How come and WHY!

 A federal judge Wednesday heard arguments in the Trump administration’s lawsuit challenging California’s new law prohibiting ICE agents and other police officers from wearing masks on duty.

The judge asked how ICE agents operated without masks in years past, and questioned why California peace officers were exempted from the law.

“Why can’t they perform their duties without a mask? They did that until 2025, did they not?” Snyder said. “How in the world do those who don’t mask manage to operate?” (Los Angeles Times)

What a great question, and may I add, a “IT’S ABOUT TIME SOMEONE IN POWER ASKED THAT QUESTION!” So, Noam and Miller, and Bondi, and of course Trump, what changed from 2025 to now? How come, if ICE is supposed to be a law-abiding agency, those supposedly upholding the law need to be disguised? Oh, yeah, and why is it that no other “law-abiding agency” is masked?

Of course, all of those questions are delivered in a VERY RHETORIC manner, because, of course, we all know that ICE is not abiding by the law but breaking it. And we all understand most criminals and their MOB BOSSES prefer to hide behind masks!

 

Not Till It Affects Me

 “PITY THE JEWISH INTELLECTUALS OF MAGA. The nascent effort to contain the spread of anti-Semitism is years overdue.” (The Atlantic)

I am among many attributes in my life, an American who is Jewish. And as I have watched way too many other Americans who are Jewish, espouse the Trump mantra and MAGA movement, which for me has always smelled of antisemitism, I grew frustrated and dismayed.

“For a time, it was possible for the Jewish intellectuals of MAGA—a small but influential set of podcasters, columnists, and theorists—to minimize anti-Semitism in the movement. But it’s now so ubiquitous and so noxious that even they can’t ignore it. Joel Pollak, the former editor in chief of Breitbart News, wrote on X in December that, until a few months before, he would have happily sent his children to a Turning Point USA event. Not anymore. “Now: why would I send them to one more place where Jewish kids have to defend who they are and what they believe?” 

“They lent their prestige to it anyway, certain that the hateful rhetoric was meant for someone else. Now that it has landed directly on them, they want credit for noticing the stench.” (The Atlantic)

Here we go again, NOT UNTIL IT AFFECTS ME WAS IT EVER MY CONCERN. Yep, these Jewish MAGA, Turning Point, Republican Jewish Americans, all who felt safe that their form of Judaism was safe and sound, surrounded by Nazi themes and intentions, because they hated THE OTHERS, are now sadly discovering that all along they indeed were the others. It wasn’t convenient at the time for the Republicans to turn on the Jews, after all, there were so many people like Mariam Adelson providing millions and millions of dollars to keep them in power. But now that they are entrenched in power, they no longer need a bunch of Jews in their midst!

 

 

 

The Insurrection Act

 Trump threatens to institute the Insurrection Act in Minneapolis. (MS NOW)

The Insurrection Act is a U.S. federal law that allows the president to deploy military forces domestically to suppress insurrections, domestic violence, or to enforce federal law under certain conditions. It serves as an exception to the Posse Comitatus Act, which generally prohibits the military from engaging in domestic law enforcement. (Brennan Center for Justice).

Here we go, Americans. This is a dress rehearsal for the coming months of 2026, a preview, if you will, of how Trump will justify the unconstitutional actions of his Secret Police and Trump’s disdain for Democracy in America.

Here is how it works in the world of an AUTHORITARIAN REGIME. First, the dictator instigates violence, wrapping it up in a pretty package called, we are here to protect you, Mr. and Mrs. Citizen, but within your community, there are people out to get you, bad people, not like you. They create the problem, blame it on THE OTHER, walk away a bit pretending they had nothing to do with the problem…the wham bam no thank you ma’am they show up in force to remedy the situation…of course, the one they invented.

Be very afraid, the rest of this nation and watch the tactics used in Minneapolis, because step by step, surely, certainly, these same Fascist actions are in the playbook to disrupt the Midterm Elections, the ones in which Trump fears he will lose control and go to jail!

Smoke and Mirrors and Oil

 “Trump leaves U.S. military action unclear as Iran says it won't execute protesters.” (NBC News)

That’s cool, ain’t it…but here in Amerika, Trump has zero problem in executing protestors. If Trump’s Secret Police feel that their manhood has been diminished, they have no problem in shooting you in the face.

“Iran's judiciary said Thursday that a man feared to be facing execution would not face the death penalty. President Donald Trump welcomed this as “good news," having said he had learned the regime had stopped killing protesters. (NBC News)

But here in Amerika, Trump welcomes his INJUSTICE DEPARTMENT to abduct, kidnap, illegally hold without due process, anyone who he and his Secret Police believe had the audacity to enact their right to free speech. Why Trump has instructed his private attorney Pammy Bondi to cover up any and all murders!

Smoke and Mirrors, that is all Trump is offering. Bull shit, and bogus is the only foreign policy Trump has in mind. Oh yeah, and taking the oil from any country he so desires!

 

 

INDIGENOUS

 “The detention of at least five men in and around Minneapolis has sparked an outcry among Native American groups about Indigenous people being racially profiled as undocumented immigrants by federal immigration agents. Minneapolis is one of the largest urban centers for Native Americans in the United States. ”

““It is deeply offensive and ironic that the first people of this land would be subjected to questions around their citizenship,” Jacqueline De Leon, senior staff attorney at the nonprofit Native American Rights Fund and a member of the Isleta Pueblo. “Yet nevertheless, that is exactly what we’re seeing.”(USA TODAY)

The Neo Nazi Stephen Miller, the Jewish Neo Nazi, has no problem with his approval of White Supremacy. Miller, now, has set his Secret Police on the Indigenous People of North America, pretending that because they are not of white skin, there is no way in Hell they could be from his AMERIKA!

Hey, Stephen Miller, your family left Germany because the Nazi’s believed that Jewish people were not and never were Germans. Hey, Stephen, your family escaped Germany because had they stayed, they would have been severely persecuted and most likely been sent to Concentration Camps to first suffer and then die. Hey Stephen, do you know the definition of the word INDIGENOUS? I will put it simply for your racist and bigoted brain: Indigenous people are the ones who were here before your family arrived, before your kinfolk sought a safe harbor. I might ask you, have you no shame, but that is a bit of a stupid question!

 

 

Doing IT again

 “The Trump Administration's Latest Tweet To Nazi Propaganda (Again)”

I am past being scared, I am at the point of being terrified, that right in front of my eyes and the eyes of America, the Trump regime is proudly boasting about their affection for everything and anything NAZI!

“Over 11 Million People Were Stunned To Silence By This Trump Administration Tweet That's Being Compared To Nazi Propaganda.” “The Trump administration is once again facing backlash for a recent tweet. This time, it comes from the US Department of Labor.” (BuzzFeed)

The Trump Regime has hired some very smart people, who have read and read their history books, and way too many who have focused on the Nazis of Germany. These men and women understand two things: the first being that their Dear Leader imagines himself as an American Hitler, and secondly, that the bigots, racists, antisemites who are in the Trump Cult have never bothered to read a history book, and remain illiterate and downright dumb as dirt.

“This weekend, alongside historical images of the founding fathers and war, the department tweeted: "One Homeland. One People. One Heritage. Remember who you are, American." (BuzzFeed) It seems parallels are being drawn to the motto from Nazi Germany, “"Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer," which translates to, "One People, One Empire, One Leader."”

It ain’t a coincidence, I ain’t a snowflake, it IS a direct attempt to divide this nation between those the Trump gestapo consider the real Americans, and to alienate as quickly and as precisely as they can those who ARE NOT. From the guy who said there are good people on both sides, and since then has followed a Fascist path toward authoritarianism, we are once again hearing this same guy and his enablers shouting Heil Hitler, or maybe it is Heil Trump! 

 

 

 

The "Pooh-Pooh People"

 When my siblings and I were young kids, my Grandma Braff would spend lots of time with us. My grandmother arrived from Romania as a young girl way back when, and as much as she became Americanized, she also retained some of her own family traditions and superstitions. To this day, I remember and remain cautious regarding a very spooky imaginary group of ghoulish goons that my Grandmother would identify as the “Pooh-Pooh People. 

The “Pooh-Pooh People” were the Romanian version of the good old American “Gotcha”. And for my Grandmother, that came with a warning that one should never take anything for granted, and being too cocky, avoiding looking over your shoulder, and predicting the future without looking at the facts of the present, would rile the “Pooh-Pooh People,” and by throwing caution to the wind, the “Pooh-Pooh People” would rise up and screw you over.

My Grandmother said they were called the “Pooh-Pooh People”, because, if anyone began to predict a better future, before doing so, to be certain that the good you are awaiting arrives, you must first spit out the words “pooh-pooh,” as you turned your head to the right, then the left. By doing so, you had a better chance of throwing the “Pooh-Pooh People off guard. Needless to say, in our house growing up, there was a whole lot of spittle.

I write this long tale of growing up in our house because, as I look at all of the hope and clamoring of a BLUE WAVE in November 2026, I also concentrate on the current conditions of this nation, and I worry. I believe that the fascist sociopath, criminal, Trump has way too many authoritarian tricks up his sleeve, and along with his Gestapo of anti-American sycophants, he will use all of these tricks to disrupt the midterms. 

Trump’s invasion of blue cities and blue states, his newest ploy in the post marks for when mail is actually considered delivered, his constant attacking and identifying new enemies of HIS state, lead me to one conclusion, and that is that if all else fails, these actions are a lead in to declaring Martial Law, before that BLUE WAVE can even begin.  

I think about my Grandma Braff and her lectures of never being too sure of the future, if you haven’t at least taken a good look at the present. To prevent Trump from declaring Martial Law, Trump must be removed from office. I would hope that the effort to legally remove him and to have him face true justice for the past and current crimes he has committed should be the first steps taken. I am looking over my right and left shoulders, each and every day I hear about the BLUE WAVE, and with great spittle, saying “pooh-pooh,” knowing that NOW is the time to make certain THEN actually can happen as we hope.