Well, my entire blog post just disappeared once again this morning--something happening

all too often lately, very frustrating and just so aggravating. And the post just prior to this one took 3 separate tries before it actually stayed posted. And yet, posts from the previous still up there now. I like to go back to review my own history when memory fails.

Cave writings and even ancient manuscripts survive millenia, but on-line writing may be ephermeral, as I am finding out, having lost a couple of entire posts in just the last 2 days.

I may need to consult a blog doctor to advise me now.

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Here's a summary from Yahoo News about an item discussed in the just-vanished post:

The biggest and most exciting win for the White House came on Tuesday: defeating Rep. Thomas Massie, the Kentucky Republican who opposed Trump on key issues, including on the “big, beautiful bill” tax and spending plan and on pushing for the release of files related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Massie lost to Trump-backed Ed Gallrein, who got 54% of the GOP primary vote. For months, Trump and his allies have attacked Massie, and they got their win Tuesday in the most expensive House primary in history.

Primary winner Gallrein is a Kentucky farmer and military veteran with no prior political experience, someone specifically recruited by Trump to defeat Massie. He had apparently never considered a political career before. Defeated incumbent Massie has been in Congress for 14 years, but Trump spared no effort to punish him and to issue a warning to other Republicans who might be tempted to fail to follow his dictates. Trump may snooze a lot during the day, but he always wakes up in time to inflict vengeance. He is showing that he is top dog in the Republican Party now and that no party member should ever dare to try opposing him.

Trump warns, "It doesn't work out well’ when GOP members vote against him,

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Here's a fundraising appeal posted today from demoralized Democrats. (And how can the rest of us get out of a tax audit? )

The story that broke today honestly feels like something you’d expect to read about in another country.

According to reports, Donald Trump and his family are now being granted immunity from pending tax audits while Trump sits in office.

Think about that for a second. Ordinary Americans get audited. Working families get crushed over paperwork mistakes.People stress over taxes every single year because they know the IRS can come after them if they screw something up.

But apparently if you become President of the United States and surround yourself with enough loyalists, the rules suddenly stop applying to you.

That’s the part that keeps eating at us. Not just the corruption itself. Not just the hypocrisy.

Trump and his allies keep consolidating power while Republicans stack courts, redraw maps, flood elections with billionaire money, and attack the very institutions that are supposed to provide

accountability in the first place.

NY Times, I.R.S. to Drop Audits of Trump and Family

As part of the Justice Department’s deal, officials vowed not to pursue any matters, including those involving President Trump’s tax returns, that are pending.

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Yes, How can the rest ofus get out of tax audits?

Is it all hopeless now or can we Democrats do something about it? Voters may soon tire of Donald Trump and his sneaky machinations, so we certainly need to try to speed up that process.

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Wash. Post, Global Security

Trump’s $1.45 trillion defense budget is the largest — and most contested — in American history

Trump may be cutting funds from most government agencies and services. but heis adding them to the defense budget. War Secretary Pete Hegseth is eager to help him do that.