1000 days into a war that Vladmir Putin said would last three days, news that Joe Biden has ok’ed US supplied missile strikes on Russian territory is BIG, a real counterstroke to the battlefield introduction of 1000’s of North Korean soldiers. Will Putin pal Trump ‘re-prohibit’?

It’s official. Parrot Must Not Leave Perch. Alan Jones, Australia’s version of far right fulminator Alex Jones & just as toxic, has lost his passport as he is assessed a flight risk as he faces 24 sex offences. His predilections have been Sydney’s worst kept secret for decades.

Conspiracy loons, Putin apologists, anti-science theocrats & entertainers in charge of US defence. It all makes sense. Trump is at last realizing his life long dream of being the smartest person in the room.

With apologies to Goya “Nor is the people’s judgment always true The most may err as grossly as the few.” - John Dryden

Paris I 1952

W.H Auden on Trumpism 'Reason will be replaced by revelation. Knowledge will degenerate into a riot of subjective visions. Philosophies & rationales will come from feelings in the solar plexus induced by over-eating. Whole cosmologies will be created out of personal resentment.'

The rolling catastrophe of Trump’s return is now flashing neon. Calculated outrage seems to be behind his choices - he wants to stick it to his foes by nominating the fringe of the fringe & normalizing extremism. His whole project now is to settle the scores of a lifetime.

Latest pic by Trump - step forward new Health Secretary Robert Kennedy Jnr. Mr Tangerine Man had said in the campaign that he’d let Kennedy ‘go wild’ on the health sustem. With more & more foxes being put in charge of chickenhouses, the Illiterati is taking shape.

Scotty's Stroll Photo - Emma Frøya Wright

Passage de Clichy | 1930-32 Photograph by Brassaï

Night Watch

Platforming Photograph - Israel Castillo

Hot tip for investors - get into the ‘lock’em up’ market. Trump’s plan for the biggest-ever mass deportation is propelling a stock surge for private-prison companies who help run migrant detention facilities & GPS monitoring of asylum seekers.Geo Group is up 42% & CoreCivic 29%.

We didn’t have to wait long for a preview. Cost Cutting Chairman - elect Musk shared a 3 way call with Trump & President Zelensky about the future of Ukraine - the day after the presidential election. Next a 3 way call with Jared Kushner & Netanyahu about Gaza real estate.

‘This morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I’ll never know.’ Groucho Marx Just wait until the family goes hunting its long, long list of enemies.

Science under the incoming US president.

No need for Roy Cohn now. The international community is reeling with disbelief over America’s epic act of self harm as the old psychopath (check clinical def. to see this isn’t hyperbole) considers how shooting Jack Smith out of a canon ala North Korea would do for his ratings.

'Repeal & replace' prop - used at announcement of Trump's 1st go at destroying Obamacare. As a 'concept of a plan,' it was all repeal. There was nothing to replace it. Lesley Stahl (60 Minutes) checked the prop & found it contained internet printouts of right wing opinion pieces.

Swinging Voter