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Using the murder of far right wing propagandist Charlie Kirk as an excuse a campaign of fear & intimidation is being employed to fire or “retire” popular talk show hosts like Steven Colbert & Jimmy Kimmel both harsh critics of Trump & his gangster regime. America is now plunging head first down an increasingly dangerous road.

I rarely ever do a personal post but today is different. I just want to thank my wonderful best friend and wife Lori pictured above for making these past 40 years a special experience filled with love and laughter among so much else. I love you L let’s do another 40 !!

Stochastic violence, or more commonly stochastic terrorism, is the use of mass media and inflammatory rhetoric by an influential figure or organization to provoke random, ideologically motivated violent acts against a targeted group or individual. Charlie Kirk was considered by many political analysts a stochastic terrorist. It appears in his case his own rhetoric boomeranged on him.

The 2nd trump regime is shamelessly corrupt from top to bottom in fact you have to demonstrate your loyalty to the regime by performing crimes openly and bragging about it.

Dictator Donald trumPUTIN has unilaterally declared war on the BIG blue cities & has started sending in the National Guard to direct traffic and arrest demonstrators unless they’re demonstrating for him.

Are they really? His Kult is for sure. The MAJORITY is not!!

#Academic consensus warns of authoritarian consolidation  **Leading democracy scholars and constitutional law experts have reached an unprecedented consensus that Donald Trump exhibits clear authoritarian behavior patterns and poses an immediate threat to American democratic institutions.** Multiple academic frameworks for analyzing democratic backsliding indicate the United States has transitioned into what scholars term “competitive authoritarianism” during Trump’s second presidency, with systematic erosion of checks and balances, constitutional norms, and institutional independence already underway. Harvard’s Steven Levitsky, co-author of the definitive academic work “How Democracies Die,” declared in April 2025 that “we are no longer living in a democratic regime” and that the U.S. has “already crossed the line into competitive authoritarianism very quickly.” This assessment reflects broad scholarly consensus among over 500 political scientists surveyed by Bright Line Watch, who ...

It seems DJT has cut federal beach replenishment funding to NJ just in time for last week’s hurricane Erin to wash away many of the newly created beaches. Pic is of Ocean City after Erin.

Pictured is flooding in Margate last evening as Hurricane Erin made its closest approach to us at 450 miles offshore as a Cat 2 Hurricane. We had winds of 35 mph and some back bay flooding and beach erosion. No big deal.

Donald Literally rolled out the red carpet on Alaskan soil for Dictator Vladimir Putin. Putin then basically demanded that we surrender Ukraine to him unilaterally and trumPutin basically agreed.

The well known phrase “the Bully pulpit”was created by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1903 during his 1 st Administration. In the parlance of the day the word Bully had a positive meaning, it meant excellent. So he was referring to the Presidency as a Bully Pulpit or an excellent place to shape public opinion. Donald Trump sadly has changed the meaning to reflect to day’s meaning of the word to Bully to threaten or intimidate others. He has reduced the Presidency into negative Bully’s pulpit and is beating his political opponents & others with his power irregardless of public opinion. In fact the exact opposite of the use that President Roosevelt used it to make Progressive changes to American life. Trump is using it punishing and rewarding people publicly. He’s setting a dangerous precedent that bodes ill for our future. Teddy Roosevelt and his nephew Franklin Delano Roosevelt used its excellent place in public life to forward Progressive ideas and policies that greatly benefited...

Elon Musk threatens Apple with a lawsuit over OpenAI, sparking a feud with OpenAi CEO Sam Altman. Elon is a twerp and a fascist bully he’s busy wrecking whatever he touches these days. Tesla sales have plummeted as he’s severely damaged the brand everywhere and he also might lose billions in Government contracts for SpaceX bc of his feuding with Dictator wannabe DJTrump. Good I hope he ends up broke bc he’s a PIG.

This festering open wound will finally end our Trump nightmare Thom Hartmann August 7, 2025 5:30AM ET There’s a tape. Not a metaphor, not a rumor, not some fuzzy third-hand whisper passed from burner phone to basement podcast. A real audio recording. Two full days of Ghislaine Maxwell, the trafficker-in-chief of Jeffrey Epstein’s underage empire, speaking directly to Deputy Attorney General and  Trump former criminal lawyer Todd Blanche. The Justice Department has it. Transcribed, digitized, real. Senior officials have confirmed it exists. And they’re sitting on it. Why? The answer, as always, is simple: because the truth is radioactive and most suspect that there’s no way she told the truth. And this time, it may not be the crime that blows the doors off. It’ll be the coverup. For decades, we’ve watched this script play out in American politics. Watergate wasn’t about a second-rate burglary, it was about the tapes. Nixon wasn’t brought down by what his men did, but by what he trie...

Convicted Sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell in a lol secret deal with convicted sexual predator Donald Trump aka President Trump told President Trumps personal lawyer and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche she never saw Donald do anything wrong as regards his known relationship with deceased sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein. What a surprise 😳!! We’re ALL supposed to just take her word on it thank her move along problem solved nothing more to see here OR Else!!

If he’s anything at this juncture it’s shameless. Yet who can blame him he’s gotten away with everything hasn’t he? It’s very likely he’s going to get away with this as well.

Oh yea he’s on it alright. We know he’s a conman and a convicted criminal.

Are the powers to be that put Trump in office plotting to overthrow him and replace him with the fake Hillbilly VP JD Vance? It’s sure starting to look that way. How else can you explain the WSJ editorial & the Epstein art work Birthday card Donald sent him for his 2003 birthday years after Donald tells everyone he cut all ties with his decades long pal Jeffrey Epstein. Stay tuned we’ll see soon enough.

As if we didn’t have enough to worry about these days but along comes another crisis we created ourselves The so called Artificial Intelligence Alignment problem. Having created these things somehow they are now getting out of control and some of their creators are worried they might even destroy us.

Ghislaine Maxwell is serving 20 years in a Federal prison for trafficking children to sexual predators. She worked closely with her partner Jeffrey Epstein in their criminal enterprise for decades. She is probably going to be central to how this whole situation with her Epstein and the their clients ultimately plays out. She knows who and where these people are. Whether she has or will make some kind of deal to protect them or not is the question when you boil this whole situation down. I think we’ll know that sooner or later. In the meantime everyone will make as much hay as they can from this story and then she will sing and it will end for now.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-a-warming-planet/46-billion-years-on-the-sun-is-having-a-moment A good read from one of the most influential and respected scholars about climate change. I actually met him 12 years ago back in my 350. Org days. Take a moment to read what Bill has to say here.

Rod Sterling nails it!!

So MAGA did you really ever think this guy was going to release the Epstein files ? Does anyone really believe Epstein killed himself?

CONTENT BREAKING NEWS ,  HOT-LYNX ,  NEWS ,  OBSERVATION ,  POLITICS THE RUSSIAN TAIL SHEDS LIGHT ON ‘24 ELECTION INTERFERENCE JANUARY 5, 2025   MADISON SANTEL The Russian Tail in America: A Deep Div e The 2024 Election: A Statistical Anomaly Too Big to Ignore The 2024 U.S. presidential election has been shrouded in controversy, with allegations of irregularities and manipulation casting a long shadow over the results. Among the most striking anomalies is the emergence of what data analysts call the  “Russian Tail” —a statistical pattern first identified in manipulated elections in Russia and Georgia. This phenomenon, characterized by an extended tail in vote distribution data, has now been observed in key swing states, raising serious questions about the integrity of the 2024 election. This article delves into the evidence, explores the implications, and examines the broader context of election manipulation in the digital age. Read more: The Russian Tail W...

MAGA Congress kisses tRump’s fat ass by hypocritically passing an enormous pork pie expanding the already massive deficit by 3.5 trillion dollars more while giving billions in tax cuts to corporations and their billionaire buddies. All of this to be paid for by throwing 17 million poor families off of Medicaid and SNAP food assistance for those same families. This is political theater designed to demonstrate cruelty and corruption. These are shameless people.

An extremely nasty variant of Covid 19 nicknamed Razor blade throat is spreading rapidly across the country. Take my word for it you don’t want to get this.

Done to The Beach Boys hit version of Barbara Ann Bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb Iran  Bomb bomb bomb bomb Iran  Bomb it cause you can. Bomb it for a friend!  We’re rocket & rolling bomb bomb bomb Iran

I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag (Iran Version) Well, come on all of you big strong men, Uncle Sam needs your help again. He's got himself in a terrible jam Way down south in Iran. So put down your books and pick up a gun, We're gonna have a whole lotta fun. And it's one, two, three, what are we fighting for? Don't ask me, I don't give a damn, next stop is Iran. And it's five, six, seven, open up the pearly gates, Well, there ain't no time to wonder why, Whoopee! We're all gonna die. Well, come on generals, let's move along, Gotta get some business done. Don't sit down and fret and frown, You know you got to get that city down. Pack up your troubles, every one, Time to go to Iran. And it's one, two, three, what are we fighting for? Don't ask me, I don't give a damn, next stop is Iran. And it's five, six, seven, open up the pearly gates, Well, there ain't no time to wonder why, Whoopee! We're all gonna die. Well, c...

He told us we had to wait two weeks for his decision to bomb or not to bomb. Apparently, he lied!!

 The 2025 summer solstice arrives at  10:42 p.m. EDT on June 20 (0242 GMT June 21) . On this day, skywatchers across the northern hemisphere will enjoy the longest stretch of daylight all year. In New York, for example, the sun will spend more than 15 hours beating a path through the sky

The post below was sent to me by an old friend of mine who is an American/ Israeli that lives in Tel Aviv. I do not necessarily agree with Steve’s conclusions but I believe today most Israelis probably would concur with much of what he has written here. Netanyahu does the inevitable  by Steve Kramer Preface: We’re among the hundreds of thousands of Israelis who were caught abroad when Israel attacked Iran’s war machine last week. Like the others, we’ve been scrambling for a hotel room and we have to find another one in two days. After our cruise finished, we elected to fly to Athens, much closer to home. Many others had the same idea. We’re not sure what the next few days or weeks will bring, so we’re sharing a sense of insecurity with our fellow Israelis back home. But they are the ones who are in real danger… It had to happen. After decades of warning about the dangers of Iran’s nuclear weapons ascendance, Israel’s long-time prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu acted. While some, in...

Millions of people fill America’s Streets and Parks to protest the increasingly Authoritarian regime of wannabe king Donald the 1$t of Mar Lago. Simultaneously, King Donald holds a huge military parade in honor of his 79th birthday. 🎉

Coming soon to Amerkkka Martial Law from a guy who sent a howling mob into the Capitol four years ago in an attempt to overthrow the government. So much for the rule of law.