9.09.2025

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts




The new Donald Trump campaign was just beginning to hit its stride. 


  • 76 year old woman:

  • No names were mentioned in the story.


  • The on-again, off-again poker houses now on-again. For good.  

  • Woah! Since when is the governor using executive orders for things that the legislature won't pass?

  • We learned yesterday that the birthday card that didn't exist actually does exist. 


    • And that first name only signature is definitely his.  The New York Times is all over it. 


  • This headline hardly does justice to what the Supreme Court did yesterday.

    • Below is what the federal judge had prohibited ICE agents from relying upon to seize "suspected" illegal immigrants.  Now this is OK. If you have brown skin, you might want to carry your birth certificate on you. 

    • From the dissent:
    • I guess this old meme became reality yesterday.

    • And now they come for Chicago:

  • Coming soon to America? Side note: I got an email from a faithful reader last night who said he was in the middle of a dream vacation in Nepal and "I am holed up in a hotel downtown waiting for it to die down" as the entire city is engulfed in protests.


  • Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth went into cosplay mode yesterday. And the video is worse.

  • The Business Second™. 

  • I'm sorry. Who ever thought that?

  • Apple introduces the new iPhone 17 Air today.
  • Breaking: Israel may have just bombed Qatar in a search for Hamas. Edit: Yep, it happened.