Sec’y of Defense Hegseth announced on 10/10/25: “Today we’re signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatar Emiri Air Force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho.” [FN1] A foreign power builds a military base on the soil of another country to use that base militarily, 1/5

something the United States has done frequently. To build a base is different from having planes from another country use one of our bases, such as “Singapore’s air force F-15SG fighter jets” as a different…

1) As reported by Judd Legum at Popular Information, by “Presidential Memorandum” of 10/6/25, trump okayed:

a) building a road 211 miles long through Alaska wilderness to mine “valuable minerals located in the Ambler Mining District”; and

b) U.S. purchase of a 10% stake in Trilogy Metals, a business involved. [FN1] 1/9

2) As Legum notes further: “The entire value of Trilogy Metals”, based in Canada, “is tied to the Ambler Mining District project because it has no other…

Like horses in “Young Frankenstein” that whinny at “Blucher!” maga followers scream when a magaGOP politician hisses “socialism!” No threat exists [FN1], but magaGOP guts public ed [FN2] to foster an ignorance that is an effective tool to manipulate voters. 1/11

maga people can’t define “socialism” [FN3] but they know it is evil, because it just is. Contrast it w/ “capitalism” as “good” though its definition is cold [FN4] but it has warm & fuzzy attributes: “free markets” and…

A cabinet member of the trump administration lies. [FN1] It’s news if his [FN2] lies are about a major part of that department and involves thousands of lives at any given moment is important. Government is “shut down,” but some jobs are considered “essential.” [FN3] 1/9

For 6 hours in the early morning of Oct 6, no air traffic controllers were in Burbank CA’s tower. [FN4] Sec’y of Transportation Sean Duffy’s comments about these personnel, lack of pay & their possible prosecution…