Mourning Rob Reiner. Photo, Rob Reiner and his dad Carl Reiner in 1989. Credit: Ron Galella, Ltd./Ron Galella Collection

Buck the news cycle, remember just the other day.

15.Oct.2025 Trump publicly confirms he has authorised the CIA to conduct covert operations in Venezuela.

How do you *announce* covert operations *publicly*? Ask Trump, who does six unprecedented things before breakfast. #Trump #Venezuela #war #um

Buck the news cycle, remember just the other day.

Noem said, “I am recommending a full travel ban on every damn country that’s been flooding our nation with killers, leeches and entitlement junkies.”

If MAGA were a country, it would be at the top of the list.

#KristiNoem #ICE #travelban #MAGA

At first they blamed Pete Hegseth-- but it was just a drunk raccoon.

#Hegseth #warcrimes #Trump #evil

Remember? The Generals looked like they *knew* Hegseth was just a month or two away from committing a major war crime.

#Hegseth #warcrimes #Trump #generals

Asked about the Venezuelan situation, Pentagon spokes-officer, Major G. Patton Wetwipes, said, “The scope of the slippery slope was steeper than we’d hoped.”

#Pentagon #Hegseth #slipperyslope #MilitaryIntelligence

Constant Reader's interests are --
#politics
#books
#novels (which are, arguably, also books)
#essays
#cinema
#modernism
#postmodernism
#posthumanism
#aesethetics (spelled that way, not the other way)
#linguistics
#wittgenstein
#physics
#robotics
#AI (which mostly sucks, except for DeepSeek)

"Alan Grayson was correct back in the day when he said the Republican healthcare plan is don't get sick, and if you get sick, die quickly." -- Kyle Kulinski, Secular Talk, YouTube @kylekulinskishow.bsky.social

#Trump #healthcare #ObamaCare #GOP #evil

"I’ve been stressed by things more important than Donald Trump trying to intimidate me... I'm going to show up for work every day, support the Constitution… hold this administration accountable, hold this president accountable when he Is out of line." --Sen. Mark Kelly, to Rachel Maddow.

I remain excited by AI & Large Language Models-- and some are already brilliant. DeepSeek is a superb research tool for detailed, extensive but readable reports on highly technical subjects in the hard and soft sciences. But I am far less impressed with Chatgpt-type appliances. Very disappointing.

Reading Trump's interview with bootlick Todd Sternes: "We've arrested hundreds of criminals, hard line criminals, people that will never be any good...They're born criminals, they were born to be criminals, that's all they are and we got them out of the system."

Not only evil but an awful bore too

#Syria #weapons #foreignpolicy

According to the Washington Post --

#Putin #Russia #Syria #foreignpolicy

According to today's Washington Post --