On the first day DC voters could use drop boxes, someone ordered the federalized National Guard troops -- which Trump has stationed in DC for the duration of his presidency -- to guard them, armed with assault rifles and in full combat kit.

That's illegal under half a dozen US laws. Trump did it anyway, because if he loses one or both houses of Congress in November, he's a lameduck, pissing into the wind.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/national-guard-dc-ballot-box

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/image-of-armed-national-guard-surrounding-ballot-drop-box-triggers-concern-in-dc/ar-AA2dVeNF

Raw Story, citing Punchbowl News, paywalled, says Todd Blanche wants to indict Cassidy Hutchinson, using his go-to allegation of "lying to Congress."

Hutchinson is a former White House aide, who played a key role in Congress's investigation of January 6th.

Trump is now using the DOJ only to pursue vendettas. He hates Hutchinson for telling tales about his rage during Jan. 6th. He hates her more because she fired the lawyer he supplied, for representing Trump, not her.

https://www.rawstory.com/cassidy-hutchinson-2678058351/

"Trump eyes move that would lock in his gilded Oval Office makeover for future presidents." Another tiresome bad headline.

He can make changes more expensive. But he can't "lock in" or protect his makeover of the Oval Office, the West or East Wings, his Arch or the Kennedy Center from the lawful actions of future Congresses and Presidents.

He's terrified that all his obsessions will be undone. He should be. Everything Trump touches should be razed or redone.

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-oval-office-2677976479/

Trump walks away from credible peace deal with Iran that would have reopened the Strait of Hormuz.

He needs the controversy to stay in the headlines and to retain the ability to move the markets at a whim. He doesn't care about peace or the rest of the world.

Donald Trump to federal prosecutors: Find election fraud, find it anywhere, invent it, make shit up. Or lose your job.

So, prosecutors can lie, commit frauds on the court, violate DOJ policy and the law, and lose their law licenses, or do Trump's bidding.

There is no statistically significant voter fraud. It's hard to do, impossible to hide, and carries stiff penalties. The few people who do it are Republicans. But Trump needs the argument to support his his 2026 election coup.

Where are the Trump-Epstein files?

Buried under the first tee at Bedminster, along with a former Trump wife?

At Mar-a-Lago, the bottom of the sea, inside Mt. Thunder?

Or are they in the fridge along with Mitch McConnell?

Donald Trump has been described various ways. Rex Tillerson's "a fucking moron" comes to mind, as do demented, clueless, jet-lagged, etc.

He is feral, he has a psychpath's keen sense for weakness and exploitability. But he's not very smart. In effect, he's never read a book, not since Beatrix Potter proved to hard for him. He paid many someones to do his homework at school and college.

His mind has been fertilized by Fred Trump and Roy Cohn, and from the simpering effects of his bullying.

If Donald Trump's war of choice and aggression with Iran is "small potatoes," then I guess negotiating a peace for it would not remotely earn him a Nobel Prize.

"Todd Blanche rants about ‘pandemic’ of ‘secret gender transitions’ throughout US schools."

A "pandemic" of "secret gender transitions?" Like his patron, Donald Trump, Todd Blanche has decided to just make shit up.

Boy, that illegal war of choice in Iran must not be going well. Neither is Trump's bid to make the Trump-Epstein files go away.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/todd-blanche-school-gender-transition-pandemic-b3044247.html

A rural Georgia cop shot and killed a small donkey, raised in a petting zoo. The officer was in its paddock with another officer and at least two bloodhounds, looking for a missing 12-yr-old girl, at night, without permission from the landowner.

The officer claims the petting zoo donkey "charged" them. Improbable, but the dogs might have set this one off. Pity the canine handler didn't stop to consider that farm animals might object to his dogs and back away.

https://crooksandliars.com/2026/09/georgia-cop-claims-petting-zoo-baby-donkey

"Pentagon makes testosterone screening mandatory for U.S. service members effective immediately.

"People aged 30 and up will be subjected to screening for hormone levels or disrupted menstrual cycles."

This was always the game plan, to make testosterone-testing mandatory. Next, it'll be incorporated into performance evaluations. Then those with too low a number will be persuaded to leave the service.

It's a false metric, being used as part of a drunken culture war.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/testosterone-testing-us-military-9.7330202

Imagine what people would be talking about if Donald Trump hadn't used a Sharpie and EO to illegally rename Lake Ontario. For starters:

The Epstein files.
The Pentagon's moral and physical exhaustion.
Trump's shitty economy.
His lost war in Iran.
His attempts to steal the 2026 election.

LOL. JD Eyeliner thinks the Antichrist walks among us. No shit. He works for him.

The press is generally not good at nuance. It prefers blazing headlines, brief textual coverage, and limited context.

Take Trump's repeat attempt to rename an international body of water, here, Lake Ontario, with a sharpie and an Executive Order.

For starters, the lake is not named for the eponymous Canadian province. Both come from an Iroquois word. Trump's E.O. does not bind the "federal govt," private individuals, states or foreign countries. It binds only the executive branch itself.

"Trump’s mystery meat problem. Cheap mystery beef, wild mustangs and the strange consequences of an opaque food system."

Just wondering how the Sec'y of Agricultural can legitimately be ignorant of where 300,000 specially imported tons of beef will come from -- and from what animals.

One would think the press would be concerned about how those imports will be labeled, how many species will be mixed into that hamburger, and what toxic chemicals will be in it.

https://www.salon.com/2026/08/27/trumps-mystery-meat-problem/

Donald Trump's EO, declaring a national emergency over the state of the US power grid, looks a lot more like practice for a national emergency over voting in November than it does a real emergency over foreign supplied components for the US power grid.

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-emergency/

The process that today's Supreme Court ruling let stand is not limited in its effects to temporarily allowing the feds to control mail-in ballots.

Its other effects include legitimizing the federalization of maintaining voting rolls. That's a bigger deal. Much bigger.

WTF powers do the Constitution and statutes give the US Postal Service or federal govt to usurp state authority and create their own, independent voter roles?

None, zero, zilch, nada. But that's power John Roberts and his radical radical Catholic S.Ct. majority just gave them..

In the first instance, this will likely restrict mail-in voting, because the USPS will not forward mail-in ballots to voters not on Donald Trump's independently-created voter rolls.

But that's just the beginning.

As another wag said about Jeffries and Kushner's little get together, if you can find common ground with Jared Kushner, but not Zohran Mamdani, you don't belong in Democratic leadership.

Yes, I know, Jeffries's re-election is assured, and the time to worry about whether he becomes Speaker of the House is next January, after the Dems retake the House.

But does anyone think demented Donald would keep a promise his son-in-law made with a Black congresscritter, who's about to become House Speaker?

US Transportation Sec'y Sean Duffy -- shilling Trump's message of the day -- describes Canada as the failing state.

LOL. He does that while swilling a beer on the National Mall, waiting for dozens of F1 race cars to rip up DC's tired and bumpy roadways, in a purported celebration of America's 250th birthday.

Trump intentionally cratered talks with Canada. He doesn't want them to succeed. He wants a pinata he can break again and again.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/trump-canada-trade-dispute-9.7317333

https://www.rawstory.com/sean-duffy-2677760519/