Retiring Guy's Digest: 2026-02-01

Saturday, February 7, 2026

Dear Adam Lynch, Mitch McConnell and Dianne Feinstein are not baby boomers. Learn about your generations. Best, Retiring Guy

They are members of the Silent Generation, a cohort born from 1928 to 1945.

Generation chart: Infinity Learn (arrows added)

Headline: AlterNet, 2/3/2026

Adam Lynch reports:

“McConnell’s declining health (he has been spotted falling on multiple occasions) and his accelerating age are not uncommon sights in Washington DC, where Congress has become fertile ground for boomers who refuse to go quietly into that good night,” Neale said. “… Nor are the pair alone in their desire to remain in DC. … Dianne Feinstein, the first female mayor of San Francisco and the first female senator from the state of California, served more than 30 years in the U.S. Capitol before being reduced to a punchline as the then-89-year-old publicly battled health issues.” [emphasis added]

And let's not forget about Chuck, another member of the Silent Generation, who will turn 93 this year and has represented Iowa in the U.S. Senate since 1981

East Washington corridor in Madison Wisconsin: After long delay, Salvation Army shelter is finally a reality (February 2026 construction site visit)

From this...

Photos above and below by Retiring Guy

...to this...

Photos by Retiring Guy

...to this.

Rendering and headline: Wisconsin State Journal, 4/8/2025

Nicole Pollock reports:

The Salvation Army of Dane County won city approval in 2019 to demolish its shelter for homeless women and families on East Washington Avenue and convert the site into a campus with office space, more beds and some low-income apartments. Half a decade later, the 44-unit Shield Apartments has been completed at the intersection of East Mifflin and North Blount streets. But the old shelter, an aging former Catholic school, still stands at 630 E. Washington Ave., just east of Downtown. It's the only drop-in shelter for women and families in the county, and staff say it's crowded and outdated. The Salvation Army put the shelter redevelopment on hold during the pandemic to prioritize housing people, Marc Ott of JLA Architects, a local firm working with the Salvation Army on the project, said at a neighborhood meeting last week. The project's city approvals eventually expired.

Other East Washington posts:

2025

Latest proposal for Brayton Lot. (8/22)

Empty block next to GEF 1 in downtown Madison is next isthmus redevelopment target. (7/11)

Porchlight 8-story mixed-use building. (6/16)

5-story, 192-unit multi-family apartments at 3100 East Washington Avenue. (6/15)

Aloha Inn. (6/15)

Rise Apartments. (5/29)

Baker's Place. (5/7)

Salvation Army looks to get shelter for homeless women and families back on track. (4/7)

Baker's Place. (3/8)

Empty block next to GEF 1 in downtown Madison is next Isthmus redevelopment target. (3/8)

Low-income housing development proposed at site of WMC headquarters. (3/8)

Baker's Place. (1/28)

2024

Rise Apartments. (10/21)

Baker's Place. (9/28)

Rise Apartments. (6/11)

Moxy Hotel. (5/6)

Baker's Place. (5/6)

Redevelopment project at 3401 East Washington Avenue. (2/7)

151-room Moxy Hotel construction site visits. (1/29)

New home of Wisconsin Youth Symphony Orchestra. (1/29)

2023

15-story hotel proposed for Archipelago Village. (10/17)

The Continental. (7/25)

The Standard site visits series. (2/23)

2022

Huge mural provides showcase for new mixed-use development. (10/2)

Archipelago Village. (3/3)

Low-cost housing proposed for former Bimbo Bakeries site. (1/23)

Madison Youth Arts Center. (1/2)

2021

The Valor. (10/19)

800 block project revisited: Love notes to the temporarily shuttered Sylvee. (2/14)

2020

The Arden. (12/18)

10-story apartment building proposed for 400 block. (1/10)

Stone House mixed-use development on East Washington. (1/9)

2019

Hotel Indigo. (12/2)

NIMBY chronicles. (11/12)

AC Hotel, Madison WI: A view from the 10th floor bar. (11/12)

Capital East parking garage. (1/14)

2018

East Capital parking garage UPDATE. Late November construction progress report. (11/28)

Proposed hotel put on hold. (2/12)
StartingBlock construction as we approach the end of January. (1/30)

2017
The Lyric Apartments are ready for occupancy. (8/30)
This stretch of East Washington Avenue in Madison, Wisconsin, has undergone a major transformation during the past 5 years. (5/13)

2016
Madison East Washington Festival Foods is open for business. (4/13)

2015
The balconies of the Constellation. (4/19)

2014
The Constellation rises above the treetops. (9/7)

Three view of 123 and 125 North Butler Street in Madison Wisconsin

2017

Photos by Retiring Guy

2022

2026

In 2022, the Madison Plan Commission voted to approve a demolition permit for three residences on North Butler. Purpose: to construct a 4-story, 32-unit apartment building.

The project has obviously stalled.

Related post:

Five years later, all that's happened is boarding up the windows of the brick house

6-story, 146-unit apartment building going up on University Avenue near Hilldale (February 2026 construction site visit)

From this...

Photos by Retiring Guy

...to this...

...to this.

Rendering and aerial view: Madison Plan Commission

Headline: Wisconsin State Journal, 6/11/2025

Nicole Pollock reports:

Nearly a year after receiving city approval for a five-story apartment building on University Avenue, a developer wants to double the size of the project. The original proposal from Apex Real Estate Holdings and Walter Wayne Development would have replaced a pair of commercial buildings between 3535 and 3553 University Ave., a short distance from Hilldale on Madison’s Near West Side, with 71 apartments, 76 covered parking stalls and about 1,400 square feet of commercial space.

Related posts:

January construction site visit. (1/4/2026)

University Avenue apartment project near Hilldale doubles in size. (6/11/2025)

5-story, 71-unit apartment building going up on University Avenue near Hilldale in Madison Wisconsin. (1/31/2025)

Other Hilldale area projects:

2026

The Chesapeake. (1/5)

2025

The Chesapeake apartments. (11/13)

The Chesapeake apartments. (9/14)

University Avenue apartment project near Hilldale doubles in size. (6/11)

University Hill Farms Historical District, Madison Wisconsin: 401 North Segoe Road. (5/8)

You can now grab a salad at what was once, for a relatively brief time, the best place to see a movie in Madison Wisconsin. (5/5)

Sephora and Warby Parker about ready to move into their new digs at ever-involving Hilldale Shopping Center in Madison Wisconsin. (1/26)

2024

Hilldale announces new tenants at former Sundance Cinemas space. (10/12)

Former multiplex at Hilldale Shopping Center being repurposed for restaurant and retail space. (7/21)

Former multiplex at Hilldale Shopping Center being repurposed for restaurant and retail space. (5/1)

Hilldale Phase 3 redevelopment, Madison WI. (3/3)

2022

You said goodbye to Sundance Cinemas in 2015, now say goodbye to AMC Hilldale Theaters. (12/7)

Plaza portion of Hilldale Phase 3 redevelopment, Madison WI. (8/22)

Just in case you're wondering, the Apple Stpre at Hilldale in Madison WI has reopened. (1/22)

2021

Around the block, Madison WI: Hill Farms apartments. (10/10)

Hilldale Shopping Center: Keeping up with the times. (10/3)

The Hamptons at Hilldale (North Segoe Road and Vernon Boulevard). (6/21)

2020

Marriott Springhill Suites (11/20)

2018

1962 Hill Farms office building demolition. (6/12)

2014

Hilldale is Undergoing Yet Another Makeover. (9/25)

2011

Wehrmann's at Hilldale: "I can’t stay in business being someone’s showroom". (1/28)

Madison Yards

Block 3. (11/13)

New Whole Foods Market impresses. (4/10)

2023

Whole Foods gets closer to opening its new store at Madison Yards. (11/18/2023)

Whole Foods gets ready to open new store in Madison Yards. (9/1/2023)

Madison Yards/Hill Farms redevelopment project, Madison WI. (7/23/2023)

Whole Foods moving to Madison Yards. (5/23/2023)

Block 6 of Madison Yards (public plaza) now under construction. (5/23/2023)

Madison Yards construction site visits. (series)

EO Apartments at Madison Yards. (5/18/2023)

Alaskans in Anchorage are having a heat wave. A record heat wave!

Screengrab: KTUU, 2/5/2026

Bailey Braun reports:

Tuesday and Wednesday, record high temperatures were set in Anchorage and Sitka as warm air from the low-pressure system in the gulf pumped warm air and moisture to southern parts of the state.

Related posts:

February 2026

Warmest December ever in Phoenix, Arizona: 2025. (2/6)

They're having a heat wave in Greenland. A record heat wave! (2/6)

Australians just lived through their 4th hottest January on record. (2/3)

January 2026

While the United States shivers, it's hotter than hell in Australia. (1/31)

Climate change as a matter of fact: That's why it's called "extreme weather". (1/29/2026)

United States Agency for International Development (USAID): Trump will surely burn in hell for his reckless, cruel, and unnecessary cuts to this agency (Africa edition)

Headline: New York Times, 2/4/2026

Stephanie Nolen reports:

Onchocerciasis is one of 21 afflictions, most of them treatable and preventable, that the World Health Organization classifies as neglected tropical diseases. Together, they affect more than a billion people, but because many are among the poorest people in the least developed places, these diseases have historically received little funding, research or attention.
While they are rarely fatal, these diseases exact a huge toll in human suffering, including pain, disfigurement and disabilities such as blindness. They are sometimes called “biblical” because they have plagued humans for so long that they are mentioned in ancient texts

Related post:

2026

USAID: Trump will surely burn in hell for his reckless, cruel, and unnecessary cuts to this agency (Afghanistan edition). (2/7)

2025

USAID disembowelment: Conservatives practice a perverted form of Christianity. (4/8/2025)

USAID to farmers? So how exactly is that going to work, Brooke Rollins?. (4/1/2025)

United States Agency for International Development (USAID): Trump will surely burn in hell for his reckless, cruel, and unnecessary cuts to this agency (Afghanistan edition)

Headline: New York Times, 2/4/2026

Elian Peltier, Yaqoob Akbary, and Safiullah PadshahThe U.S. aid cuts in

Afghanistan were as sudden as they were brutal. Even after the U.S. withdrawal and the end of the war in 2021, the United States continued pouring money into Afghanistan. From the 2021 Taliban takeover until last year, Washington had provided nearly $1 billion annually — over a third of all aid flowing into one of the world’s poorest countries. That funding has all but evaporated with the dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development.

The agency’s programs once helped clear landscapes scarred by war and mines, diversify crops and keep millions from hunger. Four million children are now at risk of dying from malnutrition, according to the World Food Program, the most in a quarter-century.

“The U.S. withdrawal exacerbated an already bad situation,” said Sherine Ibrahim, a former head of the Afghanistan office of the International Rescue Committee, which received three-quarters of its funding from the U.S. government. “No other donor has stepped in and no one will in those proportions.”

Nearly 450 health centers closed because of the cuts, including a tiny white building in the drought-stricken village of Nalej, where Malika Ghullami safely gave birth to two children in past years and was pregnant again with twins last year. [emphasis added]

USAID to farmers? So how exactly is that going to work, Brooke Rollins?. (4/1/2025)

Homes now being built at mammoth Hill Valley subdivision in Madison Wisconsin (February 2026 construction site visit)

Photo and video by Retiring Guy

Headline: Wisconsin State Journal, 11/25/2025

Chris Rickert reports:

The Hill Valley subdivision on Madison’s Far West Side is just getting underway, with developer Veridian Homes ready to build its first home and six lots already sold.
Now if only someone with a 1981 DeLorean would buy one.
If “Hill Valley” rings a bell for people of a certain age, that’s the point. That’s the name of the city Marty McFly and his family called home in “Back to the Future,” and the film is the theme Veridian has chosen to go with as it builds out the 200-acre residential development with 750 home sites.
Of the approximately 40 streets that are to crisscross the project, about 15 of them are obvious references to the 1985 classic.

Madison Plan Commission (above and below)

Related posts:

Hill Valley subdivision. (1/29/2025)

July 2025 site visit.

September 2025 site visit

January 2026 site visit

From bad votes to mudslinging. Political career of spineless Louisiana GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy MD continues to swirl down the toilet

Dr. Bill is chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP). He voted to confirm RFKjr as secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. He values his personal political survival over public health.

On February 21, 2021, Cassidy voted to convict Trump on a single article of impeachment, and he's been groveling for an endorsement at the altar of Trump every since.

It was NEVER going to happen, Bill.

Headline: Louisiana Illuminator, 2/6/2026

Greg LaRose reports on the panic in the BCMD camp:
The spot slamming Letlow says she voted for the Biden administration’s agenda more often than any other Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives and that she failed to disclose hundreds of stock trades before a required deadline for congressional candidates.
Letlow’s work before she was elected to Congress is also targeted in the ad, which accuses her of approving “radical DEI policies” during her time as an administrator at the University of Louisiana Monroe.
Robert Collins, a political analyst and public policy professor at Dillard University, pointed to private polling that already shows Letlow with an edge over Cassidy. He anticipated the Cassidy camp would mount an offensive against Letlow but said he didn’t expect it would be so harsh or so soon.

Related posts:

January 2026

Dear spineless GOP Louisiana Sen, Bill Cassidy M.D.: You’re toast; The Don never forgives a slight. Best, Retiring Guy. (1/30)

Louisiana MAGA gets their way: Trump throws in sufficiently servile U.S. Sen.Bill Cassidy M.D. under the bus. (1/25)

Slate mocks spineless Louisiana GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy M.D. for his half decade of groveling for an endorsement. (1/22)

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. thanks spineless Louisiana GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy M.D. for his vote by stabbing him in the back. (1/20)

Spineless Louisiana GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy M.D. spends months groveling for a Trump endorsement and look what happens! (1/19)

Spineless Louisiana GOP U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy M.D. whines about RFK's ideology when he's the guy who allowed it to be unleashed in the first place. (1/12)

Dear spineless Louisiana GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy M.D., You could have stopped this nonsense a year ago. Shame on you! Best, Retiring Guy. (1/6)

Spineless Louisiana GOP US Senator Bill Cassidy M.D. under siege from members of his own party. (1/3)

November-December 2025

Yet again not a peep from spineless Louisiana GOP U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (12/6)

But not a peep from spineless Louisiana GOP U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (12/5)

And not a peep out of spineless Louisiana GOP U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy M.D. (12/2)

And now spineless Louisiana GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy M.D. cant bring himself to say Kennedys name! (11/24)

You might have noticed spineless Mickey Mouse Louisiana GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy M.D. is silent on RFKjr lately. That’s because he’s too busy groveling at altar of Trump for endorsement in re-election race. (11/24)
Spineless Louisiana GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy M.D. dares not speak the name of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (11/23)

Please send your thank-you notes for this website revision c/o spineless Louisiana GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy M.D. (11/21)

Meet Dr. DuHarm, aka spineless Louisiana GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy M.D. and RFKjr enabler. (11/21)

August--October 2025

Spineless Mickey Mouse Louisiana GOP U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy M.D. abases himself to curry favor and grovel for an endorsement from Donald Trump. (10/31)

Steve Scalise tells Bill Cassidy to fuck off. (10/18)

Spineless Mickey Mouse Louisiana GOP senator prostrates himself at the altar of Trump again. (10/14)

Spineless Mickey Mouse Louisiana GOP U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy M.D. defends his Trump bona fides. (8/12)

Plan on spineless Louisiana GOP U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy M.D. groveling at altar of Trump every day until November 3, 2026. (8/9)

Louisiana GOP U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy M.D. places political survival over public service. (8/3)

June-July 2025

Spineless Louisiana GOP US Senator Bill Cassidy M.D. is too busy campaigning to be concerned about this catastrophe. (7/17)

Spineless, shameless Louisiana GOP U.S. senator Bill Cassidy M.D. is not serving his constituents. (7/10)

It appears that spineless Louisiana GOP U.S. senator Bill Cassidy M.D. is willing to trash public health vaccine system just to get re-elected. (6/21)

Finding himself in a tight squeeze, spineless Louisiana GOP U.S. senator Bill Cassidy M.D. chooses loyalty to Trump over commitment to medicine. (6/12)

But wait, there's more!!

March 2025

Chapter 1. (3/10) Censored

Chapter 2. (3/10)

Chapter 3. (3/10)

Chapter 4. (3/11)

Chapter 5. (3/12)

Chapter 6. (3/12)

Chapter 7. (3/13)

Chapter 8. (3/14)

Chapter 9. (3/14)

Chapter 10. (3/14)

Chapter 11. (3/14)
Chapter 12. (3/14)

Chapter 13. (3/15)

Chapter 14. (3/18)

Chapter 15. (3/19)

Chapter 16. (3/19)

Chapter 17. (3/21)

Chapter 18. (3/22)

Chapter 19. (3/26)

Chapter 20. (3/28)

Chapter 21. (3/29)

Chapter 22. (3/30)

April 2025

Chapter 23. (4/1/)

Chapter 24. (4/2)

Is Bill Cassidy finally growing a spine or is this just another smokescreen. (4/6)

Louisiana GOP senator Bill Cassidy does the chicken dance while Robert Kennedy Jr. upends bird flu testing efforts. (4/6)

What happens when Louisiana GOP senator Bill Cassidy unleashes an anti-vaxxer on our health care system. (4/7)

Measles and whooping cough outbreaks: If only Bill Cassidy had found his spine 57 days ago. (4/11)

Robert Kennedy Jr. continues to toy with and humiliate Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy, M.D. (4/26)

May 2025

Louisiana GOP senator Bill Cassidy M.D. visits Fantasyland. (5/16)

Still getting snookered by RFKjr. (5/16)

Louisiana U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy M.D. got snookered by Robert F. Kennedy and all he can do it smile about it. (5/28)

Spineless behavior of Bill Cassidy M.D. unleashes more damage to United States health care system. (5/29)

June 2025

You can thank spineless Louisiana GOP Senator Bill Cassidy M.D. for the makeover @HHS. (6/2)

Spineless Louisiana GOP Senator Bill Cassidy M.D. abets Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in the war on science @HHS. (6/7)

Once again we have spineless Louisiana GOP senator Bill Cassidy M.D. to thank for this travesty. (6/10)

It's clear that spineless Louisiana GOP U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy M.D. hasn't learned his lesson from January. (6/11)

CNN analyst assumes that Louisiana GOP U.S Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. had principles to abandon. (6/11)

Finding himself in a tight squeeze, spineless Louisiana GOP U.S. senator Bill Cassidy M.D. chooses loyalty to Trump over commitment to medicine. (6/12)

Leading candidate for Sap of the Year? Spineless Louisiana GOP U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy M.D. is a good bet. (6/14)

State's largest newspaper takes spineless Louisiana GOP U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy M.D. to task for his vaccine dithering. (6/16)

Now in its 5th month!! Robert F. Kennedy Jr. playing spineless Louisiana GOP U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy M. D. for a fool. (6/17)

You can place the blame on "the massive disruption of the public health vaccine system" at the cold feet of spineless Louisiana GOP U.S. senator Bill Cassidy M.D. (6/19)

Spineless Louisiana U.S. GOP senator Bill Cassidy M.D. earns an unflattering profile in The Nation. (6/20)

It appears that spineless Louisiana GOP U.S. senator Bill Cassidy M.D. is willing to trash public health vaccine system just to get re-elected. (6/21)

134 days after voting to confirm Robert Kennedy Jr as secretary @HHS, Louisiana GOP U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy M.D. takes a baby step to reclaim his spine. (6/27)

RFK Jr. Is systematically undermining vaccine science and endangering health while spineless Louisiana GOP U.S. senator Bill Cassidy M.D. dithers. (6/27)

Local news media continue to hammer away at Louisiana GOP U.S. senator Bill Cassidy M.D. for his spinelessness. (6/27)

July 2025

Whaddya think of this hare-brained scheme, spineless Louisiana GOP U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy M.D.? (7/5)

In a sign of desperation, pathetic and spineless Louisiana GOP senator Bill Cassidy M.D. starts campaigning on big ugly bill. (7/10)

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/us/politics/bill-cassidy-trump-louisiana-senate-race.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

About as ugly as you can get: Trump doubles down on his virulent racism

In Donald Trump's case, there is no cure for Obama Derangement Syndrome.

Headline: New York Times 2/6/2026

Erica L. Green, Isabella Kwai, and Zolan Kanno-Youngs report on the kind of lame, deflecting excuse an 8-year-old would give his parents:

The clip, set to “The Lion Sleeps Tonight,” was spliced near the end of a 62-second video that promoted conspiracy theories about the 2020 election and was among a flurry of links posted by Mr. Trump late Thursday night. It was the latest in a pattern by Mr. Trump of promoting offensive imagery and slurs about Black Americans and others.

Speaking to reporters on Air Force One on Friday, Mr. Trump said he only saw the beginning of the video. “I just looked at the first part, it was about voter fraud in some place, Georgia,” Mr. Trump said. “I didn’t see the whole thing.”

He then tried to deflect blame, suggesting he had given the link to someone else to post. “I gave it to the people, generally they’d look at the whole thing but I guess somebody didn’t,” he told reporters. [emphasis added]

Related posts

January-February 2026

Trump makes virulent racism an attribute of the current American presidency. (2/6)

Trump administration can't be bothered to hide its racism anymore (Nike investigation edition). (2/5)

Donald Trump can’t be bothered to hide his racism anymore (Nekima Levy Armstrong edition). (2/3)

When it comes to Ilhan Omar, Donald Trump has never been able to hide his racism. (1/29)

Trump administration can't be bothered to hide its Nazi streak anymore. (1/28)

Trump administration can't be bothered to hide its racism anymore (Slavery exhibit at Philadelphia's Independence National Historical Park edition). (1/24)

Trump administration can't be bothered to hide its racism anymore (Western Civilization edition). (1/16)
Donald Trump cant be bothered to hide his racism anymore (White people were treated badly edition). (1/12)

September-December 2025

Trump administration can't be bothered to hide its racism anymore (EEOC edition). (12/30)

The more things change, the more they remain the same (Racism in the White House edition). (12/28)

Trump administration can't be bothered to hide its racism anymore (Turning Point USA edition). (12/23)

Trump administration can't be bothered to hide its racism and misogyny anymore. (U.S. anniversary coins edition). (12/21)

Trump administration can't be bothered to hide its racism anymore (Department of Education civil rights edition). (12/21)

Trump administration can't be bothered to hide its racism anymore ('civilization erasure' edition). (12/6)

Donald Trump and J.D. Vance cant be bothered to hide their racism anymore (Somalis edition). (12/3)

Do nald Trump cant be bothered anymore to hide his racism (Nick Fuentes edition). (11/17)

Trump administration can't be bothered to hide its racism anymore (World War II Black soldiers memorial in the Netherlands). (11/10)

Trump cant be bothered to hide his racism anymore (Winsome Earle-Sears of Virginia edition). (11/5)

Donald Trump can't be bothered to hide his racism anymore (U.S. refugee system). ()

And this is the thanks they get . (9/13)

Donald Trump can't be bothered to hide his racism anymore (Anti-diversity edition). (10/9)

Donald Trump can't be bothered to hide his racism anymore ("Scourged Back" edition). (9/26)

June-August 2025

Donald Trump can't be bothered to hide his racism anymore (slavery edition). (8/21)

Donald Trump, "the epitome of dumbness", can't be bothered to hide his racism anymore (Smithsonian edition). (8/20)

Trump administration can't be bothered to hide its racism (Homeland Security/Uncle Sam edition). (8/13)

Donald Trump cant be bothered to hide his racism anymore (Texas GOP gerrymandering edition). (7/30)

Donald Trump can't be bothered to hide his racism anymore (Washington Redskins edition). (7/7)

Donald Trump can't be bothered to hide his racism anymore (Juneteenth edition). (6/21)

Donald Trump and Scott Walker can't be bothered to hide their racism anymore. (6/21)

Dear New York Times: Why? You really need to ask? That's taking 'obtuse' to a new level. Best, Retiring Guy. (6/5)

May 2025

Trump is projecting and can't bother to hide his racism anymore. (5/28)

Trump Department of Racism is open for business. (5/16)

Donald Trump can't be bothered to hide his racism anymore (Civil Rights enforcement edition). (5/11)

Donald Trump can't be bothered to hide his racism anymore (pushback edition). (5/11)

Donald Trump cant be bothered to hide his racism anymore (White Afrikaners edition). (5/10)

Donald Trump can't be bothered to hide his racism anymore (Dr. Carla Hayden Library of Congress edition). (5/10)

Eradicating Black history: Donald Trump doesn't even bother to hide his racism anymore. (5/8)

January-April 2025

F irst Felon Donald Trump doesn't even bother to hide his racism anymore (Harriet Tubman edition). (4/7)

Noise from Trump GOP racist dog whistles shows no signs of abating. (3/24)

Trump GOP doesn't even bother to hide its racism anymore. (3/22)

Why? Because the GOP, following the example of First Felon Donald Trump, can't be bothered to hide its racism anymore. (2/12)

2024

Donald Trump gets cozy with virulent racist Loony Laura Loomer. (12/28)

Donald Trumps racist rally: The day, 85 years later, when Madison Square Garden became a dark and rancid hellhole showing America at its worst. (10/29)

At Madison Square Garden racist rally, Trumps closing argument is accompanied by the strains of "Dixie". (10/29)

New York Times headline sums Donald Trumps closing argument in 3 words: grievances, misogyny, racism. (10/29)

New York Daily News sums up Donald Trump's closing argument in two-word headline: RACIST RALLY. (10/29)

GOP closing argument in 2024 presidential campaign. (10/28)

Demented Donald Trump and company serve up rancid stew of racism, nativism and grievance at Madison Square Garden. (10/28)

Demented Donald Trump says the quiet part out loud. (10/23)

MISCREANT PREACHERS: Sexual assault of a teen in the Name of the Lord (#240 of a series)

Mugshot and headline: KOFW, 2/4/2026

Amber Kite reports:

Reymundo Almaraz was taken into custody after multiple members of the public identified him as the suspect in the assault at the TruFit gym located near 82nd Street and Slide Road.

Police records show that officers were dispatched to the gym around 10 p.m. on June 30. When they arrived, investigators learned the victim, a 17-year-old male, was on his way to the hospital for treatment.

The teenager told investigators he was at the gym working out with his girlfriend when he went to the locker room to use the restroom.\

While waiting for a stall, the victim reported seeing Almaraz in his underwear, appearing to watch or record another teenager in the locker room.

The teenager told investigators he was at the gym working out with his girlfriend when he went to the locker room to use the restroom. While waiting for a stall, the victim reported seeing Almaraz in his underwear, appearing to watch or record another teenager in the locker room.

According to the police report, the situation escalated after the victim entered a bathroom stall. Almaraz allegedly entered the adjacent stall, repeatedly placed his leg under the partition, and demanded to be let into the victim’s stall.

The victim told police that after he eventually exited the stall, Almaraz cornered him in a dressing room, blocked the door with a chair, and locked it. The report states Almaraz held the teenager in place, made several sexual demands, and sexually assaulted him.

Other miscreant preachers (which cover a multitude of sins):

February 2026

Anthony Bazemore. (2/6)

Isaiah Teague. (2/5)

Troyce Hernandez. (2/4)

January 2026 (14)

Michael Mohr. (1/30)

Brian Carn Jr. (1/22)

Matthew Masiewicz. (1/21)

Rubel Martinez. (1/20)

Wesley Brobeck. (1/19)

Theodore Gabrielli. (1/18)