Oct 142026
 

On Monday, I was thinking about what would be better if the Orange Julius dropped dead, or if he were impeached, or Article 25ed. Y’all know by now I’m worried about this – fearing we would be jumping out ofthe frying pan into the fire. After listening to Malcolm (and co-hosts) today, I’m thinking we would be better off if Putin were to be taken out – somehow. Andyes, I know he would be replaced. But whoever replaced him would not have a years-long relationship with Donald, or be immediately worshiped by him. Building a harness like that takes at least some time, during which he would be figuratively in free fall, and we might be able to accomplish something. Also on Monday, DHS raided the home of Ilhan Omar. And- besides that, Ukraine has taken out some (I think the number is 2 out of 6 total.) IF and when they finish that job, the direction of news coverage is going to change world wide.
(28 minutes well spent, filled with details the American press won’t tell you.)

I’ll bet y’all will easily guess how this story makes me feel. But I promise not to take it out on any of you. (1500 years older than Stonehenge, and 4,000 years older than the Nazca Lines. Grrrrr.)

I don’t know – I doubt anyone knows, least of all the Apricot Antichrist himself, whether he made this up out of thein air, saw it in a dream (Virgil is 3 years older, and from time to time dreams something and then believes it really happened), or whether it’s a post-hypnotic suggestion from Putin. It’s definitely not fact based. But if Zelenskyy caan get something out of it that’s worth getting, he likely will. On the other hand, hose Russian data centers are the hardware Russia has been using to interfere with elections (not just ours) for years – maybe decades – and I’d love to see them eliminated.

[alternate link]  This almost – but not quite – makes up for the bad news. One point which kind of frosts the cake is that Fresno is the partof California which Devin Nunes represented when he was in Congress. Trespassing, at least two counts of assault and one of battery – I’m guessing they can hold him for a while.

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Oct 222025
 

Yesterday, as if we didn’t have enough bad news from politics, I heard this from Carrie:

Barry is not going to recover. He is paralyzed from the neck down and now has pneumonia. We were unable to get him in Warm Springs because of insurance difficulties. He is in Columbus Specialty Hospital. Not what we wanted, but at least he is close by and we can monitor his care on a daily basis. I can’t really say anything else except please continue praying…. I want him to die peacefully in his sleep, and not suffer any pain or distress. Take care and thank you for your friendship. I could use a few prayers myself.

Regarding the SAM project I wrote about yesterday, I now have one picture of a projection onto a building in DC, and one video of an ad (30 seconds) they are running on Fox:


And the estimated participation in No Kings now include a maximum of up to 8.2 million (but there are also lower ones.)

I’m not sure where this is going – but I’m pretty sure it’s going somewhere. And I’m also pretty sure it happened only because killing human beings to their face, so to speak, is a little bit more obviously a war crime that blowing up their ship, especially with drones, and drowning it. It’s much harder to watch someone die.

Anyone who watches Rachel Maddow regularly has likely already seen this. I only have time to watch her sporadically. I’m not sure how to describe this. Outrageous or even atrocious don’t seem strong enough.

You’d probably have to be completely out of things to be unaware of the vandalism at the White House – but here’s an article anyway.

Guest video from Robert Reich. I expect we all hope he is 100% correct.

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