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I have been thinking ICE in the news, my heritage, the signing bonuses, and the interesting fact that while Def Sec Hegseth called out the military on physical condition, that doesn't seem to apply to ICE agents in pictures I have seen. While ICE is...

Pete Hegseth, Secretary of War, has made it to the big time. The hottest satirical show in town, South Park, has featured the beef-brained, self-branded, paleolithic Homo stultus (aka Homo ignoramus) in its latest commentary on Trump and his fellow...

The recession of 2008 hit some states earlier than others, and the state we'd moved to seven years before was one of them. Oregon fell on hard times, my husband was laid off and he & I were struggling to juggle part-time jobs with caring for two young...

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been eviscerated over her refusal to help after ICE detained her nephew’s mom. The White House official has gone radio silent since Bruna Ferreira—who is the mother of Leavitt’s nephew—was swept up by...

Maybe he’s going to replace it with mirrors... The New Republic It seems that bulldozing the White House wasn’t enough for Donald Trump. The builder in chief declared his intention Wednesday to “fix” the 100-year-old Reflecting Pool on the National...

No end to tacky with Mango Mussolini US president Donald Trump fired the six remaining members of independent federal agency the Commission of Fine Arts, a group of architects and urban planners meant to review projects such as the planned triumphal...

Ukraine says it agrees with much of the provisions of the revised peace plan that Europeans have developed. Russia says Ни за что. It seems to me that Ukraine agreeing to limit the size of the armed forces to 800k is not much of a concession since...

Back in June, the grifty Trump family launched its Trump-branded cell service and super-luxe Trump T1 smartphone with maximum hype and minimal details. Now, five months later, neither is anywhere ...

The Four Reasons Why Kelly Is Fine 1. Kelly is Not in the Military Anymore Kelly’s a civilian. The Uniform Code of Military Justice doesn’t touch him here. Once you’re out, you get your full First Amendment rights back. Simple as that. (See notes at...

The recovery of salmon on the Klamath River above the former PacifiCorp dam sites has exceeded all expectations. Preliminary data from California Trout’s SONAR fish counting station below the former Iron Gate Dam site reveals nearly 10,000 salmon and...