Midwest Curmudgeon

09/08/2026

Mark Brewer: Supreme Courts rule Voter Suppression proposal stays off the ballot. https://www.youtube.com/

09/08/2026

Not often when someone wears a baseball cap to a 9-11 memorial service - especially one they are selling for $55.

09/08/2026

Previewing Trumpapalooza - Jeff Timmer https://www.youtube.com/

09/08/2026

Trump 2.0 = 597 days. Trump golf days = 129 (20%). Virtually all of them on Trump-owned/promoted golf courses at government expense.

09/08/2026

Quan Ngo helps operate NT Souvenir Wholesale, a Washington, D.C.-based souvenir supplier… And because of weak sales, he has cut back on purchasing Trump merchandise and lets inventory—
MUCH OF WHICH IS MADE IN CHINA — run low.

“You get used to good money, and you still want to make it,” says one Virginia store owner.

09/07/2026

Labor Day 2026 shows a strengthening of unions. Data consistently shows that union strength translates into higher wages.

Uptick in US union membership coincides with high public approval ratings of unions

09/04/2026

The craven corruption, greed and grift is overwhelming. For Trump: the gift of immunity from the Supreme Court. For Americans: we're screwed. https://www.meidasplus.com/p/the-75-most-corrupt-things-trump

So far.

09/03/2026

Socialism: a way of organizing a society in which major industries are owned and controlled by the government rather than by individual people and companies. (Merriam Webster dictionary)The Trump administration has taken partial ownership of 30 companies including Intel and U.S. Steel with a cumulative $42-billion. And now, the government owns a piece of Venezuela's oil reserves.So ... just who is a socialist? https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/inside-trumps-plan-to-give-the-pentagon-a-stake-in-venezuelas-oil-riches-f054cdc2?st=yJirny&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

09/02/2026

Jeff Timmer: Mike Rogers has changed A LOT in hopes of winning. https://www.youtube.com/

09/01/2026

It will take the next President years to undo the damage Trump has done to every federal agency. That damage to Americans during the rebuilding of government competence is immeasurable.

Max Stier: From a cyclospora outbreak to forest fires to the Iran war, the costs of the administration’s demolition of government are growing.