If Trump Cancels the 2026 Elections--It Just Might Get Us Out of This Mess

Fearing a flip of the House or Senate or both, Trump is not going to let the 2026 elections come to a conclusion. He is going to declare a national emergency, suspend habeas corpus, invoke the Insurrection Act, and order all the ballots in every state seized with the result that no elections can be certified. Given that these are official acts, the Supreme Court will hold Trump immune from prosecution and, knowing they cannot enforce any order, declare what Trump’s done a political act beyond judicial review. Here’s what then happens: Realizing that, on January 3, 2027, the day the new Congress is to be sworn in, there will be no Congress, the Republicans wake up, realize they will be out of a job, and, while they are still in office until January 3, 2027, impeach Trump, and the Senate convicts. The election results will then be tabulated and certified, and the country will have taken its first step to undo the nightmare Trump has wrought.

PS: All House seats are up for re-election, so, on January 7, 2027, if Trump stops the election, all members of the House will be out of a job. There are 36 Senate seats up for re-election, with 22 being held by Republicans and 13 being held by Democrats, so if Trump stops the election, the Senate will be solidly Democrat.

PPS: When it dawns on Trump that cancelling the election would be his demise, he might try to cancel just those elections in Blue districts and Blue states. That won’t fly even with this Supreme Court, the Republicans, or the people. Indeed, you'll be able to hear the people singing.

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Delivery of NYT and WSJ to Your Vacation Rental

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Warsh: Stuck Between Trump and the Bond Market

Warsh's refusal in his post-FMOC meeting presser to give any forward guidance on raising rates to combat inflation (except to joke that the 10Y was doing the work for the Fed) drew a strong reaction from the bond market, as more fully explained in this WSJ piece. Obviously, with Trump still pounding for rate cuts, Warsh is caught between Trump and the bond market. As far as that struggle goes, don't forget what James Carville said: "I used to think that if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the president or the pope or as a .400 baseball hitter. But now I would like to come back as the bond market. You can intimidate everybody." We'll see if Warsh blinks.

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Wordle Convention

Solving a Wordle grid with just green letters and blank spaces and no yellows is called a Sea of Green.

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Championships During Trump's Tenure per The New Yorker

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New Chrome Feature: Sign and Annotate PDFs in Chrome

 

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ChatGPT Talk Mode

There’s a version of using ChatGPT that most people haven’t gotten to yet, one that doesn’t involve staring at a text box and trying to phrase a prompt precisely enough to get a useful response. Voice mode removes that friction entirely. You talk, the AI responds, you follow up and the conversation develops in a way that more closely resembles thinking out loud than filling out a form. Once you’ve used it enough to stop thinking of it as a novelty, the typed-prompt workflow starts to feel like a strange and unnecessarily laborious way to do something that could just be a conversation. This isn’t just a voice-to-text feature. It feels like having a real, fluid conversation. It intelligently waits for you to finish your thought, understands your natural pauses, and doesn’t get thrown off by “ums” or stammers. I can use it while I’m cooking or driving, speaking like a normal human without carefully planning my every word. It’s not just faster than typing — it’s a genuinely more intuitive and useful way to interact with AI. If you’ve been ignoring it, you’re missing out.

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How to Handle Signature-Required USPS Deliveries Without Sitting at Home All Day and a PS re USPS Informed Delivery

If you get notice of an item being delivered that requires a signature, you can stew about having to be home to accept delivery or having to go to the post office after two unsuccessful delivery attempts. But wait, if you enrolled in the USPS "Informed Delivery," you can enroll your electronic signature for "signature required" items that supposedly will enable you to stop stewing. 

PS re Informed Delivery: There are countless reasons to enroll in USPS "Informed Delivery" and no reason not to. By seeing what mail is to be delivered, you will get notice if there is something that was supposed to be delivered (like a jury summons, refund check, past-due notice, etc.), but wasn't, enabling you to take corrective action.

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Waymo Is Back on Phoenix Freeways

As the Arizona Republic reports, Waymo has fixed the software glitch it had and is back on the freeways, making downtown and airport runs Waymo-doable again. One Waymo was heard telling a rider, I'm back baby, I'm back.

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United to Offer Blocked Middle Seat Option

The cost has yet to be revealed, United announced a new premium economy option that blocks out the middle seat, which will first be available aboard its Airbus A321XLR jets. The new Economy Plus seating without a middle seat will be available for sale later in 2026, delighting many travelers who dread getting the middle seat on a flight. One row of each Airbus A321XLR aircraft will have custom-designed, permanently fixed tables between the armrests across the open middle seats, allowing extra space for passengers in the window and aisle seats to stretch out. Tables include two indentations for holding drink cups. The extra elbow room through the blocked middle seat is in addition to three inches of additional legroom already offered on the aircraft’s Economy Plus seats.

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