Today’s Gnorm’s Gnews Gnuggets starts with a little chaos, a little fury, and a reminder from Analog Scott:

If we despair, we have already lost.

Before turning Gnorm loose on the news, Scott talks about love as a practical response to the current chaos — caring, nurturing, helping those who cannot, building communities of kindness, and refusing to let cruelty become normal.

Then Gnorm takes over.

Today’s stories:

1. U.S. tax dollars, Israel, settlements, and lobby money
Scott looks at U.S. funding for Israel, the 2024 International Court of Justice advisory opinion on Israeli occupation and settlements, and the recent House effort to reduce funding tied to those activities by more than $3 billion. The episode asks why so many politicians, Democrats and Republicans alike, continue sending billions overseas while lobby money keeps flowing through the system.

2. Trump and the Gordie Howe International Bridge
Trump delayed the bridge opening, demanded a “better deal,” then apparently got what Gnorm calls another perfect example of:

The shart of the deal.

A crisis created.
A deal claimed.
A result that looks worse than where things started.

3. Pilots caught meowing on a hot mic
Finally, something ridiculous: pilots caught goofing off on a hot mic at Reagan National Airport.

Meow protocol was breached.

Gnorm was not impressed.

The episode closes by asking whether the constant chaos, distractions, bad deals, scandals, and nonsense are part of the larger pattern — flooding the zone so people miss the stories that matter most.

Election claims.
Foreign interference narratives.
Power protecting itself.
Ballot chaos.
Fear.
Distraction.
The same old playbook.

No opinions.

Just patterns.

Or at least that is what Analog Scott says before Gnorm starts yelling.

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