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Friday, October 16, 2026

Finally, we'll have flying cars, Elon Musk?

IN FULL | Tesla’s Flying Car Flips Mid-Air in Jaw-Dropping Elon Musk Reveal | APT

Is Elon Musk a delusional conman?

(Sam Harris) Is trillionaire Elon Musk a con-man or deluded narcissist?

Tuesday, October 13, 2026

International No Bra Day (10/13) 😱

How can this be legal? Moobs (man boobs), male breasts in public with exposed nipples Rated G

I don't need this bra! It's so restrictive, oppressive

(Saturday Night Live) Weekend Update: National No Bra Day; the price of the American Dream rises to $5 million; oldest men in the country

Do I really need any underwear?

No Bra Day is an annual observance on October 13th when women are encouraged to go braless as a means to encourage breast cancer awareness.

No Bra Day was initially observed on July 9, 2011, but within three years it had moved to the 13th day of the National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, which is October.

Users on social media are encouraged to post using the hashtag #nobraday to promote awareness of breast cancer symptoms and to encourage gender equality.

Free the nipple (campaign)

I'm just doing my part.

Some users on social media sites also encourage women to post pictures of themselves not wearing a bra.

Some women embrace No Bra Day as a political statement, whereas others prefer the comfort of discarding what they view as a restrictive, uncomfortable garment.

The observance has spread worldwide. The event was spun off a medical event in Toronto, Canada, that encourages breast cancer survivors to consider reconstructive surgery.

I'm the new Parton. I should be spokesperson

First held on October 19th, 2011, the medical event was named BRA (Breast Reconstruction Awareness) Day. It was adapted by an anonymous individual who conceived of No Bra Day as a way to encourage women to enjoy being braless and to become knowledgeable about breast cancer symptoms.

The day is controversial as some see it as sexualizing and exploiting women's bodies while at the same time belittling a serious disease. More

(Hollywood Chuckles) 18 minutes of Sydney Sweeney and Aubrey Plaza making everyone

Free the nipple campaign

Free the Nipple: for equal rights

Free the nipple is a topfreedom campaign created in 2012 during pre-production of a 2014 film of the same name [1, 2]. The campaign highlights the general convention of allowing males to appear topless in public while considering it sexual, suggestive, or indecent for females to do the same and asserts that this difference is discriminatory, contravening women's rights. The campaign argues that it should be legally and culturally acceptable for women to bare their nipples (a mammalian feature everyone has) in public [3]. More

Like Ariana G, we got it, we flaunt it: moobs (man boobs)

Hollywood destroying world with vapid stars?

Huh? What was the question? Could you repeat it, I don't understand. Where's my PR agent?

SNL, Oct. 9, 2026; Hollywood Chuckles; Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Jen B., Ashley Wells, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly Wiki edit

Thursday, October 1, 2026

South Park goes too far! Trump's upset

(Pod Save America) South Park destroys Trump, MAGA, billionaires, and data centers

(SketchySide) South Park mocking Trump for 20 years (full story)

(SketchySide) Weenietown Billionaires eviscerates small member incontinent Trump (S27, E1)

(SketchySide) South Park's new episode is a satirical masterpiece (Season 27, Episode 1)

Prison time for Jared Kushner?

(OneindiaNews) Trump named 38,000+ times in Epstein Files: Crockett

reveals horrifying truths and covering up of Pres. Trump's pedophilia

"I don't watch South Park"

I've never seen the TV show South Park

Wednesday, September 23, 2026

Don Trump is a Jew named Roy Cohn

Trump’s threatening ramble at the UN, his minions defend news ban censorship

CNN Hound dog Kaitlan Collins

(Jimmy Kimmel Live) Sept. 22, 2026: Dick-tater Trump is now polling at the miserable low of 29%, his decision to ban major networks from covering him in the White House has resulted in him not being on TV, much to his dismay CNN's Kaitlan Collins got invited by the UN to cover him this morning, all of Trump’s minions have been bending over backwards to try to please their master and explain away Don Fuhrer Trump’s decision, his UN speech threatening to annihilate Iran (another war crime on top of his other genocidal promises and terroristic threats) was a rough and threatening ramble, he demonstrated his low intelligence by mispronouncing the names of countries he likes, and the show goes live to the set of Dancing with the Stars to talk to Guillermo and his partner Witney Carson. #Kimmel

Trump's rampant corruption, bribes, Zionism, Iran war crimes, soaring gas prices

Movies: Donald Trump and Roy Cohn drama ‘The Apprentice’ | CNN

I will Make Israel Great Again (MIGA), Roy.

In a new biography of Trump's creator, Jewish lawyer Roy Cohn, lead author Kai Bird (who also wrote American Prometheus about Jewish arms manufacturer Oppenheimer, the source material of the eponymous film) looks at how the scheming lawyer taught his apprentice President Don Trump to lie, deny, delay, attack, sue and countersue, never admit defeat or confess to being wrong about anything, sidestep paying any bills, and avoid leaving a paper trail that could be used against you to prosecute you in court. Bird's book with his wife and co-author Susan Goldmark is American Scoundrel. Here he speaks with Fresh Air Host Terry Gross about it. (Ken Tucker also reflects on three of Dolly Parton’s performances that he says demonstrate her range and her unique takes on romance and heartbreak).

Who is Roy Cohn (pronounced Cohen)?

Don Trump knew I was gay.

Roy Marcus Cohn (Feb. 20, 1927–Aug. 2, 1986) was born into an affluent Ashkenazi Jewish family in the Bronx (NYC) and became a corrupt, hypocritical, American lawyer, a closeted AIDs-stricken homosexual Republican, prosecutor, Mafia enabler, conservative GOP political activist, and the most special friend and mentor Don John Trump ever had.

He first gained notoriety and infamy as the lawyer son-of-a-judge, a prosecutor of fellow Jews Julius and Ethel Rosenberg in their trials (1952–1953) and as Sen. Joseph McCarthy's chief counsel during the Army–McCarthy hearings in 1954. What we now call McCarthyism should really be termed "Cohnism."

I love Jews. I was trained by Roy Cohn.

Cohn pushed for McCarthy's investigations of suspected communists. In the 1970s and 1980s, he became a prominent legal and political "fixer" in New York City [1, 2]. He mentored and represented corrupt landlord and real estate developer Donald J. Trump during the dimwit's early attempts at a business career [3] no longer able to rely on his daddy's handouts and help.

Cohn was born in the Bronx in NYC and educated at Columbia University. He rose to prominence as a U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) prosecutor at the espionage trial of fellow Jews Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, where he successfully prosecuted them, much as the homosexual Cohn would later pursue, prosecute, and destroy many gay Americans. This led to the Rosenberg's execution in 1953.

I'm not evil; I'm just smart, Ashkenazi smart.

After his time as prosecuting chief counsel during the McCarthy trials, his reputation deteriorated during the late 1950s to late 1970s as he settled in NYC and became a private lawyer to many clients, including the Mafia (Italian mobsters, known murderers, organized crime families), real estate magnates, political operatives, and child molesting gay Catholic clergy.

In 1986, Cohn was disbarred by the Appellate Division of the NY State Supreme Court for unethical conduct after attempting to defraud a dying client by forcing him to sign a will amendment leaving his fortune to Cohn [4].

Cohn is the cowardly bully who created "Trump"

Cohn died five weeks later from AIDS and related complications, having all along always vehemently denied that he was gay, HIV-positive [5], or dying of AIDS, claiming instead that he just had liver cancer. Cohn has been the subject of many media portrayals before and since his death.

Creating the Don Trump we all know

You like Roy Cohn, Bibi? - I love him; he's one of us. - What, a Jew? - No, a U.S. Zionist.

Personal and business legal affairs of Don Trump

Roy would be so proud of me as his partner.

In 1971, Don Trump first tried to negotiate large construction projects in Manhattan [72]. By 1973, the Department of Justice accused him of violating the Fair Housing Act at 39 of his properties [73].

The government prosecuted Trump because his corporation quoted different rental terms and conditions and made false "no vacancy" statements to Black applicants for apartments it managed in Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island [74].

Sleazy attorney Roy Cohn, representing Trump, filed a baseless countersuit against the government for $100 million (to make a splash in the media), asserting that the charges were "irresponsible and baseless" [73, 75]. This countersuit failed [76], but it served to boost Trump's image and esteem for corrupt Cohn.

Hi, I'm Don. Meet Mini Me, Roy. - No, you're Mini Me, dummy!

So Trump -- as Cohn taught him -- settled the charges out of court in 1975, saying he was satisfied that the agreement did not "compel the Trump organization to accept persons on welfare as tenants unless as qualified as any other tenant" [73].

The Trump corporation was required to send a bi-weekly list of vacancies to the New York Urban League, a civil rights group, and give the league priority for certain locations [74].

He-he, yeah, I did biz with Trump

By 1978, the Trump Organization was again taken to court for violating terms of the 1975 settlement; Cohn called the new charges "nothing more than a rehash of complaints by a couple of planted malcontents." So Trump denied the charges [74, 76, 77], following the Cohn teaching to deny deny deny and delay delay delay, cutting a corrupt deal later rather than going to court.

While representing Trump, Cohn started representing Italian American mobster Anthony Salerno, who along with other Mafia members controlled the concrete unions in New York. Cohn is alleged to have introduced Salerno to Trump, which later led to Salerno's aiding Trump in the construction of Trump Tower by providing concrete at reduced prices [78].

It's possible he's never read it.

In Trump's ghostwritten 1987 book The Art of the Deal -- which was wholly Cohn's idea and project, asking a favor of a publishing company to create it by someone else to give Trump a boost as a competent businessman, which Trump later parlayed into the TV show The Apprentice.

Trump in writing said, "[of] all the hundreds of 'respectable' guys who made careers out of boasting about their uncompromising integrity but have absolutely no loyalty….What I liked most about Roy Cohn was that he would do just the opposite" [all loyalty and no integrity] [79].

Trump, who was a good student learning from his Jewish mentor, is often described as having abandoned closeted gay hypocrite Cohn once he found out that Cohn was dying of AIDS.

A version of this view of "Roy Trump" (aka "Donald Cohn") is summed up in a remark attributed to Roy Cohn: "Donald pisses ice water."

You gotta support all Zionists no matter what

In the tell-all book American Scoundrel (2026), researchers Kai Bird and Susan Goldmark argue that this is only partly accurate. Citing Chris Seymour, a switchboard operator at Cohn's Manhattan law firm, they write that Trump began to keep his distance and relied on Cohn less as a lawyer, the calls between them becoming fewer, but did not cut his gay best friend off completely.

[After all, if Trump was molesting children with Jewish super-spy and Zionist-asset for Israel Jeffrey Epstein, what would he care if his other Jewish mentor is a flamboyant gay hypocrite dying of AIDS as he outs, prosecutes, and ruins other gays?]

In fact, in March 1986, five months before Cohn's AIDS death, rich Trump hosted a farewell dinner for his beloved mentor Cohn at Mar-a-Lago.

Trump relished in being compared to dictators like Hitler and Stalin, journalist says: Jonathan Swan, Maggie Haberman book 'Regime Change' goes inside Trump's 2nd term (NPR)

A witness reported seeing Donald Trump weeping at Cohn's memorial service [61], such was their manly/gay love for one another. More

Criminal indictments

Roy, they finally got me! - Good for them, Don.

Cohn was indicted three times in six years on various charges in the 1960s by U.S. Attorney for the Southern District Robert Morgenthau. He got himself acquitted on all charges [8].

Cohn and fellow shady attorney Murray Gottesman were indicted for perjury and obstruction of justice in September 1963, alleging that they had obstructed a federal investigation into allegations that Samuel S. Garfield and others defrauded United Dye and Chemical Corporation out of $5 million [51, 52]. On July 17, 1964, Cohn and Gottesman got themselves acquitted of all charges [53].

In January 1969, lawyer Cohn was again indicted for conspiracy, extortion, and blackmail. According to that indictment, Cohn had blackmailed some of the shareholders of Fifth Avenue Coach Lines into selling their shares, which led to the B.S.F. Company (a holding company headed by Victor Muscat) taking control of Fifth Avenue Coach Lines's bus routes [54]. Judge Inzer Bass Wyatt dismissed the blackmail charge against Cohn [55] and lucky Cohn was acquitted [56].

Did all the indictments and near misses slow Cohn down or make him question his life choices? No, like his protege Trump, they only invigorated him and pushed him to ethically dubious and criminal activity until he died prematurely.

KaiBird – official website of [author] Kai Bird

Wednesday, September 2, 2026

Punk rock: The story of the Germs

(Sound of History) The Germs: the most explosive punk band

The Germs: Bassist Lorna Doom; guitarist Pat Smear; drummer Don Bolles; singer Darby Crash

Darby Crash, April 1980, L.A.

The most interesting thing about Irish American singer and lead vocalist for the Germs Darby Crash (Jan Paul Beahm) is that he was a Buddhist in 1970s Los Angeles. He alludes to it in the song "The Slave."

THE SLAVE: It starts in your head/ And moves to your hands/ Your body starts shakin'/ 'Cause you're in demand/ You do the slave to the beat/ Of the neuro-sutra can-can/ You're lashed 'twixt the stars/ With your ice and motor cars/ You do the slave to the beat/ Of the neuro-sutra can-can/ Oh yea! Yea! Pull out the Zen/ I've got a Buddhist principle in my hand

The Sound of One Hand Clapping | Medium

Your life seems wasted, your bodies laced in/ Don't stop now, you've got to trace it/ You put your hands together/ Writhe in the shackle/ You twist your body round/ 'Til it starts to crackle/ You do the slave to the beat/ Of the neuro-sutra can-can/ You're lashed 'twixt the stars/ With your ice and motor cars/ You do the slave to the beat/ Of the neuro-sutra can-can/ Oh yea! Yea! Pull out the Zen/ I've got a Buddhist principle in my hand/ Your life seems wasted, your bodies laced in/ Don't stop now, you've got to trace it// Right here right now, shake it in and out now/ Lights on, off now, make it spin and fight now.

So long before there was a Nirvana, long before Darby's guitarist and best friend Pat Smear began playing for Nirvana, there was already interest in bringing about "the end of all suffering," which is the literal meaning of the Sanskrit term Nirvana. Female bassist Lorna Doom went off into oblivion or obscurity, but drummer Don Bolles went on to local greatness with Goth punk 45 Grave. Of course, Darby was a troubled teen in Hollywood, California, so he had bigger things to worry about than ending suffering. He had addictions to develop, dysfunctional coping mechanisms, and remembering to use the microphone near his mouth during live performances on his mind.

Lorna, why won't Darby sing into the mic? - And what became of Pap Smear? We mean Pat

(egi alams) The Germs vs. TSOL punk culture, mischief, chaos of fans

He was clearly a very talented wordsmith on his way to a fabulous career if everything hadn't come crashing down around him. Drugs and drunkenness. They'll be the ruin of most rockers who think they'll be different and go untouched by the predictable three-stage tragedy of use, abuse, and demise. Good thing Joan Jett recorded and produced them so well before it was too late.

Germs original lineup #GoGos #Nirvana #FooFighters - Germs album influenced Flea (RHCP)

(GI) by the Germs is f*ckin classic hardcore

The Germs "What We Do is Secret" (G.I. full album)

Don Bolles went on to play fastest song in world till then: "Black Cross"

(well, there was the lightning fast "Red Tape" by Circle Jerks, too)

(45 Grave) "Black Cross" (Only the Good Die Young)

The Germs reunite without Darby after What We Do is Secret, Sala Boite, Madrid Dec. 2009

Truth about Rock 'n Roll industry: fake

I inspired Nirvana and played with and for Kurt

(Rock N' Roll True Stories) Melvins' King Buzzo (Buzz Osborne): Rock's most brutal truth-teller?

Fecal Matter was a punk rock band from Aberdeen, Washington state. FM was formed in 1985 by Kurt Cobain, Nirvana's future frontman, along with Dale Crover of the Melvins and drummer Greg Hokanson. Melvins members Buzz Osborne (also known as "King Buzzo") and Mike Dillard appeared in a later version of the band during rehearsals the following year. The band was short-lived, disbanding in 1986. Songs from the group's sole recording session were issued as the Illiteracy Will Prevail demo tape.