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BUCKNACKT'S SORDID TAWDRY BLOG We should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive & well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate, bier or wein in hand, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming "WHOO-HOO, WHAT A RIDE!!!!!!"
22 September 2026
MOTHER JONES DAILY; Trump loves cameras. Today they turned off: The California Lawmaker Forcing Big Food to Clean Up Its Act, Trump's desperate for TV cameras until they tell the truth, In rare move, Democrats try to block a sale of bombs to Israel, Midterm power shifts could reshape state climate and energy policies, Did my IUD make my depression worse? 21SEP26
Sign the petition: Trump's unlawful ballroom, illegal arch, and plan to bulldoze the Kennedy Center 21SEP26
Demonstrator Claude Taylor holds a sign among protestors outside The Kennedy Center on June 12, 2026 in Washington, DC.
Two satellite views that show the East Wing of the White House before (top) and after demolition (below) in Washington, D.C. Images by 2025 Planet Labs PBC via Reuters
The crowd at the September 18, 2026 Hands Off the Arts protest at the Kennedy Center. (Hands Off the Arts)
NOT MY pres drumpf's/trump's narcissistic obsession with putting his name and / or face on everything and his grandiose construction plans are disgusting. He is more and more like hitler every day in his greed, corruption and grifting, his politics and his psychotic and sociopathic self aggrandizement. Please sign the petition from Demand Progress calling on congress to deny funding for drumpf's/trump's White House ballroom, to deny funding for his obscene arch and to force the release of appropriated Kennedy Center funds and to stop any attempted destruction of the Kennedy Center. And please share this with family, friends, coworkers and all who may be interested.
TELL Congress: Trump is withholding $256 million from the Kennedy Center while threatening to demolish the cultural institution. He's also wasting taxpayer money on his illegal "triumphal" arch that will include military snipers and drones. Sign the petition: Block Trump's authoritarian vanity projects, including the WH ballroom, NOW! Trump is holding $256 million in funding for the Kennedy Center hostage. His sycophants on the Kennedy Center Board voted to shutter the institution due to financial issues that Trump created. The vote came just hours after a judge again blocked Trump's name from appearing on the center.1,2 Thousands of protesters gathered around the Kennedy Center on Friday in response to Trump's threats to outright demolish the building.3 Trump plans to illegally build his "triumphal" arch in D.C., which he says would include a military complex with snipers and drones.4 He's speeding ahead with construction of the grotesque White House ballroom. Our lawmakers must act now to stop Trump from remodeling the country in his MAGA image. Sign the petition: Block White House ballroom and D.C. arch construction — and protect the Kennedy Center!Trump is flushing hundreds of millions of tax dollars down the drain to fund his self-serving projects: gold-plated ballrooms and statues, a giant arch, a botched reflecting pool renovation, the potential destruction of the Kennedy Center, illegally minting U.S. coins with his face on them, and so much more. It doesn't end there. The White House and Trump's loyalists are pursuing an endless stream of measures to glorify Trump and remake America in his strongman image, including efforts to "immortalize" him by putting his face on Mount Rushmore.5 His MAGA allies even used $5.5 million to rename a major Florida airport, "Donald J. Trump International Airport."6 Congress must act now to stop Trump's dangerous, anti-democratic self-glorification. Sign the petition: Protect the Kennedy Center and stop Trump's vanity projects!Thanks for taking action,  Sources:
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21 September 2026
Trump Administration Updates: CNN, Politico and MS NOW Reporters Barred From White House 19SEP26
THE neo-nazi fascist authoritarian drumpf/trump-vance administration with the full support of their cabinet and the gop / greed over people-republican party are attempting to destroy the our free press that is guaranteed in the First Amendment of the US Constitution. With the 2026 Midterm elections 44 days away and all indications are the republican party will loose control of congress this administration will do all it can to have the fascist heritage foundation's authoritarian theocratic oligarchy in place and ready to assume power if drumpf/trump-vance declare the democratic Republic of the United States null and void. This from the New York Times .....
Trump Administration Updates: CNN, Politico and MS NOW Reporters Barred From White House
President Trump announced a ban on the outlets, whose coverage he deems unfair. The move will probably be challenged in court.
Published Sept. 19, 2026Updated Sept. 21, 2026, 11:56 a.m. ET
Michael M. GrynbaumZolan Kanno-Youngs and Benjamin Mullin
Michael Grynbaum and Benjamin Mullin reported from New York, and Zolan Kanno-Youngs from Washington.
Journalists from CNN, MS NOW and Politico were denied entry to the White House on Saturday morning in a stark escalation of President Trump’s long battle with the mainstream news media that sets up a legal and constitutional clash.
First Amendment experts condemned Mr. Trump’s ban as unconstitutional and said that it was unlikely to survive a court challenge. Affected outlets pledged to defend their legal rights.
Akayla Gardner, a correspondent for MS NOW, said that her White House-issued access badge failed to work on Saturday at the security entrance where reporters usually enter near the West Wing. “The officer asked me to hand over my badge,” she said. A reporter for CNN had a similar experience.
Mr. Trump has sued, subpoenaed and threatened the press corps before over what he sees as negative coverage, but his abrupt decision to bar the three news outlets, announced in a Truth Social post on Friday, caught some administration officials off guard, including aides in his press office, according to three people who were told about the conversations.
Here’s what else to know:
Television: The major television networks were discussing how to respond if CNN were still banned next week, when it is scheduled to provide pool coverage to all networks about Mr. Trump’s visit to the United Nations General Assembly. The other networks could refuse to substitute for CNN, leaving Mr. Trump without a mainstream television crew to cover his U.N. appearances. In 2009, the major networks balked when the Obama administration tried to bar Fox News from participating in a Treasury Department event, and the White House backed down.
Trump’s rationale: Speaking with reporters in the Oval Office on Friday, Mr. Trump attributed the ban to his displeasure with the outlets’ coverage of his administration. “There’s something wrong with a country that can allow people to write purposely negative stories,” Mr. Trump said. He added, “Now, if they want to write them, that’s fine, but I don’t have to let them into my — into the people’s house.” Read more ›
Viewpoint discrimination: Legal experts said that Mr. Trump’s media ban was unlikely to survive a court challenge, because the president explicitly connected his decision to bar CNN, Politico and MS NOW to the content of their reporting. That’s “textbook viewpoint discrimination,” said Bruce D. Brown, the president of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. The White House lost a similar legal battle during Mr. Trump’s first term after it revoked the press pass for the CNN reporter Jim Acosta.
Widespread criticism: Many mainstream media outlets and press freedom groups condemned the president’s ban. MS NOW vowed to “take any and all steps necessary to defend our First Amendment rights,” and Politico’s chief editor made a similar pledge. CNN called the ban “illegal.” Even some Fox News contributors and journalists took issue with the ban. “Challenge liberal reporters,” one Fox contributor, Ari Fleischer, said. “Argue and defeat them. Don’t ban them. Or one day they’ll ban us.”
Many major media outlets and some high-profile Democrats panned President Trump’s abrupt decision to ban CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House.
Mr. Trump acted on his latest barrage of threats against the press on Saturday morning, when reporters for the outlets were denied access to the White House and had their badges confiscated.
On Friday evening, Mr. Trump had accused the three outlets of running “purposely negative stories” that were untrue, though he provided no details. The Trump administration has not said what led to his decision, which many First Amendment groups called unconstitutional and unlikely to survive a court challenge.
Condemnation from leading news outlets was nearly universal, including from many that compete directly with CNN, MS NOW and Politico.
“No news organization — or person — should be retaliated against by the government over the words they use,” said Lauren Easton, a spokeswoman for The Associated Press, which filed suit over restrictions that Mr. Trump tried to impose on its White House access last year.
The New York Times, The Washington Post and press associations also released statements calling the ban an attack on free speech and the free press.
Journalists at Fox News have also taken issue with the ban. One Fox contributor, Ari Fleischer, said conservatives should challenge liberal reporters. “Argue and defeat them,” he said. “Don’t ban them. Or one day they’ll ban us.” Another contributor, Jonathan Turley, said that “barring disfavored media from the White House is a terrible precedent and practice.”
Jacqui Heinrich, a Fox News anchor and the president of the White House Correspondents’ Association, said on social media that the right to First Amendment protections “does not depend on whether the president likes a news organization’s coverage.”
“This is about more than the rights of journalists,” Ms. Heinrich added. “It is about the right of the American people to receive a full and independent account of the activities, policies and decisions of whoever occupies the nation’s highest office.”
Democrats pounced on Mr. Trump’s ban as an attempt to hide his administration’s shortcomings and to distract voters from other issues. They pointed out that Republicans were heading into a challenging election cycle with high inflation and an unpopular war with Iran started by Mr. Trump, whose support in the polls has sagged.
“Donald Trump just did what dictators throughout history have done,” Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the Democratic minority leader, said on social media. “This is a democracy. You will not be able to manipulate the news or hide the truth.”
Representative Jamie Raskin of Maryland, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, called on the news media to boycott the White House if Mr. Trump “keeps violating press freedom.” Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts said Mr. Trump was censoring the press and trying to “hide his failures.” Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont said that Mr. Trump wanted to “control the flow of information and silence media that might hold them accountable.”
“We will not allow Trump to undermine the First Amendment, the Constitution and our democracy,” Mr. Sanders said on social media. “We will not accept authoritarianism.”
High-ranking Republicans and members of the Trump administration mostly remained quiet on Saturday. But Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who has tried to restrict reporters’ access to the Pentagon, said he “fully supports” a ban on some outlets that he and Mr. Trump have labeled “fake news” for negative coverage.
“They endangered our troops with false stories, leaks, and trafficked in fiction and lies about the President,” Mr. Hegseth said, without providing examples or evidence.
Benny Johnson, a right-wing podcaster, also celebrated the decision to block certain outlets from the White House and pointed out that Mr. Trump had been banned from social media platforms after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol by his supporters.
“No one is infringing on their ability to do reporting,” Mr. Johnson said in a social media post.
The campaign of former Representative Mike Rogers, a Republican running with Mr. Trump’s backing for a competitive Senate seat in Michigan, appeared to distance itself from the president’s decision.
Mr. Rogers “held a press conference just this morning with invites out to each of those outlets,” Alyssa Brouillet, a spokeswoman for his campaign, said in a statement. “That tells you where he stands.”
Meghan McCain, a conservative commentator, was more explicit.
“Unpopular opinion in my parts, but it’s insane and a very slippery slope to kick media outlets you don’t like out of the White House,” Ms. McCain said.
Olivia Diaz and Taylor Robinson contributed reporting.
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