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"Drunk on impunity," Israel has grandiosely labeled its latest genocidal move "Operation Gideon's Chariots" wherein, moving from siege to seizure, it plans the bloody conquest, ethnic cleansing, and permanent recolonization of Gaza, using the rhetoric of holy war to justify unholy mass destruction - this, even as many of the Palestinian children who've somehow survived their savage 18 months of carnage now slowly starve to death. "We are complicit," says one angry, grieving doctor. "It is an abomination."

Having gotten away with so many atrocities while the international community looks away, Israel just unveiled the latest escalation of its illegal collective punishment of Gazans by finally declaring out loud, "We are occupying Gaza to stay." Unanimously approved by Netanyahu's far-right Security Cabinet, the new "conquering of Gaza" formalizes Israel's plan for the indefinite occupation, forced expulsion and incorporation into "sanitized" Israeli zones of an already long-besieged civilian population "for its own protection." The expansion of an onslaught that has left more than 185,000 Gazans dead, wounded, or missing and millions homeless, hungry, maimed and traumatized is being ludicrously framed as a final mission to dismantle Hamas and retrieve hostages, even though Israel repeatedly failed at each before breaking a ceasefire that would have accomplished both.

Happily, May Day saw many thousands unite: You have nothing to lose but the wreckage, shackles and stench of an odious regime. For now it persists, its ghouls ravaging systems, rights, many lives, but myriad small good things continue to seek to stop it: Court rulings block the mayhem and now the Alien Enemies Act, rowdy "empty chair" town halls name the complicit, MAGA thugs are charged, POTUS portraits are unveiled, tech intersections are hacked (Elon: "Please be my friend") and the penguins are revolting.

"Only 1,361 Days To Go," reads The Economist's blistering headline marking Trump's first 100 days of chaos, accompanied by a bloodied, bandaged eagle representing "the lasting harm" done by "a vindictive, vituperative lord of misrule, vacant, spiteful, and cruel." There have been the (way more than) 100 lies in 100 days, the economy he's crashed - which has "NOTHING TO DO WITH TARIFFS," is Biden's fault, and okay so you only get two dolls - the millions he will ultimately condemn to needless death from HIV/AIDS and other diseases after his fave gonzo gazillionaire randomly cut international aid, the ongoing, head-spinning idiocy - "Imams Wut" - and his Nazi ghouls and sycophants on all sides. At this week's grotesque grovel-fest of a cult meeting, lackeys and their Gulf of America caps all in a row, Execution Barbie Bondi burbled she's "signing death warrants" and, smirking "Are you ready for this, liberal media?," declared Trump's already saved 258 million lives, or 75% of America, who didn't die of fentanyl. "That's some North Korea Shit," from one patriot. Also, "Trump also invented corn on the cob. And birds."

As we approach the 100-day milestone (yes it's only been that long) a sadistic, repressive regime increasingly reviled by its own people defiantly hurtles on - arresting judges, crushing dissent, abducting migrants, citizens, pregnant mothers, sick toddlers - while grotesquely cashing in on its atrocities with tawdry meme coins, black-tie dinners, loyalty pins and OMFG 2028 hats. We are become government by chaos, cruelty, greed - Liberace backed by the Stasi, a nation of gulags filled with gold (plated) gimcracks. SAD.

Historically, the 100-day milestone is seen as an ad-hoc national Rorschach test on a new president - or in this case führer - with pundits viewing the political landscape and drawing data-based conclusions. Amidst today's mayhem, though, the only clear verdict is, "There's some seriously dystopian things going on." Polls show an administration (sic) that's lost the support of much of its populace - “He has broken his own record for being the worst" - with approval ratings underwater on virtually every issue, including the economy and immigration. Happily, he keeps losing in court, even with Trump-appointed judges: Thank you independent judiciary and the ACLU. Nobody wants to visit his third-world shithole of a country anymore, mouthy Democrats like Jasmine Crockett are saying mean things about him - to his rants about keeping us safe from criminals she invariably notes, "I haven’t seen anybody with a rap sheet that looks like the president’s” - and despite a lame "ONLY THE WEAK WILL FAIL!” rallying cry, he's crashed the economy with "this most imbecilic and destructive trade war in the history of the world."

Less than astonishingly, grossly unqualified, historically untrustworthy, sexually assaulting, manic Secretary of Drunkenness and Defense Pete Hegseth evidently screwed up again, this time giddily spewing war plans in real time on his phone to his besties just minutes after a general sent them. Meanwhile, as insiders describe "total chaos" at the Pentagon - screaming, infighting, distrust - "G.I. Joke" says blame the media, deep state, "leakers" (pot/kettle) 'cause look he's so good at his job there's no trans folks in sight.

In the latest revelations, reported by NBC News, within 10 minutes of receiving detailed plans about last month's U.S. strikes against Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen on a secure channel from Army Gen. Michael Kurilla, who leads U.S. Central Command, the former loose-lipped weekend Fox News host Hegseth spewed his cool intel on an unsecured Signal group chat to about a dozen people - his for-now-third-wife, his brother, his attorney, and for all we know his fave bartender, his Nazi buddies and the loser who makes his gunky hair gel. The piss-drunk guy with the white nationalist tattoos and history of leaking shared those plans about two hours before the airstrikes hit, even though an aide had specifically warned him not to use Signal to share sensitive information, which he'd already done with an Atlantic editor mistakenly included on another chat. Nothing to see here.