Tuesday, May 19, 2026
Sunday, May 19, 1946. Food protests in Japan.
Protests against the Japanese government occurred in the form of the People's Rally for Obtaining Food.
The news did appear in the Rocky Mountain News, but the aversion of a rail strike is what was on the front page.
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Friday, May 3, 1946. War Crime Trials in Tokyo and the Battle of Alcatraz
Wednesday, May 19, 1926. Bad coinage idea.
The first and only US coin, so far, to feature a sitting President, the United States Sesquicentennial Half Dollar was issued.
Hopefully this break in tradition will never be repeated.
Zhang Renjie became the first Chairman of the Kuomintang. His influence would later decline and he immigrated to the United States in 1937.
The French Air Force bombed Damascus.
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Saturday, May 15, 1926.
Friday, May 19, 1911. Parks Canada established.
Parks Canada, the Canadian equivalent of the US National Park Service, was founded.
Maneuver Camp, 1st Separate Brigade, Galveston, Tex. May 19, 1911.
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Thursday, May 18, 1911. Zapata takes Cuautla.
Sunday, May 19, 1901. End of the Philippine state of war.
Maj. Gen. Loyd Wheaton declared the state of war in the Philippines over. In reality, it was not, and it would not be until the next year when the insurrection would be declared to be over, which in fact it was not.
Wheaton started off his military career as an enlisted man during the Civil War and a recipient of the Medal of Honor from the war.
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Wednesday, May 15, 1901. Gen. Moscardo surrenders.
The 2026 Election, 11th Edition. The only good voting Indian is a disenfranchised voting Indian edition.
Friends & Brothers, listen: Where you now are, you and my white children are too near to each other to live in harmony and peace. Your game is destroyed and many of your people will not work and till the Earth. Beyond the great river Mississippi, where a part of your nation has gone, your father has provided a country large enough for all of you, and he advises you to remove to it. There your white brothers will not trouble you; they will have no claim to the land, and you can live upon it, you and all your children, as long as the grass grows or the water runs, in peace and plenty. It will be yours for ever. For the improvements in the country where you now live, and for all the stock which you cannot take with you, your father will pay you a fair price.
Andrew Jackson, part of a letter to the Creek, 1829. That sure didn't come true.
Chuck Gray, auditioning for the role of adoring political paramour to Donald Trump, his beloved and dearest, and thick in the throws of turning Wyoming's voter registration roles over to his dearest illegally, is now seeking to have the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision of Louisiana v. Callais applied. In so doing, he's sent a demand to the Fremont County Commissioners to redistrict their county commissioner boundaries to wipe out a district that was designed to provide a commissioner from the Wind River Reservation, and he's written the Governor about the legislative districts, stating; "“I believe House District 33’s boundaries need to be examined to ensure compliance with Callais” .
Let's look first at what Callais actually says which few pundits have to date. It's a long decision, so we'll only post part of it, but that part is where the Court made its decision:
So what that tells us is:
1. A district must have a basis in more than race.
2. The jerrymandering by race cannot have a demonstrable impact in favor of a political party.
3. The totality of the circumstances must be considered.
Chuck, who loves Trump more than Trump loves Trump, has made a name for himself by being a divisive asshole and this will be no exception. The over monied little man who has never really worked likes to scream and howl, but this may prove to be a mistake in his bid for the House. A large percentage of Wyomingites do not like him for variety of legitimate reasons, and he's been taking flak from the right from gadfly Reid Rasner, to which he's flop around like a fish on a deck trying to react to, and not very effectively. Gray probably sees this action to terminate Native American districts on the Reservation as serving his far right nut case masters' cause of bringing back the Confederacy, but he's not a lawyer and disrupting Wyoming districts, ironically in one of the most conservative regions of the state, may not go well and is not likely to be appreciated.
There's a fair chance it might not succeeds as well.
Fremont County has a voting district for the county commission that causes it to have one commissioners who is drawn from the Wind River Reservation. That was in fact the intent of the boundary. And it has one House District that is also from the Reservation. The legislator who is from that districts, HD33, is Ivan Posey, who is enrolled in the Eastern Shoshone Tribe but also also has Northern Cheyenne and Northern Arapaho ancestors.
Gray, of course, is a carpetbagging white rich unmarried white boy, but this fits right into the current MAGA effort that's disenfranchising minorities in a country that's on the verge of becoming a majority minority nation. While they aren't willing to say it, MAGA basically hopes that they can reverse this demographic trend.
They can't, and they'll pay for it soon.
Here, Gray, who isn't a Wyomingite in the first place, likely doesn't grasp that the Wind River Reservation isn't solely an ethnic boundary, but the home to two sovereigns. So there's a racial and sovereign divide here. I suspect that these boundaries will hold up.
They already voted Democratic, they sure will in the future. Gray's ordering the Fremont County Commission and Governor Gordon around may not sit well with the voters, and frankly they're likely to tell him to pound sand, in which case he'll sue, and try to disrupt the general election. That won't work.
Gray needs to be sent packing. He needs to find a real job for the first time in his life. Let's hope he's offered one out on Wind River.
We will note here that the GOP race in Wyoming is turning batshit crazy with panicked Freedom Caucusers concerned that the South might not rise again while one notable one is actually attacking Donald Trump. Hardcore WFC members are supporting Still Sucking On the Government Tit Bien. While I may be imagining it, Bien seems to draw support from the less educated and poorer sections of the Wyoming population which demonstrates something peculiar, but I don't know what. The more likely you are to economically and personally be hurt by Bien's world outlook of no social services and hardly pull yourself up by your bootstraps, while he sucks on the government tit, the more likely you are to support him.
It's dumb.
Yesterday, of course, we have the oddity of Rebecca Bextel announcing a completely delusional and panicky run for the Governor's office on the Constitution Party ticket. In a more sane political structure, all of the state's Cornfederates would be in that party. Poor Bextel thinks she's a conservative, and has this on her website:
Like many of you, I know Megan Degenfelder or Brent Bien would make an excellent Governor! I sincerely hope one of them beats out Eric Barlow for the Republican nomination, but unfortunately, history is not on the side of us conservatives.
Well, that's just deluded, but it's typical of the Cornfederates who aren't conservatives or even Republicans, but think they are. She's going to lose big and hopefully the WFC does in general, so they can go back to Sweet Home Alabama (where Bextel is actually from) and leave the West alone.
Go home Becky. . . the Southland is calling you.
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And it looks like state legislators are beginning to see the pitchforks. . .South Carolina dropped its effort, Louisiana refused the map Trump wanted them to adopt., Mississippi decided to wait until 2027.
May 15, 2026
Bill Allemand, a complete and total no go on our list, is running for reelection to House District 58. His DUI trial has not yet occurred. He faced opposition from Bar Nunn Mayor Peter Boyer as well as Democrat.
J. R. Riggins is running for reelection in House District 59. He faces opposition from the batshit carpetbagger far right.
Art Washut is running for reelection to House District 36.
May 16, 2026
Chuck Gray is being treated as sort of an irritating toddler, which he deserves.
Democrat Kenneth R. Casner has announced his run for Governor. He's 75 years old which puts him in the category of candidates who are too darned old to hold, yet alone run for, office.
May 17, 2026
Let me just set the record straight: Our country is not about one individual. It is about the welfare of all Americans and it is about our Constitution. And if someone doesn’t understand that and attempts to control others through using the levers of power, they’re about serving themselves. They’re not about serving us. And that person is not qualified to be a leader.
Bill Cassidy after losing his bid to be reelected as a Senator from Louisiana.
May 19, 2026
Controversial former mayor of Evansville, Wyoming has announced she's running for Natrona County Commissioner.
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The 2026 Election, 10th Edition. The Setting the stage for a Pyrrhic Victory edition.Labels: 2026 Election, Abortion, Bill Allemand, Chuck Gray, Corner Crossing, Harriet Hageman, Jillian Balow, Jimmy Skovgard, Protect Wyoming, Reid Rasner, Republican Party, Samuel Mead, The Law of Unintended Consequences
King Donald's War, Part 5. Quagmire. The $25,000,000,000 and thirteen American lives later, "So we (but not Donald) were in Vietnam for 18 years. Iraq, many, many years....I've been doing this for...six weeks" Edition.
King Donny before he was a national embarrassment, and just working on being a family one.
April 30, 2026
Secretary of Defense Hegseth testified the war had cost the US $25B so far.
We clearly have absolutely no idea how to get out of it or win it.
May 1, 2026
Iran responded to King Donny's threats to ramp up the war on Iran, now in a ceasefire, with threats of their own.
They seemed rather unimpressed by Donny.
Donny's administration says it doesn't have to comply with the sixty day provision of the War Powers Act due to the ceasefire.
May 3, 2026
Iran sent the US a fourteen point peace plan.
May 4, 2026
The U.S. rejected Iranian peace proposals and is now going to escort ships through the Straits of Hormoz. Iran threatened to strike the ships and has already claimed to have hit a U.S. Navy craft with missiles, which the U.S. denies.
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Iran attacked ships in the straits today with small surface vehicles and it resumed drone strikes on the UAE.
May 6, 2026
Yesterday was Taco Tuesday, and so we have this headline from the Tribune.
Well of course we do. Trump's an ignorant man with extremely limited world experience with a cabinet of sycophants. This was a war run by ignoramuses.
Trump paused his latest version of the illegal war with his escort program in the Straits of Hormuz. We have no way out of the war that anyone in D.C. grasps.
The US has clearly and absolutely lost this war, not succeeding in a single one of its objectives. At this point, absent ground operations, this is humiliating US defeat, worse than the loss in Vietnam.
May 7, 2026
Taco's flip on the most recent operation is because Saudi Arabia denied the US use of its airspace.
It seems to be the case that Taco didn't inform the kingdom of the operation before coming up with it.
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So, now we're hitting targets in Iran again, the war we won several weeks ago, and which was definitely over before we started blockading Iran.
Compared to this, the Allied landings at Gallipoli in World War One were an absolutely stunning success.
May 10, 2026
Headline from the CST:
Let's be honest, the Administration is incompetent. Governed by flaky theories, linked to a romantic image of the past in more ways than one, and headed by a person with dementia. Of course it's no closer to an end.
The US sent a counter proposal to Iran. They haven't replied.
What is new is that the UK and France are deploying ships to the region in anticipation of using them to keep shipping lanes open.
We'll remind everyone once again that this war is completely illegal, and Trump should be impeached and removed from office for the illegality.
May 11, 2026
Iran's counter proposal was rejected by the US.
May 18, 2026
The UAE was hit by drones yesterday, and an attempt was made on Saudi Arabia.
Donald Trump warned Iran it was running out of time.
The New York Times informed readers that Israel had constructed a secret base over a period of a year in Iraq for the war.
May 19, 2026
Trump threatened Iran with massive devastation and then called it off claiming that regional states asked him to.
Whatever.
The ignoramus has backed himself and the entire country into a corner and has no idea what to do.
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King Donald's War, Part 5. After 13/15 U.S. deaths, Hundreds of Iranian deaths, $50B spent fighting it, and a massive increase in the price of oil, King Donny surrenders to the Iranians. The "If any question why we died, Tell them, because our fathers lied" edition.
Monday, May 18, 2026
The Agrarian's Lament: Massie of Kentucky.
The Agrarian's Lament: Massie of Kentucky.: Republican Congressman Thomas Massie of Kentucky, under constant attack from demented New York real estate developer Donald Trump, milled h...
Massie of Kentucky.
Republican Congressman Thomas Massie of Kentucky, under constant attack from demented New York real estate developer Donald Trump, milled his own lumber, chiseled stone, and formed iron to hand build his own house.
Massie actually is what Republicans claim to want to be, but aren't. He's a far cry from Chuck Gray who went right to work for his daddy's radio station.
And he's sure a lot closer to Lincoln than Trump is.
Thursday, May 18, 1911. Zapata takes Cuautla.
Zapata took Cuautla.
Pancho Villa and Pascual Orozco were photographed inside the Elite Confectionery in El Paso eating ice cream.
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Wednesday, May 17, 1911. Ceasefire in Mexico, Italian anarchists in El Paso and Juarez.
May 18, 1876. Marines land at Matamoros.
Marines were sent to police the town of Matamoros, Mexico, to protect American citizens and property as security in the town had been degraded. Matamoros is on the Gulf of Mexico, just south of the US/Mexican border.
Mexico was in a period of transition with no clear leader. Porfirio Díaz, had launched the Revolution of Tuxtepec against the newly elected Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada who had just taken over the office. It was Díaz's second rebellion against the government. He'd win this one, which would lead to his dictatorship that didn't end until 1911.
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Wednesday, May 17, 1876. Gen. Terry's command leaves Ft. Abraham Lincoln.
Sunday, May 17, 2026
Wednesday, May 17, 1911. Ceasefire in Mexico, Italian anarchists in El Paso and Juarez.
Madero called a five day ceasefire upon learning that Porfirio Díaz had agreed to resign as President of Mexico.
On the same day Pancho Villa and Italian soldier of fortune Giuseppi Garibaldi almost had a deadly confrontation inside the Hotel Sheldon in downtown El Paso, Texas. The nearly deadly event was prevented by US Secret Service members with Villa being disarmed and sent back to Juarez. Italian anarchists were loitering around at this point not sure what to do in light of the conflict winding down. Their presence, however, shows how outside elements viewed the revolution.
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Monday, May 15, 1911. Trust busting.
Wednesday, May 17, 1876. Gen. Terry's command leaves Ft. Abraham Lincoln.
Gen. Alfred H. Terry left a substantial detachment from Ft. Abraham Lincoln. The large detachment included companies from the 6th and 17th Infantry regiments and the entire 7th Cavalry, the latter under the command of Lt. Col. Custer.
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Monday, May 15, 1876. President Grant established the Agua Caliente Indian Reservation
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Wednesday, May 10, 1911. Madero takes Juarez in spite of himself.
King Donald's War, Part 5. Quagmire. The $25,000,000,000 and thirteen American lives later, "So we (but not Donald) were in Vietnam for 18 years. Iraq, many, many years....I've been doing this for...six weeks" Edition.
Subsidiarity Economics 2026. The Times more or less locally, Part 4. Economics in the Dementia Ward.
The History of the Patrol Cap.
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Sunday, May 3, 2026
Discount airline Spirit dissolves.
It was a victim of high aviation fuel, something brought about by Donald Trump's illegal attack on Iran.
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he Best Post of the Week of May 3, 2026.
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