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“The Pentagon certainly has the right to make its own policies, within the constraints of the law,” the Pentagon Press Association said in a statement on Monday. “There is no need or justification, however, for it to require reporters to affirm their understanding of vague, likely unconstitutional policies as a precondition to reporting from Pentagon facilities.”

Several news outlets (New York Times, AP, Newsmax amongst others) will not sign new Pentagon rules, which vastly limit access for credentialed media while inside the Pentagon complex.

“In our view, America’s leadership in science and innovation depends on independent thinking and open competition for excellence. In that free marketplace of ideas, the people of MIT gladly compete with the very best, without preferences. Therefore, with respect, we cannot support the proposed approach to addressing the issues facing higher education.”

➝ Via MIT Office of the President.

I remember reading that Jesus said: “Fear everyone, expel the stranger, blame the poor, feed the rich, ignore the sick, sacrifice the young, love only thyself, trust only Caesar, throw lots of stones.” Right? 🙄

“The party that controls both the House and the Senate, not to mention the executive branch, would like to remind you that the government being shut down right now is entirely the fault of the party that has no actual power right now.”

➝ Via @mattblaze.

‘We’ll probably have a shutdown’, Trump says in Oval Office press conference.

“They want to give Cadillac Medicare to illegal aliens… at the cost to everyone else,” the president said. This is a false claim that Trump and congressional Republicans have repeated since lawmakers have failed to pass a continuing resolution to keep the government funded. A reminder, this lapses tonight.

Undocumented immigrants aren’t eligible to enroll in subsidized programs like Medicaid, Medicare or the Affordable Care Act.

➝ Via The Guardian.

BERLIN, Feb. 3. 1939.—Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels today ended the professional careers of five “Aryan” actors and cabaret announcers by expelling them from the Reich’s Chamber of Culture on the grounds that “in their public appearances they displayed a lack of any positive attitude toward National Socialism and therewith caused grave annoyance in public and especially to party comrades.”

As printed in The New York Times. In 1939.

This guy is putting his nose—and face—on everything, everything that doesn’t pertain to him, nor anyone around him, and it’s truly bloody everything up. I can’t imagine how all of this will be unravelled.

I know this is about business, yet, I still hear the question in my head, why? As presidencies are ephemeral, can’t Apple widthstand the rough seas for 3.5 years?

From Franklin D. Roosevelt inaugural address, 20 January 1937, as ever present today as always.

“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”

Yes, alone in our galaxy. No one else but us. All we have is our family, our friends, our neighbours, our fellow citizens, our equal human beings. Why can’t we all get along? Why can’t we care about each other? Seriously.

As I paid almost three times more for a tiny grocery shopping this evening, I felt grateful that at least they were harvested, and made by real American, patriotic, heterosexual, white, christian workers, and not illegal immigrants. 🇺🇸

“Man Afraid to Ride Subway Named Head of NASA”, reads the Rolling Stone headline, when referring to the man (Sean Duffy) which our president has picked to lead NASA as its interim administrator. It concludes, and I kid you not:

“Meanwhile, let’s hope Duffy (who’s afraid to hop on the 6 train) is ready to take on a government agency that has launched humans to the moon and probes to interstellar space.”

The US attack on Iran was not only reckless, but it accomplished next to nothing, and it cost quite a bit. “Mission Accomplished”. 🙄

Update: 02 Oct 2025 @ 07:33:49

It just occurred to me—because “Mission Accomplished” came to mind—that similarly we accomplished on Iraq: nothing. Iraqis, on the other hand, are arguably worse.

The “One Big Beautiful Bill” is an abomination, and it will cause so much debt and harm to the country that its effects will be felt for generations (specifically and specially from middle and low income class) to come.

After the Republican party proposed a reconciliation package that will slash the Medicaid program, Mitch gave a short speech, “I know a lot of us are hearing from people back home about Medicaid. But they’ll get over it.”

Now that the Supreme Court has given an edge to the current regime in their intent to kill birthright citizenship, is more important than ever to remember how it came to be.

“For us as a nation, birthright citizenship is so vital both as a way of erasing—or trying to erase—the vestiges of slavery and acknowledging we’re a nation of immigrants where every child is born under the same status.”

That feeling of deep shame many Americans are feeling, and the constant urge to apologise for the actions of our government. Never before, since becoming an American, I have felt like this. Truly, truly, truly sorry!

“President Donald Trump announced Saturday that the U.S. military has conducted targeted airstrikes on three nuclear facilities in Iran, calling the operation ‘very successful.’”

Oh dear! So it begins. A day or two ago he said he would decide in two weeks. Of course, this man knows no truth. One step closer.

Update: 03 Oct 2025 @ 21:31:16

I do remember 2024. The now Liar-in-Chief then said, lying as always, to the American people in Michigan:

“If Kamala wins, only death and destruction await because she is the candidate of endless wars. I am the candidate of peace,” Trump continued. “I am peace.”

Like millions of people—if not billions—I don’t want this conflict to go nuclear. I am sure you know what I am referring to. Hiroshima and Nagasaki never again. Are we that stupid as not to learn from past mistakes? Are we going to let scumbags drag humankind down a nuclear holocaust?

Today is Juneteenth, and this is the first time I mention it on my notes, I think. It is meant to be the day to commemorate the end of slavery in the US. No wonder the Racist-Ignoramous-in-Chief made no mention of it.

Update: 03 Oct 2025 @ 21:36:24

Well, he actually wrote something, without directly mentioning Juneteenth, on his own social media—which exists solely and almost exclusively for him, pretty much.

“Too many non-working holidays in America. It is costing our Country $BILLIONS OF DOLLARS to keep all of these businesses closed. The workers don’t want it either! Soon we’ll end up having a holiday for every once working day of the year. It must change if we are going to, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”

It never ends.

All of these “appeasers” promissing changes to make the current regime look good. Make promises publicly, but never deliver them. A marketing scam. That’s what companies are doing today when they say they are bringing their manufacturing to the US, or investing $X to do it.

The people and the regime will forget, but should anyone remember they will make even more sweeter, unbelievable promises, and repeat the cycle.

What in the blankity blanket is this?! As sad as it is to say it, I hope no international students come while this regime is in power. The growing list of aggravations isn’t worth it.

“Foreign students will be required to unlock their social media profiles to allow US diplomats to review their online activity before receiving educational and exchange visas, the state department has announced. Those who fail to do so will be suspected of hiding that activity from US officials.”

I sent an email to the senators representing our state, to urge them to vote no on a rescissions package that would eliminate $1.1 billion in already-approved funding for public media. Next I know, Rick Scott’s office is already spamming me about “delivering a better, big, beautiful bill for Trump” (my emphasis).

I am forever thankful for “Hide my Email”, I can simply delete the alias, and emails bounce 🎉. And, for Trump, really? Isn’t that supposed to be for the citizens of the US? What an arse licker!

We need more than Obama. We need those who represent us at all levels in government to unite, understanding the risks at hand, and fight back.

“We’re not there yet completely, but I think that we are dangerously close to normalizing behavior like that. And we need people both outside government and inside government saying, ‘Let’s not go over that cliff because it’s hard to recover.’”

He went on to say:

Democracy, Mr. Obama said, requires government workers, judges and lawyers at the Justice Department to uphold the Constitution and follow the law.

“It requires them to take that oath seriously, and when that isn’t happening we start drifting into something that is not consistent with American democracy […]” he said.

I see we are wagging the dog once again. It is clear we have gotten pretty good at it too. In case it is not evident, I don’t like it.

This that Matt Blaze wrote in regards to the killing of a democrat lawmaker and her husband is very true, and quite worrisome. We have been going down the slippery slope for a while already, and I have a strong feeling it is going to end badly.

“We now have a political assassin impersonating a police officer on the loose in Minnesota, which, aside from being horrifying in and of itself, underscores the danger of the proliferation of anonymous federal law enforcement deployments from a wide variety of unfamiliar agencies conducting aggressive immigration operations across the country.

Is that uniformed person who’s stopping you or demanding entry to your home legit or a psychotic vigilante seeking to harm you? It’s impossible to know.”

Each and everyone of us is the descendent of an immigrant. Those ancestors we don’t know immigrated multiple times, many of them, for sure, illegally. And yet, here we are.

“‘I like Donald Trump, but when they want to act this way, it’s where they begin to lose a lot of America who just wonders, “Why does everything have to descend to this level?”’ Paul added.”

Because your party, Rand Paul, selected—and supports—a pig, and it’s full of spineless, despicable people. Don’t pretend you don’t know it. It goes beyond “immaturity” and “pettiness”, come on!

Israel attacking Iran is not a good news. War is never a good news, and it is not one I want to read about right before going to sleep. “The only winning move is not to play.”

To add to the current state of affairs—if you live in the US, you should know everything else that’s happening—we now have a president selling US citizenships under his name, and a Secretary of State celebrating Russia National Day. Yet, Kamala was the “communist” one. Ain’t that right? 😏

I didn’t know Christy Walton, but now I do, and I like her very much. If you can, participate! Look for your city, or nearby, in their map.

Who is going to work the fields now? Point me to a fellow American willing to do it, for the pay they do it, can you? Ugh.

“They’re just taking innocent people who are trying to build their own American Dream,” said Daniel Larios with the UFW Foundation. “This is not law enforcement. It’s a campaign of fear against people whose only ‘crime’ is living and working in the U.S.”

This is disruptive, unnecessary, cruel, and it will affect us all, minus the rich—those are pretty much affected by nothing.

If you read this on a newspaper from Cuba, Iran, or North Korea, it would not surprise you, right?

“The Department of the Interior is requiring the National Park Service (NPS) to post signage at all sites across the country by June 13, asking visitors to offer feedback on any information that they feel portrays American history and landscapes in a negative light.”

I really don’t want to turn overly politicised. I don’t intent to; but when the president of the United States of America becomes Putin’s messenger¹, well, that’s not something I cannot not mention.

“‘We discussed the attack on Russia’s docked airplanes, by Ukraine, and also various other attacks that have been taking place by both sides²,’ Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social. “It was a good conversation, but not a conversation that will lead to immediate Peace.”

“President Putin did say, and very strongly, that he will have to respond to the recent attack on the airfields,” he went on."

She is astoundingly ignorant, clueless, and detestable, don’t you think? How and why do we keep electing people like her to vote, and make decisions on our behalf?

“Full transparency, I did not know about this section on pages 278-279 of the OBBB that strips states of the right to make laws or regulate AI for 10 years.

I am adamantly OPPOSED to this and it is a violation of state rights and I would have voted NO if I had known this was in there.”

“‘Treating them with blanket suspicion not only violates principles of fairness, due process, and our democratic values – it sends a chilling message to the world that America no longer welcomes global talent,’ she wrote.”

I know I already mentioned something related to this, I just find it mind-boggling (I know, it shouldn’t surprise me, but here I am) that our current regime has decided to do something like this. I am stumped.

This marriage is truly over, unless one of the couple sacrifices themselves to keep the relationship alive a little bit longer.

“Elon Musk has hit out at President Donald Trump’s signature tax and spending bill, saying he “can’t stand” the legislation and describing it as a ‘disgusting abomination’”.
“‘Shame on those who voted for it,’ Musk said in a post on X on Tuesday.”

“You know, there are things that I don’t entirely agree with. But it’s difficult for me to bring that up in an interview because then it creates a bone of contention. So then, I’m a little stuck in a bind, where I’m like, well, I don’t wanna, you know, speak up against the administration, but I also don’t wanna take responsibility for everything this administration’s doing.”

Now we know “the rest of the story”, eh? Things were not as they seemed to be at Pleasantville, yes? What else is happening at the House of TACO?

Nothing, absolutely nothing about this regime surprises me. That’s obvious because of their past, and current behaviour. It is also worrisome; are we desensitising?

“He also took Ecstasy and psychedelic mushrooms at private gatherings across the United States and in at least one other country, according to those who attended the events.”

I mean, read the whole thing. That’s the guy the current regime chose to spearhead the Department of Government Efficiency (is that even an official department?). Absolutely abhorrent.

If this weren’t so dangerous, I would laugh. Yes, this isn’t laughing matter. It is worrisome, it is scary, and it is barely starting.

“The 73-page “Make America healthy again” report – which was commissioned by the Trump administration to examine the causes of chronic illness, and which Kennedy promoted it as “gold-standard” science backed by more than 500 citations – includes references to seven studies that appear to be entirely invented, and others that the researchers say have been mischaracterized.”