterms approach, so the timing is neat:

Restrict every ballot before they hit the street.

If one code doesn’t match, let the whole batch be spurned

Democracy’s safest when nobody’s confirmed.

 

 

Meanwhile, a golden arch rises, two-fifty feet tall

To loom over Arlington, the river, and all.

Three statues on top, gilded, grand, and immense:

A traffic-circle shrine to more presidential expense.

 

 

It may block the monuments, the river, and planes;

But nothing says “humble” like gilded remains.

If pilots see red lights, they’ll know where to steer:

“Just follow the ego, it’s glowing from here.”

 

 

And Musk, with ninety million, is fourth in the sprint

To purchase a Congress with cash and a hint.

A billion two hundred has flooded the race

Democracy’s now taking bids by the case.

The billionaires’ donations now total a heap

Enough cash to make democracy’s democracy weep.

 

 

California’s clean-car rules survived for the day;

A judge blocked the EPA’s congressional play.

Bonta said DDT’s taking six steps back

Which sounds like a dance move for a fossil-fuel PAC.

 

 

Now air permits may skip public notice and sound;

Data centers bloom where no questions are found.

No hearings, no comments, no tiresome “Why?”

Just servers, gold statues, and ballots awry.

2 September 2026 (88300) (71299) MASA plus 574 insane days out of 1461 days (884 to go), followed by many days of garbage.

 

With the polls showing Talarico generally ahead of Paxton, DDT warns Texas could be 'a disaster' if Talarico beats Paxton. The OC even went as far as to say that if Texas flipped and several other political factors aligned, he may be the last Republican president. Until the Republicans once again realize we are supposed to be living in a responsible representative democracy aimed at the common good, DDT being the last Republican president for a while might be a really good thing.

 

Ukraine's president has told airlines that Russian airspace will be "effectively closing" as his country escalates its drone strikes. "We want to warn every airline that uses Russian airspace, every insurer, everyone who still uses key Russian airports: the Russian sky is becoming completely dangerous," Volodymyr Zelensky said. Ukraine has since formally notified the UN of the risks to civilian aviation. Russian President Vladimir Putin said the comments amounted to a "declaration of state terrorism". Most Western commercial airlines do not fly over Russia because of the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, but carriers in countries like Turkey and China do.

 

 

In the past year and a half, many federal judges have concluded that the administration’s misconduct forfeited a protection that the executive branch traditionally enjoys: the “presumption of regularity.” That presumption generally meant courts accept the executive’s factual representations at face value unless the opposing party establishes clear evidence proving otherwise. It should be pretty obvious that the DDT administration lies and makes things up, so that the presumption of regularity almost always fails. This administration negotiates in bad faith.

 

A Republican senator calls on Trump to fire Secretary of Defense Hegseth. Senator Thom Tillis accuses Pentagon chief of ‘inept mismanagement’ as US military is strained by war on Iran. “I have never witnessed more inept management of the brave men and women who serve our country. He is intimidated by competence and retreats to ginning up culture wars instead of soberly attending to the vital work of our national defense and the health and well-being of our fighting force.”

 

Aid experts have denounced the US’s “embarrassing” and “pitiful” initial response to the Nepal flood disaster after the US state department announced it was releasing $500,000 in emergency funds to help the relief effort. The modest sum, which has since been increased, allocated in response to the devastation caused by mudslides in the mountainous Asian country was mocked on social media, where users contrasted it with the amount spent on other Trump administration priorities. The US contribution has been upped to $3.6m, which state department officials say will be used to deliver food assistance to feed 10,000 affected households for up to three months, and pay for emergency items such as blankets, mosquito nets and shelter sheets. This is still small compared to previous efforts before DDT dismantled the USAID program.

 

WW-3 anyone? Russian former president Dmitry Medvedev has threatened Germany with a “direct strike” on military production sites after Berlin accused Moscow of being behind a drone attack on Leipzig Airport last month. Medvedev, the deputy chair of Russia’s security council and a routinely outspoken provocateur, wrote on Telegram that Germany’s leadership “deserve a direct strike on all German military equipment production facilities ... and quite possibility on several other locations in Berlin as well”. In an ominous addendum he suggested: “Every terror has sponsors. At the moment, these are the heads of Western countries, primarily European ones. And they often travel to Kyiv by train...” Matthew Whitaker, the U.S. ambassador to NATO, is urging the military alliance’s members to boost defense spending and weapons production to prepare for emerging Russian threats. “You can’t predict what Vladimir Putin’s going to do or any adversary,

 

 

In a strategic retreat in the fight against climate change, the United Nations has acknowledged that Earth has lost its chance to prevent some of the worst of global warming's harms. Officials say the world must now figure out how to get temperatures below the danger zone and back to safety. The planet will soon exceed the safe temperature threshold agreed upon in the 2015 Paris climate accord because of warming from the burning of coal, oil and gas, according to a bleak first-of-its-kind report issued by the United Nations Environment Program.

 

The polls put Talarico ahead

So DDT predicts his dread:

“If Texas flips, catastrophe starts

I’ll be the last Republican beating heart!”

 

 

The courts no longer nods, “Quite true,”

When executive claims come through.

Bad faith, invented facts, and spin

Have made “regular” a grim synonym.

 

 

At Defense, Tillis wants Hegseth gone:

“Ineptly managed from dusk to dawn.”

While troops face war, the Pentagon chief

Serves culture wars instead of relief.

 

 

In Nepal, the mudslides drowned and swept;

America pledged—then understepped.

Five hundred thousand, first for play

Three-point-six million, raised in dismay.

 

 

Ukraine says Russian skies are closing;

Drones make civilian flight imposing.

Airlines, insurers, airports beware

Putin calls the warning “state terror” there.

 

 

Medvedev threatens German production,

And hints at Berlin as a target location.

NATO says, “Build weapons, prepare”

Because apparently peace needs more hardware.

 

 

The UN says one-point-five is missed;
The danger zone can’t be dismissed.
Low clouds decline, so sunlight streams
More solar heat to fuel our dreams.
Coal, oil, and gas made failure thrive;
Now speak out all and pray we survive. 

1 September 2026 (88251) (71250) MASA plus 573 insane days out of 1461 days (885 to go), followed by many days of danger.

 

U.S. Central Command said in a statement today that it had completed the latest barrage against Iranian military targets including air defense sites, radar systems and maritime assets. The U.S. strikes followed others on Sunday that abruptly ended a month without military action and threatened to fully reignite a conflict that has spiked global oil prices and posed political problems for Republicans in November’s midterm congressional elections. “If the failed Nation of Iran retaliates for this very justified attack, they will be hit again at a much harder and higher level, but it will not be the biggest attack of them all, that is waiting in the wings,” DDT warned on social media.

 

A U.S. Postal Service whistleblower is alleging the agency defied court orders while rushing to build a new ballot system that could reject thousands of mail ballots. The system stems from an executive order signed by DDT that mandated the federal government to generate lists of confirmed U.S. citizens eligible to vote, and for the postmaster general to propose a rule that USPS will not transmit ballots from any people not on their state list. Under the system described by the whistleblower, the agency would check ballot barcodes against information uploaded by state election officials. One bad barcode could cause the entire batch, potentially thousands of ballots, to be rejected, forcing the system to start all over again. The result could disenfranchise large numbers of voters.

 

Mark Carney has rebuked DDT’s administration and urged officials in Washington to “start being serious” amid escalating trade tensions between the US and Canada. Days before Canada is due to retaliate against DDT’s sweeping tariffs with its own duties on US goods, the Canadian prime minister criticized US officials for insulting his country. “It is beneath their office,” he said.

 

The House of Representatives voted 220-192 to adopt a resolution to condemn socialism as early as Tuesday, an election-year gambit intended to force an uncomfortable vote for Democrats as far-left candidates win Democratic primaries across the country.

 

UK’s Andy Burnham has promised to set out plans for "stronger public control" of essential services as he addressed the House of Commons for the first time since taking power.

The prime minister said "a series of wrong turns" since the 1980s had seen economic power in the UK privatised and pointed to the water industry as "a leaking monument to that approach - a country run in the private rather than public interest". He reiterated his belief that political power had been centralised and announced he would be making devolution powers available to more areas in England.

 

China warned of “consequences” for Taiwan after officials from Beijing and Taipei attended a ceremonial event at a Pacific leaders summit, where major powers already had been urged to restrain from turning a meeting of mostly small island countries into a geopolitical sideshow.

 

Russia is likely to continue mass drone attacks on Ukraine at least until its September State Duma elections, as the Kremlin seeks to show voters a “picture of victory,” Kyrylo Budanov said in a comment to journalist Halyna Ostapovets. “Russia has elections approaching. They also need to show their voters some impressive picture of victory, because they do not feel victory on the battlefield. Nor does the whole world.”

 

A sense of abandonment could make Saxony-Anhalt the first state government to be solely led by the far right AfD. But the party’s hollow promises will only make a dire situation worse.

 

CENTCOM says its latest barrage is done,

With radar and ships neatly undone;

Air-defense sites got their freedom delivered

In pieces, by missiles, impeccably shivered.

 

 

A month without bombing was clearly too bland;

Oil needed drama to rise in the land.

And DDT posts, with a caps-locked thrill:

“Hit back, and we’ll hit you, but not yet the big kill.”

 

 

 

Meanwhile the USPS, in democratic haste,

Builds ballot machinery designed to make waste:

One barcode goes bad in a crate full of votes

And thousands sink silently, stamped in DDT’s moats.

 

 

A court order? Charming. A safeguard? How quaint.

Just upload a list and declare who ain’t

If citizens vanish from state-filed display,

Their ballot can travel precisely no way.

 

 

Carney tells Washington: “Please, be adult.”

A request that does qualify as insult.

Canada readies its tariffs in measured retort

While D.C. looks down on its neighbor up north.

 

 

Republicans, ever watchful of spectral red dread,

Condemns “socialism” again rising from the dead;

While Britain says water should serve public need

Not leak private profits through every blocked reed.

 

 

China warns Taiwan; Moscow drones Ukraine’s night;

Each power needs voters to witness its might.

And Saxony hears far-right promises to bloom

The usual cheap plaster applied to a broken room.

31 August 2026 (88283) (71182) MASA plus 572 insane days out of 1461 days (886 to go), followed by many days of corruption.

 

Army secretary Dan Driscoll has handed his resignation to Donald Trump, the White House said on Monday, becoming the latest high-profile figure to depart the defense department.

The army official, who is second in line to defense secretary Pete Hegseth, had reportedly been eyeing an exit from the Pentagon amid apparent friction with the secretary. Another rat leaving a sinking ship.

 

 A captive and divided (5-4) Supreme Court allowed the White House to continue construction on a $400 million ballroom project as lawsuits play out, a win DDT he flexes unprecedented executive power and remakes the capital in his image.

Where once the ancient east wing stood. A friend of mine wrote,

 

Did Donald Trump

A tasteless Pleasure Dome decree

With gold and marble, colored glass

He told the Nation

Kiss my ass.

 

“Today’s decision is no victory for the separation of powers,” Roberts wrote. The court’s three liberal-leaning justices agreed. The majority, on the other hand, found the National Trust for Historic Preservation likely did not have the legal right to challenge the project.

 

The Defense Department was forced on Monday to deny the U.S. had struck Iran’s main petroleum export facility after DDT posted a fake but very realistic AI-generated video showing a purported attack by American forces. The video, posted to the president’s Truth Social account, appears to show oil storage tanks and refineries erupting in flames from the perspective of someone filming from inside a helicopter above the carnage

 

 

Cornered, Vladimir Putin plans to escalate his war. His refusal to back down is rooted in Russia’s gangster politics. Putin shows no sign of backing off. The worry is that he may try to escape from what Russians call a tupik (dead-end) as he has in the past: by finding some new way to escalate the conflict. No one can know what is inside Mr Putin’s head. But his reasons for escalating the war, like the decision to invade in the first place, are internal. His key objective has always been preserving his own power, and ultimately his life. The mood among elites is even more sour. The biggest issue, one insider says, is not so much the economy or the lack of military success, but the time the war has wasted: whatever the outcome, nearly five years is a failure. There is a growing feeling that the tsar is naked, says another member of the elite.

 

Driscoll quit as Hegseth snarled; the Pentagon decks heaved and creaked

Another rat in medals who saw the lifeboat and just squeaked.

When Trump’s great war room runs on grudges, leaks, and ego’s stink,

Even men with stars know when to leave the ship to sink.

 

 

Five justices let wreckers loose: the East Wing meets the claw;

Four said the separation of powers still ought to be law.

But standing, ah, that holy word, could not preserve one standing wall:

So Donald gets a $400-million pleasure hall.

 

 

Then Trump aired AI Iran in flames, a blockbuster of lies;

The Pentagon denied the strike beneath exhausted eyes.

Why ask for facts, or Congress, when a deepfake makes war cheap?

Just post the smoke, salute the bot, and let the generals sweep.

 

 

Putin, trapped inside his tupik, still reaches for the knife;

Five years of ruined Russia spent preserving one man’s life.

The tsar is naked, courtiers say, but dare not say it loud:

From Moscow’s graves to Trump’s gold room, the tyrants draw a crowd.

30 August 2026 (88233) (71132) MASA plus 571 insane days out of 1461 days (887 to go), followed by many days of hating.

 

 

The U.S. military struck Iranian military targets to prevent the deployment of sea mines in the Strait of Hormuz, a U.S. official said. "There is a Zero Tolerance policy on mine placement in full force and effect," DDT wrote on Truth Social. "Earlier today U.S. forces struck two Iranian launchers on Larak Island. Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps forces were observed preparing to launch rockets with sea mines into Strait of Hormuz," 

 

Iceland’s voters rejected restarting negotiations to join the European Union in a referendum that pitted concerns about geopolitical stability against keeping national control of Iceland’s prized fisheries. Opponents defeated the measure by a margin of 52.8% to 47.2%, the National Electoral Commission said. The result puts the divisive issue to rest for now. The vote Saturday was held in the shadow of repeated threats by U.S. President Donald Trump to take control of nearby Greenland. Although Iceland is a NATO member, supporters said European solidarity would provide greater protection if DDT ever made similar threats toward the volcanic island.

 

NASA's $4.3 billion Roman Space Telescope was launched atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket Sunday, kicking off a three-month voyage to a point in space a million miles from Earth where it will map the large-scale structure of the cosmos with a wide-field 300-megapixel camera.

 

Elbridge Colby, the undersecretary of defense for policy, earlier this month said at a conference that officials are looking to give the president and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth “credible, rational nuclear options.” Conservative podcaster Tucker Carlson said Friday that President Trump should be removed from office if he is considering using nuclear weapons first, saying even entertaining the possibility should disqualify a president from serving. “The second any president actively considers the first use of nuclear weapons, that person should be removed from office immediately, because that’s got to be the red line, destroying all of humanity with a nuclear strike,” Carlson said. DDT and Carlson, who was once an ally of the MAGA movement and of DDT, have clashed in recent months over their opposing views on foreign policy, with Carlson being a vocal opponent of the Iran war.

 

Disgusting Israeli settlers, backed by Israeli forces, have surrounded a Palestinian home in the village of Qusra, south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank. At least four Palestinians were trapped inside the home on Saturday while settlers set fire to nearby land, according to Al Jazeera journalists on the ground. Residents said dozens of settlers had descended on the village, throwing stones at locals and barricading themselves inside a house while Palestinians were inside.

The Strait of Hormuz was having a day,  

With mines in the water and markets at play;

Two launchers on Larak were struck from the sky

For commerce must flow, though the people may die.

 

“Zero tolerance!” thundered the Truth Social throne,

In CAPITAL LETTERS, as statesmen have grown;

The sea must stay open for tankers and trade

Just don’t ask whose shoreline gets turned into shade.

 

Iran says, “Response,” and America says, “More,”

While history paces outside every door;

The generals assemble their options so “rational,”

As if mushroom clouds came in small and practical.

 

Elbridge requests an atomic menu,

With “credible choices” for Hegseth and you;

Perhaps one light fission, not too much debris

A tasteful apocalypse, responsibly.

 

Then Tucker, of all of the punditry sphere,

Found a bright red line and proclaimed it quite clear:

“If first-use is pondered, remove him at once!”

A rare flash of sense from a very loud dunce.

 

Though pondering doom is the usual chore

Of every great power that swears it wants more

Peace through deterrence, stability, might

By keeping the button attractively bright.

 

Meanwhile, in Iceland, the voters replied,

“Dear Brussels, we’ll keep our own fish, thanks,” and sighed;

By 52.8 percent to 47.2,

They chose cod autonomy over an EU view.

 

For Greenland next door has made sovereignty chic

When presidents hint that your island looks sleek,

You ponder alliances, harbors, and NATO,

Then vote for your haddock, your lava, potato.

 

And Roman rose upward on Falcon Heavy flame,

To photograph cosmos too vast for a name;

Three hundred megapixels, wide-field and grand

While Earth keeps misplacing its moral command.

 

A million miles outward it travels to see

Dark energy’s workings and cosmic debris;

Perhaps it can find, in the vast stellar foam,

The adult supervision we lack here at home.

 

In Qusra, where settlers and soldiers converge,

A family is trapped as the flames and stones surge;

The headlines say “clashes,” that useful old word

When one side is armed and the other unheard.

29 August 2026 (88174) (71073) MASA plus 570 insane days out of 1461 days (888 to go), followed by many days of waiting.

 

Rescue efforts enter fifth day on Nepal-Tibet border with more than 2,400 missing after flash flood.

 

Democrats slammed Friday’s announcement by DDT on a new deal to acquire majority U.S. control of over 65 million barrels of Venezuelan oil. “This is proof DDT put our service members at risk to get Venezuelan oil for his billionaire buddies,” he continued. “Putting our soldiers’ lives on the line for private profit is a gross dereliction of his constitutional duty.” “Will prices come down for Americans? Who knows but likely not as much as Trump has forced them up thru his idiotic Iran War,” Kaine wrote. “But here’s a guarantee, this will pad the pockets of Trump family and Big Oil companies and delay transition to cleaner energy,” the Virginia Democrat continued. “Bottom line, using our troops for a private oil grab is corruption at epic scale!”

 

Citing the importance of the First Amendment, a federal judge in California says the U.S. government is unconstitutionally silencing critics of Israel's war in Gaza and others as part of the DDT administration's quest to deport noncitizens who it says disrupted college campuses while expressing their views. "Freedom of speech is illusory if we are only 'free' to express complementary views about the government and its leaders," the judge wrote. "Tomorrow, or perhaps even today, targets may include anyone in the United States who exercises their freedom of speech to simply express opinions the government does not like," the judge in San Jose said.

 

The weight of the US’ “asphyxiation” on Iran’s economy has been suffocating; the country’s president admitted to state media. President Masoud Pezeshkian confessed that Tehran’s economy has been dealt a massive blow since the US imposed a military blockade six months ago, despite insisting days earlier that the campaign would have no impact on Iran.

 

Nearly 1 in 5 Medicaid-eligible adults in expansion states are at risk of losing health coverage due to insufficient or inconsistent work hours. Set to take effect nationwide on January 1, 2027, the new federal rules on Medicaid work reporting requirements mandate that adults enrolled in the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion must show that they are working, volunteering, enrolled in school, and/or participating in job training for at least 80 hours per month or half of full time.

 

Putin to unleash 300,000-troop 'hammer blow' as desperate Vlad goes all-out

Desperate Putin is reportedly plotting a terrifying all-out gamble to crush Ukraine, lining up a 300,000-troop “hammer blow” towards Kyiv while ramping up Nato sabotage

 

In Nepal, the flood swept homes away,

While rescuers search by night and day.

Six hundred seventy-five are dead,

With 2,400 more unaccounted for, it is said.

The mountain’s mud has sealed the ground,

While families wait for those not found.

No speech can make that anguish small,

No distant suit can hear each call.

 

 

Then DDT announced his oil prize,

With drilling dreams and gleaming eyes.

Sixty-five billion barrels, what a score,

Seventeen fields for Big Oil’s door.

A hundred years to pump and drain,

While soldiers bear the cost and pain.

They call it freedom, strong and brave,

But crude is what they mean to save.

To heat the planet hotter till we die

Never mind those who scream and cry

 

 

“Support the troops,” the banners say,

Then send them where the pipelines lay.

The flag waves high, the contracts bloom,

While somebody else prepares a tomb.

The rich get shares, the poor get flags,

The troops get medals, trauma, bags.

The oilmen grin, the speeches roll,

And patriotism smells like coal.

 

 

A judge declared that speech is free,

Not just when it agrees with me.

To criticize Israel’s war in Gaza,

Should not make exile’s jaws gape wider.

But speak too loud, condemn the dead,

And immigration hunts instead.

A right that vanishes when you dissent

Is just a privilege the rulers lent.

 

 

Iran is squeezed until trade slows,

While sanctions crush the ones below.

The leaders say, “This pressure’s just,”

As shopkeepers choke on shrinking trust.

They call it strength, they call it law,

They never see the empty drawer.

The policy men toast their plan,

While hunger hits the common man.

 

 

For Medicaid, prove work each month,

Or lose the care that keeps you up.

Eighty hours must be shown,

Or face the doctor’s door alone.

One missed form, one internet crash,

Can turn a health plan into trash.

One person out of every five

May lose the care that keeps them alive.

 

 

Putin plans a hammer blow,

Three hundred thousand sent to go.

He moves them like a map-room piece,

Then tells the world he wants “the peace.”

The generals sketch their arrows bright,

While sons disappear into the night.

The tyrant calls the slaughter grand,

And graves become his promised land.

 

28 August 2026 (88112) (71011) MASA plus 569 insane days out of 1461 days (889 to go), followed by many days of disbelief.

 

The U.S. struck a deal with Venezuela to get majority control of more than 65 billion barrels of oil reserves as the war with Iran roils the global crude trade, DDT announced. According to DDT, the deal costs the taxpayer nothing. We need to see the details. “This Transaction will greatly strengthen the already growing relationship between Venezuela and the United States,” the OC wrote in the post.

 

 Rescuers pulled out survivors caked in dark brown mud and helicopters lifted stranded people to safety, as Nepal and China raced to respond to catastrophic flash floods that killed nearly 600 people and left almost 2,500 missing. The rescue efforts included a team that rappelled into a severely damaged checkpoint area on the Chinese side of the border between the two countries. Rescuers were on high alert for more flooding from a new lake that formed high up in the Himalayan mountains after the initial floods Wednesday. Experts warned that the lake, created after a glacier collapse that triggered the floods, was starting to overflow. In later reports, the number of people missing after Nepal flash floods jumps significantly to nearly 2,000. This is the first of many mountain glacier collpses followed by floods and then drought.

 

British right-wing political commentator Milo Yiannopoulos has been detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and is awaiting deportation. Yiannopoulos, 41, a former editor of Breitbart News and onetime political aide to rapper Kanye West, appears to be held in Louisiana, according to ICE's inmate registry. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said he "was issued a final order of removal by an Immigration Judge on July 22, after failing to show up for his immigration hearing” and will remain in custody pending deportation. His critics call him a purveyor of hate speech.

 

DDT pushed back against a report that he will not attend a ceremony in New York City marking the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack after event organizers denied his request to speak at the event. The New York Times reported that the president’s team conveyed Trump’s interest in speaking at the event to organizers in recent weeks, citing three unnamed sources with knowledge of the situation. The National September 11 Memorial and Museum has banned speeches from politicians at the ceremony since 2012. 

 

Here we go again. A never-ending flow of insanity from DDT. The DDT administration is appealing a judge’s ruling that blocked limitations on mail voting before the midterm elections, the latest twist in a court fight unfolding days before the first states begin sending out mail ballots for the pivotal November elections.

In what may be a piece of sensible news or not. DDT pledged to allow farmers and ranchers to process their own meat in a salvo aimed at the industry's four dominant meatpackers, calling them a "nasty Monopoly. Farmers have been bludgeoned by DDT's trade and Iran wars, with the latter causing a prolonged spike in energy and fertilizer costs after the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, a critical shipping lane. Food safety advocates say measures in place from the 1967 Wholesome Meat Act are crucial to protecting consumers. "Federal and state inspection requirements exist for a reason: to help ensure that meat sold to American families is safe, wholesome and properly labeled.”

 

A judge has ruled the US Department of Defense acted unlawfully when it designated artificial intelligence (AI) startup Anthropic a supply chain risk, calling the move "illegal and baseless". The company argued in the lawsuit that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth overstepped his authority with the new designation. It followed Anthropic's refusal to allow the military to use its AI models for tasks including surveillance or autonomous weapons.

 

The U.S. military is experiencing a "beyond critical" shortage of advanced missile interceptors in Europe largely driven by DDT’s war with Iran, a U.S. defense official in Europe and a NATO official told The Associated Press, raising concerns about vulnerabilities in NATO countries to a potential Russian attack. In Europe, the American military "definitely" does not have enough Patriots to stop any possible sustained ballistic missile attack and would have "very limited" capability to defend against a single ballistic missile strike or a stray Russian missile that goes off course, the U.S. official said. It illustrates the cascading fallout from DDT's decision to launch a war against Iran, a conflict that reaches the six-month mark. 

DDT declared, with gilded grin,

“We bought Venezuela’s oil right in

Sixty-five billion barrels, no fee!

The taxpayer pays not one red cent, trust me.”

The contract hides beneath a golden doormat;

The fine print might have been written by a cat.

“Details?” cried citizens, pale and tense.

“Why spoil a bargain with evidence?”

 

 

In Nepal, brown mud wore the crown,

And glaciers came collapsing down;

Helicopters plucked the living from

A valley turned into a flooded scrum.

A glacier fell; a lake appeared

Then overflowed, as experts feared.

The Himalayas, once serene and white,

Now threaten the world each warming night.

 

 

Milo, the maestro of public bile,

Found ICE had shortened his speaking style;

A missed court date, a Louisiana stay,

And suddenly border law had its day.

He’d made a trade in outrage, flame,

And selling contempt as a personal brand name

Now history served, with procedural flair,

A one-way ticket and recycled air.

 

 

At Ground Zero, DDT wished to speak,

A solemn stage, a televised peak;

But speeches by politicians had long

Been barred from that particular song.

The microphones stayed respectfully mute;

No campaign brass, no podium flute.

Some places insist, however vain,

That grief not be converted to a brand campaign.

 

 

Mail ballots entered the growing legal mill,

Where rules grow teeth and courts say, “Just be still

You cannot change the voting game

Midstream, then call the chaos sane.”

The nation asks, through a court-issued fog,

Who moved the bridge while crossing the bog?

 

 

“Let farmers butcher!” the leader cried,

“Break up the meat kings’ monopoly pride!”

A notion that may have a useful bone,

Though safety inspectors would like their zone

Where labels mean more than freedom’s chant

And salmonella lacks a campaign grant.

The cow looked on with a worried moo:

“Does deregulation include me too?”

 

 

Anthropic told the Pentagon, “No

Not every weapon needs our code to go.”

So came a label, brisk and grim:

“Supply-chain risk”, a threat pinned on them.

A judge replied, in judicial diction,

“That move was illegal, not protection.”

Even the robots, if they could speak,

Would ask who programmed the rule of freak.

 

 

While Iran’s long war burns fuel and fate,

Europe counts Patriots far too late;

The interceptors, officials warn,

Are scarce where other dangers are born.

27 August 2026 (88054) (70953) MASA plus 568 insane days out of 1461 days (890 to go), followed by many days of angst.

 

“On May 29, the Court told Defendants they could not rename the Kennedy Center for DDT nor memorialize him on the building’s façade,” the filing stated, referencing a judge’s order to remove DDT’s name from the iconic venue and block his plans to close it for renovations. Lawyers said the DDT administration is “openly” threatening “to do further damage to this sacred memorial” if it is not allowed to add the president’s name to the building, citing the Justice Department’s threat to demolish the Center and build “a large outdoor amphitheater” as a “replacement. DDT is so egotistical and stupid. I hope the next president removes his name from everything.

 

On Aug. 25, 2026, Canada imposed tariffs of up to 50% on hundreds of U.S. goods after the U.S. placed similar, long-threatened levies on Canadian products. It followed the collapse of trade talks that had been inching towards a deal. Canada’s Carney responded with his own already prepared list of $20 billion in U.S. imports to face tariffs of up to 50%, targeting products that he surely bets will anger voters in swing states heading into the midterm elections. For Carney, a critical sticking point was the late addition by U.S. negotiators requiring Canadian trade policy to align permanently with U.S. interests. Carney viewed this demand as a transfer of Canadian sovereignty to the U.S., a step toward making Canada “the 51st state.” Perhaps it’s not so surprising that a near deal would collapse into a trade war. The temerity of Canada standing up to DDT’s bullying has pissed DDT off grandly.

 

A Florida grand jury finds DeSantis administration ‘misappropriated’ funds from Medicaid settlement. Grand jury declined to indict anyone but said there was a ‘sophisticated scheme’ to use funds for political activity. They found found that the administration of the governor, Ron DeSantis, “misappropriated” $10m in taxpayer money from a Medicaid settlement into the Hope Florida Foundation, a charity with ties to DeSantis’s wife, before the money was reportedly “funneled” into “two political action committees”. The report goes on to say that after the money was transferred to Hope Florida, it was “quickly funneled” from there into two political action committees, and that the money was then reportedly used to lobby against a ballot measure that would have legalized marijuana in Florida, and was sent to the Republican party of Florida. Political amnesia.

 

Newly obtained records indicate health secretary lied about Samoa trip during Senate confirmation hearings last year. A senior Democratic senator is calling for a criminal investigation into the US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, following reporting by the Guardian that indicated he lied during the Senate confirmation hearings last year. Markey also weighed in on the new reporting, saying the records show it was false when Kennedy said his trip had “nothing to do with vaccines”.

“This is a pattern, not a slip. RFK Jr has lied to the Senate, lied to the American people and jeopardized the health of children to advance his anti-vaccine agenda,” Markey said. “He should never have been confirmed, and he cannot be trusted to run [the Department of Health and Human Services] for even one more day.”

 

US Postal Service says new mail ballot rules tied to DDT’s order are in effect.Move from USPS comes amid DDT administration’s efforts to restrict mail-in voting in November’s midterms. The DDT administration has sought to impose new rules requiring state election leaders to submit their voter rolls for inspection as part of a broader bid to increase federal government oversight over voting and elections. Two dozen states and the District of Columbia filed a fresh lawsuit to block the executive order restricting mail voting in this year’s midterm elections.

 

The judge said, “Kennedy Center means Kennedy

No DDT façade, no DDT-brand pedigree.”

The answer: “We will put his name back on,

Or perhaps the whole historic place is gone.”

 

 

A sacred memorial faces this grand choice:

Keep its name, or lose its walls and voice.

Build an outdoor amphitheater instead

Where DDT’s praise can echo in his empty head.

 

 

“Renovated and restored by DDT,” it reads,

As if marble grows by feeding it applause and needs.

DDT Plaza too, because he needs public square

Certifying that he indeed was standing there.

 

 

Canada got hit with fifty-percent rates,

On billions in goods at its southern gates.

Carney answered, “We have tariffs too

With twenty billion reasons aimed at you.”

 

 

The trade-talk sticking point was quite a prize:

“Align forever with our interests,” said the guys.

Canada heard the fine print, cold and stark:

“Just hand our country over toyou in the dark.”

 

 

In Florida, ten million Medicaid dollars strayed,

To Hope Florida, then into politics’ shade.

The grand jury said “misappropriated” cash

A sophisticated, taxpayer-funded stash.

 

 

It fought the pot vote, reached party hands,

Then memory failed across the governor’s lands.

No charges, though the money trail was bright

Just ten million dollars wandering to the right

 

 

RFK lied and said Samoa had no vaccine theme;

The letters all said otherwise, eight times, it seems.

Now postal ballots face new rules before they sail

Choice gets delayed, our republic dies by undelivered mail.

26 August 2026 (88007) (70906) MASA plus 567 insane days out of 1461 days (891 to go), followed by many days of folly.

 

The CIA director warned Russia not to attack NATO countries during Moscow trip. A spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin told reporters Ratcliffe was in contact with Russian intelligence agencies but did not meet with Putin. 

 

Pennsylvania on Tuesday confirmed two deaths in unvaccinated people after they contracted measles, the first such deaths reported this year. In a press conference, Shapiro blamed the DDT administration for spreading misinformation that led to declining vaccination rates. Shapiro responded to Kennedy’s denial, claiming that the secretary went on a “tirade” when asked to help encourage people to get vaccinated and stop spreading misinformation. “He even told me it would be better if we went back to ‘natural measles.”  A few years ago, Secretary Kennedy was in Lancaster downplaying the severity of measles and saying that the cure was ‘chicken soup and vitamin A.’

 

US faces surging toilet paper prices amid trade war with Canada. Paper products are among the hardest-hit sectors, with Canada threatening to put tariffs of between 25% and 50% on “toilet paper or face tissue stock” from 8 September in retaliation for a 50% hike from Washington DC. While American toilet paper and tissues are often made domestically, they heavily rely on lumber-rich Canada for raw materials.

 

A federal judge who blocked the most controversial aspect of President Donald Trump's executive order aimed at restricting mail-in ballots, namely, employing the Postal Service as the primary enforcer of mail-voter eligibility, has now lifted that decision following the Supreme Court's ruling  that legal challenges are premature. Dozens of Democratic state attorneys general sued the Trump administration over the USPS directive in April, arguing it is unconstitutional since states, not the federal government, have primary authority for administering elections. 

Ratcliffe to Moscow: “Don’t test NATO’s resolve.”
The Kremlin said, “Fine, just another problem to solve.”
No Putin, no summit, no cameras, no fuss
Just spies trading threats in a windowless bus.

Two died of measles while Kennedy preached
That chicken soup cures what vaccines could have reached.
“Go natural,” he barked, how wholesomely grim:
The virus loves freedom; it voted for him.

Canada hiked tissue tariffs, now toilet rolls soar;
Nothing says “trade war” like paying more to the store.
And mail ballots? Courts said, “The harm’s not quite ripe”
So democracy waits while the Post Office swipes. 

25 August 2026 (87953) (70852) MASA plus 566 insane days out of 1461 days (892 to go), followed by many days of sickness. 

 

United States tariffs will cost the typical American household more than $1,000 per year, the non-partisan Yale Budget Lab found.  Of this, Canadian goods accounted for about $30 extra per household per year.  A round of 50% U.S. tariffs on dozens of Canadian goods worth $20 billion took effect on Saturday, followed by a measure unveiled on Monday that will double levies on Canadian cars and auto parts in January. Canada announced levies of its own, to take effect on Sept. 8, that would match the value of goods targeted by U.S. tariffs. Here are some areas where Canada can apply economic pressure. Carney noted on Saturday that Canada supplies the vast majority of US natural gas and electricity imports and about 60% of crude oil imports. The country is also a major source of important commodities including potash - a product in fertiliser for which Canada is the world's top supplier. "I'd love to see DDT run cars without any oil. I'll love to see him grow vegetables and fruit without the potash," Ford said on Monday. "DDT underestimates us, and that's the biggest mistake."

 

 

Two unvaccinated Pennsylvanians die after contracting measles as outbreak reaches nearly 400 cases. They are the first fatal cases linked to the highly infectious viral disease seen in the commonwealth in 35 years. Way to go RFK jr. State leaders say vaccine misinformation and distrust in scientific evidence on the safety and efficacy of vaccines is driving waning immunization rates, leaving communities vulnerable to disease outbreaks.

 

A Massachusetts judge ruled today that the criminal DDT administration violated a nationwide injunction by finalizing a rule that would significantly overhaul mail voting if allowed to take effect. The injunction bars the administration from directing USPS to reject ballot mail that doesn't comply with the administration's new design requirements until after the 2026 midterms. It also bars the administration from "initiating or completing rulemaking" to implement the new criteria.

 

Surging temperatures are expected to broil more than 45 million people as a heat dome settles in across the south-western US through the end of August and into early September, according to the National Weather Service. “This will maintain an abnormal hazardous heat across the region, with daytime highs of 100-110 F across the Southern Plains, while portions of the southwest will reach up to 115F. With overnight temperatures providing limited relief, heat-related illness may increase, especially for those without proper hydration and adequate cooling.” “Climate change is increasing the frequency and severity of summer extreme weather events in the mid-latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere. However, DDT has a plan. Burn more coal and oil, it will make him richer and more able to pay for air conditioning, even outdoors on his golf courses.

 

In the makes no sense department: The US has again refused to join a UN statement condemning Russia’s strikes on Ukraine, as 50 countries called for an immediate ceasefire. The move comes as Kyiv, Washington and European partners work on a new peace framework that could include a ceasefire and troop withdrawals.

 

Putin is as stupid in his own way as DDT.  Military recruitment efforts are reportedly becoming more aggressive as Russia prepares for a winter offensive in Ukraine. Recent footage shared on social media has shown individuals dressed in plainclothes trying to force fighting-age men into vehicles to take them to the recruitment centre, while weeping women try to intervene. Potential recruits have also been reportedly summoned to police stations under bureaucratic pretexts, then beaten or threatened, for example, by having illicit drugs planted on them, into signing a military contract.

 

DDT has built a tollbooth where the checkout lane begins,

Then calls the price of groceries “winning” for his friends;

A thousand bucks per household, what a patriotic cheer

With Canada chipping thirty more into the bill each year.

 

 

He slapped fifty on Canadian goods, then cars will take the hit,

Auto parts in January: “See? The deal is great!” but not for it.

Canada says, “Rate for rate,” with tariffs queued in line;

Both sides pay the fare, then toast DDT’s grand design.

 

 

“Try driving without oil,” Ford said, “or growing food sans potash

Go fertilize your golf course greens with ego, smoke, and cash.

Canada supplies the power, gas, crude, and the farm’s bright bloom;

Our neighbor scorned can turn tariffs into economic doom.

 

 

In Pennsylvania, measles came, a virus, nothing that’s new;

Two unvaccinated people died, as nearly four hundred grew.

Thirty-five years without such loss, then rumors did their work:

Science gets called a conspiracy; disease resumes its smirk.

 

 

Meanwhile, a judge told DDT, “That ballot scheme must wait;

You broke the nationwide injunction, do not redesign the gate.”

The Postal Service cannot trash a vote for font or fold

Democracy is fragile stuff, though for government it’s gold.

 

 

A heat dome bakes the Southwest, where the daylight scorches white,

And evening brings too little mercy from the furnace of the night.

The answer from the carbon court: burn oil and coal some more

Then air-condition every golf green, outdoors, from shore to shore.

 

 

At the UN, fifty nations begged Russia: “Cease the fire.”

The U.S. declined the statement, diplomacy’s flat tire.

“Both sides fault,” while missiles fall and civilians try to live;

A peace plan with no moral spine has precious little to give.

 

 

And Putin needs men for winter, so plainclothes fists appear

They hustle sons toward vans while mothers weep in fear.

A police-station errand, threats, a contract forced by dread:

Two vain old men play empire while the young are sent for dead

24 August 2026 (87894) (70793) MASA plus 565 insane days out of 1461 days (893 to go), followed by many days of fear.

 

Finally, a foreign country has called DDT’s tariff bluff and said we are not going along with blackmail. Instead, Canada is enacting its own tariffs and might cutoff electricity to the Northeast. Carney was already popular before his latest clash with Trump. His approval rating rose 3 points to 60% last week, while a poll conducted during the same period showed most Canadians wanted a tougher approach to U.S. trade talks, days before the talks collapsed. He has also won broad support from provincial premiers across party lines, including Ontario conservative Doug Ford, who has aggressively pushed back against DDT's tariff threats, and Manitoba social democrat Wab Kinew, who said he's "100%" behind Carney.

 

 

The Supreme Court opened a path for possible implementation of DDT’s executive order restricting mail-in voting, though it remains unclear how much can be put in place before the fast-approaching midterm elections. America, you have got to vote this AHole out by voting in a Democrat dominated House and Senate. The A-hole is systematically destroying America and its prosperity. When DDT is done, we will be a 3^rd world country. The Supreme Court’s conservative majority didn’t decide the legality of DDT’s order, instead ruling that states who sued did not have the legal right to challenge it. While the emergency order is not final, it does have the potential to create chaos around voting across the country, with DDT often questioning the integrity of elections and the nation’s highest court again the possible arbiter of a political controversy.

 

With this Supreme court we have almost lost our representative democracy. Congress is too timid to pass laws that limit the ability of the Supreme court to effectively legislate from the bench and override Congress. Who gave the 9 unelected lawyers the right to change laws and make new ones under the guise of interpreting the constitution. It’s time to reform the Supreme Court before we lose everything to the imperial presidency.

 

Support in the United States for the war on Iran has fallen as DDT’s  approval remains at a record low, a Reuters/Ipsos poll suggests. The economic effects of the war remain a concern for Americans. Iran has maintained a de facto blockade of oil exports from the region, contributing to a rise in US gasoline prices to near record highs.

 

The DDT administration plans to revoke up to 200,000 business and tourism visas held by people who've sought asylum in the U.S. It would be the largest mass visa revocation in U.S. history and would likely trigger legal challenges. "We are coordinating with DHS to identify and revoke the nonimmigrant visas of foreigners who have come to the United States claiming to be short-term visitors, but then file for asylum to stay here permanently,"

 

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's plan to build five city-run grocery stores is the target of a new lawsuit. A coalition representing 1,000 minority-owned bodegas and supermarkets is suing to stop the plan.  Elvis Arias owns the America Deli Mini Market in East Harlem, just a block away from La Marqueta, where a city-run grocery store is supposed to open next year. He's hoping Mamdani's plan doesn't flatten his business and cause him to close. Roldan, whose group represents people like Arias - a mix of Hispanic, Korean, Arab and Chinese-owned establishments - said he's tried to set up a meeting with the mayor to discuss their concerns, but to no avail. Roldan wants to tell Mamdani that his plan to sell products 30% cheaper will kill businesses. 

 

Canada said, “Enough of your tariff parade

Your threats aren’t a deal; they’re a revenge crusade.”

Carney climbed three points, a cool sixty percent,

While Washington huffed at the maple-scented dent.

 

 

The polls said, “Be tougher, no more bending the knee;

Keep pressure on trade and let consequences be.”

With electricity, oil, and contracts in view,

The Canada replied, “We have leverage too.”

 

 

Then nine robed referees, in a procedural trance,

Made mail-ballot mayhem a little more chance;

They ruled states lacked standing, not that the scheme’s right

While one separate injunction still holds back the night.

Six partisan appointees, beyond ballot or vote,
Now steer the Republic from high in their boat;
While Congress grows timid and presidents preen,
They edit the people’s worn constitutional scene;
A democracy fades when the bench wears the crown
And calls it “interpretation” while voting rights drown.

 

 

So check your registration, your polling-place route,

Bring ID where required, and bring friends on the turnout;

Democracy isn’t a show you can stream from the couch

It needs shoes on the pavement, not merely a grouch.

 

 

Meanwhile, the imperial desk issued orders in heaps,

As Congress played possum and counted its sheep;

The Court said, “No injury, at least not just yet,”

Which is comforting news if you’re fond of roulette.

 

 

And war made the pump price perform its old trick:

A geopolitical fever, a wallet grown sick;

With DDT approval at thirty-three, the public looked glum

Hard to cheer for a conflict when gasoline costs a sum.

 

 

Two hundred thousand visas may soon be revoked

A bureaucratic bonfire where due process gets smoked;

“Just short-term visitors,” the paperwork said,

Till asylum turned “temporary” to fear and dread.

 

 

In New York, five groceries promise cheaper bread,

While bodegas fear being subsidized dead;

La Marqueta’s the test: eggs affordable, sure

But a bargain that bankrupts the block is no cure.

23 August 2026 (87836) (70735) MASA plus 564 insane days out of 1461 days (894 to go), followed by many days of tantrums.

 

Mark Carney drew international attention as Canada’s prime minister by warning that middle powers must resist economic coercion by more powerful countries. Now DDT is putting that warning to the test with sweeping new tariffs that could show how much economic pain Canada can absorb and how much the US can endure. The US pain will come from higher inflation. Carney is doing what many other American allies have so far avoided: risking economic pain rather than yielding to tariff pressure. The trade dispute also has become a test of sovereignty. Carney said Washington introduced language in the final hours of negotiations that would have restricted Canada’s ability to make trade deals with other countries. He said that demand was “unacceptable” and “a question of sovereignty.” Canada is providing the biggest test yet of whether Carney’s strategy can work and whether resistance by one middle power could change the calculations of others.

 

Climate change? A fast-moving Nevada wildfire exploded to more than 15,000 acres (6,000 hectares) on Sunday, pushing from the Sierra foothills toward the center of Reno and urging nearly 90,000 residents to evacuate as flames threatened neighborhoods and reached the edge of the University of Nevada campus. Officials said the fire was human-caused but did not provide additional details on how the fire was started, saying it was under investigation. Southern California’s already sweltering temperatures are expected to climb even higher this week, with some areas potentially reaching 112 degrees as a prolonged heat wave tightens its grip on the region. Highs Sunday were forecast to reach around 96 degrees in downtown Los Angeles, 106 degrees in the San Fernando Valley and Inland Empire, 97 degrees in Orange County and 104 degrees in the High Desert.

 

Democrats and other DDT critics reacted incredulously to a New York Times report on Sunday that House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries met with Jared Kushner. The Democrats are favored to retake the US House, a development that would make Jeffries speaker. If they are in the majority, Democrats are expected to use their oversight power to aggressively investigate the OC administration, including self-enrichment by the president and his family.

 

DDT is trying to manipulate the cost of living before the mid-term elections. DDT said that he will temporarily waive tariffs on up to 300,000 metric tons of additional beef imports for 90 days, a period that would last through the midterms. A White House official said exporters agreed to a 25% discount, though it's unclear how much will reach consumers. U.S. cattle producers blasted the move, warning that cheaper imports could hurt ranchers and efforts to rebuild their depleted herds. The administration is under mounting pressure to deliver relief as affordability becomes a bigger political liability ahead of the midterms. Drought and high costs have shrunk the U.S. cattle herd, while imports have been constrained by limits on Mexican cattle and tariffs on Brazil, a major beef exporter.

 

Andy Burnham will hand Ukraine secret blueprints for Storm Shadow missiles on his first visit to the country as Prime Minister. He has agreed to release classified information on British components so that Kyiv can manufacture the long-range weapon for use in its war against Russia. The latest show of support will be announced on Monday as Mr Burnham and other world leaders travel to the Ukrainian capital to mark the 35th anniversary of its independence from the Soviet Union.

 

Zelensky vows revenge for the devastating Russian strikes that killed 16 in a shopping center callinf the Russians, ‘Animals’.  “Only Russia is the source of this war, the reason the war is being dragged out, and it deserves all retaliatory strikes and pressure for everything it does against life and people, against diplomacy, against partners,” Zelensky wrote on X. Russian President Vladimir Putin said in comments published on Saturday that Kyiv had opened “Pandora's box” with its strikes on Russian economic targets, saying that Russia would hit back at Ukraine's “most sensitive economic sectors.”

Carney said, “Middle powers, don’t bow

When giants squeeze you, say no now.”

So when DDT raised his tariff fist:

“Freedom’s expensive. Please resist.”

 

 

Fifty percent on goods next door,

A neighbor charged admission at the door;

Canada answered, “Fine we’ll counterpunch,”

While economists reheated doom for lunch.

 

 

And Reno watched the Hawk Fire race,

A human-made apocalypse with pace;

Fifteen thousand acres, smoke on cue

But sure, the climate’s just “a hoax” to you.

 

 

Ninety thousand hovered, warned to flee,

While heat pursued its own degree;

The planet’s thermostat has lost its chill,

But DDT’s bound to blame a windmill.

 

 

Jeffries met Kushner, quiet, discreet

To talk of housing, borders, prices, and the heat;

A bipartisan séance, only dimly lit,

Where “common ground” wears a tailored fit.

 

 

Meanwhile, beef gets tariff mercy, brief,

Ninety days of subsidized relief;

Cheaper steaks may soothe the voting booth,

Assuming discounts make it through, in truth.

 

 

The ranchers watch their rebuilding herd

Get sacrificed to one more campaign word;

“Affordability!” the banners bleat,

Just don’t ask who pays for cheaper meat.

 

 

And Ukraine’s skies still burn with grief,

While Moscow calls retaliation “relief”;

The world sells sovereignty by pound and mile,

Then asks the ashes to please form a smile.

22 August 2026 (87779) (70678) MASA plus 563 insane days out of 1461 days (895 to go), followed by many days of infantilism.

 

Here we go again with 50% tariffs on Canada in spite of agree upon free trade agreements. DDT’s word is not worth anything. It’s as if it is written on toilet paper and flushed. At least this time Canada is promising to retaliate dollar for dollar. The new levies are expected to affect about 5% of Canada's annual exports to the U.S., roughly $20 billion in goods ranging from hockey sticks to agricultural products. We have a little over two years to go before the orange clown is kicked out on his ass. Then, perhaps the relationships between countries can get back to normal with agreements that are followed.

 

DDT’s efforts to finish the war he started along with Israel almost six months ago, on 28 February, have foundered after a ceasefire agreement signed in June collapsed leaving Iran in control of the strait of Hormuz, a waterway that was the conduit for one-fifth of the world’s oil supplies before the conflict. The Iranian stranglehold has pushed up oil prices, stoked inflation and raised living costs in the US, all as Trump’s Republican party already faced an uphill struggle to retain control of US Congress in November’s midterm elections. And in recent days, the president has threatened to unleash “Economic Warfare and Isolation on an unprecedented scale” against Iran, but with no details. The Iranians have decided that they are going to make life more miserable for DDT in a variety of ways.”

 

The United States Postal Service (USPS) has published a final draft of its proposed rules to restrict the use of mail-in ballots under DDT. The rules have so far been blocked by the US court system. But the USPS shared the 95-page update on Friday so that the rules can go into effect immediately if the existing court injunction is reversed.

 

Along with Europe’s Danube River cutting shipping, the Panama Canal will cut the number of ships passing through it starting next month due to a lack of rainfall as the El Nino weather pattern takes hold over the region. The vital waterway across Panama in Central America links the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. About 5% of global maritime trade uses it, cutting thousands of kilometers off journeys and avoiding a dangerous route around the southern tip of Argentina.

 

The Canada trade pact lay gleaming, signed in proper ink,

Till DDT found some toilet paper—and wrote it quite a wink.

“Fifty percent on Canada!” he hollered from the throne,

Then flushed the deal with great aplomb and called the splash a “growth zone.”

 

 

On twenty billion dollars’ worth, five percent of the flow

From hockey sticks to farm-goods headed southward through the snow,

Canada replied, “Dollar for dollar; we’ve had enough of this,”

We sharpened tariffs on steel and dairy with our frosty Ottawa kiss.

 

 

Meanwhile Hormuz, where one-fifth of oil once sailed with ease,

Has snarled the pumps and raised the price of every wallet’s squeeze.

A ceasefire’s gone to compost, talks have caught a fatal chill,

So DDT cries “economic war!” As if war needed more ill will.

 

 

The post office unveiled ninety-five dense pages, stout and grim,

Of ways to make a mail-in vote require a swim to reach the bin.

The courts have stopped the scheme for now; but it’s still ready by the door,

It waits to pounce should some injunction cease to be a bore.

 

 

And Panama, dry as a banker’s wedding toast,
Will ration ships as El Niño scorches coast to coast.
The Danube shrinks; the Canal queue grows long and worn,
While leaders blame each other for the rain that wasn’t born.

 

A little over two long years: mark calendars, cross your toes

Till normal treaties might mean promises, not disposable prose.

For now, the world reads every pledge through toilet-paper haze:

A signature’s just something DDT can flush on many days.

21 August 2026 (87724) (70623) MASA plus 562 insane days out of 1461 days (896 to go), followed by many days of desolation.

 

Chief Justice John Roberts on Friday allowed the White House to continue construction on DDT’s $400 million ballroom project for now, as the Supreme Court considers the Trump administration’s emergency request to intervene in lawsuits over the project. It will remain in place until the Supreme Court issues a more durable decision. The case is coming before the nation’s highest court as DDT exercises unparalleled assertions of presidential power and increasingly seeks to mold the capital in his own image. The National Trust for Historic Preservation argues that Trump has no unilateral authority to undertake the work.

 

About a month after alleging Nevada had as many as 16,000 non-citizens on its voter rolls, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials admitted they had confirmed that only 185 were actually non-citizens. In a primetime TV address on 16 July, DDT claimed that a DHS review had found about 278,000 non-citizens registered to vote in four states.

 

United States allies in Asia are watching warily as Washington scales back some military assets in the region to meet demands in the Middle East, where the US-Israel war on Iran is dragging into its sixth month. The latest point of tension came this week as the US moved its last aircraft carrier in Asia, the USS George Washington, from Japan to the Middle East to relieve the USS Abraham Lincoln.

 

In a harbinger of the future, three former SpaceX engineers have switched their attention from making rocket engines to manufacturing steel parts by using AI-driven software and robots. Their immediate goal involves establishing a prototype factory that can automate most of the steel fabrication process for crucial infrastructure components by 2027. The company is initially focused on automating the manufacturing of steel skids—rectangular steel frames that can provide a moveable foundation for modular buildings—with the goal of supplying customers who are developing AI data centers or small modular nuclear reactors. “The problem that we are trying to solve is, how do we build more things with a decreasing pool of skilled labor to do it with.

 

The US has a plan to save the Colorado River. Experts say it won’t be enough to stop the water shortage crisis. The 10-year blueprint mandates water cuts of up to 40% for California, Arizona and Nevada. For the last three years, the upper-basin states (Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming) and the lower-basin states (California, Arizona and Nevada) have blown through deadline after deadline in attempts to form a lasting consensus. With little hope of a reprieve from warm and dry conditions that have widened the gap between water demand and supply, there are also concerns that the proposed cuts won’t go far enough. 

 

Chief Roberts waved the wrecking crews through,

“Keep building the ballroom, just temporarily do.”

Four hundred million for his ego to glow,

The new East Wing learns what court orders can show.

 

 

The National Trust muttered, “There ought to be law,”

But power bought blueprints, a gavel, and a saw.

Why honor old history, stonework, and hall,

When one man’s reflection needs room for a ball?

 

 

DHS cried, “Nevada’s rolls brim over with fraud!

Sixteen thousand noncitizens, be suitably awed!”

A month later: “Sorry, the number was… slim:

One hundred eighty-five.” Cue the primetime hymn.

 

 

Then 278,000 were summoned on screen,

A great phantom electorate, ominous and mean.

The evidence? Fog. The conclusion? A blur.

But panic still votes, if you wave it at her.

 

 

Meanwhile the George Washington sailed from Japan,

Because Middle East fire needs every available plan.

Asia watched warily, alliances strained,

As Washington’s chessboard got hotter and drained.

 

 

The carrier departs, while the speeches insist

That “strategic stability” still tops every list.

Just don’t ask the allies left guarding the shore

Why deterrence now seems like a closed office door.

 

 

Three SpaceX alumni have found a new trade:

Let robots weld steel while the humans fade.

They’ll build steel skids for data farms, reactors, and more

A future where factories require no one at the door.

 

 

“Skilled labor is shrinking,” the founders explain,

So algorithms shall shoulder the industrial strain.

How splendid: the workers displaced by machine

Can admire the infrastructure they’ll never have seen.

 

 

And out West, the Colorado River thins to a thread,

While negotiators circle the old deadlines long dead.

California, Arizona, Nevada: cut forty percent

A plan that admits what the drought has meant.

 

 

The river says, “Lovely, your blueprint is neat,

But warm, thirsty decades will not be discreet.”

So toast in the ballroom, with crystal held high:

To ballots, bots, battles, and rivers gone dry.

20 August 2026 (87669) (70568) MASA plus 561 insane days out of 1461 days (897 to go), followed by many days of despair.

 

Iran's foreign minister on Thursday dismissed President Trump's threat to wield "Economic Warfare and Isolation on an unprecedented scale" as a diversion from the burgeoning U.S. national debt and a "doubling down on failed policies." Whether it works or not, the policy is better than bombs.

 

In 2001, the federal government had been running an annual surplus for four years and the Congressional Budget Office even projected that the national debt would effectively be zero by 2009. The national debt instead grew, reaching $10 trillion in 2008 and then quadrupling over the next 18 years to this week's gloomy milestone of over $40 trillion in total debt. The latest projections are that the US government will run a deficit of $2.1 trillion when the government's fiscal year ends on Sept. 30. The cost of simply servicing the debt now makes up 15% of all US government spending, more than the government spends on defense. The major tax cuts enacted under George W. Bush and in Trump's first term are responsible for 37% of the current debt. Spending increases, which Democrats have often pushed most strongly for, are a root cause of another 33% of the current US debt. "Absent these tax cuts and spending increases, the debt would be fully paid off.”

 

Last week, DDT posted that the United States would dramatically scale back joint military exercises with South Korean forces in light of his “very good relationship” with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. The United States should not gamble with Northeast Asian security. The stakes are too high not only for U.S. allies, but for the United States, too. Military commanders in the United States, Japan, and South Korea have all reached the conclusion that it is the combined capabilities and readiness of the three allies that will be decisive in the future. 

 

In his insane effort to make the US whiter, the United States carried out its first deportation under an agreement for Liberia to accept up to 1,200 people who are not from the African country, one of the DDT administration’s largest efforts yet to deport people to countries other than their own. The Liberian information minister, Jerolinmek Piah said the 1,200 deportees will include African nationals as well as nationals from North America, South America and the Caribbean. The US has agreed to extend visitor visas for Liberians from 12 to 36 months and pledged $124m in assistance as part of the arrangement.

 

Premier Currie Dixon said Yukoners can expect American-made alcohol products back on government-run store shelves in the territory, if Canada and U.S. trade representatives reach a deal that avoids U.S. tariffs on $30 billion worth of Canadian goods. American-made alcohol on Canadian store shelves has been a major sticking point for the DDT administration. The premier of a Canadian province launched a blistering attack on DDT, calling him a “bad person” and “not to be trusted” and urging Canada to keep fighting rather than rush to make concessions in trade talks with Washington. “Everybody knows the American president by now, he’s erratic, he’s irresponsible, and he’s not to be trusted. And this is the person that we were supposed to make a deal with, and we’re going to make additional concessions for it.

 

Iran’s foreign minister sniffed, “What grand déjà vu

Your debt hits forty trillion; now blame Tehran, too.

You call it Economic D-Day, with capitals aflame

A balance-sheet distraction dressed in martial name.

 

 

In 2001, the books were bright, the surplus wore a crown,

CBO saw debts paid off, the red ink tumbling down.

Then tax cuts, wars, and spending sprees all joined the grand parade

Now interest eats the US pantry while DDT gets paid.

 

 

The bill arrives at fifteen percent of every federal dime,

A silent creditor’s cannon firing all the time.

So rather than send bombers where the oil routes choke and burn,

Try economic warfare for less rubble per return.

 

 

It’s surely better than bombs, as low bars go, of course:

A siege by spreadsheet, sanction, bank, and shipping-force.

But breadlines do not care much which elite has pressed the key;

A missile or a money freeze still curdles human tea.

 

Still, better than the bombs: no crater, corpse, or smoking street
Just emptied shelves and boarded homes, a bloodless-looking feat.
The empire calls it peace because the blast is offscreen,
And counts its dead in spreadsheets, where the columns stay pristine.

 

 

Meanwhile, for Kim, the drills are cut, a friendship’s tender proof:

Because deterrence is impolite when rockets grace the roof.

Eighteen thousand troops were training with a nuclear neighbor’s glare;

Apparently, preparedness is rude when Kim feels hurt somewhere.

 

 

To Liberia, deportees fly, some strangers to its shore

A dozen hundred “guests,” because euphemisms open doors.

The visas lengthen, aid is pledged, a hundred twenty-four

Million buys the right to make displacement policy encore.

Up north, the bourbon waits in crates, a tariff-hostage brew;

“Put whiskey back,” says Washington, “or trade gets rough for you.”

Yukon may restock American labels if a deal comes through

Diplomacy: pour some Tennessee, then call coercion new.

 

 

Manitoba’s premier said the obvious, blunt and stark:

You cannot trust a deal made with a man who moves the mark.

Erratic, irresponsible, yet still the nations queue,

To negotiate with weather and hope the forecast’s true.

19 August 2026 (87615) (70514) MASA plus 560 insane days out of 1461 days (898 to go), followed by many days of disgust.

 

DDT says, the US and Canada reach ‘very fair’ trade agreement. The new trade deal ensures no tariffs for US farmers and businesses exporting to Canada.

 

Many Federal Reserve officials believed that the central bank would have to raise interest rates if inflation did not ease, according to the minutes released today from the Fed's July 28-29 policy meeting.  Waiting too long to raise rates could mean bigger, more painful increases down the line. Officials stated they remained concerned about too-high inflation that has been above the Fed's 2% target for years. Consumer prices rose just 0.1% in July, the second consecutive month of benign inflation news, helped by a temporary drop in energy prices during a lull in the Iran war. But fighting has since intensified again, pushing gas prices higher and raising the risk that inflation will pick up in August.

 

The United Arab Emirates suspended all trade with Iran on Wednesday after the UAE said it had come under renewed fire from the country, a move that will further isolate the Islamic Republic, which is suffering under U.S. sanctions and a blockade. Early in the conflict, the UAE regularly came under intense fire from Iran, and most trade between the countries, which had once been important trading partners, ground to a halt. In late June.

 

The sick DDT 2.0 has deleted or altered nearly 400 US datasets, endangering public health, education, and more. Health data appears to be most affected by administration’s attempt to wipe findings that don’t align with its priorities. These are among the hundreds of federal datasets that the Trump administration has taken down or altered as part of its aggressive campaign to wipe all mentions of data findings that do not align with the administration’s priorities. Over the past year and a half, at least 28 federal datasets have been deleted and another 338 data collections have been modified. “We’re facing a future where we are not going to have the information that we need to make decisions that will save lives and benefit American communities.” Detailed information about deleted or altered datasets from more than 60 federal agencies that span the environment, labor, law enforcement and other topics. But datasets on health appear to be the most affected by the Trump administration’s crackdown, comprising about 40% of the total number of terminated or altered data collections.

 

The NY Times reported that the US has been stealthily shepherding millions of barrels of oil a day across the Strait of Hormuz, helping prevent further shocks to the world’s oil markets, analysts said. The US successfully protected tankers carrying about 5 million barrels of oil daily throughout July by conducting stealth missions near the Omani coast. Despite repeated attacks from Iran, which claims to control the strait, the ships continued to cross regularly through June and July, which likely kept oil prices from breaking into the triple digits like it did during the first months of the war. US Energy Secretary Chris Wright estimated that even more oil was sneaking through, claiming that 9 million barrels of oil were passing through Hormuz daily.

The Israeli military has confirmed for the first time that it opened fire on a car carrying five-year-old Palestinian girl Hind Rajab, who was killed along with six relatives in Gaza in 2024.

Rajab initially survived the attack and answered a telephone call during which she pleaded for help. The call lasted hours. An ambulance sent to reach her, in a move coordinated with the Israeli army, was then shelled, killing two paramedics. Hind's body was recovered days later, along with the others killed.

 

 

Canada’s bargain: “fair,” they sing.

Farmers toast the tariff-free spring.

Accounts conceal the later cost.

Someone else will pay what's lost.

 

 

Fed men fear inflation’s bite.

Rates may rise to set things right.

July’s calm was sweet but brief.

War sent gas back, for our grief.

 

 

Emirates barred Iran from trade.

Missiles make poor deals, they brayed.

Sanctions choke the marketplace tight.

“Peace” puts on its mourning white.

 

 

Tankers creep through Hormuz black.

Warships guard each oily track.

Five million barrels slip each day.

Nine, says Washington, it’s okay.

 

 

Oil stays shy of triple-high.

Traders cheer and question why.

Bodies drift beyond the chart.

Grief has no commodity part.

 

 

DDT throws files away.

Facts offend his grand display.

Four hundred records disappear.

Ignorance receives a cheer.

 

 

Health data gets the sharpest knife.

Who needs numbers saving life?

No report, no crisis seen.

Death disappears when screens are clean.

 

 

5-year-old Hind cried out by telephone.

Help sent was fired upon, undone.

Later comes the clean official line:

Murder filed as “by design.”

8 August 2026 (87561) (70460) MASA plus 559 insane days out of 1461 days (899 to go), followed by many days of frustration.

 

In another un-brilliant move, the DDT administration today moved to strip protections from 44 million acres of national forest. The U.S. Forest Service has proposed to rescind the 2001 “Roadless Rule,” which prohibits road construction and logging in pristine parts of national forests that don’t currently have roads.

 

ABC today took the rare step of suing the Federal Communications Commission on First Amendment grounds, saying the agency's demand for early review of broadcast licenses posed an "existential threat" to its operations. In the lawsuit, ABC, its parent company Disney and the eight local stations whose licenses are affected asked a federal court to stop the early renewal proceedings.  The FCC cited the network's diversity practices as a reason, but the development came shortly after a joke by ABC's late-night host Jimmy Kimmel, an outspoken Trump critic, had infuriated DDT. "Again and again, the Administration has attacked ABC's speech,  the stories its journalists report and the viewpoints its network programs air," the network alleged in its lawsuit. "Over time, those attacks have escalated into express demands that ABC be stripped of its broadcast licenses because of its speech." "Facing this existential threat," it added, "Plaintiffs have no choice but to seek redress from the judicial branch for the Administration's blatant retaliation for their First Amendment speech." This is DDT trying to emulate the former dictator Victor Orban going after a free press.

 

Today, DDT posted a map identifying the Strait of Hormuz as “new U.S. territory, echoing a threat he made last week under the continued pressure of the key waterway’s contested nature. U.S. forces, however, have been unable to guarantee safe passage for ships through the strait thus far and the circle depicted on Trump’s map actually includes quite a bit of Iranian land on the northern borders of the strait. That would imply a partial U.S. occupation of Iranian soil.  Iran responded that DDT’s assertion a “delusion” and warning that the U.S. could not seize the waterway by “tweet” or with military force.

 

The Democratic senator Jon Ossoff called DDT a “draft-dodging, crook president” while defending the senator Mark Kelly as a hero during today’s campaign appearance in Georgia, escalating his public feud with the US president. “I don’t think anything illustrates the times more aptly than that the draft-dodging, crook president, who has plunged our nation recklessly into a war he knows not how to end or to win, tried to imprison this man, who embodies American heroism,” Ossoff said while appearing alongside Kelly and his wife, the former Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.

 

A former Justice Department civil rights attorney accused the DDT administration officials of predetermining the outcomes of antisemitism investigations into Harvard and other universities and pursuing sweeping penalties before investigators had established civil rights violations. In particular, the disclosure argues that investigations into three Ivy League universities, Harvard, Brown, and Columbia, over alleged antisemitism were “predetermined” and designed to advance “political priorities” rather than enforce civil rights. It alleges that the investigations were carried out with the intention of “harassing and intimidating institutions,”

 

In another DDT blunder, South Korea’s president ⁠has renewed his push to regain independent control of the military from the US in the event of war and urged faster progress in acquiring nuclear-powered submarines after Donald Trump’s order to cut joint drills. Two days ago, DDT instructed the Pentagon to “substantially reduce” this week’s joint military exercises with South Korea, saying the nuclear-armed North “has been unthreatening and respectful” and that the US president had a “very good relationship with Kim Jong-un”.

 

Ukraine targeted Moscow with a huge drone strike as Russia warns U.K. will pay a price for supplying attack drones. Ukraine launched more than 600 drones at Moscow overnight, the Russian capital's mayor said today, calling it one of the largest long-range Ukrainian assaults on the Moscow region since the war began more than four-and-a-half years ago. Half were intercepted.

 

Ukraine’s recently dismissed former defense minister Mykhailo Fedorov has called for a wartime presidential election in the most direct political challenge to Volodymyr Zelenskyy since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022. The politician, whose abrupt sacking last month triggered a wave of protests, said that Ukraine had to “restore a full democratic process even amid a prolonged war”

 

They opened forty-four million acres to the axe and road,

Because a forest standing still is clearly “wasted” load;

The Roadless Rule was far too kind to trees that dared persist

So now the pines can greet progress with a chainsaw’s loving kiss.

 

 

ABC took the FCC to court, insisting speech stay free,

For jokes become a license crime when rulers hate TV;

A Kimmel quip, and suddenly the broadcast towers shake

The First Amendment’s fine, of course, if no one makes them ache.

 

 

Then Hormuz got annexed by map, in marker, tweet, and glare;

A circle swallowed Iranian land, how very legal there.

Iran called it a “delusion,” with unnecessary tact:

Apparently, a doodled post is not a sovereign act.

 

 

Ossoff praised Mark Kelly, who served above the Earth,
While DDT, who dodged the draft, lectured others on their worth;
The hero gets prosecution; the evader gets the crown:
America has found a way to make the ladder upside-down.

 

 

At Harvard, Brown, Columbia, the verdict came prepaid,
Before a fact was gathered or an honest case was made;
“Civil rights” became a truncheon, polished up for show—
First choose whom you will punish; then invent the facts you know.

 

 

Kim Jong-un was “respectful,” so the drills got cut with care;
Why practice with an ally when a dictator’s being fair?
Seoul now wants its own command, submarines, a backup plan
Because trusting this White House is an exercise in sand.

 

 

Six hundred drones flew toward Moscow through the midnight Russian haze;

Half were stopped, the mayor claimed, while blame ran several ways.

The Kremlin vowed that Britain soon would surely “pay the price”

Because escalation, as we know, is always sound advice.

 

 

And Ukraine asks for ballots while the shells still split the air;
Democracy is inconvenient, but absence is despair.

Meanwhile our own great daily show keeps finding lower ground

Where every fresh un-brilliant move makes madness more profound.

17 August 2026 (87518) (70417) MASA plus 558 insane days out of 1461 days (899 to go), followed by many days of anger.

 

What DDT fears the most is a Democrat victory in November where he loses control of either the Senate or the House or both. The investigation into his corrupt dealings will be immediate and devastating. The man is senile, and if he were an ordinary citizen or wealthy businessman, I might feel sorry for him. Under these circumstances, his behavior is threatening everyone and is an embarrassment to have him represent America. Time to 

 

DDT told reporters today that his decision to cut back on joint military exercises with SoutKorea had to do with the country’s refusal to get involved with the war in Iran. DDT   directed the Pentagon to scale back the number of U.S. troops involved in the annual drill, that takes place on the Korean peninsula. He wrote that the move had to do with the war, costs and his “very good relationship” with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.  In his senility, it’s like he has forgotten who our adversaries are. But at the same time... it was very clear that he’s once again messaging his desire to meet with Kim Jong-un, to have engagement with North Korea.”

 

DDT threatens to bomb US ally Oman if it 'gets in the way' over Iran deal. The US and Oman have been negotiating separately with Tehran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a waterway that is vital to the global economy. It has been largely closed for nearly six months during the US-Iran war. Earlier in the day, Iranian officials said they were close to finalizing a deal with Oman. DDT also said the US had a direct backchannel with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which is a major military, economic and political force in Iran.

An IRGC spokesman denied DDT's claim.

 

DDT said vandals are to blame for large swaths of dead grass on the National Mall near the World War II Memorial, in the same spot where Trump had a stage built and hosted crowds for his July 4 celebration. The senile DDT has repeatedly blamed vandals for damage to his renovation projects in the nation's capital, often without evidence and sometimes despite opposing accounts from his officials. The OC lashed out at U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro this month after her office concluded that damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was the result of poor construction and not the work of vandals, as DDT claimed.

 

The Supreme Court rejected DDT’s latest attempt to overturn a verdict finding him liable for sexually abusing and defaming writer E. Jean Carroll. Carroll was paid more than $5.6 million last month, comprising a damages award plus post-judgment interest. His attorneys argued that a rehearing was necessary because Trump’s imminent attempt to overturn the separate, $83.3 million Carroll verdict will “present vital questions concerning Presidential immunity for official statements.” Once again, I hope DDT loses.

 

In an unfolding climate change disaster, Lake Powell, the second-largest reservoir in the United States, provides water and electricity to millions in the West. It has now has shrunk to its lowest level on record, in the latest sign of the alarming crisis unfolding on the drought-stricken Colorado River. Between 35 and 40 million people rely on the water for their municipal needs, according to the water management agency.

 

It is a minor item in the catalogue of DDT misdeeds, but a federal judge in Maryland blocked the DDT administration's plan to relocate the FBI's proposed headquarters to the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, D.C., after the Biden administration had announced a plan in 2023 to move the headquarters to Greenbelt, Maryland. The state of Maryland sued Patel and the bureau, alleging that the DDT administration had attempted to "unlawfully sabotage" the 2023 plan and illegally divert 323 million in funding that Congress had designated for the plan away from it.

 

The OC’s marriage is reportedly in disarray due to a ‘devotional relationship’ as aide, Natalie Har, slept at golf course to be near him. More recently, DDT biographer Michael Wolff wrote on his Substack that Harp has thwarted efforts to separate her from the President. In 2023, after she wasn't assigned a room after Trump moved his campaign operation from Palm Beach to his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, she took matters into her own hands and stayed nearby by shacking up in the maids' quarters. Hoff asserts that when Harp deemed the maids' quarters weren't close enough, she shifted to the women's locker room for the remainder of the summer.  It appears that Harp is hopelessly in love with DDT and has her goals set on becoming his "higher purpose bride."

 

Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) took a swing at DDT over the Iran war, saying he lied “the nation into a war.” The Georgia Democrat later stated that “there’s something uniquely despicable about lying a nation into war, treating citizens as fools and those who serve as pawns.” Ossoff said DDT “promised to lower prices on day one” and “promised peace and gave us war.”

 

DDT can smell November, hear its ballot boxes hum,

A House or Senate slipping makes his private tremors come;

For subpoenas, like mosquitoes, love a freshly opened vein,

And oversight turns golden towers into evidence and pain.

 

DDT sees November coming, hears the jailhouse keys,
A Congress with a backbone makes him shake behind his knees;
Lose one chamber—lose them both—and watchdogs flood the hall,
To count the graft, the lies, the schemes, the crimes beneath it all

 

 

He cuts Korea’s war games down and croons for Kim once more,
Confused which tyrant is the threat and which one to adore;
He trades alliances for praise, deterrence for a grin
A statesman only when a despot lets the cameras in.

 

Then Oman, trying to broker ships through Hormuz’s narrow throat,

Gets threats of bombs for meddling with a desperately needed boat;

A backchannel is proclaimed, the Guard says, “That is news to us”,

Diplomacy by tantrum: steer the world, then curse the bus.

 

 

The Mall’s dead grass, he claims, was slain by vandals in the night,

Not crowds, construction, staging, heat, or any other sight;

The Reflecting Pool was also blamed on phantom civic pests,

When facts arrive, he calls them all conspiratorial guests.

 

 

Carroll’s verdict stands: the highest court has shut that door,

The judgment, interest included, has been paid, and still he’ll roar;

Immunity becomes the cloak he tries to drape on every lie,

But a jury’s finding does not vanish merely because he cries.

 

Carroll’s verdict still survives his imperial little pleas,
Five-point-six million reasons courts won’t bow and scrape with ease;
He wants “official immunity” to launder every slur
As though the Oval Office were a license to defame her.

 

 

Lake Powell drains while western millions watch the shoreline flee,
The Colorado coughs up dust where water used to be;
The planet sends its invoice, stamped with drought and heat and dread—
He’d probably blame the vandals for the river running dead.

 

In Maryland, the FBI’s planned Greenbelt home fights on,

As funds are pulled and plans are bent, then federal patience drawn;

A judge says, “No”, a modest word, but music nonetheless,

When petty power meets a law it cannot quite possess.

 

 

Ossoff names the poison: peace was promised, war was sold,
While prices climb and soldiers pay for vanity grown old;
No pity for a man who treats a nation as his throne
The shame is that America must call this wreckage “home.”

16 August 2026 (87920) (70819) MASA plus 557 insane days out of 1461 days (900 to go), followed by many days of dementia.

 

I took a break from the insanity that is DDT. In addition to persecuting people, he is redesigning aircraft carriers so that they look and operate like WW2 carriers from 1942. He likes the puff of stem that accompanies an aircraft launch whereas the faster, more efficient, and safer electronic system emits nothing. He also wants to move the control tower from the stern of the vessel back to the more inefficient center of the deck. But, hey, it will look like the WW2 movies. ICE will now have electric shock gloves. Aside from the continuous corruption of increasing his  wealth while in office, he is increasing the deportation of people that look different than DDT and are here legally even if not natural citizens.

 

Attorney General Todd Blanche refused to pledge the Justice Department's independence from the White House, saying he would consider the OC’s views on individual prosecutions and persecutions. Blanche made the stakes clear: DDT's wishes can shape who gets investigated and prosecuted.

 

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) said DDT’s executive order that seeks to alter the childhood vaccine schedule is based on “crazy, stupid” claims, and that is “why the president’s poll numbers are going down.” Well, only one of the reasons. Instead of the child getting two shots, they’re getting six. Instead of Mom and Dad missing work twice to bring the child to the doctor, they’re missing six times. And instead of the insurance company paying for two visits, they’re paying for six.”  People don’t perceive that he knows the reality of their life,” Cassidy, who is also a physician, continued.  DDT suggested multiple times when he signed the order that rising rates of childhood shots have led to an increase in autism diagnoses , based on no evidence whatsoever. 

 

The new attorney general, Todd Blanche, says it’s a “possibility” that he will go to the U.S. Supreme Court if necessary, for the Trump administration’s crusade to take control of state voter rolls. Blanche’s DOJ has suffered its 22nd district court loss in its campaign to make states hand over their unredacted voter rolls, this latest one from its lawsuit against Nevada. The Justice Department claims it needs the private voter records to verify its false claims of noncitizen voter fraud, so it can kick people off the rolls.

 

Now we will see if Brazin is a stupid as over 70 million US voters. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva spoke with nostalgia to more than 10,000 supporters on Sunday at the Vila Euclides Stadium outside Sao Paulo – a city where he rose to political fame 47 years ago as a metalworkers’ union leader during the country’s 1964-1985 military dictatorship. Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, age 45 and one of the sons of former President Jair Bolsonaro, gathered with thousands of voters on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro. His father, under house arrest following his conviction for an attempted coup, did not attend the rally.

Lula echoed his own earlier comments denouncing foreign interference in Brazil’s politics. His allies have accused the United States government of seeking to boost Flavio Bolsonaro’s bid with measures such as raising tariffs on Brazilian exports and revoking the visa of Brazil’s ambassador to Washington.

 

I took a break from DDT’s daily charade

The kind that makes a sane brain fade;

Returned to find he’d steered the Navy

Toward Casablanca, black-and-white and wavy.

 

 

“Bring back the steam!” the great man cried,

Let jets depart in a hissing tide;

Why use clean magnets, swift and sleek,

When clouds of yesterday make pictures peak?

The carrier will sparkle with antique distress:
A billion-dollar prop in a dictator’s dress.
The enemy may have drones, satellites, and code
But we’ll answer with steam and a nostalgia load.

 

 

And move the island, make it old!

Put function second; let nostalgia hold.

The pilots may prefer a safer scheme,

But movies need a handsome puff of steam.

Move the island mid-deck, make the flight path tight;
If it looked good in WW2, screw the pilot’s flight.

 

ICE gets shock gloves: a little zap, a little grin,
For making “law enforcement” feel more like a sin.
They call it compliance, such polished official speech
Like calling a cattle prod a lesson within reach.

 

And if your face says “foreign,” or your papers aren’t gold,
The land of the free gets suddenly cold.
Legal resident? Fine, until the costume demands
A villain for the cameras and cuffs for the hands.

 

Blanche says Justice may consult the Oval’s rage
On which citizen earns a prosecutorial cage.
Twenty-two courts said, “No, your voter-roll scheme stinks,”
So they’ll drag it upstairs and see which branch blinks.

 

Six visits for vaccines, because reason must crawl;
More workdays lost and more bills for all.
Cassidy called it crazy, stupid, restrained, if you please
Compared with diagnosing autism from presidential sneeze.

 

In Brazil, Lula warned of the hand on the scale,
While Bolsonaro’s heir set sails on the same old tale.
Tariffs, revoked visas, democracy bent into tools
A superpower exporting influence and importing fools.

 

So I took a break, but doom has range:

The headlines changed yet stayed deranged.

When governance becomes a vintage show,

We’re launched by steam, but where we land, who knows?

06 August 2026 (87424) (70323) MASA plus 547 insane days out of 1461 days (910 to go), followed by many days of amnesia.

 DDT signed ⁠executive orders ​on today that aim to deny ⁠US citizenship to children born in the United States to so-called “birth tourists”. DDT’s own father, Fred Trump, was born a US citizen in 1905 to a non-citizen mother who arrived in New York from Germany six months pregnant. The president’s Scottish-born mother, Mary Anne Trump, later gave birth to her first two children, the current president’s older siblings, in the US before becoming a US citizen herself. Perhaps we should deport all such families back to where they came from.

 

The Iranian state news agency Fars on Thursday published an initial draft plan that placed much more restrictive conditions on ship traffic through Hormuz. Under the apparent draft, Iran would ban U.S. and Israeli ships from transiting the strait. Other nations that have harmed Iran would not be allowed to transit until compensation is paid, according to the draft. Tehran would impose penalties on violators equivalent to 20% of the value of cargo aboard a ship.

 

DDT vows to find ‘leakers’ after reports of depleted Iran war munitions. The US President defends Pentagon chief Hegseth following report of confrontation over dwindling weapons supply. Reuters news agency and CBS News reported that the military had burned through nearly all of its offensive Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMSs) and Precision Strike Missiles (PrSMs), which experts said could require relying on more perilous close-range and aerial attacks in the event of a renewed escalation. Replenishments of pre-war stockpiles are expected to take years. Ouch.

 

Artificial Intelligence has been used to design brand new viruses that are fully functional and can replicate in the laboratory. "This is a next step in the complexity that's designable by generative AI, this is the first time generative AI has been used to design a complete genome, it's something that can replicate and have other functions inside cells… this is new territory. The AI models, known as Evo1 and Evo2, predict the language of life rather than words. The AI models were trained on genetic codes from viruses, bacteria, plants and people. This is what may be really dangerous. It has the potential to "massively improve human health" by developing new drugs and therapies, but the same technology could be used maliciously to create new diseases.

 

The Russian city of Yaroslavl woke this morning to huge plumes of smoke following a Ukrainian attack on one of the city's oil refineries. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky later confirmed Ukraine had struck two oil refineries, the second being in Bashkortostan. Yaroslavl's governor said drones attacking the region had been intercepted but that falling debris sparked fires and damaged the refinery's storage tanks. No casualties were reported.

 

DDT waved his pen: “No babies by tourist decree

No passport for a tot born beneath our liberty tree!”

But Fred was born in New York, in nineteen-oh-five,

While Mother Trump was German-born, should that rule survive?

 

 

And Mary Anne came from Scotland, crossing ocean foam,

Then bore two Trumpian siblings in her temporary home.

She naturalized in ’forty-two, after children filled the hall

So deport the whole ancestral clan, or perhaps deport us all.

 

 

“Birth tourists!” cried the podium, with thunder, flash, and glare,

As genealogists searched for a native-born Trumpian heir.

The family tree grew nervous, every branch began to sweat:

When citizenship’s a boomerang, beware the word “regret.”

 

 

Meanwhile, down in Hormuz, where the tanker captains pray,

Iran drafted rules to keep U.S. and Israeli ships away.

Harm Iran? Pay twenty percent before your vessel sails,

At last, a customs form with cannons, tariffs, and scales.

 

 

Then DDT went hunting leakers, “Find the rats who made it known!”

While missiles dwindled dangerously in the Pentagon’s home zone.

ATACMS and PrSM are reportedly nowhere in sight;

Hegseth said, “We’re fine!” then truth whispered, “Not overnight.”

 

 

For close-range strikes are perilous, and factories move slow;

The prewar shelves need years before they’re stocked for show.

Hegseth said, “Not true!” while facts assembled in a queue

In Washington, the shortage is of everything but “true.”

 

 

Then AI-Evo read the language life once guarded in the cell,

And wrote new phage genomes that could replicate quite well.

A cure may bloom from code, or something evil may appear:

The chatbot learned biology; humanity should learn fear.

 

 

In Yaroslavl, black smoke climbed above the refinery sky,

As drones struck oil facilities far from the battle line.

Two refineries, one grand slogan, one combustible affair:

“Make the world secure again”, just don’t ignite the air.

05 August 2026 (87376) (70275) MASA plus 546 insane days out of 1461 days (911 to go), followed by many days of sickness.

 

Iran and the US say a Strait of Hormuz deal is close, but one or both would have to back down. This could potentially reopen the critical waterway, ease pressure on the world economy and help bring an end to the war. But the agreement is likely to be contingent on the U.S. lifting its blockade on Iran’s ports. The DDT administration has previously ruled out any deal that would cement Iran’s grip over the strait, which would amount to a major loss for the U.S. and a break with global norms. Iran has insisted on some measure of control over the strait, saying it will not go back to being an open international waterway, as it was before the war. Do not hold your breath waiting for this one unless DDT is willing toi admit defeat.

 

Dr Erica Schwartz was confirmed by the US Senate as director ‌of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a rare win for the Trump administration after a string of failed attempts to fill senior health posts.  She said that she “will never betray the science” but generally deflected questions about how she would manage the relationship with Kennedy. Schwartz added that Kennedy “will absolutely allow me to be CDC director.”

 

El-Sayed, a progressive former Wayne County public health official, has never held elected office. But he’s no stranger to politics. He ran for governor in 2018, finishing second to Gretchen Whitmer in the primary. El-Sayed worked in public health and academia before running for office, once in 2018 then again this election cycle. The 41-year-old is running on a three-pronged platform to get money out of politics, money in voters’ pockets and to pass Medicare for all.

 

Republican Senator Thom Tillis threatened to withhold his vote for DDT’s attorney general nominee after the president indicated he would seek to fulfill his nearly $1.8 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund.” “Despite comments as late as yesterday that the fund is dead, President Trump clearly intends to resurrect the payout pot for punks either by inappropriately establishing another bogus fund or pushing Congress to vote for a bill that the majority of Republicans in the Senate would be against,” Tillis wrote.

 

More corruption. A top aide to DDT may have close family ties to a hemp industry executive, but that has nothing to do with the White House’s push to get Congress to delay the planned federal recriminalization of hemp THC products this week. The administration claims its advocacy is in “the best interest of the American people” and is aimed at helping veterans and other people who use hemp products for medical purposes. H’mmmm  sounds like BS to me.

 

A new Houthi front and expanded Iranian attacks risk sinking Gulf nations’ choke‑point workaround and widening shipping risks. The two maritime attacks by Iran and its proxies signal that efforts to bypass the Strait of Hormuz, which Tehran has largely shut down since being attacked by Israel and the U.S. on Feb. 28, is no panacea for regional peace or stability in global energy markets. Against this backdrop, the Houthi announcement of a naval blockade on Saudi Arabia amounted to the most serious escalation of Saudi-Houthi tensions since a tenuous ceasefire largely ended Yemen’s civil war in 2022.

 

As illegal Israeli settlement activity expands across the occupied West Bank, violent settler groups have emerged at the forefront of escalating attacks on Palestinians and their property with the aim of creating new realities on the ground. These groups are driven by hard-line religious and nationalist ideology that advocates the expansion of settlements, the expulsion of Palestinians, and the assertion of dominance over what they call “Judea and Samaria”, referring to the West Bank. Once again, a good reason not to support the current Israeli right-wing government.

 

At Hormuz, the diplomats polish a deal,

To reopen the waterway, lower the oil steal;

But one side must surrender, retreat, or pretend

So naturally, “victory” is what both sides send.

 

 

The U.S. says, “No treaty that grants Iran control!”

Iran says, “No open strait, our sovereignty’s the goal!”

The tankers sit waiting, the markets all wheeze,

While peace wears a life vest and begs, “Can’t we please?”

 

 

Dr. Schwartz takes the CDC helm with a grin,

Saying, “I’ll never betray science”, a promising spin;

When asked about Kennedy, she dodged every dart:

“Of course he’ll let me work”, well, that’s a start.

 

 

El-Sayed brings promises, ambitious and grand:

Get money from politics, put cash in each hand;

Medicare for all, with reform on the way

Three planks, one campaign, and just voters to sway.

 

 

Senator Tillis now threatens, “My vote has a price:

No billion-dollar slush fund dressed up as advice!”

The fund was pronounced dead, then rose from the floor

A political zombie demanding an encore.

 

 

And hemp gets a hearing for veterans in pain,

While relatives profit, purely by chance, we’re assured again;

“Best interests of Americans!” the officials all say

Which must mean the best interests of DDT’s payday.

 

 

The Houthis blockade, and the tankers reroute,

While Gulf nations discover what “choke point” means about;

With proxies and missiles making shipping perspire,

The workaround’s a bridge built entirely of fire.

 

 

In the West Bank, new settlements spread like a stain,

As violence and conquest are marketed plain;

The world calls for justice, while hard-liners insist,

That history’s just real estate with a bulldozer’s twist.

04August 2026 (87327) (70226) MASA plus 545 insane days out of 1461 days (912 to go), followed by many days of bitterness.

 

Democratic Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Richard Blumenthal are calling on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to investigate DDT’s meme-coin. "Given sharp depreciation in the coin’s value, despite the hype coming directly from the President’s own public statements, the SEC must investigate whether a fraudulent scheme may be underway and prevent further extraction of enormous value from the hundreds of thousands of investors who put their faith in DDT’s coin." Warren and Blumenthal say DDT had an "active interest in getting his supporters to trade" his meme-coin, adding that the president made $636 million from his meme-coin while most others lost money.

 

A Texas deputy used 83K Flock cameras to find woman who had abortion. A medical examiner determined the "fetus" was a blood clot. A few hours later, the lead detective officially recommended the case be changed to "cleared by exception" for that reason.

 

Republican Sen. Susan Collins said Tuesday she would vote "no" on acting Attorney General Todd Blanche's nomination to permanently lead the Department of Justice. "While I believe Mr. Blanche is a capable lawyer, the Department of Justice has become increasingly political," Collins said in a statement. "Mr. Blanche has taken several actions that have further eroded the Department's independence, and that is the basis for my vote to oppose his confirmation."

 

 The DDT administration has revoked the visa of Brazil’s ambassador to the United States in retaliation for Brazil’s denial of visas last month for two American diplomats who sought to visit ahead of upcoming elections as well as what it said was Brazil’s stalling on approving DDT’s nominee to be ambassador in Brasilia. To avoid election interference, Brazil want to wait until after their election.

 

A group of professors filed suit Monday night challenging the Texas A&M University System’s new censorship policy that prohibits faculty from discussing certain topics and viewpoints related to race, sexual orientation, and gender. The policy, which was implemented in late 2025 and requires extensive, bureaucratic syllabi review, has resulted in prohibitions on everything from the Oscar-winning film “Moonlight” to Plato’s writings on gender. “By embarking on a campaign of censorship, Texas A&M has abdicated its responsibility to support students’ right to learn and faculty’s right to teach.”

 

Russia set new wartime records for the rate and scale of its missile strikes on Ukrainian cities in July, according to data published by the Ukrainian air force and analyzed by ABC News, as the Ukrainian government accelerated its efforts to patch well-publicized gaps in its aerial defensive umbrella.

 

The SEC may need a stronger kind of tea,

To sort this meme-coin family tree;

Warren and Blumenthal say, “Look right there

A hype-fueled scheme with the smell of a snare.”

 

 

The President’s posts did their usual trick:

Make buyers feel rich, then make their wallets slick;

He made six-hundred-thirty-six million, they say,

While most of the rest saw their value decay.

 

 

Now SEC staff had already once opined,

That meme coins, as a class, may not fit the line;

So fraud, if present, would have to be read

Through old-fashioned deceit, not just digital thread.

 

 

In Texas, a deputy’s camera parade

Used eighty-three thousand devices arrayed;

To chase a woman for abortion-related scorn,

Only to find a clot where outrage was born.

 

 

Susan Collins, with that rarest of GOP traits,

Looked at a nominee and declined the waits;

She said the DOJ’s been made political clay

Which is one way to say, “I’ve seen enough today.”

 

 

Brazil got punished for not taking the bait,

After refusing election meddling in state;

So visas were yanked in a diplomatic spree

Because sovereignty is annoying, apparently.

 

 

And Texas A&M, with its purity plan,

Banned Moonlight and Plato because it can;

When universities fear ideas they shouldn’t touch,

You know the administration’s not worth much.

03 August 2026 (87279) (70178) MASA plus 544 insane days out of 1461 days (913 to go), followed by many days of senility.

 

Federal attorneys in D.C. have dropped cases against three others accused of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, according to court documents reviewed days a similar case was dropped against a former Olympian. DDT today, harshly criticized Pirro for withdrawing the lawsuits and summoned her to the White House for a meeting. U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro met with DDT at the White House Monday afternoon amid questions about her future.

 

Two Republican senators who threatened to block acting Attorney General Todd Blanche's confirmation to lead the Justice Department said Monday that they will support his nomination, ending an impasse over plans to create a fund to compensate allies of DDT. Noting was said about the immunity from tax auditing.  A sweeping audit immunity plan conferred on the president, his sons and the DDT Organization remains in place, given new parameters to appease the senators but still with the potential to wipe away millions of dollars of the OC’s back taxes.

 

As usual DDT just makes stuff up. Despite DDT continued comments that negotiations with Iran are set to begin on Monday, U.S. officials have said that there are no "new" or novel negotiations planned. DDT called Iran's leadership "unbelievably duplicitous" today after Iran said hours earlier it had no plans to hold direct talks with Washington, despite the U.S. leader's claim that negotiations would start today.

 

DDT has again demanded that oil companies lower gasoline or petrol prices for American consumers, slamming Chevron for not crediting his administration’s work to assist the oil industry as oil prices continue to rise. The president has repeatedly said that fuel prices would “come down like a rock” after the conflict with Iran ends, but economists have disputed Trump’s assertions and predict longer-term economic repercussions due to the war. The OC really is senile. Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said on Monday that Iranian negotiators are currently only discussing the Strait of Hormuz’s management with Oman, with no talks under way and no planned meetings with the US.

 

In D.C. the marble sighs at the gleam of the Reflecting Pool,

Three cases vanished, neat as smoke, what a justice system jewel.

Pirro gets a summons, brisk and grand, to the White House hush and fuss,

While laws bend soft as campaign cash for the always-blameless us.

 

 

The Senate frowned, then found its spine, then dropped it with a grin,

And blessed a deal that shields the boss while tax men circle him.

Audit immunity, dressed up clean, with “new parameters” in tow,

A magic cloak for sons and firms, for debts they’d rather not know.

 

 

Iran, we’re told, will “start” today, though nothing’s set in stone,

A negotiation invented whole in one man’s brilliant tone.

Officials say there’s no new dawn, no table, no parade,

Just headlines born from wishful ink and threats that never fade.

 

 

And gas, of course, must fall like rocks because DDT said it must,

As if markets read his speeches and obey them out of trust.

He scolds the oil firms for the crime of failing to applaud,

While prices climb and rhetoric blooms like verdicts overawed.

02 August 2026 (87234) (70133) MASA plus 543 insane days out of 1461 days (914 to go), followed by many days of noxiousness.

 

Once again, the mercurial DDT calls off bombing with a bogus announcement that Iran has agreed to negotiate a settlement favorable to the US. What BS. Where did DDT get this?  From a magic gold colored mirror on the wall?  What is real is that oil dropped by 4% on news of the DDT announcement. DDT said the proposed agreement would include the “Immediate, Complete, and Total OPENING OF THE HORMUZ STRAIT, and an end to Iran’s nuclear threat.” His words not mine.

 

The California Democratic Party’s executive board voted Sunday to support a ballot measure that would tax billionaire’s wealth to help plug looming healthcare cuts. The pitched and often emotional vote over Proposition 40 exposed deep fissures in the state party over how to respond to growing grassroots anger over wealth inequality. And the endorsement, which narrowly failed to clear the 60% threshold on its first vote, only occurred after two delegates switched sides on a subsequent round. Critics of the measure tried to focus conversation on the potential fiscal impacts of the tax. Nonpartisan legislative analysts say the state could lose hundreds of millions in income taxes as billionaires leave the state.

 

Key senators unveiled a short-term spending bill on Sunday that would keep federal agencies funded past the midterm elections and into early December as they look to avoid a government shutdown during the middle of campaign season. The bill generally funds the federal government at current levels though Dec. 11. The House has passed a similar measure, but it did not include various exceptions sought by the White House. S

 

Dry, hot summers are putting Dutch dikes at risk and threatening German river trade.  In the Netherlands and neighboring Germany cargo ships that ply the Rhine and its offshoots have been forced to carry significantly less freight or risk running aground in shallow navigation channels. Farmers facing restrictions on irrigating their crops are warning of smaller fruit harvests and rising prices this season.

 

DDT’s mirror spun a fable slick,

A “deal” with Iran, how cunning, how quick.

Oil slipped four percent on the breath of the tale,

While truth, as usual, was last to set sail.

 

 

He shouted, “Open Hormuz! Make it all plain!”

Then waved his gold mirror like a mystical chain.

“Immediate, complete, and total,” he roared,

As facts took a seat and the spin-doctor soared.

 

 

In California, wealth got drafted for care,

While billionaires frowned at their share of the fare.

A 60% threshold nearly stopped the line,

Till two delegates wandered and changed their design.

 

 

The shutdown bill tiptoed, a budgetary ghost,

To keep the lights on while politicians boast.

It funds through December, neat, temporary, sly

Just enough time to campaign and deny.

 

 

Across the Rhine, the dry summer bites,

Dutch dikes feel uneasy on overheated nights.

German dry river trade now carries less load,

And fruit crops look thinner along the parched road.

01 August 2026 (87189) (70088) MASA plus 542 insane days out of 1461 days (915 to go), followed by many days of decrepitude.

 

DDT is furious that the DOJ dropped the vandalism charge for the reflecting pool.  DDT sharply criticized U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s assessment that damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was the result of shoddy construction and not the work of vandals After draining the pool iti is clear that the problem was defective installation not vandalism. Even the video clip that DDT showed does not show any damaging anything, just people with their hands in the water with workers nearby not disturbed by them. Yes, why admit the truth when a lie will do?

 

Sen. Thom Tillis said Saturday morning that new comments by the OC about his "anti-weaponization" slush fund mean that attorney general nominee Todd Blanche won't be confirmed by the Senate next week. "Despite comments as late as yesterday that the fund is dead, DDT clearly intends to resurrect the payout pot for punks either by inappropriately establishing another bogus fund or pushing Congress to vote for a bill that the majority of Republicans in the Senate would be against." 

 

As measles has a record resurgence, doctors relived the U.S.’s last major outbreak: ‘We were pulling one dead child out of the house after another’. “People were scared to death to come to New York City. I mean, schools canceled trips to the city. By the time the outbreak ended nearly three years later, there had been 55,467 cases and 166 deaths across the country, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention records show. DDT’s public health agenda, spearheaded by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., has seen vaccine skeptics added to advisory panels and conspiracy theories about vaccines spoken about inside the federal government. Distrust in vaccines in the U.S. came long before Trump but has grown in recent years because of misinformation that circulated online during the Covid-19 pandemic and in podcasts and social media since then. Thanks to misinformation, about one in five parents are not confident childhood vaccines have been tested enough or that the annual vaccine schedule for kids is safe. “Now we doctors have a challenge that none of us have formally been trained for. What do we do with recalcitrant, anti-science ideologues who have bought into the conspiracies being sold by the likes of Bobby Kennedy Jr.?” 

 

DDT offering early access to online posts in move seen as corruption. Truth Social, where DDTs account is by far the largest, to offer users early access for up to $100,000 per month. Early access means that investors can buy or sell based on non-public information. This not just seen as corruption, it is flat out criminal corruption. “This appears to be an outrageous abuse of the President’s office for his personal benefit that undermines everyday investors and the integrity of our markets, while enriching Wall Street and other wealthy insiders.”

 

A strengthening El Nino has already broken records for intensity at its early stages, and it likely will spark even more wild weather worldwide as it grows. Most computer forecast models are showing that this El Nino will likely break the all-time record for intensity when it peaks, sometime late fall or so.  “A year from now, it’s going to be very hot in the Northern Hemisphere. And we’re going to possibly have a summer like we’ve never experienced globally.”

 

The pool was drained, and then it showed the truth beneath the slime,

No vandal left a savage mark, no midnight crime.

The clip he waved contained no proof, no naughty act of harm,

Just hands in water, workers near, and nothing sounding alarm.

 

 

Yet DDT still shouted loud, as if a shout were proof,

When shoddy work, not vandal hands, was what the drain revealed aloof.

The charge was dropped, the facts stayed put, the spectacle was thin,

But when a lie can save the OC face, he’ll always let it win.

 

 

Tillis heard the “dead” slush fund talk and saw the grift in view,

A slush fund dressed as principle is still a slush fund through and through.

If Blanche was meant to pass the gate, that wind has turned to gale,

For senators can smell a scam when promises go stale.

 

 

They said it died, then fed it life, then swore they’d killed it twice,

But resurrecting payout pots is just corruption with a

price.

When Congress sees the bait and hook, the room may answer “No,”

For even loyal allies tire when all they get is show.

 

 

Measles came back, and doctors watched the old dread rise once more,

One dead child followed by another, then another at the door.

The lessons of the past return when science is ignored,

And misinformation opens up the gates to grief restored.

 

 

Now RFK Jr. sit in power where caution used to stand,

And anti-science talking points have spread across the land.

A virus does not bow to posts, to podcasts, or to fear,

It finds the gaps where lies have lived and multiplies them here.

 

 

Truth Social’s offering early access to the rich who pay,

So insiders can buy the whisper before the market sways.

They call it business, call it chance, call it a clever scheme,

But trading on the hidden word is corruption not some private dream.

 

 

And El Niño’s rising heat may bring a harsher run,

With forecasts hinting wild extremes and records one by one.

While fires keep pushing out their usual smokey run

The climate writes its own reply: the bill is coming, son.

.

31 July 2026 (87151) (70050) MASA plus 543 insane days out of 1461 days (916to go), followed by many days of deceit.

 

The DDT administration dropped the Reflecting Pool charge against Olympian, faults contractor. Even the DOJ realized that this was absurd. The government admitted for the first time the damage was “a result of flawed installation by the contractor." The government’s approach was ready, shoot, aim. The federal government owes Mr. Hearn an apology.”

 

After the Rand Paul’s Senate Kangaroo Court hearing against Dr. Fauci, there was mostly praise for the efforts of Fauci during the COVID epidemic. Taking the 5^th was the only legal strategy to prevent getting trapped into some small error. Paul has zeroed in on cur diary statements to falsely suggest that Fauci was saying then that the coronavirus didn’t have a natural origin and to argue that he wasn’t being transparent with the public.

 

DDT and Sen. John Cornyn’s war of words about the confirmation of Todd Blanche to be attorney general shows no signs of slowing down. On Friday morning, DDT slammed Cornyn once again because the Texas Republican continues to block Blanche’s confirmation over the White House’s refusal to give a binding written guarantee that the Department of Justice’s $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization” fund will not reemerge down the line. DDT wants that slush fund so badly. Cornyn, for his part, insists his holdout on Blanche is nothing personal. Cornyn gave Republicans during the primary that Paxton, a non-incumbent who was impeached by the GOP-controlled Texas legislature and whose wife Angela is divorcing him after alleged infidelity – could risk losing the Senate seat to a Democrat for the first time since 1988. Fox News dropped a poll showing Paxton’s Democratic opponent James Talarico in the lead. More than that, it shows that Talarico has 51 percent of the vote to Paxton’s 48 percent.

 

The basic details of DDT’s IRS lawsuit are likely familiar: During his first term, a contractor leaked his tax returns, and six years later, the president has filed suit against the tax agency, saying he’s entitled to $10 billion in taxpayer funds. In May, he voluntarily withdrew his own litigation, and soon afterward, the administration unveiled his reward for having done so: a compensation fund worth $1.766 billion, which was quickly condemned by members of both parties as a “slush fund” that would be used to benefit the White House’s political allies. Former federal judges raised serious concerns in late May, ordering DDT and his lawyers to address allegations that he committed fraud on the court. Earlier this month, the judge apparently did not like what she discovered, concluding that the OC and his lawyers acted “in bad faith” and filed a civil suit “for an improper purpose.”

 

A strengthening El Nino has already broken records for intensity at its early stages, and it likely will spark even more wild weather worldwide as it grows, “adding fuel to a planet already on fire,” United Nations officials warned. El Nino — a natural warming of the Pacific near the equator that warps weather patterns worldwide — won’t peak for several months and should last through spring 2027. The World Meteorological Organization, a U.N. agency, cautioned on Friday that it will likely trigger extreme heat, drought and rainfall well into next year.

 

 

The Reflecting Pool case took a dive in disgrace,

As facts finally slapped the case right in the face.

The DOJ blinked and said, “Yes, we were wrong,”

“Flawed installation,” they sang in apology song.

So the state got its logic, the contractor the blame,

And the whole grand fiasco was dumber by name.

Ready, shoot, aim is no way to run a court race,

But that’s how they governed in this brilliant place.

 

 

At Rand Paul’s grand kangaroo court, neat as can be,

They grilled Dr. Fauci for being too free.

Yet praise kept arriving from both left and right,

For guiding us through that pandemic night.

The Fifth was the shield, not some sinister trick;

When lawyers smell traps, they move fast and move quick.

And Paul, clutching diary pages like proof in a hunt,

Looked less like a statesman than a grudging front.

 

 

Then DDT and Cornyn began their loud squall

Over Blanche and the DOJ fund stuffed in the hall.

A $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization” stash

That sounded less law and more future cash.

Cornyn said, “No binding promise, no deal from me,”

While DDT hissed for his slush-fund spree.

He wants that little pot of taxpayer-fed gold,

The kind that makes ethics look timid and old.

 

 

In Texas, the plot took a darker red turn:

Paxton still grinned while the headlines burned.

Impeached by his own party, yet still in the race,

With divorce on the docket and scandal in place.

Then Fox rolled a poll that made operatives sweat:

Talarico at fifty-one, Paxton at forty-eight yet.

If numbers can speak, they were shouting all night,

“Your safe little seat may be heading for flight.”

 

 

The IRS case returned like a zombie from hell:

A leak, a lawsuit, a hiss, and a yell.

Six years on, he sued for the fortune he craved,

Then withdrew the claim when the optics misbehaved.

No sooner was that exit politely conveyed,

Than a reward scheme appeared, all polished and laid.

A slush fund, they called it, with allies in view,

A gift shop for grievance in bureaucrat blue.

 

 

Then judges got cranky, as judges will do,

When “good faith” looks fake and the record smells due.

They warned of fraud and an improper aim,

And the whole court file started to blush in shame.

Bad faith in a civil suit? What a surprise,

From a man who treats law as a costume of lies.

His legal theory waddles, unsteady and dim,

Like a goblet of grift with a patriotic rim.

 

 

Across the globe, El Niño began to unwind

A weather machine with a mischief-filled mind.

Already it’s breaking old records of heat,

With drought in the west and floods in the street.

The U.N. says brace for a season of pain,

As a hotter Pacific rearranges the rain.

The planet, already too warm to ignore,

Just got another installment of climate encore.

30 July 2026 (87112) (70011) MASA plus 542 insane days out of 1461 days (917 to go), followed by many days of infamy.

 

DDT claims breakthrough reached in Gaza disarmament. Hamas reportedly confirms deal but will not give the arms to the US. DDT also asserted in his post: The threat that emerged from Gaza on October 7 will NOT be allowed to rebuild! Under this agreement, Gaza will finally be in the hands of a new Palestinian government that serves its PEOPLE. Hamas and Israel have not yet responded to DDT’s announcement, which he called a “major milestone” in the implementation of his 20-point peace plan for ending the war in Gaza. Let’s hope this is not more of DDT’s usual hype.

 

Iranian leaders have been defiant as the U.S. military campaign resumes after a short pause. A banner displayed in Tehran July 30 shows an image of Trump with the words “We will kill you.” DDT has sought to wind down the war, signing a preliminary peace deal in June, but fighting picked back up this month as the two sides remain in conflict over the Strait of Hormuz.

 

DDT claims a breakthrough, a miracle in view,

In Gaza’s disarmament, how noble, how new.

Hamas says “a deal,” but the guns stay away;

No arms for the U.S., not even for play.

 

 

“The threat from October can’t rise up again,”

DDT booms, as if boasting could banish all pain.

“New” government, “for its PEOPLE,” he does swear

While hype does its old trick of vanishing air.

 

 

In Tehran, the banners still sneer through the smoke,

As war takes a breather, then tightens its yoke.

A “peace” was announced, then the cannonade grew;

The Strait of Hormuz keeps reminding us: who’s fooling who?

 

 

So let the grand milestone be polished and spun

We’ve heard this fine opera many, many times before, son.

If this is the future, then history’s sure to repeat

Its usual encore of outrage, and then some defeat.

28 July 2026 (87073) (69972) MASA plus 540 insane days out of 1461 days (919 to go), followed by many days of distrust.

 

Former top US health official Anthony Fauci has refused to answer questions at a tense US Senate hearing on Covid-19, saying he feared Republicans would try to use his testimony to prosecute him for perjury. In one entry in his diary from February 2020 discussing a conference call between Covid scientists, Fauci says the doctors did not have "total agreement" about where the virus came from. Later, he writes he "is almost certain that the virus evolved naturally from a species jump, even though… I keep an open mind about the possibility of a lab leak". "[J]ust because two alternatives are possible that does not mean that they are equally probable," Fauci wrote. He was not always at loggerheads with the current US president. In 2021, Trump awarded Fauci a presidential commendation for his work on the US Covid vaccine project, known as Operation Warp Speed.

 

The US military says it has begun launching strikes against Iran in retaliation for an attempted surprise attack on American forces in the Middle East. Hours before the announced strikes on Wednesday, DDT vowed to retaliate against Iran for their attempted attack on US troops a day earlier.

 

DDT’s demands that the Senate cancel its August recess to debate the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE America) Act and advance a budget reconciliation package to fund the Iran war have thrown Senate Republicans into disarray. GOP senators are divided over whether to cut short the five-week break, which would take vulnerable Republican incumbent Sens. Susan Collins (Maine), Jon Husted (Ohio) and Dan Sullivan (Alaska) away from the campaign trail. It would be a“risky” attempt to pass a budget package that contains billions of dollars for an unpopular foreign conflict, as well as funding for farmers and election-related reforms.

 

The company of Sad Elon Musk, xAI, has sued Minnesota over the state’s first-in-the-nation law that bans “nudification” technology on websites and apps, potentially providing a test for how far states can go in constitutionally regulating the use of artificial intelligence. Musk’s company sued Monday in federal court, days before the law is set to take effect Saturday and make Minnesota the first state to try to outlaw the increasingly proliferating technology that lets people use AI to to create fake nude images of real people.

 

The United States has announced the release of $600m for Gavi, as it cut off the World Health Organization (WHO) from the global vaccine alliance Gavi, in a major financial blow to the United Nations group.  In a joint statement, the US Department of State and the Department of Health and Human Services said: “The United States also reaffirms that it will not provide US Government funding to the World Health Organization through Gavi.”

 

The hearing room was tense, the air was thick with blame,

While Fauci 5th the questions in a fear-soaked game.

He said, “Ask me no more, for perjury’s the prize,”

A fitting note for politics that thrives on lies.

 

 

In February’s diary, neat and clinically penned,

He weighed the origin and tried to hedge, not bend.

“Not total agreement,” the doctors all confessed,

Which in Washington becomes a trial by partisan test.

 

 

He leaned toward nature, but kept one eye on the door,

A lab leak left alive, as rumors multiply and roar.

Because in our grand republic, subtlety gets spun:

If two things might be possible, then truth must be undone.

 

 

And Trump, with commemorative flair and synthetic cheer,

Once praised the man he now would rather hound and smear.

From vaccine applause to courtroom-style disdain,

That’s governance in America: whiplash with a grin and pain.

 

 

Then came the martial thunder, hot and proudly announced,

As strikes on Iran were launched and re-launched, never trounced.

Retaliation dressed up like principle and law,

While every speech pretends it’s not the same old claw.

 

 

The Senate, meanwhile, got a calendar-sized bruise,

With recess under siege and little left to lose.

The SAVE Act and war funds are the latest legislative toy,

A budget for the burning, sold as patriotic joy.

 

 

Poor Republicans are torn between the trail and dread:

Vote for the thing and watch the headlines turn red.

Skip the break? Get blamed. Support it? Get exposed.

It’s hard to govern when your politics are decomposed.

 

 

And Musk, ever the prophet of the terminally weird,

Sueth Minnesota where the fake-nude law appeared.

While Washington and war and vaccine cash collide,

The future is a lawsuit with a chatbot by its side.

28 July 2026 (87034) (69933) MASA plus 539 insane days out of 1461 days (920 to go), followed by many days of disgust.

 

There were major computer outages yesterday, so took the day off. Nothing happened of note except for the usual stuff. The biggest event was that Iran attacked US bases even though the US was holding off attacks on Iran for several days. Iranian extremists are looking for a major war.

 

Wildberries is almost destroyed in Russia and is looking for alternate countries for its warehouses.

 

The European heatwave continues with fires threatening cities. 

 

More later on 28 July.

27 July 2026 (87007) (69906) MASA plus 538 insane days out of 1461 days (921 to go), followed by many days of terror.

 

After an adverse ruling from an appeals court, The DDT administration asked the Supreme Court to clear the way for an executive order from the OC that could dramatically change mail-in voting ahead of November’s midterm elections. Democratic officials in 23 states and the District of Columbia sued, saying the Constitution gives states and Congress the authority to set election rules, not the president. Their attorneys have said Trump’s proposed changes are ripe for abuse and could cause chaos. The executive order calls for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and the commissioner of the Social Security Administration to send state officials federal citizenship lists to determine eligible voters. It tells the U.S. Postal Service to deliver mail ballots only to people on the lists, and for ballots to have secure envelopes with unique barcodes for tracking. Federal funding could be withheld from states and localities that don’t comply.

 

Diary entries released by a Republican senator in an attempt to damage Anthony Fauci also show the former top US government science adviser’s growing disillusionment with Donald Trump in the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic, branding the president “rambling”, “crazy”, “desperate”, “bumbling”, “incompetent”, “an idiot”, “a true embarrassment”, “totally nuts” and “truly an obnoxious adolescent”.

 

DDT is failing to sell his economic message to an electorate that thinks he’s making their financial lives worse. Voters are abandoning Trump because they believe he’s tanking the economy. Data expert Harry Enten said, “Fifty-eight percent, nearly three in five voters, say that DDT is making them financially worse off.” “These are devastating numbers. The issue that got DDT re-elected, now the voters absolutely turn against him.”

 

Saudi Arabia has reported intercepting drones that targeted oil facilities in its eastern province and Riyadh. Saudi’s Foreign Ministry said that it “reserves the right to respond” to the attack, which it attributed to Iran-backed armed groups in Iraq. The attack comes amid a lull in hostilities between the United States and Iran.

 

Brazil has recalled its ambassador to Argentina in protest over what it said were "insults" levelled by Argentine President Javier Milei against his Brazilian counterpart, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, during a visit to Brazil. While Milei did not use Lula's name, he railed against "the thief" and "the convict", referring to the time Lula spent in jail before his corruption convictions were annulled and he successfully ran for president in 2022. Milei is a political ally of Flávio Bolsonaro, son of jailed ex-president Jair Bolsonaro. Jair Bolsonaro was sentenced to more than 27 years in jail for plotting a coup aimed at keeping him in power after he lost the 2022 election to Lula. This is very much like DDT interfering in elections of other countries.

 

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Saturday he will share evidence with the United States showing Russia is assisting Iran in targeting U.S. bases in the Middle East via satellite surveillance. "Since the beginning of July, we have recorded active Russian satellite surveillance of the Gulf states and U.S. military facilities located there," Zelenskyy said. DDT contradicted his secretary of defense, saying on Truth Social he did not believe they were assisting Iran. He mentioned both Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin and said they had assured him they were not involved.

 

The courts said “No,” but power said “Wait,”

There’s always one more lever left to bend the state;

If ballots drift where citizens reside,

Why not install DDT’s filter, federal, certified?

 

 

A list from desks where bureaucrats compile

Who counts as “real” in spreadsheet-style;

And mail that once was blind and free

Now scans your worth in barcoded decree.

 

 

States object: “The rules are ours to write,”

But fed funding looms, a dim coercive light;

Comply, conform, or your budgets thin

Democracy, now audited from within.

 

 

Fauci lab notes surface, inked in quiet dread,

A scientist’s blunt glossary of what was said:

“Rambling,” “crazy,” a thesaurus of alarm,

Filed while steering through a viral storm.

 

 

The market shrugs, the voters frown,

Wallets lighter, patience wearing down;

Fifty-eight percent now read the chart

And find decline is close to heart.

 

 

Abroad, the drones hum low and fast,

Oil fields flicker, shadows cast;

“Iran,” they say, with cautious aim,

While embers wait to learn their name.

 

 

In South America, insults fly as creed,

Where “thief” and “convict” substitute for lead;

Old coups echo in a modern key,

Democracy, a recurring parody.

 

 

Satellites blink with a colder gaze,

Tracing targets through orbital haze;

Yet faith is placed in rivals’ word

Denial preferred to what is heard.

If you think that people you know might be interested in a totally unbiased news site containing a short summary of important news items of the day, let them know. My DDT views are based entirely on the news and his history as a dangerous, racist, anti-democratic demagogue. No bias here, just reality. In the end DDT is boring, like watching a cobra prance. The poems give added punch, every day not just once

 

 

26 July 2026 (86972) (69871) MASA plus 537 insane days out of 1461 days (922 to go), followed by many days of error.

 

The US and Iran pause their attacks after days of escalation after DDT without thought just decided to stop. His bloated gut told him. It was not clear why the U.S. has paused after targeting Iranian coastal areas and infrastructure in a nearly two-week escalation sparked by Iran’s firing at ships trying to transit the Strait of Hormuz. 

 

Authorities in France are battling to contain a huge wildfire near Bordeaux in the south-west as Spain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, warned Spain and the Iberian peninsula were suffering the effects of the climate emergency. Efforts to extinguish the blaze in the Gironde region of France – which has consumed an area four times the size of Paris and caused nearly 220,000 people to be evacuated were hampered by windy conditions on Saturday night. Here in the US, At least 40 million people were under extreme heat warnings across central and southern parts of the United States on today as high temperatures and severe humidity gripped large swaths of the country for a second straight day. “We’re seeing a lot of people who are exhausted, drained by the heat in a way that is really dangerous.” “The humidity is insane. You stand outside for 30 seconds and you get drenched. And it’s going to be like that all night.” Rapid City, South Dakota, reported an all-time high of 112 degrees F. Oregon wildfires have officially burned more than one million acres this wildfire season and are still burning, according to the Oregon Department of Forestry.

 

Russia's largest Black Sea oil export terminal has suspended tanker loadings following a surge in Ukrainian drone attacks, disrupting roughly one-fifth of the country's seaborne crude exports. Earlier this week, increased drone activity prevented tankers from loading crude at the nearby CPC terminal, which handles about 80% of Kazakhstan's oil exports. The disruption forced the terminal to suspend operations, leading Kazakhstan to begin cutting oil production. Russian authorities warned all vessels operating within the country's exclusive economic zone in the Black Sea that the area was unsafe because of the potential threat posed by Ukrainian aerial and naval drones.

 

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has made plans to ramp up operations to arrest and deport Haitian migrants, as hundreds of thousands of Haitians brace for the termination of their legal status. The deportations could threaten South Florida healthcare.

 

A U.S. appellate court on Saturday upheld a federal ruling that, in nearly half of all states, blocked President Trump's executive order to create a list of eligible voters and limit the delivery of mail ballots to people on that list. DDT required the director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and the commissioner of the Social Security Administration to create a "state citizenship list" of eligible voters. It also ordered the U.S. Postal Service to deliver mail ballots only to people on that list. DDT said, "The cheating on mail-in voting is legendary." For once he is right, it is legendary. A story told by the uninformed about events that never occurred but sounds as if it were true.

 

DDT traded fire by the strait for days on end,

Then stopped, no reason, just a presidential bend;

No treaty signed, no logic neatly gut-aligned,

Just bloated instinct passing briefly for a mind.

 

 

The missiles paused mid-thought, as if he’d lost the plot,

A war on “maybe later,” strategy forgot;

When asked “but why?”, the answer floated thin and slack:

Because a feeling burped and and pulled the bombs back.

 

 

Meanwhile the forests torch the map of Bordeaux red,

Four Paris’ of ash where vineyards once were spread;

The winds assist, the flames perform a savage dance,

Evacuations bloom like smoke across France.

 

 

In Spain they name it plainly, climate, stark, severe,

Not “summer moods” or “cycles” trotted out each year;

While oceans warm and satellites confirm the trend,

The pundits squint and call it weather in the end.

 

 

In the US west, the air itself has turned a sodden weight,

A heat that grips the lungs and will not dissipate;

Step out a minute, drenched as if by unseen seas,

A nation steaming slowly to a soft unease.

 

 

One hundred twelve in Rapid City splits the scale,

Oregon burns a million acres without fail;

The forests write in flame what models long have shown:

Feedback is real, and now it’s carving into bone.

 

 

Black Sea goes quiet, drones redraw the chart,
One-fifth of crude erased by buzzing art;
Kazakh flows falter, tankers drift and wait.
A modern war that edits supply and fate.

 

And ballots, ah, the fraud, DDT’s favorite ghost,
The one invoked when fear is doing most;

Purge the rolls, demand the proof, narrow the lane,
Then act surprised as less people make it through the strain.

25 July 2026 (86939) (69838) MASA plus 536 insane days out of 1461 days (923 to go), followed by many days of anxiety.

 

Wildfires in France and Spain force more than 250,000 to flee as crews continue to battle untamed blazes that are getting nerwar cities. Thick black ash coated roof terraces in the north of Madrid's center, the Spanish capital, where 70,000 people were evacuated as residents were forced to keep their windows closed by the smell of throat-irritating smoke. More favorable weather offered "a window of opportunity" for fire crews to bring the blazes under control.

 

DDT’s decision to impose a heavy post-deal condition on a landmark agreement that would see the United States support Saudi Arabia in establishing a civilian nuclear program has threatened to tank the deal and push the longtime U.S. partner to explore separate arrangements with China and Russia. DDT’s declaration Thursday that the U.S.-Saudi agreement could only proceed if the Kingdom were to join the Abraham Accords, effectively normalizing ties with Israel, came less than 24 hours after both nations announced the deal.

 

Apple is lobbying the DDT administration to source memory from blacklisted Chinese supplier CXMT, accusing Micron of price-gouging with gross margins above 80%. CXMT cannot produce high-bandwidth memory, leaving Micron's highest-margin AI chip segment untouched even if Apple wins approval to buy cheaper Chinese DRAM. Of course, Apple has long been known for charging premium prices itself.

 

A federal appeals court today declined to allow DDT’s administration to implement in 23 states his executive order that aims to tighten rules for mail-in voting before the November elections that ⁠will decide control of Congress. In siding with a coalition of 23 states and ​the District of Columbia that was led ‌by California, Massachusetts, Nevada and ​Washington state, said the president lacked ​any authority to direct DHS to compile voter eligibility lists for each state to use and that USPS had no statutory authorization to adopt any binding regulations on mail-in voting.

 

Another heat dome is causing oppressive midsummer weather to affect a huge stretch of the country, from the desert Southwest to the Gulf Coast and reaching up into the Midwest and Great Plains. Some records around the Denver area could be broken, forecasters said, and temperatures were expected to be 10 F to 15 F (5.6 to 8.3 C) above normal. Thgis heat dome is likely to spread east. In western Nebraska, where temperatures Saturday and Sunday were forecast to reach 108 F.

 

Brazil has rejected visa applications from two officials associated with the DDT administration, who had intended to travel Brazil with the stated aim of casting doubt on the integrity of its electoral system. This election will see leftist incumbent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva contend with Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, a known ally of the OC. In the most recent polls, the incumbent Brazilian President maintained his lead over opposition senator Bolsonaro. Lula would defeat the senator, son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, in a potential runoff by 48 per cent to 43 per cent.

 

The Trump administration has admitted scrapping more than $7.5bn in federal grants for clean energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed Donald Trump in the 2024 election. The plaintiffs said in a press release at the time that the abrupt cancellations of already-awarded grants had been a part of a “political ‘cost-cutting’ agenda and ideological purity campaign” waged by the administration. According to the OC administration, discretionary awards must, where applicable, demonstrably advance the President’s policy priorities.” They must also adhere to further standards set out by the White House, including not promoting “anti-American values”, the denial of “the sex binary in humans” and the use of “racial preferences” in selection criterion. The energy department left in place hundreds of other energy grants in state represented by Republicans and that had voted for Trump in 2024 – despite the department having also recommended that they too be scrapped.

 

In France the forests crackle, Spain’s hills hiss and glow,

A quarter million fleeing where the hot winds blow,

Madrid wears ash like makeup with rooftops dressed in gray,

Seventy thousand locked away from the throat-burn day.

 

 

The sky coughs soot politely, “just a summer phase,”

While firefighters lose with a maze of blaze,

Now a “window of opportunity” cracks open thin

The flames read forecasts too, and choose to saunter in.

 

 

Across the pond, a deal gets wrapped, then re-wrapped tight,

A nuclear handshake stalled by terms overnight,

“Israel normalize or no dice”, diplomacy by dare,

While Moscow hums and Beijing pulls up extra chairs.

 

 

Apple counts Micron’s margins with a wounded sigh,

“Eighty percent is robbery”, a curious cry,

They court a China supplier for a cheaper chip,

While selling Apple enlightenment at triple the slip.

 

 

The courts say ballots travel fine without a leash,

No federal clipboard snooping every postal reach,

Twenty-three states nod, “We’ll run our own parade,”

While envelopes keep secrets the law has already made.

 

 

A heat dome parks itself like rent is overdue,

From desert ribs to Midwest corn it grills the view,

Nebraska hits one-oh-eight, the plains begin to bake,

The jet stream shrugs, “I needed just a little break.”

 

 

In Brazil, two DDT visitors are waved away,

“No audits on arrival, take that flight today,”

Lula polls ahead while ghosts of power persist,

Democracy says, “Oh my God, check the guest list.”

24 July 2026 (86906) (69805) MASA plus 535 insane days out of 1461 days (924 to go), followed by many days of absurdity.

 

Sigh. I just listened to the first 5 minutes of the low IQ DDT giving an incoherent ugly speech at the National Press Club. It hurt my mind to listen to the outpouring of nonsense and the constant denigration of decent people. I am ashamed of you, those who voted for DDT, over 70 million of you, who voted for DDT-2.

 

DDT ordered his administration to install signs in front of the Smithsonian Institution ‘s U.S. history museum telling visitors that some of the exhibits are inaccurate, his latest move to reshape how the story of the United States is told. The president lacks authority to quickly fire the Smithsonian leadership or to order changes to exhibits, so his executive order targets the sidewalks out front, which are maintained by the National Park Service. His executive order calls for signs telling visitors about the White House report and directing them to resources for what he calls “accurate information regarding America’s history.” It also calls for a temporary exhibit that corrects information he deems inaccurate. DDT’s escalating effort to force changes at the Smithsonian marks the Republican president’s latest move to transform cultural pillars of society, such as universities and art, that he considers out of step with conservative sensibilities.

 

DDT criticized Canada on Truth Social after Americans were “disinvited” from the opening ceremony for a bridge linking the two countries, as tensions between Washington and Ottawa remain heightened. The $4.7 billion cable-stayed bridge connects Detroit to Windsor. The joint ceremony was called off after DDT imposed a 50 percent tariff on a range of Canadian goods, citing what he described as discrimination against American autos and other products.

 

The DDT administration has admitted scrapping more than $7.5bn in federal grants for clean energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed Donald Trump in the 2024 election. The administration previously framed the move as safeguarding taxpayer dollars from “waste”.

 

Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware all joined the lawsuit, which seeks to reverse new rules that tie disaster preparedness funding to adhering to the Trump administration's voter data requests. Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said the DDT administration’s efforts to compel states into sharing raw voter data by threatening federal funding for natural disasters will make our communities less safe and would be dangerous under any circumstance. Doing this in an attempt to undermine states’ authority over elections is reckless and unconstitutional.”

 

The Justice Department will face an uphill battle if it tries to prosecute former special counsel Jack Smith over allegations from House Republicans that he made false statements under oath because it lacks any evidence he committed a crime, former prosecutors say. Republicans say Smith deceived them by failing to disclose that his team obtained access to some text messages from 44 members of Congress, most of whom were Republicans. Prosecutors on Smith's team obtained the records after asking the National Archives to turn over cellphone data for White House personnel as part of a separate documents request. The problem with Republicans' claim, however, is that Smith was only questioned about the toll records or a search warrant specifically targeting lawmakers' texts, and not about whether he gained access to any text messages from members of Congress through other means, experts told CBS News. And in his responses, he answered the questions truthfully.

 

The Press Club filled with murmurs low, then louder, with a mighty groan,

As syntax fled the building and confusion took the throne.

Five minutes in, coherence waved a small and tearful flag,

Then jumped ship with insults and a half-invented brag.

 

 

He spoke in loops and fragments, like a glitching ticker tape,

A word salad dressed for office, poorly tailored, ill in shape.

Each sentence chased its predecessor off a verbal cliff,

While meaning filed a grievance and demanded hazard pay, if.

 

 

Outside the Smithsonian, where history stands and breathes,

Now signage sprouts like poisoned mushrooms from administrative wreaths.

“Corrected facts,” it promises, with sidewalk-level flair,

Because when truth resists control, you place a damned lie there.

 

 

 

Up north, a bridge stands finished, steel and cable, clean and wide,

But invitations vanished with the diplomatic tide.

A tariff tossed like thunder at a neighbor’s open door,

Now ribbon-cutting happens, minus guests from ’cross the shore.

 

 

Fifty percent persuasion, levied boldly, loudly wrong,

A trade war sung in tweets instead of reasoned policy song.

The span connects two nations, but the mood remains unspanned,

A handshake turned to finger-point, with customs close at hand.

 

 

 

And states that brace for storms are told, “First hand your voters’ rolls,”

As if preparedness requires a census of their souls.

“Share the data, earn the aid”, a bargain thinly veiled,

Where hurricanes get paperwork and federal trust gets scaled.

 

 

Then circling Jack Smith’s shadow, a claim without a spine,

A question asked one narrow way, answered well within its line.

But outrage hunts for headlines where the evidence is thin,

A trial built on vapor and a presumption dressed as sin.

.

 

23 July 2026 (86872) (69771) MASA plus 534 insane days out of 1461 days (925 to go), followed by many days of umbrage.

 

The insane DDT will slap ‘sweeping’ new tariffs on 60 trade partners as current global duties expire. The 10% to 12.5% duties will effectively replace Trump’s expiring 10% global tariffs. The White House recently imposed 25% tariffs on most U.S. imports from Brazil, which took effect Wednesday, and 50% tariffs on a wide range of goods from Canada, which are set to begin next month.

 

A new draft of the 600-plus page Clarity Act, obtained by multiple outlets, would enforce new ethics rules on public officials around cryptocurrency, in particular, banning officials, as well as their spouses or employees, from issuing or sponsoring any “digital asset” while they are serving in the role. However, the draft does not ban officials’ children or other family members from issuing or sponsoring digital assets, meaning Trump’s immediate family could still profit from crypto deals. The bill would also task the attorney general with enforcing the ethics rules and bar state attorneys generals from enforcing the rules, and congressional Democrats have signaled they would not support handing enforcement over to the current Justice Department.

 

 A coalition of states is suing the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Department of Homeland Security, accusing the Trump administration of withholding hundreds of millions of dollars in disaster-preparedness and homeland security grants to force states to adopt its policies on elections and immigration. The complaint challenges new conditions imposed on the funding that would require states to verify voter citizenship through a federal database, move toward hand-marked paper ballots, conduct federally prescribed election audits and cooperate with federal immigration enforcement. 

 

The British government has said it "stands ready 24/7 to defend itself" after Iran said UK bases used by the US were considered "legitimate targets". The UK has allowed the US to launch "defensive" operations from British bases hosting American personnel and aircraft, while refusing to cooperate in offensive operations against Iran. U.S. Sen. Gary Peters on Tuesday accused Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth of failing to develop a winning strategy for the ongoing war with Iran, telling Hegseth directly that he bears responsibility for the lack of progress in the conflict. "You, sir, are the failure. Not the men and women who are on that front line. Not the men and women who hold up their honor with distinction," Peters, D-Mich., told Hegseth. "But, if there's a lack of a winning strategy, they're in harm's way, their leaders have failed them, and that's what's happening."

 

Do you still think Global Warming is fake? More than 450 people received hospital treatment for heat-related issues in a single day in Tokyo -- the highest number since records began 16 years ago. France recorded 5,700 more deaths than usual during its historic June heat wave. Other places in Europe were similar.

 

Tariffs bloom like summer mold on trade,

Sixty partners queued to be “repaid,”

Ten to twelve-point-five, the “modest” bite,

A tidy tax dressed up as sovereign right.

 

Brazil gets twenty-five for “fairness” preached,

Canada’s fifty, neighborly, beseeched,

A friendly shove across the border line:

“Buy local, or just pay the toll, it's fine.”

 

The Clarity Act arrives, six hundred strong,

To fix what’s right while leaving loopholes long,

No coins for officials—clean and pure decree—

Just let the kids mint crypto, tax-free spree.

 

 

The watchdog? Justice, steady, blind, and true,

Except when states say, “We don’t trust you,”

Enforce the rules, but only from above,

A federal hug with conditional love.

 

 

Disaster funds now come with strings attached,

“Secure your votes or else your grants are snatched,”

Paper ballots, audits, databases fed

Relief now checks your politics instead.

 

FEMA funds withheld mid-storm and flame,
Compliance now the price to play the game,
Verify voters through a federal gate,
Or lose disaster aid while you litigate.

 

 

Across the sea, the Brits stand stiff and prim,

“Defensive strikes,” they cautiously begin,

Iran calls bases targets, fair and square

Diplomacy now flies through heated air.

 

 

A senator points straight: “The fault is yours,”

Not those who march through sand and endless wars,

Strategy lost in briefings, bold and grand

Maps look much cleaner far from where they stand.

 

 

Meanwhile the planet sweats without a vote,

Tokyo wilts—four hundred heatstroke notes,

France counts the dead in summer’s silent wave

But sure, it’s fake… just ask the freshest grave.

22 July 2026 (86837) (69736) MASA plus 533 insane days out of 1461 days (926 to go), followed by many days of senility.

 

It turns out that DDT is a communist at heart taking portions of private industry for government benefit by requiring a certain percentage of government ownership in order to do business in the US. He’s getting the stock for free in a pay to play operation. Since DDT does not read, he has no clue that he’s following the Russian playbook.

 

DDT has approved an agreement with Saudi Arabia that could potentially provide the kingdom with uranium enrichment capability for its civilian nuclear program. But the deal, which is expected to be submitted to Congress for review, could face headwinds among lawmakers who fear that helping the Saudis fulfill their long-standing desire to enrich their own uranium would open new rounds of nuclear proliferation and competition.

 

Six Democratic House lawmakers crossed the aisle on Wednesday to join a majority of Republicans in passing a nearly $1.15 trillion annual defense policy bill. The Democrats who backed the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) all have a reputation of breaking with their party on key issues and many are running for reelection in swing districts this November. “I voted for the National Defense Authorization Act to strengthen our national defense while improving the pay, housing, and childcare for our service members and their families.

 

House Republicans on Wednesday approved a $95 billion framework for a third budget reconciliation package that would boost funding for the Pentagon, provide agriculture aid and provide money to encourage states to adopt voting restrictions. The framework outlines $73 billion in defense and intelligence funding amid the ongoing conflict with Iran, $12 billion for agriculture aid and $10 billion for a fund aimed at incentivizing states to adopt Trump-backed voting restrictions, for a total of $95 billion.  The voting restrictions will be a no-go in the Senate. That is considerably scaled back from a $350 billion Pentagon boost that President Trump had wanted to combine with cuts styled as antifraud measures. There is a complete lack of cuts to balance out the new spending had concerned budget hawks.

 

DDT-backed candidates in Arizona prevailed in key primary contests, setting up a fall campaign that will test whether Republicans can reverse some of their recent losses in the presidential battleground state. Andy Biggs, the hard-right election denying congressman endorsed by DDT, easily won the Republican nomination to challenge the incumbent Democrat, Governor Katie Hobbs. Biggs, a former chair of the House Freedom caucus who was a central figure in the effort to overturn DDT’s election defeat, trounced fellow congressman David Schweikert, by appealing to the party’s deeply conservative base.

 

Canada was officially welcomed into the Global Combat Air Program as “the first observer nation” alongside founders Japan and Italy. The deal paves the way for the Canadian Air Force to buy future GCAP jets instead of US aircraft. So much for supporting the production of the US F-35. DDT, you earned this snub. Ottawa had planned to replace its ageing F-18 Hornet fleet with US-made F-35s. Prime Minister Mark Carney vowed to stop spending 70 per cent of his defense budget in America as “old alliances” had been ruptured.

 

He preaches “free” with a red-star twist,

State grabs a share in each private list;

Not by purchase, not by right

But by diktat, formalized at night.

 

A cut for Uncle, just because,

No law of trade, just leader’s laws;

Equity taken, clean and neat,

A velvet theft called “patriot feat.”

 

 

Old Lenin coughs in an old dusty frame,

“Comrade DDT, you’ve streamlined the game

We seized with fear, you take with flair,

And call it freedom in the air.”

 

 

Now desert sands begin to glow,

“Just peaceful atoms,” soft and slow;

Yet centrifuges hum a tune

That history knows will change too soon.

 

 

Congress squints at isotopes,

Half concern and half in hopes;

Deals inked fast in gilded rooms

Often age like quiet dooms.

 

 

Back home, the votes align on cue,

Six cross over, red meets blue;

Trillion-dollar “defense” declared,

With swing-seat courage carefully spared.

 

 

Budgets swell with phantom cuts,

Hawks cry foul, then lose their guts;

Ninety-five dressed lean and trim,

While deficits grow ever dim.

 

 

Up north, the jets no longer sell,

Mark Carney breaks the old Amer spell;

“No more 70% for Stateside spend”

Old alliances crack, then gently end

 

21 July 2026 (86798) (69697) MASA plus 532 insane days out of 1461 days (927 to go), followed by many days of befuddlement.

 

Still over 2 years of corrupt inept leadership from the White House with DDT and his goons.

 

Zelenskyy fires Ukraine’s army chief and offers Fedorov a ‘prominent position’. In a late-night TV address, Zelenskyy said he was appointing Mykhailo Drapatyi, a popular and innovative general, as the new head of Ukraine’s armed forces. Drapatyi would oversee a reorganization of the army’s command structure. Zelenskyy will be hoping that his radical reshuffle of the army’s leadership will assuage protesters who have taken to the streets demanding Syrskyi’s removal. They had given a deadline of Friday for Fedorov to be reinstated and promised “indefinite protests” if their request was ignored. Democracy Ukraine style.

 

The Houthis’ armed forces announced Monday “a maritime embargo against the criminal Saudi enemy, based on the equation of ‘an eye for an eye’, effective immediately.” DDT said Tuesday the U.S. will “take care of things” in the Red Sea if Yemen’s Houthis impose a blockade on shipping and energy exports coming from Saudi Arabia. “They’ve had no problem with us for a long period of time, including during this conflict. I think that if there is something like that, we’ll just have to take care of business.

 

Just this weekend, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and DDT sat together in New Jersey for the World Cup final. The following day, hours after the two leaders were pictured smiling and chatting inside the stadium, the US announced a fresh round of tariffs against one of its closest trading partners. The surprise move slapped a 50% levy on a range of goods, from hockey sticks to candles and synthetic wigs. Canadians, however, are now used to riding out the storm, says pollster David Coletto, CEO of Abacus Data. "Most Canadians are largely of the view that they cannot trust the DDT administration," he said. As usual, DDT is blowing smoke over Canadian wildfire smoke.

 

Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) is threatening to block two of President Trump’s ambassador nominees if the administration does not present evidence of progress on releasing funds to the President’s Emergency Plan For Aids Relief (PEPFAR), a government program which provides treatment for HIV and AIDS around the world. The nominees themselves are not what Cornyn is objecting to; rather, Cornyn said he was using his leverage as a key swing vote on the committee to force the administration to demonstrate that they had released PEPFAR funds that Congress has appropriated. The Trump administration temporarily halted distribution of nearly all foreign aid at the start of 2025, before unpausing it for “life-saving” aid like PEPFAR. But aid groups who receive that funding have said grants were still often delayed or cancelled, causing cuts to clinics and services. 

 

RFK Jr. says cyclosporiasis outbreak is 'under control' amid at least 1,600 cases in 5 states. In a letter sent to Kennedy last week, Ossoff said the CDC's Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network, known as FoodNet, no longer requires reporting the parasite that causes cyclosporiasis. The CDC ended mandatory reporting last year.  Beginning July 1, 2025, reporting became optional for all pathogens except Salmonella and Shiga toxin-producing E. coli, according to the CDC.

 

Two years of rule by tantrum dressed in tailored lies,

DDT sells arson as a bold strategic prize,

Every crisis “handled” by pretending it’s not there,

Then blaming smoke itself for poisoning the air.

 

 

Kyiv swaps its generals like a gambler chasing loss,

Fire Syrskyi, crown Drapatyi, reshuffle at all costs,

Crowds demand reversal, deadlines ticking loud

Democracy, now heckled by its own exhausted crowd.

 

 

“Stability through chaos” is the slogan of the day,

A leadership makeover while the streets don’t go away,

Fedorov gets “prominent”, which means politely shelved,

A promotion to invisibility, quietly withheld.

 

 

Red Sea brinkmanship, Houthis drawing bloodlines neat,

“An eye for an eye” turns shipping lanes to meat,

DDT waves it off, “We’ll take care of the scene,”

Like the last clean interventions everyone has seen.

 

 

“Take care of business”, yes, we’ve heard that before,

It’s code for lighting matches near a powder keg of war,

Precision like a hammer, subtle as a flare,

If force is your only tool, every map’s a dare.

 

 

Then smiles with Canada, stadium lights, polite embrace,

By morning comes the tariff like a slap across the face,

Fifty percent friendship, itemized and taxed,

Even candles pay for how the handshake gets relaxed.

 

 

Trust melts faster than the forests up in flame,

Allies downgraded to props in a leverage game,

Consistency’s abandoned, coherence long since fled

Policy by impulse, with a headline for a head.

 

 

Meanwhile clinics starve while Congress plays its game,

PEPFAR funds held hostage to procedural acclaim,

Life-saving aid delayed so someone scores a point—

Morality outsourced to a partisan joint.

 

 

And illness goes “optional,” just stop the count and smile,

Sixteen hundred cases stretching mile by quiet mile,

RFK declares control like facts can be revoked

If data’s inconvenient, just declare it a hoax.

 

20 July 2026 (86760) (69659) MASA plus 531 insane days out of 1461 days (928 to go), followed by many days of incredulity.

 

The blooming senile idiot DDT has imposed a 50% tariff on a wide range of goods imported from Canada, in retaliation for what he called "unequal treatment" of US cars, dairy and alcohol. Everyday consumer items like wine and hockey sticks and industrial goods such as cement are among the goods targeted. However, several key exports will be spared, such as energy, potash, critical minerals and fish. The new duties apply to all covered goods regardless of whether the product was included under the existing free trade agreement between Canada, the US and Mexico, known as the USMCA. The US has been maintaining active tariffs ranging from 15% to 50% on Canadian steel, aluminum and copper. Washington also charges a 35% tariff on Canadian softwood lumber, alongside a 25% tax on non-US parts in cars. Canada has its own 25% counter-tariff on selected imports of American steel, aluminum and vehicles. The message is that an agreement with DDT is worth as much as toilet paper, flush when done.

 

A U.S. District Judge has dismissed the DDT administration's lawsuits against the Twin Cities, Hennepin County and the state over what the Justice Department describes as "sanctuary city policies." Judge Tostrud said the government’s preemption claims “failed.” “They do not command the federal government or its contractors to act. They do not forbid the federal government or its contractors from acting,” Tostrud wrote in his ruling. “They do not control how the federal government or its contractors undertake their work. Rather, they regulate how state and local officials perform their duties.”

 

The Justice Department, is trying to uncover confidential sources who spoke to the New York Times for its reporting on the security systems on the Qatar-donated Air Force One plane. The DOJ attempted to gain access to phone records of several Times reporters and their family members. The subpoenas did not allege anything specific, the Times said, only that the reporters had been asked to testify "in regard to an alleged violation of federal criminal law." They sought to force the reporters to testify before a federal grand jury in Manhattan last week. the filings that two of the subpoenas seek phone records going back to Jan. 1, months before the company or other news organizations began reporting on security concerns with the new plane.  "That timeframe strongly suggests that the department is using this investigation not to focus on any purported concerns arising from the July 8 and 9 articles, but instead to forage for information about the journalists' source relationships more broadly."

 

Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega said his country won’t be holding elections anytime soon, a statement underscoring the strongman’s efforts to extend his nearly 20-year rule and dashing hopes by the opposition that he might heed their demands for a democratic vote. Don’t even think about this, DDT. Ortega spoke at the anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution that toppled the Somoza dictatorship in 1979 and first brought him to power. He returned to the presidency in 2007 and has since rewritten the constitution, crushed political opposition and solidified his control over virtually all branches of the Nicaraguan government.

 

Trump slaps Canada with a fifty-percent bite,

On wine, cement, and hockey sticks in sight.

USMCA gets treated like a joke,

A signed-up promise turned to tariff poke.

 

 

Mark Carney bristles, saying Ottawa won’t kneel,

While Greer and Hoekstra spin the “deal.”

Dairy, autos, taxes, lumber, steel,

The old trade grudge now comes with fresh appeal.

 

 

Energy, potash, minerals, fish survive,

Because hypocrisy must keep some sectors alive.

The border hums with every spiteful fee,

A tax on commerce, dressed as policy.

 

 

Canada answers back in kind with steel and cars,

While Washington grinds another set of scars.

A treaty’s worth, in this modern throne-room farce,

Is less than toilet paper once it leaves the arse.

 

 

A U.S. judge told sanctuary suits to die,

Said federal fantasies don’t override.

Judge Tostrud wrote the preemption claims had failed,

While power in a suit and tie was nailed.

 

 

 

The DOJ went sniffing after Times reporters’ lines,

Asking for phone records, family ties, and signs.

Not just one leak, but source networks to map,

A grand-jury dragnet cast in a press-gag trap.

 

 

And Ortega, old strongman of Managua’s gloom,

Says no election will be blooming soon.

Rosario Murillo shares the ruling stage,

While ballots rot in democracy’s cage.

 

 

Alemán’s bargain, Sandinista fate,

A country squeezed by one-man-state.

Different flags, same rotten script on cue:

DDT dreams Ortega’s trash for himself too.

 

19 July 2026 (86723) (69622) MASA plus 530 insane days out of 1461 days (929 to go), followed by many days of incredulity.

 

17 US service members have died in the Iran war, reflecting a conflict fought largely in the air. Iranian authorities said at least 50 people have been killed and more than 500 wounded in U.S. strikes in the past three weeks, including eight killed in a strike on a bridge 2 days ago.

 

Cuba edges toward breakdown as power cuts and US meddling push society to brink. The 777-mile long Caribbean island of 9.5 million people has been sweltering under a six-month-long oil blockade imposed by the US, part of a pressure campaign to bring down its communist government. The government says it has few options. “We’ve said it before, there is a total absence of fuel,” said Vicente de la O Levy, the minister of energy. “And we do not have access to spare parts for our thermoelectric units.”

 

Department of Homeland Security agents have received notice that the FBI will no longer investigate assault claims against immigration agents. FBI managers received written notice of the change, sources told the Times, and some ICE agents throughout the country were informed by their FBI counterparts. In incidents where ICE agents have been involved in fatal shootings, the FBI under the DDT administration has been tasked with determining whether the agents were assaulted before opening fire. But evidence revealed during those investigations could later be used in civil rights investigations or prosecutions against ICE agents.

The new guidance would likely mean Homeland Security Investigations, an arm of ICE, would investigate such assault claims by their own agents. In other words, corrupt investigations. What else would you expect from DDT?

 

The White House’s so-called border czar, Tom Homan, has issued a warning to Democrats who are critical of ICE, its mass deportation campaign or its violent encounters with the public: Shut your mouth or the “bloodshed” will continue. Homan issued the threat during an appearance on Fox News. “I said if the hateful rhetoric didn’t stop, there will be bloodshed. And I’m saying it right now. There’s still going to be more bloodshed, unless they shut their mouth and let ICE enforce the laws that they enacted.”

 

DDT sics his wretched Department of Homeland Security on Nevada’s free and fair elections. “We refute these claims,” Nevada Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar said Friday in response to the latest baseless allegations and crude extortion threats hurled at Nevada and its elections from Trump and his lap dogs. In the Nevada version of the letter, Mullin said a “preliminary review” indicated nearly 16,000 “noncitizens” are registered to vote in the state. Aguilar dismissed that preposterous allegation as “wildly speculative at best” and accurately noted Mullin “hasn’t shared anything that backs it up.”

 

The U.S. Interior Department on Friday canceled a rule meant to protect plants and animals that are determined to be threatened with extinction, the latest step by DDT’s administration to dismantle key provisions of the landmark Endangered Species Act at the behest of industry.

 

Russia has carried out one of its biggest ballistic missile attacks on Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities, launching a five-hour assault that left at least six people dead and dozens injured, and caused fires and damage across the capital. Kyiv’s military said it had shot down 18 missiles in Sunday’s attack, which was aimed primarily at the Ukrainian capital. It added that 108 out of 125 drones had also been downed. “The missiles just kept coming one after another, the explosions were powerful, it was horrible,” 47-year-old Kyiv resident Ganna Zagorodnia told the AFP news agency. “I thought that life was just about to end.” Russia has been firing drones and missiles at Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities almost daily since it launched its full-scale 2022 invasion.

 

The war’s fought in clouds, not trenches or mud,

Seventeen U.S. dead in an “air-only” dud.

Iranian officials count fifty below,

Five hundred more wounded from strikes in a row.

 

 

A bridge split in half two days past the news,

Eight bodies beneath where the steel used to cruise.

No boots on the ground, just drones in the sky,

But the funerals still come, and the numbers don’t lie.

 

 

Seven hundred miles off Florida’s shore,

Cuba’s grid collapses, then quiets once more.

Six months of oil blockade, no fuel to burn,

No spare parts for plants that no longer will turn.

 

 

“Total absence of fuel,” the minister said,

While blackouts push neighbors right into bed.

Nine-point-five million try life without light,

As pressure-campaigns whisper, “We’re doing this right.”

 

 

The FBI steps back when an agent shoots,

Now DHS probes its own violent routes.

If someone dies in a forced-disport scene,

The same crowd will judge if the force was “too mean.”

 

 

Tom Homan on Fox, with a threat and a grin:

“Shut your mouth, Democrats, or the bloodshed won’t end.”

Critique ICE’s raids, question tactics or plans,

And your free speech is endangering ICE fans.

 

 

Nevada’s accused of sixteen thousand fake votes,

Noncitizens voting, or so the memo notes.

No evidence shown, just a letter of fear,

While the Secretary calls it “wild guesswork” it’s clear.

 

 

The Endangered Species rule quietly dies,

Industry’s wishes now dressed up as “wise.”

Plants and animals marked for a threatened decline,

Find their safeguards erased with a bureaucratic line.

 

 

Kyiv counts missiles like seconds to fate,

Five hours of fire, six dead at the gate.

Eighteen shot down, but a few still explode,

As drones fill the blackout with building-scale code.

 

18 July 2026 (86686) (69585) MASA plus 529 insane days out of 1461 days (930 to go), followed by many days of indignity.

 

Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan, the controversial social media influencers, were arrested Saturday evening in Miami, after British prosecutors brought new charges of rape and sex trafficking against them. At least DDT cannot pardon them for charges in the UK. The brothers, proponents of hypermasculinity who have millions of followers on social media, have been wanted in the United Kingdom. “We have decided to prosecute Andrew and Tristan Tate for further offences including rape, arranging or facilitating trafficking for sexual exploitation and offences relating to indecent images of a child,” said Malcolm McHaffie, head of the CPS’s special crime division.

 

Two US service members were killed and one remains missing after Iranian ballistic missile and drone attacks in Jordan on Friday, military officials said. The US Central Command (Centcom) said four US service members were medically evacuated to Jordan hospitals but have since been discharged. Others who had minor injuries have returned to duty. The strikes - for the eighth night in a row are "designed to further degrade Iran's ability to threaten commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz", the statement said.

The strikes aim to "swiftly punish Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps forces who launched attacks against American service members in Jordan last night.

 

As Apple and other American companies seek to use memory chips from China-based CXMT and YMTC amid massive supply constraints, U.S. lawmakers want to ban exports of Chinese memory chips to the U.S., citing concerns of weakening domestic and allied suppliers and indirectly supporting the development of 3D NAND and DRAM by Chinese companies, This is a classic situation with China as subsidized products compete with US made goods and slowly drive the US companies out of business. The result is increasing US dependence on Chinese production. "Dependence on Chinese memory manufacturers creates an unacceptable risk for U.S. national security, economic security, and supply chain security.”

 

Finally some equity for everyone in the housing market. Sen. Warnock's ban on private equity firms buying single-family homes becomes federal law.  This is a policy change aimed at slowing corporate ownership of single-family homes in Georgia and across the country. Housing advocates have argued that large cmanies can outbid families with cash offers, reducing the number of homes available to first-time buyers while contributing to higher home prices and rents. Corporate investors have increasingly treated homes as financial assets instead of places for families to live.

 

Multiple survivors of Jeffrey Epstein's abuse said a long-awaited meeting with attorney general nominee Todd Blanche felt more like an obligatory box to check than a substantive conversation. Annie Farmer, an accuser of Epstein and co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell said she found Blanche "abrasive, condescending, and intentionally noncommittal to survivors, a marked contrast to his public testimony during his confirmation hearing."

 

In an intensifying drone campaign, Ukrainian drones struck two sprawling warehouses, one of them just east of Moscow, as part of attacks overnight and on Saturday afternoon that killed nine people and wounded more than 80. Two sprawling warehouses of Russia’s major online retailer, Wildberries, were hit by Ukrainian drones overnight. A Ukrainian drone also hit an oil depot in the city of Noginsk, just north of Elektrostal, sparking a fire and prompting evacuations of a nearby maternity hospital and a residential building.

 

Multiple Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip have killed at least 14 Palestinians, more than half of them in a drone strike on a funeral procession. Nine months into its so-called “ceasefire” with Hamas, Israel continues to violate it on a near-daily basis. The Israeli government is out of control. Elections are soon, and I hope the Israeli public throws the bums out and then starts legal action for their crimes.

 

Miami flashed its bracelets, no abuser’s immunity,
As Tate and Tate met UK statutes, a rare display of scrutiny;
“Alpha-male” sold a fantasy; the charge sheet reads it plain
Rape, trafficking, and evidence that branding can’t explain.

 

Malcolm McHaffie names it plain, no viral spin survives,

“Arranging exploitation” isn’t branding, it’s real lives;

The “alpha” pitch dissolves when extradition looms in view,

And there’s no presidential pardon for what London plans to do.

 

 

In Jordan, missiles answer drones in cycles hard and fast,

Two U.S. troops are killed, one missing as strikes amass;

Centcom calls it “degrading” threats along Hormuz’s seam,

But every night of “measured force” redraws the same regime.

 

 

 

On chips, the quiet contest hums beneath the louder war,

China’s CXMT and YMTC at policy’s front door;

Lawmakers warn dependence is a slow strategic bleed

Subsidized supply can plant a very costly seed.

 

 

Because when NAND and DRAM flow from rivals you can’t check,

You mortgage future leverage for a quarterly spec;

Security gets benchmarked in a spreadsheet’s tidy frame

Until a China cutoff turns efficiency to risk by name.

 

 

Housing tilts, at least a notch, away from funds with cash,

Warnock’s law curbs bulk buys in a long-distorting clash;

Fewer homes as balance sheets, more doors for keys and names

A modest fix that interrupts extraction dressed as gains.

 

 

Epstein’s survivors meet through what’s billed as overdue,

But leave describing meetings thin on anything that’s true;

“Abrasive, noncommittal,” Farmer’s summary lands,

Procedure over justice, with empathy in short supply of plans.

 

 

Ukrainian drones strike warehouses near Moscow’s ring,

Wildberries sites and oil depots marked by what they bring;

Nine dead, scores wounded, fires forcing wards to evacuate

Logistics learns the frontline can arrive at any gate.

 

 

And Gaza counts the dead again, fourteen, a funeral hit,

A “ceasefire” in only name while daily violations sit;

With elections near, the question hangs without disguise:

Will voters check the violence, or normalize the lies?

17 July 2026 (86648) (69547) MASA plus 528 insane days out of 1461 days (931 to go), followed by many days of disgrace.

 

DDT’s disapproval rating is at a loser low of 30%. It’s an all-time low for a US president. DDT should immediately get an ignoble prize for the worst president ever, right up there with trail-of-tears Jackson. Indian Removal Act of 1830, driven by white land speculation and the discovery of gold, President Andrew Jackson's policies resulted in the deaths of an estimated 15,000 people from exposure, starvation, and disease. DDT beats Jackson in that he has killed more people.

 

DDT is ever ready to blame others to distract attention from himself. He accused Canada of failing to address the wildfires that have caused smoke to envelop swaths of the United States. The costs inflicted on the U.S. “must of necessity be added to the TARIFFS Canada is currently paying,” the OC wrote on Truth Social. DDT said he plans to call Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney later Friday “to find out what they are going to do about it.” “We are holding Canada responsible for the fact that they are not properly maintaining their Forests, and Brush therein, and the United States is being unnecessarily invaded by filthy, polluted, and unhealthy air,” DDT wrote.

 

DDT made the alarming type claim that China conducted what may be "the largest compromise of election data in history" with its "illicit acquisition of 220 million U.S. voter files." But that voter data is easily accessible across all 50 states. Voter data that is released to the public often includes registered voters' names, mailing addresses, phone numbers and political parties. Some more sensitive information is typically kept confidential, including Social Security numbers.

 

A federal appeals court temporarily revived the U.S. Postal Service’s ability to move forward with a DDT-backed rule that could severely restrict mail voting ahead of the 2026 midterms. The states would have to send USPS information about voters who requested mail-in or absentee ballots, along with barcode information tied to those ballots. USPS would then use those lists to determine whether to transmit ballot mail. DDT’s rule could allow USPS to refuse to deliver ballots to eligible voters if they are not on approved lists or if states fail to comply with new federal requirements. In 2021, USPS agreed to a court-enforced settlement requiring it to prioritize the timely delivery of election mail through 2028.

 

 

The polls came in with numbers cruel and plain:

A thirty percent rating, DDT’s record low terrain.

Not just bad, but worst for any US chief,

A disapproval crown beyond belief.

 

 

An ignoble prize should suit the case,

Right next to Jackson’s blood-stained place

Whose Indian Removal, gold-driven greed,

Killed fifteen thousand on a forced march creed.

 

 

Yet DDT outscores that grim old score,

By body count and blame-game lore;

He points elsewhere when facts close in,

A circus act with a tariff grin.

 

 

“Canada’s smoke!” he posts, irate,

On Truth Social, seals the fate:

Tariffs must rise for “filthy, polluted air,”

As forests burn and leaders stare.

 

 

Then comes the claim, both loud and wild:

“China hacked our votes!”, the headline billed.

Two hundred twenty million files, he cries

Public data, no great heist prize.

 

 

Voter rolls are open, state by state,

Names, addresses, parties, standard fate.

No SSNs, no secret vault,

Just recycled fear to stir revolt.

 

 

Meanwhile, courts revive a postal rule,

To gatekeep ballots, play the fool:

States must send lists, barcodes too,

Or watch the mailman say, “Not you.”

 

 

A 2021 settlement promised care,

Election mail gets top-tier share

Through 2028, or so it read,

Till DDT and rhetoric changed the thread.

 

16 July 2026 (86609) (69508) MASA plus 527 insane days out of 1461 days (933 to go), followed by many days of arrogance.

 

DDT gave a prime-time speech tonight ostensibly focused on the SAVE America reduction of voting rights. Sad to say, I missed it in order to save my own personal sanity. I’ll read about it tomorrow without hearing that ugly voice. DDT claimed that China stole the voter registration data of 220 million Americans as part of his primetime speech. The president has long alleged that widespread voting fraud cost him the 2020 election. However, evidence has yet to be presented suggesting fraud was committed on the scale necessary to deny DDT a second consecutive term. DDT has railed against mail-in ballots, “inaccurate” voting machines and delays in the vote-counting process since his loss to Joe Biden in 2020. The DDT-backed bill would require proof of US citizenship (such as a passport or birth certificate) to register to vote in federal elections, among other election reforms.

 

 

The United States expanded its airstrike campaign against Iran by increasingly hitting bridges, part of DDT’s threats to start striking infrastructure to pressure. DDT has returned in recent days to his threats to target Iranian power stations and bridges to try to compel Iran to loosen its hold on the strait, through which about a fifth of all oil and natural gas once passed in peacetime. The U.S. also reimposed a naval blockade on Iranian ports to halt its shipments of crude oil.

 

Two nominees for high-profile health roles in the Trump administration faced scrutiny from the Senate health committee Wednesday—and both crashed and burned. With her credentials checking all the boxes and then some, the obvious question looming over her confirmation was whether she would stand firm against Kennedy’s well-documented anti-vaccine agenda and political interference. Throughout the roughly 2.5-hour hearing, Schwartz seemed incapable or unwilling to answer almost every question directly, even the softball questions, which puzzled lawmakers on multiple occasions. She also seemed deeply uninformed about what has been going on at the CDC, including why it currently doesn’t have a director. “I was not aware” was a common response from Schwartz throughout the hearing. Bernie Sanders asked if she would commit to reporting to Congress “if you receive directives from Secretary Kennedy or any other individual in the DDT administration to implement policies that are unscientific and could harm the health and well-being of the American people?” Schwartz responded, saying: “Senator, I do not believe that the president or the secretary would ever do what you just mentioned.” “Really?” Sanders responded in disbelief. “Do you think that is the record?” We do not need this ambitious toady.

 

DDT fired the new top federal prosecutor in Seattle on Wednesday less than an hour after the attorney was unanimously appointed by the federal judges in the district, highlighting tensions between the courts and the president over the powerful positions. Presidents normally appoint US attorneys, the top federal prosecutors in each judicial district. The positions require Senate confirmation, except in temporary appointments. When temporary appointments expire before a nominee is confirmed, the judges in a judicial district can name a US attorney. He went to the US attorney’s office and asked to meet with Charles Neil Floyd, whose 120-day interim term in the position ended in February.

 

DDT’s administration has worked to stop offshore wind development on the fake grounds that it’s a national security risk since late last year. This comes against the backdrop of the Republican president’s hatred of wind turbines and desire to boost fossil fuels for “energy dominance” in the global market. National lab estimates show that turbines installed along the U.S. coasts could provide more than enough power to cover the nation’s annual electricity consumption. At the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Senior Judge Royce Lamberth expressed concern that the stated national security reasoning may have been “pretextual,” to mask the true motives for stopping offshore wind. The administration is maximizing the risks and costs of offshore wind while minimizing the benefits to justify pursuing more fossil fuels and “it doesn’t pass commonsense tests.” Offshore wind produces electricity cleanly. Oil, coal and natural gas emit carbon pollution when burned.

 

Ukraine’s Zelenskyy faces a major backlash for ousting defense chief Mykhailo Fedorov amid progress vs. Russia. The reshuffle looked set to become a test of Zelenskyy's political authority as Ukraine's fight against Russia continues. The president has remained in office under martial law, because wartime elections are prohibited, and he has periodically reshuffled his government. Ukrainian armed forces commander-in-chief Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi , who had clashed with Fedorov, called in a social media post for a "focus on war and on an effective strategy" against Russia. Zelenskyy cited friction between Fedorov and Syrskyi in his decision to replace the defense minister, 

 

Tonight I skipped the primetime show,

For reasons any sane mind knows

Why stream a rant, full-volume dread,

When headlines whisper it instead?

 

 

The man declared, with practiced flair,

Two hundred million records snared!

By China’s ghost in voter rolls,

Convenient thieves with ballot goals.

 

 

No proof arrived, none ever does,

But facts are shy where bluster was;

Mail votes, machines, delayed counts too

All villains in his déjà vu.

 

 

“Bring papers forth!” the bill proclaims,

Birth certs and passports, stricter games

Democracy, now ID-scanned,

By those who lost, yet still demand.

 

 

Meanwhile, the bombs redraw the map,

Bridges collapse in tit-for-tat;

Oil chokepoints framed as moral fight

Geopolitics by airstrike light.

 

 

Two health nominees faced a Senate test:
Credentials stacked, but conscience missed.
“I was not aware” became their line,
When asked to pledge on science vs. design.

 

Sanders pressed: “If told to lie,
Will you say no, or just comply?”
She smiled and said, “That wouldn’t occur,”
As if the past year hadn’t blurred.

 

 

In Seattle’s courts, a farce played quick:

Appoint, then fire, a bureaucratic trick;

The robes said “yes,” the crown said “no,”

Checks and balances put on hold.

 

 

The windmills spin, offend the throne,

Though they could power all we own;

But coal and oil still get the cheer,

While “security” ghosts conveniently appear.

 

In Ukraine, Fedorov’s forced to go,
Citing friction with Syrskyi’s show.
Wartime law bars elections’ call,
Power reshuffled, but not for all.

15 July 2026 (86571) (69470) MASA plus 526 insane days out of 1461 days (934 to go), followed by many days of negligence.

 

Former DDT personal lawyer and now Acting US Attorney General Todd Blanche appeared for his first day of hearings before the US Senate, as he seeks a permanent appointment to lead America's top law enforcement agency. Blanche on Wednesday faced questions about his personal relationship with President Donald Trump, the Justice Department's handling of the Epstein files, and a controversial settlement between Trump and the US's tax agency that a federal judge nullified this week. Overall, Republicans appeared likely to support Blanche's nomination despite critiques of his work on the Epstein files. DDT said Iran wants to meet and make a deal, as the U.S. military announced that it launched attacks against Iranian targets for the second time in 12 hours, while Iran has publicly maintained its combat-ready posture.

 

House Democrats split nearly evenly on an amendment to cut off U.S. aid to Israel, showcasing how the contentious issue is reshaping the political dynamics in the party. The amendment spearheaded by Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) was always presumed to be a doomed show vote but provided a test for Democrats who have been increasingly under pressure from the activist base over Israel. It is clear that the status quo is not tenable. We should not provide a blank check for military aid to any country that does not comply with U.S. law, interests, and values,” Clark said. “The Netanyahu government has failed to meet that standard.” 

 

DDT says Iran has allowed an American citizen detained in the country since 2024 to leave. In a post on his Truth Social platform, the OC said the woman, whom he described as having been "wrongfully detained" during the previous Biden administration, is now safely outside Iran. "She is now safely outside of Iran, and in good condition. The United States of America appreciates this gesture of Goodwill by Iran," Trump wrote.

 

DDT slammed New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s move to bar the construction of certain large-scale data centers for up to a year.

In a Truth Social post he said that the state should “IMMEDIATELY” change its new data center moratorium. Public backlash around data center fresh water and power consumption has grown, with utility prices rising amid the artificial intelligence buildout. The new state executive order, signed by the governor Tuesday, bars for up to a year the construction of large-scale data centers that use 50 or more megawatts of power.

 

More ugliness today. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Wednesday released a rendering of a new coin featuring DDT’s face frowning, saying that the U.S. Mint will begin striking the $1 piece to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. The coins, which are not real gold but will feature a gold-like finish to  blend in with the gold corruption of the president’s oval office.

 

The DDT administration’s latest nominee to lead the nation’ top public health agency drew frustrated reactions from some U.S. senators when they pressed her on whether she would protect the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from political meddling. Dr. Erica Schwartz told the Senate health committee she “will never betray the science” and pledged to use “radical transparency” in a bid to rebuild public trust in the agency. The agency is overseen by Kennedy, who was a leading voice in the anti-vaccine movement before he was tapped to lead the CDC and other federal health agencies. Kennedy had promised not to change the nation’s vaccination schedule. But shortly after taking office, Kennedy said he was going to investigate the childhood vaccine schedule and went on to attempt a substantial rewrite of vaccine recommendations for kids. Some of those efforts were put on hold earlier this year by a federal judge. Schwartz said she was unaware that CDC programs that worked to prevent smoking and promote vaccinations had been curtailed. She declined to commit to taking down a CDC website that suggests there’s a link between childhood vaccines and autism (she said she had not seen it), though she agreed existing medical evidence has not found a link. These are the answers that a dishonest person would give when trying to evade he truth.

 

Maricopa County officials reached a settlement ending a yearlong fight over control of elections in Arizona’s most populous county. The agreement gives Recorder Justin Heap broad authority over early voting while leaving Election Day operations and ballot counting with the county Board of Supervisors. The board approved the agreement and Heap signed it after three days of mediation. The settlement will govern November’s general election and later contests, while the upcoming July 21 primary will continue under an interim plan adopted by the Arizona Supreme Court. Heap falsely claimed that Maricopa County’s 2020 election results were rigged against President Donald Trump. Heap has insisted without evidence that “inconsistencies and illegalities” have occurred in Arizona’s recent elections and that he does “not believe laws were followed.” He has also promoted conspiracies about voting in Arizona, supported restrictive voting measures and welcomed federal intervention in the state.

 

Todd Blanche sat in the Senate, all polished and groomed,

A lawyer for DDT, now “independent” and doomed.

They asked about DDT, about Epstein, about slime;

He answered like a ventriloquist dummy doing time.

 

 

They asked of his ties were they legal or chum?

He nodded like, “Law is… whatever we say it’s become.”

A judge tossed a tax deal like week-old cuisine,

But Blanche called it “nuanced,” which means “barely seen.”

 

 

Meanwhile, abroad, where diplomacy’s staged,

We bomb twice in twelve hours, then ask to engage.

“Iran wants a deal,” says the post with a grin,

While jets redraw borders with ordinance spin.

 

 

An American woman walked out of Tehran alive,

A “goodwill” gesture while both governments jive.

How noble the headline, how rotten the plot:

First you rattle the cage, then you praise what you got.

 

 

Back home in the House, a fracture on cue,

Aid votes reveal what the base already knew:

“No blank checks,” says one, while another says “Spend,”

And the party discovers its means don’t all blend.

 

 

New York hits pause on the data-center race,

Because AI’s appetite is a public-health case.

In New York, the servers are thirsty and loud,

AI wants rivers, and grids want a crowd.

Hochul hits pause, just a year, just a breath,

DDT tweets “Build NOW,” like it’s life or it’s death.

 

 

A coin with DDT’s frown got rolled out for show,

A gold-toned little monument to corruption on low.

Two-fifty years of republic, and this is the art:

A brassy face-value emblem for the age of the cart.

 

At Health, Dr. Schwartz vows “science will lead,”

While dodging the weeds where the policies bleed.

“Transparency, radical” means fog in a jar,

With a boss who thinks vaccines are somewhat bizarre.

14 July 2026 (86535) (69434) MASA plus 525 insane days out of 1461 days (935 to go), followed by many days of belligerence.

 

Finally, the DDT administration told Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to suspend most vehicle stops after two deadly shootings within a week. IKCE needs tgobe retrained and curtailed. OK deport violent criminals, but leave hard working honest people alone.

 

Under pressure, DDT abandoned his demand that ships pay a protection fee to transit the Strait of Hormuz. The fee will now be paid by Gulf states in the form of investments in the U.S., he said. Sounds really hard to administer. Despite the lower growth in consumer prices, Federal Reserve chairman Kevin Warsh talked tough on inflation in front of Congress, calling it an “unfair burden.”  “It has been a tax on the American people and businesses. We plan on getting rid of that tax,” he said. “That means we need a regime change in policy, and we need new consideration of practices, some of which have been working, some of which haven’t.”

 

Senate Democrats defeated a motion to proceed to the $1.15 trillion annual defense authorization bill, legislation that usually enjoys strong bipartisan support. It needed 60 votes to succeed. Schumer on Monday criticized Republicans in a “Dear Colleague” letter for pushing “lopsided” bills that increased defense spending substantially while leaving behind non-defense programs. “There is nothing normal about putting forward a lopsided proposal that shuts down bipartisan input and jams through one-sided bills that shortchange families, prolong a war, and shield corruption,” he wrote.

 

A Manhattan federal court has released more than $5.6m that Donald Trump owes E Jean Carroll in her successful 2023 sexual abuse and defamation trial against him, records reveal. “Three years ago, a unanimous nine-person jury found President Trump liable for sexually assaulting and defaming E Jean Carroll. 

 

New York State Governor Kathy Hochul on Tuesday signed an executive order barring the construction of new “hyperscaler” data centers using 50 megawatts or more of power for up to one year. It is the first statewide data center ban in the U.S., though similar measures, also referred to as “moratoriums”, are being considered by other states. “These hyperscale AI data centers consume enormous amounts of power, truly threatening to outpace our grid’s capacity,” she added. “They drive up costs for local ratepayers, and I refuse to let those costs get passed down to New Yorkers.”  New Yorkers have seen their electric bills surge, with the state’s average residential electricity price climbing nearly 68 percent since 2019. The same is true elsewhere in the US.

 

Along the eastern front, a strip of terrain exists where standing upright is a death sentence. Drones and artillery shred anything that moves. Ukrainian forces call it the kill zone. And increasingly, the things moving through it aren't human. By June 2026, unmanned ground vehicles — tracked and wheeled robots ranging from supply haulers to armed combat platforms, had completed more than 50,000 missions, according to President Zelenskyy. Ukraine went from zero ground robotics companies in early 2022 to roughly 280 firms in four years.

 

More than 2,700 people may have died in exceptional May and June heatwaves in England and Wales, The heat waves ae the future caused by climate change. Both heatwaves were caused by a "heat dome" - a stalled area of high pressure that trapped hot air over the region, say experts. The heat dome was made worse by human-induced climate change, the researchers say. This has warmed the planet by around 1.4C since pre-industrial times and scientists believe it added between 3 and 4C to the maximum temperatures recorded in May and June. Hot tropical nights added to the sweltering conditions, offering little respite. Many UK homes are not built to cope, leaving people vulnerable to prolonged, high temperatures. Heat puts immense physical strain on the body, made worse if you are dehydrated, with the heart pumping harder and faster to cool you off. So far A/C in the US have prevented similar disasters.

 

Two dead in a week; stops “scaled back,” not ceased,

Optics recalibrated, not power released.

“Target the violent”, a memo’s clean art,

While dragnet habits still play their part.

“Catch violent crooks,” the public seemed to plead,
“Not folks who mow your lawn or plant your seed.”

 

 

Hormuz toll axed, reborn as “invest,”

No fee at the strait—just capital dressed.

A tariff by proxy with paperwork grace,

Extraction made polite for a global face.

A toll by any name still finds a way,
Just routed through a fund with nicer pay

 

 

Warsh brands inflation a tax to erase,

“Regime change” promised with tightening pace.

CPI cools; the rhetoric spikes

AI will save us, if reality likes.

If chips can print a future free of strain,
Please teach them rent, and groceries, and pain.

 

 

$1.15T stalls; sixty votes fail,

“Lopsided,” Schumer writes—process set sail.

Defense ascends while the rest gets pared,

Bipartisan myth quietly impaired.

They argue over slices, cuts, and crust
The pie gets bigger; fairness gathers dust.

 

 

In court, a tab came due with quiet force,
A jury’s past returned to set its course.

A jury of nine made liability plain,

Assault and defamation entered the chain.

$5.6M moves—delayed, not undone,

Law keeps a ledger that power can’t outrun.

 

 

New York said “pause” to data centers vast,
Fifty megawatts and growing, not so fast.

New York hits pause at 50 MW,

Bills up 68%, guess who funds you.

Grids strain under servers that profits excuse,

Public pays twice for private-use.

 

 

Robots roll where soldiers cannot tread,
Fifty thousand missions where flesh would bleed instead.

The kill zone forbids any human upright,

Drones write the map; sensors arbitrate sight.

50,000 runs; ~280 firms rise

War scales innovation where survival denies.

 

 

Across the Channel, heat domes clamp the sky,
With nights that never cool and lungs run dry.
A warmer world adds degrees like quiet theft,
Till bodies bear the cost that’s always left.
No AC hum in homes not built for flame,
Just brick and breath and an oppressive name.
We cool with power others can’t yet claim
The planet warms; the bill remains the same.

 

13 July 2026 (86500) (69399) MASA plus 524 insane days out of 1461 days (936 to go), followed by many days of negligence.

 

Lindsey Graham’s sister, Darline Graham Nordone, has been named as her late brother’s temporary replacement in the U.S. Senate after his unexpected death over the weekend. Nordone will be the first woman to represent the state in the Senate. “It is such an honor,” she said, as dozens of Graham staffers and campaign advisers stood behind her, some with eyes glassy from welling tears. “Lindsey has always been there for me. And now, I will be there for him.” She has a master’s degree in rehabilitation counseling. Perhaps she can provided much needed help for DDT.

 

DDT said the United States is reinstating a naval blockade on Iran and will seek operational control of the Strait of Hormuz as the U.S. and Iran trade strikes and exchange new threats after Trump declared the ceasefire over. The US plans to charge 20% of shipped value for passage. We are reinstating the THE IRANIAN BLOCKADE, so named because it is only stopping Iran’s ships or customers from entering or leaving. All other countries will have fair and open use of the Strait," the OC said.

 

Ukraine and 9 other countries announce a coalition to protect Europe from ballistic missiles. This getting close toa NATO type relationship with the EU. “Our goal is to build a shared ballistic missile defense capability for Europe,” the 10 nations said in a statement in Paris at talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. He was asking two dozen leaders for help in developing measures against Russia’s missile attacks that have pummeled his country and made the rest of Europe wary of Moscow’s wider ambitions on the continent. Zelenskyy and the leaders of Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom said they recognized “the growing threat posed by ballistic missiles,” which are harder to stop than cruise missiles or drones.

 

France's foreign minister said today that Russia's ambassador in Paris would be summoned over "a vast cyber campaign" across Europe. 

"We will also impose sanctions on nine individuals and four entities responsible for this cyber campaign, which was orchestrated by the Russian FSB.” The goal was either "capturing information or sabotaging operations, for example rail infrastructure, as was the case in Poland," he said. Poland's top diplomat accused Russia of an "act of state terror" in November last year after two Ukrainian nationals allegedly working closely with Russian secret services were accused of blowing up a railway line in the country. 

 

Former Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been placed under house arrest by the country’s notorious Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps following a failed Israeli plot to install him in place of the current theocratic regime, according to a new report. Since leaving office, the former president had cultivated what Behnam Ben Taleblu of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies described to The Post as a “hybrid populism-nationalism-Islamism” that “posed a real ideological and class-based challenge to the Islamic Republic.” Meanwhile, Ahmadinejad reportedly told associates that he saw himself as a reformist leader in the mold of former Russian President Boris Yeltsin — and would even normalize relations with Israel if he came to power.

 

Ukraine launched another wave of long-range drone strikes overnight, with Russian authorities reporting attacks on energy and industrial facilities in Stavropol and Krasnodar Krais, while dozens of drones targeted the Moscow region. Russian outlet Astra, citing its OSINT team, identified the burning facility as an oil depot near the railway station in Vyazniki.

 

Lindsey Graham’s seat got passed around,

Like every rotten crown in town.

His sister got the caretaker role,

A family fix for a Senate hole.

First woman for that South Carolina gate,

Named by grief and gilded state;

A counseling degree, a gentle frame,

Dropped into Washington’s sewer game.

 

 

Trump cheers from high with trademark flair,

As if succession sprang from air.

The staff stood teary, posture neat,

While power rebranded its retreat.

The whole affair, in honest light,

Is dynasty wearing funeral white;

A dead-man’s seat, a loyal hand,

And party hacks to bless the brand.

 

 

In Hormuz, the war-machine speaks plain:

Open the strait or catch the blame.

The U.S. says all vessels move,

Iran gets threats and little proof.

Talks continue, but the ceasefire’s dead,

With tanker crews one strike from dread;

When empires call it “freedom” there,

They usually mean “we run the air.”

 

 

And if you missed the fine print too,

They want the lanes with no tolls through.

No “blockade” in polite disguise,

Just coercion in a suit and tie.

The sea becomes a checkout line,

With shells and sanctions posted sign;

A “safe passage” plan, so clean and cold,

That blood and oil, both get sold.

 

 

Europe, meanwhile, starts to brace,

For missiles aimed at public space.

Ten nations, tired of Russian threats,

Are building shields against regret.

Because cruise and drone are bad enough,

But ballistic fire is brutal stuff;

So, Paris hosts the worried crowd,

Who speak in treaties, tense and loud.

 

 

France also hauled Russia in

For cyber crimes with a criminal grin.

Rail sabotage and spying trails,

The same old empire in new fails.

Sanctions now, and public blame,

Because code can maim just like a flame;

The modern war is stealth and screens,

Not always soldiers, but the same obscene means.

 

 

Ahmadinejad, that useful Iranian fool,

Got trapped by the regime he’d carefully schooled.

A hard-liner finding the hard line back,

A palace ruse that went off track.

He fancied reform, or maybe play,

But power eats its own buffet;

Theocrats and opportunists rhyme

In every country, every time.

 

 

12 July 2026 (86456) (69355) MASA plus 523 insane days out of 1461 days (937to go), followed by many days of degeneracy.

 

A US military spokesperson said the new strikes come after Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps fired at another commercial vessel in the waterway, where Washington and Tehran have been making contradictory claims about the status of marine traffic. This is the second night of strikes on Iran in repeating pattern of tensions over Strait of Hormuz.

 

Operators from the Unmanned Systems Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine struck 90 vessels of the Russian Federation this week. A Ukrainian attack in southwest Russia killed one person and wounded three more, local officials said Sunday, as Kyiv’s forces continued to bombard Russia’s oil facilities. Russian media outlets reported that the attack’s target was the region’s Syzran Oil Refinery, with many sharing images that appeared to show plumes of black smoke rising over the site. The refinery, which is owned by oil and gas giant Rosneft and sits some 800 kilometers (500 miles) east of the border, has been a repeated target for Kyiv's forces. Moscow has responded by intensifying its bombardment on Kyiv and other cities, exposing Ukraine’s vulnerability to ballistic missile strikes.

 

Japan, the United States, the Philippines and 11 other countries have released a joint statement marking the 10th anniversary of an international tribunal’s dismissal of China’s territorial claims in the South China Sea. The decision by the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague “is a significant milestone and is final, legally binding, and definitive between China and the Philippines” regarding their territorial row.

 

Iran's new supreme leader, still unseen since the war began, vowed in his first statement since the funeral of his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei that Iranians would avenge his killing in the war's opening strikes. The world for decades has considered the strait an international waterway. Iran has insisted that the strait now remain under its control and that it be allowed to charge ships moving through it, a stance it took after the war began. The U.S. urges mariners to transit on a southern route through Oman's territorial waters. Iran's top diplomat also accused the U.S. of violating the interim deal by ending waivers allowing Iran to sell crude oil on the open market in U.S. dollars. Washington ended them in response to the attacks on ships in the strait.

 

The Strait of Hormuz is back on the rack,

With warships, warnings, and a market crash attack;

The U.S. hit Iran after ships took fire,

Tehran says “sovereignty” is just a buy-in for higher wire.

 

 

One official says the sea-lane’s “still open,”

Another says it’s closed, with the facts half-broken;

The world gets diplomacy in maximum spin,

Where truth wears camouflage and still can’t win.

 

 

The IRGC shot at a commercial ship,

Then Washington replied with a bombing trip;

Now strikes on night two keeps the cycle fed,

A feedback loop where everyone reads headlines instead.

 

 

Ukraine hit Syzran and lit up the sky,

With black smoke blooming like a refinery sigh;

Russia calls it terrorism, while Kyiv fights a war,

And civilians get the invoice, as usual, plus more.

 

 

Ninety Russian vessels got tagged this week,

A maritime beatdown with a geopolitical streak;

Moscow answers by pounding Kyiv harder than before,

Proving once again that “deterrence” is just PR with gore.

 

 

In the South China Sea, the legal adults spoke:

Fourteen countries said Beijing’s claims are a joke;

The tribunal ruled, “final,” “binding,” “definitive,” and done,

Which Beijing filed straight under “things we reject in public for fun.”

 

 

China snarled back that the award is wastepaper trash,

A sovereign tantrum wrapped in a national flash;

Meanwhile ships keep sailing while empires posture and preen,

Each one convinced its map is the only map that’s seen.

11 July 2026 (86413) (69312) MASA plus 522 insane days out of 1461 days (938 to go), followed by many days of grief.

 

It looks like the Iranians have closed the strait to shipping. The news reports are skimpy, so it is not clear exactly what is happening. Iran's supreme leader pledges revenge for his father's assassination amid DDT death threats. While I am not in favor of the senile DDT, I do not want him injured or killed.

 DDT has been accused of trying to “rig” the upcoming US midterm elections after he fired the last three members of an independent federal commission. The OC’s extraordinary move to paralyze the US Election Assistance Commission (EAC) wipes out the only federal agency devoted solely to election administration months before the US midterm elections. After the Supreme Court’s stupid ruling, “The President, and head of the Executive Branch, reserves the right to remove individuals that may not be totally aligned with the important task of securing America’s elections and ensuring every legal vote is counted,” a White House official said in a statement. “The Slaughter decision gives the President precedence to do so.” DDT in recent months has called to “nationalize” elections using unsubstantiated claims of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election to justify his administration’s push to restrict mail-in voting, obtain state voter rolls and require proof of U.S. citizenship to vote.

 

A new heat dome is on the move, weather forecast warns. Another round of 90–100-degree heat is heading East. It will be a while before it gets to the east coast possibly reaching the 110-degree mark in some places. Be warned.

 

Former DDT advisor theorized that the Qatari jet debacle is just another example of the “DDT effect.” He’s trying to make it sound cool,” Scaramucci aargued. “That is part of his brand, you know, the ‘fight fight fight’ when the shots were fired in Butler, are all part of his brand, and I get that, and he’s very good at disassociating himself.” “All of it is tied into each other, and the plane is an example of that, right?” he went on. “It’s an unfinished plane. We have an unfinished, fractured East Wing. We have an unfinished, now, reflecting pool. And so this is Donald Trump. If he touches it, it’s gonna turn to dogshit.\

 

A federal judge nominated by the OC during his first term reluctantly agreed on Friday to grant the Department of Justice’s motion to dismiss the seditious conspiracy convictions against leaders of the Proud Boys who were convicted by a jury of serious crimes during the attack on the US Capitol by Trump supporters on 6 January 2021. The judge says he’s granting request to dismiss prosecutions even though request is clearly based not on facts or the law but on DDT’s desire to excuse the violence of his supporters.

 

The DDT administration finalized a rule that changes how agencies enforce the Endangered Species Act and eliminates a key protection for imperiled wildlife against logging, oil drilling and other activities. What a surprise (not).

 

Albania’s anticorruption prosecution service is investigating whether the deeds to a stretch of protected coastline earmarked for a Jared Kushner-backed resort, Kushnerville,Yes  were forged, according to case files reviewed by the Reuters news agency, adding another legal complication to a project that has already provoked months of street protests. The case is in dispute.

 

Ukraine launched multiple strikes against Kremlin energy assets, including oil terminals and tankers at sea, reportedly forcing Moscow to halt shipping through a major waterway as Kyiv intensifies what it has labeled its "long-range sanctions" against Russia. Ukraine's General Staff said 18 Russian vessels were hit in the Sea of Azov, including at least 10 tankers, three bulk carriers, and an auxiliary vessel, adding that damage assessments were ongoing. Ukraine said the ships were used to provide Russia's military logistics and transport fuel, lubricants, military cargo, and other necessary items "to wage its war against Ukraine."

 

The Strait’s gone quiet, tankers stalled mid-breath,
Markets sniff panic, hedging bets on death.
Tehran mutters vengeance through a fog of “maybe,”
While headlines drip-feed facts like medicine to a baby.

Somewhere a leader vows revenge in flame,
History’s family feuds with a modern name.
And though I’d vote him out with a pen, not a dart,
Let’s keep assassination off the menu, for a start.

Back home the ballot box gets “fixed” again
Funny how repairs all favor certain men.
Three watchdogs gone, the kennel swept clean,
Democracy’s guarded by what’s loyal, not what’s seen.

“Nationalize voting,” the slogan declares,
While ghosts of fraud float up unproven in pairs.
Mail gets mistrusted, rolls get “reviewed,”
Citizenship papers demanded, rights quietly skewed.

A court waves through with a shrug and a shout
“If they’re not aligned, well, just swap them out.”
Precedent bends like a heat-softened rail,
As norms evaporate in executive gale.

Speaking of heat, here comes the dome,
A hundred degrees knocking hard on your home.
Atmosphere simmering, patience cooked thin,
Welcome to summer: now sweating’s a sin.

Meanwhile a jet that’s not quite a plane
Matches a presidency half-built in stain
Tarps on the columns, pools drained dry,
Everything touched gets the same kind of “why.”

A judge signs off with a reluctant pen,
Dismissing the crimes of the riotous men.
“Not law, not fact,” he practically pleads,
“But orders are orders in partisan deeds.”

The forests take note as protections erode,
Endangered means “in the way of a road.”
Drills hum louder where wild things once ran,
Extinction, it seems, is a feature, not a ban.

In Albania’s surf where the coastline gleams,
“Kushnerville” rises on paperwork dreams.
If deeds are forged or just loosely defined,
Who needs the law when profit’s aligned?

And far to the east, where the Black Sea churns,
Ukraine lights matches and Moscow burns,
Tankers and terminals caught in the game,
“Long-range sanctions” by another name.

10 July 2026 (86370) (69269) MASA plus 521 insane days out of 1461 days (939 to go), followed by many days of the grief.

 

DDT will let the bipartisan housing bill approved by Congress become law without his signature, saying todat that he was refusing to put his name on it because of the little progress made in passing a strict voter ID bill that he has been pushing in order to undermine fair voting. Lettng the housing bill become law without his signature undercuts the administration's claims that he considers it a priority to combat inflation.

 

A man who was fatally shot by immigration agents at a traffic stop in Houston was not the intended target, US officials say. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican national, was stopped at 07:00 local time while driving to work and died shortly afterwards. The stop was initiated because they saw "a white van with an individual who resembled the target" of an operation. Salgado, 52, had been working as a builder for three decades in the Houston area after coming to the US as an undocumented migrant, his family said. They said he had no criminal record and was close to obtaining a work permit. He was driving himself and three co-workers to a site when the incident took place

 

The OC has been accused of trying to “rig” the upcoming US midterm elections after he fired the last three members of an independent federal commission. His extraordinary move to paralyze the US Election Assistance Commission (EAC) wipes out the only federal agency devoted solely to election administration months before the US midterm elections. DDT continues to push the Save America Act, a rightwing makeover of elections that would impose new restrictions on voting. Created under the Help America Vote Act after the disputed 2000 election, the EAC does not run elections itself. It distributes federal election security grants, maintains the national mail voter registration form, certifies voting machines against federal standards, and advises state and local officials.

 

The Trump administration will support a draft bill that would impose heavy financial penalties on purchasers of Russian oil, adding to economic pressure on Moscow, all in an effort to bring Russia's four-year war on Ukraine to a close.

 

The housing bill crawled through Congress’ maze,

Bipartisan fog in procedural haze,

DDT shrugged, said “I’ll let it slide,”

Unsigned like a check with something to hide.

“For IDs!” he cried, while dodging the pen,

Inflation, it seems, can wait till “amen,”

A ghost-signature gambit, political fart

Lead from behind but take no part.

 

 

He huffed about ballots, demanded more proof,

While housing costs quietly punched through the roof,

A signature missing, a message quite clear:

“Priority shifts when elections are near.”

The bill becomes law, but not by his name

A magician disclaiming the trick and the flame,

“Look there!” he points at voters in line,

While rent eats the paycheck right down to the spine.

 

 

In Houston, dawn broke on a worker’s commute,

A van and a guess and a fatal pursuit,

“Resembled the target,” the logic went thin

A life reduced down to the color of skin.

Lorenzo drove steady, decades of toil,

Three coworkers riding, hands built for soil,

No record, no violence, just nearing a chance

But bullets were fired before facts got a glance.

 

 

A builder of homes, now a name in a file,

A bureaucrat’s shrug stretched a mile after mile,

Mistaken identity, a clinical phrase,

That buries a man in procedural haze.

They aimed at a shadow, they struck at a life,

Left grief in a kitchen, a void for a wife,

And somewhere a memo will neatly explain

How error and policy balance the pain.

 

 

Election watchdogs were shown to the door,

Three seats now empty, a commission no more,

The EAC silenced just months before votes,

Democracy trimmed by administrative notes.

Machines uncertified? Grants left to drift?

Registration forms now politically sifted,

“Rigged?” ask the critics, he answers with flair:

“Not rigged if there’s no one left watching the air.”

 

 

The Save America Act takes the stage,

With clauses that tighten the ballot box cage,

A makeover painted red, white, and blue,

Where fewer can vote, but branding feels true.

“Security!” echoes through each talking head,

While access lies quietly bleeding instead,

And somewhere the year 2000 just sighs

“We warned you what happens when process complies.”

 

 

Abroad there’s a tariff with teeth made of oil,

A penalty plan meant to tighten the coil,

Buy Russian crude? Pay dearly, it’s said

Economic chess with a global spread.

Four years of war and still counting the cost,

Each sanction a move, each life a loss,

Peace by pressure, the theory holds tight

Till markets find loopholes and slip through the night.

 

 

And skies in the Gulf lit up before dawn,

Missiles like arguments sharply drawn,

Iran and the U.S. trading replies,

Each “measured response” escalating the skies.

Bahrain heard sirens, Kuwait held its breath,

Qatar watched trajectories flirting with death,

An interim deal now trembling thin

Peace on a timer with fire baked in.

9 July 2026 (86325) (69224) MASA plus 520 insane days out of 1461 days (940 to go), followed by many days of the thief.

 

The United States launched new airstrikes against Iran early Thursday, and Tehran responded by targeting U.S.-allied Mideast countries in an exchange of fire that threatened an interim deal intended to help end the war in the Middle East. Today’s barrage appeared bigger all around, with sirens sounding at least three times in Bahrain, home to the U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet headquarters, and missiles targeting Kuwait and Qatar. The US braces for prolonged Iran escalation; no current push for Israeli involvement.

 

 

Ukrainian drones hit more Russian oil facilities and set two oil tankers ablaze in the Sea of Azov on Thursday, a day after DDT pledged to grant Kyiv a license to manufacture the Patriot air defense systems to protect its cities. Ukraine’s drone strikes on oil refineries and other infrastructure across Russia have triggered a widespread fuel crisis with gasoline shortages and rationing in multiple regions and motorists waiting for hours to fill their tanks. Moscow has responded by intensifying its bombardment on Kyiv and other cities, exposing Ukraine’s vulnerability to ballistic missile strikes.

 

The US launched some brand-new strikes,

Iran fired back on Mideast bikes.

They target Gulf states left and right,

Escalating the regional fight.

 

In Bahrain, sirens loudly scream,

Disturbing 5th Fleet navy's dream.

At least three times the alarms did sound,

As panic spread all through the ground.

 

Kuwait and Qatar feel the heat,

As missiles threaten every street.

The interim peace deal looks quite grim,

The chance of calm is getting slim.

 

No push for Israel to step in,

As US forces try to win.

They brace for a prolonged event,

With tons of military intent.

 

Meanwhile, Ukraine sent out its drones,

To make the Russian tankers groan.

The Sea of Azov has ships ablaze,

In quite a smoky, fiery haze.

 

The refineries across the state are hit,

And infrastructure burns a bit.

While Kyiv got a brand-new right,

To build the Patriots for the fight.

 

The Russian pumps have all run dry,

While waiting drivers sit and cry.

With hours spent in gas lines long,

The Russian system's going wrong.

 

But Moscow answers back with dread,

And sends some missiles overhead.

Kyiv takes a hit from their assault,

To try and bring drones to a halt.

8 July 2026 (86281) (69180) MASA plus 519 insane days out of 1461 days (941 to go), followed by many days of grief.

 

Nazi symbol decorated Graham Platner has suspended his campaign for US Senate in Maine, following a series of scandals that included a woman accusing him of sexual assault. Nothing more needs to be said.

 

Oil prices rose, and stock markets dropped in shaky trading worldwide today after DDT raised doubts about the temporary truce in the war with Iran and commenced bombing Iran. The worry is that a continuation of the war will block the Strait of Hormuz and prevent the delivery of crude from the Persian Gulf to customers worldwide. The latest attacks, which have targeted Iranshahr, Bandar Abbas, Konarak, Chabahar, and Bushehr, all in southeastern Iran, and Aq Qala, in northeastern Iran, have threatened a return to full-fledged war. “The United States is holding Iran accountable for recent unjustified aggression against commercial shipping and civilian crews freely navigating a vital international waterway,” CENTCOM said. When Iran attacked these ships, Tehran was trying to instil a new normal beyond the terms of the MoU, in which ships had to go through Iranian waters, and Iran would attack them if they did not, he explained. “That’s unacceptable to DDT, so these strikes are a retaliation to that action.” 

 

Despite last-minute protests from lawyers for DDT, a federal judge has ordered the court to release $5 million, plus interest, won by the writer E. Jean Carroll when a 2023 civil jury found Mr. Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation. The money had been held in a court-controlled bank account for three years, and DDT said in recent filings he wanted it to remain there. In 2024, Carroll won a separate defamation trial against Mr. Trump, a case that also revolved around his repeated denials of having abused her. In that case, the jury awarded Carroll more than $83 million.

 

An appeals court denied DDT’s bid to pause the Kennedy Center name removal while his appeal plays out. Appellants allege financial harm to the Kennedy Center if they are not permitted to reinstate President DDT’s name. They argue that removal of President Trump’s name ‘threatens to impede the Center’s fundraising efforts and [will] contribute to the financial decline of the Center.’  “His name no longer desecrates this sacred memorial, which belongs to the American people. Now it is time for the DDT administration to accept this, comply with the law, and take the tarps down.”

 

DDT has offered to give Ukraine the right to produce Patriot interceptor missiles, which could help Kyiv defend against Russia's ballistic missile attacks. Patriots detect and intercept missiles and are regarded as one of the world's best air defense systems, and the most expensive: a single battery, with missiles, is worth around $1bn. It also has lengthy production times, with only 600 missiles produced per year by the US. Ukraine’s drone forces have struck 21 Russian-flagged vessels in the Sea of Azov in the space of 72 hours, nine Russian tankers were hit by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) overnight on 8 July, adding to 10 attacks reported on 7 July and two reported on 6 July. The ships were all operating in the Sea of Azov and struck as part of Ukraine’s attempts to choke off fuel supplies in Russian-occupied Crimea.

 

In Maine, a candidate got exposed,

With Nazi symbols and scandals disclosed;

A Senate run ended in shame,

After an accusation of sexual assault hit the game.

 

 

Oil jumped, stocks sagged, and markets cracked,

When DDT raised doubts and then attacked.

Talk of a truce turned into smoke and strain,

While fear circled the Strait of Hormuz again.

 

 

Five million dollars, plus interest, too,

Was ordered released from the court’s cold queue;

E. Jean Carroll won what the jury said,

DDT found liable for abuse and defamation, not dead.

 

 

The larger verdict still stings like coal:

More than 83 million was the second toll;

Two trials, two losses, same old plea

A denial worn thin on live TV.

 

 

The Kennedy Center DDT name came down,

And his appeal got swatted to the ground;

The court let the removal stand,

No tarp could save that vanity-brand.

 

 

Ukraine got Patriot missile talk,

A pricey shield in a very slow stock;

About 600 missiles a year, they say,

Makes “defense” sound expensive in every way.

 

 

In the Sea of Azov, drones struck steel,

Twenty-one Russian-flagged ships were made to feel

What fuel-route chokeholds do in war

Trade by explosion, commerce by gore.

 

7 July 2026 (86237) (69136) MASA plus 518 insane days out of 1461 days (942 to go), followed by many days of spite.

 

The U.S. launched retaliatory strikes on Iran after three commercial ship attacks in Strait of Hormuz. The earlier strikes were on tankers trying to transit the strait via a route Iran has warned ships against using. Iran has not claimed the attacks, but claims it was by elves. Iran's foreign ministry accused the U.S. of violating the memorandum of understanding inked by the two countries last month by revoking a waiver on Iranian oil sanctions — an action the U.S. said was in response to Iranian attacks on oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz.

 

Nigel Farage says he will resign as MP for Clacton and stand in the subsequent by-election, after facing intense scrutiny over financial support he has received. Farage has been under investigation from Parliament's standards commissioner since May after not declaring a £5m gift he received from a billionaire Reform donor before he became an MP. Corruption smells even when there is a British accent.

 

On July 7th, in an unexpected twist, the court of appeal in Paris upheld Ms Le Pen’s conviction for the misuse of European Parliament funds for party ends—yet lightened her sentence, freeing her to run. Hours later Ms Le Pen announced that she, not Jordan Bardella, her 30-year-old lieutenant, would make a bid for the presidency after all. Corruption smells even when there is a Freench accent.

 

Ever the bully, DDT resurrected his push for the U.S. to acquire Greenland, and suggested the U.S. could pull all of its armed services members out of Europe in response to the Continent’s continued pushback on the issue. In a bilateral meeting with Turkish President Erdogan, the OC vented that Europe’s refusal to go along with his expansionist desire is “what hurt my relationship with NATO.”

 

From Ars Technica, “US manufacturers in many Rust Belt cities and towns are paying significantly higher electricity costs as growing energy demand from data centers strains the largest power grid operator in the United States. The resulting squeeze on profit margins for steelmakers and brick factories could further undermine President Donald Trump’s “Made in America” plan to revive US manufacturing, and it comes as Trump has simultaneously championed the tech companies behind the AI data center boom.” Electricity accounts for 20 to 40 percent of the total production costs of making steel. The DDT administration’s efforts to stop renewable energy projects involving wind and solar power have hurt. In 2025 alone, the United States saw the cancellation of power projects totaling 266 gigawatts of generation capacity, equivalent to 25 percent of America’s current electricity generation capacity.

 

In Hormuz’ throat where tankers slide,

A fifth of global oil must ride,

Three ships were struck along a lane

Iran had warned was not for gain.

 

 

“No hand of ours,” officials say,

“Just elves who haunt the shipping way,”

While AIS goes dark at sea

And blame dissolves conveniently.

 

 

The U.S. strikes are “measured,” “just,”

With waivers snapped and clauses crushed,

A memo inked the month before

Now drifts like wreckage off the shore.

 

 

Each side recites its legal frame,

Each edits cause, assigns the blame;

The crude still flows, the risk is priced,

And truth is hedged, then sacrificed.

 

 

In Farage’s life, a quick reset:

Resign, rerun, deny the debt,

Just 5 million pounds, “not mine to note,”

A lapse that somehow stays afloat.

 

 

In Paris courts, the verdict stands,

But softened just to free her hands;

EU funds bent to party use

Now polished for a fresh excuse.

 

 

Corruption speaks in tailored shame,

By Thames or Seine, the stink’s the same;

It conjugates through “was” and “shown,”

And exits cleaner than where grown

 

 

“Take Greenland too,” the strongman pleads,

While NATO trys to meet his needs;

Allies priced like chips in play,

Commitments marked for trade-away.

 

 

Back home, the grid runs hot and thin,

As AI data temples gorge within;

Steel pays 40% more for light,

While wind projects are killed mid-flight.

6 July 2026 (86193) (69092) MASA plus 518 insane days out of 1461 days (943 to go), followed by many days of danger.

 

Still more than 2 years to go before we retire DDT to infamy. Trump makes strange claim that ‘George Washington had two desks’ to justify getting rich off his presidency. Trump repeats false claim about George Washington as his family abandons efforts to hide moneymaking efforts. Since the crypto launch in 2024 by members of Donald Trump and his adviser Steve Witkoff’s families, the broader Trump cryptocurrency ventures have netted the president’s family more than $2.3 billion, according to a Reuters investigation.

 

A White House report brands the leadership of the Smithsonian Institution, especially at the National Museum of American History, as radical activists who cannot be trusted, indicating that the OC may be preparing to install his own team.

 

Russia unleashed waves of missiles and drones at Ukraine early Monday, killing at least 22 people in attacks that exposed widening gaps in the country’s air defenses more than four years into Moscow’s full-scale invasion, authorities said. All of the ballistic missiles launched by Russia struck their targets, underscoring Kyiv’s need for more U.S.-made Patriot interceptor missiles. Does DDT care? Nope.

 

Despite Hamas’s stated willingness to hand over authority to a technocratic committee, the terrorist group will not relinquish its power, according to Palestinians familiar with the matter. Hamas immediately declared that another governing body that would run the [Gaza] Strip and appointed someone to head it.” Hamas seeks to maintain both its military capabilities and governmental authority in Gaza, the official said.

 

The Ukrainian military said Monday that its drones struck Russia’s largest oil refinery in the western Siberian region of Omsk, marking one of the deepest attacks on Russian territory since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The Gazprom Neft-operated refinery is located on the northern outskirts of the city of Omsk, around 2,500 kilometers (1,550 miles) from the border with Ukraine. NASA satellites recorded multiple fire hotspots at the facility on Monday evening.

 

Iran's military fired at least two missiles at commercial ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz on Monday night.  The reported attacks threaten to unravel a memorandum of understanding signed less than three weeks ago under which Iran agreed to halt attacks in the Strait of Hormuz. This suggests that the government has no control over the military.

 

Euopes’s assessment of DDT is suggesting that the White House has become infected with witch-hunt levels of paranoia. The comparison to Henry VIII is no more optimistic, as the ruler’s reign was characterized by narcissism, tyranny and madness.  “You are not dealing with an administration that has processes, you are dealing with a single volatile individual.” Yes, DDT is unstable and mentally ill.

 

A Monday dawn with missiles drawn, the headlines howl and sneer,

While history gets desk-revised to suit the profiteer.

“Two desks!” cries Donald, bold and bright, with logic stretched like gum,

If Washington had furniture, then graft must surely come.

 

 

The crypto mines are humming loud, a gilded family trade,

Two-point-three billion reasons why the Founders would’ve stayed—

Or maybe fled, or coughed politely, muttering through the din,

“That’s not quite what we had in mind when we declared a win.”

 

 

The Smithsonian’s now suspect ground, “too radical,” they claim,

As fossils brace for loyalty tests in liberty’s good name.

Dinosaurs may soon be asked which party line they back,

Or risk reassignment to a gift shop by executive attack.

 

 

In Ukraine’s skies the sirens cry; the Patriots run thin,

Each missile finds its target like a dark, unerring grin.

Four years on and still the math of war is cold and clear

Defense delayed is lives betrayed, but apathy steers here.

 

 

Yet deep in Omsk, a flare ignites, satellites attest,

A refinery blooms into a fireball in the west.

Two thousand kilometers away, a drone delivers proof

That distance is a paper shield when vengeance finds a roof.

 

 

In Gaza’s maze, the script repeats: resign, but never leave,

A technocrat’s a costume that the power won’t believe.

Authority’s a hydra head, cut one, another grows,

And governance becomes a mask that everyone just knows.

 

 

Hormuz grows tense; the tankers flinch; two missiles split the night,

Agreements inked just weeks ago dissolve without a fight.

When chains of command go slack or rogue, the currents start to spin,

And global trade becomes a game of “guess who’s firing again.”

 

 

Meanwhile, in courts of whispered fear, where Tudor echoes ring,

A modern throne debates itself with one self-crowning king.

Paranoia sharp as steel, advisors come and go

King Henry had his axes; now tweets steal the show.

 

 

So here we stand with DDT still stubborn in the air,

A relic not yet buried, though we’re told we should take care.

Two years more of fumes and farce, of desks both real and feigned

History coughs, adjusts its notes… and wonders is DDT insane.

4 July 2026 (86147) (69046) MASA plus 517 insane days out of 1461 days (944 to go), followed by many days of criminality.

 

Happy 250^th B-day America. If we survive another 2 years as a democracy I will be pleased. As it is right now, the rule of law is almost destroyed by men and women of zero principle and loyalty to the republic. We are living in a power-hungry kleptocracy where theft is a badge of honor while the country is slowly being destroyed.

 

DDT kicked off the US’s 250th birthday weekend with an extraordinary partisan attack on the “communist menace” in the US, framing its supporters as “the enemy of July 4th 1776”. What he means in anyone that does not back him. Four months before November’s midterm elections for the US Congress, he picked up on a theme he has repeatedly hammered lately: casting progressive Democrats as communists, who pose an existential threat to the US. He tied his anti-communist rhetoric to the anti-immigrant theme that fueled his election.

 

It is sad that hundreds of masked men carrying banners, including the Confederate flag, marched through Washington DC on the Fourth of July, the 250th anniversary of the US’s inception. The group appeared to be led by Thomas Rousseau, founder of the neo-fascist, white supremacist organization Patriot Front.  The neo-fascist hate group has gained visibility over the years as those connected to white supremacy organizations have been widely embraced by the DDT administration.

 

The husband of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was involved in a hit-and-run in California that left a parked car with “major” damage authorities said Saturday, and he could face misdemeanor charges. Paul Pelosi was driving his brown convertible Friday in Yountville, a town in the heart of wine country, when he struck a legally parked car on the side of the road, briefly stopped and then drove away, the Napa County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement. No injuries were reported. How stupid can you be? Pelosi was not arrested, and because no one was injured, the sheriff’s office recommended a misdemeanor charge for fleeing the scene of an accident. However, he will be evaluated for permission to drive.

 

Ukrainian forces are struggling to keep Russian troops out of the Donbas city of Kostyantynivka. Experts say the city has been all but reduced to rubble. In the years before Russia's all-out war on Ukraine, Kostyantynivka was better known as a city of 66,000 with a thriving glassmaking industry, a strategic location at the crossroads of two major highways, and a busy railway junction. These days, Kostyantynivka is a crater-pocked wasteland of smoldering rubble leveled by drones, artillery, and, in recent weeks, devastating Russian glide bombs.  Russian-installed authorities in occupied Crimea ordered an urgent evacuation of official records and equipment, while some officials reportedly left for Russia amid escalating Ukrainian deep strikes. the directive was issued by the Russian-installed authorities in occupied Crimea and circulated not only to the administrations of Kerch and Feodosia but also to several other occupation bodies across the peninsula. The movement said officials were instructed to remove sensitive documents and technical equipment, with the order to be completed by the end of 3 July.

 

In 1776 they lit a fuse for liberty’s little joke;

In 2026 we’re watching it get waterboarded by smoke.

The founders wrote a warning; we converted it to brand,

Now grifters wave the flag while picking every pocket in the land.

 

 

At Mount Rushmore, the script was: “Fear the communist menace, stand!”

As if democracy were fragile and required a strongman hand.

He called the critics enemies, the dissenters all a nag

A freedom speech by someone who confuses punchlines with a gag.

 

 

 

The Patriot Front in DC came marching, masked and macho

A cosplay of the cemetery with a marching-band glow.

They hollered “reclaim America” like history’s a theft,

While reason watched from a safe distance and politely exited left.

 

 

 

In Napa, Paul Pelosi grazed a parked car, then tried to flee—

A tiny civic fender-bender, not exactly tragedy.

Yet even here the nation finds a headline to be mined:

A man can dent a bumper, and the republic feels the grind.

 

 

Meanwhile Kostyantynivka is rubble with a postal code,

Where glass once flashed and rail lines ran, now drones have paved the road.

And Crimea’s filing cabinets are evacuating fast

A sign that stolen things have learned the shelf life of the past.

 

 

So raise a glass to parchment dreams, now bruised but not yet dead,

To courts that still can mumble “no” before they’re fully bred.

If two more years of this survive, it’ll be a civic feat

A nation limping, laughing, cursing, trying not to eat its feet.

 

 

Happy 250th, America, your cake is mostly ash,

Your fireworks are gorgeous, but the framing’s looking trash.

Still, somewhere under the wreckage, stubborn citizens remain:

The country may be bleeding, but it hasn’t lost its name.

 

 

And if the next two years don’t finish what the grifters started first,

We’ll toast the rule of law again and call the whole thing cursed.

Because tyranny is loud, but history has a habit too

It buries thieves in footnotes and remembers what is true

 

In Crimea, clerks pack secrets like a rushed and guilty flight,

As papers flee before the truth can catch them in the light,

When filing cabinets grow legs and march toward safer ground,

You know the drums of consequence are tuning up their sound.

 

 

Back home, the law’s a looking glass, distorted, cracked, and sold,

Where theft can earn a handshake if the thief is loud and bold,

A kleptocrat in star-spangled wrap declares the system pure,

While quietly removing all the parts that made it sure.

3 July 2026 (860597) (68996) MASA plus 516insane days out of 1461 days (945 to go), followed by many days of disfunction.

 

Today, DDT pardoned defendants who were prosecuted for tampering with air pollution control equipment in vehicles, in violation of the Clean Air Act. Last fall he granted clemency to Troy Lake, a Wyoming mechanic who served seven months in prison for violating federal emissions laws for disabling air pollution-control equipment on diesel engines.

 

It’s 250 years since 13 North American colonies declared their independence from the Great Britain of George III. Many are anxious that the republic they established that day is fragile, not least because of the would-be emperor in the White House. Ben Franklin's comment looks more relevant today than when he answered a question as to whether we had a republic or monarchy. He answered, “A republic, if you can keep it.” With DDT and the Supreme Court, it is looking doubtful. The US was “founded as a simulacrum of the early Roman republic. And the lesson of Roman history is that at some point, a republic will become an autocracy.” It used to be that no matter what problem ailed the US, the remedy was to be found in that marvel of a founding document, the US constitution. DDT has revealed its great weakness. Which is that it cannot enforce itself. For all its hallowed status, and it is revered as a sacred text in the US – it relies on people, mere mortals of flesh and blood, to do its will. We have learned that the people entrusted by the constitution with its enforcement will sometimes refuse to do their duty. The judges of the supreme court, whom the framers envisaged as the protectors of the constitution, have played their own part in enabling the Trump power grab. In the age of DDT, those handed the task have shirked it. Can we recover our republic? The answer is probably yes, if we can keep it.

 

An appeals court ruled that President DDT’s administration can reinstall interpretive panels that critics say whitewash the history of slavery at the site of President George Washington’s home in Philadelphia. The new whitewashed panels were designed to replace ones put up in 2010 that told the story of how nine slaves lived in the home along with George and Martha Washington in the 1790s, when Philadelphia was briefly the nation’s capital.

 

 DDT’s presidency is facing investigations and corruption charges from a key House Democrat and ex-prosecutors, involving political and personal abuses of power, which legal experts predict will get heavy scrutiny if Democrats win the House majority in the midterms.  The political and financial corruption driving the Trump presidency is a civic emergency,” Raskin said in a statement. “Congress has a responsibility to confront all this corruption directly – to expose it and take all steps necessary to crush it as quickly as possible. Like everything else in his life, DDT is a failure, except perhaps in pervasive corruption.

 

Two hundred fifty years ago, they swore off crowns and thrones,

Thirteen sparks against a king, with quills instead of drones.

They bled for something fragile then, no scepter, seal, or whip

A strange invention: self-rule balanced on a parchment script.

 

“A republic, if you keep it,” Franklin coolly said,

As if he’d glimpsed the future rot that curls through civic bread.

Not lost to fire or foreign steel, nor tyrants at the gate

But caretakers who shrug and yawn while gnawing at its fate.

 

 

For Rome was not devoured whole in one dramatic night,

It joked, it voted, compromised its edges into blight.

A senate still, a people proud, elections neatly staged

Until the forms remained intact, but substance long decayed.

 

 

And here we stand with marble steps and rituals rehearsed,

A Constitution held aloft, then quietly subversed.

A sacred text that cannot act, nor lift its ink-stained hands,

Dependent on the honor of increasingly strange bands.

 

 

What good’s a law that cannot bite? A check that will not check?

A court that trims its principles to save its own respect?

The guardians of the framework nod, then reinterpret stone

Until the limits once imposed dissolve to skin and bone.

 

 

An emperor in all but name denies he wears the crown,

While testing just how far the old constraints can all be bent down.

Not smashing doors, but oiling hinges, smiling as they give,

Discovering how little spine a system needs to live.

 

They pardon smoke, they cleanse the past, they edit chains away,

They call it strength to look from truth and politely disobey.

And when the law requires a stand, a spine, a line held fast,

They find it far more comfortable to let the moment pass.

 

 

So now the grand experiment, this borrowed Roman dream,

Feels less like Cato’s final stand, more Caesar’s quiet scheme.

Not yet a fall, not quite a throne, but something in between:

A slow translation of the word “republic” into “seen.”

 

Seen in speeches, etched in stone, recited on command

While power pools in fewer, softer, ever-greasing hands.

And every clause that once restrained now begs to be believed,

While those assigned to guard it nod, and choose to be relieved.

 

 

Can it return? Perhaps it can. No fate is fully sealed.

But parchment does not save itself, nor wounds that go unhealed.

A republic does not die with drums, but thins, then disappears…

Not shattered by its enemies, but kept into arrears.

 

 

 

“Keep it,” said old Franklin, with a caution wrapped in wit

A fragile thing, a borrowed flame, no guarantee to it.

But parchment cannot raise its voice, nor ink defend its claim,

When keepers of the covenant refuse the needed game.

 

 

The Court, in robes of tempered black, once swore to guard the gate,

Now weighs the text like merchants might, and shrugs to seal its fate.

Interpretation blooms like mold where clarity once grew

A living text, they say, which means it lives to die for you.

 

 

In Philadelphia’s curated past, the panels shift their tone,

Nine shadows fade from history in Washington’s old home.

The chains grow faint, the story rinsed in patriotic glaze,

A cleaner myth for modern tours and sunlit summer days.

 

 

Meanwhile in the marble halls, the murmurs swell and crawl,

Of ledgers inked with favors owed and power over all.

Investigations circle like a storm not yet begun,

While thunder waits on ballots cast beneath a borrowed sun.

 

 

“Emergency,” the warnings cry, “corruption laid in stone,”

Yet stone erodes when hands decide its weakness is their own.

And failure, once a private art, now scales the public stage

A masterwork of graft and grin, performed in gilded rage.

If you think that people you know might be interested in a totally unbiased news site containing a short summary of important news items of the day, let them know. My DDT views are based entirely on the news and his history as a dangerous, racist, anti-democratic demagogue. No bias here, just reality. In the end DDT is boring, like watching a cobra prance. The poems give added punch, every day not just once

2 July 2026 (86051) (68950) MASA plus 515insane days out of 1461 days (946 to go), followed by many days of discrepancies.

 

DDT’s crypto windfall appears to be taxable. One accountant who specializes in cryptocurrency income said it was reasonable to believe the OC would have to pay at least $250 million on this income. His actual billmay be far lower because of corporate shenanigans. Unlike several past presidents, DDT does not make his tax returns public.

 

DDT staged a hostile takeover of the US’s 250th anniversary celebration to enrich political allies, harvest voter data and promote Christian nationalist ideology, according to a congressional investigation. he interim report, “From Vanity to Insanity: How the White House Cheated the American People Out of Their 250th Birthday”, outlines a web of alleged corruption, wire fraud and pay-to-play schemes orchestrated through a shadow corporation.

 

 Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 10,000 people over a five-day period at the end of June, marking a major push by the agency tasked with carrying out the Trump administration’s mass deportations agenda. “Since Day One, DHS law enforcement has been delivering on DDT’s promise to the American people to arrest and deport criminal illegal aliens including murderers, rapists, pedophiles, gang members, and terrorists “Our message is clear: if you come to our country illegally, we will find you, we will arrest you, and we will deport you.”

 

A panel of Minnesota officials, including Gov. TIm Walz, pardoned an immigrant who was slated to be deported. The man, who had been convicted of sexually abusing a child in 2005, was pardoned last month after serving his sentence. Sounds bad. The victim’s forgiveness was key in pardon of Tou Lue Vang, Hmong man facing deportation.

 

Despite the looming 2026 midterm elections and the growing list of congressional responsibilities, a persistent group of Republicans are vowing to obstruct all U.S. House business until leadership effectively forces the Senate to take up a voter ID bill. As Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., has made clear numerous times, however, the House lawmakers’ efforts to force the upper chamber to pass the bill are mathematically destined to fail. Senate Democrats have unanimously made clear that they will filibuster any legislation, no matter how critical, that contains provisions from the SAVE America Act, which they deem an act of “voter suppression.”

 

A federal judge blocked the U.S. Postal Service from carrying out an executive order on mail-in ballots.  DDT had ordered the Postal Service to transmit ballots for states only if those states first provided a list of mail-in voters, among other requirements. The ruling from U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan blocks the Postal Service from implementing the order nationwide.

Both sides vow to escalate fighting after Russia’s deadly Kyiv barrage. Zelenskyy says his forces will ‘definitely’ retaliate over Russian bombardment of capital as Kremlin vows to ramp up pressure. German prosecutors allege Ukraine ordered Nord Stream pipeline attack Former Ukrainian soldier accused of ‘war crime’ and leading a team of divers to blow up Nord Stream pipelines.

 

Trump’s latest filing said crypto brought in billions last year,

While questions about the tax bill still hang in the air.

He’s kept his returns private, as he has for years before,

So the public sees the profits, but not the paper trail or more.

 

 

A House report says the 250th got twisted into play,

With allies, data, and ideology swept into the fray.

It alleges a shadow structure, corruption, and pay-to-play,

A birthday turned to branding while the nation paid the way.

 

 

ICE said it arrested 10,000 people in five days at June’s end,

A surge in the deportation push the administration meant to send.

Officials called it law and order, blunt and ruthlessly stated,

While critics saw a machine that has only escalated.

 

 

In Minnesota, Walz joined a pardon for a man facing deportation,

A convicted child-sex abuser whose case drew fierce condemnation.

Supporters pointed to the victim’s forgiveness as a reason to relent,

While others saw a pardon that few could call innocent.

 

 

In Congress, House Republicans pressed to force a Senate vote on voter ID,

But Democrats said filibuster would kill it, no matter what it might be.

The math was plain, the outcome fixed, the standoff set to stall,

A doomed tactic kept alive by the theater of it all.

 

 

A judge blocked the Postal Service from enforcing Trump’s mail-ballot rule,

Which would have tied ballot delivery to voter-roll compliance by the rulebook’s school.

The ruling said USPS could not withhold election mail that way,

So ballots kept their path through court, not White House mandate, day by day.

 

 

German prosecutors charged a Ukrainian national over Nord Stream’s blast,

Alleging civilian-energy sabotage tied to a crew from the past.

Ukraine has not accepted the charge in detail, and the case remains in flight,

While Russia’s war on Kyiv kept grinding through another night.

1 July 2026 (86001) (68900) MASA plus 514insane days out of 1461 days (947 to go), followed by many days of disruption.

 

The OC says outside funds ‘run my money’ after disclosure shows billions in 2025 revenue , DDT made significantly more money in 2025 than the prior year, largely due to the roughly $1.2 billion in cryptocurrency-related income reported in his disclosure.

 

The US, Canada and Mexico begin bumpy negotiations to renew North American trade pact. The United States trades $1.9 trillion a year, $5 billion a day, worth of goods and services with Canada and Mexico. The U.S. is making demands that could effectively force Canada and Mexico to surrender some automaking production to the United States. That might bring more auto factory jobs to the United States. But it would also upend established supply chains and would push up U.S. prices for new cars that now average nearly $50,000 at a time when American consumers are already frustrated about the high cost of living.

 

Iranian clerics call for assassination of Trump, Netanyahu.  The 88-member Assembly of Experts issued a 10-point statement in which they said killing “the wicked prime minister of the Zionist regime” and “the criminal American president” was a religious duty that must be carried out “under any circumstances.”

 

Iran hasn’t received any of the $6 billion in frozen assets the US pledged to dole out in exchange for progress made implementing the US-Iran memorandum of understanding, an administration official, luring Iran back to the negotiating table in Qatar.  “As Iran reopens the Strait, stops charging tolls, and meets other milestones, they will be able to access structured relief,” the US official said. “…If they implement the MOU, then they can get access to some of their frozen assets for humanitarian purchases of US goods.”

 

 DDT’s 2025 filing showed a flood of cash,

With crypto minting fortunes at a spectacular slash.

He said outside funds “run my money,” neat and sly,

As revenue climbed so high it nearly scraped the sky.

 

 

Canada and Mexico came back to the trade-deal table,

With U.S. demands that make supply chains wobble when able.

The issue is blunt: more cars made stateside may sound grand,

But it can hike new-car prices across an already-pinched land.

 

 

America trades trillions yearly with its two neighbors next door,

A daily flow of goods and services that keeps the engine floored.

So “renegotiate” sounds tidy, until the costs appear,

Then tariffs, parts, and paperwork make cheap cars disappear.

 

 

In Iran, clerics issued a call both dark and severe,

A 10-point statement naming DDT and Netanyahu clear.

They framed the killings as a duty, in language hard to dress,

Which makes the region’s diplomatic weather look even less like “yes.”

 

 

And talks over frozen assets still hover in the haze,

With Washington saying money follows milestones, not praise.

No $6 billion windfall yet, no simple handoff fee,

Just humanitarian wording and conditionality.

 

 

The Strait of Hormuz, tolls, and access all sit in the mix,

A bargain built on oil, goodwill, and carefully placed political tricks.

Iran wants relief; the U.S. wants compliance in return,

So every clause becomes a bridge, and every bridge can burn.

 

 

Back home, the cost of living keeps the shoppers on the rack,

While automakers eye the tariff wall and chart the comeback track.

More jobs might roll onto U.S. soil, that part is true,

But so might sticker shock in showrooms where the buyers already rue.

30 June 2026 (85949) (68848) MASA plus 513 insane days out of 1461 days (948 to go), followed by many days of corruption. 

 

DDT’s MAGA movement is in a meltdown over a ruling from the conservative-dominated US Supreme Court, which today struck down the OC’s attempt to end birthright citizenship by executive fiat.  If he wants to get rid of it, he’ll have to amend the Constitution. Good luck with that.

 

The Supreme Court lifted limits today on how much political parties can spend on advertising and other expenses in coordination with candidates. This is a major victory for Republicans and could undercut one of the Democrats’ financial advantages going into the midterm elections. In dissent, Justice Elena Kagan wrote that the ruling was a recipe for corruption, allowing donors to skirt contribution caps to candidates. “With no limits on coordinated expenditures,” she wrote, “the party can serve as the candidate’s checking account.”

 

Russia will import gasoline as Ukrainian strikes force Putin to use cash reserves. Ukrainian drone strikes on Russia have impacted Vladimir Putin’s country’s ability to produce fuel. Russia is the world's second-largest crude oil exporter and third-largest exporter of refined petroleum products, making the prospect of gasoline imports politically and economically surprising. The supply squeeze has already prompted fuel rationing in several Russian regions and in occupied Crimea. For people in Crimea, the campaign is transforming daily life. Residents who spoke to The Moscow Times said fuel has become scarce, rolling blackouts and water shortages are now routine and even everyday tasks like commuting to work or buying groceries have become increasingly challenging. Authorities in Sevastopol have repeatedly tightened fuel restrictions over the past month, initially limiting sales to cash purchases, then to prepaid fuel cards and vouchers. 

 

The Court, in robes and tempered tone,
Reminded power it’s not a throne:
“No birthright stripped by sharp decree
Read Fourteenth, Section One, then see.”

 

The order fell on executive flair
Can’t nullify what’s written there;
“Amend it,” came the marble reply
Translation: count the states. Good try.

 

The base went molten, posts ablaze,
A carnival of caps-locked praise,
Yet law, immune to trending heat,
Declined to kneel to hashtag tweets.

 

A king by memo? Not today.
The text still blocks the faster way;
Ink meets ink, and older wins,
The Constitution rarely spins.

Meanwhile the Court unclipped the chain
On party cash in campaign rain,
Coordination now runs free
A donor’s quiet jubilee

Now comes the cash: the leash cut clean,
Coordination no longer obscene;
Spend through the party, wink and route
A legal money  flood with caps washed out.

 

Midterms now marinate in gold,
Each ad buy louder, pricier, bold;
An arms race dressed as free speech rights,
With invoices stapled to the fights.

 

And far from courts, where pipelines groan,
A petro-giant eats its own:
As Russia imports what it once sold
Drones rewrite the balance sheet in cold.

 

Crimea queues with cards and cash,
Fuel by voucher, lights that flash;
Blackouts, shortages, daily strain
Logistics, not pride, decides the game.

29 June 2026 (85900) (68899) MASA plus 512 insane days out of 1461 days (949 to go), followed by many days of darkness. 

 

The Supreme Court upheld a Mississippi law Monday that allows mailed ballots to be counted if they're postmarked on or before the date of the election and received within five business days. The ruling applies to other states as well. DDT, of course, is apoplectic. His buddies on the Supreme Court did not come through for him this time.  The Supreme Court today dramatically expanded presidential power, upholding DDT’s firings of the heads of independent federal agencies with one important exception: the Federal Reserve.

 

"Mike Johnson is claiming that Republicans have a plan to cut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, after already passing the largest healthcare cut in history," said Ken Martin, chairman of the Democratic National Committee. If the system isn't reformed by the funding deadline, all beneficiaries could face an instant 20% benefit cut on average.

 

The OC expressed surprise after the Supreme Court today declined to review his appeal in a civil case involving E. Jean Carroll, who was awarded $5 million in damages after she accused him of sexual assault. In 2023, a federal jury in New York decided in favor of Carroll, who said Trump had assaulted her in the mid-1990s in the dressing room of luxury department store Bergdorf Goodman and later defamed her. Carroll wrote about the experience in a 2019 New York magazine article. The OC is also expected to petition the justices to review another defamation case against him, in which Carroll won an $83.3 million award.

 

Democrats in 25 states and the District of Columbia on Monday sued the DDT administration over its recent guidance on new Medicaid work requirements, arguing the strict rules will prevent eligible Americans from accessing the care they need. “Added administrative burdens will cause individuals who are eligible for Medicaid to lose or be denied coverage,” the plaintiffs write. “People with disabilities, patients in the middle of cancer treatment, or those struggling with another serious or complex health condition, shouldn’t be at risk of losing the care that helps maintain their health.”

 

Temperature records were broken across the Europe again  including in Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic as the extreme heat continued to move east. More than 1,300 excess deaths had been recorded since 21 June "linked to high temperatures in Europe". Many of the extra fatalities are among those aged 65 over, the agency said, after logging a 40% rise in the number of people dying at home.

 

Once Russian soldiers reach certain parts of the front lines of the war in Ukraine, they can expect to live an average of just 20 to 35 minutes, according to a grim estimate by Russian military bloggers. Similar accounts are becoming increasingly common on Russian military channels, suggesting that more Russians are becoming aware of the war and its toll on their side — a toll Kremlin officials have long sought to shield from view.  Unable to rely on heavy artillery, now easily picked off by cheap first-person-view drones, Russia's military has turned to infiltration tactics: using small groups of soldiers on foot or motorcycles to probe weaknesses in Ukraine's lines. Russia is now losing eight men killed or seriously wounded for every soldier lost by Ukraine. But Russia has achieved some slow success using waves of sacrificed soldiers.

 

The Court said ballots mailed on time
May still be counted, line by line.
Five days of grace through postal haze
A slower kind of democracy’s phase.

 

It widened power with a sweep,

Let DDT dismiss the watchdogs deep.

Yet one small fence was left in place:

The Fed stayed standing in its space.

 

 

The Carroll appeal met a wall;

The justices declined the call.

Her $5 million judgment stays,

While DDT still seeks some other ways.

 

 

In Congressland, the cuts grow near:

Medicaid’s work rules draw a sneer.

States sued, saying the new demands

Would block care from too many hands.

 

 

Europe baked beneath a brutal heat,
And death counts climbed with every street.
In France alone, the toll was never none

With older lives hit hardest, one by one.

 

Across Ukraine, the war stays grim,

With drones and shelling whittling them.

Russian bloggers now admit the math:

Some front-line men survive one path.

28 June 2026 (85851) (68850) MASA plus 511 insane days out of 1461 days (950 to go), followed by many days of danger. 

More than 100 years have passed since Einstein formulated special and then 10 years later general relativity. What is amazing is that in all that time the theory has held up against all experiments and observations. The essence is that the speed of light in a vacuum is invariant to an observer regardless of the observers motion and that the laws of physics are the same for all observers. General relativity removed the requirement of constant velocity (allowed acceleration) and equated gravity with mass producing acceleration indistinguishable from the acceleration in a mechanical system (elevator). Gravity is framed not as a force, but as the bending of space-time by mass.

 

 

Escalating US-Iran strikes threaten interim peace agreement. Tehran attacked Bahrain and Kuwait amid efforts by the US to open strait of Hormuz without Iran’s direct oversight. The fighting suggests that the interim agreement was too broadly worded.T ehran launched drone and missile attacks against Bahrain and Kuwait after new US strikes on sites in southern Iran and threatened a “complete halt” to negotiations to end the war. DDT said that a moment might come soon when he abandoned talks and the US would “militarily finish the job”. He posted on social media: “If that happens, the Islamic Republic of Iran will no longer exist!”

 

A long and dangerous heat wave will blast a large swath of the United States this week, the National Weather Service said, with temperatures rising ahead of the July Fourth holiday and feeling even hotter because of the high humidity that's arriving with it. Feeling the heat will be the East Coast cities of New York, Philadelphia, Washington and Baltimore and Midwestern and Great Lakes cities including Chicago, St. Louis and Detroit.  France saw around 1,000 additional deaths last week at the height of its record-smashing heat wave. Europe is now the fastest-warming continent and needs to do more to protect its citizens. Germany marked a new record for the third day in a row with 41.7 degrees Celsius (107 degrees Fahrenheit) near the border with Poland. So, be careful out there during the coming week.

 

US homeland security secretary tells migrants to seek permanent status or leave. Migrants in the US on temporary protected status should seek permanent residence or leave, Markwayne Mullin, Homeland Security secretary, said in the wake of last week’s supreme court decision that stripped humanitarian protections from hundreds of thousands of immigrants. The remarks come after controversial supreme court ruling to strip TPS from over 350,000 people. “Either try to fill ‌out the paperwork and ‌be here underneath a permanent status or we’ll help you get ‌back to your country.” “We’ll actually give you a plane ticket, plus roughly $2,100 to help you re-establish when you get there.”

 

Joe Biden called Donald Trump “a loser” in a pugnacious speech on Saturday that invoked his presidential successor’s attempted makeover of Washington DC to portray him as incompetent, corrupt and vain. “It’s the corruption, the corruption, the brazen, blatant corruption,” Biden said. “Corruption on a scale never seen before in American history in any administration.” “He’s diminished our standing in the world more than any president in history has.”

 

Ukraine kept up its heavy drone assault on Russia, setting fire to a major oil refinery in the south, as Putin acknowledged for the first time that the country was facing a "certain deficit" of fuel and vowed to strengthen protection of oil facilities and boost fuel output. The campaign has choked Russian fuel supplies, causing widespread shortages and long lines at gas stations across the country and prompting authorities in many regions to introduce fuel rationing. According to Western analysts, it has also slowed Moscow's efforts on the battlefield, heaping pressure on the Kremlin to come to the negotiating table.

 

A century on from Einstein’s bright spark,

Who bent space-time neat as a question mark,

Declared, with a grin and a chalk-dusted sleeve,

“That light doesn’t care what you think or believe.”

 

No matter your speed or political end,

c stays stubborn—it simply won’t bend.

Observers may argue, may posture, may shout,

But physics, unlike us, just quietly checks out.

 

He said, “Gravity? Not quite a force you can throw

It’s geometry’s prank in a cosmic tableau.

Like elevators falling, or markets in fright,

You feel weightless until you abruptly stop flight.”

 

So here’s to old Einstein, still calmly correct,

While the world runs experiments he’d not expect.

His theories stay solid, predictive, precise

Unlike humans… who vary like dice.

 

 

For light may be constant, but people are not,
We curve under pressure, we boil when it’s hot.
And though spacetime bends in a mathematically clean way,
Our politics? Chaotic… and rarely obey.

 

 

Meanwhile on Earth, where the metrics are worse,

We’re testing new theories in geopolitical verse:

If tension increases and rhetoric heats,

Does conflict curve faster than diplomatic tweets?

 

The Strait’s under stress, Hormuz feels the strain,

Missiles make arguments hard to explain.

Tehran sends its “vectors,” the US replies,

Each claiming their frame is the one that’s most wise.

 

Back home it’s not calmer, just hotter instead,

The East Coast is simmering, Midwest is red.

Humidity clings like a poorly told lie,

And France broke a record… then two… “why?”

 

A thousand more deaths in the European sun,

Where climate keeps proving the models weren’t done.

If heat is a function of carbon and time,

Then we’ve solved the equation but missed the deadline.

 

 

And speaking of frames where perspective gets skewed,

Migration’s now plotted with paperwork viewed:

“Transform your status or exit the plane—

We’ll fund your departure, but not your remain.”

 

 

Two thousand one hundred for starting anew,

A relocation package with terms to construe.

It’s Schrödinger’s welcome: you’re both here and gone,

Until courts collapse what was briefly held on.

 

 

Then Biden declares with a well-practiced flair,

That corruption’s a constant beyond all repair.

While DDT fires back through a digital haze,

Making no sense in an internet craze

 

 

Relativity holds: there’s no fixed moral ground,

Just reference frames shouting their truth to the crowd.

Velocity’s nothing, acceleration wins,

Especially fueled by election-year spins.

 

 

And far to the east, where the oil fields ignite,

Ukraine’s sending drones through the cover of night.

Refineries burning, supplies running thin,

While Putin admits there’s a deficit in… spin.

 

 

Gas lines grow longer, equations grow tight,

As war meets logistics in nonlinear fight.

Turns out even empires, however they boast,

Can’t violate limits on fuel at the most.

27 June 2026 (85802) (68801) MASA plus 510 insane days out of 1461 days (951 to go), followed by many days of senility.  

 

The U.S. military said today it had struck 10 targets in Iran at DDT’s direction, continuing a string of attacks that have shaken the war’s uneasy ceasefire after Iran fired on a commercial ship. The ongoing strikes in the Persian Gulf show the danger of the Iran war again spinning out of control, even after Iran and the U.S. reached an interim deal to try and agree on a final accord to end the conflict.

 

A report with new data suggests social security cut benefits “by 30.3%” for new retirees as trust fund collapse accelerates. Congress needs to increase funding by removing the cap on the SS tax.  in a six-word statement, the new Fed chairman Warsh sent a clear message to his critics, to the markets, and to DDT, who expressed disbelief.  The Fed committee first announced it would keep the target federal funds rate at its current range of 3.5% to 3.75%. But it went on to express concerns about the persistently elevated inflation plaguing the economy. Then Warsh said, "The Committee will deliver price stability."

 

The OC sent shockwaves through Washington earlier this week when he canceled what would have been the highly publicized signing of a bipartisan housing bill addressing home affordability, saying he would not sign the legislation unless the SAVE America Act (Save the Republicans Act) is passed.

 

I hope this is optional: The DDT administration has unveiled a new limited edition US passport design featuring a photo of the OC to commemorate America's 250th birthday. 

 

The end of Putin’s regime will spring from war spending chaos, former central bank advisor says, amid military mutiny threat and fuel-shortage brawls. The Kremlin has abandoned any fiscal discipline as the costs of fighting the Ukraine war, which is now in its fifth year, strain existing resources. The budget deficit through May is already double 2025’s full-year level, hitting 2.6% of GDP, or about $83 billion. At the same time, Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, which has been tapped to cover budget shortfalls, is being rapidly depleted and just a fraction of prewar levels. Putin’s “juggling act” has now come to an end as he can no longer fund his war, keep a lid on inflation, and continue growing the economy all at once.

 

The European Union moved to prolong temporary protection status for millions of people who have fled the war in Ukraine, but not for new arrivals who would be eligible to serve in the armed forces. Ukraine is desperate to boost the size of its fighting force more than four years into its full-scale war with Russia. It’s estimated to have suffered around 600,000 military casualties with 55,000 killed.

 

Ten targets hit, the Gulf still broods,

After a drone strike on a ship in its routes.

The ceasefire frays, the waterway strains,

And “managed” escalation now sounds like the name.

 

 

Social Security’s looking less bright,

With a 30.3% cut in one grim light.

That’s an actuarial what-if, not yet law,

But the trust fund’s draining is the real raw flaw.

 

 

Warsh kept rates in the same tight band,

Three-point-five to three-point-seven-five, as planned.

Then: “The Committee will deliver price stability,”

A terse little line showing DDT futility.

 

 

The housing bill stalled in a partisan chill,

Because voting restrictions had to be filled.

A deal on homes got tied to this demand,

So affordability waits, and voting too in this land.

 

 

A passport with DDT on it? Yes, that’s the play,

A limited-edition “patriot” design coming in July.

History loves irony, dressed up in red, white, and blue,

With commemorative branding and a photo or two.

Showing a scowling DDT emblazoned, I say foo.

 

 

Russia’s war spending is chewing through cash,

With deficits, reserve drawdowns, and fiscal crash.

The longer the war, the harder the squeeze,

And empires get clumsy when funds start to seize.

 

 

Ukraine still bleeds while Europe adjusts,

Protection for some, but not all it trusts.

The manpower need stays painfully clear,

As the war keeps grinding year after year.

26 June 2026 (85753) (68752) MASA plus 509 insane days out of 1461 days (952 to go), followed by many days of incoherence.

 

The United States has carried out strikes on Iran in what it says is a response to an Iranian drone attack on a cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) says it targeted locations in the region where US forces are deployed in retaliation for the Trump administration’s latest attack. The US sees freedom of navigation is something that the US says cannot be interrupted in any sort of way. Given the fact that the Strait of Hormuz is such a major chokepoint when it comes to energy in the world, the US is intent on making sure that it remains open, while also making sure that there’s still space for diplomacy.

 

Israel and Lebanon signed a framework agreement today after four days of negotiations in Washington. But, "Israel will maintain its security zone within the borders of the Yellow Line in Lebanon until the day when Hezbollah and the other terrorist organizations in Lebanon are disarmed and there is no longer a threat from Lebanon to the territory of the State of Israel." A senior Hezbollah-affiliated lawmaker, Hassan Fadlallah, condemned the agreement and said Lebanese authorities would need to fight a "civil war" if they wanted to enforce it. This is not going to work.

 

The Supreme Court’s ruling allowing the administration of DDT to do away with a special legal status for Haitians and Syrians has sent shockwaves through communities across the country. It will have a resounding impact on nationals of Haiti and Syria, raising the specter of deportation and family separation, while likely leaving US employers in the lurch.

 

A Texas education panel has approved plans to make Bible stories mandatory for all five million public school students in the state, sparking a row about separation of church and state. The required readings, which don't come into effect until 2030, include Bible passages about Adam and Eve and from the book of Exodus, where God speaks to Moses through a burning bush. As long as they include the Job story and leave out the parts that call for punishment for those that believe in a different God story. A new report by a DDT administration commission suggests replacing the idea of separating church and state with the idea of building bridges between them. The assertion, challenging a longstanding concept in American law, comes amid a raft of recommendations in a draft report of the Religious Liberty Commission.

 

 

On a more practical level: California Gov. Gavin Newsom called for a nationwide tax on billionaires as part of a broader “economic reset for America.” Newsom, who is considered to be a 2028 presidential contender, also reiterated his opposition to a state-level wealth tax that Californians will vote on in November. He also called for creating a “national public equity fund” to help “ensure every American owns a stake in the future being built by AI.” He reiterated his opposition to a state-level wealth tax that Californians will vote on in November. Newsom framed his economic message in terms of a broad coalition of working Americans who have been disadvantaged by a system unfairly skewed toward the wealthy.

 

 

Ukraine decimates Russian logistics, bringing chaos to Crimea and Moscow. Kyiv has circumvented air defenses to target oil supplies, power stations, weapons convoys and bridges, starving the Russian front line. In response to Ukrainian attacks deep inside the Russian heartland this year, Russia had relocated air defence systems from the regions to Moscow and the Kerch Bridge, which connects Crimea to the Russian mainland, Kremlin-backed authorities in annexed Crimea declared a state of emergency on Friday afternoon following days of intense Ukrainian attacks that have knocked out power in parts of the peninsula and compounded ongoing challenges for residents, including fuel shortages and restrictions on public transit. Two countries on Nato’s eastern flank have warned that Russia is preparing a possible “provocation” in the Baltic states or Poland in an effort to test the cohesion of the western military alliance. Western sources also fear there could be danger on the horizon because the Kremlin is coming under pressure from Ukraine’s campaign of long-range attacks on targets near Moscow and St Petersburg.

 

The tankers inch through Hormuz with dread,

While headlines bloom in a cautious red,

A drone meets steel, then steel meets flame,
And “measured response” becomes the name,
U.S. bombs fall with practiced grace,
Precision-lit holes in a sovereign place.
“Freedom of navigation,” crisply said,
Means shipping must flow, and so might the dead.

 

 

Iran responds with a measured flare,

“Retaliation,” they note with care,

The Guard Corps signals, the region hums,

Each side insisting the other one’s dumb.

Diplomats juggle “restraint” and “force,”

Like gamblers convinced they can steer the course.

 

 

In Lebanon’s south, they draft a peace,
That promises tension will someday cease,
With “temporary” borders drawn in ink,
That history teaches are built to shrink,
Or stretch, or snap, depending who’s pressed,
While warlords and statesmen share the same jest.

 

 

Back home the Court draws lines in sand,

Then shifts them fast with a steady hand,

Protections vanish with legal grace,

Leaving whole families out of place.

Bosses stare at the empty shift,

“Wasn’t the workforce a critical gift?”

 

 

Texas drafts scripture into the day,

Where Genesis now meets standardized sway,

A burning bush may explain your grade,

If miracles count toward algebra made.

Church and state build “bridges,” they say,

While Madison quietly backs away.

 

 

And far to the north, the frontlines twist,

As Ukraine strikes with a practiced fist,

Supply lines falter, Crimea dims,

While Moscow reshuffles defensive whims.

The lesson repeats, both old and grim:

Escalate first, then blame the brim.

25 June 2026 (85704) (68703) MASA plus 508 insane days out of 1461 days (953  to go), followed by many days of senility.

 

The Supreme Court today allowed the Trump administration to end legal protections for migrants fleeing violence and natural disaster in Haiti and Syria, exposing hundreds of thousands more people to potential deportation. It marked another victory at the high court for Republican President Donald Trump’s sweeping crackdown on immigration. Lawyers said Haitian immigrants would be in danger if they are sent back. “Simply put, the Supreme Court’s ruling will directly result in thousands of innocent people dying violent, needless deaths,”

 

The DDT administration’s plan to deny mail-in ballots to states that would not give their voter rolls to federal  officials was this morning by a federal judge in Boston. “It is clear there is nowhere in the constitution and no federal law that the postal service is authorized to create these types of voter databases, verification systems or mandatory standards.”

 

For the first time in its history, New York's Rent Guidelines Board voted to freeze rents for both one-year and two-year leases for the city's one million rent-regulated apartments. Who3ever did this does not remember the Nixonn fiasco of freezing prices. It will force owners to let buildings deteriorate. He's insisted that landlords can weather a rent freeze, but landlords lambasted the decision, who say they are struggling with rising costs, like fuel, oil and insurance. They say a rent freeze would hurt their ability to maintain buildings.

"We're going to have to cut back. We're gonna have to lay off some of the people," said landlord Humberto Lopes. "We're gonna have to lay off supers. Only choice, it's a business. People don't get it. This is a business. It's not a choice that this is for free."

 

Russia is preparing to launch large-scale gasoline imports from India, amid growing domestic fuel shortages caused by a wave of Ukrainian drone strikes on critical oil refineries. In a sign of mounting pressure. The shortfall now accounts for about 20% of domestic consumption according to Reuters, and has pushed wholesale gasoline prices above 100 rubles (about $1.34 or about $5.36 per gallon.

 

 

The Court in robes, with polished tone,

Declared some lives less “overthrown,”

That storms and gangs and burning streets

Are footnotes tucked beneath their seats.

 

“Temporary” proved a borrowed shield,

Withdrawn the moment courts appealed;

So back they go, by order signed,

To chaos neatly redefined.

 

 

A tidy phrase, “enforce the law,”

Can mask what any eye once saw

That sending people back to die

Is a  policy we can sanitize.

 

 

New York froze rents with bold applause,

A popular and easy cause;

But boilers crack and ceilings bend,

While math and maintenance don’t pretend.

 

New York then froze a million rents,

A cure composed of good intents;

While boilers age and margins thin,

And paint prepares to peel again

 

 

“You capped the price, not what it costs,”

Say those who tally gain and loss;

So services will fade from view

Decay will bill what votes once knew.

 

 

And Russia, short on fuel and pride,

Now buys what war has burned inside;

A fifth runs dry, so tankers flow

From India’s ports to plug the hole.