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Tuesday, September 30, 2025

26 staff advisers told by EMAIL re:National Endowment for the Humanities - - by Staff of Presidential Personnal

Your position is terminated . . .

[no cause or likelihood of such a council to exist ]


Today (Oct. 1, 2025)

by email -- 26 members of National Council of the Humanities

have positions terminated

NYTimes.com/2025/10/01/arts/trump-neh-firings.html

________________________________________

Directed by Trump to

"Leave her Position"

Shellie C. Lowe  had served since Oct. 21, 2021 and had been

Senate confirmed Feb. 2022; normally these

Exec. branch directors have a 4-year-term.

nytimes.com/2025/03/12/national-endowment-humanities

trump-shelly-lowe.html

Autism Spectrum -- new genetic study published in NATURE (Oct. 2025)

Different forms of autism for

those diagnosed in adolescence than those diagnosed 

as toddlers --   NBC NEWS dot-com/ Oct. 1,1 p.m.

health/health-news/autism-spectrum-disorder-genetic-

analysis-multiple-forms-age-diagnosis rcna234741

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9/23 (Tues.) The TRUMP-Vance administration's embrace

of unproven science and depiction of AUTISM as a

"Crisis" rankles those who themselves live with

the complex mix of genetic and environmental 

factors that can't be attributed to a single cause. . .

RFK and the MAHA movement want there to be

blameworthy vaccine schedules and now,

TYLENOL (or generic acetominophen) . . .

Sonia A. Rao article (online)

at NYTimes.com/2025/09/23/

us/trump-autism-tylenol.html

Ms. Rao writes on disability issues

for the TIMES

David Schweikert to vacate House seat, depriving Speaker of another Vote on MAGA - GOP column / committee control

 the Hill.com/homenews


Arizona Republican David

Schweikert

will vacate his HOUSE of

REPRESENTATIVES seat

9/30/25 to seek Governorship

in Nov. 2026 race

campaign/552921/schweikert-bid-

arizona-governor

His "purple" District was 

considered a "toss-up"

in the R-D-Independent

mix of voters in that part

of Arizona

Senior Pentagon Leaders had warned the Audience at Quantico

. . . not to break into applause / 

in reaction / cheering 

in keeping with

the norms of a

traditionally

nonpartisan military . . .

Minute 44 in the 73-minute speech

 Trump's "stump speech"

Quantico, VA

at Minute 44 included

We will use the dangerous

cities as training grounds

for our military in future wars

 . . .

AUDIENCE : Generals & 

Admirals called to a person-

to-person communications

from Defense Secy.

Hegseth . . .

TRUMP has already sent troops

to

Portland, OR

Los Angeles, CA

Washington D.C.

_________________________

polite applause at the Quantico

speech's end

Mark Twain : It's always easier to fool people, than to convince them that they've been fooled

 "It's easier to fool people,

than to convince them that they've been fooled"

"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.

It's what you know for sure

that just ain't so !"

What do Latter Day Saints members call their worship hall?

 A church for the LDS denomination is

typically referred to as a "STAKE" :

of the structures that comprise its buildings

they are called

Meetinghouse;

the hall used for worship is

termed

Chapel.

Other buildings are gymnasium/

cultural hall, classrooms,

baptismal font.

Political Violence must be treated equally when it comes from Leftist and from MAGA - extremists inevitably

 Governor Josh Shapiro

whose Exec. Mansion

was attacked by an

Arsonist // Political

influencer - podcaster

Kirk who was assassinated

by a lone gunan

_______________________

Treat such arson, assassination,

point-blank shootings as equally

abhorrent and indicating a social

pathology and murderous hatred

that comes from a political

spectrum and continuum ! ! !

nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/

gov-josh-shapiro-political-violence

rcna231658

Tuesday Sept. 16, 2025

Aeschylus - - And even in our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart. . .

from Blog discussing "Blue Bloods" as a CBS drama series:

During the family dinner scene of this episode "Unbearable Loss," Frank Reagan (Tom Selleck) reveals that he has been asked to speak at the funeral and shares the quote that he plans to use –- a quote from Aeschylus’ Agamemnon (lines 179-183):
“And even in our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.”
The main purpose of this reference, on the surface, is to convey through the evocative language of Aeschylus the intensity of the suffering and grief that accompanies a loss. Frank had intended to share this quote at the funeral of his eldest son Joe, who died in the line of duty, but couldn’t find the will to do so at the time. Now, by making use of this quote, Frank demonstrates his understanding and sympathy for the reverend’s loss through an expression of the pain and suffering he himself has gone through.
https://windswaves.wordpress.com/2016/12/14/the-awful-grace-of-god-blue-bloods-robert-kennedy-and-aeschylus-agamemnon/

ArtPrize Grand Rapids, MI mid-September - October 4, 2025 : grand prize is $100,000 : 900+ entries

 ArtPrize

a 16-day international 

art competition featuring

900+ entries and a 

$100,000 grand prize

kicks off Thursday Sept. 18, 2025

M Live (Michigan Live!)

online announcement

Prizes given Oct. 4 : voting ends

Oct. 2, 2025

artprize.org/

Jimmy Kimmel Live! in Brooklyn, NY Sept. 29 - Oct.3, 2025

 Who are some of the Talk Show / Comedian's

most faithful and highly watched celebrity guests?

They will drop by next weeks (M - Fr. 11:30 p.m.

Eastern) -- check your local ABC affiliate for

time & channel

Spike Lee, Filmmaker

Emily Blunt, feature films

Stephen Colbert (CBS talk show)

Jeremy Allen White

Bruce Springsteen

MUSICAL Guests also

are highly regarded - easy-to-listen

U.S. to deport in flight this week Iranians who sought asylum : 100 individuals/families

 BREAKING NEWS:

7:12 a.m. Sept. 30, 2025

a U.S. chartered flight has already departed

from Louisiana en route to Iran via Qatar . . .

a stark effort given the awful Human Rights

record of the Khameini regime in Tehran.

This is the result of months of discussions between

the two countries.  The foreign ministry was 

coordinating the deportees' return.  The Mideast

totalitarian oil-sector country with no opposition

parties to the Islamist state is in the throes

of sky-high inflation, a plunging currency, 

unemployment, water and power cuts.

nytimes.com/  world/middleeast/us-iran-deportation-flight.html

Monday, September 29, 2025

National Holidays -- every year in October

this year is :

Columbus Day : October 13, 2025

observed locally is

Halloween : October 31, 2025

Revenge Porn : no ruling in court about MAGA Congressman (Florida) who blackmailed Miss United States

 Daytona Beach News-Journal

"No Ruling Friday Sept. 26

while Congress on break for

Holidays - Recess" -- Repr.

Cory Mills (GOP - MAGA)

now admits "None of us. . .

perfect"

Sept. 2025 ahead of House Speaker

vote in evenly split R - D. / independent

house membership

Sept. 25 - 30, 2025 blog statistics

 Number of visits to

"Seeking Faith and Understanding"

Blog -- GOOGLE -- since 2007

faithfor2008.blogspot.com

Sept. 25, 2025           1,141     visits

          yesterday 1,085

Sept. 26            456

Sept. 27th          566

Sunday 9/28       707

Monday 29th       359

Tuesday 30th        354

Thus far in month of

Sept. 1 - 30th is            36,844

MOST Views on a single day this month

3,787 (Labor Day : Sept. 1, 2025)

2nd most views

Wed. 9/10/25 3,433


Venues across Texas, Oklahoma, Tennessee

The 2025 (Fall broadcast TV series) debut

of The Road

will be shown on CBS Oct. 19, 2025 --

exec. producers Blake Shelton &

Taylor Sheridan.

Most Banned Author in America

Sept. 26, 2025

Horror - fantasy novelist - short

story scribe

Stephen King

declared himself the "most banned

author in America" for 87 books --

urging his fans to pick up one of them . . .

this is still America, he urgently told

those reading the social media post.

NEWSWEEK.com/ entertainment/

stephen-king-most-banned-author

Governor Whitmer

Governor Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan

today Sept. 29, 2025

after a LDS church / chapel arson and

shooting by a Veteran Marine in E. Michigan

led to 4 dead and 8 injured/hospitalized

called for the public to

"lower the temperature

of rhetoric"

Gunman opens fire at Mormon / LDS church Sunday Grand Blanc, Michigan : kills 4, injures many, buildings set afire

National Media on this story barely 30 hours

after the shootings / explosion / terroristic 

arson 

____________________________________ 

Michigan Live!

mlive.com/

Sunday a.m. Sept. 28, 2025

Praying for the LDS - Church of Jesus Christ

survivors of the flames and the bullets fired by

a perpetrator whose exact motive/s may never be

known -- he was a U.S. Marine veteran, having

served in Okinawa and Iraq.  He was age 40.

Charlie Kirk - - - Conspiracy Theorist Candace Owens still going too far down the rabbit holes [ after mid-month assassination ]

 NYTIMES After Charlie Kirk's death / funeral,

CANDACE OWENS is still promulgating a

bumper crop of theories about him and his assassin

NYTimes.com/2025/09/29/us/charlie-kirk-assassination-

conspiracy-theories.html

reporters = Richard Fausset

_______________________________________

NY POST dot-com

Sept. 18, 2025 2:17 p.m.

Slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk had

a falling-out with podcaster Candace Owens

TURNING POINT USA

While Kirk and Owens were "tight" according to Eric

Bolling more than a decade ago . . . Owens' rabbitholes

theories were too extreme -- Charlie

kept a cordial friendship with her. . .

Brownsville, TN

 Near Nutbush, TN

the community where Tina Turner went to

school and also 

near the High School she attended before becoming

iconic stage performer - singer,

multiple Grammy award winner, 

10-foot statue of

Tina Turner : unveiled during ceremony

Saturday 9/27/25.

She died in Switzerland May 2023 after

a long illness.  She renounced her U.S.

citizenship status 2013, after accepting

Swiss citizenship at the U.S. Consulate

in Bern, Switzerland.  She married the 

love of her life and they lived near 

Lake Zurich.


20-year anniversary : Chief Justice Roberts

 No,

not John Roberts and attorney-wife

having a 20-year-anniv. celebration of

their wedding (R. Catholic);

it is 20 years since the 2005 elevation

of Associate Justice Robert to the highest

position atop the

co-equal JUDICIAL BRANCH

of the U.S. Constitutional government -- today

Sept. 29 is the day of the 

"long conference" of the 9 justices

reviewing the wide array of

gun rights,

social media company immunity,

COVID-19 era vaccine disputes,

Ghislaine Maxwell appeal of her

guilty verdict (life in prison).

NBC News dot-com/

GOLF spectators : attempt to heckle Rory McIlroy & Team -- he gets last laugh winning Ryder Cup 2025

Europe winners post video of them holding Ryder Trophy

-- taunting POTUS 47

"Are you watching, Donald Trump?" "Are you watching?"


How big is Golf ?  That depends whether you mean

the golfer himself as 2024 Golf Fan-in-Chief lauds

a legendary "family" man ARNOLD PALMER

or you mean whether audience members on the

RYDER CUP Golf Tournament course can heckle

their way into throwing off the leading Golfer on

the Europe team (specifically

Shane Lowry - Ireland) at

Bethpage Course - Sunday

final round, 9/29/2025.

Farmingdale, NY

_____________________________________________

Daughter of golf great #Arnold #Palmer reacted to

Candidate #Trump praising the size of her father's genitals

as a poor choice of approaches

abcnews.go.com/

Sports/WireStory/arnold

palmer's daughter reacts Trump's

references her father . . .

ALSO =

insideedition.com/media/videos/

arnold.palmers.daughter.speaks.

out.after.donald.trumps.

speech.about.golfer.89377

alleged perpetrator mass shooting gunman

 Thomas Jacob Sanford

ex-U.S. Marine from

Burton Michigan nearby to

Grand Blanc Township,

Eastern Michigan, USA.

Age: 40

served in Okinawa &

Fallulujah, Iraq

Temple Grandin

 from Animals in Translation (2005)

chapter 2

That's the reason for the

special connection autistic

people like me have to 

animals.

Autistic people's

frontal lobes almost

never work as well

as normal people's do,

so our brain function

ends up being somewhere

in between human and

animal.  We use our animal

brains more than normal

people do, because we have

to.  We don't have any choice.

Autistic people are closer to

animals than normal people are.

The price human beings pay

for having such big, fat

frontal lobes is that

normal people become

oblivious in a way animals

and autistic people aren't.

Normal people stop seeing the

details that make up the big

picture and see only the big

picture instead.

Patrick Fitzgerald, longtime Chicago U.S. Attorney

 Patrick Fitzgerald will come out of retirement

to defend his longtime friend

James Comey when he

faces the wrath / ire of

POTUS and the designated

prosecutor wannabe - -

Lindsey Halligan, former

Insurance lawyer and personal

lawyer to then-candidate

#DJT between his terms as

POTUS 45 and 47.

nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/patrick-fitzgerald-james-comey-rcna233943

Lindsey Halligan's vague charges against Veteran Lawman James Comey

The brand new acting U.S. attorney for Eastern Virginia

Lindsey Halligan

had 3 chores last Thursday:

to navigate an unfamiliar courthouse,

make her first-ever appearance in a criminal case,

indict one of President Donald John Trump's enemies.

She took over on Monday 9/22/25 when her predecessor

quit rather than prosecute James Comey, former FBI

director.

She had a little trouble last Thursday :

at one point she entered the wrong courtroom,

when she found the right one, she stood on the

wrong side of the judge, then appeared confused

about the paperwork she had just signed.

But she did accomplish the third "chore" --

Lindsey Halligan has assured her place in

judicial and law enforcement history -- her motion

before a Federal Judge has indicted_ a former

FBI Director -- that task mattered most to her

personal boss, Donald John Trump.  She was

a personal lawyer to him in Florida between his

terms as POTUS 45 and POTUS 47, during the

accusations of stealing classified documents / data

and warehousing in various rooms / closets, et cetera

at Mar - a - Lago, golf resort, private club/residence,

Palm Springs, FL.

IN the opening days of Sept. 29 - Oct. 3, 2025

there will be much media and nationwide discussion about the

 the vagueness and unclear

nature of the

Obstruction

&

False Statement

charges

nytimes.com/2025/09/26/us/politics/james-comey-testimony-trump.html

Lindsey Halligan mistakes the

principle for a "principal" (school

head / primary CEO)

newsweek.com/lindsey-halligan-is-already making-mistakes-

prosecuting-james-comey/10799728

Sept. 30, 2025 posted 1:18 p.m. Eastern ONLINE

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022)

 The sequel to the blockbuster Ryan Coogler

feature film Black Panther (2018)

will air on ABC / Disney's Sunday Night at

the Movies between 7:31 - 11 p.m.

on Sunday October 5, 2025.

Santa Clara, CA next February

February 2026 (2nd Sunday evening : 2/8/26)

The headline act for the upcoming

Super Bowl NFL

halftime will be

Bad Bunny,

the Hispanic/

Puerto Rican/

Latin superstar

was announced

Sept. 28, 2025

by the National Football League.

He will also host on Saturday Oct. 4, 2026

the initial season episode of SNL (NBC's

late Saturday Night Live Entertainment -

variety - comedy 90-minute show).

Sunday, September 28, 2025

Red Mass at St. Matthew the Apostle Cathedral - First Sunday in October (annually)

This year it will be held on

October 5, 2025 from 9 - 10:45 a.m.

stmatthewscathedral.org/

for information on how to Livestream the Mass

ARCHDIOCESE OF Washington D.C.

Cardinal McElroy will be principal celebrant.

open to the public with limited seating. 


Annually ahead of the "First Monday" in October (when the SCOTUS

Washington, DC begins a new fall term)

the HOST CATHEDRAL

St. Matthew the Apostle Roman Catholic Church, D.C.

holds the 70th "Red Mass" for any / all / some of the Justices at SCOTUS 

Supreme Court of the United States

to invoke God's blessings on those responsible for administering justice

as well as all public officials

In 2022 it fell on Oct. 2, 2022

https://www.stmatthewscathedral.org/events/2022/10/02/70th-annual-john-carroll-society-red-mass

Singer-songwriter Cyndi Lauper -- Grammy tribute to her (CBS Sunday Oct. 5, 2025 from 8 - 10 PM Eastern)

Start time on Oct. 5 may be delayed due to

4 - 7 p.m. NFL game on CBS / / /

Guest for her tribute are Judy Collins, Cher,

SZA


COVERAGE at Michigan Live!

see information from August 1 press

coverage

MLive.com/life/2025/08/cyndi-lauper-

bids-tearful-farewell-at-last-michigan-show-

goodbye-i-love-you-guys.html

____________________________

Her Michigan appearance was at

Pine Knob Music Theater,

Clarkston, MI

August 1, 2025

"Girls just

want to have fun" Tour

May - August 2025.

before her induction into the Rock & Roll

Hall of Fame ceremony during 2025.

She is 72 years old.

Regular season -- Detroit Tigers may face unknown "Wild Card" team in Amer. League playoff rounds

 the Baseball regular season ends today

9/28 Sunday , end of September

Their last game is Fenway Park, Boston Red Sox

will it be

Cleveland,

NY city

or Toronto, Ontario ?

The Shapes of Leaves

 U.S. Poet Laureate Arthur Tze

from collection Archipelago (1995)

Gingko, cottonwood, pin oak, sweet gum, tulip tree:

our emotions resemble leaves and alive

to their shapes we are nourished.


Have you felt the expanse and contours of grief

along the edges of a big Norway maple?

Have you winced at the orange flare


wearing the curves of a curling dogwood?

I have seen from the air logged islands,

each with a network of branching gravel roads,


and felt a moment of pure anger, Aspen gold.

I have seen sandhill cranes moving in an open field,

a single white whooping crane in the flock.


And I have traveled along the contours

of leaves that have no name.  Here

where the air is wet and the light is cool,


I feel what others are thinking and do not speak

I know pleasure in the veins of a sugar maple,

I am living at the edge of a new leaf.

Redshifting Web

 by America's newest POET

LAUREATE

Arthur Sze

#8 of the 9-stanza full-length

poem

I find a rufous hummingbird on the floor

of a greenhouse, sense a redshifting

along the radial string of a web.

You may draw a cloud pattern in cement

setting in a patio, or wake to

sparkling ferns melting on a windowpane.

The struck, plucked, bowed, blown

sounds of the world come and go.

As first light enters a telescope

and one sees light of a star when the star

has vanished, I see a finch at a feeder,

beans germinating in darkness;

a man with a pole pulls yarn out

of an indigo vat, twists and untwists it;

I hear a shout as a child finds Boletus

barrowsii under ponderosa pine;

I see you wearing an onyx-and-gold pin.

In curved space, is a line a circle?

Govt. Shutdown (looming Monday 9/29) : House of Repr. lawmakers (435) to get double for personal security assistance per month

POLITICO.com

reports that the Summer 2025 pilot program

can double to $10K per month for personal

security that will be extended until 11/21/25

under the "stopgap funding patch" that

majority party wants to pass this week ahead

of another break in the fall for holiday break (Jewish

high holidays).

September

October

November

Speaker of the House is Mike Johnson (2nd

in the Presidential Succession).

politico.com/live-updates/2025/09/17/congres/

house-lawmakers-get-10k-per-month-for-personal-

security-following-kirk-assassination-00570037

Desmond Mpilo Tutu

 received the Nobel Peace Prize (1984) for his

work to non-violently replace an apartheid system

of oppressive government with a multi-racial, just

system with governance that covered all of it citizenry

"I come from a beautiful land,

richly endowed by God with

wonderful natural resources,

wide expanses, rolling

mountains, singing birds,

bright shining stars out of

blue skies, with radiant

sunshine, golden sunshine.

There is enough of the good

things that come from God's

bounty; there is enough for

everyone.  But apartheid has

confirmed some in their

selfishness, causing them to

grasp greedily a disproportionate

share, the lion's share, because

of their power. . .There is no

peace in Southern Africa.  There

is no peace because there is no

justice.  There can be no real peace

and security until there be first

justice enjoyed by all inhabitants

of that beautiful land.  The Bible

knows nothing about peace without

justice, for that would be crying,

'Peace, Peace, where there is no Peace'.

God's Shalom peace involves

inevitably righteousness,

justice,

wholeness,

fullness of life,

participation in decision making,

goodness, 

laughter,

joy,

compassion, 

sharing,

and reconciliation."

Albert Schweitzer - Laureate for Peace, 1952 - acceptance comments -- Nobel Prize, Oslo, Norway

 "The spirit is not dead;

it lives in isolation.  It

has overcome the difficulty

of having to exist in a world

out of harmony with its

ethical character.  It has come

to realize that it can find 

no home other than in the

basic nature of man. . .

It is convinced that compassion,

in which ethics takes root,

does not assume its true proportions

until it embraces not only man but

every living being.  To the old

ethics, which lacked this depth

and force of conviction, has been

added the ethics of

reverence for life,

and its validity is steadily gaining

in recognition."

Ralph Bunche, diplomat

 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, 1950

Peace is no mere matter of 

men fighting or not fighting.

Peace, to have meaning for

many who have known only

suffering in both peace and

war, must be translated into

bread or rice,

shelter,

health,

and education, 

as well as freedom &

human dignity -- a steadily

better life.  If peace is to

be secure, long-suffering

and long-starved, forgotten

people of the world, the

underprivileged and the

undernourished, must begin

to realize without delay the

promise of a new day and

a new life."

Saturday, September 27, 2025

A little more than 100 years ago -- Warren G. Harding -- who loved Golf, Baseball

 Avid fan of baseball, often throwing out the first pitch;

would even attend "Opening Day" of Baseball schedule

for the "Washington Senators";

in 1921 Harding attended the U.S. Open (golf)

and awarded the trophy to Champion Jim Barnes;

when he became president in 1921 he pledged to

return the country after W.W. I and the Influenza ("Spanish

Flu") epidemic that was worldwide to

normalcy after the era of Progressive

reform and world war.

Harding died suddenly August 2, 1923

and his vice-president was awakened

at his family farm in Vermont and

immediately sworn into office :

Calvin Coolidge.  Republicans would

continue to hold the Executive branch

through the 1928 - 1933 (Feb. 28) administration

of Herbert Hoover.

Sporting Competition appearances -- U.S. Open Tennis, Yankees Game, Ryder Cup

 POTUS 2.0

covered by media

at New York, NY area events this month

Men's Final (U.S. Open Arthur Ashe Stadium)

N Y Yankees (regular season game)

Ryder Cup (NY State)

month of September 2025

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Nobel Prizes (Oct. 6 - 13 this year's winner announcements) - significant interest for Oct. 10

 See official website that is managed

and operated with press coverage 

internationally :

nobelprize.org

Physiology/Medicine

Physics

Chemistry

Literature

Peace - Oct. 10 (Friday)

Economics - Oct. 13 (Monday)

__________________________

The Norwegian Nobel Committee handles that Friday 10/13

announcement for 2025; forecasters can imagine that substantial

majority of Americans will be alerted early on that day when 

POTUS 47 will either be elated_ or infuriated when the winner /

co-winners are announced to the world media from Oslo, Norway.

He will likely begin "tweeting" on "X" and Social Truth when the

official News breaks after the previous days to

pioneers in Physiology / Medicine

Physics

Chemistry

Literature . . .

the NOBEL for economics has a more limited impact among

specialists in Macro or Micro Economic Research & Application

of Economic Principles.

Christopher Wray

 former director of the FBI

has been accused in Social Media posts by

Trump 2.0

of planting FBI informants among the

Jan. 6 insurrectionists - - -

__________________________________

FOX NEWS Digital is current FBI Director

Patel's way of contradicting the harsh accusation

of POTUS

See

more on this story after Sunday Sept. 28, 2025

STAY TUNED for the present FBI director

Kash Patel 

NEWSWEEK "KP Contradicts DJT"

newsweek.com/kash-patel-contradicts-donald-trumps-

claim-about-fbi-on-january-6-10793817

FBI Directors -- lauded / controversial / cast down in disgrace

 Origin of Federal Bureau of Investigation

1930s

J. Edgar Hoover - died in office May 2, 1972 (48 years Director)

Clarence Kelly (confirmed by Senate) 1973 -8

William H. Webster 1978 - 87

William S. Sessions 1987 - 93

Louis J. Freeh 1993 - 2001

Robert S. Mueller Sept. 4, 2001 - 2013

James B. Comey 2013 - 2017 (fired by Trump)

Christopher Wray 2017 - 2021 (resigned on order of Trump)

Kash Patel on Feb. 20, 2021 (GOP MAGA majority

confirms him by 51 - 49; moderate Women Senators

Collins & Murkowski oppose him along_ with all Democrats

and Independents)

________________________________________

this list does not contain the short-term "acting"

FBI Directors who were not subject to confirmation

after U.S. Senate Vote/ sworn in for multiple years

36th Season

 An enduring part of Disney / ABC's family

line-up of returning shows in the comedy

vein is

America's Funniest Home Videos

The format is for a studio to vote on which of the 3 nominated

videos shown that episode will win the family / individuals

who submitted their entry will win

$20,000

Its 36th Season premiere episode

7 - 8 p.m. (check local listings)

debuted on Sept. 28, 2025 just

ahead of a world debut of the fantasy

sci-film, Guardians of the Galaxy,

volume 3 (2023) between 8 - 11 p.m.

Trump 1.0's firing of James Comey, FBI Director in 2017 when The Director visited the Los Angeles CA FBI Field office (2 p.m. Pacific Time)

14th Chapter of A Higher Loyalty (2018)

President Trump, who apparently watches

quite a bit of TV at the White House,

saw those images of me thanking the cops

escorting me as I flew back to Washington, D.C. . .

The President exploded.  He ordered that I was

not to be allowed back on FBI property again,

ever.  My former staff boxed up my belongings

as if I had died and delivered them to my home.

The order kept me from seeing and offering some

measure of closure to the people of the FBI, with

whom I had become very close. . .Trump had done

a lot of yelling during the 2016 campaign about

McCabe (who assumed acting FBI director responsibility)

and had fixated on Mrs. McCabe. . ."Your wife lost

her election in Virginia, didn't she?"

He replied, "Yes, she did,"  POTUS then said to

the acting director of the FBI, "Ask her how it feels

to be a loser" and hung up the phone.

 

Among Winners of the Iowa Caucus -- is the current U.S. Ambassador to Israel : former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee

Mike Huckabee will travel to Cairo / Heliopolis

Egypt to negotiate on behalf of the Trump-Vance

side for a "GAZA" settlement compromise / "deal"

NYTimes.com/ambassador-huckabee-istael-egypt-travel.html

Sept. 27, 2025

________________________________

the below winners did not go on from

DES MOINES, IOWA to claim a national

Party nomination as POTUS candidate

Richard Gephardt 1988

Tom Harkin 1992

Mike Huckabee 2008

Rick Santorum 2012

Ted Cruz 2016

Pete Buttigieg 2020

[ winners of the partisan IOWA

CAUCUS -- attempts to be early

like N. Hampshire Primary - 1st in nation ]

Oscar Arias Sanchez (President of Costa Rica)

 Oscar Arias Sanchez :

acceptance speech excerpt

at 1987 Nobel Peace Prize

ceremony at Oslo, Norway :

"Peace is not a matter of prizes

or trophies.  It is not the product

of a victory or command.  It has

no finishing line, no final

deadline, no fixed definition of

achievement.

Peace is a never-ending process, the

work of many decisions by many

people in many countries.  It is an

attitude, a way of life, a way of solving

problems and resolving conflicts.

It cannot be forced on the smallest

nation or enforced by the largest.

It cannot ignore our difference or

overlook our common interests.  It

requires us to work and live together."

Dalai Lama - Recipient of Nobel Peace Prize (1989)

 Acceptance Speech

"Peace in the sense of the

absence of war, is of little

value to someone who is

dying of hunger or cold.

It will not remove the pain

of torture inflicted on a

prisoner of conscience.  It 

does not comfort those who 

have lost their loved ones

in floods caused by senseless

deforestation in a neighboring

country.  Peace can only last

where human rights are 

respected, where the people

are fed, and where individuals

and nations are free."

Meta

 WNDU (NBC affiliate - South Bend / Notre Dame, IN)

channel 16 News department

is BREAKING NEWS the development that

Meta

is NOT 

behind a $12 billion proposed data center near

New Carlisle IN (near South Bend inside St. Joseph County,

IN)

Laura Boyd 

of Weinstein PR clarified to Josh & Lauren

that " META is not affiliated with that project"

Ten days ago, that newly proposed data center

got an unfavorable recommendation from the

AREA PLANNING COMMISSION.

There has been a major pushback from the 

community as people stood up against

the idea of losing their property to the 

proposed $12 billion data center.

wndu.com/meta-is-not-behind-12-billion-data-center

Arthur Penn -- unusual Feature Film Blockbuster director/producer - odd film catalogue - born on this date 1922

 He lived to be 88, passed away in 2010.

Served in the U.S. Army from 1943 - 46,  but

was quite unique in Hollywood for these films

that somehow together make him a "message Film"

director :

of the 1960s / 1970s

BONNIE & CLYDE

THE MIRACLE WORKER

ALICE's RESTAURANT

LITTLE BIG MAN

NIGHT MOVES (Gene Hackman, lead) -

 [a detective thriller]


Heart of Autumn

 Robert Penn Warren

(1905 - 1989)

Wind finds the northwest gap, fall comes.

Today, under gray cloud-scud and over gray

Wind-flicker of forest, in perfect formation, wild geese

Head for a land of warm water, the boom, the lead pellet.


Some crumple in air, fall.  Some stagger, recover control,

Then take the last glide for a far glint of water. None

Knows what has happened.  Now, today, watching

How tirelessly V upon V arrows the season's logic.


Do I know my own story?  At least, they know

When the hour comes for the great wing-beat.  Sky-strider,

Star-strider -- they rise, and the imperial utterance,

Which cries out for distance, quivers in the wheeling sky.


That much they know, and in their nature know

The path of pathlessness, with all the joy

Of destiny fulfilling its own name.

I have known time and distance, but not why I am here.


Path of logic, path of folly, all

The same -- and I stand, my face lifted now skyward.

Hearing the high beat, my arms outstretched in the tingling

Process of transformation, and soon tough legs.


With folded feet, trail in the sounding vacuum of passage,

And my heart is impacted with a fierce impulse

To unworkable utterance --

Toward sunset, at a great height.

Judge Robert H. Jackson, Supreme Court Justice

 Quoted as an Epigram for A Higher Loyalty

by James Comey -- his 11th chapter, p. 188

Safety lies in the prosecutor

who tempers zeal with

human kindness, who seeks

truth and not victims, who 

serves the law and not factional

purposes, and who approaches

his task with humility.

General Dwight D. Eisenhower (late in life, a two-term President)

 The supreme quality for

leadership is unquestionably

integrity.  Without it,

no real success is possible,

whether it is on a section

gang, a football field, in

an army, or in an office.

Chapter 4 Epigram : A_HIGHER_LOYALTY

 Author James Comey, former FBI Director

chose this EPIGRAM:

I have always believed,

and I still believe,

that whatever good

or bad fortune may

come our way we can always

give it meaning and transform

it into something of Value!

- - author Herman Hesse

Friday, September 26, 2025

Compromise reached (9 p.m. Thursday 9/25/25)

 Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer

and the MI House & Senate have reached a

deal to avert a state government agency /

official shutdown.

mlive.com/

$1.5 billion for road costs / improvements,

a new marijuana tax

2025/09/25 Michigan Live! (Grand Rapids

media platform

mlive.com/

Michael Nachmanoff

 Judge in the James

Comey case - Federal District

Court, Eastern Dist. of Virginia

______________________

in 2019 he handled the

arraignment of Lev Parnas and

Igor Fruman, associates of

Rudy Giuliani -- those two

were tried on charges of 

funneling foreign funds

into U.S. elections in support

of Donald J. Trump . . .____

politico.com/news/2025/09/25/james-comey-criminal-case-

judge-michael-nachmanoff-00581794

Remembering the screen and TV roles of Donna Douglas : Beverly Hillbillies, Twilight Zone, Frankie & Johnny (1966)

 Miss

Donna Douglas

was born Sept. 26, 1932

in Baton Rouge, LA -

married and had a baby

after high school, won

several beauty contests.

Came to Hollywood in 1959

and already starred in memorable

"Eye of the Beholder" episode of

Twilight Zone (1960), then won

part of Ellie Mae of The Beverly

Hillbillies family sitcom in 1962, starred

with Elvis Presley in 1966

in Frankie & Johnny (film).  R.I.P.

Jan. 1, 2015 Miss Douglas passed

from this life to the next.

Disease outbreak - Dowagiac (MI) Middle School, CASS County, MI

 reported by ABC 57 (S. Bend, IN Affiliate)

Four confirmed cases of

hand, foot, and mouth disease

at Dowagiac MI (Cass County) 

Junior High

abc57.com/news/hand-foot-and-mouth-disease-cases-confirmed-

at-dowagiac-middle-school

Sept. 25, 2025  NIGHT TEAM reporting 9 p.m. Eastern

further information as far as County Health Department advice

Don Bacon (GOP House Rep. from Omaha)

13 days later -- in reply to Lindsey Halligan's move

to Prosecute James Comey, former

FBI Director,

Don Bacon, Repr. from Nebraska

expressed concern on social media

LAWFARE undermines our great county

/ / /

the continued escalation will only hurt us all

_______________________________________________

 THE HILL reports that on 13 Sept. 2025

Don Bacon (R but not MAGA) House Repr. from

Nebraska's urban / purple district denounced Trump

"Mr. President, Putin 

is the invader . . .

you'll be judged in history

books by your actions

or lack thereof. . ."

thehill.com/homenews/house/5502201-don-bacon-trump-russia-ukraine-war/

September 13, 2025 (Saturday) 1:26 p.m. Eastern Time posted

Exposition of Psalm 36, verse 6 : "Men and Beasts YOU will save, O LORD"

 St. Augustine of Hippo used what were the

Latin translations of the Hebrew BOOK of

the Psalms : for our Psalm 36: 6 he read

Men and beasts you will save, Lord, as your

mercy has been multiplied. . .

Augustine's exposition / commentary

on this verse [WSA 21st Century

Expositions on the Psalms, vol. III, 

p. 82 :translator Maria Boulding] :

He has already said, "Your

mercy is in heaven" and now

to indicate this is on earth

as well, he says, MEN AND

BEASTS YOU WILL SAVE, LORD. . .

Great is your mercy, and manifold

is your mercy, O God, and you

give it to both humans and animals.

From whom does the salvation of

humans [Latin salus : means 

'health, safety, well-being' ]

proceed?  From God.  Does not

the good estate of the beasts come

from God too?  He who made

the animals as well, and he who

made both saves both; but the

salvation of the beasts is the safety

and health that belong within time.

Yet there are people who make a

great point of begging from God

what he has given even to animals.

Your Mercy Has Been Multiplied,

O GOD! in that you not only grant

salvation to human beings, but

give also to the beasts what you

give to humans, a carnal and

temporal salvation!

Psalm 36: 5 - 6

 New Revised Standard Version

(updated edition, 2021, NCCC USA)

Your steadfast love, O Lord

extends to the heavens,

your faithfulness is like the

mighty mountains;

your judgments are like

the great deep;

you save humans and animals

alike, O Lord!

Thursday, September 25, 2025

Last day at work

 Ryan Walters,

who sought to remove any gap

from public education and his

fundamentalist insistence that

the 10 Commandments and a

"Bible in every schoolroom" was

his way or the highway.

Resigned without mentioning his

resignation announced the night

before in his "live-feed" with 

FOX NEWS online.

see Oklahoma voice.com

walters-turbulent-tenure-reaches-

quiet-end-at-oklahoma-state-board-

of-education-meeting

posted 9/25/25 2 p.m. by reporter

Nuria Martinez-Keel

Ahmed al-Sharaa -- Syria replaces Bashar al-Assad

 One million Syrians have returned to Syria from

refugee camps elsewhere since the Assad regime

fled to Moscow, Russia under the protection / tutelage

of Vladimir Putin, war criminal - ruler-for-life . . .

UN data gathering - reporting to the world media

29 Sept. 2025

______________________

New Syrian president

addresses General Assembly

of the United Nations; no 

Syrian president for 58 years

has done so.

DETAILS: nhk.or.jp/en/news

Sept. 25, 2025

He appealed for the full lifting

of sanctions so they

"no longer shackle the Syrian people".

NJ PBS (New Jersey's non-profit TV network) will close June 30, 2026

 New Jersey's public television network

may be forced to shut down next year

after its nonprofit operator and the

state's public Broadcasting Authority

failed to reach a contract agreement

nytimes.com/2025/ Sept. 25 online article

by Samantha Latson

It was not clear precisely how the funding

cuts had led to the contract impasse.  A state

spending plan Gov. Philip D. Murphy signed

this summer slashed funding to $250,000 down

from $1 million in the previous fiscal year.

President Trump and House GOP (MAGA)

and Senate Republicans also cut $500 million

from public broadcasters around the country.

. . .Closure of local news outlets could lead to

a country that was even more divided. . ."People

become more disengaged from their communities,

and they tend to flee into their tribal corners even

more than we have seen.  It focuses people more

on national news, less on local news, and it tends

to polarize."

Utah's re-draw of Congressional Districts (4) might lead to a gain for Democratic Party

 Their 2022 map was unconstitutional;

the Judge who made that finding ordered

the Redrawing Process to begin again

npr.org/2025/09/25/nx-s1-5552779/utah-redistricting-texas-trump-congress

Flu Season Ahead

 STAY Healthy -or- STAY HOME

| get your flu shot


| wash your hands


| elbow sneeze

Joe Rogan - podcaster, former actor-comedian DEFENDS Jimmy Kimmel against MAGA defamers and haters

 Details at 

CNN.com/

Joe Rogan

defends 

Kimmel, tells

conservatives defending censorship,

"Oh, my God,

you're crazy!"

UPDATE (THURS.

9/25/2025)

for several days after the ABC suspension

of Jimmy Kimmel from his comedy-talk

show weeknights on ABC,

Influencer- Pod Caster

Joe Rogan

gave no public reaction due to his being

on a distant hunting trip in mountains;

NOW that he's back he's been quoted

I definitely don't think the

government should be involved ever

in dictating what a comedian

can or cannot say in a monologue ;

the COMPANIES , if they're being

pressured by the government, 

and if people on the right

are saying Yeah, Go Get 'em

oh, my God, you're crazy!

You're crazy for supporting

this! Because this will be

used on Y-O-U !

Wednesday, September 24, 2025

U.N. Ambassador Waltz (in office since Friday Sept. 19, 2025)

 U.S.

Ambassador to the

United Nations

Mike Waltz assured FOX NEWS viewers

on today's "Fox & Friends"

that

Trump is not messing

around in

his approach to ending the Russian war on

Ukraine.

September 24, 2025 early a.m.

GRANTS FOX-News

interviews regularly

foxnews.com/

about Administration priorities

to root out antisemitism,

to eliminate woke (?) programs

Ambassador to the United Nations from the United States of America (since 1953)

 Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

James Jeremiah Wadsworth

Adlai Stevenson II

Arthur Goldberg

George Ball

James Russell Wiggins

Charles W. Yost

George H. W. Bush (1971-3)

John A. Scali

Daniel Patrick Moynihan (7 mos. only 1975-6)

William Scranton

Andrew Young of Atlanta, GA (1977-9)

Donald McHenry

Jeane Kirkpatrick (4 yrs. 1981 - 5)

Vernon A. Walters

Thomas R. Pickering

Edward J. Perkins

Madeleine J. Albright (1993-7)

Bill Richards of New Mexico (1997-8)

Peter Burleigh

Richard Holbrooke

John Negroponte

John Danforth of Missouri

John Bolton

Zalmay Khalizad

Susan Rice (2009-13)

Samantha Power (2013-7)

Nikki Haley of NC (2017-Dec. 2018)

Kelly Craft

Linda Thomas-Greenfield

[  acting ambassadors, who were not

Senate-confirmed, omitted from above

listing ]

What do Latter-Day saints believe about the Second Coming of Jesus?

 According to MARIYA MANZHOS (reporter)

for Deseret News (UTAH media platform)

"Latter-Day Saints believe

the return of Jesus will initiate

the 1,000 Millennium period

during which Jesus will reign

upon the earth BUT they do

not believe in the sudden

removal of believers while

the rest of the world is left

behind. . ."

deseret.com/faith/2025/09/23/rapture-end-of-the-world-christians/

Is the word "Rapture" in the New Testament (canonical writings)?

 Bart Ehrman says "No"

ehrmanblog.org/is-the-rapture-in-the-New-Testament/

10 of us in line ready for vaccination

 Niles Sr. Center

PROVIDER: Corewell Health of Michigan

"I verify that I have been offered and received the

VIS about the immunization that I am receiving.

I have had a chance to ask questions which were

answered to my satisfaction" [ I asked about whether

the H1N1 strain and all expected Influenza A and Influenza

B strain effective version was to inoculate me ]

"I believe I understand the benefits and risks of the

vaccine that I am receiving and request that the

vaccine be given to me.  I have been given an

opportunity to receive or renew the Corewell

Health HIPAA Notice of Privacy Practices, notice

of non-discrimination, surprise billing notice, notice

of Availability of language assistance service and

Auxiliary Aids and Services (NOA)."

FLULAVAL

Going to hell

 Among many comments / evaluations in his

General Assembly speech:

POTUS Trump 2.0

told the diplomats / world leaders

Your countries are

going to hell

Tuesday midday - Sept. 24, 2025

New York City, NY

USA

Address to the General Assembly (Sept. 24, 2025)

 President

Volodomyr

Zelinskiy

will address the world body

today Sept. 24, 2025 (Wednesday)

Trump flip-flops to oppose Putin and support NATO and Zelinskiy's side of the Ukraine-Russia bombings / drone warfare

 Pres. Volodymyr Zelinskiy's response to the

U.N. and Trump Tower advocacy changes of Trump 2.0

is surprise and happy reactions -- according to FOX NEWS

coverage of the two leaders' conferring on Sept. 23, 2025.

"Trump's U-Turn on Ukraine War Was a Surprise"

White House semiquincentennial planner Ari Abergel fired for unapproved posts & financial spending

UPDATE : Sept. 23, 2025

Trump-Vance admin. has fired 250th Planner

Ariel Abergel

for unapproved posts re: Charlie

Kirk assassination

see : the Hill.com/administration

ariel-abergel-suspension-america-250.html

even when fired, he was praised for the

Army 250th Parade back on Trump's

June 14, 2025 birthday

_________________________________________

The Trump-Vance National Endowment for the Arts

will cancel the "Challenge America" opportunity

a Biden-Harris program that offered support primarily

to small organizations for projects that extend the reach

of the arts to underserved groups/communities. . .

Now (up to July 4, 2026) --

the NEA dot-gov will celebrate and honor the 250th

Anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of

Independence (National Document).  .  .

axios.com/2025/02/06/trump-national-endowment-arts-grants

Tuesday, September 23, 2025

Born in NJ 76 years ago! Happy Birthday to the Boss! Bruce Springsteen, singer - songwriter - advocate

 Born Sept. 23, 1949 in Long Branch, New Jersey, USA

has an older sister and a younger sister

raised as a Catholic by working class parents

felt inspired to take up music as a career when at age 7

saw Elvis Presley on the national TV Variety program,

The Ed Sullivan Show.

His debut album recorded in 1972 was Welcome to Asbury Park, NJ

His Academy Award was for the song "Streets of Philadelphia" (1993)

for the Jonathan Demme-directed dramatic film Philadelphia .

Springsteen was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1999.

Given Kennedy Center Honors in 2009 along with Robert De Niro,

Dave Brubeck, Mel Brooks, and Grace Bumbry.  Received Presidential

Medal of Freedom Nov. 22, 2016 by President Barack Obama along

with 20 other recipients, the largest group of the 8-year Obama presidency.

Also received 2021 National Medal of the Arts in Washington, D.C.

Blood Drive at YMCA (Niles - Buchanan) 3rd Monday, October 2025

 Blood Drive

Mobile - VAN

October 20, 2025 (a Monday)

Niles-Buchanan YMCA, 905 N. Front Street

Niles, Michigan

Reserve your appointment from 3 - 6 p.m.

ahead of time at

givebloodnow.com

SBMF.org

South Bend Medical Foundation

saving lives through donation & diagnosis

"Autumn" - comment by Leonardo da Vinci "NOTEBOOKS"

In the autumn

you will make things

according to the progress

of the season, that is, 

the trees begin to fade in

their leaves on the oldest

branches, more or less,

depending on whether the

tree is represented as

growing on sterile or

fertile soil, and even more

pale and reddish those

kinds of tree that were first

to produce fruit. (p. 170,

Oxford World's Classic 

edition).

Blowin' in the Wind

 Bob Dylan - COPYRIGHT

"How many roads must a man

walk down.

Before you call him a man?

Yes, 'n how many seas must

a white dove sail

Before she sleeps in the sand?

Yes, 'n how many times must

the cannonballs fly 

Before they're forever banned?

The answer, my friend, is blowin'

in the wind. . .

the answer is blowin' in the wind.

How many years can a mountain

exist . . . Before it's washed to the sea?

Yes, 'n how many years can some

people exist. . . Before they're

allowed to be free?

Yes, 'n how many times can a

man turn his head . . . Pretending

he just doesn't see?  

The answer, my friend, is blowin'

in the wind. . . The answer is

blowin' in the wind.

How many must a man look up

Before he can see the sky?

Yes, 'n how many ears must one

man have

Before he can hear people cry?

Yes, 'n how many deaths will

it take till he knows

That too many people have died?

The answer, my friend, is blowin'

in the wind. . .

The answer is blowin' in the wind!

Elections to replace 3 deceased Democratic Congress Reprs. - - Gerry Connolly, Raul Grijalva, Sylvester Turner (UPDATE Sept. 23, 2025)

Tuesday Sept. 23 -- a historic day

Democrat Adelita Grijalva wins 70% of vote in Arizona's 7th District

while Republican Daniel Butierez won 30% in the special election certified results

to fill a Congressional seat after a death from terminal cancer last March.

This changes the amount of leeway that Speaker Johnson has to force

through bills in the 2025-2026 Congress (435 members in House of Repre-

sentatives).  AP News.com/article "Democrat Adelita Grijalva wins 

______________________________________________________

UPDATE to the Nov. 2025 voting for a replacement Congressman

for Sylvester Turner who died March 2025


NYTimes.com/2025/09/22/us/politics/texas-redistricting-houston.html


Texas law allows the Houston House of Repr. seat for a

replacement to take 8 months / Grijalva's seat will be filled

after Sept. 23, 2025 ; 

While the Virginia seat previously held by Gerry Connolly

who died in July 2025 will

be filled by James Walkinshaw (D)

_________________________________________________

218 - 214 is the difference between a House

majority and the minority (Democrat caucus). . .

three House seats from Deceased Members of House remain unfilled

one in Houston, TX vicinity (Sylvester Turner who died in 

March 2025) one in Arizona (a long term Repr. Raul 

Grijalva this winter) and a recent one in Virginia July 2025 (Gerry Connolly).

Mike Johnson won the passage of Trump Omnibus Bill

by 4 votes despite 2 GOP members

Fitzpatrick and Massie opposing the tax / spend measure

for 2025 fiscal matters.

3 July 2025

Niles MI district library hosts October 2025 Chess Tournament - First Saturday morning (3 hours or so)

 

Chess Tournament

Sat October 4th 10:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Chess Tournament

First Saturday of the month | 10 am - 2 pm | Rotunda | All Ages

Chess Tournaments are for Chess Federation members. If you would like to join us for an official UCF Tournament, stop by the Rotunda, Niles District Library, Niles, MI. 1/2 hour ahead of the start time.

Address: 620 E. Main Street

Niles

MICHIGAN 49120

phone 269-683-8545

info@nileslibrary.net

20 judges fired by Trump join the other 80 fired since Jan. 20, 2025

NPR.org/

2025/09/23/nx-s1-5550915/trump-immigration-judges

He fires them by email /

not on the basis of inefficiency

but because he can without

"checks and balances" from

the Legislative Branch (Mike

Johnson, John Thune) or

the Judiciary (John Roberts,

Chief Justice)

voters in Arizona's 7th Cong. District - replacement deceased member of House -- changes # to fill 433rd seat

Sept. 23, 2025 was SPECIAL

ELECTION DAY -- to replace deceased House member.

The terminally ill Raul Grijalva was elected

in the 7th district by his constituents and supporters

over many previous terms / years  NOV. 2025.

However, he died of lung cancer at age 77

March 2025, leaving his seat in Congress vacant

until  a replacement / early Congressional race

could replace him -- 4th Tuesday of September following.

The elected replacement (Adelita

Grijalva) adds to the D

caucus, bringing the total number of

House members to 433.

Chief Warrant Officers and Sergeants (ARMY) -- 4 helicopter crash fatalities - pray for their families, associates, others impacted

Andrew Cully, 35 of Missouri

Andrew Craus, 39 of Florida 

Donavon Scott, 25 of Washington State

Jadalyn Good, 23 also of Washington State 

Blackhawk MH-60 crashed Sept. 17, 2025

near Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington State.

United Nations (in session, NY City, USA) - Trump speaks for 57 minutes -- experiences some teleprompter glitches / a personal longest there at U.N.

UNITED NATIONS

 Tuesday Sept. 23, 2025

The General Assembly (entire U.N.)  will begin with Debate;

newly confirmed ambassador

Mike Waltz of Florida

(former Congressman - MAGA)

also briefly served as National Security Adviser

before resigning over "SignalGate" scandal,

is currently the

Ambassador to the United Nations

(diplomat)

previous holders of this job :

Nikki Haley (2017 -18)

John Bolton (2005 - 6)

George Herbert Walker Bush (1971-73)

What are the "radicalizing" social media platforms? September 2025

Meta

Reddit

TikTok

X (originated as "Twitter)

____________________

impacted political violence

across the political divide /

spectrum - range of rhetoric

and divisive issues / wedge

matters of political engagement