But why?
Thursday, May 28, 2026
The 2026 Election, 12th Edition. The late on ramp edition.
May 29, 2026 is the last day to declare a candidacy in one of the two "major parties".
We will, therefore, likely be learning of some new candidates in the upcoming days for the first time.
And we might be surprised that some who stated they were running, but who haven't filed, don't.
May 21, 2026
Two Democrats, Ana Cordova and Sergio Maldonado Sr. have entered the race for Superintendent of Public Instruction. It seems that a third, Libertarian Ryan Shollenberger, will. They join existing GOP candidates Tom Kelly, Chad Auer and Steve Harshman.
Shollenberger doesn't have to file by May 29, as Libertarians are not a "major party". It's worth noting here that a Libertarian candidate for this office makes darned near no sense whatsoever.
Democratic candidates do, however, and both of the declared Democrats have experience in education. Maldonado ran against Degenfelder last time, and given here throwing roses to MAGA, which she sort of did and sort of didn't, while in that position, he frankly would have been a saner choice.
Harshman is highly likely to win against the two carpetbagging competitors he faces and is a really solid choice. This race might actually feature two really good candidates and a throwaway.
Columnist Rod Miller wrote in Wyofile to advance an idea that I've been backing here for quite some time, that being getting rid of party identification and affiliation in the state's elections.
Open letter to the Joint Corporations Committee
He points out that our state constitution is silent on party affiliation, and I frankly feel our current primary system is unconstitutional. I wish somebody would file a lawsuit over the issue.
May 23, 2026
The more I've read on this, the more it seems clear this fellow is not eligible:
This will be a test for Chuck, who hasn't been very good at passing tests so far.
Chuck also met with some discontent outside a legislative committee meeting:
Of course, Chuck tagged the protest as hoard of radical leftist, as he does, a hoard apparently meaning any group of people exceeding one person and a leftist being anyone who disagrees with him.
May 24, 2026
Updates as we reach the filing deadline.
U.S. Senate:
Republican Party.
Harriet Hageman. On our no go list.
Jill M Edwards. A new name, no idea who she is.
Jimmy Skovgard
John Allan Holtz. Perennial GOP candidate who was apparently a judge at some point and just can't get the message that no one wants him as an office holder.
"Okay, Boomer".
Sam Mead. Best GOP candidate so far.
Democrats.
Billy Benavidez. A new name. No idea who he is.
James Byrd.
On this race, State Rep. Campbell, running for reelection, came out and boldly branded Hageman a threat to public lands, which she is. That took guts.
May 27, 2026
Lisa Engebretsen, a Casper real estate agent, has announced a bid for Senate District 29, which is currently held be uber extreme Wyoming Freedom Caucus commando Bob Ide. She's running as a conservative candidate.
The more power to her. Ide was even in Washington D.C. on January 6, although he wasn't a rioter. He need to be voted out.
Another menace to the state, Chuck Gray, is getting no love from the legislature:
Wyoming lawmakers unmoved by Gray’s calls to reexamine electoral maps
In Texas, which has the stupidest politics in the country, Ken Paxton defeated John Cornyn in the Texas Republican runoff and boisterous GOP annoyance Chip Roy was defeated in his bid to replace Paxton as attorney general.
In at least the first race, the nomination of Paxton gives the Democrats, whose fortunes are overall reviving in Texas, a chance of taking Cornyn's seat and gives Cornyn the chance to go whole hog on the Senate on seeking revenge against Trump. Trump's recent actions in the 2026 race are not only boosting Democrats, they're freeing up current office holders to act against him.
May 28, 2026
Occasional Casper Mayor Ray Pacheco has announced for Natrona County commissioner, which would mean that two former mayors are running for positions on the commission.
Balow has commenced running her ads.
It's notable that the three candidates who have really been spending money in the House race, Gray, Friess and Rasner, all have wealth or family wealth. It raises the obvious comment that if they're conservatives as they claim, or populists as they really are, they can afford to hold their positions, which is something to consider.
The median income in Wyoming is $76,000/year.
Last edition:
The 2026 Election, 11th Edition. The only good voting Indian is a disenfranchised voting Indian edition.
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.
cont:
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.
cont:
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.
May 20, 2026
Aided by a defecting Bill Cassidy and some other defecting Republicans who finally decided they weren't a complete pack of cowardly little sissies, Congress advanced a War Powers bill.
This isn't the same as voting on it, they're just advancing it so it can be voted on. Still, it's a blow to the Big Sissie.
May 24, 2026
Contrary to what reports are holding, no lasting solution to the conflict with Iran has been reached, particularly in regard to the nuclear material.
We appear to be on our way to something no better than what Trump ripped up in the form of what President Obama had negotiated.
And he didn't have to kill a bunch of Iranian school girls to get it.
May 26, 2026
Americans are waking up the news of more war in the war that Trump said he'd already won and a couple of days ago said a deal was close to ending.
These strikes were on missile locations and boat launching sites.
May 28, 2026
Iran retaliated with an attempted strike on a US base in Kuwait.
Trump threatened to "blow up" Oman, a US ally, if it didn't cooperate on the Strait of Hormuz.
Israel declared a swath of Lebanon a "combat zone".
And with the entry demonstrating Trump's insanity, we will close out this issue.
Last edition:
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.
Wednesday, May 27, 2026
Saturday, May 27, 1911. A prediction of peace.
The News noted Diaz's departure, but its prediction of peace would prove to be premature, although that would not happen immediately by any means.
The news was advertising "fish trains", which is something that had never occurred to me in any fashion.
Colliers was asking questions about newspapers.
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Friday, May 26, 1911. Leaving Mexico.
Monday, May 27, 1901. The status of U.S. territories.
It was Memorial Day in the United States.
The Supreme Court, in spite of the holiday, issues its opinion in DeLima v. Bidwell and Downes v. Bidwell holding that territories held by the US, such as Peurto Rico, were not part of it but were not foreign territories either.
A mine explosion near Dayton, Tennessee killed twenty one miners.
Boer commandos captured a British outpost manned by the Midland Mounted Rifles.
Last edition:
Friday, May 24, 1901. British concentration camps.
We Investigated Social Security Offices. What We Found Will Shock You.
We Investigated Social Security Offices. What We Found Will Shock You.
I'm not shocked. Life in Trump's America.
People who depend on Social Security are billionaires who get trips to Epstein Island. Why would Trump care about them?
Tuesday, May 26, 2026
Churches of the East: Magnifica Humanitas
Churches of the East: Magnifica Humanitas: Just out, it's notably already being hailed as a great work, and notably already criticized by the United States Secretary of the Interi...
Magnifica Humanitas
Just out, it's notably already being hailed as a great work, and notably already criticized by the United States Secretary of the Interior.
OF HIS HOLINESS
POPE LEO XIV
ON SAFEGUARDING THE HUMAN PERSON
IN THE TIME OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Wednesday, May 26, 1926. Riffians surrender.
Flag of the Rif Republic.
The Riffians surrendered, bringing to an end the Rif War.
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Tuesday, May 25, 1926. Ukrainian assassination in Paris.
Labels: 1920s, 1926, Calvin Coolidge, Crime, law, Personalities, Russian Civil War, Ukraine, Ukrainian National Army
Friday, May 26, 1911. Leaving Mexico.
The Díaz family, accompanied by relatives, servants, and a military escort, left for the port of Veracruz in the early morning hours.
The news of the government's surrender was hitting the papers.
Last edition:
Thursday, May 25, 1911. Díaz resigns and USS Wyoming launched.
Labels: 1870s, 1876, 1880, 1880s, 1884, 1910s, 1911, 1940s, 1947, boats and ships, Francisco León de la Barra, Mexican Revolution, Mexico, Porfirio Díaz, Porfirismo, U.S. Navy
Monday, May 25, 2026
Saturday, May 25, 1946. Jordanian independence, Railroad strike ends.
Jordan achieved full independence.
Railroads and Railway workers signed an agreement at the White House averting a Federal seizure of the railroads. Truman's order to take control was only three minutes away from implementation.
Last edition:
Friday, May 24, 1946. Truman and the railroad strike.
Tuesday, May 25, 1926. Ukrainian assassination in Paris.
Former Ukrainian President and socialist, nationalist leader Symon Petiura was assassinated in Paris by Jewish Communist Anarchist Sholom Schwartzbard, who encountered him by happenstance.
Petiura had been head of the UNA which was responsible for the murder of thousands of Jewish Ukrainians. He remains a controversial figure. Schwartzbard would be acquitted of the charge of murder. He later moved to South Africa. He had served in World War One in the French Foreign Legion and the Russian Civil War as a Red Guard. Following the war, he returned to France disillusioned with the outcome of the war.
President Coolidge signed the Public Buildings Act into law, providing funding for construction of federal buildings for the first time in over a decade.
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Monday, May 24, 1926. National Parks created. Oil concessions extended. Tokachi erupts.
Thursday, May 25, 1911. Díaz resigns and USS Wyoming launched.
The long dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz came to an end with his resignation. At 4:25 p.m. the Chamber of Deputies accepted it, and the resignation of his Vice President, Ramón Corral.
Born in 1830, Diaz had initially studied to become a priest but eventually switched his studies to law. He served under Benito Juarez in the war against France in which he proved to be an effective military officer. He seized power in in a coup in 1876, and was elected to office the following year, serving until 1880. He resumed holding the office in 1884. The period of 1876 to 1911 is generally regarded as one of continual rule by Diaz and is referred to as the Porfirismo.
Diaz was actually a surprisingly good leader and granted Mexico a long period of stability and economic reform. His rule favored industry and technocrats. Wealth generally increased and there was some advancement of the rights of the underclass, but he was generally conservative in his overall approach. He was on generally friendly terms with the Church, which is not surprising given his early life.
He'd be well remembered today if it wasn't for his inability to trust anyone else to run the country.
He went into exile in France with his wife and son, the only child from two marriages and one affair that lived until adulthood. Ramón Corral was already in Europe seeking medical attention for terminal cancer and went into exile in France.
Francisco León de la Barra y Quijano became the Provisional President of Mexico.
Diaz provides a warning about leaders and movements based on a leader assuming that only one man can advance them. His long reign ended up not only ending in an unnecessary revolution, but radicalizing both his supporters and opponents.
USS Wyoming in its original configuration.
The second US vessel to that date to bear the name Wyoming, the battleship would serve until 1947.
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Wednesday, May 24, 1911. Magonistas say no to the Treaty of Ciudad Juárez.
Thursday May 25, 1876. Stoves and ranges.
The Army issued specifications for types and supplies of heating stoves and cooking ranges for the first time.
A company of forty Texas Rangers left Laredo ,Texas for the Nueces Strip with orders to find, kill or capture John King Fisher, the leader of a band of cattle rustlers
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Wednesday, May 24, 1876. Mount Royal Park inaugurated.
The kind of BS that makes people hate lawyers.
The Aerodrome: Frontier Passengers File $10 Million Claim Against...: Frontier Passengers File $10 Million Claim Against Denver For Failing To Stop Runway Suicide Seriously? That should be tossed out and sancti...
Frontier Passengers File $10 Million Claim Against Denver For Failing To Stop Runway Suicide
Frontier Passengers File $10 Million Claim Against Denver For Failing To Stop Runway Suicide
Seriously?
That should be tossed out and sanctions levied against the lawyer who filed it.
Sunday, May 24, 2026
Friday, May 24, 1946. Truman and the railroad strike.
President Truman made a radio address promising that if railway workers had not returned to work by 4:00 p.m. May 25, he was going to seize control of the railroads.
Last edition:
Thursday, May 23, 1946. Chick-fil-A.
Monday, May 24, 1926. National Parks created. Oil concessions extended. Tokachi erupts.
The U.S. Senate passed bills creating Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky, Shenandoah National Park in Virginia, and Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina and Tennessee.
You can tell the likes of Harriet Hageman and Deseret Mike Lee weren't in Congress at the time.
The Kingdom of Iraq extended the "D'Arcy Concession" of the oil fields in the Diyala Governorate for an additional 35 years past its scheduled expiration date of May 27, 1961. In reality, events would cause the concessions to be renegotiated after World War Two and expire in 1958, the year that the Kingdom of Iraq itself expired.
Most of the concession territory was in Iran and was cancelled in 1932.
Mount Tokachi erupted in Hokkaidō, Japan, killing 140 people.
The volcano is located within the Daisetsuzan National Park.
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Thursday, May 20, 1926. Trains and Planes.
Labels: 1920s, 1926, 1930, 1930s, Aircraft, Barnstorming, Calvin Coolidge, Ernst Udet, law, Railroads, Transportation
Wednesday, May 24, 1911. Magonistas say no to the Treaty of Ciudad Juárez.
The Colorado National Monument was established.
U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Franklin MacVeagh endorsed the plan of the National Monetary Commission to create the Federal Reserve Board in a speech in Kansas City.
Magonistas in far western Mexico announced that they refused to accept the Treaty of Ciudad Juárez.
Last edition:
Sunday, May 21, 1911. The Treaty of Ciudad Juárez brings the first stage of the Mexican Revolution to an end.
Friday, May 24, 1901. British concentration camps.
British social activist Emily Hobhouse returned from a trip to South Africa with photographic proof the British were keeping Boers of all ages and genders in concentration camps where they were suffering horrific depravations.
Last edition:
Tuesday, May 21, 1901. Speed Limit.
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