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As FIFA Prez Gianni Infantino gave Trump a large gold-coloured trophy & a gold-coloured medal hanging from a blue ribbon, Trump responded, "This is truly one of the great honours of my life". Trump received an entirely made-up peace prize on Friday,...

Ukraine struck a prominent skyscraper in Grozny, the capital of Chechnya. There are Chechen security offices in that building, which is pictured on the 50 ruble banknote, but the target might have been a nearby FSB office or Ramzan Kadyrov’s nearby...

I guess if you unite the world in hating him, Trump is uniting the world. FIFA is demonstrating how fundamentally corrupt it is by awarding a “peace prize” to Trump. I really want to watch the World Cup next year, but FIFA is making it very very...

Crossposted from The Journal of Uncharted Blue Places You can also catch me at meteorblades.bsky.social The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration unveiled its plan Wednesday to slash Biden-era fuel-economy standards for passenger cars from...

Taxes The US Chamber of Commerce membership is 90% small business. They were big supporters of Trump’s 2017 tax cuts that reduced their company taxes, increased their business deductions and reduced their estate taxes. Trump made them richer. Boosters...

President Donald Trump initially picked a rando architecture firm to build his stupid enormous bribe palace —er, ballroom, but that firm is now dunzo. McCrery Architects, you’re fired.

What with Trump showing increasing signs of dementia and general physical deterioration, thought naturally turns to the question of what would happen if he cannot complete the three years remaining in his term? The obvious answer is that the Vice...

The continued unimpeded dismantling of democratic systems, norms and values in superpower nations such as Russia, will result in dastardly fallouts that will impact the global community at-large. A countless number of nations will regress to...

A cartoon by Drew Sheneman. Related |� Why can't Trump remember why he had an MRI?

I have mostly been getting Global Warming news from Bluesky lately, and I have been preoccupied with COP30. I find that I have a backlog of climate-related e-mails. So today I am giving you the best of what I have received in the last month, with links...

Guest: Politico's Alice Miranda Ollstein Also: J6 pipe bomber IG slams Hegseth Dems 'disturbed' by boat strike video Grand Jury denies new James indictment SCOTUS allows TX' racial gerrymander... Yikes. Quite a news day. We do our best to keep up on...

Like most developers, Trump thinks firing “his” architect gives him some status as a designer, but like his other idiocy, he’s making a hash of his massive ballroom. It will remain a shopping mall’s anchor store, regardless of the architect. One source...

Happy Holidays to all, Happy Chanukah! We’ll return to our regular schedule with Bernstein in January. This month we are honoring a great Jewish-Ukrainian composer whose music was suppressed during his lifetime, in particular his 1st Symphony in...