Who know, first, the mind reading part, between those ears is a morass.
Second, getting a deal? Kalshi as my barometer.
Not a blind fucking guess, but a Prediction Market hedge situation in real time. Yeah, sure. Bet on it.
Wednesday, May 13, 2026
Good reads from remote corners of the web, proving corporate media have quality competion from info boutique level outlets apparently having quality minds.
https://www.democracycollaborative.org/tracking-the-crisis - antiTrump partisan +
We Read The News So You Don’t Have To!
“All we have to do is flood the zone. Every day, we hit them with three things. They’ll bite on one, and we'll get all of our stuff done, bang, bang, bang. These guys will never be able to recover, but we’ve got to start with muzzle velocity.” — Steve Bannon
TRACKING THE CRISIS is a weekly news round-up tracking the administrative, legislative, and other actions of the U.S. Administration, as well as the many forms of legal and movement response from across a broad range of social, political, and economic actors.
We are providing this service for collective informational purposes, as a tool for understanding the times during a period of disorientingly rapid flux and change in the political economy of the United States.
The Democracy Collaborative should not be understood as endorsing or otherwise any of the specific content of the information round-up.
This round-up is produced by humans, not by Artificial Intelligence. To submit items for our attention, please email tracker@democracycollaborative.org
So a news aggregation or summarization site, perhaps more, but with a lean politcally --- sample content
Off Ramp
Week of March 20-27, 2026
Welcome to TRACKING THE CRISIS, a weekly round-up from The Democracy Collaborative tracking the administrative, legislative, and other actions of the Trump Administration as well as the many forms of legal and movement response from across a broad range of social, political, and economic actors. TDC is providing this service for collective informational purposes, as a tool for understanding the times during a period of disorientingly rapid flux and change in the U.S. political economy. This round-up is produced by humans, not by Artificial Intelligence. TDC should not be understood as endorsing or otherwise any of the specific content of the information round-up.
TRUMP TRACKER: Administration actions
Trump blinks first in Hormuz standoff, is mocked over touting imaginary ‘peace talks’ to cover his ‘Persian TACO’ debacle in the Gulf. Pundits speculating on Trump’s deteriorating mental state got a generous helping of red meat to chew, as the world watched the President of the United States, outmaneuvered by Iran and backed into a corner by global markets, attempt and fail to mask over a U.S. retreat with a bizarre act of political theater. After days of talking about ‘winding down the war’ lastweek, Trump changed direction again, issuing an ultimatum to Tehran on Saturday, March 20, threatening to “obliterate” Iran’s civilian energy infrastructure if it did not re-open the Strait of Hormuzwithin 48 hours. The Revolutionary Guard responded in kind, saying it will “completely close” the strait of Hormuz and target all “energy, information technology and desalination infrastructure” held by the U.S., Israel, and their allies throughout the Persian Gulf region if its own facilities are attacked. Over the next 24 hours, Iran executed a series of ambitious attacks as if to drive home its message: it penetrated Israel’s Iron Dome and wounded 100 people as missiles successfully struck targets in southern Israel and near Jerusalem; launched further missiles at the Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh and the U.S. military base in Baghdad; and—in another first for Iran—launched two long-range ballistic missiles at the U.S./British-occupied base on Diego Garcia, over 4000km away in the Indian Ocean. I
https://thenextsystem.org/evolutionary-reconstruction-displacement -
Table of Contents
- How do evolutionary reconstruction and displacement of corporate power differ from “countervailing” strategies of containment and regulation?
- Why are evolutionary reconstruction and displacement key strategic approaches in the building of a Pluralist Commonwealth?
- Can we see displacement operative today?
Not touting or faulting either political party, but with a perspective
And note. This is from discovering today that the two sites exist. From an initial view, promising, but Craobgrass cannot give the full gold-star endorsement per small sample size.
A quick note on the Ramsey City Council Resolution Reevaluation
There was to be something and then at the meeting start, there was a change, but either way, it made the statewide daily op-ed online:
Opinion | Censure Walz? Ramsey City Council has lost the plot.
It was a guest editorial authored by former City Councilmember Matt Woestehoff, saying in part:
It’s worth asking who benefits from this agenda. Mayor Ryan Heineman appears to be auditioning for a role in a larger political machine. Our Minnesota House representative — Harry Niska, a Republican — has made the Walz fraud narrative a centerpiece of his legislative identity. U.S. Rep. Tom Emmer, whose Minnesota operation is run by Niska’s wife, has aligned himself closely with the national Republican apparatus and its current standard-bearer.
These resolutions read less like local governance and more like a coordinated talking point making its way down the chain. From Washington to St. Paul to a Tuesday night City Council meeting in Ramsey. Residents deserve to know what’s actually driving the agenda in their City Hall.
[...] Council Member Shanna Stewart said in a prior work session that she didn’t want the city divided over a flag. She was right. [...]
Then there are the two resolutions targeting the governor over local government aid losses. The Feeding Our Future fraud is real. The oversight failures are legitimate policy questions. But their relevance to Ramsey is not.
[...] Ramsey has received zero dollars in local government aid every year since at least 2018. [...] The direct financial harm to Ramsey taxpayers from LGA mismanagement is therefore a percentage of zero. A percentage of zero is zero.
Matt Woestehoff lives in Ramsey.
The Crabgrass view in part is in a chicken coop you expect to find chickenshit, but Council table and chambers are not some chicken coop.
The mayor said he intends to not abandon his GOP resolution putsch. Promising more of the same.
Intransigence in the face of good sense can happen. Sentence end, - is tyranny, would have been more dramatic, but less true to actual scale.
Trump is going on a partisan witch hunt against Democratic Party states, with Medicaid fraud claims. It's an election coming up, and beyond that, Trump wants to bury Medicaid and just let poor people suffer and die.
LA Times -
Trump administration admits a glaring error in its New York health fraud accusations
Big fat guy, big fat lie.
American Gothic.
https://qctv.org/show/8/17353/
How tough are you? How much can you take? How long will you watch?
It is boring stuff, but how generic city council meetings can be, if Resolutions are ostensibly to be on the table nearing an election.
Mysteriously, the sole three Resolutions on the Agenda were noted by the mayor early in the meeting as removed from formal consideration and a vote.
As background helpful to understand flag mischief, images here, the old flag, here, the new one.
At the end of the meeting naked politicking. First the mayor notes at great length (as the election nears) he is deeply, deeply troubled over things nonetheless stripped from the agenda. (The impression arguably seems he'll be more and more deeply troubled as the time to election shortens.) A hope is he can get through without permanent psychological harm to be able to vote his conscience, such as it is. Then a gentleman named Cal Bahr pops up from nowhere, to also speak at length. And - THIS WHOLE THING IS REAL, NOT A PARODY.
As to that last closing thing in the meeting, [UPDATE: mayor and council imput, starting at about 1:33:00 to end of meeting broadcast at 2:04:50] the hocus pocus with Bahr from not even on the agenda that I know of, to center of the closing.
I think of Magic Johnson's adage on leaving the locker room for the game.
"Showtime."
It did strike me as a tawdry scripted ending, but what do I know? And again, for a reader in Brazil or Singapore or elsewhere, THIS IS A REAL THING. NOT PROFESSIONAL THEATRE.
STRICTLY AMATEUR. Produced by a white folks council duly elected by a predominantly white electorate where Crazy Michele Bachmann used to be Congressional Rep.
American Gothic, and then some.
________________UPDATE__________________
A few things. Bahr showing up was legit, it was him giving a legislative update, the bonding bill pending, it being last minute thing about how money is allocated, so log rolling on pet projects, etc., basically done in the dark.
The mayor's comments indicated the flag thing, it was procedure he criticized, it was done in 2024 but now curiously is a Republican thing. Doing the job. Crabgrass lacks any cause to say doing the job was not handled well, the criticism being these politically charged things, they distract from doing the job and wtf is the reason they show up now, the miasma of carrying water for the party preelection cannot be disproven and these resolutions springing up now, again. looks tawdry.
And the mayor will bulldog these resolutions again, he said so, and it is political.
And political, criticizing others, there is criticism to go around. A costly war against Iran was entered with no Congressional saying one was needed, and grocery pricing and pump price are far bigger things than a years old flag-change procedure. Questionable tariff BS and costly war are bigger issues than a years ago flag procedure. As in - Get Real. If getting really political, do it about the big issues - primarily Trump's galling hubris and his crappy judgment, his crypto self dealing, family and all, and the Iranians handing him his ass. He is incompetent, his people are too, and town mayors want to wave one flag against another is Nero fiddling, Rome burning. Stupid is as stupid does. Partisan is as partisan does. Transparency of motive is as motive translates into action, action being louder than words.
There simply is no good reason town officials should be electioneering from the council table, and yet, American Gothic. How it is, town level.
\\\\\
Nursery rhymes develop over time and often have changing words. One rhyme, one variant, I apply, you judge.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rub-a-dub-dub:
[...] In 1842 James Orchard Halliwell collected the following version:
Rub a dub dub,
Three fools in a tub,
And who do you think they be?
The butcher, the baker,
The candlestick maker.
Turn them out, knaves all three.[4]
[...]
I like it. Readers are on their own on this thought. Partisan? Perhaps just simple truth - the simpler, the better.
Tuesday, May 12, 2026
An interesting embedded video, discussing "blockade" initally, and inflation and upcoming economic-winter worry. And some seemingly highly ambitious people in Minnesots within the US want to gin up worry over flag flying because they are small people.
Not that the linked item gets into flag scapegoating privateers or anything, that's a Crabgrass note, with the link here.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)