Public Occurrences August 25, 2026

Dolly Parton Dies

Beloved by millions, Parton's singing career spanned 60 yrs and resulted in record sales of 100,000,000. She was 80 years old.

2:28 pm:

Canada Returns Fire

Mark Carney did not drop the E-Bomb. Theee tiered tariffs of 15%, 25% 50% targeted on U.S. goods in industries with businesses and workers hardest hit by the Toilet Nation's Aug. 23, 12:01 am tariffs. Significantly, 50% prophylactic taxes on American steel.

9:18 am:

Trump floats renaming Lake Ontario as ‘Lake America’

AP

8:06 am:

A year after Israeli strikes killed journalists at a hospital, no one has been held accountable

AP

Of course not. It's Israel. 

I remember that well. First time I learned what the "double tap" was.

Gary residents turn to prayer as power outage stretches into third week

wfyi.com

Does anyone for one minute think that this would happen in a wealthy, white city? Not only is power not restored--in August!--but few of the rest of us even now. Or care.

Imagine if this was Minnesota, California, a blue state! Trump'd have the National Guard out!