What Is It With Him?

He has a loose screw... he is so fixed on seeing his name plastered everywhere!

Urgent motion filed to stop carving of Trump’s name into US Institute of Peace building

Ousted board members say a contractor has already been selected for the project.

Politico

By Ashley Ahn

09/17/2026

Ousted board members of the U.S. Institute of Peace are asking a federal court to block the imminent carving of President Donald Trump’s name on the headquarters of the nonpartisan institution he sought to dismantle shortly after taking office.

Members of the board who were removed by the administration filed an emergency motion Thursday in Washington in a dispute that has echoes of Trump’s effort to place his name on the Kennedy Center.

What is it with him... does he have Walter Mitty fantasies?

The Hill writes,

“The United States Institute of Peace was once a bloated, useless entity that blew $50 million per year while delivering no peace,” spokesperson Anna Kelly said in a statement.

“Now, the Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace, which is both beautifully and aptly named after a President who ended eight wars in less than a year, will stand as a powerful reminder of what strong leadership can accomplish for global stability,” she continued. “Frivolous litigation to stymie these efforts should be rejected.”

So by gutting the agency Trump thinks he deservers his name on the building?

What has Trump stuck his brand on? Here is a partial list:

• Trump Tower — New York
• Trump National Golf Club — multiple locations
• Trump International Golf Club — multiple locations
• Trump National Doral — Miami
• Trump Turnberry — Scotland
• Trump International Golf Links — Ireland and Scotland
• Trump International Hotel & Tower — Chicago
• Trump International Hotel — Washington, D.C.
• Trump International Hotel — Las Vegas
• Trump Winery — Virginia
• Trump International Oman
• Trump International Vietnam
• Trump International Golf Club Dubai
• Trump International Hotel & Tower Dubai
• Trump Tower at Century City in Manila
• Trump Towers Istanbul
• Trump Tower Bucharest

And now:

• Trump Ballroom
• Trump Arch
• Trump Kennedy Center
• Trump U.S. Institute of Peace

Tell me with a straight face that Trump doesn't have a Caesar complex.

You're Over Reacting!

How many times have I heard that when I write about Trump and the Republican Party, and how it is mirroring Nazi Germany in the 1930s? “Oh, you are overreacting! It can never happen here!”

In July on "X" 

Rep. Nancy Mace

House Republicans

@RepNancyMace

Just because you're mentally ill doesn't mean the rest of America has to play along. 

A man is a man. A woman is a woman.

6:30 PM · Jul 29, 2026

But that is not the first time she has made comments about us. Last September, she said...

Trans People Need To Be Taken ‘Off The Streets’ After Charlie Kirk Shooting

TPM

by Hunter Walker

09.17.25

The killing of right wing activist and influencer Charlie Kirk has prompted disturbing and questionably legal calls for a crackdown on the left from President Trump and his allies. In an appearance on the cable network Newsmax on Tuesday evening, Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX) took things further — way further. 

After latching on to the fact the man being charged with the shooting allegedly had a transgender romantic partner, Jackson called gender non-conforming people a “virus” as he argued they need to be placed in institutions and barred from the internet. 

“We have to do something about this,” Jackson said after railing against doctors who aid with “gender transition. “We have to treat these people. We have to get them off the streets and we have to get them off the internet. We can’t let them communicate with each other. I’m all about free speech, but this is a virus, this is a cancer that’s spreading across this country that’s going to do great damage to normal, hard working, law abiding people.”

What are we going to do—laugh it off? “Oh, she didn't mean it that way!” Our “community trauma” with the Holocaust, with the attacks in Turkey and Senegal... it raises our hackles when we see that happening here.

And then there is the language coming from the Trump administration itself with him labeling us terrorists

With Trump’s administration incorporating “gender” into its domestic-terrorism framework, it becomes even harder for many of us to simply laugh it off.

Political Notebook: Book examines intersection of the Holocaust and US LGBTQ movement

by Matthew S. Bajko, Assistant Editor  Wednesday, October 8, 2025

From the start of the Nazi persecution of homosexuals in 1933, the atrocities Adolph Hitler and his regime waged against LGBTQ Germans and others has impacted the LGBTQ community in America. Long before the Stonewall riots in New York City of 1969, the horrors unleashed by the Nazis were central to the fight for LGBTQ rights in the U.S.

So argues Thomas R. Dunn, founder and director of the Queer Memory Project of Northern Colorado, in his new book “The Pink Scar: How Nazi Persecution Shaped the Struggle for LGBTQ+ Rights.” It will be released October 21 by Penn State University Press as the first book in its Troubling Democracy series.

[...]

Practically from the start of the war, LGBTQ Americans had access to news reports about how German homosexuals were being rounded up. The coverage spoke about the pink triangles they were made to wear in the concentration camps to denote their being gay.

Our collective memories remember the Lavender Scare. We survived Anita Bryant and “Save Our Children,” and now we hear it all again!

Republican lawmakers Nancy Mace and Ronny Jackson call for transgender people to be institutionalized

GOP U.S. Reps. Nancy Mace and Ronny Jackson both called for the institutionalization of transgender people on Tuesday.

The Advocate

Erin Reed

Sep 17, 2025

In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s killing—committed by a suspect who notably was not transgender—conservative leaders have seized the moment to escalate their war on LGBTQ+ people. Vice President JD Vance and Stephen Miller used the death to demand the dismantling of NGOs critical of Kirk. Far-right influencer Matt Walsh openly called for executions of those he branded “LGBTQ+ terrorists.” And now, two sitting members of Congress have crossed a new threshold, explicitly calling for the institutionalization of transgender people—an escalation even by today’s standards.

First, South Carolina representative Nancy Mace, who has a history of vehement opposition to transgender people in Congress, called for the institutionalization of transgender people in a street interview where she hurled slurs at the community. She first stated of the shooter’s partner, “It was a transgender… It was a [tr*nny].” When she was asked how she would feel if she were called names the way she calls transgender people, she said “these people are violently ill and should be in a straitjacket with a hard steel lock on it.”

I am sure that back in the ’30s their neighbors said, “You worry too much.” I worry about a coup and a crackdown on dissidents. And when the government begins using the language of domestic terrorism and dissidents in connection with “gender” and “gender extremism,” it is understandable that we and LGBTQ+ communities pay close attention.

Legacy

[Editorial]

Merriam-Webster Dictionary:

Legacy

1.

something (such as personal property or money) that is willed to someone by a person who has died: bequest

2.

something transmitted by or received from an ancestor or predecessor or from the past

3.

a candidate for membership in an organization (such as a school or fraternal order) who is given special status because of a familial relationship to a member

What I want to write about is number 2.

Upstairs, I have old photos of my mother and her sisters. The black-and-white photos of family from the 1920s are still... well, not quite like new, but only slightly faded. But the color photos and slides? Their colors have faded and taken on a red shift.

And yet, what do the new generations leave behind? Vaporware.

You know all those huge data centers you are fighting against? Well, my photos are in there, and your photos are in there, along with all of that stuff you have in the cloud. Your wedding photos, the pictures of your first baby, that first vacation that the two of you took, that photo of the "double dare" to go on the roller coaster at the amusement park—they are all in the cloud! No, wait, they are not in your attic. They can go "POOF" at the press of a key, or the moment you stop paying. They are in your social media posts, but what happens after you are no longer here? Yes, they are up on Facebook and all of your friends can see them, but what about your future generations?

What happens to our future generations?

I burned discs of the old family photos, but they can’t just be picked up and looked through—you now need a "device."

What will our legacy be?

{/Editorial] 

Saturday 9: Everybody Loves a Clown (1965)

Saturday 9: Everybody Loves a Clown (1965)

On Saturdays I take a break from the heavy stuff and have some fun… 

 

Unfamiliar with this week's tune? Hear it here.

1) Not everyone loves clowns. "Coulrophobia" is the irrational fear of clowns. Do you have any fears or phobias?

I never did but it seems like the older I get the more acrophobia until I walked out on the French King Bridge to take some fall foliage photos. I froze.

2) This week's featured artist, Gary Lewis, sings that he jokes a lot at parties. In social settings, are you more a talker or a listener?

Listener.

3) He's dreaming of a special girl. Do you often daydream?

All the time… I’m the modern day Walter Mitty dreaming of heroine winning space battles.

 

4) Gary named his band The Playboys because they were always late to rehearsals and Gary joked that they would rather play than work. Do you tend to be early, late, or exactly on time?

Late… in rebellion! My father was a colonel and if we had to be somewhere @ 5PM we would get there around 4:30 and wait so we could be there at 5!

5) Gary Lewis had first-hand knowledge of clowns. His father was famous funny man Jerry Lewis. Who always makes you laugh?

There hasn’t been a lot of laughter later since Jan 20th

6) In 2017, Gary was in the news when it became known that Jerry disinherited all six of his sons from his will. Have you ever attended the reading of a will?

Nope.

7) This past summer found Gary Lewis on The My Generation Tour, performing with other acts from the mid-1960s, like The Lovin' Spoonful, The Hollies, and Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels. Do you enjoy listening to "the oldies?"

Well I have a theory… you mainly like the music you grew up with.

The Eagles, Linda Ronstadt. The Beatles, The Stones… etc.

 

8) In 1965, when this song was popular, Muhammad Ali defeated Sonny Liston to become the heavyweight champion of the world. Have you ever attended a boxing match?

Yes… boring! When I was a Cub Scout we went to a PAL boxing match that was televised. That was what save the day for me the TV cameras!

9) Random question: What color is your toothbrush?

It’s the one that the dentist gave me… for a child… all multi-colored.

The Witch Hunt!

Here we go again! Outrageous accusations to grab headlines and rally their base... see we are doing something but it is the "liberal" courts that strike us down!

Trump admin investigating Central Mass. school district over student’s gender transition

MassLive

By Susannah Sudborough

 Sep. 17, 2026

The Trump administration announced Thursday that it is investigating allegations that Northborough-Southborough school officials facilitated a student’s “social” gender transition without the consent or knowledge of the teen’s parents.

The student’s parents, Joseph and Arlene Kutzko, claim their child, a former Algonquin Regional High School student, attended after-school counseling sessions supporting a gender transition, according to the Department of Education (DOE). The Kutzkos were not informed of the sessions and were under the impression the student, who is a minor, was receiving extra schooling for a math class.

The Kutzkos also claim that school staff began using a male name and pronouns to refer to the student without the parents’ knowledge, federal officials said.

The Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education advises schools to refer to students by their chosen gender identity, and to make a plan with the student regarding when and how to inform their parents of the student’s gender identity. This policy has also been supported by federal courts.

But not by Trump & Company.

One question is when is a child old enough to make decisions on their own? Another is when is a child old enough to reject their parent's religion?

Investigation launched into Massachusetts schools over secret gender transition

Catholic Herald

Christine Rousselle

Sept. 17, 2026

The US Department of Education is investigating a school district in Massachusetts after the district allegedly enabled a child’s gender transition without notifying her parents.

“Today, the US Department of Education’s (the Department’s) Student Privacy Policy Office (SPPO) launched an investigation into The Public Schools of Northborough and Southborough in Massachusetts to determine whether the school district violated the Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment (PPRA) and the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) after reports that school officials allegedly facilitated the ‘gender transition’ of a minor student without parents’ knowledge or consent,” said a September 17 press release from the Department of Education.

“Parents have a right to know what is happening with their children at school, particularly when it concerns deeply personal matters involving their health and wellbeing,” said Frank Miller, Director of the Student Privacy Policy Office, in the press release.

Open and shut case according to them... right? Well lets jump back to the MassLive article.

At the beginning of last year, DCF removed the student from their parents’ home, WBUR reported. On Tuesday, Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey told reporters at an unrelated event that DCF removed the child from their parents’ home after criminal charges were filed against the Kutzkos. Healey declined to comment on whether DCF was helping the child transition genders.

Federal officials said the school district’s actions may violate FERPA, a federal law that requires parent access and limited control over their children’s school records. Federal investigators are also investigating whether the district violated a federal law known as PPRA, which requires schools to obtain written consent from parents before looking into the student or their family regarding sensitive subjects, including mental health and sex behaviors and attitudes.

So to throw a monkey wrench into the mix... the parents are not the guardians of the child.

In January 2025, Joseph Kutzko was charged after prosecutors say he punched his then-15-year-old child in the shoulder, pulled his child’s hair and threatened to kill his child “for not singing in tune during a birthday celebration,” according to court records. He was arrested and pleaded not guilty in Westborough District Court.

Arlene Kutzko was charged with witness intimidation after prosecutors say she pressured her child to “tell the school that she was exaggerating and being stupid” the same month, according to court records.

In December 2025, a judge dismissed the charges against Joseph Kutzko under conditions, including that he attend an anger management class, stay away from his child and abide by a restraining order, court records indicate. Arlene Kutzko’s case was also dismissed after she agreed to stay away from her child and abide by a restraining order. The conditions for both parents expire in December.

We don't know if it was "Beat the gay" out of the child or not, but whatever the reason the fed seem to have a very weak case.

Just Like The 1930s

Did you know that in Germany in the 1930s they had a box to check off that said "Jew"? Now the Trump administration will have a box to check off... "Trans!"

A double-edged sword!

Back around 2010, when we were trying to pass the gender-inclusive non-discrimination bill and we replied that we had no idea of the number of trans people in Connecticut, we thought that lack of data was a bad thing. But now, that may seem like a good thing. Why? Because someone like Trump could misuse the data.

Trump admin’s proposed US Census rules could mean ‘forced outing’ for trans Americans

The Trump administration is proposing sweeping changes to the rules governing the 2030 US Census, including a requirement that could make questions about biological sex mandatory for respondents, a change critics say could effectively force transgender people to disclose their trans status to the federal government.

The Pink News

by Sian Thompson

Sept 17, 2026

The proposal, published by the Census Bureau on September 10, would prohibit questions about race, ethnicity and sexual orientation from appearing on the short-form decennial census. At the same time, it would allow questions about biological sex, date of birth and household relationships to be included for the purpose of verifying the population count. The proposed rule is part of a much broader overhaul of the decennial census.

News outlet The Needle argued the practical impact would leave trans people with limited options: disclose sex assigned at birth, lie, or refuse to take part. It wrote: “By requiring trans people to identify themselves by their sex assigned at birth, and with a looming threat of prosecution for noncompliance, the Trump Administration is compelling every trans person to out themselves to the Federal Government.”

The Needle also claimed: “This is an attempt to weaponise the Census to make a list of every trans person in the United States.”

Leave it to Trump to make the census racist! I don't know about you, but I will go with what is on my birth certificate. But we are not the only ones Trump is attacking!

Democrats say citizenship question could derail census test and deter immigrants from participating

AP News

By  MIKE SCHNEIDER

February 19, 2026

U.S. Census Bureau plans to use a questionnaire with a citizenship question as part of its practice test for the 2030 census could jeopardize the once-a-decade head count and scare away immigrants from participating, congressional Democrats warned Thursday.

Democrats on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform urged the Census Bureau to drop plans to use the American Community Survey form, which includes the citizenship question, and instead use a traditional census questionnaire that omits it. The on-the-ground tests in Huntsville, Alabama, and Spartanburg, S.C., start next month.

“The Trump Administration is risking millions of taxpayer dollars to pursue policies which could fatally compromise the 2030 count before it even begins,” they wrote in a letter to acting Census Bureau Director George Cook and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, whose department oversees the statistical agency.

Okay, the Constitution says a census shall "be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons..." and "...within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct." Nowhere does it say only "citizens" shall be counted. But the Republicans are trying to weave their transphobia and xenophobia into the count. NPR from last year wrote;

A Trump administration official on Friday signaled a potential rollback of the racial and ethnic categories approved for the 2030 census and other future federal government forms.

Supporters of those categories fear that any last-minute modifications to the U.S. government's standards for data about race and ethnicity could hurt the accuracy of census data and other future statistics used for redrawing voting districts, enforcing civil rights protections and guiding policymaking.

Legislators run on data. How many (they want to know the voting block this will affect... vote both for and against), how much, etc.

The "Project 2025" policy agenda released by The Heritage Foundation, the conservative, D.C.-based think tank, called for a Republican administration to "thoroughly review any changes" to census race and ethnicity questions because of "concerns among conservatives that the data under Biden Administration proposals could be skewed to bolster progressive political agendas."

"...could be skewed to bolster progressive political agendas." Um... like, yeah, we will actually see the size of the minority populations. But if the questions are asked, will it raise the fear in minority populations of being tracked, like in Germany in the 1930s?

You see... "How many?" Without being counted, we will never know. But if it is asked, minorities might not be counted. Either way, the Republicans win.

Of All Things To Pick On!

At a campaign rally in Olathe, Kansas, on Monday, what did the Vice President speak about?

The war? No...

The soaring price of home heating oil? No...

The skyrocketing national debt? No...

The cost of food? No...

So what did he speak about? Well, Roll Call said he said at the campaign rally;

Adam Hamilton sent his church's donations to sessions with titles, and I'm quoting here, "kink, consent and communication," whatever the hell that means. To sessions whose titles, those are some of the good ones. There are, there are titles that I could not even repeat on this stage or my lovely wife back home would kill me. [Laughter]But maybe worst of all, by sponsoring this festival, Adam Hamilton proudly supported a drag group called Our Ladies of Perpetual Indulgence, which you may remember was the devil worshiping group that was saying special blessings before LA Dodgers games and insulting Christian and every Christian in this room in the process.

JD Vance 00:28:00-00:28:33 (33 sec)

No Signal (0.988)

We gotta be clear about what this group is. This is an anti-Christian hate group. Its whole purpose is to mock the Christian religion. It mocks nuns. It insults the crops. It desecrates the Eucharist and thinks every person of faith in the United States of America is a joke. So let's review. Democrat Pastor Adam Hamilton thinks it's a sin to be white and a sin to raise cattle and eat meat, but he's okay with supporting groups that spit on God-fearing Americans and mock everything that we hold dear.

JD Vance 00:28:33-00:29:11 (38 sec)

Medium (1.641)

Ladies and gentlemen, that is not Christianity. That is left-wing radicalism dressed in the skin suit of our religion. Let's send it packing in November. But more than that, it is the kind of hatred that we rejected in 2024, hatred that asks to split our country up by race, by gender, that tries to separate neighbor against neighbor based on their skin color, based on their background, based on their ethnicity.

The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. (That is their real name.) Who?

How many of you have heard of them? They are part of our history! During the time when Reagan was demonizing us over HIV/AIDS as a "gay disease." And, as usual, the Republicans lie! They lie to stir up anger! The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence is a nonprofit, 501(c)(3) registered organization that raises funds and provides support for people and communities affected by HIV/AIDS, among other causes.

But the VP doesn't say that. Instead, he calls them a "drag" group.

According to their website...

Since our first appearance in San Francisco on Easter Sunday, 1979, the Sisters have devoted ourselves to community service, ministry and outreach to those on the edges, and to promoting human rights, respect for diversity and spiritual enlightenment. We use humor and irreverent wit to expose the forces of bigotry, complacency, and guilt that chain the human spirit.

Instead of talking about the topics the voters want to hear about, he talks about something no one knows about so he can lie, stir up anger against the LGBTQ+ community, and avoid talking about how he is going to end the war.

The Advocate magazine reported,

JD Vance conjures the devil in false attack on LGBTQ+ charity during Kansas speech

The vice president misnamed the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, distorted the group’s work, and twisted Democratic Senate candidate Adam Hamilton’s sermons at a campaign rally.

Christopher Wiggins

Sep 16, 2026

Vice President JD Vance reached for satanic panic Monday while campaigning in Kansas, falsely describing the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence as devil worshipers and mangling the group’s name in the process.

Vance appeared at a MAGA Inc.-organized rally at Webco Manufacturing in Olathe to support Republican U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall, who faces the Rev. Adam Hamilton, a prominent United Methodist pastor and Democrat, in November. State Senate President Ty Masterson, the Republican nominee for governor, also attended, according to the Kansas Reflector.

Vance attacked Hamilton because Resurrection, the church Hamilton founded, was among dozens of sponsors of Kansas City PrideFest.

These people know what the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence really are; a fundraiser for those living with AIDS. But instead, they lie.

"If he was talking about the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, our name isn’t the only thing the vice president got wrong," Roma said. "I do not recognize or accept his inflammatory misrepresentation of who we are and what we do. The Sisters are a global human rights fundraising organization. We do not mock nuns, we are nuns. You will find Sisters around the world serving meals to the hungry, providing warmth and comfort to the unhoused, or counseling the most marginalized and often ostracized members of society. From our early work as pioneers in HIV/AIDS education and prevention, to our continued ministry of service and compassion, the Sisters are committed to upholding our vows to expiate stigmatic guilt and promulgate universal joy."

They lie for votes. They lie to rally anger in their base to vote. They don't care about anyone who gets hurt in the process. It is all about power.