Last Week At The Sh*t Show–23Aug26

A typical week for our Little Donny….chest thumping, excuses and delusion….and those that worship him.

I do know if this is the biggest story of the last week but it is just another example of the lack of mental processes needed to deal with the international situation….

President Trump on Monday threatened to “bomb the shit” out of Oman over the Gulf state’s talks with Iran on the Strait of Hormuz, despite US officials previously backing Muscat’s efforts to reach a deal with Tehran.

Fox News reporter Trey Yingst said he asked the president about the talks between Oman and Iran, and Trump replied, ” If Oman gets in the way, we’ll bomb the shit out of them.”

Back in May, Trump threatened to “blow up” Oman if the country reached a deal with Iran that would involve joint control with Iran of the Strait of Hormuz, which Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent followed with a threat to “aggressively” target Muscat with sanctions if it was involved in a tolling system for the strait.

(antiwar.com)

What a douche bag.

One of the best pieces of crap is his threat to deport an American citizen….it said because DeNiro called Donny an idiot the boss wants him punished and deportation came to his small insufficient mind.

Donald Trump has threatened to deport one A-list star from the United States after they slammed the President’s administration.

The president has faced criticism from a number of stars during his first and second term in office, and he issued a warning to one particular actor earlier this year.

Earlier this year, actor Robert De Niro, 83, spoke out against the president, branding him “an idiot”.

He said during an appearance on Nicolle Wallace’s The Best People podcast: “We gotta get rid of him. He’s gonna ruin the country. I don’t want everybody going around with their MAGA, the American flags, like they’re the only ones. We are Americans too.”

https://vt.co/news/us/trump-threatens-deport-hollywood-legend

How do you go about deporting an American citizen?

His claim of vandals at the Pool fell short now he wants vandals again this time it is grass….

President Trump on Sunday said vandals are to blame for large swaths of dead grass on the National Mall near the World War II Memorial—in the same spot where Trump had a stage built and hosted crowds for his July 4 celebration, the AP reports. Trump made the accusation in a social media post without saying why he believes it’s the work of vandals instead of trampled turf from the Independence Day festivities. He posted a photo showing a once-grassy area by the World War II Memorial, now patchy and brown across much of the sprawling turf.

“Look what VANDALS did to the grass connecting the vandalized World War II Monument and the vandalized Reflecting Pool, which will be opened again, and better than ever, shortly,” Trump said on his Truth Social platform. “Anybody who thinks the Reflecting Pool wasn’t vandalized should go back to Law School!” he added.

Authorities on Friday announced an arrest in connection with vandalism at the World War II Memorial, after the words “Clean hands dirty $” were found painted on the monument and bubbles filled a fountain. US Attorney Jeanine Pirro said felony charges are being brought against Melissa L. Farris. Charging documents in that case make no mention of the grassy area Trump is highlighting in his new claims. Authorities said Farris had previously been arrested for camping on federal property a few blocks from the World War II Memorial, but not the area cited by Trump.

That stretch of lawn is instead where a large stage was built and crowds gathered to hear from Trump and watch fireworks at a July 4 event celebrating the nation’s 250th anniversary. Trump claimed without providing evidence that more than 400,000 people attended the event before a storm hit the area and delayed his remarks. Photos from the time, taken by a streaming webcam atop the Washington Monument, show a large bandstand and seating areas covering nearly the entire lawn Trump now says has been vandalized. Associated Press photos from the days that followed showed workers removing the structures, revealing brown, damaged grass underneath.

What?  No accusations against antifa?  He must be slipping.

The report that is getting a lot of legs is that of the USS Lincoln…..all the negative reports and Donny says everything is fine….

President Trump said Monday that, despite claims by families of crew members and other reporting to the contrary, he’s been assured by a retired admiral he wouldn’t name that all is well on the USS Abraham Lincoln. Although the aircraft carrier has set the record for uninterrupted time at sea with more than 240 days, per the AP, Trump said his confidant told him he had been deployed on ships “much longer than that.” He added that the admiral said, “And I know people on the Lincoln, they say it’s beautifully maintained and beautifully taken care of.” The president also told reporters in the Oval Office that “other people went out and they found out that to be true,” the Guardian reports.

The problem isn’t the conditions on the Lincoln or the length of its deployment, Trump said: “It was fake news reporting from CNN.” He emphasized the point by repeatedly insisting that a CNN reporter trying to ask questions “be quiet.”

In case you have not been following this story these are a few of the alleged problems….There have been widespread reports of shortages of basic supplies, water contamination, plumbing issues, deteriorating mental health, deck safety concerns, and disruptions in the mail system….

Remember that gaudy ballroom?  The courts have told him , for now, to cease operations……(a little late the damage was already done)….but true to Donny’s character the work goes on…..

President Trump is pushing for construction of a White House ballroom to go so fast that his lawyers is moving so fast that his own team is telling the Supreme Court it’s essentially past the point of no return. The administration said in a court filing that 250 workers are on the site 20 hours a day, seven days a week, in an effort to complete construction, the New York Times reports. The National Trust for Historic Preservation, which maintains the project can’t be built without congressional approval, criticized that strategy in a filing of its own on Tuesday, per the Washington Post, saying that, “Rather than obtain permission from Congress, Petitioners have instead decided to try to outrun judicial review.”

That pace is central to the legal fight. Trump’s lawyers counter that the ballroom is inseparable from a hardened, top-secret security facility beneath it and therefore falls under his national security authority. The Supreme Court, which has both backed and checked Trump in past power struggles, is expected to act before a lower-court order halting aboveground work is due to kick in on Friday.

When the war with Iran is over (if ever) Donny has a map to share….

President Trump isn’t easing off his annexation talk. The Hill reports that early Tuesday he posted an image on Truth Social showing a map of a portion of the Middle East with a large circle around the Strait of Hormuz; the map’s header reads “New U.S. Territory.” ABC News notes the map was “presented without additional comment.” The former president voiced the idea on Friday, saying, “After we finish defeating Iran … I’ll be declaring the Hormuz strait a territory of the United States.” Reporters who questioned him about it on Monday got this answer: “We control it with the blockade, and I like the idea of declaring it a territory.” Iran has dismissed Trump’s comments as “fanciful delusions.”

If that is the case is America empire building?

You have heard the Repubs always going on about ‘fake news’ right?  Then you will like this one…..

Ever heard of the Peach State Post? No? What about the Alaska Navigator? Not even The Ohio Pulse, Ohio’s “number one news source”?

You’d be forgiven, because all these outlets are as phony as a three-dollar bill. Why do they exist? To sway votes in key swing states, of course!

Despite Tr*mp’s constant categorization of anything he doesn’t like as “fake news,” Republicans sure are committed to pumping out the stuff if it can help stop the inevitable midterm bloodletting. Thankfully, an explosive report from Judd Legum may have just dashed those hopes for good.

Looking into a network of seemingly independent news sources in key battleground states, Legum uncovered a common thread: sites like Iowa Voice and Maine Policy Updates might seem like places you can turn to for, you know, actual policy updates. But when you start reading some of the (almost certainly AI-generated) articles, something doesn’t quite add up. Especially when you scroll to the bottom of the Peach State Post and read the fine print: “a sample publication for demonstration purposes.”

https://www.queerty.com/republicans-were-just-busted-creating-fake-local-news-outlets-to-deceive-swing-state-voters-20260813/

Like I say if they accuse others of something it usually means they are actually doing it.

This is from our new AG….and he is an idiot….

Newly sworn-in Attorney General Todd Blanche has launched a new initiative to give convicted felons back their right to own guns.

The Department of Justice announced Monday that people whose felony convictions automatically barred them from owning weapons can now apply to have their right to bear arms reinstated. The DOJ predicted that 330,000 felons will apply.

In a statement, Blanche said, “the Second Amendment is not a second-class right, and the federal government should not permanently deprive Americans of a constitutional right without regard to whether they pose a danger to public safety.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/todd-blanche-launches-scheme-felons-232612535.html

Looks like all those MAGA religious loonies have decide who they want to take up the MAGA banner….

Evangelicals think that they’ve found their next great hope as they gear up for the 2028 presidential election.

Journalist Sarah Posner penned a report addressing the new chatter about Mike Huckabee as the new heir of the MAGA evangelicals to regain influence in the Republican Party after Trump has largely placated them.

Discussions looking beyond Trump are also coming at a time when even MAGA evangelicals are starting to lose faith in their president. The far-right political group believes the next GOP pick must be part of an effort to end growing anti-Israel and antisemitic elements in MAGA.

https://www.alternet.org/evangelicals/

They could not pick a better person for he is an Israeli ass kisser from way back….and a complete douche.

AS usual I want to try to lighten up the mood after you read all the silly crap from Donny and the GOP….who better to make you smile than animals?

A little humor after the bitter pill of DC…

That Was The Week That Was

Enjoy the rest of your weekend and as always…..Be Well and Be Safe….

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

IST Saturday News Dump–22Aug26

Another week and more heat for the Deep South and then there is the unusual news that some how was not that damn important.

Local–Damn uneventful week….I liked that….

 

Personal–An easy week for me…no doctor’s appointments just suffering from the heat and humidity…..damn I love A/C….

I will begin with a couple from the ‘can’t fix stupid’ file….

First and idiot posting on social media….

In late July, a video posted across various platforms showed a disturbing confrontation between an 18-year-old man and a sea lion at La Jolla Cove in Southern California. The area, next to Ellen Browning Scripps Park, is known for its rocky shores where marine mammals regularly haul themselves out of the water to rest. Tyler Muehl, 18, apparently decided that one of those resting sea lions needed a fight.

Rather than keeping his distance, Muehl began acting aggressively toward the animal. According to federal prosecutors, he took a fighting stance and squared up to the sea lion as if he was preparing to box it. Court documents also reveal that Muehl compared himself to professional UFC featherweight fighter Max Holloway during the confrontation.

Things then escalated. Muehl allegedly kicked the sea lion four times. When the animal tried to get away from the barrier, Muehl chased after it along the wall. Someone recorded the entire confrontation on a mobile phone and uploaded it to social media, where the video quickly sparked outrage.

https://wegotthiscovered.com/true-crime/18-year-old-pleads-guilty-kicking-chasing-sea-lion-la-jolla-cove/

See you just can’t fix stupid.

Next some adventurists take to a French Mountain…..

Thirty-two climbers who pushed up Mont Blanc despite safety warnings got a firm “non” when they later asked for a taxpayer-funded helicopter ride down. Authorities in Saint-Gervais had just shut the Gouter and Tête Rousse refuges because rockfall risk in the Grand Couloir—worsened by heat and drought—made the classic French route too dangerous, reports Explorersweb.

he group crossed the couloir anyway to reach the Gouter hut, then the next morning requested free aerial evacuation rather than descending on foot. Mayor Jean-Marc Peillex refused, saying there was no medical emergency. “The group knowingly climbed the Goûter Couloir, fully aware that they would have to cross it again to get down,” Peillex wrote, per SnowBrains. Those who wanted a ride down had to pay for a private helicopter flight; other climbers walked down without incident. Peillex is now urging changes to France’s mountain-rescue rules so public funds cover only true emergencies.

Idiots that do not think signs are meant for them….make them pay through the nose….arrogant twats.

On to my usual cancer articles as an FYI….

The researchers found that fructose serves as one of the chemical messages released by these treatment-surviving cells. The discovery reveals a previously unknown way that cancer cells left behind after therapy may contribute to metastasis.

“Some cancer cells that survive chemotherapy aren’t dividing anymore, but they’re still biologically active,” said Aidan Cole, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Katherine Aird, Ph.D., at The Wistar Institute and first author on the study. “Instead, they continue to release molecules that send signals to nearby cells. Our study is among the first to show that a nutrient — in this case, fructose — can act as one of those signals.”

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260802223426.htm

I just hope all the new found revelations does some good in the treatment of cancer.

This is for all my coffee drinkers….

A morning habit shared by billions of people may be tied to men’s hormone levels in a way nobody fully expected. A large study published in European Journal of Nutrition found that men who drank more coffee daily had significantly higher testosterone than men who drank little or none, even after accounting for weight, smoking, activity, and alcohol. Because the study only captured one snapshot in time, it can’t say coffee itself is raising testosterone rather than something else explaining both.

Researchers analyzed data from more than 2,200 middle-aged adults in Finland, the world’s highest coffee-consuming country, as part of the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966 study, which has tracked participants since before they were born. All were around 46 years old.

Beyond testosterone, coffee showed up tied to a wider set of body changes too. Both men and women who drank more coffee had lower blood levels of certain amino acids tied to insulin resistance and diabetes risk. Together, the findings suggest regular coffee drinking is tied to a broader hormonal and metabolic pattern scientists are only beginning to map.

https://studyfinds.com/coffee-men-testosterone/

Boy gets the catch of a lifetime while fishing….

An 8-year-old angler in Pennsylvania hooked a fish more at home in the Amazon River basin than a Philly-area lake. Seamus Coffey was out bass fishing with his dad when he reeled in a hefty red-bellied piranha, reports the Guardian. Dad Michael Coffey tells ABC News that he was initially baffled at what type of fish it might be, but then Seamus recognized it from YouTube videos he had seen.

State officials later confirmed it was indeed a piranha and suspect it was dumped by someone who had kept it as an exotic pet. A spokesperson for the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission warned that releasing such animals can disrupt local ecosystems and is “probably the worst thing you can do” for a former pet. The Coffeys chose not to return the fish to the water and say they disposed of it humanely.

Oh great an invasive fish….just what we need.

When I was younger I was always going to concerts but in those days they were a lot cheaper but that aside we had fun and enjoyed the music but something went horribly wrong…..

Whether it’s Harry Styles getting hit in the face with Skittles onstage, fans filming shows instead of, you know, actually watching them, or a disturbing increase in public defecation in the audience, concert etiquette in the 2020s is practically nonexistent.

So much so that there’s even a Wikipedia page dedicated to the decade’s uptick in terrible concert behavior.

Pooping in the stands. Throwing phones. Loud talking during performances. When — and why — did we start acting like undersocialized animals just because we bought tickets to the Eras Tour?

This is a sign of the times.

Finally….to boldly ‘GO’ ……

There is a problem in space…….

Astronauts’ stubborn bowels are finally getting a scientific explanation—and it’s about more than bathroom inconvenience. In a NASA-funded study of more than 400 blood samples from 52 astronauts who spent at least two months on the International Space Station, researchers found that life in microgravity appears to slow the movement of food through the intestines, reports Live Science. That gives gut bacteria extra time to chew through fiber and then switch to digesting protein instead—a shift known as protein fermentation. The process, which kicked in within weeks of arriving in orbit and often lasted until astronauts were back on Earth, helps explain why constipation is so common in space, per CNET.

But the study, published in Nature Communications, flags a longer-term concern: Protein fermentation produces compounds such as ammonia and hydrogen sulfide that, in high amounts and over long durations, have been linked to kidney problems, inflammation, and possible effects on mood and concentration. That could pose a risk on future Mars-length missions. Potential fixes under discussion: more dietary fiber, probiotics, and ways to stimulate peristalsis—the gut’s muscular conveyor belt—through drugs or even massage.

Massage?  What exactly would be massaged?

I am glad they cleared all that up for me for I have been worried about the astronauts bowel movements….how about you?

That is all I have on this Saturday….I hope everyone has a good Saturday and as always….Be Well and Be Safe….

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

Lefties Must Pay

In my younger years, after Vietnam, I was an anti-war protester and as such I was a target of the government’s program, COINETPRO….a program that targeted protesters….I wrote about the program many years ago….

COINTELPRO: The Ghosts Of Protests Past

Thanks to this government program once I finished college I could get a good job….I settled for shoe store clerk then a bookkeeper the went to work for the state but thanks to the government that did not last long….then there was a string of similar jobs….all because the government used my anti-war stance against me then I got a good job as the manager of a pub that lasted 11 years but all that time I continued my protests against the government on many issues.

Sadly in today’s world the government has many ways of spying on protesters….from social media to phone conversations to face recognition….which makes their job so much easier than in the 70s.

That program never really went away they just used other terms to describe it and now with all the protests that is across the country the government is at it in a big way again…

Newly disclosed records reveal the US government extensively spied on prominent leftwing organizations and on protesters as part of a vast operation into groups opposing the immigration crackdown in Minnesota earlier this year.

Internal investigative reports show the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) sent undercover agents to community meetings in the Twin Cities and New York City, infiltrated Signal chats and obtained financial records of mainstream unions and left-leaning non-profit groups.

Nearly 30 internal law enforcement reports were released on Thursday as part of a criminal case the Department of Justice has filed against 15 Minneapolis protesters. The defendants are accused of a “conspiracy” to “impede” US immigration officers during the Trump administration’s surge in the region.

The DHS investigative reports were disclosed by the government and submitted to the court by an attorney for one of the defendants. The records show that in January, DHS launched an inquiry called “Operation Puppet Master” to identify a “network of conspirators” organizing against US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The operation came as community organizing against ICE was swelling in the region in response to the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/13/us-government-spied-anti-ice-protesters

Us so called ‘pinkos’ may not be the only targets of our government….you could be ….

The rapid spread of public surveillance cameras represents something far more consequential than a new piece of police technology. It represents a fundamental change in the relationship between the individual and the state.

These cameras allow government agents to record, identify, catalog and retroactively track the movements of people who have committed no crime, are suspected of no wrongdoing and have done nothing to invite government scrutiny. That’s not public safety. It’s an assault upon individual privacy.

Privacy is not a privilege granted by government. It is an aspect of personal liberty that the government exists to protect. It is a natural human right protected from the government in the Bill of Rights. The fact that a person leaves his home and travels upon a public road does not mean that he has surrendered that right.

There is an enormous moral and constitutional difference between a police officer who happens to observe a person in public and government surveillance that automatically and systematically records that person’s vehicle, location and movements; and stores that information for future use.

A free society doesn’t just protect people from crime; it protects them from arbitrary government. The presumption is liberty. Government is the negation of liberty. A person should not have to establish his innocence before the government leaves him alone. The burden always belongs to the government to justify all intrusions into personal liberty. Police cameras reverse that principle. They collect information about everyone the camera views and leave it to individuals to challenge the collections afterward.

A State of Surveillance

Be on your best behavior….Big Brother Is Watching.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

That’s Right–40 Trillion

The news has come up that the deficit has risen to $40 trillion….up from about $29 trillion….what the Hell happened?

Of course the Repubs will blame policies and somewhere it will be Biden and the Dems to blame….after all there is an election coming and what better time to try and sway the more economically ignorant?

But the truth is more in-line with reality……

Congressional Republicans have seized upon news that the US national debt reached $40 trillion to bash what they described as “unaffordable socialist policies” and out-of-control spending.

But economists and policy analysts say Republican policy decisions—from massive tax cuts for the rich to disastrous wars of choice in the Middle East—are primarily responsible for the explosion of the national debt over the past quarter-century. President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly promised to eliminate the national debt, has so far overseen an $11.6 trillion debt surge across his two White House terms.

“I have never been a deficit hawk, and I’m not about to change my religious affiliation now,” Dean Baker, senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, wrote Thursday. “But whatever we think of debt and deficits, there is one point that should be very clear: It has been run up almost entirely due to Republican tax cuts and their inept management of the economy.”

Economist Paul Krugman similarly wrote that while the $40 trillion figure “has no special significance,” it underscores “the incredible irresponsibility of the Trump administration, with its unfunded tax cuts that overwhelmingly benefit the wealthy, billions in wasteful military spending—redesigning aircraft carriers because Trump doesn’t like the way they look!—and more.”

“As Jared Bernstein and Bobby Kogan have shown, our deficit would be far more manageable if first [George W.] Bush, then Trump, hadn’t rammed through tax cuts that hugely favored high-income Americans,” Krugman added.

Kogan, senior director of federal budget policy at the Center for American Progress, estimated in 2023 that tax cuts enacted during the Bush administration and Trump’s first term were “responsible for 57% of the increase in the debt ratio since 2001, and more than 90% of the increase in the debt ratio if the one-time costs of bills responding to Covid-19 and the Great Recession are excluded.”

https://www.commondreams.org/news/economists-trump-40-trillion-debt

All this deficit some of it can be blamed on our forever wars….I am not talking just about Repubs….Dems are just as damn guilty.

Another chunk of the deficit can be blamed on the constant passing of tax cuts over the years and yes the Dems are just as damn guilty here as well.

Maybe it is time for the American people to wake up to the lies and the reasons for this deficit….if we are to cut this deficit then revenues must be improved and a cessation of these lame ass wars.

And no tariffs will not change anything regardless of what the pseudo genius from Wharton tells you.

The rich have had a free ride for decades time for them to become contributing members of society (other than buying the Congress)….

That is that.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

News From The War

The US mash-up with Iran has all media outlets reporting all aspects of this conflict….the good the bad and the ugly.

I have found very little about the war started by Donny and his Israeli handlers that I can say is good….most of the news is bad and in many ways….then the is the ugly and that is what this post is about….

There are a few situations about this war that get very little coverage and this is one that is seriously lacking in complete coverage….

More than 750 US service members have been wounded since the US launched its war of aggression on Iran on 28 February, according to Defense Department casualty data updated on 19 August.

The update added more than 50 wounded US soldiers to the Pentagon’s war casualty database, bringing the official total to 757 wounded and 18 killed.

Those figures are drawn from two separate entries in the Pentagon’s Defense Casualty Analysis System, combining the totals listed under “Overseas Operations” with those recorded for Operation Epic Fury.

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The Pentagon has not specified which war the Overseas Operations casualties relate to, nor where or how the personnel were killed or wounded, prompting further questions about the transparency of its reporting.

https://thecradle.co/articles/pentagon-says-over-750-us-troops-wounded-during-war-on-iran

This is a disservice by trying to hide the numbers….these are Americans serving their country and should be treated with more respect.

Is this what society has come to….I thought when we legalized gambling that it would become a frankenstein and so it is….

A small number of gamblers have made $8 million placing military and defense-related bets on the Polymarket prediction site, most placed by about 150 accounts that almost always bet correctly. The researchers say they suspect the accounts are linked to military insiders who could be flagged for law enforcement as “the most likely potential insiders,” researchers said in a new report.

When the most successful of those accounts bet on unlikely military events, researchers found, they won virtually every single time.

“Traders acting on specialized, non-public information possess an edge that is valuable only within a limited set of markets, and that produces win rates difficult to attribute to luck,” researchers with the Anti-Corruption Data Collective said in a new report released Thursday. The researchers studied the small number of bettors who met two criteria: ”The concentration of their betting within less than 100 markets and two topics, and unusual accuracy (over 75%) of their longshot bets.”

The same research group published a report in April that found a high risk of insider trading on military-related Polymarkets after observing that “longshot” bets on military operations won 52% of the time, which was four times more often than other types of markets.

(taskandpurpose.com)

This is getting creepy….we can now bet on cancer patients and now on war….this society is getting sicker by the year.

My stomach is turning….time for a step back….

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

Congress And AI

I have made it clear that I do not use AI and in truth I do not trust it….I prefer to do my own research and formulate my findings in my own words.

AI has wormed it’s way into just about all aspects of our lives from colleges to medicine to science to reporting and now it has a foothold in Congress.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has quietly wormed its way into drafting American laws, and the people responsible for getting bills right say it’s creating a mess.

According to Politico, congressional staffers and outside advocacy groups are increasingly turning to chatbots like Claude and ChatGPT to write legislative text, forcing the House Office of Legislative Counsel (OLC) to clean up after them.

“AI is good for a lot of stuff,” Daniel Schuman, executive director of the American Governance Institute, explained before warning, “But it’s not capable of drafting legislation that you would want to enact into law.”

One person who advises congressional offices said the OLC now spends “more time trying to fix AI-drafted legislation than it would take for them to draft it from scratch,” noting AI models reportedly stumble over fine legal distinctions, such as whether funding should be structured as “a tax credit, deduction, exclusion or grant.”

According to one congressional staffer tasked with doing a deep read of the proposed legislation, lawmakers have no idea what is coming down the road due to errors and citations that won’t hold up to scrutiny when conflicts arise.

“It’s absolutely terrifying, and no one is thinking about it yet,” they predicted.

The risks aren’t hypothetical, Politico is reporting. Case in point: In June, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna’s (R-FL) office published an amendment summary that still contained the unedited chatbot phrase “Claude responded.” Luna acknowledged on X that “my staff used AI to correct a draft text and didn’t edit,” which raised alarms at the time.

Ari Hershowitz, a lawyer and technologist who has worked with the office to integrate tech tools into the legislative process, admitted that without checks, it’s “a guaranteed way of introducing thousands of bugs into our legal system.”

(rawstory.com)

Just another attempt to not do their jobs…..allow AI to write the bills and then more time with the high dollar donors.

This is what our political system has become….and I find it disgusting and pathetic.

Anything to add?

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

8 Million And Counting

What is the scoreboard for you might question….this is just to let the world know what Donny and those slugs that are in his employ are doing to the health of this nation.

The unprecedented healthcare cuts that President Donald Trump and the Republican Party enacted last summer have impacted people in all 50 US states, stripping insurance coverage from around 8 million Americans total and wreaking havoc on hospitals and other providers nationwide.

The advocacy group Protect Our Care on Tuesday released state-by-state fact sheets detailing how many people have lost Medicaid, Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and Affordable Care Act coverage due to Republican policy decisions, including the party’s roughly $900 billion in cuts to Medicaid and decision to let enhanced ACA subsidies expire, sending premiums skyrocketing.

“Eight million Americans have lost their health care because Donald Trump and Republicans decided they would rather hand out tax breaks to billionaires than protect working families,” said Brad Woodhouse, the president of Protect Our Care. “Every day that healthcare becomes more expensive, a family is forced to make an impossible choice between putting food on the table and staying covered, a senior is forced to ration their medication, and an expectant mother has to travel farther to access maternity care.”

(commondreams.org)

I still say let’s give Medicare For All (M4A)…..what have we to lose?

To be honest I want to give you an opposing view….this is from the website Reason….keep in mind their slogan is “Free Minds and Free Markets”….so with that in mind they are basically on the side of for profit healthcare…

“Free healthcare is cool,” comedian Shane Gillis recently said on The Joe Rogan Experience. “We should have that.”

“You should treat the entire country like it’s a community,” Rogan replied. “If you had a community, would you want the sickest person to fucking die who could be very valuable if you could take care of them, and do you have the resources to take care of them?”

While support for “free” healthcare in the United States is not new—Harry Truman campaigned on universal health insurance in 1948, and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I–Vt.) has popularized the “Medicare For All” slogan in recent years—the policy has received renewed interest of late. The Democratic Socialists of America have made universal healthcare “at no cost to individuals” a key component of their party’s expensive platform.

But it is not just political hopefuls who like the idea of universal healthcare; academics seem to as well. A recent study by the Yale School of Public Health claims that single-payer universal healthcare would save more than 100,000 lives a year, and would supposedly cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace. The study, which has not been peer-reviewed yet, appears to come to its conclusions by modeling a scenario that assumes cheaper pharmaceutical prices, less administrative overhead, reduced fraud, and fewer emergency visits.

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The U.S. healthcare system has plenty of problems. While the promise of “free stuff” may sound tempting, the experience of countries with universal healthcare should make Americans deeply skeptical of the idea that putting the government in charge of the entire system is a panacea.

https://reason.com/2026/08/19/universal-healthcare-sounds-great-heres-whats-happening-in-countries-that-have-it/

The part about long waits for treatment….when I needed a gastro doctor it took me 14 weeks to get an appointment….we have those long waits, maybe not as stark as others but they are there.

If they are against M4A then how about giving Americans the same coverage as Congress people?  It is free and their waits are shorter and their drugs are mostly free….how about that for a solution?

In case there are those that still do not know what M4A is….let me help….here are the basics….

Medicare for All would transform the program into a single-payer health insurance program that would provide all Americans with healthcare coverage.

Single-payer healthcare systems, also called universal healthcare, are currently in place in various countries worldwide. These healthcare systems can have differing elements, such as:

  • how the health insurance is paid for
  • how the healthcare is delivered
  • how the health facilities are owned and operated

So yes I support M4A and will do so as long as I kind breathe on my own.

How about you?

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

Let’s Blame The “America Hating” Media

When things blow up in Donny’s face he turns to his stand-by excuse….blame the media….and so it is with the problems on the USS Lincoln….

Over the past week, Pentagon officials launched a broadside against reports of dire conditions on the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier, which has been deployed in the Middle East for more than eight months.

Less than 24 hours after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth first criticized reporting about the Lincoln as “completely misrepresented,” a seemingly coordinated messaging campaign spread across the Pentagon’s social media apparatus. At least six senior Pentagon and Navy officials and spokespeople, along with official department accounts, published or amplified substantially similar attacks on the reporting across X and Facebook.

Recent reporting by Military Times and Stars and Stripes has drawn significant national attention to alarming conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, the flagship of Carrier Strike Group 3 operating under the U.S. 5th Fleet.

Reporting by Natalie Oliverio, a Navy veteran and award-winning journalist, documented concerns from service members and their families about suicide attempts, inadequate food, shortages of basic hygiene products, and deteriorating sanitation conditions aboard the carrier.

The concerns have since drawn coverage from CNN, NPR and other national news organizations.

U.S. Central Command subsequently placed Oliverio’s reporting prominently in an infographic declaring that “multiple media outlets have reported several false claims” about the Lincoln. While five other reports displayed in the graphic were labeled “FALSE,” Oliverio’s reporting was labeled “MISINFORMED.”

On Aug. 14, Hegseth accused the “reckless & shameless ‘American’ media” of “completely & intentionally” misrepresenting the situation on the Lincoln, later referring to “fake, America-hating news.”

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/uss-abraham-lincoln-news/

That is their answer to any facts that puts them in the spotlight…..Donny and the slime ball Pistol Pete care nothing for the men and women that service and protect this nation.

The only shame is what these fools are doing to our troops….they deserve better than the morons that run their lives and the suck ups that command them.

I believe the horror stories….do you?

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

Women In Danger

This is a post on something I read the other day about women serving in the US Army.

When I was in the Army, 1967-1970, women were clerks, nurses and other non-combatants but in today’s Army they can do anything a man can do.

There is lots of disturbing reports about what goes on in the military between men and women but this report is just plain horrific.

Twenty-three-year-old Sarah Roque had been in the Army for just over four years when a man fatally shot her in the head.

Roque wasn’t in a war zone, and the killer wasn’t an enemy combatant. It was Wooster Rancy, a fellow soldier stationed at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, who had gone to Walmart for trash bags on the last day Roque was seen alive in October 2024. The Army found her body in a dumpster behind the barracks.

“Even now, I still can’t believe it,” her mother, Ana Roque, told The Intercept. “That murderers could exist in one of the supposedly safest places in the country.”

A first-of-its-kind analysis by The Intercept found that in the Army, women are more likely to be killed by their fellow service members than by enemy combatants, in a reversal of the threat soldiers are trained to face. Between 2011 and August 2025, at least 41 women died by homicide in the Army — more than half of them at the hands of other service members or veterans. Using Defense Department manpower data to calculate per capita death rates, The Intercept found that active-duty Army women face a higher risk of homicide than male soldiers, the opposite of national and global trends

In many cases, women in the Army are killed by current or former romantic partners. Over 70 percent of victims had an intimate relationship with the perpetrator at one point, and the rate of homicides among women soldiers from intimate partner violence is at least three times higher than the national average. In others, like Roque’s case, it’s unclear how male soldiers chose their victims.

 

Women in the Army Are More Likely to Be Killed by Fellow Soldiers Than Enemy Combatants

What is it that fuels these acts?

Is it the culture of violence the military brings?

Or is it just a sign of the times?

Please if there are any thoughts  come forth and share.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

The “Dirt Bag” Wing

With all the success that the DSA is having in the elections the propaganda wing of MAGA pulls out all the stops to trash what is happening.

I want to say that I do not support this type of bullshit reporting I offer it up as FYI and to show just how far the MAGA machine will go to misinform the public.

Most of this is LIES.

 

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/aug/5/beware-dsa-dirtbag-wing-democratic-party/

 

This goes to illustrate just how much afraid of the current trend in voting.

Anything you would like to say?

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”