Public Comment

Sussing Trump's Selective Slander
A string of news articles and online commentaries have raised concerns about our teachers, educators, and universities presenting "a one-sided lesson on anti-Zionism." These critics have stressed the importance of "a student's right to an education free of harassment and bias." But while antisemitism and Islamophobia are rightly condemned, what about our Republican president's promotion of false tales of pet-eating foreigners and constant invocations of 'Latinophobia" and "anti-immigrantism"? 

The Ochre Ogre in the White House would have us believe that the mass murder of a civilian population is an act of "self defense." At the same time, we are told to believe that all refugees from beyond our southern border are "criminal illegal immigrants and terrorists." 

While it is wrong to link all members of the Jewish community to Bibi Netanyahu's genocidal crusade, let us pause for a moment to wonder how Trump's tirades disturb the emotional well-being of school-age children from immigrant families. 

Isn't it odd that the criticism targeting our schools and universities is not extended to the daily diatribes of our Xenophobe-in-Chief? 

Commander-in-Thief
Trunp's new budget proposal has landed with a thump on the backs of millions of hard-working and financially struggling Americans. Here's a short list of how Trumponomics is short-changing the majority of our population to sweep $168 billions of "public service" support off in the direction of the one percent of millionaires who are to be rewarded for investing heavily in Trump's reelection campaign. Here's a partial breakdown of the Trump's broke-down budget. 

• Slash education funding by $12 billion
• Cut $674 million from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
• Gut the Center for Disease Control’s budget from $9 billion to $4 billion
• Cancel $15 billion in funds already passed by Congress to fight climate change
• Strip more than $26 billion from rental assistance programs intended to keep low-income Americans from losing their homes 

• Invest $1 trillion over the next 30 years to create a stockpile of new "modernized" nuclear weapons 

• Hand over $1 trillion of the budget to support the Pentagon. 

Some of the DoD's largess would be spent on installing an orbiting infrastructure of space weapons designed to monitor the planet for signs of incoming missiles targeting the US and able to "neutralize" them as part of a Musk-minded project that Trump prefers to call the "Golden Dome." 

Just a thought, but wouldn't it make more sense to spend money on programs that wouldn't make other countries want to attack us? 

Meanwhile, the US national debt is fast approaching $37 trillion. You can track the progress of this economic Doomsday Clock by tapping on the following link: https://www.usdebtclock.org/ 

Nuke Cost Calculator
Every April, the Board of Physicians for Social Responsibility-Los Angeles (PSR), calculates the impact of US nuclear weapons programs on California's economy and on its communities. For the tax-year 2024, the total cost of Nuclear Weapons Programs topped $110 billion. PSR has created an online calculator that makes it easy to see how these costs impact the state's community-level tax rates. Here's a link to the 2025 Nuclear Weapons Programs Tax Calculator. 

Made in America: US Weapons, War and Woe
"Made in America" is a Fault Lines Documentary that investigates the suffering of Lebanese civilians killed by US bombs shipped to Israel. While Israel leaders claim that its airstrikes are used to target rebel fighters, these airstrikes have killed more than 4,000 Lebanese residents, including women and children. Many victims were killed in their homes. Warning: Images and survivors' testimony are disturbing. 

Stablecoins: Trump's Latest Crypto-currency Grift 

According to The Intercept, "the House and Senate are racing to bring stablecoins—a crypto-currency sector few Americans have even heard of— out from the shadows." 

The $230 billion stablecoin industry stands to profit from Donald Trump’s promise to make the US the “crypto-capital of the planet.” Crypto-currency critics fear the bipartisan push could trigger a financial crash—while enriching the Trump family, which has launched a stablecoin of their own. It's not the first time Trump has dabbled in cyrpto-dolllars. As one industry observer told The Intercept following the earlier debut of the Trump meme coin: "a lot of people lost out but it didn’t matter because Trump’s platform was making fees.” 

Fashion Plates
Personalized license plates spotted about town:
NINJA2
MINSLA
SPACEK
LUV HY
BESEEN
PATS10
DANNYE
MOREANZ
REXUSUH
KHRUSH
DNTSTP (Don't Stop?)
SCTFRE (Scot Free?)
EXPLTR (Exploiter?)
OUZEL4 (Weasel 4?) 

Bumper Snickers
Nudist on Board
Honk If You're Horney!
I Brake for Wildflowers
MILF. Man I Love Frogs
Free Punches in the Face
Fecal Sample Delivery Vehicle
All Our Plants Are Solar Powered
4 Out of 3 People Have Trouble with Fractions 

Depression Donnie
Who needs actors or movie sets when we've got AI facsimiles? (Too bad for Trump. He seems to be an AI fav.)
Mr. Newberger's AI Funnies 

https://www.youtube.com/embed/HCQbpEoQZ_A?si=b0XIGlHlxQT906QI 

Vladimir, STOP!
Mr. Newberger's AI Funnies