Jerry was not enjoying his course on Kant's metaphysics.

Trump imposes tariffs on uninhabited Heard and McDonald Islands near Antarctica Australian prime minister surprised after remote external territories – including islands home to penguins – targeted by US president

Riddle me this.
With tariffs on the Penguin, is no one safe
From this Joker?

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

An ‘Administrative Error’ Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran Prison The Trump administration says that it mistakenly deported an immigrant with protected status but that courts are powerless to order his return.

Wrongly Deported.
Out of our custody now; a convenient device.
Cold as ICE.

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Pete Hegseth sent secret war plans to journalist by accident Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic who was added to a group chat, wrote that he had "never seen a breach quite like this."

Petey prevails
Despite leaking top-secret details...
But her emails?

www.newsweek.com/trump-secret...

Poor Biden's pardon's are void
The use of an autopen means they're destroyed
He's tempted to shout it,
You better not doubt it,
Says the man who claimed to declassify documents
Simply by thinking about it.

Chuck Schumer
Has one card but won't even play it.
OK Boomer.

Haiku overdue...

Musk annoyed?
Sixth "unscheduled disassembly."
Schadenfreude.

*Subject* of the crown, though. Technically monarchies don't have citizens, they have subjects. Sigh. I'm one now too.

Today's Haiku:

Fire the bums!
Oops, those bums kept our nukes safe.
Fire missiles?

“Are We the Baddies?” — That Mitchell and Webb Look YouTube video by 4K Remasters

I dream of an America in which otherwise politically disengaged citizens read the headlines one day and finally have this moment....

www.youtube.com/watch?v=h242...

Hmm.

Today's Haiku:

Want things cheap.
Who'd vote for tariffs galore?
Donald's sheep.

Decided on a limerick instead of a haiku today....

Husband of Indiana Trump supporter deported | CNN Helen Beristain voted for Donald Trump even though she is married to an undocumented immigrant. He has now has been deported.

There once was a woman named Beristain,
Who was sure the "good ones" would remain.
But now she's reported
Her husband's deported,
Perhaps next time she'll abstain.

tinyurl.com/4r54x94x

Today's Haiku in honour of Hegseth, who is making bold claims about the metaphysics of value and so now wading into metaethics....

Can't shoot values.
There's nothing like hard power
(except hard liquor).

He should grab a beer with this guy: "Florida man who voted for Trump wants to work something out with Donald Trump after ICE snatched up his wife & deported her back to Venezuela while she was in the process of getting her papers done. "Let's work something out, please man let me keep my wife"

Sometimes I try to cope through the medium of Haiku, though I'm hardly a poet. Today's effort:

As Mother Earth Burns
Toddler With a Flame Thrower
Torches Democracy

I hope you are OK after all of that; it sounds horrible.

Do it off the table in the pub like a normal person! Sheesh.

Totally normal sign in the restroom of the pub/restaurant last night….

Its contested now, but some research suggests that due to sexism via unconscious bias, people are less cautious in responding to weather warnings if the storm has a female name. But Eowyn from LOTR was a woman masquerading as a man! Coincidence or public health policy? You decide!

Edinburgh Storm Éowyn LIVE updates as 'danger to life' red warning issued Damage to homes and buildings is possible with roads, bridges and railway lines set to be closed along with delays to buses, trains, ferry services and flights.

The Shield Maiden of Rohan is going to hit hard tomorrow. Glad I'm not the Witch King. www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinbur...

Always beware of skewers when playing chess.

It reminds me of this somehow:

Redshirts (a STAR TREK parody song of "Starships" by Nicki Minaj) YouTube video by Star Rekt

NEW PARODY SONG! Every chess board needs its pawns. And pawns have one job... to die! Just like the redshirts on the Enterprise! youtu.be/007z5kRNhlo

Kind of the opposite of this nice line from George Carlin:

Never teach your children about cluster concepts. Learn from my mistakes.

So sorry, Aidan, that sucks.

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