Trump safe after shots fired at White House Correspondents' Dinner; suspect in custody
Thanks or no thanks to the so-called "right to bear arms," long promoted by the NRA, as well as by gun manifacturers and sellers, those attending public gatherings here in the US are always at risk of being shot. That same risk does not threaten those in other developed countries, because of their much stronger firearms control laws, freeing their citizens from the constant dangers of our own gun culture. Nor are guns needed for hunting any more, as we no longer need to kill wild animals for food. Fewer guns in ordinary hands means fewer gun deaths. Firearms in the home are not protective--that's a fact, just look at the statistics. The guns end upkilling the home's occupants, not intruders. (How many homes actually have intruders? (In decades of being a homeowner, I've never had an intruder.)
The President is always being guarded, meanwhile other Americans are being killed or harmed by guns. (My son still has problems with his foot, injured when he was age 11, after another boy dropped a family's bedside gun that fired.) Guns put everyone at risk, even you and me, even our neighbors, even the US President. The "right to bear arms" puts us all in danger.
The would-be shooter (would-be assassin) at the Correspondents' dinner certainly acted with "malice aforethought" by checking in as a hotel guest beforehand. My sympathies go out to Charlie Kirk's widow who was present there and must have been traumatized after her own husband was shot and killed.
Guests hastily left the dinner after the shooter was subdued.
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Do you think that Donald Trump, soon age 80, may now not only feel worried about being shot, but also be getting tired of actually being president? He often looks tired. And he knows that his life may be at risk. Is it really all worthwhile?
Is President Trump actually dozing here below or just "resting" his eyes? He often seems to be snoozing on the job.
Donald Trump went to Florida last Friday, planning to return to the White House for the correspondents dinner that he had never attended before. He had skipped the event in years past, saying that the press had been "extraordinarily bad" to him. Now, apparently, Trump thinks the press is improving in its coverage. But the man has really been looking increasingly fatigued lately.
Some prominent names in conservative media, including Megyn Kelly and Tucker Carlson, have turned completely against the president ever since he launched his war against Iran on Feb. 28. Lots of political churning has been going on, as has been reported in the media. Trump may have started to view the media more favorably now, thinking it is actually helping him.
Trump’s Own Voters Turn on Him in Shock New Impeachment Poll
The media may now be viewed more favorably by Trump because he considers it less critical of him. However, his most faithful voters are actually expressing less support. Is Donald Trump possibly trying to become somewhat mainstream and more moderate? Hard-core voters don't really like seeing that.
MAGA REVOLT
The new numbers put Trump at the same approval as at the “peak of the Watergate scandal,” a pollster has said, no longer showing very high approval among his previously faithful supporters, but possibly gaining more non-Maga fans.
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Trump DOJ’s Alarming New Plot Against U.S. Citizens Exposed
Donald Trump has indicated that he wants to "de-naturalize" all US citizens not actually born here. If so, let's start first with Melania and her son, Barron, born to Melania as perhaps a non-citizen mother? (Melania, who came here on a tourist visa that had expired, then got herself pregnant by Donald Trump.) And what about de-naturalizing Trump himself, since his own mother wasn't born in this country? How far back might we want to go? Even those tracing their ancestry to the Mayflower might become de-naturalized, according to Trump's current whims.
Google now says:
The U.S. population is experiencing a significant slowdown in growth and is projected to start declining by roughly 2056, or potentially sooner, due to declining birth rates and reduced immigration.
Reducing immigration and deporting people are signature Trump policies. Now he is thinking about "de-naturalizing" folks who have already become citizens. Is that even legally possible? He apparently thinks that having fewer immigrants and fewer residents overall would somehow boost his own popularity. In fact, reduced population growth, perhaps even a decline in overall population, usually has negative national consequences. This problem had never before faced our country until Donald Trump came on the scene. Trump supporters may believe they will do better if more immigrants are deported. I don't have time or space here to explain why that simply is not the case. It might require me to write a whole other book.
Each side is betting it can last longer than the other, analysts say. But there are risks in a stalemate without a deal.
As long as the 2 sides are not killing each other, l say let the stalemate continue. If it goes on long enough, they may even forget why they were fighting.
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The next article is by a Cuban man whom I actually know. He was mentioned on the blog years ago, also in my Confessions book. Luis Manuel has never given up the struggle.
The New York Times, April 24, 2026
I’m One of Cuba’s Political Prisoners. When Will I Go Free?
By Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara
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A few days ago, on the blog posting entitled To blog or not to blog? That is the question. I posted this photo of my Cuban friend Sirley who was attacked on her farm in Cuba by a man with machete, saying he was punshing her for efforts in trying to keep a local school open. I facilitated her arrival in the the US and invited her to give testimony at the Amnesty International office in Washington, DC, when I was the organization's volunteer Caribbean Coordiantor. She now lives in Miami.
She has just told me:
Gracias, Barbara, tus recuerdos me hacen honor, eres una mujer valiente y tienes un hermoso corazón.
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Another long-time friend no longer answers emails, though I've recently sent her several, asking for a reply. She lives or was living in Canada. Did she die or did she just move away and change her email address? She had mentioned the possibility of moving back to Britain, her own birthplace, so maybe she has gone there now. Another friend living in a nursing home wasn't responding. Then someone there answered her phone and told me that she had died. But unless someone else answers the phone for a deceased person or checks on their email, we'll never know what might have happened.
So now I need to give instructions to my kids about answering email queries after my death. I've already lost my older son and a Cuban foster son, so no one else in my family is allowed to die before me! No one else! God, fate, destiny--do you hear me! And we all should leave instructions with a family member to check our email after we have departed this mortal coil.
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