I have to talk about the political news tomorrow but it’s the end of the academic year and I’m completely out of touch. I spent all day today battling Legal to let the sweet widow come to the award ceremony. I won. My definition of “including but not limited to” finally prevailed. But I have no idea what’s happening in the world.
Please update me, people. Please, pretty please. I’m a rescuer of sweet old widows, and I deserve help.
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Did you miss all the crazy Trump vs Pope Leo stuff? And the insane Trump as Jesus picture that someone created with AI and Trump posted on Truth Social, then took down because Christians of all strips found it blasphemous?
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Clarissa often seems to miss the most insane Trump-developments. Cognitive dissonance I guess, it must feel very bad to know that one has voted for this absolute shit show. Like how do Trump voters feel about the killing of school children in Iran, about the blatant Epstein cover up etc? I guess they just ignore the news that could threaten their own self-image as good person making good choices?
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You know why you never get what you need from the political process? Because you think that politics is the silly circus that you listed here.
Democracy was a mistake.
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there’s a US blockade of Iranian ports
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The Iran impasse is proof that the USA is no longer the world superpower most Americans thought it was: a giant with clay feet doesn’t cover it.
Plus, whoever is in charge of communication at the White House should be fired promptly.
Finally, what happened to serious political leadership in the US?
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“spent all day today battling Legal to let the sweet widow come to the award ceremony. I won.”
Congratulations! Feel free to wish her well and thank her for her generosity from your readers (if she has any idea they exist, which… she probably doesn’t) but anyway, the thought stands. Good for you (and her)!!!!
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My “highlights” of the last days: Melania Trumps bizarre press conference about Epstein, the astonishing fact that Pam Bondi got out of her testifying under oath about the whole Epstein cover-up by being fired as AG, Trumps randomly attacking the pope and Meloni and posing as Jesus. American politics feels increasingly like the genius “Cicero” trilogy by Robert Harris about the end of the Roman republic. I wonder if you are still following the Epstein saga at all, I find it very illuminatig to check the top stories on reddit/r/epstein every day, so see who is still fighting for justice and accountability and who has left any decency and morals completely behind them.
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The answer is here: https://clarissasblog.com/2026/02/02/revelations-2/
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I share a beautiful story about getting justice for a widow and this is the invaluable assistance I get in return. Sigh.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/business/strait-of-hormuz-blockade.html
“more than 20 commercial vessels not linked to Iran had transited the strait in the first 24 hours of the blockade”
So… not a total shutdown as some news sources advertised (and nyt doesn’t bother to mention until after most have stopped reading): US now controls the Strait.
-Swalwell was apparently running for governor of CA? But DNC decided they needed him out so they #metooted him.
-Convictions vacated for another group of J6ers, including Enrique Tarrio.
-BBC released an investigative report showing lawyers (?) coaching migrants to pretend to be gay so they can get asylum. Which has obviously been happening: the more interesting question is why the BBC is reporting it. Controlled release?
-ethyl
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Thank you, thank you, thank you. You are a true friend.
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Here’s what I found:
https://x.com/i/status/2044519596942643310
This is a betrayal of enormous proportions. This is where “they eat the cats” ended up.
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-Oh, and protests are happening in Ireland, ostensibly over fuel prices, but…
https://x.com/CilComLFC/status/2044153248584442132
https://x.com/Inevitablewest/status/2044467193660768582
probably other things also.
-It’s finally legal to distill your own liquor in the US again:
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-appeals-court-declares-158-year-old-home-distilling-ban-unconstitutional-2026-04-10/
-ethyl
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Finally interesting news, thank you.
A Republican congresswoman is trying to pass a massive amnesty bill, and people fixate on some meme? I just honestly. Memes are more important than legislation these days. Neoliberalism has won so resoundingly that it’s not even funny.
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