“The Big Hurry: Why So Anxious For Dictatorship Right Now?” Behind the rush job to collapse the rule of law. Jim Stewartson, Oct 04, 2025 | Trump authorizes national guard deployment to Chicago, White House says, as border patrol there shoots woman: Illinois governor JB Pritzker says administration is escalating ‘aggression against Illinois citizens and residents’, Guardian Staff, October 4, 2025 | Protest erupts after woman shot by ICE agent during confrontation in Brighton Park-CBS Chicago, October 4, 2025 | Judge Blocks Trump’s Deployment of National Guard in Portland, Ore. – A federal judge appointed by President Trump issued a temporary restraining order, siding for now with Oregon and Portland lawyers who called federalizing the guard a presidential overreach – Anna Griffin – NYT – October 4, 2025.

Read along with Jim?

I may be “suffering” from, oh, let’s call it an “Online Cognitive Battle Fatigue” that has formed from my same day every day round of blogs, newspapers, substacks, and videos sprawling across the world’s conflict and political issues and themes, chief among them the Donald Trump’s transformation of America’s modern secular democratic republic into his own kingdom, a private patronage system built on the back of GOP and other cowards, criminals, sycophants, and traitors.

Art thou not sick of the vile ignoramus?

Out of habit and inertia, I’ll probably continue for a while my political posterbating at https://x.com/JS_Oppenheim but . . . for what? We have each developed our own Internet habits, rounds, routines even while losing, perhaps, our political and social efficacy online.

ICESTAPO – ICE Fishing in America

An outraged “Parkrose Permaculture” defends American laws, principles, and values –>

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