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Definition of shenanigan from The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition 2022 1. A playful or mischievous act; a prank: We're tired of your shenanigans! 2. An underhanded act or deceitful remark: Financial shenanigans brought down the brokerage.
"The basic rules of democracy stand in the way of their desires; hence--democracy must go! ... Fascists "make their own rules and change them when they choose... They maintain themselves in power by use of force combined with propaganda based on primitive ideas of 'blood' and 'race' by skilled manipulation of fear and hate, and by false promise of security. The propaganda glorifies war and insists it is smart and 'realistic to be pitiless and violent."
Actually, one of the documents Trump released yesterday shows that Russia tried to influence the 2020 election to defeat Biden. Its operatives worked "with US officials and other prominent persons" to spread claims about former Vice President Biden as well as Ukrainian politicians and alleged Ukrainian influence in the 2016 US elections." Trump has denied Russian interference in U.S. elections.
And the anger that is directed at those who suggest there has been public man-made death, the anger comes from the cognitive dissonance between what they want to think they are -- world dominators, people who will be remembered in history as having done good -- they can't countenance the image that is suggested by this, which is that they are monsters.
"Robert Bork's America is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, Blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens' doors in midnight raids, schoolchildren could not be taught about evolution, writers and artists could be censored at the whim of the Government, and the doors of the Federal courts would be shut on the fingers of millions of citizens for whom the judiciary is -- and is often the only -- protector of the individual rights that are the heart of our democracy..." --Senator Ted Kennedy
Economist Paul Krugman: What we should take from it, he says, is that the statement was "completely crazy." "In any kind of normally functioning political system," he said, "in any kind of normally functioning party environment we would have a massive bipartisan call across the aisle, across almost everybody except for a handful of members of congress who are themselves crazy, to say okay this guy is non compos mentis. We cannot leave the fate of the United States or the world in the hands of somebody who is completely irrational, who is making demands and believing himself to have powers that he does not."
From behind we see Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and Woodstock sitting on the end of a pier: C: Is he dead yet? S: No not yet, W: Fuck!
Headline: FBI Assigns Scores of Analysts to Examine Election Records in Georgia The expansion of an investigation into Fulton County's election office reflects President Trump's desire to prove his baseless claims that the 2020 election in Georgia was rigged.
"The visit to Custer Farms comes as national polling numbers show Trump's job approval is near his all-time lows. ...[Both parties believe the House seat in question is "crucial to determining who holds power in the House of Representatives.... Vance and RFKJr have all visited the district within the past 12 months."
"This is not a document the U.S. agreed to because the war demonstrated a new U.S. military superiority," said Caitlin Talmadge, a professor at MIT who specializes in Persian Gulf security issues. "I think it's a document that has resulted from the fact that the U.S. bit off more than it could chew and doesn't want to escalate." That's a worthy goal, she said. "But it really raises the question of what was achieved here, especially in comparison to the original Iran nuclear deal."
...it appears that Scharf was motivated by the fear that if the administration pushed too far ... the courts, and especially the Supreme Court, would shut them down, limiting their ability to make other changes. ... "Their worry was self-inflicted damage: Weak legal arguments would invite sweeping rulings against the administration, and those rulings would constrain everything that came after."
Photo of Oxford English Dictionary Compact Edition, p. 1269 (p. 140 in the "h" section)
The letters began coming down just past 3 a.m., after the Kennedy Center sought an extension of a midnight. [Through a gap in the draping, NYTimes photographer Pete Kiehart captures image of worker removing the letter 'A']
'Middle Finger' to Constitution The individuals who spoke with Military.com are two clients of among more than 100,000 represented by the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF), whose client base is roughly 95% Christian.
"Meet the Press" today aired an interview host Kristen Welker taped Friday with President Donald J. Trump. It showed Trump losing control and walking out of the interview when Welker challenged his insistence that the 2020 presidential election and the recent California election were rigged. Weirdly, he kept referring to the U.S. as "your" country when he was speaking to Welker, and to "your" elections. It was almost as if he was a foreign observer offering criticism of the U.S.
Former DHS secretary Kristi Noem used $38 billion of $45 billion appropriated for detention through September 2029 to buy warehouses and convert them to detention centers. New DHS secretary Markwayne Mullin is considering selling a number of them. An Atlanta suburb has filed a lawsuit alleging that ICE paid more than five times the assessed value of a warehouse there.
As Trump and the administration falter, the MAGA leaders Trump has installed in the government are pushing their agenda as fast as they can. Russell Vought, co-author of Project 2025, ... proposed last Thursday May 28 that political appointees in his office should have the final say over research grants, including those for the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation and other governmental science agencies. The proposal promises to root out "a 'woke' policy agenda that deliberately favor[s] certain identity groups over others." In addition to submitting scientific research to political approval, the new rules would also stop international research collaboration unless it was approved by political appointees.
"Antiseptic judicial rhetoric cannot do justice to what is happening. Across the interior of the United States, agents of the federal government -- masked, anonymous, armed with military weapons, operating from unmarked vehicles, acting without warrants of any kind -- are seizing persons for civil immigration violations and imprisoning them without any semblance of due process ... It is an assault on the constitutional order." --Judge Joseph R. Goodwin of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia
Blooming pink tree peonies— the first full bloom of the season!
Kyle Rittenhouse, hospitalized for a spider bite, is pictured in front of an American flag, and described as “the noted firearms enthusiast”
Cook, like many tech CEOs, has cozied up to Trump since his return to the WH -- sometimes even standing grim-faced beside the president at public events. ... In an odd display of fealty last August, Cook presented Trump with a custom Apple plaque that was nested in a 24-karat gold base. He also attended a private screening of the Melania documentary at the WH, hours after a federal immigration agent shot and killed nurse Alex Pretti during a street protest.
During a Feb. 18 meeting, General Caine discussed an array of options including a limited strike or a larger campaign with the goal of toppling the government. The latter option in particular, he said, carried high risk of American casualties, could destabilize the region and significantly deplete stocks of American munitions.
Trump vetoed Colorado legislation sponsored by Rep. Lauren Boebert. Boebert slammed his veto, arguing he was "denying clean drinking water for 50,000 people in Southeast Colorado. "I sincerely hope this veto has nothing to do with political retaliation," she said.
Trump removed a bust of the civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. from the Oval this year. Now the desk is flanked by busts of Abraham Lincoln and Benjamin Franklin.
Headline on front page of NY Times: Second Term Looking More Like a Reign — story by Peter Baker “Trump is Testing Limits in Policies and Profits”
Bessent is authorized to choose coin designs, but his choices ignored the more diverse recommendations for the quarters by the Citizen Coinage Advisory Committee, a bipartisan group mandated by Congress to review the U.S. Mint's proposed designs for American coins.
Front page of Sunday NY Times December 14, 2025 Image of pro-Maduro rally in Caracas. Article below details Rubio’s longtime crusade to topple Havana’s government and his view that regime change in Venezuela is his dreamed of opportunity.
By the late '50s, US financial and cultural interests dominated Cuba
Trump blasts Representative Henry Cuellar, whom he pardoned, for running for re-election as a Democrat.
Photo of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and quote from conservative George Will in Washington Post: "Hegseth seems to be a war criminal. Without a war. An interesting achievement."
Poland changed course on the strength of a 74 percent turnout among voters
Elections in democracies determine who administers the government; they do not alter whom the government is for. Under any administration, Republican or Democratic, the United States government exists to serve the people of the United States, regardless of their partisan affiliation. ... Trump's acts of extortion have no place in a democracy. They belong in a protection racket: If you support Trump, you are protected; if you do not, you are vulnerable. If you donate enough cash to Trump, you may receive favorable treatment, including immunity from the law. If you oppose Trump, you may be prosecuted. This is not how a representative government works. It is how the Mafia works.
Donald Trump has repeatedly tried to claim he has powers the Constitution does not give to the POTUS. And this is especially dangerous when it comes to voting, given his track record. We the people must have the right to choose their leaders, not the other way around. Tonight, another federal district judge stood up for the rule of law and for democracy, telling a power hungry president, "No."
Vought was a key player in the construction of Project 2025, the plan to gut the nonpartisan federal government and replace it with a dominant president and a team of loyalists who will impose religious rule on the United States.
A friend of mine is in the cross hairs of the administration. I asked her if her world had gotten smaller. Not exactly, she said."It's like what happens when somebody dies. There will always be people who will disappoint you. And other people show themselves, having been through what you've been through."
Critics believe the administration's other pursuits should not come at the expense of working on vaccines that saved millions of lives. Senator Bill Cassidy, Republican of Louisiana, said the decision to take away the funding threatened to undermine Mr. Trump's agenda.
So what's next? Before considering the range of possibilities, it's important to recognize how much we cannot know at this moment. The president's statement tonight was a farrago of contradictions
A birthday card in the form of a collage displaying a sign that reads: WISCONSIN IS NOT FOR SALE!
New York Times writes about hidden provisions of their massive "budget bill" that would limit the power of federal judges to hold people in contempt for failing to abide by judicial rulings.
Trump slides gleefully down a cash-covered emergency slide from Air Force One
Excerpts from linked New York Times analysis of where we are on the slide to authoritarianism and how to reverse course.
The Statue of Liberty languishes in a jail cell. Behind her the wall is marked for each day that has passed.
Trump appears to doze off, eyes closed, mouth agape, at Pope’s funeral. Surrounded by a sea of black-clad mourners, he stands out in his bright blue suit.
A woman’s place was supposedly “in the home” during the Third Reich
BMI chart of heights and weights
Senator Cory Booker during his record breaking 24 hour + speech to the Senate articulating democratic values and encouraging Americans to emulate the late John Lewis and “make good trouble”
NY Times headline today. Trump doesn’t car if his tariffs raise auto prices
Excerpt from Professor Timothy Snyder's essay, "The Imperialism Has no Clothes." Link shown above.
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley in 1932. Geometric cover art. Audio version read by actor Michael York.
excerpt from a transcript of historian Heather Cox Richardson’s podcast in which Trump’s Kremlin obligations are noted.
Full page ad in new york times appealing to 6 GOP senators to stand up against unconstitutional actions of the Trump administration
Promo for television series “Puppy School.”
Reverend Al Sharpton’s 24 hour consumer blackout on February 28
Senator Rubio sits at a conference table with Russians and Saudis to discuss the war in Ukraine.
Early voting in Wisconsin primary. Voter wears “I voted” sticker.