Law, Power, and Justice

LIFE AND NEWS NOTES FROM AN ELDERLY CAT LADY WORKING AWAY IN A SUBBASEMENT OF THE MINISTRY OF SNARK

Sunday 9 March 2025

Mike just came upstairs, and I asked him what Trump had done this morning.  It was a mistake.  “This is not my country.”  He said.  “We don’t treat people like this.”  He was referring to the “blood on his hands” of Trump and the deaths in Ukraine.  I am wearing a glasses rope made by hand in Ukraine by my friend Olga.  She lives south of Kyiv and is being bombed almost every day.  Trump has cup off even the option of asking her if she wants to come and stay with us until Ukraine wins this war.  It makes me ashamed.

I am a woman.  I have no country, but I share Mike’s disgust, personal disgust, to live in a country that would betray Ukraine, actively, with blood thirst betray Ukraine.  Trump is a Russian asset. 

If you have any doubts about this, read Craig Unger’s books.  I set myself a goal of reading 50 books this year.  I am on my second of Craig Unger’s books “American Kompromat.”  It is a must read.  The amount of evidence that Trump actively colluded with the Russians is overwhelming and could have been reported in 2015.  It wasn’t and what was was not believed. 

I wrote years ago in a book about the invasion of Panama (which the government termed “Operation Just Cause.”: This is the most propagandized country in the world.  Now this sentence would be: This is the most delusional country in the world.  Evidence on top of evidence on top of evidence is there that Trump colluded with the Russians in any number of money-making schemes.  Trump Tower was built on money laundering.  But, people just refuse to believe it, refuse to believe that a class corrupted justice system has allowed the Russians to put their asset in the White House. 

Read, bubalas, just read.

Craig Unger (paraphrased because to quote I have to leave my warm bed and get the book on the table) The answer is simple: They own him.

As my friend down the street writes, we are “uninterested in our own destruction.”

Ukraine: Financial Times (3/9/25)

• Russian troops are gaining ground around the Russian town of Sudzha in the Kursk region where Ukraine seized Russian territory last year. 
• This is just ahead of crucial talks in Saudi Arabia (I know) this week. 
• Roads allowing Ukraine to supply its forces in the Kursk region are not under constant barrage.
• Captured Ukrainian soldiers forced to kneel and shot in the back.  (Note: Their lives lay at the feet of Donald Trump, et. al.)  The Financial Times shows videos of executions.  “They normalize evil.”  Some of the video is shot by Russians themselves.  Drones capture some of the evidence.  Some of the Russians filmed the executions.

MSNBC: Alex Whitt

Ukraine:

• Trump is going into next week’s “negotiations” with Ukraine demanding even more than he has in the past.  MSNBC is reporting that he wants a new negotiating style or manner or something, a willingness of Ukraine to cede land to Russia, Zelensky stepping down from power and new elections.
• Marc Polymeropoulos, Former CIA, says: “What in the world are we doing in Saudi Arabia?  The venue is suspect.”  Trump policies have led to deaths of Ukrainians.  “There are no security guarantees.”
• Musk if threatening to remove Starlink from Ukraine’s use.
• Polymeropoulos: The Ukrainian military would be “blind.”rop  The Europeans are trying to replace it.  “This was an ally of ours….we’re switching sides….It’s morally and ethically pretty horrible.” The Iranians feel that the only way to deal with Iran’s nuclear power is a military strike.

Selma:

        Sixty years ago, I was fourteen years old.  It was early evening when I walked into our house some forty miles from Selma.  I came in the rear door and walked through to the television room at the back of the house.  My mother was sitting on the sofa crying.  My mother never cried, never.  In fact, I think this was the only time in my entire life I ever saw her cry.  The television was on and there were images being shown of people, mostly black people, being beaten and pummeled and tear gassed.  I sat down and put my arm around my mother.  “I should have been there.”  She said.  “I should have been there.”  That was Bloody Sunday.