Well, Georgia Democrats didn't snatch a state Senate seat from the GOP last night, despite their candidate - Debra Shigley - outpacing 2024 numbers, but liberals needn't dismay. Her 9-point improvement on 2024 results for her party bode well for 2026, and with the majority of the GOP seeming to be in no hurry to release the Epstein files and with the economy in malaise - and by MAGA's own admission not expecting to improve for a year or more - there should be optimism for Democrats.

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Meanwhile, Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Junior's attempt to pin autism on Tylenol - without evidence or study - is, I believe, a further decaying of trust in both by even those within their cult bubble. The Daily Show's Jordan Klepper summed up what Donnie and Bobby's case is built on and what the rest of us will have to rely on - our own research.

It was nearly two weeks ago that the Georgia Recorder's Jay Bookman actually wrote on the 'alternate reality' RFK Jr. lives in while flexing policy changes within Health and Human Services. While Jay's piece focused mostly on vaccine hesitancy, in general, it holds up well, post-"acetaminophen-gate." He closes with this sobering assessment:

"...all of us are living in their alternate reality. Now all of us are at risk when actual reality reasserts itself, as it always does eventually. We can’t know what form that challenge will take, but we do know it will come, and the charlatans and conspiracy fools that we now have in charge will prove spectacularly unfit to meet it."

------Jimmy Kimmel's return was funny, sharp, emotional and vastly more statesman-like than the thin-(orange) skinned target of his barbs could ever dream of. I scan over some of the highlights.