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Ruh-roh Ferdinand Trump is planning to send troops to peaceful Portand in order to deal with so-called "domestic terrorists". I've visited Portland several times and it is hardly a bastion of crime or terrorism; it's just a nice place to live. Trump says he’ll send troops to Portland, Oregon, in latest deployment to US cities Maybe he's hoping the Proud Boys stir up some activist behavior? How Portland Stopped the Proud Boys

That AI video is surreal... and a little disturbed.

Good news for military barber careers, and for the American Barber Association. An army of one... barber.

A more recent example of a ruler flipping a democracy is Ferdinand Marcos. Like Trump, he was re-elected to a second term. He responded to protests with military power, then after two years he declared martial law, suspended habeas corpus, and rewrote the constitution. The country remained under martial law for almost a decade.

I'm not sure it shows anything of the sort. People are simply curious to see what type of response he had.

Yes, that type of large scale conspiracy is entertaining but ultimately implausible. Somebody somewhere is going to slip up, and there goes the entire scheme. It's not that different from large scale election conspiracies, which require control of all forms of media to successfully pull off.

Trump is about to escalate the situation... 🥁

It's back, but I can't watch it on the local network station per Sinclair management decision. Well I'm awful glad they're deciding for me, because of all the negative impact satire might have. Whew.

Basically ET with a predatory alien. Not sure if it's any good.

Trump makes unfounded claims about Tylenol and repeats discredited link between vaccines and autism I see our Secretary of Pseudo-Science has been busy, striding boldly into a new future of national quackery. I'm feeling so proud right now... 🙄

Political satire like the Jimmy Kimmel show should probably be migrating to streaming channels where the FCC has less control. That will keep them more independent of a thin-skinned President. They can always license it back to the networks for broadcast.

When he loses it tends to happen in the lower courts, then win when it is taken to the SCOTUS, the final authority. The difference is that the lower courts are populated by both liberal and conservative justices selected by various Presidents, whereas the SCOTUS is majority conservative with three of its members selected by DJT. What shouldn't be happening is so many of his decisions needing to be validated by the court system. It seems to be part of DJT's personality to try and skirt legal restrictions as much as possible. What will be particularly interesting is whether his tariff packages survives appeal at the SCOTUS. Technically it shouldn't, since the required emergency conditions just don't exist.

In the aftermath of the Jimmy Kimmel show's indefinite suspension, I have to wonder: Apart from the political alignment, how is what Jimmy Kimmel said about the suspect any different than what DJT said? In this case, the only difference I can see between Kimmel and DJT is in who has more polical power. Both claim without evidence that the suspect is a member of an extreme political faction; one claims left wing and the other the right wing. Indeed, conspiracy theories included a conjecture about the suspect being a member of the far right Groypers, who are in conflict with Kirk. Likewise, DJT immediately jumped to the conclusion that the (then unknown) suspect was a member of a radical left group. As usual, the answer is probably somewhere in between.

Phew, close one.

Yes, Utah has some really beautiful scenery. I never appreciated it until we took a photography tour down there. It's a terrific place for sunset lighting. Of course, the geologist down there blamed us up in Washington for "stealing" all their rain.

Apparently DJT has done this before, but nothing came of it. As usual he's wasting government money and resources chasing his own alternate reality viewpoint.

I've been enjoying a thriller series on Peac*ck called 'The Capture'. It's about London's use of CCTV along with the surreptitious employment of deep fake technology. Perhaps a view of what's to come?

For me, I think the lesson is that the First Amendment doesn't protect us from media conglomerates controlling the message. The irony is that Kimmel's show wasn't suspended for something he said about Kirk, but apparently about the killer being another gun nut like the Trumpies.

ABC suspends Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show indefinitely over his remarks about Charlie Kirk’s death Well that should make DJT immensely happy. While I've enjoyed Kimmel's work, he has spent the last nine or so years lambasting the Donald. It got a little tiresome. But I suppose this is cancel culture in reverse.

Thanks for "sharing"? 🦠

I tried to watch the Man C v. Man U match on Peac*ck, but there was a constant stuttering of the view that made it unpleasant to watch. Provider-induced lag from choking the bandwidth perhaps? I hope that's not a sign of things to come.

Trump team disbands controversial US climate panel Okay, I don't get this one. He hand picks a panel of people who hold non-mainstream beliefs unsupported by facts and data. They produce a report with non-mainstream beliefs unsupported by facts and data. They he fires them over a lawsuit? I guess their task is finished, so off with their heads.

From what I read, he just sounds like some quiet kid who may have spent too much time on internet political forums and didn't know how to rationally deal with the hate and nonsense festering in those places. I don't see some vast left-wing conspiracy at work. At best, another one-off event like a David Depape.

Yeah, I hear that. I'm at the age where I can't read the fine print. My old college notes look so tiny now I can barely make them out. I have to keep one of those magnifiers with a light handy so I can read things like the prescription labels. Plus I wake up with the eyelashes all gunked up and I have to scrape them clean. Yuck. One current media trend I really don't like is when they display smart phone IM-ing from a distance so that you can barely make out the text. Then they whip the view away before you can finish squinting at it. They should at least display it in close-up. But I suppose the only audience that matters is the sharp-eyed kids.