Now he’s reduced to grabbing his own Arc d’Drumpf, so he fired the nay-sayers. Reportedly, he asked the engineers if they could demolish the East Wing at night. So he settled for barriers. And fired the board with oversight on the project. Link: Trump fires federal arts board in charge of reviewing White House ballroom and ‘Arc de Trump’
Trying amitryptiline for the persistent “burning tinglies” in my left arm, hands, and left side. I suspect the carpal tunnel is overlaid a bit with this CPSP on the left side, my doctor started me on a low dose. It may take a few months to dial in the lowest effective dose. At night I can neutralize it temporarily with electric massage, a tight cycling sleeve, and gloves so that I can sleep. Daytime, I wear long sleeves and avoid typing or touching textures. As soon as my bare arm touches my shirt on the side, or upholstery, fabrics, etc.,…
He also hates this photo, in which his labial goiter is prominent. The Russian mouthpiece defending him thinks Time’s editors must be perverts for picking it. Not hard to see why. The “small crown” is the M in Time?? NO KINGS! Link: ‘The worst of all time’: Trump rails against ‘super bad’ Time magazine cover
They were working on the Concordia Cemetery water system when they heard voices coming from the nearby river. They tried to assist 2 men, wading in water up to their necks, fleeing from ICE. In a way, the men were trying to reach sanctuary on holy ground, though they may not have realized they were trying to climb up the bank into a cemetery. The ICE-ickles demanded a locked gate be opened, then pulled out bolt cutters and entered without waiting. The cemetery workers were cuffed and left beside the pump house for more than an hour, then taken away…
I had never heard of Hazel Scott before, her star fell into the shadows of McCarthyism before I was born. It’s a shame that she was forgotten the first time; let’s resist her second disappearance. It may be time to fire up a PBS Passport membership to watch this documentary (and so much more). I wonder what Mom and Dad thought of her TV show; Pop did love Nat “King” Cole and other Black entertainers. Sometimes it seems we Americans are forgetting who we were, which means we don’t know who we are, and we won’t recognize who we’ll become.…
My dad enlisted in the Army for WWII, he was not drafted. He was in his early 30’s and willing to serve…
A family member is on Medicaid, and could be affected by the #BigUglyBill and the murky definition of “able-bodied.” Also, a family friend is on Medicaid, but is moving to a Red state. I worry that both of them could lose health care in this era of “screw the poor and disabled.” Via Mother Jones: “The Deceptive Phrase Behind Trump’s Medicaid Purge” www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/09/medicaid-rfkjr-able-bodied-keyword-mother-tongue/
If ICE shows up when my lawn guys are working, I will go out with my walker and shout at them to get off my property, and demand to see a warrant. I will make one hell of a racket, and my immigrant neighbors are welcome to video it all.
Post: These are just the latest legal firms to bend the knee to Trump, the king of spin and deceit. Now the Deputy Attorney General of the United States can call on his former law firm for free legal work…for evil, not the public good. And also bar Justice Department lawyers from American Bar Association events. Four of the firms – Kirkland & Ellis, Latham & Watkins, Allen Overy Shearman Sterling, and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett– agreed to pledge $125m each in pro bono work to causes backed by the Trump administration. Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft said it would…
Post: How one NEH-funded group found out their grant was terminated – in an a poorly written, bellicose email that looked like spam. Dear Friends, Well, last Thursday, April 3, after I wrote to you, we received a uniquely sourced, strangely formatted, poorly written e-mail. Ostensibly (see below) from the federal government, it was a notice of termination for our recently awarded $350,000 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant that funds meaningfully important expansions of the cyberSW […] Link: New Mexico Delegation Reintroduces Chaco Protection Legislation – Archaeology Southwest