The Revolt and The Revolting
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Thursday, September 17, 2026
Whatever happened to public comment?
If I wanted to be Queen.
The Republicans are trying to create controversy. The fact is the war in the Middle East is going badly.
Iran experienced a surprise unprovoked attack that killed it's Supreme Leader. Anyone sincerely think the Shia Crescent would not erupt?
Trump's PR team wants a focus on Natalie; is that her name; because if the public is talking about her rather than the Middle East. She is Trump's assistant. What is there to talk about. He gives everyone under the sun who is loyal to him national security clearance. He is a racketeer. End of discussion.
There was a Town Hall in Michigan for the candidates for USA Senate and Mike Rogers didn't attend. He is saying he never agreed to it. So if he never attended he missed out on having his views heard while responding to voters in the audience. He cannot complain the moderator favored El-Sayed because he was the only one being heard. End of discussion.
Trump is barking at everyone he can find, including, the Supreme Court because they did the right thing and rejected Trump's attempt to override the USA Constitution and remove States Rights. Now, he is barking at the Fed. Nothing new there.
One thing Iran must consider in regard the extension of war throughout the Middle East; it plays into Netanyahu's playbook. He was alone and ridiculed before Trump decided the USA military is a mercenary force and attacked Iran without cause. Now, there is increased attacks with drones into places that tend to be exclusively Sunni Arabs. That means the countries of the Middle East are going to form alliances to stand against the disruption by the Crescent. That is not good. Iran will have to bring a war with more countries than Israel and the USA. It escalates this mess that Trump and Netanyahu created to a much larger confrontation.
Controlling the oil exports is one thing, but, to attack civilians and major cities is another. Iran must take escalation by the Crescent seriously.
In the USA the price of diesel fuel is rising chronically. It is now $6.79.9 US and rising. This impacts the economy in the way of transportation costs. I am wondering how long companies that rely on mail orders will continue to offer their customers free shipping. The oil supply problem Trump created is a huge issue and that alone will have an impact on my Free World issues.
The planet is heating up, too. So, this is coming at a time when the Free World has to make changes and solar is becoming an energy source of choice.
Tuesday, September 15, 2026
It is the law.
Trump’s name will not appear on the Kennedy Center ever.
"How many of you, who are going to be doctors, are willing to spend your days in Ghana? Technicians or engineers, how many of you are willing to work in the Foreign Service and spend your lives traveling around the world?"
His young audience responded to this speech with a petition signed by 1,000 students willing to serve abroad. Senator Kennedy's challenge to these students—to live and work in developing countries around the world; to dedicate themselves to the cause of peace and development—inspired the beginning of the Peace Corps.
As a Peace Corps Volunteer (click here) in south India in the mid-1960s, Joel Shapiro taught villagers how to dig latrines, build smokeless ovens, and utilize night soil for more productive vegetable gardens, among other sustainability initiatives. More than 50 years later, his sculptures and works on paper are in the permanent collections of museums all over the world: New York City’s Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Whitney Museum of American Art; down south at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas; out west at California’s Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and across the Atlantic at the Tate Gallery in London, the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, the Kunstmuseum in Winterthur, Switzerland, the Stedelijk in Amsterdam, and the Museé National d’Art Moderne in Paris.
He has also done two large commissions through the Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies. One, Conjunction, was installed in 1999 outside the U.S. Embassy in Ottawa, Ontario; and another, Now, was installed in 2013 outside the newly built U.S. Consulate in Guangzhou, China. In fall 2019, his monolithic Blue was installed on the campus of Washington, D.C.’s Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
Islamophobia. Can Abdul overcome it?
Dr. Abdul El-Sayed is a physician, epidemiologist, public servant, and Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate in Michigan.
Professional Experience
Wayne County Department of Health, Human, and Veterans Services: Director and Health Officer (2023–2025)
Detroit Health Department: Executive Director and Health Officer (2015–2017)
Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health: Assistant Professor of Epidemiology (2014–2016)
Media & Podcasting: Host of the America Dissected podcast and former political commentator
Education
Columbia University: Doctor of Medicine (MD)
University of Oxford: Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil/Ph.D.) in Public Health (Rhodes Scholar)
University of Michigan: Bachelor of Science (BS) in Biology and Political Science [1, 2]
Political & Public Service Highlights
U.S. Senate Candidate: Won the 2026 Democratic primary for the open U.S. Senate seat in Michigan.
Gubernatorial Candidate: Ran a progressive campaign for Governor of Michigan in 2018, finishing second in the Democratic primary.
Task Forces: Member of Vice President Biden's 2020 Unity Task Force for Healthcare.
Monday, September 14, 2026
Don, Jr. is in bed with Putin.
by Justin Elliott, Brett Murphy, Joshua Kaplan and Alex Mierjeski
On May 24, (click here) Donald Trump Jr. was celebrating in the Bahamas, as scantily clad dancers in stilettos and sailor caps performed for him and his guests. It was the last night of his wedding, a lavish, three-day party held across a pair of ultra-exclusive private islands. A five-tier funfetti cake had been airlifted in from Florida, and helicopters and seaplanes descended on the islands before guests settled into their oceanfront villas. That night on the beach, Trump Jr. lifted his bride into the air while fireworks launched from a barge over the sea.
“It was everything we dreamed of and more,” his wife later wrote on Instagram.
That dream was heavily funded by a secret benefactor: Umar Kremlev, a Russian oligarch close to President Vladimir Putin....
...The IOC decertified the IBA (click here) and took control of the boxing competition from the IBA at the 2024 Paris Olympics, just as it had done at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. The IOC stated that the IBA had failed to address concerns regarding governance, finance, and corruption.
Since then, Kremlev has emerged as one of the key purveyors of Russian disinformation in international sports.. Kremlev has stirred controversy by claiming, falsely and without evidence, that the female boxer Imane Khelif failed her gender test after she defeated a Russian boxer, and has allegedly referred to IOC president Thomas Bach as a "chief sodomite"...
Kremlev as the operator of National Lottery. It was this lottery that soon became the new “strategic partner” of the boxing federation.
Proekt has established that Kremlev, through his proxies, has also become the beneficiary of three of Russia’s leading betting companies. The brands in question are Fonbet, Pari and Liga Stavok, which the Kremlev’s men took over in 2022-2023....
Trump has to know this statement is as loaded as it comes.
President Trump lashed out (click here) at calls for new AI guardrails and protections on Monday, arguing AI only needs a "STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT" and that AI critics should "BEWARE!"...
There is already a majority Republican House and Senate.
If Trump were going to hand out $5000 bribes it would already be done.
Sunday, September 13, 2026
Holy Shit, the Speaker of the House?
Trump is misguided about AI.
Absolutely not!
Air Force Major Jason Watson
Bring Hegseth up on charges. This is an act against the Major is hostility against the First Amendment.
This is a highly competent airman with sincere concerns for the military, this country, and his peers. He is allowed in every way possible to act as a whistleblower when there are illegal orders and/or danger to our country through malpractice of military standards.
Whistleblowing is not covered anywhere in the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ). Whistleblowing is not contemptuous speech. The exercising of malicious prosecution under the UCMJ is just as serious, even more so, as the civil penalties.
Whistleblowing to protect the very country he is defending is vital to the USA Constitution. There is absolutely no misunderstanding about the warning Airman Major Watson told to the public. They are our men and women that put their lives on the line everyday and if ANY margin of safety is violated when it should not be and endangers these magnificent Americans the public not only should know, it has a right to know.
I suppose every person on the USS Abraham Lincoln that told their families what deplorable conditions they faced should be charged as well.
The facts are very, very plain. Hegseth is in his capacity as Secretary of Defense because the president insists on it. Hegseth is the worst Secretary of Defense this country has every witnessed. He endangers the military with his FALSE STATEMENTS ABOUT EVERY MILITARY MOVEMENT IS AN EMERGENCY.
August 25, 2026By Charles D'Agata and Eleanor Watson
A U.S. airman (click here) says he is facing charges for criticizing President Trump over the Iran war, which his attorneys believe to be among one of the only instances an officer of his rank has been charged under the uniform code of military justice for contemptuous words against officials.
Major Jason Watson, 40, has been detained twice in recent weeks. On one occasion, he called for Mr. Trump's impeachment — while in uniform at the U.S. Capitol.
A spokesperson for the Air Force on Tuesday confirmed that he was charged with three violations of Article 88, including for contempt toward Officials. The violations are disobeying orders and conduct unbecoming an officer....
Saturday, September 12, 2026
Ashley St. Clare is a great American. I wish Elon Musk was. Musk wants to vanquish the truth. Why?
It was strange Elon Musk even wanted Twitter enough to pay enormous amounts of money.
Elon Musk once told Trump, “But, you have to do something about the elites.” What that meant, I don’t know. But, it sure explains the attacks against Harvard and the others. It could be just blatant hate talking, too.
These are two separate sovereign powers. They are not one.
An understanding between Iran and Oman (click here) does not provide for the immediate reopening of the Strait of Hormuz but establishes the basis on which it could reopen, an Iranian source told the semi-official Tasnim news agency on Saturday.
The source said the arrangement would be a step towards Iran exercising sovereignty over the strait and that its reopening depended entirely on the United States meeting Tehran's conditions.
Pandora's Box
The Saudis’ most essential ally, the United States, has been unpredictable and sometimes unreliable. U.S. President Donald Trump seems reluctant to widen an already unpopular and stalemated Mideast war ahead of congressional elections. For Iran, the rebels’ advance and closure of the pipeline ramp up global economic pressure as its grip over the Strait of Hormuz has been loosened.
Michael Ratney, a former U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia, said the latest developments are “incredibly frustrating” for the kingdom.
“Despite their antipathy for the Iranians, this is a war they had never asked for, they had great trepidation about. And once it started, all of their … worst-case scenarios started coming true.”...
Friday, September 11, 2026
The incompetent war of Trump.
At U.N. meeting, Yemen seeks international support in its conflict with Houthis (click here)
Yemen's special envoy to the United Nations called on support from the international community after the Iran-backed Houthi militant group seized control of the Red Sea port city of Mokha.
"This renewed war should alarm us all," Hans Grundberg, the U.N. special envoy for Yemen, warned at an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council on Thursday.
"It effectively marks the end of the relative calm that Yemen has experienced for over four years since the U.N.-brokered truce," Grundberg said.
He called on the international community to address this "new and more dangerous phase – one whose consequences, if left unchecked, will not stay within Yemen's borders."
Yemen's U.N. Ambassador Abdullah Al-Sa...
Multiple American military aircraft (click here) were damaged in Iranian strikes overnight Tuesday into Wednesday local time on Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan, people with direct knowledge of the matter told CBS News.
One A-10 Thunderbolt, an attack aircraft known as the Warthog, was struck and lost a wing, the sources said.
Roughly eight F-15s sustained light damage and were put back into service, according to the people familiar with the damage, who spoke to CBS News under the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.
No U.S. deaths have been reported in the strikes on Jordan.
The overnight damage came after the U.S. said Tuesday it attacked five Iranian tankers in retaliation for Iran targeting a U.S. Navy warship. In response, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claimed it launched attacks at eight tankers and two warships, including the base in Jordan.
U.S. forces in Jordan launched more than 30 Patriot missiles defending against the Iranian strikes in Jordan.
CBS News previously reported that U.S. officials are concerned over the rapidly declining stockpile of Patriot missiles among other types of precision munitions..
Saudi Arabia has shut down its East-West Pipeline (click here) as a precaution after reporting attacks on the strategically important line, the state news agency SPA reported on Friday, citing a source in the Energy Ministry.
The pipeline is capable of transporting oil from the Gulf to the Red Sea, bypassing the effectively blockaded Strait of Hormuz.
Several people were injured in the attack on Thursday, SPA said. The necessary measures have been taken to secure the pipeline, it added....
Thursday, September 10, 2026
A bribe is money, a gift, or something of value given or promised to someone—often a public official or person in power—to unlawfully or dishonestly influence their decisions, actions, or judgment.
By Alexander Willis
President Donald Trump (click here) may have opened himself up to a “legitimate” legal issue Wednesday night after promising Americans $5,000 dividend checks, a number of experts warned.
Speaking at the RNC midterm convention in Dallas, Texas, Trump pledged to award Americans with $5,000 if Republicans end up performing well in the midterms and maintain their congressional majority....
Wednesday, September 09, 2026
So much for economic disadvantages.
Solar power is now less costly than fossil fuels.
September 7, 2026
Tackling air pollution and climate change together (click here) would boost global GDP by 2.8 per cent by 2035, according to a UN report, as the majority of the world continues to be exposed to air that remains below global quality standards.European oil companies
If Greenland were to sell leases for petroleum exploration it would probably go to European oil companies. My first thought is Norway. But, the idea a Texas company decided to occupy Greenland is an outrageous injury to that country.
Denmark is phasing out it's petroleum industry. I believe Denmark will no longer produce oil for domestic use or for sale. The country has a conscience. They value the future of their children. To think Greenland would allow oil production is an outrage, insult, and injury.










