The ballroom is a fiasco.
The reflecting pool is a fiasco.
The inflation is a fiasco.
The federal deficit is a fiasco.
The Iran war is a fiasco.
So please remind me again what makes Trump such a “winner”?
"When a young man came up to him in Zurich and said, 'May I kiss the hand that wrote Ulysses?' Joyce replied, somewhat like King Lear, 'No, it did lots of other things too.'"
Let's celebrate, today is Bloomsday!
Read the whole article in our June newsletter:
https://www.gutenberg.org/newsletter/
Ulysses by James Joyce at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4300
16 June 1928 | A German Jewish boy, Hans Iakobson, was born in Güstrow.
He was deported to #Auschwitz. He did not survive.
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🎧/📖 The development of the mass murder infrastructure at Auschwitz: https://bit.ly/46ryjrT
While Trump celebrates that the Hormuz strait is now “fully open” for ships to sail freely without paying any tolls, Iran is cebrating that they have made a deal with Trump that allows them to charge “fees” for safe passage through the strait, which is totally not a toll because it is called a “fee”.
In short: There is no deal. The US is led by a fool.
https://biz.chosun.com/en/en-international/2026/06/16/JRYHM67OQRESNPGARHWU6VWGLQ/
#Bloomsday reading: The late Frank Delaney's 2012 essay "Seeing Joyce" in which he explores the visual qualities in James Joyce's Ulysses and Finnegans Wake... https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/seeing-joyce #Bloomsday2022
Pictured: James Joyce's own sketch of "Poldy" (Leopold Bloom) from his notes.