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Catching up on one of the best shows on TV right now
#Dave #FXX #DaveOnFXX https://trakt.tv/shows/dave/seasons/3/episodes/3
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USC Morning Buzz: Pete Carroll-Mack Brown Rematch Scheduled
Pete Carroll and Mack Brown have been named coaches of the 2027 Polynesian Bowl, a rematch of their legendary national title game at the Rose Bowl.
Does Carroll promise to have Reggue Bush on the field on fourth down this time around?
Carroll probably loved the idea of going to Hawaii for a football since he’s had a home there for years.
- Here’s a note on new USC guard Jadis Jones, a transfer from Lindenwood. He is really adept at driving to the basket. That’s good because he did not make a 3-point last season. He made two 3-point shots two years ago.
Someone is going to need to make 3-point shots for USC. Maybe Alijah Arenas will improve on his 21 percent 3-point shooting.
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USC Morning Buzz: Pete Carroll-Mack Brown Rematch Scheduled
Pete Carroll and Mack Brown have been named coaches of the 2027 Polynesian Bowl, a rematch of their legendary national title game at the Rose Bowl.
Does Carroll promise to have Reggue Bush on the field on fourth down this time around?
Carroll probably loved the idea of going to Hawaii for a football since he’s had a home there for years.
- Here’s a note on new USC guard Jadis Jones, a transfer from Lindenwood. He is really adept at driving to the basket. That’s good because he did not make a 3-point last season. He made two 3-point shots two years ago.
Someone is going to need to make 3-point shots for USC. Maybe Alijah Arenas will improve on his 21 percent 3-point shooting.
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USC Morning Buzz: Pete Carroll-Mack Brown Rematch Scheduled
Pete Carroll and Mack Brown have been named coaches of the 2027 Polynesian Bowl, a rematch of their legendary national title game at the Rose Bowl.
Does Carroll promise to have Reggue Bush on the field on fourth down this time around?
Carroll probably loved the idea of going to Hawaii for a football since he’s had a home there for years.
- Here’s a note on new USC guard Jadis Jones, a transfer from Lindenwood. He is really adept at driving to the basket. That’s good because he did not make a 3-point last season. He made two 3-point shots two years ago.
Someone is going to need to make 3-point shots for USC. Maybe Alijah Arenas will improve on his 21 percent 3-point shooting.
#collegeFootball #featured #FightOn #FOOTBALL #usc -
USC Morning Buzz: Pete Carroll-Mack Brown Rematch Scheduled
Pete Carroll and Mack Brown have been named coaches of the 2027 Polynesian Bowl, a rematch of their legendary national title game at the Rose Bowl.
Does Carroll promise to have Reggue Bush on the field on fourth down this time around?
Carroll probably loved the idea of going to Hawaii for a football since he’s had a home there for years.
- Here’s a note on new USC guard Jadis Jones, a transfer from Lindenwood. He is really adept at driving to the basket. That’s good because he did not make a 3-point last season. He made two 3-point shots two years ago.
Someone is going to need to make 3-point shots for USC. Maybe Alijah Arenas will improve on his 21 percent 3-point shooting.
#collegeFootball #featured #FightOn #FOOTBALL #usc -
Moments before leaving office, President Joe Biden commuted the life sentence of Indigenous activist #Leonard #Peltier, who was convicted in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents.
Peltier was denied parole as recently as July and wasn’t eligible for parole again until 2026. He was serving life in prison for the deaths of the agents during a standoff on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.
He will transition to home confinement, Biden said in a statement.
Bureau of Prisons spokesperson Emery Nelson said after Biden’s commutation that Peltier remained incarcerated Monday at USP Coleman, a high-security prison in Florida.
The fight for Peltier’s freedom is entangled with the Indigenous rights movements.
Nearly half a century later, his name remains a rallying cry.
An enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa in North Dakota, Peltier was active in the American Indian Movement,
which began in the 1960s as a local organization in Minneapolis that grappled with issues of police brutality and discrimination against Native Americans. It quickly became a national force.
The movement grabbed headlines in 1973 when it took over the village of Wounded Knee on Pine Ridge
— the Oglala Lakota Nation’s reservation
— leading to a 71-day standoff with federal agents.
Tensions between the movement and the government remained high for years.
On June 26, 1975, agents went to Pine Ridge to serve arrest warrants amid battles over Native treaty rights and self-determination.
After being injured in a shootout, agents Jack Coler and Ronald Williams were shot in the head at close range, the FBI said.
American Indian Movement member Joseph Stuntz was also killed in the shootout.
Two other movement members and Peltier’s co-defendants, Robert Robideau and Dino Butler, were acquitted of killing Coler and Williams.
After fleeing to Canada and being extradited to the United States, Peltier was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder and was sentenced in 1977 to life in prison, despite defense claims that evidence against him had been falsified.
Biden’s action Monday followed decades of lobbying and protests on Peltier’s behalf by Native American leaders, human rights activists, liberal lawmakers and celebrities who maintain he was wrongfully convicted.
Amnesty International has long considered Peltier a political prisoner.
Advocates for his release have included Archbishop Desmond Tutu, civil rights icon Coretta Scott King, actor and director Robert Redford and musicians Pete Seeger, Harry Belafonte and Jackson Browne.https://apnews.com/article/leonard-peltier-biden-pardons-eba525b713f2ec739b84aa4426366775
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Comment destituer ce salopard, pour de vrai, suite
Ce n’est pas impossible. Lors des prochaines élections de mi-mandat, il est probable que la sénatrice républicaine du Maine, Susan Collins, soit remplacée par un démocrate (soit Janet Mills, soit Graham Platner). Je suppose également que l’ancien gouverneur de Caroline du Nord, Roy Cooper, succédera au sénateur républicain Thom Tillis, qui prend sa retraite.
Et j’aimerais croire que les braves gens de l’Ohio verront la lumière et rééliront Sherrod Brown plutôt que Jon Husted, cet imbécile qui a été nommé pour terminer le mandat de JD Vance.
James Talarico pourrait remporter le siège républicain du Sénat du Texas actuellement occupé par John Cornyn. En Alaska, je parierais sur la victoire de Mary Peltola face au sénateur républicain sortant Dan Sullivan. Au Nebraska, on peut supposer que Dan Osborn l’emportera sur le sénateur républicain sortant Pete Ricketts. Et ainsi de suite.
Parmi les sénateurs républicains élus pour la dernière fois en 2022 et qui se présenteront aux élections de novembre 2028, certains sont vulnérables parce qu’ils se trouvent dans des États indécis, comme Ted Budd en Caroline du Nord et Ron Johnson dans le Wisconsin ; ou dans des États qui pourraient être disputés, comme Todd Young dans l’Indiana ; ou encore parce qu’ils sont exposés à des changements au sein de leur propre parti, comme John Kennedy en Louisiane et Tim Scott en Caroline du Sud.
Ces vulnérabilités signifient que leurs électeurs pourraient les pousser à voter pour la condamnation de Trump lors d’une procédure de destitution, sous peine de voter contre eux en 2028.
Il est donc possible d’obtenir les 67 voix au Sénat, mes amis. Et il est absolument indispensable que nous essayions.
Les grandes manifs « No Kings » doivent être considérées comme un prélude à une campagne visant suffisamment de sénateurs républicains sortants et de sièges à pourvoir pour renverser la majorité au Sénat cet automne, et pour faire pression sur les républicains en lice pour la réélection en 2028 afin qu’ils s’acquittent de leur devoir constitutionnel.
C’est maintenant qu’il faut montrer l’ampleur et l’intensité de l’engagement des États-Unis à destituer Trump, pour le bien de nous tous.
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Comment destituer ce salopard, pour de vrai, suite
Ce n’est pas impossible. Lors des prochaines élections de mi-mandat, il est probable que la sénatrice républicaine du Maine, Susan Collins, soit remplacée par un démocrate (soit Janet Mills, soit Graham Platner). Je suppose également que l’ancien gouverneur de Caroline du Nord, Roy Cooper, succédera au sénateur républicain Thom Tillis, qui prend sa retraite.
Et j’aimerais croire que les braves gens de l’Ohio verront la lumière et rééliront Sherrod Brown plutôt que Jon Husted, cet imbécile qui a été nommé pour terminer le mandat de JD Vance.
James Talarico pourrait remporter le siège républicain du Sénat du Texas actuellement occupé par John Cornyn. En Alaska, je parierais sur la victoire de Mary Peltola face au sénateur républicain sortant Dan Sullivan. Au Nebraska, on peut supposer que Dan Osborn l’emportera sur le sénateur républicain sortant Pete Ricketts. Et ainsi de suite.
Parmi les sénateurs républicains élus pour la dernière fois en 2022 et qui se présenteront aux élections de novembre 2028, certains sont vulnérables parce qu’ils se trouvent dans des États indécis, comme Ted Budd en Caroline du Nord et Ron Johnson dans le Wisconsin ; ou dans des États qui pourraient être disputés, comme Todd Young dans l’Indiana ; ou encore parce qu’ils sont exposés à des changements au sein de leur propre parti, comme John Kennedy en Louisiane et Tim Scott en Caroline du Sud.
Ces vulnérabilités signifient que leurs électeurs pourraient les pousser à voter pour la condamnation de Trump lors d’une procédure de destitution, sous peine de voter contre eux en 2028.
Il est donc possible d’obtenir les 67 voix au Sénat, mes amis. Et il est absolument indispensable que nous essayions.
Les grandes manifs « No Kings » doivent être considérées comme un prélude à une campagne visant suffisamment de sénateurs républicains sortants et de sièges à pourvoir pour renverser la majorité au Sénat cet automne, et pour faire pression sur les républicains en lice pour la réélection en 2028 afin qu’ils s’acquittent de leur devoir constitutionnel.
C’est maintenant qu’il faut montrer l’ampleur et l’intensité de l’engagement des États-Unis à destituer Trump, pour le bien de nous tous.
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Comment destituer ce salopard, pour de vrai, suite
Ce n’est pas impossible. Lors des prochaines élections de mi-mandat, il est probable que la sénatrice républicaine du Maine, Susan Collins, soit remplacée par un démocrate (soit Janet Mills, soit Graham Platner). Je suppose également que l’ancien gouverneur de Caroline du Nord, Roy Cooper, succédera au sénateur républicain Thom Tillis, qui prend sa retraite.
Et j’aimerais croire que les braves gens de l’Ohio verront la lumière et rééliront Sherrod Brown plutôt que Jon Husted, cet imbécile qui a été nommé pour terminer le mandat de JD Vance.
James Talarico pourrait remporter le siège républicain du Sénat du Texas actuellement occupé par John Cornyn. En Alaska, je parierais sur la victoire de Mary Peltola face au sénateur républicain sortant Dan Sullivan. Au Nebraska, on peut supposer que Dan Osborn l’emportera sur le sénateur républicain sortant Pete Ricketts. Et ainsi de suite.
Parmi les sénateurs républicains élus pour la dernière fois en 2022 et qui se présenteront aux élections de novembre 2028, certains sont vulnérables parce qu’ils se trouvent dans des États indécis, comme Ted Budd en Caroline du Nord et Ron Johnson dans le Wisconsin ; ou dans des États qui pourraient être disputés, comme Todd Young dans l’Indiana ; ou encore parce qu’ils sont exposés à des changements au sein de leur propre parti, comme John Kennedy en Louisiane et Tim Scott en Caroline du Sud.
Ces vulnérabilités signifient que leurs électeurs pourraient les pousser à voter pour la condamnation de Trump lors d’une procédure de destitution, sous peine de voter contre eux en 2028.
Il est donc possible d’obtenir les 67 voix au Sénat, mes amis. Et il est absolument indispensable que nous essayions.
Les grandes manifs « No Kings » doivent être considérées comme un prélude à une campagne visant suffisamment de sénateurs républicains sortants et de sièges à pourvoir pour renverser la majorité au Sénat cet automne, et pour faire pression sur les républicains en lice pour la réélection en 2028 afin qu’ils s’acquittent de leur devoir constitutionnel.
C’est maintenant qu’il faut montrer l’ampleur et l’intensité de l’engagement des États-Unis à destituer Trump, pour le bien de nous tous.
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Sitting Pretty.
A tiny mountain hare leveret sitting bolt upright, ears raised to listen to every unusual sound it hears. It pays to be ultra cautious when you're this small.
I photographed this gorgeous little character for over an hour on a summer's day, on a hillside in the Scottish Highlands.
Brown when growing up, but white in time for the winter. Incredible creatures.
#MountainHare #hare #leveret #ScottishHighlands #WildlifePhotography #NaturePhotography #cute #Scotland
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Netflix Upfront: Here’s What Happened At Sunset Pier With JLo, Millie Bobby Brown, Florence Pugh, Pete Davidson, Alix Earle & ‘The Hunting Wives’
#News #FlorencePugh #JenniferLopez #MillieBobbyBrown #Netflix #TheHuntingWives #Upfrontshttps://deadline.com/2026/05/netflix-upfront-highlights-recap-jlo-millie-bobby-brown-26-1236901773/
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Why not roll back the #15thAmendment and #13thAmendment while they're at it!! WTF!
Secretary of Defense #PeteHegseth promotes repealing #WomensRightToVote
by Judd Legum
Aug 11, 2025"Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, who oversees about 3 million military service members and civilian employees, reposted a video last week advocating repealing the #19thAmendment, which guarantees women the right to vote. The video is an excerpt from CNN anchor Pamela Brown's interview with #ChristianNationalist pastor #DougWilson, who Brown reports believes 'women shouldn't be able to vote.'
"Brown speaks to two pastors in Wilson's Idaho church who agree with Wilson. 'In my ideal society, we would vote as households,' pastor Toby Sumpter says. 'And I would ordinarily be the one to cast the vote.' (This is the model also advocated by Wilson.) Pastor Jared Longshore says he supports the repeal of the 19th Amendment because 'the current system is not good for humans.'
"Hegseth is a member of a church that is part of Wilson's network, the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches (#CREC), in Tennessee. When a CREC branch recently opened in Washington, DC, Hegseth attended. Longshore delivered the sermon.
"Hegseth's response to the video — 'All of Christ for All of Life' — is a Christian nationalist slogan used frequently by Wilson. It stands for the idea that Christianity should dominate all aspects of life, including government.
In response to media inquiries, the Pentagon reiterated Hegseth's admiration for Wilson and his ideology. 'The Secretary very much appreciates many of Mr. Wilson's writings and teachings,' Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said.Beyond repealing women's #VotingRights, what are Wilson's 'writing and teachings'? Let's review.
"Wilson argues that slavery benefited blacks and whites and was 'based on mutual affection'
"Wilson has sought to recast slavery in the pre-Civil War South as a mutually beneficial relationship in many cases. In a 1996 pamphlet co-written by Wilson, Southern Slavery as It Was, he argued that '[s]lavery as it existed in the South was not an adversarial relationship with pervasive racial animosity.' According to Wilson, '[b]ecause of its predominantly #patriarchal character, it was a relationship based upon mutual affection and confidence.' He asserts that "[t]here has never been a multi-racial society which has existed with such mutual intimacy and harmony in the history of the world,' which he attributes to 'the predominance of Christianity.'
Wilson claims that '[s]lave life was to [the slaves] a life of plenty, of simple pleasures, of food, clothes and good medical care.' He urges people not to 'overlook the benefits of slavery for both blacks and whites.'
"In Wilson's 2005 book, Black and Tan, he defends #SouthernSlavery as It Was, and writes 'that slavery was far more benign in practice than it was made to appear in the literature of the #abolitionists.'' He also claims that slavery was biblically justified, claiming that 'the Christians who owned slaves in the South were on firm scriptural ground.' "
Read more:
https://popular.info/p/slavery-patriarchy-and-pete-hegsethsArchived version:
https://archive.ph/GquRa#ChristianNationalism #ChristoFascism #WhiteSupremacy #USPol #HandmaidsTale #WelcomeToGilead #TheKnotsAndCrosses #Dystopia
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If We’re Talking about the Violent Occupation and Colonization of Minnesota, Let’s Also Talk about the Play for Minnesota’s Critical Minerals
The ever-prolific docket watcher and political commentator Marcy Wheeler put up a video the other day where, in her words, she “laid out how Trump’s invasion of Venezuela is like his invasion of Minnesota: Tribute and obeisance.” I have been wanting to draw and explore that same analogy, but I am reluctant to paint with the broad brush Wheeler uses here. I do, however, think there’s a way to make the analogy she draws between Venezuela and Minnesota a little more compelling.
Wheeler’s general point is that the “model” of power in both Venezuela and Minnesota is the same: “extract tribute, subjugate the population… and impose your rules on how to govern.” Or, as she puts it near the end of the video,
It is the same model: Stephen Miller is trying to colonize Minnesota, he is trying to colonize Venezuela, he has no fucking interest in bringing benefits to the citizens of either one. He wants extraction and he wants obeisance.
The neo-colonial project, in this view, is to invade, conquer, subdue, and plunder. This is inflammatory language but I have no trouble applying it to Venezuela, where Trump has declared himself “acting President of Venezuela” and in that capacity (it appears) will now control an offshore, Qatar-based fund for Venezuela’s oil proceeds. So what about Minnesota? What form might the “tribute” demanded in Minnesota take?
Wheeler doesn’t say (though she uses the word “extraction”), and I haven’t seen other commentators spell out what form it will take. So for what it’s worth I am going to offer this: it’s important to understand that Trump and those in his circle regard Minnesota not only as a hotbed of Somali daycare fraud, a stronghold of illegal immigration, and the home of whistle-blowing paid agitators and domestic terrorists, but also as a resource play. A critical minerals bonanza.
(As anyone who reads this blog knows, this is a theme I’ve been chasing since Trump was first elected, and Jared and Ivanka moved into the five-million-dollar mansion purchased for them by a Chilean billionaire with a controversial plan to mine copper and nickel in northern Minnesota, on the edge of the Boundary Waters.)
Just last week, when news of Renee Good’s murder broke, there was another Minnesota story in the news that helps illustrate what I’m talking about. You can read it as a story about a cynical abuse of the Congressional Review Act, but it’s also about the convergence of a foreign mining company’s US political project with the Project 2025 authoritarian takeover of the US government.
Once it became clear that there was no lawful path forward for the Twin Metals project, that convergence was bound to happen. The mining company’s case in US District Court had been dismissed (though it is still on appeal at the DC Circuit), their lease applications had been denied, their mining plan of operations was rejected, and the Biden administration had put a 20-year moratorium on copper and nickel mining in the Rainy River watershed. The only way forward for Chilean mining giant Antofagasta was political, as I put it at the time. The company could count on a Trump victory in 2024, on corruption, and on the Project 2025 plan to weaken and hobble the administrative state.
Now that bet is starting to pay off, as the latest chapter in this story shows. Just after the new year, on January 6, this entry was made in the Congressional Record:
Project 2025 specified that the 20-year mineral withdrawal of the Rainy River watershed should be “[abandoned]” if it had “not been completed.” In 2023, that read like a throwaway line. The mineral withdrawal had been announced in January of that year, and it seemed all but certain that the withdrawal would be completed by the end of Biden’s term.
Now, Republicans claim, the Biden administration failed to take one small, final step.
The Biden White House published notice of the withdrawal in the Federal Register, but not in the Congressional Record, as required by law [or not, see the postcript below*]. With this letter, Trump’s Department of the Interior is correcting that oversight. But of course it’s a bad faith gesture. The notice creates an opportunity for the House of Representatives to review and for the Republican majority to reject the mineral withdrawal, as this Reuters article explains. The same notice was sent to Vice President Vance, as head of the Republican-controlled Senate. Opponents of the withdrawal will now have 60 days to muster simple majorities in both houses.
Though it may look like a bureaucratic fix to cure a deficiency, the letter is clearly part of a coordinated effort to advance Antofagasta’s Twin Metals project. It’s a clever ploy, designed to give corruption the appearance of legitimacy. Start with the office issuing the letter, the Office of the Secretariat and Regulatory Affairs (OES) in the Department of the Interior. OES serves as “the primary point of contact” with the White House Office of Management and Budget, and communicates and works regularly with OMB to “ensure” that regulations and policies “comply with…OMB requirements.” That is the principal and legitimate channel of communication for this kind of letter.
However, anyone paying attention for the last year or so knows that OMB is now a fully captured office, under the direction of Russell Vought, one of the architects of Project 2025. At every turn, Vought has directed OMB to dismantle and hamstring federal agencies and undo rules unfavorable to private industry. OMB is most likely the office that ordered this OES review, and the “White House Office” where the Bernhardt Group, according to its most recent disclosure, has been lobbying for the Twin Metals mine. (Next week, we’ll see if Q4 25 lobbying disclosures offer any more clarity on this point.**) Along with OES, OMB, and Antofagasta’s lobbying firm, Rep. Pete Stauber was also in the loop. Or at least he wasted no time doing his part. Less than a week after the letter from OES appeared in the Congressional Record, Stauber introduced a joint resolution of “Congressional disapproval” of the withdrawal.
Communications among these groups would make a particularly ripe target for a FOIA request, and help establish who did exactly what in this latest scheme. At the same time, I doubt that document production would help us make any meaningful connection between what’s going down in Minneapolis right now and these behind-closed-door maneuvers on behalf of a foreign mining company. That’s not really the point, anyway. I am not trying to suggest that extracting the treasures of the Duluth Complex is the main motive for the federal occupation of Minnesota, or that the violent brownshirt tactics we’re seeing on the streets of Minneapolis are primarily intended to pave the way for extractive industry up north. What I am suggesting is that we should look for places where these two Trumpist efforts might come together: the federal occupation of Minnesota and the push to plunder Minnesota’s mineral resources. That’s the intersection where the case for colonialism or analogies with Venezuela or Greenland will gain real traction.
With Trump now threatening to invoke the Insurrection Act, there are already some worrying signs that the authoritarian takeover of Minnesota could extend beyond subjugation of Minneapolis to demand tribute from the Iron Range. The ICE surge is already providing Stauber, Tom Emmer, and other Minnesota Republicans with an opportunity to attack Twin Cities leadership and widen existing north-south, rural-urban political divides. With his cronies on the House Natural Resources Committee, Stauber has tried to drag environmental groups before Congress on the pretext that they colluded with the Biden administration on the Rainy River withdrawal, and he has made McCarthyite threats about their non-profit status. ICE kidnappings and detention of Oglala Lakota and raids on the Little Earth housing complex suggest that blind racism and utter disregard for tribal sovereignty could (once again) enable extractive industry in the north. And from everything we’ve seen, it’s clear this lawless administration will not hesitate to label environmental defenders and water protectors — or anyone who stands in the way of their booty — domestic terrorists, and deal with them accordingly.
*Postscript Longtime Boundary Waters champion and lawyer Rebecca Rom writes to say the law does not require publication in the Congressional Record:
The issue isn’t the Congressional Record (the claimed technicality) but rather the application of the Congressional Review Act for Interior Dept. Public Land Orders.
The Federal Land Policy and Management Act (FLPMA) governs federal land withdrawals and requires thorough and timely notice to Congress upon the signing of a Public Land Order for a withdrawal. The Interior Department has followed the FLPMA Section 204 notice provisions to Congress for nearly 50 years (since 1976), through Republican and Democrat administrations. This is the pattern and practice of FLPMA notice compliance by the Interior Department.
This did not change with the enactment of the Congressional Review Act in 1996, which applies to notice of rules (not orders) to Congress in a process that is nearly identical to FLPMA.
In the past 25 years, there have been 28 withdrawals. Interior has not sent any of these withdrawals (those that were over 5,000 acres) to Congress pursuant to the Congressional Review Act. All notices that have been to Congress have been FLPMA notices.
The Interior Department delivered FLPMA notices to Congress, as required by law, on Jan. 26, 2023, when Public Land Order 7917 was signed. All members of the MN Congressional delegation received a letter of notice, including Congressman Stauber. The decision was published in the Federal Register, as required.
Any claim by Congressman Stauber of a violation of the Congressional Review Act is wrong. Any claim by Congressman Stauber that Congress did not receive notice of PLO 7917 is wrong; it received the legally required notice under FLPMA.
**Update 23 Jan 26: A little more clarity. The most recent disclosure by the Bernhardt Group corrects “White House Office” to “Executive Office of the President (EOP)” — which is where OMB is housed. It also shows the Bernhardt Group lobbying for Twin Metals at USDA. I found it curious that the Department of Agriculture was not among the agencies listed on the Q3 disclosure form.
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The US veers toward Christian nationalism – CNN What Matters
: The US veers toward Christian nationalismAmericans are used to hearing about the tradition of separating church and state, but the two are increasingly fused in President Donald Trump’s administration.The First Amendment, after all, in addition to guaranteeing free speech, says that Congress shall “make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…”
US leaders talk about Jesus Christ at Kirk’s funeral
Never in recent memory have Americans seen more top government officials speak so openly about Jesus Christ as they did at Charlie Kirk’s memorial, which Trump described as “an old-time revival” rather than a funeral. It makes sense that Kirk’s funeral would feature religious overtones: Conversion was at the core of Kirk’s conservatism, something praised by the country’s assembled top political leaders who attended his funeral, including the president, the vice president, the speaker of the House of Representatives and much of the president’s Cabinet.
Saying God is on their side
The podcaster Benny Johnson talked about the idea of “Godly government” and pointed down at Trump’s assembled Cabinet secretaries. “God has given them power over our nation and our land,” he said, adding it was God who saved Trump from a different assassin’s bullet “for this moment.” Trump officials said God is on their side as they go after their political enemies.
“We are on the side of goodness. We are on the side of God,” White House adviser Stephen Miller said in a speech that, like Trump’s, promised retribution against an unnamed evil, though evidence release so far suggests Kirk’s alleged killer acted alone.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered a sermon that concluded with discussion of the Second Coming. Vice President JD Vance, who referred to Kirk as a “warrior for country, a warrior for Christ,” counseled Americans to “live worthy of Charlie’s sacrifice and put Christ at the center of your life.”
Where does religious belief veer into Christian nationalism?Christian nationalism is the concept — rejected by many scholars — that the US was formed as a Christian nation and that Christianity should imbue its laws. Many Trump administration actions have blurred the lines between church and state.
In the days before Kirk was assassinated at Utah Valley University, Trump delivered a speech at the privately funded Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC, where he promised to protect prayer in public schools through forthcoming guidance from the Department of Education. “To have a great nation, you have to have religion,” Trump said.
“I believe that so strongly. There has to be something after we go through all of this — and that something is God.”
Religion at the Department of Justice
After that September 8 speech, Trump met with the Religious Liberty Commission he created by executive action at the Department of Justice. Among the commission’s charges is “Exploring the foundations of religious liberty in America,” and “identifying current threats to domestic religious liberty.” Trump labeled previous Justice Department prosecutions of anti-abortion rights protesters outside clinics as a form of anti-Christian bias.A pastor with pull on Christian nationalism
Last month, CNN’s Pamela Brown profiled self-described Christian nationalist pastor Douglas Wilson, who has ties to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. Wilson is based in Idaho, but his organization has opened an outpost in the nation’s capital. Wilson, who appeared at Kirk’s “The Believer’s Summit” in 2024, told Brown he would like the US to be a Christian theocracy.
He would also like to make homosexuality illegal.
New IRS rules for pastors in politics
In July, Trump’s IRS declared that pastors who endorse political candidates should not lose their tax-exempt status.
Proselytizing in the federal workplace
That same month, the Office of Management and Budget said that federal workers can now bring religion into the federal workplace, including promoting their religious beliefs to colleagues. Hegseth has hosted working-hours prayer services at the Pentagon. One in May featured the pastor of his Tennessee church, which is affiliated with Wilson’s Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches.
Many Americans wouldn’t agree
The Public Religion Research Institute has tried in recent years to gauge Christian nationalism and how it is spreading in the US. In 2024, it estimated that about 30% of Americans would qualify as either adherents of or sympathizers to Christian nationalism, according to their definition, including a majority of Republicans. But the portions vary widely across the US.
About half of the people in some Southern states like Mississippi, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Alabama are either adherents or sympathizers, compared to only about a third in red states like Florida and Texas. In many blue states, less than a quarter of residents either adhere to or sympathize with Christian nationalism, according to PRRI, which means a large portion of the country also does not share their philosophy about the role of Christianity in the government.
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The US veers toward Christian nationalism – CNN What Matters
: The US veers toward Christian nationalismAmericans are used to hearing about the tradition of separating church and state, but the two are increasingly fused in President Donald Trump’s administration.The First Amendment, after all, in addition to guaranteeing free speech, says that Congress shall “make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…”
US leaders talk about Jesus Christ at Kirk’s funeral
Never in recent memory have Americans seen more top government officials speak so openly about Jesus Christ as they did at Charlie Kirk’s memorial, which Trump described as “an old-time revival” rather than a funeral. It makes sense that Kirk’s funeral would feature religious overtones: Conversion was at the core of Kirk’s conservatism, something praised by the country’s assembled top political leaders who attended his funeral, including the president, the vice president, the speaker of the House of Representatives and much of the president’s Cabinet.
Saying God is on their side
The podcaster Benny Johnson talked about the idea of “Godly government” and pointed down at Trump’s assembled Cabinet secretaries. “God has given them power over our nation and our land,” he said, adding it was God who saved Trump from a different assassin’s bullet “for this moment.” Trump officials said God is on their side as they go after their political enemies.
“We are on the side of goodness. We are on the side of God,” White House adviser Stephen Miller said in a speech that, like Trump’s, promised retribution against an unnamed evil, though evidence release so far suggests Kirk’s alleged killer acted alone.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered a sermon that concluded with discussion of the Second Coming. Vice President JD Vance, who referred to Kirk as a “warrior for country, a warrior for Christ,” counseled Americans to “live worthy of Charlie’s sacrifice and put Christ at the center of your life.”
Where does religious belief veer into Christian nationalism?Christian nationalism is the concept — rejected by many scholars — that the US was formed as a Christian nation and that Christianity should imbue its laws. Many Trump administration actions have blurred the lines between church and state.
In the days before Kirk was assassinated at Utah Valley University, Trump delivered a speech at the privately funded Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC, where he promised to protect prayer in public schools through forthcoming guidance from the Department of Education. “To have a great nation, you have to have religion,” Trump said.
“I believe that so strongly. There has to be something after we go through all of this — and that something is God.”
Religion at the Department of Justice
After that September 8 speech, Trump met with the Religious Liberty Commission he created by executive action at the Department of Justice. Among the commission’s charges is “Exploring the foundations of religious liberty in America,” and “identifying current threats to domestic religious liberty.” Trump labeled previous Justice Department prosecutions of anti-abortion rights protesters outside clinics as a form of anti-Christian bias.A pastor with pull on Christian nationalism
Last month, CNN’s Pamela Brown profiled self-described Christian nationalist pastor Douglas Wilson, who has ties to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. Wilson is based in Idaho, but his organization has opened an outpost in the nation’s capital. Wilson, who appeared at Kirk’s “The Believer’s Summit” in 2024, told Brown he would like the US to be a Christian theocracy.
He would also like to make homosexuality illegal.
New IRS rules for pastors in politics
In July, Trump’s IRS declared that pastors who endorse political candidates should not lose their tax-exempt status.
Proselytizing in the federal workplace
That same month, the Office of Management and Budget said that federal workers can now bring religion into the federal workplace, including promoting their religious beliefs to colleagues. Hegseth has hosted working-hours prayer services at the Pentagon. One in May featured the pastor of his Tennessee church, which is affiliated with Wilson’s Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches.
Many Americans wouldn’t agree
The Public Religion Research Institute has tried in recent years to gauge Christian nationalism and how it is spreading in the US. In 2024, it estimated that about 30% of Americans would qualify as either adherents of or sympathizers to Christian nationalism, according to their definition, including a majority of Republicans. But the portions vary widely across the US.
About half of the people in some Southern states like Mississippi, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Alabama are either adherents or sympathizers, compared to only about a third in red states like Florida and Texas. In many blue states, less than a quarter of residents either adhere to or sympathize with Christian nationalism, according to PRRI, which means a large portion of the country also does not share their philosophy about the role of Christianity in the government.
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The US veers toward Christian nationalism – CNN What Matters
: The US veers toward Christian nationalismAmericans are used to hearing about the tradition of separating church and state, but the two are increasingly fused in President Donald Trump’s administration.The First Amendment, after all, in addition to guaranteeing free speech, says that Congress shall “make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…”
US leaders talk about Jesus Christ at Kirk’s funeral
Never in recent memory have Americans seen more top government officials speak so openly about Jesus Christ as they did at Charlie Kirk’s memorial, which Trump described as “an old-time revival” rather than a funeral. It makes sense that Kirk’s funeral would feature religious overtones: Conversion was at the core of Kirk’s conservatism, something praised by the country’s assembled top political leaders who attended his funeral, including the president, the vice president, the speaker of the House of Representatives and much of the president’s Cabinet.
Saying God is on their side
The podcaster Benny Johnson talked about the idea of “Godly government” and pointed down at Trump’s assembled Cabinet secretaries. “God has given them power over our nation and our land,” he said, adding it was God who saved Trump from a different assassin’s bullet “for this moment.” Trump officials said God is on their side as they go after their political enemies.
“We are on the side of goodness. We are on the side of God,” White House adviser Stephen Miller said in a speech that, like Trump’s, promised retribution against an unnamed evil, though evidence release so far suggests Kirk’s alleged killer acted alone.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered a sermon that concluded with discussion of the Second Coming. Vice President JD Vance, who referred to Kirk as a “warrior for country, a warrior for Christ,” counseled Americans to “live worthy of Charlie’s sacrifice and put Christ at the center of your life.”
Where does religious belief veer into Christian nationalism?Christian nationalism is the concept — rejected by many scholars — that the US was formed as a Christian nation and that Christianity should imbue its laws. Many Trump administration actions have blurred the lines between church and state.
In the days before Kirk was assassinated at Utah Valley University, Trump delivered a speech at the privately funded Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC, where he promised to protect prayer in public schools through forthcoming guidance from the Department of Education. “To have a great nation, you have to have religion,” Trump said.
“I believe that so strongly. There has to be something after we go through all of this — and that something is God.”
Religion at the Department of Justice
After that September 8 speech, Trump met with the Religious Liberty Commission he created by executive action at the Department of Justice. Among the commission’s charges is “Exploring the foundations of religious liberty in America,” and “identifying current threats to domestic religious liberty.” Trump labeled previous Justice Department prosecutions of anti-abortion rights protesters outside clinics as a form of anti-Christian bias.A pastor with pull on Christian nationalism
Last month, CNN’s Pamela Brown profiled self-described Christian nationalist pastor Douglas Wilson, who has ties to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. Wilson is based in Idaho, but his organization has opened an outpost in the nation’s capital. Wilson, who appeared at Kirk’s “The Believer’s Summit” in 2024, told Brown he would like the US to be a Christian theocracy.
He would also like to make homosexuality illegal.
New IRS rules for pastors in politics
In July, Trump’s IRS declared that pastors who endorse political candidates should not lose their tax-exempt status.
Proselytizing in the federal workplace
That same month, the Office of Management and Budget said that federal workers can now bring religion into the federal workplace, including promoting their religious beliefs to colleagues. Hegseth has hosted working-hours prayer services at the Pentagon. One in May featured the pastor of his Tennessee church, which is affiliated with Wilson’s Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches.
Many Americans wouldn’t agree
The Public Religion Research Institute has tried in recent years to gauge Christian nationalism and how it is spreading in the US. In 2024, it estimated that about 30% of Americans would qualify as either adherents of or sympathizers to Christian nationalism, according to their definition, including a majority of Republicans. But the portions vary widely across the US.
About half of the people in some Southern states like Mississippi, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Alabama are either adherents or sympathizers, compared to only about a third in red states like Florida and Texas. In many blue states, less than a quarter of residents either adhere to or sympathize with Christian nationalism, according to PRRI, which means a large portion of the country also does not share their philosophy about the role of Christianity in the government.
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The US veers toward Christian nationalism – CNN What Matters
: The US veers toward Christian nationalismAmericans are used to hearing about the tradition of separating church and state, but the two are increasingly fused in President Donald Trump’s administration.The First Amendment, after all, in addition to guaranteeing free speech, says that Congress shall “make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…”
US leaders talk about Jesus Christ at Kirk’s funeral
Never in recent memory have Americans seen more top government officials speak so openly about Jesus Christ as they did at Charlie Kirk’s memorial, which Trump described as “an old-time revival” rather than a funeral. It makes sense that Kirk’s funeral would feature religious overtones: Conversion was at the core of Kirk’s conservatism, something praised by the country’s assembled top political leaders who attended his funeral, including the president, the vice president, the speaker of the House of Representatives and much of the president’s Cabinet.
Saying God is on their side
The podcaster Benny Johnson talked about the idea of “Godly government” and pointed down at Trump’s assembled Cabinet secretaries. “God has given them power over our nation and our land,” he said, adding it was God who saved Trump from a different assassin’s bullet “for this moment.” Trump officials said God is on their side as they go after their political enemies.
“We are on the side of goodness. We are on the side of God,” White House adviser Stephen Miller said in a speech that, like Trump’s, promised retribution against an unnamed evil, though evidence release so far suggests Kirk’s alleged killer acted alone.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered a sermon that concluded with discussion of the Second Coming. Vice President JD Vance, who referred to Kirk as a “warrior for country, a warrior for Christ,” counseled Americans to “live worthy of Charlie’s sacrifice and put Christ at the center of your life.”
Where does religious belief veer into Christian nationalism?Christian nationalism is the concept — rejected by many scholars — that the US was formed as a Christian nation and that Christianity should imbue its laws. Many Trump administration actions have blurred the lines between church and state.
In the days before Kirk was assassinated at Utah Valley University, Trump delivered a speech at the privately funded Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC, where he promised to protect prayer in public schools through forthcoming guidance from the Department of Education. “To have a great nation, you have to have religion,” Trump said.
“I believe that so strongly. There has to be something after we go through all of this — and that something is God.”
Religion at the Department of Justice
After that September 8 speech, Trump met with the Religious Liberty Commission he created by executive action at the Department of Justice. Among the commission’s charges is “Exploring the foundations of religious liberty in America,” and “identifying current threats to domestic religious liberty.” Trump labeled previous Justice Department prosecutions of anti-abortion rights protesters outside clinics as a form of anti-Christian bias.A pastor with pull on Christian nationalism
Last month, CNN’s Pamela Brown profiled self-described Christian nationalist pastor Douglas Wilson, who has ties to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. Wilson is based in Idaho, but his organization has opened an outpost in the nation’s capital. Wilson, who appeared at Kirk’s “The Believer’s Summit” in 2024, told Brown he would like the US to be a Christian theocracy.
He would also like to make homosexuality illegal.
New IRS rules for pastors in politics
In July, Trump’s IRS declared that pastors who endorse political candidates should not lose their tax-exempt status.
Proselytizing in the federal workplace
That same month, the Office of Management and Budget said that federal workers can now bring religion into the federal workplace, including promoting their religious beliefs to colleagues. Hegseth has hosted working-hours prayer services at the Pentagon. One in May featured the pastor of his Tennessee church, which is affiliated with Wilson’s Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches.
Many Americans wouldn’t agree
The Public Religion Research Institute has tried in recent years to gauge Christian nationalism and how it is spreading in the US. In 2024, it estimated that about 30% of Americans would qualify as either adherents of or sympathizers to Christian nationalism, according to their definition, including a majority of Republicans. But the portions vary widely across the US.
About half of the people in some Southern states like Mississippi, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Alabama are either adherents or sympathizers, compared to only about a third in red states like Florida and Texas. In many blue states, less than a quarter of residents either adhere to or sympathize with Christian nationalism, according to PRRI, which means a large portion of the country also does not share their philosophy about the role of Christianity in the government.
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The US veers toward Christian nationalism – CNN What Matters
: The US veers toward Christian nationalismAmericans are used to hearing about the tradition of separating church and state, but the two are increasingly fused in President Donald Trump’s administration.The First Amendment, after all, in addition to guaranteeing free speech, says that Congress shall “make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…”
US leaders talk about Jesus Christ at Kirk’s funeral
Never in recent memory have Americans seen more top government officials speak so openly about Jesus Christ as they did at Charlie Kirk’s memorial, which Trump described as “an old-time revival” rather than a funeral. It makes sense that Kirk’s funeral would feature religious overtones: Conversion was at the core of Kirk’s conservatism, something praised by the country’s assembled top political leaders who attended his funeral, including the president, the vice president, the speaker of the House of Representatives and much of the president’s Cabinet.
Saying God is on their side
The podcaster Benny Johnson talked about the idea of “Godly government” and pointed down at Trump’s assembled Cabinet secretaries. “God has given them power over our nation and our land,” he said, adding it was God who saved Trump from a different assassin’s bullet “for this moment.” Trump officials said God is on their side as they go after their political enemies.
“We are on the side of goodness. We are on the side of God,” White House adviser Stephen Miller said in a speech that, like Trump’s, promised retribution against an unnamed evil, though evidence release so far suggests Kirk’s alleged killer acted alone.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered a sermon that concluded with discussion of the Second Coming. Vice President JD Vance, who referred to Kirk as a “warrior for country, a warrior for Christ,” counseled Americans to “live worthy of Charlie’s sacrifice and put Christ at the center of your life.”
Where does religious belief veer into Christian nationalism?Christian nationalism is the concept — rejected by many scholars — that the US was formed as a Christian nation and that Christianity should imbue its laws. Many Trump administration actions have blurred the lines between church and state.
In the days before Kirk was assassinated at Utah Valley University, Trump delivered a speech at the privately funded Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC, where he promised to protect prayer in public schools through forthcoming guidance from the Department of Education. “To have a great nation, you have to have religion,” Trump said.
“I believe that so strongly. There has to be something after we go through all of this — and that something is God.”
Religion at the Department of Justice
After that September 8 speech, Trump met with the Religious Liberty Commission he created by executive action at the Department of Justice. Among the commission’s charges is “Exploring the foundations of religious liberty in America,” and “identifying current threats to domestic religious liberty.” Trump labeled previous Justice Department prosecutions of anti-abortion rights protesters outside clinics as a form of anti-Christian bias.A pastor with pull on Christian nationalism
Last month, CNN’s Pamela Brown profiled self-described Christian nationalist pastor Douglas Wilson, who has ties to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. Wilson is based in Idaho, but his organization has opened an outpost in the nation’s capital. Wilson, who appeared at Kirk’s “The Believer’s Summit” in 2024, told Brown he would like the US to be a Christian theocracy.
He would also like to make homosexuality illegal.
New IRS rules for pastors in politics
In July, Trump’s IRS declared that pastors who endorse political candidates should not lose their tax-exempt status.
Proselytizing in the federal workplace
That same month, the Office of Management and Budget said that federal workers can now bring religion into the federal workplace, including promoting their religious beliefs to colleagues. Hegseth has hosted working-hours prayer services at the Pentagon. One in May featured the pastor of his Tennessee church, which is affiliated with Wilson’s Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches.
Many Americans wouldn’t agree
The Public Religion Research Institute has tried in recent years to gauge Christian nationalism and how it is spreading in the US. In 2024, it estimated that about 30% of Americans would qualify as either adherents of or sympathizers to Christian nationalism, according to their definition, including a majority of Republicans. But the portions vary widely across the US.
About half of the people in some Southern states like Mississippi, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Alabama are either adherents or sympathizers, compared to only about a third in red states like Florida and Texas. In many blue states, less than a quarter of residents either adhere to or sympathize with Christian nationalism, according to PRRI, which means a large portion of the country also does not share their philosophy about the role of Christianity in the government.
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"I knows the King, I knows the Queen
I knows the bleedin' Prince of Wales
Buuuuuut... I don't know no-one who ain't got no Nine Inch Nails."Pete Stitt's time traveling hit, from Ronnie Browne's autobiography.
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@EverydayMoggie @ascentale @pete Not a spec bulld, but those reasons are why I love my #prioritybicycles 600 #bikenite
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Medical Experts Call for Donald Trump Removal From Office.
For the reasons cited above, emphasizing that he presents a clear and present danger to our country and to the world, it is our expert opinion that Donald J. Trump is mentally unfit to be the President of the United States, and that steps to remove him from office must be undertaken with the greatest urgency…
Article republished by Jerry Alatalo via PeaceandHealthBlog.com | May 6, 2026
[Editor’s note: I have nothing more to add to the profound, sane, focused warning message from this group of medical experts. Peace.]
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Medical Experts Declare President Trump Too Unstable to Remain in Office, Cite Nuclear Weapons Risks
May 5, 2026
tags: medicine, nuclear weapons, Trump, USA
by IPPNW
On April 30, 2026, a group of 36 leading physicians and other doctors with expertise in mental health issued a statement calling for President Donald J. Trump’s immediate, lawful removal from office for medical reasons. His mental instability, coupled with his sole, unchecked authority to launch nuclear weapons, makes him a clear and present danger to the safety of all Americans, they declared. The U.S. Senate offices of Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Jack Reed (D-RI) entered the experts’ statement into the Congressional Record, Vol. 172, No. 76.
Read the statement in full here and below.
Medical Concerns about President Donald J. Trump and His Fitness for Office
The following is not a political statement. It is a medical one, made by individuals holding both conservative and liberal ideologies, identifying as both Republicans and Democrats, from different backgrounds, races, ethnicities, and religions.
We are a group of neurologists, forensic psychiatrists, general psychiatrists, and other physicians, along with other mental health professionals, experienced in the diagnosis of cognitive disorders and in evaluating dangerousness to self and others. Among us are professionals whom the courts and criminal justice system regularly turn to for our expert opinion in these matters. We are also consulted by governments in matters related to national security and the psychological profiles of world leaders. Prior to the presidential election in the Fall of 2024, a statement assessing Donald J. Trump’s mental fitness for the presidency was issued. At that time, serious signs of cognitive decline were identified, and in our expert opinion, these signs warranted disqualification from office.
It is our professional opinion, based on previous and ongoing assessments, that Donald Trump’s mental state since our 2024 statement has deteriorated even further. In keeping with our professional ethics, and for those of us who are physicians, with the Declaration of Geneva—the successor to the Hippocratic Oath that binds us to the humanitarian principles of medicine since the Nuremberg trials—we are compelled to warn of a President of the United States who is increasingly a danger to the public.
We do not take our statement, and the responsibility that comes with making it, lightly.
The President was not examined face to face, and he is not a patient of any member of our group. Rendering a formal diagnosis in this case is not our role. We have closely followed his behavior and his statements over the past year.
Objectively observable signs of serious medical concern include:
- Marked deterioration in cognitive functioning, evidenced by disorganized and tangential speech, rambling digressions, factual confusions, unexplained sudden changes of course in strategic matters, both national and international, episodes of apparent somnolence during critical public proceedings.
- Grandiose and delusional beliefs, including assertions of infallibility, imagery of himself as Pope suggestive of a divine mission, being a mythical warrior hero, depicting himself as combat pilot—dropping feces on civilians, and claims that his decision-making authority is unlimited—with no need to consider domestic and international laws and constrained only by his “own morality.”
- Severely impaired judgment and impulse control, reflected in reckless threats of violence, advocacy of lethal force against civilians, encouragement of extrajudicial actions by armed supporters, repeated threats and often actions—judicial, prosecutorial, police, military, and by invoking emergency powers—against political opponents and others who disagree with him.
- Significant loss of self-control (disinhibition) and getting stuck on the same thoughts or actions, unable to let go or move on (perseveration), including seemingly compulsive, manic-like late-night communications—e.g., 150 social media posts in one night—fixation on perceived enemies, persecutory ideas, and prolonged, disproportionate attacks on specific individuals and institutions.
- Escalating violence that threatens national and global stability. As Commander-in-Chief of our military—more than 5000 nuclear warheads in inter-continental missile silos, on submarines, and in bombers around the world, are ready for launch solely upon his order, and no one now has the authority to countermand his order.
On August 7, 1974, as President Richard Nixon’s impeachment loomed, White House Chief of Staff, General Alexander Haig, was so alarmed by Nixon’s wandering the halls of the White House at night, sleepless, distraught, and heavily intoxicated, talking out loud to portraits of past presidents on the walls, that he alerted Defense Secretary James Schlesinger. Equally alarmed, Schlesinger directed Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General George S. Brown, that any military orders from Nixon—especially nuclear ones—first be cleared through him or Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. It has been reported that the nuclear “football” that contains the codes for a nuclear launch was then quietly removed from Nixon’s control.
The public and those with the power to address such potentially catastrophic conditions must ask themselves if they—and we—are confident that officials such as Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio would do the same.
It is our professional opinion that the behaviors of Donald Trump, tragically, are neither momentary lapses nor political theater. It is our professional opinion that they reflect a rapidly worsening, reality-untethered, increasingly dangerous decline. If we were called upon under the 25th Amendment to judge the President’s present ability to discharge the duties of his office, we would have to conclude that he lacks the capacity to do so.
For the reasons cited above, emphasizing that he presents a clear and present danger to our country and to the world, it is our expert opinion that Donald J. Trump is mentally unfit to be the President of the United States, and that steps to remove him from office must be undertaken with the greatest urgency, with vital responsibilities on the shoulders of those in positions of leadership.
Signatories,
Henry David Abraham, M.D.
Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus
Tufts University School of Medicine
Bernard D. Beitman, M.D.
Professor Emeritus and Former Chair of Psychiatry
University of Missouri School of Medicine
William Bernet, M.D.
Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Ravi Chandra, M.D.
Distinguished Fellow, American Psychiatric Association
Eric Chivian, M.D.
Former Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School
Co-Founder, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
Recipient of the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize
Lance Dodes, M.D.
Former Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School
Training and Supervising Analyst Emeritus
Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute
Jennifer I. Downey, M.D.
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
George Drinka, M.D.
Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Oregon Health Sciences University
Former Medical Director, CPC Cedar Hills Hospital
Portland, Oregon
Julian Fisher, M.D.
Former Lecturer in Neurology
Harvard Medical School
Justin Frank, M.D.
Former Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
George Washington University School of Medicine
Co-Director, Metropolitan Center for Object Relations
New York City
Mindy T. Fullilove, M.D.
Professor Emerita of Urban Policy and Health
The New School
Nanette Gartrell, M.D.
Former Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Former Professor of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco
Prudence L. Gourguechon, M.D.
Past President, American Psychoanalytic Association
Gordan P. Harper, M.D.
Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School
Ira Helfand, M.D.
Former Chair of Emergency Medicine
Cooley-Dickinson Hospital
International Steering Group
The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
Recipient of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize
Julia C. Hoigaard, Ph.D.
Former Lecturer in Psychology
University of California, Irvine
Co-author of Gottschalk-Gleser Content Analysis Scales
Howard Hu, M.D., M.P.H., Sc.D.
Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences
Keck School of Medicine of USC
University of Southern California
Jerome Kroll, M.D.
Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry
University of Minnesota Medical School
Robert S. Lawrence, M.D.
Professor Emeritus, Center for a Livable Future
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Former Chief of Medicine, Cambridge City Hospital,
now known as The Cambridge Health Alliance
Bandy X. Lee, M.D., M.Div.
President, World Mental Health Coalition (Washington, DC)
Co-Founder, Preventing Violence Now (New York)
Former Faculty of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Former Faculty of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine
Rosanne M. Leipzig, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor Emerita of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Craig Malkin, Ph.D.
Lecturer in Psychology, Harvard Medical School
Former Chief Inpatient Psychologist
Cambridge City Hospital,
now known as The Cambridge Health Alliance
James R. Merikangas, M.D.
Neuropsychiatrist and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
George Washington University School of Medicine
Dee Mosbacher, M.D., Ph.D.
Former Professor of Psychiatry
University of California, San Francisco
Denis J. O’Keefe, Ph.D., L.C.S.W.
Professor of Social Work
New York University
Past President, International Psychohistorical Association
Jennifer C. Panning, Psy.D.
Founder, Mindful Psychology Associates (Evanston, IL)
John O. Pastore, M.D.
Professor of Medicine
Tufts University School of Medicine
Former Research Physician
Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission, Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Mark Peppercorn, M.D.
Professor of Medicine Emeritus
Harvard Medical School
Claire Pouncey, M.D., Ph.D.
Former President
Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry
Robert C. Rutherford M.D. M.P.H.
Emergency Physician
Former Director, Monroe County Health Department
Florida
Larry S. Sandberg, M.D.
Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Weill Cornell Medical Center
Stephen Soldz, Ph.D.
Professor, Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis
Former President, Psychologists for Social Responsibility
Co-Founder, Coalition for an Ethical Psychology
Lise Van Susteren, M.D.
Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
George Washington University School of Medicine
Consultant Profiler to the Executive Branch, Federal Government
Michael J. Tansey, Ph.D.
Former Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychology
Northwestern University Medical School
Mark W. Weber, Ph.D., L.I.C.S.W.
Former Lecturer in Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School
John Zinner, M.D.
Clinical Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science
George Washington University Medical Center
Former Head of Family Therapy Studies,
National Institute of Mental Health
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Brown Hare
Lolloping down a country road towards me.
From a holiday in North Norfolk recently.
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Lazy Caturday Reads: Scandals Galore!
Good Afternoon!!
By Mary Cassatt, 1883-84
The negotiations about the proposed cease fire in the Iran war are expected to begin soon, but meanwhile the news in the U.S. is suddenly filled with scandalous stories.
Yesterday, Dakinikat wrote about Melania Trump’s mysterious announcement to the White House press; I have a bit more context to add to that. Then last night the news about serious accusations of sexual misconduct by Eric Swalwell broke. There’s also news about Kristy Noem’s husband and his identity crisis.
I’ll get to those items, but I want to begin with a feel-good story for once.
Marcia Dunn at AP: Artemis II’s record-breaking journey around the moon ends with dramatic splashdown.
HOUSTON (AP) — Artemis II’s astronauts closed out humanity’s first lunar voyage in more than half a century with a Pacific splashdown on Friday, blazing new records near the moon with grace and joy.
It was a dramatic grand finale to a mission that revealed not only swaths of the lunar far side never seen before by human eyes, but a total solar eclipse and a parade of planets, most notably our own shimmering Earth against the endless black void of space.
With their flight now complete, the four astronauts have set NASA up for a moon landing by another crew in just two years and a full-blown moon base within the decade.
The triumphant moon-farers — commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Canada’s Jeremy Hansen — emerged from their bobbing capsule into the sunlight off the coast of San Diego.
In a scene reminiscent of NASA’s Apollo moonshots of yesteryear, military helicopters hoisted the astronauts one by one from an inflatable raft docked to the capsule, hauling them aboard for the short trip to the Navy’s awaiting recovery ship, the USS John P. Murtha.
“These were the ambassadors from humanity to the stars that we sent out there right now, and I can’t imagine a better crew,” NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said from the recovery ship.
NASA’s Mission Control erupted in celebration, with hundreds pouring in from the back support rooms. “We did it,” NASA’s Lori Glaze rejoiced at a news conference. “Welcome to our moonshot.”
Read more at the AP link.
Now for the feel-disgusted news about Eric Swalwell. Based on what I’ve read, it’s surprising that this didn’t come out sooner. Apparently, he’s been DM young women, sending dick picks, and sexually assaulting women for years.
A former staffer of Rep. Eric Swalwell, a leading Democratic candidate for California governor, says that the congressman raped her when she was heavily intoxicated and left her bruised and bleeding, an allegation Swalwell strongly denies.
“I was pushing him off of me, saying no,” the woman told CNN of the incident, which she said happened in 2024 after she had stopped working in Swalwell’s office. “He didn’t stop.”
By Francesca Strino
She said it was the second time Swalwell had nonconsensual sexual contact with her while she was drunk. In 2019, when she was still working for him, she said she woke up naked with him in a hotel room after a night of heavy drinking. She said she had no memory of what happened but could feel physically that they’d had sexual contact.
Three other women who spoke with CNN also alleged various kinds of sexual misconduct by the Democratic congressman – including Swalwell sending them unsolicited explicit messages or nude photos.
One woman who connected online with Swalwell over her interest in Democratic politics says she ended up extremely drunk inside his hotel room after a night out with the congressman, with little memory of what occurred. Earlier in the night at a bar, he kissed her and touched her leg without her consent, she said.
Another woman, who described receiving unsolicited nude messages from Swalwell, was social media creator Ally Sammarco. She said she initially reached out to the congressman on Twitter to discuss politics. “I truly never thought he would respond – I had like 1,000 followers at the time,” she said. “And he actually responded.”
Swalwell denied the women’s allegations.
“These allegations are false and come on the eve of an election against the front-runner for governor,” Swalwell said in a statement to CNN. “For nearly 20 years, I have served the public – as a prosecutor and a congressman and have always protected women. I will defend myself with the facts and where necessary bring legal action. My focus in the coming days is to be with my wife and children and defend our decades of service against these lies.”
I don’t think that’s going to work. These are not subtle accusations, and the women told others about their experiences at the time. Sammarco saved the messages she got from Swallwell. A bit more from CNN:
One member of Swalwell’s staff said they quit immediately after receiving CNN’s detailed list of questions about the allegations.
CNN found corroboration for key elements of each of the women’s claims, including the former staffer who said she was sexually assaulted. Two family members and a friend said in interviews with CNN that she told them about the alleged 2024 assault in the following days, and CNN also reviewed text messages she sent two friends describing her allegations at the same time. “I was sexually assaulted on Thursday,” she wrote to one of her friends, adding: “By Eric.”
The woman also shared medical records related to her receiving STD and pregnancy testing after the alleged assault.
For the woman who connected online with Swalwell over Democratic politics, a family member and two friends confirmed she told them last year about the incident where she ended up intoxicated in his hotel room. CNN also reviewed messages between her and Swalwell, including a photo he sent her that matches footage of him during a CNN interview in her city on the night they met in person.
There’s still more at the link.
Politico: Jeffries, Pelosi and other Democrats call on Eric Swalwell to end governor campaign.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and former Speaker Nancy Pelosi headlined a growing list of Democratic lawmakers called on Rep. Eric Swalwell Friday to withdraw his campaign for California governor amid allegations of sexual misconduct.
Lily Walton with Raminou, 1922, by Suzanne Valadon
“This extremely sensitive matter must be appropriately investigated with full transparency and accountability,” Pelosi said in a statement. “As I discussed with Congressman Swalwell, it is clear that is best done outside of a gubernatorial campaign.”
In a joint statement with other elected House Democratic leaders, Jeffries called for a “swift investigation” as well as the end of his pending campaign.
“This is unacceptable of anyone — certainly not an elected official — and must be taken seriously,” the leaders said.The San Francisco Chronicle reported Friday that a former congressional aide accused the congressman of two sexual encounters without her consent, beginning in 2019. CNN later reported that four women allege that Swalwell has committed sexual misconduct, including one former staffer who accuses Swalwell of rape….
Key backers of Swalwell’s governor bid swiftly revoked their support after the Chronicle’s story was published, including Reps. Jimmy Gomez (D-Calif.) and Adam Gray (D-Calif.), who served as campaign co-chairs.
“Today’s reports about Eric Swalwell’s conduct while in office are deeply disturbing,” Gray said in a statement. “Harassment, abuse, and violence of any sort are unacceptable. Given these serious allegations, I am withdrawing my support and Eric Swalwell should end his campaign immediately.”
But nothing underscored the peril for Swalwell’s nearly two-decade political career as vividly as Pelosi’s statement. The former speaker included Swalwell in her inner circle of favored Democratic members for years, tapping him for junior leadership roles and to serve as a manager in Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial in 2021.
Read the rest at the link.
The Melania Trump story might have stayed on social media if she hadn’t decided to make a public statement at the lectern that is supposed to be reserved for the POTUS. But it’s out there now, and she will have to deal with it.
It began with a disturbing story in The New York Times on March 20: Trump Friend Asked ICE to Detain the Mother of His Child.
Last June, the man credited with introducing President Trump to his wife asked the administration for a favor.
Paolo Zampolli, a former modeling agent turned presidential special envoy, had learned that his Brazilian ex-girlfriend was in a Miami jail, arrested on charges of fraud at her workplace. They had been in a custody battle over their teenage son. Now he saw an opportunity.
Eduard Manet, Woman with a Cat, 1880
He reached out to a top official at Immigration and Customs Enforcement, explaining that his ex was in the country illegally, according to records obtained by The New York Times and a person familiar with the communications. Could she be put in ICE detention? That could help him get his son back.
The official, David Venturella, promptly called the agency’s Miami office to ensure that ICE agents would pick up the woman from the jail before she was released on bail, according to the records and a person with knowledge of the conversation who requested anonymity to discuss it. During the call, Mr. Venturella noted that the case was important to someone close to the White House.
The woman, Amanda Ungaro, was placed in ICE custody and ultimately deported, an outcome that may well have happened regardless of Mr. Zampolli’s meddling. But the ICE official’s willingness to spring into action for a Trump ally — even one in a low-level, largely ceremonial role — reflects a recurring theme of the second Trump administration: The levers of the federal government can be pulled to settle a personal score.
I read this story when it was published, but I didn’t make the connections I should have.
Amanda Ungaro is on X AKA Twitter, and she is fighting back. If you have access, you can read the many tweets she has been sending to Melania.
Melania is apparently sensitive about how she came to the U.S. In fact Zampolli is the one who brought her here and got her an H1-B visa. When she first arrived, she moved into a building occupied by other models who worked for Zampolli’s agency. It looks like Melania has really stepped in it. The Epstein files are back in the news.
From Julie K. Brown, the journalist who originally wrote about Epstein in The Miami Herald, at her Substack The Epstein Files: Could a former Brazilian model be the whistleblower Melania Trump is afraid of?
The First Lady’s unprecedented public statement about Jeffrey Epstein yesterday raised a lot of questions about what, if anything, is about to be revealed about Donald and Melania Trump’s relationship with the late sex trafficker.
The Epstein case had quieted down in the wake of Trump’s decision to attack Iran — some critics allege that was one of Trump’s goals in launching a war in the first place — to cool the MAGA furor over DOJ’s inept release of the Epstein files.
Now it seems that plan, if true, has led to a Jack-In-The-Beanstalk effect — as in trading a cow for beans and climbing into danger without really thinking it through.
Because there is another story that I admit I missed when it ran in the New York Times a few weeks ago.
It appears that the Trump administration may have targeted Zampolli’s ex-girlfriend, a former Brazilian model named Amanda Ungaro, deporting her back to Brazil amid her custody battle with Zampolli over their teenage son.
As the NYT’s story notes: “The levers of the federal government can be pulled to settle a personal score.”
Self-Portrait with a Cat, created by Frida Konstantin
In this case, the score involved Paolo Zampolli, a former modeling agent who was appointed last year by Trump as special envoy for “global partnerships,” which allows him to travel the world to advance trade and other partnerships with the U.S.
Just days ago, he was in Hungary with Vice President Vance, supporting the re-election of Prime Minister Viktor Orban, an effort to publicly back the right-wing leader in the days running up to the election.
Zampolli, 56, was in Epstein’s orbit around the time that Trump met Melania in 1998. He was also friends with Epstein, as the two entertained a business deal over buying a modeling agency.
And Zampolli’s name is in the Epstein Files, with Epstein noting in one email that he was “trouble.”
Still all the drama surrounding Zampolli’s custody battle with his estranged girlfriend didn’t connect any dots, at least not for me, until the First Lady’s speech yesterday.
Read the rest at the link.
The New York Times has another piece about Melania’s statement today: Trump Says First Lady ‘Had a Right’ to Talk About Epstein.
President Trump said Friday that he had known his wife wanted to speak about Jeffrey Epstein at some point, and that he “thought she had a right to talk about it,” even if he had not known what exactly she planned to say.
“It doesn’t bother me,” Mr. Trump said in a brief telephone interview, referring to the remarks Melania Trump made from the entrance hall of the White House a day earlier.
“I didn’t know what the statement was,” he said, “but I knew she was going to make a statement.”
The first lady’s comments certainly came as a surprise to many other people who work in the White House, according to two officials familiar with the situation who asked for anonymity to discuss the matter. It was not clear why she had chosen that moment to talk about Mr. Epstein. Absent any explanation, questions and feverish conspiracy theories swirled.
The president said his wife had been agonizing for a long time over her press coverage and rumors connecting her to Mr. Epstein. What was particularly upsetting to her, Mr. Trump explained, was one theory positing that it was Mr. Epstein who introduced her to her future husband. In her remarks on Thursday, Mrs. Trump recounted the story of meeting Mr. Trump “by chance at a New York City party in 1998.” She said she did not encounter Mr. Epstein for the first time until two years after that.
“She finds it very insulting,” Mr. Trump said of the rumors. “And I said, ‘If you want to do that, you can do that.’ I said if she wants to do it — I didn’t recommend it, but I said, I let it be her, I said, if you want to do it. …”
He added, “She didn’t meet me through Jeffrey Epstein. And I could understand her feelings. But I said, ‘If you want to do it, do it.’”
He would not say when exactly he had this discussion with the first lady, but said that “it wasn’t a big discussion. I’d say it lasted for about two minutes. I had no problem. I thought she actually did a good job.”
He’s lying, obviously. I doubt if she told him. Now she has revived interest in the Epstein files and Trump can’t be happy about that.
The Black Cat, by Carl Wilhelm Wilhelmson , 1922, Swedish, 1866-1928
The last scandal for today–the Kristi Noem story. The story was originally in the Daily Mail, but it’s behind a paywall.
The Independent: Kristi Noem’s husband offers cryptic three-word answer to report that he talked about leaving wife and becoming a woman.
Kristi Noem’s husband, Bryon Noem, has pushed back on a report that he insulted his wife in phone calls and online messages with a dominatrix and expressed a desire to become a woman.
Bryon Noem told The Independent the claims in the report were “not all true.” He did not elaborate when asked for more information.
The 56-year-old was reported to have been in an on-off relationship online with Shy Sotomayor, a 30-year-old sex worker known as Raelynn Riley, since 2016, she claimed in an interview with the Daily Mail, published Friday.
It is the latest in a series of exposés on the husband of the recently ousted Homeland Security Secretary, who has been keeping a low profile since the story broke last week.
Sotomayor shared recordings of phone calls and screenshots of messages she said she exchanged with Bryon Noem, where he said she was “so much better” than his wife. He also expressed wanting to transition to become a woman, the messages showed.
In one recent message, the South Dakota insurance boss said he wanted to change his name to Crystal “so bad,” and that he wanted plastic surgery. “I want to be your trans bimbo b****,” the messages showed.
The outlet linked Bryon Noem’s telephone number to the messages with Sotomayor, and it also corresponded to an email address under the pseudonym “Chrystalballz666.”
The messages reportedly from Bryon Noem appear in stark contrast to Kristi Noem’s opposition to transgender rights. As South Dakota governor, she signed an exclusionary bill to ban surgical and non-surgical gender-affirming treatments for children in the state, and barred transgender girls and women from playing on women’s sports teams.
Read the rest at The Independent.
There’s no news on the Iran talks yet, so I’ll end this with two disturbing Iran stories:
The New York Times: Iran Unable to Find Mines It Planted in Strait of Hormuz, U.S. Says.
Iran has been unable to open the Strait of Hormuz to more shipping traffic because it cannot locate all of the mines it laid in the waterway and lacks the capability to remove them, according to U.S. officials.
The development is one reason Iran has not been able to quickly comply with the Trump administration’s admonitions to let more traffic pass through the strait. It is also potentially a complicating factor as Iranian negotiators and a U.S. delegation led by Vice President JD Vance meet in Pakistan this weekend for peace talks.
Woman with a cat, Pierre Bonnard
Iran used small boats to mine the strait last month, soon after the United States and Israel began their war against the country. The mines, plus the threat of Iranian drone and missile attacks, slowed the number of oil tankers and other vessels passing through the strait to a trickle, driving up energy prices and providing Iran with its best leverage in the war.
Iran left a path through the strait open, allowing ships that pay a toll to pass through.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps has issued warnings that ships could collide with sea mines, and semiofficial news organizations have published charts showing safe routes.
Those routes are limited in large part because Iran mined the strait haphazardly, U.S. officials said. It is not clear that Iran recorded where it put every mine. And even when the location was recorded, some mines were placed in a way that allowed them to drift or move, according to the officials.
As with land mines, removing nautical mines is far more difficult than placing them. The U.S. military lacks robust mine removal capabilities, relying on littoral combat ships equipped with mine sweeping capabilities. Iran also does not have the capability of quickly removing mines, even the ones it planted.
Raw Story: Hegseth’s key Iran claim collapses as US intel finds Iran has thousands of missiles.
One of Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s main defenses of the U.S. decision to negotiate a controversial ceasefire with Iran is that its ballistic missile program has been “functionally destroyed.”
But that claim has now been shot down by U.S. intelligence assessments, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.
“Iran still has thousands of ballistic missiles in its arsenal that it could use by retrieving launchers from underground storage areas, according to American officials familiar with U.S. intelligence assessments,” said the report. “The assessments come as the U.S. is working to cement a cease-fire that would fully open the Strait of Hormuz and also insulate Iran, American troops and states in the region from further attacks. Some American officials said they are concerned that Iran will use the break in fighting to reconstitute some of its missile arsenal.”
The conflict has taken a toll on Iran, with around half of its missile stockpile lost, the assessment found — but “it retains thousands of medium- and short-range ballistic missiles that could be pulled out of hiding or retrieved from underground sites, said U.S. and Israeli officials.”
This comes as even a number of Republican and conservative analysts are crying foul about the terms of the ceasefire, which appear one-sidedly in favor of Iran.
That’s it for me today. I guess it’s okay to focus on salacious stuff on the weekend. Happy Caturday!
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I'm still proud of this silly noise-making project...
https://learn.browndoggadgets.com/Guide/Stylobit+-+A+micro:bit+Powered+Stylophone/369
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I used the recipe from Sally's Baking Addiction (using cooked.wiki) and they turned out great!
Nice crispy tops, though I had about half of the brown sugar/cinnamon mix left, as it seemed like way too much.
I didn't have sour cream or plain yogurt but I did have blueberry yogurt, so that seemed appropriate. I used oat milk because that's all we have in the house.
I normally do not use liners but I did this time.
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I'll be at the ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education) conference in Philadelphia next week.
If any of you Fediverse nerds are there look for me hanging out with Brown Dog Gadgets at their booth.
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