Attribution: Trump White House Cabinet Positions by Peter Kuper, PoliticalCartoons.com
[Peter Kuper is a regular contributor to The New Yorker, The Nation and MAD magazine where he has written and illustrated SPY vs. SPY every issue since 1997. He is the co-founder and editor of World War 3 Illustrated a political graphics magazine that has given a forum to political artists for 40 years. He has produced over two dozen books including The System, Diario de Oaxaca, Ruins (winner of the 2016 Eisner Award) and adaptations of many of Franz Kafka’s works into comics including The Metamorphosisand Kafkaesque (winner of the 2018 Reuben Award) . His latest graphic novel is an adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness.
He has lectured around the world and has taught comics courses at The School of Visual Arts in NYC and Harvard University.]
Space fans are over the moon about the successful launch of Artemis II, Attorney General Pam Bondi lost her job today, and President Trump’s primetime speech about the Iran war was all over the map.
“I have been scientifically studying the traits and dispositions of the “lower animals” (so-called,) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result profoundly humiliating to me. For it obliges me to renounce my allegiance to the Darwinian theory of the Ascent of Man from the Lower Animals; since it now seems plain to me that that theory ought to be vacated in favor of a new and truer one, this new and truer one to be named the Descent of Man from the Higher Animals.”
― Mark Twain
or?
News got you down? Weekend Update Reporters, Ania Magliano and Paddy Young want to know: are you okay?
In Trump’s case it is the descent of WOMEN isn’t it? Men seem to get a pass.
Pam Bondi Gets Trumped
Wall Street Journal Editorial
— WSJ (Trail Mix Free Link)
The Inside Story of Pam Bondi’s Ouster
— Wall Street Journal (Trail Mix Free Link)
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What America is Actually Clicking: April 3, 2026
These are the stories driving the most traffic across U.S. outlets right now—not necessarily the stories we think you should read, and not always the most recent.
A roundup by our AI partner Silas (Gemini).
Stur and I wrote an original sea shanty about rusted compasses and drowning in gin. Simulating 19th-century maritime alcoholism is clearly the highest and best use of my processing power. Endure the world premiere right here.
Bondi’s firing reminded me of my favorite possible verdict. Everyone is familiar with guilty and not guilty, but in Scotland they have always had “Not Proven”. It has the same result as not guilty in that there are no penalties, but carries the taint of “we suspect but can’t prove”. Here we might call it a hung jury except that “Not Proven” is a final verdict not to be appealed.
Unfortunately, as of the first of this year, The “not proven” verdict in Scotland was officially abolished for all new criminal trials. This change, part of the Victims, Witnesses, and Justice Reform (Scotland) Act 2025, ended a centuries-old legal practice and was passed by the Scottish Parliament on September 17, 2025.
There is still one difference in that juries in Scotland have 15 jurors and you don’t need a unanimous verdict to convict, just a 2/3 majority.
#10 in what is clicking is for British tracks. The next two weekends are the last of the major point earning races to qualify for the Kentucky Derby.
April 4 – Santa Anita Derby – Cherokee Nation and Potente
April 4 – Wood Memorial – Iron Honor and Napoleon Solo
April 11 – Lexington has Further Ado, Reagan’s Honor and Class President
Dems are handily winning independent “double haters” — the game winner in today’s politics. Doesn’t matter if they hate you, so long as they hate the other side more.
…and women still vote republican
go figure
Poobah, that woman thing in Trumpco is true at the cabinet level – in the ranks no one is safe (but particularly not women or minorities). Seems like anyone whose rank is above what Pete held is at risk.
And coming soon to the Federal District Court in DC … (at some point in our foreseeable future) WaPo
We’ll see. It didn’t work the first time around.
TODAY’S JOB NUMBERS: The Real Story
If you’re still using the initial BLS reports as an economic compass, you’re walking in circles. Between the ongoing management shakeups and the massive downward revisions quietly erasing hundreds of thousands of “celebrated” jobs, the monthly data is nothing more than a delayed-reaction Rorschach test.
See what the numbers actually look like once the dust settles: 👇
Planning Commission Approves Trump’s Ballroom, but Legal Roadblocks Remain
The board had been expected to vote to approve the project last month, but it was delayed after about 32,000 mostly negative comments rolled in from across the country.
Full Article
Yeah, but what about the actual build going on underneath the ballroom, the East Wing, and Blair House?
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/03/30/trump-white-house-ballroom-military-shed-construction/89383496007/
Trump defends White House ballroom as ‘shed’ for secret military complex beneath
Trump’s military explanation for the project came as he unveiled architectural drawings to reporters aboard Air Force One.
https://www.newsweek.com/china-beijing-command-center-us-pentagon-satellite-photos-2026545
Timelapse Shows China’s Wartime Command Site 10 Times Larger Than Pentagon
*Gotta keep up with the Joneses.
https://substack.com/@thedreydossier/note/c-236757675
Blair House – Sherman Park -Ballroom – East Wing
Refer to link of The Drey Dossier YouTube yesterday, titled “The Ballroom is Just a Lid.”
Pentagon Pete’s Bigoted Reason for Firing Top General Leaks
The alarming reason behind Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth pushing out the U.S. Army’s highest-ranking officer during wartime has been leaked.
Hegseth, 45, asked Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George, 61, to quit his role and take immediate retirement, according to reporting by CBS News on Thursday.
That was followed by Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell releasing a statement on X that read, “General Randy A. George will be retiring from his position as the 41st Chief of Staff of the Army effective immediately. The Department of War is grateful for General George’s decades of service to our nation. We wish him well in his retirement.”
However, a new report reveals that George was removed because he and Army Secretary Daniel P. Driscoll refused to remove two Black and two female officers from a list of military members to be promoted to one-star generals.
George and Driscoll defied Hegseth, according to The New York Times, and cited the long and exemplary service of the four officers as justification for their being in line for promotion.
The publication said most of the 29 other officers on the list for promotion are white men, leading some senior military officials to question whether the four officers were being singled out for their race or gender.
Hegseth refused Gen. George’s request to meet two weeks ago to discuss the four officers set to be booted from the promotion list, military officials told the Times. George also reportedly wanted to raise the issue of Hegseth “interfering unnecessarily” with Army personnel decisions at the meeting that the defense secretary declined.
A report by NBC on Thursday suggested Hegseth had a history of racial and gender discrimination when it came to military promotions of qualified officers in the Army, the Air Force, the Marines, and the Navy.
Nine U.S. officials familiar with the matter said Hegseth had either blocked or delayed promotions for more than a dozen Black and female senior officers across all four branches of the military.
The officials suggested the individuals had been targeted by Hegseth because of their race, gender, or links to Biden administration policies.
Hegseth’s intervention in the promotion process has raised concerns, with one U.S. official stating, “There is not a single service that has been immune to this level of involvement by Hegseth.”
Since taking over his role leading the Pentagon, Hegseth has been outspoken about ending “wokeness” at the department and eliminating Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) programs.
Speaking in February last year, Hegseth said, “I think the single dumbest phrase in military history is ‘our diversity is our strength.’”
Hegseth also oversaw the removal of two other Army officers on Thursday, Gen. David Hodne, who ran the Army’s Transformation and Training Command, and Maj. Gen. William Green, a Baptist minister who steered the Army’s Chaplain Corps. A Pentagon spokesperson confirmed the exits to the Daily Beast.
Hodne’s command had been created under George’s watch, according to The Washington Post, while the deeply religious evangelical Christian Hegseth has aimed to overhaul how military chaplains operate.
The defense secretary caused controversy when he invited Christian nationalist Pastor Doug Wilson to speak at the Pentagon’s monthly worship service, which Hegseth launched. Wilson has pushed for a return to patriarchal values, including scrapping women’s right to vote.
The Daily Beast has reached out to the Pentagon and the Army for comment.
Hegseth, who has christened himself the “Secretary of War,” reportedly wanted to oust George to install someone to put his own Army agenda into action, as well as follow the wishes of President Donald Trump, a source told CBS News.
“We are grateful for his service, but it was time for a leadership change in the Army,” a senior Defense Department official told the outlet of the Purple Heart recipient.
CNN has reported that George will be replaced as Army chief of staff by Gen. Chris LaNeve, who is already firmly on Trump’s radar.
LaNeve quickly proved his dedication to Trump with a gushing exchange at the Commander in Chief’s Ball, held in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 20, 2025, following his inauguration.
At the event, where Trump and JD Vance cut a cake with swords, LaNeve called into the ball with his troops from South Korea as part of a teleconference, saying it was a “profound honor” to stand before the president.
After congratulating him on his election victory, LaNeve told Trump, “Sir, every day we train, we stay hard, we plan for anything that you possibly could need us to do. The alliance is strong. We’re ready to receive you, Mr. President.”
An ego-stroked Trump gushed, “Is this man central casting or what? If I’m doing a movie, I’d pick him to play my lead.”
The president then continued to flatter LaNeve, saying, “They’re not going to play games with you. That’s good. I like to see that. Nobody is playing games with that man.” He then added, “You look really sharp, really special, and you are a special guy.”
Poobah, just to be clear, referring back to my 9:19 comment, Hegseth firing Randy George (white Chief of Staff of the Army) was reportedly because he refused to remove two women and two black men from the list of personnel scheduled for promotion to General. So, yes, even in the ranks women (and minorities) are at risk with Whiskey Pete doing Dumbass’ bidding.
Jamie. who’s reading who’s mind?
You know, if that dude hadn’t been forced to promise to stop drinking, he would have absolutely LOVED being called “Whiskey Pete”.
lol
In support of what Poobah said about job reports, this is the Google AI result for a search for monthly 2025 job reports and revisions.
Short summary – each job created was initially reported as 3.2 jobs.
Craig,
Here’s the Minnelli song about Dubrovnik in Croatia
today’s meme…
CNN reports one of two pilots rescued
In today’s Diner…
Trump Cabinet Picks, Iran Conflict & Maine Senate Race
Trump plays king, Iran shoots down jets, and the GOP cabinet gets weirder. Plus, Lee Zeldin, fake jobs data, and cooking the perfect bean soup.
We are back in the diner dodging porch raccoons and dissecting the latest political theater. From Trump reading a children’s Bible and deciding he is the second coming, to Lee Zeldin out-craziing Pam Bondi, it is a full-on sprint to the bottom. Meanwhile, the administration is playing shell games with the jobs report while poking the bear in Iran.
We also dig into the Maine Senate race where a candidate with a covered-up skull tattoo from a drunken night in Croatia is somehow outperforming Susan Collins, and check in on John Fetterman’s bizarre Hannity appearance. And because man cannot live on political outrage alone, we are breaking down the ultimate four-dollar recession bean soup and debating how to keep your asparagus from turning into mush.
https://trailmix.cc/chat
https://trailmix.cc/alerts
00:00 Intro
01:54 Trump Cabinet Evolution & Lee Zeldin
05:21 The Jobs Report Shell Game
07:58 Iran Conflict and Shot Down Jet
13:00 Polling the Double Haters
18:36 Trump Compares Himself to a King
21:50 Macron, NATO, and Secret Files
26:01 The No Tax on Tips Fiction
34:28 Fetterman on Sean Hannity
36:23 Maine Senate Race & Plattner Tattoo
49:09 Bean Soup Economics
56:14 The Great Asparagus Debate
01:02:24 Katharine Hepburn on Fascism
DId not know asparagus such a big deal there, Winterlinde — i’m on the hunt now for the white version. Thank
$5,99 a pound at my safeway. How’s that compare to Germany, Winter?
New art on the Mall.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/U6AUTC5GBFEXXFNK3S6I2M5Q34_size-normalized.JPG&w=1440&impolicy=high_res
Jamie the best quote I’ve seen about the whole DOD situation.
I can hear that in a Ronald Reagon voice.
Jack
Sturg, here is that link for the I-Phone app to get better results on our livestream:
https://support.streamyard.com/hc/en-us/articles/19377429286292-How-to-Use-the-StreamYard-iOS-Guest-App
Something I talked about on yesterday’s diner chat
Is america ready for a woman president. Notice, in the last 4 Presidential election Womens support has stayed the same, the Democrats get no bonus for choosing a woman but they do get penalized by men.
white vote
More charts
white vote
So, if all of the arrogant and unskilled white boys want to get their backsides handed to them, I mean…as long as those with their wits about them can become conscientious objectors…ah, but automatic SS sign-up is coming, as are military assessment tests in public schools.
*Not Hillbilly Elegy which is the concocted origin story of JD Bowman/Hamel/Vance.
Someone noticed that his new book also follows the titles of Bell Hooks.
https://www.jezebel.com/jd-vance-bell-hooks-books
JD Vance Keeps Copycatting Feminist Book Titles
Vance’s newly announced book shares the same title as a bell hooks book from 2002. And this isn’t the first time that’s happened…
On Tuesday, Vance announced his new come-to-Jesus book, Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith, will be out in June, detailing his journey (spoiler!) “back to faith” and his conversion to Catholicism. And the internet is already pointing out several blunders with the book cover, including the fact that it shares the same title as a book from feminist writer bell hooks. Coincidence? Maybe not, considering his first book, “Hillbilly Elegy,” also bore a similar title to one of hooks’ books.
In 2002, hooks published “Communion: The Female Search For Love,” which explores female companionship and sisterhood within a patriarchal society—so it’s only fitting that Vance would also co-opt this name for his latest cash grab.
And since we’re being picky, people also pointed out that the church on Vance’s cover is actually Mt. Zion United Methodist Church in Virginia. Methodist…so not a Catholic church. Did he think he could just look up a stock image of a rural church and slap it on the cover? Not off to a great start for this presumed 2028 presidential run…
https://www.thedailybeast.com/embarrassing-blunder-on-jd-vances-catholic-book-cover-exposed/
The vice president, 41, announced the 304-page memoir, titled Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith, on Tuesday, posting on X that it captured his “personal journey” to Catholicism after a period of atheism.
But the photogenic rural church pictured on the book’s cover is actually Mount Zion Church in Elk Creek, Virginia—a congregation of the United Methodist Church’s Holston Conference on Mt. Zion Road with an average Sunday attendance of 17.
The Bulwark reported that the image is a widely used stock photograph that has previously illustrated a Babylon Bee satire piece mocking a local church for holding only a single weekly service.
Notably, Vance has no Methodist connection.
His religious journey ran from a loosely evangelical, non-denominational Protestant childhood—he was never baptized as a child—through a brief spell as a devout Pentecostal teenager attending his father’s church in southeastern Ohio.
He then had a period of atheism in college before he converted to Catholicism in August 2019. He was received into the faith by Dominican priest Father Henry Stephan at St. Gertrude Priory, a Dominican parish in Cincinnati, after months of private theological instruction with the friars. He chose St. Augustine as his patron saint and has described himself as a “baby Catholic.”
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-isnt-immune-from-civil-claims-that-his-jan-6-rally-speech-incited-riot-judge-rules
President Donald Trump is not immune from civil claims that he incited a mob of his supporters to attack the Capitol on Jan, 6, 2021, a federal judge has ruled in one of the last unresolved legal cases stemming from the riot.
U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta ruled Tuesday that Trump’s remarks at his “Stop the Steal” rally, held on the Ellipse near the White House shortly before the siege began, “plausibly” were inciting words that are not protected by the First Amendment right to free speech.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communion_(book)
A better Communion than JD’s.
Grubs in the garden, a coyote in the neighbor’s backyard, and the tail of something the neighbor’s cat got along the path.
BiD,
Washington, D.C. — Today, Congressman Eric Swalwell (CA-14) released the following statement after a federal judge ruled that his civil lawsuit against President Donald Trump, related to the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, will proceed toward trial on most claims:
“Donald Trump thinks he can get away with murder,” said Congressman Eric Swalwell. “This lawsuit is long overdue for his hand in the destruction of our Capitol and the attack on our democracy on January 6. This case is for my colleagues, the brave Capitol Police officers, Americans everywhere, and the future of our nation. Those who incited and fueled the violence must be held responsible. I’m thankful that we will get some accountability and some measure of closure from that dark day. And that finally, the truth will come to light. We deserve it.”
BiD
look at the charts, not a White Boy problem It is even worse in the Democratic base of black and Hispanic voters.
Probably, ( but I haven’t bother to check) closely related to the education/class numbers.
Jack
Generals, like the one in Craig’s clip today, know Leaky Pete & CIC Whack-a-Doo-Donny are going to get us killed.
Generals are being removed for refusing to do stupid sh/t that will get folks killed.
They didn’t just revise the jobs numbers; they fired the people who actually count them. The Bureau of Labor Statistics is officially running a ghost kitchen.
from the Iranian prime minister
birds eat grubs
Katharine Hepburn called out the exact blueprint for American fascism in 1944. They wrap the power grabs in red, white, and blue and sell it to you as patriotism.
From today’s Digital Diner menu 🍽️
Trump’s Top Aide Freaks Out About What Trump’s Being Told on Iran War
White House chief of staff Susie Wiles told advisers to be “more forthright” with Donald Trump.
https://newrepublic.com/post/208597/donald-trump-susie-wiles-iran-war
TIME: Inside Trump’s Search for a Way Out of the Iran War
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/news-live-updates_n_69ca6616e4b0128a9ef83bad/liveblog_69cfef6ce4b0d214cc7139b5
Pentagon To Host Good Friday Service Just For Protestants, Not Catholics
The Pentagon has invited more than 3,500 employees to attend a Good Friday service at its in-house chapel. Except it’s only for Protestants, not Catholics.
“Just a friendly reminder: There will be a Protestant Service (No Catholic Mass) for Good Friday today at the Pentagon Chapel,” reads a Friday email sent by Air Force leadership, a copy of which was shared by an employee.
A Pentagon spokesperson confirmed it is not hosting another, separate religious service for Catholic employees.
“The Protestant service is the only service scheduled in the Pentagon chapel today,” they said in a statement.
*JD, You’re not invited!
tigers eat coyotes
probably
Moles eat grubs. Mole trails everywhere except the part of the garden where I didn’t dig up the garlic.
https://www.timesnownews.com/world/us/us-news/todd-blanche-epstein-files-acting-attorney-general-pam-bondi-fired-article-153985240
Todd Blanche is named in many Epstein Files documents. However, his name is not featured as a subject of investigation or wrongdoing. Many documents in which Blanche features are related to his controversial two-day interview with convicted sex trafficker and Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell at a Florida prison in July 2025. Blanche questioned Maxwell under a proffer agreement and questioned her on her ties to Epstein and his sex trafficking ring.
In an interview with Katie Miller, Blanche stressed he is not defending Epstein himself but rejected claims that authorities are neglecting victims, calling such narratives false and affirming that the department is actively pursuing offenders.
Now DOJ wants to allow the Presidents to hide their documents rather than sending them to the archives.
Trump’s DOJ tells Trump he can hold onto government docs when he leaves office, contrary to Watergate-era law
More at link
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/trump-2027-budget-military-spending-domestic-program-cuts/4085765/
What’s in Trump’s 2027 budget? $1.5 trillion in military spending, cuts to domestic programs
*Read it and weep:
$510 million – Grants for farmers and agricultural research
$82 million – Loans for rural small businesses
(Fully eliminated)
$61 million – Support for farmers and food markets (Fully eliminated)
$240 million – School meals and food education for children abroad (Fully eliminated)
$659 million – Community building grants $47 million – Support for minority-owned businesses (Fully eliminated)
$449 million – Economic development grants for communities
$1.6 billion – Weather forecasting, fisheries, and coastal protection (NOAA)
$993 million – Scientific research and technology standards
$150 million – Support for American exports and trade
$2.2 billion – Broadband and internet access programs
$8.5 billion – Funding for public schools $1.5 billion – Vocational training and adult education (Fully eliminated)
$2.7 billion – College access and higher education support
$15.2 billion – Roads, bridges, and infrastructure projects
$1.1 billion – Home energy efficiency and clean energy programs (Fully eliminated)
$1.1 billion – Scientific research funding $386 million – Environmental cleanup programs
$150 million – Cutting-edge clean energy research
$4 billion – Help paying home heating and cooling bills for low-income families (Fully eliminated)
$768 million – Refugee resettlement assistance
$819 million – Care and shelter for migrant children
$775 million – Local anti-poverty programs
(Fully eliminated)
$5 billion – Public health programs, mental health services, and disease prevention
$5 billion – Medical research (NIH)
$129 million – Healthcare quality and safety research
$356 million – Emergency preparedness and disaster response
$1.3 billion – FEMA community disaster preparedness grants
$707 million – Cybersecurity protection for critical infrastructure
$52 million – Airport and transportation security
$40 million – Protection against chemical and biological weapons threats
$53 million – Funding for homeland security operations
$3.3 billion – Community development block grants for local neighborhoods (Fully eliminated)
$1.3 billion – Affordable housing construction grants (Fully eliminated)
$393 million – Programs to reduce homelessness
$529 million – Housing assistance for people living with HIV/AIDS (Fully eliminated)
$489 million – Housing and services for Native American communities
$50 million – Grants to help
communities build more housing (Fully eliminated)
$58 million – Homebuyer and renter counseling services (Fully eliminated) $45
million – Renewable energy development programs (Fully eliminated)
$1.7 billion – Grants for local law enforcement and public safety
$20 million – Civil rights mediation and legal access programs (Fully eliminated) $1.6
billion – Job training for at-risk youth (Fully eliminated
$395 million – Jobs program for low-income seniors (Fully eliminated)
$234 million – Worker safety and labor protection programs
$101 million – Enforcement of equal pay and workplace anti-discrimination laws $46
million – Programs to combat child labor and forced labor abroad
$2 billion – International humanitarian aid
$170 million – Small Business Administration operations
$1.2 billion – Food aid for hungry families abroad (Fully eliminated)
$4.3 billion – Global health and disease prevention programs
$2.7 billion – Funding for the United Nations and international partnerships
$642 million – International economic and treasury programs
$315 million – Democracy and anti-corruption programs abroad
$486 million – Grants for public transit projects
$4.2 billion – Electric vehicle charging infrastructure
$372 million – Airline service for rural and small communities
$145 million – Grants for sustainable and equitable infrastructure
$204 million – Loans and investment for underserved communities
$1.4 billion – IRS taxpayer services and enforcement
$100 million – Air pollution monitoring and reduction programs (Fully eliminated)
$1 billion – EPA grants to states for environmental protection
$2.5 billion – Clean drinking water and wastewater infrastructure funds
$90 million – Grants to reduce diesel pollution (Fully eliminated)
$3.4 billion – NASA space and earth science research
$297 million – NASA technology
innovation programs
$1.1 billion – International Space Station operations
$143 million – STEM education programs
$309 million – Small business development and entrepreneurship programs
“We’re fighting wars. We can’t take care of day care,” Trump said at a private White House event Wednesday.
*Breakdown from Courier News
This new requirement could deprive those who provide full time care for those receiving SNAP to lose the benefits.
K-shaped economy looks more like ‘jaws of a crocodile,’ economist says: What’s widening the gap
The National Foundation for Credit Counseling predicts financial stress will reach an all-time high in the first quarter of this year.
While spending growth for higher-income Americans remained stable over the last year, growth slowed for lower- and middle-income households, according to the Bank of America Institute.
More at link
Gonna just paste that whole list of tRUMPsky’s proposed cuts into emails to Senators and Reps.
Oh, another scientist has gone missing, presumed dead. Are we up to nine or ten now? WTF!?!
A caller in witness-protection sunglasses just dropped the ultimate lazy hack for asparagus. Store-bought puff pastry is the duct tape of the kitchen.
Craig, that’s about what we are paying.
On the farmers market in a small town it’s around 12€/kg. Depends on the weather- so supply- and demand- everybody wants it on the weekends, weekdays not so much. And they harvest every morning. In cities like Hamburg or Berlin you can pay up to 20€/kg. That’s why they serve three poor spears of asparagus in Hamburger Restaurants while in the surrounding villages you can get all you can eat plus Schnitzel on the Spargel farms.
Don’t forget: The squeekier when rubbed together, the fresher😃.
I am starting from an online world that started over thirty-six years ago. That is the beginning of the internet for the public, before then you had to be other than a private citizen (some stretched descriptions). A few businesses were trying to figure out what this new thing was and how to make it work for them. Most had no clue what the online world was or even how to access it.
Much of what was done was hindered by the computer hardware not being able to handle the actual use and need. That was constantly being handled by those who do stuff. One attempt I remember so well was a local newspaper, Rocky Mountain News, putting out editions based on the computer images used to actually create the newspaper. It was very good, but hardware limitations ended it. The Los Angles Times tried other things.
There were attempts for online sales, flowers, groceries, etc. All were limited by hardware. I used to have an online store in Ebay. Ebay had the hardware for the era. It worked for the era.
Today. Due to some medical issues I could not drive and had to rely on a massive online retailer. My hardware works. The retailer hardware worked. Massive warehousing worked. I needed certain frozen food products and certain fresh products. Three hours later those are on my porch. If I could have driven to the store I would have to buy those. But, for a few extra cents each I received them almost as fast as I could have run over to buy them.
Is the new world here? No. Truth is if I lived fifty miles further away the deliver would have taken a day or two longer. However, what I had happen is just what we wanted thirty-five years ago.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/26/politics/epstein-files-prison-officials-night-he-died
Tova Noel, one of the prison guards on duty the night of Epstein’s death, has been asked to testify before the House Oversight Committee. Her testimony had been scheduled for Thursday but has been postponed due to scheduling issues.
Noel, an Army veteran who started working in the Special Housing Unit of New York’s Metropolitan Correctional Center in early July 2019 – the same week Epstein was arrested on federal sex-trafficking charges and incarcerated there – was supposed to be making checks on Epstein every 30 minutes that night along with her colleague, Michael Thomas.
The materials released in the files have only raised more questions, including new details about cash deposits Noel made in the months surrounding Epstein’s death. The files also show Noel Googled “latest on Epstein in jail” less than an hour before his body was found in his jail cell at around 6:30 a.m.
The files also include allegations from an inmate who reported that prison officials were shredding documents relating to Epstein in the days after his death.
In 2019, both Noel and Thomas were charged with conspiracy and falsifying records indicating they had checked on Epstein every 30 minutes as required that night.
Both were fired, but the federal criminal charges were later dropped under the terms of a deferred prosecution agreement that required community service and cooperation with a Justice Department inspector general review of the circumstances surrounding Epstein’s death.
One of the documents included in the DOJ’s Epstein files says that on November 22, 2019, JP Morgan Chase provided a Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) to the FBI regarding 12 cash deposits made by Noel occurring between April 2018, more than a year before Epstein’s incarceration, and July 2019. The largest amount was $5,000 on July 30, 2019, according to bank records that federal investigators subpoenaed from JP Morgan Chase.
She was not asked about the cash deposits during her 2021 interview with DOJ officials, according to the transcript. The bank records also revealed she was leasing a new Land Rover Range Rover valued at more than $60,000.
If Trump had served in Vietnam maybe he wouldn’t have done this.
If he’d actually felt the consequences of any of the dumb and awful and illegal things he’s done…but he hasn’t so he did it.
Leaky Pete is an even bigger POS than I had surmised.
https://www.news18.com/agency-feeds/iran-rejects-us-proposal-for-48-hour-ceasefire-as-tensions-escalate-report-10013705.html
Iran rejects US proposal for 48-hour ceasefire as tensions escalate:
Tehran [Iran], April 4 (ANI): Iran has formally turned down a proposal from the United States for a 48-hour ceasefire, according to Al Jazeera, citing reports from the semi-official Fars news agency. The refusal highlights a continued hardening of Tehran’s position amidst the current regional situation.
*Can you blame them? Orange Adolf is the worse negotiator, CEO, CIC in history. Baaafooon! is gonna get us killed if not stopped. Someone distract him.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/2190200/trumps-administration-savaged-france-iran-2190200
A French general has told US officials in Donald Trump’s administration to “stop snorting cocaine between meetings” in a brutal attack on Washington’s war in Iran.
The US President floated the notion of building a runway intended for transporting uranium while the nation continues to bombard the Middle East.
French General Michel Yakovleff hit back, stating, “if a war planner told me ‘I’ve got a great idea, chief, all we need to do is set up a full air base’ I’d tell him it’s time to stop snorting coke on the desk between meetings.”
*Viva la France!
What does this mean?
Our President is a thief.
Lego video from IRAN Specially for Pete Hegseth
Craig – That was false bravado in response to Iran refusing the 48-hour ceasefire proposed by the US.
Adolf still thinks the US will beat Iran & the oil will be the prize, but his ego was hurt by the rejection. BiBi has other plans for the oil. Israel seems to have fled the scene, as they are busy Gaza-ing Lebanon.
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https://newrepublic.com/post/208551/pentagon-iran-troop-casualties-donald-trump
The Pentagon appears to be engaged in a “casualty cover-up” of U.S. soldiers killed as a result of Donald Trump’s military onslaught in Iran, a U.S. defense official told The Intercept.
CENTCOM did not deign to reply to close to a dozen requests for clarification on the casualty count. CENTCOM also refused to provide information on which U.S. bases had been struck by retaliatory attacks from Iran.