On 11/4/26, someone reposted a FB post from “phoenixrisingdead”:

“REMEMBER THE MCCONNELL RULE

After the Democrats take control of the senate

tonight - AND THEY WILL - no Trump judicial

nominations can be confirmed.

Not for the supreme court.

Not for any federal bench.” 1/18

Among replies: “We don't need to do dirty deals like that. All we have to do is insist that the candidates answer every question and have a strong track record that is in line with the…

Democratic Party leaders, national & States’, must change the language of political discourse in several ways.

1. Issues have been reduced to “catch phrases” that the gop has drafted. Ad execs Haldeman [FN1] & Ehrlichman were pivotal to Richard Nixon’s 1968 campaign for Pres. 1/11

Lee Atwater’s work was invasive & substituted abstract terms for racial epithets of the 1950s. [FN2] He perfected use of the “wedge issue” as strategist in George H.W. Bush’s successful 1988…

Yesterday, trump delivered what some would call a “speech” in Iowa and said: "’I could have won the Vietnam War in a week, you know,’ he said. ‘They dropped whatever the hell that red c**p is that they…kept dropping it in the forest.’" [FN1] Someone corrected him... 1/20

“‘Agent Orange,’ to remind Trump of the name of the chemical herbicide the U.S. military used to destroy Vietnamese forests at the time. ‘Agent Orange,’ [t]rump said, ‘even though it's red.’" [FN2] trump declined an…

The Wall Street Journal reported that, last week, Elon Musk “ordered Space X to slow down its service in Ukraine, rendering some drones that stopped incoming missiles and others aimed at Russian targets useless.” [FN1] The crime of murder is “malum in se,” [FN2] 1/10

i.e., accepted as wrong across jurisdictions & its elements, generally, consist of “unlawful killing of a human being with malice aforethought.” [FN3] Any people killed were on the ground in Ukraine when the order to…