Pensito IllustrationWhere Donald Trump’s “facts” come from has always been a mystery.
He serves up his version of events without context or consistency.
Though offered with details and relish,
His renditions always seek to embellish
His foreknowledge, role and influence on all aspects of his “fake history.”
Pensito IllustrationTrump’s latest environmental proclamation is typically deranged.
Is there anyone on the planet who is, from reality, more estranged?
To Trump, greenhouse gasses
Are as disposable as Epstein lasses,
So now he wants to “revoke” the EPA rule that there exists climate change.
Pensito IllustrationTrump’s is the most tenuous of authoritarian tyrannies,
Founded on a web of paranoid hostilities and mental deficiencies.
It thrives on delusional finger-pointing
Crowned by sanctimonious self-anointing,
Culminating in a “harmonic convergence of competing conspiracies.“
Tesla Diner in Hollywood blocking the view Big eye ouchie. At Tesla’s new Hollywood Diner & Drive-In, progress looks like a four-story movie screen blocking the view from the apartment building next door. One Tesla Diner diner said he loved the diner’s Blade Runner vibes. “Looks good on the eyes,” he said. When asked if apartment dwellers might enjoy the oversized spectacle on their doorstep, Roman didn’t miss a beat: “Probably not. That is a huge ouchy for their eyes.”
Meanwhile in Gilead. At a town hall in Tennessee a pregnant woman stood up to tell what happened when the state’s broken moral compass aimed itself directly at her uterus. She and her partner of 15 years are parents of a 13-year-old, but because they are unmarried her doctor denied medical care for her and her unborn child. The denial was based on the state’s 2025 Medical Ethics Defense Act, which puts Christo-fascist morality ahead of science.
Totally not thinking about Epstein now. Trump has been unloading distraction after distraction to avert public attention from his career-killing Trumpstein scandal. One of the low points was his playing politics with First People’s identity. Trump ordered the Washington Commanders to bring back the name “Redskins.” And he’s threatening the owners with withholding stadium permits as leverage. Worse of all, he called his policy “MIGA” — Make Indians Great Again.
Radar causes weather disasters. An diocratic group calling themselves Veterans on Patrol is out to destroy Doppler radar systems because, they say, radar caused the floods in Texas and other disasters. On July 6, they claimed credit for disabling a system in Oklahoma City at the height of tornado season.
Pensito Illustration It takes a lot of goading to illicit a Barack Obama reaction,
But Trump pushed his button with his “treason” accusation.
Trump went low to divert from Epstein,
Obama went lower, and got really mean:
“These bizarre allegations are ridiculous and a weak attempt at distraction.”
Pensito IlustrationDonald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein were the best of peeps.
They lived the high life, like a couple of oil-rich sheikhs.
They jetted between New York and Palm Beach —
Always with lots of young tush within reach.
They were just a pair of rich, perverted, middle-aged creeps.
Pensito IllustrationDonald Trump Jr. started a company called GrabAGun,
On it’s first day on the stock market, it grabbed no one.
He’s a champion of the “anti-woke” economy,
But he’s a chump when it comes to making gun money.
The saddest part is, Don Jr. is known as the savvy Trump son.
Pensito IllustrationThe current furor seems to be irritating Trump’s piles,
As his MAGA coalition is beset by competing conspiracy styles.
Now Trump says they were written
By Obama, Clinton, Comey and Biden.
But there’s a simple reason why Trump won’t release the Epstein files.
Pensito IllustrationWhere, O where are my accolades? Their absence my just deserts belies.
Forsooth, when you consider the deals I’ve made, logic it defies.
Look at what I did for India and Pakistan,
And all I accomplished by bombing Iran.
Alas, cruel world, am I to never get my Nobel Peace Prize?
US 18th Cavalry troops facing no opposition during Trump regime assault on MacArthur Park in Los Angeles
The Trump regime staged another military assault on Los Angeles yesterday, this time targeting historic MacArthur Park. Not coincidentally, the park lies in the Westlake District, which is home predominantly to immigrants from Central America.
The primary, but unstated, objective of the assault, billed as “Operation Excalibur” was to produce deceptive video content for the Fox propaganda channel and its immitators.
Journalist Ken Klippenstein, who covers national security on Substack, spoke with National Guard members off the record and obtained leaked documents about Operation Excalibur, the assault on a park in a US city by the US military and the Trump Department of Homeland Security:
The news media is describing the operation as an ominous crackdown, but National Guard sources tell me that it was a botched laughingstock. The military aspect of the operation, codenamed Operation Excalibur, has not been previously reported.
The documents reveal that the erstwhile justification for the operation was to try to shut down the distribution of fake IDs. The mission of the 1st Squadron, 18th Cavalry is described as protecting DHS [Department of Homeland Security] “security points and blocking positions” while they undertook their assault. The Squadron was ordered not to “restrict pedestrian movement” and not to “conduct law enforcement activities.”) …
Trump and the Iranians seem to be in different realities,
Though they share a callousness toward the war’s casualties.
Is Trump insane
Or just insanely vain?
And how can we extract ourselves from his “Quagmire of the Vanities?”
“Every time J.D. Vance opens his mouth, the first two things I can think are, man, that guy is boring. And second, Peter Thiel had to spend a ton of money to get that man elected, barely in the state of Ohio.”
— Michigan U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D), on MS NOW.
“If any politician wants to get mothers on their side, they should adopt this issue. It’s such an obvious electoral winner. And what I’ve learned is there is no force in the universe stronger than mothers trying to protect their kids.”
— Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, quoted by Politico, on the threats posed by social media and artificial intelligence.
“Years before Natalie Harp became a key White House aide to President Donald Trump, she flooded her Twitter feed with posts demonstrating extraordinary devotion to him on January 6, 2021,” CNN reports. “Harp posted more than 150 tweets that day, urging Republicans to ‘FIGHT FOR TRUMP’ as he began his speech near the White House. She echoed the president’s talking points that the election was stolen, and amplified rhetoric of his allies, who also sought to undermine the legitimacy of Joe Biden’s election win. Harp’s X account appears suspended. It’s unclear when her account was taken down, and whether she or the platform removed her posts.”
“The number of U.S. service members wounded since the start of the Iran war has passed 750, according to the Defense Department’s war casualty database,” CNN reports.
“The U.S. State Department announced on Monday that it has revoked more than 175,000 visas during President Donald Trump’s administration so far,” Fox News reports.
President Donald Trump is asking for $1,500,000 million for the military for next year. That’s close to $600 billion (adjusted for inflation) more than we were spending on the military in fiscal year 2025, before Trump took office, Alternet reports. This increase is huge by any measure. It comes to around $4,600 per household. It is around 8% of the total budget.
A new Emerson College survey of likely 2026 voters finds the Democrats with an 11-point advantage over the Republicans on the generic congressional ballot, leading 53% to 42%. President Trump holds a 39% job approval rating, consistent with the past two months, whereas his disapproval increased another point, to 57%.