BAM dropped off to just 6.75/day after July 30 from 14.3/day before.
Tuesday, August 4, 2026
Pete Buttigieg wants fewer, bigger congressional districts, when what we need is more, smaller districts
His idea is 1920s Republicanism on steroids.
Those guys fixed representation in the House at 435 so that it wouldn't grow any more with population as the founders intended. That automatically increased the power of the Congress over time.
It's why no one feels represented anymore.
Pete would just make that a LOT worse, concentrating power in fewer and fewer hands.
Big NO!
We need more representation, not less, with power diluted in many hands.
We could eliminate gerrymandering at a stroke simply by electing one representative from each existing county, or group of counties in less densely populated areas.
Maximum representation would grow to 3,244. That averages to one representative per 106,000 people instead of the one per 788,000 we have now.
Seen here:
- Proportional representation in the House of Representatives, with fewer and larger districts and a ban on Gerrymandering -
"For school board or city council, sometimes you get more than one vote
and more than one person wins -- we could do that for Congress. The
people who get the top three votes, not just one, get to go to
Congress," he explained. "You’d have bigger districts, fewer districts
and it would be harder to gerrymander."
The lunatic whom Democrats want to be governor in Wisconsin, Executive Chef (!) Francesca Hong of the Madison chapter of DSA, wants to cancel "colonialist" Thanksgiving lol
But she has canceled the tweet instead lol.
Chef Francesca oddly finds Culvers acceptable fare, except when there are too many old white people in there.
If she sounds a little crazy, she admits she was diagnosed bipolar in 2006-2007 when she was 18.
She went to the university but dropped out in 2009 and got a job as a dishwasher.
She rose from dishwasher to "executive chef" at the restaurant with lightning speed, between 2009 and 2011, and was so good at it that that restaurant closed in 2016.
She and her husband then started their own restaurant.
But evidently she found it easier to succeed as a radical politician from Madison from 2020 than in the restaurant business and in marriage.
Apparently both their restaurant and their marriage were casualties of the pandemic.
Just think of the conflagration she can make out of Wisconsin.
Because some of them are communists, including Abdul El-Sayed
Why Michigan voters are hearing ‘communist’ as they vote Tuesday
... Democratic socialist Darializa Avila Chevalier, who took down Rep. Adriano Espaillat, D-N.Y., in a Democratic primary in June, maintained a since-deleted Twitter account on the platform now known as X. There she included calls to “seize the means of production” and a quip that the now-candidate wiped her hands on an American flag. Trump seized on the latter tweet in a recent interview with CNBC.
Chevalier has since told MS NOW that she is not a communist. She called the focus on her past commentary a “distraction.” ...
This story fails to mention Abdul El-Sayed's proposal for the federal government to take a 50+1 stake in AI.
Most of the coverage of El-Sayed instead emphasizes that he says he's not technically a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, just as Chevalier insists she's not a commie.
This idiot Scott McKay calls Haley Stevens Heather, doesn't call on Michigan Republicans even at the last hour to vote for her in the Democrat primary to save Democrats from themselves
That's the only way this works, unless you just want to rest on the platitude that you can vote yourself into socialism but you’ve got to shoot your way out, which apparently he does.
Today is election day. These people have been silent until now.
The socialists are serious. No one else is.
If you can't bring yourself to vote for Stevens, there isn't a snowball's chance in hell that you would ever pull a trigger.
You Simply Cannot Give Power to Lunatics
... [Hasan] Piker is also stumping for Abdul El-Sayed, who is now as much as a 15-point favorite over the more establishmentarian Heather Stevens in the Michigan Senate race. El-Sayed comes from an accomplished academic background and has apparently made a lot of money based on the properties he and his wife own, but we don’t know how he managed it. He’s an avowed DSA socialist whose speeches and pronouncements contain open rejections of the American founding and way of life, and it doesn’t seem to bother Michigan Democrat voters in the least.
Because Michigan Democrats, like Wisconsin Democrats, are now made up of a majority of lunatics who think that abandoning American culture, economics, and politics and putting people like Francesca Hong and Abdul El-Sayed, not to mention Darieliza Avila Chevalier and Zohran Mamdani, in positions of power will create something better. ...
Monday, August 3, 2026
Ezra Klein is just another trickster, a stand-in for the Democratic Socialists of America
Christopher Nolan's Trojan Horse
... Now we need those who would remake this world.
Jonah is still ticked off that the Jews were expelled from ancient Rome three times
Meanwhile, there are about 100 towns named Troy in America, and the Christian American heartland had no problem loving Rome and Athens and hating slavery at the same time.
Sunday, August 2, 2026
Suez Canal Transits 2Q2026 vs. 2Q2023 are still down almost 48% for vessels and 60% for tonnage because of the Houthi threat in the Red Sea
2Q2026
Number of vessels 3580 (down 47.8%)
Net Ton 163,899,000 (down 59.7%)
Number of Tankers 1526 (down 31.7%)
Net Ton 77,558,000 (down 27.9%)
Tankers per day 16.8
2Q2023
Number of vessels 6856
Net Ton 407,119,000
Number of Tankers 2235
Net Ton 107,592,000
Tankers per day 24.6
Middle East tanker transits July 26-August 1, 2026: Strait of Hormuz 2.0/day, Bab-el-Mandeb Strait 10.7/day
SoH normal 2022: 70.0/day
BAM normal 2022: 30.0/day
Saturday, August 1, 2026
Do Michigan auto workers know that the UAW, which has endorsed Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan, also endorsed anti-auto Democratic Socialist Claire Valdez in NY-7?
How the UAW abandoned auto-workers to back radicals
... The UAW is no longer all about building cars. The union, desperate to build its shrinking ranks, has been adding members in all kinds of professions and trades, including signing up some 100,000 people who work in higher education. That group, which includes post-doctoral researchers and adjunct faculty members, now constitutes more than 25 percent of UAW membership, according to the Detroit Press, and has led, not surprisingly, to a significantly more progressive and activist union profile.
This is why the union’s 2022 changes to its election process, intended to “give a greater voice to rank-and-file members,” has instead empowered an ever-more radical constituency of university teaching assistants. UAW’s resulting leftward lurch made headlines recently in New York’s Democratic primary contests, where democratic socialist Claire Valdez won her race to represent New York’s District 7 in Congress. Valdez had previously worked at Columbia University as a program assistant in the visual arts department, where she joined the UAW. The union boasted, “UAW Region 9A mobilized thousands of members across NY-07 to help deliver a victory for New York’s working class.”
Here is what we know about Valdez: she went to the exclusive School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where tuition runs about $60,000 per year. Also, she hates cars. Her campaign embraced the normal lefty litany: abolishing ICE, Medicare for all, universal rent control and so forth. But one distinctive item was her promise to “fight to redirect federal dollars toward public transportation, walking, and biking” and “reverse the proliferation of surface highways.”
Do UAW workers on Detroit’s assembly lines know that their union’s favored candidate hates automobiles and wants to shut down federal highway spending? Is that in their best interests? ...
Naples, Italy quake is the largest in 40 years
... The quake – which had a depth of 3km and was felt across Naples and the island of Ischia, and as far away as the Sorrento peninsula – was part of an ongoing seismic swarm, Italy’s national institute of geophysics and volcanology said.
... The heaviest damage was reported in Pozzuoli, near the epicentre of the quake, where a building partially collapsed and large chunks of rubble crushed parked cars but caused no injuries. ...
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