HANG ‘EM HIGH: In an angry online outburst yesterday President Trump accused a half-dozen Democrats of sedition — “punishable by DEATH” — after they issued a video admonishing members of the military to refuse to obey illegal orders.

  All six of the Democrats either served in the military or intelligence. In the video that says the Constitution is under threat, “Our laws are clear,” says Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona, a Navy veteran and former astronaut. “You can refuse illegal orders.”

  “You must refuse illegal orders,” says Rep. Chris Deluzio of Pennsylvania, who also served in the Navy.

  The video does not say what current orders members of the military might need to refuse, but the deployment of  troops in American cities and the destruction of suspected drugs boats in international waters have both been under legal question. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said, “They’re suggesting that he has given illegal orders, which he has not.”

  In a series of posts Trump called the senators tritors and said, “HANG THEM.” Trump posted; “It’s called SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL. Each one of these traitors to our Country should be ARRESTED AND PUT ON TRIAL. Their words cannot be allowed to stand – We won’t have a Country anymore!!! An example MUST BE SET.”

  Members of Congress from both parties said Trump’s tirade increased dangers for lawmakers who already face threats to their lives.

ECON 101: The US economy added 119,000 jobs, a healthy number, but the unemployment rate ticked up to 4.4 percent, a sign of weakness that could move the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates in December.

  Employment in the federal government has fallen by 97,000 since January.

  The jobs report was delayed by the federal government shutdown. The reports have also been subject to revision in recent months as employers have been slow to respond to the Labor Department survey.

THE REGIME:

— A federal judge in Washington temporarily blocked the Trump administration from maintaining 2,000 National Guard troops in the city streets after finding that the  city was likely to succeed in arguing the deployment is illegal.

  “At its core, Congress has given the District rights to govern itself,” wrote Judge Jia Cobb. “Those rights are infringed upon when defendants approve, in excess of their statutory authority, the deployment of National Guard troops to the District.”

— The website for the Centers for Disease Control now repudiates long-standing wisdom that there are no links between vaccines and autism, coming as a surprise to the staff. The new website information echoes the unproven claims of Secretary of Health Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 

  The website now says that, “The claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism.” The new guidance is written in a slyly dishonest negative because the scientific reality is that many studies have not  found that there is a link  between vaccines and autism.

  The Washington Post reports that career scientists at the CDC had no prior knowledge of changes in the website information.

— The Trump administration is drafting an executive order that would direct the Justice Department to sue states that pass laws regulating artificial intelligence, according to a copy reviewed by The Washington Post. President Trump has been campaigning against any restrictions on artificial intelligence.

— President Trump was not Invited to yesterday’s memorial service for former Vice President Dick Cheney, Trump critic in recent years. Trump never publicly recognized Cheney’s death.

— New York’s mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani meets today with President Trump, who has denounced him as a communist. Can’t wait to see how that goes.

— Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt  defended President Trump addressing Catherine Lucey of Bloomberg News as “Piggy.” Leavitt said, “Look, the president is very frank and honest with everyone in this room.” And she said, “I think it’s one of the many reasons that the American people reelected this president, because of his frankness.”

THE BEAR: With Japan’s population shrinking and withdrawing from rural areas, the range lands of wild bears has increased to the peril of humans. Thirteen people have been killed in bear attacks just this year.

  A woman was attacked in her garden, a man in his car, and one man was killed while cleaning a hot spring. A bear walked right into a grocery

  Surprisingly, Japan has thousands more bears than Montana. Among them are about 12,000 brown bears, which are related to the North American grizzly and can reach a height of 6 feet 6 inches and weigh up to 880 pounds. And they’re hungry.

THE SPIN RACK: The Republican woman overseeing the $550 million renovation of the Alamo in Texas has been removed for a so-called “woke” post on the Alamo’s Twitter/X account recognizingIndigenous Peoples’ Day. — South Florida Democratic member of Congress Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick and her brother have been charged with stealing $5 million in federal disaster funds, laundering the money through accounts, and using it to support her 2021 congressional campaign.Cherfilus-McCormick called it a “sham” indictment. — Grammy-winning rapper Prakazrel “Pras” Michel of the Fugees was sentenced yesterday to 14 years in prison for illegally funneling millions of dollars in foreign contributions to former President Barack Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign. —Fatima Bosch of Mexico has been crowned Miss Universe 2025. 

BELOW THE FOLD: Providing his own public relations … and adoration … President Trump posted on his Truth Social, “According to most, ‘One of the best opening ten months for a President in USA History.’ Thank you!”

  According to “most”? 

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