I feel compassion for the thirteen year old Donald Trump, but that those feelings are completely separate from the issue of his dangerousness to our country and our planet, and that my priority had to be removing him and holding him accountable for his crimes. And I think we can appreciate the awfulness of growing up in that household but still appreciate his fundamental brokenness and dangerousness.

But I get where you're coming from. My mother was interested in how I reconcile my activism and anger against Trump with being a Buddhist. There actually is no contradiction, but it's not easy to explain.

Robert Thurman, Uma's dad and a practitioner and teacher of Buddhism, has written about this issue and the compatibility of feeling compassion and anger simultaneously for someone who is a threat to humanity. I sort of have to block out my compassion when I'm in the heat of battle, as we all are now.

This particular interview was so exceptional. I've seen Ron Perlman in films but I hadn't realized he was an activist and such a poignant, passionate and articulate one at that. I wish I could transcribe the entire interview, but here's a key moment to give you a flavor.



He also said, at one point:



What I can't capture is the poignancy, the moral indignation, the outrage and, even at times, the humor. He exactly nailed the way I've been feeling lately.

If you like what he's saying, follow him on Twitter @perlmutations

Dean Obeidallah also had on his program yesterday Rob Reiner, Joy Ann Reid and Mary Trump. It is archived on the SiriusXM website under Progressive Radio if you are a subscriber.

bursts of FBI Vault releases. I remember they posted some strange things...

Some Epstein related documents? (EDIT: I don't think it was this)

But there was something else. There were two or three releases of documents that pertained to "current events", something unfolding right at that moment in the news.

Damn, I'm having trouble recalling but the FBI Vault released some things that seemed unfavorable to Trump or some of his cronies at a crucial moment over the last three years, and they did so in rapid succession. At the time, it seemed intentional. But now I can't remember the specific investigations they released.

The documents turned out to be rather disappointing (and fairly redacted), compared to what came out later, but they were appropriate appetizers that validated that the FBI had looked into some incendiary events in the news.

Hopefully somebody can fill in this gap. It was the type of content Rachel Maddow might have reported on.

evidence that is under the purview of a few select individuals in the GRU. Look how hard it has been to get any details about the DVDs and photographs hidden in Jeffrey Epstein's safe.

I'm going to save you $25, and the time you can never get back of having to slog through 570 pages of John Bolton congratulating himself, setting out in tedious detail every phone call and trivial thought, comparing himself favorably to every other person who appears in the book, and copiously quoting other people saying nice things about him.

It all boils down to this paragraph from page 77:



It's not by John Bolton.

He's quoting Winston Churchill.

I don't understand how any conscious human being, faced with a choice between the empty and bitter rage offered by Trump, and the warmth and purposeful path of redemption offered by Biden/Harris, could choose Trump.

Who wants four more years of this? Who can physically and mentally withstand four more years of this?

Everything they do blows back on them.

I think the sabotage of the USPS could backfire too.

And the effort by Senator Ron Johnson and his pals to use Russian disinformation--that won't go well.



EDIT: I think Mueller was a good guy who was stymied at every turn by an administration that has a complete disregard for all legal norms. He wasn't prepared to deal with this. I understand the disappointment and anger of people who don't think he was strident enough in his conclusions or testimony, but I think he will be vindicated in the long run by history.

1. I can't find any information about a new Anonymous book
2. "A WARNING" by Anonymous was released in a new paperback edition yesterday, with a new preface.
3. Miles Taylor surfaced the day before its release. Anonymous writes in "A WARNING" that he will make himself known before the election.
4. Taylor uses the same phraseology as Anonymous when he speaks for "others" who will follow him and "make themselves known soon"
5. Anonymous pays particular attention in "A WARNING" to DHS and immigration issues, which is one reason some people thought it might be Kirstjen Nielsen. Miles Taylor was her chief of staff.

EDIT: Anonymous never says he will reveal himself to be Anonymous; just that he will "reveal himself." So I'm not dissuaded from believing Taylor is the guy because he hasn't (yet) claimed responsibility for being Anonymous.

Maybe election officials in Colorado should re-examine West's paperwork and signatures, look again at the process and make sure they didn't miss some glaring procedural errors. It's just so hard to believe these stooges running the Kanye West campaign did everything perfectly in Colorado when he has mucked it up in so many other states.

But the reporter should ask him if he's heard of "Anonymous." That might jog his memory.