Good morning!

Early. Five am.

Texas is paying the penalty for merely playing Washington politics. The flood deaths speak for themselves. One hundred four so far this year. Twenty seven children. The flooding a problem that has perplexed Texas for years and been ignored by Texas. Finally the time has arrived to pay the fiddler. Big time!

Two whores meet. Trump and Netanyahu. Dinner last night in Washington.

Netanyahu shared a copy of a letter he sent to the Nobel Peace Prize organization recommending Trump receive the Peace Prize.

Two nurses visited me yesterday. Nancy Brown and Lina Swift as part of my Medicare follow-up to my recent 58 days in the hospital. One to tend to my wounds. The other further exercise. Today a third. Bill. He draws my blood once a week to check my hemoglobin which has now reached 12.1. It was only a few weeks ago it was 6.1.

Nancy also responsible for caring for my head injury received saturday when I fell. Still bleeding a bit. Stitches in place. Will take a few days to heal.

Kolmar Abrego Garcia case. Justice the aim so Abrego will not suffer illegally and improperly a second time.

Trump wants to remove Garcia from the U.S. again. He refuses to let the normal judicial process work its way out. The federal judge involved says the government refuses to let the system play out. The government wants to now send Garcia to other than El Salvador.

Federal Judge Xinis said re the government’s plea: “It’s like trying to nail Jell-O to a wall to figure out what is going to happen next week.”

El Salvador finally spoke out on who controls the fate for jailed detainees. The U.S. A significant contradiction to the Trump administration’s repeated claims that it lacked authority to bring back migrants from the Salvadoran mega prison.

Used car prices are climbing again. Some nearly 20 percent. Reference especially to cars 1-5 years old.

Trump has issued new tariff letters on a slate of states. The tariffs to take effect August 1. Included are 25 percent tariffs on “our friends” Japan and South Korea. 

Most if not all of the tariff letters were the same or close to those issued several months ago. It appears Trump is merely seeking more notoriety. His follow throughs on these tariffs generally suck fortunately.

Measles cases up so far this year in the U.S. Reported cases have reached 1,277. The previous high was 1, 274 in 2019.

Texas is in the center of this outbreak. Seven hundred ninety cases so far.

Texas doing well. Flood deaths as high and going to be higher. A measles leader. Texas should have paid more attention to its other problems rather than playing a close Trump friend in recent times.

Truman’s great grandson, Arthur Wesley Truman Daniel, to lead a “truly amazing art” exhibition at the Truman Little White House soon. Date and time to follow.

I close with an observation re the New York City mayoral race. Democratic victor Zahran Mandeni will not win. His track record negates success.

His past has resurfaced to haunt him. He gave the “flipping the bird” finger at a speech in June, 2020 at Astoria calling for a statue of Christopher Columbus to be taken down. How he won the primary under the circumstances, I know not. I admit I take the finger personally because of my Italian heritage.

Enjoy your day!