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Friday 28 August 2026 UKRAINE: Former Defense Minister Fedorov LIFE AND NEWS NOTES · The Kremlin is using remarks made by ousted Ukrainian Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov to allege that Kyiv is consumed by intensifying political infighting. · Fedorov told Reuters that Ukraine appeared to be losing the war against Russia. He complained about engrained corruption and patronage networks. · Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters that “the Kyiv regime is collapsing from within.” ARTICLE: Strupczewski, Jan (8/27/26) “Four EU countries… Read more: (no title)

Friday 27 August 2026 RUSSIA AND UKRAINE ARTICLE: Altman, Howard and Tyler Rogoway (8/26/26) “Claims swirl around CIA director’s reason for secret Moscow visit, nearly all of them are terrifying. TWZ Newsletter. LIFE AND NEWS NOTES FROM AN ENDERLY, CHILDLESS, OVER-EDUCATED (ACCORDING TO J. F…ING D. VANCE) CAT LADY BEAVERING AWAY IN ONE OF THE SUB-BASEMENTS OF THE MINISTRY OF SNARK · Most of the reports indicate that CIA Director Radcliff was delivering a warning to Putin. The exact nature of… Read more: (no title)

Friday 27 August 2026 RUSSIA AND UKRAINE ARTICLE: Altman, Howard and Tyler Rogoway (8/26/26) “Claims swirl around CIA director’s reason for secret Moscow visit, nearly all of them are terrifying. TWZ Newsletter. LIFE AND NEWS NOTES FROM AN ENDERLY, CHILDLESS, OVER-EDUCATED (ACCORDING TO J. F…ING D. VANCE) CAT LADY BEAVERING AWAY IN ONE OF THE SUB-BASEMENTS OF THE MINISTRY OF SNARK · Most of the reports indicate that CIA Director Radcliff was delivering a warning to Putin. The exact nature of… Read more: (no title)

Monday 24 August 2026 CUBA NEW ARTICLE: O’Grady, Mary Anastasia (8/24/26) “What a Cuban transition might look like. The Wall Street Journal.” Wall Street Journal. · Rubio is “ratcheting up U.S pressure on the top echelon of the Cuban military.” · The worry is that with nothing to take its place the 67-year-old regime will descend into “a mix of chaos and crony capitalism.” The U.S. will be responsible for cleaning it up. · “Foreign subsidies have dried up, a corrupt… Read more: LIFE AND BLOG NOTES. CUBA

Sunday 23 August 2026 CUBA ARTICLE: Balls, Katy (8/15/26) “Is the Cuban regime about to be toppled?” The Sunday Times. LIFE AND NEWS NOTES FROM AN ELDERLY, OVER-EDUCATED, CHILDLESS, CAT LADY BEAVERING AWAY IN ONE OF THE SUB-BASEMENTS O THE MINISTRY OF SNARK. · Marco Rubio is the son of Cuban immigrants. His parents left three years before the 1959 revolution. His mother tried to return a few years later but “Fidel Castro’s dictatorship made it impossible.” (Note: I have no… Read more: LIFE AND NEWS NOTES: Cuba

Wednesday 19 August 2026 NEWS SHORTS · Angie Nixon (D) has won the Democratic Senate primary in Florida. She advocates Medicare for all. She has a nice, friendly manner, she smiles while she’s talking about policy. Scarborough, of course, tries to take her on about “abolishing the police” and opening the border. She supports abolishing for-profit prisons. (Note: Good for her. She’s good.) She advocates a “clear pathway to citizenship.” BOOKS YOU WILL LOVE Unger, Craig (2024) Den of Spies: Reagan,… Read more: (no title)

9:30 AM 18 August 2026 BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ Unger, Craig (2024) Den of Spies: Reagan, Carter, and the Secret History of the Treason That Stole the White House. Boston and New York: Mariner Books. “I’ve undertaken the task of telling what happened, how and why a spy story from real life that played an enormous role in a contemporary American history. It’s the story of how master spy William Casey and his associates put together a secret network of arms… Read more: BLOG 18 August 2026

Monday 17 August 2026 BOOKS YOU NEED TO READ Unger, Craig (2024) Den of Spies: Reagan, Carter, and the Secret History of the Treason That Stole the White House. Boston and New York: Mariner Books. Reagan “had No authority. To negotiate with Iran before he took the oath of office. And Iran would not have released the hostages without some communication with Team Reagan. But they did release the hostages. And yet, despite the self-evident nature of that anomaly Americans still… Read more: NEWS NOTES ABOUT ISRAEL

Sunday 16 August 2026 MORNING SUMMER SHORTS · On Sunday, Ukraine launched hundreds of drones across Russia. It was one of the largest aerial attacks of the war (AP News). · A Spanish fighter jet shot down a drone that had entered Romanian airspace (AP News) · The Wall Street Journal blames the problems of low morale in the U.S. Navy on the Democrats (note: Of course). (Wall Street Journal) · “Gulf leaders worry the president is unable to manage the… Read more: NEWS SHORTS AND UKRAINE

Wednesday 12 August 2026 The DSA candidate lost the primary for nomination for governor in Wisconsin. Joe Scarborough is gloating. Crowley (the winner) issued a statement that is the same old Democrat shit. He will be running against a Republican who voted against certifying the 2020 election. One race and the DSA candidate lost by a small margin and Morning Joe is going to go on about it all morning long. They are terrified by the DSA. Ousted dictator Bashar al-Assad… Read more: BLOG

11 AUGUST 2026 2028 ELECTION: ARTICLE: Riccardi, Nicholas and Tom Beaumont (8/11/26) “What to watch Tuesday…” AP News. State Representative Francesca Hong is a Democratic Socialist and front-runner for the party’s nomination for governor in Wisconsin. In Minnesota, Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan is running for the nomination for an open seat against centrist Democratic Rep. Angie Craig. Hong supported defunding the police in 2020, but has sine disavowed. The stakes are high for the Democrats nationally. Winning control of the GOP… Read more: LIFE AND NEWS NOTES, PRIMARIES, BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ, GAUGUIN AND CATS

BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ Unger, Craig (2024) “Den of Spies: Reagan, Cartr, and the Secret History of the Treason that Stole the white House.” Commentators like Joe Scarborough keep saying that Trump is now in exactly the same position Jimmy Carter was with the Iranians. That is completely untrue. Trump doesn’t have another party actively working and scheming to make the situation in Iran worse rather than better. This is s quote from the beginning of Craig Unger’s book: “At the… Read more: DEN OF SPIES

Sunday 9 August 2026 Oh, boy. It’s around 9 AM and Sam has just caught one of our little Robins, so infrequently seen in the neighborhood. Sam caught him first, then when Mike told him to drop it, Eddie swooped in and picked him up and ran with him. I hate this. We hate this and try to keep them from killing anything, even the lizards. I will walk around the yard begging, “Sam, please, let’s let him go home?” It… Read more: LIFE AMD NEWS NOTES

AND NEWS NOTES FROM AN ELDERLY, OVER-EDUCATED CHILDLESS (AS PER J.D.VANCE) CAT LADY BEAVERING AWAY IN ONE OF THE BASEMENTS OF THE MINISTRY OF SNARK Saturday 8 August 2026 BOOKS: Unger, Craig (2024) “Den of spies: Reagan, Carter, and the secret history of the treason that stole the white house.” · “As the 1980 presidential campaign neared the end, Republican LIFE operatives did something extraordinary to make sure the hostage crisis played out in the favor; they made a secret deal… Read more: (no title)

Blog Art 8 August 2626 This is Berthe Morisot, one of my favorite painters. Born in 1841, she was one of two famous women who were part of the Impressionist movement. She was selected six times to exhibit her work in the Salon, an esteemed exhibit of painters chosen by a panel in Paris. Then in 1874, she joined the “rejected” Impressionists, a group of more daring painters which included Paul Cezanne, Edgar Deas, Moet, Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Alfred… Read more: (no title)

Friday 7 August 2026 Mike this morning: Didn’t we just do Friday? Me: Yes. It is indeed Friday and cleaning day. No matter how much I love having the house cleaned, I dread it with every fiber of my being. We finally got Eddie to eat yesterday afternoon. For those who weren’t with us yesterday, Eddie is the gray and white autistic kitty who just had a tooth removed. He is still extremely skittish, but at least he ate. He came… Read more: (no title)

Thursday 6 August 2026 They are trying to hold Fauci in contempt of Congress this morning. And, the government evidently is telling people that if they join the military, their families won’t be deported. First of all I don’t even think this is true. Second, this is not the best way to recruit quality soldiers. Good God. Every morning, I say this: “Good God.” Alva Edison is home from the vet minus one tooth. Mike said he sat in his lap… Read more: (no title)

Wednesday 5 August 2026 We just came back from taking Eddie to the vet to have his teeth cleaned. What a ruckus. The cats were everywhere, saying “What’s up?” “Mom, why are you up?” “Why is everybody walking so fast?” “What did Eddie do?” “You’re taking him away without even giving him a last supper?” “Why are you walking towards me?” And I spilled cat food all over the floor. Every time they started eating, something would happen and they would… Read more: (no title)

Tuesday 4 August 2026 Tillis and Cornyn are thanking Blanche for setting to writing a non-binding agreement to ditch the slush fund or the January 7 trash. It is revolting, just revolting. I think the news got to me last night in a way it hasn’t in a long time. Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, Virginia an Washington are holding contests today which will be influential in who holds Congress next year. The Michigan race is probably the most important one. There, two… Read more: MICHIGAN PRIMARY, IMMIGRANT DEATHS, EBOLA, RUSSIA, LIFE WITH CATS

Monday 3 August 2026 After an extraordinary rant on Friday, Joe Scarborough is nowhere to be seen this morning. Trump has backed off a major attack on Iran again. He has little option but to declare victory and get the hell out. Trump has lost control of this war. David French of the New York Times calls it the war that could “swallow the world.” https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/opinion/iran-war-russia-ukraine-world-war-threat.html More than 4 million people are no longer receiving food aid after changes to SNAP.… Read more: KENNEDY, ISRAEL AND WAR.

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