Today in her blog, Heather Cox Richardson details the 2016 election hack whereby Russian Pres Putin handed the Oval Office to trump [FN1] & how White House officials are revisiting Putin’s interference in the 2016 election “to distract voters” from trump/Epstein; one observer 1/8

speculates “Putin might possess ‘some form of the Epstein files’” that trump wants kept secret. [FN2] I’ve said for several years that Putin has “kompromat” [FN3] on trump. [FN4] As the past few months…

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Today, trump said he ordered “two nuclear submarines” to be moved to “‘appropriate regions.’” [FN1] A move closer to nuclear war was prompted by crap. trump called Dmitry Medvedev Russia’s “failed former president” who should “watch his words.” [FN2] 1/9

Medvedev, deputy chair of Russia’s Security Council, replied: “‘Russia is right on everything” & will “go its own way” [FN3] & said to remember “‘how dangerous the fabled ‘Dead Hand’ can be.” That refers to…

“ICE” [FN1] agents, in masks, grab people who “look like” they are neither U.S. citizens nor in the U.S. with proper documentation. Parallels can be drawn between agents of ICE & agents of of other police States. Germany, 1933-45, is one such State. 1/6

There is a difference between ICE and agents of the NSDAP, including the SS and the SA. ICE personnel seek to hide their identities with masks. Perhaps they realize there’s no immunity from prosecution because they only are…

John Steinbeck’s novel, “The Grapes of Wrath,” shows economic devastation of the 1930s. Made into a movie, the story is about the Joad family, evicted, like many families, from their Oklahoma farm. Banks seized a lot of land thanks to the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. 1/5

In an op-ed on Daily Kos this week, AuntieB wrote of her conversation w/a family member of the owners of an orchard near her: “A few years ago, the family refinanced to install solar panels and new walk-in…