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The fires in France and Spain, and in Oregon and Canada, have complex specific causes but climate change underlies them all. Totally disregarding the consequences of fossil fuel consumption, as GW Bush and especially Trump have done, could make the USA the destroyer of Western civilization.

Monsoon rains hit Las Cruces, New Mexico last night. The clarity of the morning is lovely.

Give Trump a million $ plus for his campaign, his ballroom or family businesses, and get a huge non competitive contract, a tax break, and maybe a pardon and good inauguration seat. If you are not rich and buy his MAGA crap, “coins”, and promises, enjoy your patriotic feeling. You get nothing else.

Oregon 2026 needs new politicians, ones not socialized in the status quo. But the GOP is off-track. Some GOP legislators are reasonable, but statewide GOP candidates are in the Trump vortex of divisiveness and superficial symbolic ideas. Vote Democratic and demand accountability, or go further left.

Dear President Trump: Please do not interrupt my regular television programming with you self-serving lies. You created a whole media sewer system called Truth Social to project your verbal diarrhea. Use that, and leave normal Americans alone. Thank you for you attention.

The Center for Disease Control reports record number of cyclosporiasis in Michigan and high figures for other states. If it starts to look like Trump cuts and appointments are to blame, will they take what they consider decisive action - cutting the CDC’s ability to track and report on this also?

AI is essential to America’s future - our future fake political ads and silos of self-deception.

AI: Given the likely great economic disruption and intensified disparity, this is the time to revise our economic safety net. Require adequate environmental protections, but let AI do its thing - while building universal health care and a sustainable social security system into the model.

Trump is initiating a third round of staff cuts for the CIA. The Trump/Heritage Foundaton has identified the greatest threat to their regime: intelligence.

Team USA’s World Cup loss might be simply the Trump sports curse. But Trump sticking his nose into the FIFA process is like him sticking his thumb into your food dish, might or might not hurt you but it’s disgusting. And he sticks his nose or thumb into everything

Should the large majority of America voters properly embrace our diversity and empower individuals by freeing them from concerns such as wondering how to pay for health care, I am sure JD Vance would write a new book about how he agrees.