“On the face of it, the US Constitution seems to rule out anyone having a third term. The 22nd Amendment states: "No person shall be elected to the office of the president more than twice, and no person who has held the office of president, or acted as president, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected president shall be elected to the office of the president more than once."

Changing the constitution would require a two-thirds approval from both the Senate and the House of Representatives, as well as approval from three-quarters of the country's state-level governments. Trump's Republican Party controls both chambers of Congress but does not have the majorities needed. Additionally, the Democratic Party controls 18 of the 50 state legislatures.”

“"I'm not joking... a lot of people want me to do it," he added. "But, I basically tell them we have a long way to go, you know, it's very early in the administration."”

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx20lwedn23o

“Harris never distanced herself from President Joe Biden during the campaign, but did air some tensions between them in her book, and wrote “at 81, Joe got tired.” Critics wondered why she hadn’t acknowledged reality before.”

“… many Democrats thrilled to his adoption of a bombastic social media strategy that walked a fine line between parodying and emulating Trump. And he delighted partisans by jumping into the redistricting war Trump started, successfully convincing California voters to pass a ballot initiative suspending the state’s independent redistricting commission and redrawing district lines to favor Democratic candidates.”

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/12/28/presidential-race-2028-candidates-analysis-00695164

“But sometimes a nation needs a nightmare before it can fully awaken to long-simmering crises.”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/29/american-reckoning

“Trump has precipitated a long-overdue reckoning. That reckoning has revealed the rot. It has also revealed the suck-up cowardice of so many CEOs, billionaires, Wall Street bankers, media moguls, tech titans, Republican politicians and other so-called “leaders” who have stayed silent or actively sought to curry Trump’s favor.”

“Something similar happened in the first years of the 20th century when muckraking journalists revealed the monopolies, corruption and public-be-damned arrogance of the robber barons.”

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/series/b080kw3g

“Permits issued by the state’s environment department allow Queensland farmers to shoot flying foxes for the purposes of crop protection, up to an annual statewide quota set at 1,630 animals. That includes 130 grey-headed flying foxes, listed as vulnerable under federal environment laws, along with 700 black and 800 little red flying foxes.  A three-year phaseout was announced in 2023 and was due to conclude by 1 July 2026, after which shooting would no longer be allowed. The long lead time was intended to give farmers time to move to non-lethal alternatives, such as exclusion netting, which creates a physical barrier between bats and produce."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/30/queensland-to-continue-to-allow-farmers-to-shoot-flying-foxes-after-revoking-ban-on-controversial-practice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sECAeNLkNho&list=RDsECAeNLkNho&start_radio=1

The Sound Of The Suburbs

“The candles cost more than the cake.”

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/dec/30/warren-buffett-retires-...

"I remember when our biggest domestic challenges were civil rights, women’s rights and gay rights – not the very survival of democracy and the rule of law."

https://www.medievalists.net/2015/02/great-wind-1362/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2UpUl_hj4A&list=RDF2UpUl_hj4A&start_radio=1

The Damned - There's a Ghost in My House (Official Video)

"One person described it as feeling “like an underground subway under my house”, while another said “the house shook and all the windows rattled”."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3iYwYGhN2E&list=RDb3iYwYGhN2E&start_rad...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/29/more-than-300-earthquakes-...

"I’d like to believe that the horrific darkness of this past year is a necessary prelude to a brighter and saner future."

The Coal Road.