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The Fascist Takeover Has Arrived. What Now?

By Jessie Seigel / January 22, 2026 Barely 20 days into 2026, the Trump regime is off and running on its nefarious agendas. Piracy on the Caribbean Seas Not satisfied with illegally sinking small fishing boats, murdering the survivors, or seizing Venezuelan ships, the Trump regime began the new year by invading and kidnapping the president of Venezuela and his wife to put on show-trial in New York, allegedly for narco-terrorism and gun possession. It will be interesting to

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A Year's End Gift: Dictator in a Bottle

By Jessie Seigel / December 22, 2025 As an end-of-year gift to My Washington Whisper readers, I am departing from commentary on political events to present, instead, my short fiction, “Dictator in a Bottle.” First published in Unlikely Stories Mark V in December 2024, I hope this story can provide a brief, whimsical catharsis for the madness that has been 2025. If you enjoy it, please share it far and wide. In the meantime, happy holidays! And may the new year be kinder to u

Dec 22, 2025

The Jessie Awards for Uncompromising Journalism

By Jessie Seigel / December 3, 2025 Journalists come in many varieties: beat reporters, investigative journalists, anchors, pundits, commentators, op-ed columnists, and the like. Many are more than competent in the category where their career trajectory has landed them. But these times that try our souls call for advocate journalists. They deal in facts, but based on those facts, they take a side. Such newspeople are the needed antidotes to the propaganda machines represente

Dec 3, 2025

The Jessie Awards to Democrats with Balls, er, Spines

By Jessie Seigel / November 13, 2025 Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at one of their Fight Oligarchy rallies For decades, Democratic centrists have insisted, against all evidence, that they could negotiate with Republicans. Many remain under the misapprehension that conceding ground—which they call collegiality and bipartisanship--is the path to political survival. They are wrong. Such short-term recipe for their own political survival in a red or purple state nei

Nov 13, 2025

Trump Destroyed WHAT? My Hunt for the Remains of the East Wing

By Jessie Seigel / October 30, 2025 Destruction of the East Wing, in progress, October 22 (Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images) That piece of rich white trash, Donald J. Trump, just wrecked my house. MY house. I don’t care what he’s the president of. He doesn’t own that house. He’s a tenant, living there rent free—on my dime. I own that White House. And so do you. So, last Saturday (10/25), like any good owner, I went downtown to view the damage to our house for myself. Usually, you

Oct 30, 2025

Move Over, Oscar! Meet the Jessie Awards' "Worst of the Worst"

By Jessie Seigel / October 18, 2025 (Note: This article was initially published yesterday by The Insider, at theinsider1.com , along with many other timely articles worth a read.) Political cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit the Washington Post over censorship. She has given permission for use of this and certain other cartoons--unaltered--on No Kings posters. So, I think she'd be okay with my having used it here. 😱🤓🤓🤓😱 Greetings, fellow political junkies! This is the first i

Oct 18, 2025

The Police State Has Arrived

By Jessie Seigel / October 5, 2025 The Trump regime's raid on Chicago residential apartment building, September 30, 2025 Trump's minions rappelling down onto roof of Chicago apartment building, September 30, 2025 Aftermath? --Trump regime's attack on Chicago residential apartment building, September 30, 2025 In President Donald J. Trump’s speech to the generals and admirals who he forced to gather on September 30 at Quantico, Trump evinced diarrhea of the mouth, upchucking a

Oct 5, 2025