Please advise if you also get three hours of small child shrieking as I suffered on an 11 hour and 17 minute flight last night

Would that be the same Michael Bloomberg who engineered a third term (and overturn term limits the voters had approved) and spent $174 per vote to win his illegal third term? He spent $112 per vote to win his second term and $99 per vote to win his first term. Best democracy money can buy!

Will the construction workers even get paid? Flashback to 2016: www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Trump s exactly who Alexander Hamilton warned about in 1792:

The racism is of course always the point ever since he and his racist dad Fred (who was arrested at a 1927 KKK rally) were sued by the Justice Department for racial housing discrimination in 1973: www.nytimes.com/2016/08/28/u...

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Guy who couldn't make money in the casino business in Atlantic City set to make money in the casino business in New York City

Indeed, that's exactly how it works in an authoritarian state: “...What regulator is going to say no to the president’s son-in-law?"

The Seychelles presidential election heads to round two as no candidate obtained a 50% absolute majority: r1.mu/aux-seychell...

It's truly a remarkable story...

It's also highly unusual for a head of state to visit another country and to directly criticize that country for failing to keep election promises just ahead of that head of state's own elections. But that's exactly what Ramakalawan did in Mauritius earlier this month: newsmoris.com/2025/09/02/s...

Additionally helpful for us to recall the largest voting bloc: the non-voters. Of the 245 million eligible voters roughly 90 million did not vote in 2024. Accordingly far more than half the country did not vote Trump.
www.usnews.com/news/nationa...

Fantastic post and for further study on the-then fashionable fetishization of dwellers in the Himalayan foothills I highly recommend Earl of Ronaldshay's "Lands of the Thunderbolt: Sikhim, Chumbi & Bhutan" (1923) and H. H. Risley's "The Gazeteer of Sikhim" (1896), downloadable at Internet Archive:

Nobody cares what Bessent thinks about it just as nobody thinks he's a serious person when he wants to waste gobs of taxpayer money propping up politically-dead Javier Milei of Argentina:

Bessent conveniently overlooked Milei's political obituary due to his soybean myopia: www.thenerdreich.com/libertariani...

From the vast nation that could have elected Al Gore a quarter century ago

That's the same exceedingly ruthless Nigel Farage who cooked up 2025's malicious UK version of "they're eating the dogs, they're eating the cats":

Many people have been shouting from the rooftops for three decades about the kidnapping of the young Panchen Lama — the world's youngest political prisoner brutally abducted by Beijing: