And now the news: 9/8/2026

President of the United States goes batshit on social media, again

Everyone except (maybe) Trump himself knows he’s cuckoo without any Cocoa Puffs, but Republicans love Trump and Democrats love Republicans so nobody will do anything about it until Trump nukes Ottawa.

Fuck Trump & the Republicans.

New Mexico officials reject Trump post proposing state renaming as “New America”

Fuck Trump.

At 9/11 tribute, Trump claims firefighters carried him to safety

Excerpt: Barbara Res, an executive vice president in charge of construction at the Trump Organization, who left the company in the late 1990s, said Mr. Trump was adept at getting news coverage for himself.

“Listen, if he was there and he was escorted by firefighters and first responders, it would be the headline of The Times the next day,” Ms. Res said. “He’d make that happen.”

Me again: Fuck Trump.

Me, looking grumpy, reading the news

AND NOW THE NEWS

#625
Tuesday,
September 8, 2026

Hey, let me toss an apology in here. I have notes for fifty pages of writing, but writing takes energy and this is an especially busy week — mom-sitting Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and dratted social events on Tuesday and Thursday. It’s completely fucked, but I’m hoping to do some writing over the weekend.

Now back to the news…

Trump’s war on mail-in ballots has voters baffled. That may be the point.

Excerpt: And in Leon County, Fla., the elections supervisor, Mark Earley, and his team had envelopes with trackable bar codes on every mail ballot, as the Postal Service wanted. But this week, when the county submitted its envelope for inspection, federal officials rejected it. Mr. Earley worries there isn’t enough time to revamp the envelopes, get the Postal Service’s approval and send ballots.

“If the rule goes into effect, we will have tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of disenfranchised voters in Florida,” he said. “And nationwide, millions, without a doubt.”

Me again: Fuck Trump & the Republicans, and arrest them please. Then fuck them again.

Trump appeals to Supreme Court as time runs out on push to restrict mail voting

Have I mentioned? Fuck Trump & the Republicans, and most of the Supreme Court.

You don’t have a right to safe drinking water, US court rules

Fuck that.

Military lawyers prosecuting civilian crimes across the country

Excerpt: The Trump administration has sent dozens of military lawyers to prosecute civilians in three major American cities in the past year, as part of a streak of overwhelming federal law enforcement crackdowns across the country.

Me again: Well, fuck that shit.

ICE gets ‘legal’ OK to cut open a Cuban hunger striker’s stomach and insert a gastric force-feeding tube

Fuck ICE, and arrest them please.

DHS is stealing Haitians money while they deport them

Excerpt: More than 80 people were returned last week, often with only the U.S. government-issued sweatpants and T-shirts, and with immigration court documents stuffed in their pockets. Many returned broke, saying their valuables had disappeared during the trip and they now lacked the cash to get home.

Me again: Fuck DHS.

Six people refused to get off ICE deportation plane – now they’re held in limbo in Equatorial Guinea

Fuck ICE, and arrest everyone who works there, please.

Two “Alligator Alcatraz” guards charged with battery of inmate, records show

Oh, yeah, fuck, let’s pretend only two of the guards working at “Alligator Alcatraz” were inflicting cruel and unusual punishment.

‘Nakedly political’: US attempts to link trans support to authoritarianism in new health department report

How do so many fuckers find the time and energy to hate so many people? Must be fucking exhausting. It’s so much easier to just let people do what they want and be who they want, and not get all worked up about it.

Trump & the Republicans plan to take child-care funds allocated for low-income parents, and redirect them to stay-at-home parents, but only if they’re married

Fuck Trump & the Republicans.

Dude fired by DeSantis for promoting a video with Nazi symbolism now works at Rubio’s State Department, as deputy director of policy planning and chief speechwriter

Fuck Nazis. Fuck DeSantis. Fuck Rubio.

Trump administration strips language that criticized Confederate statue at Arlington

Excerpt: Stephen West, a Catholic University historian, said he first noticed that the sign had been changed when he visited Arlington National Cemetery on Sunday.

“The language that used to be on the sign and website described the Memorial correctly. Ezekiel’s sculpture did sanitize slavery, and it did mythologize the Confederacy,” West wrote in a text message to The Washington Post. “And so as a historian, I’m deeply disturbed by the removal of that language and by plans to restore the statue — especially because they’re of a piece with the censoring and slanting of history at other federal sites.”

Trump has previously said he supports efforts to recognize the Confederacy and sees it as a freedom of speech issue.

“When people proudly have their Confederate flags, they’re not talking about racism,” Trump said in a 2020 interview with Fox News. “They love their flag, it represents the South; they like the South.”

Me again: Fuck Trump & the Republicans, and fuck the Confederacy. Also, of course, fuck the rebel flag, and fuck anyone who flies it, wears it, or bumper-stickers it.

How one woman was caught in Epstein’s ‘cult’—and escaped

Fuck Trump & the Republicans, as they eager protecting child molesters.

‘Who are they protecting?’ Survivors push for answers as Epstein files ‘reading room’ opens in Dallas

Well, fuck, they’re protecting Donald J Trump, of course. And by the way, fuck him.

Tucson sexual assault survivor says network did not die with Epstein

After 25 years, autonomous online collective Autistici/Inventati shuts down — voluntarily, ahead of expected force

Excerpt: On August 26, the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control added Autistici/Inventati to its Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List under Executive Order 13224. Treasury accused A/I of supplying “specialized digital architecture, tools, and services” to what the department described as Antifa cells and other violent far-left organizations. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the government would bring the “full weight” of its economic tools against what it called their enablers and continue cutting their financial lifelines “until they are eliminated.”

Eleven days later, one of the organizations named in that announcement said it could no longer safely exist.

Me again: Fuck the entire Trump administration.

Arkansas library forbids children to check out any books in the adult section, bring home any DVDs, or use the self-checkout kiosk

Excerpt: EveryLibrary, a national political action organization dedicated to defending and advancing public, school and academic libraries, called for state leaders to repeal and replace the law with something that removes criminal penalties and is more consistent with the role of libraries and their place in a healthy society.

Me again: Fuck EveryLibrary, pretending like the solution is better legislation. No, fuckers — the solution is getting rid of the assholes pretending there’s a problem.

Hear ye hear ye: Libraries should check out material to anyone with a card and an interest in said material, regardless of age, and regardless of any other factors the haters dream up to keep “the wrong” material from “the wrong” people.

Stanford student newspaper wins suit over Trump’s crackdown on pro-Palestine speech

Fuck your “crackdown” on freedom of speech.

How a Memphis gambling raid became a sweeping immigration operation

Excerpt: Last Sunday, a crush of agents raided El Corralón, searching for the owner, Marco Sabillon-Urbina, an immigrant from Honduras, but detaining anyone who was in the country illegally.

Me again: How does the New York Times know to state as if it’s fact that these 120 arrested people were “in the country illegally”? They may not have had proof of legal residency in their wallets, or more likely, the immigration agents didn’t ask to see the documents, or didn’t believe the documents weren’t faked, but I’ll wager a month’s Social Security that not all of the 120 arrested were “in the country illegally.”

Sheesh, where’s Lou Grant when we need him? Fuck the New York Times.

Inside Mamdani’s private army of public influencers

Excerpt, from the article’s 20th paragraph: The mayor’s office says that it does not pay the influencers. Still, their proximity and access to a figure as popular as Mr. Mamdani can help increase their own social media following and, by extension, potentially put them in a position to attract paid content sponsorships from commercial brands. Some influencers said that when they feature Mr. Mamdani, the videos get more likes, and viewers watch longer.

Me again: So… what’s the fucking news in this news? The influencers aren’t being paid for posting about Mamdani. They post about him because he’s popular, and their audience wants to see videos about him.

Fuck the New York Times, again.

And then there’s Fox News

Fuck Fox News.

Maria Bartiromo’s downfall at an increasingly cautious Fox News

“Increasingly cautious” only means no more blatant lies about the voting machine companies that have sued the network. Maria Bartiromo leaked an internal email that said so, which got her fired, as it would almost anywhere.

Excerpt: A lawyer for Ms. Bartiromo, Bryan Freedman, called her “one of the hardest-working journalists throughout her award-winning career.”

Me again: She used to be a journalist? I’m skeptical, but whether she was or wasn’t, fuck Maria Bartiromo.

Tracking US military killings in boat attacks

Fuck these American serial killers, and arrest them please.

Chasing side deals, flexing influence, brazen corruption: Corey Lewandowski at DHS

Excerpt: When Corey Lewandowski was at the Department of Homeland Security, he approached senior Qatari officials with a proposal.

Hire me on the side, the longtime Trump aide who was effectively the shadow secretary at the department last year, told them, according to people familiar with his pitch. He said he could help the tiny, wealthy Gulf state with any issues that fell under the department’s purview, such as visas, the people said.

He approached representatives of the United Arab Emirates with a similar offer, people familiar with the outreach said.

Me again: Fuck and arrest Corey Lewandowski.

Pedophile Commerce Secretary lies that data centers don’t use much water

Fuck Howard Lutnick, and arrest him please, for pedophilia. He’s all over the Trump-Epstein files.

Senator Roger Marshall (R-Kansas), when practicing medicine, sued 700 patients for debts as little as $101; 81 were arrested

Fuck Senator Roger Marshall. God, what a shitty MD he must’ve been.

Largest Republican donor (by far) has long history of anti-Semitic comments

Fuck Elon Musk. And now, will Republican candidates “distance themselves” from such hateful rhetoric?

Largest Republican donor (by far) cosigned racist claim that Black students have low IQs

Fuck Elon Musk. And now, will Republican candidates “distance themselves” from such hateful rhetoric?

Mamdani administration celebrates transfer of three Crown Heights buildings away from negligent owners

Fuck slumlords and fuck landlords.

Former Obama admin official says it’s time to consider military strikes on Chinese data centers to prevent them from reaching AGI

Fuck Jacob Stokes.

On Labor Day, Mamdani debuts ‘Worker Power’ Office to support union organizing

One day, after he does something stupid or gets caught in a scandal, I’ll have to say fuck Zohran Mamdani. But that day ain’t today, and I only hope he continues doing things that ought to be done.

Courts: Sure, Google is a monopoly, but oh well

Fuck Google, and fuck Judge Leonie Brinkema.

That free MyChart ‘Medicare Kit’ is a scam

Fuck MyChart. They’re not the criminals in this matter, but I just generally hate damned near everything about MyChart, so fuck ’em.

TiVo plans to end free automatic commercial skipping in November, tests paid premium replacement service

Fuck TiVo, and fuck commercials.

Trump Media launches MAGA-friendly investment funds

Fuck anyone stupid enough to invest in this. You’re going to get ripped off, and it’ll be hilarious.

US embassy issues health alert for Cuba amid oil blockade, sanctions

Fuck the US State Department, probably always but definitely under Trump and Marco Rubio.

After blocking fuel, the US turns to Cuba’s food supply

People are dying in Cuba because of this, and the blockade and the dying won’t end until Trump is removed from power. Fuck Trump & the Republicans and fuck all of this.

Days before Oct. 7, UAE leader warned Netanyahu Hamas was planning war, but PM did nothing with info – report

Fuck Netanyahu and fuck Israel.

Near-Nazis make impressive gains in German elections

Fuck the near-Nazis, and fuck the real Nazis they hold dear.

Albanian protests against Kushner-linked coastal development turn violent after 100th day

Fuck Jared Kushner and fuck Ivanka Trump.

The pompous proof of an America in decline

Excerpt: “Trump is putting America in a position that Niccolò Machiavelli warned all princes against: We are hated, but not feared.”

Me again: Fuck Trump & the Republicans, and fuck Niccolò Machiavelli.

ICE wants to know everyone who bought a certain green beanie from REI in the last 2 years

Fuck ICE, fuck REI, and fuck green beanies.

LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby

Excerpt: Perhaps more concerningly, the TVs were capable of recording microphone audio when in standby; this continued even after the TV was disconnected from the internet, with audio files stored offline and uploaded once a connection was restored.

Me again: Fuck LG, fuck all the companies keeping dossiers on everyone, and fuck the politicians who won’t make such data-collection illegal.

While you shop, Walmart is scanning your face, license plate, and data. They are rolling back privacy, not prices.

Fuck Walmart.

Why did Trump order up 660-million pounds of mystery meat?

Excerpt: The cuts of meat covered by Trump’s proclamation aren’t fresh sirloins, rib-eyes and filets. They’re lean beef trimmings that will be added to fattier American cuts to make ground beef. They’re small chunks of frozen meat that could have been kept in cold storage overseas for years. They are the quintessence of generic industrial meat, imported here to be subsequently processed in massive grinders that combine pieces of tens of thousands of cattle from multiple countries, mainly into fast food hamburgers.

Me again: Fuck Trump’s 660-million pounds of make-ya-sick meat.

After 9/11, documents suggest, Giuliani administration misled New Yorkers about air quality

Excerpt: More people are believed to have died from illnesses related to the attacks in the years afterward than on Sept. 11 itself.

Me again: Fuck Giuliani.

Unpermitted crypto mine condemned after 3-million-gallon water leak closes Oklahoma schools

Fuck crypto.

The Trump administration is dismantling one of America’s greatest strategic assets: its scientific workforce

Fuck Trump & the Republicans.

Man is sentenced in explosion of hyperbaric chamber that killed a 5-year-old

The kid was in a hyperbaric chamber to be “treated” for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder — a quack-quack treatment, overseen by someone with no medical training. That’s how a child gets fatally scammed to death. Well, fuck the quacks, fuck the kid’s parents, and especially fuck the people pushing quackery.

Smithsonian’s Secretary to resign as Trump tries to rule the institution

Fuck Trump & the Republicans, of course, but also fuck Lonnie Bunch. Maybe he wanted a cushy job in a fancy office overseeing quiet museums, but Trump wants to bulldoze history and facts, and Bunch’s pushback was half-assed, and in quitting he knows his replacement will be worse, so he’s basically helping Trump shaft the Smithsonian. Fuck that.

Florida International University uses new anti-Palestine rule to go after anti-ICE silent protesters

Fuck Florida International University,

Wesleyan University says no to Trump regime demands to end benefits based on race

Excerpt (from the audio link): “The Secretary of the Treasury is using the IRS to advance a pro-White Nationalist agenda. That is extraordinary.”

Me again: Fuck and arrest Scott Bessent & the Republicans. Do not fuck Wesleyan University.

Texas A&M University completely caves to anti-education edict

Fuck Texas, and fuck Texas A&M.

Texas high schoolers will learn a version of history that casts Islam in a violent light and elevates Christianity’s influence

Fuck high school, of course, but fuck Texas and fuck everyone involved in this, making the chance of an education less and less likely.

Armed man arrested after charging toward Democratic candidate for Ohio Governor

Excerpt: The man was found to be carrying two pistols and a Taser after he was detained, according to the Ohio State Highway Patrol. Ohio law allows residents to possess and carry concealed firearms without a permit. …

Asked about the man’s intent, the sheriff said: “I think it was to ask her a couple of questions. He was just, you know, pretty aggressive about it.” (Sheriff Greene has endorsed Dr. Acton’s Republican opponent, Vivek Ramaswamy, in the governor’s race.)

Me again: What matters here isn’t another armed nutcase. America has millions of those. What matters is a sheriff downplaying the incident — saying basically, Aw, shucks, it weren’t nothing. Fuck the sheriff, and fuck all the politicians always against gun control.

Over three dozen people shot in Chicago over Labor Day weekend

Fuck assholes with guns.

One school district’s fight against Trump’s anti-transgender push

Disruption at Port of Dover due to ‘stop the boats’ protest

‘Donald J. Trump Memorial’ sign appears above Canadian public restroom

AI supersucks.

Trump administration amicus brief says AI scraping is fair use of copyrighted ‌material

Fuck that entirely. The fair use of a newspaper is a human reading it.

The cloud has sound: the unrelenting and unseen cost of AI data centers

Paul Schrader says he turned to AI because “no black actors wanted to play in a movie where there are no good black people”

Fuck Paul Schrader.

CNN snags exclusive interview with actress that doesn’t exist and has never appeared in a film

Dolly Parton’s sister asks people to stop posting AI slop of the legendary singer

Journalist accuses Ohio’s main newspaper of slapping her name on an AI “express desk” article without her knowledge, while she was on honeymoon

Climate change is real, and it's happening now. It's going to get worse, and then it's going to get worse than that. It's never going to stop getting worse, so long as capitalism and the quest for money decides everything.

A ‘monster web’ of ocean currents is set to collapse. And the US is not prepared.

Nobody is prepared for any aspect of the shitstorm that’s coming. Picture the worst natural disaster you’ve ever seen or read about, and in a few years that’ll be just another day, everywhere. We are so fucked.

Major declines in key zooplankton threaten Northwest European marine life

‘Her body temperature was 106’: How heat is killing Americans in their homes

Climate change leads to increased flooding of New York’s subway system

American cops are armed and dangerous, barely trained, barely supervised. They can get away with anything, and do.

‘Don’t shoot me!’: Indicted Colorado cop shot black father three times at close range despite him being unarmed, video shows

Georgia officer explains why he shot beloved donkey HeeHaw during search for missing girl

Homeland Security Investigations Agent Kent Blacklidge surrenders on rape, sodomy and incest charges

Fifth Circuit says 2 Texas deputy constables can’t be sued over 43-second dog bite

Religious followers believe their god protects and guides them. But god never shows up. Every religion is led only by humans, who often turn out to be charlatans, swindlers, or perverts.

Indiana pastor arrested on charges after being found in possession of child sexual abuse material

Oklahoma church volunteer arrested with child pornography charge

Disgraced Pennsylvania priest arrested for brazen theft of $750,000 from churches, parishioners and his own mother

Embattled South Carolina church accused of removing evidence

Alas, poor Yorick. I knew him...

Edward Field
poet

Noël Godin
pie tosser

Robin Morgan
Women’s Media Center, editor of Ms

Niels Refsgaard
plates

The US has already paid reparations for slavery — to slaveowners

Excerpt: On April 16, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed a bill emancipating enslaved people in Washington, the end of a long struggle. But to ease slaveowners’ pain, the District of Columbia Emancipation Act paid those loyal to the Union up to $300 for every enslaved person freed.

Me again: Fuck that shit entirely.

Gloria Steinem was the godmother of neoliberal feminism

Excerpt: The establishment’s favorite “radical” feminist, Steinem worked with the CIA to promote reactionary propaganda and helped direct the women’s liberation movement into a corporate-friendly, anti-socialist direction.

Me again: Fuck the CIA.

The extraordinary flight that saved a snakebite victim after 9/11

This is supposed to be a heartwarming human interest story about an “experienced snake-handler” dumb enough to get bitten on his thumb as he tried to shove a very venomous snake into a cage. My sympathies are immediately with the snake.

The thumb-bitten snake handler needed a superfancy antivenom, which would have to be flown in, but this was right after 9/11/2001, and George W Bush (worst and dumbest President to that time, though he’s a distant second place now) had shut all of American air space. But not to worry, the venom guy knew a guy who knew a guy, and got extra special permission to fly a plane. It’s always who you know.

And meanwhile, it’s for certain half a dozen people died because they didn’t know anyone who knew anyone, so they couldn’t get rush-rush permission to be airlifted to a big-city hospital or whatever. They never made it into the Washington Post.

Man, fuck all this “feel good” shit.

“Grow the f**k up” – Cardinals manager explodes at umpire Doug Eddings after controversial ejection vs. Rockies

An umpire orders a rookie pitcher to straighten his hat? Lots of players wear their hats slightly tilted, and there’s no rule against it, so “power-tripping” seems like an accurate description of the ump’s behavior.

Factor in that the umpire is white and the rookie is black, and the ump said, “The kid’s not going to wear his hat like that on my field,” and it starts looking even odder.

Fuck bigoted baseball umpires.

The case of the missing cat food

“I’m sure you recognize this lovely melody as “Strangers in Paradise,” but did you know that the original theme is from the Polovtsian Dance #2, by Borodin?”

Nothing will meaningfully improve
until billionaires fear for their lives.

9/8/2026

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