Tuesday, September 8, 2026

Dear Congress: Donald Trump is dangerously delusional. 25th Amendment or impeachment? You make the call. Best, Retiring Guy

 
The news is shocking even by Alabama standards!

Botton AI-generated image requested by a deranged Trump
Headline:  AIcom, 9/8/2026

Howard Koplowitz shares a most despicable load of shit dumped by Trump:
President Donald Trump on Tuesday made another dubious claim about his involvement in the recovery effort following the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, leading critics to call him “delusional” and a “despicable liar.” 
Trump, who had already been brutally fact-checked over claims of extensive involvement in the recovery effort in 2019, claimed Tuesday that two firemen “lifted me up” from the rubble amid concerns that a nearby building was going to collapse. 
“I just thank my people. I was building a big building in New York, and I took the whole crew down there right after this happened and … they had no hesitation,“ Trump said Tuesday during an event at The Ellipse in Washington, D.C. honoring 9/11 first responders. 
“Everybody went down with me. We went down as a big group of people, wasn’t too much we could do, I’ll be honest. It was raw – nobody ever seen anything like it, ever. We had other buildings — United States Steel building was creaking, and we thought it was going to fall down. The truth is it creaked a lot. It creaked — it still creaks. But it never came down,” Trump continued.

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Missouri GOP gerrymandering: Cracking Kansas City metro area into 3 Congressional districts? Not gonna happen!

 
Missouri GOP gets shot down in its effort to cheat to win elections!

Election results:  Wikipedia
Headline:  Democracy Docket, 9/8/2026
Gerrymandered map:  Missouri Independent

Andrew Childers reports for Democracy Docket:
Missouri cannot use its gerrymandered map for the upcoming midterm elections after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to wade into a purely state matter. 
Justice Brett Kavanaugh Tuesday denied Missouri Republicans’ appeal of a state supreme court order barring state officials from moving forward with the GOP’s new congressional gerrymander in this year’s election. 
Kavanaugh’s denial ends a year-long bid by Missouri Republicans to grab another congressional seat this fall and is a major win for voters and Democrats.
 Related reading:
Wisconsin Applied Population Lab, 6/18/2018

Malia Jones explains how it's the same all over:
Two core concepts of gerrymandering were central to the arguments presented to the high court: cracking and packing. A third process, known as stacking, also crops up in gerrymandered political maps, but was not the focus of Gill v. Whitford.
Cracking and packing both refer to specific ways of drawing legislative boundaries with the outcomes of elections in mind. These two processes operate in tension with one another, but both can be implemented by a party in power seeking to maximize its electoral chances through gerrymandering. 
Packing refers to the practice of drawing particular districts in such a way as to ensure that another party's candidate wins that seat by a tremendous margin. Although the opposing party is all but guaranteed the seat, packing makes surrounding districts less competitive, and thus tips the balance of power in the legislative body overall toward the ruling party. 
Cracking involves drawing districts in such a way as to divide a concentration of specific types of voters across several districts such that they are a minority in each one, with practically no hope of achieving representation in any of the districts. This practice also helps make districts less competitive. [emphasis added]

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Minnesota reports outbreak of bird flu in turkey flock

 
Headline:  WATT Poultry,  9/3/2026

Roy Graber reports:
Article Summary
Highly pathogenic avian influenza has returned to Minnesota commercial poultry, with the USDA confirming the virus in a Wright County turkey flock containing 29,800 birds on September 1, marking the state's 10th commercial flock loss to HPAI in 2026. 
  • 29,800 turkeys affected in Wright County commercial flock confirmed positive for HPAI on September 1 
  • This is Minnesota's 10th commercial flock loss to avian influenza in 2026 
  • First HPAI case in over three months after last confirmed case in May in Becker County 
  • South Dakota also impacted with three commercial flocks lost in recent weeks across Beadle, Hamlin, and Edmunds counties 
  • USDA APHIS and WOAH continue monitoring outbreak; non-commercial flocks do not impact international poultry trade.

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