Trump says he offered White House press secretary job to Dana White

I see we’re doubling down on stupid in the lame duck years.

Vaguely Egyptian-themed mausoleum at the Eugene Masonic Cemetery.

Le Monde manages to print a truthful headline (unlike the namby-pamby US press):

Stephen Miller, reactionary ideologue and white supremacist, promoted head of Trump administration

Possibly I should start reading Le Monde more often.

Another tiny mushroom in the leaf litter. 15-image in-camera focus stack.

Crossing the Willamette River.

Reflected neon.

Stinking Iris seed pod next to a fence.

AG Blanche says license plate readers don’t affect Americans’ privacy

Americans say AG Blanche is a complete fuckwit.

Trump Taps Stephen Miller to Replace Wiles as Chief of Staff

A giant “fuck you” to the entire country. Miller belongs in prison, doing very hard time with a left-wing cellmate outweighing him by 100 pounds.

After a week or so, I’m finding the AP and Reuters home pages to be, if anything, better than visiting Google News daily - far less likely to serve up AI nonsense or clickbait. So that’s one less Google distraction in my life. (What’s left: some legacy emails that get forwarded elsewhere, and occasional Maps use when I want a street view).

Wish I could find an affordable phone that wasn’t Apple or Google, but that market pretty much doesn’t exist.