Cheryl Rofer

This is very much down in the weeds, but I think it's worth noting for the nuke nerds. The Jasons have issued a report on the plutonium in nuclear weapons.

This week we had yet one more op-ed from a physician commenting on the unknown state of Donald Trump's health. There are reasons to believe that Trump's health isn't good. Citizens should be apprised of the state of the President's health. And yes, this is Donald Trump.

Over the weekend, Ukrainian-made Flamingo missiles hit the Progress Rocket Space Center in Samara. The Center produces Soyuz-2 rockets, which are used for transport to the International Space Station and to place GLONASS satellites, the Russian geographical positioning system, in orbit, along with Russia's equivalent of Starlink.

Early last year, a number of people were saying confidently that the military would resist Donald Trump's dictatorial impulses. The people who study civil-military relations, however, said no, they would obey and pointed toward Latin American military juntas as the reason we shouldn't want anything else.

He doesn't want to do the job. He wants to build his ballroom and travel with Natalie on their apparently defenseless flying palace, gifted by the Emir of Qatar.

I've been collecting articles to do a longer post, but it's not going to happen. I'll just drop some themes in this post.

Democratic pollsters are contorting themselves to try to reconcile the claim that voters are closet doctrinal moderates or centrists with victories of members of the Democratic Socialist party. As numerous people have suggested, maybe the median voter isn't tracking the minutiae of whether a candidate is considered right, left, centrist, moderate, or beyond the pale by the pollsters.

I am really, really tired this week, so I think I'll just post some interesting stuff from Bluesky. There was an unusual amount of good material this morning! Feel free to share what you think are highlights or lowlights in the comments. I'll be back with more commentary next week, I hope.

The situation with Canada is very bad. Canada has been our friend and partner forever. Donald Trump is throwing that friendship away because of his pathologies.

CIA Director John Ratcliffe took a quick trip to Moscow yesterday, with a stopover in Riga, Latvia. He was there for only a few hours. Apparently it was to deliver a message not to attack NATO.