⚠️“The Enemy Within” Edition
Trump’s Quantico performance wasn’t just a speech—it was a 72-minute fever dream where campaign rally met authoritarian wish list. He insulted Biden, mocked immigrants, and riffed on the Nobel Peace Prize. He ranted about “radical left lunatics,” DEI, “sleepy Joe Biden,” and then dropped the big reveal: American cities should be the military’s new “training grounds.”
In Trump’s world, Portland and Los Angeles aren’t communities, they’re live-fire exercises waiting to happen. He called on the Pentagon leaders to “handle” the “enemy from within… before it gets out of control.”
It’s easy to laugh—Trump begging for applause like a washed-up comic at an open mic—but the danger is no joke. By normalizing the idea of turning cities into combat zones, Trump is reshaping the military’s mission from protecting Americans to policing them. Today it’s rhetoric. Tomorrow it could be policy. And once democracy itself is reclassified as an “enemy from within,” don’t be surprised when the battlefield is your neighborhood.
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Jane Goodall, the renowned primatologist and conservationist, has died at the age of 91. In her final days, she continued doing what she had devoted much of her later life to: traveling, speaking, and urging people to recognize humanity’s place in the natural world.
In her last interviews, given just a week before her death during New York City’s Climate Week, Goodall stressed that humans are part of nature and entirely dependent on it for survival. Yet, she warned, we are destroying the very systems that sustain us. She argued against the belief that economic development should take priority over the environment, emphasizing that the planet’s resources are finite and that humans are not immune to extinction.
Goodall noted the paradox that while humans are the most intellectual species, we often act without wisdom: “Intelligent creatures don’t destroy their only home.” Still, she expressed hope, pointing to renewable energy, plant-based foods, and other innovations as evidence that human ingenuity can help avert disaster.
Her urgent message was clear: there is still time to change course, but the window is small. Without rapid shifts in how we live and develop economically, she warned, the opportunity to save both humanity and the planet could soon be lost.
I’ll remind those clueless on the right. It’s the blue states that by and large drive the U.S. economy. So when you start hurting us, you end up shooting yourselves in your own bone spurs.
I don’t know if there is a legal mechanism for governors of blue states to withhold federal taxes from being sent to DC, but if there is, this should be an immediate action.
As a Veteran I was appalled by the performance of both the POTUS and his handpicked lickspittle the Sec of Defense. That alone should be cause to remove both from their positions.