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  👄👄👄This is your regular reminder that we are 259 days into Donald Trump's Epstein cover-up. 👄👄👄👄 The last two weeks in my neck of the sprawl have been rather warm. This is not unusual. I recall one October a decade or so ago when it got so warm that the kids were passing out in their Halloween costumes! While it hasn't been quite that bad this October, it has definitely felt like we are suffering through Autumn's summer. As such, a weird sort of malaise has taken hold. For me, those cool, crisp days of fall bring with them a burst of energy, a need to fully and enthusiastically embrace the joys of indoor living, something I consider encompasses everything from scrubbing the house from top to bottom after a summer of neglect, to more frequently planting my butt in front of my electronic dream machines to imbibe the pleasures of a wired age. And while I have made some progress in those areas since Autumn has officially begun, it has felt like an uphill battle as the ...

Readers of this blog—again, to all eight of you, a hearty “Thanks!”—are used to me beginning with a running tally of how many days President Trump has worked to cover up the Epstein files. Which is to say: every day of his second term. Today, I offer no such blurb. This dispatch is all about the day’s news: congressional Republicans and the Trump White House are actively conspiring to scuttle a House floor vote that would force the full release of the FBI’s Epstein files. Headline: Top GOP and White House allies working behind the scenes to prevent Epstein vote on House floor Top congressional Republicans and White House allies are working behind the scenes to prevent a politically charged floor vote to release the government’s Jeffrey Epstein case files next month, according to multiple sources familiar with the discussions. The intensifying effort to halt that floor vote comes as Reps. Thomas Massie, a Kentucky Republican, and Ro Khanna, a California Democrat, declared on Wednesday t...

  It is a Sunday, so there is not much to talk about headline-wise. But there is something that has been on my mind.  It is something that I like to call the 'GOP Wraparound'. Now, what is this?   A wraparound is video game terminology for when a video game character, say good ol' PacMan, moves so far to the right of the game screen that he instantaneously  wrapsaround  to the left side of the screen. It is a common aspect of old-school sidescrollers and looks like this: Right to left, round and round they go. Well, this spatial twisting of reality does have a real-world counterpart, and that would be the world of politics.  You can see it happening right now with the Republican Party. Under the influence of MAGA and Donald Trump, the GOP has moved so far right that it is now a party that advocates left-wing policies.   Take, for example, this recent madness of crippling tariffs imposed by Team Trump.  I am old enough to remember that pr...