Recently at Delta gate boarding, they taped a sign about checking passports OVER the face scanner screen, but they CUT OUT holes just for the facial recognition camera so you would not know you were being scanned as you read the sign.

I heard the familiar confirmation beeps as each person read the sign and walked through, facial recognition WITHOUT CONSENT.

This is illegal by the way. I always wear a mask, cap, glasses, and other methods, so it didn’t beep for me.

I am increasingly convinced that the 'D' next to candidate names stands for "Dumber than rocks".

Why?

Well, here in California we have a "jungle primary" - all candidates from all parties in one race -- with the top two vote getters moving onto the primary.

So the key for a party is to focus, to put all your party energy behind one or two candidates - and avoid having more than two candidates because that splits the vote.

Well, here in California we have 20 (yes, 20!!) D party candidates running for governor. And 8 to 10 of 'em are fairly strong candidates. The D party vote will be badly fractured.

There are 12 R's but only 2 are significant. The R's will divide the R votes roughly in two.

This means that it is highly likely that even in Blue California the two names in November for the governor race with *both* be Rs.

Here's the full list of candidates...

https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/statewide-elections/2026-primary/cert-list-candidates.pdf

Watching Fedi and the world react to the US president go absolutely unhinged in public, threatening war crimes as his cognitive grip disintegrates before our eyes, watching the horror and the outrage…there is something I want to tell you from Minneapolis.

And I’m not sure how, and I’m not sure if I can, but I want to try. People are always thanking us and calling us heroes and asking us for some kind of…something, anything we can offer in the face of the authoritarian march, and well, here it is, here is something, if I can figure out how to say it.

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Doctor John Gartner,
the co-founder of “Duty To Warn”
noted Trump went to war on “impulse.”

He continued, Trump “didn’t bring along any allies, he didn’t prevent any evidence, he didn’t prepare the American people. He didn’t do anything.”

And the reason—per Dr. Gartner—is more alarming than you think.

It’s not just because Trump views himself as a king who doesn’t need to get his “subjects” (you and I) on board.

Rather, as Dr. Gartner opined, “He’s not thinking it through because he’s not capable of actually processing what’s even happening.”

He added, Trump “just had an angry impulse” –perhaps to distract from the Epstein files—so he started this horrific war.

From a psychological point of view, Gartner described Trump as “a raging id with no frontal lobes.”

(In other words, Trump is ruled only by his whims at that moment with no regard for the consequences.)

Then came perhaps Dr. Gartner’s most frightening warning about Trump.

He noted that that Trump is increasingly becoming
a “sadistic animal” who is
“becoming more and more cruel and animal-like as his frontal lobes deteriorate.”

Frontal lobe deterioration is often seen n people with dementia and is manifested by loss of impulse control, impaired judgment, easy to be distracted, loss of empathy and more that we all see with Trump.

https://deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/trumps-dementia-is-a-threat-to-the?r=1uo829&triedRedirect=true

Interview: Trump Is Increasingly Desperate

Trita Parsi says the Americans are already discussing the option of using nuclear weapons on Iran.

He discusses the "increasing desperation of U.S. strategy; Iran’s long-term economic control over the Strait of Hormuz; growing hawkishness & the dangerous possibility of nuclear warfare."

Trita Parsi is executive vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/4/6/us_israel_war_on_iran_trita

#USPol #EUPol #IranWar #NuclearWarfare #news .