Saturday, August 08, 2026

Iran Wants To Make A Deal

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School’s Out!

Today:
Senators wrapped up a busy final stretch of work early Saturday, confirming Todd Blanche to lead the Justice Department (DOJ) and passing a stopgap funding bill before adjourning for the August recess.
The Senate is out until mid-September.

Two weeks ago: Amanda B. Reckondwith
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Freedom Of…Exploitation?

And a continuing series on why we need AI data centers. Because China could beat us in the race to make the most “historically accurate” film about a fictional journey of a fictional man which is one of the pillars of what we know as Greek mythology.
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😶‍🌫️🙃

Ogles? Trump never heard of him.
Trump’s perfect record of endorsements remains intact.
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ETTD: Missile Gap Dept.

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Friday, August 07, 2026

Well, We’re Running Out Of Missiles…

... and Trump dare not send in the troops.

So what’s left?
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Democrats Need To Stop Arguing About Abstractions…

...said…somebody….
Buttigieg: You don’t have to be a lifelong Democrat to believe that one job ought to be enough in the American economy. You don’t have to be a bleeding-heart liberal to see that costs need to go down and wages need to go up, not the other way around.

You don’t have to belong to this political party or that political party to recognize that God does not belong to any political party in the United States of America, or to insist that people of every faith and any faith, if any, all deserve equal treatment, respect, dignity, and safety in this country.
Buttigieg: The choice could not be clearer. When it comes to the U.S. Senate, we have Abdul El-Sayed, who insists that money in politics has gone too far. And we have him running against Mike Rogers, who insists on being part of the problem.

We have one candidate, Abdul El-Sayed, who wants to expand affordable health care and keep more money in your pocket. And we have another candidate, Mike Rogers, who literally voted against the Affordable Care Act. And you better believe he will cut health care one more time if you give him a chance in the United States Senate.

So we will not let that happen. Mike Rogers has disqualified himself from going back to Washington.
The bubble is real.
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‘Each President is a temporary tenant…of the White House.’

Trump: “Two Judges, one appointed by Barack Hussein Obama, the other by Sleepy Joe Biden, said in a ruling on the desperately needed SECURE Ballroom/Military Complex, including a major DronePort on the roof, that ‘Each President is a temporary tenant…of the White House.’ We are not tenants, who pay rent and do all other things that a tenant must do, we are PRESIDENTS, elected by the people of the United States States of America, and have many rights, including the right to fix, renovate, secure, protect, and beautify the White House grounds, which has been built and rebuilt, renovated and rerenovated, repaired and, simply, MADE BETTER, many times since 1792, and never needing the permission of Congress, or anyone else, to do so. This decision, made after much of the work has been done and paid for, is a National Security Threat at the highest level. It is also a National Disgrace. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! President DONALD J. TRUMP”
You know that quote in the title is what set Trump off.

"which has been built and rebuilt, renovated and rerenovated, repaired and, simply, MADE BETTER, many times since 1792, and never needing the permission of Congress, or anyone else, to do so." 

 Oddly, the courts don’t know that history at all. Maybe because it’s completely fictional. 

Next time, instead of reading parts of the court opinion to him, maybe someone on his staff can read him Articles I and II of the Constitution.
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If Your Parent Was Doing This…

Trump: “Now that people are able to see it up close, they are reporting pure VANDALISM at The Reflecting Pool. Thank you Andrew Leyden for your observation! The material was cut right where the video tape showed, for 300 feet or more. People were on their knees with their hands in the water at the exact location of the ‘slashes.’ Additionally, there were witnesses to the VANDALISM, and the flexible areas of the material were cut with a knife. U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro should re-visit her hastily made decision, especially since it turned out that the ‘gentleman’ involved is a big player in ActBlue, a disgraceful fundraising SCAM, and is represented by a TRUMP DERANGED SLEAZEBAG, Political Hack Lawyer, Norm Eisen, and CREW, a group that uses “charity” for political purposes which is, to the best of my knowledge, ILLEGAL! I have been beating Eisen, a complete LUNATIC, in Court for 10 years, or more. He just keeps coming, but I always WIN! President DONALD J. TRUMP”
...you’d be removing sharp objects from reach, and calling a lawyer to find out about a guardianship.
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A+ On The Economy

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Somebody’s Gonna Have To Explain It To Me

I know everyone has a story like this, but my little sister had a beloved stuffed dinosaur (Doobie) that was lost on a family vacation in eastern Washington. My parents called the hotel, called every restaurant, and couldn't track Doobie down. I remember my mom actually crying she felt so badly for my sister. It was such a disaster that the whole neighborhood knew about it, and everyone was bereft at the loss of Doobie.

A few months later, we pulled into our driveway... and there was Doobie, sitting on the fence.

My parents told my sister he had walked all the way back to Seattle from Lake Chelan. I learned 20 years later that our neighbors saw a new Doobie at Costco, bought him, and made him look a little beat up to give the story credibility. But this is how normal people behave: When a child's most beloved stuffed animal is left, you move heaven and earth to get it back.
Any parent of a small child can tell a similar story to this. I know I’m only reading headlines, but according to them, this reprehensible representative has kept the favorite doll of his daughter away from her on multiple occasions. Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action.

Why this man is not restricted to severely limited, supervised visitations, is beyond me. 34 years ago when I was practicing family law, I could have gotten those limitations on a father like this just on the headline record I’ve read.

I am baffled by the lack of concern for the best interests of this poor child.
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Canada Took All Our Immigrants And Gave Them Jobs?

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Who?

Which Democrats is he talking about? Ossoff? Talarico? Dr. El-Sayed? Justin Pearson?

It may come as a shock, but the country can’t vote for Chuck Schumer or Hakeem Jeffries. All politics is local, and all midterms are about local races, representatives, and maybe a statewide Senate race.

The Democrats I mentioned are all talking about pocketbook issues. Maybe close your mouth and open your ears. I know the national political narrative is always about what matters to BosWash pundits. But the country doesn’t know your name.

The electorate does know who they’re voting for; or against.
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I’m Not Worried About The Pundit Narrative “Dems In Disarray”

Speaking of Platner: I have never seen a parent in a custody dispute face credible allegations of physical abuse and not say it’s a “hit job.” It always is, but the hits are physical, and not on the whining parent. Unemployment is GOOD for the economy!
VARNEY: We've had 3 months now of real weakness in the job market. Is the economy moving into a new phrase where we're losing jobs? That would not be good politically for the president

HASSETT: I don't think that's what we're seeing at all. One of the things we have to remember is that because we've been deporting folks, that put downward pressure on what the breakeven job number is.
See?
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Yeah, About That…

Touch grass.
Fox News melts down on live TV over Ken Paxton’s failing campaign: “WHERE IS PAXTON?! I’ve seen Mitch McConnell more than Paxton... Get out of your hole Paxton and DO SOMETHING! I can’t win this race for you! It’s not on Fox! ... Talarico is younger and has energy... THIS CANNOT HAPPEN!”
This is the most aggressive attack on Black political power since Jim Crow. You look at the last 12 months, you look at these Supreme Court cases, you look at this racist redistricting map in Texas — and I say racist because it is systematically diluting the voting power of Black and Brown Texans.

When you look at how the districts are now drawn, a white Texan has a lot more political power. Their vote matters more than the vote of our Black and brown neighbors. It’s why, a year ago yesterday, my colleagues and I in the Texas House took the extraordinary step of breaking quorum.

We left the state of Texas and we went up to Illinois in order to prevent them from getting quorum. They couldn’t take up these new maps because we were gone. They called the Texas Rangers on us to find us and and arrest us and bring us back to the Capitol.
The only people paying attention to the pundits are…the pundits.
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Baghdad Bob Explains It All For You

And if you use Trump math, drug prices are down 600%. If you take into account how many people have stopped looking for jobs, the unemployment numbers are actually better than reported!
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Trump Doesn’t Understand Birthright Citizenship

It’s the “birth” part that seems to confuse him. You can “come in with a family.” But only the statutory naturalization process will make that entire family citizens.

He clearly doesn’t understand that. 🤦‍♂️
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“They’re not angry with me!”

"They’re not angry with me!”
"They're angry at Republicans," Trump said, "but they're not angry at me."

Trump argued that his hands were tied when it came to helping GOP candidates because he isn't running himself.

"If I am not running, will those people go out and vote?" Trump asked. "Because a lot of them are very angry at Republicans, to be honest with you."
That’s Biden’s fault. Biden’s fault, too. But the AI data centers! And the factories! 🏭 

How many days is it until the midterms?
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Thursday, August 06, 2026

😱 v 🦗🦗🦗🦗

When Trump hints he might stay forever (a/k/a trolling), the usual fish bite. But when he hints that Carville may be right…

🦗🦗🦗
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Just A Reminder

There is no such thing as Christian megalomania. It’s the opposite. It’s Christian servanthood. “The first of all shall be last of all and servant of all.”
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And This Shall Be A Radical Sign Unto You

"Radical” comes to English from the Latin radix, or “root.” To be “radical” is to start from the root.
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New Border Sign:

"BILLIONAIRES AND THEIR FAMILIES WELCOME! All others, get in line. And have your financial statements ready.” Does he understand human biology? On people able to bear 98 children?
Miller: The idea that people come here pretending to be a tourist, pretend to be a visitor, saying they want to go to Disneyland… but the real reason they're here is to have a child, to make that child into automatic citizen, leave our country, and then have a US citizen child…

That practice is now banned
It’s already banned. By law. You know, those things Congress makes, and Presidents don’t?
Stephen Miller: The president is using his authority as commander in chief, to sign first an executive order using the new rule in the Supreme Court issued to expand the definitions of people who are ineligible for birthright citizenship

That includes, for example, alien enemies of the United States, members of foreign terrorist organizations and large categories of people who lobby and act on behalf of foreign governments
"Commander-in-chief" doesn’t reach as far as you think it does. And the Supremes did not give Trump authority to augment the law with new definitions. Alien enemies have always been exempt from birthright citizenship. People who lobby and act on behalf of foreign governments can be U.S. citizens, and so can their children. Congress gets to make those distinctions. Trump doesn’t. "Ending in a different way”? Trump is certainly out of ideas. Less than 100 days until the midterms (far less, if you calculate early voting), and while Trump is anxious (arguably): This is what he thinks is an appropriate response.

And all he can offer is “Vote Republican to keep us in power!” It’s the only thing about the job he understands.
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Is It Some Kind Of Disease Process In The GOP?

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What We Now Call Communism

The young people here might not remember this, but those of you who are a little older might. Not so long ago, you could afford to live a good life here in America.

You could buy a home in your 20s. You could go to college for cheap or free. You could support a whole family on one paycheck. You could afford to get married, have kids, and retire comfortably. You could fulfill your God-given potential.

We called it the American Dream.

In the middle of the 20th century, we invested in healthcare and education. We built homes and highways. We protected workers' rights and paychecks. We blocked consolidation and encouraged competition. We built the largest, strongest middle class in the history of the world.

But today that middle class has disappeared. For too many of our neighbors, the American Dream has become an American Nightmare.

We can't afford a home, but Jeff Bezos has at least a dozen. We can't afford to fill up our tank, but Mark Zuckerberg is launching helicopters from his mega-yacht. One in five Texas children live in poverty — but one of our residents became the world's first trillionaire.

The top 1% put the American Dream behind a paywall.
50 years ago, a corporate lawyer named Lewis Powell circulated a memo around DC — a blueprint for how corporations could amass political power, reverse the gains of the Great Society and the New Deal, and rig the system for themselves.

The Powell memo outlined a strategy. Unite corporate special interests, privilege corporate perspectives in the media, appoint sympathetic judges to the court, and buy politicians in both political parties.

And it worked. Republicans and some Democrats sold the false gospel of trickle-down economics. Trickle-down economics is not a theory, it is theft.

Since the late 1970s, mega donors and corporate special interests have been buying politicians in both political parties. And then those politicians turned around and rigged the economy to benefit their wealthy donors at our expense.

We have an affordability crisis because we have a corruption crisis.
We are getting screwed. Whether you're a little more conservative or a little more progressive — none of us can afford groceries, none of us can afford gas, none of us can afford healthcare.

The billionaires buying politicians like Ken Paxton don't care who you are. They don't care about your politics. They only care about their profits.

They see us as one opposing team — so we might as well start acting like one.
When Greg Abbott starts sounding like James Talarico, the Overton Window is moving:
We cannot let artificial intelligence become yet another arena where billionaires write the rules for the rest of us. Working people must get a say and a share of that AI future.

We can start by cracking down on the data centers that are jacking up our utility bills and using up all our water.

And we can establish an AI dividend, so every American citizen owns a piece of these American AI companies. If they are going to use our human ingenuity and our collective intellectual property, then we want our royalty checks.
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🥣

This is psychotic behavior. It’s not just malignant narcissism and dementia. He has lost contact with the objective world and expects everyone to live in his alternate reality with him. It’s all manufactured by his own psyche and no amount of evidence will change it.

This is a terrified inner psyche constructing a protective world. He’s insane and existentially dangerous.

“Jeanine Pirro made a mistake. It was vandalism. I just told you we did, I think, 78. One of the things was to reflecting pool, hasn’t worked since 1922, because it always leaked. It always leaked from 1922. You know, it's the largest longest pool ever, all that. The concept is beautiful, but it always leaked because of the size, because of maintenance, whatever. But it was built in 1922, and from the day it was built, it like, Biden spent $58 million. Barack Hussein Obama spent much more than that. He said, "I have an idea. Let's take the river from, let's take the water from the Potomac." So they took the water from the Potomac, and it was putrid. It was putrid. It was a disaster. Biden was a disaster. I said, "I'm going to get that face." Along with Doug Burgum, Department of Interior, and we worked harder than that. Now we worked harder in all '70s. It's actually, I think, '81 now. You saw the new horses that just opened by the bridge with the gold. That was the way they were many years ago. Now they looked better than they did many years ago. But these monuments looked better than they did when they were originally built. Not just a little fix up. We made them the way they were plus, and everyone's so proud. The biggest, one of the bigger jobs was not really the biggest, believe it or not, but one of the biggest was the reflecting pool. And we did a great job. We sandblasted the stonehouse at his granite, so it has a long life. We did a great job. We got very expensive material to put on top of the surface that always leaked, because it was stone. It was a stone, sir. Always leaked. And we put it on, and it was beautiful. Now we have photographs of tapes, like moving cameras, right? We have them where people are on the side, cutting it with a box knife. So now I'm not saying I was 100% thrilled with the contractor, but the contractor was rushing. We wanted to get it open for July 4th. And we got it done. But in addition, there was mandalism. Number one, look at the grass, where the grass was all knocked out with a very powerful ingredient. We know very well what it is. But like I say, the name, because people get ideas. But they put a terrible phrase, I won't say that either, but a terrible phrase, on a massive piece of grass that we had just replaced. Kill the grass. We had to replace the grass. A lot of grass. In addition, they took knives or cutters, and they cut the material. And they put their hands and they pulled it. And there was also some maintenance things that we would have routinely fixed. But we had that up, and it was perfect. And then you had the bubblers, which get rid of what forms in the water. And that works great, but they turned it up because of the fight. Because it competed a little bit of noise during the fight. They turned it off, and it grows very rapidly in the water. But that actually works very well. And that's all. So now we're just about set to reopen it. And we had to replace cut areas where they cut it and ripped it. But there's a tape. And Jesse Wooders, by the way, did a whole big thing on it. There's a tape that's out there that I posted on truth. Where you have people leaning over the side, the weakest part, because of the flexibility. You know it moves. It's very complicated. It moves. And the softest part has to be flexible. And that's the stuff you can cut. And these guys knew what they were doing. And they cut all the way along the base, cut, cut, cut. Now, when you need to look at it, it was a day after the 4th of July, with the largest fireworks display in the world.”
I can’t assess the clinical claims (Right? Wrong?), but just reading that transcript, the man’s brain is a nest of spiders. That’s not thought, that’s just soup sloshing around in a bowl.
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Not On This Planet

Nope.
OPEC data from secondary sources shows Venezuela pumped just over one million barrels per day during June 2026. This represents an impressive 17.6% increase over 2025, although it is less than half of the 2.1 million barrels lifted for the same month a decade earlier. Indeed, the collapse of Venezuela's once mighty petroleum sector didn't begin in earnest until late 2018 as lower oil prices and then stricter U.S. sanctions hit the country's oil industry hard.
Permian Basin oil production is 6.6 million bpd.

To reach a production of 1 billion barrels, Venezuela would have to match June 2026 production for 1000 months, or about 3 years.

Trump is an innumerate fabulist who has absolutely no idea what he’s talking about. On any subject.
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Wednesday, August 05, 2026

This Is Why We Need More Data Centers

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“They Don’t Laugh.” 😹

They’re not laughing at us anymore. They just think we’re a nation of illiterates. Led by an innumerate man. And: “created”? I’m an old guy, I take a handful of daily drugs. None of them have gone down in price in all the years I’ve been taking them. Certainly nothing I buy, at all, has decreased in price by 600%. Especially gasoline. Like drug prices down 600%? Is that why we’re paying them back? "Facts are stupid things.” The whole point of a high profile endorsement is to raise awareness of the endorsed candidate. No one would be comforted by Trump comparing his love for Jews to his concern for his children. Jake Tapper has entered the chat. (He went after Jill Biden over her book.) Obama, Biden…does it matter? I know I had to change back in ‘25. Damned inconvenient. 5 year olds talk like this.
Trump: "You see it in the blue states run by Democrats -- everything is filthy dirty all the time. The cities stink, they smell. The sidewalks are loaded with horrible stuff. I don't want to use the term because my wife hates it. She hates it when I imitate no men in women's sports. She hates it when I do the weightlifter."
We’ve finally found something she has in common with the American people. It’s a representative government. Trump was in Nevada for a political rally.
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It’s Okay

The Houthis have announced that they targeted the Saudi oil tanker Wafa with an undisclosed number of missiles in the northern Red Sea off the coast of Yanbu, marking the 8th Saudi Arabian oil tanker targeted and the total number of Saudi tankers diverted since July 22 to 29.

The statement is significant because it explicitly expands the Houthis' targeting to include Saudi tankers operating in the northern Red Sea, representing a notable geographic escalation beyond the Bab al Mandeb and southern Red Sea.
We’re waiting for the Strait to open up and it's partially opened anyway and we control the strait. As you know.
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Choose Your Psychotic Break With Reality

Trump: We have a very good day today. They don't like to say that—the Iranians. They always like to say we didn't discuss that. People had found out that's not true.

…if the strait opens up and it's partially opened anyway and as you know we control the strait.. oil will go down to $2.50 a gallon.
"…if the strait opens up and it's partially opened anyway and as you know we control the strait"? So the Strait is in the box with Schrödinger’s cat?
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Monster

Not the daughter. Not the wife.

Monster.
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Data Centers Are GOOD For You!

Abbott is up for reelection in Texas. Data centers are wildly unpopular in rural Texas, where GOP support is strongest.
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This Just Gets Worse And Worse

It doesn’t take a week to break a collarbone. A few minutes on one day out of 11 is sufficient. And complaining that taking your daughter to the ER is a violation of the custody order?

Children are ALWAYS the battlefield in a divorce. Rarely are they the physical battlefield, though.

This man is not fit to live among decent people. He needs to be kept from his child. Permanently. And allowed only the strictest, supervised visitation.
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Tuesday, August 04, 2026

Protecting 🌞?

Trump: For many years, the vast Majority of Americans have asked to make Daylight Saving Time permanent, but no Administration has been able to get it done, until now. I am proud to announce that the House of Representatives has passed the Bill, and it has now gone to the Senate for final approval. People are sick and tired of having to change their clocks twice a year. It is foolish, inconvenient and, in some cases, very costly. For Cities and States with Watchtowers, and hard to reach places, it costs Millions of Dollars. A recent case was made that it is also bad for your health in the anxiety it creates. Leading Medical, Crime, and Economic Studies have shown that ceasing the biannual time change, giving us one extra hour of natural sunlight in the evenings, will help Decrease Robbery and Murder Rates, Reduce Car Accidents (especially those involving Pedestrians!), Lower Risk for Cardiac Issues, Stroke, and Seasonal Depression, Make It Safer for Children to Walk Home from School, Increase Time with your Family, Strongly Support Extracurricular Activities, Boost the Sports, Fitness, Tourism, Retail, and Restaurant Industries (and more!), and Save Money on Energy Bills, because everyone will be enjoying an EXTRA HOUR OF DAYLIGHT. In other words, leave it as it is now, and never change again. This is an issue that Republicans, Democrats, and Independents can unite behind. I am asking Republican Senators to release their holds, and allow the hotline to clear on the Republican side. LET'S PASS THE SUNSHINE PROTECTION ACT, ASAP.
I remember this from 1973. 
In cities such as Detroit, Indianapolis, Minneapolis and Seattle, the sun didn’t rise until around 9 a.m. “Almost everybody [was] getting up in the dark and going to work and to school in the dark,” Prerau says.

Newspapers wrote about the disorientation. “Commuter trains from New Jersey were delayed, many school children missed their free breakfasts, some workers walked to subways and buses with trepidation, and many people felt strange yesterday as the day began an hour earlier for most in an eerie darkness,” The New York Times reported on January 8, 1974.

Safety fears escalated quickly. Prerau notes that a 16‑year‑old Chicago boy was struck and killed on his way to school and that other children died in predawn accidents in Virginia, Ohio, Louisiana, Pennsylvania and California. The worst cluster occurred in Florida, where eight children were killed in the first weeks of winter DST, compared with two during the same period the previous year.

Farm families described children “waiting on dark country roads for buses as cars were whizzing past them,” Prerau says, while in cities, parents worried about kids navigating abandoned streets before sunrise. In response, an insurance company handed out reflective “hot dots” for children’s coats, and according to The New York Times, Dallas schools spent $9,000 on reflector signs. Some schools even delayed their start times.

Public opinion on the clock change flipped within a few months. A University of Chicago survey found support for year‑round DST dropped from 79 percent in December to 42 percent in February. “There seemed to be some indication that there were more deaths and everyone got a little nervous,” a House staffer told The New York Times.

Calls for repeal soon began in Congress, according to the February 3, 1974, Times article. “It’s time to recognize that we may well have made a mistake,” Senator Dick Clark of Iowa said.

By fall 1974, Congress repealed year-round daylight saving time, and President Gerald Ford signed the amendment on October 5, 1974. “It was a big national issue all of a sudden, and it hadn’t really been one when it passed,” Prerau says.
If history repeats itself and the Senate passes the Sunshine Protection Act (and why shouldn’t they? They’re ignoring everything else Americans want, as well as history.), it will start rhyming in very short order.
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I Have Been Informed…

...reliably, or not, that the USAG is not like lower AUSA’s, who serve limited interims. The AG can be an interim in perpetuity. So the vote on Blanche just means: Yeah, that’s pretty much what it means. What’s stunning is that the GOP keeps putting its seal of approval on whatever disastrous decision Trump makes, even 90 days before the midterms.
Main thing potentially standing in way of Blanche’s confirmation now is the votes of 3 key senators:
Lisa Murkowski
Susan Collins
Bill Cassidy

All three voted to convict Trump re 1/6

Cassidy is retiring / YOLO

Collins needs Trump voters this fall but also indies / some Ds

Murkowski was elected mostly by Ds/Is + R establishment $
This could happen, but I’m not holding my breath. If it does, Trump just keeps Blanche in the office, and two senators reap small political benefits. So it goes. VOTE REPUBLICAN ANYWAY!

I will also continue to point out that the “deal” that Steele is describing is the status quo as long as Trump is in office. (And point out Clinton went out of his way to appoint an AG who was not of his “inner circle,” precisely to keep DOJ at arm’s length. Gingrich impeached him anyway, just because he could.) Putting it in writing, and in a case where the AG nominee has been credibly accused of committing fraud on the court, a first in American history, is, I think, a fast track to a challenge to the statute of limitations (if applicable), and a tolling of such statutes, because the smart ones don’t put the evidence of their corrupt intent in writing.

And that’s all this can reasonably be construed to be: evidence of corrupt intent. And a conspiracy; but that’s getting ahead of the game. It’s no accident Blanche prepared this document, and went to court to make it “official” (the “fraud on the court “) immediately after Capital One revealed (in a lawsuit Trump brought against them) that they had credible evidence he was using his accounts for money laundering.

So this is rank corruption; but if we, the people, do the right thing in 2028, and that President does the right thing in 2029, we can start to scrub away this stain on the national escutcheon.
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Raising The Question…

Why does Miller have custody at all?

Why aren’t there at least supervised visitations? I’d be demanding that if the wife was my client.

If that doesn’t, this does:
🤯 Rep. Max Miller's interview with Jake Tapper is an utter trainwreck 🤯

Miller went on CNN to try to push back against credible accusations that he abused his ex-wife and child, but he only made things worse for himself. He threatened his ex-wife's father (Sen. Bernie Moreno) with blackmail material, defended publicly releasing a nude image of his daughter ("there was no genitalia exposed"), and insisted he's not leaving the race because he's inspired by the example President Trump set in 2016

In short, it was a disaster. Here's the whole thing:
This guy makes Platner look like an Eagle Scout. But that involved the entire Democratic Party, didn’t it?
RAJU: Sen. Moreno is calling for Max Miller to resign. Do you side with Moreno?

THUNE: It's a family matter and, um, I don't have any observations beyond that

Q: If a member of Congress is facing domestic abuse allegations, should they continue to serve?

THUNE: It's a House matter. It's a family issue too.
I practiced family law a good two decades before “Me, Too.” And even then, there was zero tolerance for child abuse, and allegations of child abuse were taken very seriously.

This is reprehensible and inexcusable.
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“Money Is Not Meant For People! Money Is Meant For Business!”

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Well….

Now we know why he’s thinking about WWII:
The U.S. Army has used up “virtually all” of its stockpile of highly accurate long-range missiles during the last five months since the start of the Iran War - munitions which would be crucial in any conflict with China - including most of its stock of Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) and Precision Strike Missiles (PrSM), three people familiar with the data tell Reuters.
President Trump says Iran has a "last chance" to reach an agreement on the Strait of Hormuz, warning that if a deal is not reached "today or tomorrow," the U.S. could launch major airstrikes.

Speaking Monday, Trump said he wants Iran to quickly reach an agreement with Oman to restore shipping through the strategic waterway, while rejecting any arrangement that would allow Tehran to charge transit fees. "There's not going to be charging," Trump said, referring to commercial shipping through the strait.

The comments come as negotiations appear stalled. Iranian officials continue to insist Tehran has the right to regulate maritime traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, while an adviser to Iran's supreme leader warned U.S. warships and bases would be at "serious danger" if Washington does not lift its blockade of Iranian ports. Bloomberg reports there is little sign of progress in the Oman-mediated talks, despite Trump's latest ultimatum.
We have to revert to gravity bombs. After only 5 months.

The world’s only hyper power. Fully rebuilt military. Greatest in the world. Smashed up like a kid’s Army toys in the sandbox. After only five months.

The kid would make it last longer.
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Since taking office, Ken Paxton has become a multi-millionaire — all while most Texans’ pay has remained stagnant for decades. He now owns 15 homes, while most Texans can't afford one. He's taken bribes from wealthy donors, all while he blocks overtime pay for Texas workers and guts our healthcare. He was one of the Attorneys General who led the fight against the Affordable Care Act, which has led to premiums skyrocketing for Texans all over the state. He's taken these lavish vacations to Iceland, to England on the 4th of July… Most Texans can't afford to take a vacation.

Ken Paxton's corruption is costing us in the state of Texas. It's why the people closest to Ken Paxton know he's unfit for office. His own party impeached him in the Texas House. His own staff reported him to the FBI. His own defense attorney just endorsed me in this race. I'm kind of expecting his family dog to run away and head over to my house any day now.

In a time when we're all so divided, there is one thing that Texans — Democrats, Independents, and Republicans — can agree on: We can't afford Ken Paxton's corruption.
It’s the “family dog” line that makes it art.

In the video, Talarico analyzes the present time in terms I completely agree with. What he says is worth reading; but this is also worth listening to.
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“It’s A Family Matter”

NEWSNATION: The abuse allegations against Rep. Max Miller -- Moreno says Miller should resign, but President Trump disagrees. Do you think Miller should step down?

REP. JIMMY PATRONIS: No. I agree with the president. This is a family fight. Unfortunately, divorces are messy. There are two sides to every story.
And sometimes they involve criminal acts.
"The first time Miller shared the folder, it contained private images of Miller and Ms. Moreno's daughter and left her name unredacted. At least one of those images could be considered Child Sexual Abuse Material (SAM) because the daughter's genitals appear to be visible. The photo was in a document entitled EX-306_OFW-Messages-Feb-1-to-25-2026-with-Attachments and labeled IMG_9158 in the bottom-right corner. The post with the link to the folder—published under your name—garnered over 204,000 views from the time it was posted until this afternoon.

“We write to demand an explanation about how this occurred.”
This is separate and apart from the allegation that he broke his two year old daughter’s collarbone.
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When Someone Tells You Who They Are…

...believe them. I keep thinking of how this might have affected Cornyn if he were the one running against Talarico. Especially with Maxwell in Bryan, Texas.
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