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TV producer Chuck Lorre needs help to cure his extreme case of Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS), a White House spokesman recommended after Lorre made scathing remarks about President Trump and his wife, Melania, at an awards ceremony this past Saturday. Lorre said that the Trump is a “Russian asset” and joked that the president had suffered a fatal heart attack, perhaps a goal the creator of “Big Bang Theory” embraces. Of Melania, he referred to her as “a surgically enhanced, cold-hearted Yugoslavian escort who clearly hates her husband.”  The response came from White House spokesperson Davis Ingle: “Chuck Lorre should immediately seek psychiatric help to treat his severe case of Trump Derangement Syndrome that has completely rotted his peanut-sized brain.” Being a “Russian asset” might actually be close to the truth. Witness the generosity of a Russian oligarch during son Donald Jr.’s recent wedding, and also take into account Trump’s red-carpet treatment of Vladimir Putin compared to his routine put-down of Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Putin and Zelenskyy, of course, are engaged in a war that Trump said he could solve in 24 hours when he was campaigning in 2024. When he had his chance to actually end the conflict in

President Trump is upping the ante once again with monetary handouts before the November midterm election. This time, he’s promising a $90 payment to “over 20 MILLION wonderful Seniors to help pay for their Medicare Part B premiums.”  The money will be distributed on October 8, 2026, and will come from the Medicare Improvement Fund. He has also promised $5,000 to all adults if Republicans retain Congress in November, in addition to $1,776 to all active duty service members. The president is currently on a campaign swing through states where GOP Senate and Congressional candidates are facing headwins because of the cost of living, not only at the pump, but also in the food market checkout line. Medicare is the federal health program started by President Lyndon Baines Johnson that covers those 65 or older and those with disabilities. Medicare Part B is the medical insurance part of Original Medicare that covers doctor visits, outpatient care, and preventive services.  

As a first step toward building data centers in space, Google partnered with SpaceX today to launch AI chips into space to gauge the potential for more complex ventures. The goal of this mission is to test how Google Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) perform in space. On a blog post, Google said: Project Suncather, as the mission is called, is “a long-term, research moonshot exploring whether space could one day host scalable machine learning infrastructure. In low Earth orbit, satellites can access near-constant sunlight, generating up to eight times more solar power than on Earth. Eventually, it could be possible to link together multiple constellations of satellites, allowing them to manage larger AI workloads while in orbit.” The chips will run a version of the company’s Gemma AI model for 15 minutes at a time due to heat management constraints, using the open weight model to answer simple queries. Open weight generally means accessible to anybody, like Google’s Gemini. This was not the first such AI venture into space. This past November, a company called Starcloud launched a spacecraft that carried an Nvidia H100 chip on board and demonstrated a version of Google’s Gemini AI from space.  The launch comes only

The Trump administration is sending out $500 checks, or direct-deposit payments, to purchasers of Obamacare (or ACA, Affordable Care Act) policies during the Biden years. The stated rationale is that the Biden regime overcharged them. Some families with more than one “affected person” will receive multiple $500 checks or direct deposits. In all, close to one million individuals will receive the refund. All well and good until you look at some of the details. For instance, to qualify, you must have an income 400 percent higher than the poverty level, or about $63,000 a year. This may be due to those under that level not having been overcharged, but it seems a bit mysterious. The second mystery component is that the refunds are only going to states where ACA is administered directly by the federal government. Some states, primarily largely Democrat strongholds on both coasts, administer ACA signups themselves. They don’t qualify. In other words, these checks and direct deposits are going out to voters in the Great Middle America, where many states are either red or purple. Is this a vote-buying gambit? You get $500 now and $5,000 if you keep the GOP in charge of both houses.