The good fight

 What did you do today to resist American fascism?  Here's a unique contribution I discovered in the Miscellaneous ads of the New York Review of Books for June 26, 2025:

APOLOGY TO THE WORLD:  We apologize to the world for the behavior of our President.  Signed, Americans of Good Will; Chuck Edwards, North Carolina, USA.  chuckedwards1909@gmail.com.

So that's Chuck squared away.  Since the number of MAGA who read NYRB is negligible, I'm confident that he's alive and well, along with the Americans of Good Will who requested anonymity.

Chris Gallant is running for the House in the New York First, a seat currently held by Nick LaLota.  Politico describes him as "a Black Hawk pilot, Army veteran, National Guardsman, former air traffic controller and union leader and volunteer firefighter" who is also a gay millennial.  If that sounds too good to be true, well, look at him:

He needs our help, because Trump found another self-styled "Originalist" named Eric Tung who clerked for both Gorsuch and Scalia and wants to re-criminalize gay sex, or as he calls it, "sodomy."  He's only 40 so if he gets to be a federal judge he'll be around longer than uranium-235.

You don't hear "Free Palestine!" at many public gatherings in Nebraska, but Rep. Mike Flood heard it during a town hall in Lincoln last night, along with "Tax the rich!"  The people are not happy about the new work requirement for health care and other features of the Big Bastard Bill, which Flood voted for without reading it like most of his caucus.  They weren't mollified when he assured them he did not support The Leader's firing of Erika McEntarfer for accurately reporting the July job statistics.  Middle America also shouted "Liar, liar" and "Why are you covering up the Epstein files?"  Flood couldn't get through his slide show.  Nebraska has three Congressmen, all Republicans, so I don't think gerrymandering is going to help there.

Moving south, war has broken out between Governor Kevin "Oklahoma Belongs to God" Stitt and his porn-loving schools superintendent Ryan "Let 'em Read Trump Bibles" Walters.  When board members spotted the smut on his office TV Walters blamed them, the media, teachers' unions, Stitt and Satan for conspiring against him.  An editorial in Tulsa World says he "cannot lie his way out of this latest scandal," suggesting that he has lied his way out of others.  Christianity -- how does it work?

Can Trump fire the Congressional Budget Office?  They crunched the numbers on the BBB and found that it will create $718 billion in new debt-service costs or an overall deficit of $4.1 trillion-with-a-T over ten years.  George Conway was there ahead of me.

But he went to Wharton (School of Phrenology)!

If I wanted to distract people from my decades-long involvement with a human trafficker and pedophile, I probably wouldn't do it by calling attention to/drooling over this ad:

What I'd do is get one of my dumber Kabinet Klowns to fantasize about colonizing the moon before China can, and the importance of building nuclear reactors there.  And maybe a mobile McDonalds like the one the Saudis commissioned for Dear Idiot (it sounds better in Arabic).  And then I'd waddle around the White House roof "joking" about installing missiles.  Or building a pool "with sunbathing babes and a goldplated waterslide," suggests New York Magazine.  Or looking for the spot where Willie Nelson shared a doobie with Chip (?) Carter long ago.  No, not that, nor re-installing the solar panels Chip's dad put in, because how can you get electricity at night?  Anyway, it is DISTRACTION.  It takes a long time to redact Trump's name from the vast Epstein file.

Someone should have redacted the Lago de Merde membership log, which shows that JEFFREY EPSTEIN was a member until October 2007, seven years after he was allegedly banished for stealing Virginia Giuffre from the spa and more than a year after his indictment.  Dates, like facts, are stubborn things (not "stupid things" as Reagan said).  Or maybe Erika McEntarfer made it up.