Shots Fired!

All too familiar words these days….seems like they are repeated everyday or so…..but this time it is about a spot that usually gets some other type of press…..the Correspondent dinner.

Usually the night is full of jocularity and fashion…..but that was the years before Donny and his band of thugs….

President Trump was reported uninjured and other top leaders of the United States were evacuated from an annual dinner of White House correspondents on Saturday night after an unspecified threat, the AP reports. One law-enforcement official said a shooter opened fire. An officer in a bullet-resistant vest was reportedly shot, but is expected to be OK. No other injuries were immediately reported. The Secret Service and other authorities swarmed the banquet hall at the Washington Hilton as guests ducked under tables by the hundreds. “Out of the way, sir!” someone yelled. Others yelled to duck.

The event was getting underway when armed security rushed in. Attendees were eating a spring pea and burrata salad, and waiters had begun preparing to bring out the next course when a security detail appeared on the ballroom floor and yelled for everyone to get down. Journalists in gowns and tuxedos ducked near tables as wine splattered onto white tablecloths and glasses clinked in the hurry to seek safety. Armed security burst through the doors of the ballroom and raced toward the dias where Trump sat as attendees ducked or crouched under tables. At one point, someone in the room shouted, “USA!”

Trump said that a “shooter has been apprehended” in a post to Truth Social about 30 minutes following a security incident at the White House correspondents’ dinner. Some in the crowd reported hearing what they believed to be 5 to 8 shots fired. Both Trump and Vice President JD Vance were uninjured in the incident. Dinner organizers said there will be an “announcement shortly” from the stage. It was later reported that the dinner would be rescheduled, but that everyone was safe.

Generally, the Hilton hotel, where the dinner has taken place for years, remains open to regular guests during the White House Correspondents Dinner. It has typically been focused on the ballroom—rather than the hotel at large—with little screening for people not entering the dinner itself. In past years, that has created openings for disruptions in the lobby and other public spaces, including protests in which security moved to remove guests who unfurled banners or staged demonstrations.

Always a little drama when Donny is involved.

I wonder if someone was paid for this disruption?

Gee!  Is Donny really that unpopular?  (sarcasm in case you missed it).

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IST Saturday News Dump–25Apr26

AS if by magic I return to the news dump for your entertainment pleasure…..or possibly in a nightmare.

Local–Last week NOLA had its annual French Quarter Fest with music and food……this past Thursday NOLA’s annual Jazz  Fest began….if you like music then this is the place to be….here is what to expect….

Music

And if you want some of the best damn food you will ever eat then….check out the food section of the website….

As most of my regulars know I live on the Gulf Coast and we watch the hurricane season….more so since Katrina….and looks like we may have a bit of good news….

Meteorologists have forecasted a below-average hurricane season for 2026, suggesting fewer storms than usual. This prediction comes after analyzing various atmospheric conditions and oceanic patterns that typically influence hurricane activity. Factors such as cooler sea surface temperatures and a potential El Niño event are contributing to this outlook. Historically, these conditions have been associated with reduced hurricane formation in the Atlantic basin.

We can only hope.

Personal–Not much this past week…..I am still breathing and reading and ranting…..

Enough chit-chat…..time for the grits and gravy….

Since I am fighting cancer I always look for reports that might prov e helpful….

There is news about something called CAR-T therapy…..

A woman who had been sick for many years with three autoimmune conditions has experienced a remarkable recovery after being treated with CAR-T therapy. This revolutionary cell-based therapy has been making waves in cancer science, but this case marks the first time it’s been successfully used in someone with these three life-threatening disorders.

CAR-T therapy takes a patient’s own cells and essentially turns them into targeted, disease-fighting machines. It’s been particularly promising for blood cancers – last year, early results from a clinical trial of a treatment based on this technology showed its impressive effects in patients with an aggressive type of leukemia.

First approved in the US in 2017, these therapies start with the extraction of a patient’s T cells, which are a subset of white blood cells and “the body’s primary killer of infected and other diseased cells,” explains the National Cancer Institute.

https://www.iflscience.com/car-t-therapy-is-revolutionizing-cancer-treatment-next-on-the-list-autoimmune-disease-83144

Oh Damn!  I do not east a lot of sweets but I do enjoy my fruits and vegetables…..could they be one of my problem s?

A diet packed with fruits, vegetables, and whole grains is widely considered healthy and typically seen as a cornerstone of disease prevention.

But new research from the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, part of Keck Medicine of USC, suggests the relationship may be more complex.

Findings presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research indicate that non-smoking Americans under 50 who follow these diets may face a higher risk of developing lung cancer.

“Our research shows that younger non-smokers who eat a higher quantity of healthy foods than the general population are more likely to develop lung cancer,” said Jorge Nieva, MD, a medical oncologist and lung cancer specialist with USC Norris and lead investigator of the study. “These counterintuitive findings raise important questions about an unknown environmental risk factor for lung cancer related to otherwise beneficial food that needs to be addressed.”

https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-reveal-eating-fruits-and-vegetables-may-increase-your-risk-of-lung-cancer/

Sorry but this needs more clarification.

The older I get the more I worry about my mind failing me….I can handle my body aging out but my mind is something I must keep in good working order…..

Scientists have taken a significant step towards combating the inflammation responsible for brain aging and brain fog, which has traditionally been viewed as irreversible. What’s more, the solution, which has been tested on mice, doesn’t even involve invasive surgery but can be administered with a simple nasal spray.

Over the past century, advances in medicine, public health, and the overall standard of living (for many people) have led to increased life expectancy. But accompanying this extension in our years is a rise in age-related ailments, especially neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s. One factor contributing to this is inflammation.

As we age, our brains start to experience a low-grade but chronic inflammatory process referred to as “neuro-inflammaging”. You can think of this like a small, ever-present “fire” that constantly smolders deep in the brain’s memory center. The metaphorical smoke from this fire creates brain fog that makes it difficult to think, form new memories, or adapt to new environments. At the same time, it increases the risk of a person developing disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease.

https://www.iflscience.com/nasal-spray-could-reverse-brain-aging-by-lowering-inflammation-and-re-energizing-brain-cells-83226

That is enough of the health stuff….let’s get to the weird stuff….

String theorists will be pouty…..they think the universe has an infinite amount of dimensions and now some guy says there are only 7….

It might sound like something from The Matrix, but scientists now say that our universe has seven dimensions.

In addition to the four dimensions we normally experience – height, length, depth, and time – physicists argue that there are three extra ‘folded’ layers of reality.

Far from being science fiction, researchers believe it could solve one of the most stubborn problems in the history of physics.

According to the researchers, this wild theory finally explains what happens to black holes when they die.

Scientists used to think that black holes were cosmic voids from which nothing could ever escape.

But in the 1970s, Stephen Hawking realised that black holes emit radiation, slowly evaporating away as time goes by.

The problem is that this appears to violate one of quantum physics’ most important rules, creating something called the information paradox.

A group of researchers now say they have found a solution to this 50–year–old conundrum – but it only works if the universe really has seven dimensions.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-15741331/scientist-claims-universe-SEVEN-dimensions.html

That ought to get the name calling to a fevered pitch.

In 1960 a noted scientist predicted the end of the world (there is always one, huh?)

Predictions for the end of civilization come around fairly regularly. Many of us who were alive during 2012 can recall the misinterpretation of the Mayan calendar which suggested the end was nigh and led to a sense of impending doom. Just last year was spent dodging the rapture that had been forecasted by TikTok prophets. This year, the Doomsday Clock was set the closest to midnight it has ever been. So, it perhaps comes as no surprise that we’re hurtling towards another deadline for humanity on November 13, 2026, which is appropriately a Friday. What might be a bit more unsettling is that this prediction was made by a physicist using mathematical models and population data.

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Von Foerster became interested in computational biology early on in his career, founding the Biological Computing Lab at the University of Illinois in 1958. This field brings computational and mathematical methodology into the study of biological systems. Employing such methods, von Foerster published his controversial doomsday prediction in the journal Science in 1960. In his model, “doomsday” occurred when the world’s human population grew to infinity, and we would be “squeezed to death.”

Prior to this paper’s publication, models of population growth (e.g., the model created by Thomas Malthus) were exponential. In other words, the population growth (i.e., birth rate) would be proportional to the existing population. Whereas von Foerster and his colleagues asserted that population growth is, in fact, hyperbolic. With this model, he argued that population growth actually accelerates as it grows due to communication and the human ability for cooperation. In such a model, the population approaches infinity: doomsday.

https://www.sciencing.com/2138206/how-1960-physicist-predicted-world-end-november-13-2026/

Damn!  I think that is Thanksgiving Day….that could ruin a good meal.

If you have ever been on a road trip with the kids then you know that they have to pee every 20 miles…..well the Chinese may have solved that problem…..

Road trips in China may eventually come with a new kind of onboard convenience: a slide-out car toilet. Chinese EV maker Seres has secured a patent for an “in-vehicle toilet” that tucks beneath a passenger seat and can be deployed with a push or voice command, according to a filing with China’s intellectual property office seen by the BBC. The system includes a fan and exhaust pipe to vent smells outside, a waste tank that must be emptied by hand, and a heating element designed to evaporate urine and dry solid waste. In the patent filing, Seres said the system is designed to “satisfy users’ toilet needs on long journeys, while camping or while staying in the car.”

Seres hasn’t said if or when the feature will make it into a production model. The idea lands as Chinese electric-car makers race to differentiate in a crowded market by loading vehicles with extras like refrigerators, karaoke systems, and massage seats. Seres, which sells mainly in China but has expanded to Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, is one of the few Chinese EV firms currently turning a profit in a sector many analysts say is ripe for consolidation.

Psychedelics may get easier to get…..

INTEREST IN research investigating psychedelic drugs including psilocybin, ketamine, ibogaine, and LSD and their potential role in improving mental health has been heating up for a while. Now, with the signing of an executive order for the FDA to fast track review of these drugs, interest is at a fever pitch. This order is expected to lower barriers to researching these drugs and may even make some drugs eligible for the Right to Try Act.

A decade ago, using drugs like magic mushrooms, especially in a therapist’s office, seemed cringey, extreme, and not helpful for what patients were there for. Today…it’s complicated.

Tech bros and CEOs have been trumpeting their use of mushrooms (psilocybin) to optimize performance and improve emotional well-being, and new science is probing the mental health benefits of these and other psychedelics. The conversation got louder as MAHA championed for them being outside of Big Pharma’s hands (largely) and being “suppressed by the FDA,” according to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Meanwhile, plenty of people aren’t waiting for government approval before experimenting: About 8 million US adults reported using psychedelics in 2023 (often for fun), according to a RAND corporation survey. Now there are psychedelic happy hours, ibogaine retreats abroad, and chocolate candies for microdosing.

https://www.menshealth.com/health/a71077196/psychedelics-fast-track

Leave it to the tech bros…….

That does it for me…..go out and enjoy your Saturday and as always….Be Well and Be Safe….

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“lego ergo scribo”

The Least Intelligent Among Us

Every day there is some new conspiracy coming out of social media….from eating babies to flat earth to voter fraud to alien half breeds….it seems the least capable of critical thinking are the ones holding the day.

Why is this?

New research published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied suggests that people often overestimate their understanding of political facts. This tendency to be overconfident appears most common among individuals who actually know the least about politics and those who lean conservative. The findings provide evidence that psychological traits, like a desire for quick and definitive answers, help explain why some voters struggle to accurately judge their own political knowledge.

Erika K. Fulton, an associate professor of psychology at Idaho State University and head of the META Lab, led a team of scientists to investigate how well people gauge their own grasp of political information. The research team noticed a gap in the existing scientific literature regarding this specific type of self-evaluation. Most prior studies on political knowledge were conducted by political scientists, who often use different analytical methods than cognitive psychologists.

The scientists wanted to apply the strict measurement standards of cognitive psychology to political knowledge. As the researchers explained, “Metacognition is broadly defined as thinking about one’s own cognition. The type we studied is called metacognitive monitoring accuracy, or the degree to which judgments of what one knows matches what one actually knows.”

In simpler terms, this concept refers to a person’s ability to accurately recognize when they are right and when they are wrong. “People tend to be overconfident regarding what they think they know, and this has serious consequences in the political realm, such as when people vote on candidates and issues that they don’t understand as well as they think they do,” the researchers stated.

“We couldn’t find any political metacognition studies conducted by cognitive psychologists, specifically metacognition researchers, only by political scientists,” the researchers told PsyPost. “Experimental psychology has very specific measurement criteria that guide our study designs, and we wanted to employ those for a fuller, more nuanced understanding of political metacognition.”

https://www.psypost.org/people-with-the-least-political-knowledge-tend-to-be-the-most-overconfident-in-their-grasp-of-facts/

Fascinating!  Social media is driving this erroneous thinking.

The reason social media is so influential is a person’s attention span….

In 2004, researchers at the University of California, Irvine, found that the average attention span on any screen was about two and a half minutes, Houlihan explained in the clip. By 2012, it had shrunk to 75 seconds.

In the last 10 years or so, the average attention span has plummeted to an abysmal 47 seconds, with the median being roughly 40 seconds.

What better place to tap into the short attention span to influence people than social media.

There is the problem that needs repair…..but sadly in a world that demands instant gratification we will not find the repairs we need.

The turmoil we face today will be with us for a very long time no matter the damage it does to the people….

And that is the name of that tune…..

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

It Could Be 1892

I know when I go off on one of my historic perspectives there are a bunch of eye rollings and altogether indifference…..but you could learn something and why is that a bad thing?

You read that right….1892….that was when the Populist Party came into national view…..and the preamble says it all…..in that year and as well as our year….

The conditions which surround us best justify our co-operation; we meet in the midst of a nation brought to the verge of moral, political, and material ruin. Corruption dominates the ballot-box, the Legislatures, the Congress, and touches even the ermine of the bench. The people are demoralized; most of the States have been compelled to isolate the voters at the polling places to prevent universal intimidation and bribery. The newspapers are largely subsidized or muzzled, public opinion silenced, business prostrated, homes covered with mortgages, labor impoverished, and the land concentrating in the hands of capitalists. The urban workmen are denied the right to organize for self-protection; imported pauperized labor beats down their wages, a hireling standing army, unrecognized by our laws, is established to shoot them down, and they are rapidly degenerating into European conditions. The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes for a few, unprecedented in the history of mankind; and the possessors of these, in turn despise the Republic and endanger liberty. From the same prolific womb of governmental injustice we breed the two great classes—tramps and millionaires.

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We have witnessed for more than a quarter of a century the struggles of the two great political parties for power and plunder, while grievous wrongs have been inflicted upon the suffering people. We charge that the controlling influence dominating both these parties have permitted the existing dreadful conditions to develop without serious effort to prevent or restrain them. Neither do they now promise us any substantial reform. They have agreed together to ignore, in the coming campaign, every issue but one. They propose to drown the outcries of a plundered people with the uproar of a sham battle over the tariff, so that capitalists, corporations, national banks, rings, trusts, watered stock, the demonetization of silver and the oppressions of the usurers may all be lost sight of. They propose to sacrifice our homes, lives, and children on the altar of mammon; to destroy the multitude in order to secure corruption funds from the millionaires.

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/populist-party-platform-1892

Tell me we are not reliving those dark days yet again.

Those words written over a hundred years ago could have been written yesterday.

If you want a closer look at what these people were proposing…..then look no further…..

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/the-populist-party-platform/

Be Smart!

Learn Stuff!

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Is This A Coming Trend?

“When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.”  Victor Hugo

A couple of years ago some guy pooped a CEO of a health corporation…..and he has become some what of a cult hero.  I have heard people whine about his wife and kids but no one whines about the wife and kids of those denied healthcare by his organization.

Was this the start of a budding revolution?

Luigi Mangione, the man awaiting trial in the December 2024 killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, is fast becoming a symbol of a new wave of ideologically-motivated violence, argues the Washington Post‘s editorial board. Investigators say his case inspired last year’s deadly shooting at the Manhattan skyscraper home to the NFL headquarters. The editorial board highlights other cases—including a California warehouse arson that caused an estimated $500 million in damage and a firebomb attempt at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s Texas home—in which suspects allegedly referenced Mangione.

The Post notes the 27-year-old, who has pleaded not guilty in Thompson’s murder and awaits a trial this fall, has taken on “folk hero” status among some on the radical left, with a legal defense fund pulling in $1.46 million from more than 40,000 donors. Federal prosecutors say his supporters increasingly see violence as a substitute for political or ideological argument, supercharged by online anonymity and social media. The editorial insists there’s no justification for such attacks—against tech leaders, health executives, or anyone else.

For the full argument and examples, read the editorial here.

Full disclosure–I do not rust the WaPo to be forthcoming with the news…..but I include it for the sake of my readers….

That aside it seems the recently violent acts are seemingly accelerating….recently, last week, a disgruntle employee of a paper company set fire to a warehouse…..

A California warehouse worker accused of torching his workplace allegedly cast himself as a kind of anti-corporate avenger, prosecutors say. Authorities say 29-year-old Chamel Abdulkarim set multiple fires early Tuesday inside a 1.2-million-square-foot Ontario warehouse packed with Kimberly-Clark paper products while about 20 others were on site, then posted video online that appears to show a hand igniting stacks of paper as a voice complains about worker pay, the Los Angeles Times reports. In texts afterward, he allegedly compared himself to Luigi Mangione—the man charged with killing UnitedHealthcare’s CEO in New York—and wrote, “I just cost these [expletive] billions.”

Federal prosecutors say Abdulkarim also posted videos arguing workers aren’t paid enough to live and texted complaints about the “1%” and corporate shareholders. The blaze destroyed roughly $500 million in goods and the $150 million building, per local officials, and grew so fast firefighters had to withdraw and fight it defensively; about 175 responded before the six-alarm fire collapsed the roof. No one was injured, KTLA reports. Abdulkarim, an employee of third-party distribution company NFI Industries, was arrested later that morning. He faces one count of aggravated arson and six counts of arson of a structure in state court, with a potential sentence of 10 years to life, ABC 7 reports. He is also expected to face federal charges.

I believe some of his words were….this did not have to happen if you paid a livable wage”…

Not to fear the culprit has been arrested…

Next came a fire bomb of AI guru Altman’s house…..

The man accused of throwing a Molotov cocktail at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s home in San Francisco has been charged with attempting to kill Altman and a security guard at the residence, San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins said Monday. Daniel Moreno-Gama, who also faces multiple federal charges, faces two counts of attempted murder and attempted arson in California state court, the Washington Post reports.

  • Authorities allege the 20-year-old threw the incendiary device about 4am Friday, setting an exterior gate at Altman’s home alight before fleeing on foot, police said. Less than an hour later, Moreno-Gama allegedly went to OpenAI’s headquarters and reportedly threatened to burn down the building. Moreno-Gama was opposed to artificial intelligence, writing about AI’s purported risk to humanity and “our impending extinction,” according to court documents.
  • This was not spontaneous. This was planned, targeted and extremely serious,” said FBI San Francisco Acting Special Agent in Charge Matt Cobo during a press conference. On Monday morning, FBI agents went to Moreno-Gama’s home in Spring, Texas, a suburb of Houston, where they spent several hours before leaving. He has been charged by federal prosecutors with possession of an unregistered firearm and damage and destruction of property by means of explosives. The criminal complaint does not name Altman or OpenAI but both have confirmed they were the targets of the attack. No injuries were reported.When Moreno-Gama was arrested Friday, officials found a document on him in which he “identified views opposed to Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the executives of various AI companies,” court documents say. The document discussed AI’s purported risk to humanity and “our impending extinction,” according to the criminal complaint. Authorities allege Moreno-Gama traveled from his home in Texas to San Francisco and visited Altman’s home early Friday morning.”
  • “We are only at the beginning of this investigation, but if the evidence shows that Mr. Moreno-Gama executed these attacks to change public policy or to coerce government and other officials, we will treat this as an act of domestic terrorism and together with our law enforcement partners prosecute him to the fullest extent allowed by law,” US Attorney Craig Missakian said in a statement, per Reuters.
  • The document in which Moreno-Gama discussed his opposition to AI also made threats against Altman, officials said. “Also if I am going to advocate for others to kill and commit crimes, then I must lead by example and show that I am fully sincere in my message,” Moreno-Gama is alleged by authorities to have written in the document.
  • Advocacy groups that have issued grave warnings about AI’s risks to society condemned the violence. PauseAI said in a statement that the suspect had no role in the group but joined its forum on the social media platform Discord about two years ago and posted about 34 messages there, none containing explicit calls to violence but one that was flagged as “ambiguous.” Discord said Monday that it has banned Moreno-Gama for “off-platform behavior.”

Interesting, eh?

But not to worry the pampered billionaire is safe….

The man accused of throwing a Molotov cocktail at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s home in San Francisco has been charged with attempting to kill Altman and a security guard at the residence, San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins said Monday. Daniel Moreno-Gama, who also faces multiple federal charges, faces two counts of attempted murder and attempted arson in California state court, the Washington Post reports.

  • Authorities allege the 20-year-old threw the incendiary device about 4am Friday, setting an exterior gate at Altman’s home alight before fleeing on foot, police said. Less than an hour later, Moreno-Gama allegedly went to OpenAI’s headquarters and reportedly threatened to burn down the building. Moreno-Gama was opposed to artificial intelligence, writing about AI’s purported risk to humanity and “our impending extinction,” according to court documents.
  • This was not spontaneous. This was planned, targeted and extremely serious,” said FBI San Francisco Acting Special Agent in Charge Matt Cobo during a press conference. On Monday morning, FBI agents went to Moreno-Gama’s home in Spring, Texas, a suburb of Houston, where they spent several hours before leaving. He has been charged by federal prosecutors with possession of an unregistered firearm and damage and destruction of property by means of explosives. The criminal complaint does not name Altman or OpenAI but both have confirmed they were the targets of the attack. No injuries were reported.
    • When Moreno-Gama was arrested Friday, officials found a document on him in which he “identified views opposed to Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the executives of various AI companies,” court documents say. The document discussed AI’s purported risk to humanity and “our impending extinction,” according to the criminal complaint. Authorities allege Moreno-Gama traveled from his home in Texas to San Francisco and visited Altman’s home early Friday morning.

Then a couple of days later Altman’s house once again a target….

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s San Francisco home may have been targeted by two alleged attacks in a span of three days, with police announcing a pair of arrests in the latest incident, the San Francisco Standard reports. Around 1:40am Sunday, a Honda sedan allegedly drove past Altman’s property in Russian Hill, then stopped; the passenger extended a hand out the window and appeared to fire a shot toward the Lombard Street side of the estate, according to a police report citing security staff and surveillance video. No injuries were reported. The Standard frames the alleged shooting as an attack on Altman’s home, but the San Francisco Chronicle notes that has not yet been confirmed by police.

Police say a license plate captured on camera led them to a residence on Taylor Street, where officers detained Amanda Tom, 25, and Muhamad Tarik Hussein, 23, without incident and recovered three firearms. Both were booked on suspicion of negligent discharge of a firearm. The alleged shooting followed a Friday morning episode in which a 20-year-old Texas man, Daniel Alejandro Moreno-Gama, is accused of hurling a Molotov cocktail at Altman’s gate from Chestnut Street; security extinguished the flames, and the suspect was later arrested after making threats at OpenAI’s Mission Bay headquarters, authorities say. The suspect has been linked to a Discord server called PauseAI, which is against the development of frontier AI models; the group quickly disavowed the alleged attack, Business Insider reports.

After the first incident, Altman wrote a lengthy blog post reflecting on it. “There was an incendiary article about me a few days ago. Someone said to me yesterday they thought it was coming at a time of great anxiety about AI and that it made things more dangerous for me. I brushed it aside,” he wrote. “Now I am awake in the middle of the night and pissed, and thinking that I have underestimated the power of words and narratives.”

While I was writing news came across of more warehouse fires….

there are now reports of six different Warehouse or storefront fires that have happened across the United States in the last three days five of which are in different states. currently there have been two in California one in Queens New York another in Ohio at an Amazon location another in Pennsylvania and a final one in New Jersey. They’re pretty hard to look up, I’m suspecting to keep the trend from catching on.

Fascinating.

Is this the beginning of a revolt against technology or against the insanely rich?

Sorry but I cannot work up much sympathy.

“A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.”

I have been waiting a long time for this….Let it begin!

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

Thoughts About Surviving Donny

Four ex-presidents were asked if this country can bounce back or even survive the crap Donny is putting it through….

Let me say here I could write this without ever hearing what they would say….but they were asked and they answered….

All four living former presidents are striking a similar note as the US nears its 250th birthday. In exclusive interviews with Jenna Bush Hager for Today, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, and Bill Clinton all argued that the country’s democratic foundations are sturdy enough to weather its current tensions—if citizens stay engaged. Highlights:

  • Biden: “We’re the most unique country in the world,” said No. 46. “Most unique country in the world in the sense that we really do think democracy is dictated by the rule of the Constitution. And we do believe … that all men are created equal.”
  • Obama: “Hope is not blind optimism. Remember what’s best in us,” said No. 44. “The basic principle upon which this country was founded, which is we don’t have rulers, we don’t have kings, or monarchs, or aristocracies. We have citizens.” Hope “arises in the face of difficulty” and depends on Americans treating each other with respect while working out differences “in peaceful, legal ways.”
  • Bush: “My message is consider yourself fortunate to be a part of a great nation,” said No. 43 and the only former president Hager addressed as “dad.” “Study our history so you have a better sense for what the future will be like. And be a citizen, not a spectator. And by that I mean participate in the process, but also love a neighbor like you’d like to be loved yourself.”
  • Clinton: “The country will survive as much by the process, by the freedom to speak, the freedom to vote, the freedom to be active in politics as by any particular issue,” said No. 42. “And because it’s like it is, compromise is essential.”

read the full piece at Today.

Just as I thought….centrist crap….they do not want Americans fighting for their rights just to vote and keep- the riff raff in bucks.

Sorry I know that is a bit harsh but nothing changes in decades and these guys are part of the reason.

If you vote their thoughts then you are looking at a very long time before we have our country back.

But you do what you think is best….and I will do what is needed.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

Same Sh*t, Different Election

HAPPY EARTH DAY

Let’s take a break from silly Donny’s Iranian venture and talk about the quickly approaching elections, both midterms and the general in 2028….

There are many reports telling us what is happening with the politics around these elections….but sadly everything being said/ewwritten has all been so before….

First the voters attitudes…..

According to a recent study from the University of Notre Dame, voters who are comfortable living in the middle—neither agreeing nor disagreeing when asked about substantive issues relevant to upholding democracy—might be the largest group to blame for democratic decline in the United States.

These “democratic neutrals” are what the study’s co-authors consider some of the most dangerous voters in the current political environment.

Using three surveys of more than 45,000 voting-age Americans, the researchers found that about half of the U.S. population expresses an attitude of democratic neutrality—or an “unwillingness to support or oppose policies or practices that undermine democracy,” explained Matthew E.K. Hall, lead author of the study recently published in the journal Nature Human Behaviour.

“Neutrality towards democracy, rather than outright opposition, has enabled democratic backsliding among various Western democracies as elected officials leverage citizens’ neutral attitudes to pursue antidemocratic outcomes,” Hall and his two co-authors wrote in their study.

https://phys.org/news/2026-04-america-democratic-limbo-silent-middle.html

Basically it is a wait and see attitude…..and this type of thinking is what put us in the position we find ourselves today….this whole neutrality thing is total BS.

Because of this laziness we may miss the opportunity for change….

We have a leader who does nothing but expand a war department, make his friends richer and destroy what little democracy we have left.

And when we do change leadership at the top we get very little in return….the rich get richer, the masses suffer and corporations still write the laws….what part of that is change?

This coming election will be NO different without a change in attitudes from the voter……so if you are looking for a saving grace from the destruction of Donny you will be disappointed for all you will get is a new face to twist the knife in you back.

This is a little something extra for all you AI fans…..trhis basically focuses on thge 2028 election, Vance and Rubio…..

A simulation utilizing AI has delved into how the 2028 U.S. presidential election result could look, and it was far more nuanced than a simple prediction.

By feeding political trends, polling dynamics, and candidate positioning into an AI model, the YouTube channel, I Ask AI, has attempted to understand not just who might win, but why.

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The simulation suggested a scenario where changing political conditions shift momentum. If Republican performance weakens and Trump’s approval declines, Rubio could emerge as the nominee: “By 2028, Trump’s approval will have dragged Vance down too far to recover. The guy standing next to Trump for four years owns every bad decision, every scandal, every economic complaint.”

Meanwhile, Rubio’s relative distance becomes an advantage: “Rubio has the crucial advantage of distance. He was doing diplomacy while the domestic mess was happening.”

https://vt.co/news/us/simulated-2028-election-ai-next-us-president

In conclusion….just as the title implies….Same Sh*t, Different Election.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

 

What’s The Assassinate Skinny?

What got me thinking along these lines was this obscure post…..

https://www.morninghoney.com/p/trump-assassination-attempt-conspiracy-theories-gain-tractionthis-time-from-inside-maga-circles

You guys remember a couple of years ago when some random guy attempted to assassinate Donny and only nicked his ear…..remember that fateful day?

We all were given the defiant fist bumps of a ‘wounded’ soon to be leader and we were all so aghast.

I remember when I got my ear nicked at the barber shop and it bled a helluva lot more than Donny’s supposed assassination attempt.  For that reason I have always been a bit skeptical about what really happened.

After all this time and the constant images even the MAGA faithful are starting to ask questions….

As Donald Trump’s MAGA base sours on him, some of them now think the 2024 assassination attempt on him in Butler, Pennsylvania, was staged.

Wired reports that this conspiracy theory started to take hold after Joe Kent, who resigned from the Trump administration over the Iran war, went on conservative pundit Tucker Carlson’s show and asserted without evidence that investigations into the shooting were halted before they were finished.

“If you don’t want to address that question, then you just go silent and say you can’t ask that question,” Kent, formerly the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, said. “Which then creates people who come out of nowhere and they start drawing their own conclusions.”

Kent noted that this would fuel conspiracy theories, and ever since his interview, that is exactly what seems to be happening within MAGA. Trisha Hope, who served as a delegate from Texas during the 2024 Republican National Convention, posted on X last week that “if you cannot look at this story, and use critical thinking skills and have at least some questions, you are the problem and we need you to snap out of it.”

“Since the attempt on his life, Trump has show [sic] no interest in investigating what really happened. He never mentions it, it’s as if it never happened, except when he tells us, he took a bullet for us,” Hope said in a long post.

Comedian Tim Dillon, who interviewed JD Vance on his podcast during Trump’s presidential campaign, said last week that he thinks “maybe it was staged,” adding that Trump should now say publicly that “some people are going to be upset by this, but we staged the assassination attempt in Butler to show people how important it was to vote for me and how far I was willing to go for them.”

Candace Owens, a far-right conspiracy theorist who has abandoned Trump, claimed on her podcast last week that Miriam Adelson, an Israeli-American billionaire and Republican donor, was actually behind the assassination attempt because Trump hadn’t followed through on a promise to allow Israel to annex the occupied West Bank.

https://newrepublic.com/post/209222/maga-trump-assassination-attempt-fake

There is more that might interest people…..

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-assassination-attempt-2676757340/

I would like to hear the tale but we all know that Donny will never reveal what really happened for it would lessen him to those still worshiping at his crotch.

Even ex-MAGA MTG has decided to weigh in on this ‘tale of woe’……

Former Georgia congresswoman and one-time Donald Trump ally Marjorie Taylor Greene has joined the disgruntled group of MAGA stalwarts raising questions about the assassination attempt on the president when he was running for office.

“President Trump, of all people, should be leading the charge” to determine all the facts of what happened that day in Butler, Pennsylvania, during a campaign speech two years ago, she noted on X. “Why isn’t he?” Greene demanded. “That’s the question.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-stokes-donald-trump-assassination-plot-rumors/

What do you think happened on the day?

You know mine now please tell me what you thinking.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

Damn! Labelled Again!

Since I was 16 years old I have had Left leanings and because of that I have been labelled as ….well you know all those insulting names that conservs can think of (but it is not really thinking for that eludes them)……

Since Donny has been playing his version of the game of Risk in the Middle East I have been crapping on his ill-conceived plans every chance I get…..well apparently Donny thinks people that do not appreciate his brand of stupid are……TRAITORS.

President Trump is defending his Iran war strategy, attacking critics and skeptics on Monday as “TRAITORS, ALL” after a second round of talks with Iran were thrown into doubt by the US Navy’s seizure of an Iranian-flagged cargo ship near the Strait of Hormuz. It was the first such interception since the US blockade of Iranian ports began last week, and Iran’s military vowed to respond, the AP reports.

  • Trump said Vice President JD Vance, his son-in-law Jared Kushner, and envoy Steve Witkoff would be going in Islamabad on Monday, where Pakistani officials were preparing the venue, but Iranians made no commitment to a Round Two of talks with the US, and Vance’s motorcade was later spotted at the White House.
  • A senior Iranian official tells Reuters that Tehran, which had ruled out attending peace talks in earlier statements, is “positively reviewing” proposals for talks this week but no final decision has been made.
  • Trump appeared to throw cold water on hopes for an agreement, telling Bloomberg he’s “highly unlikely” to renew the ceasefire before it expires. He said the truce will expire “Wednesday evening Washington time.”
  • In the leadup and throughout the seven-week war, Trump has faced criticism from the left and from some of his own supporters that he followed Israel’s lead into launching the conflict. But Trump on social media is blaming the media for pushing what he claims is a false narrative. “Israel never talked me into the war with Iran, the results of Oct. 7th, added to my lifelong opinion that IRAN CAN NEVER HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON,” Trump said in a Monday Truth Social post.
  • The escalating standoff threatened to deepen the energy crisis roiling the global economy after nearly two months of fighting that Iran’s forensic chief has killed at least 3,375 people in Iran.
  • Israel and Lebanon, meanwhile, said they would join another round of talks in Washington, DC, on Thursday, continuing their first direct diplomatic talks in decades.

His so-called policies are idiotic at best…..Iran does not need nukes…..it can control the Straight of Hormuz….bringing oil shipments to a screeching halt.

As long as I am a ‘traitor’ let me continue….the best the US can accomplish is a stalemate with Iran…that’s right I read it right…..stalemate.

Why would I say that?

With a shaky ceasefire in place between the US, Israel and Iran – and little progress on talks to resolve the complex issues at the heart of the war – where is this conflict going?

The most likely scenario is a frozen conflict.

A frozen conflict is not static, but is an unresolved war that continues at a low-level below the threshold of full-scale combat.

This typically occurs when a comprehensive political agreement cannot be reached, such as the fighting in eastern Ukraine from 2014 until Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022. This conflict was considered frozen despite the deaths of some 14,000 military personnel and civilians and persistent cyber and information warfare.

Even if negotiations resume this week in Pakistan and an eventual agreement is reached, there are still three reasons we believe this is headed towards a frozen conflict, not a comprehensive peace agreement.

https://theconversation.com/3-reasons-the-war-between-the-us-israel-and-iran-is-headed-for-a-frozen-conflict-280996

Will someone please inform this dunderhead that a ceasefire is not an end to a war.

So once again the idiots are labeling people…..the only thing missing is that damn stupid saying from the past….”America, Love It Or Leave It”

So to Donny I have but one thing to say about his label….BITE ME!

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”