Category: Government (Page 1 of 34)

One of Melania’s little projects.

April 25, 2026 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

Melania Trump unveils a White House replica beehive buzzing with new colonies on the South Lawn

First lady Melania Trump on Friday announced a sweet new addition to the South Lawn, expanding the White House honey program with a newly installed and fully functioning beehive modeled after the executive mansion.

The queen-worthy new hive, hand-crafted by a local Virginia artisan in the image of the White House, will add two new bee colonies to the property’s existing two.

That seems like a good idea, but it’s not going to stay pretty. Everything about bees is sticky. Melania can probably call Goddard Space Flight Center and get a new mini White House printed up. NASA has large volume 3-D printers, and they are only 6 miles away.

Fixing up the place.

April 24, 2026 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool gets a blue coating as Trump tackles renovation project

In Trump’s telling, the reflection pool project is a case study in business acumen. The president said he scrapped plans to have the granite replaced, which he said was estimated to cost $301 million and would take at least three years.

The usual haters will think this is a bad idea and some judge will delay Trump’s project, but I like having a president who wants to fix some shit and has a plausible and economical way to do it.

The president went with a plan to clean the granite and lay down a new “industrial grade pool” surface for $1.5 million, he said. All told, it would take a few weeks. Trump noted it would be ready well before July 4, when the nation celebrates the 250th anniversary of its independence.

Fourteen years ago, the reflecting pool got a $34 million renovation that held up for a few years before having more problems.

Trump says he’s built maybe a 100 swimming pools and has some guys. If it holds up for 20 or 30 years before it needs to be redone, that’s great.

The SPLC was playing the long con.

April 23, 2026 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

Presidential candidate Trump was frequently attacked for saying, “there are good people on both sides.” at the ‘Unite the Right’ rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Now we learn that the bad people on both sides were working together.

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), started out as an organization to help poor Black folks in the South. That was back in the day. Now, the SPLC is the organization that decides who or what organizations are racist, or right-wing extremists. The FBI, corporate media and major banks respect their opinion.

Now we learn that the SPLC was paying the White supremacists that they were publicly opposing. That seemed to ludicrous to be true, and the corporate media isn’t explaining it, so I read the indictment from the Department of Justice.

Experimenting with psychedelic drugs.

April 21, 2026 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

CNN: Trump accelerates research on psychedelic treatments

President Donald Trump on Saturday signed an executive order aimed at encouraging expanded research into psychedelic drugs, part of a broader push to explore emerging mental health treatments.

This may be the Trumpiest news ever.

Moron meeting is well-attended in Wisconsin.

April 20, 2026 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

Activists Try to Remove 2,000 Beagles from Wisconsin Research Facility

On Saturday, April 18, at 8:52 am, the Dane County Sheriff’s Office responded to approximately 1000 activists converging on Ridglan Farms in the town of Blue Mounds.

This looks like a war zone. I adore beagles, but these chaotic people are violent thugs. If they had succeeded, they weren’t going to flee the scene with a beagle under each arm. The beagles would have been released into the wild to be eaten by coyotes or face some other grim death.

Europe is a little dog that thinks it’s a big dog.

April 15, 2026 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

JP: CENTCOM using underwater drones to clear mines in the Strait of Hormuz

US Central Command (CENTCOM) has announced that it will be sending underwater drones to help clear the Strait of Hormuz.

Today, we began the process of establishing a new passage, and we will share this safe pathway with the maritime industry soon to encourage the free flow of commerce.

Europe is so embarrassing.

Another impressive operation.

April 5, 2026 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

TWZ: F-15E Weapon Systems Officer Shot Down Over Iran Has Been Rescued

The F-15E Weapons System Officer (WSO), missing since his plane was shot down on Friday, has been rescued after a very risky combat search and rescue operation and fierce firefight in southern Iran.

This is a teachable moment.

The dementia brigade is out again.

March 28, 2026 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

‘No Kings’ rallies are always scheduled early in the day, so everyone can get home in time to watch Matlock.

Nobody knows what these dotards are trying to say. I wish his highness, the exalted Trump, would call out the pikeman to drive these peasants back to Cracker Barrel or the senior center.

Do you truly understand what Japan just gained?

March 22, 2026 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

Trump made a Pearl Harbor joke in front Japan’s prime minister and press. The Japanese will view that interaction much differently than Americans do. This post on X may offer some insight.

Do you truly understand what Japan just gained? As a Japanese citizen, I’m telling you—this moment changed history.

Trump’s Pearl Harbor joke wasn’t an insult. It was the key that finally unlocked something buried deep in the Japanese soul.

Trump is a funny guy.

March 19, 2026 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

President Trump was meeting with the Prime Minister of Japan, when a Japanese reporter asked why US allies weren’t given advanced notice before the attack on Iran.

Trump is a funny guy and just puts it out there.