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Alcatraz Nostalgia?

Tami Luhby / CNN:
Trump wants $152 million to rebuild and reopen Alcatraz as a secure prison  —  President Donald Trump is seeking $152 million to cover the first year of costs to reopen the infamous Alcatraz prison as a secure facility.  —  The funds, requested as part of the White House's budget blueprint …
Noe Padilla / USA Today:   Trump requests $152M to turn Alcatraz Island into federal prisonSophie Brams / The Hill:   Trump seeks $152M to rebuild Alcatraz as ‘state-of-the-art secure prison’

Alexei Koseff / San Francisco Chronicle:   Trump asks for $152 million to rebuild Alcatraz and reopen it as a prison

Cyrus Farivar / The San Francisco Standard:   Trump's Alcatraz prison dream now has a price tag: $152 million — just for Year One

Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling / New Republic:   Trump Resurrects Alcatraz Plan—and Wants to Cut Health Care to Fund It

Nate Raymond / Reuters:
Trump seeks $152 million to reopen Alcatraz as active prison  —  The White House on Friday sought $152 million to return the former Alcatraz prison island to active duty, following up on President Donald Trump's call last year to transform the popular San Francisco Bay tourist destination. New York Times:   Trump Seeks $152 Million to Begin to Turn Alcatraz Back Into a Prison

Stephen Feller / UPI:   Trump requests $152M to reopen Alcatraz as a prison

Justine McDaniel / Los Angeles Times:   Trump asks Congress for $152 million to start rebuilding Alcatraz prison

Grace Harrington / The US Sun:   White House confirms Alcatraz plan with $152m budget request to reopen infamous prison as state-of-the-art facility

NewsMax.com:   Trump Seeks $152 Million to Reopen Alcatraz

Lillian Mann / One America News Network:   Trump seeks $152M to rebuild and reopen Alcatraz after 60 years of closure

This reporter was unaware that Federal Prisons can no longer hold prisoners, & the only possible recourse is to put The Rock back in business. The only recent escapes from Federal Prisons? Low-security, minimum-risk inmates leaving satellite camps, to quote a robot.

And a human:

Peterson noted that escapes from minimum-security facilities, like halfway houses, are much more common than those at jails and prisons. Federal data shows escape offenses accounted for less than one percent (0.4%) of all federal offenses between 2017 and 2021.

Think of the hundreds of convicts Trump pardoned. Maybe Alcatraz will be reserved for all the Democrats, "antifa" & others he keeps saying should be locked up. This reporter will not be taken alive.

Honkiness Update: Whitey's Scared!

Told by operatives in the rooms where it happened, WHITE WITH FEAR is a deep dive into the decades-long quest by some of America’s conservative political machine to amass power by exploiting racial fault lines.

Shouldn't that be "centuries-long"? And "some" of American conservatism's political machine? If it weren't for oppressing the bitches & darkies there wouldn't be American "conservatism", other than the money-grubbing & greed, of course.

Spotted at B.J. PBS.

Blah Blah Blah

Another End Of Empire Rant

The Plot is Lost: Leaderless at the Limits of Empire

Trump has never known what he was doing. Now, he knows even less.

A relatively young person who performs a good diagnosis, but nonetheless has hope. Ha ha ha ha ha, Pollyanna.

We can make something better than this and we deserve something better than this.

Call me cynical, but the evidence is crystal-clear that "we" can't "make something better than this", leading to the conclusion that "we" don't "deserve something better than this". Whoever this amorphous "we" is, anyway.

Sunnyside '61

When men were men, esp. brakemen.Many GG-1s, but check the Pennsy O1 boxcab locos at (1:08) & (1:35).

Later in life, they were used for transfer work around Penn Station and Sunnyside Yard, mostly hauling empty passenger stock. They were all out of service and scrapped by the mid-1960s.

Trump To United Snakes: Fuck Off & Die!

We Can't Afford You

NBC News:

Trump says it's ‘not possible’ for the U.S. to pay for Medicaid, Medicare and daycare: 'We're fighting wars'  —  Trump urged states to fund benefits programs instead because “we have to take care of one thing: military protection.”  —  President Donald Trump on Wednesday said it's “not possible” for the federal government to fund Medicare, Medicaid and child care costs, arguing that it should be up to the states to “take care” of those programs while the federal government focuses on military spending. The president’s remarks were delivered to attendees at a private Easter luncheon at the White House, where Trump also accused Democratic-led states of fraud.

He went on to say that he told Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought: “Don’t send any money for day care, because the United States can’t take care of day care. That has to be up to a state. We can’t take care of day care. We’re a big country. We have 50 states. We have all these other people. We’re fighting wars. We can’t take care of day care. You got to let a state take care of day care, and they should pay for it too.” 

Later in his remarks, the president added that states would have to raise their taxes to pay for child care costs and that the federal government “could lower our taxes a little bit to them to make up” for it. 

“It’s not possible for us to take care of day care, Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things,” Trump said. “They can do it on a state basis. You can’t do it on a federal. We have to take care of one thing: military protection. We have to guard the country.”

Cassandra Buchman / Straight Arrow News:   Trump says US can't fund day care, Medicaid because 'We're fighting wars'

Ewan Palmer / The Daily Beast:   Trump Brags He's Spending Big on War Instead of Basic Needs

Ashleigh Fields / The Hill:   Trump suggests states raise taxes to pay for child care, says federal government can't afford it

Hafiz Rashid / New Republic:   Trump Says There's No Money for Daycare Because We Have to Fight Wars

Scott Lemieux / Lawyers, Guns & Money:   MAGA will take your butter and give someone else guns

Kevin Rector / Los Angeles Times:   Trump speech on Iran war, recent remarks on oil, NATO, daycare costs land with a thud

Travis Gettys / Raw Story:   Trump's new candid remark set to ‘come back to haunt him’: ‘Going to be in campaign ads’

Julia Conley / Truthout:   Trump Slashed Medicaid. Now He Says US Can't Fund It Because of His War on Iran.

Troy Matthews / MeidasTouch News:   Trump Says the U.S. Can't Pay for Healthcare or Daycare, Only War

Joseph Quesada / The Floridian:   Trump Says It's ‘Not Possible’ to Fund Welfare Needs

NewsHound Ellen / Crooks and Liars:   Trump Plans To Destroy Medicare And Medicaid To Pay For Iran War

Isaac Arnsdorf / Washington Post:
Trump backs off campaign promises to protect Medicare, help with child care
Alan Rappeport / New York Times:   War Clarifies Trump's Spending Priorities: The Military, Not Child Care

To recap, we'll be getting a resurgence in diseases because of Bobby Jr., & there won't be any money for the children or anyone else, because we're using it to murder people while bringing a sovereign nation "back to the Stone Age." Or not using it to "provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States", to coin a phrase.

Piling on, at 1847:

Trump Wasted $3 Billion on Tomahawks to Attack Iran. Here's What Americans Could Have Got Instead.

The US government has deployed 850 Tomahawk missiles to fight Trump's illegal and brutal war on Iran, and it has done so as it continues to slash funding for public services at home.

Another reminder that only chumps & idiots pay taxes.

Waist Deep In The Big Muddy

World War Stupid

J'en Ai Marre De Faire Ce Merde!

Everything up to & including breathing is an intolerable imposition, not least of which is making the effort to crank out "content" here when nobody takes any notice & the whole mess will no doubt disappear w/in minutes of my death (which will probably occur when one of the few of you bastards who do pay attention calls the pigs again because I'm in a permanent & incurable state of rage, partly due to having been kidnapped almost a yr. ago on the word of said squealer) & everything I owned will be put in the trash by the slumlord as soon as they cart out my corpse.

Ergo, why bother any longer? Almost 19 yrs. of nothing but informer rats is more than enough.

I'll leave you w/ these, recorded Monday & yesterday, which were too much of an imposition to arse myself by connecting the camera & putting them in the devil-box, let alone making an entire post w/ a title, labels & whatever. Make it all stop!

Urban Renewal & Gentrification

Or Criminal War?

More war on civilians, just the way the chickenshit Israeli terrorists like it. Those civilians better not resist or they'll really get it!!

Steven Scheer / Reuters:
Israel to destroy ‘all houses’ near Lebanon border, defence minister says
William Christou / The Guardian:   Israel vows to occupy swathes of southern Lebanon to expand buffer zone

Eliza Herbert / France 24:   Israel to occupy swaths of south Lebanon and destroy houses near border

Jacob Russell / UnHerd:   Will Lebanon implode?  —  Set low on the eastern flank of Mount Lebanon, Zahlé …

KTVZ:   As Lebanon braces for expanded Israeli incursion, northern Israel residents see buffer zone as lifeline to normalcy

John Toldi / Fox News:   Houthi Terror Group Opens Third Front In War Against Iran

"Lifeline to normalcy" for some, homelessness & death for their neighbors. All nations are assholes, some more than others. But not by much.

Added at 0142:Go back to the United Snakes & stop oppressing all your neighbors.

At 0152:

Republican Crime Spree

Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:

Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by Trump gets prison sentence for possessing ‘enormous child pornography collection’  —  Daniel Tocci's attorney had previously argued that the case should be dismissed because “all the evidence” stemmed from his Capitol siege case.  —  A man pardoned by President Donald Trump …

Sean James / Mediaite:   Judge Dismisses Lawsuit From Ex-Fox News Journo Who Said He Was Fired for Calling Out ‘False’ Jan 6 Reports

Sarah Robinson / WUSA:   Jan. 6 rioters file lawsuit alleging excessive force by police

Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:   Morning Joe blows a gasket over Jan 6 insurrectionists' lawsuit: ‘Those rioters?’

more at Mediagazer »
New York Times:
The People Trump Pardoned Are on a Crime Spree
Steve Benen / MS NOW:   Eyeing a possible payday, Jan. 6 rioters file civil suit, seeking millions in taxpayer money

Dave Pell / NextDraft:   Time Change  —  Sammy Davis Jr's rendition of the theme song from the seventies show Baretta

Not the first pardoned rioter to be arrested for child sex images, or worse.

Priorities

Trump’s Justice Department Dropped 23,000 Criminal Investigations in Shift to Immigration

"Let's round up the few 'criminal illegals' we can find, & anyone else who doesn't pass the paper bag test so we can meet our quotas, while ignoring native-born criminals like the Preznint, billionaires & slumlords."

Stupid, stupid, stupid. I figured your species for cretinous brain-dead imbeciles sometime in elementary school; now it's time the rest of you wise the hell up, before it's too damn late. (As if it isn't already over.)

[Pro Publica]

There Will Always Be A Germany, Apparently

These Krauts make excellent, well-painted (in Mauritius) scale figures. Including this sort of thing:

"Woman w/ top hat"

which no Yankee manufacturer would make. Also figures of wimmen flashing their breasts. Maybe flashing the engine driver is a long-honored German tradition.

Not to forget the sound-maker for the outhouse on your layout.

VIESSMANN 5561

Sound module bad manners (to burp and to fart)

Suitable for: Restrooms items 1500 and 1545, nature`s call item 1547 or seating accomodation beer-garden with men item 1525. These sounds are played alternatively.

Like the little cloud o' gas?

Yep, same nation that brought you the Holocaust & millions of other murders.

Meanwhile, what amuses American model makers?

I hate everybody!

Dentist's Son vs. The First Amendment

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Weeks After Denouncing Government Censorship On Rogan, Zuckerberg Texted Elon Musk Offering To Take Down Content For DOGE  — 
from the hypocrisy-as-a-service dept
On January 10th, 2025, Mark Zuckerberg sat down with Joe Rogan and put on quite a performance.  He talked about how the Biden administration had pressured Meta to take down content. He talked about how the Biden administration had pressured Meta to take down content. He detailed how the Biden administration had apparently pressured Meta to take down content — how officials called and screamed and cursed — and how, going forward, he was a changed man. A champion of free expression, done forever with government demands to remove content. And a whole bunch of people (especially MAGA folks) cheered all this on. Zuckerberg was a protector of free speech against government suppression!

Twenty-four days later, he texted Elon Musk — a senior government official at the time — to volunteer to remove content the government wouldn’t like. Unprompted.

What's Ol' Zucky going to do when it's election time? Police your treasonous speech, while ICE is at the polls terrorizing voters?

VERBOTEN!

Stay away if you know what's good for you!

If "Lying To The U.S." Is A Capital Offense ...

... Why Are She & Her Boss Still Breathing?

Know anyone else who's "lied to the United Snakes" in the last 20 or so yrs.? Or who lied us into war? Where are the assassination strikes on the White House & Merde-a-Lardo? And when does George W. Bush get what he deserves?
The death penalty for all of 'em!!

Hugo Black In The News

Indiana Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith Is Making Up Christian Nationalist Nonsense

During his remarks, Beckwith claimed that the doctrine of the separation of church and state was something concocted by Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black in the 1940s because he did not like that Catholics were criticizing the Ku Klux Klan.

From the horse's mouth:

Justice Black and the Bill of Rights
Gerard N. Magliocca
This was his 30-minute interview with CBS in 1968. Enjoy!

Web Of Evil (& Ennui) goes the extra mile & saves you the extra click to YouTube!

Full disclosure that doesn't really mean anything: This reporter roomed w/ a nephew of Justice Black his sophomore yr., so he has some vague interest in the truth about Justice Black.

[Right Wing Watch/Wiki info]

Temu Hitler Builds His Bunker

A new view of a photograph that appeared, heavily cropped, in LIFE, picturing Hitler’s bunker,
partially burned by retreating German troops and stripped of valuables by invading Russians.
William Vandivert/ Life Pictures/Shutterstock

Megan Lebowitz / NBC News:
Trump says White House ballroom plans include ‘massive’ underground military complex
Sarah Davis / The Hill:   Trump shows off new East Wing ballroom renderings amid scrutiny: What to know

Robert White / Telegraph:   Trump building ‘massive’ military bunker under White House ballroom

Agence France-Presse:   US military building ‘massive complex’ beneath White House ballroom project: Trump

Craig Nigrelli / Straight Arrow News:   Trump details plans for ‘massive’ military complex under new WH ballroom

Sharon Zhang / Truthout:   Trump Touts “Hand-Carved” Columns on Ballroom as War Costs US 10k Jobs a Month

Sam Kosmas / WTTG-TV:   Trump says military building ‘massive complex’ beneath new White House ballroom

Zachary Folk / Forbes:   White House Blasts Scathing New York Times Analysis Of Ballroom That Found ‘Stairs Lead Nowhere’

Ryan King / New York Post:   Trump gives details about 'secret ‘massive’ military complex being built under White House ballroom

Hunter Bassler / WUSA:   ‘Massive’ military complex being built under new White House ballroom, President Trump reveals

Thomas Stevenson / The Post Millennial:   Trump confirms rumors that ‘massive’ military complex is being built beneath new White House ballroom

Nick Mordowanec / Military and Veteran Benefits …:   Military Building ‘Massive Complex’ Underneath Trump's White House Ballroom

Ariana Baio / The Independent:   Trump reveals military is building him a ‘big’ bunker under his planned White House ballroom

Giulia Carbonaro / Newsweek:   Trump Building ‘Massive’ Military Complex Beneath Ballroom: What To Know

Kristinn Taylor / The Gateway Pundit:   President Trump Reveals Military Building “Massive Complex” Under Ballroom

Hank Berrien / The Daily Wire:   Trump Pulls Back Curtain On Secret Complex Under White House Ballroom

Sandra Rhodes / IJR:   Trump Hypes Ballroom Features

Fox News:   Trump claims donor-funded White House ballroom includes hidden build below with security focus

Reuters:   Trump says White House ballroom is ahead of schedule

Zach LaChance / Washington Examiner:   White House ballroom will include military bunker, Trump says

Victoria Churchill / Daily Mail:   Humiliating ‘flaws’ in design of Trump's White House ballroom revealed despite construction already being under way

Jennifer Bowers Bahney / Mediaite:   Karoline Leavitt Fumes Over NY Times Feature Slamming Design of Trump's Supersized Ballroom

Guessing that unlike Mme. Real Hitler, Melania will be far out of town when Fat Boy makes his last stand in the bunker after the new Congress impeaches his bitch ass.

Dead Busses

Didn't use to see these very often. Now, two in three wks. A trend, as everything else falls apart as well?

Bonus image: Almost dead Fleetwood Brougham d'Elegance that keeps disappearing & reappearing in this spot, just east of the orange bus.

No Kings 3, Yesterday

Sad really. Should have been several thousand there, minimum, not around 200. Arrived an hr. after it was scheduled to start, maybe the crowd had already thinned, but it seemed like fewer people than last time at the same intersection. Was perhaps a bit noisier & energetic, & the number of cars honking as they passed was up considerably. It is Los Angeles, & most of the sheep do everything in/from their cars.

Daily Affirmation

You may not get everything you deserve, but you'll deserve everything you get. A promise, not a threat!

Wknd. Nostalgia Wallow

59 yrs. ago last month.The then almost six-yr. old Dodger Stadium, 18 February 1967. Not broadcast until that November. Vin Scully & Jerry Lewis on the call.

From news from ME & his ass't. Jane.

Daily Affirmation Of The Love Of Jesus

Dead Cadillac.

I'd be very surprised if there were as many as 20 of the humanoid scum on this fucking planet that I wouldn't hesitate to kill in cold blood if given the chance.

Sadly, says more about you people than about me.

The Entire Digression

Added bonus: Its face is covered, it's someone else's voice & you can read the inane babble w/o listening.

White America voted to elect this buffoon all three times he ran for president.
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— Johnathan (@johnathanperk.bsky.social) March 27, 2026 at 4:11 PM

This reporter remains highly amused, enough to search his own questions: "Are the effing pens even actual Sharpies®? ... where the hell he'd get them?" The answers? Yes. They are SUPERSharpies®, but weren't easily visible on their website, which doesn't offer customization, so he wouldn't have talked w/ anyone there. Someone from Pens.com, Vistaprint, Etsy, 4Imprint, & so on, sure. Probably wasn't even his idea, or he babbled idly about it & flunkies took it upon themselves to fulfill his wishes, & he made up a story about negotiating.

Couldn't find personalized SUPERSharpies®, but five bones per may not be excessive. The big ones (for fumbly fingers) retail for a bit under two bucks each in six-packs, but I'm not about to start comparing bulk prices & printing costs.

P.S.: Hey, while I'm realizing things, does Etsy mean etc., as in et cetera? Well, close-ish.

Etsy's name was inspired by the Italian phrase "e si" (meaning "and yes" or "oh, yes") heard by founder Rob Kalin in the film 8 1/2, which he misheard as "et si". It was chosen for its nonsensical, unique sound, allowing the company to build a brand identity from scratch, rather than having a pre-existing meaning.