Oct 172026
 

As I expect everyone knows, today is No Kings Day 4.0. I’m looking forward to seeing photos of group and signs, and to hearing how big the total numbers are this time.

(not a video) I realize this is second hand – and I do subscribe to Axios – but only to their breaking news alerts. They don’t have the best reputation for lack of spin in their fuller reporting. So you can take what Adam says they said with a grain of salt. I do trust Adam, and you can see for yourself he’s good at distinguishing what Axios reported from what he is reporting. Also, this is not the full article – you can get it for free by clicking on “accepy your free article” – but if you do, I can’t guaranteeyou can ever do it again – on anyone’s Substack.

From VoteVets – one of the stars in may “Daily Four Star” email. Do not het your hopes up that recognizing that this is weakening us will lead to stopping it, or at least slowing it down. (I’m actually astonished that thre was even a small temporary admission, and I’m confident that even that will not last.)

And he’s right. It is a huge scandal that so much dark money in campaigns is perfectly legal. And that is only exacerbated by the fact that our lawmaking body – Congress – did not legislate rhis. It was legislated through our courts. Not what our founders intended, to be sure.

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Mar 072026
 

Yesterday, it snowed here. It was predicted – for about a fifth of an inch – it looks more like a half inch to me – but that’s just looking out the window. I didn’t measure it. The video today is long – about 48 minutes – but the subject is so huge, I don’t know how it could have been much shorter I won’t get upset if people choose to skip it. Just keep the title in the back of your mind.

This is a supplement to the daily “Chalet of the Two Spies” video update on the war in Iran. It’s no surprise to me. I don’t personally remember World War II (I was born before VJ Day, but only by days), but I remember Korea, and Vietnam, and Desert Storm, and I think it’s safe to say that all wars are subject to Hofstadter’s law (“Everything takes longer than you think it will, even after you have considered Hofstadter’s law.”) Doug and I went to the same high school – I graduated just before he moved to town when his father became a professor at Stanford. But I did meet him at the high school bridge club, which I kept attending because I was not good enough at it to play by tournament rules, which the university club required. (I never got terribly good.) I only have something like 3/8 of a master point.)

I can’t believe that there is anyone who reads here who has not noticed this happening. But Robert Reich says “All this has happened so suddenly that most Americans still haven’t noticed,” and he’s sadly probably correct, which means there are a lot of people who need to learn this. Please share it if you can.

Oh, good grief. WTF next? Will Ukraine ever catch a break? Certainly not from our country in the clutches of the Mango Monster. Ukrinform is on Substack, so I subscribed to it. One more new email every day, but we’ll never learn stuff like this from American media.

BREAKING: Sheldon Whitehouse Details Report On Alleged Ties Between Epstein, Trump, And Russia

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