The key to success here was that he identified and targeted the most gullible group of people on planet earth - American MAGA.

These two editorials by the Washington Post expose how the Republican Party and Democratic Party are held to completely different standards by the media.

Texas gerrymander: “Not a threat to democracy.”

Virginia gerrymander: “Power grab by Democrats.”

Sick.

Soon!

This is fun

I played Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto in the streets of Paris ! YouTube video by Julien Cohen

Pure joy and beauty.
www.youtube.com/shorts/1q3g6...

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising When the Nazis came to clear out the Warsaw Ghetto, they were met with fierce resistance.

On this day in 1943, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising began its first full day. Fighting continued for 29 days. One of the surviving commanders said their inspiration to fight was "not to allow the Germans alone to pick the time and place of our deaths".
www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles...

There ought to be more reporting about this.

Hey, it's National Library Week!

Don’t worry, @nytimes.com is not at all concerned. Nothing like Biden, move along folks, nothing to see here.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is preparing banks to collect citizenship data Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the Trump administration expects banks to comply in collecting citizenship information from customers.

Undocumented immigrants contribute $97 billion yearly in federal, state, and local taxes. They paid $25.7 billion in Social Security taxes, $6.4 billion in Medicare taxes, and $1.8 billion in unemployment insurance taxes in 2022.

Bessent is galactically stupid.

www.cnbc.com/2026/04/15/b...

I know. I dislike the notion that the candidate with the best chance to win may have to be a straight white male. But now that we have a better understanding of the electorate . . .

Yes. Yes, yes, yes.

My stand-alone novel ON DESPERATE GROUND is on sale in all e-book formats for a buck 99 through 4/19/26.
"A story you will remember for a long time to come. The ending may well stay with you forever. Truly recommended!"
Midwest Book Review

A Democrat Winning in Trump Country—Why Isn’t Andy Beshear a 2028 Favorite?

Andy Beshear won twice in deep-red Kentucky while defending trans rights. Can he convince Democrats he's their best bet in 2028?

Members Of FBI Director Kash Patel's Security Team Have Trouble Waking Him Up Due To His Excessive Drinking

Pay attention folks. This is how it's done. Trump sues his own DOJ, run by his private attorney, for $10 billion. Normally that would go through the courts with the DOJ arguing AGAINST giving Trump $10 billion.

Instead, his DOJ will negotiate a settlement OUTSIDE of court. Literally inside dealing.

I’ll never get used to the president being a petty, whiny little bitch

Pope Leo XIV: Jesus told us, blessed are the peacemakers. But woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic, or political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth.

Concur.

Hungary's New PM Just Showed Us What Courage Looks Like. Where's Ours? Hypothetically, if I was elected President, here are the opening salvos of restoration

Hungary just elected a new PM who wasted zero time — he shut down state propaganda, called out the corrupt officials by name, and started the reckoning on day one. It made me want to write down exactly what that should look like here. So I did.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

Lansky later said “I was a Jew and felt for those Jews in Europe who were suffering. They were my brothers.”
Billy Boyle will meet Meyer Lansky at his Havana casino in THE NINTH CIRCLE (pub date 9/1/26) and becomes an unlikely ally in a search for German spies.

He recruited Mendy “Choker” Weiss, contract killer Harry “Pep” Strauss, and Jacob "Ice Pick" Drucker. They attacked German American Bund gatherings and doled out their fair share of bruises and broken bones.

As a Jewish-American, mobster Meyer Lansky wasn't happy about American Nazis marching through the streets of New York. When he got a call from Judge Nathan David Perlman asking if "you got some boys who might want to punch a Nazi?" Lansky was all in.

Could be…

Another pardoned Jan. 6 rioter to admit guilt in child sexual abuse case David Daniel has reached a plea agreement with federal prosecutors after a judge ruled that President Donald Trump's pardons in the Capitol attack didn’t apply to child exploitation.

Another Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by President Trump will plead guilty in a separate case involving child exploitation of multiple victims, according to federal court records.

It's the classic Mel Gibson and Jesus meme where Mel is on set in normal clothes casually chatting to a very bloody Jesus (for those of you who don't know it).

Mel Gibson pictured with his doctor in 2004

Should be part of his next test.