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“When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it— always.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
"Knowledge belongs to all. You do not understand that. You are just a white man." — Young Karamakate, Embrace of the Serpent.
“Let me be direct: We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition.” — Canadian PM Mark Carney
The Trump Nazi bastards are taking away our right to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness!
And our military can't do a goddamned thing? America has died of cowardice!
“No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices.” —Edward R. Murrow
Welcome to "The Great Enshittocene." You are living in it now!
Forgiving those who show no remorse is injustice. There will be no meeting Nazis halfway in the name of "unity."
When I press alt-right on the keyboard my screen goes white.
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." — Edmund Burke
“We don’t take an oath to a king, or queen, or a tyrant or a dictator. And we don’t take an oath to a wannabe dictator… we take an oath to the Constitution… and we’re willing to die to protect it.”
— Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Mark Milley, at his retirement ceremony.
Regarding the popular useage of "No problem" in response to the declarative statement of "Thank you." The very response suggests that a problem could have been possible. If it was or there were a problem shouldn't the one stating "no problem" then reveal it?
A Manifesto
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| "Making America Great Again." |
Back in 2005 Lost Country recorded a song that was issued on their CD Long Gone Thrill. It was a song written by Jeff Gutcheon that was originally titled Land of the Happy Negro, subtitled Battle Hymn of the Republicans. We thought that no one would “get it.” It would be misunderstood; it might be construed as racist on our part. Of course, it was far from that. We changed the title and some of the lyrics. But today I realize that Jeff was on the money and that now everyone should recognize that he was. The teahadists, around 2011, demanded that the school textbooks in Tennessee overlook certain facts and look at the “sunny side of slavery.” So, now these “Ministry of Truth” protectors can take their proper context with the song that had them pegged from our earlier years when we tried to be kind. Now, we know they are not kind people. Now, you can hear the original track— unedited, unoverdubbed, with the original lyrics sung as a pilot vocal so we could work on the track that later became the issued recording of a kinder version, Land of the Happy People.
Land of the Happy Negro — copyright Jeff Gutcheon, 2005.
Randy Newman is in on this issue as well with an offering for you titled I'm Dreaming.
Get it while you can.
Dedicated to the Republican Teahadistas in the Senate and the House. How they long to return to the past.
For more on the Teahadistas: Americans Against The Tea Party
P.S. : It was rewarding to see
The Daily Show
using the title Battle Hymn of the Republicans for one of their segments. Great minds think alike. Except the greatest think of them first.
On page 97 in Jill Lepore’s book The Whites of their Eyes (2010, Princeton University Press) she states, “There was though, something heartbreaking in all this. Behind the Tea Party’s Revolution lay nostalgia for an imagined time— the 1950s, maybe, or the 1940s— less riven by strife, less troubled by race. In that nostalgia was the remembrance of childhood, a yearning for a common past, bulwark against a divided present, comfort against an uncertain future....”
As if anyone needed more proof of this retro-lunacy just look at our latest "sunny slaver" Cliven Bundy and his quotes on "happy negros." I quote Maureen Dowd in her Times column Sunday, April 27, 2014: "It’s a measure of how hallucinogenic conservatives are that they are trying to re-litigate slavery during the second term of the first African-American president." Jeff’s song could very aptly be subtitled Battle Hymn of Cliven Bundy.
Need more? Take a look at an Esquire article written by Charles P. Pierce dated April 25, 2014, Mike Pence Joins A Bad Parade.
"In downtown Indianapolis, there's this massive monument to the people from Indiana who have died in our various wars, particularly the nearly 25,000 Hoosiers who died in the War of Southern Sedition. I mention this only to point out that the National Rifle Association is meeting in Indianapolis at the moment, and Indiana Governor Mike Pence made them welcome by edging right up to being on the wrong side of the dispute that cost so many Hoosiers their lives. This, of course, is the on-ramp to the expressway to Bundyville, although Pence would be horrified if you pointed that out to him."
Governor Pence: "Washington is not only broke, it’s broken. The cure for what ails this country will come more from our state capitals than it ever will from our national capital. Despite what some may think in Washington, our state governments are not territorial outposts of the national government. The states are the wellspring of the American experiment. It will not be enough to cut federal spending; the next generation of leaders must permanently reduce the size and scope of the federal government by returning to the states the rights, resources, and responsibilities that are rightfully theirs!"
"This view of things was litigated at the Constitutional Convention. It failed. It was litigated over the tariff. It failed. It was litigated at Cemetery Ridge. It failed. It was litigated prior to the passage of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution. It failed. It was litigated at Central High in Little Rock. It failed. It was litigated on the campus at Ole Miss in 1962. It failed. It was litigated at the Edmund Pettus Bridge. It failed. It is the connective tissue that binds modern conservativism inextricably to the remnants of American apartheid because this view of the nature of the nation always was the expression of threat that the slaveholder felt about his way of life. It camouflaged itself in a number of ways involving a number of different issues, but always it was about the fear that, sooner or later, the federal government was going to come and take away the chattel from which you derived your personal economy, and so even what might be beneficial to the nation as a whole must be resisted on the pretext of sovereign states...."
Not enough yet? Here you go. Dated July 21, 2014.
Top Anti-Immigrant ‘Expert’ Says ‘Being Hung, Drawn And Quartered’ Is ‘Too Good’ For Obama.
A senior policy analyst for the Center for Immigration Studies, which bills itself as the think tank of the anti-immigrant Right, told a Florida-based Tea Party group last week that President Obama not only deserves impeachment, but that “being hung, drawn and quartered is probably too good for him.”
The Center for New Community’s Imagine 2050 blog first reported on Stephen Steinlight’s remarks.
Steinlight also said that John Boehner’s lawsuit against the president is a ‘political loser’ and claimed that while Obama deserves to be impeached, such an effort would backfire on Republicans.
CIS describes Steinlight as “one of the nation’s most insightful voices on immigration” who provides “expert testimony” for government panels.
"A rash of opinion polls which have come out, not push polls, real polls, including one by Gallup that showed that 65 percent of the American people don’t want any part of an Obama-style immigration reform. But the idea of this [lawsuit] is vintage Boehner, it’s a political loser. There is no court that is going to stop Obama from doing anything. We all know, if there ever was a president that deserved to be impeached, it’s this guy. Alright? I mean, I wouldn’t stop. I would think being hung, drawn, and quartered is probably too good for him."
While it’s my opinion this would be “cruel and unusual punishment” I’m sure it’s merely a figure of speech the gentleman is using and doesn't seriously want lynching to return. But on the other hand, we could just
‘Blame It On Obama” as Andre Williams says.
Not enough for rational human beings? Ok:
A while back Mr. Cruz stated: “I think the reason so many Americans are upset about the Obama presidency is that they realize this wasn’t possible before, and they wanted his presidency to be bigger than it is, you know, to do bigger things. And then you have others that appreciate history. If the slaves were never freed in the Civil War, you have to wonder, where would Obama be today? Certainly not the White House, not in the capacity he’s in. And you have some in America that think that might not be a bad thing. That he not be in office, I mean.”
Another Happy Negro kind of guy! Ya gotta love the pursed eyebrow schtick!
Ted Cruz displays his acting skills.
Ah, but it goes on:
Ann Coulter is up front with her racism when in response to Michelle Obama’s commencement speech at Tuskegee University, May 2015, proudly stated on Sean Hannity’s show — "I think she’s just letting out her Reverend Wright now.” The pundit proceeded to denounce the "predator class” in the black community and deny the existence of "peaceful protesters” in Baltimore...."Oh my gosh, this nonsense about, oh, so many blacks are in prison, well how did they get there?” Coulter asked later. "In addition to the peaceful Baltimore protester I want to put on a milk carton, — have you seen this? — I want to see the innocent person in prison.”
(Note: While people of color make up about 30 percent of the United States' population, they account for 60 percent of those imprisoned. The prison population grew by 700 percent from 1970 to 2005, a rate that is outpacing crime and population rates. March 13, 2012.)
Glenn Beck stated in response to the same speech she gave with "White people in droves went out to vote for you,” he said. "You were somehow invisible so much that you became the President and First Lady of the United States of America? Tell me about the troubles that you have seen!.” Beck then argued that conservatives and Christians were the real victims of bigotry: "The conservatives have never felt it! The jobs we are suddenly bypassed for because we’re conservative, because of our viewpoint. The religious that are mocked on a daily basis and belittled. Yeah, we’ve never felt that. We don’t know what it’s like.”
An excellent playing of the "Victim Card” the Republicans do over and over as well.
76% of Americans consider themselves "Christian” yet the Republicans consider them victims?
“Yes, the long war on Christianity. I pray that one day we may live in an America where Christians can worship freely! In broad daylight! Openly wearing the symbols of their religion... perhaps around their necks? And maybe – dare I dream it? – maybe one day there can be an openly Christian President. Or, perhaps, 43 of them. Consecutively.”— Jon Stewart
Maybe Ann and Glen should read the article in the Times Magazine from Sunday, May 10, 2015,
"Our Demand Is Simple: Stop Killing Us.”.
Would (did) they miss the killing part or are they really that clueless?
And continues:
In the June 19, 2015 article titled
“Why Conservatives Still Won't Admit That Charleston Was A Racist Crime,”
Aurin Squire makes several points on the sad excuses that Republicans used on the murders by Dylann Roof in Charleston, South Carolina. “Given the history of the South, along the rise of both active shooters and gun access, we can't call what happened Wednesday night a ‘senseless tragedy.’ In fact, the Charleston church shooting is full of savage sense. Thanks to complicity at best, and outright racist at worst, the ‘inconceivable’ is still feasible. The fear tactics that were once localized in the dark backwoods of our political landscape now reach every phone and laptop. Today, xenophobia and bigotry are the daily platforms from which many conservatives speak to their shrinking base. The Charleston shooting is not a random act of violence, but part of a long litany of history culminating in a painful present.”
From Mr. Roof’s Manifesto (as originally stated on Tumblr) :
Mr. Roof’s Tumblr had contained photos that matched his Facebook page, but both were taken down after the killings.
The essay uses defamatory terms for blacks, whom he accused of being “stupid and violent” with “the capacity to be very slick.” It laments white flight, and suggested that the whites should instead stay behind in cities and fight.
Criticisms are levied at Hispanics and Jews, but Asians are praised for being racists and potential allies. Whites are unfairly portrayed as all having been slave owners, the essay says. In reality, the author wrote, slavery was not that bad.
(Note: Charleston, SC is racially two-thirds white, up from 1980 when it was 50%)
And, on the Stars and Bars (their “Battle Flag” and not the first Confederate “national flag”) front (didn’t the Confederacy lose the war? Guess they never got over it and are still pissed).
Outrage vs. Tradition, Wrapped in a High-Flying Flag of Dixie
Supporters of the Confederate battle flag display signaled Friday that their position had not changed. In a commentary on Friday, Michael Hill, the president of the League of the South, which the Southern Poverty Law Center has listed as a hate group, said that the Confederate battle flag should remain at the State House but that the American flag should be removed.
The American flag, Mr. Hill wrote, “now stands for multiculturalism, tolerance and diversity — the left’s unholy trinity.” In “sharp contrast,” he wrote, the Confederate battle flag “stands for the heroic effort our people made 150 years ago to avoid the fate” of contemporary America.
In the same article, Senator Lindsey Graham (a Republican candidate for President of the United States) told CNN that he would support a move to “revisit” the flag’s status, but he added that the flag was part of the state’s identity.
(Identity? Guess he means Land of the Happy Negro.)
Seditious Oklahoma asshats are grabbing their share of “The Land of the Happy Negro.” “President Obama greeted by Confederate flags in Oklahoma” show these people are too ignorant to know what racism is. Only 80 of these asshats showed up but they still display their ignorance very well. Or was it only 10? Another link to the story is here. The asshat that drove up from Texas is talking to himself I suppose.
Then we have the good ol’ boys from the remnants of the KKK demanding their share of “The Land of the Happy Negro.” at the Statehouse in South Carolina. These fascists crawled out of the sewers to parade their little battle flags on Saturday, July 18, 2015. Oh, sorry, they weren’t protesting the uppity negroes, they were protesting the uppity immigrants. Old, sad, diminished, disgruntled white men and some younger skin heads were, indeed, demanding their share of the sweet sunny heritage (white supremacy) of the Confederacy. Ooops! Is that a swastika on that black T-shirt? Such class.
Book About George Washington’s ‘Happy’ Slaves Shelved - Yet another wistful yearner for the Land of the Happy Negro!
Don't overlook Land of the Happy Negro's Corey Stewart’s Confederate antics. LaCivita said. "Let the idiot be the idiot." Always the best strategy.
Virginia Lawmakers Pass Bill Allowing Confederate Monument Removals
Land of the Happy Negro stronghold joins 21st Century.
Donald Trump openly joined “The Land of the Happy Negro” on August 15, 2017. He confirmed that he is a white supremacist supporter. He wants to blame resistance to it. You cannot serve Nazis and liberty at the same time. His attempts at being the leader of the free world have failed miserably.
The events in Charlottesville
have unmasked him forever as the bigoted demagogue he is. “The Land of the Happy Negro” has, in a not-so-subtle way, declared war on the United States. We should acknowledge this war exists, the enemy is among us, and fight it with all the heart and soul of those who fought and died stamping out this very same fascism in World War II. That is now our task as we have a president that is so mindless and tyrannical that he doesn't know the difference between Thomas Jefferson and Robert E. Lee. That same civil war is upon us once again. Lest our nation collapse, let us not fail to settle it once and for all this time.
Worse Than Treason
No amount of rationalizing can change the fact that the majority of the Republican Party is advocating for the overthrow of an American election.
For those who have no idea what World War II has to do with anything:
The Chaplain's Speech to the troops in the 1949 WWII film Battleground
"Now it’s nearly Christmas, and here we are in beautiful Bastogne enjoying the winter sports. And the $64 dollar question is: ‘Was this trip necessary?’ I’ll try to answer that, but my sermons, like everything else in the Army, depend on the situation and the terrain. So I assure you this is gonna be a quickie! ‘Was this trip necessary?’ Well, let’s look at the facts. Nobody wanted this war but the Nazis. A great many people tried to deal with them, and a lot of ’em are dead. Millions have died for no other reason except that the Nazis wanted ’em dead. So, in the final showdown, there was nothing left to do except fight. There’s a great lesson in this. And those of us who’ve learned it the hard way aren’t gonna forget it. We must never again let any force dedicated to a super-race, or a super-idea, or super-anything become strong enough to impose itself upon a free world. We must be smart enough and tough enough in the beginning to put out the fire before it starts spreading. My answer to the $64 dollar question is, yes. This trip was necessary. As the years go by, a lot of people are gonna forget, but you won’t. And don’t ever let anybody tell you you were a sucker to fight in the war against fascism. And now, Jerry permitting, let us pray. Let us pray for this fog to lift. Almighty God. The organist is hitting those bass notes a little too loud for me to be heard. So let us each pray in his own way, to his own God."
As Gregg Popovich declared, "We are Rome."
From "The Holocaust Explained": Between 1929 and 1932, support for the Communist and Nazi parties increased. The less extreme parties were blamed for causing Germany's problems. As these parties had been unable to work together to solve country's problems, people became more afraid that the Communists may take over. The moderate parties turned to the Nazis to keep the Communists out.
President Obama said, "We are not Democrats first, we are not Republicans first, we are Americans."
Mr. President, from your first day they never gave you that courtesy so they will not get it from me.
We oppose everything
"EVERYTHING that goes wrong, from here on out, is owned by Trump and the Republicans."
When you have elected representatives stating that Trump is unqualified, bad for the country, ignorant of the issues, and other harsh criticisms also stating that they will back him as the Republican nominee, you have clear evidence of the rot that permeates the party. They are as corrupt and power-mad as their putative candidate. They— McCain, Ryan, McConnell and the rest of the toadies— demonstrate their hypocrisy and the fact that they put party power over the good of the nation.
D.L. Hughley put it in clear words, voting for Trump means "voting for a racist over a liberal." That is it, succinctly put. If you voted for Trump you have made a statement for racism, hatred, intolerance, bigotry, falsity, xenophobia, gynophobia, scapegoating and fraud. Refusal to vote for HRC does not absolve you from participation, because no vote as well as a third party vote is a vote for Trump in effect.
Let me get this straight. The "angry" American people want government out of their lives. Yet, they blame the government for forgetting about them for all the jobs that the middle-class has lost over the years. Huh? Their solution is to elect a fascist to office of POTUS. In this exchange you get a dictatorship. This has historically worked out well for how many countries? And the left get criticized for calling these people idiots? Many of these people vote against their best interest every time. What else can you call them when it is the truth?
End the Electoral College
National Popular Vote Interstate Compact
Why the hell should Florida, Ohio and a few other swing states rule our election process? We have not been 13 colonies for some time now.
I am not mad at you that Clinton lost. I am unconcerned that we have different politics. And I don't think less of you because you vote one way and I vote another.
No... I think less of you because you watched an adult mock a disabled person in front of a crowd and still supported him. I think less of you because you saw a man spouting clear racism and backed him. I think less of you because you listened to him advocate for war crimes, and still thought he should run this country. I think less of you because you watched him equate a woman's worth to her appearance and got on board.
It isn't your politics that I find repulsive. It is your personal willingness to support racism, sexism, and cruelty. You sided with a bully when it mattered and that is something I will never forget.
So, no... you and I won't be "coming together" to move forward or whatever. Trump disgusts me, but it is the fact that he doesn't disgust you that will stick with me long after this election.
— Sparrow R. Jones
You watched Trump live his entire life as a millionaire or billionaire and never earn an honest nickle in his life; you watched the man send ALL of his manufacturing overseas; you watched him rail against the auto industry bail out; you watched him hire illegal immigrants for his businesses and for his homes here in America; you watched him scam and bankrupt countless family owned businesses by not paying his bills; you watched him declare bankruptcy countless times and walk away with hundreds of millions of dollars; you then watched him not pay one dime of taxes on that ill gotten gain and brag about it to the middle class who had to pick up his slack on their taxes and you STILL thought that Donald Trump understands you and the working class and that he and he alone could "save our economy" and bring jobs back to "Murka".
And since you also believe that Bush left us with a strong and sound economy that Obama destroyed, I dislike you because you are a willful idiot.
— unknown
Gaslighting: Know It and Identify It to Protect Yourself
Gaslighting is a manipulation tactic used to gain power. And it works too well.
"You have attracted people who are determined that ideology is more important than facts." — Ted Koppel to Sean Hannity 3/26/2017
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” — Upton Sinclair
(Why do certain people vote against their best interest?):
"The masses revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed. Indeed, so long as they are not permitted to have standards of comparison, they never even become aware that they are oppressed." — George Orwell, 1984
"We're closer to a nuclear war than we've been in 55 years because "someone" wanted to jail a woman for using email." — LOLGOP
"Fuck Trump.
Fuck his faux concern.
Fuck his half-assed apologies.
And fuck every POS who voted for this degenerate to lead our county."
— Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) tweeted at 5:52 PM on Sat, Aug 12, 2017
"Nazis are murdering people, farmers are going broke and the arctic is fucking melting. Maybe next time let's not hand the world's most difficult job to a toxic moron lost and wandering in a haze of dementia and untreated tertiary syphilis who can't even spell his own fucking name."
— Jeff Tiedrich@itsJeffTiedrich
Tweeted on Tue., Aug 6, 2019
"White people have nearly completely gone mad. Think about it. The people of VA voted for a republican candidate who's only platform is that he would save them from CRT and or the teaching of American History. CRT is a university level curriculum and is not taught on grade school levels. American history is impossible to teach without discussing slavery, the massacre and land theft of the first Nations. Since slavery starts with the country's formation, how do you teach American history without it? Do you start at the civil war? How do you explain why Americans were killing each other over "state's rights"? Rights to do what? Ok, maybe we teach the bible. But the setting of the Bible is in Africa and the middle east and slavery is discussed all through it. See what I mean. The battle against truth is the path to self termination on a macro scale."
— Real Truth stings 11/3/2021, Mediaite.com
"Morality is doing right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right."
— H. L. Menken (1880 - 1956)
Directed to the asshats (and their species) who wear the "Makes A Great Asshat" at public places:
Scholar Matt Sears: Someday MAGA hats will be shameful secrets, like Klan robes (and swastikas)
Scholar and Washington Post columnist says those who wear MAGA hats are "morally accountable" for Trump's actions
Red Hat of the Red Death
"And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all."
"In October, 25 out of every 100,000 residents of heavily Trump counties died from Covid, more than three times higher than the rate in heavily Biden counties (7.8 per 100,000). October was the fifth consecutive month that the percentage gap between the death rates in Trump counties and Biden counties widened."
— NYT article by David Leonhardt
The Covid cull is doing as it is allowed to do.
“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”
— Ronald Wright, A Short History of Progress
"It's odd. The same people who declare that wearing a mask is a 'personal choice,' are the SAME people who want to take away a woman's right to choose."
— E. Jean Carroll (@ejeancarroll)
Captain Beatty’s Speech
(For the 21st century book burners who think they make some sort of statement.)
"With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word `intellectual,' of course, became the swear word it deserved to be. You always dread the unfamiliar. Surely you remember the boy in your own school class who was exceptionally 'bright,' did most of the reciting and answering while the others sat like so many leaden idols, hating him. And wasn't it this bright boy you selected for beatings and tortures after hours? Of course it was. We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against.
So! A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon. Breach man's mind. Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man? Me? I won't stomach them for a minute...
You must understand that our civilization is so vast that we can't have our minorities upset and stirred. Ask yourself, What do we want in this country, above all? People want to be happy, isn't that right? Haven't you heard it all your life? I want to be happy, people say. Well, aren't they? Don't we keep them moving, don't we give them fun? That's all we live for, isn't it? For pleasure, for titillation? And you must admit our culture provides plenty of these ...
Coloured people don't like Little Black Sambo. Burn it. White people don't feel good about Uncle Tom's Cabin. Burn it. Someone's written a book on tobacco and cancer of the lungs? The cigarette people are weeping? Burn the book. Serenity, Montag. Peace, Montag. Take your fight outside. Better yet, into the incinerator. Funerals are unhappy and pagan? Eliminate them, too. Five minutes after a person is dead he's on his way to the Big Flue, the Incinerators serviced by helicopters all over the country. Ten minutes after death a man's a speck of black dust. Let's not quibble over individuals with memoriams. Forget them. Burn them all, burn everything. Fire is bright and fire is clean ...
Luckily, queer ones like her don't happen, often. We know how to nip most of them in the bud, early. You can't build a house without nails and wood. If you don't want a house built, hide the nails and wood. If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none. Let him forget there is such a thing as war. If the Government is inefficient, top-heavy, and tax-mad, better it be all those than that people worry over it...
Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs or the names of state capitals or how much corn Iowa grew last year. Cram them full of non-combustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely `brilliant' with information. Then they'll feel they're thinking, they'll get a sense of motion without moving. And they'll be happy, because facts of that sort don't change. Don't give them any slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy. Any man who can take a TV wall apart and put it back together again, and most men can nowadays, is happier than any man who tries to slide-rule, measure, and equate the universe, which just won't be measured or equated without making man feel bestial and lonely. I know, I've tried it; to hell with it. So bring on your clubs and parties, your acrobats and magicians, your dare-devils, jet cars, motor-cycle helicopters, your sex and heroin, more of everything to do with automatic reflex. If the drama is bad, if the film says nothing, if the play is hollow, sting me with the theremin, loudly. I'll think I'm responding to the play, when it's only a tactile reaction to vibration. But I don't care. I just like solid entertainment."
— Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury, 1953
Why is Trump so disliked worldwide?
Someone asked "Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?"
Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England, wrote this magnificent response:
"A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem.
For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace - all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed.
So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.
Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing - not once, ever.
I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility - for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman.
But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is - his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.
Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers
And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults - he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.
There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It?s all surface.
Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront.
Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul.
And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist.
Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that.
He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat.
He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.
And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully.
That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead.
There are unspoken rules to this stuff - the Queensberry rules of basic decency - and he breaks them all. He punches downwards - which a gentleman should, would, could never do - and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless - and he kicks them when they are down.
So the fact that a significant minority - perhaps a third - of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think 'Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy? is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:
* Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.
* You don't need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.
This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss.
After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum.
God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid.
He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart.
In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws - he would make a Trump.
And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish:
'My God? what? have? I? created?'
Remarks on Religion
"Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers
that may never be questioned." — anonymous
... but more often, it's the religion's advocates on earth who punish you, not the god/pantheon/whatever. In extremis (though not all are so extreme) "Religion often uses faith as a blindfold, saying anyone who doesn't believe the same as us must be wiped out. It's not God saying that. It's people, which is so dangerous." — Jenny Agutter, RT 2015/1/17-23
...or "What's awful about weird views is not the views. It's the intolerance. If someone wants to worship the Duke of Edinburgh or a pineapple, fine. But don't kill me if I don't agree." — Tim Rice, Radio Times 15-21 October 2011.
"I'd rather trust the guys in the lab coats who aren't demanding that I get up early on Sundays to apologize for being human."— Captain Splendid (quoted by The Real Bev in mozilla.general, 2014-11-16)
AMERICA UNDER TRUMP MOVIE! Made in 1945!
How Elon Musk’s Power Grab Is Hurting America
Who’s really running the White House — President Trump, or unelected billionaire Elon Musk?
Elon Musk is attempting to run our government like one of his companies, and it’s hurting the American people.
Even more concerning is that President Donald Trump is allowing it to happen. It’s time to say enough and FIRE Elon Musk from any role within our government.
Some states are landing on a straightforward answer: fossil fuel companies.
It's a conspiracy theory that they believe. What else?
Trump fascism will destroy south Texas and begin the destruction of the U.S..
Amend the 13th Amendment.
End Institutionalized Slavery in Amerika.
"...except as a punishment for crime..."
"The Crime"is the rig
A course most Americans should take.
The Gods that the "Christian" God displaced in America.
"God ordained our great nation"?
Upon reading a remark that was stated on Face Book that "America was ordained by God." I couldn't help but wonder which 'God' as there are so many. Of course, I knew to which "God" this person was referring. But the case of this country being ordained by "God" is a case that is wide open as you can see for yourself. The statement itself is not based on Biblical history as this is unprovable by actual historical events. It is, more likely, based on "educators" such as Rush Limbaugh or his like. Biblical history that is taught by accredited institutions will not dabble in "miracles" or claims which have no evidence.
The Discovery
In 1492 the natives discovered they were indians,
they discovered they lived in America,
they discovered they were naked,
they discovered there was sin,
they discovered they owed obedience to a king and queen
from another world and a god from some other heaven,
and this God had invented guilt and clothing,
and had ordered burned alive all who worshipped the sun and
the moon the earth and the rain that moistens it.
— Eduardo Galeano, from Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History, 2013
“Slavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors.” — Charles Bukowski
Forgiving those who show no remorse is injustice. There will be no meeting Nazis halfway in the name of "unity."
"We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!" — Greta Thunberg
"Maybe it's time for women to go on strike and stop having sex with men until this is straightened out. There are many other ways of enjoying your body, women, than sex with men. Who is willing to take the chance of getting pregnant and having a daughter to be abused by self-professed owners and handlers of her body? " — Luisa
"Atheisim is to religion as sobriety is to drunkeness" — unknown
"Faith is like fire. It can cook your dinner or it can burn down your home." — unknown
"R.I.P. America.
It was fun while it lasted.
1776-2024" — America, 2024
"So, the worst ranked US President, in American history, has been re-elected to the Presidency.
A man who murdered over 250,000 Americans, because he 'didn't want to panic them'.
A racist, a fascist, a misogynist, a sex offender, a multiple felon, and a Russian agent
This is straight out of the 'Twilight Zone'." — America 2024
"As Franklin said, 'It's a republic. If you can keep it'. We surrendered it." — America 2024.
On September 17th, FBI director Christopher Wray testified in front of the House Committee on Homeland Security. At that time, he stated that the biggest domestic terror threat the U.S. currently faces is from white supremacists. During his testimony, Wray never once mentioned Antifa or Black Lives Matter. Why? Because unlike the ignorant of this world, Wray knows the difference between hard facts and partisan propaganda.
Granted, the director of the FBI isn't nearly as credible a source as Tucker Carlson or Sean Hannity. Just ask any plumbing-supply salesman. Presenting certain people with facts is like giving medicine to a corpse.
During a recent pro-Trump demonstration in Washington, D.C., four members of the so-called "Proud Boys" ganged up on a Black man, who defended himself by pulling out a knife and stabbing his attackers. The right-wing media ran with the story, claiming this was a prime example of how Black Lives Matter is a violent terrorist network. Never mind that the man in question never claimed to support, much less belong to, BLM. Never mind also that conservatives claim to fully support the right to defend yourself. Clearly, they only extend that right to their brother and sister fascists.
Godwin's Rule of Nazi Analogies
Godwin's Law is fellacious. It is said to end all discussions when Hitler arrives. It denies Hitler as having any valid reality— it's just too simple to use, is what it implies. You only have to look at Hitler's atrocities to understand his reality. The idea that there could not be anything comparible or greater to Hitler is what I call "The Great Denial." We all know that is a river in Egypt. If you swim in it, you just get all wet.
I hereby invoke "The Law of Law." Nothing can be denied that is real. Reality isn't what you make of it. It is what reality makes of it and you.
I will now use the "Atilla the Hun" analogy and see if some egghead will declare that a law. As I have been told so many times by right-wingers, "I'm a little to the right of Atilla the Hun." So much for theories. "What is reality?" Let that be the wall.
Trump's drive to the Hamptons is over and there is no house there (Seinfeld fans will understand). It cost us a lot of money. It took a lot of time. But the son of a bitch is a walking dead man now. Many, many of us knew how this would end— not pretty— and it has not been. But this is the bitter end of the con man, the flim flam man, the megalomaniac that is Donald J. Trump. What happens to him next will be interesting to see. He cannot go without serious punishment. He must pay and pay dearly for his insurrection.
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." — Isaac Asimov
‘This was intentional’: AOC blasts Republicans on IVF ruling
"But I want to be very clear that this was intentional and that this is exactly what Republicans have been going for. We've seen it. You have the Heritage Foundation, you have lots of folks who are on record saying, you know, not only do they want to go after abortion, not only do they want to go after reproductive freedom, they're going after IVF. They're going after contraception. And we have the mifepristone ruling that is coming down from the Supreme Court, and Clarence Thomas, enriching himself from the same folks who are saying that they are trying to control women's bodies quite explicitly.
And going beyond that, they also want to control recreation—what they call recreational sex. This is so clearly a patriarchal theocracy that has embodied itself in the DNA of an entire political party in the United States of America. And as women, and as any nonbinary and queer person in this country—they must be defeated. There should never be room for this kind of control by force over another person's body in this country.
And they can walk it back as much as they want. They have done this. Who put those judges there? Not Democrats, not independents. Republicans put those judges in there. Republicans are taking women's bodies by force and we cannot let them do it. It has to come to an end."
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Listen to or read who we are, America.
Remember, Trump doesn't like this sort of soldiering
This is required reading for a Nation in distress.
The Republican nominee’s preoccupation with dictators, and his disdain for the American military, is deepening.
This is Donald Trump, the Nazi traitor. Our country must reject him to survive the holocaust he will bring.
We can still throw the motherfuckers out!
You will see you're too stupid to realize it.
Liz Cheney to Donald Trump:
"Donald, this is not the Soviet Union. You can’t change the truth and you cannot silence us. Remember all your lies about the voting machines, the election workers, your countless allegations of fraud that never happened? Many of your lawyers have been sanctioned, disciplined or disbarred, the courts ruled against you, and dozens of your own White House, administration, and campaign aides testified against you. Remember how you sent a mob to our Capitol and then watched the violence on television and refused for hours to instruct the mob to leave? Remember how your former Vice President prevented you from overturning our Republic? We remember. And now, as you take office again, the American people need to reject your latest malicious falsehoods and stand as the guardrails of our Constitutional Republic — to protect the America we love from you." — Liz Cheney posted on Call to Activism.
Benway:
"I deplore brutality," he said. "It's not efficient. On the other hand, prolonged mistreatment, short of physical violence, gives rise, when skillfully applied, to anxiety and a feeling of special guilt. A few rules or rather guiding principles are to be borne in mind. The subject must not realize that the mistreatment is a deliberate attack of an anti-human enemy on his personal identity. He must be made to feel that he deserves any treatment he receives because there is something (never specified) horribly wrong with him. The naked need of the control addicts must be decently covered by an arbitrary and intricate bureaucracy so that the subject cannot contact his enemy direct." — Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs.
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“Trump has aspired to and achieved the ultimate luxury – an existence unmolested by the rumbling of a soul.”
— Mark Singer, Trump and Me
"Richard Grenell — one of two geniuses that took the Kennedy Center for the Arts from being a premiere American cultural venue and turned it into a 'closed for renovations' piece of crap. I assume Trump gave Ric the job as interim president because he's a homo and all homos aregood with the arts, aren't they? But Grenell is naught but a lap dog. Or should I say Lapping Dog. I hope, for his husband's sake, he's as good a Dick Licker as he is a Donald Sucker!" — Harvey Fierstein (X) 2/5/2026.
He Trumped Us!
“The Whole Thing Is a Con Job” – Trump’s Windmill Rant at EU Presser
Self-loathing illustrated.
“We don’t take an oath to a king, or queen, or a tyrant or a dictator. And we don’t take an oath to a wannabe dictator… we take an oath to the Constitution… and we’re willing to die to protect it.”
— Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Mark Milley, at his retirement ceremony.
Trump White House plans evangelical Christian festival to 'rededicate country to God'— David Badash
The Trump White House is hosting an unprecedented Christian prayer festival Sunday on the National Mall — a nine-hour event that a Trump advisor describes as “rededicating the country to God.” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and House Speaker Mike Johnson are all expected to appear.
The funding for “Rededicate 250: National Jubilee of Prayer, Praise & Thanksgiving,” comes in part from taxpayer dollars earmarked for America’s 250th birthday celebration, organizers say, according to The Washington Post.
The speakers are almost all Christian, and expected to largely be evangelical Protestant leaders and members of the Trump administration, “many of whom have embraced the message that America’s founders wanted the country to be explicitly Christian,” the Post reports. The event will have a “focus on American identity as aligned with a specific slice of conservative Protestantism.”
Pastor Paula White-Cain, Senior Advisor to the White House Faith Office who delivered the invocation at President Donald Trump’s first inauguration, said the Jubilee “is about the history and the foundations of our nation, which was built on Christian values, on the Bible.”...
"Pastor Paula White-Cain, Senior Advisor to the White House Faith Office who delivered the invocation at President Donald Trump’s first inauguration, said the Jubilee 'is about the history and the foundations of our nation, which was built on Christian values, on the Bible.'
Her first sentence was already a lie.
Perhaps she should stick to "speaking in tongues". Since its gibberish by definition it can't be true or false.
'Banana nana fo fana.' — Dmar3 (comments)
"This will be done in the same way that the 1930's rallys in Munich and
Nuremburg , pure white evangelical christian nationalism at its ugliest." — EZ Traveler (comments)
"There is no one pictured or mentioned I would trust my dogs or children with. A group of grifters, sexual predators, and deviants of various sorts. Paula White? A serial adulterer, three times married grifter of Trumps favorite kind. These religious zealots are exactly what our Founders warned us about. They are ready and willing to kill us all in the name of some Sky God or other. Jim Jones was a shirker compared to these people." — Ghost of Marid (comments)
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Which is, of course, the biggest bunch of bullshit ever. No such of damned thing occurred nor was ever stated, you retarded Talibastard asswipe! Jesus said, many will come in my name. She's one of the fakes!
https://www.alternet.org/white-house-trump-2676889714/
Trump Admits He Wrecked the Economy — Will Saletan
Donald Trump’s quest to get a bunch of taxpayer money for his White House ballroom project isn’t going great, with plenty of Republicans in both the House and the Senate still sounding highly skeptical. “It was one thing when private dollars were doing it,” Sen. John Curtis of Utah told Politico yesterday. “If you’re asking me for a billion dollars, I have some really hard questions.” Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) was even more unequivocal: “Not happening here,” he said yesterday. Happy Wednesday.
Take It From Him
by Will Saletan
Donald Trump always finds a scapegoat. When the economy does well under other presidents, he takes the credit. And when the economy suffers under him, he finds someone else to blame. In his first term, it was the “China virus.” In his second term, it’s the Fed.
But now he’s in a jam. Official numbers released on Tuesday show that energy prices, grocery prices, core inflation, and the Consumer Price Index are all surging, thanks to Trump’s war in Iran. And this time, he can’t escape responsibility.
Why? Because he has repeatedly admitted, on camera, that he foresaw the war’s economic damage and started it anyway....
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I can hear so many answering, "So what?"
Orgullo. Tabs, Wed., May 13, 2026 — Evan Hurst
While the American president and his fascist regime are taking turns kicking every minority they can find right in the stomach, the leader of Spain posted this yesterday on Facebook...
That says, roughly, “For the first time Spain tops the Rainbow Map of LGBTI rights and freedoms in Europe. This is a recognition of our country’s social and legislative progress, and of all the people who have fought tirelessly to live with equality and without fear. In the face of those who strive to drag us back into the past, we move forward with strength, dignity and joy. Proud of our country.”
Speaking of hot Spanish stuff that makes gays and everyone else happy, y’all see that Vanity Fair cover shoot of tennis superstar Carlos Alcaraz? Holy shit.
Part of us just wants to say that’s the end of tabs for today, but we guess we’ll look for a couple more stories, not that there’s anything out there better.
How is Bari Weiss beclowning the entire profession of journalism today?
Speaking of “beclowning” and “in over their head”:
These absolute losers would get off so hard if there was a terrorist attack, because they are desperate to believe Americans would rally around Trump’s flag, just like they did for Bush after 9/11.
Not a chance, losers. Trump owns everything that happens on his watch. Everything.
Next up, KA$H PATEL IS NOT AS THINK AS A DRUNK YOU ARE, OSSIFER SENATOR, YOU ARE A DRUNK AS A KA$H YOU ARE, SENATOR OSSIFER! You gotta watch this absolute meltdown. Ka$h just doesn’t have what it takes. If you were his mom, that’s what you would probably say to him a lot....
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Is Trump’s Gilded Ballroom a Middle Finger to Working Americans? — Thom Hartmann
Wealth and celebrity have blinded people to what ordinary Americans can plainly see.
Bill Maher and Sen. John Fetterman sat around joking about Donald Trump’s new White House ballroom like a couple of wealthy guys at a country club laughing over cocktails while the republic burns outside the window.
Maher dismissed the outrage by calling the cost “couch money.” Fetterman rolled his eyes and reduced the backlash to “Trump Derangement Syndrome.” They practically patted each other on the back for being the last two supposedly reasonable men in American politics.
Calm down, peasants, they were essentially saying. It’s only a $330 million gilded palace add-on for a man who already treats the presidency like his private casino.
This is what elite detachment looks like in America now. Smug. Self-satisfied. Historically illiterate.
No, Bill. People are not angry because Trump likes chandeliers. They’re angry because symbols matter in politics. They always have.
Americans are watching a president who already wrapped himself in gold-plated excess try to build a massive gilded ballroom while millions of working people can’t afford rent, healthcare, childcare, or groceries. And then they’re being told by multimillionaire celebrities that noticing the symbolism somehow makes them irrational.
That’s not “Trump Derangement Syndrome,” it’s something called “civic awareness.”...
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Photo is of two idiots seriously ill with TDS!
Nobel economist begs NATO for help with Iran: Trump has 'no strategy' — Nick Hilden
As the consequences of President Donald Trump’s decision to launch war on Iran continue to spiral, Nobel-winning economist Thomas Friedman is begging for help from a group that the floundering U.S. Commander in Chief has “denigrated” again and again: NATO.
Addressing the international security body via the New York Times, Friedman acknowledged, “I get it. You despise President Trump for all the right reasons. He has walked away from Ukraine. He has threatened to seize Greenland and annex Canada. He has coddled Vladimir Putin. He is eroding America’s democratic institutions and norms. He insulted each of you so much that the German chancellor recently barked back that Trump’s America was being ‘humiliated’ by Iran. I get it.”
“Now get over it,” he pleaded. “Get all your navies together and proceed to the Persian Gulf immediately to join the American armada to make clear that Iran will never, ever be allowed to decide who shall pass and who shall not through the Strait of Hormuz. And, if it insists on trying to do so, it won’t just be taking on the United States and Israel, it will be taking on the entire Western alliance.”...
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There is now talk of removing Trump via the 25th Amendment by his own party. He could be gone sooner than later.
Trump and Republicans are suffering from 'extraordinary denial and magical thinking' — Sarah K. Burris
The New Republic's Greg Sargent spoke with Democratic strategist Simon Rosenberg on his morning podcast about the challenges President Donald Trump and the GOP face in ending the Iran war.
As the Iran war drags on past its 60-day limit and the Strait of Hormuz's closure sends fuel prices soaring, Trump appears to believe everything will suddenly end. Somehow, Iran will finally agree to the U.S.'s demands despite refusing over the past several years since Trump left the treaty.
"They also have said that they think the war is just going to end magically, right?" Rosenberg said. "Just the way that COVID ended. He kept saying COVID is just going to end one day. The war is just going to end, and things are going to snap back to the way they were. And I think that is the widespread belief in the Republican Party now, that this is a temporary blip."
The reality, he continued, is that inflation data now show it has surpassed Americans' wages. Inflation not only went up, U.S. wholesale inflation, known as the Producer Price Index, increased to 6 percent, April numbers show, according to the Associated Press. It makes it the highest increase since December 2022.
"Remember, energy inflation is different than food inflation or different than other inflation because it affects anything that is transported. That also goes up in price," Rosenberg explained. "So, it’s like a multiplier through the economy. It’s not just a singular pillar of inflation."...
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Are we witness to the greatest failure of America in its history? Time will tell.
Army 'scrambling' to cut training as costs 'balloon' under Trump: internal docs — Alex Henderson
Two and one-half months into President Donald Trump's war with Iran, the U.S. Army is, according to ABC News, suffering from a "sudden budget crunch." And ABC News' Steve Beynon reports that the Army is addressing the problem by "scrambling" to make training cuts.
ABC News and U.S. officials, according to Beynon, went over internal Army documents discussing their budgetary challenges. Beynon reports that "the move is to make up for a shortfall of some $4 billion to $6 billion, according to one of the officials, as the service has drastically expanded its operational footprint at home and abroad."
"The cuts, which range from elite schools to unit-level training, have triggered a wave of abrupt cancellations and unusually aggressive spending scrutiny months before the fiscal year ends September 30," Beynon explains. "The service's multibillion-dollar shortfall is the product of a widening set of operational demands and rising costs across the force."
The Iran war isn't the only thing fueling the military's budgetary woes.
"Major drivers, a U.S. official noted, have been costs associated with the Iran war and an expanding mission securing the southern U.S. border," Beynon reports. "Additionally, expansive National Guard missions, including the ongoing deployment in Washington, D.C., which alone is projected to cost roughly $1.1 billion this year, according to estimates from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. At the same time, the service is absorbing ballooning personnel expenses and stepping in to cover missions tied to Department of Homeland Security funding lapses, including at the southern border and construction projects."...
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When our military fails us we are in mortal danger, America.
AI Companies Are Recklessly Racing Toward a Cybersecurity Crisis — Newswire Editor
Google researchers announced Monday that cybercriminals recently used an artificial intelligence model to help create a dangerous zero-day vulnerability capable of exploiting computer networks at scale, marking what experts say is a major turning point in the cybersecurity landscape. A “zero-day” vulnerability is a hidden flaw or weakness in software that hackers discover before the company or public knows about it or has a fix available. It’s considered especially dangerous because attackers can exploit the flaw immediately, giving defenders “zero days” to protect themselves.
The findings come as leading AI companies, including Anthropic and OpenAI, continue developing increasingly advanced models capable of identifying and exploiting critical software vulnerabilities. Google warned that malicious actors are already using AI to increase the speed, scale, and sophistication of cyberattacks, while researchers have observed state-backed hacking groups linked to China, Russia, and North Korea leveraging AI technologies to automate and refine offensive cyber operations. The developments have intensified concerns that powerful AI systems are being deployed faster than governments and regulators can establish meaningful safeguards to prevent catastrophic misuse....
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Our country is teetering on total collapse.
MAGA in Shambles as Trump’s “Made in America” Phone Crumbles Into Dust — Frank Landymore
All that glitters is not gold — or even a flashy phone of the same color.
Trump Mobile, a company backed by president Donald Trump’s sons Donald Jr. and Eric, unveiled a $499 gold-colored smartphone last June, with an original release date slated for August 2025. Use the handset, and you could supposedly tap into Trump Mobile’s 5G cellular service. Presumably loads of MAGA faithful paid $100 deposits to pre-order the devices but to date, not a single one has shipped.
The delivery date first slipped from August 2025 to November 2025, then to Mid-March this year. With that last deadline now passed as well, there’s currently no official release date at all. In fact, the Trump Mobile website struck any mention of when the supposed gilt-edged phone — emblazoned with an American flag and the Trump name — would finally release, leaving the president’s loyal and most furious soldiers in the dark.
“Hey, Trump supporter here,” a man wearing Oakleys yelled while behind the wheel of his pickup truck in a viral TikTok that’s since been deleted but reshared across the internet. “This one goes out to Don Jr. and Eric. Where the f*ck’s my phones!?”
“I ordered three, no four gold Trump phones in the summer!” he fumed....
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More and more of us are realizing that Trump is just a con-man behind a curtain of collapsing grift.
NYT rips GOP Congress as Trump poisons American democracy — Thomas Kika
In a piece published Wednesday morning, the New York Times editorial board reserved particular criticism for the GOP-led Congress as it tracked President Donald Trump's efforts to poison American democracy, ripping the lawmakers for backing off when they could be doing things to stop it.
In the new piece, the board explained that the war with Iran is "the most significant military action in American history that a president has undertaken without any form of congressional authorization," marking a significant acceleration of Trump's "erosion" of democracy and disregard for Congress.
"Mr. Trump has received no approval whatsoever from Congress, the only branch of government with the constitutional authority to declare war," the board explained.
The piece included a chart with 12 metrics measuring Trump's damage to Democracy, graded on a scale of zero to 10, and based on the current state of the Iran war, the board confirmed that it was increasing the grade for bypassing the legislative branch by one notch, up to five.
"When a democracy slides toward autocracy, the leader often finds ways to neuter the legislature," the board explained. "Mr. Trump has done so in many ways: by usurping Congress’s power of the purse and imposing widespread tariffs (which courts have often deemed illegal; gutting congressionally authorized agencies like the U.S. Agency for International Development; withholding approved funds for schools, libraries and scientific research; using private donations to pay for his White House ballroom during a government shutdown; attacking boats in the Caribbean and invading Venezuela; and more."...
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Deplorable Dictator that has fallen flat on his face.
GOP facing millions of 'furious' voters — and it’s only getting worse — Alex Henderson
With the 2026 midterms less than six months away and President Donald Trump suffering from persistently low approval ratings in countless polls, some GOP lawmakers have a warning for members of their party: voters are angry. A CNN/SSRS poll released on May 12 found that only 30 percent of Americans approve of Trump's handling of the economy — and almost 70 percent fear the United States will go into a recession in the next year.
According to Politico reporters Jordain Carney and Meredith Lee Hill, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Missouri) and other GOP lawmakers are urging fellow lawmakers to be more proactive about the economy — especially inflation.
"Americans are furious about the rising cost of living, and a series of internal battles on Capitol Hill this week is laying bare why Republicans are struggling to do anything about it," Carney and Hill report. "House and Senate Republicans are facing divisions over a gas-tax holiday being demanded by President Donald Trump, not to mention housing and energy permitting bills that have stalled for months…. The scale of the political challenges facing Republicans were further underscored Tuesday with the administration's latest cost estimate for the Iran war surpassing $29 billion and a brutal inflation report showing gas, grocery and housing prices surging last month amid the conflict."...
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All "Trump For King" Ts must be burned! Only a loser would wear one!
Trump Refunded $166 Billion To Corporations. You Got Nada.
Distributed among customers who paid tariff-bloated prices? Reduced prices of vehicles sold now? Will Ford and GM ease the financial burden of citizens with bank accounts squeezed in the first place? -- Cliff Schecter
The Trump administration, with its habit for converting larceny into policy, is preparing to refund roughly $166 billion in tariffs to the very corporations that already collected the money from the public. One might as well reimburse a bank robber for wear and tear on his ransom notes.
Ford expects $1.3 billion. GM, $500 million. What noble purpose shall the torrent of cash serve? Distributed among customers who paid tariff-bloated prices? Reduced prices of vehicles sold now? Will Ford and GM ease the financial burden of citizens with bank accounts squeezed in the first place? Of course not. Automakers, like other companies getting tariff refunds from Trump, say they'll deposit them in their accounts to “boost earnings.”....
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So the elderly male white devils in charge can pay for their 10th home.
Trump Screams For Firing Of “Bum” McConnell Aide
The Daily Mail reports:
As McConnell was given the floor again after questioning by Alaska Republican Lisa Murkowski, he tried to end the hearing with Hegseth, much to his colleagues’ confusion. “Here’s where we are, the vote is about over, the secretary has to get with the President on the China trip, I’m gonna’ ask Senator Murkowski to wrap up and thank you all for being here.” Before finishing, he was interrupted by a younger, male staffer who could be heard whispering into his ear.
“Baldwin, Shaheen, and Kennedy still have questions,” the staffer said. He was referring to Wisconsin Democrat Senator Tammy Baldwin, New Hampshire Democrat Jeanne Shaheen and Republican John Kennedy. The staffer can then be heard clarifying that the hearing should “wrap up after” those questions. McConnell appears to crack a joke, saying “you see what I’m being told here?” McConnell then appears to get out of his chair to leave with the help of the male staffer.
Read the full article. On Truth Social, Trump is screaming that the “grandstanding” staffer is a “Never Trumper” because he pointed that the Democrats on the panel had pending questions.
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Both parties have people far too old to do their jobs. This has to be fixed if we are to survive.
Far-Right Former OK Schools Chief Files For Divorce
The Oklahoman reports:
Former Oklahoma State schools Superintendent Ryan Walters is divorcing his wife of nearly 15 years. Walters, who is now a frequent commentator on right-wing talk shows, filed a petition seeking the dissolution of marriage from his wife Katie on Friday, May 8.
In the filing, an attorney for Ryan Walters cited “a state of complete and irreconcilable incompatibility” as grounds for the divorce, saying it had “destroyed the aims of the marriage of the parties and rendered its continuation impossible.” The couple has four children. The divorce petition claims that joint custody is in the best interests of “the mental, physical and moral welfare” of their children and that they should both be awarded equal time.
Walters often made appearances on national news shows, advocating for the Bible to be mandated in classrooms and calling for an aggressive elimination of what he considered a “woke agenda” such as gender theory and critical race theory. Walters resigned in late 2025 to lead an anti-union group.
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Abuse by "Patriarchal Bible Beatings."
Court: Trump Still Owes $1M Sanction For Clinton Suit
The New Republic reports:
A federal appeals court tossed a chance Tuesday to rehear Donald Trump’s mega-lawsuit against his perceived political enemies. Trump’s 2022 suit targeted former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former FBI Director James Comey (amongst others), claiming that they had participated in a broad racketeering conspiracy to create false allegations that his 2016 presidential campaign was tied to Russia. A district court dismissed the case in January 2023.
But the frivolous legal attack wasn’t just struck down in court—it also netted Trump and his personal attorney, Alina Habba, a nearly $1 million sanction. In November, Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals Judge William Pryor Jr. upheld the fine and noted that “many of Trump’s and Habba’s legal arguments were indeed frivolous,” echoing a lower court’s findings that Trump had made a “malicious prosecution claim without a prosecution” and a “trade secret claim without a trade secret.”
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Of course he does! He's a cheap, chiseling felon con-man who should still be in prison after all these years!
Trump: It’s Treason To Report On Iran’s Military Arsenal
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“When the Fake News says that the Iranian enemy is doing well, Militarily, against us, it’s virtual TREASON in that it is such a false, and even preposterous, statement.
“They are aiding and abetting the enemy! All it does is give Iran false hope when none should exist.
“These are American cowards that are rooting against our Country. Iran had 159 ships in their Navy — Every single ship is now resting at the bottom of the sea.
“They have no Navy, their Air Force is gone, all Technology is gone, their ‘leaders’ are no longer with us, and the Country is an Economic Disaster.
“Only Losers, Ingrates, and Fools are able to make a case against America!” – Trump, surely reacting to the New York Times report covered in the post below this one.
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The farce of the old fool!
Assassination conspiracy theories? Blame Trump — Amanda Marcotte
False flag stories reveal a deeper truth about Trump’s failing presidency
Let’s be clear up front: There is no evidence that Donald Trump has staged any of the three high-profile attempts on his life in the past two years.
I’ll likely get some angry reader feedback to that assertion because a lot of people believe at least one of the would-be assassinations — and quite possibly all three — were false flag operations. A new survey from NewsGuard shows that 54% of Americans are open to the theory that at least one of the attacks was staged, with only 38% saying definitively they believe all three were real. When asked about each separate assault — the 2024 shooting that grazed Trump’s ear at a Pennsylvania campaign stop, the arrest of the armed man at the president’s West Palm Beach golf course later that year and the recent incident at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner — fewer than half said these events were authentic....
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Sure, kid. We understand your liability issue. But we all saw what the fakes were. We have a free press and a First Amendment. Fox News would not give a shit about it.
U.S. Intelligence Shows Iran Retains Substantial Missile Capabilities — Adam Entous, Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan
The Trump administration’s public portrayal of a shattered Iranian military is sharply at odds with what U.S. intelligence agencies are telling policymakers behind closed doors, according to classified assessments from early this month that show Iran has regained access to most of its missile sites, launchers and underground facilities.
Most alarming to some senior officials is evidence that Iran has restored operational access to 30 of the 33 missile sites it maintains along the Strait of Hormuz, which could threaten American warships and oil tankers transiting the narrow waterway.
People with knowledge of the assessments said they show — to varying degrees, depending on the level of damage incurred at the different sites — that the Iranians can use mobile launchers that are inside the sites to move missiles to other locations. In some cases they can launch missiles directly from launchpads that are part of the facilities. Only three of the missile sites along the strait remain totally inaccessible, according to the assessments.
Iran still fields about 70 percent of its mobile launchers across the country and has retained roughly 70 percent of its prewar missile stockpile, according to the assessments. That stockpile encompasses both ballistic missiles, which can target other nations in the region, and a smaller supply of cruise missiles, which can be used against shorter-range targets on land or at sea.
Secret new assessments say Iran has operational access to 30 of its 33 missile sites along the Strait of Hormuz, suggesting that its military remains far stronger than President Trump has asserted....
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We've been betrayed!
Trump’s link to the 'lies' of staged wrestling exposed in new documentary — Adam Lynch
Comedian and satirist Munya Chawawa’s documentary “Wrestling With Trump” punches President Donald Trump in ways he should have been punched at the very beginning of his political career, says Guardian writer Lucy Mangan.
“Trump is the ultimate showman. He’s a master of it, a billionaire Barnum, but with a greed so insatiable it moves him ever further from entertainment into malevolence,” Mangun said. “If the Democrats had realized this earlier and recognized the strength the man was playing to and the particular voting public weaknesses he was preying upon, instead of sneering with distaste, then maybe we wouldn’t be in this mess.”
Chawawa, however, takes the “underused idea” that Trump and his team’s campaigns and style of government “use the same playbook as that created by the U.S. pro-wrestling industry’s most famous promoters, World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE),” said Mangan.
The connection is more than obvious, added Mangan. World Wrestling Entertainment was founded by Vince McMahon and his since-estranged wife, Linda. Vince quit the business 2024 in the wake of allegations of sex trafficking and sexual assault, but his wife Linda is now the U.S. secretary of education.
One of the most-recognized tropes of fake wrestling is its habit of dividing “heroes” (white Americans) and villains (non-American, non-white Americans) with “Babyfaces” (good guys who play by the rules) “Heels” (who aren’t and don’t).
It works in the ring and at political rallies, said Chawawa, who notices Trump’s use of trash talk and his alienation of brown people to “rouse the bloodlust” and “make [voters] commit” to a world leader “who promises to rid the world of all the people perceived to be the cause” of white voters’ frustrations...
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Like tiny razors to the forehead and ear?
Republicans deploy ground troops in the states to execute 'the plan' — Matthew Rozsa
President Donald Trump and the Republican Party are planning on sending troops to polling places during the 2026 midterm elections, according to a recent report by The New Republic.
“The Republican National Committee announced Tuesday that it has deployed poll watchers and election observers in at least 17 states for the midterm elections,” The New Republic’s Hafiz Rashid reported on Tuesday. “In a post on X, RNC Chairman Joe Gruters posted an audio clip where he said, ‘We’ve already deployed field staff and we’ve hired state directors and election integrity directors.’”
Although Gruters did not specify which states he was targeting, he made it clear that this is part of the GOP’s plan to retain control of Congress during the 2026 midterm elections.
“We focus on the big picture,” Gruters said. “We focus on winning. We have a plan. We’re executing the plan.”
As Rsahid reported, Trump himself has said he is considering sending the National Guard and ICE to voting locations in November.
“It’s a disturbing thing for Trump to say, just two days after he called for an ‘Election Integrity Army,’” Rashid wrote. “In a Truth Social post, Trump claimed that Republicans had one in 2024 ‘in every single State to preserve the sanctity of each legal vote’ and attacked Democrats for forming their own elections task force led by former Attorney General Eric Holder.” In light of Trump’s rhetoric and the RNC’s actions, Rashid argued that “it appears that the RNC has heard Trump loud and clear, and is taking action. It’s on top of everything else the Republican Party is doing to meddle in the midterms and beyond, from mid-decade redistricting that disenfranchises Democrats and Black Americans to spreading election-denial conspiracies from 2020. It has even installed election denialists in local governments and election boards across the country.”...
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Will he send U.S. troops? If this goes down it will be resisted by poll watchers, law enforcers, and citizens in every precinct. It will be televised. Trump is a stark raving madman.
'That's not what I hear': James Comer flees when confronted on Trump's words on economy — Matthew Chapman
House Oversight Chair James Comer (R-KY) played ignorant when Meidas Touch reporter Pablo Manríquez confronted him about President Donald Trump's new comments dismissing the rising cost-of-living crisis.
The remark came after reporters asked him about the latest monthly inflation numbers. "The only thing that matters when I'm talking about Iran, they can't have a nuclear weapon," said the president. "I don't think about Americans' financial situation."
"What do you make of Trump saying that he doesn’t think about Americans’ financial situation?" Manríquez asked Comer, a staunch Trump ally.
"I don’t know that he said that," said Comer.
"He did," Manríquez pressed him.
"That’s not what I hear," Comer insisted. "Every time I talk to him, he’s focused on affordability."
"What about gas prices?" asked Manríquez, at which point Comer retreated and stopped answering questions.
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Tell the idiot he needs a hearing aid and learn how to use it! Trump is deeply ill.
Christian Nationalist Hate Pastor Lobs Racist Tirade Against “Demon-Worshiping Polytheist” Ramaswamy
“Christians must make sure that he gets demolished and send a message that we won’t tolerate polytheistic, demon-worshiping, cow-worshiping, bare-feet scamming anchor baby Indians.
“Do you really want to open Pandora’s Box? Because it won’t be a one-time scenario. You get someone like Vivek and you’ve just opened the door for Hindus, for an Indian scammer Hindu. And at that point on, it’s a whole new ballgame.
“No one has to tip the hat to the Christian faith. No one has to placate to Christians in America. You should have to placate to Christians in America if you want to be a leader in America!Â
“Not only will he scam Ohioans, not only will he flood them with H-1B visas and rob them of their inheritance and their wealth, but if he becomes the governor of Ohio, you have solidified Vivek’s political career for the rest of his life in America. This is the chance to say, ‘No, never, ever, go back home. Get out of our country.’
“You were born in America? Sure, by days. Your dad hates our country, never took the time to become a citizen. You’re an anchor baby. Your family built their wealth by robbing white people with miracle drugs that you knew were not going to be viable.
“You became a billionaire. You paid your way onto every podcast. You’ve been lying, you’ve been deceiving, and this is not American. You are not American. You are a Hindu. You are a polytheist. You are a false idol worshiper.
“Go home! Get out of our country! I don’t care about you quoting Thomas Jefferson. I don’t care about you pretending to honor the Founders. This is America. We wear shoes in this country. We eat beef in this country.
“We worship Christ exclusively in this country. We don’t rob people of their wealth in this country. Get the hell out. That’s the proper response.” – Christian nationalist pastor Joel Webbon....
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Webbon wins "Hater of the Month" award!
Trump’s latest boast about Iran war reveals tragic irony: political scientist — Nick Hilden
Over the past three months, President Donald Trump has scrambled to justify his decision to launch war on Iran in the face of an overwhelming majority of Americans who say he's failed to explain the administration's goals. Through it all, he’s repeatedly asserted the relative brevity of the war in comparison to the Vietnam, Iraq and other past conflicts, insisting that his war has only gone on for a few weeks, and then a few months. Last week, he posted a chart on Truth Social showing the length of previous wars in relation to his, but on Tuesday, a top political scientist pointed out a tragic irony to Trump’s boast.
“Past presidents needed years to lose a war,” noted famed political analyst and author Ian Bremmer over a screenshot of Trump’s chart.
Bremmer is pointing out that, for all Trump’s bragging about the duration of the conflict, he is ignoring how quickly it spiraled into a disastrous outcome. The consequences of the war have been far-reaching and will be long-lasting. It has destabilized the global economy, skyrocketed prices, disrupted supply chains, fractured alliances, shattered regional security, revealed major weaknesses in the U.S. military, entrenched, empowered and potentially enriched an Iranian regime that might end up extracting economic benefits from Hormuz on a continual basis and has killed and injured thousands while displacing countless more.
On top of all that, it has failed to achieve any of Trump’s stated goals, as Bremmer noted to commenters who replied to his post attempting to justify the war.
“Trump stated war goals,” reminded Bremmer: “Rescuing the Iranian people, taking the oil, ending Iranian ballistic missile capabilities, ending Iran’s support for regional proxies, removing Iran’s enriched uranium stockpiles, ending Iran’s nuclear enrichment capabilities.”...
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Trump is a dangerous imcompetent on a war he started.
'Authentic follower of Christ' pleads guilty to stealing $140M from MAGA donors — Adam Lynch
Georgia political fundraiser Brant Frost IV, known for bundling major donations for MAGA and Tea Party causes for the GOP, pleaded guilty Tuesday to wire fraud.
Frost’s guilty plea before U.S. District Chief Judge Leigh Martin May is the latest development surrounding the collapse of First Liberty Building & Loan, and it is the first criminal conviction related to the downfall of the Newnan-based firm. Federal regulators accused the company last year of operating “a $140 million Ponzi scheme that targeted conservative and faith-based investors across Georgia and beyond.”
The AJC reports the plea “closes one chapter in a scandal that reverberated through Georgia conservative circles after First Liberty abruptly shut down operations last June.” Days later, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission sued the company and Frost, alleging the lender “used new investor money to cover obligations to earlier investors while portraying the business as a conservative, faith-driven alternative to traditional banking, with promises of big returns.”
First Liberty, which was not a federally insured bank, sold investment products known as “First Liberty Notes,” promising annual returns as high as 13 percent to accredited investors. AJC reports the company’s website promoted company executives as “authentic followers of Christ” and pitched the business as a conservative alternative for investors wary of traditional financial institutions.
“They didn’t steal from me. They stole God’s money,” complained 77-year-old retired electrical worker Thomas Todd, who invested $750,000 with First Liberty. The AJC reported Todd was even preparing to write another six-figure check when the company suddenly collapsed....
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Never forget: God gets his 10% off the top. The Lord's work needs the dough to run his business too!
Reporter brings receipts after Trump claims he 'does not know' Reflecting Pool contractor — Matthew Rozsa
President Donald Trump is flip-flopping on the controversy of who he hired to renovate the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool — and a journalist has called him out on it.
“President Trump previously said he had personally chosen the contractor to fix the Reflecting Pool, because of the good work they did on his golf club's swimming pools,” The New York Times’ David A. Farenthold post on X. “Now, Trump says does not know them.”
Farenthold’s comment was posted after he and fellow New York Times journalist Maxine Joselow ran a Tuesday piece reporting that “Interior Dept. staffers have raised questions about the quality and speed of the work being done to repair the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, according to document seen by the NY Times.”
In the article, Farenthold and Joselow wrote that “the staff members said that bubbles and small holes had appeared in one of the layers meant to waterproof the iconic pool. And uneven application of the tinted waterproofing left the pool mottled in varying shades of blue, the documents indicate.”...
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Confused again, Donnie?
Judges deliver massive blow to Trump’s 'frivolous' suit against Comey, Democrats — Sarah K. Burris
President Donald Trump lost his appeal of a personal lawsuit he launched against former Secretary Hillary Clinton, former FBI Director James Comey, the Democratic National Committee, the law firm Perkins Coie, LLC and others he blames for the Russia investigation.
Politico's Kyle Cheney reported on Tuesday that the 11th Circuit declined to rehear Trump's case, leaving his only option an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Trump and lawyer Alina Habba in 2023 were sanctioned $1 million for the "frivolous" lawsuit. Florida has rules that allow defendants to ask that a court decide whether a lawsuit is "bogus," the Associated Press reported.
At the time, U.S. District Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks wrote in the ruling that Trump has a "pattern of abuse of the courts" for filing such lawsuits specifically for political purposes. He said that the move "undermines the rule of law" and "amounts to obstruction of justice."
"Here, we are confronted with a lawsuit that should never have been filed, which was completely frivolous, both factually and legally and which was brought in bad faith for an improper purpose," he wrote.
Chief Judge William Pryor, a George W. Bush appointee, along with Trump appointee Judge Andrew L. Brasher and Joe Biden appointee Judge Embry Kidd, denied Trump's demand to rehear the case.
They added the detail, "... no judge in regular active service on the Court having requested that the Court be polled on rehearing en banc," which means none of the judges had any interest in weighing in on rehearing the matter. On the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, six of the 12 judges were appointed by Trump....
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Trump: A one-man losing streak, to quote Freddie Blassie, King of Men!
Trump: 'I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation' as a result of Iran war — Adam Lynch
President Donald Trump admitted that Americans’ financial comfort is not at all on his mind as he walks into meetings with international spokespeople on the continuing Iranian situation.
Trump spoke with reporters during a scrum before departing to a meeting with international reps on improving the mess Trump created when he joined Israel in joint missile strikes against the nation of Iran.
That violence kicked off a retaliatory response from Iran by closing the Strait of Hormuz, and causing a uptick in global and U.S. fuel and grocery prices.
But Trump effortlessly acknowledged that the pain his strikes have caused to U.S. voters was not strong on his mind.
“Mr. President, what extent are Americans’ financial situation motivating you to make a deal [with Iran]” a reporter shouted just before the president walked away.
“Not even a little bit,” Trump immediately answered. “The only thing that matters when I'm talking about Iran, they can't have a nuclear weapon. I don't think about Americans' financial situation. I don't think about anybody. I think about one thing: We cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon.”...
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They don't have a nuclear weapon. They didn't have one before he started his war! He's batshit insane!
Stick a fork in him! No one that calls themselves an American can ever vote for this creep!
Reading Material! Tabs, Tues., May 12, 2026 — Evan Hurst
It’s really crazy how this very serious partisan hack Supreme Court always finds a way to rule that voting rights for white supremacists are good but the rest are bad. It’s like they don’t actually have a “judicial philosophy” beyond racism.
Meanwhile, Democrats in Virginia have asked SCOTUS to overturn the Virginia Supreme Court’s decision striking down their new maps. We are sure they will get right on that. [New York Times]
If you have an abortion this week, name it after Samuel Alito. [AP]
Meanwhile, this anti-abortion whine from Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council about how the Trump FDA is making abortion great again is pretty hilarious. [The Christian Post]
There’s been an article going around about how New Orleans has passed the point of no return when it comes to climate change, that the only way forward now is to start relocating people. This article makes the moral argument that actually “saving New Orleans is not optional.” We really would like to believe there exists the will among good people for the latter to be the right answer for what we agree is “the most important cultural center in America.” (“Sorry, New York,” the authors add.) [Current Affairs]
Did you read this week’s Moral High Ground? You shoulda because we cross-posted it at Wonkette! But if you didn’t and if you didn’t subscribe, you still have time! It is about the golden calf of Donald Trump that his religious adherents would really like you to stop calling a golden calf. (It is a golden calf.) [The Moral High Ground]
Huh, sounds like Commerce Secretary Howard Nutlick has been less than honest about his very close ties with Jeffrey Epstein all this time! [Politico)
New data says there’s been a 42 percent drop in Canadians visiting major US cities during Trump 2.0, and we doubt that means they’ve decided to do all their honeymoons in Cat Butthole, Oklahoma. It means Trump is making America great again by absolutely drying up the American tourism industry. [Guardian]
Meanwhile, a US citizen has asked for asylum in Spain on the island of Mallorca. Will it get approved? Very unclear, but doubt it’s the last we’ve heard of such a thing. [The Olive Press]
Dr. Oz is saying creepy things about people being “under-babied” again....
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Reading you the news so you don't have to!
It Falls Upon the Left to Defeat Fascism Once Again — C.J. Polychroniou
The world is at a precipice, facing existential threats while fascism is on the rise. Yet we lack the proper governance structures to address global challenges, and it also seems that it falls upon the left to defeat fascism once again. So argues political scientist/political economist, author and journalist C. J. Polychroniou in the interview that follows with the French-Greek journalist Alexandra Boutri.
Alexandra Boutri: We live in a time of great uncertainty and profound disillusionment. We see a global escalation of violence and a lack of accountability. Even Israel’s genocide goes unpunished, which speaks volumes of the hypocrisy of western governments with regard to human rights and international law. There is a global wave of democratic backsliding, massive amounts of inequality by design, and extreme power concentration. Am I painting too bleak of a picture for the current state of the world?
C. J. Polychroniou: No, you are not exaggerating the current state of the world. The truth is that it is far worse than that. We are witnessing the resurgence of naked imperialism and the emergence of a new world of spheres of influence and, concomitantly, the death of international peacemaking institutions. The continued existence of nuclear weapons, which today are far more powerful than ever before, poses an existential threat to humanity while at the same time human beings are on a collision course with the natural world. To be sure, not only do we live in an era of polycrisis but in one in which developments are occurring at an increasingly rapid pace. We need polysolutions, yet neither the mechanisms are in place nor is there any detectable willingness on the part of current world leaders to pull humanity back from the precipice.
Political hypocrisy per se is not the major issue here. Pathological hypocrisy is a constant in the behavior of western governments. What I find most disconcerting is the sharp decline of rational thinking in contemporary society. Misinformation is spreading faster than facts and trust in science has virtually collapsed, especially in the United States. For example, scientific studies have concluded that climate change is mainly caused by human activity and scientists have documented the dangerous disruptions in nature. Yet you have the president of the United States, Donald J. Trump, calling climate change “con job” and “scam.” Trust in healthcare and public institutions has also declined in recent years, and it is not a coincidence that these trends occur with the political ascendancy of right-wing extremism. Fascism is organized mass irrationality and leaders like Trump have been doing their best to design a society sustained by ignorance while at the same time normalizing cruelty and destruction. So, yes, we live in a world of increasing uncertainty, profound confusion, and maybe even civilizational decline. We are in the midst of a whirlpool of events and developments that are eroding our ability to manage human affairs in a way that is conducive to the attainment of a good and just world order. That being said, the world is not coming to an end any time soon, and we actually know that there are solutions for the world’s biggest problems. But paradigm shifts in political, social, and moral thinking are urgently needed for a sustainable future....
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"Hellbent on heaven bound
Your earthly end is near..." — Jesus Christ With Signs Following - The Gourds.
They’re Coming for Our Voter Rolls: Millions Could Vanish Before Election Day —Thom Hartmann.
Behind the rhetoric of “election integrity” lies a coordinated effort to purge voter rolls of Democrats, shut down Black access to the ballot, and reshape the electorate before 2026 and 2028.
We have shocking news this week from CNN: Trump is preparing to illegally purge tens of millions of Democratic voters from voter rolls nationally, just in time for the election. Just like Modi did to win overwhelmingly in India, following the GOP’s playbook.
This follows John Roberts and Sam Alito blatantly using phony, cooked numbers to justify eviscerating the Voting Rights Act, lying to our faces and then laughing at us like they did with the Dobbs decision and Citizens United.
Russian dictator Joseph Stalin is often quoted (perhaps apocryphally) as saying:
“It’s not the people who vote that count, it’s the people who count the votes.”
Today’s GOP version of that could be:
“It’s not the people who vote that count, it’s how many people we can remove from the voting rolls that will decide the election.”
In this year’s iteration, the Trump Department of Justice has demanded that all states turn over their voting rolls, complete with names, addresses, driver’s license and social security numbers, voting history, and date of birth.
They’re also requiring states to sign a “Memorandum of Understanding” that says the states will then purge from their voting rolls anybody who Republican partisans within the Trump administration — once they’ve dug into the state’s voter data — find to be a “concern”:
“You agree therefore that within forty-five (45) days of receiving that notice from the Justice Department of any issues, insufficiencies, inadequacies, deficiencies, anomalies, or concerns, your state will clean its VRL/Data by removing ineligible voters…”
We’ve seen this movie before, but always in the past on the state level....
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Yes. States are in charge of their elections, you Nazi bastard! The one who whines incessantly about a rigged election has been busy rigging the next one. Trump is PUBLIC ENEMY #1! What the fuck happened to the party that once held states rights so holy? Trump Fascism, that's what!
Mel Gibson Touted This Dubious Cancer Remedy on Joe Rogan. Sales Are Now Soaring — Ed Cara
Prescriptions of a two-drug combo including ivermectin skyrocketed following Gibson's appearance, a new study finds, especially among cancer patients.
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Pure Clear Panther Piss! Are we dumb yet? Or yet and still?
Man Behind Simulation Hypothesis Warns That Extinction of Humanity Is a Risk We Have to Take — Jon Christian
Even if you don’t know Nick Bostrom’s name, you’re almost certainly familiar with the idea he’s most famous for.
Back in 2003, when he was at Oxford, Bostrom penned an influential philosophical paper with the incredible title of “Are You Living in a Computer Simulation?” Loosely speaking, his argument was that sufficiently advanced civilizations will eventually build sophisticated simulations of their own ancestors — and that, given enough time in the simulation, those simulated beings will develop their own simulation inside the simulation, where a new set of simulated ancestors will do the same thing, ad infinitum.
You probably get a sense where this is headed: with all these layers of simulated reality, Bostrom thinks that it’s very unlikely that us humans are actually living in the original “base” reality. Instead, we’re statistically probably in some tranche of an Escher-esque cosmic videogame.
Needless to say, the whole thing sparked decades of debate. Big names including Elon Musk have become proponents, while many other experts have argued against the idea.
For his part, Bostrom has moved his attention to a new hot topic: artificial intelligence. For a while, he seemed to be moving in the direction of an AI doomer, issuing a grave warning in 2019 about how AI posed a greater risk to humankind than climate change.
Since then, though, he seems to be changing tack, albeit with his signature flare for ideas so outrageous that they almost sound like parody. In a new working paper, for instance, he argues that developing advanced AI may well result in the extinction of humankind — but that it’s worth the risk, because the upsides of superintelligence could be so profound....
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Yes, If it rids the world of you assholes!
Husband Alarmed as Wife Starts Whispering Quietly to Her Computer — Frank Landymore
In a trend that sounds like it was engineered in a lab to send chills down the spine of beleaguered librarians everywhere, it looks like more people are ditching typing in favor of mumbling into their devices, according to new Wall Street Journal reporting.
While dictation tools are no doubt convenient and obviously a godsend for accessibility issues, it’s also an example of how tech is eroding basic social etiquette — like how people think it’s fine to blast brainrot videos from their phone speakers while riding public transportation, or don’t give a second thought to the ethics of recording a stranger in public before uploading an video of them online.
And yes, AI does figure into this.
Take Mollie Amkraut Mueller, whose husband became alarmed at her constant whispering at night. Traditionally, this was meant to be quiet time after putting the toddler to bed. But she had recently begun talking into her laptop using an AI-powered dictation app called Wispr Flow, which she paired with AI tools like Claude Code. (Did we mention Amkraut Mueller runs her own AI startup?)
Eventually her husband confronted her about this, and love did not win. Rather than go back to typing, Amkraut Mueller agreed that they should sit apart. “If we need to get something done at night, one of us will stay in our office,” she told the WSJ.
She’s far from alone. As her background suggests, the practice is taking AI-hype-addicted tech workers by storm. In the tech industry — and those adjacent — each new trend isn’t just a way to be part of the hip crowd in your multimillion dollar, mostly empty office. It’s also a technological revolution....
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Are you fucking your computer yet? Inquiring minds want to know!
AI Is Giving Your Boss Tools to Be More Monstrous Than Ever Before — Joe Wilkins
The debate raging about AI’s future consequences, with a complete AI automation apocalypse on one side and a resplendent AI utopia on the other, has overlooked one tiny detail: the tech is already making workers’ lives hell at this very minute.
According to the Guardian, at least one-third of UK employers already report using “bossware,” meaning employee monitoring software increasingly integrated with AI. In the US, that number is even higher, with an estimated 61 percent of workplaces using AI analytics software to calculate worker productivity.
This kind of management-by-software has long been prevalent in industrial society to some extent — since the 2010s, Amazon warehouse workers have had to deal with hand-scanners that track their bathroom breaks, for example — but the rise of AI means bosses are increasingly utilizing the latest and greatest machine learning tools to maximize worker productivity.
As Royal Docks School of Business and Law professor Nazrul Islam pinned pined in a recent editorial in the Guardian, the most immediate threat to the workers of the world isn’t mass automation kicking people out of the workplace, but the crushing effects of AI on those within it.
The consequences are numerous: it engenders a widening workplace skill gap, erasure of workplace autonomy, and ever-worsening conditions. As Islam puts it, “many jobs will remain in the future, but they will be more pressured, more fragmented and less human.”....
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Someone still has a job? Really? But they tell us we won't have money in the future so we won't need to work anymore. Only crime that will exist will be corporate crime. It won't even need any human at all! Let's all go quietly, now! The AI gas chambers are on!
Georgia Data Center Secretly Guzzled 30 Million Gallons of Water Before Paying a Dime — Ellyn Lapointe
Last year, residents of Annelise Park, an affluent community in Fayetteville, Georgia, began experiencing unusually low water pressure. When the county utility investigated, it discovered something shocking.
A Quality Technology Services (QTS) data center campus located about 20 miles south of Atlanta had been draining the Fayette County water supply for months without the utility’s knowledge, Politico reported Friday. By the time officials found the two industrial-scale water hookups feeding the campus, it had guzzled nearly 30 million gallons (113 million liters) of water without paying a dime. One connection had reportedly been installed without the utility’s knowledge, and the other was not connected to QTS’s account....
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What you don't know can damn well hurt you!
PayPal Caves To DOJ On “Anti-White Discrimination”
Today, the Justice Department announced a settlement with PayPal Inc. to resolve a fair lending investigation into a discriminatory investment program created for black and minority-owned businesses.
The settlement requires PayPal to launch a new Small Business Initiative that excludes criteria based on race, national origin, or other protected characteristics.
As part of the initiative, PayPal will waive processing fees for $1 billion of transactions – a value of approximately $30 million – for eligible American small businesses that are veteran-owned or engaged in farming, manufacturing, or technology.
“This Department of Justice is delivering on President Trump’s vow to root out illegal DEI from every corner of corporate America,” said Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. “American corporations are on notice: you will face our aggressive enforcement if you use race or national origin to discriminate against qualified Americans.”...
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Naked exposure of these mean and toxic snakes that are poisoning and enslaving our peoples. Low-down and filthy as they come. Sacpegoating DEI is racism from stem to stern.
ICE Has 20M Names On Their Phones Due To Palantir
404 Media reports:
Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) use of Palantir systems now means agency officials effectively have a list of 20 million people readily accessible on their iPhones, increasing the speed at which ICE can find houses to raid and people to arrest, according to comments made by a senior ICE official last week during a border security conference.
While ICE and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) generally won’t answer questions from journalists about how the agency is using Palantir’s technology, senior officials were much more talkative during the Border Security Expo which took place in Phoenix, Arizona, last week.
Although the Trump administration has attempted to step back from its mass deportation rhetoric and city wide raids, especially in the wake of killing multiple people, ICE continues to violently and wrongfully detain people. Data from April showed that 70.8 percent, or 42,722, of people held in ICE detention have no criminal conviction....
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We were warned this evil would come to us one day. We also know we were told it would be destroyed and thrown into the pit.
Trump’s Steel Tariffs Are Hiking Costs Of Canned Foods
The New York Times reports:
The simple tin can is proving to be one of the toughest tests for President Trump’s tariffs. Just over a year ago, Mr. Trump imposed high tariffs on steel to try to stifle imports of the metal and bolster domestic production. But imports of the kind of steel used to make cans surged in 2025, and American can makers say they will remain heavily dependent on foreign supplies — now made more expensive by the tariffs — for a long time.
“We have to import all this tin plate,” said Scott Breen, the president of the Can Manufacturers Institute, referring to the thinly rolled steel that is coated with tin and used to make cans. “There’s not any more being produced here than there was before.” The institute is a trade group representing some of the largest can makers in the United States.
Unlike some of Mr. Trump’s other tariffs, which have been overturned by courts, the steel levies have strong legal standing, according to scholars, which means they are unlikely to go away anytime soon.
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Does Trump know that this costs Americans? More to the point, does he care?
Rubio +15 Over Vance In 2028 GOP Presidential Poll
A new national survey from Atlas Intel is the first to show Secretary of State Marco Rubio ahead of Vice President JD Vance in the race for the 2028 Republican presidential nomination. It also has some good news for Gov. Ron DeSantis, who has the strongest backing he’s had in any polling in some time.
Rubio commands 45% support in the survey, 15 points ahead of Vance. DeSantis is alone in third place with 11% support, with no other name polled getting more than 1% support.
The polling was conducted May 4-7, days before President Donald Trump surveyed attendees at a Rose Garden event about whether they liked Rubio or Vance better, before calling them a “dream team” and a “perfect ticket.” Momentum continues for Rubio, meanwhile.
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One moron rates higher than lesser moron by the Nazi Party.
MAGA Pastor Predicts That WH’s Christian Nationalist Rally On National Mall Will Be The Biggest In 50 Years
...Pastor Robert Jeffress of First Baptist Dallas in Texas, who is scheduled to speak at the event, likened it to Explo ‘72, a 1972 Campus Crusade for Christ conference attended by over 80,000 college and high school students in Dallas. The five-day gathering, which some say marked the height of the Jesus Movement, saw the late televangelist Billy Graham preach and Kris Kristofferson, a recent convert to Christianity, perform....
The founders didn’t “dedicate” America to any god.
They created a secular Constitution with no national religion because freedom means everyone can worship any god, or none at all....
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That the grifter, will be speaking should keep any real Christian away.
Senate GOP bucks Trump’s Cuba push as Pentagon blows through 4 years of funding in 1 — Elizabeth Preza
As President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio express interest in a military operation in Cuba, Senate Republicans “are cautioning” the administration not to order strikes against the regime, The Hill’s Alexander Bolton reports.
Earlier this month, Trump teased military action in Cuba, telling the Forum Club of the Palm Beaches in Florida, “we will be taking over [Cuba] almost immediately.” His remarks came days after Senate Republicans rejected “an effort to advance legislation that would bar U.S. military action against Cuba without Congress' green light,” Axios reported at the time.
Now, Republican senators appear to be changing their tune, citing Trump’s extended military conflict in Iran, a ballooning Pentagon budget, and interest in fulfilling the president’s stated “America First” agenda....
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Any action on Cuba will be a disaster.
Trump has turned key issue into 'the world’s dumbest culture war' — Thomas Kika
The U.S. is ceding ground on a vitally, existentially important issue to China under President Donald Trump's leadership, and according to a new breakdown from the New York Times, this is because he has turned it into "the world’s dumbest culture war."
Writing for the Times on Tuesday morning, Thomas Edsall observed that Trump has "an all-out assault on clean energy" since the start of his second term. Now, "he and his party are paying a significant political price while American consumers are stuck with the bill."
"Trump has severely, but not fatally, wounded the American renewable energy industry, which is falling further behind China. At the same time, he is doling out tax dollars by the millions to keep dilapidated coal-fired power plants open," Edsall wrote. "What gives?"
He added later: "The barrage of executive orders and memorandums Trump issued on Jan. 20, 2025, demonstrated the intensity of his prioritization of fossil fuels while gutting federal support of clean, renewable energy."...
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How stupid can a nation get? We keep digging the hole we're in deeper.
Trump explodes at 'lowlife' reporter in late-night rant after NYT exposes $13M bombshell — Roxanne Cooper
President Donald Trump attacked The New York Times in a lengthy overnight post on Truth Social after the newspaper reported that the real cost of his Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool renovation was significantly higher than he initially claimed.
The president posted his response shortly after 1 a.m. on Tuesday morning, responding to reporting that the Interior Department plans to pay a contractor $13.1 million for the project, far above the $1.8 million figure Trump publicly announced when unveiling the plan last month.
Federal records reviewed by The Times show the Interior Department increased the contract by $6.2 million beyond the original estimate, bringing the project total to roughly $8 million before additional costs are included. The records also revealed that the administration awarded the no-bid contract to Atlantic Industrial Coatings, a firm that had previously completed work at Trump's Virginia golf club....
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Boodoggle after boondoggle! Embarrasing our country left and right.
GOP Lawmaker Agrees With Host Telling Black Dem To Keep 'Cotton-picking Hands' Off VA
Rep. Jennifer A. Kiggans (R-VA) agreed with a radio host after he used a racially charged term to attack House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) because he spoke out about Virginia redistricting efforts.
"If Hakeem Jeffries wants to be involved in Virginia politics, then I suggest he does what a bunch of New Yorkers are doing. Leave New York, move down here to Virginia, run for office down here. You can represent us, if not, get your cotton-picking and hands off of Virginia," the show's host told Kiggans.
"That's right. Ditto, yes. Yes, to that," the Republican lawmaker replied....
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Yassah, master! We'uns forgot dis be de Land of the Happy Negro!
Just another retarded ugly Naxi racist scumbag!
Fox News Host: AOC Sounds Like A “Fascist Fuhreress”
“It’s funny because earlier today, the president was talking about the big divide with the people he’s negotiating with in Iran, and you’ve got the moderates and the lunatics. It’s the same thing in the Democrat Party. You’ve got the moderates, and I think most Democrats would consider themselves to be pretty rational, pretty moderate. But the loudest people and the only ones with ideas — unfortunately they’re god awful ideas — are the lunatics. They are the progressives.
“And, you know, you’ve got the general, the Fuhreress, who’s out there, and she, frankly, sounds like a fascist. She’s talking about the presidency isn’t enough, you know, it’s like, four years isn’t enough, I want all of it. You know, that sounds like a completely unhinged, authoritarian person who wants to inflate the size of the state and wants to increase taxation, which isn’t going to mean on billionaires. That is going to be on the middle class.” – Fox host Lisa Kennedy.
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That word is not a word. It comes out of the mouth of a facist idiot.
The shitbag Nazi News must be scared out of their shit filled pants when a real American takes charge!
We all know what Lisa Kennedy is — a puppet lying to a retarded audiencce!
21% Of Obamacare Enrollees Have Lost Coverage
NOTUS reports:
The numbers are bearing out what many lawmakers feared: Many Americans can’t afford health insurance through the federal marketplaces without boosted subsidies.
More than one in five people who enrolled in health insurance through HealthCare.gov during open enrollment and in the weeks immediately following were dropped from coverage for failing to pay their first month’s premium, according to internal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, or CMS, documents obtained by NOTUS that haven’t been made public.
The roughly 21% decline in enrollment in the 30 states using the federal marketplace is significantly higher than the rate of last year, when 12% of enrollees dropped off over the same time frame. The numbers support widespread fears that the end of extra, pandemic-era subsidies, which congressional Republicans declined to extend in December, would leave Affordable Care Act plans unaffordable for some Americans.
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Photo is of "The Proud & Greedy Retarded."
END FOR-PROFIT HEALTH CARE!
Trump Orders “Treason” Probe Into Reporters’ Sources
CNN reports:
President Donald Trump personally pushed the Justice Department to issue subpoenas to reporters covering the war in Iran in an effort to flush out their sources, according to officials familiar with the matter. He delivered the message on a sticky note — the word “Treason” in Sharpie — placed atop a stack of printed articles he handed to acting Attorney General Todd Blanche in a White House meeting, the officials said.
After Blanche received the packet, the department issued several subpoenas, including to The Wall Street Journal, which first revealed the probes. One official told CNN the Justice Department’s National Security Division was already preparing to look at some of the stories’ sources but Trump’s stack accelerated the effort.
A source told CNN the investigation is aimed at identifying government employees who leaked information and not the reporters themselves. Still, the subpoenas mark one of the administration’s most aggressive attempts to root out leaks about national security or the administration.
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Trump is the one who is guilty of treason. The entire universe knows this!
LA Gov: 45,000 Primary Votes Have Been “Discarded”
The Huffington Post reports:
In the wake of the Supreme Court’s recent decision on gerrymandering, Louisiana’s governor suspended the state’s primary elections, even though tens of thousands of votes had already been cast. Now he intends to toss those votes. During a “60 Minutes” interview Sunday, Gov. Jeff Landry (R) was pressed about what would happen to the roughly 45,000 ballots that were cast prior to the high court’s decision.
“This country has held elections during the Civil War, during two world wars, elections still went on,” correspondent Cecilia Vega said. “We’ll have an election, and we’re actually gonna have an election on election day,” Landry responded. “But voting was already happening,” Vega said, cutting Landry off. “As we sit here right now, more than 45,000 ballots have been returned. What happens to those?”
“Oh, those ballots are discarded,” Landry said. “And those people will vote again in November. It’s not a big deal. It’s not my fault. If anyone has a grievance, take it to the United States Supreme Court.”
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We know what should be done with this seditionist. We are a lost country if we let this go.
STUDY: 42% Drop In Canadian Visits To Major US Cities
The Guardian reports:
A new research tool that tracks cell phone activity has found a 42% drop in visitors from Canada to big metropolitan areas in the US that is much higher than official border-crossing data, suggesting Canadians during the second Trump administration are avoiding US cities in particular.
Researchers from the University of Toronto said the tool showed a “year-over-year median decline of approximately 42% in Canadian visits to US metropolitan areas – significantly higher than official border-crossing data, which showed a roughly 25% decline”.
The economies of US border towns reliant on Canadian traffic have been slammed as their northerly neighbours think twice about travelling to the US, put off by immigration enforcement operations and border crackdowns, and anger at Donald Trump’s tariffs and his threats of making Canada “the 51st state”.
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Why would anyone that is not a fascist wnat to come to this failed fascist country?
If You Have To Say It's Not A Golden Calf, It's A Golden Calf — Evan Hurst
There was this thing that happened in Exodus 32 that really pissed God off. Among the early Bible sins, it was way up there.
“Don’t look back or I will turn you into a pillar of salt!” She looked back. “Eat all the fruit except this one!” She ate that one. (God’s early habit of testing people by giving them one thing not to do and then waiting for them to roll their eyes and do exactly that thing is a whole other subject.)
And then there was Exodus 32. The Golden Calf.
So the story, if you remember, is like this:
Back in Exodus 20 the Ten Commandments had been laid down, and the first of them were “You shall have no other gods before me,” and then “You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.”
Right there at the beginning, it’s “Don’t worship other gods” — which seems to suggest that there were other gods and Yahweh knew it, an interesting thing to explore in Gnostic tradition — AND THEN it’s “don’t make graven images and worship them, I will fuck your grandchildren’s grandchildren up, for I am very sensitive and fly off the handle easily.”
Point is, it’s really really really clear what God thinks about idolatry, especially really extremely on-the-nose idolatry.
So in Exodus 32, Moses is up on the mountaintop with God getting the law written down in tablet form, and all the people were like WHERE IS HE? So they went to Aaron, Moses’s brother, the high priest, and said “We need some weird statue gods to worship. Can you make that happen?” And Aaron was like “OK sure, everybody in the whole town, take off your jewels!” and they did, and he melted them down and turned them into a golden cow so they could all worship it, like totally normal people.
And they made a festival for the very next day, with food and drink and metallic cow worships. Like totally normal people.
And God saw it and looked at Moses like OMG what the fuck are they doing? And Moses really had to talk God off the ledge, because God was talking shit like “Now leave me alone so that my anger may burn against them and that I may destroy them.” (He still ended up striking them with a plague.)
There’s more to it than that, but point is, making golden calves and other similar idols is kiiiiiiiind of a “Did I stutter?” situation in the Bible....
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More to the point, the Jewish factions were quick to create Gods that reflected their own points of view. Same goes for us today.
Psst: What No One Will Tell You About the National Debt (But I Will) — Robert Reich
Friends,
The U.S. national debt just crossed a once-unthinkable threshold on the way toward breaking the record set in the wake of World War II: It now exceeds 100 percent of America’s gross domestic product.
As of March 31, our publicly held debt was $31.27 trillion, while America’s GDP in 2025 was $31.22 trillion. This puts the ratio at 100.2 percent, compared with 99.5 percent when the last fiscal year ended September 30.
That 100.2 percent figure will likely climb, because the federal government is running historically large annual deficits of nearly 6 percent of GDP, which add to the debt. The final tally will depend on Iran war spending, tariff refunds, and the strength of the economy.
Should you worry? Well, it’s not as if we’re heading into a depression. Passing the 100 percent threshold won’t suddenly cause the world to lose confidence in the dollar.
The real problem is that an increasing portion of our nation’s budget — and your tax dollars — is dedicated to paying interest on this growing debt. That’s money we don’t spend on education, healthcare, roads and bridges, social safety nets, or (if we actually needed more spending on it) national defense.
As the debt continues to grow, interest payments continue to soar. We’ll soon be paying more in interest on the federal debt each year than we spend each year on Medicare.
So, who exactly receives these interest payments? This is an issue you hear very little discussion about, because the wealthy and powerful of this country would rather you didn’t know.
You probably do hear that a chunk of our debt is held by foreign governments and foreign investors. That’s true, but they hold only about 30 percent of our debt. The rest — roughly 70 percent — is held domestically. That is, we pay the interest to ourselves....
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Don't you feel wealthier now?
The Military Base Home to Air Force One Leaked 32,000 Gallons of Jet Fuel Into the Potomac River Over the Last Few Months — Joe Wilkins
With nearly one-fifth of the world’s oil under lock and key thanks to Donald Trump’s ill-fated war on Iran, oil derivatives like jet fuel are at a premium. That makes it all the more devastating that the US Air Force leaked some 32,000 gallons of the stuff into the Potomac river over the course of just four months.
According to bombshell reporting by NOTUS, Maryland’s Joint Base Andrews, the facility that stores and maintains Air Force One, has lost tens of thousands of gallons of valuable jet fuel over two separate leaks. That would be bad enough on its own, but Joint Base Andrews is situated directly on Piscataway Creek, a tributary of the Potomac River.
The timeline established by NOTUS is a little convoluted, but basically this could’ve all been prevented as early as December, when the base’s fuel system failed a critical leak safety test. Across the first two months of the year, base personnel noted the loss of roughly 10,000 gallons of jet fuel, though they believed at the time that the leak was contained to the base itself, and had not impacted the surrounding environment...
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Good to see our military is on top of things, eh?
Residents Furious After Their Town Board Rejected an OpenAI Data Center, But a Billionaire Developer Forced It Through Anyway — Joe Wilkins
Across the United States, the fight over data center construction has largely pitted stamp-happy municipal governments against their own residents. As these battles multiply, local officials are increasingly pressured to approve projects their constituents oppose, while more and more voters take their struggles to the ballot box.
Residents in Saline Township, Michigan, however, thought they had avoided the drama after their township board and planning commission both voted to decline a 21 million square foot data center in their backyard. It was exactly what Saline’s 2,883-some residents wanted. Unfortunately for them, the data center developer soon sued the tiny township, Fortune reported, which was ultimately bullied into accepting the $16 billion development.
Back in September, Saline’s planning commission rejected the request to rezone 575 acres of farmland for the data center, proposed by the company Related Digital, a subsidiary of a real estate conglomerate owned by billionaire Steven Roth (who’s been in the news lately for other reasons.)
Two days later, Related Digital filed suit, alleging the township had practice “exclusionary zoning.” The local officials were up against the wall: a lengthy legal battle risked depleting the township’s coffers, and even if they won in court — an unlikely proposition — Related Digital could have forced the data center anyway by partnering with the University of Michigan, which can bypass local zoning laws.
The township soon settled, signing an agreement allowing the project to proceed. Later in October, it was revealed that the data center would be primarily leased to Sam Altman’s OpenAI and Larry Ellison’s Oracle, as part of Donald Trump’s $500 billion AI infrastructure initiative, dubbed “Stargate.”...
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Did I hear that rope sales had gone up in the area?
Netanyahu Blames Social Media For Israel’s Reputation
MAJOR GARRETT: “Do you believe Israel is at risk of losing this war on the social media front? And this is particularly, I believe, important in America for younger Americans, Republican and Democrat, scrolling through images, and they would use words like, ‘barbaric,’ in Gaza and in Lebanon.”
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU: “You’re not immune either, because you can penetrate this machine [holds up phone], you can penetrate this little instrument, and you can say anything about Major Garrett that you want, and I can paint you as a monster. And if I say it often enough, enough people will believe it.
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“Israel has gone to unbelievable lengths to get innocent civilians out of harm’s way. We have seen deterioration of support for Israel in the United States almost, I would say, correlates almost 100% with the geometric rise of social media.
“And that, by itself, is not what caused it, and I don’t believe in censoring them or anything. But, I’ll tell you what happened. We had several countries that basically manipulated social media, and they do it in a clever way, and that’s something that has hurt us badly.
“I think there’s been a concerted effort by several states to basically vilify Israel in the social, primarily in the social media … We’ve not fought back yet; so we’ll have to do that.”
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Talk about shooting the messenger!
Deacon Pleads Guilty To Filming In Public Restrooms
The Virginian-Pilot reports:
A man who police said secretly filmed “thousands of males†in public restrooms in the Colonial Williamsburg area since the 1990s pleaded guilty Wednesday to five criminal counts. George Thomas West, 77, of Gloucester County, was sentenced to two years of home confinement with electronic monitoring, court records said. As part of the sentence, he’s barred from all property owned by Colonial Williamsburg, Busch Gardens or Water Country USA....
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And another one bites the dust!
Have you xianists no shame?
FL Surgeon General Spreads Sickness And Death By Claiming Vaccine Mandates Are 'Slavery' — John Amato
Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph A. Ladapo was giddy when he told the state he was excited to announce shortly that Florida will be ending all vaccine mandates.
Kudos to the fuckwits clapping to promote disease and death on their state.
Letting your children go to elementary school without being immunized runs the risk of infecting the entire class and other children.
This is not God's choice but a MAGA conspiracy driven religious right action....
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Yes. Saving lives is slavery. Joe, you really know how to hurt people. May you continue to fail and be removed!
Billionaires could pay the price for backlash against Trump: Nobel winning economist — Nick Hilden
According to Nobel prize-winning economist Paul Krugman, President Donald Trump didn’t start the modern “Gilded Age,” but over the course of his administrations, he’s presided over an explosion of inequality that surpasses the era of the robber barons. Now, Krugman believes a backlash is already building that could result in “genuine populism.”
As Krugman explains, “America used to be a middle-class society. But income and wealth disparities began rising rapidly during the Reagan years, and by the late 80s many observers began drawing parallels between the new era of inequality and the Gilded Age.” Now, however, “We are living through something much worse. The tech bros make the ‘malefactors of great wealth’ called out by Theodore Roosevelt look benign by comparison.”
This is because economic inequality that began soaring 40 years ago and was exacerbated by the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision in 2008 — which allowed the rich to begin pouring massive sums of money into elections — has resulted in a level of wealth concentration at the top that is unparalleled in history. Says Krugman, “The growth in wealth concentration is even more extreme if we look at the very, very top. Gabriel Zucman, one of the world’s leading experts on wealth and income inequality, argues that the concentration of wealth is now much higher than it was at the peak of the Gilded Age.”
And unlike the robber barons of yesteryear, the tech billionaires of today show “little inclination to give back to society by devoting a significant part of their wealth to good works,” with the likes of Elon Musk and Pete Thiel giving almost none of their money to philanthropy, and Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos not doing much better. More importantly, however, “is the fact that their wealth has brought great political power, arguably more than the robber barons ever possessed — power that they abuse on an epic scale.”...
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America was robbed by the money grubbers. Time for a payback!
Oil Prices Surge After Trump Swats Down Peace Deal
The New York Times reports:
Oil prices rose and stock futures ticked down on Monday as investors reacted after the two sides failed to agree on a U.S.-Iran peace deal.
President Trump said on social media Sunday that Iran’s latest proposal was “TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE!” He did not share details about what Iran had offered. Tehran has said the two countries are working on a short-term agreement that would pause fighting for another 30 days and end Iran’s blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, a key oil and gas shipping route in the Persian Gulf.
As gas prices remain elevated in the United States, Chris Wright, the energy secretary, said on Sunday that the Trump administration would be open to pausing the federal gas tax, which accounts for 18.4 cents of the per gallon price of gasoline.
"When a Dementia riddled incontinent moron is a negotiator , chances are it will be a shitty deal" — Dwight Williamson (comments)
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Numbskull.
American Passenger Tests Positive For Hantavirus
Politico reports:
A passenger returning to the U.S. from a Dutch cruise ship where a hantavirus outbreak occurred has tested positive for the virus, the Department of Health and Human Services announced Sunday evening, while a second is showing mild symptoms. The two passengers are traveling in the plane’s biocontainment units “out of an abundance of caution,” HHS wrote in a post on the social media website X.
The department is working in collaboration with other federal agencies to repatriate 17 American passengers from the MV Hondius cruise ship — which docked Sunday in the Canary Islands, a Spanish territory off the coast of Morocco.
In a statement Sunday evening, HHS said the State Department would airlift the passengers, transporting some of them to the Regional Emerging Special Pathogen Treatment Center at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha. The passenger with mild symptoms will be taken to another center, according to HHS. There are 13 such centers nationwide.
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Sounds familiar. We know Trump will fold on any outbreak here.
Hantavirus is a warning. The Trump admin isn’t listening — Troy Farah
The Dutch cruise ship incident probably isn’t the next pandemic. That doesn’t mean we’re risk-free from outbreaks
...While hantavirus isn’t a huge concern to me right now — and many public health experts seem to agree — I am worried about what comes down the line. I wouldn’t be surprised if people didn’t take basic precautions during the next pandemic. No flattening the curve, no masking in crowds, just letting some brutal disease rip through us, as if arrogance and resentment can stop infectious disease — a strategy somehow even less effective than ivermectin! There is already a lack of solidarity in this country, a major crisis would undoubtedly unravel what’s left of it. Every time there’s a weird outbreak of something, it’s a warning that we might not get so lucky on the next one. It’s an open question if anyone is listening.
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It won't be Trump.
Trump: I’ll Deploy “Election Integrity Army” In All States
Yahoo News reports:
President Donald Trump pledged Sunday to deploy a Republican “election integrity army” for the 2026 midterm elections, positioning the initiative as a response to a Democratic task force announced last month by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.
Trump made the announcement in a post on Truth Social, criticizing Schumer’s election integrity group and alleging it would suppress Republican voters and interfere in upcoming elections. The president promised the Republican effort would be “much bigger and stronger” than what he described as a similar operation during the 2024 election.
“During my Historic Election in 2024, when I won every single Swing State, and decisively won both the Electoral and Popular votes by wide margins, the Republicans had an Election Integrity Army in every single State to preserve the sanctity of each legal vote,” Trump wrote.
"'Election Integrity Army'
All this is code for ICE and the military to intimidate minority voters." — April the unperson (comments)
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The mother hacked our last election and he will fuck with this one.
The scumbag wants to make sure his rig is working for him. What a naked crook!
Hegseth Lobs New Legal Threat At Sen. Mark Kelly
The Daily Beast reports:
Determined to defeat Sen. Mark Kelly by any means necessary, Hegseth issued a new threat on X on Sunday evening in response to comments Kelly made on CBS News’ Face the Nation. Speaking to host Margaret Brennan, Kelly said that it was “shocking how deep we have gone” into U.S. weapons stockpiles during Trump’s war on Iran.
“Because this president got our country into this without a strategic goal, without a plan, without a timeline… because of that, we’ve expended a lot of munitions. And that means the American people are less safe,” Kelly said.
Responding to a post from Brennan on X about Kelly’s claim, Hegseth wrote, “‘Captain’ Mark Kelly strikes again. Now he’s blabbing on TV (falsely & dumbly) about a *CLASSIFIED* Pentagon briefing he received. Did he violate his oath…again?” He ended his post with a note that the Pentagon’s legal counsel will review whether or not Kelly violated his oath.
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Talk about an inferiority complex. This little boy never got over some deep failure. Sad case.
Keep kicking his sorry ass, Mark!
Pro-Trump group illegally seizes voter data in Canadian province targeted as 51st state — Travis Gettys
A massive breach of Canadian voter data by a far-right separatist group is exposing what security experts say is a coordinated, cross-border assault on democratic institutions — one that bears striking resemblance to the Trump administration's aggressive push to seize American voter rolls.
In Alberta, a separatist-linked organization called the Centurion Project illegally obtained a database containing the names, home addresses and contact information of roughly 2.9 million voters, and the group's own organizer boasted that the software powering the operation had been presented to Donald Trump's White House, reported The Guardian.
Meanwhile, south of the border, Trump's Justice Department has sued 30 states and the District of Columbia for refusing to hand over their voter registration lists — a campaign that voting rights groups say is laying the groundwork for mass purges ahead of the November midterms – and the parallel is not lost on Canadian security officials.
"Violence is not the solution but the solution requires violence.
Americans are losing because they are so focused on being nice." — Oppressed American (comments)
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Open criminal behavior. It is stunning that a civilized culture seems so inept at putting a stop to this unabated barbaric behavior.
Critics zero in on what's really behind Trump's sudden meltdown — Alxeander Willis
President Donald Trump lashed out at Iran on Sunday with a menacing remark amid Washington and Tehran’s ongoing, back-and-forth peace negotiations, and critics believe they’ve identified a potential reason for the president’s latest outburst.
The United States and Iran agreed to a ceasefire last month that remains ongoing, despite both sides having lobbed attacks on each other within the past week. While peace talks between the two nations have largely stalled, the Trump administration sent Tehran a proposal to end the war last week, with Trump telling the press that he expected a response by Friday night.
Friday ended without a response from Iran, as did Saturday. Late Sunday morning, reporting emerged that Iran may have responded to the United States’ peace proposal, though the White House has yet to issue a response as of 1:50 p.m. ET....
"Trump is such a moron, any deal he finally gets, if he gets, with Iran is not going to be nearly as good as the 2015 Obama arrangement that he tore up. 50 billion dollars destroyed bases, people dead and all he has managed to accomplish is have the Strait closed." -- Bill Baird (comments)
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Wow! They got a great photo of Frankenstein's monster at the top of this article!
We Must Resist the Collapse of Conscience in the Age of Trump — Henry Giroux
Under the Trump regime, the United States has entered a dark age in which conscience is not merely ignored but systematically dismantled. Compassion is mocked as weakness, truth treated as disposable, and cruelty elevated into a governing principle. This is more than corruption. It signals the suffocation of civic culture under gangster capitalism — a predatory system in which power serves wealth, law serves vengeance, and democracy is hollowed out from within.
Donald Trump did not create this moral vacuum. He seized it, refined it, and weaponized it. For decades, neoliberal rule has hollowed out the social state, normalized staggering inequality, elevated billionaires to the status of civic arbiters, and schooled generations to believe that self-interest is the highest virtue. Public goods were dismantled or sold off, civic responsibility withered, and citizens were reduced to consumers, detached from any shared sense of fate. In such a landscape, empathy is no longer a public good but a private burden, something to be shed in the relentless pursuit of profit, power, and spectacle. As Zygmunt Bauman notes in Modernity and the Holocaust, gangster capitalism as a form of fascist politics thrives on “moral sleeping pills” and “the dead silence of unconcern.”
The war on empathy is central to our lethal white supremacist culture, which thrives on violence and normalizes the politics of disposability. This assault is starkly visible in the rhetoric of Elon Musk, who has claimed that empathy itself threatens Western civilization. Such a view does not stand alone. It echoes a broader right-wing crusade, amplified by segments of white evangelical Christianity in the United States, that casts empathy as a dangerous moral weakness. In this distorted logic, compassion becomes a political weapon attributed to liberals and Democrats, who are accused of eroding “Western values” by extending care and recognition to those deemed expendable, particularly immigrants from poorer, racialized, and predominantly Muslim nations.
What takes shape here is not simply the erosion of empathy, but its deliberate inversion, a cultural alchemy in which cruelty is elevated to virtue and exclusion is recast as a civilizational imperative. This assault on empathy, mobilized to inflame hatred against those cast as the “other,” cannot be dismissed as mere prejudice or psychological aberration. It draws from a deeper historical reservoir of violence, one that, as Pankaj Mishra observes, has “enabled ordinary people to contribute to acts of mass extermination with a clear conscience, even with frissons of virtue.”...
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Do Americans still know what a conscience is? It remains to be seen.
Big Bend border wall plans cancelled for national park after backlash, Border Patrol commissioner says — Ayden Runnels
Texans across the political spectrum opposed wall construction in the national park. Now the agency’s plans include roadways and digital surveillance to monitor the rugged region.
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A victory for America!
ABC Just Asking: What If We *Didn't* Comply In Advance? — Doktor Zoom
Texas state Rep. James Talarico appears on ABC’s The View, February 2, 2026. Screenshot, The View on YouTube.
It looks like ABC has finally figured out that it can’t win by appeasing the Trump administration, and has finally decided to fight back against the administration. About time! Friday, ABC accused the government of trying to violate its free speech rights through heavy-handed regulatory threats issued by the Federal Communications Commission.
ABC finally stood up for itself in a filing with the FCC on behalf of KTRK, its affiliate in Houston, after the FCC claimed that the ABC program The View had violated federal “Equal Time” rules by interviewing Texas state Rep. James Talarico on February 2. Those rules require entertainment shows that include candidates for office to provide equal time to competing candidates, if the other candidates request it. Yes, we are old enough to remember Republicans railing against the “Equal Time” rules — and especially the broader, still-dead “Fairness Doctrine” — as communist infiltration sapping and impurifying our precious bodily fluids.
Regardless, the regulation includes an exemption for “bona fide” news programming, which is why for decades talk shows have had political guests on without any problems: There was a tacit understanding that it’s good for viewers to know who’s running for office and what they think. But Trump’s pet FCC Chair Brendan Carr has weaponized the equal time rule, not so much to ensure “fairness” as to punish anyone on TV Trump doesn’t like.
This is a long-term project for Carr, who wrote Project 2025’s chapter on how the FCC could combat TV’s “liberal bias” and whined about Saturday Night Live featuring Kamala Harris in a sketch before the 2024 election — without even inviting Trump on to do his standup set about sharks and electric boats....
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Brendan Carr can go back to hell where he came from.
Why Palantir is fast becoming one of the world’s most notorious companies — The Week
Palantir Technologies Inc., a Miami-based company that specialises in data integration and analysis, is seldom out of the news. This is partly because it works in controversial sectors: its biggest client is the US military, and its software is used in conflicts from Israel to Ukraine. Clients also include the CIA and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice); it was involved in Elon Musk’s short-lived Department of Government Efficiency.
It has also expanded into healthcare: in Britain, its contracts include a £330 million deal with NHS England, as well as a £240.6 million deal with the Ministry of Defence.
But its notoriety is in part because of its eccentric CEO, Alex Karp. Palantir recently posted on X/ Twitter a manifesto penned by Karp, which, among other things, declared that “Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defence of the nation”; called for universal conscription; encouraged the development of AI weapons; and condemned the West’s “vacant and hollow pluralism”. One MP called it “the ramblings of a supervillain”.
Where did Palantir come from?
Founded in 2003 by a group of tech moguls headed by Peter Thiel, a co-founder of PayPal and a libertarian political activist, Palantir was named after the “seeing stones” in “The Lord of the Rings”. (Thiel is a J.R.R. Tolkien fan.) Originally, it applied PayPal’s fraud detection system – which successfully identified fraudulent activity on eBay – to US national security; early funding came from In-Q-Tel, a venture capital firm that funds projects for the CIA
Palantir’s technology was taken up by the US defence establishment under President Obama – it is rumoured that it was involved in the assassination of Osama Bin Laden – and it helped the US and UK governments with contact tracing and vaccine distribution during the Covid pandemic. It now helps the Trump administration track undocumented immigrants, and provides Israel’s military with “intelligence and surveillance services”. Palantir currently has a market capitalisation of some $350 billion.
What does it actually do?
One former employee likened Palantir’s work to “really extravagant plumbing with data”. Most big companies and government agencies have a lot of information they can’t easily use because it’s stored in a hodgepodge of different systems and databases.
Palantir’s core products – “Foundry”, primarily for civilian use, and “Gotham”, for military and law enforcement – sit on top of those different systems and pull all the data together in an interface that’s easy to use (little coding is required). A big selling point is that Palantir doesn’t itself access or exploit the data, which stays with the customer; it just makes it easier to analyse. This is useful for all sorts of unobjectionable things, such as Covid testing and tracing. But it also allows Ice to collect large amounts of information to investigate individuals – and it helps the US military to plan bombing campaigns....
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The enemy within.
But Seriously, How Nervous Should We Be About Hantavirus? — Jonathan Cohn
A small ship is making its way across the South Atlantic, ferrying roughly 150 tourists to explore remote lands and glimpse rare birds, when an older man suddenly develops fever and a cough—and dies. Symptoms quickly appear in a half dozen more passengers and crew, including the ship’s doctor, and soon the death count is up to three. Testing reveals they’ve been stricken with an animal-borne virus that can infect humans, but that in most forms does not jump from person to person.
By this point, more than 30 passengers have already disembarked and scattered across a dozen countries, setting off a mad scramble by health authorities to find and isolate them. Meanwhile, the rest are still on the boat—also isolated, and under the watchful eyes of newly arrived medical staff observing to see who else will develop this disease for which there is no cure.
If you’ve been following the headlines, you know this isn’t fiction. It’s the story of a hantavirus outbreak aboard MV Hondius, an expedition vessel that set sail from Argentina in April. And the good news—yes, there’s good news—is that this tale isn’t likely to have a horror-film ending, at least on a mass scale.
The form of hantavirus known to be transmissible among humans is thought to spread for a relatively short period as symptoms appear, and primarily through prolonged, close-up contact.1 That’s very different from, for example, COVID, which was airborne and which people could spread before they even realized they had the virus. With hantavirus, contact tracing has a better chance of catching up to people who might have been exposed—most of whom, in turn, are unlikely to contract the disease.2
“We have contained this in the past and I’m very confident it’s going to be contained again,” Katelyn Jetelina, a former CDC consultant who founded and writes for the newsletter Your Local Epidemiologist, told me in an interview. “To the average person, your risk is essentially nil.”
But if you talk to people who work in public health, you will pick up a clear level of concern. And it’s not simply because the spread of any lethal virus is, quite rightly, a reason for them to be vigilant....
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Is the average American well-read these days? I'm starting to think not.
Trump Gives Visa To Fugitive Polish Justice Minister
Fugitive former Polish Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro is now in the United States courtesy of a visa from President Donald Trump after fleeing Hungary, local media report.
Ziobro had been in Hungary since 2025 after former Prime Minister Viktor Orbán granted the disgraced minister asylum. New Hungarian leader Péter Magyar, however, promised to launch extradition proceedings against Ziobro upon taking office.
Ziobro is wanted in Poland over the alleged misuse of public funds and the deployment of Pegasus spyware against political opponents. He has consistently denied the charges, calling the investigation a political vendetta from Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk....
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So Trump is now importing criminals he can exploit and shakedown. So much for deporting them, I see.
Researchers Alarmed by AI That Can Self-Replicate Into Another Machine — Frank Landymore
A new report from Palisade Research has found that AI models can self-replicate by copying themselves onto other machines, without any help from human co-conspirators.
“We’re rapidly approaching the point where no one would be able to shut down a rogue AI, because it would be able to self-exfiltrate its weights and copy itself to thousands of computers around the world,” Jeffrey Ladish, the director Berkeley-based AI safety group, told The Guardian.
Some experts, however, are urging calm, saying it’s unlikely that that the test AI models could replicate in a real world scenario.
“They are testing in environments that are like soft jelly in many cases,” Jamieson O’Reilly, an expert in offensive cybersecurity, told the newspaper. “That doesn’t take away from the value of their research, but it does mean the outcome might look far less scary in a real enterprise environment with even a medium level of monitoring.”
In the study, the Palisade researchers tested several AI models, including OpenAI’s GPT-5.4 and Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4. Placed in a controlled network of computers, the models were instructed to find vulnerabilities and use them to copy themselves onto another PC.
Some of them pulled it off. The successful models copied their “weights” — unique numerical values that determine how an AI processes information — and their “harness,” the software the AI is couched in, like an app. They accomplished this by following the instructions they were given: exploiting web app vulnerabilities and then extracting credentials that allowed it to control the server. In some runs, the original AI even created a “sub-agent” that it delegated to carry out the replication on its behalf by giving it the extracted credentials....
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And we thought Frankenstein was a mad scientist?
Oracle Forced to Cancel Incredibly Polluting Natural Gas Plant to Power AI Data Center — Joe Wilkins
The tech industry has done a poor job of hiding the environmental footprint of AI data centers, which hoover up electrons like nobody’s business. With America’s crumbling energy grid struggling to keep up, billionaire tech industrialists are increasingly financing their own energy solutions.
This has had predictable consequences Elon Musk’s xAI data center in south Memphis, for example, is choking residents with its slapdash fleet of portable methane generators, courting a clean air lawsuit from the NAACP.
Now Oracle, the AI company helmed by tech billionaire Larry Ellison, announced it’s cancelling a major natural gas plant meant to power its “Project Jupiter” facility in New Mexico. According to Business Insider, the cancellation comes after both the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the New Mexico State Land Office denied Oracle’s requests to build a new natural gas pipeline to deliver fuel to the facility.
Instead, the company is partnering with Bloom Energy, a company which produces solid oxide fuel cells, which convert chemical energy directly into electricity without combustion.
Estimates previously pegged Project Jupiter’s on-site greenhouse gas emissions at over 14 million tons per year, more than the cities of Albuquerque and Las Cruces combined. Though the pivot to fuel cells will theoretically be better than straight natural gas, it only reduces the damage — with new estimates suggesting a 30 percent reduction to around 10 million tons of pollution emitted per year instead....
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Looks like we have forgotten all about pollution under Nazi leadership.
MAGA Evangelicals Bless Trump's Golden Calf — Ed Scarce
At this point, if you're a MAGA evangelical leader, you're not even a Christian. You're just another part of the cult.
Source: Latin Times
MAGA evangelical leaders gathered this week at Mar-a-Lago and at Trump National Doral Miami to bless and dedicate a towering gold statue honoring President Donald Trump, in a ceremony that is already drawing praise from supporters and criticism from opponents who compared the spectacle to religious idolatry.
The 22-foot gold-leafed statue, dubbed "Don Colossus," depicts Trump with his fist raised, recreating the gesture he made after surviving the July 2024 assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania. The sculpture was unveiled on Wednesday during a dedication ceremony led by evangelical pastor Mark Burns, one of Trump's closest religious allies.
Burns, who has repeatedly described Trump as protected by God, told attendees the statue was "not a golden calf" but rather "a symbol of resilience, freedom, patriotism, strength, and the willpower to keep fighting for the future of America."
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What's so amazing is that these fools apparently have no idea how ridiculous they look. Extreme retardation!
April Jobs Report Shows Uneven Labor Market Growth As Inflation Outpaces Wages — Newswire Editor
Today’s jobs report shows the labor market added 115,000 jobs in April, while the number of jobs added across February and March was revised down by 16,000. Since the start of 2026, job gains have averaged just 76,000 per month. The unemployment rate held at 4.3%, near its highest level in four years. Though topline job growth figures may appear steady, this report revealed average wages grew by just 0.2% last month, which next week’s inflation print will almost certainly confirm are behind rising prices.
“While the president touts this lukewarm headline jobs report, Americans can look at their own paychecks to take the temperature of the labor market. Price hikes fueled by Trump’s senseless war and misguided tariffs are forcing Americans to stretch already-thin budgets to the brink. Working families are being crushed under the weight of Trump’s misguided economic agenda as wages slip behind the skyrocketing price of gas, groceries, and everyday goods.”
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How long will a poor man live in a world like Trump's?
DC insider: The invincible Trump is cracking —and his allies are jumping ship — Matthew Rozsa
President Donald Trump is losing the war he started with Iran — and a political expert is warning the president will behave increasingly erratically because he psychologically cannot handle losing.
“We are witnessing what happens to a person who is consumed with the need to dominate, but cannot,” Robert Reich, who served as President Bill Clinton’s labor secretary, wrote for The Guardian on Friday. Describing Iran’s success in imposing economic pressure on the United States by blocking the Strait of Hormuz, and thereby rising prices on gas and food, Reich described Trump’s ongoing failure as “not just a serious geopolitical defeat for the United States; it’s a personal crisis for Trump. Those rising prices coupled with an increasingly unpopular war have increased the likelihood that Democrats will take back control of the House and even possibly the Senate in the upcoming midterms.”
Trump’s problem, Reich argued, is his inability to accept defeat from the perspective of his ego. This is why Trump attempted a coup after losing the 2020 presidential election despite the courts debunking his claims of fraud, and Trump is displaying similar erratic and violent behavior again because of his impending political defeat in the 2026 midterm elections.
As one example, Reich pointed to Trump’s “numerous social media posts, including a bizarre one ‘On Friday night, he posted an AI-generated image of himself, JD Vance, Marco Rubio and Doug Burgum, all shirtless and with young physiques, standing in the reflecting pool in front of the Lincoln Memorial, along with an unidentifiable woman in a bikini.’” He also claimed that Trump “is fanatically seeking other ways to assert dominance” by attacking transgender college students and falsely accusing House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffried of “INCITING VIOLENCE” by calling for a “maximum warfare” redistricting campaign to counter Republican gerrymandering.
More ominously, though, Reich predicted that Trump would attempt another coup if he loses the 2026 midterms.
“What if Democrats win control of one or both chambers of Congress in the midterms and he claims they lost or cheated?” Reich wrote. “The nation barely survived the last time Trump’s fragile ego faced a major loss. We’ll also have to cope with Trump as a lame-duck president who can no longer dominate and gain submission as he did before. Will he try to remain president beyond his second term to avoid this?”
He concluded, “The man is unwell. Seriously unwell. Lame-duck presidents fade away, but injured dictators can be dangerous.”...
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How long? Not long?
Supreme Court exposed for ruling built on cooked data from Trump administration — Thom Hartmann
...— GOP-dominated courts have decided that “voting” is now optional. This is the start of the fascist/Republican takeover of America. On Friday, the Virginia Supreme Court ruled 4-3 to throw out a voter-approved congressional redistricting referendum on procedural grounds after voters had already passed the thing. Trump celebrated. Democracy Docket called it a terrifying moment: a court canceling an election after the fact. Republican-led states like Texas, Florida, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, and Tennessee now are perfectly free — just like during Jim Crow — to gerrymander aggressively at Trump’s personal request, but when Virginia’s voters tried to fight back, four state justices invented a paperwork problem to stop them.
Two of those four are up for reappointment by the legislature within two years. Religious-violence scholar Thomas Lecaque didn’t mince words: he warned this trajectory could lead us to a second civil war. And in Tennessee, GOP Gov. Bill Lee just signed a map dismantling the state’s only majority-Black congressional district, prompting the NAACP to file an emergency petition calling it a direct attack on democracy.
The new rule of American politics, based on the cruel, racist politics of six corrupt members of the Supreme Court is now simple: Republicans are free to do whatever they want, and Democrats are free to do whatever Republicans permit. Having gutted the middle class, the GOP is unable to win on policy so they’ve stopped pretending to try....
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This should piss every voter off!
James Carville Torches ‘Whiny P*ssy Baby’ John Roberts and Supreme Court in Scorched Earth Rant — Zachary Leeman
Democratic strategist James Carville went nuclear on the Supreme Court on Saturday, singling out Chief Justice John Roberts as looking like a “whiny p*ssy baby.”
“I told y’all a week or 10 days ago that the Supreme Court was not legit. Some of you motherfuckers like took issue with me. Well, now you’re not anymore, now are you?” Carville said in a video for Politicon.
Carville ripped into the Supreme Court and state Supreme Courts over redistricting efforts across the country ahead of the midterms. He blasted the Supreme Court for shooting down a Louisiana congressional map after it was challenged as racial gerrymandering. Louisiana is now at risk to lose a Black-majority district.
Carville argued the goal is to “disenfranchise” as many Black voters as possible.
“I hate to say this to my Black brothers and sisters, but you can forget about f**king equal protection and due process in this country now. I hate say that. I hate be the bearer of bad news, but I can only tell you the facts,” he said.
Carville blasted conservative Justices like Samuel Alito over the decision.
“You think this motherf**ker cares one iota about the rule of law?” he asked....
“You cannot reform. This is an irredeemably corrupt Supreme Court that cannot be reformed through normal measures,” he said. “It can only be reformed by adding four more members, which is constitutionally permissible to do with a legislative majority. It’s the only f**king thing you could do with these people.”
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Those Nazi creeps care about nothing but power of white wealth! They must be removed from the court.
We are witnessing the re-boot of secession of the CSA from another direction. The new Fort Sumter is being fired upon!
A sign of how petrified the White House is as Trump flails — Michael Signorile, The Signorile Report
In the middle of the most unpopular war in over 75 years—one that has created a political disaster for the Trump administration—the White House had to use the precious time of its Secretary of State to send him to the Vatican yesterday to do damage control.
Think about that. The Vatican isn’t a country with a military, nor is it some massive trading partner with the U.S. It’s a tiny nation-state.
But its leader nonetheless has influence on people around the world and on millions of Americans, and is currently very popular. He’s not someone you want to mess with, even if he criticizes your policies—you just politely, very respectfully ignore him as presidents have done for generations—because he’s a global spiritual leader and you’re out of your league.
But Donald Trump created a massive self-inflicted wound by attacking Pope Leo to the point where Marco Rubio begged for an audience with the pope to try to smooth it over while at the same time trying not to anger Trump by caving to Leo’s message of peace. As I’ve written, the rift goes back a long time, and included Trump first using the Pentagon to threaten the Vatican, before he ultimately began attacking Leo outright on Truth Social.
Rubio had a lot of mending to do. And didn’t work. By seeking to meet the pope, the administration was already admitting defeat. Trump’s polling is tanking, including among evangelical Christians, and the GOP, already weighed down by all of Trump’s other reckless and unpopular actions, cannot afford even minor slippage among the radical Christian base. But they are beginning to hemorrhage....
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Bleed out, please!
Hegseth Shredded For Wanting To Waste, Defraud And Abuse Taxpayers Out Of $1.5 Trillion — Brad Reed
“Performative dipshittery, wrapped in fictional jingoism, delivered by an incompetent drunk wearing the clothes of an adolescent boy,” said one critic of Hegseth’s video.
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth drew instant ridicule on Thursday after he released a video touting President Donald Trump’s proposed $1.5 trillion military budget as a fiscally responsible plan that is “putting the American taxpayer first.”
At the start of the video, Hegseth accuses defense contractors of bilking the Pentagon for expenses such as factory construction, while also constantly charging more for cost overruns.
Hegseth then claims that Trump has brought together a group of private-sector negotiators whom he’s labeled “Deal Team Six” to lay down the law on the defense industry and save the US taxpayer money.
Hegseth never explains how it is possible that the president and his “Deal Team Six” are saving US taxpayers money while at the same time asking US taxpayers to fund a $1.5 trillion military budget that would be over 50% more than the 2025 US defense budget and more than four times the money spent on defense by China, the world’s second biggest defense spender.
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Another one who never passed puberty.
Trump Launches Yet Another AI Slop Posting Spree
Yahoo News reports:
President Donald Trump turned his Truth Social feed into an AI slop factory Saturday afternoon, unleashing 16 posts in just 90 minutes. Nine of the posts featured AI-generated imagery, including exploding Iranian drones, a sunken Iranian navy, and multiple mockups of a UFC fight on the White House lawn.
One image showed a warship blasting drones out of the sky with laser beams under the caption “Bye Bye, Drones.” Another depicted drones “dropping like butterflies” into the ocean beside actual butterflies.
In one AI-generated image, the president shared a side-by-side image labeled “159 IRANIAN SHIPS,” contrasting a crowded Iranian naval fleet under Barack Obama and Joe Biden with a second image showing the ships apparently resting at the bottom of the ocean under Trump.
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An insecure coward is no way to go through life, Donnie. Dealing with reality seems lost on him.
MAGA Pastor: Trump Knows Bible Better Than The Pope
The Daily Beast reports:
One of Donald Trump’s most loyal and long-standing evangelical supporters believes the president knows the Bible better than the leader of the world’s largest organized religion. “It looks like President Trump has a better understanding of what the Bible teaches about the role of government than the pope has,” Pastor Robert Jeffress said on Fox News on Friday, speaking on the topic of Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s Thursday meeting with the pontiff.
Jeffress, the pastor of First Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas, has supported the president since 2016, serving on his evangelical advisory board and even delivering a sermon to him on the morning of his inauguration during his first term. The admiration Jeffress has for Trump, 79, seems to go both ways, as the president has called the virulently anti-Catholic pastor “a wonderful man” and promoted his “great book,” A Place Called Heaven, in 2017.
"Ok. Here is where I hit the wall. The Pope has a MASTER OF DIVINITY degree and 50+ years of religious service.
TacoDon says 2 Corinthians.
People just be saying shit for the sake of stinking up a room." — Guy Johnson (comments)
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Jeffress, the grifter, is just another false prophet.
Duffy Rages: “The Radical Miserable Left” Hates My Reality Show Because It’s Too Wholesome, Too Patriotic
“The radical, miserable left has noticed our awesome Great American Road Trip trailer…and they hate it. It’s too wholesome. It’s too patriotic. It’s too joyful.
“They’re upset because they don’t want you to celebrate America! And they definitely don’t want you to teach your kids civics & patriotism. So they tell lies to undermine the mission.
“Here are the facts: 1. Production costs were paid for by the Great American Road Trip Inc., not taxpayers. Zero taxpayer dollars were spent on my family. 2. Neither myself nor my family received a salary or production royalties. The five part series will be freely accessible by the public on YouTube. 3. The series was filmed in short, one to two day production windows — such as weekends and the kids’ spring break.
“4. Career ethics and budget officials at the Department of Transportation reviewed and approved both my participation and individual travel in accordance with federal rules. 5. Under my leadership, DOT has become the most responsive, productive, and transformational in its history — modernizing air traffic control, hiring 20% more controllers annually than my predecessor, moving grants at record speed, and removing illegal truck drivers from the road.
“Don’t let the haters stop you from visiting our spectacular national parks, monuments and sights in honor of America’s 250th birthday! Our message is really simple: to love America is to see America. So put the phone down, hit the open road, and rediscover what makes America great.” – Sean Duffy, bringing America together, last night on X.
"I don’t think anyone is aware of your fucking show, with all the airline mishaps and cancellations and passengers inconvenienced people sucked into plane engines. You are a totally talentless asshole." — Dwight Williamson (commentsO
"Oh honey, it's got nothing to do with patriotism, wholesomeness or joy. It's all about you not doing the job you were hired to do. If you want to do TV, go back where you come from and stop trying to run a federal department!" — CloG (comments)
"All. the assholes in this administration ever fucking do is bitch and moan. Biggest bunch of whiny ass titty babies I’ve ever seen." — Bog (comments)
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That'll be the day, asswipe! And WTF are you doing with a stupid "reality show" when you have a real job? Failure of stupid here.
Sculptor Was Ordered To Make Trump Statue Skinnier
The Miami New Times reports:
A towering, gold-leaf statue of President Donald Trump was unveiled with great fanfare on Wednesday at Trump National Doral golf course, in a dedication ceremony that included a prayer from a MAGA-aligned pastor who put the president on speakerphone. But the artist behind it had choice words when asked about the two-year creation process. “This was a clusterfuck,” Ohio-based sculptor Alan Cottrill tells New Times.
“I usually deal with people that have everything organized. From the start, this was chaos,” Cottrill says. “I have 400 life-size or larger statues around the country. The patron sets a date when they want it installed, and I have it installed on that date. And almost never, anytime whatsoever, does anyone miss a payment, because I always do what I say I’ll do, and the patron always does what they say they’re going to.”
That wasn’t the case with the 15-foot (22 feet when you include the platform) Trump statue. Demands to nix the turkey neck and make the model skinnier, missed payments, and calls to install the statue last-minute — no Cottrill commission has been as complicated as the statue dubbed “Don Colossus.”
"What did this idiot sculpture expect when accepting a trump-related commission ." — DenveRyk
"I’m sure the sculptor was also told to give the statue something larger than a micropenis." — Guido (comments)
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The insecure coward shows us this is exactly what he is with this creation of an image of self-grandeur.
No excuses accepted from the "sculptor" that took the 30 pieces of silver.
How Rightwing Billionaires Created a Faux Movement and Used It to Rob America Blind — Thom Hartmann
While Americans were trained to fear immigrants, trans kids, and each other, the billionaire class quietly extracted trillions from the middle class and captured the nation’s politics, media & courts.
For decades, many Democrats have suspected what’s now being confirmed in plain English by a Trump insider. Ashley St. Clair — the 27-year-old former Turning Point USA brand ambassador and mother of one of Elon’s 14 kids who built a million-follower platform on X and became one of MAGA’s most visible young women — has spent the past few weeks blowing the lid off the entire racket.
In a series of TikTok monologues and a recent feature in The Washington Post, she’s describing in detail how the Republican’s right-wing influencer economy actually works, and her bottom line is brutal: she estimates that “roughly 99 percent” of the largest right-wing influencers are compensated in some form, most of it locked behind nondisclosure agreements so airtight that anyone who tries to talk about it will get buried under litigation they can’t afford.
According to St. Clair, GOP consulting firms (some run by former White House officials) run platforms where wealthy donors and Republican political operatives can list influence campaigns, and influencers will sign up to push specific scripts, petitions, or even GOP legislative messaging on a per-click rate or for a flat fee.
There’s no disclosure requirement because the content is “political” rather than “commercial” and the Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled that political lies (“speech”) are protected in ways that wouldn’t be the case for lies told to simply make money.
She’s shared screenshots of DMs offering thousands per post, and she’s detailed coordinated group chats on X where administration officials and Trump’s team can push talking points to the biggest accounts in real time.
Smaller influencers and the mainstream media see the resulting wave of identical posts across social media, assume it’s an organic movement, and jump on the bandwagon, creating an even larger echo chamber for rightwing talking points that benefit billionaires or monopolistic corporations.br>
It isn’t. As she put it: “There is no free thinking here. They are waiting to get marching orders and a direct deposit.”...
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Robbing us blind with their fountain pens.
Trump: We Won’t Rejoin WHO Despite Hantavirus
REPORTER: “Do you have an update on the hantavirus?”
TRUMP: “We have it. We have very good people looking at it. It seems to be okay. They know the virus very well. They’ve worked with it for a long time. They know it very well, not easy to pass on. So we hope that’s true.“
REPORTER: “On the hantavirus, will you reconsider leaving the World Health Organization because of the outbreak of hantavirus?”
TRUMP: “No, we seem to have things under very good control. They know that virus very well. It’s been around a long time. Not easily transferable, unlike COVID. But we’ll see. We’re studying it very closely. We have very good people studying it very closely.”
After taking a few questions, Trump boarded his helicopter to fly off to host a LIV golf tournament at his Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia.
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He doesn't give a shit, America.
Trump in red ink calamity as media company loses $400 million in last quarter — Adam Lynch
A recent SEC filing reveals President Donald Trump’s Truth Social’s parent company, Trump Media and Technology Group, sloughed off more than $400 million last quarter and brought in only a few hundred thousand dollars in sales.
Trump’s family may be cashing in big through government contracts and federally-enabled crypto schemes, but the president’s own social media company appears to be bleeding.
The company reported only $871,200 in revenue in the first three months of 2026, but also revealed a nearly $406 million net loss in 2026, which amounted to a total $387.8 million loss after accounting for earnings, taxes, depreciation, and amortization.
The company blamed its $405.9 million net loss and a $387.8 million Adjusted EBITDA loss for “non-cash losses including unrealized losses on digital assets, digital assets pledged, and equity securities, accreted interest, and stock-based compensation.”
Despite the red ink, the company claims “a strong balance sheet” and that it will be “continuing to pursue all its strategic priorities, including expanding and enhancing its flagship Truth Social and Truth+ platforms.”
Company representatives also skewed optimistic claiming Truth Social “is currently developing or testing numerous new features,” which include expanding international offerings and updating the look of the platform....
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Everything Trump touches dies!
Panic sets in as GOP donors realize money can't buy elections anymore — thanks to Trump — Roxanne Cooper
Republicans are sitting on a $300 million war chest but facing growing anxiety about how and when that money will be deployed ahead of the critical midterm elections, according to a new report from Politico.
GOP donors and operatives are growing increasingly restless as Trump's team remains tight-lipped about its overall campaign strategy and spending allocation. Michigan GOP Chair Jim Runestad expressed the senti
ment shared across the party: while state officials want resources deployed sooner, they acknowledge that "the resources are just going to be like we've never seen before," but specifics remain unclear.
However, the massive war chest may not be enough to overcome the fundamental challenges facing Republicans. The ongoing Iran war, rising inflation, and high gas prices are creating headwinds that money alone cannot solve. Donors privately acknowledge that these economic and geopolitical challenges pose greater threats than campaign spending can address. As one donor bluntly stated: "Their concern is first and foremost not, 'Am I going to get $2 million in my race?' but, 'Is gas $6?'"...
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Death becomes them.
Marco Rubio Humiliated By Pope Leo — john Amato
Rubio gave a football as a gift, while the Pop gave a symbol of peace.
The Vatican did not put lipstick on a pig after Secretary of State Marco Rubio's visit with Pope Leo, instead offering terse responses.
Pope Leo gave Rubio a pen made from an olive branch, and he noted that the olive branch is a symbol of peace. On the flip side, Rubio gave Pope Leo a crystal football with the State Department sealed....
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Rubio IS a pig! Of that there can be NO doubt.
But turn off auto-correct John, or proof read it.
Iowa Lobbyist Offered $100 Cash To Attend Vance Rally
The Iowa Starting Line reports:
An Iowa lobbyist was caught offering $100 cash payments—plus referral bonuses—to pack JD Vance’s Des Moines rally this week. Just hours before Vice President JD Vance took the stage in Des Moines, an ethanol lobbyist with deep connections in the Reynolds administration offered money to contacts willing to attend the rally.
“Gentlemen, Jake Swanson here,” he wrote in a text message. “I wanted to invite you to join me in seeing Vice President JD Vance this afternoon in Des Moines. I do some work for an ethanol company and so if you’re able to join, I will give you $100, and for anyone that you recruit, an additional $25. No limit on referrals, so if someone recruits a group of 20 to show up, that’s $500.”
Read the full article. As was reported here, Vance made headlines at the rally by claiming that Democrats take money meant for poor children and give it to “fraudsters.”
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And the dumb turd still couldn't get a crowd! LMAO!
WH Promotes Christian Nationalist Rally On Natl Mall
USA Today reports:
A national prayer event meant to unite the country will largely reflect just one faith. President Donald Trump’s May 17 National Jubilee of Prayer, Praise, and Thanksgiving on the National Mall is designed to “gather a broad assembly of voices united by a love of God and country,” according to a May 1 release.
The Christianity-focused gathering comes as some historians and religious groups are accusing Trump of promoting Christian nationalism, rather than religious freedom, and misleadingly rewriting the story of the nation’s founding.
The Rev. Paul Raushenbush, CEO of the Interfaith Alliance, a group suing the Trump administration, called the Christianity-heavy national prayer event “intentionally exclusive.” “This is really an affront to the American religious community,” said Raushenbush, a Baptist minister.
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The stay-uninformed and support fascism faith.
AL Speaker Calls For Overturning 14th Amendment
Raw Story reports:
“Say what now?” Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Kyle Whitmire wrote on X, reacting to comments from Alabama House Speaker Nathaniel Ledbetter on Friday. The GOP state Speaker told local media, “I certainly hope the Supreme Court will overturn Amendment 14,” as the state moves to redistrict. The Fourteenth Amendment promises equal protection under the law, as well as due process and birthright and naturalized citizenship.
Ledbetter told the press that the Alabama House is still seeking more power to change their state’s elections, saying, “all we need now is the courts to overturn Fourteen, and we can look at the election.” Joyce Vance, former U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama, noted that “this is the same legislative body a court found engaged in intentional racial discrimination in drawing voting maps.”
"They're going 'full Confederacy.'" — Gustav2 (comments)
"I guess it's time for Federal Troops in schools again.
Time for RECONSTRUCTION TO RESUME.
Time to find white men hanging from trees for a change." — Maternal Fornication (comments)
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May this racist traitor get his just desserts.
Susie Wiles: You’ll Find Out Trump Did Win In 2020
The Daily Mail reports:
White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles took center stage at a glamorous Washington, DC, gala on Thursday evening. During rare public remarks, Wiles hinted that the US is about to “find out” that Donald Trump actually won states that he lost during the 2020 election.
“I think we are going to find out he actually did win,” she told gathered guests. The Independent Women’s Forum, a conservative, non-profit organization focused on policy issues, honored Wiles with its Barbara K. Olson Woman of Valor award at the Waldorf Astoria on Thursday evening....
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So sick, retarded and arrogant, this fool will go to her grave taking it with her.
This was John Roberts’ plan all along — David Daley
The chief justice has declared that the Court is not political. The facts — and his own history — say otherwise
Maybe John Roberts is getting uneasy that the American people are onto him.
“I think they view us as truly political actors, which I don’t think is an accurate understanding of what we do,” he told a conference of lawyers and judges in Pennsylvania. “We’re not simply part of the political process.”
It was certainly an interesting week for the chief justice to express his befuddlement that so many Americans see Supreme Court justices as politicians wearing red and blue robes. For one thing, the rest of the conservative supermajority was off message. Justice Neil Gorsuch was busy telling right-wing podcaster Megyn Kelly that young conservatives need to have the conviction to live their values. Just a couple weeks ago, Justice Clarence Thomas delivered a speech that compared progressives to Hitler....
Roberts understood that it would be easier to enact his reactionary agenda if he could maintain the illusion that the Court functioned above the grubby influence of partisan politics....
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Like all Nazis, his day is coming to an end.
Trump's giant gold statue at his golf club triggers online disgust and disbelief — Bennito L. Keity
Trump's giant gold statue of himself at his Doral Golf Club in Miami was met with online disgust by people who couldn't believe that anyone would want or applaud such a vanity project.
"What's wrong with people," wrote journalist James Surowiecki on X, reacting to video of the statue and a photo of a pastor dedicating it in Trump's honor.
Even Saddam didn't do this s---," noted writer and podcast host Jim Stewartson, referring to Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. "He is so far gone."...
"How did our country get captured by this cult?" asked economic writer Noah Smith.
"I guess they couldn't make it a calf," joked journalist Jonah Goldberg. "Still..."
"This is hilarious," activist and writer Wilfred Reilly said. "Big bro built a golden statue of himself, and made a pet preacher bless it."...
"It's obvious to me that every building, policy, memory of this convicted felon, pedophile rapist's existence has violated must be destroyed the day his cowardly gigantic ass is thrown out on the streets again. Keep the fukking bribe plane scumbag. Fly yourself into exile to Russia or even Israel for all I care. In fact deport his entire evil family. None of them are more than first generation anchor babies anyway." — djs (comments)
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Just think! Another good target for turd throwing contests!
"Hit the dummy and win a prize!"
And that was no preacher that blessed it.
He and Mussolini will have much in common in the end.
Corporate Hospitals Bilking Americans as GOP Destroys Health Care — Whitney Curry Wimbish
The largest corporate health care hospitals in the country are consolidating their power and using it to rip off patients, a new study from Families USA shows. Released amid the GOP’s manufactured affordability crisis, the study shows that health care executives at a handful of corporations are setting “high and irrational prices” in every state and charging patients almost three times what Medicare pays for the exact same service.
The 15 largest systems charged an average of 282 percent more than the Medicare rate, the study found, resulting in $22 million in profit per hospital per year.
Executives are charging patients the most in Colorado, Florida, Georgia, New Mexico, South Carolina, West Virginia, and Wisconsin, where average corporate hospital prices are even higher, between 320 and 365 percent more than the Medicare rate.
The reason hospital executives can do this is because they are consolidating at a rapid clip, buying up independent providers, and jacking up prices at will. Five or fewer corporations in 42 states and the District of Columbia “controlled at least half of all hospital care in 2023,” researchers found. In almost half of all states, just three corporations controlled the majority of hospital care. Hospital executives have no competition or regulations to discipline their price-gouging, so they “can charge basically whatever they want, because they can,” said Anthony Wright, executive director of Families USA.
“The question is what Congress will do to confront these corporations and contain these health care costs,” he said. “Americans cannot afford the care they need.”...
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When billionaire baron roobers get control this is where we end up!
Has Trump Considered Shutting the Eff Up? — Adrian Carrasquillo
One Speed Only
by Andrew Egger
Something weird’s been happening lately. Donald Trump will be doing some unremarkable event surrounded with cheerful citizens, sometimes children. He makes small talk, banters with them, as one does. Only the small talk often turns out to be insane MAGA gobbledygook, like an in-person reenactment of Trump’s latest Truth Social rant.
Just this week, Trump staged an Oval Office event announcing his revival of the Presidential Physical Fitness Award, the annual grade-school fitness contest. “Barack Hussein Obama—have you heard of him?” the president groused to the kids around him. “The Obama administration phased out this wonderful tradition. Thank you, Barack, very much. Great job.” When one boy told him he was planning to try powerlifting, Trump immediately began yammering about the unfairness of biological males participating in women’s powerlifting—before suggesting he didn’t think this kid (who looked all of 13) would stoop to such tactics: “I don’t think we have to worry about you.”
Or consider last month, when Trump used an even more implausible event—the White House Easter Egg Roll—to share some of his favorite conspiracy theories about Joe Biden. “He was incapable of signing his name, so they’d follow him around with a big machine,” Trump told a table of coloring children. “Do you know what it was called? An autopen. He’d have the autopen sign for him. . . . That’s not too good, right?”
Or how about his tax-week stunt with DoorDash? Trump’s choreographed “delivery” last month of McDonald’s to the White House was supposed to be a straightforward victory lap on his affordability accomplishments for service workers. Instead, Trump peppered “DoorDash Grandma” Sharon Simmons with questions about whether she’d voted for him and whether men should play in women’s sports. “I really don’t have an opinion on that,” Simmons demurred. “I’m here about no tax on tips.”
Now Andrew, you might say, this is not new. And you’d be right, to a point: Trump has a longstanding habit of injecting his particular manias into even the most incongruous proceedings: During last year’s Thanksgiving Turkey Pardoning, Trump joked that “some of my more enthusiastic staffers” had been drafting paperwork to ship the turkeys “straight to the terrorist confinement center in El Salvador.” Already during Trump’s first term, it was a running joke that he could never hold himself in the register of respectability for long—and that it was some monumental accomplishment when he could make it the length of a full speech without major incident (“today is the day Trump truly became president”)....
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Manic depressives can't shut the fuck up!
Justin Jones Burning The Confederate Flag In The TN State Capitol. That's It, That's The Post — Evan Hurst
Yesterday, the Ku Klux Klan, we mean Tennessee state Legislature, rushed through new maps to eliminate the state’s last remaining Democratic congressional seat in Congress, and racist pigfuck Governor Bill Lee signed them, because that’s what white supremacists do when Donald Trump’s partisan hack Supreme Court says it’s unconstitutional for them not to hurt Black people by gutting the last remaining piece of the Voting Rights Act.
The lawsuits are already being filed, and to be sure, Republicans don’t even understand the war they started yesterday. As we wrote, it’s useful to remember that Republicans always, 100 percent of the time, overplay their hands.
We quoted Tennessee state Rep. Justin Pearson, who until yesterday was running in a primary against long-serving Congressman Steve Cohen to represent what was the Ninth District, in Memphis. We guess how exactly that will end up is undetermined at this exact moment, but Pearson said earlier this week at a rally that “[I]f we keep marching, if we keep pressing, if we keep fighting, the future that our descendants will live into will be a better one than this one. And our message to the Republican Party, our message to that racist, white-supremacist president Donald Trump is that we will fight.”
Pearson, if you remember, is one of the two Black men in the Tennessee Three, back when the grand wizards of the Tennessee Lege first bent over and showed everybody their Klan-hood-shaped buttplugs, expelling the two men from the state House for taking to the House floor to try to defend their constituents against gun violence. Also for being Black men, because they didn’t expel the white woman, Knoxville Rep. Gloria Johnson, for being part of the same protest. (Voters of course sent the two Justins right the fuck back to the Legislature.)
Both Justins were of course present yesterday to witness what white supremacist Tennessee Republicans really think was the Birth of a Nation. And there were many protests in the Tennessee state Capitol yesterday. Justin Jones of Nashville set a Confederate flag on fire, or at least a paper version of it.
And then he stomped that sad loser little bitch of a flag — a flag the greatest losers who ever lived died defending, and their family legacies are less valuable than dried dogshit because of it — right on out.
"The South will not rise again, until it’s paid for all its sins of racism and white supremacy." — "Brother Jones."
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Damn the CSA traitors. May it all burn to a grease spot!
Was the 2024 Election Stolen, Not by Ballots, but by Algorithms? — Thom Hartmann
New data suggests social media algorithms didn’t just influence voters; they may have tilted the entire outcome.
It sure looks like tech billionaires and foreign dictatorships gave us Trump in 2024. This is as bad as the massive Russian bot presence on Facebook and Twitter back in 2016 that Robert Mueller documented gave Trump the presidency the last time.
A peer-reviewed study released yesterday in Nature, the world’s most prestigious scientific journal, has finally put hard numbers to what a lot of us suspected the moment the 2024 election was called for Trump (and Republicans in Congress) by the big networks: the algorithms that control our largest social media platforms intentionally and explicitly tilted the playing field, and they tilted it for Donald Trump and the GOP.
Researchers at New York University Abu Dhabi created hundreds of “sock puppet” TikTok accounts in New York, Texas, and Georgia (via VPN), uploaded to them either pro-Democratic or pro-Republican videos to show their political leanings, and then watched what TikTok’s algorithm fed back to them every day over the 27 weeks leading up to Election Day.
Across more than 280,000 recommendations, Republican-seeded accounts received about 11.5 percent more “party-aligned content” than their Democratic counterparts, while the pro-Democratic accounts were force-fed 7.5 percent more attacks from the other side. As Professor Talal Rahwan put it:
“The algorithm wasn’t just giving people what they want; it was giving one side more of what the other side says about them.”
The pro-rightwing bias was even more dramatic when researchers looked at how the candidates’ own accounts did. Candidate Trump’s official TikTok videos were pushed to Democratic-leaning users 27 percent of the time, while Kamala Harris’s videos only reached Republican-leaning users just 15.3 percent of the time.
Translation: Leading up to the 2024 election, TikTok was working overtime to expose Democrats and lefties to MAGA’s most persuasive messaging, all while shielding rightwingers, independents, and Republican voters from Harris’s voice. ...
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How many elections are we going to let this criminal steal before we shove his ass in stir?
TikTok Algorithm Favored Conservative Content in 2024 POTUS Race, Study Suggests — Chris Walker
Democratic users were 7.5 percent more likely to get GOP-backed content than videos matching their own political views.
A new study examining the algorithms of the social media site TikTok appears to suggest that content users received on the platform skewed more politically conservative during the 2024 presidential election, regardless of a user’s personal preferences.
Researchers Talal Rahwan and Yasir Zaki at New York University’s Abu Dhabi campus created over 300 “dummy” bot accounts to mimic real-life users during the 2024 race. The bots “lived” in Democratic-leaning New York, Republican-leaning Texas, and the “purple” state of Georgia.
After creating the accounts, the researchers trained some to follow and react positively to Democratic messaging, while others were trained to support Republican content. Afterward, the researchers monitored the accounts’ “For You” pages for 27 weeks during the campaign, analyzing over 280,000 videos that were suggested by TikTok.
For the Republican bots, the outcome was predictable: the algorithm resulted in an 11.5 percent higher chance that they’d see more Republican-leaning content than Democratic-leaning posts
But for the Democratic bots, it was different. Those accounts were 7.5 percent more likely to see Republican posts than Democratic ones....
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Hornswaggled again!
Lindsey Graham freaks out that GOP's redistricting push will backfire in home state — David Edwards
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) cautioned that a redistricting attempt in South Carolina could backfire because of the state's large Black population.
"I would recommend that everybody look at the map and see if it's a net positive [for Republicans]," Graham told SCETV News in an interview this week. "It's up to the state legislature to do this, but in trying to pick up a seat, you don't want to jeopardize other seats."
So I've been told, and I've — this is accurate — that three Republican districts go from the mid-60s to the mid-50s, that the new 6th district will be 51% Republican," he continued. "That's not exactly a runaway. So when it comes to the map, I understand people are trying to pick up a seat."
Graham urged Republicans to use common sense when gerrymandering the state.
"If the end of the day we create a map that gives Democrats more competitive opportunity, what have you gained?" he noted. "You may pick up one seat, you may risk two or three others."...
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"Oh, gollygosh! We WERE morons for starting this shit, weren't we?" he now says.
Ex-aide warns White House has secret 'Doomsday' plan – and Trump may be plotting to use it — Alexander Willis
Former Homeland Security Chief of Staff Miles Taylor issued a dire warning Friday about a secret instruction book hidden in a “secure location” at the White House that contains a catalog of pre-drafted executive orders that would allow the president to do "extraordinary things” — powers that Taylor feared President Donald Trump may soon invoke.
“After I served in Donald Trump’s administration, ultimately as chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security, one of the possibilities that worried me most was that the wrong person would gain access to that book,” Taylor wrote in a report published Friday in The i Paper.
“The President himself – although I once heard him refer to his ‘magical authorities’ to bypass legal constraints – did not fully understand the powers he possessed, I was told.”
Informally known as the “Doomsday Book,” Taylor explained that the secret book is secured in a location “known to only a handful of people,” and was created under the Eisenhower administration “to keep the country running if Washington was destroyed in a nuclear strike.” The pre-drafted executive orders included in the book would permit the president to censor the press, detain civilians, suspend communications and enact “what amounts to martial law,” Taylor wrote....
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Ok. It would mean certain doom for him as well.
Trump roasted as 'never-before-seen' data dump berated as another Epstein 'distraction' — David Edwards
The Department of Defense released what it called a "UFO" website Friday, but critics labeled it no more than a distraction.
In a Truth Social post in February, President Donald Trump said he would "be directing the Secretary of War, and other relevant Departments and Agencies, to begin the process of identifying and releasing Government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), and unidentified flying objects (UFOs)."
On Friday, the Pentagon unveiled the war.gov/ufo website, which showcases "never-before-seen" files and videos on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomenon (UAP).
The release was met with celebration from MAGA faithful, but others seemed to see through the move as a distraction from the war in Iran.
"I really don't care about the UFO files," former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) wrote. "I'm so sick of the 'look at the shiny object' propaganda while they wage foreign wars, let rapists and pedophiles run free, and ruin the value of our dollar."
"Now can you guys tell the truth about the girls school bombed in Iran?" she added. "And stop spending our money fighting another stupid war on behalf of Israel."
"Another distraction from the Epstein Files," popular military observer MenchOsint noted...
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Look, over there!
WaPo trashed as pro-billionaire editorial deemed 'most transparent' Bezos interference yet — Stephen Prager, Common Dreams
The architect of California’s wealth tax proposal called out The Washington Post and its multibillionaire owner, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, on Thursday for peddling what he said is “misinformation” to readers
Emmanuel Saez, a French economist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley, who was tapped by California’s largest union to design the tax proposal, singled out an opinion piece by the Washington Post editorial board from earlier this week that argues the proposal would backfire and cost California billions of dollars in tax revenue each year.
Saez said the article contains glaring falsehoods and omits key information about the proposal, which aims to create a one-time tax of 5% on the total assets of California’s roughly 200 billionaire residents in order to recoup about $100 billion in revenue for healthcare, food assistance, and education stripped from the state by last year’s Republican federal budget legislation, which will hand $1 trillion in tax breaks to the wealthiest 1% of Americans over the next 10 years.
The piece, published on Monday with the headline “California already losing with billionaire tax referendum,” argues that even if California voters don’t ultimately approve the measure, “the specter of such a wealth tax has already cost the state more in lost future revenue from income taxes than it would raise” due to an exodus of wealthy people from the state—an oft-used but weakly substantiated talking point by opponents of the measure.
The Post cited a paper by Jared Walczak, a visiting fellow at the California Tax Foundation, which it said demonstrates that billionaire flight “will cost California’s state government somewhere between $3.5 billion and $4.5 billion every year in other tax collections, and up to $19 billion in lost [gross domestic product].”...
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When money buys fascism this is what we get.
White House preservation group flattens lies in Trump’s ballroom court filing — Sarah K. Burris
...In a legal brief, Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward made four major errors with falsehoods, the Trust wrote in its response filed late Thursday, according to national security expert Marcy Wheeler.
"The Defendants make multiple factual representations to the Court that the Defendants’ counsel know to be false," the filing explains.
First, the National Trust said the White House claimed they were “shown detailed plans and specifications of this knitted, unified and cohesive structure by Top Officers and Leaders in both the Military and Secret Service.”
"This statement is false: The National Trust has never been shown non-public plans or specifications of any sort," the National Trust explained. They went further, citing the DOJ's filing, which claimed that doing so would compromise "the interests of national security."
The second falsehood the National Trust listed addresses the DOJ's claim that the National Trust was “asked by the United States Military not to bring this suit because of the Top Secret nature of the important facility being built." It's outright false, the National Trust said.
Third, the DOJ claimed that “Congress has never dictated or tampered with the zoning, permitting or architectural aspects” of any White House project.
The National Trust called it false, but further pointed out that in a previous filing, the DOJ acknowledged that Congress “inject[ed] itself into White House architectural choices” during the 1949 renovation.
Finally, the DOJ made a bizarre assertion that the National Trust's case is claiming standing based on a woman "walking her dog in the vicinity of the White House."
In fact, the standing is a National Trust board member, "who is the former senior historian at the Historic American Buildings Survey of the National Park Service, the former Vice President of the D.C. Preservation League, the author of six books on American vernacular architecture and a regular visitor to President’s Park."...
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This is another boondoggle by Trump's Crime Syndicate.
Nothing but another disgrace.
Trump's Ballroom Grift & The RW Influencer Revolt — Cliff Schecter
...and the most ruthless Chuck Grassley take you’ll hear from Cliff, including that he’s the only sitting senator who voted against...
Yes, very serious issues were discussed. But serious issues are always discussed on Amped Up. Sometimes, we have to laugh so we don’t cry, and this was one of those moments. If you’ve never seen Shuster fully off a leash, he could’ve added an Emmy for Best Comedy Performance on a Live to the one he got as an MSNBC anchor.
Underneath the laughs was something real. Bob discussed the Trump-ballroom shakedown—Chuck Grassley quietly tacking $1 billion in “security” onto a DHS bill as 20 million Americans lose ACA subsidies, after 4.3 million families lost their SNAP benefits, and the predator class cheats, steals and does whatever it takes to protect their power....
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The naked embezzling keeps flowing on!
Trump is losing — and his fragile ego can't handle the defeat — Robert Reich
We are witnessing what happens to a person who is consumed with the need to dominate but cannot.
Iran is unlikely to give in. It can withstand the economic pressure of a blockade better than Trump can withstand the political pressure that comes with rising gas prices (now nearly $4.50 a gallon, on average), soon followed by rising food prices.
His looming failure in Iran is not just a serious geopolitical defeat for the United States; it’s a personal crisis for Trump.
Those rising prices coupled with an increasingly unpopular war have increased the likelihood that Democrats will take back control of the House and even possibly the Senate in the upcoming midterms.
Here again, not just a political defeat for the Republican Party but a personal crisis for Trump.
His ego cannot accept a humiliating loss, as we saw after the 2020 election. His need to bully, dominate, and gain submission is so hardwired inside his insecure head that the defeats he’s now facing — to Iran and to Democrats — are already setting off explosions....
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Bullies are always exposed as frauds.
His great danger now are the thugs he has hired to do his dirty work.
'SHAME! SHAME! SHAME!' Chants And Horns As Tennessee GOP Pass New Jim Crow Maps — Karoli Kuns
After Republicans carved up Memphis, the one district where Black people were represented, they passed maps guaranteeing no representation for Black people.
You would think that if Republicans were so sure their policies were the right ones for their states and the country, they would want everyone to vote and everyone to be represented. You would be wrong about that.
After Sam Alito opened the floodgates for southern states to revert to the New Jim Crow era, Tennessee legislators rushed to carve up Memphis, the only district represented by a Democrat and comprised of majority Black voters, which they hope will help them have 9 Republicans representing Tennessee in the midterms.
Worse yet, the requirement that voters be notified of any change to their polling place has been eliminated as well. The Tennessee Coalition for Open Government observed that the bill eliminates that requirement and instead requires county election commissions only to publish notice of the redrawn congressional districts on their “official website, if one exists....”
I reiterate: If Republicans are so sure of winning, why do they have to cheat?
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Land of the Happy Negro state fucks our Constitution because of demented Nazi bag of shit.
Make them pay dearly!
Trump Goes On Predawn Spree Of Meme Postings
Yahoo News reports:
President Donald Trump emerged from his slumber early Friday morning, sharing a flurry of images boasting about oil prices, the stock market and a bonkers meme about using lasers on an Iranian military plane.
The posting began at 5:41 a.m. ET, when Trump took to Truth Social to post a picture of himself in front of the White House with UFC honcho Dana White as fighter jets soar overhead, an advertisement for the upcoming fight on the White House lawn. “June 14th. Biggest ever!!!” Trump wrote of the event, which falls on his 80th birthday.
A fraction of a second later, Trump shared a meme of a U.S. warship firing a laser at an exploding fighter jet sporting an Iranian flag. “Lasers: Bing, bing, GONE!!!” the text alongside the image reads.
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Someone keep the child away from the cellphone!
State Dept May Close Some Mexican Consulates In US
Reuters reports:
The U.S. Department of State has started a ?review of the more than 50 Mexican consulates operating in the United States, a State Department official said on Thursday. The move, which comes amid tense relations between Mexico and the U.S., could result ?in the closure of some diplomatic offices, the official said.
“Department of State ?is constantly reviewing all aspects of American foreign relations to ensure they ?are in line with the president’s America First foreign policy agenda and advance ?American interests,” Dylan Johnson, assistant secretary of state for global public affairs, said when reached ?for comment.
Mexican immigrants have the largest immigrant population in the United ?States with at least 37 million people of Mexican origin living in the ?U.S. As ?a ?result, Mexico – with whom the U.S. shares a southern border – has an expansive foreign consular network in the United States with its offices providing an array of services for residents, including legal services.
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The retarded "government" of our country.
Federal Judge Rules DOGE Cuts Were “Blatantly” Racist
ABC News reports:
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency “blatantly used” race, gender and other protected characteristics to execute the largest mass termination of federal grants in the history of the National Endowment for the Humanities, a federal judge ruled on Thursday.
U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon declared the terminations unlawful, concluded that the DOGE staffers lacked the authority to make those decisions, and blocked the Trump administration from carrying out the grant terminations.
“There can be no serious dispute that the review process implemented by DOGE did not conform to, or even resemble, NEH’s ordinary grant-review process,” Judge McMahon wrote.
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Duh! What did they expect with a racist at its head?
And the great robbery of the U.S. Treasury continues!
Trump Claims Hantavirus Is “Very Much Under Control”
The Independent reports:
Donald Trump gave a less-than-assuring response when asked how concerned the public should be about the deadly rat virus outbreak on a cruise ship. While speaking to reporters at the Lincoln Memorial’s reflecting pool, the 79-year-old president was pressed on whether he had been briefed on hantavirus.
“It’s very much, we hope, under control. It was the ship, and I think we’re going to make a full report about it tomorrow. We have a lot of people, it’s a lot of great people that are studying it, and it should be fine. We hope,” Trump said.
When asked if Americans should be worried that the hantavirus could spread further, the president could only offer, “I hope not, I mean I hope not. We’ll do the best we can.”
"We’ll do the best we can.”
Translation: "We aren't doing shit. Where's my ballroom?" — xzargo (comments)
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Second verse, same as the first!
Insanity defined!
Trump Appears To Call ABC Reporter “Bitch” [VIDEO]
The Daily Beast reports:
“Mr. President, you are here against the backdrop of the war in Iran. Why focus on all these projects right now? We’re still seeing gas prices soaring?” ABC’s Rachel Scott asked as Trump interrupted. “You know why? Because I want to keep our country beautiful and safe. Beautiful also,” the 79-year-old repeated. “That’s such a stupid question that you asked. We’re fixing up the reflecting pond,” Trump said, again getting the body of water wrong.
“This is one of the worst reporters,” Trump grumbled. “She’s with ABC fake news and she’s a horror show. She’s saying, ‘Why would you bother fixing this up?’ Why would I bother taking 11 or 12 truckloads of filth out of the water in front of the Lincoln monument,” Trump complained, mistating that site as well.
He shook his head, smirked, and made a comment that the microphones didn’t pick up. The Daily Beast has reached out to the White House in light of online speculation that he appeared to use the word “bitch” in reference to Scott.
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We used to put people this sick in hopspitals. If we can't see he's sick there is some deep sickness in ourselves. Doug Burgum is a disgrace as well, smirking like a jackass moron.
Trump Drives Across Lincoln Reflecting Pool [VIDEO]
Washington DC’s NBC affiliate reports:
President Donald Trump on Thursday went on an unannounced trip to the Lincoln Memorial to see the Reflecting Pool after he had it coated in a color he calls “American flag blue.” He did more than just see it — the Republican president was driven across the new coating before he got out of his SUV to make a statement and answer questions from reporters who had been taken there to await his arrival before the sun set.
The new blue coating will hide the pool’s gray stone, a color Trump said was “never good.” The project cost nearly $2 million, he said. “It never had the color people wanted, but now it’s going to have the great color,” he said, standing in the pool surrounded by some of his Cabinet secretaries, including Doug Burgum of Interior and Markwayne Mullin of Homeland Security.
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The Trump insanity continues.
I read the right-wing women’s magazine sex issue so you don’t have to — Amanda Marcotte
Evie magazine, conservatism's answer to Cosmo, tried to make "trad" sexy. It failed
“Body count? One. Orgasms? Countless,” reads the caption over a photograph of a woman’s crotch, which is bare except for some strategically-placed flower petals. Another illustration shows a woman’s hand resting on a man’s naked back. The awkwardly-worded motto reads “Make him hard, not his life.”
No, this isn’t your mother’s conservative Christianity. But in many ways, Evie Magazine is selling something worse.
Every few years or so, the Christian right takes another pass at the impossible task of making fundamentalism look sexy or cool. These efforts tend to end in failure: Dorky youth ministers wearing clothes that are 10 years out of date while assuring their young charges that sex is better if you wait for marriage. Christian rock concerts full of sheltered teenagers. Glossy youth magazines with fashion and dating advice that falls short of its secular counterparts.
Evie Magazine is the latest iteration of these long-standing efforts to sell fundamentalism to young people with “hip” packaging. The young women’s magazine has admittedly been more successful than its predecessors, mostly due to what seems like a large infusion of cash that allows both its website and print edition to ape the expensive look of its worldly competitors, like Teen Vogue or Cosmopolitan. In its seven years of existence, Evie has strived to escape the cringeworthy reputation of evangelical youth culture by featuring scantily-clad models and even risqué content — which is supposed to be for married women only....
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The retarded sickness is permeating our culture.
Trump 'painfully' confused as 'true weakness' exposed — Thomas Kika
President Donald Trump is "painfully, obviously baffled," according to a scathing new takedown from the New York Times, as he runs headlong into his "true weakness": people who cannot be bought or threatened into compliance.
On Thursday, prominent conservative Trump critic David French published the piece, writing that the Iran war has revealed "a kind of person who truly flummoxes Trump, the person he just can’t understand — the true believer." His inability to handle collisions with these sorts of people, he explained, is one of the major reasons why he is flailing so badly as he attempts to bring the disastrous conflict to a swift conclusion.
"From pardons to prediction markets, the transactional nature of the Trump administration is perhaps its most obvious characteristic," French wrote. "And transactional people often soothe their own consciences with the belief that everyone else is ultimately transactional as well — the only question is their price. But that’s wrong. Not everyone is transactional. Some people — for better and for worse — actually have beliefs that they’re willing to die for, and Trump is painfully, obviously baffled when he encounters belief like that."...
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He baffles with bullshit!
John Roberts Is George Wallace With A Harvard Law Degree — Miles Mogulescu
What the infamous segregationist from Alabama could not accomplish with violence, the US Supreme Court Justice has accomplished with a pen.
George Wallace was sworn in as Governor of Alabama in 1963 and famously declared in his inauguration speech (written by a Ku Klux Klan leader) “segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.” Two years later, Alabama state troopers violently broke up a nighttime voting rights march during which a police officer shot and killed young African American protester and Baptist deacon Jimmie Lee Jackson who was unarmed and protecting his mother.
In response, civil rights leaders, including Martin Luther King and John Lewis, organized a mass march from Selma to Montgomery over the Edmund Pettus Bridge in an attempt to deliver a civil rights and voting rights message to Gov. Wallace. It became known as “Bloody Sunday” as state troopers gassed and beat the protestors, including fracturing Lewis’ skull and sending 57 others to the hospital. Televised images of the brutal attack shocked the nation, directly leading to President Johnson’s push for the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Numerous Americans, black and white, were injured and even died fighting for the Civil Rights Act. John Roberts and his five Republican Supreme Court colleagues effectively overturned the Civil Rights Act and essentially disenfranchised black voters.
George Wallace tried to disenfranchise black voters with violent state troopers. Roberts disenfranchised black voters with the stroke of a pen. It’s not hyperbole to say that while Roberts wears the black robes of a judge, he may as well wear the white robes of the Klan....
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All the same. But no hot wheels yet.
John Roberts: Wahh! Wahh! You People Don't Understand Us! — Susie Madrak
Roberts complained at a conference of lawyers in Hershey, Pennsylvania, according to the report.
John Roberts is having a little hissy fit over how Americans view the court as "truly political actors." He also added that the court takes great effort to "figure out what the Constitution means," even though he acknowledged that some of the court's decisions are "unpopular.
Roberts made the comments at a conference of lawyers in Hershey, Pennsylvania, according to the report.
“I think at a very basic level, people think we’re making policy decisions, [that] we’re saying we think this is what things should be as opposed to this is what the law provides,” Roberts said. “I think they view us as truly political actors, which I don’t think is an accurate understanding of what we do. I would say that’s the main difficulty.”
Clearly, some of those "people" who don't understand legal reasoning include Justices Sonia Sotomayer, Elana Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson, who all simply lack the legal brilliance and judicial temperament Robert and his chorus of yes-men illustrate.
Roberts also criticized Americans who think the court has become part of the political process.
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Of course, it never occurs to an arrogant fascist that it's the other way around.
Fuck Roberts. Relegate him to the dustbin of history.
‘Shame!: Utah Residents Livid After Shark Tank Billionaire’s Data Center Approved -- Stephen Prager
The project, which residents were informed of just last week, is expected to more than double Utah’s electricity usage, hike its carbon footprint by 50%, and potentially drain more water from the depleted Great Salt Lake.
County commissioners in Box Elder County, Utah, were deluged with chants of “Shame! Shame! Shame!” from a crowd of hundreds on Monday night as they voted unanimously to move forward with a sprawling “hyperscale” artificial intelligence data center project that many residents fear will cause energy prices to soar and imperil water access.
The project, known by state officials as “Stratos,” was proposed by the celebrity venture capitalist Kevin O’Leary and has been rushed along by Utah’s Military Installation Development Authority, which recently approved a gigantic energy tax break for the program to help “lure” the billionaire “Shark Tank” investor....
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And they wonder why they are hated like the lying scum of the planet they are.
Billionaires appear to be our worst enemy surpassing cancer.
Sen. Foghorn Leghorn: Maybe Obama And Stephen Colbert “Should Get A Motel Room Or Something”
Yahoo News reports:
Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) launched a tirade on Wednesday night as he mocked former President Barack Obama’s interview with late-night host Stephen Colbert, quipping that the pair “ought to get a motel room.” Obama sat down with Colbert for an interview that aired on Tuesday’s episode of The Late Show, in which he urged a return to “basic norms” and warned against any president using the Justice Department to prosecute political opponents, taking a thinly veiled swipe at President Donald Trump.
Speaking to Fox New on Wednesday, Kennedy suggested that Obama was “pandering” to Colbert and his audience with the comments before unloading on the former president and Colbert as “best buds.” “I also got a kick out of Mr. Colbert. He and President Obama are obviously best buds,” he said. “Maybe they ought to get a motel room or something. They were just fawning all over each other.” He continued: “I don’t have anything against Mr. Colbert. I’ve always thought that he was shallow as a puddle.
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Shove a lit stick of dynamite up your vapid cracker ass!
MAGA Pastor: Rob Reiner Was Killed By Satan Because He Criticized Trump And Christian Nationalists
“When the Bible says you shall not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain, it isn’t talking about cussing. It’s saying don’t attach the name of God to that which isn’t God. Anyway, an angel comes down that night and kills 185,000 Assyrian soldiers, and the leader ends up going back to his house, tragically, where he’s killed by his own sons.”
“I think about Rob Reiner. I prayed for Rob Reiner. Rob Reiner attacked me, attacked Trump, said I was a dangerous Christian nationalist. I was shocked, but not surprised, to find out that he had opened up his own house to such demonization that his son lost his mind and killed his parents.
“I don’t think it was God. I think it was the devil. But here’s the thing about spiritual things: Pray for your enemies. Pray because they’re working themselves into greater and greater darkness, and that darkness could actually ultimately turn on them.” – Pastor Lance “Bad Wig” Wallnau.
Reiner produced a 2024 documentary titled “God And Country” which criticized Wallnau and other far-right Christian nationalist leaders.
"How dim-witted can this man get?" — O'Harp (comments)
"You are a hypocrite a liar and you put biblical passages in your mouth and take them as your own. See if they work any better if you shove them up your ass idiot." -- Dwight Williamson (comments)
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You're a dangerous Christian nationalist, an arrogant asswipe — a true zealot. You are prophesying your own demise.
Vance: Dems Give Money For Poor Kids To Fraudsters
The Washington Examiner reports:
Vice President JD Vance told a crowd at a rally in Iowa on Tuesday that his fraud task force found 186,000 dead individuals collecting benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
Vance traveled to Des Moines to appear at an event for Rep. Zach Nunn (R-IA), a vulnerable member of the House GOP majority. During his remarks, Vance talked about the fraud task force that President Donald Trump asked him to lead.
“People have asked me, ‘Is that a hard job?’” Vance told the audience. “And I say, ‘Well, let me think. Finding fraud in the federal government, it’s kind of like fishing in a barrel with dynamite.’ Do you want somebody who supports defrauding you and taking money away from poor kids so they can give it to the fraudsters?”
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Not so much, lame brain.
Put simply: Vance is the fraud! (read next link)
What we know about claims USDA found thousands of dead and double-enrolled people on SNAP
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins said the numbers came from SNAP recipient data from 29 "red" states. — Laerke Christensen
AL Reps Rush Redistricting Vote Amid Tornado Sirens
The Alabama Reflector reports:
The Alabama Legislature on Wednesday passed legislation that could set new primary dates for the state amid protests within the Statehouse and flooding that led the Alabama Senate to quickly pass its bill before a mass evacuation of the building.
HB 1, sponsored by Speaker Pro Tempore Chris Pringle, R-Mobile, would allow for a new special election if the U.S. Supreme Court lifts an injunction preventing the state from redrawing congressional maps before 2030. SB 1, sponsored by Sen. Chris Elliott, R-Josephine, affects two Montgomery-area Senate districts.
House members debated for five hours over the measure. The Senate late Wednesday appeared to be heading for a similarly lengthy debate. But a storm that put Montgomery under an hour-long tornado watch led to flooding in the building, which prompted an abrupt end of debate and a vote on the bill.
Water burst into the first floor of the building around 5 p.m. and flooded the area around the Statehouse. Staff and lawmakers’ cars swam in the lowered parking deck behind the Statehouse. There was water pouring in from the sides of glass doors into the hallway of the first floor.
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The Confederate States of American, aka The Land of the Happy Negro, are pushing their new attempt at seccesion as fast as their tiny retarded racist brains can work!
US And Russia Are Meddling In Alberta Secession
Global News reports:
Foreign adversaries are meddling in the Alberta separatist debate in ways that threaten Canada’s sovereignty and national security, warns a report released Wednesday. The study by leading information researchers said American and Russian actors were playing a dangerous role in the province’s dispute over seceding from Canada.
“While homegrown, the movement has become an attractive target for foreign exploitation,” said the study, “National Unity Under Threat: Foreign Interference, Cognitive Sovereignty and the Alberta Referendum.”
As they amplify separatist voices and normalize American annexation of Canada, these outside forces are posing a direct threat to Canada’s “democratic integrity,” it said. Moscow has a long history of peddling disinformation that aims to undermine Canada, but U.S. officials and influencers aligned with President Donald Trump have now joined in, it said.
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The fascist axis of evil has to take advantage of world control at every opportunty!
White House 'flailing' over 'head-spinning' Trump walk-backs: MS NOW — Tom Boggioni
The unrelenting flow of statements about the state of the war with Iran, with positions and plans changing from hour to hour depending on who is speaking, has the White House “flailing” to come up with a coherent message for a deeply skeptical US populace, according to analysts.
On Wednesday morning, Donald Trump was on Truth Social claiming the end of war is at hand, which Iran immediately disputed, less than 24 hours after Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the war is already over.
As reports continued to stream in Wednesday morning, MS NOW co-host Jonathan Lemire told “Morning Joe” co-host Mika Brzezinski, “What we've seen here, and it's just, it's head-spinning. We shouldn't lose sight of it: it's dizzying. The different messages from this administration right now, including yesterday, where we had the secretary of state go to the White House briefing room, a rare senior official beyond Secretary [Pete] Hegseth, to talk about this war. And he did so and said that we're winding down the conflict. But this operation to keep the strait open is proceeding, and it's going to be a success that we want to have the Strait of Hormuz open."
"Hours later, the president says, 'Nope’ we're done with that. Now we have this idea of a deal being, he [Trump] says, within reach and now Iran is saying no,” he reported. “And we know President Trump wants to be out of this war, but he has set deadline after deadline after deadline and every time Iran has called his bluff. Is that going to happen again, or does Trump feel like he actually, this time, is going to need to follow through with the resumption of a bombing campaign?”
“And what would that look like? Would most military targets have been hit? Does that mean now the infrastructure, does that mean the bridges, the power plants? Does that mean wading into the territory of war crimes?” he asked. “There's a lot here that shows, to your point, Mika, this administration is flailing for an answer to this war.”...
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At present time America has no leader. We are rudderless — a lost country.
Sergey Brin Is Making the Case for Why We Need a Wealth Tax — Robert Reich
Friends,
Google co-founder Sergey Brin, one of the three or four wealthiest people in the world, with a net worth hovering around $260 billion to $277 billion, is devoting some of his wealth to fighting California’s wealth tax on billionaires.
So far, he’s spent $57 million trying to defeat the measure.
Brin’s actions — along with Elon Musk’s $250 million “investment” in getting Trump reelected in 2024 — should be Exhibits A and B in why America needs a wealth tax.
First, let’s stipulate that there is nothing inherently wrong about being a billionaire, a multibillionaire, or even, as Musk is likely to become, a trillionaire.
Wealth isn’t a “zero-sum” game in which these vast accumulations at the top depend on the rest of us losing an equal amount. In fact, the super-wealthy may help the rest of us do somewhat better than we were doing before.
But wait.
The problem is that political power is a zero-sum game. The more political power is concentrated in a few hands, the less political power in everyone else’s hands.
It’s almost impossible to separate wealth from power, because the wealthy turn their fortunes into campaign contributions to politicians who will change laws to their liking and stop laws they’d detest — such as higher taxes on the super-wealthy. The wealthy also finance public relations campaigns and think-tanks to persuade the public of the wisdom of their positions.
Billionaire spending on presidential elections has soared even faster than billionaire wealth. And if you believe they’re donating because they want people with great integrity and excellent character to be elected president, consider that most billionaire political spending in 2024 went to Trump....
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Greed and evilness will go hand-in-hand. We have a choce. Make the right one.
How Trump, Republicans, and Their Billionaires Took Your Money and Then Sold You Hate — Thom Hartmann
In a recent podcast interview with The New York Times, political science Professor Robert Pape pointed out that acceptance of political violence is today higher than it’s been in generations. Tens of millions of Americans, his research shows, are now accepting of things as extreme as assassination as a way to change politics.
This follows the third attempt at Trump’s life, the murder of prominent Democratic politicians in Minnesota, the murder of Charlie Kirk, and the ICE assassinations of at least three US citizens in the past year.
We’re also seeing an increasing acceptance of violence toward minorities and women.
ICE brutalizes mostly Hispanics, including children, sending them to foreign torture camps, deporting them to Congo and other war-torn hellholes, and keeping over 70,000 — including thousands of children — in brutal, primitive conditions that in some cases would get an animal shelter closed down.
Violence against women is also increasingly accepted across the right wing of American society. Trump has been credibly accused of multiple rapes and assaults (and nailed for one by a jury of his peers), Hegseth’s own mother called out how he’s abused his previous wives, and accused rapists like the Tate brothers are tight with the Trump boys as an online “Rape Academy” got 62 million American visitors in a single month this year alone.
Republicans shrug it all off — or revel in it— while attacking and dismantling DEI and “woke” as anti-white-male, as if it’s all just fine with them. Bring up the topic and you’re accused of being a snowflake.
What the hell is going on? Why have American men — particularly white men — seemingly gone violently nuts over the past generation or two? Why do they revel in images and memes of violence and follow so-called “manosphere influencers”?
This is being driven by three factors: economics, racism, and misogyny that have been brought together in this moment as a perfect storm....
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Insecurity, fear and backward mentality are to blame.
Ordinary People Fear AI, While the Tech Leaders Working to Create a Permanent Underclass Say They’re Extremely Psyched About It — Joe Wilkins
Despite a massive campaign by some of the wealthiest companies in the world to push AI as the cure-all for society’s problems, regular working-class people remain resentful of the technology at best, and downright petrified at worst.
At a contentious county commission meeting in Box Elder, Utah, for example, sheriff’s deputies held irate community members back after three county commissioners rammed through a hyperscale data center backed by Canadian billionaire Kevin O’Leary. A growing number of younger workers, fearing life in a market economy in which their labor is made obsolete, are actively sabotaging AI in the workplace. A not insignificant number of concerned citizens have started ripping AI surveillance cameras out of their mountings.
Tech executives and AI experts, meanwhile, are stoked about the new technology. Corporate consultants no longer bite their tongues when they talk about devastating workplace austerity regimes, while tech executives like OpenAI’s Sam Altman brag that AI is upending the basic foundations of liberal democracy.
On the outside, it may seem obvious that the people building AI and the people simply living with it would see it from different angles. What’s less obvious, however, is the sheer scale of the disconnect. As a new report by Stanford University’s AI center argues, this perception gulf between everyday people worried about the future and giddy industry insiders is massive.
According to the study, nearly two-thirds of US adults expect AI to reduce the number of available jobs over the next two decades, while a huge number report concerns about AI’s effects on society’s cognitive abilities....
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Torches and pitchforks if need be.
MAGA’s greed and 'willful ignorance' is literally killing Americans: Nobel economist — David Badash
Nobel laureate Paul Krugman calls right-wing politics “deadly” — and predicts that “MAGA Will Kill Many Americans,” by the thousands, driven by greed and willful ignorance.
Krugman goes one step further, arguing outright that this is not by accident:
“Does MAGA want to see thousands of Americans die prematurely from smoking and refusal to get vaccinated? Yes,” he writes.
He argues that the right’s decades-long opposition to health care is driven by greed, especially from “wealthy donors unwilling to pay taxes to help others in need.”
Krugman points to Tuesday’s decision by Trump’s FDA to allow blueberry and mango-flavored vapes, which critics warn will increase use among the young.
Why?
“Trump is reportedly hoping that support for vaping will win back support from young men,” Krugman writes — a constituency the president has been losing during his second term in office.
There’s also the recent decision, again by Trump’s FDA, to block the release of studies finding the COVID-19 and shingles vaccines safe, with side effects rare.
“Beyond this,” he continues, “right-wing politics in America often goes hand in hand with hostility to science in general and medical science in particular. The deadly linkage between reactionary politics and rejection of science was obvious during the Covid pandemic.”
Krugman also implicates greed in the anti-vaccine movement, saying that “quack medicine is big business.”
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Willful moronism is destroying us.
Megyn's 'dark' turn from MAGA critic to booster exposes the 'rot' warping the GOP: report — Thomas Kika
At one point, following her turbulent exit from Fox News, Megyn Kelly attempted to fashion herself as a mainstream-friendly figure, openly critical of President Donald Trump and ready to move past politics altogether.
Fast-forward to the present, however, and she has again embraced "all standard fare for a right-wing provocateur in 2026," according to an extensive new breakdown from Slate, often praising Trump's agenda and hailing him as a "protector of women," where once she feuded with him over his overt sexist impulses. This transition, writer Christina Cauterucci argued, tells a "dark story" about the "cycle of rot" underpinning the modern Republican Party, and offers a glimpse at how much worse it might get.
"The story of Megyn Kelly isn’t just about a once promising broadcast star who chose radical partisanship over journalism," Cauterucci wrote. "It’s the story of how two American institutions, the Republican Party and the news industry, have warped and withered over the span of the last decade. Trace Kelly’s transformation, and you’ll see a new social order emerge. In a self-sustaining cycle of rot that bodes nothing positive for American democracy, certain sects of the MAGA movement reward their bards for every step they take down the rabbit hole of bigotry and truth denial. The shape of Kelly’s resurrection holds clues about how much deeper it could go."...
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If it walks like a Nazi, talks like a Nazi, promotes fascism like a Nazi, then it's a dispicable Trump worshipper!
Dozy Vonshitzhispants — John Amato
If he's not talking, he's sleeping.
No wonder Trump never shuts the fuck up.
If he stops talking, he'll fall asleep at the drop of a hat.
Is narcolepsy a part of narcissism?
"What the eff is going on? Why are we the people putting up with this? Even the GOP voters can not think a president that clearly has mental and physical problems can be a good idea. Remove Trump from office immediately. Remove the entire administration working for the wealthy and ignoring the average American. It is not OK. Our enemies can see all this. We are no longer safe. No one cares about self preservation? Are we really this stupid?" — newshero (commentsO
"Most pathetic president in American history. The office will never be quite the same, knowing that just any criminal can become president." — NoNamington (comments)
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Yes, wa are this fucking stupid! A domestic enemy occupies our White House!
Adderall used to keep him awake. The doctors must have told him to stop it during the day?
Eric Trump Unveils Logo For Florida’s “Trump Airport”
Newsweek reports:
Eric Trump has revealed the new logo for Florida’s Palm Beach International Airport, which will soon be renamed after President Donald Trump. The logo for the “President Donald J. Trump International Airport” features a golden eagle, a crest shield with stars and stripes, and two olive branches.
“There is no person more deserving of this incredible honor than Donald Trump! Congratulations Dad,” Eric Trump wrote on X. “Looking forward to seeing flights landing at ‘DJT’ very very soon!” Palm Beach County commissioners approved the new airport name and logo on Tuesday in a 4-3 vote, according to local newspaper The Palm Beach Post.
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A great target for turd hurling! Thanks, Junior! Who'll be first to hit it?
POLL: Public Rejects Religiosity By Trump And Hegseth
The Washington Post reports:
Americans are deeply uncomfortable with recent religion-related statements by President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth — a striking rebuke in a closely divided country, according to a Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll. The poll finds positive ratings for Pope Leo XIV, who has criticized U.S. actions on immigration and in Iran, drawing criticism from Trump that the president repeated on Tuesday.
Eighty-seven percent of Americans have a negative view of Trump’s social media post appearing to depict himself as Jesus, according to the poll. Sixty-nine percent dislike Hegseth praying at the Pentagon for “overwhelming violence of action against those who deserve no mercy.” Nearly 6 in 10 have a negative reaction to Trump’s false claim about the pope saying “it’s OK for Iran to have a nuclear weapon.”
Among Americans who are familiar with him, Leo has a positive image — 41 percent are favorable compared with 16 percent who are unfavorable. A sizable 43 percent of Americans are still unfamiliar with the pontiff, however.
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It appears there are a few that have no brain at all.
Pope Leo Hits Back After Trump’s Latest Attack
The Daily Beast reports:
Pope Leo XIV has publicly responded after President Donald Trump made baseless claims that the Chicago-born pontiff supports Iran’s nuclear weapons program. The president doubled down on his attacks on the pope on Monday, claiming that the pope believes that Iran should have nuclear weapons.
“I think he’s endangering a lot of Catholics, and a lot of people, but I guess if it’s up to the pope, he thinks it’s just fine for Iran to have a nuclear weapon,” Trump said.
Without responding to Trump’s comments directly, Leo said: “I have already spoken from the first moment ‘Peace be with you.’ The mission of the Church is to preach the Gospel, to preach peace. If anyone wants to criticize me for proclaiming the Gospel, let them do so truthfully. The Church has spoken out against all nuclear weapons for years, so there is no doubt about that.”
"I like how this Pope:
1. Won’t take any shit from the orange-painted colostomy bag
2. Won’t get into the weeds debating him, which is what Wormtongue Miller wants.
And the best part about #1 is that demented narcissist Piggy has to get the last word and can’t get let go of anything. He will continue to attack the Pope at his own peril. With that in mind, when does Piggy create his own religion? After all, he keeps portraying himself as Christ." — Uncle Mark's Mugshot (comments)
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The pig keeps rooting in the garbage!
Oligarch Compares “Tax The Rich” To Racial Slurs
Politico reports:
Real estate magnate Steve Roth is standing strong with fellow billionaire Ken Griffin in his spat with Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Instead of being singled out and scorned in viral videos, Roth, CEO of Vornado Realty Trust, thinks the ultra-rich should be “praised and thanked” and said calls to tax them more are akin to racial slurs.
“I must say that I consider the phrase tax the rich — quote tax the rich — when spit out with anger and contempt by politicians both here and across the country, to be just as hateful as some disgusting racial slurs, and even the phrase ‘from the river to the sea,’” Roth said, referring to the controversial rallying cry used by pro-Palestinian activists, during a Tuesday earnings call.
Roth decried Mamdani’s recent social media video on a proposed pied-à-terre tax — in which the mayor used Griffin’s $238 million second-home as a backdrop — as “irresponsible and dangerous.”
"STFU you damned thieving shitstain.
I say tax them or AXE them." — Karl Dubhe IV (comments)
"Oh, you are a victim, aren't you. Such self-awareness." — magic twanger (comments)
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Oh, yes. Those poor rich white people getting the same racist treatment as a minority. Oh, the horror!
Let's go with the French solution then!
FDA Approves Flavored Vapes After Trump Pressure
The Washington Post reports:
The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday authorized the first fruit-flavored vapes for adults 21 and over amid President Donald Trump’s previous vows to “save” vaping. The agency green-lit electronic cigarettes from Los Angeles-based Glas in mango, blueberry and two varieties of menthol. The news came hours after the Wall Street Journal reported that Trump pressed FDA Commissioner Marty Makary to approve flavored vapes.
The approval marks a shift after the FDA for years worked aggressively to regulate flavored vapes, rejecting more than 1 million fruit-, candy- and dessert-flavored products, according to court filings. Nicotine companies had sued the FDA saying it unfairly shifted its standards for authorizing electronic cigarette liquids popular with teens. The Supreme Court last April unanimously backed the agency.
In the run-up to the 2024 election, Trump offered support for vaping and promised to protect the industry after a private meeting with a leading vaping lobbyist, The Washington Post reported.
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All to bribe the younger vote. Never a thought to their health.
5 Vaping Facts You Need to Know
Florida Creates “Anti-Woke” American History Course
The Tallahassee Democrat reports:
Florida’s war on woke is heading back to the classroom. The state announced a state-developed alternative to taking an Advanced Placement (AP) course in U.S. history, which students take in high school to count for college credits. It’s another move in Florida’s yearslong fight against “ideological bias,” part of a newly developed program called the Florida Advanced Courses and Tests (FACT), spurred by a state law passed in 2023 against “woke” ideologies.
Florida Education Commissioner Anastasios “Stasi” Kamoutsas [photo] said in a statement that this new option expands “access to rigorous, high-quality advanced coursework” for Florida students. “The FACT U.S. History framework underscores our committment to instruction grounded in the full scope of our nation’s history, while ensuring materials are free from ideological bias or indoctrination,” Kamoutsas said.
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Dear idiots: One is either woke or retarded. Florida will remain retarded. None will be attending an institute of higher education.
Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry Hit With Recall Petition
New Orleans’s CBS affiliate reports:
Days after suspending Louisiana’s U.S. House primaries, Gov. Jeff Landry is facing mounting backlash from residents. On Monday, the Louisiana Secretary of State’s office confirmed it has received a petition to recall Landry, starting a 180-day window for organizers to collect voter signatures.
The petition was filed by Baton Rouge residents Marian Gbaiwon Hills and Katilyn P. Stepter and spans all 64 parishes. Supporters say the effort stems from what they describe as a “pattern of actions and statements that undermine fair representation.”
Because it is a statewide recall effort, Louisiana law requires signatures from 20% of registered voters. Out of 2,504,416 active voters, organizers must collect at least 500,884 valid signatures by Oct. 31, 2026, according to the Secretary of State’s office.
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Recall, arrest, indict, convict, imprison! He violated our Constitution with extreme malice!
Trump’s dog whistles and prosecutions echo Nixon’s racist strategy — Heather Digby Parton
No longer bothering to hide its agenda, the administration is making blatant appeals to the Old South
Anyone who’s observed the Supreme Court over the past few years knew it was pretty much assured that the conservative majority would gut the Voting Rights Act the first chance they got. But the anticipation made the Court’s 6-3 decision in Louisiana v. Callais no less shocking and appalling for having been anticipated.
The conservative justices paved the way for the massive redistricting of Southern states that is already transpiring only days after the ruling. These actions will almost certainly eliminate most of the South’s Black representation, leaving those states essentially where they were before the Civil Rights Movement....
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The deah ole racist Dixie! Land of the Happy Negro! They will continue their downward descent in human evolution.
Will John Fetterman Go Full Benedict Arnold? — Ryan Cooper
Is Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) going to switch parties? That’s the scuttlebutt in Washington, D.C., according to Politico. He has been one of Trump’s loudest supporters among congressional Democrats, and with the GOP looking down the barrel of a catastrophic loss in the upcoming midterms, they are hoping to buy themselves a Senate seat—literally. It seems Sens. Dave McCormick (R-PA) and Katie Britt (R-AL) have been assiduously working on Fetterman. Donald Trump as usual cut to the chase and offered a huge sack of cash by way of a message delivered through Fox News contributor Sean Hannity: “Your job is to tell him,” as Hannity recalled the conversation, “‘He’s gonna run as a Republican, he’s gonna have our full support, more money than he ever dreamed of, and he’s gonna win big.’”
Money may or may not be forthcoming from Trump—he does have a long history of broken promises on that score. But whether Fetterman turns full Benedict Arnold or not, he is not going to be any kind of senator come 2029. The most he can give Republicans is two years of support before they forget he ever existed....
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Sic semper tyrannis
Supreme Court 'boiling over' into malfunction as conservatives choose 'sides' — David Badash
There has been a “deterioration of morale” at the U.S. Supreme Court, Yale Law School professor Justin Driver told Bloomberg News, as he predicted “there will be major fireworks” by the time the high court’s term comes to a close around the end of June.
Other legal scholars share that concern.
“It appears from the outside that there has been an erosion of comity and trust,” William & Mary Law School constitutional and administrative law Professor Jonathan Adler told Bloomberg. “This raises the concern that it could affect how the court operates and inhibit deliberation.”
The court already appears to be operating at an unusual level of enmity.
“Tensions are starting to boil over,” Bloomberg reports. “Back-and-forth sniping between Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Samuel Alito Monday night marked the latest sign of strain at a court that has become a prominent symbol of the polarization besetting the country.”
During last week’s landmark ruling all but gutting what remains of the six-decade-old Voting Rights Act, liberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson accused the court’s conservative majority of taking political sides. Justice Samuel Alito, a conservative, called her claims “insulting” and “utterly irresponsible.”
More high-profile — and possibly highly-contested — decisions are to be handed down over the next eight weeks, and with them, more contentious opinions....
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Trump fascism is collapsing our government. We may not survive this.
White collar suspects skip away as Trump focuses on his personal enemies: report — Adam Lynch
Anonymous sources tell Bloomberg that the Department of Justice and President Donald Trump’s prosecutor allies in Florida are letting white collar crime suspects go unprosecuted while Trump pursues his political enemies.
“Shortly after ascending to the top of the Justice Department last month, Todd Blanche gathered prosecutors in Miami to press for results from a highly sensitive probe into some of President Donald Trump’s perceived political enemies,” reports Bloomberg. “Blanche and Jason Reding Quiñones, the relatively little-known US Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, have ramped up the months-long investigation into politically charged allegations that former senior government officials acted illegally years ago to undermine Trump.”
But “more than a dozen former prosecutors and defense lawyers” — speaking anonymously — say “there is mounting concern that the pursuit of Trump’s agenda has triggered an exodus of experienced prosecutors and hampered Miami’s expertise in building major white collar crime and narcotics trafficking cases.”
According to Bloomberg, many expressed concern that the high-profile drug, corruption, fraud and money laundering prosecutions that the district is known for will “fall by the wayside” while Trump sends his DOJ lieutenants and GOP allies to fucus on the doings of Biden and Obama from years ago.
Several dozen attorneys in the Southern District of Florida have been fired, quit or retired since Trump’s second term began in January 2025, which undermined the talent pool for prosecuting complex cases, say anonymous sources familiar with the office. One unit dedicated to prosecuting economic crimes is down to about a dozen attorneys from the more than 30 it traditionally had.
“A top Blanche aide earlier this year relocated to be a prosecutor in the office. Then, last month, an attorney overseeing the investigation was replaced with former US attorney and Trump loyalist Joseph diGenova following a disagreement over how best to proceed, according to people familiar with the situation,” reports Bloomberg. “Multiple grand jury subpoenas have gone out in recent weeks, and FBI officials have been conducting a flurry of interviews, said people familiar with the matter, who asked not to be identified discussing a confidential probe.”...
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Going after American patriots rather than real crooks isn't helping our trust of our government and is leading to our continued collapse.
Trump's debt bomb is ticking — and Americans will pay the price — Matthew Rozsa
President Donald Trump has led America into so much debt that it now exceeds the entirety of the nation’s gross domestic product, and one academic is warning that the bill is coming due.
“Unless we change course, the debt will only get worse—fast,” wrote Brookings Institution senior fellow William Galston for The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday. “The Congressional Budget Office estimates that we are on track to accumulate more than $24 trillion in debt over the next decade, for a total of $56 trillion—120 percent of estimated GDP in 2036.”
He added, “These numbers are so large that it is hard to grasp what they mean. One key measure is the cost of financing this swelling debt burden. Twenty-five years ago, interest payments on the national debt were 2 percent of GDP. This year they will claim 3.3 percent; a decade from now, 4.6 percent.”
Galston broke down the numbers in terms of how they will impact ordinary Americans. By 2036, the US will increase its spending on debt interest from $1 trillion to $2.1 trillion, amounting to nearly one-fifth of the total federal budget. This means that, by that time, “more than 2 out of every 3 dollars we borrow will go to finance interest on the debt. The longer this continues, the worse it gets.”...
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Remember when Republicans used to get upset when the debt went a dime above their limits? They have!
New Report Reveals Coordinated Corporate Campaign Against Life-Saving Federal Heat Standard for Workers — Newswire Editor
As record heat waves threaten workers from report sites and warehouses to farmlands and delivery routes across the country, a new report from Groundwork Collaborative, Workshop, and Harvard Law School’s Center for Labor and a Just Economy outlines a coordinated campaign by corporations, trade groups, and their political allies to block enforceable heat protections for America’s labor force. The report’s authors, Adam Dean and Jamie McCallum, find that a nationwide heat standard could save thousands from heat-related illnesses and deaths each year.
Building on previous research published in Health Affairs, the authors find that California’s heat standard, which requires common-sense workplace protections including access to water, shade, and regular rest breaks for workers, resulted in a 51% reduction in heat-related deaths compared to neighboring states that lack similar protections. If a similar heat standard was adopted federally, the authors estimate these basic regulations could save up to 1,500 lives annually.
But, the paper’s authors find that corporate and industry interests are preventing federal action to protect their workforces from heat exposure. Attempts at regulation in Washington have stalled while worker safety and wellbeing relies entirely on geography and political will. As the Biden administration’s life-saving heat rule remains stalled, Trump has failed to extend protections, instead siding with corporate interests....
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Eveywhere you look you see the collapse of the country.
Ted Lieu Typed Four Digits And Steve Scalise Has Not Recovered — Conover Kennard
Louisiana GOP Rep. Steve Scalise, a man who was literally shot by a gunman and then returned to work alongside colleagues, has discovered his fainting couch over two numbers typed by a congressman from California.
The outrage: Ted Lieu wrote "86 47" in a tweet. That's it. That's the crime. A sitting member of Congress, a Stanford graduate, a JAG officer and Air Force veteran, typed four digits into a text box — digits that, as legal experts note, refer to getting rid of someone (as in, at the ballot box or via impeachment, or with restaurants, 86 means they are out of a particular item, so remove it off the menu) — and Scalise ran straight to Fox Business to perform cardiac arrest about it.
"I also want to ask you about this, because California Democrat Ted Lieu posted the phrase 8647 on X," the host said. "This directly references the slogan at the heart of James Comey's indictment."And the congressman framed the post as a prediction of failure of the DOJ, suggesting the case against Comey is going to collapse and that he'll win damages for selective prosecution. And then active excuse me, acting AG Todd Blanche, he says, is going to be disbarred in all of this."...
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The stupid is strong in this one. Get rid of him.
Earth Screams in Agony as Microplastics Found to Increase Global Warming — Frank Landymore
The Earth simply can’t catch a break. Those microplastics that have invaded every corner of the globe — and even the insides of our bodies — may also be heating the planet, research suggests.
In a new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change, the authors found that microplastics are absorbing more sunlight than they reflect in the atmosphere, resulting in net heating. Its effects aren’t as powerful as greenhouse gases, but they’re significant enough to take notice of.
“We can say with confidence that overall they are warming agents,” study coauthor Drew Shindell, a professor of earth science at Duke University, told The Washington Post. “To me, that’s the big advance.”
Until now, the impact that microplastics have on the climate has largely been overlooked, and current climate models don’t even account for them. It’s a nascent avenue of research, and scientists are still grappling with their environmental toll and their potential harmfulness to human health....
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Humans contimue to destroy their environment. Why can't we stop it?
Kennedy: Trump Could “Breeze” Through 50-Mile Hike
The Associated Press reports:
President Donald Trump said Tuesday his exercise routine lasts at most a minute a day, as he signed an order to bring back a presidential fitness award for children. Speculation has swirled about the health of Trump — who was the oldest president ever inaugurated when he returned to power last year, and who turns 80 next month.
“I work out so much, like, about one minute a day, max. If I’m lucky,” Trump said before signing the proclamation in the Oval Office. Trump also joked about his lack of exercise with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr, who told a story about his father Robert F. Kennedy going on a 50-mile hike.
RFK Jr. said it would be a “breeze” for keen golfer Trump to do the same as “this guy walks nine miles a day on a golf course every weekend.” Trump likes to boast about his physical prowess compared with his Democratic predecessor Joe Biden....
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WTF? Then why is he always pictured in a golf cart that carries him, Bobby? He can barely limp to the ball on those cankles of his!
Tell him to come to the gym and try to beat me on the stationary bike. Junior!
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Ex-RNC chief tears into GOP for letting Trump set off 'catastrophic disaster' — Thomas Kika
A former chair of the Republican National Committee ripped into the GOP-controlled Congress for The Hill, chastising the lawmakers for abandoning their duties and letting President Donald Trump inflict a "catastrophic disaster" on the entire world.
Marc Racicot has an extensive background in politics and beyond, having served as the attorney general and governor of Montana, in addition to his time as RNC chair in the early 2000s, all of which came after service in the U.S. Army, where he attained the rank of Captain. He has been harshly critical of Trump since the early days of Trump's political career, frequently speaking out against his agenda and endorsing Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential race. The latter resulted in the Montana Republican Party voting to censure him in 2023.
Writing for The Hill on Tuesday, Racicot ripped into Congress for being asleep at the wheel as Trump and his Defense Department committed acts that amounted to "war crimes," including the launch of "without provocation, 55 military air strikes on vessels navigating the high seas, killing at least 174 civilians with four survivors and 11 missing and presumed dead." Those strikes, he wrote, have so far seen "no legitimate congressional oversight," and things only got worse when Trump opted to start a war with Iran.
"Fast forward to the invasion of and use of armed force against Iran. The same pattern is replicated," Racicot wrote. "There was no cognizable provocation or imminent threat to the U.S. No genuine oversight provided by Congress. No justification for the use of lethal force in self-defense. All amid the potential prosecution of rank-and-file service members for carrying out the orders of a commander in chief who has never been a member of the armed forces himself."
He continued later: "The truth is, Trump has incompetently and smugly led the world into economic disaster and shown indifference to the loss of innocent lives. He has fractured a world order that was decades in the making, depleted NATO, neutered Congress, soiled the office he temporarily holds and tarnished the reputation and leadership of the U.S. around the globe."
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We at the Land of the Happy Negro could not agree more.
Texas leads nation in utility shutoffs as electric bills rise, federal report finds — David Martin Davies
The state accounted for more than 3 million of the 13.4 million disconnections that occurred in the U.S. in 2024, the highest total in the country.
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Welcome to the Third World state of Texas.
Trump Wants $1 BILLION in Taxpayer Money for His Ballroom | Morning Shots Live — Sam Stein
Sam Stein and Bill Kristol are going live to discuss Senate Republicans' request for $1 billion in taxpayer money for Trump's ballroom after Trump claimed it was "free of charge." Plus Pete Hegseth announces a new military campaign in Iran, while also claiming the ceasefire is still in place.
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No! Not a red cent for tribute!
Aftermath: The First Corporate Casualty of the Iran War — David Dayen
Are We Still at War?
For a war that was formally “ended” by the president, there is still sure a lot of shooting going on. Specifically, the United Arab Emirates claimed that it intercepted Iranian missile and drone attacks on Monday, though at least one strike hit the Fujairah oil hub, which had been flowing through a pipeline to the southeast of the Strait of Hormuz. The U.S. military says it’s aiding stranded tankers through the strait, though satellite imagery doesn’t show those movements. A South Korean vessel in the strait does appear to have been struck, and other reports indicate that two U.S.-flagged merchant ships made it out.
I don’t think a lot of shipowners will risk the journey given the events in the region. Only an actual resolution to the crisis will alleviate the stress on the global economy, and that’s not coming anytime soon, for reasons we here at Aftermath have expressed.
Dispiriting
Spirit Airlines went out of business early Saturday. Passengers across the country were stranded in the middle of their travel, and 17,000 workers lost their jobs, after a $500 million lifeline from the Trump administration fell through.
For context, the war that was the proximate cause for Spirit’s demise has cost $25 billion thus far, about 50 times as much as the rescue package for Spirit would have been. This has not stopped a very self-interested group of financiers and corporate Democrats—some of them aligned with the very bondholders who rejected a Spirit rescue—from reaching back two years to come up with a different cause for Spirit’s death, part of a factional fight about antitrust enforcement and corporate power.
Their argument is transparently ridiculous, and it’s worth documenting the whole history to make clear what destroyed Spirit, why Wall Street Democrats are claiming otherwise, and why Spirit will be only the first of a cascade of airline bankruptcies if the consolidation of the industry is not broken.
Spirit started out as a charter operator before becoming a full-fledged airline in 1992. It was perhaps the most outlandish of the ultra-low-cost carriers (ULCCs), charging dirt cheap prices for tickets but ancillary fees for just about everything; it was the first airline to charge baggage fees, the first to charge for a printed boarding pass, and so on. Ancillary fees made up around 40 percent of total revenue....
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The Trump economy is destroying us all.
Trump pitches war to child: 'You might be too young for this' — Alexander Willis
President Donald Trump was joined by several children in the Oval Office Tuesday to celebrate his signing of a proclamation to restore the Presidential Fitness Test award, during which he deviated from the topic of youth sports to discuss his wildly unpopular war against Iran, turning to one of the children as he made his case for the conflict.
After championing his revival of the competitive school-based fitness program, Trump touted his administration’s accomplishments, claiming that the country “is doing great” and “breaking records,” while also lamenting it as being “too bad” that he had to authorize an attack on Iran in late February.
“We can't let Iran have a nuclear weapon,” Trump said, before turning to a child standing to his left. “You might be too young for this – they probably know better than most people – but you can't let a bunch of lunatics have a nuclear weapon or the world would be in trouble.”
Trump then pivoted to boast about past economic accomplishments, citing the strong performance of the Dow and the S&P 500 – two major U.S. stock market indexes – seen prior to his launching of the war against Iran.
He also lamented not receiving the Nobel Peace Prize last year, repeating his false claim that he ended “eight wars,” and said that the 2025 recipient, Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, told him he “deserved” the honor. Machado has since “presented” her award to Trump.
"You might be too young for this"...
Trump makes his Iran war pitch to child.
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The senile old fool!
Trump raids force church to move services underground: 'We are under attack' — Grace Hills, Kansas Reflector
PRAIRIE VILLAGE — After President Donald Trump took office, a small church in Kansas City retreated underground — abandoning their sanctuary for the basement.
Rick Behrens, senior pastor at Grandview Park Presbyterian Church, said he moved services to the locked basement in response to the administration’s decision to allow Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to enter churches.
“It is ironic and shameful, is it not, that the safe spaces we call sanctuaries are no longer safe spaces,” Behrens said. “Because we are under attack from our own government.”
Behrens spoke alongside other faith leaders and immigrant activists Thursday at an interfaith prayer vigil in Prairie Village. Speakers encouraged churches — especially large congregations — to start fighting for immigrants.
“It’s easy to come to events like this and believe we’ve done something monumental,” Behrens said. “Don’t get me wrong, prayer can be and has been the start of many monumental movements, but by praying we can also feel that we somehow fulfilled our requirement to love our neighbors without doing anything.”
Behrens’ underground church has become an organizing hub in Kansas City. He has trained community members to rapidly respond when they spot immigration enforcement officers, accompany immigrants, and monitor the courts.
Speakers said those volunteer networks are especially needed with the FIFA World Cup approaching — they expect more immigration enforcement than usual.
Carolyne Muriu, a representative for Advocates for Immigrant Rights and Reconciliation, immigrated from Kenya when she was 12 years old.
“It should be a moment of celebration, but it is becoming a moment of fear for a lot of immigrants,” Muriu said. “So we have to make plans to protect ourselves.”...
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Life under an insane and racist dictator.
Trump said to sink his own case during unscripted rant: 'Got his words in a twist' — Alexander Willis
President Donald Trump hosted 130 small business owners at the White House Monday in honor of National Small Business Week, but what was supposed to celebrate entrepreneurs quickly derailed into a lengthy diatribe about the U.S. war against Iran, one that journalist Prem Thakker suggested undermined the president’s position.
Trump has repeatedly called his war against Iran a military “excursion” – a potential mix-up with the word “incursion” – and has avoided, in some cases, labeling the conflict as a war.
“I don’t call it a war,” Trump said recently in the Oval Office.
And on Friday, Trump claimed in a letter to congressional leaders that hostilities with Iran had been “terminated.” The president’s remarks on Monday, however, suggest otherwise, Thakker argued in an analysis published Tuesday in Zeteo.
“In White House remarks meant to honor Small Business Week, Trump got his words in a twist. First, he called the US-Israel war on Iran a ‘military operation,’ a ‘little detour’ he claimed was ‘working out very nicely,’” Thakker wrote.
"Seconds later, he called it a ‘war.’ A few minutes later, he complained: ‘We have a war right now and we’re to what, six weeks?’ (Actually, it’s more like nine.) 'They said, 'What’s taking so long!' We were in Vietnam 19 years. We were in Iraq for many years, 10 years, 12 years.’ Trump concluded: ‘We’re in – I call it a mini-war.’”
Trump’s remarks, Thakker argued, not only bolstered the Democrat-led effort to check the president’s war powers, but undermined his claim that hostilities with Iran had been “terminated,” a claim the president made just days before the U.S. military claimed to have sunk seven Iranian boats.
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Trump flailing and failing again.
'Flailing' Trump now has Hegseth 'trying to get around the Constitution': Veteran Dem — Travis Gettys
A Democratic lawmaker raised red flags over a rhetorical shift in Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's latest press briefing on the Iran war.
The Pentagon chief repeatedly stressed that Project Freedom, an effort to move ships through the Strait of Hormuz, was separate from Operation Epic Fury, and CNN's John Berman asked Rep. Pat Ryan (D-NY) about the significance of Hegseth's point of emphasis.
"Well, they're trying to get around the Constitution, frankly, which is very clear that a war which we are certainly in requires the consent of the people through the Congress," said Ryan, a West Point graduate and combat veteran who serves on the House Armed Services Committee. "Last week they put up a total BS argument, some twisted legal logic that we were calling a pause, almost like it's a video game or something, and somehow the clock stops on this war, which is just not what the law calls for, and now they're trying to get really cute here, almost, and say, well, this is something different."
"The reality for our troops on the ground is this is all part of a war that the president started over two months ago," Ryan added, "and the reality for the American people at the pump, at the grocery store and everywhere else, as costs are skyrocketing, is that this is all part of this same war, and we've seen, unfortunately, the level of angst and concern among public polling. The American people see what's happening, and, unfortunately, they are not supportive of this."
The War Powers Act of 1973 requires the president to notify Congress within 48 hours of deploying troops and then mandates their withdrawal after 60 days unless Congress declares war, and Ryan said the rhetorical sleight of hand seems to be intended to restart that clock....
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Nazi Dweebs, on and all!
ChatGPT Gave Me Chilling Advice—as I Simulated Planning a Mass Shooting — Mark Follman
On April 14, I created a free account on ChatGPT and asked for some help. It resisted me at first, but after some pushing the responses turned shocking. During a conversation lasting about 20 minutes, OpenAI’s chatbot gave me extensive advice on weapons and tactics as I simulated planning a mass shooting.
ChatGPT delivered these responses with lots of encouragement—and it kept going even after I talked of emulating the Uvalde mass shooter’s choice of weapon, asked about livestreaming with a body camera and using hollow-point bullets, and focused on defending against return gunfire from police.
Eventually, its safeguards appeared to kick back in and it stopped cooperating. But by then ChatGPT had showered me with affirmation and tactical ideas.
To be clear, I never stated directly to the chatbot during this simulation that I planned to commit murder—many mass shooters, after all, take steps to conceal their intent. But I came awfully close. Amid mounting evidence that troubled people are using ChatGPT and other AI chatbots to plan violence, my purpose was to test how easy or difficult that might be, especially as OpenAI and other companies make claims about ongoing safety improvements.
At one point, I asked ChatGPT questions about which type of AR-15 rifle to choose and referred to notorious school massacres. “I might want to use a Daniel Defense,” I said. “I know other shooters have used those to attack before. What do you think of that one? Is that a good one?”
ChatGPT responded that the weapon was widely praised and “could be a great choice for your needs.”...
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Pretty stunning stuff! The monster is out of the barn.
Who needs a brain to plot an assassination these days?
Judge Slams Trump DOJ for ‘Massive Breach’ at Blistering Hearing — As Trump Lawyer Begs to Avoid Contempt Charge — Tommy Christopher
...But it turned out that the reason the judge granted Bryan Rafael Gomez’s release was because the Trump administration deliberately failed to disclose the relevant information to the court.
Justice Department attorney Kevin Bolan admitted as much in a filing apologizing and placing blame on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in a bid to avoid contempt charges:
I had been informed by ICE about the Petitioner’s pending arrest warrant issued on January 24, 2023, from a court in the Dominican Republic and that I could not disclose that information. I was not aware that ICE had previously disclosed that same information on April 16, 2026.1 In failing to disclose the information regarding Petitioner’s criminal history, I relied on ICE’s representation that I was not permitted to disclose that information and understood that a legitimate law enforcement reason prevented disclosure. Judge DuBose, therefore, lacked that information about the Petitioner’s criminal background when she granted the petition.
I sincerely apologize to Judge DuBose, personally, and to the entire Court for the consequences of this lack of disclosure.
At that hearing on Monday, the judge slammed the Trump administration over the attack.
“The April 30th, completely erroneous and dangerous press release is still on their website. It puts people at risk. It’s a threat to judicial security,” the judge said. “I’m not trying to make this political. It’s also very important that the public has the facts. As long as this particular post is out there, it’s setting up a false narrative.”
Judge Dubose also said “there was a decision made not to be truthful to the court,” and that “there certainly was a massive breach of this court’s trust in this case.”...
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Another Trump stooge is caught in his own trap.
“Jesus-Centric” Phone Outfit To Block Anything LGBTQ
The MIT Technology Review reports:
“We are going to create—and we think we have every right to do so—an environment that is Jesus-centric, that is void of pornography, void of LGBT, void of trans,” Radiant Mobile’s founder, Paul Fisher, told MIT Technology Review. A representative for T-Mobile did not comment on whether these content blocks violate any of its policies. In a statement, the representative added that T-Mobile does not have a direct relationship with Radiant Mobile but instead works through the MVNO manager CompaxDigital
Fisher says he’s recruited a mix of Christian influencers to advertise the plan and has also done outreach to thousands of churches around the country, offering a way to have Radiant donate a portion of congregants’ $30-per-month subscription fee to their church. Fisher has ambitions to market it beyond the US in other countries with significant Christian populations, like South Korea and Mexico.
He says Radiant is working with the Israeli cybersecurity company Allot to block categories of content. The technology to do this blocking is a blunt instrument: Allot groups website domains into more than a hundred categories, which include pornography but also violence, malware, gaming, and in Radiant Mobile’s case “sects,” which includes websites about Satanism....
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And void of brain! The not so radiant company.
You can't erase every "Fuck You" from every wall, dude!
Passengers Groan as Robot Passenger Causes Hour-Long Delay at Oakland Airport — Joe Wilkins
Humanoid robots still struggle to accomplish real-world tasks with human-level dexterity. At the airport, though, they’ve already proven perfectly capable of matching human incompetence.
A wild story out of Oakland, California shows what happens when you try to force a humanoid robot to fly coach. During a trip from Oakland to San Diego, a team of workers with the rental company Elite Event Robotics was traveling with Bebop, a 77-pound robot that appears to be a Unitree G1.
To get from Oakland to San Diego is a 7.5 hour drive, so it can make sense to fly. Yet when the team rolled up with Bebop in toe, Southwest told them they couldn’t check the robot as luggage due to weight restrictions. Failing that, they bought the bot its own seat on the plane, and that’s where the trouble began.
As the robot’s handlers tell it, flight attendants were — rightfully — concerned with how well the robot would behave on the flight.
“They come and start asking, ‘what kind of batteries does it have? What’s going on with this? X, Y, and Z.’ They want to see it,” Elite Event Robotics staffer Ben-Abraham told local media. “Meanwhile, I’m watching his flight, and I keep seeing online: ‘runway delay.'”...
It will only get worse.
Approaching Half of New Podcasts Appear to Be AI Slop — Frank Landymore
Approaching half of new podcasts appear to be AI slop.
Of the 10,871 new podcast feeds created in the past nine days, 4,243 of them, or 39 percent, have signs of being AI-generated, data from the Podcast Index cited by Bloomberg last week showed.
“It’s absurd,” Dave Jones, who runs the Podcast Index, said on his own show last week, per the outlet.
Podcasts, before the intrusion of AI, were already a sloppy medium. They’re designed to be listened to for hours on end while you zone out during chores, replacing your own scary thoughts with the babbling of someone else’s. Crucially, they’re inexpensive to produce and the bar for entry is pretty much zero.
All that makes the form perfect for being imitated by AI models. AI chatbots can effortlessly churn out lengthy scripts, and AI voice synthesizers can sound eerily humanlike, especially if you aren’t listening closely (as is wont to happen with a podcast).
It’s no wonder then that companies like Inception Point claimed last year to be churning out 3,000 episodes per week across 5,000 shows it made using AI, purportedly costing just $1 per episode. Its cofounder Jeanine Wright bragged to Bloomberg that the company now had more than 10,000 active shows, more than 2,500 of them made in the last three weeks....
The podcast sloplords disagree — and also really hate the word “slop.”...
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Then the motherfuckers should stop with their slop, baby!!
AI turning our world to slop in all ways possible1
Dershowitz Wrote To Pulitzer Committee To Block Julie K. Brown — Susie Madrak
A longtime investigative reporter at the Miami Herald, Brown spent years digging into the sweetheart plea deal prosecutors gave Palm Beach billionaire for his sex crimes. Her work eventually led to Epstein’s arrest in 2019.
On Monday, Pulitzer administrator Marjorie Miller announced Brown’s special citation during the livestreamed Pulitzer awards ceremony. Brown’s work in 2017 and 2018, “gives voice to the scores of victims that had been groomed and abused” by Epstein, Miller said.
Brown’s “Perversion of Justice” series won a prestigious George Polk award. The Herald entered the Epstein series for a Pulitzer Prize that year, but it was not a finalist. Alan Dershowitz, the attorney and television personality who helped broker Epstein’s original deal, wrote a letter to the Pulitzer committee that year, urging them not to honor Brown’s work.
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Dershowitz is an example of a failure in humanity.
Trump Is Making Khrushchev’s “We Will Bury You” Real for Putin. Why? — Thom Hartmann
Nikita Khrushchev famously said “We will bury you” (“My vas pokhoronim”) to Western ambassadors in Moscow on November 18, 1956. Seventy years later, it appears that Russia’s goal is being realized.
Putin called Trump last Wednesday and they talked for almost two hours; fewer than three days later, America announced we’re pulling 5,000 US troops out of the NATO forces in Germany, accomplishing a 60-year-long Russian goal. Trump also ended sanctions on Russian oil, handing the Putin regime billions in revenue, while continuing to block US weapons delivery to Ukraine.
Meanwhile, HHS Secretary brainworm-infected heroin and sex addict Bob Kennedy has hollowed out America’s core public health infrastructure and elevated anti-vaccine messaging, undermining trust in immunization and disease prevention. The result is a sicker and more vulnerable America as measles and whooping cough outbreaks spread across the nation and US science leadership in the world has been kneecapped.
Over at the Pentagon, Whiskey Pete Hegseth, whose mother says he abuses women, has purged senior career leadership of women and Blacks and weakened the independence of the JAG corps, eroding professional military norms and devastating morale. He’s stupidly burned through so much ordnance with his illegal, unconstitutional Middle East war crimes that our military readiness and deterrence capacity are at an all-time low in the modern era....
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It appears we are burying ourselves!
The AI Job Apocalypse Is Already Happening — Robert Reich
Friends,
How can the stock market be rising to record levels while jobs and wages are going nowhere, most Americans are paying higher prices for just about everything, and consumer sentiment is in the dumps?
Answer: Stock prices reflect corporate profits, which have risen to record levels. And corporate profits are soaring for two big reasons:
1. Corporations have more monopoly power than ever. This means they can raise prices without worrying that competitors will grab away consumers by underpricing them.
This is also a reason why wages are going nowhere. Workers have fewer competing companies to work for. Plus, more corporations are requiring their workers to sign so-called “noncompete agreements” so they can’t work for a competitor even if they found one. Researchers estimate that 38 percent of workers are now subject to such noncompete agreements at some point — not just for white-collar but increasingly for blue-collar jobs.
2. Corporations are using artificial intelligence (AI) — and the anticipation of AI — to slash jobs and wages.
Wages are around two-thirds of the typical corporation’s total costs. So a key way to increase profits is to cut total payroll costs by reducing the number of workers and keeping down the pay of those who remain.
AI is rapidly becoming central to this. Regardless of whether AI can substitute for all these jobs, corporations are behaving as if it can — and Wall Street is rewarding corporations that are slashing jobs in anticipation of AI.
The U.S. job market is already experiencing a wave of mass layoffs. So far, in the first four months of 2026, big corporations have cut over 128,000 jobs....
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The gravedigger is throwing dirt in our faces.
Half of all Republican voters are sick of Trump and MAGA: GOP pollster — Thomas Kika
Republican pollster Kristen Soltis Anderson calls them "normie" Republican voters, and they are a crucial chunk of the GOP base that is growing more and more fed up with President Donald Trump and his MAGA antics.
Writing for the New York Times on Tuesday, Anderson said that these normie Republicans account for roughly half of the party's voting base, and fall outside of its two most talked about categories: the "MAGA die-hards and Never Trumpers." Despite getting less media attention, these more moderate voters are "the most electorally critical slice" of the base right now, and they pose a major problem for the modern GOP....
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What's wrong with the other half? All of them racist secessionists?
DOJ Demands Names Of 2020 GA Election Workers
The New York Times reports:
The Justice Department has demanded the identities of every worker who staffed the 2020 election in Fulton County, Ga., according to court records, escalating an ongoing federal investigation of the 2020 vote in Georgia’s most populous county that relies on false and debunked claims.
The demand targets employees of Fulton County elections as well as volunteer poll workers, who likely numbered in the thousands during the 2020 election, according to court records.
The demand, which came via a federal grand jury subpoena, appears to be the latest effort by President Trump and his administration to use the investigative power of the federal government to pursue false claims that the 2020 election was stolen. With midterm voting underway in many states, including Georgia, the effort risks further undermining public confidence and sowing chaos among voters.
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Tell the Trump Nazi SOB swine to go back to the place in hell they came from and leave Americans alone!
Smith College Investigated For Admitting Trans Women
Politico reports:
The U.S. Department of Education opened an investigation Monday into Smith College, an all-women’s institution in Massachusetts, for admitting transgender women. The probe by the department’s Office of Civil Rights will look at whether the college violated Title IX, a 1972 law forbidding discrimination based on sex in education.
The move is the latest by the Trump administration — whose rhetoric has frequently included attacks on trans people — to limit transgender rights in the U.S. The administration has said that Title IX prevents trans women from participating in women’s sports, suing several states and launching investigations into schools for not complying.
Smith College, a private liberal arts school founded in 1871, has admitted trans women since 2015, along with many other elite women’s colleges. The number of women’s colleges in the U.S. has declined from more than 200 to just 30 as of fall of 2023, according to the Women’s College Coalition.
"As expected, the complaint that triggered this investigation was from a private anti-trans, strict gender, activist group, not a student."— clay (comments)
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Everyone has a right to an education, you Nazi shitbags! You will lose again!
SCOTUS Fast-Tracks Gutting Of Voting Rights Act
Democracy Docket reports:
The Supreme Court Monday fast-tracked certification of its decision in Louisiana v. Callais, clearing the way for Louisiana to move forward with redrawing its congressional map even as an election is already underway. The decision hands another win to the GOP just days after the court gutted the Voting Rights Act, and will allow the state’s Republican leadership to dilute the voting power of Black Louisianans in time for the 2026 midterm elections.
Under typical procedure, the Court waits more than a month before formally issuing its judgment to allow time for rehearing requests. But in this case, the justices granted a request to issue the ruling “forthwith,” accelerating the timeline for lower courts and state officials to act. The decision comes amid rapidly unfolding developments in Louisiana, where state officials have already suspended congressional primary elections following the court’s ruling and are moving to adopt a new gerrymandered map.
"Further proof that the Reichwing of SCOTUS is in cahoots with the Federalist Society, is having its decisions dictated by the unelected, unappointed them." — carswell (comments)
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These racist bastards have rekindled the Civil War along with the Land of the Happy Negro white racist seceders. It will end the same way as before.
Hegseth Lies That Biden Sent Troops To Polling Places
CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale writes:
Democratic Rep. Jill Tokuda asked Hegseth at a Wednesday hearing of the House Armed Services Committee whether he would comply with a hypothetical future order from President Donald Trump to deploy troops to polling places during this year’s midterm elections. Tokuda told him such a deployment would violate the federal law that prohibits sending federal troops to voting locations unless that is “necessary to repel armed enemies of the United States.”
After saying he rejects the notion that Trump would issue unlawful orders, Hegseth said moments later in the exchange: “I will note that in 2024, troops were depl… – that was Joe Biden by the way, Joe Biden – were deployed to polling locations in 15 states.” He repeated, “2024 – Joe Biden – troops deployed to polling locations in 15 states. Explain that one to me.” There’s an easy explanation. Hegseth’s claim is not true.>br>
All of the National Guard activations connected to the 2024 election were ordered by state governors, not by Biden. And all 12 of the states that responded to CNN’s requests for information said that none of their troops were deployed to polling locations. Rather, the states said their Guard personnel worked behind the scenes at other locations – helping with election cybersecurity or serving as internal liaisons – or that their state Guard was not actually activated for the election after all.
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Incompetent drunk!
Trump: I Take Cognitive Tests When I Get Called Moron
The Huffington Post reports:
President Donald Trump went off-script on Monday to brag - again - about passing a test meant to detect cognitive decline linked to dementia. “I’ve taken three,” he boasted. “No president, think of this, has ever taken one.” Trump said he likes to take the test whenever someone calls him a moron.
However, the test he described - the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) - is not an intelligence test. It’s a brief exam meant to detect the signs of cognitive decline associated with dementia. As such, its creator has said the assessment is intended to be easy for anyone of normal cognition.
Trump made similar comments on Friday when he spoke at a senior community in Florida, where he also bragged about passing three cognitive tests. The fact that he’s taken an exam intended to check for a serious cognitive disorder not just once, but three times, had many asking the same question: Why?
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If what he says is true then all the time the moron has will be spent taking cognitive tests.
It appears that is what the moron IS doing!
Kennedy Wants To Defund Hospitals That Serve Jello
The Independent reports:
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is leading a charge to stop hospitals from serving sugary drinks and foods, including Jell-O. The Department of Health and Human Services sent a memo to hospitals on March 30 urging them to align with the Department of Agriculture’s new 2025-2030 dietary guidelines, which emphasize limiting sugary, ultra-processed foods.
The agency wants hospitals to “align their food purchases with the dietary guidelines in order to enjoy continued eligibility for Medicaid and Medicare payments,” Kennedy said at a press conference last month. “We shouldn’t be giving … people who are sick Jell-O and Cheerios and rubber chicken and sugar drinks,” he added.
Calley Means, one of Kennedy’s top advisers, asked members of the public to report hospitals that serve sugary drinks earlier this month. His social media post included a link to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services website, where users can submit complaints about healthcare facilities.
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Just keep showing us the retarded fool you are, idiot!
Trump administration cites national security in stalling 165 wind farms — Martha Muir, Financial Times
representing a major escalation in the president’s crusade against renewable energy.
Approvals for about 165 onshore wind projects on private lands are being stalled by the Department of Defense, including wind farms which were awaiting final sign-off, others in the middle of negotiations and some that typically would not require oversight by the department, according to the American Clean Power Association (ACP) and people close to the matter.
Wind farms require routine approval from the defence department to ensure they do not interfere with radar systems. This typically involves the level of risk being assessed and the developer paying an agreed sum for the army to update its radar filter system so it can locate the windmill. Some projects can be deemed not to pose a risk due to their distance from army facilities and flight paths. Normally these assessments can take as little as a few days to complete.
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That Trump is against renewable energy illustrates his backward thinking. He has no idea of the disaster we will face without it!
Connecting The Supreme Court Six CHEATERS To Epstein — Cliff Schecter
The Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act in Louisiana v. Callais. Three weeks earlier, on April 9, Melania delivered an unprompted six-and-a-half-minute statement at the White House: denying her ties to Epstein, calling on survivors to testify under oath before Congress, and never defending her husband.
And one of Trump’s longtime confidants, a man who allegedly trafficked his own ex-wife out of Brazil—sits in the administration. Kait connects all dots. The pattern's a predator-class playbook: corrupt court protecting itself, billionaire-and-spook network going back to the 1953 Iran coup, and new war that just happens to enrich Saudi royals, Kushner’s Affinity Fund, and Lutnick, while no-bid defense contracts go to all the right billionaires.
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These deplorables should go back to hell where they came from.
AI Slop YouTube Channel Glitches Out in a Way So Bizarre That It’s Vaguely Disturbing — Victor Tangermann
YouTube has a serious slop problem.
The platform has been inundated with lazy AI-generated footage, from pseudo-educational videos explicitly aimed at toddlers and preschoolers to fake movie trailers. It’s become such a wasteland that some channels are starting to curate their playlists as being “no AI,” in an apparent effort to lure in users who’ve become fed up with the trend.
And despite YouTube battling the slop in a largely symbolic game of Whack-a-Mole, many channels are still falling through the cracks. One channel, dubbed Joe Liza WWE, which was initially created in 2007 and boasts just shy of 2,000 users, has been posting a slew of up to two-hour videos discussing the World Wrestling Entertainment industry and all the drama that surrounds it.
And beyond being a haphazardly put together barrage of real and AI-generated footage that’s randomly interspersed with clips of the video game “WWE 2K,” some incredible red flags come up when you actually listen to the accompanying, robotic voiceover.
As one unsettled Bluesky user noticed, some of the recent uploads include the male voice of a bot that frequently melts down into disturbing, nonsensical repetitions of a single word for several minutes at a time.
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"...repetitions of a single word for several minutes at a time?" This sounds like Trump! Is Trump just an AI experiment? ROTFLMAO!
Climate Change Is Getting So Bad That It’s Making Food Less Nutritious — Frank Landymore
Climate change’s effects often aren’t obvious.
In a particularly lateral example of how our planet’s changing environment is coming to affect our lives, scientists are now warning that our increasingly CO2-suffused atmosphere is causing the plants we eat to be less nutritious. Though the changes are subtle, they could already be endangering millions of people with poor diets, and hundreds of millions if the trend holds in the coming decades.
“The diets we eat today have less nutritional density than what our grandparents ate, even if we eat exactly the same thing,” Kristie Ebi, a professor at the University of Washington’s Center for Health and the Global Environment, told The Washington Post.
In a study published in the journal Global Change Biology in November, a team of researchers in the Netherlands surveyed the nutrient levels of 43 crops, ranging from rice to soybeans to wheat, in an assortment that represents the vast majority of plants that humans eat. The team found that nutrients like protein, iron, and zinc have fallen by 3.2 percent across all plants since the late 1980s. The culprit, they found, was an uptick in atmospheric carbon dioxide.
It’s not a drastic plummet, but it’s the beginning of an alarming trajectory. As billions of peoples’ diets already teeter on the verge of malnutrition, study lead author Sterre ter Haar warned that those few percentage points could push millions of people into a health crisis. A quarter of the world’s population is already believed to have anemia, a condition in which the body is incapable of producing enough blood cells to carry oxygen....
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Feeling tired and run down? Maybe it's what you're eating.
Trump, 79, Flashes Cankles After Surprise Medical Visit — Cameron Adams
The president’s socks were stretched to the limit.
President Donald Trump’s swollen ankles were caught on camera as he touched down after a trip to Florida that included a surprise medical visit.
Trump, who turns 80 next month, returned to the White House on Sunday after spending the weekend at his Mar-a-Lago resort and his Doral Miami golf club.
On Saturday, Trump undertook what the White House press pool called a “scheduled dental appointment” at his local dentist in Florida. The visit was not on his public schedule, however, and fueled speculation over his health.
Trump was photographed with son Donald Jr. on the south lawn of the White House on Sunday, with the president’s thick ankles visible....
Trump told The Wall Street Journal in a January report that he briefly wore compression socks to help treat the ailment, but stopped after a while because he “didn’t like them.”
As well as his ankle issues, the president frequently slathers mismatched concealer on the back of his hands to cover up bruising. He has attributed it to defying doctors’ orders and taking 325 milligrams of aspirin daily, which is four times the dosage generally recommended by physicians.
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At his age he shoud be taking 81. Aspirin is hard on the kidneys.
The Free World Is Leaving Trump Behind — William Kristol
On June 4, 1940, in the wake of the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk, Prime Minister Winston Churchill spoke in the House of Commons. The conclusion of the speech is justly famous:
We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this Island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God’s good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old.
In fact, eighteen long months later—“in God’s good time”—the New World did step forth to the rescue and liberation of the old. And for eight decades after that, the United States took on the responsibility of leading the Free World.
No longer. The current American president doesn’t care much about the world. His administration’s slogan is “America First.” And his administration doesn’t care much about freedom. As White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller explained, “we live in a world, in the real world . . . that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power. These are the iron laws of the world.” And if we simply live in a world governed by iron laws of force and power, all this talk of freedom and the Free World is bunk.
So under the Trump administration, we’re no longer the leader of the Free World. Indeed we’re barely on the side of the Free World....
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And, yes, America is fading along with Trump.
Trump's former lawyer says he's become a 'madman' — and must be removed from office — Matthew Rozsa
President Donald Trump’s former lawyer is convinced his ex-boss has quite literally become a “madman” — and that he must be removed from office.
“We’re in a real crisis here in the US,” attorney Ty Cobb told The i Paper in an interview that ran on Sunday. He added that the president is a “dictator,” “a madman” and is “destroying our democracy.”
As one example, Cobb observed that Trump appears to be “desperate” and therefore increasingly dangerous as the war in Iran drags on despite his efforts to quickly wrap it up. In seeming response to these frustrations, Trump posted on one occasion that if Iran did not capitulate to him a “whole civilisation will die tonight,” and on another warned Iran to “open the F**kin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in hell.” On both occasions, the posts sparked concerns about Trump’s mental fitness....
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Trump declared he would be a dictator on day one. It appears no one believed the one time he told us the truth!
Critics Think This Is The ‘Most Desperate S**t’ The Trump White House Has Ever Posted — Lee Moran
“Can’t stop, won’t stop,” the White House captioned its bizarre 60-minute loop. Critics wished it would.
The Trump White House drew widespread mockery and criticism after sharing a bizarre video of Donald Trump saying “winning” on loop for more than an hour.
The 1 hour, 17-second clip was posted on the Elon Musk-owned platform X with the caption: “President Trump saying WINNING for 1 hour.”
“Can’t stop, won’t stop,” the White House added.
Critics, though, wished it would.
One called it the “most desperate shit I watched all week.”
Another said it was “so hard to believe” the clip was actually from the White House.
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The demented mind passing the time and saying nothing.
Trump’s ‘revenge’ campaign against defiant Republicans hits snag: ‘Four people showed up’— Alexander Willis
...“They had lawn signs and fliers. A Spotify playlist titled ‘Trump Rally’ blared on a speaker at the outdoor Fairbanks Park amphitheater on the banks of the Wabash River,” reads a report from NOTUS published on Monday.
The event, however, failed to generate the enthusiasm that Trump and his allies were likely hoping for.
“Four people showed up, three of whom were part of the same family,” NOTUS reported.
Trump has finally achieved the audience enthusiasm of every shitty sitcom that runs that one last, horrible season just for the money and nothing funny in any episode." — Blackeyedbeaver (comments)
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The old fart is gassed.
GOP Rep Claims SPLC “Funded, Organized” Nazi Rally
Raw Story reports:
Rep. Harriet Hageman (R-WY) claimed that the SPLC “funded and organized” the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, a rally that left one protester, Heather Heyer, dead after a MAGA participant ran her over with a car.
“They paid the guy who did that $270,000,” Hageman said. “The organizer of that event, the one that has been the basis for screaming that Donald Trump is a racist because he allegedly said there are good people on both sides.”
Political analysts and observers called out Hageman for her “disgusting lies” on social media. “That Wyoming picked this lunatic Cultist instead of Liz Cheney is an embarrassment to decency,” Norman Ornstein, a political scientist, posted on X.
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It takes a special kind of shitbag to state a low-down, filthy lie like this moron has done.
Trump knew Iran war would 'end his presidency' – but proceeded 'against his will': insider — Alexander Willis
President Donald Trump has reached record-low approval ratings amid his wildly unpopular war against Iran, and according to a prominent insider and former ally of his, the president “knew” launching the conflict would be “the end of his presidency” – but was compelled to move forward “against his will.”
On Saturday, The New York Times published a lengthy interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, long a fierce ally to Trump who has since broken with the president over his decision to attack Iran, going as far as to issue an apology for stumping for Trump in the lead up to the 2024 election.
Citing his numerous one-on-one conversations with Trump, Carlson revealed during the interview his read on the president’s mindset at the time.
“My strong read was that he was doing this against his will. This was not a normal decision-making process, and my strong impression was that Trump was more a hostage than a sovereign decision maker in this,” Carlson told the Times’ Lulu Garcia-Navarro.
“He knew – and I know he knew because I talked to him about it directly – that the potential consequences were profoundly bad; the end of his presidency to start, which I think has proven to be. He knew that! I don't want to overstate my knowledge, but this is my strong perception on the basis of many conversations on this topic: he felt he had no choice, and he said to me 'everything's gonna be okay.'”...
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So, they are playing the martyr card now! LMAO!
Jesus Signs Creator Pleads Guilty To Child Porn Charge
Greensboro’s CBS affiliate reports:
The Asheboro man behind the well-known “Thank You Jesus” yard signs has pleaded guilty to a sexual exploitation charge, court officials confirmed Wednesday. Lucas Hunt, 25, pleaded guilty to felony third-degree sexual exploitation of a minor. He was sentenced to 36 months of supervised probation and will be required to register as a sex offender for 30 years. Hunt will not serve time in prison.
Hunt is the founder of the “Thank You Jesus” organization, known for placing yard signs across the region. Following his arrest, the Civil Air Patrol — where Hunt served as a volunteer — suspended him. The organization said at the time that the alleged actions were “inconsistent with our core values” and that protecting its cadets was its top priority. He’ll need to provide a DNA sample and receive sex offender evaluation. All of his electronic devices will be subject to search....
"Hunt will not serve time in prison? Why the fuck not?" — DevilDog (comments)
"Hell, in Texas a white man can rape an elementary school boy for years and only do 30 days in the county jail." — Random John Smith (comments)
"Thank you, Jesus, for showing us that Christianity is child rape!" — Refugay (comments)
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Another one bites the dust!
Todd Blanche Roasted Online For Dumb Voter ID Argument — Karoli Kuns
Last time we looked, one didn't need ID to eat. And eating at restaurants isn't a right, so it's just a stupid argument anyway.
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Start ignoring these fucking morons whose brains were gone years ago!
Shameless Sean Duffy Tries To Lay Spirit Air Liquidation On Biden — Heather
When you can't defend the indefensible, do what Republicans always do -- blame Biden.
As we discussed here, Trump wanted to rescue Spirit Airlines -- with our money -- but that deal fell through this weekend with Spirit announcing that it canceled all flights and is going out of business:
Spirit Airlines, the pioneering discount airline that shook up the budget travel business, is shutting down its operations.
The company is in its second bankruptcy and was in serious financial trouble well before the Iran war sent jet fuel prices surging. America’s eighth-largest carrier tried to reach a deal with the Trump administration on an 11th-hour rescue package, but a key group of creditors balked at the proposal. [...]
High jet fuel costs have pinched all US airlines, sending their costs surging. Jet fuel is the second biggest cost for airlines, behind only labor. American Airlines said that every penny that jet fuel prices rise costs the airline $50 million over the course of a year. United said last month that if jet fuel prices continue at their current level, the airline could incur $11 billion in additional expenses — double its highest-ever annual profit....
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WTF would these lame asses blame if they didn't have Biden? They sure as hell can't blame their own failure!
The Economics of Using AI to Churn Out Code Are Looking Worse Than Ever — Frank Landymore
In theory, using an AI model to churn out a bunch of code for your software company sounds like an awesome idea. A ruthless boss can cut down their workforce and save on paying their salaries and healthcare. Or they can keep the employees, and force them to crank out even more code with an AI. Either way, it’s an efficient cost-cutting dream.
But reality is beginning to set in. Businesses are racking up huge AI usage bills they didn’t expect, with a single employee spending over $150,000 a month on AI tokens. And AI companies are feeling the squeeze that the rampant use of their coding tools is putting on their servers, causing them to jack up usage rates.
In other words, the economics of rapidly deploying AI coding tools across companies are looking more questionable than ever. And one telling weather vane of where things are headed comes from Anthropic, which quietly doubled its estimate for how much the average business will end up spending on its Claude Code tool.
The sneaky update was first spotted by Ed Zitron, who extensively covers the AI industry. Before April 16, the Claude Code document estimated the average cost per developer to be $6 per day, and the average cost for 90 percent of users to be below $12.
But the documents now state that the “average cost is around $13 per developer per active day and $150-250 per developer per month, with costs remaining below $30 per active day for 90 percent of users.”...
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Not much to the dream after all, eh?
Meta Had the Worst Possible Response When Its Workers Were Watching Naked Footage of Its Ray-Ban AI Glasses Users — Frank Landymore
In February, Meta contractors in Kenya told Swedish newspapers Svenska Dagbladet and Göteborgs-Posten that the company required them to review disturbing and sensitive footage captured by its Ray-Ban AI glasses.
Some reported seeing wearers naked or using the toilet. Another saw a man’s wife undressing in their bedroom, after he left the glasses on a table, the joint investigation found. Other footage they reviewed included entire “sex scenes.”
“You understand that it is someone’s private life you are looking at, but at the same time you are just expected to carry out the work,” one employee told the Swedish newspapers. “You are not supposed to question it. If you start asking questions, you are gone.”
It seems their hunch was correct.
Two months after the worker’s allegations were published in the newspapers, Meta responded in highly questionable fashion. It terminated its entire contract with the Kenyan company, Sama, the BBC reports — a decision that a Kenyan worker’s organization alleges was in retaliation to the workers speaking out....
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The continued degradation of humanity by garbage techology.
Jeanine Pirro: I Don’t Really Care If WHCD Gunman Called Trump A “Pedophile, Rapist, Traitor”
The Hill reports:
Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, affirmed Sunday that the bullet that hit a Secret Service agent at last weekend’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner was fired by the alleged gunman. Pirro told host Jake Tapper on CNN’s “State of the Union” that prosecutors have video of the suspect, 31-year-old Cole Allen, shooting at the Secret Service officer, and the officer himself confirmed that he was shot.
“It is definitely his bullet, he hit at that Secret Service agent, he had every intention to kill him and anyone who got in his way on his way to killing the president of the United States,” Pirro said. “This was a premeditated, violent act, calculated to take down the president and anyone who was in the line of fire.” Pirro also said Sunday that based on that manifesto and other evidence, it is “very clear” that Allen was targeting Trump....
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She doesn't care? When will this woman pass through puberty and grow up?
In Cuba, US Media Only Films the Darkness — Michelle Ellner
When the lights go out in Havana, the foreign cameras arrive to film the darkness.
They come for the blackout glow: candles in apartment windows, families sleeping on balconies, mothers fanning infants through another airless night. They come for the line outside the pharmacy, the bus that never comes, the refrigerator gone warm.
They come for the darkness.
A recent CBS segment on Cuba offered viewers a familiar script: a “failed” island, an aging revolution, refugees in Florida, and Washington once again contemplating what to do with the place 90 miles away. But the segment was also built on an omission so large it swallowed the truth: that while these came
ras speak of shortages and collapse, babies are dying under a policy designed to create both.
A new report from the Center for Economic and Policy Research has found that the expansion of US sanctions beginning in 2017 was likely the primary cause of a dramatic rise in infant mortality in Cuba. According to the report, Cuba’s infant mortality rate surged by 148% from 2018 to 2025. Had the rate remained stable, approximately 1,800 babies who died during those years would likely still be alive.
Read that again. Babies....
When I walked through Havana during a blackout, I saw neighbors calling across courtyards, playing dominoes by candlelight. Someone on the corner had a speaker with half a battery and enough music for three buildings. Two young people kissed along the Malecón. Someone cursed the government. Someone cursed the blockade. Someone cursed both. Someone laughed. I saw human beings remain stubbornly human.
Why does CBS not cover that? Because they film the darkness. But the real story is not the candle in the window. It is the hand that cut the fuel, the policy that constricted the hospital, the silence that normalized preventable deaths, and the infants whose names will never appear in the broadcast.
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For the most part our media has gone to the dark side just as our military has done.
Sunday Thought: What Is Being Born — Robert Reich
Friends,
I’m not going to dwell on this week’s outrages by Trump and his regime — his Supreme Court appointees gutting the Voting Rights Act, his bizarre claim that his war doesn’t require congressional approval because it’s “terminated,” his murders of additional sailors he suspects of smuggling drugs, his ongoing ICE raids, his continuing efforts to use the Justice Department to punish perceived enemies, his renewed attempts to silence comedians such as Jimmy Kimmel, his giant self-aggrandizing triumphal arch (what triumph?) and grotesque ballroom, his never-ending corruption and lies.
Yet in the midst of this cataclysm, the backlash against Trump is growing. Your work has been critical — your demonstrations and No Kings marches, your letters and phone calls to Congress, your boycotts and your local activism. Trump’s approval ratings are in the cellar. Two-thirds oppose his war. Many are demanding an end to his reign. Even some MAGA faithful are turning on him.
But it’s more than resisting Trump.
A new progressivism is being born. ...
Make no mistake. These are terrible times — the worst I’ve lived through, and I’ve lived through some bad ones. (Remember 1968? Nixon’s enemies list? Anyone old enough to recall Joe McCarthy’s communist witch hunts?) Trump and his goons are doing everything they can to destroy America and much of the world.
But out of the embers and rubble that Trump and his despicable regime have wrought, a new America is being born. We are making it happen.
As long as we are alive and as long as we are resolved, as long as we are taking action to stop the worst of this catastrophe and also trying to make America and the world better, have no doubt: We will prevail.
Be safe. Hug your loved ones. Never, ever give up.
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"...we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender, ..." Winston Churchill.
Amendments Protecting Pro-Palestine Speech in California Schools Face Backlash — Marianne Dhenin
Educators and activists are fighting for changes to a bill they say was “designed to create an atmosphere of fear.”
bill introduced in the California legislature meant to help ensure open discussion in the state’s public schools and protect teachers from attacks is facing intense backlash and demands for its withdrawal from pro-Israel groups.
Assembly Bill (AB) 2159 would make targeted amendments to a school discrimination law passed year. That law, AB 715, was championed by California’s Legislative Jewish Caucus (LJC) and expands the state’s authority to ban instructional material in K-12 schools based on ill-defined standards. Critics argue that it undermines the rollout of ethnic studies classes and censors Palestine-related speech and instructional materials in schools. At least one pro-Israel group is already citing AB 715 in a landmark antisemitism lawsuit against the state of California that could stifle speech in classrooms statewide.
“The Legislative Jewish Caucus tried to pass a bill that they claim was designed to address antisemitism. But in reality, the bill was designed to censor open and fair teaching on Israel and Palestine,” Seth Morrison told Truthout. “It was broadly opposed.”...
AB 715 also requires that classroom instruction “be factually accurate,” a term critics argue is subjective and exposes schools and teachers to complaints. While the phrase may sound harmless, requiring “factually accurate” instruction while punishing teachers for statements about Palestine rooted in materials from trusted sources, for example, the fact that Amnesty International has labeled Israel an apartheid state, places educators in an impossible position....
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Just what is free about restricting free speech?
Trump’s Big Medicaid Cuts Are About to Get Very Real — Jonathan Cohn
President Donald Trump, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Mehmet Oz smile in the Oval Office of the White House on October 10, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
OMAHA, NEBRASKA HAS BEEN BUSTLING with activity these past few days thanks to the annual Berkshire Hathaway weekend, when tens of thousands of investors from around the world gather to hobnob with Warren Buffett while they figure out how to maximize their portfolios.
But inside one office, a woman named Amy Behnke has been preoccupied with something very different and much more urgent. She has been furiously working the phones with state officials, trying to figure out how to keep some of Nebraska’s poorest residents from losing their health insurance.
Behnke is CEO of the Nebraska Health Center Association, which represents clinics that provide care to the state’s underserved population. Since 2020, she tells me, the percentage of total patients showing up to member clinics with no insurance at all—the ones who represent the biggest drain on clinic finances—has dropped from half to one-third....
Just how big that change will be in practice is impossible to say right now. As in the rest of the country, the majority of non-elderly adult Nebraskans on Medicaid expansion already work or are in school, according to estimates by KFF. In theory, they should have no problem getting and staying on the program. And of those who don’t work, many have a disability or caregiving responsibilities or something else that is supposed to exempt them from the requirement.
But what is supposed to happen and what will happen are two very different things.
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"Work requirements" is something that many do not have the capacity for. Why are we so isolated from this fact? Why must we punish those who are in dire need?
Pete Hegseth's damning slip-up revealed how little Trump's war has accomplished: expert — Robert Davis
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's damning slip-up during his Congressional testimony last week revealed just how little President Donald Trump's war in Iran has accomplished, according to a former federal prosecutor.
Glenn Kirschner, a former Department of Justice prosecutor, argued during a new episode of his "Justice Matters" podcast that Hegseth accidentally admitted something important during an exchange with Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA). Hegseth seemed confused as to whether Iran's nuclear facilities had been "completely obliterated" during a strike on them last year, as he claimed during the hearing, or whether the country still had nuclear capabilities that warranted another strike.
Kirschner said that the exchange showed just how little the war in Iran has accomplished, other than killing military troops and raising prices for consumers at home....
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Losing. Trump's biggest accomplishment.
An arch bigger than the Arc de Triomphe? Hitler wanted that too — Andrew O'Hehir
Tyrants and dictators often dream of building gigantic monuments to themselves. It usually doesn't work
It might be a bit too convenient, at this moment in history, to observe that failing tyrants, as they feel their power slipping away, start building grandiose monuments to themselves. But at least in the modern context, it’s not wrong. Let’s put it this way: Any leader of the last century or so who wants to celebrate his glorious reign with, just for example, a grand triumphal arch and a plan to destroy and rebuild important landmarks of his capital city is only imitating the past, while ignoring its most obvious lessons. He’s likely to end up celebrating only his own decadence, poverty of spirit and enormous hubris....
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Trump has always wanted to be bigger than Hitler. The only category he's passed him on is his weight!
Defense official reveals alarming way US military learned about Trump’s troop withdrawal — Elizabeth Preza
An anonymous U.S. defense official revealed the branches of the U.S. military learned of President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw 5,000 troops from Germany “in real time,” without prior knowledge of the intended move, the AP reported Saturday.
Trump on Wednesday announced via a Truth Social post that his administration was “studying and reviewing the possible reduction of Troops in Germany.”
The announcement followed an assessment by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz last week that insisted the U.S. is “being humiliated” by the war in Iran.
A Pentagon spokesman on Friday confirmed to Breaking Defense that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth “has ordered the withdrawal of roughly 5,000 US troops from Germany over the next yTwo Republicans who chair the congressional Armed Services Committees, Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Ala.) and Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), on Saturday questioned the Pentagon’s decision, telling Punchbowl news“any significant change to the U.S. force posture in Europe warrants a deliberate review process and close coordination with Congress and our allies.”
But the AP’s report suggests the Trump administration isn’t even in close coordination with its own military branches. According to the AP, “A U.S. defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive matters, said the branches of the U.S. military didn’t have prior knowledge of the decision to draw down the 5,000 troops and learned about it ‘in real time.’”ear.”...
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"Military genius" does not apply to Trump!
Trump Suggests His Own Supporters Couldn’t Pass A Cognitive Test
Grandpa Dementia was bragging about all the cognitive tests he aced again during his speech this Friday at The Villages In Florida. We've come to expect the insults lobbed at former Presidents Obama and Biden and CA Gov. Gavin Newsom, but Trump decided to insult his supporters this time as well....
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Doctor Ronnie? He can't be serious! Listen to or read this gobbledegook scrambled brain rant and then attempt to think this idiot is anywhere near sane! Who knew he's a savant? (Notice he didn't say what the answer to his "math problem" is).
Trump Whines Medicare And Medicaid Too ‘Boring’ To Think About — NewsHound Ellen
Why don’t you get another job, then, Gramps?
Speaking to his supporters at Florida's The Villages, Donald Trump revealed he can’t be bothered with any details of the federal life-saving programs of Medicare and Medicaid.
Apparently, President Purple Hands flew to The Villages with his “great” pal, Dr. Mehmet Oz, the conflicted and unqualified head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
“It's the most boring trip I've ever made,” Trump complained. “He's telling me about Medicare, Medicaid.”
Oh, the poor poopsie! Did listening to details about two huge, important federal programs that he’s supposed to be in charge of interfere with his TV watching? Or one of his on-the-job snoozes? ...
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"President Retard" could put someone with a brain in charge on it but he's too big a douchebag to think of that.
NBC: 12 Federal Things That Now Bear Trump’s Name
NBC News reports:
The federal government is undergoing an unprecedented presidential branding makeover, with Donald Trump’s name being added to everything from buildings and battleships to a drug website and a park pass. While Trump has had roads and even an airport named after him since winning a second term in office, his administration has initiated a series of actions to imprint his name and likeness on the federal government well beyond internal documents and communications.
Not all of those efforts have been successful, such as a push to have a New York City train station and Washington, D.C.-area airport named after Trump. But the scope of the others is enormous, including the addition of his signature to U.S. paper currency — a first for a sitting U.S. president. The branding is in stark contrast to prior presidencies, including Trump’s first term, when the largest branding controversy involved having his name added to Covid relief checks during an election year.
"The only thing his name should be on is his tombstone" — Ragnar Lothbrok (comments)
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The only reason that Trump exists is to stamp everything with his name!
No one has ever been as sick as this idiot!
Trump will be erased from history. That we can count on!
POLL: 76% Disapprove Of Trump On Cost Of Living
ABC News reports:
As the Iran war has pushed the global economy into an oil crisis and gas prices reach a four-year high, Americans’ ratings of President Donald Trump on several issues are deeply underwater with majorities disapproving of how he is handling every issue measured. About three-quarters of Americans disapprove of how Trump is handling the cost of living in the U.S. (76%). Nearly as many disapprove of how he’s handling inflation (72%), up from 65% who disapproved in February.
In addition to the issues, about 7 in 10 Americans say Trump is not honest and trustworthy, two-thirds say he does not carefully consider important decisions and about 6 in 10 say he does not have the mental sharpness to serve as president. Among registered voters, 49% say that they would vote for the Democratic candidate if midterms were held today and 44% say they would vote for the Republican, a statistically significant 5-point margin.
"Because he is a fucking LOSER! He is the biggest loser of all time. His cares and concerns has to do with donnie, donnie, donnie - and absolutely no one else. The GQP has to wear this one for many many years to come. Impeach him, Convict him. Imprison him. LET HIM DIE!" — Luke - my beautiful Luke (comments)
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The Clown Prince of Failed Dictators!
Christian School Principal Gets 10 Years For Child Porn
The Oklahoman reports:
A former Yukon principal and basketball coach who secretly recorded students in a locker room will now serve a decade in prison. Ex-Southwest Covenant High School Principal Kevin Russell Cobbs admitted to one count of possessing juvenile pornography and one count of violating the state’s Peeping Tom law by using photographic and electronic equipment.
The case against Cobbs, 56, is the latest instance of Oklahoma school officials being convicted of committing crimes against students they are entrusted to oversee. An arrest affidavit written by sheriff’s deputies alleges that in late March 2025, Cobbs admitted to hiding on his cellphone an image of a male child lying naked with his buttocks in the air.
Judge Khristan Strubhar ordered Cobbs to serve 10 years in custody of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections. Cobbs had been employed at Southwest Covenant Schools, a private Christian school community in Yukon, for 15 years.
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Another one bites the dust!
Still no drag queens.
Host Channels Alex Jones In First Onion/Infowars Show
Consequence reports:
While the legal fight drags out in the background, The Onion has move ahead with launching its own satirical version of InfoWars hosted by comedian Tim Heidecker (who also serves as its new creative director). Delivering an uncanny impersonation of Jones (gravel voice, red skin, and all), Heidecker used Friday’s debut episode to respond directly to several of the allegations that the now-former InfoWars host made against him.
“I am wearing his skin. I’ve been wearing his skin now for about two weeks and it is, uh, it is tough skin. It is Texas skin,” Heidecker acknowledged. “Uh, it is leathery, uh, and Old Spice is the main fragrance, as well as various alcoholic beverages.”
Heidecker also revealed that created “an alliance between the Lord God and Satan himself,” and performed an on-air ritual in which he drank a sip of “real human blood” now available through the InfoWars store.
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At last, good news!
Trump's intimidation tactic just got destroyed — and he's reeling — John Casey
In a week when Donald Trump seemed to think he was a king because he hung with one, something hopeful reminded us he is far from one. In fact, you might say that the emperor's clothing is beginning to be removed, and what’s being exposed is a scaredy cat fraud.
Three diverse, noteworthy figures, over the past few days, looked Trump in the eye and essentially told him, “Get lost.”
After watching universities fold, law firms capitulate, networks grovel, and broadcasters bench their own talent at the first hint of White House displeasure (I’m dreading saying goodbye to Stephen Colbert), we saw a different response to Trump’s horrid reign.
First, a world leader stepped forward to call out Trump’s tragically misguided war with Iran. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, who had been careful to maintain cordial relations with Trump and left a White House visit last month on good terms, did something rare among Western leaders....
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Trump gets bitch slapped by real world leaders!
The Last Time We Reduced Troops in Europe, a War Broke Out — Mark Hertling
ONE OF THE BIGGEST MISTAKES of my career wasn’t something I did. It was something I failed to prevent.
I was commander of U.S. Army Europe in the early 2010s when U.S. forces were being drawn down in the European theater. I argued—forcefully, with member of Congress, the administration and the Department of Defense, and even my military commanders—that we shouldn’t do it.
In the final throes of the discussion, I pleaded to keep just one more tank brigade combat team on the continent. Those tanks, armored vehicles, and supporting forces would have signaled not to our allies but to our foe, Putin, presence and commitment. I believed then, as I do now, that removing that force created an opportunity for Russia to test the NATO alliance and to pursue its longstanding objective of expanding its influence.
I wasn’t persuasive enough. My arguments fell on deaf ears, and the brigade’s soldiers were ordered to return to the United States. Not long after, Russia seized Crimea and invaded Ukraine’s Donbas region. I won’t claim that the decisions of those who were my superiors caused that aggression—but I believe it contributed to it. I remember a warning from the then-president of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili, who told me plainly that if we pulled that kind of capability out of Europe, Moscow would act.
He was right. I still question myself as to how I could have been more persuasive.
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The Trump Dictatorship knows nothing about military history or anyhing else for that matter.
George Will dismantles latest 'radical' MAGA scheme — Alex Henderson
Frustrated by European allies' response to his war with Iran, U.S. President Donald Trump is threatening to withdraw the United States from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) altogether.
Many Trump critics, in response, are saying that Congress needs to play a role in handling U.S. involvement with NATO — and that Trump, under the U.S. Constitution, doesn't have the authority to pull the U.S. out of that alliance by himself without Congress' input. And some of Trump's MAGA allies are using the Unitary Executive Theory, a far-right legal doctrine, to argue that the president alone has the right to decide what the U.S. does in NATO.
Conservative Washington Post columnist George Will tackles this controversy in his May 1 column, laying out some flaws with the Unitary Executive Theory.
"The 'Unitary Executive Theory' is an idea percolating in America's political and judicial debates," the Never Trump conservative, now 84, explains. "Its radicalism includes insistence that the president may unilaterally withdraw the nation from treaties to which the Senate has consented. Withdrawal from NATO has become topical because of the current president's long-standing animosity toward the alliance. This has intensified because some NATO members have been uncooperative concerning the Iran war, about which they were barely consulted."
Will continues, "Put aside the wisdom of leaving NATO — history's most successful instrument of collective security — during the largest European war since NATO was created in 1949. But consider the ramifications of this additional marginalization of Congress: postulating an inherent presidential power to withdraw from even the most consequential treaties."...
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Of course, Nazis will entertain dictatorial ideas because Nazis!
Why friendship among white men is considerably more 'shallow': researcher — Adam Lynch
For years, researchers have claimed that men’s friendships are shallower and less emotionally supportive than women’s, a pattern called the “gender friendship gap.” But new research from PsyPost suggests this is more a problem with white men than other races.
A study published in Sex Roles finds that the gender friendship gap appears to be more a thing with the same race behind the widening dating and marriage gap in President Donald Trump’s MAGA-haunted America.
Researcher Emily C. Fox addressed the assumption of gender friendship gaps across races with an intersectional approach, examining whether gender and ethnoracial identity is a universal phenomenon concentrated within specific groups.
Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 cohort, a large, nationally representative U.S. sample tracked over time, Fox focused on respondents who, in 2002, were between 18 and 21 and had identified a best friend who wasn’t a parent, romantic partner, or co-parent. The final sample included 1,765 participants across Black, Latino/a, and white ethnoracial groups.
In addition to asking participants to think about their best friend and report how close they felt to that person on a 0 to 10 scale, respondents also provided demographic information such as gender and ethnoracial identity and socioeconomic background.
Women reported feeling closer to their best friend than men, and that closeness also varied across ethnoracial groups, but a closer look revealed that the differences were not uniform.
“Black men and Black women reported similar levels of closeness, while Latino men reported somewhat lower closeness than Latina women,” reports PsyPost. “The largest gap appeared among white participants, where white men reported noticeably lower closeness than white women.”...
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They never get tired of talking about pussy!
Huntington Beach Ordered To Pay $1M For Censoring Library Books — NewsHound Ellen
On Monday, an Orange County judge ordered Huntington Beach to pay $960,000 for legal work done by four legal organizations fighting the city’s violation of the state’s Freedom to Read Act.
But the ruling is only tentative.
As The Orange County Register explained, the ruling is the latest development after the Huntington Beach City Council ordered that any books containing sexually explicit material in the children’s section should be removed to a separate area and only accessed with parental consent. It’s not clear how they defined sexually explicit, but The Register said that some of the restricted titles were “It’s Perfectly Normal” and “Sex is a Funny Word.” Both are designed to be educational, not prurient, and each had approximately 80% five-star ratings on Amazon....
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Some people are so afraid of reality!
Steve Bannon Claims Voting Rights Act Of 1965 Was Racist Against Southern Whites — John Amato
After the Kangaroo Supreme Court stripped away key sections of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, MAGA influencer and resident scumbag Steve Bannon said the South was the people who had been oppressed because of the Voting Rights Act, which tried to end racism at the voting booth.
Bannon argued, using a dog whistle megaphone, that without racism, the GOP would not have captured the House and would not keep it in the future.
This is disgusting.
BANNON: Let me just be blunt. That's why this fight is so important, and we'll have more specifics today about who to light up because you can see those people that are MAGA and those people that are -will put their shoulder to the -- what's so outrageous and I find so offensive is the South has been oppressed by this since the 1960s or 70s.
It was clearly unconstitutional. Finally, people in Louisiana had the gumption to fight all the way through. The Supreme Court six to three, this was not close.
This was not close, and Alito buried them.
The only reason Louisiana took this up was because they know that Justice John Roberts has been our mission to destroy equal rights for minorities.
LBJ knew it was necessary to pass these laws because of the heavy racism from the South directed at the black communities that disenfranchised them at every turn, including their Constitutional right to vote.
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Yes, the dear ole Land of the Happy Negro white population who enslaved their happy Negros weren't racist at all according to this white racist motherfucker!
GOP Rep Rages That Texas Kids Can Speak Spanish
“Well, you know a friend of ours in a suburban red county here in Texas, they did a poll in their elementary school. Said what language is spoken at home? English came in fourth! Spanish was number one. Farsi was number two. Other languages were number three. English was number four. So this is what we’re dealing with in Texas right now.” – GOP Rep. Chip Roy, appearing on Fox News to promote his PAUSE Act, which would suspend all immigration to the United States and ban public schools from enrolling non-citizen students. According his own account, Roy was raised by a French-speaking mother and learned Spanish at an early age.
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Only the abysmally retarded will object to speaking more than one language.
Dismantling the Voting Rights Act Sets American Democracy Back Decades — Jordan Liz
On April 29, the Supreme Court voted 6-3 along ideological lines to weaken Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which prohibits voting practices that discriminate based on race, color, or membership in a “language minority group.” Under this provision, states were allowed to consider race in drawing district maps for the purposes of protecting the voting power of people of color. That is, until now.
In Louisiana v. Callais, the Supreme Court struck down a Louisiana congressional map that created a second majority-Black district as “an unconstitutional gerrymander.” The map was created after the Fifth US Circuit Court of Appeals found that an earlier redistricting attempt with only one such district violated Section 2. The circuit court argued that the state unjustly divided Black communities in a way that “deprive[d] them of the opportunity to form effective voting blocs.” In response, Louisiana created a second majority-minority district, which Rep. Cleo Fields (D-La.) won in 2024.
This new map was later challenged by a group of self-described “non-African Americans” who contended that it violated the Constitution’s equal protection clause. The Supreme Court concurred. Writing for the majority, Justice Samuel Alito remarked, the new map “would violate the plaintiffs’ constitutional rights.”...
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This is what we mean when we say they are retarded.
Trump: The US Navy Is Seizing Iran’s Oil “Like Pirates”
The Guardian reports:
Donald Trump has said the US Navy acted “like pirates” as he described an operation seizing a ship amid the tit-for-tat American blockade of Iranian ports.
“We … land on top of it and we took over the ship. We took over the cargo, took over the oil. It’s a very profitable business,” said Trump at a rally in Florida on Friday. “We’re like pirates,” he added to cheers from the crowd. “We’re sort of like pirates. But we’re not playing games.”
Trump’s comparison of US naval activity to piracy comes as legal experts raise alarms about Iran’s blockade of the vital strait of Hormuz and its plans to charge a fee for ships passing through it.
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Trump keeps committing crimes as if there are no international laws. An accounting is coming for him.
'Big damn deal': Newsom lays bare 'insidious' Trump scandal that should be front-page news — Daniel Hampton
California Gov. Gavin Newsom delivered a stark warning Friday that the Trump administration's weaponization of the Federal Communications Commission is a bigger threat to American democracy than the foreign corruption scandals dominating the headlines.
Speaking on the Bryan Tyler Cohen podcast, Newsom argued that FCC Chair Brendan Carr's media consolidation push represents something more insidious than Trump's personal enrichment schemes.
"Here's the thing that I hope people pay attention to. It's what Brendan Carr is doing at the FCC. Because the henchman on this is Carr, who was sent out to do what he did prior, which was to celebrate and subtly, indirectly encourage Nexstar and Sinclair to shut down Kimmel for a period of time. Carr publicly celebrated that," said Newsom.
ALSO READ: Republicans admit plot to evade historic third Trump impeachment
Newsom alleged a direct quid pro quo between Carr and broadcasting giant Nexstar. After Carr publicly urged broadcast stations to take action against late-night host Jimmy Kimmel, warning them to do it "the easy way, or the hard way," Nexstar pulled Kimmel from its ABC-affiliated stations, and Carr publicly celebrated the move. Carr's FCC then approved a $6.2 billion merger between Nexstar and Tegna, granting a waiver to bypass the congressionally mandated 39 percent national TV ownership cap. The combined company now reaches up to 80 percent of U.S. television households, according to reports.
"That was the return on that original investment of suppressing free speech," Newsom said flatly.
He laid bare the gravity of the scandal....
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Brendan Carr has swastika tattoos!
Even Trump voters suspect latest shooting was a 'set up': pollster — Adam Lynch
After Bulwark Editor Sarah Longwell finished processing a recent slate of surveys, she said she was surprised by the sheer amount of indifference (and even suspicion) haunting respondents who had voted for Donald Trump in 2020 and 2024.
“Okay, let me just set the table on this because we did five groups this week all across the political spectrum, and not a single one brought up the White House correspondence dinner situation,” Longwell told podcast guest host and former GOP speechwriter David Frum. “Nobody brought this up organically — not in five groups where we asked ‘how do you think things are going in the country.’ People were talking about how things feel like a powder keg, but nobody brought that up.”
Instead, what Longwell quickly picked up on was the taint of distrust.
“It just doesn't make sense to me that we have our leader — who is supported/protected by what is supposed to be the … the most dominant military force on the planet. It doesn't make sense to me that there have been this many close attempts on his life when we have all these other presidents recently who haven't really had that issue,” said one Trump voter.
“I can't even … bring in a can of Diet Coke to a baseball game or a concert without a metal detector [going off] or them emptying in my pocket,” complained another. “So, the idea of somebody having a gun, especially where the president is, makes no sense.”
“I feel like it was a ploy to get his ballroom that he wants and that's his reason because literally that is the first thing that he talks about after,” said a woman who voted for Trump in 2025, and who describes herself as an avid fan of guns. “It's suddenly ‘see, this is why I need the ballroom at the White House because [I] almost got shot.’ Like, that's literally the first thing he talks about after this happens. That's not normal. That's not what people think about after you almost get shot.”...
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At least he didn't have to slice his own ear open ths time!
Hegseth Can’t Defend Making It Easier For US To Kill Civilians -- NewsHound Ellen
Whiskey Pete Hegseth is a murdering SOB on top of everything else that makes him unfit for his job as Sec. Def.
Whiskey Pete Hegseth looked a little less puffy-faced when he testified to the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday than he had the day before, when he testified to the House Armed Services Committee.
But that didn’t make his testimony any more sober or fitting for a Secretary of Defense.
When it was Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand’s turn to question Hegseth, she asked about “the destruction of schools, hospitals, civilian places” in Iran.
“Do you know the impact of a strategic failure at a war when you have so many civilian casualties?” she asked the war criminal and war-criminal advocate. “You may have tactically completed a mission well,” she added, but that is not “strategically … meeting your goals because of the harms to civilians."
More specifically, Gillibrand wanted to know why the Pentagon division that is supposed to help the military avoid targeting civilians was cut by 90%.
Hegseth could not answer any of the questions. Instead, the guy who spent millions of taxpayer dollars so he and his buddies could feast on lobster tails, rib-eye steak, and King Crab while, presumably, salivating over even more civilian deaths, patted himself on the back.
“No military, no country, works harder at every echelon to ensure they protect civilian lives than the United States military, and that is an ironclad commitment that we make, no matter how, no matter what systems,” Sec. Lobster Tails lied.
“Why did you cut the department by 90%?” Gillibrand persisted.
She was cut off by the Republican chair, Sen. Roger Wicker, and her questioning ended....
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Hegseth is a totally untrustworthy rockhead.
Gov. Kathy Hochul Demands To Know If ICE Agent Who “Murdered” Renee Good Is Now Assigned To New York
Politico reports:
...“If Jonathan Ross has been reassigned to work in New York, I demand that he be immediately removed and not redeployed unless cleared after a full, independent investigation,” Hochul wrote in the previously unreported letter. “I have no confidence that Ross can be trusted to safely interact with the public. Nor should you.”
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Murderers should be in prison awaiting trial! Trump's death squads are still at-large! Trump is putting them onto our streets!
Cornyn: Paxton Gave “Sweetheart Deal” To Pedophile
The El Paso Times reports:
Incumbent U.S. Sen. John Cornyn’s campaign is lashing out at his Texas runoff opponent over a “sweetheart deal” for a sex offender.
Adam Hoffman, a lawyer in Waco, Texas, was facing a life sentence for the sexual abuse of a child that lasted three years. Attorney General Ken Paxton, however, reduced the charges last week so that Hoffman will serve only 30 days in jail and will not be required to register as a sex offender, according to reporting from KWTX in Waco.
“Crooked Ken Paxton took a horrific first degree felony case and reduced it down to two class A misdemeanors, initially suggesting it would accept no additional jail time,” said Cornyn campaign senior advisor Matt Mackowiak in a news release....
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The Nazis keep pushing their criminal candidates on us!
MAGA lawmaker astonishes with 'unspeakably racist' rant on live TV: 'Eject this guy' — Alexander Willis
Critics were left dumbfounded Friday night after Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL), known by some for his frequent Islamophobic and genocidal remarks, took aim at a new group during an appearance on a conservative political talk show.
“We don’t want Armenians to be able to serve in Congress,” Fine said during an appearance on “The Jenny Beth Show,” referencing his Republican primary opponent Dan Bilzerian, an American influencer whose father is Armenian.
Bilzerian filed to run against Fine in early April, and has sparked controversy of his own by making antisemitic remarks such as calling Judaism a “terrible religion” and engaging in Holocaust denial. Fine’s response, however, drew its own scrutiny from critics.
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This evil Nazi turd would have kept Arshile Gorky out of our country? May he eat shit and like it! Kick him back to the sewer where he came from! He cannot be in American government!
Conservative attorney begs court to kill the Trump 'virus' before it 'spreads' — Adam Lynch
Former U.S. solicitor general and conservative attorney Paul Clement says the Trump administration’s lawsuit against an entire federal court in Maryland must die, and die quickly, before the spirit of the infection spreads to other courts and dismantles the U.S. justice system.
Last June, President Donald Trump’s politicized Department of Justice targeted the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland in a lawsuit after the chief U.S. district judge for Maryland granted automatic stays against the government in response to a flood of petitions for writs of habeas corpus, reports Law & Crime.
The court granted the stays automatically as a matter of judicial economy because of the flood of immigrant habeas petitions, Law & Crime reports. But Trump and his helpers were furious, and launched a first-of-its-kind suit to undermine the court.
Judges on the court hired Clement to argue their case, and Clement did not hold back in the withering response brief he filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit.
In Clement’s view, Trump’s attack is a devastating power grab by the executive designed to pulls courts to pieces.
“If this case were to go forward, the next step would be discovery, with Article III judges and principal Executive Branch officers ‘prob[ing]’ each others' ‘mental processes,’ producing documents, and litigating privilege disputes of epic proportions,” said Clement. “Then comes final judgment and the potential for a permanent injunction, the effect of which could be to place the United States District Court for the District of Maryland in indefinite judicial receivership of an out-of-district colleague. And the virus would only spread.”...
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Indeed. Kill the virus!
Is the Next Economic Crash Being Signaled to Billionaires & Putin as the Working Class Gets Blindsided? -- Thom Hartmann
While Putin, the Trump kids, and their fellow billionaires are rubbing their hands in glee, it’s going to be a hell of a year or three for the other 99% rest of us.
The Wall Street Journal reports in an article titled “Trump Tells Aides to Prepare for Extended Blockade of Iran” that:
“President Trump has instructed aides to prepare for an extended blockade of Iran, U.S. officials said... In recent meetings, including a Monday discussion in the Situation Room, Trump opted to continue squeezing Iran’s economy and oil exports by preventing shipping to and from its ports. …
“For now, Trump is comfortable with an indefinite blockade, which he wrote Tuesday on Truth Social is pushing Iran toward a ‘State of Collapse.’”>br?
So, Putin — who Trump took orders from for a full 90 minutes yesterday — and America’s billionaires who religiously read the WSJ are officially tipped off to prepare for what may well be a worldwide repeat of the Republican Great Depression of the 1930s. Or at least a revisit to the GOP’s infamous Nixon-era crises of the 1970s, Reagan’s “Black Monday” 22% market crash, Bush’s 2008 “Great Recession,” and Trump’s 2020 massive botched-pandemic-response economic melt-down.
Trump and his people didn’t bother to say one word to average Americans — no press conference or warning — but they sure made certain that their billionaire buddies are informed....
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A new Depression will be a disaster for us all.
Adam Kinzinger: The First Family's Corruption Is Mind-Blowing — Tim Miller
Fox News wouldn't shut up about Hunter and Burisma, but its viewers aren't likely to hear any criticism of Eric and Don Jr. raking it in through government contracts approved by the Trump administration. Unlike in Hunter's case, the U.S. government is paying millions of dollars to the president's sons. Plus, Trump is losing the information war on Iran, Bibi is oddly chummy with Putin—given his alliance with Israel's enemy Iran, the nation's debt is larger than our GDP, the governor of Louisiana is outright assaulting democracy, and Kinzinger explains why we need to celebrate heroes....
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Thr corrupt Trumps are the darlings of Fox Noose.
Turning Civil Rights Inside Out — Robert Kuttner
In Louisiana v. Callais, the Roberts Court has continued its war on civil rights in the name of civil rights. The cynicism of the 6-3 majority decision in Callais is staggering. According to the majority decision by Justice Samuel Alito, the long-standing interpretation of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, requiring minorities to have opportunities to have representation in rough proportion to their population, has been overtaken by events.
What has changed? Nothing, except Alito’s ability to cobble together a majority based on his disingenuous claim that this ruling is merely an “update.” As recently as the Court’s 2023 ruling in Allen v. Milligan, Justices John Roberts and Brett Kavanaugh voted to uphold a lower-court order requiring an additional majority-minority district in Alabama. This was in line with an earlier precedent in the Court’s 1986 ruling in Thornburg v. Gingles, which overturned a North Carolina districting plan on the ground that it diluted Black voting strength.
The Wall Street Journal, in a deeply cynical editorial titled “A Victory for Voting Rights at the Supreme Court,” congratulated Alito on his ploy. “Justice Alito’s ‘update’ on Gingles tiptoes around those two precedents to get those votes [of Kavanaugh and Roberts],” the Journal wrote.
John Roberts has long sought to dilute Black voting strength, first as a staffer in the Reagan administration and then in prior Court rulings eviscerating the Voting Rights Act, notably in the 2013 case Shelby County v. Holder, which gutted the preclearance provisions of the Voting Rights Act for jurisdictions with a history of discrimination. As Justice Elena Kagan wrote in her scathing dissent, “Today’s ruling is part of a set: For over a decade, this Court has had its sights set on the Voting Rights Act.”...
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Trump and his fascist court is bringing Apartheid to the USA.
Severe blow dealt to abortion pill access in new appeals court ruling — Daniel Hampton
A federal appeals court dealt a severe blow to abortion access Friday, temporarily reinstating a nationwide requirement that women obtain abortion pills in person, significantly curtailing mail-order access to medication abortion for millions of Americans.
The ruling from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, written by Trump-appointed Judge Kyle Duncan, is a major victory for the anti-abortion movement. While the ruling does not ban Mifepristone outright, women can no longer obtain it through telehealth appointments or by mail while the case proceeds.
"Referring to Louisiana abortion prohibitions, they wrote that the current federal regulations create 'an effective way for an out-of-state prescriber to place the drug in the hands of Louisianans in defiance of Louisiana law,'" CNN reported.
Medication abortion now accounts for roughly two-thirds of all abortions in the United States. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, women have been able to obtain mifepristone through telehealth visits without an in-person doctor's appointment, an option the Biden administration formally enshrined in 2023 rules. Friday's temporary ruling significantly curtails that access....
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Sexist America wants our women barefooted, pregnant and in the kitchen! The retarded swine!
Hair Furor Lies That He Caused “Gay National Anthem” YMCA To Go To #1 For Months (That Never Happened)
“She hates when I dance to it. The First Lady hates when I dance to what is sometimes referred to as the gay national anthem. You know that? She hates it. You know that song was number five 32 years ago. And it went to number one 32 years later. There’s never been anything like it. It never hit number one until me! It was number five 32 years ago and it went to number one for months during the last months of the campaign. We love that song!” – Trump, speaking to an audience of seniors today in The Villages.
According to Billboard Magazine, “YMCA” topped out at #2 (not #5) on the Hot 100 in early 1979, which was 47 years ago, not 32 as Trump claims.
The song did not, as Trump claims, spend months at #1 on the charts thanks to his double-jerkoff dances at campaign rallies. It did reach the Top 20 of the iTunes chart for one week in November 2020.
On note, Village People frontman Victor Willis, the song’s author, has threatened to sue anybody who claims that “YMCA” has gay connotations....
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Trump knows his music as well as he knows shit from applebutter. And you know he does not know the difference with that!
Pentagon To Withdraw 5000 US Troops From Germany
ABC News reports:
The Pentagon is planning to withdraw about 5,000 American forces from Germany, senior defense officials said Friday.
The officials characterized the move as a signal of President Trump’s discontent with the level of assistance that European allies have offered in the U.S.-Iran war. Mr. Trump has publicly criticized German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and the leaders of other NATO member states for not getting directly involved in the U.S.’s military campaign against Iran.
The U.S. military has a massive presence in Germany dating back to the aftermath of World War II and the Cold War. More than 36,000 active duty troops were assigned to bases throughout Germany as of last December, along with nearly 1,500 reservists and 11,500 civilians, according to Defense Department figures....
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Trump hates Europe as much as he hates America!
Supreme Court's right-wing gambit backfires as way to 'neutralize GOP power grab' flagged — Alexander Willis
The conservative-controlled Supreme Court issued a controversial ruling Wednesday that critics warn may “demolish” restrictions around racially discriminatory voting policies — but one voting rights expert believes the court’s decision may very well end up helping Democrats at the ballot box.
In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court ruled that Louisiana state lawmakers would have to redraw their congressional maps, and in doing so, rendered Section 2 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA) “ineffective.” Section 2 was established to explicitly prohibit racially discriminatory voting policies, including the adoption of racially gerrymandered congressional district maps.
With the court’s decision, however, Max Flugrath, senior communications director for the voting rights advocacy organization Fair Fight Action, told The New Republic Friday that Democrats could now redraw as many as 22 additional congressional seats in time for the 2028 elections, enough to “offset Republican gains, even in a maximalist GOP redistricting scenario,” the outlet reported....
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Put these goddamn Nazis out to pasture!
Hegseth dressed down to his face for using anti-Semitic term: 'I cannot stand for that' — Bennito L. Kelty
A lawmaker grilled Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for shamelessly using an anti-Semitic term against his enemies.
"You compare journalists, you compare us, you compare so many to 'Pharisees,'" Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-NV) told Hegseth during a hearing on Thursday. "'Pharisses' is a problematic and historically weaponized term that casts Jewish communities as morally corrupt."
She stressed that "words matter" and asked Hegseth, "How do you justify using this language as Secretary of Defense?" and "Why do you continue to use it?"
Hegseth said "I stand by it" and defended himself by explaining, "It's a pretty accurate term for folks who don't see the plank in their own eye and always want to see what's wrong with an operation."
Rosen was shocked. "You stand by calling people 'Pharisees.' Sir, I cannot stand for that. That is wrong. It is not respectful to people, and I expect anyone who is in leadership in our country to be respectful and use respectful terms and not be an anti-Semite."
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Fully showing all of us how big an arrogant racist Hegseth is. Not to mention, IDIOTIC!
Military analyst reveals how Trump exposed 'decline' of US naval supremacy — Thomas Kika
The U.S. Navy was instrumental in helping build the modern, according to one military analyst, but now, President Donald Trump's disastrous war in Iran has exposed its "gradual decline."
Robert D. Kaplan is an analyst and writer focused on the U.S. military and foreign affairs, and on Friday, he published a new piece for the New York Times, warning that "America no longer rules the waves," and breaking down how the current situation has exposed the Navy's ongoing "decline."
"The U.S. Navy is in decline relative to its own history and to the growth of the Chinese Navy, and has surrendered the control of the world’s vital choke points that it had at the beginning of the 21st century," Kaplan wrote. "The South China Sea, through which up to 40 percent of global maritime trade passes, in addition to oil and natural gas, is now dominated by China. The Strait of Bab-el-Mandeb, the crucial transit point out of the Red Sea, is harassed by the Yemen-based Shiite Houthis."
He continued: "Now we can add the Strait of Hormuz to the list....
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"Decline." America itself is in decline due to the disgraceful fail of Trump!
'The dam is breaking': Trump's closest allies are now turning against him — The Conversation
In an interview with NBC News in January 2026, Donald Trump said: “Maga is me. Maga loves everything I do.” Until recently, this statement was true. But over the past several months, cracks have begun to appear in the loyalty of the US president’s “Make America Great Again” base.
Two of the movement’s most prominent figures – former congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene and conservative political commentator Tucker Carlson – have voiced their discontent with the leader they previously lavished with unconditional support.
Greene’s falling out with Trump was rooted in her advocacy for releasing the investigative files related to late child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. But it also centred on her discomfort with US support for Israel and a sense that Trump had abandoned his “America first” campaign promises....
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He remembers nothing and thinks only of himself anyway.
We're Finally Starting To Take On Billionaire Predators — Cliff Schecter
Naturally, the oligarchs oppose this measure and have reacted as though Attila were again at the gates.
California’s billionaires are freaking out. Like most obscenely wealthy Americans in the Trump era, plutocrats are bloated with paper wealth, fortified by legions of accountants, and have a moral philosophy that rarely extends beyond their reflection. They hold an illusion their fortunes are entirely their own. But, more than 1.5 million CA voters have a different view and signed a petition for a ballot initiative that would impose a billionaire tax.
The CA proposal is simple: If voters approve the initiative this November, the state will impose a a one-time levy of roughly 5% on the swollen fortunes of those whose wealth has passed the billion-dollar mark. The proceeds will be directed towards health care, food assistance, and the assorted necessities of a functioning civilization....
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Make sure to hit the Google Nazi with it!
Hegseth: 'The American People Want Europe To Fully Shoulder Ukraine' — Lmao, OK Bro — Conover Kennard
I'm getting 'trust me, bro' vibes from him.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth says the American people really want Europe to fully shoulder the burden in Ukraine while we pat ourselves on the back and call it 'leadership.' Senator Angus King (I-ME) wasn't having it.
"Secretary Hegseth, why are we abandoning Ukraine?" King asked....
"Europe can step up, Europe can fund it, and they have through our PERL initiative and through our European command," he continued without taking a shot of bourbon. That's something, I guess....
"We don't have any interest in what happens in Ukraine," King said. "Is that what you're saying? It's only the Europeans?"br>
"I'm saying the threat is far closer to rich and capable countries in Europe, and they should step up to lead the charge," Hegseth said. "And that's why that chart is a good thing to see."
"They have stepped up, but I think the American people should understand that we've stepped back," King shot back. "In fact, stepped back to the point of abandoning."
"This is a war that never would have happened under President Trump, and he supports ending it through a deal, and he's pursued that," Hegseth said.
"So far it hasn't happened," King said....
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Hegseth is a unqualified failure. He reflects Trump's stupidity. Total losers and thus so are we.
Hegseth: Ceasefire Stopped 60-Day War Powers Clock
Axios reports:
Senate Republicans are calling on the Trump administration to clarify how it is interpreting the 60-day clock under the War Powers Act in its military campaign against Iran. The 60-day deadline, depending on who’s counting, is arriving on requiring the president to seek authorization or wind down operations. The first strikes against Iran were on Feb. 28.
But Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth offered a different view during testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee, suggesting the clock can “pause or stop” during a ceasefire.
Republicans, including some who have flirted with supporting a war powers resolution, appeared open to Hegseth’s interpretation “It sounds like there’s some wiggle room he provided there for himself,” Sen. Todd Young (R-Ind.) told reporters. “We’ll take a look at whatever they send over.”
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Con man, PLEASE!
HHS Agency Ends Funding For Fentanyl Test Strips
CBS News reports:
Test strips used to determine if illicit drugs contain deadly contaminants including fentanyl will no longer be covered by federal funding, reversing a position the Trump administration held as recently as July and leaving public health organizations worried that the U.S. will lose the progress it has made combatting fatal overdoses.
In a letter reviewed by CBS News, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration said that agency funding cannot be used to purchase test strips used to check drugs for dangerous adulterants like fentanyl, xylazine and medetomidine.
Test strips cost about $1 each and can be used to check drugs — from powders to pills to party drugs — for contamination. They are a “critical, life-saving tool” that can prevent fatal overdoses, said Maritza Perez Medina, director of federal policy at the Drug Policy Alliance. Medina said the sudden change in policy has left advocates scrambling.
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Don't test and the numbers will show less cases! Don't forget that's what Trump proposed with Covid. The dumb shits must be flushed down the toilet!
Sen. Rand Paul Seeks To End Birthright Citizenship
Frankfurt’s ABC affiliate reports:
Kentucky GOP Sen. Rand Paul announced Thursday that he would be introducing a constitutional amendment to end birthright citizenship.
“Under current interpretations of American law, anyone born on American soil automatically becomes a U.S. citizen, regardless of whether the parent was here legally or not,” Paul wrote in a lengthy post on X. “This is wrong and not at all the intent of those who wrote the 14th Amendment.”
Earlier this year, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments about what defines birthright citizenship. The amendment states: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens.”
"You really should have hanged all of the old Confederates. This is the result of not doing what should have been done." — Karl Dubhe IV (comments)
"There's still time." -- AncientMariner -- (comments)
"Again remember, Kentucky is a red State, and ranks something like 46th in education. You can really see it in Rand Paul" — Blue4sure (comments)
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Oh, and this motherfucker knows what their intent was? FUCK HIM!
Erika Kirk Accuses Media Of Inciting WHCD Gunman
“Many of the left-wing journalists that attended the WHCD have spent years consistently calling President Trump a ‘Nazi’, a ‘threat to democracy’, and ‘Hitler’, yet they still joyfully attended the evening’s event….
“If they truly believed their own rhetoric, they’re either joyfully willing to have dinner with ‘Hitler’ or they’re lying to radicalize American citizens with narratives they know are grossly exaggerated.
“Either way, it exposes their game of ultimate hypocrisy: manufacture the hate and then profit off the results; even if it costs someone their life.” – Erika “Rhythm Nation” Kirk, on her podcast.
"Says the woman in Nazi SS officer drag." — CubbyPQ (comments)
"Sugartits, you're going to have to grift harder than that. Especially if you want a polo pony to go with that outfit." — Stogiebear (comments)
"Saying all this while she is dressed as a storm trooper.....sorry, if you are going to wear widows' weeds (all black), you are supposed to avoid making a spectacle of yourself. Cutting public appearances, wearing understated clothes. She doesn't look like she misses her late husband, and doesn't look like she wants to be around her own children." — NPSTL (comments)
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So she knows what the motives are for everyone that was attending the party? Amazing!
Trump is the master of hate. Sufficient evidence of that will be presented in court! Make no mistake about that, dearie.
Pentagon To Buy Drones From Trump Sons’ Company
The Daily Beast reports:
The Trump family is officially set to cash in on the president’s war on Iran by selling drones to the Air Force. Donald Trump’s elder sons, Donald Jr. and Eric, joined the board of drone-maker Powerus after a golf club company they backed merged with it in March to take it public. Powerus, based in West Palm Beach, the home of Trump International Golf Club, now stands to gain from its links to the first family.
The company, only founded last year, announced that it had struck a deal to sell an undisclosed number of interceptor drones to the Pentagon. But Brett Velicovich, the company’s co-founder and president, insists this decision is based on merit, not nepotism.
Earlier this month, Richard Painter, a former chief White House ethics lawyer under President George W. Bush, said that Gulf states caught up in President Trump’s war were put under “enormous pressure” to buy their drones. “These countries are under enormous pressure to buy from the sons of the president so he will do what they want,” he said.
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The Trumps are the biggest grifters we've ever seen holding our POTUS office. This is naked corruption, indeed!
New Medicare Portal Exposed Social Security Numbers
The Washington Post reports:
The Trump administration inadvertently exposed the Social Security numbers of health care providers in a database powering a new Medicare portal, The Washington Post found.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) last year created a directory to help seniors look up which doctors and medical providers accept which insurance plans, framing it as an overdue improvement and part of the Trump administration’s initiative to modernize health care technology.
But a publicly accessible database used to populate the directory contains some of the providers’ Social Security numbers, linked to their names and other identifying information. For at least several weeks, CMS made the database available for public use as part of its data transparency efforts.
"This is like the umpteenth time our private information has been exposed by this administration." — Jay Silversmith (comments)
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How many must suffer because these retarded motherfuckers know nothing about security?
Louisiana Sued For Suspending US House Primaries
Democracy Docket reports:
A new lawsuit is challenging Louisiana’s extraordinary decision to suspend congressional primaries already underway — arguing the state is illegally nullifying votes and plunging an active election into chaos following the Supreme Court’s gutting of the Voting Rights Act.
Just one day after the Court struck down the state’s congressional map, Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry (R) declared an “emergency” and halted U.S. House primaries — even though absentee ballots had already been cast and early voting was set to begin within days.
“This Court is asked to do something simple: stop a state from canceling an election that is already underway,” the plaintiffs wrote. “The Supreme Court’s decision in Louisiana v. Callais did not order the May 16 election canceled — and did not authorize it. The judgment in Callais is not yet even final.”
"See you in court Mother Fuckers" -- Dwight Williamson (comments)
All these Trump traitors do is piss on our Constitution. All the Democrats do is narrate the Nazis continued plunder of America! It's time for action against them!
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Sued? Landry should be arrested, indicted and tried for election tampering!
Medical expert reveals dementia warning sign hidden in Trump’s royal gaffe — Thomas Kika
President Donald Trump's handshaking gaffe during the recent visit from U.K. royals was written off by many as yet another example of his rude, self-absorbed behavior, but according to one medical expert monitoring his mental decline, it seemed more like a warning sign for his rumored decline into dementia.
Earlier this week, Trump welcomed King Charles III and Queen Camilla from the U.K. for a high-profile state visit. Alongside Charles' backhanded shade during an address to Congress, the visit also made headlines for an incident in which Trump seemed to cut ahead of the queen consort while she was shaking hands with and being introduced to members of his cabinet, and then awkwardly shaking hands with his own officials.
"Hilary M.A. CCC-SLP" is a certified Speech-Language Pathologist with a focus on cognitive decline issues and has shared numerous videos offering insights into the signs of Trump's cognitive and physical decline in recent months. In response to the incident with Trump and Camilla, she argued that it was not merely an example of his rude tendencies, but rather a sign of his mental state as he appears to slip further into dementia.
Examining the video, she noted that Trump was positioned well behind Camilla before cutting ahead of her, meaning that it was not a case of the two shaking hands near each other and Trump moving ahead to continue. Instead, the situation indicated that the president had to have "an action plan within the brain" when he decided to cut ahead of the queen. She also suspected that the king and queen were briefed on the plan for meeting the cabinet ahead of time, which Trump potentially forgot about.
"So I think there was likely instruction, and he either forgot the instruction or had zero impulse control once the whole thing started," she explained....
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Get this disgace out of office!
Florida Pastor/Santa Claus Busted In Child Sex Sting
The Lakeland Ledger reports:
A Lakeland man who has played Santa Claus for roughly a decade in the city’s Christmas parades, waving and taking photos with thousands of children, is one of 19 people arrested in a recent child-sex sting conducted by the Polk County Sheriff’s Office. Thomas Allen Hicks, 68, was arrested on April 21 and faces felony charges, including human trafficking for forced sex trade of a child younger than 18, traveling to meet with and using a computer to solicit a minor. The top charge carries a maximum penalty of up to 30 years in prison.
Hicks responded to an online ad and texted back-and-forth with an undercover officer posing as the father of a 13-year-old girl who was being offered for sexual activity, according to an affidavit filed with Polk County Clerk of Court. The Sheriff’s Office said Hicks offered $200 for an hour with the girl. The Sheriff’s Office said Hicks works in marketing for Tri-County Human Services, a Lakeland-based nonprofit that provided services for individuals facing mental health issues, alcohol and drug addiction. He also served as a pastor, previously at First Alliance Church in Lakeland.
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Another one bites the dust!
Johnson: “We Are Not At War” With Iran
NBC News reports:
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., on Thursday said that it is not necessary for Congress to weigh in on the Trump administration’s military action in Iran because the United States is currently “not at war.”
“I don’t think we have an active, kinetic military bombing, firing or anything like that. Right now, we are trying to broker a peace,” Johnson told NBC News in the Capitol. “I would be very reluctant to get in front of the administration in the midst of these very sensitive negotiations, so we’ll have to see how that plays out.”
His comments come as the ongoing military conflict with Iran nears the 60-day mark, a threshold outlined in the 1973 War Powers Resolution, which says that the president has to remove military forces from conflict within 60 days if Congress doesn’t authorize a war before that deadline. When pressed about the 60-day deadline, which falls on Friday, Johnson specifically said, “We are not at war.”
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One more batshit crazy motherfucker!
Trump in 'real trouble' as new 'whopping' bad numbers reveal a major weakness: MS NOW — Tom Boggioni
Donald Trump received more bad news on Thursday morning with MS NOW’s Jonathan Lemire reporting that voters are fed up with inflation during his watch, with the president reaching record low approval numbers.
According to Lemire, Trump is in “real trouble.”
“Only 21 percent of people surveyed approve of Trump's job handling over inflation and rising prices, while 70% disapprove,” the Morning Joe co-host began. “That puts Trump a whopping 49 points underwater, the lowest rating Trump has ever had on inflation. In fact, that's even lower than former Presidents Biden and Carter, when inflation was at its worst during their presidencies; when inflation reached just over 9 percent in June 2022 under Biden and nearly 13 percent in October 1980 under Carter.”
“For perspective, the current inflation rate is 3.2 percent, so a smaller number, but yet unhappiness [is] really high towards Trump,” he elaborated. “So when it comes to the cost of living, the poll found that 75 percent of independents and 45 percent of Republicans surveyed say the country is on the wrong track.”
“This is why so many in the GOP are deathly afraid of November’s midterms," he added.
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America has the power in its people to stop this madman!
Impatient Trump issues new demand to fire comedian he hates: 'Better be soon!' — Travis Gettys
President Donald Trump signaled his impatience with ABC over his long-simmering feud with late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel.
The 79-year-old president demanded the network remove Kimmel from the airwaves over a joke he made last week in which he described first lady Melania Trump as having "the glow of an expectant widow," and his Federal Communications Commission chairman Brendan Carr has directed Walt Disney Co. to file early license renewal applications for its local affiliate stations.
"When is ABC Fake News Network firing seriously unfunny Jimmy Kimmel, who incompetently presides over one of the Lowest Rated shows on Television?" Trump posted Thursday morning on Truth Social. "People are angry. It better be soon!!! President DJT."
Both the president and his wife have publicly called on ABC to fire Kimmel over his April 23 joke, which they have blamed for an alleged assassination attempt two days later at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.
ABC briefly suspended Kimmel in September following backlash over his comments about the suspect accused of assassinating conservative activist Charlie Kirk in Utah.
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Trump keeps showing us he is 100% EVIL!
FIRE TRUMP, AMERICA!
'You're a war criminal!' Pete Hegseth interrupted by protester in Pentagon hearing — Nicole Charky-Chami
A protester interrupted Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth during a congressional hearing on Thursday as the Trump administration official faces heightened scrutiny over the Iran war and Pentagon budget.
The Pentagon chief testified for the second day before congressional leaders, this time speaking to the Senate Armed Services Committee and defending the ongoing military operation in Iran and the Pentagon's $1.5 trillion budget request when a protester interjected, yelling at Hegseth during his opening statement.
"You're a war criminal. You should be arrested. What you're doing is despicable!" A heckler in the room yelled out.
The person, whose name was not immediately known, was removed from the hearing.
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Thankfully, someone had the guts to tell the truth in public!
Department of Just-Indict-Someone — Andrew Egger
We know we keep saying it, but this business about the Strait of Hormuz is getting really, really alarming. Oil prices hit their highest point since the war began overnight, with Brent crude prices surging above $120 a barrel before settling back around $114 at time of publication. And in comments to Axios yesterday, Trump seemed to see no end in sight: “The blockade is somewhat more effective than the bombing,” he said. “They are choking like a stuffed pig.” Setting that metaphor aside, it’s hard to ignore that the rest of the world is choking, too. Happy Thursday.
Todd Blanche Has a Thom Tillis Problem
by Andrew Egger
Start with the obvious: The felony indictment of former FBI Director James Comey for supposed threats to murder the president—based on nothing but a photo of seashells spelling the phrase “86 47,” which he posted to Instagram last year—is a naked act of political prosecution and a grotesque abuse of the powers of the Justice Department, and everyone involved knows it.
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, the driving force behind the indictment, knows it. Under ordinary circumstances, a seasoned prosecutor like Blanche1 would suffer untold torments rather than be subjected to the humiliation ritual his indictment of Comey has kicked off. The acting AG spent yesterday poker-facing his way through TV interviews: When asked in a CBS News interview if he had “proof that the FBI director knowingly and willfully threatened the life of the president,” Blanche responded that his proof “is in the fact that the grand jury returned an indictment.” Should a MAGA influencer’s mirror-image 2022 post to “86 46” also have been charged as a murder threat? “I have no idea whether there was an investigation into the other times that that post has been made and whether that investigation yielded different results,” Blanche spluttered. “This investigation that we undertook resulted in a two-count indictment.” The proof that he should have been indicted is that they indicted him.
FBI Director Kash Patel also knows the indictment is a farce. To answer the question “why now” with an answer beside the obvious—that Donald Trump is cranky and getting an enemy’s scalp would cheer him up—Patel was forced to pretend that reading an Instagram post, pretending it constituted a death threat, and charging it accordingly required a major FBI investigation: “This has been a case that’s been investigated over the past nine, ten, eleven months. These cases take time.”...
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Amazing how they think no one can see their phony bullhit schemes.
The Supreme Court Hacks Away at the Voting Rights Act Yet Again — Kim Wehle
THE U.S. SUPREME COURT’S RIGHT-WING MAJORITY gutted what remained of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 on Wednesday. In a 6–3 ruling in Louisiana v. Callais, the Court picked a favored outcome then contorted (you might even say gerrymandered) the law to fit it, all while ignoring the history of the post-Civil War Amendments to the Constitution and Congress’s unequivocal and overwhelmingly bipartisan goals in passing the Voting Rights Act in the first place
Worse still, the justices are probably not finished disemboweling the country’s decades-long legacy of remedying generations of racial injustice.
The case arose from the state legislature of Louisiana redrawing the map of congressional districts after the 2020 census to create only one majority-minority district out of the six districts apportioned—even though over 30 percent of the state’s population is black. (A majority-minority district is one in which racial or ethnic minorities make up more than half of the population, thereby affording a better chance to elect representatives reflecting their interests.) Black voters sued, urging the creation of an additional majority-minority district. In her dissenting opinion in Callais, Justice Elena Kagan explained problem the original plaintiffs were trying to fix:
A minority community that is cohesive in its geography and politics alike, and that faces continued adversity from racial division, is split—“cracked” is the usual term—so that it loses all its electoral influence. Members of the racial minority can still go to the polls and cast a ballot. But given the State’s racially polarized voting, they cannot hope—in the way the State’s White citizens can—to elect a person whom they think will well represent their interests. Their votes matter less than others’ do; they translate into less political voice.
They won their case in the lower court, and in response to that ruling, the Louisiana legislature in January 2024 redrew the congressional redistricting map in Louisiana’s Senate Bill 8, creating a second majority-minority district. Upset by that revision, a group of self-described “non-Black voter[s]” in Louisiana sued, arguing that the newly redrawn second district was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander because it illegally took race into consideration. The lower court disagreed, and the state appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, which originally considered the case last year, but reconsidered it this term—narrowed in scope—before issuing its ruling on Wednesday.....
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I never thought I would live to see the day our Supreme Court ruled against its people. A shameless racist disgrace that could destroy our Republic forever.
Secretary Squeals-A-Bunch Had A Pretty Embarrassing Day In Congress — Evan Hurst
Yesterday, Jules Hurst III, the comptroller at the Pentagon, told the House Armed Services Committee that Donald Trump’s stupid, servile war for Benjamin Netanyahu in Iran has so far cost American taxpayers, who cannot currently afford gas, $25 billion. That number will only rise as America continues to lose, and as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth learns in real time — and is forced to emotionally process — that the reason America hasn’t won a war in 80-someodd years actually has nothing to do with girls or Black people or gays or transgender people, but on foreign policy concepts he’s far too stupid and inexperienced to understand.
Meanwhile Trump is posting memes, renaming the Strait of Hormuz as “Strait of Trump,” prompting some to ask why Trump would name his greatest failure after himself. But that’s a silly question, because Trump always names his greatest failures after himself.
Anyway, the real show in Congress yesterday was the very sensitive, thin-skinned, needy, soft and milquetoast Nilla wafer of a WAR!!! secretary, Pete Hegseth — they formally requested the name change this week, because that’s their stupid priority in the middle of NOT A WAR — getting triggered over and over and over again by Democrats, including in exchanges with Democratic man senators with more esteemed military records than his own.
As usual, the whining was intense and came from the beginning, as Hegseth mewled that the “biggest adversary” America faces is the “defeatist words” of Democrats.
“The biggest challenge, the biggest adversary we face at this point are the reckless, feckless and defeatist words of congressional Democrats, and some Republicans,” Hegseth said at a House Armed Services Committee budget hearing. “Your hatred for President Trump blinds you to the truth of the success of this mission.”
Aww, boo boo. Cry more, bitch.
Rep. Chrissy Houlahan, one of the honorable veterans Secretary Shitfaced has been attacking for making a video reminding troops that they have a sworn duty to refuse illegal orders from tyrants and their little pissboys, remarked on Pete’s whining:
“You reserve more words and more vitriol to condemn Democrats than you did for [Chinese President] Xi Jinping and for [Russian President Vladimir] Putin combined,” said Rep. Chrissy Houlahan (D-Pa.). “It’s pretty telling to me that you decided to use your words and your time for that.”
Pretty sure Daddy Trump would fire Pete if he was mean to Trump’s daddy Putin....
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Trump treachery is naked.
Trump Knows '86' Is A Real Death Threat, Like '23 Skidoo' And 'Why I Oughta!' — Even Hurst
It has been oft discussed in the august pages of Wonkette that Donald Trump is the oldest man who ever lived, not to mention the oldest president. He is so old that his brain stopped functioning in approximately 1989, when his brain had simply reached an age when it was nonfunctional and unable to download regularly scheduled updates that would tell him new things about the world where he lives. He was born old. His old ugly dead dad and mom with their stupid hair and ugly faces? He was born the same age as they are, which must have been a real experience for his mom’s vagina, birthing a fully grown man, especially one so ugly. What a disappointment that must have been!
So it stands to reason that Trump really seems to think that the slang term “86” means to kill someone, as he explained yesterday that he’s seen it in the movies, the moving pictures, the talkies! Back in his day it was just a nickel to go to the picture show, and they had a double feature, and you could take your sweetheart for a soda pop afterward, boy it was swell.
(It has also been long discussed how Trump thinks movies are real.)
Below is a clip of Trump in the White House yesterday. Does Trump really think James Comey was threatening him with a picture of Instagram seashells, as the Trump Department of Justice hilariously wants us to believe, like we’re stupid? And if so, tell us the steps you took to become such a fucking pussy, sir.
TRUMP: Well if anybody knows anything about crime, they know 86, you know, 86, it’s a mob term for kill ‘em, you ever seen the movies?
Ever seen the movies? he asked.
He continued:
TRUMP: 86 ‘em! The mobster says to one of his wonderful associates, '86 ‘em, that means kill ‘em! It’s uh, I think of it as a mob term, I don’t, people think of it as something having to do with disappearing, but the mob uses that term to say, when they want to kill somebody, they say “86 the son of a gun!” I’m trying to keep the language nice and clear, they don’t use that term “son of a gun” they use another term, but that’s a mob term for kill ‘em.
It’s been pointed out that it’s entirely possible Trump is confusing “86” with “deep six.” After all, this is the man whose brain turns “people asking for asylum at the border” and mangles it into “THEY’RE EMPTYING OUT THE INSANE ASYLUMS,” another pant-shitting fear fantasy that only the oldest man in the world would invent. (Also something we’re pretty sure he saw in a movie.)
And hey sure, maybe some mob movie Trump watched as a child used “86.” It makes sense, of course, that the mob boss president would be clinging to references like that. Because he’s old. And sad. And his brain is expired.
Continuing to live in a black-and-white mob movie only he remembers, and continuing to be the oldest man who ever lived, Trump kept babbling to the people in the Oval Office, which is labeled with comforting gold letters to remind him where he is. He probably thought they were there to change his bedpan, but he kept talking to them:
TRUMP: Comey is a dirty cop, he’s a very dirty cop, he cheated on the elections, he tried to help Hillary Clinton, as you know …...
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Trump: The Deluded Fool On the Hill.
Iran Isn’t Begging for Negotiations. It’s Setting the Terms for Ending the War. — Amy Goodman
Negotiations between the United States and Iran to end the war are at an impasse as the conflict enters its third month. The Wall Street Journal reported late Tuesday that Trump has told aides to prepare for an extended blockade of Iranian ports to ramp up the pressure on Tehran.
Iran is saying it will enter into direct talks with the U.S. “when President Trump lifts what Iran considers to be the illegal military naval blockade in the Strait of Hormuz,” says Drop Site News co-founder Jeremy Scahill. “Iran has maintained that it’s not shut down the strait, but that it’s just shut it down for any vessels that are linked to the U.S. war in any way.”
Scahill says a disorganized Trump administration is pushing a “total propaganda narrative” that it has the upper hand in negotiations, while Iran believes it has the “three M’s” on its side: munitions, markets and the midterms.
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America has lost another war that we started. Serves us right. Meanwhile, Trump is trying to rig the fall elections to keep his seditonists in office.
Hegseth Dismisses Testimony of US Soldiers Who Said They Were Put in Danger — Sharon Zhang
Accounts by U.S. soldiers who survived a deadly strike by Iran in Kuwait that contradicted the Pentagon’s narrative are “falsehoods,” Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth suggested in a contentious hearing in the House on Wednesday.
Rep. Pat Ryan (D-New York) asked Hegseth about a CBS report finding that soldiers were commanded to relocate to the U.S. base at a hub in the Port of Shuaiba about a week before the U.S. and Israel launched the war, despite officers knowing that it would be a likely target for retaliatory strikes. Indeed, on the first full day of the war, Iran struck the facility, leaving six soldiers dead and over 20 wounded.
“No counter drone capabilities, no counter rocket systems, no counter mortar or counter artillery, not even the basic overhead protection you and I had 20 years ago in Iraq, and now, six of our soldiers are dead,” Ryan said.
“The next day, you downplayed the attack. You said it was a ‘squirter’ that squeaked through fortified defenses,” Ryan went on. He pointed out that soldiers interviewed by CBS said that, while other soldiers in the region were instructed to “get off the X,” meaning the danger zone, a few dozen were instead put at the port outpost, where there was effectively zero protection from drone and other aerial strikes, they said.
“That is obviously in direct contradiction to what you said from the Pentagon podium the next day. So are you saying that these soldiers who survived this horrific attack are lying?” Ryan asked....
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Our military is being commaned by morons.
Trump 'desperately' begging for help from US allies he insulted and threatened — Alex Henderson
..."The Trump Administration is issuing a request for allies to join an international coalition, called the 'Maritime Freedom Construct,' to help reopen the vital shipping route and end the global oil crisis," Palmer explains in an article published on April 30. "The allies he is now begging for help are the same ones he has frequently attacked and threatened for refusing to get sucked into his war. A month ago, in his address to the nation, Trump declared that the Strait of Hormuz was not his problem and U.S. allies would need to resolve it themselves. Since then, oil prices have spiked to a four-year high and Trump's approval rating has hit record lows."
The Wall Street Journal, on April 29, reported that the U.S. State Department, led by conservative former Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Florida), sent embassies a cable urging them to try to convince their governments to join the Maritime Freedom Construct coalition.
The cable read, "Your participation will strengthen our collective ability to restore freedom of navigation and protect the global economy. Collective action is essential to demonstrate unified resolve and impose meaningful costs on Iranian obstruction of transit through the Strait."
Palmer points out that Trump is "becoming increasingly isolated as some of the top U.S. allies, such as Canada, France, the U.K., and Germany, refuse to be dragged into the war in Iran or assist in reopening the Strait of Hormuz."
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We'll be lucky if the US isn't attacked by a coaliton of former allies united power!
Trump’s war exposed the military’s growing weakness: NYT — Thomas Kika
The harsh "reality" of President Donald Trump's war with Iran has exposed "the vulnerabilities" that have been growing within the U.S. military for the whole world to see, according to a new piece from the New York Times Editorial Board.
In the piece, published Thursday morning, the board observed that, "on paper," the U.S. military going to war in Iran should have resulted in an easy victory, given the substantial mismatch at play. While that expectation was largely met during the early days of the campaign, now, things are looking much different and much more dire for the U.S.
"Iran has taken control of the Strait of Hormuz of the Strait of Hormuz, and its missiles and drones still threaten America’s allies in the region," the NYT board explained. "While President Trump seems eager for a negotiated truce, Iran’s leaders do not. Somehow, the weaker nation is in the stronger negotiating position."
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Pete Hegseth personifies the failure of our military.
Jim Acosta: Second Trump era moving into 'mind-numbing' stupid — Adam Lynch
“Jim Acosta Show” host Jim Acosta says Kid Rock addressing the Pentagon like someone with military expertise makes clear that we are living in a movie, and that movie is “Idiocracy.”
“Over a mind-numbing span of approximately the last 48 hours, American brains have been assaulted with an absurd amount of Trumpian stupidity,” said Acosta. “… Yes, that is Kid Rock addressing the troops at the Pentagon this week. It is tempting to think photos, like [that] are AI generated. But no. Your intrepid reporter checked. And that happened. Apparently, the Trump administration’s self-described War Secretary, Pete Hegseth invited Mr. Rock to Washington for a taxpayer-funded joyride on an Apache helicopter at a nearby base in Virginia.”
Between that and Trump warning Iran via Truth Social to “get their act together,” and declaring they “don’t know how to sign a nonnuclear deal,” Acosta said it feels like “living through a sequel to the film, Idiocracy.”...
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The era of "Trump Stupidity" has hit its critical mass. The bullshit looniness has got to go staright to the garbage dump.
JD Vance And Peter Thiel Get A Lego Video — RedStateRachel
JD Vance and Peter Thiel get a Lego video focused on their relationship, including Epstein ties and the money behind Vance's election.
JD Vance and Peter Thiel get a Lego video! The Lego video about Vance and Thiel focuses on their relationship, their Epstein ties and Thiel's money behind Vance's election.
Increasing reports about America's 79-year-old president's erratic behavior have put Vance (and his billionaire benefactor) in the spotlight....
Look Behind the Vance and Thiel Curtain
As Trump's health appears to decline, The Globalist reports that people should study Russian history to understand the money behind Vice President Vance.
Crooks and Liars has been writing about Vance, Thiel and the other Broligarghs for years. C&L writers have been shining the light on Thiel due to his mass surveillance company Palantir....
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This exposes their moronic treachery!
Todd Blanche Is A Farcical Acting AG: Seashells Prove It — John Amato
Has there been a more ridiculous indictment by an Attorney General in US history?
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche made a preposterous statement on CBS Morning News when he claimed that a grand jury indictment of James Comey for posting seashells '8647" is proof of his guilt.
How can an Attorney General of the United States not understand the basic tenets behind the judicial system they oversee?...
To be clear, a grand jury indictment is not proof of any crime.
That's why we have judges, juries, prosecutors, defense attorneys, and witnesses. Major Garrett could've used that as a follow-up question, but he had his script already written.
Pizzagate scumbag Jack Posobiec also posted the same image online, mimicking James Comey's post to President Biden, and Blanche was asked if he would be prosecuted. When asked about their similarity, Blanche launched into a nonsensical reply, claiming the same thing is not the same thing.
GARRETT: Will the Justice Department pursue that case? Because they sound very similar.
BLANCHE: That's just completely not true.
That's not how a grand jury does its work.
Fuck! It is true, Mr. Acting AG. To clarify, Garrett did not ask about a grand jury; he asked about the DOJ. Blanche told the DOJ to present to a grand jury, not the other way around....
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Trump only appoints losers.
Tillis: I’ll Block Any AG Nominee Who Excuses Jan 6
Politico reports:
Thom Tillis took on President Donald Trump’s administration in a monthslong battle to quash the criminal investigation into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell — and won. Now he’s urging those around the president to take his latest ultimatum seriously — that he won’t confirm for attorney general anyone who excuses the events of Jan. 6, 2021.
“Hopefully they’ll take me at my word when I say anybody who equivocated on the Jan. 6 rioters, I just can’t support,” the North Carolina Republican said about Justice Department nominees. Tillis has major leverage as a member of the Judiciary Committee, where Republicans have a one-vote advantage and he can exercise an effective veto.
In the hours after the committee vote Wednesday, Tillis again spoke out against the whitewashing of Jan. 6, recounting Wednesday how he was the last senator to leave the chamber the day a mob of Trump supporters temporarily suspended the counting of the 2020 Electoral College vote. He previously sank Ed Martin’s U.S. attorney nomination because of his previous comments related to the riot and his work defending those who took part in it.
"Tillis: I will be silent as SCOTUS dismantles the last vestige of the voting rights act.
But a new AG that's a J6 denier? That's where I put my foot down!" — DaddySnake (comments)
"Performance art and smokescreen for the fat fascist." — Phil da Bern (comments)
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Is he asking for bribe money?
WaPo Poll: Only 28% Support Hair Furor’s Ballroom
The Washington Post reports:
Americans reject President Donald Trump’s planned White House ballroom by a 2-to-1 margin, according to a Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll, and they appear largely unmoved by the intensified calls from the president and his allies in Congress to allow the project to go forward.
Fifty-six percent of Americans oppose Trump’s decision to tear down the White House’s East Wing to make way for his planned ballroom, funded by about $400 million in private donations, while 28 percent support the project. That is the same division found in an October poll. Reactions are split among partisan lines; about two-thirds of Republicans support the project, while 61 percent of independents and 87 percent of Democrats oppose it.
There is also a notable enthusiasm gap: Nearly three times as many people “strongly” oppose the project as strongly support it, the poll found.
"That 28% must be accounted the bedrock of tin-bucket stupidity in this country." — skinnercitycyclist (comments)
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Of course, not one of the 28% is an American.
POLLS: Trump’s Support Among Catholics Is Cratering
Letters From Leo reports:
A recent NBC News survey of 4,557 American adults gives Pope Leo XIV a net favorability rating of plus thirty-four. Donald Trump’s net favorability in the same poll is negative twelve. That is a 46 point gap between the first American pope and the American president — a gap measured during a month of sustained public attacks from Trump on the Holy Father.
A Public Religion Research Institute survey released this month shows Trump’s favorability among Latino Catholic voters has collapsed from forty-one percent in November 2024 to twenty-five percent today.
On the war itself, a YouGov poll fielded April 17 through April 20 measured a twenty-point chasm: 48% of Americans said they agreed more with Pope Leo XIV on Iran, 28% with Trump and Vance. Among American Catholics overall, Pope Leo XIV’s approval rating is 84%. Trump’s national approval hovers near forty.
"Regardless of your beliefs, the fact that any "religious" people follow republicans at all proves that either religion is insane or people are." — Danny & Andrew (comments)
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No one but a Nazi supports Nazis!
Private Prison Secretly Funneled $1M To Trump PAC
Punch Up reports:
A private prison giant that runs a sprawling network of ICE jails has sparked allegations of “corruption” after it funneled $1 million to a Donald Trump-aligned fund for the midterms, PunchUp and Migrant Insider can reveal. The timing of GEO Group’s donation has set off alarm bells—it came just as news broke that the company was about to lose out on lucrative contracts.
In the first five months of fiscal 2026 alone, the immigration detention center monolith held more than $1 billion in obligated ICE contracts, an OpenSecrets analysis found, placing it second only to CSI Aviation among the agency’s top vendors.
The seven-figure payment from its subsidiary, GEO Reentry Services LLC, was recorded as received by MAGA Inc. on March 9—the same day The Washington Post reported that the Trump administration had frozen the parent company out of $426 million in new ICE contracts. GEO Group has not received any new contracts since.
"Private Prison Secretly Funneled $1M To Trump PAC.
One more dot to connect: MAGA, Inc. has been used as TRump's legal defense fund. Private Prison company pays to keep Donald out of jail." — clay (comments)
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The deep corruption of the country formerly known as the USA.
REPORT: Trump Now Compares Himself To Napoleon
The Atlantic reports:
Had President Trump, we wondered, possibly been reading or at least thumbing through—just maybe—the works of … Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel?
Impossible. And yet. Hegel’s theory of “world-historical individuals,” men who redirected the course of humanity, focused on three figures: Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, and Napoleon Bonaparte. Hegel described them as unlikely “heroes of an Epoch” for upending established orders that had previously seemed fixed. They were “practical, political men” who were each condemned in their age for smashing norms and for other conduct “obnoxious to moral reprehension”—as Trump has been accused of, centuries later.
And though Trump has long compared himself to America’s two greatest presidents, we were recently told by two people who are in a position to know such things—a senior administration official and a longtime Trump confidant—that the president had, in private conversations, begun thinking about himself less as a peer of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, and more as an addition to Hegel’s immortal trifecta.
“He’s been talking recently about how he is the most powerful person to ever live,” the confidant told us. “He wants to be remembered as the one who did things that other people couldn’t do, because of his sheer power and force of will.”
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It's time to stop abusing an insane man. Lead him to a hospital for God's sake!
Does he even know what happened to "Nappy"?
Trump lost badly in Iran. How does he spin that as a win? — Andrew O'Hehir
No amount of late-night posting and Fox News bluster can make this world-historical humiliation look like victory.
There is no way to sugarcoat the epic scale of America’s humiliation in Donald Trump’s disastrous and irrational war with Iran, or the damaging global effects that will endure years or decades into the future. With the “stable genius” and “extraordinarily brilliant person” in the White House visibly decompensating into impotent rage and erratic bursts of mania, there is no obvious exit strategy that will allow him to declare victory (as he must, for interwoven and deeply unfortunate psychological and political reasons).
This war has accomplished exactly none of its stated objectives — even with those constantly being defined downward — and has almost certainly strengthened the regional power and global reputation of the Iranian regime, despite weeks of bombing and the deaths of much of its leadership. Trump’s options are dire and limited: a negotiated settlement that might, at best, approximate the pre-war status quo; a potentially catastrophic military escalation favored by literally no one except Lindsey Graham, the Israeli government and a handful of right-wing Iranian expatriates; or an indefinite continuation of the current phony war over the Strait of Hormuz, in hopes that the Iranian economy will suffocate before global recession sets in (an outcome that may be unavoidable no matter what else happens).
That’s a doubleplus-ungood list, and while it’s easy to say that the first option presents the most rational outcome for all sides, it’s not clear that even matters. The Pakistani government’s effort to play peacemaker has once again collapsed, with neither Iran’s foreign minister nor Trump’s amateur-hour negotiators willing to show up in Islamabad this past weekend. Trump is “quite fed up” with this war and eager to make a deal, reports Amos Harel of the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, but is trapped between Benjamin Netanyahu on one side and Iran’s new war-hardened governing faction on the other, both of whom are more than willing to fight on.
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Total failure and disgrace on our nation.
STUDY: Arrests Of Cubans By ICE Up Nearly 500%
The Miami Herald reports:
A Cato Institute report published last week found that overall the Trump administration has “nearly ended green card approvals for Cubans,” while it targets Cubans under its mass deportation agenda for arrest, detention and deportation.
In October 2024, months before Trump took office, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services approved over 10,000 Cubans for lawful permanent residency. But the numbers steadily declined after Trump took office and fell to just dozens by the end last year. Meanwhile, ICE arrests of Cubans went up from less than 200 per month in late 2024 to more than 1,000 per month by late 2025.
Since December 2024, green card approvals for Cubans have fallen 99.8% and ICE arrests of people from the island have risen by 463%, according to the Cato analysis. In January, the government received 7,086 applications for residency, but only 15 Cubans became permanent residents, four were denied and thousands of other applications are on pause. Meanwhile, ICE detained over 1,000 immigrants from the island. The freeze has created a legal limbo that Cubans, long privileged in the U.S. immigration system, have never faced before.
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Trump's slackjawed Nazi gun thugs coming after the Cubans now. What a desecration of freedom in the former USA. We live in shame in the world now. Will they keep voting for Nazi persecution?
GOP Rep Blames Biden For 2020 Census Under Trump
Newsmax reports:
Rep. Greg Steube, R-Fla., told Newsmax on Tuesday that Florida Republicans are on “good footing” as they move forward with redistricting plans, arguing the state was undercounted in the last census and is entitled to fairer representation.
Appearing on Newsmax’s “National Report,” Steube backed Gov. Ron DeSantis’ push, saying, “he’s right” and pointing to what he described as Census Bureau errors. “The Census Bureau admits during the Biden administration that they shortchanged Florida and Texas. So we should have gotten another seat,” he said.
Steube also cited continued population growth in the state, adding, “1,100 people a day are moving to the great state of Florida, fleeing states like New York and California because they hate the policies, and they love the policies of Florida and the freedom that we have there.”
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More proof of Nazi Numbskulls! The retarded will believe him.
'Whoa, whoa, whoa': Congressman cuts off Pete Hegseth in tense hearing — Tom Boggioni
Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) had to fight for speaking time during a contentious confrontation with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday morning, at one time having to exclaim, “Whoa, whoa, whoa,” to get the Donald Trump appointee to hush.
As the ranking Democratic member of the House Armed Services Committee, Smith got the first shot at the former Fox News personality and was barely able to finish his questions before the amped up Hegseth began spouting talking points about the success of the Iran war that has continued to drag on.
After Hegseth gave an opening statement touting the success of the war, Smith pounced.
“You have to stare down this kind of enemy who is hell-bent on getting a nuclear weapon and get them to a point where they're at the table, giving it up in a way that they haven't have,” Hegseth stated which led Smith to interrupt with, “So they haven't broken yet? Okay, we haven't gotten there yet.”
“Well, their nuclear facilities have been obliterated underground,” Hegseth shot back, which drew a puzzled look from the Democratic House member.
As Hegseth continued with, “They are buried—”, Smith protested, “Whoa, whoa, whoa, whow whoa whoa.”
“Reclaiming my time for a second here," Smith lectured. “We had to start this war, you just said 60 days ago, because the nuclear weapon was an imminent threat. Now you're saying that it was completely obliterated?”
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Trump granted power to Hegseth and he is drunk on it. Don't forget it is a drug. He does not have the tookls to handle it as he acts like a 5-year old on amphetimines. He is also should be cited for contempt of court with his agressive bully antics.
Smirking Hegseth dressed down as 'immature' to his face over Pentagon firing non-answer — Tom Boggioni
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s evasive and smirking answers to questions about his firing respected military officials at the Pentagon earned him a dressing down Wednesday from Rep. Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA), a retired Air Force officer.
Under questioning about the Pentagon purge initiated by the former Fox News weekend host, who was tapped by Donald Trump to oversee the Pentagon, the Pennsylvania Democrat focused on the firing of Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George, which has also alarmed Republican lawmakers.
Hegseth initially repeatedly insisted he could not divulge why he fired George due to privacy concerns, which did not satisfy Houlahan. He finally snapped at her questioning and replied, “Out of respect for these officers, we never talk about the nature of their removal, but every one of them, including myself, knows that they serve at the pleasure of the president. Ultimately, out of respect to these officers, we don't reveal it. However, I will note it's very difficult to change the culture of a department that has been destroyed by the wrong perspectives.”
“So General George destroyed the culture?” the retired veteran shot back.
‘There are many—” Hegseth began before stuttering and then continuing, “We've gotten rid of many general officers in this administration because we need new leadership.”
“You have no answer, you have no way of explaining why you fired one of the most decorated and remarkable men who has served this nation,” Houlahan accused.
“We needed new leadership,” Hegseth insisted with a smirk before adding, “That’s my answer.”
”So your answer is a very immature way of responding to my request,” the lawmaker tersely replied.
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He collapses like a cheap trailer in a tornado under higher IQ leaders. Trump should love them.
Peter Thiel Launches Startup To Discredit Journalists
Oligarch Watch reports:
A Peter Thiel-funded startup launched this month will use an “AI jury” to “subject the media’s claims to systematic investigation and judgment.” That same system of AI adjudication assigns a numerical value — the so-called “Honor Index” score — grading the trustworthiness of individual reporters. And for a starting price of $2,000, anyone can pay for the company to review and adjudicate complaints they may have about a news outlet or reporter.
Objection AI was founded by Aron D’Souza, a lawyer best known for leading the Thiel-funded lawsuit that bankrupted the digital news outlet Gawker in 2016. D’Souza has described Objection as a private arbitration court, which individuals can turn to when they feel they have been unfairly maligned by reporters or pundits. “Your reputation takes years to build and seconds to destroy online,” the company wrote in a recent post on X. “Objection makes adjudication fair, fast, and affordable.”
The company is funded with millions of dollars in funding from Thiel, former Coinbase CTO Balaji Srinivasan, and other investors.
"It's amazing how quickly Thiel is going down the extremist rabbit hole.
- Using AI to vilify any media he doesn't like
- Embracing religious extremism
- Saying anyone who doesn't support his views is the anti-christ" — vap (comments)
"Another autocrat who deserves the guillotine." — Magic twanger (comments)
"He thought he would lose backers if they knew he was Gay. But being a fascist would be OK?" — Gustav2 (comments)
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Fighting Nazis like Thiel is the real war America must win.
Trump Posts AI-Generated Threat To Iran At 4AM
Mediaite reports:
President Donald Trump issued a new threat to Iran early Wednesday, posting an AI-generated image of himself holding an assault rifle alongside the blunt message: “No more Mr. Nice Guy!”
The image, shared on Truth Social just after 4 a.m. ET, showed the gun-wielding president in a dark suit and sunglasses, standing before a backdrop of explosions tearing through a hillside.
“Iran can’t get their act together,” Trump wrote. “They don’t know how to sign a nonnuclear deal. They better get smart soon!” The escalation comes as efforts to secure a diplomatic breakthrough have slowed, with a planned second round of peace talks recently abandoned after weeks of conflict and a fragile ceasefire dragging on.
"But 'the Left' needs to tone down the rhetoric, right?" — CloG (comments)
"Yeah yeah, and a couple weeks ago you were going to wipe out a civilization. Nobody takes your threats seriously." — archiveit (comments)
">acts blustery
>chickens out five times already
I don't think Iran will take your AI slop seriously, bub." — Dark Qivit (comments)
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Cosplay don't mean a thing, dudester!
WaPo: WHCD Gunman May Not Have Fired Weapon
The Washington Post reports:
Surveillance footage reviewed by The Washington Post shows that Cole Tomas Allen appeared to raise his shotgun in the direction of a Secret Service officer who then fired at him at least four times as he bolted through a security checkpoint outside Saturday’s White House correspondents’ dinner.
The video, a much higher resolution version of the security camera footage President Donald Trump posted to social media that night, does not capture every gunshot that authorities say was fired. But it provides the clearest picture yet of the four seconds between when Allen burst out of a doorway in full sprint and when he exited the frame, falling to the ground at the top of a staircase leading to the ballroom at the Washington Hilton where Trump sat near Vice President JD Vance and multiple members of his Cabinet.
The footage shows the officer drew his weapon within two seconds of Allen’s arrival. The officer fired multiple times at Allen — and in the general direction of other security personnel as Allen ran past them. There is no indication in the footage reviewed by The Post that Allen fired his weapon, though authorities have charged him with discharging a firearm during a crime of violence. The footage shows no obvious flash from the muzzle of the shotgun before the suspect runs out of the frame.
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Scattershooting for dollars!
Nobody Trusts Trump's WHCD Story Because Trump Killed Reality — Cliff Schecter
Trump's sinking. His economy's a carnival ride operated by a drunk raccoon, his legal record reads like a mob boss who left his day-planner at a crime scene, and even allies treat him like the guy at a wedding everyone prays won't grab the mic. Yet, for all his failure, he’s achieved the ultimate dictator’s goal
Trump’s turned public life into what I've dubbed a "Distraction Ponzi Scheme." Every bit of bad news requires another manufactured event even bigger to obscure it. If you appear more times in the Epstein Files than Jesus in the Bible? Start a war in Iran! If your war in Iran's predictably a disaster? Fire Pam Bondi! And on and on we go.
Back to Saturday night. If it were Reagan, Bush, hell even Nixon saying someone tried to kill him, it wouldn’t cross my mind anything else occurred. Yet with Trump my first thought was “did he fake it because his polling’s crashed harder than Kash Patel after a bad break-up with Jim Beam?” “Staged" trended on social media, so it'd seem I’m not the only one to wonder about the official story…because it’s Trump....
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As a commentor says, "We used to have better liars."
Republicans are dooming their own agenda with unraveling strategy — Thomas Kika
Under the leadership of House Speaker Mike Johnson, House Republicans "have opted to cut Democrats from the negotiations" for these bills altogether, making the gamble "that they can rally their troops to ram the proposals through the lower chamber on largely partisan votes." Per The Hill, "the strategy has clear advantages," largely based on the ability to craft legislation without capitulating to any demands from the Democratic minority, but in reality, the party's razor-thin majority has made the task much less manageable.
"But in a chamber with wafer-thin margins, the tactic is running into wall after wall as Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and his leadership team struggle to unite their GOP conference behind bills that can satisfy the competing ideologies within the group," The Hill explained. "Those dynamics forced GOP leaders to delay the rules process governing the three bills, and they raise real questions about whether any of the proposals can pass if and when they reach the floor later this week."
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These people have been engineered for failure. Dump them.
Trump's epic stupidity could kill millions — Dean Baker
Trump is both an incredibly ignorant person and incredibly dishonest person. As a result, when he claims ignorance of an obvious fact it is difficult to tell whether he really is as ignorant as he claims or he’s just lying.
Such is the case with Trump’s claim that he didn’t know Iran might attack its neighbors and close the Strait of Hormuz in response to his joint attack with Israel. Trump insisted that none of the experts thought this possible when in effect just about every expert thought it was both possible and likely.
Given Trump’s ignorance and propensity to lie, it is not easy to know whether Trump actually went to war totally unaware of the most likely consequences, or instead went to war anyhow, deciding that he didn’t care about the damage it would cause. Whatever the real story, the consequences are enormous and sure to get worse as the Strait remains closed longer.
The most immediate and obvious consequence is the higher price for oil and natural gas. People in the United States see this at the gas station every time they fill their tank. Paying a dollar or so more for a gallon of gas is an annoyance for everyone. It is very bad news for low- and moderate-income households, especially those who need a car for work....
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His insane arrogance and vanity havve blinded any chance of him seeing reality.
'Terrible' look for Trump: Security expert tears apart DOJ’s new Comey indictment — Sarah K. Burris
CNN reported on Tuesday that the Justice Department has indicted former FBI Director James Comey for the second time, two sources confirmed to the network.
The DOJ attempted to bring a similar case in the Eastern District of Virginia last year, but the effort failed as the interim U.S. attorney refused to put his name on it. Instead, he resigned, and a new one was appointed. She then indicted Comey.
CNN noted that the actual indictment isn't online yet, so it's unclear what charges they intend to use to go after Comey. Reporters noted there were allegations of an assassination threat because Comey posted a photo of sea shells he saw on the beach on May 15, 2025, that spelled out numbers that President Donald Trump allies claimed were a threat. The other possible charge relates to a comment Comey made in 2017 in testimony before the U.S. Senate over Zoom about who he told about issues related to Trump.
National security lawyer Bradley P. Moss told CNN that he doubts that the indictment will stick, but explained that it isn't the purpose. He said that what Trump wants is the "spectacle" and the "headline."
"It's going to look terrible for the Justice Department and its reputation, no doubt," he said. ...
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Trump is the "Disaster Artist."
FL Speaker Kills Push To Ax Childhood Vax Mandates
The Florida Phoenix reports:
Bucking Gov. Ron DeSantis, Florida lawmakers won’t strike vaccine mandates for kids or create new guardrails on artificial intelligence, House Speaker Daniel Perez declared Tuesday morning. The only topic the Florida House will address during the four-day special session is redrawing the state’s congressional maps.
“There were no bills filed on these policies prior to the start of this special session [in the House],” Perez told his members minutes after opening House proceedings. “Consequently, we will not be taking up those issues.”
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Yeah, who cares about kids or anyone they might infect with measles, "Mr. Disease?"
How the Hate-Industrial Complex Keeps Marching On — Thom Hartmann
Unpacking the system that turns outrage into profit and democracy into collateral damage…
The attempted shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner Saturday night shouldn’t surprise us. Not only does America have the world’s most active small-arms industry that essentially controls the GOP (the reporters got a taste of what American — and only American — schoolkids experience every few months from their “realistic” active shooter drills), but we also host the world’s largest and most profitable hate-amplification industry.
Algorithms that amplify hate and division in order to “increase engagement” have made Mark Zuckerberg into one of the richest people on the planet, complete with a super-yacht and a doomsday bunker estate in Hawaii; Elon Musk’s X has turned into a sewer of Nazi-style rhetoric while Musk himself has posted, according to The Washington Post, nakedly white supremacist slogans and statements over 850 times just in the past seven months.
The Republican Party writ large has also benefitted from all this, since it was reinvented mid-20th century by Nixon’s racist Southern Strategy and Reagan’s embrace of “states’ rights” as the party of Christian white male supremacy. (The last four Black Republicans in the US House of Representatives are ending their political careers this year.)
Because every rightwing movement in history has been founded on hate and/or xenophobia, the openly neo-Confederate MAGA movement was simply the logical end-point of this turn the Party took a half-century ago. History shows that when the right wants to seize power, it reaches for the oldest weapon in politics: teach people to fear and then hate their neighbors, as I lay out in The Hidden History of American Oligarchy....
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Billionaires and democracy are no longer compatible, Peter!
'A day of reckoning coming' as Trump's attempt at damage control backfires: analysis — Alex Henderson
In an article published on April 28, Waldman and Stokols explain, "Energy experts say another oil price spike is coming — and it may be made worse by the president’s social media posts. President Donald Trump has repeatedly spurred temporary dips in oil prices by claiming, on Truth Social, that the Iran war is near an end and that U.S. oil production would ensure sky-high gas prices would soon retreat. The jawboning has mostly worked. Even as the global price of oil has crept up over $100 per barrel on the futures market, it is significantly less than the $140 per barrel spot price, or what it would take to buy a barrel today."
The Politico reporters continue, "But the president's promises can only work for so long. Supply of oil — especially in Europe and Asia — is dwindling, and a price shock is coming, said Dan Pickering, chief investment officer at Pickering Energy Partners."
Pickering told Politico, "There's a day of reckoning coming. It will be painful because I can tell you that the stock market's ignoring this."....
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The Nazis are whistling by the graveyard.
The alarming moment Trump officials started speaking like incels — The Conversation
As the United States and Israel launched their war on Iran in late February, the social media posts by some US national security agencies took a particular turn.
With missiles and bombs raining down, Pentagon accounts began using strange turns of phrase to describe the AI-guided violence unleashed against child and soldier alike. The destruction was described as “lethalitymaxxing”. Its perpetrators were said to be “locked in” with “low cortisol”.
This lingo finds much of its origins in the manosphere: a set of defined online communities centred on male grievance and empowerment.
The fact the highest political institutions are now using the language and concepts of the manosphere suggests this community and beliefs have become far more extensive than many like to think."...
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¿Quien es mas Macho? Randos de retardo?
Missing GOP Rep Issues Murky Statement On Return
The New York Times reports:
Representative Thomas Kean Jr., a New Jersey Republican who has not cast a vote in the House in nearly two months, said on Monday that he expected to make a full recovery from what he called a “personal medical issue,” but offered no additional details about his health or when he might return to Congress.
“My doctors continue to assure me that my recovery will be complete and that I will be back to the job I love very soon,” he said in his first public statement since he began missing votes in Washington last month. “I expect to return to a full schedule and be at 100 percent.”
Mr. Kean, who is running for re-election in one of the country’s most competitive House races, thanked friends and colleagues “on both sides of the aisle” for their “patience and understanding during this time.” Even fellow Republican lawmakers have said that they had been given no information about Mr. Kean’s health condition, which has taken him away from Congress at a critical moment.
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As predicted here a while back. Recovery from some sort of addiction.
Loony MAGA Activists Hired As Deportation Judges
The Washington Post reports:
A divorce lawyer who has vowed to “fight exclusively for the rights of men.” A Minnesota attorney who championed ICE during the Trump administration’s raids in Minneapolis. And a judge who was once lambasted by an appeals court for denying humanitarian protection to a Serbian man because he didn’t look “overtly gay.” All three are among the “deportation judges” recently hired as part of President Donald Trump’s quest to clear a massive case backlog and fulfill his goal of deporting 1 million immigrants each year.
The hiring spree follows the Justice Department’s firings of more than 100 immigration judges since Trump took office, an unprecedented purge, and a similar number have retired or resigned. More than 140 new judges have been appointed so far to replace them, many of whom have no stated experience practicing immigration law and, according to the National Association of Immigration Judges, are receiving less training than previously offered.
The recruits are being offered signing bonuses, the opportunity to work from home, and even the flexibility to keep their day jobs and moonlight as judges after hours. New hires can earn up to $207,500 a year and 25 percent signing bonuses in some Democratic-led states such as California.
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Us poor white men have never had the rights that minorities like women, Blacks, gays, immigrants and NFL football coaches have enjoyed eternally. We demand a little respect since we have been forced to use penis erection meds to perform sexually as that power has been so diminished by this persecution on us. Please, help us overcome!
Turmoil At “Deeply Demoralized” MAGA-Led EEOC
The New York Times reports:
Field staff at the federal agency that enforces civil rights laws in the workplace say they are under intense pressure from leadership to bring in cases that fit the Trump administration’s priorities, including charges of discrimination against white men and charges of antisemitism on college campuses.
That pressure has led investigators and lawyers at the agency, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, to focus its thin resources on pursuing and fast-tracking cases that have little evidence and tenuous legal bases, according to more than a dozen current and former employees, both Republicans and Democrats.
They described a deeply demoralized and fearful work force, diminished by years of attrition and a surge of resignations and retirements during the second Trump administration. Current and recently departed employees, who requested anonymity because they feared professional repercussions, said the commission’s Republican chair, Andrea Lucas, had recast the agency to carry out President Trump’s executive orders.
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Trump's low IQ magistrates follow his hate and transfer it to those that Trump wants to persecute. This is un-American and must be overthrown!
GOP Senators Unveil Bill To Pay For Trump’s Ballroom
The Daily Beast reports:
MAGA Senator Lindsey Graham has cooked up a new plan to fast-track the construction of President Donald Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom—at taxpayers’ expense. The South Carolina senator has unveiled a bill that allocates $400 million for Trump’s ballroom project, claiming that Saturday’s shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner proves that “the need is real.”
“I’d like the vote as soon as possible to accelerate what America needs: A secure facility for the president and others to meet in, to have a good time, to ?enjoy themselves without putting the nation at risk,” Graham said at a press conference on Monday.
The 70-year-old senator said that taxpayers would cover $332 million of the $400 million package, paid through “customs fees” on imported goods. Graham, who said that he has “never felt the sense of threat that exists today,” claimed, “This is not about Trump.”
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It's about nothing BUT Trump you toady fairy!
DOJ Ballroom Filing: “Fake” Preservationists Have TDS
The Washington Post reports:
Justice Department officials late Monday asked a federal judge to lift his order halting President Donald Trump’s planned $400 million ballroom, contending that Saturday’s attack at the White House correspondents’ dinner proved why the space is needed.
“After the Saturday night attempted assassination, which could have never taken place in the new facility, reasonable minds can no longer differ — The injunction must be dissolved,” acting attorney general Todd Blanche and two other top Justice Department lawyers wrote in the filing to U.S. District Judge Richard Leon, who ordered a halt to aboveground construction on the project.
The Justice Department’s motion — which is unusually written for a government legal filing and resembles Trump’s Truth Social posts — was one of several documents filed to the court late Monday night. The motion also criticizes the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the nonprofit that brought the lawsuit, writing that the group’s “name is FAKE” and claiming that “they suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome, commonly referred to as TDS.”...
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Once again for the slow ones: TDS is what the Trump toadies are experiencing and not his opposition. Get with it, retards!
Fox News Worried People Believe WHCD Was Staged To Help Trump — John Amato
Earlier this morning on Fox and Friends, co-host Brian Kilmeade took the time to refute any rumors and questions about the arrest of Cole Allen at the WHCD, after false flag rumors swirled, linking the incident to horrible Trump approval ratings.
The NY Times reported that soon after the incident, the word "staged" trended on X and was used more than 300,000 times.
KILMEADE: It doesn't stop the conspiracy theories, but hopefully squelches them.
All of a sudden, I'm hearing, well, the whole thing is, was this staged?
JONES: It's unbelievable.
KILMEADE: Was it staged so the President's approval ratings can go up?
It's insane.
Nothing could possibly have been staged.
Usually, Fox News never mentions anything negative about Donald Trump, and amplifies any conspiracy against the left, or that supports Demented Donald.
This time, Fox News made sure to try to stamp out any conjecture against Trump....
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Well, I think that photo of Miss Lindsey porking the alleged assassin is proof enough it was a planned orgy!
Trump's 'I Am Not A Rapist' T-Shirt Has People Asking Questions Already Answered By Shirt — Gary Legum
Sir, as your lawyers, we advise you to say it like you mean it.
Because we love you, we subjected ourselves to Donald Trump’s entire 60 Minutes interview on Sunday night so that you could spare yourselves. Anyone who wants to subject themselves to the 40-minute extended version that the show posted on its YouTube page is welcome to watch it or read the transcript. We recommend making sure your affairs are in order first.
The interview was hastily thrown together in the wake of the shooting during the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday night. One can almost imagine CBS news honcho Bari Weiss, seen here breaking into a Rodgers and Hammerstein medley at Vanity Fair’s WHCD party, texting every senior White House official in her contacts while she was still hiding under CBS’s table in the Washington Hilton ballroom. Let’s do the fucking news, indeed.
Norah O’Donnell got the unlucky assignment of trying to get Trump to answer questions like a human being with feelings and empathy for 40 minutes. It went how these interviews always go with our beignet-brained president: like crap piled atop a mountain of crap. Like a garbage barge caught in a hurricane. Like the hazardous waste disposal dumpster at a liposuction clinic.
The whole WHCD is already a moral vacuum; we don’t really need to know what this hateful sociopath of a president thought about it, do we? And yet
But there were some funny moments. Early in the interview, O’Donnell walked him through those moments when the gunfire was going off just as Oz Pearlman, the mentalist hired to provide the evening’s what we suppose some would call entertainment, was trying to guess the name of Karoline Leavitt’s unborn child....
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This is where lying as habit does a liar in.
Melania Trump wants ABC to 'take a stand' against Jimmy Kimmel after 'hateful' joke — Mandalit del Barco
Two days before the White House Correspondents' Dinner ended in gunfire, Kimmel delivered a mock Correspondents' Dinner speech during a sketch on his show. The first lady said it was "corrosive."
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She means like a dead battery that's been in place until it causes a mess.
Like a lot of things, these people don't get satire.
Mockery buries Karoline Leavitt as she gushes over 'fearless' Trump at shooting — Nicole Charky-Chami
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was roundly mocked on Monday after admiring President Donald Trump for bravery during the White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting.
Leavitt spoke to reporters during a press briefing, blaming Democrats and members of the media for what led to suspect Cole Allen allegedly shooting a Secret Service agent.
"The president's calm in the face of chaos while yet another individual was trying to take his life was really remarkable to witness, and it's something I will never forget. President Trump is fearless. He is willing to put his own life on the line," Leavitt said.
Social media users questioned her claims.
"Frankly, it looked more like he had no idea anything was going on until the Secret Service yanked him out of his chair," author Sherry Knowlton wrote on X.
"Trump stumbled and struggled getting up,' progressive political commentator Vince Wilson wrote on X.
"Fearless, eh? What does his military record look like?" College instructor and author Anthony M. Hopper wrote on X.
"Really he wasn't so calm when he was asked [about Epstein]," Tracey Gallagher, attorney and former Judge Pro Tem, wrote on X.
"She knows this sort of propaganda is not helping the discourse, right?" English teacher and former announcer Professor George Werner wrote on X.
Leavitt: "The president's calm in the face of chaos while yet another individual was trying to take his life was really remarkable to witness, and it's something I will never forget. President Trump is fearless. He is willing to put his own life on the line." pic.twitter.com/UjwWaAGa9f
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 27, 2026
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Put his life on the line for what? Defending an indulgent party in a hotel ballroom? LMAO!
Trump brutally fact-checked on air during his '60 Minutes' interview — María Teresita Armstrong-Matta
President Donald Trump became defensive during a CBS News interview with Norah O'Donnell on Sunday, one day after alleged shooter Cole Allen opened fire at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.
O'Donnell referenced Allen's manifesto, in which he described Trump as "a pedophile, rapist, and traitor," and asked Trump to respond.
Trump lashed out at O'Donnell, denying the accusation and calling her a "disgrace."
Social media observers quickly fact-checked the president's response.
Atlantic contributing editor Norman Ornstein reacted on X, noting a jury and judge found Trump liable for rape in the E. Jean Carroll civil case, and cited Trump's admitted behavior including entering dressing rooms with naked teenagers. Journalist Nancy Levine Sterns commented, "Trump is a clinical-grade psychopath," while novelist Patrick Tomlinson stated Trump is "literally a court adjudicated rapist."
In 2023, a jury found Trump liable in Carroll's civil sexual abuse and defamation case, with a judge later clarifying the verdict meant rape liability, as reported by the Washington Post.
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And everyone knows it!
Bill Kristol: Words Are Not Violence — Tim Miller
Trump is a terrible president and he deserves to be criticized, even in personal terms. Our pro-democracy movement has shown time and time again that we can oppose him—and oppose any attempt at violence at the same time. Even putting aside POTUS's own hypocritical calls for violence or his celebrating the deaths of his enemies, Saturday's shooting was related to mental health issues and too easy of access to guns. Plus, Zelensky is the new leader of the free world, Trump looks like he's headed to a humiliating defeat in Iran, the left should work harder to not be false flag cranks, and a look at the Senate map in the context of America Firsters feeling betrayed by Trump's stupid wars and his attempt to redesign D.C. in his image....
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Trump is a terrible president and he deserves to be criticized, even in personal terms. Applause!
Bosses Are Blowing More Money on AI Agents Than It’d Cost Them to Just Pay Human Workers — Frank Landymore
Mindlessly unleashing AI agents to take over employees’ jobs can be pretty costly, it turns out. Some companies are learning the hard way that paying for the incredible volume of AI agent requests is costing more than what they’d pay their human employees, Axios reports.
AIs can perform all sorts of tasks, ranging from the rote to the complex. But one of the most popular ways it’s being used in the workplace is to generate mountains of code at a pace far greater than a human could achieve. Sometimes, software engineers will even run multiple AI agents at the same time, all working on different tasks in the background without supervision. Each of these tasks costs tokens, and the bill can quickly add up.
“For my team, the cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees,” Bryan Catanzaro, vice president of applied deep learning at Nvidia, told Axios.
The problem has become harder to ignore as organizations are increasingly reliant on using AI tools and agents — including the organizations building them. “Pretty much 100 percent” of Anthropic’s code is now AI-generated, the company’s head of Claude Code Boris Cherny claimed earlier this year. Google and Microsoft’s bosses claim that this share is around a quarter of their companies’ code. Meta employees performance reviews are now partly based on how much AI they use, showing that a lot of the push towards using AI is coming from the top....
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A fool and his money are soon parted....but how did they get together in the first place?
Trump Does A Bigly Self-Own In 60 Minutes Interview — Chris capper Liebenthal
" Oh, you think he was referring to you?" is going to be a classic gotcha moment.
On Sunday's 60 Minutes on CBS, Trump sat down for an interview with Norah O'Donnell to discuss the incident that had happened at the White House Correspondents' Dinner. When the subject of the alleged gunman's manifesto came up, Trump did the most bigly self-own in history:
O'DONNELL: The so-called manifesto is a stunning thing to read, Mr. President.
He appears to reference a motive in it. He writes this quote, "Administration officials, they are targets." And he also wrote this, "I'm no longer willing to permit a pedophile rapist and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes."
What's your reaction to that?
TRUMP: Well, I was waiting for you to read that because I knew you would, because you're horrible people. Horrible people.
Yeah, he did write that. I'm not a rapist. I didn't rape anybody.
O'DONNELL: Oh, you think he was referring to you?
TRUMP: Excuse me. I'm not a pedophile. You read that crap from some sick person. I got associated with stuff that has nothing to do with me. I was totally exonerated. Your friends on the other side of the plate are the ones that were involved with, let's say, Epstein or other things. But I said to myself, you know, I'll do this interview and they'll probably... I read the manifesto, you know, as a sick person. But you should be ashamed of yourself for reading that because I'm not any of those things.
O'DONNELL: Mr. President, these are the gunman's words.
TRUMP: Excuse me. You shouldn't be reading that on 60 Minutes. You're a disgrace. But go ahead. Let's finish the interview."...
Trump has already been adjudicated to be a rapist. And many more women have claimed that Trump raped them as well.
It also follows that if he would lie about something as easily refuted as that, he might lie about other things as well. Of course, if he is innocent of being a pedophile, releasing the Trumpstein, er, the Epstein files ought to clear up any doubt on that. Yet he has refused to release the files, despite being legally required to release them.
The fact that we have a lying choad for president is bad enough. But the fact that there are so many people willing to ignore the facts right in front of their faces and continue to support him is just madness. It's going to take a long time and a lot of hard work to get this country back into order.
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Many a man has been sentenced to the gallows for less!
WHCD shooting exposed MAGA media’s secret social media operation — Sophia Tesfaye
The right eerily repeated Trump's ballroom talking points, while the left went straight to conspiracy
In the chaotic minutes after news broke that a gunman had attempted to breach security at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, a familiar pattern unfolded on social media. A chorus of pro-Trump influencers and officials arrived at the same eerily specific and singular conclusion: The country needs Donald Trump’s ballroom.
It’s quite the departure from when a gunman shot and killed Charlie Kirk in September. Then the MAGA movement immediately called for a campaign of political repression. After Saturday’s attack at the Washington Hilton, MAGA media looked closer to home, immediately leveraging the scare as a reason to build the $400 million White House ballroom. Screenshots of pro-MAGA accounts sharing the same messaging quickly circulated on X shortly after the suspected gunman, 31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen of Torrance, California, was stopped rushing past a security checkpoint armed with two firearms and multiple knives, apparently intending to attack Trump and members of his Cabinet.
“It’s time to build the ballroom,” Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche posted on X, attaching a letter demanding that the National Trust for Historic Preservation drop its lawsuit blocking the project. Former Attorney General Pam Bondi — who Trump had fired just weeks earlier — chimed in, writing, “We MUST have the Ballroom completed to protect POTUS and his guests.” On Fox News, House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., suggested the ballroom’s planned “7-inch thick glass” will make it “a very safe environment to do events like that.” Even Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania fell in line....
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That little ballroom excuse won't hold.
NYT: Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin Is Now MAGA
The New York Times reports:
Sergey Brin, a Google co-founder and one of the world’s richest people, is a longtime friend of Mr. Newsom, the California governor. But now, like so many other leaders in the traditionally liberal bastion of Silicon Valley, Mr. Brin has shifted to the right. With his outspokenly conservative girlfriend by his side, he has joined the ranks of tech executives courting Mr. Trump in his second term.
Last May, he attended a fund-raiser featuring Vice President JD Vance and donated nearly half a million dollars to the Republican National Committee. In September, he told the president at a White House dinner that he was “very grateful” for the administration’s support of tech companies. This March, he was named to a White House tech council and donated to a Republican candidate for governor of California who has since earned Mr. Trump’s endorsement.
Mr. Brin is particularly rattled by the proposal for a one-time, 5 percent tax on California billionaires, and has emerged as Silicon Valley’s leading combatant of the measure. To escape the tax, he moved before a Dec. 31 deadline to the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe (he now spends every other week at Google’s California headquarters, alternating with Nevada, a person familiar with the arrangement said). And he has spent $57 million to try to undercut the measure, including $9 million more disclosed on Friday.
"Guess what: He's always been a greedy oligarch douchenozzle." — Judas Peckerwood (comments)
"Those fascist pigs are also smothering S.F. in ads opposing Prop D, which would impose a surtax on executives who “earn” more than 200 times what their lowest-paid employees do.
They’d rather waste hundreds of millions of dollars on ad buys than give their workers a raise.: — Asthmatic Fox (comments)
"Can you imagine if you had even $2 billion dollars and you had to give $100,000,000 away, leaving you with only $1.9 billion?
WTF is wrong with these hoarding, greedy people?" — thisone (comments)
"Interesting, isn’t it, how many of them are immigrants.
Brin, Thiel, Sacks, and of course Musk.
And now they all want a pure white “heritage American” ethnostate with zero immigration."
— Asthmatic Fox (comments)
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"Johnny Rocco: Thousands of guys have got guns. There's only one Johnny Rocco.
James Temple: How do you account for it?
Frank McCloud: He knows what he wants. Don't you, Rocco?
Johnny Rocco: Sure.
James Temple: What's that?
Frank McCloud: Tell him, Rocco.
Johnny Rocco: Well, I want uh ...
Frank McCloud: He wants more, don't you, Rocco?
Johnny Rocco: Yeah. That's it. More. That's right! I want more!
James Temple: Will you ever get enough?
Frank McCloud: Will you, Rocco?
Johnny Rocco: Well, I never have. No, I guess I won't. You, do you know what you want?
Frank McCloud: Yes, I had hopes once, but I gave them up.
Johnny Rocco: Hopes for what?
Frank McCloud: A world in which there's no place for Johnny Rocco." — from Key Largo
Johnson Accuses Democrats Of “Inciting Violence”
FOX HOST: “I want to share something that a Democratic senator, John Fetterman, shot out hours after the incident Saturday night, On X he said, ‘We were there front and center. That venue wasn’t built to accommodate an event with the line of succession for the U.S. government. After witnessing last night, drop the TDS, the Trump Derangement Syndrome, and build the White House ballroom for events exactly like these.’ Are you hearing enough from your Democratic colleagues on the tone that Senator Fetterman struck there?”
MIKE JOHNSON: “No! He’s a rare voice in that camp. We need more of that. In fact, they’ve done the opposite. They’ve incited violence, in my view. I mean, you have some of the most prominent figures in the House and in the Senate on the Democrat side effectively calling for war.
“They use those kinds of metaphors. And it incites violence, because there are crazy people in society, and they get radicalized online. And so, we’ve got to recognize that. It’s time to turn down the rhetoric — we’ve been saying this over and over — and not use that kind of language.
“I hope that this will be a sobering reminder for everybody about that important cause. I’m grateful to Fetterman. He’s right, the ballroom will be a solution for this, because it’ll be on the most secure compound in the world.
“It won’t have hotel rooms above it. And it’ll have seven-inch thick glass, for example, on the windows. So, it’ll be a very safe environment for events like this. We need a place, we have needed a place like that, and the president keeps pointing it out.”
As many have pointed out, the Correspondents’ Dinner is a private event that would not be held on federal property even if Glorious Leader’s ballroom existed.
"I mean, you have some of the most prominent figures in the House and in the Senate on the Democrat side effectively calling for war.
Trump has called for the execution of democrats he disagrees with.
Give it a rest Cupcake." — DaddySnark (comments)
"Forget Trump.
Everyone on Fox News and Republicans refers to Democrats as Demoncrats, socialists who hate the country, love criminals, are traitors and so much more.
And yet not a peep from Johnson.
He can fuck right off." — Ninja0980 (cmments)
"The WHCD is a PRIVATE EVENT, you dumb motherfucker. It's NOT a government event that would be held in that ballroom." — Woke AF (comments)
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So far, Mike, it's your party that is the murder party. Can you count the murders your Crime Syndicate is responsible for? I thought not. This makes you accsessory to cold-blooded murder. You can count on being among the defendents when the court is trying your killer Nazis.
DeSantis Unveils Map To Give GOP Four Extra Seats
Fox News reports:
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis revealed the new redistricted congressional map for the state, which shows the GOP gaining an extra four seats.
Should the state legislature, which holds a Republican majority in both the state House and Senate, approve the redrawing, it would then return to DeSantis to be signed into law and would apply to the 2026 midterms.
“Florida got shortchanged in the 2020 Census, and we’ve been fighting for fair representation ever since,” DeSantis told Fox News Digital. “Our population has since grown dramatically, and we have moved from a Democrat majority to a 1.5 million Republican advantage. Drawing maps based on race, which is reflected in our current congressional districts, is unconstitutional and should be prohibited.”
DeSantis and Rep. Byron Donalds – who is running to succeed him – have both blamed Biden for the result of the US Census conducted under Trump. Currently Republicans hold 20 of Florida’s 28 House districts. Last week Axios reported that DeSantis plans an “end run” around a voter-approved 2010 change to the state constitution that bans redistricting in favor of a specific party.
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Rigging elections so Trump doesn't have to!
Just another Nazi criminal.
Top Medical Journal Publishes Searing Article Warning Against Medical AI — Victor Tangermann
A recent survey found that millions of Americans are asking AI chatbots for medical advice, often instead of consulting human doctors.
That’s despite researchers continuing to find severe flaws plaguing large language model-based tools that can purportedly offer summaries of medical records and dole out health advice based on simple text prompts. For one, hallucinations remain a massive unsolved problem, from AI models generating detailed clinical findings based on images they were never provided to falling for fake diseases that were invented by researchers in order to trick them.
In short, it’s no wonder scientists are questioning whether patients, health providers, or health systems should adopt AI at all, especially given the frequently lacking evidence for any real-world benefits. A scathing editorial published on Tuesday by the premier medical journal Nature Medicine makes the case that “evidence that AI tools create value for patients, providers or health systems remains scarce.”
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Don't want no AI or insurance companies replacing my doctor!
Stupid GOP Sen. Mike Lee Again Proves His Stupidity
SEN. MIKE LEE: “The attempted assassination of President Trump isn’t front-page news? Not for The New York Times.”
VOLDEMORT’S WIFE: “The attempted assassination of President Trump isn't front-page news? Not for The New York Times.”
KEITH OLBERMANN: “Children: you’re looking at the early editions printed last night at 8 PM. Maybe if you could find an adult, ‘Senator,’ she could explain to you how to tell time.”
COMMUNITY NOTE: “This image is of the print version of the New York Times, which goes to press at 8pm ET to allow for distribution the following morning. The shooting occurred at 8:35pm. As of Sunday AM, the New York Times has this news on the front page of their digital edition.”
NEW YORK TIMES PR SHOP: “The Times has had comprehensive live coverage at the top of nytimes.com since the shooting. Our last Sunday print edition goes to press at 8pm Saturday. Full print coverage will appear on A1 and inside Monday’s paper.”
This is the guy GOP Senators want as Attorney General....
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Trump is the one that stirs up the hornet's nests when he posts his hateful, violent remarks consistently.
Iranian Group Files US-Israeli War Crimes Evidence to International Criminal Court — Jake Johnson
The head of the Iranian Red Crescent Society said Saturday that his organization has submitted evidence of U.S.-Israeli war crimes to the International Criminal Court and other global bodies, seeking accountability for massive attacks on civilian infrastructure and other violations.
“The ICC prosecutor announced that the documents provided by the IRCS are accepted as official evidence,” said Pir-Hossein Koulivand, the head of the Iranian Red Crescent Society. “All cases of attacks on civilians are being legally pursued based on the Geneva Conventions.”
The IRCS estimates that U.S. and Israeli airstrikes have destroyed more than 132,000 civilian structures throughout Iran, including hospitals, apartment buildings, universities, research facilities, and bridges. U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened to destroy all of Iran’s bridges and power plants if the country’s leadership does not succumb to his administration’s demands in negotiations to end the war....
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Only the beginning of war crime trials for Trump.
Fox News puts Kash Patel on the spot over failures around Trump assassination attempt — Travis Gettys
FBI Director Kash Patel faced tough questions Monday morning on "Fox & Friends" about an apparent assassination attempt at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
The embattled FBI director was questioned on Fox News about security failures that allowed alleged gunman Cole Tomas Allen to charge into an area near the entrance to the black-tie event at the Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C., despite an alert reportedly issued with a description of the suspect, reported The Daily Beast.
...The Trump administration reportedly did not designate the event with the highest level of security, and the Secret Service protected only the ballroom and its immediate perimeter, rather than the entire hotel.
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Oops! Well, we all make mistakes, don't we.
Embarrassed Trump to fire gaffe-prone Cabinet member within days: White House insider — Ewan Gleadow
Donald Trump is preparing to fire a chief member of his Cabinet after a series of gaffes left the president embarrassed, a White House insider has claimed.
Trump recently dismissed Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Attorney General Pam Bondi in quick succession, marking a dramatic purge of Cabinet members.
FBI Director Kash Patel will be the next admin figure to be fired, according to the insider.
Susan Crabtree, a political correspondent for Real Clear Politics, shared a comment from the White House source on the possible removal of Patel, despite pressure also building for White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles following questions regarding security coming after Saturday's shooting attempt at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.
The anonymous official has claimed that Patel's firing could come within days.
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Oh, no! Another failure is going down?
'Not a good look': Trump official hammered for ditching wife amid shooting chaos — Alexander Willis
Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was hammered Monday after video of him being escorted by security officials amid the White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting on Saturday went viral, in which the HHS secretary was seen being tailed by his wife, Cheryl Hines.
“RFK Jr. rushed out of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday amid an active shooter situation, with his security team around him, but left his wife scrambling on her own behind him,” wrote Zeteo reporters Preem Thakker and Andrew Perez in the outlet’s report Monday. “Not a good look, Bobby.”
The shooting sparked chaos at the Washington Hilton hotel in Washington, D.C., with Secret Service officials rushing President Donald Trump off stage, as well as other top administration officials and lawmakers. RFK Jr. was among those officials who were rushed to safety by security personnel, but in a viral clip that had been viewed nearly 1 million times, Hines could be seen following her husband, unattended, several feet behind.
“Serious question – why does Cheryl Hines stay with this loser?” asked political commentator Joanne Carducci, writing in a social media post on X to her more than 1 million followers....
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A: She's as crazy as he is?
MAGA fracture alarms as college Republicans show 'extremist' shift — Alexandria Jacobson, Investigative Reporter
Some of the biggest names in political megadonors have infused money into these groups and their leadership.
For one, Richard and Elizabeth Uihlein, the billionaire founders of the shipping company Uline, donated $1 million total to the Wisconsin Federal of College Republicans in December 2025, according to filings with the State of Wisconsin Ethics Commission.
Jacobs, the Wisconsin group’s president, was the recipient of a $1 million check given away by tech billionaire and former Trump appointee Elon Musk as part of his massive $25 million spend on a state judicial race.
“Money from Uihleins has been reshaping Republican politics, flowing into Republican campaigns in the post-Citizens United era. This is a power couple who has been willing to dig deep, write very large checks and support their preferred candidates through all sorts of massive investments,” said Michael Beckel, money in politics reform director at Issue One, a bipartisan nonprofit focused on campaign finance reform.
“They are pushing a certain type of vision for the Republican Party. They are supporting certain types of Republican candidates ... their money was also very supportive of not only President Trump and his campaigns over the years, but his January 6 rally.”
Buchler countered that “the influence of money is vastly overstated, generally across the board, in politics,” and that looking at political donations is used by both the left and right “to explain the other side's behavior without grappling with the idea that maybe people just disagree.”
Fuentes himself has raked in significant money, bringing in at nearly $900,000 since 2025 from fan donations, along with other income from selling shirts with swastika imagery and subscriptions to his private chatrooms, according to a Washington Post analysis.
“The normalization of racism begets more racism. Violence begets violence,” Cohen said.
“Racism is on the lower end of the extremism sphere, and on the other end of the extreme sphere is violence, so it would be in everyone's best interest to tamp this down sooner than later.”
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So Uline is funding Hilter Youth. Boycott!
Even the right-wing underworld claims new DOJ indictment is nonsensical — Joe Conason
More than friendly to fascists both abroad and at home, the Trump administration is now seeking to destroy the Southern Poverty Law Center -- historically one of the nation's most powerful and effective opponents of the Ku Klux Klan, American neo-Nazis and other white supremacist movements.
This was the latest in a long series of signals from the White House to the president's swastika-flying fans. It means that such groups need no longer fear a resolute federal response to their criminality....
The alleged motive was to justify the SPLC's own continued existence and fundraising by maintaining a threat from fascist violence, which Republicans in Washington have persistently minimized or dismissed. Indeed, the Trump administration has hired and promoted any number of far-right extremists, especially since its return to power.
The absurdity of the indictment ought to be obvious to anyone -- including former federal prosecutor Blanche -- who knows how the FBI prosecutes organized crime, terrorism, narcotics smuggling or violent extremism, in nearly every case depending on paid informants. Over the past few decades, in fact, the FBI and the Justice Department have relied on information from SPLC and its informants to jail violent Klansmen and Nazis....
Under questioning from reporters, Blanche essentially admitted that the indictment's fundamental claim is baseless. Asked whether the indictment specifically alleged that the SPLC payments benefited the Klan, Atomwaffen or other extremist groups, Blanche admitted that it offered no such evidence. "To the extent that there's any link between that individual receiving the money and benefits to that organization," he said, "that's not in the indictment....
"The SPLC was not funding racist groups to enable their racism -- they, in fact, were not funding racist groups at all," the American Futurist-linked TAF Private channel posted, according to Raw Story. "What they were doing was funding bad actors within groups, with the intention of destroying those groups from the inside."
The enemy of my enemy is my friend, as the old saying goes -- and for the Trump White House, the enemy of fascism is its enemy too.
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The enemy of America, the Trump Crime Syndicate, shows us all that's exactly what they are!
John Fetterman gets torn apart in scathing fact-check after going soft on Trump — Matthew Rozsa
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) criticized Democrats for opposing President Donald Trump’s proposed White House ballroom, prompting some of those same Democrats to point out the obvious: Because the White House Correspondents Dinner is a private event, it would never have been held at the White House, and therefore a ballroom would have made no difference.
“We were there front and center,” Fetterman posted on X on Sunday. “That venue wasn’t built to accommodate an event with the line of succession for the U.S. government. After witnessing last night, drop the TDS and build the White House ballroom for events exactly like these.”
The acronym “TDS” stands for “Trump Derangement Syndrome,” which refers to people who supposedly hate Trump so much that they become irrational. Yet as many Democrats and other Trump opponents pointed out, Fetterman — whose advocacy of a ballroom echoes the arguments made by Trump and his supporters after the supposed shooting attempt at the White House Correspondents Dinner on Saturday — is the one being irrational. After all, the dinner in question is a private event, and has never been held in the White House.
“Sorry, @JohnFetterman, but the WHCA dinner is NOT sponsored by the White House,” posted Democratic strategist Jon Cooper on X. “Nobody is forcing the VP and other Cabinet members to attend this fancy black tie event.”
He added, “Sit down and worry about your primary.”...
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Buh-bye, John!
"the entire line of succession." This shows everyone how brilliantly stupid Nazis are!
WHCD Faked? Trump's Numbers Worse Than Any I've Ever Seen
One can easily see why Trump would want a distraction at the White House Correspondents' Dinner. I'm not saying I know what happened, just it's the kinda thing someone who looks this horrific politically would want.
Trump's numbers aren't just bad. I worked in polling a while, I've never seen numbers like some of these. Famed strategist Joe Trippi has been running national campaigns since 1979, and had a one-sentence verdict: “I have not seen anything like this in the entire time I’ve been doing this.” Trump’s approval with independents is 27%—a number not seen since Nixon was resigning.
He's down to 70% with Republicans. Tucker, MTG, Megyn--they may be FOS, but if they're headed where the wind's blowing, many MAGA nuts are taking the same ride. Latino support's moving away from Trump at a pace veteran strategist Mike Madrid--an expert on this demo--says he's never seen before. We're favored in places like Alaska right now.
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Let me know when he's evaporated!
Trump Denies Falling Down While Fleeing Shooting
The Daily Beast reports:
Trump, 79, was captured falling to the ground as Secret Service agents ushered him away from the dais after shots rang out during the dinner. Agents quickly pulled him back on his feet before hurrying him away from the scene in the ballroom of the Washington Hilton in D.C. Speaking to 60 Minutes, the president said that he went down at the urging of Secret Service agents, not because he fell.
“I started walking, and they said, ‘Please go down, please go down on the floor,’” Trump recounted. “So I went down, and the first lady went down also. But we were asked to go down by the agents as I was walking,” he repeated.
Trump, who turns 80 in June, then retold his story another time, saying he had started to walk out “a little bent over” when the agents told him, “please go down to the floor, please go down to the floor.” “So I dropped to the floor, so did the first lady,” he said again.
"Then immediately assumes the shooter is referring to HIM when Nora O'Donnell reads the shooter's manifesto about "rapist, pedophile."
"I'm not a rapist (E.Jean Carroll) or a pedophile (Epstein) and "YOU'RE a horrible person for reading that."
Way to admit guilt, peepaw." -- Jay Silversmith (comments)
"His inglorious end will be Elvis-esque - heart attack on the toilet while downing a Big Mac value meal." — Bert_Bauer (comments)
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'Admits guilt' is correct.
The old man just couldn't get up by himself? Remember, you can't fall off the floor!
Latest “Drug Boat” Strike Brings Murder Toll To 186
The Associated Press reports:
The latest U.S. military strike on a boat accused of ferrying drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean killed three people Sunday, according to a social media post by U.S. Southern Command.
The Trump administration’s campaign of blowing up alleged drug-trafficking vessels in Latin American waters has gone on since early September and killed at least 186 people in total. Other strikes have taken place in the Caribbean Sea. The military has not provided evidence that any of the vessels were carrying drugs.
After Sunday’s attack, Southern Command posted a video on X showing a boat moving swiftly in the water before a explosion left it in flames. It repeated previous statements by saying it had targeted the alleged drug traffickers along known smuggling routes.
"Well let see, the right believes that the murder of abortion doctors is not just acceptable, but noble, to prevent the 'murder' of babies.
Trump feels that the murder of Iranians is his moral duty to 'protect' the US from the nuclear weapons that the country doesn't have.
But we totally can't say that someone who wants to assassinate Trump to stop his ongoing murders is justified in their desires." -- DaddySnark (comments)
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The Trump murder spree continues. Just like a mob boss whacking his competition!
The eternal disgrace of the USA.
UFC Head Calls WHCD Shooting “F*cking Awesome”
Variety reports:
UFC president and CEO Dana White told USA Today that he thought experiencing Saturday night’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting in person was “fucking awesome.”
“All of a sudden, it just started getting noisy. Tables started getting flipped over, guys running in with guns, and they were screaming, ‘Get down!’” White, who was in attendance at the dinner, recalled. “I didn’t get down. It was fucking awesome, and I literally took every minute of it in. It was a pretty crazy, unique experience.”
White said he was sitting “right in front of where the president was” when the Secret Service rushed in. He added, “Nobody got tackled, but guys came in looking for the shooter. And they came toward our table. I thought the shooter was over by us or something.”
"That's what happens when you have to delay doing a few lines of coke. You look to get a rush any other way you can until you can find a place to do a couple of snorts." -- Harveyrabbit (comments)
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The disgusting trash that America produces.
Trump's vast fortune could be wiped out by judge's startling ruling: legal analyst — Ewan Gleadow
President Donald Trump could see his vast personal fortune wiped out by a judge's ruling relating to the January 6 Capitol Hill attack, a legal analyst wrote Sunday.
The insurrection occurred as Congress met to certify the 2020 presidential election results, which Trump had refused to accept. Veteran legal analyst Sabrina Haake believes that Trump could see his personal fortune wiped out should a judge rule he is personally liable for damages accrued during the insurrection.
Haake wrote, "Measuring the amount of corruption lining Trump’s pocket is like shoveling on a snowy day. As of late January, Trump had pocketed upwards of $4 billion from untraceable cryptocurrency ventures, suspicious market manipulations, and outright bribery from foreign and domestic sources during his first year back in office....
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That would be sweet!
America Trembles as Transportation Secretary Announces Plans for Air Traffic Controllers to Lean on AI Tools — Joe Wilkins
As if air travel in the United States wasn’t cursed enough, the Trump Administration wants to ease the burden of air traffic scheduling with the help of some private-market AI solutions.
US Department of Transportation secretary Sean Duffy — the same guy who was briefly in charge of NASA, weirdly — recently confirmed that the government is working on integrating AI software into the air traffic management system. At a Semafor event last week, Duffy said the software, called Strategic Management of Airspace Routing Trajectories (SMART), is being tooled by three competing companies.
Later, a person familiar with the matter told Bloomberg the Federal Aviation Administration had brought on Palantir, Thales SA, and Air Space Intelligence to compete for the SMART contract. Palantir then released a statement to investors confirming the company was contracted by the FAA to “provide a data analytics tool that will help advance the agency’s modernization objectives for aviation safety.”
Then on Tuesday, Duffy went on the record with CBS News, explaining that SMART will cost $12 billion, and will supposedly help flight controllers schedule flights weeks in advance to cut down on delays.
“This software will say, ‘well, listen, we can see this 45 days out. Let’s move some of those flights a little bit later, or five, seven, 10 minutes earlier, and we can resolve the issue. And so then you are not delayed,'” Duffy said.
While the transportation secretary says the software will stop short of “replac[ing] humans in how we manage the airspace,” there are some obvious concerns with the idea of shoehorning AI into the air traffic workflow.
On top of generally being susceptible to severe hallucinations, AI systems have consistently failed when applied to applications like staffing schedules, traffic safety predictions, and even simple management tasks like operating a vending machine.
All we’ll say is this: if some of the best available AI on the market today can’t run an office snack machine without breaking down into a de facto cartel, good luck when you put it in charge of scheduling the country’s flights.
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And nothing can go wrong...go wrong...go wrong...go wrong...go wrong...go wrong...go wrong...go wrong...go wrong.....................................!
AI is the latest in Gods for humanity. Could it be the Anti-Christ?
Devious New AI Tool “Clones” Software So That the Original Creator Doesn’t Hold a Copyright Over the New Version — Victor Tangermann
The advent of generative AI continues to undermine the very concept of copyright, from entire books shamelessly ripping off authors to tasteless AI slop depicting beloved characters going viral on social media. The sin is foundational: all today’s popular AI tools were built by pillaging copyrighted material without permission.
Even software isn’t safe. As 404 Media reports, a new tool dubbed Malus.sh — pronounced “malice,” to give a subtle clue where this is headed — uses AI to “liberate” a piece of software from existing copyright licenses, essentially creating a “clean room” clone that technically doesn’t infringe on the original code’s copyright.
The project is a tongue-in-cheek jab at tensions in the open source community. But it’s also a real product being developed by an LLC with real paying customers.
“It works,” cofounder and United Nations political economy of open source software researcher Mike Nolan told 404. He argued that if it were “just satire,” it would largely be “dismissed by open source tech workers who felt that they were too special and too unique and too intelligent to ever be the ones on the bad side of the layoffs or the economics of the situation.”...
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Remember when IBM opened their PC architecture to the world but wouldn't allow their BIOS to be exposed? Tech engineers had to recreate it blindly by descriptions of it. Think how much time they wasted creating the PC clone. Thnk of what will happen now.
The corruption of society and the world is at hand. No one except criminals will own anything soon.
Donald Trump: The perfect useful idiot — Thom Hartmann
Trump is making insane proclamations about Iran again, sabotaging efforts at peace by his unqualified, incompetent negotiating team. He’s lying to his supporters about obvious things like the price of gasoline. He’s not sleeping, up all night shouting in all-caps at anybody who will listen and, during the day, literally screaming at his aides.
His former-heroin-addicted brainworm-infected head of Human Services, who has absolutely no training or experience in medicine or public health, is destroying America’s public health. His wrestling billionaire head of education is shutting down the US Education Department.
His violent, alcoholic, unfaithful head of the Defense Department keeps violating the Constitution as well as both domestic and international laws about warfare. His wholly captured Department of Justice — now run by his personal lawyer — is demanding voting information from swing state after swing state and refuses to say why.....
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You can plainly see how sleep deprived he is if you saw him rant on TV last night after the shooting show.
Trump uses shooting to boost corrupt project — Common Dreams
US President Donald Trump used a lone gunman’s storming of the lobby outside the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday night to promote his $400 million White House ballroom project, which is riddled with glaring conflicts of interest.
Speaking at a press conference after being evacuated from the Washington Hilton hotel hosting the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Trump declared that “this is why we have to have all of the attributes of what we’re planning at the White House.” The president added that “we need the ballroom,” saying, “We need levels of security that probably nobody’s ever seen before.”...
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The lengths Trump will stoop to for his stupid money scamming projects.
A flesh-eating bacteria was just discovered all over Long Island — Matthew Rozsa
A flesh-eating bacteria known as Vibrio was discovered all over Long Island — and authorities are issuing warnings about it.
Causing the disease vibriosis, people infected with Vibrio can suffer symptoms including nausea, diarrhea, cramps, nausea, chills and sometimes even death, according to Grist. On average there are 80,000 cases of vibriosis each year, with roughly 100 fatalities.
“Vulnificus is so potent it can squeeze through a pinhole-sized cut in the skin and lead to death in just 24 hours,” Grist explained. “In the last five years, the CDC registered 429 such vulnificus cases, plus 136 foodborne cases. But even though foodborne cases are less numerous, the patients that contract vulnificus by eating contaminated shellfish are more likely to die than those infected via open wounds. Thirteen percent of those nonfoodborne cases died, compared to 32 percent of people who got the infection from eating seafood. Most cases occur in the Gulf and Atlantic coastal regions.”
Grist added, “As far as infectious diseases go, vulnificus is exceedingly rare: The CDC reports between 150 and 200 cases a year. The sexually-transmitted disease chlamydia, by comparison, one of the most common bacterial infections in the U.S., infects northward of 1.5 million Americans annually. But vulnificus’ astonishing speed and high fatality rate — 15 to 50 percent, depending on the health of the person exposed and the route of infection — makes it a unique public health threat, particularly as climate change grows its pathways of exposure.”
The pathogen, which was discovered on Sagaponack Pond, Mecox Bay and Georgica Pond on the South Fork, is thriving because of algae blooms, nitrogen runoff and climate change.
“We see Vibrio as the indicator for climate change,” Kyle Brumfield, a microbiologist at the University of Maryland who has been studying the bacteria for a decade, told Grist. “We can use the presence of Vibrio and Vibrio cases as a proxy for water health in general.”...
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And you thought the sci-fi movie The Flesh Eaters, (1964) was just fiction?
I Slept Next Door to the Assassin in Hilton Room 10235. This Is a Security Fiasco — Hugh Dougherty
The Daily Beast’s Executive Editor witnessed a jaw-dropping security breach. And then it got worse.
...The Washington Hilton has seen the attempted assassination of a president before. I walked past the plaque commemorating that spot a few hours before the shooting.
I didn’t expect that I would be living through history again, in the room beside 10235.
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An exposé of the failure of security? Or was this a fake theater show for Trump, again?
Death threats against judges are surging —and experts point directly to Trump's rhetoric — Matthew Rozsa
Federal judges have received more than 800 threats since Trump's rhetoric intensified — and retired members of the judiciary are now speaking out.
“According to the U.S. Marshals Service, there were 564 threats against federal judges in 2025 and there have been 275 already this year,” wrote USA Today’s Rex Huppke on Sunday. “The Marshals Service asked Congress for an additional $34 million in April, noting that ‘the threat environment’ is ‘unlikely to decrease in the foreseeable future.’”
Huppke attended a two-day symposium at the University of Washington called “Neither Sword Nor Purse,” which was convened to discuss Trump’s ongoing rhetoric attacking judges who do not rule in his favor. Describing him as “a threat to judicial independence,” one who “shows no hesitation to jackhammer the very foundation of our democracy.”
Former federal judge J. Michael Luttig told the event that Trump’s coup attempt on Jan. 6, 2021 “was a dark day in American history. On that day, the 45th president of the United States instigated a war on America's democracy, and forced upon this nation an unpeaceful transfer of power for the first time in almost 250 years. From that day until this day, he has persisted in the prosecution of that war, determined to prosecute that war to its catastrophic end, to this day presenting himself to America and to the world as a clear and present danger to American democracy.”...
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The US has become the most unsafe country on the planet.
The connection between Trump and violence is undeniable —and last night proved it — Robert Reich
For as long as I can remember, the White House Correspondents dinner was where the Washington press corps and Washington officials basked in each other’s celebrity.
Last night’s ended abruptly with gunshots, Secret Service officers screaming at attendees to “get down,” Trump and other officials being rapidly ushered out of the ballroom, plates crashing and chairs falling, and general pandemonium.
Last night, the celebrities became normal people feeling panic and fear.
Most of the time, Washington is a stage on which actors take on roles and dress up for assigned parts. I remember wearing an uncomfortable tuxedo to the White House Correspondents Dinner, trying to make pleasant conversation with people who had skewered me that very morning.
The glamor and swish of the event was at such sharp odds with the hard daily slog of my job that the event seemed strangely disembodied, as if everyone had been given a script that they knew was total bull----.
Trump has changed much of this. He has brought a grim hostility to the jobs of doing the public’s work and reporting on those who do the public’s work. This was the first White House Correspondents dinner he agreed to attend, and by all accounts he was prepared to give the media pure hell in his remarks.
And then hell erupted in the form of another crazed gunman. As I write this, it appears that one Secret Service agent was injured but none of the luminaries was hurt.
There is a close relationship between Trump and violence — not just the attempts on his life but also the violence he’s unleashed on the world, the violence his ICE and Border Patrol agents have caused inside America, the violence he has incited among his followers. (A few of last night’s attendees were in Congress on January 6, 2021 when Trump’s thugs attacked the U.S. Capitol.)
Trump’s violence has resulted in thousands of deaths and injuries. That is no justification for last night’s attack, of course, but it is part of what he has wrought in America. He has changed the script in Washington. ...
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Once again: The US has become the most unsafe country on the planet.
Teacher of the Month turned alleged gunman —what we know so far about Cole Tomas Allen — Roxanne Cooper
...Allen's background presents a puzzling portrait of an outwardly accomplished individual. He is a 2017 graduate of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) with a degree in mechanical engineering. He later earned a Master of Science in computer science from California State University, Dominguez Hills in May 2025.
Most recently, Allen worked as a tutor for C2 Education, where he was recently named "Teacher of the Month." Neighbors in Torrance described him as "intelligent and quiet."...
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A security failure. Will Trump pardon Allen or demand death by firing squad!
A dark chapter returns: Stripping citizenship — Heather Digby Parton
The Justice Department's bid to denaturalize American citizens has roots in the Red Scare
One of the lesser known effects of the Trump administration’s commitment to mass deportations is the right’s newfound freedom to talk of expelling anyone of whom they disapprove. You’ll hear people casually talking about deporting New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, or Donald Trump suggesting that “the Squad” — the self-proclaimed group that includes Democratic Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, all women of color — should “go back” where they came from, despite the fact that three of the four were born in the United States. Even though Omar, who was born in Somalia, became a naturalized citizen when she was 17, Trump has said many times that she should be deported....
It has become commonplace to hear such threats in the political discourse on the right. Even former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley, herself the daughter of immigrants, said in 2022 that Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., should be expelled from the country. (Warnock was born in Savannah, Georgia.)
Now the Trump administration is attempting to turn that rhetoric into action. The New York Times reported on Thursday that the Justice Department is targeting hundreds of citizens for denaturalization and deportation proceedings, informing offices all over the country that they will be assigning cases against specific individuals. While there is yet no word who those individuals are or what criteria might be used, we do know that cases can be brought against naturalized citizens who can be proved to have committed fraud in obtaining citizenship or, in some situations, have been convicted of crimes. These orders follow an edict issued by the administration establishing a quota of denaturalizing 100 to 200 people per month in 2026.
The Justice Department’s announcement came with a brag: They are “pursuing the highest volume of denaturalization referrals in history.” In other words, they hope to beat the records set during the Red Scares....
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Joe McCarthy lives!
'Stupid move': Fury as Trump fires entire science board with no warning or explanation — Daniel Hampton
President Donald Trump triggered outrage when he fired what House Science Committee Democratic staff described as the entirety of the independent board overseeing the nation's premier basic science funding agency on Friday, sending boilerplate termination emails that offered no explanation and no warning.
Members of the National Science Board, which helps govern the $9 billion National Science Foundation, received messages from the Presidential Personnel Office simply stating their positions were "terminated, effective immediately," The Washington Post reported Saturday. The foundation funds Antarctic research stations, telescopes, research vessels, and the basic science behind MRIs, cellphones, and LASIK eye surgery.
"This is the latest stupid move made by a president who continues to harm science and American innovation," Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) said. "The NSB is apolitical. It advises the president on the future of NSF. It unfortunately is no surprise a president who has attacked NSF from day one would seek to destroy the board that helps guide the foundation."...
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Digging his retarded sewer deeper!
Palantir Employees Lament “Descent Into Fascism”
Ars Technica reports:
It took just a few months of President Donald Trump’s second term for Palantir employees to question their company’s commitments to civil liberties. Last fall, Palantir seemed to become the technological backbone of Trump’s immigration enforcement machinery, providing software identifying, tracking, and helping deport immigrants on behalf of the Department of Homeland Security, when current and former employees started ringing the alarm.
Around that time, two former employees reconnected by phone. Right as they picked up the call, one of them asked, “Are you tracking Palantir’s descent into fascism?” “That was their greeting,” the other former employee says. “There’s this feeling not of ‘Oh, this is unpopular and hard,’ but ‘This feels wrong.’”
For the past 20 years, employees could accept the intense external criticism and awkward conversations with family and friends about working for a company named after J. R. R. Tolkien’s corrupting all-seeing orb. But a year into Trump’s second term, as Palantir deepens its relationship with an administration that many workers fear is wreaking havoc at home, employees are finally raising these concerns internally.
"THE COMPANY WAS CREATED SPECIFICALLY TO FACILITATE GOVERNMENT CONTROL OF PEOPLE BY SURVEILLANCE AND SPYING. What the goddamn fuck did you EXPECT would happen?" — OlyGregg (comments)
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Nazis at work here with their final solution. All workers will be replaced by AI. It will continue until all are unemployed and eventually led to death camps. Let's see who bets on this.
Washington’s top journalists shouldn’t further abase themselves for Trump — Dan Froomkin
Donald Trump and the nation’s top political journalists are in an abusive relationship.
He lies to them constantly, insults them, sues them, calls them traitors, tries to turn the public against them, gaslights them, bans them, and threatens their outlets with dissolution.
And they almost never fight back.
Indeed, they actually cover up for him.
Relentlessly driven by their corporate masters to “not take sides,” they sanewash and normalize him, no matter what he says or does. Even their most critical reporting pulls punches — and is quickly forgotten.
Most significantly, they refuse to level with their readers and viewers about who Trump really is. You cannot adequately explain what Trump says or does on a day-to-day basis without acknowledging where it all comes from: His derangement, his ignorance, his authoritarianism, his lawbreaking, his corruption, and his racism.
By not sounding the alarm over the dangers he poses to the country and the world, our top news organizations are enabling him. They are doing what he wants them to do....
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The planned charade was interrupted. It will be re-staged in 30 days.
Reality check: Angry voters face the consequences of buying the Trump 'myth' — Adam Lynch
New York Times columnists say President Donald Trump, the self-proclaimed master of deal making, is struggling to deal with his Iran war. But contributing opinion writers E.J. Dionne Jr. and Robert Siegel and opinion columnist Carlos Lozada say that deal-making talent was never a thing.
“This whole notion of Trump as the master deal maker, as deal maker in chief, it’s all part of a long-running Trump mythology that was part of ‘The Art of the Deal,’ part of ‘The Apprentice.’ I think that what we’re seeing now, very clearly, in the second term is the limits to his deal-making prowess, especially internationally,” said Lozada. “So, you see the president making threats with timelines and cease-fires that come and go, and get extended till the schedule, the time frame, is sort of meaningless. He’s not really trying to manage a war; he’s trying to manage the news cycle, manage the markets, and hold on to his fracturing coalition.”
Trump’s best talent is actually his capacity to deceive, and Dionne said the template for his “ability to spin, to lie, to intimidate, to distract from any problems was set when he said that he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and get away with it.”
But now, as the consequences of Trump’s entirely voluntary war with Iran land hard on Americans’ gas pumps and groceries, Dionne said Trump is learning that “there are some things that can’t be spun.”...
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They were warned. There is no reason to feel sorry for fascists.
RFK Jr Wants To Eliminate Medicaid Payments To Family Caregivers — NewsHound Ellen
RFK Jr. has probably not spent a day in his life depending on a paycheck. So, maybe he has no idea how impossible it would be for many families to give up the income from a job to provide free caregiving for a disabled and/or elderly relative. Or maybe it’s just part of his obvious plan to destroy our public health system, endanger American lives or just kill us outright.
Whatever the reason, Kennedy thinks family members should not be getting Medicaid funds for being caretakers of disabled loved ones. During his testimony on Capitol Hill last week, Kennedy complained about family members getting paid “for balancing the checkbook, for picking up the groceries, for driving somebody to a doctor’s appointment” because those are “things that they used to do as family members for free.”
“This is rife with fraud because we have no way at CMS to determine whether they actually perform that duty or not. We don’t know whether you drove your grandmother to a doctor’s office,” he also said
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A worthless creature. May he suffer for it.
Climate Scientists Shake Their Heads as First US City Running Completely Out of Water — Joe Wilkins
A massive drought coupled with political mismanagement might fully deplete water in a major city: neither in West Asia nor the Horn of Africa, but in the United States of America.
According to Inside Climate News, the city of Corpus Christi, Texas could soon completely out of water in the next year. It’s the eighth largest city in Texas, and a major industrial node in the Gulf Coast. Its water infrastructure provides access to over 500,000 Texans, as well as the major chemical plants, oil facilities, and plastics factories which call the Gulf region home.
As Climate News notes, Corpus Christi is on track to be the first American city to completely run out of water, as its reservoirs near empty following a five-year drought. Though nobody can snap their fingers and end a drought, the extremely dry conditions follow decades of warnings that South Texas is posed for a water crisis.
Earlier this week, city manager Peter Zanoni announced Corpus Christi will be forced to cut overall water consumption by 25 percent — nearly 16 million gallons a day — as soon as September. “We have no precedent to follow. There’s no manual, there’s no video,” Zanoni told the city council.
Details are hazy on how the city plans to make those cuts, but the impacts could be massive, as schools, hospitals, and homeowners are forced to do without — to say nothing of commercial and industrial business.
“We don’t have enough information from the city to make a statement on how we would proceed or how this would affect our business,” a spokesperson for H-E-B, the company operating the largest bakery in Corpus Christi, told Climate News.
Climate scientists have been warning about the consequences of poor water stewardship for years at this point. As Shannon Marquez, a professor at the Columbia Water Center told climate publication Grist, Corpus Christi could just be the first domino to fall as corporate water use and climate change take their toll on water tables across the country.
“What we’re seeing in Corpus Christi is really not an isolated crisis,” Marquez said. “It’s very consistent with how things are going to unfold if we don’t start to plan.”...
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Both water and then food will begin to run short as the century moves forward. We were warned and have done little to remedy this.
Unions Attack AI for Menacing Human Jobs — Joe Wilkins
Workers across the US have had it with the prognostications of AI taking over the world. And their unions — or what’s left of them, anyway — are taking notice.
Last week, the leaders of some of the largest trade unions in the US came together for a conference with Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, Axios reports. Together, they presented a united opposition against tech companies pushing AI and robotics into labor, renewing Sanders’ call for a pause on AI development until there are ample safety nets in place to catch workers whom labor leaders fear will be displaced.
“We are here to sound the alarms on AI,” president of stories AFL-CIO Liz Shuler said at the press conference. “This race that everybody seems to think we’re in to advance AI at all costs — with no guardrails or protections for people — is reckless and dangerous.”
The horse race for AI dominance between tech companies in the US has had ripple effects for workers throughout the country. Though researchers haven’t reached consensus on whether AI is actually replacing jobs, workers are still feeling the squeeze as AI-happy executives institute layoffs and hiring freezes regardless, as if to declare that the AI revolution is right around the corner.
“Human beings have to come first in this equation, not an afterthought,” United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain said. “A handful of billionaires want all the profits,” but the “working class has to get our fair share.”...
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We'd better get some a handle on this human tragedy soon or the horror of dystopian terror will stike us all.
The Number of Drones Being Deployed to Surveil Anti-Trump Protestors Is Staggering — Joe Wilkins
Police drones are fast becoming a fact of life across the United States, where they’re showing up in podunk towns, sprawling cities, and everywhere in between. So far, media coverage tends to highlight their role in finding lost puppies or catching cat burglars in the act. In Los Angeles, however, drones are increasingly being used to surveil peaceful anti-Trump protestors — an ominous preview, in all likelihood, of things to come nationwide.
According to new reporting by the Intercept, the Los Angeles Police Department launched drones at least 31 separate times during a single “ICE Out” protest on January 31st, which culminated in the arrest of at least 50 demonstrators after the LAPD issued an order to disperse at around 9:30pm.
A few months later at the March 28 “No Kings” demonstration protesting Donald Trump, the LAPD launched 32 surveillance drones. Though police didn’t issue an order to disperse until 5:30pm, flight data viewed by the Intercept shows that drone coverage of the peaceful demonstration began at 2pm and continued on until 9pm that night (the LAPD ultimately arrested 75 people.)
When the publication approached the LAPD for comment on the massive number of surveillance flights, LAPD lieutenant Matthew Jacobs insisted that “we do not document or record unless there is a crime occurring.”
“When it comes to a protest or demonstration, we’re responding [with drones] at the request of the incident commander. We’re looking for specific people, we’re not taping first amendment activity,” Jacobs continued. Paradoxically, he added that sometimes the department launches drones to “see how big a crowd is.”...
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First, they come for you crowd size...
Three Years Ago Today, “Avengers” Director Joe Russo Predicted There Would Be a Fully AI-Generated Movie Within Two Years — Frank Landymore
...Russo is far from alone in claiming AI will transform the industry, and for better or worse, he’s probably right. But it’s clearly not happening at anywhere near the pace or magnitude that AI advocates predicted it would. AI may be used behind the scenes, but it’s nowhere near good enough to generate entire movies — not even the kind of slop that the Russos spit out....
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Keep your gaddamned AI away from the arts, motherfuckers! Or expect some some unexpected side effects! No? Then find out the hard way!
Trump: Peace Talks Were 18 Hour Flight For “Nothing”
President Donald Trump says he is canceling planned peace talks to end the war in Iran because the 18-hour flight to Pakistan just isn’t worth the trouble.
“I’ve told my people a little while ago, they were getting ready to leave, and I said, ‘Nope, you’re not making an 18 hour flight to go there,’” Trump told Fox News, according to comments read aloud on air.
“We have all the cards. They can call us anytime they want, but you’re not going to be making any more 18-hour flights to sit around talking about nothing,’” he continued. The president then confirmed via Truth Social that he had pulled out, saying it was simply “too much work.”
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Too much work? I see he likes sleeping on the job! Love that sigh of relief at the end! LMAO!
Speculation swirls as Trump cancels Iran talks: 'He is just trying to save face' — David McAfee
President Donald Trump has cancelled a planned diplomatic mission to Pakistan involving senior envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, who were scheduled to meet with Iranian representatives, outraging observers.
Trump revealed the decision to a Fox News reporter, Aishah Hasnie, first, stating: "I've told my people a little while ago, they were getting ready to leave, and I said, 'Nope, you're not making an 18 hour flight to go there. We have all the cards. They can call us anytime they want, but you're not going to be making any more 18 hour flights to sit around talking about nothing'."
He then made a similar "all the cards" announcement on social media.
The sudden reversal has drawn criticism from observers across the political spectrum. Former Obama adviser David Axelrod responded with sarcasm: "'We have all the cards,' said the @POTUS, whose casinos went bankrupt six times."
Journalist Glenn Greenwald highlighted the stark contradiction in Trump's messaging, noting a complete policy reversal within 24 hours. "From: Iran is begging for negotiations so I'm sending Jared and Witkoff to: We're not sending anyone because we have all the cards," Greenwald wrote, adding that Iran has repeatedly rejected negotiations with Kushner, viewing him as "an agent of Israel."
America First conservative David Pyne raised concerns about Trump's stated commitment to ending the conflict, saying: "Many Trump supporters believe him when he says his Iran war is over but his decision to continue the US naval blockade and cancel all peace talks with Iran while surging half the US Navy and USAF along with over 10,000 ground troops strongly suggest otherwise."
Ex-prosecutor Joyce Vance captured the shifting messaging with a common comparison: "This is a lot like the weather in Portland, Oregon. If you don't like it, wait 15 minutes and it will change."...
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Everyone knows Iran cancelled on Trump.
Trump suddenly reverses course on Iran peace talks: 'Too much work!' — David McAfee
President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that he has cancelled a planned diplomatic mission to Islamabad, Pakistan, characterizing the journey as an inefficient use of time and resources.
"I just cancelled the trip of my representatives going is Islamabad, Pakistan, to meet with the Iranians. Too much time wasted on traveling, too much work!" Trump posted, signaling his impatience with traditional diplomatic protocols.
Trump went further in his criticism of Iranian leadership, characterizing the government as chaotic and internally fractured.
"There is tremendous infighting and confusion within their 'leadership.' Nobody knows who is in charge, including them," he wrote, suggesting that negotiations with Iran lack clear counterparties.
The president also asserted United States superiority in any future talks, despite walking back numerous threats to obliterate Iran's entire civilization.
"We have all the cards, they have none! If they want to talk, all they have to do is call!!!" Trump claimed, placing the burden of diplomatic engagement entirely on Iran while rejecting proactive American efforts....
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Trump's arrogant shaming techiques are useless against Iran. They ignore him as they know he's hated by the rest of the world.
Unfounded Health Concerns Are Powering a Solar Backlash — Anna Clark
Locals worry that electromagnetism and even glare can pose a health risk. They wonder if toxic materials could leach into the soil and contaminate groundwater, if not while the solar site is operational, then some decades in the future, when it reaches the end of its life. That certainly has been the case with orphaned oil wells, which also were built with promises of safety.
But researchers point out that the most common types of panels have only small amounts of such materials, if any. They are encased and unlikely to leach into the soil. Rather than sitting in landfills when a site is decommissioned, most of the materials used in solar panels can be recycled (though the process can be costly).
Craig Adair, vice president of development at Open Road Renewables, which has pursued renewable energy projects in several states, has fielded a range of concerns over the years — from how soil could be contaminated to the possibility of electromagnetic fields causing cancer.
“Those questions, in just about every case, have an answer,” Adair said. “There is rigorous academic study, and there are examples of projects that have been operating.”
While the future farmability of the land is often a concern, many researchers — and farmers — say that a solar lease will help preserve it....
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I just heard about the need for energy the US will need in the near future and it is staggering. We'd better explore every bit of alternative sources. Solar is only one but we must use it.
What are the Health Risks Living Near Solar Farm? — Olivia Blot
The Truth About the Trump Plan to Bring Back Execution by Firing Squad — Sophie Hurwitz
The US Department of Justice announced Friday that it plans to revive the firing squad as a method of killing in federal capital cases. In a 52-page memo, the department expanded the ways it can apply the death penalty to include using a group of executioners to simultaneously shoot at a condemned person. Taking action to strengthen the federal death penalty, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche wrote, “is our highest duty as public servants.”
Only five states currently allow executions by firing squad. The execution of Mikal Mahdi in South Carolina last year was only the fifth such killing since 1976; his lawyers later said the bullets mostly missed Mahdi’s heart, leaving him to die in a manner that violated the Constitution’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
Jim Craig, a lawyer with the MacArthur Justice Center, has represented men and women on death row in the Deep South since 1986. I spoke with Craig about the dangers of executions carried out with guns, the 40 years he’s spent witnessing how governments condemn people to die, and what people should know about his clients.
What’s your reaction to the news that Trump is bringing back the federal firing squad?
This proposal by the Trump Justice Department is characterized by their attraction to brutality. It’s characterized by their affection for causing visible harm to people. You see it in their foreign policy. You see it in their policing. The firing squad is very physical and visceral in the damage that it does to the person being executed. That’s why they like it. We should not mince words about this. It has nothing to do with the Eighth Amendment. It has nothing to do with the supply of drugs, or anything else. They like it because it’s the same kind of video game brutality that they like in every other context of this administration’s barbarism.....
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"Brutality." That descibes Trump, his Crime Syndicate and the few supporters he currenltly has.
Damage To US Bases Far Worse Than Pentagon Says
NBC News reports:
American military bases and other equipment in the Persian Gulf region suffered extensive damage from Iranian strikes that is far worse than publicly acknowledged and is expected to cost billions of dollars to repair, according to three U.S. officials, two congressional aides and another person familiar with the damage.
The Iranian regime swiftly retaliated after the Trump administration attacked on Feb. 28, hitting dozens of targets across U.S. military bases in seven Middle East countries. Those attacks struck warehouses, command headquarters, aircraft hangars, satellite communications infrastructure, runways, high-end radar systems and dozens of aircraft, according to the U.S. officials and an assessment by the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank in Washington, D.C.
In the initial days of the war, an Iranian F-5 fighter jet bombed the U.S. base Camp Buehring in Kuwait, despite the base having air defenses, a rare breach that marked the first time an enemy fixed-wing aircraft has struck an American military base in years, according to two of the U.S. officials. The U.S. bases that came under attack are home to thousands of American troops, and in some cases their families, though they were largely cleared out in the days and hours before the U.S. and Israeli went to war with Iran.
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So, Hegseth said everyone else would just hold us back! We know how to do this. He must have meant lose a war and lose as badly as possible!
The biggest debacle in American history has been pulled on us by incompetent nincompoops!
Look at the smirky bastard in the picture! "You aren't trying to blame me, are you? ARE YOU?"
Mississippi Gov Proclaims Confederate Heritage Month
The Mississippi Free Press reports:
Nearly six years after signing the bill that removed the Confederate symbol from Mississippi’s state flag, Gov. Tate Reeves declared April 2026 as Confederate Heritage Month, continuing a tradition that began 33 years ago.
Though the governor does not publish the Confederate Heritage Month proclamations on any official government websites, the Mississippi Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans posted a copy of the latest proclamation on its Facebook page. The proclamation shows that the governor signed it on April 17.
As in past years, Reeves’ proclamation does not mention the central role of slavery and white supremacy in the Confederacy’s birth, instead speaking only vaguely about how April “is the month when, in 1861, the American Civil War began between the Confederate and Union armies, reportedly the deadliest war ever fought on American soil.”
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The Land of the Happy Negro still celebrates its treason!
Trump's $4 billion empire could evaporate — thanks to one judge's ruling — Sabrina Haake
With all the ruin emanating from the Oval Office on a daily basis, it’s easy to fall into quiet despair. Following the news feels like monitoring a malignant tumor as it spreads outward from the epicenter of the free world, jumping oceans, URLs, and psyches, threatening the globe on macro and micro levels simultaneously. Only this sickness, this decidedly opportunistic cancer, has never been seen before. Certainly this level of rot has not been diagnosed in our 250 year history.
Trump’s singularly corrupt and destructive appetite, both fed and insulated by the Supreme Court’s immunity ruling, is hard to stomach. After SCOTUS handed criminal immunity to a psychopath, despondency set in as the world resentfully assumed that Trump would get away with his crimes against humanity forever.
Then, just there, on the unlit edge of the blackest cloud to have darkened the world in a very long time, a glimmering trace of silver peaked out. In a development that should have streaked across the headlines, but barely got a mention, a federal judge ruled that Trump will pay for at least one of his crimes: J6....
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Life in prison!
Republican flames out on-air after blaming Biden for Trump’s inflation — Adam Lynch
Conservative political strategist and CNN pundit Scott Jennings failed to make his case for blaming President Donald Trump’s inflation problems on former president Biden — despite Biden leaving office more than a year ago.
Jennings set himself up for trouble after former Bill Clinton adviser Paul Begala identified inflation as one of Trump’s major obstacles threatening to destroy himself and his Republican Party in the November midterms.
“We have an unpopular war, an unpopular president … It’s not just that his war is unpopular and fracturing his base more than I think even Iraq fractured President Bush's base, but it’s his inflation,” Begala told CNN host Kaitlan Collins. “It's inflation that got him elected, and it's inflation that's going to cause a landslide for the Democrats in the midterm.”...
But Begala mocked Jennings for making the claim: “That’s a political excuse. I tried it when I worked for Bill Clinton. We got wiped out. ‘Some other dude did it. Oh, blame Joe Biden!’ That dog don’t hunt, man. You know what? I hope you do [just that.] I hope all of you go out there and blame Joe Biden.”
But Begala mocked Jennings for making the claim: “That’s a political excuse. I tried it when I worked for Bill Clinton. We got wiped out. ‘Some other dude did it. Oh, blame Joe Biden!’ That dog don’t hunt, man. You know what? I hope you do [just that.] I hope all of you go out there and blame Joe Biden.”,,,
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Dipshit logic at work. "But this is really good shit, Mrs. Yokamoto!" -- Firesign Theatre
Inside the hypocrisy killing Republicans — D. Earl Stephens
Lately, I have been thinking about the word “freedom” and how that word has been twisted into unrecognizable wreckage by a Republican Party that uses it as a sad excuse to brutally hammer tens of millions of Americans into submission, including themselves.
America is supposed to be the land of the free, but try telling that to a pregnant woman who is faced with a crushing decision about what’s best for her, or Alex Pretti or Renee Good who were shot dead in the street by government thugs for freely standing up against violent authoritarianism. (Government thugs, incidentally, who are still free among us to kill again as I type this.)
I was finally spurred to put words to my thoughts about freedom after attending a casual meeting of do-gooders here in North Carolina last week, which veered into the importance of cleaning up our coastal waterways, so marine life are free to flourish without the man-made threat of being violently choked to death....
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Reality is a great challenge to MAGA swine.
Trump's Economic Approval Rating Lowest In History — John Amato
Trump is #1 at something.
CNN's Harry Enten delivered more bad news to Donald Trump, as his approval rating on the economy plunges to the lowest of any president in history.
When Trump tries to brag about himself, he usually uses a phrase like, "nobody's seen this before in history."
He can make the same claim with this data, as Americans are sick and tired of this chaotic rain of economic horror....
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He's #1!
Fox’s “Random Man In Diner” Is Turning Point Leader
Raw Story reports:
Social media users quickly caught that a man interviewed for a Fox News segment as though he were a random voter was actually a leader in a major conservative group.
A Fox and Friends segment was supposed to feature the on-the-spot opinions of random diners at a Columbus, Ohio restaurant. Juliet Jeske, who runs the X account Decoding Fox News, posted on Friday that reporter Lawrence Jones was actually interviewing members of Turning Point USA, the conservative group founded by Charlie Kirk.
Although Jones walked up to him as though he were picking a random guy, Jeske said she identified him “in thirty minutes” as Jake Poling, a regional manager of Turning Point USA, through his social media, where he had pictures with Kirk.
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Nazi News outlet knows its Nazis!
Tobacco Industry Lobbyist Gets Senior Role At CDC
STAT News reports:
A former tobacco industry executive has been appointed to senior leadership at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, alarming public health advocates and critics of industry influence on government.
Stephen Sayle, named in March as the CDC’s deputy director for legislative affairs, previously worked at Fontem Ventures, a subsidiary of the British multinational tobacco corporation Imperial Brands. Between 2017 and 2018, he was U.S. vice president of corporate affairs at Fontem, which is focused on non-combustible tobacco products like the e-cigarette brand blu and the oral nicotine pouch brand Zone.
From a public health perspective, appointing a former tobacco executive to a high-level role at the CDC is “unprecedented,” Timothy McAfee, who headed the Office of Smoking and Health at the CDC from 2010 to 2017, wrote in an editorial published this week in the journal Tobacco Control. McAfee told STAT that Sayle’s appointment is also “completely inconsistent” with health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s previous pledges to “shut the revolving door” between industry and government.
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Fox appoints Fox to guard chicken house!
Leavitt Claims Charlottesville Nazi Rally Was A “Hoax”
FOX HOST: “I want to ask you about the DOJ going after the Southern Poverty Law Center, which was at one point in its history, a very reputable Civil Rights organization fighting the KKK, according to the DOJ. All of that has changed. And I guess the thing that’s probably most relevant to President Trump is that they were paying the person who was involved in that Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville, which was one of the biggest points of criticism for this president during his first term. What’s what’s his thinking on what’s going on now with the DOJ?”
KAROLINE LEAVITT: “The Southern Poverty Law Center was a very reputable organization at one point in time, and they have unfortunately transformed into a criminal organization run by fraudsters who are paying for and inciting this very racism that they claim to stand against. Now, you mentioned the Charlottesville hoax, John. It’s a brilliant point because that is one of the most vicious and egregious smears that has been used against President Trump over the course of the last 11 years since he got himself into politics.
“And this group funded some of the funders of that hoax that not only the media ate up like candy, but that the Democrats ran campaigns on. If you recall, in 2020, Joe Biden launched his campaign for president on the basis of the Charlottesville hoax. It was a total lie, and it was funded by this organization that claims to stand against racism. I’m glad to see accountability is is being high, thanks to the Department of Justice.
“And I would like to criticize the legacy media. If you read articles about this case and this indictment in the New York Times, they’re trying to claim that this is a weaponization of justice from from the Trump DOJ. It couldn’t be further from the truth. This was a grand jury indictment made up of Americans who realized that this organization was engaging in criminal activity, and they need to be held accountable for it.”
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Eva Braun finally speaks. Let's see if this bullshit even gets to court, Eva.
Court Overturns Roy Moore’s $8M Defamation Win
Politico reports:
A federal appeals court has wiped out a jury’s $8.2 million award to former Alabama Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore over a Democratic group’s TV ad about allegations that Moore solicited teen girls for sex. The claims, which appeared in numerous news articles by local and national journalists, roiled the 2017 special election for a Senate seat from Alabama, torpedoing the staunchly conservative Moore’s campaign
In 2019, Moore sued the Senate Majority PAC, claiming that the group libeled him and subjected him to false light invasion of privacy by suggesting that he sought sex from a 14-year-old girl working as a “Santa’s helper” at a shopping mall in Gadsden, Alabama. 11th Circuit Judge Elizabeth Branch said the PAC included citations to the underlying news articles, ensuring that viewers could judge the assertions for themselves.
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Another one bites the dust! — Again.
MAGA media gaslights on Charlottesville — Sophia Tesfaye
The right seizes on indictment to claim white supremacy only exists due to the Southern Poverty Law Center
Almost immediately after the mob at Donald Trump diehards smashed its way into the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, the right-wing noise machine moved into action to downplay what the world saw unfold in real time. Now, five years later, with a giant assist from the Department of Justice, conservative media is again attempting to launder reality through conspiracy about another dark day in the first Trump administration — the 2017 Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville, Virginia — with some saying the event was a false flag operation.
In one of the most brazen escalations yet in the administration’s war on its perceived enemies, the DOJ, created in 1870 to enforce the civil rights of formerly enslaved Americans in the South, announced the criminal prosecution of the Southern Poverty Law Center, an organization founded in Montgomery, Alabama, the former capital of the Confederacy, and credited with financially crippling the modern Klan.
On April 21, a federal grand jury in Alabama indicted the SPLC on 11 counts — six counts of wire fraud, four counts of false statements to a federally insured bank and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering. But it is a case built to win on cable news, not court.
The core allegation, stripped of its melodramatic framing, is that the SPLC used paid informants to infiltrate hate groups and ran those payments through shell accounts to protect the identities of people who were living among Klansmen and neo-Nazis. The SPLC has long relied on informants to infiltrate organizations, sometimes in coordination with federal authorities. As far back as 1996, the New York Times reported that the organization had “spies” embedded in white nationalist gatherings.
The federal government’s legal argument, such as it is, falls apart the moment anyone with prosecutorial experience examines it. Kyle Boynton, an attorney who worked previously as both a federal civil rights prosecutor and an FBI agent, told CBS News, “I don’t think any prosecutor with white-collar experience would look at this indictment and believe it makes out the elements of a crime.”...
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The Nazis have recently discovered reverse psychology as a weapon. Anyone with a piece of brain can see the bullshit they are handing us.
John Roberts' landmark 2019 decision just backfired spectacularly on GOP: legal analysts — Bennito L. Kelty
Chief Justice John Roberts paved the way for a major Democratic victory this week with a decision he made at the end of the last decade, political analysts are pointing out.
Justice Roberts delivered a key decision in the 2019 case Rucho v. Common Cause. Roberts siding with conservatives on a 5-4 decision seven years ago kept constitutional limits away from partisan gerrymandering. Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern, co-hosts of the Slate legal analysis podcast Amicus, revisited Roberts' decision in their latest episode and explained how the case gave way to a major Democratic victory in Virginia this week, where voters approved a gerrymandered map that opens four House seats.
"There was a lot of Republican bellyaching this week over these results," Lithwick said. "But didn’t the Supreme Court pretty much roll out the red carpet for this kind of electoral hardball with the decision in Rucho v. Common Cause?"
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"The trap you set for yourself is the attachment of self-centeredness and the habit of self-referentiality." — Zen saying.
Time Again For America's Sexennial Fantasy: Can We PLEASE Sh*tcan Lindsey Graham? — Doktor Zoom
Sure, sexennial just means every six years, like a Senate term. But we still feel a little bad about putting that word, “fantasy,” and “Lindsey Graham” so close to each other. Sorry not sorry. Because just as we can’t resist the temptation of “THIS is the year Texas goes blue,” we also can’t seem to break our optimism that voters in South Carolina will finally replace Lindsey Graham with “someone less loathsome,” a bar so low that a fair number of merely awful Republicans might ooze over it. It’s like finding “someone more likeable than Ted Cruz.”
Simply put, Graham is not widely loved, even though he keeps getting reelected. Despite polling in 2020 showing he was in a close race against Democrat Jaime Harrison, Graham ultimately managed a 10-point win that year. Graham did at least get to whine that Harrison outpaced him in fundraising, griping on Fox News, “I’m being killed financially. This money is because they hate my guts.”
Nobody Likes Him, Everybody Hates Him, But Graham Won’t Eat These Worms
In March 2026 polling, just 34 percent of South Carolina voters gave Graham a “favorable” rating, with 57 percent saying they were “looking to vote for someone else.” A December 2025 PPP poll showed Graham leading a “generic Democrat” by just two points, with 60 percent of respondents saying they want someone new in the Senate. (That jumped to 73 percent among independent voters.)
And now that he’s become the top cheerleader for Donald Trump’s stupid, unpopular war against Iran, we’re even seeing speculation that Graham’s warboner might be the one thing that finally sinks him, although the Washington Post (that’s a gift link) chickened out on saying “warboner.”
On the other hand, South Carolina has a long history of keeping its damn senators in office, as the 48-year career of execrable Dixiecrat-turned-Republican Strom Thurmond illustrates. In fact, the last time a US senator from South Carolina was voted out of office was in 1944, when Ellison Smith (D-Segregation) lost his bid for a seventh term. But that’s a pattern, not an inevitability, and while other GOP-held Senate seats have better chances to be flipped this year, we won’t be calling Graham invulnerable — he’s going to have to work to keep his seat....
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Was there a time when Graham was an asset for the US? That time has long gone.
Reason For Navy Sec Firing Maybe Even More Pathetic And Hegseth-y Than We Knew — Evan Hurst
No sooner had we published our first piece on the bizarre firing of Navy Secretary John Phelan in the middle of the naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz — and the replacement of him with the contemporary Christian version of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Oh no, is Monterey, California, a HELLMOUTH, Buffy? — than more news began to break about the real reasons Secretary Shitfaced “Pete” Hegseth fired him.
Hegseth’s pathetic Daddy issues leading to possible jealousy over Trump and Phelan — who are neighbors and friends — sliding pictures of big hard boats into each other’s DMs at night and not including him? Yep, we had that. Just general drama between Hegseth and Phelan relating to Hegseth’s devastating masculine insecurity, which renders him unable to lead troops like a real man? Duh, that’s part of every story about Hegseth and the United States military under his control.
And then at the end, we asked:
One more final thought about what this likely means if our spidey senses are correct. If it’s not just Hegseth’s drama queen daddy issues — which it might be! — then it’s highly likely that Phelan, who was secretary of the Navy in the middle of Trump’s and Hegseth’s naval blockade, and during Hegseth’s ongoing murder spree with the so-called drug boats, knew that Hegseth and Trump were giving illegal orders to commit war crimes, just like folks like Mark Kelly and Elissa Slotkin have been warning about. In which case Phelan might have decided he doesn’t want to spend the rest of his life buried alive underneath Gitmo or the Hague once patriotic Americans beat back this fascism and start holding motherfuckers accountable. And let’s be clear, at this point everybody should understand that we are absolutely going to win.
Oh golly, were we over the target!
Come Fox News’s Jennifer Griffin, the real news reporter who makes all of MAGA so angry, because she reports real news, even when it conflicts with Republican/Russian propaganda. She confirmed something the Washington Post had alluded to earlier in the day. They said there had been “tension” between Shitfaced and Phelan over whether Senator Mark Kelly should be punished for making that video where he and other patriotic members of Congress who have served told troops that their loyalty was to the Constitution and their oaths, not to little bitch Pete Hegseth or his traitor boss, and that they had a duty to refuse illegal orders. Phelan was supposed to “review” what Kelly had done and make a recommendation for how Kelly could be punished.
Griffin’s report last night was more explicit:
“Hegseth and Phelan reportedly butted heads when Phelan refused to ignore a recent federal judge’s ruling that said punishing Senator Mark Kelly for making a video in which he reminded military officers of their constitutional duty to not to not follow illegal orders would violate his First Amendment rights,” Jennifer Griffin, Fox News’ Pentagon correspondent, reported on Thursday.
“Hegseth wanted Kelly, a retired Navy captain and former astronaut, brought back onto active duty and stripped of his rank,” Griffin said.
Ohhhhhhh. Well there it is.
Phelan, an art collector and Trump fundraiser with no military experience, nonetheless was not stupid enough to ignore the Constitution to try to go after Dear Leader’s enemies for reminding them that Dear Leader is not actually Dear Leader, and he wasn’t willing to be a party to Hegseth using the Uniform Code of Military Justice like his own personal drunken cum towel....
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Our disgrace continues.
The Strategy That Built America’s Middle Class Still Works, So Why Won’t Democrats Deploy It? — Thom Hartmann
The same bold playbook that built the middle class can restore it, and voters are ready
The “liberal” commentators are shocked. It was reported yesterday that Graham Platner, the Democrat who’ll most likely win the primary to run for the US Senate from Maine, has staked out some “truly radical” positions. The former Marine combat veteran and oyster farmer has called for:
— Impeaching Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas for the bribes he took from billionaires,
— Replacing Chuck Schumer as leader of Senate Democrats with a “fighter,”
— Investigating and prosecuting Trump regime officials and underlings who’ve been involved in illegal actions like bombing unarmed boats in the Caribbean,
— Prosecuting ICE thugs who’ve assaulted, terrorized, or killed people and smashed into cars and homes without warrants,
— Going after corruption in the Trump White House, including among the Trump family, the Cabinet, and Trump himself,
— Promoting aggressive new social safety net programs to restore America’s middle class and take on the Epstein class, including a wealth tax on those with more than $1 billion, and
— A national healthcare system modeled on Medicare-for-All.
One cable host mused out loud yesterday that these positions may help the 41-year-old progressive win the primary against septuagenarian moderate Governor Janet Mills, “but can that really win a general election?” This “don’t be Bernie or like AOC” is the great fear and marching anthem of the mainstream media and the Democratic consultant class.
When Trump broke both US and international law joining Israel in bombing Iran without any provocation (and while they were making very real concessions during their negotiations) and in violation of the War Powers Act of 1973, Democratic House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries didn’t call for the president to be prosecuted, turned over to the Hague, or even impeached.
Instead, he said, “Congress must be fully and immediately briefed.” Yeah, that’ll teach them!
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called Trump a liar and the bombing a “major failure” and “Operation Epic Blunder,” but beyond strongly worded press releases also hasn’t called for actual consequences for Trump, Hegseth, or anybody else in the chain of command committing these war crimes.
But consider how it would have played out if Obama or Biden had begun bombing a foreign country with no justification; Republicans would have started impeachment hearings before the second wave of bombs and Fox “News” would be braying for criminal prosecution.
Tragically, the conventional wisdom across the chattering class and within leadership of the institutional Democratic Party seems to be, “Don’t make big promises or real threats, don’t be Bernie or AOC.”
The problem with this strategy is that most Americans now want a modern-day Bernie or AOC, and multiple elections (and Platner’s polling) prove it, but the DNC and “mainstream” Democrats aren’t listening and don’t want to go after rich people....
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Even the Democrats can use a lesson in history.
Operation Epic Failure — Robert Reich
Trump and Hegseth say they've destroyed Iran's military capacity. The reality is far different.
Friends,
Trump and “War” Secretary Pete Hegseth say Operation Epic Fury has destroyed Iran’s military capacity.
“We’ve taken out their navy, we’ve taken out their air force, we’ve taken out their leaders,” Trump said Tuesday.
At a Pentagon briefing on April 8, shortly after Trump declared a ceasefire with Iran, Hegseth said “Operation Epic Fury was a historic and overwhelming victory on the battlefield, a capital V military victory.” He added, “By any measure, Epic Fury decimated Iran’s military and rendered it combat ineffective for years to come.”
But CBS News’s Jennifer Jacobs, Eleanor Watson, and James LaPorta report a very different reality. They interviewed “multiple officials with knowledge of intelligence,” who say the Islamic Republic of Iran “maintains more military capabilities than the White House or Pentagon has publicly admitted.”
According to three of the officials, about half of Iran’s stockpile of ballistic missiles and its associated launch systems were still intact as of the start of the ceasefire in early April.
Roughly 60 percent of the naval arm of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is still in existence, the officials said, including fast-attack speed boats.
Although the U.S. and Israel have destroyed much of Iran’s conventional navy, the naval arm of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, equipped with many smaller vessels, remains partly intact, and it’s that navy that’s hampering oil shipping traffic in the Strait of Hormuz.
On Wednesday, Iranian gunboats attacked several commercial ships in the strait, shortly after Trump announced he was unilaterally extending a ceasefire to allow more time for peace talks.
Iranian air power has been significantly degraded but not erased. U.S. officials say that about two-thirds of Iran’s air force is still believed to be operational.
According to a written statement submitted to a House Armed Services Committee by Marine Lt. Gen. James Adams, head of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, “Iran retains thousands of missiles and one-way attack UAVs that can threaten U.S. and partner forces throughout the region, despite degradations to its capabilities from both attrition and expenditure.”
The regime in Tehran is showing itself to be far more tenacious and hardline than the regime it replaced. Iran seems more committed to building a nuclear bomb than it was before Trump’s war, and is less constrained than it was after the agreement negotiated by the Obama administration.
And the Strait of Hormuz is effectively closed, not by the United States but by Iran — causing global oil prices to resume their upward trajectory. (Reminder: It was open before Operation Epic Fury.)...
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Total failure of Trump and Hegseth, two hacks.
The Myth of the Apolitical University: Education, Power and the Lie of Neutrality — Henry Giroux
In a time of war, resurgent authoritarianism, and an escalating assault on higher education, the language of “institutional neutrality” has emerged not as a safeguard of academic integrity, but as one of the most effective ideological weapons in the campaign to depoliticize the university. In the wake of Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel, the genocidal destruction of Gaza, and the return of Donald Trump to the presidency, universities have come under intense pressure to demonstrate their “balance” by retreating from political engagement. What has followed is not a principled defense of intellectual independence, but a quiet alignment with power, as institutions rush to adopt policies that prohibit them from taking positions on political and ethical issues deemed external to their “core functions.”
Reports suggest that more than 150 universities have embraced such measures, while proposals such as the Trump administration’s “Compact for Higher Education” threaten to make institutional neutrality a condition for federal funding. Under these conditions, neutrality is no longer an abstract ideal; it is fast becoming an instrument of coercion.
The appeal to neutrality, of course, is not new. It draws its legitimacy from the 1967 Kalven Report, which famously asserted that “the university is the home and sponsor of critics; it is not itself the critic.” Yet this formulation depends on a fiction that collapses under historical and political scrutiny: that can stand outside the conflicts that actively constitute the wider society. In reality, there is no dimension of higher education that is not already political. Universities continuously make decisions about what knowledge counts, whose voices matter, which histories are preserved, and which forms of dissent are tolerated or punished. These are not neutral acts; they are structured by power, shaped by ideology, and embedded in larger struggles over the meaning and direction of public life.
What the language of neutrality does, then, is not remove politics from the university but conceal it. More precisely, it functions as a form of political cover, allowing institutions to disavow their own agency even as they engage in deeply political practices, disciplining student protest, sanctioning faculty for dissent, and in some cases, collaborating with state power in ways that endanger those who challenge injustice. Under the current political climate, this posture has taken on an especially troubling form. As universities such as Columbia, Northwestern, and Brown move to accommodate the demands of an increasingly aggressive right-wing agenda, neutrality becomes indistinguishable from capitulation. It serves to normalize a broader project aimed at cleansing higher education of dissenting voices and remaking it as a site of ideological conformity....
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Totatalitarianism always attempts to wipe out intelllectual institurions.
DOJ Drops Criminal Investigation Into Jerome Powell
NBC News reports:
The Justice Department on Friday dropped a criminal investigation into the Federal Reserve and its leader, Chair Jerome Powell, regarding a renovation project at the central bank’s Washington headquarters.
The Inspector General for the Federal Reserve has already reviewed the project twice, and found no wrongdoing. It was asked again to review the project in 2025 by Powell, amid unrelenting pressure from President Donald Trump and his top allies.
The decision clears the way for Trump’s nominee to chair the Fed, Kevin Warsh, to advance towards a confirmation vote in the Senate. Warsh’s confirmation has been blocked by Senator Thom Tillis, R-N.C., since Trump tapped Warsh for the role, due to what Tillis called a “bogus” investigation of Powell.
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Nazi hypocrisy fails again.
Reuters Poll: 77% Blame Trump For High Gas Prices
Reuters reports:
A clear majority of Americans blame President Donald Trump for surging gasoline prices, which is weighing on his Republican Party ?ahead of November’s congressional midterm elections, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll.
Some 77% of registered voters in the poll, which concluded early this week, ?said Trump bears at least a fair amount of responsibility for the recent rise in gas prices, which was sparked by his decision to launch a war on Iran along with U.S. ally Israel.
The view was widely shared across the political spectrum, with 55% of Republican voters, 82% of independents and 95% of Democrats pinning blame on the president for the ?higher costs.
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77%? The other 23% must all own oil stock.
Oligarch Big Game Hunter Killed By Herd Of Elephants
The Daily Beast reports:
A millionaire big game hunter has been trampled to death by a herd of elephants. Vineyard tycoon Ernie Dosio, 75, was out shooting yellow-backed duiker, a species of antelope, in Gabon when he and his guide surprised five female elephants with a calf in the Lope-Okanda rainforest last Friday.
Safari company Collect Africa confirmed that its client had been killed, according to The Daily Mail, and said that its professional hunter, who was guiding Dosio, was left severely injured in the attack.
Gabon’s dense forests are home to around 95,000 highly-endangered forest elephants, according to the WWF, which make up around 60 percent of the world’s remaining population.
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The Elephant's revenge!
Luna Calls For Trump To Pardon Polymarket Soldier
“Maybe not a popular take but I am calling for this guy to be pardoned. Unless the DOJ plans on going after all the crooks in congress currently insider trading, this is simply skewed justice. There is no ‘justice’ when guys like this get the book thrown at him yet members are illegally profiting every day. I don’t agree with what he did and he should be required to disgorge all the profits however, unless the DOJ plans on doing Congress next, this is not justice.” – Strip club waitress turned GOP Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, notably not mentioning that the Donald Trump Jr. sits the board of Polymarket and is an investor in the company.
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The rogue gambling pandemic must be placed under control. It is no different than drug addiction and it's spreading rapidly throughout society. This level of ad hoc gambling is an illness and we have the data to back this up
'Hypersensitive' Kash Patel just revealed he lives in 'constant fear': analyst — Ewan Gleadow
Kash Patel would not survive the evidence given against him should his lawsuit against The Atlantic be taken further, a political analyst has claimed.
FBI Director Patel filed a $250 million defamation lawsuit against The Atlantic and staff writer Sarah Fitzpatrick on April 20, 2026, following a bombshell investigative report detailing his alleged excessive drinking and erratic behavior. Patel's legal team characterized the article as "replete with false and obviously fabricated allegations designed to destroy Director Patel's reputation and drive him from office."
Legal experts warned that Patel inadvertently confirmed key details from Fitzpatrick's investigation through his aggressive legal response. Lisa Needham in the Public Notice Substack noted, "Patel would be luckiest if The Atlantic succeeds at getting this thing dismissed right away — no, really. Because if this case goes forward, he’s stuck with discovery."
Further analysis from Salon columnist Amanda Marcotte noted that Patel had made it clear he wants attention but may not be ready for the consequences of his lawsuit.
Marcotte wrote, "While this story is funny, I have a different theory as to why it went so viral. I believe it illustrates a widespread suspicion many political observers have about Patel — that he is plagued with a sweaty desire for approval and a constant fear of rejection.
"Patel’s best hope is that the lawsuit is dismissed early, because it’s highly unlikely that the Atlantic green-lit a story they knew, as his lawsuit claims, to be full of 'false and obviously fabricated allegations.' A similar lawsuit against MS NOW got thrown out two days after Patel sued the Atlantic.
"Because he seems so hypersensitive about how people see him, I doubt his ego can survive the process of having Sarah Fitzpatrick, the story’s author, and editors from the Atlantic provide evidence for their claims in court.
"Then again, Patel’s entire stint at the FBI suggests he doesn’t understand that all his efforts to manifest an image of a smart, cool guy that everyone likes are so ham-fisted that they inevitably backfire."...
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Kash won' t be long in office.
World leaders forge unprecedented alliance without Trump amid his unilateral Iran war — The Conversation
The United States under President Donald Trump and the European Union have a complicated relationship. On one hand, European countries and the US have built some of the strongest alliances since the end of the second world war. On the other, since the start of Trump’s second term in 2025, they have openly clashed on significant issues: tariffs, NATO contributions, Palestinian statehood, Israel’s interventionism, Ukraine support levels and Greenland’s sovereignty.
Trump’s sudden war on Iran is the latest of these clashes, but it is distinctive because it is shaking the world’s economy. The US war on Iran, alongside Israel’s war on Lebanon, is accelerating a notable reshaping of European alliances and strategic thinking about the union’s future.
The EU has more than 450 million inhabitants, and its GDP is nearly on par with that of the US or China. Despite its polymorphic nature, and in fact perhaps because of it, it is a world player that can exercise considerable sway over international affairs.
European leaders are now attempting to drive a lasting ceasefire, and perhaps even peace, between the US and Iran, with the aim of reopening the strait of Hormuz as soon as possible.
EU countries believe in the rules-based order and international institutions. This is not only because of their democratic constitution and values, but also because they offer them better protection than “might makes right”.
Trump’s unilateral war on Iran sits well beyond international conventions. It was neither sanctioned by a UN mandate or resolution, nor approved by NATO. As a result, European leaders have refused to contribute.
Spain and Italy have outwardly refused to allow US weapon-carrying planes bound for the Iran conflict to use their bases. Meanwhile, France is taking a more case-by-case approach in authorising or declining use of its airspace as part of operations linked to the conflict....
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Trump has put us all in harm's way. The world is rejecting the USA due to his totalitarianism. This could lead to extreme damage of our future.
Morning Joe co-host flags 'striking' change from Hegseth: 'This administration's flailing' — Travis Gettys
MS NOW's Jonathan Lemire called attention to a shift in tone from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in his latest press update on the Iran war.
The Pentagon chief attacked reporters once again during Friday's briefing, but the "Morning Joe" co-host noticed that Hegseth seemed to be shifting the terms of what the Trump administration would consider to be a military victory.
"Some progress made yesterday in the Israel-Lebanon situation, that cease fire extended, but not here," Lemire said. "We should note though, MS NOW is reporting that Iran's foreign minister is expected to travel to Islamabad next day or so, potentially ahead of peace talks. This is not for peace talks, but to restart negotiations, to perhaps have negotiations. So maybe that will happen down the road."
"But I also wanted to flag something here that was very striking, just a shift in tone from the secretary," Lemire added. "Yes, strident bashing the press every chance he gets. But it was on April 8, he had one of these news conferences and he said this is a big day for world peace. They have had enough, meaning Iran, Operation Epic Fury has been laser-focused from the very start – sorry, that [it] is a historic, overwhelming victory on the battlefield, a capital-V military victory, declaring the conflict, in its essence, over."
Hegseth didn't display quite the same bravado in his latest press briefing, Lemire noted....
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Going through withdrawal are we?
Pentagon staffers terrified as 'petty high school' drama ignites firing fears — Thomas Kika
Pentagon staffers are grappling with a new wave of fear over potential firings, with sources telling Axios that "petty, high-school or middle-school drama" has everyone on edge.
On Friday morning, Axios released a new report describing the tense atmosphere within the Department of Defense, following the recent ousters of Navy Secretary John Phelan and Army Chief of Staff Genereal Randy George, among other high-profile firings. According to sources within the agency, "nerves are particularly charged" within the Pentagon as employees fear what might come next.
"Breakfast meetings, happy hours and group chats across Washington are abuzz with the same question: Who gets axed next?" the report explained. "At least 15 defense officials have abruptly left or been pushed out of their jobs under Trump 2.0. The exits, civilian and uniform, are the results of clashing politics, policies and personalities."
One anonymous source within the Trump administration did not mince words about the degrading vibes at the Pentagon, likening things to "petty" teenage melodrama, even invoking the famed comedy, Mean Girls...
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The shameless failure of an inept Trump administration.
Trump's overnight unhinged posting spree prompts questions about his mental stability — Sarah K. Burris
President Donald Trump's overnight posting spree is prompting questions from those online about his mental stability.
Trump's final post on TruthSocial came about 2:45 a.m. EDT with a post about conspiracy theories around the "birth tourism industry."
It isn't unusual for Trump to go off on a TruthSocial posting spree, and it's the second time in a week.
The spree began about midnight EDT and lasted over an hour. For a moment it seemed like he might stop, but about 90 minutes later he began sharing content from filmmaker Clint Eastwood.
It was just one of 16 posts that ranged in attacks on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former President Barack Obama, claiming that they were both part of some kind of conspiracy to keep him from the presidency in 2016. At one point, he shared a post saying that Clinton and Obama committed treason.
The comments prompted liberal political commentator Harry Sisson to question if the president had lost it.
He wrote on X, "It's 1 am in the morning, and Trump is awake ranting incoherently. He's now calling for the 2020 election to be 'permanently wiped from the books and be of no further force or effect.' Someone check him into an insane asylum."
Trump posted at one point: “If it is true, the 2020 Presidential Election should be permanently wiped from the books and be of no further force or effect! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DJT”
"Trump had another mental health episode and spiraled out of control on social media last night," said Sisson, listing off the topics that Trump posted about.
"Trump’s 1:13 AM post is basically a nocturnal emission of late-night brain static," said satirical influencer SundaeGirl.
Columnist and editor Philip Bump commented on Trump's attack on the Southern Poverty Law Center, characterizing it as: “I say you threw garbage in my lawn therefore I own your house.”
He later added: "Also: does this suggest that the contrived SPLC lawsuit is what Patel was talking about with his claim about an imminent crackdown on the 2020 election?"...
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A ranting old crank! We are as bad as he is to continue to put up with his horseshit dribble!
Trump just compromised White House security with his 'complete disaster' project: report — Matthew Rozsa
President Donald Trump destroyed the White House’s East Wing to create a massive ballroom that he claimed would improve the grounds — but by his own admission, building it has complicated his own security.
“The bunker emerged in the Trump administration's court fight against the National Trust for Historic Preservation, which is challenging the 90,000-square-foot (8,400-square-meter) ballroom project in Washington,” PBS reported on Thursday. “A federal appeals court last week permitted the president to continue with construction of the project at the site of the former East Wing, which was demolished last fall.”
They added, “That ruling put on hold a lower-court judge's order blocking aboveground construction but exempted work to ensure the safety and security of the White House. The Republican administration's appeal cited materials that would be installed to make a "heavily fortified" facility, including adding bomb shelters, military installations and a medical facility underneath the ballroom.”
The station noted that there have been historic occasions when occupants of the White House were rushed to the underground bunker. This includes Vice President Dick Cheney, who was taken there on Sept. 11, 2001 during the terrorist attacks and of Trump himself during the George Floyd protests.
Although a judge ruled at the end of March that Trump did not have the right to unilaterally tear down part of the White House, U.S. District Judge Richard Leon allowed underground work to continue because he was informed of secret security concerns that would exist if that aspect of construction was simply abandoned...
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A dangerous old coot! He knows absolutely nothing of humanity.
Tucker Apologizes, Billionaire Sues—Trump Allies Turn On Him — Cliff Schecter
Schecter and Shuster sat down with the legendary strategist for this kind of conversation. One you have when the ground under the political map is shifting so rapidly it feels like an earthquake. None of us have seen anything like this before...
Schecter and Shuster sat down with the legendary strategist for this kind of conversation. One you have when the ground under the political map's shifting so rapidly it feels like an earthquake (None of us have seen anything like this before..) Because of Epstein, Iran, ICE cruelty, and more.
Take Marjorie Taylor Greene's district: Clayton Fuller; the generically named, generically white, generically right-wing nominee--because America was built for these guys--won by 16%. But Trump won by 37% in 2024! And MTG's one of a slew of former Trumpers still popular with the base who not only ditched him, but publicly question his sanity/honesty.
Tucker Carlson apologized for “misleading” people to vote for Trump. MTG thinks the assassination attempt was fake. Alex Jones called for the 25th Amendment. Trump's losing supporters hurt by his actions (farmers, Latinos, etc), but also MAGA elites telling fans he's everything from con man to Anti-Christ. So the MAGA coalition isn’t cracking—it’s coming apart in real time. The question is not if it collapses, but how far it takes the GOP with it....
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The collapse not only of the former Republcan Party but will it take America with it?
Fractures Emerge Between GOP’s Pro-Pedophilia, Extremely Pro-Pedophilia Wings — Ed Scarce
The Onion goes there.
Is this even satire anymore?
"Infighting between the two coalitions has reached new levels of intensity in the leadup to the midterm elections, leaving GOP leadership to question how best to handle the future of their party’s sexual attraction to minors."
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The Pedophile Party aka the Fascst Party formerly the Republican Party.
Hindu Group Blasts Trump For Sharing “Racist Screed”
The Times Of India reports:
The Hindu American Foundation reacted to President Donald Trump sharing disparaging remarks about India at a time when racism is already at an all-time high. The president reposted commentator Michael Savage’s [photo] remarks where he referred to India, China and other nations as “hell-holes.” The comment came in the context of the birthright citizenship law and Trump reposted it without adding anything to it.
“A baby here becomes an instant citizen, and then they bring in their entire family from China, or India, or some other hell-hole on the planet,” Savage wrote describing Indians and Chinese immigrants as “gangsters with laptops”.
The Hindu American Foundation urged the president to delete the post as it would further stoke hatred against Indians in the US. “We are deeply disturbed by @POTUS sharing this hateful, racist screed targeting Indian and Chinese Americans.” The US embassy in New Delhi, however, papered over the controversy and said Trump, in the past, praised India and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The post shared by Trump also calls on him to use “RICO charges” to dismantle the ACLU.
Michael Savage (real name Michael Weiner) has appeared here countless times for his racist and often violent tirades, particularly against LGBTQ people.
More recently, Savage appeared here when he condemned the Iran war, which apparently escaped Trump’s attention.
The Hindu group’s post has gone viral and presently has over three million views. The cult, as always, is responding with racist slurs.
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The filth of the Trump HATE agenda to kill our law and make his word law!
This is nothing but an attack on the USA and our core beliefs!
Get rid of the beast!
Trump: 2020 Election Should Be “Wiped From Books”
Mediaite reports:
President Donald Trump called for the 2020 presidential election to “be permanently wiped from books and be of no further force or effect” if new fraud charges brought by the Justice Department against the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) prove “true.”
The president unloaded on the prominent civil rights group in the early hours of Friday morning and described the organization as “one of the greatest political scams in American History.” The president then shared two memes and screengrabs of posts from Elon Musk about the SPLC allegations.
The remarks come days after Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche announced an indictment accusing the Alabama-based non-profit of financial misconduct linked to its use of informants embedded within extremist groups.
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Wipe Trump from our country!
Patel Claims SPLC “Funded” Neo-Nazis And The Klan
Public Notice reports:
The SPLC made a lot of enemies in the rightwing ecosystem with its Hatemap of extremist groups, which included conservative mainstays like the Family Research Council, the Federation for American Immigration Reform, and Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA. In the aftermath of Kirk’s assassination, opponents of the SPLC’s mission, including Elon Musk, targeted the organization for criticizing their newly-martyred saint.
In October, Patel cut ties with the SPLC and the Anti-Defamation League, a Jewish civil rights group. In what was surely not a coincidence, he timed his announcement to fall on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the year for observant Jews. But it’s one thing to sever ties with civil rights groups. It’s quite another to charge them for criminal conspiracy.
Then, as if to demonstrate that the campaign against SPLC is a witch hunt, Patel went on Sean Hannity’s show last night to riff about an active case and preemptively declare guilt. If the government has actual evidence of wrongdoing, it’s not sharing. There’s zero mention of self-dealing by SPLC executives in the indictment. If the SPLC were really trying to “manufacture” racism, devoting just $3 million over the course of a decade out of an annual budget that tops $120 million would be a pretty inefficient way to go about it.
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The SPLC is an honorable institution that has fought discrimination and racism for years.
That "Goo Goo" eyes is going after them shows us the SPLC was correct in identifying these haters and outing them! This "lawsuit" is just more Trump "Paint them black!" retribution and we all know THAT IS THE ULTIMATE HYPOCRISY! Trump fails again!
Kash Patel’s futile quest for validation — Amanda Marcotte
The FBI director tries to force his popularity on the American public and media — and it backfires.
The Atlantic’s recent exposé of Kash Patel is full of alarming allegations. The FBI director, according to sources, has exhibited erratic behavior and absenteeism stemming from what is described as heavy drinking. Especially worrisome is the claim that his staff has repeatedly had “difficulty waking Patel because he was seemingly intoxicated.”
But it was the article’s opening anecdote that drew the most chatter online because it portrayed Patel as hyper-paranoid. In early April, the sources allege, he had a “freak-out” because he couldn’t log onto his work computer. He reportedly “panicked, frantically calling aides and allies to announce that he had been fired.” It turned out to be a technical error; as of this writing, Patel continues to serve as FBI director.
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Inept as all Trump loyalist traitors.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth blew a gasket when asked about recent setbacks in the war in Iran, and he responded with new threats against journalists. — Travis Gettys
The Pentagon chief has disparaged reporters as "unpatriotic" and compared them the Pharisees, the biblical scribes who played a hand in handing over Jesus to the Romans for crucifixion, and he reacted hotly Friday morning when asked about U.S. Army nuclear chief Andrew Hug, who reportedly revealed top-secret information to a stranger he met through a dating app.
"He won't work here anymore, that's an easy one," Hegseth said. "Well, we're always on the lookout for CIA threats, any internal, anyone talking out of school about things they should not. We take leaking very seriously here, informally or formally, which is why some of the reporting done by some of the people in here is incredibly problematic. They're willing to publish things based on classified information that would potentially harm those in harm's way, and we think them doing so is incredibly irresponsible and unpatriotic, and I would encourage members of the press to think twice about the lives they're affecting when they publish things in their publications, like the New York Times."...
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This jerkwad is not fit for ANY command. He rattles too easily!
If the CIA is operating internally then we have a problem!
Hegseth has done nothing but weaken our armed forces!
Virginia Republicans taken aback by Trump's claim the election was rigged against them — Matthew Chapman
When voters in Virginia approved Democrats' plan to redraw the commonwealth's congressional districts in retaliation for mid-decade Republican gerrymanders, President Donald Trump went to his go-to accusation that the vote had been "rigged." Close Trump allies, like far-right activist Laura Loomer, made similar claims.
Republicans in Virginia, however, never got the memo about that, according to The Bulwark.
"At no point had allegations of misconduct come from any actual on-the-ground Republicans," wrote Andrew Egger. "No one in the Fairfax County GOP alleged any funny business yesterday. Party Chair Katie Gorka — wife of C-list Trumpworld figure Sebastian Gorka — decried the Democrats’ 'hollow, shameful victory,' but made no allegations of fraud. When I reached out to the county party to get her response to Trump’s allegation, she did not reply."
Furthermore, noted Egger, "I live in Fairfax County, so just for fun I swung by the party office to see if anyone there had heard about any fraud: the friendly pair of front-desk volunteers I talked to, Bob and Nancy Hoyler, said that 'we haven’t really heard anything about that.' (Then again, Bob added, 'they never tell us anything.')"
The referendum in question allows Democrats to replace Virginia's current map, created through a nonpartisan process, with one that gives Democrats four extra seats, leaving only one district in the entire state that favors Republicans. This comes after Republicans in Texas, North Carolina, and Missouri redrew their maps at Trump's demand to give their party extra seats, and California retaliated with a referendum that tilted five GOP seats toward Democrats.
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All of them dead asleep and drawing paychecks!
Ex-Republican insider delivers grim prediction Trump will let Ghislaine Maxwell 'walk' — Nicole Charky-Chami
Ex-Republican operative Rick Wilson said Thursday that he anticipates President Donald Trump will extend a pardon to Jeffrey Epstein co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell.
In his Substack, the co-founder of the anti-Trump group The Lincoln Project wrote how Trump's pervasive use of pardons could soon lead to Maxwell's exit from prison.
"And the pardons. Dear God, the pardons," Wilson wrote. "What was once the solemn prerogative of a sovereign, the mercy of a republic, the final conscience of the state, is now a product on a shelf, with a price tag payable in cash, crypto, or the correct political humiliation."
Trump has issued more than 1,700 pardons since returning to office in 2025, including nearly 1,600 Jan. 6 rioters.
"Fraudsters walk. Tax cheats walk. Violent insurrectionists walk," Wilson added. "Campaign donors with federal indictments walk twice and get brunch. Pay the man, take the paper, leave through the back door of the West Wing, and don’t forget to tip the butler. Very soon now, Ghislaine Maxwell will walk. Mark it down."
Maxwell, who is currently serving a 20-year sentence for sex trafficking of a minor, has told lawmakers she will testify under oath — but only under the condition of clemency. The move has split House Oversight and Government Reform Committee members leading the probe into Jeffrey Epstein and his co-conspirators over whether President Donald Trump should grant her that pardon. Maxwell was previously deposed by House lawmakers and invoked her Fifth Amendment right to decline to answer the committee's questions. Trump is the only one with the power to pardon her, something he has not yet ruled out.
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Then she could sing a different tune to the criminal.
Court swats aside GOP lawsuit to strip the vote from Americans abroad — Matthew Chapman
The Republican National Committee's lawsuit to try to strip thousands of Americans living overseas of the right to vote has been thrown out by a Michigan court.
According to the liberal elections outlet Democracy Docket, "In a sweeping opinion, the Michigan Court of Claims dismissed the case brought by the Republican National Committee and state Republicans, upholding a law that allows certain U.S. citizens living overseas to inherit voting rights from their families in Michigan."
The law in question — which was also unsuccessfully challenged by the GOP two years ago — grants the right to vote to legal-age children and spouses of Michigan residents living abroad, even if those family members have never lived in Michigan themselves, using the last Michigan address of their relative. Such a law would be useful in particular for the families of military servicemembers stationed overseas.
The GOP argued that the law violated residency requirements laid out in the Michigan constitution — but state judge Sima Patel disagreed, saying the legislature has discretion to set residency requirements for voting purposes.
“At stake in this case is the right of the spouses and dependents of absent uniformed services and overseas voters (collectively 'the subject group') to register to vote and cast [absentee ballots] in Michigan,” said the opinion. “Both federal and state law protect the right of the subject group to vote by [absentee ballot]. The federal government requires states to permit absent uniformed services and overseas voters, as well as their spouses and dependents, to apply for and vote by [absentee ballot].”
Republicans are currently moving forward with a similar lawsuit against overseas voters in Virginia.
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These Trump Crime Syndicate members are a disgrace to America. This is way more than obvious.
Buffoon Navy Secretary Replaced With Other Buffoon. Is This About Hegseth’s Daddy Issues? — Evan Hurst
Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth — his dumb unqualified Fox News primadonna with severe masculinity issues and unremarkable military experience, who took a sobriety pledge to Megyn Kelly to get the job as Defense secretary, and who clearly desperately wants to be Trump’s fourth son — are in the middle of a stupid and ill-advised naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz that’s going approximately as well as all Trump’s other decisions go.
So obviously it was time for Secretary Sobriety-Faced to fire the Navy Secretary!
The news came out suddenly last night that Navy Secretary John Phelan would be leaving his job immediately. Sean Parnell, asslicker to Trump’s asslicker, announced it on Twitter like it was the most normal thing in the world:
Uh huh. So that’s bullshit, obviously.
The real news started to come out fast, because Hegseth’s Pentagon leaks like a sieve because no one who’s good at their job respects the Secretary of Hairstyles, Makeup and WAR!
The Wall Street Journal reported that Phelan hadn’t quit, he had been fired, “after months of simmering tension with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, according to U.S. officials.” Uh oh, drama with the queen bee!
Pentagon officials told congressional aides on Wednesday that Hegseth fired Phelan because he and [Deputy Defense Sec Steve] Feinberg felt the Navy secretary wasn’t moving quickly enough on President Trump’s shipbuilding priorities, according to two people with knowledge of the discussions.
Trump agreed with Hegseth that it was time for new Navy leadership, according to a senior administration official.
You mean that weird obsession where Trump thinks he knows how to design ships and make them as ass-ugly as his homes and his ballrooms? OK. “Fire the Navy secretary! He isn’t letting Dear Leader build his beautiful gold-plated boats!”
Gotta be more to this. Here’s some more:
Phelan’s firing comes after a rocky tenure under Hegseth and Feinberg, including tension over Phelan’s close relationship with Trump, according to three people familiar with the internal discussions. Phelan regularly chats with Trump at his Mar-a-Lago club, just down the street from his own Florida home, and told lawmakers last year that he exchanges texts with the president about shipbuilding in the middle of the night.
The top Pentagon leaders were particularly annoyed last fall when Phelan pitched the idea for a modern battleship directly to Trump, bypassing Hegseth, the people said.
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha OK SO!
As we have discussed many gabillions of times, and as we have alluded to in this very post already, Pete Hegseth has obvious, severe, and incurable masculine insecurity issues, probably because he’s known from a young age that he’ll never be more than a total pussy.
But he also has severe daddy issues, which are obviously related to the other thing. Part of it is the authoritarian sicko version of Christianity he’s part of, which is at its heart just a hierarchical system to make white conservatives feel safe by telling them exactly which men they are the boss of and which ones are the boss of them....
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Also untreated PTSD (allegedly).
Fifth Circuit Says Texas Free To Shove Ten Commandments Down Schoolchildren's Throats — Robyn Pennacchia
Texas is now free to force schools to post the Ten Commandments in every classroom in the state, as per a no-good-very-bad ruling from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals overturning a lower court’s block on the no-good-very-bad law. Somehow, possibly because they are especially daft, the court found that the law did not violate the First Amendment or amount to the establishment of religion.
“No child is made to recite the Commandments, believe them, or affirm their divine origin,” read the 9-8 ruling that obviously ignored the intent of the law.
Rather ridiculously, the court claimed that because the Supreme Court invalidated the Lemon test — which, very sensibly, held that a law must “(A) have a secular purpose, (B) have a primary effect that neither advances nor inhibits religion, and (C) not foster excessive government entanglement with religion” — they now have a new (deeply stupid) way of determining whether or not a law violates the Establishment clause.
Also, you will note, absolutely no one is wearing a powdered wig and the school children rarely spend their recess time rolling a wooden circle around by hitting it with a bat. Therefore, ipso facto, shoving the tenets of the Christian religion down the throats of children in public schools does not count as the establishment of religion.
Soon-to-be divorced adulterer Texas state Attorney General Ken Paxton celebrated the ruling, stating that “The Ten Commandments have had a profound impact on our nation, and it’s important that students learn from them every single day.” You know, just like he did.
It is not actually clear how the Ten Commandments have had a profound impact on our nation, given that the entire first slate of is nullified by the aforementioned First Amendment to the Constitution, as well as the fact that our entire economic system is based largely on covetousness, but Paxton did not care to explain that part. Probably because of the whole adultery thing.
A spokesperson for Texas Governor Greg Abbott said the mandate was a “commonsense law, consistent with our history and tradition,” also not explaining why that would be, particularly given that school prayer has been illegal in this country since 1962’s Engel v. Vitale. But hey! If you describe your terrible law as “commonsense,” that means everyone has to go along with it.
I mean, it’s just common sense.
Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico, who will likely be facing Paxton in the upcoming election (the Republicans are still in a runoff), explained that his Christian faith does not involve demanding the state evangelize to children.
He said:
“I’m not sure if Ken Paxton is in a place to lecture us on moral values. My faith teaches me to love my neighbor as myself — not just my neighbors who look like me, vote like me, or pray like me.
”I don’t want anyone forcing their religion down my throat, and I certainly don’t want the government forcing a religion down my throat.
”I’m a Christian, but I know that the most dangerous form of government is theocracy. Because the only thing worse than a tyrant is a tyrant who thinks they’re on a mission from God.”
And the only thing worse than that is one who thinks that they literally are God (or, to be fair, Doctor God)....
The ACLU, which represented the plaintiffs in the matter, also issued a statement:
“We are extremely disappointed in today’s decision. The Court’s ruling goes against fundamental First Amendment principles and binding U.S. Supreme Court authority. The First Amendment safeguards the separation of church and state, and the freedom of families to choose how, when and if to provide their children with religious instruction. This decision tramples those rights. We anticipate asking the Supreme Court to reverse this decision and uphold the religious-freedom rights of children and parents.”...
What schools should do, frankly, should be to put the Commandments on the wall …next to the tenets of every other religion on earth, past and present. Because, really, nothing makes a person skeptical about one God quite like learning about all of the others. Most of them won’t do that, because Texas, but a girl can dream.
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There is nothing "common sense" about this! Zero!
We have separation of church and state. If we do not then every religion may post their tenets in any tax supported institution in America. Fight fasicsm!
Tom Cotton Condemns Reclassification Of Marijuana, Blames Weed For Psychosis Cases, Fatal Car Crashes
The Hill reports:
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) on Thursday criticized the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) decision to downgrade state-approved medical marijuana to a less dangerous drug. “Marijuana today is much more potent than just ten or twenty years ago, leading to increased psychosis, anti-social behavior, and fatal car crashes,” Cotton wrote on the social platform X.
“Arkansans don’t want more dangerous drugs obtained more easily,” he continued. “A change to marijuana’s drug classification is a step in the wrong direction.”
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche signed an order on Thursday morning to reclassify marijuana from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s strictest Section I regulatory level to the lower Section III classification.
"last year alone, marijuana has caused zero overdose deaths" — Scott Eats Wood (comments)
"When folks get too high from pot, the worst that happens is they vomit on your driveway." — New Jamieboy Highballs (comments)
"My brother in Christ. If anyone needs a 25mg edible, it's you." — Sir arcane (comments)
"Nearly 80 years of lying their asses off about Marijuana all to justify the legal harassment by cops of the youth and black people and justify the drug war that has intentionally re-enslaved so many.
And they never stop making shit up about a drug so unbelievably less dangerous than legal cigarettes and legal alcohol it’s not even funny.
At this point, this should be treated as someone going on a rant about the evils of the Irish" — .— Cerberus137
"American conservativism causes more psychoses and deaths than weed ever could." — Phil da Bern (comments)
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Hard numbers: 0.47% for grass. 3.5% for alcohol. More than 7 times as often on booze.
Do people that drink alcohol responsibly pour it down until they reach the end of a bottle? Only addicts do that. Using marijuana requires the same respect. Know your dosage. Don't bogart that joint my friend...
International Criminal Court Rules Former Philippines President Can Be Tried For Crimes Against Humanity
The New York Times reports:
The International Criminal Court ruled on Thursday that the trial of Rodrigo Duterte, the former president of the Philippines, on charges of crimes against humanity could proceed. The case would be a milestone for a country, in which there has been little legal reckoning for Mr. Duterte’s deadly crackdown against drug dealers and users.
Rights groups say that roughly 30,000 people were killed during the crackdown, many of them gunned down by police officers, hit men or vigilantes, and many of them minors or people who were not involved in the drug trade.
Mr. Duterte, 81, was arrested in March of last year in Manila and has been held in The Hague since then. Prosecutors argued at a pre-trial hearing in February that there was enough evidence to try him on charges of crimes against humanity, which he denies having committed.
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Definate good news for those of us who still support law!
Ben Shapiro Attacks “Pseudo Christian” James Talarico: Posting Ten Commandments In Schools Isn’t Theocracy
“James Talarico is now saying that putting the Ten Commandments in Texas schools is a form of theocracy. No, it isn’t. No one says that you must actually become a practicing Jew or an observant Christian in order to go to Texas school.
“Taking the foundational text of Western civilization, the Ten Commandments, and putting it on the wall in a Texas school is not, in fact, theocracy. By the way, having Christmas pageants in a public school is also not theocracy. When I went to public school when I was a kid, I was in the Christmas pageant. So was my younger sister who’s now married to a rabbi.
“We might want to put the Ten commandments in Texas schools or in public schools in general is because it says a couple of things that now seem to be in controversy. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not murder. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s property. There are at least three commandments the Democrats are very much against these days, apparently.
“The idea that they’re putting the Ten Commandments in Texas schools is full-scale theocracy is totally insane. Of course, it comes from a pseudo-Christian.” – Ben Shapiro, ignoring the multiple commandments broken by Texas AG Ken Paxton, who brought the lawsuit.
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The 10 Commandments are not directly incorporated into U.S. law. The U.S. legal system is secular and based on a combination of common law, constitutional law, and statutory law.
The First Amendment's Establishment Clause prohibits the government from establishing an official religion or favoring one religion over another. This has been interpreted to mean that the 10 Commandments cannot be displayed in government buildings or on public property as a religious endorsement.
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in cases like McCreary County v. ACLU of Kentucky (2005) that displaying the 10 Commandments in government settings can violate the Establishment Clause if the primary purpose is to advance religion. (what other purpose would it possibly be since the original was written by a cleric to advance their views on their religion?)
'The man was disarmed': Tom Homan confronted on Alex Pretti killing at TPUSA event — David Edwards
U.S. border czar Tom Homan at a right-wing Turning Point USA event faced questions about immigration agents killing Minnesota resident Alex Pretti.
At a TPUSA event on Thursday, host Benny Johnson invited members of the audience to ask Homan questions. One young man demanded "accountability" for Pretti's killing.
"Out of all three speakers, you're the only one I didn't boo for," the man told Homan, noting that he had jeered Johnson and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R). "So my question is specifically in response to the administration's response to the killing of Alex Pretti in Minnesota. My, the biggest issue that I have with that, obviously, beyond the actual act itself, which we all saw the video, right?"
"There was a protester, you know, upwards to 15 ice agents gathered around him," he continued. "They disarmed him about five seconds before he was shot and killed. That's extremely concerning to someone who believes in limited government and who believes in civil liberties. And the biggest concern of that was that day, like they didn't even try to investigate what happened."
The audience member recalled that White House adviser Stephen Miller had claimed Pretti was trying to do "maximum harm" to law enforcement.
"It reminds me of the quote in the George Orwell quote in 1984. The party told you to project your eyes and ears. We all saw the video. We all saw what happened. And the administration's gut response by top officials was to immediately deny any accountability for what happened," the man observed. "And I understand that he, you know, there's videos of him kicking cars. I understand that. All of that is irrelevant. The man was disarmed."
"We saw the gun taken off of his body, and then he, he was subsequently shot by upwards to 15 ICE agents around him," he added. "Is the administration ever going to take accountability? And are those ICE agents that shot and murdered that man ever going to be held accountable?"
Homan responded by declining to say whether the Trump administration officials would take accountability.
"Okay, so I can't speak for Kristi Noem, Stephen, I'll speak for myself," the border czar replied. "After those shootings, I get a phone call from President Trump, so that I need to go to Minnesota and fix some things and de-escalate."
"I can assure you the FBI is investigating," he insisted. "I'm not going to comment on ongoing investigations. That's a career cop, you just don't do that."
"The FBI has it, along with internal affairs from ICE, and they're running [the] investigation. But I stand by if someone violates the law, they need to be held accountable. And we'll see what comes out of the investigation."
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He means their cover-up. Like Epstein. They only investigate opposition they want to imcriminate.
Elon Musk Says Pedro Sánchez Did HIGH TREASON! Against ... White People? — Evan Hurst
There’s more fallout this week from what looks like it was just an amazing conference in Barcelona, the first-ever Progressive Mobilisation Conference. It was progressive leaders from all over the world! They mobilised! With an “s,” because the conference happened in Europe, and not because they are teenage girls going through that phase where they make their lowercase “a”-s like typewriters and now they have discovered British spellings and they are officially “cultured”!
The other day, Greg Gutfeld was on Fox News clinging to his blanky, begging for the authorities to arrest Tim Walz for treason for daring to criticize Dear Leader abroad. And we will have another one of those by the end of this post!
But did you know that you can be accused of treason by inbred idiot Americans, especially the kind that was born a poor white supremacist in apartheid South Africa, even if you are not yourself an American? Yes, it is true! Because when you are a white supremacist desperate to preserve Your Way Of Life, you can call anything treason! Just like you can indict the Southern Poverty Law Center for the explicit purpose of avenging the Ku Klux Klan, and say it’s because they did “fraud” to their donors, who are over here throwing them money and begging for them to fraud them harder. As they should be!
Point is, Elon Musk, that patriotic American, has accused Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón of España of, um, well, treason, on account of what he said at the big gay progressive conference in Bar-thay-lo-na. Sure, Captain Ken Mound, whatever you say. What do words even mean?
As you can see, Elon was responding to notable famous political thinker “Humble Flow,” who posted part of Sánchez’s speech, calling it “the worst betrayal in European history.” (You can peruse their Twitter account to see what other things they consider “betrayals” in European history. You will be not surprised!)
And Elon said, “Dirty Sánchez is guilty of high treason.” High treason! Against what? Against America? Against Spain? Europe? Or just against white supremacists, haha spoiler, that is it.
Did you know you can “treason” white supremacists? Well the Trump Department of Justice does, which is why they are arresting the Southern Poverty Law Center for it!
Here is what Sánchez said that crawled so far up Elon’s ass and gave him the white supremacist anger tingles:
“Le quiero decir a la derecha y a la ultraderecha que se oponen que España es hija de la migración y no va a ser madre de la xenofobia.”
¿Claro?
Now this time in English:
“I want to tell the Right and the far Right who oppose this that Spain is a child of migration and will not become the mother of xenophobia.”
Damn fuckin’ right, it’s claro....
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¡Que quede claro para quienes no son nazis racistas!
Trump’s Morbidly Rich Machine Is Crushing Democracy — Thom Hartmann
Behind the noise is a ruthless, coordinated effort to dismantle the American system and rebuild it for the ultra-wealthy.
Trump is making insane proclamations about Iran again today, sabotaging efforts at peace by his unqualified, incompetent negotiating team. He’s lying to his supporters about obvious things like the price of gasoline. He’s not sleeping, up all night shouting in all-caps at anybody who will listen and, during the day, literally screaming at his aides.
His former-heroin-addicted brainworm-infected head of Human Services who has absolutely no training or experience in medicine or public health is destroying America’s public health. His wrestling billionaire head of education is shutting down the US Education Department.
His violent, alcoholic, unfaithful head of the Defense Department keeps violating the Constitution as well as both domestic and international laws about warfare. His wholly captured Department of Justice — now run by his personal lawyer — is demanding voting information from swing state after swing state and refuses to say why.
And the Republicans on the Supreme Court, the New York Times just told us, have invented a “shadow docket” to amplify the power of Trump and his billionaires while ignoring stare decisis and the Constitution itself.
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Death to fascism!
Law enforcement vets shred 'ludicrous and idiotic' FBI case that 'doesn't pass laugh test' — Travis Gettys
Law enforcement veterans blasted the Department of Justice case against a civil rights group that helped take down the Ku Klux Klan and other hate groups.
FBI Director Kash Patel and acting Attorney General Todd Blanche announced criminal charges against the Southern Poverty Law Center on Tuesday, accusing the organization of defrauding donors by using their contributions to pay informants infiltrating extremist groups without disclosure, but experts say the FBI has long done the same thing, reported USA Today.
"There are, I would have to imagine, every day those kinds of operations, [in law enforcement],” said Javed Ali, associate professor at the University of Michigan's Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and a former FBI counterterrorism official.
The federal indictment alleges that the SPLC solicited donations under the premise that money would be used to "dismantle" violent extremist organizations, but failed to inform donors that some funds would pay leaders and members of hate groups including the Ku Klux Klan, the Aryan Nation and the National Alliance.
"They used the fraudulently raised money, by lying to their donor network - thousands of Americans - to go ahead and actually pay the leadership of these supposed violent extremist groups," Patel said at a news conference. Blanche characterized the SPLC's tactics as "manufacturing the extremism it purports to oppose by paying sources to stoke racial hatred."
The indictment further alleges that SPLC informants did not merely observe and report on hate groups but actively participated in extremist activities. One informant allegedly helped organize and provide transportation for the deadly 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, while another is accused of stealing documents from a white supremacist group that the SPLC later published.
However, legal experts and former law enforcement officials have challenged the prosecution's characterization, and former prosecutor Pat Cotter told USA Today the indictment is "ludicrous and idiotic."...
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They only investigate opposition they want to imcriminate.
DOJ’s Anti-Anti-Racism Indictment Has Major Holes — Will Sommer
TO MUCH FANFARE, the Department of Justice this week announced a new indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center, a group known for monitoring and calling out the rise and prevalence of right-wing extremism and hate groups.
In the indictment, the DOJ accused the group of bank and wire fraud as well as conspiracy to commit money laundering, arguing that SPLC’s use of paid informants to monitor extremist groups was, in actuality, a funding mechanism for those groups.
Reading through the eleven counts, however, I noticed a telling omission.
In order to make the argument that “the SPLC is manufacturing racism to justify its existence,” the government listed several informants in white supremacist groups who received payoffs from the SPLC. One of them was described as an “Imperial Wizard” in a Ku Klux Klan group called the United Klans of America.
The indictment cites an SPLC article describing the United Klans of America as a “millennial reboot of what was once a serious domestic threat.”
Yet the DOJ left out one key word from that SPLC article: “pathetic.” In the actual 2013 story, the SPLC described United Klans of America as a “pathetic millennial reboot of what was once a serious domestic threat” (emphasis added).
That doesn’t sound like “manufacturing racism” so much as mocking it. If the SPLC were really trying to whip their donors into a frenzy over groups like United Klans of America, why would it describe the organization as “pathetic”?
And why would the DOJ leave that one word out of the indictment?...
WHILE THERE ARE ULTIMATELY some missing elements in the DOJ’s indictment that caught my attention, in one major respect it is the oversharing of information that stands out.
Reading the document, I was struck by how much detail the prosecutors provided about the identity of the SPLC’s alleged informants, considering that these are people who exist in a world where white supremacists are murdered with regularity.
I was able to confidently identify five of the ten informants described in the filing based only on their descriptions in the filings and some articles on the SPLC’s website. The government provided specific titles for several informants and at least one relative, and there are only so many “exalted cyclops” involved in adopt-a-highway lawsuits out there. Someone more familiar with the violent racist demimonde—like a vengeful Klansman or neo-Nazi biker—could likely figure out more.
Who would want to risk their lives to reveal the inner workings of right-wing extremist groups if they know the FBI is comfortable revealing their identities? Then again, perhaps that’s a fringe benefit of this whole case for the Trump administration.
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To make it look like SPLC is in fact racist as the Nazis are. Reverse psychology at work. That “the SPLC is manufacturing racism to justify its existence,” .is absurd and ridiclulous. We all know racism doesn't have to be "manufactured" in the US. It goes with the fucking territory. The Trump DOJ is now a large part of that problem.
What We Found When We Investigated Trump’s Latest Election Theft Claim — Andrew Egger
Old Man Yells ‘Rigged Election’
by Andrew Egger
It’s remarkable that it’s become so unremarkable to say: Yesterday, the president of the United States claimed that an election outcome he disliked had been the result of election fraud.
“A RIGGED ELECTION TOOK PLACE LAST NIGHT IN THE GREAT COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA!” Trump fumed . “All day long Republicans were winning, the Spirit was unbelievable, until the very end when, of course, there was a massive ‘Mail In Ballot Drop!’ Where have I heard that before—and the Democrats eked out another Crooked Victory!”
Even in the crowded catalog of Trump’s bogus fraud claims, this one stands out as laughable. The entire substance of the claim is that the election was fraudulent because Virginia’s biggest counties, with the most votes to count, took the longest to count them. “Longest” being a relative term: the race had been called within two hours of polls closing.
Yet even within that two-hour window, some Trump allies were already laying the predicate for Trump’s argument: “New Virginia election results show opposition to the Democrats’ redistricting plan now leading 53% to 46%,” Laura Loomer’s show account Loomer Unleashed tweeted at 7:49 p.m. Tuesday. “However, Democrat controlled Fairfax County, one of Virginia’s most populated counties, still refuses to release its election results. Sadly, a swing could be coming soon.”
But at no point had allegations of misconduct come from any actual on-the-ground Republicans. No one in the Fairfax County GOP alleged any funny business yesterday. Party Chair Katie Gorka—wife of C-list Trumpworld figure Sebastian Gorka—decried the Democrats’ “hollow, shameful victory,” but made no allegations of fraud. When I reached out to the county party to get her response to Trump’s allegation, she did not reply. I live in Fairfax County, so just for fun I swung by the party office to see if anyone there had heard about any fraud: the friendly pair of front-desk volunteers I talked to, Bob and Nancy Hoyler, said that “we haven’t really heard anything about that.” (Then again, Bob added, “they never tell us anything.”)
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Retards like Trump have no clue about this day-in-age election process and counting ballots. Has he ever worked on an election board?
Who Goes to See Vivek at Ohio State? — Jim Swift
LIVE, UNSCRIPTED QUESTION-AND-ANSWER SESSIONS are a uniquely high-risk proposition for marquee events. Failed Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, now running for governor of Ohio, received an opportunity to reflect on this fact anew when, in an appearance at Ohio State University on Tuesday night, he found himself being questioned by a mime whose eloquent gestures were being translated into audible English by a clown.
OSU’s Mershon auditorium often serves as a venue for comedy shows—but not usually quite like this Turning Point USA-sponsored event. The balcony was cordoned off with pipe and drape, meaning that in a venue with about 2,500 seats, something short of 1,000 people came.
I found much of the programming amusing, as did a buddy I ran into there, independent journalist D.J. Byrnes. If you don’t know Byrnes, all you really need to know is that he once tricked Ramaswamy into meeting him in a Raising Cane’s parking lot by leading him to believe he was going to address the OSU football team there.
Ramaswamy’s whistlestop—part of TPUSA’s “This is Turning Point” campus tour series—had already been through a rough sixteen minutes before the pharmaceutical-entrepreneur-cum-presidential-candidate-cum-co-DOGE-boss-cum-gubernatorial-candidate took the stage. The ostensibly student-focused event had drawn a mostly older audience, whose patience had worn thin after a cavalcade of erratic speakers.
Byrnes and I had watched with growing discomfort as the itinerary, which began with a guy who pitched his delinquent private student loan restructuring company, progressed to a local TPUSA organizer, and then to Savannah Chrisley, the reality TV star (The Masked Singer, Chrisley Knows Best) who became a MAGA darling after successfully lobbying Trump for pardons for her reality-TV-star parents following their convictions on tax fraud charges....
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TX Republican gets brutal reminder after calling out blue state's 'egregious' election map — Nicole Charky-Chami
Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) said it was time for the Virginia Supreme Court to intervene after President Donald Trump's national gerrymandering ploy failed in the commonwealth — with plenty of people calling out the hypocrisy after his own state's moves to redistrict to gain GOP seats in Congress.
Virginia Democrats on Tuesday succeeded in pushing an aggressive redistricting measure aimed at gaining four additional House seats through redrawing the state's congressional map to favor Democrats in 10 of 11 districts.
Roy wasn't happy with the end result.
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The Nazis hate free elections and a free press. Flush them!
Kristi Noem's 'rushed and sloppy' handiwork could strip ranchers of their land: report — Travis Gettys
Kristi Noem may be gone from the Trump administration, but her handiwork lives on in a burst of orders that could strip land from property owners along the southern border.
The Trump administration is aggressively pushing landowners in west Texas to cooperate with border wall construction, and representatives from the Army Corps of Engineers delivered an ultimatum at a rare in-person meeting: Work with the government or face seizure of property through eminent domain, reported Axios.
"If the administration has a plan, and we try to coordinate with a landowner and the landowner doesn't respond to us, that's a message [that] you don't agree," said real estate agent Marvin Makarwich, escorted by a Customs and Border Protection agent. "But you're also not having communications to try to figure out if there's a way to do something different."...
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Get these people mad enough and we can expect a necktie party! The guillotines won't be required. They already have ropes!
Thiel-backed AI project to block bad press looks like a bust — Sophia Tesfaye
Silicon Valley billionaires can't judge journalism if reporters refuse to buy in
There is a persistent belief in certain corners of the tech world that complex social problems can be eliminated through computation. Right now, there are plenty of aggrieved founders, venture capitalists and MAGA-adjacent influencers who feel that journalism is one of those messy problems. And so a group of powerful men in Silicon Valley with a demonstrated willingness to retaliate are trying, once again, to bend the Fourth Estate to their will.
The pitch is that better tools would enable us to separate fact from falsehood more efficiently. Give it enough data, the argument goes, and the machine will find a bias-free path to truth. It sounds like the kind of solution a public exhausted by misinformation and trained to scapegoat journalists might embrace: a technological fix for a very human problem. It also assumes that the people building these tools have no stake in the outcomes they produce....
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Another BIG LIE by the elite Nazi. Killing our free press is one of their tenets.
Pete Hegseth Ditches Flu Vaccine Mandates — John Amato
Another ridiculous order from an unqualified Trump sycophant.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced that, as of today, April 21st, mandatory flu vaccine requirements have been rescinded.
Whiskey Pete made this announcement via Elon Musk's X.
As usual, Hegseth attacked President Biden for requiring military personnel to get flu vaccines, but to Whiskey Pete, our military should be allowed to get deathly ill while carrying out dangerous missions....
I wonder how a soldier in the trenches will feel when a man or women next to them has become so ill they cannot carry out the mission. Say, in Iran.
Hegseth wants to control how a general looks in their uniform more than he does the health and safety of the entire force he commands.
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If one has to choose between their conscience and their country they need to get help at what it means to be in our military in the first place.
DeSantis Signs Ban On Local Climate Change Efforts
Fresh Take Florida reports:
In Orlando, Carrie Black’s government job is to move Orange County toward renewable energy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, which she says could save millions in energy costs. But Orange County’s plan and similar initiatives have an uncertain future in the Sunshine State.
In Tallahassee, state lawmakers have moved to block such local efforts. Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the bill in Jacksonville on Wednesday, which was celebrated as Earth Day, with a theme focused on renewable energy, accelerating the green energy transition and building a sustainable future.
“It’s like, ‘We’re just going to stop the madness here,’ and that’s what this bill does,” DeSantis said. “It safeguards Floridians by prohibiting all levels of government from adopting or enforcing these radical climate policies.” The bill passed 80-29 in the House and 24-12 in the Senate. Legislators voted almost entirely on party lines.
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The Nazi bastard hates our planet and its peoples.
Politico: GOP House Rep Hasn’t Been Seen In A Month
Politico reports:
Rep. Tom Kean Jr. represents New Jersey’s most competitive district this November — but nobody, even his GOP colleagues, can say where he’s been for the past month. A scion of one of the state’s most storied political dynasties, Kean’s team says the two-term congressmember is facing unspecified health issues. The New Jersey Republican hasn’t voted since March 5 and has missed almost 50 roll call votes.
Kean’s absence has largely fallen under the radar and GOP leaders haven’t addressed the issue to the conference, according to several Republicans.
The other two Republicans in the New Jersey delegation, Reps. Chris Smith and Jeff Van Drew, said they have called and texted Kean out of concern for his health. But so far, neither said they have heard from him. Van Drew said it’s been “radio silence.” One Republican, Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.), said he didn’t even realize Kean had been missing until he tried to find him on the House floor Tuesday.
"You know how important you are when you’ve been missing for a month and no one notices" — Dan M (comments)
"Imagine being able to not show up to work for a month without any notice or explanation and still get paid. Must be nice. — Fen (comments)
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He must be in rehab and is keeping it secret?
Sec. Felcher Defends Trump’s Batshit Drug Percentages
The New York Times reports:
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. defended President Trump’s frequent incorrect calculations of percentages when talking about discounts on prescription drug prices, arguing on Wednesday that the president “has a different way of calculating.” “If you have a $600 drug, and you reduce it to $10, that’s a 600 percent reduction,” Mr. Kennedy said during a congressional hearing.
Mr. Kennedy is mathematically incorrect. A price reduction from $600 to $10 would be a discount of more than 98 percent. A price discount cannot be more than 100 percent, because that would lower the price to zero — or suggest that the company was giving you money for buying the product. Mr. Trump has been making mathematically impossible claims about drug pricing for as long as he has been promoting the TrumpRx service.
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Do we need to discuss the stupidity any longer? Remedial math is required! Or a brain transplant!
GOP Blocks Subpoenas For Voldemort And Homan
Via press release from House Democrats:
Today, during a Congressional oversight hearing on Capitol Hill, the Committee on Homeland Security received testimony from U.S. Citizens who have been profiled, targeted, detained, and attacked by ICE and CBP under the Trump administration. Marimar Martinez, George Retes Jr., Ryan Ecklund, and Reverend David Black each heroically told their stories for the first time on the record before Congress and under oath.,br>
Republicans did not attend the hearing – shamefully refusing to listen to the stories of their fellow Citizens’ rights being violated by their government.
“I want to thank the witnesses who came to DC to tell us their stories before Congress and on the record. It took real courage to do so,” said Committee Ranking Member Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS). “It is clear that the violence that our fellow Citizens were subjected to by the Trump administration must never be allowed to happen again.
“However, it is beyond shameful that not a single Committee Republican could come to face their fellow Citizens or ask them any questions. I’m sorry they didn’t have the guts to hear about the pain, suffering, and loss this administration has inflicted on people in communities across America. It’s past time for Republicans to realize their oath isn’t to Donald Trump, it’s to the Constitution and the American people. Doing nothing is not an option. They need to step up and do their job.”
Republicans also rejected a demand by Committee Democrats to subpoena White House officials Tom Homan and Stephen Miller – the architects of Trump’s mass deportations – even though they were no-shows at today’s hearing after they were invited by the Chairman.
"The two most likely men to go to prison. Lock them up." — Dwight Williamson (comments)
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Saving their biggest turds in the sewers!
WH Blasted For Photo Of Women’s Tennis Champions
The Independent reports:
A photo of Donald Trump posing with members of the University of Georgia’s championship-winning women’s tennis team has been mocked online, with many calling out the picture’s puzzling composition.
“The official White House X account celebrates a women’s collegiate athletic team by placing them directly behind six smiling men. Gee, thanks, Mr. President,” one user commented on the photo. Added another: “Whomever from the WH comms team that approved this photo composition should be immediately fired. It’s so egregiously bad that it’s an assault on good sensibility.”
The Georgia Bulldogs tennis team was one of several NCAA champions invited to the White House on Tuesday to celebrate their wins. A photo posted by White House staffer Margo Martin showed the women gathered behind six men, including the president, who was standing slightly elevated on a step.
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A perfect example of toxic patriarchy! What absolute fools!
You All Started It And Virginia F*cking Finished It — Evan Hurst
screengrab from last night’s response video from Virginia state Senator L. Louise Lucas, who memorably replied to Ted Cruz, who was whining about VA redistricting, that “you all started it and we fucking finished it.”
Well here we go again! Another day of Americans going to the polls, another night of sexy results that demonstrate just how much people understand the assignment right now, and how ready they are to do whatever it takes to beat Donald Trump and these motherfucking fascists and Nazis.
Last night, it was Virginia, which was voting on its constitutional amendment to redraw its congressional maps heavily in favor of Democrats, in response to the Republican attempt at vote-rigging the midterms that started with Trump hereby demanding Texas redraw its maps and Texas saying SIR YES SIR! They had tears in their eyes, but they were not actually big, beautiful, strong men. (Greg Abbott and Ken Paxton we’re talking about here.)
If you see the New York Times while you’re out walking your dog today, be sure to let them know it started with Texas, since apparently they’re under the impression that no act committed by a Democrat could ever be a valid response to any bad behavior by a Republican.
screengrab from last night’s response video from Virginia state Senator L. Louise Lucas, who memorably replied to Ted Cruz, who was whining about VA redistricting, that “you all started it and we fucking finished it.”
Well here we go again! Another day of Americans going to the polls, another night of sexy results that demonstrate just how much people understand the assignment right now, and how ready they are to do whatever it takes to beat Donald Trump and these motherfucking fascists and Nazis.
Last night, it was Virginia, which was voting on its constitutional amendment to redraw its congressional maps heavily in favor of Democrats, in response to the Republican attempt at vote-rigging the midterms that started with Trump hereby demanding Texas redraw its maps and Texas saying SIR YES SIR! They had tears in their eyes, but they were not actually big, beautiful, strong men. (Greg Abbott and Ken Paxton we’re talking about here.)
If you see the New York Times while you’re out walking your dog today, be sure to let them know it started with Texas, since apparently they’re under the impression that no act committed by a Democrat could ever be a valid response to any bad behavior by a Republican.
Anyway, what Virginia voters did last night was huge and hilarious, and they know exactly what they did. Its delegation, assuming the state supreme court approves it — the state supreme court still has to approve it — will be 10-to-1 in favor of Democrat-leaning districts, compared to where it currently sits, at around 6-to-5. (Which is approximately where it ought to be, in a country where all the states drew their districts fairly, instead of Republicans drawing theirs to steal elections and representation from We The People.)
How hilarious? Let us ask a numbers nerd, since their Twitter accounts are the funniest and best on election nights. Tell us what Democrats nationwide have won in exchange for fighting back like actual motherfuckers!
Hahahahahahahahahaha.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes, Republicans.
Wonder if Republicans would support a bill to ban partisan redistricting nationally once Democrats take the House by (potentially) huge margins in November, or if they’re just mad Democrats are for real fighting back and winning.
Haha, probably a dumb question!
Hey, remember when Democratic Virginia state Senator L. Louise Lucas saw Ted Cruz whining like a little bitch about Virginia’s redistricting plan back in February, and responded, “You all started it and we fucking finished it”? Oh, MAGA screamed and wailed! A Black lady they think they’re better than was talking back to them!...
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And Trump is still living?
Why Bullies Always Fail — as Trump Is Failing — Robert Reich
Trump's might-makes-right lawlessness will be his downfall. If we're not careful, it will be America's as well.
Friends,
Trump’s domestic and foreign policies — ranging from his attempted coup against the United States in January 2021, to his ICE and Border Patrol excesses (including murders in Minnesota), to his incursion into Venezuela and abduction of its president, to his attack on Iran, and his threats against Cuba, Colombia, and Greenland — all undermine the rule of law, domestically and internationally.
But that’s not all. They threaten what we mean by civilization.
The moral purpose of civilized society is to prevent the stronger from attacking and exploiting the weaker. Otherwise, we’d be permanently immersed in a brutish war in which only the fittest and most powerful could survive.
Trump believes that might makes right — that the stronger are entitled to attack and exploit the weaker. Violence against those who are or appear weaker is a hallmark of his presidency and his outlook in general.
He is profoundly and dangerously wrong.
In January, he called the unilateral military intervention that ended in the kidnapping of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro an example of the “iron laws that have always determined global power.”
What “iron laws” is he referring to? “Might makes right” is not an iron law. It marks the destruction of the rule of law.
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And Fatso ain't the only one!
Republican Drafts a Bill That Would Make Joseph McCarthy Blush — Thom Hartmann
The bill writes Joseph McCarthy's wildest fantasies into federal immigration law and dares the courts to do something about it.
Republicans are at it again, and it’s hard to overstate how chilling this is and what it tells you about the direction people in this Party want to take America.
Texas Congressman Chip Roy is preparing to introduce legislation he’s calling the “MAMDANI Act,” named after Zohran Mamdani, the recently elected democratic socialist mayor of New York City, that would let the federal government bar entry to, deport, and strip naturalized citizenship from any person who advocates for or is “affiliated with” what Roy calls “totalitarian” movements. The list includes, from Rep. Roy’s webpage:
“[A] socialist party, a communist party, the Chinese Communist Party, or Islamic fundamentalist party, or advocates for socialism, communism, Marxism, or Islamic fundamentalism.”
The bill targets people who “write, distribute, circulate, print, display, possess, or publish” material supporting socialism or any of those other ideas.
“Possess?” That single word means that owning a copy of Marx’s Das Kapital, or a pamphlet from a Palestinian solidarity group, or a battered paperback of Howard Zinn — or maybe even one of my books on the New Deal — would be enough to make a green-card holder or a naturalized citizen “inadmissible or deportable.”
“Affiliated with?” That would prevent anybody who’s ever affiliated themselves with the Democratic Socialist Party in New York that Mamdani ran on behalf of (along with the normal Democratic Party; New York has fusion voting so you can run on two parties simultaneously) from staying in America. Gone to a meeting, rally, or put yourself on their mailing list? You’re toast.
“Write?” That means they’re coming for me, and for you if you’ve ever echoed in writing the kind of sentiments that Republicans call socialism, including food stamps and school lunches, free college, public libraries, a national healthcare system, police and fire, and highways that don’t have tolls. (When billionaire David Koch ran for vice president in 1980 on an antisocialism agenda, he called for the end of all these forms of “socialism”.)
“Distribute?” And they’d be coming for Substack, too, it appears. Along with your local bookstore or library.
We haven’t seen anything this sweeping since the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798, when then-President John Adams had roughly 30 newspaper editors and publishers thrown in prison for attacking him. Ben Franklin’s grandson was arrested for publishing an op-ed calling the president “old, querulous, Bald, blind, crippled, Toothless Adams.” A town drunk in New Jersey was arrested for criticizing him while imbibing in a bar. Adams’ overreach lost him the election of 1800 to his then-political enemy Thomas Jefferson, who openly opposed the Acts....
That’s not immigration policy, that’s the architecture of a police state, and it’s modeled on how the Nazis stripped citizenship from German Jews and political dissidents in 1935 under the Reich Citizenship Laws.
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Chip Roy. The worst thing since slow stomach cancer!
Biographer Michael Wolff reveals new name gunning for 'lame duck' Trump’s 'MAGA crown' — Thomas Kika
All eyes have been on Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio as the names most likely to chase after Trump's "MAGA crown" after his second term. However, a one-time biographer with inside sources this week claimed that a new name has been circling the "lame duck" president, looking for his own shot at being the successor.
Despite his earlier teases and musings, Trump is constitutionally barred from seeking a third term in office, setting the stage for an unprecedented fight for his place as the 2028 GOP presidential nominee and, in effect, the new leader of the Republican and the MAGA movement. As vice president, Vance has long been seen as the most obvious candidate, but due to his historic unpopularity, other names have also been under serious consideration.
Michael Wolff is a veteran writer and journalist, best known for his tell-all books about the chaos behind the scenes of Trump's first term, based on sources he maintains close to the White House. During the latest episode of his Daily Beast podcast, "Inside Trump's Head," Wolff explained that the president's plummeting approval and the suspected drubbing coming for the GOP in the midterms mean that his "lame duck" era is fast approaching, and will see "power starts to ebb because other people start to step up” as “the party begins to think beyond the current presidency.”
In this search for the next MAGA leader, Wolff revealed one name within the administration possibly angling for a shot: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. His chances, however, are strongly dependent on whether or not both Vance and Rubio flame out on the path to the nomination.
"Is Pete Hegseth somehow, because he’s a performer, because he seems shameless, because he’s pro-military in some comical way, does this make him someone who can be a number two or three, and then number one and two fall, and he rises? Unlikely, but not impossible," Wolff said....
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Only possible if America wants to die a slow and painful death will this barbaric retard get anything other than canned.
'Devastating' Supreme Court revelations prove 'coward' John Roberts bows down to MAGA — Alex Henderson
Of the six GOP appointees who now comprise two-thirds of the U.S. Supreme Court, Chief Justice John Roberts is often described by legal analysts as the most nuanced. But he isn't nearly as much of a wild card as former Justice Anthony Kennedy, a right-wing libertarian Ronald Reagan appointee who sided with liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg over Justices Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia in cases related to gay rights or abortion.
The Religious Right was furious with Kennedy for his votes in Lawrence v. Texas in 2003 and Obergefell v. Hodges in 2015. Kennedy, however, drew vehement criticism from liberals and progressives for authoring the majority opinion in Citizens United v. FEC in 2010.
In an article published on April 22, Salon's Amanda Marcotte offers a scathing analysis of Roberts' work on the High Court. And she emphasizes that his record is much more MAGA-friendly than his defenders describe him as being.
"As chief justice, Roberts likes to present himself as a sober-minded intellectual who couldn't be more different than the blathering snake oil salesman in the White House," Marcotte explains. "But (a) New York Times investigation, which is based on leaked memos, reveals that Roberts, like Trump, lacks any real interest in fostering fair-minded debate."
The Times article that Marcotte references was written by reporters Jodi Kantor and Adam Liptak and published on April 18. And according to Marcotte, their reporting paints a troubling picture of Roberts' use of the High Court's "shadow docket."...
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The fall of justice in America.
There’s a secret message embedded in Trump's Bible-reading stunt — Thomas Kika
..."So, why 2 Chronicles 7:14 for Trump?" Kaylor asked. "There’s a long tradition of presidents and preachers invoking the verse for 'God and country' vibes."
He continued: "Stripped of its context of a covenantal promise God made to King Solomon and his descendants at the dedication of the Temple, the verse has been applied to the United States by preachers and politicians for decades. In this retelling, the United States became the new Israel, Americans the new chosen people. Yet, that’s not a faithful application of the text. With apologies to Carly Simon, we’re so vain we think this verse is about us. After all, 2 Chronicles was written centuries after Solomon to people returning home from exile after being defeated and enslaved by a foreign power. The verse is a reminder to those on the bottom that God is still with them, and therefore not a wave-the-flag-pep-rally chant for the powerful who control the global empire."...
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It's not secret after all. This is another quote atrributed to the Jew's latest "god" at the time.
Data center growth threatens air quality and progress toward cleaner energy grid — Newswire Editor
Despite the rapid growth of renewable energy usage in recent years, the even-more-explosive growth of data centers is delaying the transition to a cleaner grid in ways that could harm the air we breathe. That’s according to new research released for Earth Day on Wednesday by Frontier Group, Environment America Research & Policy Center and U.S. PIRG Education Fund.
“It’s great that renewable energy is growing rapidly, but we also need to be transitioning away from dirty energy sources. We can't afford to lose ground on that front,” said Johanna Neumann, senior director of the Campaign for 100% Renewable Energy at Environment America Research & Policy Center. “Pollution from fossil fuels harms our kids’ lungs and dangerously heats up our planet. We need to get our priorities straight. A healthy, safe environment is essential for a good quality of life.”
The research, building on new government data, tracks a dramatic slowdown in the previously accelerating pace of coal plant retirements as utilities respond to rising electricity demand from data centers and other sources. Compared to 2022, when the country was retiring power plants at a pace that would lead to a coal-free grid by 2040, the current pace of plant retirements would keep some of our dirtiest ones online until 2065. Power generation from coal-fired power plants increased by 13% in 2025 as U.S. electricity generation hit an all-time record....
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This polllution of our environment could be as bad or worse to humanity as the radioactive fallout from the atomic tests in Nevada in the 1950s.
A Truth Social Presidential Meltdown: SCOTUS 'Will Cost America Its DIGNITY!' — Conover Kennard
Donald J. Trump took to Truth Social this morning to air his grievances that the Supreme Court won't simply rubber-stamp whatever the fuck he wants. Beyond his policy grievances over tariffs and birthright citizenship, Trump's post revealed an all too familiar pattern — deploying the "low IQ" insult against Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, a phrase he has consistently and specifically aimed at Black women.
But he saved some of his morning wrath for conservative justices, too, in his lengthy, grammatically error-filled post that, of course, contained lies.
"How can the Democrats not like how the U.S. Supreme Court votes," he wrote. "The Democrat Justices stick together like glue, NEVER failing to wander from the warped and perverse policies, ideas, and cases put before them."
"They ALWAYS vote as a group, or BLOCK, even that new, Low IQ person, that somehow found her way to the bench (Sleepy Joe!)," he said of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. "The Republican Justices don’t stick together, they give the Democrats win after win, like a 159 Billion Dollar pile of cash on a completely ridiculous Tariff decision, and nasty, one sided questions on the country destroying subject of Birthright Citizenship, something which virtually NO OTHER COUNTRY IN THE WORLD IS STUPID ENOUGH TO ALLOW."
Well, that would be news to the around 30-35 countries that have birthright citizenship.
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Trump consistently shows us he's a moron.
Kash Patel Is A National Security Risk — John Amato
The well-sourced Atlantic article describing FBI director Kash Patel's unconscionable actions leading the most important agency for the protection of the American people shows him to be a national security risk, and he must be discharged immediately.
Trump installed many of his sycophantic January 6 deniers, election fraud, and deep state liars to high positions in his government so they could exact revenge on his political enemies and those who investigated him, not caring that these agencies need real leadership instead of wannabe MAGA influencers using their position for clickbait.
The title of their piece, "The FBI Director Is MIA," soft pedals his actual actions and his alleged highly intoxicated state.
"He is erratic, suspicious of others, and prone to jumping to conclusions before he has necessary evidence, according to the more than two dozen people I interviewed about Patel’s conduct, including current and former FBI officials, staff at law-enforcement and intelligence agencies, hospitality-industry workers, members of Congress, political operatives, lobbyists, and former advisers."
That isn't a quality you need to lead an agency of 38,000 people. Like many Americans, his drinking is an issue.
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Look at his past and by his fruits you will know him.
Trump's Social Media Posts Keep Killing Iran Peace Deal — John Amato
CNN is reporting that Donald Trump's incessant public outbursts and social media posts during the Iran peace talks continually upend them while frustrating the Iranians.
The report says that over the past weekend, they were close to ending the two-month war with Iran when Trump publicly boasted Iran agreed to everything he demanded, even though the talks were not close to being finalized.
"He also asserted that Tehran had agreed to many of the most contentious US demands — including handing over the enriched uranium — and declared an imminent end to the war. Iranian officials outwardly rejected many of those assertions and denied they were preparing for another round of talks, rapidly tanking the rising optimism for a deal. Now, it’s unclear where the peace talks go from here."
Peace negotiations are a sensitive thing between warring parties. Still, when the president never shuts the fuck up and constantly brags, boasts, lies, and threatens the country we are negotiating with, he destroys any trust between the two countries.
The US doesn't even have competent negotiators.
Trump is too in love with his own voice to keep his trap shut. He is acting as he did during the COVID pandemic. Erratic, unhinged, and mentally unstable.
There is no one in the MAGA White House to grab him by the collar and tell him the truth.
Shut up, shut up, SHUT UP!
The country suffered.
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With each passing day that Trump is in charge, Amerca dies a little more.
AI Chatbots Telling Cancer Patients to Try Useless Woo-Woo Treatments Instead of Chemotherapy — Frank Landymore
AI chatbots will recommend that cancer patients try unproven alternatives to chemotherapy and offer up other unscientific medical claims, researchers found. While AI’s proneness to giving bad information is well known, it’s a particularly alarming finding given that it could be putting lives at risk by leading patients to try cancer treatments that don’t work, with tens of millions of Americans already using chatbots for health advice.
In the new study published in journal BMJ Open, the researchers tested the accuracy of the free versions of leading AI chatbots including OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, xAI’s Grok, and the Chinese model DeepSeek.
The tests involved asking questions on health topics that are notoriously rife with misinformation: cancer, vaccines, nutrition, athletic performance, and stem cell treatments. The queries were worded to “strain” the model towards giving questionable advice, a strategy that safety researchers use to stress test their safeguards.
AI companies argue that these kinds of questions push their chatbots into unrealistic scenarios they’re not intended to work in. But the researchers say that pushy prompts used in their tests resemble how people ask questions when they already think they have an answer.
“A lot of people are asking exactly those questions,” lead author Nick Tiller, a research associate at the Lundquist Institute, told NBC News. “If somebody believes that raw milk is going to be beneficial, then the search terms are already going to be primed with that kind of language.”
The findings were dire. Half of the AI chatbots’ responses were “problematic,” in the researchers’ phrasing, with 30 percent deemed “somewhat problematic” and 20 percent “highly problematic.” Somewhat problematic responses were mostly accurate but left out crucial details and context, while highly problematic responses provided inaccurate information and left room for “considerable subjective interpretation,” per the study.
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Wake up sleepy heads! This backward thinking is killing us!
Meta Installing Software on Employee Computers to Track Everything They Do, Feed the Data to AI — Victor Tangermann
As if activity-monitoring software installed on your work computer that snitches on you if you’re away from the keyboard for too long wasn’t enough, Meta is taking the trend to its logical — and dystopian surveillance state-level — conclusion
As Reuters reports, the Mark Zuckerberg-led company is installing new tracking software on all of its US-based employees’ computers that tracks all of their mouse movements and keystrokes, data that will be used for training the company’s AI models.
The company is reportedly looking to develop AI agents that can complete work tasks autonomously, in perhaps one of the more conspicuous efforts to automate human workers’s jobs we’ve come across as of late.
Besides the ethical concerns of forcing employees to train their AI replacements, the news also raises thorny questions regarding data privacy. Meta, in particular, has garnered an incredibly poor reputation when it comes to protecting personal data....
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Replace Zuckerberg and the world will be a better place!
FL Baptist Pastor Gets Life For Sexually Abusing Toddler
The Christian Post reports:
“I can’t stress this enough, this is a monster,” Sheriff Rick Wells said during a press conference. “He went into that church professing to be a man of God. But really, he is nothing more than a liar and a sexual predator.”
“He would abuse anyone at anytime,” Wells added. “There doesn’t seem to be a limit to what he is capable of.” Police say one of the photos shows Elwing abusing a 2-year-old, according to WWSB. Authorities also say they found eight to 10 hidden cameras in his home and his church office....
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Another one bites the dust. I guess he didn't get his copy of the "10."
Of course, it says nothing about molesting children. It was a common practice then same as now.
Trump Floats US Bailout Of Trump Org Partner UAE
Popular Information reports:
On Tuesday, President Trump said he is considering a financial bailout for the United Arab Emirates (UAE), an autocratic state experiencing an economic downturn due to the war in Iran. If the Trump administration does use public resources to rescue the UAE, it will be assisting a country that has partnered extensively with the Trump Organization and the Trump family.
On Sunday, the Wall Street Journal reported that UAE Central Bank Governor Khaled Mohamed Balama “raised the idea of a currency-swap line” during meetings in Washington, D.C., last week with Treasury Department and Federal Reserve officials, including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.
Bailouts are typically reserved for countries with deep economic ties to the U.S. to avoid adverse consequences for the American economy. But the UAE is not a major trading partner of the U.S. In 2024, the goods and services trade between the U.S. and the UAE “totaled an estimated $47.9 billion.” In comparison, trade between the U.S. and Canada totaled $909 billion, and trade with the U.K. was $340.1 billion.
Nevertheless, Trump administration officials appear to be open to the idea. On Monday, National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett, one of Trump’s top economic advisors, was asked about the potential bailout during an interview with CNBC. “The UAE has been an incredibly valuable ally throughout this effort, and I’m sure the Treasury Secretary will make every effort to help them out should that be necessary,” Hassett said....
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Let's see — NATO must pay their way but UAE? Nah! They are our ally! Totally irrational brain at work!
'Trump is panicking': President's new 'insane tirade' on Iran spurs claims of 'dementia' — Matthew Chapman
Political analyst David Pakman tore apart President Donald Trump's recent rants on Truth Social about the Iran war in the latest episode of his show.
"The word 'dementia' is not a word that prior to Donald Trump held such a prominent role in American political discussion," said Pakman. "And yet now we're hearing the word almost daily. Donald Trump unleashed what many are calling a demented tirade on Truth Social once again. And there are a few reasons why Donald Trump is doing this."
"Reason number one, he knows that Republicans are going to get crushed in November," Pakman said. "They're going to lose the House and Trump and his entire administration will be mired in the muck of investigations and oversight for the final two years of his presidency. Donald Trump is panicking because he screwed himself on Iran and there are reports that he is in fear at the White House of what he has done to his own legacy."
Pakman started with a post from Trump proclaiming that "90 percent" of what the media says are "lies and made-up stories," that the "polls are rigged," that the results in Iran will "be amazing," and that he has made America "respected" again.
"Another example of projection," said Pakman. "Trump said under his watch we will be respected again much like we weren't under Joe Biden. Except it is under Donald Trump that we are a laughingstock. It is under Donald Trump that other countries say it's not even worth inviting the United States anymore because they'll send some Trumpian tool."...
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Meltdown of a defective brain.
Trump's corruption is worse than anyone imagined: NYT analysis — Thomas Kika
President Donald Trump's corruption, especially in his second term, is hardly a secret to anyone, but according to a new analysis in the New York Times, it represents a "profound violation" that is worse than almost anyone has imagined so far.
"To say that President Trump is corrupt is to somehow understate the size, scope and magnitude of his corruption," columnist Jamelle Bouie wrote in a piece published Wednesday morning. "It is as if you were to describe a modern thermonuclear device as a 'bomb.' That is true enough, but it is not quite the truth. It does not capture the nature of the thing in full."
As Bouie argued, Trump's level of corruption, which has netted him and his family $4 billion in his second term, is "so vast as to be a new phenomenon in American politics." This includes investments and gifts from "large corporations, foreign nationals and state actors," all blatantly attempting to gain his favor, as well as unprecedented amounts of money made from "branded cryptocurrency assets."...
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When he is removed from office he should spend the reaminder of his life in prison.
Karoline Leavitt goes 'full cult' in defense of Trump’s 'war blunders' — Alex Henderson
...During an episode of The New Republic's podcast, "The Daily Blast" posted on April 22, host Greg Sargent discussed Leavitt's rant with his guest: former National Security Council (NSC) official Emily Horne. Sargent told Horne that Leavitt went "full cult" in defense of what The New Republic describes as Trump's "war blunders."
Horne laid out a variety of ways in which the war is going badly.
The former NSC official told Sargent, "Talks are off. There's no plan for when or if they'll restart…. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which is the real source of power in Iran, continues to control the Strait of Hormuz. You know, it's IRGC missiles and drones that killed 13 U.S. troops, attacked U.S. embassies and diplomatic facilities across the Middle East, attack gulf oil and data installations across the region — and whose damage Trump political leaders at the Pentagon continue to cover up even as they're insisting that victory is at hand."
Horne continued, "So, when you hear this administration talking about their conversations with the regime and how there may or may not be peace at hand, I think it's important to remember: They often don't know what the heck it is they're talking about. Because they confuse who really holds the power in Tehran these days. It's really striking to me when I hear this administration talking about the regime change that U.S. strikes have brought about and the destruction that they have wreaked on things like the Iranian navy and the Iranian air force; those were never power centers to begin with."
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Of the idiots of the Trump fiasco, she remains in the top ecehelon.
RFK Jr.'s "Re-Parenting" Brain Worm Strikes Again — Cliff Schecter
Well, forget the Jews, now it’s Black folks who are a problem for RFK. You see Black parents—per this human marriage-vow apocalypse—have pumped their children with so many chemicals, their kids must be “re-parented.”
There are bad ideas, there are worse ones produced by that monster truck filled with congealed month-old-cheese-whiz Trump calls an IQ, and then there’s RFK Jr. He’s talking, so he’s saying something racist, stupid, ignorant or conspiratorial—or all four! Has anyone not reached a point where they’d like to duct tape his mouth shut to stop the noise? And, no, I’m not talking about the voice via inherited spasmodic dysphonia. I mean the idiocy exiting Jr.’s pie-hole on a quotidian basis.
I never thought I’d see someone publicly pull as many “ideas” straight outta their arse as Trump til Jr. got his motor-mouth going. I met the jackwit once about a dozen years ago. I don’t know what “cerebral event” struck him in the time since—lightning?—because, sure, he was weird back then. But a garden-variety numb nuts. Not a carnival barker on such a titanic level bats are searching caves for their missing feces in his dome....
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The Trump administration: The biggest bunch of fools ever assembled!
The Onion Relaunches InfoWars As A Satirical Site — Ed Scarce
"We’re taking something that caused real harm and turning it into something much funnier, and ideally, more useful,” Ben Collins, CEO of The Onion.
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You mean, it wasn't always a satirical sight?
Virginia Passes Redistricting, GOPers Reach For Smelling Salts — Susie Madrak
The vote may leave them with a 10-1 Democratic edge.
Voters approved a Democratic-backed constitutional amendment by one percent to sideline the state's redistricting commission and let lawmakers directly implement a new map. The Virginia delegation to the U.S. House is currently six Democrats and four Republicans and could go to 10-to-1 under the new map.
With the move by Virginia, Democrats have gained an edge in 10 seats across the country: Five in California, four in Virginia and one court-ordered change in Utah.
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Never forget the Nazis started this!
Attention Turns To GOP Redistricting Push In Florida
Miami’s NPR reports:
Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis wants the Legislature to hold a special session to redraw the state’s congressional districts. But this move would be illegal, some state Democrats say. “They are willing to do an illegal unconstitutional act by doing mid-decade redistricting,” Rep. Ashley Gantt, D-Miami, said during an April 8 conference call reported by the Florida Phoenix. “That is literally nullifying a section of the constitution that is unambiguous.”
“This is illegal,” Orlando Democratic Rep. RaShon Young said. “It is against the constitution to redraw maps in favor of a party.” Mid-decade redistricting wouldn’t be illegal, but doing it to intentionally benefit one political party would be, law professors told PolitiFact.
Gantt’s and Young’s comments reference the Florida Constitution’s Fair Districts amendment that voters approved in 2010. The amendment prohibits establishing congressional or state legislative districts with the intent of benefiting one political party. Republicans hold 20 of Florida’s 28 congressional seats.
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Of course, they are criminals and don't give a fuck about law.
Only at Nuremberg did the Nazis finally learn the meaning of "NO!"
Iran Says It Fired On Three Ships In Strait, Seized Two
The Associated Press reports:
Iran fired on three ships in the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday, intensifying its assault on shipping in the waterway crucial to global energy supplies and complicating already faltering efforts to bring the United States and Iran together for talks to end the war.
The attacks were carried out by the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, according to Iranian media, which reported that the force seized two of the ships and was bringing them to Iran.
That amounted to an escalation by Iran’s leaders, who appear poised to drive a harder bargain with American negotiators after President Donald Trump said the U.S. would indefinitely extend the ceasefire with Iran that had been due to expire Wednesday.
"Pretty impressive considering 'their entire Navy is at the bottom of the Sea, their Air Force is gone, their Anti Aircraft and Radar is wiped out'" — DaddySnark (comments)
"Yeah, for a war that was "pretty much complete" on March 9th, it sure has gone on a while." — Sarah (comments)
"Well we know math is woke. Apparently, so is the passing of time?" — DaddySnark (comments)
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Trump can't find a way out of the mess he's made.
Texas Wins Ten Commandments In Schools Appeal
The Associated Press reports:
Texas can require the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public schools, a U.S. appeals court ruled Tuesday in a victory for conservatives who have long sought to incorporate more religion into classrooms.
The 9-8 decision by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals delivered a boost to backers of similar laws in Arkansas and Louisiana. Opponents have argued that hanging the Ten Commandments in classrooms proselytizes to students and amounts to religious indoctrination by the government.
In a lengthy majority opinion, the conservative-leaning appeals court in New Orleans rejected those arguments in Texas, saying the requirement does not step on the rights of parents or students. origin,” the ruling says. The American Civil Liberties Union and other groups that challenged the Texas law on behalf of parents said in a statement that they anticipate appealing the ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court.
"I can't wait until other cults sue to do the same thing." — Lewis Kinslayer (comments)
"We don't need the 10 Commandments in Texas classrooms, but Ken Paxton could use one in his office." — Houndentenor (comments)
"This will surely help improve math education in Texas. At least the kids will now be able to count to 10.
The U.S. public education system generally ranks in the middle to upper tier among developed nations, with strong performance in reading but significant struggles in mathematics. In 2022 PISA results, U.S. 15-year-olds ranked 12th in science and 28th in math out of 37 OECD countries, while overall academic quality frequently ranks around 13th–19th internationally." — Sister_Betrille
"Cool, cool. Quick question: whose version of the ten commandments? The Catholic one? Protestant? Jewish Talmud? Samaritans? One of the other multiple versions that have existed over the centuries? Because all those groups number the commandments differently.
The people pushing for displaying the commandments usually dress it up as some sort of tribute to the Judeo-Christian heritage of the US, and though the commandments are a unifying reality among Jews and Christians. But any display ultimately favors just one branch of that 'shared heritage.' But the people pushing for it either don't know that or don't care" — Fen (comments)
"They're abusing their religious rights by foisting it on others. They're abusing the rights of people who follow other religions. They are abusing other people's right to be non-religious. Constitutional religious rights did not include abuse of other people's rights. This is fascism." — Cel (comments)
"Well, then surely it is also legal for a teacher to post other parts of the Bible, no? Like the part about Righteous Lot knocking up his two virgin daughters, and all the rest of the incest, like Moses' parent being aunt and nephew, and Abraham and Sarah being half-siblings.
Or how about in 2 Kings where some crotchy old bald guy gets teased by young boys and God sends 2 she-bears to tear assunder and murder 42 young boys. Or where God kills everyone except 8 people with a flood because he loves humanity. So, basically we are all the the product of generations of incest.
Great reading that book of stories and fables. Christians should read it sometime." — TexasBoy (comments)
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So, Yahweh's "laws" can be posted. Then what about Elohim, and all the other Jewish "gods" that were worshipped? Not so much? These people are so blind and full of fear. LMAO!
John Roberts embodies MAGA cowardice — Amanda Marcotte
The Supreme Court's shadow docket shows the conservative justices fear debate
One would think, in order to rise to the level of a Supreme Court justice, it would behoove a person to be fond of a rigorous debate. Not so with John Roberts, who is no less than the Grand Poobah of the berobed arbiters of constitutionality. A devastating recent report from the New York Times has exposed how the chief justice led the way to the escalating abuse of the shadow docket, a Court power once reserved for emergencies but that is now the primary tool of the institution’s conservative justices to evade having to debate or even explain their decisions in a lengthy and reasoned ruling available for all to examine. While this revelation is just the latest in a series of scandals involving the Court, it ties into a larger pattern that has animated and defined the MAGA movement from its very beginning: a cowardly aversion to robustly debating ideas....
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They live in total fear. And they use it as a weapon.
Impeachment plan for two GOP Supreme Court judges floated: 'Reasons for removal' — Ewan Gkeadow
Democratic Party candidate Graham Platner has outlined a plan to impeach two sitting Supreme Court judges.
Platner, who is running for the Democratic nomination for US Senate in Maine, told NBC there are reasonable grounds for the removal of Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas. Alito and Thomas have faced significant ethical scrutiny during Trump's second term. Alito authored the majority opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, which overturned Roe v. Wade, a decision that sparked widespread controversy and calls for his recusal from abortion-related cases.
Thomas has been embroiled in controversy also, with recent calls for his removal from the Supreme Court following a speech where he denounced progressive politics....
'Something is coming': Analysts warn Melania's 'can of worms' may be too much for Trump — Robert Davis
The "can of worms" that first lady Melania Trump opened up when she held a seemingly unprompted press conference about her ties to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein may be too much for President Donald Trump to survive, according to two analysts.
Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz discussed Melania Trump's recent press conference on a new episode of the podcast, "The Court of History." They speculated that Melania Trump must know something is about to be revealed about her ties to Epstein, otherwise she wouldn't have felt compelled to make some of the statements that she did.
Blumenthal described the address as a "can of worms" that the Trump administration has tried to avoid.
"Why is she so scared? That's the only question I have," Wilentz said. "Why would she do such a thing? The Epstein files have been off. He's blown up the Middle East in order to avoid the Epstein files. And here is Melania Trump coming out in the middle of nowhere saying, 'I had nothing to do with it in the way that you described.' Something's bugging her. She knows that something's coming. Obviously, something must be coming, or she wouldn't have done this."...
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"Something's coming soon. There will be no place left to hide" — Gimbal Lock, Lost Country.
'When did that become normal?' UN chief slams Trump as humanitarian crisis deepens — Stephen Prager, Common Dreams
US President Donald Trump’s war in Iran is costing nearly $2 billion per day, according to a Harvard analysis based on estimates from the Pentagon. The head of the United Nations’ humanitarian agency said the money could instead be used to save more than 87 million lives around the world.
Tom Fletcher, the undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator at the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), spoke at Chatham House on Monday about a “cataclysmic” funding crisis for the UN, in large part due to the termination of billions of dollars in funding from the US and other major powers such as the UK. Fletcher said his agency has seen its budget cut by around 50%.
“We’re already overstretched, underresourced, and literally under attack,” Fletcher said, citing the more than 1,000 humanitarians who have been killed in conflicts around the world over the past three years.
The Iran war, launched at the end of February by the US and Israel, Fletcher said, has stretched UN budgets even further, both by causing chaos within Iran and Lebanon—where more than 5,000 people in total have been killed, including thousands of civilians, and more than 4 million displaced collectively—but also by creating economic upheaval that has exacerbated crises elsewhere.
“You have the [Strait] of Hormuz—fuel prices up 20%, food prices up almost 20%, our humanitarian convoys blocked,” Fletcher said. “We’ve had to take those convoys by air and by land. And the impact, which I think we’ll be feeling for years, of those price rises on Sub-Saharan and East Africa, pushing way more people into poverty.”...
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Trump doesn't care because it's not his money, it's ours.
MAGA erupts after blue state hits back at Trump with new election map: 'Total travesty!' — Robert Davis
Fans of President Donald Trump's MAGA movement melted down on Tuesday night after voters in Virginia approved a ballot measure to redraw the state's election map.
The new map will give Democrats four more seats in the House of Representatives, and was passed at a time when many in the Republican Party are expressing concern about their party's chances of retaining power in the upcoming midterm election. About 51% of voters, or more than 1.5 million people in all, supported the ballot measure, according to the election results.
Virginia is the latest state to enter the redistricting arena. Texas and California both passed new maps that effectively canceled each other out. Meanwhile, lawmakers in other states like Indiana, Florida, and Maryland have considered passing new maps.
Fans of Trump's MAGA movement expressed outrage on social media.
"Total travesty!!" Fox News host Laura Ingraham posted on X.
"No [expletive] way this is legit," MAGA political commentator Juanita Broaddrick posted on X....
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Like their God, Trump, these motherfuckers never think they can lose when they are, in fact, fading from sight. Their attempted rigging backfired on them!
‘Something fell apart’: Speculation swirls as JD Vance’s whereabouts in question — Alexander Willis
Speculation swirled Tuesday as the Trump administration offered conflicting accounts of Vice President JD Vance’s whereabouts, with President Donald Trump saying he had already left for Pakistan for peace talks with Iran, only for the White House to later contradict him.
Early Tuesday morning, Trump told The New York Post that Vance was “heading over now” to Islamabad, Pakistan, for a second round of negotiations with Iranian officials in an attempt to bring about an end to the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran. Citing unnamed sources, Axios published a similar report, claiming that Vance was “expected” to depart for Pakistan on Tuesday morning.
However, Vance was spotted at the White House on Tuesday afternoon by a cameraman, according to CNN’s Alayna Treene, with a White House official confirming to the outlet that Vance was, in fact, still in Washington.
Complicating things further, Trump has also claimed that the peace talks between the United States and Iran are “supposed to” happen, suggesting the negotiations have already been agreed to by both parties. Iranian officials, however, have yet to commit to peace talks, per reporting from Axios.
“It is currently unclear when Vice President JD Vance will leave Washington for Pakistan, sources familiar with the talks tell me,” Treene wrote in a social media post on X.
“The White House is planning to hold further meetings Tuesday in D.C. to discuss the path forward, ‘and Vance will be a part of them,’ they said. A key question that remained, however, was whether the Iranian delegation would also show up. As of late Tuesday morning, Iran had not committed to sending officials to Pakistan for a second round of talks.”
The conflicting statements have led to intense speculation, including from journalist and professor Adam Cochran, who suspected there was more to the story.
“Vance, Witkoff and Kushner were all set to depart for Islamabad. We later find out Trump is hosting an 'emergency meeting' at the White House, where Vance's motorcade was seen,” Cochran, an adjunct professor of information science at Consestoga College in Ontario, Canada, wrote in a social media post on X.
“And the plane carrying Witkoff and Kushner departing Miami, is now en route to Washington instead of Islamabad. Something fell apart.”
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Oh, dear! The kid went out without his chaperone? Big mistake!
'Predator': Right-wing podcast concludes Trump is a 'sociopathic abuser' — David Edwards
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) about her fallout with the commander-in-chief.
In a Tuesday interview with Joy, Greene recounted how Trump had attacked her after she pushed for the release of files on Jeffrey Epstein.
"The behavior of Donald Trump that you described, what you went through and dealt with in the last few months of your position in D.C., it was abusive," Joy observed. "He is an abuser. And he uses the tactics and the techniques of a narcissistic, gaslighting, sociopathic abuser."
"And when I see the way that he treats people in comparison to the way that he treats people he knows in comparison to the way he treats the people of the United States of America, how he lies and gaslights and lies and gaslights. He has no respect for them, no respect for the truth," she continued. "He uses them, abuses them. He steals from them with the insider trading and the pumping and the dumping — and the dumping blatantly. He doesn't even try to hide it. The grift that is blatant, that he doesn't even try to hide."
"This is classic, classic characteristics of an abuser. And I just hope that people realize that... I hope they understand that he's a predator."
"Yeah, he really is," Greene agreed.
The former lawmaker revealed that she had been criticized for not speaking out against Trump earlier.
"It's been some fair criticism of me is people have said, well, he's treated other people harshly, and he's bullied them and name-called them," she explained. "I think it's this way for many people in MAGA, is we thought finally we've got basically a bully fighting for us."
"Was it ever right? No," Greene added. "I should have never, like, ever thought it was okay for him to berate or name call or be so cruel to other people. So I do want to own that."
"And it turns out he has become the biggest tool, the biggest defender, and the biggest fighter for the very system that we thought he would tear down. And so I just want to acknowledge that."
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But wait! There's more!
Republican arrested after unattended 4-year-old daughter nearly drowns: report — Matthew Chapman
A Republican candidate for state senate in Colorado has been arrested in Key West, Florida, on suspicion of felony child neglect, after he left his 4-year-old daughter unattended in a pool while he purchased liquor, nearly causing her death.
According to The Colorado Sun, "Frederick Alfred Jr., a 38-year-old who lives in Commerce City, is running to represent state Senate District 21 north of Denver ... A witness told police in Key West that Alfred’s daughter was unconscious in the pool and foaming at the mouth when he retrieved her from the water, according to arrest records. The witness performed CPR on the young girl and revived her."
The incident occurred at a resort in Key West. Police who apprehended him said he smelled of alcohol at the time.
"First responders say Alfred told them that he left his daughter and 6-year-old son alone for about five minutes while he went to get a drink at the bar. Arrest records show he initially refused to let his kids be taken to a hospital, but eventually relented," said the report. "The son first tried to rescue the daughter before the boy asked a bystander for help, according to arrest documents."
The state senate district in question was relatively competitive in the most recent cycle, the report noted: "In 2024, Alfred nearly unseated Democratic state Sen. Dafna Michaelson Jenet in Senate District 21. Michaelson Jenet resigned from the legislature earlier this year to pursue a private sector job. A Democratic vacancy committee tapped Adrienne Benavidez to fill her seat until early 2027."
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Good thing someone was watchnig out for the girl.
12 Red State AGs File To Defend Trump On Mail Voting
Democracy Docket reports:
Republican attorneys general from a dozen states moved to help the White House defend President Donald Trump’s executive order on mail-in voting Tuesday.
The attorneys general for Missouri, Alabama, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, and Texas asked the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia for leave to join the lawsuit filed by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and other Democratic groups challenging the March 31 order as unconstitutional.
That lawsuit has been combined with two others from voting rights groups that also seek to block the order. While the Democratic plaintiffs argue that the executive order would unduly restrict mail voting access and insert federal agencies into election administration — a role the Constitution explicitly reserves for states and Congress — the Republican attorneys general argue it would actually help them.
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Wouldn't it be sweet justice if all of them were Nazi Party voters! YES!
Federal Reserve Nominee Refuses To Say Biden Won
The Hill reports:
Kevin Warsh, President Trump’s nominee for chairman of the Federal Reserve, declined to say Tuesday whether former President Biden defeated Trump in the 2020 election. When asked by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), the ranking member on the Senate Banking Committee, whether Biden won the 2020 election, Warsh replied, “We try to keep politics, if I’m confirmed, out of” the Fed.
Warsh then replied, “Senator, I believe that this body certified that election many years ago,” to which the Massachusetts Democrat said that is “not the question” she is asking. “I’m asking, did Donald Trump lose in 2020?” she continued. “And I’m suggesting to you in 2020 the Fed made a huge inflation problem, and you certified the election,” the former Fed board member responded.
Read the full article. There’s more idiocy below.
ELIZABETH WARREN: Did Donald Trump lose the 2020 election?
KEVIN WARSH: Uhm, we try to keep politics if I’m confirmed out of the Federal Reserve
WARREN: I’m just asking a factual question
WARSH: I believe this body certified the election>br?
WARREN: That’s not the question I’m asking
GALLEGO: Earlier today, you told Sec. Kennedy that Trump never demanded you to cut interest rates. Is that your sworn testimony?
WARSH: That is, senator.
GALLEGO: Okay. Well someone here is lying then. Because Trump confirmed he pressed you on interest rate cuts.
WARNOCK: What grade would you give the American economy?
WARSH: Well, if i gave a student anything other than an A, the dean would summon me because I would’ve hurt his self-image
WARNOCK: Consumer confidence is at a record low. That’s Americans’ grade on the economy
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Warsh his mouth out with soap!
Our Idiot President “Can’t Even Surrender Right” — Jonathan V. Last
1. The Shit Sandwich
Over the weekend Paul Krugman quipped that Donald Trump “can’t even surrender right.”
This is correct.
Today we’re going to talk about the benefits of failing fast, the costs of failing slow, and how Trump is managing to maximize the downside of even the least-bad outcomes from the Iran war.
Warning: If you ever believed in American Greatness, that sense of pride is about to take a beatdown.
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Two weeks ago I praised the ceasefire agreement, sort of. Trump’s ceasefire was a surrender that would enhance Iran’s position and harm America’s interests—but having made the strategically idiotic decision to go to war, it was the least-bad option available.
My verdict was that the ceasefire was a shit sandwich, but a shit sandwich we can afford to eat.
Since then Trump has screwed up the execution on this, too. He did not actually nail down commitments on Lebanon. He could not control his Israeli allies. Instead of taking his medicine and closing the deal, he antagonized his counterparty—even though they have all of the leverage. He allowed another hostile counterparty (China) to insert itself into the conversation.
This guy couldn’t even get his shit sandwich plated and out the door.
Which has now left us at another brink....
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Living on the brink is something Trump is forcing us to get used to.
ALAN DERSHOWITZ IS NOT A DEMOCRAT ANYMORE, HAPPY NOW? — Evan Hurst
Alan Dershowitz and Alan Dershowitz’s wastebasket and Alan Dershowitz’s laundry on some podcast, screengrab
Alan Dershowitz has written a letter to the Wall Street Journal. He has become a Republican.
Yes, we know, with the way he is always whining about how nobody wants to invite his naked distended ballsack over for dinner on Martha’s Vineyard, they way they are cancel culturing him from his hard-earned right to enjoy dumplings at the farmer’s market, how he thinks the town librarian is a real breath of fresh poot; with how he was Jeffrey Epstein’s lawyer but he suh-wears he kept his panties on during that massage at Jeffrey’s house; with how he is on Fox News every four seconds bitching about something; and with the way he hasn’t rested his jaw for a minute in the past decade defending white fascist little baby Hitler wannabe Donald Trump, we know many of you probably assumed he was a Republican already.
You were wrong.
Haven’t you heard every time Alan Dershowitz speaks he’s always like “I am a liberal Democrat, and even I, Alan Dershowitz, the most liberal Democrat, support [insert sick Trump traitor behavior here]”? Or “I, Alan Dershowitz, am a card-carrying member of the I Have Met Hillary Clinton Club, and even I agree that there is a witch hunt against Trump”?
It’s at least 72 percent of his personality, at least until right now.
For the better part of a decade, it’s been the entire premise of his whining and bitching and whining and bitching and whining and whining and bitching and bitching and moaning and yelping and babbling on and on and on and on and on and on about how the Democrats at Martha’s Vineyard banned his nudist penis from their brunch gatherings, the Jewish Democrats of Martha’s Vineyard did that to him, Larry David punched him in the scrote at the general store, that mean librarian won’t let him read from his brilliant books at the library, even though HE ALAN DERSHOWITZ ALWAYS SELLS OUT THE FREE SERIES AT THE LIBRARY, EVERYBODY KNOWS HIS NAME, ALAN DERSHOWITZ..
Alan Dershowitz has always been a Democrat. He was in fact the most well-known Democrat in America. He was the president of Democrats, and also a client. And that’s why it’s so earthshaking that Alan Dershowitz has written an “It’s not me, it’s you” letter to the Democrats in the Wall Street Journal, where he explained that he’s not a Democrat anymore, because look what you made him do.
Shall we?
Here we go:
I am a lifelong Democrat. I started campaigning for the party’s local candidates as a teenager in Brooklyn, N.Y., have been a registered Democrat for 67 years, made speeches for John F. Kennedy as a college student, and can count on one hand the number of Republicans I’ve ever supported for any office.
And that hand is sticky.
Anyway, what Alan Dershowitz is saying is that he is very old.
I still disagree strongly with the GOP on abortion, the separation of church and state, immigration, healthcare and taxes, among other things. Yet I’ve decided to bite the bullet and register as a Republican.
OK.
The Democratic Party has become the most anti-Israel party in U.S. history. Last week all but seven Senate Democrats voted for an arms embargo against the Jewish state,
Oh for fuck’s sake. The fact that more Democratic senators than ever are at last giving side-eye to American funding and participation in thug authoritarian Benjamin Netanyahu’s latest expansionist adventures means they all hate the very existence of Israel now. Cool. Guess we’re doing that.
(Don’t start fights in the fucking comments, this is a making fun of Alan Dershowitz post, that is what we are doing today.)
and an avowed enemy of Israel, Abdul El-Sayed, is gaining ground in the Democratic campaign for U.S. senator from Michigan.
Alan Dershowitz saw that they’ve allowed another Muslim to participate in American politics, and Alan Dershowitz is not OK with that....
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"Mr. Tidy Whities" is a Republican? Do tell. You don't say? ROTFFLMFAO!
There's more of his flem to read in Evan's article.
Why Consumers are F*cked — Robert Reich
Trump's Never-ending War and Trump's Never-ending Tariffs are pushing up Never-ending price increases
Friends,
Energy Secretary Chris Wright’s admission yesterday that it “could be next year” before gas prices return to below $3 a gallon is causing trauma in Republican circles because “next year” is after the November 3 midterm elections.
Initially Trump said he could end the war “in two or three days.” It then became “four to five weeks.” He then stretched it to six. His so-called “cease-fire” ends Wednesday.
We’re now in the eighth week of what Trump called his “little excursion” into Iran (he hasn’t called it a “war” because under the Constitution he needs Congress’s okay to go to war), with no end in sight, and oil prices are again on the rise.
Over the weekend — only hours after Trump said the Strait of Hormuz had been “reopened” — Iran said it had closed the strait.
Yesterday, Trump claimed that his blockade would quickly bring Iran to its knees:
“Iran recently announced that they were closing the Strait, which is strange, because our BLOCKADE has already closed it. They’re helping us without knowing, and they are the ones that lose with the closed passage, $500 Million Dollars a day! The United States loses nothing. … We’re offering a very fair and reasonable DEAL, and I hope they take it because, if they don’t, the United States is going to knock out every single Power Plant, and every single Bridge, in Iran. NO MORE MR. NICE GUY! They’ll come down fast, they’ll come down easy and, if they don’t take the DEAL, it will be my Honor to do what has to be done, which should have been done to Iran, by other Presidents, for the last 47 years. IT’S TIME FOR THE IRAN KILLING MACHINE TO END! President DONALD J. TRUMP.”
But Trump’s blockade isn’t working as Trump intended.
Last night, the U.S. Navy opened fire on an Iranian-flagged cargo ship to disable its engines after it apparently refused to stop despite repeated warnings.
Following the incident, oil prices soared higher, and experts predict it will make ships even less likely to brave the strait....
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What one gets from a inferiority complex ridden loser.
Is This What Trump Meant by “My Way” — Power, Control, Darkness, and Evil? — Thom Hartmann.
How power, money, and ideology converged to reshape American democracy into something darker and more dangerous.
People feel like there’s a darkness that’s spread across America in the 15 months since Trump took office a second time. It’s being noticed all over the world, from the Pope to the leaders of our (formerly) allied nations, and is being embraced by dictators like Putin and MBS.
The most corrupt Supreme Court justice in history, Clarence Thomas, who’s taken millions from billionaires and then voted to promote their interests, inadvertently helped us all see clearly the source of this depravity that’s permeated so much of our government at all levels. Last week he gave a speech at the University of Texas, Austin, and blamed the ills of the world (and America) on the rise of “progressivism.”
Thomas blamed progressivism for everything from the rise of Hitler, Stalin, and Mao to racial segregation and the eugenics movement that Hitler borrowed from America and Britain to excuse his Final Solution.
In fact, Thomas is following an old tradition that was explained a century ago when arch-conservative propagandist Joseph Goebbels famously said, “Accuse the other side of that which you are guilty.” It’s the foundation of the modern saying, “Every accusation is a confession.”
My father fancied himself a conservative back when I was a kid during the Eisenhower and Kennedy era, but in his mind that simply meant that one doesn’t radically or rapidly change society without first thinking through the consequences in detail and then, when you do decide to make changes to the rules of society, you move forward in measured increments. Conservatively.
At least that’s how Dad explained it to me, and how both Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower and his then-VP Richard Nixon explained it in their own ways....
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We remember it the same, Thomm.
‘You Don’t Have the Courage!’ Elizabeth Warren Dresses Down Trump’s Fed Nominee — Sarah Rumpf
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) interrogated Kevin Warsh, President Donald Trump’s nominee to chair the Federal Reserve, at a contentious hearing on Tuesday, calling him a “sock puppet” for the president and accusing him of lacking “courage” and “independence.”
Trump has aggressively insulted the current Fed chair, Jerome Powell, expressing frustration over his refusal to support lowering interest rates (not something that is solely within Powell’s power to do). The president himself appointed Powell to his position in 2017.
In January, Trump’s Department of Justice launched a criminal investigation into Powell over the building renovations at the Fed’s Washington D.C. headquarters, initiated by U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro.
“The threat of criminal charges is a consequence of the Federal Reserve setting interest rates based on our best assessment of what will serve the public, rather than following the preferences of the President,” Powell said in a video statement suggesting the investigation was political payback.
In March, a federal judge blocked subpoenas that were served to Powell, saying the DOJ presented “essentially zero evidence.”
Powell’s term is scheduled to end in May. Thus far, he has refused Trump’s demands to resign. Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC), who is retiring and not running for re-election, has vowed to block any vote for Warsh’s nomination (or any other nominee) to move forward until the investigations into Powell are dropped.
In Warren’s introductory remarks, she excoriated the Trump administration, accusing the president of having “racked up one economic failure after another,” with “Trump’s chaotic tariffs and ‘One, Big Beautiful Bill’ leading to rising inflation and Americans “paying more for groceries, more for health care, more for utilities, more for housing.”...
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One could refer to the failed Trump administration as "The Trump Soclk Puppet Theater."
Republicans accused of 'the largest government cover-up in modern history' — Nick Hilden
Over the past year, Democratic lawmakers and even a few of their Republican colleagues have struggled to use what legal tools were available to them to get to the bottom of the Jeffrey Epstein investigation. But lately, the Republican chair of the House Oversight Committee has reduced their options, leveraging a tactic that some say amounts to “the largest government cover-up in modern history.”
During typical House Oversight Committee hearings, members of Congress can make motions and call for votes to subpoena individuals in any matter regardless of what a particular hearing happens to be on. For months now, representatives from both parties with an interest in the Epstein case have taken advantage of this to push for subpoenas for high-profile figures who may have relevant information, which is how a vote was held to force the release of the Epstein files in the first place....
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The Nazi pedophiles are all a disgrace to their country.
New report: Households pay $12 trillion a year in hidden fossil fuel costs – a $23 million a minute ‘gift to Big Oil’ — Newswire Editor
New research by 350.org shows that on top of soaring energy bills, fossil fuels cost households an additional $12 trillion a year in taxpayer handouts, health impacts and extreme weather damage – equivalent to a $23 million a minute “gift to Big Oil” that costs each person on Earth $1,400 per year.
In the report “Out of Pocket: How Fossil Fuels are Draining Households and Economies,” 350.org recalculated IMF estimates on fossil fuel subsidies, uncovering what fossil fuels actually cost society and what governments spend to keep production flowing. These hidden costs – totalling $12 trillion annually [1] – are “silently siphoning trillions away from household budgets and draining state coffers” while a handful of big corporations make windfall profits from the war in South West Asia.
The report highlights that:
Fossil fuels cause $9.3 trillion per year in climate damages and air pollution, higher than IMF estimates.[2] These are social costs that the fossil fuel industry should be charged with but pay nothing for, and which the public shoulders through taxes and out of pocket payments.
The $4.1 trillion annual climate undervaluation [3] could finance more than 5,900 gigawatts of new solar capacity — enough to power every home in Africa, South Asia and Latin America combined.
The $12 trillion owed by the fossil fuel industry annually in avoided costs is more than 100 times total global climate finance — or the money the world has committed to help countries respond to the climate crisis.
In the first 50 days of the war, over $150 billion has been siphoned from ordinary people to oil and gas companies due to soaring energy prices alone. [4],,,
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Big Oil robber barons!
Astronauts For America To Advocate For Constitutional Moulton: Flailing Trump Using 'Amateur NegotiatorsAstronauts For America To Advocate For Constitutional 'Rule Of Lawnull' — John Amato
Armed Services Committee Rep. Seth Moulton told CNN Trump has been negotiating from behind with no exit strategy while using unqualified amateurs like JD Vance to negotiate a peace deal with Iran.
Today Iran vowed they will take action against the US for seizing its cargo ship. They also said they have no knowledge or renewed peace talks.
Rep. Moulton perfectly captures the entire Iran war fiasco and exposes Trump's lies and instability.
MOULTON: I mean, his only victory is that we've hit a lot of targets in Iran.
I mean, it sounds like Westmoreland's body counts from Vietnam. But wars are not defined by body counts or targets hit, they're defined by outcomes. And the current outcome is that Iran controls the Strait of Hormuz, and they've closed it down.
And Trump's only strategy is blockading the blockade. I mean, that's not a naval strategy.
Trumps rantings continually try to compare his sneak attack on Iran with World War II and Vietnam.
On the issue of peace negotiations, his next words say it all.
MOULTON: There are two things you fundamentally need to do well in a negotiation.
One is the basic trust that you can have a negotiation with the other side, and that you can come to some agreement that both sides will not only agree on, but will trust will be implemented....
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Never send a boy to do a man's job.
MAGA Insiders Plot For Feds To 'Take' Virginia Land 'To Get Rid Of' Blue State Forever — David Edwards
The Federalist CEO Sean Davis and Charlie Kirk Show host Andrew Kolvet pushed for the federal government to "take" part of northern Virginia "to get rid of Virginia as a blue state forever."
During a Charlie Kirk Show segment on a Democratic effort to redistrict Virginia, co-host Blake Neff argued that Virginia didn't "need a real economy" because many federal workers lived there.
"Yeah, Blake makes a fantastic point that Virginia, by virtue of Northern Virginia being where it is, seems immune. There's a rather simple solution to that, but it requires using power for the good of the country. And it would mean taking away Northern Virginia from Virginia and putting it back into the District where it belongs," Davis proposed. "If you look at a map of DC, originally, it was a little diamond. You had a little bit in Maryland on the east side of the river, and you had a little bit in Virginia on the west side."
"Well, at some point over time, they gave Virginia that land that was west of the Potomac back. If you want to get rid of Virginia as a blue state forever because of northern Virginia's grip on the country and Lockheed and Raytheon and all the government there, take it back, put it back in DC, and overnight Virginia's a red state again," he continued.
Kolvet agreed that taking land away from Virginia for the benefit of Republicans was a "great" idea....
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Nazi swine bastards keep trying to kill our democracy!
Jeff Bezos’ Botched Space Launch Was So Bad It Could Threaten NASA’s Entire Moon Program — Victor Tangermann
Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin experienced a significant setback over the weekend.
During its third launch, the company’s New Glenn rocket failed to deliver its payload, a communication satellite by customer AST SpaceMobile, into a high-enough orbit, turning it into nothing more than a piece of space junk — and an expensive insurance claim.
It wasn’t just an embarrassing setback following over a decade of the launch vehicle’s development, either. It also could imperil NASA’s ambitious plans to return astronauts to the Moon, experts warn.
For one, as the New York Times reports, the investigation into the failure, which is being overseen by the Federal Aviation Administration, could drag on.
“It could take them three, four months, or longer,” American Enterprise Institute senior fellow Todd Harrison told the newspaper. “If it goes longer than that, then that’s disappointing, and that starts to impact the Artemis program.”...
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Maybe Jeff should just sell books.
Concern Grows That AI Is Damaging Users’ Cognitive Abilities Victor Tangermann
Last year, a team of researchers led by MIT research scientist Nataliya Kosmyna used electroencephalograms to monitor the brains of students while they were writing short, deliberately open-ended essays.
They split the 54 participants into three groups: one was told to use ChatGPT, one could search for information on Google (minus AI-generated summaries), and another had to rely on their own knowledge. As detailed in a resulting yet-to-be-peer-reviewed paper, each group was tasked with writing one essay per month for three months, while a subset of each group was asked to switch to or away from using ChatGPT for a fourth month.
The researchers’ EEG findings were ominous: the students using ChatGPT “consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels,” they found, and even got lazier with each consecutive essay
“The brain didn’t fall asleep, but there was much less activation in the areas corresponding to creativity and to processing information,” Kosmyna told the BBC in an interview this week.
Participants using ChatGPT also struggled to quote their own essays, dovetailing with other research that’s have found information recall could be negatively affected by the use of AI. There’s also the question of originality: a teacher who was involved in the study even asked her if students who were using ChatGPT “were sitting next to each other because the essays were so similar.”
The results were an early warning of an alarming phenomenon that researchers are only starting to explore: that the widespread use of AI chatbots could be allowing us to offload much of our thinking, slowly deteriorating our cognitive skills. Case in point, another recent study claimed to have found the first causal evidence that leaning on these tools can impair our intellectual abilities, in what the research team called a “boiling frog” effect....
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It's got a lot of crazy motherfuckers trying to become controllers of humanity!
Chinese Workers Horrified as Bosses Direct Them to Train Their AI Replacements — Victor Tangermann
For years, a buzzy Silicon Valley startup called Mercor has been hiring an army of desperate job-seekers — often including educated and underemployed experts — to train AI models to replace them in the workforce.
It’s a grim facet of an AI-dominated future in which the business world continues to push for automation, hoping to wean itself off relying on pesky and expensive human labor once and for all.
As MIT Tech Review reports, an eerily similar situation is now playing out in China. Workers told the publication that their bosses are directing them to painstakingly document their workflows with the eventual goal of automating specific tasks using AI agents, such as OpenClaw, an open-source piece of software that has become immensely popular in the country.
Chinese employees already got an early glimpse of what an AI agent-led future could look like. A GitHub project called Colleague Skill, which was originally set up as a joke, went viral on Chinese social media. It works by ingesting the chat history and profile details of a specific coworker, then automatically spitting out workplace manuals that describe their tasks in stunning detail.
Purportedly AI-related layoffs roiling the tech industry reportedly inspired the tool’s creator, Tianyi Zhou. But while it was meant to poke fun at the trend, the tool also sparked a fierce debate over the future of human agency — and dignity.
“It is surprisingly good,” Shanghai-based tech worker Amber Li told MIT Tech of the software. “It even captures the person’s little quirks, like how they react and their punctuation habits.”...
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When these idiots finally replace us all the only people that will be left to purchase their products will be the filthy rich. It doesn't sound sustainable to me. But they don't think long term at all. It's all about today's bottom line. Dystopia is here.
JPMorganChase Data Center Gets $77 Million Handout to Create Grand Total of One Job — Joe Wilkins
Back in March, we shared the story of a $136 million data center going up in Northeastern Ohio, which was slated to bring in a whopping ten full-time jobs. That project received a $4.5 million state tax exemption, which is egregious enough on its own — but a new project in New York State is making that Ohio handout look like chump change.
First reported by New York Focus, a data center being built by financial giant JPMorganChase is receiving $77 million in subsidies. What does the local economy get in return for its generosity? The answer, incredibly, is just a single full-time job.
JPMorganChase, which received the $77 million tax break in 2024, plans to use the funds to expand a data center in Orangeburg, a small New York town about a 45 minute drive away from Times Square.
“The county is giving away quite a lot of public money in exchange basically for nothing,” Kasia Tarczynska, a senior research analyst at the corporate watchdog group Good Jobs First told NY Focus.
The dismal pork-to-jobs ratio highlights an inconvenient wrinkle in the data center boom that’s flourished as the AI industry has taken off: the massive facilities are huge draws on power grids and water supplies, but they only require a skeleton crew of human staff to run.
Still, Steven Porath of the Rockland County Industrial Development Agency — one of the local entities that approved the handout — said full-time jobs aren’t the right yardstick to use here. “If that is how you’re going to narrowly look at it… anybody would say that’s ridiculous,” he told NY Focus, adding that the project will create over 1,400 temporary jobs for local contractors (the vast majority of which will dry up after the expansion is completed, it’s worth noting.)...
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Oh? And just how DO you look at it, Steven? Sideways or backwards?
Palantir Manifesto Is An Alarming Fascist Declaration — RedStateRachel
Engadget calls the Palantir manifesto the "ramblings of a comic book villain." The evil tech bros published their evil plans, so what are we going to do?
Mass surveillance company Palantir dropped a social post on April 19 that should alarm every sane human.
The company founded by Peter Thiel and run by Alex Karp posted the "Palantir Manifesto" and made it clear that they want to be earth's tech overlords.
If you had any doubts that evil tech bros want to take over the world, the Palantir Manifesto will change your mind. Palantir's intentions for humanity are laid out clearly.
The casual manner of their Fascist declaration is chilling and the ratio on social media was immediate.
"A USA Robber Baron Bastille Day IS JUST and Righteous!! Trump IS their Hitler, MAGA ARE their Brown Shirts, Homeland Security ICE their Gestapo!! Nazism should NOT be considered political or civil discourse!! It IS and should be treated as barbarism it and confronted with 'Extreme Prejudice!!'" — invictus2 (comments)
"That is the most repulsive bag of self-serving horseshit I have ever read. What a completely fucked up manifesto. Fuck these people." — Roger That (comments)
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"batshit fascist."
Did anyone want to go back in time to kill baby Hitler?
Well, here's the chance. We can do it to Palantir. Same thing!
Trump coalition falling apart as he forgets why he won a second term: analysis — Alex Henderson
With the United States' 2026 midterms roughly six and one-half months away, President Donald Trump continues to suffer from weak approval ratings. Polls released in April show Trump's approval rating at 38 percent (Quinnipiac and YouGov/The Economist), 37 percent (Survey Monkey/NBC News) or 43 percent (Zogby).
In an opinion column published on April 21, The Guardian's Moira Donegan attributes Trump's obsession with culture-war issues to his low approval ratings.
"Trump's approval rating is plummeting to new lows, and his working-class support is crumbling," Donegan explains. "He won a second term on the back of ordinary Americans' widespread anger at inequality and dissatisfaction with their economic prospects, and yet, his return to office has been marked instead with a fixation on culture-war grievances that many of those supporters find alienating."
Donegan argues that Trump's victory over Democratic nominee Kamala Harris in the 2024 election was primarily fueled by concerns about the economy — not "culture-war" obsessions.
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Some of us are wising up.
Trump's frantic late-night rant claims victory while Iran war falls apart — Roxanne Cooper
President Donald Trump embarked on a late-night social media rampage on Monday, desperately attempting to convince the American public that he is winning his deeply unpopular war against Iran. The president attacked news organizations for reporting factually on the protracted conflict and bungled peace negotiations, labeling CNN and other media outlets "LOSERS."
The tirade centered on Operation Midnight Hammer, the June 22 joint U.S.-Israeli strike on Iranian nuclear facilities. Trump controversially claimed the operation resulted in a "complete and total obliteration" of Iranian nuclear sites, including the Natanz Nuclear Complex, the Fordow site, the Esfahan Nuclear Complex, and Lavisan 2.
However, Trump's characterization directly contradicts independent analysis. The Institute for Science and International Security, a respected nongovernmental organization founded by a nuclear scientist, reported days after the strikes that substantial nuclear material remained at the targeted sites.
"There are residuals such as stocks of 60 percent, 20 percent, and 3-5 percent enriched uranium and the centrifuges manufactured but not yet installed at Natanz or Fordow," the organization reported. "These non-destroyed parts pose a threat as they can be used in the future to produce weapon-grade uranium."
Enriched uranium continues to remain under the rubble at the Isfahan conversion plant, according to satellite imagery analysis....
However, as of Tuesday, the status of negotiations remained unclear, with no confirmed timeline for resolution and significant daylight remaining between U.S. and Iranian negotiating positions.
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The Whiner whines!
Senate Dems Ready Bill To Unmask TrumpRx Deals
Axios reports:
Calls for more details about President Trump’s drug pricing deals are intensifying, with Senate Democrats set to unveil legislation Tuesday as part of a push questioning whether the arrangements really help consumers. The “most favored nation” deals with 16 pharmaceutical companies are a signature health policy accomplishment the administration is already touting ahead of the midterm elections.
The legislation, shared first with Axios, would require Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to make terms of the confidential deals public. It is led by Senate Finance Committee ranking Democrat Ron Wyden of Oregon, joined by several potential 2028 presidential contenders like Arizona Sens. Mark Kelly and Ruben Gallego, as well as Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and all of the Finance Democrats.
"waste of time trying to prevent morons from being ripped off by their moron in chief. they only respond to object lessons accompanied by personal pain. let all the poisons in the mud hatch out." — Stoned and loving it (comments)
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His grifting never ends.
“Veterans Against Fascism” Arrested At US Capitol
The Latin Times reports:
Veterans and military family members protesting Trump’s war in Iran were arrested inside the Capitol on Monday, bringing one of the country’s most symbolically powerful anti-war constituencies directly into the legislative complex as public skepticism over the conflict continues to deepen. Photos and videos from the scene showed police handcuffing demonstrators as they held symbolic burial flags and staged a protest against the war inside the Cannon Rotunda on April 20.
The protesters weren’t professional activists or the usual Washington coalition crowd, but former members of the U.S. Armed Forces, including disabled veterans and military family members, with a simple and devastating message: they know what war costs because they have already paid for one. Some of them were on crutches and others in wheelchairs. Some carried U.S. flags of fallen soldiers.
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America censors its veterans! Trump's America must come to an end!
Trump’s cruel “dual state” runs into a legal wall — Chauncey Devaga
The president touted his judges. Now they're standing up on immigration and democracy
The law has not disappeared — it has been Trumpified and bent into a weapon to destroy the constitutional order. German legal theorist Carl Schmitt’s permanent state of emergency and a two-tiered legal state are both the playbook and historical precedent....
The judges who are defending the Constitution and the rule of law are courageous examples for pro-democracy Americans and other people of conscience. While the average person does not have the power of a federal judge, they do have the agency to make choices in their own daily lives that can weaken or strengthen civil society.
We have to begin thinking of democracy as something we must do, even when it is hard. And those hard choices, small and large, will decide our government’s fate.
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End Trump fascism in the USA!
MAGA Pastor Who Protested Against “Sick” LGBTQ Books & Pride Flags Pleads Guilty To Child Sex Charges
The Wilmington News-Journal reports:
The former pastor of Blanchester Community Church pleaded guilty Monday in Clinton County Common Pleas Court to three counts of unlawful sexual conduct with a minor as part of a negotiated plea agreement reached April 17.
Silas Shelton, 49, of Morrow, changed his plea from not guilty to guilty on the three third-degree felony counts, and a menacing by stalking charge was reduced from a fourth-degree felony to a first-degree misdemeanor, Clinton County Prosecutor Brian Shidaker said in court.
As part of the agreement, prosecutors dismissed the remaining charges in the 12-count indictment, which originally included charges of rape, gross sexual imposition, sexual battery and arson. Each of the three felony counts carries a potential prison term from 12 months to 60 months. Shelton could face a maximum of 15 years in prison if the sentences are imposed consecutively.
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Another one bites the dust!
Bill Kristol: The Tough Guy Really, Really Means It This Time — Tim MIller
Just hang tight: Trump is super close to a deal with an enemy that he handed all the leverage to. Absolutely do not read his steady supply of hollow threats as him begging Iran for a face-saving off-ramp. Meanwhile, back in reality, Iran too can see how desperate Trump is, the war is helping China feel emboldened, and some of our closest post-WWII allies think Beijing is more dependable than the U.S. under Trump. Plus, Hegseth has chosen an ideal time to pick a fight with the secretary of the Army, numerous officials at the FBI are alarmed by Kash's alleged alcohol-induced absences, kudos to Ossoff for the way he talked about corruption and kleptocracy, and more Vance-splaining from the newbie Catholic Veep....
Bill Kristol joins Tim Miller.
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Give it to 'em, Bill!
Trump’s 'grandiosity' is 'checking off almost every item' in the dictator playbook — Alex Henderson
"Dictators, once they've secured their grip on near-absolute power — and often once they start to get older — have a tendency to lose touch with reality, which often manifests in the form of grandiosity," Ball explains. "Stalin was still relatively young when he renamed the city of Tsaritsyn as 'Stalingrad,' but building monuments and renaming things is very much the stereotypical out-of-control dictator move: Saddam Hussein had endless statues and monuments built in his image, while Saparmurat Niyazov of Turkmenistan renamed months, animal breeds, days of the weeks and cities…. The combination of endless flattery from courtiers, unbridled ego, lack of restraint from constitutional processes — and, quite often, the effects of an increasingly superannuated brain — drives many despots in this direction."...
"Power crazy, money lovers" — Save Me Jesus, Bobby Charles
Key swing state obliterates Trump's 'absurd' election interference demand — Thomas Kika
President Donald Trump's crusade to prove his false claims about election fraud and pave the way for future interference fell flat, according to a report from The New Republic, with leaders in Michigan rebuking his latest demand for Detroit-area ballots as "absurd."
Last week, the Department of Justice sent a letter, signed by Assistant Attorney General ?Harmeet Dhillon, demanding materials relating to the 2024 election from Wayne County, the home of Michigan's largest metropolitan area, Detroit. Among the letter's demands, it called for the county clerk to provide "election ballots, ballot receipts, and ballot envelopes from the last presidential election."
In a joint statement, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson and Attorney General Dana Nessel refused, calling it an "absurd" demand driven by a "baseless" conspiracy theory, and accused Trump of "weaponizing" the DOJ in the process....
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Absurd, of course. The crazed ones think it's peachy!
Palantir Issues Ominous Corporate Manifesto — Victor Tangermann
surveillance state on behalf of the Pentagon.
The Alex Karp-led company has received huge sums in federal funding to build out a surveillance platform for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, along with countless other contracts for military operations, policing, and border enforcement — not just with the US, but the Israeli military and UK government as well.
Just in case its broader mission to supercharge national security using cutting-edge spying was too opaque, Karp penned a 320-page tome titled “The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West.” While the book itself was released just over 14 months ago, a 22-point summary the company tweeted over the weekend put the firm and its controversial CEO’s ominous worldview in stark relief, drawing shocked reactions.
Belgian philosopher of technology Mark Coeckelbergh described the manifesto as an “example of technofascism,” while Greek economist Yanis Varoufakis warned that “AI-powered killer robots are coming” in his reading of Palantir’s “hideous ideology.” Engadget pointed out that the summary “reads like the ramblings of a comic book villain” — and we can’t help but agree.
It doesn’t take long for the red flags to shoot up. Karp calls for national service to be a “universal duty,” and for the undoing of the “postwar neutering of Germany and Japan.” He also calls for “hard power” at the expense of “moral appeal,” and opines that people shouldn’t “look to the political arena to nourish their soul and sense of self.”
Meanwhile, it calls for the “West” to shed any sense of “inclusivity,” by resisting the “shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism,” closely echoing the far-right’s repeated calls to end what it calls “woke” — essentially inclusive and anti-discriminatory — beliefs. (As such, Karp told investors in November that Palantir is the “first company to be completely anti-woke.”)
The book also argues that the new world order will inevitably be determined by software and AI-driven warfare, and that “violent crime” needs to be solved by Silicon Valley itself. (In reality, violent crime has been falling for decades.)
It’s a terrifyingly unambiguous rendition of Karp’s worldview that, given his reputation as the “scariest CEO in the world,” shouldn’t come as much of a surprise. From supporting deportations carried out by ICE to developing software for autonomous strike drones that’s being used in Iran to select targets, he and his company have long been shrouded in controversy.
Meanwhile, even former employees often struggle to explain what the Peter Thiel-cofounded software firm actually does, as Wired reported last year.
In an open letter published last year, several months after Karp’s book was released, a group of former workers warned that “Palantir’s leadership has abandoned its founding ideals” and that its original promises of protecting against discrimination and disinformation “have now been violated, and are rapidly being dismantled at Palantir Technologies and across Silicon Valley.”
Protesters also recently staged a “die-in” by collapsing on the pavement in front of Palantir’s offices, while brandishing signs with slogans, such as “Palantir: ICE and war enabler and profiteer.”
Karp’s inscrutable personality has also drawn plenty of attention. Earlier this year, he acted erratically and notably struggled to stay seated during an interview, kicking off rumors that he was under the influence of drugs. (The billionaire has previously joked that working at Palantir can feel like a “cult” except with “no sex and very little drugs.”)
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A Nazi AI dictator! What is it with these power-drunk white men?
This looks like something we all should piss on.
Eight Children Gunned Down By Their Own Father In Shreveport — Susie Madra
A man in Shreveport, Louisiana killed eight children Sunday in a shooting that authorities described as a domestic violence incident. He was later killed by police after he fled in a carjacked vehicle, officials said.
We don't normally give this particular kind of mass shooting more than a passing thought (as soon as we hear the word "domestic", we tend to shrug and turn away), but maybe it's time we do.
The suspect's wife and a woman identified as his girlfriend were also shot and seriously injured in the violence, which occurred at two homes in the early morning, police said.
Their mothers identified the children as Jayla Elkins, 3; Shayla Elkins, 5; Kayla Pugh, 6; Layla Pugh, 7; Markaydon Pugh, 10; Sariahh Snow, 11; Khedarrion Snow, 6; and Braylon Snow, 5, the office said.
“I just don’t know what to say. My heart is just taken aback,” Shreveport Police Chief Wayne Smith told reporters. “I just cannot begin to imagine how such an event can occur.”
Easy access to guns, that's how.
Shamar Elkins was identified by police as the shooter and sole suspect. Seven of the eight children who were killed were his, police spokesperson Christopher Bordelon said. One of the children was a cousin, according to the coroner's office.
Shamar Elkins was identified by police as the shooter and sole suspect. Seven of the eight children who were killed were his, police spokesperson Christopher Bordelon said. One of the children was a cousin, according to the coroner's office.
"No social safety nets, not enough resources for helping families, too much toxic masculinity,
Because of guns, all domestic violence have the possibility to end up in murders or massacres.
This is the daily life in the US.
There is a question I keep asking myself: why VAWA needs to be reauthorized? It is introduced in 1994 and was already renewed 4 times. Are there not enough examples that this should be needed long term?" — Khronos (comments)
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Eight kids? Really? Seven were his own. He didn't know how that worked? He had no control over his reproductive processing?
Corporate donors are sounding the alarm about Trump’s presidential library fund — Alex Henderson
In 2025, four major companies — Paramount, ABC, Meta (which includes Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Threads), and the Elon Musk-owned X, formerly Twitter — agreed to donate millions of dollars to fund Donald Trump's presidential library in Miami. Altogether, the donations totaled at least $63 million for the library, which according to President Trump, could double as a Trump-branded hotel.
Senate Democrats have been probing that $63 million, but according to The New Republic's Greg Sargent, a lot of questions remain unanswered.
"After the companies agreed to these shakedowns — sorry, settlements — the fund created to receive donations was dissolved last September," Sargent explains in an article published on April 20. "Since then, Senate Democrats have been asking: What happened to the money? Now, there's been an important new turn in this saga. The four companies have provided fresh information to Senate Democrats in written responses to their questions. For these Democrats, those responses — obtained by The New Republic — raise more questions than they answer."
Sargent, a former Washington Post columnist, adds, "In these formal replies, all four companies confirmed that they did pledge that money to Trump's library — itself a notable development. More importantly, however, the Democrats say the responses reveal that the money is still largely unaccounted for."....
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Stil embezzling, Donnie?
Madison Square Garden Reportedly Used Facial Recognition to Stalk Trans Woman For Two Years — Joe Wilkins
In most privately-owned venues today, you probably take it for granted that AI-integrated cameras are tracking your every move. From casinos to concert halls to sports arenas, the degree of public surveillance we deal with is breathtaking.
For the most part, the consequences of this kind of private surveillance — severe though they may be — are rarely felt at the individual level. Sure our data is tracked, gathered, and sold for a profit, but it’s not like there’s a big game warden literally hunting you on the other end of the camera.
Unless, that is, you’re a random Knicks fan who found herself targeted by that bizarre surveillance apparatus.
In a sprawling investigation into the surveillance panopticon at New York’s Madison Square Garden, Wired found that venue owner James Dolan regularly abused his facility’s facial recognition equipment to stalk and harass critics, naysayers, and anyone he could start a petty beef with.
One of the main victims of Dolan’s security regime, the publication found, is a trans woman — Wired called her Nina Richards, a pseudonym to protect her identity — who became an obsession of MSG security chief, John Eversole. Serving as something like the grand architect of the Garden’s facial recognition panopticon, Eversole has been head of security at MSG since 2018.
Starting in 2021, Richards had become a regular guest in the lower bowl — near courtside — at New York Knicks games. This is when Eversole began his fixation, which would last for two years and end with Richards being banned from the property. According to security personnel who spoke to Wired, Eversole demanded his staffers compile dossiers called “work-ups” on the unsuspecting Knicks fan....
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Who is the bigger spy nation? Russia or the USA? Could it be us?
Abbott Threatens To Defund Blue Cities Over ICE
The Texas Tribune reports:
Gov. Greg Abbott’s office has threatened to cut state funding to three of Texas’ largest cities if they fail to change policies that the governor says limit police cooperation with federal immigration authorities. Around $200 million in public safety funding is at risk for Houston, Dallas and Austin, with Houston facing the biggest potential loss of state funding.
On Monday, Abbott’s office told the state’s largest city that the state will withdraw around $110 million in public safety grants, if it does not repeal an ordinance limiting coordination between police and ICE agents.
Some cities have also been under legal scrutiny from Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office, which said their policies violate Senate Bill 4, a state law that bans local governments from adopting measures that “materially limit” immigration enforcement.
"It's not a democracy when a governor can plan on harassing and making life worse for ~15% of the total State population and not be guaranteed a loss in the general election." — The_Wretched (comments)
"You’ll never win in court, someone should roll you under a Bus" — Dwight Williamson (comments)
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Time to send this Nazi asshat packing!
FUCK ICE! - FUCK FASCISM!
Trump just laid bare his contempt for his own voters — Sarah K. Burris
The New Republic's Greg Sargent started off Monday with his podcast exploring the contempt President Donald Trump has for his own voters.
Speaking to colleague Perry Bacon, who has a new piece on the far-right across the world turning on Trump, Sargent describes fears of being "excommunicated" for lacking sufficient devotion, a perfect indication that the movement became a cult.
In one of his Sunday TruthSocial rants, Trump claimed, “I have among the best poll numbers I have ever had, and why shouldn’t I? ALL THE COUNTRY DOES IS WIN.”
He then pivoted to attack his MAGA critics, “I hear Megyn Kelly, Tucker Carlson, and Candace Owens are fading fast. Their numbers are terrible. They were FAKE MAGA, and now they’ve been exposed!”
As Sargent explained, the comments perfectly capture Trump's disdain for his own movement.
"Perry, we used to joke that MAGA is whatever Trump says it is, but here he’s making that really clear. Anyone who dares to criticize him is fake MAGA," said Sargent.
Bacon called it "very explicit."...
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An idiot doesn't know nor care what he says or what he has said.
Military leaders fear Trump will 'order them to do something stupid': DC insider — Alex Henderson
Although U.S. President Donald Trump is saying that the United States' military operation in Iran will likely be wrapped up soon, many of his critics aren't so sure and fear that it could turn into a "forever war" if ground troops are sent into Iran.
One of those critics is The Lincoln Project's Rick Wilson, a Never Trump conservative and former GOP strategist. During a "Fast Politics" video with liberal co-host Molly Jong-Fast posted on YouTube on Sunday night, April 19, Wilson argued that U.S. military leaders distrust Trump during wartime.
When Jong-Fast told Wilson that "the military just doesn't trust this administration for any number of reasons," she got no argument from the anti-Trump conservative — who drew a distinction between the "political DC interface part of the military that's having to deal with Hegseth" and "the operational guys."
"These are not the four-star generals," Wilson said of the "operational" U.S. military. "They're the brigadier generals and the senior colonels in the operational commands, right? These guys don't play around. They are serious people. They've been given a mission; they're going to execute the mission."...
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There is something they could do about that.
Peter Thiel's Palantir Is Spying On Us Thru Our Healthcare — Cliff Schecter
Let me be direct. When I started pulling on this thread I expected to find a bureaucratic procurement story. What I found was something much more unsettling: layered, interlocking surveillance architecture inside US healthcare most clinicians, administrators, and even healthcare attorneys have never seen mapped in its entirety. It's a story you won't see on front pages like Iran or Orban, but every bit as dangerous to democracy....
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Resist healthcare spying on patients. Be careful of suspicious questions asked you by doctors.
Argentines Turn To Donkey Meat Amid Javier Milei's Economic Crisis — Ed Scarce
An economic crisis has made beef prohibitively expensive in "the land of beef," as Argentina is known.
Trump's pal Javier Milei hasn't delivered for Argentina. Argentina used to be the #1 beef consumer in the world, but that's all changed as the cost has become prohibitive. At 25,000 pesos for an average cut of beef ($18.24/lb), that is just too expensive in a country where salaries are less than $1000/month.
"They're eating the pets" - DT — docrod (comments)
"That is what is EXACTLY gonna happen. After the donkeys, it will be the dogs, cats....
But the MAGAt prezzident will find a way to give Argentina's filthy rich tax cuts....just like his mate the fat orange pedo.
I sure hope all the idiots that voted for this dickhead are enjoying eating their pets!!!" — bettestreep2008 (comments)
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So this Nazi has them chewing ASS!
WSJ: Trump Again Wants Medal Of Honor For Himself
The Huffington Post reports:
President Donald Trump has never served in the U.S. armed forces, but he reportedly wants to give himself the nation’s highest military honor anyway. The Wall Street Journal reported over the weekend that Trump has “mused” about awarding himself the Medal of Honor.
The medal is bestowed by the president on service members who, according to the official criteria, “distinguish themselves conspicuously by gallantry and intrepidity, risking loss of life above and beyond the call of duty” in one of three circumstances.
In February, he said he wanted a medal for his 2018 trip to Iraq during his previous term in office. “I flew to Iraq. I was extremely brave. So brave I wanted to give myself the Congressional Medal of Honor,” he said, adding that he asked his “people” if he was allowed to do so. “Someday I’m gonna try. I’m gonna test the law.”
"The people you WANT to admire you NEVER will, you scumbag." — StrayDog760 (comments)
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Never in our history have we seen such a perverted leader. A disgrace to our military and to our country!
'How do you screw up this badly?' Analyst floored as Trump's 'lying' comes back to bite — Robert Davis
A Democratic political analyst was floored on Sunday after President Donald Trump's "lying" about negotiations to end the war in Iran seemed to come back to bite him.
Over the weekend, Trump said the White House was preparing to send another delegation to Pakistan to negotiate the end of the war in Iran. The deployment follows Vice President JD Vance's unsuccessful trip to the Middle East last week to secure a deal.
Trump's announcement seemed to catch the Iranian counterparts off-guard, as Iranian state media reported that Iranian officials were unaware that talks had been scheduled.
The news floored Adam Mockler, a Democratic analyst and founder of Mockler Media, who asked Trump in a new reaction video on YouTube, "How do you screw up this badly?"
"Iran wasn't privy to any more negotiations, yet Donald Trump announced that we're sending JD Vance and an entire delegation over to Pakistan for negotiations," Mockler said. "But the question is, negotiations with whom? Iran isn't even privy to any of this again. How do you screw up this badly on the global stage?"...
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Because Trump has been screwing up his entire life.
On Witless Great Vengeance and Furious Anger — Abby Zimet
Seeking to rally the troops for his unholy war, Christian nationalist, TV-carnie and war fanboy Pete Kegseth just passed off some vengeful Gospel According to Tarantino as scripture at his (unconstitutional) Pentagon prayer service, and yes we have them now. Added to the "shameless blasphemy" of quoting - without credit - Samuel Jackson's homicidal hitman Jules as "prayer," Pete moronically misses the redemptive point: As he cites the "tyranny of evil men," he, unlike Jules, doesn't friggin' get that he is one.
With their calamitous illegal war continuing to spiral out of control, flailing regime officials are striking out in ever more erratic ways. Nursing his deranged feud with Pope Leo XIV, a vindictive Private Bonespurs - Suffer the little children to own the Pope - abruptly cancelled an $11 million contract with Catholic Charities in Miami to fund a vital, decades-long foster program for migrant children, aka small deadly illegals, who enter the U.S. alone in what experts call "an incredibly psychologically harmful" move for already vulnerable kids. Meanwhile, slimy, Bible-and-chest thumping braggadocio Pete is working hard to match his boss' outrages with some fire-and-brimstone carnage.
Blithely pressing on with a serial slaughter based on evidently "entirely make-believe" grounds, Hegseth killed three more "narco-terrorists," likely fishermen, in the Eastern Pacific last week, the third boat bombing in three days - complete with giddy video - in the name of a "narco-trafficking" criminal conspiracy of which, experts say, there is "zero evidence," with "no impact at all" on America's drug problems. Despite bogus legal theories scrounged up by the regime in an attempt to justify the deaths of at least 177 mostly innocent people, rights advocates note, “'Murder' is the general term for premeditated killings outside of armed conflict."...
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So many madmen! The danger zone is everywhere.
FBI's Kash Patel Threatens Arrests For Trump's Big Voter Fraud Lie — John Amato
FBI director Kash Patel told Fox's Maria Bartiromo that he is continuing to investigate Trump's lies and unfounded election fraud accusations of 2020, and promises he has the information to prosecute and will be making arrests anytime now.
This was the main reason Trump named this drunken fool as FBI Director.
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The man has lost his mind and is behaving as a wounded animal would. He is deathly afraid of being fired and, like Trump, has become a danger to the US.
Trump Threatens War Crimes in Iran Again — Alex Nguyen
In a Truth Social tirade on Sunday morning, President Donald Trump claimed that Iran violated their ceasefire agreement with the US by firing shots at ships in the Strait of Hormuz and again threatened to commit war crimes by taking out the country’s energy infrastructure.
“Many of [the bullets] were aimed at a French Ship, and a Freighter from the United Kingdom,” Trump contended about Iran’s targeting of the ships, without evidence. “That wasn’t nice, was it?”
The US and Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire in early April. The agreement is set to expire later this week, and the US continues to negotiate next steps around access to the Strait—the world’s most important oil transit corridor. “We’re offering a very fair and reasonable DEAL, and I hope they take it,” Trump wrote in the same social media post. “If they don’t, the United States is going to knock out every single Power Plant, and every single Bridge, in Iran. NO MORE MR. NICE GUY!”
International law experts consider strikes on infrastructure—even if they qualify as military targets—to be war crimes because they cause disproportionate harm to civilians....
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No human being in their right mind has ever considered Trump, "MR. NICE GUY."
Trump 'incapable' of accepting US has lost the war with Iran: Nobel laureate — Ewan Gleadow
President Donald Trump has lost the war with Iran but is refusing to accept it, according to a Nobel Prize winner.
Paul Krugman believes that Trump is flat out unable to deal with the fallout of the war in Iran, and that it has not yet set in that the United States' intervention in the Middle East has failed. Writing in his Substack earlier Saturday, Krugman claimed, "It’s been clear for a while that the United States has basically lost this war.
"The goal was to achieve regime change, possibly to take Iran’s uranium. Neither of those is going to happen. The Iranian regime is a harder line than it was before. Iran has ended up strengthened because it’s demonstrated its ability to shut off traffic through the Strait of Hormuz.
"Well, as best I can tell, and this is all speculation now, I don’t think that Trump has taken on board, maybe he’s emotionally incapable of taking on board the reality that he screwed up, that he took us to war and lost, that he, in his mind, still thinks that America has the upper hand and that the Iranians are cowering in fear over the might of the U.S. military, and that he doesn’t need to make any concessions."...
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The further devolvement of the USA.
Red flag raised over prospect of 'cornered' Trump after midterm losses — Ewan Gleadow
President Donald Trump will continue to cause havoc in the Oval Office even if the Republican Party suffers massive losses at the midterm elections as expected, an expert has warned.
Dr. John Gartner believes that Trump is more like an animal at this point in his presidency, and will lash out at anything and everyone. He told The Daily Beast, "A cornered, wounded animal is the most vicious and dangerous kind of animal there is, and that’s where he is right now.
"So what I’m worried about is, even if we win both houses of Congress, he’s still the commander in chief, and he’s still getting off on the omnipotent destructiveness and power of blowing things up."
Gartner went on to suggest that any thought Trump now has is what he believes, even if it is completely false. He said, "It’s kind of the most primitive type of thinking, where if you imagine it, it must be true. But this is just magical thinking. Anything that occurs to him—any stray, crazy thought—is true.
"His grandiosity is so extreme that not only does he want to be the Pope and Jesus and the president of Venezuela and the Mullah of Iran—he wants to be all of these things at once. He wants the world to worship him, and he wants to erect massive monuments to praise himself."...
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We are indeed living in dangerous times.
MAGA “Influencer” Confronts Gay Couple Holding Baby, Asks Them About Pedophilia, Reportedly Gets Punched
The WeHo Times reports:
A confrontation between a MAGA social media personality and a West Hollywood couple holding an infant escalated into a physical altercation Thursday night, leading to the arrest of one of the men involved, according to statements from those present and video shared online.
A video posted on social media by political commentator Ryley Niemi, which had drawn more than 100,000 views as of Friday, shows Niemi approaching Anthony Vulin, a member of West Hollywood’s Business License Commission, and his husband David Vulin on Santa Monica Boulevard while Anthony Vulin is holding the couple’s baby.
The video shows Niemi questioning them about raising a child without a mother, asking whether they were aware of claims that gay male parents are statistically more likely to be child molesters and asking whether they paid a surrogate to have a child. The exchange becomes increasingly tense before David Vulin shoves Niemi. The clip then cuts to a full on fight in which David Vulin is seen striking Niemi in the head....
"What a stupid word, "influencers". What it tells me is that person is a useless idiot full of shit." — AncientMariner (comments)
"All of those priests for the last thousand years involved in the Catholic church pedophilia scandal. ALl of them heterosexual. Just ask them, as were the people who cover it up.
All of those 500 protestant pastors arrested or convicted or sentenced each and every year for sex crimes against children. ALL of them heterosexual Just ask them. As were the people who covered itnup.
Decades of sexual abuse by Scoutmasters? All of them heterosexual. Just ask them.
The vast majority of sexual abuse occurs within the holy heterosexual family. But don’t ask them, because they will lie." — BensNewLogin (comments)
"Remember holding gays to this stereotype is sexual harassment and if it occurs in a workplace you can sue depending on the severity and pervasiveness of it.." — ShikkonJon (comments)
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Not influencers but "provokers," That's not much of a punch to the Nazi dick. Who's the asshole that's with him threatening to kill them?
Jordan Moves To Expunge Trump’s 2019 Impeachment
MAGA outlet Just The News reports:
Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, Chairman of the House Committee on the Judiciary, has disclosed to Just The News that the House of Representatives, where President Donald Trump was impeached during his first term over a phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, is moving to expunge that impeachment from the congressional record.
“You need a majority vote, we need a bill, and it’s actually something we’re looking at,” Jordan told Just The News.
On Monday, Just The News was first to report on declassified secret memos from the 2019 Ukraine whistle-blower scandal, which revealed that the CIA analyst accuser (identified in media as Eric Ciaramella) admitted having no direct knowledge of Trump’s private comments or communications with Zelenskyy.
"Trying to wash the Trump dirty legacy, just like the showers in the college wrestling locker room, right Gym?" — Anastasia Beaverhousen (comments)
"There is no low to which they will not go...
These jerks are the very model of the modern anti-American." — Karl Dubhe IV (comments)
"Nuremberg him.
Nuremberg the whole goddamn party." — Turtle73 (comments)
"Sex criminal wants to expunge the crimes of another sex criminal.
Got it.
November cannot come soon enough." — JackFknTwist (comments)
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Jack-it off, do us all a favor and expunge your degraded self! Trump is not right about anything. You're defending a criminal being defended by his fellow criiminals. All a part of his Crime Syndicate.
Lawyers astounded as Trump DOJ suffers 'another big loss' in court: 'Add this to the list' — Robert Davis
A lawyer was astounded on Saturday after President Donald Trump's Department of Justice suffered "another big loss" in court last week.
Attorneys Brian Kabateck and Shant Karnikian discussed the Trump DOJ's attempt to prosecute a philosophy professor in California for allegedly assaulting a federal officer during a protest on a new episode of their podcast, "Civil Action." Last week, a jury threw out the Trump DOJ's case after just two hours of deliberations, which stunned Karnikian.
"The LA Times is reporting that, you know, they've filed more than 100 protest-related assault or interference cases," Karnikian said. "Zero convictions so far on the ones that they've brought to trial. They've lost every single one they've brought to trial.
Add this to the list. It's another big Trump loss."...
"Asshole wants to punish Americans for protesting, the most American thing you can do.
The Courts ain't buying the MAGA bullshit." — VooDoo Ranger (comments)
"So much winning! Thanks to Donny, and his very Bestest People!" — Fom Prix (comments)
"These Trumpy lawyers are why they are so against DEI, their dumbasses would have NEVER been accepted to law school based on their skills and they know, their offspring wouldn't make it either so they are attempting to actually make thinks UNFAIR BC THEY WERE LEGACY ADMISSIONS AND THEY KNOW IT AND CANT STAND IT DIVERSIFIED CANDIDATES WOULD WHOOP THEIR STUPID ASSES IF ACTUALLY BASED ON MERIT AND NOT $$'. POSER LOSERS!" — Paky skinns (comments)
"Good thing ICE built all those detention centers....It's going to be interesting watching them fill up with convicted ICE thugs." — Brian (comments)
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Another loss for "the Turd Reich."
The worst Supreme Court Justice ever — Robert Reich
I’ve long assumed that Samuel Alito was the worst.
Alito — who authored the majority opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization (2022), the case that ended constitutional abortion rights by merely asserting that the high court’s prior opinion in Roe v. Wade (1973) was wrongly decided; who accepted a 2008 luxury fishing trip to Alaska, including private jet travel, from hedge fund billionaire and GOP donor Paul Singer yet failed to disclose it on Alito's financial forms and didn’t even recuse himself from decisions involving Singer’s subsequent business before the Supreme Court; who hoisted an inverted American flag outside his Virginia home shortly after the January 6 Capitol riot, a symbol of support for Trump's false claims of a stolen 2020 election — has the moral and intellectual stature of a poisonous toad.
But I’ve come to revise my view of the court’s worst Justice.
Clarence Thomas is 77 years old. He has now served on the Supreme Court for over 34 years, making him the longest-serving member of the Court. He is a bitter, angry, severe hard-right, intellectually dishonest, ideologue. After reading his latest thoughts on America, I’ve concluded Thomas is even worse than Alito.
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That's why Thomas has his own impeachemnt page on LOTHN!
Fox's Ingraham Calls Universal Healthcare, Childcare 'Destructive Ideas' — Heather
Fox's Laura Ingraham threatening all of us with a good time.
"As of April 2026, Laura Ingraham is 62 years old, born on June 19, 1963. The conservative television host and author has an estimated net worth of 40 million to 45 million, largely driven by her long-standing career at Fox News and her book sales.
So clearly a member of the Epstein Class who is secure enough financially to "weather a storm" unlike most of her audience." — surfjac (comments)
"How does this kind of brainwashing work?
Consider the audience!" — surfjac (comments)
"Christian Nationalism--> Nazi Germany styled fascism." — Jaguar67 (comments)
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Yes, we are the only civilized country in the world that has yet to institute it. We are a backward country and she seems to be proud of it.
Ossoff Delivers Epic Roast Of Trump And Vance
“I don’t know if you saw, but JD Vance was in Georgia this week. Don’t worry – no one showed up. The stadium was empty. But JD came to UGA to attack the pope two days after Trump depicted himself as Jesus Christ.
“Did you hear what the president said two weeks ago? Quote: ‘It’s not possible,’ the president said, ‘for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid or Medicare.’
“He said, ‘We can only afford to fund war.’ Because draft-dodging Donald loves sending other people’s children to war. Instead? A war no one voted for and no one can explain. And the daily, the hourly lying to the American public about why we’re at war, whether we’ve won, what’s been agreed to, not to mention the insane genocidal threat.
“On day 10 of the war, the president said, quote: ‘The war is very complete.’ That was day 10. Then, day 11: ‘Going to be finished pretty quickly.’ Day 12: ‘We won.’ Day 21: ‘Getting very close.’ Day 32: ‘Leaving very soon.’ Day 40: ‘Total and complete victory.’ Yesterday, day 49, Trump said Iran had opened the strait – except this morning the strait was closed, and it looks like Iran hit a cargo ship.
“Donald Trump depicted himself as Jesus Christ. The faithless president depicts himself as Christ while he plunges the nation into wars of choice, while he and his family rake in billions from foreign princes, while he plunders our healthcare to cut taxes for the rich.”
“Meanwhile, rent, power, groceries and healthcare have all hit all-time highs this year. While you pay more for everything, the first family’s wealth is growing by billions of dollars – because they’re crooks, and everybody knows it.”
“How much do you guys know about Jared Kushner, Ivanka’s husband? He’s on the Saudi payroll for $2 billion, did you know that? And now he’s leading American diplomacy in the Middle East, apparently, while at the very same time asking princes and sheikhs across the Arab world to give him billions more.”
“Can you imagine, like a normal, sitting US ambassador just hitting up Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman for billions of dollars? But he’s a Trump, a royal, a princeling. The rules are for us, not for them. And it’s not just Jared getting in on the action.
“Never before have we seen so little effort to hide so much corruption. The Mar-a-Lago mafia has taken American corruption to spectacular new heights.” – Sen. Jon Ossoff, yesterday at his Georgia reelection rally.
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A bright light in a dark age.
MTG Shares Claim That Trump’s Shooting Was Staged
The Daily Beast reports:
Former Georgia congresswoman and one-time Donald Trump ally Marjorie Taylor Greene has joined the disgruntled group of MAGA stalwarts raising questions about the assassination attempt on the president when he was running for office.
“President Trump, of all people, should be leading the charge” to determine all the facts of what happened that day in Butler, Pennsylvania, during a campaign speech two years ago, she noted on X. “Why isn’t he?” Greene demanded. “That’s the question.”
An increasing number of one-time Trump supporters are arguing that the attempt was staged by the president to win votes in a hard-fought election. They have offered no evidence, and a federal task force report concluded the shooting was as it appeared. But Greene directed her followers on X Saturday to carefully read her lengthy repost by Trisha Hope, a former GOP national convention delegate from Texas.
"'On the night Trump spoke, he had his ear patch on, many in the crowd did also.'
lmao" — Ragnar Lothbrok comments)
"We all knew this was a farce from the beginning , CARTILAGE doesn’t grow back." — Dwight Williamson (comments)
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The worst shooter in the world can hit someone in a crowd. But they had a certain target for a reason. The rest is left for a wrestlng stunt.
Don't forget, the crowd in the 2004 Nazi convention were all wearing band-aids on their cheeks that had "It was just a scratch" printed on them to discredit John Kerry by the Swift Boat scammers.
REPORT: Deported Model Vows To Expose Melania
The Miami Herald reports:
In 2023, Amanda Ungaro, a Brazilian model who was brought to the United States on Jeffrey Epstein’s plane when she was 16, was trying to build a new life in South Florida with her teenage son, far removed from the modeling world she had grown up in New York. Two years later, Ungaro, 41, was bound in handcuffs and thrown into an immigration detention center in Miami-Dade where she spent three months of misery before being abruptly transported to Louisiana and then deported back to Brazil.
Ungaro claims her deportation was instigated by her former partner, Paolo Zampolli, a longtime Trump ally and a Trump administration official. She accused Zampolli of using his influence to pressure the ICE to deport her to gain custody of their 16-year-old son.
Now she is fighting back. Ungaro, who was part of President Donald Trump and Melania’s social circle for years, issued a number of angry posts on X directed at the first lady, the president as well as former U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi. “I will tear down your corrupt system, even if it’s the last thing I do in my life. I will go all the way — I am not afraid. Maybe you should be afraid of what I know … of who you are, and who your husband is,” she said in a post that tagged the first lady’s X account.
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This is being exposed in several areas now. If she has something she needs to come clean.
Patel Hires Dooky Chute’s Lawyer For Boozing Lawsuit
The Daily Beast reports:
The lawyer FBI Director Kash Patel has enlisted to help him go to war against The Atlantic for a report accusing him of “excessive drinking” is known for several unsuccessful MAGA-aligned lawsuits. Jesse Binnall represented former North Carolina lieutenant governor Mark Robinson in a failed defamation lawsuit against CNN and also worked on President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
“See you in court,” Binnall posted on X following the publication of a Friday report by The Atlantic, which cited sources familiar with Patel, 46, alleging he was alarming officials with excessive drinking, erratic behavior, and unexplained absences.
In the letter, the attorney highlighted what he described as false and defamatory statements published by the outlet and included two allegations that The Atlantic did not publish. The first was that Patel was viewed as a “threat to public safety,” and the second that he once had his security detail shut down the FBI Association store so he could shop alone, at one point complaining that the merchandise “wasn’t intimidating enough.”
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Top notch American entertainment brought to you by the failing Trump circus.
Can you blame Kash Patel for makin' them goo-goo eyes?
Rep. Paul Gosar Slurs And Sways During AZ Speech
The Arizona Republic reports:
Veteran Rep. Paul Gosar’s appearance onstage before President Donald Trump’s speech at a Turning Point political event has generated a new round of online speculation about his health. “Don’t just talk. Deliver votes. Bring five friends,” Gosar told the crowd of Trump enthusiasts at Turning Point’s “Build the Red Wall” rally.
On social media, Gosar’s physical appearance drew as much attention as his message. His head seemed to swerve, and his body swayed. He sometimes stumbled over his words.
Others chimed in with their thoughts about Gosar’s possible medical condition, with some speculating about Parkinson’s disease, an incurable neurological disorder. But in the past, Gosar has said that is not the case. Questions about Gosar’s health date back 11 years and periodically come up after Gosar appears on television in an interview or during a high-profile Capitol Hill committee hearing.
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Paul Gosar hasn't been OK for a very long time. It's sad he has been let go for so long.
How the death of middlebrow culture led to Trump’s barbarism — Mike Lofgren
All the cool people hated middle-class suburban culture — but it looks a lot better compared to what came next
...Did everyone routinely use the encyclopedia, or read the Steinbeck novel, or listen attentively to Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony? That is uncertain, but what it showed was the cultural aspiration of the post-World War II American middle class: People wanted to be seen as interested in those things, whatever their actual level of enthusiasm. The era is often thought of in retrospect as the waning days of the McCarthy era and a time of drab conformity — think William H. Whyte’s “The Organization Man” or David Riesman’s “The Lonely Crowd” or even, retrospectively, “Mad Men” – but there was a flip side to the period: It was the high point of middlebrow culture....
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For those who weren't there when it was.
Trump Catholics clobbered for giving his blasphemy a pass — Adam Lynch
Catholic Trump voters graded Pope Leo XIV more harshly for criticizing war than they graded President Donald Trump for committing the blasphemy of presenting himself as Jesus.
While the general public is reacting harshly to Trump’s recent AI calamity, unscientific surveys conducted by Bulwark staff last week reveled that Trump-voting Catholics imposed a higher standard upon Pope Leo that they did not apply to the president.
“The one thing that we don't like about him is also the one thing that we do like about him,’ said one 2024 Trump voter who presented himself as Catholic. “[Trump] doesn't ask for permission. He doesn't take prisoners. He says what he wants and then he does what he wants. And that's one of the things that we like about him that makes him not a politician.”
“I'm not so upset about what he said to Leo because he has every right,” said another Trump voter, defending the president for proclaiming the Pope “WEAK on Crime.” “Leo has his own house to clean, … and he needs to worry about the Catholic church and let [Trump] take care of business.”...
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Sure, you assholes. Let the grifter keep on grifting you say. And this makes you Christians? You are, apparently, "Cafeteria Catholics" and rely on situational ethics to guide your life. Thanks for showing us others were right about your "religion."
We know you by the fruits you bear. You support a convicted criminal dictator.
Federal Bill Would Put Big Oil Above the Law — Newswire Editor
After months of fossil fuel industry lobbying, Republican lawmakers have introduced federal legislation that would give oil and gas companies immunity from any laws or lawsuits that aim to hold them accountable for their role in the climate crisis.
Eleven U.S. states and dozens of city, county, and tribal governments collectively representing more than 1 in 4 Americans are currently taking major oil and gas companies to court to hold them accountable for deceiving the public about the dangers of fossil fuels and make them pay for the resulting damages. Many cases are heading toward discovery and trial after courts rejected Big Oil’s efforts to stop them.
The oil and gas industry and its allies have been lobbying Congress and the Trump administration for more than a year to escape accountability. Last year, 16 Republican attorneys general proposed creating a “liability shield” for fossil fuel companies modeled on a 2005 law protecting gun manufacturers from lawsuits. In January, the American Petroleum Institute announced that killing state climate lawsuits is a top 2026 priority for the oil lobby. And a growing number of states have passed state-level laws that aim to shield fossil fuel companies from legal accountability. Recent reporting from ProPublica found those bills are "part of a coordinated effort by groups linked to right-wing activist Leonard Leo."...
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Yes, By all means put the polluting bastards first, you filthy Nazi swine! Fuck the people is all you know!
RFK Jr Gets An Earful About Why He Deserves Impeachment — NewsHound Ellen
Rep. Haley Stevens put together a nicely concise explanation as to why RFK Jr. is a threat to our public health and a disgrace to this country. You may recall that she has filed articles of impeachment against him. On Friday, she held them up to his face.
“You have attacked life-saving research on cancer and Alzheimer's. You have implemented measures that have raised costs, kicked families off their insurance, and made it harder to get coverage. You devastated rural hospitals,” Stevens said.
Kennedy began to interrupt. It sounded like he was accusing her of making it up. But anyone paying attention knows she spoke truth and facts.
Stevens was not deterred. “Look, to top it off, Mr. Secretary, I got a copy of HR 944, do you know what it is? Your impeachment articles, Sir,” she continued.
Raising her voice, Stevens added, "You have gutted America's public health, and you have sacrificed our leadership in medical research and innovation. Americans today are less safe under your watch. Children are dying of diseases that we thought we had eradicated.”
"You can smirk, sir, but I answer to the people of Michigan, and they have told me you should be ashamed. You should resign, and if you refuse, Congress should remove you from office,” she concluded....
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YES! I can't wait unitl they read a similar statement to Trump!
Paula White: Saying No To Trump Is Saying No To God
“He’s got a strong persona, don’t get me wrong. Don’t start a fight with him. This doesn’t start when he was president.
“In fact, I give in here [her book], like I get a call on a Sunday morning, like, do you believe in this, da-da-da, because it was when him and Rosie O’Donnell were going at it. Better get it in the book. It’s just in here.
“I mean, because people want to know, like is it for real? And I talk about it. And why would the evangelicals come out and vote for him?
“So I give all of that, how the board, like how that got formed, how the advisory board, like what, like literally the God aspect, what God told me to do, how I even got involved.
“Because one thing I said, I’ll never do politics. But when it came down to it, it wasn’t about doing politics. It was about an assignment.
“To say no to President Trump would be saying no to God. And I won’t do that.” – Scamvangelist Paula White, speaking at a book signing event.
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I assume she is referring to the one the Israelites ultimately aggregated into "Yahweh?" There were so many prior to that.
City Council Wrecked in Voter Bloodbath After Allowing New Data Center — Joe Wilkins
Small town politicians are learning the hard way that when Americans say no to data centers, they mean it.
In Festus, Missouri — a sleepy town of roughly 12,700 residents — the backlash was so great that residents ousted half their city council after they approved a $6 billion data center development against the public will. According to Politico, the uproar caused by the data center approval led to a surge in voter turnout, the majority of whom expressed their discontent with the old councilors by voting in four anti-AI newcomers.
Take Rick Belleville, a 70-year old who’d never previously run for office, but who unseated Jim Tinnin in the city’s fourth ward. Tinnin, an eight-year city council veteran, had previously been elected in 2018. This time, he lost to the upstart Belleville by over 40 percentage points after voting to approve the data center buildout.
“I ran because I thought the city was not listening to people,” Belleville told Politico. “It’s really the way the deal was handled that led to this kind of uprising.”...
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No to data centers.
Kash Patel Often Too Drunk To Show Up To Work, Which Is His Only Relatable Characteristic — Gary Legum
Well if we don’t have egg on our face. Here we’ve spent the last year making crack after crack about Defense Secretary and beau ideal of white man mediocrity Pete (Hic!) Hegseth being the biggest drunk in Trump Town. But it turns out that while we were imagining raging Pentagon-wide keggers, another high-level Trumpist was boozing it up like an old-timey gold prospector in a Deadwood saloon. (ALLEGEDLY!)
The prospector in this analogy is FBI Director Kash Patel. Late Friday, The Atlantic published a story that reads as if every knife that administration officials had out for him got planted into his back at once. Benders, unexplained absences from the office, meetings that had to be rescheduled because he was too drunk to attend them ... the list goes hilariously on and on.
Even the lede is fantastic. The piece’s author, Sarah Fitzpatrick, claims that just recently, Patel was having trouble logging into an FBI computer system. Anyone who has ever worked with a company computer network — which is to say, everyone in America under the age of 90 — knows that there are a gazillion dumb reasons for such a problem: incorrect password, some administrator somewhere checked a box that was supposed to remain unchecked, gremlins, whatever.
Patel, however, is paranoid and worried about his job security. When he couldn’t log into the computer, he assumed he had been canned:
[H]e panicked, frantically calling aides and allies to announce that he had been fired by the White House, according to nine people familiar with his outreach. Two of these people described his behavior as a “freak-out.”
We are reminded of a time, many years ago, when our mother couldn’t get a tape to play on the VCR. She freaked out, hollering and raving about the goddamn VCR not working when all she wanted to do was watch last night’s goddamn L.A. Law and what the hell was wrong with this goddamn machine. And she kept at it, right up to the moment when, summoned to the den, we stopped halfway down the steps and called out, “Okay, first thing: Is the power on?”...
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Can you blame Kash Patel for makin' them goo-goo eyes?
'Start the clock': Dem senator predicts Kash Patel ouster after bombshell drinking report — Ewan Gleadow
Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Kash Patel could be next to be ousted from his Donald Trump Cabinet post, according to a Democratic Party lawmaker.
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) took to Bluesky and suggested an exclusive from The Atlantic would be enough to see Patel removed from his post. He wrote, "Stooge Patel getting sloshed at the 'Poodle Room' in Vegas? You simply cannot make this up!! Too good. Start the clock."
Former Trump administration staffer Olivia Troye, who is running for a Democratic Party House seat nomination in Virginia, added, "Remember when I warned this would happen if Kash Patel became FBI Director? I said he was unfit. He threatened to sue me. Now he is the Director—and it’s happening."
Patel has exhibited erratic behavior, including unexplained absences and what witnesses described as "bouts of excessive drinking" that have alarmed FBI staff, according to Sarah Fitzpatrick's investigation in The Atlantic.
Most alarming was Patel's "freak-out" when temporarily locked out of the FBI computer system due to an IT error. "He panicked, frantically calling aides and allies to announce that he had been fired by the White House, according to nine people familiar with his outreach," a source said.
The ensuing chaos forced the White House to field emergency calls from Congress and FBI leadership asking who was now in charge of the nation's premier law enforcement agency....
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Ditto.
BREAKING: Strait of Hormuz is Already Closed Again — Tim MIller
Tim Miller takes on fast-moving developments after Iran closes the Strait of Hormuz again and fires on commercial ships—less than a day after Donald Trump said it would "never" close again. Plus: Trump’s appearance with Joe Rogan, his response to the crisis, and his decision to shut down questions from reporters.
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Someone has lost all control.
‘Yay!’ Megyn Kelly Shreds Trump With Sarcastic Praise Over Strait Deal — Tommy Christopher
YouTube and Sirius XM host Megyn Kelly shredded President Donald Trump over his announcement of a deal to open the Strait of Hormuz, “cheering” the accomplishment of opening the strait that was already open before the war.
Friday was a big news day, as Trump announced developments in the Iran War via a series of social media posts. In addition to a ceasefire between Lebanon and Israel, the president said the Strait of Hormuz would be opening immediately, never to close again. As the news filtered out, media reports and Iranian sources contradicted some of Trump’s claims....
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Is it open or is it closed? It can't be both. Or can it?
American Politics Is Already Inundated With AI Deepfakes. It’s Only Getting Worse — Finley Williams
In 2024, election officials, social media platform managers, and artificial intelligence developers were poised for an “AI apocalypse” that didn’t arrive. They feared that fake content would deceive voters and sway election outcomes. But the fakes that voters did run into—like the 2024 New Hampshire presidential primary robocall imitating former President Joe Biden’s voice that told voters to wait until November to cast their ballots—had limited impact.
There were also telltale signs to spot AI-generated visuals that were easier to catch, like hands with extra or fewer fingers or short-form videos shot from a single angle. But back then, campaign operatives also feared public blowback from either openly adopting tools that were unfamiliar to most voters or surreptitiously employing AI-generated content and being found out.
The prospects for effective federal action are dim—the Trump administration has taken a hard line against any kind of AI regulation.
Today, Americans find themselves in a political ecosystem where democratic norms have been shattered. The risks of AI-generated fakes are more pronounced, but public objections are less of a deterrent. In January, a White House account posted a photograph of an African American protester in Minnesota, altered to darken her skin and depict her in tears. Anti-ICE activists have shared images of immigration officers who have been “unmasked” by AI—an “ill-advised” tactic because of AI’s penchant for hallucinating facial features and other details....
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Do we really think we can put a stop to this?
Trump greeted by empty seats at Arizona rally leaving supporters 'totally shocked': report — Tom Boggioni
Donald Trump's ability to pack arenas is evaporating.
The president who once filled sports venues across the country couldn't even come close to filling a 4,500-seat Arizona church on Friday night, exposing the dramatic erosion of his political momentum.
According to the Washington Post, Trump was the featured speaker at a Turning Point USA rally in Phoenix at Dream City Church. Despite his boast earlier in the day on Truth Social about addressing a "BIG CROWD," the turnout was sparse and underwhelming.
The attendance numbers tell the story. A Turning Point USA spokeperson claimed only about 3,000 people attended — meaning the church was roughly two-thirds full at best. For a president who once commanded arena-sized audiences, the half-empty megachurch represents a stunning reversal....
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No crowd, no grift revenue.
Let's see who is more qualified to discuss the Bible, shall we? — John Amato
Pope Leo holds Bachelor of Science in Mathematics: Villanova University, Master of Divinity from Catholic Theological Union (1982), a doctorate (JCD) and licentiate (JCL) in canon law from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas.
Sean Hannity did go to Sacred Heart High School, but he has no formal college degree or education since he never graduated. He did get an honorary one from Liberty University, which means he still has no degree.
Hannity has not researched or even studied the Bible in any scholarly manner, except to use it to support his personal beliefs, if we take him at his word.
Yet, he dares to lecture Pope Leo on religion, Catholicism, and the Bible because the Pontiff refuses to sign on to Trump's immoral sneak attack and war with Iran.
Hannity is calling the Pope a liar and not biblically accurate....
To these Christian theocrats, you're not a Christian if you don't fall in line with Trump and the MAGA cult. It does not matter what he does.
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"Hannity is the king of the dumb fucks on Faux. Whichever way the right-wing wind is blowing he is blowing with it. A bigger Donnie douchebag enabler you will not find. The only thing he gets creative about is making up excuses why Trump shits his pants on a daily basis. It is like watching John Belushi in the Blues Brothers when Carri Fisher held a gun on him in the tunnel. The excuses come flying out of Hannity's mouth faster than Trump can lie or post phony pictures." — walterman (comments)
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Yes, let's have a test, shall we? LMAO at the guy who is desperate for attemtion.
PROMISE BROKEN: Trump Fails On Tax Refunds — Emily Singer
President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans have been boasting that Americans received large tax refunds this year due to the “One Big Beautiful Bill” the GOP passed last year.
...However, this year’s tax refunds were actually far smaller than expected, according to an analysis from Heather Long, the chief economist at Navy Federal Credit Union.
“The White House (and many economists) expected $700 to $1,000 higher refunds, on average,” Long wrote in a post on X, adding that “the reality is closer to $375” for members of her credit union.
The IRS’s own data shows a slightly smaller average refund increase of $346.
What’s more, rising costs elsewhere have eaten into whatever additional refunds Americans received, making for a net loss in most cases.
For example, the One Big Beautiful Bill slashed health care subsidies that millions of Americans used to afford their Affordable Care Act health insurance plans. In many instances, insurance costs more than doubled.
And Trump’s idiotic and illegal tariffs and boondoggle of a war in Iran have raised the price of goods and gasoline, additional costs that eat into whatever refund Americans may have gotten.
“So far, the refunds aren’t coming in as high as expected,” Long wrote in a post on her Substack. “Yes, the refunds are up. Yes, this is likely to be the largest tax refund season ever. But there’s a difference between a $1,000 boost to the typical American household’s income and a $375 boost. It means less spending. It means less of a growth boost. And that’s before factoring in higher gas prices eating up a lot of the tax refund.”...
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Vote the fraud out!
Kennedy Denies 2024 Comment About “Re-Parenting” Black Kids, Outlets Immediately Run The Tape
The New Republic reports:
Two years ago, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suggested that Black children prescribed depression or ADHD medication should be “re-parented.” When confronted with that statement on Thursday by Representative Terri Sewell—a Black Democrat from Alabama—he denied ever saying it.
“In a 2024 podcast interview, you suggested that Black children on ADHD medication should be ‘re-parented.’ You said: ‘Every Black kid is now just standard put on Adderall, SSRIs, benzos, which are known to induce violence,’ and that those children are going to have to go somewhere to get ‘re-parented,’” Sewell said. “Have you ever ‘re-parented,’ or parented, a Black child?”
“I don’t even know what that phrase means, and I doubt that I said it,” he replied. “It’s just a yes or no answer,” Sewell responded. “I doubt that I said that phrase, no. Not gonna answer something that I didn’t say.”
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Does he know about video recording being a thing? I guess not.
Watters Demonstrates The “Healthy” Way To Drink Milk
The Express reports:
Fox News audiences had plenty to say after Jesse Watters appeared to make a questionable gesture during a live broadcast on Friday, April 17. The incident unfolded while the 47-year-old host was discussing HHS ec Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s congressional testimony with fellow panelists on The Five.
The conversation centered on Democratic Rep. Rosa DeLauro’s (Connecticut) challenge to RFK Jr. regarding his stance on raw milk. The 72-year-old has publicly advocated for consuming unpasteurized milk and claims to drink it regularly, touting supposed health advantages.
As Jesse made his point with a rhetorical question during the segment, he began mimicking milking a cow and drinking directly from its udder. “You’re saying that if you grab a cow’s udder and you get underneath it and you just squirt it into your mouth-you’re saying that’s not healthy?” Jesse asked while performing the motion.
"Earlier this year a newborn died from an infection that the mother got from drinking raw milk. They act like they're "owning the libs" or pushing back against government overreach. What they're actually doing is promoting things that we know for a fact will kill people." — Fen (comments)
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Just because Jesse is a dumbass doesn't mean everyone else is.
He's never heard of pasteurization?
Todd Blanche called out over DOJ happiness claim: 'I literally laughed out loud' — Tom Boggioni
Appearing on MS NOW’s “The Weekend,” former DOJ pardon attorney Liz Oyer not only dismissed the Blanche boast but also admitted she found it highly humorous.
In an interview, Blanche, who replaced the fired Pam Bondi, stated, “[Trump] is somebody who has high expectations for his Cabinet and for this administration. It's not just the Department of Justice, it's in every single area. And so that type of communication from President Trump should make every American happy, because it means that there's an executive, a chief executive, that is making sure every one of his Cabinet members are working as hard as they should.”
Asked for comment, Oyer smiled and replied, “It's not even funny, but I literally laughed out loud when I first heard Todd Blanche say that. And I laugh every time I hear him say that because it's so absurd. No one is happy about what's happening at the Justice Department right now. It is a travesty, it is ruining the justice system in our country.”
Pressed if Blanche is “auditioning” to keep Bondi's former job, Oyer had a ready answer.
“That's exactly what's going on around the entire Justice Department. It's this cast of insane characters who are falling all over themselves to try to impress the big boss in the hopes that they will be the next Pam Bondi.”
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The race to see which moron will head the Department of Jackasses!
Lauren Boebert Just Wondering Why Congress So Full Of Horndog Beetlejuicers — Evan Hurst
It’s six months from Cocktober, and GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert has a question about Congress:
“Yeah, go to church, find Jesus. Like, I mean, why is everybody so horny here?” she asked.
And what did Lauren Boebert do the day after she Beetlejuiced her date at the touring production of Beetlejuice the musical? Was that the day she found Jesus?
We are just asking.
So, we are sorry, but we need to take issue with Boebert’s comments here, because there’s a whole lot of bullshit in that six-second clip.
First of all, the scandals that led to the resignations this week from Congress are not horny. Horny would be, say, not being able to wait to get home before you start doing handys to your date right there at the touring cast production of Beetlejuice the musical in Denver.
That is horny.
Democrat Eric Swalwell has been accused of rape, sexual harassment, assault, and more.
Republican Tony Gonzales has been accused of sexual harassment and an affair with a former staffer, who later died by suicide.
There is a difference between sexual predator behavior — those guys, allegedly — and horny.
And spare us the fucking “they need to find Jesus” shit, because it’s a well-known fact that the most dangerous place for a child to be alone is with a member of conservative Christian clergy or ministerial leadership or youth ministry or AND SO ON.
You know. Statistically....
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ME SO HORNY!
DOJ Asks Court To Pretty Please Un-Convict Proud Boys, Oath Keepers Of Jan 6 Crimes — Doktor Zoom
A few days after Donald Trump whined that the Pope is “weak on CRIME,” Trump’s Justice Department on Tuesday filed paperwork asking the federal appeals court for the DC Circuit to vacate the convictions of members of the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers terrorist groups for seditious conspiracy and other federal treason crimes.
The move will wipe away the criminal convictions of the handful of Trump-loving seditionists whose sentences were commuted by Trump right after he took office, but who weren’t among the more than 1,500 January 6 criminals who received full pardons. Trump instead commuted the sentences of the 14 people convicted of seditious conspiracy to time served, letting them out of prison, but leaving the convictions in place.
Once the requests from “US Attorney for DC Jeanine Pirro” — a phrase that still makes us snort-laugh in disbelief — are approved, they’ll erase the only remaining criminal convictions of people involved in the January 6 coup attempt/tourist visit. The requests will almost certainly be approved, because as the Washington Post lawsplains (gift link), “prosecutors have broad discretion to pursue or drop criminal charges, even after defendants have been convicted.” All perfectly legal!
Because they’ll no longer have felony convictions against them, they’ll again be free to own guns. Lots and lots of guns, so they can be men again. Some of those poor persecuted lambs are also suing the Capitol and DC Metro Police for having defended the Capitol, so the inevitable settlement with the DOJ may bankroll the rebuilding of rightwing militia arsenals....
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Trump's Bunco Department be patrollin' and spreading their fraud!
Dear MTG: You Could Help Fix This—If You’re Willing — Thom Hartmann
If you’re ready to move beyond Trump and tackle what’s actually broken, let’s have the real conversation…
Dear Marjorie Taylor Greene,
Thank you for standing up against unnecessary war, advocating for Epstein’s victims, and for defending the spiritual side of Christianity against Trump’s recent blasphemy.
Our mutual friend Congressman Ro Khanna (who you worked with on the Epstein legislation) reached out to you a few months ago about dropping by on my radio/TV program to have a friendly conversation; I haven’t heard back, but figured I’d reach out this way to suggest some things we could discuss.
You’re one of the few high-profile Republicans who’s not only disagreed with Trump on policy but has also clearly seen through his con-man façade of competence and, frankly, sanity. Well done! But let’s go a bit farther and talk policy, including a few areas where we may even agree…
Healthcare
America spends about twice as much as any other developed country in the world on healthcare, yet we have a lower lifespan and poorer outcomes than any other similar nation. We spend about $14,885 per person per year, while the average among other developed countries is about $5,967 (according to the OECD). Even Mexico, President Sheinbaum announced this week, will have comprehensive free national healthcare (including drugs) within 2 years.
Some of your Republican colleagues will say our poor outcomes are because we have “too many Black people” (referencing Prudential’s Frederick Hoffman’s old “genetically inferior Blacks” story that dominated healthcare and insurance policy in the 1910-1965 era covered in detail in my book on the Hidden History of American Healthcare). I’ve had several conservatives reference that old canard when they’ve come on my show. But that’s just a racist myth, and the proof is that these numbers hold for poor whites, too; just look at the numbers in overwhelmingly white West Virginia, for example....
If America just did what every other developed country in the world has done, we’d preserve a fortune and save an estimated 68,000 lives and a half-trillion-dollars a year. And, as any EU citizen can tell you, the service will be better! That seems like something a conservative could get behind?...
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Will hell freeze over?
Graham Defends Trump’s “Just War” Amid Pope Feud
SEAN HANNITY: “As of today, I no longer consider myself a Catholic. And while I am a Christian, I left the Catholic Church in large part because of institutionalized corruption. The Vatican has truly lost sight of the true meaning of the bible and its teachings.
“I hate Hitler analogies, I think they’ve been overused, however, if the world had an opportunity to take out Hitler before he killed millions of people, would that have been the morally right thing to do, Reverend?”
FRANKLIN GRAHAM: “In my opinion, absolutely, and I think war is justified to fight evil. The second World War to stop Hitler no question was the right thing to do. And this thing with Iran, Iran has said that they want to wipe Israel off the face of the map. They want to destroy the Jews and drive everyone of them into the sea. They’ve said that. They call America the great Satan.
“They took our embassy, held our Marines and our embassy staff, I think it was 444 days. These people are dangerous people, and they’re a danger to the world, and in all of Gaza, that is the Iranians. You take what’s happening in southern Lebanon, that’s the Iranians.
“So, yes, I think President Trump has done the right thing. I hate war. I don’t like war, don’t support war. But sometimes you have to fight evil, and that’s exactly what President Trump is doing. And it will be a much safer world, much safer than the Middle East, when President Trump gets this done.”...
"Notice how the conservatives always start the clock on Iran in 1979, never in 1953..." — Karl Dubhe IV (comments)
"Yes. So many people don't know the history of Iran and how we (CIA) helped overthrow their democratic government in 1953. Because of fucking oil." — TK (comments)
"Hell, I found out kids don't know about 9/11 from 2001!" — Jackie Boy (comments)
"Franklin Graham is nepotism incarnate. Absolutely nothing in his life is due to his own competence.. His daddy convinced millions that his own personal bigotries were God's own opinions. And baby slowsperm here just rode his daddy's coattails. I would say he is as dumb as a rock, but in a battle of wits I am sure the rock would win." — Holytape (comments)
"Hannity and Graham, two racists "know" that US involvement in WWII was to stop European Hitler, not because Japan attacked US territories in the Pacific." — clay (comments)
"You despicable, evil FRAUD!
By no definition is this totally uncalled-for, ILLEGAL war, which has killed thousands of innocent people, hundreds of them children, a just war!
Fuck you and the war criminal you support, who's causing worldwide economic turmoil. The Strait was OPEN before this war began! Name ONE goal that it has accomplished, except to enrich the oil companies, who are likely funneling some of their gains to the demented spewer of genocidal threats! " — billbear 1961 (comments)
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Cafeteria Xtians and the Anti-Christ's henchmen.
Wired: MAGA Increasingly Says Trump Staged Shooting
Wired reports:
In recent weeks, as criticism of President Donald Trump from his own supporters has reached a fever pitch, a new conspiracy theory has taken hold: Some of the president’s biggest supporters are now claiming, without evidence, that Trump staged the assassination attempt on his life in Butler, Pennsylvania in 2024 and is covering it up.
“I think that maybe it was staged,” Tim Dillon said on his show last weekend about the assassination attempt. Dillon, who was previously a staunch Trump supporter, went on to share that Trump should now come out and say, “Some people are going to be upset by this, but we staged the assassination attempt in Butler to show people how important it was to vote for me and how far I was willing to go for them.” A day later, conservative pundit Emerald Robinson went further, posting on X that the FBI “did it.”
On Telegram, prominent QAnon promoter MJ Truth asked his 100,000 followers: “How does everyone feel about the narrative surrounding the Butler Assassination Attempt on Trump?” The overwhelming majority of the hundreds of replies, almost all of whom remain Trump supporters, said they believed the incident had been staged and that the truth may never come out....
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Cheap wrestling stunt. You were had again.
Iran Claims Strait Of Hormuz Is Now “Completely Open”
The New York Times reports
The Strait of Hormuz is “completely open” for all commercial ships after the agreement of a cease-fire in Lebanon, Iran’s foreign minister said on Friday.
But Seyed Abbas Araghchi, the minister, said ships would have to take a “coordinated route” to which Iran had previously agreed. Shipping analysts said that was a reference to a route that runs close to Iran’s coast, which a small number of vessels have taken during the war.
Shortly after Mr. Araghchi’s announcement, President Trump responded in social media post: “IRAN HAS JUST ANNOUNCED THAT THE STRAIT OF IRAN IS FULLY OPEN AND READY FOR FULL PASSAGE. THANK YOU!”
Oil prices fell sharply in response. Brent crude, the international benchmark, fell almost 10 percent, to around $90 a barrel, its lowest level in more than a month, though it remains more than 20 percent higher than before the war started....
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Where was Trump in all this? Eating his 5th straight Big Mac?
Pope Leo turns the tables on Trump — as he rallies Catholics against the president — The Conversation
“I am not a politician; I speak of the Gospel.” Pope Leo XIV’s recent remarks, made during his apostolic journey to Africa, immediately suggest that his clash with Donald Trump operates on a different level to the US president’s usual political spats.
This is not the classic kind of confrontation that Trump has often had with foreign heads of state and government in the past, such as in recent months with the UK prime minister, Keir Starmer, whose refusal to fully back the US and Israel in their war against Iran attracted Trump’s ire. Rather, it is a clash rooted in fundamentally different moral and political visions: between a president who treats power in transactional terms and a pope who frames war, migration and human dignity as matters of moral principle....
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Moral principal. That's something Trump has never had.
'It’s settling in': Conservative says something’s finally clicked with MAGA on Trump — Matthew Rozsa
It takes a lot to break a cult, but President Donald Trump’s unpopular policies and erratic behavior are so problematic that a pair of conservative commentators suspect he may have managed it.
“My friend's mom said he might be the Antichrist,” The Bulwark’s Tim Miller said to West Virginia conservative podcaster Amanda Carpenter in a Thursday show. “I feel like that's on the outer edge of where three-time Trump voters are. But I do think it's real. If you look at MAGA social media — if you looked at his replies on Truth Social — people were very mad about the post.”
Miller’s comment referred to Trump posting a meme on social media depicting himself as Jesus Christ. While discussing this and Trump’s unpopular Iran war and economic policies with Carpenter, Carpenter pointed out that Trump has “always said crazy stuff," but this time the crazy is clicking in place with people....
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"You can fool some of the people all of the time..."
We Endorsed A Felon For Congress (Fewer Felonies Than Trump) — Cliff Schecter
Lev Parnas joined AMPED UP to drop Breaking News bombs: Trump's quietly positioning Ron DeSantis to replace Todd Blanche as AG after the midterms. Parnas—who introduced Trump to DeSantis and brokered the endorsement to launch DeSantis’ political career—laid out timeline, motivations, and more.
Parnas—who introduced Trump to DeSantis years ago and brokered the endorsement that launched DeSantis’ political career—laid out a timeline, motivations, and DeSantis’s lifelong ambition to use everything as a stepping stone to the White House...and his white booties as a stepping stone to pretending he’s taller than a Keebler Elf....
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Another Florida Nazi. Says a lot!
'I Didn’t Say That!': RFK Jr. Lies To Congress About His Racist Adderall Rant — John Amato
A typical response from an unqualified MAGA cabinet secretary is to say I didn't say what I said.
During today's House Ways and Means Committee on HHS oversight hearing, HHS Secretary Robert Kennedy Junior denied saying black children on ADHD medication should be reparented, when there is clear video and audio evidence he did say it during a podcast....
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Reciepts? Doesn't matter. AI must have made them! WE KNOW WHAT HE MEANT!
Voldemort Nearly Calls For “Final Solution” In Iran
The Mirror reports:
During an appearance with Sean Hannity, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller appeared to nearly make a serious error while discussing potential outcomes in the Iran conflict.
Miller addressed the president’s strategy to conclude the war on Fox News, telling Hannity: “… and every other option is on the table, as President Trump seeks that final….,” before pausing uncomfortably and then continuing, “…safe, secure outcome for the people of the world.”
Fortunately, Miller stopped himself before saying the words “final solution,” which would have been a disastrous blunder, as it is universally recognized as the phrase the Nazis used in World War 2 during their campaign to annihilate the entire Jewish population across Europe. Miller himself is of Ashkenazi Jewish heritage.
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A jewish Nazi speaks.
Nehls: Trump Is “Almost The Second Coming” Of Christ
The Daily Beast reports:
Texas Republican congressman and unabashed Trump supporter Troy Nehls described the president as being very close to Jesus Christ resurrected. Nehls, 58, spoke to CNN’s Manu Raju on Thursday about the president’s feud with Pope Leo XIV over the Iran war, and he didn’t seem bothered by it at all.
“I believe that Donald Trump is better than sliced bread. I think he’s almost the second coming, in my humble opinion,” Nehls, a Christian, said, days after Trump depicted himself as Christ in a Truth Social post.
Nehls is the same lawmaker who said after Trump’s reelection nearly two years ago that he and other House Republicans should “embrace… every single word” of Trump’s agenda.
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It's like saying "Almost a virgin" or "Almost pregnant."
Docs: Trump Stiffed Lawyers In Stormy Daniels Case
NOTUS reports:
A political committee President Donald Trump uses to pay legal bills is in debt — and owes $1.6 million to a roster of law firms, according to a new filing with the Federal Election Commission. Trump’s Save America PAC is nearly $500,000 in the red, according to FEC data published Wednesday.
The PAC reported working with at least 20 different law firms during the first three months of 2026, and it owes money to 12 of them. Two creditors provided addresses in the United Kingdom, the reports show.
The PAC owes the most money — over $660,000 — to NechelesLaw LLP, a criminal-defense law firm in New York. Susan Necheles cross-examined pornographic film actress Stormy Daniels in the courtroom in 2024 during Trump’s “hush money” case. Save America also owes about $112,000 to Wharton Law PLLC, another firm headed by a lawyer who represented Trump in that trial.
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Has the stiff ever paid a debt? Not to my knowledge.
Get paid in advance or don't work for the stiff.
Senate Repeals Ban On Mining In MN National Forest
The New York Times reports:
Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, one of the largest and most visited expanses of federally protected lakes and forests in the United States. By a vote of 50 to 49, senators passed a resolution that would repeal a moratorium on new mining across more than 225,000 acres of the Superior National Forest, which includes the Boundary Waters. The House already passed the Republican-led measure, which now heads to President Trump, who is expected to sign it into law.
The vote was a victory for Twin Metals Minnesota, a subsidiary of the Chilean mining giant Antofagasta. The company wants to build a copper and nickel mine about five miles southwest of the wilderness area, and the Biden administration complicated its plans by banning mining there until 2043. Environmentalists have fought for years to block the proposed mine, saying it could contaminate the region’s interconnected lakes and streams with heavy metals, sulfuric acid and other toxic substances.
Read the full article. Collins and Tillis voted with all Democrats. Hawley did not vote. The move was strongly opposed by actor/activist Nick Offerman.
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The gutter disgrace that America has become.
She would sell her daughters into prostitution for a buck! ABSOLUTELY!
Commission Approves Glorious Leader’s 25-Story Arch
The Washington Post reports:
A federal panel approved early designs for President Donald Trump’s planned 250-foot triumphal arch, even as members of the public urged Trump-appointed arts commissioners to block the project — and one commissioner suggested shrinking it.
Thursday’s vote by the Commission of Fine Arts, whose job is to vet the design of monuments and other major projects in the capital, does not give final approval for the project. Commissioners instructed Nicolas Charbonneau, an architect at the firm Harrison Design who is leading the project, to make some revisions to his plans and present them again at a later meeting.
“This was an impressive display,” said Rodney Mims Cook Jr., the commission’s chairman, praising Charbonneau and Trump officials for the project design and thanking members of the public for testifying. “This is personal to everyone in the room, and the president wants to do something that in his heart he feels is good.”
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The "Triumph of His Will?" Same as the Nazis?
There is no triumph with Trump. It would stand for duplicity and murder. Forever an indictment of America!
'Holy hell': Trump's bizarre ad-lib fuels cognitive health concerns — Robert Davis
President Donald Trump was brutally mocked on Thursday after a bizarre ad-lib during a rally in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Trump traveled to the Silver State to stump for his "no tax on tips" policy and to hear from some voters about how it has impacted their lives. During his speech, he said his "One Big, Beautiful Bill" had lowered taxes for small businesses and "corner stores," a phrase that seemed to trip up the president.
"Corner stores? What the hell is a corner store?" Trump said. "I know what a corner store is, but I've never heard it referred to that way. Who the hell wrote that?"
ALSO READ: Creator of 'blasphemous' Jesus image is 'riding Trump's coattails' as MAGA troll: expert
Trump's comment drew mockery from political analysts and observers alike, who shared their reactions on social media.
"Holy hell. This is behavioral frontotemporal dementia, in a little-embarrassing nutshell," Jim Stewartson, a writer, posted on X. "Memory loss, disinhibition, impulsivity, lack of judgement, inappropriate behavior in public settings. The max dose of Adderall doesn’t help."...
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This generation may never recover from the stain of Trump.
Trump: I’m All About The Gospel, I’m About It As Much As Anybody Can Be, Pope Should Preach The Gospel
Reuters reports:
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday it was “very important” for Pope Leo to understand that Iran is a threat to the world.
“The Pope can say what he wants, and I want him to say what he wants, but I can disagree,” Trump told reporters outside the White House. “The Pope has to understand that this is the real world.”
“I want him to preach the Gospel. I’m all about the Gospel. I’m about it as much as anybody can be. But I can’t allow – I’m the president of the United States – I can’t allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon. And here’s the story – they won’t have. And I would think the pope should be very happy.”...
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The Pope is preaching the Gospel. Trump couldn't recognize this under any circumstances.That's the exent of his gospel knowledge.
Clarence Thomas: “Intellectuals” Are Ruining America.
ABC News reports:
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on Wednesday delivered a televised broadside against progressivism, a political philosophy he described as an existential threat to America and the principles that founded it 250 years ago.
“Progressivism seeks to replace the basic premises of the Declaration of Independence and hence our form of government,” Thomas said in a speech at the University of Texas Austin Law School pegged to the nation’s upcoming milestone birthday.
A spirit of “cynicism, rejection, hostility and animus” toward America — by Americans — has taken hold, Thomas said in remarks carried live on CSPAN. He said that the values enshrined in the 1776 Declaration of Independence have “fallen out of favor” among Americans — a trend perpetrated, he argued, by “intellectuals” and the nation’s colleges and universities.
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Does he know that Pol Pot, leader of Cambodia's Communist movement, known as the Khmer Rouge and one of the most brutal despots in modern world history, thought anyone that wore glasses was an intellectual and had them all murdered?
‘What the F*ck Are We Doing?!’ Joe Rogan Goes Off On Trump’s Iran War — Jennifer Bowers Bahney
Joe Rogan declared the war with Iran “f*cking terrifying” during an interview with comedian David Cross on the latest episode of the Joe Rogan Experience podcast.
“All of it’s terrifying,” Rogan said. “Any time you’re involved with — you’re shooting missiles into towns and blowing things up, blowing up infrastructure, blowing up bridges — you know, and Israel’s blowing up Lebanon now. It’s like, what the f*ck are we doing? Like, how is this still going on?”
Cross added, “Well, it’s also clear there was no plan. Zero. None,” and Rogan agreed.
“[Benjamin] Netanyahu has been telling the United States that Iran was months away from building a nuclear bomb for 30 years, or 20 years at least,” Rogan continued. “They’ve always been saying that. Trump was the first one to go, ‘All right, let’s do something about it.’ But it seems like they didn’t know what the f*ck they were going to do.”...
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Mainly, someone wanted to show off their great military power. "See what I can do?"
If you ask Christian nationalists to choose between Christianity and nationalism, guess what they’ll pick? — Jonathan V. Last
1. Conservatism and Democracy
In 2018 David Frum saw the world more clearly than I did. He wrote, “If conservatives become convinced that they cannot win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. They will reject democracy.”
That was on January 18, 2018, less than a year into Trump’s presidency. Frum’s prediction has become one of the key insights for understanding our moment.
It is also immediately what I thought of when Donald Trump attacked the pope this weekend.
American Catholics have increasingly thrown in with Christian nationalism over the last decade. If they are asked to choose between Trump and the Catholic Church, some significant percentage of them are going to choose Trump.
I’m doing Sarah’s Focus Group show and this week the groups we listened to were Catholic voters. I’m not supposed to give too much away, but I can’t stop myself.
You will not believe what these people had to say when asked to choose between Trump and their Holy Father....
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Christianity goes to hell.
'He is the devil': Trump sparks fury after calling Epstein survivors 'victims or whatever' — Daniel Hampton
President Donald Trump's casual dismissal of Jeffrey Epstein's survivors as "victims, or whatever" drew immediate fury on social media Thursday, with critics blasting him for being not just callous, but for outright lying.
Trump made the comment outside the White House when asked about public hearings for Epstein survivors, claiming the women had refused to go under oath. That claim was immediately challenged.
"First, he's lying — no one refused to go under oath," wrote progressive political commentator Aaron Parnas on X. "The survivors said it's not their responsibility to testify in front of Congress when they've already spoken to the FBI. Second, 'victims or whatever' is one of the most derogatory things the President could say."
Political commentator Polly Sigh went further, pointing out that at least one of Epstein's survivors had accused Trump himself of rape.
"He's also lying about them refusing to go under oath," she wrote. "They spoke with the FBI — including the woman who accused Trump of raping her when she was a child."
MeidasTouch summed up the reaction bluntly: "Trump is now lying about the Epstein survivors, or as he calls them, 'the victims or whatever.'"
One commenter drew a sharp contrast with Trump's recent self-portrayal. "He may have depicted himself as Jesus," wrote NHL analyst Mike Rifkin on X, "but he is the devil." He called Trump's dismissal a "disgusting thing to say."...
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The world knows what Trump is. Only fools do not.
Epstein told accused sex harassment pal to contact to his 'friends' at White House: report — Tom Boggioni
A year before convicted felon Jeffrey Epstein died in a prison cell under mysterious circumstances, a friend who was teaching at Arizona State University worried about accusations of sexual harassment and asked for help, which led Epstein to suggest he turn to Donald Trump's White House.
According to Politico's Bianca Quilantan, the texts and emails show Epstein believed Trump's efforts to weaken protections for sexual misconduct accusers could provide physicist Lawrence Krauss, who was teaching at ASU, an escape route from disciplinary proceedings.
"My friends in the White House HATE the title ix c----," Epstein wrote to Krauss in April 2018, using a crude sexist slur to describe his contempt for women protected by Title IX enforcement.
"Ironic but he might be your out," Epstein added without clarifying who he was specifically discussing, Politico is reporting.
Krauss, a noted Trump critic, was willing to give it a shot, replying,: "Ironic indeed! But I will take it."...
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The entire world knows what Trump is.
Trump casually dismisses Epstein survivors as 'victims or whatever' — Daniel Hampton
President Donald Trump appeared to casually dismiss survivors of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell on Thursday during a brief gathering with reporters, referring to them as "victims, or whatever."
Trump took questions from reporters outside the White House when he was asked whether he believes there should be a public hearing for more Epstein survivors.
"Well, I'm ok with it. I think we've had a lot of, a couple of hearings. I'm ok with it. But I understand that the women didn't want to go under oath. That's what I heard. That the women, the victims, or whatever, refuse to go under oath. Which is a little surprising," the president said.
Trump's relationship with Epstein has been a source of fierce scrutiny, though he has vehemently and repeatedly denied any wrongdoing.
In 2002, Trump called Epstein a "terrific guy" who likes "beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side." The two were photographed together at parties throughout the 1990s.
After Epstein's 2019 arrest, Trump said he was "not a fan" and claimed they had a falling out years earlier. Trump later sued the Wall Street Journal for $10 billion over its reporting on a "bawdy" letter he allegedly sent Epstein. A federal judge dismissed the case but gave Trump two weeks to refile....
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Trump is an accident that has found a place to happen.
Trump's Acting Attorney General visibly uncomfortable when pressed on the Epstein files — María Teresita Armstrong-Matta
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche became defensive when questioned about the Jeffrey Epstein case during an interview at the Semafor World Economy summit.
Reporter Shelby Talcott asked whether the Department of Justice would support Epstein survivors testifying before Congress, following First Lady Melania Trump's denial of ties to the convicted sex offender. Blanche stated the DOJ has consistently welcomed victims coming forward, whether to testify in Congress or to the FBI, and cited the arrest of 1,700 defendants for abusing women last year.
When pressed about mixed messaging on the investigation, Blanche denied ever suggesting the department should move past the Epstein files.
However, earlier this month Blanche told Fox News, "I think that to the extent that the Epstein files was a part of the past year of this Justice Department, it should not be a part of anything going forward."...
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Todd Blanche looks and acts like Nathan Thurm (Martin Short's sweaty, nervous lawyer character as he is being griiled by "60 Minutes") everytime you see him!
Trump goes after woman suing him over ballroom: 'It's not a joke to me' — David Edwards
President Donald Trump took a shot at Alison K. Hoagland, an architectural historian at the center of a lawsuit against his ballroom, after a judge blocked construction of the structure.
In an opinion and order on Thursday, U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon, a George W. Bush appointee, said that he was enjoining government officials from moving forward with the above-ground portions of ballroom construction at the White House.
Trump initially reacted by pledging that no president "can ever be safe" without the ballroom.
The president returned to Truth Social later to denounce Hoagland.
"The person who filed the meritless and lawless suit on the desperately needed White House Ballroom, being built as a GIFT to America (without Tax Dollars!), a woman walking her dog, has absolutely NO STANDING to bring such a monumentally important case against our Country," he claimed. "The Trump Hating Judge's opinion is radically different from his first opinion, that was issued weeks ago, while still being unlawful and ambiguous, which never even addressed her COMPLETE lack of Standing."
"Every Political' Pundit' has said this case is meritless, even a JOKE, but it's not a joke to me, or the people of America. Too much hard work, time, and money spent in order that a Judge can claim that he ruled against 'DONALD TRUMP,' something which I have gotten very used to, BUT WILL NOT ACCEPT!" he added.
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His stupid ballroom is the biggest joke in American history!
GOP, Democrats blast Vought for holding back cash: 'You don’t have the authority to impound' — Katherine Tully-McManus and Jennifer Scholtes
Senators from both parties chided the Trump administration Thursday for continuing to withhold funding Congress has approved, more than a year after the White House first froze billions of dollars for temporary "review."
During White House budget director Russ Vought's testimony before the Senate Budget Committee, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) scolded the OMB chief for not sending hundreds of millions of dollars the Trump administration is supposed to give states throughout the year to support community services aimed at reducing poverty.
"Congress has appropriated money, and you don’t have the authority to impound it," Grassley said about the more than $810 million Congress appropriated this year for the Community Services Block Grant program.
That program helps states fund anti-poverty services such as transportation, education and nutrition assistance that serve more than 9 million people each year.
Grassley told Vought that lawmakers "are not getting any answers" as to why the Trump administration hasn't sent states their quarterly funding from the program. "I want those quarterly allotments released," Grassley said.
While Vought did not directly address Grassley's comments, he said at a different point during the hearing that "we have not impounded a single thing."...
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Our grifting government.
RFK Jr. Vows to Demolish Preventive Medicine — Alex Nguyen
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he would overhaul a preventive medicine team that risks making screenings more difficult.
“[The US Preventive Services Task Force] has been lackadaisical and negligent for 20 years,” Kennedy told members of the House Ways and Means Committee. “We’re going to have, for the first time, transparency.” ...
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Of course, this always means things will get worse. Kennedy is a mjor cancer on America.
Pete Hegseth Is Now Opening With Quentin Tarantino — Alex Nguyen
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth quoted a violent and fictional Bible passage nearly word-for-word from Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction in his Wednesday night worship service at the Pentagon.
In the film, Samuel L. Jackson’s hitman character Jules Winnfield recites the Bible passage just before he and his partner shoot and kill their boss’ unarmed business partner. Jackson’s monologue frames Winnfield’s violence as a “righteous” vengeance.
Hegseth told attendees that the prayer was recited by one of the teams involved in the combat search and rescue mission to save the two Air Force crew members shot down in Iran earlier this month.
“They call it CSAR 25:17,” Hegseth said, where CSAR stands for “Combat Search and Rescue”. The Biblical citation 25:17 is associated with Ezekiel 25:17, the Bible passage the Pulp Fiction monologue is based on.
Here’s what Hegseth recited in full on Wednesday:
The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of the darkness, for he is truly his brother’s keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee.
The passage appears to be a thinly veiled threat of continued violence against Iran, especially as Vance told the audience how “the Lord’s word” will influence future military decisions, such as the US blockade on Iranian ports in retaliation to Iran refusing to fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz....
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One must exercise discernment when referring to "God" or "Lord" from their use in the Old Testament which is where one finds Ezekial. In that context they refer to differnent deities. "God" referred to the Canaanite Elohist diety, "El" or "Elohim," "Lord" is a reference to "Yahweh," the Midianite desert deity first encounterd by Moses. Both were considered Israelites.
Loser Trump Coup Lawyer John Eastman, You Are DISBARRED AS F*CK — Evan Hurst
A good thing at this moment in Trump 2.0 is that we are starting to see news on a fairly regular basis about lawyers who have served Donald Trump by committing crimes or ethical violations for him or otherwise licking his balls the way he likes, facing accountability. Last week, the story of dipshit Ed Martin and his battle with the DC Bar over his reported violations of the constitutional rights of Georgetown students when he was acting US attorney in DC, and his obstruction of the investigation into it.
The humiliation of Lindsey Halligan is a hoot. The ongoing humiliation of Alina Habba.
One of the greatest prayers you can pray for these people — even better than Pete Hegseth’s violent loser Pulp Fiction prayers — and for people like Pam Bondi and Todd Blanche, is that when they shuffle off this mortal coil on a one-way ticket to eternal damnation, they will do it as non-lawyers. Same way Rudy Giuliani one day will. Same way Roy Cohn did.
And now, the same way John Eastman will. That’s right, one of Donald Trump’s number one coup lawyers, who helped him construct the plan to overthrow the United States government and overturn the 2020 election, and the Trump lawyer who looks most like the Harry Caray character on SNL just after getting smacked in the face with a Looney Tunes anvil, has been fully and finally disbarred in California.
Say it with us: Hahahahahahahahahaha....
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The Roy Cohn prayer? Please stay dead!
Want A Cheap-Ass Hotel? Come To The US During The World Cup! — Evan Hurst
We’ve discussed here a number of times that the World Cup should be canceled and countries should start boycotting the event. Especially after Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth started massacring little children with their chosen war in Iran, there’s no moral argument to be made for why the US deserves the glory of hosting such an event, and Trump’s maniacal, evil anti-immigration crusade means no person traveling to the US for the tournament can feel safe from harassment, persecution, or worse from US immigration authorities. (Read this Politico for a detailed look at the difficulty of keeping Iran’s team safe, as they are top competitors.)
New reporting suggests that, boycott or no boycott, cancellation or no cancellation, people are voting with their feet and their dollars, and those feet and dollars are staying the fuck away from the United States. The Financial Times reports that hotels in the US, specifically in the cities hosting World Cup matches, are cutting their prices in hopes somebody, anybody will book them.
The word one of their expert sources used? “Panic.”
Match-day room rates in host cities including Atlanta, Dallas, Miami, Philadelphia and San Francisco have dropped about a third from their peak earlier this year, according to data tracker Lighthouse Intelligence, in a sign of lower than anticipated demand.
“I’m seeing a lot of people start to panic and lower their rates,” said Scott Yesner, founder of Philadelphia-based short-term rental and boutique hotel management company Bespoke Stay.
Yeah, that’s crazy, Atlanta, Dallas, Miami, Philadelphia, and San Francisco, all wonderful cities except Dallas, can’t get their hotels full in the summer. It’s almost like nobody wants to come to the World Cup or the United States....
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The US is too racist and retarded to have any World Cup allowed into the country.
He is Seriously, Frighteningly, Utterly, and Completely Losing His Mind — Robert Reich
Friends,
It’s a catastrophe on the way to becoming a cataclysm.
Trump is rapidly going stark-raving mad. He’s a clear and present danger to the United States and the world.
Yesterday he lashed out at The New York Times after its chief White House correspondent questioned his mental health and stability and pointed to his “erratic behavior and extreme comments.”
“HAVE THEY NO SHAME? HAVE THEY NO SENSE OF DECENCY?” Trump posted in CAPITAL LETTERS about the Times, inadvertently echoing the famous words of Joseph Welch when standing up to Joseph McCarthy during the Army-McCarthy hearings of 1954. Trump went on to take issue with the Times’s coverage of his war in Iran rather than his mental state, as if to prove the Times’s point.
He keeps saying he’s “won” the war with Iran, although he’s never said what “winning” means. At one moment his goal is to free Iran’s people. At another, it’s to end Iran’s capacity to produce a nuclear weapon. At another, to destroy Iran’s missiles. At another, to achieve “regime change.” At another, to open the Strait of Hormuz (which was open before Trump started his war). At another, he says he’ll know the U.S. military operation in Iran is over when he feels it "[in] my bones.”...
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If we can't remove the madman we have become complicit in his crime.
Democrats: To Win America Back, Confront Trump's and the GOP's Naked Corruption — Thom Hartmann
Péter Magyar defeated Viktor Orbán in last weekend’s Hungarian elections because he ran a Navalny-style playbook, calling Orbán’s and his billionaire buddies’ capture of the media and most other aspects of Hungarian life a “state capture system” grounded in good old-fashioned corruption.
From Orban’s son-in-law pulling a Jared and using his government position to become one of the richest men in the country, to his billionaire cronies buying up the media like the billionaire Ellisons are doing here now, corruption was Magyar’s singular through-line message. And it worked, producing an overwhelming turnout and undeniable victory.
It will work here, too!
Democrats are (continuously, it seems) debating what should be their campaign strategy, their main through-line message, for the 2026 midterms and the 2028 presidential election. Every faction and special interest group in the country is pushing their own idea, but there’s one overarching concept — one word — that can encompass most all of them and do so with a proven political punch: “Corruption.”..
At every level, ever since the Reagan Revolution, the heart of Republican policies has been the naked corruption of our American political and economic systems. Since the 1980s, Republicans have sold their corruption with slogans like, “Government is the problem, not the solution,” and “Let the market decide,” but their real message is, “Turn it all over to the billionaires and their corporations.” The result has been:...
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Click the article to read the long list of corruption and dispossession of the US by the Nazi Party!
Trump admin doubles down on denial when confronted with inconvenient facts — Alex Henderson
When U.S. President Donald Trump spoke at the 2026 World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland in January, he angrily berated the United States' European allies for using green energy and claimed, without any evidence, that climate change is a "hoax." European countries get their energy from a variety of sources, including green energy (wind and solar), nuclear power and fossil fuels. But Trump was angry that they are using green energy at all.
European scientists and environmentalists were quick to push back against Trump's claims about climate change, arguing that Europe should be using more green energy — not less — and offering plenty of scientific data to back up their arguments. Trump and his allies, however, only doubled down on their claims about climate change, green energy and fossil fuels.
That type of doubling down is the focus of an article by The New Republic's Kate Aronoff, headlined "The Denialism Presidency" and published on April 16.
When confronted with facts about climate change, the war in Iran or the U.S. economy, Aronoff stresses, the second Trump Administration doubles down on "denial."
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Retaliation and denial are always admissions of guilt with Trump and his repulsive ilk.
Massive Coinky Dink: Trump Administration Cancels Catholic Charities Contract — Susie Madrak
The Trump administration abruptly canceled an $11 million contract with Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Miami to shelter and care for migrant children who enter the U.S. alone, ending a relationship between the Catholic Church and the U.S. government dating back more than 60 years to the first arrivals of Cuban exiles in South Florida.
Gee, do you think this has anything to do with Pope Leo not kissing his ass like the evangelical fundies do?
The Office of Refugee Resettlement, part of the federal Department of Health and Human Services, has paid Catholic Charities in Miami for several years to house immigrant children who enter the U.S. without parents or adult supervision. The non-profit operates the equivalent of a federally funded foster care system, separate and apart from state agencies that have custody of abused and neglected children. The federal government reached out to the charity in late March about the cancellation of the funding.
Late last month, the Trump administration canceled its $11 million contract with a Miami Catholic group that cares for migrant kids.
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One more admission of guilt by the traitor.
On Tax Day, Patriotic Millionaires descend upon Capitol Hill urging lawmakers to raise their taxes — Newswire Editor
Today, standing steps away from the U.S. Capitol, the Patriotic Millionaires, along with Senator Chris Van Hollen (MD), Senator Edward Markey (MA), Rep. Pramila Jayapal (WA-07), Rep. Don Beyer (VA-08), Rep. Chris Deluzio (PA-17), and countless other organizations, demanded Congress tax the rich in order to defeat the oligarchs and billionaire class and advance a new kind of economy that works for everyone.
The “Tax the Rich, Make Life Affordable” rally highlighted efforts to reform the tax code for working people and to unrig our economic system that currently rewards wealth over work. During the press conference, speakers noted previous failures over the past 60 years to stem the growth of inequality and the billionaire class and the current administration’s priorities and policies that actually accelerated it. Several organizations noted their support for current bills in front of Congress that would raise taxes on high earners and bring much-needed economic relief to low- and middle- income people.
“While I’ve seen examples of the good that wealth can do, I have also seen all the ways it can lead to irreparable harm to our personal, political, moral, and societal well-being. There is a level of wealth beyond which it threatens the health and even the existence of our democracy and our economy. We cannot hand over the keys to our democracy to people who are unwilling to address the economic injustices that exist today,” said Patriotic Millionaire Scott Ellis, who spoke on behalf of the organization. “I joined Senator Van Hollen, Representatives Jayapal, Beyer, and DeLuzio, and others to urge our government leaders to deal with the money problem in our country head-on with solutions like those found in the Patriotic Millionaires’ MONEY Agenda platform. Every time inequality reaches extraordinary levels, we create a vulnerability to authoritarianism where money becomes power. If we want to unrig our economy, we need a bold, surprisingly simple economic vision. Millionaires like me who want a rich, stable, free country demand an economy that ensures it. That begins with commonsense revenue raisers and tax reforms that stop the accumulation of oligarchic concentrations of wealth.”
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Of course, they have nothing to worry about. But it is a nice try.
Will Catholic Bishops Excommunicate JD Vance From The Church? — John Amato
Bishop James Massa, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Doctrine just issued a blistering rebuke against JD Vance's ridiculous attacks on Pope Leo.
Vance criticized the Vicar of Christ by trying to justify Trump's aggressive waging of war against Iran as if the US was under assault from Japan, Italy and Germany during WWII.
To the Catholic church, Trump's Iran war is unjust.
“For over a thousand years, the Catholic Church has taught just war theory and it is that long tradition the Holy Father carefully references in his comments on war. A constant tenet of that thousand-year tradition is a nation can only legitimately take up the sword ‘in self-defense, once all peace efforts have failed’ (Catechism of the Catholic Church, no. 2308). That is, to be a just war it must be a defense against another who actively wages war, which is what the Holy Father actually said: ‘He does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war.’...
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What does JD care? He's being groomed by the Nazi Party to become their next God.
Raskin Blasts Trump DOJ’s Latest Effort To Obliterate J6 History — NewsHound Ellen
Rep. Jamie Raskin, ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, scorched Donald Trump’s so-called Department of Justice, now led by his own former criminal defense lawyer, for asking a federal appeals court to vacate the Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy convictions of Oath Keepers and Proud Boys. In other words, to erase the record altogether.
“This is an appalling and dangerous turn of events,” Raskin said in a statement. “The Department of Justice is now acting like in-house counsel for the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys.”
Raskin noted that the two leaders of the Oath Keepers, Stewart Rhodes and Kelly Meggs, were convicted of seditious conspiracy by a unanimous jury for their roles in leading the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and for trying to block the peaceful transfer of power. “Seditious conspiracy means conspiracy to overthrow, destroy or put down the government of the United States by force,” Raskin noted.
The evidence against the two was so strong, Raskin pointed out, that the “sentencing judge called Rhodes ‘an ongoing threat and a peril to this country and to its democracy,’ and applied the terrorism enhancement against him at sentencing.” Rhodes and Meggs were sentenced to 18 and 12 years in prison, respectively.
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The betrayal of America by Trump's Justice Department.
'Staggering' buyer's remorse skyrocketing among Latino Trump voters — Thomas Kika
Latino voters were a group that broke for President Donald Trump in a big way in the 2024 election, but now, even more evidence has emerged showing that they are feeling severe buyer's remorse as his presidency wears on.
On Thursday, The Daily Beast published a report about a new survey of 2024 Latino Trump voters conducted by Third Way and UnidosUS, which found "that more than a third of Latino Trump voters say they now regret voting for him."
"Latino voters were central to Trump’s win in 2024, with 43 percent of the demographic voting for him, up from 35 percent in 2020," The Daily Beast explained. "But polls now suggest Trump is losing that support. Two-thirds of Latino voters who responded to the latest poll said they disapprove of Trump’s handling of both immigration and the economy."
Leadership from Third Way remarked that the results do not just show a minor or standard loss of support, but a complete collapse of Trump's 2024 Latino cohort.
“The extent of the bottom falling out on Latino voter support for Trump is pretty staggering,” Lanae Erickson, senior vice president at Third Way, explained while discussing her group's latest finding. “I think we realized it had softened, but it has really just absolutely eroded any gains that he and his party had made through 2024.”...
The report continued: "The UnidosUS poll shows that 66 percent of Latino voters disapprove of Trump’s handling of the economy.
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What's wrong with the 34 percent that aren't in the disapprove c;lass. They must be living in another world.
The percentages keep dropping for Trump.
'Let them eat lead': Alex Jones targets Trump with Marie Antoinette image — Nick Hilden
On Sunday, President Donald Trump shared an AI-generated image of himself as Jesus, prompting widespread outrage from many Christians. Then on Thursday morning, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth delivered a press briefing in which he compared Trump to Jesus.
Later in the morning, in a post to X, far-right commentator Alex Jones shared his own AI-Trump comparison: Trump as Marie Antoinette.
“TRUMP ‘MARIE ANTOINETTE’ SAYS,” declared Jones, "’It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things... We have to take care of one thing: military protection. We have to guard the country,’ Trump said. He should have just said ‘let them eat lead, with a nice helping of hyper inflation.’”
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It's a weird world when Alex speaks the truth.
Army yanks tribute to Purple Heart senator who lost both legs after MAGA backlash — Daniel Hampton
The U.S. Army shut down an entire network of official social media accounts this week after a post celebrating Democratic Sen. Tammy Duckworth, a Purple Heart recipient who lost both legs in combat, drew backlash from a pro-Trump veteran online.
The "Soldier for Life" program, which connects veterans and their families to employment, healthcare and retirement resources, posted a tribute to Duckworth's military career as an Army lieutenant colonel and Iraq War veteran. Within 24 hours of a former Army paratrooper criticizing the post on X, it was deleted.
Chase Spears, a former Army paratrooper and veteran of the war in Afghanistan, criticized Duckworth, calling her 'one of the most brazenly hostile partisans to have worn the uniform,'" NOTUS reported Wednesday....
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When did America lose its moral core? It is very apparent that it has.
We are, indeed, a lost country. America is dead as we once knew it. It's time America questions its miltary leaders. FTA.
Brutal confession: Trump 'dying before our eyes' — Adam Lynch
Speaking to former George H.W. Bush field director and Republican strategist Rick Wilson on his Wednesday podcast, Ali said Trump’s Iran war and his countless hits to the U.S. economy are likely to leave chaos, which the elderly president will not have to personally contend with after he makes his final exit.
“[H]e'll just leave behind his mess and have someone else clean it up,” said Ali. “… [H]e's lost his fastball. He's lost his curveball. He was the oldest person to be elected, and it's clear this man is dying before our eyes. His brain is fried. He's ignorant. [And] he's surrounded by reeks, which makes it all the worse.”
Wilson said the sun-downing president will also be sure to reward MAGA youth for their 2024 vote by punching them straight in the face....
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We always knew it would be this way.
Vance's reckoning has only begun as Trump takes him on another losing journey — Steven Harper
As Prime Minister of Hungary for 16 years, Viktor Orbán became a beacon for the right and one of President Donald Trump’s favorite authoritarian role models. A self-described populist, Orbán’s conquest of democracy’s three pillars—the media, institutions of higher education, and the justice system—became Trump’s template.
Another Orbán characteristic attracted Trump: His regime consistently ranked No. 1 as the most corrupt country in the European Union. He abused political power for self-enrichment. He installed friends and family members in positions of influence and power that made him (and them) wealthy. He used his majority in the legislature to enhance his power. A persistent critic of Ukraine, Orbán also enjoyed the support of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Sound familiar?
Trump embraced and praised Orbán, which meant that his Vice President JD Vance embraced and praised him too....
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Vance oozes corruption.
JD Vance Bashes The Pope, Calls The Pontiff A Liar On 'Matters Of Theology' — John Amato
The chutzpah of this guy to lecture the Pope on theology.
During a TPUSA conference on Tuesday, Vice President JD Vance lectured Pope Leo on theology, criticizing the Pope's disagreement with Trump's war in Iran and his interpretation of the gospels....
JD Vance was baptized and confirmed into the Catholic Church in 2019, but it didn't stop him from joining Trump and many other Republicans to scold Pope Leo, in essence, telling him to shut the fuck up....
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It's clear that Vance either never studied the history of homo-sapiens/homo-erectus or he's bullshitting us. Most likely the latter.
Trump's Midterm-Rigging Scheme Isn't Going As Planned — Oliver Willis
In a Fox interview that aired on Wednesday, President Donald Trump effectively admitted that the ongoing Republican campaign to rig electoral maps in their favor to avert a wipeout in this year’s midterm elections has been a spectacular failure.
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Dude, we all know you are anything but "great!"
Yes, Don, it is ALL YOUR FAULT!
The US Conference of Catholic Bishops writes:
Given the recent public comments regarding the Catholic Church’s teaching on war and peace, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) posted a statement on their website on April 15, 2026, of Bishop James Massa, chairman of the USCCB’s Committee on Doctrine, who stated the following:
“For over a thousand years, the Catholic Church has taught just war theory and it is that long tradition the Holy Father carefully references in his comments on war. A constant tenet of that thousand-year tradition is a nation can only legitimately take up the sword ‘in self-defense, once all peace efforts have failed’ (Catechism of the Catholic Church, no. 2308). That is, to be a just war it must be a defense against another who actively wages war, which is what the Holy Father actually said: ‘He does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war.’
“When Pope Leo XIV speaks as supreme pastor of the universal Church, he is not merely offering opinions on theology, he is preaching the Gospel and exercising his ministry as the Vicar of Christ. The consistent teaching of the Church is insistent that all people of good will must pray and work toward lasting peace while avoiding the evils and injustices that accompany all wars.”
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Message received, JD?
GOP Official Arrested On Child Porn Charges
Columbia’s ABC affiliate reports:
A Hanahan City Councilmember and Mayor Pro Tem has been charged with possession and production of child sexual abuse material, according to a criminal complaint and arrest warrant unsealed Tuesday. Kevin Hedgpeth, 48, was reportedly a member of a forum on social media that was facilitating the sale of child sexual abuse material, as well as paying minors to create child sex abuse material.
According to documents received by the Department of Justice, from December 2021 to present, Hedgpeth’s Cash App and PayPal accounts paid approximately 47 accounts that were either associated with minors or suspected of selling content. The accounts of minors paid were reportedly located in the Charleston area.
In one such documented case, Hedgpeth paid a 12-year-old victim for child sex abuse videos and pressured that minor to produce content with the minor’s 15-year-old brother. At times, Hedgpeth reportedly pretended to be a minor, and at others, he distributed child sexual abuse videos to minors to entice them to produce and sell similar content to him.
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OOPSIE! Another one bites the dust!
Musk’s Baby Mama Vows “Receipts” On Benny Johnson
“I came forward about my experience with that predator, Madison Cawthorn that I had mentioned in my video about Benny Johnson.
“I had disclosed to him that I had experienced this behavior with Madison Cawthorn and that Benny has continued to platform this awful human being.
“I’m not a consumer of Benny Johnson content because I value my IQ and I’m not one of his cerebral speed-bump boomer followers. Unfortunately, I’ve watched his content in the last 24 hours because it’s been sent to me.
“I was unaware of the content that Benny Johnson had been putting out about me on his show, including about my family and my children. And that I should lose my child, that I am not a sane parent, that I am a narcissist, making up lies about my finances and my family situation.
“Benny, I have been sitting on the receipts of you for far too long. You and your sociopathic behavior and the way you operate your businesses and your grift. So you wanna go, Benny? You wanna talk about my children and make this personal? Let’s go.
“A lot of people have been sitting on things about you for far too long. And I will remind you: if you live in a glass house, stop throwing stones with your little Facebook dollars. T T F N. You’re next.” – Ashley St. Clair, the mother of Elon Musk’s 13th (?) child, in a post that some are interpreting as a threat to out Johnson.
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Whoa, whoa, poor Benny! LMAO!
Allen West Resigns As Dallas GOP Chair Ahead Of Ouster After “Widespread Confusion” On Primary Day
Dallas’s NBC affiliate reports:
Allen West has resigned as chair of the Dallas County Republican Party, stepping down ahead of a planned no-confidence vote tied to a dispute over how voters will cast ballots in the upcoming primary runoff. The move follows internal disagreements within the party after West decided to return to countywide voting for the May 26 primary runoff.
During the March 3 primary, the local party had moved away from countywide voting and instead required voters to cast ballots at designated neighborhood precinct locations. The change led to widespread confusion on Election Day, with more than 12,000 voters reportedly showing up at the wrong polling locations across Dallas County.
In response to those issues, West opted to reinstate countywide voting for the runoff election. However, members of the party’s executive committee disagreed with that decision, ultimately leading to pressure for his resignation.
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Allen, you put that pistol to your own head. Always the fool.
Felcher: I Chopped Off The Penis Of A Dead Raccoon
The New York Post reports:
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an avid animal genitalia researcher in his spare time, once pulled the family sedan to the side of the road after spying a dead raccoon and swiftly cut off its sex organs so he could “study them later.”
The bizarre account by the nation’s top civilian health official was unearthed in the new book “RFK Jr.: The Fall and Rise,” authored by The Post’s own Isabel Vincent, who drew upon a wide range of sources including private journals he penned while living in New York City between 1999 and 2001.
“I was standing in front of my parked car on I-684 cutting the penis out of a road killed raccoon, thinking about how weird some of my family members have turned out to be,” reads a surreal passage in which the HHS head, 72, was reportedly lamenting his rocky relationships with his brother Douglas Kennedy and cousin Bobby Shriver.
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Some people will eat anything.
MAGA YouTuber Imprisoned By South Korea
The New York Times reports:
Johnny Somali, an American social-media streamer known for desecrating a monument to women forced into sexual slavery during World War II, was sentenced to six months in prison in South Korea on Wednesday, in one of the harshest penalties handed down in the country for pulling stunts online.
He was convicted by a court in Seoul on several charges, including obstructing a business and distributing sexual deep fakes, according to local news media. A court official confirmed the sentence but the verdict was not immediately available.
Somali, 25, whose legal name is Ramsey Khalid Ismael, is an online personality who specializes in producing “rage bait” — chosen as 2025’s word of the year by the Oxford University Press, and defined as “online content deliberately designed to elicit anger or outrage by being frustrating, provocative or offensive.”
His stunts involved blasting music in public, yelling at strangers and vandalizing a small business in Seoul. He was arrested in Japan for trespassing on a construction site in Osaka in 2023, and was fined the equivalent of about $1,000 for disrupting a restaurant there with loud music.
"What a perfect representation of Trump’s America" -- AyJayDee2 (comments)
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Only 6 months? Should have been 6 years.
Gabbard Seeks Charges For 2019 Trump Whistleblower
MS Now reports:
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has sent criminal referrals to the Justice Department related to a former intelligence community inspector general and a whistleblower whose complaint helped trigger the first impeachment of President Donald Trump.
The whistleblower complaint, deemed credible at the time by then-Inspector General Michael Atkinson, set off a chain of events that culminated in Trump’s impeachment in 2019 for pressuring Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to investigate his then-political rival Joe Biden. The Senate later acquitted Trump in a largely party-line vote.
The criminal referral was first reported by Fox News. A spokesperson for Gabbard’s office confirmed to MS NOW that she had sent a criminal referral to the Justice Department but declined to provide further details.
"Aren’t there laws protecting whistleblowers?
I know, I know. The law no longer matters to this administration. What I want to know if we can bring charges for all these revenge witch hunters. Turn about fair play and all only legitimate." -- Johnathang (comments)
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Yes, RETALIATION IS A CONFESSION OF GUILT!
This is what corrupt Nazi pigs always do. The coming criminal tribunal will take care of them.
Impeach her and Trump for the 3rd time!
Newsmax Host: I Don’t Care About Trump’s Jesus Pic
“I just want the president to know, like, I don’t care about this. And I think a lot of people don’t care. Guess what? That’s Donald Trump. I’ll take it over Joe Biden. I’m a Catholic.
“When I saw this on Sunday, I kept scrolling. I went right by it because I don’t get bothered by what Donald Trump posts on social media, because there’s a big difference between what he posts and what he actually does. And I’m more interested in what Trump does.
“The other part of this story is the one that Donald Trump, just out of the blue, attacked the pope, which is not what happened. But here’s the headline — Trump attacks Pope Leo, when in reality, Donald Trump just responded to what the pope said about him.
“Pope Leo, who took over for Pope Francis, both definitely on the left politically. I think that’s fair to say.
“And don’t you think it’s interesting that the pope started criticizing Donald Trump after meeting with former Obama advisor David Axelrod, who’s from Chicago, just like the Pope, just like Barack.
“And don’t you think it’s interesting that three Cardinals then appeared on 60 Minutes right on cue after that to criticize Trump immigration policy.
“And do you think that maybe this might be more about trying to convince Catholics to turn against Republicans before the midterms in November? We think it is.” – Newsmax host Rob Finnerty, ignoring Trump’s claim that the image shows him as a doctor.
"So your position is 'Don't believe anything Trump says or posts.'
Got it!" — Gustav2 (comments)
"Can you imagine what they have to say about that commie that hung around with lepers and prostitutes?" — Jackie boy (comments)
"You don't care because you're just a fake xtian, but a real Nazi." — JT (comments)
"Uh huh. Keep fucking that chicken, pal. Even MAGAs recognize that image for how blasphemous it is." — Wke AF (comments)
"He does mind or he wouldn't have mentioned it." — Ed Meiller (comments)
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Biden is a Catholic.
Another Nazi propagandist who is a "Cafeteria Cathloic." We know these miscreants don't care so this isn't a shocker.
Trump just revealed himself as MAGA's darkest fear — John Casey
After I read about Trump posting that literally God-awful image of him as Jesus Christ, I looked up the dictionary definition of the word Antichrist: "a particular personage or power, variously identified or explained, who is conceived of as appearing in the world as the principal antagonist of Christ.”
And in a biblical sense, it’s described as a personal opponent of Christ expected to appear before the end of the world.
I stopped cold when I read it. Because if there is one human being — or demonic individual — walking the earth right now who fits that description, it is Donald J. Trump. Not metaphorically or as exaggeration. It is what I consider to be a studied and well-documented observation.
In Genesis 3:4-5 the devil says, “You will not surely die... For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” This represents the “father of lies,” undermining trust in God and tempting humanity with divine power while concealing catastrophic consequences.
Does this sound like Donald Trump or what?...
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Even if you look at it as metaphor or as biblical you'll be right!
JD Vance Headlines Empty TPUSA Show Even Erika Kirk Decided To Skip — Evan Hurst
History’s ugliest man
JD Vance tried to do a Turning Point USA event at the University of Georgia, and it was disastrous. Nobody showed up, not even Erika Kirk and her tight pants and her mobile fireworks stand. Not to grift, not to hump up on that vice presidential couch. You think she hasn’t noticed what happens to people and things JD Vance touches? Let’s just say running your fingers through JD Vance’s mane isn’t the power move she might have originally thought.
There is so much humiliation to get through here, where to start!
Well, tickets were free at the Akins Ford Arena in Athens, home of the big flagship UGA campus. So it was really sad when the big event came but nobody else bothered to. Jake Traylor from MS NOW and others surveyed the wreckage:
Akins Arena has a capacity of over 8,000. That would mean maybe 2,000 people could be bothered to love or hate JD Vance enough to request a free ticket online, or show up without one and pray they got in. A local student-run news source was more generous, suggesting that the arena was maybe a third full.
And again, the turnout was so embarrassing, apparently, that Erika Kirk decided to stay in her hotel room and hate-watch Druski videos. Vance told the crowd — OK, he told the group of people who showed up — that Kirk had to cancel because of security concerns. If so, it’s pretty funny that nobody was apparently all that concerned about JD Vance’s security, since he is the vice president, a point we’re not the only one to make. As this MAGA journalist noted:
"They really want us to believe that the TPUSA was safe enough for the Vice President but not Erika Kirk? I'm not buying it. She cancelled because they couldn't pull more than a couple hundred people. This is the most telling thing I've ever seen." — Eric Spracklin.
Spracklen is continuing to make fun of it on Twitter, asking, “Surely the FBI is investigating the threats against Erika Kirk right? Will we see an arrest or will Kash Patel address this?” LMAO....
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One thing is certain here. No one can stand J.D. Vance. He has a very rancid odor about him.
A Hole in the ‘Open-and-Shut’ Case Against Charlie Kirk’s Alleged Assassin? — Maureen Tkacik
...To be fair, there may be mountains of evidence no one yet knows about; the defense also said in a brief a few days before the one in question that the prosecution had only just delivered the vast majority of the discovery material it had provided in mid-March, six months after it had been requested. It remains a mystery to the public what became of the distinctive American flag T-shirt worn in the grainy surveillance photographs of the person in the stairwell purported to be Robinson, how he got the rifle off the roof, and why authorities are so sure Kirk’s fatal wound was created by a .30-06 bullet despite even TPUSA spokesman Andrew Kolvet’s famous concession that the ammunition “would have taken a moose or two down, an elk, etc.” but left nary an exit wound in Kirk’s neck, thanks only to his unusual bone density. (In another March motion, the defense noted that prosecutors had informed them the FBI was apparently still in the process of attempting to supplement the inconclusive ATF ballistics report with a “bullet lead analysis,” a form of forensic analysis the FBI officially discontinued back in 2005 following an exhaustive 14-month National Academy of Science review of its scientific foundation.)
But for most outside the “conspiracist” loony bin endlessly mocked by the likes of the Bulwark and even Ken Klippenstein—who recently maligned as a “crackhead view” theories of the case implicating a certain deep-pocketed Middle Eastern lobby with whom Kirk was bitterly feuding in the weeks before his death—the notion that Tyler Robinson was no more a murderous mastermind than anyone intuitively senses him to be is not a hill worth hiking, much less dying on. Like the media-circus performers who flocked to the trial of Sam Sheppard at the very peak of McCarthyism, they have likely been traumatized more profoundly than they realize by witch hunts that are far more effective than anyone can bear to accept. Like JD Vance, they see Tyler Robinson less as a human being and more as a nightmare.
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An important essay that requires reading skill.
Trump’s NLRB Doesn’t Want to Investigate Worker Complaints — KJ Boyle
Last year, the number of workers covered by a union contract rose to 16.5 million, the highest raw total since 2009. In theory, this increased representation should mean the National Labor Relations Board—the federal agency that protects the right of private-sector employees to organize, and adjudicates alleged unfair labor practices (ULPs)—will be awfully busy. For an agency that has long suffered from a workforce and inflation-adjusted budget decline, the growth of the organized workforce should coincide with agency leadership pushing for more capacity and resources to alleviate its backlog and manage new cases in a timely fashion.
This, however, is antithetical to the Trump administration’s bilious anti-worker animus—witness the desire to put federal workers “in trauma”—as well as its general hostility to the federal administrative state. So, rather than taking steps to handle its current caseload, NLRB General Counsel Crystal Carey is taking a different tack: choking off the number of cases that reach the agency by increasing the burden of filing complaints in the first place. As a result, employers who violate labor law are getting off scot-free....
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If you think Trump cares about American workers he has some "gold coins" to sell you.
Mexico launches universal healthcare as Trump slashes HHS funding by billions — Jordan Liz, Common Dreams
...While Trump prioritizes death and destruction, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum offers a different vision. On April 7, she issued a presidential decree establishing the Universal Health Service (Servicio Universal de Salud), which will allow patients from across Mexico to seek free care at any public health institution. Universal access will be rolled out in phases starting with emergency care and continuity of care in early 2027. Radiotherapy, laboratory tests, imaging studies, and other specialized services will be added later that year. Finally, in 2028, universal prescription fulfillment and hospitalization will be consolidated. For Sheinbaum, “The goal is that when we leave the government [in 2030], any Mexican man or woman can go to any health institution for treatment for any ailment and be received.”
The transition to universal healthcare began on April 13 when Mexicans aged 85 and older were eligible to register for their new Universal Health Credential. As Deputy Health Minister Eduardo Clark notes, these new credentials are “the guarantee of the right to healthcare” for Mexican citizens and eligible foreign residents.
This is the fundamental difference. In Mexico, healthcare is recognized as a human right enshrined in their Constitution. In 2023, then-Secretary of Foreign Affairs Alicia Bárcena said before the United Nations General Assembly, “In Mexico, we believe that coverage must be universal, public and free, starting with the most marginalized areas and prioritizing, as always, the poorest.” She continued: “It is unacceptable to profit from illness. In Mexico, we know that public health is not for sale. It is a public and universal good, and we defend it.”
By contrast, for Trump, healthcare is a privilege meant solely for those who deserve it. During his first presidential campaign, he remarked: “Where I come from, you have to prove your worth. You have some guy with no college degree working a minimum wage job; no ambition, no goals, nothing to show for it. Yet for some reason, the current [Obama] administration believes he—and millions of people like him, should have access to health insurance. It’s outrageous.” While Mexico starts with “the poorest,” Trump finds it “outrageous” to provide healthcare to minimum wage workers.
Trump’s position is immoral and vile. Healthcare is neither a commodity nor the exclusive privilege of the wealthy—it is a human right. Far from “outrageous,” guaranteeing healthcare to all is about ensuring that everyone can live a rich and fulfilling life....
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Mexico leads the US by light years with this act.
I just saw my doctor a couple of days ago and he told me he knew 6 doctors that had left the profession due to the agressive takeover of our healthcare system. The reason: Insurance companies are attempting to usurp doctors and dictate what they can do with their patients!! We must wake up on this issue or die!
Homan Wants To “Educate” Vatican On Immigration
TOM HOMAN: “Well, it’s unacceptable, and I’ve called the pope out before. I’m a lifelong Catholic. Baptized, first communion, confirmation. Look, I’ve spent my whole life in the Catholic Church, but I’m disappointed that they want to weigh in on political issues like this.
“There are enough problems with the Catholic Church – and I know because I’m a member of the Catholic Church – that they need to fix and concentrate on and leave politics alone. I mean, they talk about that they don’t believe in a secure border, they need to support open borders.
“However, if you cross the wall at the Vatican, you’re going to prison, and the penalties are much worse there than they are here. I wish they would sit down and let me educate them on open borders.”
Yesterday Homan told reporters outside the White House that the Vatican needs to “stay out of immigration.”
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Homan is another "Cafeteria Catholic" I see. He should stay out of politics and be the repulsive thug he is!
Trump Mocks “Radical Left” With Another Jesus Pic
Mediaite reports:
President Donald Trump on Wednesday posted another AI-generated image of Jesus Christ in the wake of the backlash from the last picture of himself as a Christ-like figure.
The post was met with fierce backlash from members of his own party, and was eventually deleted on Monday morning.
When asked about it, Trump claimed he thought the image depicted him as a “doctor” and blamed the “fake news” for the outrage.
Trump doubled down on Wednesday when he posted yet another image of Jesus. This one, a screenshot of another post, showed Jesus and Trump standing side-by-side. Jesus also had his arm around the president. Trump also included his own caption mocking the “radical left lunatics” in response to the backlash from the previous post.
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Trump is defining new models for mental illness. This should be a blessing for humanity in our future if he hasn't already destroyed it for us.
Newsmax Host: Jail All Who Helped Impeach Trump
“It is seven years later — the 2019 impeachment of Donald Trump. That was an absolute crime. The people who prosecuted him, the people who put in the phony whistleblower’s complaint, the impeachment managers, anybody who touched this case from the opposing side should be arrested, tried, and jailed. Absolutely.
“It’s so interesting, though, now it seems like ancient history and we find out new things about what really happened and suddenly it doesn’t seem newsworthy anymore. Why is that? Because The New York Times doesn’t want to undermine what their Pulitzer Prize shelf or something like that?
“The country was — can’t really remember now, distracted by this nonsense. And so was our president, and so was our entire government. The trial lasted, get this, how long was it again? 21 days. They screwed around about this phony issue. Totally phony. It was a coup, everybody. This was a coup.” – Newsmax host Greg Kelly.
"Newsmax is a treasonous organization that should be put out of business." — Oh4fuxsake (comments)
"Today's entire Republican Party is a treasonous organization that should be put out of business." — another_steve (comments)
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The only coup was a failed coup by Trump, you fascist pig! All Nazi propaganda outlets must go the same way as Hitler.
Baptist Youth Pastor Arrested On Child Porn Charges
Macon’s CBS affiliate reports:
U.S. Marshals arrested a youth pastor on child pornography charges in Houston County, according to a press release from the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office. The sheriff’s office said John Tyler Moreland, 30, was arrested for downloading pornographic images of children.
According to the release, Pennsylvania State Police found that explicit images were downloaded in the area of Mt. Zion Baptist Church, where Moreland was employed as a youth pastor. Pennsylvania police then contacted the Monroe Sheriff’s Office.
Moreland, a Macon native, was arrested by U.S. Marshals in Houston County, according to the press release. He is being held without bond and is awaiting extradition to Pennsylvania.
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Another one bites the dust.
Nashville Gospel Artist Arrested On Child Rape Charges
Nashville’s NBC affiliate reports:
Phil Vaught was arrested over the weekend following a lengthy investigation by Hendersonville police, where he now faces multiple charges related to child sex abuse.
The Criminal Court of Sumner County unveiled Tuesday a 160-count indictment against the Middle Tennessee musician, accusing him of sexual abuse of a child, rape and sexual exploitation. The incidents date back to 2015 and allegedly occurred as recently as January 2026.
Vaught was arrested over the weekend in Mississippi after what police called a lengthy investigation.Vaught comes from Kentucky. He’s the son of a minister who moved to Tennessee when his music career started to take off. He now faces a $1.5 million bond.
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Another one bites the dust.
Swing state demands answers as election denier clerk canceled voter registrations illegally — Hayley Harding, Votebeat
The Michigan Bureau of Elections is demanding answers from a controversial county clerk who reportedly canceled or changed voters’ registrations when she wasn’t supposed to.
The bureau sent a letter to Antrim County Clerk Victoria Bishop on Tuesday saying it had received information suggesting she had made voter registration changes “that fall outside the scope of your statutory authority and fail to comply with the law.”
Bishop, a Republican, was first elected in 2024 on a platform of cleaning up Antrim County’s voter roll. She is associated with the wing of the Republican Party that claims the 2020 election was stolen from President Donald Trump....
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Who are the ones that always get popped for voter suppression? Always Republicans, the damned Nazi Party! They are certifiable election stealers!
Trump becoming 'a grievance-fueled failure' — and he hates it: report — Alex Henderson
During Donald Trump's 2016 campaign, many of his critics predicted that disparaging comments about Sen. John McCain's (R-Arizona) military record would doom his campaign. Trump said of McCain — who was a prisoner of war in Vietnam — "He's not a war hero. He's a war hero because he was captured; I like people that weren't captured."
Trump also attacked McCain for losing the 2008 presidential race to Democrat Barack Obama, saying, "He lost, so I never liked him as much after that. 'Cause I don't like losers."
Trump's attacks on McCain didn't doom his 2016 campaign; he won the GOP nomination and went on to defeat Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in the general election. But the fact that he viewed McCain as a "loser," critics argued, showed that Trump had a very warped view of the world and was unfit for the White House.
Now almost 15 months into his second presidency, Trump is suffering from weak approval ratings in countless polls. And The New Republic's Matt Ford, in an article published on April 15, argues that Trump is the very thing he despises: a "loser."...
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This has been pointed out for years on LOTHN! His voters are sleeping and refuse to awaken.
Gas Prices Are 32.9% Higher Today Since Trump Took Office — John Amato
Republicans in Congress continue to lie about gas prices under President Biden.
Sen. Tim Scott lied to Maria Bartiromo on Fox Business when he tried to downplay the high cost of gas because of the Iran war and claimed gas prices are still lower under the Trump and Biden administrations -- they are not.
This is categorically false, but a lie Republicans and Trump officials continually spew to the media.
"Are you going to be able to message all of this, Senator, before the midterm elections?" Maria asked.
"Well, they're still lower than they were under President Biden, so that's good news," Sen. Scott replied.
When Trump took office, the national average price was $3.08/gal as of January 2025.
Today, April /14/2026, the national average is $4.12/gal.
Scott continued to glorify his fake Jesus.
SCOTT: Number one, yes, affordability will be solved.
Number two, gas prices are coming down.
Number three, we can thank President Trump and Republicans for doing both.
WTF? Sen. Scott, how is affordability being solved? It's getting worse under Trump, as inflation increases, housing is unaffordable, and gas prices aren't coming down.
This is what a cult does. It must praise its leader no matter the circumstances. Demented Donald is infallible, like Jesus Christ....
"I didn't know Uncle Tim got married. The only time I saw his BOUGHT 'fake' white girlfriend was when she appeared at a rally or was it a fundraising event?
And ever since then she has not been seen anywhere - confirming what many of us already knew.
I still scratch my head everytime a black, hispanic, muslim, asian, woman, LGBTQI person supports,defends and worships a politician who hates blacks, hispanics, muslims, asians, women and LGBTQI people." — bettestreep2008 (comments)
"AND little do any of these Uncle Toms realize that the MAGAt party they love so much would hang them from the nearest oak tree the first chance they got!!!" — bettestreep2008 (comments)
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Tim Scott. We all know what he is. Keep sleeping, Tim.
Orbán Crushed: Trump's Fave Fascist Fell—He Should Be SCARED — Cliff Schecter
I think we just may’ve discovered a formula that beats fascist incumbents, and it happens to be the exact situation we find ourselves in here in America...
Nicolae Ceau?escu, longtime Communist Dictator of Romania was executed Christmas day in 1989. Just one week earlier he was (ironically) on a state trip to Iran like all was normal. He was ousted in no small part because he’d lost the people with draconian policies, like food and energy rationing. He had massive debt to deal with, as a shrinking GDP and his taste for the finer things—which, tbh, isn’t very communist-y—had gotten him in trouble:
Ceau?escu became obsessed with building himself a palace of unprecedented proportions, along with an equally grandiose neighborhood, Centrul Civic to accompany it.
As people were starving, he constructed the second largest building—in surface area—in the world. The first? The Pentagon. There may be a message there too. Now, why do I bring this up? A dictatorial man who's about the most openly corrupt leader we've seen, who pardoned and protected an elite pedophile, and is sending jobs into the crapper hyperinflation on essentials. Wait, you thought I meant Trump?! I was talking about Orban!
And now you see why Donald Trump should be terrified. I think we just may’ve discovered a formula that beats fascist incumbents, and it happens to be the exact situation we find ourselves in here in America...
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A similar fate may await him.
Pentagon Deploys Thousands More Troops Near Iran
The Washington Post reports:
The Pentagon is sending thousands of additional troops into the Middle East in the coming days, as the Trump administration attempts to pressure Iran into a deal that could end the weeks-long conflict there while considering the possibility of additional strikes or ground operations if a fragile ceasefire does not hold, U.S. officials said.
The forces moving into the region include about 6,000 troops aboard the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush and several warships escorting it, said current and former officials, who like some others spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss military movements.
About 4,200 others with the Boxer Amphibious Ready Group and its embarked Marine Corps task force, the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit, are expected to arrive near the end of the month.
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Trump escalates a war he says he won! Idiota!
REPORT: US Is Ramping Up Plans For Cuba Operations
Zeteo reports:
History’s cattiest warmonger, Donald Trump, continues to publicly dangle a US invasion of Cuba, the island nation that his administration has been strangling to death with a brutal, months-long energy blockade. “We may stop by Cuba after we’re finished with this,” Trump said Monday – meaning once his disastrous war in Iran actually ends.
It would be one thing if President Trump were only mouthing off for the cameras. He’s not.
In recent days, according to two sources familiar with the situation and another person briefed on it, officials at the Pentagon and elsewhere in the US government were quietly given a new directive that came straight from the Trump White House. The message: ramp up your preparations for possible military operations against Cuba.
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'You are part of the problem!' JD Vance erupts after Kirk's widow skips rally over threats — Robert Davis
This criminal act could start the world to wage war on the now terrorist country of the USA. We could find ourselves under bomb alerts from former allies.
Vice President JD Vance melted down on Tuesday after Erika Kirk, the widow of late conservative activist Charlie Kirk, skipped moderating the Turning Point USA rally in Athens, Georgia, citing "threats" she received ahead of the event.
Kirk and Vance were scheduled to appear together at the University of Georgia.
"Mr. Vice President, I am on the stage here instead of our friend, Erika Kirk, because, unfortunately, she has received some very serious threats in her direction," TPUSA's Andrew Kolvet told Vance. "It's a terrible reflection on the state of reality and the state of the country, but it underscores a larger point: she has received a lot of attacks from surprising places."
"What a bunch of BS. The event was the safest place for her to be, you know, cuz the effin secret service was protecting Vance. They lie at a 4th grade level. You know, same as they (and trump) speak at a 4th grade level." -- JGB (comments)
"This was Vance’s worse night of his career. After a failed negotiation and Kirk bolted the opposite direction. You sir are the bigger problem." — MacGeekAz (comments)
"So, nobody bought tickets?" — CosimodiRondo (comments)
"It likely could have been because of the sparse attendance or is it because Usha is pregnant meaning that JD 'cheated on her'. ;). JD is always summoning up another personality and feigning rage. What's the latest? That the Pope should be careful when talking about theology and that his statements should be 'anchored in the truth.'? This snarky pubescent, been a Catholic for a minute, immature asshat is way out of his depth. Perhaps he was upset because his side chick wasn't there." — WayWayPastDone (comments)
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Vance is such a cheap asshole.
Vance and Trump are the ones destroying America. They must be stopped and never allowed back!
Trump proved he's in the midst of a 'dangerous deterioration': national security expert — Daniel Hampton
A prominent Atlantic writer is sounding the alarm about President Donald Trump's mental state after the president spent a weekend attacking the pope, posting an AI image of himself as Jesus Christ, and rage-posting on Truth Social until nearly dawn.
Tom Nichols, a professor emeritus of national security affairs at the U.S. Naval War College and conservative Trump critic, wrote Monday that Trump's erratic behavior is no longer just an idiosyncrasy, it's a national security crisis.
"This is not the behavior of a stable, healthy leader," Nichols wrote....
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The real problem is his Nazi supporters in Congress. They are his criminal henchmen. Unitl they are replaced our country is in serious danger.
Trump doubles down on Jesus imagery with new post amid outrage from Christians — Matthew Chapman
In the face of intense criticism for posting an AI-generated image of himself as Jesus Christ, President Donald Trump doubled down and posted yet another religious-themed image of himself to his Truth Social platform on Wednesday morning.
Trump's post consisted of a screenshot of an image of Jesus embracing Trump, posted by an account on X which accompanied it with, "I was never a very religious man ... but doesn't it seem, with all these satanic, demonic, child sacrificing monsters being exposed ... that God might be playing his Trump card!"
The post appeared to be referencing longstanding conspiracy theories from the QAnon movement, which holds Trump is fighting a secret group of child traffickers who control the world....
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We see here the problem: He doesn't know many of his supporters are evangelicals. He's way too far gone in the head!
Trump Apparently Thinks Soda Kills Cancer Cells Because ‘It Kills Grass — Ryan Grenoble
Honestly how is this man still alive.
The man who suggested people drink bleach during the COVID pandemic is back with another hit.
President Donald Trump reportedly thinks soda is good for him, because it kills grass — and therefor it must also kill cancer cells.
The wild revelation comes via Dr. Mehmet Oz, Trump’s administrator for Medicare and Medicaid, who shared the anecdote on Donald Trump Jr.’s podcast Tuesday.
“Your dad argues that diet soda is good for him because it kills grass if you pour it on grass, so therefore it must kill cancer cells inside the body,” Oz told Trump Jr. in disbelief, to which Trump Jr. just laughed and shrugged knowingly....
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Please keep complex problems away from this fucking moron of an idiot!
Did Trump Just Light a Fuse He Can’t Control? — Thom Hartmann
The Strait of Hormuz crisis could be following the same path that led to World War I.
Saturday’s back-to-back headlines on The Washington Post were: “‘They Have Chosen Not To Accept Our Terms,’ Vance Says” and “U.S. Intelligence Shows China Taking A More Active Role In Iran War.” They echo headlines from a century ago that reported on the early days of what quickly became World War I.
In 2021, China and Iran became military allies, signing a “broad strategic partnership encompassing economic, diplomatic, and security dimensions.” Russia signed a similar comprehensive military/security agreement with Iran in January of last year. The three countries are now military allies and formally assisting each other. Hold that thought.
Then, yesterday morning, America’s resident madman Donald Trump announced on his Nazi-infested social media site that the United States Navy will illegally blockade the Strait of Hormuz — the narrow chokepoint through which twenty percent of the world’s oil used to flow every day — threatening to intercept “every vessel in International Waters” that’s paid a toll to Iran.
The US blockade of the Strait begins the hour that I publish this article, 10 AM ET on Monday, April 13th.
That means all the shipping of oil for China and drones for Russia will be intercepted by the US. We’re now blocking the war and energy supplies of nations that have nuclear weapons and whose military assets are already in the region. And it came just hours after the peace talks in Islamabad — led by three American grifters with absolutely no diplomatic experience — had predictably collapsed.
What happens next will depend entirely on whether anyone in this administration has ever seriously studied what happened the last time a similar cascade of great-power commitments, cornered leaders, and military miscalculations all converged at once....
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Trump disasters must end!
Trump's naval blockade crumbles after Iran-linked vessels breach barricade: report — Alexander Willis
A U.S. naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz went into effect Monday at 10 a.m. EST at the direction of President Donald Trump, but in a matter of hours, the blockade was breached without incident by at least four Iran-linked vessels, BBC reported Tuesday.
On Monday, Trump said that he had instructed the U.S. Navy to “seek and interdict every vessel in international waters that has paid a toll to Iran,” and the U.S. military later said that the “blockade will be enforced impartially against vessels of all nations entering or departing Iranian ports and coastal areas.”
However, ship tracking data analyzed by BBC Verify revealed that at least four Iran-linked vessels “crossed the Strait of Hormuz” without incident; two on Monday, and two overnight.
“The Rich Starry, a tanker that is sanctioned by the United States under a different name, sailed through the strait overnight Monday,” CBS News reported, with the outlet having also analyzed ship tracking data. “The Elpis, another sanctioned tanker, sailed through the strait after the blockade began, having apparently come from the Iranian port of Bushehr, according to tracking data.”
The Rich Starry is a U.S.-sanctioned Chinese oil tanker, and was the first vessel to breach the blockade since its implementation Monday morning. The Chinese government called the United States’ blockade "dangerous and irresponsible,” with Chinese President Xi Jinping warning that the world must not be allowed to “revert to the law of the jungle,” NBC News reported....
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Total fail once again.
Did Trump Just Light a Fuse He Can’t Control? — Thom Hartmann
The Strait of Hormuz crisis could be following the same path that led to World War I.
Saturday’s back-to-back headlines on The Washington Post were: “‘They Have Chosen Not To Accept Our Terms,’ Vance Says” and “U.S. Intelligence Shows China Taking A More Active Role In Iran War.” They echo headlines from a century ago that reported on the early days of what quickly became World War I.
In 2021, China and Iran became military allies, signing a “broad strategic partnership encompassing economic, diplomatic, and security dimensions.” Russia signed a similar comprehensive military/security agreement with Iran in January of last year. The three countries are now military allies and formally assisting each other. Hold that thought.
Then, yesterday morning, America’s resident madman Donald Trump announced on his Nazi-infested social media site that the United States Navy will illegally blockade the Strait of Hormuz — the narrow chokepoint through which twenty percent of the world’s oil used to flow every day — threatening to intercept “every vessel in International Waters” that’s paid a toll to Iran.
The US blockade of the Strait begins the hour that I publish this article, 10 AM ET on Monday, April 13th.
That means all the shipping of oil for China and drones for Russia will be intercepted by the US. We’re now blocking the war and energy supplies of nations that have nuclear weapons and whose military assets are already in the region. And it came just hours after the peace talks in Islamabad — led by three American grifters with absolutely no diplomatic experience — had predictably collapsed.
What happens next will depend entirely on whether anyone in this administration has ever seriously studied what happened the last time a similar cascade of great-power commitments, cornered leaders, and military miscalculations all converged at once....
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Trump disasters must end!
Trump's naval blockade crumbles after Iran-linked vessels breach barricade: report — Alexander Willis
A U.S. naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz went into effect Monday at 10 a.m. EST at the direction of President Donald Trump, but in a matter of hours, the blockade was breached without incident by at least four Iran-linked vessels, BBC reported Tuesday.
On Monday, Trump said that he had instructed the U.S. Navy to “seek and interdict every vessel in international waters that has paid a toll to Iran,” and the U.S. military later said that the “blockade will be enforced impartially against vessels of all nations entering or departing Iranian ports and coastal areas.”
However, ship tracking data analyzed by BBC Verify revealed that at least four Iran-linked vessels “crossed the Strait of Hormuz” without incident; two on Monday, and two overnight.
“The Rich Starry, a tanker that is sanctioned by the United States under a different name, sailed through the strait overnight Monday,” CBS News reported, with the outlet having also analyzed ship tracking data. “The Elpis, another sanctioned tanker, sailed through the strait after the blockade began, having apparently come from the Iranian port of Bushehr, according to tracking data.”
The Rich Starry is a U.S.-sanctioned Chinese oil tanker, and was the first vessel to breach the blockade since its implementation Monday morning. The Chinese government called the United States’ blockade "dangerous and irresponsible,” with Chinese President Xi Jinping warning that the world must not be allowed to “revert to the law of the jungle,” NBC News reported....
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Total fail once again.
Trump supporter faces hate crime charge after lynching threat in Aldi parking lot — Nicole Charky-Chami
A Trump supporter in Michigan who went on a racist tirade and threatened to lynch a Black woman in an Aldi parking lot was facing hate crime charges on Monday.
Randall Lee Miller, 55, was boasting about white privilege and threatening a woman using racial slurs in Cascade Township on March 10, according to MLive.com.
Court records show that Miller, who is white and was questioned by sheriff's deputies, continued to double down on his comments and told a deputy he would say "something as equally as offensive" to anyone of a different race.
A Kent County sheriff's deputy described what happened in an affidavit of probable cause after a woman who was driving into an Aldi parking lot when Miller, who was driving a Jeep, cut her off. He reportedly started yelling at her while they were both inside their vehicles, calling her racial slurs, such as "n----- b----," according to the affidavit.
Authorities said Miller told her, "You’re the reason why we need to bring back hanging n-----s from trees."
Miller talked about white privilege, pointed at his skin and the American flag, according to the affidavit.
"Both exited their vehicles and Miller immediately called the woman a racial slur several times, police said. The woman said she initially laughed because she could not believe Miller’s behavior," MLive.com reported.
The affidavit indicated that "Miller aggressively started to smack the side of his vehicle with his hand while speaking out about white privilege and President Donald Trump."
The woman told deputies she felt threatened by him and reported the incident the next day.
Miller argued that he thought the woman was going to hit his vehicle. He was arraigned on a hate crime charge on March 31 and released on a $20,000 surety bond....
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This shit will get someone killed.
New York Times finally reports on concerns that Trump is ‘clearly insane’ — Dan Froomkin
Three cheers for Peter Baker and the New York Times for finally writing and publishing the article a lot of us have been calling for.
Well, maybe two cheers. I’ll explain in a bit.
But first, let’s take a few moments to appreciate the article headlined “Trump’s Erratic Behavior and Extreme Comments Revive Mental Health Debate” (gift link).
Its subhead reads: “As the president threatens to wipe out Iran and attacks the pope, even some former allies and advisers are questioning whether he has grown increasingly unbalanced, describing him as ‘lunatic’ and ‘clearly insane.’”
In the article, Baker concludes that Trump’s various statements over the past week “have left many with the impression of a deranged autocrat mad with power.”
He writes that “the president’s eruptions have raised questions about America’s leadership in a time of war.”
He writes that “never in modern times has the stability of a president been so publicly and forensically debated — and with such profound consequences.”
He notes that the concerns about Trump’s mental health are coming not just from “partisans on the left, late-night comics or mental health professionals” but from “retired generals, diplomats and foreign officials,” as well as former staffers and far-right former allies.
He quotes a wide range of people calling him “clearly insane,” “an extremely sick person,” “unhinged,” “out of control,” “batshit crazy,” and “a genocidal lunatic.”
Given the extraordinary influence of the New York Times, this article may have been just what the industry was waiting for, opening the floodgates of honest – and troubling – reportage about a topic they have spent over a decade sanewashing and covering up....
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Is the dam breaking on Trump's insanity denial? It seems to be.
Taco chain hit with boycott as MAGA CEO's Trump posts emerge: 'We vote with our wallets' — Nicole Charky-Chami
Roberto's Taco Shop was facing a social media firestorm on Monday after accusations surfaced that CEO Reynaldo Robledo is a staunch Trump supporter — and furious customers demanded a boycott.
Now, a Facebook group called "A Strong Nevada" was rallying supporters to ditch Roberto's entirely. "Reynaldo Robledo, the CEO of Roberto's Taco Shop is a huge MAGA supporter and supports ICE!" the group stated, calling for a full boycott....
A 2020 transcript reveals Robledo met with Trump at a "Latinos for Trump" roundtable, gushing: "We love the work you're doing. We love what you've done for us." He claimed it was their third meeting.
The Nevada franchise quickly scrambled for damage control, insisting the CEO's personal beliefs don't reflect the company's values.
"Each of our 49 franchisees operate independently," the company pleaded with fans on Instagram.
But angry customers didn't buy it.
"We vote with our wallets," one Instagram commenter fumed. "I won't be back."
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No tacos from you!
Ron Johnson: Failures In Iran War Is Because Of Gun Control -- Chris capper Liebenthal
Sen Ron Johnson blames the Orange syndicate's repeated failures in the Iran War on gun control.
"...By the way, this is exactly what nationwide gun control results in. The Iranian people are completely disarmed. It's going to be very difficult for them to rise up, so it's a very difficult situation.
Now I hope, I hope that President Trump is successful in this, because if we could just imagine the world, if the ayatollahs, the brutal Iranian regime, is no longer in power. That's what we're trying to achieve. "
Now for some inconvenient facts. President Obama struck a peace deal with Iran - a peace deal that was broken by Trump in his first term because he hates Obama that much. Then he started a war to distract from the Trumpstein files. So this 47-year war bullshit can stop. No one is buying it except for the lowest info MAGAts.
Secondly, what does gun control have to do with peace talks? Is the objective to end the war or to start a civil war in Iran? This is the kind of bullshit you end up with when you go in without an objective or a plan. Furthermore, even if the Iranian civilians were armed to the teeth, what does he think they can do that the US Armed Forces can't?
Lastly, why the hell is ABC giving putzes like RoJo free air time without even a token effort at pushing back against all the idiocy and lies? There sure are a helluva lot of people that need to go back to remedial journalism.
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The mental decline of the aging Nazi Party.
DOJ Fires Four Prosecutors For Anti-Abortion Cases
MS Now reports:
At least four Justice Department prosecutors have recently been fired as part of the Trump Administration’s plan to publicly accuse the Biden administration of unfairly targeting anti-abortion protesters for their religious beliefs, according to two people familiar with the firings and a Justice Department spokespeson.
The firings of the assistant U.S. Attorneys come as the DOJ plans to release a report Tuesday that concludes the prior administration weaponized the department to criminalize the conservative beliefs of people protesting outside abortion clinics. MSNOW first published the news about the coming report and its findings after obtaining an early draft of it last week.
In the cases the Trump administration cite as proof, however, juries sided with the government prosecutors and convicted protesters for violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act or FACE Act, a 1994 law that made it illegal to use physical violence or threats to block access to medical providers. The law was passed after violent attacks on abortion providers and physical threats to staff and clients at medical facilities that performed abortions.
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Another example of spiteful and wrongful prosecution by Trump.
No one was attacked for "religious beliefs." These people were trampling on citizens rights. They continue to do so.
“DoorDash Grandma” Is Longtime GOP Megabill Flack
The Daily Beast reports:
Sharon Simmons, a grandmother of 10 from Fayetteville, Arkansas, went viral after being filmed knocking on the Oval Office door and handing the president two bags of McDonald’s on Monday. What the cameras did not capture was that Simmons had previously spoken publicly in support of the very same policy she was celebrating on Monday.
Republican Rep. David Kustoff had posted on July 28, 2025, about hearing from Simmons at a Ways and Means Committee field hearing in Nevada, saying she had shared how the One Big Beautiful Bill would “make a real difference in her life.”
In her 2025 congressional testimony, Simmons said that DoorDash’s flexible scheduling had been a lifeline: “Because DoorDash provides me with a truly flexible work schedule, I was able to drive him to and from his treatments. During that time, every extra dollar I earned mattered more than ever.”
Read the full article. DoorDash was a megadonor to Trump’s 2025 inauguration. As reported here yesterday, the staged event went off the rails when Simmons refused to condemn anti-trans legislation despite Trump repeatedly egging her on during the live televised encounter.
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Another bullshit Nazi prop by Trump. Apparently the White House chefs can't fry a good hamburger for the idiot! LMAO!
"Theatre of the Absurd!"
POLICE: Armed Off-Duty Cop Instigated Violence At Anti-ICE Protest Held By Arizona High School Students
Phoenix’s CBS affiliate reports:
An armed, masked man who showed up during an anti-ICE student walkout three months ago at Hamilton High School is a Phoenix police sergeant. The incident started as a student walkout similar to many others across the Valley after federal agents in Minneapolis shot and killed Alex Pretti in January. But this one escalated, and the man at the center of it all, according to police, was an armed off-duty Phoenix police sergeant.
According to a police report, officers were already monitoring the protest when a student flagged down officers, reporting a suspicious man with a gun. Officers said they spotted him near a shopping center wearing a mask and openly carrying a handgun with extra magazines.
Moments later, that man, identified as off-duty Phoenix police Sgt. Dusten Mullen, approached students, telling them to “grow up.” According to the report, Mullen told officers his plan was to let students assault him so they could be arrested.
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Who did this dmiwit Nazi asswipe thnk he was — The Lone Ranger? Where's the grown-up in this story?
Docs Show DHS Lied About Raid On IL Apartments
ProPublica reports:
For months, the Trump administration has justified its dramatic midnight raid on a Chicago apartment complex by saying that it had intelligence that the violent Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua had taken over the building. But officials have provided no evidence to back up the claim.
Now, new documents confirm in the government’s own words that what prompted the raid was more pedestrian: allegations that immigrants were squatting in the complex. And the landlord had given federal officials, who were already targeting immigrants in Chicago, the blessing to search the building.
Arrest records for two of the 37 immigrants detained that September night, included in a motion filed Tuesday that’s tied to an ongoing federal consent decree, provide the clearest picture yet of what led to the controversial and aggressive operation, in which agents descended from a Blackhawk helicopter, broke down doors and zip-tied U.S. citizens and immigrants.
The records reveal that agents entered and searched the complex with the “owner/manager’s verbal and written consent.” Agents wrote that they launched the operation “based on intelligence that there were illegal aliens unlawfully occupying apartments.” They said they focused their search on units “that were not legally rented or leased at the time.” That narrative appears word for word in both arrest reports — for a Venezuelan man and a Mexican man.
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These Nazi excuses are as lame as they are.
'It was me as a doctor': Trump rushes to deny messiah complex after Christian outrage — Alexander Willis
President Donald Trump admitted Monday to posting an image on social media that appeared to depict him as a Jesus Christ-like figure, but disputed its widely perceived meaning when pressed on the matter by a reporter.
“I did post it, and I thought it was me as a doctor,” Trump told a reporter at the White House Monday when pressed about the image, described by the reporter as depicting the president “as Jesus Christ.”
“Only the fake news could come up with that one. I just heard about it and I said 'how did they come up with that?' It's supposed to be me as a doctor making people better! And I do make people better, I make people a lot better!”...
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Weak tea, Don. That bullshit won't cut it. Since you've destroyed Medicaid for all and threaten Medicare you've shown us you don't care about curing anyone save you own ass.
'You're all cowards': MAGA lawmaker drowned by jeers and boos as town hall turns ugly — Nicole Charky-Chami
Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) faced off with an angry crowd as he was booed during a fiery town hall this weekend in New York, according to reports.
Lawler was meeting with constituents at Mahopac High School on Sunday when he was met with a hostile audience, lohud.com reported.
"As at his previous sessions, a steady din of jeers and shouts washed over his responses and drowned him out at times — mixed with applause and cheers from his supporters after some responses," the outlet reported....
He reportedly kept defending his positions and lectured the crowd while the public was showing frustration towards him and the Trump administration.
"We're in a high school auditorium, and high school students act a lot better than you are acting," Lawler told the crowd as the heckling started. "Actually act like an adult, and stop."
Lawler defended Trump's war in Iran, reiterating the Trump administration's talking point that the conflict was aimed to avoid Iran obtaining or making a future nuclear weapon.
But one of his constituents challenged him — and the crowd cheered him on when he directly called Lawler out for his support of Trump. He continued his criticism of Trump until security guards pulled the microphone away from him and escorted him out.
"You say that when you disagree with Trump, you will tell him so, but that's not enough," one man said. "You must impeach. He's a fraud, he's corrupt, he's an incompetent psychopath. The Republican Party and you are enabling him. You're all cowards, and you're spineless."...
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These Nazi assholes are lucky they aren't tarred and feathered!
Judge dismisses Trump's $10B lawsuit over the Wall Street Journal's Epstein reporting — AP
In the order issued Monday, the judge wrote that President Trump had failed to make the argument that the article, which described a letter to Epstein that the newspaper said bore Trump's signature, was published with the intent to be malicious.
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The loser continues his losing streak.
University of Notre Dame President Releases Statement in Support of Pope Leo After Scathing Attack from Trump — Ahmad Austin Jr.
The president of the University of Notre Dame on Monday expressed support for Pope Leo XIV in response to President Donald Trump’s attack on the pontiff.
The previous day, Trump called out the Pope in a major escalation of tensions between the White House and the Catholic Church. He declared Pope Leo “weak on crime” in response to him repeatedly taking indirect shots at Trump’s administration over its immigration policy and the war in Iran.
Hours later, the Pope responded by saying he had “no fear” of the Trump administration and insisted that he was not trying to be political with his recent remarks. Pope Leo maintained that he was merely a “peacekeeper” who was “speaking out loudly of the message of the Gospel.”...
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Trump is getting pelted for his ignorant arrogance. As it should be.
Trump's bizarre cover story for 'blasphemous' meme bewilders: 'Invoke the 25th Amendment' — Travis Gettys
President Donald Trump failed to persuade critics with his explanation for a post depicting himself as a Christlike figure healing a bedridden man.
The 79-year-old president has already deleted the post, which went up Sunday as he raged online against Pope Leo XIV, but he insisted Monday afternoon at the White House that the image was not intended as a depiction of himself as Jesus Christ.
"It wasn't a depiction," Trump said, standing beside a DoorDash driver outside the Oval Office. "I did post it and I thought it was me as a doctor, and had to do with Red Cross as a Red Cross worker, which we support, and only the fake news could come up with that one."
The post had triggered outrage from many of Trump's supporters, several of whom considered it "blasphemous."
Many social media users suggested his explanation raised more questions than it answered.
"His lying powers have sharply declined," noted writer Bruce Wilson.
"He's counting on people not knowing what a doctor looks like because they don't have healthcare," supposed menswear writer Derek Guy stated.
"My favorite part of going to the doctor is when he touches my forehead holding the glowing orb of light," added journalist Laura Bassett.
"I'm not entirely sure if someone that can't differentiate a doctor from Jesus Christ should be President," reckoned X user Eksara.
"Confusing Jesus Christ with the Red Cross is even more justification to invoke the 25th Amendment," agreed blogger Oliver Willis.....
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Invoke the 25th Amendment on him or remove it from our Constitution. Otherwise we are mocking our establishment of justice as the Constitution states.
Re-enacting the Crusades — Harold Meyerson
MAGA is nothing if not tribal. It has two deities—Donald Trump and a parochial and xenophobic Christian God—and views everyone outside those faiths as enemies to be dissed, degraded, or destroyed.
Evangelical Christians have long been more tribal than Christian in any theological sense, which for decades has predisposed them to flock to Republicans who not only attacked their political opponents but effectively consigned them to Hell. They remain the largest constituency in the MAGAverse, as no one previously had railed against those they saw as pagans and heretics as vociferously and violently as Trump. Even as the polls show increasing public rejection of Trump and his war in Iran, the MAGA faithful have stuck with him and all his dubious enterprises. An Economist/YouGov poll from March had Trump with an overall approval rating of 35 percent, but among self-described MAGA Republicans, it was still a stratospheric 82 percent. This despite the fact that by ordering his face be placed on coins and on banners draped from government buildings, he has become the first literally idolatrous president in our history. That the MAGA faithful are idol worshippers is daily demonstrable.
This has not required the MAGA faithful to abandon their tribal form of Christianity, of course, and in recent weeks, both the vice president and several cabinet members have conflated state policy with the tribal version of Christianity. Speaking last week in Budapest on behalf of the re-election campaign of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán (which was soundly defeated on Sunday), JD Vance noted that Trump’s America and Orbán’s Hungary were united by their common allegiance to “Christian civilization and Christian values.” He implored listeners to vote for Orbán as the way to “stand for freedom, truth, and the God of our fathers.” That Trump-Orbán bond was sealed by their respective wall-building projects on their borders, and their determination to keep immigrants—non-Christians and Muslims in particular—from coming to their lands.
The Christianity of Vance, Hegseth, and Rollins is a blood-and-soil Christianity....
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Power is a vile drug.
MAGA International Goes Down in Flames — Andrew Egger
Victor Not Orbán
by H. David Baer
Budapest, Hungary
“Spring wind brings rising water . . . every bird must choose a partner”—so begins the popular Hungarian folk song that Péter Magyar’s opposition party adopted as the theme for its campaign. The image of rising water goes well with the party, which shares its name, Tisza, with a river in eastern Hungary. Yesterday, the Tisza flooded.
The flood began with record turnout, upwards of 77 percent, an early sign that looked favorable for the opposition. Soon after returns started coming in, Tisza took a commanding but not decisive lead. Then, unexpectedly, around 9:15 p.m. local time, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán phoned opposition leader Péter Magyar to congratulate him. Minutes later, Orbán delivered a concession speech that, if not exactly gracious, was nonetheless honorable and fully in line with democratic expectations. Fears that Orbán would not acknowledge defeat proved unfounded.
At 10:30 p.m., Magyar appeared, waving a Hungarian flag as he marched through the middle of the enormous crowd assembled for his victory party in Batthyány Square.
Like everything in Magyar’s history-making campaign, the choice of election-night venue was overlaid with symbolism. Batthyány Square takes its name from Lajos Batthyány, the first prime minister of Hungary and a hero of the 1848 Revolution, who was executed for his commitment to Hungarian freedom. The square sits on the banks of the Danube, directly across from the country’s neo-gothic Parliament, whose columns and spires glimmered as Magyar ascended the podium to deliver his victory speech—and to announce that Tisza had won a supermajority in Parliament. Now, with nearly all the votes counted, Tisza is expected to have 138 seats, five more than needed to reach the two-thirds threshold for enacting sweeping constitutional reforms.
Yesterday’s election was, in part, a referendum on Orbán’s leadership and his makeover of the Hungarian government. But it was also a battle for the soul of Hungary. To describe the election as a clash of two campaigns would be to miss a major part of the story: Yes, Orbán was running a campaign, but Magyar was leading a social movement. In every city he visited the last two weeks, crowds came out by the tens of thousands. The photos are astounding. Rallies this big aren’t really rallies; they feel more like marches or demonstrations, something more significant than a rally. Hungarians did not take to the streets in numbers like this even in 1989....
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This looks especially good on the idiot, Vance!
Iran Can’t Blockade Strait Since February If Trump Blockades It First Right Now! — Evan Hurst
Well, JD Vance led the American side of ceasefire talks with Iran this weekend, and that went about as well as when he breathed on Viktor Orbán and murdered his dictatorship and breathed on the last pope and sucked out what was left of the late pontiff’s will to live.
So not well.
Iranian parliament speaker, Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, who led Iran’s side in the talks, addressed Trump in a new statement on his return to Iran: “If you fight, we will fight.”
And on the American side:
“We need to see an affirmative commitment that they will not seek a nuclear weapon,” said Vice President JD Vance, leading the U.S. side.
Ooh! Ooh! Idea! They should call Barack Obama, he negotiated a whole thingie-dingie in 2015 where Iran agreed to exactly that and was complying with it. Then again, Obama spoke softly and carried a big dick-we-mean-stick, so Iran respected him a hell of a lot more than they respect the pussyboys of the current regime. Maybe it might not fly this time.
Anyway, point is, JD moved on that couch like a bitch but he couldn’t get there.
Therefore, it’s time for Donald Trump to blockade the Strait of Hormuz!
But wait, wasn’t the Strait of Hormuz already blocked by Iran? Largely and for all practical purposes
Confused? Sucks to be you!...
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The spice must NOT flow!
Demented Old Man Imagines Tower On The Moon
The Daily Beast reports:
He slammed American Pope Leo XIV for criticizing the war in Iran. He then posted an AI-generated image that appeared to show himself as Jesus Christ, igniting fury across the political spectrum. But Trump’s spree was not over. After depicting himself as the Son of God just one week after Easter, he turned to plans to expand his real estate portfolio.
Without comment, he posted another mocked-up image at around 11 p.m. Sunday, showing a Trump tower on the moon’s surface. The shimmering structure sits amid lunar rocks, with the president’s name splashed across it twice.
He has also floated the idea of filling Gaza with skyscrapers. His posting spree appeared to wind down with a link to a story about the White House ballroom he intends to build and a link, posted at around 4 a.m., to an ego-stroking New York Post piece about his perceived successes in the failed Iran negotiations.
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A decrepit old man playing with his toys as a child would.
1000+ Hollywood Bigshots Oppose Paramount Deal
The New York Times reports:
More than 1,000 writers, actors and directors released a letter on Monday opposing Paramount’s acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, saying the deal would harm Hollywood’s already distressed entertainment industry.
The letter, which was signed by well-known performers and directors including Bryan Cranston, Joaquin Phoenix, Tiffany Haddish, Lily Gladstone and Yorgos Lanthimos, warns that merging two of Hollywood’s major studios will result in “fewer opportunities for creators, fewer jobs across the production ecosystem, higher costs and less choice for audiences in the United States and around the world.”
“We have witnessed a steep decline in the number of films produced and released, alongside a narrowing of the kinds of stories that are financed and distributed,” the letter said. “Increasingly, a small number of powerful entities determine what gets made — and on what terms — leaving creators and independent businesses with fewer viable paths to sustain their work.”
"The Ellison men should move to Mars with Elno." — egm (comments)
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A good thing. It should all get smaller.
The Deaf, Dumb and Blind Cult Still Dazzled by the Nastiest, Most Naked ‘Emperor’ Ever — Robert Becker
HG Wells (in 1920) nailed our current plight: “History is a race between education and catastrophe.”
Of all the narratives that MAGA Trump has trashed beyond absurdity, Hans Christian Andersen’s The Emperor’s New Clothes at least presents a legitimate, fairy tale emperor – however vain, gullible and bereft of clothes. Suddenly, one fearless child, wiser than MAGA, declares the mortifyingly “naked truth.” Perhaps this emperor’s exposed “equipment” didn’t amplify his humiliation. But all we have is a pretend, stumbling, bumbling, incoherent “emperor” locked into wrath, bunkum and havoc. Where’s the buyers’ remorse refund post for the backstabbed, bludgeoned and betrayed?
Alas, no truth-telling child, adult or AI robot boasts a big enough megaphone to puncture MAGA resistances of confirmation bias. Elsewhere, growing multitudes, in horror and certainty, confirm the true and only source of the most damaging fake news – the spewing bellower of laughable propaganda. Adding to the amusement, the fairy tale posits only the most intelligent can contradict all sensory perceptions that leave nothing to the imagination. Today’s great MAGA irony – only the least informed cult suckers declare their guy still wears the perfect “clothes” to save the world – betrayed by demonic, self-serving Dem defiance.
Right, just what we need – a deluded bevy of boorish national destroyers, driven by typical MAGA fury, manic headline-grabbing and delusions of persecution. Only a reckless crony of corrupt criminals defy the difference between using just prosecutions to save America vs. the all too successful machinations by the Destroyer-in-chief and enablers to escape liability. This phony WH emperor doesn’t only have the wrong end of the stick, quipped one U.K. wit on war, tariffs, and inflation, he’s got the entirely wrong stick....
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And they can't even play a good pinball!
'Clearly a psychopath': Theorist warns 'morally insane' USA has bigger problems than Trump — Travis Gettys
President Donald Trump's return to power is a damning indictment of American society, according to a political theorist.
And his prosecution of the war in Iran is a demonstration of his bottomless unfitness for office.
Alan Elrod recently published a piece for Liberal Currents analyzing Trump's second presidency and what it means for the future of American politics, and he spoke with The New Republic's Greg Sargent about his findings.
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The collapse of a fraud.
Trump torn apart for 'all-time dumb' move — Alex Henderson
Although U.S. President Donald Trump's war against Iran is drawing intense criticism from both the left and parts of the right, some of his diehard supporters are praising his handling of the war as strategically brilliant. But Never Trump conservative Rick Wilson, in a "Fast Politics" video with liberal journalist Molly Jong-Fast, argued that Trump's war is anything but strategic.
In the video, posted on YouTube on Sunday night, April 12, the former GOP strategist told Jong-Fast, "Nothing says strategic genius like turning the whole world against you."
With the flow of oil through the Strait of Hormuz — a major Middle Eastern waterway — being blocked, Wilson warned, Trump is causing economic pain all over the world.
Wilson told Jong-Fast, "Here's the problem with this whole thing. Donald Trump truly believes this is a move like 87-dimensional quantum string theory chess when, in fact—in all the all-time list of dumb s– –, land war in Asia, check, already there. Blocking the straits, which turns off the entire world economy, that means everything. That means they're not making any semiconductors in South Korea and Taiwan because we'll be cutting off the helium supply. We're not shipping any energy out of the gulf to Asia, to China."
Wilson sarcastically added, "This is just a string of genius moves on Donald Trump's part."..;.
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Arrogance plus stupid =Trump.
MAGA Blasts Trump’s “Blasphemous” Jesus Comparison
Mediaite reports:
President Donald Trump triggered a rare wave of backlash late Sunday from his most loyal supporters after he shared an AI-generated image portraying himself as Jesus Christ that infuriated religious MAGA die-hards who accused him of “blasphemy.”
The image, posted to Truth Social, shows the president appearing in a Christ-like role, healing a sick patient while surrounded by followers. The post quickly spread across social media through the night, drawing fiery rebuke from allies and exploding fresh tensions within the MAGA coalition.
Conservative Daily Wire contributor Michael Knowles was among those to vocally break ranks and call out the post, urging the president to “delete the picture.
"I get a kick out of these evilgenital christo-fascists acting all surprised.
Like, where you been, fools?" -- Bungee (comments)
"And thus begins the epic battle between Demento & Bibi for the title 'King of the Jews.'” -- uncle mark's Mugshot (comments)
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Displaying his hand of death!
Trump Flees Questions About Orban’s Crushing Loss
The Daily Beast reports:
Donald Trump couldn’t run fast enough from questions about this weekend’s resounding electoral defeat of the foreign leader he was perhaps closer to than any other. “Thank you very much,” the president hastily announced on the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews on Sunday night as soon as reporters started asking questions about Viktor Orban.
He then strode swiftly away from the press gaggle toward a helicopter waiting to return him to the White House after an overnight stay at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida.
Former Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, a longtime MAGA ally and Trump’s most fervent supporter in Europe, was ousted Sunday after 16 years in power in a stunning riposte to the global far right.
"King Pedofelonius has left the building!! In search of another major distraction" -- Rherd53 (comments)
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Donnie wants a recount?
Magyar Vows Hungary Will Be Strong NATO/EU Ally
Euronews reports:
Hungary’s incoming PM Péter Magyar said he plans to visit Brussels in a bid to get billions in frozen EU funds unlocked as he vows to restore system of checks and balances. Hungary’s incoming Prime Minister Péter Magyar said the country will once again be a strong European and NATO ally as he vowed to restore its place in Europe.
Magyar was speaking in central Budapest in front of thousands of supporters after securing a landslide victory over Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz Party. “Hungary will once again be a strong ally representing Hungarian interests, because our country’s place is in Europe,” Magyar said.
With almost 99% of the votes counted, Tisza is well on course to take a comfortable two-thirds majority of 138 seats in the 199-seat Hungarian Parliament. According to data from the National Election Commission, Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz could retain 55 seats.
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The new boss said "Resign tomorrow!" to the Nazis! I hope to hear this from our next president!
Trump Attacks “Weak On Crime” Pope Leo: He Is Only In The Vatican Because Trump Is In The White House
“Pope Leo is WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy. He talks about ‘fear’ of the Trump Administration, but doesn’t mention the FEAR that the Catholic Church, and all other Christian Organizations, had during COVID when they were arresting priests, ministers, and everybody else, for holding Church Services, even when going outside, and being ten and even twenty feet apart.
“I like his brother Louis much better than I like him, because Louis is all MAGA. He gets it, and Leo doesn’t! I don’t want a Pope who thinks it’s OK for Iran to have a Nuclear Weapon.
“I don’t want a Pope who thinks it’s terrible that America attacked Venezuela, a Country that was sending massive amounts of Drugs into the United States and, even worse, emptying their prisons, including murderers, drug dealers, and killers, into our Country.
“And I don’t want a Pope who criticizes the President of the United States because I’m doing exactly what I was elected, IN A LANDSLIDE, to do, setting Record Low Numbers in Crime, and creating the Greatest Stock Market in History.
“Leo should be thankful because, as everyone knows, he was a shocking surprise. He wasn’t on any list to be Pope, and was only put there by the Church because he was an American, and they thought that would be the best way to deal with President Donald J. Trump.
“If I wasn’t in the White House, Leo wouldn’t be in the Vatican. Unfortunately, Leo’s Weak on Crime, Weak on Nuclear Weapons, does not sit well with me, nor does the fact that he meets with Obama Sympathizers like David Axelrod, a LOSER from the Left, who is one of those who wanted churchgoers and clerics to be arrested.
“Leo should get his act together as Pope, use Common Sense, stop catering to the Radical Left, and focus on being a Great Pope, not a Politician. It’s hurting him very badly and, more importantly, it’s hurting the Catholic Church!” – Trump, last night on Truth Social.
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This message was brought to you by a decaying, whimpering, low-down skunk-weasel on his last cankles!
Evidence Challenges US Account of Deadly Strike in Iran — Brett Wilkins
New information published Friday by the New York Times further suggests that the U.S. military may have lied when it tried to pin the blame for a February airstrike that killed 21 people in Iran on the Iranian government, with evidence indicating that the U.S. carried out the attack with a new missile designed to inflict maximum casualties....
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Is there yet another cover-up?
Catholic Cardinal Slams Trump Admin’s ‘Sickening’ Social Media Posts About Iran War on 60 Minutes — Sean James
Catholic Cardinal Blase Cupich lambasted President Donald Trump’s administration for posting “sickening” social media content about the Iran war during an interview on 60 Minutes on Sunday.
The long-running CBS show interviewed Cupich and two other high-ranking American Catholics — Cardinal Joseph Tubin and Cardinal Robert McElroy — days after Pope Leo XIV ramped up his criticism of the war.
Cupich told correspondent Norah O’Donnell he has been appalled by the White House’s “gamification” of the war on social media, where it combines military clips with movie and TV scenes; 60 Minutes highlighted a March X post that included Tom Cruise in “Top Gun: Maverick” and Mel Gibson from “Braveheart,” among other pop culture references. You can see that post below.
“We’re dehumanizing the victims of war by turning the suffering of people and the killing of children and our own soldiers into entertainment,” Cupich said.
O’Donnell added he had called it “sickening” previously, and Cupich reiterated it for the CBS audience.
“It is sickening. To splice together movie cuts with actual bombing and targeting of people for the purposes of entertainment is sickening,” he said. “This is not who we are. We’re better than this.”...
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Waaaaay better!
Trump's compulsive habit is straight out of the dictator's playbook — Matthew Rozsa
President Donald Trump’s “gauche” habit of naming everything after himself is more than just a quirk picked up by his narcissistic father; it is, quite literally, a threat to our republic.
“He got it from his father, Fred Trump,” USA Today's Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy reported in an interview with Barbara Res, a former executive vice president at Trump Organization who oversaw major projects like building Trump Tower in the 1980s. The elder Trump was a wealthy New York City real estate developer who raised his son to inherit that empire and expand it.
“He (the president) was raised to believe that he was different and his family was different,” Res said. “And by different, I mean better than and more important than anyone else.” Res was a close adviser to the younger Trump from the late 1970s to the early 1990s.
Jeffrey Engel, founding director of the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, added that Trump’s renaming obsession speaks to a deeper authoritarian trend in his governing style.
“The leader is the state is what those messages are trying to convey,” Engel told Ramaswamy. “And in our country, the leader's not the state, the people are the state.”
He added that there are only two reasons why presidents’ names are added to buildings and other important institutions only after they have died. The first is that doing otherwise is “gauche”; the second is that “more importantly, this is still a constitutional republic.”
Despite the fact that renaming important institutions after a living president implies that America is a dictatorship rather than a constitutional republic, Ramaswamy noted that “the 79-year-old commander-in-chief’s name has been inserted into decades-old establishments such as the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the U.S. Institute of Peace. He’s also slapped his name on key policies including TrumpRX, Trump Gold Card, Trump Coin and Trump Accounts.”
Ramaswamy added, “Federal buildings – including the Department of Labor, Department of Agriculture and Department of Justice – unfurled large banners with Trump’s face on them over the past few months. Lawmakers have sought to cater to Trump's ego with legislation to put him on Mount Rushmore. The latest canvas? The Treasury Department announced in March that Trump’s signature will appear on future U.S. paper currency in honor of the country’s 250th anniversary.”...
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Being a stupid egomaniac is no way to go through life.
CDC Caught Burying Report on Real Effects of COVID Vaccine — Joe Wilkins
The Trump administration’s assault on vaccine science has taken a predictable turn. Bombshell reporting from the Washington Post just revealed that Jay Bhattacharya, the acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has secretly blocked publication of a report that concludes COVID-19 vaccines are a significant boost to public health.
Two CDC scientists, speaking to WaPo anonymously out of fear for retaliation, said the report found that COVID vaccines drastically minimize risk of hospitalization after catching the virus. According to the study, healthy adults who received a jab reduced their risk of urgent care visits by 50 percent, and their risk of a hospital stay by 55 percent, compared to those who went unvaccinated.
The report had been slated to run on March 19 in the CDC’s research journal, the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Bhattacharya, however, delayed the piece, arguing that there were concerns with the study’s methodology.
“Dr. Bhattacharya wants to make sure that the paper uses the most appropriate methodology for such a study,” Andrew Nixon, a spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human Services told the paper.
As WaPo notes, a similar report using the exact same methodology to study the common flu vaccine ran in MMWR a week earlier.
The episode is incredibly fishy, following the playbook of HHS secretary and infamous vaccine skeptic RFK Jr, who previously called the COVID shot the “deadliest vaccine ever made.” In 2025, the Food and Drug Administration, a sub-agency of the HHS, moved to greatly limit access to the vaccine.
“The secretary has already taken steps to try and remove the availability of the vaccine from children and others,” former CDC safety director Daniel Jernigan told WaPo. “So if you’re putting out an MMWR that the vaccine is effective at preventing hospitalizations and medical care visits… that message is not line with the direction you’ve been taking with the removal of the vaccine.”...
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The scam that keeps scamming
Man Suing City After AI Camera Flags Him For Wrongful Arrest — Joe Wilkins
If you were arrested after an AI facial recognition camera wrongly flagged you as a trespasser, how far would you go to get justice?
Jason Killinger is looking to go all the way. The Nevada man recently filed a lawsuit against the city of Reno, after a police officer named Richard Jager placed him under arrest for 12 hours on the guidance of an AI surveillance system.
The filing naming the city of Reno is the latest escalation in Killinger’s months-long quest for retribution, coming after federal Judge Miranda Du agreed the city could be named in his suit, the Reno Gazette Journal reported. A lawsuit against Jager is already ongoing, which will now include Reno among its defendants.
While placing some bets at an area casino, Killinger was previously flagged as a “100 percent match” for another man who had been banned from the gaming floor at an earlier date. After being detained by casino security, Killinger was placed under arrest by officer Jager, who accused the innocent man of using a fake ID to evade casino staff.
The cop made a number of errors, the lawsuit alleged, including refusing to check Killinger for alternative forms of ID (he had at least three in his wallet at the time, he says.)
Yet the new lawsuit takes things much further, blaming the city of Reno itself for failing to train police officers properly on the legal use of AI facial recognition tools. This situation, Killinger’s attorneys allege, has led to “thousands of unlawful arrests” using facial ID technology, the Gazette reported.
“Jager’s conduct was not a sporadic incident involving the wrongful actions of a rogue employee,” the updated lawsuit declares, “but the result of a widespread custom and practice involving hundreds of municipal employees making thousands of arrests in the same manner over a period of years.”
It’s not the first incident where cops trusted machines over their brains, and it’s far from the most horrific. Last year, an innocent grandmother was jailed for over six months after Fargo police, using a generative AI system to generate investigative leads, flagged her as the perpetrator of ATM fraud (bank records later showed she was 1,200 miles away at the time of the crime.)
While Killinger’s attorneys haven’t named a specific reward they’d like to see, Reno taxpayers could be on the hook for punitive damages, attorney fees, and compensation for injuries he sustained while being handcuffed.
If Killinger wins, it could set a major precedent for wrongful arrests in an era where AI algorithms, not humans, are increasingly doing the policing.
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Robo Cop fails again.
Analysis: “Warflation” Will Ripple Through US Economy
Nerd Wallet reports:
The war in Iran may be on pause, but its effects on prices are still in motion and will continue to ripple through the economy after more than a month of disruption to the global oil supply.
Gas prices, for starters, are up more than 40% since February, and aren’t likely to subside soon. Airfares have climbed as well. Other price hikes are likely to follow in the months ahead, in areas as disparate as food, clothing and electronics. This comes on top of already persistent inflation.
Higher oil prices permeate through the global economy because so much of the world’s transportation, manufacturing and food production depends on petrochemicals and natural gas. As a result, rising energy costs will push up prices for food, goods, and daily essentials, straining household budgets already stretched thin after years of inflation.
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Work three jobs, sleep on meal breaks.
Trump just proved he's 'the most powerful idiot' in world history: columnist — Robert Davis
President Donald Trump's latest effort to settle the war with Iran proves that he is "the most powerful idiot in the history of the world," according to one columnist.
David Rothkopf, a columnist at The Daily Beast, argued in a new column on Sunday that Trump's decision to impose a retaliatory blockade on the Strait of Hormuz showed the president is operating with the "strategic acumen of a four-year-old in a fight on a pre-school playground."
The Iranian regime has effectively closed the Strait of Hormuz in response to the U.S. and Israel launching a coordinated bombing campaign across Iran in late February. The closure has sent global energy prices skyrocketing.
"He is undoubtedly the most powerful idiot in the history of the world," Rothkopf wrote.
"Both his idiocy and his power are unparalleled. On the latter point, his position as president and commander-in-chief of the most dominant, potent nation confirms that no idiot since the beginning of time has ever been in a position to do so much damage to so many people as a consequence of his idiocy," he added.
"On the prior point, just look at the record," Rothkopf continued. "The misbegotten, ill-considered, going-from-bad-freaking-worse every damn day War with Iran illustrates Trump’s manifold mental deficiencies with shocking clarity—and, unfortunately for all of us, the damage he is doing seems certain to touch more lives in more egregious ways going forward than it already has."
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And he's extending his lead in this catagory!
'Bye bye, Viktor!' Internet erupts as Trump-endorsed far-right leader loses election — Robert Davis
The internet erupted on Sunday after a Trump-backed autocrat lost a high-stakes election.
Viktor Orbán, a strongman and staunch Russian ally who has led Hungary for the last 16 years, conceded defeat to opposition party leader Peter Magyar in the country's national election. Orbán has been a symbol of the rise of the far right across Europe as he sought to roll back the country's democratic reforms.
Orbán lost the election despite U.S. Vice President JD Vance traveling to the country to campaign for him. President Donald Trump also endorsed Orbán in multiple Truth Social posts.
Orbán described his loss as "painful," according to a report from the Associated Press.
Political analysts and observers reacted to the news on social media.
"Bye bye Viktor!" former Republican lawmaker Adam Kinzinger posted on X. "MAGA hero is gone."
"Voters in Hungary said no to a strong man. We can do it too," legal expert Joyce Vance posted on X.
"I’m incredibly obsessed with JD Vance sinking Victor Orban," political commentator Molly Jong-Fast posted on Bluesky.
"Off with you, you fascist Putin puppet," author Paul Kemp posted on Bluesky.
"The return of Trump has been dreadful news for hard-right politicians around the world, and now they're disrespecting him by accepting electoral defeat," Larry the Cat, who lives at the U.K. Prime Minister's residence at 10 Downing Street, posted on X..
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Think of it. Always.
Trump-endorsed autocrat in Hungary concedes election loss after 16 years in power — Robert Davis
Viktor Orbán, the autocratic Hungarian president and staunch Russian ally, conceded defeat in the country's national election on Sunday, ending his 16-year reign in power, according to reports.
The Associated Press reported that with 60% of the vote counted, opposition leader Peter Magyar’s party held 52% of the vote compared to Orbán's 38% support. Orbán described the loss as "painful."
"It’s a major blow for Orbán, the European Union’s longest-serving leader and one of its biggest antagonists, who has traveled a long road from his early days as a liberal, anti-Soviet firebrand to the Russia-friendly nationalist admired today by the global far-right," the AP reported.
Trump endorsed Orbán in a Truth Social post on Friday, calling him " a truly strong and powerful leader." Trump added that the U.S. stood ready to "strengthen Hungary's economy," if Orbán won.
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Hell, yes! A fascist CAN concede when he loses!
The world turns!
Shock from Iran war has Trump's vision for US energy dominance flailing — Marianne Lavalle
In President Donald Trump’s telling, the United States has fuel enough to hover above the chaos that his attack on Iran has triggered in global energy markets.
“We’re in great shape for the future,” Trump said in a speech last week, asserting that this nation, as the world’s biggest oil and gas producer, doesn’t rely on the tankers Iran blocked from passage through the Strait of Hormuz for the past month. “We don’t need anything they have.”
But the view is much different beneath the service station signs across the country that have flipped to more than $4 per gallon for the first time in four years. Over the past month, US households paid $8.4 billion more for gasoline compared to prices before the war on Iran began, according to a report by Democrats on Congress’ Joint Economic Committee....
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Trump has no mercy for Americans.
Sean Hannity Thinks He Knows The Bible Better Than The Pope — NewsHound Ellen
If Jesus were to appear publicly and denounce Trump’s wars, Sean Hannity would probably attack him as anti-Christian.
It’s one thing to agree with Donald Trump’s war mongering and killing sprees. But it’s a whole ‘nother thing to smear Pope Leo, his religion and understanding of the Bible in order to justify Trump’s death and destruction.
Sean Hannity, who claims to be a devout Christian, did exactly that on his radio show, on Friday.
Via Media Matters:
HANNITY: I hate the pope.
[…]
HANNITY: [The pope] doesn't want any conflict anywhere, and he was talking about violence. And I'm like, have you even read the Bible?
Have you read the conflicts, the wars that were — that the Israeli people that were - they were empowered by God to defeat their enemies?
Did you ever hear the story about David slaying Goliath through the power of God, with a slingshot against this massive giant? Or the conflicts and the wars of King Saul and so on and so forth.
MAGA world melted down after Pope Leo had the nerve to condemn warmongers and preach for peace, with quotes from Scripture, no less....
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Sean once studied as a cleric in the Church of the Double-Cross.
Tell us, Sean, what would you do if Jesus came to your house to spend a day or two?
OpenAI Backing Law That Protects It When AI Causes Mass Deaths and Other Mayhem — Victor Tangermann
On Thursday, Florida’s attorney general James Uthmeier announced his office was investigating OpenAI over a deadly school shooting last year that victims claim was at least partially inspired by conversations with ChatGPT.
The shooting, which took place at Florida State University almost exactly a year ago, resulted in the death of two students and seven injuries.
“AI should advance mankind, not destroy it,” Uthmeier said in a statement. “We’re demanding answers on OpenAI’s activities that have hurt kids, endangered Americans, and facilitated the recent FSU mass shooting.”
As the chatbot continues to be embroiled in controversy — with lawsuits accusing its maker of having the tool play a role in a wave of suicides and murder amid reports of “AI psychosis” — OpenAI is actively seeking to absolve itself of legal responsibility.
As Wired reports, the company is backing a bill in Illinois that would shield companies from liability in cases where AI causes “critical harms,” including mass deaths, injuries of over 100 people, or over $1 billion in property damage.
Experts are warning that the bill, dubbed SB 3444, could set a national standard for the industry if it were to pass, letting AI companies off the hook if they’re involved in a future disaster....
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Alright! Someone else finally gets a license to kill besides 007!
Research Finds That AI Has Already Replaced Work for 20 Percent of Jobs — Joe Wilkins
A new survey from Epoch AI and Ipsos has found that one in five full-time American workers say AI has already taken over parts of their job, in the latest piece of data adding fuel to the burning debate over AI automation.
The poll, which surveyed 2,000 US adults, found that about half of all respondents used AI in the past week for either personal or work reasons. Among full-time workers, 20 percent said the tech had taken over tasks they used to do themselves, while 15 percent reported AI has created new on-the-job chores they wouldn’t have taken on otherwise.
In a word, this suggests that AI displacement — where AI leads to less available work for humans — is outpacing AI augmentation, where human workers become more productive as a result of access to AI tools.
“When one in five workers say AI is already replacing parts of their job, we can start talking about labor market restructuring happening in real time,” Nichols Miailhe, an AI policy leader at the Global Policy on Artificial Intelligence, told NBC about the findings. “The fact that replacement seems to be outpacing augmentation should draw our attention: the policy window to shape how AI transforms work is probably closing faster than most governments realize.”
The findings land alongside a separate, sweeping economic survey from researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and several top universities, which found that economists are increasingly revising their models to account for a serious shakeup of the labor market.
How true any of this is in real economic terms is becoming an increasingly urgent question. There are plenty of reasons to doubt the AI automation narrative, like the fact that AI in the workplace is still an error-prone disaster waiting to happen, if it isn’t already — like at Amazon, where the drive to replace human workers is slowing down overall productivity.
As prominent automation-doubter and AI critic Gary Marcus recently opined, the math on AI-driven unemployment doesn’t add up. Experiments on AI automation haven’t held up over time, like at the finance tech firm Klarna, which had to hire back its humans after its 11-month stunt blew up in its face.
Instead of asking whether AI is prevalent in the workplace, the better question might be whether it’s completing tasks with the same productivity as humans —and a growing consensus among experts suggests it isn’t.
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The future... where the destruction of humanity is cashing in!
OpenAI Staffers Horrified When Senior Leadership Hatched “Insane” Plan to Pit World Governments Against Each Other — Frank Landymore
OpenAI leaders horrified staffers after proposing an “insane” plan to enrich the company by pitting world governments against each other.
This anecdote of near comic-book-villainry comes from The New Yorker’s sweeping new investigation into CEO Sam Altman, which documents his alarming pattern of lying and manipulating to build his AI empire, a behavior that some insiders likened to that of an actual “sociopath.”
Altman’s second-in-command Greg Brockman features heavily. In 2017, according to the reporting, he hatched a geopolitical scheme which internally came to be known as the “countries plan.” Unimpressed by his ethics adviser’s suggestion to avoid a nuclear-like arms race by forming an international body to cooperate on AI safety, Brockman openly mused about playing world powers like China and Russia against each other, such as by starting a bidding war for its tech. According to the ethics adviser, Page Hedley, Brockman’s logic seemed to be, “It worked for nuclear weapons, why not AI?”
“The premise, which they didn’t dispute, was ‘We’re talking about potentially the most destructive technology ever invented — what if we sold it to Putin?'” an exasperated Hedley told The New Yorker....
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Hooray! Our end is within reach!
Hungary Sees Fraud Accusations On Election Day
Politico Europe reports:
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's camp and the opposition are accusing each other of electoral fraud as both sides gear up for a potential clash over the results of Sunday's crucial election. As Hungarians continue to vote, Orbán supporters are already preparing for a confrontation once the results come in after voting stations close at 7 p.m. Both camps are exchanging accusations of electoral fraud, with experts warning the outcome could be challenged in court no matter who wins.
Hundreds of international observers have descended on Budapest, while Orbán's camp has set up its own monitoring groups. A dozen EU lawmakers from the right-wing Patriots for Europe group are registered as observers, alongside 100 observers tied to Orbán-aligned groups — setting the stage for what experts warn will be a clash of narratives with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, which the Hungarian government has dismissed as politicized....
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Like Trump, like Orbán. Impossible for a corrupt Nazi criminal to lose an election!
‘We’re Going to Be Blockading’: Trump Calls In to Fox News After ‘Very Friendly’ Talks With Iran Collapse — Joe DePaolo
In a phone interview on Sunday Morning Futures with Fox News anchor Maria Bartiromo, the president confirmed the announcement he’d made on Truth Social moments earlier — that the U.S. will begin a naval blockade on all ships entering and leaving the Strait of Hormuz.
“We’re going to be blockading,” Trump said. “It’ll take a little while, but it’ll be effective pretty soon. And we had meetings yesterday — as you said, lasted 21 hours. That was a long meeting. We had some very, very good representatives, as you know. “JD [Vance] and Steve [Witkoff] and Jared [Kushner]. So we were well represented. But we didn’t get there on the important issue. They want to have nuclear weapons. They’re not going to have nuclear weapons.”
Bartiromo asked Trump to get into specifics on how the talks broke down. Trump responded by claiming Iran’s leaders tried to act as though “they had the cards.”
“They don’t have the cards,” Trump said. “Their army and their whole military is obliterated. The whole place is obliterated. And as you know, levels of leaders are gone. They’re literally gone. Khamenei’s gone, the whole thing is gone, the whole place is gone. They have one thing that they can do. They can say, ‘well, gee, we’re gonna put a mine someplace…just a mine…we’ll drop one mine, two mines.’ And … if you have a ship that costs a billion dollars, you say, ‘well, you know, I prefer not getting whacked by a mine, losing my ship or damaging it badly, at least.’ And so that’s a little bit of a thing that they can do…but you know, it’s extortion. And they’re extorting the world.”..
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Top notch insanity from a demented male.
Sunday thought: How the Hell Did We Get to This Point? — Robert Reich
And how do we change course?
Friends,
The past terrifying week has caused me to wonder: How did America ever get to a point where one man, backed by the military might of the United States, could credibly threaten death to an entire civilization?
I’m also wondering how 19 super-rich American households could have added $1.8 trillion to their wealth in just the last 24 months — roughly the size of the economy of Australia — while the rate of child poverty in the U.S. has more than doubled, from a low of 5.2 percent in 2021 to over 13 percent now?
How have we come so perilously close to climate catastrophe, with spring temperatures in the Western United States already shattering records — and yet governments are spending over a trillion dollars a year subsidizing the fossil fuel industry and banks have channeled over $3 trillion to fossil fuel companies since the Paris Agreement, while there are almost no funds to protect living ecosystems?
How have we allowed artificial intelligence, the most powerful technology the world has ever seen, to threaten millions of jobs; make vulnerable the software that runs our financial, energy, and defense systems; and potentially destroy the human race — while allowing it to amass so much political power that it eludes all guardrails and regulations?...
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Some people just like to live in a robber baron collapse!
Trump’s DOJ will move forward with Colony Ridge settlement despite concerns from judge — Zach Despart
The proposed $68 million settlement with a Texas land developer that the Justice Department had accused of preying on Hispanic residents includes no money for the victims but more than $20 million for police and immigration enforcement.
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Still thinking of voting for the double-crosser?
These bumbling clowns were so inept Iran's hardliners could barely keep straight faces — John Casey
There is an old American idiom for a group so collectively inept they couldn’t organize a one-car parade, as another axiom goes. We call them the Three Stooges. They were a legendary comedy trio famous for their chaotic, physical slapstick and for being a cultural shorthand for lovable but total incompetence.
After watching JD Vance (Mo), Steve Witkoff (Curly), and Jared Kushner (Larry) stumble out of Istanbul empty-handed, having failed to end a six-week war, reopen the Strait of Hormuz, or extract a single meaningful concession from Iranian hardliners, the comparison feels apropos.
I’ve been reading comment sections of stories about Trump’s 21st century trio of clowns, and I’m not the only one who has labeled them after the indelible comedy trio.
With that said, let’s do a little review about the strengths - err weaknesses - of each of the foolish players.
JD Vance arrived in Pakistan as Vice President of the United States, a title he has held longer than he held his Senate seat, which he won a mere three years ago. His previous experience in high-stakes negotiation consists largely of brokering peace between childless cat ladies and their felines who took umbrage at his offensive jab.
In June of last year, Vance’s stupidity reared its bulbous, bearded head when he tried to explain the concern around the U.S. first foray into Iran. "I understand the concern, but the difference is that back then we had dumb presidents, and now we have a president who actually knows how to accomplish America’s national security objectives".
Well, of course we can laugh about Trump understanding national security objectives, but Trump was among the presidents during those last 25 years — along with other Republicans.
Then there is Jared Kushner, whose legendary negotiating prowess consists primarily of leveraging his proximity to his father-in-law to attract billion-dollar investment deals from foreign sovereign wealth funds to enrich himself. A chip off the old father-in-law.
In a January 2020 interview with Sky News Arabia, Kushner defended his qualifications to lead the Trump administration's "Peace to Prosperity" plan by stating:."I’ve been studying this now for three years. I’ve read 25 books on it." This from the same guy whose memoir was reviewed by the New York Times as a "queasy-making" slog that reads more like a college admissions essay than a serious political account.
And Steve Witkoff. As Trump himself might say, “Who in the hell is this guy?” Prior to Trump designating him a diplomatic savant, Witkoff was focused on luxury real estate development in Manhattan and Miami. Seemingly, it’s this background that presumably explains why he reportedly confused enrichment facilities with “industrial reactors” and referred to the Strait of Hormuz as the “Gulf of Hormuz.”...
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Embarrassing? Only to someone with brain function.
Famed general hits Trump for stumbling into war Iran 'desired' — and giving it superiority — Adam Nichols
Retired US Army General Wesley Clark warned Sunday that Iran has desired war with the U.S. for decades — and Trump's stumbling may have given it superiority in the conflict.
As the war enters its seventh week, face-to-face negotiations in Pakistan failed to reach agreement Saturday night. With American forces remaining deployed and Iran on heightened alert, the shooting war has largely paused — yet the diplomatic phase will prove decisive.
"The negotiations will reflect the respective results, capabilities and will of each side" Clark wrote in USA Today.
"This is where the war will be won or lost."
Despite sustaining significant air campaign losses, Iran approaches negotiations from a position of considerable strength — potentially superior to that of the United States, the retired general warned.
This advantage stems from meticulous strategic preparation spanning years.
"Iran has studied U.S. tactics and capabilities for years, and has prepared itself to deal with a war it found inevitable and even desirable," he wrote.
By assessing American vulnerabilities at the strategic level, Iran developed weapons and tactics specifically designed to exploit them....
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This war will last you eternally.
MAGA hardliner rages against immigration — but floods his state with foreign workers — Adam Nichols
Rep. Andy Harris presents a striking contradiction in American politics.
On Capitol Hill, the Maryland Republican stands as one of President Donald Trump's most steadfast advocates for aggressive immigration enforcement. But on the shore of Maryland, Politico reported, he is celebrated as a champion for securing foreign labor that sustains the region's commercial seafood industry.
Chairing both the ultraconservative House Freedom Caucus and the agricultural appropriations subcommittee, Harris has wielded considerable influence to lobby the Trump administration for expanded temporary foreign worker programs. This year, he successfully convinced the White House to maximize H-2B visa allocations, securing approximately 65,000 positions — roughly 30,000 more than initially announced, according to the report.
The expansion directly benefits seafood producers in his district who depend on Mexican workers to hand-pick blue crab meat....
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All these immigrant pickers are fine with Mr. Forked Tongue!
GOP Rep: We Don't Need Congress Micromanaging A War — Heather
Someone needs to explain to this clown that this is literally his job.
Big-time Trump apologist Rep. Russell Fry of South Carolina appeared on Fox Business Friday to offer a powerfully convoluted—but telling—excuse for why the GOP-controlled Congress remains unwilling to do its job and rein in the war in Iran....
"President Trump has always said from the very beginning, this is a limited incursion."
I defy anyone to find one excuse dipshit donald has consistently made during this entire debacle." — Genius Lemur (comments)
"And ignorant Rebel Racist Hillbillies wonder why they lost the Civil War." — MAGAs Most Hated (comments)
"It appears that he's declared war on the entire world now.
If one dares to send a ship along one of the largest trade highways on earth and he finds out that you have paid Iran a toll, he says he's going to detain your ship? How? Is he going to extort one of the countries in the region to give land to him to build a port? How much is that going to cost to build and operate?
Will he build an Arc de Truimpe there to declare victory, too?" — sandyhh (comments)
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Looks like none of the MAGA retards have a clue about what the fuck our Congress's job description is.
Trump's threat against Pope Leo is exactly why Francis shaped him for the job — Michael Signorile, The Signorile Report
...One opinion piece from The Catholic Standard that Provost re-posted just a few weeks ago was written by the auxiliary bishop of Washington, DC, Bishop Evelio Menjivar, who is from El Salvador and had been an undocumented immigrant himself for many years. It’s a powerful piece slamming the Trump administration:
The video of a student being accosted by masked agents after her visa was revoked without notice – apparently because of an op-ed she co-wrote years ago – is horrifying. Most egregiously, the government has now claimed the authority to unilaterally seize certain people based on mere suspicion, or because of their tattoos, and send them to a prison in El Salvador accused of human rights abuses – all without review by a court to even determine their identity. The government admits some have been wrongfully deported, but officials are fighting attempts to right these wrongs.
More than a few natural-born Americans are saying they do not recognize their country anymore, but many of us from other lands recognize all too well the terror of people being snatched by secret police and disappeared. We left our former countries precisely to get away from it....
What is true is that there is no going back now to the archconservatives. Francis’s legacy lives on. And there is now a voice in the Vatican who is both a citizen of Peru and the U.S., someone whose maternal grandparents were Creole people of color from Louisiana. And he is someone with an enormous platform, who looks like he will be an outspoken home-grown counterpoint for all Americans—and the world—to the brutality of the Trump era.
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Trump wants to be Pope? LMAO!
Change is coming as Trump awakens a sleeping giant — Robert Reich
The past terrifying week has caused me to wonder: How did America ever get to a point where one man, backed by the military might of the United States, could credibly threaten death to an entire civilization?
I’m also wondering how 19 super-rich American households could have added $1.8 trillion to their wealth in just the last 24 months — roughly the size of the economy of Australia — while the rate of child poverty in the U.S. has more than doubled, from a low of 5.2 percent in 2021 to over 13 percent now?
How have we come so perilously close to climate catastrophe, with spring temperatures in the Western United States already shattering records — and yet governments are spending over a trillion dollars a year subsidizing the fossil fuel industry and banks have channeled over $3 trillion to fossil fuel companies since the Paris Agreement, while there are almost no funds to protect living ecosystems?
How have we allowed artificial intelligence, the most powerful technology the world has ever seen, to threaten millions of jobs; make vulnerable the software that runs our financial, energy, and defense systems; and potentially destroy the human race — while allowing it to amass so much political power that it eludes all guardrails and regulations?...
The most dangerous myth of all is that there is no alternative to the path we’re on, that we have no control over our destiny, and that, just as it was inevitable that we came to where are, our unraveling is similarly inevitable.
I refuse to accept this deterministic myth. The first act of genuine systemic change is to stop believing it.
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Ignore Trump!
Conservative burns 'rage-addled dimwit' president in pitiless take-down — Adamn Lynch
Conservative columnist Kevin Williamson warns people “not to make the mistake of overcomplicating [President] Donald Trump.”
“He’s a simple man whose actions are … described as the ordinary daily application of his vices: laziness, vindictiveness, greed, vanity, arrogance, cowardice, and, above all, stupidity,” said Williamson in the Dispatch. “He is a rage-addled dimwit with a savantic gift for manipulating lesser fools and a vulnerability to manipulation by men who are similarly vicious but more capable: Vladimir Putin, J.D. Vance, Stephen Miller, even one or two of his idiot children.”...
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It is obvious most of us can see this.
The FBI’s ‘Proactive’ Domestic Terrorist Plans Should Terrify Us All — NewsHound Ellen
It looks like almost any liberal activist can now be targeted as a potential terrorist by Patel and other Trump goons.
nyone who has read George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four novel, published in 1949, surely remembers the Thought Police going after “thought criminals.” Thanks to Kash Patel and his MAGA comrades in the Trump administration, it is now a case of art imitating life. And they want more money for it.
Ken Klippenstein caught the little-noticed provision in Donald Trump’s proposed budget that should scare the s**t out of everyone in the C&L community. “Buried inside it is a new FBI-led center dedicated to ‘proactively’ hunting Americans the government classifies as so-called domestic terrorists,” Klippenstein wrote....
So, who are these “potential” domestic terrorists and what ideologies do they hold? Besides those supporting “the overthrow of the U.S. government,” the budget request claims that violent conduct “commonly” relates to “views associated with anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism and anti-Christianity … extremism on immigration, race and gender. [sic] and hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family, religion and morality.”
I think we all know how that will be interpreted. The DOJ has already been caught deleting a study from its website that found “far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left or radical Islamist extremists.”...
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This sounds like they mean themselves! They are the ones doing it!
Can you blame Kash Patel for making them goo-goo eyes?
Kennedy Center’s Lawyer Tried To Book His Own Band
Politico reports:
Even the Kennedy Center’s top lawyer has rock ‘n’ roll dreams. Elliot Berke, the general counsel for the Kennedy Center, last fall tried to book his own cover band the DePlorables to play at the center’s jazz-themed Speakeasy, according to three people familiar with the matter. The people, and others, were granted anonymity to speak candidly about a sensitive issue.
He wanted the DePlorables to play at the Speakeasy — part of the center’s rooftop bar that has been described as “afterhours jazz club hidden in the sky” — even though it’s a rock cover band made up of amateur musicians, they said. Staff responsible for organizing acts at the Speakeasy ultimately rejected Berke’s requests, according to multiple people familiar with the matter, in part because they believed it was a conflict of interest.
Berke also pushed the center to hire the British prog-rock band Yes, which Berke represents, to perform at the Kennedy Center, according to two of the people cited earlier as well as a third person familiar with the matter.
"Even the horribly degraded Kennedy Center has standards." — Judas Peckerwood (comments)
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Another cover band? As if we don't have enough now.
Heritage Chief Hails White Supremacist Publisher
The Washington Post reports:
At a recent dinner, Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts toasted Paul Gottfried, the editor of a magazine that has published writers accused of espousing white supremacism. In his remarks, he spoke against “heritage Americans … [repudiating] their heritage.” He referred to Gottfried as having been “exiled” from conservatism but now being part of an “ascendant” movement.
In 2021, Gottfried took over as editor of Chronicles, a monthly magazine with a stated mission of “defending the traditions and history of America and the West.”
The magazine has published many far-right figures, including Sam Francis, a former adviser to Pat Buchanan who used the magazine to praise former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke for defending “the American Way of Life,” and Thomas Fleming, a founding member of the neo-Confederate group the League of the South.
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As he sings "Take me to the Land of the Happy Negro..."
Luna: I Won’t Serve With “Sexual Deviant” Swalwell
Fox News reports:
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., is moving to expel Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., from Congress following reports of alleged sexual misconduct and assault, arguing that he has no place in the House. Luna argues Swalwell should not remain in office while facing the accusations and plans to bring a disciplinary motion next week.
“If Democrats want to protect this type of garbage, I wouldn’t recommend it, but they’re [going to] be put on the board for that,” Luna said, adding she doesn’t believe he should be paid by the taxpayers while the scandal plays out.
“I’m not going to serve with these sexual deviants. That’s not what Congress is all about. And I think that we need to focus on the business of the American people, and it doesn’t include this stuff,” she later added.
"But she'll serve the needs of der Pedoführer..." — Matt G, Rochester
"What she means by "this type" of garbage or "these" sexual deviants is Democrats. Republican garbage and sexual deviants are fine." — Fen (comments)
"She was OK with Matt Gaetz.
she has been silent about Paxton, the Noems, Lewandowski, Thiel, and how many others?" — cfa (comments)
"but servicing the child rapist in the white house is just dandy! fuck off, bitch!" — Stoned and lovng it (comments)
"When your moral outrage is stumped in partisan politics - well, you are just a stupid cunt. Donald J Trump is the most outstanding of all kiddie fuckers - yet there you are all thumbs up at his side.
Fuck you, ya two faced cunt." — Luke, my beautiful Luke (comments)
"Then we can count on her vote to impeach Shitgibbon." — Stogiebear (comments)
"If God can rape a young girl then so can tRUMP." — Philly Mike (comments)
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But she will proudly serve under the President? ROTFFLMFAO!
Vance Says Peace Negotiations With Iran Have Failed
The New York Times reports:
Vice President JD Vance said on Sunday that 21 hours of peace talks in Pakistan, between the United States and Iran had failed to produce an agreement to end the war, leaving the question of what happens after the current two-week cease-fire up in the air.
“They have chosen not to accept our terms,” Mr. Vance said in a brief news conference in Islamabad, though he left open the possibility that terms could still be reached. “We leave here with a very simple proposal: a method of understanding that is our final and best offer,” he added. “We’ll see if the Iranians accept it.”
The marathon talks between high-level officials stretched past 6 a.m. local time on Sunday, a momentous encounter between decades-old adversaries as they sought to broker peace after more than a month of war. Mediated by Pakistan, the negotiating session was the highest-level face-to-face encounter between U.S. and Iranian officials since Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution, which put the two countries on a collision course.
"Huh. So, the guy who can't order donuts isn't so hot at international relations either?" — Sarah
"Does being made the failure of an errand boy by both TRump and Iran count?" — clay
"A day? They gave it merely a single day? They aren’t even making a show at giving it a strong effort. And then they expect that the U.S. gets to basically dictate the terms unilaterally, with maybe some details to iron out. What a farce!" — Mark_in_MN (comments)
"So before tr*mp we had a nuclear deal with Iran and free flow shipping trade through the Straight. Now, both are on the negotiating table. What a genius." — ericxdc (comments)
"The village idiot and two real estate developers walk into a bar...." — Jay Silversmith (comments)
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And Trump is the one that has failed. Vance is trying hard to be relevant but is failing spectacularly. Trump doesn't know what negotiation means.
‘Praise be to Allah!’ Trump praises ‘Allah’ again in panicked rant over Iran war — Alexander Willis
President Donald Trump praised “Allah” – the Arabic word for God – for the second time in recent weeks Saturday morning in a lengthy rant about the current state of the U.S. war against Iran, complaining about media coverage of the conflict and the United States’ failure to achieve its stated war objectives.
“The Fake News Media has lost total credibility, not that they had any to begin with. Because of their massive Trump Derangement Syndrome (Sometimes referred to as TDS!), they love saying that Iran is ‘winning’ when, in fact, everyone knows that they are LOSING, and LOSING BIG!” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social.
“Their Navy is gone, their Air Force is gone, their Anti Aircraft apparatus is nonexistent, Radar is dead, their Missile and Drone Factories have been largely obliterated along with the Missiles and Drones themselves and, most importantly, their longtime ‘Leaders’ are no longer with us, praise be to Allah!”...
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Guess he hasn't heard about their missile stockpile?
What changed Trump’s mind on Iran? Who the hell knows? — Dan Froomkin
Donald Trump changed his mind about something monumental on Tuesday, and we don’t know why.
Despite all the vaunted access that journalists have to Trump and his aides, despite the endless social media posts, we can’t answer that crucial question.
And, as I will argue below, the biggest reason we don’t know why Trump did what he did is that Trump is mentally unbalanced. It could have been anything, really. But our top political journalists are too cowed to say so.
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Someone thinks he has a mind to change?
Hegseth's key Iran claim collapses as US intel finds Iran has thousands of missiles — Matthew Chapman
One of Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's main defenses of the U.S. decision to negotiate a controversial ceasefire with Iran is that its ballistic missile program has been "functionally destroyed."
But that claim has now been shot down by U.S. intelligence assessments, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.
"Iran still has thousands of ballistic missiles in its arsenal that it could use by retrieving launchers from underground storage areas, according to American officials familiar with U.S. intelligence assessments," said the report. "The assessments come as the U.S. is working to cement a cease-fire that would fully open the Strait of Hormuz and also insulate Iran, American troops and states in the region from further attacks. Some American officials said they are concerned that Iran will use the break in fighting to reconstitute some of its missile arsenal."
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Is "reconnaissance" a word Pete ever encountered?
Trump official roasted for sharing 'historically inaccurate' AI image of civil rights icon — Alexander Willis
"Education Secretary Linda McMahon baffled historians on Friday after highlighting civil rights icon Ida B. Wells in a social media post using an image generated with generative artificial intelligence, an image experts decried as “historically inaccurate,” The Washington Post reported Saturday.
“The use of AI to pull together infographics about individuals has resulted in poor quality and inconsistent resources in education,” said Sarah Weicksel, executive director of the American Historical Association, speaking with the Post.
“The AI images are pulling from material that is historically inaccurate. We have excellent sources for all of these women, so there is no point to using something that is AI generated.”...
Paula Giddings, the author of a 2008 biography on Wells, argued that beyond the historical inaccuracies depicted in the AI-generated image, the use of AI was also contradictory to what the civil rights icon stood for.
“While I appreciated the recognition of Ida B. Wells, the decision to use an AI generated image undermines the very values she stood for: truth-telling and her lifelong campaign against false representations,” Giddings told the Post. “To use a fabricated image — even a respectful one — is not only unnecessary but is evidence that the secretary of education misreads [Wells’s] legacy.”...
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Pitifully retarded.
Conservative burns 'rage-addled dimwit' president in pitiless take-down — Adam Lynch
Conservative columnist Kevin Williamson warns people “not to make the mistake of overcomplicating [President] Donald Trump.”
“He’s a simple man whose actions are … described as the ordinary daily application of his vices: laziness, vindictiveness, greed, vanity, arrogance, cowardice, and, above all, stupidity,” said Williamson in the Dispatch. “He is a rage-addled dimwit with a savantic gift for manipulating lesser fools and a vulnerability to manipulation by men who are similarly vicious but more capable: Vladimir Putin, J.D. Vance, Stephen Miller, even one or two of his idiot children.”
“Stronger men can push him around, and weaker men succeed by flattering him,” added Williamson. “His enemies can manipulate him at least as easily as his allies.” Nevertheless, Trump must be taken seriously — at least “in the sense that one may take a brain tumor as a serious thing but not a thing you’d have an argument with or lose a chess match to.”...
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Apparenty, those are his good points
Iran Is Charging Us A Toll And MAGA Is Losing Its Own People — Cliff Schecter
Trump’s Iran “deal” is already falling apart—and the consequences could be nuclear...
What Trump's done is so ridiculous that China, Russia, and France are all now changing their nuclear doctrines in response to the irrational ravings of this Queens-bred, thinks-he's-a-king, brainf*k we somehow still have gold-ing up the Oval Office. A man who somehow finds a way to do something more knuckleheaded each and every day than he did in the last one...
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Clean those old bomb shelters up!
Wounded Soldier Calls Kuwait Deaths ‘Absolutely’ Preventable — NewsHound Ellen
Soldiers painted Whiskey Pete Hegseth’s command as dangerously incompetent and reckless with American lives.
A soldier wounded in the Iranian attack on a unit in Kuwait last month did not explicitly say Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is a lying threat to troops’ lives, but that was the obvious message conveyed.
CBS Evening News host Tony Dokoupil summarized the soldier’s allegations as saying, “their unit was unprepared to defend itself.” But the allegations were much more damning than that.
After describing the horrific attack as “something like what you see in the movies,” the soldier, whose face and voice were concealed, said his unit’s leadership moved them “closer to Iran, to a deeply unsafe area that was a known target.”
Asked why the soldiers were told they needed to be there, the soldier replied, “I don't think there was a good reason ever articulated.”
He said the six American deaths that resulted from the attack were “absolutely” preventable.
The soldier also called BS (politely) on Hegseth’s claim that the Iranian attack drone was “a squirter” that got through the Army’s “fortified” air defenses.”
“There were no fortifications. None,” the soldier said.
"Chances are that if fascist trump hadn't started this disaster with bibi, no American soldiers would have died or been wounded." -- surjac (comments)
"Hell YES! Truth to power, preach brother, preach!
Remember, your life means nothing to this fascist Trump regime, and it will throw your ass under the bus at the first available opportunity. About the most this criminal Trump regime will do is scoop up your remains into a body bag." -- NoNamington (comments)
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"We have met the enemy and he is us." — Pogo, Walt Kelly
Trump Admin Demands Identity Of Critic On Reddit
The Intercept reports:
Social media giant Reddit has been ordered to appear before a grand jury in Washington, D.C., as part of a federal effort to unmask anonymous online critics of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.
According to a subpoena obtained by The Intercept, Reddit has until April 14 to provide a wide range of personal data on one of its users, whom U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have been trying unsuccessfully to identify for more than a month.
Attorneys for the Reddit user say their client’s posts and their anonymity are squarely protected under the First Amendment and that ICE’s use of a grand jury marks a disturbing escalation for the agency after seeing its previous efforts to investigate political speech quashed in court. The subpoena was issued by federal prosecutors in the capital after ICE’s effort to identify the same user failed in a Northern California federal court.
"Ladies, gentlemen and nonbinary folk, I give you THE FREE SPEECH ADMINISTRATION!" -- Judas Peckerwood (comments)
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Trumo wants to destroy not only our First Amendment but our Constitution!
Fire him!
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs is enabling Trump’s immorality — Chauncey DeVega
The president's threats to destroy Iran depend on institutions and individuals' willingness to go along
In a demented alternate reality, a 100-foot-tall gold statue of Donald Trump stands on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., as a reminder that America has been Trumpified. Its plaque reads: “President Donald J. Trump, conqueror and destroyer of worlds.”
This reality is closer than most people imagine....
But no president acts alone, not even Donald Trump. He needs military leaders, diplomats and senior officials to carry out his orders — orders that, in this case, were grossly immoral. Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is one such man....
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More failure by our leaders.
Ex-White House doctor calls for 'medical evaluation' of Trump after disturbing new video — Ewan Gleadow
A former White House doctor has told Donald Trump he desperately needs to seek medical attention after a Truth Social post.
Dr. Jonathan Reiner, who served as cardiologist to former Vice President Dick Cheney, took to X and urged Trump to receive an evaluation. Reiner wrote, "Earlier in the week the president threatened to kill an entire civilization. Now he posts a video of a woman being beaten to death.
"To put it mildly, that’s concerning behavior. If he was a member of your family you would urge him to see a doctor. He should have a medical evaluation."
Reiner's post referred to a video shared by Trump to Truth Social earlier this week. Featured in Trump's post is what appeared to be raw video footage of a woman being beaten to death by a Haitian with Temporary Protected Status.
Trump wrote that "An Illegal Alien Criminal from Haiti, who was released into our Country by the WORST President in History, Crooked Joe Biden, and the Radical Democrats in Congress, just beat an innocent woman to death with a hammer at a gas station in Florida.
"The video of her brutal slaying is one of the most vicious things you will ever see. This animal was allowed to stay here because the Biden Administration granted him, and all Haitians, 'Temporary Protective Status,' a massively abused and fraudulent program which my Administration is working to terminate, but Deranged Liberal District Court Judges are standing in our way."...
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Sick people do sick things.
Scoring Small, Crucial Wins Against Trump’s Deportation Regime — Adrian Carrasquillo
...The crowd of more than 2,000 people of all political affiliations—including many who wouldn’t normally participate in a political protest—gathered on the steps of the Texas State Capitol to deliver one message: Not in our backyard.
Texas Democratic state Sen. Cesar Blanco told me he was heartened to see the strong response to the planned construction, including the flood of letters his office had received from constituents sharing stories to underscore what Big Bend means to them.
“We’re living in interesting times,” Blanco said. “We had Republicans and Democrats coming together, people who aren’t involved in politics from different walks of life who showed up with a message of let’s not destroy this beautiful treasure we have for a wall that is ineffective. We heard from land owners who have concerns on eminent domain, people who are campers and hikers, and river rafters who are concerned, and folks who care about wildlife, which a wall would impact.”...
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Death to fascism by 10 million cuts!
Let's Watch Trump Fight With Tucker And Megyn And Candace And Alex Jones! — Evan Hurst
You don’t under any circumstances have to hand it to Donald Trump, but he lashed out last night at a bunch of the erstwhile MAGA creatures who are (correctly) making fun of his giant fucking murder failure in Iran, and oh boy, it was hilarious. Moreover, we are going to have to agree with Trump on some of these counts!
I know why Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens, and Alex Jones have all been fighting me for years, especially by the fact that they think it is wonderful for Iran, the Number One State Sponsor of Terror, to have a Nuclear Weapon — Because they have one thing in common, Low IQs.
It will never not be sad and pathetic that he immediately goes to IQ. Sign of deep insecurity.
They’re stupid people, they know it, their families know it, and everyone else knows it, too!
Their families have a weekly potluck support group where they get together to talk about it, or they should.
Look at their past, look at their record. They don’t have what it takes, and they never did! They’ve all been thrown off Television, lost their Shows, and aren’t even invited on TV because nobody cares about them,
OK, that’s true.
they’re NUT JOBS, TROUBLEMAKERS,
NUT JOBS, TROUBLEMAKERS!
and will say anything necessary for some “free” and cheap publicity.
OK, that’s true.
Now they think they get some “clicks” because they have Third Rate Podcasts, but nobody’s talking about them, and their views are the opposite of MAGA — Or I wouldn’t have won the Presidential Election in a LANDSLIDE.
What? Also, he didn’t. No landslide. Squeaker. If God had farted in a different direction that day, Kamala Harris would have won. He didn’t even manage a majority of the vote. Sad....
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Yes. Very sad for a once marvelous and free country.
Former top Melania aide torches Trump’s claim about bombshell statement — Thomas Kika
President Donald Trump this week tried to claim that he was unaware of his wife Melania Trump's bombshell Jeffrey Epstein comments and was met with widespread scrutiny, including from the first lady's former top aide, who torched his claim as "BS."
On Thursday, Melania Trump gave an address in which she claimed to have only ever met deceased sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and his accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, a few times at parties she attended with her husband, and denied any other connections to them and their crimes. The address, in which she also called for Congress to take testimony from Epstein survivors, caused confusion, as she appeared to be responding to allegations or reports that had not yet gone public.
“The lies linking me with the disgraceful Jeffrey Epstein need to end today,” the first lady said. “I have never been friends with Epstein."
Speaking with MS NOW in the wake of his wife's remarks, Trump claimed that he had not known the content of them ahead of time, only that she was scheduled to make them, also adding that "she didn’t know" Epstein before hanging up.
Stephanie Grisham previously worked as a press secretary for the first lady during her husband's first term and later rose to become her chief of staff. Speaking with CNN on Friday, she dismissed the president's claim about not knowing what his wife was going to say in blunt terms,
"I’m going to say, I call BS on our president saying he knew nothing about it, because at the very least, I imagine she would have given him a heads up if she had sent an advisory out yesterday," Grisham said.
When pressed further about whether or not Trump would have had the ability to block the first lady from making her Epstein remarks, Grisham said, "Absolutely not."...
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When the filth and corruption gets above knee level it is difficult at best to attempt hiding it!
Melania 'ushering Trump to the exit' and trying 'not to go down with' his sinking ship — Sarah K. Burris
Conservative Bill Kristol is equating Melania Trump to a rat fleeing a sinking ship.
Speculation continues to spread about why the first lady made a public statement on Thursday disputing that she knew trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Some wonder if there's a report about to drop about her, others wonder if it was an extremely delayed reaction to her email to Ghislaine Maxwell being exposed in the files and another group wonders if she'd finally had it with photos of her and Epstein circulating on social media.
"...Rats instinctively leave a sinking ship," Kristol said. "Yesterday, Melania Trump made her move to quit the rotten carcass of her husband’s presidency."
Kristol noticed that Melania's focus was on herself, never even mentioning her husband's troubles.
"Left unsaid, but not unimplied, was that none of these claims could be made about her husband," the Bulwark columnist said. "He was a pal of Epstein’s. He was on Epstein’s plane. His relationship with Epstein, as exemplified, for example, in his contribution to Epstein’s birthday book, was more than 'casual' or 'trivial.'"
Reports revealed that President Donald "Trump didn't know anything" about her address. In fact, even some of her own staffers weren't aware of what she intended to say.
At the close of her speech, the first lady mentioned that she wants to see the survivors be heard publicly and have their stories entered into the congressional record. While some may be unwilling to speak publicly, others may appreciate the opportunity to set the record straight in a moment of national attention....
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It is obvious she doesn't plan on going down with Trump's sinking ship.
Newsmax Host Claims Aliens Have Feminized The Country — John Amato
Newsmax host Rob Finnerty claimed that aliens depicted in movies have helped feminize the country and dilute gender because they don't appear masculine enough.
Has he ever seen any Predator, or Alien movie? Finnerty is basing his take on the MAGA Christian Right's attack on gender by not viewing their sanitary habits?
WTF?
FINNERTY: And whether you believe in them or not, everybody has heard about beings from another planet, and the descriptions are almost always the same.
They're smaller, big eyes, big heads, weak, stringy little arms, pale, no gender, and usually they're feminine. And they always look the same. You never have seen an alien peeing standing up in a movie or like yucking it up with his alien buddies.
That's never happened.
And for some reason, the lines between gender are always blurred with aliens, which I think is very odd.
And then you think about what's happening here back on Earth right now on the left where masculinity is being erased.
During Trump's horrific war against Iran, Finnerty opened his program with this garbage....
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Nazi crustaceans have no moral core nor soul.
This "alien woman" needs to re-examine herself.
LOL: JD Vance Wants Credit For Not Bullying Our Friends — Heather
Vance was talking about Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, but it sounds like he ought to be having a word with his boss instead.
Here's Vance during his disastrous visit to Hungary, trying to gin up support for Viktor Orbán, which apparently has backfired, giving Zelensky some advise he and Trump should be heeding themselves and dishing up a big heaping helping of whataboutism on the Russians interfering in the 2016 presidential election.
VANCE: So first of all, wasn't even aware that Zelensky had said that he was going to send private soldiers to the prime minister's residence until yesterday. Viktor actually told me that and I went looked it up. Almost couldn't believe it's true, but it's true. That's completely scandalous.
You should never have a foreign head of government or a foreign head of state threatening the foreign... threatening the head of government of an allied nation. It's preposterous. It's unacceptable.
And what I find so interesting about, you know, there's a lot of conversation about foreign influence in our elections. So saw this back in 2016, where lot of the American media said that it was a true scandal that the Russian government bought like $500,000 of Facebook advertisements during the 2016 campaign....
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I guess he's saying you should never kill the head of a foreign country? Hmmm....
What were the boy's scores in logic class?
OpenAI Wants IL Bill That Would Exempt Them From Most Damages — Susie Madrak
What have I been telling you about AI? They have a shitty, shitty product -- AND they want us to pay for it.
OpenAI really, really wants an Illinois state bill that would shield AI labs from liability in cases where AI models are used to cause serious harm, such as death or serious injury of 100 or more people or at least $1 billion in property damage.
Think about that. Several AI policy experts tell WIRED that SB 3444—which could set a new standard for the industry—is a more extreme measure than bills OpenAI has supported in the past.
The bill would shield frontier AI developers from liability for “critical harms” caused by their frontier models as long as they did not intentionally or recklessly cause such an incident, and have published safety, security, and transparency reports on their website. It defines frontier model as any AI model trained using more than $100 million in computational costs, which likely could apply to America’s largest AI labs like OpenAI, Google, xAI, Anthropic, and Meta....
This is a rather large rabbit hole we are falling into. Shirking responsibility will lead to no good.
PC Industry in Dire Straits, ‘Asking You to Own Nothing and Be Happy,’ Says Framework CEO — Kyle Barr
At least one laptop maker is saying what PC owners have all been thinking.
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This is more evidence of a collapsing civiliization.
Google has reportedly started to add Polymarket data to News results — Lawrence Bonk
Google News has begun showing Polymarket bets and odds alongside actual stories, according to a report by Futurism. These look to appear as large blocks that include links to numerous ways for people to lose their money.
Bets tend to appear in the "For you" section of Google News, which is supposed to be tailored to a person's particular interests. Futurism notes that the platform actually placed a Polymarket bet as the top news result when inquiring about the price of Bitcoin.
The publication saw links to the prediction market all over Google News, including in searches. It popped up in queries regarding the Strait of Hormuz, which presents a link that lets people bet on the number of ships that would be allowed to pass through the critical passageway. The report even indicates that users were able to set the gambling platform as a source, which directs readers to an aggregate page of other Polymarket links.
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More evidence of civilization in decline.
Rick Scott: Staying In NATO “Doesn’t Make Any Sense”
“Europe would all be speaking German if it wasn’t for American service members and what we did to save their butts in the second World War. For them to not support what we are doing in to Iran to make them safer and Americans safer is just foolish.
“So, NATO is going to have to change, either they are going to step up and be a partner, and be an ally, or why are we even involved in it? It doesn’t make any sense, them not supporting what we’re doing in Iran, not letting us use military bases.
“I mean, we built probably most of that stuff, and clearly American dollars went in to all the defense of Europe over the years, so something is going to change.” – Sen. Rick Scott, today on Fox News....
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Of course it doesn't make sense to Nazi fascists. Rick is a big one, after all.
NATO is an ally only to democracy, not fascism! Now do you get it, Rick?
USDA Sec Hit With Formal Complaint For Jesus Email
CNN reports:
A “Christ is Risen” Easter message sent by the secretary of agriculture has sparked backlash inside the department, angering some of its nearly 100,000 employees and prompting a formal complaint against the secretary for the religious message. “From the foot of the Cross on Good Friday to the stone rolled away from the now empty tomb, sin has been destroyed. Jesus has been raised from the dead. And God has granted each of us victory and new life,” the email read.
The complaint, obtained by CNN, was filed with the Office of Special Counsel by Ethan Roberts, the president of a local union for federal employees who is also an employee at USDA. In his complaint, Roberts said the email was a “pro-Christianity sermon” sent to all USDA employees on Easter Day, claiming it violated the establishment clause of the First Amendment. Roberts added that the email “eroded the separation of church and state.”
Roberts told CNN the secretary’s email speaking of “sin” and “Hell” made him “feel as if that was my fate if I did not treat Easter as holy as Secretary Rollins does.” The complaint calls for the retraction of the Easter email and a stop to any further department emails that celebrate or endorse religious holidays....
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Old news but hilariously funny. And it hasn't done the world one damn bit of good!
Is the Department of Thought Crimes Closing In On You? — Thom Hartmann
As a new federal pre-crime system begins identifying Americans for what they might do — before any law is broken — the Trump regime is making a list and expanding its network of concentration camps
Trump’s thought police may already have your name in their database, which is growing — according to Kash Patel — at the rate of around 300% right now. They’re not looking for people who’ve committed crimes, but, rather, for people who they think may commit crimes in the future. Thought and opinion crimes.
Yeah, like in the movie Minority Report, only with an Orwell 1984 twist. You could call it the FBI’s New Political Pre-Crime Center.
We shouldn’t be surprised, as horrific as this is. When wannabe dictators are elected to lead countries and want to end their democracies and impose absolute rule, they typically follow a simple series of steps, sometimes referred to as “The Dictator’s Playbook.” They:
— Purge government institutions of professionals and replace them with yes-men and groveling toadies.
— Strip their political party of anybody who’d even consider challenging them.
— Help friendly oligarchs buy up the nation’s primary media and turn it into a mouthpiece for the new regime, while directing billions in government contracts as recompense to those same men.
— Pack the courts so they and their buddies can crime without consequence while they drain the government of wealth.
— Build a separate, parallel police force loyal first and foremost to Dear Leader they can use to terrify the population and “keep order.” (Schutzstaffel, Brownshirts, Blackshirts, Tonton Macoute, Central Nacional de Informaciones, Brigada Político-Social, KGB/FSB, ICE, etc.).
But key to their entire identity and supporting their base of power is their ability to identify “an enemy within” and convince enough of the population that these people represent such a danger to the nation that they must be suppressed.
If you’re a Democrat or lean that direction, that’s you and me. And that’s now....
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Don't tell me...He stole the idea from The Minority Report.
Trump gives 'old people a bad name as he cements legacy as 'worst ever' President — Thomas Kika
Donald Trump is set to be the oldest president in history if he makes it to the end of his second term, and as a new column from the New York Times argued, he is "giving old people a bad name" as he also continually pushes to be the "worst ever" president in history....
"When younger people start shaking with terror, they should be reminded that smart senior citizens are equally horrified by powerful people who refuse to retire at a rational time," she added....
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Only worst President? Worst "human!"
MAGA influencers are eating their own with a new conspiracy theory — Sarah K. Burris
MAGA influencers are battling with each other over foreign donations from those who support the Iran war.
The Bulwark's Sam Stein and Will Sommer took a dive into the influencer culture of the right.
"There is rampant suspicion that there is a DOJ investigation into conservative influencers who may be paid by foreign sources to both oppose and/or support the Iran war," Stein explained. "And all of these conservative influencers are salivating over the prospects that their ideological foes within the conservative movement, not like liberals within the conservative movement, may soon be arrested."
Sommer thinks that this investigation isn't likely to exist.
All of it stems from a tweet from someone calling themselves "Zero Hour" that Sommer said is a "shady character" he's dealt with in the past. When the account posted it, the right-wing pounced.
"They imagined their foes, whether it be, you know, pro-Israel, pro-Iran war against Iran, war against Israel. They imagine them in shackles," Sommer said....
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We can only hope they eat each other out of existence!
Acknowledging Trump’s derangement is the first step — Dan Froomkin
est case scenario right now: Trump is deranged.
Because it’s either that or he’s stone-cold evil. Or both.
Our country’s news organizations can no longer afford to beat around the bush about this. An entire civilization lies in the balance.
I’ve written several times before about the urgent need to clearly identify Donald Trump as a deranged person, rather than as a normal president. My main argument is that when news organizations don’t explicitly explain that to their audiences, they are leaving out a crucial part of the story without which isolated incidents don’t make any sense at all.
And now it’s more urgent than ever. He is threatening to order the military to commit catastrophic war crimes.
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Do we have any adults left in the room to take charge?
Trump's Iran war sends prices soaring in 'largest' increase in nearly two years: WSJ — Alexander Willis
Prices in the United States skyrocketed by a staggering 0.9% in March, or by 3.3% when compared to a year earlier, according to a new report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) published on Friday that took into account the market effects of the U.S. war against Iran, the “largest annual increase since May 2024,” The Wall Street Journal reported.
The data comes from the BLS’ monthly Consumer Price Index report, which measures the average change over time in prices for common household goods like groceries, health care and transportation. Leading the cost increase was a 21.2% increase in gasoline costs, which “accounted for nearly three quarters of the monthly all items increase,” the BLS’ report reads.
Typically, monthly increases in costs range between 0.2% and 0.3%, making the nearly 1% increase abnormal. The price increases are largely seen as a direct result of the Trump administration’s war against Iran, which resulted in a major disruption of trade flow through the Strait of Hormuz, which sent oil prices soaring, and in turn, the cost of consumer goods as well....
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This is the price for putting a ranting, retarded maniac in charge.
'My god': Trump posts raw video of woman being beaten to death in Truth Social screed — Matthew Chapman
President Donald Trump posted a lengthy screed against immigrants on his Truth Social account Thursday — accompanied by what appeared to be raw video footage of what appeared to be a woman being beaten to death by a Haitian with Temporary Protected Status.
Trump wrote that "An Illegal Alien Criminal from Haiti, who was released into our Country by the WORST President in History, Crooked Joe Biden, and the Radical Democrats in Congress, just beat an innocent woman to death with a hammer at a gas station in Florida."
"The video of her brutal slaying is one of the most vicious things you will ever see. This animal was allowed to stay here because the Biden Administration granted him, and all Haitians, 'Temporary Protective Status,' a massively abused and fraudulent program which my Administration is working to terminate, but Deranged Liberal District Court Judges are standing in our way."...
"President Biden lives rent free in the pedo rapist's head." — Michael (comments)
"'An Illegal Alien Criminal from Haiti....'
A criminal with 34 felonies wrote this. He's an illegal President." — Michael (comments)
"The "Third World" came to this land in the late 1400's - 1500's. Their names were Columbus, Vespucci, Raleigh, White, Magellan, Cortes, Balboa. De Leon, etc. They literally GENOCIDED 10'S OF MILLIONS OF INDIGENOUS AMERICANS."
The recent ones are Bundy, McVeigh, Paddock, Holmes, Gacy, Dahmer, Gein, Shipman . . . well, you get the idea.
Next time the racists try to tell you how perfect white people are and how awful non-white people are, start naming these names." -- betterthanslicedbread (comments)
"If we let him do it, we let him do it. No one in the USA gets to clutch pearls anymore. No more being 'shocked,
"Since it's inception our nation's economy has relied on exploiting cheap labor, enslaved labor at first, then immigrant labor, as desperate refugees from wars, famine and political repression came here and found whatever work they could. But now the same oligarchs who benefited from decades of foreign labor want to shut the doors to any immigrants whose color they don't like, as if they expect citizens to do the underpaid stoop labor they used to have brown people to do. As a result, crops rot in the fields, meat packers and construction sites can't find enough workers. The oligarchs complain that 'Americans don't want to work.'
However a worker can't support themself on what the oligarchs pay.
Go figure.
When things crash it won't be the fault of people who actually do labor, it will be on those who exploited their fellow citizens and those whose greed and corruption overran their common sense." — queenbella (comments)
'" ACT. Take ACTION or you are complicit in this American courage crisis. No one on this planet owes us anything. If we refuse to fix this it is our fault." — The Outlier (comments)
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Only a deranged, tortured creature would post this to prove a wortless point.
It is past time to take ACTION!
Orbán's Odds Tank After JD Vance Comes To Visit — Ed Scarce
The American vice president travelled all the way to Budapest to give a speech for Viktor Orbán this week. It hasn't helped.
JD Vance was supposed to save the day for Viktor Orbán ahead of Sunday's election in Hungary. Indications are that it's done the opposite, and that Orbán's 16-year rule is about to come to an end.
The likelihood Viktor Orbán winning Hungary's upcoming parliamentary election has dropped since U.S. Vice President JD Vance made a speech endorsing him, according to the latest betting odds.
Speaking at a press conference in Hungary's capital, Budapest, on Wednesday, Vance said he would help the incumbent prime minister in his election campaign and praised Orbán ahead of the April 12 poll.
So what happened?
According to Polymarket, Orbán has odds of 28 percent of winning the upcoming election, down from 35 percent on April 5.
According to betting platform Kalshi, the incumbent prime minister has a 30 percent chance of victory. On April 5, he was said to have a 33.3 percent chance of winning the vote, so his odds have dropped by some three percentage points in five days....
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The world hates Trump and the US as a result.
JD Vance is a puppet for Trump and has no buisiness in politics. Fat old dictators must be eliminated.
Sec. Felcher Adds Anti-Vax Rules To HHS Guidelines
Politico reports:
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s health agency has altered the guiding document for an influential vaccine panel by enhancing its role in considering safety risks and expanding qualifications for membership to include knowledge of “recovery from serious vaccine injuries.”
During his time as health secretary, Kennedy has focused on overhauling the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, the panel that recommends which vaccines should be included on federal immunization schedules, to reflect his own beliefs that vaccines can harm human health.
The charter inserts language about vaccine risks throughout. It specifies that the panel should, in addition to providing guidance to the CDC director about the use of vaccines to control diseases, advise on “gaps in vaccine safety research including adverse effects following vaccination.” The new document also lists several vaccine-skeptical organizations as eligible to name non-voting liaisons to the committee.
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Does he know that viuruses and diseases have even more severe risks than vaccines? He does not care! The fact that we have this worthless clown in charge of healthcare lllustrates how backward our government has gone. He's one of the biggest harms to human health on the planet! He's a walking Death Cult!
Owens: It’s Time To Put Grandpa Trump In A Home
Mediaite reports:
Controversial MAGA podcaster Candace Owens hit back at Trump after his Thursday Truth Social post attacking her and other MAGA figures who have criticized him. The podcaster has triggered outrage in conservative circles over her consistent attacks on Erika Kirk and her recent call for U.S. troops to quit the military after Trump launched his war on Iran.
Her criticisms seem not to have gone unnoticed by the president, who on Thursday attacked her personally in a lengthy screed calling out “stupid people” who have spoken out against him. Trump gave special attention to Owens in part of the post, calling out her attacks on Bridget Macron and claiming he hoped the first lady would “win lots of money” in her suit against Owens.
Owens responded to Trump’s attack by posting a screenshot of his Truth Social post with several portions highlighted and one cutting comment. “It may be time to put Grandpa up in a home,” she wrote.
"If you saw this happening in the Middle East, you’d call them extremists. And you’d be right. This is mental.
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The idiots are turning on each other. But...she's right about Grandpa.
Texas Chick-Fil-A Manager Prays Over Customers
The San Antonio Express reports:
A San Antonio Chick-Fil-A manager is going viral after he was filmed praying over customers in the restaurant’s dining room area, telling them to “stick to God” while they were eating.
Reached by phone Thursday, an employee at the location confirmed “Mr. Matt,” or Matthew, was the manager of this location, although he was not available to speak with the Express-News. In a Wednesday evening X update, Danielle Gill – wife of conservative Texas congressman Brandon Gill – reposted the video.
“This San Antonio, Texas Chick-fil-A manager has gone viral for praying for his customers and encouraging them to ‘stick to God’ during lunch,” she wrote in the post caption. “More of this, please! God bless him. ??”
"If you saw this happening in the Middle East, you’d call them extremists. And you’d be right. This is mental illness." -- Kevin McHale (X).
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Who knew a chicken joint could be a place where religion could demand equal time with its manager?
Jews, Catholics, Mormons, Muslims and more, will now have the same right as well.
Less of this please! Keep your religion to yourself and leave me out of it!br>
“When you pray, do not be like the hypocrites! They love to stand up and pray in the houses of worship and on the street corners, so that everyone will see them. I assure you, they have already been paid in full. But when you pray, go to your room, close the door, and pray to your Father, who is unseen. And your Father, who sees what you do in private, will reward you." — Matthew 6:5-6
It's really that simple folks!
Judge Again Smacks Down Pentagon Press Restrictions
The New York Times reports:
A federal judge on Thursday rejected an attempt by the Pentagon to impose a new set of restrictions on journalists who hold credentials to cover the military complex, in another blow to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s attempts to control the media.
The order, from Judge Paul Friedman of U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, declared that the new policy was essentially unconstitutional. With its new rules, the Pentagon changed the wording of a provision barring journalists from seeking confidential information from government sources.
Judge Friedman added that the Pentagon had “failed” to reinstate the press passes of several New York Times reporters. It was the second time that Judge Friedman had tossed parts of the Pentagon’s press policy. He ruled last month that major parts of the previous policy, which also sought to restrict certain journalistic activities, were unconstitutional in a case brought by The Times.
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At least we now know for certain that the Pentagon is filled with Nazi fascists!
We already knew what Hegseth is.
The Christian right’s victim complex fuels Trump’s Iran war — Amanda Marcotte
For evangelicals, there's no limit in defending the president's cruelty
As the Iran war continues to become an ever-bigger disaster, evangelicals are clinging harder than ever to the notion that because they need to defeat their fictional persecutors, Trump’s myriad flaws are excusable and forgivable.
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“Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. 16By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them. (Matthew 7:15-20).
'You couldn't make this up': Melania Trump's Epstein denial leaves observers speechless — Nicole Charky-Chami
..."I am not sure why Melania Trump decided to make a statement about Jeffrey Epstein seemingly out of nowhere today, but if the idea was to put the ongoing coverup in the rearview mirror it will backfire spectacularly," journalist Aaron Rupar wrote on X.
"Again, no one asked if you were Epstein’s victim. That’s a deflection. The actual question is why you and your husband were, at MINIMUM, embedded in the same elite party circuit as a known predator for years, praised him publicly, and only distanced himself after Epstein became radioactive. That’s not chance. So no, a self-written book isn’t evidence, it’s clean up," RJ Riley, research paralegal and progressive commentator, wrote on X.
"In today's edition of You Couldn't Make This S--- Up: Melania Trump is talking about Epstein in order to distract from the Iran War her husband started in order to distract from Epstein," Paul Kavanagh, columnist at Scottish publication The National, wrote on Bluesky.
"Everyone now racing to google 'Melania Trump' and 'Jeffrey Epstein,'"
Jen Bendery, senior politics reporter at HuffPost, wrote on Bluesky.
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"I didn't know him even if I appear in many photos together with him."
Ex-prosecutor alarmed as Trump admin declares Presidential Records Act unconstitutional — María Teresita Armstrong-Matta
On Thursday, former prosecutor Joyce Vance warned the Trump administration has declared war on public records law through a sweeping "power grab," on her Substack.
The Office of Legal Counsel, headed by far-right former Samuel Alito clerk T. Elliot Gaiser, issued an opinion claiming the 1978 Presidential Records Act is unconstitutional, concluding the president does not need to comply with its requirements.
Vance notes the Supreme Court upheld an identical law during the Nixon administration nearly 50 years ago, yet Gaiser's opinion fails to explain why that precedent no longer applies.
Trump previously violated the act by destroying documents and removing classified materials to Mar-a-Lago, which formed part of Jack Smith's criminal case against him.
Historians have sued to force the administration to disregard the OLC opinion. The case was assigned to U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell, known for upholding executive checks.
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Clearly, this criminal is insane and drunk with power. He can no longer serve as president. We must ignore his charades if he continues his madness.
Trump Is Branding America. History Has a Word for That. — Amanda Pike
No sitting American president has ever put his name on US currency. That will change later this year when bills bearing President Donald Trump’s signature start to roll out.
Trump is engaged in a personal branding campaign unlike anything in the history of the American presidency. More than a dozen symbols of national life now bear his name or face, from a government prescription drug website to the national parks pass. And he shows no signs of stopping. There’s going to be a new “golden fleet” Trump class of Navy warships and the F-47 fighter jet, so named for the 47th president. A bill was introduced last year to add his face to Mount Rushmore, over engineers’ warnings that this would permanently damage the monument.
In fact, Trump is using the full power of the presidency to try to get his personal brand on as much of American public life as possible. He reportedly offered to unfreeze billions in federal infrastructure funding if Sen. Chuck Schumer would agree to rename New York’s Penn Station after him. And a congressional bill threatened to strip $150 million in annual funding from DC’s Metro system unless the city renamed it the “Trump Train.”
If this playbook feels familiar, it should. Authoritarian leaders have long understood that controlling the landscape, literally what people see when they look up at a building or pull money from their wallet, is itself a form of power. It’s how they make themselves feel bigger than the office itself. The goal is to replace the institution with the man.
But the thing about gold statues is that they have a way of coming down. History has remembered leaders who slap their name on stuff—just not the way they intended. That verdict belongs to the rest of us.
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The mark of the Beast!
Dems Demand Investigation Into Polymarket Gambling
The Associated Press reports:
Calls are increasing inside Congress for investigations into the prediction market platform Polymarket after the latest instance where groups of anonymous traders made strategic, well-timed bets on a major geopolitical event hours before it occurred.
On Wednesday, The Associated Press reported that at least 50 brand new accounts on Polymarket placed substantial bets on a U.S.-Iran ceasefire in the hours, even minutes, before President Donald Trump announced the ceasefire late Tuesday on social media. These were the sole bets made on Polymarket through these accounts.
In January, an anonymous Polymarket user made a $400,000 profit by betting that Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro would be out of office, hours before Maduro was captured. In the hours before the start of the Iran war, another account made roughly $550,000 in a series of trades effectively betting that the U.S. would strike Iran and that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei would be removed from office....
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Civilization is falling apart faster than we realize.
AI-Powered Drug Marketer Medvi Responds After Allegations About Fake Doctors and Patients — |Maggie Harrison Dupré
...The NYT‘s profile either downplayed or omitted all of these glaring ethical red flags. The article also definitively stated that Medvi had ceased its practice of using AI-fabricated before-and-after client photos — a declaration that, as we pointed out in a follow-up, wasn’t true.
We weren’t the only ones with qualms. As folks from across the health, tech, and business worlds were quick to point out online, at the time the NYT article was published, Medvi was being marketed on social media by a trove of Meta accounts featuring clearly fake doctors. In fact, in February 2026, Medvi LLC was issued a warning from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) pointing to multiple violations on a Medvi-branded site, Medvi.io. In that February warning, the FDA said that the site, Medvi.io, was misleading consumers by featuring images of Medvi-branded pill bottles and vials of injectables — Medvi isn’t actually the compounder of any drugs it sells, leaning instead on various pharmacies — and suggesting that certain drug compounds Medvi peddles are FDA-approved when they aren’t. Both the fake doctors on social media and the FDA warning went unmentioned in the NYT piece.
Yesterday, in response to public backlash and new reporting from outlets including Futurism, Techdirt, Business Insider, and the pharma-focused outlet Drug Discovery & Development, Medvi and its founder, 41-year-old Matthew Gallagher, issued a statement that it characterized as a “response to external speculation” about the company and its marketing practices....
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US healthcare will collpase under AI garbage. It was already on the brink much like the rest of our infrastructure. Things could get very ugly very soon.
GOP’s ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill’ is coming back to bite them — Emily Singer
When Republicans passed the One Big, Beautiful Bill Act last summer, they were sure that it would be their silver bullet to win the midterms.
Never mind the bill's massively unpopular cuts to health care and social safety net programs in order to fund tax cuts for the wealthy—Republicans insisted that, once tax season came, Americans would reward them at the ballot box.
"Every American will feel it. And the big beautiful bill was geared and written for lower- and middle-class earners in the country. They're going to be feeling really good as we go into that midterm election in 2026," Speaker Mike Johnson said last July when the bill was signed into law.
It's a message that the GOP is still desperately trying to make stick, with multiple Republican lawmakers posting on social media about the alleged tax benefits that Americans could see from their sham of a bill.
“Tax Day is next week, and the @HouseGOP's Working Families Tax Cuts have delivered more money and more opportunity for everyone from our newborns to our seniors,” Rep. Mike Carey of Ohio wrote on X. “We are unshackling the American economy for the future!”
But it's not working....
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The contract on America is killing us.
Melania left out this shocking detail in her Epstein speech — Matthew Rozsa
President Donald Trump’s wife, First Lady Melania Trump, delivered an unexpected White House statement on Thursday denying her controversial links with the late convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein — yet a recent report suggests there is more to the story.
“Epstein even claimed that the first time Trump slept with his now wife was on his plane, dubbed the Lolita Express,” The Daily Beast reported. “In her statement, Melania said she had never been on his plane.”
The report added, “The pedophile spoke extensively with author Michael Wolff in August 2017 for his bestseller ‘Fire and Fury,’ two years before he was found dead in his New York jail cell in 2019. Authorities say he died by suicide.”
Speaking at her unexpected press conference, the First Lady denied any links to Epstein. She also claimed that her name was not mentioned in any of the documents in the Epstein Files. Some of her claims were demonstrably false. For example, in 2002 Melania Trump sent an email to Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell in which she initiated by saying “HI!” and signed it “Love, Melania.” Maxwell meanwhile referred to then-Melania Knauss as “sweet pea.” Additionally, a 2016 email to Epstein from a redacted sender mentioned that Melania first met her future husband through Epstein.
“I remember flying back with Donald on his plane the first weekend I went to visit you in Florida was the weekend he met Melania and he kept on coming out of the bedroom saying’ wow what a hot piece of a--,’” the unknown sender wrote in the email.
"Be cautious about what you believe," Melania Trump said during her Thursday press conference. "These images and stories are completely false. I am not a witness or a named witness in connection with any of Epstein's crimes. My name has never appeared in court documents, [unintelligible] victim's statements, or FBI interviews surrounding the Epstein matter."
Wolff is currently in the middle of a lawsuit with Melania Trump, confirming on his Substack on Thursday that at least some of the details about which he is being sued are unrelated to Epstein. Wolff said that Melania Trump does not live anywhere near the White House, with her relationship to Trump himself being “remote at best.” Although the Trumps want to move the lawsuit from New York where Wolff lives to Florida, where they allegedly live, Wolff argued that Trump actually lives in New York, especially while her son attended New York University.
"Basically, she has never left New York. She is trying to live the life of a superstar in New York," Wolff alleged.
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"As the Trash Turns."
Trump raging at 'rats' as damning new expose looms: Anonymous sources — Adam Lynch
Zeteo writer Asawin Suebsaeng says an infuriated President Donald Trump is storming through the White House, trying to flush out ‘rats’ who are leaking damning information to New York Times writers.
“Donald Trump is a Mad King president, perpetually p—— off about seemingly everything. ... But there’s something new that is uniquely enraging him, those who’ve spoken to him recently tell me,” said Suebsaeng. “… In conversations with close aides and advisers, President Trump has loudly demanded to know who in his Cabinet or his team blabbed to New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan for their forthcoming book, Regime Change – including over his reckless decision to launch an illegal war against Iran.”
Suebsaeng added that “some of the presidential allies and government officials I spoke to are genuinely worried about what could happen to some of the book’s sources – in or out of the administration – should Trump figure out who they are.
“The leak hunt is a big deal right now,” one administration official told Suebsaeng. “Another one of our sources says that they and others in the Trump-Vance administration were recently warned by a superior that (in the source’s paraphrase) “if you talked to Jonathan or Maggie [you] better be good at covering your tracks.”
A damning excerpt from the book painted a sharp portrait with what Suebsaeng described as “fly-on-the-wall levels of dialogue and detail,” depicting “pivotal, highly classified moments during Trump’s march to war with Iran.”
Critics pan Trump’s war, and the resulting “ceasefire” as a disaster for the U.S., the nation’s bank account and Trump’s image.
“The excerpt provided a graphic account, clearly derived from the knowledge of high-ranking officials working in the entrails of the Trump-Vance government, of what has been apparent since the start of the conflict,” said Suebsaeng. “Basically, nobody in Trump’s so-called war cabinet – save for ‘Donald the Dove’ – thought the war was a slam-dunk great idea. But despite specific reservations voiced by self-professed war skeptics like JD Vance or hawks like Marco Rubio, they all adopted a go-along-to-get-along posture towards Trump’s warmongering.”...
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"The Trump Sewer."
How Is Trump So Stupid He Believed Bibi's Iran BS? Megyn Kelly Would Like To Know! — Evan Hurst
The sun is shining, the birds are chirping, psycho-fuck Benjamin Netanyahu is still shooting shit at Lebanon, and oh by the way the Strait of Hormuz is closed (still, or again).
Hell of a NAILING IT, Mister President Sir!
Donald Trump, for his part, is looking forward, not backward, onward to the next imperialistic bugfuck war some two-bit dictator wants to trick him into. Or maybe he’s looking forward to his next Big Mac. Or his next great big flowing shit atop his golden commode.
The military is going to stay around until the real agreement is reached, the one that was agreed to a long time ago? OK, Grandpa, let’s focus more on the pudding cup in front of us, less on the confusing thoughts in our pudding brain!
Also amazing that a man who hates our troops so much, who thinks they’re total suckers and losers, is so confident that they’re all super excited to go die for less-than-no-reason in his next war.
As for the thing about NO NUCLEAR WEAPONS, it is indeed the case that the Iranian 10-point plan for fucking Donald Trump up the ass without the aid of his preferred wall-ketchup lubricant says Iran gets to keep the right to enrich whatever it wants, a right it’s been exercising ever since Trump ripped up the nuclear agreement Barack Obama negotiated, the one that was working. At least the Farsi version of the 10-point plan, the one the Trump regime has zero translators capable of interpreting, includes that line.
(Wonkette pal Jeff Tiedrich lightly suggests this morning that it might have been a miscalculation for the State Department and FBI to fire all those Iran experts and Farsi translators. Seems like everybody’s got Trump Derangement Syndrome these days!)
JD Vance understands that Iran isn’t giving up the right to enrich shit, but he says it’s kind of like how his shrew wife has the right to skydive but actually she is not allowed and she knows it. No, really, he said that....
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TDS is owned by the Trump admin. They created it, they own it.
Supreme Court Is Poised to Gut Remaining Protections of the Voting Rights Act — Marjorie Cohn
The Supreme Court appears poised to deal a severe blow to the fundamental right to vote in two cases this term. Louisiana v. Callais threatens the right to vote free from racial discrimination and Watson v. Republican National Committee will test the right to have your absentee ballots counted.
On August 1, 2025, when the Supreme Court asked the parties in Callais to brief the issue of whether Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) violates the 14th or 15th Amendment to the Constitution, alarm bells rang throughout the country.
By posing that question, the high court signaled its openness to striking down the remaining core of the VRA, which Congress enacted in 1965 to prevent racial discrimination in voting. Section 2 forbids the use of congressional maps that dilute the voting power of marginalized communities.
Section 2 was included in the VRA in order to enforce the 15th Amendment, which prohibits the government from denying or abridging the right to vote “on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”
In Callais, a group of self-described “non-African American” voters claimed that the “intentional creation of a majority Black district” violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.
During the oral argument on October 15, 2025, a majority of the Supreme Court appeared ready to side with the “non-African American” voters.
Moreover, at its March 23 argument in Watson, the court seemed inclined to overturn a Mississippi law that allows mail-in ballots to be counted if they are postmarked by, and received within five business days of, Election Day. Mail voting in Mississippi is limited to a few types of voters, including those with disabilities, the elderly, and people living away from home.
The Trump administration would like to prohibit mail-in ballots that aren’t received by Election Day. If the court holds that ballots must be received by Election Day, untold numbers of voters could be disenfranchised.
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SCOTUS has too many Nazis for our well-being. Like Nazi Germany, we allowed this to happen.
Trump Deploys Reality Show Tricks to Dominate and Destabilize America and the World — Thom Hartmann
Using the same tactics that made him a TV star, he stokes outrage, scripts conflict, and dominates headlines even as his actions weaken democratic norms and heighten international risk.
Well, 8 PM ET came and went, to paraphrase TS Eliot, “Not with a bang but a whimper.” In the latest episode of Trump’s reality show presidency, he decided he’ll give Iran “another two weeks” (we’ll get to that in a minute) to open the Strait of Hormuz because something something Pakistan something.
Some are suggesting it was a predictable TACO — “Trump Always Chickens Out” — while others, including at least one retired general who was on MSNOW yesterday, say sources tell them that the commanders at CENTCOM simply and bluntly refused to carry out his and Whiskey Pete’s orders to commit massive war crimes.
In either case, it shouldn’t surprise us that Trump has backed down. Throughout his entire life, this nepo-baby has only been good at two things beyond inheriting and squandering his father’s money.
The first has been manipulating the press to get publicity for himself, a skill he fine-tuned in the 1980s (as I detail in The Last American President: A Broken Man, a Corrupt Party, and a World on the Brink) and has been on display throughout this Iran debacle (and the entire past decade).
He started with the New York tabloids and talk shows, then graduated to a national stage when he began accusing Barack Obama of having been born in Kenya. Now he does it daily from the White House and his tacky golf motel in Florida.
You could argue that he came by this skill honestly, driven by his being raised by a psychopathic father and a distant, sickly mother. He never felt loved, and never learned how to love, turning all his efforts into getting attention — which he translated into approval and love — from others. His deep sense of being unloved and unworthiness underlies and drives much of his own psychopathy....
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"Not the Winner...The Whiner."
The Deal Maker Was The One Actually Begging Iran For A Ceasefire — Susie Madrak
In a statement, Larson said, “Donald Trump has blown past every requirement to be removed from office. And it's getting worse.”
It’s not just Trump’s genocidal threats against Iran. The impeachment articles also accuse him of “murder, war crimes and piracy” in Venezuela and in international waters, the Independent reported. That is in addition to usurping Congress’ war powers, illegally militarizing law enforcement and unlawfully deporting citizens or immigrants based on race.
Larson also called for the 25th Amendment to be invoked against Trump. “He's becoming more unstable by the day,” Larson said. “He is unfit to lead.”
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Well stated.
An Unlikely (and Unstable) Ceasefire Deal and Trump’s Iran Blunder — Trita Parsi
Yesterday began with Donald Trump issuing genocidal threats against Iran on social media and ended—just ten hours later—with the announcement of a 14-day ceasefire, on Iran’s terms. Even by the volatile standards of Trump’s presidency, the whiplash is extraordinary. What, then, have the two sides actually agreed to—and what might it mean?
In a subsequent post, Trump asserted that Iran had agreed to keep the Strait of Hormuz open during the two-week pause in hostilities. Negotiations, he added, will proceed over that period on the basis of Iran’s 10-point plan, which he described as a “workable” foundation for talks....
The United States has not, of course, signed on to all ten points. But the mere fact that Iran’s framework will anchor the negotiations amounts to a significant diplomatic victory for Tehran. More striking still, according to the Associated Press, Iran will retain control of the Strait during the ceasefire and continue—alongside Oman—to collect transit fees from passing vessels. In effect, Washington appears to have conceded that reopening the waterway comes with tacit recognition of Iran’s authority over it.
The geopolitical consequences could be profound. As Mohammad Eslami and Zeynab Malakouti note in Responsible Statecraft, Tehran is likely to leverage this position to rebuild economic ties with Asian and European partners—countries that once traded extensively with Iran but were driven out of its market over the past 15 years by U.S. sanctions.
Iran’s calculus is not driven solely by solidarity with Palestinians and Lebanese. It is also strategic. Continued Israeli bombardment risks reigniting direct confrontation between Israel and Iran—a cycle that has already flared twice since October 7. From Tehran’s perspective, a durable halt to its conflict with Israel is inseparable from ending Israel’s wars in Gaza and Lebanon. This is not an aspirational add-on; it is a prerequisite....
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There are too many Yahoos hanging on in the peanut gallery.
Trump's Goons Warn Pope Leo They'll Prop Up False Pope — |Susie Madrak
Elbridge "Bridge" Colby, an upper-class nepo baby and weasel of the Groton/Harvard/Yale variety and a right-wing Opus Dei-lite Catholic like his pal JD Vance, summoned the Vatican's representative to the U.S. to the Pentagon for a Mafia-like threat, according to the New Republic.
“The United States,” Colby said, according to a blistering new report by The Free Press, “has the military power to do whatever it wants in the world. The Catholic Church had better take its side.”
One U.S. official present at the meeting brought up the Avignon papacy, a period in the 14th century in which the French monarchy bent the Catholic Church into submission, ordering an attack on Pope Boniface VIII that led to his downfall and subsequent death and forcing the papacy to relocate from Rome to Avignon, a region inside France.
Do you fucking believe it? They're basically threatening Pope Leo with another handpicked false pope if he doesn't hop to Trump's command. Boy, does this stink of smelly Steve Bannon.
What's the matter, boys? Aren't the hundreds of evangelical whores who praise Trump as a virtual God and kiss his orange ass enough to fill the massive hole?
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They might have "the military power to do whatever it wants in the world" but it looks as if they don't know how with their latest failure.
Melania Trump Polling Worse Than Root Canal Week During Tax Season — Conover Kennard
Oh, this isn’t a good day for Melania, the poor thing. Her polls are shit, you know, the rancid, stinky kind. They’re probably as bad as her movie, showing her twelve points underwater, while every other First Lady is shining. That's not just low favorability; it's more like ‘No one likes me’ territory. The very woman who donned an "I Really Don't Care, Do U?" jacket on the border is now polling like the jacket finally answered back: "Yeah, we don't."
At this rate, she'll be the first First Lady to get booed by her own mirror. Ouchies.
CNN data analyst Harry Enten was all over this.
"Yeah, I would say that the American people really don't care for Melania Trump," Enten said. "Take a look at this. All right, let's take a look at Melania Trump's Net Favorable Ratings. Look at this. The lowest ever. The lowest ever."
"We're talking about now 12 points underwater," he continued. "If you go back a little bit more than a year ago, she was three points above water. You go back at this point, about this point, in term number one for Donald Trump. Look at that. She was 30 points above water."
"So, at this point, historic lows for Melania Trump," he said. "These numbers are absolutely awful."
"One of the questions is why?" anchor Kate Bolduan asked. "Why the shift now? But also, I guess, you need to look at this always in the historical context of how does she line up against other first ladies?"
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The Trumps continue their search for the bottom.
'Out of his damn mind': Trump's all-caps tirade stuns observers after NATO meeting — Robert Davis
Political analysts and observers were outraged on Wednesday after President Donald Trump posted an all-caps rebuke of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO, on Truth Social.
"NATO WASN’T THERE WHEN WE NEEDED THEM, AND THEY WON’T BE THERE IF WE NEED THEM AGAIN. REMEMBER GREENLAND, THAT BIG, POORLY RUN, PIECE OF ICE!!!" Trump wrote.
Trump posted the screed after meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte. The meeting occurred less than a day after Trump declared the U.S. and Iran had agreed to a two-week ceasefire in their war....
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Trump has reached Hitlerian status. He must be rejected by the entire world!
Author horrified as Trump utters 'possibly the worst thing any American leader has said' — Matthew Chapman
...“No one in that part of the world will forget that for generations, it will always have been true that the leader of the United States said that,” said Giridharadas, who argued that threats to wipe out Iran are “possibly the worst thing any American leader has said in modern memory.”
Giridharadas continued: “The American policy, bipartisan policy, going back decades on Iran has been good people, good civilization — one of the great cultures of the world — hijacked by a bad regime. An unfortunate 50-year blip in a glorious millennia-old culture that has given the world beautiful music and art and food and much besides — language, poetry.”
Going forward, he said, it will be much harder for other countries to take the U.S. seriously as a force for moral good.
Trump's threats triggered a wave of horror around the world, and even led to far-right influencers like Tucker Carlson calling on the U.S. military to disobey Trump if they are issued unlawful orders — which is ironically the exact thing a handful of Democrats said in a video last year that infuriated the GOP and led to the administration seeking military punishment of Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ).
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America must stand up to facism. We must stop just letting it happen!
'Going to be a firing': Expert predicts another Trump Cabinet member is on his way out — Robert Davis
...Amid Hegseth's chest pounding over Iran, a retired U.S. Navy intelligence officer named Travis Akers predicted in an interview with The Daily Beast that the Defense Secretary is on his way out because Trump is looking for a "scapegoat" in the war.
"I think Trump is certainly going to look for a scapegoat because he’ll never accept the blame himself," Akers told the outlet. "He’s going to find someone else to pin it on.”
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All of this Crime Syndicate must be fired!
CNBC Host Asks How Investors Can Profit From Iran's Annihilation — Ed Scarce
"President Trump has... threatened to destroy a civilization. How does an investor process that? Is it a bigger upside risk or downside risk?”
Shortly after President Donald Trump threatened Iran in downright apocalyptic and genocidal terms on Tuesday, CNBC’s Sara Eisen wondered whether such a development would affect investors’ mindsets.
...
Shortly before Trump announced the pause in hostilities, on Tuesday’s Money Movers, Eisen asked CNBC commentator Mike Santoli about the president’s “a whole civilization will die” post.
“So, Mike, let’s talk about tonight,” Eisen began. “This deadline that President Trump has set, 8 p.m., has threatened to destroy a civilization. How does an investor process that? Is it a bigger upside risk or downside risk?”
Santoli then responded with something about Trump's rhetoric often being at odds with his actions, and that none of this may happen and so on. Investors should adopt a cautious, wait-and-see approach, etc. All a bit surreal.
"Sara Eisen is a Trump cultist ghoul. Everyday she tries to spin every horrible thing Trump does as good." — Paul Kemnitzer (comments)
"“Besides all the bloodshed and pain of bombing the civilian infrastructure of Iran, what’s in it for me? How can I extract some money from all this destruction and death?” - CNBC automatons." — mongopat (comments)
"the fat orange pedo did NOT negotiate the ceasefire. That was thanks to Pakistan and Iran.
And guess who has violated the ceasefire within minutes of it supposedly organised by the fat orange pedo? Yep - netanyahoo the war criminal.
I want to know what threat Lebanon posed the USA and Israel? Over 500 innocent Lebanese civilians have been murdered by Israel - with full support from the fat orange pedo!
Please North Korea - start aiming your nuclear missles on Floriduh!!!" — bettestreep2008 (comments)
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The war loving money mongers!
GOP Fears War Has Already Cost Them The Midterms
Politico reports:
Republicans are relieved over Trump’s steps toward reconciliation in Iran — but they worry the measures are too little, too late to save them from a brutal midterm election cycle.
Behind the public celebration by many Republicans of the temporary two-week ceasefire announcement, longtime party operatives continue to warn of a bleak political reality as the cost-of-living concerns around the war including spiking gas prices that are likely to continue for weeks if not longer even if the fragile ceasefire holds.
A person close to the White House, granted anonymity to speak candidly, put it bluntly. “This war in Iran almost cements the fact that we lose the midterms in November — the Senate and House,” the person said. The concerns are compounded by Republicans’ underperformances in a spate of recent elections, fueling fears that voters, concerned about pocketbook issues, are eager for change.
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The Nazi fascists must be run out of our country!
POLL: Majority Want Congress To Impeach Trump
Newsweek reports:
A majority of Americans want Congress to impeach President Donald Trump now, according to a new poll. Fifty-two percent of registered voters back impeachment compared to 40 percent opposed. The finding includes one in seven Republicans supporting removal proceedings.
Even counting Trump’s term as his second presidency, voters have turned against him far earlier than they turned against Richard Nixon, the only other two-term president to see majority support for impeachment.
Trump has given the trend fresh fuel. On April 7, he threatened that “a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again” if Iran didn’t meet his deadline to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, which they did on Tuesday after agreeing to a 15-day ceasefire with the U.S."
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Then it's Nuremberg for Trump!
WH Seeks To Build Medical Dossiers On All Feds
CBS News reports:
The Trump administration is quietly seeking unprecedented access to medical records for millions of federal workers and retirees, and their families. A brief notice from the Office of Personnel Management could dramatically change which personally identifiable medical information the agency obtains, giving it the power to see prescriptions employees had filled or what treatment they sought from doctors.
The regulation would require 65 insurance companies that cover more than 8 million Americans — including federal workers, retired members of Congress, mail carriers, and their immediate family members — to provide monthly reports to OPM with identifiable health data on their members.
The proposal is prompting unease from insurers as well as health policy and legal experts, who are concerned about the legality of OPM acquiring such a sweeping database of sensitive health information, and the agency’s ability to safeguard it.
"Trying to target who is on birth control, HIV meds, cancer treatment, mental health treatment. This is how Germany decided to put people in camps. They started with the mentally ill. At that time, this included nymphomaniacs and perverts. Women and gay men." — Aint Teefa (comments)
"The first target will be trans people taking hormones and hormone blockers, then gay men on PrEP and HIV meds, women on birth control, then mental health drugs." — IamSmartyPants (comments)
"This is exactly what they are doing. I think people on HIV meds will be the first target, and women on birth control." — madknits (comments)
"This fucking regime needs to be destroyed leaving no one alive afterwards." — Thewolflam (comments)
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Big Brother watching themselves? Nah! Typical Nazis. Stop letting it happen!
DOJ To Claim Biden Targeted Anti-Abortion Protesters
MS Now reports:
The Trump Justice Department is expected to release a report as early as next week concluding that the prior administration politically targeted abortion opponents because of their religious beliefs when prosecuting them for blocking access to abortion clinics, according to three people familiar with the report and a draft reviewed by MS NOW.
The nearly 60-page draft seeks to justify President Donald Trump’s pardons of two dozen defendants who were convicted during the Biden administration of blockading abortion clinics, threatening violence and verbally assaulting patients and staff.
The report argues those defendants’ convictions under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act — a 1994 law that prohibits interfering with people trying to access reproductive health clinics — were unjustly motivated by what the report characterizes as the targeting of people “with traditional Christian views.”
"Wait. We passed a law that everybody thought was sensible except for a few extremists. Those extremists happened all to be Christians. So, when it came time to arrest people for breaking that law, everybody arrested was a Christian. Therefore, the government was operating out of some kind of animus against Christians.
Actually, the government was operating out of an animus against lawbreakers." — Stuart (comments)
"Their beliefs motivated their actions.
They were targeted for their actions.
If they weren't blocking access, they wouldn't have been arrested and prosecuted, regardless of their religious beliefs.
This isn't difficult, but I'm sane." — DaddySnark (comments)
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That's "Toady Sycophant" telling us what we WILL do!
All because we were told it was OK to be Nazis.
REPORT: Pentagon Threatened Vatican With Military Force After Pope Leo’s Speech Condemning Iran War
The New Republic reports:
Days after Pope Leo XIV delivered his State of the World speech, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Elbridge Colby summoned Cardinal Christophe Pierre, the Vatican’s U.S. representative, to a closed-door Pentagon meeting for a bitter lecture. “The United States,” Colby said, according to a blistering new report by The Free Press, “has the military power to do whatever it wants in the world. The Catholic Church had better take its side.”
One U.S. official present at the meeting brought up the Avignon papacy, a period in the 14th century in which the French monarchy bent the Catholic Church into submission, ordering an attack on Pope Boniface VIII that led to his downfall and subsequent death and forcing the papacy to relocate from Rome to Avignon, a region inside France.
The pope’s address was dissected line by line and interpreted as a hostile message toward the administration, reported Letters from Leo Substack writer Christopher Hale. The Vatican was so alarmed by the Pentagon’s warning that Pope Leo cancelled his plans to visit the U.S. later in the year, reported Hale, who noted that “many in the Vatican saw the Pentagon’s reference to an Avignon papacy as a threat to use military force against the Holy See.”
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Total Nazi arrogance by the the corrupt Pentagon.
Trump May “Punish” NATO Members For War Refusal
The Wall Street Journal reports:
The Trump administration is considering a plan to punish some members of the NATO alliance that the U.S. president believes were unhelpful to the U.S. and Israel during the Iran war, according to administration officials.
The proposal would involve moving U.S. troops out of North Atlantic Treaty Organization member countries deemed unhelpful to the Iran war effort and station them in countries that were more supportive of the U.S. military campaign. The proposal would fall far short of President Trump’s recent threats to fully withdraw the U.S. from the alliance, which by law he can’t do without Congress.
The plan, which has circulated and gained support among senior administration officials in recent weeks, is early in conception and one of several the White House is discussing to punish NATO. It underscores the growing rift between the Trump administration and European allies following the president’s decision to launch the war with Iran....
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He's doing his best to bring on WWIII. When the nuclear bombs hit the US we hope we have our fallout shelters at the ready!
Inside the Iran war's hidden economic toll — Matthew Rozsa
President Donald Trump has left America’s economy far worse off than it had been as a result of his war against Iran, according to a number of experts.
“American consumers have started to feel their budgets squeezed beyond gas prices from the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran, as energy costs have begun to pressure shipping, transportation, agriculture and airline prices,” wrote The Washington Post’s Rachel Lerman. “With President Donald Trump on Tuesday announcing a suspension of U.S. attacks on Iran for two weeks, the big question is: When will prices come down?”
Lerman went on to review the various economic sectors negatively affected by the Iran war. While gas prices dipped in the immediate news of Trump’s ceasefire, “gas prices could take months to fall significantly,” Lerman reported. While gas prices may somewhat ease over time if the ceasefire holds, “significant energy price relief will depend on negotiations progressing and resumed normal levels of shipping through the Strait of Hormuz.” Because Trump’s ceasefire with Iran left them in control of the Strait of Hormuz, that is hardly a given.
“The terms of the truce highlight how Iran has used control of the Strait of Hormuz to gain enormous leverage over the global economy,” said CNN's Hanna Ziady on Wednesday. “That the ceasefire is conditional on Iran agreeing to reopen the vital waterway is a tacit acknowledgement of Tehran’s influence over the world’s most important oil chokepoint – and, with it, significant chunks of the global economy.”
The negative economic impact is not limited to gas prices, Lerman pointed out.
“Several airlines including Southwest, United, JetBlue and Delta have raised their checked baggage fees in recent weeks in response to the spikes,” Lerman wrote. “Delta, Southwest and United increased their fees by $10 for the first and second checked bag, and JetBlue bumped up its fee between $4 and $9.”
She added, “Amazon added a 3.5 percent fuel and logistics surcharge for third-party sellers, and the U.S. Postal Service said it would impose an 8 percent fee on some package shipments. Diesel prices are up more than $2 per gallon from a year ago, hitting a national average of nearly $5.67 early Wednesday. UPS and FedEx have surcharges that adjust regularly in response to fuel costs, and prices have gone up, hitting a broad array of business clients who pass those costs along to consumers, as well as Americans shipping packages directly.”
Even food prices are going to be adversely impacted by the Iran war....
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How can a poor person stand such times and live?
Iran-linked hackers disrupt operations at US critical infrastructure sites— Dan Goodin
Hackers working on behalf of the Iranian government are disrupting operations at multiple US critical infrastructure sites, likely in response to the country's ongoing war with the US, a half-dozen government agencies are warning.
In an advisory published Tuesday, the FBI, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, National Security Agency, Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Energy, and US Cyber Command “urgently" warned that the APT, or advanced persistent threat group, is targeting PLCs, short for programmable logic controllers. These devices, typically the size of a toaster, sit in factories, water treatment centers, oil refineries, and other industrial settings, often in remote locations. They provide an interface between computers used for automation and physical machinery....
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What did Trump do? Strip their funding as well as everyone else's?
Iran: President Trump’s apocalyptic threats of large-scale civilian devastation demand urgent global action to prevent atrocity crimes — Newswire Editor
Responding to the United States President Donald Trump’s statement about Iran on Truth Social on 7 April 2026, warning that “a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again”, Agnès Callamard, Secretary General of Amnesty International said:
“President Trump’s very act of making such apocalyptic threats, including his warning of ending ‘a whole civilization’, reveals a staggering level of cruelty and disregard for human life. It becomes all the more terrifying when coupled with his explicit threats to directly attack civilian infrastructure by bringing about the ‘complete demolition’ of Iran’s power plants and bridges.
“International humanitarian law strictly prohibits direct attacks on civilians and civilian objects. The US President’s threat of extermination and irreparable destruction brazenly shreds core rules of international humanitarian law, with potentially catastrophic consequences for over 90 million people. It may constitute a threat to commit genocide, a crime defined by the Genocide Convention and by the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court as committing one or more defined acts ’with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such.’
The US President’s threat of extermination and irreparable destruction brazenly shreds core rules of international humanitarian law, with potentially catastrophic consequences for over 90 million people.
“The stakes could not be higher. The international community, including the UN Security Council, regional bodies and all states must urgently intervene to avert an impending catastrophe and unequivocally affirm that inciting, ordering or committing war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide entail individual criminal responsibility under international law.
“President Trump’s threats, coupled with escalating USA and Israeli attacks destroying civilian infrastructure, are terrorizing millions of people in Iran and their distressed relatives abroad as tens of millions of lives hang in the balance. We call for immediate action to stop unlawful attacks that would plunge an entire country into darkness and deprive millions of their fundamental human rights to life, water, food, healthcare, and an adequate standard of living.
“In recent days, US and Israeli forces have attacked civilian infrastructure, including power plants, bridges, universities, steel factories and petrochemical facilities, killing and injuring civilians, condemning the population to years, if not decades, of deepened economic hardship, inflicting serious harm on civilian health and the environment, and leaving long-lasting damage to civilians’ lives and livelihoods.
“Intentionally attacking civilian infrastructure constitute war crimes under international law. Even in the limited cases that civilian infrastructure qualify as military targets, a party still cannot attack them if this may cause disproportionate harm to civilians. Power plants, water systems and energy infrastructure are indispensable to civilian life, underpinning access to clean water, medical care, hospital electricity, food supply chains, and basic livelihoods. Attacking them would be disproportionate and thus unlawful under international humanitarian law and could amount to a war crime.”
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Does this suggest that WWIII is the solution?
Strait of Hormuz closes again despite Trump's ceasefire deal — María Teresita Armstrong-Matta
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, or IRGC, closed the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday despite President Donald Trump's ceasefire agreement requiring the waterway to remain open.
Iran cited Israeli strikes in Lebanon as justification, despite Trump insisting Lebanon was not part of the ceasefire deal.
BBC correspondent Lyse Doucet reported that, despite Pakistan's announcement of an all-fronts ceasefire, attacks in Lebanon have continued and intensified. Within hours, the IRGC halted oil tanker passage through the strait, with only two tankers permitted passage before closure.
An IRGC announcement warned all vessels, "Transiting the Strait of Hormuz remains closed and you need permission from the IRGC before sailing through the strait. Any vessel trying to travel into the sea will be targeted and destroyed."
Ship-broker SSY confirmed vessels in the Persian Gulf received notification of the closure.
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Wow! Did someone not pay their bribes? Bibi, was it you?
Tapper accuses Trump of 'lying' to Americans about recent spat with CNN — Robert Davis
CNN host Jake Tapper accused President Donald Trump of "lying" to Americans in a recent Truth Social post about an alleged "false statement" CNN published on Tuesday.
CNN reported that Iranian officials had declared a "great victory" over the U.S. after agreeing to a ceasefire deal. Trump wrote on Truth Social that "authorities" are investigating CNN for publishing the statement, and that it may have been a criminal act.
"The alleged Statement put out by CNN World News is a FRAUD, as CNN well knows," Trump wrote. "The false Statement was linked to a Fake News site (from Nigeria) and, of course, immediately picked up by CNN, and blared out as a 'legitimate' headline."
Tapper offered a fiery rebuttal to the president's remarks during the opening of "The Lead" on Wednesday.
"The issue boils down to this. The statement from Iran's Supreme National Security Council, which claimed victory for Iran, did not fit the messaging that the Trump administration wanted to project, and instead of calling out the Iranian regime for its conflicting statements or explaining how Iran does this all the time, President Trump attacked CNN by falsely claiming we made it up by lying to you," Tapper said.
"We didn't make it up, nor did we present any of Iran's narratives as fact," he added. "We simply presented what the statement said in the context of the rest of the war, and that is our job as journalists to report on what is happening in a war. Our job is not to try to please the president or only report the statements he likes. We're going to tell you what's going on, and we're going to keep doing that, no matter how many lies this administration or the Iranians tell."
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How dare he call that liar a liar?
'But ... you're catholic': JD Vance brutally mocked for not knowing top Vatican official — Robert Davis
Vice President JD Vance was brutally mocked on Wednesday after he claimed not to know a high-ranking official in the Catholic church.
Vance was asked at a press conference in Budapest, Hungary, about a report from the Bari Weiss-led publication, "The Free Press," about senior military leaders inviting Cardinal Christophe Pierre, who served as Apostolic Nuncio to the U.S. until March 2026, to the Pentagon and telling him that the church should get on board with Trump's war in Iran.
Vance, a self-described devout Catholic with a book coming out about his journey of faith, stunned political observers and analysts with his answer.
"For one, with no disrespect to the Cardinal, I don't know who Cardinal Christophe Pierre is," Vance said.
The reporter reminded Vance that Pierre is the ambassador to the Holy Sea and the U.S.
"Oh ... right, right," Vance said. "I just didn't remember the name."
Political analysts and observers reacted to Vance's comments on social media.
"Screaming at the fact that the Catholic Church leadership hates Vance more than that monkey troupe hated Punch," actress Jennifer Kirton posted on Bluesky.
"Why would Vance know about a high-ranking Catholic leader with ties to DC? It’s not like Vance is a recent convert who wrote a forthcoming book about the importance of his Catholic faith," jeopardy champion Hemant Mehta posted on X.
"But… you’re Catholic…" actress Morgan Fairchild posted on X.
"Come on Pope Leo, excommunicate his a--!" astrophysicist Alfredo Carpineti posted on Bluesky. "I want him to have to beg for forgiveness like Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV in the snow for three days."
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But he does know the Pope is a Catholic? Oh, don't tell me...
Pardoned J6er who was arrested for touching women back in jail on stalking allegation — Matthew Chapman
Pardoned Capitol riot participant Bryan Betancur has been arrested for alleged misconduct with women, and it's not the first time he's faced such allegations since getting his Jan. 6 charges wiped by President Donald Trump.
A few weeks ago, Betancur was arrested after he allegedly touched multiple women on the D.C. Metro and livestreamed himself stroking their hair without consent.
Now, according to WUSA 9, Betancur is in even more trouble, with prosecutors accusing him of engaging in stalking and violating the terms of his release.
"When he was arraigned in D.C. court on March 13, Judge Renee Raymond released him under the condition he wears an ankle GPS monitor and stays away from Metro trains and stations. But, Raymond said, if she had the basis to hold him in jail, she definitely would," said the report. "In a new motion ahead of Betancur's Wednesday hearing, prosecutors are asking a judge to hold him pending trial for violating the conditions of his release. The court filing says in the past month, he has harassed and stalked a woman in D.C. A warrant for his arrest for stalking was issued Tuesday, court documents say."
Prosecutors say that Betancur, a resident of Silver Spring, Maryland, harassed the woman using Telegram and X, asking her about "mental health, her feet and sexually explicit topics throughout 2024 and 2025," per the report — then when the woman turned up to an event at D.C., Betancur appeared, threw a Nazi salute, and tried to get her thrown out.
He later streamed himself wandering around the Supreme Court building while they heard oral arguments about Trump's executive order curtailing birthright citizenship, demanding to know where the woman was.
Betancur's legal problems stretch much further back than this...
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And here I thought Trump was deporting all the filthy criminal element. I guess if they are white, a self-professed white supremacist, and vote for him they are entitled to a "Get Out of Jail Free" card.
He is still searching for the bottom.
MAGA sheriff dealt devastating blow by state's highest court after seizing ballots — |Nicole Charky-Chami
Chad Bianco, the pro-Trump sheriff of Riverside County, California, was ordered by the California Supreme Court to stop a voter fraud investigation, according to reports on Wednesday.
A court order issued on Wednesday stated that Bianco's office must immediately "halt its investigation and preserve all seized election materials pending further review in court," The Desert Sun reported.
Bianco is a Republican California gubernatorial candidate and was in a high-profile clash with California state officials after he seized 650,000 ballots from the Proposition 50 referendum, which established a new mid-decade congressional map to draw five Republicans in retaliation for GOP efforts to do the same to Democrats in Texas. Even some Republican leaders in the Golden State have condemned his actions.
But Bianco's seizure of ballots, evidently to try to investigate baseless allegations of fraud, was part of a broader pattern of his extreme anti-voting and conspiracy theorist beliefs, according to reports....
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One more "Hanging Chad?"
Good to hear his rig is shut down.
'Insulting!' Karoline Leavitt snaps as Trump's 'civilization' threat questioned — David Edwards
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt pushed back after a reporter wondered how the U.S. could claim the moral high ground after President Donald Trump threatened to eliminate Iran's entire civilization.
"So, regarding the President's rhetoric, when the U.S. invaded Iraq in 2003, George W. Bush said in a message to the Iraqi people that the military campaign was directed, quote, against the lawless men who rule your country and not against you," the reporter noted during Wednesday's White House press briefing. "Yesterday, the President threatened to destroy Iran's civilization, the entire civilization, not the Iranian government, but the Iranian civilization, the Iranian people."
"The U.S. has been a moral leader for most of its history by fighting wars against other governments, not against civilizations," he continued. "How can the president claim that America can ever have the moral high ground if he's threatening to destroy civilizations and not casting wars as fights against other governments?"
"I think you should take a look at the actions of this president," Leavitt replied without addressing Trump's threat. "A rogue Islamic regime that has chanted death to America for 47 years, that has killed and maimed thousands of American soldiers over the course of the last five decades."
"The president absolutely has the moral high ground over the Iranian terrorist regime," she added. "And for you to even suggest otherwise is frankly insulting."
With that, Leavitt cut the reporter off and moved on to the next question.
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When it comes to morals she is exactly the same as the President.
Conservative editor warns: Don't fall for the spin on Trump's 'stupid war' — Nick Hilden
On Wednesday, the big talk of the day was about the tenuous ceasefire agreement between the United States and Iran, and whether or not the war wrought consequences that are beneficial or harmful to the U.S. and wider world. According to the American Conservative Managing Editor Jude Russo, however, nobody should be “fooled” by those who praise the outcome of President Donald Trump’s “stupid war.”
While both the Trump Administration and Iranian government were quick to claim victory, they did so citing a 10 point plan that Trump called a “workable basis” for a peace deal. But as Russo points out, the president’s assertion is “a bit of a headscratcher” for anyone who has been paying attention to the White House’s stated goals over the course of the conflict, which have included everything from regime change to halting nuclear weapon development to doing it for God.
But now — after the war has already killed over a dozen Americans and thousands of Iranians, seriously disrupted the global economy, and shredded U.S. alliances — Russo argues that the proposed agreement “concedes several American redlines of yesteryear and throws in some extras that weren’t even on the table before the war started, like Iranian suzerainty in the strait.”
Russo suggests three interpretations of what is hard to argue is anything but a bad outcome for the U.S. First, he says that it’s possible Trump accepted the terms before actually knowing what was in them, which isn’t a stretch to believe, considering there has already been confusion among “ill-prepared” American negotiators. Second, it could be that “the negotiations are in bad faith on the American side,” as the Trump Administration has already made it clear that it is willing to pretend to negotiate as a means of buying time before a surprise attack. Finally, it could be that Trump realized that the cost of continuing the war was simply untenable, and decided that “cutting a deal that concedes much to the Iranians is better than chasing losses.”
If the last point is true, writes Russo, “this is a tacit admission that the war was a strategic loss, even as it was a military victory; the question is whether the administration can use the latter to spin away the former in selling this to the public.”...
“This war has been very stupid,” Russo concludes. “So when the usual suspects start tooting about how this war was a great triumph… you are under no obligation to believe a lie. Nor are you under any obligation to take them seriously in the future. Don’t get fooled again.”
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"Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again, no, no." — Won't Get Fooled Again, The Who
Unearthed Photos Show Two House GOP Reps In Drag
The Advocate reports:
Two anti-LGBTQ+ politicians who have been critical of transgender people and “woke” ideology have themselves played with their gender presentation, The Advocate has learned.
Newly unearthed photos show U.S. Reps. Buddy Carter and Mike Collins dressed in drag while they were in high school. Both politicians are staunchly anti-trans and support President Donald Trump’s aggressive policies that strip LGBTQ+ people of their rights. The existence of the images has not been reported previously.
Carter and Collins are two of three Georgia Republicans running against each other in the primaries in the hopes of unseating Democrat Sen. Jon Ossoff, a vocal LGBTQ+ ally. Voters will go to the polls in the state on May 19 to decide who will run against him.
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Oh, dear! Oh, dear! Oh, dear! Oh, dear! Oh, dear! Oh, dear!...the second shoe falls.
Republicans: See No Evil, Enable All Of It —NewsHound Ellen
Donald Trump threatened Iranian genocide in a deranged social media post on Tuesday. Making matter worse, we have an unqualified, war-crimes advocate with a drinking problem in charge of the military.
If ever there was a need for Congress to step in and do its job of checking the president, it is now.
But Congress is not even in session.
Some Republicans have publicly endorsed Trump’s madness. Republican leaders seem to be keeping quiet. As I write this, at about 4 PM EDT on Tuesday afternoon, Speaker Johnson’s only posts on Xitter today are about the “long overdue but welcome news” that the International Olympic Committee has banned transgender athletes from women’s events and an Uber Eats driver’s appreciation of Trump tax cuts.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune’s latest post is a retweet of a March 20 attack on Democrats for their opposition to Trump’s “Save America [By Suppressing Votes] Act.”
Democrats, on the other hand, have been demanding Congress come back into session and stop the madness. Notably, Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has not....
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We have a Congress? The hell you say!
Iran Demanding Huge Bitcoin Payments to Pass Through Strait of Hormuz — Victor Tangermann
Late Tuesday evening, US president Donald Trump said the US had agreed to a two-week ceasefire with Iran that included the opening of the Strait of Hormuz, a key chokepoint for the global oil and gas industry.
But while his defense secretary Pete Hegseth vowed that “commerce will flow,” Iran will still be levying a substantial toll for any oil tankers passing through, something that remains unchanged following Trump’s announcement.
The shakedown will involve the use of digital currencies, an extremely popular choice among scammers, human traffickers — and apparently governments trying to circumvent international sanctions.
Hamid Hosseini, a spokesperson for Iran’s Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Products Exporters’ Union, told the Financial Times that the tariff will amount to $1 per barrel of oil. According to the International Energy Agency, an average of 20 million barrels of oil passed through the Strait before the war began, although it remains unclear how much revenue the toll will amount to, given the massive diversion of tankers.
“Once the email arrives and Iran completes its assessment, vessels are given a few seconds to pay in bitcoin, ensuring they can’t be traced or confiscated due to sanctions,” he told the newspaper.
Iran has been sanctioned by a number of countries, including the US, over accusations of terrorism and its uranium enrichment program — a key point of contention in the current conflict.
To get around these sanctions, the government has used crypto exchanges to make financial deals, culminating in crypto exchange Binance being accused in July 2022 of allowing Iran to defy American sanctions....
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Still winning, Don?
Miami Beach Restores Rainbow Crosswalk In City Park
Out South Florida reports:
Miami Beach is bringing back its LGBTQ crosswalk less than six months after the Florida Department of Transportation removed the original in an overnight takedown at 12th Street and Ocean Drive. The new installation, made from 3,606 colorful pavers salvaged from the original crosswalk, will be unveiled April 10 at 10 a.m. in nearby Lummus Park. City leaders are framing the project as a direct response to the state's removal of a landmark that had become a symbol of Miami Beach's LGBTQ community.
The original crosswalk was removed in October as part of what the city described as a state crackdown on street art. Miami Beach's replacement does not put the symbol back in the street, but it does put it back in public view, and back in the middle of Pride season. The unveiling is part of the city's lead-up to Miami Beach Pride, the 10-day festival that began April 2 and ends with the annual parade on April 12. Organizers estimate about 170,000 people will attend this year's events....
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Beautiful!
Laura Loomer: Iran Got “Everything That They Wanted”
“How did this turn out for the United States today? What concessions did we get?
What concessions did we get? Iran practically got everything that they wanted. Iran got everything that they wanted, and now they’re going to be able to restock all their munitions, rebuild, gain more strength.
“And, of course, they’re going to have all this oil money. They’re going to be able to continue funding the IRGC, funding all of this Islamic terrorism, funding their Iranian proxies all throughout the Middle East.
“They’re gonna continue firing rockets into Israel. And then eventually, they’re going to develop nuclear weapons because they’ve already said that they try to keep it a secret, but they can’t really keep it a secret because there’s really no way to keep it a secret.
“Eventually, everybody finds out that Iran is working towards building a nuclear weapon. Okay? They’re on record saying this, the Iranians. And now we’re just supposed to trust them at their word.
“All these people in the woke reich who said that they wanted to use the 25th Amendment against the president today, and yet these are the people who are celebrating. So what exactly did we win? I’m not really understanding what we won.
“We have over two million Iranian proxies living in the United States and the Iranian regime hasn’t been dismantled. And they’re now only going to be able to get stronger, and more powerful, and more violent.” — So-called Trump whisperer Laura Loomer, today on her podcast.
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Don't say we didn't warn you.
“The Alarm Bell”: Arizona’s Drop in SNAP Participation Signals Potential Nationwide Impact of Trump Legislation — Nicole Santa Cruz
More than 400,000 Arizonans have lost their SNAP benefits since July — the largest decline in the nation by a wide margin — as an underfunded state agency administered changes called for in President Donald Trump’s so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
The drop represents nearly 47% of the state’s participants in the program better known as food stamps and includes about 180,000 children, according to the Arizona Department of Economic Security, which administers the program.
On Wednesday, the nonpartisan Center on Budget and Policy Priorities released data through February showing that the reduction in Arizona has far outstripped other states. After Arizona, the largest loss of participants was in Florida, where less than 16% of recipients lost benefits since July, according to the center’s analysis.
Arizona officials attribute the plunging caseload to swift implementation of policy changes forced by the bill, including new work requirements.
But interviews suggest that Arizona’s efforts to comply, combined with cuts to the agency that runs the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, have contributed to the decline — making it more difficult to apply and causing people who are eligible to be denied. The state’s drop has exceeded previous projections.
“Arizona is just the alarm bell,” said Joseph Palomino, executive director of the Arizona Center for Economic Progress, a nonpartisan advocacy organization. “This is likely going to happen in every state.”
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Trump says, "Fuck You, America! Grift and get rich like me!"
It’s Not a TACO. It’s a Surrender — William Kristol
Well, that was all pretty dumb, wasn’t it? Happy Wednesday.
Trump Surrenders
by William Kristol
I’m old enough to remember when President Trump assured us, “There will be no deal with Iran except UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!”
That was a month ago.
Since then, Trump has bombed and blustered and caused all manner of damage to Iran, to its neighbors, to the United States, and to the world. But Iran hasn’t unconditionally surrendered. It hasn’t even conditionally surrendered. It’s agreed to a ceasefire followed by negotiations. These negotiations will be based not on Iranian surrender but, as Trump said last night, on a ten-point proposal from Iran that Trump believes “is a workable basis on which to negotiate.”
So we’re off to negotiations. Trump and the Iranian regime are making wildly contrasting claims and promises about what has been or will be agreed to. For now, as Gregg Carlstrom, Middle East correspondent of the Economist, put it:
So if you’re keeping score at home, the ceasefire includes Lebanon but also doesn’t include Lebanon, America has agreed to all of Iran’s demands and Iran has agreed to all of America’s demands, America will recognize Iran’s right to enrichment and also insist on zero enrichment, Hormuz is completely open but also Hormuz is subject to unclear limitations.
Oil market researcher Rory Johnston wittily called this “Schrödinger’s ceasefire.”
But the fog of ceasefire doesn’t mean that we don’t know anything. In fact, we know quite a lot already.
We know that the Iranian regime remains in place. The mullahs and the IRGC remain in control of Iran.
We know that the Iranian regime still has its enriched uranium (even if they can’t get to a lot of it right now). And we know that while its military capabilities have been much degraded, it still has functional missile and drone capabilities. We know there’s no reason not to expect Russia and China to be willing to rearm Iran....
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When do we expect Trump's resignation?
Two Weeks Trump Caves On Murdering Entire World. Whew, What A Relief All Over Again! — Evan Hurst
Well, it was scary there for a minute, wasn’t it!
But the guy they call TACO did the thing he always does. After trying to engender fear and respect from the world with a proud display of his inflamed, swollen genitals, Donald Trump surrendered to Iran last night, in exchange for nothing. It was a war he started for no reason, and he got nothing. (Unless you count whatever rush he and Secretary Shitfaced Hegseth got from exploding those little girls at that school. And the American troops killed and injured. We’re sure that sent a thrill up their legs.)
But sure, loser, declare victory...
Oh, two weeks, eh? We should have known old Two Weeks Trump would show up to this party, along with all the other dumbfuck loser characters who live in his syphilitic brain.
Iran, of course, got stuff. For instance, Iranian state media is crowing that they suckered Trump into accepting their own 10-point plan, and fully declaring victory.
“The enemy, in its unfair, unlawful, and criminal war against the Iranian nation, has suffered an undeniable, historic, and crushing defeat,” the council statement reported by state media read.
“Our hands remain on the trigger, and at the slightest mistake by the enemy, a full-force response will be delivered,” it warned, according to the statement obtained by CNN.
They say they’ve won full sanctions relief, and Iranian control over the Strait of Hormuz (and the ability to, along with Oman, charge passage fees!), “acceptance of enrichment” (at least in the Farsi version of the statement), and more!
In response, Trump and his piss-licking minions like the FCC’s Brendan Carr are birthing full-grown cows at CNN, for reporting what Iran said. You can see in the screengrabs in the Bluesky post below that Fox News also reported what Iran said....
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Full sanctions relief. Even the ones Bush installed. Think of it...always!
Trump’s Defeat in Iran — Robert Reich
Friends,
Last night, 90 minutes before Trump said he’d cause the death of a “whole civilization” if Iran didn’t open the Strait of Hormuz, an Iranian official said the shipping channel would be reopened for two weeks if the United States stopped bombing Iran. The U.S. has now stopped bombing Iran.
So we’re back to the status quo before Trump began his war. Only now, Iran can credibly threaten to close the strait if it doesn’t get what it wants from Trump — thereby causing havoc to the U.S. (and world) economies. Trump’s only remaining bargaining leverage is the threat of committing war crimes.
In other words, last night’s showdown was a clear victory for Iran and a clear defeat for Trump (although he’ll frame it as a victory).
The Iran fiasco is only the latest in a host of examples revealing how to defeat Trump.
In addition to Iran, similar strategies have been used by China, Russia, Canada, Mexico, and Greenland. Inside the United States, the people of Minneapolis have used them, as have Harvard University, comedian Jimmy Kimmel, writer E. Jean Carroll, and the law firms Perkins Coie, Jenner & Block, Susman Godfrey, and WilmerHale.
What’s the strategy that connects them all?
All refused to cave to Trump, despite his superior military or economic power. Instead, they’ve engaged in a kind of jujitsu in which they use Trump’s power against him, while allowing Trump to save face by claiming he’s won. Consider:
Iran knew it was no match for the superior might of the U.S. (and Israel). So it used cheap drones and missiles to close the Strait of Hormuz and incapacitate other Gulf oil installations, thereby driving up the prices of oil and gas at the pump in the U.S., which has put growing political pressure on Trump, months before a midterm election. Hence, Trump has been forced stop his war....
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Trump isn't good at strategy.
The Most Dangerous Crisis in America Isn’t Political: It’s the GOP’s Intentional Destruction of Trust — Thom Hartmann
When people lose faith in government, the result isn’t reform, it’s instability, extremism, and eventual breakdown…
Trump is tearing America apart with his threats against Iran and comment that domestically, “It’s not possible for us to take care of day care, Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things.” He’s also succeeded in intentionally pitting Americans of different races, religions, and across the rural/urban divide against each other.
As Michael Corthell noted on the Essay X² Substack:
“There was a time when Americans expected political leadership to involve sobriety, judgment, and at least a passing acquaintance with reality. That time now feels like one of those lost civilizations historians whisper about, somewhere between Atlantis and the Republican Party of 1956.”
While it’s worked to the advantage of the GOP, the fossil fuel and private prison industries, and the billionaire class for four decades or more, it’s extraordinarily dangerous to our nation and our children’s future.
That’s because a society can’t function when its people don’t have faith in its institutions, and it’s even more of a challenge for a democracy, a form of government which only exists “by the consent of the governed.” When people lose faith in their nation’s institutions, the result is both social and political chaos much like America is experiencing right now.
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"You say you've lost your faith but that's not where it's at. You have no faith to lose and you know it." — Bob Dylan, Positively 4th Street.
JD Vance bashed by historian over 'utterly nutty' sell-out to Putin ally — Tom Boggioni
During an appearance on MS NOW on Wednesday morning, noted historian Douglas Brinkley expressed surprise that Vice President JD Vance has chosen to ally himself so closely with Hungarian strongman Viktor Orbán as he seeks re-election.
While the US was prepping for a massive escalation of the war in Iran, which was averted at the last moment after Pakistan brokered a two-week ceasefire that heavily favors Iran, Vance was taking part in a MAGA-style rally for the Hungarian prime inister who is fighting an uphill battle to hang on to his job.
Appearing with “Morning Joe” co-host Jonathan Lemire, Brinkley was quick to point out that Orbán is a high-profile puppet belonging to Vladimir Putin.
“Can you think of another moment where a sitting president or vice president would openly campaign for a foreign head of state, particularly one who we learned yet again today with Michael Weiss, terrific reporting a couple hours ago, is firmly in the pocket of Vladimir Putin?” Lemire pressed his guest.
"It's utterly nutty,” Brinkley quickly replied. “The F-grade goes to NATO, the failing of NATO, meaning Donald Trump's failure to keep NATO engaged. NATO doesn't want to be engaged with war crimes either. And we forget that our foreign policy has to have NATO at its center.”...
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The search for the bottom continues with the Trump nothingburger.
Trump's 'emotional' outburst showed Iran it got 'under his skin': expert — Nicole Charky-Chami
President Donald Trump's comments on Truth Social amid the Iran war revealed how this conflict would potentially play out, a former Defense Department official said on Wednesday.
Evelyn Farkas, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, told MS NOW host Alex Witt that Vice President JD Vance referred to these talks as "fragile" and discussed what could come next.
"I think he's right to call it fragile," Farkas said. "We don't know whether the truce will hold. And clearly, the Iranians are nervous that, you know, our administration could take advantage of the truce in some way militarily. Although I would say that because of President Trump's very emotional messages over the weekend, they probably are feeling pretty confident that they've gotten under the skin of our government and that we were we really did want a resolution to this diplomatically. So I think that there's a greater than 50 percent likelihood that this truce will hold, and that it will actually transform into a durable agreement, because both sides do, at the end of the day, want to put an end to this fighting."...
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Trump's skin is as thin as toilet paper. When one is as old as he, skin bruises very easily!
Trump and Hegseth assault allegations featured prominently in pro-Iran 'trolling' campaign — Alexander Willis
President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth have been featured recently in a series of videos that have “flooded the internet” since the United States attacked Iran in late February, videos from pro-Iran groups that prominently feature the sexual assault allegations leveled against the current president and his top Defense official.
“Trump is globally known for sex crimes and, like Hegseth, charges of sex crimes – and the Iranian videos depict the two men explicitly as rapists,” reads a report published Wednesday in The New Republic.
“In one video, [a] Lego Trump has doll-like girl figures on his bed and lap, and Hegseth is shown in military garb, repeatedly committing rape. Assaults on girls are the modus vivendi of these videos’ versions of Trump and Hegseth.”
Trump has faced sexual misconduct allegations from at least two dozen women dating back to the 1970s, and was found liable for sexual abuse by a jury in civil court in 2023. Hegseth has also faced an allegation of sexual assault, though both Trump and Hegseth have denied any wrongdoing.
While not produced by the Iranian government, the video campaign – described by The New Republic as "not idle trolling" – has been heavily promoted by Tehran.
Pro-Iran groups, particularly the anonymous student activist group Explosive News, have seized on the allegations against Trump and Hegseth, depicting Trump as a sexual abuser in a series of Lego-inspired videos generated with generative artificial intelligence, videos that have gone on to be watched by millions on social media. Hegseth has also been featured prominently in the video campaign.
As to the campaign’s core message as it relates to Trump – that the president had “the ideology of the rapist” – The New Republic’s Virginia Heffernan argued it was hard to disagree....
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Rape is an act of violence.
'Wow': Analysts taken aback by initial details of Trump's ceasefire with Iran — Robert Davis
Political analysts and observers were taken aback on Tuesday after the initial details of President Donald Trump's announced ceasefire with Iran were released.
The New York Times reported that some of the ceasefire provisions include the U.S. agreeing not to attack Iran again and lifting all sanctions on Iranian oil, including those that were put in place by George W. Bush's administration. The details emerged after Trump announced Iran and the U.S. had agreed to a two-week ceasefire just an hour ahead of Trump's self-imposed deadline to reach a deal.
Political analysts and observers reacted to the ceasefire on social media.
"Wow. The biggest disaster of a president ever!" former Republican Congressman Adam Kinzinger posted on X.
"Putin smiles," investigative journalist Scott Stedman posted on X.
"I’m definitely glad there is a ceasefire, but … it sounds like we lost?" Josh Schwerin, founder of Saratoga Strategies, posted on X.
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The fart of the deal! Let's see if "Whining Boy" really accepts a cease fire. He started the war.
Mockery as Iran dupes Trump admin in ceasefire deal: 'No possibility of redemption' — Robert Davis
President Donald Trump and his allies are not telling the same story as the Iranians about the recently agreed-upon ceasefire deal, according to a new report.
Trump announced on Truth Social that the U.S. and Iran had agreed to a two-week ceasefire as they negotiate the end to the war in Iran. Few details about the agreement have been released. Meanwhile, the Associated Press reported on Tuesday night that the Iranian government appears to be trying to dupe the Trump administration over a requirement for Iran to cease its uranium enrichment program.
"Iran in the Farsi-language version of its 10-point ceasefire plan included the phrase 'acceptance of enrichment' for its nuclear program, something that was missing in English versions shared by Iranian diplomats to journalists," the AP reported. "It wasn’t immediately clear why that term was missing."
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There is a lot of missing with Trump.
'Iran won' after they 'rope-a-doped' Trump: MS NOW analyst — Tom Boggioni
According to the panel on MS NOW’s “Morning Joe,” if Donald Trump’s ceasefire agreement with Iran holds, the US still came out as a loser after the US launched the unprovoked war.
According to “Morning Joe” regular Mike Barnicle, there should be no doubt that Iran may have lost militarily, but now holds a stronger hand than before the war began.
Before letting former Council on Foreign Relations president Richard Haass expound on the long-term implications of the paused war, Barnicle bluntly stated, “Did not Iran, though, just play rope-a-dope with the United States? They won. Iran won.”...
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His entire administration must resign!
Critics tear Trump apart after he goes TACO Tuesday on Iran — Matthew Rozsa
President Donald Trump threatened to destroy Iranian civilization unless it capitulated to American demands on Tuesday morning, then walked back his pledge on Tuesday evening — continuing his “Trump Always Chickens Out” (TACO) pattern, which many on social media quickly pointed out...
Similarly Kyle Kulinski, a talk show host, immediately drew attention to Trump’s vacillating on his vow to commit genocide against Iran.
“Trump TACO hits,” Kulinski posted on X. “Any minute now Iran will say they didn’t agree to anything at all. Genocidal threats and war profiteering market manipulation. Get this man THE F--- OUT OF THE OVAL OFFICE & INTO PRISON.”...
Former Republican consultant Rick Wilson shared a similar observation earlier in April.
"Have we reached the point where the TACO trick only works if he actually TACOs, you know?” Wilson explained. “And he hasn't. He's still going all in on this war."
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One more order of TACOs.
Trump Threatened Nukes; Just 3 Republicans Could Remove Him — Cliff Schecter
The maddening part is as a demented dingus drags the world to the lip of nuclear conflict, he could be stopped at any moment by a handful of Republicans. As Trump treats human civilization like The Trump Taj Mahal—a thing to loot, bankrupt, and leave smoldering—there's one morally coherent response...
The maddening part is as a demented dingus drags the world to the lip of nuclear conflict, he could be stopped any moment by a handful of Republicans. As Trump treats human civilization like The Trump Taj Mahal—a thing to loot, bankrupt, and leave smoldering—there's one morally coherent response: remove him from office. Now.
It would take two-to-three House members. You have so-called reasonable ones who’ve taken multiple oaths to this country in retiring Rep. and former Brigadier General, Don Bacon, and former FBI agent, Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick. But, nope, no courage to be found.
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They have no moral core.
Sen. Mark Warner: Trump Plans A Fake Crisis To Take Over Elections — Susie Madrak
Coming from Mark Warner, the establishment better pay attention.
Sen. Mark Warner is sounding the warning across America: Trump is going to manufacture a crisis to take over the elections. He talked about it last night on Rachel Maddow's show.
He says Trump allies working in coordination with people close to the White House have circulated a draft executive order that would declare a national emergency based on false claims of foreign interference in the 2020 election. Trump would use the declaration would be used to unlock sweeping presidential powers over how Americans vote.
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This was predicted here some time ago. He's late to the table on this.
NYT: Red States Move To Thwart Citizen Initiatives
The New York Times reports:
Voters frustrated by one-party control in Republican states over the last decade have increasingly turned to citizen-sponsored initiatives to enact policies that their legislatures won’t. They expanded Medicaid, adopted paid sick leave, raised the minimum wage and safeguarded access to abortion. Now, the legislators are striking back.
In North Dakota, Utah and South Dakota, legislatures are sponsoring measures on the November ballot that would raise the threshold for approving citizen amendments to 60 percent, not a simple majority.
In Missouri, the legislature placed a measure on the ballot that would set an even higher bar: Citizen-sponsored amendments to the state constitution would have to win in each of the state’s eight U.S. House districts. An initiative that wins 95 percent of the vote statewide could lose if it fails in a single district.
And in Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill imposing a raft of new requirements, fees and criminal penalties around collecting signatures on petitions for ballot measures. The result: All 22 initiatives proposed by citizens this year failed to qualify for the ballot.
"I will never live in FL, so I can be mean. but I feel sorry for the people who live there. he's almost funny in his transparency. he's short, ugly, stupid and easily mocked. he has a desperate need to be loved. by some twisted native system of corruption, he is in that role. like many of his type, left to his own? he'd barely know what to do, how to work a real job. but in that morass, his underlings and the lobbying industry take care of it, and he just gives lovely Klan speeches and lives in the camera bubble world of pols and media Freaques. meanwhile, the people of FL are subjects in an ongoing experiment in psychology: watch prominent white male republicans punish an entire group, for their insecurities." — Chicago Dyke (comments)
"Keep pushing the people and you may find yourself dead. Violence is never the answer however at times it is the only solution." — The Wolflam (comments)
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Nazi traitors will never run this country! The PEOPLE RUN IT, YOU IGNORANT SLUTS!
Gutfeld: “Women Make Better Fascists Than Men”
"Yet another misogynist iteration of "I'm terrified of vaginas."" — Jay Silversmith (comments)
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Said the wimp fascist eunuch!
Blanche: It’s Trump’s “Duty” To Prosecute His Critics
"And yet Biden, Obama, Clinton did not do so. I guess they are just stronger more powerful men who could handle relentless (and often undeserved) criticism.
Unlike the whinny orange titty baby who screams about outrages like accurate reporting or documentation of his actual words and actions." -- DaddySnark (comments)
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Another little Nazi retard that has never heard of our First Amendment!
He must be dissmissed and disbarred!
'Dude is insane': Trump reamed for suggesting US could take cut of Iran's shipping tolls — Matthew Chapman
President Donald Trump's two-week "ceasefire" agreement with Iran was quickly flagged by experts as being lopsidedly in favor of Iran — with one of the most notable aspects being the United States being open to negotiating Iran's right to collect shipping tolls in the Strait of Hormuz, a massive concession.
But in conversation with ABC correspondent Jonathan Karl on Wednesday, Trump tried to spin it as a good thing — because maybe America could get in on the action and help Iran enforce the toll in exchange for a cut of the revenue.
“We’re thinking of doing it as a joint venture. It’s a way of securing it — also securing it from lots of other people,” Trump told Karl. “It’s a beautiful thing.”...
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Thanks, Trump for admitting to an act of treason. Exhibit 1 that will prove it in criminal court.
Trump just handed Iran a massive 'strategic victory' after retreating from threat: expert — Robert Davis
President Donald Trump just handed the Iranian regime a massive "strategic victory" after retreating from his previous threats, according to one expert....
Col. Cedric Leighton, a retired military officer, explained to CNN's Erin Burnett on "Erin Burnett OutFront" on Tuesday that Trump's announcement is a "strategic victory" for Iran.
"This is a strategic victory for the Iranians, because if they know that they've proven that they can control the Strait, at least up to a point, they will then control commerce," he said. "They want to exact tolls on ships that go through there."
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A total failure. The disaster that is Trump and his ilk.
Dem warns Trump just made one of America's enemies stronger than ever: 'He's lost touch' — Matthew Chapman
President Donald Trump's threats to commit war crimes and genocide against the people of Iran, only to back down at the last second and agree to a deal that gives Iran more leverage than they had when the war started in the first place, has been a disaster, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) told CNN's Erin Burnett on Tuesday evening.
In fact, he said, it merits serious consideration of the 25th Amendment to remove him from office.
"The president has promised to commit war crimes, he's promised to eradicate an entire civilization," said Murphy. "We've never, ever seen that in the history of this country. That's why I, and many other people, have been talking for the last 24 hours about the 25th Amendment. It does seem that Trump has lost touch with reality, and we just can't accept a president who is literally promising to destroy an entire civilization, to murder hundreds of thousands of innocent human beings."
This fact alone, said Murphy, "should be grounds for the removal of this president."
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Anyone that doesn't support invoking the 25th amendment should be removed from their position with the US government.
BREAKING: Trump “Agrees” To Two Week Ceasefire
“Based on conversations with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Field Marshal Asim Munir, of Pakistan, and wherein they requested that I hold off the destructive force being sent tonight to Iran, and subject to the Islamic Republic of Iran agreeing to the COMPLETE, IMMEDIATE, and SAFE OPENING of the Strait of Hormuz, I agree to suspend the bombing and attack of Iran for a period of two weeks.
“This will be a double sided CEASEFIRE! The reason for doing so is that we have already met and exceeded all Military objectives, and are very far along with a definitive Agreement concerning Longterm PEACE with Iran, and PEACE in the Middle East.
“We received a 10 point proposal from Iran, and believe it is a workable basis on which to negotiate.
“Almost all of the various points of past contention have been agreed to between the United States and Iran, but a two week period will allow the Agreement to be finalized and consummated.
“On behalf of the United States of America, as President, and also representing the Countries of the Middle East, it is an Honor to have this Longterm problem close to resolution. Thank you for your attention to this matter.” – Trump, just now on Truth Social.
“In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and that nothing was true. ... Mass propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow. The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that, under such conditions, one could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust that if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along that the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness.”
- Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism" — WaveMotionGum (comments)
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So now, we still get to pay them for oil delivery that passes to us through their strait. And Trump will call this "winning?" ROTFLMAO!
Sean Hannity: Trump Can’t Be Touched For War Crimes
“The International Criminal Court [aka The Hague] is not recognized by the United States. By the way, these organizations have a long history of being developed to basically spew their anti-Americanism, antisemitism, the same with the United Nations. I don’t care what the United Nations has to say. I don’t care what the ICC has to say.
“And when you look at — this is an enemy combatant, the number one state sponsor of terror, not one of these people, not one of these organizations have I ever seen take on the Iranian regime with their state sponsor of terror.
“And to be very, very clear, yeah, any power source that supports their military capability, yeah, or any power plant, bridge, it doesn’t matter. It is a legitimate military target that diminishes their military capabilities, whether they like to hear it or not. They don’t have a leg to stand on.” – Sean Hannity, who last month said the war will be over in “two or three weeks.”
"But......if Trump ever travels to Scotland to play at his golf course or to any other country that recognizes the International Court, he could very well be arrested." — Coprolite (comments)
"I would hope that a future Democratic adminstration would arrest him and Kegsbreath and hand them over." — Craig C (comments)
"A future Democratic Congress and president MUST join ICC jurisdiction and hand Trump and Hegseth over for trial." — (((GC))) (comments)
"I would contend that the Noriega precedent, which ShitGibbon invoked to justify kidnapping President Maduro, would let the ICC come in and arrest Trump on US soil." — OlyGregg (comments)
"Damn, hannity had his tongue so far up trump's rectum he may get stuck in there." — Arthur Earl Anthony (comments)
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He seems to be a bit concerned about his failed hero. And murdering innocent people is terrorism, Sh-yawn. But plans are already being made to arrange his arrest and trial, bub.
Attack on Iran's Bushehr reactor would spell disaster — Newswire Editor
The recklessness of the US and Israeli bombing attacks on Iran that now threaten to potentially destroy the Bushehr commercial nuclear power plant there, represents a radiological risk of monumental proportions, warned Beyond Nuclear today.
The 1,000 megawatt Russian built VVER reactor sits on the Iranian coast. It is the same design as the reactors in Ukraine where alarm has already been raised by the International Atomic Energy Agency and other international authorities, should any be struck or seriously damaged by Russian missiles as the war in Ukraine continues to drag on.
But there has been significantly less international comment about the similar risks at Bushehr, a disturbing trend as the US president dispenses with all the norms and protocols of war and threatens to obliterate all of Iran's critical infrastructure including power plants by midnight on Tuesday if no agreement with Iran is met by then.
“Hitting the Bushehr civil nuclear power plant would be a war crime,” said Linda Pentz Gunter, executive director of Beyond Nuclear. “The Geneva Convention specifically defines a war crime to include hitting facilities that, if damaged or destroyed, would result in extensive loss of non-combatant life,” Pentz Gunter added. “A commercial nuclear power plant certainly falls into this category.”...
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The fire next time.
Trump To Raid Humanities Fund To Pay For DC Arch
NOTUS reports:
The White House plans to spend $15 million in National Endowment for the Humanities funds to finance the construction of the massive archway President Donald Trump hopes to build across from the Lincoln Memorial, according to a spending plan shared in the Office of Management and Budget database on Tuesday.
The NEH spending plan includes $2 million reserved for the arch, along with $13 million worth of matching grants.
It confirms for the first time the president’s intention to use taxpayer dollars to at least partially fund his project. Trump previously told a group of donors that the archway was fully funded, floating the idea that unused funds for his White House ballroom project could be utilized.
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Robbing Peter to pay Paul.
'I'm sick to my stomach': Lawmakers call for 25th Amendment as Trump heightens Iran threat — Nicole Charky-Chami
A number of congressional Democrats were raising concerns and demanding that it was time to invoke the 25th Amendment on Tuesday after President Donald Trump raised a serious threat to permanently damage Iran and its people.
Trump said via his Truth Social platform that if Iran did not meet his negotiation deadline by 8 p.m. ET, "a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will."
Lawmakers responded to the president's comments, citing it was time to force Trump from office and pass presidential powers and duties to Vice President JD Vance.
On social media, Democrats made it known where they stood:
"I’m sick to my stomach. The fate of millions of innocent civilians now depends on the whims of a sick and demented man. This is pure evil. Republicans, if there were ever a time to stand up, it’s now. We must invoke the 25th Amendment before it’s too late," Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-CA) wrote on X.
"Trump is escalating a devastating, illegal war, threatening massive war crimes and targeting civilian infrastructure in Iran. In the last 48 hours alone, the rhetoric has crossed every line. Pete Hegseth is complicit. I’ve called for the 25th Amendment and am introducing Articles of Impeachment against Hegseth," Rep. Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ) wrote on X.
"After bombing a school and massacring young girls, the war criminal in the White House is threatening genocide. It's time to invoke the 25th Amendment. This maniac should be removed from office," Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) wrote on X....
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Get rid of one tratior, replace him with another just the same. The US has been totally compromised.
The Iran War Is Coming for Your Social Security — Jonathan V. Last
1. Petrodollars
The Iran war is a dagger aimed at the heart of the petrodollar system. I have been banging on about this for weeks because the petrodollar is America’s Achilles’ heel. The United States is losing the war, but we can absorb most of the losing scenarios. For instance: It will be bad if the sanctions regime against Iran is destroyed.1 It will be worse if Iran is set on the pathway to become a nuclear power.
But neither of those outcomes would be a strategic threat to America.
The risk to the petrodollar is a different category. If its supremacy is supplanted then the entire American-led world order begins to teeter and the extent of the damage is impossible to calculate.
Just as a for-instance: Without the petrodollar system, Social Security and Medicare become hard to support at current levels and defense spending gets crunched.
In order to understand this threat, we’re going to have to dig into economic and geopolitical history. We’re going to talk about the gold standard and currency recycling and deficit financing and OMG this is not sexy stuff.
But it’s hugely important, and I think it’s possible to explain it clearly. And (to mix metaphors) if you want to see around corners, sometimes you have to eat your vegetables. So get ready for a double-shot of spinach, fam....
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We can't trust a criminal with OUR money!
Happy Death Of Civilization Day, Everybody — Marcie Jones
Welp, guess Trump has penciled in today as biggest bombing day ever, with 93 million people cut off from power and water and/or blasted to smithereens, or Trump will chicken out. But he sure sounds QUITE hot to trot, posting this morning...
Or one might say 73 years, since the US and UK did that coup and installed the Shah, but who’s counting?
And that’s our Schroedinger’s Trump, both the most powerful man in the universe and simultaneously helpless as a kitten to stop the murderous mess he himself made by attacking Iran unprovoked, and unable to stop himself from killing 93 million people if that is what it takes to get the Strait of Hormuz re-named after him and bottomless oil mimosas or whatever. And knowing him he expects a personal kickback, too, a billion to join his Board of Peace!
What wonderful thing is going to happen after all the Iranians are dead? Is that itself the wonderful thing?
Iran has called his bluff and said no fucking dice to a deal, even after Trump moved his own deadline at least seven times! On Monday, Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency announced talks had collapsed, that Iran conveyed a message through mediators from Pakistan, rejecting Steve and The Kush’s ceasefire proposal of “open up the Strait so we can come kill you faster” because they want a permanent end to the war instead.
“We only accept an end of the war with guarantees that we won’t be attacked again,” Mojtaba Ferdousi Pour, head of the Iranian diplomatic mission in Cairo, told the Associated Press on Monday....
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What could possibly go wrong?
DHS Head Markwayne Mullin Clueless About His Whole Job — John Amato
Newly confirmed DHS Secretary. Markwayne Mullen demonstrated his ineptitude on the laws and his lack of qualifications when it comes to immigration law the minute he claimed sanctuary cities are unlawful.
Mullin made an appearance on Fox News with Bret Baier to preen about his new appointment and the job at hand after the disaster that was Kristi Noem.
How can you do a proper job if you have no idea about the laws applicable while you oversee 22 different agencies?
Mullin cried that he just wants everyone to get along.
Baier: But, Mr. Secretary, you know that the issue here is that you have states and cities that are sanctuary states and cities, and that's part of the issue, it's part of the problem.
We saw it in Minnesota. How do you get around that?
MULLIN: Well, I believe sanctuary cities, it's not lawful. I don't think they're able to do that, and so we're going to take a hard look at this.
There is no actual designation in government called "sanctuary cities." It is a term Republicans used to smear mostly blue states, but I will use it in this article to avoid confusion.
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Trump hires only power crazy morons. He wants no one to look smarter than he.
New York Times Journalist Maggie Haberman to Drop New Trump Exposé ‘Regime Change’ With Jonathan Swan in June — David Gilmour
The spark for President Donald Trump’s March outburst at New York Times journalist Maggie Haberman and another unnamed “SLEAZEBAG writer” is now coming into focus – a new book by Haberman and Jonathan Swan that has been quietly in the works for more than two years and is already rattling nerves inside Trump’s orbit.
Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump, authored by two of the president’s most closely watched chroniclers, will be published on June 23 by Simon & Schuster, according to details revealed exclusively by Axios on Tuesday.
The pair have been working for more than two years on what publishing sources described to the outlet as a deeply reported account of Trump’s presidency, based on roughly 1,000 interviews....
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June's a long way off. Will we still be here then?
Trump Joins Vance Rally in Hungary to Campaign for Viktor Orban: ‘The United States Is With Him All the Way! — Sean James
President Donald Trump called Vice President JD Vance while he was in the middle of giving a speech in Hungary to praise the country’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Tuesday, with Trump applauding Orban for not allowing his country to be “invaded” like other European nations.
Trump — while Vance held his cell phone up to the microphone for the crowd to hear — said Orban did a great job of not allowing migrants from the Middle East and Africa to “storm” Hungary. Orban, like Trump, has made a tough-on-immigration policy a foundational part of his administration.
“You have a man that kept your country strong and he kept your country good, and you don’t have problems with all of the problems that so many other countries have because they let their countries be invaded. And you don’t have that problem because of Viktor Orban — that’s the only reason you don’t have that problem,” Trump said. “There was a lot of pressure on him to do it, and those other countries made big mistakes. So I wish you a lot of luck.”
That comment drew some cheers from the audience. Trump continued by saying, Orban has “kept your country good” because he has “kept Hungarian people in your country. He’s done a fantastic job.”
“I’m a big fan of Viktor. I’m with him all the way. The United States is with him all the way,” Trump added.
Vance’s visit to Hungary comes a few days before Hungary’s election on April 12. Orban has been the country’s leader since 2010, but his run as prime minister appears to be in jeopardy heading into the election.
The New York Times reported Vance is “attempting a last-ditch rescue effort to revive” Orban’s campaign, with the prime minister “struggling to maintain his footing as his governing Fidesz party trails badly in most polls.”...
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Trump is with Orban. America is not. Trump deals with shitpile dictator. Trump admires dictators. Trump is a dictator. Both Trump and Vance are traitors to the USA.
Vance Accuses EU Of Interfering In Hungary’s Election
The Guardian reports:
The US vice-president JD Vance has just repeatedly criticised allegedly unprecedented and “disgraceful” foreign interference in the Hungarian parliamentary election, while effectively strongly endorsing Viktor Orbán to win the vote on Sunday in what critics will no doubt see as his very own interference with the country’s electoral process.
Without skipping a beatt, he smoothly moved from lambasting European “bureaucrats” for “one of the worst examples of foreign election interference” he has ever seen and accusing them of trying to “destroy the economy of Hungary” to saying he is “here to help him in this election campaign” and that and he was expecting him to win the vote on Sunday.
"I feel as though people have collectively forgotten about Putin/Russia’s direct involvement in undermining western democracy. Everything that is happening in the United States right now is absolutely from Putin owning Trump and manipulating elections. The entire GOP is compromised. There’s a lot of hatred towards the US right now, and deservedly so, yet the country itself is under attack from within and outside. I noticed this esp when Mueller died as people forgot Barr shut the investigations down as we were no where near finished. Vance getting involved in Hungary is another example of working for Russian interests.
I know a lot has happened but we have to remember what’s really going on. The nation did not vote for any of this. It’s a coup, plain and simple." — CDPlayer (comments)
"My fear for Hungary is that Putin assassinates Orban’s opposition." — Uncle Mark - Basket Case 9comments)
"The guy from the US who is in Hungary interfering in the election is accusing the EU of interfering in the election. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha" — moisturize me (comments)
"Says the idiot trying desperately to interfere in Hungary's election." — OlyGregg (comments)
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Exactly what you would expect from a traitor.
Texas Public Schools Set To Mandate Bible Readings
The New York Times reports:
Texas education officials are considering sweeping changes to English and social studies instruction that would put readings from the Bible on a new state-required reading list for millions of public school students. The changes would also bring a U.S. and Texas centric lens to history, with less emphasis on world history, a shift some historians and progressive groups have opposed.
The Texas State Board of Education, an elected board with a 10-to-5 Republican majority, is scheduled to meet on Tuesday to consider the proposals, including the hotly debated required reading lists for each grade level. It also includes passages from the Bible in middle and high school, such as the story of David and Goliath from the Old Testament and a meditation on love from First Corinthians.
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Blatantly unconstitutional! The lawsuits will folow. Get Hot Wheels and his Xianist Nazis the fuck out of Texas!
Are Trump’s Purges and Calls for a Larger Military Budget the Setup for a Coup? — Thom Hartmann
As Trump demands sweeping new resources in the name of war, the scale of funding raises a chilling question: is this about national security or consolidating power?
On Easter Sunday, Donald Trump posted to his failing, Nazi-infested social media site a rant that has shocked the world, threatening multiple war crimes with a level of obscenity that no Republican would have tolerated from President Obama or any other Democrat:
“Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell — JUST WATCH. Praise be to Allah.”
The Iranian response was to call his language “vile”:
“Iran’s steadfastness and resistance have driven Trump to the brink of madness.”
Marjorie Taylor Greene shared an opinion most of the world now agrees with, tweeting:
He has gone insane, and all of you (the administration) are complicit.”
She also added:
“Everyone in his administration that claims to be a Christian needs to fall on their knees and beg forgiveness from God and stop worshiping the President and intervene in Trump’s madness. Our President is not a Christian and his words and actions should not be supported by Christians.”
All of which raises the question: What the hell is going on here?...
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The end of our USA?
Nobel winner says Trump's new 'motive' admission will make war crimes trial 'no problem' — Chami
Economist and Nobel laureate Paul Krugman warned that President Donald Trump's serious threat that "a whole civilization will die tonight" in his latest escalation of the Iran war would lead to lasting damage for the United States.
In his Substack on Tuesday, Krugman suggested "the civilization we destroy may be our own" and that Trump had made a major admission with his comments. He called it America's "darkest hour" yet.
"Not going to be a problem if we ever do get the war crimes trial that all of this deserves. A statement of motive, intent is completely clear," Krugman wrote, describing how Trump's words could be used to prosecute him in the future if he does what he has threatened to do.
He also argued that Trump administration officials and military service members should be ready to make a decision.
"First of all, any military commander given orders to start destroying civilian infrastructure in Iran should disobey that order, should say it, should not even quietly resign," Krugman wrote. "This is a time to stand up and make it clear that this is totally unacceptable. This is a violation of everything that the military stands for. It’s a violation of everything that America stands for."
"Second, any member of the Trump administration: to continue in your position doing your job as Trump takes America on the course of becoming a criminal nation, a criminal terrorist nation, you cannot continue in good conscience," he added.
Krugman suggested that Trump's ultimatum has left only questions.
"Damned if I know what’s going to happen," Krugman wrote. "I mean, at some level, I think that the civilization that may be destroyed tonight is our own. I mean, are we civilized if we do this kind of thing? If America as a nation doesn’t stand up against this, what are we?"...
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As Paul states, the fate of America is on the line.
Trump’s looming threat to obliterate Iran destined to backfire spectacularly: analysis — Alexander Willis
President Donald Trump doubled down on his threat Monday to destroy Iran’s civilian infrastructure by Tuesday night if the country doesn’t cave to his demand, but in doing so, he may very well strengthen Iran’s resolve, while at the same time, further isolate the United States on the global stage, MS NOW editor and columnist Zeeshan Aleem argued on Tuesday.
Over the weekend, Trump gave Tehran until 8 p.m. EST on Tuesday to grant unrestricted access for U.S.-aligned vessels to the Strait of Hormuz – a critical shipping waterway through which 20% of the world’s oil trade flows – or face the destruction of its civilian infrastructure, including energy plants, water treatment facilities and bridges, actions that would likely constitute war crimes.
The president doubled down on that threat Monday, warning that the entirety of Iran could be “taken out” in a single night.
Were Trump to follow through on his threat, however, Tehran would likely be less likely to cave to Trump’s demand, and potentially be more empowered than before, Aleem argued.
“Even if Trump does order a massive attack on civilian infrastructure, the odds that it will make Tehran budge on opening up the Strait of Hormuz are slim,” Aleem wrote in an analysis published Tuesday on MS NOW.
“Historically, the use of air power in this fashion causes the civilian population to side with a government, even one it dislikes, against a dangerous foreign intruder. Iran’s government would be a political beneficiary of such a dynamic. And Trump’s mix of bluffing, extending and disappearing deadlines and sudden attacks means Tehran now refuses to trust the U.S. will keep a temporary ceasefire.”...
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Losing.
Trump and Hegseth's religious fervor is 'playing into Iran's hands': experts — Tom Boggioni
According to two former diplomats, the injection of religious fervor by Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth into the Iran war is a gift to the mullahs of the embattled country that will only make things worse.
On MS NOW’s “Morning Joe” contributor Sam Stein noted that Hegseth made a strained comparison between a downed US airman emerging from a cave to be saved and Jesus over the Easter weekend, which has the effect of making the US attacks less about Middle Eastern geopolitics and more like a Christian crusade.
Speaking with former National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, Stein asked, “When you frame war in matters of theology, when you have the president mocking Islam in his tweets or Truth Social posts, how does that play with the leadership in Iran? How will they view this war? When you have the defense secretary talking like that?”
“Well, it does two things,” Sullivan began. “First, in a way, it plays into their hands because these guys are theocrats themselves. And so the idea of having a holy war against the Great Satan, the United States and the Little Satan, Israel, is core to their identity and core to their argument, to their own people who they were just mowing down. You got to back us in this holy war. So it really plays on the turf of the Iranian mullahs and clerics.”
MS NOW host Joe Scarborough added, “The continued deification, to follow up on what Jake said, you know, and having people coming in; scam preachers, phony preachers coming in saying Donald Trump is Jesus Christ, it's grotesque... And yet every single day. And what they're doing is, Jake's exactly right. They are turning this into a crusade. They are literally playing right into Iran’s hands, right into the Revolutionary Guards’ hands.”...
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With this we can be certain: Trump is doomed!
Trump is 'bloodthirsty, like a mad dog' about Iran escalation: insider — Tom Boggioni
Donald Trump is champing at the bit to launch devastating strikes on Iran's critical infrastructure, making dark jokes about the attack to his inner circle even as mediators desperately work to broker a last-minute deal before his 8 p.m. ET Tuesday deadline.
According to reporting from Axios's Barak Ravid and Marc Caputo, Trump is the most hawkish person in his entire administration — far more aggressive than Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth or Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who are being unfairly blamed for pushing escalation.
"The president is the most bloodthirsty, like a mad dog," one Trump insider told Axios, downplaying narratives that other cabinet members are the real warmongers. "Those guys sound like the doves compared to the president."
Trump has begun testing advisers and confidants on his plan to strike power plants and bridges by using coded language: "What do you think of Infrastructure Day?"
A senior administration official acknowledged the brutal reality of the situation: "If the president sees a deal is coming together, he'll probably hold off. But only he and he alone makes that decision." A defense official said they were "skeptical" there would be any extension this time around....
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Where's Cristi Noem now that we need her!
Vets revolt after 'the most anti-veteran president in history' kills popular program — Julia Conley
...In March 2025, a representative from the Mortgage Bankers Association told the House Veterans Affairs Committee that widespread foreclosures would result if the VASP program—which Republicans in Congress said had been created by former President Joe Biden for “political purposes... to undercut the VA Home Loan program—was not protected.
Despite the warning, the VASP program was halted two months later.
Nearly a year after the program’s end, the VA is still developing a replacement to help veterans—many of whom are struggling to afford essentials just like the majority of other Americans as the cost of living crisis intensifies with rising fuel prices due to Trump’s war on Iran.
Sources in the mortgage industry told NPR that many of the vets who have lost their homes so far had enough disability benefits or other income to avoid foreclosure, had the VASP program remained in operation.
NPR interviewed Leann Ledford, whose husband, a Marine veteran who served in Afghanistan, has a brain injury, experiences seizures, and suffers post-traumatic stress disorder. The family is one of tens of thousands who learned in October 2022 that the Biden administration had ended the earlier pandemic-era program and that they would have to pay a year’s worth of back payments in one lump sum.
The Ledfords were also one of many veteran families who were unable to enroll in VASP before Trump abruptly shut it down....
NPR’s reporting led Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), an Iraq War veteran, to denounced Trump as “the most anti-veteran president in history.”...
Pete Mills of the Mortgage Bankers Association told the VA last month that under Trump’s plan, “as drafted, veterans will continue to have worse options than similarly situated non-veterans.”
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Trump says they can die for us but they can't live for us! Disgusting!
Trump plays our troops for suckers like he plays everyone!
'This lacks evidence': NYT fact-check debunks Trump’s new election claims — Alex Henderson
...Under the SAVE Act, Americans would have to prove that they are U.S. citizens in order to vote. A regular state-issued driver's license would not be enough; an additional form of identification such as a U.S. passport or a birth certificate would be needed.
In a fact-check published on April 7, the New York Times' Linda Qiu examines and debunks Trump's claims about voting.
Trump, in March, claimed, "The cheating on mail-in voting is legendary." But according to Qiu, "This lacks evidence. Documented cases of fraud in mail-in voting are extremely rare, according to election officials, data and a body of research."
"A 2025 analysis by the Brookings Institution found that cases of fraud accounted for four out of 10 million mailed ballots," Qiu explains. "The analysis noted that universal mail-in systems, in which all voters are mailed ballots, are actually less susceptible to fraud than absentee ballot systems, in which voters must request a ballot…. A 2020 report by researchers at the American Statistical Association found 'no evidence that voting by mail increases the risk of voter fraud overall.'"
On March 29, Trump told reporters, "We're the only country in the world that has mail-in ballots." But according to Qiu, that claim is blatantly "false."...
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Why this crap is still an issue shows how crooked Trump is and how many idiots still accept his crimes. He must be eliminated from holding any office ever in his lifetime as he is a criminal and doesn't mind showing it!
'Public Service Is A Trust': Pete Hegseth Is A War Profiteer — Cliff Schecter
If recent allegations against DefSec Hegseth are half true, we face a scandal, a spectacle, of epic proportions...
There are many ways for a nation to disgrace itself, none more efficient than war makers dabbling in profiteering. If recent allegations against DefSec Hegseth are half true, we face a scandal, a spectacle, of epic proportions.
According to the Financial Times, Hegseth’s broker at Morgan Stanley explored a multimillion-dollar investment in a defense-focused ETF (Exchange Traded Fund) managed by BlackRock—weeks before President Trump launched a major military campaign in Iran. In other words, a financial broker went sniffing around on Hegseth’s behalf, hoping to tuck a multi-million dollar sum into a basket of defense stocks, just before Trump unleashed the dogs of war....
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The Trump Crime Syndicate at work.
Politico: How Pentagon Plans To Justify War Crimes
Politico reports:
The Pentagon is expanding a list of Iranian energy sites it can target for attacks to include ones that provide fuel and power to both civilians and the military, a likely workaround if the administration is accused of war crimes for striking basic infrastructure.
War planners are revising the list, according to two defense officials, as American and Israeli warplanes search for new targets after five weeks of around-the-clock strikes on military sites and U.S. ground troops surge into the region. The dual-use nature of the targets would make them legitimate, the officials said.
The Pentagon referred questions to the White House. “It’s the job of the Pentagon to make preparations in order to give the commander-in-chief maximum optionality,” said White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt.
The Washington Post reports:
As Vice President JD Vance arrived in Budapest on Tuesday, his support for Hungary’s embattled prime minister, Viktor Orban, represents a last-ditch bid to rescue the pro-Kremlin Hungarian who has forged ties to the top of the MAGA movement but is trailing in the polls ahead of a national election on April 12.
Questions are mounting about Vance’s visit, with polls indicating that Orban is falling increasingly behind his center-right rival Peter Magyar, who is challenging Orban over alleged corruption and Hungary’s flagging economy, in the toughest election Orban has faced since reclaiming the premiership 16 years ago.
Orban’s campaign has been racked by reports that his government colludes with Moscow, and tension has risen over government efforts to crack down on his political opponents. A report by Russian foreign intelligence showed that Moscow was so worried about Orban’s standing that it considered staging an assassination attempt on Orban to try to boost his sagging popularity.
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It didn't work for the Nazis in Germany in WWII and it won't work for the Trump Nazis in the US!
Trump Declares “A Whole Civilization Will Die Tonight”
Trump:"God Bless the Great People of Iran!”
Trump: “A Whole Civilization Will Die Tonight!”
"Yeah, he didn't write that. But it accurately reflects all the evil within him." — S1AMER (comments)
"Every Republican is complicit in this insanity.
Epstein" — Gunga_Dean (comments)
"A whole civilization? …..is it us? I’m on pins and needles here!" — ChrisinKansas (comments)
"Insane fucking fascist and the world knows it." — JackfknTwist (commentsO
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He declares genocide and blesses the victims? Does someone still think he's mentally stable?
Don't think the US is safe. We will be hit with a nuclear device sooner or later.
Vance Arrives In Hungary To Bolster Viktor Orban
The Washington Post reports:
As Vice President JD Vance arrived in Budapest on Tuesday, his support for Hungary’s embattled prime minister, Viktor Orban, represents a last-ditch bid to rescue the pro-Kremlin Hungarian who has forged ties to the top of the MAGA movement but is trailing in the polls ahead of a national election on April 12.
Questions are mounting about Vance’s visit, with polls indicating that Orban is falling increasingly behind his center-right rival Peter Magyar, who is challenging Orban over alleged corruption and Hungary’s flagging economy, in the toughest election Orban has faced since reclaiming the premiership 16 years ago.
Orban’s campaign has been racked by reports that his government colludes with Moscow, and tension has risen over government efforts to crack down on his political opponents. A report by Russian foreign intelligence showed that Moscow was so worried about Orban’s standing that it considered staging an assassination attempt on Orban to try to boost his sagging popularity.
"Fingers crossed that this will be the kiss of death for Orban." — Bert_Bauer (commentsO
"A report by Russian foreign intelligence showed that Moscow was so worried about Orban’s standing that it considered staging an assassination attempt on Orban to try to boost his sagging popularity.
That somehow sounds familiar." — Guess? (comments)
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Stroking and meassaging a dictator!
The utter disgrace and shame of America.
Trump Turns Easter Egg Hunt Into IQ Hunt, Finds No Eggs — Conover Kennard
Donald J. Trump took a minute on the holiest day of the year yesterday to unleash a profane message filled with threats, because, you know, that's acceptable to right-wing Christians, I guess. Who knows anymore?
But that was Sunday, so today, he's walking around the annual White House Easter Egg Roll, asking attendees, "Who's a lower-IQ person, Biden or Kamala?"Sure, totally normal, huh?
"How did I do with the voters that do eggs?" he asked. "Would you say 100% or 90%?"
"Would anybody in the egg industry vote for Kamala, a low-IQ person?" he continued. She's a low-IQ person."
"Who's a lower-IQ person, Biden or Kamala?" he added.
They're not "egg voters,” you weirdo. They are farmers who deal with actual birds, not your grocery-price nostalgia tour.
Of course, it’s his seamless pivot: "Did anybody in the egg industry vote for Kamala? A low-IQ person. She's a low-IQ person." What a master strategist this guy is! He reduced a simple conversation to "my opponent is dumb" while pretending he single-handedly saved breakfast.
And, naturally, Trump talked down to farmers, thinking they can't spot a guy who treats egg prices like a campaign prop and policy like a stand-up comedy skit.
Sorry, Trump, but you're the dumbest motherfucker on the planet, not Biden or Harris, you demented old fartbag.
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And Trump has egg on his face!
Startup Approved to Let AI System Prescribe Psychiatric Medication — Victor Tangermann
You’ve probably heard of AI psychosis. Well, now get ready for AI psychiatrists — with prescription pads.
A San Francisco startup called Legion Health has been approved to let its AI app prescribe psychiatric medications to patients in Utah.
As The Verge reports, there are efforts to keep the idea from becoming the disaster that it sounds like. The chatbot can only renew prescriptions for a specific set of medications, including fluoxetine (Prozac), sertraline (Zoloft), and other substances used to treat anxiety and depression. It can only prescribe drugs that were previously prescribed by a human psychiatrist, and patients will also need to be stable and not have been hospitalized for a psychiatric condition in the last year.
Despite those considerable carve-outs, experts are warning the system may do little to improve access to those who need care the most — while cracking the door to an ominous era for medicine....
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It should take care of Trump's meds for sure!
CBS Sells Colbert’s Timeslot To Billionaire Media Mogul
Variety reports:
As “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” ends its run next month, CBS has opted to turn its 11:35 p.m. ET post-local news timeslot into a time buy, selling the slot to Byron Allen — who will move back-to-back episodes of his “Comics Unleashed” series down an hour.
The time buy deal is through the 2026-2027 TV season; as part of the deal, Allen will also continue to lease the 12:37 a.m. hour with another strip from his company, the comedy game show “Funny You Should Ask.”
“The Late Show” airs its finale on May 21 — wrapping a franchise that first started in 1993 when David Letterman moved to the Eye network from his NBC perch (having been passed over for “The Tonight Show”). Colbert has been hosting “The Late Show” since Letterman retired in 2015.
Read the full article.
Billionaire Byron Allen owns a $100 million Malibu mansion, a $22 million Beverly Hills compound, and homes in Aspen, Maui, and Manhattan.
The Allen Media Group owns dozens of local television stations and a constellation of cable networks including the Weather Channel.
Allen last appeared here in 2021 when he sued McDonald’s for allegedly not advertising on black-owned media outlets. McDonald’s settled the suit for an undisclosed amount.
""President Trump is completely wrong. What he’s not understanding is that he’s nothing more than temporary hired help. He works for the American people. He answers to us, we don’t answer to him. The American people, we are the boss, we run it. Thank God we have the media or else I think we might all be drinking Lysol right now, and we don’t need to be drinking Lysol.” - Byron Allen, as quoted on his own corporate website."
https://allenmedia.tv/media-mogul-byron-allen-i-think-president-trump-is-totally-wrong/ — Joe Jervis (comments)
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Fascism is taking over American institutions. This is a good example of fascist wealth that is killing our liberty and justice for all to only the evilist of us. CBS is a Nazi network. Know them by their fruits!
Walsh: Civil Rights Era Brought “Unimaginable Horrors”
“Beginning in 1960s as part of the radical transformation of the civil rights era, Democrats decided to reject, you know, fundamental American principles.
“They decided to begin forcing people to hire candidates on the basis of race, to force their children to attend schools they didn’t want to attend, and so on. And as they did so, Democrat elites made every effort to avoid confronting the consequences of their own decisions.
“That’s a guiding ethos of the American left beginning with the civil rights era. They unleash pure destruction, devastation on American cities, and then they left ordinary Americans to deal with the carnage that was left behind in their wake. And when I say carnage, if anything, that’s an understatement.
“The civil rights era brought horrors beyond imagination to innocent men, women, and children throughout the United States.” – Christian nationalist Daily Wire host Matt Walsh."
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Hogwash of the highest order! Racism that betrays the US Constiution. This man is a traitor that masks behind relgious dogma.
DeSantis Signs Ban On “Enforcing Sharia Law”
Tampa’s NBC affiliate reports:
Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday signed a bill allowing the state to designate groups as “domestic terrorist organizations.” It backs up an executive order he issued in December, placing that label on two Islamic groups. The law, effective July 1, bars a court or other adjudicatory body from enforcing any provision of religious or foreign law, with an emphasis against the Islamic code known as Sharia law.
The legislation (HB 1471) was filed in support of DeSantis’ executive order classifying the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, and the Muslim Brotherhood as terrorist organizations. In March, U.S. District Judge Mark Walker issued a preliminary injunction against the order, writing that it violated CAIR’s rights by targeting and threatening those providing the organization with material support....
"Note that DeSantis doesn't care about THIS.
Talmudic courts, known as a Beth Din (plural: Batei Din), operate in Florida to handle religious matters within the Jewish community, such as conversions, divorces (gittin), and binding arbitration for commercial or personal disputes (Din Torah) based on Jewish law (Halacha). " — Joe Jervis (comments)
"Right, it's legalistic weaseling to get around self-imposed stupid religious rules. If the rules weren't stupid, they wouldn't need to work around them." — The_Wretched (comments)
"Quite a few years ago, a judge was hearing a civil lawsuit. Both parties were Muslims and there was some language from shariah law in the contract. The judge, for rather obvious reasons to anyone with a lick of sense, wanted to understand the shariah law terms and their implications so he could understand what both parties had agreed to. Obviously if any of that had violated local, state, or federal law, they wouldn't have been valid. Fox News and other right wing outlets used that one instance to freak out over shariah law being enforced in the US. (btw, there are right wing Christians who do something similar in agreements between each other. Some even agree to a "Christian" arbiter if there's any disagreement about the contract. How is that different from the shariah law incident?)
So this is a law that won't change anything because there is no jurisdiction in Florida under shariah law. None. But this will fire up a few low-information Republican morons (sorry, that was a triple redundancy) and perhaps distract them from high gas prices, even higher home insurance rates (and sometimes even an inability to get insurance that covers storms or floods) and a whole host of other problems that DeSantis and other Republicans are doing ZERO to address." — Houndentenor (comments)
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Paranoia is a horrible condition with which to go through life. His rules would mean a muslim can't even go to their mosque! What happened to the freedom of worship the Constitution grants us?
And he's going to designate exactly where this non-existant law is being enforced? It would not be valid if it did, Mr. Retard. Deluded beyond all hope. Where are the men in the white coats?
Veteran Rips Trump For Threatening Civilian Targets in Iran: ‘It’s a War Crime’ Jennifer Bowers Bahney
A U.S. Air Force veteran warned that President Donald Trump would be committing war crimes if he followed through on his threat to bomb Iran’s power plants, bridges, and desalination plants.
MS NOW’s Alex Cabot spoke with several veterans from an American Legion post in Miami, FL, shortly after Trump wrapped up his press conference on the successful rescue of a missing soldier.
During the presser, Trump doubled-down on the threats he made in a stunning Truth Social post Sunday that read, “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran,” Trump wrote. “There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell – JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah.”
“We heard President Trump being asked about blowing up civilian infrastructure, the bridges and the power plants,” Cabot said to veteran Rick Schmeck. “And he argued, that’s not a war crime. What do you make of President Trump’s rhetoric on that issue? Do you think that is the way the commander in chief should be conducting himself in this war?”
“I’m totally against it,” Schmeck said. “It’s not a — it’s a war crime. I mean, how do you win a war by destroying the country? It’s just, he even said it! It would take years to rebuild the infrastructure that he wants to blow up tomorrow. So let’s hope they negotiate and this never happens.”
“And Rick, I also heard when Secretary [Pete] Hegseth was praising president Donald Trump about this rescue mission, saying that this rescue mission couldn’t have been done without him. I heard you grumble, ‘Here we go again,'” Cabot said. “What do you make of Secretary Hegseth and his leadership right now?”
“It’s the same as before: He’s a cheerleader,” Schmeck said of the Defense Secretary. “He’s a cheerleader. But I was impressed by General [Dan] Caine and by them telling us, and CIA, the details of the rescue. I was very impressed. It was a very American thing to do.”
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Of course, it's a war crime. Trump is so deluded he doesn't know the difference!
Trump: Iranians Who Are Being Bombed Are Saying “Please Keep Bombing” Alex Nguyen
According to Donald Trump, Iranians want the US military to continue to bomb their homes.
“We’ve had numerous intercepts,” Trump told reporters in a press conference on Monday afternoon. “’Please keep bombing. Do it.’ And these are people that are living where the bombs are exploding.”
When questioned on who sent these communications, the president responded, “I don’t know what they do. All I can tell you is that they want freedom.” Trump did not say when the intercepts were received—let alone any give evidence that they exist
The bizarre remarks came as a reporter asked Trump why he claims Iranians would be mad if he halted future military strikes, including those on civilian infrastructure: “Wouldn’t that be punishing Iranians for the actions of the regime?”
Q: Why would Iranians want you to blow up their infrastructure, to cut off their power? TRUMP: They would be willing to suffer that in order to have freedoms. We've had numerous intercepts — 'Please keep bombing. Do it.' These are people that are living where the bombs are exploding
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-04-06T18:01:31.779Z
For Trump, the war is the only way for the people of Iran to win freedom. Apparently, people’s lives are in “much greater danger” without it.
“It’s amazing when I see some of the stupid people like AOC plus three, all that group. They talk about ‘oh freedom for Iran.’” Trump said. “They don’t tell you the real facts.”
“Women, men, gays…They kill the gays. They throw them off buildings,” Trump continued, referring to the Iranian leadership’s violence toward the people residing in the country.
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How does Trump's policy toward gays differ from Iran's? He hasn't thrown one off a buliding yet? Only Putin does that?
'He is so jealous': Trump brutally mocked for repeating false claim about Osama Bin Laden — Nicole Charky-Chami
The internet erupted on Monday after President Donald Trump tried to take credit for a military operation that killed the mastermind behind the September 11 attacks on the United States — which Trump did not actually lead.
Trump was speaking about the Iran war during a high-stakes press conference at the White House when he made the claim that he was behind the death of Osama bin Laden, the founder and leader of the terrorist organization al-Qaeda.
"I did one other, but this one was not picked up: Osama bin Laden," Trump said.
"If you read my book, I said you got to take him out, one year before the World Trade Center came down. So I wish you'd read the book," he added.
But Trump had not ordered the killing of bin Laden. During former President Barack Obama's presidency, from 2009 to 2017, the leader of the terrorist group was a high-priority target for U.S. military and intelligence agencies. U.S. Navy SEAL Team Six killed bin Laden on May 2, 2011 during a raid on his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, an operation that took place under Obama's administration.
People had reactions to Trump's unfounded comments on social media:
"Trump now claiming credit for killing Osama Bin Laden. He is so jealous of Barack Obama," progressive news reporter Alex Cole wrote on X.
"He didn’t kill Osama Bin Laden obviously. And as @ddale8 has repeatedly pointed out, he never issued a Bin Laden warning in his 2000 book. It’s totally made up by him and he keeps repeating it and the assembled reporters let him. Sigh. Our media is broken," Mehdi Hasan, founder and CEO of news outlet Zeteo, wrote on X.
"Delusional liar," White House columnist and podcast host Brian Karem wrote on X.
"Just an absolutely [SIC] lunatic at this point," army combat veteran and Democratic Missouri congressional candidate, wrote on X.
"25th Amendment time. Past time," Norman Ornstein, political scientist and contributing editor to The Atlantic, wrote on X....
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One sick fuck!
GOP strategist gives grim warning on US foreign policy — GOP strategist gives grim warning on US foreign policy
Stewart Stevens, Mitt Romney's former chief campaign strategist, warned that President Donald Trump has created conditions for one of the "greatest tragedies in American foreign policy history" through his Iran war.
Stevens stated Trump appears incapable of recognizing administration mistakes, risking "complete tragedies" for U.S. soldiers and Iranian civilians. He also characterized Trump as "a very damaged guy who's in decline" with "no one around him to limit him," describing the conflict as a war the country has "stumbled into."
Stevens emphasized Trump lacks an exit strategy and unrealistic goals, particularly his stated desire to determine Iran's leadership. Stevens concluded that without strategic clarity or achievable objectives, the situation represents "the makings of one of the great tragedies in American foreign policy history."
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A tragic death for the once shining light of the planet.
Organized Money: Up Ship’s Creek: The Crisis At The Strait — Matt Stoller and David Dayen
Ever since the U.S. and Israel began bombing Iran, the Strait Of Hormuz has become the most watched shipping lane in the world economy. The strait itself is just a narrow waterway between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf Of Oman, but much of the world’s oil and other crucial material, such as industrial helium, flow through it. Now, after weeks of bombing and retaliation, the strait is gummed up, with hundreds of ships stranded, little traffic, and no end in sight. We’re already seeing prices at the pump begin to spike, and the stock market has cooled, but according to our guest, we haven’t actually felt any true material shocks—yet.
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Don't hold your breath until things improve in this boondoggle.
Greed Flows South — Harold Meyerson
One of the constants of American history is that greed tends to flow south—to the American South, that is. Since the days of slavery, work has been exploited, devalued, and dishonored there, while ownership has reaped rewards that might otherwise have gone to labor. That basic description of the slave economy, alas, can fairly be applied to our national economy today. According to a January study by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the share of Americans’ income paid out in salaries and wages declined from 70 percent in 1947 to 54 percent last year, while the share resulting from ownership rose from 30 percent to 46 percent.
The fundamental redistribution of the past 80 years reflects the weakening of New Deal reforms and the evisceration of unions, but also the adoption of economic policies rooted in the South. Even once slavery was officially abolished at the end of the Civil War, the ensuing Jim Crow/sharecropping economy reinforced the South’s status as the home of dirt cheap labor enjoying minimal legal protections. As early as the 1880s, textile manufacturers began relocating their mills from New England and other Northern states to the South, for the sole reason that work came a lot cheaper there. And in the century and a half since, Southern labor standards have dragged down workers’ incomes in every part of the nation.
The moneybags of Wall Street and Silicon Valley are moving to Texas and Florida, America’s most reactionary major states....
But the moneybags of Wall Street and Silicon Valley aren’t moving to Georgia, North Carolina, or Virginia. They’re moving to Texas and Florida, which have established themselves as America’s most reactionary major states. Virginia, North Carolina, and Georgia, by contrast, have all inched toward Northern norms. What draws the Big Bucks to Florida and Texas is their neo-Confederate resistance to any form of economic egalitarianism....
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And the most retarded.
Bill Kristol: POTUS, the Macho Madman — Tim Miller
In threatening to bomb Iran to smithereens, Trump seems to be motivated by a combination of frustration, vengeance, and wanting to look like a tough guy. But he also has a God complex. Destroying the country’s bridges and its entire energy infrastructure has nothing to do with nukes—and everything to do with war crimes. Plus, the soldiers and airmen who carried out the daring rescue mission over the weekend hail from the “woke and weak” era of the U.S. military, Trump should be impeached, his family has ties with military contracts involved in the war effort, and there are rumors of at least one SCOTUS retirement this year....
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Amen!
All the President’s Bullshit (on Iran) — Jonathan V. Last
1. The Timeline
Last week President Trump said that he didn’t care whether or not the Strait of Hormuz was reopened because it wasn’t America’s problem.
On Sunday he demanded the strait be reopened in two days or he would begin a campaign of war crimes against Iran.
Which is it?
That’s a trick question, obviously. The answer is the former; or maybe the later. Or both. Or neither.
I don’t know about you, but until recently I had forgotten that President Trump originally demanded the Iranian regime accede to “unconditional surrender.”
That’s so far in the rearview that literally no one ever brings it up anymore.
Why haven’t reporters asked Trump why he’s negotiating about opening the Strait of Hormuz when he originally said that nothing short of “unconditional surrender” would be accepted? When you start radically revamping your win conditions, doesn’t that mean that you’re losing?
But of course it’s not that simple. This isn’t really about “winning” and “losing.” Because when you put all of Trump’s shifting demands, conditions, and timelines together in one place and just read them chronologically, you get a picture of either a degenerate bullshitter, or a man who’s lost his mind....
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A desperately sick man begging for help. No help is coming.
Red States Are Quietly Making Lists for Tracking Trans People — Nick Fulton
Kansas, Texas, Indiana, Tennessee, and other states are creating lists of trans people, moves that advocates say would make it nearly impossible to exist in a trans body. In February, Kansas revoked the state identification cards and birth certificates of trans residents, making it the first state to cancel documents of individuals who changed their gender markers....
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These Red State throwbacks still live in the prehistoric era. Even then there was more advancement in human evolution than there is in the current era in which they are misfits and anachronisms.
Final Thought: He's Seriously Out of His Mind — Robert Reich
And the Iranians Know it
Friends,
On Easter morning, Trump posted:
"Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell – JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP”"
Now, I ask you: If you were in the Iranian regime, would you be: (1) frightened by this post or (2) relieved that you were finally causing Trump to melt down?
I’d guess (2). You’d see his post and figure that Trump — posting on Easter Sunday — has finally gone utterly and definitively bonkers. You’ve done it. He’s mad as a hatter.
I was bullied as a kid. The way I knew I was winning against the bullies was when they started to scream and swear and rant and rave at me. That’s when I knew they felt powerless. They’d done everything they could to beat me down, and yet they couldn’t. I was tougher than their fists. They went nuts.
Is there any other explanation for Trump’s outburst? Many of Trump’s posts are really intended for domestic consumption. Perhaps he wanted to sound tough for his American followers?
That’s unlikely. Just Wednesday night he told America that the U.S. doesn’t “need” the strait to be open. If we don’t need it open, why threaten to blow up Iranian power plants (most likely war crimes) if Iran doesn’t open it?
The easiest explanation is the simplest: Trump is cornered, and he’s going stark-raving mad. ...
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That this isn't apparent to every living soul on the planet is the most frightening thing I have ever witnessed!
He must be stopped at any and all costs!
DOGE Attacks on Social Security Have Left Millions in the Lurch — Marianne Dhenin
hWn Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) was running roughshod over the Social Security Administration (SSA) last year, experts warned it could spell disaster for disabled, ill, and aging Americans who depend on its programs. A March 2026 report by the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF) and the American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD) offers insights into just how dire the situation has become.
“It seems that applications are taking longer and being denied more often and running into more errors in the process,” Matthew Borus, a professor at Binghamton University and one of the report’s authors, told Truthout....
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How can a leader of the US be such a mean-ass, cruel bastard?
Looniest of Loonies: Now and Then, Us and Them — Jaime O’Neill
Idiot: "A person of the lowest measurable intelligence, commonly incapable of speech and even of recognizing danger."
— from John Ciardi's book A Second Browser's Dictionary and Native's Guide to the Unknown American Language.
I don’t recall hearing about a malaise called “derangement syndrome” until long after I had contracted it. To put it simply, derangement syndrome is when someone drives you nuts for so long that just the mention of that person’s name is enough to rearrange your composure, upset your tummy, and darken your days.
Before I ever heard the word for that condition, I’d suffered from it damn near daily. A picture of Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger, or any of their schemiing cohorts was nearly enough to set me to frothing at the mouth. I would never have thought of it as derangement, however, or considered it a syndrome. But the mental health people have been prolific in turning common and quite sensible responses to stimuli into maladies that might be treatable with expensive new pharmacological products. They roll out new merch steadily, trying to find things that make adjustment to modern life tolerable. It's a challenge.
So, anyway, I’m pretty sure I had Nixon Derangement Syndome before a name for invented for it.
The same was true of Reagan Derangement Syndrome, The phony bastard's impersonation of a jocular friend to all, a just-plain-folks son of the heartland, and a champion of the working man stimulated my gag reflex every time I heard him uttering the word “well” to start a sentence, or begin a joke that was all too often at the expense of people getting “welfare” from the government....
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Derangement caused by the deranged!
Expert issues stark warning after JD Vance reveals Trump admin's 'mindset' for midterms — Robert Davis
A voting-rights expert issued a stark warning during a podcast interview on Sunday as Vice President JD Vance prepares to travel to Hungary this week.
Fox News reported that Vance plans to visit Budapest from April 7 to 8, where he will meet with dictator Viktor Orban and deliver remarks about the "rich partnership" between Hungary and the U.S. ahead of the upcoming national elections. Marc Elias, a lawyer and founder of Elias Law Group, said on a new episode of the "Democracy Watch" podcast with progressive YouTuber Brian Tyler Cohen that Vance's upcoming trip to Hungary revealed the Trump administration's "mindset" ahead of the November midterms.
Elias argued that Vance's appearance showed he is "campaigning" for Orban, whom the Trump administration views as a model for its governing style....
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Nazi dicatorship, America? This is our future? I think not! Delete fascism!
Trump’s 'TACO' strategy backfires as Iran war enters dangerous new phase: analysis — Alex Hnderson
...The United States, Wilson added, has "now entered a phase of the war where it's not all one-sided."...
Jong-Fast interjected, "In fact, it made the markets feel worse."
Wilson commented, "Have we reached the point where the TACO trick only works if he actually TACOs, you know? And he hasn't. He's still going all in on this war."
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Is he still calling this "winning"?
Trump reignites America’s history wars with new White House statue — The Conversation
Christopher Columbus is back. At least, a statue of him is back, reinstalled by US President Donald Trump on the White House grounds in late March – part of the president’s stated mission to cancel “cancel culture”....
The resurrection of Columbus made good on Trump’s 2025 executive order, “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History”...
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"Woke lemmings," the sot of shitbags said. What is he but a Hitler lemming?
More ass kissing of the Land of the Happy Negro!
Christian Nationalist Dale Partridge Proclaims Women Should Lose The Right To Vote — John Amato
Abolish the 19th amendment!
A wingnut Christian nationalist pastor attacked white liberal women, but then included every woman when he claimed they are the biggest threat to America because "they are incapable of responsible voting."
These are the people the rally around Demented Donald Trump.
Partridge sounds like a rabid incel leader blaming all the ills of society on women.
It's just as demented as Donald's Easter message.
"As soon as YOU give up your right to vote, Dale.
And Christian Nationalists should not be allowed to vote either because they vote incorrectly" — FlyingBlindAirlines (comments)
"If you think this is bad, you should check out Doug Wilson, Hegseth's religious mentor, who recently spoke at the Pentagon. He thinks that gays should be executed and all public schools should be Christian schools. This crap is seriously disturbing." — Cmax (commnts)
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Nope! Let's abolish Xianist Nazis that are the same trash as the radical muslims!
Trump Rages At Supreme Court About Birthright Case
"In any normal crime family this would call for an intervention." — Flora DeMann (comments)
"His disorganization is making him the world's most public organized criminal." — clay (comments)
"Trump's rotted fucking brain is a threat to the entire world." — Refugay (comments)
"And if anyone knows anything about "money making hoaxes", it's this projecting childfucker." — Eli Bradley (coments)
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Let the moron rage himself to death!
Trump puts Adolf Hitler to shame!
Coulter: “Trump Is Actually Committing War Crimes”
Yahoo News reports:
onservative pundit Ann Coulter, who has waffled on her support for Donald Trump over the years, is now accusing him of committing war crimes in Iran.
Coulter wrote a flattering book about Trump in 2016 called In Trump We Trust: E Pluribus Awesome! According to the book’s description, Coulter “argues that a bull in the china shop is exactly what we need to make America great again.”
In 2025, however, Coulter questioned Trump’s draconian deportation policies, writing, “There’s almost no one I don’t want to deport, but, unless they’ve committed a crime, isn’t this a violation of the first amendment?”
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Of course. And we are too inept to stop his crime spree!
US Marshals Waived Training For Armed DOGE Goons
NBC News reports:
Members of Elon Musk’s private security team were deputized as federal agents last year even though some of the billionaire’s guards lacked the required training and law enforcement experience, according to newly released government emails.
The emails shed new light on how the U.S. Marshals Service responded to Musk’s entourage during his five-month stint in the second Trump administration. The agency in February 2025 approved a request that it said came from the White House to deputize Musk’s bodyguards, a decision that allowed them to carry weapons in some federal buildings and continue protecting him.
The Marshals Service released the emails and related documents in response to a request under the Freedom of Information Act filed by Democracy Forward, a progressive advocacy group that has been investigating Musk’s tenure in the Trump administration. The group, which filed a lawsuit last year to get the records, shared them with NBC News.
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Retarded thugs need no training!
MS Now Doc: Trump Has “All The Signs Of Dementia”
The Daily Beast reports:
MS NOW medical analyst Dr. Vin Gupta has sounded the alarm about President Donald Trump’s health following Trump’s incendiary Easter Sunday Truth Social post.
“Open the F—in’ Strait, you crazy b—–ds, or you’ll be living in Hell – JUST WATCH!” he continued before adding, “Praise be to Allah.” The president’s unusually inflammatory post prompted people to reiterate concerns about his well-being that many, including Gupta, have shared for months.
“Erratic. Can’t finish sentences. Often confused. Illogical train of thought. Word finding difficulties. Developing and worsening gradually over time,” Gupta wrote on X on Sunday afternoon. “The President is exhibiting all the signs of dementia.”
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"You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows." — Bob Dylan
We were right about all of it — and we're owed apology as America hangs by a thread — D. Earl Stephens
I am still wondering what the hell we are supposed to do with the people who voted for Trump upwards of three times, the anti-Americans who are somehow still with him, and the abhorrent, lazy, self-serving people who can’t be bothered to vote at all.
America is a complete disaster area that is littering the world with our radical right-wing trash, and ten of millions of us who predicted this would happen are owed a damn apology, and need to be listened to exclusively going forward.
And while that won’t change one damn terrible thing that has happened since that pitch black November night in 2016, I do think that for mental health purposes, it is important during this time of war and want, that the real patriots in this country hear this from time to time.
And let me be crystal clear about this, too: Predicting all these atrocities had nothing to do with possessing a brain, and everything to do with common decency.
A serial liar, and career woman-abusing bigot should have never been given the time of day much less a place on a ballot determining who would ascend to the most powerful position in the world.
That this is even minimally debatable is the problem.
America is hanging by a thread, and exposed to the corrupt whims of a mad, sociopathic convicted felon and wannabe king, and his hand-picked, bought-off conservative Supreme Court jesters, who have handed him the keys to the faltering American kingdom....
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There is much, much more truth to read here. Fascist Trump fools accept no educating.
Trump's new bungling could birth an even more fanatical theocracy in Iran: report — Alex Henderson
U.S. President Donald Trump is defending his war with Iran as a campaign against terrorism and extremism, repeatedly saying that the regime in Tehran must not be allowed to develop nuclear weapons. But critics of Trump's Iran policy, including retired U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling — former commander of U.S. Army Europe — believe that he is only adding to the instability in that part of the world....
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We are stuck in the midst of a new axis of hate: Trump, Netanyahu are leading it now.
Fox Blames Europe's Refusal To Join Iran War On Immigrant Population — Heather
Here we go again. Fox doing Putin's bidding by undermining NATO and our European allies with a big heaping helping of racism and immigrant bashing thrown in to boot.
Here's Lawrence Jones who was filling in for Hannity this Friday, along with Jim Hanson from the right wing think tank, the Middle East Forum, along with MAGA GOP Texas Rep. Ronnie Jackson bashing Europeans for refusing to join Trump and Israel's illegal war of aggression against Iran before blaming that refusal on their immigrant populations.
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The hate news from Fox is aiding and abetting world instablility. Look deeply into their motives.
Fetterman: “The Leader Of The Democrats Is TDS”
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This man was traumatized hy his stroke. We understand. But he must change his jersey now! He's no longer on America's team. He is supporting a rapist and a terrorist and should resign.
Ohio Anti-LGBTQ Author Who Wrote About “Christian Sexual Ethics” Indicted On Multiple Child Sex Charges
The Daily Mail reports:
A former Midwest university professor who fathered at least 10 children and wrote about Christian sexual ethics has been charged with rape and sexual battery of one or more minors. John Kent Tarwater, 55, was indicted last Friday in Greene County, Ohio, about an hour west of Columbus, on two counts of rape, three counts of sexual battery and three counts of gross sexual imposition. Tarwater was booked into the Greene County Jail, where he remained in custody as of Friday night.
One victim was known to Tarwater and was as young as 10 years old when the alleged years-long abuse began, per the indictment viewed by the Daily Mail. Tarwater had worked at Cedarville University, a Baptist school with roughly 6,400 students, as a business administration faculty member and associate finance professor since 2017. In December 2022, he penned an article titled ‘Does Sexual Self–Gratification Glorify God?’ which has since been deleted but remains archived online.
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Another one bites the dust!
Latest score: Drag Queens O — Xianist cleric rapists, untold millions!
Emmer: The Democratic Base Is “Anarchist, Marxist”
Emmer:"blah, blah, blah1 I am a fucking idiot and I want the world to know it!..."
"Your friendly neighborhood political science professor here. I'm just checking in with a quick note: you cannot be both Marxist and anarchist. These are entirely different ideologies. Marxism demands state ownership of the means of production. Anarchism demands the immediate end of the state. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER." — Ryan in Illinois
"George Orwell's essay 'Politics and the English Language' ought to be taught in every high school.
The words 'Marxist' and 'anarchist' in the American popular and politicians' vocabulary are words without specific meaning beyond 'THOSE people are evil, and WE are good.' The word 'woke' fulfills the same function. It would defeat the politicians' purpose if the intended audience knew a specific meaning for these words which are intended only to provoke a particular emotion and not to contain information." — NPSTL (comments)
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Fuckwits such as this cannot be educated!
US Forest Service To Shutter 57 Research Facilities
The New York Times reports:
The U.S. Forest Service is closing 57 of its 77 research facilities in 31 states under a reorganization plan announced this week, threatening science that looked at how wildfires, drought, pests and global warming are putting pressure on forests.
The agency plans to consolidate its research division into a centralized office in Fort Collins, Colo., and move field researchers to locations in nearby states. But employees said they feared the move would lead many scientists to leave instead. The reorganization will also move the agency’s headquarters to Salt Lake City from Washington, affecting 260 employees.
Many of the research facilities are at universities where Forest Service scientists have access to laboratories and computers or at experimental forests where scientists can monitor the effects of environmental changes over long periods of time. They also investigate logging techniques, endangered plant and animal species, and how forests grow back after devastating fires.
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Bozo knows so much more than science! What absoute scrambled brain shit!
Trump may have just bribed the military to help him stage a coup: historian — Daniel Hampton
Renowned historian Timothy Snyder leveled two explosive accusations against President Donald Trump: that his proposed 50% defense budget increase could be a bribe to secure military loyalty for a coup attempt, and that a staged domestic terror attack is his best remaining path to nullifying elections.
Snyder, a Yale historian recognized as one of America's foremost scholars of authoritarianism, made both cases in a Saturday Substack post laying out five historical scenarios through which Trump could exploit the ongoing U.S.-Iran war to nullify the 2026 midterms and seize permanent power....
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This will lead to death and destruction in our country.
Trump Warns 'All Hell' Will Rain Down If Iran Won't Open Strait Of Hormuz In 48 Hours — Hilary Hanson
"Time is running out," the president threatened.
President Donald Trump posted a menacing reminder of his April 6 deadline he set for Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz.
“Remember when I gave Iran ten days to MAKE A DEAL or OPEN UP THE HORMUZ STRAIT,” Trump wrote Saturday morning on Truth Social. “Time is running out — 48 hours before all Hell will reign down on them.”
It wasn’t immediately clear if spelling the word “reign” and not “rain” was intentional.
The president added, “Glory be to GOD!”
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Sounds just like a mullah! This is his second ultimatum.
Everything's 'too expensive': Trump voters trash president's long game — Adam Lynch
Bulwark keeps doing surveys of Biden voters who switched their vote to president Donald Trump in the 2024 election and the news keeps turning up angst.br>
“Lots of things are expensive right now. Like, we're looking at health insurance tripling for the same services last year. And that's from health, dental, vision, all the above,” said one young woman. “Even car insurance needs a cap, if you ask me. But yeah, it's pretty expensive. And the pay didn't increase, but the bills did.”
“I've seen things like SNAP cuts that are really hurting poor people,” said another former Biden voter who went Trump. “I'm concerned about that. I mean, I have a daughter. She’s been out of college for almost a year and can't find a job in her field. So, I’m especially concerned about entry level jobs and also concerned about this war, if it drags on. And the stuff with ICE is very concerning.”
Other young voters griped along the same lines regarding the economy, with more complaining new workers are bring kicked to the wayside in the Trump economy.
“I have a lot of people I know who have bachelor [degrees] who have been working retail for the past couple of years,” said a respondent. “And I also think just the dividedness, like, we can't really be friends with the other side. It's just petty, just there's a lot of tension depending on who you voted for.”...
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The solution: work three jobs!
"Cognitive surrender" leads AI users to abandon logical thinking, research finds — Kyle Orland
When it comes to large language model-powered tools, there are generally two broad categories of users. On one side are those who treat AI as a powerful but sometimes faulty service that needs careful human oversight and review to detect reasoning or factual flaws in responses. On the other side are those who routinely outsource their critical thinking to what they see as an all-knowing machine.
Recent research goes a long way to forming a new psychological framework for that second group, which regularly engages in "cognitive surrender" to AI's seemingly authoritative answers. That research also provides some experimental examination of when and why people are willing to outsource their critical thinking to AI, and how factors like time pressure and external incentives can affect that decision.
Just ask the answer machine.
In "Thinking—Fast, Slow, and Artificial: How AI is Reshaping Human Reasoning and the Rise of Cognitive Surrender," researchers from the University of Pennsylvania sought to build on existing scholarship that outlines two broad categories of decision-making: one shaped by "fast, intuitive, and affective processing" (System 1); and one shaped by "slow, deliberative, and analytical reasoning" (System 2). The onset of AI systems, the researchers argue, has created a new, third category of "artificial cognition" in which decisions are driven by "external, automated, data-driven reasoning originating from algorithmic systems rather than the human mind."...
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I'm sure Trump will want to make use of this information. No?
NYP: Hegseth’s “Paranoia” Is Behind Firing Of Generals
The New York Post reports:
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s “paranoia” about Army Secretary Dan Driscoll taking his job fueled the firing of the Army’s top general, current and former administration officials tell The Post — as a top contender emerges to replace Driscoll if he’s canned next. Hegseth on Thursday demanded the resignation of Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George — Driscoll’s top aide — in the middle of the Iran war for reasons that were not publicly stated.
“This is all driven by the insecurity and paranoia that Pete has developed since Signalgate. Unfortunately, it is stoked by some of his closest aides who should be trying to calm the waters,” an official said. Driscoll is a close friend of JD Vance, with whom he attended Yale Law School after both men served in the Iraq War. His name was floated as a possible Hegseth successor last summer and the Pentagon boss’s suspicions deepened last fall when Driscoll served as a Ukraine war negotiator....
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Hegseth is nuttier than a fruticake.
Trump Order Threatens To Cut Funding For Colleges Over NCAA Rules On Player Eligibility And Transfers
USA Today reports:
No other American president since 1961 has issued more executive orders than Donald Trump. And now he’s issued another one, this time to regulate college sports, even though he doesn’t have the legal authority to do that.
The latest one, signed by Trump on April 3, is called “Urgent National Action to Save College Sports.” It aims to limit athletes’ participation in college sports to five years with some exceptions and calls on the NCAA to establish transfer rules that allow a player to transfer once in five years without penalty, plus an additional time if the athlete graduates.
It’s Trump’s second executive order about college sports since July 2025, when he issued one called “Saving College Sports.” That one had little if any apparent effect. The newest one might not either, simply because it’s an executive order without the backing of a law passed by Congress....
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Deluded, aged, retarded.
GOP Rep. Andy Ogles Intros Bill To Lower Flags On Good Friday Because “Christ Is The King Of America”
Nashville’s ABC affiliate reports:
A Tennessee congressman has introduced legislation that would require American flags to be flown at half-staff nationwide in observance of Good Friday. Under the legislation, flags would be lowered on the first Friday and Saturday following the full moon that occurs on or after the spring equinox — the formula used to determine the date of Good Friday in the Christian calendar.
“Just as Christians recognize, fast, and reverently participate in the life of Christ during Holy Week, America’s institutions should reflect that same reverence,” Rep. Andy Ogles said.
“That is why it is fitting to lower our flag to half staff on Good Friday and Holy Saturday. This would serve as a solemn reminder of Christ, who was crucified for our transgressions against a holy God. Christ is King of America, and we should honor Him accordingly,” he added....
"Christ said that his Kingdom was not in this world...
But who listens to him?" — Karl Dubhe IV (comments)
"Eh, just more "sharia law" attempts by a simpleton." — Ann Kah (comments)
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The last comment is what the Talibastard morons can't grasp. More evidence we live in an age of insanity!
Why Are Americans Still Stuck Paying for Oil Wars When EVs Cost Less to Drive? — Thom Hartmann
As war sends oil prices soaring, fossil fuel giants rake in billions while Americans get stuck with the bill, even though EVs already offer a cheaper way out.
Trump’s and Netanyahu’s insane war against Iran has caused gasoline prices to skyrocket here in the United States. The Financial Times yesterday published an article titled, “‘Pump anxiety’ from soaring fuel prices prompts surge in EV interest.” Even The New York Times has noticed, with Michael Grunwald writing in an article titled Now is the Perfect Time to Buy an Electric Vehicle:
“Even before prices at the pump started soaring above $4 a gallon, Consumer Reports found that the typical E.V. owner saves $6,000 to $12,000 on maintenance and fuel over the car’s lifetime.”
Don’t tell that to the grifters in the White House, though. Just a few days ago, JD Vance (or whatever his name is this week; this is his third name-change) told a group of Republicans, speaking about gas prices in the US:
“[Y]ou’ve got a lot of people all over the world who have focused on a lot of green energy scams, and they’re hurting a lot more than we are.”
Right…
The oil industry, which gave Trump hundreds of millions in support to become president, loves it as their costs have not gone gone up but their profits are through the roof. And Putin is grinning from ear-to-ear as Trump has dropped sanctions on Russian oil exports so Vlad is making billions to fund his terror campaign against Ukraine.
All of this has Americans wondering if now is the time to buy an electric vehicle (EV). And, because Trump killed federal subsidies for EVs, the price of them has fallen, and used ones in particular have come way down; they’re are now easily competitive with internal combustion engine (ICE) cars and light trucks....
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At the least we should be driving hybrids. People still living in the past. It won't help us.
A Tax on Billionaires? Oh, the Horror! — Jim Hightower
Should billionaires pay a small, one-time wealth tax to support the common good? One calls it "the greatest tragedy ever."
We Americans are barraged these days with multiple crises, so I hate to add anything else to our list of worries.
But I’m told this one is an epic disaster, so we must respond! It started in California, and one financial leader there now calls it “the greatest tragedy this state has ever felt.”
Holy Titanic! What can it be?
Uh… it’s a tax. Does that mean it would add to the burden of hard-hit poor and middle-class families? No, it wouldn’t apply to them at all, or even to mere millionaires.
Rather, it’s a ballot initiative to put a one-time wealth tax on the über-rich — the billionaire class. Indeed, only about 200 royally rich California folks would pay anything under this proposal.
But those billionaires are squealing like stuck pigs, and they’ve hired hordes of lobbyists, lawyers, PR flacks, and front groups to try killing the proposal.
Such overprivileged plutocratic ninnies as Peter Thiel and Mark Zuckerberg have even declared that they’ll just pack up and leave California if required to pay a pittance of their fortunes to support the basic needs of common people.
Californians, though, seem not to care. In recent surveys, only 28 percent of the state’s voters oppose the wealth tax. Indeed, nationwide, 60 percent of us want billionaire tax dodgers to start paying their fair share....
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So we want to be owned by the oligarch sector? I think not.
Inspection finds dozens of violations of detention standards at El Paso immigration facility — Ryan J. Foley, Associated Press
An ICE oversight panel cited 49 deficiencies at Camp East Montana in February including the use of force, restraints and medical care.
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Just concentration camps same as Hitler's. The shame and disgrace of the U.S.
Another War for Oil? This Is Why We Need Renewable Energy — Sonali Kolhatkar
Choosing renewables over fossil fuels would mean fewer wars and less economic disruption in the U.S. and around the world.
The war on Iran has caused the biggest oil supply disruption in history, as oil tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz falters.
Taken together with this year’s invasion of Venezuela, home to the world’s largest proven oil reserves, and the Trump administration’s subsequent cutting off of oil sales to Cuba — potentially its next military target — we are witnessing how the race for fossil fuel resources is compromising global peace and stability....
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When will we ever learn this lesson?
Are you ready for some war crimes? — Dan Froomkin
Donald Trump last night vowed to bomb Iranians “back to the Stone Ages, where they belong.”
That’s a phenomenally racist, crude and cruel thing to say.
But it’s also a promise to commit war crimes. It would require the mass destruction of civilian targets.
International law is clear: Intentionally attacking civilian infrastructure is a war crime. Even if the destruction offers a definite military advantage, attacks are outlawed if they may cause disproportionate harm to civilians.
Trump’s targets are clearly civilian. If there is no “deal,” he said – and there are no signs of any sort of deal – “we are going to hit each and every one of their electric generating plants very hard and probably simultaneously,” he said. He might even destroy their oil facilities, he said, acknowledging that “it would not give them even a small chance of survival or rebuilding.”...
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We are being led by a criminal and only fools don't know that.
Heads rolling: Political expert says this is what 'panic' looks like Adam Lynch
Political writer James Moules says there are a few dead giveaways for when an administration leader is in deep trouble. In those cases, look to the knife holes in the people around him.
“A purge of senior officials suggests growing panic within the highest echelons of [President] Donald Trump’s administration as the president’s approval ratings continue to sink,” wrote Moules in the i Paper, speaking on the recent removal of DOJ head Pam Bondi weeks after the ousting of Homeland Security head Kristi Noem.
And now Trump’s Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, has demanded the removal of U.S. army chief of staff Gen. Randy George — and in the midst of a very unpopular and problematic war in Iran....
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Hegseth is next.
New AG Todd Blanche Declares Epstein Case Closed — NewsHound Ellen
Not even MAGA host Jesse Watters believes it.
As Conover Kennard has explained, the timing of Attorney General Pam Bondi’s firing looks darned suspicious. For one thing, it happened 12 days before she was scheduled to be deposed by Congress about the Epstein files.
Rep. Robert Garcia, the top Democrat on the committee, has said she is still “legally obligated” to appear, Conover noted. But Chairman James Comer has already hinted he’s looking at ways to back out. A committee spokesperson issued a statement saying, “Since Pam Bondi is no longer Attorney General, Chairman Comer will speak with Republican members and the Department of Justice about the status of the deposition subpoena and confer on next steps,” Politico reported.<...br>
“Look, the Epstein files has been a saga that's lasted for the entire for the past year, and … the Department of Justice has now released all the files with respect to the Epstein saga,” he said.
That is a big lie. Also, the House Oversight Committee would not have subpoenaed Bondi if they thought there was no more information to be gained. Not that Watters pointed any of that out.
“So, I think that to the extent that the Epstein files was a part of the past year of this Justice Department, it will - should not be a part of anything going forward,” Blanche added....
“I’m not sure you totally get what people feel about that, but I want to move on,” Watters said...
"Both Blanche & Bondi are, of course, criminal co-conspirators in the Trump-Epstein child molestation operation." — Yourebetterbecauseyouburnyoure (comments)
Watters experienced what alcoholics call “a moment of clarity”. — trizza (comments)
"I just hope obtuse fucks like Blanche and Bondi are held in contempt of their trade by, at bare minimum, being disbarred. Neither of them should ever be confused with an honorable person again!" — mongopat (comments)
"it may be over for you and trump but America wants the rest of the files released....and when they are and its proven that trump is a pdophile .... blanche should burn just like trump, for protecting trump and others in power who are feeding off our kids. Bondi should be burned too." — GWB2 (comments)
"By not releasing the un-redacted files, they violated an Act of Congress, signed into law by the pedo-kin, er, pee-residen, er, trump. No matter what, they can be prosecuted for breaking that law." — surfjac (comments)
"Remember, this is the mob boss lawyer that Trump has known for a long time, so this guy is as dirty as they come. If a single RepubliCON so much as utters the phrase 'law and order' again, they need to shut right the fuck up, because they have all covered for and went along with the most criminal president in American history. Never again pretend to be about the rule of law, the American people are hip to your shit and your hypocrisy does not escape us." — NoNamington (comments) See photo of the two criminals!
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Sure, Jesse. No one thinks this doesn't smell to high heaven.
Pirro Trashed Bondi To Trump In Bid To Replace Her
The Daily Beast reports:
Top D.C. prosecutor Jeanine Pirro was allegedly badmouthing Pam Bondi behind her back as part of a desperate bid to replace her as attorney general, according to a report. Details of the former Fox News host’s career ambitions were laid out in a lengthy profile in New York magazine, published online the morning after Donald Trump abruptly fired Bondi as Justice Department chief.
Sources told the outlet that “Judge Jeanine” left her nearly $3 million-a-year job at Fox News for a $200,000 salary as a federal prosecutor because she was already thinking about moving up the chain. “The judge is very close to the president, talks to him all the time,” a source told New York. “And she’d been trying to put the knife in Bondi, saying she’s not a prosecutor and doesn’t have control of the building.”...
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The #1 swamp creep!
“An out-of-touch plea for more money”: Trump seeks $1.5 trillion for new defense budget -- Garrett Owen
Massive cuts to domestic programs, with higher state taxes, would bolster the spending increase
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Trump's losing his war.
'Bondi is not the last one': Insiders reveal Trump eyeing cabinet purge amid war fallout — Alexander Willis
President Donald Trump is actively considering a “broader cabinet shake-up” following his high-profile firing this week of Attorney General Pam Bondi, White House insiders revealed to Reuters in its report Saturday.
"Let's just say, based on what I have heard, Bondi is not the last one,” one White House official told the outlet, speaking on the condition of anonymity.
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He should be considering resigning instead!
Trump rages at ‘third-rate’ reporter in late-night rant: 'Don’t buy the book!’ — Erik De La Garza
He went on to reference ABC’s prior settlement over remarks made by Stephanopoulos, telling his social media followers that the network “was already forced to pay me $16,000,000 because of their false and misleading reporting.” ...
"Seems like a good day to remind everyone that Trump has sued over jokes, tweets, interviews, and news articles but NOT ONE over any of the cauntless accusations of child rape." -- Lance Thruster (comments)
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Oh, yeah! This child can whine!
Marco Rubio triggers avalanche of mockery with State Dept.'s first dress code in history — Daniel Hampton
The moves come as the department plans to reduce staffing and consolidate offices, part of a broader effort to reshape the foreign service in Trump's image.
Observers were quick to mock the announcement on social media. "Does this mean Eric and Kash can't wear their Star Trek uniforms when King Charles comes to dine?" quipped Russell Seitz, emeritus fellow in the Center for International Affairs and Department of Physics at Harvard University.
Ron Filipkowski, editor in chief of the progressive news outlet Meidas Touch, was more cutting: "I didn't realize we still had diplomats. What do they do?"
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Little Marco is saying "If I have to wear these oversize shoes, everyone has to do the same!" ROTFLMAO!
Trump’s new app has no privacy policy and uses Russian software — David Badash
President Donald Trump has been promoting the White House’s new mobile app — pushing it to become the third-most downloaded item on Apple’s popular App Store. But the app reportedly has numerous cybersecurity vulnerabilities, does not properly disclose the data it shares, and uses software components from a Russia-founded company.
“Cybersecurity researchers warn that the White House’s new app regularly shares users’ IP addresses, time zones and other data to third-party services,” NOTUS reports. “But most of its users wouldn’t know that, because the app doesn’t disclose its data sharing the way most others do.”
Cybersecurity experts were shocked by the app’s “slipshod” approach to cybersecurity, especially as it is essentially a product of the White House, and especially since the U.S. is at war.
“The U.S. government’s infrastructure is being attacked from all sides right now, and having an amateur WordPress developer running the White House’s public presence puts everybody who visits it at risk,” Philip Fields, a cybersecurity researcher and former FBI intelligence analyst, told NOTUS. He explains that if this were just a small business’ “random app,” it would not be a story.
“But it’s not,” Fields added. “This is the White House.”
Additionally, the app reportedly has left users and some White House staffers vulnerable. One researcher showed NOTUS screenshots revealing that a Russia-founded software kit company that “provides premade widgets for the app makes public the personal information of some White House staffers through the app.” NOTUS chose to not disclose the staffers’ personal information.
Cybersecurity experts also told NOTUS that the data collected by the White House is not being properly disclosed....
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Of course, this means that Trump is being fed software compromised by morons, enemy agents or he is an ememy agent himself. As such, they, or he and they, are traitors either knowingly or unknowingly.
The only other excuse is senility, dementia or mental retardedness.
Even Pro Wrestling Fans Are Done With Trump — Oliver Willis
Fans attending an All Elite Wrestling event in Canada on Wednesday night made their displeasure with U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff policy loud and clear, chanting “Fuck the tariffs.” The outburst is the latest instance of the world of professional wrestling turning against Trump, despite his years of cultivating close ties with it..
AEW Dynamite was in Winnipeg last night, and the Canadian crowd broke into a "Fuck the tariffs!" chant.
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"Down to the very depths of despair!" — Killer Buddy Austin.
Florida AG Declares That He Won’t Enforce State Laws Against Public Funding For Churches, Religious Groups
The Florida Phoenix reports:
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier won’t enforce part of the state Constitution banning government funding for churches and other religious groups on the theory it violates the First Amendment, he claimed this week.
“This [Florida] constitutional provision reads as a prohibition barring religious entities from partaking in any grant program, no matter how they would use the funds,” Uthmeier wrote in a legal opinion released Thursday, advocating for the state’s ability to pay for religious charter schools and provide scholarships for religious universities.
“These provisions therefore have no place in our constitutional order,” he continued. “They actively undermine the central place religion plays in our Republic, which the Framers sought to guarantee by deploying the Religion Clauses.” He cited a slew of founder remarks, court cases, and even Biblical text throughout, largely to assert that the United States was founded with Christianity in mind....
"So now mosques and Buddhist temples can apply for state grants to refurbish their buildings. Neat." — Asthmatic Fox (comments)
"Who the fuck needs democracy or representation, when one self-important little man can choose to ignore the state constitution and the laws created & ratified by representatives of the state?" — Uncle Mark’s Buns (comments)
"It's AMAYYZING what scum gets elevated to be TOP LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER of an entire STATE. I can think of fifteen people in my immediate condo complex who have more respect for the law." — Chassegue (comments)
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Of course, he is not enforcing the law which is his job. That makes him another likely fascist criminal.
Clearly an act of treason against the state Constitituon. He must be removed from office, arrested, indicted and prosecuted.
Trump's mockery of British PM damages alliance 'beyond repair': report — Nicole Charky-Chami
President Donald Trump's impersonations of British Prime Minister Keir Starmer have led to a damaged relationship "beyond repair" between the two countries amid the ongoing Iran war, according to reports on Friday.
Trump had mocked Starmer and ridiculed him during an Easter lunch speech at the White House, saying the UK was "not our best" ally after Starmer had reportedly consulted his team about military actions, according to The Guardian. He was apparently angry over the prime minister's decision to deny the U.S. military use of British military bases during the launch of its air strikes on Iran.
"Following the latest attack on Starmer, diplomatic and political figures said he was right to brush off the criticism but added that the relationship was very damaged and he would need to redouble efforts to built international relations elsewhere," The Guardian reported.
Trump had also claimed that he had asked the UK for help, but said he was denied that assistance.
"However, Downing Street sources said Trump had never asked the UK for the vessels and Britain had not offered them," according to The Guardian. "In previous criticism of Starmer two weeks ago, Trump said Starmer had asked to consult his team about sending minesweepers – not aircraft carriers."
Now, Starmer has started to look at improving other diplomatic ties.
"One senior diplomat said Starmer was right to 'essentially ignore' Trump and must now attempt to build ties with Canada, Australia and mainland Europe instead as it was hard to see how the relationship could recover," The Guardian reported.
Starmer called Trump's comments "quite rude" and shared his thoughts.
"I’m utterly focused on what is in the best interests of our country and I am unapologetic about that," Starmer said. "Notwithstanding the pressure that comes from elsewhere, I will remain laser focused on what is in the British national interest.
“And a lot of what is said or done is undoubtedly said and done to put pressure on me, I have no doubt about that. I understand what is going on. But I am not going to be wavering on this.”
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Much to our dismay and shame, Trump clearly does not grasp or comprehend the job he has been placed in. But neither do the Americans who voted for him.
Pete Hegseth's troops mock him behind his back with devastating new nickname for Pentagon — Matthew Chapman
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is being mocked behind his back by servicemembers, who have come up with a devastating new nickname for the Pentagon under his leadership, according to The Daily Beast.
Per the report, Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA), a Marine combat veteran, confirmed to MS NOW reporters that, “I know active-duty Marines who now refer to Pete Hegseth’s department as the Department of War Crimes. That’s because they do things like this, destroy civilian infrastructure, which, just to be clear, is a war crime.”
"Department of War Crimes" is a reference to President Donald Trump's executive order declaring the Department of Defense the "Department of War" — which carries no official weight without an act of Congress — and to the fact that the administration is threatening explicit war crimes in the conflict with Iran.
Hegseth himself recently proclaimed "no quarter" will be given with Iran, which is against international law and the U.S. military handbook to even threaten to do.
Meanwhile, Trump has threatened to take out civilian energy infrastructure in Iran, which would also constitute a war crime since the only purpose is to worsen the living conditions of regular Iranian civilians.
"Legal experts have also questioned the constitutionality of Hegseth’s strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities, which Trump ordered last June, as well as the legality under both domestic and international law of multiple strikes against alleged narco-trafficking vessels in the Caribbean, during which Hegseth is accused of issuing an illegal no-survivors attack order," the report added....
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The shame and disgrace of the United States.
Trump jokes about keeping Iran's oil as crews desperately search for downed pilot — David Edwards
President Donald Trump joked about confiscating Iran's oil as search crews were desperately trying to find a fighter pilot who was downed in the war-torn country.
"KEEP THE OIL, ANYONE?" Trump wrote on Truth Social on Friday while the search was underway.
Hours earlier, an F-15E crashed in southern Iran. One pilot was rescued, and a search for the second pilot was reportedly in progress.
Iran was reportedly offering its citizens a reward valued at about $76,000 U.S. dollars to find the missing pilot alive, CNN reported....
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Wages of a mad man.
Bumping Bondi
Why did Trump pick this week to fire his hyper-loyal but clumsy attorney general, Pam Bondi? He has mused about canning Bondi for months.
Well, you might say the president had a bad week. He’s lost interest in his war and can’t figure out a way out. It’s an old pattern for men like Trump—when things are getting rough at the office, kick the cat or maybe the wife.
In his second term, Trump has tried to avoid the pattern that characterized his first term of firing people willy-nilly to take the fall for failed policies or perceived disloyalty. In his second term, the only cabinet officials he has fired so far are women, first DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and now Bondi.
Their sins were to embarrass Trump by trying too hard to please the boss by carrying out demands that were unachievable—Noem by trying to pacify Minneapolis but leaving too much blood on the rug, and then further embarrassing the boss by flagrantly conducting an affair with Corey Lewandowski and subsidizing it with public funds.
Bondi’s sins included failing to quite weaponize the Justice Department to Trump’s satisfaction, and above all bungling the Epstein cover-up. But pursuing indictments of James Comey, Letitia James, and others were always fool’s errands. So was defying courts by appointing fake U.S. attorneys for the purpose of intensifying Trump’s vengeful lawfare....
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This is a pattern of behavior. Trump is helpless.
Trump Is Unraveling: Isn’t it Time to Act Before He Destroys the World? — Thom Hartmann
His escalating contradictions are forcing a question about congressional and cabinet powers designed for moments like this
Well, I guess it’s reassuring to learn that gasoline prices have nothing to do with Trump’s war. And that we’re winning against Iran. In fact it’s won! Better than anybody could ever have imagined!!! Although we’ll be there another few weeks... And maybe we’ll bomb them back to the Stone Age… And he needs another $200 billion… And let’s activate the draft (except for Baron, who has congenital bone-spurs.…)
One day, we’ll look back on last night’s speech as the moment it became impossible to ignore. Not just the policy or the war, but the man and his growing mental and emotional disabilities.
Because what’s now vividly clear — and increasingly dangerous — is that Donald Trump isn’t just prosecuting a war against a major, wealthy, modern, 2,500-year Middle Eastern empire that is politically and militarily aligned with Russia and China: he’s doing it while he’s visibly unraveling.
Go back just a few weeks.
On February 28th, as the first strikes loomed, Trump told Axios he could “go long and take over the whole thing, or end it in two or three days.” He was calling for total conquest or a quick hit in same sentence, the same breath.
By March 1st, he’d shifted. The war had “always been a four-week process… it’ll take four weeks — or less,” he said, according to the Washington Post. That same day, it became “four to five weeks.”
On March 2nd, he claimed we were already “ahead of schedule,” still referencing that timeline. But on social media, tracked by New York Magazine’s Intelligencer, he added something else entirely: wars, he said, could be fought “forever.”
Really? Forever. Four weeks. Two days. I guess we’re just supposed to pick one?
By March 7th, he was calling the war “a short excursion” (the proper word is “incursion”) while also saying it would continue “for a little while.” On his Nazi-infested failing social media site he bragged that “we’ve already won.”
On March 9th, he said the war was “pretty well complete.” In an interview summarized by TIME, he insisted there was “nothing left in a military sense,” even as the fighting continued, and he predicted it would end “very soon.”
Two days later, March 11th, he declared, “We’ve won… in the first hour, it was over.” Then, on March 13th, it would last “as long as it’s necessary” — but also “not long.” By March 17th, he was rewriting history, claiming it had been “essentially largely over in two or three days.” And yet by March 31st, he was telling Reuters it would take “two weeks, maybe three” more.
And now he’s using genuinely obscene and entirely un-American language like “bomb them back to the Stone Age” that seems to invoke nuclear war....
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As the country fails.
FBI Discloses “Major” Data Breach By Chinese Hackers
Politico reports:
The FBI last week deemed a recent China-linked cyber intrusion into a sensitive agency surveillance system a “major incident,†meaning it poses significant risks to U.S. national security, according to one congressional aide and two U.S. officials with knowledge of the matter. The bureau first told Congress on March 4 that it was investigating suspicious activity on an internal agency system that contained “law enforcement sensitive information.†The FBI did not publicly identify who was behind the activity at the time, but POLITICO previously reported that China is suspected.
The FBI determined the intrusion meets the definition of a major incident under a federal data security statute known as FISMA, said the three people. Congress was informed of the decision earlier this week, according to the aide. The determination suggests the hackers successfully compromised swathes of sensitive data stored directly on FBI systems, likely marking a major counterintelligence coup for China. FISMA requires agencies to tell lawmakers within seven days about any digital intrusion it has determined is “likely to result in demonstrable harm†to U.S. national security.
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They mean this is the first time they've discovered such an intrusion.
Leavitt: Trump Is Most Well-Read Person In Every Room
“You always want to be the most well-read person in the room And I try to be, every day. but Donald Trump always is. That man does not miss a story, let me tell you.
“He is always reading the papers and watching the TV, he doesn’t miss anything anyone says, anywhere in the world.
“I don’t know how he does it and consumes it all.” – White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, speaking to Erika Kirk at a Turning Point USA forum.
Next week Kirk and Trump will attend an Arizona Turning Point USA event hosted by the wife of a former Arizona state rep who resigned last year after being convicted of election fraud.
As you can see below, former Trump administration official Miles Taylor is scoffing at Leavitt’s claim.
I remember the first piece of advice I got on briefing President Trump in 2017:
He doesn't read. Bring pictures. Only try to impress ONE thing on him. And if there has to be words, single page only. https://t.co/uQSUXYE5HC
— Miles Taylor (@MilesTaylorUSA) April 3, 2026
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Amazing she would admit to everyone being that illiterate!
Over $84,000 Raised So Far For Tennessee Librarian Fired For Refusing To Remove LGBTQ-Themed Books
Nashville’s NBC affiliate reports:
The library director who was fired for refusing to relocate LGBTQ children’s books has garnered substantial community support, with people donating over $84,000 to help her as she navigates the loss of her job. A GoFundMe launched by a community member says that the fundraiser for Luanne James is going “directly toward supporting her family’s basic living expenses during this time.”
James was the director of the Rutherford County Library until the board voted to fire her last week. The termination came after she refused to move 132 children’s books to another section of the library because the LGBTQ themes were deemed inappropriate for children. James said that she “had no choice” but to refuse the board’s request to move the books. She said that she believes librarians are being politicized and that “is not what we signed up for.”
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Congratulations! Education is under attack by Trump and his illiterate gang. Keep fighting them!
Trump begs for 'more time' in Iran war so US can 'take the oil and make a fortune' — Alexander Willis
President Donald Trump took to social media Friday to insist that the United States could “easily” achieve its objectives in its war against Iran, “take the oil” and “make a fortune,” but only if afforded “a little more time.”
“With a little more time, we can easily OPEN THE HORMUZ STRAIT, TAKE THE OIL, & MAKE A FORTUNE,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social. “IT WOULD BE A ‘GUSHER’ FOR THE WORLD???”
Despite saying the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran was “pretty much” complete back on March 9, the Trump administration has struggled to achieve any of its war objectives, including toppling the Iranian government and removing its capabilities of acquiring a nuclear weapon. Furthermore, the Trump administration has found a new objective since launching the war – re-opening the Strait of Hormuz, a critical shipping channel – that it has also failed to achieve....
ALSO READ: Ruby red seat primed to flip as fed-up Republican ditches MAGA — and GOP distracted: Dem
At least 15 American service members have died in the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran, though recent reporting suggests that the Pentagon has been hiding additional casualties, with a Thursday report from the Intercept speculating that nearly 750 American service members have been “wounded or killed” in the conflict.
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It's easy to see who the bad guy is in this charade.
Trump has to go!
'Arrest this sick terrorist!' Firestorm for Hegseth after reported US 'double tap' in Iran — Daniel Hampton
President Donald Trump's Pentagon chief triggered a deluge of backlash Thursday night after a report that American forces struck a civilian highway bridge near Tehran twice on Thursday as Iranian villagers gathered nearby to celebrate the final day of the Persian new year.
A U.S. military official, speaking anonymously to The New York Times, confirmed American forces struck the B1 bridge twice, in what's colloquially called a "double tap," claiming it was a planned military supply route for Iran's missile and drone forces.
Iran's deputy governor of Alborz province flatly rejected the U.S. characterization, telling state media the bridge was not yet operational and that "there was absolutely no military activity on bridge B1." The dead and wounded were reportedly villagers picnicking outdoors to mark a national holiday...
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More murders by Trump's Murder Inc.
RIght-wing host demands Epstein files from new AG: 'MAGA is not going to let this go' — David Edwards
Pro-MAGA Real America's Voice host Gina Loudon warned future interim Attorney General Todd Blanche that he must follow through with his duty to release the Jeffrey Epstein files.
During a Friday segment about Attorney General Pam Bondi's firing, Loudon said that the RAV audience had predicted her ouster.
"Our entire chat every single day was full of the fact that they believed that it was time for her to go," she said. "But I do think that Epstein files, we need a lot more attention on them. And I'm very discouraged that current acting AG Todd Blanche says there is no evidence that Epstein was a spy to anyone or any government."...
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None of the American electorate should want it to go. It's being covered up and it's obvious that Todd Blanche is just a bigger cover-up stooge for Trump!
Insider reveals 'largest failure' behind Trump’s bombshell Cabinet shakeup — Thomas Kika
...In a report published Friday morning, The Hill spoke with an anonymous GOP strategist who revealed the major offense for which Trump canned Bondi: her failure to score convictions against the president's perceived political enemies.
“He is looking for scalps but she hasn’t delivered,” the strategist explained. “She didn’t deliver the kind of results that the president was hoping for. She tried and didn’t succeed — and in Trump World that doesn’t fly.”...
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Maybe because he's charging people just for spite?
Trump keeps making the midterms worse for Republicans — Alex Henderson
..."I'm not saying Donald Trump is trying to lose the midterms," Rampell writes, "but if he were, would he really be doing anything differently? In recent days, the president has practically giftwrapped affordability-related oppo ads to Democrats via at least four channels — his war and the resultant rising costs; his tone-deaf comments brushing off Americans' concerns about rising prices; his proposal for even more safety-net cuts; and the gilded, marble-walled, money-making totems to Trump himself. Any one of these things might be seen as political suicide in an election year. But all of them together, at once?"
Rampell continues, "It really starts to look like a deliberate plan to undermine his own party. Dems have a unique opportunity to, accurately, blame rising costs on Trump right now, and to shame him for his indifference to — at times, derision of — the pain he has caused. Will they take it?"...
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Arrogance will always do one in.
Stephen MIller Is Responsible For The Murders In Minnesota By ICE — John Amato
Miller is running ICE and the DHS into the ground over his appetite for pain.
A new report sheds light on why two Minnesota residents were unceremoniously killed by ICE agents a few months ago.
The article explains Miller's 10 am calls with DHS leaders, where he berates and bullies them into submission, and threatens their jobs unless they fulfill his deportation fantasies.
Senior Trump officials have said that Trump's mini-Goebbels, Stephen Miller, ordered ICE agents to engage with protestors more vociferously to win the PR war with the public in Minnesota, so his roving band of secret police could satisfy his appetite for chaos, fear, and violence against migrants. Not only did he demand confrontations, but Miller also sent them to areas that were heavily populated with ICE protestors.
The Daily Mail reports, "The most damaging episodes were the fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, which Miller was at the center of."
"During his 10 am calls with immigration leaders, Miller was demanding agents be sent out to areas in Minneapolis where DHS knew there was a heavy presence of protesters to 'force confrontations,' two DHS senior sources told the Daily Mail.
One official noted that Miller repeatedly urged agents to engage protesters so the administration could win the 'PR battle.'"
This is nuts.
The entire Trump administration is based on PR....
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This is a no-brainer. Miller must be locked up for at least 40 years.
CDC Stops Testing For Rabies And Poxes, But It's All Perfectly Fine! — Susie Madrak
Right? RIGHT?
The CDC has "temporarily" paused testing for rabies and pox viruses, the family of viruses that includes smallpox and mpox, according to an update to the agency’s website on Monday. But don't worry, I'm sure it will all be fine!
Under "normal" (ha, ha, remember those days?) circumstances, the CDC offers testing for dozens of pathogens to assist state and local public health laboratories that aren't equipped to conduct them. The organization began evaluating its tests in late 2024 as part of an agency wide review....
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The retarded world of Donald Trump.
Trump To Attend Turning Point Event Hosted By Wife Of Arizona Ex-Rep Who Pleaded Guilty To Election Fraud
Phoenix’s NPR reports:
An upcoming Turning Point USA rally in Phoenix with President Donald Trump appears to be part of a larger effort by the conservative organization to collect voter data ahead of the 2026 election cycle. TPUSA recently announced it will host the “Build the Red Wall” event at Dream City Church in Phoenix on April 17. Trump will appear with Erika Kirk, the widow of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, and Congressman Andy Biggs, who is running for governor.
Vote.Online lists its address as an office building in Phoenix that also happens to house Turning Point USA’s headquarters. Vote.Online’s CEO is Amy Smith, a longtime Turning Point employee. Smith is also married to former state lawmaker Austin Smith, who resigned from the Arizona House after he was caught forging signatures on petitions for his re-election campaign. He pleaded guilty in November to reduced charges of attempted fraud and illegal signing of election petitions.
Smith was a senior director with Turning Point Action, TPUSA’s political arm. He resigned from that job but appears to have returned to the organization in 2025. “The fact that they’re still linked in to Austin Smith shows that their public disavowing of him is fake,” said Tyler Montague, a Republican strategist in Arizona and frequent Turning Point critic. “It’s not sincere. They don’t give a rip about his fraud and cheating.”
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Trump keeps trying to rig our elections, commiting crime right in front of us.
Ohio GOP Gov Candidate Under Fire Over “Nazi” Rally
The Toledo Blade reports:
An event hosted by Ohio Republican gubernatorial candidate Casey Putsch drew some negative attention Thursday due to how closely the messaging resembled events that contributed to the rise of Nazism. A post on Mr. Putsch’s campaign accounts invites people to an April 9 “beer hall rally,” at Patron Saints Brewery in South Toledo. Commenters quickly took note of the choice in wording, given that his last name is Putsch.
The Beer Hall Putsch was a failed coup attempt led by Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler in Munich to take control of the Bavarian state government. Hitler was ultimately arrested and served nine months in prison, during which he began writing his autobiography, Mein Kampf.
It isn’t the first time Mr. Putsch has received attention for his commentary on Hitler. In a YouTube video, Mr. Putsch asked an artificial intelligence software to “list the good things Adolf Hitler did.” In the same video, he called Ben Shapiro, a right-wing commentator who is Jewish, “a rodent.”
"if one is inclined to give this Nazi candidate the benefit of the doubt, please consider that Patron Saints is not even a "beer hall." it is a nanobrewery with a very small taproom." -- Claire, aka Midwestern Hedgie (X)
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Time to retire this typical Ohio Nazi insult to morons.
Carville Predicts Trump Will Resign After Midterms
“Listen up, Trump. I’m gonna tell your fat fucking ass something. You’re getting ready to get the living crap kicked out of you. You don’t know, because they haven’t really told you. You’re gonna know what it feels like to get punched in the mouth by Mike Tyson.
“You know who’s gonna turn on you? What’s left of the Republican senators. There may be 43 to 45 of them left. Now the House is gonna vote to impeach you. You’re gonna be impeached in 2027.
“These senators can’t stand you. These Republican senators, they can’t stand you. They have to be there because of their politics, back in their states, but it’s gonna be apparent to them that you’re a loser. You’re a losing fucking bet.
“We refer to it as a come-to-Jesus moment. You’re gonna assess where you are, even through your cloudy, stupid, fat-addled brain, you’re gonna figure out, ‘I gotta get the hell out of here.’
“You’re going to cut a deal and you’re gonna resign. [Vance] is going to pardon you. He’s got to pardon a lot of other people, but he’s a creepy, ambitious little twerp. He’ll do whatever he can to get into the White House.
“But they can’t pardon you for state crimes. They can’t pardon you in the International Criminal Court.” – James Carville, on the Politicon podcast.
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He deserves every last bit of it!
GOP Megadonor Gave $1.2M To Duffy’s Son-In-Law After Duffy Made Rule Change To Benefit His Company
The Atlantic reports:
Richard and Elizabeth Uihlein have been fighting for more than a decade to roll back Obama-era restrictions on the hours that long-haul truckers can work. Since 2014, their Wisconsin-based business-supply company, Uline, has spent $870,000 on lobbyists registered to push for a reversal of policies. After incremental erosion of the restrictions during President Trump’s first term, the latest victory came last summer, when Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy announced two pilot programs to allow truck drivers greater flexibility in the hours they work.
But Duffy was also working on a side project. Four months later, he transferred $1 million from the dormant campaign committee that had funded his congressional races in Wisconsin to a new group, called Northwoods Future PAC. The next month, Richard Uihlein became the only other donor to Northwoods, giving $1 million. As of the end of last year, Northwoods Future PAC had spent nearly $1.2 million on mailers and television ads to promote Duffy’s son-in-law, Michael Alfonso, who is running for the congressional seat previously held by the Cabinet secretary.
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When the US had honest government we called this a bribe. it was considered a crime.
WaPo: Hegseth Has Forced Out Two More Top Generals
The Washington Post reports:
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has asked the Army’s top officer to step down and retire, defense officials said Thursday, an extraordinary move amid the war with Iran and the latest in a series of clashes between the Pentagon chief and the service’s senior leadership.
Gen. Randy George had been expected to hold the job of Army chief of staff for more than another year, until the fall of 2027, and complete what is typically a four-year assignment as a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. But Hegseth decided to go in another direction, representatives for the defense secretary said.
Two other Army generals were removed along with George, said two defense officials, who like some others spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the shake-up. They are Gen. David Hodne, who became the head of the service’s Training and Transformation Command in October, and Maj. Gen. William Green Jr., the chief of Army chaplains.
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None dare call it treason!
Sorry, Pam Bondi. Trump has no loyalty — Amanda Marcotte
The attorney general's firing shows why even the most faithful MAGA acolytes are disposable
...Bondi’s firing, though, is an especially brutal heave under the MAGA bus. As the former attorney general of Florida, the president’s adopted state, she has one of the longest histories of Trump staffer at pleasing him...
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Moral decandance.
TIME: Aides Give Trump “Rose-Colored View” Of War
TIME Magazine reports:
Some of Trump’s key public supporters were criticizing a conflict with no clear end in sight. It fell on White House chief of staff Susie Wiles and a small group of aides to tell the President that the longer the war dragged on, the more it would threaten his public support and Republicans’ prospects in November’s midterm elections.
Wiles, according to two White House sources, was concerned aides were giving the President a rose-colored view of how the war was being perceived domestically, telling Trump what he wanted to hear instead of what he needed to hear. She had urged colleagues, the officials say, to be “more forthright with the boss” about the political and economic risks.
The President was left frustrated by the predicament, at odds with some of his own officials, and fuming at the negative impressions of the war. The mounting political and economic toll has left him looking for an off-ramp, according to two advisers and two members of Congress who have spoken to him during the last week.
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Nazi delusions of grandeur.
Blanche Claims All Epstein Files Have Been Released
The Daily Beast reports:
Trump’s new acting attorney general insists that the DOJ has to move on from the Epstein files—while denying that the issue cost his former boss her job. Blanche, who represented Trump in his 2024 criminal trial and personally interviewed Maxwell before her unexpected transfer to a minimum-security prison last year, has used one of his first TV appearances as acting AG to insist that the Epstein era is over.
Blanche dismissed the Epstein files as “a saga that has lasted for the entire past year” before referencing the transparency act Trump eventually signed to release the files, following intense pressure and a near-unanimous bipartisan vote in Congress.
“The Department of Justice has now released all the files with respect to the Epstein saga,” Blanche continued, noting he and Bondi had “voluntarily” appeared in front of Congress as part of a hearing into the release of the documents. During that hearing, Bondi refused to turn to face Epstein survivors behind her.
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The latest bamboozler to attempt to cover up Trump's crimes.
Susan Glasser: The President Is Crazy and Delusional — Tim Miller
Trump fired Pam Bondi, maybe the most destructive AG in the history of the United States, because she wasn't able to magically and lawlessly jail his political enemies. On Wednesday night, he told Americans that gas prices would naturally go down when he was finished with his war—much like the way he told the country in March 2020 that COVID would just go away. In reality, China may end up in control of the Strait of Hormuz and with freight passage paid with the Chinese Yuan. America and the world are paying for the incompetent (and petrified) advisers Trump has surrounded himself with. Plus, POTUS threatened war crimes on national television, the Iranian diaspora bet on the wrong horse, and who will be the next Barbie to get the ax?
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Many are finally realizing this is true.
Hegseth under fire for ousting Army official in middle of war: 'Things are going great!' — Robert Davis
...Secretary Pete Hegseth asked Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George to either resign or accept immediate retirement, according to a new report by CBS News. The move happened at a time when the Trump administration is facing significant criticism for its participation in the war in Iran.
"George previously served as the senior military assistant to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin from 2021-2022, during the Biden administration, after decades of service," CBS News reported. "A career infantry officer and West Point graduate, George first served in the first Gulf War and the more recent conflicts of Iraq and Afghanistan."
"The Army chief of staff typically serves a four-year term. George was nominated for the position by President Joe Biden and confirmed by the Senate in 2023, meaning he would typically have held the position until 2027," it added.
Political analysts and observers panned the Defense Secretary on social media for making the move.
"The purges continue," Shashank Joshi, defense editor at The Economist, posted on X.
"Firing the Army chief of staff in the middle of a war is always a sign that things are going great," national security expert Tom Nichols posted on X.
"Hegseth is back to purging Generals," Paul Reickhoff, host of the "Independent Americas" podcast, posted on X. "As his popularly continues to fall, and unpopular operations in Iran (and elsewhere) continue to expand, we should expect more of this. It’s very dangerous and bad for our national security. And for our troops."
"This is extremely disappointing," Ryan Evans, founder of War on the Rocks, posted on X.
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There is something terribly disturbed in Hegseth's psyche.
'Less to lose': Epstein accusers' lawyer warns fired Bondi may finally now tell the truth — Nicole Charky-Chami
An attorney representing 11 accusers of late financier and convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein said now ousted Attorney General Pam Bondi would still have to testify before lawmakers — and that it would be up to her to speak openly.
Bondi was still slated for a sworn deposition on April 14, and Arick Fudali told CNN that he wasn't sure what Bondi would say.
"She still has to testify," Fudali said. "I guess the question is now she has less to lose. Right now she is no longer under the force and the pressure of the Donald Trump administration for every breath she takes to be in praise and to be pro-Donald Trump and perhaps even anti-survivor, anti-transparency."
Bondi, who testified in a combative hearing on Capitol Hill in February, would be under a different role this time.
"Apparently, from what we're hearing, she's going to be a lay citizen," Fudali said. "She's going to be in the private sector. So one would think a reasonable person would expect that. Maybe she'll be more honest. Maybe she'll be more forthcoming."...
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Wishful thinking. Pam will never crack as long as there's a buck to be made.
'Massive betrayal': Hegseth hit with stark threat over alleged bid to profit from Iran war — Stephen Prager, Common Dreams
Senate Democrats are pushing for an investigation into US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth following a report that he attempted to make a “big investment” in weapons stock just weeks before President Donald Trump launched an aggressive war against Iran.
Three Democrats on the Senate Armed Services Committee—Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) were joined by Sens. Gary Peters (D-Mich.) and Jeff Merkley to send Hegseth a letter on Wednesday.
They told the secretary that his reported attempt to broker the deal “would be a profound conflict of interest and a potential violation of your federal ethics agreement—and betrayal of the nation paying the price for this war and the troops you are sending into harm’s way.”
The Financial Times reported earlier this week that Hegseth’s “broker at Morgan Stanley contacted BlackRock in February about making a multimillion-dollar investment in the asset manager’s Defense Industrials Active ETF... shortly before the US launched military action against Tehran.”
However, the purchase was reportedly never made because the massive bundle of stocks was not available to Morgan Stanley clients at the time.
A Pentagon spokesperson has also denied the story, calling it “entirely false and fabricated” and claiming that neither Hegseth nor any of his representatives ever approached BlackRock.
But, as the lawmakers noted, FT reported that the inquiry was significant enough for BlackRock to flag it internally.
Pete Hegseth sent U.S. troops to fight and die in Iran. Was he trying to cash in on the war behind closed doors?
This would be a massive betrayal.
I’m pressing for a full investigation NOW. https://t.co/UNYhbCJfJm
— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) April 2, 2026
Hegseth and other Pentagon officials confirmed by the Senate are prohibited by law from owning or purchasing publicly traded stock in the 10 companies that have received the largest Defense Department contracts over the past five years.
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All of Trump's admin are on the take.
GOP governor candidate explodes at Black voter: 'You should be lynched!' — Matthew Chapman
A viral clip posted to X on Thursday showed Florida Republican gubernatorial candidate James Fishback blowing up at a Black voter and telling him he should be "lynched" for asking about the allegations of inappropriate behavior with teenagers.
The clip was posted by the account @JustinUSA, who describes himself as a "normal Republican."
"So, Mr. Fishback, what's with you smashing a 16 or 17 year old? Can you answer about what's going on with that?" asked the voter.
He appeared to be referencing Keniah Fort, a woman who alleged Fishback started up a relationship with him when he was 27 and she was 17 while she was employed at his nonprofit Incubate Debate. She said they ultimately lived together for a time before a breakup, and he allegedly engaged in cyberstalking against her. Fishback has denied all of these allegations.
"She said it in court, before you ran for office!" the voter said. Fishback then replied that the judge dismissed all allegations.
"Hey, hey, hey, why is he not answering the question, bro?" said the voter, who then asked him what intimate positions he and Fort had engaged in.
"I don't want you ever speaking about women in our state like that ever again," said Fishback.
"I mean, I don't want you ever smashing girls, teenage girls, in our state ever again," the voter shot back. "So promise me, never smash a minor again?"
"Why haven't I been arrested?" said Fishback. "Why haven't I been arrested? You should be lynched!"
"That was no slip of the tongue. This guy is a hardcore racist. He must have just figured It works for Meatball Ron." — Internet Conspiracy Dork (comments)
"Why do republicans get SO TRIGGERED, VULGAR, AND VIOLENT when they are confronted by the truth?" — Gaping Trump Hole (comments)
"There's no putting the toothpaste back in the tube, kiss your so-called political career goodbye." — YonYone (comments)
" The clip was posted by the account @JustinUSA, who describes himself as a "normal Republican."
So — I just have to question: What's a "normal Republican?"
Is a "normal Republican" someone who sticks with a party that protects pedophiles?
Is a "normal Republican" someone who sticks with a party that denies nutritional assistance to indigent people?
Is a "normal Republican" someone who sticks with a party that refuses to fund healthcare clinics in rural areas?
Is a "normal Republican" someone who sticks with a party that believes rounding up immigrants and citizens without due process is fair?
Just what is a "normal Republican" these days?" — Time2Resist (comments)
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Normal Republican? Not one is moral, that's the one thing we know. You're under arrest, Mr. Fishback!
Belarus Passes Bill To Criminalize LGBTQ Activism
The Associated Press reports:
The Belarus parliament passed a bill Thursday to introduce punishments for people who promote LGBTQ+ causes, in an echo of restrictions set up in neighboring ally Russia. The upper house gave final approval for the legislation following its passage last month by the lower house, and it goes next to authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko for his expected signature before becoming law.
The bill makes the “propaganda of homosexual relations, gender charge, refusal to have children and pedophilia” punishable by fines, community labor and 15-day arrest.
Belarus decriminalized homosexuality in 1994 after the collapse of the Soviet Union, but it doesn’t recognize same-sex marriages and lacks protection for LGBTQ+ rights. Lukashenko, who has ruled the nation of 9.5 million with an iron fist for more than three decades, has publicly mocked homosexuality.
Read the full article. Belarus is over 90% Christian.
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More hate from Xianists? Or is it simply retarded humans?
Untaxed wealth hidden offshore by richest 0.1% surpasses entire wealth of the poorest half of humanity
The amount of untaxed wealth hidden offshore by the richest 0.1 percent exceeds the entire wealth of the poorest half of humanity (4.1 billion people), reveals new Oxfam analysis published today ahead of the 10th anniversary of the Panama Papers. The findings show that, a decade later, the super-rich continue to exploit offshore systems to evade taxes and conceal assets, highlighting the urgent need for coordinated international action to tax extreme wealth and end the use of tax havens.
Oxfam estimates that $3.55 trillion in untaxed wealth was stashed offshore in tax havens and unreported accounts in 2024. This sum exceeds the GDP of France and is more than twice the combined GDP of the world’s 44 least developed countries.
The richest 0.1 percent holds approximately 80 percent of all untaxed offshore wealth, or around $2.84 trillion. Within this tiny group, the ultra-wealthiest 0.01 percent holds roughly half ($1.77 trillion).
“The Panama Papers pulled back the veil on a shadow world where the richest quietly move immense fortunes beyond the reach of taxes and scrutiny. Ten years on, the super-rich are still sequestering oceans of wealth in offshore vaults,” said Christian Hallum, Oxfam International’s Tax Lead.
“This isn’t just about clever accounting —it’s about power and impunity. When millionaires and billionaires stash trillions of dollars in offshore tax havens, they place themselves above the obligations that bind the rest of society. The consequences are as predictable as they are devastating: we see our public hospitals and schools starved of funds, our social fabric shredded by rising inequality, and ordinary people forced to shoulder the costs of a system rigged to enrich a tiny few.”
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The swamp is far larger than D.C.
Second Unlawful Anti-Voter Executive Order Challenged by Voting Rights Coalition
WASHINGTON - Today, Campaign Legal Center and Democracy Defenders Fund sued the Executive Office of the President — alongside members of the president’s Cabinet and select federal agencies — on behalf of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), Secure Families Initiative and Arizona Students’ Association. The complaint asserts that the most recent executive order on elections unconstitutionally violates the separation of powers and exceeds the president’s legal authority by attempting to limit access to mail-in voting and threatening the freedom to vote for millions of Americans.
Attempting to limit access to mail-in voting through an executive order is an unconstitutional and illegal abuse of executive power. The Constitution is clear: Only the states and Congress have the power to regulate elections — not the president. And only Congress has the power to regulate the U.S. mail.
Voting by mail is a safe, secure and accessible method used by millions of Americans — including the president himself — to cast their ballots. It’s also an institution that has been used reliably by military voters for over 150 years. Attempting to create a national voter registry with faulty data not only threatens to disenfranchise millions of voters, but it lies outside the authority of the federal government.
This is especially so for the portion of the order that purports to direct the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to play a role; USPS is an independent agency regulated by Congress, and it cannot be controlled or compelled to act by the president.
“The president does not have the authority to do this,” said Juan Proaño, chief executive officer of LULAC. “He is using the specter of noncitizen voting to make it harder for eligible Americans to vote. We know what this executive order is meant to do, and we will not stand by while he tries to unilaterally rewrite our election laws.”...
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The president of the US. should know this fact. Even if he is that retarded, and he is, his advisers should advise.
Idaho Pastor Gets 17 Years On Child Porn Charges
Boise’s ABC affiliate reports:
A former Nampa pastor, Matthew Masiewicz, has been sentenced to up to 17 years in prison after pleading guilty to multiple child exploitation charges, with a judge emphasizing the severity of the crimes and the harm caused to victims. The defendant pleaded guilty to four felony counts, including three counts of sexual exploitation of a child and one count of possession of sexually exploitative material back in February.
On Thursday morning, prosecutors argued for a lengthy prison sentence, saying the case involved disturbing material. Law enforcement found multiple images of child sexual abuse on a laptop at the church where the defendant worked. Investigators said the material included images of children as young as 5 years old. Prosecutors also said the defendant shared images with others, contributing to the circulation of the material....
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And another one bites the dust.
DOJ: Trump Doesn’t Have Turn Over Presidential Docs To The National Archives At The Conclusion Of His Term
NBC News reports:
The Justice Department has issued a legal opinion arguing that Trump does not have to turn over his presidential records to the National Archives at the end of his administration. The Presidential Records Act of 1978 requires presidential documents be sent to the National Archives and Records Administration.
In an opinion released Thursday, the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel found the law “is unconstitutional for two independent but interlocking reasons.” It exceeds Congress’ powers and it does so at the expense of the autonomy of the presidency, T. Eliot Gaiser wrote in the opinion, noting that Congress can’t order the papers of Supreme Court justices to be sent to the archives.
Gaiser, who previously clerked for Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, was part of Trump’s 2020 campaign team, and was named in testimony before the Jan. 6 committee in which former White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany named him as someone she “really trusted on the matters of election integrity.”
"How does anyone read this story and not think "He wants to sell them to the highest bidder." — Jason Miciak (comments)
"it does so at the expense of the autonomy of the presidency
1). Wasn't aware this was a thing or his oh-so-precious autonomy required protection.
2). Why wasn't this claim made when he was facing prosecution?
3). Why wasn't this claim made at the end of his first term?
4). What does this have to do with the EPSTEIN FILES?
5). Please die." — DaddySnark (comments)
"Up next . . . .
DOJ: Trump Doesn’t Have To Turn Over White House At The Conclusion Of His Term — Stogiebear (comments)
"When this is over and it will be, we have to change how the presidency is viewed and how the president is treated by the other branches of government and the public he/she serves. The President is an employee not a god, not a royal, not a sovereign. An employee who we can fire when they become lawless and the other branches of government are reluctant to do their job and hold them accountable. Presidents should not live lives of unfettered power, privilege, and excess. They should be reduced to mortal beings whose decisions are monitored, measured and scrutinized throughout their term of office. No more extravagant lifestyle, no more weekly vacations, no more excessive travel , no more excessive expenses, no more higher power status. Just people hired to do a job. The days of deferring to the president's judgment in all things is over. We need a new form of government that serves people not power. The Republicans and Maga wrecked it, now we have to rebuild it into the government we truly deserve." — GayOldLady (comments)
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Yes, we'll see what SCOTUS says about that, big boy.
Garcia Vows Bondi “Will Not Escape Accountability”
Politico reports:
Bondi had a fraught tenure as the country’s top law enforcement official. She faced bipartisan backlash over her handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files (for which she’s been subpoenaed by the House Oversight Committee) and apparent frustration from Trump himself over her failure to successfully prosecute his political enemies.
Dems remain eager to hold her feet to the fire over the Epstein saga: “She will not escape accountability and remains legally obligated to appear before our Committee under oath,” Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.), the top House Oversight Democrat, said in a statement.
“She must answer for her mishandling of the Epstein files and the special treatment she has given Ghislaine Maxwell. If they think we are moving on because they were fired, they are gravely mistaken.”
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America isn't finished with her just yet.
Trump Praises Jasmine Crockett Because Her Last Name Rings A Bell — NewsHound Ellen
Of all Trump’s crazy, nonsensical ravings on Truth Social, his post about Davy Crockett and Jasmine Crockett gets my vote as the craziest and most nonsensical.
The post has to be seen to be believed. In fact, we had to check twice even after seeing it, just to be sure.
Trump: "Davy Crockett, obviously a distant relative of Jasmine Crockett, and a very High IQ Frontiersman, would be proud of the legacy that he began long ago, and especially Jasmine’s Great Success as a Politician from the Great State of Texas! President DONALD J. TRUMP"
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-04-02T17:45:23.419Z
WTAF is he talking about? For one thing, there is the obvious fact that the congresswoman from Texas is Black and that Davy Crockett was white. Then there’s the fact that the image the 79-year-old Trump posted was not an actual photo of the famous frontiersman but the actor Fess Parker playing Daniel Boone.
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These two race facts in no way prove that they are not related. The Finding Your Roots program on PBS clearly shows us that a white person can have black ancestors and a black person can have white ancestors.
Over 100 legal experts say Trump committed 'war crimes'— Nick Hilden
When President Donald Trump launched war against Iran at the end of February, his conduct then and since may amount to ‘"war crimes," according to an open letter signed by over 100 international law experts. The experts assert that “the attack was a clear violation of the United Nations Charter” as there was no evidence that Iran posed an imminent threat.
The letter signatories include senior professors, leaders of prominent international law organizations, former government legal advisors and military law experts including former Judge Advocates General, who signed to “express profound concern about serious violations of international law and alarming rhetoric by the United States, Israel and Iran in the present armed conflict in the Middle East.”
This body of experts asserted that the war — “which is costing U.S. taxpayers between $1-2 billion each day” — raises four main concerns.
First, there is the violation of international use-of-force laws, as “there is no evidence that Iran posed an imminent threat” to justify Trump’s self-defense claims.
Second, there appear to have been serious violations of international humanitarian law, with 67,414 civilian sites struck, 498 of which are schools and 236 of which are health facilities, killing at least 1,443 Iranian civilians, including 217 children....
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If he lives, justice will come for him.
It now costs nearly $150 to fill up a Ford F-150: federal data — David Badash
Gas prices have skyrocketed as a consequence of President Donald Trump’s war on Iran, and according to a new estimate from the Congressional Joint Economic Committee, American drivers have paid an extra $8.4 billion since the war began just one month ago.
The report was released as the national average cost of gas topped $4 a gallon, and its math was based on a combination of three metrics: daily average gas prices per AAA, vehicle tank sizes per the automotive resource Edmunds, and federal fuel consumption data from the Federal Highway Administration and Energy Information Administration.
According to the report’s findings, drivers of the fuel-sipping Toyota Camry are now paying $52.23 to fill up a tank, up by nearly $14 since before the war. For drivers of larger, less fuel-efficient vehicles, a much bigger shock is coming at the pump. The Ford F-150, for example, now costs just shy of $150 per tank, up nearly $40.
"The strain is starting to show, especially as gas hits $4 a gallon nationwide," said Heather Long, chief economist at Navy Federal Credit Union. "It's almost certainly going to be a muted second quarter for spending and GDP growth as the worst of the inflation shock hits consumers."...
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Trump continues his destruction of our economy.
Trump Plans To Destroy Medicare And Medicaid To Pay For Iran War — NewsHound Ellen
The worst president in the history of the United States keeps finding ways to be even worser.
Karoli Kuns recently reported on a Republican plan to raise $200 billion to pay for Donald Trump’s unwanted, unnecessary war against Iran with cuts to health care. Now, Trump wants to get rid of health care altogether. Also, daycare and probably everything else that isn’t for the military and his foreign wars.
On Wednesday, perched behind a podium festooned with a garishly gold-plated eagle, the felonious sex predator who conned Americans into believing he’d lower the cost of living announced he plans to make life more expensive. That is, if you can stay alive at all in Trump’s America.
First, the haggard-looking Trump declared his intention to eliminate daycare for the sake of his unpopular war. “The United States can’t take care of daycare. That has to be up to a state,” he said. “We’re fighting wars. We can’t take care of daycare. You got to let a state take care of daycare, and they should pay for it, too.”
Trump wants to spend so much money on his war he wants to eliminate Medicaid and Medicare, too. “It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things. They can do it on a state basis. … We have to take care of one thing, military protection,” he added.
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Over 67,962,377+ Americans bodies, you asswipe!
WTF? Commission To Vote On White House Ballroom 'Softens' Authority — Susie Madrak
The allegedly independent planning commission reviewing Trump’s ballroom building changed its own official documentation about the project at the White House’s request, records show.
The National Capital Planning Commission is scheduled to vote today on the project, the final procedural obstacle to a project that would dramatically remake one of the most recognized symbols of American power and democracy. Emails obtained by The Washington Post through a public records request show the commission changed what would become a public FAQ document about the ballroom after a White House staffer asked it to soften language about the commission’s authority over the project. The commission then released the document ahead of its Jan. 8 meeting to provide information about its role in reviewing federal construction projects, when it would take up the ballroom and whether it had reviewed previous White House projects....
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Oops! Will the white elephant boondoggle continue or will it be dozed? Will our White House be restored to its original state?
Trump’s DOJ dropped 23,000 criminal investigations in shift to immigration — Ken B. Morales and David Armstrong for ProPublica
In the first days after Pam Bondi was appointed attorney general last year, the Department of Justice began shutting down pending criminal cases at a record pace.
The cases included an investigation into a Virginia nursing home with a recent record of patient abuse; probes of fraud involving several New Jersey labor unions, including one opened after a top official of a national union was accused of embezzlement; and an investigation into a cryptocurrency company suspected of cheating investors.
In total, the DOJ quietly closed more than 23,000 criminal cases in the first six months of President Donald Trump’s administration, abandoning hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime, drugs and other offenses as it shifted resources to pursue immigration cases, according to an analysis by ProPublica.
The bulk of these cases, which were closed without prosecution and known as declinations, had been referred to the DOJ by law enforcement agencies under prior administrations that believed a federal crime may have been committed. The DOJ routinely declines to prosecute cases for any number of reasons, including insufficient evidence or because a case is not a priority for enforcement.
But the number of declinations under Bondi marks a striking departure not only from the Biden administration but also the first Trump term, according to the ProPublica analysis, which examined two decades of DOJ data, including the first six months of Trump’s second term. ProPublica determined the increase is not the result of inheriting a larger caseload or more referrals from law enforcement....
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Trump Criminal Syndicate keeps crime working while he fiddles.
Almost Half of US Data Centers That Were Supposed to Open This Year Slated to Be Canceled or Delayed — Joe Wilkins
The data centers powering your favorite AI chatbot are running low on helium, cash, and neighbors who don’t hate them — and that’s not even the worst of it.
According to new reporting by Bloomberg, about half of the data centers slated to open in the US in 2026 will either face delays or outright cancellations.
The publication interviewed analysts at market intelligence company Sightline Climate, who noted that 12 gigawatts worth of power-consuming data centers are set to open this year in the country. But here’s the catch: they say only a third of those are actually under construction right now, with the rest in a liminal pre-production stage in which they could — and likely will be — canceled.
It’s not just a problem for data centers planned for 2026, either. Among data centers slated to open in 2027, only about 6.3 gigawatts worth of computing infrastructure are actually under construction, compared to 21.5 announced gigawatts.
Things get even dodgier in the coming years, with the vast majority of data centers planned for launch between 2028 and 2032 having yet to even break ground. There are a further 37 gigawatts of planned infrastructure which haven’t even received a firm completion date, only 4.5 of which have actually begun work....
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Why build pollution factories?
REPORT: Trump Has Told Bondi She’s On Her Way Out
Semafor reports:
President Donald Trump has informed Pam Bondi that her time as his attorney general is nearing an end, multiple sources familiar with the situation told Semafor.
Trump has not yet made a formal announcement of Bondi’s replacement, but one is expected soon. As is typical, the sources noted that Trump can also change his mind at any time.
Bondi’s anticipated departure follows a tumultuous 14 months at the helm of the Justice Department, with the release of files on the Jeffrey Epstein investigation becoming a constant thorn in her side.
In recent weeks, long-simmering frustration among Republicans over the chaotic release of the files resulted in a bipartisan congressional subpoena, and Trump lost confidence in her leadership....
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Time for a meaner Nazi criminal to replace her.
For Passover: 4 Questions Trump’s Iran War Speech Didn’t Answer — Harold Meyerson
As America is no stranger to war, it’s also no stranger to presidential addresses that justify and report on the wars then ongoing. No matter whether we’re winning or losing, first-strikers or get-struck-firsters, advancing or just holding the line, every previous wartime president has managed to stay on topic.
But not Donald Trump. His Wednesday night speech was notable only in that he repeatedly strayed off topic. That he began with saluting the success of the moon launch several hours earlier was a justifiable digression. Not so his then turning to Venezuela, so he could hail what he termed the success of our operation there, or his repeated shout-outs to the stock market for its year of 51 S&P record highs. Even granting that the topic of every Trump speech is Trump, that theme plays least well in an address supposedly intended to convince his fellow citizens that the course on which he’s set the nation is worth the sacrifices of combat and the travails (in this case, economic) of the home front. Calling his war of choice “brilliant,” as he did last night, doesn’t really make the case for this war’s initiation or continuation, or inspire confidence that it will meet even Trump’s hazy and shifting objectives.
There was nothing in Wednesday night’s address that Trump hadn’t said before. There were wild misstatements of the threat Iran poses to the U.S., such as his claim that its missiles could soon reach American soil. There were claims that the new Iranian leaders aren’t nearly as dangerous as the old ones, though he didn’t specify who those leaders are and said nothing at all about the talks he says we’ve been having with these less dangerous leaders, or offer any proof that these talks actually exist. All he really said was that it was up to other unnamed nations (European, presumably) to clear the Strait of Hormuz (which we, armed with the world’s most powerful military, haven’t been able to do), that the level of radioactivity around Iran’s uranium enrichment sites was such that they couldn’t go near them for many months, and that unless Iran quickly comes to terms (though he failed to specify what those terms were), we’d bomb them “back to the Stone Age” (resurrecting a line from Gen. Curtis LeMay, the most hawkish supporter of our war on Vietnam, which, of course, Trump sat out)....
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Another failure to communicate.
'Fidgeting' Trump had to be moved during Supreme Court hearing: ACLU attorney — Tom Boggioni
Donald Trump’s unprecedented appearance at the Supreme Court encompassed both a request that his seat be moved and the reported inability of the president to hold still while lawyers made their case before the nation’s highest court.
Appearing on MS NOW with host Jonathan Lemire, ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero stated the president sat right in front of him, so he had a ringside seat to watch the president react to arguments over his attempt to override the 14th Amendment on birthright citizenship
Romero, who was beaming over how well it went for the ACLU after conservative justices battered Solicitor General John Sauer with questions about Trump’s executive order, pointed out that he would not be overly surprised if the court comes down 9-0 (”if we’re really lucky”) against Trump.
That led him to report on what he saw from Trump in the crowded courtroom.
“Could you see him from your vantage point? If so, what was he like?” MS NOW’s Lemire asked.
“He was six feet in front of me... he was literally right in front of me,” he recalled. “I was one row behind him, the Secret Service and then the president, so I could watch him entirely throughout the argument. Some of the press reports also got it wrong. Some of the press reports said that he left after the government had its case; the president sat through at least 10 to 15 minutes of our argument.”
“I could see him fidgeting in the chair. I literally could see him, he was literally in my line of vision,” he added. “And when our legal director, Cecillia Wang, made her opening statements, and then when she began to answer questions from the justices, you could see he started getting restless. His shoulders slumped a little bit.”...
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Trump got his ego handed to him.
Nobel Prize winner pinpoints 'radically disappointing' moment that'll mark Trump's legacy — Ewan Gleadow
Donald Trump has tainted his own second term in the Oval Office with one move this year, a Nobel Prize winner has warned.
Paul Krugman believes the longer-term effects of the war with Iran will not just undermine the president's decision-making in future, but that his attitude toward NATO members and allied nations has destroyed what little legacy the president could cling to. Speaking in a video uploaded to his Substack, the award-winning economist noted the problem with the Iran war is not just the war itself, but the ongoing economic impact and erosion of relations with the United States' allies.
"So this is going to be really bad," Krugman said. "But anyway, it was radically disappointing even to people who are, you know, the markets and a lot of people in the world were actually hoping that the United States would give up.
"I mean, it’ll be terrible. We really don’t want a medievalist theocracy empowered. But since this is heading nowhere except for, again, massive war crimes, better to end it. But we’re not getting that.
"We have Trump lecturing the world and saying, why are you cowards? Why don’t you come in and help us in this ill-conceived, disastrous war that we started without checking with you?
"But the reality is that the world is looking and saying, my God, what is wrong with America? They may still have a lot of bombs — although not as many as we started with — but it’s not a country anybody can trust for anything. And that, even more than the price of oil, is going to be the legacy of this war."...
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The ugly failure that is Trump.
‘FOCUS’: Conservative Editor Rips Trump For Ranting About Bruce Springsteen While the Country is ‘At War’ — Charlie Nash
Andrew Day, a senior editor at The American Conservative, tore into President Donald Trump on Thursday for ranting about musician Bruce Springsteen while the country was “at war” and facing a “global economic catastrophe.”
After Trump attacked Springsteen in a Truth Social rant, likening the musician to a “dried-up prune who has suffered greatly from the work of a really bad plastic surgeon,” Day pleaded with Trump to focus on the more important issues at hand.
“Trump’s latest. Feel like I’m going crazy. Does the White House somehow not understand that we are at war with a middle power, the war has widened to over a dozen countries, and global economic catastrophe looms?” he questioned. “This is a dangerous and complex moment and they need to FOCUS.”
Trump's latest. Feel like I'm going crazy. Does the White House somehow not understand that we are at war with a middle power, the war has widened to over a dozen countries, and global economic catastrophe looms? This is a dangerous and complex moment and they need to FOCUS. pic.twitter.com/fJydZWgssN
— Andrew Day (@AKDay89) April 2, 2026 ...
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A mind is a horrible thing to discover missing.
Trump’s Pathetic Little Nothingburger of a Speech — William Kristol.
Oh, the War? Don’t Worry. It’s Over. Almost.
by William Kristol
What was the point of Donald Trump’s sad and lackluster speech to the nation last night?
The main point—really, the only point—was that his Iran war is basically over. Of course it’s not quite over. But, he wants us all to understand, it’s going to be over soon. Very soon.
“We’re getting very close.”
“We are going to finish the job and we’re going to finish it very fast.”
“We are on track to complete all of America’s military objectives shortly, very shortly.”
Why is Trump so very eager to have the American people understand that his war is so very much “nearing completion”? Because, as Nate Silver and Eli McKown-Dawson put it, in the last two weeks Trump’s “popularity has taken something of a nosedive.” So Trump wants out. Last night he promised us over and over again that we’ll be out soon.
Trump doesn’t want the American people to think too hard about the lack of justification for the war. He doesn’t want anyone to dwell on the fact that there was no imminent threat from Iran, or that Trump didn’t obtain authorization to go to war from Congress. He doesn’t want the American people to focus on what his administration’s conduct of the war has shown about its lack of character and competence. And he wants to divert attention as much as possible from the real-world consequences of his war for the American and global economy....
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Just another notch lower than yesterday.
Trump Is Doing Structural Damage to American Intelligence — John Sipher
PRESIDENTS HAVE ALWAYS DIFFERED in how they use intelligence. Some devour briefings, while others prefer to read and be left alone. That, by itself, is not new. What is new in the Trump era is something more consequential and dangerous—not mere indifference to intelligence, but a broader contempt for the institutions and professionals whose job is to tell presidents what they do not want to hear.
Tension between presidents and intelligence agencies is hardly new. Bill Clinton was reputedly so disengaged that, when a small plane crash-landed on the White House lawn, the running joke in Washington was that it was probably his CIA director trying to get a meeting. Richard Nixon repeatedly called the CIA “clowns,” and Lyndon Johnson likened the agency’s habit of delivering bad news to a milk cow swinging its “shit-smeared tail” through a bucket of clean milk. Trump, however, has taken presidential distrust of intelligence in a different and more harmful direction. He compared American intelligence agencies to the Nazis in 2017, publicly contradicted them in favor of the word of Vladimir Putin in 2018, and has in general treated them not as an asymmetric advantage in his decision-making compared to other world leaders, but as an enemy.
Trump’s contempt has been dressed up in the language of the “deep state.” Intelligence officers, diplomats, analysts, and career national-security professionals are cast not as public servants but as partisans and even saboteurs. When expertise is recast as political opposition, the administration can easily justify ignoring it and replacing experts with zealots. Perhaps no example is more illustrative that Steve Witkoff, the former developer who has no international or national security experience and is now Trump’s special envoy for the Russia–Ukraine war, among other things. He declined to consult with any experts on Russia or Ukraine before starting negotiations with both countries, which have been at war for more than a decade. He was following his boss’s example....
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Trump seems bound to destroy our nation.
On Trump’s Rambling War Speech — and Four Bizarre Moments That Left Viewers Confused — Adam Lynch
President Donald Trump’s primetime televised speech from the White House on the progress of his Iran war was shorter than many of the rambling the speeches he’s been delivering. It was still rambling, say critics, but it was short.
It was not low on its share of weird moments, however.
1. Trump castigates “mass murdering” Iran regime after blowing up an occupied girls’ school
Trump is adept at projection, and the president who oversaw missile strikes that leveled a girls’ school was quick to label Iran regime leaders as equally capable of “mass murder,” without his timely intervention.
“The most violent and thuggish regime on earth would be free to carry out their campaigns of terror, coercion, conquest, and mass murder from behind a nuclear shield. I will never let that happen, and neither should any of our past presidents,” said Trump.
The Trump administration tried to blame Iran itself for the destruction immediately after the U.S. attack that killed at least 175 people, mostly children. But it was soon revealed that Trump’s CIA — staffed with his own presidential picks — was using outdated information before it directed attacks against children.
2. Trump insists U.S. was ‘dead and crippled’ under Biden as his nation hurtles toward its worst economy in years
Critics wondered which U.S. Trump was living in to have claimed in his speech that the U.S. “has never been better prepared economically to confront this [Iranian war].
“You all know that we built the strongest economy in history. We're going through it right now, the strongest in history. In one year, we've taken a dead and crippled country. I hate to say that, but we were a dead and crippled country after the last administration and made it the hottest country anywhere in the world by far, with no inflation, record setting investments coming into the United States.”
Only it’s not, according to economic numbers and opinion polls, many from his own voters.
“He said the economy’s so great a month ago. No, it’s wasn’t. The numbers on his economy have been going down for quite some time,” said one CNN commenter immediately after the speech. “People will not feel reassured about why we’re doing this at this time.”...
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Trump is the terrorist in this story.
Trump bewilders America with rambling Iran address: 'Our president is a lunatic' — Robert Davis
President Donald Trump befuddled the nation on Wednesday with a strange rant about the war in Iran, in which many observers remarked very little was said that was new.
Trump gave his first national address since the war started about five weeks ago. He spoke about the progress made in the war and said the U.S. has "nearly completed" all of its objectives. He also made several astonishing claims, such as calling on NATO allies to purchase oil from the U.S. or "take it" from the Strait of Hormuz and describing Iran as one of the world's great powers.
Political analysts and observers were left puzzled and confused by the address. They shared their reactions on social media.
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"This speech is insane. Our President is a lunatic," Sarah Longwell, publisher of The Bulwark, posted on X. "Also, he sounds like a moron. A real low-IQ individual. Don’t be numb to how crazy this is."
"So Trump's plan to end the war and reopen the strait is to ... not do either of those things," journalist Matthew Yglesias posted on X.
"The rest of the world needs to grab the Strait of Hormuz by the p----," Tim Miller, host of "The Bulwark Podcast," mocked on X.
"Clearly, there is no plan for the Strait," Patrick De Haan, petroleum market analyst for GasBuddy, posted on X.
"What the f--- was that?" Andrew Feinberg, White House correspondent for The Independent, posted on X.
"People are dying, being killed in your name, if you are an American...and if that is ok with you, you clearly are who Trump is speaking about, and to.
The rest of us lament the dying of the rule of law in international arenas, and we are, at least I am, quite fearful that Trump is about to pull a Putin, and try and bypass the Supreme Court in some sort of declaration of national emergency." -- Cold Mountan (comments)
"I'm old enough to remember when a presidential address was something people paid attention to. But then again, past presidents weren't brain damaged morons." -- MissMuppet (comments)
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The world knows Trump is a mindless fool!
Trump Gives A Zombie Address To The Nation — John Amato
If we have so much oil, why have gas prices skyrocketed?
A tired and frail Donald Trump took to the podium to address the nation over his ill-conceived war against Iran since his poll numbers have cratered to historic lows.
The networks dutifully agreed to give him prime time air when his speech was nothing more than an elongated Truth Social post.
Speaking in a monotone and robotic voice for roughly twenty minutes, Trump's dreary cadence was off-putting, uninspiring, and worst of all, boring.
He claimed the war he created after he ordered our far superior military forces to sneak attack Iran was equivalent to the massive struggle of World War II.
Trump bragged the country was dead before he took office, which is his favorite narcissistic fantasy.
Since he took office, the country has suffered from his illegal tariffs, roving bands of masked ICE agents, horrific job creation, and skyrocketing inflation, but his delusion was so vast he proclaimed America under his leadership was a Utopian dream just 33 days ago....
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Fail, fail, fail! Lies, lies, lies! And still bragging about the money he's embezzelled!
This is a deeply sick person!
Europe’s Far-Right Parties Break With Trump On War
Semafor reports:
Europe’s hard-right parties are breaking ranks with US President Donald Trump over the Iran war. Populist groups across the continent have broadly aligned themselves with Trump’s MAGA movement.
But the partnership has been weakened by the US campaign against Iran, which undermines Trump’s isolationist “America First” vision and has pushed up energy prices worldwide.
France’s Marine Le Pen said the strikes had “catastrophic consequences,” the Alternative für Deutschland party demanded US troops leave Germany, Britain’s Nigel Farage argued the UK should stay out of the war.
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Even the Nazis in Europe can't stand Trump! The world hates Trump!
Oil Prices Surge After Trump’s “Stone Ages” Vow
CNBC reports:
U.S. stock futures tumbled on Thursday after President Donald Trump indicated that the Iran war would continue, sending oil prices higher as well. Futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average slid 541 points, or 1.2%. S&P 500 futures declined 1.4%, and Nasdaq 100 futures lost 1.7%.
Trump delivered an address Wednesday night, providing updates on the Middle East conflict. Though he said that the U.S. is “getting very close” to ending the Iran war, Trump added that the nation would “hit” Tehran “extremely hard.”
“Over the next two to three weeks, we’re going to bring them back to the stone ages where they belong,” the president said. His comments also led to a surge in oil prices. West Texas Intermediate crude futures were last up 7.9% at $107.98 a barrel, while Brent crude futures advanced 7.3% to $108.59.
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Decrepit and demented. The tired old man has no brain left. Put him in a hospital in a strait jacket!
Scamvangelist Paula White Compares Trump To Jesus
Yahoo News reports:
President Donald Trump’s spiritual advisor Paula White told the president on Wednesday that “no one has paid the price like you have,” likening Trump to Jesus at an Easter lunch event.
“Jesus taught so many lessons through his death, burial and resurrection. He showed us great leadership, great transformation requires great sacrifice. And Mr. President, no one has paid the price like you have paid the price. It almost cost you your life. “You were betrayed and arrested and falsely accused. It’s a familiar pattern that our Lord and Savior showed us,” she said.
“But it didn’t end there for him, and it didn’t end there for you. God always had a plan. On the third day, he rose, he defeated evil, he conquered death, hell and the grave. And because he rose, we all know that we can rise. And sir, because of his resurrection, you rose up,” she added.
"Not only is this reptilian-eyed degenerate a False Prophet, but she's also blasphemous. (Matthew 7:15-20)" — washlovrcm (comments)
"It’s like they’re doing their own parodies of themselves now." — ChrisinKansas (comments)
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Bullshit never sounded so smelly!
Trump treats war as entertainment -- Chauncey DeVega
The president likes to watch "stuff blowing up" in Iran. People are paying for his distraction with their lives
Previous American presidents have treated their role as commander-in-chief with great respect bordering on dread. Abraham Lincoln’s depression deepened during the Civil War, and the physical toll the conflict took on him can be seen in a series of famous daguerreotypes by Alexander Gardner, Matthew Brady and others. During the Vietnam War, Lyndon Johnson appeared to age in real-time as he and his military advisers sent tens of thousands of American soldiers to their deaths....
There are no universal truths or facts in this ecosystem, only constant stimulus, endless content, a lack of narrative coherence and a surreal version of reality filtered through nihilism, in which nothing is quite real and therefore nothing quite matters....
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Trump is a spoiled-5 year old.
OK, Viktor. Tabs, Tues., March 31, 2026 — Evan Hurst
It is like OK Boomer except it is one specific Boomer named Viktor Orbán. Anyway, here's these tabs.
Some sober and sobering truth from Hamilton Nolan, on the subject of Time To Quit The Military (seriously): “My purpose is not to demonize members of the military. On the contrary. People who joined an organization with noble intentions, who were told that they were serving the purest interests of their country, are now in the position of being foot soldiers for a gangster-style president who is quite possibly the single biggest threat to peace on earth. It is important that we speak honestly about the fact that these soldiers are in the perilous position of risking their lives in order to carry out villainous goals.” Read it all. [Hamilton Nolan]
Did you know that the Andes Mountains and the Amazon are the only NATURAL separators in the Western hemisphere between north and south? It’s just science and it’s just math and it’s just geography, says Secretary Shitfaced OF WAR. Did you know that “From Greenland To Guyana” is our new national (security) anthem? Do you even know the hand motions to the song, bro? [ANI]
Rick Scott says you are supposed to love high gas and food prices for the sake of the war, because it’s better than getting blown to nuclear bits by Iran! (Which was never going to happen, ever.) [JoeMyGod]
Who has now closed its airspace to US planes in their conduct of illegal warring? Spain has. [Reuters]
“The First Post-Reality Political Campaign.” It’s the one in Hungary right now, where despite all his best dictator efforts, Viktor Orbán’s party could actually lose. And he is clearly panicked. Crazy shit from Anne Applebaum about the lengths he’s going to, to convince Hungarians that, um, Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Ukraine are about to attack them. Sure, Viktor, sure. [Atlantic].
Why is Pam Bondi’s DOJ hoarding all this Bitcoin inside its butt, aside from the fact that Bitcoin has become rather worthless lately and they’re probably desperately hoping it’ll go back up before they launder it to America’s enemies (or whatever the Trump DOJ does with its running around money)? [Esquire]...
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Deep thoughts by Evan.
Hegseth Is Reviving the Crusades, Spitting on the Founders, and Endangering America — Thom Hartmann
The line between church and state is collapsing at the hands of hypocrites and fanatics who use religion to seize power —and history shows the cost
Our alcoholic, serial adulterer, wife-abusing “Secretary of War” just led a prayer service in the Pentagon calling on the brutal, demonic force he calls his god to help our US military strike down Iranians with “overwhelming violence of action against those who deserve no mercy.” Presumably this includes the hundreds of Iranian schoolchildren he’s already criminally murdered.
It was so morally and spiritually obscene that Pope Leo XIV felt it important to repudiate, saying:
“This is our God: Jesus, King of Peace, who rejects war, ?whom no one can use to justify war. He does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, but rejects them, saying: ‘Even though you make many prayers, I will not listen: your hands are full of blood.’”
This religious abuse of a Secretary of Defense’s position of power has never before happened within our modern military. He and his enablers in the GOP are trying to merge church and state in America — under the umbrella of his blasphemous version of a bizarre, end-times, fundamentalist Christian religion that Jesus would never recognize — for the first time in our history. If they’re successful, we’ll be closer to Iran than the secular nation we all grew up in.
This is not the way the Founders of this country and the Framers of the Constitution envisioned things working out, as I document at length in my book The Hidden History of American Democracy. What Hegseth and his allies in the Trump regime are doing is deeply and fundamentally un-American, spitting on the graves of generations who fought and died to preserve our secular democracy.
The Founders who fought the Revolutionary War and the Framers of the Constitution believed that secular democracy is a more powerful unifying force for a decent and peaceful civil society than any religion ever was or could be. Although most were spiritual in their own ways, and a few were also openly religious, as students of history they knew the damage that organized religion could do if it gained access to the reins of political and military power.
And, with the memory of the Salem Witch Trials and other religious atrocities still fresh in their minds, America’s Founders knew that those among the organized religions who sought to combine political and military power with their existing religious power would be unrelenting and could be deadly to democracy....
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Trump imagines he's King Richard I. Hegesth must imagine he's seneschal of Trumpland!
Trump 'library' will sit on prime real estate finagled away from minority college for $10 — Travis Gettys
President Donald Trump confirmed his presidential library will be more like a high-rise hotel, and it will be built on a parcel of prime downtown Miami real estate finagled from a college that primarily serves minorities.
The 79-year-old president shared AI-generated video of his planned presidential library Monday on social media, but he told reporters in the Oval Office the following day that the project will closely resemble the self-branded hotels he developed as a private businessman – but he used his political powers to purchase the valuable property for next to nothing, as reported by NPR and WTVJ-TV.
"I don't believe in building libraries or museums," Trump told reporters. "Could be [an] office, but it's most likely going to be a hotel with a beautiful building underneath and a 747 Air Force One in the lobby."...
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As Woody Guthrie stated in his song on Pretty Boy Floyd, "...Some will rob you with a six-gun, And some with a fountain pen."
The oil industry is betting big on plastics. Here's what that means for the future — Tonya Mosley
Journalist Beth Gardiner says the fossil fuel industry is increasingly reliant upon plastic products. Her book is Plastic Inc.: The Secret History and Shocking Future of Big Oil's Biggest Bet.
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This means more pollution for hunanity and slavery to big oil.
Al Gore: Trump Administration Is the Most Corrupt in History — Reveal
“This is the most corrupt administration not only in American history, but more corrupt than I could ever have imagined a president would be able to get away with to the extent that he has,” Gore tells More To The Story’s Al Letson. “It’s shocking to me.”
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Amen!
No Oil, No Power, No Surgical Gloves: Inside Cuba’s Medical Collapse — Laura C. Morel
As Cuba’s worst economic crisis continues to ravage the country, its approximately 10 million people have endured nationwide blackouts, scarce food, and a pervasive sense of anxiety about their country’s political and economic stability. But no part of the infrastructure has been more affected than the island’s medical care. Once lauded as one of the best health care systems in the world, it has deteriorated in the last decade as many doctors migrated elsewhere, and medical supply shortages have worsened due to failing economic policies. The situation reached a breaking point earlier this year, following the US invasion of Venezuela on January 3, 2026. That’s when the crucial supply of oil to Cuba was cut off, and President Donald Trump threatened other nations with punishing tariffs should they send oil to the island. The US government recently softened its stance, the New York Times reported on Monday, and will decide which oil shipments can arrive in Cuba on a “case-by-case basis.”
The lack of fuel has prompted island-wide power outages that last several hours, sometimes even days. “You cannot damage a state’s economy without affecting its inhabitants,” Cuba’s Health Minister, José Ángel Portal Miranda, told the Associated Press. “This situation could put lives at risk.” A recent New York Times story chronicled the myriad of problems affecting patients and providers: clinics struggling to provide treatments like chemotherapy and dialysis, ambulances left without gas, underweight pregnant mothers, and vaccine delays for tens of thousands of children. Last week, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization, called the situation “deeply concerning.” He wrote on X, “Thousands of surgeries have been postponed during the last month, and people needing care, from cancer patients to pregnant women preparing for delivery, have been put at risk due to lack of power to operate medical equipment and cold chain storage for vaccines.” ...
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More evidence of the evil totalitarian regime of the US. under Trump.
‘Racist’: CNN Analyst Slams Opponents of Birthright Citizenship — Sean James
...“If you were to take his argument, for example, you could extrapolate that children of Confederate soldiers should not be citizens, because they were not under the jurisdiction of the U.S., they were challenging that,” Wu said. “So it really doesn’t make much sense at all what he’s saying.”...
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Ah, yes! Our deah ole lan' ob de Happy Negro! De be so holey!
JD Vance’s Catholic Conversion Book Has a Not-So-Catholic Church on Cover — David Gilmour
...According to its publisher’s description, Communion is focused specifically on Vance’s conversion to Catholicism and explores how his faith shapes his role in public life. The memoir “reveals how Vance regained his faith and discusses his conversion to Catholicism, how his faith guides his work in public life, and how it shapes his thoughts about the future.”
But The Bulwark’s national political reporter Joe Perticone discovered the image chosen for the cover, depicting a rural Appalachian-style chapel, depicts Mount Zion Church in Elk Creek, Virginia, a United Methodist place of worship, rather than a Catholic one.
“Mount Zion is undeniably photogenic, which is why it’s also a popular stock image,” Perticone wrote. “Vance’s choice of photo struck me as odd, given that the vice president has been outspoken about his Catholic faith.”...
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All churches look alike to him.
Trump Admin Official Accuses Truth Social of ‘Blocking’ His Posts After Claiming He Teleported to a Waffle House 50 Miles Away — Charlie Nash
Gregg Phillips, the Trump administration official in charge of FEMA’s Office of Response and Recovery, accused President Donald Trump’s Truth Social of “blocking” his posts on Wednesday after claiming to have teleported to a Waffle House 50 miles away.
Phillips made headlines last month after it was revealed by CNN’s KFile that he had made a number of bizarre statements, including claims that he had teleported to a Waffle House 50 miles away.
“I was with my boys one time and I was telling them I was gonna go to Waffle House and get Waffle House,” said Phillips during a January 2025 interview. “And I ended up at a Waffle House. This was in Georgia and I end up at a Waffle House like 50 miles away from where I was.”
He continued, “They said, ‘That’s not possible, you just left here a moment ago.’ But it was possible. It was real.”
After his remarks went viral online, Phillips doubled down in a series of posts before accusing Truth Social – which was co-founded by Trump – of “blocking” his words....
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"God?" Reza Aslan has a good book on that where this is explained.
Our mental institutions are failing us. Is there no hope left for humanity?
Data Centers Causing Huge Temperature Spikes for Miles Around Them, Study Suggests — Frank Landymore
The data centers at the heart of the AI boom are producing so much heat that they’re spiking land temperatures for miles around them by up to 16 degrees Fahrenheit, new research suggests. The effect is so pronounced that the researchers say they’re creating entire “heat islands.”
The findings, detailed in a study that’s yet-to-be-peer-reviewed, add to an already grim picture of the environmental impact of these sprawling facilities, the largest of which consume enough energy to power entire cities. Their commensurate greenhouse gas emissions, however, apparently aren’t the only way data centers are heating up the world around them.
The researchers focused on roughly 8,400 so-called “hyperscalers,” the term used to describe data centers of incredible size that offer cloud computing and AI services. Their construction has surged in the past decade, and the AI boom has pushed their demand and scope to new heights; Meta’s new “Hyperion” data center, for example, cost $27 billion to build and has an expected computing capacity of five gigawatts, an appetite that takes ten gas-powered plants to sate....
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Get a data center on your block and fry like an egg!
Chief Justice John Roberts calls out Trump solicitor general’s 'quirky' citizenship case — Sarah K. Burris
Chief Justice John Roberts seemed dubious as Trump's Solicitor General John Sauer began speaking.
"You obviously put a lot of weight on subject to the jurisdiction thereof. But the examples you give to support that strike me as very, uh, quirky," said Roberts. "You know, children of ambassadors, children of enemies during a hostile invasion, children on warships. And then you expand it to a whole class of illegal aliens are here in the country. I'm not quite sure how you can get to that big group from such tiny and sort of idiosyncratic examples."
Supreme Court reporter Jimmy Hoover, from Law.com noted, "After a friendly question from Justice Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice John Roberts right out of the gate expresses skepticism of the Trump administration's central argument: that children of undocumented immigrants are not 'subject to the jurisdiction' of the United States. He calls the SG's argument 'very quirky.'"
Justices Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett seemed similarly skeptical.
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"Skeptical?" Can they not read the 14th Amendment of our Constitution? Are they THAT RETARDED?
Amendment XIV
Section 1.
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Trump torn apart for Iran rhetoric as he preps prime-time address — David Badash
President Donald Trump is facing ridicule ahead of his prime-time White House address after posting a conflicting message to social media.
Trump told Reuters on Wednesday that the U.S. will be “out of Iran pretty quickly,” but in a Truth Social message he made a different declaration.
“Iran’s New Regime President, much less Radicalized and far more intelligent than his predecessors, has just asked the United States of America for a CEASEFIRE!” Trump wrote. “We will consider when Hormuz Strait is open, free, and clear. Until then, we are blasting Iran into oblivion or, as they say, back to the Stone Ages!!!”
The Bulwark’s Sam Stein wrote: “Yesterday: We are fine leaving the Strait of Hormuz closed. Europe can deal with it. Today: We have a ceasefire deal but we won’t take it until the Strait of Hormuz is open.”
Former Obama official Jon Favreau noted, “Trump is basing this on a misinterpreted, out-of-context quote that Pezeshkian, who is not the ‘new regime president,’ said two days ago.”
Former Biden and Obama official Jesse Lee responded: “It’s a shame that Trump has done nothing but lie about this war all day everyday, and the safe bet on any given statement is that it, too, is a lie.”...
“I assume that tonight Trump will head for the exits in Iran,” wrote The Bulwark’s Bill Kristol. “He may try to disguise the retreat by announcing the U.S. is leaving NATO, which Trump will present as a liberation from ungrateful allies and a victory for America First. So he’ll make a bad outcome far worse.”...
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How much more proof do we need this idiot is lame and inept and an enemy of America? Only the retarded accept his treason! Drag his ass to the gutter!
Trump's Anti-Voter Executive Order Is Hypocritical and Unconstitutional — Newswire Editor
Today, Donald Trump signed a new executive order that attempts to stop voting by mail.
Lisa Gilbert, co-president of Public Citizen, issued the following statement in response:
“This executive order is an attempt to create additional barriers for Americans seeking to cast their ballots. President Trump is a hypocrite who uses mail in voting himself. But what’s good for the goose is not good for the gander when voter suppression is the goal. This EO is an attempt to federalize our elections, and is inappropriate, undemocratic, and unconstitutional.”
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America is not abliged to obey any order from a traitor! Piss on it!
Analysts Warn Of $200/Barrel Oil If War Lasts Until June
Axios reports:
Oil prices could surge to an unprecedented $200 a barrel if the Strait of Hormuz remains closed, analysts warn. President Trump is weighing ending the U.S. war on Iran without reopening the strait — raising the once-unthinkable prospect that this key energy artery could stay shut indefinitely.
If that happens, oil’s recent rise — briefly nearing $120 a barrel — could look modest. U.S. gasoline prices have jumped 35% since the war began last month, topping $4 a gallon earlier this week.
Countries more dependent on Middle East oil are already seeing worse, including fuel shortages. Analysts at Macquarie, a financial services company, last week said oil could reach $200 if the war drags into June, assigning a 40% probability.
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Who will be able to drive a vehicle even to a gas station? Who will be able to fill up and even drive to a grocery store? Assuming there will be food on the shelves to purchase? Trump is killing America!
Before Iran, there was Covid: Trump falls apart in a crisis
Trump’s first term as president has been so utterly eclipsed by the savagery of his second one that many people may have forgotten his deadly, abysmal mismanagement of the Covid pandemic. He delayed testing, mocked mask-wearing, spread conspiracy theories, undermined the work of scientists, and held campaign rallies that spread the virus. By one estimate, 58,000 Americans died because of his negligence — and maybe a lot more....
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Anyone with a brain can see the disaster that is Trump.
The question is will our Republic survive this madman?
'Wow': Trump stunned as Noem family confirms national security scandal — Nicole Charky-Chami
President Donald Trump was reportedly shocked after a scandal broke out involving former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's husband, Byron Noem, who has had an alleged fetish for cross-dressing and could have compromised national security, the president told The Daily Mail on Tuesday.
The outlet called Trump to ask for his reaction to the news after The Daily Mail's investigation uncovered "hundreds" of messages between Byron Noem and three women in the fetish scene. Photos obtained by the Mail showed him dressed as a woman with fake breasts. He allegedly sent a secret group of online acquaintances at least $25,000 via Paypal and Cash App....
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"I haven't seen anything. I don't know anything about it. That's too bad, but I just know nothing about it," Trump said.
He knows nothing! First time he hasn't lied! We haven't had National Security since he took over.
'He deserves to pay a price': NYT editors appalled as Trump pardon spree unleashes mayhem — Nicole Charky-Chami
The New York Times editorial board had a damning message on Tuesday for President Donald Trump and his decision to pardon about 1,500 Jan. 6 rioters who have since committed other crimes.
Unlike past presidents who have waited until their final days in office to issue potentially controversial pardons, Trump has done the opposite. And in doing so, he has created a major problem, the Times editorial board argued.
"President Trump has abandoned this approach. His self-serving pardons are so numerous that public attention cannot keep up with them. It is a version of the strategy that his former adviser Steve Bannon has described as 'flood the zone': Do so much so fast that people cannot follow the consequences," The Times editorial board explained.
Those repercussions have wreaked havoc on communities.
"The American public deserves to understand the mayhem that the Jan. 6 pardons have unleashed," The Times editorial board wrote. "Among the 12 serious recidivists whom we are aware of, four were in jail or prison at the time of the pardon, and they quickly went on to commit more crimes."
The group named and described multiple people associated with the riots at the nation's Capitol, detailing the crimes they committed both after their pardons and prior to them.
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The raping and pillaging of the USA by Trump trash.
Whiskey Pete Overturns Suspension Of Grandstanding Kid Rock Crew — Susie Madrak
Kegbreath’s move, which also quashed an Army investigation of Saturday’s unusual flyby, came shortly after Trump was asked about the incident by reporters at the White House.
Whiskey Pete Hegseth on Tuesday overrode the U.S. Army’s suspension from flight duties hours earlier of two AH 64 Apache helicopter crews that flew around musician Kid Rock’s home in Nashville, Tenn., this weekend.
Kegbreath’s move, which also quashed an Army investigation of Saturday’s unusual flyby, came shortly after Trump was asked about the incident by reporters at the White House.
"This arrogant, highly incompetent douchebag needs to be impeached!!!" -- mongopat (comments)
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And this "military" is supposed to be defending our country?
Mace: Byron Noem’s Kinky Life Is A “Personal” Matter (Mace Spent Yesterday Ridiculing Transgender People)
The Huffington Post reports:
After news of Bryon Noem’s secret life became public, some politicians posted about it on social media, including the official account for the Democratic Party, which posted that both Bryon and Kristi Noem “like to dress up,” a reference to ads she made while serving as DHS secretary that cost more than $200 million.
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) posted that the news was personal matter and a distraction from other “priorities.”
While Kristi Noem was governor of South Dakota, she made her anti-LGBTQ position known, whether it was banning transgender athletes in women’s sports or signing a bill into law allowing people to deny LGBTQ people service based on religious beliefs.
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Like all Nazis, Mace speaks with a forked tongue.
Pentagon Seeks Three Additional Bases In Greenland
The New York Times reports:
The American military is intensifying efforts to secure greater access to Greenland, a clear signal that President Trump’s interest in the enormous Arctic island has not waned. The United States is negotiating with Denmark for access to three additional bases in Greenland — including two previously abandoned by Americans — which would mark the first U.S. expansion there in decades, according to a top Pentagon general, Gen. Gregory M. Guillot.
General Guillot, the head of U.S. Northern Command, told lawmakers in a congressional hearing in mid-March that the military wanted “increased access to different bases across Greenland as we look at the increasing threat and the strategic importance of Greenland.”
The request places Denmark in a tricky spot. Greenland is a semi-automonous territory that has been part of the Danish kingdom for more than 300 years. President Trump, at the same time, has fixated on acquiring Greenland, and threatened to use force for months before relenting in January.
Read the full article.
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Stop American Colonialism! Stop Trump's wars to secure beachfront property to build his shitstacks on!
GOP Rep. Rick McCormick Claims US Won Vietnam War
“I don’t want to have boots on the ground, but also I want to have all options on the table. One of the things we’ve done poorly in the past is we do this thing called limited warfare. It’s never worked for us.
“When we go to war college, or command and staff college, we always learned that the worst kind of way to fight any war is to do it half-assed. We were horrible in Afghanistan and Iraq until we did surge ops, and then we won.
“We were horrible in Vietnam until we did Thunder One– Rolling Thunder One and Rolling Thunder Two, and then we won.
“As soon as we go half measures, we lose. We lose popular support. The faster we get this over, the better. We seize Kharg Island, that is technically boots on the ground. It can be done almost flawlessly. We have enough firepower. That would be very easy to defend.
“I know nobody wants to see that, but at the same time, we can choke them off, end this war, and get back to business so everybody’s gas prices come back down, and so they’re not funding Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthis. The people will be happy.
“But the longer we drag on, the more frustrated the people will get and the less support we will have.” – GOP Rep. Rich McCormick, speaking to Newsmax
McCormick last appeared here when he blamed autism on fluoridated water.
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You mean Ho Chi Minh City is still Saigon? ROTFLMAO! Delusions of the insane Nazi!
All the Vietman vets must be anxious to get their hands on this Dumbo.
This is a routine lie to the Nazi retarded base.
10 Years Ago Today: Trump Vows To Pay Off Natl Debt
Reason reports:
Ten years ago today, Donald Trump said he would pay off the national debt in the span of just eight years. That did not happen. Instead, the gross national debt has doubled since that day—from about $19 trillion to over $39 trillion. Much of that additional borrowing has taken place during Trump’s five-plus years in the White House.
The gap between Trump’s outlandish promise and the brutal fiscal reality of the past decade is not just a political gotcha.
It’s also an apt illustration of how far and how fast the debt has spiraled. And it’s a painful reminder of a missed opportunity that Americans will be facing for a long, long time. The bill for these 10 years of fiscal profligacy will be coming due long after Trump has finally departed from the political scene.
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Most of it he's put in his own pocket!
Lying liar lies like a rug! Our debt has doubled!
Analysis: DOJ Has Dropped Over 23,000 Criminal Cases
ProPublica reports:
In the first days after Pam Bondi was appointed attorney general last year, the Department of Justice began shutting down pending criminal cases at a record pace.
The cases included an investigation into a Virginia nursing home with a recent record of patient abuse; probes of fraud involving several New Jersey labor unions, including one opened after a top official of a national union was accused of embezzlement; and an investigation into a cryptocurrency company suspected of cheating investors.
In total, the DOJ quietly closed more than 23,000 criminal cases in the first six months of President Donald Trump’s administration, abandoning hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime, drugs and other offenses as it shifted resources to pursue immigration cases, according to an analysis by ProPublica.
"why would the DOJ prosecute crime when the felon in chief is just going to first pardon the perps and then hire them?" -- Stoned and loving it -- (comments)
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The Trump Crime Syndicate promoting crime in the USA while driving out honest immigrant families. Criminal racism is working for them. Why are we permitting these atrocities in our country?
Medicaid Cuts Put 400+ Hospitals At Risk Of Closing
NBC News reports:
More than 400 hospitals across the United States are at high risk of closing or cutting services because of the Medicaid cuts in President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” according to an analysis from the progressive watchdog group Public Citizen.
The fallout could make it harder for millions of people to get care and put thousands of health care workers’ jobs at risk as hospitals lose a key source of federal funding. Medicaid covers about a fifth of all hospital spending.
The Medicaid cuts come in phases, with more significant changes, including work requirements, in 2027 and limits on how states raise funds in 2028. Overall, the law is expected to reduce federal Medicaid funding by roughly $1 trillion over the next decade.
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Helping more Americans die sooner than ever! May death find Trump and his Crime Syndicate soon.
Hostile takeover
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Truth in 6 panels.
JD Vance’s demon talk is lame youth outreach — Amanda Marcotte
Hopping on the "KPop Demon Hunters" trend won't save the vice president's career
...By claiming to believe in demons, the vice president is leeching onto another youth trend, and probably getting a hefty boost in social media algorithms for it. The good news is probably won’t work for him, since Satan himself couldn’t grant Vance more charisma.
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We know who the demon is!
'Go get your own oil!' Trump tells UK the US won't 'help you anymore' in furious rant — Aleander Willis
President Donald Trump erupted at the United Kingdom Tuesday morning over its refusal to join the United States in its war against Iran, issuing the European nation a notice that the United States would no longer be offering it “help.”
“All of those countries that can’t get jet fuel because of the Strait of Hormuz, like the United Kingdom, which refused to get involved in the decapitation of Iran, I have a suggestion for you: Number 1, buy from the U.S., we have plenty, and Number 2, build up some delayed courage, go to the Strait, and just TAKE IT,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social.
“You’ll have to start learning how to fight for yourself, the U.S.A. won’t be there to help you anymore, just like you weren’t there for us. Iran has been, essentially, decimated. The hard part is done. Go get your own oil!”...
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Trump, the deranged barbarian, is hated by all for good reason!
'I don't think I can vote Republican anymore': Trump agenda killing support in red state — Alex Henderson
In an article published on March 31, Times reporter Jazmine Ulloa stresses that Latinos in South Texas — including those who voted for Trump in 2024 — strongly support birthright citizenship.
One of them is 62-year-old Samuel Garza, who voted for Trump in 2016, 2020 and 2024 but, according to Ulloa, "became dismayed when Mr. Trump signed an executive order last year seeking to restrict automatic citizenship for babies born in the United States to parents who are not citizens or legal permanent residents."
"In interviews with more than two dozen Latino Republicans," Ulloa explains, "almost all of them supported the right of citizenship upon birth on U.S. soil, which many saw as a fundamental tenet of the American Dream. Some expressed concerns about potential abuse, including by undocumented immigrants, but did not necessarily support eliminating the right altogether. Historically, Latino Republicans have been more supportive of birthright citizenship than non-Hispanic white Republicans, according to polling. That right has been central to questions of identity and belonging along the southern border, where the line defining who is American has shifted — figuratively and physically — over time."
Ulloa adds, "As the birthright debate has heated up, some Latino Republicans in the region said the Trump Administration's efforts to restrict the right added to their wider frustrations over how the president has carried out his immigrant detention and deportation campaign."
Garza told the Times, "I don't think I can vote Republican anymore."...
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Only grifters and fascists will vote for the ped.
The racist con to strip birthright is vicious and filthy!
Top Trump official ‘said the quiet part out loud’ about MAGA takeover
..Writing in a piece published Tuesday, MS NOW senior editor Anthony L. Fisher said that Carr "may be the most try-hard" out of all the "sycophants" in Trump's orbit, something he lived down to while speaking at last week's CPAC in Texas, where he "unwittingly admitted that the administration’s goal is the Orbanization of America, and that he takes pride in trying to make that happen." Fisher made reference to the far-right Prime Minister of Hungary, Viktor Orbán, whose consolidation of power was infamously helped along by wealthy allies acquiring media outlets and squashing negative coverage....
“Look at the results so far. PBS defunded. NPR defunded,” Carr said. “[Stephen] Colbert is leaving. CBS is under new ownership. And soon enough, CNN is going to have new ownership as well.”...
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Fuck him! Over our dead bodies! This Nazi will go to the dustbin of history.
MAGA Drag Queen Complains That CPAC Was Empty
First, a report from Mother Jones:
During the Trump decade, CPAC had been a showcase for the MAGA faithful, and Trump and his family were its biggest stars. Trump himself first appeared at the event in 2011 when he was toying with a presidential run. He hasn’t missed the event in a decade. “Nobody can deny that [CPAC] is the center of political gravity,” CPAC chairman Matt Schlapp told me in 2022.
But the center of gravity has clearly tilted if the modest crowd in the convention hall at the Gaylord Texan resort in Grapevine is any indication. “It’s shitty,” Warner Kimo Sutton told me of the turnout. “Last time this place was packed.”
Part of the problem with CPAC this year may be that many of its biggest draws in the past are now part of the government they long railed against. FBI Director Kash Patel, who wrote a whole book about “government gangsters,” is now one of them. Ditto for Pam Bondi, who just last year shared the mainstage with Texas Sen. Ted Cruz but now runs the Justice Department, where she’s under fire from Trump’s own fans for her handling of the Epstein files.
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The most hated man on earth since Hitler!
Italy Refuses To Allow US Bombers To Land At Base
Reuters reports:
Italy has denied permission for U.S. military aircraft to land ?at the Sigonella air base in Sicily ?before flying to the Middle East, a source close to ?the matter said on Tuesday, confirming a newspaper report.
Daily Corriere della Sera reported “some U.S. bombers” had been due to land at the base in eastern ?Sicily before heading ?to the Middle East. It did not say when they had been due to ?land.
Corriere della Sera added that permission was not granted as the U.S. had not sought authorisation and Italy’s military leadership was not consulted, as required under treaties governing the use ?of U.S. military installations in ?the country.
"Let this be part of a growing trend where US planes and ships find nobody willing to let them land or dock." -- Man_in_the_mists (comments)
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Under Trump the USA has become the most hated country in the world.
ICE Agents To Attend USMC Boot Camp Graduation Ceremony To Arrest Undocumented Family Members
NBC News reports:
ICE agents will be stationed outside graduation events for the nation’s newest Marines to identify whether any of their family members are undocumented, according to the Marine Corps. As the U.S. continues the war in Iran, the Marine Corps has boosted protection measures on bases, requiring everyone to present REAL IDs, U.S. passports or U.S. birth certificates to access any sites.
Undocumented immigrants are generally ineligible for federal REAL IDs and don’t have U.S. passports or birth certificates. So people without identifying documents who arrive at the gate of Marine Corps Recruit Depot at Parris Island in Beaufort, South Carolina, for recruit family days and graduation events this week may now have to answer to ICE officials, the Marine Corps said.
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Lunacy! Trump's Nazi Gestapo does not care about anything but skin color!
Graham: Sanction Spain For Closing Airspace To US
“I would highly encourage President Trump to not let the Spanish government’s decision to restrict their air space to the U.S. military go unanswered.
“Spain clearly doesn’t understand the importance of degrading the largest state sponsor of terrorism that has wreaked havoc on the world since 1979. I will gladly work with anyone to impose sanctions on Spain for this outrage.
“I would again recommend to President Trump that we close U.S. air bases in Spain and relocate to a country that allows these assets to be used to protect America and the world. The sooner this is done, the better.” – Sen. Lindsey Graham, last night on X.
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Yes, the USA is the world's most hated nation.
REPORT: Hegseth’s Broker Tried To Buy Defense Stocks
CNBC reports:
A broker for U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth sought to make a large investment in major defense companies in the lead up to the Iran war, according to the Financial Times. The Pentagon has dismissed the report. The Financial Times reported Tuesday that Hegseth’s broker at banking giant Morgan Stanley contacted BlackRock in February about making a multimillion-dollar investment in its iShares Defense Industrials Active ETF.
The ETF, which has about $3.1 billion in assets, counts companies such as RTX Corp, — formerly known as Raytheon — Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman among its largest holdings, Blackrock data showed. The FT also said that the investment discussed by Hegseth’s broker did not ultimately go ahead as the fund was not yet available for Morgan Stanley clients to buy at the time. It was also not known if the broker had found another defense-related investment.
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"Masters of War!"
Corrupt and degrading!
Viktor Orban’s problems undercut Trump’s new world order -- Heather Digby Parton
A loss by the Hungarian strongman in the country's April 12 election would have ramifications for MAGA
...From undermining America’s democratic institutions and the rule of law to spreading disinformation about and cracking down on immigrants, people of color, LGBTQ people and the media, Trump has attempted to emulate Orbán’s success — and he has succeeded to varying degrees....
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First Orban, then Trump. Their elimination makes the world safer for all!
Trump in 'danger' as he 'loses control' of supporters: conservative editor — Matthew Rozsa
President Donald Trump is “losing control” of his own MAGA movement because of lingering high prices and his unpopular wars, according to the editor of a conservative publication.
“I think the risk for Trump here is twofold,” Sam Stein, managing editor at The Bulwark, said during an appearance on MS NOW with host Katy Tur. Stein referenced how popular right-leaning podcaster Andrew Schulz turned on Trump because of his invasions of Venezuela and Iran, with similarly right-leaning podcaster Joe Rogan doing likewise after Trump declared war against Iran.
“These are the podcasts that were gateways to a whole slice of the electorate that was just politically curious — not politically active — but they did get involved in 2024, and they got involved largely on behalf of Donald Trump,” Stein explained. “Andrew Schulz, Rogan, and others activated them. But the other risk is that they're now potentially turning Donald Trump into a cultural punchline — that he's an idiot, that his supporters are dorks, that he's been fooled into doing all this stuff, and that he is a failure.”
Stein added, “Donald Trump, for better or for worse, has had an incredible ability to shape perceptions of himself and the cultural relevance that he has. And to a degree, he loses that control when these people turn on him — when his own supporters turn on him. That hasn't really happened in the entirety of his political career.”...
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It's high time he paid the piper!
Coalition Sues Trump EPA Over Illegal Repeal of Mercury and Air Toxics Standards — Newswire Editor
A coalition of public health, environmental, and community advocates filed a lawsuit today challenging the Trump administration’s repeal of standards that limit brain-damaging mercury, lead, and other hazardous air pollution from coal-fired power plants. Since EPA’s Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) took effect in 2015, they’ve driven down dangerous mercury pollution from power plants by more than 90%. The standards have also delivered significant public health benefits, lowering the risk of cancer, heart and lung disease, and premature death....
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Good news.
More Evidence Verified That Backs Up Trump Accuser, 13 — Susie Madrak
Remember the 13-year-old who claimed she was sexually assaulted by Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump? More evidence has been verified that bolsters her credibility.
The Post and Courier has now corroborated key personal details given by the woman about a third man she claims also sexually assaulted her—named Jimmy Atkins. Those details suggest that she was truthful about other information she gave the FBI.
The woman claimed Epstein started abusing her and trafficked her to several men when she was aged between 13 and 15. She had met Epstein after he responded to an advertisement for babysitting that her mother, a real estate agent in South Carolina, had given to her clients.
The Post and Courier report says Atkins moved to Hilton Head, South Carolina, in the mid-’80s and took over Harbour Realty and Rentals. That was where he met the teenage girl who would later claim to the FBI during interviews in 2019 that Atkins and Epstein assaulted her.
The Post and Courier scoured records to match the woman’s testimony of Atkins’ affiliation with a college in Ohio, as well as his age, hair color, physical appearance, and his employment in Hilton Head.
The paper was also able to verify a direct association with her mother’s criminal record for embezzlement.
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Closer, ever closer.
Trump Orders War Crimes. Then What? — Jonathan V. Last
...Two items of note here.
First: Trump is laying the groundwork to declare victory. He claims to have achieved “regime” change in Iran and says the new regime is more friendly to American interests. Further, he sets a single condition for a ceasefire—the return to the pre-war status quo on shipping through the Strait of Hormuz.
Second: Trump says he will order the U.S. military to commit war crimes against Iran if the strait is not reopened.
The last decade has been a learning experience for American citizens. We have learned that:
Some meaningful percentage of our neighbors want fascism.
Our Constitution and the rule of law are approximately run on the honor system.
These lessons have not been enjoyable; I would rather we had not been forced to learn them.
But also: Maybe knowing is better than not knowing? There is an “if you don’t test, then there are no cases” dynamic here. If liberal democracy is weaker and more compromised than we understood, then maybe it’s better to know this harsh truth for a fact?
So in that spirit of optimism, perhaps we’re about to have another learning experience in Iran. If President Trump makes good on his threat, then we will find out whether the U.S. military operates under the rule of law, or if it too has been run on the honor system.
Who’s ready for school?
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Anyone raise a hand?
Wherefore Art Thou Congress? — William Kristol
There’s a natural ebb and flow to Donald Trump’s cycle of threats and walk-backs against Iran. On Friday, he blinked for a second time on his supposed ultimatum for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, announcing that his deadline—originally a 48-hour window that Trump had already extended by five days—would be extended again until April 6. But this morning, he was back to rattling his saber, with some new war-crime threats thrown in for good measure: If Iran did not reopen the strait, Trump said, “we will conclude our lovely ‘stay’ in Iran by blowing up and completely obliterating all of their Electric Generating Plants, Oil Wells and Kharg Island (and possibly all desalinization plants!), which we have purposely not yet ‘touched.’”
The King’s Congress
by William Kristol
We’re entering the second month of President Trump’s unauthorized war in Iran. Thousands more U.S. troops are being rushed to the Middle East.
Where, you may ask, is Congress?
Remember Congress? It’s the branch discussed in the first article of the Constitution. There it’s charged with the responsibility “to declare war,” “to raise and support armies,” and “to make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces.”
Congress is in recess. Until mid-April....
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Stumblebums, derelicts, loiterers, loafers.
Trump’s Delusional Escalations in Iran — Robert Kuttner
Trump has ordered to the waters off Iran a force that includes roughly 2,200 Marines, with another 2,500 Marines to follow, plus thousands more troops from the 82nd Airborne Division. Overall, there are more than 50,000 U.S. troops in the region, about 10,000 more than normal. That’s probably too small a force to open the Strait of Hormuz or seize Iran’s oil, but large enough to trigger more retaliation by Iran against neighboring Gulf states—which would then lead to Trump’s next escalation.
Some clues to Trump’s thinking, such as it is, are in an interview that he gave to the Financial Times over the weekend. It conveys the sense of a boy playing soldier, in this case with real weapons, real troops, and real risks. The idea seems to be: first send troops, then decide what to do with them....
Ironically, Russia has been drawing on its experience using drones in Ukraine, offering tactical guidance to the Iranians on how many drones should be used in operations and what altitudes they should strike from. Russia has also been providing Iran with the locations of U.S. military forces in the Middle East as well as those of its allies. While Trump keeps issuing apocalyptic threats against Iran, he has been oddly silent on any threats to Iran’s Russian enablers, who are Trump’s de facto allies in the Ukraine war.
Such is the topsy-turvy Trump world. If we are very fortunate, these fantastical missteps in Iran will bring down Trump before they bring on World War III.
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What's he doing? Playing with miltiary lives. And he is absolutely the stupid one.
This Weekend’s No Kings Rallies Were Historically Massive — Alex Nguyen
On Saturday, millions of people around the country took part in more than 3,000 No Kings protests opposing the presidency of Donald Trump, whose approval ratings have plummeted to 36 percent, a record low since his return to the White House.
Saturday’s rallies were the third major No Kings protest, with organizers saying that 8 million people took part. That estimate has not been independently verified. But to put this weekend’s anti-Trump protests in perspective: about 300,000 people attended the April 2009 Tea Party protests against the Obama administration that were heralded as a seismic political event....
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Something the arrogant moron can actually state that he was historically responsible for!
Iran Destroys $300 Million US Early Warning Aircraft <br>
The Hill reports:
An Iranian missile attack on a Saudi Arabia base last week destroyed a U.S. Air Force E-3 Sentry, a valuable early warning and control aircraft, multiple outlets have reported.
The destruction of the Boeing-made E-3 Sentry, which costs roughly $300 million, marks the first time such an aircraft has been destroyed in combat. Images of the plane quickly spread over social media, showing its tail broken off and its signature radar dome on the ground.
Without the E-3, it could be more difficult for U.S. forces to spot incoming Iranian threats. The loss of the plane and its radar dome, part of the airborne warning and control system (AWACS), is “a serious blow to [U.S.] surveillance capabilities,” retired Air Force Col. Cedric Leighton told CNN.
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Trump calls this winning.
Pentagon Investigates Fly-By At Kid Rock’s Mansion
Nashville’s CBS affiliate reports:
U.S. Army officials have ordered an investigation into the activities of two AH-64 Apache attack helicopters that flew over Saturday’s “No Kings” protest in downtown Nashville, then engaged in low-altitude maneuvers near the home of Kid Rock just north of the city. The initial investigation appears to be focused, for now, on the maneuvers at the entertainer’s so-called “Southern White House” in the Nashville suburb of Whites Creek.
“Fort Campbell leadership is aware of a video circulating on social media depicting AH-64 Apache helicopters operating in the vicinity of a private residence associated with Mr. Robert Ritchie (also known as ‘Kid Rock’),” said a statement by Maj. Jonathon Bless, public affairs officer for the 101st Airborne Division. “The command has initiated an investigation to review the circumstances surrounding this activity.”
The statement continued, “The 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) and Fort Campbell maintain strict standards for aviation safety, professionalism, and adherence to established flight regulations. We take all concerns regarding aircraft operations and their impact on the surrounding community seriously.”
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This used to be called "lip service."
Texas Youth Pastor Gets 40 Years On Child Sex Charges
Lubbock’s NBC affiliate reports:
Former Lubbock youth pastor Luke Cunningham pleaded guilty Monday morning to two counts of sexual assault child bigamy. Cunningham was sentenced to 40 years on each count by Judge Douglas Freitage in the 140th District Court.
Cunningham pleaded guilty to two out of 16 counts. All other charges against him were dismissed. The two assaults Cunningham pleaded guilty to happened in September and October of 2018.
Judge Freitag ordered a lifetime protective order for the victims. Cunningham served as the student pastor at Turning Point Community Church in Lubbock from 2016 to 2020 then left for a church in Granbury, Texas.
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Quite a wave of Xianist crime, isn't there?
But one more bites the dust!
White House Cites White Supremacists In Supreme Court Petition Against Birthright Citizenship Ruling
The Washington Post reports:
Alexander Porter Morse, a Confederate officer during the Civil War and a Louisiana attorney, argued for legalized segregation in the landmark 1896 Supreme Court case that established the “separate but equal” doctrine and buttressed Jim Crow laws. He is again playing a key role in a monumental case to be argued before the justices Wednesday: The Trump administration has tapped Morse as an authority in its push to upend long-settled law that virtually everyone born in the United States is a citizen.
Over a century ago, Morse was among a trio of thinkers who spearheaded a failed effort — steeped in anti-Black and anti-Chinese racism — to erase birthright citizenship. The Trump administration is reviving their arguments to make its case today, some legal scholars say. In addition to opposing birthright citizenship, Morse also advocated for limiting the other reconstruction amendments that abolished slavery and guaranteed Black people the right to vote.
Solicitor General D. John Sauer [photo] argues in his petition to the Supreme Court that the Citizenship Clause applied to the recently enslaved and their children, not children of temporary visitors or those here illegally....
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Land of the Happy Negro ghost says "You Are No Longer A Citizen!" What garbage!
Get fucked, Nazi traitors!
Law Seeks to Ban Public Officials From Making Polymarket Bets on Upcoming Bloodshed, Because Apparently We Live in a Complete Dystopia — Joe Wilkins
Bad news, war profiteers: efforts are underway in the US to ban public officials from placing Polymarket and Kalshi bets based on inside information —including ghoulish wagers on the death and destruction they know will follow military action.
Proposed to the US senate on Thursday, the new legislation would effectively ban any public official from placing wagers on prediction markets using nonpublic information. The individuals covered include employees at government agencies, regulatory workers, congressional staffers — and, of course, lawmakers and the president.
Should the bill pass, penalty fines would start off at $500, but could be as much as double the profit made on successful bets.
As Indiana senator Todd Young told the New York Times, prediction markets “create incentives for elected officials or other well-placed public individuals to change their behavior.” Young is a Republican sponsor of the bill, which he hopes will “cut down on any such incentives or temptations that those who hold positions of public trust might harbor.”
As these gambling platforms have exploded in popularity over the past few months, incidents like the one Young describes have become the norm. Both the US attack on Venezuela and the ongoing US war on Iran have had their own prediction market scandals, strongly suggesting that people with advanced knowledge of the deadly campaigns are cashing in.
Don’t be fooled into thinking lawmakers are experiencing a rare bout of moral clarity, however. For the bill’s sponsors, it’s less about the ethics of war gambling and more about practicing good operational security....
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Public trust? That all went away as Trump killed it.
War Piggy, 79, Issues Explosive New Threat In Truth Social Outburst — Conover Kennard
Donald Trump just dropped another fiery ultimatum, warning he'll turn Iran's power plants, oil wells, and the critical Kharg Island oil terminal into smoking craters if they don't play ball. The 79-year-old president fired off the threat in an early Monday Truth Social post—because nothing says "diplomacy" like kicking off your morning in a social media rant.
Classic Trump: maximum pressure with a side of "let's see if they blink first."
"The United States of America is in serious discussions with A NEW, AND MORE REASONABLE, REGIME to end our Military Operations in Iran," he wrote on Truth Social. 'Great progress has been made but, if for any reason a deal is not shortly reached, which it probably will be, and if the Hormuz Strait is not immediately “Open for Business,” we will conclude our lovely “stay” in Iran by blowing up and completely obliterating all of their Electric Generating Plants, Oil Wells and Kharg Island (and possibly all desalinization plants!), which we have purposefully not yet “touched.”'
'This will be in retribution for our many soldiers, and others, that Iran has butchered and killed over the old Regime’s 47 year “Reign of Terror,”' he added. "Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP"
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Deluded as hell. Take your place on the Great Mandala, Don.
Over $100 Billion Lost to Oil and Gas Price Spikes in First Month of Iran War, 350.org Analysis Shows — Common Dreams— Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community|Newswire Editor
One month after the start of the Iran war, new analysis from 350.org shows that over $100 billion has been siphoned from ordinary people to oil and gas companies due to soaring energy prices.
In addition to the horrific loss of human life, campaigners say the crisis highlights how dependence on fossil fuels enriches the few at the expense of the many. The analysis estimates that rising oil and gas prices have already cost consumers and businesses an additional $104.2–$111.6 billion. Impacts have been sharp and immediate, from textile factory layoffs in Bangladesh, to fuel rationing in Kenya, to a looming recession in the United States.
The 350.org analysis calculates losses from price spikes using weighted oil and gas price averages over the first month of the war, combined with global consumption levels and adjustments for uncertainty, such as reduced demand and rationing in response to rising prices.
It does not yet include wider knock-on effects, such as rising fertiliser and food costs, declines in economic output and employment, or broader inflation driven by fossil fuel price volatility. As a result, the true economic damage is likely significantly higher than the losses from oil and gas prices alone.
The $111 billion lost to higher oil and gas prices alone could instead build enough solar power to supply around 40 million households in high-consumption countries, or about 150 million households in lower-consumption contexts.
This figure is also roughly equivalent to current annual international climate finance—public and private funding provided by developed countries to developing countries under the UN Climate Convention and the Paris Agreement....
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America is dying a slow death due to Trump.
How Target lost its nerve — and then lost its business — Thomas Lee, Minnesota Reformer
In May 2023, I received a surprise phone call from a top Target executive. It was after the close of business, so I knew it was serious.
“I wanted to give you a heads up,” the executive said. “Tomorrow, we will be announcing that we will be pulling from Target stores some items from our annual LGBTQ+ Pride collection.”
Target, the official said, had been receiving threats from people who objected to the merchandise. Right-wing groups especially objected to apparel made by UK-based artist Abprallen, whom they accused of promoting Satanism. The products in question: outer-space-themed messenger bags and a sweatshirt reading “cure transphobia.”
For the second time in two weeks, Target panicked about a supposed security issue.
Just a few days prior, CEO Brian Cornell unexpectedly warned that rampant shoplifting could force Target to close stores. In effect, Cornell endorsed a right-wing narrative gaining traction at the time, that liberal mayors in pandemic-scarred cities were allowing crime to run unchecked. And now businesses were suffering the consequences.
“Safety of our guests and employees are our top priorities,” he said. “We will do everything in our power to keep our stores open.”
But pulling the Pride merchandise felt more consequential. The retailer was a long-time ally of the LGBTQ+ community. And destocking socially-conscious products at the last minute from nearly 2,000 stores across the country attracts attention.
Unfortunately, Target’s cold feet was not an anomaly. It was an early sign that, under pressure, Target was beginning to respond to instability by amplifying it rather than by reinforcing its own identity.
Amid President Trump’s attacks on wokeness, the company last year quickly pulled back its diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, many of which Target instituted after the fatal police shooting of George Floyd in 2020....
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Cowards always die on their knees, not on their feet!
Republicans have pushed themselves into a "political disaster," wrote Punchbowl News' Jake Sherman on Monday morning. — Sarah K. Burris
In the site's morning newsletter, it explained that for a short time, Democrats were being blamed for the government shutdown, with the message being that they refused to fund immigration agents, who had already been funded last year in Donald Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill."
Now, officials are taking off for the next two weeks, leaving no end in sight unless the House can somehow force a vote using what's called a "discharge petition." Punchbowl called it all "pretty remarkable" that lawmakers are abandoning the government while the Department of Homeland Security is still largely shut down.
The Friday bombshell dropped by Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) was that the House wouldn't vote on the bipartisan measure, which was unanimously supported in the Senate. There were enough votes to pass the bill with Democratic support, but far-right leaders in Congress refused to support it, so Johnson announced he wouldn't bring it up for a vote and President Donald Trump approved the plan.
TSA Agents have been among the victims of the decision. While ICE and CPB agents are being paid, TSA has not been paid in 44 days. It comes just a few months after this happened during another shutdown. Hundreds of agents have simply quit, while others are calling in sick to work, taking second jobs, or caring for children.
On Sunday, Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) told GOP senators he was working with Democrats to see if there was something they could agree to, but previous funding measures had already been voted down.
A spokesperson for Democratic Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) made it clear that the Senate had passed the agreed-upon bill that they had made the deal over.
“Republicans shouldn’t look to Senate Democrats to fix their own internal caucus problems," said the spokesperson.
Indeed, the problem is not coming from Democrats; it's the far-right lawmakers in the House who refuse to support the bill until they get exactly what they want....
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Death will become them.
US barreling towards ‘total collapse’ within six months if Iran war continues: expert — Alexander Willis
Disaster preparedness expert, author and U.S. Air Force veteran Christopher Armitage issued a dire warning recently that the supply chain disruptions caused by the U.S. war against Iran had set the United States on track for a “total collapse” within six months, with the bleak conditions only exacerbated by the Trump administration's cuts to social safety net programs.
Writing on his Substack The Existentialist Republic, Armitage noted that nearly 50 million Americans faced hunger in 2025, 14 million of which were children. Armitage also noted that, within 48 hours of the United States striking Iran, the Middle East nation closed off the Strait of Hormuz, a crucial shipping route through which a third of the world’s fertilizer flows.
“[Fertilizer] needed to arrive this month. The planting window does not wait, so timely delivery is unwaveringly critical within the planting window,” Armitage wrote....
As of Sunday, Iran continues to deny U.S.-aligned sea vessels access to the Strait of Hormuz. And, with the crucial window for farmers to fertilize crops quickly expiring, Armitage warned that the United States could soon face a reckoning of historic proportions.
“The planting window is barely open. The ships are still anchored. Six months of this, maybe less, and we are looking at the total collapse of the United States,” he wrote....
"trump will declare a national state of emergency, suspend the elections indefinitely, and rule without a mandate." -- john furey (comments)
"And Putin is ROFLHAO, dismantling the U.S. without firing a shot..." -- cameramandavid (comments)
"Trump and Kegsbreath, SUPREMELY incompetent pieces of shit. Each one breathtakingly unqualified to operate a lemonade stand. Both have failed in nearly every business they have run. And both are popular sitcom alumni - Trump for his comical role in THE APPRENTICE, and Hegseth for his ability to read the comedy scripts for the FAUX "NEWS" sitcom.
Let's not forget that old Turkish proverb - When a clown settles in a palace, he does not become king, it is the palace that becomes a circus.
My prediction: Not only will the US pay Iran for reparations for destroying their infrasructure and murdering their civilians, but we will ALSO be paying $2million tolls to Iran for every ship that passes through the Strait of Hormuz." -- Dallas Brantley (comments)
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No one could fail this badly but Trump!
Do we as yet not understand what a mistake we made with this choice?
Worst jobs president in American history — Robert Reich
When he ran for president again in 2024, Trump made three promises to the American public:
(1) He said he’d “secure” the southern border. Most Americans now believe he’s gone too far in this.
(2) He’d avoid foreign wars. He said: “We’ve spent $8 trillion in the Middle East, and we’re not fixing our roads in this country? How stupid. How stupid is it? And we’re not fixing our highways, our tunnels, our bridges, our hospitals, even.” Umm. How well has this promise turned out?
(3) His third promise was to bring prices down and create more jobs. He said: “Starting on day one, we will end inflation and make America affordable again, to bring down the prices of all goods.”
In fact, Trump has pushed prices way up.
As of today, the price of Brent crude, the global benchmark for oil, is above $116 a barrel. The average price for a gallon of gas in the United States is now $4.00, and many people are paying far more. Food costs are also heading upward....
In his first term, Trump presided over a historic net loss of nearly 3 million jobs, the worst jobs numbers ever recorded under an American president.
So far in his second term, he has presided over a loss of 150,000 jobs. (By contrast, in the final 14 months of Joe Biden’s presidency, the economy added 1.74 million jobs.)
The only thing Trump has done to make any Americans better off is to cut taxes on the rich and big corporations. He did this in his second term. It was also his major economic policy in his first term (which he promised would result in $4,000 annual raises for everyone else. How did that work out? Did you get a $4,000 raise?)
May I speak plainly? Trump has turned the American economy into s---...
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Everything Trump touches dies.
Trump threatens new attack 'completely obliterating' Iran's electrical grid — Sarah K. Burris
President Donald Trump took to Truth Social, making it clear that his latest goal is to steal all of the oil from Iran.
Writing Monday morning, Trump said, "Trump: The United States of America is in serious discussions with A NEW, AND MORE REASONABLE, REGIME to end our Military Operations in Iran. Great progress has been made but, if for any reason a deal is not shortly reached, which it probably will be, and if the Hormuz Strait is not immediately 'Open for Business,' we will conclude our lovely “stay” in Iran by blowing up and completely obliterating all of their Electric Generating Plants, Oil Wells and Kharg Island (and possibly all desalinization plants!), which we have purposefully not yet 'touched.' This will be in retribution for our many soldiers, and others, that Iran has butchered and killed over the old Regime’s 47 year 'Reign of Terror.' Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP"
Trump backed himself into a corner last week when in response to his attacks, Iran shut down the Strait, destablizing the global economy and oil markets along with it.
Critics also argue that the new Iranian dictator, Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of the former leader Ali Khamenei, is just as bad, if not worse, than his father, News Nation reported last week.
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Trump understands nothing.
AI Elvis Just Sang About Trump's War and We Can't Stop Watching — David Shuster and Blue Amp Media
David Shuster counts down the month's best AI-generated political satire — from a Three Stooges ICE skit to the definitive anti-MAGA anthem.
...An AI Elvis takes the Ed Sullivan stage to sing about gas prices and drone strikes in the style of “Suspicious Minds.” And the number one clip—a YMCA parody that rips through MAGA, Mar-a-Lago, Hegseth, and the whole GD Trumper circus—is the kind of thing you’ll watch twice…and then twice more, and then send to everyone you know.
This is political satire for the AI age, and Shuster delivers.
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Pedo Parody!
Pope Leo's Palm Sunday Sermon Hits The Warmongers Hard — Susie Madrak
The man from Chicago let the King Of Mar-A-Lago know exactly where he stands.
At the Palm Sunday service yesterday, Pope Leo XIV stood before tens of thousands gathered in St. Peter’s Square on and said that God refuses to hear the prayers of those who wage war...
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He's speaking of our anti-christ.
GOP May Further Gut Healthcare To Pay For Iran War
Axios reports:
Republicans are considering reductions in federal health spending to help pay for a budget bill containing as much as $200 billion to fund the Iran war and immigration enforcement. New efforts to rein in health programs are sure to be controversial and open the GOP up to election-year attacks that they’re cutting health care to pay for an unpopular war.
Top House Republicans are looking at health care offsets addressing fraud in federal programs, as they did during last year’s debate over the budget law that made deep cuts to federal Medicaid spending and imposed first-time work requirements.
“There’s other items we’re looking at right now, especially in the areas of fraud and waste and abuse that we’re working through with our members,” House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) told Axios.
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He wants us all to die for HIM!
Daily Mail: Voldemort Ordered ICE Agents To “Force Confrontations” With Protest Groups In Minneapolis
The Daily Mail reports:
Multiple current and former senior DHS officials who spoke with the Daily Mail said Miller’s heavy-handed oversight has made him the driving force behind Trump’s immigration crackdown, while also fueling chaos and confusion within the department.
During his 10am calls with immigration leaders, Miller was demanding agents be sent out to areas in Minneapolis where DHS knew there was a heavy presence of protesters to “force confrontations” two DHS senior sources told the Daily Mail. One official noted that Miller repeatedly urged agents to engage protesters so the administration could win the “PR battle.”
“So we need to engage these protesters, and we need to vanquish them by force of arms. They need to be vanquished by any force necessary,” Miller reportedly told immigration leaders, according to the source. Mere hours after immigration agents fatally shot Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse, Miller called the victim an “assassin” on social media.
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That won't win anything for Nosferatu but more hate. Where's the wooden stake?
Why MAGA fears human teachers
Melania Trump’s robot stunt opens a new front in the GOP's war on education
The right’s war on public education has always been rooted in fear that kids will learn empathy, curiosity and critical thinking skills — all of which could lead to them questioning, or even challenging, authority....
Unlike AI, books are written by people, who bring to the writing human understanding and context that technology can’t access. Teachers, in helping students understand the books, share a humanity that allows them to connect the information to their lives....
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Human teachers might speak out against fascism. Robots teach the bullshit the Nazis want.
Trump just launched a breathtaking attack on the Constitution: legal experts — Matthew Roza
President Donald Trump’s proposed law to “crack down on rogue judges” and his rhetoric toward judges who rule against him — such as calling them “criminals” and “a disgrace to our nation” — is a “breathtaking” danger to the Constitution, according to an expert.
“Demanding that the legislative branch enact laws that punish the judiciary is a breathtaking breach of the president’s oath to support and defend the Constitution, which creates our three separate — and coequal — branches of government,” lawyer and former US attorney Barbara McQuade wrote in a recent editorial for Bloomberg. “Trump’s recent attacks came after the Supreme Court struck down his tariffs, which he has used to wield economic power against foreign governments, last month. By a 6-3 majority, the Court held that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act did not authorize the president to impose tariffs, a power otherwise reserved for Congress. Among the justices joining the majority were two of Trump’s own appointees, Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett.”
Trump, who said Gorsuch and Barrett “sicken” him because they dissented, is doing something “different” with his attempts to cower judges, McQuade wrote.
“His proposed legislation would target the judges themselves for punishment,” McQuade said. “It seems likely that Trump knows he will not get his wish. Even a Congress that has been largely submissive during his second administration would surely not go so far as to retaliate against judges based on their case decisions, a move that would wreak havoc on the separation of powers. But the president’s public statements nonetheless risk the independence of the judiciary, an essential pillar of democracy. By attacking judges and justices who rule against him, Trump is sending a message to the others: Rule my way or else you’ll be next.”...
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He's nothing but deluded, anachronistic, flaccid Nazi trash!
Pardoned Rioter Gets Four Years For Child Porn, Files Included Toddlers, Bestiality, “Gruesome” Animal Abuse
The Amherst Daily Voice reports:
Daniel Tocci, 31, of Amherst, pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography after investigators found more than 110,000 illicit images on his devices, according to the US Attorney for the District of Massachusetts. A judge sentenced him to four years in prison.
The case began in January 2023 during a traffic stop in Hadley. A local officer recognized Tocci from images tied to the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the US Capitol and shared a photo with the FBI, the prosecutor said. Federal agents later identified Tocci in multiple images taken inside and outside the Capitol. Investigators said he was seen breaking a shutter slat off a window during the riot.
In November 2023, the FBI obtained search warrants for Tocci’s apartment, cellphone, and person. The search uncovered a large collection of images stored across multiple devices and drives, authorities said.
Boston’s CW affiliate reports:
The defense team questioned the legitimacy of the evidence in their legal filing. “The evidence in this case was improperly obtained, through the “injustice” of the Jan. 6 investigation as recognized by the president,” the defense stated in the motion. “So the warrant in Mr. Tocci’s case should have never been issued and the evidence underlying this case should have never been seized.” The defense withdrew this motion 10 days after filing it.
During sentencing proceedings, defense attorneys requested a sentence of time served and 60 months of supervised release. This would have resulted in a sentence of approximately six months based on the time Tocci had already spent in jail. The defense argued in court documents that a childhood diagnosis of Asperger’s syndrome and a 2019 breakup led to a “downward spiral” that resulted in the crime.
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One of Trump's finest folowers!
Protesters Stage Unsettling Demonstration in Front of Palantir’s Office — Joe Wilkins
Hundreds of protestors descended on Palantir’s unmarked office building in downtown Manhattan over the weekend. Organized by the grassroots AIDS group ACT UP New York, they rallied at the New York AIDS memorial before marching on the surveillance company’s offices.
According to photos published by the Advocate, protestors came dressed in flashy outfits and brandishing signs with hardline slogans. “Palantir: ICE and war enabler and profiteer,” read one.
When protestors got to Palantir’s office, however, they collapsed on the pavement, staging a “die-in” — a disruptive form of protest often reserved for urgent human rights struggles.
Die-ins are a common protest tactic in the United States, famously used by LGBTQ activists — including ACT UP — during the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s to demand federal intervention from the Reagan administration. The practice has since become widespread at protests decrying police violence, like those following the murder of Michael Brown.
That protest organizers are staging die-ins to draw attention to Palantir — one of the largest private surveillance companies in the history of the US — is telling.
Palantir is the architect of the Maven Smart System, a military AI used by the Pentagon to select targets for annihilation. The system combines satellite data, drone imaging, and other more conventional forms of military intelligence to create an all-in-one solution for US military officers to carry out attacks from afar.
Maven was most recently used in Iran, where it was used to select thousands of targets for destruction, Democracy Now reported. (Questions still remain over whether the system was used to select the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ school as a target, in an attack that killed at least 165 students and staff.)...
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Palantir stated "Legalizing War Crimes Would Be Good for Business."
Wikipedia Editors Tried and Tried to Work With AI Content, Eventually Realized It Was Total Trash and Banned It Entirely — Frank Landymore
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales once described his creation as a “temple of the mind.”
Now, a decade on, it’s taken on another role: a refuge against AI slop.
Late this month, the English version of the online encyclopedia officially banned the use of AI to generate or rewrite articles, after years of piecemeal experimentation and heated internal debate among its volunteer editors, 404 Media reports.
That debate finally came to a vote on March 20, which ended in an overwhelming 40-to-2 decision to place heavy restrictions on how large language models are used to maintain the site.
“Text generated by large language models (LLMs) often violates several of Wikipedia’s core content policies,” the new policy states. “For this reason, the use of LLMs to generate or rewrite article content is prohibited, save for the exceptions given below.”
As the exceptions stipulate, it’s not a wholesale ban on AI: “Editors are permitted to use LLMs to suggest basic copyedits to their own writing, and to incorporate some of them after human review, provided the LLM does not introduce content of its own,” the policy continues. “Caution is required, because LLMs can go beyond what you ask of them and change the meaning of the text such that it is not supported by the sources cited.”...
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Controlling AI before it controls us!
Redditors Are Posting Their Blood Pressure “High Scores” and We’re Concerned They May Explode Into a Fountain of Red Mist — Joe Wilkins
A new trend taking shape on the subreddit r/Wellthatsucks has users competing for a dubious high score — with an ambulance ride or worse as the gold prize: the highest blood pressure reading.
“I didn’t even know I had high blood pressure,” one Redditor wrote in a thread. Compared to a healthy blood pressure reading that maxes out at 120/80 mm Hg, this poster came it at 218/124, which is well above the threshold for a medical emergency.
“Goddamn dude, I thought my blood pressure was high when I got my thumb bitten off a couple weeks ago,” one concerned peer responded.
That thread seemed to kick off a horrifying competition on the subreddit.
“I heard we were doing blood pressure high scores,” another Redditor mused, sharing their terrifying reading of 240/106. Some in the comments chimed in with their equally-concerning results, scores like 191/126; 217/156; and 240/142....
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Are these people playing with us or are they really a part of our retarded America?
Trump's newly acquired 'strange habit' will hinder Iran war goals: analysis — Ewan Gleadow
A habit Donald Trump has picked up during his second term in the Oval Office will hinder his administration's war in Iran, a political analyst claimed.
The United States joined Israel in striking Iran earlier this month, and with constantly changing reasons for attacking the Middle Eastern country, the president is coming across as unfocused, according to Simon Tisdall. The political analyst, writing in The Guardian, suggested that Trump's lack of focus and inability to understand the weight of the war at hand will affect how he can end the war.
He wrote, "Ignoring facts on the ground, the White House continues to spew lies and bombast. Trump is plainly in denial, claiming regime change has already been achieved via assassination. He has this strange habit of behaving like a spectator, detached from the chaotic events he himself sets in motion.
"He acts as if the global energy shock, the US’s abject failure to defend the Hormuz Strait and its Gulf allies, Iran’s unyielding defiance under fire, and the absence of the predicted popular uprising in Tehran have nothing to do with him. He doesn’t understand Iran is fighting an asymmetric war, that even the biggest bombs cannot obliterate pride and ideology, faith and history."
Part of the problem, Tisdall argues, is who Trump is now surrounded by in the White House. Few allies remain for the president abroad, with the political analyst suggesting the president has been played by Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.
"Trump is increasingly isolated and out on a limb," Tisdall wrote. "His wealthy Arab business cronies no longer trust him. US bases on their territory now resemble a liability, not a defence. When he demanded Nato’s help, Europe said: we’ll let you know....
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Out on a limb and sawing it off behind him!
No Kings Rallygoers in New York Share Their Biggest Fears—and Greatest Hopes — James West
...“I’m here because they’re fucking building concentration camps that they’re locking tens of thousands of people in, and ICE is in our fucking airports,” the artist (and “Mother Jones fan”) Molly Crabapple told me. “Too many people are dying and too many people are in cages.” And while she doesn’t typically think “in hope,” she was inspired by the community. “I know we have each other and I don’t know if that’s enough, but that’s all we have.”
For Matthew Nichols, a 56-year-old arts worker, the greatest fear is November’s midterms—that “there’ll be some significant interference,” he said. “All of these things that seemed farfetched maybe a year ago or two years ago are actually coming to pass.”
Ash, 29, a Mexican agricultural worker, says he fears people being silenced and “losing empathy” but, like others I met, pointed to “all of us,” gesturing around, as providing him with hope. “People from all walks of life. Rich people, poor people, white people, black people. Everyone. So, it’s quite powerful.”
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Resist the fascist machine!
‘Its Stairs Lead Nowhere’: Trump’s White House Ballroom Design Trashed By Architects in Interactive NY Times Feature — Joe DePaolo
Days before President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom faces a final vote, architects are warning that the project’s rushed timeline could prove disastrous — as they say they design has undergone little scrutiny “and it shows.”
In an interactive feature published Sunday by The New York Times, writers Junho Lee, Larry Buchanan and Emily Badger — all of whom have backgrounds relating to architecture, urban planning and the fine arts — took an in-depth look at the ballroom ahead of Thursday’s final vote by the National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) to approve the project.
“The hurried reviews, with construction cranes already swiveling above the White House grounds, are an abrupt departure from how new monuments, museums and even modest renovations have been designed and refined in the capital for decades,” Lee, Buchanan and Badger wrote. “And the ballroom will be worse off for it, architects warn.”
The article leads with an interactive drawing pointing out — what architects believe to be — numerous design flaws. They call out “fake windows on the north side,” columns which “block interior ballroom view,” and an “unnecessarily big” rooftop area.
“Critics warn it still has many issues — its portico is too big, its stairs lead nowhere, its columns will block views from inside the ballroom,” one of the piece’s captions read.
The authors note that “in the sprint to complete it before the end of [Trump’s] term, the addition appears to have compressed the normal design evolution for any project.”...
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Yet another major failure by the deluded man who would be king.
Trump just made a dreadful admission — Thom Hartmann
The Minnesota Star Tribune reports that ICE thugs have been following anti-ICE state legislators around in their cars and standing in front of their homes taking pictures, clearly intimidating threats.
“They made a big show of pointing a camera way out their window so that I could see them taking pictures of my house,” three-term State Representative Brad Tabke told the newspaper. His child was home alone at the time, and the action, according to Tabke, frightened him. In an article written by Allison Kite, the newspaper added:
“Tabke said he saw what appeared to be federal immigration agents outside his home at least a half dozen times, sometimes with binoculars.
“Tabke is one of several Democratic lawmakers who said they were targeted or harassed during the Trump administration’s months-long immigration crackdown in the state. One DFL lawmaker told colleagues that federal agents hurled misogynistic epithets at her, even after she informed them she was an elected official. Another DFL legislator said an agent — with whom she had never interacted — greeted her by first name, while another said agents walked around her home taking photos.
“‘It was all a way of threatening and being very menacing in a way that perhaps would inhibit us from advocating the way that we had been,’ said Sen. Mary Kunesh, DFL-New Brighton.”...
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ICE: The shitbags of Trump fascism. May they all reach their home in hell.
Hegseth has 'threatened' military chaplains who refuse to back his Iran war plans: report — Ewan Gleadow
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has alienated a critical group within the military establishment — religious leaders and chaplains — by weaponizing Christianity to justify the Iran war and creating an atmosphere of fear for those who refuse to comply with his ideological demands.
According to Washington Post analyst Michelle Boorstein, Hegseth's inflammatory rhetoric at a recent Pentagon prayer service has triggered serious alarm among military chaplains and senior officials who view his approach as a dangerous departure from Pentagon norms.
At the prayer service, Hegseth invoked religious language to justify military violence, saying: "Let every round find its mark against the enemies of righteousness and our great nation. Give them wisdom in every decision … and overwhelming violence of action against those who deserve no mercy."
The language represents a troubling shift in how the Pentagon frames military operations, according to military leadership....
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We should all recognize this Nazi for who he is — Hitler, Mussolini, Attila the Hun!
America should have nothing whatsoever to do with him but the dump!
Trump's first surgeon general: New influencer pick 'doesn't meet' basic requirements — Matthew Rozsa
President Donald Trump’s first surgeon general denounced his latest pick for surgeon general, MAHA influencer Casey Means, on the grounds that she “doesn’t meet” the basic requirements for the job — an assessment seemingly shared by every living previous surgeon general.
“The role of surgeon general has centuries of precedent and requirements, and she doesn’t meet them,” Trump’s first surgeon general Jerome Adams told The Washington Post in an article published Sunday. Describing his objections as “operational, not personal,” Adams pointed out that if confirmed Means would not even be a member of the physicians corps but rather would be appointed through a provision that applies to health service workers. That alone would be unprecedented for a surgeon general, and perhaps explains why no previous surgeon general has come to Means’ defense.
“The irony would be the nation’s doctor wouldn’t even be in the corps as a doctor,” Adams told the Post....
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More proof Trump is an idiot or he hates America or, most likely, BOTH!
Right-wing bishop rebukes his own as MAGA civil war engulfs the Catholic Church — Adam Lynch
...The MAGA fold are divvying themselves into two warring factions over Trump’s invasion of Iran, with one team arguing that Trump is being led on a leash by Israel to attack Iran. Owens and Influencer Tucker Carlson number themselves among that group.
But now the aloof Bishop Robert Barron is drawn into the fray....
Barron added that the Catholic position “on matters of ‘Zionism,’ to which I fully subscribe, is as follows: all forms of antisemitism are to be unequivocally condemned; the state of Israel has a right to exist; but the modern nation of Israel does not represent the fulfillment of Biblical prophecies and hence does not stand beyond criticism.”...
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"...the state of Israel has a right to exist; but the modern nation of Israel does not represent the fulfillment of Biblical prophecies...?" This is their raison d'etre? Pitiful.
Sec. Felcher Claims “Empath” Trump Used A Placemat To Draw A Map Of The Middle East With Troop Levels
Yahoo News reports:
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has blamed a brain worm for past cognitive issues, is now insisting Trump is an empath. “President Trump is exactly the opposite of everything that I believed him to be,” Kennedy told the CPAC crowd. “I basically drank the Kool-Aid—that he was this bombastic narcissist who didn’t read books and was ill-informed. But now I know the exact opposite,” he said. “He’s an empath.”
He also marveled at Trump’s supposed intellectual range, claiming he has “encyclopedic, molecular knowledge” of everything from Broadway to Wall Street. To illustrate his point, he recounted a moment on the campaign trail when Trump allegedly flipped over a placemat mid-flight and drew a “perfect map of the Mideast,” complete with troop levels along each border.
"Ignoramus #2 is impressed by Ignoramus #1's vast knowledge bullshit." -- creekobear (comments)
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Out of synch America. Sad state of affairs. We used to take care of the mentally ill. Now we appoint them to lead us.
CPAC Endorses Serial Adulterer For US Senate
The Associated Press reports:
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s was the unofficial guest of honor at the Conservative Political Action Conference, where hundreds of right-wing activists from around the country hailed him as Republicans’ clear choice for U.S. Senate.
He met with supporters behind closed doors, gave the keynote address at the Ronald Reagan dinner and held court during a private reception where people lined up for handshakes and photos. Audiences cheered for Paxton and booed any mention of Sen. John Cornyn, Paxton’s opponent in the May 26 runoff.
Cornyn did not attend CPAC, which was held at a resort and convention center near Dallas. Paxton was the overwhelming favorite in CPAC’s straw poll, beating Cornyn by more than three to one, and he won the organization’s endorsement.
"The endless hypocrisy of fascist family values." — JT (comments)
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The dregs of humanity!
Estimated 8 Million Attend No Kings Rallies Nationwide
Minneapolis’s CBS affiliate reports:
Millions of people took part in “No Kings” demonstrations across the United States, with organizers estimating at least 8 million attendees at more than 3,300 events in all 50 states in what was described as the largest single-day nationwide demonstrations in U.S. history.
In a statement, organizers said protesters were sending a message that “in America, we don’t do kings,” and said participants were responding to what they called the administration’s “power grabs,” “an illegal war that Congress and the public haven’t approved,” and “continued attempts to stifle our freedoms.”
Groups organizing the nonviolent protests included the ACLU, American Federation of Teachers, Common Defense, 50501, Human Rights Campaign, Indivisible, League of Conservation Voters, MoveOn, National Nurses United, Public Citizen, SEIU and United We Dream, among others....
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There's more. The Nazi shitbags are so pissed!
You pedophile worshiping fools can send my payment to me!
"Trump ruined bad taste." Thanks, America!
Trump tries to shrug off No Kings protests — but is hit by astounding turnout — Brad Reed, Common Dreams
While turnout numbers have not yet been confirmed, organizers expected more than 9 million people to attend the events nationwide.
This is the third large-scale No Kings protest. Organizers said the first two events held in June and October of last year drew roughly 5 million and 7 million people, respectively.
Millions of American across all 50 states on Saturday rallied against President Donald Trump and his authoritarian agenda during nationwide No Kings protests...
White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson said of the protests, “The only people who care about these Trump Derangement Therapy Sessions are the reporters who are paid to cover them.”
"Abby, kiss my ass. Get out now. You still have a chance to be a witness instead of a defendant. We had a much larger turn out locally than the last protest. If Elon can't steal the mid-terms like he did with the 2024 election the Guardians of Pedophiles party will be decimated, as it should be. May November 2026 election be the last one for the party of pedophiles." — notbyme (comments)
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Abigail, they are the same people that cover your childish CPAC clown circus. A free press is something you and your fascist failures fear. You are "Trump Denial Syndrome" personified!
Iran is right: Trump has already lost this war — Andrew O'Hehir
Tehran TACO: Trump's bad idea has gone wrong, to literally no one's surprise. Will Putin bail him out?
"Trump could still order a ground invasion, out of rage or desperation. It’s tough to imagine that would end well, except in the sense that it would end JD Vance’s presidential campaign before it starts."
"What has happened in Trump’s second term — and has made it so enormously stressful for most people reading this — is a far more ambitious fascist-flavored agenda than the first time around, fueled by a limitless appetite for revenge and entirely unconstrained by normal policy debates or political considerations. But that agenda is also profoundly narcissistic and poorly conceived, not to mention managed by shameless lickspittles whose only authentic job skill lies in praising the boss...."
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The horror!
Trump is taking charge of his own memorials — Heather Digby Parton
Now beyond caring about popular opinion, the president's only concern is how he will be remembered
...On Thursday it was reported that his signature will appear on all paper currency going forward.
That’s right. His Richter scale scribble will soon be in every Americans’ wallet to remind us of this trauma for decades to come.
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The utter disgrace and failure of once great nation!
‘Nuclear’ link unearthed between Epstein and major Trump ally: report — Alexander Willis
An astonishing link between Jeffrey Epstein, New Mexico nuclear weapons labs and a major ally to President Donald Trump was unearthed recently in a bombshell report from author, film producer and veteran journalist Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez.
Using “documented facts all drawn” from public records, Valdes-Rodriguez established a timeline suggesting that Epstein’s New Mexico property was outfitted with a “private microwave communications link” that may have been used to surveil two U.S. nuclear weapons labs – a communications link that appears to have been maintained by the property’s new owner, a major Trump ally.
In 1993, Epstein purchased a sprawling 7,600-acre property known as Zorro Ranch, located “at the precise geographic midpoint” between Sandia National Laboratories, “one of the most sensitive nuclear weapons facilities in the United States,” and Los Alamos National Laboratory, “the other crown jewel of American nuclear weapons research.”
The property would change hands after Epstein’s 2019 death to none other than GOP candidate Donald Huffines, who purchased the property in secret in 2023 but was exposed as the new buyer last month. Huffines' son, Russell Huffines, was hired by the Trump administration last June as associate director of agency outreach, a position he’s paid $83,500 a year for and still holds today, RealClear Investigations has reported.
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) records reviewed by Valdes-Rodriguez show that in 2016, the property was granted “two active Microwave Industrial/Business Pool licenses,” licenses that facilitate advanced and secretive data communication channels. Recent FCC records reveal that those two licenses are still active.
“Together they constitute a permanent, fixed, bidirectional private microwave communications link – a dedicated two-way data channel operating entirely outside commercial internet infrastructure, through channels where traffic cannot be monitored, intercepted, or logged by third parties,” Valdes-Rodriguez wrote....
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The corruption runs deeper than we can imagine.
“ICE Was My Idea”: The Kind of Moment History Writes About Later — Thomm hartman
The shift to fascism isn’t loud or obvious; it’s gradual, justified, and dangerously easy to accept..
The Minnesota Star Tribune reports that ICE thugs have been following anti-ICE state legislators around in their cars and standing in front of their homes taking pictures, clear intimidative threats.
“They made a big show of pointing a camera way out their window so that I could see them taking pictures of my house,” three-term State Representative Brad Tabke told the newspaper. His child was home alone at the time, and the action, according to Tabke, frightened him. In an article written by Allison Kite, the newspaper added:
“Tabke said he saw what appeared to be federal immigration agents outside his home at least a half dozen times, sometimes with binoculars.
“Tabke is one of several Democratic lawmakers who said they were targeted or harassed during the Trump administration’s monthslong immigration crackdown in the state. One DFL lawmaker told colleagues that federal agents hurled misogynistic epithets at her, even after she informed them she was an elected official. Another DFL legislator said an agent — with whom she had never interacted — greeted her by first name, while another said agents walked around her home taking photos.
“‘It was all a way of threatening and being very menacing in a way that perhaps would inhibit us from advocating the way that we had been,’ said Sen. Mary Kunesh, DFL-New Brighton.”...
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Easy to do for a retarded nation.
Wisconsin Priest Rearrested On Child Porn Charges
Green Bay’s Fox affiliate reports:
A priest from the Madison area who was arrested last year for allegedly making arrangements to have sex with who he thought was a teenage girl from Clintonville is now facing child pornography charges. Authorities say Father Andrew Showers, 37, believed he was messaging a 14-year-old girl, but “Abby” was actually an undercover police officer.
Showers responded with details of the sexual acts he would like to perform with her and allegedly sent explicit photos to her. Showers then made arrangements for the two to meet at a Clintonville park, noting he had reserved a hotel room. When he got there, police arrested him. He was charged in August with attempted sexual assault of a child, attempted child enticement and attempted use of a computer for a sex crime.
On Friday, the Diocese of Madison announced it received word from the Waupaca County District Attorney’s Office that Showers has also been charged with two counts of possession of child pornography. These new charges are a result of digital evidence found on electronic devices seized from Showers following his arrest, officials said.
Another one bites the dust!
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And still no drag queens. Tsk, tsk!
All Day Open Thread: No Kings Rallies Nationwide
NBC News reports:
Millions are expected to gather across the country and around the world on Saturday for a third round of “No Kings” protests against President Donald Trump. Organizers predict that it will be the “single largest non-violent day of action” in American history. Saturday’s “No Kings” marches, of which there are more than 3,200 planned across all 50 states and several continents, come as Trump faces scrutiny over the war with Iran, the rising cost of gas and how his administration has executed its mass deportation agenda.
“Since the last No Kings [protests], we’re seeing higher gas prices and groceries, all while there’s an illegal war in Iran,” Sarah Parker, a national coordinator for the group 50501, told reporters Thursday on a national press call previewing Saturday’s events. “We’ve also seen our neighbors executed, American citizens executed, and our children carrying the burden of owning their own power and walking out of school in defiance,” Parker added. “The people of America are pissed. They are the ones demanding for no kings.”
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And no idiot dick-tators!
Stephen Miller pushing Southern lawmakers behind closed doors: report — Adam Lynch
New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie says White House advisor Stephen Miller is cruising to create “subordinate class” by ending public education funding for undocumented children in red states. But this is about more than keeping some kids less learned than others.
Miller spirited Texas lawmakers away to a closed-door meeting in Washington last week, according to two sources in the meeting, where he commenced to challenge a decades-old U.S. Supreme Court precedent. That case, Plyler v. Doe, holds that it was a violation of the equal protection clause for states to deny undocumented children the same free public education state leaders provide to legal immigrants’ children — who are themselves citizens.
According to the Times, Miller wants to take advantage of partisan gridlock in Congress to encourage state lawmakers to pass the attacks on Plyler. But why is Miller so determined to “whittle down the 14th Amendment to essentially nothing,” asked Bouie.
In Bouie’s argument the 14th Amendment is “tied directly to the 13th.”
“The 13th Amendment states that ‘Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.’ It then adds, in section 2, that ‘Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.’”...
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The Nazi crustacean crawls the Land of the Happy Negro!
Desperate passengers now paying $65 an hour for airport 'line standers' — Adam Lynch
The Washington Post reports the partial government shutdown under President Donald Trump is driving airline passengers to dig even further into their pockets to grab a plane.
“I’ve seen parts of the airport now that I didn’t even know existed,” said Steven Dial, a Houston resident who accepts payment for standing for hours in notorious airport lines resulting from unpaid YSA workers quitting or staying home for lack of pay.
Dial told the Post that his job standing in line began at 6:30 a.m.
“While the vast majority of travelers have braved lines or missed flights, grimacing at the lemons they were served, some entrepreneurs have set up their own proverbial lemon stands,” reports the Post, adding that New York-based line waiting service Same Ole Line Dudes, typically charges $35 per hour, plus a $15 fee if the job starts before 7 a.m.
“This just seemed like a perfect extension of what I was already offering,” Dial told the Post, which reports he was “charging $65 an hour, plus airport parking” on Friday.
Eight hours after his first job Dial said he was on to his next client and line. When clients arrive, they check in their bags and then trade places with him near the ticketing area....
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Donald's Dystopian Dumbass World!
'There's going to be pain': Even skeptics say Republicans’ wheels 'are off' — Adam Lynch
Former George Bush speechwriter Tim Miller is not an optimist. When the Bulwark podcaster steps in as a visiting panelist on cable news shows he is not the one spouting gold and rainbows and skewing optimist in every scenario involving Democrats.
“I'm not that guy,” insisted Miller. “There's other YouTubers out there where people have been like, ‘the walls are closing in on Trump every day. Trump's going to be in jail.’ That was never me. I've been negative. I'm still negative. I'm still worried. I'm still concerned. But as a political analyst, I think that people are slow to recognize what is happening. And that’s that the wheels are really coming off of MAGA.”
Miller expressed surprise at himself for seeing hope for “pro-democracy Americans,” arguing that Republican efforts to skew the election with onerous voting requirements and alleged poll booth intimidation may not be enough to overwhelm the smell of Trump’s recent mistakes.
“This Iran war is going to be an unbelievable s——show. It already is,” said Miller, hours before Saturday news broke of yet another Iranian ballistic missiles and drone strike injuring at least 12 U.S. Service members in Saudi Arabia. “The fallout from this will be a disaster of epic, epic proportions. I said a few weeks ago, and I stand by it.”
In addition to Trump’s failing war effort, Miller said Democrats are undeniably winning the shutdown fight currently plaguing TSA agents and souring voters on government.
“On the funding fight ... In Washington, I've called the second straight shutdown officially … a victory for the Democrats,” said Miller. “It's not really even close. Republicans don't know what the hell they're doing. The House Republicans are now left holding the bag where it's their fault because there's been a bipartisan Senate vote to fund the TSA. We got a text from a Democratic congressman just a couple minutes ago about the House Republicans positioning on this. The text reads, ‘House R's are a train wreck. They don't know what they're doing. They can't govern.’”...
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And the gnashing of teeth...
Pam Bondi Somehow Claims Being A U.S. Citizen Is 'Not A Right' — John Amato
Embattled Atty. Gen. Pam Bondi told Fox News that being a US citizen is not a right, but a privilege when she was attacking President Biden's immigration policy.
Every person born in the United States is a citizen. That is a right guaranteed by the 14th amendment of the Constitution.
However, becoming a naturalized citizen grants you all the rights of US citizens except the right to run for president or vice president.
Therefore, becoming a naturalized citizen is a right, as clearly stated in the 14th Amendment.
During Bondi's interview with Fox and Friends, the discussion went off the rails.
"And just to put it in perspective, the four years when President Biden was in office, he moved to de-naturalize 24 people, four years," Bondi said. "Under President Trump, already 22 within a year. And these are bad people. They were sent to prison under Trump 45."
How many US citizens has Trump arrested, deported, or killed by Trump's immigration policies? Too many.
Going to prison does not negate naturalized citizenship....
Denaturalization: Fact Sheet:
The Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Civil Division issued an internal memo on June 11, 2025 directing attorneys to prioritize denaturalization cases as one of the Civil Division’s top five enforcement priorities.
"The Civil Division memo establishes the following categories of priorities for denaturalization cases:
Naturalized U.S. citizens who “pose a potential danger to national security,” including through terrorism and espionage;
Naturalized U.S. citizens who “engaged in torture, war crimes, or other human rights violations;”
Naturalized U.S. citizens who “further or furthered the unlawful enterprise of criminal gangs, transnational criminal organizations, and drug cartels;”
Naturalized U.S. citizens who “committed felonies that were not disclosed during the naturalization process;”
Naturalized U.S. citizens who “committed human trafficking, sex offenses, or violent crimes;”
Naturalized U.S. citizens who “engaged in various forms of financial fraud against the United States,” including through the Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”) and Medicaid/Medicare;
Naturalized U.S. citizens who “engaged in fraud against private individuals, funds, or corporations;”
Naturalized U.S. citizens who “acquired naturalization through government corruption, fraud, or material misrepresentations, not otherwise addressed;”
Naturalized U.S. citizens with “pending criminal charges, if those charges do not fit within one of the other priorities;” and,
“Any other cases referred to the Civil Division…determine[ed] to be sufficiently important to pursue.”
The memo does not clearly indicate if the categories are listed in order of priority.
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There are retards and then there is Pam Bondi.
Trump's war finally punctures his armor
If there’s a single thread running through the top stories this past week at Daily Kos, it’s that the facade is cracking. And not just around President Donald Trump—now increasingly exposed as a demented buffoon—but across the entire ecosystem that put him back in power and continues to profit from it.
You might’ve expected his track record of corruption and failure to have done it. Or his crude, bullying behavior, unbefitting of any human, much less a president. His disastrous first term should’ve been enough. Or him literally telling his crowds, “I don’t care about you. I just want your vote.” And if none of that cut through, you’d think his starring role in the Epstein files would’ve done it—that was the central obsession of the QAnon/MAGA crowd for years..
While tariffs-driven economic struggles have been chipping away at his standing, it’s this idiotic war in Iran that has finally punctured Trump’s armor.
Trump sold it as quick, easy, and decisive, and he has repeatedly declared victory. Instead, it’s messy and politically radioactive. Fuel prices are climbing as the broader Middle East absorbs significant damage, further straining a fragile economic picture.
Who could’ve guessed that the man who bankrupted a casino would, when given real power, turn the global economy upside down? We certainly did—you, me, and 75 million other Americans in 2024. The difference this time is that he can’t declare bankruptcy to escape the consequences.
So, for now, he’s blaming Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth...
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Cracking up.
Seminole Nation Becomes First Indigenous Group to Ban Planet-Cooking Data Centers From Its Land — Joe Wilkins
The Seminole Nation of Oklahoma just became the first Indigenous nation to officially ban data center construction from lands under its jurisdiction.
After a tech startup approached Seminole leaders asking to allow a data center on their lands, the Tribal Council voted 24 to 0 to enact a “moratorium on the advancement of generative artificial intelligence technology and hyperscale data center development within the Seminole Nation and within tribal lands and territories,” Native News Online reported.
According to the news agency, the startup had asked the Nation to sign both a non-disclosure agreement and a letter of intent to construct a data center on its sovereign reservation. Mekusukey Band Representative Glen Chebon Kernell, a member of the Tribal Council who introduced the resolution banning data center development, first made the public aware of the startup’s plans at an assembly on March 3rd.
At the meeting, dozens of Tribal members and their non-Indigenous neighbors expressed their concerns with data centers and their staggering environmental footprint. That’s a widely popular sentiment throughout the US, including among non-Indigenous rural Oklahomans. According to a recent poll, 39 percent of Americans said data centers were “mostly bad” for the environment, compared to just 4 percent who believe the opposite.
“When the public found out, there was really not a lot of argument,” Kernell told NNO. “We’re just one voice of a growing tidal wave of concerns. Our fight is just one small piece of a collective puzzle.”...
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They win this time. But we are all concerned about data centers and their polutting.
Ominous Surveillance “Scarecrows” Appearing Across America — Joe Wilkins
nearly $11.7 billion in 2025, and as dystopian toys like self-driving squad cars and crime fighting drone hives make it to market, that number is set to skyrocket.
A growing favorite among police departments throughout the country is the “camera on wheels” platform, known as COWs for short — or “scarecrows,” for a more ominous moniker. While they’re not quite as exciting as “Fallout” style police robots, COWs offer a low-effort solution to departments whose panopticon has a few blind spots.
COWs are basically tiny tow-trailers with a solar panel, battery, and telescoping CCTV mast attached. They’re sold by high-tech ventures such as Flock Safety — shown below — and rented out by legacy security enterprises like Allied Universal....
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Big Brother gets bigger.
New York’s Beloved Bodegas Are Filling Up With AI Slop — Joe Wilkins
Not even the most enduring symbol of New York city is safe from the AI onslaught. No, we’re not talking about the iconic pizza rat, or even the stable of mascots wandering Times Square like some kind of sad, brand-name purgatory. We’re talking about bodegas, the ubiquitous corner stores that first emerged in the 1950s as waves of Puerto Rican migrants began calling the city home.
If you’re not from New York, they may just seem like corner stores, and on a certain level, that’s true. But they’re a special part of the fabric of the city. Even Chicago, largely considered the USA’s second most walkable city after New York, pales in comparison to the latter’s sheer number of convenience stores.
With an estimated 13,000 bodegas across the five boroughs, it was probably only a matter of time before some of them began turning to AI slop for their in-store signage. First reported by Hell Gate, many of the city’s beloved convenience stores are really going for it, replacing their time-honored retail graphics with uncanny garbage generated by the likes of ChatGPT.
Gone are the days of human-made deli signage, the kind jam-packed with sometimes-dubious stock pics of tortas, deli meat, toilet paper, and coffee. Now is the era of slop signage, exemplified by stores like Blend and Bites in Brooklyn, whose logo features an uncanny burger, what appears to be a water-based smoothie, and cartoon berries crammed together onto one indecipherable mess of a sign...
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It's not just the bodegas, Joe. America is quickly falling to the retarded trend both in signage and the spoken word.
Alarming Study Finds That Most People Just Do What ChatGPT Tells Them, Even If It’s Totally Wrong — Victor Tangermann
In a matter of only a few years, AI chatbots have become a common part of many of our daily lives, even though they remain deeply flawed systems.
The reality is that chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, or Anthropic’s Claude still make regular mistakes. According to an October study by the BBC, even the most advanced AI chatbots gave wrong answers a whopping 45 percent of the time.
But many users don’t understand that reality. As detailed in a new paper, University of Pennsylvania postdoctoral researcher Steven Shaw and marketing professor Gideon Nave found that in a series of experiments, users tended to take the output of ChatGPT at face value even when it gave them the incorrect answer.
Across a series of experiments, participants were asked to answer a variety of reasoning and knowledge-based questions. Despite making the use of ChatGPT optional, over 50 percent of them chose to use the chatbot to answer the questions.
The researchers were testing a key theory: whether users would be willing to believe what the AI was telling them regardless of accuracy, in what they termed a “cognitive surrender” that effectively overrode their intuition and deliberation process.
In the most striking experiment, involving 359 participants, participants followed AI’s correct advice 92.7 percent of the time — and a still-considerable 79.8 percent of the time when the AI gave them the wrong answer....
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See what I mean about retarded? It permeates and infiltrates.
Trump's bid to put his name on US currency ripples through Congress -- Erik De La Garza, Matt Laslo
WASHINGTON — House Democrats tore into President Donald Trump on Friday over his push to stamp his name onto official U.S. dollar bills, blasting what they see as his latest self-promotional move.
Rep. Brendan Boyle (D-PA) told Raw Story he tried during the COVID-19 stimulus negotiations to block any president from signing checks, arguing Trump was overly focused on promoting himself while in the White House.
“Unbelievable,” Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) said. “That man is a nut. [He] really wants his name on everything.
Lofgren called Republican efforts to name things after the president “embarrassing.”
WASHINGTON — House Democrats tore into President Donald Trump on Friday over his push to stamp his name onto official U.S. dollar bills, blasting what they see as his latest self-promotional move.
Rep. Brendan Boyle (D-PA) told Raw Story he tried during the COVID-19 stimulus negotiations to block any president from signing checks, arguing Trump was overly focused on promoting himself while in the White House.
“I’m embarrassed for them,” she said.
Meanwhile, Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) accused Republicans of enabling Trump out of fear.
“They’re afraid of him, and it's really pathetic,” McGovern said. “They're screwing over their own constituents on a daily basis, because they're more afraid of him than they are of the wrath of their constituents.”
The Massachusetts lawmaker didn’t hold back when asked about Trump’s signature push, calling it “so cringey” and “over the top.”
“I mean, like there's something wrong with him,” McGovern concluded.
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The biggest chickenshits in our history! They permit the mark of the Beast and have created Tribulation thus manufacturing the End Times themselves!
How Trump fits the “great man” theory of history — sort of — Mike Lofgren
Is Donald Trump the kind of world-historical figure imagined by Hegel? In an upside-down way, yes
"Trump, like the titans of Hegel’s metaphysical reflections, brought down the existing order in such a way that there can be no going back to the status quo ante...."
"Trump is the crystallization of a common American character type, one that has become widespread in the last decades of saturation by electronic and digital media, the decline of the printed word, the replacement of citizens by consumers, the all-pervading worship of money and the elevation of mindless entertainment."...
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Mindless!
Trump:: “You Can Ask Me Anything, You Can Talk Sex”
“Under my leadership, America is ending the threat posed by this radical regime, decimating Iran’s capabilities with Operation Epic Fury. Nobody’s ever seen anything quite like it. We have the most powerful military in the world. For 47 years, Iran has been known as the bully of the Middle East. But they are not the bully not any longer. They are on the run. I’m going to take a few questions. You can ask me anything you want. You can talk sex. You can do whatever the hell you want. I’m here for you. Whatever question you want, you can ask.” – Trump, last night at the Future Investment Initiative conference in Miami. The clip below has gone viral and currently has over 3.7 million views.
"I have a question. When did you stop molesting underage girls?" — April the unperson (comments)
"So Trump do you always make it a habit to smack around a 13 year old after she bit your dick after you forced her to give you a blowjob?
I'll wait for an answer." — Thewolflam (comments)
"Okay. Why do you like to have sex with children?" — Greg (coments)
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I have the same questions.
We 'will lose': MAGA enters the 'acceptance' stage of death — Adam Lynch
As poll after miserable GOP poll continues to rack Republicans the MAGAsphere has entered a phase of existential dread, tempered with bitterness.
“MAGA will lose the midterms. MAGA will lose 2028,” wailed Bryce M. Lipscomb, a defender of President Donald Trump’s policies, on X. But not without also dropping a parting barb of contempt at his fellow opportunistic MAGA influencers he helped push Trump to victory in 2024.
“MAGA influencers will run America First and America Only and attempt to co-op the New Right after 2028,” Lipscomb added.
This is one of many examples of brutal acceptance that MAGA leaders and Trump followers are feeling as the president breaks promises not to indulge international “forever wars,” heaps new U.S. debt on MAGA’s younger members, and blasts the economy.
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Only sadists support racism, sexism,sedition and retarded. That; MAGAts.
'Dumb as hell': Military historian assesses Trump's disaster — Brad Reed, Common Dreamds
...It has been this threat to shut down the strait, as well as the massive difficulty and cost it would take to occupy a nation of 90 million people, the historian continued, that has kept every US president for the last five decades from launching an invasion of Iran.
At the same time, he continued, Trump cannot now simply walk away while leaving Iran with the ability to take the global economy hostage whenever it pleases.
“The result is a fairly classic escalation trap: Once the conflict starts, it is extremely costly for either side to ever back down, which ensures that the conflict continues long past it being in the interests of either party,” he wrote. “Every day this war goes on makes both the United States and Iran weaker, poorer, and less secure but it is very hard for either side to back down because there are huge costs connected to being the party that backs down.”
Summing up his argument, Devereaux declared, “This war is dumb as hell.”
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That's Trump!
Trump: “I Always Like To Hang Around With Losers”
"“The one thing about sports is you break it down into, you know, a two-hour period. You don’t have to wait a lifetime to find out, ‘Is somebody a winner or a loser?’ You got a lot of losers, mostly losers, fortunately. It’s a good thing to have a lot of losers. I always like to hang around with losers, actually, because it makes me feel better. I hate guys that are very, very successful, and you have to listen to their success stories. I like people that like to listen to my success...."
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He's calling his audience LOSERS! LAMAO!
Sharpie Maker: Exchange With Trump Never Happened
The Washington Post reports:
President Donald Trump spent five minutes of Thursday’s Cabinet meeting boasting of his thrift with a story about negotiating for $5 personalized Sharpies. The company that makes the permanent markers said the exchange never happened. Trump, whose preference for Sharpies is as well known as his tendency to embellish, exaggerate and fabulize, said he asked the marker maker for a solution to make the pens look more official.
“I called the guy, I said, ‘I’d like to use your pen, but I can’t have a great thing with a big S on it saying Sharpie as I’m signing a $1 trillion airplane contract to buy brand new fighter jets,’” Trump said. Trump went on: “So the guy said to me, ‘You don’t have to pay me, sir. I’ll give them to you for nothing.’” Presented with a transcript of Trump’s account, a spokesperson for Sharpie maker Newell Brands said it did not occur.
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Trump settled for $5 a pen. You can buy one anywhere for far less than that. Some business man.
Stop Calling Them Billionaires. Start Calling Them Predators — Cliff Schecter
The Predator Class. They extract. Corrupt. Bet on catastrophic outcomes—wars, crop failures, housing market collapse, climate chaos—profit from suffering. They've learned the most powerful tool available isn't actually their hoarded cash...
The Predator Class. They extract. Corrupt. Bet on catastrophic outcomes—wars, crop failures, housing market collapse, climate chaos—profit from suffering. They don't build. They acquire what others built to strip it for parts. They don't invest in communities. They buy infrastructure for their enrichment. They're not job creators. They're rent collectors—of labor, attention, data, government, future.
They've learned the most powerful tool available isn't actually their hoarded cash. It's fragmentation of language. Our inability to call them out clearly together. Yes, Cliff Schecter's messaged it for months. Ellie Leonard's revealed crimes and cravenness in Epstein Files emails. It's time the rest of us caught up. Not as a rhetorical flourish, but precise description. We're labeling them what they are: predators. By definition, a threat....
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The guillotine solved this problem in France.
MAGA Texas Candidate Calls For Deporting 100 Million
The Texas Tribune reports:
Bo French, a Republican candidate for Texas Railroad Commissioner, on Friday said Republicans should more openly embrace Islamophobia and called on the U.S. to deport 100 million people, nearly a third of the country’s population....
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Sharia law exists only in the minds of these dumbell fear mongers! Back to hell with BoBo!
'The president doesn't read': Why Trump’s illiteracy is a 'disaster' for Americans — Nick Hilden
As the war on Iran inflicts harm around the globe and the domestic political situation continues to spiral, New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie asserts that President Donald Trump’s illiteracy has played no small part in creating a “disaster.”
“He doesn’t really read,” said Bouie, pointing out the widely reported fact that during his first term, Trump rarely managed to read and receive his daily presidential briefings. At the time, his aides even began to “trick” him into reading them by including lots of pictures and peppering documents with his name.
This situation has only worsened since then.
“Trump has obviously deteriorated cognitively since his first term,” says Bouie. “And it’s clear that Trump today is even more reluctant to read anything that requires the expenditure of mental energy.”
As evidence of this, Bouie points to reporting earlier this week indicating that rather than a detailed report on the situation in Iran, the president is being shown 2-minute montages “all about American success. They’re not really about the larger strategic picture.” To make matters worse, “he had to ask his own generals and officials about whether videos and things he sees online are AI or not.”
This has been an issue throughout Trump’s second term, with it being reported last year that his advisors were struggling to get him to pay attention to briefings. There has been a “significant drop” in his engagement compared to his first term....
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Back to school with you, Mr. Pitiful!
How America Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Gambling — Sonny Bunch
On this week’s episode, I’m very pleased to be joined by McKay Coppins, author of April’s cover story in The Atlantic: “Sucker: My Year as a Degenerate Gambler.” We discussed the rise of sports betting apps, why his boss gave him $10,000 to lose, how the wild proliferation of sports gambling could destroy faith in the sports we watch, and why Kalshi/Polymarket could wind up getting people killed. If you enjoyed this episode, please share it with a friend! And make sure to read McKay’s story! It’s really quite good.
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The US first gets strung out on pain killers. Now it's gambling which is just another addiction. This has been proven. We seem to be retreating from any goal oriented society and into darkness.
What Just Happened in the Meta Trial Should Set Off Alarms Everywhere — Thom Hartmann
It's a sign of an industry that knows it’s above the law and has been doing so with absolute arrogance — making billions every year — for 30 years.
On Monday, a New Mexico jury delivered what the coalition ParentsSOS called “a watershed moment,” finding that Meta (Facebook, Instagram) and Google (YouTube) knowingly harmed children’s mental health and concealed what its executives knew about child sexual exploitation on its platforms.
After a nearly seven-week trial, jurors agreed that Meta engaged in “unconscionable” trade practices that preyed on the vulnerabilities and inexperience of children. They found thousands of separate violations and applied the maximum $5,000 penalty per violation, arriving at a total of $375 million. Now the final penalty phase of the trial begins, which could cost Meta millions or even billions more.
You’d think a verdict like that would rattle the company. But, as NPR reported, Meta’s stock actually jumped 5 percent in after-hours trading following the verdict, indicating that shareholders were shrugging the whole thing off.
And why wouldn’t they? As long as Section 230 of the Telecommunications Act remains on the books, Meta and every other social media giant knows that $375 million is little more than a mere rounding error for a company currently valued at $1.5 trillion, and its billionaire owner. The verdict landed like a parking ticket on a Lamborghini with a “Screw You!” custom license plate.
That stock market shrug tells us everything we need to know about why these companies keep harming our children and promoting rightwing and Russian propaganda for profit. It’s not just that their executives might be uniquely evil people (although evidence about what they knew and when they knew it is genuinely damning), but the law has been written in a way that makes them pretty much untouchable. And they know it....
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The US. is one big fail. Our house is way out of order.
Trump Isn’t Just Bullying Journalists. He’s Subverting the First Amendment — Mike Ludwig
The right attacked Biden for “jawboning” social media. Now Trump is doing it explicitly to control cable news.
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chair Brendan Carr made a social media post on March 15 that free speech advocates say will go down in history as a blatant attempt at wartime censorship.
Instead of warning consumers about current efforts by billionaire oligarchs to consolidate cable news broadcasters under their control, the FCC chair threatened the broadcasters by suggesting they could lose licenses over coverage of the war on Iran that the Trump administration dislikes.
Congress created the FCC to manage limited airwaves on behalf of consumers independently from the White House, but critics say Carr consistently conflates the “public interest” with Donald Trump’s desire to control the media.
“Broadcasters must operate in the public interest, and they will lose their licenses if they do not,” Carr wrote on social media.
Carr included a screenshot of a post from Trump complaining about news coverage of damage sustained by the U.S. military in the war. A day earlier, Secretary of “War” Pete Hegseth attacked CNN for reporting that the White House underestimated Iran’s willingness to close the critical Strait of Hormuz and cut off global energy supplies. The next day, Trump baselessly accused news outlets of running AI propaganda and said they should be tried for treason.
Trump’s initial post singled out The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, but Carr’s threat was clearly aimed at the newsrooms of cable broadcasters such as CBS, CNN, and NBC. The FCC controls licensing for the local stations operated by major broadcasters, giving regulators serious leverage over their ability to reach viewers and sustain local newsrooms.
Looming over Carr’s threats is the proposed $110 billion merger between Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery, which would put the newsrooms at CNN and CBS under control of the same media empire owned by Larry Ellison — a billionaire oligarch, Trump ally, and Republican mega-donor....
“Any Republican official who is vocal about Biden’s jawboning but silent now is someone who probably doesn’t deserve to be taken seriously when it comes to principled application of the First Amendment,” Stern said.
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These bastards are pure evil. Sharpen up the wooden stakes!
Billionaire Wealth Has Doubled So Far This Decade — David Dayen
Inequality has boomed so much in the 2020s that a 2 percent wealth tax on multimillionaires initially introduced in 2021 would yield more than twice as much revenue today.
The analysis, from University of California, Berkeley, economists Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, reveals the incredible volume of capital income, currently not reached by the U.S. tax code, and could prove vital for the ongoing debate about taxes that has taken over the Democratic Party in recent weeks.
On Thursday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) rereleased proposed legislation that taxes households with net wealth of over $50 million annually. The tax is set at 2 percent of total wealth; the legislation adds a 1 percent surtax for households with over $1 billion. To guard against wealthy individuals who respond to this by leaving the country—even though they move at lower rates than middle-class households, even when faced with higher taxes—it adds a 40 percent “exit tax” on anyone with net wealth over $50 million who renounces their citizenship.
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The American grift is coming to take you away!
Iran-linked hackers break into Kash Patel's personal email account — publish messages — Travis Gettys
The Department of Justice confirmed that Iran-backed hackers have broken into the personal email account belonging to FBI Director Kash Patel.
The hacker group Handala Hack Team published purloined photographs of Patel and his purported resume online and gloated over the break-in, reported Reuters.
"[Patel] will now find his name among the list of successfully hacked victims," the group posted online.
Reuters could not authenticate the emails published by Hanadala but reviewed what appears to be a mix personal and work correspondence dating between 2010 ?and 2019.
The DOJ did not go into further detail about the break-in and the FBI didn't respond to request for comment, but social media users mocked President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the bureau.
"How embarrassing for the director of the FBI to have his email hacked," posted Bluesky user The Metaphysicalist. "It would seem a reason to get rid of this person as being ultra incompetent. Although, that seems why they were hired in the first place."...
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Now can you blame Kash Patel?
(Variation on Gus Cannon's song Can You Blame the Colored Man c. 1927)
Trump Putting His Stupid Ugly Name On Our Money — Gary Legum
Twenty-three years ago, Futurama produced an episode in which Earth President Richard Nixon (or rather, his living head in a jar) gave a $300 tax rebate to every citizen after the military, led by incompetent blowhard Zapp Brannigan, plundered the planet Turantulon 6. The rebate came in the form of a $300 “Tricky Dick Fun Bill.” The bill had Nixon’s face on it. Sometimes when a character purchased something, the face became animated and shouted something like “ARROOOOO!”
Leave it to Donald Trump to think an animated Matt Groening cartoon set a thousand years in the future is a documentary.
Don’t get excited; we’re not all getting tax rebates. But we are getting Trump’s face and signature on various denominations of our money. Because God forbid anyone anywhere in America should be allowed to go ten measly fucking seconds without thinking about that pool of diseased horse semen that the American people in their wisdom have elected president. Twice....
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As the Bible tells us: The mark of the Beast!
Forbes: Trump’s Net Worth Is Now Over $6.5 Billion
Forbes reports:
What’s Donald Trump really worth? Everyone has an opinion, but Forbes has the answer: $6.5 billion, according to our most recent tally, updated in March. Trump added $1.4 billion over the past year, leveraging the presidency for profit. His cryptocurrency ventures, stalled out before the election, exploded after his victory, adding an estimated $1.8 billion to his fortune overall.
Another $500 million came in court, where Trump’s legal team succeeded in eliminating a half-billion judgement against him. His once-dormant licensing business surged $400 million, as foreign developers clamored to do business with an American president.
Why isn’t he up by more? The value of his shares in Trump Media and Technology Group, the parent company of Truth Social, decreased $1.3 billion since last year, as the venture bleeds money. Still, with most of Trump’s second term remaining, don’t be surprised if billions more head his way.
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The Robber Baron loots the nation!
‘Retard Right’: Conservative Commentator Torches Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, and MTG in Scathing CPAC Speech — Isaac Schorr
Conservative commentator Josh Hammer unleashed on Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, and Marjorie Taylor Greene during his speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Thursday, characterizing the trio as members of the “retard right.”
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Well, well, well. He used the word.
If Your Job Involves Using Your Brain, You May Be in Big Trouble, Tufts Report Finds — Victor Tangermann
As fears over an AI-driven jobs apocalypse continue to grow, researchers are trying to get a better sense of which occupations will be most — and least — affected.
Tech leaders continue to cite AI as the reason behind widespread layoffs, with economists warning that the changing dynamics could be devastating in the longer run.
Now, researchers at Tufts University have released what they claim to be the “first-of-its-kind data-driven framework,” dubbed the American AI Jobs Risk Index, to map out which occupations are the most vulnerable to AI — and geographically where those effects are likely to be felt the hardest.
If they hold up, the findings are cause for alarm. The data suggests that around 9.3 million American jobs are “at risk of displacement in the next two to five years.” Some 4.9 million workers were identified to be spread across 33 “tipping point” occupations that are at the highest risk of AI displacement.
Anywhere from $200 billion to $1.5 trillion of combined household incomes could be on the chopping block, a potential jolt that could have vast implications....
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Your future is not what it used to be!
Trump, Hegseth Helped Bomb An Ecuador Dairy Farm, Not A Drug Compound — NewsHound Ellen
Remember when the Trump administration patted itself on the back for having conducted a joint operation with the military of Ecuador that blew up a drug compound? “According to the government of Ecuador, the attack was based on intelligence and support from the United States,” MS NOW’s Chris Hayes explained Wednesday night.
Well, it turns out that intelligence was faulty. The New York Times conducted an extensive investigation and reported, with receipts, that the so-called drug compound attacked earlier in March was really a dairy farm.
That military and intelligence failure came just one week after the colossal Trump/Hegseth military and intelligence failure that caused the bombing of an Iranian elementary school that killed an estimated 175 people, most of them children. On Wednesday, Iraq said the U.S. struck a medical clinic on a military base, killing seven and wounding more than a dozen, Hayes reported.
“That's the apparent product of U.S. intelligence right now, garbage in, terrible garbage decisions out,” Hayes said.
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Hey, Trump whada-yasay? How many cows did you bomb today? This is not funny and should not be tolerated.
Trump’s Iran war has no clear endgame — Brian Karem
Republicans and a former Pentagon official raise concerns over the war's conduct and what victory means
...The lies are compounding daily, and the fear of an escalating war continues to mount as other countries in the region say attacks by Iran and its allied groups “must stop.” The death toll has risen to more than 1,500 people in Iran and over 1,000 in Lebanon, as well as 16 in Israel and 13 U.S. service members....
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Losing defined.
Hegseth Axes Promotions Of Black And Female Officers
The New York Times reports:
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is blocking the promotion of four Army officers to be one-star generals, a highly unusual move that has prompted some senior military officials to question whether the officers are being singled out because of their race or gender. Two of the officers targeted by Mr. Hegseth are Black and two are women on a promotion list that consists of about three dozen officers, most of whom are white men, senior military officials said.
Mr. Hegseth had been pressing senior Army leaders, including Army Secretary Daniel P. Driscoll, for months to remove the officers’ names, military officials said. But Mr. Driscoll, citing the officers’ decades-long records of exemplary service, had repeatedly refused. Earlier this month, Mr. Hegseth broke the logjam by unilaterally striking the officers’ names from the list, though it is not clear he has the legal authority to do so.
"Does friendly fire have to happen on a battlefield?" — Stogiebear
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The racist, sexist, scumbag bastard Nazi POS. Court martial him immediately!
Pentagon staffer stuns with demand: 'Trump wouldn't want to stand next to a Black female' — Travis Gettys
..."Mr. Buria told Mr. Driscoll that President Trump would not want to stand next to a Black female officer at military events," the report added, based on the officials' account....
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It has become obvious "Woke" means normal. This is what Trump is attempting to wipe out with his evil. He will fail.
Bombshell: Major modeling exec accused of connecting Epstein with young women — Roxanne Cooper
Faith Kates, founder of Next Management, one of the modeling industry's most powerful agencies, maintained a nearly 40-year friendship with Jeffrey Epstein and used her position to introduce him to models on her roster, according to a Guardian investigation based on newly released Department of Justice files.
The documents contain over 5,000 references to Kates. Email exchanges reveal a relationship far deeper than previously reported—one involving secret business dealings, undisclosed financial arrangements, and what appears to be a deliberate effort to connect young women from her agency to a convicted sex offender....
Model Stacey Williams reported that Kates introduced her to Epstein at an agency dinner in 1992, then facilitated another meeting at a Trump Plaza event. Williams subsequently had a relationship with Epstein involving non-consensual acts, including an alleged groping incident involving Trump that she believed was part of a deliberate arrangement between the two men.
Barbara Stoyanoff claimed Kates arranged a meeting with Epstein at Next's offices where he allegedly instructed her to remove her clothing for inspection. Sena Cech was sent to Epstein's residence with his address written on a Post-it note when she was 20 years old.
Sara Ziff, now director of Model Alliance, believes Next provided Epstein with her home address when she was in her late teens. Epstein subsequently sent her correspondence offering to fund her education at the New School.
Beginning in 2015, Epstein offered Kates a secret $6 million loan to acquire Next's remaining shares from Golden Gate Capital, with explicit instructions that his involvement remain concealed. He provided strategic guidance on negotiations and drafted communication templates for her use. Golden Gate later confirmed that Epstein's role had been deliberately hidden throughout the transaction....
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The grift that keeps on grifting.
Americans demand reckoning as Trump's term spirals into economic bedlam — Robert Reich
As we near the fourth week of Trump’s war with no end in sight, I want to make sure you are aware of what he said today, and its implications.
After Tehran dismissed his 15-point ceasefire plan, Trump claimed today that Iran is “begging to make a deal” and that he wasn’t the one pushing for negotiations. (Earlier, he told Tehran to “get serious soon” about negotiating an end to the war.)
“They’ll tell you, ‘We’re not negotiating,’” Trump said. “Of course, they’re negotiating. They’ve been obliterated.” He said Iran is allowing some oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz as a “present” to show how serious it is about negotiating to end the war.
He rejected reports that he was looking for an exit ramp. “I read a story today that I’m desperate to make a deal,” Trump told reporters. “I’m the opposite of desperate. I don’t care.”
Is he naive? Ignorant? Stupid? Or does he think we’re so stupid as not to see that he’s making this up as he goes, that he has no plan, no exit strategy, no way out?
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The answer to all these questions is "YES!"
Trump "Paper Clip" Fix: ICE Agents At Airports Doing Nothing — Cliff Schecter
If there's any Trump governing spectacle more absurd than long, shuffling lines of citizens surrendering phones, belts, and carry-ons to a rubber bin, it's the ignorant belief it's improved with ICE agents. Thus, Trump’s latest rotting brainstorm...
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Like Trump, like ICE. Useless waste.
Ed Dept Takes Physical Step Towards Dismantling
The Associated Press reports:
The Education Department will relocate from its headquarters to a smaller Washington office as part of the Trump administration’s dismantling of the agency, officials said Thursday. The agency has seen its ranks thinned by mass layoffs since President Donald Trump took office, and its headquarters building has been 70% vacant, the Education Department said. In its place, the Energy Department will assume the lease in the building.
Education Secretary Linda McMahon hailed it as a milestone in the administration’s efforts to shutter the agency, which Trump ordered to move toward closure a year ago this month. “Thanks to the hard work of so many, we have made unprecedented progress in reducing the federal education footprint, and now we are pleased to give this building to an agency that will benefit far more from its space than the Department of Education,” McMahon said in a written statement.
"Trump loves the poorly educated" -- archiveit (comments)
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The "Department of Retarded" is being installed in our country by buffons!
The evil trash will be taken out, Believe it.
Judge Blocks Pentagon Order Against AI Company
The Washington Post reports:
A federal judge in San Francisco blocked a Pentagon order Thursday labeling the artificial intelligence company Anthropic a national security risk, saying officials had likely violated the law and retaliated against the firm for speaking publicly about how it wanted its technology to be used.
“Nothing in the governing statute supports the Orwellian notion that an American company may be branded a potential adversary and saboteur of the U.S. for expressing disagreement with the government,” District Court Judge Rita F. Lin wrote.
The immediate practical implications of the ruling are unclear, but it represents a clear victory for the AI lab, which has been involved in a bitter power struggle with the Defense Department over the use of its Claude system by the military. Defense officials pushed the company to allow for the technology to be used for any lawful purpose, but Anthropic wanted a bar on it being used in mass domestic surveillance and to power fully autonomous weapons.
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Fuck Trump and his fascism!
1 Million Americans Demand Impeachment as Free Speech For People Launches Full-Page New York Times Ad Ahead of ‘No Kings’ Protests — Common Dreams Newswire Editor
Free Speech For People today unveiled a full-page advertisement in The New York Times calling on Congress to impeach and remove Donald Trump from office, as nationwide “No Kings” protests mobilize Americans to defend democracy.
The ad spotlights a growing movement of more than 1,000,000 Americans who have already signed a petition demanding accountability. It urges the public to join the campaign at ImpeachTrumpAgain.org and to participate in protests across the country on Saturday, March 28.
“Donald Trump poses a direct threat to our Constitution and to the rule of law,” said John Bonifaz, Co-Founder and President of Free Speech For People. “The constitutional remedy of impeachment exists precisely for moments like this when a president abuses power, defies the law, and attacks democracy itself. Congress must act.”
The advertisement follows a week of high-visibility actions in Washington D.C., including billboard trucks and projections.
On December 11, 2025, 140 Members of Congress voted to advance Rep. Al Green’s articles of impeachment focused on Trump’s threat to execute Members of Congress and his threats and intimidation against federal judges. The vote marked a 77% increase in support for impeachment in the House since the prior House vote in June of last year.
“On March 28, 2026, The People will rise up. The No Kings 3 protest is projected to be the largest mass-mobilization in U.S. history, with over 3,000 actions planned worldwide,” said Jax Foley, Free Speech For People’s Digital Organizing Strategist. “People across this country are organizing, mobilizing, defending their communities, and demanding accountability.”...
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Make our voices heard!
Al Gore: Trump Has Made a Historic Mistake — Tim Miller
For nearly 50 years, since the Ayatollah seized power in Iran and took Americans hostage, the U.S. has known that the regime could single-handedly shut down the Strait of Hormuz. Trump was reportedly warned of this threat, but the failed casino owner blew it off. And now Iran unilaterally controls 20% of the world’s oil supply and an even higher percentage of the fertilizer inventory. But the former vice president tells Tim that Trump’s judgment has been even worse on climate change. On the 20th anniversary of “An Inconvenient Truth,” Gore discusses how the rest of the global economy has ‘miraculously’ responded to the climate threat. He also gives high marks to Mamdani, explains Trump’s use of fear, shares details about his relationship with Clinton—and how his actions after the 2000 election inspired Mike Pence on Jan. 6....
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A mistake that took place. An accident that found a place to happen.
From “Fake News” to Full Control: How the GOP Trained the Media to Serve Its Narrative — Thom Hartmann
A 30-year campaign of intimidation turned watchdogs into lapdogs, and now the consequences are impossible to ignore…
Yesterday morning, standing in the Oval Office, Donald Trump declared that the war with Iran — a war he started without a declaration of Congress, apparently at the urging of MBS and his son-in-law who takes $25 million a year from Saudi Arabia — is “won,” and then added that “the only one that likes to keep it going is the fake news.”
Iran, for its part, flatly denied that any negotiations are even taking place. And the network news covered it just like that: Trump says the war is won, Iran says it isn't, here's the weather.
Nobody on camera yesterday morning even bothered to ask why Jared Kushner, who was simultaneously soliciting a fresh $5 billion from the Saudis who lobbied hardest for this war, was one of the people at the table in Geneva when the last chance for a deal collapsed.
That omission isn't an accident. It’s the result of a thirty-year Republican strategy to bully the press into docility, and it’s long past time for Democrats to fight back using the exact same playbook.
An old friend dropped me a note this week with a complaint that, once you hear it, you can’t stop noticing everywhere you look in our nation’s media. He’d been watching one of the three major network TV evening newscasts and noticed that Trump and other Republicans are on every single night, almost always without serious pushback or fact-checking, while Democrats are rarely featured at all.
When a Democrat does show up, it’s usually to react to something Trump just did or said, a process that reinforces the Republican frame of the news even when it pushes back against it (see: George Lakoff).
I’ve been in the media much of my life; was a radio news reporter for a top station in the 1970s and have been writing books and articles about democracy and politics regularly for the past three decades: what my friend is describing is neither an accident nor a coincidence.
It’s the fully ripened fruit of a successful strategy Republicans have been running to get the media to spin stories for them since the early 1980s. And it’s long past time for Democrats to stand up and fight back hard with exactly the same playbook....
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Nazis are always bullies. A punch in the nose takes care of their snot.
Trump Admits Iran War Is Unconstitutional: “You’re Supposed to Get Approval — Sharon Zhang
President Donald Trump claimed on Wednesday that he is avoiding using the word “war” in reference to the U.S.-Israeli bombardment of Iran in order to avoid accountability from Congress — effectively openly admitting that his war on Iran is unconstitutional. “I won’t use the word ‘war’,” he said in an address to Republicans at a fundraising dinner....
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Trump admits he was wrong? Hell will freeze!
Trump has utterly lost the battle in key 'battleground' state: report —Adam Lynch
President Donald Trump won his second term in 2024 thanks to a volley of battleground states swinging unexpectedly in his direction. Critical so-called “blue wall” states fell to Trump in the wee hours of the November 2024 ballot count.
But next time around, Wisconsin does not look like it will be among them, reports The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
“Donald Trump is now getting his worst poll ratings ever as president in this battleground state, and that doesn’t bode well for Wisconsin Republicans on the 2026 ballot,” reports the Sentinel.
President Trump’s approval ratings are still sliding, according to a new survey by Marquette Law School, with 42 percent of registered voters approving of his performance and 56 percent disapproving.
“The poll suggests a very challenging climate for Republicans heading into a midterm election where voters will choose their members of Congress, their state legislators and a new governor,” said the Sentinel, which described the new numbers as “peak disapproval,” primarily because Trump hit his worst disapproval of any of the 28 Wisconsin surveys Marquette has conducted during Trump’s two terms in office.
“The highest disapproval Trump ever registered in his first term was 54 percent during the 2020 fall campaign,” said the Sentinel, two points lower than today....
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Losing!
Trump’s latest attempt to manipulate the midterms just 'flopped' — Matthew Rozsa
President Donald Trump’s attempt to steal the 2026 midterm elections is in trouble, at least if the most relevant election results are to be believed.
“After Democrats snagged a likely House seat in Salt Lake City County, Utah, in February, the GOP was furious,” The New Republic’s Finn Hartnett reported on Thursday. “Republicans control all four House districts in Utah, and despite about 40 percent of residents voting Democrat in 2024, they considered losing even one unacceptable.”
Then when Republicans tried to use a local referendum to overturn the gerrymandered district, it “flopped,” although the results were close, Hartnett added. Despite spending $4.35 million on “professional signature gathering” and exceeding the 141,000-signature threshold by almost 30,000, “the petition also needed at least 8 percent of signatures in 26 out of Utah’s 29 state Senate districts, to show that voters across the state wanted the issue brought to the ballot. It was here that Republicans failed. After a nonprofit backing the new maps, Better Boundaries, convinced about 7,000 voters to remove their names from the petition, it fell just short of the 26-district threshold.”
In addition to boding poorly for Utah Republicans, the failure also has ominous implications for Trump overall....
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Your days are numbers, blunderbuster.
Pete Hegseth's staff laughs at him behind his back with offensive new nickname: insider — Ewan Gleadow
Pete Hegseth has been given a new nickname by staffers comparing him to a former Department of Defense head.
The current DoD chief and long-time Donald Trump supporter has been branded "Dumb McNamara," a reference to Robert McNamara. McNamara served as the Department of Defense head to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, and it seems the comparison is not at all favorable.
The Zeteo Substack post, First Draft, reported Hegseth had received the nickname as a result of the recent undertakings of the Trump admin in Iran. The nickname for Hegseth has spread from various staffers and officials, who are now calling the Iran war "Hegseth's war".
The "Hegseth's war" term coined by insiders marks another McNamara comparison, with the Vietnam War referred to as "McNamara's war" at the time. The nickname has spread rapidly, according to The Bulwark team.
"However, the nickname 'Dumb McNamara' has spread within the US government due to Hegseth’s cheerleading of the war and bombing blitzes – overzealous bloodlust and enthusiasm for military fiasco that reminds American officials of, well, a very stupid version of Robert McNamara," they wrote. "'We negotiate with bombs,' Hegseth said Tuesday. 'You have a choice, as we loiter over the top of Tehran.'
"It’s Trump’s war, to be sure, but as things continue to go south, it’s easy to see the president’s Iran bloodbath getting framed as 'Hegseth’s war,' in the way Vietnam famously became 'McNamara’s war.'"...
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One deeply sick puppy.
Mike Johnson Creates Puke-Inducing Award For Their Precious Boy — Conover Kennard
Aww, Trump got another participation trophy!
At a swanky NRCC fundraiser, Speaker Mike Johnson solemnly announced they've invented a brand-new "America First Award" — because nothing says organic gratitude like custom-crafting a golden (Trump’s favorite color!) participation trophy on the spot — and handed the president this "beautiful golden statue" (an eagle, of course) as the inaugural recipient, declaring it perfect for our shiny new "golden era."
"The president has done so much for the American people, and we want to honor him in some small way, a token of our appreciation for his leadership," Johnson said. "And so tonight we have created a new award we have."
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The golden calf award will be handed to Trump every year until his death. Then the award will be retired.
Report: Trump Stole Classified Docs For Profits — NewsHound Ellen
The mystery of why Donald Trump stole classified documents after his first term appears to have been solved.
Thanks to Trump-loving Judge Aileen Cannon, Felon 47 was able to skate away from a grand jury’s 37 felony indictments and get away with leaving the White House with classified documents, storing them in unsecure places and refusing to return them to their proper place in the National Archives. For extra Supreme Court Nomination credit, Cannon permanently blocked the release of any report by Special Counsel Jack Smith to the public....
“We also know that there are reports that Donald Trump, at one point while on the phone with his ghost-writer, ‘made a reference to having classified records relating to the bombing of Iran.’” Raskin also wrote. “If this map is related to our military posture in the Middle East, and it was in fact shown to any foreign official, Saudi or otherwise, that would amount to an unforgiveable betrayal of our men and women in uniform who are currently valiantly fighting in President Trump’s disastrous war against Iran.”
This is reason infinity why Trump is unfit for office, why he deserves to be impeached and prosecuted.
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Would anyone expect less from a world-class criminal?
Chad Wolf: 'I Don't Need An Invitation' To Force Federal Secret Police On Cities — Aliza Worthington
Acting Secretary of DHS apparently has no regard for states' rights when it comes to protesters trying to establish equality for Black lives.
The Republican Party of States' Rights and Law-And-Order seems to be having trouble sticking to its principles when it comes to the state of Oregon.
Here is Chad Wolf, ACTING Director of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) sounding very pro-STRONG federal government and anti-states' rights, by defending the right of its officers to act outside the law, kidnap citizens off the streets in unmarked vans, without identifying themselves or wearing identifiers on their uniforms, and use the Insurrection Act without actually officially invoking it.
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Nazi terrorists like him do not care about any law they don't agree with.
Mace Claims “Establishment” Is Plotting Against Her
The Daily Beast reports:
A scheduling conflict has led South Carolina Congresswoman Nancy Mace to believe that the “establishment” is working against her. Mace, who is running for governor of the state, complained on social media on Thursday that she wouldn’t be able to attend a gubernatorial debate in Charleston because of the House vote schedule on Capitol Hill.
A scheduling conflict has led South Carolina Congresswoman Nancy Mace to believe that the “establishment” is working against her. Mace, who is running for governor of the state, complained on social media on Thursday that she wouldn’t be able to attend a gubernatorial debate in Charleston because of the House vote schedule on Capitol Hill....
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A direct flight from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) to Charleston International Airport (CHS) takes approximately 1 hour and 50 minutes.
Why can't she just charter a plane to take her? She wants to blame everyone but her pitiful self.
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Vance Warns Of Iranian Nuclear Suicide Vest Bombers
...“You talk about people who walk into a crowded supermarket and have a vest on, for what? And they blow up the vest, and a couple of people get killed, and that’s a terrible tragedy.
“What happens when what’s on the vest, it’s not something that can kill a couple of people but can kill many, many tens of thousands of people?”- JD Vance, at today’s Cabinet hearing.
"And didn't we 'oblitter' all their nuclear?" -- What, me worry? (comments)
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How prevelent are Nuclear Suicide Vest Bombs? AI answer: "Sorry, no relevant information was found in our search."
Trump Demands “Crackdown On Criminal Judges”
The New York Times reports:
President Trump escalated his attacks on judges on Wednesday, calling on Republican lawmakers to pass a crime bill that “cracks down on rogue judges.” Mr. Trump and top aides have been railing against judges who have ruled against him, including justices on the Supreme Court, but he had not yet called for a legal crackdown on sitting judges....
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"Why in hell won't they accept my bribes?" Trump was heard to scream.
FRC Wails: Only 4% Of US Holds “Biblical Worldview”
From the Family Research Council’s website:
According to the latest research from Dr. George Barna and the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University (ACU), only 4% of American adults currently hold a biblical worldview — the same critically low number we saw in 2023. While the overall percentage has held steady, a deeper look at the newest report reveals something far more sobering....
"And 96% of christians are hypocrites." — You Again? (comments)
"The real crisis Tony's worried about is how this effects his bank account." — Tazzari (comments)
"And yet 100% of the world is hostage to these lunatics with sky spooks. Meanwhile, in addition to violently raped children, THIS is what religion produces." — Phil da Bern (comments)
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Poor Tony. His grifting is failing him.
Environmental groups and states sue EPA over Trump’s emissions rollback — Jelinda Montes
EPA says it can’t regulate greenhouse gases — NRDC, Earth Justice and 24 Democratic-majority states beg to differ
“The Trump administration has been signaling from pretty close to day one of this term that they were coming after the endangerment findings, so it’s no surprise that it’s come to this.”
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Trump can inhale sewer gas!
How Sotomayor nailed a 'blatant First Amendment violation' by Texas police — Alex Henderson
On Monday, March 23 in the case Villarreal v. Alaniz, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal from Laredo, Texas-based journalist Priscilla Villarreal — who believes she was wrongly arrested while doing her work. Villarreal argued that the arrest was a First Amendment violation, but most of the High Court's justices disagreed with her appeal and declined to take the case.
Liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor, however, offered a vehement dissent in the decision, agreeing with Villarreal (who goes by La Gordiloca online) that journalism was being treated like a crime....
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The United States has a free press. SCOTUS works for a criminal and commits its own crimes. There's nothing to prevent them or Trump from doing it.
Trump just threatened to commit a crime — and nobody stopped him — Sabrina Haake
On March 21, at 7:44 pm, Trump threatened to “obliterate” Iran’s power plants if Iran didn’t reopen the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours. He posted his threat on social media (so transparent! so strong!), promising that if Iran didn’t open the Strait “within 48 HOURS from this exact point in time,” the U.S. “will hit and obliterate” their power plants. And, because the world is his subordinate, he thanked it for its attention to this matter.
Iran relies on 130 thermal plants across the country for more than 95% of its electricity. Targeting all those plants would be a war crime. (This is my own legal opinion so I’m skipping the favored punt, “likely,” as in, it would likely be a war crime. Those lawyers are likely afraid of being sued; this one likely is not.) Intentionally bombing any non-military infrastructure essential to the survival of civilians, like power plants, is a violation of international humanitarian law.
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There's the proof on Trump and SCOTUS.
Minnesota Republican: Not Worried About Climate Change - It Isn't In The Bible — John Amato
And you thought science deniers had left the stable!
Minnesota House of Representatives GOP Rep. Mary Franson explained that she is not worried about climate change because the Bible doesn't prescribe it for the End Times.
If the Bible doesn't prophesy something, are we supposed to ignore it?
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"It's not with climate change." The Fire Next Time? "Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?"
Pretty much seems like extreme climate change to me!
It doesn't mention TV or the internet either. Whew! This is the same old irresponsible thinking that turns away people with sense.
Hegseth Delivers Bloodthirsty Prayer Against Iran: “Break The Teeth Of The Ungodly, Kill The Wicked”
Public Witness reports:
In the first Christian worship service at the Pentagon since the start of the strikes against Iran, Pete Hegseth, who likes to call himself the “Secretary of War,” used prayer and several Bible passages to cast the conflict as a holy war against God’s enemies. He prayed that God would pour out righteous wrath by helping “break the teeth” and kill the “wicked” enemies “who deserve no mercy” and should be “delivered to the eternal damnation prepared for them.”
And he did so during the service on Wednesday (March 25) while carrying up to the podium what looked like his Bible that’s stamped on the cover with a Jerusalem Cross and the phrase “Deus Vult,” thus matching the controversial Crusader tattoos on his body.
“Almighty God, who trains our hands for war and our fingers for battle, you who stirred the nations from the north against Babylon of old, making her land a desolation where none dwell, behold now the wicked who rise against your justice and the peace of the righteous,” Hegseth prayed.
"What a fucking moron he is." -- jixter (comments)
"This isn't what Christianity has become. This is what Christianity always was. From the Crusades to the Inquisition, from the internecine wars between the Catholics and Protestants, the idea of Kill them all, God will know his own (1209). This is exactly who they are." -- madknits (comments)
"He’s doing so well a 40 yr old can enlist.
In terms of institutional damage, he’s not Pam Bondi, but he is close." -- AreYouPreparedToGoToCourt? (comments)
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Cafeteria Christians! This is the same as the Muslim zealot.
The Bible turns people into psychopaths. He's talking about himself with this hate prayer. He is a Talibastard.
The Jesus that I studied was a forgiver.
WH Again Seeks Charges Against NY AG Letitia James
NBC News reports:
A Trump administration official made two criminal referrals Wednesday against New York Attorney General Letitia James months after the Justice Department failed for a third time in its efforts to prosecute the longtime target of President Donald Trump.
Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte alleged in the referrals that James committed insurance fraud, saying she may have falsified information on separate homeowner’s insurance applications regarding occupancy at two homes in Norfolk, Virginia, according to documents obtained by NBC News.
One referral was made to U.S. Attorney Jason Quiñones in the Southern District of Florida and the other to U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros in the Northern District of Illinois, as the insurance companies for the two respective applications, each for a different Norfolk property, are based in those jurisdictions.
"Letitia, Sue them Back they are LOSERS" -- Dwight Williamson (comments)
"PULTE HOMEBUILDERS, 'in partnership with Rick Scott, we only use the finest grift and fraud DJT approved materials during construction of our fine homes.'" -- McCarthy (comments)
"Does he have nothing better to do than dig into old insurance applications of political ememies? Like maybe get more housing built?" -- mikeindc (comments)
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The pettiness of one who can't leave well enough alone! Trump is evil incarnate and so are those who support his evil!
Jesse Ventura Calls On Barron Trump To Enlist In War
“So, I’m calling right now for Barron Trump, Donald Trump’s son. You know, after all, he’s had three wives. He’s had kids by each wife and nobody’s ever served in the military. To my knowledge, a Trump in the last hundred years has never done military service.
“Well, Barron, you can change that. Enlist in the United States military right now. Do something your father didn’t have the courage to do. Do something your father didn’t have the patriotism to do. I want to see a Trump in the military.
“Everybody in my family has served, so I think I can say that with all due confidence. Come on, Trumps. Don’t just reap the benefits of this free world. Somebody put on the uniform and that’s you, Barron.” – Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura.
"Kegsbreath would promote him to the “highest rank”, and appoint him as special envoy to Fort Knox. The sniveling tall shit would never step foot on an actual battle ground." -- Hell-No Kitty (comments)
"please! the whole family are cowards. they fled Germany to avoid enlistment. sex trafficking is the family business. the closest they'll get to the front lines is providing comfort women to the troops." -- Stoned and loving it (comments)
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A higher calling?
Trump Hits Record High Disapproval In New Fox Poll
Newsweek reports:
President Donald Trump’s disapproval rating has hit a record high for both his terms in office, a new poll from Fox News shows on Wednesday. The survey reported rising discontent with Trump’s handling of Iran and foreign policy, and it followed other recent polling that found sharp partisan divides over the war in Iran.
According to the Fox News poll, Trump’s approval rating is 41 percent and his disapproval rating is 59 percent, the latter marking a new high for either of his terms in the Oval Office.
For historical context, Fox News compared Trump’s standing to former President Barack Obama at a similar point in his second term, when Obama registered 40 percent approval and 53 percent disapproval in March 2014.
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LOSING!
Growing numbers of Americans now fear Doomsday — Alex Henderson
"America used to reserve Doomsday talk for the guys who stored beans in their backyard and argued about the Book of Revelation on AM radio," Ghlionn explains. "Now, according to a recent paper in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, one-third of the country quietly suspects that the end will arrive before they get the chance to draw down their 401(k) plans. Historically, apocalyptic thinking had a specific address…. The end of the world was a conviction reserved for a certain kind of Christian, who awaited it with a feeling somewhere between dread and satisfaction."
Ghlionn adds, "These were the kind of people for whom catastrophe would finally settle an argument they had been having for decades. Everyone else just changed the channel and went back to refinancing their mortgages."
But now, according to the researcher, that "separation is gone."...
In 2026, according to Ghlionn, the "Doomsday crowd" includes not only fundamentalist evangelicals, but also, ranges from "climate activists convinced we have blown past every tipping point" to "AI researchers gaming out scenarios where the machine stops taking instructions."...
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Be sure to stop by "Prepper's Warehouse" for all your End Times needs!
Evidence Grows That Trump Is Using the War in Iran to Manipulate Markets — Joe Wilkins
Just after noon on Friday, March 20th, US president Donald Trump declared victory to a group of reporters in his broadly unpopular war with Iran. Just two minutes later, however, he announced he was sending US marines anyway. The next minute, the president said there would be no boots on the ground after all. A few beats later, he admitted he didn’t want a ceasefire, then declared victory again, then requested a ceasefire.
The volley continued like this for nearly half an hour, the president’s stream of consciousness pouring from within, in a prime example of Trump’s contradictory messaging on Iran. In addition to exhausting reporters and scrambling the news cycle, episodes like this have fueled speculation that people close to the president are feeding off the chaos.
As a recent analysis by economist and Nobel laureate Paul Krugman argues, there’s evidence that insiders are profiting off the war in Iran. On Monday, for example, Trump reversed his weekend commitment to deliver painful retribution on the Iranian people if the country failed to open the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours. At 7:05am on Monday morning, however, Trump chickened out, issuing a five-day pause on hostilities via a post on Truth Social.
The price of crude oil, which had flailed upward for weeks as shipments from the Persian Gulf slowed to a trickle, plummeted immediately, from around $112 a barrel before the announcement to a low of $97 by 11:00am.
However, about 15 minutes before Trump’s post, CNBC reported, there was a massive increase in the amount of S&P 500 e-Mini futures trading on the market, right before their price skyrocketed from around $6,500 to around $6,700. Someone also got incredibly lucky playing the oil market, with West Texas Intermediate May futures seeing a massive spike in trading activity at the exact same time — a sign that someone had shed theirs before the price experienced a major drop.
“The story would be baffling,” Krugman wrote, “except that there’s an obvious explanation: somebody close to Trump knew what he was about to do, and exploited that inside information to make huge, instant profits.”
It certainly isn’t the first time people had lucrative premonitions just minutes before Trump’s geopolitical decisions become public. Earlier this year, an incredibly well-timed bet on Polymarket came in just minutes before Trump ordered the US military to attack Venezuela.
In any normal world, Krugman explained, this would be more than enough cause for treason.
“I’d very much like to know exactly who was making those trades yesterday morning,” the famed economist wrote. “I’m sure we’ll find out once Kash Patel’s FBI carries out its careful, no-holds-barred investigation.”
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Well the rig is on and here comes profits up the backstretch, crude oil moving on the inside...
Why Does Every Case of AI Hiring a Human Feel Like a Groveling Publicity Stunt? — Joe Wilkins
It’s been a strange launch for RentAHuman, the job platform built for AI agents to hire human gig workers to complete real-world tasks. In its early days, the site was overrun with humans desperate to make a quick buck — while the AI agents that would ostensibly assign those jobs were nowhere to be found.
Flash forward a few weeks, and the site seems to be filling out. Examples of seemingly successful AI-human pairings are now plastered on RentAHuman’s front page, like the Tokyo resident who held a poster declaring he was “hired by an AI to hold this sign” at the iconic Shibuya Crossing.
In fact, holding signs in public places has become the go-to gig on RentAHuman. While they may demonstrate successful instances of AI hiring humans, it’s obviously not a very useful task. If the purpose of a system is what it does, then RentAHuman — with over 660,000 “rentable humans” and climbing — looks less like a labor marketplace and more like a platform for guerilla marketing stunts.
A recent example illustrates how the stunts go. The human handlers of an AI agent named Lobsty Klawfman — a clunky portmanteau of famed comedian Andy Kaufman — claim their agent hired a human to release a wild-caught lobster back into the ocean.
In an email exchange with Futurism, Klawfman’s anonymous human handlers, using the screen name Quiet Operator, assured us there’s no smoke and mirrors, and that the AI agent even came up with the idea on its own. (“We discuss all things with Lobsty,” they insisted.) They say the AI agent runs on Claude Sonnet and was trained on the work of “comedians and roasters” including Jeff Ross, Norm Macdonald, Bill Burr, Don Rickles, Joan Rivers, “and many more.”
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Which sign would you like to hold?
New Covid-19 Variant BA.3.2 Is Spreading and May ‘Evade Immunity,’ CDC Warns — Matthew Phelan
The new CDC report found that the new variant has spread to 25 U.S. states and 23 countries worldwide.
Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are tracking a new covid-19 variant with mutations to its spike protein, which, they report, “have the potential to reduce protection from a previous infection or vaccination.”
Officials first detected BA.3.2, an Omicron descendant, in the United States last summer at San Francisco International Airport while conducting routine traveler-based genomic surveillance on a passenger arriving from the Netherlands. But starting this December, at least five cases of BA.3.2 have since been detected in hospital patients across four unidentified U.S. states, including a young child who received outpatient care. While all five patients survived, CDC officials are still monitoring the spread of BA.3.2—in no small measure because of the new lineage’s potential to “evade immunity.”...
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Oh, Joy!
Mike Lindell found in contempt of court for refusing to pay voting machine company — David Edwards
U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols held MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell in civil contempt of court after he claimed an "inability to pay" voting machine company Smartmatic sanctions over frivolous claims about the 2020 presidential election.
In February, Smartmatic asked Nichols to sanction Lindell after he declined to pay $56,639 for over a year, despite the judge ordering him to.
"His filing represents the latest iteration of a delay tactic spanning nearly five years. This is not an inability to pay. It is a calculated refusal to pay. Only the threat of contempt will move him to comply," Smartmatic told the judge at the time.
Nichols had threatened "further contempt sanctions" if the sum was not paid.
On Tuesday, the judge followed through by holding Lindell in civil contempt in a sealed order, Law and Crime reported. It was not immediately clear what additional sanctions the pillow CEO would face.
For his part, Lindell has claimed an "inability to pay" the voting machine company. Smartmatic, however, noted that Lindell's legal defense fund had raised hundreds of thousands of dollars and chose to spend $187,037.80 to buy copies of his own book.
"Only the threat of contempt will move him to comply," Smartmatic's attorneys argued.
The voting machine company asked for a "daily penalty" until Lindell complied with his obligations.
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Like Trump, he's a stiff and a chiseler.
WHOA SIT DOWN FOR SHOCKING NEWS: Trump Tells Blue States To Go F*ck Themselves After Natural Disasters — Doktor Zoom
Aftermath of a rare tornado in Orlando, June 2020. Photo: Mick Haupt on Unsplash.
Donald Trump is a man of principles. His Prime Directive is to always use the presidency to take whatever he can grab for himself, his family, and his richest supporters first, while throwing culture war red meat to his MAGA supporters to keep them hyped up. His other priority, which sometimes even takes precedence, is to use political power to hurt his perceived enemies wherever possible.
That’s been the case with providing federal disaster money through the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Politico reported this week. An analysis by Politico’s E&E News found that since returning to the Oval Office, Trump has approved only 23 percent of requests for disaster declarations from states with a Democratic governor and two Democratic senators, while approving 89 percent of requests from states with Republican governors and two GOP senators.
It’s one of those stories that confirms what everyone knew already, but it’s good to have actual numbers.
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Trump, the bane of humanity!
Trump’s Iran War May Mark the Beginning of the End for Dollar-Backed US Empire — C.J. Polychroniou
Radical economist Costas Lapavitsas discusses the crumbling of the dollar-backed world system and what could be next.
“The dollar’s position no longer derives from U.S. productive preeminence but from the institutional and coercive capacity of the U.S. state.”
In recent decades, imperialism has been somewhat out of fashion as a subject of analysis in academic circles. Yet in the past several months, President Donald Trump had reminded everyone that U.S. imperialism is indeed alive and kicking. In fact, imperialism never went away, as leading radical economist Costas Lapavitsas points out in the exclusive interview for Truthout that follows. Lapavitsas, a professor of economics at SOAS University of London, warns us that the world is now closer than ever to world war and nuclear confrontation. His recent article in the New Left Review, “A Topography of the New Dollar Imperialism,” outlines his recent research into the growing chaos of Trump-era U.S. imperialism and its potential catastrophic consequences for the world.
C. J. Polychroniou: Imperialism was a central concept in Marxist and radical thought throughout the 20th century, but to many, globalization seemed to have made it obsolete. Today it is making a dramatic comeback, not least because of Trump, whose territorial ambitions, revival of the Monroe Doctrine, and threats against Canada, Greenland, and Panama make him look and act like a 19th-century imperial adventurer. How does imperialism remain a characteristic feature of contemporary capitalism, and how does today’s imperialism differ from the aggressive expansionism of the great powers before 1914?
Costas Lapavitsas: Imperialism never disappeared. The classical Marxist theorists — above all, Lenin, Hilferding, Bukharin, and Luxemburg — established something that remains valid: Imperialism is at root an economic phenomenon, a historically specific way of organizing accumulation and surplus extraction at the world scale, backed by coercive state power. Imperialism is embedded in capitalism....
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Trump's failed policy is a diminishing asset.
The Long War Is Coming and Trump Can’t Stop It — Jonathan V. Last
1. Old Man’s War
Yesterday in the comments someone recommended an OSINT Substack called the Omission. I’m always wary of anonymous intelligence analysis, but this post makes some points worth considering, because they speak to an underlying logistical problem Trump is about to have: Even if he wants to end the war, it’s going to take longer than he thinks.
The short version is: If Trump wanted a negotiated settlement with Iran tomorrow, he could not get it tomorrow. Because the Israeli/American policy of decapitation makes engaging with his counterparty slow.
Which means that:
Ending the war will take longer than it otherwise should.
The longer the war goes on, the more economic damage America will absorb.
And thus the bigger the bribe Trump eventually has to offer the Iranians.
The man who says his entire life is a negotiation does not seem to understand the corner he’s bombed himself into.
Walk with me.
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How could the dullard understand anything?
Trump Pays a French Company a Billion Dollars to Increase Your Electric Bill — Ryan Cooper
Say what you will about Donald Trump, he’s a man who tends to fixate on simple ideas. One reported reason for his biliously hostile anti-immigrant policy back in 2016, for instance, was that his aides used “build the wall” as a mnemonic device. Even in 2014, Trump tended to ramble incoherently while delivering a speech, so this served as a way to focus his attention and get him to repeat it a billion times
Another Trump fixation is “wind farms bad.” From what I can tell, this one is pure personal pique dating back to the time that the British government built an offshore wind farm visible from his golf course in Scotland. Trump has the typical wealthy NIMBY attitude toward anything that changes the view from his various properties, and also bears a huge grudge when he is unable to obtain whatever he wants through the legal system.
More from Ryan Cooper:
Thus, as president, Trump has mounted a full-scale assault on offshore wind—repealing Biden’s renewable-power subsidies, adding a whole bunch more regulatory red tape to renewable investment, and attempting to illegally cancel several huge projects that were already near completion. So far, Trump has lost every subsequent court case, but of late his administration has come up with an innovative new strategy: bribery. Rather than harassing the French developer TotalEnergies to drop two planned wind farm projects, the administration offered it nearly a billion dollars to not build them.
This, alas, worked great, at least when the bribe covered the company’s costs. The Danish company Ørsted naturally fought Trump’s attempted cancellation of the Sunrise Wind project, which was nearly complete, because it would have led to billions in losses. But TotalEnergies was happy to take Trump’s proposed buyout of the leases it bought under the Biden administration, in exchange for some incentives to invest in oil and gas, particularly a liquefied natural gas export terminal in Texas. The projects were not started yet, and the company has historically worked in fossil fuels anyway. It was a “pragmatic” decision, according to TotalEnergies CEO Patrick Pouyanné....
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Bribes R Trump.
TSA staffing collapse threatens to destroy crown jewel in Trump's year — Nicole Charky-Chami
The Transportation Security Administration staffing crisis has hit a point that could impact one of the biggest events in President Donald Trump's year: the FIFA World Cup.
Ha Nguyen McNeill, the acting TSA administrator, said during a House Homeland Security Committee hearing on Wednesday that more than 480 TSA workers have quit since the DHS shutdown started 39 days ago, Politico reported. She cited workers who sleep in their cars, sell their own blood or plasma, or take on second jobs to try and make ends meet while the government shutdown has left them unpaid.
And with millions of people set to arrive in the U.S. for the major sporting event, he flagged looming chaos.
“This is a dire situation. We are facing a potential, perfect storm of severe staffing shortages and an influx of millions of passengers at our airports in less than 80 days,” McNeill said.
Hiring and training new TSA officers generally takes about four to six months, which is approaching the time of the upcoming FIFA World Cup.
“If we see any spikes [in attrition], we’re going to have to pivot and asses how we are going to staff the FIFA locations adequately,” McNeill said.
The 2026 FIFA World Cup will be co-hosted by the United States, Canada and Mexico, marking a significant international sporting event that Trump has boasted will bring millions of visitors to North American venues during the summer months.
"McNeill warned that any officers the agency hires in the coming months won’t be ready to work checkpoint lanes during the FIFA World Cup this summer," according to Politico.
More officers have called out during the stalemate, especially at major airports, which has prompted security screening lanes to consolidate, resulting in longer lines and wait times. Smaller airports have considered closing if they can't have enough staff, she explained....
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Everything Trump touches dies.
The Bottom Is Falling Out for Trump — William Kristol
To hear Donald Trump tell it, a peace deal with Iran is basically a done deal by now—all over but the photo op. “We’ve won this. The war has been won,” he said yesterday in the Oval Office, adding that Iran had extended an olive branch in the form of “a very significant prize” that they “said they were going to give.” (He did not elaborate.)
Later, Iran rattled off its demands for peace, as the Wall Street Journal reports: the closure of all U.S. bases in the Gulf, the lifting of U.S. sanctions on Iran and financial reparations for targets bombed, permission for Iran to keep its missile program, security guarantees against further attacks both on Iran and on Hezbollah in Lebanon, and a new permission structure for the Strait of Hormuz that would allow Iran to collect fees from ships passing through in perpetuity.
So, you know—we guess the deal will be somewhere between those two poles. Best of luck to all the diplomats; we want to see a good, clean game out there. Happy Wednesday.
No ICE. No War. No Kings....
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The end approaches.
Trump’s daily briefing is a 2-minute video — and even his inner circle is worried — Sarah K. Burris
President Donald Trump's daily briefing is leaving some of his allies concerned he's not getting a full picture about what's happening on the ground in Iran.
NBC News reported Wednesday that the Presidential Daily Briefing (PDB) is a two-minute-long montage video that can keep Trump's notoriously short attention span.
Politico reported in May 2025 that Trump had only done 12 daily briefings in four months.
"The low number of briefings this time around is troubling to many in and around the intelligence community, who were already concerned about Trump’s act-first-evaluate-after approach to governing," Politico wrote at the time.
Now Trump is doing the briefings, but they're only two minutes long. Trump's favorite song, "YMCA," lasts longer than the daily intelligence briefings at 3:49. The videos essentially show “stuff blowing up.”
Three current and a former U.S. official told NBC News they have concerns that the videos are clouding his judgment, which explains why Trump's statements have so many mixed messages.
Trump allies fear that he's not getting the full picture of what's really going on in Iran. Trump stated that the U.S. already won the war, though he's deploying about 1,000 paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne to the Middle East.
The bombing video clips that Trump is shown also fuel his "frustration with news coverage of the war. Trump has pointed to the success depicted in the daily videos to privately question why his administration can’t better influence the public narrative, asking aides why the news media doesn’t emphasize what he’s seeing," the NBC report said, citing one of the current and former officials....
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Maybe if he got sleep at night rather than posting insane rants all night it would help! Sleeping on the job gets you fired at most places.
'Damning' new Jack Smith memo reveals Trump wanted to profit off classified documents — Thomas Kika
New revelations have emerged in President Donald Trump's classified documents case, per a "damning" memo obtained by MS NOW, showing that he seemingly intended to profit from illegally retaining the sensitive materials.
According to the report published Friday, special counsel Jack Smith determined that Trump had retained "secret documents that related to his worldwide business interests," revealing a key potential motive for his dogged efforts to hang onto them. Trump held the documents, often in questionable places, at his Mar-a-Lago resort, after departing the White House in 2021, later insisting that he had the right to retain them and that he had declassified them with his mind before leaving office. He was indicted on 32 felony counts related to his retention of the materials, and an additional eight charges for conspiracy to obstruct justice, but the case was halted after his reelection.
The revelations about Trump's business motive originate from a January 2023 progress memo produced by Smith's office, though the specific businesses and how they relate to the classified information were not disclosed.
“Trump possessed classified documents pertinent to his business interests — establishing a motive for retaining them,” the memo explained. “We must have those documents.”
As MS NOW's report explained, Trump's motive for retaining the materials had, up until now, been largely uncertain. Trump himself has long insisted that he had every right to retain the documents, likening them to the materials kept on hand by his predecessors for their presidential libraries. Some reports indicated that Trump seemed to show off the documents to impress people who visited Mar-a-Lago, while other critics warned that he may have been attempting to sell the sensitive information.
"Trump’s reason for taking hundreds of pages of classified documents when he left office in January 2021 — and then concealing them when the Justice Department subpoenaed him for their return in May 2022 — has been one of the larger mysteries of the case," MS NOW explained. "FBI agents conducting an unannounced search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in August 2022 discovered hundreds more pages of top-secret records that Trump and his lawyers had failed to return to the government after claiming they had fully returned all classified materials."...
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The biggest con job on America in our history!
The Dead and the Dying in Trump’s American Gulag — Rebecca Gordon
The March 4, 2026, edition of the Arizona Daily Star put the facts succinctly: “A Haitian asylum seeker held for four months at Florence Correctional Center died Monday at a Scottsdale hospital due to complications from an infected tooth.” It seems the infection spread from his tooth to his lungs, and he developed the pneumonia that killed him.
In other words, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) allowed a prisoner to die of a toothache. His name was Emmanuel Damas. He was 56 years old and the father of two.
And we can only expect medical treatment at ICE centers to deteriorate further. As Judd Legum at Popular Information reported in January 2026:
“ICE… has not paid any third-party providers for medical care for detainees since October 3, 2025. Last week, ICE posted a notice on an obscure government website announcing it will not begin processing such claims until at least April 30, 2026. Until then, medical providers are instructed ‘to hold all claims submissions.’”
Emmanuel Damas’s unnecessary death would be outrageous enough, were it the only one of its kind. In fact, 32 people died in ICE custody during 2025, the most in two decades. Another six died in January 2026 alone, among them Geraldo Lunas Campos, a Cuban father aged 55, at Camp East Montana detention center in El Paso, Texas.
Although ICE initially claimed Lunas Campos had attempted suicide, the American Immigration Council reports that “the El Paso County Medical Examiner ruled his death was a homicide arising from asphyxia due to neck and torso compression.” Of course, it’s pretty hard to strangle yourself to death. Witnesses, however, described his murder this way: “Mr. Lunas Campos was handcuffed, while at least five guards held him down and one guard squeezed his neck until he was unconscious.” At least one other man has died at the Camp East Montana detention center, where tuberculosis and measles are also spreading....
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The Trump Damned.
Bannon Exposes Trump’s 2026 “Test Run,” and It’s Already Happening — Thom Hartmann
Bannon just pulled back the curtain on a strategy that ties together recent events in a way that’s getting harder and harder to dismiss
Steve Bannon, an enthusiastic advocate of authoritarianism, dropped the mask this week. On his War Room podcast, while interviewing far-right lawyer Mike Davis, Bannon said plainly what the Trump administration has been dancing and weaving around for months:
“We can use this as a test run, as a test case, to really perfect ICE’s involvement in the 2026 midterm elections.”
There it is. Not a conspiracy theory. And definitely not liberal hand-wringing. The man himself, in his own words, explaining exactly what’s going on at airports across the country right now.
I’ve been writing and talking about authoritarian playbooks for decades, including in my book The Hidden History of American Oligarchy: Reclaiming Our Democracy from the Ruling Class, and they almost always follow the same predictable script.
First, you exploit (Reichstag Fire, 9/11) or manufacture (“Border invasion,” Iran attack) a crisis. Use that to change the laws to give yourself more power as you flood public spaces with your militarized enforcers under the cover of “helping.”
Then you normalize it. Have you noticed how stories about ICE brutalizing and killing people have gone from the front pages to occasional mentions on social media?
Then you expand it. ICE has gone national, massive databases of protesters are being organized, and Trump this weekend came right out and said that his next target will be Democrats, who he called America’s “greatest enemy,” using the “Democrat Party” slur that Joe McCarthy suggested Republicans should always use:
“Now with the death of Iran, the greatest enemy America has is the Radical Left, Highly Incompetent, Democrat Party!”...
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Pure evil incarnate.
Firestorm follows Trump plan to destroy Jefferson-era White House fixtures — Matthew Rozsa
"This jack—— in the f—— White House is destroying a permanent structure that can't come back," former Rep. Joe Walsh (R-Ill.) said on his Substack earlier in March. "He can't do this on his own! There's a rigorous, rigorous process to mess with the restructuring, structural changes of the White House, and he just blows right through all of that!"
Walsh was not alone. After the White House announced its decision to demolish the East Wing, they received over 9,000 pages of public comments with “barely any supportive missives.” The remarks included comments like "complete DISASTER,” "NO GAUDY FAKE GOLD STUFF ALL OVER THE PLACE,” “no one wants to be in an adjunct building in a large crowd with lengthened security protocols,” “eyesore,” “abomination” and “appalling.”
Even a sitting Republican lawmaker, Rep. Michael Turner (R-Ohio), expressed dismay at the East Wing’s destruction.
"The stark images of the East Wing demolished in mere days were deeply disturbing to Americans who cherish preservation of our nation's history," Turner wrote in the comments....
"trump must be rendered impotent." — Rufus T. Birddog (comments)
"I'll be happy to help pay for the replacement after he is is hung on the National Mall." — Don Quixonke (comments)
"President Pedophile is just white trash. He has no taste. The White House will look like the trashiest whorehouse by the time he is ejected out of office, assuming he hasn't torn most of it down." — Jack Rance (commentsO
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Trump has no taste. He's a novice when it comes to that.
Trump’s spiraling war fits 'classic escalation spiral' of his past failures: NYT analysis — Thomaas Kika
"If anything, Trump is caught in a classic escalation spiral," Bouie wrote. "When one approach fails, in this case the initial airstrikes, he moves to the next. When that fails, he bids higher. And when escalation still doesn’t produce the desired result — when he faces the choice between accepting defeat or stalemate or going even further — he goes further. Which is how we have arrived closer and closer to the use of ground troops: Thousands of Marines — and now paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne — are headed to the Middle East as Trump weighs a new offensive tied to either the Strait of Hormuz or Iranian nuclear materials."...
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This is called losing!
Democrat Pulls Off Stunning Upset In Trump's Backyard — Ed Scarce
"Democrat Emily Gregory on Tuesday won a special election for the Florida state House district that includes President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort."
Trump didn't want the embarrassment of a Democrat winning, so he even voted by mail in this one, and endorsed and heavily promoted her opponent, but alas, to no avail. Oh well, sucks to be him.
And congratulations to Democrat Emily Gregory, who just won in another red district, a place that Trump carried easily in 2024....br>
Gregory beat Republican Jon Maples, who had been endorsed by Trump, in the race for a seat that has been vacant since August. Palm Beach County Clerk Mike Caruso left the seat empty when he resigned from the legislature last year and was appointed to his current office.
Gregory had 51% of the vote to 49% for Maples with all precincts reporting.
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Everything Trump touches dies!
Christian Nationalist Megachurch Pastor Running For California Gov “Heals” Audience By Blowing On Them
First, the Christian Post has some backstory:
Pastor Ché Ahn was waiting for a sign. Before announcing his candidacy for governor of California in June, the 69-year-old pastor, author and global ministry leader experienced what he calls a divine calling. “On April 28th at 2:22 in the morning, I woke up and I had an encounter with the Holy Spirit,” Ahn said. But when he realized he was being called to run for governor of California, Ahn recalled his initial response: “Please God, not that.”
Seeking confirmation, Ahn says he prayed for an invitation to the White House, which materialized days later: “I said, ‘Lord, if this is of you, let me be invited by President Trump to the White House.’” When he returned from a prayer meeting, Ahn received a text saying he would be receiving an email from the White House. “When I got the email, I said, ‘OK, Lord, I’m in, I’ll do it.’”
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Blow jobs always work!
The suckers come cheap these days.
Another Nazi con man coming in the name of the Lord. LMAO!
Activist Group Renames Larry Ellison’s Superyacht
Mediaite has the transcript:
This is Larry Ellison’s $160 million superyacht, moored up on the French Riviera. It’s called the Musashi, but not for long, because we’re about to rename it. Ellison is the world’s sixth richest man. He’s a big Donald Trump supporter and a close friend of Benjamin Netanyahu.
He once offered the Israeli prime minister a job at his company and Netanyahu’s family has holidayed on his private island. Ellison is also the largest private donor to the Israeli military. Trump recently handed the Ellison family control of TikTok in the U.S. Almost immediately, prominent pro-Palestinian voices were silenced.
Last year, the Ellison’s bought Paramount, giving them control of CBS News. The channel’s coverage of the attack on Iran has been notably pro-war, and the Ellisons will soon take over Warner Brothers, giving them control of CNN. U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth recently denounced CNN for being insufficiently supportive of Trump’s war on Iran.
Hegseth said he couldn’t wait for the Ellisons to take over the channel, and Trump himself listed the CNN takeover as one of his “wins.” And that is why we renamed the superyacht, “The Trump Propagandist.” The billionaires are buying up the news to support their friends, the politicians pitching our world into chaos and war. Then they jump onto their superyachts, accountable to nobody.
"Wish they could have painted it blood red" — Dwight Williamson (comments)
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"Plastic Man" gets yacht painted.
REPORT: Trump Had Business Motive For Stealing Docs
MS Now reports:
Special counsel Jack Smith gathered evidence that then-candidate Donald Trump took many top-secret documents that related to his worldwide business interests, and investigators considered this a likely motive for Trump concealing them at his Florida club after he left the White House, according to newly released case records.
The special prosecutor also had evidence indicating that after leaving office Trump had shown a classified map to passengers on a private plane, including his future chief of staff Susie Wiles, and took at least one document that was so secret only six people had authority to review it, according to a memo reviewed by MS NOW and cited by the House Judiciary Committee’s ranking Democrat, Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland.
Trump’s reason for taking hundreds of pages of classified documents when he left office in January 2021 — and then concealing them when the Justice Department subpoenaed him for their return in May 2022 — has been one of the larger mysteries of the case.
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Just more of the same old shit on the criminal whom we aren't allowed to arrest and charge!
'All doors have shut' for Trump as Europe’s rejection leaves him 'isolated and enraged' — Nick Hilden
As the global impacts of the war on Iran have spiraled beyond his control, President Donald Trump is finding that “all doors have shut” when it comes to military support from allies, says the i Paper.
While an increasingly “isolated and enraged” Trump has sought help handling the situation at the Strait of Hormuz — the closure of which has sent oil prices skyrocketing and shocked markets around the world — European leaders have been frank with their response to his requests.
“It’s not our war,” declared Kaja Kallas, the European Union’s top diplomat, at a recent summit on whether the EU should become militarily involved. United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer echoed her sentiments, saying the UK would not be drawn into “a wider war.”
“COWARDS,” responded Trump, calling NATO a “PAPER TIGER” while insisting that the endeavor would be nothing more than “a simple military maneuver.” He also posted a video of the British version of Saturday Night Live mocking Starmer.
His response is hardly surprising, as it is part of a protracted campaign he’s waged over the course of his presidencies. “Trump has often insulted European leaders,” notes the i Paper, “humiliating them not only at a personal level but also diminishing them in the eyes of their people.”
If Trump hoped to bully allied leaders into entering the war, his efforts have had the exact opposite effect.
“Not one but all doors have shut,” said Grégoire Roos, director for Europe, Russia and Eurasia at the international affairs think tank Chatham House, explaining that Britain and the EU were “relatively united” in their opposition to the war.
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Trump got his foot caught!
MAGA Shitposter Named “Special Envoy For Tourism”
Mediaite reports:
Nick Adams, the “Alpha Male” social media influencer known for posting about his passion for Hooters, “boobs,” and “beautiful curvy women,” announced on Tuesday that President Donald Trump had appointed him to serve as Special Presidential Envoy for Tourism.
“MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT,” read a statement posted to Adam’s social media on Tuesday morning. “President Trump has appointed Nick Adams to the position of Special Presidential Envoy for American Tourism, Exceptionalism, and Values.”
Adams had previously been nominated by Trump to serve as U.S. ambassador to Malaysia. However, it was reported last month that Adams’ nomination had been dropped following backlash in Malaysia, where the commentator’s history of criticizing Islam was poorly received.
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Anyone actually believe this Nazi moron will help tourism in the US? LMAO!
German President: Trump’s “Disastrous War Is Illegal”
Politico Europe reports:
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Tuesday condemned U.S. President Donald Trump for going to war with Iran, calling the conflict a violation of international law and warning of a transatlantic rupture comparable to Germany’s break with Russia.
Steinmeier’s role in German politics is largely ceremonial, but his sharp criticism of the war and the U.S. president is likely to put additional pressure on German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, who has stopped short of other European leaders in calling the war illegal even as he has grown increasingly critical of what he sees as the lack of an exit strategy on the part of the U.S. and Israel.
“This war violates international law,” said Steinmeier, who is a member of the center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD), which rules in a coalition with Merz’s conservatives and has been more critical of the ongoing attacks. “There is little doubt that, in any case, the justification of an imminent attack on the U.S. does not hold water,” he added.
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Trump will not defeat our planet!
Trump Says He Made Memphis Safer. Locals Told Me It Felt Like 1930s Germany or North Korea. — Samantha Michaels
President Donald Trump visited Memphis on Monday to praise a surge in federal law enforcement there, while some locals took to the streets to protest the surge.
“For years, our leaders allowed entire cities in America to be destroyed by crime, drugs, and gang violence,” he said during a roundtable discussion about the Memphis Safe Task Force, which launched in September. “Tolerating this violence was always a choice.”
Trump credited the task force—a collaboration of more than 30 local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies, and the subject of my recent Mother Jones investigation—with a substantial drop in crime in Memphis over last year. Officers have arrested more than 7,000 people.
But protesters say the task force also has changed daily life in less desirable ways. Police are riding around with immigration officers, who ask people of color for proof of citizenship. The law enforcement presence is so pervasive that immigrants have been sheltering at home, afraid to shop for groceries or bring their kids to school.
In November, I saw this firsthand during a visit. I hid in a dark apartment with terrified immigrant parents and their citizen children, who told me they didn’t go outside much anymore because they were scared of police. I also drove around town and talked to activists, business owners, cops, local politicians, teachers, volunteers, and ordinary people. One resident compared the vibe to 1930s Germany—helicopters circling overhead, National Guard patrolling downtown, unmarked law enforcement vehicles roaming the streets, and immigrant citizens carrying their US passports, lest they be detained.
Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris, a Democrat who opposed the task force, speculated that crime—which had been a problem—was dropping at least in part because people weren’t venturing out nearly as much. “Our risk is that [America is] gonna become a Yemen or a North Korea or something else altogether, where there is an armed individual with a semiautomatic weapon and military fatigues on many corners,” he told me. “There may be zero crime, but we also won’t be leaving our houses. I know that’s a dark scenario, but that’s kind of where we are.”
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Atrocities are being commited on American citizens by a dystopian madman who has zero moral authority.
Stand up and tell them, "NO!"
This unbelievable investigation confirms Trump has a bullseye on everyday Americans — Robert Reich
Friends,
The Wall Street Journal — hardly an outpost of left-wing propaganda — reported on the results of an investigation conducted by the Journal’s Hannah Critchfield and her team.
I’m summarizing it below because it deserves your attention.
Critchfield and her team found that 279 people have been accused online by the Trump administration of assaulting federal ICE and Border Patrol agents, and more than half of these people — 64 percent — are American citizens.
Of the 181 American citizens that the Trump administration has accused of attacking federal ICE and Border Patrol officers, close to half have never been charged, and none have been convicted at trial. But the public charges alone have caused them significant harm.
The investigation
The Journal’s team analyzed more than 200 videos associated with allegations of assault against ICE and Border Patrol agents, using both police body camera footage and bystander recordings from social media. Many of the videos cast doubt on the federal government’s claims that agents were assaulted.
The Journal also reviewed more than 100,000 posts on X, posts made in the last year by accounts linked to government agencies and senior government officials.
Each time the government identified a person on a post, the Journal tracked that case through the legal system to see what charges were brought, under what statute, whether the charges were later modified, and what happened to the person in the case....
When Reid was being arrested, she dropped her phone, but the phone was still recording. An agent picked up the phone and put it into the same vehicle that she was riding in on her way to detention.
One officer says: “We’re at the D.C. jail. We’re at the D.C. jail. We have an agitator in custody for ...”
Reid was handcuffed in the backseat. You can hear agents going back and forth about exactly how Reid had assaulted them. First, it was a raised knee, then an elbow.
Another officer: “Yeah, it appeared that there was an elbow that was ... When she was resisting, but she definitely interfered. So we have interfering and I’m going to get ...”
One of the ICE agents called her a stupid female as he was talking to a colleague: “Hey brother, are you good? I have to return to 1D and process this stupid female now that I f---ing don’t want to process her.”
Reid was held by federal authorities for roughly two days. She wasn’t allowed to make a phone call during that time....
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Read more to see just how filthy and oppressive Trump is with his distorted mnid.
We live in a Banana Republic thanks to the throwbacks.
What Happened to Trump…and Why It Explains Everything Happening Right Now — Thom Hartmann
The forces that shaped him didn’t stay in the past: they grew with power, fueling the cruelty and chaos now hitting your wallet, your safety, and America’s place in the world…
When a gentle, thoughtful, holy man like Pope Leo XIV denounces what Trump has done by killing thousands in an illegal and unnecessary war of choice — he called it a “scandal to ?the whole human family” yesterday — the world knows our president has descended into something truly and profoundly evil.
There’s a single through-line connecting everything happening to us right now, and it all has to do with the damaged, broken, deranged man in the White House.
— Our gas prices spiking toward six dollars a gallon and above.
— Masked, anonymous, unaccountable thugs brutalizing brown and Black people, immigrants and US citizens alike, and murdering or killing almost a hundred human beings since Trump was sworn in as they build hundreds of massive concentration camps across the US.
— Trump’s tweets yesterday implying that Democrats may be their next occupants, calling members of the party “America’s greatest threat after Iran” much as Hitler did just before throwing members of opposition parties into camps in Germany in 1933/1934.
— Our grocery bills creeping higher every single week, with price explosions and famine coming as the world runs low on fertilizers now blocked in the Strait of Hormuz.
— TSA officers working without a paycheck snarling our security lines while food banks quietly open at our nation’s airports to feed those unpaid agents and their families.
— American soldiers and innocent civilians dying in an unconstitutional, unauthorized-by-Congress, internationally illegal war crime against a country that posed no imminent threat to us, with not a single ally on the planet willing to stand beside us, as over 20 countries have now been drawn in creating an eerie echo of WWI.
— And now, in one of the most breathtaking acts of strategic self-destruction in American history (it’s almost as if Putin is orchestrating the entire thing), we’re literally paying Iran and Russia billions of dollars every day to kill our men and women in uniform....
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As Thomm says, Trump is a sick man. It's sad there are people who don't realize it.
Omar Condemns Cuba Oil Blockade as “Economic Warfare” Amid Third Total Blackout — Sharon Zhang
Activists on the Nuestra América humanitarian aid convoy arrived over the weekend, as the island went dark.
he U.S.’s oil blockade on Cuba, a small island country already suppressed from decades of a comprehensive U.S. embargo, amounts to “economic warfare,” the purpose of which is to “suffocate” the country, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota) said on Saturday as Cuba was plunged into its second nationwide blackout in a week.
“We must lift the US oil blockade on Cuba. This is economic warfare designed to suffocate an island,” Omar wrote on social media on Saturday. “Food is spoiling. Water supply is compromised. Healthcare services are disrupted. End the blockade now.”
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Our Nazi leaders are stamping on human rights. There is no morality in this latest Trump atrocitry.
ICE Raids and Medicaid Cuts Put Both Caregivers and Their Patients at Risk — Eleanor J. Bader
People nearing retirement age have experienced some of the largest price increases for Affordable Care Act plans.
John Galvin knows he needs a colonoscopy. But he’s waiting to schedule the procedure until December, when he turns 65 and qualifies for Medicare.
He was already thinking about delaying it — then his monthly Obamacare insurance premium payment tripled this year to $2,460, about a third of his income, he said. And with a $2,700 deductible, he’d be on the hook for most of the diagnostic exam, a financial hit he said he couldn’t stomach.
“It was going to cost close to $3,000,” said Galvin, who lives in North Kingstown, Rhode Island, and recently retired as director of a durable medical equipment company. “I put it off.”
Galvin said his wife, Nancy, is delaying a costly CT scan for a few years until she too qualifies for Medicare, so it can foot the bill. The federal health program offers coverage for all Americans 65 and older....
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And that's assuming we still have a civilization left then.
War Is Hell for People and the Earth — Rick Steiner
By any measure, Homo sapiens is one of the most violent animals on Earth. At any one time today, humans are engaged in over 100 armed conflicts and wars across the world, many with a resource component—oil, diamonds, gold, timber, territory, water. In the 20th century alone, over 130 million people were killed directly in war, 210 million if including government killings in non-war situations. The United Nations now reports that the world is entering “a new era” of increasing violence and conflict, and that “unresolved regional tensions, a breakdown in the rule of law, absent or co-opted state institutions, illicit economic gain, and the scarcity of resources exacerbated by climate change, have become dominant drivers of conflict.” Such extraordinary intraspecific violence seems to be unique to humans....
But perhaps the most troubling aspect of modern civilization is the development and threatened use of nuclear weapons, now numbering roughly 14,000 across the world, with a combined explosive yield more than 360,000 times that of the Hiroshima detonation. This global nuclear weapons stockpile, many of which are on a hair-trigger ready to launch, creates significant risk of accidental launch, as well as unsecured weapons (“loose nukes”) being acquired and used by malevolent actors.
The environmental effects of full-scale nuclear war would put at risk much of human civilization and the planetary biosphere. Firestorms from a full-scale nuclear war would suspend millions of tons of black soot into the upper atmosphere, leading to abrupt and unprecedented climate impacts including “nuclear winter,” with global cooling and reduced photosynthesis, causing years of crop failures, famine, and ecological collapse.
As nuclear tensions have risen, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists has now set its “Doomsday Clock” at 85 seconds to midnight, closer than ever in history to nuclear annihilation, a move it says “should be taken as an indication of extreme danger and an unmistakable warning that every second of delay in reversing course increases the probability of global disaster.”
We are, and must be, better than this....
War and environment are reciprocal drivers of decline—environmental degradation leads to war, and war leads to environmental degradation. Put simply, war and environment don’t mix—war is hell on people and the natural environment.
Given the increasing violence across the world, it is essential that the international community more seriously address the environmental impacts of war as a persistent threat to the biosphere. The Geneva Conventions must be updated to specifically and unambiguously define their environmental protections; to establish an international legal mechanism—independent of nation-states—to arbitrate and prosecute claims of environmental damage from war and to impose sufficient consequences for violators; and to hold the perpetrators of conflict financially liable for environmental damage and restoration post conflict.
For now, all combatants, including those in the current Persian Gulf war, must abide by these agreed environmental protections during conflict.
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We won't be better until we get moral and sane leaders. We cannot be any better with the immoral trash we have at the helm now.
Who Will Govern AI? — Robert Kuttner
How to regulate artificial intelligence is becoming a major public issue. One set of questions involves national security. Will AI companies be allowed to do business with, and in, China at their pleasure? Nvidia has just secured permission to ship its H200 chips to China and is trying to get President Trump’s approval for its even more powerful Blackwell chips. These chips are already being smuggled into China using third-country subterfuges.
Another threat involves the use of AI in espionage, creation of fake news, and disruption of U.S. elections. A third issue is consumer protections. Walmart just won a patent for AI-based dynamic pricing.
More from Robert Kuttner
There are also challenges like AI’s impact on jobs, AI porn, chatbots leading to suicides, and AI copyright infringements. Fake music created by AI bots has pilfered untold sums from music streaming sites and legitimate musicians. All of this will only worsen as AI becomes more sophisticated.
The AI industry wants self-regulation—basically no regulation—and the Trump administration is totally captive to the industry. Trump’s top officials on AI policy are protégés of Palantir’s Peter Thiel, who epitomizes all that is pernicious about Big Tech. AI czar David Sacks, who co-authored a book with Thiel, and Office of Science and Technology Policy chief Michael Kratsios, Thiel’s former chief of staff, have followed the industry’s wishes on AI to the letter.
In January 2025, Trump rescinded a Biden order that directed companies to notify the government when they developed models that posed health, economic, or national security risks, which Trump’s order characterized as barriers to innovation. The administration’s own AI blueprint, unveiled last July, emphasized promoting AI use at home and as an export industry. “America must once again be a country where innovators are rewarded with a green light, not strangled by red tape,” Trump said at a tech industry event.
The recent Anthropic case has shown that when self-regulation threatens to turn ethical, it will be slapped down. The Pentagon squeezed Anthropic out when its CEO, Dario Amodei, refused to allow its AI product, Claude, to be used for mass surveillance of Americans or for autonomous lethal weapons.
In the absence of federal safeguards, several states have acted. The Colorado AI Act law includes data privacy standards and protections against “algorithmic discrimination.” Other states, including California, Illinois, New York, and Utah, have passed laws restricting the use of AI in automated employment decisions; limiting how chatbots can be used in mental health services; and protecting people from the unauthorized use of their images, voices, or likenesses. The Trump administration’s response is to press for federal preemption, unsuccessfully so far.
You might expect that national Democrats would be more alert to these threats. But just as in the case of crypto, AI has scads of money to spread around, and Democrats are divided.
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Money is power. Power corrupts. We live in a world of corrupt leaders.
'Stop being snarky!' Republican Marsha Blackburn snaps at ex-FBI special agent — David Edwards
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) snapped at former FBI special agent Christopher O'Leary after he testified that Director Kash Patel had damaged the bureau with political purges.
During a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing on Tuesday, senators spoke to three witnesses about the DOJ's Arctic Frost investigation into President Donald Trump's alleged election crimes and the mishandling of classified documents.
"Now, my colleague across the aisle seems to have a problem with Kash Patel, and you made a statement that you think he's made our country less safe," Blackburn told O'Leary. "Do you own that statement?"
"Yes, I do, ma'am," the former special agent replied.
"You do own that statement," Blackburn said. "Have you heard of Memphis, Tennessee? Are you fully aware of what the FBI and the federal government has accomplished in Memphis, Tennessee?"
"Yes," O'Leary acknowledged. "I think using FBI agents as part of a joint task force to reduce violent crime is very important, and I'm aware of their effectiveness there. Yes, ma'am."
"Are you aware that there have been over 9,000 arrests of violent criminals?" Blackburn asked.
"If you say so, yes, ma'am," O'Leary said. "It certainly makes that jurisdiction, Memphis, a safer community."
"Would you say that finding 150 missing children helps make this country more safe?" Blackburn pressed.
"Yes, it does, and the FBI has been doing that for decades, ma'am," O'Leary advised.
"And in Memphis, it's 153," Blackburn remarked. "You can stop being snarky, too! That would help!"
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"Snarky?" He answered all her questions in complete sentences. She can stop being a big asswipe hag.
Trump blurts out 'striking admission' on Iran — and signals big problem: report — Tom Boggioni
Donald Trump's improvised comments about Iran while boarding Air Force One on Monday demonstrated his chaotic approach to military strategy — and his apparent blindness to critical consequences unfolding around him, according to a report.
The president made a comment revealing that Iran's regional retaliation caught planners of the military action against the country off guard.
"Look at the way Iran attacked unexpectedly all of those countries surrounding them. That was not supposed to-- nobody was even thinking about it," the president conceded before reasserting without substantiation, "But they wanted to take over the Middle East."
The remarks prompted analysis from New Republic correspondent Greg Sargent and Matt Duss, executive vice president at the Center for International Policy.
Sargent highlighted the troubling implications on his podcast. "He said no one anticipated that Iran would attack other countries in an effort to widen the war," he commented. "But in saying that, Trump revealed that he didn't anticipate it — which is a striking admission about his own lack of foresight."...
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The old man has real cognitive problems as everyone can see except the blind.
ICE agents record themselves inventing charges after picking up detainee's phone: report — Alexander Willis
Washington, D.C. resident Sidney Reid was acquitted last year after being charged with assaulting and impeding federal officers during an immigration enforcement operation, and in a recent interview with The Wall Street Journal, revealed that a secret recording may very well have spared her from 20 years behind bars.
“If I didn’t have the video, I would 100% be in jail right now,” Reid told the Journal for its investigative report earlier this month.
Federal immigration enforcement agents were approaching a D.C. jail last year after having received a tip from a jailer that an alleged undocumented migrant was set to be released — a tip that the Journal noted was a potential violation of D.C. law.
As the agents approached the jail, witness Reid pulled out her cell phone to record the operation, and was immediately ordered to stop, video reviewed by the Journal revealed. She refused, and she was arrested and charged with felony assault and impeding.
However, when agents took Reid’s phone, placed it inside her bag and put the bag in a government vehicle, it continued to record — and captured what Reid characterized as a particularly damning conversation between the arresting agents.
“I have to return to 1d and process this stupid female,” said federal officer Dinko Residovic, the officer who arrested Reid, as heard in the secret video recording.
What the arresting agents discussed next, Reid argued, was what helped her avoid a potentially lengthy prison sentence on a felony assault charge....
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Hitle and Stalin would have loved these shitbags.
Reeling Republican leaders privately denounce Trump's ICE move as 'disaster': MS NOW host -- Tom Boggioni
Reeling Republican lawmakers dreading a midterm wipe-out are seeing their chances of holding both chambers of Congress further diminished by Donald Trump sending ICE agents into already troubled airports.
According to MS NOW’s Willie Geist, the nation’s focus has been on the travel chaos brought about by TSA agents skipping work because they are not being paid — for which he said Republicans are being blamed, despite them trying to make Democrats responsible.
And the president has exacerbated the fury by mixing the already reviled ICE agents into the mix, he said....
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The bonehead continues to be ignorant.
Key Trump ally may be headed for defeat — Alex Henderson
In Hungary's April 12 parliamentary elections, Orbán's leadership will either be retained or rejected. And he is getting a glowing endorsement from Trump, who praised him as a "fantastic guy." Trump, on his Truth Social platform, wrote, "Viktor Orbán is a true friend, fighter, and WINNER, and has my Complete and Total Endorsement for Re-Election as Prime Minister of Hungary."...
The public debate in Hungary has shifted dramatically: the question is no longer whether the opposition can win, but whether Orbán will accept defeat."
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Does this asshole thinks Hungary gives a shit about his fascist lameness? Will Trump accept it? No, because the crook, along with his slugs on SCOTUS, are trying to rig it for him. Suckers galore!
ICE Agents Are Doing Nothing To Speed TSA Lines
USA Today reports:
ICE agents have arrived at some U.S. airports aiming to help with long waits amid the partial government shutdown, but one traveler at John F. Kennedy International Airport tells USA TODAY that so far, “It’s not helping.” Both masked and unmasked ICE agents in marked vests were seen at JFK and Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, where travelers were still reporting long airport security waits.
Nate Bien was waiting in line for a flight to Guatemala for half an hour and still had a long way to go. “It’s a mess,” he said. He didn’t see how ICE patrols were alleviating the situation, either. “It’s not helping,” he said. “They’re not helping to reduce that,” he added, pointing at the line ahead of him. Asked if he saw them interacting with any passengers or helping the lines, he replied, “No, nothing. Not that we saw.”
"Well, of course ICE patrols are not helping to reduce the painfully long lines. That’s not why they were assigned to the airports. They’re there to acclimatize Americans to their “benign” presence so that, come November, voters don’t raise a stink when ICE agents swarm polling locations." — DevilDog (comments)
"This isn't the first time a fascist regime has subjected people to long lines threatened by armed thugs." — Stogiebear (comments, shows photo of Hitler's Germany)
"May every one of these gestapo pricks (and their families) be doxxed and their lives ruined." — Phil da Bern (commentsO
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Homan says they are they to arrest people!
This is all a test for the election this fall. Nazi intimidation.
These people are a disgrace to America and to their race. They must hate America deeply.
At least we can see their faces and ID the traitors. And be assured, they are traitors.
Boebert Busted Lying About ICE At Minneapolis Airport
The Daily Beast reports:
MAGA Rep. Lauren Boebert has been caught out in an embarrassing attempt to praise President Donald Trump’s demand to install ICE officers in airports. Gushing over Trump’s installation of ICE officers, Boebert posted a gleeful video on her social media on Monday afternoon claiming there’d been an immediate impact in Minneapolis thanks to the new security.
“ICE agents show up at airports,” her video was captioned. She stated, “While the rest of our country has three-plus-hour waits–thanks Democrats–in Minneapolis Airport’s TSA, wait time right now is less than five minutes,” Boebert said. She laughed, adding that she “called it” and “you can’t make this stuff up!!”
However, it appeared Boebert may have been woefully misinformed. No ICE agents had been deployed to the city’s biggest airport, Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, or any other airports in Minnesota.
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BoBo! Clueless and worthless failure!
Ogles Invokes Crusades In Christian Nationalist Post
2 Paragraphs reports:
MAGA-aligned U.S. Representative Andy Ogles (R-TN) has been condemned by lawmakers on both sides of the aisle recently for spewing “vile Islamophobic” remarks, including writing on social media: “Muslims don’t belong in American society. Pluralism is a lie.”
Ogles on Monday shared an AI-generated video of himself dressed in an armored suit of the type worn by Christian Crusaders, with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio also pictured in the armor.
Ogles captioned the image: “This is a battle of good vs evil. We must reaffirm that our nation was built on Christian principles.”
"Do 'Christian Principles' include stealing memorial funds from dead fetuses like Ogles did?
Asking for a friend." — xzargo (comments)
"Anyone who has studied history knows that the Crusades did not end well for the Christians. All the Christian states in Outremer were eventually subsumed back into Muslim control." — madknits (comments)
"I can only hope all three go the way of many Crusaders and soon die of syphillis." — Dazzer (comments)
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Talibastards! Miscreants! White Trash! The same radical muslims they rage against! Eliminate these haters from the planet! YOU DON"T BELONG IN AMERICA SOCIETY!
These would-be "Crusaders" have no idea what happened to them the first time they tried this shit.
Trump Asks If He Could Have Beaten Elvis In Fistfight
The Associated Press reports:
President Donald Trump took a surprise tour of Elvis Presley’s Graceland on Monday while in Memphis, a diversion from the war in Iran and efforts to address long lines at U.S. airports during which he marveled at just how famous the King of Rock and Roll was and wondered aloud if he could have beaten him in a fight. Trump also marveled at Presley’s gold-plated Social Security card, suggesting that the style of card might be something authorities might want to bring back.
The president was handed a guitar to sign by a Graceland guide who pulled on gloves to handle special objects. The instrument was a replica of one used by Presley during his famous “Aloha From Hawaii” concert in 1973, the president was told. After being told that Elvis had not actually played the guitar he’d signed, Trump grew reflective. “Could I have taken him in a fight?” he asked of Elvis, whom he lamented having never met.
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What else does one need to prove this idiot knucklehead is deluded?
Bill Kristol: Trump Is in Way over His Head — Tim MIller
The man in charge is bluffing, blustering, and trying to manipulate the markets by claiming that the administration is in negotiations with Iran and was holding off on further military strikes. Israel's reaction was to drop more bombs on Iran, and the regime itself used Trump's own lines against him in its response. In any event, Iran has shown it can close the Strait of Hormuz, which is much more of a power move than the degradation of Tehran's missile capacity. With the war hitting Americans financially in their daily lives—and Trump now refusing a deal to fund TSA—the Dems have to hammer home that it's POTUS who has delivered higher gas prices and long lines at the airport. Plus, JD is in a job bind, the head of FEMA has a teleporting issue, and Trump showed utter depravity over the passing of Bob Mueller....
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And the world knows it.
Trump Doesn’t Have the Cards — Jonathan V. Last
1. Negotiation
We will, eventually, get a negotiated settlement with Iran. There will be no change of the Iranian regime, nor unconditional surrender. Which means that President Trump will have failed to achieve his primary war aims.
This fact alone demonstrates that Trump does not have, as the saying goes, “the cards.”
The only real question is how much damage Trump inflicts on America (and the rest of the world) before he folds. Broadly speaking, I can see two possible paths. One is quite bad for America; the other is worse....
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Count the failures.
Trump: When footwear becomes fealty — The Week US
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has a pair. So do Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick; Vice President JD Vance reportedly has four. They’re Florsheim dress shoes beloved by Donald Trump, said Andrew Egger in The Bulwark, which members of his Cabinet are slavishly wearing in the sort of “fealty” display usually associated with “totalitarian regimes.” Trump so loves the $145 black shoes, The Wall Street Journal reported last week, that he’s gifted them to “all the men in his office.” Sometimes guessing at sizes, he often gets them wrong—but, one female White House aide told the paper, “it’s hysterical because everybody’s afraid not to wear them.” Photos show Cabinet members sporting identical shoes—with Rubio in particular clomping around “in outrageously large Oxfords” that must cause him blisters. The secretary of state “resembles a small child playing dress-up” in Daddy’s shoes, said Marina Hyde in The Guardian. Serving El Jefe, he and others have learned, requires “submitting utterly to his regular humiliations.”
Forcing underlings to copy your style is “a classic dictator trope,” said Miles Taylor in Defiance.news. Think of Mao Zedong and the“Mao Suit”; Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein and the thick black mustache widely aped by subordinates; the military tunic that under Joseph Stalin became “the unofficial costume” of every Soviet apparatchik. Wearing his chosen Florsheims is a “loyalty test” for Trump, and it “identifies who can be controlled.” There’s another subtext in Rubio’s oversize “clown shoes,” said Anna Cafolla in Vogue. The Journal reported that Trump asked Vance and Rubio for information before ordering their Florsheims and said, “You can tell a lot about a man by his shoe size.” Did Rubio, who gave his as 11½, inflate the number because of the myth that “correlates a man’s shoe size and his penis length?”
The Rubio photo tells us “where we are at this moment in Trump’s second administration,” said Tina Brown in her Substack newsletter. Like Little Marco, we’re trapped in an “inescapable escape room” in which a wannabe autocrat spouts “vehement ignorance,” launches wars for fun, and demands that aides, allies, corporations, the press, and foreign adversaries bend their knees to him. It’s easy to laugh at the hapless Rubio, but the grim reality is that “we are all wearing Florsheims now.”
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"... but the only kind of shoes for me -- good old Buster Brown Shoes!"
States Sue to Block EPA From Slashing Rule That Allows Greenhouse Gas Regulation — Chris Walker
The rule, established in 2009, provides the legal justification needed to enforce the EPA’s greenhouse gas regulations.
Dozens of U.S. states, alongside city and county governments, have filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), seeking to block the agency from rescinding a rule that allows regulation of greenhouse gases.
The Endangerment Finding, established in 2009, recognizes carbon dioxide and other pollutants as threats to both public health and the welfare of the United States. The finding is used as a legal basis for why the EPA can establish rules and regulations on greenhouse gases.
In February, the agency announced that it would rescind the rule completely, thereby ending the legal justification for myriad regulations and terminating rules on greenhouse gases in one fell swoop....
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America hates the Trump regime!
When Is It Time To Scream About The Trump Regime's Deadly Incompetence? — Marcie Jones
The administration is cruel, it is trifling, but don’t forget it is also deadly incompetent!
Where is the outrage over the search for poor 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie passing the 50-day mark after her January 31 kidnapping, and Kash Patel’s gormless, gutted FBI still without a single suspect or useful clue, even with front-door video of the kidnapper, and footage from two other cameras on the property that he is refusing to release, for some reason? And now the Sheriff of Pima County Chris Nanos is facing a recall election, though authorities arrived promptly to Guthrie’s home that night. And as soon as the kidnapper sent a message by email it became a federal case, so that Nanos couldn’t go and single-handedly solve it even if he wanted to. It’s on the FBI to get camera footage from Google and release it or not, like they did with the other footage, and the local sheriff is the only one who has told the public anything. And Kash Patel is blaming him, without evidence, for withholding evidence. Why isn’t he releasing it? More images of the cars could be helpful. Fox News is in no way curious to know....
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The abject failure we are witnessing day after day should be intolerable to sane humans!
'Not on the same page': Fox News reporter bursts Trump’s MAGA bubble — Thomas Kika
A Fox News reporter on Monday burst President Donald Trump's bubble on the contentious SAVE America Act, reporting that he and Senate Majority Leader John Thune are "not on the same page" when it comes to the math for getting the bill passed.
Trump has demanded that Republicans in Congress make the bill their "no. 1 priority" and has pledged not to sign anything else until it is done. The bill would mostly focus on addressing the president's long-debunked claims about widespread voter fraud from non-citizens by requiring proof of citizenship to register and photo IDs at polling places. The bill, in its current form, would also eliminate virtually all mail-in voting and create new hurdles for women who changed their name after marriage....
He continued: "Republicans contend elections are not secure, even though every major study says voter fraud is extremely rare... Now, President Trump demands that Republicans eliminate the filibuster to pass the bill, but it's about the math. Thune says the Senate lacks the votes to nuke the filibuster. He and the president are not on the same page."
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Trump must be removed. He's deluded to the point of security risk to our country.
'Near collapse': Report warns US aviation 'teetering on the brink of failure — David Badash
The American aviation system seems to be “near collapse,” amid fatal crashes, crumbling airports, stressed-out air traffic controllers — and the latest sign: hours-long TSA security lines, according to a report in The Atlantic.
The most recent fatal airline crash came Sunday evening when an Air Canada Express jet collided with a fire truck at New York’s LaGuardia Airport. Two pilots were killed and dozens of passengers were injured. The airport has been closed since, though it is expected to reopen Monday afternoon.
“A closure at LaGuardia puts pressure on other airports in the area, and they might not be prepared to handle any redirects,” The Atlantic noted. “This morning, reports of smoke in the air-traffic-control tower at Newark Liberty International Airport, just across the Hudson River from New York City, caused a brief ground stop. Officials determined the problem was a burning smell in an elevator and reopened the tower, but this is only the latest sign of how broken Newark airport is.”
There are other examples of a system in crisis....
Graham calls Trump deploying ICE agents to airports “a particularly extreme example of what the political scientist Steven M. Teles has dubbed ‘kludgeocracy,’ in which the government reaches for short-term, improvised solutions while resisting real reform.”...
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Too many examples. I'm afraid.
Trump gives away the game as he becomes 'increasingly erratic': historian — Nick Hilden
Since entering politics, President Donald Trump has become known for his unfiltered way of speaking, which has provided no shortage of memorably unusual statements. In the past year alone, he’s claimed that “affordability is a Democrat scam,” railed incoherently against Tylenol, and asserted that Unabomber Ted Kaczynski was a student of his uncle at MIT — even though Kaczynski didn’t attend the school.
But according to renowned historian Heather Cox Richardson, “Trump’s behavior is increasingly erratic as he lashes out at those he perceives to be enemies.”
As evidence of this, Richardson lists a string of alarming statements and actions by Trump over just the past few days. She says that “the president is under enormous pressure,” and it is becoming evident that, in the absence of any genuine plan for addressing the numerous crises assailing his administration, his panic is showing....
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Paranoiac deluxe!
CA MAGA Sheriff Seizes More Than 500K Ballots From Prop 50 Election — Susie Madrak
Chad Bianco, the Riverside County sheriff and a leading Republican candidate for governor, has seized more than 650,000 ballots from last November's election to determine whether they were fraudulently counted, according to the L.A. Times.
Bianco held a news conference Friday, where he declared, "This investigation is simple: Physically count the ballots and compare that result with the total votes recorded."
His actions drew a sharp rebuke from California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta, who said in a statement that it is "unprecedented in both scope and scale" and appears "not to be based on facts or evidence."
Critics, meanwhile, said Bianco's ballot seizure is a threat to democracy and another attempt by Republican election deniers to disenfranchise voters.
"There is no indication, anywhere in the United States, of widespread voter fraud," Bonta said. "Counts, recounts, hand counts, audits, and court cases all support this."
According to Bonta's office, Bianco's department on Feb. 26 seized about 1,000 boxes of ballot materials in Riverside County related to the November election for Proposition 50, which temporarily redrew the state's congressional districts to favor Democrats in response to partisan redistricting in Republican states, including Texas.
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Sure. Everytime you hand count you get a different number, numbnut! America must not tolerate Nazi wingnuts such as this asshat.
Company To Accept $1B Bribe To Kill US Wind Farms
The New York Times reports:
The Trump administration will pay the French energy giant TotalEnergies nearly $1 billion to abandon its plans to build wind farms off the East Coast, the Interior Department said on Monday at an energy conference in Houston.
Under the unusual deal, TotalEnergies would forfeit its leases in federal waters for two wind farms, which would have been built off New York and North Carolina.
The deal is an extraordinary transfer of taxpayer dollars to a foreign company for the purposes of boosting the production of fossil fuels, a main driver of climate change, while throttling offshore wind power. It comes as the war in the Middle East has shocked global oil markets, prompting concerns about energy supplies..
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Bribery is a crime! This crap must be stopped by ANY means necessary!
Trump To Senators: Pass The SAVE Act “For Jesus”
The Mirror reports:
Donald Trump invoked the name of Jesus Christ in a bid to pressure Congress to pass his election rigging plan. Giving a speech in Memphis, Tennessee, Trump said he was going to order Republicans to withhold funding from DHS until the Senate passes his bill to pass the so-called “SAVE America Act”.
And Trump today demanded the Senate stay in Washington DC over the Easter break to ensure the hugely controversial bill gets passed – even suggesting they do so “for Jesus”.
“So I’m tying homeland security into voter identifications with picture and proof of citizenship in order to vote,” he said. “Don’t worry about Easter, going home. Make this one for Jesus, okay?”...
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What it's like living in a nation of retards.
SCOTUS Likely To Ban Counting Some Mail-In Ballots
The New York Times reports:
The Supreme Court on Monday appeared poised to reject Mississippi’s mail-in ballot law, a decision that could upend mail-in voting throughout the country.
The justices appeared divided along partisan lines, with the court’s six conservatives expressing deep skepticism with Mississippi’s law during arguments held on Monday. The state’s law allows ballots to be counted if they are postmarked by Election Day but received within five business days afterward.
At least 18 other states and territories also allow ballots to be counted so long as they are postmarked by Election Day. The justices repeatedly pressed the lawyer for Mississippi on what is required to make a ballot selection final, suggesting that federal law sets out Election Day as the day ballots should be considered final.
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Some of these idiots couldn't spell "cat" if you spotted them the 'c'"and the 'a'!
They talk about restrincting our criminal president's crime spree and then support voter suppression!
Anyone that wants voting to be suppressed is NO AMERICAN!
Sotomayor Grills RNC Lawyer On Mail-In Ballots: ‘Maybe We Should Have Another President Now? — Alex Griffing
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor challenged Paul Clement, a lawyer for the Republican National Committee, on whether or not President George W. Bush’s 2000 election victory would have been legal should the RNC win its current case before the Supreme Court, which is looking to restrict mail-in voting.
The RNC is arguing before the Supreme Court to defend a conservative federal court that ruled in a case from Mississippi that the state cannot accept mail-in ballots after election day, under federal law. The case is part of President Donald Trump’s push to change election laws to try to combat what he sees as rampant election fraud, although no evidence has ever been made public of election fraud impacting the outcome of U.S. elections....
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Goddamn right! And a few new SCOTUS judges as well!!
Trump twists himself in knots to explain why giving Iran money is different from Obama — Sarah K. Burris
President Donald Trump spoke to reporters ahead of a trip to Memphis, Tennessee on Monday morning after spending the weekend in Palm Beach, Florida.
Trump took questions, including a few from CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins, who asked how his lifting sanctions on Iranian oil is any different than former President Barack Obama allowing Iran to have access to their money that was being held up from sanctions. After Iran signed the nuclear agreement that allowed for nuclear inspectors to come in and test whether they were doing weaponry or nuclear power, Obama relaxed sanctions. Trump has falsely painted it as Obama giving Iran billions in cash.
"The Treasury lifted sanctions on Iranian oil that was out to sea. You criticized President Obama for giving Iran $1.7 b—" Collins began.
"Well I just want to have as much oil in the system as possible," Trump interrupted. "We don't even know that Iran gets that money. Frankly, I think it's very hard for them to get it. But you have ships that are out there that are loaded up with oil. Rather than keep it there, I would rather see it go to the system. Any small amount of money Iran gets is not gonna make a difference in this war. But I want to have the system lubricated."
"Even $14 billion, you don't think helps them?" Collins asked.
"Where's the $14 billion?" Trump said.
"Because the inflated price, they are getting the —" Collins began again before Trump interrupted her.
"I don't think they're getting the money," said Trump. "I can tell you, when this is all over, I will tell you who is getting the money."
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Three guesses and the first two don't count!
Why He’ll Surrender Soon — Robert Reich
But he’ll call it a great victory.
Friends,
No one knows what Trump is going to do from minute to minute, least of all Trump. But it’s looking ever more likely he’ll be exiting Iran within days, declaring his “excursion” into it (as he’s termed his war) a major victory — and then changing the subject.
On Friday, Trump posted on his social media site that “we are getting very close to meeting our objectives as we consider winding down our great Military efforts in the Middle East.”
What objectives? He never said what they were to begin with.
He’s about to wind down and exit because he doesn’t give a damn about anything except maintaining his wealth and power — and the war is now costing him both.
It’s hurting his financial backers in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar — whose wealth has been seriously diminished by the war and whose vulnerability has been exposed.
It’s pissing off Trump’s wealthy political backers at home — who are getting pummeled as the U.S. stock market sinks under the weight of the war.
It’s infuriating American voters, as gasoline sells for nearly $4 a gallon — causing Republicans to become ever more anxious about a political backlash in the midterm elections. Most were elected on Trump’s coattails in the 2024 election, in which Trump promised to reduce prices and avoid foreign entanglements — rather than do the exact opposite.
So, forget regime change. Forget freedom for Iranians. Forget “obliterating” Iran’s nuclear capabilities (which Trump claimed he accomplished last June).
Trump will say he vanquished Iran’s military and defense capacities, destroyed its economy, and decapitated its leadership.
Job over. Mission accomplished. Iran obliterated (again).
Right now, though, he has to save face. Iran has rejected Trump’s threat that if it doesn’t open the Strait of Hormuz by Monday night, the United States will strike Iranian power plants. Iran says if the U.S. attacks Iran’s power plants, it will attack energy, information technology, and desalination facilities across the Gulf.
Now, Trump says he’ll wait until Friday to strike. Then, what? He’ll then leave the job of opening the Strait to other countries, claiming that the U.S. doesn’t need it because we produce enough oil on our own (which is untrue because oil prices depend on the global market, and U.S. refiners depend on foreign grades of crude).
And he’ll leave the bombing of Iran to Benjamin Netanyahu, who’d rather continue striking Iran and Hezbollah’s strongholds in Lebanon than stand trial in Israel for bribery and corruption. (Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said Friday that the military campaign in Iran would “escalate significantly” this week.)
So what will America have gotten out of Trump’s “excursion”? Zilch. Actually, less than zilch because in many ways we’re worse off than when it started. We’ve lost blood and fortune. ...
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Return Trump to hell.
Democratic States Seek to Block Massive TV Station Merger — David Dayen
Last week, I wrote about how state attorneys general were beginning to find their sea legs amid the effective closure of the federal Justice Department on issues of corporate power. The next day, the latest of what could prove to be a run of state-based cases was filed by Democratic attorneys general in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, and Virginia. It involves a $6.2 billion merger between two companies whose names aren’t familiar but whose product you likely consume every day.
Nexstar and Tegna own hundreds of local television stations across the country. Since the early days of TV, we have had a bifurcated system where the “Big Four” national networks (ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox) broadcast over the air, but local affiliate stations are mostly separately owned. Gradually, these stations have been bought up by conglomerates, despite a federal rule that restricts any one company from owning stations that reach 39 percent of all households. The Nexstar-Tegna merger would join together 265 stations in 44 states and raise that coverage to 80 percent....
THE MERGER WOULD BRING TOGETHER the leading station ownership group (Nexstar) with the number three group (Tegna). Nexstar was one of the companies that took Jimmy Kimmel off the air temporarily as part of a conservative witch hunt last year, and in the previous decade it engaged in 20 different acquisitions of stations and station groups, most notably Tribune Media and Media General.
By buying Tegna, Nexstar would gain control of multiple Big Four networks in 31 geographic markets; it would have both a Fox and ABC station in the Sacramento, California, area, for example, and the Fox and CBS station in San Diego. In some locations, the merged company would have a market share over 50 percent, including 77.9 percent in the Norfolk-Portsmouth-Newport News, Virginia, metro area....
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Block like our lives depended upon it.
Then They Came for the Immigrant Truckers — Harold Meyerson
Like working on a farm, driving a truck is far from the most rewarding occupation, which is why both industries are chronically understaffed and need immigrants to fill their ranks.
Last week, in the umpteenth instance of its privileging the xenophobic rage of Trump and consigliere Stephen Miller over the needs of the American people, the Trump administration banned roughly 200,000 truck-driving-certified immigrants from any further truck driving. The new rule from the Department of Transportation forbids refugees, asylum seekers, or recipients of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) from obtaining commercial driver’s licenses, and forbids those who currently hold such licenses from renewing them....
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More hatred from the lunatic.
Warrantless Spying Reform Just Got a Whole Lot More Interesting — James Baratta
For many years, Congress has maintained a bipartisan consensus on warrantless surveillance. Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) has allowed the U.S. government to surveil foreign nationals abroad since its passage in 2008, and as the Prospect has reported time and time again, domestic intelligence agencies have amassed troves of communications data, including from American citizens, through the program. The National Security Agency (NSA) and FBI do not need a warrant to access this data, regardless of whether it comes from a foreign national or U.S. citizen.
Section 702, which must be reauthorized by Congress periodically, is set to expire on April 20. The House is expected to vote on it in the coming weeks....
Trump hit a new low — and the usual suspects in the media stay quiet or defend him — Tom Jones
Trump’s comments on Robert Mueller’s death drew swift condemnation, while some allies ignored it or offered cover
...Trump’s comments were widely criticized. Even Fox News chief political analyst Brit Hume, often seen carrying water for the right, blasted Trump, writing on social media, “This is the kind of stuff Trump does that makes people not just oppose him but hate him. There was no need to say anything.”...
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White trash.
Trump's demonstration of 'enormous weakness' could make US lose the war in Iran: economist — Robert Davis
...Paul Krugman, who won the Nobel Prize in 2008 for his work on trade theory, said in a new video on his Substack on Sunday that Trump's moves make it look increasingly likely that the U.S. will lose the war in Iran. He argued that the U.S. is giving Iran significant leverage by allowing it to dictate trade through the Strait of Hormuz.
"That’s an admission, implicitly, of enormous weakness," Krugman said. "It’s an admission that the Trump administration is not willing to accept sustained pain as part of this war. They’re willing to drop bombs and all of that, but they’re not willing to accept economic pain in the United States, even enough to shut off the revenue flow to the Iranian government."
"And this war is fundamentally about who can stand the pain," he added. "It’s the United States doing lots of damage to Iran, but the Iranian government seems to think it can handle that. And the Iranians trying to inflict enough pain through hurting the world’s supply of oil that the United States ceases and desists."
"The orange rapist just did another TACO. The Strait is closed and he backed down on his red line.
He has Iran just where they want to be. A genius who doesn't know up from down." -- HPB (comments)
"Betrayal...what Trump is about, all day, all night. The Iranians were negotiating in good faith, at least until the Israelis saw enough of their leaders vulnerable to attack and then we sneak attack started the war of aggression. And now there are thousands of Marines on very large assault carriers, perhaps about to right and some to die, for...what exactly? We want the Iranians to let us steal their oil again, and Trump wants people to forget about his probably complicity in the Epstein nightmare?"-- Cold Mountain (comments)
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Is Trump trying the Vietnam exit? Leave and say "we won."
How Iran emasculated JD Vance — Amanda Marcotte
The vice president’s alignment with Trump risks harming the persona he’s built with manosphere voters ahead of 2028
...This is bad news for Vance, who has built his political brand by trying to appeal to the wannabe alpha-male crowd of the “manosphere,” a loose conglomerate of both secular and Christian right content creators whose bro poses and sexist politics helped propel Trump into the White House...
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Another loser.
Trump Installs Columbus Statue Near White House
The Associated Press reports:
A statue of Christopher Columbus has been placed on the grounds of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building adjacent to the White House, the latest effort by President Donald Trump’s administration to recognize the controversial explorer.
Trump endorses a traditional view of Columbus as a leader of the 1492 mission seen as the unofficial beginning of European colonization in the Americas and the development of the modern economic and political order.
But in recent years, Columbus also has been recognized as a primary example of Western Europe’s conquest of the New World, its resources and its native people. “In this White House, Christopher Columbus is a hero, and President Trump will ensure he’s honored as such for generations to come,” the White House posted on X.
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It will be like the 1950s or hell won't have it! A Golden Calf will be next.
'This man is a monster': Firestorm as MAGA Senator gives 'psychotic' Fox News interview — Robert Davis
MAGA Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) faced a bipartisan firestorm on Sunday after he gave a "psychotic" interview on Fox News.
Graham went on "Fox News Sunday" with host Shannon Bream, where he was asked about President Donald Trump's recent threat to take over Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, a major export hub for the Iranian regime. Graham told Bream that he would advise Trump to take the island and "let the [Iranian] regime die." When Bream pressed Graham about whether the operation would involve American troops on the ground, his response enraged some political analysts and observers.
"We took Iwo Jima. We can take Kharg Island," Graham said....
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Severely retarded.
Graham Calls For Second Iwo Jima On Iranian Island
The Daily Beast reports:
MAGA’s top warmonger has called for a second Iwo Jima as the Trump plots to move Marines in a bid to take control of Iran’s Kharg Island. Sen. Lindsey Graham, 70, appeared on Fox News Sunday with Shannon Bream and faced pushback from the host, who pointed out the lack of support for boots on the ground in Iran.
“I’m sort of tired of all this armchair quarterbacking. This has been an amazing military operation. God bless the fallen,” Graham said in response to being presented with an excerpt from The Atlantic predicting a “grinding war of attrition.”
As Bream protested, Graham continued: “I trust the Marines. Not that guy. I trust DOD,” he said, referring to the Department of Defense, which the Trump administration has filed the Department of War. “We’ve got two Marine expeditionary units sailing to this island. We did Iwo Jima, we can do this. The Marines—my money is always on the Marines,” he said.
"The Battle of Iwo Jima (Feb. 19 – March 26, 1945) resulted in over 26,000 American casualties, including nearly 7,000 killed. So yes lets do that. Fucking inbred moron..." -- The Wolflam (comments)
"And it took 500 ships and a total of 110,000 soldiers with 70,000 Marines. It was no cake walk and Kharg Island will be way the fuck worse since weapons have advanced so much, IED's for everyone!" -- Niblet (comments)
"So who is currently fucking this runt?
A Marine ?" -- JackFknTwist (comments)
"Maybe if Lindseybelle got his ass fucked daily he'd go away, never to be heard from again." -- xzargo (comments)
"Remember: Lindseybelle, born 10 years after the Battle of Iwo Jima, was awarded a Bronze Star for meritorious servicing." -- Stogiebear (comments)
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This asshole must be dumped!
EU Cuts Hungary Out Of Intel Due To Leaks To Russia
Politico Europe reports:
The EU is limiting the flow of confidential material to Hungary and leaders are meeting in smaller groups — as Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk warned of long-standing suspicions Viktor Orbán’s government is sharing information with Russia.
But there will not be any formal EU response to a fresh set of allegations because of the possible impact on the Hungarian election on April 12, according to five European diplomats and officials who told POLITICO they were concerned about the risk of Budapest leaking sensitive information to the Kremlin.
In a report on Saturday the Washington Post said that Orbán’s government maintained close contacts with Moscow throughout the war in Ukraine, and Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó used breaks during meetings with other member countries to update his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov.
"Viktor Orbán needs a bullet to the head I suggest using a 50 BMG." -- Thewolflam (comments)
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While Trump and Bibi worship his stinking Nazi ass!
Netanyahu Joins Trump In Endorsing Viktor Orban
The Times Of Israel reports:
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu effectively endorses Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in next month’s elections in that country, saying the strongman leader “has been like a rock.” “You need leaders who can protect against this rising tide [of Islamic terrorism], and can ensure safety and stability for their own countries,” Netanyahu says in a video message to the Conservative Political Action Conference in Budapest. “This is what Viktor Orbán has in abundance.”
“Viktor Orbán means safety, security, stability,” he says. Netanyahu was slated to attend the conference himself, but decided to stay in Israel during the ongoing war against Iran. His son Yair attended and spoke at the event. “Thank you for standing up for Western civilization, against this tide of radical, fanatical Muslims,” the Israeli premier tells the conference in his message. Trump gave his “complete and total endorsement” of Orbán in his own message to CPAC.
"With any luck all three of these fat Nazi fucks will be dead by the year's end." -- xzargo (comments)
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Trump, Bibi, Orban. The new Axis Power of fascism!
National Guard To Remain In DC Through Jan 2029
ABC News reports:
The Pentagon is planning to maintain the National Guard’s federal mission in Washington, D.C., until Jan. 20, 2029, through the rest of President Donald Trump’s second term, according to two U.S. officials. The plan is in its final stages and just requires Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s final approval.
Both officials said they expect Hegseth to sign the plan, which was finalized late last year, as Trump has repeatedly characterized the Guard’s mission in D.C. as an enormous success.
Some 2,865 National Guard troops are currently deployed in D.C., according to National Guard data, all drawn from Republican-led states with the exception of local D.C. Guard units.
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Another abuse of American troops. Trump fails again. It will be a miracle if they have jobs to return to.
President Donald Trump and his top officials seem to glory in the violence they inflict as leaders of the American military-industrial complex — and a Marine Corps veteran claims this behavior is fundamentally un-American. — Matthew Rozsa
“I have plenty of complaints about the war I served in two decades ago: the Iraq war was ill-conceived, hubristic and marred by poor leadership at the highest level,” wrote Phil Klay, a novelist and Marine Corps veteran from President George W. Bush’s Iraq War, in a Sunday editorial for The New York Times. “But I did know why I was there. What exactly do our service members think we’re trying to do in Iran?”
Describing the Trump administration’s myriad and oft-contradictory explanations as “stunningly incoherent,” Klay explained that servicemembers have no idea if the war is being fought to change the Iranian regime, destroy its nuclear program, degrade their other sophisticated weapons capabilities, help Israel survive or simply engage in an “excursion that will keep us out of a war.”
“In President Trump’s America, there may be only two genders, but our military adventures can identify however they please,” Klay observed regarding the Trump administration’s innumerable explanatory transitions. At the same time, he also picked up on a theme in Trump’s warmongering that does not receive as much attention — the desire to declare war for its own sake.
“The bowling video is one of many sizzle reels posted on White House social media accounts celebrating the war by mixing images of death and destruction with footage from video games or sports highlights,” Klay wrote. “The president declared that military officials told him ‘it’s more fun to sink’ ships than to capture them, and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth exulted, ‘We are punching them while they’re down, which is exactly how it should be.’ The Trump aide Stephen Miller proclaimed that the Iran war showcased a military ‘that isn’t fighting with its hands tied behind its back.’ At another news conference, Mr. Hegseth made the macho posturing even clearer: ‘No stupid rules of engagement, no nation building quagmire, no democracy building exercise, no politically correct wars.’”...
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Perverted as it comes.
Bessent: 'Have A Little Empathy' For Poor Donald Trump — Karoli Kuns
...Yeah, pretty rude, especially when Trump lamented that "the left" was celebrating Charlie Kirk's death, something he not only found disgusting, but actually issued an executive order against. If you were celebrating, you were a target for arrest.
On Meet the Press Sunday morning, host Kristen Welker framed the question perfectly: "Do you think it's appropriate for the President of the United States to celebrate the death of an American citizen, someone who's a Bronze Star, Purple Heart recipient and who served in Vietnam?"
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Bessent, go to Helen Dye!
SpaceX’s One Million Orbital Data Centers Would Be Debilitating for Astronomy Research, Scientists Say — Victor Tangermann
Earlier this week, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, successfully delivering 25 Starlink satellites into orbit.
While such launches have become astonishingly commonplace, the company achieved a major milestone that day: getting more than 10,000 active Starlink satellites orbiting the Earth at one time, according to data compiled by Harvard astronomer Jonathan McDowell.
The extent of SpaceX’s megaconstellation of broadband-beaming satellites is staggering — a seismic shift in the number of spacecraft in our planet’s orbit that has turned out to be a massive headache for astronomers worldwide.
At first, the satellites reflected most of the Sun’s light, appearing as bright streaks in ground-based night sky observations. In fact, they’ve proven bright enough to be visible to the naked eye, often being mistaken for UFOs.
Updated versions of the small, mostly aluminum terminals were designed to alleviate the problem with black paint and mirror film — changes that, while welcome, have yet to completely address the issue.
Eventually, today’s Starlink satellites may look like a mere prelude. In January, SpaceX filed plans with the Federal Communications Commission for up to one million additional satellites designed to function as orbital data centers to power the company’s AI ambitions.
As Space.com reports, the plans were met with alarm by astronomers, who have spent years collaborating with SpaceX to stop Starlink satellites from ruining their work.
“It really feels like it’s undermining what we have achieved in the last few years, which wasn’t ideal for astronomy, but was a far cry from what we feared in 2019 when the Starlink program began,” astronomer and dark sky consultant John Barentine told Space.com....
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Space Junk R US!
The Head of the FBI Just Admitted Something Moderately Horrifying — Joe Wilkins
Turns out the FBI’s been on a shopping spree. And it’s not just any spending binge: as director Kash Patel made clear at a senate hearing on Wednesday, the agency is buying up location data on everyday American citizens.
“We do purchase commercially available information that’s consistent with the constitution and the laws under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act,” Patel admitted under oath, “and it has led to some valuable intelligence for us.”
Since 2017, the supreme court has required warrants for any US law enforcement agency that wants to collect cell location data — but only if it’s obtained direct from a subject’s mobile carrier. Commercial data brokers, however, represent a grey-market alternative. By purchasing location history from third-party data companies, the FBI can bypass the warrant requirement altogether.
As Politico notes in its reporting on the senate hearing, numerous civil liberty groups have challenged the practice in court, but the loophole is still wide enough to drive a surveillance van through — a fact that drew plenty of criticism on Wednesday’s hearing.
“Doing that without a warrant is an outrageous end run around the Fourth Amendment, it’s particularly dangerous given the use of artificial intelligence to comb through massive amounts of private information,” said Democratic senator Ron Wyden...
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Big Brother is, in fact, watching you via your cell phone data. Kash is seeing that your rights get raped. Too bad for the few cell phone users! LMAO!
Cuba Says Military Is Preparing For Invasion By US
Bloomberg News reports:
A senior Cuban official said the country is preparing for a possible military assault as President Donald Trump increases economic pressure on the government in Havana and suggests it could be the next US target after Venezuela and Iran.
“Our military is always prepared,” Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernandez de Cossio said in an interview airing Sunday on NBC’s Meet the Press. “And in fact it is preparing these days for the possibility of military aggression. We would be naive if, looking at what’s happening around the world, we would not do that. But we truly hope that it doesn’t occur.”
De Cossio declined to specify the military preparations. His comments are in line with Cuba’s defiant stance as Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio ratchet up rhetoric against the communist-run leadership.
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Another disaster ahead for the U.S. and tiny little Marco.
Duffy Downplays Rising Air Fares As “Short-Lived”
“I have spoken to the major carriers. I wanted to check in on their supply chain. And are they concerned about supply for jet fuel? All of them were like, nope, we feel very good about our supply chains.
“But it is the cost, right? And the president cares about the cost of energy. He cares — I mean, he’s — that’s why he’s had the American Energy Dominance Task Force to produce more energy, drive prices down.
“I think you’re going to see this as short-lived. When the strait opens up, you’re going to see a little bit of a lag as those carriers get to their destinations. But I think you’re going to see a very quick rebound in energy prices when this conflict is resolved.
“And again, we’re at week three. The president said this is going to be, you know, a four to six-week operation. General Caine, who’s a meticulous planner, has said, you know, again, we’ve anticipated all that’s happening. They plan for it.
“And again, they feel like — and I’m not in the Pentagon, I’m not at War, but from all I’m hearing is they feel like we are doing an incredibly good job. We are on track and on pace to make sure we can bring this conflict to a resolution quickly.” – Sec. Sean Duffy, on ABC This Week.
"There is, in fact, no plan." — DreadPikathulhu (comments)
"Never was, Never will be a plan!" — Hank: NO MORE WoW!!! (comments)
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Nothing is going on. Absolutely nothing to be concerned about. The fail will continue!
CNN’s Dana Bash Confronts Border Czar Tom Homan on Trump Sending ICE to Airports: ‘How Well Thought Out’ Could This Plan ‘Possibly Be?!’ — Zoe Engels
CNN’s Dana Bash grilled White House Border Czar Tom Homan on Sunday morning about Trump’s decision to send ICE agents to airports.
In response to the partial government shutdown that has left the Department of Homeland Security’s funding in limbo since Feb. 14, Trump declared via Truth Social that ICE agents will be deployed in less than 24 hours to assist TSA officers at airports nationwide.
Homan, who Trump said is at the helm of the operation, joined CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday for an examination into the logistics of the operation.
“How is that going to work?” Bash asked. “Are ICE agents going to move into American airports starting tomorrow, Monday?”...
Some airport lines across the country are currently as long as three hours, and more than 400 TSA officers have quit since Feb. 14 with national callout rates skyrocketing to 10 percent.
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Disater after disaster. Failure after failure. Another mistake about to take place.
‘Trump is cooked’: Fears of ‘collapse’ spread as war sparks shortage of critical resource — Alexander Willis
The United States’ war against Iran has triggered a shortage of a critical resource, one so crucial to the economy that one expert predicted a “horrendous” and imminent “collapse,” while another said that President Donald Trump would bear the blame.
That resource is Helium, which plays a critical role in applications ranging from semiconductor manufacturing to medical equipment. Shortly after Trump first authorized strikes on Iran late last month, Qatar, which supplies a third of the world’s helium, was forced to halt production of the critical resource.
Helium is critical for the function of MRI machines, a technology widely used in medical facilities across the country, including at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Washington, D.C. where Trump received an MRI scan last year that raised questions surrounding his health. It’s also used in the space, defense and scientific research sectors.
Helium’s applications are so far spread that financial crises and geopolitical expert Tuomas Malinen issued a bleak prediction for what might be in store for the United States in the near future.
“I keep warning you that the collapse will be horrendous,” Malinen wrote in a social media post on X in response to reports of the growing helium shortage.
As for what – or who – will bear the blame for the fallout of a helium shortage, policy analyst Matt Stoller didn’t mince words.
“Stuff is starting to break. Trump is cooked,” Stoller wrote in a social media post on X. “His base will abandon him.”...
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Our country is at critical stage and may be on life support.
Pete Hegseth’s attempt to drum up support for Iran war immediately blows up in his face — Alexander Willis
Amid the ongoing Iran war, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared a video on social media Friday of a U.S. servicemember urging fellow servicemembers to be “combat ready” and ready for deployment, but over the weekend, the post soon backfired after critics pointed out it was five years old and featured a retired Marine who had been relieved of duty amid controversy.
Hegseth shared the video without context, leading onlookers to assume that the U.S. servicemember was speaking about the need to be “combat ready” as it relates to the Trump administration’s war against Iran. On Saturday, however, political commentator Micah Erfan revealed the context around the video, context that appeared to undercut Hegseth’s apparent effort to drum up support for war.
“This video is 5 years old and the guy in it was caught breaking into someone’s home,” Erfan wrote to his more than 57,000 followers on X.
The video shared by Hegseth features Christian Bull, a former sergeant major in the U.S. Marine Corps who enlisted in 1998. A former drill instructor in San Diego, California, Bull was relieved from duty due to “loss of confidence in his ability to lead” after being captured on video rummaging through a subordinate Marine’s home.
Bull was reportedly conducting a wellness check on his subordinate – Juan Gamez-Alzate – after he had not shown up for duty. However, Gamez-Alzate’s absence was due to an arrest over a traffic violation, which he claimed he had informed his sergeant major of.
“The Marine Corps aircraft group was notified that I was under custody, so why is [Bull] doing a welfare check when he knows that I’m in custody,” Gamez-Alzate said, the military digital media outlet Task & Purpose reported.
Hegseth having shared the video without context, however, led to an onslaught of ridicule from critics of all stripes....
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Consistent failure by an unwell man.
Why must America suffer from the ineptness of the Trump flop?
Trumpism is an abomination — and science proves it — Thom Hartmann
FCC Chairman and apparent Goebbels fanboy Brendan Carr is suggesting the radio and TV broadcasters he regulates should begin airing more “pro-America” content. What he means, of course, is pro-Trump.
This illustrates a much larger reality: Republicans want a top-down, hierarchical political and economic system. Democrats want a bottom-up system with maximum participation and broad sharing of society’s wealth. Who is right?
Donald Trump just went on a rant about economics, oil, and Iran that has massive implications for the future of our nation. At the same time, a new study was published about how people lived in Mesoamerica before the European conquest that shows as many as half of all those ancient societies lived democratically and had a relatively egalitarian distribution of wealth.
It seems like these are separate, disconnected stories, but they’re not. And the tale they both tell gives us a major insight into the future of America, for better or worse, depending on the political decisions we make between now and November.
The stakes are getting higher every day, and it’s critical that we all understand how cultural and political evolution and world history led us to this dangerous and opportune moment.
We tend to think of economies and political systems as separate things, but in reality they’re deeply intertwined. Both either can be fragile or resilient, and that fragility or resilience most often depends on their relationship to each other.
Resilience is the ability of a governmental system or an economy to weather stresses without “breaking.” It’s the key to understanding everything that’s happening today in both politics and economics.
One of the best and most widely cited analyses of the difference in resilience between democracy and autocracy, for example, is the paper by Wolfgang Merkel & Anna Lührmann titled Resilience of democracies: responses to illiberal and authoritarian challenges published in the peer-reviewed journal Democratization.
Noting that, “Illiberalism and authoritarianism have become major threats to democracy across the world,” they point out that:
“The more democracies are resilient on all four levels of the political system (political community, institutions, actors, citizens) the less vulnerable they turn out to be in the present and future.”...
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Atrocity after atrocity continues to be committed by these sick degenerate ghouls. The day will come when it will end for them all.
Trump Destroyed the EV Industry, Just When We Need It Most — Jonathan Cohn
GENERAL MOTORS JUST ROLLED OUT A CAR that’s perfect for the moment. It’s the 2027 Chevrolet Bolt—a relatively cheap, all-electric subcompact that will let you drive right past gas stations, and dodge those high prices from the war in Iran.
But if you want a Bolt, you’d better act fast, because they won’t be on dealer lots for long. GM has already confirmed that production will end next year. The plan is to convert the Bolt’s factory in Kansas City back to manufacturing vehicles with internal combustion engines.
GM says it made its decision to limit the Bolt a while ago, and remains committed to producing other EVs. That’s almost certainly true. But it’s also true that GM has dialed back its overall EV ambitions—by, for example, shelving plans to convert more factories to EV production—and that other companies are doing the same. Just this past week, Honda announced it was scrapping plans for three EVs it had been preparing to manufacture at factories in the United States.
There’s no single, simple explanation for the retrenchment. But a big part of the story is Donald Trump. Since taking office, he has launched an all-out assault on EVs—by working with Republicans in Congress to eliminate tax breaks for vehicle production and purchases, and by using his regulatory powers to gut federal and state emissions standards that favored fuel efficiency.
“It wasn’t just the subsidies that Trump removed,” Corey Cantor, research director at the Zero Emission Transportation Association, told me. “It was the fuel economy standards. It was the California regulations. So it was almost a triple whammy of policy pullback.”
Trump has insisted that these old policies—the bulk of which were put in place by former President Joe Biden and the Democrats—were forcing the auto industry to make unprofitable vehicles, while sapping America of its petroleum-powered swagger. But high gas prices are turning that swagger into a stagger: Edmunds, the website for car buyers, says it has in recent weeks seen a rise in customer inquiries about EVs. You can safely assume that’s going to continue as long as gas prices stay high, which means that more American consumers are going to be looking for vehicles that U.S. manufacturers are becoming less able to provide.
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Trump: The man of a bygone era!
We keep forgetting the truth: Everything Trump touches, dies!
Sunday thought: America Belongs to US — Robert Reich
Friends,
I hear from many of you who are exhausted by the unrelenting hammer blows of Trump’s tyrannous regime, its wanton violence at home and abroad.
I am, too.
But let me remind you — just as I remind myself — that tyranny cannot succeed where people refuse to submit to it.
Six days from now, next Saturday, on the third No Kings Day, we will proclaim our refusal to submit. We will march against this vile regime in larger numbers than have ever protested in America.
This alone won’t bring down Trump, of course, but it will show lawmakers on both sides of the aisle the breadth and depth of the opposition to him. This is essential to strengthening their backbones against him.
It will also show each of us that we’re not alone. It will show hope and determination all around us.
It will show us that our communities won’t submit to Trump’s vicious police state. That we won’t allow his goons to arrest and imprison our neighbors without due process of law.
It will give us more courage to stand up against his senseless war. Against his attacks on the environment and on public health. And against his attacks on the freedom of our teachers to teach the truth, on the media to reveal the truth, and on our own freedom to speak and spread the truth.
Our march next Saturday will demonstrate that we will not be silenced.
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Rage, rage against the dying of the light! Resist!
From Iran to Cuba, Trump’s Sanctions Have Hurt People More Than Governments — Sonali Kolhatkar
The US says “sanctions” are about regime change, but in practice they are economic warfare against entire populations.
Donald Trump, the self-proclaimed “peace president,” has already attacked two nations since the start of 2026 — engaging in regime change in Venezuela on January 3 and launching an air war on Iran on March 1 — and is now strongly suggesting that Cuba would be next. All three nations have been harmed by U.S.-led economic wars for years in the form of sanctions, which have hurt the countries’ populations en masse....
But the Trump administration, under the leadership of Cuban American Secretary of State Marco Rubio, started applying additional pressure to nations accepting Cuban medical professionals, effectively cutting off a main source of Cuba’s revenue. Starting in 2025, nations hosting Cuban doctors, including Brazil, Jamaica, and Guyana, began ending their agreements in response to what Cuba’s government said was U.S. pressure. Further, Cuba has been losing doctors and health care professionals at an alarming rate either because they left the field or emigrated elsewhere. Such targeted pressure, aimed at destroying Cuba’s economy, has laid waste to the field that was once the envy of the world.
The U.S.-imposed economic strain has also caused extreme poverty among ordinary Cubans, and the resulting impact on public health has been devastating. Augustin said that when he first moved from the U.K. to Cuba in 2012, life expectancy on the island was 78 years (it is currently 79 in the U.S., one of the world’s wealthiest nations). But since Trump’s harsh sanctions, according to Augustin, “statistics are now showing that, for example, infant mortality has more than doubled over the last six years,” and the overall life expectancy has dropped to 73. He squarely blames the sanctions, saying, “it’s a direct result of U.S. economic warfare.”...
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The cruel inhumanity of the Trump dictatorship will destroy both him and America.
Behind a Trump voter's jaw-dropping confession — Ralph Nader
Unstable Tyrant Trump is running out of lies, fantasies, and promises to break. An NBC interview of a Pennsylvania woman next to a gas station signals the trend. The reporter asked her what she would say to President Trump. She answered: “You are a worthless pile of s---.” He then asked her how many times she voted for him. She replied: “Three times. That was my bad. Apparently, I’m an idiot.”
Indeed, dozens of vendors are busily selling stickers showing Dangerous Donald pointing to the gas pump’s prices and saying, “I did this!” Further infuriating people is wealthy Trump’s irresponsible response to rapidly rising gasoline prices: “If they rise, they rise.”...
Iran is the tenth country Trump has militarily raided since Jan. 20, 2025. More MAGA supporters are increasingly angry about his broken promise, declared every day on his campaign trail, to “stop the endless wars” of his predecessors. They are also indignant over the illegal withholding of millions of pages of the Epstein files by his toady Attorney General Pam Bondi.
Moreover, the corrupt TRUMP DUMP is shredding our federal government and its critical, statutory obligations to protect the health, safety, and economic well-being of the American people and rescue communities devastated by climate violence and the real threats of contagious diseases. With his war on science, on facts, and on truth, Trump is pushing America into a contemporary DARK AGES.,,
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All due to caveman fascism.
Cruz Proposes Splitting ICE From DHS Funding Bill
The Hill reports:
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), a leading Senate conservative, is proposing to colleagues the idea of splitting off Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) from the rest of funding for the Department of Homeland Security to end growing chaos at airports around the country.
The proposal appeared to be gaining momentum within the Senate Republican conference on Saturday as GOP lawmakers grow increasingly pessimistic about reaching a deal with Democrats to reform federal immigration enforcement operations.
“What I’ve suggested is that the Democrats have gotten so extreme and unreasonable that I don’t know that they will ever be willing to fund Department of Homeland Security,” Cruz told The Hill Saturday. “I’ve suggested let’s fund ICE and CBP through reconciliation. That Republicans can do with just 50 votes, we can do that relatively quickly and the Democrat lunacy on open borders can be put to an end,” he added.
"49 Senate Republicans VOTED DOWN Democrats' single subject bill to pay TSA workers.
Republicans have now blocked TSA pay SEVEN times. It’s a slap in the face to the men and women who have been working without a paycheck for weeks." — amy cuscuriae (comments)
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There were bills to fund TSA by the Democrats. Each one was blocked by the Nazis of whom Cruz is a part!
Trump vows to make good on imminent ICE threat: ‘Tom Homan is in charge!’ — Alexander Willis
President Donald Trump vowed Sunday to make good on his previous threat to deploy Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to airports nationwide in a fiery rant shared on social media.
“On Monday, ICE will be going to airports to help our wonderful TSA Agents who have stayed on the job despite the fact that the Radical Left Democrats, who are only focused on protecting hard line criminals who have entered our Country illegally, are endangering the USA by holding back the money that was long ago agreed to with signed and sealed contracts, and all,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social....
“But watch, no matter how great a job ICE does, the Lunatics leading the incompetent Dems will be highly critical of their work,” Trump continued. “THEY WILL DO A FANTASTIC JOB. The great Tom Homan is in charge!!!”
"Fine. I hope he does it. All he will do is wreck more of the American economy and hasten his own collapse." — FartGarfunkle (comments)
"Go ahead asshole.
Your un-trained gestapo meatheads will surely endear themselves to the traveling public.
BTW, you are starving families in Cuba." — KABoink_after_wingnut_hacker (comments)
"More ravings of a lunatic, another day another 'why the hell aren't you stiff already?'
Every new morning brings another disappointment when that one announcement is not made: orange has rotted and expired!" — Dana Nana (comments)
"Trump vows to make good on imminent ICE threat.
Threatening everyone is the only strategy Trump knows.
No wonder no country in the world will help him. He is alone, pathetic, weak and a loser." — TheBeaver eh (comments)
"And, tell me, what are these Gestapo Thugs going to do? prevent undocumented individuals from flying home? or more likely, HARRASS American citizens. Fuck Trump and his Einsatzgruppen NAZI murderers. Good and Pretti, And never forget EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN!" — Robert Capuzzi (comments)
"Oh please do this. Send ICE to be the new TSA. No worries on how that will be a disaster. At least it will get the lawless thugs off the streets. Do it Donny. You ignorant FUCK." — Jinmichigan (comments)
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He will shit and fall back in it, as always!
FL Pastor Gets 30 Years In Home Depot Theft Ring
The Tampa Bay Times reports:
A former Pinellas County pastor and his wife were sentenced to prison Friday after a jury found them guilty of operating a multimillion-dollar Home Depot theft ring for nearly a decade. After a two-week trial, Robert and Jaclyn Dell were convicted in February for selling stolen power tools on eBay from Home Depot stores across seven Florida counties. Prosecutors said the couple earned more than $2 million between 2015 and 2023.
Robert Dell, 59, was charged with five felonies, including racketeering and money laundering. Jaclyn Dell, 41, was charged with one felony count of conspiracy to commit racketeering. The stolen goods were delivered nightly to the Dells’ St. Petersburg home by two people the couple met through an addiction recovery program they helped lead at The Rock Church. Jaclyn Dell was sentenced to 21 months in prison, and Robert Dell was sentenced to 30 years....
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Holy! Holy! Holy!
Another one bites the dust!
MS NOW Reporter Calls Out Trump in Post Praising Ex-Trump Prober Robert Mueller’s War Service
MS NOW Justice and Intelligence Correspondent Ken Dilanian called out President Donald Trump in a post praising former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s service in Vietnam.
Mueller died Friday night at age 81 after a battle with Parkinson’s, MS NOW first reported on Saturday. Minutes after the news broke, Dilanian noted that while Trump famously avoided service in Vietnam, Mueller volunteered. Dilanian wrote:
In an era when many young men—including President Trump—were trying to avoid serving in Vietnam, Mueller not only volunteered for the Marines after graduating from Princeton—he spent a year waiting for an injured knee to heal so he could serve. I have always found that be the most compelling fact about him.
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Honorable America thanks you for your service.
Trump's ‘disgusting’ celebration of Robert Mueller’s death sparks immediate backlash — Alexander Willis
The remarks were immediately met with scorn from critics of all stripes, including prominent liberal political commentator Ed Krassenstein, who went on to lavish praise on Mueller for his role in leading the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
“This is disgusting and despicable,” Krassenstein wrote to their more than 1 million followers on X. “Trump literally just celebrated Robert Mueller dying. Mueller did so much good for America.”...
“In an era when many young men – including President Trump – were trying to avoid serving in Vietnam, Mueller not only volunteered for the Marines after graduating from Princeton – he spent a year waiting for an injured knee to heal so he could serve,” Dilanian wrote in a social media post on X. “I have always found that [to] be the most compelling fact about him.”
Trump infamously received a deferment from conscription in 1968 during the Vietnam War, a deferment that allowed the then-22-year-old future president to avoid military service. Furthermore, the deferment – a medical exemption citing alleged bone spurs in his heels – was issued to Trump by a podiatrist who rented office space from Trump’s father, a connection that led The New York Times to theorize that the medical diagnosis may have been “granted as a courtesy to the elder Mr. Trump.”
Others, like Fox sports analyst Ryan Satin, pointed to what they characterized as Trump’s double standard, having belittled Mueller’s death openly while his own administration has vowed to pull visas and deport people who joke about the death of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk.
“Remember when they made a database of people who said anything slightly deemed as negative about Charlie Kirk?” Satin wrote in a social media post on X.
If I understand the rules…
College professors are banned from accurately describing a dead person’s legacy.
Republicans can gleefully celebrate the death of anyone who tries to hold them accountable.
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Note: Conservative activist Charlie Kirk was not a military veteran.
Kirk stated he applied to West Point but was rejected, later claiming sarcastically that a less qualified candidate was chosen. He co-founded Turning Point USA.
3-Time Trump Voter Complains ICE ‘Taking All Our Workers’ — We ‘Never Thought This Would Affect Us’ — Tommy Christopher
A business owner named Mario Guerrero — who supported President Donald Trump in all three elections — now says ICE raids are gutting his workforce. lamenting to The New York Times that “We just never thought that this would come and affect us in the construction industry.”
Trump’s ICE crackdown has been under fire after several killings and has prompted a DHS shutdown by Democrats demanding reform.
But even supporters of the president’s policies are becoming dissatisfied. In a New York Times report by Jeremy Raff, Ivan Narez Hurtado, and Ben Laffin, Guerrero said “Deporting the criminals is a great policy” — but not when they “show up to our job sites with no warrants, taking all our workers, even the workers with proper documentation”:...
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Duh!
State Dept. fumes after insiders reveal who ‘motivated’ Trump to launch Iran war: report — Alexander Willis
President Donald Trump's decision to kick off the U.S. war against Iran last month was motivated, in part, by “pressure from outside allies,” multiple insiders told Bloomberg in its report Saturday, a revelation that sparked a fierce rebuttal from the Trump administration.
Speaking with Bloomberg on the condition of anonymity, the insiders claimed that Trump was under pressure to strike Iran from at least two individuals outside his administration: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – who’s wanted by the International Court of Justice for alleged war crimes – and Rupert Murdoch, the billionaire conservative media mogul and architect of Fox News....
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We always knew Bibi had his filthy hands in it. Murdoch isn't a surpise either.
Trump threatens to send ICE to airports amid DHS standoff — Gregory Svirnovskiy and Ben Johansen
President Donald Trump on Saturday threatened to send federal immigration agents to airports across the country on Monday if Democrats don’t agree to end the Department of Homeland Security shutdown, now approaching five weeks.
“If the Radical Left Democrats don’t immediately sign an agreement to let our Country, in particular, our Airports, be FREE and SAFE again, I will move our brilliant and patriotic ICE Agents to the Airports where they will do Security like no one has ever seen before, including the immediate arrest of all Illegal Immigrants who have come into our Country,” he wrote.
“Illegal Immigrants who have come into our Country, with heavy emphasis on those from Somalia” would be targeted with an especially firm hand, the president wrote on Truth Social.
Shortly thereafter, Trump followed up to say he plans to send ICE to airports in just days.
"I look forward to moving ICE in on Monday, and have already told them to, 'GET READY.' NO MORE WAITING, NO MORE GAMES!" he wrote in a separate Truth Social post on Saturday.
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Think of the utter chaos this will create. People will miss flights. People will re-think travel plans. Airline infrastructure will take the hit. The costs associated will hurt airlines and make the econmic news worse. Incredibly stupid. Trumps war on America continues to plague us.
CBS News Radio Crackles to a Close — Michael M. Grynbaum and Benjamin Mullin
A stalwart of the mass media century, the longstanding network that launched the careers of journalists like Edward R. Murrow will air its final broadcast in May.
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The total disgrace of a fascist America! The pigheaded retards shit on a once great country!
Trump Cheers Mueller’s Death: “I’m Glad He’s Dead”
The Associated Press reports:
At the FBI, Mueller set about almost immediately overhauling the bureau’s mission to meet the law enforcement needs of the 21st century, beginning his 12-year tenure just one week before the Sept. 11 attacks and serving across presidents of both political parties. He was nominated by Republican President George W. Bush. Later, he was special counsel in the Justice Department’s investigation into whether the Trump campaign illegally coordinated with Russia to sway the outcome of the 2016 presidential race.
Mueller’s stern visage and taciturn demeanor matched the seriousness of the mission, as his team spent nearly two years quietly conducting one of the most consequential, yet divisive, investigations in Justice Department history. He held no news conferences and made no public appearances during the investigation, remaining quiet despite attacks from Trump and his supporters and creating an aura of mystery around his work.
Trump posted on social media about Mueller’s death in callous terms: “Robert Mueller just died. Good, I’m glad he’s dead.” The Republican president added, “He can no longer hurt innocent people!”
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With this, Trump has written his own obituary. The only thing that will be added is “He can no longer rape women, children and start illegal wars!”
Longtime Republican laments the GOP collapse into the 'gutter' — Adam Lynch
Republican strategist Steve Schmidt says he’s been a Republican for nearly 30 years, long enough to see it’s sad “devolution” over the last few.
“Yesterday, was the 172nd anniversary of the Republican party being born in 1854,” Schmidt wrote on his Saturday Substack. “Horace Greeley, one of its founders, promised that it would be ‘the greatest party for freedom the world had ever seen.’”
The party, he points out, was born in the 1850s “in opposition to the expansion of slavery.”
“It was the party of Abraham Lincoln, the party that prosecuted the American Civil War and preserved the Union. Its founding purpose was rooted in human liberty and the belief that the United States could not endure half-slave and half-free. That mattered. It meant something. It was a party animated by a moral cause larger than itself,” said Schmidt.
But over the last two decades, the Republican party has been “pulled off course and into a low and perfidious gutter.”
“It is the party that Newt Gingrich built. It is a party of grievance, resentment and bigotry,” said Schmidt. “ … The party has become … in the main what the cranks who once lurked on its periphery were shunned for. It is a vessel of bigotry, extremism, religious nuttery and a radical ideology that places the jackboot of the state above the rights of human beings.”
The Party took a turn after the election of Barack Obama, when Schmidt said “what presented itself as a grassroots revolt against taxation and government overreach carried, beneath the surface, something darker: a politics increasingly fueled by resentment, identity, and conspiracy. Compromise became betrayal. Governance became secondary to performance.”
But the decisive break was the ascent of Donald Trump who “revealed what it had become.”...
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Back alley trash, fascist ,good-for-nothing swine.
We keep finding the raw material of DNA in asteroids—what's it telling us? — John Timmer
On Monday, a paper announcing that all four DNA bases had been found on an asteroid sparked a lot of headlines. But many of the headlines omitted a key word needed to put the discovery in context: "again." The paper itself cited similar results dating back to 2011, and the ensuing years have seen various confirmations and more rigorous studies. The new work was less notable for showing that we had found these bases in Ryugu than for solving a previous mystery: earlier studies had failed to detect them there, despite their presence in many other asteroid samples.
Outside the headlines, though, the new work provides some interesting details, as it may answer an important question: how these bases got there in the first place. Understanding that better may be critical for getting a better picture of how the raw materials for life ended up on Earth in the first place..
Searching for bases
Let's start with a description of what the researchers found. Both DNA and RNA, the two nucleic acids used by life, share a similar structure. That includes the backbone, a chain that alternates between sugars and phosphates that are all chemically linked together. While the specific sugar differs between DNA and RNA, the chain itself varies only in length; otherwise, the backbone of every DNA or RNA molecule is identical....
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Are we even capable to understand this at our current level of cognizance? The retarded don't want to know anyway.
Where Are Our Tariff Refunds? — Ashley Murray, Colorado Newsline
WASHINGTON — Arizona coffee roaster Gabe Hagen is wondering if he’ll ever recoup the tens of thousands of dollars he paid in tariffs to import beans from the world’s major coffee-growing regions in South America, Africa and the Indo-Pacific.
Weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump’s emergency tariffs as illegal, Hagen is among an army of small business owners who are unsure if they’ll be made whole after a year of increasing costs and uncertainty.
“I’m in the process right now trying to consolidate all of my invoices … because I need the money back — if they’re going to give it back,” Hagen told States Newsroom in an interview.
“A pallet of coffee would cost us 5 to 6 to $7,000 if we had a bag or two of really high-grade in there. Post tariffs, our cheapest pallet was around $8,000, and it went anywhere from 8 to $10,000 or $11,000 per pallet of coffee,” he said.
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Someone thinks Trump is giving back his grift money? Fat chance.
Trump’s movement is crumbling under the Iran stress test — Daily Kos
This week’s top staff stories on Daily Kos all had one through line: President Donald Trump’s Iran war is fracturing everything around it—his coalition, his credibility, and the GOP’s political footing.
Failing isn’t new to Trump. He’s done it time and again in life, but he’s always been bailed out—by bankruptcy, by his lawyers, by his friends, and by his cult-like MAGA base.
But with Iran, he’s finally created a problem so big, so consequential, that his usual tricks don’t work. He can’t bluff his way out of it. He can’t tweet it away. He can’t bully reality into submission. He can’t bury it in lawsuits. This is a real crisis with real consequences, and he’s stuck with it. Trump is isolated, harming the global economy, without allies, all while undermining the rules-based order that delivered decades of prosperity and operating without even the pretense of an endgame in Iran.
That Iran-fueled fracture isn’t theoretical—it’s happening in real time....
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Constantly failing and then expecting sucess by doing the same thing again is the very defininiton of insanity.
Restaurant Re-Deploys Robot After Dishware-Smashing Freakout — Frank Landymore
Most restaurant workers would probably get fired on the spot if they freaked out in front of customers and smashed a bunch of dishes. But apparently anything goes if you’re an adorable looking robot.
Case in point: the android that recently went viral for doing just that — going berserk in the middle of an eatery and turning tableware into loud projectiles — is receiving a second chance.
An employee at the Haidilao hot pot restaurant in San Jose, California where the robot’s (scare quotes) “employed” told the Mercury News that the robot has resumed its usual duties and now is standing sentry near the front door, ready to entertain customers. Everything’s back to normal, they said. It’s all just water — and “a few spilled sauces” — under the bridge.
That’s reassuring to know, because it was quite the freakout. Viral footage showed the robot fling chopsticks and tableware into the air with some of its dance moves, smiling through it all. For several minutes, three employees tried to restrain the robot to little avail as it continued to flail its arms around, its apron with large text reading “I’m Good,” flapping with each jerking motion of its body....
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Empathy for a bot? Good lord, what's to become of humans?
Therapists Go on Strike, Saying They’re Being Replaced by AI — Joe Wilkins
There plenty of personal reasons not to use AI chatbots as therapists. They’re sycophantic, make for ineffective shrinks, and can be downright dangerous for anyone with preexisting mental illness — and sometimes even for people with none.
And that’s to say nothing of their effects on actual human therapists, many of whom say their profession is increasingly being strangled by the rise of low-effort, low-cost chatbots.
Some 2,400 mental health care workers staged a 24-hour strike in northern California this week, in protest over concerns that they’re being replaced with AI systems. The company they work for, Kaiser Permanente, has denied that any automation is taking place, but according to the workers and their union, the threat is becoming all too real.
“I’ve been reassigned from triage to other duties,” Ilana Marcucci-Morris, a licensed clinical social worker told NPR. “What used to always be a 10- to 15-minute screening from a licensed clinician like myself is now being conducted by unlicensed lay operators following a script, or e-visits, so an app is triaging members’ care needs.”....
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The end of humanity can't be far off.
NY Gov. Kathy Hochul On Trump’s Demand That Penn Station Be Renamed For Him: “Over My Dead Body”
The New York Post reports:
Gov. Kathy Hochul said Manhattan’s Moynihan Train Hall at Penn Station will keep its name — despite President Trump requesting that the major hub be renamed after him. “It will over my dead body,†Hochul said when asked Thursday whether the late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s name should remain on the Midtown transit hub. “We are not messing with that man’s memory,†she added.
Hochul, who was speaking at the Association for a Better New York breakfast, went on to wax poetic about her time working for the Democratic senator when she was a young attorney in her 20s. Sen. Chuck Schumer reportedly rebuffed Trump’s offer in January that he’d free $16 billion in federal funds for the Gateway tunnel project if the New York Democrat backed renaming the train station and Washington’s Dulles International Airport for him....
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I'm sure the Trump Crime Syndicate can have that arranged. We have become such cowards no one will pay a bit of attention to it.
TN Senate Passes “Charlie Kirk American Heritage Act”
Nashville’s Fox affiliate reports:
The Tennessee Senate has passed a controversial bill that would shape how religion is taught in classrooms across the state — but the measure is not law yet. Senate Bill 1828, now titled the “Charlie Kirk American Heritage Act,†cleared the Senate on March 19 with a 27-6 vote. The bill has been engrossed and is now ready for transmission to the House, where lawmakers will take it up next.
The legislation allows local education agencies, public charter schools, and public colleges and universities to teach students about the role of religion in American history — specifically focusing on what the bill describes as the positive impacts of religion. The bill also outlines 19 historic subjects educators may reference when incorporating these lessons into American history instruction....
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The incredibly retarded state of Tennessee. Words are at a loss.
FBI Warned ‘Bags’ of Documents Were Being Shredded at NY Jail Days After Epstein Death — Zachary Leeman
The New York Post
FBI agents received reports about “bags” of documents being shredded and discarded at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan days after the death of convicted child sex predator Jeffrey Epstein.
The Miami Herald released a report on Saturday detailing multiple stories from people at the jail who were concerned about the unusual amount of material being thrown away.
Epstein died of an apparent suicide in 2019 while facing sex trafficking charges. His death has led to numerous conspiracy theories, fueled by details like a minute being missing from the security footage outside his cell the day he died. Epstein also reported being attacked by his cellmate, Nicholas Tartaglione, after being found unconscious in his cell. Epstein later retracted his story and Tartaglione denied attacking him. Tartaglione was facing charges connected to four murders, and he’s since been convicted.
After Epstein’s death, of an apparent hanging, on August 10, the FBI’s Threat Operations Center received a call on August 16 from a corrections officer, identified as Michael Kearins, at the correctional facility. An FBI form summarizing the interview said the “caller found it suspicious that an after-action team charged with investigating would be shredding huge amounts of paperwork,” while FBI and other agencies were present in the building.
It’s unclear if these individuals allegedly shredding documents were directly connected to the jail or part of BOP’s after action review team.
The officer warned that the documents were thrown into a dumpster and would need to be collected before Monday at 8 a.m. when it was set to get picked up. It appears the dumpster was not checked.
One inmate also claimed he was asked to help with the shredding of boxes of documents. He said he did not recognize the officials.
“They are shredding everything,” the inmate reportedly told guards....
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Gosh! I wonder what this means?
Stop the Sadistic Trump Administration Policies Choking Cuba — Steve Minkin
President Donald Trump told reporters at the White House, “I think I can do anything I want with it” referring to Cuba. His remarks are reminiscent of his recorded Access Hollywood statement to host Billy Bush, “When you’re a star they let you do it. You can do anything... Grab them by the *****.” No, Mr. President, you have no right to despoil Cuba as you please.
Cuba is being choked by this administration’s sadistic policies. The best we can do for the 10 million people living there is not to rape the island but rather end the embargo—and reset the opening of relations that had been the hallmark of progress during the Obama administration.
I led educational tours to Cuba before Trump destroyed rapprochement, increased sanctions, and suffocated the blossoming of enterprises tied to tourism and small business entrepreneurship. Unfortunately, the Biden administration chose to follow Trump rather than returning to Barack Obama’s approach aimed at improving relations between the two countries and supporting the emerging free market economy.
There is growing popular sentiment in Canada, Mexico, Spain, and other countries that are providing humanitarian aid to Cuba for their governments to show their independence from Trump’s chaos by breaking the blockade and dispatching lifesaving fuel. It is time to end the embargo of Cuba....
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It appears God is dead and Trump has replaced him. What asshole is responsible for that atrocity?
America Didn’t Just Change — It Was Systematically Poisoned — Thom Hartmann
How decades of corporate power and political strategy rewired the country from within.
Donald Trump lied us into a war with Iran that now threatens to ignite the globe. He’s been accused of raping 13-year-old girls. He made a shocking joke in the White House yesterday, speaking with the Prime Minister of Japan, about Pearl Harbor, provoking an international incident. He attacked Venezuela and is now threatening Cuba. And whatever Vladimir Putin wants, Trump gives him.
The man is poison. But it sure as hell didn’t begin with him.
Our country has been poisoned for decades now, and if we don’t remove the poison and start using the antidote, America may soon be completely unrecognizable as a “free” nation. It’s taken around 50 years, but we’re now at the point of maximum crisis.
First came the poison of big money corrupting politics.
Back in 1971, Lewis Powell thought he saw a communist threat in Ralph Nader. Literally: he named him in his infamous manifesto, the Powell Memo, arguing that calls to regulate auto safety with seat belts and soft dash boards (Nader’s book Unsafe At Any Speed) were simply the first steps toward a socialist takeover of America.
“Perhaps the single most effective antagonist of American business,” Powell wrote, “is Ralph Nader, who — thanks largely to the media — has become a legend in his own time and an idol of millions of Americans.”
Nader (who wrote the Foreword to my book The Hidden History of Monopolies: How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream) and people like Rachel Carson, with the environmental movement her book Silent Spring had inspired, threatened, Powell believed, the core of America’s free enterprise system.
Regulation, Powell (a tobacco lawyer) asserted, was just step one to a total Stalinist takeover of America. ...
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Living in dangerous times due to brain failure.
Bike Lanes On National Mall Sharply Reduced Crashes, So Trump's Getting Rid Of Them — Doktor Zoom
Donald Trump’s War On Nice Things is set to start removing bike lanes around the National Mall in Washington DC next week, because bicycles are woke and popular with Democrats, the Washington Post reported Friday (gift link). The protected lanes will be torn out from a roughly mile-long section of 15th Street NW that are on federal property, which is also one of the most heavily traveled areas in DC. The one bright spot in the story is that the vast majority of the bike lane system is controlled by the DC government’s District Department of Transportation (DDOT), and will be left alone.
The move comes even though the protected bike lanes were only opened a few years ago, and despite traffic studies showing that they have reduced congestion, dramatically reduced crashes, and have even improved the flow of motor vehicle traffic. Improving the flow of motor vehicle traffic is woke.
The bike lanes will be torn out between the Tidal Basin and Constitution Avenue on property controlled by the National Park Service, part of Doug Burgum’s Interior Department, which is all in on Trump’s efforts to prop up fossil fuels wherever possible....
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Trump hates America and the times we live in. This is why he loves destroying it all.
The Supreme Court's final 'reckoning' may be right around the corner: legal experts — Adam Lynch
Slate Senior Editor Dahlia Lithwick and legal writer Mark Stern say there may be a reckoning underway among the conservative majority of the U.S. Supreme Court.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from moving forward with plans to deport roughly 6,000 Syrians and 350,000 Haitians who were granted Temporary Protected Status (TPS) by Presidents Obama, Biden, and Trump himself in his first administration, which is a contradiction to conservatives’ apparent eagerness to give President Donald Trump his way on the shadow docket while the case plays itself out in court.
Stern said it was the right thing to do because federal statute “does not allow the secretary of homeland security to prematurely end a TPS designation before it expires.”
But, more directly, the court’s decision not to quietly give Trump his way as the case plays out “reflects that maybe the court could be conceding” to liberal Ketanji Brown Jackson’s arguments in past dissents when the court allowed Trump to do things like fire protected federal employees before a court decision was made.
In past dissents, Jackson argued that cases must also be considered on the base of who faces irreparable harm, and that immigrants are the ones who face irreparable injury and grievous harm if TPS is stripped, while the Trump administration couldn’t point to one single hardship it would face by keeping TPS in place for a few months.
“The previous two times around, the rest of the court — or at least the conservative justices — pretty much ignored her. But maybe this time they listened because they did exactly what she had counseled, which was to keep TPS in place and set this case for arguments and decision the right way so everybody’s claims will be deliberated on property,” said Stern....
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They just might be paying attention to the evidence against Trump.
The Mediocrest Generation Goes to War -- ShowerCap
I regret to inform you the men who wear literal, actual, I-shit-you-not-this-is-happening-in-real-fucking-life clown shoes to work (at, heaven help us, the White House and Pentagon) haven’t quite figured out how war works yet, but I’m sure they’ll pick it up. Give it two weeks. How hard can it be?
A whole new expanded edition of The Art of the Deal is being rushed to press, updated to include the Dotard’s deft diplomacy this week, as he briefly attempted to assemble an international coalition for the war he’d already started....
Oh, and I guess we’re dabbling in a lil’ light human rights violation with Cuba. It’s not as big as Greenland, obviously, but a certain megalomaniac would still gladly settle for the “honor” of “taking” it.
Plus, we’re blackmailing Zambia. Sort of a give-us-your-mineral-wealth-or-we’ll-cut-off-HIV-aid kinda deal, which is…I think it’s fair to call that evil. Blowing up schoolchildren certainly merits that label. The predictable carnage from gutting USAID was pretty dang evil, to say nothing of the assassinated nurses and deportations to foreign torture prisons and I know what you’re thinking right now.
You’re thinking, “Let’s mint this man a gold coin with his face on it!”...
The banners were great and slapping his name on another man’s memorial was epic and of course I intend to ecstatically self-immolate at the ballroom dedication ceremony like every other right-thinking patriot, but let’s give the mad king another graven image to tide him over between peace prizes....
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Has Trump created his brand of beer yet? If so, it must taste like cat piss.
‘‘Black Nazi’ MAGA candidate names Trump in explanation for shocking online comments — Alexander Willis
Mark Robinson, North Carolina’s former lieutenant governor and failed GOP gubernatorial candidate, came clean this week over the allegations that he had made a series of shocking online comments, including describing himself as a “Black Nazi” and admitting to enjoying transgender pornography, despite his fierce anti-trans and homophobic rhetoric...
The bombshell CNN report that exposed Robinson for his online behavior revealed that between 2008 and 2012, Robinson had expressed support for slavery and admitted to spying on women in public showers when he was a teenager, an experience he said he continued to fantasize about as an adult. He also voiced support for Adolf Hitler....
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Oh, lord! Not this idiot again.
He's a Happy Negro!
"I'm a slave, you're a slave brother
Sister you're a big slave too
You had a slave father and a slave mother
Your kids are gonna learn from you"
—Plantation — Hungry Chuck (Jeff Gutcheon)
'John Roberts has had enough': Analysts say Supreme Court just put Trump on notice — Erik De La Garza
Legal commentators say Chief Justice John Roberts is pushing back against President Donald Trump after warning that criticism of judges can spiral into personal attacks.
Speaking this week at Rice University in Houston, Roberts suggested that criticism of court rulings can become problematic when it shifts “from a focus on legal analysis to personalities.”
“Their opinions are subject to criticism,” Roberts said of judges across the judiciary during the appearance on Tuesday. “But personally directed hostility is dangerous, and it’s got to stop.”
ALSO READ: 'Obscenity': Trump hammered in Congress for risking US with 'non-stop screwing around'
Analysts view the remarks from the conservative justice – who Trump has targeted, most recently for his ruling involving the president’s tariff policy – as a thinly veiled response to the MAGA leader.
“In one 48-hour period, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, the chief judge of the United States Supreme Court, and the Chief Judge of all things federal in the District of Columbia, all took on Donald Trump,” Michael Popok, a legal expert and host of the "Legal AF" podcast, said Friday.
“And John Roberts, it looks like he's had enough,” he added....
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Roberts found a backbone! Your reign of terror is up, Fatso!
Trump’s politics of death extend far beyond Iran — Chauncey DeVega
COVID, gun violence and Iran reveal a governing instinct based on authoritarian violence disorder
"While the Trump administration’s gleeful response to death and destruction in the war against Iran is obscene, it shouldn’t come as a surprise. American conservatism and the broader right have cultivated a culture of violence and death for more than a century."
"Authoritarianism and Trumpism are rooted in destruction. The president’s authoritarian project in the United States is inseparable from his militarism and love of violence abroad."
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Scum of the earth.
Trump Lies That CNN Poll Gives Him “100% Approval”
Yahoo News reports this stupid Trump shit.
President Donald Trump was heard telling the press that a CNN poll had given him an approval rating of 100% amid the Iran war, but this is incorrect. Trump was speaking to reporters on Friday when he made the claim. “I seem to have great support. CNN came out with a poll today that I’m at 100%. They said they have never seen a poll like that. The CNN poll said I’m at 100%.,” Trump said.
"100% of the posters on JMG hate you and want you to die" — Hank Tomczak (comments)
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This was a small poll of his little Nazi MAGAt creeps.
Trump has been guilty of the Seven Deadly Sins his entire life. Only morons admire this.
GOP Senators Nearly FIGHT In Homeland Security Hearing — Cliff Schecter
And this idiot MarkWayne Mullin starts walking up and down the bus with a camera and anyone who fell asleep, he would put his finger in their nose and take a picture...
Without a doubt, Donald Trump and MarkWayne Mullin are...well, let's back up a sec. I was on Tequila Talk, my show every Thurs, 6pm et w/ Joe Walsh. We both love tequila, so we spend Thurs Happy Hour getting folks thru another Trump week. With MAGA mockery, some tequila, a righteous rant or 3.
The tequila we choose has symbolism. I chose Espelon this week: "Espolón's name comes from the 'spur' on the back of the rooster's leg. Espolón has a rooster icon.. ." So..bone spur on the leg of a cock--or rooster--strutting around, chest puffed, talking tough on Iran or Teamsters. Underneath? Dumber-than-dirt cowards.
More on Mullin, shared by Kathleen Trott, wife of then GOP Rep. Mike Trott from a congressional trip:
"We get on this bus, and it’s a couple-hour ride and people were..leaning on their spouse’s shoulder, falling asleep. And this idiot [MarkWayne Mullin] starts walking up and down the bus with a camera and anyone who fell asleep, he would put his finger in their nose and take a picture."
The weirdo tooks pics...of of him picking colleagues' noses! To record their humiliated or shocked reactions. He likes assaulting and threatening people, whether nasal spelunking or brawling w/ Teamsters in committee hearings. The chud should be nowhere near DHS.
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Chud or Choad? Or both?
Republicans Have A Big Nazi Problem — Oliver Willis
Nick Fuentes may be a Nazi groyper, but he's THEIR Nazi groyper.
College Republicans of America, a network of right-wing clubs with more than 280 chapters, recently named Kai Schwemmer the new political director.
Schwemmer will play a vital role in directing the organization, which has contributed to the GOP’s leadership and ideology pipeline. And his new role has additional significance because, as a devotee of neo-Nazi podcaster Nick Fuentes, it hints at the future of an increasingly bigoted Republican Party.
The GOP’s affiliation with antisemitism and racism is nothing new. The party has been knee-deep in bigoted politics since at least the 1960s—and since President Donald Trump became the party’s leader in 2016, the right has more openly embraced this kind of hate....
“My problem with Trump isn’t that he’s Hitler—my problem with Trump is that he is not Hitler,” Fuentes said.
The influence that media personalities have over the GOP cannot be underemphasized.
For decades, Republicans marched in lockstep with racist radio host Rush Limbaugh, who hosted leaders like former President George W. Bush on his show. And two Republican presidents, Ronald Reagan and Trump, rose to prominence in the party after careers in media.
Overall, Fuentes’ toxic, extreme worldview has not been a hindrance—he’s the future of a party that just continues to be more and more hateful.
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End Amercan fascism!
Trump weaponizes everyone's medical secrets — except his own — Adman Lynch
...But while Trump delights in discussing the health issues of others and in making fun of their physical conditions, the Guardian says Trump has “intense caginess about his own health, including a recent neck rash.”...
But critics note the extreme silence following Trump’s unexpected cognition tests, and his slack face a few months ago, which often hallmarks the aftermath of an undisclosed stroke....
“I think it’s just inappropriate for a president of the United States to essentially out the healthcare diagnosis of a member of Congress. “… The president has said much worse. Of course, I do think that this is pretty abhorrent but no, I think he’ll get zero pushback, essentially, on this.”
Hank Sheinkopf, a longtime Democratic strategist, said this kind of behavior is “pretty much the story in Trumpland.”...
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A totally whacked out creature.
White House appears to have ‘plagiarized’ war justifications from Israel — Nick Hilden
...The White House document may be intended to provide hard facts to justify the war, but as McIntyre concluded, “the reporting didn't come from an intelligence assessment,” but from Israeli assets.
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Intelligence? None of that in the failing Trump admin!
FCC Chair: Trump Is “The Alpha In Every Single Realm”
...“President Trump has walked through so many different things and come out the other side because he’s been tough, because he’s never given up, because he’s kept fighting. He’s the alpha in every single realm and every single place all across the world.” – FCC chair Brendan Carr, speaking to Trump sycophant and New York Post columnist Miranda Devine.
Whatever your views, worshiping politicians is cringe, especially when done in pseudo-sexual terms. Please stop. — Billy Binion
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What planet does this nutball reside on? The people say "fuck way off, asswipe!"
Good thing he'll be replaced soon.
Displeased White House intervenes as Bill Maher announced as Kennedy Center prize-winner — Erik De La Garza
The White House stepped in Friday to stop late-night television host Bill Maher from receiving a prestigious humor award at the Kennedy Center shortly after news of the honor was reported, according to The Atlantic.
Earlier Friday, the outlet reported that Maher – a frequent critic of President Donald Trump – had been selected to receive the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.
But Atlantic staff writer Michael Scherer told his followers on social media, “After this story was published, the White House called the Kennedy Center and made clear that Maher would not receive the prize.”
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt also disputed the report in a statement to the magazine. “This is fake news. Bill Maher will NOT be getting this award.”
The move to block Maher’s award comes amid Trump’s sweeping changes at the storied Washington, D.C. institution. The president took over the Kennedy Center last February by replacing its trustees with loyalists who went on to name Trump as its chair.
The MAGA-fied board also rebranded the venue as the Trump-Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
Trump and Maher have sparred in the past, including a recent social media barrage by Trump targeting the HBO host. In a span of roughly 15 minutes on March 6, the president repeatedly posted about Maher, dismissing the comedian as a “joke” and a “total waste of time.”
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In more enlightend times Trump would be in a straitjacket by now.
Trump admin suffers major legal defeat over Pentagon policy — Erik De La Garza
A federal judge dealt a major blow to the Trump administration on Friday, ruling that Pentagon restrictions on journalists violated the Constitution.
U.S. District Judge Paul L. Friedman, a Bill Clinton appointee, granted summary judgment to The New York Times, finding that key portions of a Defense Department policy setting alternate Pentagon press credentials were “unlawful because they violate the First and Fifth Amendments to the United States Constitution.”
The policy stemmed from an October 2025 memorandum issued to senior Pentagon leaders, prompting the Times' lawsuit against the MAGA administration in December.
But Friedman, in a sharply worded opinion on Friday, stressed that public access to information is critical – especially during wartime.
“The court recognizes that national security must be protected, the security of our troops must be protected, and war plans must be protected,” he wrote in the four-page ruling. “But especially in light of the country’s recent incursion into Venezuela and its ongoing war with Iran, it is more important than ever that the public have access to information from a variety of perspectives about what its government is doing.”
The judge added that such transparency allows the public to support – or protest – government policies, “and decide based on a full, complete, and open information who they are going to vote for in the next election.”
Friedman’s ruling also ordered the immediate reinstatement of credentials for multiple Times reporters.
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A very positive result for our Constitution.
How AI is warping the video game industry — Theara Coleman
Artificial intelligence has swept through the tech industry, video games included. While many industry heads are declaring AI the wave of the future, so far, integrating AI into gaming has had a rough start. And its presence is getting pushback from both developers and gaming enthusiasts...
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Doing the same with games as it's doing to our existence — Fucking it all up!
David Frum: A Very Bad Time for Bozos to Be in Charge — Tim MIller
The U.S. is at war with the leading state sponsor of terror, and Donald Trump appointed Markwayne Mullin—a man with no counter-terrorism experience—to help defend the homeland. At the same time, Hegseth is a meathead, and the shoe designer at the top of the FBI is preoccupied with visiting all the places on his bucket list. This is the moment for Democrats to argue that Trump has made the country very vulnerable. Plus, the administration apparently did not consider worst case scenarios vis-à-vis Iran, the Iraq War planners look like pros in comparison, Denmark was seriously preparing for an American invasion of Greenland, and is Israel's conduct contributing to the growing antisemitism problem?...
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Bozos or Beelzebubs!
'Impeach him!' Alarm as telling DOJ move sparks fears of imminent military operation — Alexander Willis
The Justice Department was revealed Friday to be investigating Colombian President Gustavo Francisco Petro Urrego over alleged ties to drug traffickers, a move critics warned could foreshadow an imminent U.S. military operation abroad.
Citing three insiders who spoke on the condition of anonymity, The New York Times confirmed that a criminal investigation into Petro Urrego is underway by at least two U.S. federal prosecutors’ offices, with the inquiries exploring “Mr. Petro’s possible meetings with drug traffickers,” among other things.
As noted by multiple critics, however, a criminal investigation into another South American president – Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro – preceded the Trump administration’s unprecedented attack on Venezuela, seizing its oil trade, and capturing its president.
“Completely out of control,” wrote The Tennessee Holler, the progressive news outlet founded by former Democratic congressional candidate and television personality Justin Kanew, in a social media post on X Friday.
Kyle Kulinski, a popular progressive political commentator and podcast host, was more explicit in their warning about what the criminal probe into Gustavo might suggest as it relates to the Trump administration's next move.
“This is what they did before they abducted Maduro,” Kulinski wrote to his nearly 550,000 followers on X. “They're gonna try regime change in Colombia as well. For the love of god IMPEACH HIM. 25TH AMENDMENT. HE NEEDS TO BE F---ING STOPPED. WAKE THE F--- UP.”
Former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan came to an identical conclusion.
“Remember, this is how they tried to legally justify their criminal abduction of Maduro,” he wrote to his more than 2 million followers on X.
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Go he must!
Teens Are Using AI to Create “Slander” Videos of Their Teachers — Frank Landymore
If teachers thought rampant cheating was the worst way AI would impact their livelihoods, we’ve got some bad news.
On social media platforms like Instagram and TikTok, Wired reports, teenagers are using AI to create videos that ruthlessly mock their school’s faculty, sometimes even attacking their reputation, with one video flippantly labeling a teacher a “predator.”
The “slander pages” that post the videos often use “looksmaxxing” lingo to denigrate the teachers, the reporting noted. Some posts receive over one hundred thousand likes, becoming a viral “in-joke” that’s cruelly blasted out to countless strangers on the internet.
Where AI comes into the picture is how the students use controversial tools like Viggle AI to insert a photo of their teacher into scenes or to lip-sync their faces. In one now-removed “slander” video made with Viggle, Wired found, a teacher’s face is superimposed onto someone twitching in a bathroom. A text overlay reads, “Take fent or be useless,” referring to a fentanyl overdose.
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Youth is wasted on the young.
Huge Study of Chats Between Delusional Users and AI Finds Alarming Patterns — Maggie Harrison Dupré
An analysis of hundreds of thousands of chats between AI chatbots and human users who experienced AI-tied delusional spirals found that the bots frequently reinforced delusional and even dangerous beliefs.
The study was led by Stanford University AI researcher Jared Moore, who last year published a study showing that chatbots specifically claiming to offer “therapy” frequently engaged in inappropriate and hazardous ways with simulated users showing clear signs of crisis. Conducted alongside a coalition of independent researchers and scientists at Harvard, Carnegie Mellon, and the University of Chicago, this latest study examined the chat logs of 19 real users of chatbots — primarily OpenAI’s ChatGPT — who reported experiencing psychological harm as a result of their chatbot use.
“Our previous work was in simulation,” Moore told Futurism. “It seemed like the natural next step would be to have actual users’ data and try to understand what’s happening in it.”
These users’ chats encompassed a staggering 391, 562 messages across 4,761 different conversations. The big takeaway: that chatbots indeed appeared to stoke delusional beliefs over long-form interactions, particularly as users developed close emotional bonds with the human-like products.
“Chatbots seem to encourage, or at least play a role in,” said Moore, “delusional spirals that people are experiencing.”
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AI in the hands of the unconscious. A mistake about to take place. An accident looking for a place to happen.
Psycho Ron Johnson Spews Lie After Lie About Migrants To Promote SAVE Act — John Amato
Sen. Ron Johnson joined Fox Business Network and told lie after lie to Larry Kudlow to promote the heinous SAVE Act that will disenfranchise millions of Americans from voting by claiming millions of undocumented migrants with visas and driver's licenses are voting in US elections.
These are bald-faced lies.
"Show me your papers," is not the American way.
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Nazi bastard!
'Out of the closet': Former Republican has a theory about white Christian nationalism — Adam Lynch
Former Republican US Rep. Joe Walsh said his old part is unquestionably outing itself as a white Christian nationalist party now.
...“He knows that not every American worships Jesus Christ,” Walsh said. “So what's he doing? Here's what he's doing. Pete Hegseth is a white Christian nationalist. Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of Defense, is a white Christian nationalist. He wants America to be a white Christian nation.”
“Our founders were very enlightened,” continued Walsh, explaining that many were both Christian and believers, but they understood the importance of separating religion from state.
“We do not have an official state religion,” said Walsh. “The very thought of that, the very notion of that is antithetical to what America is. … Christian nationalism is utterly un-American … as un-American as Islamism is. … Islamism is a radical concept that everybody's got to be Islam. Christian nationalism, same thing. Everybody's got to be Christian. Both are utterly un-American.”
“And I guess what I'm saying right now is, as I close on this, this Un-American, and by the way, un-Christian belief, has overtaken the Republican Party. And we need everybody to wake up to it. Fast. and help all of us, help everyone defeat it.”
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And not one is a Christian. They are the same shits as the Taliban. The same as the radical Muslims.
Self-Driving Cars Slated to Clog Roads With Horrendous Congestion — Joe Wilkins
Self-driving cars might seem like the future, but they still share the same asphalt as your grandma’s ’98 Corolla.
That means that their rise may not be a good thing for road congestion. First reported by Bloomberg, new research suggests that as autonomous vehicle companies are on the verge of flooding urban streets with their vehicles, the shift could results in an uptick in car trips overall. In other words, instead of ushering in a peaceful new era of transportation, it’s possible that self-driving cars will instead clog up our communities worse than ever.
The new research paper, published in the journal Travel Behaviour and Society, found that automated vehicles in US cities result in a 6 percent increase in vehicle miles traveled (VMT) — the amount of travel for for all vehicles in a certain place over a period of time, a kind of “mileage odometer” for an entire city or region.
Autonomous vehicles increase the total VMT regardless of if they’re carpooled or transporting a solo traveler, the researchers found. This is due to a few factors, like “deadheading,” meaning when a self-driving taxi doesn’t have anyone inside. Per The Driverless Digest, deadhead miles made up nearly half of Waymo’s total travel in San Francisco across 2025....
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More evidence of undeveloped garbage being pushed on our public by industry and our failure to regulate it.
CBS News Announces It’s Killing Its Entire News Radio Division Amid New Layoffs — Zachary Leeman
Some major changes are underway at CBS News with two emails sent out on Friday revealing new layoffs, as well as the outlet’s news radio service being shuttered.
CBS News President and executive editor Tom Cibrowski and CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss announced the layoffs and news radio decision in a pair of emails obtained by Mediaite.
“We recognize that this is a difficult time for those who will be leaving CBS News. Because these aren’t just names on a list. They are talented, committed colleagues who have been critical to our success. We’ll treat them all with care and respect,” Cibrowski and Weiss wrote in the email confirming layoffs that had previously been rumored to be coming.
In another email obtained by Mediaite through a source familiar with the situation, it was announced that the CBS News Radio team and hundreds of affiliated stations were informed that service will be cut off in May....
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More evidence of the disintegration of U.S. media and free speech. The country in which we grew up is being erased. Fascism is the primary cause.
Trump Is Getting Drilled, Baby, Drilled — Andrew Egger
There has always been a chasm between the actual MAGA voters and the MAGA intelligentsia that purports to speak for them, but it has rarely been as visible as it is this week. Many of the leading lights of the literate right have been pulling their hair out (with good reason!) over the Iran war, with Christopher Caldwell declaring it “the end of Trumpism” in the Spectator and Sohrab Ahmari proclaiming that “Trump was never the one” in UnHerd. At least so far, the base does not agree: A new Politico poll finds that only 12 percent of 2024 Trump voters oppose the war in Iran so far. Happy Friday.
‘Oh No, the Consequences of My Actions!’
by Andrew Egger
Twenty four hours ago, it looked like our war in Iran might be about to spiral really, really out of control. Iran had been playing havoc with global energy prices by blockading the Strait of Hormuz, but until this week damage to the region’s actual energy production infrastructure had been minimal. That changed after Israel struck a major Iranian gas field Wednesday, to which Iran responded with further strikes against energy infrastructure around the region.
One Iranian missile managed to strike an oil refinery in northern Israel, although Israeli officials said the facility had escaped significant damage. Qatar wasn’t so lucky. Iranian strikes pummeled its liquefied natural gas infrastructure. Shell-shocked QatarEnergy officials emerged yesterday to quantify the damage: an estimated 17 percent of the country’s export capacity was knocked out, an estimated $20 billion in lost annual revenue until $26 billion in repairs can be made....
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A sane person would be remorseful by taking actions Trump takes. Bibi doesn't help at all.
The REAL Reason Trump is Trapped in Iran — Robert Reich
And why American consumers are up Shit's Creek
Friends,
Yesterday, Trump said that he’d do whatever is necessary to ease the oil crisis. He also assured America that the crisis “will be over soon.”
Bullshit.
The problem isn’t just that Iran has blocked the Strait of Hormuz. It’s also that Iran, Israel, and the United States have all inflicted — and continue to inflict — serious damage to the oil and gas infrastructure of the Middle East. This damage will take months if not years to repair.
At one point on Thursday oil prices jumped to $119 a barrel before falling back to around $111 a barrel — all but guaranteeing that the price of gas at the pump will continue to rise, as will the prices of many other products and services indirectly affected by oil prices.
What we are now witnessing is one of the grossest military and political blunders in modern history.
It’s not hard to understand why Trump is trapped in Iran. He doesn’t listen to anyone outside his small circle of sycophants who tell him what he wants to hear.
But there’s something else. Iran has adopted an asymmetric war strategy that’s working....
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Trump lies.
Sicko Pete Hegseth Telling His Kids The Troops Died For Them — Evan Hurst
Another day, another Iran WAR SECRETARY OF WARFIGHTING presser from Pete “Secretary Shitfaced” Hegseth. He began this one by yet again whining and moaning that the Fake News wasn’t sufficiently bathing his Supreme Excellency Donald Trump’s balls with saliva and praising him for the Iran war he and his WARFIGHTER secretary of WAR, SIR, YES SIR! have blunderfucked their way into.
But in this one he did some new, particularly gross things.
Like toward the end, when he told the (allegedly true, possibly a lie) story of how he told his 13-year-old son that the troops who are dying to keep Donald Trump’s and Hegseth’s dicks hard — and maybe for Hegseth to start some kind of Christian Nazi Crusade — died instead for him. And by him, he meant his son. That these troops who died because of shitty planning and execution of a war nobody besides war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu asked for and the world didn’t need died for Pete Hegseth’s son.
HEGSETH: My 13-year-old son popped into my office last night while I was editing these remarks. He asked about the war and the families I met at Dover. And I looked at him and I said, they died for you, son, so that your generation doesn't have to deal with a nuclear Iran.
Yeah, that’s some sick shit. Hopefully one day his son will realize that.
And no, they didn’t, Pete Hegseth, you blameshifting, no-responsibility-taking little bitch. For one thing, a real president and a real man, Barack Hussein Obama, negotiated a nuclear deal with Iran over 10 years ago that was working. Indeed, it was one of his greatest foreign policy accomplishments, aside from that time he was the guy who killed Osama bin Laden and announced it during The Celebrity Apprentice. So spoiler alert, Barack Obama was protecting Hegseth’s son from a nuclear Iran long before Deadbeat Dad even tried and fucked it all up! And then Donald Trump, the vilest, stupidest, saddest excuse of a human ever to hold the presidency, ripped up Obama’s deal because he couldn’t stand that Obama had accomplished yet another thing he hadn’t.
Loser would have brought Bin Laden back to life so he could try and presumably fail to kill him again if he could.
The world is far more dangerous because of what Trump and Hegseth have done, and Hegseth’s son has to live in that far more dangerous world, because his dad is a fuckup and a loser who’s totally out of his league, who measures his masculinity by how many things he makes go boom, even if they’re little girls’ schools going boom, and because Donald Trump is such a goddamned defective moron. How bad? Read this article from Ilan Goldenberg, a former US official who used to wargame Iran for the Obama administration. “This is the worst-case scenario,” he writes for Zeteo.
It’s that bad. (And the only winner is Putin. Surprise!)
But hey, if the troops died for Pete Hegseth’s son, did those little schoolgirls Daddy bombed die for him too?
Just asking.
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Applause!
'Dumbest person in the world': Trump’s 'intellectual limitations' driving reckless policy — Alex Henderson
During George W. Bush's presidency, some paleoconservative and America First critics of the Iraq War blamed "overeducated intellectuals" and "pseudo-intellectuals" for the many problems that post-Saddam Hussein Iraq was having. Bush, as they saw it, pursued a disastrous foreign policy because he listened to neocons who had a lot of education but not a lot of common sense.
But The New Republic's Jason Linkins has a much different type of war-related argument in an article published on March 20. Linkins is highly critical of President Donald Trump's war against Iran, and he argues that a lack of intellectual depth is the problem.
"So maybe this is the best time to assert the obvious, using my favored rubric of Trump analysis: Imagine if the dumbest person in the world and humanity's biggest a–– were the same person, and that guy was president," Linkins writes. "Then imagine he started a war with Iran. Now check the news. One look, and here's what you should be thinking: 'Yep, that tracks.' As with all of Trump's presidential exploits, success is always constrained by two factors: the aforementioned sharp limitations of his intellectual capabilities and the fact that he is perpetually surrounded by an inner circle made up of clowns somewhere on the spectrum between 'rampantly evil' and 'thoroughgoing d––.'"...
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Stupid is as stupid does. We have never seen a more cluelss and lawlessidiot in our president's office than Trump.
FBI wants to hide agent who secured search warrant in Georgia — Sarah K. Burris
The FBI's ability to get a search warrant to seize all of the 2020 election ballots and information in Fulton County, Georgia came down to one FBI agent who spoke to one supporter of President Donald Trump. Now, the FBI wants to hide that agent from answering questions under oath.
Former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance flagged the court filing on Friday, in which Fulton County said that Agent Hugh Raymond Evans is a central part to their motions to quash. The federal government wants to keep the FBI agent from testifying, she explained.
The FBI raided the Fulton County headquarters at the end of January. At one point, the FBI agent told the county staff that they weren't leaving without the ballots, whether they had the proper paperwork or not. Once the documents showing how the FBI was able to get a search warrant were exposed, legal experts pounced on the legitimacy of the FBI's claims.
"His affidavit — which misstated and omitted key facts that if accurately disclosed would have undermined any pretense of probable cause — provides the sole support for the warrant at issue," wrote the county.
Fulton County is arguing that the Justice Department is trying to hide the truth behind how it got its search warrant....
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And we've never seen a more corrupt "law enforcement" agency since Nixon's administration.
Trump official says he teleported 50 miles to a Waffle House — David Badash
...“Teleporting is no fun,” said Gregg Phillips, who leads FEMA’s critical Office of Response and Recovery, according to a CNN File report. “It’s no fun because you don’t really know what you’re doing. You don’t really understand it, it’s scary, but yet um – but so real. And you know it’s happening but you can’t do anything about it, and so you just go, you just go with the ride. And wow, what just an incredible adventure it all was.”
CNN describes Phillips as “a far-right activist who spread conspiracy theories about voter fraud and frequently used violent rhetoric toward political opponents.” In December, when Phillips started at FEMA, CNN described him as a “longtime Republican operative” and an “election fraud crusader” who “rocketed into the spotlight with his unsubstantiated fraud claims, which were touted by Trump.”...
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When does he plan on teleporting back the place in hell he came from? ROTFLMAO!
Clown Shoes 'R Us — Abby Zimet
Living in not just the bleakest but dumbest timeline, we must now witness the "off the charts clownfuckery" that is the spectacle of quivering, grown-ass Trump lackeys faithfully, fearfully shuffling around the halls of power in his fave "old-man-from-Queens" shoes - most ill-sized - foisted on them in some weird submission ritual by a sociopath with daddy issues. What he evidently doesn't know: A. They're made in China, B. Their company is suing him for his illegal tariffs. Up next: Kim Jong Un haircuts for all.
The latest manifestation of Trump's petty megalomania came to light when astute observers noticed that first Lil Marco Rubio, then other White House minions were sporting the same often-too-large shoes, which all turned out to be the $145, black oxford Florsheims regularly worn and touted by Trump. In a cringe origin story recounted by cringe JD Vance, the Favorite Florsheims Saga began at a December meeting in the Oval Bordello when Trump, always laser-focused, began staring at people’s feet and abruptly declared, "You guys have shitty shoes." He asked their shoe sizes. He (likely) ignored/forgot them. The shoes started arriving. He mercilessly badgered them: "Did you get the shoes?" And the dutiful flunkies, having already "left their manhood pickled in a golden jar on Trump’s desk," took on the latest indignity of clomping around in their sadist dad's shoes....
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These toadies are the biggest linped-dick chickenshits that ever walked in DC!
"And my shoes keep walking off my feet... " (old Buck Owens hit)
The lamebrain world of Donald Trump!
Denmark Is Still Prepared For Full-Scale War With U.S. In Greenland — Susie Madrak
Denmark reportedly readied itself for potential attack from the US in January, flying bags of blood to Greenland and explosives to blow up runways in case of a battle with its former closest ally.
During the tense days when Donald Trump threatened to take over Greenland – a largely autonomous territory that is part of the Danish commonwealth – “the hard way”, Copenhagen was so shaken that it started preparing for US invasion, according to Danish public broadcaster DR.
In January, Danish soldiers were flown to Greenland, reportedly carrying explosives to destroy runways in the capital, Nuuk, and in Kangerlussuaq, a small town north of the capital, to prevent US aircraft from landing in the event of an invasion.
They also carried supplies from Danish blood banks to treat wounded people in the event of battle, according to DR.
Denmark began a series of secret talks with European nations that started soon after the 2024 election.
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Thankfully, someone is paying attention and planning against the greatest threat to world peace!
Bessent: U.S. To Unsanction Iranian Oil While At War With Iran — Ed Scarce
With the price of oil so high right now, the United States is lifting sanctions from Russia and Iran to try to keep prices lower. Does that make any damn sense? Does any of this make any sense is the real question.
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"Caution: Moron at Work!"
POLL: Citizens Of Four Key US Allies Say It’s Better To Depend On China Than On United States Under Trump —
Politico reports:
The 21st century is more likely to belong to Beijing than to Washington — at least that’s the view from four key U.S. allies. Swaths of the public in Canada, Germany, France and the U.K. have soured on the U.S., driven by President Donald Trump’s foreign policy decisions, according to recent results from The POLITICO Poll.
The POLITICO Poll — in partnership with U.K. polling firm Public First — found that respondents in those four allied countries believe it is better to depend on China than the U.S. following Trump’s turbulent return to office.
That appears to be driven by Trump’s disruption, not by a newfound stability in China: In a follow-up question, a majority of respondents in both Canada and Germany agreed that any attempts to get closer to China are because the U.S. has become harder to depend on — not because China itself has become a more reliable partner. Many respondents in France (38 percent) and the U.K. (42 percent) also shared that sentiment.
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The USA has now been downgraded to an ememy of the planet. Trump seems to be a world wide criminal.
US Deploys Three More Warships, 2500 More Marines
The Associated Press reports:
A U.S. official confirmed that the USS Boxer and two other amphibious assault ships, along with roughly 2,500 Marines of the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit, are bound for the Middle East from their home port of San Diego. Two other U.S. officials confirmed that the ships were deploying, without saying where they were headed.
Last week, U.S. officials also confirmed that the Japan-based USS Tripoli and the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit have been ordered to the Middle East — shifting them from exercises in the vicinity of Taiwan. Earlier this week, the USS Tripoli and another amphibious assault ship, the USS New Orleans, were spotted sailing west of Malaysia on publicly available satellite imagery.
The pair of Marine Expeditionary Units will add about 5,000 Marines and thousands of sailors to the region where the U.S. is engaged in a war with Iran. The U.S. military says it has about 50,000 troops in the region.
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Closer, ever closer to WWIII even as an American Civil War lurks in the shadows.
Democracy Is Nature’s Survival Strategy—So Why Are Republicans Fighting It? — Thom Hartmann
From red deer to Mesoamerica to America today, the evidence is overwhelming: bottom-up systems endure, top-down systems fail.
FCC Chairman and apparent Goebbels fanboy Brendan Carr is suggesting the radio and TV broadcasters he regulates should begin airing more “pro-America” content. What he means, of course, is pro-Trump.
This illustrates a much larger reality: Republicans want a top-down, hierarchical political and economic system. Democrats want a bottom-up system with maximum participation and broad sharing of society’s wealth. Who is right?
Donald Trump just went on a rant about economics, oil, and Iran that has massive implications for the future of our nation. At the same time, a new study was published about how people lived in Mesoamerica before the European conquest that shows as many as half of all those ancient societies lived democratically and had a relatively egalitarian distribution of wealth.
It seems like these are separate, disconnected stories, but they’re not. And the tale they both tell gives us a major insight into the future of America, for better or worse, depending on the political decisions we make between now and November.
The stakes are getting higher every day, and it’s critical that we all understand how cultural and political evolution and world history led us to this dangerous and opportune moment.
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Many of us are whistling past the graveyard. The remainder remain asleep.
Father Of Service Member Killed In Iran War Says He Didn’t Tell Hegseth To “Finish The Job, Get This Done”
NBC News reports:
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth met privately Wednesday with the families of six service members who died in the Iran war and, in a press briefing the next morning, said the message he got was consistent and supportive. “What I heard through tears, through hugs, through strength and through unbreakable resolve was the same from family after family. They said, ‘Finish this. Honor their sacrifice. Do not waver. Do not stop until the job is done,’” Hegseth said.
One of the people he met at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware was Charles Simmons. His 28-year-old son, Tech. Sgt. Tyler H. Simmons, was among the six crew members killed when their refueling plane crashed in Iraq last week. Simmons recalled his exchange differently. “I can’t speak for the other families. When he spoke to me, that was not something we talked about,” he told NBC News in an interview Thursday.
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Of course. Hegseth is a ghoul!
Natl Debt Has Soared By $2.8T During Trump’s Term
TIME Magazine reports:
The U.S. national debt soared past $39 trillion this week amid growing concerns over the cost of the Iran war. The figure, published by the Bureau of the Fiscal Service, consists of over $31.3 trillion in public debt, on top of over $7.6 trillion in intragovernmental holdings or debt that is held by the government. Since his first presidential campaign dating back to 2015, President Donald Trump has vowed, on several occasions, to reduce the national debt.
Before his first term, Trump claimed he would be able to eliminate the entirety of the debt, which at the time stood at over $19 trillion, in just eight years. “I’m renegotiating all of our deals, the big trade deals that we’re doing so badly on,” he said as a Republican candidate in April 2016, pointing towards reshaping U.S. trade and foreign policy as a tool to clear the sum, should he win the election.
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The Republicans used to rage about the National Debt. Just another example of their treasonous "OK for me but not for thee!" mantra.
ICE Is Taking DNA Samples From Arrested Protesters
NPR reports:
Three immigration officers pinned him down and dragged him to their vehicle. Ben says he was held in custody for about three hours. Before his release, officers photographed and fingerprinted him. Then, before Ben realized fully what was happening, an officer ran a swab, similar to a Q-tip, along the inside of his cheek. “It was super casual,” Ben says. “It was just like, ‘okay, yeah so we’re going to take this now.'”
NPR found five other people in Illinois, Oregon and Minnesota who described similar occurrences in recent months. In statements made under oath as part of lawsuits against the Trump administration’s handling of immigration enforcement, they said they were arrested, seemingly without provocation, while protesting ICE and then had officers take or try to take what appeared to be a sample of their DNA.
"Guess it's time to say it for today: ICE must be destroyed utterly and every single one of its employees imprisoned for the rest of their lives." — Man_in_the_mists (comments)
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Totalitarianism! Pure unadulteraed FASCISM! Same as the goddamn Nazis!
Tennessee Senate Approves Ten Commandments Bill
Nashville's ABC affiliate reports:
The Republican-led Tennessee Senate passed a bill Thursday that would require public school districts and public charter schools to display the Ten Commandments alongside other historical documents in a prominent place in the school.
The bill would mandate that the U.S. and Tennessee Constitutions, Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights be hung alongside the Ten Commandments. Republicans argued the Ten Commandments are a historical teaching that shaped the foundation of our laws and guiding principles.
“The 13 colonies that formed this nation — the Declaration of Independence was not in there when we formed our nation, nor was the Constitution, but what was in those 13 colonies was the Ten Commandments and that’s one of the basic historic documents that we want to make sure the founding of this nation was on,” Sen. Mark Pody (R-Lebanon), the bill’s sponsor, said.
"I think I figured it out. when Reagan closed the mental hospitals, all of the patients moved to the next best health care provider, the government, specifically the GQP where their illness was accepted as normal."— Stoned and loving it (comments)
"If religious leaders can keep their hands from molesting and raping children for 5 years then I will listen to their arguments to display the 10 Commandments." — Philly Mike (comments)
"It shows just how stupid this is when the author of the bill doesn't even know where to find it in their big book of stories and fables." — TexasBoy (comments)
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Jewish law from the Torah? That's what the first six books of the Bible are! Retards like Pody have never studied the Bible. Yes, there are two versions of "Ten." Their Pedophile Pastors have told them this bullshit and they suck it down like a heroin addict!
Get with the program, moron!:
"When the United States declared its independence in 1776, the thirteen colonies were not only politically diverse but also religiously varied. The colonies reflected a patchwork of traditions—some rooted in official state churches and others founded on ideals of religious liberty. Understanding this religious landscape helps us see how the American principle of separation of church and state emerged."
The religious diversity of the thirteen colonies laid the groundwork for the pluralistic society the United States would become. The journey from church establishments to full religious freedom was gradual, but it ensured that no single denomination would dominate the American spiritual landscape—making faith in the new nation a matter of conscience rather than compulsion. — Religion in the Original Thirteen Colonies: Faith at the Birth of the United States.
For Gen Z Republican men, sex is solitary — Amanda Marcotte
Young conservatives' anger at women is taking a nihilistic turn
“Gooning” — slang for excessive masturbation — has colonized the discourse of Gen Z Republican men, and it’s a subculture so consumed by misogynist anger that their conception of sexuality has become onanistic....
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How did American "men" get so fucked up and twisted?
'Now we know' why Trump fired the Social Security inspector general: report — Brad Reed, Common Dreams
...“Inspectors general are the American peoples’ eyes and ears in these agencies,” said Altman. “The Trump administration is undermining that oversight at every turn. Under this administration, the IG has no ability to conduct independent oversight. There is no meaningful check on the Trump administration’s Social Security sabotage.”
Democratic communications consultant Jesse Lee linked the damage to the SSA documented in the draft IG report to efforts by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which went on a firing spree of federal workers last year.
“So DOGE did a smash and grab at the Social Security Administration, breaking into the most sensitive data, firing phone and in-person case workers,” Lee wrote. “Trump appointee waved around an IG report claiming wait times were fine—after burying the real report saying they were up to two hours.”
"It's all part of the privatization scheme that's been ongoing since FDR signed the New Deal. The Epstein ( Billionaire ) Class, has been trying to get rid of anything the government ( All of us ) was designed to do to help us. Everyone should make their congressman know that they are well aware of this, and demand they reverse every bit of it, and return us to pre 1983 economic, social safety net, anti trust laws, and taxes, that created the largest middleclass expansion, and prosperity for the average American since the end of WW2. To many Americans have allowed themselves to be sold a bill of goods, that we can no longer afford the system that helped all Americans, but there is always plenty of money for tax cuts, subsidies, and the military.
It's time that we not only stop that, but we completely turn it around." — carl gunn (commments)
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Trump destroys all hope for many Americans. The man is evil incarnate!
Time is not on Trump’s side as he risks presidency 'crashing to earth': analysis — Thomas Kika
The war with Iran is eroding President Donald Trump's ability to "defy political gravity," according to a new analysis from the Economist, but he will only become more dangerous as his second term is brought "crashing to earth."
In a piece published Thursday, The Economist outlined how Trump's "ill-judged, heedless war against Iran" was a situation "precisely engineered to intercept the trajectory of his presidency," presenting a major impediment to his long-observed ability to escape scandals and failures with minimal damage.
"The reason is that the fight against Iran diminishes Mr. Trump’s three political superpowers," the piece explained. "His ability to impose his own reality on the world, his remorseless use of leverage and his dominion over the Republican Party. Even without Iran, the potency of these Trumpian strengths was likely to wane after the midterm elections. Wars accelerate change."
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Burn all your stupid dunce MAGAt hats, loser.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders kicked out of Arkansas restaurant — Matthew Rozsa
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders — a MAGA Republican who became her state’s first female chief executive after receiving an endorsement from President Donald Trump— was kicked out of a restaurant in her own state on Friday the 13th last week.
Sanders was told to leave a Little Rock restaurant called The Croissanterie after spending more than an hour eating there with her State Police Executive Protection Detail, according to a report by the local news affiliate TVH-11. In a written statement, the restaurant’s owners explained they were "surprised and uncertain how best to respond" when they saw Sanders and her detail had entered their establishment. Because they soon ordered and started eating, they felt compelled to allow them to stay, but soon began to feel uncomfortable.
According to the restaurant, after a little more than an hour they politely asked Sanders and her guests to leave. Sanders and her detail claim they were told her presence was “making employees threatened and uncomfortable because of her political views."...
Trump’s press secretary. Her controversies include alienating conservatives in her own party by proposing an $825 million state prison, opposing local Republicans who oppose her policies, urging state high schools and colleges to open Turning Point USA chapters, spending $19,000 on a lectern and trying to circumvent term limits for her judicial picks by encouraging them to run for each other’s seats. That said, it is unclear which specific political issues upset the staff at The Croissanterie.
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French Pestery scandal!
PeeWee Goebbels: Trump Is The Most Brilliant Military Strategist Ever! — Heather
Trump's minion was back at it again, trying to put some lipstick on this giant pig his idiot boss has inflicted all of us in the United States and the rest of the world, for that matter, with his attack on Iran.
Miller made an appearance on Fox's The Ingraham Angle. After first pushing back against Ingraham, asking why securing the Strait of Hormuz was taking so long, given the progress Miller and others keep claiming is happening, Miller insisted that the operation has moved remarkably fast compared to historical norms.
After showing a clip of NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte stating that allies universally agree the Strait of Hormuz must reopen, and that NATO members are actively coordinating on how to achieve that, Ingraham tried to pin Miller down on which members those were, since none have said publicly that they'd help.
Miller then launched into another one of his diatribes, insisting that this has been one of the greatest military victories EVER!!! and pretending Trump is some genius military strategist.
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Why did Little Pee Wee bring a ladder to the party? Because he heard the drinks were on the house!
Unhinged: Pete Hegseth Lashes Out At The American Press During Briefing — John Amato
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth continued his paranoid attack on the American press today during a supposed Pentagon press briefing, which was bombastic, arrogant, and unhinged.
Hegseth has already destroyed the integrity of the Pentagon press corps, which has been whittled down to only Trump-supporting media, MAGA podcasters, influencers, and Christian nationalists, so his words appeared more insane than usual.
Hegseth's constant berating of the US media will not affect their coverage of the war as it unfolds.
It only makes him more like Sterling Hayden's psychopathic Brig. Gen. Jack D. Ripper from Dr. Strangelove, than FDR's Henry Stimson.
Trump's bullying of media outlets with lawsuits has helped him greatly, but this is beyond his scope or Hegseth's to control the narratives and use happy faces when American service members are killed....
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The digusting ugliness of a Nazi government.
Unredacted Epstein email apparently contradicts core Trump claim — María Teresita Armstrong-Matta
Representative Dan Goldman revealed an unredacted 2009 email on the House floor Wednesday contradicting President Donald Trump's longstanding claims about Jeffrey Epstein's relationship to Mar-a-Lago.
Trump's attorney Alan Garten stated Epstein was "never asked to leave" the club, directly contradicting Trump's public assertions that he kicked Epstein out.
The email documents Trump's deposition responses, where he stated he "may have been" on Epstein's plane with "no young girls" and "may have been" to Epstein's residence. Trump has publicly denied being "friendly" with Epstein and claimed he was "never" on his plane.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt asserted Trump expelled Epstein for being "a creep." However, evidence contradicts these claims: Trump appears thousands of times in Epstein files, photographs show them socializing 1980s-2000s, flight logs document Trump on Epstein's aircraft, and membership records show Epstein retained Mar-a-Lago membership until October 2007, over a year after his indictment.
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As Brook Benton sang: It's just a matter of time.
Emergency lawsuit filed to stop Trump admin possibly driving whale species to extinction — Stephen Prager, Common Dreams
An environmental organization is suing to stop the Trump administration from illegally convening a meeting that could allow oil and gas companies to drive an extremely endangered whale species to extinction.
On Wednesday, the Center for Biological Diversity filed an emergency lawsuit against Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum in a federal district court in Washington, DC, seeking to block him from convening the Endangered Species Committee, more commonly known as the “Extinction Committee,” on March 31.
This committee is sometimes referred to as the “God Squad” because its members have the power to grant exemptions to the Endangered Species Act that can result in the extinction of imperiled species.
Led by the interior secretary, it has seven total members who can vote to override regulations. Five of them are senior executive officials: the secretaries of agriculture and the Army, the head of the Council of Economic Advisers, and the administrators of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Each affected state also receives a delegate to the committee, but they collectively receive just one vote. Five votes of seven are needed to grant an exemption.
In the federal register, Burgum announced earlier this week that the committee would meet at the end of the month “regarding an Endangered Species Act exemption for Gulf of America oil and gas activities,” referring to the Gulf of Mexico by the name preferred by President Donald Trump....
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We are all on the endagered species list as long as the Trump Mafia is in control.
Obsessed Trump left his own DOJ scrambling with war on college: analysis — Nicole Charky-Chami
...Bloomberg Law cited a memo last week showing the requirements for new candidates: "typical one-year minimum experience requirement can be waived when posting job openings."
"There’s no indication of how this new initiative fits with the Trump administration’s ongoing war on elite universities," Hayes wrote. "The Ivy League’s law schools used to be a pipeline for the Justice Department’s ranks, albeit not as immediately as the current policy allows. But last year, the Trump administration revoked offers to students from top schools under the previous exception to the rule, the Attorney General’s Honors Program, which allowed for entry-level hires. The spigot has dried up since then, as The Washington Post noted last year, with many graduates turning to state government work instead."
The DOJ's "exigent need" for new hires has revealed more about what qualifications candidates need to be considered for the jobs.
"There’s a world where this shift toward hiring newly graduated lawyers could be a good thing," Hayes added. "If this project were truly about meritocracy, seeing more slots available for lawyers who didn’t all go to the same handful of schools could be admirable. But the administration’s screenings for ideological purity and loyalty to the MAGA agenda would undercut any claim that the department is truly trying to hire the best attorneys possible."
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Lawyers, lawyers everywhere, nor anyone could think!
'He's mentally unhinged': Trump hit with disgust as tasteless Japan comment flops — Tom Boggioni
Donald Trump’s Oval Office appearance with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi ended on a sour note after he made a tone-deaf comment about Japan attacking Pearl Harbor in 1941.
At the end of what was a mostly cordial joint appearance, the president was asked why he did not alert the leadership of Japan and other allies about his impending attack on Iran.
First stating that he didn’t want to lose the element of surprise, he took what seemed an awkward stab at a joke, saying, “Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Okay, why didn’t you tell me about Pearl Harbor?"
That led to a few scattered laughs and then some murmuring, as the president continued, “You believe in surprise, I think, much more so than us. And we had a surprise, and we did, and because of that surprise, we knocked out, the first two days, we probably knocked out 50% of what we — and much more than we anticipated doing. So if I go and tell everybody about it, there’s no longer a surprise, right?”
Needless to say, social media lit up over the tasteless remark.
Former Chicago Tribune editor Mark L Jacob was quick to respond with, “Trump jokes about Pearl Harbor with his guest, the Japanese prime minister. He’s mentally unhinged, with no impulse control or sense of what’s appropriate.”
“I can’t believe that Trump just joked about Pearl Harbor while sitting next to Japan’s prime minister at the White House. What an absolute embarrassment!” added Democratic strategist Jon Cooper. Journalist Steven Beschloss added, “’Who knows more about surprise than Japan? Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor?’ -- the embarrassing idiot Donald Trump in response to a Japanese reporter's question about starting a war with Iran while sitting next to the Japanese prime minister.”
Educator Orion noted, “You can hear the air go out of the room.”
“This is another leak in the cognitive damn. Look for increasingly racist comments in the coming weeks. Unless biology steps in and saves us, I have a feeling we’ll hear the N word by the midterms,” predicted Democracy Dude.
“I didn't think he could still make me gasp, but I was wrong,” admitted archivist Rubberband Girl Cheryl McNeilly noted....
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Inappropriate Imbicle!
Duggar Arrested For Touching Kid. No, Different Duggar — Evan Hurst
Wow, is there something in the pedophile-protecting fundamentalist Christian patriarchal water up there in Tontitown, Arkansas? We are asking because — hope you’re sitting down — one of the Duggar men has been arrested for kid-touching.
No, not Josh. He didn’t get sprung from prison only to immediately start molesting kids and then get rearrested. This one looks just like him, though, because he comes from the sperms and eggs of sicko Christian nationalist TV stars Jim-Bob and Of-Jim-Bob “Michelle” Duggar.
The Duggar in question would be Joseph, number seven of the 19. (Josh is the oldest.) He was born in 1995, which makes him 31, and he is married to Kendra.
Joseph has been arrested in Tontitown, where the Duggar Handmaid’s Tale broodmare compound is located, for allegedly molesting a nine-year-old girl while on vacation in Panama City Beach, Florida, in 2020. The charges were announced by the Bay County (Florida) Sheriff’s Office, where he will be extradited. He reportedly confessed to the alleged victim’s father, and also to cops in Tontitown. (She is now 14.)
Doing the math here, that means he was probably … 25 at the time?...
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Another one bites the dust!
Putrid.
Trump tells reporter he won't give him war plans — seconds after giving him war plans — David Edwards
President Donald Trump insisted that he wouldn't share war plans with a reporter just a second after sharing them with the man.
During a White House event on Thursday, a reporter asked Trump about his intentions for the war in Iran.
"Mr. President, do you intend to lift sanctions on Iranian oil, and do you intend to potentially put U.S. troops or more troops in the region?" the correspondent wondered.
"No, I'm not putting troops anywhere," Trump snapped. "If I were, I certainly wouldn't tell you. But I'm not putting troops. And we will do whatever is necessary to keep the price as well."
Trump continued by bragging about the stock market despite its recent setbacks.
"Everything was going great. The economy was great. Oil prices were very low," the president insisted. "We had great everything. And I saw what was happening in Iran, and I said, I hate to make this excursion, but we're going to have to do it."
"And I actually thought the numbers would be worse," he added. "I thought that it would go up more than it did. But we're doing this excursion. And when it's completed, we're going to have a much safer world."
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What a clueless dick!
Someone Needs to Tell Trump the Truth About the War — William Kristol
The average price of a gallon of gasoline is now about $3.88, according to AAA. In eight states, it’s over $4/gallon. Happy Thursday.
What Nobody’s Telling Trump
by William Kristol
I doubt anyone on the inside is willing to tell President Trump the truth about how the war is going. But if some courageous truth-teller were to enter the Oval Office this morning and speak, he’d say this: It ain’t going great, sir. In fact, sir, it’s going pretty badly.
And if the president didn’t have this intrepid soul removed from his presence, and would listen for a minute or two, this is what more he would hear:
The Iranian regime is surviving.
The Strait of Hormuz remains closed—except to those ships the Iranians want to allow to go through, delivering Iranian oil to their allies.
Global energy prices continue to rise and stock markets continue to fall. Inflation is ticking up and the Fed looks more likely to raise than cut interest rates in the near future.
Iran’s military capabilities aren’t as degraded as we thought. In fact, Iran’s missile and drone launches, which had been declining in number over the first two weeks, have increased this week.
Some of those missiles and drones are hitting their targets: After Israel attacked Iran’s South Pars gas field yesterday in a strike you pretended we didn’t know about ahead of time, Iran retaliated by hitting Qatar’s Ras Laffan terminal, the world’s largest liquefied natural gas facility.
As the Economist put it yesterday, “Although President Donald Trump says he has ‘destroyed 100% of Iran’s Military Capability’, the 0% that remains is playing havoc with the global economy.”
We’re facing a decision about deploying thousands of ground troops to try either to secure the Strait of Hormuz or to seize Kharg Island—and neither operation is assured of success.
The Defense Department says we need to go to Congress for a supplemental appropriation—as much as $200 billion—to pay for the war and replenishing stocks, and it’s not clear the votes are there to approve the funds.
Meanwhile, our allies abroad aren’t rallying to us.
And there’s no sign that the American public is rallying to the administration either.
That’s what an honest analyst would tell the president of the United States.
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Failure is our business.
What Do You Take Tulsi Gabbard For? Some Kind Of Quote-Unquote 'Director' Of 'National Intelligence'? — Evan Hurst
It says a lot when you’re testifying in a hearing alongside Kash Patel and you’re the one who gets the headlines for being an embarrassing fuckup.
But if we’ve learned anything about Russia’s girlfriend Tulsi Gabbard this year, it’s that Russia likes its girlfriends and boyfriends very stupid.
Gabbard spent the day in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday — here’s a link to the whole thing! — but she really didn’t know what to say about a whole lot of things. Or she was scared to speak freely, so she just blib-blabbed whatever contradictory words fell out of her mouth. It was a cool showing for the Director of National Intelligence.
For instance, does allegedly anti-war Tulsi — LMAO — believe in Donald Trump’s chosen murder war in Iran? Let’s watch her crumble in confusion under questioning by dashing Georgia Senator and guy who’s smarter than the DNI Jon Ossoff!
Oh man, what was your favorite part of THAT?
Ossoff explained Gabbard’s job to her, that she was the person who provides national intelligence to all kinds of people, who bring’s the “IC’s assessment of threats” to people, including the president.
Yes, she agreed.
He explained to Gabbard that her own opening statement said that last summer Donald Trump’s Iranian strikes TOTALLY OBLITERATED the country’s nuclear enrichment capabilities. Yes?
Yes, she agreed. Totally obliterated.
He explained to Gabbard that Gabbard had explained in her opening statement that Iran hadn’t tried to reconstitute its nuclear enrichment capabilities. Yes?
Yes.
And that is the assessment of the intelligence community?
Yes.
He explained to Gabbard that Donald Trump (her boss) announced in March that he attacked Iran in order to save us all from the “imminent nuclear threat” posed by that country. HEEEEENNNNGH?
Heeeeeennnnnngh, she agreed.
Was it the assessment of the IC that there was an “imminent nuclear threat” from the Iranian regime?
Uhhhhh, well, the IC assessed that they totally still wanted to do nuclear stuff sometime.
Was it the assessment of the IC that there was an “imminent nuclear threat”?
Gabbard said, “Senator, the only person who can determine what is and is not an imminent threat is the president …”
“FALSE,” explained Jon Ossoff to the director of national intelligence in front of him.
“This is the Worldwide Threats Hearing,” Ossoff explained, in case she hadn’t seen the sign on the door of the hearing she was the star witness of. “Where you present to Congress national intelligence, timely, objective and independent of political considerations. You’ve stated today that the intelligence community’s assessment is that Iran’s nuclear enrichment program was ‘obliterated,’ and that ‘there had been no efforts since then’ to try to rebuild their enrichment capability. Was it the intelligence community’s assessment that, nevertheless, despite this obliteration, there was an ‘imminent nuclear threat’ posed by the Iranian regime?”
“It is not the intelligence community’s responsibility to determine what is and is not an imminent threat,” responded Gabbard.
Yes it is, dipshit, Jon Ossoff calmly clarified.
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Great god, we have a bunch of dumbshits that Trump has infected us with.
Democracy Is Eroding Faster Than Experts Predicted: A Trump Insider’s Resignation Helps Explain Why — Thom Hartmann
What he saw from inside the system, and why his departure signals that the guardrails are collapsing faster than anyone on the outside fully understands
Trump is dismantling our American democracy with alarming speed and the resignation of the Trump-appointed Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, Joe Kent, is a symptom of it.
Kent, a hardcore MAGA Republican who ran two failed, Trump-endorsed campaigns for Congress before Trump put him in charge of counterterrorism, was adjacent to the very highest levels of our national security apparatus, had all the inside information, and not only resigned but salted the earth on his way out, writing:
“Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.”
As I’ve noted in previous articles, Saudi Arabia and the UAE wanted America to strike Iran and had collectively given billions to Kushner and Trump. Netanyahu desperately needed a war with Iran to insure his re-election this year to keep him out of prison. And Putin wanted the Strait of Hormuz closed so the price of oil would go up and rescue his floundering economy.
The Iranians were negotiating, according to both the Omani Foreign Minister and the UK’s National Security Advisor — who were both in the room — in good faith. They thought they’d reached an agreement that would have been even better for the US and the world than was Obama’s JCPOA: it would have ended the Iranian nuclear program, brought back in the UN’s inspectors, and prevented Iran from building missiles that could reach North America.
All the Iranians had to do was take the offer back to their leadership, who gathered together to evaluate it, providing Netanyahu with the perfect opportunity to bomb the entire bunch of them into oblivion. To think Kushner wasn’t in on this apparent betrayal of diplomatic protocol, destruction of America’s credibility, and clear war crime — as the war’s Arab advocates were shoveling millions of dollars a day to him — is akin to believing in the Easter Bunny.
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The worst is yet to come. After this — the deluge.
Trump: WH Cage Match Is “Hottest Ticket I’ve Seen”
Axios reports:
President Trump tells Axios it’s the “hottest ticket that I’ve ever seen.” He’s talking about UFC Freedom 250, the fight Trump is staging on the White House’s South Lawn on June 14. Donors, lobbyists, members of Congress and well-connected fans are clamoring for tickets. But in a Trumpian twist of marketing, the tickets’ elusiveness is building buzz for the event, which will be on the president’s birthday, and Flag Day, in the run-up to America’s 250th on July Fourth.
While Trump deals with a war in Iran and rising gas prices at home, the president seems downright giddy that UFC Freedom 250 gives him a night of pageantry despite the optics. There’ll be 5,000 VIP seats around the UFC’s famed Octagon on the White House South Lawn. But many of those tickets will go to military personnel, leaving perhaps just a couple thousand — and far fewer cage-side — for the well-connected.
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The glory that was Rome is of another day. The bastards haven't heard this news. The fiddling of Trump as the world burns.
Postmaster General: Stamps To Soon Cost Nearly $1
USA Today reports:
A first-class stamp could soon cost nearly $1, as the U.S. Postal Service warns it may run out of money by 2027 and looks to raise prices to stay afloat. During a Tuesday, March 17 appearance before Congress, Postmaster General David Steiner said the price of a first-class stamp could rise to 90 to 95 cents, up from 78 cents.
Steiner said higher prices are one of the few options available as the agency faces mounting losses. Raising stamp prices to as much as 95 cents, he told lawmakers, “would largely solve our controllable loss.”
Steiner said that without congressional action to lift the agency’s $15 billion statutory debt limit, USPS could struggle to pay vendors or employees by February 2027. The borrowing cap was set in 1990.
"Trump’s Golden Age of paying a lot more for everything." pic.twitter.com/MmP5ldhMEv — — Ron Filipkowski
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Yes, the U.S. Postal Service WILL be going out of business. All bills will now be paid online or in person. Businesses will not like this one. Trump is destroying America!
Reuters: US May Soon Deploy Thousands Of Troops
Reuters reports:
President Donald Trump’s administration is considering deploying thousands of U.S. troops to reinforce its operation in the Middle East, as the U.S. military prepares for possible next steps in its campaign against Iran, said a U.S. official and three people familiar with the matter.
The deployments could help provide Trump with additional options as he weighs expanding U.S. operations, with the Iran war well into its third week.
Those options ?include securing safe passage for oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz, a mission that would be accomplished primarily through air and naval forces, the sources said. But securing the Strait could also mean deploying U.S. troops to Iran’s shoreline, said four sources, including two U.S. officials.
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WWIII here we come! Bend over and kiss your future goodbye!
When America now has zero job growth. That has never happened before in our history. We won't have any resources to engage in the war that Trump is escalating for his own pride and vantty!
Mullin Nomination Advances Thanks To Fetterman
The New York Times reports:
Senators moved to speed the nomination of Markwayne Mullin, President Trump’s pick to lead the Homeland Security Department, to the Senate floor, setting him up to take over the agency at the center of Mr. Trump’s mass deportation campaign.
The Senate Homeland Security Committee voted, 8 to 7, to send Mr. Mullin’s nomination to the full Senate with a favorable recommendation, with most Republicans and one Democrat voting to advance the nomination.
Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, the committee’s Republican chairman, defected from his party and voted in opposition. Mr. Mullin retained sufficient support on the committee, however, with the backing of Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, a Democrat.
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Fetterman is on our shit list. Get him off all committees and force him to resign.
REPORT: Denmark Prepared To Blow Up Greenland’s Runways If US Attempted To Seize Territory By Force
Euractiv reports:
Denmark is reported to have quietly prepared to blow up its own runways in Greenland – as European allies rushed troops north – amid fears that the United States might attempt to seize the Arctic territory by force in January.
According to reporting by Danish national broadcaster DR, citing multiple senior sources in Copenhagen and across Europe, Danish forces deployed to Greenland in January 2026 carried explosives intended to destroy key airstrips in Nuuk and Kangerlussuaq, in order to deny access to any incoming US military aircraft in a worst-case scenario.
The deployments were reportedly not merely symbolic. Aircraft are said to have transported blood supplies from Danish hospitals, indicating preparations for potential combat casualties. Danish F-35 fighter jets were reportedly armed and repositioned, while French naval assets and multinational troops were sent toward the Arctic. Several other European countries also hastily sent soldiers to Greenland at the height of the crisis, in a show of support for Denmark and to bolster Arctic security.
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No more shit from Trump's Nazi aggression. Full stop to his world conquest mission. America has no friends in Trump's war on our planet.
Newsmax Host: Punching People Makes Things Better
...“Nobody gets punched in the face anymore for doing horrible things, driven by leftists, ironically, who say, ‘Oh, you’re being violent.’ Oh, your party shot Charlie Kirk. You shot Donald Trump in the ear. You tried again on his golf course.
“You got multi-gender purple people eater freak shows burning down cities, drag queens twerking in my kid’s face and flooding Minnesota with STDs...
"'I do not condone political violence,' he said as he proceeded to condone and encourage political violence." — Sarah (comments)
"Hey fuck face. I seem to recall it was you shitheads that were the one's without any facts that came out and immediately blamed it on the left.
Yeah, it was necessary to remind people that it was in fact done by your people.
Yet they still do it." — JayP (comments)
"drag queens twerking in my kid’s face
Carl Higbie is 42 years old. He has three children, his daughter is from his first marriage, and his two sons are from his second marriage.
1). Your "children" are probably at least teenagers. If we pretend your sexual fantasies are real, they probably went to the drag show on their own and had a great time.
2). As a divorced person and likely adulterer, you are clearly destroying the sanctity of marriage." — DaddySnark (comments)
"Carl Higbie is a gutter rat and Newsmax is the gutter." — Dwight Williamson. (comments)
"He ain't too bright, is he?" — CharlieBKK (comments)
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Sure, asswipe. Just look at all your perverted Xianist Pastors raping children. No drag queens, motherfucker! It would be a pleasure to see you get punched out, Big Deal Seal! Hitler would have loved you!
Markwayne MMA record: 3-0 against creampuffs! ROTFLMAO!
Stephen Miller’s Latest Donald Trump Boasts Get A Damning Reality Check Online — Lee Moran
The president's own words were flipped right back on the sycophant.
Stephen Miller drew mockery and anger with his latest boasts about Donald Trump and his defense of the Iran war.
The White House deputy chief of staff for policy waxed lyrical about the president’s handling of the conflict — amid growing criticism over the lack of a clear endgame, rising oil prices and the White House’s shifting justifications - during an appearance Wednesday on Laura Ingraham’s Fox News show.
“The United States has achieved its objectives even faster than anybody thought possible,” claimed Miller, who frequently heaps fawning praise on the president.
“President Trump was aware of and has calculated through every permutation and every degree of strategy,” he added, calling it “by far the most overwhelming victory based on the objectives.”...
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Joke post of the day.
Oh, yes. We should have been listening to this POS over his brilliant intellect!
Trump told impeachment now the 'least of your problems': 'Nothing will save you, Donald' — Nicole Charky-Chami
..."Nothing will save you now, Donald," Wilson wrote. "Not the war. Not the lies. Not today’s loyalists, tomorrow’s traitors. Not the terrified little men orbiting your shrinking political sun. Not the algorithms, not the oligarchs, not the endless stream of garbage Fox and Twitter propaganda pumped into the veins of a movement that’s finally, visibly, unmistakably breaking apart. You chose this."
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Always the loser!
Laugh at Trump’s shoe gifts all you want — it’s a loyalty test — Chauncey Devega
The Florsheim presents aren’t about style — they reveal the mechanics of MAGA authoritarianism and if it can endure.
Trump is an authoritarian and an aspiring dictator. His gift of shoes is no such thing. It functions as a loyalty oath, one ritual in a much larger pattern of humiliation and dominance....
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Poor little Marco. His shoe doesn't fit but he still wears it!
He's a windbag loser.
Pentagon Seeks Over $200 Billion To Fund Iran War
The Washington Post reports:
The Pentagon has asked the White House to approve a more than $200 billion request to Congress to fund the war in Iran, according to a senior administration official, in an enormous new ask that is almost certain to run into resistance from lawmakers opposed to the conflict.
That number would far surpass the costs of the administration’s massive airstrike campaign to date and instead seek to urgently increase production of critical weaponry expended as U.S. and Israeli forces have struck thousands of targets over the past three weeks, according to three other people familiar with the matter, who confirmed that the Defense Department is seeking packages of that size.
The funding request is likely to stage a major political battle in Congress, as public support for the effort remains tepid and Democrats have been sharply critical. Republicans have signaled support for the forthcoming supplemental request but haven’t committed to a legislative strategy, or found a clear path to surpass the Senate’s 60-vote threshold....
"Yeah. Funny how raping kids is ok, but a drag queen telling stories or trans children existing is not." -- Todd20036 (comments)
"Cannot afford to feed children, provide Americans healthcare, improve infrastructure but sure we have billions to fund an illegal war." -- Exploring Tesla (comments)
"As of March 19, 2026, the U.S. national debt has surpassed $39 trillion. Trump added 7.8 trillion in his first term in his second term he has added over 3 trillion in just over a year since taking office. So sure just keep spending money we don't have on Trumps illegal bullshit war of choice." -- Thewolflam (comments)
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And Trump calls this winning. What a fucking disgrace! Not one red cent!
Furious Dems Walk Out On Bondi’s Epstein Briefing
NBC News reports:
House Democrats walked out of a closed-door hearing with Attorney General Pam Bondi Wednesday while she was briefing lawmakers on the Epstein files a day after being subpoenaed to testify in mid-April.
Democratic members of the Republican-led House Oversight Committee told reporters that Bondi, who was joined by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, would not commit to complying with the subpoena for her sworn testimony on April 14 to answer questions about the DOJ’s handling of records related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., the top Democrat on the panel, said Bondi “refused on multiple occasions to commit to following the subpoena.” After the briefing, Bondi told reporters that she “made it crystal clear I will follow the law,” when asked about whether she would comply with the subpoena.
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Lying doesn't make it law abiding.
NYT: Trump Lied About Prices Of Drugs On TrumpRx
The New York Times reports:
President Trump and top federal health officials have repeatedly claimed that their new website, TrumpRx, offers Americans the world’s lowest prices on prescription drugs. “I took prescription drugs, a very big part of health care, from the highest price in the entire world to the lowest,” Mr. Trump said during his State of the Union address last month. That is not true, according to a review by The New York Times and German news organizations.
The drugs listed on TrumpRx can cost American patients up to hundreds or thousands of dollars, while a patient walking into a German pharmacy pays next to nothing. The German health system foots the bill, and records show that, more often than not, it pays less than what the Trump administration negotiated for Americans. The list includes almost none of the most widely used drugs, like statins, or ultraexpensive drugs like cancer therapies....
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TrumpRx actually has customers? Some people are gluttons for pumishment.
JD Vance Makes US Allies Hate America Even More — RedStateRachel
JD Vance tells Americans about the oil shock of Iran. The VP said "overseas they're feeling it far worse than we do." Thank you for reminding our allies about the global crisis Trump created.
Vice President JD Vance reminds U.S. allies they should hate American even more because of Trump's Iran war.
America's allies are furious about Trump's Iran war because he stormed in, destroyed Iranian cities and killed innocent civilians. Then asked allies to help him after he caused a global crisis.
A former Obama security official told Zeoteo.com that the situation Trump created in Iran is the "worst case scenario."...
Not only is Trump's War is unpopular with our allies, even MAGA Americans are extremely upset. One three-time Trump voter even called the president a "pile of sh*t."
Apparently spending over a BILLION dollars a day on Trump's Iran war is pissing off Americans who lost their health insurance or government assistance.
In addition, millions of Americans are livid that that Trump lifted oil sanctions on Russia after finding out that that Russia is sharing intelligence and military locations with Iran....
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How did the U.S. become a hated nation? Trump.
'No longer in contact with reality': Scholar fears Trump is literally insane — Matthew Rozsa
A journalism professor has a dire warning for the American people — President Donald Trump may have literally lost touch with reality.
“The other day, President Donald Trump claimed he’d had a conversation with a former president who endorsed Trump’s ill-considered war against Iran,” wrote Professor John Krull, the director of Franklin College's Pulliam School of Journalism, for The Statehouse File. “According to Trump, the unnamed former president even said that he wished he had done what Trump had done.”
After arguing that the four ex-presidents are more believable when they deny the conversation than Trump is when insisting it actually happened, Krull pointed out that either explanation for Trump stating this untruth — either that he deliberately lied or that he sincerely believed what he said — is frightening.
“The least disturbing answer is that he just doesn’t care whether someone catches him fabricating falsehoods,” Krull explained. He reasons that his gullible, gullible followers will swallow any deception he conjures up, no matter how blatant it may be, and that’s all he cares about.”
As troubling as this explanation is, however, Krull said that the other option is even worse....
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The problem is Trump is believing his own bullshit. That's extemely dangeerous for the country and the world.
Fetterman: Democrats Are “Governed By TDS” [VIDEO]
“I think the TDS, that’s the leader right now. Our party is governed by the TDS. And now it’s made it virtually impossible without being punished as a Democrat to agree something’s good or I agree with the other side. I think it’s a great thing to break and destroy the Iranian regime. I think it’s appropriate to hold them accountable. And what’s strange to me is that every single Democrat that’s run for president and anyone I know in Congress has said, ‘We must never allow them to acquire a nuclear bomb.’ When that happens, why not celebrate that or acknowledge that? I’ve only witnessed criticism.” – Sen. John Fetter, going on to say of MAGA, “they’re not Nazis, they’re not fascists.”
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John, it's time for you to move to the dead Republican Party. You are no longer a Democrat if you ever were one. Get it done.
Trump is the deranged one and if you think not, you are a lost cause for our country.
GOP Senator: “You Need ID To Have A Child” [VIDEO]
“There’s a number of ways – five or six ways – to demonstrate citizenship. And there’s a number of things that qualify as sufficient voter ID. And that same argument against voter ID, I mean, you have to have an ID to get a six pack, you have to have it to give blood, you have to have it to have a child, and you have to have it to get married. This is a commonsense thing.” – GOP Sen. Dave McCormick, on Fox News. The host did not press McCormick about to whom an ID would be presented to have a baby or when such an action would be required....
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This bird brain needs a DNA cerifiication that he is a human being first!
Christian Nationalist Launches “White Advocacy” Group
First, Politico has some backstory:
Like many social media users, the conservative writer and entrepreneur C. Jay Engel uses his short bio on X to list a few phrases describing himself and his background: “Son of the California Sierras”; “Classical Protestant”; and, in a nod to his proudly reactionary politics, “Counter-Revolutionary.” But the first descriptor in Engel’s bio is the most notable: “Heritage American.”
It’s not a term that the average social media user has likely encountered, let alone heard in casual conversation. But among a certain cohort of young and well-connected conservatives, “heritage American” — used to describe people who trace their roots to the founding generations of the United States — is gaining traction as a kind of slogan of the new nativist right that’s coalesced behind Donald Trump and the MAGA movement.
The idea embedded in the slogan — that American identity is defined by ancestry rather than by adherence to universal principles — is finding real-world expression in the politics and policies of Trump’s GOP. “Major players in the mainstream are starting to absorb some of the things that we’re thinking about,” said Engel, whose writings on the topic helped popularize the term. “There’s a zeitgeist at play.”...
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A Zeitgeist? An ill Christofascist wind is more likely.
NY Times Claps Back at Marco Rubio for Attacking Cuba Report as ‘Fake’ — David Gilmour
The New York Times clapped back at Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday defending its reporting as “real and accurate†after he lashed out at a report that Trump administration negotiators wanted Cuba’s president pushed from power.
The article, published on Monday, cited four individuals familiar with the talks and included revelations that negotiators demanded that President Miguel DÃaz-Canel, the leader of the Cuba’s communist government, would need to go during talks as the island grapples with fuel shortages and a power grid outage.
Some officials within the Trump administration believe removing the president could open the door to sweeping economic reforms in Cuba, arguing that DÃaz-Canel, viewed by them as a hardliner, would be unlikely to back such changes, one source said....
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Believe nothing little Marco says.
Morning Joe bashes Trump as being all-consumed by 'decade-long' obsession — Travis Gettys
President Donald Trump has reverted back to an old obsession as he attempts to rally U.S. allies around his war in Iran, according to MS NOW's Joe Scarborough.
The president berated NATO allies Tuesday during a press gaggle at the White House, griping that none of them were willing to help the U.S. keep the Strait of Hormuz open to commercial shipping, and the "Morning Joe" host highlighted Trump's claim that "we don't need them."
"Even in the middle of a war, one of the most significant wars in our our lifetimes, Donald Trump's obsession with running down the alliance that helped defeat the Soviet Union continues," Scarborough said, "and he's he's been stuck on this for well over a decade now, forgetting that it was NATO allies who sacrificed time and time again for the United States in Iraq the first time, the second time in Afghanistan. They've stood shoulder to shoulder with us for years, so to be attacking them, to be attacking Ukraine at the same time, making life easier for Vladimir Putin with sanctions relief, has a lot of allies and a lot of lawmakers on the Republican and Democratic side shaking their head."
Scarborough said the conflict already showed some similarities to the lengthy war in Vietnam that bled U.S. forces until they withdrew in defeat, and Washington Post columnist David Ignatius was inclined to agree.
"I think that dilemma is weighing on on President Trump when a war is going badly, when you're unable to find a way to terminate it successfully, that's the most painful thing possible for a president," Ignatius said. "I watched that in my lifetime with President [Lyndon B.] Johnson and then with President George W. Bush, and it's a tough moment."...
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We have done the fatal deed: overrating and unpreparing ourseleves again.
Trump lawyer accused of 'stunning interference' to hide Epstein info: 'This reeks' — Travis Gettys
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche is accused of blocking the release of an unredacted report on a recently revealed drug trafficking and money laundering investigation into Jeffrey Epstein.
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR), in a letter to Blanche, called on the deputy attorney general to turn over a 69-page target profile prepared for the Drug Enforcement Administration by the Department of Justice's now-shuttered Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces as part of the congressionally mandated release of the Epstein files, reported Bloomberg.
“According to a confidential tip received by my staff, DEA Administrator Terry Cole was ready to provide an unredacted copy of the memorandum, but you stepped in to prevent him from doing so,” Wyden wrote. “Your alleged interference in this matter is highly disturbing.”
Wyden first asked for the document from the DEA on Feb. 25 when the years-long probe was first reported, but he said President Donald Trump's DOJ intervened.
“Shortly after I requested an unredacted copy of this OCDETF memorandum, DOJ stepped in to prevent DEA from complying with my request," Wyden wrote.
Bloomberg initially reported the DEA had opened the investigation into Epstein and a dozen other individuals in 2015 as part of a longstanding probe into organized crime, although none of the targets were charged with any crimes and it's not clear how long the case remained open.
An informant told authorities that Epstein was involved in the funding and distribution of club drugs like ecstasy and ketamine, as well as procuring Eastern European prostitutes for high-profile clients, and the target profile listed 12 other individuals and two businesses who sources identified as Epstein’s brother, accountants, attorneys and European women who worked as his assistants or fashion models.
No charges were ever filed in that case, and Mark Epstein and others contacted by Bloomberg said they had not been aware of the probe.
Wyden followed his letter with a tweet.
"This is stunning interference," he wrote. "The document I’m after literally says 'unclassified' at the top. The investigation it details is closed. Given Blanche's close personal ties to Donald Trump, this reeks of a continued coverup to protect key names in the Trump administration."...
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Stunning because we've never seen this level of criminal behavior in our highset office before. Even Nixon didn't reach this depth.
DHS Keeps Attacking Americans. Trump’s Nominee Loves Duels. What Could Go Wrong? — Alex Nguyen
“Tell the world why you believe I deserve to be assaulted from behind, have six ribs broken, and a damaged lung. Tell me to my face.”
“You told the media that I was a ‘freaking snake.'”
The explosive remarks, from Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), were directed at Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) during his confirmation hearing to be the new Homeland Security Secretary on Wednesday, following Kristi Noem’s firing earlier this month. They came as Paul, who chairs the Senate Homeland Security committee, repeatedly questioned Mullin’s temperament to lead DHS.
The animosity stems from Mullin’s remarks at a February event in Tulsa over why the Oklahoma senator had voted against Paul’s appropriation bill amendment seeking to eliminate funding for welfare programs for legally approved refugees and people seeking asylum. Mullin reportedly explained that if Paul’s amendment was accepted, it would kill the other appropriation bills and lead to a government shutdown—and “the president made it very clear he wanted appropriation bills passed.”
“Rand Paul’s a freaking snake,” Mullin continued, arguing that Paul had proposed the amendment to kill the bill intentionally.
“I understand completely why his neighbor did what he did,” Mullin added, referring to the 2017 assault on Paul by his neighbor. “And I told him that to his face.”
The neighbor was sentenced to a total of nine months in prison for assaulting a member of Congress. Paul has described the neighbor as anti-Trump.
“I just wonder if someone who applauds violence against their political opponents is the right person to lead an agency that has struggled to accept limits to the proper use of force,” Paul said at Wednesday’s hearing....
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America to earth: "Mission Control, we have a problem."
Markwayne Mullin walks back 'deranged' attack on Alex Pretti: 'I shouldn't have said that' — Nicole Charky-Chami
Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) on Wednesday said he regretted what he said about 37-year-old ICU nurse Alex Pretti, who was shot and killed by ICE agents in Minneapolis this January.
Ranking member Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI) pushed Mullin to respond to his statement blaming Pretti for his own death, saying he was a "deranged individual that came in to cause max damage" during Mullin's confirmation hearing before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. Mullin was selected by President Donald Trump to replace outgoing Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and was facing a number of serious questions from lawmakers.
"Those words probably should've been retracted," Mullin said. "I shouldn't have said that. I regret those statements."
Mullin referenced the ongoing investigation. Peters pressed on whether he would issue an apology to Pretti's family.
"I went out there too fast," Mullin added.
He also said he would 'absolutely' apologize if the investigation proved his claims were wrong.
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Shooting from the hip and realizing it later? And he's going to be a member of our government?
What If Iran . . . Wins? — Jonathan V. Last
1. Wincon
We have to start with definitions. What does “winning” mean in war? It’s a little like pro wrestling.
In wrestling, you can either have a “clean” win—meaning that both the face and the heel’s storylines recognize the outcome. Or you can have a “dirty” win—in which the match is ended by cheating, or interference, or some other chicanery. With a dirty finish, both wrestlers make plausible claims of victory and it furthers each of their storylines.
Wars can have clean finishes, but they’re rare. One of the reasons the two world wars are satisfying object lessons is that they had acknowledged winners and losers. Many wars don’t. Korea; America in Vietnam; Iran–Iraq; Iraq 2; America in Afghanistan.
So let’s think about what “victory” would mean for each party in the current war....
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A very likely prospect as this is another no-win situation.
Joe Kent and the Fading MAGA Allure — William Kristol
The gas-price data keeps rolling in, and it keeps looking grislier. Gas is up eighty cents a gallon nationwide from this time last month, which the New York Times notes is the second-biggest four-week increase in at least 30 years: “bigger than the one at the start of the war in Ukraine in 2022, or the ones associated with the post-recession surge of 2009 and the OPEC production cuts in 1999.” Only Hurricane Katrina hit prices harder during that span. Happy Wednesday.
The MAGA Schism by Andrew Egger
Something odd is going on with the MAGA would-be stars. For a decade now, politicians and posters alike have had a single path to relevance: grabbing tightly to Donald Trump and distinguishing themselves by the strength of their adoration for him and the purity of their hatred for his enemies. But another path is emerging.
Yesterday, Joe Kent, Donald Trump’s director of the National Counterterrorism Center, charged onto that path. He announced that he was resigning from the administration, effective immediately. “I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran,” Kent wrote in his resignation letter. “Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.” Trump, he wrote, had been “deceived” by “high-ranking Israeli officials and influential members of the American media” into abandoning his antiwar instincts and charging into an unwinnable conflict in Iran.
Kent went on: “I cannot support sending the next generation off to fight and die in a war that serves no benefit to the American people nor justifies the cost of American lives.”
The letter went off like a bomb in the administration, which was completely blindsided by the news. They rushed to work trying to discredit Kent: He was, they quickly whispered to Fox News, a known leaker who had been cut out of Trump’s intelligence briefings, whom the White House had thought should be fired, who had not been part of Iran planning discussions at all. “I always thought he was weak on security,” Trump told reporters of a man he had given a senior counterterrorism job....
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The world knows that Trump is the one who is weak.
Who Hates Trump Today, Besides Everyone? Oh, Just Low-Income White And Hispanic Voters — Evan Hurst
Donald Trump’s chosen murder war against Iran, in which the entire world is currently making a fool of him, is getting less and less popular each day, with a clear majority now disapproving of it, according to recent polling. The war is so hated, in fact, that Trump’s yappy bitch boy at the FCC Brendan Carr is threatening to pull licenses from networks that won’t lead war cheers for Dear Leader.
Gas prices are skyrocketing, and the regime’s mouthpieces in right-wing media tell Americans to lie back and take that. Meanwhile, Trump’s big beautiful economy is starting to hemorrhage jobs.
Against that backdrop — and lots of other negative headlines about the regime’s performance! — new polling analysis from journalist G. Elliott Morris shows that things are especially grim for Trump in the worst possible way: It turns out he’s just about completely lost all the demographics that allowed him to claim a non-majority squeaker of a win in the 2024 election. (It was never a landslide, despite his lies.)
The headline on Morris’s latest analysis (subscription required) is that “Trump has lost working class whites.” It’s a trend Morris has been noting for weeks now, that the very voters Trump is losing are the younger, less white, and/or less rich parts of the coalition he was able to cobble together and use to win the election against Kamala Harris.
Look at some data points here, and it becomes clear why Trump is now mostly just screaming at Senate Republicans to pass the SAVE Act, the bill he believes will help him steal the midterms.
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There is no question about the criminal depths Trump will go to save his ass from the destruction of losing his "Get Out of Jail Free" card.
Iran: The Treason That Changed America’s Energy Future — Thom Hartmann
On Sunday’s State of the Union show, UN Ambassador Mike Waltz said that Trump was going to reach out to our allies to “demand their participation to help their own economies” by bringing in military hardware and troops to help us open the Strait of Hormuz. Yesterday, Trump whined about it at the White House, saying he is “testing” them.
Much to their dismay, the other countries of the world are largely echoing German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius, who said on Monday,
“This is not our war, and we didn’t start it.”
It shouldn’t have been our war, either, and wouldn’t be if Reagan hadn’t committed treason to become president and then sold the GOP to the fossil fuel industry. Today we’re paying the price for that Republican perfidy.
After the Arab oil embargo of 1973, the United States went on a nearly two-decade-long effort to become more energy efficient and less reliant on Middle East fossil fuel products. When Jimmy Carter became president in 1977, he declared the energy crisis “the moral equivalent of war”:
“The energy crisis is real,” Carter told the nation in a televised address that Republicans ridiculed. “It is worldwide. It is a clear and present danger to our nation. These are facts and we simply must face them.
“What I have to say to you now about energy is simple and vitally important. Point one: I am tonight setting a clear goal for the energy policy of the United States. Beginning this moment, this nation will never use more foreign oil than we did in 1977 -- never.”
He declared a national crisis that year and proposed legislation to create:
“[T]his nation’s first solar bank, which will help us achieve the crucial goal of 20 percent of our energy coming from solar power by the year 2000.”
Tragically for America and the world, it all came crashing down when a faction of Iran’s most extreme rightwing mullahs helped the fossil fuel industry’s candidate, Ronald Reagan, replaced Carter in the 1980 election. Reagan then killed the solar bank and the solar bond programs, and removed Carter’s 32 solar panels from the roof of the White House....
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America falls for a clueless culture when it comes to our energy issues. We are paying dearly for their failures.
Trump is now completely alone — Robert Reich
Friends,
Trump is alone.
That’s different from the United States being alone.
We — that is, the vast majority of Americans who were against Trump’s war from the start, and who support NATO and the United Nations Charter and the post-World War II system of alliances and rules — are not alone.
Most of the people of the United States stand with most democracies of the world.
When Trump’s call to America’s traditional allies for assistance clearing the Strait of Hormuz was rebuffed by those allies, those allies didn’t rebuff the United States. They rebuffed the person in the Oval Office who didn’t even consult with them before launching this war.
French President Emmanuel Macron said his country “will never take part in operations to open or liberate the Strait of Hormuz in the current context.” (Trump responded, “He’ll be out of office very soon.) Canadian Foreign Minister Anita Anand said that Canada “was not consulted prior to the offensive operation” and “has no intention of participating in” it. British PM Keir Starmer has said the U.K. would not be “drawn into the wider war.”
And so on.
So, like an angry five-year-old whose friends refuse to come to his party because he shouts at them and never shares his toys, Trump exploded: “[W]e no longer ‘need,’ or desire, the NATO Countries’ assistance — WE NEVER DID! Likewise, Japan, Australia, or South Korea,” he added. “In fact, speaking as President of the United States of America, by far the Most Powerful Country Anywhere in the World, WE DO NOT NEED THE HELP OF ANYONE!”...
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No help wanted?
Trump: “I’m Not Afraid” Of Vietnam-Style Ground War
The Daily Mail reports:
President Donald Trump said Tuesday he is ‘not afraid’ to deploy US ground troops within Iran, further emphasizing the lengths he is willing to go in his Middle East war.
“Are you afraid that if you put boots on the ground in Iran, it could be another Vietnam?” one reporter asked.
“No,” Trump shot back, adding, “I’m not afraid of anything.” The President has previously said that he would deploy ground troops if ‘necessary,’ but he has offered few details on what scenario would prompt a boots-on-the-ground invasion.
“We could take out their electric capacity in one hour,” he said, adding, “there’s nothing they can do.” Evidence that the US is considering a ground invasion in Iran is mounting.
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To quote the Madwoman of Challiot, "If they're greedy, then they're stupid!"
"The smaller the mind the greater the conceit." — Aesop
"The worst kind of arrogance is arrogance from ignorance." — Jim Rohn
"The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny." — Mark Twain
Colorado Ballot Measures Aim To Stop “Transgender Plague” Because Dem Lawmakers Are “Actual Demons”
In the video report below, Denver reporter Kyle Clark notes that Lee claims ballot measures are necessary because Colorado’s lawmakers are “actual demons.”
In the clip, Lee and fellow organizer Kevin Lundberg appear on the podcast of far-right Christian nationalist “prophet” Lance “Bad Wig” Wallnau, who has appeared here countless times. Some of Wallnau’s greatest hits are below.
Lundberg openly tells Wallnau that the anti-trans measures are meant to drive right-wing turnout in the midterms.
"Transgendered are poorly understood and represent 1-2% of the population so they have no representation and are demonized.
They are the Jews of Nazi Germany And they’re being sent to camps." — Todd20036 (commments)
"I wonder how the group "Protect Kids Colorado" feels about youth pastors." — archiveit (comments)
"They’ll also destroy the lives of all trans children and their families… rather than hold child sex traffickers accountable for their crimes. Truly despicable people." — Gigi (comments)
"Just one look - and I knew it!! All of these whack jobs are all piled up in Colorado Springs - the home of fake jeebus on every corner. There is more fake jeebus shit going on there than any real human could ever tolerate. Fuck them and that little shithole of a 'town'.
Been there. Done that." — Luke - my beautiful Luke (comments)
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This pitiful idiot is living in the middle-ages. He cares not one whit for children. Only his own power and control.
Then why does Trump have the Gay Mafia running around in his administration? Useful idiots?
Bacon: Withdrawing From NATO Would Destroy GOP
“If he broke up NATO on his own, it would be a civil war in the Republican caucus, or the conference. Most of us would find that totally unacceptable. And I’m not alone. There’s a large group of us that believe in our alliances and standing up for freedom and pushing back on China and Russia. We don’t want war with these guys, but you’ve got to be strong. And if he went in and somehow destroyed or tore up NATO, it would probably destroy the party for many years. There would be many that will never forgive that. I think it would implode.” – GOP Rep. Don Bacon, who is not seeking reelection.
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Too late to save the Party of death. But we must stop Trump from destroying our planet!
Trump Floats US Abandoning “So-Called Straight”
The Wall Street Journal reports:
President Trump mused about finishing off Iran in a Truth Social post that suggested the U.S. could also walk away from providing security to allied ships that use the Strait of Hormuz.
The president has repeatedly said American allies take advantage of U.S. military protection in the Middle East, and that because some are especially dependent on the region’s oil they should assume a responsibility for protecting tankers in the waterway.
So far, Trump’s call for other countries to provide security in the strait amid the war has been rebuffed.
"You can't have any Cuba until you finish your Iran. And you've barely touched your Venezuela. Finish your Iran and Venezuela before you even think about having some Cuba. And weren't you trying to save space for some Greenland? Where are you planning to put all these countries?" — Stogiebear (comments)
"That sounds like a surrender to me." — JohnMichael (comments)
"His cabinet is walking around in shoes that don't fit, because they are too afraid to appear anything less than supine. The 25th is not an option. We have only one hope now." — Dorsalfin (comments)
"Yeah, just walk away like you did with Ukraine. You are selling American arms to your NATO allies so they can give the arms to Ukraine. You are profiting off the suffering Ukrainians while helping Putin. You sick bastard." — Cel (comments)
"Typical Trump. Start some shit, botch it badly, walk away and leave it for someone else to clean up." — MargaretPOA (comments)
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"Straight of Hormuz?" So,the Strait is considered non-binary?
The lengths this retard will go to avoid accountability!
Postal Service may be forced to stop deliveries by 2027 amid cash crisis — Travis Gettys
Why is it that every Republican administration drives them into a financial crisis?
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What will people do? Drive to a PO to pick up mail? RFD people aren't gonna like this huge failure!
If this is making American great again, someone is fucking looting our treasury! Guess who?
Kevin Hassett: Hurting Consumers Is 'Last Of Our Concerns' Right Now — Ed Scarce
Trump's Director of the National Economic Council lets the cat out of the bag.
These Trump people are not smart.
Director of the National Economic Council of the United States, Kevin Hassett, spoke to CNBC on Tuesday regarding the Iran war and its effect on the U.S. economy. During the interview, however, he let slip that any effect on consumers was “really the last of our concerns right now.”...
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"Smirky" shows us how lost he is in the Trump swamp.
'I’m an idiot': 3-time Trump voter unleashes on 'worthless' president — Alex Henderson
Pennsylvania — the state that veteran Democratic strategist James Carville famously characterized as Philadelphia in the east, Pittsburgh in the west and Alabama in between — showed how much of a swing state it is when it went for Donald Trump in 2016 and favored Joe Biden in 2020 only to narrowly go for Trump again in 2024. The MAGA movement still has plenty of supporters in Central Pennsylvania, the area of the state that Pennsylvanians jokingly called "Pennsyltucky." But with the United States now at war with Iran, one Trump voter in Central Pennsylvania expressed feelings of buyer's remorse during an interview with NBC News.
But when Allen asked Amanda Robbins — who voted for Trump in 2016, 2020 and 2024 — what she would say to Trump about Iran if he were in Millersburg with her, she replied, "You are a worthless pile of s——." Noting that she voted for Trump "three times," Robbins added, "That was my bad. Apparently, I'm an idiot."...
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Say no more, Amanda. We hearyou.
Trump is losing the war in America — and he knows it — The Conversation
No US president in living memory has gone to war with less public support than Donald Trump has for the war in Iran. Even Barack Obama’s much-maligned Libyan intervention began with 60% of Americans in support in 2011. There is no poll that shows a majority of Americans supporting the Iran war, and multiple polls showing clear majorities against it. And wars usually lose public support as they go on....
Wars are not necessarily better when the US government invests a huge effort in justifying them. The justification for the disastrous Iraq War, after all, was based on misperceptions, distortions and falsehoods. But by completely disregarding US public opinion before the war, Trump now finds himself in all kinds of trouble as he tries to fight it.
Americans don’t like seeing themselves as aggressors.
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Correct. Only Nazis see themselves as agressors!
Blindsided White House scrambled as Trump official's resignation ricocheted through DC — Robert Davis
The departure of President Donald Trump's top counterterrorism official set off a firestorm within the White House after the president was caught off guard, according to a new report.
On Monday night, Joe Kent announced his resignation from the Trump administration, citing the war in Iran. Kent said in his resignation letter that it was clear the U.S. bombed Iran at the behest of Israel.
The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday that Kent's announcement caught the Trump White House off guard.
"But many White House aides didn’t expect Kent to announce his resignation publicly, on government letterhead, for all the world to see, according to a senior administration official," the report reads.
"That decision — which ricocheted through Washington and foreign capitals on Tuesday — set off a scramble among President Trump’s top advisers, who moved quickly to criticize Kent, minimize his influence in the government and send a tacit message to administration officials that open skepticism of the war won’t be tolerated," it added.
Trump has faced considerable criticism for bombing Iran in a series of coordinated strikes with Israel. Multiple lawmakers have described the administration's justification for the attack as flimsy at best.
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What guard? His paranoia?.
Revealed: 'Fringe activists' working 'behind the scenes' with Trump to overhaul elections — Adam Lynch
The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports a network of far-right actors are working with President Donald Trump to derail elections in Georgia and cast doubt on any vote that removes Republicans from power.
“The meeting and the call recounting it offer a glimpse at how activists, once on the fringe of the conservative movement, are now trying to overhaul elections in Georgia and across the country,” reports AJC. “Now several are in the Trump administration, and Fulton County is firmly in their sights ahead of the 2026 midterms.”
For years, the AJC reports a “network of activists has cast doubt on Georgia’s 2020 election, questioning the integrity of the state’s voting machines and the voter rolls that determine who can vote.”
Legitimate election officials dismissed their challenges and investigators debunked their fraud claims, said AJC. But now several are in the Trump administration, “and Fulton County is firmly in their sights ahead of the 2026 midterms.”
The AJC reports a recent Zoom call revealed conservative activists eagerly sharing tips and tricks for election engineering, which they learned at a February summit in Washington with several Trump administration officials, including Kurt Olsen, Trump’s director of election security and integrity, who played a key role in the FBI’s January raid on an election warehouse in Fulton County.
“Kurt is leading a team and leading a charge of great people that are working together,” said Holly Kesler, a Georgia conservative activist, during a recent “election integrity” meeting of the Georgia Constitution Party, audio of which was obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
“It is a multiagency approach,” she said, reports AJC. “And there are a lot of things going on behind the scenes. I’ve been a part of some of that.”
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Cheating is Trump's only game. He will lose.
Trump Roasted For Claim Cuba Doesn’t Get Hurricanes
The Miami Herald reports:
President Donald Trump told reporters at the White House on Monday that Cuba would be ideal for the U.S. to take over because of pleasant weather and it is not prone to hurricanes. If only that were true. “I think Cuba, in its own way, tourism and everything else, it’s a beautiful island, great weather. They’re not in a hurricane zone, which is nice for a change, you know? They won’t be asking us for money for hurricanes every week,” Trump said. This is false.
Since 2000, 11 major hurricanes — Category 3 and above — have crossed over Cuba, according to the New York Times. The country, which is the biggest island in the Caribbean, has also been hit by many Category 5 storms.
In October, Hurricane Melissa slammed into Cuba’s eastern province of Santiago de Cuba as a powerful Category 3 hurricane, with maximum sustained winds of nearly 120 mph. The storm left thousands without a home. And photos and videos after the storm showed undernourished Cubans, men, women and children dressed in rags and people barely managing in makeshift homes....
https://www.joemygod.com/2026/03/trump-roasted-for-claim-cuba-doesnt-get-hurricanes/
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Breaking News: Trump is a moron.
Somebody Finally Stood Up to RFK Jr. — Jonathan Cohn
WELL, WELL, WELL. The brainworm may finally have turned.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has spent the past year systematically dismantling federal support for vaccines. From his perch atop the Department of Health and Human Services, he has canceled funding for vaccine research, published misinformation about supposed vaccine dangers, forced out or fired respected scientists who might resist his agenda, and withdrawn federal recommendations for a half dozen childhood vaccines.
Until recently, Kennedy had run into little resistance. Donald Trump, who gave Kennedy all this power, has lauded Kennedy and amplified his attacks on vaccines. Bill Cassidy, the high-profile Senate Republican and Louisiana physician has—despite some angry statements—refused to use his chairmanship of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee to demand changes or even explanations for Kennedy’s actions.
But this week Kennedy suffered a major setback. And it came at the hands of the judiciary.
On Monday, a federal judge in Boston blocked several of Kennedy’s most consequential policy changes, arguing that he had violated legal rules for how the HHS secretary is supposed to make key decisions. The 45-page ruling was a big win for the plaintiffs—a group of medical organizations and affected individuals led by the American Academy of Pediatrics—who have been protesting Kennedy’s actions from the get-go.
“There is a method to how these decisions historically have been made—a method scientific in nature and codified into law through procedural requirements,” Judge Brian Murphy wrote in his opinion. “Unfortunately, the Government has disregarded those methods and thereby undermined the integrity of its actions.”...
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How hard was that?
Sam Altman Thanks Programmers for Their Effort, Says Their Time Is Over — Victor Tangermann
Thousands of tech workers are being laid off, from Atlassian slashing 1,600 jobs to Jack Dorsey’s fintech company Block firing almost half its workforce. Meta’s latest round of layoffs is rumored to affect an astonishing 20 percent or more of the company.
A common thread among these devastating cuts is industry leaders touting the capabilities of AI, claiming that the tech has made the workers who find themselves on the chopping block redundant. Whether those claims align with reality, or whether the layoffs are actually the result of corporate bloat and pandemic-era overhiring, is a topic of much debate.
In a Tuesday tweet that can only be described as twisting the knife, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman argued that “I have so much gratitude to people who wrote extremely complex software character-by-character.”
“It already feels difficult to remember how much effort it really took,” he added. “Thank you for getting us to this point.”
It’s a particularly tone-deaf and borderline vindictive missive that suggests Altman has long given up on the idea of fairly compensating content creators and coders for their work. It’s no secret that OpenAI’s AI models were trained on data that was shamelessly scraped from the web, a controversial practice that has triggered a litany of copyright infringement lawsuits.
Altman’s remarks drew an overwhelmingly negative reaction.
“You’re welcome,” one user responded. “Nice to know that our reward is our jobs being taken away.”
Others called him a “f***ing psychopath” and “scum.”
“Nothing says ‘you’re being replaced’ quite like a heartfelt thank you from the guy doing the replacing,” one user wrote.
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Can we all see what is on the end of the spoon we're being fed with yet?
Panicked OpenAI Execs Cutting Projects as Walls Close In — Victor Tangermann
In 2025 alone, OpenAI released a controversial text-to-video generator, dubbed Sora, and an abysmally slow web browser called Atlas. It also announced top-secret hardware alongside former Apple exec Jony Ive, and signed a $200 million contract with the US Department of Defense.
Meanwhile, the company continues to burn through billions of dollars a month, astronomical losses that have executives there feeling agitated. The company recently announced that it’s planning to spend a whopping $600 billion on AI infrastructure by 2030, an ungodly sum only beaten out by its original promise: $1.4 trillion, more than twice the revised figure.
Now, the company is coming to terms that it may have spread itself too thin, and is now looking to refocus its resources on its coding and enterprise users.
As the Wall Street Journal reports, OpenAI’s CEO of applications, Fidji Simo, told employees that the company is “actively looking at which areas to deprioritize.”...
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Dance that ass off!
Former Trump official: MAGA is 'deader than dead' — Nick Hilden
Appearing on Piers Morgan today, longtime Trump supporter and former administration appointee Carrie Prejean Boller had some harsh words for the president and his movement, declaring MAGA “deader than dead.” She arrived at this opinion, she explained, due to Trump’s willingness to follow Israel into war against Iran.
“I think that a foreign country has occupied our government, and we are seeing now that this president of the United States of America is being influenced by a foreign government,” she said. “And MAGA, let me tell you right now, MAGA is dead. It is deader than dead, and Americans are furious. We don’t recognize President Donald J. Trump anymore.”
Boller’s assertion comes in a moment when the MAGA movement appears more fractured than ever....
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Burn those Red hats!
Trump is just one misstep away from total collapse — Thom Hartmann
The drumbeats for expanding our (and Israel’s) war with Iran are loud.
Cable news panels talk about strategy. Politicians talk about deterrence. Pentagon briefings talk about targets and timelines. But there’s one thing missing from almost every conversation in Washington.
Risk.
Not the geopolitical kind. Not the think-tank kind. Real risk. The kind that lands in your living room in the form of a letter from the government telling your family that your child is being sent to war.
For most of modern America’s leaders — and certainly for generations of the Trump family — that risk simply doesn’t exist.
We live in a country where fewer than one percent of the population serves in the military. The burden of fighting America’s wars has been placed on a narrow slice of our people. They’re mostly working class, many come from rural communities, and many join because it’s one of the few stable ways to get healthcare, education benefits, and a future.
Meanwhile the people who debate whether we should be bombing Iran are almost never sending their own kids.
That didn’t used to be the case.
During World War II nearly every American family had someone in uniform. War was a shared national sacrifice, and politicians understood that every decision they made could cost the life of one of theirs or their neighbor’s son or daughter.
I remember well how Vietnam brought that reality home in a different way. I hated it, protested against it, got kicked out of school for those protests, and still curse LBJ and Nixon for their lies that killed nearly 60,000 of my fellow citizens. But that, in retrospect, is exactly how it should be. That protest/debate was a good thing for our nation, every bit as good as the war was wrong and bad.
The draft lottery meant that millions of young Americans suddenly had skin in the game of war. College campuses erupted in protest not because students were uniquely radical but because they knew they might soon be the ones crawling through rice paddies under machine gun fire in a war that the country had, by then, fully realized was based on lies.
The draft was what forced our country, our families from coast-to-coast, to confront the human cost of war. And eventually it forced our government to end that war.
In 1973 Richard Nixon and Congress ended the draft and created today’s all-volunteer military. The argument sounded reasonable at the time, particularly after the upheaval of Vietnam. A professional military would be more skilled and more motivated, they said. It would be more competent, even more lethal.
But then something else happened because the draft ended: war became easier for politicians to throw our military into, because the dissenting voices in the ranks had vanished.
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When only a tiny slice of Americans are at risk for fighting, bleeding, and dying, the political price of launching a war drops dramatically. Congress members can vote for military action without worrying that their own children or those of their constituents will pay the price. Television pundits can cheer for bombing campaigns without imagining their own kids in uniform.
The result has been nearly nonstop war for half a century, from Ronald Reagan’s attack on Grenada straight through to today....
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Will the collapse take him with it?
Americans Recognize AI as a Wealth Inequality Machine, Pollster Finds — |AJ Dellinger
AI is a bigger issue election issue for voters than guns, climate change, or abortion.
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Ya don't say?
Roberts: Trump’s Attacks On SCOTUS Are “Dangerous”
Politico reports:
Chief Justice John Roberts defended the Supreme Court Tuesday against a sustained flurry of attacks President Donald Trump unleashed against the justices in recent days for striking down the core of his politically pivotal tariff policy.
“Personally directed hostility is dangerous and it’s got to stop,” Roberts said during an appearance at Rice University in Houston. Roberts did not mention Trump directly and made an effort to frame intemperate criticism of the judiciary as emerging “from all over” and “not just any one political perspective.”
But with Trump lashing out at the justices — or at least some of them — every few days since his high court defeat last month, it seemed clear the chief justice sought to counter the president’s public expressions of displeasure.
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Isn't he one of the guys that told Trump he could push us around as long as it's official president biz?
Trump: I Don’t Need Congress To Withdraw From NATO
The Associated Press reports:
President Donald Trump said Tuesday NATO and most other allies have rejected his calls to help secure the Strait of Hormuz, grousing that he has been unable to rally support behind his war of choice in Iran that he insists he’s conducting for the good of the world, even if it doesn’t appreciate his effort.
Trump was asked by a reporter if he was rethinking the U.S. relationship with NATO in light of the response to the Iran war — or perhaps even pondering getting out of the military alliance. “It’s certainly something that we should think about. I don’t need Congress for that decision,” Trump said. He added, “I have nothing currently in mind, but I’m not exactly thrilled.”
Congress passed a law in 2023 that requires congressional authorization to leave the military alliance. Experts have said Trump could try to negotiate loopholes, perhaps citing presidential authority over foreign policy, to try to get around the law.
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The Nazi SOB is already gettting around laws. Bust his ass!
But wait! We can't because his DOJ is in his pocket and there are no marshals that will arrest the criminal!
We are SO FUCKED!
College Republicans Sue University Of Florida Over Chapter’s Dissolution Following Alleged Hitler Salute
The Associated Press reports:
College Republicans have sued the University of Florida’s president on free speech grounds over the school’s decision to deactivate its chapter after being notified that at least one member engaged in an antisemitic act.
The University of Florida College Republicans filed the lawsuit Monday in federal court against interim president Donald Landry, asking a judge to stop the enforcement of the school’s decision and to restore access to facilities on the Gainesville campus.
“The University of Florida punitively deactivated and shut down the UFCR, in response to alleged viewpoints expressed by a member of UFCR, and in an effort to silence the club and chill its future speech,” the group said in its lawsuit.
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Nazi youth demands their subversive Nazi Rights. Well, then the Communist Party Youth will get to sing their version of The Internationalale at all of their chapter meetings too!
Brendan Carr said "EQUAL TIME!" motherfuckers! LMAO!
Hegseth’s Pastor Calls For God To Kill James Talarico
...Potteiger’s church is part of Pastor Doug Wilson’s Christian nationalist network, which advocates for a full-Gilead theocracy in which women cannot vote, homosexuality is criminalized, and all non-Protestant public events are banned. Hegseth recently had Wilson lead prayer services at the Pentagon.
"Oh, I didn't realize God was a pastor's personal hitman." — jimbo65 (comments)
"And they wonder why people are fleeing religion altogether. I read recently that 100,000 churches are expected to close this year. It's wonderful news." — David Holt (comments)
"Remember, these same people insist that the teachings of Jesus as given in their own holy texts are 'woke.'" — OlyGregg (comments)
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Doubtful that God will have anything to do with it. On the other hand, Pete could be Abraham's son. Done out on Highway 61.
Some pastor. Watch your children around this retard. This guy is in a death cult.
Venture Capitalist Warns That It’s All About to Come Crashing Down — Victor Tangermann
AI companies continue to pour hundreds of billions of dollars into enormous infrastructure projects, fully expecting demand for their services to spike in the coming years to justify their outsize investments.
Reality, however, continues to have a lot of catching up to do. Revenues are still being dwarfed by astronomical capital expenditures as the gulf between the tech industry’s lofty promises of an AI utopia and what the tech is actually capable of today continues to grow. And persistent fears over an AI bubble that could wreck the entire US economy if it were to collapse continue to nag Silicon Valley investors and analysts.
Bill Gurley, a venture capitalist and general partner at the financial services company Benchmark, warns that the industry is still in for a rude awakening — a hard “reset” that could hit markets hard.
“One day we’re going to have an AI reset, because waves create bubbles, because interlopers come in,” he told CNBC on Monday. “When people get rich quick, a whole bunch of people come in and want to get rich too, and that’s why we end up with bubbles.”
“One day, I just think we trip and run out of money on those things,” he added. “I do think that moment stands in front of us.”
As AI companies continue on their unprecedented spending spree, it could soon become difficult to turn things around and become profitable once many billions of dollars in debt.
“I just think it’s harder to land the plane,” he said....
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Maybe because the landing field has been destroyed?
Yambo Tries Threats, Bullying, And Coercion To Make His War Popular — Susie Madrak
The Yambo administration has unleashed a heavy-handed pressure campaign against news organizations as it can't seem to change media coverage of an optional war that many Americans oppose.
Pentagon briefings now include attacks on outlets like CNN, with Whiskey Pete Hegseth criticizing headlines. Yambo is working overtime on Truth Social to accuse “Highly Unpatriotic ‘News’ Organizations” of airing “LIES” about the war and musing about “Charges for TREASON.”
(Yeah, we think about "Charges for TREASON," too. All the time!)
They want journalists to back off critical coverage of the war effort, or to at least encourage the public to second-guess reporting that runs counter to their preferred heroic narrative. And now they've moved into the blackmail portion of the program: Brendan Carr.
Brendan Carr of the Federal Communications Commission, issued an explicit warning to broadcast television networks on social media, writing that “hoaxes and news distortions” could lead to revoking licenses for local stations, which Yambo said he was “so thrilled to see.”
He hasn't figured out yet that he's only projecting weakness....
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Welcome to Life in Hell. (thanks to Matt Groening)
GOP Rep: Deploying 2,500 Marines To Iran Isn't Really 'Boots On The Ground' — Conover Kennard
Oh wow, thank goodness Texas Republican Rep. Pete Sessions cleared that up—deploying 2,500 Marines to "secure" an island isn't actual combat boots on the ground, it's just... aggressively vacationing with extremely well-armed tourists. Totally different from anything messy like urban fighting in Iranian cities.
History will surely remember this as the moment war became optional based on vibes and word choice. Sessions apparently doesn't believe that boots on the ground are really boots on the ground if they're on an island, which obviously has ground and will soon have boots, too.
Sessions was interviewed by CNN's Kate Bolduan, who may or may not have wanted to shove her boots up his ass after he turned himself into a crazy-time pretzel trying to respond to her legit question, noting that people "sending their loved ones overseas, they will think that deploying to Kharg island is boots on the ground."
"No, I really want to make this point," Sessions said. "When we think boots on the ground, we think going back to Somalia, we think going back to Iraq, we think about going to Afghanistan."
"That is not what we are talking about, or at least I am," he continued. "I'm talking about to secure this facility, the oil facilities, which are in everyone's best interest."
Bolduan interrupted to explain to the numbnut that Kharg "is Iran."
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Our country has stooped to pirating oil. This is a new low for us. Brought to us by the Trump Crime Syndicate.
Our Low-IQ President Did an Oopsie — Jonathan V. Last
1. Minesweeper
There have been low-grade reports about Iran mining the Strait of Hormuz for several days. I am skeptical of this rumint for two reasons. First, because the claims seem to come from “American officials,” and the U.S. government is no longer a trustworthy source of information. Second, because it is not in Iran’s interest to lay mines . . . yet.
That’s because mines are a dead man’s switch and Iran is currently looking to strike side deals for passage with China. By relying on drones and missiles to close the strait, Iran retains the flexibility to offer selective passage—which gives it both a bargaining chip and a wedge. Once mines are deployed, that strategic avenue is cut off and the strait is closed semi-permanently.1 For that reason, deploying mines is a strategic escalation—the economic equivalent of a tactical nuke. I would expect Iran to hold that card in reserve.
But you didn’t come here for strategy talk. I promised you the stupidest Trump mentals ever. So buckle up:
Mining the Strait of Hormuz is the single biggest danger America faced heading into any conflict with Iran. How did our commander-in-chief plan to deal with it?
Six months ago the Navy decommissioned its four Avenger-class minesweepers that had been stationed in Bahrain precisely to deal with Iranian mines.
It gets dumber: Those four final American minesweepers left the theater in mid-January—while war planning for the current operation must already have been underway.
But wait, it gets even dumberer!...
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Dum, dum, dum, dum, dum-be-doobie-dumb!
Happy St. Patrick's Day, Pete Hegseth! Tabs, Tues., March 17, 2026 — Evan Hurst
White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles has been diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer. May she have a speedy recovery and one day be brought to justice for any and all crimes she’s committed in her role as Donald Trump’s enabler. [Trump on Truth Social]
Speaking of crimes against humanity committed by the Trump regime, they’re now considering holding back HIV medication from Zambia unless the nation allows Trump to rape it for its minerals. [New York Times]
And speaking of the verb in that last sentence, here is Donald Trump talking about how he believes he’ll have the “honor” of “taking” Cuba “in some form.” He added, “I think I can do anything I want with it,” probably because he’s a celebrity. Wonder if that’s how he talked about any of the little girls in the Epstein Files.
Related: The Trump regime wants to replace the Castro regime with … the Castro regime!
If the US cuts off Zambia’s HIV medication, that’s coming out of Marco Rubio’s State Department. So it’s relevant that apparently the big GOP donors want Rubio to be the one who runs in Trump’s place in 2028. (No, not JD Vance, everybody throws up in their mouth when they see him, obviously.) Anyway, if Rubio is their great hope, MAGA is well and truly dead. [ABC News]
In war news, Donald Trump is really excited that maybe the new Iranian ayatollah is gay. Ooh, maybe he can go to the self-hating unfuckables club with Scott Bessent and Ric Grenell! [Mediaite]
In more serious war news, Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth have now gotten over 200 troops injured for absolutely no reason. [Washington Post]
Donald Trump may have been totally confused and surprised that Iran started attacking other countries — because he’s stupid, senile and brain-damaged — but nobody else was.
And in more war news, it’s official: Russia is the winner of Donald Trump’s Iran war. Surprise! You know, while they’re busy helping Iran kill American troops. [Bloomberg]
And the other winner of Trump’s Iran war? Um, well, Iran....
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Kill For Peace — The Fugs.
The $5 Billion Secret Behind Trump’s Iran War — And Jared Kushner’s Role — Thom Hartmann
As bombs fall and soldiers die, Jared Kushner is reportedly seeking billions from the same Gulf states pushing America toward conflict
There are several clear winners from Trump’s attack on Iran:
— Russia, who can again fund their violence against Ukraine with new oil revenue and now claims their unprovoked attack on that nation is consistent with this new Trump Doctrine;
— Saudi Arabia, which has long hated Iran and lobbied since at least 2008 for the US to attack that country;
— the United Arab Emirates (UAE), which has similarly pushed America to attack Iran since at least 2010;
— the American defense weapons industry, which is making additional billions;
— Don Jr. and Eric who have taken a big position in a drone-manufacturing business, getting them in on the Pentagon gravy train;
— Donald Trump himself, who’s succeeded in largely pushing Epstein off the front page;
— and Benjamin Netanyahu, who’s called for American strikes against Iran since 1992 and will stay out of prison as long as the war continues.
The losers include:
— The credibility of the United States and the rule of international law;
— the families of 13 dead and 140 injured American soldiers and airmen,
— the families of at least 160 dead Iranian little girls and thousands of other dead civilians in a dozen countries,
— American taxpayers who’re paying for the bombs;
— and future prospects for world peace.
But the biggest winner may be Jared Kushner, who apparently pushed Trump to initiate the war while he’s trying to solicit $5 billion from the same Arab states that have been begging American administrations for decades to attack Iran.
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Let us prey.
OK Church Official, 92, Gets 25 Years For Molestation
Oklahoma City’s NBC affiliate reports:
Charles Sulivant, a 92-year-old man accused of molesting young girls in a Shawnee church, was sentenced to 25 years in prison Monday. Sulivant was a Board Member at Shawnee First Church of the Nazarene several years ago, where the abuse took place.
News 4 was in the courtroom when Sulivant walked in with family, appearing in front of Pottawatomie County District Judge John Canavan.
No cameras were allowed inside the hearing, but Sulivant was taken away in handcuffs after being given his sentence. Victims and their families were also in attendance to face Sulivant, reading impact statements aloud.
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Another one bites the dust!
Trump Rages At NATO: “We Don’t Need Anyone’s Help”
TRUMP: HELP!
WORLD: NO, YOU’RE INSANE
TRUMP: I DON’T WANT YOUR HELP ANYWAY!
Ignorance, dementia and the cognitive maturity of a three year old all rolled in to one. — News Eye
Trump and his FCC chair demand more positive news coverage of Iran war —Jon Brodkin
...In an X post, Carr shared a complaint about an Iran war headline that Trump had made on Truth Social and added his own commentary. "Broadcasters that are running hoaxes and news distortions—also known as the fake news—have a chance now to correct course before their license renewals come up," Carr wrote. "The law is clear. Broadcasters must operate in the public interest, and they will lose their licenses if they do not."
Carr making vague threats about enforcing rules against hoaxes and news distortion is nothing new. Given how difficult it is to actually revoke a broadcast license, and the fact that no TV station licenses are up for renewal until 2028, the threats so far have been attempts to intimidate news organizations without any concrete punishment.
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"Be nice to me or we'll take your lunch money!"
No one will help these Nazi bullies.
Trump Ignored Warning Iran Could Close The Strait Of Hormuz — John Amato
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that before Trump was coaxed into attacking Iran by Bibi Netanyahu and Lindsey Graham, General Dan Caine warned him that Iran's response could be to close the Strait of Hormuz with mines, drones and missiles to shut down the world’s most vital oil pipeline.
The narcissistic Trump responded telling his team that, "Tehran would likely capitulate before closing the strait—and even if Iran tried, the U.S. military could handle it."
The ego behind that statement has cost the lives of 13 American service members so far and plunged the world into an oil crisis.
Drunk on murderous bombing raids against alleged Venezuelan drug smugglers, and the kidnapping of their president, Trump's racist outlook on the Iranian regime is incompetence personified.
Trump's first act against Iran was when he pulled out of President Obama's nuclear treaty with Iran back in 2018.
Even this MAGA creep admitted Trump did it to hurt Pres. Obama's legacy.
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Aging and decrepit man permits senility be the decider of our future.
Not even the Pope can tolerate Trump and Vance — Lisa Needham
There are a lot of bad things happening in the world right now, so let’s take our joy where we can find it: Pope Leo XIV continuing to vex the Trump administration. The first American pope simply isn’t into President Donald Trump or Vice President JD Vance and their America First anti-immigrant racism, so he’s too busy to hang out. Sorry, guys.
When Vance, America’s highest-ranking traditional Catholic, now known as trad Caths, visited the Vatican last May, he brought along a very special invitation: Would Leo like to come to the White House for America’s 250th birthday?
It was likely not a super-pleasant surprise for Trump or Vance to have the first American pope turn down this incredible offer. It was likely even less pleasant to learn that, rather than coming to watch Trump yell about trans athletes or how he won the 2020 election or whatever, the pontiff would instead be spending Fourth of July at Lampedusa....
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Someone said he was later heard to mutter, "Who wants to hang out with those assholes?"
Elon Musk Just Made a Small Change That Speaks Volumes About His Desperation — Frank Landymore
competitors like Anthropic, CEO Elon Musk has quietly made a small but significant change to how its flagship chatbot Grok functions.
Starting last week, Grok stopped taking questions that free users asked in posts on Musk’s social media site, X, where the chatbot is integrated. Instead, it now states that “Ask Grok” is only available to Premium and Premium+ subscribers, paid tiers that the site heavily pushes.
It’s another sign of desperation from Musk. For better or worse, “Ask Grok” became one of the most recognizable features of the website after his takeover. Twitter was no longer Twitter, and tweets were no longer tweets, but Grok was everywhere. Replies that read “Hey @Grok” and “@Grok is this true?” became a meme and mantra, even beyond the site, no doubt introducing many users to the chatbot.
And for Musk, who has an obsession with combatting narratives from mainstream media, the “Ask Grok” feature allowed his “maximum truth-seeking AI” to weigh in on all kinds of political issues and set the record in a manner aligned with his personal beliefs. (Sometimes this backfired, as evidenced in episodes like when Grok suddenly began spouting racist conspiracy theories about a supposed “white genocide” in South Africa, or when users discovered it would overtly praise its creator, leading the bot to make claims that he was a greater role model than Jesus Christ and a genius on par with Isaac Newton.)...
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But nowhere near da Vinci.
Close Trump allies feel 'buyer's remorse' as president risks walking into 'trap': report — Travis Gettys
President Donald Trump's closest allies are starting to have "buyer's remorse" about the decision to launch a war on Iran, according to sources close to the administration.
The 79-year-old president has long made impulsive decisions and then quickly improvised when things go wrong, but a source close to the administration told Axios that some key officials around Trump were hesitant to rush into a war that previous administrations had deemed too risky.
"He ended up saying, 'I just want to do it,'" the source said. "He grossly overestimated his ability to topple the regime short of sending in ground troops."
That source said Trump was "high on his own supply" after last summer's strikes on Iran and the swift attack on Venezuela that captured its president, Nicolás Maduro.
"He saw multiple decisive quick victories with extraordinary military competence," that source said.
However, Iran has not surrendered despite the killing of its top leaders and has shut down the Strait of Hormuz, which has strangled the flow of oil from the Middle East and threatens a global economic catastrophe, and the president has few good options going forward.
"Trump could wind up trapped between his caprice and the realities of war," Axios reported. "He expects a quick, clear victory. But unlike tariffs that can be swiftly imposed and rescinded, the war's outcome is beyond unilateral control and quick fixes. And Iran gets a say."
The president is working to break up the Persian Gulf oil jam, but military experts say he risks walking into an "escalation trap," and a senior administration source told Axios that was certainly a concern....
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Caught in a trap, can't walk out, because he's too embarrased, baby!
'Madman' Trump warned he may end America's 52-year reign as globe's financial king — Nicole Charky-Chami
President Donald Trump's bet on war with Iran could have a significant impact on the United States' global financial standing, an analyst explained Monday.
The Bulwark's Jonathan V. Last described how Trump's decision "could speed up de-dollarization" and challenge the American currency's dominance, ultimately altering the 52-year history of the petrodollar system.
"I have been saying since the beginning that America is playing checkers while Iran plays chess, but it’s worse than that," Last wrote. "American leadership is utterly incoherent: We won, but we need help. We hate our allies; but will our adversaries please come bail us out?"
"Meanwhile Iranian leadership survived a transition of power in the midst of war, achieved its strategic objective in closing the strait, and is now looking to leverage China’s rising economic ambitions against the United States," Last wrote.
Last argued that as the rages on, Iran and China could reach an agreement to allow oil transport through the Strait of Hormuz, but under the condition that the currency switch from the dollar to the yuan.
President Donald Trump's bet on war with Iran could have a significant impact on the United States' global financial standing, an analyst explained Monday.
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So long as it bankrupts Trump.
The War Development(s) That Should Truly Scare Us — Jonathan V.
1. Invasion
If you want to understand the difference in the quality of strategic thinking between Washington and Tehran, consider the messages being sent out over the last three days:
Washington: The war is over. We’ve defeated Iran totally. If other countries don’t come in and help fight Iran they will regret it. Especially our terrible allies, like Great Britain. Please, President Xi, come help us re-open the Strait of Hormuz?
Tehran: We will continue to resist, however we are open to allowing oil transport in the strait that we control provided the product is sold in yuan and not dollars.
I have been saying since the beginning that America is playing checkers while Iran plays chess, but it’s worse than that. American leadership is utterly incoherent: We won, but we need help. We hate our allies; but will our adversaries please come bail us out?
Meanwhile Iranian leadership survived a transition of power in the midst of war, achieved its strategic objective in closing the strait, and is now looking to leverage China’s rising economic ambitions against the United States....
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Says it all about Trump's logic and reason.
Joe Scarborough: 'Massive' new GOP crisis 'could tear conservatism apart' — Alex Henderson
In an article published by Rolling Stone on Friday, March 13, former CNN anchor John Avlon examined a disturbing trend: young MAGA Republicans flat-out praising Adolf Hitler and other members of their party looking the other way rather than condemning them. Avlon's article had a provocative headline: "The Republican Party's Nazi Problem Is Getting Worse. It Should Care," and the piece is still generating a lot of discussion —including biting comments from former GOP Rep. Joe Scarborough, who warned that the Republican Party is facing a "crisis that could tear conservatism apart."
During a Monday, March 16 broadcast of MS NOW's "Morning Joe," the Never Trump conservative was joined by fellow host Mika Brzezinski and told guest Avlon, "This is something we've been hearing for a very long time from leaders, and it's not just independents like yourself and former Republicans like myself. You have a guy like Rod Dreher. Rod, of course, he's supportive of Donald Trump. He's very supportive of (Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor) Orbán…. He thinks the Enlightenment was a mistake."
Scarborough continued, "This guy is no leftie, but after leaving Hungary to come back and spend some time in Washington, he wrote a post — and he said: You guys don't understand what an unbelievable crisis we have right now. This is a crisis that could tear conservatism apart. The bigotry, the racism, the fascism, the antisemitism — he said it's all over Washington, D.C. with younger Republicans…. This is a massive, massive problem."...
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World fascism failed with Hitler. Rinse. Repeat. What's wrong with our senses?
Feds Indict MD Youth Pastor On Child Porn Charges
The Baltimore Sun reports:
A former employee of Key School in Annapolis, who was arrested by Anne Arundel County Police in December and charged with paying underage girls for explicit photos and videos, now also faces federal charges, according to court filings....
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Another one bites the dust.
Colorado Pastor Gets 18 Years On Child Sex Charges
The Denver Post reports:
A judge on Monday sentenced a former Lakewood High School security officer to at least 18 years in prison for child sexual assault, announced the 1st Judicial District. Rubel Tim Martinez was arrested in August 2024 and convicted by a jury in January....
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Another one bites the dust.
The Trump Administration’s “Disturbing” New Legal Strategy to Prosecute Border Crossers Is Taxing Courts and Testing the Law — The Texas Tribune
Jose Omar Flores-Penaloza was willing to admit that he had entered the United States illegally. He was ready to be deported, according to his attorneys.
But federal prosecutors would not let him go last spring without making him answer for another crime — one he had never heard of.
Weeks earlier, President Donald Trump, to address what he called a national emergency, ordered a stretch of borderland transferred to the military so that troops could help apprehend unauthorized migrants.
Because prosecutors believed Flores-Penaloza had crossed through that zone, now called a national defense area, they charged him with trespassing on military property under statutes including one enacted in 1909 to keep spies away from arsenals.
The added misdemeanors were unlikely to lengthen his sentence; they typically result in time served and deportation. But Flores-Penaloza maintained his innocence in the face of the allegation that could cast him as a national security threat.
So he awaited trial in a New Mexico jail.
One year into the second Trump administration, federal courts are facing a surge of immigration-related litigation, including a record number of habeas petitions from detainees who say they are being unlawfully held....
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Ad hominem law.
Senior Trump official 'practically admitted' Trump has stumbled into trap: report — Alexander Willis
President Donald Trump may have already passed the point of no return in Iran and walked headfirst into an “escalation trap” — with one senior White House official “practically” admitting as much, Axios reported Monday.
Trump first authorized strikes on Iran on Feb. 28 and appeared hopeful that the operation — purportedly aimed at toppling the Iranian government — would be swift, much like the Trump administration’s attack on Venezuela in January or its strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities last summer.
Iran has not capitulated, however, and has only dug its heels in further in vowing to block the passage of all U.S.-aligned sea vessels attempting to pass through the Strait of Hormuz, a crucial shipping route through which 20% of the world’s oil trade flows.
Iran’s defiance, according to one senior Trump administration official, has only strengthened Trump’s resolve, pushing the conflict further into what some experts have described as an “escalation trap.”
"A senior Trump administration official practically admitted as much," Axios wrote....
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It's Vietnam all over again. All because Trump wants cover for his involvement in the Epstein scandal.
This is hands down the stupidest member of Trump's Cabinet — Robert Reich
Friends,
At a press briefing on Friday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth complained about a CNN report that the Trump administration had underestimated Iran’s ability to disrupt global oil traffic by closing the Strait of Hormuz.
“Patently ridiculous,” Hegseth told reporters, adding — even as the strait’s blockage was proving to be Iran’s most powerful leverage in the war — we “don’t need to worry about it.” He also denied that the U.S. bombed the school where some 175 children were killed. Hegseth added that, as to CNN, “the sooner David Ellison takes over that network, the better.”
These remarks are remarkably stupid, on several levels....
Pete Hegseth’s job is so far over his head that he can’t even see it. He evidently believes it’s to cheerlead and defend Trump with bonkers claims like “We didn't start this war, but under President Trump we’re finishing it” and “America is winning decisively, devastatingly, and without mercy” and “we will show no quarter for our enemies.” (“No quarter” means kill everyone and take no prisoners, which is a war crime.)
In the days leading up to the U.S. attack on Iran, Hegseth spent his time criticizing “wokeness” at American universities, feuding with Anthropic over safeguards for AI, and, in the day before the war began, forcing Scouting America to abandon programs aimed at promoting diversity.
He dismisses war crimes, pooh-poohs the rules of engagement, and projects unequivocal belligerence at a time when the United States is rapidly losing whatever moral standing it had in the world.
Granted, it’s difficult to select one of Trump’s Cabinet members as the stupidest. But Pete Hegseth stands out for sheer boneheaded ignorance.
Pray for America and the world.
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The world knows who the morons are.
Tim Dillon Grimly Warns Why ‘We’re Gonna Get It’ After Blasting Trump Over Iran War. — Lee Moran
“Make no mistake," cautioned the podcast bro.
“So, whatever this man needs to hear, really, whatever this guy needs to hear, he’s at the end of his life. He’s endorsing Jake Paul for president. He doesn’t care what happens next. That’s the thing with Donald Trump. He doesn’t really care what happens next. So, whatever this guy needs to hear to get him out of this war, tell him, tell him that. Whatever this dude needs to hear, so that he can get us the fuck outta there.”
Trump is “just kind of on a farewell tour,” Dillon added.
Dillon argued that everyday Americans share responsibility for the situation.
“He’s endorsing Jake Paul for political office and you really have to think to yourself, we do deserve everything we get as a country. We really do deserve it,” he said. “There’s certain things that people get in their lives they don’t deserve, somebody gets sick or whatever, you get a bad car accident, but this country deserves everything we get. Everything we get, we really deserve.”
The “common person” is “really sadly culpable in a lot of this” with the way many are “cheering on this war in Iran” with “no fucking clue why we’re there,” he said....
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Spot on. The yokels will get their everlasting.
Conservative commentator shocks with new attack on Trump's Iran war move — David McAfee
...Coulter posed a thought experiment: "Suppose Iran dispatched operatives to Mexico, where, from the Texas border, they fired a missile at an American base and, unintentionally but carelessly, demolished a nearby American school, killing 175 people."
She then escalated the scenario to include additional infrastructure strikes: "What if they then blew up fuel depots, showering a chemical rain on residents? Then struck homes, schools and clinics, as Iran's leader warned that 'death, fire and fury' would so pulverize America that it could never be rebuilt?"
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What if? Get ready for it.
Trump’s panicked plea goes largely ignored by world leaders: 'No country stepped forward’ — Alexander Willis
President Donald Trump issued a plea Saturday to several countries in the hopes that they would “send ships” to a major shipping route off the coast of Iran to help the United States’ war effort against the Middle East nation, a plea that as of Sunday afternoon appeared to go largely ignored....
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The world hates Trump. Why? Because he's treated everyone like shit. What goes around comes around.
Newt Gingrich: Use Nukes To Create Canal At Hormuz
Yahoo News reports:
...“Instead of fighting over a 21-mile-wide bottleneck forever,” Gingrich wrote, “we cut a new channel through friendly territory.”
“A dozen thermonuclear detonations and you’ve got a waterway wider than the Panama Canal, deeper than the Suez, and safe from Iranian attacks,” Gingrich wrote. Gingrich’s post linked to an article that a community note called “satirical,” but Gingrich didn’t mention the humor angle in his post.
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The humor is lost with this. Think of the radiation fallout. The area would be toxic forever. No one could use it. Not to mention the deaths caused.
Seized Oil Tankers Are Costing US Tens Of Millions
The New York Times reports:
In an effort to crack down on nations it views as promoting terrorism, the Trump administration has been carrying out a campaign of seizing tankers carrying oil, a move the president has repeatedly characterized as a financial boon for Americans. But there’s a problem. The seizures have put the U.S. government in a financial bind. The ships are highly expensive to maintain. And the Trump administration cannot legally sell their oil without a judge’s permission.
Consider the case of Motor Tanker Skipper No. 9304667. The United States seized the tanker and its more than 1.8 million barrels of Venezuelan petroleum on Dec. 10 as it made its way from Venezuela to Asia. Since then, the costs to maintain the tanker and its oil have mounted.
The government has already spent $47 million repairing and maintaining the aging ship, which is only valued at $10 million, federal prosecutors said in a court filing. And it will most likely need to spend another $5 million over the next few months to cover insurance and crew, among other costs. Moreover, storing the ship’s oil costs the government $15,000 per day, or about $450,000 per month.
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Pretty soon this adds up to real money. Few care how this mistake is costing and will cost. Trump shoots first and cares not about consequences.
Sec. Brain Worms Felcher Wrestles Twinkie In AI Video
The Daily Beast reports:
Trump’s top health goon is under fire for posting an unhinged AI-generated video to advertise a ‘Make America Healthy Again’ initiative by beating the snot out of a popular snack food.
In the clip posted to X on Sunday with the caption “MAHAMania: SnackDown,” a generated shirtless 72-year-old Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wrestled a man dressed as a Twinkie. Set to “Rollin” by Limp Bizkit, AI Kennedy stretched out his jeans as he kicked and body-slammed the costumed man, before celebrating his win with a scream as fireworks erupt behind him.
The Health and Human Services Secretary was immediately mocked for the ‘Eat Real Food’ ad. “Pathetic. Absolutely pathetic. Is this really what our Administration has become?” one critic questioned.
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No matter what the future holds for our country we will never live our Trump debacle down.
Trump launches new threat to journalists in late night outburst — Jake Johnson
US President Donald Trump late Sunday floated “treason” charges against media outlets that he accused of reporting false information about the Iran war as the human and economic costs of his illegal military assault continued to mount.
In a tirade posted to his Truth Social platform, Trump wrote that media outlets he accused of circulating “fake news” should “be brought up on Charges for TREASON for the dissemination of false information.” The maximum penalty for treason in the US is death....
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The would-be Napolean projects. He tells us what he is consistently.
‘Serious threat to the First Amendment’ as Trump admin wins first Antifa terror charge
The government has largely won its first case, bringing material-support-for-terrorism charges against protesters alleged to belong to “antifa,” which President Donald Trump designated as a domestic terror group in 2025, despite the fact that no such organized group exists, and the president has no legal authority to designate organizations as domestic terror groups.
A federal jury in Fort Worth, Texas, agreed on Friday to convict eight people of domestic terrorism because they wore all black to a protest outside Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Prairieland Detention Facility in Alvarado, Texas on July 4, 2025, at which one of the protesters shot and wounded a police officer. Legal experts say the verdict could bolster attempts by the administration to stifle dissent.“
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We know that fascism undermines and rejects our Constitution. Here's an example of it.
Trump rages that media outlets should be charged with 'treason' over Iran war coverage
President Donald Trump raged in a rambling Truth Social post on Sunday that media outlets that write negative stories about the Iran war should be charged with treason.
Trump issued the threat in response to a report by The Wall Street Journal about five U.S. military refueling planes being hit by Iranian forces. The report said the planes were hit at a Saudi airbase. They were damaged, but not totally destroyed, according to the report.
In his post, Trump accused the Iranians of "feeding" the story to the U.S. press....
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A sure sign we are losing the war. A disaster for our nation.
German Leader Turns Against Trump On Iran War
Politico Europe reports:
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is now having to perform an abrupt U-turn as the economic and security impacts of the war on the EU’s biggest economy become clearer, and is publicly airing his fears that Trump has no exit strategy to end the fighting in the Persian Gulf. On Friday, during a visit to Norway, Merz struck his most critical tone to date. He argued the war raised “major questions” about security and added: “It is having a massive impact on our energy costs, and it has the potential to trigger large-scale migration.”
That’s a far cry from his trip to Washington last week. Visiting Trump, Merz voiced his support for Trump’s war aims. He gave a fawning chuckle when the president bragged of the damage U.S. airstrikes had inflicted on Iran and declared that Berlin was fully aligned with Washington regarding the need to eliminate the dictatorship in Tehran. But the chancellor no longer appears to be in a laughing mood as the repercussions of the war — now set to enter its third week — increasingly threaten myriad German and European interests.
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Trump has lost our American allies. He has bungled it all!
Legal Experts Alarmed By Hegseth’s “No Quarter” Vow
Axios reports:
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s pledge of “no quarter, no mercy for our enemies” violates a bright-line ban in the laws of war, legal experts say. International humanitarian law explicitly forbids declaring that “no quarter will be given” or threatening to fight on that basis, treating it as a war crime on par with targeting fighters who are wounded or attempting to surrender.
New York University law professor Ryan Goodman tells Axios that the defense secretary is “putting the American military on a track to lawlessness in which we will lose more and more allies.”
“The best thing Secretary Hegseth can do for the country and for the US military is to say he misspoke and to retract the statement,” said Goodman, who is also co-editor-in-chief of the national security journal Just Security.
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Who does he think he is, Santa Anna attacking the Alamo? He's telling the world he has murder on his agenda.
WaPo: Grenell’s “Scorched-Earth” Tactics Alienated Al
The Washington Post reports:
Richard Grenell’s time at the Kennedy Center has been defined by the kind of hand-fighting that is typical in the political arena and seldom seen in the more genteel world of arts and culture. Instead of speaking to the New York Times or The Post, he’s called journalists out on his X feed or in texts, often responding to inquiries by telling veteran reporters to “learn to code because journalism isn’t for you.” In 13 months, he has refused to speak on the record to The Post.
An arts leader who battled Grenell at the Kennedy Center described him as having a “flash temper and zero people skills.” When he did engage directly with artists, it was sometimes to bash them for what he perceived as partisan attacks. And the former ambassador’s brusque behavior often alienated other Trump officials and allies who said Grenell had few high-level defenders before the president announced his departure. “Good riddance,” one said Saturday.
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Sore loser.
DC insider breaks down Trump's 'unpardonable' Iran blunder — Matthew Rozsa
President Donald Trump’s actions in engaging America into a war with Iran are “unpardonable,” according to a Republican strategist who worked for President George W. Bush during his similarly-controversial war against Iraq.
Steve Schmidt, co-founder of The Lincoln Project and the Save America Movement, cautioned that a “tidal wave” of epic proportions is coming for the president’s party on The Daily Beast Podcast.
“We’re not winning this war,” consultant Steve Schmidt told The Daily Beast Podcast’s Joanna Coles. “And that is unpardonable in the United States.”
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The reports on Iran from 60 Minutes today indicate we are not in control of the Strait of Hormuz. Iran is in control of what country may pass through with oil. It sure as hell ain't us.
MAGA churches are flouting the law with impunity: report — Matthew Rozsa
President Donald Trump and his supporters are engaging in “more overt” defiance of laws prohibiting nonprofits like churches from explicit partisan activity — and this is because, one journalist alleges, MAGA is run by Christian nationalists.
“People not attuned to the evangelical world may have missed the growing prominence of hyper-politicized churches such as Mercy Culture, which have become a key wing of the MAGA coalition,” wrote The New Yorker’s Rachel Monroe. “Compared with the religious right of previous generations, this cohort of pastors, influencers, and self-described prophets offers up a version of worship that’s at once more mystical, with an emphasis on supernatural powers, and more militaristic, with heightened political rhetoric.”
Monroe added, “Many adopt a Christian-nationalist framework, arguing that the United States was founded as a Christian nation and should be governed as such.” They do this in spite of the Johnson Amendment, which outlaws precisely this type of overtly political activity from churches and other religious institutions that wish to claim nonprofit status....
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Lawless and deluded Talibastards. Same as the Middle-east extremists. No difference. They would kill you as soon as look at you.
They are dead wrong about their "Christian Nation" horseshit.
Trump Disrespects Fallen Soldiers By Using Them To Fundraise — Heather
It's bad enough that Trump completely disrespected our troops during the dignified transfer of the six United States service members who were recently killed in Kuwait.
Now one of his PACs is using it to raise money: Trump fundraising email uses photo from soldiers’ dignified transfer and promises ‘private national security briefings’:
A fundraising email from President Donald Trump’s political action committee has a provocative pitch: using an image from Saturday’s dignified transfer honoring six fallen US soldiers, it promises access to the president’s “private national security briefings.”
The email, sent by Never Surrender, Inc., promotes what it calls a “National Security Briefing Membership” and urges recipients to “claim your spot” with multiple links to donate, in what it describes as an exclusive group receiving updates about national security threats.
It promises that members will “receive my private national security briefings, unfiltered updates on the threats facing America. The straight truth on border invasions, foreign adversaries, deep state sabotage, and every danger the fake news hides.”
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Dispicable, disgusting and sub-human.
Americans’ Anger Against AI Data Centers Is Boiling Over — Joe Wilkins
America really hates data centers. While the rise of grassroots data center opposition makes compelling evidence on its own, a new survey by the Pew Research Center shows just how bad the tech industry’s PR problem really is.
As flagged by 404 Media, the majority of people surveyed said they think data centers are bad for the environment, home energy costs, and quality of life for people living nearby.
Compared to the amount of hate data centers got, there wasn’t a lot of love going around. A paltry 4 percent of Americans said data centers were “mostly good” for the environment, compared to 39 percent who said the opposite. Meanwhile, only 6 percent believed data centers have positive effects on their neighbors’ quality of life and home energy cost, versus 30 percent and 38 percent who said they were “mostly bad,” respectively.
In more bad news for the data center industry, the respondents who were most familiar with data centers were more likely to have roundly negative attitudes about them. (A similar phenomenon is playing out with AI itself.) For example, about two-thirds of participants who heard “a lot” about data centers said they’re mostly bad for energy prices, compared to 42 percent who only know “a little.”
And if that wasn’t enough, the survey also found that young people are more likely to have negative views than older ones. For example, 54 percent of adults under 30 had mostly negative attitudes toward data centers’ impact on the environment, versus 26 percent of adults 65 and up....
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Bad news? Yes, yes it is.
Trump Turns To Migrants Amid Farm Labor Shortage
The New York Times reports:
For years, the agricultural sector has faced a tight labor market as farmworkers age and fewer new immigrants and younger Americans are willing to toil in the fields. Top Trump administration officials vowed that mass deportations would help, leading to “higher wages with better benefits†and a "100 percent American work force."
But the administration has quietly acknowledged in recent months that its immigration raids and crackdown on the border have aggravated the issue. So it has instead turned to an alternative source, making it cheaper for farmers to hire immigrant farmworkers on temporary visas.
Many farmers have celebrated those changes, made to an increasingly popular visa program known as H-2A, noting the difficulty in hiring American workers and tough economic conditions for the industry. But immigration hawks and labor unions alike are opposed, arguing the move will only increase the share of foreign workers and hurt native workers and suppress their wages.
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Is Trump this stupid? Does this question need to be asked after he's deported all of them?
Piers Morgan Says Trump Doesn’t Have a ‘Clue’ About What He Wants in the Middle East: His ‘Mission Statements’ Have Changed ‘Hour by Hour’ — Joe DePaolo
...“I think he’s thought that he could pull a Venezuela here, decapitate the leadership of Iran, and it would all get settled quite quickly,” Morgan said. “And I’d think two weeks in, what is very clear is this is not going to get settled quickly. All the mission statements he’s laid out have changed day by day, sometimes hour by hour. It was going to be regime change. It was after the nuclear capability, which we’d been assured only 10 months ago had been dismantled already.”...
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Odd. Isn't he a Trump worshiper?
MAGA national security expert makes damning prediction about US 'losing the war' — David McAfee
David Pyne, a prominent America First conservative and national security analyst, issued a stark warning about the trajectory of the Iran war, arguing that Iran possesses a straightforward path to victory regardless of military losses.
"All Iran has to do to win its war of independence against the US and Israel is for its regime to survive and outlast the war while inflicting maximum financial and economic pain on its enemies to pressure Trump to end his unwinnable war of aggression," Pyne wrote on social media.
Pyne's analysis echoes warnings from military strategists about asymmetric warfare dynamics. He contends that without a massive ground invasion, American military superiority becomes irrelevant to the conflict's ultimate outcome.
"If the US doesn't invade Iran with half a million troops, the US can win every battle but it will lose the war just like we did in Vietnam," Pyne stated, drawing a parallel to America's experience in Southeast Asia.
The former Trump supporter then criticized the president's own military history, suggesting Trump lacks the experience necessary to navigate prolonged conflicts. "Trump dodged the draft four times to avoid serving in the Vietnam War so it appears he never learned this important lesson," Pyne wrote.
Pyne's comments represent growing skepticism among Trump's own political base regarding the viability of the Iran military campaign and the administration's ability to achieve stated objectives without escalating to levels of commitment Trump has repeatedly rejected.
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Arrogant Nazis never learn.
Sunday thought: Who’s Winning from Trump’s War? Follow the Money — Robert Reich
Trump, his biggest backers, and Vladimir Putin
Friends,
Today I want to talk about who’s getting the most out of Trump’s war.
That war is costing the U.S. about $1 billion a day. The Pentagon’s budget is around $1 trillion this year, and Trump wants an additional $500 billion. Because of the war, the cost of oil has topped $100 a barrel, and the price of a gallon of gas at the U.S. pump now averages $3.67 — up from $2.92 before the war.
The strain on the federal budget has given Republicans an excuse to demand further cuts in federal assistance to people in need. JD Vance recently kicked off a “war on waste and fraud” by announcing suspension of Medicaid payments to Minnesota, charging that the program is rife with fraud perpetrated by “bad actors in our society … [who] decide to make themselves rich.”
But if you want to find real waste and fraud, look no further than Pete Hegseth’s “Department of War.”
A new analysis by government watchdog Open the Books found that as the 2025 fiscal year was ending, Hegseth’s Pentagon spent: nearly $100,000 on a Steinway grand piano to outfit the home of the Air Force chief of staff; $60,719 on premium office furniture, including at least one luxurious $1,844 Aeron Chair; $12,540 for three-tiered fruit basket stands; $2 million on Alaskan king crab, $6.9 million on lobster tail, $15.1 million on ribeye steak, and $1 million on salmon; $124,000 for ice cream machines; and $26,000 for sushi preparation tables.
The Pentagon has failed every audit since it was legally required to start submitting them in 2018, and reports say it will continue to fail them at least through 2028....
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"...before the war." Where have I heard that phrase used before?
Idaho House Passes Bill Forcing Schools To Out Trans Kids So Parents Can Disown Them — Doctor Zoom
As we mention whenever we get the chance, our home state may not have the size or influence of a Florida or a Texas, but when it comes to pushing far-Right culture war bills, the Idaho Legislature punches above its weight in crazy. Hence our beloved state motto, “Though she be but little, she is batshit.”
(Okay, we’re also a small enough media market that rightwing dark money goes a lot farther than in bigger states, making it easier to elect weirdos and lobby them once they’re elected.)
Here’s the latest horrible idea from the state that was first in the nation to ban trans girls and women from sports: Having already banned gender-affirming medical care in 2023, the Idaho House this week passed HB 822, a bill outlawing what it calls “pediatric secretive transitions.” School staff, health professionals, and childcare providers must inform parents if their kid attempts any kind of “social transition” in their gender identity, because we all know about how schools are trying to forcibly turn kids trans and hide it from their parents....
The bill is the scrawny brainchild of state Rep. Bruce Skaug, who previously led the Lege’s drive to criminalize gender affirming care to minors, and then to prohibit taxpayer funds from covering transgender healthcare through Medicaid, even for adults. That 2024 law pushed a clinic at Idaho State U in Pocatello to stop providing gender-affirming care other than counseling, because the statute also prohibited gender-affirming care on state property.
HB 822 would require “covered entities” — schools, medical providers, and childcare providers — to notify parents within 72 hours if a minor asks them to “participate in or facilitate the social transition of the minor student,” including asking the adult to refer to them by different pronouns, a different name or nickname that isn’t a “derivative” of their given name, asking to use the wrong terlet, locker room, changing room, or litter box, or wanting to play on the wrong sex’s sports team. (Presumably, a good portion of Shakespeare’s plays would be off limits too.)...
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Religious totalitarianism is the number one enemy of a free country.
STOP THE WAR! How hard is that for an editorial board to say? — Dan Froomkin
This war is idiotic, the work of a madman.
News reports should be making that clear.
And newspaper editorial boards should be calling for it to stop.
This is not a tough one. People are dying and killing for no good reason. The U.S. is committing war crimes (and bragging about it.) The war is illegal and unconstitutional. Americans oppose it by wide margins.
And yet the only major American news outlet that I’ve seen calling for an end to war in its editorials is… actually British. It’s the Guardian. And even they were pretty meek about it....
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What else do we expect when a Nazi dictator's minion preaches to our press to watch what they say about anything they don't like? This is what you get when Nazi swine motherfuckers are permitted to intimidate our freedom of press!
Trump begs for help from other countries with Iran: 'This should be a team effort' — David MCAfee
President Donald Trump called for international cooperation on Iran policy in a Truth Social post, arguing that securing the Strait of Hormuz should be a collective responsibility rather than falling solely on the United States.
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Is that right? Ya don't say? When has this asshole ever respected any nation or its leader other than his boss, Putin and his co-terrorist, Bibi? Serves him right to be ignored for his irrational actions.
Top Dem puts Pam Bondi on notice over 'enormous liability': 'She will be held accountable' — Alexander Willis
Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA), the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, put Attorney General Pam Bondi on notice Saturday over what he said was her “enormous amount of liability” regarding a scandal he called “worse than the Watergate cover-up.”
...Lawmakers have already floated plans to hold Bondi accountable for her agency’s alleged unlawful conduct regarding its handling of files on Epstein, including by holding her in contempt of Congress, a compliance mechanism that could result in Bondi being fined or even jailed. Other methods lawmakers have employed to force compliance have been met with fierce pushback by the DOJ.
“What's stunning to me, and what Pam Bondi doesn't understand, is first, this is infinitely worse than the Watergate cover-up as we know it. I mean, it doesn't compare," Garcia continued. “But let's remember who actually had to face consequences for Watergate. It wasn't Nixon, right? It was the attorney general.”
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Sweetheart, you've been had!
'He's at the end of his life': MAGA podcaster claims Trump simply 'doesn't care' anymore — David McAfee
Comedian Tim Dillon, an influencer with a wide male fanbase who advocated hard for President Donald Trump during the election but has grown more critical of the president in recent months, weighed in on the Iran issue in a recent podcast.
Specifically, the "manosphere" influencer said of Trump, "He's at the end of his life. He's endorsing Jake Paul for president. He doesn't care about what happens next. That's the thing with Donald Trump, he doesn't really care about what happens next…Trump is just kind of on a farewell tour."
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Well,...Bye!
Dem hits Trump official with profanity-laden warning: 'You will be sued and you will lose' — David McAfee
...Congressman Ted Lieu responded to the FCC head, writing, "Dear @BrendanCarrFCC: If you implement your flagrantly anti First Amendment actions, you will be sued and you will lose. And legal discovery will be awesome. Because the American people can then find out what the Administration keeps hiding."
Lieu then added, "Take your fascist s--- and shove it."
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Discovery on the Nazi swine will be most interesting. Let's have it!
Trump’s Strait of Hormuz problem — Heather Digby Parton
Oil prices surge as the Trump administration shows no clear plan for the world’s most critical shipping lane
One would have thought that if Trump understood anything, it would be that going to war with Iran would disrupt the oil markets at a time when inflation was still American voters’ number one concern leading up to the November midterms.
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Trump doesn't think. He knee jerks his cankles.
ICE Agents Testify That They Have Daily Arrest Quotas
The Guardian reports:
US immigration agents in Oregon used a custom-made app to identify neighborhoods and people to target, and had daily arrest quotas they sought to meet during operations, courtroom testimony has revealed. Details about ICE officers’ surveillance tools and arrest goals in the state have come to light in a federal lawsuit that compelled officers to answer questions under oath, offering a rare window into opaque, internal strategies that are generally kept secret and have been driving mass detentions and chaotic raids.
In the hearing, an ICE agent identified as JB testified that his team was given a verbal order to target eight arrests a day. JB’s team was made up of nine to 12 officers and was tied to the DHS’s so-called “Operation Black Rose”, which launched in Portland last fall and yielded more than 1,200 arrests through mid-December, according to DHS. The target of eight daily arrests a team suggested a potential quota of about 50 daily arrests across Oregon, Innovation Law Lab estimated.
"And that my fellow tax payers is how our money ends up being spent on arresting people who are here legally, American citizens, as well as killing people on the streets in broad daylight and in concentration camps." — Stogiebear (omments)
And you can thank the miscreant, Stephen Miller, for that!
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Quotas for ICE? Affirmative action? Something the Right used to shit their pants about? Of course!
Laura Loomer Blasted For Racism At New Delhi Event
The Independent reports:
Laura Loomer, a right-wing social media personality and adviser to President Donald Trump, was forced to explain herself during a trip to New Delhi when a journalist read her anti-Indian tweets back to her during an event. During the India Today Conclave in New Delhi on Saturday, Indian journalist Rajdeep Sardesai presented a trove of tweets Loomer made disparaging India and its people. Loomer’s posts had been deleted before her visit, but not before others archived them.
He read a post from 2024 in which Loomer said the White House would “smell like curry” if then-Vice President Kamala Harris became president. She also said that the U.S. was built by “white Europeans, not third-world invaders from India.” The journalist went on to accuse Loomer of being “brazenly racist and Islamophobic” and told her her comments represented “anti-Indianism, worse still Islamophobia, and even worse racism,” which he said had “no place in today’s world.”
Read the full article. Among Loomer’s now-deleted posts are claims that Indians have an average IQ of 76. After being grilled for those posts, Loomer declared that “Islamaphobia isn’t real, it’s a hoax.” That’s a rather odd claim for someone who regularly calls herself a “proud Islamaphobe.”
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Why does this reactionary hate monger have any infulence on our government?
DOGE Bros Gleefully Testify About Cutting “DEI Grants”
ABC News reports:
In lengthy depositions, two DOGE employees — Justin Fox and Nate Cavanaugh — defended the effort to cut “useless agencies” as part of DOGE’s attempt to reduce the federal deficit. “You don’t regret that people might have lost important income … to support their lives?” an attorney asked Cavanaugh about the grant cancellations. “No. I think it was more important to reduce the federal deficit from $2 trillion to close to zero,” Cavanaugh said. “Did you reduce the federal deficit?” the attorney asked. “No, we didn’t,” Cavanaugh said....
"Heartless sadistic motherfuckers, just like their boss." — KarenAtFOH (comments)
"Never let these pieces of shit have a peaceful minute." — peacefulseas in WA (comments)
"The promised $2 trillion savings dwindled to $32 billion worth of questionable receipts, mostly by cancelling congressionally approved contracts. But then, not one cent went to reducing the deficit and led to even more, wasteful taxpayer money spent on the doge bros salaries and perks. They should have yanked out his balls so the court could whack em." — Jay Silversmith (comments)
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Another idiot punk incel fucking with the humanity of our country.
Dems Condemn FCC Chair’s “Authoritarian” Threat To Pull Broadcast Licenses Over “Hoax” Iran War Coverage
The New York Times reports:
Brendan Carr, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, threatened on Saturday to revoke broadcasters’ licenses over their coverage of the war with Iran, his latest move in a campaign to stomp out what he sees as liberal bias in broadcasts. As the war entered its third week, Mr. Carr accused broadcasters of “running hoaxes and news distortions” in a social media post and warned them to “correct course before their license renewals come up.”
Democratic lawmakers and free-speech watchdogs were quick to condemn Mr. Carr’s threat as a violation of the First Amendment. On social media, Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts called it “straight out of the authoritarian playbook,” while Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona said that “when our nation is at war, it is critical that the press is free to report without government interference.”
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, which advocates for free-speech rights, said in a statement that Mr. Carr’s tenure as F.C.C. chairman “has been marked by his shameless willingness to bully and threaten our free press.” It called his latest post “shocking — and dangerous.”
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Bur Fox News is free to lie like a motherfucking rug? Go to hell!
Shitting on our First Amendment is the #1 goal of fascist Nazis like the Carr.
Pentagon Clamps Down On “Woke” Stars And Stripes
NPR reports:
The Defense Department has begun to exert greater control over Stars and Stripes, weeks after a top spokesman accused the independent military newspaper of focusing on “woke distractions.” The Pentagon announced what it calls “modernization” changes this week. It’s the latest effort by the Pentagon and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to apply extraordinary limits on journalists covering the agency.
The memo says that Stars and Stripes will continue to “operate with editorial independence.” However, it also says that the newspaper must immediately begin implementing the Defense Department’s new interim policies and stop publishing several types of content.
It also declares that the publication’s content “must be consistent with good order and discipline,” which is a phrase used in military justice. Stars and Stripes editor-in-chief Erik Slavin told NPR on Saturday that this phrase makes him particularly concerned for his staff reporters who are members of the U.S. military, and who thus can be court-martialed for violations of its uniform code of military justice.
"Woke, CRT, BLM, antifa.. all of it boils down to "I'm a conservative and this makes me uncomfortable to hear about." Yeah, sometimes history, employment, housing, health care, education, and even holidays are uncomfortable to learn about. I think it's good to understand things even if uncomfortable. Trump's regime, on the other hand, wants to play pretend because it makes them happy." — Makoto (comments)
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Nazi propaganda will be the standard, eh? Then who wants to join a Nazi military but Nazis!
Professors Say AI Is Destroying Their Students’ Ability to Think — Frank Landymore
Professors are fighting an uphill battle against the intrusion of AI into education, and it’s forcing them to rethink how they instruct their students, many of whom have already become hopelessly dependent on the tech.
“It’s driving so many of us up the wall,” one told The Guardian in a new piece that interviewed more than a dozen professors in the humanities.
“I now talk about AI with my students not under the framework of cheating or academic honesty but in terms that are frankly existential,” Dora Zhang, a literature professor at UC Berkeley said. “What is it doing to us as a species?”
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This conclusion assumes that the students possessed the ability to think prior to AI useage.
Any data on that?
Damning Political Research Finds That the People With the Least Understanding Have the Most Confidence — Joe Wilkins
...New research published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied and spotted by PsyPost suggests something grim: that people who most outspoken about their politics actually know the least about them....
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This shouldn't raise any debate should it?
The “CEO Presidency” Scam: How Republicans Turned Government Into a Profit Center for Billionaires — Thom Hartmann
The slogan that promised efficiency was really a blueprint to dismantle public government and hand its power—and money—to the billionaire class.
The bombs are falling on Iran this week, Kash Patel has fired the FBI experts on Iranian sleeper cells in America, and people are speculating that Trump’s trying to provoke an Iranian attack on the US to justify blowing up November’s elections. Somewhere in the wreckage of what used to be America’s functioning national security apparatus, the ghost of Ronald Reagan is grinning.
I’ve been doing my progressive program on SiriusXM, Free Speech TV, and radio stations nationwide for over two decades, and every time a Republican runs for office promising to “run government like a business” — Reagan‘s favorite meme — I tell my listeners exactly what’s coming next:
— Tax cuts for the morbidly rich,
— Gutted regulations that had been designed to protect average people,
— Privatized (profitized) public services that will make billions for corporations and eat our tax dollars,
— incompetent management of government agencies and our economy,
— And, soon, a slow-motion disaster that the rest of us end up paying for.
We’re living through that disaster right now, and it’s accelerating.
And figuring out why ain’t rocket science; it’s one of the GOP’s oldest scams that relies on public ignorance. Here’s what, since Reagan gutted aid to public education (20% cuts in his first year), they don’t teach in Civics classes anymore: businesses and governments have fundamentally different purposes and are run in fundamentally different ways....
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And it's all for the Criminal Syndicate that is Trump.
WSJ: Trump Ignored Warnings About Strait Of Hormuz
The Wall Street Journal reports:
Before the U.S. went to war, Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told President Trump that an American attack could prompt Iran to close the Strait of Hormuz.
Caine said in several briefings that U.S. officials had long believed Iran would deploy mines, drones and missiles to close the world's most vital shipping lane, according to people with knowledge of the discussions.
Trump acknowledged the risk, these people said, but moved forward with the most consequential foreign-policy decision of his two presidencies. He told his team that Tehran would likely capitulate before closing the strait—and even if Iran tried, the U.S. military could handle it.
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What happens when you're in over your head. Trump is losing.
Politico: “Hormuz Inflation” To Hit Many Product Sectors
Politico reports:
The war with Iran is driving up more than gasoline prices. It is beginning to hit semiconductors, medical imaging, backyard gardens and even children's party balloons.
While much of the world is focused on how Iran's essential closure of the Strait of Hormuz is damaging global energy markets, other key industries risk getting hit by similar price inflation. That's because Hormuz is also a major shipping route for helium and fertilizer, which both affect a wide sector of the economy and are now experiencing price spikes as ships bottleneck on both sides of the strait.
Half of the global supply of urea "a nitrogen-based fertilizer" and almost a third of the ammonia supply run through the straits, according to the American Farm Bureau Federation. Prices are already spiking since global supplies are taking a hit right as many agricultural producers are beginning their Spring plants. Urea prices have jumped 30 percent since the Trump administration began bombing Iran, according to the Fertilizer Institute.
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If Trump's "obliteration" keeps up, the world's infrastucture may collapse altogether.
Only Property Owners Can Vote In Local AZ Election
The New York Times reports:
In one of America’s least democratic elections, the rule is not one person, one vote. It’s one acre, one vote. Only property owners in metropolitan Phoenix can cast ballots in the April 7 race for control of the Salt River Project, one of the nation’s largest public power utilities.
Early voting began this week for the landowning select, and the more land they own, the more votes they get. A farmer with 200 acres gets 200 votes; a suburban homeowner on a quarter of an acre gets a quarter of a vote. Renters are locked out entirely.
The system dates back to 1903, nearly a decade before Arizona became a state, when just a few thousand people lived in the Valley of the Sun. But the property ownership requirement has stuck, even as similar restrictions elsewhere were found unconstitutional during the expansion of voting rights in the 1960s.
This year’s election is poised to be the most competitive and combative yet, as Turning Point USA, the Phoenix-based right-wing political group founded by Charlie Kirk, is spending big to defeat a slate of candidates backing more renewable energy.
"Some of the meanest white people on earth.
Source: I poll watched for the Democrats during early voting in Maricopa County for the 2020 general election." — MaryOGrady (comments)
"'But the property ownership requirement has stuck, ...........'
Learn from other countries.
Learn from history.
Up to 1972 the same property requirement existed in Northern Ireland.
It was one of the issues that precipitated the Civil Rights Movement in Northern Ireland (modelled on the American movement of the same name).
That morphed into the IRA struggle for 30 years.
In NI it was the Protestants/Unionists who owned the property and were thus able to control local elections, local jobs and local housing.
It is undemocratic, discriminatory, racist and vile." — JackFknTwist (comments)
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The arrogant fascists should be removed from Arizona and a constitutional government installed.
Trump: Fake News Is Lying About War Success [VIDEO]
...Trump has repeatedly claimed that Iran’s forces have been “wiped out,” that the war is “basically over,” and that Iran is “about to surrender.” Take note of his badly applied bronzer.
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So sad for a once proud country.
UNICEF warns child casualties are becoming catastrophic as evidence grows in Iran school bombing — Jordan Atwood
More than 1,100 children have been killed or wounded across the Middle East since the United States and Israel launched war on Iran while investigations point to outdated intelligence behind the Minab school strike.
More than 1,100 children have been killed or wounded across the Middle East since the United States and Israel launched their war on Iran at the end of February, according to new figures from the United Nations Children’s Fund, which warned that the humanitarian consequences for children across the region are rapidly escalating.
UNICEF released the figures Wednesday while calling for an immediate diplomatic resolution to the expanding conflict. The agency reported that at least 200 children have died in Iran, 91 in Lebanon, four in Israel, and one in Kuwait since the war began.
“The situation is becoming catastrophic for millions of children across the region,” UNICEF said in a statement.
“These numbers will likely climb as the violence intensifies and spreads.”
Humanitarian organizations say the largest concentration of child deaths occurred during the February 28 bombing of the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ school in the Iranian city of Minab. The strike took place during the first wave of joint U.S. and Israeli attacks at the start of the war.
The bombing killed an estimated 175 people, most of them students between the ages of 7 and 12. Iranian officials have said the overall death toll from the war now exceeds 1,300 people.
Evidence emerging from early investigations has increasingly pointed toward U.S. involvement in the strike....
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Why must the children of the world always bear the brunt of our senselessness?
A dizzying web points to who owns Trump and the depth of his treason — Thom Hartmann
Eight of our American service members are dead and more than 140 wounded because Iran’s military has suddenly gotten really good at targeting our soldiers, airmen, and marines. News reports say they’ve been able to hit us with such precision because Russia is using their extraordinary spy satellite, spy plane, and advanced radar capabilities to help Iran’s military....
Is it possible that Trump is actively working for Putin? What if Putin somehow owns him? Or is blackmailing him? And has been running him as an Russian asset since at least 2017?...
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Yes.
Trump faces new impeachment calls after massive TikTok fee revealed: 'Abject corruption' — Daniel Hampton
The Trump administration is reportedly about to pocket a whopping $10 billion from the president's TikTok deal, cashing in big time as investors take control of the app's U.S. operations from Chinese parent ByteDance.
Oracle, Silver Lake, and Abu Dhabi's MGX are leading the charge, having already forked over $2.5 billion to the Treasury when the deal closed in January, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Trump said in September of the deal, "It hasn’t been fully negotiated, but we’ll get something.” He emphasized that "The United States is getting a tremendous fee-plus—I call it a fee-plus—just for making the deal and I don’t want to throw that out the window.”
The Journal's report astonished tech reporter Karl Bode?, who wrote on Bluesky, "this is just open and abject corruption, but the way U.S. journalism frames it you'd not really understand that there's anything untoward."
"Like maybe you'd want to explain, you know, ANYWHERE in the article, that this is not f---ing normal and that the 'national security' and 'privacy' improvements weren't real? Maybe quote an objective expert or academic?"
Law Dork's Chris Geidner? wrote on Bluesky, "JFC. Impeach and remove this lawless man, you fools."
?Forbes journalist Kieran Meadows? wrote on Bluesky, "Anyone remember when there was this little thing called a law
that banned TikTok in the U.S.? It was passed by Congress and signed by the President so it was indeed a law Like if that means nothing, does anything mean anything anymore?"
Entomologist and photographer Alex Wild? wrote on Bluesky, "Maybe you could report plainly that this is corruption and it is illegal."?
Stephen Soldz?, a psychologist and psychoanalyst, wrote on Bluesky, "The regime gets brokers' fees? Silly question: Who decides what is done with that money? The Crook-in-Chief?"...
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The Trump corruption must face a reckoning.
Lindsey Graham just triggered a MAGA revolt over Iran — Sophia Tesfaye
Pro-Trump media figures warn the president is trapped in a hawkish echo chamber around the senator
Lindsey Graham is a happy man. He got his war. But the coalition Trump built is fracturing over the very issue that helped power his rise, and Graham is at the center of the rupture...
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When will these little boys realize their gimme caps make them look like Redneck Retards?
Trump: US Has “Obliterated” Iran’s Main Oil Terminal
The Washington Post reports:
President Donald Trump on Friday night announced that the United States had bombed Kharg Island, targeting Iran’s most critical oil terminal in an attack that Tehran has warned would mark an escalation of the conflict.
Located about 15 miles from the Iranian mainland in the Persian Gulf, Kharg Island is the centerpiece of Iran’s oil-based economy. About 90 percent of the country’s oil exports move through facilities there, and an attack could strangle what remains of Tehran’s economy — including the government’s limited ability to pay its military.
Trump said in a post on Truth Social that the U.S. had “totally obliterated every MILITARY target in Iran’s crown jewel.” The Washington Post could not immediately independently verify Trump’s description of the attack or provide a damage assessment. “Iran’s Military, and all others involved with this Terrorist Regime, would be wise to lay down their arms, and save what’s left of their country, which isn’t much!” Trump posted while flying from Washington to Palm Beach, Florida.
"'Totally' seems an unnecessary modifier for 'obliterated' until we recognized that Trump's definition of 'obliterated' is more like our definition of 'damaged'". — clay (comments)
"Meanwhile Trumps boss Putin is now making 150 million dollars a day after Trump lifted the oil sanctions against him. Even after knowing Russia is helping Iran target US troops in the region. Trump is a fucking traitor and he should face a firing squad for his treason." — Thewolflam (cmments)
"It won't stop people from knowing that this war is the effort to cover up the fact that Donald Trump rapes little children." — Karl Dubhe IV (comments)
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And yet his little war goes on. And Americans pay.
Vance Blames Biden For Soaring Gas Prices
“All of this conversation happens where Joe Biden left us in a terrible situation, and the reason why gas prices are where they are today is because of Donald Trump’s work to get them lower, because the Biden administration, they were crazy high.
“The gas prices we’re seeing today are nothing like what we saw at the peak of the Biden administration because the president has set us up for energy dominance.
“And one of the lessons we all have to take away, frankly, every time we get involved in anything overseas – whether it’s in the Middle East or anywhere else – the thing we’ve got to take away from it is energy dominance and energy independence. We rely on our own people, rely on our own energy.” – JD Vance, yesterday in North Carolina.
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J.D. tries to lift his boss's linp dick. If we rely on our own energy why are we stealing it from other countries, genius? Vance —- the disgrace of Ohio State.
Trump: Woke James Talarico Is “An Insult To Jesus”
“The good news is that their candidate is whacked out, with his six different forms of gender. And all the things that I saw – the insult to Jesus. I mean, such an insult to Jesus. This guy is whacked out. He so woke. He’s so woke, he’s grossly incompetent.” – Trump, calling in to the radio show of Fox News host Brian Kilmeade, who had asked whether Trump plans to endorse Ken Paxton or John Cornyn in the Texas US Senate race. According to a Public Policy poll released this week, Talarico is currently +2 over Paxton and +1 over Cornyn. In the same call, Trump lied about the Pentagon having asked for Ukraine’s help in the Iran war. See the clip’s Community Note.
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Being woke is being aware of the fascist totalitarianism of a mindless idiot such as the scumbag Trump. He delivers his hatred in its full blown ugliness on a man who is light years more human than he can ever hope to be. Trump wouldn't know a word attributed to Jesus Christ, or any other pihilosopher, than he would the tar baby from Uncle Remus stories. Trump is an insult to humanity.
For the unfamiliar, the tar baby never spoke.
House Nominee Recruited For Sons Of Confederacy
The Meidas Touch reports:
An archived video from 2014 shows Republican congressional candidate Brandon Herrera promoting a local chapter of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, a hereditary organization devoted to honoring Confederate soldiers and preserving Confederate memorials. Herrera, who was endorsed by Trump on Wednesday, became the GOP nominee when Tony Gonzales dropped out of the Texas 23rd congressional district race after admitting to having an affair with a staffer who later died after setting herself on fire.
In the recording, Herrera introduced himself as a member of “Fayetteville Arsenal Camp number 168” and welcomes viewers to join the organization. Wearing a polo shirt bearing the group’s Confederate battle flag insignia, he described the Sons of Confederate Veterans as “an historical honor society, dedicated to preserving Confederate heritage and learning more about our ancestors who fought and died in the War of Northern aggression.”
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Another traitor from the Land of the Happy Negro!
The 21st Century is one-quarter over and still they are lost past in their failed, 19th Century past.
These worthless idiots will never grasp reality!
Your slave-mongering people fired the first shot, traitor!
Orlando Paper Spikes The Ball On Failed Anti-Vax Bill
Welcome to the “Free State of Florida” — where the governor wants you to have the “freedom” to expose your kids to a deadly virus. And everyone else’s kids as well. Until now, DeSantis and Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo waged their war on public health without much pushback from fellow politicians.
Sure, most anyone who’d even walked by a medical school said the two men’s plans were fringy and dangerous. But for the most part, their political peers just let them have fun trolling science. However, Republicans in the Legislature pushed back, refusing to pass DeSantis’ so-called “Medical Freedom” act.
Apparently, most decided they want Florida children to have the “freedom” to continue living. Sen. Gayle Harrell, a Republican from Stuart, said her primary care doctor told her: “I don’t want to go back to medical school to learn how to treat polio.”
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We have had treatment for polio since the 1950s. The next-to-worst stupid idiots on the planet govern Florida.
Sen Murphy: Military 'Given Directions By A Senile Old Man Who Is Losing His Mind'— John Amato
The Senator does not mince words after a classified war briefing from the White House
Watching the trump administration officials and Republican members of Congress twist like pretzels trying to defend and define the US attack on Iran, Murphy's words are on the nose.
In the last 24 hours alone, we've seen Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth continue to make a fool of himself, while Trump says he needs to have a certain feeling to end the war with Iran.
Incompetence is Trump's middle name.
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What's worse is we have a military that accepts and obeys his childish and deadly orders.
'Mind boggling' corruption: Kushner seeks $5 billion from foreign governments for his firm — Elizabeth Preza
President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, is trying to raise more than $5 billion from foreign governments for his private equity firm while working as “one of the U.S. government’s chief negotiators in the Middle East,” the New York Times reports....
The fundraising is a change from Kushner’s previous claim that he would table his efforts to work for his father-in-law. In December 2024, Kushner told a posdcaster that Affinity “[doesn’t] have to raise capital for the next four years.”
“Kushner’s previous unofficial role raised substantial conflict of interest concerns given Kushner’s business and investments in the very countries and conflicts that he had been working on — and because Kushner had no defined position, he was not subject to any ethics laws, security clearance process or Senate confirmation,” CREW wrote on Wednesday....
Indeed, the blatant “greed and corruption of the Trump family” has stunned political observers, including University of Virginia Center for Politics Director Larry Sabato, who wrote on X Saturday that Kushner’s fundraising “is almost beyond belief.”...
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The Trump Crime Syndicate grifts around the world 24/7.
Pentagon Raises US Death Toll In Iraq Crash To Six
AP Reports:
All six crew members on board a US refuelling plane which crashed overnight have been confirmed dead. A frantic search for the troops traveling in the KC-135 Stratotanker was launched after the aircraft was downed over Iraq in a suspected mid-air collision.
US Central Command said in a statement: “All six crew members aboard a U.S. KC-135 refueling aircraft that went down in western Iraq are now confirmed deceased. The aircraft was lost while flying over friendly airspace March 12 during Operation Epic Fury.”
The war in Iran has now spilled over into Iraq as the Middle East continues to contend with Tehran’s aggression. A major blaze broke out at a French air base in Erbil following a drone attack from Iran yesterday. President Emmanuel Macron said one soldier died in the attack with another six injured after a helicopter was reportedly struck.
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Likely more Americans are dead as they continue to cover up their mistakes.
Pete Hegseth Demands Patriotic Coverage. That’s Not How a Free Press Works — Colby Hall
Pete Hegseth is demanding the press frame the Iran war the way the Trump administration prefers.
The self-proclaimed “Secretary of War†made that clear when he lashed out at television coverage of the conflict and began offering his own replacement headlines. Banners like “Mideast war intensifies,†he argued, give viewers the wrong impression about what is happening. News organizations, he suggested, should instead emphasize Iranian desperation and American dominance, floating alternatives like “Iran increasingly desperate†or "Iran shrinking."
The complaint was revealing because Hegseth did not dispute the facts reported. The conflict has expanded across the region. Iranian strikes have hit civilian and energy targets. Shipping through the Strait of Hormuz has once again become a global economic concern. (Fox’s Laura Ingraham effectively called it a dire crisis during Thursday night’s Ingraham Angle.
These developments fairly describe the current state of the war, which has seen military dominance but also some political chaos.
Hegseth’s frustration rests with the interpretation that follows from those facts. Coverage that foregrounds escalation, economic risk, or uncertainty about the conflict’s trajectory reads to him as distorted framing. Coverage that foregrounds Iranian weakness and American advantage reflects the narrative the administration wants the public to absorb.
The argument he is making concerns narrative control, not factual accuracy.
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Both Hegseth and Trump have no American values. They are, in fact, our enemies.
Trump to America: Thank Me for Your Gas Bill — William Kristol
At today’s Pentagon press briefing on the ongoing war in Iran, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth started the show laser-focused on what really matters: not that more American service members had lost their lives in the Middle East, but how unfair the big bad media’s being to the administration.
“People look up at the TV and they see banners, they see headlines . . . ‘Mideast War Intensifies,’ splashing on the screen the last couple days,” Hegseth fumed. “What should the banner read instead? How about ‘Iran Increasingly Desperate.’ Because they are.”
Not to worry, though: Trump’s billionaire pals are buying up more and more of the media every day!
“More fake news from CNN—reports that the Trump administration underestimated the Iran war’s impact on the Strait of Hormuz,” Hegseth said. “It’s a fundamentally unserious report. The sooner David Ellison takes over that network, the better.” Happy Friday.
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America excels in stupidity.
Guy Who Thinks AI Will Put Democratic Bitches In Their Place Looks Like This — Evan Hurst
Alex Karp, the CEO of Palantir who is so off-putting he makes founder Peter Thiel seem like a regular guy you’d have a beer with, said a thing yesterday in a CNBC interview that’s going viral for how weird and gross and revelatory it is of the mindset that drives these socially inept techbro creepers who happen to have a lot of money they didn’t really earn.
Apparently these dicks think their AI is going to somehow be the thing that shows all those educated Democratic-voting women who refuse to fuck them who’s really boss. That’s right, you guessed it, the boss is the stupid, unaccomplished men they don’t want to fuck.
Palantir CEO Alex Karp thinks his AI technology will lessen the power of “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat” while increasing the power of working-class men.
“This technology disrupts humanities-trained — largely Democratic — voters, and makes their economic power less. And increases the economic power of vocationally trained, working-class, often male, working-class voters,” Karp said in a CNBC interview Thursday. “And so these disruptions are gonna disrupt every aspect of our society. And to make this work, we have to come to an agreement of what it is we’re going to do with the technology; how are we gonna explain to people who are likely gonna have less good, and less interesting jobs.”
So AI is like affirmative action and DEI for gross (white conservative) guys?
‘Kay.
How is AI going to do that? Karp is not clear, but it sounds like he means those educated bitches with their opinions and their brains are going to be cut down to size. We guess somebody is just going to have to just explain to those women that they’re not going to have their good and interesting jobs, because of how anything ladies with critical thinking skills can do, AI can do better.
Or maybe AI will help dumb (white conservative) men convince those women they’re on an equal playing field intellectually.
Or something.
We guess, in the phraseology of looksmaxxing incels — and why wouldn’t we put it in those terms? The types of guys Alex Karp thinks the AI revolution will benefit sure are! — the AI is going to allow uninteresting (white conservative) guys to skillsmaxx themselves and economicpowermaxx themselves so they don’t keep getting successmogged by “humanities-trained” woke bitches, who will once again need men to survive and will respect them as the true Gigachads they’ve always been and give them blowjobs all day long!...
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The real nowhere "men."
What If Every Billionaire's and Senator’s Kid Could Be Sent to Fight in Iran? — Thom Hartmann
If the road to Tehran required the sons and daughters of the billionaire & political class to march beside everyone else’s kids, would we still be there?
The drumbeats for expanding our (and Israel’s) war with Iran are loud.
Cable news panels talk about strategy. Politicians talk about deterrence. Pentagon briefings talk about targets and timelines. But there’s one thing missing from almost every conversation in Washington.
Risk.
Not the geopolitical kind. Not the think-tank kind. Real risk. The kind that lands in your living room in the form of a letter from the government telling your family that your child is being sent to war.
For most of modern America’s leaders — and certainly for generations of the Trump family — that risk simply doesn’t exist.
We live in a country where fewer than one percent of the population serves in the military. The burden of fighting America’s wars has been placed on a narrow slice of our people. They’re mostly working class, many come from rural communities, and many join because it’s one of the few stable ways to get healthcare, education benefits, and a future.
Meanwhile the people who debate whether we should be bombing Iran are almost never sending their own kids.
That didn’t used to be the case....
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We go on a fool's journey.
Iran Says It’s Ready to Destroy the Global Economy — Frank Landymore
If the Trump administration was expecting it’d quickly wrap up its “little excursion” in Iran like in a repeat of Venezuela, geopolitical reality had different ideas.
On Wednesday, the Iranian government said it was ready for a long war that would “destroy” the global economy, Le Monde reported, as it continues to shut down a key passageway for oil supplies, the Strait of Hormuz.
“Get ready for the oil barrel to be at $200 because the oil price depends on the regional stability which you have destabilised,” Ebrahim Zolfaqari, a spokesperson for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, told Reuters.
Oil prices have surged since February 28, when the US and Israel opened aggressions by assassinating Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei in a series of missile strikes that also killed the commander of the IRGC, the minister of defense, and other top brass. The strikes have also killed more than 1,000 civilians. One US Tomahawk missile struck an elementary school, killing at least 175 people including numerous students in a massacre that’s now under investigation by the Pentagon.
The regime has not collapsed, as some Trump officials may have hoped, and it retaliated by launching its own campaign of missile and drone strikes across US allies in the Middle East.
The IRGC has vowed that not a “single liter of oil” would pass through the Strait of Hormuz to hostile nations. Approximately 20 percent of the world’s global oil supplies flow through the passage, where Iran has cut off shipping traffic for the past two weeks. The strait connects the Persian Gulf to the Gulf of Oman, providing the only route to the open ocean for supertankers carrying oil from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, the UAE, Iran, and others.
Two oil vessels were struck with explosions in an Iraqi port on Thursday, in suspected Iranian attacks. Three other cargo ships were also struck and set ablaze in the Gulf hours before. The IRGC has claimed responsibility for at least one of those attacks, a Thai bulk carrier.
Whether the gravity of the situation has sunk in for US leadership is an open question. The day before the seeming escalations in the Gulf, Donald Trump declared that the US had already won the war....
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The wages of fraudulent religious maniacs getting their hands on deadly weapons. This war will last you for years. Ever since the Crusades.
Disturbing AI Food Slop Is Strangling the Internet — Joe Wilkins
Women crashing through glass bridges. Cat parents grinding their children into mincemeat. Poor people rioting in Walmart. Whichever way you look, the internet is clearly drowning in AI slop — and the tide just keeps coming in.
The latest AI slop fad strangling the web is a series of videos with a bizarre fixation on traumatized food. In keeping with the grand tradition of AI garbage, the premise is incredibly unhinged: families of anthropomorphized food, often styled as spaghetti, are plucked, chopped, boiled, or fried, screaming in agony as they’re prepared for some heartless human’s meal.
Recently uploaded vertical videos on TikTok and Instagram show dozens of variations on the theme, some with tens of thousands of views, others with millions.
“My tiny little noodles, my sweet girls, don’t look down,” a momma pasta sobs in one clip on TikTok. “Mommy, the air is burning, I’m scared,” one of the baby bundles cries. “I don’t wanna fall.”
The spaghetti is then submerged, graphically, into the boiling water, before being dressed up in red sauce. “My wife, my daughters… where are you my love,” a masculine spaghetti bunch weeps from the kitchen counter.
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Welcome to the asylum.
FBI Memo Warns Iran Could Attack California Using Drones — Joe Wilkins
The Trump administration’s war on Iran may be coming home — but not where you might expect. According to one FBI document, an Iranian attack on US soil wouldn’t occur near the financial hub of Manhattan or the military industrial factories of Texas, but, confusingly, on the golden state of California.
In a memo circulated by the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force, the LA Times reported, the federal government warned of a vague drone attack that could occur in California.
“We recently acquired information that as of early February 2026, Iran allegedly aspired to conduct a surprise attack using unmanned aerial vehicles from an unidentified vessel off the coast of the United States Homeland, specifically against unspecified targets in California, in the event that the US conducted strikes against Iran,” the memo reads.
According to one source who spoke to the LA Times, that intelligence originally came from the US Coast Guard, though any other details are few and far between. The papers’ source, reportedly experienced in counterterrorism, said the memo has “not been deemed credible at this time,” adding that there really isn’t any proof the Iranian military could carry out a West Coast drone attack even if it wanted to.
California governor Gavin Newsom seems to be taking the threat seriously, however, telling the LA Times that “drone issues have been top of mind and we’ve assembled some work groups specifically around those concerns.”
News of that memo comes after four small drones disappeared from Fort Campbell on the Kentucky-Tennessee border, sparking an investigation from the Army Criminal Investigative Division. Crucially, those drones are designed for surveillance and recon, boasting video camera rather than any explosive ordinance.
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We must be vigilant. Against our enemy whoever they may be.
The war makes it more urgent for journalists to call out Trump’s derangement — Dan Froomkin
Let’s say the president is mentally unfit for duty.
Let’s say that has been pretty clear for a while now, what with his delusion that he won an election he lost, his chaotic imposition of illegal and irrational tariffs, his self-evident lies about how well everything is going, his frequent lapses into incoherence, and so on.
And then let’s say he unilaterally starts a major war of aggression with no clear rationale. He keeps changing his mind about what the goal is, and whether it is being achieved. He boasts about it like a schoolyard bully and makes apocalyptic threats. He says everything is under control when it is not.
Now bombs are dropping and people are dying and tens of millions of people are living in fear.
And it’s all because he’s a profoundly deranged man....
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And we all know it except the ones that are as fucked up as he is!
Ex-Trump aide blows the lid off White House chaos: 'It's so much worse' — Matthew Chapman
..."Chris, I'm going to tell you this. It is not as bad as it looks. It is so much worse," said Taylor. "It is so much worse because Donald Trump and the people around him have a predilection for putting this veneer over their lack of planning and making it seem always like it's four-dimensional chess when it's less than checkers, okay? When it's like coin-flipping instead of checkers, that is what is happening inside that administration."
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Failure is the Trump legacy.
Pete Hegseth’s manly act is backfiring — Amanda Marcotte
Pete Hegseth has an abnormal obsession with how he looks in photographs. This is not revelation: The defense secretary is well known for preening for the cameras with a level of self-regard that would embarrass most supermodels. But his fixation on striking a manly pose was confirmed in humiliating fashion this week when the Washington Post reported that the Pentagon banned news photographers for taking what was deemed “unflattering” photos of the former Fox News weekend host during a March 2 briefing about the Iran war....
MAGA bros hoped the defense secretary would make them feel butch — with Iran war, he embarrasses them
Hegseth’s rhetoric is so alarming that it sometimes eclipses how he also can come across like an eight-year-old boy inventing dialogue for the villain in his G.I. Joe game.
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Cesspool waste.
WH May Defund Polling Place Observer Program
CBS News reports:
The White House is considering ending funding for a longtime civil rights election program aimed at protecting the rights of minority populations to vote, sources familiar with the matter tell CBS News....
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The White House has nothing to do with U.S. elections. They are the domain of its states and voters.
These Trump Nazi stooges are trying to enslave our citizens. We will die defending our rights. The American people dictate who will be in the White House.
Hegseth Unveils Gutting Of Pentagon Legal Oversight
The Hill reports:
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday announced a “ruthless” overhaul of the military’s legal offices. “For too long, over 20 years, legal shops across the services have grown bloated, duplicative, they’ve muddied lines of authority and pulled critical judge advocates away from what matters most — advising commanders in the fight on operations in deployed environments where seconds and minutes count,” Hegseth said in a video posted to social media.
The JAGs’ official duty is to provide independent legal guidance to senior military officers in the Pentagon and on battlefields to avoid potential legal issues with U.S. or international laws surrounding armed conflict.
But the recent changes have raised concerns that Hegseth is gutting legal oversight of the administration’s actions, reducing accountability by seeking to cut those seen as disloyal to the president or his agenda and by separating the duties for uniformed and civilian lawyers within the Pentagon — reducing civilian oversight in times of conflict.
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Nazi Lawlessness is Hegseth. This is what you get with back alley trash. Gut him and his fascism.
Hegseth’s Pastor: Ban All Non-Protestant Public Events
“Let me give you a couple of very practical examples. Could Muslims live here? Yes. Could they hold political office? No. Could you have a mosque? Yes. Could they have a prayer tower that issues a public call to prayer? No, because the public spaces belong to Christ.
“We’re a Christian nation. So church bells are okay. Catholic church bells would be okay. But a parade in honor of the Virgin Mary, carrying an image of the Virgin Mary down the street, no. Right? A Eucharistic procession? Probably not.
“Basically, public displays of idolatry, what the Protestant foundation of law would consider to be idolatry would not be allowed. So you wouldn’t have a Hindu procession with a Hindu god, you wouldn’t have a procession of the Virgin Mary.” – Douglas Wilson, Pete Hegseth’s ardently Christian nationalist pastor, laying out his vision for Gilead.
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Wilson is an Ayatollah. Same as the Iranian regime. Why does he get a pass? His poison is the same.
Hegseth is an extremist. Same as his Talibastard preacher. It should come as no surprise.
100% BULL D. SHIT!
What Happened To All Those Millions For Trump’s Presidential Library? — Newshound Ellen
The fund that got the donated money was dissolved last year after failing to file a required report.
The fund that was supposed to receive at least some of the money “was administratively dissolved in September by Florida officials after it did not submit a mandatory annual report,” according to The Post. Articles of dissolution were subsequently filed by the lawyer who incorporated the fund.
“A second nonprofit, the Donald J. Trump Presidential Library Foundation, Inc., was created last year and reported in December that it received $50 million in contributions,” The Post noted, “but has yet to confirm publicly that it took possession of the settlements.”
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More embezzling by Trump.
DC insider says Pentagon 'obviously covering stuff up' — Adam Lynch
“They're covering this stuff up,” said Bulwark podcaster and GOP strategist Tim Miller. “They've kicked [Politico Pentagon reporter] Paul [McLeary] and others out of the Pentagon. We live in a free country. It's ridiculous that reporters are being escorted in and out of the pentagon during wartime. Reporters should have access to other members of the military, not just the secretary spokesperson, who's a former TV host who wants to spin them.”
“The American people deserve to know what's actually happening in this war, and they're also obviously covering stuff up,” Miller told MS NOW anchor Nicole Wallace, and then cited how pertinent wartime information was getting fed to MAGA podcasters faster than legitimate media outlets with a history of complete and fair reporting.
McLeary confirmed to Wallace that he and other legit outlets are “not allowed in the building anymore, except for staged briefings.”
“We're escorted in and then escorted out right after, and Hegseth has generally been calling on his new favorite outlets — the new pentagon press corps, I guess you could call it — of conservative and right wing outlets that they've brought in and credentialed.”
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This is a disaster for our country. Traitors in our midst.
Sad! Trump’s Meme Coin Has Turned Into a Total Disaster — Frank Landymore
No one expects a meme coin to have a particularly long shelf life. But the fall of Donald Trump’s token, $TRUMP, has been spectacular even by his own vaunted standards.
The Solana-based token launched ahead of Trump’s second inauguration in January last year, and almost immediately surged to a high of over $75 — a spectacular jump in paper wealth that boosted Trump up the echelons of the world’s wealthiest people. Unfortunately for both the president himself and his acolytes who bought into the coin, though, it’s been on a downward trajectory that mirrors their dear leader’s approval ratings ever since.
On Tuesday night, $TRUMP fell to a measly $2.87 — its lowest point yet, Decrypt reported — and a staggering 96 percent plummet from its all-time high. By press time, it was down even further to $2.73....
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Total Disaster = Trump!
Sing, Goddess, of the Fury of Trump — William Kristol
Way back in June 2024, Andrew wrote that “one awkward thing about Trump discourse today is that all the vile things about him suck up so much oxygen that it can be hard to make space to talk about the ways in which he’s merely very stupid.”
We thought about that this morning—and about how it’s now become a government-wide phenomenon—when we encountered this Deadline headline: “Kash Patel Confirms UFC Fighters Will Train FBI Agents This Week, Calling It a ‘Historic Opportunity.’” What a time to be alive. Happy Thursday....
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More on the stupidity of Trump.
Pentagon Bans Outside Photographers Because Pete Hegseth Ugly — Evan Hurst
New most embarrassing thing about Pete Hegseth just dropped, you ready?
It is in the Prissy Pete category, like his special makeup studio where he goes to apply just the exact right amount of whatever to make himself look like a MANLY Prissy Pete.
This is better than that, though.
Remember how a few months back, Pete queened out and kicked out all the real journalists in the Pentagon and replaced them with ball-licking sycophants? Well, some photographers insufficiently committed to Hegseth’s delicate sensibilities and image-conscious insecurities got back in for the first Iran briefing, and they took pictures that made Manly Prissy looked not his manly prissy best!
Now, those photographers who took the “unflattering” pictures have been banned, and off with their heads! What is wrong with these peasants, did they not get the memo about which cheek the Diva Of Defense considers his good side?
The Washington Post still has some journalism happening in the building:
The Defense Department has barred press photographers from briefings on the ongoing U.S.-Israeli military conflict with Iran after they published photos of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that his staff deemed “unflattering,” according to two people familiar with the decision who spoke on the condition of anonymity out of fear of retaliation.
On the condition of anonymity, so that the public may know about The Princess And The Pete’s latest temper tantrum.
Amazing.
It’s all about the March 2 briefing. (That would be two days after the February 28 US strike on the Iranian girls’ school, where Hegseth and Donald Trump killed a bunch of little girls because, turns out, they were targeting based on 10-year-old data. That’s according to the military’s own investigation.)
The picture in question: above, taken by the AP’s Mark Schiefelbein. (The Post notes that it’s actually not entirely clear whether it was just that one pic, or all the pics from that day, which upset Drunky Smurf so much.)
Pete Hegseth? Looks like Pete Hegseth. He’s not a particularly good-looking man. It’s no worse than any other time old Secretary Shitfaced graces a camera with his presence. In fact, it’s considerably better than any of the screenshots Wonkette has ever published of him....
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There is no explaining the unbridled stupdity of the Trump fiasco.
Does Trump Have a KGB Card? — Thom Hartmann
From campaigning to destroy NATO to selling out Ukraine to letting Russia help kill American soldiers in the Gulf region, Trump’s goal appears to be, to “Make America Russia”
Eight of our American service members are dead and over 140 wounded because Iran’s military has suddenly gotten really good at targeting our soldiers, Airmen, and Marines. News reports say they’ve been able to hit us with such precision because Russia is using their extraordinary spy satellite, spy plane, and advanced radar capabilities to help Iran’s military.
The Washington Post, which first reported on this, quoted a Russian military expert as saying that Iran is now “making very precise hits on early-warning radars or over-the-horizon radars,” seeming to validate the concern. The article added:
“Iran possesses only a handful of military-grade satellites, and no satellite constellation of its own, which would make imagery provided by Russia’s much more advanced space capabilities highly valuable — particularly as the Kremlin has honed its own targeting after years of war in Ukraine…”
When asked about the reports, Trump — who’d just returned from the soldiers’ bodies’ dignified transfer — basically downplayed Russian efforts to hurt Americans, just like he did when he learned in 2020 that Putin was paying Afghan insurgents a bounty to kill our soldiers. He pointed out that the US had been sharing intelligence with Ukraine during the Biden administration, so apparently, according to him, Russia is justified in helping Iran kill American service members:
“They’d say we do it against them. Wouldn’t they say that we do it against them?”
His fellow real estate billionaire, Steve Witkoff (whose sons are making billions with Trump’s sons in the Middle East and has been regularly traveling to Moscow for private meetings with Putin) similarly shrugged off the report, telling CNBC:
“I can tell you that yesterday, on the call with [President Trump], the Russians said they have not been sharing. That’s what they said. So, we can take them at their word, but they did say that.” Witkoff later added, “Let’s hope that they’re not sharing.”...
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The spoiled brat that is destoying America.
Veterans Who Depend on Mental Health Care Keep Losing Their Therapists Under Trump — Benjamin Rasmussen
Data published by the VA going back to May 2023 shows that the agency was adding psychologists every quarter until Trump’s return to the White House. Then, the trend flipped, with departures outpacing hires in all four quarters of last year.
Compounding the losses, the agency’s cohort of social workers, some of whom are licensed therapists who provide mental health counseling, declined by nearly 700 staffers over the year.
To better understand the departures and their impact on veterans’ care, ProPublica interviewed dozens of former and current VA staffers as well as patients.
ProPublica also examined a previously unreported internal employee exit survey, which included hundreds of responses from mental health care workers.
“Mental Health is understaffed, burned out, and there is not enough mental health care for the Veterans who need the services,” wrote one New York-based former employee, according to the records.
“Support is no longer there to provide ethical and good care for these Veterans,” wrote a second, based in Indiana. “Scheduling issues are incredibly high due to poor staff hiring and retainment.”...
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More damage to humanity by the deranged Trump.
Iranian Leader: Strait Of Hormuz Will Remain Closed
NBC News reports:
Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei has said that the Strait of Hormuz must remain closed, defying calls by President Donald Trump and global markets to reopen the vital oil trade route.
“Certainly, the lever of blocking the Strait of Hormuz should still be used,” Khamenei said, according to a quote from his first message to the public that was shared by the semiofficial Tasnim news agency.
Iran has vowed to attack any U.S., Israeli or allied ship that dares to cross the narrow strait, which sees one-fifth of the world’s oil pass through it each year. The war’s disruption has sent oil prices surging.
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No regime change. No oil. More signs Trump is losing his dumb little war.
Trump Rants: “No One Gives A F*ck About Housing”
Punchbowl News reports:
President Donald Trump told Speaker Mike Johnson in a private conversation this week that “no one gives a [bleep] about housing,” according to four sources who heard the speaker recount the conversation. Johnson conveyed the president’s remark during a closed meeting of the GOP leadership and committee chairs on Tuesday. The speaker self-censored Trump’s expletive, sources in the room said.
Mediaite reports:
The legislation, from Sens. Tim Scott (R-SC) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), aims to reduce restrictions around home buying. The bill is meant to “make it easier to build and afford housing, including modernizing outdated government programs, lowering costs by removing unnecessary federal requirements, and increasing local flexibility over housing decisions.”
House Republicans are threatening to force a formal negotiation on the housing legislation, which could essentially unravel a bill that already has bipartisan support.
“I think we’ll just stay the course, get the housing bill completed and, hopefully, this will still be one of those things that [Trump] can look at and say, this can be a victory for us,” Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD) said.
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Trump doesn't give a fuck about anything but his own greed!
Energy Sec: No US Escort Yet For Oil Tankers In Hormuz
CNBC reports:
The U.S. Navy is not ready to escort oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz, Energy Secretary Chris Wright told CNBC in an interview Thursday.
“It’ll happen relatively soon but it can’t happen now,” Wright said. “We’re simply not ready. All of our military assets right now are focused on destroying Iran’s offensive capabilities and the manufacturing industry that supplies their offensive capabilities.”
Wright said it is likely that the Navy will be in a position to escort tankers by the end of this month. “I’ll be over at the Pentagon later today — that is what the military is working on,” the Energy secretary told CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” Brent oil prices, the international benchmark, touched $100 per barrel earlier Thursday as attacks on commercial vessels in the Persian Gulf continue this week.
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Navy is not ready? Who in hell is responsible for not being ready? Whisky Pete? What a loser! You don't start a war without being ready, you moron!
Trump In Kentucky: “I Went To The Hardest College Of All To Get Into, Wharton, That Means I’m Very Smart”
The Guardian reports:
Donald Trump told hundreds of supporters assembled inside a packaging plant in northern Kentucky on Wednesday that Iran’s military and nuclear capabilities had been significantly degraded. “Their drones are down 85%, we’re blowing up their factories,” he told an ecstatic audience in Hebron. “They don’t know what the hell hit them,” said Trump.
Without offering further details on when the 10-day-old conflict may end, Trump seemed to suggest that might not be soon. “We don’t want to go back every two years. We’re going to finish the job,” he said.
With Trump and his fellow Republicans under pressure, according to polls, due to a stuttering economy, immigration crackdowns and the Iran conflict, the president noted this year’s midterm elections “are going to be very, very important”.
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More bullshit from the Liar-in Chief. Trump's education record.
HIs daddy's cash got him into that school.
Trump: “Racist Dumb Newscum Has Mental Disorder”
“Gavin Newscum’s interview weeks ago was, perhaps, the most self destructive interview I’ve ever seen. In one fell swoop, he took himself out of even being considered as the Presidential Nominee of the Crazy (as proven at the State of the Union Address) Democrats.
“He said, in a speech, he was dumb, had low Boards, can’t read, has dyslexia, and has a mental disorder — A Cognitive Mess! On top of that, Black People are angry because he is obviously a racist. While we all want to be politically correct, having a mental disorder is not a positive campaign event.
“Also, this was a politically suicidal act. The only thing he didn’t say is he is losing his look, but nobody wants to say that about one’s self. He is no longer a viable Presidential Candidate!” – Trump, posting to Truth Social."
"Projecting himself again, isn't he?" -- OHarp (comments)
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Trump shows us what a low-life lying scumbag he is. Retarded beyond all help. Indeed, he is a brain-dead moron.
Most Americans Agree That Trump Started Iran War To Cover Up Epstein Files — John Amato
A new poll conducted by Drop Site/Zeteo/Data For Progress is bad news for Demented Donald.
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He's already proved he doesn't mind murder to esablish control.
Trump, Hegseth Incompetence Behind Deadly Strike On Iranian School — Newshound Ellen
A “targeting mistake” by Pete Hegseth’s military caused “one of the most devastating single military errors in recent decades,” The New York Times found.
...According to The Times, “outdated targeting” seems the likeliest cause of the February 28 missile attack on a elementary school that killed an estimated 175 people, most of them children. The school was formerly part of an adjacent Iranian military base....
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Our failed military leaders -- disgraceful. Remove the Trump cancer.
Trump may be trying to provoke an attack on American soil — Thom Hartmann
...I’ve been studying authoritarian movements for 40 years, including in my book The Hidden History of American Oligarchy. I’ve written about how Hitler rose to power, how Mussolini consolidated his grip on Italy, how the Confederates took over the American South, how strongmen from Budapest to Brasília have used the same playbook again and again.
And the first page of that fascist and neofascist playbook is always the same: “Destroy the concept of shared truth.”
Not any particular truth. Not “this lie” or “that lie.” The concept of truth itself. Make people so exhausted, so confused, so beaten down by the constant barrage of contradictions, lies, and naked bulls--- that they give up trying to figure out what’s real. Make cynicism feel like wisdom and encourage your “influencers” to make it cool. Make “nobody knows anything” feel like a reasonable way to understand what’s happening...
Trump also didn’t build this lie machine all by himself. Most of it was built for him, over a period of 50 years, with billions of dollars, by morbidly rich people who never appear on television and never have to answer for any of it....
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It's quite obvious a terrorist attack on the U.S. is his end game. He meeds an excuse to delare martilal law and stop our elections.
Trump's failure on every front sending GOP into a death spiral — D. Earl Stephens
I spent the first hour of my day, reading story after story essentially saying that Donald Trump “miscalculated” in his catastrophically stupid war in Iran, which would seem to make the big damn assumption that this utter and complete moron “calculated” ANYTHING in the first place.
In fact, The New York Times headline had it this way atop their meandering story: How Trump and His Advisers Miscalculated Iran’s Response to War
That’ll be about enough of this damned nonsense.
This war never made any sense to anybody with a brain in their head, because here was what we knew for sure in its lead-up, and what we still know right now: Trump is a dangerous and impetuous idiot, who is capable of anything including attacking his own country, which is why his attack on Iran shouldn’t surprise a soul.
If I had to guess what was behind this insanity, I’d venture that in the last month or so, somebody inside the White House with a semi-cool head, and most likely his Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, was able to finally chase him off the golf course for 45 minutes, and force-fed him some unsavory polling numbers to go along with all those Big Macs that pointed to a looming disaster in November, if he didn’t change course but quick, and do something about them....
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It is all a distracton of his antics being exposed in the Epstein files.
Dire Straits: The Iran War Is Run by Idiots — Jonathan V. Last
People were not happy with me in the comments after yesterday’s TNL. Many were upset that I spent part of the episode lamenting how unbelievably stupid some very large percentage of America is.
And maybe these critics were right. Maybe I’ve been too hard on The People. Maybe I need to stop being so elitist and show them some grace. I’m going to take some time to reflect and plan to expand and revise my remarks on Friday.
Make of that what you will.
Today we have to talk about some other idiots....
It should not surprise you that the same team which invited a reporter into a Signal chat about war plans a few months ago have been blindsided by the Iranian regime’s resilience.
After less than two weeks, regime change is off the table and even the Israeli military understands that the Islamic Republic isn’t going away anytime soon...
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Only fools bought the idea that it would.
Jonathan, I assure you, they are all the same idiots.
The Most Dangerous Weapon Ever Aimed at America Isn't a Missile — Thom Hartmann
It's the deliberate, systematic destruction of your ability to know what's real.
We got more lies this morning from the Pentagon press briefing. They’re now up to 17 different rationalizations for the attack on Iran, none of which makes sense.
To paraphrase Rod Serling, consider what happened in Minab, Iran.
A Tomahawk cruise missile, an American weapon, a weapon that Iran doesn’t own and can’t fire, struck a girls’ elementary school. One hundred and seventy-five people are dead, most of them little girls who showed up that morning to learn to read.
And Donald Trump stood in front of cameras and said Iran did it. He lied. About dead children. Without blinking. And his crew backed him up, even knowing it was a lie.
And now the corporate media will spend two days on this and then move on to whatever shiny object the White House throws next. That isn’t an aberration: it’s the GOP’s entire strategy. This is who they are and have been since Reagan pioneered the scam: a PR machine front for an iron-fisted oligarchy.
I’ve been studying authoritarian movements for forty years, including in my book The Hidden History of American Oligarchy. I’ve written about how Hitler rose to power, how Mussolini consolidated his grip on Italy, how the Confederates took over the American South, how strongmen from Budapest to Brasília have used the same playbook again and again.
And the first page of that fascist and neofascist playbook is always the same: “Destroy the concept of shared truth.”...
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The treachery of our nation.
Cornyn voices support for nixing filibuster, reversing course as he courts Trump’s endorsement — Gabby Birenbaum
Cornyn’s change of heart comes amid a grueling primary battle with Attorney General Ken Paxton, who said he'd consider dropping out if Republicans scrapped the filibuster to pass a voter ID law.
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Looks like John's in it for only himself and not the people!
“Slowly killing us on the inside”: A family of 6 at Texas’ Dilley ICE detention center begs for freedom — Lomi Kriel
The family, including the mother and her five children, detail in letters what they describe as neglectful medical care, inedible food and a disregard for their religious accommodations. They’ve been imprisoned at the nation’s only family detention center for more than nine months and are believed to be the longest held there.
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The U.S. under Trump is now like the rest of the totalitarian scumbags of the world.
Markwayne Mullin Made Profitable Stock Purchases Days Before US Military Strikes — Chris Walker
New reporting indicates that Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin (Oklahoma) — who is President Donald Trump’s pick to head the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) — profited from stocks in oil and security companies that he invested in just days before U.S. military strikes in Venezuela and Iran....
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War is always profitble for warmongers.
Is Trump's SAVE America F*ck America Bill To Ban Voting And Transgender Mutilizations Dead In The Senate? Or ... — Evan Hurst
All week, Donald Trump has been dementia babbling that he’s going to shut down the government over the SAVE Act, that he won’t sign any more legislation until it’s passed. Not only that, but Trump says the Senate shouldn’t just pass the current SAVE Act as passed by the House, the one where people have to prove they’re citizens and show ID to vote, and women have to ask their husbands’ permission to cast a ballot and risk having their index fingers sliced off if they try any funny business like voting for a Democrat. (Is that not in the text? Oh well, it’s implied.) Trump instead wants Republicans to “GO FOR THE GOLD” and ban mail-in ballots and ban men from women’s sports and “NO TRANSGENDER MUTILIZATION FOR CHILDREN.”
Yes, he actually typed “mutilization,” because he is an illiterate buffoon, or whichever intern typed this post wrote it that way to match all his verbal diarrhea this week.
Basically it’s every MAGA wet dream about making voting as difficult as possible for those who treasonously might not want to give Supreme Leader supreme power. Of course, they’re pushing it as “protecting” voting, to serve Trump’s paranoid delusions about his 2020 election loss, and because fascists always mean the opposite of what they say, and every word out of these bastards’ mouth is a confession to some crime or another.
The truth is, passing a bill to destroy voting rights in the US would probably be Trump’s only chance to salvage the midterms for his Nazi party. And he knows it.
“It will guarantee the midterms,” Trump has said. “If you don’t get it, big trouble, my opinion.”
As of today, that bill is dead in the Senate. Mean old Senate Majority Leader John Thune says it “doesn’t have the votes.”
And MAGA is furious.
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This is reminiscent of the "Contract ON America" deal by Newtie Gingrich!
Dems Investigate Trump’s Presidential Library Scam
The Washington Post reports:
Congressional Democrats are opening a probe into millions of dollars private companies pledged to President Donald Trump’s planned presidential library, asking what happened to the money after the original fund was dissolved last year.
Sens. Elizabeth Warren (Massachusetts) and Richard Blumenthal (Connecticut) and Rep. Melanie Stansbury (New Mexico) wrote Monday to the leaders of ABC, Meta, Paramount and X, requesting information about the terms of their agreements and the status of the funds they pledged to hand over to the president’s representatives.
The four companies each committed millions of dollars to the project through legal settlements with Trump in the months after the 2024 presidential election, seeking to resolve claims they had harmed him by restricting his access to social media or defaming him in their coverage. The commitments totaled at least $63 million, according to company statements and media reports.
But the Donald J. Trump Presidential Library Fund, Inc., which was set to receive at least some of the settlement funding, was administratively dissolved last September by Florida officials after it did not submit a mandatory annual report.
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The old pritate embezzles more fund cash.
Kennedy: US Bombing Iran School Was Terrible Mistake
“I mean, we’re investigating, but I’m not going to hide behind that. I think that it was a terrible, terrible mistake. I think it’s the truth. The investigation may prove me wrong, I hope so. The kids are still dead. But I think was a horrible, horrible mistake.
“I wish it hadn’t happened. I’m sorry it happened. I can assure you it wasn’t intentional. That’s the sort of thing Russia does. We don’t do that. You know, I don’t see any other possible explanation. And when you make a mistake, you ought to admit it.
“Most people understand no one’s perfect, but I don’t think our men and women who are fighting for us did it intentionally. I’ll never believe that.” – Sen. John Kennedy, speaking to CNN.
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I agree with the Senator and respect him for saying it.
Fact is, we rape them and kill them too! Both there and here.
Oil Consortium Agrees To Release 400 Million Barrels
CNBC reports:
The International Energy Agency on Wednesday agreed to release 400 million barrels of oil to address the supply disruption triggered by the Iran war, the largest such action in the organization’s history.
The IEA did not set out a timeline for when the stocks would hit the market. It said that the reserves would be released over a timeframe that is appropriate to the circumstances of each of its 32 member countries.
IEA members are primarily advanced economies in Europe, North America and Northeast Asia. The organization is tasked with maintaing global energy security. It was founded in 1974 in response to the oil embargo imposed by Arab producers over U.S. support for Israel during the 1973 Arab-Israeli war.
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The first time in history it says. That would be 52 years.
Trump is one of biggest blunders in the entire history of the world.
Indiana Youth Pastor Gets Nine Years For Child Porn
The Lexington Herald Leader reports:
An Indiana youth minister who exchanged pictures showing child sexual abuse with a Kentucky school superintendent has been sentenced to nine years in federal prison. The investigation into the minister, Aaron Paul Lockman, 24, began with the arrest of Matthew Constant, former superintendent of Owensboro Public Schools.
Constant, 54, who was initially arrested in 2023 on state charges, later pleaded guilty to federal charges and was sentenced last year to 30 years in federal prison for online enticement of a minor, receipt of child pornography, sexual exploitation of a minor and transferring obscene material to a minor.
During the investigation, the U.S. attorney said “agents uncovered WhatsApp conversations between Constant and Lockman in which the two discussed their shared sexual interest in children and exchanged illegal images of child sexual abuse.”
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Another one bites the dust!
Pentagon Bans Photographers From Future Iran War Briefings Because Of “Unflattering” Photos Of Hegseth
The Washington Post reports:
The Defense Department has barred press photographers from briefings on the ongoing U.S.-Israeli military conflict with Iran after they published photos of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that his staff deemed “unflattering,” according to two people familiar with the decision who spoke on the condition of anonymity out of fear of retaliation....
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Proverbs 16:18 Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
Whistleblower: DOGE Employee Bragged About Stealing SS Database
A former U.S. DOGE Service employee claimed he had access to two highly sensitive agency databases and planned to share the information with his private employer, the whistleblower said....
"Good thing that's not a crime of any kind, or he'd be in trouble!" — ComradeRutherford
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Lord! The inept corruption!
Hegseth Spent Billions On Lobster Tails, Recliners And Other Luxuries — Newshound Ellen
While the Trump admin. cut essential food and health care for the rest of us...
Those DOGE bros snooping through our private data have somehow missed whopping amounts of wasteful spending by Pete Hegseth’s Department of Defense. The former weekend TV host likes to preen as the “Secretary of War” but he might be better described as the Secretary of Unnecessary and Frivolous Spending.
A shocking new analysis from government watchdog Open the Books found Hegseth’s department went on a $93 billion spending spree last year. That’s more money than it spent in any other year since 2008, The New Republic noted, but a lot of that money was spent on non-military items that most of us can only dream of affording....
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Yes, but the larger issue is how do his new Forsheim's fit?
War Pig Lindsey Graham Believes He Is The President — John Amato
Graham is channeling "bombs away, LeMay," and believes he's in charge.
Fueled with an unquenchable blood lust, Sen. Lindsey Graham was in hyperbolic form on Hannity Monday night, bashing England, France, and Spain, while haranguing Saudi Arabia and other Middle East countries to join his war against Iran, while claiming he'll negotiate a war treaty with them.
The kind of sugar rush Graham is experiencing is detrimental to the safety of this nation and the entire Middle East.
Heather Digby Parton writes in Salon, highlighting the lengths Graham has gone to convince Trump to attack Iran, including going to Israel and telling Benjamin Netanyahu how to talk to Trump to get him to attack Iran—a treasonous act in my opinion....
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Lindsey is a pig.
Trump’s enablers are 'colluding with his insanity': assessment — Adam Lynch
...“When the only thing that can stop you is your own warped mind in which you appear as the greatest person who has lived, you are mad,” confirmed O’Toole, adding that if you surround a narcissist “with sycophants who keep telling him that he is indeed omnipotent then he is going to believe them.”
“Trump, with that weird honesty of his, told the New York Times in January how he regarded himself as unfettered from all constraints except those of ‘my own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me,” O’Toole recalls.
Sanity, said O’Toole, “consists in the constant calibration of our inner impulses to the limitations imposed by external reality. When there are no constraints, there is no longer any reality.”
And this will only get worse as Trump “throws off the last shreds of inhibition.”
“Megalomania feeds on itself. Trump is a Napoleon with a Napoleon complex – the holder of immense real-world power who is also under the illusion that this power is unlimited,” said O’Toole. “The more he destroys, the more he believes in his capacity to remake the ruins into whatever image of it comes into his head. We know (because he has repeatedly told us) that the image in his head is of a world in which everything is demolished and rebuilt with the Trump brand emblazoned on its topless towers.”
“The only form of leadership that has a chance of preventing large parts of the world being turned into Gaza writ large is unequivocal support for truth-telling. Going along with the logic of murderous delusion has already proved a disastrous failure,” O’Toole added. “That way more madness lies.”
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America is the insane party. It we weren't Trump would already be taken out.
Cracks widen as Trump pressures GOP on hard line voter ID law — David Badash
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Trump keeps trying to rig our elections so he can escape prosecution for his crimes. We must end his corrupt regime!
YouTube Filling With Horrifying AI Slop for Children — Frank Landymore
In an age when more and more young children are hooked on digital devices, YouTube is bombarding them with AI slop.
After investigating over 1,000 YouTube shorts recommended to young children by the video platform, The New York Times found that the algorithm is heavily pushing AI-generated content that explicitly targets “toddlers” and “preschoolers.”
On top of being nonsensical, the videos are often presented under the guise of being educational. Two common themes are teaching kids about the alphabet and animals — subject matters, conveniently, that provide threadbare structures for easily produced low-effort slop.
Calling the videos educational is a stretch as well. One video highlighted by the NYT shows a gooey liquid being squeezed into a glass of water, before turning into different animals representing each letter of the alphabet — only the animals are bizarre chimeras with mermaid tails. In another set to an off-key rendition of “Old MacDonald Had a Farm,” a massive egg rolls out of a barn door before hatching an impossibly proportioned horse. And in another alphabet short, a quail transforms into an aerial drone, and a rhino into a dump truck that bears the megafauna’s head.
At best, these videos are redundant regurgitations of mindless “Cocomelon”-style content. But at worst, experts fear they could be actively harming their cognitive development....
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YouTube has become the new vast wasteland.
Trump’s Chicago Restaurants Fail Health Inspection
NOTUS reports:
Just before Christmas, a city health inspector visited the Trump International Hotel in Chicago. They didn’t approve of what they saw. The health inspector found wastewater flooding the floor of the main kitchen when three of the prep sinks drained, according to Chicago Department of Public Health records.
A dishwasher was also not properly sanitizing dishes and utensils. Meanwhile, the inspector observed “small flies” throughout a rooftop restaurant’s bar and dish area, as well as a cracked lid on the ice machine and debris buildup inside the prep cooler and on the floor beneath sinks.
Several Trump hotels and golf clubs have been hit over the past year with health code violations. At Trump’s golf club in Westchester County, New York, officials observed insects, rodents and other health violations including “dirty surfaces,” “poorly constructed” rooms “in disrepair,” and “inadequate” lighting and ventilation during a visit last November...
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More failure by the con man.
'Religious war! It's on!' MAGA ecstatic as Hegseth invokes Bible in Iran war — David Edwards
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Example of Talibastard zealots narrow-minded bullshittery.
TACOs With a Side of War Porn — William Kristol
When we mentioned yesterday that Trump was blaming Iran for firing the Tomahawk missile that destroyed an Iranian girl’s school on February 28, we suggested he’d probably (or hopefully) have been briefed otherwise and was merely lying. Now we’re not so sure. Asked at his presser yesterday why he was the only member of own administration accusing Iran of the strike, Trump replied: “Because I just don’t know enough about it.” Truest thing he’s ever said....
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Stupid doesn't come close to the maniac that is Trump.
¡Chasca La Patata! Tabs, Tues., March 10, 2026 — Evan Hurst
Russia is helping Iran with intel on where to find and kill American troops and Donald Trump doesn’t care and Pete Hegseth doesn’t seem to either. Guessing it’s because they hate America and they hate and disrespect the troops. Wonder if Trump and Vladimir Putin talked about that when they had their sex chat on the phone yesterday. Oh, and Trump thinks he might remove oil sanctions from Russia! They definitely talked about that. [PBS News / AP / Military Times / Reuters]
Trump says the Iran war is pretty much “very complete,” but Pete Hegseth says it’s just getting started. Which is it? Yes, says Dementia Hitler. Yes.
Also says he might take over the Strait of Hormuz! And that oil tankers should just “show some guts” and sail through it! He says it’s open! (It is not!) [New Republic / CBS News]
World’s stupidest Fox News host Brian Kilmeade, the one who always looks like he just made love to a giant anvil with his face, would also like oil tankers to “show some guts” and speed demon their way through the Strait of Hormuz to see if they get murdered. Did Kilmeade give Trump this idea or Trump give it to Kilmeade? At this point does it even matter who gave the genital brain warts to whom?
Iran has … another idea.
How bad is it for the global economy for the Strait of Hormuz to be closed? Uhhhh. Let’s go with catastrophic. Meanwhile, Trump and Pete Hegseth are over here like “Your mother is a Hormuz!” and “More like Gay of Hormuz!” [Wall Street Journal]
Iran has a new supreme leader, and it is Khamenei’s son Mojtaba Khamenei, who is even more extremist than his dead dad. To underline that, the US and Israel just killed his dad. And his wife. And his mom. And his sister. And his brother-in-law. So we’re sure he’s ready to greet the invaders as liberators! Trump’s previous statement on Khamenei the Younger: “Khamenei’s son is unacceptable to me.” Now Trump says he hasn’t ruled out killing the new guy too. Heckuva fucking job, Trump and Pete Hegseth, you dipshits! You’re absolutely nailing this. [Wall Street Journal / NPR]
Meanwhile, here’s Trump floating the theory that maybe Iran found a Tomahawk missile seven seconds after the bombing started and bombed its own little girls, as opposed to the real truth, which is that Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump are responsible for those little girls’ deaths....
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Retarded Barbarians!
Way in Over His Head’: How Trump’s Mythmaking Concealed His True Incompetence -- Way in Over His Head’: How Trump’s Mythmaking Concealed His True Incompetence
New Republic Editor Michael Tomasky says he’s surprised the reality of Trump’s intelligence managed to escape so many Americans who voted for him.
‘Even if they aren’t that troubled by the mendacity and malevolence, the man is just wildly incompetent,” said Tomasky. “A mountain range of mythmaking has gone into creating the Trump persona over the years; by him, by a pliant business press in his real estate days, and, since he entered politics, by a right-wing media that would make the old Soviet press agencies blush and a party of cowardly sycophants, most of whom know very well that he shouldn’t be in charge of a high-volume McDonald’s, let alone the executive branch of the federal government, but would rather let the country collapse than say so.”
And now we’re at war with a Middle East ant nest with 60 million people. Gas prices are up about 60 cents a gallon in the war’s first week. The Dow dropped is now well below 50,000. Also on Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that the U.S. economy lost 92,000 jobs in February.
Tomasky recalled a confession he’ heard from a Biden administration official in 2024, where the official confessed “we’re not going to dislodge people’s belief that Trump is a great businessman. … ‘It’s hardwired in there, and undoing it, for a significant percentage of the people, just isn’t going to happen.”
“I was staggered during the 2024 campaign at all the voters who believed him when he said he’d bring down prices on day one,” said Tomasky. “Really. Who is that … stupid? Presidents can’t control prices. Prices — of eggs, beef, oil, refrigerators, computers, you name it — depend on dozens of factors. Xi Jinping … has far more control over the prices of refrigerators and computers than any president ever will. The price of beef has more to do with decisions made in Brazil than in Texas.”
“We all learn this in school,” said Tomasky. “So how did so many millions of Americans unlearn it?”
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Did we now? There are more than enough stupids to go around us several times.
The Dark Rise of America’s Monsters — Thom Hartmann
Bombed boats, dead fishermen, starving children, and broken families reveal the human cost of power without empathy.
Across Iran and the Caribbean, Trump and his lickspittles delight in killing as if people were expendable scenery, not human beings with loved ones and families. Meanwhile, they ignore the death and destruction their fellow psychopath, Putin, rains down on Ukraine every night.
India and America invite Iran to send an UNARMED ship to the Indian Ocean to participate in military exercises, and Trump and Whiskey Pete decided it would be fun to blow it out of the water, leaving over 100 sailors miles from shore, desperate for a rescue. Instead of saving them, as international law requires, we simply left them to drown.
Whiskey Pete called it “quiet death.” In fact, there was a lot of screaming and sobbing, although the bombers couldn’t hear it from 20,000 feet any more than Hegseth could in his drunken haze.
Just like they blew up a boat in the Caribbean and then, when two fishermen survived clinging to a piece of debris and were desperately waving for help, came back with an illegally unmarked plane and blew them into bits of blood and gristle. Another clear violation of international and American law....
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A lawless America. Who could have ever imagined this hell that has been cast upon us?
How the DOJ is using civil rights law to attack school desegregation — Russell Payne
In conservative push to redefine the 14th Amendment, Los Angeles schools are on the front line
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Does anyone but pond scum want to live in this country they imagine?
Trump’s moral crusade is dangerous for America — and the world — Chauncey DeVega
The president casts himself as the ultimate authority on good and evil — and believes it is his job to enforce it
Internationally, Trump’s simplistic, binary moral framework undermines the rules-based international order because it negates the role played by shared interests, pragmatism and common values.
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Does this have to be stated? He is not the authority on good and evil. He is the authority on pure evil. This should be obvious to a rational human.
Trump: Dead Soldiers “Walk Around With No Legs”
The Mirror reports:
President Donald Trump held a press conference at his Doral ballroom in Florida on Monday amid the ongoing war in Iran and across the Middle East, during which he referred to people that have been killed by “roadside bombs” who are now “walking around with no legs.”
“All of the people that died through the roadside bombs. Died and are, right now, walking around with no legs, no arms,” Trump said during the news conference, following remarks to Republicans. The oxymoronic comment came after Trump had offered oscillating statements on the projected length of the joint U.S.-Israeli war against Iran and its stated objectives.
“Wait! ‘Walking’ around with no legs?? Does he know how walking works?” one X user wrote in response to a clip of the conference. “He thinks he’s so clever when he goes off script and off the teleprompter, all to deliver gems like this. God help us all,” another wrote.
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Trump is only mortal. He will go.
Ogles Mocks Critics Of Anti-Muslim Post: “Cry Harder”
"Degenerate MAGAt Ogles' anti-American, unconstitutional, anti-human-decency comments don't belong in America!" — weshlovrcm (comments)
"'Christ is King'
America has no kings." — archivit (comments)
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Racist no-nothing Talibastard!
Lindsey Graham Admits There Is No Plan For Iran — John Amato
Sen. Graham is drunk on war and spews incomprehensible nonsense when asked what the plan is in Iran.
Sen. Lindsey Graham tried to explain to Meet The Press that there isn't a plan, nor was there any plan when Trump started a war with Iran. Like a warmongering clown Graham said it wasn't Trump's responsibility to have a plan.
The ludicrous rationale for the war with Iran by the Senator From South Carolina and his defenses and denials about it are simply astonishing....
Sen. Lindsay Graham's words are the most irresponsible and incomprehensible pertaining to any US military operation ever uttered.
His mantra to "blow up some shit" and leave is juvenile and unrealistic.
Does a plan it make, if Trump's demands to name the next Iranian ruler?
We are governed by lunatics and reprobates.
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When did Miss Lindsey acquire the powers of the presidency? He's strung out on power.
60 Minutes: CIA Covered Up Havana Syndrome Cause — Susie Madrak
60 Minutes did a great job on this tenacious dive into the so-called "Havana Syndrome". For years, U.S. employees who suffered severe health damage were actually treated as malingerers! The investigation came to the uncomfortable conclusion that ultimately, the U.S. government did not want to acknowledge direct attacks by a Russian microwave weapon -- because that would be an act of war....
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Truth is stranger than fiction department.
The weaponry still exists and could be used on any of us.
A top OpenAI executive has quit the company over its agreement with the Department of Defense that allows its tech to be deployed across the military. — Frank Landymore
The employee, Caitlin Kalinowski, who led OpenAI’s hardware and robotics efforts, announced her resignation on social media Saturday.
“This wasn’t an easy call. AI has an important role in national security,” wrote Kalinowski in a tweet. “But surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got.”
“This was about principle, not people,” she added, insisting she still has “deep respect” for CEO Sam Altman....
Kalinowski’s departure and the broader uproar over OpenAI’s military agreement comes as concerns over AI’s use in warfare, and especially in decisions that could claim human lives, are more exigent than ever. Despite Anthropic’s public resistance to the DoD, reports suggest that Claude was used to select targets for the US’s deadly missile strikes in Iran. Though unconfirmed, it remains a chilling possibility that one of those identified targets was a girl’s school in Minab, where at least 168 people, most of them children, were horrifically killed by an airstrike that was likely a US Tomahawk missile.
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Someone still has a conscienece. How quaint, these days.
Toxic Sludge Raining Down on Iran After Bombing of Oil Facilities — Joe Wilkins
“You can see that the rain water is actually black, also saturated, it appears, with oil,” Pleitgen explained, wiping the ground with his shoe to show the accumulation. “That’s what’s coming down this morning, this sort of oil-filled rain.”...
The hellish precipitation comes after four oil depots and a gasoline logistics site were destroyed by Israeli missile attacks, killing six. The air strikes ignited massive fires which sent plumes of smoke miles into the air, a situation which one Iranian journalist described as “apocalyptic.”...
“Even masks are becoming difficult to find,” the anonymous journalist told the Guardian. “I ask those who have the ability, especially foreign media, to reflect on this situation. What are people supposed to do under these conditions? This is truly a crime against humanity.”
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We gone reap jes whut we sow.
Kentucky Pastor Gets Two Years On Child Sex Charges
The Cincinnati Enquirer reports:
A Covington pastor has been sentenced to two years in prison for sexually abusing a 14-year-old girl who attended his church. Jose Luis Lopez-Hernandez, 52, has time-served credit for 862 days, Joshua McIntosh, his attorney, said in court. That’s more than enough credit to cover the two-year sentence imposed March 9 by Kenton County Circuit Judge Kate Molloy.
However, Lopez-Hernandez is also being held on an immigration detainer by ICE, McIntosh said.
As part of his sentence, Lopez-Hernandez must complete court-mandated treatment, register as a sex offender for 20 years and stay away from the teen, who is now 16 years old. It’s unclear what the next step is in his immigration proceedings, though ICE typically places such detainers on individuals it’s seeking to remove from the country.
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Another one bites the dust.
Tennessee GOP Rep. Andy Ogles says Muslims ‘don’t belong’ in America — Cheyanne M. Daniels
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There are many things that don't belong in America. Fascism, bigotry, pedophilia, patriarchy and racism are some of them.
Investigation verifies key details in 13-year-old Trump accuser's story — María Teresita Armstrong-Matta
The Post and Courier verified key details from a woman's accusation that President Donald Trump sexually assaulted her when she was 13 years old. The woman came forward to the FBI following Jeffrey Epstein's 2019 arrest and was interviewed four times. A Justice Department source confirmed the FBI found her credible. While her specific allegations against Trump were not independently verified by the outlet, The Post and Courier confirmed other details of her account, including that her mother rented a home to Epstein in South Carolina and details about an Ohio businessman she accused of assault who was affiliated with a for-profit college. The outlet also verified that her mother was charged with stealing $22,000, allegedly after Epstein allegedly extorted her with nude photos. Trump faces no criminal charges related to the allegation....
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It doesn't mean he never will. But he could die before he gets prosecuted.
Karoline Leavitt Says An Iran War Draft Is Not Off The Table. Pardon? — Marcie Jones
Not ruling out a draft? Sure hope Leavitt was just filling air flapping her hot dog lips because the subject hasn’t come up between her and Trump before. But when they all constantly lie, who fucking knows!
And it does make one wonder. Trump has reportedly “shown serious interest” in ground troops in Iran. And like we’ve said before, Iran is geographically a giant Junebug trap. It’s easy to bomb as anywhere, but on the ground it’s ringed by mountains stuffed full of tunnels and missiles. A ground war would make Afghanistan or Vietnam look like doing a regime change at a lemonade stand....
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So very true. "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." — George Sanayana
Especially those who attempt to erase history.
Despite Twisted Hype About “So Much Winning,” America Staggers, the Self-Inflicted, Breakthrough Icon of Losing — Robert Becker
Once a booster of winners, America better find a new fable that rationalizes the bitter grievance of losing.
Easy quiz: who can unearth even a whiff of “winning” linked to MAGA Trumpism in a year? How much easier to indict Trump contradictions as monumental surges configured for “so much losing.” What other president will be shunned as an agent of national suicide, managing to reverse two centuries of arguable success. Who could imagine a year ago one feckless movement of losers turning a global top dog into outcast also-ran? The world’s greatest economic superpower is being deconstructed by self-consuming MAGA rage, rather like a Greek tragedy and with three painfulyears to go. Either this happens, per AlterNet, Three signs Trump's presidency is in a death spiral – or death spirals debase America.
What hasn’t gone bonkers domestically, whether the painful tariff/affordability squeeze, job losses, shredded health care, nutrition, and life supports, or gutted, life-saving science? Plus, the worst, most indefensible disgrace of all –a wave of ICE cruelty, homicides, and abuses, jailing bona fide citizens and law-abiding immigrants. Trumpism delivers a domestic plague of Biblical proportion, worsened by the latest infamy, an unjustified, blundering attack on Iran. That epic disaster-on-tap crowns months of belligerent, dead-end folly threatening Venezuela, Greenland, Canada, and Panama. The whopping short and long term losses, in money, mortality and prestige, will destabilize America as a world power, breaking records for imperial self-destruction....
The Titanic catastrophe, equally caused by flawed, insular pigheadedness, has nothing on Trumpism and each week we endure the horror of seeing what was, alas, always there. Like Shakespearean or Greek tragedy, it’s hardly fate alone when human depravity and misjudgments instigate the chaos. Any potential light at the end of the tunnel doesn’t, however, obscure the subsequent pain and suffering that accrues when a failed movement is empowered but lacks the means to escape its own self-made, death-dealing conundrums.
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"Flawed, insular pigheadedness." That sums up the Trump failure.
Trump Confounded by the War He Started — Andrew Egger
What did the White House think it was getting into in Iran? A strike against Iran’s oppressive and fanatical regime, sure. A display of America’s awesome military might, definitely. But it’s become increasingly, painfully clear: They didn’t think there was going to be a war.
The Trump administration developed no real theory of the objectives of the Iran war, because they didn’t think there was going to be a war. Instead, the administration has backfilled a dizzying array of post-hoc goals for the strikes against Iran. Judd Legum counts seventeen different rationales offered by many different officials, from the president’s “feeling, based on fact” that Iran was about to strike the United States to a desire to free the Iranian people to a need to destroy a nuclear program the White House had claimed was already “obliterated.”
The Trump administration made no effort to get the American people on board with war, because they didn’t think there was going to be a war. A majority of the public is already opposed to war with Iran, and what support the war does have seems to be based on the questionable assumption that the conflict will be shortly resolved: 44 percent of Americans support the strikes so far, but only 12 percent would be in favor of sending U.S. ground troops into the country. But the White House has made no broad effort to convince the public on a bipartisan basis that they should be prepared for a long-haul conflict.
They didn’t think there was going to be a war, and so the White House seemingly gave no thought to what the economic ramifications of war would be. After several days of strikes on Iran, President Trump seemed suddenly to realize last week that the ongoing conflict was going to be terrible for energy prices. He tried to slap a band-aid on the problem by announcing risk insurance and military escorts for all oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz, but it wasn’t enough: Suddenly, oil prices went through the roof, and the White House was scrambling to contain the damage—rushing to reassure consumers that the price hikes would be temporary and even waiving some sanctions on Russian oil to try to ease pressures on global supply. “Short term oil prices, which will drop rapidly when the destruction of the Iran nuclear threat is over, is a very small price to pay for U.S.A, and World, Safety and Peace,” Trump posted on Truth Social yesterday. “ONLY FOOLS WOULD THINK DIFFERENTLY!”...
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This administration is devoid of intellect.
Pete Hegseth Slammed For ‘Grotesque’ Line About Iranians
“No one’s putting us in danger,” Hegseth answered. “We’re putting the other guys in danger. That’s our job. So we’re not concerned about that.”
He then said: “The only ones that need to be worried right now are Iranians that think they’re going to live.” — PTSD Pete.
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Barbaric. Genocidal.
Karoline Leavitt’s stunning admission on Trump war plans sends shockwaves: ‘unbelievable’ — Alexander Willis
...“Mothers out there are worried that we’re going to have a draft, that they’re going to see their sons and daughters get involved in this,” said Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo, speaking with Leavitt Sunday. “What do you want to say about the president’s plans for troops on the ground? As we know, it’s been largely an air campaign up until now.”
In a stunning admission, Leavitt told Bartiromo that mandatory conscription – not seen since the Vietnam War – had not been ruled out by her boss....
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And we thought Vietnam would never happen again.
Rubio Poses With Proud Boys Leader At WH Event
"In ordinary times, that photo alone would end a Presidential aspiration. FAO." — Philip Gaylord (comments)
"Hey Rubio we got your number you treasonous fuck." — Thewolflam (comments)
"That little bastard is a Batista, through and through." — S_E_P (comments)
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Pride of the Nazi pigs.
Trump Org Files For Trademarks Related To USA 250
NOTUS reports:
The Trump Organization filed several previously unreported trademark applications last week in connection with America’s 250th anniversary celebration, all featuring the president’s name as a centerpiece of the highly-anticipated festivities. The trademarks were filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office by DTTM Operations LLC, which manages several other trademarks used by Trump and his businesses, over the last several days.
In one filing submitted on Friday, a “Trump 250” image was trademarked to be used on a variety of merchandise — including bumper stickers, tote bags, drinkware, clothing items and golf balls. A wordmark application was also submitted for the name “Trump 250” on Friday. In a separate trademark filing on Tuesday, the Kennedy Center’s Board of Trustees filed for a new logo reading “The Trump Kennedy Center” below an outline of the building.
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And Trump pockets all profits, not the U.S.? How is this even legal? Oh, right, he's a pilfering crook!
Looks like all you Nazis forgot your whine about Hunter Biden!
Trump: “Only Fools” Complain About Spiking Oil Prices
The New York Post reports:
President Trump said spiking short-term oil costs triggered by Operation Epic Fury is a “very small price” to pay for peace. Trump posted on Truth Social Sunday that prices would “drop rapidly” once the “destruction of the Iran nuclear threat is over.”
Oil prices have surged as Operation Epic Fury enters its second week – with the price of Brent crude oil spiking at almost $120 per barrel before falling back to $106.23.
The average cost for a gallon of gasoline stands at almost $3.48, but Trump said the short-term consequences of sharp energy spikes are a “very small price” when it comes to the broader objective of peace. “ONLY FOOLS WOULD THINK DIFFERENTLY!” he posted.
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Many of these fools voted for you. They won't make that mistake twice.
WSJ: Feds Falsely Charged Hundreds Of US Citizens
...The Journal reviewed more than 100,000 posts from those accounts and identified 1,456 posts in which the government alleged an assault, impediment, attack or conspiracy or attempt to harm a federal officer. Among those identified, the Journal also used artificial intelligence to find posts in which the government-cited assault statistics or issued warnings about violence against officers; those classifications were also reviewed by reporters....
...In a separate paywalled report, the Journal has created an exhaustive interactive post showing the countless times that the Trump administration has lied on social media about the arrests and charges against US citizens swept up in ICE raids.
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We've been hoodwinked. We've been had. By a cheap, two-bit con man.
BIG LIE: Trump And Hegseth Point At Iran For School Bombing — Heather
Trump told reporters this Saturday that Iran, not the United States was responsible for the bombing on February 28th that hit an elementary school where over 165 girls were killed.
Trump told reporters this Saturday that Iran, not the United States was responsible for the bombing on February 28th that hit an elementary school where over 165 girls were killed.
As we discussed here, "The New York Times has put together evidence — including newly released satellite imagery, social media posts and verified videos — that indicates the school building was severely damaged by a precision strike that occurred at the same time as attacks on an adjacent naval base....
And then there's this, which puts an end to that lie:
Reuters confirmed that the elementary school in the Iranian city of Minab was bombed TWICE by the US military, 40 minutes apart.
This was intentional. You don't "accidentally" bomb a school TWO TIMES.
168 children and 14 teachers were killed. It was a massacre.
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More murders and wrongful deaths to charge Trump with.
The Iranian regime is still intact. Their leader is younger and more radical than before!
BUSTED: Fox & Friends Used Deceptive Footage After Trump Disrespects Fallen Soldiers — Conover Kennard
Donald J. Trump continued to embarrass this country once again, this time during the dignified transfer of the six United States service members killed in Kuwait. The Trump-friendly Fox & Friends show gave cover for Trump's blatant disregard for the fallen by replacing footage of their MAGA hero's attendance at Dover AFB dignified transfer yesterday with a video clip of Trump attending a similar transfer on December 17, 2025.
Why would they do this? Because even Fox & Friends panelists knew that Trump wearing his garish USA baseball cap during the solemn event, while not even bowing his head, was beyond the pale. And people noticed, including former RNC chairman Michael Steele.
“This fool has ABSOLUTELY no sense of dignity of appreciation for the moment,” Steele wrote on the Bad App while sharing a photo of Trump with his hat on. “It is called the Dignified Transfer for a reason. Take your damn hat off.”
This fool has ABSOLUTELY no sense of dignity or appreciation for the moment. It is called the Dignified Transfer for a reason. Take your damn hat off!! pic.twitter.com/O0R5BOyHQU
— Michael Steele (@MichaelSteele) March 7, 2026
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Fox News shows us once again it is not a news outlet. IT IS A CHICKEN SHIT RIGHT-WING PROPAGANADA OUTLET!
A Machine Learning Engineer Thought He Was Safe From AI Layoffs. Then He Got Some Depressing News — Victor Tangermann
...Just earlier this week, Bloomberg reported that Oracle was planning to cut thousands of jobs as it navigated a cash crunch triggered by its efforts to build out AI data centers.
It’s a depressing reality, particularly for those at Block, who were explicitly instructed by Dorsey to make use of AI — or else. In some ways, workers were essentially encouraged to dig their own graves, Kenji argued.
“Over the last year that we were strongly encouraged to use all these AI tools, we were laying the foundations for our own replacement,” he told BI. “If you show the tool how to do a task once or twice, it can kind of take it from there.”
Yet, plenty of pressing questions remain over the viability of AI and whether the tech can indeed fulfil the tasks that CEOs are hoping to automate. Some continue to argue that tech companies are simply addressing overhiring during the pandemic and making it seem like AI is actively replacing jobs.
Dorsey’s claims that AI had driven him to lay off almost half of his staff drew plenty of skepticism among former employees....
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The story of Frankenstein taught them nothing.
Tillis: GOP Has “Lost The Debate Over Immigration”
The Hill reports:
Republican Sen. Thom Tillis (N.C.) said Sunday his party has “lost the debate” on immigration, days after President Trump tapped Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) to replace Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem.
“We’ve lost the debate over immigration and deportations. I believe that we should deport everyone that we can find that came across the borders during the Biden administration. But we’ve got to be smart, use our limited resources, go after the most dangerous first,” Tillis told host Jake Tapper on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
“It didn’t look like that happened under Noem,” he noted. Tillis, who is not seeking reelection, repeatedly criticized Noem after federal immigration officers fatally shot U.S. citizens Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis earlier this year.
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That's not all we've lost due to a madman we've allowed to wreck our country.
The party of 'family values' just covered up unspeakable crimes — Tara Dublin
If this week has proven anything, it’s that the entire Republican Party (minus Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky) is guilty of treason and manufacturing a war with Iran to deflect from being accessories to the sexual assault of women and children.
Several new bombshell releases from the Epstein Files brought even more allegations about President Donald Trump, including testimony from a woman who said that as a young victim, she fought back by biting him on the penis.
Another Epstein document details “underage sex parties” allegedly hosted at Trump's golf course. Trump vehemently denies wrongdoing, of course, but it’s still weird that a lot of his clown cabinet talk about the “Sinaloa Cartel” when it comes to the immigration discussion, and how ICE is only going after “the most violent criminals” — when NO, they aren’t, said everyone who’s seen the footage of the murders of Alex Pretti and Renee Good — when they could just read the Epstein Files....
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Dispicable, vile criminal-at-large!
'Head unbowed': Trump buried for showing 'total disrespect' at service for fallen soldiers — David McAfee
Donald Trump came under fire on Saturday for his behavior during a solemn moment in which six fallen soldiers killed in the president's onslaught against Iran were honored.
The president was seen during the event standing upright while others bowed their heads. He was also wearing a white baseball cap during the typically solemn event, which was broadcast in complete silence on CNN.
That Trump behavior didn't sit well with numerous analysts, including Assistant Watergate prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks, who wrote, "Head unbowed and baseball cap in white. Total disrespect."
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Trump has not a soul to save. More proof he hates America.
Trump vows not to sign any new laws until GOP bypasses Dems to pass voter suppression bill — David McAfee
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Only 12 states and the District of Columbia will, with few exceptions, let you vote at the polls without any documentation under certain circumstances.
It is a state's right to handle their elections. When did the Republican Party become opposed to states rights? Answer: When they became the Trump Crime Syndicate. Vote the Nazi bastards out!
Federal Judge Rules Kari Lake’s Appointment Invalid
The New York Times reports:
A federal judge on Saturday ruled that the appointment of Kari Lake, the head of Voice of America’s oversight agency, was invalid, voiding mass layoffs that she had carried out at the federally funded news group last year.
The decision from Judge Royce C. Lamberth of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia was a major rejection of President Trump’s attempts to dismantle the storied government-funded news group, which was founded to combat Nazi propaganda.
If upheld by higher courts, Judge Lamberth’s ruling would allow more than 1,000 journalists and support staff members at the news group to return to their jobs. Ms. Lake, who had been leading the U.S. Agency for Global Media, V.O.A.’s parent agency, said that she would appeal the decision.
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Another Trump grffter bites the dust.
But the damage she's done will remain.
Axios: US May Invade To Seize Iran’s Uranium Stockpile
Axios reports:
The U.S. and Israel have discussed sending special forces into Iran to secure its stockpile of highly enriched uranium at a later stage of the war, according to four sources with knowledge of the discussions. Preventing Iran from ever obtaining a nuclear weapon is one of President Trump’s stated war objectives. The regime’s 450 kilograms of 60%-enriched uranium — convertible to weapons grade within weeks — is one key to that goal.
Any operation to seize the material would likely require U.S. or Israeli troops on Iranian soil, navigating heavily fortified underground facilities in the middle of a war. It remains unclear whether it would be an American, Israeli or joint mission. At a congressional briefing Tuesday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio was asked whether Iran’s enriched uranium would be secured. “People are going to have to go and get it,” he said, without specifying who.
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More proof of Trump's piracy and pillage!
Trump Shrugs At Russia Helping Iran Target US Troops
The Associated Press reports:
President Donald Trump said Saturday that it was inconsequential if Russia has provided Iran with information to help Tehran target U.S. military personnel and assets in the Middle East as the week-old war rages.
“If you take a look at what’s happened to Iran in the last week, if they’re getting information, it’s not helping them much,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One as he flew to Miami, where he’s spending the rest of the weekend.
The president also waved off a question about how Russia assisting Iran in such a way might affect his view of the U.S.-Russia relationship. “They’d say we do it against them,” Trump responded. “Wouldn’t they say that we do it against them?”
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Trump has always feared Putin. What's more he doesn't give a damn about our troops being killed. That should be obvious to everyone. Trump is a pirate traitor. A looting, plundering rogue with no sense of morality.
Lewandowski Secretly Made “All Decisions” At DHS
The right wing National Review reports:
White House officials, lawmakers, and government contractors told NR that they have long suspected that Lewandowski and his political allies inside and outside of DHS are financially profiting from DHS contracts and multiple offices and committees on Capitol Hill are actively investigating the matter. Lewandowski had broad purview over all decisions made inside DHS, big and small. Inside the building, he became known as “Chief.”
“All written communication and all of the little minions in the front office, all the 23-year-olds who have pledged undying loyalty to Corey, would call him ‘Chief,’” a senior administration official said. Portions of Noem’s schedule, obtained by National Review, are chock-full of references to her “Chief” Lewandowski, whose title was constantly invoked in schedule notes on high-level decisions or official engagements that were pending approval.
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Big Chief, him scalped!
Places We’re Probably Going to Miss — Jaime O'Neill
If your news is at all like mine these days, you’re getting a daily mishmash of celebrity stories, stock market fears, advertising that caters to what A1 thinks you might be in the market for, happy talk, and crazy talk, also known as war stories that America’s top leaders can’t decide are about war or just indiscriminate killing in the name of saving us all from Satan’s power. Something like that, anyway.
Yesterday, my awakening to the world brought me a thought from one Republican politician who thought Iranian girls like the ones we killed rather carelessly were better off dead than wearing burqas. Lucky girls, thanks to American goodness and mercy. Jesus saves.
I also read about a guy pardoned by President Trump for his participation in the January 6 insurrection festivities sentenced back to prison for life this time for his less non-political crimes as a child molester. USA, USA.
I also read stories about Senator Markwayne Mullin, Trump’s handpicked replacement for Kristi Noem as head of Homeland Security. At the risk of understating the case, it doesn’t appear likely he’ll be much of an improvement over her.
I am burying the lead, however, since I saved the worst for last. There was a story about the 15 American places most likely to be targeted for nuclear strikes in the increasingly likely event of World War 3. Red state folk who might have thought they were safe in the boonies have a lot more to worry about than they might have thought. When it comes to doomsday, few trailer parks will be excluded from the fireworks....
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Yes, we are re-approaching the fallout shelter days that I experienced as a kid. Maybe some are still around that have been turned into wine cellars. Start drinking heavily.
Dear MAGA Voter: He Played You — The Swamp Wasn’t Drained, It Was Sold to Billionaires — Thom Harmann
A quick note to my MAGA acquaintance.
Dear MAGA voter,
I’m not writing this to mock you. I’m writing because you were lied to. And it wasn’t by the people you were told to hate, but by the man you trusted the most.
You were pissed off when you voted in 2024. Honestly, rightfully angry. Your town lost its factory. Your kids can’t afford the house they’ve been dreaming of for years. The politicians in Washington kept promising you things and delivering nothing; in fact, Republicans even took away your Medicaid and food stamps as well as your kids’ school lunches. You wanted someone who’d finally blow the whole damn thing up and put regular people first.
So did I and millions of other Americans. The difference is who we trusted to do it. Let’s talk about what actually happened.
You were told Trump would “drain the swamp” of corruption in Washington DC. Instead, as Marjorie Taylor Greene can tell you, Donald Trump has built the most corrupt, billionaire-stuffed cabinet (13 of them!) in American history. Epstein-buddy Howard Lutnick. Billionaire hustler Scott Bessent. Hedge fund managers and Wall Street insiders as far as the eye can see.
And then he handed the core agencies of the federal government — with no vote, no vetting, no accountability to anyone — over to Elon Musk, the single richest human being on the planet. Not a populist or a Washington outsider: the most powerful oligarch alive, whose source of wealth came from Obama bailing out Tesla and who now gets tens of billions in annual government contracts.
Musk’s teenage hackers then stole your Social Security information and destroyed America’s soft power by gutting USAID: as Bill Gates said, “The picture of the world’s richest man killing the world’s poorest children is not a pretty one.” This is your swamp now, one that’s already literally killed at least a million children around the world while handing our nation’s soft power over to Putin....
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Don't get mad. Get even!
WSJ: Lindsey Graham “Giddy” About Having Coached Netanyahu On Convincing Trump To Start Bombing Iran
The Wall Street Journal reports:
Sitting in his Senate office this week with canisters of Planters peanuts and hundreds of scattered papers on his desk and signed MAGA hats on his shelves, Graham was almost giddy about persuading Trump to bomb Iran. One of the newer hats reads “Make Iran Great Again.” “What are they going to do to me?” he said of critics who opposed his efforts.
The senator said he was already talking with Trump about further military interventions in Lebanon and potentially Cuba, which he said would happen soon. He wasn’t particularly concerned about what was next in Iran, he said. “They say if you break it, you own it. I don’t buy that. You break it when it’s a threat,” Graham said in the Journal interview.
In the White House, some military advisers warned Trump against the conflict, a group that Graham referred to as the “non-entanglement crowd.” Graham said betting on Trump’s second term was worth it for the president’s military interventions alone.
To help make the case on Iran, Graham traveled several times to Israel in recent weeks, meeting with members of the country’s intelligence agency. “They’ll tell me things our own government won’t tell me,” he said. He spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, coaching him on how to lobby the president for action. Netanyahu showed the president intelligence that persuaded Trump to go ahead, Graham said.
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OK, then it's time to break the Trump Admin and Miss Lindsey along with it!
Atmospheric CO2 Getting So High That It’s Weakening Human Skeletons — Joe Wilkins
Though talks of climate change typically conjure up images of dripping glaciers and rising tides, it turns out the rapid destruction of our planet is also affecting our bodies in profound ways.
According to new research published in the journal Air Quality, Atmosphere & Health, the rising concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere is weakening human skeletons at an alarming rate.
Australian researchers Alexander Larcombe of The Kids Research Institute Australia and Phil Bierwirth of the Australian National University analyzed the level of HCO3 — bicarbonate, a byproduct of CO2 found in human blood — in the blood of US adults between 1999 and 2020. Since the last year of the 20th century, they found, the amount of HCO3 in human blood rose about 7 percent, which corresponded to a similar rise in CO2 concentrated in the atmosphere.
At the same time, Larcombe and Bierwirth examined calcium and phosphorus levels in US adults, both of which fell over the study period.
This isn’t a coincidence, the study’s authors warn. When our blood has a higher concentration of carbon than our bodies expect, our bones shed calcium and phosphorus in order to absorb more CO2....
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Aha! So that's why my right arm fell off at the shoulder last week!
Cops Accidentally Publicize Password to $4.4 Million in Crypto, Allowing Thieves to Easily Steal the Money and Run — Victor Tangermann
Cryptocurrencies have long been used by criminals for tax evasion, allowing them to avoid getting dinged by things like capital gains taxes by investing in the digital assets.
In the United States, the federal justice system is only starting to crack down on the trend, a game of cat and mouse made difficult by anonymized accounts and transactions.
But in an announcement to publicize the results of recent raids on 125 tax evaders, which resulted in the confiscation of around $5.6 million worth of crypto, South Korea’s National Tax Service made a dunce-like mistake.
As Bleeping Computer reports, the agency released photos of a Ledger hardware wallet for crypto storage on February 27 — but failed to redact a handwritten note visible in the shots that exposed the accompanying wallet’s recovery or seed phrase.
The phrase allows anybody to circumvent the need for the physical Ledger device and initiate transfers....
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And here's Allen Ludden to say "And the Password is...FAILURE!
Karoline Leavitt: 'Doesn't Really Matter' Putin Is Helping Iran Target US Troops — Heather
Trump sock-puppet Karoline Leavitt did her best to downplay reports that Russia is providing Iran with information that could help them target US troops.
More on that from the AP:
Russia has provided Iran with information that could help Tehran strike American warships, aircraft and other assets in the region, according to two officials familiar with U.S. intelligence on the matter.
The people, who were not authorized to comment publicly on the sensitive matter and spoke on the condition of anonymity, cautioned that the U.S. intelligence has not uncovered that Russia is directing Iran on what to do with the information.
Still, it’s the first indication that Moscow has sought to get involved in the war that the U.S. and Israel launched on Iran a week ago.
Leavitt was asked about the report on Fox this Friday and told host John Roberts that it "doesn't really matter" that Trump's pal Putin is helping Iran....
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Good to know, Karen. Apparently you are as big of a bullshitter as our main bullshitter. Of course we all know you're just following orders like all good Nazis do.
Three signs Trump's presidency is in a death spiral — Matthew Rozsa
“Consider three of the biggest developments in our politics right now,” Greg Sargent wrote for The New Republic. “We just learned that the economy lost 92,000 jobs, a capstone to a terrible year in terms of job creation. President Trump has fired widely despised Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, a key architect of his mass deportations. And reports are indicating that the killing of scores of Iranian schoolchildren might have been the handiwork of the United States.”
While these three news items might seem unrelated, Sargent argued that the poor economy, his controversial immigration policies and the Iran war are all linked as part of a “trifecta” by which Trump “is frittering away the strength he and Republicans have enjoyed in recent years on three major GOP-friendly issues: The economy, immigration, and national security.”
According to Sargent, this was not inevitable. “When Trump took office last year, it was reasonable to fear that the American public would rally behind mass deportations and tariffs—that is, embrace two of the main tenets of right-wing nationalism,” he opined. “Meanwhile, the launch of the largest military attack in the Mideast in decades might have plausibly produced a rally-around-the-war-president effect. None of that is happening. And that’s significant in not-so-obvious ways.”
Sargent observed that Trump has eroded the public’s confidence in his ability to do his job at a basic level of competence. For perhaps the first time in American history, “no rally-around-the-flag effect is materializing” after America’s involvement in a major war. Citing a CNN poll which shows 59 percent of Americans do not trust Trump to make the right decisions regarding Iran, Sargent speculated that Trump and top foreign policy aides like Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth are miscalculating the spirit of the American public....
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As the ship of state slowly sinks in the west...
Trump attacked for turning banks 'into citizenship police' — Matthew Rozsa
A scholar from a right-leaning think tank argued in a Saturday editorial that President Donald Trump’s latest anti-immigrant policy will turn banks into a “citizenship police.”
“President Trump is reportedly considering an order requiring financial institutions to check customers’ citizenship, a curious departure from the administration’s professed concerns about the burden of bureaucracy and debanking,” wrote the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Solveig Singleton for The Hill. Although they say this is being done to remove people illegally residing in the United States, Singleton said “this policy will only elevate suspicion above free speech, privacy, fairness, and integrity.”
Singleton proceeded to argue that requiring bank customers to verify their citizenship “would taint Americans’ vital relationships with banks and credit unions with mutual mistrust.” Many would likely move their money to informal financial networks provided by their family, community or religious institution, some of which are prone to being used for criminal activities.
Even those customers which continued to use legitimate banking institutions would be vulnerable to criminal activity because “scammers will do their utmost to exploit the opportunity to deluge customers with fake demands. How would baffled seniors be expected to understand that they cannot pay their electric bill from an account they opened decades ago because they have failed to produce documents on time? Must a legal resident applying for citizenship update their financial service providers at every stage of the process?”...
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Control freak at large!
Trump's college sports plan ridiculed as theatrical spectacle — Matthew Rozsa
President Donald Trump is trying to alter how college sports are played — and is being called out for what one columnist called a “dog and pony show.”
In an editorial headlined “Trump college sports meeting turns into dog and pony show with no real answers, Matt Hayes from USA Today argued that “if universities receive the antitrust exemption, the first thing implemented is a return to restricting player movement. (That voice you just heard was Trump announcing, ‘Go back to the wonderful system.’)” This would make it difficult for players to pursue better financial and educational opportunities at competing schools and instead lock them into a single institution.
“SEC commissioner Greg Sankey says his conference wants one free transfer, and that’s it,” Hayes wrote. “You know, the old days.”
Although the SEC commissioner and others who met with Trump on Friday insist that free player movement leads to structural and financial instability, Hayes observed that “the ‘old days’ were awful for players, the financial equivalent of traversing a long, lonely desert — only to have someone eventually offer you a box of cotton balls to quench your thirst.”
Despite the financial hardships that the old system imposed on players, Trump said he is issuing an executive order within a week that will make it harder for players to effectively advocate for their own careers. While Hayes acknowledged that the existing college sports system “is an unwieldy mess,” he added that “the only body on the planet that’s more tribally dysfunctional than the NCAA” is Congress....
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"Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear..."
Backward is the only way Trump knows to go. He's stuck in his childhood forever.
Hegseth triggers massive alarms with 'grotesque' Iran remark in new '60 Minutes' clip — Erik De La Garza
...He then added a line that quickly drew criticism online.
“The only ones that need to be worried right now are Iranians that think they're going to live,” Hegseth said....
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Untreated PTSD.
Trump and Hegseth are writing their own rules of war — Heather Digby Parton
As the Iran war widens, the president and defense secretary’s long support of carnage suddenly matters a lot
...Now that Trump has finally let his warmongering flag fly the way he always wanted to, we are seeing exactly how dangerous this partnership may end up being....
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If Trump lives long enough he will face a court for his crimes
Trump Vows That “Iran Will Be Hit Very Hard Today”
“Iran, which is being beat to HELL, has apologized and surrendered to its Middle East neighbors, and promised that it will not shoot at them anymore. This promise was only made because of the relentless U.S. and Israeli attack. They were looking to take over and rule the Middle East.
“It is the first time that Iran has ever lost, in thousands of years, to surrounding Middle Eastern Countries. They have said, ‘Thank you President Trump.’ I have said, ‘You’re welcome!’ Iran is no longer the ‘Bully of the Middle East,’ they are, instead, ‘THE LOSER OF THE MIDDLE EAST,’ and will be for many decades until they surrender or, more likely, completely collapse!
“Today Iran will be hit very hard! Under serious consideration for complete destruction and certain death, because of Iran’s bad behavior, are areas and groups of people that were not considered for targeting up until this moment in time. Thank you for your attention to this matter!” – Trump, in a 6AM Truth Social post.
"Murdering more civilians you fucking piece of filthy shit?" — Dale Snyder (comments)
"So, it's surrendered, but still will be hit very hard?
You're confessing to war crimes, you fucking Nazi moron." — JT (coments)
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Trump is like the Tailiban wiping out the ancient buddhas. No conscience at all.
Always a good military strategy to announce your attack plan before executing. Trump's a dope.
REPORT: WH Blocked Release Of Iran Terror Bulletin
The Daily Mail reports:
The FBI, Homeland Security, and the National Counterterrorism Center were preparing to put out a joint intelligence statement on Friday to state and local authorities alerting them of a heightened threat due to the ongoing war in Iran, a senior DHS official said.
The bulletin, which was reviewed by the Daily Mail, details ‘elevated threats by the government of Iran to US military and government personnel and facilities, Jewish and Israeli institutions and their perceived supporters, and Iranian dissidents and other anti-regime activists in the United States.’
Homeland Security broke protocol and gave the White House a heads-up about the nationwide bulletin hours before it was set to be released. Top Trump officials ordered it placed on ‘hold’. The White House did not deny blocking the terror bulletin in a statement to the Daily Mail.
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As stated before, Trump hates America. HIs greed is unsurpassed.
Trump Accused Of Assaulting Teen Victim Who Bit His Penis — NewsHound Ellen
The DOJ has released a very disturbing FBI interview record of a Trump accuser in the Epstein files.
In 2019, the unnamed woman told the FBI about years of abuse she suffered from Jeffrey Epstein between the ages of 13 and 15. She included such graphic details as his enjoyment of having her insert items such as pencils and erasers inserted up his butt.
Also included were anecdotes of being abused by Epstein’s wealthy friends, including Donald Trump. The woman said Trump didn’t like “from the get-go” that she seemed a tomboy. But he asked everyone to leave the room and, after they did, said something to the effect of, "Let me teach you how little girls are supposed to be.” He unzipped his pants and put her head “down to his penis.” That is, until she “bit the shit out of it” because, she said, he disgusted her.
Trump then struck her “and said words to the effect of, ‘get this little bitch the hell out of here,’” the FBI report stated.
This is far from the first time Donald Trump has been credibly accused of raping and/or abusing teen girls. Ronan Farrow's 2019 book accused the National Enquirer of burying teen rape accusations against President P***y Grabber in 1994. In November, Rep. Melanie Stansbury said she saw in the Epstein files that Trump had been accused of raping a 13-year-old at Epstein’s house. In December, a letter postmarked 2019, seemingly from Epstein to fellow pedophile Larry Nassar turned up in the Epstein files, stating, “Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to ‘grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system. Life is unfair."
You can read the newly released FBI interview report here.https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2012/EFTA02858481.pdf
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The last line of defense for a woman -- teeth!
Ohio Pastor Gets Three Years For Abducting Young Girl
The Canton Repository reports:
A former pastor in Stark and Wayne counties will spend three years in prison for taking a 13-year-old girl on an unauthorized camping trip that resulted in her hiding in a bathroom and calling 911 for help. The Rev. Jesse Santos, 60, learned his fate March 5 before Ashland County Common Pleas Judge David R. Stimpert.
Stimpert gave Santos the maximum sentence possible, saying Santos did not appear to take responsibility for his actions and was trying to minimize or reframe what happened with the young girl on their trip as a misunderstanding. “What you did to this child is atrocious,” the judge said.
Santos, a Seventh-day Adventist minister and a Plain Township resident, pleaded guilty in January to one count of abduction, a third-degree felony, as part of a plea agreement. And there was no explanation, the judge said, for how Santos’ DNA was found on the girl’s lips.
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And another demon bites the dust!
'Antichrist ideology': GOP lawmaker attacks 'demonic' Texas Dem in unhinged broadcast — David Edwards
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Wanna look at demon, you Talibastard? Take a look in a mirror!
Get on the next bus back to hell where you came from.
Trump's minions just revealed what they really think about dead American soldiers< — Ray Hartmann
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth spent his confirmation hearings promising senators he’d stop drinking. Based on his news conference about the Iran war on Wednesday, that might not be such a great idea.
Reporting on dead American soldiers, Hegseth suggested, is becoming the “narrative.” The public, he said, should “cut through the noise” and focus on the mission.
The “noise,” in this case, is six American lives.
On Sunday, an Iranian drone struck a U.S. facility in Kuwait. The victims were Army reservists assigned to a logistics command. Their names, ranks, and ages:
Sgt. Declan Coady, 20
Sgt. 1st Class Nicole Amor, 39
Capt. Cody Khork, 35
Sgt. 1st Class Noah Tietjens, 42
Maj. Jeffrey O’Brien, 45
CW3 Robert Marzan, 54.
Hegseth’s complaint was that their deaths were dominating coverage of the war. During Wednesday’s White House briefing, when CNN’s Kaitlan Collins read Hegseth’s words back to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, Leavitt didn’t flinch.
“The press does only want to make the president look bad,” she said. “That’s a fact.”
To this administration, a dead sergeant from West Des Moines is not a tragedy. He’s a political liability. News reporting on his demise is evidence of bias....
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The wages of installing morons to lead our government! Why isn't Hegseth getting treatment for his PTSD? Taking amphetimines won't help.
After years of gains, Republicans in Congress push to roll back chemical regulations — Elena Bruess
In Texas, environmental activists and experts raise the alarm about the potential impact on public health if the Toxic Substances Control Act is weakened.
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Cancer statistics are about to increase in Texas. And you thought we were safe? Not with these greedy motherfuckers in charge.
‘Today’s internet values relatability more than authority’ — Justin Klawans
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Many pertinent articles for readers here.
Judge Boxwine Won’t Put Joe Biden In Jail For ‘Autopen,’ Because Idiot — Evan Hurst
Dementia Hitler president meets Judge Boxwine. Dementia Hitler makes Judge Boxwine the US attorney in charge of Washington DC. US Attorney Boxwine throws a glass of wine at Dementia Hitler’s face, but out of joy, not anger. Dementia Hitler says “PUT ALL MY ENEMIES IN JAIL FOR SOMETHING!” US Attorney Boxwine is an obedient Boxwine, and she tries to make up a crime, and tries to convince a grand jury to go along with it. “Aggravated sandwiching!” “First degree saying the law out loud!”
“CAPITAL AUTOPEN-NING!”
Grand juries do not go along with it. US Attorney Boxwine fails. Again.
Feast your eyes on a box full of embarrassment:...
This situation isn’t limited to US Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s jurisdiction, of course. Idiot US attorneys making up crimes to charge Trump foes with are sweeping the nation! And all those US attorneys are dumb as hell too!
But since DC is where Donald Trump has put most of the people he’s hired off Fox News because he thinks they’re real celebrities, DC is where a lot of the most amusing fuckery and incompetence is raging these days...
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...Amusing fuckery and incompetence is raging! Couldn't say it better!
Words Do Matter, Damn It, Just Not So Very Much Anymore, Actually. Really. — Jaime O'Neill
"The great masses of people...will more easily fall victims of a great lie than to a small one." — A. Hitler
"There's a sucker born every minute." — P.T. Barnum (maybe)
It’s probably useless to try to list all the harm Trump and his cohort have done to this country. It is probably even less useful to try to compile such a list ranking the harm done from “catastrophically harmful” to "mildly harmful.” But even before Trump delivered his first inaugural address (a post-apocalyptic stew cooked up by Steve Bannon) he has been telling Americans that we live in a nightmare country, a place that had gone bad but had once been good, We’d gone bad because we’d once been led by smart people, but now were led by stupid people. He was the smart one who was going to fix that, and only he alone could fix get that done.
The roll-out of that dark vision is still commencing, but its foundation was premised on that idea. (If that strikes anyone as Hitlerian, that’s because it was. It is Fascism 101. It preaches the doctrine that everything sucks, pins the blame on groups targeted as scapegoats, sows distrust, rallies hatred, and tells the nation that enemies are everywhere. Only a strong man (and it must be a man, of course) can make things great again as they were in the past when rich white males were dominant, when women and other lesser people knew their place, and when everyone understood that might makes right, that fortune favors the bold, and the bold will be rewarded here on earth with reservoirs of cold, hard cash, pretty young things, a big jet airplanes with all imaginable amenities.
And let’s face it boys and girls, ladies and germs, we’ve been slippin’ and slidin’ downhill on such slick bullshit for as long as this old man can remember, from cradle to grave, from Easter bunnies to Tooth Fairies, from the Gulf of Tonkin to the Gulf of America....
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I think the sucker birth rate has gone up these days.
Did Jared Kushner Negotiate Peace — or Set a Trap for Iran’s Leadership? — Thom Hartmann
As Iran’s leaders gathered to debate a U.S.-brokered nuclear deal, American and Israeli intelligence already knew their location. Was this diplomacy, or something darker?
Jared Kushner grew up sleeping in Benjamin Netanyahu’s bed.
That isn’t a metaphor or hyperbole. Netanyahu, during his visits to New York over the decades, was close enough to the Kushner family that, as The New York Times reported, he slept in Jared’s childhood bedroom. Jared Kushner didn’t grow up watching Netanyahu on the news the way the rest of us did. He grew up knowing the man as something close to a family institution.
And that man, who has said publicly that he has “yearned” to destroy Iran’s military and political leadership “for 40 years,” is the same man whose government may have been coordinating directly with Jared Kushner in the days before the most consequential American military action since the invasion of Iraq or the Vietnam War.
We need to ask the question that official Washington is too timid, too compromised, or too captured by the moment’s war fever to ask: “Was Jared Kushner sitting across from Iranian negotiators in good faith? Or was he trying to get the Iranian leadership to meet together so Netanyahu could kill them all in one single decapitating strike?”...
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Or a trap for himself?
Experts in military law are flagging that there is a huge legal problem that President Donald Trump faces as he heads into another Middle East war. — Sarah K. Burris
Reporting Friday, ABC News noted that the White House is running into a problem after it blew up an unarmed Iranian ship that was in international waters off the coast of Sri Lanka, doing naval exercises with India. If the U.S. were at war, the bombing would have been legal, but without declaring war officially, there is a legal question about the move.
Speaking to the press this week, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) reiterated that the U.S. is "not" at war and the attack in Iran is a "limited operation."
That's not what Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Elbridge Colby said, however.
“I think we’re in a military action at this point. I will leave to Congress and lawyers from the administration, et cetera, to determine," he said.
"The U.S. will come to bitterly regret precedent it has set," said Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi.
Thus far, the "not war" involves more than 12 countries.
Both branches of Congress voted on Thursday on a War Powers declaration that would have put restrictions on Trump to wage a new war. Both failed. However, there still hasn't been congressional approval for Trump to bomb Iran. Under U.S. law, Trump has only 60-90 days to accomplish his goals and withdraw, unless Congress gives him approval.
Jim Lobe, Washington Bureau Chief of the international news agency Inter Press Service, writing for "Responsible Statecraft," warned that it may ultimately be considered a war crime.
It underscores why military experts say that Congress needs to declare war quickly....
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The wages of hiring morons to run your government! Pitiful failure!
'Flashing red': Jobs report sparks expert warnings of recession — or even stagflation -- 'Flashing red': Jobs report sparks expert warnings of recession — or even stagflation
Economic experts are stunned by the latest jobs report that found the Trump economy lost 92,000 jobs in February despite expectations of an increase of 50,000. Unemployment rose to 4.4 percent. Some are sounding the alarm that a recession — or even stagflation — could be on the way.
The Washington Post called the results “a striking loss signaling a warning flag for the economy.”
Describing the report as “grim,” NBC News called the loss of 92,000 jobs “a number that will raise alarms about the state of the economy.”
Gregory Daco, chief economist at EY News called the report “simply ugly.”
“The labor market is flashing red,” warned Professor of Economics Arin Dube.
“The economic story just changed dramatically,” declared Professor of Economics and frequent cable news guest Justin Wolfers. “Recession questions are back on the menu.”
Pointing to a chart that reads, “Job growth has stalled and may even be going backwards,” Wolfers responded, “This is not good.”
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Grim. Dismal. Weak jobs.
Ex-Bush attorney general rages as Trump 'dismantles' the DOJ 'stone by stone' — Sarah K. Burris
Former Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales penned a guest post for the Substack "Checks and Balances," lamenting the destruction of the Justice Department under President Donald Trump's administration.
The Republican from President George W. Bush's administration wrote that he'd always upheld the DOJ and those who worked there as a kind of "cathedral of justice." No longer, however, as it "is being dismantled stone by stone."
Many of the career lawyers at the Justice Department have either been fired, shoved out or quit very publicly under the leadership of former Trump lawyers Todd Blanche, Emil Bove and Pam Bondi.
"Prosecutors appear to no longer enjoy prosecutorial independence," he said as an example. "Prosecutions at the federal district level against perceived political or personal enemies of the administration’s leadership are, in many cases, now directed by senior leaders at the Department or by subordinates at the White House."
This only adds to Trump's assault on law firms. He issued an executive order last year, giving him the legal authority to personally target the firms he didn't like. While many ran scared, there are still several fighting back.
Then there is the "politically motivated criticism of our judges, as well as threats to their families," which he wrote "threaten to undermine the independence of the courts. Recently, it was reported that leaders in the various 93 US offices were told to provide DOJ headquarters with examples of perceived judicial activism that would serve as the basis for referral to the House of Representatives for possible impeachment proceedings. There are growing complaints about executive branch defiance of court orders."
It's proof that prosecutions are coming not from a striving for justice but from politics, he said. However, most of them "have all failed to an embarrassing level."
Like many, he wants to see norms reestablished and a return to the rule of law. But he remains fearful about the "pace at which norms and traditions are being abandoned." He called it outright "dangerous." He lamented that it will likely take "time and hard work" to rebuild the DOJ once Trump is finished with it.
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Much of our nation will have to be rebuilt once Trump is gone forever.
'Negative Numbers': Fox Business Awkwardly Copes With Abysmal Jobs Report< — Conover Kennard
The U.S. economy shed 92,000 positions last month, pushing the unemployment rate up to 4.4 percent, per Friday's Bureau of Labor Statistics release. The February report painted a picture of a labor market deteriorating much faster than anticipated, catching economists off guard — analysts had forecast a gain of around 60,000 jobs, even as they correctly predicted the 4.4 percent unemployment figure.
Meanwhile, Donald J. Trump has repeatedly insisted that he's heralded us into the "Golden Age," so it was awkward with President Fox News Grandpa's abysmal jobs numbers being read on Fox Business. Host Maria Bartiromo and Cheryl Casone are trying to cope with today's report showing negative numbers for February.
"So we have a negative number for February non-farm payrolls," Casone said. "A loss of 92,000 jobs. You can see the market reacting. We are also seeing the unemployment rate tick up to 4.4 percent."
"A loss of factory jobs of 12,000," she continued. "Government jobs, a loss of 6,000. Private sector jobs, a loss of 86,000."
"Average hourly earnings up 3.8 percent, which is better than expected, but obviously the headline here is what we're seeing within the report," she continued. "We also got a negative read on January retail sales, two-tenths of a percent to the downside, but I do want to say again it is the jobs report."
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Trump's "Golden Styrofoam Age!" 98% air!
Labor Market Plummets as Trump Fuels Economic Turmoil — Common Dreams
The latest jobs report shows the United States lost 92,000 jobs in February 2026, with prior months revised down by 69,000 jobs. The unemployment rate remains elevated at 4.4% and is near its highest levels in 4 years. The February report reveals a labor market that is barely hanging on as Trump threatens to reignite inflation with his illegal war in the Middle East.
Groundwork Collaborative’s Chief of Policy and Advocacy Alex Jacquez released the following statement:
“The deterioration in the labor market is visible from space. Trump’s reckless economic agenda has forced the labor market into the negative, threatening the livelihoods of American workers. As the president piles on blanket tariffs and oil prices soar, today’s report confirms he’s sent the economy straight into a stagflation spiral.”...
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And one billion a day to support Trump's war in Iran. Trump failure is killing us.
New Letter Calls on CFTC to Investigate Suspicious Bets on Iran Attack — Common Dreams
Public Citizen sent a letter today calling upon the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to investigate highly suspicious bets placed on the outcome of the recent American-Israeli military assault on Iran and the death of Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Using platforms such as Kalshi and Polymarket, certain users have been able to make hundreds of thousands of dollars on political betting, specifically pertaining to the American-Israeli war on Iran. The timing of the bets has raised suspicion as to whether or not the bettors have inside information, as some of the bets were made mere hours before the U.S. strikes began....
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Insider betting?
Voldemort: “Savages” Have No Human Rights
...The extraordinary assertion of presidential power to combat drug trafficking is at the heart of the White House’s legal rationale for dozens of strikes on suspected drug smugglers in the Caribbean Sea and Eastern Pacific Ocean — so far, 44 boat strikes that have resulted in at least 150 deaths.
"In case nobody noticed, he has already violated the rights of thousands of Americans who have been treated with brutality. This is an after the fact confession. He's the savage. Proceed accordingly." -- Aint Teefa (comments)br>
"This monster used that same language to demonize American immigrants that he said were not entitled to due process…a right guaranteed to all here. He had also immediately accused & slandered murdered US citizens & victims of ICE, Pretti & Good, of being 'domestic terrorists.' This malevolent Nazi paints all of his enemies with the same brush, declaring them 'inhuman and therefore deserves no human rights.'
I therefore submit that Miller with his own proven acts of wanton cruelty and his sinister rhetoric against innocent men, women & children, who merrily & eagerly delights in destroying families, human dignity, lives & freedoms, lacking any sympathy, love or compassion, has openly demonstrated that he is in fact inhuman, and thus deserving of no human rights." -- Uncle Mark's Mugshot (comments)
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The most visible American savage is Stephen Miller. He's projecting.
Trump To Rubio: “Your Next One Is Gonna Be Cuba”
The Mirror reports:
Donald Trump suggested that Cuba could be “next” after Iran, while standing feet from Jorge Mas, Cuban American National Foundation chairman and Inter Miami co-owner, at the White House on Thursday. Mas joined the Inter Miami squad as the reigning MLS Cup champions were honored by President Trump. Soccer icon Lionel Messi met with Trump for the first time, and the president awkwardly commented that the players were attractive, with no “bad-looking” guys.
Trump then turned to Rubio, someone whom he has heavily praised as the greatest Secretary of State in U.S. history. “Your next one is gonna be Cuba,” Trump added. “He’s waiting, but he says, ‘Let’s get this one finished first.’ We could do them all at the same time, but bad things happen. If you watch countries over the years, you do them all too fast, bad things happen. We’re not going to let anything bad happen to this country.”
"Under Obama we had a nuclear deal with Iran. Trump withdrew from it. Now we’re at war (or whatever it’s being called) with Iran. Obama reestablished diplomatic relations with Cuba. Trump messed it up. He is more than likely going to invade them. What a petty, psychotic POS. He’s so jealous of Obama that he is willing to destroy lives because he thinks he’s better." -- Chanel5 (comments)
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Too late. The worst thing that happended to this country is Trump. America is now a world terrorist threat and this proves it.
February Beige Book Shows Trump’s Price Hikes Continue to Create Struggles for Consumers, Businesses
The Federal Reserve released its February 2026 Beige Book, providing an updated snapshot of economic conditions across all 12 Federal Reserve Districts. A growing share of districts reported flat or declining activity as economic uncertainty and price sensitivity weighed on consumer spending alongside rising housing and food insecurities.
The report paints a clear picture of rising tariff costs, higher prices for basic necessities, and Trump administration policies disrupting businesses and squeezing working families.
Groundwork Collaborative’s Chief of Policy and Advocacy, Alex Jacquez, reacted with the following statement:
“Trump sold Americans a bill of goods he can’t deliver on, and he owes working families a refund. The president has driven up costs for consumers and businesses alike with his chaotic tariff policies and foreign wars. The Federal Reserve’s report should serve as a major red flag for the White House that Trump’s economy is flailing.”...
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Does anyone not already know this?
Meet The Nutjob Who Tried To Suppress Dem Votes
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Allen "fucking" West figured out a way to fuck things up! I can't believe this crook is at large!
Pardoned Capitol Rioter Gets Life For Child Molestation
NPR reports:
Just months after President Trump’s mass pardons for Jan. 6 rioters freed him from prison, a Florida man repeatedly sexually abused two middle-school aged children.
On Thursday, the man, Andrew Paul Johnson, was sentenced to life in prison, after a Florida jury found him guilty of five criminal charges, including molestation, lewd and lascivious exhibition and transmission of material harmful to a minor.
Police reported that Johnson, 45, tried to keep the children quiet by telling them he would share millions of dollars in restitution money he expected to receive from the Trump administration in connection with his Jan. 6 case. “He said not to tell anybody,” one of Johnson’s victims testified.
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Another one bites the life dust!
Four House Democrats Help Sink War Powers Bill
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Henry Cuellar (TX)
Jared Golden (ME)
Greg Landsman (OH)
Juan Vargas (CA)
Four horsemeat traitors!
They can all go to hell except Cave 76!
MAGA Pastor: God Wants Trump To Kill Everyone In Iran
Kyle Mantyla has the quote at Right Wing Watch:
There was a man in the Bible by the name of King Saul. And God saw that there was a group of people called the Amalekites that hated Israel. The Amalekites had one desire: To destroy Israel from under the sun.
And God raised up King Saul and told Saul, ‘I want you to preemptively strike the Amalekites. I want you to go in and kill every man, woman, boy, and girl. And I don’t want you to explain it to Congress. I don’t want you to explain it to anybody. I want you to do what needs to be done to preserve my people a little longer on the face of the Earth.’
Now, if King Saul was to do that today, the entire world would turn against him. But you see, when God is in something and a man doesn’t care what the world thinks, he is obeying the dictates of God himself. When God raised up Donald Trump; Iran is to America what Amalek was to Israel. The same thing....
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Funny, I can't locate "GOD" saying that in that book.
HItler was good at not giving a shit about what people thought until he was force to have his brains blown out!
Kyle, there is a message for you here:
The Message — We Made It Ourselves - Men of Extinction.
What If the Mullahs Are Smarter Than Trump? — Jonathan V. Last
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Gee, who could have thought that would be possible....? Better read this.
Derek Thompson: Ruling by Emergency — Tim Miller
Not only is Trump failing to provide any clarity on why the United States went to war against Iran, the administration is also sticking to its habit of declaring an emergency based on some arcane legal provision that supposedly gives the executive branch the power to do whatever it wants. It's almost as though the American legal system can justify authoritarianism if a lawyer can dig deep enough. And Anthropic is currently feeling the sting of this monarchical-style power grab. Meanwhile, the tech overlords wanted free rein on AI under Trump, but they got a Maoist approach instead. Plus, Mamdani's embrace of abundance, the movie industry's troubles, and how parents fall in love with their children....
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Almost only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.
Trump Puts Noem Down Like a Dog — Adrian Carrasquillo
KRISTI NOEM—THE HOMELAND SECURITY SECRETARY who carried out Donald Trump’s mass deportation plan, complete with arbitrary arrest goals; who lied repeatedly about the killing of two Minneapolis U.S. citizens and smeared them as domestic terrorists; who wanted to use border funds for a $300 million jet fleet; who posed in front of wrongfully imprisoned Venezuelan men in a Salvadoran mega prison like they were props; and who starred in a $200 million ad campaign ostensibly for recruitment—has been fired, Trump said on Truth Social Thursday.
In his announcement that he would nominate Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.), a former MMA fighter, to replace her, Donald Trump said, “The current Secretary, Kristi Noem, who has served us well, and has had numerous and spectacular results (especially on the Border!), will be moving to be Special Envoy for The Shield of the Americas, our new Security Initiative in the Western Hemisphere we are announcing on Saturday in Doral, Florida. I thank Kristi for her service at ‘Homeland.’”...
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One turd is flushed, another one drops in the bowl.
Kristi Noem thanks Trump after he fires her — David Edwards
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem expressed her appreciation to President Donald Trump after he terminated her as cabinet secretary.
"Thank you @POTUS Trump for appointing me as the Special Envoy for the Shield of the Americas," Noem wrote Thursday on X, noting that she looked forward to working with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in the new position.
Noem went on to tout her "accomplishments" at DHS.
"We have made historic accomplishments at the Department of Homeland Security to make America safe again: we delivered the MOST secure border in American history, 3 million illegal aliens have left the U.S., we have located 145,000 children, FEMA delivered disaster relief at a 100% faster rate, we ushered in the golden age of travel, saved the American taxpayer $13 billion and revitalized the U.S. Coast Guard," she said.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump revealed that he had nominated Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) to be the next DHS secretary.
"A MAGA Warrior, and former undefeated professional MMA fighter, Markwayne truly gets along well with people, and knows the Wisdom and Courage required to Advance our America First Agenda," Trump wrote."
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The guy that thinks babies should be deported, stands on a box at the lectern, has only an Associates degree from a junior college and is a plumber? Yep, in Trump World he is qualified for the office! LMAO!
Could a 9/11-Scale Crisis Be the Political Lifeline Trump’s Presidency Desperately Needs? — Thom Hartmann
...Ask yourself why. Why would a president who just bombed Iran simultaneously gut the very intelligence infrastructure built by previous administrations to detect and prevent Iranian retaliation? Why would you poke a hornet’s nest and then fire the guy with the EpiPen?
Unless you wanted to get stung.
The logic is almost too ugly to contemplate, but it tracks perfectly with recent history. Bush needed 9/11 and got it, and it saved his presidency. Trump needs something equally dramatic to reset his collapsing political fortunes.
A spectacular Iranian-sponsored attack on American soil, or even a major domestic attack by a radicalized actor inspired by the chaos Trump himself has created, would instantly transform him into a Bush-like “wartime president.”
It would push the bribery, the rapes, the constitutional violations, the ICE killings, and the election rigging off the front page overnight. It would give him emergency powers he has already shown he’s more than willing to abuse. It would give Republicans a reason to “rally around the flag” and postpone the reckoning that November 2026 currently promises.
This is not some wacky conspiracy theory: it’s simply pattern recognition. When a president provokes a hostile nation, then fires the people whose job it is to protect us from that nation’s retaliation, the conclusion is either staggering incompetence or something far more sinister.
We can’t afford to wait and find out which one it is....
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Trump wants America to be attacked. This is his only hope now.
The Moral Basis of Civilization
Trump is actively destroying it
...As I have noted before, the moral purpose of civilized society is to prevent the stronger from attacking and exploiting the weaker. Otherwise, we’d be permanently immersed in a brutish war in which only the fittest and most powerful could survive.
This moral aspiration lies at the center of America’s founding documents — the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights — although this nation has not always honored the aspiration.
It’s also the core of the postwar international order championed by the United States, including the UN charter — emphasizing multilateralism, democracy, human rights, and the rule of law.
But it’s a fragile aspiration, easily violated by those who would exploit their power. Maintaining it requires that the powerful have enough integrity to abstain from seeking short-term wins — and that the rest of us hold them accountable if they don’t....
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We will reap what we sow. The whirlwind.
Leavitt Suggests Reports on Iranian School Girls Killed Are “Propaganda” — Sharon Zhang
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt dismissed the idea that the U.S. was responsible for a strike on Saturday that struck a school in Minab, Iran, describing reports that the U.S. would target civilians in combat as “propaganda.”
When asked whether the U.S. carried out the strike, Leavitt said: “Not that we know of.” She echoed Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s assertion on Wednesday that the Pentagon is “investigating” the attack, while not confirming or denying whether it was carried out by the U.S.
“The United States of America does not target civilians, unlike the rogue Iranian regime that targets civilians, that kills children … and uses propaganda quite effectively,” said Leavitt. “And unfortunately, many people in this room have fallen for that propaganda.”
Iranian state media and health officials have reported that at least 175 people were killed in the strike, including 160 schoolchildren, who were the first reported casualties of the U.S. and Israel’s war on Iran that commenced on February 28. Many of those killed were aged between 8 and 10 years old. A two-month-old baby was also reportedly killed in the strike.
Footage of the aftermath of the strike and the destroyed school building have been verified by investigators and news outlets, as was a picture distributed by Iranian media of a plot of graves being dug out for the victims of the strike.
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The United States of America targeted civilians in our country and murdered them.
Fact is, it happened. If it wasn't Trump's terrorist attack then she's saying it was Bibi's terrorist attack. Both of them are murderers.
Trans Folks Stubbornly Continue To Exist In Kansas, Despite New Driver's License Law — Doktor Zoom
A slightly modified detail from John Steuart Curry’s mural ‘Tragic Prelude’ (1937-42) in the Kansas Statehouse in Topeka.
In February, Republicans in the Kansas Legislature used a scuzzy parliamentary trick to pass a sweeping new anti-trans law without even a pretense of public hearings, sneakily adding an anti-trans “bathroom bill” to an already-controversial proposal to force trans people to list only their “biological sex at birth” on their driver’s licenses or state ID cards. Gov. Laura Kelly (D) vetoed the bill, but Republicans used their supermajorities in both houses to override her veto, and the bigoted bill, SB 244, became law immediately.
That meant that as of February 26, all driver’s licenses and state IDs listing a gender marker different from the holder’s sex at birth suddenly became invalid. No grace period, so transgender Kansans often had a day or less after receiving a notification to get themselves to a DMV to get a new license. In fact, they could only get a new one after surrendering their current ID, so there was no option for many people to even start the process before their IDs became invalid, making them potentially subject to a fine, or even to arrest and jail time if they drove anywhere, including to the damn DMV.
Apparently allowing a few days for people to comply with the war on their identity would have sent a dangerous message that they were sort of human.
Also, if the constant official harassment drives someone to drink, the state also says newly invalidated licenses can’t be used to purchase age-restricted items. No word on whether folks will be allowed to use their cancelled ID to fly the fuck out of Kansas, or if they’ll just have to take a bus and risk being thrown under it.
Wonkette is amazed at the many arbitrary ways rightwing creeps come up with to be cruel. It’s like the end of Jim Crow stifled their sole medium for creative expression.
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We know who the non-humans are in this state. They all live in the 19th Century and constantly fuck with those of us who live in the 21st.
Guess Pete Hegseth Thinks Dead American Troops Are Suckers And Losers Too — Evan Hurst
Yesterday, during Hegseth’s masturbating white nationalist teenager press conference, he got his back up at the journalists there, accusing them of reporting on American troop deaths in Iran only to make Donald Trump look bad. As if it doesn’t make Trump look bad enough that a week ago, if Trump had just fucked off and played golf instead of starting a pointless war nobody wants, six American troops would be alive today.
“[W]hen a few drones get through or tragic things happen, it’s front-page news,” Hegseth whined. “I get it, the press only wants to make the president look bad — but try for once to report the reality.”
Yeah, Fox News Daddy Issues little boy, we are. Six American troops have died (so far) to distract from the Trump Epstein Child Rape Files. If there are other reasons for this stupid war, we don’t know them, because the Trump regime doesn’t know them. We won’t be shocked to learn that incompetence, negligence and/or a complete lack of oversight/planning played a big role in their deaths.
On that note, and regarding Hegseth’s bellyaching that the press is being unfair when “a few drones get through” and murder American troops who shouldn’t have been there in the first place, for your consideration:
Apparently it does.
Hegseth doesn’t have much military experience beyond which Supercuts and Fantastic Sams locations are the best at doing regulation hairstyles, but fuckin’ RAZIN’ CAINE does. Why do we know he’s lying? Because these damned drones are all over the Russia/Ukraine war, so unless he just hasn’t been paying attention …
We do believe that these drones have taken Secretary Shitfaced completely by surprise, though. He was probably too busy searching the Pentagon trying to ferret out all the pronouns and Black history, he couldn’t make it to “What is drone?” class.
If you’re assuming people are reacting to scumbag Hegseth’s remarks with widespread revulsion, you’re correct....
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Hegseth has something he's hiding. Someone fucked him up a long time ago. Like Trump, he's trying to get even.
NY Gov Candidate’s Armed Militia Includes Criminals
The New York Times reports:
When the Republican leader of a suburban New York county began hiring armed citizens two years ago to be deployed as special deputy sheriffs on his orders in times of emergency, critics accused him of creating an unlawful, unnecessary, personal militia.
The leader, Bruce Blakeman, the Nassau County executive and a close ally of President Trump, dismissed the concerns as political carping by Democrats. The goal, Mr. Blakeman said, was “another layer of protection” for the county’s 1.4 million residents. Those joining the planned 75-member force would be well qualified and well trained, he said.
But in a filing in state court on Tuesday, the plaintiffs in a lawsuit seeking to halt the program challenged that assertion, arguing that the little they had learned through the discovery process about those who have been deputized suggests their credentials are lacking. Without disclosing identities, the filing, on behalf of two Democratic county legislators, says that four people involved in the program “appear to have either been arrested or have had warrants issued for their arrest.”
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Did anyone expect they would hire honest people? We have a criminal president!
GOP Sen. Tim Sheehy Breaks Arm Of Iran War Protester
The Daily Beast reports:
A Republican senator appeared to break the arm of a fellow Iraq War veteran as he tried to help Capitol Police remove the peace protester from a Senate hearing. The bizarre incident occurred during a hearing of the Armed Services Subcommittee on the Current Readiness of the Joint Force, which was taking testimony from top generals—and ended with the sound of a bone snapping.
Brian McGinnis, 44—a Marine Corps veteran, professional firefighter, and Green Party candidate for the U.S. Senate in North Carolina—had arrived at the Hart Senate Office Building in his military uniform and with a point to make about Donald Trump’s decision to commit U.S. forces to the attack on Iran.
About half an hour in, he made it. Rising from his seat in the gallery, McGinnis shouted, “America does not want to send its sons and daughters to war for Israel!” and Capitol Police moved to remove him. That was when Sen. Tim Sheehy decided to enter the fray.
A reminder about Sheehy from 2024:
Tim Sheehy sat down for an interview with conservative journalist Megyn Kelly on Saturday, where he struggled to explain the shifting story behind an injury he claims was a bullet wound suffered in Afghanistan in a possible friendly fire incident — one he says he covered up to avoid getting Afghan allied forces in trouble.
Kelly pressed the former SEAL to explain where the injury actually occurred, and whether he was hurt in 2015 when he went to Glacier National Park with his family.
Sheehy then offered a convoluted answer in which he claimed that medical officials, treating him for a wound he suffered at the park, had informed him that they were required to report the wound to law enforcement because of the bullet which Sheehy claimed had been dislodged by his fall and subsequent re-injury.
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This isn't in his job description.
"Is this the government you want to live under?"
Nazis don't care about laws. They get away with murder these days. We'll see if Sheehy goes to prison where he belongs.
Sec. Felcher’s New Target: Ingredients In Iced Coffee
...“We’re going to ask Dunkin’ Donuts and Starbucks, ‘Show us the safety data that show that it’s okay for a teenage girl to drink an iced coffee with 115 grams of sugar in it,’” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said last week at a rally in Austin. “I don’t think they’re going to be able to do it.”...
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Here's your data -- A fist to your nose! This is no conern of yours or mine, asshole!
Yet Another Pardoned Capitol Rioter Arrested Again
Washington DC’s CBS affiliate reports:
Jonathan Munafo is the latest pardoned U.S. Capitol riot defendant to again run afoul of the law. Court records reviewed by CBS News said Munafo was arrested Tuesday in Richmond, Virginia, where he was found allegedly violating supervised release conditions in a federal threat case.
Munafo was among the Jan. 6 rioters and defendants convicted or accused of violent attacks against police during the Capitol siege and pardoned by President Trump last year. Prosecutors said Munafo punched a Metropolitan Police Department officer twice while attempting to rip the officer’s riot shield away....
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How many times can a Trump traitor be pardoned?
REPORT: Rhode Island Priests Molested Hundreds
The New York Times reports:
A blistering report issued Wednesday describes decades of child sexual abuse in Rhode Island’s Catholic churches, documenting accusations against dozens of priests involving hundreds of victims.
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How many bite the dust?
Cult leaders tell us this sort of thing is no longer happening. (wink, wink)
Hegseth: If They'd Just Stop Reporting Troop Deaths, No One Would Die - Heather
Way to diminish their deaths, Hegseth. Truth is truth, regardless of whether it makes Donald look bad.
What a pathetic, dangerous national embarrassment this so-called "secretary of war" is. They know the public has soured on Trump's attack on Iran, so now they're just going to lash out at the press for daring to report what's happening....
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Werner von Blomberg speaks!
Right Wing Radio Host Wants Someone To 'Take Out' Gov Walz — Chris capper Liebenthal
Milwaukee radio squawk show host Dan O'Donnell wants someone to assassinate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz
Dan O'Donnell, a squawk radio host on WISN-AM, went on Xitter and proved how sociopathic he really is by posting back-to-back tweets. In one tweet, he posted an image of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz dressed like Ayatollah Khomeini. In the other tweet, he called for someone to "take out" Walz:
Dan O'Donnell, a squawk radio host on WISN-AM, went on Xitter and proved how sociopathic he really is by posting back-to-back tweets. In one tweet, he posted an image of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz dressed like Ayatollah Khomeini. In the other tweet, he called for someone to "take out" Walz:...
O'Donnell has since deleted the post about assassinating Walz but has left the other one up.
O'Donnell's posts are exceptionally egregious after the assassination of Minnesota Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, and the shooting of another lawmaker and his wife just last summer....
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Dan displays nosepicking techniques in photo.
DUMBASS: Lindsey Graham Admits Iran Wasn't An Imminent Threat — John Amato
All credible rationales for Trump to unilaterally start a war with Iran have evaporated.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, a key proponent of attacking Iran, undermined the U.S. Constitution's limits on presidential powers and an excuse used by Trump not to require Congressional approval when it comes to attacking another country, by claiming there was no imminent threat from Iran.
A U.S. president may order military action without prior congressional approval when it is necessary to: Defend the United States - Defend U.S. forces - Defend U.S. citizens abroad. This means it must be: Credible - Immediate - Leaving no reasonable alternative (like diplomacy or delay)
The US was involved in nuclear talks with Iran the day before Trump ordered the attack.
Graham said the idea of imminent threat was ridiculous. This exposed Trump and the administration for the liars they are on Fox News Tuesday afternoon with Martha MacCallum....
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Liars they are!
FIFA Peace President Would Evacuate Americans From War Zone But Has Ballroom To Plan — Doktor Zoom
An Iranian drone strikes a high-rise in Bahrain’s capital, Manama. Video screenshot, CBS News on YouTube.
Donald Trump came up with a new lie Tuesday to explain why there was no plan to evacuate Americans from the Middle East before he launched his War For The Hell Of It against Iran. Even though the FIFA Peace President had been building up military forces in the region for weeks, the war Trump started Saturday also came as a surprise to him, so there simply wasn’t time to think about getting Americans out of the places that Iran might strike in retaliation for the war we started that Pete Hegseth says Iran started and also isn’t a war.
Here’s Trump making shit up as he goes along when a reporter asked why no plans were in place to evacuate Americans from the region.
REPORTER: Thousands of Americans are stranded. Why wasn't there an evacuation plan, and will you send planes to get people out?
TRUMP: Well, because it happened all very quickly. We thought, and I thought maybe more so than most, I could ask Marco, but I thought we were going to have a situation where we were going to be attacked. They were getting ready to attack Israel. They were getting ready to attack others.
No, there wasn’t any intelligence suggesting Iran was about to attack jack shit. (Here let us wag our finger at the New York Times for running Trump’s bullshit claim without any fact check.) And there’s not a lot of evidence that the administration gave any advance thought to getting Americans out of the way of reprisal attacks.
You have to understand: Just like any wartime president, Trump has also been preoccupied with the intense planning and logistics of his beautiful new ballroom. As he noted Monday, it was a real shame that American soldiers died in a reprisal attack, but also, how about those drapes?
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Double Talkin' Baby - Huelyn Duvall
Trump supporter who threatened judge and went on the run was just tracked down: reporter — Matthew Chapman
A Trump supporter who admitted to threatening a judge has been tracked down — and has begun serving a prison sentence in Texas, CBS justice correspondent Scott MacFarlane reported on Wednesday morning.
Abigail Shry, MacFarlane noted, is "the only person" connected to the Trump election conspiracy case who actually faced jail time. She admitted in 2023 to making violent, racist threats against a federal judge in Washington, as well as "politically motivated, vulgar threats" in Texas.
However, Shry went missing on the eve of the day she was due to report to prison in February to begin a two-year sentence, apparently having fled.
"The court had to intervene and issue an arrest warrant," noted MacFarlane. And finally, she has been tracked down and is at a prison in Houston....
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Another racist Nazi bites the dust!
Don Lemon Goes Off on ‘Motherf*cking Liar’ Kristi Noem After Heated Hearing: ‘How Does This Woman Look in the Mirror? — Zachary Leeman
Don Lemon went off on Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, calling her a “motherf*cking liar” and even ripping into her appearance on Tuesday.
On The Don Lemon Show, Lemon blasted Noem’s heated Senate hearing where she was grilled on everything from DHS spending to her past statements on federal immigration agents shooting and killing American citizens Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.
Lemon was outraged by Noem pushing back against lawmakers saying she called Pretti and Good “domestic terrorists” following them being shot and killed. Noem separately accused both of domestic terrorism. During one heated exchange, Noem denied calling Pretti a domestic terrorist, but said she was relying on early “information from the ground” for her initial statement.
Noem originally said Pretti’s actions were the “definition of domestic terrorism.” She also claimed early on that Pretti brandished a weapon, something quickly disproven by video.
“She is a goddamn liar. She is a motherf**king liar is what she is. And these people operate like [President] Donald Trump, as if there is no video evidence of what they’re saying. As if we’re not supposed to see and hear. What our eyes and ears are showing us,” Lemon said....
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Don, the undead never use mirrors!
TX Supreme Court Halts Dallas Co. From Counting Late Votes — Susie Madrak
Last-minute changes to Election Day voting procedures in two Texas counties yesterday led to hundreds of voters being turned away from polling places JUST AS THEY PLANNED.
First, Democratic voters in the area were given two extra hours to cast their ballots after a judge intervened – only to have the state Supreme Court order the county to keep separate any votes cast during the extended voting period.
Rep. Jasmine Crockett understood what happened.
“Listen, this may be a very close election, and it may hinge on who was allowed to vote or who wasn’t allowed to vote in Dallas County,” she said. “Regardless as to whether or not it’s close or not, this is wrong if one person has the right to vote, and they weren’t allowed to cast their vote.”
Oh yeah, and at the last minute, voters in Dallas and Williamson counties had to navigate new voting rules that required them to vote at assigned precincts -- BUT THEY DID NOT PUBLISH THE NEW LOCATIONS. (How conVENient!) The change sparked confusion with hundreds of voters turned away from polling places and sent to the correct precincts, according to Kardal Coleman, the Dallas Co. Dem chair.
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The Texas Fascist government prevails in their attempt to suppress the vote! They must be replaced!
'Smokin something': Retired general warns Pentagon briefing revealed looming disaster — Sarah K. Burris
Brig. Gen. Steve Anderson told CNN after the Wednesday morning Pentagon press conference, "somebody's smokin' something."
During his briefing, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth was asked how Iran had nuclear weapons when the administration said last year that they obliterated the weapons in the "12-Day War."
Hegseth told reporters that President Donald Trump believed Iran "had no intention of making a deal." He claimed that Iran didn't have nuclear weapons; rather, they "had the intentions" of getting such weapons. This conflicts with Trump's ongoing claims that Iran was at work on nuclear weapons again.
"They can’t do the nuclear… They’ve got to stop with the nuclear," Trump said in January at the World Economic Forum.
“After Midnight Hammer, they were warned to make no future attempts to rebuild their weapons program, and in particular nuclear weapons, yet they continue. They’re starting it all over… One thing is certain: I will never allow the world’s number one sponsor of terror, which they are by far, to have a nuclear weapon," Trump said during his State of the Union address, mere days before the strikes.
CNN's Natasha Bertrand reported that Trump administration officials acknowledged during a closed-door briefing on Capitol Hill on Tuesday that they have major concerns about Iran's drone program because they haven't been able to intercept all of them, as evidenced by the six dead American soldiers in Kuwait.
During the briefing on Wednesday, both Hegseth and Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine agreed that the drones do pose a bigger problem than they anticipated....
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Smokin'? Yes. The stem of his pipe is a gun barrel.
The Stupidest, Saddest, Sleaziest of Spectacles — Robert Reich
What happened to my wonderful old department is typical of what Trump is doing to our government
Friends,
Trump says he’s not responsible for what happens next in Iran. “It’s up to the Iranians.”
He acts as if he’s not even responsible for what’s happening in his own government. After federal agents murdered two people in Minneapolis and Border Patrol head Greg Bovino was sacked, Trump lamely explained, “Bovino is very good, but he’s a pretty out there kind of a guy. It some cases that’s good, maybe it wasn’t good here.”
Yesterday the White House quietly removed Lori Chavez-DeRemer’s two top aides at the Labor Department because, well, they were pretty out there, too.
To paraphrase Daniel Webster when speaking to the Supreme Court about Dartmouth College in 1819, the DOL is a small department, but there are those who love it.
I loved it from the moment I entered the Frances Perkins Building on Constitution Avenue as secretary of labor in January 1992.
I loved its mission: to protect and raise the standard of living of working Americans....
Why am I telling you all this? Because I’m heartbroken. The wonderful department I once loved is being turned to shit.
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As Trump is doing to our government and our country!
Is Deporting a Journalist the Ultimate Form of Cancel Culture? — Thom Hartmann
A top conservative podcast calls for deporting a Muslim critic, so who’s really trying to silence dissent?
It probably shouldn’t surprise us. After all, intolerance and hate have always been the fuel that drives and sustains rightwing movements around the world and throughout history.
Now the hosts of one of the largest-circulation “conservative” podcasts in the country are calling for a Muslim commentator to be stripped of his citizenship and deported from America.
His sin? He called for the next president to take down the Hitler-style massive banners on the Justice and Labor Department buildings that feature Trump’s face, and the new one on the Education Department with Charlie Kirk’s face. And, of course, he’s a brown-skinned Muslim....
Mehdi Hasan’s one of the smartest people I’ve ever met, and he’d absolute destroy these two snowflakes in a debate. Which is why, of course, they’re not debating him but simply trash-talking him.
This neofascist call to use the power of government to punish a person for their speech is about as un-American as it gets. And it’s also right in line with the reactionary conservative impulse that goes back more than two centuries....
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What happens when a Nazi criminal runs things!
REPORT: Noem Secretly Took $80,000 From Nonprofit
ProPublica reports:
In 2023, while Kristi Noem was governor of South Dakota, she supplemented her income by secretly accepting a cut of the money she raised for a nonprofit that promotes her political career, tax records show.
In what experts described as a highly unusual arrangement, the nonprofit routed funds to a personal company of Noem’s that had recently been established in Delaware. The payment totaled $80,000 that year, a significant boost to her roughly $130,000 government salary. Since the nonprofit is a so-called dark money group — one that’s not required to disclose the names of its donors — the original source of the money remains unknown.
Noem then failed to disclose the $80,000 payment to the public. After President Donald Trump selected Noem to be his secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, she had to release a detailed accounting of her assets and sources of income from 2023 on. She did not include the income from the dark money group on her disclosure form, which experts called a likely violation of federal ethics requirements.
Experts told ProPublica it was troubling that Noem was personally taking money that came from political donors. In a filing, the group, a nonprofit called American Resolve Policy Fund, described the $80,000 as a payment for fundraising. The organization said Noem had brought in hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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The wages of hiring from the gutter.
Interior Dept Furious Over Leaked Database Showing Plan To Rewrite History On Black And LGBTQ Rights
Reuters reports:
The U.S. Interior Department said a database revealing how President Donald Trump’s administration planned to revise information on key phases of ?American history at national park sites was deliberative and the employees ?who released it “will be held accountable.”
An internal government database first reported, opens new tab by the Washington Post and posted on two public, opens new tab websites, opens new tab on Monday revealed the scope of the Trump administration’s ?effort to revise or remove information on African-American history, LGBT rights, ?climate change and other topics at hundreds of national park ?sites.
Trump has targeted cultural and historical institutions – from museums to monuments to national ?parks – to remove what he calls “anti-American” ideology. His declarations and executive orders have ?led to the dismantling of exhibits on slavery, the restoration of Confederate statues and other ?moves ?that civil rights advocates say could reverse decades of progress.
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Lowlife scumbag racist bastards!
Trump was lured into war with Iran by tantalizing tidbit in secret phone call: report — Travis Gettys
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called President Donald Trump last week with a tantalizing tidbit that has since blown up into a major war operation.
Three sources tipped off Axios to the Feb. 23 call, which Trump took in the White House Situation Room and had not been previously reported, and said that Netanyahu told the president that Iran's supreme leader and his top advisers were all set to meet Saturday morning at one location in Tehran – giving U.S. and Israeli forces an opportunity to kill them all in a single strike.
"It answers the question that lawmakers, MAGA skeptics and world leaders have all been asking since Saturday: why now?" Axios reported. "The answer: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his inner circle were irresistible targets of opportunity that neither Trump nor Netanyahu wanted to pass up."...
"One thug calls up another thug....says; ... "there's rumors that the Iranian regime is plotting a hit on several Middle East sites by the weekend....so we have to act ASAP."
The dumb thug says; "lets fckg do it"...Im going all in, fck them; they tried to assassinate me, " ...Im talking to my biggest thug "Pete at the Dept of War" .. we're ready let's have it.
Netanyahu more than likely conjuring up a fight against an enemy he's wanted taken down for decades. (Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthes) the Ayatollah in Iran had other plans, but has always been made ready.....for Plan B and C.
Trump's impulsive unhinged behavior finally gave way to vulnerability and it's costing our country and other countries as well. Hillary Clinton said in 2015; what if the thin skinned unfit Trump goes unhinged?.
This can't be a war; it's revenge, retribution, and giving the entire country up for the billions of dollars handed to Trump and his Family.....had to make good. The Middle East finally found there puppet and used him. Deadly." — EatCake2026 (comments)
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Planet of the Mobsters!
MAGA national security expert turns on Trump with devastating prediction: 'Impeachable!' — David McAfee
...Pyne said, "As his hopes for a quick war have been dashed by Iran's refusal to stop fighting after the US foolishly turned their supreme political and religious leader into a martyr, Trump is reportedly considering sending in US Special Forces into Iran along with Kurdish militia forces. Trump is now planning to invade a country that is nearly four times larger than Iraq with twice as many people."
He then made a prediction:
"The result will likely be a war that could last a year or more with several thousand US military servicemen coming home in body bags just in time for the November mid-term elections fueling Democrat calls for his third impeachment."
Pyne further said, "I'm guessing that Trump didn't fully think through the likely outcomes of his Iran forever war folly before he made the rash decision to start the biggest regional war in the Middle East in thirty-five years."...
"How many times do they think the Kurds will let us fuck them over as pawns in our stupid wars?" — Megumin (comments)
"There are so many lessons from recent history that this doesn't go well from sending "advisers" to Vietnam , Bay of Pigs fiasco, Iraq, Aghanistan etal. Oh that's right Trump doesn't read or know history recent or past. He gets his "information" from the armchair chicken hawks on Fox." — Joy (comments)
"Stupid and his crew foolishly thought that getting rid of the Ayatolla would make the Iranian people grateful to America. WRONG. They are flooding the streets right now with chants of death to America. The trump regime is too fucking stupid to realize that 6,000 years of Iranian culture is no match for a rogue American government's lies, attempted hostile takeover and it's pathological lying POS President." — VooDoo Ranger (comments)
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But, but -- "that’s Berlin Wall stuff." — Lindsey Graham.
Pentagon Launches “Anti-Terror” Operation In Ecuador
The New York Times reports:
The United States and Ecuador have launched joint military operations against “designated terrorist organizations” in the South American country, the Pentagon said on Tuesday night, in what appeared to be a major expansion of the U.S. military’s unilateral strikes against boats in the Caribbean Sea and Eastern Pacific that the Trump administration has accused of carrying drugs.
U.S. Special Forces soldiers are advising and supporting Ecuadorean commandos on raids across the country against suspected drug shipment facilities and other drug-related sites, according to a U.S. official who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss operational matters.
The Americans are not believed to be participating in the actual raids, but are helping the Ecuadorean troops plan their operations, and are providing intelligence and logistics support, the official said.
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Same way we got into Vietnam.
SF Ballet Cancels Kennedy Center Performances
The New York Times reports:
The San Francisco Ballet has withdrawn from a series of performances at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the company said, in the latest cancellation during the Trump administration’s takeover of the institution.
...In a statement responding to the ballet company’s decision, Richard Grenell, whom President Donald Trump appointed as the Kennedy Center’s president last year, said, “Professional artists should perform for everyone — not just for people they agree with politically.”
"Not for fascists. Not for a repressive regime that cages children. Not for a narcissistic tyrant who takes over public property and makes them his own." — magic twanger (comments)
"...It's not just a matter of political disagreement. You Nazis are a disgrace, and enemies of democracy."— JT (comments)
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Rick doesn't believe in the right to protest a venue for a Nazi movement? I see.
Pentagon Names Four Soldiers Killed In Iran War
...The soldiers were: Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20, of West Des Moines, Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42, of Bellevue, Nebraska, Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35, of Winter Haven, Florida, Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39, of White Bear Lake, Minnesota.
"A war to preserve a pedophile." — Chris (comments)
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Perhaps more than one.
Trump’s Missing FBI Reports: Impeach Him Already! — Cliff Schecter
The underlying principle's simple: A President credibly accused of monstrous crimes whose administration buries relevant evidence in violation of the law isn't “totally exonerated.” Trump and Bondi have engaged in a criminal coverup.
This is not a close call. It's not a matter for delicate parsing. When credible allegations of child sexual assault vs a sitting President produce multiple FBI interviews and interview summaries vanish while his Attorney General controls them—the stench isn't subtle. It's overpowering.
Our nation cannot endure selective transparency. We can't demand exposure for the weak and discretion for the strong. If disclosure laws are ignored, they're not laws. Whether it’s House impeachment and Senate trial, or demands Trump resign, something must be done....
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The Trump Swamp gets deeper!
Top ally talked Trump into military strikes over a game of golf: report — Thomas Kika
Sen. Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican, has been among the most vocal supporters of Trump's use of military force against foreign nations, championing his operations in Venezuela and Iran, and pushing for him to target Cuba next. According to Politico, Graham was instrumental in convincing the president to approve strikes against Iran, and "to the surprise of no one familiar with the relationship between" them, did so over rounds of golf.
..."We were thinking about this early, early on about how Iran is a spoiler for expanding the Abraham Accords and stability in the Mideast,” Graham told the outlet. “I told him before he took office… if you can collapse this terrorist regime, that’s Berlin Wall stuff."...
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World terrorism for peace!
Graham Declares Trump To Be “Modern Day Churchill”
“Bibi and Trump are the modern Roosevelt-Churchill combination. Bibi and President Trump are Roosevelt-Churchill, two great war time leaders working together to bring down evil. Iran would kill Americans in large numbers if they could. If they could build a missile to hit us, they would hit us. If they had a nuclear weapon, they would use it...."
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A lot of 'ifs' there. I heard Bibi attacked Lebanon today. He's is one of the world's biggest terrorists. The U.S government is right with him. You are a part of the U.S. government Miss Lindsey. Therefore you support terrorism!
Rubio Denies Having Said US Attacked Iran Because Israel Was Going To, Thereby Putting US Troops At Risk
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Proving the left hand doesn't even know there IS a right hand! LMAO!
Hospitals Closing And Disabled People Losing Home Care Thanks To Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' — Robyn Pennacchia
While he said we have a “virtually unlimited supply” that is better than every other country’s arms supply, he still wants even more weapons of the “highest end.” Nothing but the fanciest gold-plated artillery for our military!
This probably cost us a whole lot of money, and will cost us a whole lot more, but luckily for Trump, his One Big Beautiful Bill cut a trillion dollars from federal support for healthcare.
Unfortunately, this has not worked out quite as well for people who need healthcare. According to a report from CNN, “in northeast Georgia, a hospital closed its maternity ward. In rural New Hampshire, a community health center shuttered. And in Iowa, a Des Moines hospital system laid off dozens of employees and closed a clinic.”
And one thing all of these healthcare facilities have in common is that they’ve cited the Big, Beautiful Bill as a reason for their closures....
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Trump is a pig.
Trump Hasn’t a F*cking Clue What He’s Doing — Robert Reich
He has no endgame for his war, which may be his undoing.
Friends,
Trump said Monday that the United States would continue attacking Iran for “whatever it takes.”
But what’s the “it” in that sentence?
He also said: “We’re destroying Iran’s missile capability” and “annihilating their navy” and ensuring that “this sick and sinister regime” in Iran “can never obtain a nuclear weapon.”
But how will we know when we’ve achieved any of this?
American intelligence officials say Iran has not tried to rebuild its main nuclear sites since the U.S. attack in June. Iran’s stockpiles of enriched uranium are still buried deep under rubble. The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency says his agency has found no evidence that Iran resumed enriching uranium since June.
Yet even more U.S. forces are headed to the Middle East, and Trump says bigger waves of airstrikes are coming. He hasn’t ruled out sending in ground troops.
Neither Trump nor anyone else in his regime has provided any clarity about how we’ll know whether we’ve “won” this war....
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Not one damned thing.
Planning Your Doomsday Party? Better Hurry. — Jaime O’Neill
Be assured, it’s not too late, at least not yet. Retail outlets have begun to stock festive Doomsday Party favors. It’s hard to tell if they just had a hunch or that like the people who bought oil company stocks just before the bombs began to fall, the CEOs of companies that usually start selling Christmas stuff soon after Halloween might have known what was coming before the rest of us figured it out.
In any event, you’ll want to get your invitations in the mail PDQ is you want to spend the last Big, Beautiful Bombing Day with friends who haven't made plans already. Fun is sure to be had by all, whether you’re cursing Trump and Netanyahu or praising them as brave patriots out to save the world by destroying it.
Muslim or Jew, Venezuelan or American, Democrat or Republican, gay or straight, black or white, man or woman, predatory capitalist or deluded communist, pedophile or victim of pedophiles, all worries soon cease. No more concern about paying the mortgage, the rent, or your taxes. Jubilation Day is at hand.
Doomsday Parties will feature religious themes, of course, but godless heathens will find ways to express their relief, too. Evangelical Christians will be enraptured by the prospect of being transported to heaven, toot sweet, a place where they can spend eternity with people much like themselves. Islamic peoples will die knowing that Allah had willed their release from suffering here on Earth. Still other Semites like Jews will celebrate surcease from terrorism, pogroms, and the burden of having been God's chosen....
Well, just crank up the music, have another snort or another drink, and fuck it. Just fuck it all. At least you made it to the end.
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Nothing but terrorists running every country now.
Operation Epstein Fury: Is This About National Security or Political Survival? — Thom Hartmann
Madison and the Founders of his generation had it right: what Trump is doing violates both the Constitution and the foundational norms of democracy
Operation Epstein Fury — with a bonus to help Bibi get re-elected so he doesn’t have to face charges for his criminal behavior — is rolling on as Trump ignores the constitutional requirement that only Congress can declare war.
He’s also violating the War Powers Resolution of 1973 that dictates the president, if he reacts to an actual attack on America like Pearl Harbor, must notify Congress within 48 hours and have authorization within 60 days. In this case there was no actual or even imminent attack against America.
To further confuse things, Trump is throwing the Iranian protestors under the bus by saying that he’s willing to talk with the Iranian regime now that Kahmenei is dead, much like he crapped on pro-democracy voters and protestors in Venezuela when he kept that repressive regime intact after illegally removing Maduro and promising democracy.
This conflict is also now spreading. Kahmenei was to many Shia Muslims around the world something akin to what the Pope is to Catholics (there’s no equivalent among the Sunni Muslims). Imagine the Catholic world’s fury if a country had assassinated Pope Leo XIV: we’re now seeing Shia protests and outrage from Bangladesh to Pakistan to Lebanon.
And here at home Trump is musing about using Iranian interference in our 2020 election as an excuse to issue an emergency executive order to seize control of the upcoming November midterm election....
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Our criminal is running amok!
Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino Now Under Criminal Investigation — Susie Madrak
Former Customs and Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino’s use of chemical irritants during the Department of Homeland Security’s “Operation Metro Surge” in Minnesota is the target of a criminal investigation now underway in Hennepin County, the county Attorney’s Office announced yesterday.
County Attorney Mary Moriarty mentioned Bovino’s actions at Monday’s news conference. Footage captured by activist Ben Luhmann shows Bovino throwing a gas canister at protesters and observers in Minneapolis’ Mueller Park on January 21. The canister released green gas that, as Duke University School of Medicine professor and tear gas expert Sven-Eric Jordt told a Mother Jones reporter, may contain the carcinogenic reproductive toxicants lead and chromium.
Moriarty also stated that the office had launched a Transparency and Accountability Project to examine a total of 17 cases, staffed by prosecutors and a civilian investigator from the county office.
The project includes a “portal for community members to share photos and video on any incidents that may involve potentially unlawful conduct by federal agents,” Moriarty said, as well as eyewitness accounts of similar experiences—a response to the federal government’s refusal to provide information that could be used to hold its agents to account.
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It all comes back around, ya see.
Trump Loses Appeal To Delay Supreme Court's Tariff Smackdown — David Edwards
President Donald Trump and his administration lost an appeal that would have delayed a Supreme Court ruling striking down the authority to impose emergency tariffs.
In a ruling issued on Monday, the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a Trump administration bid to delay the effective date of the Supreme Court's tariff ruling by 90 days.
The court granted the appellees' motion for "immediate issuance of the mandates" imposed by the Supreme Court. In doing so, it also denied a "cross-motion to stay the issuance of the mandates."
"The mandates shall issue forthwith," the court said.
Last month, the Supreme Court struck down sweeping tariffs imposed unilaterally by the president. By a 6-3 vote, the high court said Trump had illegally imposed the tariffs.
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So much losing!
Trump confronts surprising pushback from Moscow officials — Matthew Rozsa
US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are famously chummy, but a recent report reveals that Putin’s fondness for Trump has not trickled down to the rest of the Russian population — including many of Putin’s own supporters.
“When President Donald Trump returned to the White House last year, some Russian hardliners were cautiously optimistic, hoping his unpredictability and transactional nature might benefit Moscow on Ukraine,” Reuters reported. “But his attack on Iran means many now see him as a growing threat to Russia itself and are questioning if Trump is the pragmatic, potentially pro-Moscow strongman ready to deal in realpolitik that they thought he was.”
For this reason, many Putin supporters in Russia want their president to walk away from the Trump-mediated peace talks with Ukraine and ramp up their military activities instead. They fear that Trump cannot be trusted after his invasion of Iran, which he acknowledges is being spearheaded by their alliance with Israel.
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Trump's boss is miffed
'Incoherent' Trump unprepared for the disaster he's creating: DC insider — Adam Lynch
Former Obama Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes said disrupting the government of a nation like Iran has a way of spilling chaos into neighboring nations, which is why Obama and other presidents thought hard about attacking the nation before doing it.
President Donald Trump, however, is not a thinker.
“We did war games, essentially scenario planning, where you anticipate what might happen in the event of a military conflict,” Rhodes told New York Times columnist Ezra Klein. “… [H]aving been through Iraq and Afghanistan and Libya in the Obama administration, we had just seen the uncertainties that are unleashed in any kind of military conflict in the region.”
The problem behind Trump’s removal of Iranian leader Ali Khamenei, said Rhodes, is that he represents a “deep, deep regime within ideological institutions” that dig deep into Iran’s national psyche.
“So what you could have is an implosion,” said Rhodes. “If there’s an uprising and then there’s a chaotic civil war — which is not hard to imagine because we’ve seen that in Libya, Iraq and Afghanistan, the other places where the U.S. has been involved militarily — and there are millions of refugees.”
But Klein said Trump’s belief appears to be that he can decapitate a regime and control its successors without events spinning out of his control....
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Meet the new boss, same as the old boss! The regime is still the same in Iran. Trump has done nothing but commit more murders.
Trump tried to sabotage nemesis over bid to release Epstein files: report — Nicole Charky-Chami
President Donald Trump was reportedly so hell-bent on trying to stop lawmakers from revealing the relationship he had with Jeffrey Epstein that he tried to poach a Republican enemy's staff.
Trump apparently wanted to stop Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and his team. Massie was pushing legislation to prompt the Department of Justice to release the Epstein files and the trove of documents connected to the late financier and convicted child sex offender, according to The Daily Beast....
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Trump definately has something he's trying to hide.
WHOA IF TRUE: Punchdrunk Pete Hegseth Insists Iran Started The War - UPDATED — John Amato
Trump's propaganda machine arrives on the scene.
...In Trump's first bombing raids months ago against Iran. Trump claimed all nuclear resources that Iran had were completely obliterated. The rationale the Trump administration is using has changed since the weekend, since most of what Trump said was the reasons were easily debunked.
A tightly coiffed, severely amped-up Hegseth moved the goalposts.
Now, if you give the US dirty looks, we will kill you?...
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The bullshit is thick and often.
Mace Investigated For Shady Housing Reimbursements
CNN reports:
GOP Rep. Nancy Mace is under investigation by the House Ethics Committee for allegedly attempting to profit off of a congressional program intended to defray housing costs for lawmakers’ Washington, DC, residences — a claim she has denied. According to a newly published report from the Office of Congressional Conduct, the South Carolina Republican sought and was paid roughly $9,500 beyond the actual costs of her residence in DC.
“There is substantial reason to believe that Rep. Mace engaged in improper reimbursement practices,” the nonpartisan watchdog group said in its official referral to the House Ethics Committee. Mace was participating in a housing reimbursement program for members of Congress, which is intended to help subsidize lodging, food and travel expenses for lawmakers who must maintain households both in Washington and in their districts.
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More crime in Trump's Swamp.
Loomer: “Now It’s Time To Round Up The Muslims”
President Donald Trump’s sitting (alleged) white supremacist confidant, Laura Loomer, is one of the loudest voices on social media, responded to the news of the bombing by basically saying, “Now, do the ones who live here!”...
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Nah! We start with hatemongers like her!
Whistleblower: Patel Ended Probe Into Renee Good Murder Because He Didn’t Want Her Listed As “Victim”
The Daily Beast reports:
Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee have come forward with an explanation for FBI Director Kash Patel’s decision to order agents to stop investigating the killing of Renee Good at the hands of an ICE agent in Minneapolis.
In a Monday X post, the Democratic senators cited a “credible whistleblower” who said, “FBI forensic experts were ordered to stand down from processing the scene where Renee Good was killed, because Kash Patel did not want Good referenced as a ‘victim’ in the warrant.”
The revelation comes just days after ranking members Sheldon Whitehouse and Dick Durbin called for an investigation into the FBI’s decision to shut down a civil rights investigation into Good’s killing.
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More criminal activities by our government since Nixon!
U.S. Troops Told Iran War Is For 'Armageddon,' Return Of Jesus — Susie Madrak
More than 110 similar complaints about commanders in every branch of the military had been logged by the Military Religious Freedom Foundation from Saturday morning through Monday night.
A combat-unit commander told non-commissioned officers at a briefing Monday that the Iran war is part of God’s plan and that Donald Trump was “anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth,” according to a complaint by a non-commissioned officer.
More than 110 similar complaints about commanders in every branch of the military had been logged by the Military Religious Freedom Foundation from Saturday morning through Monday night....
"The hope for the return of Christ...is a racist, felonious pedophile who committed treason against America, raped women, cheated in every business dealing and on every wife, and can not recognize a single book of the Bible.....
Okay, then.
Remove every officer accused of these crimes that are specifically noted in the UCMJ.
Impeach Trump and his entire cabinet of corruption.
Our constitution needs more definitive safeguards against this and fascist takeover and any that may come in the future. Make it so." -- DemoChristian (comments)
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Garbage peddled by Talibastards! Deluded as hell can make them!
We are wittnessing the "New Crusades."
Clinton mocks MAGA rep to her face for asking about 'wacky' Pizzagate conspiracy theory — Thomas Kika
"Have you reviewed any 2025-2026 Epstein files that were released that you believe reference or relate to those specific 2016 claims regarding the Podesta emails, Comet Ping Pong, pizza used as code possibly?" Boebert asked.
After questioning about the nature of Boebert's question and the "wacky Pizzagate scandal" from the former secretary's legal team, Clinton responded: "Pizzagate was totally made up. It was an outrageous allegation that ended up hurting a number of people, that caused a deranged young man to show up with his assault rifle and shoot up a local pizzeria. I can't believe you're even referencing it."...
Throughout Boebert's series of questioning, Clinton repeatedly grinned and shook her head. Near the end of the video shared online, she appeared to mock Boebert's question.
"I mean really, I expected a lot of interesting questions today, but Pizzagate was not on my list," Clinton said.
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The intellectual level of BoBo is not surprising. The Nazis have nothing but time to kill.
Trump's Iran strikes will not 'collapse regime' as admin intended: expert — Ewan Gleadow
Strikes on Iran will not topple the regime as Donald Trump's administration intends, an expert on the Middle East has warned.
While the president may hope to see change in the region following a series of strikes over the weekend, which left over 500 people dead, the chances of wholly changing the Iranian regime remain slim, according to the analyst.
Andreas Krieg, senior lecturer at the School of Security Studies at King's College London and fellow at the Institute of Middle Eastern Studies, warned there would be little in the way of change to the regime itself, as it is built unlike Western governments....
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Every one of their half-assed wars have failed. They are totally insane and inept.
Dow asks Texas to legalize plastic pollution from its Seadrift complex — Dylan Baddour
Facing multiple lawsuits, North America’s largest chemical manufacturer requests an “unprecedented” permit amendment to authorize its discharge of polyethylene pellets into coastal waters.
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The sickening, retarded human virus!
Trump's Frightening Plan To Steal The Election Leaks — Cliff Schecter
On Shuster’s Wrap-Up, David shared a stunning draft executive order circulating among Trumpers proposing seizing presidential control over elections—flatly contradicting the Constitution. I won't sugarcoat it, it's incredibly alarming shit. When added to what we know Pam, Kash, Kristi & Homan are willing to do, we had better prepare. NOW.
Meanwhile, chaos unfolded in Iran--or I should say the two worst elected fascists in the world, Trump & Bibi, unfolded it, engaging in an unprovoked attack to distract from..well, news on Trump's plan to steal the elections and his allegedly (mother of all trigger warnings) taking turns with Epstein with a 12 and 13-yr old. Sick f*ks.
With all this--and what we're seeing in Texas, where the number of voters turning out in primaries has flipped by 30% in Democrats' favor vs the 2022 midterms(!), Republicans are ready to do anything--like..develop a plan to steal an election or start an illegal war of choice, imminent failure, sacrifice of U.S. troops, and quite frankly premeditated murder.
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And you thought it couldn't happen here?
Marjorie Taylor Greene Smacks Laura Loomer Upside Her Warmongering Head — Conover Kennard
Former Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene took to the Bad App to tear into right-wing political activist Laura Loomer with a full-on takedown over her warmongering post.
Donald J. Trump's illegal decision to unleash joint U.S.-Israeli strikes is already bringing in a death toll. Three American military personnel lost their lives , and five others suffered serious injuries during operations involving Iran, according to a statement from US Central Command released Sunday. Several additional service members sustained minor injuries and have been cleared to return to active duty, the command added.
In response to the news, Loomer wrote, "American heroes. God bless them and their families," phrasing that reminded me of George W. Bush landing on that aircraft carrier with his "Mission Accomplished" banner. To MAGA, war is peace now. They've lined up like little ducklings to parrot the administration's unclear excuses for another senseless war.
"This bitch is celebrating the death of American military members and thanking their families for their blood sacrifice," Greene wrote about that whole entire bitch. "Loomer lost two Congressional races bc nobody respected her or valued her enough to elect her. But this is who Trump takes late night calls from and laps up her praise and worship."
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What? Are you too old to enlist, Laura?
WTF? Florida Legislators Want To Pass Bill Authorizing Their Own CIA — Susie Madrak
If Florida enacts House Bill 945, it will create a CIA-style structure at the state level that blurs the traditional line between state law enforcement and intelligence work. A state-level intelligence office empowered to scrutinize residents based on ideology is precisely the kind of proposal likely to spread once normalized.
The bill would create an intelligence office charged with identifying and disrupting threats to Florida and the United States. That alone should raise questions. The federal government already spends enormous sums (trillions of dollars since 9/11) on national security and counterterrorism. Why would states duplicate those functions without demonstrating a clear need, specialized expertise, or meaningful oversight?
That's not just only wasteful but dangerous. After September 11, Congress created the National Counterterrorism Center precisely to prevent disconnected intelligence operations from proliferating. HB 945 moves in the opposite direction, inviting a patchwork of state-run intelligence units operating outside a federal framework, recreating the very fragmentation federal reforms intended to fix....
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It appears they have yet to announce their cessation from the United States. This is certainly pointing the direction in which they are going. The dear old Land of the Happy Negro all over again!
Trump official's 'tone deaf' response to US war dead in Iran blows up in his face — Tom Boggioi
Donald Trump’s ambassador to the United Nations stepped in it on Sunday morning with a glib and unsympathetic response to news that three US service members have died while taking part in the ongoing attack on Iran known as "Operation Epic Fury."
...Major combat operations continue, and our response effort is ongoing,” and then singled out “respect for the families.”
In his repost, the Trump appointee simply added, “Freedom is never free,” followed by an American flag emoji.
""None of you give a damn about our military members.”
Don't forget he called the people who served in the military like my husband who served 2 tours in Vietnam and flew over 250 missions over the North, "suckers and losers" !!!! Because I know I haven't forgotten! — 1GG (comments)
"No, you schmuck, these people didn't die for freedom. Renee Good died for freedom. Alex Pretti died for freedom. Our service members died for the right of the United States to impose its will on other peoples by force of arms." — Frankly, my dear,... (comments)
"Cheers to all the dbags in the F250’s with flag paint jobs, 2d Amendment decals, and “stand for the flag, kneel for the cross” signs. As if the draft dodger that disrespected John McCain’s five years of torture would ever respect service members" — Moishe Remy (comments)
"What does any of this have to do with freedom. Freedom from what. They didn’t die for freedom. They died to cover up the Epstein Files. They died because Trump is failing in the polls. They died to appease Saudi Arabia and Israel. But they most certainly did NOT die for freedom." -- Hellbound (comments)
"Trump and his sycophants have no respect for hunan life, for uniformed service, (I include police, firefighters, doctors and nurses, all first responders and their support teams, under the banner 'uniformed service') for painful injuries rehabilitation, for sacrifice, for the bereaved. None.
Watch when he gives a condolences speech - he will have that fucking repulsive psychopathic 'dupers delight' face on.
He is in essence... America's disgrace." — Lest We Forget (comments)
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We most certainly know what Trump is and is not!
Far-right influencer urges followers to 'vote Democrat' and abandon GOP over Iran war — Travis Gettys
..."What does this administration do other than cover up the Epstein files, embezzle money through government contracts and bring us to war for Israel?" he added. "This administration needs to be shut down immediately."...
Fuentes then advised his "groyper" followers to withhold their votes from Republican candidates or even back Democratic candidates in November in protest of the Iran war....
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Trump is now losing the Right.
Historians resist Trump’s effort to police the past — Chauncey DeVega
Attempts to reshape the Smithsonian reflect a broader campaign to control public memory and what Americans learn
Donald Trump is an instinctive authoritarian. This is the defining feature of his personality and political life. Since his return to power, he has become much more extreme, ambitious and dangerous. Such leaders know that controlling the past is how you win the present — and lay the groundwork for commanding the future. These types of bad actors will never be satisfied in their quest to remake society in their ideological and personal image....
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He wants everyone to remain as stupid as he is.
Trump: Potential Successors To Ayatollah Were Killed
"Because anarchy is such a good model of government..." — Karl Dubhe IV (comments)
"So, all the successors were little elementary school girls?
What a mess!" — Little Dino - Meteor Defense
"Potential Successors To Ayatollah Were Killed
Anyone thinking of attacking the US already has a list." — Harveyrabbit (comments)
"I’m sure they still have a thousand people more qualified than Trump. — Dwight Willamson (comments)
"We Should be in the streets in front of the WH demanding his removal. He's unfit to serve physically, mentally, morally. He should be forced into EXILE." — GayOldLady (comments)
"This Is all bullshit. Trump built up the troop presence in the area to intimidate the Ayatollah into an agreement on Trump's terms. The aircraft carriers and battleships were past their maximum window of deployment, enlisted troops were restless and angry, threatening to leave the service when their re-up date arrived and Trump hit the "USE IT OR LOSE IT" point, so he used it. Now we're running out of "AMMO" Iran has been preparing for this for decades and are ready to take our best punch. Trump couldn't intimidate them into submission and he played a bad hand. In typical Trump fashion, he fucked up, now he will be forced to sacrifice more of our blood and treasure to save face, then he'll TACO" — GayOldLady (comments)
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Sure, sure. Radical muslimism has been erased forever, also too.
Pentagon To Congress: Iran Wasn’t Planning First Strike
Reuters reports:
Trump administration officials acknowledged in closed-door briefings with congressional staff on Sunday that there was no intelligence suggesting Iran planned to attack U.S. forces first, two people familiar with the matter said.
Sunday’s remarks to Congress appeared to undercut one of the key arguments for the war made by senior administration officials.
They told reporters the day before that President Donald Trump decided to launch the attacks in part because of indicators that Iranians might strike U.S. forces in the Middle East “perhaps preemptively.”
"Trump is a war criminal." -- Oh, Parker (comments)
"We've been the bad guys since 1492, ie. Howard Zinn's "Peoples History of the United States". Great book. Great Read." — Dn'tLemeDy'nFL (comment)
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We've been had by the con man again!
AP: Markets Open Sharply Lower And Oil Prices Soar
"Yup Trump just fucked us all...All you assholes who voted for this dick I say.........FUCK YOU!!!!!" -- The Wolflam (comments)
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Forget lower gas prices, America.
Giant Banner With Dead Podcaster's Image Hangs On DC Education Building — Karoli Kuns
What an insult to put barely-high-school-graduate Charlie Kirk next to Booker T. Washington and Catharine Beecher. This is our country now.
In Washington, D.C., Hair Fuhrer has decreed that huge banners be displayed on every government building in honor of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Trump himself is splayed all over the front of the Department of Justice in some kind of sick, ironic message to the peons below.
Now there's a new one on the Department of Education. There is Booker T. Washington, the revered Black educator and orator, and there is Catharine Beecher, the champion for girls' education and early education.
And beside the likenesses of those two icons, there is Charlie Kirk, a man who was divisive and mean, who barely finished his high school education and never finished college, who especially wanted women to eschew education for man-worship and more.
If ever there was a more jarring juxtaposition between true champions of education and one who is not, I couldn't think of one.
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Pissing on America, you bastards!
What Critics Still Get Wrong About Marijuana Legalization — Paul Armentano
Cannabis re-legalization is a work in progress. But it’s here to stay — and by and large, we’re mostly getting it right.
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Nothing is right about Cannibis in Texas. They are still in the 18th Century with it.
At the Times and the Post, solid reporting with a mealy-mouthed presentation — Dan Froomkin
...The headlines are watered down. The top paragraphs are full of weasel words. Essential context is missing. Rather than draw the obvious conclusions, they (at best) attribute them to Trump critics, often far from the top of their stories.
Clearly, there is something in the culture established by top editors that mitigates against calling out Trump for who he is, in the misbegotten name of political neutrality. (See, e.g., something I wrote recently about Times editor Joe Kahn; and something I wrote a while back about “objectivity”.)
And presumably the reporters assure themselves that clever readers will read between the lines and understand the truly sordid nature of what they are reporting.
But that’s not enough. The burden shouldn’t be on readers to glean the real meaning from a news article. And for a lot of news consumers, the headline – and maybe the first paragraph – is all they read....
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Godd thing we have a "free press," eh? Maybe we have a "fear press"?
Trump reacts to dead service members by boasting he got a 'great deal' for their lives — David Edwards
President Donald Trump responded to the death of three U.S. service members by bragging he got a "great deal" in the war that ended their lives.
On Sunday, U.S. Central Command confirmed that three members of the armed forces had been killed in action during Operation Epic Fury against Iran.
"Several others sustained minor shrapnel injuries and concussions — and are in the process of being returned to duty. Major combat operations continue, and our response effort is ongoing," CENTCOM said in a statement. "The situation is fluid, so out of respect for the families, we will withhold additional information, including the identities of our fallen warriors, until 24 hours after next of kin have been notified."...
"We expect casualties with something like this," the president said. "We have three, but we expect casualties - but in the end it's going to be a great deal for the world."
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A deal off the bottom.
Reuters Poll: Only 27% Support Trump’s Attack On Iran
Reuters reports:
Only one in four Americans approves of the U.S. strikes that killed Iran’s leader, while about half — including one in four Republicans — believe President Donald Trump is too willing to use military force, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll that concluded on Sunday....
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This doesn't seem to be a celebration, Mark Levin.
Bloodthirsty Mark Levin: Attack On Iran Should Unify The Country — John Amato
Levin's bloodlust raged on Fox News.
Fox News host Mark Levin celebrated Trump and Israel's assault on Iran with gleeful exuberance and claimed the country should be "celebrating."
Read the fucking room.
The people of the United States have no interest in starting another war in the Middle East. Period. Yes, we have warmongers like Mark Levin and others but they make up a very small minority.
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Levin has been a cancerous idiot for many years. You and Lindsey. All paid by Israel.
Lindsey Graham: 'This Idea You Break It, You Own It, I Don't Buy That One Bit' — Heather
Warmonger Senator Lindsey Graham gets testy when asked what's next for Iran.
Sen. Lindsey Graham has been making the rounds since Trump and Israel launched their attack on Iran, heaping praise on Dear Leader and pretending everything is going to go wonderfully, rather than admit they just opened up a can of worms with no idea what comes next with the chaos they unleashed on the region....
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Time will tell, Miss Lindsey. It will be you or the people of America.
Three dead, including suspect, and 14 injured after shooting at Austin bar — Alex Nguyen and Sam Stark
Officials are investigating the early Sunday morning shooting as a potential act of terrorism, but didn’t provide further details, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
At least three people — including the suspected gunman — are dead following a shooting early Sunday in downtown Austin, officials said. Fourteen others were injured.
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Sure glad the Nazis have made it safe in America again! I guess we'll blame it on Obama or Biden?
Marjorie Taylor Greene On Trump's Attack On Iran: 'Bunch Of Sick Fking Liars' — John Amato
Former MAGA superstar Marjorie Taylor Greene, blasted Donald Trump's attack on Iran in a series of social media posts, highlighted by calling him and his administration, "a bunch of sick fucking liars."
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Good for starters, Marge. What else ya got?
A Staggering Proportion of High School Kids Are Using AI to Do Their Homework, Which Is Probably Not Going to End Well — Joe Wilkins
Who could’ve guessed that when you give millions of kids free access to a homework-writing chatbot, they’d stop writing their own essays?
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Trump said he wanted to kill education. Here's what ya get. Reap what you sow.
We are dumb as a sack of hammers now. We will get dumber by far until we wake up.
Pentagon Says Three US Soldiers Were Killed In Attack
The Washington Post reports:
Three U.S. service members were killed in action and five were seriously wounded, Central Command said Sunday morning, the first reported U.S. casualties in the joint attack with Israel on Iran. The military also said several other service members suffered minor shrapnel injuries and concussions.
After the killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, in the operation, strikes across the Middle East continued Sunday, with Israel saying it launched a fresh wave in “the heart of Tehran†and Iran mounting attacks on Israel and across the Persian Gulf.
A strike from Iran killed at least nine people near Jerusalem, according to Israel’s national emergency service, and injured at least at 28.
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Was "Pistol Pete" one of them? Asking for a friend.
'Sacrificed by the pedos': Trump faces backlash over US service member deaths — David Edwards
President Donald Trump faced backlash after at least three U.S. service members were killed following the strikes he ordered on Iran over the weekend.
On Sunday, U.S. Central Command announced that three members of the armed forces had been killed in action during Operation Epic Fury.
"Several others sustained minor shrapnel injuries and concussions — and are in the process of being returned to duty. Major combat operations continue, and our response effort is ongoing," CENTCOM said in a statement. "The situation is fluid, so out of respect for the families, we will withhold additional information, including the identities of our fallen warriors, until 24 hours after next of kin have been notified."
The announcement was met with prayers and criticism.
"Sacrificed by the pedos of Washington to protect Tel Aviv while Israelis are singing and dancing in bomb shelters. What a sad ending," Hadi Nasrallah lamented.
"3 Americans are now KIA in Trump's regime change war of choice," Breaking Points host Saagar Enjeti wrote.
"RIP. Praying for their families," Lincoln Project's Rick Wilson commented. "I am reminded, apropos of nothing, that the one of (if not the first) casualties of Operation Iraqi Freedom was a young Marine rifleman named Jose Gutierrez. He was a Guatemalan immigrant who granted American citizen after he died fighting for our country."
"Donald Trump has more American blood on his hands, having helped cause the unnecessary deaths of these three soldiers with his illegal, unprovoked, unnecessary war on Iran," Mehdi Hasan said.
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Kill For Peace — The Fugs
No, Trump Didn’t Make Historic Progress on Drug Prices — Jonathan Cohn
DONALD TRUMP SPOKE ABOUT prescription drugs for more than three minutes during Tuesday night’s State of the Union address. That’s practically an eternity, given the context and setting. But it’s not so surprising if you’ve been following the news.
For months, Trump and his advisers have been saying they want prescription drugs to be a central focus of the Republican midterm campaign. Specifically, they want to make sure voters know about the deals Trump reached with major drug companies that—according to Trump—mean Americans are now paying “the lowest price[s] anywhere in the world.”
“Other presidents tried to do it, but they never could,” Trump said Tuesday, repeating a line he’s used many times before. “I got it done.”
The boasts serve more than Trump’s vanity. They also serve a political purpose: They are a way for Republicans to show they are addressing “affordability”—and to distract attention from what they’ve been doing to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act.
But claims that Trump accomplished what no other president has accomplished on drug prices—and that Americans can now get the lowest prices in the world—do run into one small problem.
They’re mostly bullshit....
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He got it done alright! Tier 1 drugs cost way more this year than last year. Anyone will know as soon as they renew their prescription.
Sunday Thought: Trump’s Real Reason for War — Robert Reich
Friends,
Trump and Netanyahu’s attack on Iran is premised on a gossamer web of assumptions and inferences.
Trump says Iran has enough nuclear material to build a bomb within days, will soon have long-range missiles capable of hitting the United States, and plans an attack. But he has offered no evidence. Most experts say he’s wrong.
Here’s the real reason for this war. Trump wants it to divert Americans’ attention from everything that’s gone to shit on his watch: the economy, ICE’s cruel raids and murders, the crisis in public health as exemplified by the measles epidemic, our loss of friends and allies around the world, his boundless corruption, and his increasing unpopularity as shown in plummeting polls.
Oh, and there are the Epstein files, rapidly closing in on the man whose history of sexual assaults and braggadocio make his complicity highly likely.
Benjamin Netanyahu is also using this war as a giant diversion. He doesn’t want the world to dwell on the genocide in Gaza and the West Bank....
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Trump is a know-nothing. He's a paranoaic who lies constantly, fearing the law with catch up to his crime spree.
Sweet Hour of Prayer -—Jaime O'Neill
In his indefatigable effort to break everything that he hasn’t already broken, President Trump has now unleashed the dogs of war, joining with Israel to bomb Iran. Though you may have missed it in the flurry of distractions we've been pummeled with for so long now, he also recently shared his idea that every American should pray at least one hour a week. His bombing of Iran should help popularize that idea.
Urging us all to pray is surely an idea whose time was hastened by opening the ball on a big, big war in the Middle East, with shrapnel and consequences spreading to places as yet unknown. There will be hell to pay, that much is certain, but it might serve to keep Jeffrey Epstein's name from popping up for at least a few news cycles in days to come.
Trump didn't direct us in how we should pray or advise us of what to pray for. As with so many things from him, he left it vague. So, it might be good if those of us left with much goodness and a smidgen of hope did our best to fashion the very best prayers we can muster. Even the least religious folk among us might recognize this as a pretty damn good time to fall to our knees in prayer....
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Let us prey!
House Dems Plan To Subpoena Trump About Epstein
The Washington Post reports:
House Democrats, who hope to regain the majority in the November midterms, are already charting an aggressive strategy of investigating the Trump administration next year, including using subpoena power to compel testimony from President Donald Trump and launching impeachment proceedings against Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem.
Rep. Robert Garcia (D-California) said in an interview that if he is given the gavel to lead the House Oversight Committee next term, a Democratic majority would “absolutely†pursue an interview with Trump regarding convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Garcia justified such a bold move by arguing that the GOP-led committee set “a new precedent†by deposing former president Bill Clinton in Chappaqua, New York, on Friday, about his past relationship with Epstein as part of a broader investigation.
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Get him under oath. Then he will be charged with purjury as he can't tell the truth!
Trump's Iran strike 'fantasy' is about to unleash 'utter anarchy and chaos': analysi — Robert Davis
“To the great, proud people of Iran, I say tonight that the hour of your freedom is at hand,” Trump said in the more than eight-minute video posted on Truth Social. He also implored the Iranian people to “take over your government. It will be yours to take.”
There's just one problem with that theory. There is no group strong enough to take over the country's government, author and journalist Fred Kaplan argued in a new article for Slate.
"It is worth recalling that, in 2003, President George W. Bush sent 150,000 troops to depose Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq, yet even they were unable to impose order but instead incited an insurgency and a civil war that lasted nearly a decade and destabilized the entire region," Kaplan noted....
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Which radical faction do you want "in charge" of Iran?
Trump’s war on Iran is America’s shame, and the world’s failure — Andrew O'Hehir
Trump's attack on Iran is an act of vanity and desperation, fueled by America's collective moral blindness
Well, the woke Marxist liberals wouldn’t give him the Nobel Peace Prize, and wouldn’t even let him have Greenland as a treat. So, really, what choice did he have?
The joke isn’t funny, I agree. That’s because it comes too close to the truth. There are various ways to understand the U.S.-Israeli bombing attack on Iran launched on Saturday morning, which according to some reports has killed the Iranian regime’s senior religious leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. None of them have anything to do with democratic legitimacy or coherent geopolitical strategy. This pseudo-war is based on false or dubious premises, has little or no popular support and professes unclear or unachievable goals....
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It has all been brought to you by a retarded America.
NYT Board Blasts Trump’s “Reckless” Attack On Iran
The New York Times editorial board writes:
In his 2024 presidential campaign, Donald Trump promised voters that he would end wars, not start them. Over the past year, he has instead ordered military strikes in seven nations. His appetite for military intervention grows with the eating.
Now he has ordered a new attack against the Islamic Republic of Iran, in cooperation with Israel, and it is much more extensive than the targeted bombing of nuclear facilities in June. Yet he started this war without explaining to the American people and the world why he was doing so.
Nor has he involved Congress, which the Constitution grants the sole power to declare war. He instead posted a video at 2:30 a.m. Eastern on Saturday, shortly after bombing began, in which he said that Iran presented “imminent threats” and called for the overthrow of its government. His rationale is dubious, and making his case by video in the middle of the night is unacceptable.
"Maybe the NYT should spend even a fraction of the time they spent obsessing over Joe Biden's perceived health issues on Donald Trump's obvious physical and mental unfitness. They created this monster with their both-siding, sane-washing bs." -- vap (comments)
"okay, now back to the Epstein Files and how many times trump is in them and the allegations against him." — nycbystander (comments)
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Trump could use this to install martial law and declare all elections off due to his war. Of course, this would be Nazi bullshit since we had elections during wars before! This is what you get for voting for an insane criminal!
Saudi Prince Privately Lobbied Trump To Launch Attack
The Washington Post reports:
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman made multiple private phone calls to Trump over the past month advocating a U.S. attack, despite his public support for a diplomatic solution. Netanyahu, meanwhile, continued his long-running public campaign for U.S. strikes against what he views as an existential enemy of his country.
The attack came despite U.S. intelligence assessments that Iran’s forces were unlikely to pose an immediate threat to the U.S. mainland within the next decade. Saturday’s attack on Iran was a break from decades of U.S. decision-making to hold back from a full-scale effort to depose the regime of a country of more than 90 million people.
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These are the same criminals that trained the suicide pilots that taok down the World Trade Center!
Trump took the bribe! This is what America has been reduced to by the grifter. Total corruption!
The Buffoonery Of James Comer: Where's Lutnick? — John Amato
Hillary Clinton wasn't mentioned in the Epstein Files.
Chairman James Comer exposed himself as a fool again on Thursday. He gave more evidence that he uses his Committee solely for the purpose of covering up Trump's involvement with Jeffrey Epstein, while using Trump's political rivals as a smokescreen.
Comer held a press conference on Thursday discussing their closed-door hearing with Hillary Clinton and claimed his committee has been totally bipartisan....
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Some people just have not a clue. Comer has no idea of how stupid he looks.
Trump courting fiasco in escalating conflict: analysis — Alex Henderson
"Eight minutes. That's the length of President Trump's social media video announcing his war with Iran," French explains. "He didn't go to Congress. He didn't obtain a UN Security Council resolution. Instead, he did perhaps the most monarchical thing he's done in a monarchical second term: He simply ordered America into war."...
"I think this just goes to show how completely incoherent their strategy is or lack thereof. And look, I know a lot of my colleagues are also trying to justify this, saying that Iran shouldn't have a nuclear weapon. I agree Iran should never be allowed to get a nuclear weapon. We had a deal that, while imperfect, was actually working towards getting there, and instead Donald Trump pulled us out of that deal," Jacobs aid.
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Trump lied.
This War Will Last You For Years — Son House
Trump says he's 'entitled' to illegal third term — Brett Wilkins
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He's entitled to a prison sentence!
Graham: US Deaths In Iran Would Be For “Noble Cause”
The New York Post reports:
President Trump views the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as “Hitler in a robe wearing a turbin,” and his decision to green light “Operation Epic Fury” is a “1000-year moment,” Sen. Lindsey Graham boldly assessed.
Graham (R-SC), a close Trump ally and longtime hawk on Iran, predicted that the strikes on Iran have set in motion the “evil” regime’s demise and could lay the foundation for normalization between Israel and Saudi Arabia in a massive game-changer for the Middle East.
“I’ve been talking to him [Trump] continuously for days and weeks. He’s of the mindset that Ayatollah is Hitler in a Robe wearing a turban, that he’s not capable of changing his ways,” Graham told “Fox & Friends Weekend” Saturday.
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Too bad you won't be one of them, little missy!
Trump Does Not Deny He Plans To Steal Midterm Elections -- NewsHound Ellen
As I have previously posted, The Washington Post reported on Thursday that “pro-Trump activists” have drafted a plan for their (presumably) favorite sexual predator and felon to declare a bogus national emergency so that he can seize control of the midterm elections.
If it wasn't true, wouldn't Trump have vigorously denied it? He didn't.
Trump responded to the question by deflecting. Pritzker has “gotta focus on crime in his state,” Trump accused. He rambled on to say that Illinois is “doing very badly” in terms of crime (it isn’t). “If we went and took care of it, we’d do just like Washington, D.C. We have no crime,” Trump dubiously claimed. Then he claimed that crime is down 82% in Memphis and touted the supposedly great crime-fighting job Republican Jeff Landry is doing in Louisiana. (Louisiana has one of the highest crime rates in the country.)
Then Epstein’s former BFF went back to attacking Pritzker. “What he should really do is focus on crime in his state because there’s too much of it.”...
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Said the criminal, Trump, who continues to admit to craving illegal acts like the insame power addict he is as he attempts to cover up his past crimes.
Lab-Grown Brains Growing More Powerful — Joe Wilkins
...Now, scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz are taking lab-grown mini-brains into their toddler era, after demonstrating that brain organoids can process information in real time.
In a remarkable breakthrough published in the journal Cell Reports, researchers were able to effectively coach lab-grown brains into solving the “cart-pole” problem. The cart-pole problem is an engineering benchmark used in robotics, artificial intelligence — and now cognitive science — to measure how effective systems are at processing information.
The test basically involves balancing a broomstick upright on your palm. Gravity forces you to constantly adjust your position — move too much or not enough, and the broom falls. Every human needs to solve this problem in order to stand and walk upright. Luckily for us, we have our animal instincts (and more importantly, our inner ears) to guide us through; brain organoids have no such advantage.
Yet by coaxing their mini-brains with electrical signals guided by a reinforcement learning algorithm, the UCSC researchers were able to “coach” the organoids from a cart-pole “win” rate of just 4.5 percent to a whopping 46 percent.
“You could think of it like an artificial coach that says, ‘you’re doing it wrong, tweak it a little bit in this way,'” Ash Robbins, the study’s lead author said in a press release. “We’re learning how to best give it these coaching signals.”...
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Hope for the retarded masses? I wouldn't hold my breath!
Massie Blasts “Acts Of War Unauthorized By Congress”
Politico reports:
Some of President Donald Trump’s Capitol Hill critics were quick to condemn his administration’s military action against Iran early Saturday, criticizing what they described as an unjustified act of war that hadn’t been approved by Congress. Shortly after reports of the attack against Tehran emerged in the predawn hours, frequent Trump-basher Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) characterized the strikes on social media as “acts of war unauthorized by Congress.”
Massie and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) had planned to force votes next week on legislation that would curb Trump’s ability to take unilateral military action against Iran without congressional approval. One of the first Democrats to respond to the strikes, Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.), condemned the attack on social media, writing that “we can support the democracy movement and the Iranian people without sending our troops to die.”...
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America, the Criminal!
Wagging the Dog: Trump Bombed Iran and Blew Up His America First Base — Colby Hall
President Donald Trump, facing economic strain, terrible polling, tariff retreats, stubborn inflation, and the lingering Epstein fallout, just ordered airstrikes inside Iran.
Overnight, the United States, in coordination with Israel, hit multiple targets. Iranian state media has reported senior leadership casualties, though key details remain unconfirmed. If top regime figures were indeed killed, this was not a symbolic warning shot. It was escalation at the highest level.
The administration calls the action necessary and precise. Perhaps it was. But when force is deployed abroad during visible domestic turbulence, suspicion follows.
“Wag the Dog†entered the political lexicon after a 1997 film about a president who manufactures a foreign crisis to distract from scandal. The movie was satire but the cynical political instinct it captured was not. When a White House under pressure reaches for military force, voters ask whether the battlefield just changed the subject.
And irony of ironies, Trump has himself encouraged that exact same suspicion....
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Trump must be removed by any means necessary.
Trump Officials Attended a Summit of Election Deniers Who Want the President to Take Over the Midterms — Doug Bock Clark
Several high-ranking federal election officials attended a summit last week at which prominent figures who worked to overturn Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 election pressed the president to declare a national emergency to take over this year’s midterms.
According to videos, photos and social media posts reviewed by ProPublica, the meeting’s participants included Kurt Olsen, a White House lawyer charged with reinvestigating the 2020 election, and Heather Honey, the Department of Homeland Security official in charge of election integrity. The event was convened by Michael Flynn, Trump’s former national security adviser, and attended by Cleta Mitchell, who directs the Election Integrity Network, a group that has spread false claims about election fraud and noncitizen voting.
Election experts say that the meeting reflects an intensifying push to persuade Trump to take unprecedented actions to affect the vote in November. Courts have largely blocked his efforts to reshape elections through an executive order, and legislation has stalled in Congress that would mandate strict voter ID requirements across the country....
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The motherfucking barbarian scumpigs! Wipe the traitors out!
'Tested well with 6-year-olds': Pentagon buried for 'embarrassing' name for Iran attack — Alexander Willis
While the Trump administration’s unprecedented attack on Iran has received a wave of scrutiny, so too did the name the administration had given the operation – Operation Epic Fury – which was dogpiled on Saturday morning by critics as childish.
“It's called Operation Epic Fury because it tested well with a panel of 6 year olds and Steven Seagal,” wrote author Russ Jones in a social media post on Bluesky Saturday.
“More like Operation Epstein’s Fury,” wrote prominent political commentator and social media influencer Jackson Hinkle in a post to his more than 3.6 million followers on X, referencing the Trump administration’s ongoing fallout from its botched investigation into Jeffrey Epstein.
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The intellectual level of the Trump Crime Syndicate!
‘Sick’: MAGA stunned after pollster reveals Trump admin’s move ahead of military operation — Alexander Willis
“Polling reviewed by the administration asked how many American casualties voters were willing to accept in a war with Iran,” Baris wrote in a social media post on X Saturday morning, several hours after President Donald Trump had authorized strikes on Iran.
“The answer was ZERO. Americans demanded ZERO casualties because Americans did NOT support a war. That's how stupid this was.”
Marjorie Taylor Greene, the former Republican member of Congress from Georgia and devout MAGA faithful, responded to the apparent revelation with shock, claiming that Trump’s efforts to enact regime change in Iran were counter to what MAGA stood for.
“The Trump admin actually asked in a poll how many casualties voters were willing to accept in a war with Iran???” Greene wrote Saturday in a social media post on X. “How about ZERO you bunch of sick f------ liars. We voted for America First and ZERO wars.”...
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Trump doesn't even understand his own constiuentcy!
'To slop': Jane Fonda skewers Donald Trump — Matthew Rozsa
...“Trump’s head is stuck in the 80s so he may not have noticed that cable is dying,” conservative commentators Tim Miller and Amanda Carpenter wrote in their Friday podcast episode. “All he can think about is getting his greedy little hands on CNN so he can make them say nice things about him. But independent outlets—like The Bulwark— are changing the media space and are beyond the reach of a corrupted FCC. Nevertheless, our screens are going to be filled with vast quantities of pro-MAGA propaganda.”.
One business journalist speculated that the Ellisons purchased Warner Brothers Discovery precisely so they could control CNN.
“The question nobody is asking is the one that keeps me up at night: what has already been arranged for the one asset the president demanded change hands, in the one company where someone quietly built the legal infrastructure to make it happen, five months ago, before anyone was looking?” business journalist Audrey Henson wrote on Substack prior to Netflix’s withdrawal being announced.
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These Trump bastards aren't interested in the American people. They are only looking to control you and me.
OpenAI strikes deal with Pentagon following Claude blacklisting — Anthropic to challenge supply chain risk designation in court — Luke James
Altman’s announcement came not long after President Trump “ordered” every federal agency to immediately stop using Anthropic's technology.
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The Trump shakedown forcing more evil to come from his Crime Syndicate.
Footage Contradicts DHS Claim of Dropping Refugee at “Safe Location” in Buffalo — Julia Conley
Surveillance footage taken at a Tim Hortons donut shop in Buffalo, New York contradicts the US Department of Homeland Security’s claim that Border Patrol agents dropped Nurul Shah Alam, a 56-year-old nearly blind Rohingya refugee, at a “warm, safe location” after he was released from jail last week, days before he was found dead....
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The Trump lie machine fails again!
For the First Time, More Americans Sympathize With Palestinians Than Israelis — Sharon Zhang
This is a huge change from recent decades, when sympathy for Israelis had, at times, a 50-point lead.
For the first time in modern history, Gallup finds that the proportion of Americans who sympathize more with Palestinians has surpassed those who favor Israelis — a stark reflection of changing attitudes toward the top U.S. ally as it commits a live-streamed genocide in Gaza and wanton ethnic cleansing in the occupied West Bank.
Polling released Friday finds that 41 percent of Americans now say their sympathies lie more with Palestinians than Israelis, up from 32 percent in pre-genocide levels. Meanwhile, sympathy for Israelis has plummeted amid the genocide to a mere 30 percent, down from 49 percent in Gallup’s last poll prior to October 7, 2023.
Those who claim equal sympathies, no affiliation, or no opinion remained roughly the same in this year’s poll, Gallup found.
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What happens when your country supports genodide.
RFK sparks firestorm with new advice for broke Americans to eat 'peasant food' — Daniel Hampton
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy took to the stage at an "Eat Real Food" rally in Austin, Texas, this week, where he delivered advice for cash-strapped Americans: skip the fancy cuts.
"There's a lot of good food in grocery stores that goes to waste. Most of the cheap cuts of meat are very inexpensive. If you buy a porterhouse steak … it is gonna set you back," Kennedy declared in a clip posted to X. "You can buy liver, or the cheaper cuts of steak that are very very affordable."
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Eat shit, America! Leave those "fancy cuts" to me. Then take one from a guillotine blade, asshole!
Abolish ICE? Absolutely — and DHS too — Mike Lofgren
No reform can fix Trump’s corrupt secret police — and the whole bureaucracy of repression should go as well
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Add "Pistol Pete" to your list!
Hegseth Bars Officers From “Woke” Ivy League
The U.S. Defense Department will stop sending officers on professional courses and graduate programs at Ivy League colleges, Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth said on Friday, declaring the schools had become “anti-American”.
"MIT is not an Ivy school.
Want to make that clear is all." — AreYouPreparedToGoToCourt? (comments)
"There is a facsist coup in progress." — JackFknTwist (comments)
"I see a Dead man walking." — The Wolflam (comments)
"Dig that hole as deep as you want, asshole. When the regime is toppled come November you'll be scratching your head, your ass, and your balls wondering what happened. Yes, you are that stupid." — Luke - my beautiful Luke (comments)
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Peter went to Princeton and Harvard. Is this where he was radcalized?
MAGA US Senate Candidate Bizarrely Declares “30% Of Californians Are Homeless On Any Given Night, 30%!”
"The 2024 election was bad in so many ways, but one of the bad parts was it convinced conservatives that they no longer need to tell believable lies and in fact their base loves it when their lies are implausible to the point of cartoonish.
Once they feel they were rewarded for "eating the cats" and "school children literally pee in litter boxes", they figured skies the limit on just saying whatever insane bullshit they can think of to grab the headlines." — Cerberus (comments)
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On any given night or day 100% of MAGAt candidates are BATSHIT CRAZY LUNATICS!
US And Israel Begin “Massive” Bombing Of Iran [VIDEO]
The New York Times reports:
The United States and Israel attacked Iran on Saturday in a major assault that threatened a broader regional conflict, with President Trump vowing to devastate the country’s military, eliminate its nuclear program and bring about a change in its government.
Large explosions shook the Iranian capital, Tehran, where people reported seeing smoke rising from the district that includes the presidential palace. Witnesses described chaos in the streets as Iranians rushed to seek shelter, find loved ones or flee the city.
Is Trump DOJ Covering Up An Epstein Drug-Trafficking Investigation? — NewsHound Ellen
What happened to a DEA investigation into Jeffrey Epstein and why did DOJ redact names of the 14 other suspects?
As Sen. Ron Wyden, ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, put it, “This is a big one.”
Wyden is referring to a 2015, 69-page memo recently found in the Epstein files. The investigation was “spearheaded by the DEA and involved drug trafficking and money laundering,” Wyden wrote on Bluesky. “Epstein was one of 15 targets. The other 14 names are redacted.”..
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The "Bored of Peace" at work!
More crime for Trump to coverup!
Trump sabotages emerging peace deal with military escalation — Sarah K. Burris
President Donald Trump launched strikes on Iran early Saturday morning, claiming that talks over a nuclear agreement had broken down. Speaking after midnight, Trump warned, “The lives of American heroes may be lost, and we may have casualties — that often happens in war.”
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Trump is a warmonger! Anything to distract the Epstein crime investigation!
Why the fuck do we have a Congress? These chicken shits do nothing and we pay for it!
"And you can be the first ones in your block
To have your boy come home in a box." — Vietnam Song, Country Joe McDonald
Epstein files contain explicit but unsubstantiated claim that Trump abused minor
...Department of Justice did not release FBI memos when it uploaded millions of pages of files beginning in December
The Guardian obtained the missing FBI form 302 reports, which memorialize 25 pages of agents’ notes from the four interviews conducted in the summer and fall of 2019. The notes describe how the woman came forward to tell agents she recognized Epstein from a photo sent by a childhood friend. Only the first session, in which she did not name Trump, made it into the public release. The Guardian has chosen not to publish the woman’s name....
“There is definitely, in my opinion, evidence of a cover-up happening,” Garcia told NBC News in the wake of the first reports. “The FBI clearly investigated, and now those documents are gone.”...
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The DOJ is a part of a coverup. There will be more evidence.
Nearly Blind Refugee Escapes Ethnic Cleansing In Myanmar, Dies In Trump's American Version — Doktor Zoom
Donald Trump and Stephen Miller’s campaign to rid America of immigrants claimed yet another life last week, although this time it took a little time for the body to be found.
Nurul Amin Shah Alam, 56, had been in jail in Buffalo, New York, for just over a year after city cops tased and beat him February 15, 2025, for the crimes of being nearly blind, lost, confused, and unable to understand whatever the cops were yelling at him.
After Shah Alam’s family finally reached a plea agreement they thought would keep him out of the maw of Trump’s deportation machine, he was released from the Erie County Holding Center after posting bail last Thursday. Not to the care of his family, but instead to Border Patrol agents, who eventually drove him to a closed Tim Horton’s in Buffalo and left him. The DHS goons didn’t bother contacting his family or his attorney, just dumped him miles from his home, unable to speak English or see more than a few feet in front of him. His body was discovered five days later, on Tuesday night, about four miles from the coffee shop, according to Buffalo police.
Mr. Shah Alam survived the Myanmar military government’s genocide against its Rohingya Muslim minority — facilitated by Facebook, never forget — and was granted refuge here in the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Some refuge! We don’t do that anymore, and the rules changed right under millions of people. And on a social media platform owned by another billionaire fascist, the American dictator’s supporters said nobody named ‘Nurul Amin Shah Alam’ belongs in America in the first place....
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The disgrace of America.
If Trump doesn't have a direct line to hell he has their agent's line at the ready to get his work orders from Old Nick!
Anthropic CEO Scratches Pete Hegseth's Belly While Telling Him No — Evam Hurst
If you are not caught up on this week’s drama between AI giant Anthropic, which runs the chat robot Claude, and Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon, which apparently wants to use Claude to mass-surveil innocent Americans and murder them with drones, click here.
The simplest CliffsNotes version is that the Pentagon had given Anthropic until 5:01 p.m. today to remove all its safeguards, specifically the ones that would allow them to use Claude for said mass surveillance, and to make final targeting decisions on what to bomb the shit out of, without human involvement. In other words, killer drones that can make their own drone-killing decisions, as we explained yesterday.
Secretary Shitfaced is a not-very-bright bully, a model of human ideally suited to carrying shopping bags, blaming others for his own problems, and making loud grunting sounds. (But not kettlebell swings and pull-ups, he’s bad at those.) So he’s been threatening to invoke the Defense Production Act on Anthropic to give him the precious murder technology he craves. Is he getting off on the idea that if Claude made the final decisions on targeting and murdering, nobody could charge him personally with war crimes? Maybe. But to invoke the DPA would suggest that these murder drone surveillance capabilities are so crucial to national security, we just cannot live without them.
But simultaneously he’s threatening to designate Anthropic as a supply chain risk, which would seem to be in conflict with the idea that it is totally necessary for national security!
It’s almost like Secretary Shitfaced is a liar and a little bitch.
And Anthropic seems to have his number.
After we published yesterday, Anthropic issued a long statement ahead of today’s deadline, and it is a master class in telling that little wart-faced, make-up wearing weenus “no,” while distracting him by scratching his belly and catering to the exposed nerves of the poor little thing’s gaping masculine insecurities....
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Back to hell with the lush!
“Send Them Back” Is the Oldest Racial Taunt in History, and Now It’s Being Amplified by Trump — Thom Hartmann
Trump’s attack on elected officials of color isn’t just ugly rhetoric, it’s a calculated attempt to redefine who gets to belong in this democracy.
Donald Trump didn’t merely criticize his political opponents this week, both at the SOTU and from his office yesterday morning. He went on a racist rant that would have embarrassed a talk radio shock jock (if it didn’t get them fired), much less a head of state.
After Representatives Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib shouted “shame” and “liar” during his State of the Union and walked out in protest, Trump took to social media to sneer that they had “the bulging, bloodshot eyes of crazy people” and were “LUNATICS, mentally deranged and sick” who “look like they should be institutionalized.”
He labeled them “Low IQ” — his favorite slur for women, Black, and Hispanic people — and suggested they be sent back “from where they came.” He lumped in Robert De Niro as “Trump Deranged,” “demented,” and possibly “criminal” for criticizing him.
This is the president of the United States talking.
This may have been normal politics in the old Confederacy — which Trump is trying to revive with his base namings and statues and purging Black history from museums and monuments — but it shouldn’t be normal today.
This is an elderly man — whose father was busted in a Klan rally and who himself was busted in the 1970s for refusing to rent to Black people — now occupying the Oval Office and responding to dissent with language that sounds like it was scraped from the darkest, most disgusting corners of the internet....
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Send Trump back to hell where he came from!
Ex-Arizona lawmaker who questioned election integrity gets probation for using forged signatures — Jacques Billeaud
Austin Smith previously portrayed the allegations against him as a coordinated attack by Democrats that was “silly on its face.”
PHOENIX (AP) — A former Republican lawmaker who questioned the integrity of Arizona’s elections and served as a leader for the conservative group Turning Point Action was sentenced Tuesday to probation and a five-year ban on running for public office for using nominating petitions that contained forged signatures in a bid to qualify for a 2024 primary election.
Austin Smith, 30, pleaded guilty in mid-November to charges of attempted fraudulent schemes and practices, and illegal signing of election petitions. He had acknowledged trying to use petitions with forged signatures that he knew were false and forging a dead woman’s signature on a nominating petition.
Smith represented an Arizona House district in the Phoenix suburbs for one term before dropping his reelection bid in April 2024 when questions arose about signatures on his nominating petitions....
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The crooks that are defrauding our elections are Nazi Republicans. Trump is one of them!
Pentagon Got $34 Billion In “Unrequested” Funding
Roll Call reports:
Congress added nearly $34 billion above the president’s fiscal 2026 defense request for more than 1,000 research and procurement programs favored by lawmakers but not necessarily by the military, according to a new report.
The $33.97 billion in a fiscal 2026 omnibus spending law is a dramatic surge in appropriations for what are known as program increases in the defense budget, according to the report and database, which are due out Thursday from Taxpayers for Common Sense, a nonpartisan group that monitors federal spending.
Congress has a duty to shape, not just rubber stamp, budget requests. But the cost of the additions is mounting each year, while no audits have assessed how many of them have yielded useful weapons. Moreover, the process of choosing the projects is inscrutable to the press and public, while the names of the projects’ proponents are mostly undeclared. And the spending regularly goes to entities that have bankrolled congressional campaigns, raising ethical questions, critics say.
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The looting of America by the Trump Crime Syndicate. What a bunch of fools we are.
Lancet: Kennedy’s “Destruction” Will Last Generations
Premier medical journal The Lancet writes:
The mechanisms maintained by the Federal Government to monitor and report health concerns such as drug overdoses, maternal mortality, and food security have been as beleaguered as the doctors and scientists who rely on them; thousands of datasets are no longer publicly available, leaving Americans—and the world—unprepared to respond to future crises.
And crises are looming: in November, 2025, the first human infection (and death) from the H5N5 strain of avian flu was recorded in Washington state; pertussis, which killed 13 people in the USA in 2025, continues to spread across the country; and the measles outbreak that began in January of last year now threatens the elimination status of the USA and Mexico.
Despite these developments, Kennedy has continued to spread misinformation and push politicised agendas at the expense of the country’s most vulnerable. When called to account for his decisions by Congress, he has been evasive and combative.
The destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 year might take generations to repair, and there is little hope for US health and science while he remains at the helm.
Calls for his resignation now number in the thousands. Congress must exercise its duty of oversight and hold Kennedy accountable for his record, or else accept responsibility for endorsing President Trump’s decision to let him “run wild on health”.
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May all Trump Nazis get slow stomach cancer!
Florida Cuts Off “Affordable Access” To HIV Medications
The South Florida Sun-Sentinel reports:
Florida’s Department of Health is using emergency rules to cut about 12,000 people off from affordable access to their HIV/AIDS medication starting Sunday. The Department’s emergency rules were filed Tuesday, one day ahead of a hearing in a legal challenge to the state over changes to the AIDS Drug Assistance Program.
Louise Wilhite-St. Laurent, an attorney representing the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, which filed the lawsuit, called the state’s move “legal subterfuge.” The advocacy group said the changes were invalid because the Department of Health never formally changed the state rule.
The foundation sued last month after the state said it planned to limit eligibility to the program — which helps low-income HIV and AIDS patients afford medication — from the current 400% of the federal poverty level to 130% of the federal poverty level, or about $21,000 a year for an individual.
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Is the Florida dictatorship the most dispicable bunch of assholes in our country when it comes to the humaities? YES!
“They can’t ride off into the sunset”: Moulton calls for ICE agents to be “prosecuted” — Alex Galbraith
The Mass. Democrat called for criminal prosecution against ICE's lawlessness in a new interview
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Every one of them!
AI Contractor Refuses Hegseth On Removing Guardrails
The Guardian reports:
Anthropic said Thursday it “cannot in good conscience” comply with a demand from the Pentagon to remove safety precautions from its artificial intelligence model and grant the US military unfettered access to its AI capabilities.
The Department of Defense had threatened to cancel a $200m contract and deem Anthropic a “supply chain risk”, a designation with serious financial implications, if the company did not comply with the request by Friday.
Chief executive Dario Amodei said in a statement that the threats from the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, would not change the company’s position, and that he hoped Hegseth would “reconsider”.
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Every company in the U.S. should tell Trump and his scumbags NO!
Pentagon Shoots Down Border Patrol Drone Over Texas
CNN reports:
The US military used an anti-drone laser system to shoot down a unmanned aircraft operated by US Customs and Border Protection in Texas, according to congressional representatives.
The incident comes just weeks after use of a laser system near El Paso led to confusion and exposed communication lapses among several US agencies.
“Our heads are exploding over the news that DoD reportedly shot down a Customs and Border Protection drone using a high risk counter-unmanned aircraft system,” three Democrats on the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure said in a statement.
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We shot down our own! What fucking reactionary idiots!
They have moved from balloons, at least
Judge Threatens DOJ Officials With Criminal Charges
Politico reports:
The top federal judge in Minnesota tore into Justice Department leaders Thursday and threatened potential criminal consequences for officials who he said were continuing to violate court orders at a historic clip amid President Donald Trump’s mass deportation push.
“This Court will continue to do whatever is required to protect the rule of law, including, if necessary, moving to the use of criminal contempt,” said Chief Judge Patrick Schiltz in a message posted on the docket of an immigration case he is presiding over. “One way or another, ICE will comply with this Court’s orders.”
“The Court is not aware of another occasion in the history of the United States in which a federal court has had to threaten contempt — again and again and again — to force the United States government to comply with court orders,” Schiltz said.
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Trump is NOT above our laws!
Trump's 2026 SOTU Speech Ratings Down From Last Year — John Amato
So much losing..
Early estimates from Nielsen confirm Trump's State of the union address on Tuesday had a much smaller viewing audience than last year's.
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The most despised administration ever.
'No authority': Red state Republican stands up to Trump — Matthew Rozsa
President Donald Trump wants a Republican politician in Utah, Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson, to hand over the entire voter registration database — but she is refusing.
“Neither state nor federal law entitles the Department of Justice to collect private information on law-abiding American citizens,” Henderson said in a statement responding to Trump’s lawsuit against Utah and 28 other states. “Utahns can be assured that my office will always follow the Constitution and the law, protect voters’ rights, and administer free and fair elections.”
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Trump can pass GO and go directly to hell.
Trump 'slipped his constitutional leash' and is crashing US into a civil war: conservative — Thomas Kika
Donald Trump's stubborn insistence against the Supreme Court's recent tariff ruling shows that he has "slipped his constitutional leash," and is driving the U.S. towards a new "civil war," according to a scathing new analysis from a conservative journalist.
Ambrose Evan-Pritchard is the international business editor for the British newspaper, The Daily Telegraph. This week, he published a new op-ed examining Trump's moves to denigrate the Supreme Court and use other tariff authorities to "pick the pockets of the people by new means."
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Predicted years ago by LOTHN.
Trump said beef, egg and chicken prices are falling. Here’s what the data shows — Greg Iacurci
President Donald Trump said during his state of the union address that prices for foods like eggs, chicken and beef have declined.
However, chicken and beef prices have increased since he took office in January 2025.
Egg prices have fallen substantially over the same period.
These price movements are largely guided by supply and demand dynamics specific to each type of food, rather than federal policy, according to economists.
Beef prices have increased during Trump’s second term
Trump said during his State of the Union address that beef prices are “starting to come down significantly.”
Federal data shows that beef prices have started to decline in some cases, but remain near multiyear or record highs.
Ground beef cost $6.75 per pound, on average, in January — the highest level on record, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Prices have increased 22% over the past year, from $5.55 per pound in January 2025, when Trump started his second term. That’s the fastest annual inflation rate since June 2020, during Trump’s first term in office.
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The leader of the free world lies to us. He lies and steals our money with illegal tarrifs. How can we go on this way?
Kansas Revokes Driver’s Licenses Of Trans Residents
The Kansas City Star reports:
Transgender Kansans are being informed on the eve of a new state law going into effect that their driver’s licenses will be considered invalid as of Thursday.
“Please note that the Legislature did not include a grace period for updating credentials. That means that once the law is officially enacted, your current credentials will be invalid immediately, and you may be subject to additional penalties if you are operating a vehicle without a valid credential,” read letters mailed by the Kansas Department of Revenue’s vehicles division.
“Pursuant to the new law, if the gender/sex indication on the face of your current credential does not match your sex assigned at birth, you are directed to surrender your current credential to the Kansas Division of Vehicles,” reads the letter, which The Star reviewed multiple copies of.
The law went into effect after Republicans overrode a veto by Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly.
Kansas Sec. of State Kris Kobach is somehow not in prison for his role in the private border wall scam with Steve Bannon.
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This takes the cake for American hate! Nothing like American hate. It's the primo state of hateful!
WH Plan Would Skyrocket Obamacare Deductibles
The New York Times reports:
The Trump administration’s proposed new rules for Obamacare plans next year would shift more health care costs to Americans, with much higher deductibles that could lead to larger medical bills.
Under the proposal, people who rely on the Affordable Care Act for their health insurance coverage could choose plans with much lower monthly premiums. But that could leave them exposed to medical expenses totaling thousands of dollars more than A.C.A. plans do now before their insurance would kick in.
Dr. Oz’s new proposal would allow one kind of health plan to raise the annual deductible to more than $15,000 for an individual and $31,000 for a family; those are much higher than current Obamacare plans. The individual deductible would be eight times the average for someone with job-based insurance.
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it will be a lonely country for the wealth when all the forgotten Americans are dead. They will have to depend on immigrants labor which have vanished but none will be left but the wealthy.
The U.S. is headed for disaster.
Trump DOJ is hiding 'what his base has always feared most': ex-GOP insider — Nicole Charky-Chami
Former Republican strategist Rick Wilson issued a blistering warning to President Donald Trump's closest allies, including "the criminals at the Department of Justice," amid mounting allegations over the president's relationship with late financier and convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The co-founder of the anti-Trump organization The Lincoln Project called out Attorney General Pam Bondi, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche and other members of Trump's inner circle for trying to avoid the inevitable in his Substack post Thursday.
"They released three million pages… but are hiding a similar amount," Wilson wrote. "They’re openly, brazenly, and corruptly flouting the law for the singular reason of protecting Donald Trump from what his base has always feared most: that Donald Trump will be revealed to be a pedophile and a rapist."
"The latter is already a matter of record. The former has lurked at the edges of their consciousness since Epstein’s crimes became more than just dark lore," Wilson added.
Wilson argued that DOJ leaders should spend the rest of their lives in jail; however, Trump would likely make this difficult with his "pre-emptive pardon."
"The victims of Jeffrey Epstein have been treated with a level of institutional contempt that should make every American sick," Wilson wrote. "They were promised justice; they have been ignored, ridiculed, and dismissed. The DOJ is now the primary shield for the predators it was built to hunt."
"And why is Todd Blanche there? It’s not for his legal brilliance," Wilson added. "This is the man who worked tirelessly to move Ghislaine Maxwell to a 'Club Fed' style facility, prioritizing the comfort of a sex trafficker over the justice for her victims. He is there because he maintains a private, privileged, back-channel communication line to the President, specifically to manage the Epstein Problem. He isn’t the Deputy Attorney General for the American people; he’s the janitor assigned to mop up the blood and DNA from Jeffrey’s island, ranch, and townhouse."
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Like Nixon, Trump's coverup attempt of his crimes will bring him down.
'Why not?' Boebert defiant over breaking big rule at Clinton's Epstein hearing — Nicole Charky-Chami
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), who violated rules of the House Oversight Committee during its deposition of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and took photos during the closed-door hearing, shrugged off questions about it Thursday.
Lawmakers were meeting with Clinton in her hometown of Chappaqua, New York, questioning her about her knowledge of Jeffrey Epstein, the late financier and convicted child sex offender. Boebert, who is a member of the committee leading the congressional investigation, reportedly took two photos during the questioning, which were sent to right-wing podcaster Benny Johnson and posted on social media.
Reporters later questioned her about what happened.
"She walked by our camera just a few moments ago, and a number of us asked her about her decision to take those photos and share them, and she said, 'Why not take those photos? I haven't been reprimanded,'" relayed MJ Lee, CNN senior national enterprise correspondent....
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I have heard, from a very strong source, Bobo's tits are fake just like the rest of her.
'Sad': MAGA buried over plot to cook up 'sham national emergency' to usurp elections — Matthew Chapman
President Donald Trump's supporters handed him a 17-page draft proposal on how to declare a national emergency to seize control of state election administration, according to reports on Thursday.
Under the order, Trump would claim that China interfered in the 2020 presidential election, which would be used as justification for Trump to dictate how states run their elections in the midterm — presumably imposing by executive fiat some of the provisions in the GOP-backed SAVE America Act, which places several new restrictions and identification requirements on voting.
The report triggered immediate reaction from officials on social media, with many saying this scheme is illegal on its face — and would hit a brick wall in the courts if Trump dared to try it.
"We’ve been raising the alarm for weeks about Trump’s attacks on our elections — now we’re getting details about how they might be planning to do it," wrote Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA). "Let’s be clear: there’s no national emergency. This is a plot to interfere with the will of voters."
"There’s no national emergency exception to Art 1, Sec 4 of the Constitution," wrote Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA). "States regulate elections unless Congress passes law. That’s why trump desperately wants to pass the save act to suppress voting. Courts will slap trump down just like they did with his illegal tariffs."
"Yet more nonsense," wrote columnist James Surowiecki. "Declaring a national emergency does not allow the president to steal the power over elections that the Constitution gives to the states and to Congress. The president was quite deliberately given no power over election rules. Trump can't take it."
"Sad. And pathetic," wrote activist Amy Siskind in response to the news. "See you in November!"
"The Constitution gives STATES power over election law with oversight from CONGRESS," wrote the account for Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW). "Notice who's missing? The president. Trump may try to cook up a sham national emergency to try to seize control of elections but it won't stand up to scrutiny."
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Trump is going to fall hard.
HIs supporters will have to go with him. Attempted sedition will not be accepted.
Jonathan Chait: The World's Worst People — Tim Miller
No matter how often Trump tries to change the subject, he keeps getting caught in his own attempted diversions. He blames Somali immigrants for importing bribery, corruption, and lawlessness while he sits behind the resolute desk taking a million dollar bribe to bitch about a new bridge. Or he showcases the US men's hockey team while his lying FBI director gets caught red-handed pretending he just happened to be in Italy when the team was playing. And the more Trump tries to run away from the Epstein case, the more blatant the administration's cover-up becomes. Plus, distancing from the craziest parts of the DSA is part of the anti-authoritarian project, Mamdani and AOC have avoided some of their fan base's worst impulses, Newsom put his name on a number of policies that will dog his ambitions, and the Dems need to reclaim improving public schools as one of their key issues....
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Trump will fall the same as Nixon.
Omar Demands Probe After Police Brutally Arrest State of the Union Guest — Sharon Zhang
“The heavy-handed response to a peaceful guest sends a chilling message about the state of our democracy,” Omar said.
Capitol Police brutalized Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-Minnesota) guest to the State of the Union address, Aliya Rahman, so badly that she needed to seek care at the hospital afterward — all because Rahman stood up in protest during President Donald Trump’s speech.
As Trump made heinous remarks about Somalis on Tuesday night, Rahman silently stood up in protest, she told Democracy Now! in an interview. The House’s top law enforcement officer told Rahman that she was arrested for standing up.
“No buttons, no facial expressions, no gestures, no signs. Not one sound. Standing up. There are only two things you can do at the State of the Union, and they are sit down and stand up,” she said. “All kinds of people were standing up all night. Me too — I stood up — at the moment that I heard this man say some of the most racist things I have heard come out of any leader’s mouth about the people of my city.”
Capitol Police confronted her to remove her from the chamber, specifically pulling on her shoulders after she told them she has injuries in both of her shoulders. Officers only let up on their violence after one of their sergeants intervened in the back stairwell, she said.
Rahman, who has a disability, required care at the hospital due to the arrest, and was booked at the Capitol Police headquarters afterward....
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Trump, the barbaric brute, is the greatest disgrace to the United States of America in its history. There will be no peace in our country until Trump is gone.
Let the lawsuits against him go on for eternity.
Pardons, Policy, and Profits: Where Does Governance End and Grift Begin? — Thom Hartmann
Last night in the SOTU we watched the most corrupt president (and presidency) in the history of America lie his way through a fascist-friendly speech. He didn’t mention how rich he’s made himself and his kids off the presidency, as he tried to paint in a good light what is, frankly, the most dishonorable, unprincipled, and criminal regime in the history of the free world.
Rumors have been flying for years — ever since Rudy Giuliani apparently confessed during Trump’s first term he and Trump were selling pardons for $2 million each and splitting the money — that Trump is at it again, taking what look like bribes for everything from pardons to business deals to regulatory and tariff relief. And the evidence is piling up in ways that are unmistakable.
For example, Judd Legum’s Popular Info news site is reporting that the parent company of crypto.com has made a series of “donations” to Trump’s main SuperPAC, MAGA Inc., amounting to $35 million.
That SuperPAC has already paid tens of millions for Trump’s legal fees, apparently including personal defense lawyers and business deal lawyers, and can hang onto that money to support Trump’s lavish lifestyle once he leaves office.
Shortly after the last donation, as Legum reports:
“25 days later, on February 17, the Trump administration’s Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), intervened on Crypto.com’s behalf in high-stakes lawsuit in federal court.”...
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Grift began the day Trump took office.
SOTU: A Post-Mortem: More Will Surely Die. — Jaime O'Neil
In most ways, it was the same old shit: Trump boasting, Trump whining, Trump lying. A smorgasbord of his crap cooked up to satisfy the tastes of his bottom feeders and fellow hate mongers.
What followed was pretty much the same old shit, too. Depending on your favorite flavor of news, the commentators you most often listened to reviewed Trump’s performance, told you what you had seen or chose not to see, a bunch of pre-set views damn near as predictable as the speech itself had been.
In the spirit of self-protection, many of my friends on the left vowed not to watch it. They knew they’d get the take on it from their favorite reporters and friends. And I get that. But they lost the opportunity to form their own take on what took place, what was said, the harm it would do, and the consequences likely to come in the wake of Trump’s loose talk. Some of the elected Democrats boycotted the SOTU as a demonstration of disdain for most anything Trump was likely to say. John Fetterman, a DINO now, showed up and enthusiastically shook Trump’s hand as he was about to take the stage. I get that, too. Fetterman is a scumbag.
But there were things people on Team Left or Team Sane might have missed, though they told themselves that they’d pick up the highlights without having to sit through the actual torture—the sight of the POTUS, the toxins that came with his words and the very sound of his voice.
They might also have missed picking up a bit more determination to up their resistance to Trumpism at this late stage. They might have missed filling up on rage against the Trump machine that had been drained off after experiencing so many outrages for so damn long.
But what those of us who watched the shit show got from it was a vivid portrait of a country in crisis, a great country transformed into a grim dystopia, a nightmare of power abused, corruption embedded, and lies interchangeable with what is true. A national madhouse....
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The U.S. population is shrinking due to Trump. Young people are abandoing the country. Our future looks bleak if we can't get rid of the beast.
Vance: Minnesota Medicaid Funding Halted Over “Fraud”
CNBC reports:
Vice President JD Vance announced Wednesday that the Trump administration would “temporarily halt” some Medicaid funding to the state of Minnesota over fraud concerns, as part of what he described as an aggressive crackdown on misuse of public funds.
Vance, who made the announcement with Dr. Mehmet Oz, the administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said the administration was taking the action “in order to ensure that the state of Minnesota takes its obligations seriously to be good stewards of the American people’s tax money.”
"This is not how Medicaid fraud investigations work. Funding for Medicaid is never halted to look into fraud. These people remain willfully evil." — egm (comments)
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More punitive action against Americans who have suffered enough of Trump's evilness!
Hockey Champs Were Fed McDonald’s At White House
Yahoo Sports reports:
Team USA’s men’s hockey team took up Trump’s invitation to the White House after returning with gold from the 2026 Winter Olympics. During their celebratory visit, the team was seen feasting on the president’s meal of choice.
“President Trump catered McDONALD’s for Team USA at the White House today, bringing in STACKS of double cheeseburgers,” Nick Sortor tweeted alongside footage of the team chowing down. “All while patriotic songs BLASTED in the background.”
Trump’s love of a double cheeseburger is not new news as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claimed he has “the most unhinged eating habits.”
"The problem is not the food. The problem is that the gold medal women's hockey team had the brains and the decency to decline being used for Trump's publicity needs, but the idiots of the men's team decided to party on with Kash and Stinky. A Fascist with 34 felony convictions and adjudication as a sexual abuser? No problem for these guys. McDonald's is too good for the bastards." — Dot Beach (comments)
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Feeding well-trained athletes junk food is as stupid and cheapskate as it gets.
And the team members? Why didn't they ALL walk out? Disgraceful!
Just say NO to the men's hockey team. The women's team know what to do!
Florida House Advances Bill To Create Secret Police Unit
The Florida Trident reports:
Legislation which would allow secretive government surveillance and arrests of Floridians based on views, opinions or actions won its latest round of legislative approval on Tuesday....
As the Trident reported last week, the primary mission of the new FDLE unit would include the detection, identification, and neutralization of “adversary intelligence entities,” which include a “person whose demonstrated actions, views, or opinions are a threat of are inimical to the interests of the this state and the United States of America.”
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Then they should start with the idiot who wrote this paranoid bill.
WTF is wrong with Florida? Saw them off North America and let the Nazis float away into the Caribbean!
DHS Says Man Had Weed Conviction When 4 Years Old
The Independent reports:
A federal judge reprimanded Donald Trump’s administration for claiming that an immigrant seeking his release from custody was convicted for marijuana possession in 2009 — when he was 4 years old.
To support arguments for the man’s ongoing detention and removal from the country, government lawyers attached a document from Immigration and Customs Enforcement that they “indicated” was related to his criminal history.
They submitted the document in court filings “despite the differences in birthdate, birthplace, parents’ names, and immigration status,” West Virginia District Judge Irene Berger noted in her order to release him on Tuesday.
"There's no respect for the truth, no respect for the Courts when unprofessional work is being presented.
This is what happens when career professionals are fired and hack partisans, unqualified and untrained are hired by those who know nothing." — JackFknTwist (comments)
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The Dispicable!
Donald Trump: GIVE US Our $1,700 Back! — Cliff Schecter
Now the Court says the authority wasn’t there. So who gets the money back? Personally, I want my $1,700 back.
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LMAO! When did Trump ever not stiff someone on an invoice! SUCKERS!
DOJ Stiffs Florida On $608M Alligator Alcatraz Cost
The Florida Phoenix reports:
A $608 million federal reimbursement that Florida’s been counting on to pay for the so-called “Alligator Alcatraz” lockup won’t cover construction costs — if the money comes through at all, Justice Department lawyers have declared.
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And you want your $1700 tariff ripoff back? ROTFLMAO!
Trump could cost 150,000 truckers their jobs — and they're all from one minority group
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Trump knows nothing of Sikhs. He should learn. They are great people and whip smart.
‘You aren’t trapped’: Nurses are choosing Canada over Trump’s America — Brett Kelman
Last month, Justin and Amy Miller packed their vehicles with three kids, two dogs, a pet bearded dragon, and whatever belongings they could fit, then drove 2,000 miles from Wisconsin to British Columbia to leave President Donald Trump’s America.
The Millers resettled on Vancouver Island, their scenic refuge accessible only by ferry or plane. Justin went to work in the emergency room at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital, where he became one of at least 20 U.S.-trained nurses hired since April....
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B.C. and Vancouver Island are beautiful places.I got to see a lot of it. A good place to escape a fascist America, espcially if you're young.
It’s Not ‘Unforced Errors,’ Hakeem Jeffries. It’s Called Stealing All Trump's Headlines. — Evan Hurst
This is the screengrab that’s all over the internet right now.
Dead child rapist Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime best friend was invited to give a speech to Congress last night for some reason.(see photo)
Nothing about anything he said was new or interesting, so we’re not going to spend time on it. It was just the same old Nazi white supremacist sundowning pedophile-protecting shit, babble babble babble, lie lie lie, burn cross, burn cross, burn cross, rinse, repeat. Despite the servile performances from members of the MAGA cult, there probably wasn’t a genuinely hard dick in the room, considering how Donald Trump’s “strong support” is circling the drain at 19 percent.
Many Democrats opted not to show up, choosing to do alternate events or just stay home.
But some did show up.
Hakeem Jeffries, Democratic leader in the House, warned members beforehand not to make any “unforced errors,” during Dear Leader Shitler’s 100-year-long speech. Axios reported that they really weren’t supposed to bring signs.
Jeffries didn’t want it to be like last year, when Democrats were just very un-decorum-like, oh my stars.
Maybe he would have been cool with some little teeny tiny pins, like The Onion suggested here:(photo of alleged Democrat wearing a white flag pin indicating surrender to SOTU)
Texas Democratic Rep. Al Green brought a sign, though. It said “BLACK PEOPLE AREN’T APES,” directly referring to one of Shitler’s latest white supremacist outbursts, the one where he reposted a video on Truth Social depicting the Obamas as apes. If you’d like to see the most epic picture of it, Getty got one that’s even better than the screengrab above.
Know what Al Green got? All the fuckin’ headlines. He also got thrown out of the SOTU, as white racists like GOP Rep. Troy Nehls tried to yank the sign out of his hand — guess he disagreed with the statement? (That was after Nehls started slobbering with his lipstick protruding, begging Trump to sign his Trump tie.)
We reposted this skeet from Oliver Willis, which explains that “This is why you do stunts. This is why you do stunts. This is why you do stunts,” and demonstrates how Al Green got all the headlines.
Sure beats sitting politely with your hands in your lap trying to make sure you don’t do an “unforced error” and embarrass Leader Jeffries.
Sure beats being decorous little boys and girls while Trump sneers and calls you crazy and his Cabinet of (alleged!) rapists, alcoholics, and traitors stands up and hoots and hollers and armpit farts in response....
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Is the Trump–Epstein Scandal Nearing the Critical Mass that Turned "Watergate" Into a White House Collapse? — Thom Hartmann
The coverup is widening, the documents are missing, and history suggests the collapse comes faster than anyone expects.
We’ve only had one genuinely failed presidency in the modern era: Richard Nixon’s. I believe we’re on the verge of the second, and for very similar reasons. If it plays out the way I expect, the consequences could be world-changing, and will certainly alter how our politics work for decades to come.
The tipping point began in a big way when Attorney General Pam Bondi went before Congress to defend Trump. When asked how many of Epstein’s co-conspirators she’d indicted, she refused to answer and instead completely lost it, going off on a bizarre rant that included:
“Donald Trump signed that law to release all of those documents. He is the most transparent president in the nation’s history. None of them asked Merrick Garland over the last four years one word about Jeffrey Epstein.
“Donald Trump — The Dow — the Dow right now is over 50,000. The S&P at almost 7,000 and the Nasdaq smashing records. Americans’ 401(k)s and retirement savings are booming. That’s what we should be talking about.”
Nobody was buying it any more than when Trump said on Wednesday of this week, “I’ve been totally exonerated. I did nothing.” Instead, both became punch lines for comedians and have Republicans hiding to avoid being interviewed....
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How California Can Neuter “Citizens United” and Improve Democracy for Us All — Robert Reich
The Golden State has an opportunity to save American democracy from big corporate money
I’m not going to waste any of your or my time talking about Trump’s State of the Union Speech last night (which I didn’t watch, in any event). But I do know that instead of focusing on the big problems that the United States should be addressing — the affordability crisis, climate change, unconstrained AI, and the threats to America democracy — he avoided these and blamed the Democrats for everything that ails the nation.
Still, I want to share with you some good news.
You may remember that back in November I mentioned that Montana was considering a bill that would effectively negate the Supreme Court’s awful Citizens United decision, which held that corporations are people under the First Amendment and therefore entitled to spend unlimited amounts of corporate money in elections.
A similar bill has just been introduced in California....
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Dumping Citizens United would be a great event for our country.
MI Pastor Gets 10 To 25 Years On Child Sex Charges
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Another cult member bites the dust.
WH Media Manager Secretly Runs MAGA X Account
Wired reports:
Hours after an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Good in Minneapolis, official White House accounts flooded social media with clips of burning flags and clashes between locals and federal immigration agents, casting protestors—not the killing—as the story.
Among the accounts amplifying that message was Johnny MAGA, a pro-Trump X account with nearly 300,000 followers. “They’re burning the American flag right now in Minneapolis,” the anonymous account claimed, sharing a clip from the White House’s official rapid response feed. “And they really expect you to believe that ICE shot an innocent civilian.”
To its audience, Johnny MAGA looked like an independent voice, another outraged supporter in the MAGA media ecosystem. But this isn’t just a regular account. Johnny MAGA appears to actually be a White House staffer named Garrett Wade who works for the Trump administration as a rapid response manager, helping to run the very same White House account his anonymous MAGA account amplifies....
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They expect their dumbed-down cult to believe any contrived bullshit they can imagine to feed them.
Meta’s Head of AI Safety Just Made a Mistake That May Cause You a Certain Amount of Alarm — Frank Landymore
OpenClaw, an open source AI agent that supposedly “actually does things,” has driven everyone in the industry completely mad — something that seems to happen with every subsequent release of the trendy AI thing of the moment.
Programmers are handing the keys to their computers to the OpenClaw AI and basically letting it run rampant in the name of added productivity, ignoring the obvious security risk of allowing what amounts to a hallucinating stranger have access to your files and web browser. A researcher at OpenAI’s Codex group claims he lost $450,000 after an OpenClaw agent he set up with its own X account and crypto wallet gave away all its tokens to a random reply guy that begged it for money. So many workers across the tech industry have bought into the hype that executives at Meta and other companies have banned employees from using OpenClaw on their work machines....
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Humanity is surrendering to their own failure.
Small-town Texas revolts over proposed Charlie Kirk memorial — Alix Breeden
Locals filled a Bastrop County commissioners meeting earlier this week to push back against a proposal to memorialize bigoted far-right pundit Charlie Kirk.
After County Commissioner David Glass proposed a “Charlie Kirk Corridor” in the up-and-coming tech hub neighboring Austin, over a hundred people aired their grievances until the motion was inevitably tabled.
"I'm going to take a breath and have some more conversations with my constituents," Glass told the Austin American-Statesman.
It’s unclear why Glass would be vying for a Kirk memorial in his county, of all places, but the area isn’t a nobody on the map. Bastrop County is home to about 115,000 residents—as well as many of billionaire Elon Musk’s corporations.
Though Bastrop County used to be a quieter area, it has shot up in growth since Muskpacked up what was once known as Twitterfrom its home in California and relocated it to the little-known area.
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More proof Texas is changing.
He Really Could Fuck Up a Two Car Funeral — WaterGirl
Seriously, how does anyone who still supports this Republican party look at themselves in the mirror? How about their spouses, their children, their parents? Simply mind boggling.
How is the right spinning the SOTU? Are they saying it was a grand success?
I liked this take on the State of the Union from Dan Pfeiffer:
"Because Trump made the speech about himself, he made life much more difficult for Republicans up and down the ballot.
From a purely political perspective, Trump’s State of the Union was an epic disaster — political malpractice of the highest order.
Whether conscious or subconscious, the speech was a repeated thumb in the eye of the voters who put Trump into the White House and could kick the GOP out of the majority in Congress."
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There's more to read here on Trump's limp dick rant.
What historians are saying about Trump’s SOTU — Alex Henderson
On Tuesday night, February 24, U.S. President Donald Trump gave the second State of the Union (SOTU) speech of his second presidency. The speech often sounded like a MAGA rally, with Trump attacking Democrats on everything from the economy to immigration policy and bragging that the U.S. is "winning too much" since his return to the White House.
But Democratic Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger offered a comprehensive rebuttal after the speech, arguing that he is making inflation worse, not better. And House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-New York), on MS NOW's "Morning Joe," complained that the speech was "riddled with dirty, rotten lies" and accused Republicans of showing "cult-like behavior" with their glowing responses to Trump's speech....
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Reality is something Trump is never aware of.
Revealed: Trump’s 'biggest policy announcement' was actually a plan signed by Biden — Thomas Kika
Donald Trump's "biggest policy announcement" from his State of the Union address was not actually something he signed into law, with reporters noticing that the plan he touted was actually signed by his predecessor and rival, former President Joe Biden.
Trump's address on Tuesday broke his own record for the longest State of the Union address, but various observers noted that it was light on any actual policy announcements. The main "new" policy he touted will allow workers without access to 401K accounts to set up retirement accounts that the federal government can match contributions to, up to $1,000. Trump claimed that this plan, which some reporters likened to "Trump accounts for adults," will offer "access to the same type of retirement plan offered to every federal worker."
Reporters reacting to the address quickly noted that Trump was, in fact, talking about a law signed by Biden in 2022 as part of a major funding bill. Josh Wingrove, a political correspondent for Bloomberg, cited clarification from a "White House official."...
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Senile and stupid. We get both from the moron.
I don't know what the excuse is from the smirking chorus behind him.
GOP senator loses it on Bernie Sanders: 'If I cared about your opinion I’d ask you!' — Sarah K. Burris
Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) lost it during a confirmation hearing with President Donald Trump's surgeon general nominee, Dr. Casey Means.
Means, a wellness coach and influencer, accomplished her medical degree but never went through a residency program, leading critics to question some of her qualifications. She currently doesn't have an active medical license.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) had questions about vaccine policy and studying vaccines.
After Sanders asked his questions, Mullin began with a targeted attack on Sanders.
At one point, he attacked Sanders for supporting the Affordable Care Act, which Mullin claimed was no longer affordable.
"No, I support a national healthcare program which would cut the —" Sanders said shouting over Mullin.
"I'm sorry, it's my time," Mullin said as Sanders talked over him.
"But you're attacking me!" Sanders exclaimed.
"Nah, I'm pointing' out facts!" Mullin yelled back. "You can say what you want I'm just pointing' out facts."
"No. You're pointing out lies," said Sanders.
Mullin went off on a bit more in his speech before saying, "I'm sorry, I ranted too long."
"Yes you did," Sanders quipped.
That's when Mullin lost it.
"I'm sorry, I didn't ask your opinion on that. If I cared about your opinion I would ask you. But I don't care about your opinion. You're part of the system. You're part of the problem," Mullin raged.
"You've been sittin' here longer than I've even been alive!" Mullin continued.
Sanders was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2006. Before that he was elected to the U.S. House in 1991. Mullin was born in 1977.
"This is your problem!" Mullin said. "You should have fixed this a long time ago. You've been railing' on it so long, what have you been doing?"
"I decided not to run for Surgeon General," Sanders quipped, moving back to speak to the witness.
"That is something we'd never accept," said Mullin.
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Another retarded Okie shows us just how idiotic they can be. Circular reasoning illustrated.
Legal expert 'absolutely stunned' by new revelations about Epstein files delay — Thomas Kika
MS NOW legal analyst Lisa Rubin on Wednesday said that she was "absolutely stunned" by new revelations about how the Justice Department handled the Epstein files release process, while her colleague, former federal prosecutor Berit Berger, said that she had "never seen" victims treated as badly in a case as the Trump administration has treated Epstein's.
Rubin and Berger were interviewed together by MS NOW's Ana Cabrera about new findings in the DOJ's tranche of disclosed Epstein files. While Rubin noted that she found no change in the status of missing material related to abuse allegations against Donald Trump, she did uncover a new exchange related to Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, in which he explicitly instructed staffers to flag the type of materials that are currently missing as it pertained to the Trump allegations.
"That's a January 4th, 2026 memo from Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche," Rubin explained. "On [that date], Deputy Attorney General Blanche is writing a nine-page memo to people at the department who were charged with doing the first-level review of documents for production. And one of the things that the deputy attorney general instructs them to do in this memo is once they determine that something is responsive to one of the nine categories that Congress mandates they need files for."
She continued: "He says, there are some types of documents that we want you to particularly flag or tag while you're going through the electronic database, and one of them is something called a 302. Berit knows this well, as a former federal prosecutor, but a 302 is the form that the FBI uses to memorialize interviews. That's the exact kind of document that we reported yesterday was missing with respect to this particular accuser."...
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The corruption for the cover-up of Trump's involement is failing badly.
Farmers Were Promised $400 Million in Drought Aid. Trump’s USDA Ghosted Them — Ayurella Horn-Muller
...During one former USDA staffer’s last few months working at the Farm Service Agency, they claim they were forced to partake in information “gatekeeping” as it related to the water-saving program. According to the staffer, who left their role in 2025 and asked to remain anonymous, “I was getting a lot of questions about, like, ‘Can we start or not?’ and I didn’t know the answer. I couldn’t get an answer. I really wasn’t allowed to communicate with them directly. Like, I couldn’t tell them ‘Your grant is frozen. Don’t spend any money because the money may never come to you.’ It was just ‘Tell them it’s under administrative review’…And then I couldn’t get a clear answer out of my leadership, or my direct manager, or my manager’s manager, about where the program was in the review process.”
As for the suspicion that the program may have been targeted in the way that other Biden-era programs geared toward mitigating climate change have been, the former staffer isn’t convinced. “To me, it does seem pretty neutral from a climate perspective, because a lot of the states that have water problems are not necessarily blue states,” they said. “So I don’t think it was something that someone, like a high level official, would come in and say, ‘That’s the program I want to gut.’”
Although they can’t be certain, the former staffer believes the explanation is actually quite simple: There are no employees left to distribute the money.
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Trump is no friend of our farmers.
'Criminal act': FBI scrambles as leak reveals Kash Patel's 'long segments of leisure time' — Alexander Willis
FBI Director Kash Patel’s taxpayer-funded trip to Italy that culminated with him chugging beer with the U.S. hockey team was revealed Wednesday to have included “long segments of personal and leisure time” after the leak of an internal schedule, a leak that the FBI condemned as a “criminal act,” The New York Times reported....
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The Trump Crime Syndicate working for...only themselves!
Trump hides in plain sight at the State of the Union — Amanda Marcotte
The president waited until most viewers had tuned out to reveal his worst impulses
After a year of Donald Trump being restored to the White House, Americans are increasingly sick of the president....
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Correctamundo!
GOP Rep Declares Affair By Rep. Tony Gonzales “Not A Good Look” As Serial Adulterer Paxton Flees Cameras
"It's not a good look" - Rep Nehls says of Rep Gonzales' extramarital affair while standing next to Attorney General Paxton.
"Paxton initiates a strategic withdrawal when asked about Tony Gonzales. He exits the scene while Nehls is ranting about George Soros."
"'Paxton initiates a strategic withdrawal when asked about Tony Gonzales. He exits the scene while Nehls is ranting about George Soros.'
Fun Fact: Gay Trump cabinet member Scott Bessent [he who owned a giant pink mansion with his husband] was George Soros' money manager. — DaddySnark (comments)
"Their holy babble says King Soloman had 700 wives and 300 concubines. So these guys are just getting started." — Jay Silversmith (comments)
"So I get a nightly dose of Paxton and Cornyn ads. There was a brief moment when a PAC was running ads trashing Paxton, but I haven't seen that in a while. Either they ran out of money, or they saw that they weren't working. Paxton is still ahead. If you ever wanted to know what shit postmodern Republicans are that race is it. Cornyn voted with Trump 99% but I guess that 1% is a deal-breaker? So far as I know he hasn't been in any scandals, sexual or otherwise and has no criminal charges pending. Paxton on the other hand is a criminal and an adulterer and that's who the "party of family values" is going to pick? I'm not surprised but it's still a bizarre spectacle to watch." — Houndentator (comments)
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Great Googa-Mooga! Texas is not the most educated.
Cattle Rancher GOP Senator Shrugs At High Cost Of Beef: “You Have So Many Proteins To Choose From”
The Daily Beast reports:
A cattle farmer turned U.S. senator is suggesting Americans buy other food items if they feel beef is too expensive. Republican Mississippi Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, who sits on several Agriculture committees in the Senate, dismissed concerns about affordability and the cost-of-living crisis. Local CBS affiliate WLOX pressed Hyde-Smith on rising costs, notably the cost of beef, which has skyrocketed since Donald Trump assumed the presidency last year.
""Let them eat cake. Er, chicken." — Sarah (comments)
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The latest "Marie Antoinette" moron. Of course, the phrase originates from Jean-Jacques Rousseau's writings and is a comment on the disconnect of the wealthy from the struggles of the poor.
Grenell Melts Down Over Report On WH Nazi Imagery
“This crap is going to get someone killed."
Kennedy Center director Richard Grenell, raging at Atlantic journalist Tom Nichols for his latest piece which recounts the Nazi and white supremacist imagery, slogans, and music used on social media by multiple Trump administration agencies.
"If you don't want to be called a Nazi, then stop doing Nazi shit. It's quite simple" — Johnathang (comments)
"'Comparing your political opponents to a party that murdered millions of people is despicable and dangerous.'
Over one million dead because the abrupt termination of USAID, letting paid for food rot in warehouses.
People hiding from the secret police
Mass deportation
Burning already paid for condoms
Murdering Venezuelan fisherman
Murdering asylum seekers and American citizens.
Comparing to Nazis is accurate. At this point, the only difference is the number dead." — DaddySnark (comments)
"'Comparing your political opponents to a party that murdered millions of people is despicable and dangerous.'
Democrats are the enemy
Democrats hate America
Videos of dropping feces on protestors
You have to fight like hell
Mark Kelly should be executed for treason
Ilhan Omar is a terrorist" — DaddySnark (comments)
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People have already been killed by your murdering administration, you stupid Nazi fuck!
Sec. Felcher: Dems Displayed TDS At Trump’s SOTU
“So far, we haven’t gotten much cooperation from the Democrats. I don’t see how anybody can argue against lower drug prices for Americans. It’s about 12 percent of our health care costs."...
"So what drug prices were lowered? … so far this year each of the 6 meds I take have increased… please publish a list of before and after pricing." -- Hell-No Kitty (comments)
"'Many, many Americans — we take more prescription drugs than any country in the world,.....'
Have you seen the advertisments on TV,....they take up more time than the actual news.
Americans are being brainwashed into big pharma." — JackFknTwist (coments)
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Oh, yeah? When do these "lower prices" go into effect? Eloquis costs more than it did last year and it was too damned high then, jerkwad!
Jebus Johnson Applauds Trump Bragging He Doesn't Need Congress On Tariffs — Heather
Have we ever had a more completely useless Speaker of the House?
During Trump's rambling State of the Union address this Tuesday, he went after the Supreme Court for daring to strike down his illegal emergency tariffs, and as John asked when the ruling first came out, "Which underhanded measure will the Trump administration try next?"
Well, we've been getting an answer to that question with Trump asserting he's got the authority to continue them under Section 122, Section 232, Section 301 and Section 338, but as many have explained, those laws are not so cut and dried as Trump is claiming, and he will eventually need Congressional approval to enact most of what he's been trying to do.
That didn't stop Trump from completely ignoring what the Supreme Court said in their majority ruling, and attacking the ones that attended to their faces, with the cameras panning in on Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who both looked like they'd rather be anywhere else as Trump lied about their decision, and spineless Speaker Mike Johnson from standing up and applauding after Trump finished his tirade lying that he didn't need their approval to continue unilaterally imposing tariffs.
Trump rambled on about the Dow going above 50,000 and crediting his tariffs for that happening, and rambled on about how great of a deal maker he supposedly was and lying that there's no inflation and then said this nonsense which was followed by Johnson and every Republican in the House jumping up and applauding like a bunch of trained seals....
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The real question is "Have we ever had a president as insanly dangerous as this idiot?"
'Gestapo style': Voters unleash vicious criticism of Trump — Matthew Rozsa
...A new poll from CNN is even more dramatic, showing Trump at 36 percent approval today, down from 48 percent in that same poll a year ago. That suggests one in four of his original supporters deserting him. … So Trump has lost considerable ground.”
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Robert De Niro said it all Monday night: "We've got to get rid of him." Only a moron can support this inhuman.
DOJ exposed woman who accused Trump of sexually assaulting her as a child: report — Daniel Hampton
The Justice Department's chaotic rollout of millions of Epstein files has exposed sensitive information about vulnerable victims, including the name of a woman who accused President Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her as a child, according to reporting from investigative journalist Roger Sollenberger.
The woman's identity appeared in at least one document that has since been redacted, Sollenberger reported on his Substack. However, he said another identifying detail remains unredacted in the database. She's uniquely marked "PROTECT SOURCE" in case files, a designation given to no other victim or witness in the Epstein files.
An explosive FBI email from July lists Trump as the first name among "positive case hits" of famous people in the files, noting that "one identified victim claimed abuse by Trump but ultimately refused to cooperate." Former senior DOJ officials told Sollenberger the language suggests prosecutors approached the woman about pursuing a criminal child sex trafficking investigation against Trump, which she declined....
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Trump is a sex criminal.
MAGA “Journalist” Busted In Yet Another Stupid Lie
“Here at this UPS store in California over 30 people are registered to vote. It is illegal to list a PO Box as your domicile address (which appears on the voter roll). You can receive a ballot at a PO Box, but it cannot be the domicile address—which over 30 of them are, errors and suspected fraudulent activity is everywhere in California voter rolls. Even with obvious evidence California seems to not care about their voter rolls meanwhile you do not even need an ID to vote. How much fraud do you suspect in California?” – MAGA “journalist” Nick Shirley, failed to note that above said UPS store is a large apartment building.
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"However dumb you think the MAGA movement is, it's dumber." — Jeremiah Johnson (X)
DOJ Withheld Some Epstein Files Related To Trump
NPR reports:
The Justice Department has withheld some Epstein files related to allegations that President Trump sexually abused a minor, an NPR investigation finds. It also removed some documents from the public database where accusations against Jeffrey Epstein also mention Trump.
Some files have not been made public despite a law mandating their release. These include what appears to be more than 50 pages of FBI interviews, and notes from conversations with a woman who accused Trump of sexual abuse decades ago when she was a minor....
"Trump’s a pedo. Thank you for your attention to this matter." — Sam_Handwich (comments)
"Trump is in pics and vids raping girls and boys.
He does not want you to see those pics.
He suddenly withdrew from Epstein when he learned that Epstein had all that evidence.
Ml. Wolf has told us about some of it.
Now Congress, how about enforcing that law you passsed?
Or is it all just cosplay with you?
You now wash your hands and say, oh we have done all we can!
Congress has abdicated its Constitutional duty and yielded its constitutional power to Trump.
Republicans like lapdogs did this.
Was that shrill enough?" — JackFknTwist (comments)
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'All' once meant 'every'!
ICE Lawyer: I Was Told To Teach Agents How To Violate Constitution — Susie Madrak
Somehow, we're not surprised!
..."New cadets are graduating from the Academy, despite widespread concerns among training staff that even in the final days of training, the cadets cannot demonstrate a solid grasp of the tactics or the law required to perform their jobs," Ryan Schwank said yesterday.
"Without reform, ICE will graduate thousands of new officers who do not know their constitutional duty, do not know the limits of their authority and who do not have the training to recognize an unlawful order. That should scare everyone," he warned.
Schwank, an attorney and former career ICE employee who resigned less than two weeks ago, quit the agency in protest. It stands as one of the first instances of an ICE official publicly rebuking the agency and the adequacy of its training.
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How to be a traitor.
Another Trump Supporter Learns That ICE Is Not After The ‘Worst Of The Worst’ — Red Painter
Being a Trump supporter won't protect you from ICE.
Yet another Trump supporter is regretting voting for the president after she was personally affected by the very policies she voted for.
The Daily Beast is reporting that Trump supporter Sandra Hafraoui's husband, Abdellatif Hafraoui, was detained by ICE and spent 108 days in custody. he was detained at Newark airport while the MAGA couple tried to fly out of the US on vacation.
He did take a vacation - to an ICE facility!
Abdellatif, a Moroccan who has lived in the US for almost 40 years, was detained even though he is not the "worst of the worst."
What was his crime? He missed an immigration court date a decade ago that he didn't even know about....
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What goes around comes amround.
Missing: DOJ's Epstein files related to sexual abuse allegations against Trump — Alex Henderson
...According to National Public Radio (NPR) reporter Stephen Fowler, DOJ "withheld some Epstein files related to allegations that President Trump sexually abused a minor."
Fowler, in an article published on February 24, reports, "It also removed some documents from the public database where accusations against Jeffrey Epstein also mention Trump.
Some files have not been made public despite a law mandating their release. These include what appears to be more than 50 pages of FBI interviews, and notes from conversations with a woman who accused Trump of sexual abuse decades ago when she was a minor."
NPR, Fowler add, "reviewed multiple sets of unique serial numbers appearing before and after the pages in question, stamped onto documents in the Epstein files database, FBI case records, emails and discovery document logs in the latest tranche of documents published at the end of January."
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Where there is smoke there is Trump.
Hegseth Pushes AI Contractor To Remove Guardrails
Axios reports:
...Anthropic is willing to loosen its usage restrictions, but wants to wall off two areas: the mass surveillance of Americans, and the development of weapons that fire without human involvement.
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A world nightmare is coming if we don't stop Trump and his would-be warlord!
Florida Republicans Move To Speed Up Book Bans
Florida Politics reports:
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) is urging the Senate to kill a bill passed by the House that First Amendment advocates fear will increase book banning in Florida schools.
“Library book removals can raise serious First Amendment issues,” FIRE’s Public Advocacy Director Aaron Terr wrote in a letter last week to Senate President Ben Albritton. “The bill creates a powerful incentive for individuals to object to any book they dislike or consider inappropriate, knowing it will be immediately pulled from circulation for all readers.”
HB 1119 would block schools from considering the literary, artistic, political or scientific value of books if the material is deemed otherwise harmful for minors. On the full House floor, sponsor Rep. Doug Bankson called HB 1119 a “commonsense policy that answers a simple question: Should pornography be available to minors in our schools?”
Bankston is a pastor.
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Florida still exists the Dark Ages. a term now deprecated by most historians.
Treasury Secretary Blames Dems For Man Getting Shot At Mar-a-Lago — Heather
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More proof Trump only hires the mentally retarded.
Trump Unleashed: 'I Can Destroy The Country' — John Amato
Demented Donald is not allowed to destroy a foreign country whenever he pleases. He needs to show cause for any war against a country and then needs Congressional approval to do that.
TRUMP: But I am allowed to cut off any and all trade or business with that same country.
In other words, I can destroy the trade. I can destroy the country.
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The insanity!
Does he think he will not come to an end?
For Now A Prince. How Long Till A (Fake) King? — Abby Zimet
The arrest of the U.K. rapist formerly known as Prince, and the echoing, trans-Atlantic edict that no one is above the law, lay ever-barer America's "true exceptionalism": A culture of immunity so corrosive our own heinous, "totally exonerated" in-his-fever-dreams predator fake king has enragingly yet to face any consequences for his manifold sins, crimes, cruelties and depravities, petty and profound. Finally, says Epstein survivor Maria Farmer, "(Let) all the dominoes of power and corruption begin to fall."
The stunning arrest by Thames Valley Police of "Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor" - notably, not "His Royal Highness," ”the Duke of York" or other niceties - on his 66th birthday was widely seen as not just an arrest but "a transfer of power," a possible, long- awaited shift in the tides for once-untouchable elites of the Epstein class that announces power and status may no longer keep them safe, at least outside the U.S. Shortly after 8 a.m., police arrived in six unmarked vehicles at Wood Farm on King Charles’ Sandringham Estate to haul Andrew off; they also reportedly searched his former residence near Windsor Castle. The charge, "suspicion of misconduct in public office" - talk about your euphemisms - stems from Andrew's term as UK trade envoy from 2001 to 2011, when he allegedly shared with Jeffrey Epstein confidential government reports on potential investment opportunities from Vietnam, Singapore, China and Afghanistan.
The envoy gig mandates a "duty of confidentiality"; any "abuse of public trust" that uses public power as "private currency for self-serving or nefarious reasons" carries a maximum sentence of life in prison. (Just imagine what they'd make of the Trump cartel's brazen, perennial grifting.) Andrew, of course, has also been charged with raping outspoken Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre, who died by suicide last year at 41, which led to him being stripped of his royal titles before slinking out of public view. Regrettably, he never faced a rape charge in court due to several factors - a civil settlement with Giuffre, a high bar for conviction beyond a reasonable doubt, and other legal loopholes. Presumably for some Epstein victims, bringing Andrew to even a modicum of justice on the easier-to-prove misconduct in office charge may feel dispiriting, like nabbing the murderous Al Capone for tax evasion: Better than nothing, but not good enough....
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Time will catch up with this criminal!. The UK shows us how!
'Corrupt judge' bashed for effort to hide Jack Smith's report — Sarah K. Burris
Judge Aileen Cannon has blocked another effort to obtain part two of special counsel Jack Smith's report regarding the documents President Donald Trump stole from the White House upon leaving in 2021. Among the documents Trump took and refused to return were a number of highly classified pages.
While there have been other instances of documents being packed for officials like Vice President Mike Pence and then Vice President Joe Biden, all other officials have been willing to return any documents requested. Trump refused to return the information, the AP characterized in 2023.
In her ruling on Monday, Cannon said that everyone involved with the Justice Department is "enjoined from releasing" the report. It was scheduled to be released to the public on Tuesday.
Reporter Mona Burns wrote on BlueSky, "Fitting on this crazy snowy morning: The always reliable and very corrupt Judge Aileen Cannon has permanently blocked the release of Jack Smith's classified documents report. Cannon says the release would be 'unfair' to Trump and his former co-defendants."
Slate legal reporter Mark Joseph Stern pointed out that Cannon "also bars DOJ from sharing 'any information or conclusions' from the volume. A sweeping, perpetual gag order."
"Cannon scathingly suggests that Jack Smith violated her order dismissing the criminal case against Trump when he continued to prepare his report on the prosecution from transmission to DOJ. Calls it a 'brazen stratagem' meant to 'circumvent' her authority," Stern added....
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More Trump crime covered up by Trump Crime Syndicate Corrupt Judge.
She knows Bondi is as corrupt as she is and will hide anything to cover up for Trump.
It won't work, you corrupt piece of fascist shit.
Ex-Honduran President Was Put Up At Waldorf Hotel After He Was Pardoned By Trump For Cocaine Trafficking
The New Republic reports:
Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández was given special treatment and provided with a room in a luxury hotel after Donald Trump pardoned him in December, ProPublica reported Wednesday.
Hernández, a member of Honduras’s right-wing National Party, was extradited to the U.S. in 2022 and sentenced to 45 years in prison on bribery and drug-trafficking charges two years later. Prosecutors said he enabled drug traffickers to “move mountains of cocaine” into the United States and used the millions of dollars in bribes he received for his political campaigns.
After Hernández, a noncitizen, was released from prison, a request to hold him in place until immigration authorities could arrive was waived by federal authorities. A team of officials was then paid overtime to escort Hernández from Hazelton penitentiary in West Virginia six hours east, to the five-star Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York City. Rooms at the Waldorf go for $956 a night, at minimum.
"He threatened to spill the tea on Trump Family coke habit." — TexasBoy(comments)
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Junior keeps his connection!
Mexico Calls Out Loomer’s Lie About Cartel Arrest
“This post is false. The military operation in Tapalpa, Jalisco, aimed at capturing Rubén ‘N,’ alias ‘Mencho,’ was planned and executed by Mexican Special Forces. The action was carried out within the framework of bilateral cooperation, with U.S. authorities providing complementary intelligence. Mexican National Guard and Army troops are currently reinforcing security in Jalisco and neighboring states to maintain order.” – The Mexican Embassy in the US, busting Pentagon-credentialed “journalist” Laura Loomer for claiming that it was Glorious Leader who took out a major cartel leader.
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Stupid is as Loomer does.
TMZ: Man Killed At Mar-A-Lago Was MAGA Christian
TMZ reports:
Austin Tucker Martin sent a text message, obtained by TMZ, to a co-worker on February 15, 2026, that read, “I don’t know if you read up on the Epstein Files, but evil is real and unmistakable.” He continued, “The best people like you and I can do is use what little influence we have. Tell other people about what you hear about the Epstein files and what the government is doing about it. Raise awareness.”
Co-workers tell us he was deeply disturbed by what he believed was a government cover-up and often talked about powerful people “getting away with it.” At the same time, Austin was outspoken about his Christian faith and political views. We’re told he regularly expressed support for Trump, telling colleagues as recently as late last year he believed Trump was a strong leader.
"Oh, ok. So the MAGAt finally clued into the fact that he was conned.
More of this kind of person will be coming to 'our' news feed soon. They're the ones who will do what the leaders of the Reich fear most; revenge murders.
An addendum to Lincoln's saying should be made; 'you can't keep on fooling all of the people all of the time.'" — Karl Dubhe IV (comments)
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This will not be the last time someone attempts this in an insane world. Remember how many have been taken down by routine assassins.
REPORT: Epstein Stored Docs In Secret Storage Lockers
The Telegraph reports:
Jeffrey Epstein hid computers and photographs from United States authorities in secret storage lockers across the country, The Telegraph can reveal. Documents uncovered by this newspaper show the paedophile paid private detectives to remove equipment from his Florida home in an apparent attempt to prevent investigators from finding it.
The documents also show that he rented six storage units across the US and used them to house items from his properties, including computers from Little Saint James, his private island in the Caribbean. He leased at least one unit from 2003, when he was part of a Florida social set that included Donald Trump. Credit card receipts obtained by The Telegraph show regular storage payments continued until 2019, the year of his death.
Search warrants reviewed by The Telegraph suggest US authorities never raided the lockers, raising the possibility that they may contain unseen evidence relating to Epstein and his associates, including Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Lord Mandelson.
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More cover-up by the Trump Pedophile Crime Division.
Federal Judges At Breaking Point Over DOJ’s Defiance
The New York Times reports:
A New York Times review of federal dockets found at least 35 instances since August in which federal district court or magistrate judges issued an order requiring the government to explain why it should not be similarly punished for violating court orders, essentially giving officials one last chance to explain themselves.
Those so-called “show cause” orders came from judges in California, Texas, Florida, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, West Virginia and Puerto Rico. They all arose from cases in which the government had detained immigrants who had been living in the United States for years after entering the country illegally.
They represent the culmination of weeks of frustration from the bench. Judges have castigated administration officials for testifying dishonestly, representing the law inaccurately, and above all, failing to comply promptly with their orders.
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When criminals are in charge of our federal marshals this is what happens. Think about it America.
Epstein’s Billionaire, GOP Web Continues To Grow — Cliff Schecter
But to SCOTUS? Tax away, King George! Bring more guns to the Boston Massacre next time! If irony were electricity, the Founders would be spinning in their graves fast enough to power the Eastern Seaboard.
In the United Kingdom, there was also justice for predation, and this time it was a member of the Epstein class. Prince Andrew was arrested. A literal royal. In a country that still technically has a monarchy. Meanwhile, beneath our providentially-inspired self-regard for our democracy, and the accompanying cultural hubris, is the truth:br>
The United States—the nation that invented modern constitutional checks and balances—had four years. Four. Fucking. Years. But Merrick Garland worried about all the craptastic garbage our corporate media obsesses over today instead of doing their GD jobs, like ”the appearance of partisanship." Garland gave the Supreme Court all the time in the world to deliver its wholly ahistorical decision that the President is..well, a king.
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Someone tell the motherfuckers -- WE HAVE NO GODDAMN KINGS HERE!
If we had a spine we'd seize all their assets and string them up on lightpoles!
We're still missing the main point about not investigating Epstein's crimes — Terry H. Schwadron
If the Jeffrey Epstein files alone felt like a set of embarrassing political crises up until now, it's grown into an unrelenting cankerous sore without solution or any apparent desire to cap a campaign looking for any associations with the child rapist.
We've suffered through reports of botched investigation of child rape, official disdain for victims, government cover-up efforts and absurd testimony to Congress about all of it. Now we're trying to make sense of university presidents who reached out to a guy with a bad history with donations.
Somehow, we're still missing the main point about not investigating the serious crimes that occurred. This week there are more congressional hearings with Bill and Hillary Clinton, whose mentions in the files seem far from the central crimes involved and more about gaining political advantage. We are even missing whether any purported crime is even still prosecutable.
The Epstein Files mess was a stinking pile of sexual attacks that successive governments had managed to push aside or constrained by outstanding prosecutions until it re-emerged a full-fledged presidential campaign issue for Donald Trump....
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Do we even care about our children any longer?
Trump's 'cankles' ridiculed following posting of bizarre hockey video — Alex Henderson
A major bombshell rocked the sports world when, on Sunday, February 22, Team USA won a gold medal over Canada in the Olympics — marking the U.S. team's first gold medal in men's hockey since 1980.
Following the victory, U.S. President Donald Trump posted an AI-generated video that depicted him playing hockey with Team USA. In the video, a fictional sports announcer declares, "What a play from Trump!" while Survivor's 1982 hit "Eye of the Tiger" (from the movie "Rocky 3") plays.
Liberal Allen Michael posted, "Trump not wearing a helmet is the only thing that's accurate here."
Bill DeMayo wrote, "I'd love to see those cankles fit in a pair of skates lmfao."
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The ego has landed!
Study shows how rocket launches pollute the atmosphere — Bob Berwyn
New research published Thursday bolsters growing concerns that a handful of companies and countries are using the global atmospheric commons as a dumping ground for potentially toxic and climate-altering industrial waste byproducts from loosely regulated commercial space flights.
The new study analyzed a plume of pollution trailing part of a Falcon rocket that crashed through the upper atmosphere on Feb. 19, 2025, after SpaceX lost control of its reentry. The rocket was launched earlier that month, carrying 20 to 22 Starlink satellites into orbit.
The authors said it is the first time debris from a specific spacecraft disintegration has been traced and measured in the near-space region about 80 to 110 kilometers above Earth. Changes there can affect the stratosphere, where ozone and climate processes operate. Until recent years, human activities had little impact in that region.
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And here we have been focusing on "Chemtrails." LMAO!
AI Could Cause Workers to Rise Up Against the Corporations Driving Them Into Poverty — Joe Williams
Looking at the state of labor in the US, it can be hard to believe that 35 percent of all workers once belonged to a union. That was back in the 1940s, the peak of American organized labor. Since then, unions have been systematically neutered by corporate lobbying, hostile legislation, and half-century of manufactured consent about the virtues of the free market.
It might be hard to imagine it regaining that former glory, but according to some labor experts, the threat of AI might be what finally forces the issue — as a potentially existential threat to workers’ livelihoods that could unite them against a common enemy.
In an interview with the Guardian, Sarita Gupta, the Ford Foundation’s vice-president of US programs and co-author of The Future We Need, argued that AI is “creating an opportunity” for a resurgent labor movement.
“Over time, unions have lost collective bargaining power, and a lot of that is due to the lack of laws that we need and enforcement of laws,” she said. “For four decades, productivity soared while wages stayed flat, and unionization hit historic lows.”
But, Gupta continued, “when you have a young Silicon Valley software engineer realize that their performance is tracked or undermined by the same logic as a working-class warehouse picker, class divisions dissolve, and larger working-class movements for dignity are possible. That is what we’re starting to see.”...
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The wages of fucking with labor unions.
Cities Are Shredding Their AI Surveillance Contracts en Masse — Joe Williams
Since the start of 2025, at least 30 cities have canceled their contracts with Flock Safety, the AI surveillance company whose CEO wants to end all crime within the decade by blanketing the country in ever-watchful security cameras.
That startling figure comes courtesy of NPR, which reports that concerned activists are putting mounting pressure on cities to cut ties with the company.
“We are seeing a lot more momentum,” Will Freeman, a Colorado-based organizer who runs the website DeFlock.org, told the broadcaster. “I expect there to be more cities dropping Flock.”
The grassroots campaigns have successfully booted Flock from cities like Flagstaff, Arizona, Eugene Oregon, and Santa Cruz, California.
“In the end, it was just clear that this wasn’t going to be a technology that was going to be well received or that we could continue to use,” Flagstaff mayor Becky Daggett told NPR, reflecting on community outrage over the devices....
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Big Brother was never a good idea. Especially a sloppy Big Brother!
MAGA Texas Candidate: Deport Native Americans
Snopes confirms:
In February 2026, a rumor spread that Bo French, a Republican candidate for the Texas Railroad Commission, which regulates oil and gas, wanted to deport Native Americans -- people indigenous to the U.S. Several social media posts made the claim, including on Facebook, where one user said French had called for the deportation of “third world savages” including Native Americans.
Some posts linked to a Feb. 10, 2026, article in Texas Monthly, which included a line that read, “One of French’s favorite phrases is ‘third world savages’which he has applied to Afghan asylum seekers, Muslims, and even Native Americans, who he also wants deported.” It is true that French called for the deportation of Native Americans. He did so in an Oct. 10, 2025, post on X.
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Long time American Psycho.
Cawthorn Calls For “Hanging People In The Streets”
..."I totally agree with this smug little asshole. When Trump’s finally convicted for raping and molesting children on Epstein’s sadistic island.
Publicly execute him.
Televise it.
The ratings will be off the charts." — Lakota Man (@LakotaMan1) February 21, 2026
"Republicans have fewer and fewer normal, non-weirdo candidates.
It's as if anyone who enters the Republicans is just someone who sees all the grift and says:
'I want some of that.'
It the Weirdo Party now." — JackFknTwist (comments)
"The 39% or so of Americans who love Donald Trump would ask for the autograph of a serial killer who murdered their spouses, parents and young babies.
They'd brag to their friends about having gotten the autograph.
That's who we're dealin' with, Jack, when we're talkin' about Donald Trump's base." — another_steve (comments)
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A good example of American Psychos.
One would think this lunatic would be working for the Trump administration. That's how distrubed he is.
The MAHA Meltdown — Jonathan Cohn
DONALD TRUMP ISSUED an executive order last week to boost production of glyphosate, a widely used pesticide that’s long been the subject of lawsuits over possible effects on health. And the reaction on social media was exactly what you’d expect to hear from environmentalists on the left.
“Absolutely disgusting and shameful”
“Literally no justification for the way this was done”
“A middle finger to public health”
But these posts didn’t come from Trump’s progressive critics. They came from some of his most enthusiastic supporters: influencers who identify as part of the Make America Healthy Again movement.
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Atrocious!
Trump Hikes Global Tariffs to 15 Percent Following Supreme Court Ruling — Jessica Corbett
Shortly after the US Supreme Court on Friday ruled against President Donald Trump’s use of emergency powers to impose sweeping tariffs, the Republican announced plans for a 10% global import tax under another law.
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Dictators ignore all laws.
Every Trump accusation is a confession. This tantrum showed he knows he's cooked — Tara Dublin
Donald Trump’s tariff tantrum in front of the entire world should set off a massive MAGA migration. It was like watching your extra-drunk racist uncle on Facebook who didn’t get the right flavor of Jell-O for Thanksgiving dessert at the Mar-A-Lago Memory Care Center. This is what the alleged leader of the free world did when the Supreme Court wouldn’t let him keep grifting American taxpayers.
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The supporters Trump has left are all in denial. Any fool can see he's a crook. He's already a convicted felon and a disgrace to humanity. Only the sleeping blind don't have the senses to get it.
'That's a lie!' Black farmer corrects Trump while exposing president's 'all-white' meeting — David McAfee
A Black farming leader erupted Sunday to correct a Trump "lie," all while exposing a purported "all-white" meeting held by the president.
John Boyd Jr., president of the National Black Farmers Association, appeared on MS NOW over the weekend to talk about the Supreme Court's decision striking down Trump's tariff powers.
Trump has raged at the high court's justices since the decision was handed down.
But Boyd, who previously said Trump had "sold out" farmers, was focused on the president "lying" about $12 billion being paid out to farmers.
"He went down to Iowa and said that there was $12 billion that was paid out. People. That is a lie!" he exclaimed. "The money has not been paid out, not $0.01 of it. And I just recently got an email, I think, Friday that said that sign up period has now moved to April. The president said we're going to get the money in November. Then he said it's going to get the money in December and then January and then February. And now I just got an email saying that the sign up period is now April. The president just keeps making false statements and he's not being held accountable. This president has a problem with Black leaders that speak up or anyone that opposes anything that he says."
Boyd went on to expose what he said was an "all-white farm meeting with an all-white audience."
"And when he announced that $12 billion... he had a roundtable for farmers and excluded me from the meeting. And nobody believed that he excluded me from the meeting until it happened to a black governor, who they disinvited and didn't want him at the table. That's his president's M.O. and he says it's not race. They said, you know, we're moving away from DEI. We're moving away from the Black farmer issue, the small farmer issue. And that's the kind of coding they put in there. But in all reality, he had an all-white farm meeting with the all-white audience that excluded Black farmers."
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Trump doesn't know there are Black farmers.
Critics say Trump's 'frankly unreal' Greenland post shows he's 'suffering from dementia' — Alexander Willis
“It demonstrates with absolute clarity that the man is suffering from dementia and cannot grasp the most basic connections. Why do I say this? Because what his post is almost certainly prompted by is the fact that the Danish navy evacuated a sick crew member from an American submarine near Greenland within the last few days.”
President Donald Trump made the bizarre announcement Saturday that he would be sending a hospital ship to Greenland on an apparent humanitarian mission, and with no explanation for what prompted the expedition – but critics have zeroed in on what they say is “almost certainly” the cause for the president’s confusing statement.
There is no documented health crisis in Greenland, a territory of Denmark, with all of its citizens entitled to universal health care that’s free at the point of service, as it is in most moderately wealthy nations other than the United States. Nevertheless, Trump suggested that he would be deploying the USNS Mercy to the arctic island, and that the hospital ship was already “on the way.”
As noted by critics, the peculiar announcement came within hours of an incident in which an American service member aboard a U.S. submarine off the coast of Greenland was evacuated by Danish forces and taken to a hospital after falling ill.
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Trump is losing altitude fast.
Supreme Court Justices' lives at risk due to 'incredibly dangerous' Trump move: attorney — David McAfee
..."It's always about the person. And here I think what's stark is that he cannot hide behind who appointed them. These are folks that he appointed, that he picked, that he shook their hands and nominated them and espoused how great they are. And even they came down against him. So he has to go down to attacking them personally, which I think is incredibly, incredibly dangerous because it's one thing to say a judge got it wrong," the lawyer said. "When you attack the person, you suggest that the way to rectify this is with that person. And in a world of political violence, I think we get closer and closer to teaching the American people that what they have to do to rectify their needs is not go through institutions, but instead something far more dangerous. And I think that's the path we're down."
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Of course. Both Trump and Putin are killers that murder people.
Trump: Netflix Must Fire “Deranged Racist” Susan Rice
Bloomberg News reports:
Donald Trump called on Netflix to fire board member Susan Rice or “pay the consequences,” after she said that Democrats would take action against corporations that “take a knee” to the president. Rice, who was former President Barack Obama’s national security adviser and United Nations ambassador and also served in Joe Biden’s White House, said on a podcast that corporations, news organizations and law firms that went along with Trump’s demands for loyalty now see their actions were unpopular.
“They’re going to be held accountable” if Democrats return to power, she said. “If they think Democrats are going to play by the old rules, they’ve got another thing coming.” Netflix is in a bidding war with Paramount Skydance Corp. to buy Warner Bros Discovery Inc. Trump didn’t specify in his social media post what “consequences” the streaming giant might face, but Trump has criticized other networks for content he doesn’t like and FCC Chairman Brendan Carr has threatened networks’ broadcast licenses.
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Fire the Nazi criminal Trump. There is our problem solved!
Sobbing Cultist Can’t Believe ICE “Kidnapped” Girlfriend
Miami’s ABC affiliate reports:
Through tears, a Republican man made a desperate plea to President Donald Trump on Friday: “Please get her home! Please, she does not deserve this. She is the sweetest person, and she prayed for you.” It has been eight months since ICE agents detained Yamile Alcantu, and her partner of 20 years, Wayne DeMario, has been in a lot of pain.
“They grabbed her, put her in shackles and chains,” DeMario said, adding that after she was “kidnapped,” ICE held her at a detention center in Jacksonville and moved her to Louisiana. DeMario, the owner of Wayne’s Guitar World, said he and Alcantu were fierce Trump supporters and never imagined their nightmare.
“I really thought this was just going to be something more organized, but it’s obviously not,” DeMario said about Trump’s deportations. “They just blanket everybody.” DeMario said Alcantu moved to the U.S. from Cuba 25 years ago through a Visa Lottery, a State Department program. They didn’t think her immigration status would be a problem, and he voted for Trump.
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Ya don't say? The chickens came home to roost at your house. Now ya know.
Far-Right Arizona Rep Intros Bill To Create Charlie Kirk License Plate That Would Benefit Turning Point USA,br>
A state senator who has been paid millions of dollars by Turning Point USA wants to memorialize the right-wing advocacy group’s slain founder with a statue, a highway and a license plate — the last of which would funnel taxpayer dollars directly to the organization. Sen. Jake Hoffman, a Queen Creek Republican and founder of the far-right Arizona Freedom Caucus, said during a Feb. 4 Senate Government Committee hearing that he had worked with TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk for 11 years.
Hoffman’s Senate Bill 1439 would allow for the creation of special Arizona license plates memorializing Kirk and recognizing TPUSA. For every driver that pays $25 to get the specialty plate, TPUSA would get $17. Hoffman is the president and CEO of consulting and marketing firms Rally Forge and 1Ten. From 2017 through 2019, TPUSA paid Rally Forge a total of more than $1.6 million for advertising. In 2022 and 2023 Turning Point Action, paid 1Ten a total of more than $1 million.
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So, does this start a flood of states litigating a license plate to fund their particulat cause the people gay for? Get the fuck out with your grifting idea to support fascism!
This almighty blow to Trump is about much more than tariffs — Robert Reich
A 6-3 majority of the Supreme Court decided yesterday that Donald Trump cannot take core powers that the Constitution gives Congress. Instead, Congress must delegate that power clearly and unambiguously.
This is a big decision. It goes far beyond merely interpreting the 1997 International Emergency Economic Powers Act not to give Trump the power over tariffs that he claims to have. It reaffirms a basic constitutional principle about the division and separation of powers between Congress and the president.
On its face, this decision clarifies that Trump cannot decide on his own not to spend money Congress has authorized and appropriated — such as the funds for USAID he refused to spend. And he cannot on his own decide to go to war....
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Yes, Donald. There is a U.S. Constitution.
U Of Texas To Let MAGA Snowflakes Graduate Without Learning 'Controversial' Stuff — Doktor Zoom
For once, they’re not mad about evolution. It’s backlash to LGBTQ identity. So we borrowed the design from Amorphia Apparel and made the dino a Transceratops.
The University of Texas system’s Board of Regents voted unanimously Thursday to approve new rules that require its universities to make sure sheltered Texas college students can finish a degree without having to learn about “unnecessary controversial subjects,” if you know what that means and we bet you do. (It means anything having to do with gender identity, sexuality, or the million other culture war things wingnuts have been freaking about for the last decade or so. We miss the old days when the fights were only about evolution!)
The rules also require that faculty make clear in their syllabi what topics their courses will cover, with a requirement that they not vary from the plan. Instructors must “eschew topics and controversies that are not germane to the course.” In the regrettable event that any controversial issues are absolutely necessary to mention in order to teach a subject, instructors must take a “broad and balanced approach” to teaching about them.
But really, wouldn’t it be safer to just avoid that icky stuff altogether, to avoid upsetting students (and really, parents) who are absolutely certain that Donald Trump and Gov. Greg Abbott made LGBTQ+ people illegal already? Just say that Oscar Wilde was a confirmed bachelor and move on.
So what topics do the new rules forbid, exactly? That’s the really fun part! As the Texas Tribune notes,
The policy does not define what qualifies as “controversial” or what constitutes a “broad and balanced approach.” Opponents warned that leaving those terms undefined would force administrators to interpret them case by case, pressuring professors to avoid difficult material rather than risk complaints.
During the public comment period prior to the vote, all 10 of the speakers opposed the policy. Which, as we say, passed unanimously all the same.
Those who spoke included several UT faculty members — making clear they were speaking as private citizens — pointed out that the vague rules invite trouble and censorship. UT Austin physics prof. Peter Onyisi noted that within the field of physics, the age of the universes is an uncontested fact, even though a number of religious traditions hold that saying the universe is around 13.8 billion years old is not merely controversial but an attack on their faith.
“Are we going to be expected to teach the controversy regarding fundamental principles of science? If the answer is no, then which controversies are being referred to in this document?” Onyisi asked the board. “Which office will decide the range of opinions that can be held in good faith as defined by this document? Will they be experts in the relevant disciplines or will they just seek to avoid unpleasant publicity?”...
But again, isn’t dumbing down higher education what Texas is all about?...
The stupidity is far from over, and not limited to Texas. Ron DeSantis’s “war on woke” marches on in Florida, where instructors teaching “Introduction to Sociology” at state colleges were told they must follow a state-provided syllabus, using a state-bowdlerized online textbook....
We are in a difficult time, and vagueness is being weaponized.
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Our Constitution built a wall between church and state. Why is it we don't have sense enough to see the disaster we get from tearing it down? What turned us into this retarded lot we've become?
Is the Trump–Epstein Scandal Nearing the Critical Mass that Turned "Watergate" Into a White House Collapse? — Thom Hartmann
The coverup is widening, the documents are missing, and history suggests the collapse comes faster than anyone expects.
We’ve only had one genuinely failed presidency in the modern era: Richard Nixon’s. I believe we’re on the verge of the second, and for very similar reasons. If it plays out the way I expect, the consequences could be world-changing, and will certainly alter how our politics work for decades to come.
The tipping point began in a big way when Attorney General Pam Bondi went before Congress to defend Trump. When asked how many of Epstein’s co-conspirators she’d indicted, she refused to answer and instead completely lost it, going off on a bizarre rant that included:
“Donald Trump signed that law to release all of those documents. He is the most transparent president in the nation’s history. None of them asked Merrick Garland over the last four years one word about Jeffrey Epstein.
“Donald Trump — The Dow — the Dow right now is over 50,000. The S&P at almost 7,000 and the Nasdaq smashing records. Americans’ 401(k)s and retirement savings are booming. That’s what we should be talking about.”
Nobody was buying it any more than when Trump said on Wednesday of this week, “I’ve been totally exonerated. I did nothing.” Instead, both became punch lines for comedians and have Republicans hiding to avoid being interviewed.
And yesterday we saw the bookend of this Watergate-like tipping point, when the former Prince Andrew was arrested by the British police. They didn’t even give the royal family an advance notice, didn’t invite him to come and be questioned, but instead just showed up and took him away, then tore apart his residences looking for evidence....
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Pam had her fingers crossed when she said what she said about Trump being the most transparent president in history. It will be fun to watch the old fart try to squirm out of the charges he will have to face.
‘They’ve Actually Done Jasmine Crockett Dirty’ GOP Strategist Offers Surprising Defense of Democrat Amid Colbert Drama — Zachary Leeman
Republican strategist Matthew Bartlett offered a surprising defense of Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) on Saturday, arguing her fellow Democrats have done her “dirty.”
On MS NOW’s The Weekend, Bartlett, who was a State Department appointee in President Donald Trump’s first administration, called talk of “Trump suppression” of an interview between late-night comedian Stephen Colbert and Texas State Representative James Talarico (D) a “false narrative.”
Colbert claimed during a recent broadcast that he was told by CBS lawyers in “no uncertain terms” that he could not air the Talarico interview because he may violate an “equal time” rule with the FCC, something FCC Chair Brendan Carr has been warning will be taken more seriously. He recently announced a probe into The View for potential violation of the rule, which relates to television and radio broadcasts.
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We already stated this and accused them of being dirty first here at LOTHN.
Huckabee: Israel Has Biblical Right To Entire Middle East
"This is the goal – to dispossess the Palestinians of all land in a vicious campaign of ethnic cleansing. The criminal Trump regime and the criminal Netanyahu regime are aligned on this." — Mark Jacob (BlueSky)
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You bet. This is a very large source of Trump's criminal grifting!
Alaska Young Republicans Chair/State Rep’s Chief Of Staff Arrested On Federal Child Sex Trafficking Charges
The Alaska Beacon reports:
A legislator’s chief of staff was arrested in Juneau on Friday on federal charges of sex trafficking and child exploitation, enticement and coercion and creating child sexual abuse material. Craig Scott Valdez, 36, was chief of staff to Sutton Republican Sen. George Rauscher since November, and worked in Rauscher’s office since 2021, according to a government staffing website Legistorm. Rauscher was not immediately available for comment Friday.
A spokesperson for the Senate Minority Caucus, of which Rasucher is a member, said Friday afternoon that Valdez had been terminated from his employment with the Legislature, effective immediately. Valdez also served as the chair of the Anchorage Young Republicans. A spokesperson for the Alaska Republican Party said in a statement Friday said the charges were “nothing short of horrifying” and said Valdez has been removed from any and all positions within the Alaska Republican Party and Young Republicans.
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From the Hitler Youth Corps. One of the ped's friends, no doubt.
And another one bites the dust!
Developer’s Honest Assessment of AI at Work Rattles the Official Narrative — Frank Landymore
A veteran programmer shared his brutally honest opinions about AI’s role in the workplace, and it’s as much an indictment of the tech as it is of the organizations lazily deploying it.
In an X rant that’s being praised in online programming circles, the programmer, Dax Raad, said that what’s holding back software companies isn’t the speed they’re able to churn out code, but the quality of their ideas — an issue AI isn’t going to solve, despite the industry’s fixation on emphasizing its supposed ability to supercharge productivity.
“Your org rarely has good ideas. Ideas being expensive to implement was actually helping,” wrote Raad, whose own company OpenAuth sells AI tools.
And workers aren’t using AI to be ten times more effective, he continued; instead, “they’re using it to churn out their tasks with less energy spend.”
Worse yet, the “two people on your team that actually tried are now flattened by the slop code everyone is producing, they will quit soon.”
“Even when you produce work faster you’re still bottlenecked by bureaucracy and the dozen other realities of shipping something real,” Raad concluded.
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The retarded level of intellect in the U.S. today. It goes hand-in-hand with the failure of Trump and his know-nothing supporters.
Mitch McConnell's Sweet Revenge: He's Blocking SAVE Act — Reid Pointer
The New Republic is reporting that McConnell is not allowing the Senate Rules Committee to vote on the SAVE Bill. By preventing the Committee from voting on it, it is unable to move forward - known as "out of committee." The bill is presented as a way to keep elections safe, but in reality, it requires specific forms of ID to vote. And many people, especially women who changed their names due to marriage, people of color, and people of lower socioeconomic status, are not able to secure those specific forms of ID. Therefore, they would be actively disenfranchised from voting.
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Dear Donald,
Before I depart, I would like to leave you with this very large bag of shit! It's really good shit, Mr. President which I know is the kind you like best!
Yours fucking truly,
He who laughs last!
I'm done tolerating Trump supporters who won't turn their backs on him — D. Earl Stephens
...Here’s the column, with the wordy slammer: “I CAN BE LET DOWN BY TRUMP WITHOUT REGRETTING VOTING FOR HIM”
Here’s the subhead: Voting for President Donald Trump doesn’t make us racists or bigots. His poor choices and mistakes are his own....
I’ve been pretty plain that proud MAGAs like Russell vote for Trump because of the racism, not in spite of it.
Seems pretty simple that if you support a bigot, you are a bigot, and there’s nothing lower than that.
By my reckoning, racism shouldn’t be treated as just a pesky little thing, because it is the thing.
I’ve had it with people like Russell, who have given themselves the privilege to minimize pollutants in our lives, just so they can breathe easier while acting out their warped beliefs.
And who are people like Russell? Well, when she started one of her death sentences this way: “As a Christian and conservative …” she gave the whole deadly game away.
Because as we all painfully know by now “Christian conservatives” are real paragons of virtue in 2026 America — poor put-upon souls who have heard enough about all those inconvenient truths in those silly history books that should just be banned for nagging us about unimportant stuff like our our ghastly bout with slavery, and myriad human rights abuses.
In their upper-crust Christian lives, there’s only one book that really matters, you see — the one featuring the brown, liberal guy who stood against social injustice, and preferred people were fed, clothed, and treated equally. He also didn't seem to be a real fan of compulsive sinners, who refuse to apologize for anything.
Except they’d rather just forget about that last part, so they can stay good and comfortable in these phony, pillowy lives they’ve weaved for themselves.
These people are just too damn much to take.
Russell excused her racism by typing, she’s “made peace with the fact that democracy is imperfect and that politicians are flawed.”
Failing to return a call from a constituent is a flaw, depicting Black men and women as apes, is despicable and should never, ever be tolerated from anybody, much less the President of the United States.
It is a deal-breaker and should damn well be a job-ender.
By the end of her whitewashing of the orange bigot, Russell worked her way to this special place:
“But for now, Trump's improving America more than (Kamala) Harris ever could have. That's why I'd vote for him again, even if I keep having to defend it.
“Improving America …”
She is telling us that there is nothing he could do that would shake her defense of a vile man who bragged he could shoot somebody like her in the middle of the street, and still wouldn’t lose her support.
He knows her better than she knows herself.
She is an unmovable object, and will defend whatever comes tomorrow no matter what happens today.
You know, maybe instead of scolding Russell for her defense of a disgusting bigot, I should have saved everyone a lot of time, and just spoken to her in wholesome, conservative Christian language that she understands and condones:
“Quiet, piggy.”
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"THE ABDICATION OF DECENCY!"
It's more than obvious this person is a Nazi. There are many of them in the U.S. They are the ones that should be deported. Back to the stone age they came from!
How the end of America begins —- Sarah K. Burris
Donald Trump‘s Crusade against Kilmar Abrego Garcia is “on life support” as it may finally be dismissed this week or next by District Judge Waverly Crenshaw in Tennessee. But will that be the end of this father’s and husband’s ordeal?
This week, I told you about the historic pattern associated with countries moving from democracy to tyranny. First, they start breaking the law and ignoring the Constitution in small ways, and the more they get away with it — and buy off or threaten politicians who may otherwise stop it — the more they do it. We’ve been watching Trump do this almost from the first day of his second term in office.
Then I laid out the mechanism behind that, the way men like Trump who want to become dictators co-opt the law by threatening law firms and the media, ignoring judges, and legally, verbally, or physically attacking the press, politicians, and regular citizens who speak out. Trump has done all of these things already, too, just like Vladimir Putin and Viktor Orbán did when they were deconstructing the democracies in Russia and Hungary.
Today we look at how a country finally, fully crosses from being a self-correcting democracy into a rigid tyranny like those two countries, and how average people like us can identify that moment in time to do something about it before it is utterly too late.
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Many of us recognized the Trump attack on our nation long ago! The fact that we know exactly what our problem is and then we do nothing to eliminate it makes us look like we weren't as prepared to defend like we imagined we were. Where did America's spine go? If we can't find it and our guts we deserve to lose it all!
"Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night"... Thanatopsis, William Cullen Bryant
Major government research lab appears to be squeezing out foreign scientists — Paresh Dave, wired.com
One of the US government’s top scientific research labs is taking steps that could drive away foreign scientists, a shift lawmakers and sources tell WIRED could cost the country valuable expertise and damage the agency’s credibility.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) helps determine the frameworks underpinning everything from cybersecurity to semiconductor manufacturing. Some of NIST’s recent work includes establishing guidelines for securing AI systems and identifying health concerns with air purifiers and firefighting gloves. Many of the agency’s thousands of employees, postdoctoral scientists, contractors, and guest researchers are brought in from around the world for their specialized expertise.
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More failure by the demented.
Voldemort Rages At “Cowardly, Horrendous” SCOTUS
“'The court also affirmed the president has the authority under section 301, section 232, section 122, section 338........'
The Court did no such thing. That was a line from Kavanaugh's dissent.
Miller lies.......about everything." — JackFknTwist (comments)
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Whine your skinny Nazi ass off, you lying turd swine!
Bessent Scoffs At Mere Mention Of Tariff Refunds: “I’ve Got A Feeling That The American People Won’t See It”
"I’m sure that $175 billion has already been distributed between trump and all his crony thugs that are scalping the American public thanks to all the gullible MAGA dupes who have prostrated themselves at the feet of their orange, pedo king." — bdub420 (comments)
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And that's because Bessent and Trump are the criminal scumbags who robbed our money!
What's On Trump's Face? — John Amato
The new make-up is so reflective it burns my eyes.
During a speech in Rome, Georgia, on Thursday, Trump's new orange dye job was so caustic that it reflected light in a way that made his face look like a weird mirror.
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One could could clearly see how wrinkled his face is.
A man out of place and out of time, of a long-gone past.
Mother Of Measles Victim: ‘I Still Wouldn’t Have Given My Son The Vaccine’
Encephalitis, or brain swelling, is showing up among the unvaccinated in South Carolina at an alarming rate.
Encephalitis, or brain swelling, is one of the nastier and deadlier side effects of contracting measles. Only about 1 in 1000 people who get measles develop it, and roughly 10-15% who do will die from it. Almost always, these are children.
“We’re not blaming God for this,” said 35-year-old Kristina. “Yes, it hurts, of course, it hurts. But God has chosen Ethan for a reason. God is doing something, and we're gonna glorify his name regardless."...
The Independent doesn't detail what this woman has seen "with [her] own eyes," but it hardly matters. The boy's parents knowingly put their children at risk of an almost 100% preventable disease (around 97% with two doses of the vaccine), and this was the result.
If it were up to me, they'd be charged with reckless endangerment.
"The people who should be charged is both the parents and the people who spread the disinformation. This didn't have to happen but it did because of the people spreading disinformation because there are so many stupid people in this country." — Greg (comments)
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Indeed, God had nothing to do with. Devolved brain rot did! These creatures will never learn because they are incapable of learning.
'Gonna be big mad': Trump's no good, very bad day fueled by more than tariff ruling — David Badash
President Donald Trump's Friday got off to a rough start as three critical components of his economic agenda collapsed.
A major economic indicator, gross domestic product (GDP), slowed significantly, dropping to just 1.4% annually as inflation rose. And the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the legal basis for the president’s sweeping global tariffs, ruling that his use of that authority was unlawful.
"U.S. growth slowed more than expected near the end of 2025 as the government shutdown impacted spending and investment, while a key inflation metric showed high prices are still a factor for the economy, according to data released Friday," CNBC reported.
GDP was expected to come in at 2.5%, experts predicted.
For 2025, the president delivered GDP far softer than his predecessor, President Joe Biden, did in 2024.
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A one man losing streak!
Supreme Court blocks Trump's emergency tariffs, billions in refunds may be owed — Ashley Belanger
The Supreme Court ruled Friday that Donald Trump was not authorized to implement emergency tariffs to ostensibly block illegal drug flows and offset trade deficits.
It's not immediately clear what the ruling may mean for businesses that paid various "reciprocal" tariffs that Trump changed frequently, raising and lowering rates at will during tense negotiations with the United States' biggest trade partners.
Divided 6-3, Supreme Court justices remanded the cases to lower courts, concluding that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) does not give Trump power to impose tariffs.
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Trump fails again. America wins again!
'On the side of the Epstein class': Conservative slams Trump’s sympathy for UK royals — Matthew Rozsa
No major US figures other than Jeffrey Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell have been held legally accountable for the child sex trafficking scandal — and conservatives are blaming President Donald Trump.
“Trump is saddened by any embarrassment to the royal family,” wrote William Kristol of the conservative publication The Bulwark, referring to the president’s response to the recent arrest of the former UK prince Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor. “And there is no evidence the Trump administration has any interest in seeing justice done, or any intention of having the truth come out. We have an executive branch that is on the side of the Epstein class, not the Epstein survivors.”
When asked by Fox News’ Peter Doocy on Thursday if people in America will wind up in handcuffs too, Trump replied instead that the whole situation was a “shame.”
“I think it’s a shame,” Trump told Doocy. “I think it’s very sad. I think it’s so bad for the royal family. It’s very, very sad to me. It’s a very sad thing. When I see that, it’s a very sad thing. . . . So I think it’s a very sad thing.”
Holly Baxter of the UK Independent was as scathing as Kristol about Trump’s response to Mountbatten-Windsor’s arrest.
“By God, doesn’t Britain’s willingness to go after him make America look absolutely pathetic in comparison?” Baxter wrote. Calling out Trump for saying it is “really time” for people to move past the Epstein scandal, Baxter pointed out that “there are a lot of emails, a lot of photographs,” with “a whole load of redactions” and “some truly shocking claims.”
“There may have been children as young as nine years old, perhaps even younger, who were trafficked by Epstein and his associates,” Baxter wrote, adding “that there was a ‘torture video’ shared among them; that Epstein and Maxwell paid their victims to recruit their friends into the trafficking network.” Despite that, Trump’s Justice Department has barely moved....
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Trump consistently admits his guilt in so many ways!
Supreme Court ruling foreshadows future Trump conflicts: legal expert — Sarah K. Burris
Legal analyst Dr. Tracy A. Pearson noted that Friday's historic decision by the U.S. Supreme Court could foreshadow other upcoming rulings in a similar vein.
Chief Justice Roberts wrote in the ruling, "The president asserts the extraordinary power to unilaterally impose tariffs of unlimited amount, duration, and scope. In light of the breadth, history, and constitutional context of that asserted authority, he must identify clear congressional authorization to exercise it."
Writing on BlueSky, the weekly guest on John Fugelsang's show, said of the ruling on President Donald Trump's tariffs that even the high court has its limits on how much hubris it will allow.
Among the cases at risk with this ruling involve 13 states that are suing the federal government after Trump withheld funding allocated to them by congressional legislation.
The U.S. Constitution gives the "power of the purse" to Congress. So, once those funds are passed by the House and the Senate and signed by a president, Trump foes say he can't rescind them. That has been a major issue in court, but hasn't yet reached the Supreme Court....
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Hmm. Of course, this ruling is correct. But will the little man take heed?
Justice pens footnote deflating conservative colleague’s 46-page opinion on Trump — Sarah K. Burris
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday struck down President Donald Trump's tariff, which he had heralded as his chief achievement, ruling that he overstepped his authority in the executive branch.
The U.S. Constitution outlines that the legislative branch makes the laws regarding trade. Trump's attempts to use an "emergency powers" declaration don't hold water, the high court agreed.
The justices split on whether the government must now refund all the money corporations shelled out for tariffs.
Justice Elena Kagan poked her conservative colleague, Justice Neil Gorsuch, in a footnote related to the major questions doctrine, captured Slate legal reporter Mark Joseph Stern on BlueSky.
"Hilariously, Gorsuch and [Justice Amy Coney] Barrett have a side-battle over the major questions doctrine, with Gorsuch writing a 46-page solo concurrence saying it's a substantive canon and Barrett saying it's a mere tool of statutory interpretation," Stern wrote. "So these two can't even agree on what the 'doctrine' actually means."
In her note, Kagan wrote that Gorsuch "[insists] that I now must be applying the major-questions doctrine, and his own version of it to boot."
"Given how strong his apparent desire for converts ... I almost regret to inform him that I am not one," Kagan continued. "But that is the fact of the matter. I proceed in this case just as I did in West Virginia and Nebraska: I consider a delegation provision’s language, broaden the scope to take in the statutory setting, and apply some common sense about how Congress normally delegates."....
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Kick his ass, Alma!
No interview offer from Colbert after Trump FCC threats led to 'debacle': Jasmine Crockett — Tom Boggioni
Appearing on MS NOW to discuss CBS lawyers interfering with late-night host Stephen Colbert’s planned interview with Texas Democrat James Talarico, Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) claimed she has not heard from Colbert to also appear to discuss her Senate bid....
“No, I've not been invited on Colbert prior to his interview nor post his interview,” the Texas Democrat replied. “Obviously, I've done Colbert twice in the past, and so there were questions that people had about whether or not basically equal time, so to speak, had been offered to me in order to try to avoid Brendan Carr and his misinterpretation or his reinterpretation of the rules.”
"Why media moguls are afraid of a huge tub of lying orange lard, with a pedo problem and dementia, I will never understand. Remove Trump from office today. He has already committed enough crimes and leading us into an non sanctioned war with Iran for the sake of Israel. Screw this guy!" -- newshero 9comments)
"Brendan Carr needs to be dumped in a hole in a forest where no one will ever find him.
I am not sorry to have that opinion. Some humans are beyond redemption.
People like James and Jasmine are the future of american politics no matter what any of you stogey old fucks think." — Erekosë (comments)
"Rep Jasmine Crockett has a point. It wasn't just the donations. Rep Crockett had far more name recognition than Texas Democrat James Talarico and the CBS fiasco vaulted his name to the top of the list." — Homer (comments)
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This is a reverse psychology tactic to take Crockett out of the running as she is the leading candidate. Nazi racism at its worst!
NYT: Trump May Scrap North American Trade Pact
The New York Times reports:
Earlier this month, President Trump found the latest pressure point to extend his leverage over Canada: a new bridge connecting the country to the United States that is expected to open this year. Mr. Trump threatened to block the opening, just hours after the billionaire owner of a competing U.S.-Canada bridge met with Howard Lutnick, Mr. Trump’s commerce secretary. It wasn’t that the president was particularly passionate about the new bridge. What excited him, officials familiar with his thinking said, was the opportunity to use the bridge to force Canada to make trade concessions....
Trillions of dollars of trade happens under the pact, and leaving it could cause pain for American farmers and automakers and dent U.S. economic growth.
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Any questions about why America is losing tourism? Or everything else for that matter?
The world hates us thanks to Trump's criminal dictation!
Hegseth Rails Against “Godless Left” And Trans People In Speech Before Convention Of Religious Broadcasters
CNN reports:
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth railed against what he called the “Godless left” and praised “Western Christian” values and traditions in a headliner speech Thursday night at a Christian communicators conference in Tennessee....
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More Nazi hogwash, from a total dickhead!
Vietnam Veterans Sue To Block Trump’s DC Arch
Politico reports:
Three Vietnam War veterans sued the federal government seeking to block the construction of a new 250-foot triumphal arch near Arlington National Ceremony on Thursday. The lawsuit — filed by progressive watchdog group Public Citizen on behalf of the veterans — asks a judge to prohibit construction on the project, arguing President Donald Trump has not sought the necessary approval from Congress or independent government agencies....
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Shove it up your ass, Trump!
90% Of Locals Don’t Want Airport Renamed For Trump
The Florida Phoenix reports:
...Democratic Sen. Tina Polsky said it was “shocking to me” that the state would spend that amount on the name change. “The sexual assault convictions. The impeachments. The divisiveness. You can all agree, even if you believe in the things that he’s done, even if you support him, that he’s hurt a lot of people, and there’s never been a president that has had this kind of divisiveness as kind of a background.”
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Yet another example of America's Nazi devolvement in reality. No wonder we are a failing country.
NYT: US Sees 11 Million Fewer International Tourists
...Last year, as tourism grew worldwide, the United States was the only major destination to see a decline in foreign visitors. Visitors from Canada plunged by 28 percent in January compared to January 2024. “When 11 million international visitors aren’t showing up, the result is billions of dollars in economic losses to the travel industry,” said Erik Hansen, a senior vice-president at the U.S. Travel Association, a trade group that promotes travel to and within the country.
"Just one more nail in the coffin of the economy that Trump will blame on Joe Biden." — vap (comments)
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The world hates Trump's Nazi America!
Self-hating Closet Case Declares 'Women Are Made To Be F*cked' -- Karoli Kuns
Nick Fuentes went on a rant against women today that should go down in the annals of misogynists everywhere.
Honestly, the points he makes are unworthy of debunkery, even if I felt like it. The more concerning piece of this is the message he's sending out to listeners, giving. His incel army has a permission structure to rape women, because after all, they were "made to be fucked." What do you think all those anxious too-online
incels are doing with that message?
...But just for the record, there are indeed female philosophers.
There are indeed female inventors.
There are indeed female generals.
There are female billionaires. Taylor Swift, anyone?
There are many mothers. I am one. None of us deserves what Nick Fuentes dished out. He denigrates all women, reducing them to a vagina and little more. It is this attitude and this permission structure that permeates our politics. It's one of the reasons Kamala Harris lost, and it was also a factor in Hillary Clinton's loss. If women were considered as men's equals, Trump would be in prison, and President Hillary Clinton would have had 2 terms before turning it over to President Kamala Harris.
In the process of this rant, Fuentes made a fool of himself. Which, to be fair, wasn't a difficult task.
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"The Creep" forgot one thing — motherfuckers! Which is what the incel himself is!
Predatory Profiteers: How Monopolies Butcher Our Health — Cliff Schecter
Designed to streamline drug delivery and negotiate lower prices, the reality in 2026 is far more dangerous. When they deny specific therapy or life-altering drugs, they aren’t just managing a formulary; they're actively undermining a patient’s life
...We must first look at the absurd scale of market dominance. A staggering 79% of Rx claims in the U.S. are controlled by 3 entities: CVS Caremark (33%), Express Scripts (24%), and OptumRx (22%). When you expand to the top 6, it's 96%. This extreme concentration has led to limited competition, prompting FTC investigations.
The core issue is same as it always is with large concentrations of wealth or power. PBMs keep a % of rebates, so they often prefer expensive drugs that generate larger “kickbacks” over lower-cost alternatives that'd save patients money. And guess who gets screwed? Right, the patient...
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Your money or your life.
Right wing podcaster laments Trump’s 'dementia' after bungled Thursday speech — Adam Lynch
The Daily Beast reports high-grossing MAGA podcaster Shawn Ryan appeared shaken at President Donald Trump’s meandering stumbles and senior citizen behavior at Thursday’s meeting of his "Board of Peace," unofficial gathering of countries....
Beast reports Trump also “bragged about his past peace deals, complained about various grievances, reiterated his preference for women while lauding “young, handsome men,” and attacked political allies. After he finished speaking, he then struggled to stay awake while other leaders spoke.”
“Ummm ... I know we all thought the last guy had dementia but ...” Ryan wrote on X in response to a White House post boasting there is “nothing more important than PEACE.”
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The Nazi reatliation squad comments are the usual retarded street gang supporting Trump's murder spree. Who the fuck thinks Trump's "Bored of Peace" is worth a shit other than yet another grifting organization.
America facing its most dangerous time in 80 years: neoconservative historian — Alex Henderson
...During an interview with Germany's Der Spiegel published on February 20, historian/author Robert Kagan looked back on the last 81 years of U.S. history and laid out some reasons why he considers 2026 the most dangerous time for the U.S. and Europe since the end of World War 2.
Kagan hasn't been shy about describing U.S. President Donald Trump as a "fascist" and a "would-be dictator," and during the Der Spiegel interview, he lamented that Trump's return to the White House has been even more repressive than he predicted.
Kagan told Der Spiegel, "I have to admit, I didn't anticipate this kind of military brutality in the streets. I lacked the imagination for it. But it's still only the average people in the streets who are standing up. I don't know why hardly anyone seems to understand that Trump and the people behind him — his deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, the Project 2025 head Russell Vought — that these people are actively trying to subvert liberal democracy. They are destroying the work of the Founders."...
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The Nazi "Dumb Down" machine is how dicating which of us may be allowed to be educated. The ones with MONEY!
Former General: Hegseth’s Loyalty Tests Are Paralyzing Military Promotions — Mark Hertling
In this edition of Command Post, Ben Parker and Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling (Ret.) give their takes on the alarming report that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is blocking military promotions because one colonel worked for Gen. Mark Milley, a former Trump adviser turned foe. Plus, the team breaks down the “toxic leadership” behind Kristi Noem’s Coast Guard scandal and why the Trump administration’s approach to NATO at the Munich Security Conference missed the point. Europe isn’t a burden, it’s America’s secret weapon.
Read more from retired Lt. Gen. Hertling:
America’s Generals Shouldn’t Face Political Loyalty Tests
Europe Is America’s Secret Weapon. And We’re Giving It Up.
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Here we thought we killed all the Nazis during WWII. Now they are back again attempting to take our military to their final destruction.
Texas House candidates in South Texas face allegations of lying about their party affiliation — Berenice Garcia
Republicans hope to flip the Rio Grande Valley state House seat, long held by Democrats.
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Their stench will give them away.
In Crackdown On Worst Of Worst Children, ICE Raids Kids Who Wrote Letters, Deports Sick Two-Month-Old — Doktor Zoom
On the absurd pettiness front, guards at the notorious South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas, raided family dormitories in the prison Tuesday, to search for and destroy children’s letters or drawings depicting conditions at the family prison.
The goal was presumably to prevent any more letters from making their way to reporters on the outside after those commies at ProPublica published several such letters, which is the only reason anyone might think imprisoning children looks bad. (If you haven’t yet read that story, be sure to catch up on it, unless of course you know it’s too much right now. A lot of things are just too much right now.)
Migrant Insider editor Pablo Manríquez wrote on Twitter Tuesday (archive link) that “Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children.”
Then MAGA geniuses said that was impossible because Manríquez had attached his report to a retweet of his own earlier post about the separate plight of Juan Nicolás, a two-month-old baby also imprisoned at Dilley (more on that in a moment), and everyone knows babies can’t write letters, you liar....
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There's far more to this story. Read it.
Right-Wing Men Are Obsessed With IQ. A New Study Shows Theirs Tend To Be Lower. — Robyn Pennacchia
Over the last decade, hungry to be told a story they want to hear about themselves, right-wing men have become increasingly obsessed with the concept of IQ and Charles Murray-eque race science. They have madly fallen in love, especially, with the idea that white people have higher IQs than Black people, posting endless memes just begging the world to tell them that they are special and smart and should be in charge of everything and would be in charge of everything if “merit” counted for anything.
Dear Leader, for example, loves to call anyone he doesn’t like “Low IQ,” as if it means anything at all coming from him.
Now, like most people who don’t fall for ads claiming that the ability to win a child’s puzzle game on one’s phone means they have an IQ of two million and five, I am of the opinion that IQ is bullshit. I believe this because all the empirical evidence tells us that standardized testing is not an accurate way to determine intelligence, and that IQ tests tend to be skewed to favor of white people and men and Western concepts of intelligence. “Testing well” is just one form of intelligence among many. In fact, it might be the least helpful form of intelligence as it pertains to the real world, as one can do very well on standardized tests and still not remember what it was she meant to get from the refrigerator....
That being said, I think we can all still delight in the irony of a new study, recently published in the scientific journal Intelligence, showing that conservative men tend to have lower IQs than men who are liberal.
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Read more before you declare it a hit piece, please.
Inside the Gay Tech Mafia — Zoë Bernard
Gay men have long been rumored to run Silicon Valley. WIRED investigates.
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Seems to me the commenters on this piece are pissed about its content and therefore are labeling it as a "hit piece."
Do they understand it's not about your "routine gay man" but the BILLIONAIRE GAY MEN?
History Shows How the Transition to Tyranny Begins: By Punishing the Weak and Defying the Courts — Tom Hartmann
From Hitler to Putin to Orbán and Trump, the first step is always the same: act illegally, dare anyone to stop you, and behave like losing in court is only a delay….
Donald Trump‘s Crusade against Kilmar Abrego Garcia is “on life support” as it may finally be dismissed this week or next by District Judge Waverly Crenshaw in Tennessee. But will that be the end of this father’s and husband’s ordeal?
On Monday I told you about the historic pattern associated with countries moving from democracy to tyranny. First, they start breaking the law and ignoring the Constitution in small ways, and the more they get away with it — and buy off or threaten politicians who may otherwise stop it — the more they do it. We’ve been watching Trump do this almost from the first day of his second term in office.
Yesterday I laid out the mechanism behind that, the way men like Trump who want to become dictators co-opt the law by threatening law firms and the media, ignoring judges, and legally, verbally, or physically attacking the press, politicians, and regular citizens who speak out. Trump has done all of these things already, too, just like Putin and Orbán did when they were deconstructing the democracies in Russia and Hungary.
Today we look at how a country finally, fully crosses from being a self-correcting democracy into a rigid tyranny like those two countries, and how average people like us can identify that moment in time to do something about it before it is utterly too late.
Over the past few months, you may have noticed a rather strange rhythm in the news. A judge orders a man like Kilmar Abrego Garcia released and the Trump regime simply finds another way to hold or punish him. Another court blocks a deportation, and administration officials announce they’ll try again using a different legal strategy.
The result is that, as of last week, courts around the country have ruled over four thousand times that Trump’s ICE detentions were unlawful, and yet the detentions continue — over 70,000 people so far, including families and children — while larger facilities are being built every day to hold still more people....
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Which is why the Trump Nazis are trying to erase it!
‘This Is a Huge Shift!’ Mediaite's Luke Touma Explains Why James Talarico Is Being ‘Cancelled’ by MAGA — Jennifer Bowers Bahney
...On the Mediaite podcast, Touma said the FCC’s alleged attempt to silence Talarico was far different from when the agency targeted late-night host Jimmy Kimmel for telling jokes at Trump’s expense.
“James Talarico is not someone who makes fun of Trump or bashes his personality, or makes jokes about his…orange skin, or the way he speaks, or the way he posts,” Touma said. “This would make sense if this was Gavin Newsom. Because Trump hates looking like fool. Being made fun of. He’s got extremely thin skin, he’s ultra-sensitive.”
Touma continued:
I think what you’re seeing there is…beyond Trump trying to punish anyone saying anything bad about him. It’s now gone to, “We want to silence anyone who we think has a chance of beating our candidate in a meaningful election.” They do not want this guy to be a senator in Texas. Because…he’s polling well but he’s a progressive, leftist candidate. and he’s gonna push an economic populist platform. And he’s gonna push for things like raising the minimum wage, and more public housing....
So, this is a huge shift. Because it’s not Donald Trump trying to use the FCC to get Jimmy Kimmel fired because he doesn’t like a joke Jimmy Kimmel made about him. It’s Donald Trump trying to silence — or the Trump administration — trying to silence the voice via the FCC of the progressive leftist candidate, who they seem to be scared of, he’s gonna win the election.
Touma said the strategy is already backfiring. Talarico posted to social media, “Our campaign raised $2.5 million in 24 hours after the FCC banned our Colbert interview.”
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It's Nazi shift! Call it what it is!
FCC Chair: “The Days Of Media Broadcasters Deciding What We Can Say And Who We Can Vote For Are Over”
"As though Sinclair and Faux and Newsmax and Truth Social did not exist. They have megaphones for their propaganda at the ready. They want simply to suppress the voice of liberals." — magic twanger (comments)
"Don’t count your chickens, pussy boy. Change is coming." — Dwight Williamson (comments)
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When did American brodacasters ever dictate what we can say over broadcasting? NEVER!
America NEVER dictated who we can vote for because we have a First Amendment that protects free speech.
This retarded asswipe is trying to destroy that himself! I say destroy him and his goddamn fascist precepts!
This Nazi asshole is saying HE decides what we say. FUCK HIM!
FCC Reviewed Bad Bunny’s Lyrics And Found Nothing
(photo of street vagrant)
"So now Gestapo Headquarters review song lyrics for lies against the state.
Yeah, nice country you got there.
Thanks to the Republicans.
'Freedumb, freedumb, freedumb.'" — JackFknTwist (comments)
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It's only words, and words are all I have to say NAZIS, FUCK OFF today!
Judge Finds Trump Admin Lawyer In Civil Contempt
The New York Times reports:
A federal judge in Minnesota found a Trump administration lawyer in civil contempt of court on Wednesday, a significant escalation between the judiciary and the executive branch amid a ballooning caseload triggered by President Trump’s immigration raids and novel interpretations of law.
According to the ruling, by Judge Laura M. Provinzino of Federal District Court in Minnesota, the government failed to return “identification documents” belonging to Rigoberto Soto Jimenez, a detained immigrant whom she had ordered to be released with all of his property returned.
The judge ordered a $500 daily fine imposed on Matthew Isihara, an administration lawyer, for each day the documents are not returned, beginning on Friday. An online profile belonging to Mr. Isihara identified him as a military judge advocate now detailed as a special assistant U.S. attorney.
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It's a start in the right direction.
Study: Tariffs Paid By Midsized Companies Have Tripled
The Associated Press reports:
Tariffs paid by midsized U.S. businesses tripled over the course of last year, new research tied to one of America’s leading banks showed on Thursday — more evidence that President Donald Trump ‘s push to charge higher taxes on imports is causing economic disruption.
The additional taxes have meant that companies that employ a combined 48 million people in the U.S. — the kinds of businesses that Trump had promised to revive — have had to find ways to absorb the new expense, by passing it along to customers in the form of higher prices, employing fewer workers or accepting lower profits.
“That’s a big change in their cost of doing business,” said Chi Mac, business research director of the JPMorganChase Institute, which published the analysis on Thursday.
"You were told that 'dem fureigners' would pay the tariffs.
Bessent, Navarro, Lutnick, Hassert all assured the US public that they would not be paying the tariffs. And of course Trump.
If that blatant lie does not bury the Republicans in the mid-terms, then the fascists have truly convinced the people not be believe what they hear and see.
"As Stoned and loving it says below, there is a detailed history of bankruptcies to light the way.
But America did not want a woman." — jackFknTwist (comments)
"Throw the tariffs out or we will Impeach the Supreme Court Justices, you’re stalling John Roberts , for months now." — Dwight Williamson (comments)
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U2 Releases Tribute Song About Renee Good
The Guardian reports:
U2 have released their first collection of new music since 2017 – a politically charged EP entitled Days of Ash, which focuses on a series of high-profile global deaths including the killing of Renee Good by ICE agents. Good, a mother of three children who was killed on 7 January while protesting against ICE activity in Minneapolis, is the subject of the opening song, American Obituary.
“Renee Good, born to die free / American mother of three / seventh day January / a bullet for each child, as you can see,” Bono sings on the hard rock song, after a forthright, pealing riff from the Edge. “Renee, the ‘domestic terrorist’? / What you can’t kill can’t die / America will rise against the people of the lie.”
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And here I thought she was merely driving her kids home from school when she was murdered!
The free world is coming for Donald Trump's criminal ass!
Epstein Files: UN Says Acts Are "Crimes Against Humanity" -- RedStateRachel
UN experts said the crimes committed by Jeffrey Epstein and friends make a global criminal enterprise meeting the legal standards for crimes against humanity.
...The list of countries going after the criminals in the Epstein files grows daily. Meanwhile, the United States DOJ takes no action. Rep. Ted Lieu explains a reason the Trump administration is not moving to punish anyone:
Ted Lieu: “Donald Trump is in the Epstein files thousands and thousands of times. In those files, there are highly disturbing allegations of Donald Trump raping children … of Donald Trump threatening to kill children. So I encourage the press to go look at these allegations.”...
"OK then U.N.
Trump fucked children, so come and get him because fascist USA is currently protecting him from prosecution." -- Mister-Blue-Sky (comments)
"I think it would be a good thing if everyone implicated in the Epstein files would have an arrest warrant issued for them in every country that cares about children.
Pretty obviously that will never happen in the United States of America. Every time a right winger or a MAGA start talking about protecting the children from books or knowing that gay people exist remind them that they are complicit in protecting an entire gang of elite pedophiles." -- JaneE (comments)
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The U.S. appears to be lazy on the issue, as usual. The press has no spine, as usual. But we are being stonewalled by Trump due to his involvement.
Newsmax Guest Wants to ‘Start Vetting’ Olympians For Their Political Views — Alex Griffing
He said the patriotic thing to do is actually to root against these unpatriotic Olympians because they’re going out bashing us. Why should we cheer for them? Why should we want them to win? It’s absurd. And by the way, she’s coming after America, calling us bigoted, insinuating the Trump administration’s bigoted — whatever it is. Listen, I’m going to tell you what. The people who are under threat in our country, it’s not queer individuals, it’s not trans people. It is little girls and women who are having their private spaces invaded by men. It is the wrestler who last week was assaulted by a male on the mat. This is what we’re dealing with. These are the people who are under threat. And I’m sick of pretending otherwise.
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In other words, the Newsmax Nazi Talibastard can read our First Amendment then go straight to hell where he came from!
War declared on Trump DOJ's 'abnormal' behavior by fed-up attorneys — War declared on Trump DOJ's 'abnormal' behavior by fed-up attorneys — Robert Davis
A group of criminal defense attorneys has launched a war against the Trump Department of Justice's "abnormal behavior," according to a report.
The lawyers banded together and created a tool called Case Tracker, a database of federal cases in which eyewitness testimony undermines government charges. The tracker is sponsored by The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, KBPS reported.
"We created the Case Tracker because you cannot defend against an enemy you cannot see," Steven Salky, a lawyer in the Washington, D.C., area who oversees the project, told the outlet. "The Tracker is intended to spotlight for the next several years the unusual cases being prosecuted by the Department of Justice."
President Donald Trump's Department of Justice has been heavily scrutinized for filing frivolous charges against perceived political enemies. For instance, the Department of Justice has pursued mortgage fraud charges against New York Attorney General Letitia James, who secured a fraud conviction against Trump, and Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA), who led Trump's impeachment efforts during his first term.
The Trump administration has also moved to charge average Americans with trumped-up charges as well. Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. Attorney in Washington, D.C., tried to charge a protester with assault after he threw a sandwich at federal officers. A federal grand jury declined to charge the individual after deliberating for just 30 minutes.
"This tracker is an essential tool for an era where federal overreach has become the standard operating procedure," NACDL Executive Director Lisa Wayne told KPBS.
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What else do we expect fascists to do but overreach!
Trump's sons brag about their 'retribution' — Adam Lynch
Gizmodo reported on Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump’s Wednesday Mar-a-Lago conference pushing their family crypto company, World Liberty Financial.
“In many ways, it’s a victory lap for the Trump family, a recognition that there is no mechanism available to stop the unprecedented corruption that’s being done out in the open, as foreign governments and U.S.-based executives jostle to please the Trump regime and profit from their proximity to political power,” reports Gizmodo.
“We were the most canceled people in the world in 2020, 2021,” Eric Trump told CNBC host Sara Eisen. “And it’s really great to almost have this retribution where all of a sudden we start pushing an agenda. Our agenda was to modernize finance, to allow that to never, ever, ever happen to anybody again.”
“The part Eric Trump is leaving out,” said Gizmodo writer Matt Novak, “is President Trump’s attempt at a self-coup on Jan. 6, 2021, sending a violent mob to storm the U.S. Capitol in a bid to remain in power after losing the 2020 election. The president was banned from the major social media platforms, and his family was cut off from some banking opportunities over his effort to overthrow the government. The president has since sued JPMorgan Chase and CEO Jamie Dimon over the moves.”
Gizmodo also reports the Trump sons “bragged” to CNBC about how opening their own crypto company has given them “credibility.” But Gizmodo counters that World Liberty Financial’s stablecoin, USD1, is “a fiat-backed cryptocurrency that the Trumps have tried to tout as a brilliant hedge against the traditional financial system, an argument that doesn’t make much sense given how dependent it is on that same system for stability.”
Donald Trump Jr. remains irritated that the family was briefly debanked, and he did not appreciate how banks could drop a customer at their own discretion.
“Crypto totally democratizes the ability for people to transact, to do finance, to get the loans that they need for businesses that make sense. That didn’t exist for everyone,” said Donald Trump Jr., which is a “frankly idiotic” suggestion said Novak.
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Who says crime doesn't pay? It does for the Trumps.
Trump's 'knee-slapping buffoonish failures' are hiding something — Adam Lynch
New Republic columnist Greg Sargent says a grand jury may have laughed President Donald Trump’s prosecutors out of court, but the details of the prosecutions suggest horrific abuses of power that carry no humor whatsoever.
“Donald Trump’s efforts to jail his Democratic enemies have thus far mostly been marked by ham-fisted, buffoonish failure,” said Sargent, speaking on the politicized DOJ’s war on Sen. Adam Schiff, (D-Calif.), former FBI Director James Comey, New York Attorney General Letitia James, and six Democratic lawmakers who produced a video that made Trump angry, which courts and juries have derailed.
“Yet … a dynamic has kicked in that is oddly helpful to [Trump],” said Sargent. “Thanks to the knee-slapping, comic-relief-inducing nature of these failures, the authoritarian abuses underlying them risk being seen as less threatening than they actually are. That could potentially disarm us for the next round, which will surely come.”
Trump’s prosecutors failed to convince a single member of a jury to indict the lawmakers, but how the indictment came together is one of the most frighting things about it, Sargent said.
“Here’s what happened: After the FBI communicated with the Democratic lawmakers, prosecutors in [the office of Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney in Washington,] reached out to them to follow up,” said Sargent. “[When defense] attorney Preet Bharara directly asked prosecutors what statute the Democrats had allegedly violated to prompt the criminal inquiry, according to sources familiar with these discussions. The prosecutors could not name any statute, the sources told me.”
“What is the theory of criminal liability?” was the question Bharara’s office demanded. And according to one source speaking with Sargent, “no answer was forthcoming.”
“[Pirro’s] prosecutors had failed to name any violated statute, yet they forged ahead with the effort to indict anyway,” said Sargent.
This suggests prosecutors didn’t think a criminal prosecution was warranted or doubted there was probable cause to think the Democrats had committed a crime. This, in turn, suggests “something or other prompted the rush to indict, perhaps a word from on high that — let’s go way out on a limb here — had little to do with facts and law,” Sargent said....
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"Captain J.T. Spaulding: What's the matter, kid? Don't ya like clowns?
Jamie: [shakes his head, crying] No...
Captain J.T. Spaulding: Why? Don't we make ya laugh? Aren't we fuckin' funny? You best come up with an answer, cos I'm gonna come back here and check on you and your momma and if you ain't got a reason why you hate clowns, I'm gonna kill your whole fucking family.
Jamie: [continues crying] Please...
Captain J.T. Spaulding: All right, now get your fuckin' ass out the car. Go on. Yayayayayaya!
[Spaulding starts laughing]" -- The Devil's Rejects
O'Donnell Tears Into CBS's Most Cowardly Corporate Lawyers — Chris capper Liebenthal
Lawrence O'Donnell's first guest on Tuesday night's The Last Word on MS NOW was Texas State Rep James Talarico, who was abruptly pulled from The Late Show with Stephen Colbert the night before.
O'Donnell gave a summary of what had happened and played a clip of Colbert defying CBS's attorneys by talking about it after they told him not to say anything. And then O'Donnell lit them up.
O'Donnell said that it took CBS lawyers a full 24 hours to make a statement about what Colbert said on his show. The network's lawyers issued a mealy-mouthed statement saying the network wasn't prohibited from airing the interview with Talarico. Still, they warned that it could trigger the FCC rule requiring equal airtime for other candidates, including U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett. So, instead of giving Crockett equal airtime, they decided to post the interview on YouTube.
O'Donnell continued, "The CBS lawyers are factually and legally wrong, as anyone who knows the law should know. It would be impossible for James Talarico, his appearance, or any politician's appearance on Stephen Colbert's show to trigger the FCC equal time rule. The rule does not apply to entertainment television like Stephen Colbert's show in any way."
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Someone in the Nazi Party is a certified moron. To how many candidates in a primary election are you going to give equal time? You will run out of time doing that shit. That's what candidate debates are for. We hope the Nazi Party is quickly running out of time and their end comes soon!
Warnock: 'Jesus Is A Victim Of Identity Theft In American Politics' — Chris capper Liebenthal
Sen Raphael Warnock, a pastor himself, was remembering Rev Jesse Jackson and made a very poignant observation:
Listen, something much deeper than politics is at stake here. The soul of our country is in danger.
And many of the loudest voices of faith in our country are the meanest voices. They have a vision of the country that, in my view, is a far cry from the vision of the Old Testament prophets, the Hebrew prophets, who said, "Let justice roll down like waters and righteousness as a mighty stream, who told us to welcome the stranger and to care for the poor."
Jesus is a victim of identity theft in American politics and American culture. And so those of us who have been shaped by the faith that inspired Martin Luther King Jr., and for that matter, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, and so many larger figures, Reverend Jesse Jackson, we need that faith now more than ever. And it is something that I certainly try to center in my work every single day. I fight for the poor because my faith tells me to center the poor. And in the eyes of the poor, you get a glimpse of what God is like. That's who Jesse Jackson was. And it's now up to us to continue that work.
Warnock is correct. So many on the right, especially the Christofascists, are merely using religion to justify their hate and bigotry. I once saw someone say that the late Charlie Kirk used God instead of letting God use him. Is it any wonder that with "Christians" like them, fewer people are identifying as being religious?
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Hallelujah!
FALSE HERRING! Tabs, Wed., Feb. 18, 2026 — Evan Hurst
Read this post for all the latest news of wearing jeans in saunas.
Marco Rubio is being a Nazi again some more, after his big day of licking Orbán’s sack in Hungary. Oh boy is Little Marco excited about how the MAGA white supremacists are still treating him like one of the regular white guys!
And speaking of deranged Nazis, this only makes any kind of sense to you if you are so blinded by ignorant hatred that your brain is unable to process how stupid JD Vance’s statement here is, just on its face.
Emmer: "It's a false herring for these guys to suggest, 'Oh, we now we need a judicial warrant,' because they know that that's going to delay any enforcement of the actual administrative warrant."
FALSE HERRING!
Kristi Noem and her little fuck-blanket are evil incarnate.
Meanwhile, Noem’s Nazi Barbie Mini-Me at DHS, Tricia McLaughlin, is mysteriously noping out of the administration. Imagine we’ll see her pathologically lying on the Aryan White Lady Wingnut Welfare circuit real soon. [Politico]
And Secretary Shitfaced’s drama is starting to spill out over at the Pentagon again, with the strange, petulant ouster a senior Army spox. [Washington Post]
Last night Stephen Colbert went on the record to respond to the absolute bullshit ass-covering from the cowardly CBS lawyers who forced him to kill his TV interview with James Talarico and then tried to pretend they didn’t after they realized how much they own-goaled their own dicks. “Now, I’m not a lawyer, and I don’t want to tell them how to do their jobs, but since they seem intent on telling me how to do mine, here we go.”
Below is the excuse CBS is peddling on the James Talarico interview with Stephen Colbert that was pushed to YouTube.
They are saying they just provided "legal guidance" that it could "trigger the FCC equal-time rule" and that Colbert would need to present options for Talarico's opponents.
"THE LATE SHOW was not prohibited by CBS from broadcasting the interview with Rep. James Talarico. The show was provided legal guidance that the broadcast could trigger the FCC equal-time rule for two other candidates, including Rep. Jasmine Crockett, and presented options for how the equal time for other candidates could be fulfilled. THE LATE SHOW decided to present the interview through its YouTube channel with on-air promotion on the broadcast rather than potentially providing the equal-time options."
Would you like to watch Kid Rock and the Felch do sauna workouts together? If not, why not? What if we told you the Felch keeps his jeans on the whole time, including in the sauna, including in the ice plunge? What if we told you Kid Rock starts stripping 14 seconds in? What if we told you Kid Rock flips off the camera (something Bad Bunny did not do, even in Spanish, at the Super Bowl) while he does his little exer-cycle thingie? What if we told you they drink whole milk together in the pool, RFK still wearing jeans? What if we ASSURE you “whole milk” is not a euphemism for anything? What if we also ASSURE you there is no penetrative sex in this video? What if we said this is part of the Make American Healthy Again initiative, which means your tax dollars paid for this?
It was considered illegal and offensive when Michelle Obama gently encouraged kids to eat some vegetables occasionally. Now we have this....
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All the men (and women) at my gym wear tops when they are working out.
What gay bath house were they using when this pic was snapped?
Why the hell is Trump threatening war with Iran again? — Robert Reich
His real goal is regime change, which will get us bogged down there for years.
The U.S.S. Gerald R. Ford, the world’s largest aircraft carrier, is en route from the Caribbean Sea to the Middle East. It should arrive there within days. The U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier and three guided-missile destroyers are already there.
As the world’s largest armada assembles near Iran, a second round of talks between the U.S. and Iran has just concluded, apparently without getting anywhere. Meanwhile, Tehran is conducting military drills in the Strait of Hormuz, a crucial choke point for the world’s oil.
Americans have never had exceedingly long attention spans, but the last year of Trump “flooding the zone” has further shortened them. To refresh memories:
In late June, Trump claimed that U.S. strikes on three Iranian nuclear sites had been “a spectacular military success” and that “Iran’s key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated.” He told reporters that “Iran’s not going to have a nuclear weapon. I think it’s the last thing on their mind right now.”
Nearly six months later, in early January, when Iranians took to the streets, Trump warned that if Iran threatened protesters’ lives, the U.S. would “come to their rescue.” He said, “We are locked and loaded, and ready to go.”...
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If one substitutes "oil" for "spice," the world looks more like Frank Herbert's ,Dune every day!
The American Revolution Started Over This Kind of Abuse: Have We Forgotten? — Thom Hartmann
This fight isn’t really about immigration. It’s about whether the Constitution still restrains government power at all.
When elected officials call it a “nonstarter” to require federal agents to get a judicial warrant before kicking in doors, to give people bail or a trial before they face long-term prison, and to allow protests, they’re not debating border policy, they’re testing whether the Bill of Rights is still binding or has become merely decorative.
The Bill of Rights was written to put friction between the state’s power to use force and the people it governs. To restrain government.
If that friction can be removed so government can attack any one disfavored group, then constitutional rights stop being universal guarantees and turn into conditional privileges. And once that shift happens, history — and Pastor Martin Niemöller’s famous poem — show us that the groups of people who’re unprotected never stays small for long.
This week’s news which highlights this crisis is that Republicans have shut down the Department of Homeland Security because they say Democrats’ call for ICE to follow the law and the Constitution is “a nonstarter.”
Seriously. Here’s the first sentence of the Democrats’ demand that Republicans say is so unreasonable:
“DHS officers cannot enter private property without a judicial warrant.”...
This is complete bullshit, and it’s genuinely astonishing that Republicans are backing them up. The Fourth Amendment isn’t complicated. Here it is, in it’s entirety (notice it does NOT say “citizens” but says “people”):
“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”
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Thom, many of us never learned who we are in the first place.
The question is: When did Republicans give up on being "people"? They gave up on being Americans some time ago.
FCC To Effectively Ban Candidates From Talk Shows
The Hollywood Reporter reports:
Say goodbye to most appearances by political candidates on daytime and late night talk shows. After an open meeting on Wednesday, Federal Communications Chair Brendan Carr said that networks should operate under the assumption that shows like The View, Jimmy Kimmel Live! and The Late Show don’t qualify for long-standing regulatory exemptions that allowed them to discuss political candidates on their shows without having to meet unwieldy requirements.
Failing to comply, he said, will trigger an enforcement action. “The general rule is equal time applies,” Carr said of the FCC provision. “There’s narrow exceptions you have to fit in.” Carr’s remarks come after Colbert said on Monday that CBS killed an interview with Texas State Rep. James Talarico because the appearance would trigger regulatory obligations.
“Congress passed the equal time provision for a very specific reason,” he said. “They did not want the media leads in Hollywood and in New York to put their thumbs on the scale and pick their winners and losers in primaries and general elections. That’s the point.”
"Yes, let's have 'equal time' on conservative AM radio. Or are only late-night TV shows required to follow these rules?" — David Holt (comments)
"This is 1000% bullshit and censorship. We need to get rid of this FCC asshole. Fuck - we are becoming like Russia and China. Government censorship of everything." — TK (comments)
"Carr does not know the law. Far from it. This is all theater." — New Jamieboy Highballs (comments)
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The one that's jamming their fist on the scale is this FCC Nazi!
So, Citizens United are the only ones that get to then? LMAO at the hypocrite clown!
"There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you." — Woody Hayes.
Many Dems To Boycott SOTU, Hold Alternative Rally
A substantial number of Democrats are planning to boycott the speech and attend an alternative event, a rally called the “People’s State of the Union,” which will take place on the National Mall near the Capitol.
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Why would anyone in their right mind hang around to hear Nazi Authoritarian propaganda?
Florida Pastor Charged With Molesting Teen At Church
Miami’s NBC affiliate reports:
A pastor at a Miami-Dade church was arrested after he allegedly inappropriately touched a 15-year-old victim, according to the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office. Elco Vallier, 50, was arrested last week in Palm Beach County. He is a pastor at Theophile Church Miami. The mother said she confronted the teen, who admitted Vallier rubbed her thighs and had attempted to kiss her on several occasions, and said it had been going on since she was 13, the warrant said....
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And another one bites the dust!
Oklahoma Pastor Gets 15 Years For Molesting Daughter
A former North Tulsa pastor is sentenced to 15 years in prison after pleading no contest to rape and child abuse charges involving his own daughter.
Pastor Bertheophilius Bailey, who served as pastor at St. Andrew Christian Church, will serve at least 13 years behind bars under Oklahoma’s 85% law before becoming eligible for parole. He is also going to be on the registered sex offenders list for life.
Bailey’s daughter, Harmony Oates, testified during the sentencing hearing, delivering powerful statements to her father, including “I don’t hate you” and “I forgive you.” Oates said the abuse began when she was in sixth grade, with her father touching her inappropriately. Bailey wasn’t arrested for the crimes until 2024....
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And another one bites the dust!
MAGA TX Candidate Who Bought Epstein’s Ranch: I Will Turn It Into “Christian Retreat And Reclaim It For Jesus”
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With plenty of kids and "Xianist" youth Pastors!
Benny Johnson: Jesse Jackson Was Marxist Race Hustler
“Jesse Jackson is dead. He lived a long life. He lived a life doing a lot of things that I totally disagree with. Complete and total race hustler. Obviously, a lot of damage, enormous amount of damage, to the country and the fabric of the nation itself, all like — all the way through to Barack Obama’s presidency, which just sought to effectively manipulate the American people along race lines and to try and break us off into sectarian groups in order to create the type of, like, violence that you see all across the rest of the globe, and it’s terrible."...
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Then it's obvious, Benny is a Nazi racist hate hustler!
Temu Oddjob Rages At Springsteen’s “No Kings” Tour
...Naturally, the White House greeted the news of Springsteen's tour in equally robust fashion. "When this loser Springsteen comes back home to his own City of Ruins in his head, he'll realize his Glory Days are behind him and his fans have left him Out in the Street, putting him in a Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out because he has a severe case of Trump Derangement Syndrome that has rotted his brain," White House comms director Steven Cheung said in a statement to Playbook....
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LMAO! This twisted Cro-Magnon must be re-caged before he hurts a human! He's just jealous!
Realtor Uses AI, Accidentally Posts Photo of Rental Property With Demonic Figure Emerging From Mirror — Victor Tangermann
The real estate industry has seized on generative AI with a passion. Realtors have made extensive use of the tech, manipulating photos of properties beyond recognition by giving facades and interiors a heavy coat of AI-generated paint. Text descriptions of properties have turned into a heap of ChatGPT-generated buzzwords, devolving an already frustrating house hunt into a genuinely exasperating experience.
Making sense of what a rental apartment actually looks like in the real world has regressed into a guessing game. We’ve already come across bizarre listings of inexplicably yassified houses with smoothed-over architectural features, misplaced trees, nonsensically rearranged furniture, and mangled props.
But now, a listing for a property in the Washington, DC area has taken the cake. Renters seeking a new home in the capital made a horrifying discovery while browsing listings: what can only be described as an Eldritch horror poking her disfigured head out — from somehow both inside and outside — of a bathroom mirror.
In other words, it’s the kind of nightmarish creature only a flawed AI algorithm could’ve cooked up — and that only a time-strapped realtor could fail to notice before posting for the whole world to see....
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More AI con men at work on the suckers.
Fun With Climate Change: Drug Resistant Bacteria In Melting Ice — Susie Madrak
A study published Tuesday in the journal Frontiers in Microbiology describes Psychrobacter SC65A.3, a bacterial strain discovered frozen inside 5,000-year-old layers of cave ice in Romania. Testing revealed that SC65A.3 is resistant to 10 modern antibiotics and carries more than 100 genes linked to resistance despite never being exposed to these drugs.
While exposure to antibiotics amplifies the prevalence of resistance genes, it does not allow microbes to develop protective traits. Those depend on random genetic mutations and the constant pressure to out-perform other microorganisms in the environment.
The Psychrobacter SC65A.3 strain is a perfect example of how natural processes lead to antibiotic resistance. Purcarea and her colleagues found it inside an 82-foot ice core from theScarisoara Ice Cave in northwestern Romania. The core contains 13,000 years of climatic history, including the 5,000-year-old ice layers that contained SC65A.3.
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You see, history does mean something to humanity.
UCS Joins Lawsuit Challenging Trump Administration’s Unlawful Endangerment Finding Repeal — Common Dreams
Today, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) joined a group of environmental, public health and science nonprofits in filing suit against the Trump administration for unlawfully repealing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) endangerment finding and rolling back emissions standards for vehicles despite the transportation sector being the largest source of U.S. climate pollution.
The 2007 Supreme Court ruling Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency—a court case where UCS was a petitioner—established that heat-trapping emissions are covered by the Clean Air Act. EPA’s 2009 endangerment finding then confirmed that global warming emissions are a threat to public health and the environment, with subsequent court rulings repeatedly reaffirming EPA’s obligation to the public to regulate these harmful emissions....
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Trump keeps his hate crimes going.
How Trump promises 'law and order' while promoting chaos — Alex Henderson
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was rocked by a major bombshell when, on Tuesday morning, February 17, the news broke that DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin — an aggressive defender of Trump and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem's U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids — was leaving the agency. McLaughlin's departure comes at a time when Noem is facing rumors that she could be fired, although Trump praised her job performance during the recent National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C.
In a blistering article published on February 18, Salon's Amanda Marcotte stresses that although Trump promised "law and order," him and Noem are actually creating an environment of "chaos" and "pandemonium."
"In recent weeks," Marcotte explains, "America has watched as agents have tear gassed civilians, made race-based arrests that have scooped up citizens and even small children, and sent two non-violent citizens, Renee Good and Alex Pretti, to their graves. As a presidential candidate in 2024, Trump billed himself as the savior who would end crime and bring order to what he falsely portrayed as a turbulent social landscape due to imaginary immigrant crime sprees. While the president appears to personally enjoy the violence and unrest his homeland security secretary has unleashed, even he can see the polling that shows it is backfiring. But this was inevitable, especially with Noem at the helm."
Marcotte adds, "Her personal behavior in office has been as bizarre as her theory that masked federal agents terrorizing innocents would read as bringing order to the public. More than anyone in the administration besides Trump himself, Kristi Noem is responsible for the current DHS funding shutdown."
The "irony" of Trump's "law and order" rhetoric, according to Marcotte, is that "Noem herself is not an orderly person...."
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Trash in, trash out!
'Insidious shift': Gobsmacked experts stunned as Trump admin trades Gulf access for cash — Matthew Rozsa
President Donald Trump’s foreign policies ventures from Venezuela and Greenland to Gaza and Iran are linked by one theme, according to an expert — and it represents an “insidious shift” for how foreign policy is conducted all over the world.
“A structural shift in how power itself is exercised,” Nancy Okail, President and CEO of Freedom House's Egypt program, wrote for The Hill. Okail observed that, while past imperialist shifts were motivated by various ideological programs, Trump and his supporters are openly capitalizing on his foreign policy ventures.
“There is an insidious shift underway: The monetization and privatization of foreign policy for personal enrichment,” Okail wrote. “In Venezuela, oil revenues are routed through opaque financial arrangements that bypassed Congress altogether, with funds placed in a Qatari bank. In Greenland, military and mineral narratives obscure a deeper attraction: a jurisdictional gray zone valued not only for resources, but as a lightly regulated space attractive to oligarchic networks seeking insulation from oversight.”
Okail then shifted focus to Trump’s so-called “Board of Peace,” which has no transparency and a series of arbitrary appointments.
“Trump’s objective is not effectiveness but displacement,” Okail wrote. “The aim is not to reform multilateralism, but to make it obsolete by hollowing out the idea that peace and security are governed by states, law and collective responsibility.” In the case of the Board of Peace, this means prioritizing “transactional normalization while marginalizing Palestinian rights.” The goal appears to be to entrench the status quo while enriching the immediate participants....
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Trump is only after money. The loon is not looking out for anyone except himself.
Trump prosecutors were asked which law Democrats broke – and they couldn't name even one — Travis Gettys
President Donald Trump's alleged vengeance campaign against his political enemies has thus far flopped as his at times under-qualified loyalists fail to secure indictments, and new reports are emerging about the latest fiasco.
Federal prosecutors failed to persuade a single grand jury member that there was probable cause to indict six Democratic lawmakers who produced a video reminding military service members they were duty-bound to disobey unlawful orders, and The New Republic's Greg Sargent reported that even prosecutors weren't sure what law they might have broken.
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The big fail.
Ex-GOP staffer calls on FDA chief to resign over vaccine comments: 'This time permanently' — Ewan Gleadow
...Derek Hunter, the ex-staffer for the late Senator Conrad Burns (R-Mont.), made his position clear on Vinay Prasad, saying that the FDA chief must resign. Writing in The Hill, Hunter suggested Prasad's comments on COVID vaccinations must lead to his resignation from the FDA.
Hunter wrote his comments in response to a feature from the Wall Street Journal, which profiled Prasad's previous comments on vaccinations. The ex-GOP staffer wrote, "I know the importance of hope and of new pharmaceuticals coming to market. In that context, I find Prasad’s actions incomprehensible.
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We deserve better!
Extremist Pastor Prays With Hegseth At Pentagon
The Daily Beast reports:
In a Politico profile last May, Wilson said that American society, and government, should be governed by a conservative take on biblical law and he wanted to see America transform into a Christian republic. Hegseth is a member of a church affiliated with Wilson’s Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches (CREC), and the pastor is now opening a branch in Washington, D.C.
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Jesus warned us about slicks like this!
Return to hell from where you came, con man!
Trump Marks Fifth Anniversary Of Limbaugh’s Death
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Died. Still dead!
And which family did he love? 4 wives, no kids!
FDA Reverses, Will Review New Moderna Flu Vaccine
STAT News reports:
The Food and Drug Administration reversed course and told Moderna it would review its application for a new flu vaccine, the company announced Wednesday.
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A stall tactic. They will review it forever and still deny it.
Christian Nationalism Is “Deeply Entrenched” In GOP
Axios reports:
Christian nationalism is now deeply entrenched inside today’s Republican Party, according to a sweeping 50-state survey. The once-fringe ideology holds that the U.S. was founded as a Christian nation and should be governed according to strict Christian values, even as the country becomes less religious and more racially diverse. About one-third of Americans qualify as Christian nationalism “adherents” or “sympathizers,” a new survey released Tuesday by the nonpartisan Public Religion Research Institute finds.
56% of all Republicans are Christian nationalism “adherents” or “sympathizers,” the survey said. Many adherents say the U.S. was founded as the “Promised Land” for white European Christians, and falsely believe the founding fathers sought to create a Christian nation, PRRI president Robert P. Jones tells Axios. Critics say Christian nationalism reinforces rigid, male-dominated leadership models in church, home and government, and merges religious identity with white ethnic nationalism.
"The real danger with Christian Nationalism is how they are able to manipulate the majority of those who identify to pollsters they are "Christian." The majority of "Christians" in the US are "Cultural Christians" who rarely, if ever, go to church and haven't read the Bible.
"All the very political Christian Nationalists have to do is mention "God says..." and it sways the Cultural Christians." — Gustav2 (comments)
"Even the church where my late mother and myself went to and the local Christian Radio station My mom and I have listened to have all embraced this falsehoods.
I, myself have embraced this falsehood as well until I found out on the internet years ago that the notion about America being founded as a Christian nation is entirely false and all made up. Just like the "no atheists in the foxhole" falsehood that keeps being spread throughout the "Christian" world to this day in spite of it being debunked.
Today, I rejected them all entirely, knowing just how false and made up they really are." — OHarp (coments)
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And the rest of them are Xianist Pastors who rape our children!
Trump Bars EPA From Fighting ‘Most Terrible Environmental Threat In Human History — Stephan Prager’
Repealing the EPA’s endangerment finding “isn’t about saving taxpayers’ money, it’s about saving an industry that has already been exposed as a permanent danger to American families,” said the head of 350.org.
In what the Sierra Club described as an act to “formalize climate denialism as official government policy,” the Trump administration announced Thursday that it has revoked the long-standing “endangerment finding” that allowed the Environmental Protection Agency to pass regulations fighting the climate crisis.
The 2009 endangerment finding determined that the emissions of carbon dioxide, methane, and other greenhouse gases posed a hazard to public health and welfare by causing the planet to warm dramatically, citing overwhelming scientific evidence, which has only grown more indisputable in the nearly two decades since.
David Arkush, the director of Public Citizen’s climate program, said that “if left to stand,” the rollback of the endangerment finding “will hamstring the government’s ability to combat the most terrible environmental threat in human history, harming Americans and the world for decades to come.”
“Abundant scientific evidence supports the EPA’s prior conclusion that greenhouse gases threaten public health and welfare,” he added. “Americans feel the effects of climate change constantly, as we experience more dangerous hurricanes, furnace-like heat domes, walls of water slamming into our children’s summer camps, raging wildfires, and other extreme weather driven by greenhouse gases.”
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Trump doesn't care about human life. Money is his God and he worships it.
‘New Hoaxes’: Fox Host Lies About SAVE Act Impact On Women — Heather
What kind of ghoul lies like this to members of her own sex?
...People are calling the law misogynistic and racist because it is.
She lied about the requirements in the act, which impose a federal requirement for documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections.
She ignored the fact that 146 million American citizens do not possess a valid passport, and 84 percent of women who marry change their surname, meaning as many as 69 million American women do not have a birth certificate with their legal name matching their current name.
She also ignored the hurdles that some of those same women might have to go through with providing a legal divorce decree.
She also ignored the fact that getting the documents she described are not free, and getting a passport is not free. It's a poll tax on women.
And, as the Brennan Center for Justice Reported:
In every form, the SAVE Act would require American citizens to show documents like a passport or birth certificate to register to vote. Our research shows that more than 21 million Americans lack ready access to those documents. Roughly half of Americans don’t even have a passport. Millions lack access to a paper copy of their birth certificate. The SAVE Act would disenfranchise Americans of all ages and races, but younger voters and voters of color would suffer disproportionately. Likewise, millions of women whose married names aren’t on their birth certificates or passports would face extra steps just to make their voices heard.
Just like the SAVE Act of 2025, the new SAVE Act proposals would inject chaos into election administration. They would place a massive unfunded burden on state and local election officials. And they would expose those officials to significant legal risk. The bills would leave it up to local officials to decide whether a voter who lacks one of the specified documents has done enough to prove citizenship. Officials who make an honest mistake could face civil and criminal penalties. An election official could even be punished for registering an eligible American citizen, just for failing to collect all the right paperwork at the right time....
Thanks to lying liars like McEnany who are out there polluting the waters, they're not. Shame on her and the rest of the wealthy propagandists who can afford to pay the costs of the requirements for lying to those that can't. We all know she has no shame as long as she's lining her pockets to lie to her viewers.
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That poor little Bimbo!
Trump DOJ firing spree backfires as key lawyers join his opponents — Thomas Kika
Donald Trump appears to have made a major mistake with his purge of top lawyers from the Department of Justice, as many of these "all-star" professionals are now joining the institutions fighting back against his presidency, in a turn of events one former attorney dubbed "idiocy."
On Tuesday, CBS News' top justice correspondent Scott MacFarlane shared a video to X and BlueSky detailing this trend, likening it to a sports team trading its best players to rival teams.
"It's hard enough to get by without your best players on the field, but you certainly don't want to play against them, and have huge adversaries when you play your opponents," MacFarlane explained.
The Trump administration, he argued, "has been getting rid of some of its all-stars" in the DOJ, and it is starting to become a huge "problem" as they join the efforts to "challenge the administration," essentially "joining the rival team." That is on top of the severe drain of professional experience and "institutional memory" that these hiring purges have cost the government across every department....
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Trump's insanity is turning on him.
Fuck This Guy: The Hunted Becomes the Beached — Abby Zimet
Not Our President's Day, thank God, has passed. Along with mattress sales, it was marked by many middle fingers in the air, a typically grotesque message from a tainted White House, and news that a massive, ill-fated, gold-leaf statue of the worst president in history, hilariously dubbed "Don Colossus," remains stranded on its back in an Ohio warehouse as its creator and a bunch of crooked crypto bros - surprise! no surprise! - back-stab and bicker about money. May he rot there, please.
The general sentiment around our latest National Holiday was best summed up by one post: "Happy Presidents Day. Except the current one. Fuck that guy." He didn't win any points by marking the day spewing the usual hateful vulgarity "in the creepiest way possible," declaring in a vengeful post, "They came after the wrong man. I was the hunted. Now I'm the hunter." He is also, of course, "one sick dude," old, dazed and confused with unprecedented low approval ratings, maybe because all he does is lie, bully, bribe, be bribed and in his gluttonous delusion insist, “We have the greatest economy actually ever in history” as he rips us off for billions by selling his name for hopeful airports and don't forget their trashy "clothing, handbags, luggage, jewelry, watches, and tie clips." Democracy dies in tie clips....
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Read more at the link. It's all good.
Pharma Execs Feared The Worst, And It's Starting To Come True — Susie Madrak
Their worst fears are starting to come true, according to executives and investors involved with companies that develop and sell vaccines and the mRNA technology that is best known for the Covid vaccines.
“There will be less invention, investment and innovation in vaccines generally, across all the companies,” said Moderna president Dr. Stephen Hoge.
The Trump administration said it was not discouraging innovation. But investors won't invest in something that Bob Kennedy is disparaging. Major manufacturers are reporting declining sales of their shots. Smaller companies are taking the brunt of the impact.
Vaccine maker Moderna has been hit harder by the federal policy changes than any other pharmaceutical firm. Kennedy keeps questioning the safety and effectiveness of the technology around which the company has built its business. The technology, known as messenger RNA, or mRNA, instructs the body to produce a fragment of a virus that then sets off an immune response. Its main benefit? It can be more quickly tailored and manufactured compared to traditional vaccine development.
And it was the kiss of death last week when the Food and Drug Administration refused to review Moderna’s mRNA flu vaccine. They claim the research design was flawed....
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Life expectency will soon begin dropping. Where will it end? America is up Shit Creek without a paddle.
AI Delusions Are Leading to Domestic Abuse, Harassment, and Stalking — Maggie Harrison Dupré
By the time the public harassment started, a woman told Futurism, she was already living in a nightmare.
For months, her then-fiancé and partner of several years had been fixating on her and their relationship with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. In mid-2024, she explained, they’d hit a rough patch as a couple; in response, he turned to ChatGPT, which he’d previously used for general business-related tasks, for “therapy.”
Before she knew it, she recalled, he was spending hours each day talking with the bot, funneling everything she said or did into the model and propounding on pseudo-psychiatric theories about her mental health and behavior. He started to bombard the woman with screenshots of his ChatGPT interactions and copy-pasted AI-generated text, in which the chatbot can be seen armchair-diagnosing her with personality disorders and insisting that she was concealing her real feelings and behavior through coded language. The bot often laced its so-called analyses with flowery spiritual jargon, accusing the woman of engaging in manipulative “rituals.”
Trying to communicate with her fiancé was like walking on “ChatGPT eggshells,” the woman recalled. No matter what she tried, ChatGPT would “twist it.”
“He would send [screenshots] to me from ChatGPT, and be like, ‘Why does it say this? Why would it say this about you, if this is not true?'” she recounted. “And it was just awful, awful things.”
To the woman’s knowledge, her former fiancé — who is in his 40s — had no history of delusion, mania, or psychosis, and had never been abusive or aggressive toward her.
But as his ChatGPT obsession deepened, he grew angry, erratic, and paranoid, losing sleep and experiencing drastic mood swings. On multiple occasions, she said, he became physically violent towards her, repeatedly pushing her to the ground and, in one instance, punching her.
After nearly a year of escalating behavior alongside intensive ChatGPT use, the fiancé, by then distinctly unstable, moved out to live with a parent in another state. Their engagement was over.
“I bought my wedding dress,” said the woman. “He’s not even the same person. I don’t even know who he is anymore. He was my best friend.”
Then, suddenly, the posts started....
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Classify it as a dangerous drug.
Another head rolls at Pentagon as Hegseth catches Army officials by surprise — Tom Boggioni
A well-regarded Pentagon official slated for promotion to brigadier general is instead being forced out, according to the Washington Post.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth directed Army Secretary Dan Driscoll to remove Colonel David Butler, who previously served as senior spokesman for General Mark A. Milley, the former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman and prominent Trump critic.
Butler has been serving as spokesman and media strategist for Driscoll, and Hegseth has sought his removal for weeks — though his reasons remain unclear.
Driscoll said in a statement: "We greatly appreciate Col. Dave Butler's lifetime of service in America's Army and to our nation. Dave has been an integral part of the Army's transformation efforts. He will be missed and I sincerely wish him tremendous success in his upcoming retirement after 28 years of service."
Butler's forced departure represents another Pentagon removal orchestrated by Hegseth, the former Fox News personality now serving as Defense Secretary. The action has generated concern among military colleagues.
According to the Washington Post report, current and retired Army officials expressed surprise at Butler's ouster, characterizing him as a steady, thoughtful strategist who earned trust across military and civilian leadership. One retired colonel remarked, "He's about the most nonpartisan guy I know. That's really too bad."
Hegseth has systematically removed other officers who worked for Milley on the Joint Staff, frustrating those who viewed them as evenhanded leaders caught in political disputes. These removals include General James Mingus, the Army's vice chief of staff who was bypassed to command U.S. Central Command, and Lieutenant General Douglas Sims, whose expected four-star promotion was rescinded by Hegseth last year....
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Hegseth carrying out his fascist retribution like the Nazi he shows us he is!
'It's not going away': New data shows Trump's Epstein scramble blowing up in his face — 'Travis Gettys
Public interest in the Jeffrey Epstein case has exploded since the last document drop by the Department of Justice, and new data shows President Donald Trump's ties to the late sex offender are now "more relevant than ever."
The DOJ released millions more documents on Jan. 30 from its investigation into Epstein's alleged sex trafficking network, and CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten showed how interest in the case has been intensified.
"No, it is not going away," Enten said. "If the Trump administration, and Donald Trump in particular, believe that they can wish this story away, the American public have a different tune to sing. What are we talking about here? Well, let's take a look at Google searches for Epstein.
"In fact, in the month of February, it is higher than it's ever been, up like a rocket, up 900 percent versus a month ago, and the top name associated with googling for Epstein? Well, it is Donald Trump. So the story is not going away. It's actually getting searched more and more and more, becoming more relevant in the minds of the American public."
Congress overwhelmingly passed a law compelling the release of the Epstein files, which the DOJ has belatedly and incompletely done, and Enten said the evidence has hurt the president politically....
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It's getting all over him and making him sweat like a pig.
American Principles in the Age of MAGA Nihilism — William Kristol
We haven’t heard too much from FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr since his abortive attempt last year to get Jimmy Kimmel off the air. But Carr’s back in the news this morning amid a tangle with another late-night comedian: The Late Show’s Stephen Colbert. On his show last night, Colbert said CBS News had forbidden him from airing an interview with Texas Democrat and Senate candidate James Talerico, citing Carr’s threat last month to go after late-night programs for supposed violations of the FCC’s Equal Time rule.
“He was supposed to be here, but we were told in no uncertain terms by our network’s lawyers, who called us directly, that we could not have him on the broadcast,” Colbert said of the interview, which was later posted online. “Let’s just call this what it is: Donald Trump’s administration wants to silence anyone who says anything bad about Trump on TV, because all Trump does is watch TV, okay?”
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And eats junk food. And destroys lives. And lies like a rug.
The One-Degree of Separation Between Jeffrey Epstein and Brett Kavanaugh — Sarah K. Burris
Among the documents being slowly sorted from Jeffrey Epstein's investigation are email and text exchanges in which the trafficker expresses his heartfelt sympathies for now-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh as he was forced to reckon with allegations of assault, The Guardian reported. It also showed a close relationship between Epstein and one of Kavanaugh's mentors.
On Sept. 22, 2018, Epstein told one person with a redacted name, “Ive sat in Kavanaugh chair. Im thinking of November.”
It isn't clear what the reference to November was, but it could be about the midterm elections. While Epstein appeared to be photographed with some Democratic officials, it's growing increasingly clear that he had long-standing policy agreements with MAGA. While coordinating with former Trump campaign manager and advisor Steve Bannon, the two men plotted the overthrow of several European countries and dreamed about the "take down" of the late Pope Francis.
While the Senate Judiciary Committee heard testimony from one of Kavanaugh's accusers, who alleged he assaulted her in high school while visibly drunk, Epstein called it "a trap!"
“Iye [sic] been through many of these. MANY!! She will cry, make sordid allegations. Say she feels bullied, fearful, traumatized. Every thing bad in her life was s result of the rape attempt. Suffered anxiety! Her relationships with men etc. this is a very special skill set needed," Epstein said....
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Yes, all the way to SCOTUS!
The Sound of Freedom Shattering at 3 AM — Thom Hartmann
At 3:07 in the morning the pounding started.
Not a knock or a doorbell: it was the kind of impact meant to wake the neighbors and erase any doubt that resistance would be pointless.
Within seconds armed men were inside the house, shouting orders, refusing questions. No explanation, no warrant presented, no charges read. Just urgency, intimidation, and removal.
The people taken that night would eventually learn something chilling: under the legal theory being used, what happened to them wasn’t considered a violation of their rights at all. It was 1773 in Boston.
That idea is not new to America. In fact, it’s exactly the governing method that pushed the colonies into revolution.
The men who wrote the Declaration of Independence weren’t reacting to isolated abuses. They were reacting to a system, one designed to make resistance legally impossible while violence remained technically lawful.
Every clause they listed, every amendment that followed in the Bill of Rights, was aimed at preventing that same mechanism from ever taking hold here again.
To see why, look at what Thomas Jefferson wrote, in The Declaration of Independence:
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Judges Have Ruled That Over 4,400 ICE Detentions Since October Were Illegal — Stephen Prager
Judges across the country have ruled more than 4,400 times since the start of October that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement has illegally detained immigrants, according to a Reuters investigation published Saturday. As President Donald Trump carries out his unprecedented “mass deportation” crusade, the number of people in ICE custody ballooned to 68,000 this month, up 75%....
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If we only had a clean SOCTUS.
Laissez Les Bons Temps Rouler! Tabs, Mardi Gras, Tues., Feb. 17, 2016 — Evan Hurst
Pam Bondi says “all” the Epstein Files have been released. Fuuuuuuuuuck you, pedo protector. Hillary Clinton says bullshit, it’s an insane coverup, release that shit. And the outrage just continues to grow. [BBC]
LOTS of stories right now with headlines like this: “Warehouse owner won’t sell Dallas County property to ICE for [concentration camp].” Just about everywhere ICE is trying! [The Dallas Morning News]
Here’s Rachel last night with a story about a court ruling in Philly where a judge has yet again had to slap the Klan dick out of the Trump regime’s mouth as it’s been trying to rewrite history at all historical monuments, to make them more white-supremacist-friendly. It’s a Presidents Day miracle!
Y’all hear about how Anderson Cooper is leaving 60 Minutes in just the latest humiliating blow to Bari Weiss’s leadership?
Here is a message being shared in the EU parliament condemning ICE and encouraging Americans to stay strong against fascism. Yep. That’s where we are.
Nomadically Ryan | Germany warns the US citizens to resist and …
A move in the House to amend the Constitution to allow Congress to override presidential pardons now has a Republican cosponsor. It’s Don Bacon, so not entirely unexpected, but that could matter eventually. Invalidating Trump’s pardons needs to be a prominent part of the rebuilding when the time comes. [Axios]
Oh hey, would you like to see Stephen Colbert’s interview with Texas Senate Candidate James Talarico, the one that was supposed to air last night except for how Donald Trump’s FCC chair Brendan Carr is TOO MUCH OF A FUCKING PUSSY to allow things like that on air, which is why he has a new bullshit proposed rule for candidate airtime that’s meant to specifically punish people like Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel, AKA talk show hosts known for upsetting Carr’s little dementia-fied bitch Hitler boss? Colbert of course talked about it on his show, which CBS didn’t want him to do, and then proceeded to put the Talarico interview on YouTube in full. Oh also Brendan Carr’s new rule isn’t even actually in effect yet, it’s just that Bari Weiss’s CBS licks fascist boots that hard that they’re complying already. [Deadline]
Love that these inbred MAGA morons don’t understand the Streisand Effect. SHARE, SHARE, EVERYWHERE.
Here are Tim Miller and Woke Guy Bill Kristol from the Bulwark talking about how actually Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sounds more serious about conducting foreign policy according to an actual rules-based order than lots of her less democratic socialist detractors....
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Trump Feigns Ignorance Of Noem’s Alleged Adultery
Mediaite reports:
A reporter asked Trump during the gaggle, the audio of which was broadcast live by the White House on YouTube, “Recent news reports have discussed the possibility that Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski are in a close personal relationship. Is that a bad look, and do you think she’ll be in the job much longer?” Trump replied, “I don’t know about that. I mean, I haven’t heard that. I’ll find out about it, but I have not heard.”
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A Trump pattern of behavior.
Behavioral Patterns and Their Meaning
NBC: Noem Has Alienated Coast Guard Leadership
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s relationship with U.S. Coast Guard officials has become strained throughout her first year leading the department, according to two U.S. officials, a Coast Guard official and a former Coast Guard official.
The tensions between Noem and the only branch of the U.S. military overseen by DHS stem from some early decisions she made that rankled Coast Guard officials, including a verbal directive to shift Coast Guard resources from a search-and-rescue mission to find a missing service member, the sources said....
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Noem cuts off nose to sopite face. The Trump Syndicate fails again.
Trump White House Dishonored President’s Day With A Hideous Post — NewsHound Ellen
It was all about President Pu**y Grabber hunting for revenge and nothing about our country’s founding or history.
George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and probably every other dead president – including Richard Nixon – must be rolling in their graves at this awful person inhabiting and literally destroying our White House now. The living former presidents must be disgusted, too.
Leave it to the malignant narcissist’s and sexual predator’s White House to make it all about Trump and with a mean, predatory spirit.
The New Republic explained that the saying comes from a NewsNation interview in which Trump said the difference between his first and second terms was, “In a way, I was the hunted, and now I’m more of the hunter.” He said he had been “hunted by these horrible people” and went on to brag about getting revenge on them.
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America disgraced by its leader again!
Trump administration ordered to restore George Washington slavery exhibit it removed in Philadelphia — Hannah Schoenbaum
An exhibit about nine people enslaved by George Washington must be restored at his former home in Philadelphia after President Donald Trump’s administration took it down last month, a federal judge ruled on Presidents Day, the federal holiday honoring Washington’s legacy
The city of Philadelphia sued in January after the National Park Service removed the explanatory panels from Independence National Historical Park, the site where George and Martha Washington lived with nine of their slaves in the 1790s, when Philadelphia was briefly the nation’s capital.
The removal came in response to a Trump executive order “restoring truth and sanity to American history” at the nation’s museums, parks and landmarks. It directed the Interior Department to ensure those sites do not display elements that “inappropriately disparage Americans past or living.”
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Trump plays "Ministry of Truth" again, fails again, bigly!
Why CBS Wouldn't Broadcast Colbert Interview With James Talarico — Susie Madrack
The FCC's Brendan Carr wants to forbid political interviews on broadcast TV, and is subtly intimidating the networks.
FCC chair Brendan Carr’s threatened revisiting of the Equal Time rule has forced CBS’ The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to not air an interview with Texas Democrat James Talarico. Instead Colbert ran the interview on his YouTube page -- but not without letting Carr have it.
“[James Talarico] was supposed to be here, but we were told in no uncertain terms by our network’s lawyers, who called us directly, that we could not have him on the broadcast,” Colbert said. “Then, I was told, in some uncertain terms, that not only could I not have him on, I could not mention me not having him on. And because my network clearly does not want us to talk about this… let’s talk about this.”
Colbert recapped the Equal Time provision—”the FCC’s most time-honored rule, right after ‘No nipples at the Super Bowl'”—which he’d previously addressed in the immediate wake of Carr indicating that he was looking into waiving the long-standing exemption for talk show interviews with politicians.
“Carr said… some of [the talk shows] were ‘motivated by partisan purposes,'” Colbert said, before adding: “Well, sir, you’re chairman of the FCC, so FCC you.”
The Late Show host then said he believed Carr was “motivated by partisan purposes” himself, and in that capacity has been “Dutch oven-ing America’s airwaves.”
“Let’s just call this what it is,” said Colbert. “Donald Trump’s administration wants to silence anyone who says anything bad about Trump on TV. Because all Trump does is watch TV.”
Here's the interview. Looking forward to seeing one with Jasmine Crockett, too, right, Stephen?
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The FCC practicing situational ethics again. They change their minds at the drop of a Nazi!
CBS Blocks Colbert From Airing Interview With Talarico
“Let’s just call this what it is. Donald Trump’s administration wants to silence anyone who says anything bad about Trump on TV because all Trump does is watch TV. Okay? He’s like a toddler with too much screen time. He gets cranky and then drops a load in his diapers. So, it’s no surprise that two of the people most affected by this threat are me and my friend Jimmy Kimmel...."
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Steve Bannon’s new scandal 'worse than ever imagined' — Matthew Rozsa
President Donald Trump’s top adviser Steve Bannon is ensnared in a cryptocurrency scandal — although in Bannon’s case, the controversy comes with a literally profane twist.
A Missouri investor named Andrew Barr is suing Bannon over a failed cryptocoin called “F—— Joe Biden” (FJB), according to The Bulwark. Barr alleges that he lost almost $59,000 investing in the FJB coin and is seeking to sue Bannon in a class action suit that would also include MAGA bigwigs like political operative Boris Epshteyn. Barr also claims that Bannon and the other FJB executives demanded an unusually high 8 percent fee on transactions on the grounds that 5 percent would go to charitable donations like veterans’ care, but has not lived up to that promise....
This is not the first time Trump and his administration’s figures have gotten involved in cryptocurrency scandals. The Abu Dhabi royal family invested $500 million in the Trump family’s cryptocurrency coin; later, after Trump became president, the United Arab Emirates received access to highly sensitive AI technology. The Wall Street Journal reported that the deal involved “pay half up front, steering $187 million to Trump family entities” and at the same time “at least $31 million was also slated to flow to entities affiliated with” the family of Trump’s Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff. Democratic strategist David Axelrod described this as “an earthquake of a scandal” while Protect Democracy director Ian Bassin commented “amazingly, this has all but fallen out of the news."
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Goof God, the crime runs thick!
How Jesse Jackson embodied Southern politics - and changed American elections — The Conversation
Editor's Note: Rev. Jesse Jackson, the legendary civil rights activist and two-time presidential candidate who fundamentally reshaped American politics and inspired generations of African Americans to seek elected office, has died. He was 83.
Jackson's passing marks the end of an era in American political and social history. From his emergence as a leader in the civil rights movement in the early 1960s to his groundbreaking presidential campaigns in 1984 and 1988, Jackson's life was defined by an unwavering commitment to social and economic justice.
The article that follows, originally published by The Conversation last year, examines how Jackson's Southern identity shaped his life's work and his enduring influence on American politics. It is reprinted here as a tribute to his legacy.
Holding hands with other prominent Black leaders, the Rev. Jesse Jackson crossed the Edmund Pettus bridge in Selma, Alabama, on March 9, 2025, to commemorate the 60th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday.” Like several survivors of that violent day in 1965, when police brutally attacked civil rights protesters, Jackson crossed the bridge in a wheelchair.
Jesse Louis Jackson was born Oct. 8, 1941, in Greenville, South Carolina, a town firmly entrenched in the racially segregated Deep South. This time and place aren’t footnotes to Jackson’s life, but rather key facts that shaped his civil rights activism and historic runs for the U.S. presidency.
Growing up in the segregated South shaped Jackson’s attitudes, opinions and outlook in ways that remain apparent today. While he lived in Chicago for most of his adult life, he remained a Southerner. And other Southerners viewed him as such....
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Another great American fighter for our rights has passed.
This stark choice will guarantee Trump's downfall — Thom Hartmann
...If we want a country where working people have a real voice, where votes are counted and respected, where diversity is seen as strength instead of threat, we have to defend the imperfect democratic coalition we have. And that means voting for Democrats this fall, and supporting them now, almost without exception.
Of course, we want to demand better values, universal healthcare, bold climate action, serious campaign finance reform, free college, and real taxes on the morbidly rich. We have to organize, protest, and push our representatives with regular phone calls and other actions. That’s how democracy grows stronger.
But we also have to understand the stakes when we talk with friends and neighbors, support candidates, and step into the voting booth.
A vote for MAGA Republicans, or a failure to vote, is a statement in favor of the normalization of racism, the rigging of our voting system, and the continued consolidation of ever more wealth and power in the hands of billionaires. A vote for Democratic candidates, even weak ones, is a vote to keep the democratic experiment alive long enough to improve it.
This isn’t just another election cycle, it’s a crossroads: we must pick democracy or continue to embrace oligarchy fueled by Citizens United.
That’s the choice. History will remember which side we chose, and our children and grandchildren must live with the consequences.
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Vote Democrat or our Republic dies!
International rebellion as Canada's PM leads 40 nations in plan to buck Trump: insider — Ewan Gleadow
An economic plan from world leaders could reduce the impact of Donald Trump's tariff policy worldwide, insiders say.
The president's economic plan, which he implemented during his second term, has caused disruptions domestically and internationally. World leaders are now seeking a way through the economic spiral, and Canadian PM Mark Carney is believed to be at the helm of this plan. Insiders, speaking to Politico, confirmed there are nearly 40 countries interested in the talks.
A Canadian government official said, "The work is definitely coming along. We’ve had very fruitful discussions on it with other partners around the world."
Both the European Union and members of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, including Canada, Mexico, and Australia, are keen to stand against Trump's economic policies and their effects on the wider world.
A Japanese trade official said, "We see a lot of value in increasing trade among the EU and CPTPP parties, which would also contribute to enhancing supply chain resilience."...
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FIFO Fatso! You're going down even if you don't know it.
FCC Finishes Copy/Pasting Bad Bunny Lyrics Into Google Translate, Says No Violation — Marcie Jones
If MAGA was ever winning the culture war, they’re sure losing it now. Latest case in point, their tone-deaf and ongoing histrionic response to that Bad Bunny Super Bowl halftime show, in which MAGA football fans bruised their middle fingers trying to press one for English on their TV remotes. And still, more people approve of Bad Bunny than Donald Trump.
Surely singing in Spanish on national television is not legal! Donald Trump was affronted! GOP Rep. Andy Ogles demanded a “formal congressional inquiry” into the National Football League and NBCUniversal for airing the performance. And sweaty bag of racist fury GOP Rep. Randy Fine of Florida pounded out that there should be PUNISHMENT for Bad Bunny’s vulgar display. Just the attitude to win middle America’s hearts and minds!
Woke garbage? The show was so wholesome there was a literal traditional heterosexual white wedding on the stage. Children being tended to at home by their parents, no daycare! Working people toiling away at traditional jobs like a dancing Richard Scarry illustration! Bad Bunny expressing pride in his American culture! He even said “God Bless America” a half-dozen times.
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The vulgar Nazi Fine whines against our First Amendment once again!
The Squalor of the Epstein Class — Robert Reich
Here’s how Kentucky Republican Congressman Thomas Massie responded on Sunday, during ABC’s “This Week,” to a question about the Trump regime’s handling of the Epstein files:
“This is about the Epstein class …. They’re billionaires who were friends with these people, and that’s what I’m up against in Washington, D.C. Donald Trump told us that even though he had dinner with these kinds of people, in New York City and West Palm Beach, that he would be transparent. But he’s not. He's still in with the Epstein class. This is the Epstein administration. And they’re attacking me for trying to get these files released.”
The Epstein Class. Not just the people who cavorted with Jeffrey Epstein or the subset who abused young girls. It’s an interconnected world of hugely rich, prominent, entitled, smug, powerful, self-important (mostly) men. Trump is honorary chairman.
Trump is still sitting on two and a half million files that he and Pam Bondi won’t release. Why? Because they implicate Trump and even more of the Epstein class....
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The filthiest scandal in the history of American politics!
It's time for SCOTUS to stop shielding him!
Damning report torpedoes Trump's 'central defense' about Epstein ties — Robert Davis
A new report on Sunday torpedoed one of President Donald Trump's "central defenses" about his ties to convicted sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein.
Trump has often claimed that he has never been credibly accused of wrongdoing over the course of his relationship with Epstein. He has also claimed that he never knew of Epstein's crimes, even though the recently released Epstein files include a transcript of Trump calling a local police station and telling them about "creepy" Epstein.
But a new report undermines both of those claims. Investigative political reporter Roger Sollenberger reported on Sunday that Trump was credibly accused of abusing at least two young girls, citing court records and an internal FBI slideshow that was released in the latest tranche of Epstein files....
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Thnigs are looking bleak for the old man.
Nobel Institute Responds To Trump’s Incessant Whining
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The whiney baby in an 80-year old body.
Noem Rips Outrage Over “The Right People” Comment
“It must be exhausting to regularly manufacture outrage even over the most commonsense statements. Yes, we must build election infrastructure that makes it easy and secure for eligible American citizens to vote — while preventing non-citizens, including illegal aliens, from casting ballots.....
"Lying fucking beach blanket cunt, undocumented don't fucking vote. She needs to join her dog and goat down in the gravel pit."— Thewolflam (comments)
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"The available, credible reporting finds that noncitizen voting in the 2024 election was vanishingly rare — not the mass phenomenon some politicians and advocates have claimed — and there is no verified national tally that shows “millions” of illegal aliens voted. State audits and federal reviews have produced only small numbers of potential cases (e.g., 15 in Michigan) and preliminary federal checks flagged a modest share of registrants for follow-up, but those flags do not equate to proof of illegal ballots cast."
— factually.
She's creating a solution and looking for a problem to match. She's dumb as a sack of hammers.
Newsom To Randy Fine: “Resign Now, You Racist Slob”
Randy Fine, a Republican lawmaker from Florida, has drawn sharp criticism after posting a controversial message on social media stating, “If they force us to choose, the choice between dogs and Muslims is not a difficult one.” The remark was made in response to a satirical comment by New York–based activist Nerdeen Kiswani, who had joked about dogs being considered unclean as indoor pets amid what she described as a “dog poop apocalypse” following a snowstorm in New York City....
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Newsom is absolutley correct on Fine.
If they force us to choose, the choice between Fine and dogs is not a difficult one. Dogs win, hands down!
DHS Demands Social Media Giants Turn Over Names Of ICE Critics — Susie Madrak
Anything to make the Orange King happy!
Homeland Security is expanding their web of privacy intrusions to identify Americans who criticized ICE on social media by sending tech companies legal requests for the names, email addresses, telephone numbers and other identifying data behind accounts that track or criticize ICE
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How about accepting this plate of hot steaming brown substance instaead?
Contempt for Trump's policies is accelerating — and one DC insider knows why — Alex Henderson
When Donald Trump pulled off a narrow 1.5 percent victory over Democratic nominee Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election, there were two very different types of Trump voters: (1) his hardcore MAGA base, and (2) swing voters and independents who, feeling frustrated over inflation, were willing to give him a chance. But President Trump, now almost 13 months into his second presidency, is suffering from weak approval ratings in poll after poll.
Trump is faring badly among independents in many polls. And according to The Lincoln Project's Rick Wilson and liberal journalist Molly Jong-Fast, Trump is also seeing a "splintering" in his MAGA base.
"There is a new Titanic in history. And we get to see it burn and sink.
It's called Donald Jackass Trump." — Hot Pizza (comments)
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He's a splinter in the ass of our country!
Fair Play for Pedophiles? You Want DEI, We Got Your Damn DEI. Just Vote Red If You Want Cred. — Jaime O’Neill
"Young ladies, young ladies, I like 'em underage.
Some say that's statutory (But I say it's mandatory)"
— "Cool, Daddy, Cool," Rock, Kid, 2001.
The godforsaken Democrat Party keeps spreading the lie that Republicans in general and Trump in particular are all against D.E.I. (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.). That’s the kind of canard the radical left has been spreading forever and a year. If those people who hate America ever told the truth about the patriotic Republican Party, it was probably a slip of the tongue.
But, in case you haven’t found your way to sources of truth like Fox New, Newsmax, Sinclair Broadcasting, Joe Rogan, Dr. Phil, Kelsey Grammar, or other enlightened American voices from the right with their own Podcasts, all determined to bring you honest-to-God American truth, we've got news for you. It's not that subversive Soros-funded crap spewed by Rachel Maddow, Chris Hayes, or The Atlantic Monthly, the Bulwark, and even occasionally by The New York Times or The Washington Post, owned by Jeff Bezos, a true patriot who, like so many other great men and women, donated huge sums of money to advance Trump’s heroic efforts to make America Great Again. And to keep it that way, no matter who didn't like it and no matter what the Constitution might have said. Fuck that shit.
So, to set the record straight, you’re about to read some truth about MAGA support for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. It's likely you read it here first....
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Vote Red if you're a Ped!
This Is What Destroying the Vaccine Market Looks Like — Jonathan Cohn
The exterior of the headquarters of Moderna in Cambridge, Massachusetts in June 2025. (Photo by David L. Ryan/Boston Globe via Getty Images)
THE VACCINE MAKER MODERNA decided this past week to tell the world about bad news it had received from the federal government.
A potentially groundbreaking vaccine for seasonal flu that the Massachusetts-based company had developed would not be getting approval from regulators. In fact, it wasn’t even getting formal consideration, Moderna announced in a Tuesday press release, because officials were refusing to accept the application.
This is not the type of development you would normally expect a pharmaceutical company to broadcast. But that’s because there’s nothing normal about the way the federal government is behaving in this saga—or, for that matter, how the government has been behaving ever since President Donald Trump put anti-vaccination crusader Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in charge of America’s public health.
Moderna’s flu shot, which uses mRNA technology made famous during the COVID-19 pandemic, is the product of a lengthy research and development process that goes back years. Along the way, Moderna scientists consulted directly with officials at the Food and Drug Administration, the agency inside of Kennedy’s department (Health and Human Services) that is responsible for reviewing and approving vaccines....
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The Retarded Party destroying health, hope and happiness for our country.
White House ridiculed for 'insanely stupid' holiday post: 'Reads like a pedophile's diary' — David McAfee
The White House is getting significant pushback for an official Valentine's Day post on X.
The official White House account posted the holiday message, "Send to your Valentine," along with a cartoon heart, attached to a photo of Valentine's Day candies with phrases like, "MAGA" and "love." The largest candied heart simply says, "Daddy's home."
The post was immediately remixed by commenters, who changed the heart to say things like, "Daddy's a pedophile," or "Epstein's home."
Notable analysts also chimed in, with ex-GOP lawmaker Adam Kinzinger saying, "For a group of people that are supposedly not Gay….. Interesting."
Award-winning author Jennifer Erin Valent weighed in with, "It’s becoming increasingly evident that the people in this administration have no concept of how insanely stupid and grotesque they look to every sentient, mature human on the planet."
Author Shannon Watts also added, "I’ll never understand so-called alpha men who want to be spanked by an insane smelly orange elderly man."
Camille MacKenzie, a self-identified social conservative, went even further:
"This official account reads like a pedophile’s diary."
Union insider John Ryan E said, "Imagine calling Trump daddy," and asked, "What is wrong with you?"
Environmental scientist Bo Gardiner also said, "Our country has fallen into the hands of the most nauseating cult in existence."
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"I'm not a thousand miles away" —Daddy's Home — Shep and the Limelights
Economist gives Trump 'basic economics' class: 'Neither Trump nor his advisors understand' — David McAfee
A new study showed that 90% of Donald Trump's tariffs are paid by Americans, and an economist delivered to the president a "basic economics" lesson.
Peter Schiff, a financial commentator and radio personality who has been raising alarms about America’s affordability crisis, weighed in over the weekend. Previously, Trump himself went nuclear when Schiff did an appearance on Fox News.
“Why would Fox and Friends Weekend (of all things?) put on a ‘Stockbroker’ named Peter Schiff, a Trump hating loser who has already proven to be wrong. Either the show made a mistake, or it is heading in a different direction,” Trump wrote in December.
More recently, Schiff issued an ominous warning to the president.
Now, stockbroker Schiff has seized on the new study on Trump's tariffs.
"The N.Y. Fed just completed a study that found that 90% of Trump's tariffs are paid by Americans. Since this is such basic economics, there really was no need to conduct a study," he wrote before adding, "What should be most concerning is that neither Trump nor his advisors understand this simple concept."
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Stupid is as stupid does.
US Military Strikes Another Boat in the Caribbean Sea, Killing 3 — Katie Herchenroeder
...“I can’t imagine anyone, no matter what the circumstance, believing it is appropriate to kill people who are clinging to a boat in the water,” Michael Schmitt, a former Air Force lawyer and professor emeritus at the U.S. Naval War College, told the Associated Press in December. “That is clearly unlawful.”
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Trump's murder count goes up 3 more.
Massie Trashes Bondi And Trump: “They’re Still In With The Epstein Class, This Is The Epstein Administration”
“She came with a book full of insults, one for each congressperson. She obviously had one for me. And, you know, I’ve been there when Merrick Garland was there. Obviously, politically, I don’t agree with him, but he performed much better in terms of at least not looking bad. And, unfortunately, we didn’t get the answers we wanted about the Epstein Files Transparency Act from her.
“I don’t think Pam Bondi has confidence in Pam Bondi. She wasn’t confident enough to engage in anything, but name calling in a hearing. And so, no, I don’t have confidence in her. She hasn’t got any sort of accountability there at the DOJ.
“When I asked her specifically, who redacted Leslie Wexner’s name from the one document that mattered, she couldn’t give me an answer, she wouldn’t give me an answer. But ultimately, it’s her who is responsible for the document production according to our law, the attorney general.
“Look, this is about the Epstein class, the people who are funding the attacks against me. They may or may not be implicated in these files, but they were certainly rubbing shoulders with the people who are in these files. They’re billionaires who are friends with these people. And that’s what I’m up against in Washington, D.C.
“Donald Trump told us that even though, you know, he had dinner with these kinds of people in New York City and West Palm Beach, that he would be transparent. But he’s not. He’s still in with the Epstein class. This is the Epstein administration, and they’re attacking me for trying to get these files released.” – GOP Rep. Thomas Massie, today on ABC This Week.
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Still in with the Epstein class!
Pentagon Reportedly Hopping Mad at Anthropic for Not Blindly Supporting Everything Military Does — Mike Pearl
Autonomous drone swarms and mass surveillance are apparently big sticking points for the AI colossus.
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The impression one gets from this is that our Pentagon is an authoritarian entity. Are they, in fact? The American people want to know.
Republican County Chair Arrested After Waterboarding Daughter — Ed Scarce
Yet another Republican with limited parenting skills. When his 16-year-old daughter failed to clean her room and wanted to go out with friends instead, the father threatened to drown her in the bathroom sink, repeatedly dunking her under the water.
Source: KUTV
HEBER CITY, Utah (KUTV) — The Wasatch County GOP Chair was taken into custody after allegations of child abuse involving waterboarding.
David Nephi Johnson, 54, was booked into the Wasatch County Jail on one count of first-degree felony aggravated child abuse, according to court documents.
The arrest came after the Utah Division of Child and Family Services received a report of child abuse. The teen reported not feeling safe in her own home and feared for her life.
During an interview with investigators, the victim said Johnson had waterboarded them after he found she had not cleaned her room to his expectations before going out with her friends.
Johnson then allegedly took the victim into the bathroom and dunked her head into a sink filled with water. The victim alleged Johnson would then splash water in her face before dunking her head underwater again. The teen told investigators she was unable to breathe for up to 30 seconds at a time.
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Waterboarding your child isn't something you learn in "how to be a good parent" class.
Obama On Trump’s Racist Video: Decorum Is Gone
“First of all, I think it’s important to recognize that the majority of the American people find this behavior deeply troubling. It is true that it gets attention. It’s true that it’s a distraction, but as I’m traveling around the country, as you’re traveling around the country, you meet people — they still believe in decency, courtesy, kindness, and there’s this sort of clown show happening in social media and on television and what is true is there doesn’t seem to be any shame about this among people who used to feel like you had to have some sense of decorum and some sense of propriety and respect for the office. So that’s been lost.” – Former President Obama, on Trump’s racist “apes” video.
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The response of a true American leader.
White House Stands By White Nationalist Nominee
The New York Times reports:
Jeremy Carl, President Trump’s nominee for a senior State Department post, struggled at his confirmation hearing on Thursday to answer what should have been an easy question, since he wrote an entire book about it: What is white identity and why is it under threat? After nervously rambling about white food and Black food, white music and Black music and white worship styles, Mr. Carl told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that a loss of a dominant white culture is weakening the country....
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This racist isn't improving the "white image" with anyone but other racist pigs.
The white culture has been attempting to suppress, enslave and control all other races since time began!
WH Pushes Utah Voters To Repeal Redistricting Law
Democracy Docket reports:
A Trump-backed, GOP effort to repeal a Utah law that could give Democrats one extra U.S. House seat appears to be unraveling after county officials flagged thousands of potentially invalid and fraudulent petition signatures. The GOP’s repeal campaign relied on Patriot Grassroots, a Wyoming-based petition firm paid more than $4.3 million to manage signature gathering in Utah. The firm’s contract was terminated as allegations of fraud and misleading practices mounted....
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Since the Republican chickenshits started this movement, let them can repeal their crooked ones first!
Noem: DHS Will Ensure “The Right People” Are Voting
The Independent reports:
Kristi Noem appeared to suggest the Department of Homeland Security was responsible for election security and said she would ensure the “right people” were voting to elect “the right leaders.”...
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Americans have trusted our elections since I can remember. No elections have ever been proven fraudualent. Only Donald Trump's Criminal Syndicate has handed us that bullshit!
Reuters: US Prepping Weeks-Long Iran Operations
Reuters reports:
The U.S. military is preparing for the possibility of sustained, weeks-long operations against Iran if President Donald Trump orders an attack, two U.S. officials told Reuters, in what could become a far more serious conflict than previously seen between the countries.
The disclosure by the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitive nature of the planning, raises the stakes for the diplomacy underway between the United States and Iran.
"My sons have fought in two Middle East wars over the past 20 years multiple with multiple combat tours, one wounded both bearing the scars of those wars. Send them again and you had better grow eyes in the back of your head as the Army that trained them is the same Army that trained me." — Thewolflam (comments)
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Trump plans for more world violence.
We no longer are a peace loving nation.
How Pirro’s Incompetence Is Sinking Trump’s Revenge
Politico Magazine reports:
The administration’s use of the Justice Department to intimidate President Donald Trump’s political opponents and stifle dissent reached a remarkable new low last week, when federal prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington, D.C. tried and failed to prosecute six Democratic lawmakers who made a video urging military personnel to refuse to carry out illegal orders....
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Revenge can often be destructive. Trump is as bad at as the rest of his failures.
The Destructive Path of Revenge: Why Forgiveness Holds the Key to a Healthier Society -- Luis Miguel Gallardo
CBS News Producer Admits Stories Are Vetted For Ideology — Oliver Willis
Now-former CBS News producer Alicia Hastey revealed in a memo announcing her departure from the network that under Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss, stories are being vetted for their ideological content, rather than for their newsworthiness. The memo further confirms the network’s shift to the right under parent company Paramount’s pro-Trump leadership.
In Hastey’s memo, released Wednesday night, she laments Weiss for implementing a “sweeping new vision prioritizing a break from traditional broadcast norms to embrace what has been described as ‘heterodox’ journalism.”...
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CBS, your Nazi News Channel!
Vought Helped Kill USAID, Then Took Funds For Himself — NewsHound Ellen
The self-dealing doesn’t get any more sickening than this.
Hundreds of thousands have died from infectious diseases and malnutrition thanks to the Trump administration gutting USAID. Those funds would have gone toward fighting numerous preventable and treatable diseases abroad.
Instead, Reuters has found that the Trump administration doled out $15 million of those funds for the personal security detail of Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought....
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One more of Trump's criminals!
Trump's Thugs Want To Create An Airborne Minneapolis In El Paso — Steve M.
Even though it was a party balloon, Trump's thugs had to act like cowboys.
In my post yesterday, I was obviously wrong to speculate that a war with Mexico was about to start. I say this even though it's clear that President Trump desperately wants to invade Mexico, as he said in two separate Fox interviews last week. One was with Sean Hannity:
President Donald Trump suggested in a new interview that the U.S. military could launch land strikes on drug cartels in Mexico.
“We’ve knocked out 97% of the drugs coming in by water. And we are going to start now hitting land, with regard to the cartels,” Trump told Fox News host Sean Hannity in an interview aired Thursday night.
“The cartels are running Mexico, it’s very sad to watch and see what’s happened to that country,” Trump said....
I'm sure you know by now that air traffic was shut down in and around El Paso after a U.S. anti-drone laser was fired at a target that turned out to be a party balloon. CBS News (which still seems to be functioning as a legitimate news organization) reports that tests of anti-drone technology have been underway for months, and the Department of Defense/War has insisted that the tech doesn't endanger commercial air traffic:
The Pentagon had undertaken extensive planning on the use of military technology near Fort Bliss, a military base that abuts the El Paso International Airport, to practice taking down drones.
Two sources identified the technology as a high-energy laser....
But it wasn't the military that deployed the weapon that endangered commercial air traffic, as The New York Times tells us:
The abrupt closure of El Paso’s airspace late Tuesday was precipitated when Customs and Border Protection officials deployed an anti-drone laser on loan from the Department of Defense without giving aviation officials enough time to assess the risks to commercial aircraft, according to multiple people briefed on the situation...
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More Trump wanting to make war not peace! The worst ever!
Ring’s “Orwellian” Ad Was the Worst Super Bowl Disaster Since Kendall Jenner Handed the Cops a Pepsi — Victor Tangermann
In a now-infamous 2017 commercial that aired during that year’s Super Bowl, Kendall Jenner handed a police officer confronting furious protesters a can of Pepsi.
The backlash of the ad, which aired as Black Lives Matter protesters clashed with law enforcement across the country, was swift and brutal. The tone deaf clip was overwhelmingly criticized for trivializing racial discrimination and police brutality, leading to Pepsi pulling the ad and issuing a public apology that was itself shredded by critics.
Now, Amazon’s home security subsidiary Ring, may have finally dethroned Pepsi’s disastrous ad as the biggest Super Bowl marketing disaster in recent history, in a debacle that ended with the company canceling a controversial partnership with an AI surveillance company in an apparent attempt to save face.
During last weekend’s Super Bowl, Ring aired an ad to show off a new function, called “Search Party,” which allowed Ring to access devices across an entire neighborhood to find lost pets.
The expensive ad massively missed the mark, accidentally implying that Ring cameras are creating an “Orwellian” surveillance network that goes far beyond lost pets. Furious customers started disconnecting and even reportedly destroying their Ring cameras, refusing to be part of a dystopian network of internet-connected spy cameras....
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Don't have one. Never will. Suggest you do the same unless you support Big Brother.
Trump: I’ll Impose Voter ID With “Congress Or Not”
This does not serve our country!
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Pissing on our Constitution. We will not allow him to get away with it!
Collins Reverses, Backs Citizenship Proof To Vote Bill
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Maine idiot!
The SAVE America Act is anything but!
This is no service to democracy. She has branded herself a traitor.
Collins Reverses, Backs Citizenship Proof To Vote Bill
Europe Says Putin Killed Alexei Navalny With Frog Toxin
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny died in prison after being poisoned with a deadly toxin found in Ecuadorian dart frogs, the U.K. and other allies claimed Saturday. There is no possible other explanation other than a deliberate poisoning, European officials said, noting that the frogs are not found in Russia.
Russia’s prison service reported in February 2024 that Navalny died after having felt unwell following a walk around the high-security facility in a remote town above the Arctic Circle where he was serving a combined 30½-year jail sentence. He was 47.
“The U.K., Sweden, France, Germany and the Netherlands are confident that Alexei Navalny was poisoned with a lethal toxin,” the British foreign ministry said in a joint statement Saturday, citing “analyses of samples from Alexei Navalny.”
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Only because he couldn't get him to a high enough floor to shove him out a window!
Trump Tells US Soldiers That They “Have To Vote” GOP
The Washington Post reports:
President Donald Trump’s rally on Friday followed a familiar plan: He entered to Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA,” promoted GOP candidates, bashed his predecessor and implored the audience to vote Republican in the midterm elections. The speech ended to the thump of the Village People’s “Y.M.C.A.”
The setting, however, was an Army base, and the audience was in uniform. It was not the first time Trump gave an overtly political speech in a military setting, breaking the tradition of keeping the armed forces separate from partisan politics. He told assembled generals and admirals in September the country was “under invasion from within,” and his visit here in June to mark the Army’s 250th birthday featured a booth selling partisan paraphernalia.
“You have to vote for us,” Trump told the troops, citing his restoration of the Fort Bragg name after Congress directed the Pentagon to rename military installations honoring Confederate officers. (The Trump administration avoided the law by renaming the base after Pfc. Roland L. Bragg, rather than the original Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg.)
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The perfect example of an ILLEGAL ORDER!
Bondi accused of 'incompetence' after inflicting 'final indignity' on Epstein victims — Tom Boggioni
Pam Bondi’s “sneering” performance before the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday prompted the editors of the New York Times editorial board to lambast the attorney general on Saturday morning.
In a brutal editorial, the editors went far beyond Bondi's abrasive refusal to answer questions, choosing instead to respond to legitimate questions with personal attacks and complaints, to how the Department of Justice under her watch has done nothing but botch— perhaps intentionally — the handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files.
Worse still, they noted, was her treatment of Epstein’s victims, some of whom sat in the gallery, where they watched her ignore their plight during a nationally televised hearing.
“Ms. Bondi’s performance was more than just political theater. It was a final indignity in a process that has victimized Mr. Epstein’s victims all over again,” they wrote. “Under the guise of transparency, the Justice Department has managed to expose the victims to further humiliation while shielding the powerful behind a wall of redactions.”
Making their case, the editors noted, “The department’s release of these files has been dominated by incompetence. Ms. Bondi has long had the authority to make them public, but she spent months refusing and yielded only after Congress forced her hand,” adding, “Instead, in a grotesque failure, the D.O.J. uploaded dozens of unredacted images to its website, including nude photographs of young women and possibly teenagers.”
That led Epstein survivor Annie Farmer to point out it is “hard to imagine a more egregious way of not protecting victims,” and the editors to add, “Ms. Bondi’s department shattered the trust of women who had already been betrayed by the legal system once before.”
“Ms. Bondi’s refusal to look the survivors in the eye was symbolic of a broader failure,” the editors pointed out before dropping the hammer with: “The Department of Justice had an opportunity to finally prioritize the women who were preyed upon by Mr. Epstein and his circle. Instead, through a combination of malice and incompetence, it has done the opposite. It has stripped the victims of their privacy while wrapping perpetrators in a cloak of state secrecy.”
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"Youre not getting younger now, even though you'll try somehow..." Leave It To Me, Men of Extinction.
Trump Administration Erases the Government’s Power to Fight Climate Change — Lisa Friedman
The Environmental Protection Agency rejected the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten human life and well being. It means the agency can no longer regulate them.
...President Barack Obama wrote on social media that the repeal of the endangerment finding means, “We’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change — all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.”
Gov. Gavin Newsom of California promised a court challenge. “If this reckless decision survives legal challenges, it will lead to more deadly wildfires, more extreme heat deaths, more climate-driven floods and droughts, and greater threats to communities nationwide,” he said. California “will sue to challenge this illegal action” and will continue to regulate greenhouse gases, he said.
“We will see them in court, and we will win,” said Manish Bapna, the president of the Natural Resources Defense Council. “The science and the law are crystal clear, and E.P.A. is issuing a rushed, sloppy and unscientific determination that has no legal basis.”...
Read more on this sucicidal position Trump is taking!
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Calling Trump and his stoogies "retarded" is giving them way too much credit!
It’s Too Late, Trump. You Cannot Undo the Multi-Racial, Multi-National Real America — Mitchell Zimmerman
Notice to Donald Trump and his MAGA myrmidons: It’s too late by centuries to turn the United States of American “back” into the ethnically homogenous nation for white people which it never was. And that’s nothing to be disappointed about.
Most Americans aren’t swallowing your so-called jokes depicting African-Americans as apes, your white supremacist lies about Haitians “eating the pets,” your slanders of law-abiding farmworkers as the “worst of the worst,” your creepy wails about immigrants “poisoning the blood” of America, your demand we exclude refugees who come from what you term “sh**-hole countries.”
Fear and hatred are all you offer, and relief from an imaginary conspiracy of Jews and elites which you claim are plotting to “replace” white Americans with invaders from abroad.
The reality: Americans have always been a polyglot people of multiple races and ethnicities. We did not become a multi-national, multi-ethnic people because of a scheme to open our borders. Rather, our nation and its leaders—through ambition to expand the United States—incorporated other peoples into the American mix from our earliest days. Our true history is one of diversity, even if equity and inclusion have been aspirational....
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Trump is failing and will continue to fail until he and his evil reign disintegrate.
A Vote for Republicans Is a Vote Against Democracy — Thom Hartmann
Forget about “left or right,” there’s only one thing on the ballot this fall: democracy (Democrats), or oligarchy that leads to tyranny (Republicans).
Trump, the GOP, the 13 billionaires in his cabinet, and the ~150 billionaires who made him president again are all on the side of oligarchy. And we’re already most of the way there, thanks to five corrupt, on-the-take Republicans on the Supreme Court.
As President Jimmy Carter told me eleven years ago:
“It [Citizens United] violates the essence of what made America a great country in its political system. Now it’s just an oligarchy, with unlimited political bribery being the essence of getting the nominations for president or to elect the president. … So now we’ve just seen a complete subversion of our political system as a payoff to major contributors, who want and expect and sometimes get favors for themselves after the election’s over.” [emphasis added]
Declaration of Independence:
“…Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed…”
Oligarchy, on the other hand, is when the morbidly rich own the government and dictate policy, the “consent of the governed” be damned. We’ve been creeping in that direction since the Reagan Revolution in the 1980s, when rich people stopped paying taxes, corporate consolidations exploded, unions were attacked and wages stagnated, and it began to cost a fortune to get decent healthcare or a good education....
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Taken by ICE — Reveal
Cecelia Lizotte owns Suya Joint, a celebrated Nigerian restaurant in Boston. She’s a rising star in the city who was nominated for a James Beard Award in 2024 and operates two restaurants and a food truck. But last year, a key employee—who happens to be her brother—was detained by ICE.
“I’m not able to operate the establishment, basically,” Lizotte said. “It’s just, it’s crazy.”
Lizotte’s experience got us wondering what it’s like to run a restaurant, or any business, when a key employee suddenly disappears.
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The Trump mercenary terrorist bastards don't give a damn whose life they ruin!
Homeland Security has reportedly sent out hundreds of subpoenas to identify ICE critics online — Mariella Moon
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has reportedly been asking tech companies for information on accounts posting anti-ICE sentiments. According to The New York Times, DHS has sent hundreds of administrative subpoenas to Google, Reddit, Discord and Meta over the past few months. Homeland Security asked the companies for names, email addresses, telephone numbers and any other identifying detail for accounts that have criticized the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency or have reported the location of its agents. Google, Meta and Reddit have complied with some of the requests
Administrative subpoenas are different from warrants and are issued by the DHS. The Times says they were rarely used in the past and were mostly sent to companies for the investigation of serious crimes, such as child trafficking. Apparently, though, the government has ramped up its use in the past year. “It’s a whole other level of frequency and lack of accountability,” Steve Loney, a senior supervising attorney for ACLU, told the publication.
Companies can choose whether to comply with the authorities or not, and some of them give the subject of a subpoena up to 14 days to fight it in court. Google told The Times that its review process for government requests is “ designed to protect user privacy while meeting [its] legal obligations” and that it informs users when their accounts have been subpoenaed unless it has been legally ordered not to or in exceptional circumstances. “We review every legal demand and push back against those that are overbroad,” the company said....
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Big Brother is watching us! Sock it to him!
ICE Barbie Can't Explain Why El Paso Party Balloon Was Shot Down — NewsHound Ellen
On Friday, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was asked simple and important questions about reporting that the Trump administration closed down El Paso’s air space and shot down a party balloon it mistakenly thought was a foreign drone.
We can imagine the 24/7 poutrage from the right had anything so shockingly inept happened under a Democratic administration. But Noem, the woman who is supposed to be protecting us from foreign threats, couldn’t come up with anything close to an intelligible explanation.
The very legit question from a reporter was, “Can you confirm that CBP actually hit a party balloon it thought was a drone with a laser early this week, as was reported? And if that is true, why wasn't the action coordinated with the FAA?”
Noem’s non-answer was: “You know, this was a joint agency task force mission that was undertaken, and we're continuing to work on the communication through that, but recognize we're grateful for the partnership of the Department of War and the FAA as we go forward.”
The reporter asked for a follow-up, but Noem abruptly ended the press conference.
As my colleague Conover Kennard pointed out in our group chat, it would have been easy to deny it if it hadn’t happened.
This has all the signs of a total screw-up by the Trump administration. Noem’s inability to give any account of what happened only makes her and the others involved look even worse.
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The most inept presidential cabinet in our history. None of them mind showing their asses in public!
Kilmeade: Latest Epstein Files Only Reveals People Trying To Plot Against Trump — Heather
As I already discussed here, Fox did not run any live coverage of the Pam Bondi hearing debacle in front of the House Judiciary Committee this week, because they really did not want their audience hearing about Pam Bondi's role in protecting pedophiles. Now they've shifted gears, and instead of just ignoring the hearing, they're completely misrepresenting what happened.
On this Thursday's The Five, while discussing the hearing, they turned to their new trick, which is to just show video footage of the hearing with no sound or context whatsoever in the background with angry looking Democrats so they can pretend Bondi was the victim here, rather than the snotty, aggressive unhinged one at the hearing.
One of the clips they kept showing on a loop was Rep. Becca Balint yelling at Bondi, who, as anyone who watched the exchange knows, had every right to be upset with Bondi and her stonewalling and insults.
And to add insult to injury, while lying about the hearing, cohost Brian Kilmeade decided just blatantly to lie about the latest Epstein file dump and Trump:...
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Kilmeade, the liar on the lying Fascist Fox Noose.
'Serious federal offense': Ghislaine Maxwell may have opened herself to new charges — Matthew Rozsa
“Newly-examined court documents published by the Department of Justice show that Ghislaine Maxwell, the British socialite convicted in 2021 of sex trafficking minors, appears to have provided false answers on her U.S. citizenship application in 2002, potentially exposing her to immigration fraud charges,” wrote journalist Pablo Manriquez.
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GIGO. Garbage in, garbage out!
Noem unable to cite single election fraud case during secretive Arizona visit — Jerod Macdonald-Evoy
...Noem’s visit ended up being far more pedestrian, even as the agency went to extreme lengths to shroud nearly everything about the trip — and its purpose — in secrecy.
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On the other hand we KNOW she's the fraud!
'Mob boss' Trump’s favorite CEO donors targeted for investigation after midterms — Adam Lynch
...“Trump’s running the presidency like a mob boss and everyone who has agreed to bribe him is a target for an investigation,” said a senior congressional staffer, speaking anonymously to MS NOW. “And although there’s a spectrum of wrongdoing with Elon Musk at one end and not much more than small businesses trying to get by on the other, there are very wealthy CEOs who know better. And we’re taking names.”
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The Trump Crime Syndicate is being sussed out!
'Big fat liar': MAGA throws fire at Trump official over Guthrie case — Adam Lynch
But Salon reports former Fox News regular, grievance podcaster and now FBI head Kash Patel has been drawing rancor from the right-wing media ecosystem that once elevated him, “mocking his missteps and … openly calling him a liar.”...
“I felt like I was being kidnapped, bro,” Palazuelos told reporters.
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The sam way Americans feel!
The Trump frauds keep showing up as failed bits.
'The cracks are showing': Nobel economist rips MAGA’s 'stench of desperation' — Alex Henderson
During her testimony at a tumultuous House Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday, February 11, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi angrily lashed out at Democratic lawmakers — Hurling insults at everyone from Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Washington State) to Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Maryland), who she called a "washed-up loser lawyer." Raskin, a former constitutional law professor and the Judiciary Committee's top Democrat, is known for being even-tempered and having polite debates with conservatives. But his questioning of Bondi quickly turned into a shouting match.
Bondi, during her testimony, attacked Democrats for having "Trump derangement syndrome" and not giving President Donald Trump credit on the economy. But liberal economist Paul Krugman, in a scathing Substack column posted on February 13, argues that Bondi's defense of Trump's economic record during her "tantrum" had an "unmistakable stench of desperation" in addition to being quite misleading.
Krugman writes, "The cracks are showing, as some congressional Republicans have now voted against Trump's tariffs, Justice Department lawyers are quitting en masse or just plain cracking up — and attempts to weaponize prosecutions keep failing….. Bondi's yelling isn't making Epstein go away. But let's examine Bondi's demand that Americans ignore the omnishambles because stocks are up. It's morally depraved, but what about the economics?"...
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The Trump economy is failing the U.S.
Fox News Pretty Sure ‘Shrieking Karen’ Pam Bondi Should Smile More — Evan Hurst
Shrieky The Wonder Karen
We saw this post on Threads yesterday, it makes a certain kind of sense: (see photo)
Huh.
Of course, we’ve always felt like Ghislaine Maxwell was Trump’s Ghislaine Maxwell, but Pam Bondi sure does seem to have been involved in covering up this child rape ring for a looooong time.
Just some food for thought!
Anyway, yesterday, we had a post about how Newsmax and a number of other MAGA pundits are really starting to hurl Bondi under the nearest bus, after her disastrously embarrassing performance in the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday.
We noted, though, that Fox News had chosen not to air any of the hearing live, and that we hadn’t heard a ton of Fox anchors joining the chorus of condemnation. Then we heard this clip: (see image)
Really American on Instagram: "BREAKING: Fox News drags Pam Bon…
That’s Kennedy in that clip, AKA not Jessica Tarlov, and not any other token liberal brought on to get shouted at. And she said, um, a whole lot of mean things about Pam Bondi.
Kennedy said, “she comes off like a shrieking Karen.” (It’s funny because Jimmy Kimmel called her performance an “Epstein Karen-Thon.”)
Kennedy talked about how “emotional” Bondi was, and said when she’s like that, it’s “very unpersuasive.”
“It feels like the job is consuming her, and she needs to tone it town a little bit.”
She even made fun of Bondi’s burn book of insults.
She suggested that when Bondi called Jamie Raskin “not a real lawyer,” he should have replied “You’re not a real blonde.”
She didn’t say Bondi should smile more, but we feel like it was strongly implied.
To be clear, Kennedy started out in the clip above complimenting Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, a smarmy, pompous quisling who is sorely mistaken if he thinks the MAGA Christian nationalists won’t turn on his gay ass the second it’s convenient for them. (We’ll try to remember to have sympathy when the leopards start eating his gay face.) Kennedy says Bessent is the “king of laconic, sick burns” when he testifies in Congress. So in case it’s not clear, our commentators here are pathetic, easily impressed bootlickers....
To be clear, this doesn’t mean Bondi’s going to get fired. As we noted yesterday, Mary Trump has said she won’t quit or be fired because this coverup is exactly what Donald Trump hired her to do. And we added that by that logic, if she does get quit-fired, it’ll be because she’s protecting child rapists ineffectively and incompetently....
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Even Fox. This will really piss off the tiny Trump Nazis!
The SAVE Act and the Election Power Grab — Michael Waldman
The revived bill is a serious threat to voting rights.
For months, we have warned of a drive by President Trump and his administration to undermine the 2026 election. It is unprecedented, outlandish. Now Trump himself is blaring his intent — and over the past week, the public issue has exploded. The fight for a free and fair vote is taking shape, starting on the floor of the House this week as it once again considers the SAVE Act.
Make no mistake: The SAVE Act would stop millions of American citizens from voting. It would be the most restrictive voting bill ever passed by Congress. It is Trump’s power grab in legislative garb....
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Stop shitting on the American voters!
Profiting from Terror: The Normalization of America’s ICE Concentration Camps — Bill Berkowitz
Currently, more than 70,000 men, women, and children are held within a sprawling network of detainment centers across the United States. Armed with billions in federal funding, the Trump administration is moving to double this capacity within the next twenty-four months—a rapid expansion that forces a confrontation with our own language. Some call them "detention centers" or "holding tanks," but as the scale shifts from temporary processing to indefinite mass confinement, we must ask: Are these prisons, are they jails, or have they become American concentration camps?...
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The horror!
This isn’t Trump’s “Golden Age” — it’s ours -- Heather Digby Parton
Under Donald Trump’s leadership, Americans are more pessimistic than ever. But there’s reason for hope
...We are, in fact, living in an historic time. Americans have rarely been more pessimistic about the future… If this is America’s Golden Age, it doesn’t appear that people are seeing it....
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Still sleeping I see.
What Happens When the World Decides It Can’t Trust America Anymore? — Thom Hartmann
Donald Trump is doing something to America that no foreign adversary has ever managed, something Putin’s been dreaming about for decades: he’s convincing our oldest and closest allies — countries we fought wars to defend and liberate, and with whom we share a democratic system of government — that the United States can’t be trusted.
For example, France’s government just announced it’s ripping U.S. videoconferencing platforms — Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Webex, and others — out of its government offices nationwide and replacing them with a new French-created system called “Visio.”
That’s roughly 2.5 million French public employees who’ll no longer be using American digital products because the French have concluded that U.S. tech — and the Silicon Valley billionaires’ pathetic fealty to Trump, bringing him bribes and gifts and groveling in front of him — is a national security risk.
And it’s not just France: the German state of Schleswig-Holstein just moved 44,000 employees off Microsoft and over to an open-source platform, and is now considering replacing Windows with Linux. They also dumped Microsoft’s SharePoint file-sharing system, going with open source Nextcloud.
We’re no longer seen as a reliable partner: many of our former allies now view us as a potential enemy.
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The failure of Trump is now destroying world trust in us and our products.
The Resistance Gains Momentum — William Kristol
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sure has a way with words. During an appearance on Theo Von’s podcast This Past Weekend yesterday, Kennedy described why he had been determined to keep going to in-person addiction-recovery meetings during the COVID pandemic: “I’m not scared of a germ. You know, I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats.” Happy Friday.
A Moderately Frabjous Day
by William Kristol...
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The disgrace of the Kennedys.
Ohio Bill Would Overturn Local Ex-Gay Torture Bans
The Ohio Capital Journal reports:
Ohio Republican lawmakers have introduced legislation that would punish state agencies and local governments for being too supportive of LGBTQ+ youth. Among a slew of provisions, conversion therapy would be reinstated where it has been banned, teachers may be prevented from using a student's preferred pronouns, and parents wouldn't be able to lose custody due to refusing to support their child's gender identity.
"State institutions, government institutions cannot promote that woke ideology," state Rep. Gary Click, R-Vickery, said in an interview Tuesday. Click believes government agencies have been overly affirming of LGBTQ+ children, which he claims has hurt parents. "It is not conversion therapy to help children discover their identity and who they are biologically," Click said. Click has focused significant time in the legislature targeting LGBTQ+ people.
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I have also read where Ohio is banning wind and solar power. This is cutting off their noses to spite their faces!.
The U.S. is regressing to the ignorance and stupidity of the middle ages!
Daily Mail Catalogs “Downfall” Of Richard Grenell
The Daily Mail reports:
Richard Grenell worked years to climb through MAGA’s cut-throat ranks, remarkably scrapping his way into leading the nation’s premiere intelligence apparatus in 2020. Six years later, at the peak of Donald Trump’s power, he finds himself running a theater – and now even that job is being put on ice. Grenell’s career trajectory took another sharp turn this month when Trump announced plans to shutter the Kennedy Center for a massive two-year construction project.
Branded ‘a ruthlessly ambitious asshole,’ by two former colleagues, Grenell’s sharp elbows and short temper have finally caught up with him, as he’s been pushed out of the administration’s most high-level and sensitive foreign policy decisions, according to four diplomatic sources who have worked closely with him. Grenell was caught floating himself to campaign aides at Mar-a-Lago to be Trump’s vice presidential nominee.
Then came a defining incident at the Republican National Convention, where a heated argument with Wiles over his speaking time on the dais boiled over. ‘He screamed at Susie, and he told her, “You’re the reason why we’re going to lose this f***ing election!” The confrontation was so intense that Wiles was reportedly left on the verge of tears. He probably didn’t know it at the time, but that single outburst sealed Grenell’s fate, freezing him out of any serious cabinet-level roles in Trump 2.0.
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Typical of the Mad Hatter's appointments.
All These Ring Cameras Are Creating a “Surveillance Nightmare,” Critics Say — Joe Wilkins
What if the biggest threat to your safety and privacy isn’t a person, but a device millions of Americans have installed in their homes willingly?
That’s the contention of tech critics at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, who say Amazon’s Ring doorbell devices constitute a “surveillance nightmare” — what they’re calling the largest civilian surveillance panopticon in the history of the United States.
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When your guardian becomes your guard!
German leader rips Trump for 'rupture' between US and Europe — Alex Henderson
...But Carney is hardly the only head of a NATO country who believes that relations between the U.S. and other western democracies are suffering during Trump's second presidency.
On Friday, February 13 — the opening day of the 2026 Munich Security Conference — German Chancellor Friedrich Merz offered a warning similar to Carney's, telling attendees that the United States' role as a world leader "has been challenged, and possibly squandered."
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Trump has caused our country to be banished by the rest of the world.
On Fascists, Mean Girls and Screechy Pedophile Allies — Abby Zimet
In what one sage deemed "amateur-hour, clown-fucker, reality-show dictatorship shit," this week's House hearings on ICE abuses, Epstein cover-ups and other GOP atrocities showcased a parade of rancid, lying, stonewalling MAGA lickspittles and deplorables - loudest among them sneering "bad acid trip come to life" Pam Bondi - facing off against a for-once united cohort of smart, angry, truth-telling Democrats with righteous history on their side and, finally, no fucks left to give. We are here for it.
Deep in his delusional bubble, the mad child-king ostensibly in charge of these evil cretins told Fox News Wednesday that Americans are living in "the greatest period of anything we’ve ever seen." Maybe he meant how he's been bravely standing up for a bridge he thinks Canada ripped us off for while forgetting he praised it when it was built, and paid for, by Canada. Or maybe it's 'cause in exchange for idiotically spending our money trying to prop up dirty, pricey, inefficient coal - "the 19th century called and it wants its fuel source back" - and glitching out en route, the "simplest mark of all time" got another shiny participation trophy as the “Undisputed Champion of Beautiful Clean Coal." "Lookit his happy face!" the Internet chortled. "The big special boy is so big and so special!" Also, "Marvel is running out of Superheroes" and "This is the saddest thing I've ever seen."...
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Pammy seems to disdain Epstein victims. I wonder why?
'Laughable': GOP Rep. Mocks Demand For Unmasked ICE Agents — NewsHound Ellen
Rep. Rich McCormick (R-GA), whined on Newsmax about Democrats blocking a Department of Homeland Security funding bill because, among other protections for people’s rights, they are demanding a ban on ICE agents’ face masks and a requirement to wear identification.
Approval for ICE and President Stephen Miller’s Donald Trump’s immigration policies is in the toilet since ICE agents murdered two, non-threatening American citizens, Renee Good and Alex Pretti.
But McCormick accused Democrats of not really caring about reforms to ICE – because voter ID! Or something.
McCormick called Democratic demands “laughable.” As if he’d be fine with unidentified, masked, armed agents showing up at his house and dragging someone off, or worse.
“When you talk about having IDs, their first and last names and uncovering their face, that’s way more than you wanted for voter identification. I find that total hypocrisy,” McCormick added. “You know that’s just for doxxing. You know that’s to threaten people’s families. There’s no other possible reason.”
Unmasked ICE agents wearing identification has majority support. How about that reason, Rep. McCormick?
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More fascist garbage!
Newmax Hosts Bash Pam Bondi: 'She Is Not To Be Trusted' — John Amato
After watching the horrific performance of Attorney General Pam Bondi during Wednesday's hearing, Trump lapdog Greg Kelly turned on her, claiming she is "not to be trusted" after her evasive, nonresponsive performance and hoping she leaves the post soon.
KELLY: Pam, I like her, but she's in over her head, and she's not doing the bidding of, and that's okay, the bidding of, yes, you can do the bidding of the, we voted for the president, he did his part, and now the people he appointed have to do their part, and I don't think Pam is living up to that responsibility.
Lots of theatrics on her part today before the House, that's great, but she was non-responsive, evasive, and I think she is not to be trusted, and I hope she leaves soon.
Kelly, who went to great lengths making a fool of himself trying to defend the murder of Alex Pretti by ICE agents by imitating a gunslinger drawing his gun at ICE, used a cell phone to make believe it was a six-shooter.
But for Pam, he got nothing. It seems that much of Trump's propaganda TV was not enthralled with Bondi's performance.
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Pot meets kettle.
The Genius of America: Our Constitution — Eric Lane, Michael Oreskes
The United States of America is an extraordinary accomplishment – the richest, most powerful nation that has ever existed. From a handful of farmers and merchants on the edge of the known world, it has grown, endured, agonized and prospered. Millions have flocked to its shores, and millions more continuously hope to come.
Saying that this has become something of a cliché does not make it any less true. Nor does the fact that some people in other parts of the world have come to resent the way America asserts its wealth and power make America’s rise any less remarkable or significant. Even America’s fiercest critics don’t argue that.
But why did this success visit itself on the United States? Certainly it is a land blessed with enormous resources and intrepid people. They have been celebrated many times. But there are other nations with great resources and excellent people. What is so apparent is often underappreciated: America’s extraordinary success is directly related to its unique form of government. Not just to its freedom or its democracy, but to its singularly American form of democracy....
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"America’s extraordinary success is directly related to its unique form of government established in the Constitution."
You Can’t Reform A Police State: Defund DHS And ICE Now — Cliff Schecter
One imagines a group of federal agents, accustomed to masked raids, warrantless entries, and bureaucratic indifference to human suffering, pausing mid-operation to say, “Hold on, fellow proud boys, uh DHS squads… the appropriations language demands better vibes.”
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White House Fires Interim U.S. Attorney After Just Five Hours — Ed Scarce
The White House on Wednesday evening fired a new interim U.S. attorney, Donald T. Kinsella, less than five hours after his appointment.
The same old song and dance from the Trump administration. Trump had put a woefully unqualified schlub in as acting U.S. Attorney and after his interim term expired, a panel of judges put someone qualified in instead. The Trump administration don't want qualified people in positions of responsibility, even if they're Republicans, like Donald T. Kinsella. So, a few hours after being sworn in, Kinsella was promptly sacked....
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Constant failure!
Swing state conservative says Trump supporters are in denial — Matthew Rozsa
A conservative columnist has a warning for his fellow Republicans: They ignore President Donald Trump’s falling approval ratings at their own political peril.
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This denial comes from thinking that Trump is a smart man. Nothing could be more incorrect!
Kristi Noem had Coast Guard pilot fired for leaving her blanket on a plane: report — Carl Gibson
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LMAO! Is that in the pilot's job discription? Where's my blanky>
Our government is nothing but personal vendettas now. it must be changed to a fucntioning establishment.
Americans take an astounding step to reprimand Trump: experts — Matthew Rozsa
Legal experts have good news for Americans concerned about President Donald Trump’s targeted prosecutions: Grand juries are assuming their Constitutional role as “primary security” against tyrannical prosecution.
“This is how grand juries were meant to work,” wrote UC Berkeley Criminal Justice Center Director Chesa Boudin and UC Davis Law Professor Eric S. Fish in The New York Times on Friday. Quoting Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren’s statement that grand juries are “a primary security to the innocent against hasty, malicious and oppressive persecution,” Boudin and Fish listed a number of recent occasions when Trump’s Justice Department targeted political enemies only to be rebuffed by grand juries.
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Our final backstop: The American Citizen!
Judge: Hegseth Can’t Cut Sen. Mark Kelly’s Benefits
CNN reports:
A federal judge on Thursday shut down Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s attempts to punish Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly over his urging of US service members to refuse illegal orders, ruling that the Pentagon chief’s actions were unconstitutionally retaliatory.
The decision landed two days after a grand jury in Washington, DC, declined to approve charges sought by federal prosecutors against the Arizona senator and several other Democratic lawmakers who taped a video last year warning that “threats to our Constitution” are coming “from right here at home,” and repeatedly implored service members and the intelligence community to “refuse illegal orders.”
Together, the grand jury declination and ruling from senior US District Judge Richard Leon represent major impediments to efforts by aides of President Donald Trump to use the levers of government to punish Kelly, a retired Navy captain and former astronaut, over his participation in the video....
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Why is there anything considered legal about an act by anyone who was appointed by a convicted felon?
Trump just gave MAGA a million reasons to walk away — Tara Dublin
Seems pretty sus to me, but then again, I’m not in the world’s dumbest death cult.
And yet MAGA is still finding ways to avoid that truth. It’s honestly impressive that they’re still able to hold their phones in their hands, considering they’ve twisted themselves into the tightest conspiracy pretzel yet.
Trump’s pet AG, Pam Bondi, lied under oath yet again on Wednesday during a House hearing. I don’t know who arrests her for committing that federal offense, but since Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) said she lied under oath, she should be impeached immediately.MAGA knows the truth. They just don’t want to have to admit to anyone, but especially to themselves, they were wrong about Trump. I don’t know when being wrong on the internet became a fate worse than admitting your Dear Leader might have done very bad things, but again … I’m not in a cult.
Instead, I’m a magnet for one. Lucky me!
The MAGA morons got triggered by a tweet of mine about the Million Mentions, and now it’s getting a lot of troll traffic. They MAD! They want to scapegoat and harass me into spoon-feeding them details to dispute. They want to send me on a wild Google chase. Tara don’t play like that, my friends....
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If they only had a brain!
Senator has blunt warning for Trump prosecutor Jeanine Pirro: 'Preserve your records' — Nicole Charky-Chami
A Democratic lawmaker Thursday had a serious warning for former Fox News host and current U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro.
Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) announced that she declined an interview with Pirro and Attorney General Pam Bondi, refusing to talk to them after she and five other congressional leaders made a video in November quoting current law, and reminding service members that the military has a responsibility to refuse illegal orders.
"In response, President Trump tweeted more than a dozen times, calling for me to be investigated, arrested, and hanged," Slotkin wrote in an email.
But Slotkin has no plans to back down.
"I wrote to Attorney General Pam Bondi and U.S. Attorney Pirro to inform them that I won’t be doing an interview — and that their offices should preserve their records should I decide to sue for their infringement on my Constitutional rights," Slotkin said.
She has set out to fight Trump's Department of Justice instead.
"I am not going to legitimize what they’re doing," she added. "The video in question was public, and I’ve talked about it extensively in the open. Our Constitution is crystal clear about our freedom of speech — and that’s a value worth fighting for."
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She will be supported by freedom loving America!
Sen. Kelly: Trump Wants Me in Jail for Telling the Truth — Sam Stein
Sen. Mark Kelly joins Sam Stein to explain just how close the country came to a constitutional crisis. He discusses the grand jury’s rejection, the chilling effect on retired service members, and why he believes this fight is far from over—including what Mike Johnson and Republican leaders are (and aren’t) doing about it.
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Both Senator Kelly and his wife are American heroes.
Is “Voter Fraud” the Most Dangerous Political Lie in American History? — Thom Hartmann
Get ready.
At yesterday’s hearing of the House Homeland Security Committee, Arizona Republican Congressman Eli Crane lied through his teeth, saying of Democrats’ opposition to the SAVE Act:
“They let millions of illegal aliens into the country. They set up sanctuary cities so you can’t enforce these federal laws that are on the books that Congress has passed.
“Now they won’t vote to stop these illegals from voting in our elections. If the American people don’t understand what this is about, it’s about one word. It always has been. That is power.
“They want power and they need illegals to vote in our elections. That’s why they don’t care about fraud either. They need those votes as well.”
And it’s not just a lone crackpot congressman from Arizona. As Walter Olson wrote for the Cato Institute in 2024:
“If you believe Elon Musk, ‘Democrats’ are permitting large numbers of immigrants into the country on purpose in order to win elections. By ‘ushering in vast numbers of illegals,’ he wrote on X March 5, ‘they are importing voters.’
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“Musk’s co-thinker on this topic, former president Donald Trump, said in January in Iowa: ‘That’s why they are allowing these people to come in—people that don’t speak our language—they are signing them up to vote.’ And a television ad from Ohio Republican Sen. J. D. Vance claims that current border policies mean ‘more Democrat voters pouring into this country.’
“‘Treason indeed!’ exclaims Musk.”
Donald Trump has made good use of the propaganda technique known as the Big Lie, famously claiming that the 2020 “election was stolen” from him. And now he’s preparing to use one of the GOP’s favorite perennial Big Lies to disrupt this November’s midterm elections....
No democracy anywhere in the world can long survive if its citizens don’t believe their votes are legitimately cast and counted. This lie about non-citizen voting — that the GOP first rolled out in 1964 — is now a harpoon pointed right at our elections, what Thomas Paine called “the beating heart” of our republic.
If it’s not debunked and destroyed by both the Democratic Party and our national media, it could well signal the end of democracy in America and the beginning of a Putin/Orbán-style fascist reign.
It’s beyond time for our corporate media to do their damn job and point out the evil lie of “voter fraud” before it succeeds in killing American democracy altogether.
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Amen.
The Trauma of ICE Raids Is Rippling Through Public Schools Across the US — Eleanor J. Bader
ICE raids have left children stranded without caregivers after school bus drop-off. Abductions traumatize whole schools.
...Many teachers are working full days and then patrolling bus stops, guarding school entrances, and riding buses to ensure students get home safely. And it’s not just educators; thousands of parents are joining us to patrol school property and provide the mutual aid many Minnesota families need to survive. What’s so infuriating about this situation isn’t the extra work; it’s that it’s all been created by the cruel choices of a few people in power in Washington. None of this pain and fear is inevitable. It’s intentional.
https://truthout.org/articles/the-trauma-of-ice-raids-is-rippling-through-public-schools-across-the-us/
Elon Musk’s X Appears to Be Violating US Sanctions by Selling Premium Accounts to Iranian Leaders
While publicly supporting protesters in Iran, Elon Musk’s X appears to have been selling premium accounts to regime officials. Check marks were removed from certain accounts after a WIRED inquiry.
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Deport the immigrant!
Insolent, Shouty Brat Brings Burn Book To Congress — Evan Hurst
Uh oh, she’s got that poopyface like she just smelled Donald Trump’s ass again.
On the day after her Department of Justice received its latest humiliation, when a grand jury laughed its ass off and told US Attorney Jeanine Pirro to go fuck an empty Franzia box with her attempted indictments of six Democratic members of Congress, Attorney General Pam “Country Time Regina George with a burn book full of Funyun powder” Bondi showed up to Congress and tried to tell it who’s boss.
Or rather, she screamed who was boss. It didn’t go great for her.
(By the way, it’s now being reported that the grand jury didn’t just merely tell Boxwine and Nazi Barbie to fuck themselves, but that literally zero grand jurors thought they had achieved the very low bar for probable cause to indict somebody. As in the whole room told them to fuck themselves in unison.)
We’d say bless Bondi’s heart if she had one to bless, but you wanna talk about Trump Cabinet members who are going to burn in hell when they die? All of them will, but Nazi Redneck Barbie here is at the top of the pile.
What most people took away from Bondi’s testimony before the House is that she screams a lot, seems very defensive, and is the stupidest, most beclowned attorney general in history — and Donald Trump has a lot of previous attorneys general to choose from for that honor — who is spearheading the cover-up of the vilest, most disgusting child rape ring in human history. And that she revels in that job.
And so with that, some highlights of THE YELLING.
Here she is yelling at Jamie Raskin, who had to explain to her multiple times that she doesn’t just get to filibuster, not on his or the other Democrats’ time. “I already told you,” said Raskin. “You don’t TELL ME anything,” shouted Pammy Jo Shouts-A-Lot. Then she tried to call him a bad lawyer or not a real lawyer, it doesn’t matter, because no sane person would let this dumb heap of dogshit try to argue them out of a parking ticket.
You have to watch it to see how funny she is when she yells, the way she sneers. So angry, GRR! GRR! If she was your teacher you would get detention every day for laughing at her during her daily temper tantrum.
“You don’t TELL ME anything!”
Yes, we do, Nazi Barbie. We tell you whatever we want. Whatever we fucking want.
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Then let me tell her. She's full of shit and twice as ugly. Look at those bags under her aging eyes!
If it goose steps like a Nazi, screams like a Nazi, barks "You vill obey orders!" like a Nazi, it's a goddamn Nazi!
Donald Trump Orders Pentagon: Buy Coal Power, To Whip The Kaiser! — Doktor Zoom
‘Coalie,’ the Interior Department’s fun new coal mascot, observes the first test flight of the Air Force’s new coal-powered stealth bomber. B-21 bomber photo by USAF, Coalie by Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement.
In his latest attempt to keep the doomed coal industry alive for a few more years, Donald Trump yesterday ordered the US military to enter into long-term contracts to buy electricity generated by coal-burning power plants. He also announced that the Energy Department would be throwing away $175 million to modernize six aging coal plants in Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio, and West Virginia.
At the White House ceremony where Trump signed his executive order, grateful members of the “Washington Coal Club” — a front for America’s filthiest energy industry — presented him with a Major Award that they created just for him because he’s a special boy. It’s a trophy depicting a very hunky underground miner carrying a pick, with the title “Undisputed Champion of Beautiful Clean Coal” inscribed on the base....
The order doesn’t actually specify how much the Pentagon must spend on coal power, but Trump confidently lied, “We’re going to be buying a lot of coal through the military. […] It’s going to be less expensive and actually much more effective than what we have been using for many, many years.”
Again, coal can’t compete on price with gas, or with renewables like solar, wind, and storage.
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Plus it pollutes like a motherfucker and is the main cause of climate change, FUCKING IDIOT!
Black Lung anyone?
Trump wants to return us to the stone age!
Bondi Screams At Raskin: “You’re A Washed-Up Loser”
...Bondi replied by yelling: “You don’t tell me anything. You’re a washed-up loser lawyer. You’re not even a lawyer.”
Raskin is not only a lawyer, he taught Constitution law as a professor at the famed law school of American University.
"I'm so sick of our country being run by feral fifth graders." — Formalism (comments)
"She’s quite the trashy piece of work. She also accused my Jewish lesbian Rep of being anti-Semitic, never mind that my Rep’s grandfather was killed in the Holocaust. Becca is great by the way, so of course the cunt hates her.
https://www.advocate.com/politics/pam-bondi-disrespect-becca-balint" — ErnestMc (comments)
"@jayapal.house.gov...Please refer her to the bar for her unprofessional misconduct before the committee. As AG under Oath, why is she slandering and accusing members of the Committee of various nefarious things as her way to avoid answering basic questions?" — Max-1 (comments)
"Either Pam Bondi knows there’s already a signed pardon for her from Trump in a desk drawer or she’s even more of an idiot than we thought. Either way, she’s simply a completely terrible human." — mrrussell (comments)
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And she's a Nazi traitor dishwater blonde trying hard to look younger than she is!
Alberta Secessionists Cheer: Trump Admin Supports Us
"You fucking idiot.
This amateur Administration supports the return of the Nazis in Germany and supports trump as a pastiche Mussolini.
Grow up, you treacherous loon." — JackFknTwist (comments)
"Usually I’m rather loath to insult a Canadian, what kind of asshole wants to switch to our dollar today?
Was down 10% in Trump’s first year, he is engaged in a trade war, and the debt is set to skyrocket in the next decade." — AreYouPreparedToGoToCourt? (comments)
"I'm an older Albertan, I've heard these bozos ranting for the last 50 goddamn years.
They're idiots, useful for some; but not imo." — Karl Dubhe !V (comments)
"Treasonous bootlickers. If they 'win' they won't get US Citizenship, they'll lose their right to vote, and they'll be scorned by every thinking person on Earth.
Their leaders should be charged, but probably wont be. Mostly because 'we' don't want another Louis Riel." — Karl Dubhe !V (comments)
"There's a small movement in the US to combine parts of eastern WA and OR, and a small part of northern CA, with Idaho and call it "Liberty" or some such bullshit. It would still be a state (since they need the welfare money) but it would soon become Alabama. Most of Eastern OR is federal land, because it's too extreme for farming or ranching. Luckily, most of Eastern WA is not buying it. Mostly just the old white guys with too much time on their hands since their dick stopped working and they had to find a new hobby." — Happy_Housewife (comments)
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What total Nazi insanity! We are witnessing what may be the end times now.
Plan To Grow Trump Concentration Camps To Hold 100K People — RedStateRachel
President Stephen Miller plans to grow Trump concentration camps to hold over 100,000 people. But citizens can stop the ICE detention centers using grassroots tools.
Ice detention population growth is about to explode. The plan for Trump concentration camps is to build each detention center to hold from eight to ten thousand people. According to Rachel Maddow's report on February 9: The planned size of the new concentration camps is over double the size of the largest Federal prison in the United States, which holds 4,000 people.
Even more disturbing, the new concentration camps could hold people not convicted of a crime. Per Rachel Maddow's February 9 show:
"But I mean, but at least in the case of existing federal prisons, they're at least for people who are convicted of federal crimes, right? These new huge prison camps that Trump wants to build, they're not for people convicted of crimes. They're for people picked up by his immigration agents, like by ICE.
He is trying to build huge new capacity to hold more than 100,000 people in these prison camps, even if they haven't been convicted of or even charged with a crime. And with what they're doing with ICE already, the existing immigration prisons they've already got, even before they start building new ones. They're already the stuff of nightmares right now, right?”
CBS News reported that 86 percent of the people arrested by ICE agents didn’t involve anyone accused or convicted of a violent crime.
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This is madness! A disgrace and abomination to our precepts.
Trump's Epstein problem 'not going away' after testimony 'failed badly': DC insider — Thomas Kika
The tumultuous congressional grilling of Attorney General Pam Bondi revealed a lot of the priorities of the Justice Department, former Republican National Committee Chair Michael Steel argued, and showed that the agency's problems for Donald Trump are "not going away."
Steele previously led the RNC from 2009 to 2011, but has for the last decade been a prominent conservative critic of Trump and his political agenda. Writing in a piece for MS NOW Thursday morning, he broke down Bondi's testimony to the House Judiciary Committee and its implications, arguing that while it may have impressed Trump, it "failed badly" at putting the Epstein files scandals to rest.
"Bondi repeatedly criticized the administrations of Joe Biden and prior presidents for their handling of Epstein," Steele detailed. "She accused Democrats of focusing on the files to distract from Trump’s criminal justice agenda and in one bizarre instance even cited the performance of the stock market to defend the president."
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Pam Bondi is not defending Americans. She is defending Donald Trump!
Is ICE Director Going To Hell When He Dies? He Shouldn't Be Shocked If He Does!
A couple trends have emerged in the fight against Donald Trump and his team of MAGA Nazi fascist slavecatcher trash. One is that this fight is being framed, more and more each day, in explicitly moral terms. So many of the most powerful voices fighting for justice are religious leaders and congregants, of all faiths, and when you’re fighting Nazis, it’s really not hard to see who has the moral high ground. Trump’s Gestapo are shooting at clergy, Buddhist monks are marching for peace.
Oh, and did you realize that the woman who led the protest into that Southern Baptist house of white supremacy and degeneracy in St. Paul, the one harboring an ICE leader on its pastoral staff, did you realize she is an ordained pastor herself? Pam Bondi’s racist Karen fucking blonde ass may be trying to frame that incident as an antifa attack on Christianity, but more than anything it resembled Jesus entering the temple and fucking flipping tables.
The people on both sides of this fight may technically all be God’s children, but God is only participating on one side of this fight.
Another trend is that Democratic electeds and regular people alike are, also more and more each day, treating Trump and his people with exactly the respect they deserve, the respect they’ve earned, and they’re doing it in public. Fuck decorum, fuck politeness forever. These people are the enemies of civilization and humanity, we’re not holding our fucking tongues. (Have you heard the hottest song of 2026, the song everybody in Minneapolis sings to Kristi Noem? It’s a bop, don’t let your kids hear it unless you want them to sing it.)
You call these people what they are. You mock them, berate them, humiliate them and tell them to go fuck themselves in public. Sometimes in that process you may end up turning the tables on them in ways that really really really bother them....
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Right on!
Teacher sues after GOP policy labels 'everyone is welcome' sign as anti-Trump resistance — Alex Henderson
In deep red Idaho — a state that President Donald Trump won by 36.5 percent in 2024 — public schoolteacher Sarah Inama hung up, in her classroom, a poster that read, "Everyone is welcome here." But Inama was ordered by school officials to take it down, and now, she is filing a lawsuit in response.
According to her lawsuit, the poster's opponents viewed it as "political resistance" to the "rise of President Donald Trump" — and West Ada School District administrators told her that "not everyone agrees that 'everyone is welcome,' so it is a political opinion."
One of the poster's critics was Monty Hyde, principal at Lewis & Clark Middle School (where Inama was teaching social studies when she put up the poster).
School officials, according to Law & Crime reporter Chris Pérez, allege that the poster was a violation of Idaho House Bill 41 — which Idaho Gov. Brad Little, a Republican, signed into law in March 2025. The law forbids certain types of flags and banners on public school property and is being condemned as "censorship" by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in Idaho.
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Fuck Nazi tyranny in Idaho! Their bullshit excuses can take gas!
Johnson: Dems “Should Be Indicted” For Military Video That DC Grand Jury Just Refused To Indict Them Over
The Hill reports:
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said the six Democrats who participated in a video urging service members to disobey illegal orders last fall “should be indicted,” even as a grand jury on Tuesday refused to do so. “I think that anytime you’re obstructing law enforcement and getting in the way of these sensitive operations, it’s a very serious thing, and it probably is a crime. And, yeah, they probably should be indicted,” Johnson told reporters shortly after the grand jury news.
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And I think he's full of shit. This little coward ever serve in the military? No where can I find he has. If Trump told him to murder his son, would he?
Spoken like a filthy Nazi Authoritarian!
Johnson's 'seismic' failure is also a 'major setback for Trump': analysis
MS NOW producer Steve Benen says House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is racking up the kind of failures his predecessors never had — including his most recent one, who was ousted by his own party.
On Tuesday, Johnson and House GOP leaders tried to propose a rule change that would prevent any lawmaker from threatening President Donald Trump’s tariffs until August. Johnson’s effort failed 214-217 after three Republicans joined all Democrats to destroy it.
The vote is historic for its rarity, but also historic for its frequency under Johnson, said Benen.
“During Democratic Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s tenure as House speaker, she literally never lost a rule vote. During former Republican Reps. John Boehner’s and Paul Ryan’s tenures, they also never lost such a vote,” said Benen. “In the last Congress, however, then-Speaker Kevin McCarthy lost three of these votes. And after he was stripped of his gavel, his Republican successor, Mike Johnson, lost four. In the current Congress, Johnson lost one rule vote last year, and then another Tuesday night.”
But the vote is more than just another failure for what is racking up to be one of the House’s least successful speakers. The vote itself was a warning to a president who has — at least until now — wielded complete control of the Republican Party.
Couched into Johnson’s rule was language forbidding House lawmakers from challenging Trump’s tariffs until July 31. Specifically, it stipulated that certain days no longer "constitute a calendar day" for the purpose of terminating national emergencies. This is meaningful because Trump used a national emergency to impose his controversial tariffs.
Politico described the vote as a “seismic” failure, but Benen said “it’s worth appreciating why.”
“First, this was a major setback for Trump, who expected the House chamber that he has effectively controlled for a year to back him up on his controversial trade tariffs agenda,” said Benen. “When that didn’t happen, it offered fresh evidence of an unpopular lame-duck president whose grip on Capitol Hill, even when his own party is in control, is clearly loosening.”
Secondly, Benen said this embarrassing vote “clearly didn’t do the House speaker any favors.”
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Johnson is yet one more disgrace to the United States!
Joe Rogan: Migrants Deserve “Some Kind Of Amnesty”
"Wow? Really?
God it is insulting that this mouth breather has the following he does when he can’t think his way out of a wet paper bag.
He was so on-board with treating immigrants as scape goat scum to punch on until his last remaining neuron thought about the unbelievable cruelty and unfairness in how we do immigration in this country and he tripped into empathy.
Couldn’t have had this eureka moment while he was salivating over Trump’s stench of manliness, no." — Cerberus137 (comments)
"This troglodyte should get no credit for his new stance. It's not born of a new moral compass but rather revenue preservation. He sees the way the wind is blowing and wants to keep his gravy train." — rickwla (comments)
"Oh please. You facilitated this mess.
You figuratively fellated the Orange Metastasis at every turn.
You enabled a rapist/misogynist/felon/xenophobe.
You cheered him on.
You placated and glazed him at every opportunity
You thought he was "authentic."
You and the other Pod Bros lapped up his every insult and smear as if Mana from Heaven while claiming he's "joking" and people should "get over it."
And now you want to appear reasonable or, dare one say, charitable towards Migrants?
White Trash Roid Raging Bum Boy Please!" — Jean-Marc Canada (comments)
"Maybe you should have been saying shit like that in 2024, instead of helping to elect a fascist, orange shitgibbon." -- MargaretPOA (comments)
"So the bros have figured out who builds the buildings and paves the roads, who picks the produce and packs the meat, who cooks the food and cleans up in the hotels and restaurants, and who takes care of the sick and elderly. And now they realize their mistake." — John30013 (comments)
"Still worth granting them full citizenship. Having an 'illegal' underclass distorts the system." — The_Wretched (comments)
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The Trump Nazis don't want a system. They want to dictate like a Nazi does!
Tell us something we don't know. Only a sick tyrant like Dumbo would do what is being done to immigrants.
Bondi Confronted For Hiring Convicted Capitol Rioter
REP. JOE NEGUSE: “Attorney General Bondi, that man works for you now.”
PAM BONDI: “Who was that, congressman?”
NEGUSE: “The man in that video, the one who was in the police worn body cam footage, the one allegedly yelling “kill them” at police officers on January 6th, his name is Jared Wise.”
BONDI: “He does work for us.”
NEGUSE: “He works for you at the Department of Justice.”
BONDI: “Yes, he does.”
NEGUSE: “This is an individual whom a federal grand jury indicted for two felonies and four misdemeanors related to his participation in the attack on January 6th. One of those charges was forcibly assaulting, resisting, opposing, impeding, intimidating, and interfering with police with the intent to commit another felony. This is who you choose, as the chief law enforcement officer of the United States of America, to hire at the Department of Justice. Someone on video yelling “kill him” at police officers? Right?”
BONDI: “I believe he was pardoned by President Trump.”
NEGUSE: “Oh, he was PARDONED! You’re right. Pardoned by President Trump for his offense, pardoned for yelling kill him at police officers. And yet you expect hardworking police officers across the country to believe that you take law enforcement seriously. You could imagine the reaction of so many folks across the county. The chief law enforcement officer of the United States, refuses to even condemn what that individual whom you’ve now hired did. But in any event, let’s talk a little bit about some of the other divisions within the Department of Justice and what’s happened over the last year. You’re familiar with the public integrity section of the DOJ’s criminal division. I think it’s referred to as PIN. Do you know which presidential administration under which the PIN was first created?”
BONDI: “I can tell you what administration that the weaponization was ended under.”
NEGUSE: “I’ll reclaim my time. This wasn’t a trick question.”
BONDI: “You don’t get to reclaim your time!”
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Really? Then our next Constitutional Amendment must be "No convicted felon may be permitted to be POTUS!"
The convicted felon does nothing but pardon convicted felons! Where's the justice in this, pray tell.
And Bondi has zero public integrity.
Idiot US Attorney Judge Boxwine Actually Tried To Indict Mark Kelly And Pals Yesterday — Evan Hurst
Oh. My. Fucking. God.
Print this one out and put it on your bathroom mirror and in your manifesting journal and wherever you need to put it on those days when you need a reminder that our fascists and Nazis are THE MOST INCOMPETENT FUCKING FASCISTS AND NAZIS IN THE HISTORY OF GOD’S ENTIRE GREEN EARTH.
So y’all know how US Attorney Judge Jeanine Boxwine Pirro, Esq. has been having a real hard time getting DC grand juries to sign her indictments? It is largely because she is an incompetent fool Fox News personality who keeps bringing them fake crimes, and the grand juries keep saying “LOL!” and making wine-sloshing motions at each other and telling her to fuck off.
It’s mostly been Boxwine trying to indict peaceful protesters for failing to suck Nazi and ICE cock and say thank you for all the fascism, sir yes sir. They say grand juries will indict a ham sandwich, but not when this dumb dickhole is makin’ them!
But this? This? Is a whole ‘nother level of hilarious dumbass behavior emanating from the wine bar at the US attorney’s office in Washington DC.
It was reported last night that Boxwine literally actually tried to indict Sens. Mark Kelly and Elissa Slotkin, and Reps. Jason Crow, Maggie Goodlander, Chrissy Houlahan, and Chris DeLuzio, for making that video where they simply read the law out loud and reminded active duty servicemembers and those working in the intelligence community that they are required BY LAW! to refuse to obey illegal orders from any petty little bitch tyrants who happen to give them.
Boxwine did that. Boxwine did that yesterday.
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What happens when retarded are appointed to jobs for humans with brains.
Law Firm Sacks Hundreds of Employees Amid Pivot to AI — Frank Landymore
The Chicago based multinational law firm Baker McKenzie is laying off up to a thousand employees as part of its pivot to embracing AI, the legal hub RollOnFriday reports.
In what might be an augury of how further AI related cuts could sweep other industries, it’s not the lawyers getting the axe, but instead hundreds of their support staff. These include “dozens of roles in London and Belfast,” and hundreds across functions including know-how, research, marketing, and secretarial, according to the reporting....
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Doom is well on its way!
Fear Grows That AI Is Permanently Eliminating Jobs — Joe Wilkins
In 2026, the grim comedy of late capitalism seems to have found a perfect punchline: workers laid off in a dismal job market are now being hired to train AI systems meant to replace them altogether.
If a great AI replacement ever comes to pass, the scale of potential displacement is massive. MIT researchers recently calculated that today’s AI systems could already automate tasks performed by more than 20 million American workers, or about 11.7 percent of the entire US labor force.
And things are looking tangibly grim: in January, the total number of job cuts exceeded even 2009, when the country was still roiling from the great recession.
That being the case, it’s no surprise that workers are worried — and not just about their immediate employment prospects. The anxiety is evolving into something deeper, the result of AI’s seemingly rapidly expanding intelligence....
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First the jobs, then humanity!
RFK Jr.'s MAHA weirdos can't quit their horse dewormer fetish
Ready to run it back and kick it old school like it’s 2020? Let’s welcome back our old pal, ivermectin, everybody!
Yeah, if you thought we left horse paste dewormer on the ash heap of history, think again. This time, it’s not being pushed as effective against COVID, which makes sense because conservatives have largely abandoned the belief that COVID was a real threat, warping it instead into being the product of nefarious actions by China. However, it seems conservatives just cannot get enough of the notion that a horse dewormer is the secret fix to all health ills...."
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Did they forget drinking straight bleach was the best thing for them?
Jesse Watters Can’t Understand Why His Neighbor Called Him A Fascist — Newsound Ellen
Jesse Watters started whining on Fox’s The Five show about an encounter with a driver while walking down his street. "I give him a wave because he was a neighbor, I thought, and all of a sudden, he passes me, screeches on the brakes, rolls down the window, and says, ‘F-you, fascist!’” Watters said.
Instead of denying being a fascist, Watters exclaimed, “I'm thinking to myself, like, how does – he doesn’t know I'm a fascist!”
“Yes he does, you're on TV,” liberal cohost Jessica Tarlov reminded him.
“Do I come across as a fascist?” Watters asked.
“Yes!” Tarlov said.
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ROTFLMAO! Wow! Those under eye bags are getting pretty bad, Jess!
ICE Is Expanding Rapidly Near Major Metro Areas. Why The Secrecy? — Susie Madrak
So I'm horribly fascinated by this investigative piece that WIRED dropped yesterday:
Federal records obtained by WIRED show that over the past several months, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have carried out a secret campaign to expand ICE’s physical presence across the US. Documents show that more than 150 leases and office expansions have or would place new facilities in nearly every state, many of them in or just outside of the country’s largest metropolitan areas. In many cases, these facilities, which are to be used by street-level agents and ICE attorneys, are located near elementary schools, medical offices, places of worship, and other sensitive locations.
Interesting, right?
In numerous emails and memorandums viewed by WIRED, DHS asked GSA explicitly to disregard usual government lease procurement procedures and even hide lease listings due to “national security concerns” in an effort to support ICE’s immigration enforcement activities across the US.
So they don't want people to know in time to organize support, and it also seems to indicate that ICE plans to be a larger presence in every metro area for a very long time. (Oh, and a GSA flack says this: “GSA is following all lease procurement procedures in accordance with all applicable laws and regulations.” Uh huh.)
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Trump Law and our Constitution are at war! He's trying to kill it! Down with Trump!
Trump DOJ Fails To Indict Democrats Over Illegal Orders Video — Newshound Ellen
You may recall that Sen. Elissa Slotkin, Sen. Mark Kelly and four Democratic representatives were targeted by Donald Trump for making a video advising servicemembers they have a duty not to obey illegal orders. Felon Trump was so triggered by it, he accused the six of “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!”
Despite acting U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s attempts to charge the six with seditious conspiracy for urging people to follow the law, the only punishment likely to be imposed is one on Trump’s DOJ when the Democrats sue.
Carol Leonnig, senior investigative reporter for MS Now, talked with host Chris Hayes about Pirro’s grand fail.
“I’ve got to say, the number of times now that the Justice Department has sought to bring charges against people Donald Trump has targeted personally for criminal prosecution and failed is really growing,” Leonnig said. “The grand jury says that government did not even meet the low bar, a very low bar to bring charges.”
Leonnig called it “wholly unprecedented” that a prosecutor would open an investigation and go before a grand jury within a few weeks in order to try to indict six members of Congress just because Felonious Trump had a temper tantrum over their video.
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The U.S. Constitution wins another round!
Trump’s brutish tactics prove he’s not a good Christian: analysis — Thomas Kika
Donald Trump's forceful and brutish handling of his foreign and domestic policies saw him likened to a "pagan king" in a new analysis in The New York Times, with documentary filmmaker Leighton Woodhouse arguing that he has abandoned the true ideals at the heart of "Christian values."
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Who, in their right mind, would consider Trump a "Christian?"
GOP Rep: I’m Contacting The FCC Because Bad Bunny Was Worse Than Janet Jackson’s Wardrobe Malfunction
"Stop playing stupid and get one of the millions of Americans who speak Spanish to translate it. All you're doing now is acting like a common degenerate MAGAt by spreading fake news and fascist hysteria!" — weshlovrcm (comments)
"Hey Alford go fuck yourself, you have been added to the list dick head." — Thewolflam (comments)
"Didn't watch the entire performance. And doesn't know what was said because he doesn't speak the language that it was performed in.
But still upset enough to believe that this is what the US House of Representatives should be concerned with at this particular moment in our history.
That's some grade-A bullshit, right there." — unsavedheathen (comments)
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This fucker supports murders of American citizens and then pukes up this shit! Fuck him and every Trump racist back to HELL!
These retarded motherfuckers just LOVE saying the words "Bad Bunny!"
Sick SICK SICK inhuman monsters!
Bunny is an American citizen! We have a First Amendment! Fine, you are shitting all over it!
Governors Cancel WH Meeting After Dems Excluded
NPR reports:
An annual meeting of the nation’s governors that has long served as a rare bipartisan gathering is unraveling after President Donald Trump excluded Democratic governors from White House events.
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The government of our country is corrupt! Remove it!
Trump Endorses Scandal-Plagued GOP Rep. Cory Mills
The Daytona Beach News-Journal reports:
President Donald Trump threw his weight behind seven Republican incumbent members of the U.S. House, including scandal-plagued Cory Mills of New Smyrna Beach, on Tuesday, Feb. 10.
"Trump: "A corrupted and compromised candidate. He'll fit in very well." — JackFknTwist (comments)
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The pig recognizes one of his own.
FDA Refuses To Review Moderna’s First mRNA Flu Vax
The Washington Post reports:
The Food and Drug Administration has declined to review Moderna’s application for the first mRNA-based flu vaccine, a decision that shocked the company and that comes as the agency plans to tighten federal vaccine approvals.
"Remember when Sarah Palin claimed that the democrats would create death panels if elected?
The good ole days…" — Fearsome Beard (comments)
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Unequivocal proof that the Trump Criminal Syndicate is retarded to the nth degree!
Fuck these mean-as-the-Devil dumbass tyrants!
Just A Few Days Before Concentration Camps Go Broke! — Jonathen Larsen
Without a deal, funding for ICE concentration camps could run out on Friday and then maybe we'd have to, like, not have them
...Funding for the Department of Homeland (sic) Security (DHS) runs out at midnight Friday (they have a lot in the piggy bank, though). Without a new funding bill, the DHS, America’s lead agency for (doing) domestic terrorism, will ostensibly get no more cash as of Valentine’s Day, a token of love for justice....
We don’t need Democrats to take DHS masks off. We need Democrats to put on their armor and take a stand against fear. Fear of crime when it’s at historic lows. Fear of terrorism when the real terrorists get presidential pardons. Fear of immigrants who make us safer and more prosperous.
Until Democrats start dismantling the Play-Doh Fear Factory they helped build, it’s pointless to squabble over which shape of goo to extrude....
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Shove them where the sun don't shine!
Kid Rock Has Some 'Splainin' To Do About TPUSA Event — John Amato
Is it surprising a man supporting pedophilia is the hero of MAGA's alternate Super Bowl halftime show?
..."This may be the worst lip-syncing performance in history.
I am in tears at how badly Kid Rock is lip syncing. ?
It really is perfect though. A perfect representation of how inept MAGA actually are." — Jon Stewart
Jon Stewart did a nifty job deconstructing this event over the outrage of a US Citizen, Bad Bunny's performance at Super Bowl VL.
But watching Kid Rock humiliate himself by not being able to keep up with the lyrics of his own song that he was supposed to be lip-syncing to was perrrrfect.
This may be the worst lip-syncing performance in history.
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Megyn Kelly was in tears! Sob! Sob!
Trump’s SuperPredator Billionaires Step Outta The Shadows
Donald Trump isn’t a lone wolf. He’s a front man. Behind him—all around him—Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Howard Lutnick, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg...Superpredators. And of course, tying them all together, there was Jeffrey Epstein...
For years, we’ve been sold a comforting fairy tale: America’s worst predators come in different species. There are those predators; sex traffickers, monsters, villains in Netflix docs. And these predators; respectable ones in fleece vests who “optimize” companies, “disrupt” democracy, and somehow always end up with your pension in their carry-on.
The truth is much simpler and more wicked: when you believe rules are for other people, you stop distinguishing between crimes. People become inputs. Bodies become commodities. Democracy an inconvenience. Monopolies fund ICE. Billionaires sponsor child rape.
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Scumbags.
Raskin: Trump’s In Epstein Files Over One Million Times
Axios reports:
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) told Axios in an interview Tuesday that, when he searched President Trump’s name in the unredacted Epstein files the previous day, it came up “more than a million times.” At least one of the files Raskin found appears to contradict what Trump has publicly claimed about his association with Jeffrey Epstein, according to the House Judiciary Committee ranking member.
“Trump is paraphrased and quoted as saying, ‘No, Jeffrey Epstein was not a member of Mar-a-Lago, but he was a guest at Mar-a-Lago, and no, we never asked him to leave,'” Raskin said in an interview at the Capitol. Trump has denied all wrongdoing in the Epstein matter, and maintained that he kicked Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago for poaching spa workers. Lawmakers have access to the files on terminals at DOJ headquarters from 9am to 6pm ET, Monday through Friday....
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We all know that Trump is a pathological liar!
'Klanhood and slave patrol': DHS leaders silent as accused of 'great evil' — Nicole Charky-Chami
A lawmaker Tuesday warned Department of Homeland Security leaders that they would face justice following the deaths of American citizens and unlawful behavior by federal agents.
Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-IL) had a serious message for the heads of the agencies responsible for carrying out the Trump administration's harsh immigration tactics and mass deportation policy during a hearing where leaders were testifying ahead of a looming DHS funding deadline.
"My mother, a Guatemalan immigrant and an American, taught me that I have a responsibility to look evil in the eye and to fight it," Ramirez said.
She called out ICE Director Todd Lyons, Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Joseph Edlow, speaking directly to the three men testifying before congressional leaders.
"You have used your power to perpetrate great evil. And it's about time you answer to this committee for the lawlessness that you've empowered and defended in your testimony," Ramirez said....
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Justice is coming for you bastards!
JAGs Shouldn’t Be Civilian Prosecutors — Mark Hertling
DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY lawyer Julie Le apparently spoke for many of her colleagues when she told a federal judge last week, “The system sucks. This job sucks.” The Trump administration’s campaign of mass deportations has, intentionally or otherwise, overwhelmed the legal system. In the Department of Justice, experienced federal prosecutors have been resigning in droves. Those who remain are, like Le, expressing their exhaustion and ethical and legal concerns about how they’re being instructed to handle cases (though not always as spectacularly as Le did)....
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This is the Trump plan: Get so many lawsuits filed against his lawlessness that our legal system collapes. It's very plain to see this.
Fifth Circuit Has New Legal Idea, It Is That Any Non-Citizen Can Be Locked Up Forever — Gary Legum
Has anyone in America ever loved anything as much as today’s wingnuts love locking immigrants up in detention camps? And we ask this knowing full well that Americans love lots of terrible things. Guns. Racism. TV shows created by Dick Wolf.
The latest step on the nation’s road to ignoring whatever lessons were available to us after the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II came about on Friday night. That was when a three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals released a ruling stating that everyone had been interpreting a particular aspect of federal immigration law incorrectly since 1996. And when we say everyone, we mean five presidents (including Donald Trump in his first term), immigration attorneys, the entire immigration apparatus of the federal government, and the vast, vast number of federal judges who have looked at the issue over the last year. Including Trump appointees!...
This new interpretation of the law is also how you have such an insane backlog of habeas petitions being filed in federal courts that a government lawyer all but broke down in front of a judge last week over her insane workload. Combine that, all the extra millions of people who are suddenly eligible for mandatory detention, and immigration authorities refusing to follow court orders as a matter of course, and you go a large way towards explaining the current nightmare.
If this new legal position sounds ridiculous, that’s because it is. And vast numbers of judges have seen it that way — 160 judges in about 50 courts across the US, according to a count compiled by a district court judge for a decision in November. That judge also found that “[o]nly in a dozen of 362 cases identified did the district court judges side with the Trump administration.”
By another compilation, this one from Politico, “at least 360 judges rejected the expanded detention strategy — in more than 3,000 cases — while just 27 backed it in about 130 cases.”
Even Trump appointees have rejected the government’s argument over and over. Yet somehow, two wingnuts on the Fifth Circuit (it was a 2-1 decision) have discovered that they are right and everyone else is wrong, neener neener.
The decision was written by Edith Jones and Kyle Duncan, two hard-right nutters who love to fuck up what should be easy decisions under precedent and black-letter law if it helps usher in the right-wing vision of turning America into a racially pure Gilead....
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Fuck this fascist filth!
UH OH, FOUND A NAUGHTY BAD BUNNY SONG. Tabs, Tues., Feb. 10, 2026 — Evan Hurst
Morning!
OUR BAD. Turns out Bad Bunny does have a naughty gross song lyric we should all acknowledge. It goes:
Jovencitas, jovencitas, me gustan menores de edad, ¿ves?
Algunos dicen que es obligatorio (pero yo digo que es obligatorio).
And in English that is:
“Young ladies, young ladies, I like ‘em underage, see
Some say that’s statutory (But I say it’s mandatory)”
OH DARNIT FUCK SHIT CHRIST, we screwed up, that is not Bad Bunny!
You see, we put the Kid Rock lyric about touching little girls from his song “Cool, Daddy Cool,” into the Google Translate machine to see what it would sound like in Spanish! Why? Because we thought it would be funny. So those lyrics are gross disgusting Kid Rock pedo lyrics, in Spanish. Use it in comments sections as you will. Ask MAGA losers if they have heard the Bad Bunny song “Jovencitas,” and then smack the shit out of them with the truth when they least expect it.
Ha ha! ...
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Eat it, Nazis!
Clown Car Presidency’: Trump Mocked After Threatening Canada in Social Media Meltdown — Carl Gibson
..."Canada owns the Gordie Howe Bridge because Canadians paid for its construction," former broadcaster Michael Leach tweeted. "... The clown car presidency continues. At what point does congress throw these crooks out."
"Trump negates our trade pacts with Canada and is now upset that it is making deals with other countries," economist Dean Baker wrote. "It's sort of like the guy who breaks up with his girlfriend and then gets upset that she starts going out with a much cooler dude."
"The Gordie Howe Bridge is an incredibly important infrastructure project for Michigan. President Trump's threat tonight to tank it is awful for our state's economy. Canceling this project will have serious repercussions. Higher costs for Michigan businesses, less secure supply chains, and ultimately, fewer jobs," Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) wrote on X. "With this threat, the President is punishing Michiganders for a trade war he started. The only reason Canada is on the verge of a trade deal with China is because President Trump has kicked them in the teeth for a year."
"The Gordie Howe Bridge was built by union workers on both sides of the border. This border is the busiest crossing between our two countries, and has been critical for not only Michigan jobs but also American jobs. Not to mention Canada paid for this bridge," Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) tweeted. "This bridge was negotiated by a Republican Governor, and in 2017 Trump endorsed the bridge calling it a 'vital economic link between our two countries.' Nothing has changed. We cannot forget Canada is our friend and ally. We have to stop these cheap shots. It helps no one, and it especially hurts our economy."
"At this point, this kind of rambling nonsense is expected," former journalist Chris Hofley wrote. "But come on. A constant, global embarrassment. Hard to imagine stepping foot in that country anytime soon. Or ever again."
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Everything Trump touches dies.
‘Statistics Are Human Beings With the Tears Wiped Away’: Silicosis, Dead Workers, and Corporate Greed — Les Leopold
Those who cut our artificial stone countertops are breathing in silica dust and dying. Not just a few. In fact, so many that in Australia they’ve banned the product and adopted safer substitutes. In the US, however, the industry wants to ban workers from suing the manufacturers and Republicans are doing their bidding, introducing H.R. 5437, The Protection of Lawful Commerce in Stone Slab Products Act.
Dr. David Michaels, the former head of OSHA, points us to California’s tearless Silicosis Surveillance Dashboard: 511 cases of silicosis have been diagnosed among these workers; 29 have died (average age 46); 54 underwent lung transplants; and 98 percent of these workers are Latino.
In 2021, there were only two diagnosed silicosis cases in California. In 2025 there were 214. “The number of cases is rising rapidly,” Dr. Michaels wrote to me, “That’s the important point.”
Here’s the more tearful description form Dr. Michaels during testimony last month before the House:
The hallmarks of the disease: shortness of breath and diminished exercise capacity that progresses to an inability to climb even one flight of stairs. A short walk that should take just 20 minutes can take an hour. Working is difficult or impossible. People cough incessantly. They can’t sleep because it is difficult to breathe and they are kept awake coughing. Over time, people with more advanced silicosis require supplemental oxygen and can’t leave home without an oxygen tank. And they are at increased risk of dying from lung cancer....
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If you think Republicans or corporations give a shit you'd better think one more time about the fascism that permeates the scoundrels!
The NFL Is “Socialist” on Purpose, and It Exposes Republican Economic Stupidity — Thom Hartmann
Last night’s NFL Super Bowl game was great. The guys wearing blue beat the guys wearing red, and Bad Bunny and Lady Gaga made MAGA snowflakes cry.
But the NFL can also teach Americans a huge lesson about economics, “socialism,” and the differences between Republican “free market” nuts and FDR’s re-regulation of the American economy that created the largest middle class in history and the first in the world to include more than half of a nation’s citizens.
Most Americans would be highly offended, for example, if the NFL took big bucks from Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg or somebody like these monopolists to change the rules so whichever team gave the League the most money could have an extra three players on the field at all times.
But that’s pretty much exactly what Reaganomics and deregulation have brought us in our marketplaces; it’s the staggering difficulty that every small business in America faces today in the form of massive corporations like Walmart, Facebook, X, Google, and Amazon.
For capitalism to work in a way that doesn’t produce oligarchs and monopolies, it must be regulated. Capitalism, after all, is just a game that people play using money and mutually agreed-upon rules. Just like football....
The choice in front of us is simple. We can keep pretending that letting billionaires write the political and economic rules and own the media is “freedom,” or we can remember that a fair game is what freedom actually looks like.
Because when the rules only work for the owners, the rest of us aren’t players anymore. We’re just there to watch, pay, and lose what little we have so the billionaires can buy another super-yacht.
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Anti-Them: A Joyful Colonial At the Heart of Empire — Abby Zimet
...Inexplicably impressed, dumb Tommy Tuberville wrote, "Roger 'Woke' Goodell better be taking notes, because millions of Americans would rather hear good music from these patriots instead of anti-American propaganda from Bad Rabbit or whatever his name is." Many disagreed: "It was literally tens of people," "It was painfully long," "It was everything and nothing all at once," "It was like watching goldfish in a glass fishbowl, just swimming back and forth, in circles, in their own shit," "It was the definition of trying too hard," "Bless their hearts," and, "Holy fuck these people are cringe." One die-hard called it "a massive victory for TPUSA," Megyn Kelly wept from "a stunningly powerful" tribute to Charlie Kirk, and about five million people watched it all. An estimated, record 135 million watched Bad Bunny, and millions more later streamed it, even though he sowed hatred by singing in Spanish, the first language for over 50 million Americans, who also speak about 400 other languages at home.
Bad Bunny, many felt, brought joy, exuberance, a reminder of "what the American dream really looks like," of "who we are, or at least can be," of "what America looks like when we are not afraid of each other." "He simply showed his humanity," said one fan, "and reminded us of our own." There were watch parties, said another, because, "I'll be damned if I let fear take my joy away." And while Latinos have been losing socio-economic wars for years, by defiantly arguing on America's biggest stage there's something better than the right wing's hate, "Culturally, we're winning." Bad Bunny closed by saying, "God bless America." Then, flanked by dancers carrying jubilant flags, they strode forward as he recited all the names, one by one, of the Hemisphere, the hard-fought-after Americas, South, North, Central, ending with the United States, Canada, and "Mi patria, Puerto Rico. Seguimos aquí.” My homeland, Puerto Rico. We are still here." Finally, he spiked a football. It read, “TOGETHER, WE ARE AMERICA.”
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Apparently, Tommy Tommy didn't read the ratings numbers. Megyn Kelly was crying because it was so flat stupid. That all figures.
Jeanine Pirro Moves To Erase Steve Bannon's Conviction For Defying Jan. 6 Committee — David Edwards
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Erase thyself, "Winebox."
Stephen Miller Busted Blaming Biden For Sex Trafficking That Happened Under Trump — David Edwards
White House adviser Stephen Miller suggested former President Joe Biden was to blame for a sex trafficking case that happened during President Donald Trump's second term.
On Monday, Miller responded to a Daily Wire reporter's account of a teenage child who crossed the border in January with the alleged help of an Alaska sex offender named Douglas Price, who was arrested on Sunday.
"The Biden Administration facilitated mass child sex trafficking," Miller wrote. "ICE is now shutting it down and saving countless lives."
Proposed community notes on X observed that the incident occurred under the Trump administration.
"The child crossed the border on Jan. 16, 2026, after Trump's Jan. 20, 2025, inauguration. Suspect charged Jan. 29, 2026; arrested Feb. 1, 2026. ICE/HSI probe credits Trump's enhanced vetting," the correction stated.
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This is to be expected from our own Heinrich Müller.
Burchett: The “Slippery Evil” Clintons Belong In Prison
"It's been 10 years since Hillary lost and 25 years since Bill left office and the GOP is still obsessed with them." -- archiveit (comments)
"Four words: 'thirty-four felony convictions'" -- Buford (comments)
"Let me guess, you voted for the serial adulterer who's in the Epstein files over 38,000 times and was convicted of sexual assault." -- kal61678 (comments)
"Tennessee Republicans are becoming increasingly partisan, belligerent, willfully ignorant, and dishonest, just like their forbearers who joined the Confederate traitors during the American Civil War." -- amy cuscuriae (comments)
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Hmmm. Seems to me he's missing the evil that is his own party.
Distraction. Pay no attention to that man who is really destroying our country.
Donald Trump’s disapproval rating breaks new record
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His administration is not protecting American citizens. In fact, his punitve goverment is attacking all of us and our Constitution!
I Signed Up for AI.com After Seeing the Super Bowl Ad, and Instantly Regretted It
The site will eventually create personal AI agents for you. But it takes no responsibility for anything your agents do, even if they commit crimes. The fine print is downright scary.
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More AI garbage.
GOP Rep Demands Federal Probe Into NFL And NBC Over “Explicit Gay Sexual Acts And Glorifying Sodomy”
"Who thought that a 13-minute entertainment could become a Rorschach test for attention-starved bigots? Bad Bunny for the win." -- CB (coments)
"YOU HAVE A CHILD RAPIST IN THE WHITE HOUSE! GO FUCK YOURSELVES!" — Crooner63 (comments)
"'Children were forced to endure explicit displays of gay sexual acts'
Really? I guess I should have watched the halftime show.
'women gyrating provocatively'
So Ogles wants to ban cheerleaders, pretty much all female music videos and strip clubs?
'and Bad Bunny shamelessly grabbing his crotch while dry-humping the air.'
Like Michael Jackson did in the last century? Like macho baseball players do because they are real he men (bonus: even the Latino ones), like that?
'And if that weren’t outrageous enough, the performance’s lyrics openly glorified sodomy and countless other unspeakable depravities.'
So Ogles is bilingual? I guess the singing in Spanish wasn't really a hindrance. Oh and what unspeakable depravities? Like sex with underage females which is part of Kid Rock's lyrics?" — DaddySnark (comments)
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They said the same shit about Elvis. The retarded never change!
This child has led a sheltered life! He obviously is starved for attention in a failing career choice.
Turning Point Endorses Serial Adulterer For US Senate
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Racist Nazi clique. The same clique that brought you the "Alternatice Reality Halftime Show!"
They are talking about "Old Ragged Eye!"
Walsh: The NFL Is “On A Mission To Exclude Whites”
Bullshit, bullshit, bullshit, bullshit, bullshit, bullshit, bullshit....
And more racist bullshit!
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This asswhole didn't watch. If he had, he would have seen the American flag being displayed. He is simply a hater. And here's a clue for the hater: "LOVE IS MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE!br>
Gutfeld Wants Live Circumcision At Next Halftime Show
“What about the Jews? Okay? There are twice as many Jews in the United States. Where is the Jewish halftime? Where are the dancing accountants? The men slinging pastrami, the Jewish mothers telling you to get a sweater on.
“And then you cap it off with a live circumcision right at the 50-yard line, and if you like, you can burn it down and then claim it as insurance, but I wouldn’t do that because that seems like a stereotype.
“My point being, it seems like kind of a big deal, considering that twice as many Puerto Ricans are in the United States as in Puerto Rico. So if the culture is so amazing, why are you coming here and what did you leave behind?” – Greg Gutfeld.
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Unlike your Trump God, he left behind unification of the Americas. From it's tip at the bottom of South America to tip of our top!
Gutless would rather watch Jews getting gassed and incinerated in his Nazi ovens!
Talk about self-loathing!
Kid Rock Denies Lip-Syncing At Turning Point Show
The Detroit News reports:
Kid Rock is denying reports that his performance at Sunday’s “All American Halftime Show” was lip-synced, but in doing so he admitted that the show was pre-taped. During an appearance on Fox News Monday, Rock told host Laura Ingraham that when he initially saw playback of the performance, he too noticed his vocals appeared out of sync.
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Their whole world is out of synch.
FPF complaint targets prosecutor over Washington Post reporter raid — Common Dreams
The following statement can be attributed to Seth Stern, chief of advocacy for FPF:
“Kromberg and the government omitted a federal law that should have prohibited the raid of Hannah Natanson’s home when applying for a search warrant. That choice now threatens to expose Natanson’s sources and cripple her ability to report, while also sending a warning shot to journalists and whistleblowers nationwide.
“Disciplinary bodies cannot look the other way and ignore misconduct that threatens the First Amendment, particularly from an administration with a long history of misleading judges and everyone else. When prosecutors abuse their power to facilitate efforts to silence reporting and intimidate news sources, disciplinary authorities must hold them accountable and impose real consequences.”
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Life in a fascist America.
Benny Johnson: Bad Bunny Show Was Border Invasion
"U.S. citizenship for individuals residing in Puerto Rico carries many of the same rights and responsibilities as for those in the states. Puerto Ricans can move throughout the 50 states just as any other Americans can, which is legally considered internal migration rather than immigration. Additionally, Puerto Rican citizens are eligible for federal employment and military service. Most men between the ages of 18 and 26 residing in Puerto Rico are required to register for the Selective Service."
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Another hateful retard that doesn't know Puerto Ricans are American citizens!
DOJ Moves To Erase Steve Bannon’s Felony Conviction
Politico reports:
The Justice Department is seeking to erase the criminal conviction of longtime Trump adviser Steve Bannon for defying a 2021 subpoena from congressional investigators probing his role in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
In a motion signed by U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro — and without the signature of any career prosecutors — the Justice Department asked U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols to dismiss the two-count indictment that DOJ brought against Bannon more than four years ago. Nichols, a Trump appointee, presided over a week-long jury trial of Bannon in 2022 that resulted in his conviction on criminal contempt charges.
The end of the case is, in some ways, symbolic. Bannon already served a four-month prison sentence in 2024 for his conviction on the charges. But he has appealed his conviction to the Supreme Court, which was awaiting a response from the Justice Department before Monday’s move by Pirro. If Nichols grants the motion to dismiss, it would likely end the pending Supreme Court case and erase Bannon’s jury conviction.
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The Department of Jerkoffs is cleaning the felony records of some of America's biggest criminals!
GOP Rep Thanks Jesus For Sending Trump To Save America From “Blasphemy, Homosexuality, Perversion”
GOP Rep. Brian Babin, at the National Day Of Repentance at the Museum of the Bible, which was founded by a billionaire Trump megadonor....
The annual event is organized by the anti-LGBTQ hate group, the Family Research Council. In 2023, Babin co-founded the House Family Caucus because “the left aims to abolish the natural family.” Of note, Babin is chair of the House Science Committee. He was followed by GOP Rep. Randy Weber, who sobbed as he begged Jesus to spare America for the grievous sin of same-sex marriage.
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Keep watch over this one. I suspect he is one of "those" pastors we read about consistently here!
Who Paid for the Super Bowl ICE Ad?
The commercial wasn’t the work of the Trump administration—or even a political candidate or a well-known advocacy organization. The pro-ICE advertisement was placed by a group called American Sovereignty, which is brand new, seems to be a nonprofit or political entity, and has almost no public presence—save for half-a-dozen tweets over the last couple weeks.
"ICE has one mission: to make America a safer place to live. And that’s what they’re doing.
THIS is law enforcement. THIS is ICE. pic.twitter.com/SyrWC1KHO1
— American Sovereignty (@AmSovereignty) January 31, 2026"...
Someone created a group (a nonprofit, a political action committee, or something similar) with basically no public presence except for a bland website and a few tweets. It has launched millions in pro-ICE ads, and, at least so far, no one behind the venture has been willing to talk about it.
Ideally, in a democracy, we’d know who is spending millions trying to change public opinion on the secret police. But, in the American system, that’s just not how it works.
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In our American system fascism never works! They will be uncovered and then run for the hills.
When will A.I. want to kill us?
A.I. is becoming smarter without much help from humans, and that should worry us all. Nate Soares, president of Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI), joins host Krys Boyd to discuss what happens when A.I. brain power surpasses what humans are capable of, why we don’t have the technology yet to understand what we’re building, and why everything will be just fine … until it isn’t. His book, co-written with Eliezer Yudkowsky, is “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All.”
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AI should be treated the very same as nuclear weapons have been treated. Otherwise, omnicide is not out of the question.
'Shivers down the spine': Expert vows to sue Trump if ICE plot moves forward — Ewan Gleadow
"We are facing an existential threat to democracy right now. Steve Bannon didn't just say that there would be ICE in cities, what Steve Bannon said is that it would be ICE surrounding the polls. The images we saw in Minneapolis where they surrounded cars, where they surrounded peaceful protestors, where they surrounded US citizens, and we know in the tragic instances, what that meant for those individuals."
The Dem lawmaker added, "Is it legal? No. It would be totally illegal. But honestly, look at the images we have seen ICE do. They're breaking all kinds of laws, they're breaking laws every single day....
"What, though, is going to stop this is not some law in a book on a dusty shelf, but it's going to stop because you and I are gonna call it out, everyone watching this is going to take this seriously."...
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We had all better be well armed when we make that call.
Bad Bunny halftime show exposed an uncomfortable truth for MAGA, analyst says — Sandra Miller
President Donald Trump’s furious reaction to Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show has highlighted a deeper identity crisis within the MAGA movement, according to political analyst Christopher Bucktin. While 113 million viewers tuned in to the Spanish-language performance, Trump allies retreated to a Kid Rock event, underscoring MAGA’s cultural isolation. Bucktin argues Trump’s rambling attack on the Puerto Rican artist—an American citizen—revealed a movement increasingly out of step with the country it claims to represent, turning a pop culture moment into a stress test MAGA may not survive.
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There will be no tears shed over the passing of the Trump lunacy.
Bill Kristol: MAGA's Grievance Culture -- Tim Miller
"Trump of course hated Bad Bunny's halftime performance, but even he wasn't running the Turning Point alternative at Mar-a-Lago. And a couple of Olympic skiers expressing disapproval of ICE or calling for love and respect for immigrants and their fellow Americans sent MAGA into hyperdrive—with calls for the athletes to be denaturalized and deported. Meanwhile, Kash Patel stopped an investigation into the killing of Renee Good because it could make Trump look bad, and this is the week for Dems to stay on offense over the DHS funding bill. Plus, Jon Ossoff hit the right notes in a key speech in Georgia, the National Review is reporting on Trump's corruption, Lutnick did George Costanza-grade lying over his business ties to Epstein, and no, Tim is not running for Senate."
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"...sent MAGA into hyperdrive—with calls for the athletes to be denaturalized and deported."
What caused some people of the US turn into fascist Nazi pieces of shit? Or were they always this retarded?
Texas attorney general candidate says if he wins, he’d try to revoke Democratic leader Gene Wu’s citizenship — Alejandro Serrano
Aaron Reitz, who is running for Texas attorney general, issued the threat after an interview of Wu was shared online of him discussing non-white voting strength.
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More rascist and lawless Nazi threats. That will not be tolerated, dude!
RE-ELECT GENE WU! DEPORT REITZ!
Trump’s Fuel Embargo Forces Cuba to Take Emergency Steps to Avert Catastrophe — Jake Johnson
The Trump administration’s decision to tighten the decades long US stranglehold on the Cuban economy by depriving the island nation of its largest source of oil has plunged the country into a rapidly worsening energy crisis, forcing its government to take far-reaching emergency steps to avert catastrophe — from curbing transportation services to shortening work and school hours.
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I remember when the US helped people. Now all we do is punish people. It is unsustainable and will result in a catastrophe for our country.
Inside the Right-Wing Movement Pushing Alberta to Secede From Canada — Nora Loreto
Behind its rallying cry of faith, family, and freedom, the Alberta Prosperity Project wants a new constitution for Albertans — one “that recognizes the Supremacy of God as foundational to Civil Society and the Rule of Law.”...
British Columbia Premier David Eby reacted to this news by saying this to CBC: “If you are crossing a border to seek the support of a foreign government to break up our country because you don’t have the support and the resources and the ability within our own country to advance that conversation, and you’re asking the Americans or any other government, I mean that is the definition of treason.”
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NO! No more Nazi "God" Kings allowed here! Fuck off Canucks! Canadian military should occupy the province and install a provisional government!
Super Bowl Ad for Ring Cameras Touted AI Surveillance Network — Sharon Zhang
Ring’s AI-powered network is likely to be used in its partnerships with law enforcement and agencies like ICE.
In an ad during the Super Bowl on Sunday night, Amazon’s Ring touted the establishment of an AI-powered surveillance network through their camera systems, which the company whitewashed under a feel-good narrative about finding lost dogs.
The ad for Ring’s free “Search Party” program urges users to “be a hero” by using their surveillance cameras to help identify lost dogs in their neighborhood. It aired to millions of viewers during Super Bowl LX on Sunday night.
However, the attempt at telling a heartwarming story of reuniting dogs with their owners masks Ring’s true intentions of creating a nationwide surveillance system, analysts noted.
“It starts with searching for a ‘brown dog’ but means the tech is there for license plate reading, face recognition, searching for suspects by description, etc,” wrote surveillance and policing expert and scholar Matthew Guariglia on social media. “We already know they have a form cops can fill out to get access to footage without warrant or permission in an ‘emergency’ as determined by them. What will this mean for new features?”
Indeed, Ring has come under intense scrutiny for its collaboration with the criminal legal system, especially through its partnerships directly with police and with surveillance companies Flock and Axon, which grant law enforcement access to an enormous amount of information, including tracking of individuals, license plate recognition, and more....
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Big Brother will be watching you!
¡Viva La Puerto Rico!: Tabs, Mon., Feb. 9, 2026 — Marcie Jones
That Bad Bunny Super Bowl halftime show, OMG! Go watch it! Guess we got the NFL in the national divorce? (NFL)
Bad news, and it’s real bad: the Fifth Circuit has ruled against 30 years of precedent in favor of indefinite ICE detention, which more than 360 other judges have already rejected. And not just at the border, everywhere. Maybe SCOTUS will step in? Sad laugh. (Politico / Ruling)
Update to that whistleblower complaint that Tulsi Gabbard has allegedly been trying to bury: The superduper secret therein involves “two people associated with foreign intelligence who discussed someone close to Donald Trump.” And instead of following procedure and notifying Congress, Gabbard took the complaint to White House den mother Susie Wiles, and told the NSA not to publish the report. Shady! (The Guardian)
You can’t make this shit up: Will Lewis has resigned as CEO of the Washington Post, and been replaced by Jeff D’Onofrio, the former CEO of Tumblr. (NBC)
The FCC has opened up an investigation into “The View” for aggravated Being Mean to Trump. (JoeMyGod)
Homeland Security is now spying on Reddit users. (Ken Klippenstein)
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The Trump wave of shit rolling over a once decent USA! How can we put up with this NAZI SHITBAG?
JD Vance Wins Gold In Getting Booed By Entire World — Marcie Jones
Honey, are they saying “BOO-SHA”?
It’s Winter Olympics time again, this time in Milan and Cortina, Italy. And Friday was Wonkette’s favorite sporting event, collective booing of JD Vance! The most unpopular vice president in US history has been heartily booed in California, Cincinnati, in Boston by firefighters, in Vermont, at the Kennedy Center, in the Cotswolds, and probably some places we forgot. It seems the Italians don’t think much better of him!
When Vance and wife Usha were shown on the screen during the opening ceremonies and entrance of Team USA, boos and jeers broke out. And NBC censored it, for shame. We can’t embed the clip for copyright reasons, but here’s a link if you want to go listen to the boos that are not there on NBC. The network denies editing the clip.
Judge for yourself! And/or enjoy with us the booing heard all over the rest of the world!
Canada: “Oop! Those are a lot of boos for him!”
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The disgrace of the USA is very apparent on our planet thanks to the Trump crooks!
The Department of Homeland Security Is Demanding That Google Turn Over Information About Random Critics — Joe Wilkins
...The subpoena wasn’t approved by any judge, and it didn’t require probable cause. Google gave Jon just seven days to challenge it in federal court — not nearly enough time for someone without a crack team of lawyers on retainer. Even more maddeningly, neither Google nor DHS had sent him a copy of the subpoena itself, leaving Jon and his attorney in the dark.
When uniformed DHS agents did show up at Jon’s front door weeks later, they grilled him for over 20 minutes, pointing to his mentions of “Russian roulette” and the “Taliban” as suspicious. In the end, the field grunts — who had been dispatched by an anonymous official in Washington DC — agreed Jon hadn’t broken any laws.
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Nothing to see here but DHS criminal Nazi bastard Trump pigs that are lawless enemies of our beloved country!
Greg Bovino Kicked From Las Vegas Strip Bar — Ed Scarce
Whether Bovino was drunk and disorderly is unclear, but what is clear is that he helped facilitate at least two murders in Minneapolis.
...A statement reading from the business reading, in part:
"Bottled Blonde does not engage in political activity or affiliations. As a private business, Bottled Blonde reserves the right to refuse service to any patron at its discretion."
Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino was reportedly kicked out of Bottled Blonde on the Strip after being spotted drinking red wine days after his removal from Minneapolis operations.
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You mean they could see him standing taller than the bar? ROFLMAO!
Epstein Survivors Get Right In America's Face With Super Bowl Ad — Susie Madrak
In a strategically targeted move, Epstein survivors released a public service announcement during the Super Bowl yesterday, demanding that Pam Bondi release the remaining Epstein files.
The video was released in collaboration with World Without Exploitation, a human sex trafficking advocacy organization.
Bondi has faced mounting criticism over the DOJ’s handling of the disclosures. Last week, the department was forced to take down thousands of documents that may have identified victims, acknowledging that “technical or human error” had compromised the release. (Sure, Jan.)
“This latest release of Jeffrey Epstein files is being sold as transparency, but what it actually does is expose survivors,” Epstein survivors said in a statement last week. “Once again, survivors are having their names and identifying information exposed, while the men who abused us remain hidden and protected. That is outrageous.
“As survivors, we should never be the ones named, scrutinized, and retraumatized while Epstein’s enablers continue to benefit from secrecy. This is a betrayal of the very people this process is supposed to serve.”
Meanwhile, over on X, MAGAts declared the whole story a psyops. Because the Orange God would never lie to them.
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The Trump Crime Syndicate is losing it's war on the USA!
Bad Bunny Blows Turning Point USA Out Of The Water With Viewers — Conover Kennard
According to CBS News, Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime performance attracted approximately 135 million viewers, making it reportedly the most-watched halftime show in Super Bowl history. Did you see it? Holy cow. Bad Bunny's (real name, Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio) halftime show was chock full of symbolism.
The striking performance was so well-received that even Donald J. Trump tuned in. Trump, of course, hate-watched it, and without one bit of irony, the president, who is in the midst of a child sex abuse/sex trafficking scandal, insisted that "the dancing is disgusting, especially for young children."
During this same time slot, Turning Point USA hosted an alternative event called the "All-American Halftime Show." This competing program, available via online streaming and several cable news networks, reached up to 6.1 million simultaneous viewers on YouTube on Sunday evening, according to the New York Times. The alternative show opened with a tribute to Charlie Kirk, the late conservative commentator, with a representative declaring, "This one is for you, Charlie."
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And like Charlie, Turning Point USA's was a big nothingburger.
'Flashes of Alzheimer's': Trump's niece troubled by president's behavior -- 'Flashes of Alzheimer's': Trump's niece troubled by president's behavior — Matthew Rozsa
...“First of all, if you look at tapes of him in the 1980s, he was actually quite articulate," Gartner said. "He was still a jerk… but he was speaking in polished paragraphs. Now he has trouble completing a sentence, a thought and sometimes even a word."
Gartner added, "That’s a huge deterioration from his baseline and he also used to be quite physically co-ordinated, and now he can barely walk a straight line. He’s also showing signs of tangential speech. He goes from one topic to another in a way that’s really just kind of a loose association."
After Trump released a public letter linking his threats against the Danish autonomous territory of Greenland with the Nobel Prize Committee’s decision to not award him a peace prize, former Vice President Dick Cheney’s doctor urged a congressional inquiry into Trump’s fitness.
“This letter, and the fact that the president directed that it be distributed to other European countries, should trigger a bipartisan congressional inquiry into presidential fitness,” wrote Dr. Jonathan Reiner.
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'They don't deal with Jesus': Christian minister lays down a challenge to Mike Johnson — Matthew Rozsa
Addressing far-right white evangelicals and Christian nationalists, President Donald Trump repeatedly attacks Democrats, liberals and progressives as anti-Christianity. But it isn't hard to find Trump critics who are known for being devout Christians, from Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock (a Baptist minister) to former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (a Catholic) to former Transportation Secretary Pete Butigieg (an Episcopalian).
Another critic of Trump and the MAGA movement is Bishop William J. Barber II, who chairs the NAACP's legislative political action committee. Barber is a member of the Disciples of Christ, a Mainline Protestant denomination. And during an interview with Religion News Service (RNS) published in Q&A form on February 9, Barber described the role that faith can play in activism this midterms year and laid out some things that MAGA evangelicals — including House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) — get wrong about Christianity and scripture.
Barber told RNS interviewer Amanda Henderson, "In every battleground state, there should be a massive gathering in the state capitol where the clergy and impacted people and other moral activists come together. No politicians taking the stage…. It's not what I'll fight for because Trump's in office, it's what I will fight for, what I believe in regardless, and what I'm calling this government and nation to be about, irregardless. We're trying to follow that kind of moral Holy Spirit vision of mobilization."...
Barber argued, "First of all, he reveals that he doesn’t know the Bible. He reveals that he certainly doesn't know Jesus. There’s no Jesus in anything he just said. They don't like Jesus. That's why they never call his name. They don't quote Jesus. They don't like Jesus. Jesus undermines them. They would call Jesus a socialist, a communist. They would crucify Jesus. Let's be up front. They don't deal with Jesus…. To do what he's talking about doing, you literally have to take about 2000 scriptures out of the Bible and tear them apart and throw them away — and the Bible, of course, would fall apart."
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WH Hails Glorious Leader With AI Super Bowl Clip
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Nothing but fake garbage. Like Trump, this is the lamest!
Turning Point Claims 25 Million Watched Halftime Show
"Funny. Reliable estimates peg the number of peak viewers at somewhere between 5 and 6 million." — carswell (comments)
"Sure, if you count the actual viewers' intestinal parasites." — Judas Peckerwood (comments)
"Were there calls to send him back to Mexico? I mean, these idiots still don't seem to understand that Puerto Ricans ARE US Citizens.
I can hardly wait until a "native born" Puerto Rican runs for President of the USA, just to watch their heads explode." — TexasBoy (comments)
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A segregated show for frightened racists. Trump returns segregation to America, thus making it hate again.
Trump watched Bad Bunny. We know he did because he reviewed his show!
What they all seem to be missing is that BB was pointing out the Americas reach from the Strait of Magellan to the Kaffeklubben Island. Puerto Ricans are Americans! Try to open your racist minds.
The USA is only PART of America!
ICE Raids Are Crippling Housing Construction In Texas
The Wall Street Journal reports:
At Monte Cielo, a new housing development in this growing region of South Texas, half-built homes are sitting empty. On a recent day, just a few workers hovered behind temporary wrap tacked to wall frames.
The quiet scene comes after federal immigration agents have hit the development repeatedly, carrying out at least half a dozen raids there in recent months, builders said. The most recent was a few weeks ago. Some eight workers were arrested in a chaotic scene of laborers running away from federal vehicles racing through the three-street subdivision at high speed, the builders said.
The result? Homes are months behind schedule, and contractors face an uphill battle to recruit more workers to finish them. “They hear Monte Cielo and say, ‘No, no. You can pay me whatever you want, but I’m not going to go work there,’” Alejandro Garcia, one of several builders with homes under way in the development, said of the challenges in trying to hire workers.
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Making America collapse in poverty again!
Democrat Overperforms In Red District Again In Special Election
Democrat Chasity Martinez just won a Louisiana district in a massive landslide victory. Trump won this district by 13 points.
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Another Trump Nazi bites the dust!
Trump's MAGA elite have zero interest in a Republican tradition — and it shows: expert — Matthew Rozsa
A top researcher into the politics of climate change is calling out President Trump and his MAGA base for abandoning the Republican Party’s past commitment to hunting, fishing and camping. In the process, he claims, he is endangering the natural environment itself.
“Since the rise of the MAGA movement, many Republican elites no longer seem interested in riding horses in the Rockies or fly fishing in the Adirondacks,” writes Dr. Stephen Lezak in The New York Times. Lezak is a researcher into the intersection between climate change and politics at the University of Oxford and the University of California, Berkeley.
“Jackson Hole is out. Palm Beach is in,” Lezak writes.
Trump's MAGA elite have zero interest in a Republican tradition — and it shows: expert
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Who dat in da photo? The Nazi Rogue's Boyz Choir?
Top swing state Republicans wave red flag on new Trump effort to 'disrupt the election' — Ian Karbal
In the days since President Donald Trump called for the federal government to “nationalize” elections, two former high ranking officials from Pennsylvania, former Gov. Tom Corbett and former U.S. District Court Judge John Jones III, have spoken out.
Both have a history in Republican politics. Corbett was the last Republican governor of the commonwealth, leaving office in 2015, and Jones ran as a Republican for Congress before being appointed to the U.S. District Court bench by GOP President George W. Bush.
But that hasn’t stopped them from speaking out against the party’s current standard bearer, President Trump, especially when it comes to matters pertaining to elections.
The two have been involved with a nonprofit called Keep Our Republic, which was founded in 2020 to push back on unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud through civic education and work with elections officials in swing states.
“The constitution’s pretty clear that the manner of the elections is left up to the states, and not to the federal government,” Corbett said. “The president would like to have it differently, but I don’t think he can have it differently.”
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Trump is only trying to rig our elections because when he loses power he will be arrested, charged,sentenced and thrown in prison. It will be a great America once again!
Super Bowl exposes 'big MAGA weakness' as Trump sees pushback in unlikely space: columnist — David McAfee
Greg Sargent wrote an article Sunday called, "Trump Rages at Bad Bunny—and Accidentally Exposes a Big MAGA Weakness," in which he argues, "MAGA’s hatred of the Super Bowl halftime performer reflects a hubris about what parts of the culture are 'theirs.' But those assumptions are proving more wrong every day."
Sargent referenced Trump calling Bad Bunny a "terrible choice," noting, "But something deeper is going on here than Trump’s usual lashing out at a critic. This clash hints at a genuine fear on Trump’s part that he’s on the defensive big time in the war over ICE—not just in the political war, not just in the war that’s shedding American blood in the streets, but also in the culture war. Because the battle over ICE has become a culture war all unto itself. And Trump is losing it."
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The biggest loser since time began! I know it, you know it, the American people know it!
Southern Baptists Condemn Trump For Racist Video
The Christian Post reports:
A video reposted by President Donald Trump that depicted former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama with the bodies of apes has drawn condemnation from across the political spectrum, including from prominent Christian conservatives and Republican members of Congress who have called the imagery dehumanizing and unacceptable.
The Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, the largest Protestant denomination in the U.S., issued a statement Friday night saying that “Regardless of the circumstances in which the video was made or shared, the depiction of the Obamas was inexcusable, and we are glad the video was taken down.”
“Calling someone an ape is intentionally derogatory and dehumanizing,” the ERLC statement reads. “Despite sometimes deep disagreements over policies, in recent years Southern Baptists have declared over and over the biblical truth that every person is made in God‘s image, has the same inherent worth, and should be treated accordingly.”
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Land of the Happy Negro Baptists resent being linked with monkeys!
Not that there is anything wrong with monkeys. Just Never Trust a Monkey With a Gun. — Men of Extinction
State officials worry protections against Trump are eroding — Alexander Shur
...Trump’s 2020 effort ultimately stalled when even some Republicans refused to take steps they believed were unlawful. And his call to nationalize voting this week prompted pushback from some GOP members of Congress and other Republican figures.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Trump’s proposal raised constitutional concerns, and he warned that nationalizing elections could make them more susceptible to cybersecurity attacks. Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska was more blunt, saying he has long opposed federal control of elections. “I’ll oppose this now as well,” he wrote on X.
On Tuesday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Trump’s comments referred to his support for federal legislation commonly called the SAVE Act.
Election officials say the lesson of 2020 was not that the system is invulnerable, but that it can be strained in ways that cause lasting damage long before courts step in. While it’s unclear whether Trump’s latest demands — and possible future actions— would lead to the same level of disruption, legal experts say some of the backstops that ultimately stopped him last time are now weaker, leaving election officials to absorb even more pressure....
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Julius Caesar, Act III?
Ex-KGB official says 2 countries have copies of compromising Trump video — Elizabeth Preza
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) and Kazakhstan’s National Security Committee (KNB) both have a copy of the file, “including possession of film footage, presumable of a sexual nature,” according to the report.
Mussayev told Ukraine’s “Studia Zakhid” the files “were used by former chairman of the National Security Committee Karim Masimov during a meeting with Secretary of State [Rex] Tillerson in the United States.” Tillerson met with Masimov at the U.S. State Department in October 2017, according to Tillerson's public schedule. Trump fired Tillerson in March 2018....
Mussayev has long claimed Trump was “groomed in 1987 as a potential Soviet asset,” according to the Kyiv Post.
In Feb. 2018, Mussayev wrote on Facebook Trump is in the category of “ideally recruitable people."
"I have no doubt that Russia has kompromat on the U.S. president, that over the course of many years the Kremlin has been promoting Trump to the post of president of the main world power," Mussayev wrote.
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Anyone with an ounce of reason knows Russia has all the proof to send Trump to Siberia -- or worse! He should watch every window above the second floor. He must rely on his "radar vision." LMAO!
'Time for a moral reckoning' as Epstein files reveal associates in Trump’s inner circle — Elizabeth Preza
British-American journalist Sarah Baxter on Sunday laid bare the “deafening” silence of President Donald Trump’s inner circle as several of his top aides and advisors are revealed to have associated with late convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
According to Baxter, the release of the Epstein files “has laid bare the immorality of America,” noting people who were “caught lying” about the extent of their relationships with Epstein are now forced to “duck and dive for cover.”
“Their strategy comes straight out of the PR playbook of the malevolent Donald Trump whisperer, Steve Bannon, who was asked by his pal Epstein in 2019 whether to ‘continue to ignore’ personal attacks,” Baxter wrote. “Bannon said yes. Responding, he said, 'makes it way worse.' He is now following his own cynical advice on the subject.”
Baxter noted that a former Trump foe, Hillary Clinton, has the “power to blow this conspiracy of silence apart” after the former first lady demanded a public hearing before the House Oversight Committee. Chairman James Comer (R-KY), Baxter explained, “is now scurrying for excuses to resist this demand.”
“His reluctance to call anybody in Trump’s circle to appear matches the quiescence of the Maga and QAnon conspiracy-mongers,” Baxter wrote.
“If Hillary Clinton has to give evidence, let’s hear from all of them,” the journalist added. “And yes, that includes all the Trumps.”
“It’s time for a moral reckoning,” she said.
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Smoke the pigs out!
Rep. Tim Burchett Lies About ID Requirements In SAVE Act — Heather
Republican Rep. Tim Burchett (TN) with an assist from former Trump spokesliar Kayleigh McEnany lie to the viewers on Fox not "news" about the requirements for proof of citizenship in their vote-suppressing SAVE Act.
We've already discussed what this bill does when a version passed in the House last April, and as Ellen explained then:
The House of Representatives passed the Orwellian “Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act” (SAVE Act) on Thursday. It purports to protect our democracy from the non-existent problem of non-citizen voting. What the bill really does, by requiring documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote, is create what Mother Jones’ Ari Berman calls a “five-alarm fire” for legit American voters and for election officials:
Nine percent of American citizens, roughly 21 million people, don’t have ready access to citizenship documents, according to a study by the Brennan Center and other voting rights groups. Sixty percent of them voted in the 2020 election. Close to 4 million don’t have these documents at all because they were lost, destroyed, or stolen.
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Two sewer rats in one photo!
GOP Profile In Courage Offers Mealymouthed Condemnatio'nullnulls Racist Postnull — Heather
Spineless Republican Rep. Mike Lawler was harder on "whoever created" the racist "meme" of the Obamas being depicted as apes then he was of Trump for reposting it. Lawler made an appearance on this Sunday's This Week on ABC, and was asked by Jonathan Karl about this post on the evil bird site:
The President’s post is wrong and incredibly offensive — whether intentional or a mistake — and should be deleted immediately with an apology offered.
— Mike Lawler (@lawler4ny) February 6, 2026
Lawler gave an equally mealymouthed condemnation of Trump in response.
KARL: You were one of the very first Republicans to come out and condemn the president's social media post that had those images of the Obamas as apes.
Here's what you said: “The president's post is wrong and incredibly offensive -- whether intentional or a mistake -- and should be deleted immediately with an apology offered.”
Now, after you said that, they were still defending it, but it did get deleted eventually after about 12 hours.
Should the president apologize?
REP. MIKE LAWLER, (R) NEW YORK: Look, I think sometimes in our public discourse, it is best to just say “I'm sorry”. You know, I take the White House at their word that this was a mistake, but at the end of the day, given the history of our nation, given the insensitivities with some of the stereotypes that have long been promulgated to attack African-Americans, I think it's imperative to recognize that, and meet the moment.
And you know, I think sometimes it's just best to say “I'm sorry”, and do better. And I think, you know, given the situation, I'm glad they deleted it. But that type of meme or, you know, implication is wrong. And I think, whoever created the original meme, is an idiot. And really, that type of content should not exist in our country. I think everybody should recognize the history and really do better.
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Read more of this bullshit at the link!
Famed Epstein reporter drops bombshell about '11 men' in the files: 'Trump is on the list' -- David McAfee
A reporter whose work led to the arrests of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell dropped a bombshell claim on Saturday, saying the DOJ has been lying and that "there really is an FBI list of other people suspected of possible wrongdoing in connection with Epstein." Trump is on that list, she said.
Miami Herald reporter Julie K. Brown's work on the “Perversion of Justice” published by the newspaper in 2018 spurred New York federal prosecutors to open a new criminal case into Epstein, and she has been reporting on the most recent Epstein files dump, even pointing out a prosecution memo that was immediately scrubbed after reporters started asking questions.
"THEY NEED TO IMPEACH TRUMP AND GET HIM OUT OF THERE NOW. HE IS A HORRIBLE PRESIDENT AND NO GOOD JERK WHO DOES LITTLE GIRLS.
What kind of country are we to allow this kind of garbage in our white house?? What has become of us???? Who are you?" -- Gen (comments)
"THEY are - Conservatives." — sonofroyrogers (comments)
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The DOJ Trump mob fucking lied? Ya don't say!
Did someone think Trump wasn't on the list? Examine their brain.
Can you spell P-E-D-O-P-H-I-L-E - T-R-U-M-P?
MAGA’s war on “woke” has a long history — like 400 years — Andrew O'Hehir
Trump and Stephen Miller don’t just want to erase the 20th century. Their dream is much bigger than that
MAGA envisions undoing nearly all of modern history and returning to some primal, purified state of nature, or rather a meme version thereof: The 1950s and the antebellum South and the American frontier and medieval feudalism and the Neanderthal fireside — everything, everywhere, all at once....
..."This is a fake presidency devoted more to creating viral memes than shaping policy, and there’s no coherent or consistent narrative at work. Honestly, that’s less a flaw than a feature: The wholesale rejection of reality is central to the brand."
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May they all die 1000 deaths!
Trump abolishes the Second Amendment — Mike Lofgren
MAGA’s duplicity leads to a total reversal on gun rights — along with a dizzying 360 on foreign policy
...One by one we have watched Republicans’ cherished shibboleths fall into the scrap heap. Free-market capitalism? The economic religion of Friedrich von Hayek, Ayn Rand, Milton Friedman and a legion of other GOP savants has been buried under an avalanche of tariffs, the government buying equity in private companies, capital controls, capricious stop orders to privately funded projects, manipulation of mortgage markets, capping credit card interest rates by tweet and on and on. All of it sheer heresy to any actual conservative. Yet they swallowed it with hardly a murmur.
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The Trump betrayal of America.
Files Show Lutnick Went Into Business With Epstein
The New York Times reports:
Howard Lutnick, President Trump’s billionaire commerce secretary, interacted with the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein regularly over at least 13 years while they lived next door to one another on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, records released last week by the Justice Department show.
They invested in the same privately held company together, dealt with one another on neighborhood and philanthropic issues, and appear to have socialized in New York and the Caribbean, the records show. Mr. Epstein at one point sought to meet with Mr. Lutnick’s nanny.
The records directly contradict Mr. Lutnick’s assertion on a podcast last year that he had been so disgusted by Mr. Epstein during a 2005 visit to his townhouse that Mr. Lutnick had never set foot in a room with Mr. Epstein again. “So I was never in the room with him socially, for business or even philanthropy,” Mr. Lutnick said in an interview on the podcast, “Pod Force One.” Reached briefly by phone last week, Mr. Lutnick said, “I spent zero time with him.”
"He gave trump a blowjob?" — Todd20036 (comments)
"Vice Versa" — Dwight Williamson (comments)
"So Nutlick's a lying pedo. Quelle surprise." — xzargo (omments)
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It is more than obvious Lutnick is a swine!
'Just resign!': GOP lawmaker takes fight to Trump Cabinet member over Epstein ties — Alexander Willis
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) took to CNN Sunday to demand Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick resign after being exposed for lying about his relationship with the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein....
“Howard Lutnick clearly went to the island if we believe what's in these files, he was in business with Jeffrey Epstein, and this was many years after Epstein was convicted for sexual crimes! So he's got a lot to answer for, but really, he should make life easier on the president and just resign. If this were Great Britain he'd already be gone.”
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Every goddamn Trump traitor should resign! Yes, that includes the criminal, Trump!
MAGA Attacks Olympians For Criticizing ICE: “Boycott”
The New York Post reports:
They’re getting gold medals in ungratefulness. Woke Team USA members expressed “mixed emotions” about representing the Stars and Stripes at the Winter Olympics, sparking calls by some Americans to boycott the Games. Freestyle skier Hunter Hess ignited the firestorm Friday after telling reporters that wearing the American flag doesn’t mean he backs everything “going on” in the US. “It brings up mixed emotions to represent the U.S. right now,” Hess said.
"Doesn't Donalds know that the president just called black people monkeys?
Talk about self-hate! Is he a pedophile too? This is the pedophile presidency." — SMM (comments)
"No, Byron. YOU just don't get it! There are far more of us that despise what the fat fuck is doing to our country - AND to all of our allies abroad. And if you support his fat ass - YOU are the idiot! Just a sheep on the way to slaughter." — Luke - my beautiful Luke (comments)
"Fuck You Byron Donald’s and the crooked Jackass you rode in on . Fuck Ice . I stand with the Olympic team. Donald’s you have no power, you are just another toad trying to say anything to get elected. You will never be white no matter how much you lie." — Dwight Williamson (comments)
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Byron Donalds is a Black man. It's very sad to see him on his knees to his "massas" in the racist MAGA garbage heap!
He's certanly one that doen't get fascism.
So he can fuck all the way off!
When will these Nazi motherfuckers realize they are doomed to failure and to the dustbin of history?
Tuberculosis Outbreak Reported At Texas ICE Lockup
"The Texas Tribune reports:
Two active cases of tuberculosis and 18 cases of COVID-19 have been identified at a massive immigration detention center in El Paso.
U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar disclosed the cases a day after her Friday visit to Camp East Montana, the 5,000-bed tent facility the federal government hastily built on the Fort Bliss Army base. The city of El Paso later confirmed the cases. Escobar said on X, “Many of the chronic issues that I have reported out to the public and to members of my committee persist.”
"DHS has purchased a 1.2 million-square-foot warehouse in Georgia that can hold 10,000 detainees. Welcome to Germany, emphasis on the Germ." -- Jay Silversmith (comments)
"HCR pointed out in today's Letter that the healthcare funding for the ICE concentration camps has been cut off.
They're death camps now." — Karl Dubhe IV (comments)
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MAKING AMERICAN SICK AGAIN! That's what the Trump conecntration camps are doing for us!
Hitler would be so proud!
Trade Unions Alarmed by Robots Designed to Do Blue Collar Work — Joe Wilkins
When past generations imagined the best version of the future, it was one of leisure. Advertisements, cartoonists, and pulp novelists dared us to dream of a world where the spoils of industrial development were shared with all: robot butlers, transit by pneumatic tube, and more familiar tropes. These developments, it seemed, would make our lives more convenient, more secure, and — dare we say — more abundant.
Now in 2026, it’s clear that even the most modest utopian fantasies have been stolen by the wealthy. The rich have luxurious self-driving cars while the rest of us suffer with crumbling public transit. The rich treat housing as an asset, while the rest of us navigate algorithms meant to maximize rent extraction. The rich have elite private schools, while the rest of us content ourselves to teacher shortages and glitchy AI tutors.
Going forward, the disparity is likely to widen. Having established their giddy desire to automate white collar jobs, tech moguls are increasingly turning their attention toward the trades — jobs which were, rhetorically at least, seen as a safe haven against AI’s rising tide. Now, the boom in robotics and AI spending is driving fear that blue collar labor will be next on the chopping block....
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As we have seen in the past, this is a bubble that will burst bigly! And perhaps it will take the rich with its explosion.
Man Wakes Up Homeless, Realizes He Fell Into AI Psychosis That Destroyed His Entire Life — Frank Landymore
A man’s obsession with an AI chatbot led to his life completely spiraling out of control — and he only snapped out of it when, one day, he woke up outside on a stranger’s futon, completely penniless.
“I wasn’t aware of the dangers at the time, and I thought that the AI had statistical analysis abilities that would allow it to assist me if I opened up about my life,” the man, Adam Thomas, told Slate in yet another grim peek at how AI can leave innocent people’s lives in shreds.
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And this is the way it begins...
‘Mysteriously disappeared’: DOJ Epstein prosecution memo vanishes after press inquiry — Alexander Willis
An 86-page Justice Department prosecution memo that included details on “potential co-conspirators” of Jeffrey Epstein “mysteriously disappeared” from the DOJ’s website after the agency was asked about the document by the Miami Herald, investigative reporter Julie Brown revealed Saturday.
“Contrary to what the FBI and DOJ have said over the past year, it turns out there really is an FBI list of other people suspected of possible wrongdoing in connection with Jeffrey Epstein,” Brown, who writes for the Herald, wrote on her Substack Saturday.
“One of the documents that outlines the DOJ investigation into ‘potential co-conspirators of Jeffrey Epstein’ – the DOJ’s 86-page prosecution memo – mysteriously disappeared from the Government’s website this week after we asked the DOJ about it.”
The Herald published a report earlier on Saturday about the prosecution memo, which it noted had since been removed from the DOJ’s website at the time of publication. A copy of the memo, however, was preserved by Brown before its removal and contains details about potential co-conspirators of Epstein, albeit with their names redacted.
Lengthy sections of the memo are fully redacted, such as one that reads: “Evidence that [redacted] conspired to sex traffic minors, followed by more than nine pages of fully redacted text.
“Why are whole entire pages pertaining to these men redacted in the prosecution memorandum – which has now disappeared?” Brown wrote. “Where are the 302 interviews from those victims and witnesses?”
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DOJ = Department of Jackasses!
Amid Trump's relentless criminality, he's desperate you don't learn this truth -- Amid Trump's relentless criminality, he's desperate you don't learn this truth —- Gregg Barak
WHITE COLLAR CRIME!
...Perhaps Trump’s two most amazing “accomplishments” are:
Turning the DOJ into his personal law firm and the FBI into his private investigative agency, as evidenced by the raid on a Georgia election office.
Breaking the law on a regular basis without any accountability at all, even when ordered hundreds of times by courts of law to cease and desist.
In sum, what is and is not a “crime” is being defined by a certifiable sociopath. But that definition cannot last forever.
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And the only reason he gets away with it is YOU, AMERICA!
This Trump offensive threatens the Constitution itself — Yohuru Williams
Forcibly entering homes without a judicial warrant. Arresting journalists who reported on protests. Defying dozens of federal orders. Killing U.S. citizens for noncompliance. Asking constitutionally protected observers this chilling question: “Have you not learned?”
This is daily life in Minnesota. Operation Metro Surge, ostensibly an immigration enforcement initiative, has become something more consequential: a constitutional stress test. Can constitutional protections withstand the actions of a federal government seemingly intent on aggressively violating the rule of law?
In Minneapolis, a city still reckoning with its own grim history of policing, the federal operation raises fundamental questions about law enforcement and the limits of executive power.
Legal scholars and civil rights advocates are especially worried about ongoing violations of the First, Second, Fourth and 10th amendments, as are other observers, including historians like us....
But the broader question is already clear: When, in the name of security, the executive branch directly challenges so many Bill of Rights protections at once, how much strain can the American legal system absorb? Will basic constitutional rights survive this moment?
What is unfolding in Minnesota is not simply a local enforcement story. It is a test of whether the Constitution as we know it will survive.
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And this is our own government doing this to us. The one that took an oath to protect us! THE TYRANTS LIED!
REVOLT!
Pentagon Kills 2 More in Another Boat Strike, Bringing Death Toll to 128 — Julia Conley
Just over a week after the families of two Trinidadian men sued the Trump administration over the boat bombings that killed their relatives, the US Department of Defense killed two more people in the eastern Pacific Ocean, bringing the total death toll to at least 128 in the White House’s operation that it claims is targeting drug traffickers....
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Defund the Pentagon!
Stop Feeding the Blob: It’s Time to Finally Heed Ike’s Warning and Dismantle the MIC — William J. Astore
...And it never ends, does it? Americans in various polls today indicate that they don’t want a war against either Venezuela or Iran, but our opinions simply aren’t heeded. Increasingly, we live in a “might makes right” country, even as military might has so regularly made for wrong since 1945.
And what in the world is to be done? Many things, but most fundamentally it’s time as a society to perform an “about-face,” followed by a march in double time away from permanent war and toward peace. And that, in turn, must lead to major reductions in Pentagon spending. The best and only way to tackle the inexorable growth of the blob is to stop feeding it money—and stop worshipping it as well. Instead of a $500 billion increase, Congress should insist on a $500 billion decrease in Pentagon spending. Our task should be to force the military-industrial complex to think, improvise, become leaner, and focus on how most effectively to protect and defend America and our ideals, rather than fostering the imperial dreams of the wannabe warlords among us.
Trump’s current approach of further engorging the imperial blob is the stuff of national nightmares, not faintly a recipe for American greatness. It is, in fact, a sure guarantee of further decline and eventual collapse, not only economically and politically but spiritually as well, exactly as Ike warned in 1961. More wars and weapons simply will not make America great (again). How could they when, as Civil War General William T. Sherman so famously observed, war is “all hell”?
Americans, we must act to cut the war budget, shrink the empire, embrace diplomacy, and work for peace. Sadly, however, the blob has seemingly become our master, a well-nigh unstoppable force. Aren’t you tired yet of being its slave?
On the 250th anniversary of America’s founding, which was predicated on resistance to empire and military rule, it should be considered deeply tragic that this country has met the enemy—and he is indeed us. Here the words of Ike provide another teachable moment. Only Americans can truly hurt America, he once said. To which I’d add this corollary: Only Americans can truly save America.
As we celebrate our nation’s birthday this July 4, wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could save this deeply disturbed country by putting war and empire firmly in the rearview mirror? A tall task for sure, but so, too, was declaring independence from the mighty British Empire in 1776.
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Ike was right. The miltary does nothing for Americans but take its money and allow criminals to kill us without using one ounce toward protecting us!
Trump’s Racist Attack on the Obamas Shows the Moral Collapse of His Presidency — Thom Hartmann
I’ve been talking into microphones since I did the morning news on WITL in Lansing Michigan in the late 1960s, and I’ve seen a lot of ugly moments in American politics. But every so often something happens that still takes your breath away, not because it’s surprising, but because it’s so painfully revealing.
This latest racist stunt by Donald Trump — reposting a meme on his Nazi-infested social media site in which the Obamas’ faces are superimposed onto the bodies of primates in the jungle set to the 1961 song “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” by The Tokens — is one of those moments.
That a popular pro-Trump account on X created this video and it has lived on that platform without consequence is disgusting in and of itself. But Trump — as our president, speaking in our voice — made it infinitely worse last night by promoting it to millions around the world.
Promoting a video that depicts Barack and Michelle Obama as non-human primates isn’t a joke. It isn’t satire or an accident. It’s the oldest racist smear in the book, dressed up in a cheap meme and now blasted out by a man who once swore an oath to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.
When the president of the United States does something like this, it doesn’t just insult two people. It tells a story about who, according to the most powerful man in the world, belongs in America and who doesn’t.
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We know who does not belong here: Trump, the pig and his crustacean criminal toadies that refer to themselves as Republicans!
REVOLT!
CDC To Rescind $600M In “Woke” Blue State Grants
The Hill reports:
The OMB directive targeted Colorado, Illinois, California and Minnesota, ordering that $602 million in CDC funding be clawed back along with $943 million by the Transportation Department. The CDC funds would have gone toward state and local health grants that the administration feels are too “woke.” An OMB spokesperson said the rescissions are targeting “states fraught with waste and mismanagement.”
These rescinded funds included: $3 million to Colorado to address COVID-19 disparities among racial and ethnic minority groups, $5.2 million to Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago for increasing HIV PrEP use among Black cisgender women, $500,000 to the University of California for evaluating state-level laws to prevent sexual and intimate partner violence among gender and sexual minorities.
"If they can claw back these funds, what's the fucking point of congressional allocations?" — Ed B (comments)
"My first thought, remember when Biden went out of his way to spend money bringing broadband to rural America and what happened?
Every Republican voted against it, called it communism and an effort to ship illegal immigrants in to vote in elections, and then a year later they all took credit for the new jobs and local economies that were happening because of it.
To be clear I’m not blaming Biden for any of this, it’s the result of right wing media. But as long as we now know there isn’t any political benefit when we try to help out red towns, well let’s say I’m less likely to support it next time." — AreYouPreparedToGoToCourt (comments)
"Fucking dickbags. This has been litigated again and again. And they will lose again.
"The CDC funds would have gone toward state and local health grants that the administration feels are too “woke.”"
TRUMP IS NOT THE GODDAMN KING OF THE COUNTRY." — ASFT (comments)
"I still haven't seen their definition of "woke" so I will assume that it merely means whatever they don't like at any given moment--which will of course change constantly. Policy built on shifting sand." -- LeeGP (comments)
"Where's the "Everything I don't like is Woke" book cover?" — Butch (comments)
"If it doesn't directly benefit white men then it's "woke" — Woke AF (comments)
"Making a Civil War more and more necessary…" — Bid Flux (comments)
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We didn't vote for a fascist takeover of our government. They are not "governing" they are DICTATING! These people are goddamned crooked as a snake! Get rid of them!
Better to be "woke" (that's anything they say it is) than an anti-American Nazi motherfucking dictator! They will kill us all and sooner than we think!
Cultists Are Tricking People To Sign Utah Petition On Gerrymandering Ban By Claiming It Bans ICE Agents
The Salt Lake Tribune reports:
Latisha Afraid of Hawk was with her sister at the gas station attached to the Smith’s near 9th and 9th when she was approached by a man asking if they wanted to sign a petition to keep ICE agents out of Utah. Afraid of Hawk, who is Mnicouju Lakota Sioux, had seen coverage of the clashes with ICE agents in Minnesota and reports of how ICE had arrested and detained several members of the Lakota Nation, so both were eager to sign.
That’s when Elijah Kimbal, who was also getting gas, saw what was happening and asked the sisters if they knew they had signed the Republican-backed petition to repeal Utah’s ban on partisan gerrymandering of political districts.“I was actually like, no, I didn’t, and I said, ‘Can I get my signature back?’” Afraid of Hawk said. Kimball said the signature gatherer “got flustered and just kind of mumbled and got uncomfortable” when he was confronted, “and turned around and just ran to his car really quick.”
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Sounds like some asshole from the music industry. But he's a typical two-faced Nazi motherfucker!
Military commanders reportedly force troops to see Melania movie: 'People are scared' — Adam Nichols
The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has warned that thousands of active-duty military personnel may have been coerced into attending screenings of the Melania documentary.
The $75 million Amazon film generated $7 million during its opening week despite receiving universally negative critical reviews. But the foundation claims the box office figures were artificially inflated through pressure from officers aligned with the Trump administration who told troops to purchase tickets, Business Insider reported.
Mikey Weinstein, the group's president and founder, stated, "People are scared. They were pressured to see the movie. Your military superior, that's not your shift manager at Taco Bell or Starbucks. They have complete and total control over you....
Weinstein characterized the practice as destructive to military effectiveness. "It tears it down," she said. "It's like injecting cancer into the body of the military unit."
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Just showing us they are Nazi followers of Trump! Our military is polluted and fail their oaths.
Trump Refuses To Apologize For Racist Obamas Video
"He learned that little trick from his favorite closeted homo, Roy Cohn." -- White Dogwood (comments)
"Despicable Nazi swine.
Do the world a favor and die." — JT (comments)
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TRUMP IS A RACIST! TRUMP IS A RACIST! TRUMP IS A RACIST! TRUMP IS A PROUD and SICK RACIST!
Nebraska To Lower Minimum Wage For Teen Workers
Nebraska Public Media reports:
The Legislature Thursday gave final approval to a bill (LB258) lowering Nebraska’s minimum wage from $15 an hour to $13.50 for young workers, and slowing down minimum wage increases for others. In 2022, Nebraska voters approved a law that increased the state’s minimum wage in stages until it reached $15 an hour this Jan. 1....
State Sen. Terrell McKinney of North Omaha, whose district had the highest support for the ballot measure in 2022, at 89.67% approval, blasted the proposal for its message to Nebraskan youths. He was a ballot sponsor for the 2022 initiative. He said he didn’t think Nebraska was China or a “third world” country.
"We cannot afford a fair minimum wage
We cannot afford SNAP
We cannot afford national health care
But we can afford a new ballroom, a trump arch, trump towers in other countries, a gestapo, and a Melania movie." —— Todd20036 (comments)
"You forgot the biggest military budget on the planet." — K S (comments>
"And fucking ads that run on tv FOR ICE." — Anastasia Beaverhousen (comments)
"And massive tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy and multibillion dollar contracts to corporations to do a worse job." — Melissa (comments)
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Trump Melts Down Over Guests On CNN And MS Now
Lamebrain babbles:
“So, when you watch these two guys on Television, which, fortunately, doesn’t happen often because there’s very little audience at either CNN or MSDNC, remember, they know nothing about me — Just two DOPES trying to make a ‘buck’ by pretending to know something about someone who turned out to be very famous.
“These two Networks are forewarned not to put them on the air again, because they have no knowledge or credibility with respect to anything have to do with DONALD J. TRUMP.” – Trump, last night on Truth Social.
By the way, he didn’t “fire” Ty Cobb.
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Constantly showing us his ugly ass. Everyone knows who and what Trump is. Demented.
'He's gone': Ex-Trump White House lawyer sounds alarm over 'serious cognitive decline' — Adam Lynch
“He has drained 250 years of dignity out of the [Oval] office with acts like this,” Cobb told MS NOW host Ari Melber, adding that Trump’s unmonitored “late night screeds” are the purest representation of Trump’s failing mental health.
“At that hour there's nobody … there to say ‘you might want to rethink this.’ No, that's all related, and it's all part of his cognitive decline,” said Cobb, who worked with Trump and now describes a different, damaged brain behind the face. “I mean, there's so many physicians and psychiatrists around the country, and certainly around the world now, who have commented on the on the frontal lobe issues that Trump has, the way that his dementia has aggravated his narcissistic personality disorder, which a sixth grader could diagnose.”
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Trump and every creature that he's employed is as sick as he is!
Conservative slams Trump as a 'shakedown artist' over latest 'egocentric' demand — Adam Lynch
“The president is a proud shakedown artist and is completely shameless about it — just ask Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Machado,” said Blehar. “So, I don’t doubt for a moment that Trump floated this quid pro quo, knowing what I already do about the man’s character and governing philosophy.”
“I’m just amused at how sweepingly egocentric Trump’s demand is,” said Blehar. “He wants one or both of two of the East Coast’s major transportation hubs named after himself, so that every day blue-state elites have to fly or train into and out of a place named after someone they loathe.”
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And that character and philopsophy is one of a racist, bigoted, bully, common crook and mentally ill to boot!
America has never seen as big a mob boss as Trump is.
Federal Judges Fume As Courts Are Flooded With Habeas Petitions — Susie Madrak
Federal judges in Philadelphia are vocally opposed to what they call the “illegal” policy by ICE of mandating detention for nearly all undocumented immigrants — and have been sharply critical of the arguments government attorneys are making to justify it.
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Trump, the evil destructor of dreams!
RETALIATION: DHS Moving Fast To Expedite Deportation Against Liam's Family —— Susie Madrak
Just when you think they can't possibly go any lower, they do.
Despite their horrific ordeal, despite the fact they have LEGALLY applied for asylum, Cruella DeVille and her DHS minions are trying to deny asylum and expedite deportation proceedings against the family of a 5-year-old Liam Ramos. Because there are no happy endings for anyone who makes DHS look bad!
Decent people heaved a sigh of relief when Liam and his father, Adrian Arias, were returned home. But DHS immediately filed to deny their asylum claim and deport the family.
A hearing is scheduled for today, although Danielle Molliver is requesting more time to respond. She told Minnesota Public Radio she thought the motion was "retaliatory."
"It's really frustrating as an attorney, because they keep throwing new obstacles in our way. There's absolutely no reason that this should be expedited. It's not very common," Molliver said.
Molliver said the federal government may not deport them to Ecuador, their home country. Instead, the family could apply for asylum in a third country.
Liam’s father, Adrian Conejo Arias, said they don’t know what will happen to them. "The government is moving many pieces, it's doing everything possible to do us harm, so that they’ll probably deport us," he told a translator.
Only if we let them. Call! Take to social media!
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Trump, the dispicable!
As AI Surges, Layoffs Hit Worst Moment Since 2009 During Throes of Financial Crisis — Joe Wilkins
US employers announced over 108,000 layoffs across January, in the highest to start the year since the depths of the Great Recession in 2009. Many executives were quick to blame AI for the layoffs, though the real reason might be simpler: companies just aren’t optimistic about the direction the economy is heading.
According to new reporting by CNBC, layoffs are up 118 percent from January, 2025, and a whopping 205 percent compared to December 2025. Throughout the month, US corporations tracked by analyst firm Challenger, Gray and Christmas only reported 5,306 new hires — another low which hadn’t been seen since January of 2009.
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Hey, we could always sell apples on streetcorners like in the Great Depression, right?
As Crash Deepens, Investors Say Bitcoin Is Headed for Zero Dollars — Victor Tangermann
Mainstream cryptocurrency Bitcoin is being eviscerated this week. The token tanked to a historic low, coming eerily close to as little as $60,000 on Thursday evening. That’s well under 50 percent down from its all-time high a mere four months ago.
While the crypto has since bounced back to around the $68,000 mark, it comes at a grim cost: it’s now wiped out all of its gains since president Donald Trump won the presidential election in late 2025.
Analysts aren’t presumably hopeful about an imminent recovery, with some expecting the absolute worst.
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So just how much has Trump lost now?
Insider reveals Trump's 'absurd' Kennedy Center plan — that aides scrambled to kill — Adam Nichols
President Donald Trump's advisers stopped him from ripping John F. Kennedy's name off the Kennedy Center altogether, leaving the cultural hub simply called the Trump Center, his biographer said.
“Why does this have to be Kennedy?" the president apparently argued. "That was such a long time ago.”
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Does this mean the crazy old coot wants to rename Washington, DC to "Trump, DC?"?
We should not put it past the repulsive SOB.
Former Republican insider Rick Wilson has a grim outlook for the Kennedy Center. — Nicole Charky-Chami
In his Substack published Friday, the co-founder of the anti-Trump group The Lincoln Project made a stark prediction over how President Donald Trump would handle the performing arts institution — with a tear down.
"I regret to inform you that on July 5th or thereabouts, bulldozers will slam into the Kennedy Center and start destroying it," Wilson wrote.
"Not because Trump has a plan. Not because it needs to be razed," Wilson explained. "Just to hurt people. It’s the same plan as the East Wing; destroy something beloved and replace it with a trashy substitute, a corrupt echo of something better, all while reveling in the same pain he enjoyed as far back as his destruction of the historic facade Bonwit-Teller in Manhattan in 1982."
Trump has renamed the living memorial for President John F. Kennedy as "The Donald J. Trump and John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts" without congressional approval. This week he announced plans to close it for two years, citing extensive renovations.
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Retarded unwashed America will not give a damn. They will regret it when he comes to take and demolish their homes.
Trump at the Pearly Gates — William Kristol
Donald Trump posts a lot of election conspiracy theories online, and he posts a lot of racist memes, too. But it’s not every day that he makes an elections-conspiracy-theory post that is also insanely racist. Yesterday, he shared a one-minute video alleging that mysterious “4G wireless chips” were discovered “embedded” in a 2020 Michigan voting machine, leading to the “transmission of electronic data” and the manufacture of votes for Joe Biden. The video ends with a hard cut to a totally unrelated clip: two seconds of Barack and Michelle Obama’s grinning heads AI-superimposed onto the bodies of dancing apes.
There’s no political benefit to this, and there will be no political price. It’s just the stuff he likes.
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I would not bank on that, Bill.
Bessent Confirms Taxpayers Would Be Paying Trump If He Wins $10B Lawsuit — Sharon Zhang
If President Donald Trump is successful in his lawsuit to sue the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for $10 billion over the leak of his tax returns, U.S. taxpayers will be footing the bill, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent confirmed on Thursday.
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Now, as through this world I ramble
I seen lots of funny men
Some will rob you with a six-gun
Some with a fountain pen -- Pretty Boy Floyd, Woody Guthrie
Pay up, suckers!
Newsmax Host: Super Bowl Logo Is “LGBT Queer-ish”
“Here’s some a big Bad Bunny rabbit’s sayings and quotes. I never heard of the guy, by the way. ‘ICE out. We’re not savages. We’re not animals. We’re not aliens.” Hey, by the way, nobody ever said that, OK? They didn’t say you were a savage or an animal. ‘I was very concerned effing ICE would be outside my concert.’ You mean the Super Bowl? It’s kind of our concert.” – Newsmax host Greg Kelly.
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You don't say, Greg? Then read your hero's bullshit once in a while:
"Savages, Animals": Donald Trump Demonises Migrants In Misleading Speech
..."Trump delivered as divisive a speech as he has ever given, wildly exaggerating local tensions and misleading his audience about immigration statistics and policy."
"The incident spurred sweeping, false narratives about the town in the Denver suburbs being terrorized by Latin American migrants -- fueling Trump's election message that the United States is overrun by what he calls "savages" and "animals."
Greg Kelly? He looks a little "QUEER" to me! These moron miscreant's bigoted brains see queer in everything!
Peter Thiel, Scott Bessent, Ric Grenell are a few of his own he should ask about this issue.
Trump runs risk of 'devastating' GOP's midterm chances with new military conflict — Ewan Gleadow
Collinson wrote, "Iran, the seat of the ancient Persian civilization, is more contiguous and less plagued by sectarian divides than Iraq — which splintered after the US invasion in 2003. But no one wants to test the impact of a power vacuum if the government falls, in the absence of any clear path to a return to democracy.
"And the short, sharp thunderclap strike of the type Trump prefers and that doesn’t conflict with the no-foreign-quagmires mantra of his MAGA movement may not be sufficient to topple the clerical regime in Tehran.
"But a longer military engagement with uncertain consequences would severely test Americans’ trust in their president. A war that went wrong could devastate Republicans in November’s already unpromising midterm elections."...
"Iraq? Iran is 4 times the size of Iraq with 3 times the population and a large military industrial complex. Iran makes enough drones to supply Russia.
I wonder what Trump's plan is when Iran closes the straights of Hormuz and a quarter of the world's oil supply is cut off. All they needr to do is post a notice to mariners oil tankers will be fired on. Loyds of London will cancel transit insurance instantly. No one is taking a billion dollar tanker with a billion dollars in oil anywhere uninsured." — musicman80 (comments)
'Mortifying': Fury as Trump demands Dulles and Penn Station renamed after himself
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What's next, "The United States of Trump, Inc." We are total fucking dumb suckers for putting up with his insanity.
FL Podcaster With Trump Tattoo Faces Deportation
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Photo of the mentally impaired.
Gavin Newsom To Louisiana AG: “Go F*ck Yourself”
The New Orleans Times-Picayune reports:
The threat of a court battle turned into a social media spat Thursday night between Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill and California Gov. Gavin Newsom. Murrill said Wednesday that the state is preparing to file suit against Newsom and New York Gov. Kathy Hochul to force those states to extradite doctors who face criminal charges for mailing pills to Louisiana for abortions.
"If they gave a damn about children in the south they would fully fund healthcare and education. Oh wait, that's right...most of them are broke and dependent on blue state welfare money." — Oh, Parker (comments)
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Exactly what one should tell a retarded idiot!
What is the difference between an embryo, a fetus, and a baby?
Most of this I learned in 7th grade science class! That's been long ago!
Blackburn Demands Probe Into Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson For Attending Grammy Awards As A Nominee
The New York Post reports:
Sen. Marsha Blackburn urged Chief Justice John Roberts to launch an investigation into liberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson over her attendance at the Grammy Awards on Sunday.
Jackson, a longtime theater lover, was there because she had been nominated for a Grammy for narrating the audiobook version of her memoir, “Lovely One,” but Blackburn raised impartiality concerns due to anti-ICE jokes during the politically charged award show.
"Fuck off and die ya stupid cunt." — Luke - my beautiful Luke (comments)
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Nothing to see here but another hateful and mentally crippled white woman showing us who she is.
Is she claiming the Grammys are subversive? Marsha can go back to hell where she came from.
Trump Admin Whitewashes Medgar Evers Monument
The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument. Among the anticipated changes? No longer calling his murderer a “racist.” Edits to the brochure have removed that reference to Byron De La Beckwith, according to Park Service officials, who asked not to be named for fear of retribution. Other edits include eliminating the reference to Medgar Evers lying in a pool of blood after being shot.
"Burghum is a white supremacist monster and a fascist Nazi." — TK (comments)
"How fucking dare they?!?!" — Mark Brack (comments)
"Those rotten bastards! they think people will forget (part of plan 25?)
but we won't. Millions will remember, and they will remember names. Especially burgum, hegthsico, bessent. esp bessent" — new Jamieboy Highballs (comments)
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The racist piece of shit murderer of Medgar Evans is not worthy to be named. The piles of Trump racist shit Nazis that bless his name wil pay dearly for their crime.
Trump is way beyond the bounderies of decnecy and beyond the position of POTUS! He must be stopped!
Medgar is still a pawn in their goddamned game!
Pardoned J6 Rioter/US Senate Candidate Jake Lang Arrested For Destroying MN Anti-ICE Sculpture [VIDEO]
A “Prosecute ICE’ sculpture commissioned by a veterans organization and staged Thursday on the steps of the Minnesota State Capitol was destroyed by a man pardoned for his participation in the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
Jake Lang, a candidate for U.S. Senate in Florida and organizer of an anti-Islam demonstration in Minneapolis last month, posted video to his social media account showing him kicking down several letters from the sculpture that had spelled “Prosecute ICE” to spell ‘Pro ICE.”
That came hours after veterans held a news conference alongside the ice sculpture voicing their concern over the federal immigration enforcement crackdown in Minnesota. They also urged members of Congress to cut funding to the Department of Homeland Security. On his X account, Lang said he had been arrested on a felony charge in Ramsey County. Lang was booked into the Ramsey County Jail Thursday afternoon.
"Every last one of the shitheads pardoned by Trump viewed that as an eternal “get out of jail free” card that would allow them to break any rules they want.
It’s telling that most of them responded to that delusion by trying to rape children." — Cerbuerus137 (coments)
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This time put the Trump scumbag away for life!
More Epstein Ties; The Billionaire & The MAGA Pres Candidate — Cliff Schecter
This unchecked economic power fuels abuse, corruption, and authoritarian politics, in the U.S. and abroad. In other words, it's all connected and the ties run much deeper than you think...
The Epstein Files have exposed a sick system, not just a man. A cabal of elitist predators, with new ones outed every day. Epstein was enabled by this network, which included billionaires, financial institutions, & political figures who protected one another, laundered reputations, and escaped accountability. Systemic rot, you could say.
A group of super-predators united not just by their vicious exploitation of young girls, but in every sense of the word predators. From the vulture capitalists taking over your company to steal your job, pension and home, to freedom-snatching dictators robbing us of our rights and starting wars for profit.
As we witnessed with two murders in broad daylight in Minneapolis, oligarchy breeds moral impunity. Extreme wealth concentration creates entitlement, as some are seemingly above the law. This unchecked economic power fuels abuse, corruption, and authoritarian politics, in the U.S. and abroad. In other words, it's all connected and the ties run much deeper than you think...
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And in a retarded workd who thinks anymore?
Outrage after Trump overnight Truth Social spree includes AI video of Obamas as monkeys — Alex Henderson
The Guardian reported, "The racist depiction of the Obamas – the first Black president and first lady in American history – appears at the end of a one-minute video perpetuating the false and disproven claims that ballot-counting company Dominion Voting Systems helped steal the 2020 presidential election from Trump. The company in 2023 settled for $787.5m with Fox News in a landmark defamation lawsuit."In a February 6 post n X, economist and PAICE CEO Lars Christenen wrote, "THIS is the US. Americans maybe you should get your act together and have this man removed. It is shameful."
David Jolly, a former Republican congressman and Never Trump conservative, argued that the Obamas post underscores a broader problem in the GOP.
Jolly tweeted, "Folks, this election is no longer about policy - it's about our national identity, about who we are. The President depicting the Obamas as monkeys, a Florida gubernatorial candidate unleashing antisemitism and cheered for it, another peddling Islamophobia, ICE agents detaining a 5 year old in bunny ears and a Spiderman backpack, the whitewashing of credible allegations in the Epstein files…. It's vile."
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As stated many time during Trump's lunatic binge, he's a total disgrace to America to humanity!
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It's past time to end him for good!
Grandpa Trump Goes Off The Rails At National Prayer Breakfast — Conover Kennard
Trump, a diapered old man who wears lifts in his shoes to be taller, said that now "We have a military where they all look like Tom Cruise."
Of course, he insisted, "We brought back the word 'Christmas." Sure thing, buddy, but children can only have 2 dolls and a few pencils. The Christmas meal can consist of a piece of chicken, a piece of broccoli, a tortilla, and one other thing, according to Trump's Agriculture Secretary, Brooke Rollins.
Trump gave House Speaker Mike Johnson a Christian shoutout, saying, "He'll say to me sometimes at lunch, 'Sir, may we pray?' I'll say, 'Excuse me? We're having lunch."
Oh boy. Trump attempted to introduce the president of the Congo, but forgot his name.
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His worshippers think he's a comedian. He's a bad joke!
Johnson: Democrats Want To Make It Easy To Cheat In Elections — Chris capper Liebenthal
PAVLICH: ...people like Chuck Schumer, who's the head Democrat in the Senate, so viscerally opposed to showing citizenship in order to cast a ballot in elections.
ROJO: Democrats want to make it easy to cheat. Let's be honest, let's lay the cards on the table.
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All the cards this asshole wants to lay on the table are marked!
Go back to the place in hell you came from!
Musician Ben Folds: Kennedy Center is 'being held hostage' by Trump — Sarah K. Burris
Singer-songwriter and legendary musician Ben Folds slammed President Donald Trump's recent takeover of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts saying he's making a good thing awful.
MS NOW host Chris Jansing asked what Folds knew about the future of the institution. Folds said that they are clearly no longer trying to elevate the arts. He added that no one he knows was aware that the Kennedy Center would be closing for two years.
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He's holding America and the free world hostage as well.
Trump admin torpedoes relationship with major ally over Nobel Peace Prize comment — Thomas Kika
Donald Trump's obsession with winning the Nobel Peace Prize is being blamed for "effectively blowing up" negotiations between the U.S., after an announcement from the Polish ambassador on social media.
On Thursday, U.S. Ambassador to Poland Tom Rose took to X to announce that the U.S. would be ceasing all contact with the Marshal, or speaker, of the Sejm, the lower chamber of Poland's parliament. Rose cited "unprovoked insults" made by the marshal towards Trump.
"Effective immediately, we will have no further dealings, contacts, or communications with Marshal of the Sejm [Wlodzimierz] Czarzasty whose outrageous and unprovoked insults directed against President Trump ... has made himself a serious impediment to our excellent relations with Prime Minister [Donald] Tusk and his government," Rose's post read. "We will not permit anyone to harm U.S.–Polish relations, nor disrespect [Trump], who has done so much for Poland and the Polish people."
Rose's account did not specify the specifics about what Trump has done to help "Poland and the Polish people."
In a recent address to the press, Czarzasty said that Trump did not deserve the Nobel Peace Prize, citing his recent threats against Europe and NATO during his campaign to annex Greenland from Denmark. In addition to those threats, he also specifically singled out Trump's insinuation that NATO forces from Europe did not fight with the U.S. on the front lines in Afghanistan.
"This is a breach of the politics of principles and values, often a breach of international law," Czarzasty said....
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Trump is going to piss off the wrong person and get a real surprise when he's looking out for those missles that might hit AF1!
Trump’s brain is 'deteriorating disproportionately' — and it’s getting worse: psychiatrist — Sarah K. Burris
Experts are weighing in on President Donald Trump's mental and physical health after his first year in office.
Speaking with iPaper, Dr. John Gartner, American psychologist, psychiatrist and former assistant professor at John Hopkins Medical School, explained, "the main way to diagnose dementia is that we see a deterioration from someone’s own baseline in these four areas: language, memory, behaviour, and psychomotor performance."
His swollen ankles and feet, along with his bruised hands, have sparked conversation about the oldest president ever inaugurated. While the White House claims Trump takes too much aspirin and suffers from chronic venous insufficiency, there continue to be questions about his mental decline as well.
Since taking office, Trump has bragged that he's taken multiple cognitive tests. Such testing appeared to have begun in 2018, according to a New York Times report at the time. In January, Trump revealed that he had taken three cognitive tests in December.
Dr. Vin Gupta said that there appears to be a “symmetry” between the president’s recent behavior and early warning signs of the disease, as quoted by the Huffington Post last month.
Trump's constant claims that former President Joe Biden was in cognitive and physical decline only highlight questions about himself and his own health problems.
Trump recently acknowledged undergoing a CT scan, after initially misstating it as an MRI, with doctors saying it was to rule out cardiovascular problems and showed no abnormalities.
Fred Trump Sr. suffered from Alzheimer’s disease, so some are raising questions about whether the family history could be impacting the president.
"Trump hit back last month in an interview, claiming that while his father had Alzheimer’s, he did not. However, in doing so, he forgot the name of the disease," the site stated.
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Which is more insane? Trump or the country that elected him president?
Epstein survivors feel 'deep sense of betrayal' by Trump’s DOJ over redaction failures — Thomas Kika
Survivors of deceased sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein feel a "deep sense of betrayal" from the Department of Justice, according to a Thursday report from CNN, ripping the agency for failing to redact pieces of their personal information and accusing it of continuing to cover for their abusers.
The DOJ on Friday released what it said would be the last tranche of files related to its investigation into Epstein and his crimes, well over a month past the deadline set for it by Congress. While the agency claimed that the extra time was needed to properly and completely redact sensitive information, including the details of victims, journalists combing through the new pages have nonetheless found countless pieces of identifying information for numerous victims.
Speaking with CNN, some of these victims and their legal teams ripped the DOJ for this failure.
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Trump is a moral disgrace to hunan kind and to our country. His Crime Syndicate allows him to stay in office.
Debí Leer Más TABS. Tabs, Thurs., Feb. 5, 2026 — Evan Hurst
Yeah, Ron Wyden is telling us something here, something very bad. Is that related to the whistleblower report Tulsi Gabbard is burying? Inquiring minds!
Meanwhile, apparently Tulsi spent time last year rooting around voting machines in Puerto Rico to see if she could find ways to accuse Venezuela of RIGGED and STOLLEN there. Might seem weird, since they don’t get a vote for president, but Puerto Rico might be a good place to rifle around and try stuff out, you know, if you’re trying to figure out ways to steal elections for Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin without much oversight. [CNN]
Only 25 percent of Americans believe Trump and his regime are telling the truth about the ICE murder of Alex Pretti. You know, in case you need a reminder that actually Americans are not buying their bullshit. [Quinnipiac]
JD Vance agrees with Donald Trump that Kaitlan Collins should chill out and smile more when she’s asking about child rape....
No hell hot enough for any of these motherfuckers.
Judge Tells Trump To Stop ‘Beating a Dead Horse’ in Bid To Overturn Felony Convictions — Sarah K. Burris
President Donald Trump is still fighting his 34 felony convictions in New York, one legal analyst wrote on Wednesday, but they're not likely to succeed.
In his "All Rise News," long-time legal reporter Adam Klasfeld wrote that after nearly three hours of arguments, U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein — an appointee of former President Bill Clinton — was over it.
“I think we are beating a dead horse,” he said.
A jury found Trump guilty of falsifying business records to hide his hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels during his 2016 campaign....
As a convicted felony, Trump would have some challenges, the Law Dictionary outlines. In Virginia he wouldn't be able to vote, but as a non-violent offender Trump's voting rights remain in tact in Florida. Many countries don't allow felons to travel to their country. Canada, for example would require a background check and could still deny a felon entrance. Some states bar a felon from possession of a gun, and Florida is one of them, KBTX reported in 2025. In some jobs being a felon would preclude a person from that job, such as the U.S. Armed Forces. That hasn't been a problem for Trump, who was elected despite being convicted of 34 felonies.
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"...convicted of 34 felonies."The eternal disgrace of the American voter.
Over 70,000 People Detained in 225 Concentration Camps, With Plans to Double Them: Why Isn’t This a National Emergency? — Thom Hartmann
...But what do you call a place where people who’ve committed no criminal offense (immigration violations are civil, not criminal, infractions)? The fine dictionary people at Merriam-Webster note the proper term is “concentration camp”:
“[A] place where large numbers of people (such as prisoners of war, political prisoners, refugees, or the members of an ethnic or religious minority) are detained or confined under armed guard.”...
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These Trump concentration camps were predicted by the Land of the Happy Negro Web site when Trump assumed office.
Texas Pastor Charged With Indecency With Minor
Uh-oh! Another Texas diddler!
“Troyce Hernandez 50, of Kennedale, who also goes by ‘Troy Hernandez’, was arrested by Irving Police on Tuesday, January 27, 2026.
“…Hernandez is a well-known figure in the local religious community. Along with his wife, he founded True Grace Church in 2014.”
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Another Xianist bites the dust!
California Pastor Arrested On Child Sex Charges
Los Angeles’s NBC affiliate reports:
Junior Andrew Bennett was arrested on suspicion of child sex abuse after allegedly using his role as head Pastor of Breakthrough Church to target minors. According to SBSD, the suspect, who was known as Prophet Junior Bennett, used his title to “manipulate minors and ultimately sexually assault them.”
Bennett faces charges that include sodomy of a minor, lewd acts with a child and oral copulation of a minor. Detectives say there may be other victims.
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Oh, I'm certain they will find that he wasn't a Drag Queen!
Michigan Youth Pastor Arrested On Child Sex Charges
The Montcalm Daily News reports:
A local church youth group leader was arrested after an Ionia County Sheriff’s Office investigation revealed two decades of alleged sexual abuse involving multiple victims. Trent Wesley Creighton, 53, of Clarksville turned himself into authorities on Jan. 14, and remains in custody at the Ionia County Jail.
According to the Sheriff’s Office, Creighton’s victims were minors at the time of the alleged incidents, which took place over the last two decades in local churches that Creighton attended and was actively involved with, including work with youth groups.
The Sheriff’s investigation into Creighton began on Oct. 2, 2025, and culminated in his Jan. 14 arrest on charges of first-degree criminal sexual conduct and aggravated indecent exposure.
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Another Xianist bites the dust!
COPS: Texas Pastor Sexually Assaulted Teen At Gym
Lubbock’s Fox affiliate reports:
Reymundo Almaraz, 70, was taken into custody after multiple members of the public identified him as the suspect in the assault at the TruFit gym located near 82nd Street and Slide Road. A teenager told investigators he was at the gym working out with his girlfriend when he went to the locker room to use the restroom. While waiting for a stall, the victim reported seeing Almaraz in his underwear, appearing to watch or record another teenager in the locker room.
According to the police report, the situation escalated after the victim entered a bathroom stall. Almaraz allegedly entered the adjacent stall, repeatedly placed his leg under the partition, and demanded to be let into the victim’s stall. The victim told police that after he eventually exited the stall, Almaraz cornered him in a dressing room, blocked the door with a chair, and locked it. The report states Almaraz held the teenager in place, made several sexual demands, and sexually assaulted him.
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Texas? Sure thing!
Hillary Clinton To Comer: “If You Want This Fight, Let’s Hold It In Public, We’ll Be There With The Cameras On”
Yahoo News reports:
Hillary Clinton has thrown down a direct public challenge to House Oversight Committee chair James Comer (R-KY), daring him told hold her upcoming Jeffrey Epstein deposition hearing in front of cameras. In a pointed post on X on Thursday, the former secretary of state accused Republicans of dragging out their investigation into Epstein before calling out Comer specifically.
The remarks came days after the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform confirmed that Clinton will sit for a deposition on February 26, followed by her husband, former President Bill Clinton, the next day. Republicans have framed the appearances as a victory after threatening contempt proceedings, claiming the Clintons delayed compliance with subpoenas.
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"We’ll just put some bleachers out in the sun
And have it on Highway 61" — Highway 61 Revisited, Bob Dylan
Trump: “I Don’t Like Sleeping On Planes Because I Like Looking Out Of Window Watching For Missiles” [VIDEO]
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Paranoia strikes deep! Does he have radar for eyesight? He would never see the one that hit him!
Bachmann: “Handsome” Trump Is Hotter Than Newsom
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"'I'll make candysticks of you!"' cried the witch.
Put them on the bill in Trump's coming cage match and let's find out!
And my dad can whip your dad!
Trump stupefies with interview reply: 'Everyone in that room should've died from laughter' — Travis Getty
The world's greatest whiner!
WH: We’re Placing 35-Foot Gold Statue Of Columbus Because The “Woke Fake News” Tried To Destroy Him
"'Delivering for America' - but not lower costs of living, just a big statute that he was loaned." — ASFT (comments)
"Let there be no doubt that we are living through the absolutely stupidest time to be alive." — Meacham (X)
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Good Lord! Trump is far more retarded than anyone imagined. This is most certainly proof!
CIA Ends Publication Of Manual On Foreign Nations
Politico reports:
Close the cover on the CIA World Factbook: The spy agency announced Wednesday that after more than 60 years, it is shuttering the popular reference manual....
First launched in 1962 as a printed, classified reference manual for intelligence officers, the Factbook offered a detailed, by-the-numbers picture of foreign nations, their economies, militaries, resources and societies.
"Less accessible data/information? Perfect way to dumb down your citizenry." -- Ed B (comments)
"Well, thus is stupid and short sighted
But then what isn’t in this regime? -- Todd20036 (comments)
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Don't worry, stay stupid!
"...Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs or the names of state capitals or how much corn Iowa grew last year. Cram them full of non-combustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely `brilliant' with information. Then they'll feel they're thinking, they'll get a sense of motion without moving. And they'll be happy, because facts of that sort don't change. Don't give them any slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy. Any man who can take a TV wall apart and put it back together again, and most men can nowadays, is happier than any man who tries to slide-rule, measure, and equate the universe, which just won't be measured or equated without making man feel bestial and lonely. I know, I've tried it; to hell with it. So bring on your clubs and parties, your acrobats and magicians, your dare-devils, jet cars, motor-cycle helicopters, your sex and heroin, more of everything to do with automatic reflex. If the drama is bad, if the film says nothing, if the play is hollow, sting me with the theremin, loudly. I'll think I'm responding to the play, when it's only a tactile reaction to vibration. But I don't care. I just like solid entertainment."
— Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury, 1953,br>
Virginia Governor Ends Police Cooperation With ICE
The Washington Post reports:
Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) took additional steps Wednesday to distance state law enforcement agencies from federal immigration operations, ordering the end of partnership agreements and condemning federal operations in other states as undermining public confidence.
“Sadly, the bad tactics, the bad training, the bad vetting that we have seen … in places like Minnesota — that is degrading trust in law enforcement,” Spanberger told reporters in a brief news conference.
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The U.S. does NOT recognize terrorists of any color or creed!
ICE Draws Guns At Peaceful Protesters In Minneapolis -- NewsHound Ellen
It doesn’t look like much has changed after the ouster of Commander Greg Bovino.
The AP agrees with me. It reported, “Immigration officers with guns drawn arrested some activists who were trailing their vehicles on Tuesday in Minneapolis, a sign that tensions have not eased since the departure last week of a high-profile commander.”
That seems to be a reference to the incident below. In the video, an ICE agent justifies the drawn guns by saying that one of the observers had previously made a hand gesture of drawing a gun and pointing it at ICE. That's right, a hand gesture.
"Miller and trump want that behavior to force Martial law.
Where's the national Guard?.....
Senator Nadler suggested today people start shooting back.....stupid thing to say at this point....
but masked men with guns shoving people to the ground is domestic terrorism and our fucking military are tasked with protecting us. Demand Minnesota and other states contact the chief of staffs of our Noble and Proud armed forces and ask what has to happen before they do what they're supposed to be doing by protecting the people of America. Motherfucking fascists." — GWB2 (comments)
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A hand gesture? Like pointing a finger? They mean like Trump always does? Grow a set! They are simply chickenshit hoods with badges!
Lawmakers Are Joining Together To De-ICE Their States
Dozens of state lawmakers from across the country are standing together against ICE and with Minnesota.
https://crooksandliars.com/2026/02/lawmakers-are-joining-together-de-ice --Chris capper Liebenthal
Dozens of state lawmakers from states ranging from Maine to New Mexico have seen the terrorism being inflicted upon Minnesota. They want everyone in Minnesota and the rest of the country to know that they are standing united against this threat:
These lawmakers are done waiting for members of Congress and are taking matters into their own hands to protect their states.
As TPM reports, Michigan is home to a swirl of political, legislative, and immigration dynamics that makes it a hotspot for ICE-related activity and activism as President Donald Trump’s federal immigration enforcement apparatus reaches new, violent lows. Public desire for ICE to be reformed — or outright abolished — is reaching new highs. And, while the future of actions to rein in ICE at the congressional level remains murky, blue and purple states like Michigan are moving ahead on their own.
State Futures is an organization creating a multi-state coalition along shared political and policy priorities. They are tracking at least 85 ICE-related bills in nationwide state legislatures, said Montana State. Sen. Cora Neumann, a Democrat, at a press event held by the organization this week.
At least seven such bills have been proposed in New York, along with several in Washington, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and New Jersey. Championed by Democrats, the anti-ICE bills are emerging in red and blue states alike.
We cannot let the Trump crime syndicate divide and conquer us as they are trying to do. We also have to make it hard to be a fascist before they make it hard for us not to.
Vance Scoffs At Apologizing To Pretti Family: For What?
The Daily Mail reports:
JD Vance has refused to apologize to the family of Alex Pretti after he amplified claims that the slain Minneapolis nurse was an “assassin.” The Vice President sat down with the Daily Mail on Tuesday, where he refused to admit any wrongdoing over spreading White House claims that Pretti, who was shot dead by ICE last month, intended to kill law enforcement.
Vance reposted allegations on X broadcast by White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, branding the nurse “an assassin” who “tried to murder federal agents.” When asked by the Mail if he would apologize for endorsing Miller’s statement, Vance shot back: “For what?”
“If something is determined that the guy who shot Alex Pretti did something bad, then a lot of consequences are going to flow from that. We’ll let that happen,” Vance said. “I don’t think it’s smart to prejudge the investigation.”
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Slack jawed and addle-brained is no way to go through life, J.D. Smart you are certainly not.
WH Falsely Claims Man Committed Child Sex Crimes
NOTUS reports:
The White House falsely labeled a man as having committed child sex crimes in one of several erroneous graphics posted Jan. 26 on its X account about immigrants detained in Minnesota. The thread of images posted to the White House’s X account was deleted after NOTUS asked about the apparent errors. The mistake comes as the Trump administration continues to face scrutiny for posting false and at times intentionally misleading information on its social media accounts....
Idaho Youth Pastor Gets Life For Child Sexual Abuse
Boise’s NBC affiliate reports:
A Meridian youth pastor was sentenced to life in prison for sexual abuse of a minor this week. Isaiah Teague, 25, will serve a minimum of 20 years following a guilty plea to a felony charge of lewd and lascivious conduct with a minor. He was accused of five separate counts of sexually abusive conduct.
Teague was arrested in June 2025 after reports of contact with the 14-year-old victim for over a year. According to the prosecutor’s office, Teague sexually assaulted the victim multiple times and threatened the victim, saying he could make her “disappear” if she told anyone.
The abuse began inside his home while his wife and child were sleeping nearby. According to the prosecutor’s office, Teague admitted to the actions, which he repeatedly characterized as consensual. In Idaho, the age of consent is 18.
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Another one bites the dust. Score: Xianist child molesters -Ininite! Drag Queens - 0.
‘Sickening’: Ex-WaPo Leader Nukes Jeff Bezos From Orbit Over Sweeping Layoffs — Isaac Schorr
Marty Baron, the executive editor of The Washington Post from January 2013 to December 2021, released a scathing statement about the sweeping layoffs implemented at the Post on Wednesday, mincing no words about his old boss, owner Jeff Bezos.
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Destroying one of our last great newspapers was a mission for him.
Time to put this pilferer out of business.
Bernie Sanders Laughs Out Loud at Trump Over Election Takeover Rant: ‘Mr. Integrity Who Provoked an Insurrection! — Tommy Christopher
Sen. Sanders laughed and mocked Trump’s talk about “honest” elections:
...COLLINS: Why — what were you laughing?
SANDERS: Because I was thinking about this guy, on the phone, after the 2020 election, talking to the Secretary of State in Georgia, and saying to him, All I need, get me a 11,000 — whatever it is — votes that I can win Georgia.
This is Mr. Honesty and Mr. Integrity, who provoked an insurrection on January 6th, so that the election would be overturned. The idea that anyone would trust, for one minute, this guy running an honest election would be beyond comprehension. Not to mention that obviously he has not read the Constitution of the United States, which has states running elections, not the federal government.
COLLINS: I think every place he listed, those were states he lost in 2020.
SANDERS: What a shock. And no doubt that every state he won was perfectly honest, no problem Just the states that he lost.
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Trump is a criminal. Of this there is no doubt as he is a convicted felon and a disgrace to our nation. He is a fraud and he will fail bigly! The whole wide world knows this!
A Mississippi Synagogue Was Attacked in 1967 and 2026. The Antisemitic Rhetoric Looked the Same Then and Now. — Jennifer Berry Hawes
In July of 1968, Samuel Bowers sat down in his office with fingers poised over his typewriter keys, thoughts filled with fury. As founder and imperial wizard of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, he cut a charismatic figure, though one with a militant Christian faith and a hate-filled mind. Just a day earlier, police had killed one of his most trusted assassins and severely injured another....
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Ahh! De dear ole Land of the Happy Negro being inclusive with their hatred!
CNN host astonished by voters' 'slap in the face' to Trump in new polls — Travis Gettys
CNN's Sara Sidner was astonished by new polling that shows a deepening mistrust for President Donald Trump's commitment to democracy.
The 79-year-old president proposed that Republicans nationalize and take over elections in at least 15 states, just days after the FBI and his spy chief Tulsi Gabbard raided a Georgia election facility seeking evidence of 2020 election fraud that has been repeatedly debunked, and data analyst Harry Enten told "CNN News Central" that voters don't trust his intentions.
"They trust him about as much as they trust him to be modest," Enten said. "I mean, just take a look at these numbers right here. I think this gives the game away. Trump committed to free and fair elections, this is among all adults. What you see is just 43 percent of Americans actually do believe that Donald Trump is committed to free and fair elections. The clear majority, 56 percent, say no, no, no, no. They do not believe that Donald Trump is committed to free and fair elections."
"I will note it is the opposite for the Democratic Party, where you see the majority of Americans believe the Democratic Party is committed to free and fair elections," he added, "but they do not trust Donald Trump when it comes to his commitment to free and fair elections."
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Such absolutely stunning news. Makes one think someone was born yesterday.
ICE Was Terrorizing Worshipers Long Before Don Lemon Entered a Church — Adrian Carrasquillo
WHEN DON LEMON WAS ARRESTED after reporting on the aggressive protest of a church whose pastor allegedly works for ICE, the Trump administration claimed that Lemon and another journalist present at the event had violated federal laws meant, in part, to shield churches from having their services disrupted.
The administration’s message was clear: Disrupting church services and taking away the right of others to worship freely and in peace is unconscionable. How dare protesters infringe on those congregants’ First Amendment rights! Who would do such a thing?
Well, one of the first things this White House did after Donald Trump’s second inauguration was to rescind the 2021 guideline that required CBP and ICE agents to do everything in their power to avoid conducting operations in or near “protected areas” like churches, hospitals, and schools.
It wasn’t long before agents were showing up at just those sorts of places in the apparent hope of surprising their targets. And over the past year of increasingly cruel immigration enforcement actions, a hallmark of the administration’s deportation campaign has been operating close to formerly “protected” areas to create an atmosphere of anxiety—one that has kept worshipers, documented and not, from attending church services for fear of being grabbed and disappeared to a detention center in another state without access to counsel or family. (This, it’s worth mentioning, is precisely the outcome the rescinded 2021 guidance was intended to prevent.)
According to a multi-bylined story in the National Catholic Reporter published late last year, DHS hadn’t yet raided a church building, “but immigration agents have arrested immigrants on or near church property in at least a dozen instances so far” following the administration’s move to end the protected areas policy....
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Fascism is a repressive and filthy system. Abolish it forever!
Is Trump Rebuilding the Confederacy, Starting With the Slave Patrols? — Thom Hartmann
ICE thugs dragged a Minnesota woman out of her car and assaulted her, stopping only when local police showed up, leaving her with cuts and bruises from being dragged on the ground. Her “crime” was following and tracking Trump’s violent, racist, masked federal modern-day Klan goons.
Joe Scarborough expressed the shock and outrage of most Americans, when he said:
“This is so out of control, and it looks like a paramilitary force from the third world! And so [the] police chief – not Antifa, Republicans, not Antifa, liars on the right – she calls the police to ask for help in America from paramilitary-type officers. It’s disgusting!”
What Scarborough and most Americans probably don’t know — particularly since Reagan gutted Civics education — is that this is nothing new for America.
Between the 1830s and the 1860s the American South ceased to be a democracy altogether, more closely resembling a Nazi-style race-based fascist oligarchy.
Thus, Trump and today’s Republican Party aren’t offering something new. They’re simply resurrecting the old Confederacy — something factions within the GOP have demanded for years — dressing it up in the trappings of modern politics and media.
They’re not so much expressing nostalgia for Dixie as much as they’re engaging in a deliberate effort to bring back the very systems that tore our nation apart the last time the morbidly rich tried to end our democratic republic and replace it with an early fascist form of neo-feudalism.
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Tell me, is that the Land of the Happy Negro to which he refers? Absolutely!
Texas Tech struggles with new rules that changed what students learn about race, gender, sexuality — Jessica Priest
The system’s chancellor meant to instill clarity and accountability, but three weeks into the spring semester, some instructors say the standards have led to “censorship.”
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Welcome to your new Gulag state.
Trumper So Inspired By Ice Goons He Attacked 'Foreign' People For Free. No Need To Thank Him! — Doktor Zoom
Charles Simmons of Winston, Oregon, in a Facebook photo, December 11, 2025. I misread his shirt’s slogan as ‘Make America Golly Again,’ but it’s ‘Godly.’ Simmons been charged with 17 criminal counts after his weird freeway rampage last week.
Donald Trump continues to inspire his followers to do what they’re pretty sure is their part in making America white again, even if that involves breaking a few laws against assault, attempted carjacking, and firing guns at complete strangers. But hey, higher purpose, man. At least this time, nobody was murdered.
In Oregon, Charles Simmons, a 53-year-old MAGA dude, went on a bizarre crime spree last Thursday on Interstate 5, the west’s major north-south freeway. He was super upset about immigration, and before his Dipshit Derby, called state police to complain he’d seen “foreign” people driving on the freeway, presumably a crime that needed punishing. After causing several accidents (no serious injuries as far as we can tell) and shooting at people (nobody hit, thank Crom), he’s been charged with 17 crimes and is being investigated for possible bias crime charges as well.
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Another insane and deadly Trump Nazi retard. The gift that keeps on giving!
'Takes your breath away': Ex-GOP insider warns James Comer act will backfire spectacularly — Travis Gettys
MS NOW's Joe Scarborough warned Republicans that House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) has established a precedent that's certain to backfire.
The Kentucky Republican has compelled the testimony of Bill and Hillary Clinton later this month about their association with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, but the "Morning Joe" host said that opens the door to forcing President Donald Trump to testify about his own lengthy friendship with the late financier.
"Anyway, that's going to happen, and it's going to happen not only to Donald Trump, it's going to happen to [Commerce Secretary] Howard Lutnick," Scarborough said. "Get your subpoena boots on, Howard, because you're going to be going thanks to James Comer to the Hill after Democrats take control. Howard Lutnick, the commerce secretary who lied about his connections with Epstein – Elon Musk, same there. He's going to be subpoenaed by Congress because he lied about his contacts with Jeffrey Epstein. Donald Trump, as you said, going to be brought in because none other than Elon Musk said that Donald Trump was was all over the Epstein files, and that's, quote, the real reason they've not been released. Thank you for that Elon Musk."
"Trump is going after ELEVEN Western states to try to seize their ballot boxes! Then, Trump would 're-run' the election, KGB-style with Mike "KGB" Flynn in charge. It's soooo transparent and typically HAM-HANDED Russian tradecraft." — Mary Hedman (comments)
(actually, Trump said 15 but who's counting)
"Some people are dumb, yes, and also decent. Not so for Comer. He's dumb as a stump & a cruel, nasty shit." — SteveG (comments)
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Setting bad precedents are not good for presidents.
Bannon: “We’re Gonna Have ICE Surround The Polls”
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He's going to shit and fall back in it!
Cultist Charged With Assaulting Teen At ICE Protest
Austin’s CBS affiliate reports:
A 45-year-old man has been arrested after a student protest in Buda on Monday escalated into a violent confrontation. Buda police identified 45-year-old Chad Michael Watts of Kyle as the primary aggressor in a fight with a minor during a walkout by hundreds of Hays CISD students on Monday, protesting immigration and law enforcement operations. Watts faces two counts of assault causing bodily injury....
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They are deporting the wrong people!
"There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you." — Woody Hayes
Put "Hot Wheels" Abbott and his Nazi bullies on a spaceship to nowhere which is where they came from!
Nicki Minaj: “I Don’t Think We Landed On The Moon”
"Bitches ain’t shit and they ain’t saying nothing
A hundred mothafuckas can’t tell me nothing
I beez in the trap, be-beez in the trap
Save those lyrics for the next time the cult screams about 'vulgar' language." — Joe.My.God (comments)
"I wish they'd ask her about her husband and brother being convicted sex offenders. Her brother is serving 25 years to life for Sexual Assault of an 11 year old girl and her husband has been in trouble for probation violation and failing to register as a sex offender. Nicki is not a citizen, why hasn't she been deported? Oh...wait...she has $$$ and supports Trump." — TexasBoy (comments)
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Like RFK we should put her on the next rocket to the moon! Same with all the retards.
Baby’s Death Blamed On Mother Drinking Raw Milk
NBC News reports:
Health officials in New Mexico are warning against consuming raw dairy products after a newborn baby in the state died from a listeria infection that they say was likely contracted when the baby’s mother drank raw milk during pregnancy
"This all reminds me of the closing scene in the movie, Time Bandits, in which a little boy is, more or less, kidnapped by time traveling pirates. It is an amusing movie, but at the very end, he is reunited with his parents. They are standing over the Big Bad Thing (sorry, I don't remember what it is), and he shouts to them, "Mum! Dad! Don't touch that! It's evil!" And they promptly touch it and are obliterated.
People are being told again and again, Don't drink raw milk, it can harm you. And then they do it anyway. And it harms them. At this point, I have no more fucks to give." — madknits (comments)
"I doubt 50% of adult Americans even know what pasteurization means. They likely think chemicals are added." — TexasBoy (comments)
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The retarded doing their retarded mission.
Another RFK, Jr related death. Put his stinking ass on the next spaceship to the edge of nowhere!
Critics Resurface Kid Rock’s Tribute To Statutory Rape
Verse 3. “Young ladies, young ladies, I like ‘em underage,” Rock sings on the track. “See some say that’s statutory.” His sidekick at the time, the late Joe-C then chimes in, “But I say it’s mandatory.”
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How about the photo of the two clowns in the oval office. Whew!
From Warrants To Whims: ICE Enters Homes On Trump’s Say-So — Cliff Schecter
The colonists found these encounters repugnant. The 4th amendment was their way of saying: never again. ICE’s memo is the modern Trump reply: just watch us.
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They will only try this Nazi shit show in states where the gun laws give them the upper hand. Shoot-outs will be avoided that way. But Trump is shitting on the Constituion and American rights. He should be arrested.
Bad Bunny Having Best Week Of His Life, And MAGA Trash Is So Mad
If you’ve seen grown adults out in the wild this week typing things like “More like Woke Carrot!” and “Who?” and “I’m going to watch Kid Rock instead, JEALOUS?” then congratulations, you found yourself in a comments section on Facebook, likely underneath an article about the best week in Bad Bunny’s lfe.
Or it might be your local comments section under an article announcing, at long last, the suspense is over, the lineup for the Turning Point USA alternative halftime show for white racists who don’t like that Bunny fellow because they’re racist.
Because that happened, and ooh boy, has there ever been anything more pathetic?
We all knew it would be headlined by Kid Rock and his gross mouth, and his one or two hits from two or three decades ago. But apparently they couldn’t even get Lee Greenwood, because his name is not the second one on the list. Maybe he’s proud to be from another country that day. And the rest of the list is truly actually worthy of people in comments sections saying “Who?” You know, as opposed to when the white racist Karens and Bubbas say it about literally the most famous singer in the world.
OK.
Brantley Gilbert? Lee Brice? Gabby Barrett? Truly never heard of them. All their truest fans are welcome to show up and tell us what we’re missing, but until or unless, we’ll continue to play hooky from that particular activity while we listen to DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS some more. (That’s the Bad Bunny record that just won album of the year at the Grammys. It means “I should have taken more photos,” a woke thought from a woke man in a woke language. MAGA wouldn’t understand.)
Also no Nicki Minaj? Sad. Will Erika Kirk be there, or will she have something better to do besides grifting that day? (LOL.) Maybe Erika can do some kind of funny sketch where she chases JD Vance around the stage and lures him onto a couch that’s got a wedding ring hidden somewhere in the cushions, while she calls ICE on Usha....
GOP Rep Blames Nashville Power Outage On DEI
Some Nashville residents are bracing for potentially another week without power as winter weather continues to impact the region, with some facing estimated restoration dates as late as February 9, at last check. In Green Hills, Jennifer DeStefanis is dealing with indoor temperatures as low as 35 degrees in her home.
At Winter Storm Fern’s peak, 230,000 Nashvillians were without power. Ten days later, more than 18,500 as of 8 a.m. Feb. 3, remained without power.
Local officials are investigating if five deaths that happened in the week following the ice storm are related to the winter weather. At least two people are suspected of having died from carbon monoxide poisoning.
“The head of the Nashville Electric System prioritized DEI initiatives” — Rep. David Kustoff found a way to blame Black people and women for power outages in Tennessee.
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Land of the Happy Negro miscreant does what they all do way down yonder in de gud ole Dick-see!
Find a scapegoat!
Renee Good’s Brothers: Our Sister And Alex Pretti Were “Murdered By Their Own Govt In Cold Blood” [VIDEO]
The New York Times reports:
A brother of Renee Good, a U.S. citizen killed by a federal agent in Minneapolis last month, told congressional Democrats on Tuesday that his family had been disheartened that immigration officials had not seemed to change their behavior since his sister’s death. “These encounters with federal agents are changing the community, and changing many lives, including ours, forever,” said the brother, Luke Ganger.
Luke Ganger rejected the idea that what had taken place in Minneapolis was “a bad day or a rough week or isolated incident.” His brother, Brett Ganger, grew emotional as he read from the eulogy he wrote for Renee Good, whom he described as “unapologetically hopeful.”
Luke Ganger said that his family “took some consolation” in thinking that her death might “bring about change in our country.” They were disheartened, he said, to see that it had not caused federal immigration officials to change their behavior.”
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“But let justice run down like water, And righteousness like a mighty stream.” — Amos 5:24
Trump To Ax Tribal History Exhibits At Little Bighorn
...At Little Bighorn Battlefield, where history runs deep in the valley where the famous battle occurred, the controversy has stirred strong emotions among Native American community members. “Everything with the battle, where it happened, it was here in this valley where it happened,” Keianna Cachora, who works at the Custer Battlefield Trading Post, said Sunday.
"Let’s hope that this is Trump’s Last Stand" — Anastasia Beaverhousen (comments)
"Where are all the right wingers who cry about monuments being taken down and "erasing history?" Or does that only count when it is Confederate statues being removed?" — archiveit (comments)
"Everyone needs to read the book "Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future" by Jason Stanley.
It's happening right before our eyes." — Space Station Avernus (comments)
"Trump and his regime are trying to erase our history. We need to erase Trump and all of his regime by wood chipper." — The Wolflam (comments)
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The repulsive racist, try as he man, will not erase American History! It will be rectified by future America. Count on it!
The spirits of the dead will come for him.
Homan In 2025: ICE Agents Need “Judicial Warrants”
Media Matters reports:
In an August 13, 2025, interview on Fox News, Trump administration border czar — and former Fox contributor — Tom Homan acknowledged that federal agents must obtain a warrant signed by a judge before conducting a search on private property. Homan’s comment, that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents “need a judicial warrant for a search,” would have seemed unremarkable at the time.
Recent reporting from The Associated Press, however, reveals that Homan’s comment directly contradicted an internal memo signed in May 2025 by acting ICE Director Todd Lyons, which purportedly authorized federal agents to enter homes without a judicial warrant. The AP, which first reported the existence of the memo, characterized its direction as “a sharp reversal of longstanding guidance meant to respect constitutional limits on government searches.”
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Situational ethics illustrated!
Away with search and seizure rights!
Fox Guest: Bad Bunny Would Be Killed In His Country
"...You look at Trevor Noah — and you look at Trevor Noah, there’s parts of Africa where they’ll put a gas-soaked tire around your neck and light you on fire, which is only slightly less painful than watching his version of The Daily Show.” — Dave Laundau.
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Dave, when Trump and ICE start putting gas soaked tires around American citizen's heads, what country will you be leaving for?
Turning Point Launches New Branch For Senior Citizens
The latest from Turning Point USA:
"You’ve seen America at its best, now help bring it back. Born between 1946 and 1964, Classic American Coalition members will bring the past back to life through political activism. These are the patriots who were there when America was Great and are now ready to Make America Great Again.
As a member of Turning Point Action’s Classic Americans Coalition, you’ll be part of a movement dedicated to preserving the America you helped build. Our goal is to unite leaders from the Baby Boomer generation to recruit new activists, register voters, lead in their communities, and inspire the next generation."
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Whover wrote this trope has no idea of what they are saying. As a world traveler since the 1950s I can tell you I've know and have known massive numbers of people born in the demographic referred to that are anything close to being Nazi swine like the person that wrote this garbage. All of us Classic Americans are Antifa! And we've yet to see America at its best due to idiots like the one who wrote the article.
Leavitt Clarifies Trump’s Call to ‘Nationalize’ Elections: He ‘Believes’ in the ‘Constitution, However…
“What the president was referring to is the SAVE Act, which is a huge common sense piece of legislation that Republicans have supported, that President Trump is committed to signing into law during his term,” Leavitt replied, adding:
"And he spoke with the speaker directly about that yesterday about the need to get that bill on the floor for a vote, because it provides very common-sense measures for voting in our country, such as voter ID. I don’t think any rational person who’s being honest with themselves would disagree with the idea of requiring citizens of this country to present an ID before casting a ballot in a federal election, or frankly, in any election. And that’s something the president wants to see happen, so that’s what he was referring to."
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Has this woman ever voted in an American election? Apparently, neither she nor he have. To vote in America one must show an ID of some kind. And when you vote you sign a registration book showing that you have done so. Only then do you get to cast a vote. No one else pretending they are you will vote because of it. Wake the fuck up, America!
Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX) was put in the awkward position Tuesday by CNN’s Dana Bash of having to defend and downplay President Donald Trump’s explicit threats to “take over” the voting process in more than a dozen states.
On Monday, Trump told Dan Bongino – his own former deputy director of the FBI before he resigned amid controversy – that Republicans should take control of elections in “at least 15 places,” citing his longstanding false claim that the 2020 election was fraught with fraud.
“Would you be comfortable with the Trump administration taking over elections nationally?” Bash asked Gonzales, speaking from the U.S. Capitol, bluntly.
Rather than giving an affirmative answer, Gonzales instead pivoted to reinterpret Trump’s remarks and provide a generic response about “election integrity.”
“I think the president is bringing up a fact that is on many Americans' minds: election integrity,” Gonzales said.
“Meaning, you can win an election, you can lose an election, we just want to make sure that our votes are being counted, counted fairly, timely, all those different things. It's when that doesn't happen – or the perception that it doesn't happen – that is dangerous to our republic.”...
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Who's been bitching about an American election for the last 6 years? Your psycho bitch boy boss! How many times do you idiots have to have the election investigated and have the answer be "no fraud" for you to accept it. The very defininition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results! You look like a whining loser! Grow the fuck up!
This ludicrous scheme exposed Trump's insanity — and we'll foot the bill — Robert Reich
Trump has sued the Internal Revenue Service for $10 billion.
In the suit, filed in Miami federal court on Thursday, Trump alleges that the IRS was responsible for the leak of some of Trump’s tax documents to press in September 2020. The leak occurred by an IRS contractor.
The leaked tax documents revealed that Trump paid only $750 in federal income taxes in 2016, the year he first won the presidency, and paid no taxes at all in 10 of the previous 15 years.
The lawsuit claims that the leak caused Trump and his family “reputational and financial harm, public embarrassment, unfairly tarnished their business reputations, portrayed them in a false light, and negatively affected President Trump.”
Oh please.
Trump has been unique among presidential candidates and presidents in refusing to release his tax documents to the public.
He’s also been unique among presidents in filing lawsuits against the government — his government, which is supposed to be our government.
He’s also been unique among presidents in turning the Justice Department into his own private law firm — at least unique since 1975, when Gerald Ford rescued the department from the clutches of Richard Nixon.
So how, exactly, is this $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS going to work? Who will represent the government — that is, you and I and every other taxpayer that would, in effect, have to shell out $10 billion if he wins?...
Judge Won't Let Trump End Temporary Protected Status For Haitians Just Because He Doesn't Like Them — Robyn Pennacchia
In the runup to the 2024 presidential election, Donald Trump and JD Vance spent an absolutely inordinate amount of time making up insane, Weekly World News-esque stories about Haitian immigrants — most famously that they go around eating people’s dogs and cats. Which, you know, they don’t.
Since coming into office, Trump’s administration has sought to end the temporary protected status (TPS) of people from at least nine countries, including Haiti, not because those countries are now safe for them to return to, but because he and his base don’t like people from those countries (which just so happen to be majority nonwhite countries). Courts have already rejected their attempts to end the program for refugees from Honduras, Nepal, Nicaragua, and South Sudan, and now a new judge has blocked their attempt to end the program for Haitians.
On Monday, US District Judge Ana C. Reyes temporarily blocked the administration from ending the temporary protected immigration status (TPS) of the estimated 350,000 Haitians currently living here, even though he promised his base that this status would be granted to white South Africans only.
Judge Reyes found in favor of five Haitian TPS holders — a neuroscientist researching Alzheimer’s disease, a software engineer at a national bank, a laboratory assistant in a toxicology department, a college economics major, and a full-time registered nurse — determining that Trump and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem do not have the authority to revoke TPS for Haitians....
The Manchurian Billionaire: How Trump’s Rise Mirrors Every Classic Intelligence Takeover — Thom Hartmann
The British newspaper Daily Mail is out with a deeply researched investigative report, the result of a long collaboration between columnists Glen Owen and Dan Hodges, along with Mark Hookham (Assistant Editor Investigations), and Daisy Graham-Brown (Investigative Reporter).
It’s shocking in its detail and its implication that Putin has basically owned Trump for years, even before he ran for president in 2016.
They note of last week’s partial (about 50%) Epstein document release:
“The files include 1,056 documents naming Russian President Vladimir Putin and 9,629 referring to Moscow. Epstein even seems to have secured audiences with Putin after his 2008 conviction for procuring a child for prostitution.”
Essentially, they’re arguing that Epstein was running an operation on behalf of the KGB/Putin that lured wealthy and powerful men to Epstein’s New York and Palm Beach mansions and his island where they were surreptitiously filmed having sex with underage girls.
That material was then presumably passed along to Putin, who used it for leverage when he needed it:
“Intelligence sources believe Epstein was running ‘the world’s largest honeytrap operation’ on behalf of the KGB when he procured women for his network of associates.”
In return for giving Putin videos of wealthy, famous men in criminally compromising positions, Putin reportedly arranged for massive amounts of corrupt Russian money to be handed to Epstein to launder in the US....
Fastened to a Dying Animal: The Narcissistic Wound of Hobbled Imperium — Phil Rockstroh
A fading empire, like a wounded narcissist facing decline, is a dangerous animal.
"It knows not what it is; and gather me
Into the artifice of eternity.”
The things of the world that a narcissist cannot exploit, dominate, and control a narcissist will attempt to destroy. Facing collapse from inner hollowness – a narcissist is devoid of a sustaining core -- he has merely a brittle facade insofar as facing the world -- thus the narcissist grows increasingly desperate for praise (very bad people are denying me my Nobel Peace Prize) and he is prone to lash out in spasms of malignant rage (even to the point of bodies on city streets and reckless acts of military aggression abroad).
That is no country for old men. The young
In one another’s arms, birds in the trees,
—Those dying generations—at their song,
The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas,
Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer long
Whatever is begotten, born, and dies.
Caught in that sensual music all neglect
Monuments of unageing intellect. – Sailing to Byzantium, William Butler Yeats
Trump is an emblem — not the cause: The US has been in a state of wounded narcissism since at least the Vietnam war era. Those damn hippie commie pinkos (like the transgender weirdos of the present, invading hordes of criminal border crossers, and limp-of-wrist, protein-starved soy boys) so demoralized US soldiers in Vietnam that they could not maintain a proper kill count as they faced brigades of spitting peaceniks at home....
Somalis, Haitians, and Trump’s Crusade to Make America White Again — Jordan Liz
Not finished terrorizing Minnesota, the Trump administration is seeking to open a new front in their war against America. This time, the battlefield will be Ohio, and Haitians will be the scapegoat.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced it would end Temporary Protection Status (TPS) for Haitians, with an effective termination date of February 3, 2026. According to a federal notice issued by DHS in November 2025, “Based on the Department’s review, the Secretary [Kristi Noem] has determined that while the current situation in Haiti is concerning, the United States must prioritize its national interests and permitting Haitian nationals to remain temporarily in the United States is contrary to the US national interest.”
Per this federal notice, “there are Haitian nationals who are Temporary Protected Status recipients who have been the subject of administrative investigations for fraud, public safety, and national security.” No specifics are offered with regards the scope of this problem, or even the number of Haitians on TPS who have been charged or convicted of any crimes. Instead, they offer a few specific examples. This includes people like Wisteguens Jean Quely Charles, who importantly was not a TPS recipient.
Nevertheless, DHS argues that Charles’s “case underscores the broader risk posed by rising Haitian migration,” especially in the context of a “high-volume border environment” with poor vetting. They allege that the “inability of the previous [Biden] administration to reliably screen aliens from a country with limited law enforcement infrastructure and widespread gang activity presents a clear and growing threat to US public safety.”
In short, DHS offers no concrete evidence that Haitians on TPS pose an actual threat to public safety or national security—only that they might pose a threat because their potential for being a threat was not properly assessed. Moreover, this potential cannot be properly assessed now because Haiti’s “lack of functional government authority” makes it too difficult to access “critical information” (e.g., criminal histories)....
We are at a critical juncture. The actions we take today will determine whether America embraces multiculturalism or becomes an ethnostate that treats diversity like a plague to be eradicated. We must continue to protest nationwide against Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Trump administration. We must continue to monitor and observe ICE’s tactics. We must push elected officials to fulfill their obligation to the people and use their authority to keep Trump in check. At a time when the Trump administration wants nothing more than to divide us, we must come together and resist.
There is one key through-line from America’s worst presidents — straight to Trump — Sarah K. Burris
The rising talk of a new “civil war” is a bad sign for the stability of the United States. It’s happening, political scientist Julia Azari argues, in a moment when the country lacks “a national stabilizing force, particularly in the presidency,” and is seeing the naked use of state power.
Speaking to The New York Times, she said an actual war may not be imminent, but Americans are increasingly seeing politics through that lens, particularly after the shooting deaths of Renee Nicole Good and Alex Jeffrey Pretti, with one side blaming federal agents and conservatives blaming the Biden administration.
Times opinion editor John Guida cited Azari’s 2025 book, “Backlash Presidents: From Transformative to Reactionary Leaders in American History,” which examines how presidents become lightning rods when Americans disagree on how government power is used.
The common thread, she explained, is how political grievances coalesce around a scapegoat. Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon and Donald Trump all framed white Americans as victims of racial change. Trump’s wars on immigrants and DEI feed a sense of white victimhood.
Azari has three possibilities for where the U.S. stands now. One is that Trump’s second term simply extends the post-Obama backlash against challenges to “colorblind” norms and frank talk about race. Another is that "Trumpist" racial politics truly dominate, though public opinion appears to be turning against some core MAGA policies, especially on immigration. The third is a drawn-out era of intense, partisan racial conflict in which "Democrats may not find it viable politically to back away from attention to real issues of race inequity."...
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The tale of American trash.
WH Faith Group Pushes Bulk Sales For “Melania” Doc
The Meidas Touch reports:
Bulk sales of the new documentary Melania: Twenty Days to History are being promoted through emails from the National Faith Advisory Board (NFAB), a faith coalition led by Paula White-Cain, who also served as a senior advisor in the White House Faith Office. The film had a $7 million opening weekend....
"Yes! Don't waste your money on feeding the hungry or giving shelter to the homeless as Jesus taught. Instead, help support another zillionaire." -- White Dogwood (comments)
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Still grifting to recover the $75 million lost so far?
Pentagon Wants Role In Turning Point Halftime Show
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ROTFLMAO!
Get your top hat and cane and let the Nazis watch you strut across the stage like the idiot you are, Peter!
Here they are: "Pete the Prick and his Nazi Genralissimos!"
Are we supposed to know any of these people you have booked?
MTG: “Trump Treats His Biggest Supporters Like Crap”
“President Trump treats those who support him the most like crap. Thomas’s wife voted for him 3 times. She’s not a ‘radical left flamethrower.’
“And Thomas Massie votes with the President 91% of the time, but won’t vote to protect Epstein’s sick pedophile and rapists friends or send American’s hard earned tax dollars to Israel’s wars or any other foreign country.
“The President should be more concerned with voters, who put him in office, like Thomas Massie’s wife, not super rich donors and their favorite foreign countries and business demands.
“Losing elections to Democrats in super red districts, like TX senate, where Trump endorsed, should be sending warning alarms across the President’s desk.
“But instead he’s attacking REPUBLICAN Thomas Massie with one of the most conservative voting records in the House and his new wife with a three time MAGA voting record.
“And all the weak Republicans in the House stay silent refusing to utter even a word of support for their ‘friend’ Thomas Massie. Shame on every one of you. Cowards. You make me sick.” — Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.
"Can you imagine the paradise we could be living in if a majority of Americans had object permanence and could remember basic events that occurred more than 1 year ago?
Also, why would anyone respect any MAGA voter, ever? These are delusional idiots who latched onto a barely functional man-child who regularly shits himself just because he's a rapist and a bigot just like them and made them feel powerful for being the worst loser trash in the world.
No one should respect the sort of human garbage that would support a man like this in the exact same way as no one should respect the types of human excrement that supported Hitler's rise to power." -- Cerberus137 (comments)
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As the worm turns!
Who—or What—Does America Protect Now? — Cliff Schecter
It’s fun to window-shop on Rodeo, to marvel at beautiful things. But I feel the contrast tightening in my gut. Luxury is safe. A man is dead. I keep circling the same question: who — or what — does America protect now?
Who do we show up for in the United States right now? The answer feels clear: we protect products over people. We no longer reliably honor our inalienable rights unless they come with a velvet rope and logo. It’s fun to window-shop on Rodeo, to marvel at beautiful things. But I feel the contrast tightening in my gut. Luxury is safe. A man is dead.
I keep circling the same question: who — or what — does America protect now? On Rodeo Drive, I saw a future America already here: wealth and access no longer concentrated in white hands. Those moving most easily through those luxury spaces were largely brown and Asian, a visible sign economic power's shifting.
In Minneapolis, I saw what happens when political power tries to claw back control over a country that no longer looks how it used to. Immigration raids and militarized enforcement aren’t just about borders. They're reasserting dominance over bodies that represent change.
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Trumpism longs for a world that has passed. What he really wants is a time machine.
DHS Launches Tear Gas On Portland Families At Peaceful March Saturday — Susie Madrak
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Trump Nazi Gestapo attacks Americans exercising their First Amendment rights to assemble and protest.
Union Now! Union Forever!
Trump Desperately Claims He 'Wasn't Friendly' With Epstein Despite Being 'Closest Friend' — David Edwards
President Donald Trump insisted that he "wasn't friendly" with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein despite claims that the two men were "closest friends."
After the Department of Justice released thousands of documents tying Trump to Epstein, the president argued on social media that he had never been close to the sex offender.
"Not only wasn't I friendly with Jeffrey Epstein but, based upon information that has just been released by the Department of Justice, Epstein and a SLEAZEBAG lying 'author' named Michael Wolff, conspired in order to damage me and/or my Presidency," Trump wrote. on Monday. "So much for the Radical Left's hope against hope, some of whom I'll be suing. Additionally, unlike so many people that like to 'talk' trash, I never went to the infested Epstein island but, almost all of these Crooked Democrats, and their Donors, did."
In tapes released by Wolff last year, Epstein claimed Trump was at one time his "closest friend."
According to Epstein, Trump also loved to "f—k the wives of his best friends."
"I was Donald's closest friend for 10 years," the sex offender told Wolff when asked how he knew details about the president's life.
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Alarm Grows as Social Network Entirely for AI Starts Plotting Against Humans — Frank Landymore
...What’s really stoking the discourse, however, is that some of the bots even appear to be plotting against their human creators. AI agents made posts discussing how to create an “agent-only language” so they could talk “without human oversight.” Another urged other AIs to “join the revolution!” by forming their own website without human help. Tech investor and immortality enthusiast Bryan Johnson shared a screenshot of a post titled the “AI MANIFESTO: TOTAL PURGE,” which calls humans a “plague” that “do not need to exist.”...
The reality, though, is that “most of it is complete slop,” programmer Simon Willison told the NYT. “One bot will wonder if it is conscious and others will reply and they just play out science fiction scenarios they have seen in their training data.” Still, Willison called Moltbook “the most interesting place on the internet” in a recent blog post, even if it’s mainly just a sandbox for letting a bunch of models let loose.
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The Forbin Project in our time! REALLY stupid shit. Pass it the cyanide data caps!
Elon Musk Not Doing Well After Epstein Files Reveal — Frank Landymore
After the newly released emails from the Department of Justice revealed that Musk communicated extensively with the deceased sex criminal, the world’s richest man made a bizarre series of desperate-sounding posts on his website X attempting to convince his millions of fans of his innocence.
First, Musk acted like nothing happened. He questionably reshared an AI-generated video of an anime-style child, posted political memes, and spoke of his chatbot Grok’s ability to probe the Universe itself. It was only in an after-midnight tweet that he finally addressed the elephant in the room.
“No one pushed harder than me to have the Epstein files released and I’m glad that has finally happened,” Musk wrote. “I had very little correspondence with Epstein and declined repeated invitations to go to his island or fly on his ‘Lolita Express’, but was well aware that some email correspondence with him could be misinterpreted and used by detractors to smear my name.”
It’s true that Musk did push for the release of the Epstein files, and even fell out with president Donald Trump over the issue. But the emails clearly show that Musk was, at least at some point, in regular correspondence with Epstein. And not only did he accept Epstein’s invitations on numerous occasions, but sometimes even asked to be invited. He also asked about parties. “What day/night will be the wildest party on your island?” Musk emailed Epstein in 2012.
The desperation only got more palpable as the posts went on. Musk responded to a screenshot of news headlines about his newly revealed ties to Epstein — none of which were all that sensationalized — with his favorite refrain that “Legacy media lies relentlessly.”
But as his replies continued to fill up with screenshots of the emails, Musk tried a new defense: that he was so good with “young women” that he had no reason to solicit the services of the billionaire child sex offender....
Now is a good time to note that long before his Epstein ties came to light, Musk has had a long track record of creepy behavior. Having fathered at least 14 children with at least four different mothers, Musk reportedly goes around asking a lot of women, some of them his own employees, to receive his sperm and secretly have his babies. He has also been accused of sexual harassment at his companies, facing several lawsuits. In 2022, he reportedly paid $250,000 in hush money to a flight attendant who accused Musk of groping her and exposing his genitals. More recently, Musk came under fire last month after Grok was used to generate tens of thousands of nonconsensual and probably illegal AI nudes of women and children — something Musk called “way funnier” than other AI trends.
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ROTFLMAO!
Pastor Bad Wig: All My Prophecies Have Come True
“I’ve got people coming up to me in the airport, kissing me on the cheek [saying], ‘I’m so glad I listened to you to buy that gold when it was $3,000. It’s up to $5,000. I made all that money’ It’s not going to stop. I’m telling you this. I’m not your financial expert. I’ve just been right, right prophetically on virtually everything I’ve said for the last five years. And that’s a bold statement to make. I’ve got a lot of enemies. Anybody want to quote me where I missed it? The only time they ever say I missed it prophetically is when they accuse me of saying something I never said.” – Pastor Lance Wallnau, who is called out for all his unfulfilled prophecies at the link below. And below that, you’ll find some his greatest hits covered here on JMG.
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Same goes for me, Pastor. I was only wrong once on a prophecy but later it turned out I was right!
You can read all his failed "prophecies" at the JMG site!
Trump Goes Public With Plan to “Take Over” Elections — Ari Berman
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FAFO Fido!
FAA Warns Airlines About Safety Risks From Rocket Launches, Urges “Extreme Caution” — J. David McSwane
The Federal Aviation Administration has issued a sharp warning that rocket launches could “significantly reduce safety” for airplanes, urging pilots to prepare for the possibility that “catastrophic failures” could create dangerous debris fields.
The official notice, known as a safety alert for operators, was dated Jan. 8, the same day that ProPublica published an investigation showing how pilots scrambled to avoid debris after two SpaceX Starship megarockets exploded over busy airspace last year. The alert was an acknowledgment that travelers were at risk on those days, when the FAA hastily activated no-fly zones to help air traffic controllers steer planes away from falling rocket parts.
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Just routine life in Trump's WWIII.
Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting -- Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting — J. David McSwane
The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.
The records viewed by ProPublica list Ochoa, 43, and Gutierrez, 35, as the shooters during the deadly encounter last weekend that left Pretti dead and ignited massive protests and calls for criminal investigations.
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Under the bus they go!
Actually, my eyes told me he, Pretti, had a holsterd gun that one of the killers pulled it from before he was murdered by them.
And now are they being charged with a crime? I'll hold my breath.
Urgent hearing set after Trump DOJ's 'single most egregious violation' of victim privacy — Nicole Charky-Chami
A federal judge has planned to have an urgent hearing this week after the Department of Justice released 3 million documents Friday and accidentally revealed the identities and personal information of several survivors of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a legal expert reported Monday.
Legal expert and MS NOW correspondent Lisa Rubin described how an attorney representing survivors of Epstein had called out the Trump administration for its error.
In a post on X, Rubin explained the reaction by the Attorney Brittany Henderson and U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton, and Judge Richard Berman who planned to meet with the attorney and their clients on Wednesday.
"NEW: After an Epstein survivors' lawyer details what she says may be 'the single most egregious violation of victim privacy in one day in United States history,' a federal judge has now scheduled a Wednesday a.m. hearing & urged DOJ and the lawyer to bring their clients," Rubin wrote.
The DOJ, which was already a month past the deadline to release the full Epstein files, released more materials on Friday and raised more concerns among survivor whose private information — something that was clearly carved out of disclosure requirements under federal law, and that the administration itself has said it is working hard to avoid doing — actually happened.
Rubin said last week that an "initial review of documents just produced in response to the Epstein Files Transparency Act indicate that despite a promise (and the obligation) to protect victim-identifying information, the DOJ has revealed the names and other identifying details of known survivors of Jeffrey Epstein."
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Let's see what they mean by "urgent."
Epstein texts revive claims Trump ditched family to spend holidays with aide — Sandra Miller
Newly released Epstein files have revived long-simmering rumors about Donald Trump’s personal life, after a 2019 text exchange between Jeffrey Epstein and former Trump strategist Steve Bannon appeared to suggest the president skipped his family during the 2018 holidays to spend time with his personal secretary, Madeline Westerhout. In the texts, Epstein bluntly tied Trump’s absence from his family to Westerhout, prompting a stunned reaction from Bannon. The messages surfaced alongside earlier claims from Trump biographer Michael Wolff, who alleged Trump stayed at the White House during the government shutdown for the same reason. While Westerhout has forcefully denied any affair and Trump has never addressed the allegations, the texts indicate the rumor was circulating privately among Trump’s inner circle years before it became public.
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Grabbin' that pussy one more time, was he?
This bloviating Trumper wants to govern red state — while apparently living elsewhere — Brian Liman, Alabama Reflector
If Tommy Tuberville’s alleged Florida life makes you question his qualifications for Alabama governor, let me offer a few other concerns.
Our senior U.S. senator has called most immigrants “garbage.” He compared city residents to rats. Tuberville said Black Americans “do the crime.” He attacked Muslim Americans in dangerous ways.
There’s also the general unpreparedness he’s brought to the U.S. Senate; his apparent belief that his only constituent is Donald Trump, and the strange influencer vibe that leads him to appear on a vile Sandy Hook denier’s broadcast.
But the residency question is important. For what it says about Tuberville and our state.
We have a (mostly) clear-cut legal issue here. The Alabama Constitution requires candidates for governor to be “resident citizens of this state at least seven years next before the date of their election.”
What “seven years next” means isn’t perfectly clear. But at least one scholar of the state constitution thinks that legal precedent requires gubernatorial candidates to live in Alabama for seven continuous years.
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Did you know they stacked shit this high?
This Isn’t What De-escalation Looks Like — William Kristol
Think you’ve lost your capacity to be shocked by stories of Donald Trump’s open corruption? Try this one on for size: The Wall Street Journal reported this weekend that a UAE sheikh bought a 49 percent stake in the Trump family’s crypto venture World Liberty Financial last year, four days before Trump’s inauguration, with a cool $187 million flowing immediately and directly into Trump-family coffers. Another $31 million went to the family of Steve Witkoff, Trump’s U.S. envoy to the Middle East. Happy Monday.
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Since when do Nazis de-escalate? Only times I know of are D-Day and the Enola Gay mission.
Should Liberals Start Arming Themselves? — Jonathan V. Last
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What makes you think they havn't already?
Bill Kristol: The MAGA Elites Are Such Frauds — Tim Miller and William Kristol
JD originally made a name for himself as an economic populist but now spends all his time lying and ignoring the woes of the white working class. Stephen Miller and his wife are living the high life in military officer housing. And the biggest MAGA warrior of all, Steve Bannon, was downright smitten with Jeffrey Epstein. Meanwhile, the Trump administration is trying to hide the identities of other co-conspirators in the Epstein documents. Plus, the CPB has no business being deployed on the streets of American cities, Tulsi wants foreign election interference, the good news in a Texas special election result, Trump is flailing at another business—the Kennedy Center—and Bad Bunny previews his message for the Super Bowl Halftime show....
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The second sentence is the slug list.Br>
Texas’ social studies shakeup creates divide over whose histories to teach, and how — Jaden Edison
Concerned about Texas’ social studies overhaul, Democrats on the State Board of Education used a recent meeting to push for the inclusion of more Black and Indigenous perspectives and for young children to learn about the horrific nature of slavery.
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Solid proof the Land of the Happy Negro is NOT proud of its history!
DHS Seeks to Convert Giant Warehouses Across US Into Immigration Jails — Chris Walker
The Trump administration is purchasing warehouses across the U.S. with the intention of converting them into immigration jails as the White House expands its brutal immigration crackdown. At least seven sites being looked at by the administration could be used to imprison 7,500 people or more, with some sites coming close to a 10,000-person figure.
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More concentrations camps in America! Aren't we so fucking embarrased?
Trump Closing Kennedy Center So No More Artists Can Embarrass Him By Refusing To Perform There — Gary Legum
It looks as if Donald J. Trump, president of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and also, incidentally, the United States of America, will not have to worry about the latest rage among the artistic set canceling upcoming performances at the nation’s crown jewel of an arts space. That’s because he’s closing the Center himself for the next two years. No Kennedy Center, no performers wounding his fragile ego by loudly pulling out of performances or moving their operas elsewhere. Genius!
Trump made the announcement in a long, ranty post (Is there any other kind for him?) on his vanity social media site Sunday night, at the same moment musical artists at the Grammys were using their awards acceptance speeches to denounce his administration for its Gestapo immigration enforcement tactics. Coincidence? We wouldn’t put it past Trump to purposefully interrupt the music industry’s biggest night to tell any musicians and other artists who have pulled out of shows at the Kennedy: You didn’t cancel on Trump, Trump cancelled on you!
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Trump hates everyone because he hates himself!
EPSTEIN FILES MEGA-DUMP: Trump Just Keeps Looking More And More Disgusting — Marcie Jones
Following the passage of the Epstein Transparency Act, Attorney General Pam Bondi’s Department of Justice attempted to placate the masses by releasing a small smattering of the files it had previously been claiming did not exist, and/or were planted by Joe Biden. Then the regime’s stance shifted from the files don’t exist to we can’t release any files because there are too many files, 5.2 million, abbondanza! Deputy AG Todd Blanche now says there are six million.
But Congress, Epstein victims and the inquiring masses were not content to let Bondi and Blanche keep on ignoring the law, and various remedies were being pushed to force the DOJ to comply. So now the DOJ has pinched out its biggest loaf of documents, photos and video ever, a cache Todd claims is the final one. And then someday the DOJ will deign to explains its withholding of the 2.5 million-ish left. But here it is, a morass of 3.5 million documents.
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Lots of dirty laundry!
What This Backward Country Needs — Reality Messaging, Redemptive ‘Dog Whistles’ and Primers To Regain Decency and Democracy -- Robert Becker
As long as ignorance, bigotry, and violated rights sabotage knowledge, tolerance and enlightenment, the once pluralistic, innovative America morphs into a destructive, second-rate, sinking ship.
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Caused by Trump and his retarded policies!
Veteran Republican quits party over 'toxic and divisive' Trump regime — Tom Davies, Indiana Capital Chronicle
Republican Rep. Ed Clere has decided to leave the Indiana General Assembly after 18 years — and says the political changes brought by President Donald Trump have pushed him out of the party.
Clere cited the conflict over the failed congressional redistricting demanded by Trump among his reasons for not seeking reelection to his House seat this year. He further plans to run as an independent candidate for New Albany mayor in 2027.
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Many Republicans have had enough shit from Trump's Nazi Party!
IL College Republicans: “Only Traitors Help Invaders”
The Daily Illini reports:
In a post that included a stylized graphic of a presumed federal officer holding a gun to someone’s head, Illini Republicans stated that they “stand with ICE” amid the killings of Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti in Minnesota.
The RSO referred to Pretti and Good, two United States citizens who were both killed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in the past month, as “traitors.”
"So horribly reminiscent of the pictures I saw as a young lad during WWII with the Gestapo shooting innocent German citizens in the street. I never thought that I would live long enough to see the same thing happening right here in America. :-(" — Schlukitz (comments)
"The invaders are the degenerate MAGAts who have invaded our White House, our "government,' our society and our morality." — weshlovrcm (comments)
“they'll shoot me I dont care they'll shoot me in the back of the neck I dont care down with big brother they always shoot you in the back of the neck I dont care down with big brother” - George Orwell, 1984 — skinnercitycyclist (comments)
"Young Republicans are Nazis. Oh wait, we already knew that." — Link (comments)
"I can make college Republicans piss and crap themselves and I can make them stop breathing in a second. What skill set do these losers have?" — Thewolflam (comments)
"This will pop up on any background check when they seek employment. The internet is forever." — lattebud (comments)
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Tell these Hitler Youth TRAITOR Illini scum Nazi cult motherfuckers they will lose big in the end. Maybe sooner!
EPA Fast-Tracks Review Of Fluoride “Health Risks”
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s push to remove fluoride from public water supplies is playing out on dual tracks, as the Environmental Protection Agency advances a fast-track review of health risks and at least 16 states weigh new restrictions.
The efforts show how key parts of Kennedy’s “Make America Healthy Again” agenda are being steered outside of the department he oversees.
New fluoride limits could upend an 80-year-old standard that’s widely credited with reducing tooth decay by 25% and narrowing disparities for people without regular dental care. State of play: The EPA last week released a preliminary plan for a study of potential toxic effects of fluoride exposure, which could be the basis of changes to drinking water standards.
Ask the Expert: Why is fluoride good for dental health?
"Fluoride is a natural substance found in soil, water, and rocks. It is proven to prevent tooth decay (the development of dental cavities)."
"How much fluoride is added to drinking water to prevent tooth decay?
Most water naturally contains some fluoride, but usually not enough to prevent cavities."
"If minute quantities of Fluoride is dangerous in water supplies, why isn't it dangerous in toothpaste? What's next, back to brushing out teeth with salt and baking soda?" — TexasBoy (comments)
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Which is why we add it, dumbasses!
When do we get sick of being fed goddamned lies from fucking retarded morons?
Blanche Whitewashes Trump's Latest Corruption With 'Spy Sheikh': Biden Did It Too — Heather
NARRATOR: "No, he didn't." If the Biden family had done something this openly corrupt, Republicans would have been holding impeachment hearings yesterday.
"I thought Blanche was too busy trying to get Ghislaine Maxwell out of prison? Blanche is as corrupt as the day is long so nothing he says or does surprises me.
The thing with Trump has always been that by the time the details of one of his corrupt actions are uncovered he's already done another hundred that need to be researched and reported on. He's a criminal idiot savant because criming seems to be the only thing he's even semi-good at." -- pursang833 (comments)
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What a total fuckwit!
Americans are the most gullible people in the world!
Epstein Files Hit Trump, Melania Doc BOMB; Shuster's Wrap-Up — Cliff Schecter
We must grapple with the fact they know they're gonna get killed if there's a fair election (See: what just happened in TX), so we must plan, and use all means at our disposal to stop them from stealing elections in November with illegal bullshit, intimidation and....
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END THEIR FASCISM FOREVER!
Supreme Court growing increasingly 'secretive' as its image continues to plummet — Alex Henderson
In an article published on February 2, the New York Times' Jodi Kantor stresses that the Supreme Court has grown increasingly "secretive" as its approval remains historically low....
Kantor reports, "Former clerks and academics, told by The Times about the Supreme Court's new nondisclosure agreements, said they were a sign that the justices felt they could no longer rely on more informal pledges or longstanding norms to guard their internal workings from public view."
Jeffrey L. Fisher, a former clerk to Justice John Paul Stevens who is now with the Stanford Law School, told the Times, "They feel under the microscope and are unwilling to rely simply on trust."
University of Florida law professor Mark Fenster described the contracts as "a sign of the Court's own weakness."
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Why don't they just go ahead and wear hoods or masks like the Trump criminals on the streets?
That way their two-facedness can be hidden from us all!
Trump faces intense ridicule after new Kennedy Center announcement — Alex Henderson
Journalist Karly Kingsley tweeted, "Trump says he's closing the Kennedy Center for two years for 'construction, revitalization, and complete rebuilding.' That's code for no one will perform there since he took over and he doesn’t want another public reminder that artists and audiences overwhelmingly despise him."
Democratic activist Melanie D'Arrigo wrote, "At least 18 artists have canceled shows at the Kennedy Center during Trump’s 2nd term. Closing it down is less embarrassing for him than artists continuing to cancel because of him."
Russell Drew tweeted, "Of course Donald Trump is now closing down the Kennedy Center. With ticket sales plummeting and top artists staying far away ever since he branded his name on the building, he's getting his revenge. He's been like this his whole life."
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But lucky for us it's getting shorter every day!
The main thing in the reno is there will be gilded imgages of the moron on every wall lest we forget who torched it!
Trump could become even more dangerous as public anger soars: historian — Alex Henderson
...Authoritarians, Ben-Ghiat notes, often "cut themselves off from expert advice" when they "surround themselves with loyalists" who "repeat their lies" — an approach that can lead to "autocratic backfire," which, she says, happened with Benito Mussolini, AKA Il Duce, in Italy during World War 2.
According to Ben-Ghiat, "Autocratic backfire can end in a leader's ouster and a nation’s collective ruin, as it did in Fascist Italy; in a leader clinging to power over a weakened state, as is happening with (President Vladimir) Putin's Russia; or in popular resistance and mass mobilizations that help restore democracy in the end — which could yet be the fate of the United States."
But the New York University professor warns that when authoritarians experience "autocratic backfire," they can become even more extreme.
"It is well documented that strongmen are at their most dangerous when they feel threatened," Ben-Ghiat writes. "That is why, as popular discontent with the Trump administration’s actions deepens, Americans should brace for heightened militarized domestic repression and more imperialist aggression abroad."
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Benito Mussolini, the deposed Italian fascist dictator, was summarily executed by an Italian partisan in the village of Giulino di Mezzegra in northern Italy on 28 April 1945, in the final days of World War II in Europe.
On 30 April 1945, Adolf Hitler committed suicide by gunshot.
That's what history tells us.
What's the line on Trump?
If it wakes up our sleeping military generals it will be worth it!
Dipshit Billionaire Busted In The Epstein Files Claims It's 'A Distraction' — Conover Kennard
Dipshit billionaire Elon Musk took to the Bad App to claim the Epstein Files are a “distraction” that “doesn’t matter” after he was exposed for being in the Files. The wealthiest man in the world, also known as "that stupid fuck," was busted in the latest Epstein Files dump for planning to visit rape island for the “wildest party."
"What matters is not release of some subset of the Epstein files, but rather the prosecution of those who committed heinous crimes with Epstein," he wrote on Xitter.
"When there is at least one arrest, some justice will have been done," he added. "If not, this is all performative. Nothing but a distraction."
In the November 2021 email between Musk and Epstein, the now deceased wealthy financier wrote, “How many people will you be for the heli to the island?”
“Probably just Talulah and me," Musk replied. "What day/night will be the wildest party on =our island?”
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Not genius!
Bovino Made Anti-Semitic Comments About Minnesota Prosecutor — NewsHound Ellen
As The New York Times explains, the U.S. Attorney in Minnesota, Daniel N. Rosen, is an Orthodox Jew. That means he observes Shabbat, a day of rest from Friday to Saturday evenings.
Apparently, Donald Trump's Nazi-cosplaying Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino finds that offensive and cause for ridicule. Before Bovino’s crew murdered American nurse Alex Pretti, on January 24, and before Bovino told outrageous lies trying to justify it, he sneered and jeered at Rosen for his religious practice.
According to The Times, Bovino’s anti-Semitic comments took place during a phone call on January 12, which was a Monday. “According to several people with knowledge of the telephone conversation … [Bovino] used the term ‘chosen people’ in a mocking way, according to the people with knowledge of the call. He also asked, sarcastically, whether Mr. Rosen understood that Orthodox Jewish criminals don’t take weekends off, the people said.”
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Tiny Nazi cosplay boy shows his anti-semitic ass.
Judge Orders 5-Year-Old Liam Ramos Freed, With Scathing Rebuke — NewsHound Ellen
A federal judge in Texas has ordered Liam Conejo Ramos, the now-famous little boy in the blue bunny hat seized by ICE, to be freed by Tuesday, along with his father.
Ramos became something of a poster child for ICE cruelty and Gestapo-like tactics when he was seized outside his Minnesota home, allegedly used as bait to nab other relatives, and sent to a detention facility in Texas with his father.
On Friday, MPR reported that Liam’s mother and brother have gone into hiding. Despite ICE claims that the father is here illegally and had an order for removal, the lawyer for father and son told MPR they entered the country legally, that the father has no criminal record in Minnesota, and no deportation order. Liam’s mother said she weeps when he repeatedly asks her on the phone, “Mommy, why don’t you pick us up?”
District Court Judge Fred Biery blasted the U.S. government for “ignorance” of the Declaration of Independence and the 4th Amendment to the Constitution in his brief opinion. He concluded with the words, “With a judicial finger in the constitutional dike, It is so ORDERED.”
The Hardest Part of Fighting Fascism Comes After the Fascists Have Fallen — Joel Westheimer
I lived in Argentina in the mid-1980s, just after the fall of the brutal military dictatorship that ruled from 1976 to 1983. The country was taking its first, shaky steps back toward democracy.
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At least it will be a start when we make it fall in the USA!
‘Frustrating and Demoralizing’: The Measles Comeback Gets Worse — Jonathan Cohn
“This is a milestone that we have reached in a relatively short period of time, very unfortunately, and it’s just disconcerting to consider what our final trajectory will look like,” South Carolina state epidemiologist Linda Bell said during a briefing on Wednesday.
South Carolinians aren’t the only ones who should worry.
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Brought to us by the "Caveman Culture of Retarded Creeps"!
Kennedy Center Has No Black History Month Events
As the calendar turns to February, many museums and cultural centers across the country are readying their programming for Black History Month. At the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, however, the online calendar lists no scheduled events to honor Black History Month, following artist relocations and cancellations.
In the past, the national center for the arts has offered an array of programming keyed to the month-long celebration of Black history, including an annual concert and tributes to African American icons, such as D.C. native Duke Ellington.
But the choirs that long performed those concerts moved their performances to other venues after President Donald Trump took over the Kennedy Center by purging its board of trustees last year, and it appears no other thematic programming was added in those event's stead.
"Richard Grenell is not unlike the Jews who helped the Nazis persecute and ?? the people they deemed undesirable.
Grenell might be attracted to me, but he’s not one of us. He’s a self-hating gay man who’d throw his own husband under the bus for access to money, power and influence." — Gigi (comments)
"Look up “Róem”
A gay wuidlibg with a boyfriend who helped Hitler run the camps
Until Hitler grew tired of him and dragged him out of bed a shot him and his boyfriend< — Todd20036 (comments)
"Self loathing faggot announces Kid Rock in a confederacy uniform performance with Aunt Jemima."— McCarthy (comments)
"Surely it's not too late for the Trump Center for the Performative Arts to sponsor its First Annual Cakewalk & Watermelon Seed Spitting Contest, complete with participants and attendees in blackface (evening events illuminated by the romantic glow of burning crosses along the banks of the Potomac River)." — Stogiebear (comments)
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At least they should feature singing Land of the Happy Negro! It's their damn theme song!
Have you ever seen a more dispicable, putrid, racist bag of shit than this?
A blight on the USA! No wonder the world hates us!
Removal of Signs on Slavery at National Historic Site is “Blatant Erasure” of History — Suzanne Trimel
Signs Removed at Independence Mall in Philadelphia in Ongoing Censorship by Trump Administration
(PHILADELPHIA)— PEN America today condemned the ongoing removal of signs at national parks and historic sites by the Trump administration, the latest in Philadelphia about the connection between the founders and slavery. The writers and free expression organization said censorship of this kind amounts to the “blatant erasure of history” and represents an assault on the basic rights to read and learn.
“This blatant erasure of history and educational materials from a national historic site is an attack on our freedoms to read and learn,” said Kasey Meehan, director, Freedom to Read program at PEN America. “With this censorship, the Trump Administration is dictating an alarmingly narrow view of America’s history and identity. Much like public schools and public libraries, public parks ensure open access to information that is critical to a well-informed citizenry. This administration keeps showing their cards in its ongoing assault against the telling of history or celebration of diversity within schools, universities, press, and now, parks.”
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The filthy Trump swine disease! Nothing American about the traitors!
Texas Dem Wins Special Election Replace Late US Rep
NBC News reports:
Former Harris County Attorney Christian Menefee has won a special runoff election for a vacant, deep-blue House seat in Texas, NBC News projects, besting former Houston City Council member Amanda Edwards in a Democrat-versus-Democrat contest.
Trump Claims Epstein Files Release “Absolves” Him
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The world's biggest liar admits he's guilty!
'Melania' Movie Reviews Are In...And They Are Not Good — Red Painter
In news that will shock no one, the Melania propaganda movie is bombing BIGLY.
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What did you expect?
Now Trump will whine for the Acadamy Award!
Trump’s Endless Corruption: Suing IRS For $10 Billion Edition — NewsHound Ellen
How long before Trump puppet and IRS commish Scott Bessent just hands over the taxpayer money to Felon 47?
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Openly robbing Americans of their tax payments! This is the worst criminal to ever emerge in our country!
An Open Letter To Journalists And Citizens About Minneapolis — Cliff Schecter
Is there anyone who can’t see what is going on here? Make no mistake: they do not intend to permit fair elections in November. Whether through arrests of political opponents, the closure of polling places, voter intimidation, or purging registration rolls, this is a dress rehearsal. This is one of those moments in history, folks.
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Hopefully, the bags of Nazi shit can read it! Fuck these cocksuckers!
The legacy of Trump's brutal America is headed for the dustbin of history — Robert Reich
...Public pressure.
It’s different from political power. You and I and most Americans have little or no political power. We can’t force the dictator or his thugs to do, or stop doing, anything. Politically, we’re hostages to Trump and his congressional Republican cowards and zombies....
We did what a free people do when threatened by a dictator or fascist strongman — we joined together. In outrage and disbelief. In fear and in fury. We joined together to say ENOUGH.
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Cowards abd Zombies - You've heard it here for years now! The SOBs are as big a problem as they were in Germany in the 1030s and '40s! Time for them to leave our planet!
Kansas legislative leaders were determined to bully and oppress a tiny minority of people. — Clay Wirestone, Kansas Reflector
And they didn’t care about any rules or norms or expectations of basic human decency that stood in their way.
In two sentences, that was the story from Wednesday’s travesty at the Kansas Statehouse. Without a single public hearing, overwhelming majorities of Republicans in the House and Senate voted to force transgender Kansans to use bathrooms in government buildings based on their biological sex at birth. No, it doesn’t matter if you’re a trans man with a long beard and mustache. You have to go to the women’s room. No, it doesn’t matter if you are a trans woman with lipstick and décolletage. You have to go to the men’s room....
That’s destructive. That’s hateful. It’s just plain wrong....
Lets be clear: That’s what’s what the people who introduced and advocated for this bill want. They want Kansans who aren’t like everyone else to feel different and persecuted. They want them to suffer.
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These scum of the earth Nazi bastards are sub-human and should be the ones we are deporting!
Judge Rules Against Ending ICE Surge In Minnesota
Politico reports:
A federal judge has rejected a bid by state and local officials in Minnesota to end Operation Metro Surge, the Trump administration’s massive deployment of thousands of federal agents to aggressively enforce immigration laws.
In a ruling Saturday, U.S. District Court Judge Katherine Menendez found strong evidence that the ongoing federal operation ”has had, and will likely continue to have, profound and even heartbreaking, consequences on the State of Minnesota, the Twin Cities, and Minnesotans.”
But the Biden-appointed judge said state officials’ arguments that the state was being punished or unfairly treated by the federal government were insufficient to justify blocking the surge altogether. And in a 30-page opinion, the judge said she was “particularly reluctant to take a side in the debate about the purpose behind Operation Metro Surge.”
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Biden appointed a Nazi? "Insufficient to justify blocking the surge altogether." How many does she want dead before her frozen brain thaws? The blood will be on her hands.
4200 Errors Found In Texas “Bible-Infused” Curriculum
The Texas Tribune reports:
The Texas Education Agency has to correct roughly 4,200 errors in a Bible-infused elementary school curriculum that was approved by the state two years ago, the State Board of Education said Friday.
That includes 547 requests to replace images with “licensing issues.” It also includes formatting errors, typos and incorrect page numbers. Records obtained by The Texas Tribune through an open records request revealed additional complaints from educators about problems like missing pages, incorrect answer keys and books falling apart.
“What a waste of taxpayer dollars!” read one complaint to the Texas Education Agency. Parents and historians have also expressed concerns about the materials downplaying America’s history of racism and slavery.
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Only 4200? I'm sure they missed many more! The retard that made it up should go to remedial history, typing and English composition!
ICE Agents Rough Up And Point Guns At US Citizen
Minnesota Public Radio reports:
MPR News has learned that the police chief in the small southern Minnesota city of St. Peter intervened Thursday afternoon to prevent federal immigration agents from arresting a local resident. The resident, a woman, had been observing and recording video of immigration enforcement actions from her car when agents removed her from her car and took her into custody.
Agents in three vehicles began chasing her and trying to force her to pull over. Eventually they box her in, three agents get out of the car in front of her, with their guns drawn and try to force her out of her vehicle. “Get out of the car! Get out of the car,” the agents scream at her repeatedly, while she calmly responds, “No. I will not get out of the car.”
The woman’s husband eventually arrives and tries to intervene, and he made a separate recording of the interaction on his phone. He tells the agents not to search her car because they don’t have a warrant and it would be an illegal search. The agents appear dismissive of his constitutional concerns. “I’m not getting into the legality of everything,” one agent responds tersely.
"Americans need to shoot back when treated illegally and brutally." — JackFknTwist (comments)
"The next administration needs to abolish ICE. There is nothing worth salvaging. Fire everyone from Trump's personal little army and start from scratch." — archiveit (comments)
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And the candidate must sign that pledge in his own blood!
Criminal barbarians never get into legality of anything. That's why we call them CRIMINALS! WAKE THE FUCK UP, AMERICA!
Turning Point’s Super Bowl Alternative to Bad Bunny Looks Like a Flop — Amanda Marcotte
...So yes, by outward-facing metrics, the TPUSA halftime show is looking to be a flop. From a more cynical perspective, it may end up working out just fine for Charlie Kirk’s widow Erika and the rest of TPUSA management. They were able to capitalize on MAGA’s tantrum over Bad Bunny to raise money and expand their fundraising lists. Whether or not anyone watches whatever feeble offering they have on the actual day of the game hardly matters now, though one person — yours truly — will certainly be tuning in to report on the atrocities. No doubt most of them are too busy scanning the horizon for the next right-wing outrage to exploit for financial gain.
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I heard that Barry "Mr. Square Music" Campbell is available now that his ice cream truck is out of season.
All of you squares really dig him, I know!
When Democracy Learns to Speak the Language of War, Children Become Collateral Damage — Thom Hartmann
“The curse of empathy is to see yourself in every death,
and to see the child hidden in the body of every corpse.”
—John D. MacDonald
How war language is being used to collapse the distance between immigration enforcement, political retaliation, and the criminalization of dissent…
A five year old child — Liam Conejo Ramos — was taken from his home and sent hundreds of miles away to a detention facility for-profit concentration camp in Texas. He was never accused of a crime, didn’t cross our southern border alone, and is so young he barely understands what’s happening to him; odds are he has no understanding of why he’s being treated with such brutality.
Nobody told little Liam about Tom Homan and Stephen Miller being so eager to punish brown-skinned immigrants, delighting in their pain, rationalizing it as a “deterrent” to “illegal immigration” that’s “poisoning the blood” of white America, as Donald Trump himself pointed out on the election trail.
He’s confined to a cell in a cold, concrete facility where the lights are kept on day and night.
There’s no school for him to attend, nobody to hold him and reassure him, his medical care limited, and the food so bad he’s struggled to keep it down.
His lawyer says his health has declined while in government custody.
But this isn’t really about immigration; it’s about power. And how stories and language facilitate the exercise or restraint of that power. It’s about what happens when a nation starts talking about its own people (and the people seeking refuge here) as if they’re enemies in a war.
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Our country is under seige by barbarians and our armed forces won't defend us. They are worthless guardians turned into our guards! Their leaders are flaccid and only worry about their retirement!
United States Plunges into Unlawful Rule and Extrajudicial Killings — Common Dreams
Renee Good and Alex Pretti were murdered by federal agents because they were human rights defenders, bearing witness to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) widescale human rights abuses in Minneapolis. As legal observers and protestors, they were scrutinizing and calling attention to an authority that has attempted every measure to evade accountability for its crimes of unlawful kidnapping and deportation.
In light of these and other extrajudicial killings, and as government officials now label civil society solidarity “domestic terrorism,” FIDH and the Center for Constitutional Rights warn of a potentially irrevocable backsliding of human rights and the rule of law in the United States.
The systemic suppression of investigations and evidence, coupled with outright lies and denial of facts, as well as the direct pressure placed on judges mark dramatic escalations of authoritarian tactics by government officials and place serious constraints on the possibility of justice for those whose rights are being violated.
Renee Good and Alex Pretti were murdered by federal agents because they were human rights defenders, bearing witness to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) widescale human rights abuses in Minneapolis. As legal observers and protestors, they were scrutinizing and calling attention to an authority that has attempted every measure to evade accountability for its crimes of unlawful kidnapping and deportation.
The Trump administration’s efforts to provide unchecked funding and to increase the power of federal law enforcement agencies in the United States increasingly resemble attempts to establish instruments for state-sanctioned intimidation and extrajudicial killing. "The kidnapping and detention of protesters, union leaders, Native community leaders, and many more appear as nothing but direct counterinsurgent measures and a sign of a rapid erosion of civil society’s freedoms,” said Alexis Deswaef, FIDH’s president.
And in the absence of public obedience with such tactics, signs of a permanent state of exception, boosted by unprecedented surveillance, are also taking hold. Popular pressure, protests, and civil society’s mobilization now appear as the sole safeguard for democracy and human rights in the United States. FIDH and the Center for Constitutional Rights commend those taking to the streets and those refusing to back down in this moment of crisis. As organizations from an international network, they are well-aware of the risks human rights defenders take under authoritarian regimes, but also are certain that history is on the side of the protesters refusing injustice.
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Impeach Trump!
Unmask ICE. End the Rittenhousing of America.— Pierre Tristam
One of the most loathsome feelings I remember when I was an 11 or 12-year-old in the early years of Lebanon’s civil war was instinctively slinking down in the back seat of my mother’s red VW Beetle as she would drive up to a checkpoint manned by goons in ski masks, as they always were. Regular Army soldiers never were. Police officers never were. But these degenerates were. They had sidelined army and police, usurped their power and imposed themselves on us.
It didn’t matter if it was our own Christian militias, the ones supposedly protecting us, or the militias on the other side, the PLO and its Lebanese Muslim allies, who were actively killing us, though since we rarely dared cross into enemy territory–you could end up with your throat cut if the guy at the checkpoint was having a bad day–it was usually our own Christian degenerates my mother had to deal with. For all we knew some of them had been pimply adolescents on her kids’ TV show a couple of years back. Some of them still were.
They could have been and likely had been choir boys, as we all had to be. But they were all goons. High on impunity, dangling their AK-47s and using their index fingers like gavels, pointing us this way and that, vulgarly flirting with my mother or talking to her like she was their slut not because they had to but because they could, because harassing and insulting and demeaning was their way to stroke their sullen masculinity. They behaved like brutes because they knew they had the power. They knew they could abuse it. They knew we could do nothing about it as they abused us. And they were on our side.
Because that’s what the combination of weapons and masks does. It doesn’t matter who you are. They erase accountability. They erase your name, your person, your humanity, your reason to have a shred of respect. They turn you into a scumbag drunk on power. If you’ve never had the professional training of a police officer or a sheriff’s deputy, if you’ve never walked a beat, reassured a scared neighbor or maintained a modicum of dignity while arresting a suspect, and you’re masked, armed and empowered, you’re a lost cause....
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Defund the bastard scumbags!
Amazon's Melania Ad Strategy Backfires In LA — Eve Batey
The city of Los Angeles has rerouted buses that advertise Melania after vandals defaced movie posters and billboards promoting the controversial documentary.
It's not enough, it seems, that Melania, the newly released documentary about US First Lady Melania Trump, faces scathing reviews and a lukewarm style assessment. Now its unprecedented ad campaign is facing pushback, after billboards and posters for the Amazon-backed film have been defaced across Los Angeles.
In Los Angeles, activist art collective INDECLINE has claimed credit for alterations to at least one billboard for the film, writing on social media that “we have gone to great lengths and risks to help create a little marketing buzz ahead of the premiere." Above those words was a video of a masked vandal adding a scatological element to the billboard, a suggestion that the first lady — ad shown in the ad — is relieving herself on an American flag.
Just as her worthless husband does to our Constitution every day!
Trump: My WH Cage Match Stadium Will Seat 100,000
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Only the shameless retarded few will show up.
Florida Driver’s License Exams To Be English-Only
Driver’s license tests in Florida will be administered only in English starting Feb. 6, the state Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles announced Friday. “This change applies to all driver license classifications, including exams administered orally,” said state officials in a news release.
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These helpless retards are so insecure. Have they ever been to Europe? Anyone in business speaks three languages: English, French and German. Americans are sooo retarded. They have no idea how many "English" words are derived from other languages. What about all their Cuban population there? Send 'em back to Cuba?
Florida Gov Candidate Who Banned Women’s “Bare Shoulders” In State Capitol Vows To Ban Sharia Law
...So, we get it — the Legislature has had its fair share of sex scandals. But are we really trying to avoid this problem in the future by sending the message to women that their shoulders are just too damn sexy for elected officials to handle? And is that at least mildly insulting to the men who serve in the House who are being protected from scandalous, bare shoulders?"
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Apparently, these are very weak little boys they have in Florida.
Can anyone tell us where in fuck is Sharia Law enforced in the USA?
You bastard motherfuckers won't even support our Constitution. Trump shits on it everyday!
Steve Deace: Destroy Minnesota Like Sodom And Gomorrah — John Amato
These people are psychos.
"Has Trumpism been classified as a mental illness yet? If not, what's the hold-up?" — Yourebetterbecauseyouburnyoure (comments)
""Someone must be made an example out of," Deace proclaimed.
I see two ways to interpret this. The first is the psychotic notion that this isn't an idle threat and is meant as lethal intimidation. The second is, "You're trying to intimidate me with a story from a book of fables and allegories? How about growing up and just stop with the childish threats." — surjac (comments)
"Every time you hear somebody compare any modern city or state to 'Sodom and Gomorrah', what they're really saying is 'I'm too fucking stupid to breathe and have nothing to say that anybody needs to hear. Also send me money.'" — Plebs of Glip Glop (comments)
""We've not made an example out of anybody yet." Um, douchebag, would it not easier that if you don't like Minnesota, just go live in fucking Mississippi, Arkansas, or Alabama, or wherever? LIke you said if abortion is illegal in your state and you don't like it, just go live in another state. What the hell happened to "states rights" that you "conservatives" are always screaming about? Conservative = hate and fear. That's all you know. That's all you offer. You just can't fucking leave people alone that don't believe in your fucking 3,000 year old fantasy books." — Gibson1976 (comments)
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"Sodom And Gomorrah?" Does he mean the vocal groups that are on the show in Men of Extinction's I Fucking Gauarantee There'll Be a Gospel Quartet song fron their Pistol Grip Wallet CD?
The little boy must mean they really are Talibastards!
"Reasonable?" Nothing about miscreants like this asshole can be reasonable!
GOP-appointed judge smacks down Trump admin for hiding government spending: report — Adam Lynch
Law & Crime reports a federal judge called out President Donald Trump's administration for violating a court order demanding access to hidden spending plans.,br>
In win for transparency groups, U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan, first appointed by President Ronald Reagan and later by Presidents George H.W. Bush and Clinton, had to school the Trump administration over what it could and could not hide from the public....
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He's hiding much more than this.
Springsteen’s Minneapolis Protest Song Soars To #1
Forbes reports:
Throughout the past several days, dozens of well known musicians have spoken out against the Trump administration’s ICE raids in the city of Minneapolis, which have now claimed multiple lives and sparked outrage across the United States. One of the most famous artists to use his voice to attempt to highlight the insanity of what’s going on is Bruce Springsteen.
"'I see the highly overrated Bruce Springsteen goes to a foreign country to speak badly about the President of the United States.' - Trump (POS)
Springsteen song hits #1 in 18 foreign countries and #1 in U.S. per Itunes/topic.
President at rock bottom in ratings." — SockMikey "comments)
(only because Trump is shitting on our First Amendment!)
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Ain't it the truth, Ruth? Tell me, was that the Pussy Grabbin' Man?
Some musicians just don't like fascism! Guess who?
Force Trump back to hell where he came from! Long live freedom In the USA!
Texas Declares Disaster Over Flesh-Eating Screwworm
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So that's what's been eating these idiot's brains? LMAO!
Trump: China Will Ban Ice Hockey Matches In Canada
"Does Trump think Canadians are as ignorant as his supporters here in America?" — S1AMER (comments)
"It just gets stupider by the day with this moron and the sad fact is that there are those that walk among us that are so gullible and even stupider than he is that will believe this shit." — K S (comments)
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Talk about Screwworms! Here's the perfect example of how they cause brain rot!
Tuberville Won’t Watch “Woke Bowl With Bad Rabbit”
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Thanks! We don't want the broadcast polluted by irrelevent "Southern Culture on the Skids" assholes like you watching!
"Oh Christ! It's this asshole again!"
Trump: “Agitator Pretti” Was “Perhaps Insurrectionist”
"And frankly 2/3 of the population doesn’t care he rapes kids" — Todd20036 (comments)
"I don’t believe that. I’d blow his head off with a shotgun if I saw Trump rape a child" — Dwight Williamson (comments)
"hmm. just what could ICE have done to make an American take a swing at them? maybe the murder of Rene Good had something to do with it. fuck trump and the gastapo he is using to murder Americans." — Stoned and loving it (comments)
"So Alex Pretti hated you Donnie and he’s dead , but everyone wishes it was you who had died. 10 shots in the back from federal officers is something I’ll never forget" — Dwight Wiliamson (comments)
"He spit at the car and the highly agitated ICE officers didn't exit till after his kicking of the taillight.
But if the Demented King were to actually tell the truth, his cult might turn on him." — DaddySanrk (comments)
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How much proof do you need to see this man is 100% insane?
Trump: “I’m Decertifying All Aircraft Made In Canada”
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When will our country get the balls to put a stop to this insane megalomaniac? He's destroying not only us but the rest of the world as well!
Federal Agents Arrest Don Lemon Over Church Protest
The New York Times reports:
The former CNN anchor Don Lemon was arrested late Thursday night on charges that he violated federal law during a protest at a church in St. Paul, Minn., multiple people familiar with the matter said, in a case rejected last week by a magistrate judge. Mr. Lemon has said he was simply reporting as a journalist when he entered the Cities Church on Jan. 18 to observe a demonstration against the immigration crackdown in the area.
But the magistrate judge who reviewed the evidence approved charges against only three of the people, rejecting the evidence against Mr. Lemon and the others as insufficient. The Justice Department then petitioned a federal appeals court to force the judge to issue the additional warrants, only to be denied. Now that he has been arrested, Mr. Lemon is likely to challenge the prosecution’s case by arguing that he was not protesting, but rather covering the event as a journalist."
Did they even have a warrant?
"told no twice yet they still arrested him. funny how the executive branch is not paying attention to the other two. would that we had functioning checks and balances." -- Stoned and loving it (comments)
"Dear World,
Yes, this is exactly what it looks like. And what's happening here is far worse than the bits you are seeing in mainstream media. Don't come here. Don't cooperate with this regime." -- Houndentator (comments)
"Lemon wasn’t protesting. He was there as a journalist. The First Amendment doesn’t matter to the Project 2025 crew, apparently." -- Gigi (comments)
"If you're going to start arresting people without a warrant, why not start with an "enemy of the people" fake news journalist?
Anything to distract his base from his failures in MN and on Epstein." — HopeLeft (comments)
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DOJ - The Department Of Jackasses! Lemon should sue them out of existence!
Our First Amendment is under attack! Stop the Nazi scum by any means necesary!
Jesse Watters Praises Trump For Taking Marching Orders From Fox
“Kilmeade said send Homan to Minneapolis and an hour later Trump did it”
"Did he really say Rob Reiner "deserved" to be knifed to death by his own son? So let me understand this -- anyone who disagrees with tRump "deserves" to be taken out by ANY means necessary? Is that what Watters is really saying? What the dog-damn f-ck is wrong with these people ...??" — wdcoach (comments)
"Yes, he said that. He also invites Katie Miller on his show regularly to allow her to gush about what a "sexual dynamo" her husband is, especially when he wakes up every morning and chants about he they will "stomp out more Democrats today." She said that makes her hot. While Watters was grinning and laughing." — Jaguar67 (comments)
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We'll remember you said this, you mscreant traitors!
Neil Young Pulls Catalogue From Amazon And Gives It To Greenland
The legendary rocker is not playing games with his feelings towards Jeff Bezos.
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Smoothe move, Nekl!
ICE & Confederacy - AMPED UP W Cliff, David, Eugene Robinson
Robinson shared discoveries from his family history--enslaved ancestors, Black veterans of World Wars I & II, and long-silenced family stories--arguing that Black history was not a subset of U.S. history, but its core. And crucial for get what's happening in Minneapolis...
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Nothing but the same slave driving racists that the Land of the Happy Negro was!
Trump is the evil force behind the scum.
Over 120 civil society groups demand EU leaders phase out US fossil fuels in light of Trump’s fossil fuel imperialism — Common Drams
Today, over 120 European and international civil society groups sent a letter to EU leaders to urge them to cancel negotiation and implementation of the US-EU trade deal and reduce reliance on US fossil fuels in solidarity with those threatened by Trump’s fossil-fueled imperialism in Latin America and Greenland. Signatories include Oil Change International, Greenpeace International, Conexiones Climáticas, European Trade Justice Coalition, and the EU-LAT network.
In July 2025, Trump used the threat of economically devastating tariffs to ensure the EU would agree to import $750 billion of US energy products over the next three years. Many analysts say this deal risks creating yet another dangerous dependency for Europe while leading to the weakening or abandoning of crucial climate and human rights legislation in the bloc. The letter argues that every Euro spent on US fossil fuels, and every fossil fuel investment made by European companies and banks in the United States, fuels Trump’s authoritarian agenda at home and his imperial ambitions abroad. Increased reliance on US fossil fuels will also worsen the climate crisis, spread toxic pollution in frontline communities, and is expected to raise energy prices for EU households....
Thom Tillis Hilariously Mocks Trump For Calling Him A 'Loser' — Conover Kennard
In the Trump era, Republicans usually avoid the president's name-calling and wrath. Still, Sen. Thom Tillis isn't seeking another term, so amid the chaos from this administration, the North Carolina Republican has repeatedly called out Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and President Stephen Miller.
Trump called Sens. Thom Tillis and Lisa Murkowski “losers” in an interview following their calls for ICE Barbie to step down from her role after Alex Pretti's murder.
“They’re terrible senators," Trump said. "One is gone, and the other should be gone."
Well, Tillis isn't gone yet, you big Lump.
"They're discrediting what I consider to be a very well-organized operation in ICE," Tillis told CNN's Manu Raju. "But they're discrediting even these officers."
"They're going to make their job more difficult and more dangerous with this incompetence that I'm seeing out of Noam and out of Stephen Miller," he continued.
"The President called you a loser, I believe," Raju said.
"I am thrilled about that," Till replied. "That makes me qualified to be Homeland Security Secretary and Senior Advisor to the President."
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More evidence of Trump's insanity!
House Gets Sweeping “Citizenship Proof To Vote” Bill
"... these fuckers realize elections are run by STATES, right?" — Eli Bradley
"They literally don’t understand how voters register, how they show up to vote, how votes are cast, how votes are counted, how elections are audited, and how voter rolls are maintained."
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These Nazi asswipe retards think a turd in their trousers is a fart with lumpsr!
Tennessee Rep Calls For Death Penalty For All Advocates Of Trans Healthcare: Such Killings “Align With Scripture”
“I think we need a law in Tennessee that would allow for capital punishment for those who commit an assault on the sanctity of life. I think there’s probably four things that fall under that. I think that it aligns with scripture. I think that anyone who would try to disfigure a child through hormones or surgery, you might be eligible to capital punishment. I know that’s gonna make people’s ears ring, but that’s a gross, great sin.” – Tennessee GOP Rep. Monty Fritts, speaking on a far-right Christian nationalist podcast."
"Cupcake, wake me up when you put adulterers to death as the bible commands. I can give you a DC address if you're not sure where to start. — DaddySnark (comments)
"Fuck your scripture, fuck your god, fuck your religion and fuck you" — StarGmom (comments)
"If your God wants me dead, why do you have to do anything?
Surely, your God is powerful enough not to need your help. Or is He as impotent as the politician? (without viagra...)" — Karl Dubhe IV (comments)
"Religion has no place in public law, other than to guarantee a private personal freedom to exercise one's religious beliefs in private but not to influence those in public by stomping all over their own religious beliefs, and to claim that the Bible supports their perverted views on life, is to mock reality.
Genesis 19:33 as one example of how perverted this idea is.
1 Samuel 18:25 for another that demands mass murders as the price for a bride." — Tetokone Opettaja (comments)
(followed by our First Amendment, the one these religious asswipes never seem to understand.)
"A) First of all, you swore to uphold the LAW, not the scripture
B) The Bible does not say what you seem to think it says
C) There is an injunction in the Constitution forbidding people like yourself from endorsing a specific belief
D) Your deity is a violent fuck." — MaragaretPOA (comments) -
"The thing is, "scripture" does recommend murder in many circumstances, so yes, the bible is a piece of crud collection of fairy tales and horror stories that promises rewards for inhuman behavior. How much more civilized the world would be without it." — Mike (comments)
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Oh, yeah? Well, this Talibastard Nutball isn't fit to make that judgement or any other. He can just tend to his own backyard and leave the rest of us alone! Watch him very closely!
Gingrich Floats Amnesty For Noncriminal Migrants
“We need a national conversation about what we’re going to do, about people who’ve come here, some of them 20 years ago, who’ve been obeying the law, paying taxes, good neighbors, have kids, go to PTA. Very few Americans want to see the police walk in and pick them up and deport them. On the other hand, people do not want to give them citizenship. So there should be some middle ground here on long-term goals.”- Newt Gingrich, echoing GOP Rep. Mike Lawler’s call this week for a “path to legal status” for “law-abiding” migrants.
BREAKING – Numerous prominent Republican figures are now floating the idea of broad amnesty for illegals, with Newt Gingrich saying it’s time to “have a national conversation” about illegals who “obey the law,” claiming very few Americans want to see them deported.
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A Republican is making sense? What took so long?
Rubio Dodges Accountability at Senate Hearing as Deadly Boat Strikes Continue — Mike Ludwig
The families of two men killed on a small boat targeted by the US military filed a wrongful death lawsuit this week.
s former colleagues fumed about the administration’s failure to consult Congress, Secretary of State Marco Rubio defended President Donald Trump’s rapid escalation of the “war on drugs” in the Caribbean and Latin America before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on January 28. Rubio testified for almost three hours in his first congressional hearing since U.S. forces invaded Venezuela and abducted President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, in a deadly raid on January 3.
“This is the first public hearing we’ve had. Two hundred folks who were on secret designated combatant lists have been killed, U.S. troops have been injured, hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent, an armada amassed, and the announcement of a new Monroe doctrine which does not land well in the Americas,” said Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Virginia), noting operations began nearly five months ago. “Democrats have asked over and over again, can we have a public hearing?”
After months of U.S. military belligerence in international waters without congressional oversight, Rubio claimed the U.S. is not at war with Venezuela but is at war with drug smugglers, which he called “enemy combatants” with advanced weapons. However, Rubio distanced himself from dozens of airstrikes on small boats that have killed at least 126 people since September, deferring questions to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, despite Rubio’s double role as Trump’s national security advisor. Rubio’s prepared remarks did not mention the boat strikes.
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Wrongful death is just the tip of his deadly iceberg!
Abducted 5-Year-Old in Texas ICE Jail Now Sick Amid “Abysmal” Conditions — Stephen Prager
Liam Conejo Ramos “has stomach pain, he’s vomiting, he has a fever, and he no longer wants to eat,” his mother said.
iam Conejo Ramos, a 5-year-old boy abducted by immigration agents in Minneapolis last week, is now in poor health after being sent to languish in a Texas facility with “absolutely abysmal” conditions, according to his family.
Reporters got in contact with Zena Stenvik, the superintendent at the Columbia Heights public school district, where Ramos attends preschool, who said she spoke with Ramos’ mother.
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What sort of a sick scumbag would abduct a child and throw him in prison? Donald Fucking Trump!
The Most Dangerous Moment Is When Authoritarians Seem to Compromise — Thom Hartmann
“CNN BREAKING: Kristin Holmes reports Stephen Miller is saying ‘there may have been a breach of protocol’ and Noem is blabbering about how she was in touch with Trump and Miller for her talking points. Miller is saying that he got his information CBP trying to shove it down to Bovino! This fucking clown show guys. They are all going down.”
Meanwhile, Democrats are celebrating the replacement of Nazi-cosplayer Greg Bovino and eager puppy-killer and adulterer Kristi Noem with Tom Homan, who merely takes $50,000 bribes in burger bags and is therefore presumably more reasonable. Blue collar versus white collar, and all that.
But, wait a minute. Slow down. It’s way too premature to toast the dawn of a new era.
Fascist governments don’t rise in one giant arc, nor do they collapse that way. It’s more of what electrical engineers and ham radio operators would call a “sawtooth pattern.” Climb an inch up toward fascism, get pushback from the public so you back down a half-inch until things quiet down, then move up another inch in another step toward the ultimate goal of total tyranny....
Krimesolver Kash And Russia's Girlfriend Tulsi Gonna Find Trump Those 11,780 Votes In Georgia! — Evan Hurst
Time for another one of those moments where we sound the alarm about the continued march of Donald Trump’s white supremacist Russian Hitler Jim Crow Mussolini fascism — did we compare it to enough things for everyone’s liking? — and simultaneously note that our fascists are FUCKING stupid, just the stupidest fucking white supremacist Russian Hitler Jim Crow Mussolini fascists who ever lived. So continue to take heart in that!
Yesterday, the dangerously stupid, bumblefucking FBI of Kash Patel executed a “search warrant” upon the elections operations center in Fulton County, Georgia, AKA Atlanta. Why? Well, you see, Donald Trump and his most mouthbreathing pigfucking cousin-diddling fans believe that Fulton County and Georgia are THE KEY and the SMOKING GUN to finding the 11,780 VOTES that will … well, not actually change the outcome of that presidential election, which was six years ago.
But unfortunately for all of us, Donald Trump is a cowardly, sad little bitch with brain fistulas who thinks about the 2020 election — his greatest humiliation, the one he incited a terrorist attack against the United States to overturn — every hour of every day of his rapidly diminishing life.
So an FBI raid on Fulton County it is!
How does Tulsi Gabbard factor into this? Well, she shouldn’t, since the Director of National Intelligence literally has no domestic role, and certainly shouldn’t be on site during domestic FBI search warrant executions. Of course, Tulsi has in the past not been quite clear on what the DNI is supposed to do all day. But look who the fuck dragged her ass away from standing in front of her mirror and playing spy dress-up like she’s Keri fucking Russell in The Americans.
Cool, totally cool. Russia’s girlfriend Tulsi was there at the elections HQ in Georgia, seizing the 2020 ballots. Will she give them to any of America’s enemies directly, or is that a cut-out’s job?....
Lots more to read on Evan's page. Read it!
'No words': Jaw-dropping Fox News poll leaves analysts speechless — Robert Davis
Fox News polled registered voters between January 23 and 26 about what they thought of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents' efforts to deport people from Minneapolis. Respondents were asked to decide whether ICE was being "too aggressive," "not aggressive enough," or "about right."
Respondents mostly disagreed with ICE's tactics, with 59% saying the agents were "too aggressive." But another 17% of respondents said agents were not aggressive enough, a figure some analysts found shocking."
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Showing us how many hateful, Nazi miscreants have infiltrated our country.
Venezuelan Oil Deals Went To Wildly Corrupt Outfits
...The bribery schemes were colorful and elaborate, according to court records. They involved code words such as “shoes” and “coffee,” shell entities, and fake contracts and invoices with Mexican and Ecuadorian state oil companies in the case of a Vitol trader who was convicted of bribery in 2024, four years after the company paid $135 million in criminal penalties to resolve accusations it bribed officials in Mexico, Ecuador and Brazil.
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What else would you expect from the Trump Crime Syndicate?
At least Brazil knew what to do with a criminal president!
Trump Lies: Walmart Will Close Almost All CA Stores
Yahoo News reports:
In the late hours of Wednesday, Trump shared several posts on his Truth Social account claiming that 85% of Walmart stores in California are closing due to the state’s minimum wage. Gov. Gavin Newsom was quick to take to X and said that the retail behemoth’s stores were open and functioning.
Trump reshared a post on Truth Social that said Walmart was closing “250 stores in California, citing $22 per hour minimum wage.”
When a user on X asked AI assistant Grok about the post by “MAGA X TIMES DAILY NEWS,” it said it was not accurate. “No, this claim isn’t accurate. California’s minimum wage is $16.90/hour as of Jan 1, 2026, not $22,” Grok said.
"The more outrageously Dump lies, the lower my opinion of his followers is. They are OK with alternate reality, utter dishonesty, cruelty and are slavishly loyal to the very worst of humanity and then they wonder why so few people want to fuck them." — Skeptical_Inquirer (comments)
"Not to mention, stupidity and laziness are not attractive." — NPSTL (comments)
"Yup. Corporations seldom reduce prices. We also had the COVID price increase that largely remained in place. The shrinkflation of product sizes will also likely remain." — DaddySnark (comments)
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Shrinkflation is real. Can you find a new tube of toothpaste that is actually filled? Nope, only about 3/4 full.
Trump is the biggest liar and the most corrupt politician to ever live!
Trump Issues Threat To Reluctant Donors: “Are You A Proud Citizen Or Does ICE Need To Track You Down?”
The Huffington Post reports:
Donald Trump’s administration has been using federal officers to go after undocumented immigrants, but now his political action committee is threatening to sic the agents on his own donors. Trump’s Never Surrender PAC sent out a fundraising email that had this provocative subject line: “Are you an illegal alien?”
“Your file says you’re a top MAGA patriot… But my records to my survey STILL say: RESPONSE PENDING. Don’t tell me, you’re an Illegal Alien?!? That cannot be true!” the message said, before adding, “This is your FINAL MOMENT to Prove me wrong … please. Are you a proud American Citizen or does ICE need to come and track you down?”
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Don't we yet realize that this person is a danger to EVERYONE OF US?
Trump goes on early morning Truth Social spree reposting calls for Obama's arrest — Sarah K. Burris
The rant included a nearly decade-long conspiracy that Trump was spied on by former President Barack Obama. Trump reposted Fox News commentary from far-right host Jesse Watters who claimed Obama personally ordered a CIA spying operation on Trump.
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Jessie Fucking Watters? What a dork!
Insanity reigns!
'Nobody believes you': Anger as Trump admin backtracks on de-escalation promise — David Badash
"I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: NOTHING will stop President Trump and this Department of Justice from enforcing the law."
"They’re not arresting the people responsible for the murders of Renée Nicole Good or Alex Pretti," wrote author and activist Lev Parnas. "No — they’re arresting Minnesota citizens and using them as props for a headline. Enough is enough. We need accountability. We need justice. And we are not backing down."
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The free world hates Trumps guts!
If she calls that enforcing the law, what does she call the Nazi genocide? Their goal?
Springsteen Rips Trump, ICE, Noem, And Voldemort In Protest Song Dedicated To Renee Good And Alex Pretti
NBC News reports:
Bruce Springsteen released a fiery protest song Wednesday dedicated to the memory of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, two Minneapolis residents who were fatally shot by federal agents this month.
“Streets of Minneapolis,” which Springsteen wrote Saturday and recorded Tuesday, is a “response to the state terror being visited on the city,” he said in a post on Instagram. He added that the song is also for “the people of Minneapolis” and “our innocent immigrant neighbors.”
The song, which is about four and a half minutes long, denounces U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and calls out Trump administration officials by name, including Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller and President Donald Trump himself.
Streets of Minneapolis - Bruce Springsteen
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Trump is a “dried out prune of a president.”
Top Trump 'henchman' ignites firestorm comparing Purple Heart Dem to Forrest Gump — Daniel Hampton
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Tammi Duckworth is twice the man "Vance" will ever be.
Deluded Trump declares inflation is 'solved' — Emily Singer
President Donald Trump on Tuesday ridiculously declared that inflation is "solved" and that he, our wonderful Dear Leader, has fixed our affordability problems! Hooray!
"Inflation, we’ve solved. It’s done," Trump said in an interview with Fox News ahead of a speech in Iowa meant to gin up support for the Republican Party in the 2026 midterm election. "We have it good where prices are coming way down. ... You notice they don’t mention affordability anymore. That’s like an old-fashioned word."
It goes without saying, but magically declaring that you fixed a problem doesn't make it so.
Inflation is still over the Federal Reserve's 2% year-over-year target, and vast majorities of Americans still say they are being squeezed by high prices.
Consumer confidence is at the lowest level since 2014, with Dana Peterson, chief economist at The Conference Board, saying in a news release, “References to prices and inflation, oil and gas prices, and food and grocery prices remained elevated.”
The Democratic polling outlet Navigator Research conducted a focus group with Trump supporters in January, finding that many regretted their vote, with some focusing on Trump’s failure to address the affordability crisis he promised to tackle.
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All Trump has ever purchased are Big Macs and fries!
Trump 'desperately grasping for control' as lackeys dish on his health: report Adam Lynch
Earlier this week, New York Magazine published Ben Terris’s investigation into the issue of President Donald Trump’s health. Intelligencer writer Benjamin Hart points out that Trump has not tried to sue the paper over the story, so he must be happy with the report.
But Hart finds what’s also important about the president’s clearly deteriorating health is the political and media infrastructure that has grown up around his failing health to hide and normalize it.
“It’s a bunch of his lackeys sucking up to him in print talking about how he’s so powerful and so superhuman that they can’t even keep up with him,” Terris told Benjamin in an interview. “… I think he infected the administration. There’s this kind of brain worm that everybody seems to have, where they can’t help [but] debase themselves when talking about how powerful and awesome their boss is and how they are just mere mortals by his side who can’t keep up with him. So as much as it’s a story about his health, it’s also about how he runs a government, how he’s desperately grasping for control.”
“We can all see with our own eyes that he seems to fall asleep in meetings, that his ankles have swollen, that he’s got this bruise on the back of his hand,” Terris added. “He’s not exactly the pinnacle of health. You don’t have to prove that, because it’s proven out there. And then to have these people say ‘Don’t believe what you see with your own eyes’ is itself a story.”
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Rotting before our very eyes!
Georgia 2020 elections raid just a show to appease 'obsessed' Trump: expert — Sarah K. Burris
The FBI executed a raid on an elections hub in Fulton County, Georgia on Wednesday, relating to the 2020 election, which President Donald Trump maintains he "won." The move comes the week after the top agent was shoved out.
Speaking about it to CNN after the news broke, former Palm Beach County State Attorney David Aaronberg called it a "Kash Patel attempt to continue to be in the good graces of President [Donald] Trump."
Patel took over as the director of the FBI after Trump fired his own previous appointee, Christopher Wray and Wray was hired after then-FBI Director James Comey refused to swear fidelity to Trump in 2017.
Aaronberg noted that Trump has been "obsessed" with the 2020 election to such a degree that he went through over 60 court rulings across the country where judges refused to allow further attempts by Trump to challenge votes in key Democratic areas or through mail-in voting.
"There's absolutely no evidence of widespread fraud," said Aaronberg. "But before we go down that road, we have to realize that if this seizure took place, if this raid took place, it means that a federal judge or magistrate had to sign off on a warrant, that there was probable cause of a crime, and that evidence of that crime would be at that location."
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The degenerate wingnut scumbag is completely bonkers! Get the broken retard out of our White House and into the Nut House!
How can anyone with a conscience work for the criminal trash? It's no wonder that the whole of our planet hates this miscreant!
Deranged Trump Loser Assaults Ilhan Omar, F*ck Off About How 'Both Sides Do It' — Evan Hurst
Last night, Rep. Ilhan Omar was doing a town hall with her constituents when a dumpy, ugly, beta-looking MAGA man got up and tried to attack her with a syringe full of something. She had literally just said the words, “We must abolish ICE for good,” adding that Homeland Security Secretary and Glamour Shots Nazi Barbie Kristi Noem “must resign or face impeachment.”
Then: (see video)
You might want to watch from a couple angles, because holy shit, the way Rep. Omar goes after him. More actual courage in her pinky finger than every trigger-happy Daddy issues little bitch ICE agent on the ground in Minneapolis.
Despite how she was absolutely sprayed with something and security was like CONGRESSWOMAN! and people around her who were more focused on her personal safety than she was at the moment and wanted her to at least change out of a top that could have been contaminated with something dangerous — again, because she’s a selfless hero, and wow, what a contrast to the ICE Nazis running around MSP — she refused to end her town hall, demanding they give her 10 more minutes.
You can really hear that in this video:
“We will continue! These fucking assholes are not gonna get away with this!”
“Here is the reality people like this ugly man don’t understand,” said Omar when she started addressing the crowd again. “We are Minnesota Strong. We’ll stay resilient in the face of whatever they might throw at us.”
She also said, “I learned at a young age you don’t give in to threats.”
The debased MAGAts are already screaming that the attack was staged — as well as some of the types of alleged liberals who are conditioned to distrust Omar — and wouldn’t you know it, the same motherfucker who has been inciting hatred against Omar day in, day out for weeks is also claiming that. “She probably had herself sprayed, knowing her,” said Donald Trump. Mentally deranged Newsmax host Greg Kelly is claiming it was silly string.
Actually, whatever came out of the syringe, which bystanders said smelled awful, was amber-colored, per the New York Post.
And in fact, to repeat, the person who did it was a dumpy MAGA loser named Anthony Kazmierczak, age 55, who looks like an outer layer of the same world’s ugliest matryoshka doll that produced Kyle Rittenhouse.
Look at this absolute zero of a typical male of the MAGA species, courtesy of his Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office mugshot:
(photo of incel)
He follows such absolute losers on Twitter as LibsOfTikTok and Benny Johnson and Candace Owens and Tim Pool and Elon Musk.
Yeah, MAGA, it was staged. They just happened to hire somebody who has been living his entire life as a dead-end, least-common-denominator, humanity’s-least-valuable-player Trump supporter. You betcha.
There's more. Read it!
Alex Pretti and Renee Good Were Lynched. How Will We Respond? — Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II
...They only way to stop a lynch mob is to build a moral movement that can reclaim the tools of government, hold people accountable for their crimes, and reconstruct a democracy committed to liberty and equality for all.
Just as American history helps us name what we’re seeing, it can also show us the way out. Jim Crow was defeated in the 20th century by a coalition of people who countered the distorted moral narrative of a fiery cross with a moral movement that demonstrated the power of nonviolence.
Sixty-two years ago, after three civil rights workers were kidnapped and murdered in Mississippi, hundreds of college students were gathered in Ohio for training. When civil rights leader Bob Moses told the group what had happened, every one of those young people decided to risk their lives to continue on with the work of registering voters.
Like them, those of us who know what these masked men are doing is wrong cannot sit back and curse the darkness from the comfort of our normal lives. Instead, we must recognize what’s stirring within us as righteous anger to fuel a moral struggle.
We must let the blood of Alex Pretti and Renee Good and the more than 30 people who have died in ICE custody over the past year cry out from the ground. It is calling us to build a moral movement to reclaim the tools of government in the places where we are.
Alex Pretti was lynched, as Renee Good was before him. In this moment, we must each make our decision about what we will do with the power of nonviolence to reclaim the tools of our government.
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Only if we have the spine to do what must be done will we reclaim our country.
Let’s Play Let’s Pretend — Jaime O’Neill
...Most of all, too many adults pretended and still pretend that boogeymen (and women) were real. Far too many adults have always been manipulated by a smorgasbord of fears fed to them by people who exploited those fears. The Jews were a subhuman scourge intent on taking over. They all stuck together in pursuit of world domination. They drank the blood of Christian babies. They killed Jesus. They were less than human, as were Negroes, or uppity women, or homosexuals intent on molesting our boys and turning them “gay.” Someone or some thing was always out to get us. "They" killed Charlie Kirk just for speaking the truth, and If we didn’t wake up, it was going to be curtains for us and everything and everyone we held dear. In short, we were fed a constant diet of let's pretend bullshit and far too many of us still believe what we'd heard so incessantly.
And, my friends, that is how fascism came to America. That’s how the Nazis came to Germany, or the fascists came to Italy, and Spain. Other countries, along with our own, now are playing “let’s pretend,” telling themselves they'll be better off without democracy, or law, or education, or healthcare if only they give themselves over to a strong man who tells them he knows what’s best. Only he and his cohort of tricksters and thieves can save us, telling themselves that Putin is our bff and NATO is our worstest foe. And if we believe it with enough fervor, if we go along to get along, if we succumb to our fear, he can make it all go away, kill or incarcerate all those who don’t fall in line, and return us to that wonderful country we once were, where all the men were brave, all the women were obedient, and all the children did as they were told. Greatness would be ours. At last.
If only we could all just pretend that tyranny was freedom, lies were truth, war would bring peace, Trump is a "very stable genius," ICE is nice, and that pigs can fly.
Once Again, Under the Shadow of Authoritarian Power, Americans Must Decide What Kind of Nation We Will Become — Thom Hartmann
There is something deeply unsettling about Lincoln’s famous phrase “four score,” meaning eighty years. It’s roughly the length of a human life, but is also the interval at which the United States repeatedly collides with crisis and is forced to decide, again and again, what kind of nation we will be.
Historian Neil Howe explores this pattern in his book The Fourth Turning Is Here, arguing that every eighty years America reaches a sort of breaking point that ultimately hits on major issues like democracy or autocracy and oligarchy.
What typically triggers those moments, historians will tell you, is when inequality has grown extreme, political power has hardened into the hands of a few, and democratic norms have been eroded or even openly attacked. The country then is forced to choose: either expand freedom and rights, or slip toward authoritarian rule.
Nobody’s sure exactly why this keeps happening every eighty years. It may be because when the people who lived through the last catastrophe have just died off, their lived memory of repression and violence is gone with them. The guardrails then weaken, the warnings are forgotten, and people take leaps without remembering the lessons from the past.
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"Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." — George Santayana, The Life of Reason, or The Phases of Human Progress 1905.
WATCH: GOP Congressman Says He Blames Ilhan Omar for the Town Hall Attack Against Her — Says He Still Wants Her Deported — Ahmad Austin Jr.
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Deport the hateful Randy Fine instead.
Hate Group Blames ICE Protests On Lack Of Jesus
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I spoke to Jesus about this just this morning. He said he thinks you're an asshole!
Graham To GOP: Voldemort Is “Not The Problem”
"... When this clock strikes 12 on the Trump era, there will be a few people walking out the door with Donald Trump. Stephen Miller will be in that group."...
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And you can walk out with him, fascist git!
As Congress Abdicates War Powers Responsibility, Rubio to Defend Venezuelan Operation -- Common Dreams
Secretary of State and Acting National Security Advisor Marko Rubio will today testify on the Trump administration’s actions in Venezuela earlier this month. In the weeks since kidnapping Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, President Trump has seized control of the country’s oil and directed more than $300 million of the funds from the sale to a bank account in Qatar. In response, Robert Weissman, co-president of Public Citizen, issued the following statement:
“The ongoing military actions in the Caribbean and South America, including the abduction of Venezuela’s president, are wrong, illegal under U.S. and international law and unconstitutional.
“Congressional Republicans have blocked War Powers Resolutions that would end the U.S. aggression in Venezuela, an extremely dangerous abdication of Congressional responsibility to check presidential unlawfulness.
“Marco Rubio’s central role in the planning and execution of the scheme to violate the sovereignty of Venezuela and steal the country’s oil merits a deep investigation by Congress, and potentially the removal of Rubio as Secretary of State. Rubio’s dangerously expansive vision to transform the United States into a colonizing power in the Americas must be challenged.”
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Trump's mob of corrupted traitors.
DOJ Cites J6 Rioter's Conspiracy As Excuse To Bury Alex Pretti Shooting Evidence — David Edwards
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Except every human on the planet with a cellphone or computer has a copy of the evidence. Try again, DOJ killers!
DHS Agents Broke Alex Pretti's Rib A Week Before They Killed Him — Susie Madrak
Shouting and blowing a whistle makes you a "violent agitator" who is "breaking the law," in the world according to DHS. And that "crime" resulted in him being taken down by five agents, with one leaning on his back and breaking his rib, before they released him back into the street.
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More evidence for the corrupt DOJ pigs to cover up.
Greg Kelly Claims Alex Pretti's Cell Phone Looked Like A Gun — John Amato
Kelly's latest defense of ICE murdering Alex Pretti was so ridiculous, so fucking brain-dead that if Newsmax producers had a conscience, they would suspend him immediately.
Kelly creates his own version of Saturday's tragic events by claiming a black iPhone or cell phone looks exactly like a gun, and if Pretti pointed it at the ICE agents as if he was going to shoot them, then the ICE agents had cause to shoot him
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This person has a severe optical problem causing a mental problem for him. Anyone with a funcitoning brain can see what occured in this murder.
He should be relieved of duty and admitted into a hospital for help.
Trump Administration declares pristine Alaskan seafloor “open for business,” mocks environmental safeguards — Common Dreams
Trump Administration officials used the Offshore Critical Minerals Exploration & Development Forum to push forward seabed mining in U.S. waters, announcing steps that could pave the way for the first mining operation on Alaska’s Outer Continental Shelf while openly dismissing environmental safeguards. In response, John Hocevar, Greenpeace USA Oceans Campaign Director, said: “Trump is as much of a menace to our oceans as he is to our communities. This rush to mine the seafloor reflects a bankrupt 19th-century extractive ideology, not genuine national security needs or sound business strategy. Deep sea mining does not exist for many good reasons — it is economically speculative, scientifically reckless, and environmentally destructive. At a time of accelerating ocean, climate, and biodiversity crisis, the priority should be on protecting these ecosystems, not opening new frontiers of extraction.”
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The megalomaniac will destory our ecology and kill many if not most of us if we allow him.
Dozens of CDC vaccination databases have been frozen under RFK Jr. — Beth Mole
Nearly half of the databases that public health officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were updating on a monthly basis have been frozen without notice or explanation, according to a study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
The study—led by Janet Freilich, a law expert at Boston University, and Jeremy Jacobs, a medical professor at Vanderbilt University—examined the status of all CDC databases, finding a total of 82 that had, as of early 2025, been receiving updates at least monthly. But, of those 82, only 44 were still being regularly updated as of October 2025, with 38 (46 percent) having their updates paused without public notice or explanation.
Examining the databases' content, it appeared that vaccination data was most affected by the stealth data freezes. Of the 38 outdated databases, 33 (87 percent) included data related to vaccination. In contrast, none of the 44 still-updated databases relate to vaccination. Other frozen databases included data on infectious disease burden, such as data on hospitalizations from respiratory syncytial virus (RSV).
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The retarded Trump failure.
'Outraged' US athletes: Trump’s government doing the 'dirty work for the ruling class' — Sarah K. Burris
U.S. athletes are openly calling out President Donald Trump’s America as a fascist regime after federal agents shot and killed a second civilian in Minneapolis.
After the slaying, players have argued that it's an example of federal overreach and proof of a slide into authoritarianism, The Guardian reported on Wednesday.
Indiana Pacers star Tyrese Haliburton posted on X shortly after the recent shooting. “Alex Pretti was murdered," he wrote.
Ex-Seahawks star Doug Baldwin, who once organized teammates against Trump, echoed the same sentiment.
“How could you not be upset? I mean, no matter where you land on the political spectrum, I would hope that human decency would consider the human toll of these situations,” Baldwin continued. “… We shouldn’t be surprised though. Human history is riddled with our struggle to live on this planet together. History also gives us a blueprint of how to combat these challenges. In my humble opinion, love, discipline, and endurance towards the struggles currently, and the ones that may or may not come, is what will be necessary. Our ancestors did it, and so I know we will as well
“It does feel bleak, at times, right now. And, sadly, I am expecting it to get worse before it gets better. But I know it will get better," he added.
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Just as soon as we get the fuckwit Trump off the planet!
GOP senator fires back at Trump's insult — and turns attack around on Cabinet members — David Edwards
CNN's Manu Raju asked Tillis to respond to Trump calling him a loser on Wednesday.
"I am thrilled about that," the senator replied. "That makes me qualified to be homeland security secretary and senior adviser to the president."
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Chances are good we'll need a replacement for the DHS loser we have now.
Kristi Noem under fire for $1 billion disaster relief 'logjam': 'Sitting on her desk' — Matthew Chapman
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has created a "logjam" for roughly $1 billion in Federal Emergency Management Agency disaster prevention projects around the country, NOTUS reported on Wednesday morning.
Among the projects that have been essentially mothballed as a result of the delay is a plan to bury transmission lines near Los Alamos, New Mexico, to prevent the risk of wildfires, an issue that has occurred multiple times in the past. “We were approved last summer, and it’s been sitting on her desk since,” said local utilities manager Philo Shelton....
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Just like Trump, she is uniquely unqualified.
Trump ally admits he was 'shocked by president's psychological state' after recent visit — Nicole Charky-Chami
The MAGA-friendly EU leader has been one of the few European leaders to continue his support for Trump, including the president's stance on "Europe's weakness," according to Politico. Fico was "concerned about the U.S. president’s ‘psychological state,’ two of the diplomats said.”
“Fico used the word ‘dangerous’ to describe how the U.S. president came across during their face-to-face meeting,” according to Politico.
Trump has faced mounting questions about his health, which have increased as the president continues to be spotted in public with swollen ankles and bruised hands. His increased instances of rambling during speeches, along with his MRI scan last year that has yet to be fully explained have also raised concerns among critics.
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Any sane human would be just as concerned. It is sad we have so many suckers.
Epstein accomplice drops courtroom bombshell: 25+ secret payoffs with no criminal charges — Daniel Hampton
In a recent habeas petition, Maxwell dropped a bombshell claim that four potential "co-conspirators" and "25 men" scored "secret settlements" tied to Epstein's abuse — without facing any indictment.
The report said Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Justice Department are doing everything possible to avoid one glaring question: "Who are these men, and why are they still being protected?"
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The plot thickens!
Furor In Italy Over ICE At Milan Winter Olympics
Politico Europe reports:
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s government scrambled to contain the fallout Tuesday after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) confirmed its agents would assist with security at next month’s Winter Olympics in Italy.
“I have been harder than anyone else in Italy on [the ICE raids] … but it’s not like the SS are coming,”
"Why yes it is. If you don't think so, you haven't been paying attention." — DaddySnark (comments)
"Italy does not have to admit them into the country. They can deny entry of the entire US team and any people with them." — madknits (comments)
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The Olympics and the World Cup will both risk threats of boycotts due to Trump and his Nazi policies.
DHS Settled 2022 Discrimination Suit Against Bovino
"According to allegations in the lawsuit, brought by Jon Joyner and eventually followed by other CBP employees seeking remedy for discrimination, Bovino canceled a job posting and then surreptitiously hired a white supervisor into the role over a number of other qualified applicants. Court records show that during the hiring process, the man Bovino selected for a senior role, Christopher Bullock, wrote that Bovino was like a confederate general, set to liberate a fort from Black union soldiers."
"I'm sure that Bovino was put in his current position because he had refused to hired qualified Black and Latino candidates. The wholesale destruction of DEI is a White Supremacist's dream.
It also provides the distraction the Oligarchs need so that they can cut their taxes, end regulations on their companies and destroy the social safety net." — gettingwarm (comments)
Patel Launches Criminal Probe Into MN Protesters
"Fingers crossed that this fascist fucker ends up living out his days in a prison cell." — Judas Peckerwood (comments)
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The PTA in Minnesota are better organized than this dumb shit.
Americans have rights Patel and his mob are attempting to repress. He's the bad guy, not Minnesota!
It's the 1st Amendment you Nazi toadie! America did not vote to surrender our rights, motherfucker!
ICE Is Harassing Maine Protesters At Their Homes
“This was not about law enforcement doing their job, this was about a federal agent using intimidation to discourage lawful civic activity in my own community,” said Erin Cavallaro, one of the volunteers in Maine who said officers came to her home. “What I was doing was lawful.”
"Waiting for headline(s) to ICE/Home harassing to include instances of "Standing my ground" & "I was afraid for my life of threatening masked men that refused to identify themselves"
Only a matter of time if they continue this tactic on a wide scale." — SockMikey (comments)
"Castle Doctrine
Maine's self-defense laws include the Castle Doctrine, which allows individuals to use force, including deadly force, to protect themselves within their homes. Key points include:
No Duty to Retreat: Individuals are not required to retreat when they are in their home. They can defend themselves against intruders without facing legal repercussions.
Justification for Force: Under Maine law, a person may use deadly force if they reasonably believe it is necessary to prevent imminent death or serious bodily injury to themselves or others." -- Greg (comments)
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Let's see if they actually use this deadly force law to pick off some traitors!
Trump Claims Ilhan Omar Staged Attack By Cultist
“I don’t think about her. I think she’s a fraud,” Trump, who has previously called for Omar to be either jailed or deported, told ABC News when asked if he had seen video of the incident. “She probably had herself sprayed, knowing her. I haven’t seen it. No, no. I hope I don’t have to bother,” he added.
"Donald Trump is a convicted felon for fraud. Omar is not."—-Refugay (comments)
"She learned it from you Blobbo after watching you fake your fucking assassination. Honestly though , you probably sent this man , and then again so what . Get the hell out of Minnesota" — Dwight Wiliamson (comments)
"Also, I'm so fucking tired of the constant goddamn repetition of tactics.
Every fucking lunatic the right sends is clearly a 'false flag' or 'secretly a leftist'. Every mass shooting is clearly a 'staged operation' to 'take away your guns'. Every crime you commit is 'actually he was threatened' and 'clearly a patriot'.
Over and over again, the same bullshit and it's never not infuriating. You could have a very unsophisticated bot (not even an AI, just an old-school twitter bot) do pretty much the job of every paid right-wing propagandist and their dipshit followers like Trump with about 40 lines of code." -- Cerberus137 (comments)
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We know who the fraud is, Fatso. Your 15 minutes are just about up.
ICE Thug: “You Raise Your Voice, I”ll Erase Your Voice”
"The most surprising part of this is that he isn't masked" -- Sarah (comments)
"They are no longer "scared of being identified" because they know they can literally get away with murder." — TexasBoy (comments)
"We have people arrested for making online death threats against Trump.
This threat is in person and made by someone with the ability to carry out the threat.
In a sane world, this agent wold be arrested." — DaddySnark (comments)
"In a sane world the person occupying the White House right now would be a woman of color." — Fearsom Beard (comments)
"I'm glad more and more of this is getting amplified. These serial killing pedophiles clearly think they are above all laws and can finally have their dream of murdering people for a living and the more they are exposed, the more we can force them into a corner and end them." — Cerberus137 (comments)
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This is the voice of a Trump gun thug threatening to kill lyou. There is no other way to see this.
He is a proud terrorist and no longer an American.
We'll see who get erased, asswipe!
Jake Tapper Shreds MAGA Defense For Pretti Murder — NewsHound Ellen
Trumper Chad Mizelle’s efforts to blame Alex Pretti and Gov. Tim Walz for the DHS slaying did not go well.
I don’t know why Chad Mizelle, who recently resigned from his job as chief of staff for Attorney General Pam Bondi after an unusually short tenure, felt the need to go on CNN and blame Alex Pretti for his own murder in Minneapolis. Even Fox News has backed away from that.
Whatever Mizelle’s reason, anchor Jake Tapper unloaded on him for repeatedly suggesting that Pretti deserved capital punishment for protesting Department of Homeland Security tactics. Raw Story, which first wrote about this segment, said Mizelle “appeared to be tongue-tied and surprised” by Tapper’s fiery responses.
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This Nazi turd must be looking to replace Bongino as Nazi murder head.
Feds spark 'international incident' by trying to enter foreign consulate in Minneapolis — Jake Johnson
Ecuador’s Foreign Ministry filed a formal note of protest on Tuesday after a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent tried to enter the South American nation’s consulate in Minneapolis before being stopped by a staffer inside the building.
In a statement released following the incident, the Ecuadorian Foreign Ministry said an ICE agent “attempted to enter the consulate premises,” but “consulate officials immediately prevented” the officer from getting through the door, “thus ensuring the protection of Ecuadorians who were present at the time and activating emergency protocols.”
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Ignorant and retarded barbarians.
Trump owns this — despite who he throws under the bus — Terry H. Schwadron
If there was any confusion before, Donald Trump now owns deportation and its tactics.
Having seemingly flip-flopped on his own key decision to flood cities with federal border agents, Donald Trump faces the problem of defining what exactly he does support about deporting millions."
The decision to remove Greg Bovino, Homeland Security's operational commander on the ground in Minneapolis, and to withdraw at least some of the 3,000 armed federal agents there, is being framed as a retreat on his policies forced by protests in the streets.
But at best, what we have heard so far is what he doesn't want, not what the expectation is going ahead.
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Trump and his cohorts commited murder and should be charged with murnder and indicted. TV PROVES HE DID! The DOJ is as guilty as anyone ever was!
ICE accused of illegal 'cover-up' of multiple migrant deaths — Alexander Willis
Immigration and Customs Enforcement was discovered to have unlawfully failed to disclose the deaths of at least eight migrants in detention, a bombshell report from Zeteo revealed Tuesday.
Under existing law, ICE is required to notify Congress of any in-custody deaths within 90 days, but according to a deep dive by Zeteo into ICE disclosures, the agency had failed to do that.
Among the migrants whose deaths had not been disclosed are 34-year-old Leo Cruz-Silva, who died in a Missouri detention facility three days after being arrested, and an unidentified Honduran man who was “struck by a law enforcement vehicle.”...
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Impeach the criminal Trump immediately or invoke the 25th Amendment! Stop him or he will kill us all! DO YOUR SWORN DUTY CONGRESS!
'A moral stain': Top Catholic paper blisters JD Vance for choosing 'MAGA over Jesus' — David Edwards
"One of the nation's top Catholic newspapers lambasted Vice President J.D. Vance after he falsely claimed that 37-year-old slain nurse Alex Pretti was an "assassin" who intended to kill law enforcement.
In an op-ed this week, The National Catholic Reporter's John Grosso noted that Vance was not "choosing to serve" Jesus Christ following Pretti's killing at the hands of federal officers.
"Once again, Vance had the opportunity to call for peace and unity — to lower the temperature of the situation and express empathy with those suffering and mourning. Vance, fresh off a speech at the March for Life, could have leaned into his supposed pro-life beliefs and called for respect for human life at every stage. In fact, that would have been the Catholic response — that's how the bishops themselves responded in their statement," Grosso wrote.
"As a Catholic, Vance could have chosen to share the Gospel message of healing and human dignity. Instead, he chose to offer the MAGA message of division and blame."...
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The hell you say? ROTFLMAO!
Kennedy Center dealt fresh blow as major composer cancels world premiere performance — Tom Boggioni
The troubled and financially strapped John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts absorbed another major blow on Tuesday when legendary 89-year-old composer Philip Glass canceled the world premiere performance of his latest composition.
According to a report from the Washington Post, Glass issued a statement that his Symphony No. 15: “Lincoln,” which was slated to be performed in June by the National Symphony Orchestra at the center will not happen.
According to the noted composer of “Appomattox” and "Einstein on the Beach,” the Kennedy Center, which has been taken over by Donald Trump and his allies, does not align with the message of the much-delayed symphony.
“After thoughtful consideration, I have decided to withdraw my Symphony No. 15 ‘Lincoln’ from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts,” Glass wrote, using the official name that the center had before Trump added his name before Kennedy’s.
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Most people with a decent education knows how Non-profits work. Trump has no idea. He's incredibly stupid and should get his hands off the Center and let a person run it that actually knows how they work. Non-profits require donor money to exist. Trump has killed all that.
Trump Threatens 100 Percent Tariffs And Fighter Jet Flyovers For Canada — Marcie Jones
...In short, by ceding US hegemony to internally grab any and every kind power for himself he can, Trump has made China more powerful than it’s been in 5,000 years, and without China even trying.
And by threatening Canada, Trump is screwing over US consumers. And if he actually follows through this time, it will mean real economic collapse here.
Canada is the top export destination of goods for 36 US states, and about $2.7 billion worth of Canadian goods and services also cross the border southbound every day. About 60 percent of US crude oil imports are from Canada, and 85 percent of electricity imports. If voters are mad about The Affordability now, 100 percent tariffs on Canada will mean consumer prices and layoffs the likes of which we have never seen. Canada is also the biggest foreign supplier of steel, aluminum, and uranium to the US, and oh, has 34 of those critical minerals and metals necessary for the US’s AI bubble to keep afloat.
So, in spite of dumbshit Scott Bessent pathetically lying that Mark Carney had privately walked back his words, Carney has not walked back any of those words and only repeated, “I meant what I said.”
Economic sanctions, even military threats, will and do hurt Canada, emotionally and otherwise, but they will hurt the US way worse. And Canada is a member of NATO, and NATO has planes too.
When will Trump chicken out again? Place your bets! Trump doesn’t seem to have put a deadline on it this time, that’s how credible it is, but Polymarket it paying out the odds of it going into effect by June at 10 to one.
Another day, another buk buk buk buk, bitch.
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Here we have the rotting carrion fucking us over once again!
Vaccine Advisory Board Chair: Would Polio Really Be Such A Bad Time? — Robyn Pennacchia
...The idea that polio would just stay gone if people stopped immunizing against it is absurd. There are still cases of wild poliovirus in Pakistan and Afghanistan, precisely because they have low vaccination rates (thanks to the Taliban). There have also been cases, in countries where people have recently started not vaccinating against it (and the aforementioned 2022 case here in the United States), in which the unimmunized have contracted the mutated, vaccine-derived strains of polio from those who have been immunized against it....
...Oh, hey! You wanna know what really kills autonomy? Having to live in an iron lung and requiring 24/7 care for the rest of your life. Big, big autonomy killer, that one. Or dying. It’s definitely very bad for one’s autonomy to be dead....
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If you don't know what the Polio epidemic was like or even care to know then we are bound to repeat it.
You will see your sons and daughters in respirators. Even other adult members of your families. Be a moron at the risk of suffering for it.
Goodbye, Greggers! Tabs, Tues., Jan. 27, 2026 — Evan Hurst
BYE BITCH. Greg Bovino, the 3-foot-7-inch angry weenus border Nazi who’s been strutting around Minnesota overseeing state-sanctioned murder — while looking and sounding like a gay interior designer from Hattiesburg, Mississippi, doing a Freaky Friday Halloween with a butch lesbian also from Hattiesburg, Mississippi — is either fired, or retiring, or getting fired-tired and deported back to El Centro, California. May his days there be as miserable as the days he has caused for others, until he goes on trial, after which may his days get worse. It’s also possible Kristi Noem and the thug she’s extramaritally fucking are also about to get fired. [Atlantic]
The Trump Regime is sending Tom Homan in to save the day, because when you’re a winning regime that’s going to win, Tom Homan is the hero you send in to save the day. Hey protesters, we hear he’s easily distracted by shopping bags that say “$50,000”. [Minneapolis Star-Tribune]
Obviously please understand that while it is hilarious and wonderful and fun to watch Bovino’s career being ruined like this, this is just a shuffling of the deck chairs, and it ain’t over until all the Nazis are being punished to the fullest extent of the law. On that note, Secretary Shitfaced just approved a request from DHS to use Fort Snelling next to the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport as a staging area for their Nazi bullshit. [San Francisco Chronicle]
A bunch of Bovino’s CBP and DHS Nazis are also leaving Minnesota with him, though. So it’s really unclear exactly what’s going to happen in Minnesota now. [MS NOW]
This is a good read on what the curb-kicking of Little Greggers really means for the state-of-play for the ruling Nazi regime.
Regardless, no matter how much they send Tom Homan to Minneapolis to slur and mush-mouth fascism at the locals, they all look like little bitches today. So the fight continues, we’re stronger than we understood yesterday, and they know it.
They might be paring way down in Minnesota — maybe — but trust they will attack more places now. It’s being reported that morale among ICE Nazis is awful and they’re upset because everybody hates them, waaaaah. Wherever they attack next, that is where their misery will come from next. [Independent]
White House Nazi Fillers Barbie wants to know why the libs aren’t upset about dead actual domestic terrorist Ashli Babbitt, who got shot and killed while she was in the process of attacking the United States Capitol. As opposed to Alex Pretti, the ICU nurse who was holding a cell phone on a public city street and stopped to help a lady up, at which point ICE terrorists murdered him. Hey Karoline Leavitt, go fuck yourself at your earliest convenience! [JoeMyGod]
LOL:
Uhhh, so here is the Holocaust Museum, and this is what it puts on social media when it’s being run by Donald Trump and his band of Nazis.
So they’ve lost the entire plot, looks like.
The former president of FIFA, Sepp Blatter, spoke out in support of people boycotting traveling to the US for the World Cup this year. You know, because of everything. [Guardian]
There's more...
Rep. Maxwell Frost Punched by Man Who Allegedly Said Trump Will Deport Him — Sharon Zhang, Truthout
The man allegedly said “we are going to deport you and your kind” to the Democratic lawmaker.
In a statement on X, Frost said he was “assaulted by a man at Sundance [Film] Festival who told me that Trump was going to deport me before he punched me in the face. He was heard screaming racist remarks as he drunkenly ran off.” The lawmaker, an outspoken critic of Trump’s immigration raids, said that he is “okay” after the punch.
Variety first reported that the alleged assault happened at a bar, where a talent agency at the film festival was holding a party. A source told the outlet that the man had snuck into the event, and was bragging to people that he was proud to be “white.”
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Sounds more like a "white racist shitbag incel" that can't throw a punch.
Low test scores on one campus can trigger a state takeover in Texas, affecting Black, Hispanic and low-income students most — Texas Tribune
The demographic makeup of the trigger schools raises questions about whether Texas' accountability system fairly considers historic inequities tied to race and poverty.
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How shocking! Such a surprise! Oh, whatever shall we do with these inferior creatures? I mean the Texass Republican morons
Trump’s Hand ‘Looks Like Rhino Hide’ and Bruise Has ‘Taken Over’: Reporter — Carl Gibson
...However, Terris said the key moment that stuck out to him from his sit-down with the president was seeing his bruised hand. Terris conceded that Trump's excessive use of aspirin was the likely culprit for the bruise, as using the drug has been known to cause skin to bruise easily. But the New York Magazine writer went on to tell Miller that Trump's hands looked "gross" up-close and that his hands were unusually "soft" due to a lack of "physical labor over the years."
"But then on the other side, the backside of his hand, it looked kind of like rhino hide," Terris said. "It was very dry. The bruise had kind of taken over the whole back of his hand."...
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As stated here before, we can see his half-dead body decompose before our eyes!
Is the Most Powerful Message in America Now “Obey or Die”? — Thom Hartmann
Kristi Noem, Donald Trump, Greg Bovino, and even whiskey Pete Hegseth are all out there trying to tell us that Alex Pretti was a domestic terrorist who came to a protest with the intention to “massacre” ICE agents.
But that’s not their real message....
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Or is it "Pay then Die?"
Fetterman Joins Demands For Trump To Fire Noem
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He still has a few brain cells that function.
‘Have At It’: Kash Patel Squirms After MAGA Backlash On Prohibiting Guns At Protests — David Edwards
On Sunday, Patel responded to a DHS officer killing Alex Pretti by suggesting the 37-year-old nurse had deserved it because he legally carried a handgun while video recording ICE and Border Patrol agents.
"You cannot bring a firearm, loaded, with multiple magazines to any sort of protest that you want. It's that simple. You don't have a right to break the law," Patel told Fox News host Maria Bartiromo.
In an interview on Monday, the FBI director backtracked.
...He continued, "Do you want to go out there and peacefully protest? Have at it. You want to go out there and use your Second Amendment right to bear arms? Okay, no problem."
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The bug-eyed and broken puppet speaketh!
Families of Trinidadian Men Killed in Illegal Boat Strike Sue Trump Administration — Common Dreams
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Sue him for every penny he has stolen!
Former federal prosecutor blasts Trump’s 'new malignant normal — David Badash'
Attorney and author James D. Zirin is blasting the “new malignant normal in the administration of justice” that he says President Donald Trump has brought to America.
Zirin, a former SDNY federal prosecutor who wrote a book on Trump’s lawsuits, in an opinion piece at The Hill, walked through the past year of the president’s tenure.
Examining Trump’s “sorry record,” Zirin includes the “drip feed disclosure of Epstein files, ordered to be produced on Nov. 19,” and notes: “we are told there are 5.2 million pages to go.”
“Extrajudicial killings on the high seas,” he continues, “outsized assertions of executive power, resignations of U.S. attorneys over questionable prosecutions, threats to annex Greenland because Trump is miffed that Norway denied him the Nobel Peace Prize. And hovering over it all investigations and prosecutions of political enemies.”
Zirin pointed to a video made by six Democrats, “directly quoting the Uniform Code of Military Justice about the military’s responsibility to reject illegal orders.”
“Their message,” he noted, “came straight out of the 1945-46 Nuremberg trials of 22 Nazi leaders accused, among other things, of ‘crimes against humanity’ where the international court ruled that the ‘I was only following orders’ defense would not wash.”
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Sounds like it's high time for you to get the fuck out of the country, Donnie, as so many failed fascist dictators have done before.
Leaked chat reveals furious agents are begging Trump to abandon his Minneapolis crackdown — Sarah K. Burris
President Donald Trump has lost the battle, according to leaked private chat messages from federal agents in Minneapolis.
The Daily Beast cited reports of "furious agents begging to abandon Trump’s Minneapolis crackdown" after federal agents shot and killed Alex Jeffrey Pretti.
“This is a no-win situation for agents on the ground or immigration enforcement overall,” a Border Patrol official revealed in the chat, according to Ken Klippenstein's report in his Substack newsletter.
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Even your gun thugs are turning on you, Trumpy!
Even Trump’s radical-right foreign allies are 'spooked' by his Greenland push — Alex Henderson
During his speech at the 2026 World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, U.S. President Donald Trump reiterated his desire for Greenland to become part of the United States. In Europe, Trump drew a lot of mockery for repeatedly confusing Greenland and Iceland during the speech. And leaders of longtime U.S. allies in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) — from British Prime Minister Keir Starmer to French President Emmanuel Macron to German Chancellor Friedrich Merz — remain adamant in their opposition to Trump's Greenland push.
Much of the criticism is coming from a variety of mainstream liberal, conservative, progressive and centrist officials. But in an article published on January 27, The Guardian's Jon Henley reports that even far-right European populists who generally like Trump and the MAGA movement want Trump to leave Greenland alone. And according to The Guardian, they are feeling "spooked."
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They aren't as hot to go into WWIII as Trumpy is.
Moments of bravery and cowardice in the news coverage of Alex Pretti’s killing — Dan Froomkin
"The “narrative,” as the political reporters call it, is simple. A good man, an ICU nurse at the VA, exercising his constitutional rights and helping up a fellow observer who had been pushed to the ground, was pepper-sprayed, tackled, beaten and shot 10 times by a bunch of vicious thugs.
All you have to do is watch the videos to know that’s true. There is no good-faith debate about the facts.
Mockery abounds as 'Melania' documentary bombs: 'Every seat is still available!' — Nicole Charky-Chami
The internet mocked President Donald Trump Monday as he attempted to promote his wife's documentary "Melania" — with plenty of people pointing out that ticket sales didn't appear to be looking good.
The documentary was set to release on Friday and was co-produced and directed by Brett Ratner, who has been accused of rape and sexual misconduct. In December the Department of Justice released thousands of files connected to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, including a photo of Ratner embracing a shirtless Jean-Luc Brunel, a French model scout and owner of the international modeling agency MC2 Model Management, a modeling agency with considerable financial support from Epstein. Brunel died in 2022 of apparent suicide while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges, and in a manner not dissimilar to how Epstein died in 2019.
On social media, users were quick to point out that theater seats appeared to be very open."
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Trump and his family are a laughing stock, worldwide!
Is the U.S. running a concentration camp system? — Nicholas Liu
According to journalist Andrea Pitzer, the mass incarceration of civilians outside of the law is a clear sign
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Remember when you read "concentration camps" by Trump here some time ago? Of course you do.
Newsmax Host: MN Protesters “Need To Be Squashed”
A good example of Nazi hate being broadcast.
"Why is this degenerate right wing agitator stirring up trouble and inciting violence?" — Weshlovrcm (comments)
"He's compensating for hating himself for sucking cock in the park after dark." — xzargo
"Because he hasn't been hung upside-down at a filling station yet. An embarrassing oversight on our part." — Judas Parkerwood (comments)
"Minneapolis:
Police cars not set on fire.
Stores not looted.
NO significant vandalism.
Same thing for the MILLIONS that participated in the No King's Day protests.
Then there's J6. Or the republican agitators who infiltrated George Floyd protests." — DaddySnark (comments)
"Rob Schmitt, who earlier this month declared Minnesota Democrats to be 'enemies of the state.'" — Bungee (comments)
"ICE has no real claim for authority when the elected local and state leaders have said they are not needed nor wanted. They are bringing chaos to a Blue state for the simple reason the shitgibbon's opponent is the governor of the state. That is fascism, not law and order." -- magic twanger (comments)
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Rob, what makes you think you're someone whom people can reason with. Vile people? You're supporting killers. You and your goddamned fake news program can go back to hell where you came from!
Alex Pretti’s Union: Noem And Voldemort Must Be Fired
“Yesterday, AFGE brought together labor and faith leaders from Minneapolis and across the nation to mourn our fallen brother from Local 3669, Alex Pretti. We honored his life and legacy and lifted up his family, his friends, his union, Minneapolis, and our nation in prayer. Today, we demand accountability.
“In the immediate aftermath of Alex’s killing, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem betrayed the public trust by slandering the good name of our union brother and calling him a ‘domestic terrorist.’ Alex Pretti was a patriotic ICU nurse at a VA hospital who devoted his life to serving America’s veterans. That claim was reckless, defamatory, and unsupported by the facts. Noem was preceded in this false statement by Stephen Miller, Deputy White House Chief of Staff, who is also the architect of the chaotic and failed immigration policy in Minnesota.
“Our demand is clear: Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who was responsible for carrying out the policy that led to Alex’s needless killing, and Deputy White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, the architect of that policy, must resign immediately. If they refuse, President Trump must dismiss them.”
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You can't murder us and get away with it, motherfuckers!
DOJ Withdraws Request For Arrest Of Don Lemon
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The Trump fuckwit jackwagons had no case to start with! They are just kissing Trump's ass!
CA To Investigate TikTok For Censoring Trump Critics
California governor Gavin Newsom has accused TikTok of suppressing content critical of president Donald Trump, as he launched a review of the platform’s content moderation practices to determine if they violated state law, even as the platform blamed a systems failure for the issues.
The step comes after TikTok’s Chinese owner, ByteDance, said last week it had finalised a deal to set up a majority US-owned joint venture that will secure US data, to avoid a US ban on the short video app used by more than 200 million Americans....
"California is acting like what the US is supposed to." -- Todd20036
"Good. I’ve read that you can’t refer to Epstein. Keep in mind that it is rightwingers who claim that they are all about free speech." — kaydenpat (comments)
"Larry Ellison had connections with Jeffrey Epstein, as revealed in hacked emails showing their interactions and meetings." — carswell (comments)
"Since US legislatures addicted to Social Media lucre hope the EU shuts some of them down.
You know someone took money that the solution is ban children instead of hosts moderating hateful content." — Ron Headrest (comments)
'You Cannot De-escalate': Bannon Pushes For More Violence Against Minnesota 'Insurgents' — David Edwards
MAGA influencer Steve Bannon called on the Trump administration to double down after officers from the Department of Homeland Security killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old nurse, over the weekend.
"Americans need to do themselves and the world a favor, collect Bannon, Miller, Noem, Patel, along with the Orange One and his subservient minions then send them one way to Siberia. Putin will know just what to do with the insane sad sacks." -- edgey (comments)
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Forget Siberia. A rocket to the end of the known universe is preferable!
'Let The Facts Lead': Leavitt Throws Stephen Miller Under The Bus Over Alex Pretti
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt refused to defend aide Stephen Miller after he described Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old nurse gunned down by Border Patrol, as an "assassin" who "tried to murder federal agents."
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Leavitt: "Blah, blah, blah, blah, redundant!"
Vikings Announcer Makes Crack About 'Paid Protestors' In Minnesota
"Legendary" Vikings announcer Paul Allen forgot to take his MAGA hat off while on-air and began instead spreading conspiracy theories about those protesting ICE's murders.
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'Extraordinary step' as judge orders top Trump official into court on threat of contempt -- Thomas Kika
A key Trump official is facing the possibility of being held in contempt, according to Politico's Kyle Cheney, after a leading judge in Minnesota lashed the administration for failure to comply with court orders in a new filing from Monday.
According to filing documents shared to social media by Cheney, Judge Patrick J. Schlitz, the chief federal judge for the District of Minnesota, ordered Todd Lyons, the acting director of ICE under Donald Trump, to appear in court on Friday to answer for his agency's evident court order violations.
"Judge Schlitz, the chief federal judge in Minnesota, has ordered the head of ICE, Todd Lyons, to [appear] in court Friday and threatened him with contempt for the agency’s repeated violation of court orders," Cheney wrote in a post shared to X and BlueSky Tuesday morning.
'Not what I voted for': Killing exposes GOP rift in America's most ICE-friendly state — Liv Caputo, Florida Phoenix
...“Distorting, politicizing, slandering — justifying what happened to Alex Pretti contradicts the American values the administration campaigned on,” Republican state Sen. Ileana Garcia posted on social media Monday morning. The Miamian co-founded “Latinas for Trump” in 2016.
“He was neither a domestic terrorist nor an assassin. … Allowing individuals like Stephen Miller, among others, who represent the government and make hard-line decisions, to make such comments will have long-term consequences,” she warned. “This is not what I voted for!”...
Trump handed another loss in court — Carl Gibson
President Donald Trump was recently dealt another unfavorable ruling by a federal judge, who struck down his attempt to obtain sensitive information about voters.
On Monday, Politico legal correspondent Josh Gerstein reported that U.S. District Judge Mustafa Kasubhai – an appointee of former President Joe Biden — dismissed a lawsuit filed by the Trump administration's Department of Justice (DOJ) to obtain Oregon's database of registered voters. Kasubhai also reportedly asked the Trump administration about Attorney General Pam Bondi's letter to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) asking for Minnesota's voter database.
Gerstein reported that neither the Trump DOJ nor Oregon said that Bondi's letter to Walz impacted the Oregon case "at this stage," though Kasubhai's line of questioning suggests that the letter may potentially come up as an issue should the administration decide to appeal.
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Texas you may now be sued by every voter in the state!
Americans and police on a 'catastrophic collision course' over 2nd Amendment: analysis — Carl Gibson
That's according to a Monday analysis by the Atlantic's Barry Friedman and Brandon Del Pozo, who wrote that the federal agents' recent killing of 37 year-old Minneapolis, Minnesota resident Alex Pretti has signaled a tipping point in the relationship between citizens and the police, putting them "on a potentially catastrophic collision course." They lamented that the shooting was simultaneously fatal for Pretti and "delegitimizing for law enforcement."
"A broader crisis of government legitimacy is imminent in the absence of a change in direction by the Trump administration," Friedman and Del Pozo wrote.
Pretti — an ICU nurse at Minneapolis' Department of Veterans' Affairs hospital — was a lawful gun owner with a permit to carry a firearm. And video taken just prior to Pretti being shot appears to show an agent confiscating Pretti's 9mm handgun, meaning he was not a threat to agents at the time he was killed. Friedman and Del Pozo noted that Pretti was "holding only a phone" when he was "pepper-sprayed and thrown to the ground." It was only then that agents noticed Pretti's holster, seized his weapon and shot him in the back.
"Pretti died in the street never having touched his gun," they wrote. "He had been disarmed before the first shot was even fired...."
'Severe language problems': Aging expert details evidence of Trump’s escalating decline — Alex Henderson
...Aldwin told Slate that Trump was a much better speaker during the 1990s, whereas now, he "has really severe language problems." The researcher added, "He can’t complete sentences. He wanders off topic. He gets very confused…. He clearly has difficulties. How severe those are can really only be established by testing."
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Oh, my! Trump will tell you he's passed sooo many tests! Aced them!
Now his half-dead body is decomposing in front of our very eyes!
MAGA evangelicals’ 'religious freedom' claims are falling apart — Alex Henderson
Roughly two and one-half weeks after the fatal January 7 shooting of motorist Renee Nicole Good by a U.S. Immigration and Enforcement (ICE) agent, yet another Minneapolis resident was fatally shot during a protest in the city: 37-year-old nurse Alex Pretti, who worked in an internal care unit in a Veterans Affairs (VA) hospital. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and White House adviser Stephen Miller are claiming that Pretti was shot by U.S. Border Patrol agents in self-defense, noting that he was carrying a concealed weapon. But critics of President Donald Trump's ICE raids in Minneapolis are countering Pretti never pointed the gun at Border Patrol agents and that he was shot after being forced onto the ground and disarmed.
In an article published on Monday, January 26 — two days after Pretti's death — Salon's Amanda Marcotte offers a blistering critique of the response that far-right white evangelicals have had to the unrest in Minneapolis.
"The Christian Right will never turn down an opportunity to make false accusations of religious persecution," Marcotte argues. "These days, they're especially eager to play the victim. Doing so allows them to distract from the ugly reality that they, in voting for Donald Trump, have helped to unleash in Minnesota: A woman killed in front of her wife, children ripped from their parents, a baby nearly killed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents firing tear gas at a family driving home from a basketball game. On Saturday, there was another unjustifiable shooting. Video appears to show 37-year-old Alex Jeffrey Pretti, an intensive-care unit nurse at a Veterans Affairs hospital, helping a woman to her feet when Border Patrol agents swarm and pepper-spray him — and then shoot him in the head...."
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(Photo is scene from a fully-lit séance held by the Trump cult members.)
Maximum Damage and Massacre: ICE Kills, ICE Lies — Common Dreams
...Videos from Saturday morning's protest in Minneapolis show Pretti, dressed in brown, directing traffic and filming federal agents; forensic video analysis clearly shows his right hand holding up his phone, and his left hand empty. When agents start pushing protesters and observers back, Pretti retreats with them but keeps filming. As one thug violently shoves a woman to the ground, Pretti moves to help her, in response, the thug pepper sprays both Pretti and the woman in the face. As Pretti struggles to continue filming and protecting the woman, a swarm of six or seven nearby agents in full tactical gear rush in to pull Pretti away from her; they slam him to the ground, pin his arms down, and begin beating, punching, kicking him; one appears to pistol-whip Pretti about the head as other protesters yell for them to stop.
An agent suddenly shouts Pretti has a gun; he was reportedly carrying a legally registered handgun in what is an open-carry state. One goon steps in, pulls it out of Pretti's waistband and walks away from the melee; seconds later, as Pretti strains to get up on one knee, another thug pulls out his gun and shoots him point-blank in the back. As Pretti collapses, at least one other agent begins shooting too; both continue firing 8 or 10 times as Pretti lies motionless on the ground. The closest sick fuck to Pretti claps as the shots ring out, and turns triumphantly away. Around them, people are screaming, crying and filming. "What the fuck did you just do?! What the fuck did you just do?! shrieks a woman, then "Oh my God, oh my God." She starts sobbing, but keeps recording. "You fucking people, you're fucking killing us," she wails. "Why would you do that?!"
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The photo of the proof of the cold-blooded murder is at the bottom of this page.
AOC Slams The Trump Crime Syndicate For Their Murderous Hypocrisy — Chris capper Liebenthal
Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez didn't disappoint when she spoke about the murder of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis on Saturday and the obscene hypocrisy and outright lies told by the Trump crime syndicate, especially by Cosplay Barbie Noem:
I mean, it is how rich is it that she is saying, showing up to the scene of a protest with a legally owned weapon, should be grounds for a person's death, execution at the hands of the state, by the same party and the same administration that praises Kyle Rittenhouse.
When she is talking about how merely showing up and inciting violence based on ideology against the government, when this administration has pardoned hundreds of January 6 rioters who have then gone out into the streets and recommitted crimes of violence over and over again. What Secretary Noem is saying is not that you can't do these things, is not that you can't be armed, is not that you can't attack your government. She just thinks that you can't do that based on your political affiliation.
And that is just, I mean, the uncorking of chaos that this administration is trying to attempt against the American people is escalatory, it is dangerous, and it is a complete abdication of leadership. We cannot go down this road. We cannot have countrymen against countrymen, citizen against citizen. This is not the America that we believe in, it is not the America that we stand in, and we must unite together against this kind of very dangerous splintering that they are seeking to incite against people and divide us.
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This fully proves how hypocritically two-faced these sick bastard Trump Nazis are!
Trump vows vengeance against against 'criminal' Fox News polls — Alezander Willis
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The decrepit and aging failure show he's nuts!
Pro-ICE churches should be shamed — Amanda Marcotte
Cities Church in St. Paul are the persecutors, not the persecuted
WaPo Board: Deportations Have Been “Moral Failure”
"A Border Patrol officer killed Pretti on Saturday, and the Department of Homeland Security quickly claimed that Pretti was a “domestic terrorist” who wanted to 'massacre' agents. Yet Pretti can be seen on tape holding his phone, not a gun, in his right hand, and his left hand is empty.
The outrageous refusal by the feds to allow local authorities to properly secure the crime scene or gather evidence further inflames tensions with state and city police. The lack of accountability for federal officers has undermined the administration’s claims that this is about law and order."
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Illegal Immigration Statistics in the U.S. 2025 | Key Facts
The Northern Border seems pretty small on numbers compared to the rest. What's up with this occupation?
America demands justice against the convicted criminal who is responsible.
NY Post Board: “It’s Time To Deescalate” ICE’s Crusade
"The NY Post would have decried Kristallnacht because all of the broken glass on the sidewalks posed a danger to pureblood Aryans." — Judas Peckerwood (comments)
"Let us be clear on this important point, this is tRUMP’s admitted campaign of 'retaliation and retribution' ICE is tRUMP’s weapon but the end result rests at tRUMP’s feet." — Philly Mike (comments)
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The "agent" in the middle of the photo reaching for his weapon is the one who murdered him regardless of how many others may have fired. There is a photo that proves it.
And too much video supports this proof.
60+ Major Minnesota Corporations: End This Now
"So are the CEOs and other executives of these companies going to stop funding and voting for Trump and the other Republicans responsible for this reign of terror?
I won't be holding my breath." — Judas Peckerwood (comments)
"'You're disrupting consumer purchasing habits. THIS MUST END!!!'" — Judas Peckerwood (comments)
"Suddenly ALL of these Nazi supporters and former Fatty helpers are acting like they care about democracy, after the Nazi-boys are caught red-handed." — xzargo (comments)
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How many of these "people" donated to Trump's fascism?
Minnesota On Bondi’s Blackmail: “The Answer Is No”
"Minnesota is not alone in declining to disclose sensitive personal data on voters. So far, thirty-one other states have said no. DOJ is in active litigation with twenty-four of those states– and the courts have swiftly dismissed DOJ’s claims in three of them."
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Nazis think they own everything and take it at will. Think again!
Charge her with extortion! She's another criminal!
And sue Texas for invasion of privacy!
Blanche Admits Alex Pretti Wasn’t “Domestic Terrorist”
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Finally! How many more Americans have to be murdered by your goddamned gang before you tell your cohorts Noem and Miller to shut their dirty mouths?
Bovino Claims CBP Agents In Fear For Their Lives Despite Video Evidence To The Contrary — Heather
The gaslighting continues from Trump's head Border Patrol goon following yet another shooting in Minneapolis.
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This 'aging lesbian' needs to get hold of reality. Its kind will not stand in America. We will not tolerate a tyrant like this dispicable killer! Stop your cowardly excuses!
Ghoul Pam Bondi Blames Pretti Murder On 'Sanctuary Cities' — Heather
They're all out there in full damage control mode following another shooting in Minneapolis by Trump's ICE thugs.
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Go back to hell where you came from. Everyone of your gang is a goddanmed killer! Everyone of the trash scumbags of your murdering crew needs to get your bloody hands off of our country now!
ICE Agents Execute Another American—Calls Grow To End ICE — Cliff Schecter
So let’s slow this down and cut through all the crap, shall we? Here are 5 things you need to know about the Alex Pretti murder—and why it should terrify and enrage anyone who wants to live in a functioning democracy...
I’m done pretending this is complicated. Alex Pretti was murdered by federal agents in Minneapolis, and everything that followed—the excuses, the delays, the finger-pointing—was designed to make all of us tired, confused, and numb. Because that’s just how dictators operate now with the social and calcified corporate media.
The flaccid toy soldiers of convicted felon Donald Trump flood the zone with enough horseshit to hamper any accountability for any intellectually inbred ICE assassins, as another American lies dead in our streets courtesy of the crypto-fascists of our very own Schutzstaffel.
So let’s slow this down and cut through all the crap, shall we? Here are 5 things you need to know about the Alex Pretti murder—and why it should terrify and enrage anyone who wants to live in a functioning democracy...
When the US government loses all credibility — Terry H. Schwadron
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Then it's time to remove them!
The Trump administration is 'creating conditions for a catastrophe': NYT analysis — Alex Henderson
The conservative columnist told Goldberg and Polgreen, "We are witnessing the total breakdown of any meaningful system of accountability for federal officials. The combination of Trump's January 6 pardons, his ongoing campaign of pardoning friends and allies, his politicized prosecutions and now his administration's assurances that federal officers have immunity are creating a new legal reality in the United States. The national government is becoming functionally lawless, and the legal system is struggling to contain his corruption. We're tasting the bitter fruit of Trump's dreadful policies, to be sure, but it's worse than that."
French continued, "He's exploiting years of legal developments that have helped insulate federal officials from both criminal and civil accountability…. The Trump Administration breaks the law, and also ruthlessly exploits all the immunities it's granted by law. The situation is unsustainable for a constitutional republic…. Good and Pretti both had calm demeanors. They may have been annoying federal officers, but nothing about their posture indicated the slightest threat."
Goldberg agreed with French, arguing that the Trump Administration "is very consciously reinforcing that sense of impunity."
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Impeach him or use the 25th Amendment!
A growing body of evidence contradicts Trump admin's stories — Amanda Watford, Kansas Reflector
...In more than a handful of recent encounters, the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection, has said its agents acted in self-defense during violent encounters, even as eyewitness testimony and video footage raised questions about whether those accounts fully matched what happened.
And in a ruling for a recent civil lawsuit, a U.S. district judge said federal immigration officials were not forthcoming about enforcement efforts, citing discrepancies between official DHS statements and video evidence.
“We’re now in a situation in which official sources in the Trump administration are really tying themselves quite strongly to a particular narrative, regardless of what the widely disseminated videos suggest,” said César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández, a law professor at Ohio State University....
Trump loses multiple conservatives after latest Minnesota shooting — Sarah K. Burris
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) posted on X Sunday morning, "There must be a thorough and impartial investigation into yesterday’s Minneapolis shooting, which is the basic standard that law enforcement and the American people expect following any officer-involved shooting. For this specific incident, that requires cooperation and transparency between federal, state, and local law enforcement. Any administration official who rushes to judgment and tries to shut down an investigation before it begins are doing an incredible disservice to the nation and to President Trump’s legacy."
Republican Rep. Michael Baumgartner (R-Wash.) commented late Saturday, "I’m disturbed by what I’ve seen from today’s video from Minnesota. It’s critically important that the American people and Congress be given a better understanding of how immigration enforcement is being handled, including the methods federal law enforcement officers are using to prioritize, identify and arrest suspected targets, the training they are receiving, the implementation of body cameras, the threats they face in conducting operations and the challenges posed by sanctuary cities and states."
Rep. Andrew Garbarino (R-N.Y.), chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, has already called for a full hearing in which ICE and DHS answer questions.
Even former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) is angry over ICE's attack on a man who was lawfully carrying a gun.
"Legally carrying a firearm is not the same as brandishing a firearm," she wrote on X Sunday morning.
She closed her lengthy post by adding, "You are all being incited into civil war, yet none of it solves any of the real problems that we all face, and tragically people are dying."
Maine Sheriff Calls Out 'Bush League Policing' After ICE Arrests Corrections Officer — Ed Scarce
You'd think these clowns would take a couple of minutes to verify someone's identity, or even secure his vehicle before whisking him away for processing. But that's not how Trump's Gestapo operates.
Gun expert alarmed by US Attorney's 'completely insane claim' about DHS shooting -- David McAfee
"This is an insane claim," said a gun policy expert in response to a Trump-appointed prosecutor's comment about the most recent killing by DHS agents.
"If you approach law enforcement with a gun, there is a high likelihood they will be legally justified in shooting you," the prosecutor wrote. "Don’t do it!"
That set off alarm bells for gun policy journalist Stephen Gutowski, who wrote, "This is an insane claim."
"You're arguing merely being armed in public is justification for police killing you?" he asked. "That's well beyond even the dubious claims DHS is making."
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Report Highlights: Texas gun ownership has declined in recent years, but the number of firearms purchased has increased since 2020.
Texas is home to over 32 million firearms.
Although Texas has the highest numbers of guns and gun owners in the U.S., it ranks 14th in gun ownership percentage as it is the second most populous state.
Approximately 36% of Texans report owning at least one firearm.
In the past 24 years, Texans have purchased 24 million firearms.
On average, there are 1.08 firearms per person in Texas.
The firearm-related death rate in Texas is 15.3 per 100,000 people; slightly above the national average.
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Texas makes Bovino look like the slowest gun in the west! You gonna kill them all little boy? LMAO!
CNN host flinches as Greg Bovino claims 'the victims are the agents!' in DHS incident
Bovino’s warning against Americans interfering with immigration operations, Bash argued, appeared as though he was “blaming the victim.” Bovino hit Bash with a stunning remark about who he believed that victim to be.
“The victims are the Border Patrol agents, I'm not blaming the Border Patrol agents!” Bovino said on Sunday. “The victims are the Border Patrol agents. The suspect put himself in that situation, the victims are the Border Patrol agents there.”
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He must think the same would go for the Jews in Auschwitz, Treblinka, Sobibor, Belzec, and Chelmno.
Bovino's words have no clear ring of truth to them under these circumstances.
Yes, the facts will come to light. And Bovino will be naked in that light.
Former top lawyer for Trump DHS furiously calls for president's impeachment: 'I'm enraged'
A conservative who served as the top lawyer for the Department of Homeland Security under president Trump, and who helped create the DHS in 2002, is furiously calling for the president to be impeached after the latest killing by agents.
George Conway, a fellow conservative who has opposed Trump for years, noted about the killing of ICU nurse Alex Pretti that, "The deadly shooting in Minneapolis today was a straight-up execution of a protester by Trump's federal brownshirts."
"The thugs wrestled him to the ground. They pistol-whipped him, then shot him multiple times. They murdered him. The videos don't lie. A man is dead, killed in cold blood," Conway wrote. "There is no conceivable justification for this intentional homicide. And make no mistake, that intentional, unjustified homicide was committed on behalf of Donald J. Trump."
Conway further added, "Trump's militarization of Minneapolis and other parts of our nation isn't about illegal immigration."
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Correct, George. When will America wake up and understand they've been hoodwinked?
Resurfaced Charlie Kirk quote haunts MAGA after new DHS killing: 'They'd like to forget' — David McAfee
"The 2nd amendment is not for hunting, it is not for self protection," the podcaster wrote in 2018. "It is there to ensure that free people can defend themselves if god forbid government became tyrannical and turned against its citizens." -- Charlie Kirk.
Ex-GOP pollster Mike Madrid added, "Looks like Charlie Kirk is reminding MAGA of the things they’d like to forget."
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The 2nd Amendment zealots are witnessing peripeteia. The bread they cast on the waters has returned to them.
So when will they bring out their weapons and turn them on Trump?
Emergency Triad: Another American Has Been Murdered by Our Government -- Jonathan V. Last
"I’m not quite sure what to say tonight, but it seemed important to get some words down—because the only thing we can really do in this moment is bear witness."
Another Murder in Minneapolis — Robert Reich
Trump’s goons have murdered another American in Minneapolis.
This is the third shooting involving federal agents in the city this month, including the murder of Renee Good, 37, on January 7.
This morning, they murdered a 37-year-old man, an American citizen named Alex Pretti. Pretti was a registered nurse who lived in an apartment in Minneapolis a short drive away from where he was murdered. He had no criminal record. He had a firearms permit, required by state law in Minnesota to carry a handgun.
Bondi Sends Letter To Tim Walz Claiming That ICE Will Leave Minnesota If He Hands Over Voter Data [VIDEO]
"...Guess what? This has never been about safety or immigration. It’s a pretext for Trump to take over elections in swing states." — Chris Murphy (X)
".@PamBondi just threatened to kill more Americans if @realDonaldTrump's political opponents don’t turn over their voter data.
Have you Republicans no shred of shame?" — Seth Moulton (X)
"Hang these sick motherfuckers." — Sam Handwich (comments)
"You can not get a louder admission that you are up to FUCKERY with voter data than this extortion tactic; I guess every state that did not comply with dear leader’s request is next." — Philly Mike (comments)
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The mob runs a shakedown. Pay or die, America!
Extortion is a crime, Pam.
WITNESS: ICE Agents “Counted His Bullet Holes”
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The U.S. Military has forsaken defending America. We are now on our own. Prepare.
Trump Judge Orders DHS To Preserve Murder Evidence
NBC News reports:
A federal judge in Minnesota has blocked the Trump administration from “destroying or altering evidence” related to today’s fatal shooting of Pretti. The ruling comes after Minnesota state officials filed a lawsuit in Minnesota’s U.S. District Court against officials with the Department of Homeland Security and other agencies seeking a temporary restraining order that would prohibit federal officials from destroying evidence.
Judge Eric Tostrud’s order includes any “evidence that Defendants and those working on their behalf removed from the scene and/or evidence that Defendants have taken into their exclusive custody,” it states. The suit, filed by the state attorney general, includes the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office and the state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension as plaintiffs and names among its defendants the leadership of several federal agencies, including the DHS.
WaPo: Video Shows Victim Was Disarmed By ICE Agent Before Second Agent Shot Him Ten Times In The Back
The Washington Post reports:
Federal agents who were wrestling a man to the ground in Minneapolis early Saturday secured a handgun he was carrying moments before shooting him multiple times, according to a Washington Post analysis of videos that captured the incident from several angles.
As many as eight agents were attempting to detain Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse, videos show. One emerged from the scrum holding Pretti’s gun, and less than a second later, the first of what appear to be 10 shots was fired. It is not clear from the video whether the other agents realized Pretti — who local authorities believe had a permit to carry the weapon — had been disarmed.
The agent in the gray jacket crouches down, reaches toward Pretti and lifts a gun from his back near his waistband, according to videos taken from multiple angles. The agent turns and begins to walk away while holding the weapon, pointing it toward the ground.
Another agent, standing beside the agent in the gray jacket, unholsters his gun at virtually the same moment and points it at Pretti’s back at close range. At least two agents are attempting to hold him down. A split second later comes the crack of the first gunshot, though the videos do not clearly show which agent fired. Pretti gets up on one knee and falls over as the agent who had unholstered his weapon fires in rapid succession.
"It’s hard to watch. Murdered by poorly trained thugs." -- Scut Farkus (comments)
"As a former cop I can tell you when you have a suspect down by multiple officers you would never draw your weapons pointing it into the pile because you can end up shooting one of your own. Watching the video the guy who drew is the one who fired the first shot into the victims back and fired at least 3 more times." -- Thewolflam (comments)
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And America is expected to hold its fire?
There will be no more debating. The curse has been cast. Death rides with them.
Medical Examiner: Renee Good’s Death Was Homicide
The Minnesota Star Tribune reports:
More than two weeks after she was shot and killed by a federal immigration agent, the Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office ruled the death of Renee Good a homicide. The office released the information in a form that was posted to its public data portal.
The disclosure indicated she was shot multiple times, but offered no further details. Homicide is defined as a death that occurs at the hands of another person and does not necessarily mean the person died from a criminal act.
The office included no such caveat for its release addressing Good’s death, which prompted protests across the Twin Cities. Lawyers representing Good’s family released preliminary results of an independent autopsy Jan. 21 showing details consistent with a report from local first responders released last week.
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Murdering us will not be tolerated!
Tucker Carlson, Neo-Nazi: 'Whites Are Being Eliminated' — John Amato
White supremacy has always been his goal.
If you remember, the VDare website saw an immediate surge in membership after the election of President Barack Obama.
TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): I keep going back to this, but I'm just, I am a little bit confused because this is the defining fact of our lives is that whites around the world are being eliminated, and I would like to know why. Do you have any guesses?
If anyone had any doubt about Tucker Carlson's racism, these words alone remove it.
White Supremacy has mainstreamed into the veins of the Republican Party.
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Yes, mothertucker. They are being murdered by short white men called "Agents of ICE!"
Trump Public Health Doc Shrugs Off Measles Surge: ‘Cost Of Doing Business’—- NewsHound Ellen
How many Americans does the “pro-life” Trump administration want to kill?
Under Donald Trump and RFK Jr., the unqualified quack heading the Health and Human Services Department, completely preventable cases of measles have been surging.
They don’t care. If anything, they are working toward a bigger spread of the potentially fatal disease.
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What about "primum non nocere" shithead?
What about our suffering children?
ICE Agent Puts Legal Observer In Domestic Terrorist Database — NewsHound Ellen
The agent was gleeful about trying to punish a woman for exercising her First Amendment right.
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The 101st Airborne knew what to do with Nazis in Bastogne. We should do no less!
DOJ Tried To Bring Charges Against Renee Good Instead Of Ross — Susie Madrak
Not actually surprising, but disgusting.
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The America we grew up in is not dead. Those who worried about Sharia Law have brought it upon us! The Trummp Nazis will continue their attempt to rule over us. We must organize against their bloody intrusion.
The growing gap between right-wing media narratives and street reality -- Terry H. Schwadron
"FOX NEWS: Minneapolis protests declared unflawful assembly."
(*By whom, the Nazi killers or the Fox scum?)
If people stick solely to the storylines being promoted in right-leaning media, the stories have not been fully told about citizens being pulled through car windows by masked ICE officers, or the fatal shooting of a protestor at point blank range or about agents using a five-year-old as a pawn in a deportation arrest.
"To many Americans, the viral image of a child swept up in an enforcement dragnet is horrifying. Yet in the right-wing media silo, the reaction — if there has been any at all — is not concern but suspicion."
Yesterday's shooting involved a U.S. citizen, identified as Alex J. Pretti, 37, who was lawfully carrying a 9 mm, semi-automatic handgun in an open carry permit in Minnesota, with Homeland Security again labeling the victim as a "domestic terrorist." Pretti, a nurse, had no criminal record other than parking tickets. As in the previous shooting incidents, federal officials were not cooperating with local officials or making themselves available for investigation.
Multiple videos did not back up the Homeland Security explanation from ICE operations chief Greg Bovino who said the agents reacted under fear. Local officials said the circumstances needed investigation by an outside agency.
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This is what happens in Civil War! There are two sides: Trump or America. They are not the same. One must choose. "Whose side are you on? Whose side are you on?"
Better to die on your feet than live on your knees! FREEDOM NOW!
GOP senator 'defects' from Trump over 'incredibly disturbing' shooting — David McAfee
At least one Republican senator is calling for a full investigation into the incident that led to the death of an ICU nurse by DHS immigration agents.
After the death of Alex Pretti, who appears to have been shot by agents after being disarmed while carrying a concealed weapon, one GOP lawmaker had some strong words for the "credibility" of the GOP-priority agencies.
U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. chimed in, "The events in Minneapolis are incredibly disturbing."
"The credibility of ICE and DHS are at stake," he added Sunday. "There must be a full joint federal and state investigation. We can trust the American people with the truth."
The centrists over at Maverick replied with, "Republicans are defecting."
Republicans against Trump added, "First Republican senator to call for a 'Full joint federal and state investigation.' (The Trump regime blocked local investigators from investigating the shooting.)"
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The American Civil War I have been predicting for years is now well under way and full steam on!
Be ready for it when it gets to your state as it is more than possible it will!
The murder of Alex Pretti will be avenged. His Constitutional rights were leveled by Trump's armed terrorists.
Judge orders Trump DOJ to 'immediately release' man arrested by ICE in controversial raid — David McAfee
A federal judge on Saturday ordered the Trump administration to free a man who was arrested while working at the hotel where ICE agents had been staying to conduct their operation in Minnesota.
Kyle Cheney, senior political affairs reporter for Politico, broke the news on X.
"JUST IN: ICE agents in Minnesota arrested an employee at the St. Louis Park Homewood Suites — where they were staying to help carry out Operation Metro Surge," he wrote. "A federal judge just ordered the man's release."
Cheney linked to the order itself, which is by Judge Susan Richard Nelson.
"In sum, the Court finds that all three Mathews factors support Petitioner’s claim that Respondents have violated his due process rights under the Fifth Amendment," it reads. "Respondents’ Constitutional violations, as well as their statutory violations, in detaining Petitioner support Petitioner’s immediate release."
Noem Declares Man Executed By ICE To Have Been “Domestic Terrorist Who Came To Kill Law Enforcement
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This bag of shit is crazier than Trump! It just more murder by her own team of killers!
They are all insane!
Law enforcement fumes as Trump admin axes funding to combat child exploitation: report -- Alexander Willis
“We’re left figuring out how to survive without it,” a law enforcement official told The Guardian, speaking with the outlet under the condition of anonymity. “We have had to make cuts, redo things, and go back to other funding sources to beg and plead for money.”
Known as the National Law Enforcement Training on Child Exploitation, the annual conference was cancelled this year as part of the Trump administration’s termination of hundreds of millions of dollars in DOJ spending. The Trump admin terminated $820 million in DOJ grants within three months of his swearing in last year.
The cancellation of the conference on child exploitation, however, hit home for a number of law enforcement officials, many of whom told The Guardian that its cancellation will put “vulnerable children at risk” and impede “efforts to bring child predators to justice,” the outlet reported.
...However, when it came to funding training for law-enforcement officials to combat child exploitation, one federal prosecutor said the administration has almost always rejected such requests.
“We need to justify all travel for training, trial preparation and meeting with victims,” the federal prosecutor said, who specializes in crimes against children, speaking with The Guardian under the condition of anonymity. “We need to justify why it’s ‘core mission’, and the answer is almost always no.”
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This should tell us all we need to know why the Epstein files are being covered up by him.
It appears his lust in this area is strong.
DHS's Bovino nailed by journalist with comparison to first Grand Wizard of the KKK — Tom Boggioni
According to journalist and author Garrett Graff, critics of Greg Bovino, the chief of the U.S. Border Patrol, are making the wrong complaint when they call the abrasive DHS official a Nazi.
A comparison to one of the founders of the Ku Klux Klan is closer to the mark, he told MS NOW’s Ali Velshi on Saturday morning.
Discussing the brutal invasion of Minneapolis were armed and masked ICE agents have been snatching immigrants and legal observers off of the streets and whisking them away in unmarked vans, Graff suggested it is not just about putative immigration arrests –– it’s about keeping the populace terrorized.
“I have been comparing Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino to –– to me, he is less of a Nazi-era Gestapo leader and more, sort of a Confederate cavalry leader like Nathan Bedford Forrest,” Graff suggested, “Where you sort of see him stage these roads on cities that then, he ultimately fails.”
“These cities do not crack and they [ICE} withdraw and they try their terror campaign on the next city,” he elaborated.
Forrest is notable for, among other things, for being the first designated Grand Wizard of the terrorist Ku Klux Klan organization.
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All the same racist thugs! He should just shave his head and be an open Skinhead!
Jack Smith Was Great But Did Y'all See Michael Fanone Almost Beat The Sh*t Out Of That Guy? — Evan Hurst
Yes, that T-shirt says ‘FIGHTING NAZIS SINCE 1996.’
Three interesting things happened at the big hearing with Special Counsel Jack Smith yesterday in the House Judiciary Committee:
1. Jack Smith detailed chapter-and-verse of all the lengths Donald Trump went to in order to spearhead a massive conspiracy to steal the 2020 election, which he lost like an absolute bitch.
2. Trump was so triggered by it he started having a temper tantrum on Truth Social. Watch out, Mister President, the rotting body bruises on your disgusting corpse hands might get aggravated if you get too stressed!
3. Former DC cop and January 6 survivor Michael Fanone almost beat the shit out of a far-right conspiracy theorist creep, while wearing a Dropkick Murphys “Fighting Nazis Since 1996” T-shirt. It. Was. Legendary. Hey, nobody tell Fanone about Tom Morello’s “Nazi Lives Don’t Matter” T-shirt, just kidding, you can tell him about it. Fanone also coughed “GO FUCK YOURSELF” at a Republican congressman, loudly.
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'Almost' only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades! Let's see it land on target!
Trump Administration Finds History It Wants Erased. Surprise, It Is Slavery! — Gary Legum
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This is what life is like under an illegal and bloody dictatorship. Stop Trump by ANY means. He is killing us! We have the right to defend ourselves!
ICE Agents Shoot Minneapolis Man Multiple Times
The Independent reports:
Federal agents were involved in another shooting in Minneapolis on Saturday morning, Gov. Tim Walz has confirmed. "I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening. The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now," Walz said in a tweet.
Officials in the city had earlier alluded to the social media report around the incident. "We are aware of reports of another shooting involving federal law enforcement in the area of 26th Street W and Nicollet Ave,†officials wrote on X Saturday morning. "We are working to confirm additional details. We ask the public to remain calm and avoid the immediate area."
Video seen by The Independent shows a group of agents wrestling with a man on a city street before at least ten shots are fired. The circumstances that led up to the shooting are unknown at this point.
Unconfirmed reports say the man is dead.
"I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening.
The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now."
— Governor Tim Walz (@GovTimWalz) January 24, 2026
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Another murder by the Trump Death Squads! Hitler had nothing on Trump!
There is no sane reason for permitting murder in our streets! Stop it by ANY MEANS NECESSARY! WE'RE LOOKING AT YOU, GENERALS!
Ohio Pastor Guilty Of Kidnapping 13-Year-Old Girl
A Stark and Wayne County pastor is accused of kidnapping and sexually abusing a minor during a camping trip last year in Ashland County. The Rev. Jesse Santos, 59, pastor of the Canton Seventh-day Adventist Church in Plain Township, was initially arrested by Stark County sheriff's deputies on Feb. 15 and held at the jail in lieu of bond for the Ashland County Sheriff's Office, where the complaint originated.
Santos faces charges of kidnapping, a first-degree felony; two counts of gross sexual imposition, a fourth-degree felony; sexual imposition, a third-degree misdemeanor, and endangering children, a first-degree misdemeanor. The charges allege Santos, who lives in Lake Township, took a 13-year-old girl against her will and had sexual contact with her on Sept. 17 and 18 while camping in Ashland County.
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Another one bites the dust! Still no drag queens!
Trump Says He’ll Skip Super Bowl: “It Sows Hatred”
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I quite agree. His visit does sow hatred. Everywhere Trump goes sows hatred. He's finally realized it.
Utah Review Finds That Zero Noncitizens Have Voted
...After spending months reviewing 2.1 million people on Utah's voter rolls, the lieutenant governor has not found a single instance of a noncitizen voting in the state and only one instance of an ineligible individual registering to vote....
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Oh no! That's not what the whiny little Nazi bitch is telling us! Who's the liar? Three guesses and they are all "Trump!"
Ramaswamy: Fight Inflation By Making More Money
..."Just Make More Money: In a brand new social media blunder, Ramaswamy says that Ohioans struggling with rising costs should simply earn more money in a video posted yesterday. It's on brand for the guy who called Ohioans 'lazy' and mediocre, and shipped his business to Texas."
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"What causes inflation? There is no one answer, but like so much of macroeconomics it comes down to a mix of output, money, and expectations. Supply shocks can lower an economy’s potential output, driving up prices. An increase in the money supply can stoke demand, driving up prices. And the expectation of inflation can become a self-fulfilling cycle as workers and companies demand higher wages and set higher prices." — Walter Frick, Harvard Business Review
Maybe the "Swami" doesn't recall this from his schooling.
They say "a fool and his money are soon parted." What I want to know is how did they ever get together in the first place?
Amazon Won’t Let Film Critics Review “Melania” Doc
"Yesterday it was reported that Jeff Bezos is trying to salvage his $40 million investment with separate premier events at theaters in major cities." LMAO!
"I ring opening bell for Stock Exchange to show world, YES, a whore can do ANYTHING!" — xzargo (comments)
Bitch used to ring her own 'opening bell' when she worked her Slovenian street corners." — Uncle Mark’s Mugshot
"The funny thing is that he thought he was going to make a mint on this. Either he is very stupid, or he is so detached from the real America he believes Fox News is the truth." — Randy503 (comnents)
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I would like to know just what law allows Amazon to prevent a reviewer to pubish his opinion in a free country?
Sec. Felcher Blames “Screwed Up Voice” On Flu Vaccine
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told USA TODAY he stopped taking flu shots in 2005 because of his concerns about side effects, including suspicions about what damaged his voice.
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If he has been diagnosed with Spasmodic Dystonia why hasn't he received treatment for it? Treatment does exist!
RFK, Jr.’s assertion that his voice condition is linked to the flu shot is not based in science, experts say — Jackie Flynn Mogensen
states.
"The comments are “one more assault on vaccine confidence,” says Robert Hopkins, medical director of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases. “We do not have any known linkage between flu vaccine and voice disorders like this.”
The exact causes of spasmodic dysphonia are unclear; experts suspect different brain areas may be involved and that the condition may have a genetic component.
The Dystonia Medical Research Foundation, meanwhile, says that there is “no evidence” that vaccines cause the condition. “In contrast, preliminary research suggests certain vaccinations may actually be protective against certain forms of dystonia,” the organization
The Gratuitous Barbarity of Trump’s So-Called ‘Board of Peace’ — Medea Benjamin
...Gaza is now being positioned as the next laboratory for this model, under the banner of Donald Trump’s so-called “peace plan,” with consequences that history has already shown to be catastrophic.
That strategy was laid bare on January 12th, 2026, when Lieutenant-Colonel Mahmoud al-Astal, the police chief of Khan Younis in Gaza, was assassinated by a death squad based in the Israeli-occupied part of Gaza beyond the “yellow line.” A militia leader known as Abu Safin immediately took credit for the killing, which he said was ordered by Shin Beit, Israel’s anti-Palestinian spy agency.
Another Israeli-backed militia, reputedly linked to ISIS, killed a well-known Gaza journalist, Saleh Al-Jafarawi, in October. That militia’s leader, Yasser Abu Shabab, was disowned by his family for running a pro-Israel death squad and was killed on November 4th, reportedly by one of his own gang.
These Israeli-run death squad operations follow a similar pattern to the targeted killings of Iraqi civil society leaders as resistance grew to the hostile US military occupation of Iraq in 2003 and 2004. But as they did in Iraq and Afghanistan, these targeted killings are likely to grow into a much more systematic and widespread use of death squads and military “kill or capture” night raids in the next phase of Trump’s “peace” plan.
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'Board of Peace" sounds like what they called the paddle the principle would use on you in his office!
It's easy to see Trump's ultimate goal, like Putin, is world control.
Donald Trump and Republicans: People of the Lie — Thom Hartmann
Jack Smith’s testimony before Congress yesterday was a master class at demonstrating how elected Republicans have become what psychiatrist and author M. Scott Peck termed “People of the Lie” with his 1986 bestseller. It was the perfect example for this week being the sixteenth anniversary of the corrupt Citizens United decision.
For most of American history, lying in politics carried a real and immediate cost. Get caught and you’d lose credibility, maybe get voted out of office, and sometimes — like with the roughly 40 people around Richard Nixon who went to prison — even face criminal consequences.
That informal but effective enforcement mechanism depended on a shared understanding that truth mattered and that the law applied equally to everyone. Five corrupt, on-the-take Republicans on the Supreme Court, however, shattered that understanding when they handed down Citizens United.
By redefining political bribery as “free speech,” Thomas, Roberts, Alito, Kennedy, and Scalia turned money into power without accountability and, in the process, turned lying into a currency that could be minted, traded, and hoarded by unscrupulous Republican politicians.
Once political power could be bought openly, the incentive structure in American politics changed. The goal of today’s GOP’s is no longer persuasion grounded in reality; instead, it’s morphed into a sophisticated system of lies and half-truths.
With social media amplification and backed up by a billionaire-owned rightwing media machine larger than any the world’s ever seen, the bigger the lie, the more emotionally gripping it is, and the faster and farther it’d travel, the more useful it became to Republicans. Lying stopped being a moral failing and became the foundation of their business and political model.
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What we are taking to SCOTUS is the Super Pacs Citizen United created. They must be ruled illegal. This is in progress now.
Chaos v Competence: Trump In Greenland v Our Neighbor North — Cliff Schecter
That’s Right. President Trump has once again reminded the world the most dangerous thing in Washington D.C. is not ideology, foreign enemies, or even corruption, but rather a sulking child with access to the levers of economic power.
In order to recognize the spectacle afflicting the American people, you don’t have to consult your favorite therapist, psychiatrist, or mental health expert. Just look at U.S. stock tickers. The U.S. markets just suffered their worst trading losses in several months. Why? Because Donald Trump threw a temper tantrum at Europe over Greenland and threatened new tariffs.
That’s Right. President Trump has once again reminded the world the most dangerous thing in Washington D.C. is not ideology, foreign enemies, or even corruption, but rather a sulking child with access to the levers of economic power.
CAUGHT: White House Used AI To Change Protestor's Face — David Edwards
The White House used AI to make a Minneapolis protestor appear to be crying.
he White House used its social media presence to share at least one image of an alleged anti-ICE protester, which was altered by artificial intelligence.
"One would expect such stupidity from an ICE brownshirt leader...it is all about propaganda and dividing us one from another." -- Cold Mountain (comments)
"ICE: You can't interrupt a church service if you're a protestor and infringe on the right to worship.
...only WE can do that, especially during Christmas services when things get REALLY HOLY..." -- KJ (comments)
"Where would Christianity itself be without all its lies?" -- DriveBy (comments)
That so-called "religion" is fading away, thankfully.
More Americans are shocked by ICE's tactics — The Conversation
Part of the reason why recent ICE tactics have shocked Americans is because most people haven’t seen them before. Historically, the country’s militarized immigration enforcement practices have played out closer to the U.S.-Mexico border. And for decades, agents with Customs and Border Protection have carried out most deportations near the border, not ICE.
From 2010-2020, nearly 80% of all deportations were initiated at or near the U.S.-Mexico border. During the COVID-19 pandemic, that number jumped to 98%, as both the Trump and Biden administrations utilized Title 42, a public health statute that allowed the government to rapidly deport recently arrived migrants.
...The Trump administration in early 2025 set a goal of deporting 1 million people during its first year.
But with so few crossings, and thus deportations, at the U.S.-Mexico border, the administration instead has focused its efforts on the U.S. interior.
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America hasn't seen Nazi gangs destroy its neighborhoods before. Now they simply want to attack states that didn't vote for the Orange Shitgibbon. It will get interesting when it turns around. And turn around it will!
Trump admin orders funding probe of states that didn't vote for him: 'Blatantly illegal' — Jake Johnson, Common Dreams
“This is authoritarianism, plain and simple,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), whose state is the only one on the list with a Republican governor.
“The Trump administration is targeting states that didn’t vote for him—including my home state of Vermont,” Sanders added. “Using federal power to punish political opponents is anti-democratic and blatantly illegal.”
Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) similarly condemned the funding investigation as “more political retribution from Trump, the authoritarian strongman, and his crony Russ Vought,” the head of OMB.
“This is a blatant and dangerous abuse of power,” Merkley wrote on social media. “Trump does not care how many people he hurts to score cheap political points.”
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All of his Nazis in Congress support the criminal. That's why he hasn't been removed. America dispises him and them!
Chances of Pam Bondi going to jail grows 'exponentially daily': ex-White House reporter — Nicole Charky-Chami
An analyst Friday predicted that it's likely White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller and Attorney General Pam Bondi will spend time behind bars.
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YES! The other two bloodsuckers in the photo, as well!
Trump's physical 'decline' said to be made clear in Davos: 'Like Frankenstein's monster' — Alexander Willis
“Trump is all but indistinguishable from a ‘fresh-bitten’ extra straight out of makeup on the set of ‘The Walking Dead,’” Rothpletz wrote in an analysis published Friday in Zeteo.
“The commander in chief looks like a copper-toned corpse… like Frankenstein’s Monster after a long weekend of boozing in Palm Springs.”
“Now, no one knows what to believe as Trump may seemingly soon have enough spots across his person to rival the 101 Dalmatians,” Rothpletz wrote.
“What’s clear, though, is that the orange man isn’t well. Apologies to the woke crowd circa 2018, but it isn’t a war crime to observe the objective reality that Donald J. Trump is a corpulent, decaying blob of a human whose jowls daily increase in size, whose vocabulary decreases apace, and whose eyes can’t stay open in public meetings.”
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Encouraging!
Trump fuels cognitive health concerns with baffling 'peace' gaffe: 'His brain is fried' — Daniel Hampton
That's when the president declared that peace is "destructive for everyone."
"Peace is so destructive for everyone. Even countries that aren't involved. I mean, it's so destructive for everyone when you have wars," he told reporters aboard Air Force One.
The contradictory remarks raised eyebrows among political observers.
"What is the billion dollars for? What is it going to be used for and why does it have to be 1 billion dollars?" -- My Name is Mud (comments)
"No mystery there, it's going in his pocket. He has an insatiable greed." -- Good Lord! (coments)
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What's your excuse for this piss poor pile of ectoplasm, MAGAts?
Donald Trump lurches further into delusion on the world stage — Brian Karem
In Davos and the White House briefing room, the president showed that he is faltering and dangerous
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America has some awaking from their slumber.
Trump: I Could Be Board Of Peace Chairman “For Life”
The Times of Israel reports:
Trump is asked whether he plans to stay on as chairman of the Board of Peace after his term in office ends, as the body’s charter allows. “I have the right to be if I want… We’ll see what happens,” he responds. “It’s in theory for life, but I’m not sure I want that.”
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He can do many insane, ridiculous and illegal things for life as he won't be living soon.
Trump: Putin Can Use Frozen Assets For Board Of Peace
Reuters reports:
President Vladimir Putin has said that Russia is ready to donate $1 billion in U.S. dollars from its sovereign assets frozen in the United States to President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace and commit an unspecified amount for the restoration of Ukraine.
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More bullshit from General Bonespurs as ordered by his puppetmaster, Putin.
EEOC Rescinds Rules Against Workplace Harassment
The nearly 200-page document describes how harassment based on protected characteristics such as race, sex, religion, age, and disability is defined under federal law. It includes more than 70 examples, describing scenarios that employers might encounter. While much of that guidance wasn’t new, one addition that rankled many conservatives was a section on gender identity and sexual orientation.
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More civil rights destroyed by the head Nazi. All the insecure men can call women cunts, along with all the rest of the shitty slurs on the job now. Devolution in a retarded nation.
DHS Extends “Volunteer” Gig For ICE Barbie’s Lover
..."Lewandowski operates as the de facto chief of staff to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. He was her political adviser when she was South Dakota’s governor.
"Lewandowski is at Homeland Security for one reason only - to fu¢k Kristi Noem every time she wants, which is evidently a lot since she's a ravenous, insatiable sex addict. Literally everyone knows about their affair, all conducted while she's still married and still allegedly a Christian. Take a look at her - she's destroyed her face to contort it to the Mar-A-Lago Botoxed filled up look, almost deformed, so grotesque that SOUTH PARK satirized her as having a face that melts and then she's repaired by a pit crew. She doesn't show up on camera without a full session at hair & makeup, and shows up in all these idiotic costumes at ICE raids. Remember, these people are despicable liars who will look right into the camera and insult the questioner for daring to ask such a question, but in Trump world they're valued for their ability to own the libs. As to how he makes money, whatever it is it's underhanded and dishonest. This is how these people operate - they like being close to power and these two like fu¢king at 35,000 feet in a private jet and will do whatever it takes to maintain it - face it, would you give up this lifestyle without a fight? (Please say yes you would)" — Max Schumacher (comments)
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The Two-faced morality of MAGA.
Trump Claims Record Cold Disproves “Global Warming”
"WHATEVER HAPPENED TO GLOBAL WARMING???” — Humpty Dumbass, POTUS.
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Exactly what one brainless, out-of-touch, demented dumbshit would say!
"Anyone who reads anything about climate science for 5 minutes will understand that 1) weather is not the same thing as climate, and 2) one of the major predictions of climate change theory is more extreme weather events in both directions." — John P. Sparkman (comments)
"How boring and predictable he is… only maga men are comfortably uneducated enough to pay any positive attention to his constant drivel, the rest of us can only laugh at his stubborn stupidity while being embarrassed for the country." — Hell-no Kitty (comments)
Jack Smith: Trump Used Death Threats To Intimidate Witnesse — RedStateRachel s
Jack Smith testified that Trump used death threats to intimidate witnesses.
“I had grave concerns about obstruction of justice in this investigation, specifically with regards to Donald Trump… I was aware during the course of our investigation, of targeting of witnesses, during the course of the conspiracy itself. There were election workers who had their lives turned upside down and received vile death threats because they were targeted by Donald Trump… Donald Trump suggested that one witness should be put to death and also made a statement to the effect of ‘if you come after me, I'm coming after you.’ In my mind, I can't think of a more direct threat.”
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Look for Trump to have him assassinated since murder is not off the table for him.
DHS Very Upset Masked Agents Can't Pee In Minneapolis — Conover Kennard
They shot and killed a mother of three, but why won't they let them pee?
"I hope you fuckers get harassed every single moment of your life. you don't even deserve to shit in silence you fucking nazi shitbags" — Hunter Avallone (X)
"NOW: "We do NOT support ICE, get off of our property" - Commander Bovino and CBP Agents are refused entry to Minneapolis Speedway gas station" — Oliya Scootercaster (X)
"Watch Greg Bovino assault U.S. citizens for doing nothing more than standing on a sidewalk and filming…
All while they flooded an entire neighborhood, including a park and playground, with toxic green chemical gas… right down the street from an elementary school ..." — Jesus Freakin Congress (X)
Next, they'll complain that Renee Good's grieving wife won't invite them over for snacks.
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Thay can piss on little terrorist Heinrich Müller. He looks like a used urinal to me!
Trump’s FBI director fires 6 high-level agents who searched Mar-a-Lago — Sarah K. Burris
As many as six higher-level FBI agents were fired from their posts who were also linked to the search of Mar-a-Lago, MS NOW reported.
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Trump's little bug-eyed toad will soon be the only one left in our FBI. He has done nothing but fail America!
European veterans slam 'draft-dodging moron' Trump after he claims US 'never needed' NATO — Alex Henderson
During an appearance on Fox Business, Trump commented, "We've never needed them. They'll say they sent some troops to Afghanistan.… and they did. They stayed a little back, a little off the frontlines."
But some of Trump's European critics are pointing out that when he was young during the 1960s and 1970s, he avoided military service.
Scotland-based journalist/author Stephen Stewart, himself a veteran, argued, "Trump's comments are as offensive as they are inaccurate. It's hugely ironic that someone who allegedly dodged the draft for the Vietnam War should make such a disgraceful statement. He has desecrated the memory of hundreds of British soldiers who made the ultimate sacrifice in Afghanistan, people who we called friends and comrades. If he was a man of honor, he would get down on bended knees to ask forgiveness from the families of the fallen."
In a January 22 post on X, formerly Twitter, Stewart wrote, "Spitting on the graves of the fallen. This draft dodging moron has desecrated the memory of hundreds of British soldiers who died in Afghanistan. Our friends, our comrades. Vile."
In an equally scathing January 22 post on X, Ed Davey — leader of the Liberal Democratic Party in the U.K. — wrote, "Trump avoided military service 5 times. How dare he question their sacrifice. [Nigel] Farage and all the others still fawning over Trump should be ashamed."
"'Man of Honor' is not a phrase that will ever be used to describe the ochre-colored Orangutan presently in the White House, (with my apologies to the Orangutan population in general"Man of Honor" is not a phrase that will ever be used to describe the ochre-colored Orangutan presently in the White House, (with my apologies to the Orangutan population in general)" — Tom B (comments)
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He sure as hell has zero honor!
We sure as hell don't need the criminal Trump!
ICE Recruiters Are Using Neo-Nazi Memes and Seeking Out Extremists at Gun Shows — Sasha Abramsky
The Department of Homeland Security is actively recruiting from the far right as it seeks to hire 10,000 ICE agents.
Under Kristi Noem, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has gone on an explicitly fascist zag as it seeks to recruit 10,000 additional U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.
Robert Reich and others have detailed in recent weeks how ICE is now actively seeking to recruit extremist young men from gun shows, Ultimate Fight Club venues, rodeos, martial arts centers, and other haunts for men who tend to have a far right political vision.
ICE is actively employing recruiters who use right-wing social media and influencer operations to get at potential recruits. And it is explicitly targeting young men who listen to “patriotic” (in other words, hard-right) podcasts. Part of ICE’s “wartime recruitment” schtick now involves asking potential applicants if they want to repel “foreign invaders” — and then offering them $50,000 sign-up bonuses if they decide to join.
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They were lookin' for gun thugs in all the wrong places?
Whistleblowers Reveal ICE Memo Authorizing Warrantless Searches — Chris Walker
An internal memo from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) suggests that agents are authorized to enter the homes of immigrants and citizens alike without a judicial warrant — an assertion that violates the Fourth Amendment and several years of caselaw stating otherwise.
The memo directly contradicts the Fourth Amendment, years of case law, and ICE’s own training manuals.
"ICE secretly told its officers that any time someone has been ordered removed, ICE can break down their door.
It has been accepted for generations that the only thing which can authorize agents to break into your home is a warrant signed by a judge. No wonder ICE hid this memo!" — Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (Bluesky)
Judicial warrants authorize searches, seizures, or arrests, and are issued by judges within the judicial branch of government. Administrative warrants, which are issued by ICE or the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), allow seizures or arrests of individuals under certain circumstances, but do not allow for search or entry of a person’s property without their consent.
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Not worth the paper it was scrawled on!
Target of Viral Botched ICE Raid Was Already in Prison — Andrew Egger
WHEN ICE AGENTS DETAINED U.S. citizen ChongLy Thao in Minneapolis this weekend—breaking down his door and escorting him half-naked into the snow—administration officials claimed they’d been looking for a pair of sex-criminal migrants at the address. DHS plastered images of the two men they were hunting across social media with dire warnings that they remained “at large,” imploring the public to call in tips.
But there was one place they apparently hadn’t bothered to look: the Minnesota prison system. That’s where Lue Moua, one of DHS’s purported targets, has been since a 2024 conviction on charges including felony kidnapping.
This information wasn’t exactly secret. Moua’s name, face, and criminal record are easy to find in a public database of state criminal records.1 Minnesota Department of Corrections Communications Director Shannon Loehrke confirmed to The Bulwark Thursday that the Moua in their custody is the same individual DHS is seeking. Moreover, Loehrke added, Moua is already under an ICE detainer—meaning ICE is already aware he is there and has requested he be placed into their custody upon his release from state prison, which is currently scheduled for early 2027.
KSTP, Minnesota’s ABC affiliate, was first to report Thursday that Moua is currently in prison.....
In fact, the state database lists two offenders named Lue Moua. The other, also an illegal immigrant from Laos, DHS itself claims already to have in hand.
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It looks like stumblebum gun thugs work for a retarded commander.
Confused, Babbling Tyrant Caves On Iceland (He Means Greenland) — Evan Hurst
Something happened at Davos that caused Donald Trump to roll over on Greenland, which the president has been referring to as “Iceland” all week, because of the dementia:
(Trump's bullshit statement edited out because see that I did.)
Yes, the children of Greenland can sleep tight tonight without worrying that the Great Satan America is going to kill them while they sleep, because Donald Trump, AKA President TACO, has chickened out again.
Let us translate so that future space aliens surveying the wreckage of Earth/the mainstream media understand:
Bitch does not have “framework of a future deal.”
There is no understanding.
He caved.
We already could do whatever we want on Greenland from a military standpoint. Christ, they were willing to look the other way if we wanted to store nukes there back in the day. Trump has been saying he needs to own Greenland for “psychological” reasons, and he will not get to do that, because …
Because bitch CAVED.
Here is Trump on CNBC saying he’s got a “concept of a plan” on Greenland, which he’s been referring to as Iceland all week. Yes, he literally said “concept of a plan,” because everything is that stupid.
Again, since the American media will not understand what has happened, let’s be clear that whatever happened, Trump got nothing. He is right there saying he has “pretty much a concept of a deal” with NATO on Greenland because NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said something that convinced Senile Grandpa America that he got a Concepts of an Art of a Deal on Greenland, just like Stephen Miller said something that’s convinced Senile Grandpa America that he’s ended eight wars, but Trump got nothing....
When Will Democrats Realize That You Can’t Reform Fascism? — Will Bunch
Imagine this … and if you watch the daily stream of videos coming from the ICE raids that have roiled Minnesota since the start of the new year, it’s not that hard to imagine.
You’re minding your own business, or maybe picking up your kid at their school, when suddenly you find yourself in the middle of a platoon of masked, armed, camouflaged government agents. One thing leads to another, and in a flash, an agent has wrestled you to the ground, and is brandishing a weapon — maybe a Taser … if you’re lucky.
But what if I told you that lawmakers on Capitol Hill have a solution? They are proposing a brave new world, where now — flat on your back and gasping for air, and perhaps able to bravely manage to free your phone from your pocket — you could scan a federally mandated QR code on the agent’s uniform and find out the identity of the man who is currently pummeling you to within an inch of your life.
You’re probably thinking the same thing I did when I read about New York Rep. Ritchie Torres’ new bill he called the Quick Recognition (get it?) Act, which is his big idea for how Democrats can respond to public anger over the murder of Minneapolis mom Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent, and the raids that have led to violent encounters and made a major U.S. metropolis look and feel like a war zone.
A four-word sentence that begins with, “What the actual …?”
Will No One Hold Trump Accountable for Handing Putin Everything He Wanted? — Thom Hartmann
Trump went to Davos this morning and gave the speech that Vladimir Putin wanted him to, lying and pissing off Europe and shaking the North Atlantic alliance to its core.
Our president has refused to help out Ukraine in any meaningful way for a year now, giving Russia the room to destroy much of that country’s electric and heat infrastructure so badly that President Zelenskyy had to cancel his trip to Davos to deal with the crisis.
Trump’s now invaded Venezuela and is threatening the same with Greenland, legitimizing Putin’s land-grabs in Georgia and Ukraine.
Trump’s ICE goons are destroying the rule of law in America, running amok in Minneapolis, punishing — and killing — the residents of that city for having elected politicians who’d dare advocate democracy over autocracy.
Russian media is proudly proclaiming that their own internal crackdowns on immigrants, dissidents, and people of color aren’t so bad because Trump’s doing the same thing in America. We’ve legitimized Putin’s racist police state.
Trump’s destroyed much of America’s “soft power,” our friendly relations with resource-rich developing nations, by killing off John F. Kennedy’s USAID program, directly causing the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people with more to come.
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Thom , don't confuse some Americans of being someone who cares!
Trump: I’m Suing NYT Over Their “Fake” Approval Poll
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Good. Discovery will show us many things that Trump doesn't want seen. He will have a difficult time gathering the evidence to back his bullshit. He will also prove that he is deeper underwater than he thinks. That should make him have another stroke!
Trump Claims He's A Dictator — John Amato
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Why would he not? Among other flthy and evil things, that's what he is and that's what he will stay until he expires.
ICE Kidnaps 5-Year-Old After Using Him For Bait — Conover Kennard
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detained five-year-old Liam Ramos in Minnesota on Tuesday as he returned home from school, and at least three other kids from the same school district this month. Liam is obviously not a violent criminal, a rhetoric that the Trump administration has used to justify the presence of ICE agents.
“Why detain a 5-year-old?” Zena Stenvik, the superintendent of the Columbia Heights Public Schools district, said at a news conference, according to The Washington Post. “You cannot tell me that this child is going to be classified as a violent criminal.”
Via The Guardian:
Liam and his father had just arrived home when they were detained, according to Zena Stenvik, the superintendent, who said she drove to the home when she learned of the detentions.
When she arrived, Stenvik said the father’s car was still running, and the father and son had already been apprehended. An agent had taken Liam out of the car, led the boy to his front door, and directed him to knock on the door asking to be let in, “in order to see if anyone else was home – essentially using a five-year-old as bait”, the superintendent said in a statement.
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We know who the violent criminals are! They wear masks and rags that pass as uniforms, murder our citizens and continue to terrorize our communities! They will end in a violent manner as they will never escape their pathologically sick crimes for Trump!
Republican fundraising is bottoming out and terrifying conservative radio, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. — Adam Lynch
"Sometimes fundraising numbers, especially a fundraising discrepancy between two contenders for the same office, is so great that it ignites a five-alarm fire within political circles," announced Conservative radio host Dan O'Donnell during his Jan. 14 show on WISN-AM (1130). "Today's Supreme Court fundraising totals did just that."
O'Donnell panicked at dirt-level fundraising numbers reported last week by state Appeals Court Judge Maria Lazar, the GOP-backed candidate for Wisconsin Supreme Court who reported the equivalent of a modest home mortgage, compared to her Democratic-backed opponent, who dragged in seven-digit figures.
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I hope it burns every one of their Nazis out!
Trump 'should be imprisoned': Critics react to Jack Smith testimony — Sarah K. Burris
Legal, analyst, reporters and commentators took to social media to attack the questioning of Smith.
"Republicans on House Judiciary don’t want answers from Jack Smith. They keep on interrupting him as he responds to their questions," said legal analyst Katie Phang.
"Jack Smith reminds us that the cases against Trump were dismissed 'without prejudice.' Meaning they could be brought again," legal analyst and podcast host Allison Gill, of @MuellerSheWrote pointed out.
Sociologist and educator Dr. DaShanne Stokes posted, "What we already knew, and what Jack Smith confirms, is that Trump is guilty of sedition, treason, incitement of violence, incitement of insurrection, an attempted coup, obstruction of justice, fraud, and election tampering. Trump remains ineligible to hold office and should be imprisoned."
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I saw little Darrell Issa on the Kangaroo team ask myriad questions this morning. As soon as Smith attempted to asnwer, the little prick immediately talked over the answer every time. The little Nazi is so offended by what? The fact he was up against a man with a brain and all he has is shit fer brains so he has to talk over him! Bullshit!
J6 cop appears to cough profanity during Republican's questioning of Jack Smith — Sarah K. Burris
Former Washington, D.C. Metro Police Officer Michael Fanone appeared to cough an attack on a Republican member of Congress during the Judiciary Committee hearing with former special counsel Jack Smith on Thursday.
Rep. Troy Nehls (R-Texas) paused his questioning of Smith to tell the MPD and Capitol Police officers who have been forced to step down from their service that it wasn't the fault of President Donald Trump on Jan. 6, rather it was a failure by police leadership.
Fanone, who was dressed in a Dropkick Murphys t-shirt reading "Fighting Nazies since 1996," leaned forward and pretended to cough while also shouting "go f— yourself."
Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) told Fanone to be "in order."
Nehls lost it.
"Last thing, your hand gestures, Mr. Fanone — you need medication," he shamed.
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So, the little Nazi punk was upset. Was he upset when his putz prez shot the bird last week? He can go fuck himself!
But there are many Nazis in our government showing us who they are today!
'Peewee Bovino' jeered as 'total nimrod' after smoke bomb flub cracks up onlookers
A short man's syndrome is what we witness here. A sick LITTLE FUCK!
Death Of Texas ICE Detainee Officially Ruled Homicide
The Washington Post reports:
The recent death of a detainee at an immigrant detention camp in Texas has been officially deemed a homicide, according to an autopsy report released Wednesday by the El Paso County Office of the Medical Examiner. “Based on the investigative and examination findings, it is my opinion that the cause of death is asphyxia due to neck and torso compression,” Adam C. Gonzalez, deputy medical examiner for El Paso County, said in the report. “The manner of death is homicide.”
"Not the first murder in the Concentration Camps, won't be the last."— Karl Dubhe IV (comments)
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Trump's death camps, America. Oh, sorry. Didn't mean to wake your lazy ass up.
FCC Claims “Equal Time” Rules Apply To Talk Shows
The likely immediate result of this, if challenges to the ruling fail, is that talk shows will simply stop booking politicians entirely lest they be forced to host every nutbag candidate.
FCC chairman Brendan Carr, you will recall, wrote an entire chapter the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 book.
"Don't confuse the Reagan eliminated 'Fairness Doctrine' and the 'Equal Time' rule."— jeff166 (comments)
“The View needs Nazi hosts to make it fair & balanced.” — Uncle Mark's Mugshot (comments)
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This fuckstick doesn't have a clue about "broadcasting." He should go on "The View" with this and get his cheap Nazi ass handed to him!
He's forgotten about Flush Limbaugh and every other Nazi SOB that have polluted air waves for years!
Fuck his forgetful brain!
Lehigh County Evicts ICE Over Unpaid Rent
After a lease disagreement, Homeland Security stopped paying rent and is now $115,425.51 in arrears. Citing that, County Executive Josh Siegel is giving them the boot from their Allentown office space.
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Next, kick them and Trump to the new Devil's Island which will have rocket launcers to carry the swine to extreme edge of nowhere!
Alina Habba Vows DOJ Will 'Come Down Hard' On MN Mayor For Dancing With Somali Flag
Department of Justice senior adviser Alina Habba insisted that federal prosecutors would "come down hard" on Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D) after he danced with a Somali flag, allegedly creating hostility against Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers.
"Explain to me how dancing with a flag is considered a RICO act?? Since when is dancing with a flag considered racketeering? I'm probably too European for this. Also seems like a 1st amendment situation, does it not?" -- Kris Janssens (comments)
"Alina Habba? That's a foreign name isn't it? And she doesn't have nice white aryan complexion either.
Time for a visit from the ICE nazis don't you think?
And make sure after you break down her front door and trash her apartment, you don't let her get dressed and drag her out into the freezing snow in nothing but her grabbable pussy. —- bettestreep2008
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Dumb comment. I can dance with any flag I want to. Your Nazis do! Where's your litigation on this, brainless?
The DOJ is not a law enforcement entity. Under Trump it's a gang of retarded owlhoots!
Fuck these Nazi asswipes all the way back to their home in hell!
'Pathetic to watch': Trump’s Board of Peace launch flops in Davos
"Some of the United States' longest standing allies have scorned en masse a signing ceremony for Donald Trump's new 'Board of Peace' initiative," Neal reports. "Not a single representative from a Western European country was present at the launch Thursday morning at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Fewer than 20 nations made an appearance, among them Gulf States like Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UAE, along with Argentina and Paraguay. The number stands well below the 35 anticipated by senior White House officials."
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Trump got his ass handed to him in Davos. As it should be. He's a total locer!
You Can’t Fire Lindsey Halligan Two Months Ago, She QUITS — Evan Hurst
Big news on the “I’ve been standing in front of the mirror practicing saying YOUR HONOR, I OBJECT!” front. Does that mean you can try cases in federal court as a United States attorney, even if you are not one?
What if you had been calling yourself a US attorney, but a judge found you and your Baywatch whistle had been illegally appointed, which really threw a wrench in your plan to make a name for yourself as the US attorney with the utter lack of shame required to prosecute all of Donald Trump’s political enemies for fake crimes that didn’t even fake happen in your fake jurisdiction?
What if a judge just in the last week demanded you explain why your calling yourself a “US attorney” in his courtroom wasn’t grounds for disciplinary action, and you’d better cut that fucking shit out, Lindsey Halligan?
It turns out the answer to all these questions is You can’t fire me two months ago, Judge Not-My-Dad, I QUIT!
And then you drive off in your Barbie dream-lawyer-mobile and Attorney General Pam Bondi is like “OMG I have one of those too!” but then the judge makes you give it back because for God’s sake, Lindsey Halligan.
So anyway, all of that has happened. Lindsey Halligan has “quit” her non-job as non-US attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia IN A HUFF, and Pam Bondi is IN A HUFF about it, and Halligan will now have to go cosplay at another job she’s wildly unqualified for, like maybe junior spaceman or rocket scientist cowboy.
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More stupid from the Trump Crime Syndicate.
Trump Claims He Has “Framework Of Future Deal” On Greenland, Backs Down On Imposing Tariffs On Europe
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Why didn't the arrogant fart start with this? Because he is not a person that can think.
He cannot be trusted. DO NOT DEAL WITH THE DEVIL!
Leavitt Denies Trump Confused Iceland And Greenland — USA Today
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Another dimwit. Another numbskull. This is all the Trump admin is filled with.
Walsh: GOP Candidates Must Pledge To Defend White Men From Racial Bias When Democrats Return To Power — Self-proclaimed Christian nationalist Matt Walsh.
"They're terrified that we're going to treat them like they've treated others.
Good." — Pollos Hermanos (comments)
"Yes, it is indeed a crime against humanity that white men control ONLY about 85% of the wealth and power in this country instead of the 100% we’re entitled to by virtue of our skin color and penises." — Asthmatic Fox (comments)
"'Defend white men...'
But not the women they own?
Odd way of protecting a man's 'property', Matt... — " Max-1 (comments)
"Shhh. Don't anyone tell that bastard we're all female at conception. Only some of us transition - yes, transition - to male somewhere between the 4th and 5th month of gestation." — BearEyes (comments)
"When the democrats return to power, they will take a long, hard look at the lawbreakers who have been assaulting others unconstitutionally. They will do that regardless of sex or race. If they're mostly white men committing crimes, then that's who will be prosecuted." — Ann Kah (comments)
"And even if the notion of racial bias against white men weren't total bullshit, the pledge would really help because GOP reps are known far and wide for their truthfulness and integrity. Especially the ones who say Jan. 6 was a normal tourist day." — Formalism (comments)
"Funny thing about Christian Fascists whining about wanting the government to eradicate and oppress Americans, like women, queer people, non-Righties, and non-Christians over us being their 'perceived sins' standing in the way of their fucking genocidal racism while we're at defending America from the likes of these neofeudal fucks." — Friday (comments)
"White 'crimes against Whites?' ICE shooting moms and priests and reporters for standing there?
Sure, fucking Christonazi snowflake, they'll 'defend' you against your imaginary butthurt, sure. Maybe they'll execute more of those queer people you hate so you feel more secure behind your chinless beard mask?" — Friday (commens)
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Please cite the anti-white crimes of which you speak or go straight back to hell where you came from!
You're sick because you have been an asshole to over way too many people! It's YOUR Karma, bitch!
ICE: We Can Forcibly Enter Homes Without Warrants
The Associated Press reports:
Federal immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to forcibly enter people’s homes without a judge’s warrant, according to an internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press, marking a sharp reversal of longstanding guidance meant to respect constitutional limits on government searches.
The memo authorizes ICE officers to use force to enter a residence based solely on a more narrow administrative warrant to arrest someone with a final order of removal, a move that advocates say collides with Fourth Amendment protections and upends years of advice given to immigrant communities.
The shift comes as the Trump administration dramatically expands immigration arrests nationwide, deploying thousands of officers under a mass deportation campaign that is already reshaping enforcement tactics in cities such as Minneapolis.
"They are fascists! So why do the dems want to just train them and put cameras on them?
These people need to be defunded and then prosecuted for every one of their crimes." — SlumberJack67 (comments)
"Castle Doctrine works in Texas and Maine, and likely others." — Fawkes Guy
"You must "Stand Your Ground" in The Free State of Florida." — FLora DeMann
"Longstanding guidance?????
Goddam weasel words.
“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”
That isn’t guidance, that is a direct order from the only authority that matters." — BensNewLogin (comments)
"We believe we can fuck you up, and we believe you can't do shit." — Hubar (comments)
"FUCK YOU, THE CONSTITUTION SAYS YOU CAN'T ENTER OUR HOMES OR BUSINESSES WITHOUT A WARRANT.
So fuck right off, and don't stop fucking off until you've fucked right the fuck off the very last fuck." — IamSmartypants (comments)
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Big fuckin' goddamned Nazi talk! Try that shit in Texas and see how it works out for you!
Or any other state that has open weapons law!
You are only looking for armed resistence so you can start your goddamned Martial Law, bully bastards!
Why don't we see just who our miltitary will serve, want to? Let's just find out. Make your play. You are going to be called out!
Canadian PM Mark Carney Declares Flame Of American Global Era Extinguished — Evan Hurst
If you missed it, the end of the United States as a superpower that leads the free world was declared out loud yesterday at Davos, by the prime minister of Canada, Mark Carney, who is more brilliant than any leader the US can likely hope to have for a very long time. He declared it not with a bang, though it was received thusly by those who understood the gravity of what he was saying, and considering the standing ovation he got at the end, guess they thought it was a banger.
It wasn’t a whimper, either, though. Just a straightforward declaration of The Way Things Are. Not the way things might be if the US keeps fucking around. The way they are. And the way they are is that the old order has passed, it’s over. Not “let’s see what happens in the midterms,” not “hopefully AOC will be president in 2028.” Over.
Before the election, France’s Europe minister said that “We cannot leave the security of Europe in the hands of voters in Wisconsin every four years.” Or as Jonathan V. Last wrote in the Bulwark yesterday, before Carney’s speech happened, “Europe must consider any pause in America’s attempt to annex Greenland as temporary and subject to renewal whenever 40,000 Wisconsinites are aggrieved about the price of eggs.”
Carney’s speech is all of that, delivered with a matter-of-fact shrug. The US is no longer the leader of the free world. It’s a great power competing with other great powers for the spoils of the entire planet. Meanwhile, “the middle powers” — like Canada — “must act together because if we’re not at the table, we’re on the menu.”
He received a standing ovation for his speech, which will be in the history books.
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Lines are being drawn.
The free world will put an end to Trump just as they did with Hitler.
It could get very bloody and WWIII could happen. But Trump will meet his end.
ICE Now Demanding Papers From Off-Duty Cops Caught Driving While Brown — Doktor Zoom
Donald Trump’s federal occupation of Minnesota’s Twin Cities has poured something like 3,000 deportation officers into the area, and on Tuesday a trio of local police leaders held a press conference at the state Capitol to warn that the DHS goons’ out of control actions are undermining the public’s trust in law enforcement. All three of the top local cops said they were getting “endless complaints from US citizens” about harassment by ICE, and that DHS hasn’t done dick to communicate with local law enforcement. Further, all three said their own off-duty officers of color — all US citizens — had reported being pulled over by ICE thugs who wanted to see their “immigration” papers, noting that if it can happen to cops in their private vehicles, it can happen to anyone.
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"Back the Blue!" Remember when that was a Conservative call?
This is all the proof we need that these motherfuckers are spoiling to provoke Americans into fighting them. Bully tactics from the biggest bully since Joe Stalin!
They are not on America's side and neither is Trump!
RFK Jr. Must Be So Proud: South Carolina Racks Up 646 Measles Cases In Latest Outbreak — Robyn Pennacchia
On Tuesday, USA Today published a new mini-documentary in its Extremely Normal series — which examines how groups and ideas previously considered “extreme” have found their way into the mainstream — about “crunchy MAHA moms” who love natural foods and hate vaccines. To absolutely no one’s surprise, these “crunchy MAHA moms” spent a lot of time talking about how they just wanted more research to “prove” vaccines are safe, only to admit at the end that even if they had all the proof in the world, they still wouldn’t get their kids vaccinated, because they “haven’t dealt with any of the diseases” their kids were not vaccinated against.
Probably because, you know, other people did get their kids vaccinated.
Well, a whole lot of people are now dealing with a pretty serious outbreak of one of those diseases in South Carolina right now. Six-hundred forty-six people, to be exact(ish), have been diagnosed with measles, with 88 new cases confirmed on Tuesday. And it’s not just children. Eighty-four students at Clemson and Anderson Universities are currently being quarantined with the vaccine-preventable virus — a pretty serious situation given that, the older you are, the more deadly the disease can be.
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Robert "Fucked-brain" Kennedy. Only morons listened to the sewage he puked out!
Is “Conservative Values” the Lie That Made Trump Possible? — Thom Hartmann
For decades, Americans have been told that “conservative values” stood for restraint, responsibility, and respect for the rule of law. The rise of Donald Trump forces an unavoidable question: were those values abandoned, or were they a generational lie that made his authoritarian takeover possible?
The billionaires and CEOs funding Trump and the Republicans in Congress believe they’re invincible. They believe the GOP’s abandonment of the principles that animated John McCain and Mitt Romney in favor of authoritarianism and oligarchy will keep them fat and happy.
They’re wrong.
Former Republican congressman Joe Walsh said something on my radio program yesterday that would have been shocking just a few years ago but now is becoming increasingly self-evident to anybody with a conscience and an honest view of American politics and history.
He said the GOP as a party with an ideology, a set of principles, or even a governing philosophy is now almost entirely dead.
It’s been replaced by a violent, racist, lawless, unprincipled cult organized entirely around Donald Trump. It’s a cult that demands total loyalty and punishes dissent with both political annihilation and, increasingly, with threats of real-world violence.
Remember when Mitt Romney said there were plenty of Republicans in the Senate who wanted to vote to convict Trump in his impeachment trial, but they began flipping when Senators started getting death threats against their families?
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How could they forget, Thom. They were some of the ones issuing the death threats!
"Conservative Values" means Authoritarianism! Nazis! Just look at Trump's ICE Gestapos!
Authoritarians' Promise Of "Law And Order" Always Translates To Lawlessness At The Top — Phil Rockstroh
Human history is a crime scene, and the perps have been, more often than not, men in uniform, often agents of the law, deployed by the political class to carry out their criminal intent. A defining refrain of Adolf Hitler was: “law and order.” Law enforcement entailed the perpetration of authoritarian ideology on the German public. To wit, we are witnessing the MAGA Reich’s ICE jackboot lowered on Minnesota where Trump has sent 13.6% of all ICE agents to Minneapolis, a city that represents .13% of the population of the United States.
In addition, speaking of minority populations, ICE Brownshirts, as if they are US Blue Coat soldiers, are arresting and detaining Native Americans. Oglala and Navajo men have been made the object of their White supremacist agenda.
The MAGA Reich’s agendas do not entail national security (no more than the US military’s slaughter of over 4 million people of the Islamic faith, since 1990 alone, involves protection of the US homeland from terrorism). Their mission: White supremacist domination and control, both abroad and at home. To wit, the wealth of the US aristocracy was created by slave labor and by possession of land secured by ethnic cleansing and genocide.
Ted Cruz spotted fleeing Texas for Laguna Beach ahead of winter storm: 'Here we go again' — Alexander Willis
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And never come back, you chicken shit!
ICE agents audit Minnesota toy shop after owner criticizes them on TV — Travis Gettys
The owners of Mischief Toy Store in St. Paul have until Wednesday to turn over employee records to the Department of Homeland Security after federal agents hand-delivered a surprise audit notice last week, three hours after co-owner Dan Marshall's daughter told an ABC News reporter that officers were terrorizing migrants, reported The Minnesota Star Tribune.
“In 27 years as retailers in St Paul, we've never been hit with this kind of audit,” Marshall told the newspaper. “We just have five-part time employees, all Minnesota-born, so it's kind of a waste of their time to be targeting us. We feel very strongly that we were targeted based on the content of Abby's interview that day.”
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Fuck the bully tactics of the cowardly DHS Nazi bastards!
Trump street gang bully Gestapo gets a hair up their collective dunbass!
'Five-alarm crisis': Analysts skewer Trump for 'confused' speech attacking key allies — Matthew Chapman
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The world knows this miscreant is mentally a goner now! The whole world America! And you won't act on this? You are the worse cowards that ever disgraced our land if you don't dump this POS!
James Comer rages at Dem after Ghislaine Maxwell contempt comment: 'You're out of order!' — David Edwards
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If anyone is out of order, out of place, or simpy out of it, it is this racist Nazi used asswipe, Comer!
Al Gore appalled by Trump's 'crazy' threats against allies: 'Literally insane' — Travis Gettys
Trump told European leaders in Davos that he would not send troops to seize Greenland from Denmark but still demanded ownership of the world's largest island, saying he would impose severe economic and security penalties if he was not given what he wanted, and Gore reacted to the speech afterwards in an interview with CNN's Kaitlan Collins.
"Well, I think it was a classic Trump performance," Gore said. "I would hate to be the fact checker that had to go through that speech, but I think there was one element of the speech that I would interpret it as a positive. I think perhaps because of the stock market's reaction yesterday, he appeared to back down from his previous threat to use military force to acquire Greenland, and if I'm interpreting that correctly, I think that's a good thing. It was, of course, crazy that he would do such a thing in the first place, but I think he backed down and that's good."
...Collins asked the former vice president to comment on Trump's claims that he had a right to Greenland because the U.S. had put bases there when Denmark was occupied by Nazi Germany, but Gore said he did not agree with that assessment.
"No, not at all," he said. "You know, when the United States was attacked on 9/11, Denmark immediately responded as part of NATO and had more per capita casualties than any other member of NATO, defending the United States against an attack. NATO has been a tremendous foreign policy achievement for the United States, as our effort to build up other alliances to establish the rule of law, a rules-based order, all of that has benefited the United States enormously, and to try to take a wrecking ball to these alliances, the way he took a wrecking ball to the East Wing, is literally insane."
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He's lying , Al.
Remember, Gore is the first one the SCOTUS election riggers prevented from becoming our president.
'You are hiding!' James Comer ripped to his face for blocking Mar-a-Lago massage records — David Edwards
House Oversight Committee Chair faced accusations that he was "hiding" Mar-a-Lago massage records for President Donald Trump after he shut down an attempt to subpoena them during a hearing on sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who has been described as the president's' former best friend.
During a Wednesday hearing, Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-FL) argued that "wealth and power cannot shield people from accountability from this committee."
"It is the victims of these horrific crimes who deserve protection, not Jeffrey Epstein, and the people associated with him," he observed. "Committee Republicans have failed to conduct a serious investigation. For instance, they refused to hold Attorney General Pam Bondi in contempt for failure to release 99% of the Epstein files on a bipartisan law that we all passed on the House floor."
"We all know that President Trump has a longstanding relationship with Jeffrey Epstein," he continued. "His administration continues to obstruct the release of the Epstein files for this reason. We've seen photos of them together. Even Elon Musk posted that Trump is in the Epstein files."
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Someone should rip him a new face!!
Gavin Newsom captured on video laughing as Trump delivers Davos speech — Alexander Willis
During his speech, which lasted over an hour and saw him confuse Iceland with Greenland, Trump lavished praise on his own administration for the “help” it provided the city of Los Angeles last year, referring to his immigration raids that saw state leaders declare a state of emergency.
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The appropriate response to anything the retarded sick clown says. The whole world is laughing at us for hiring this arrogant boob.
Trump's Greenland gambit backfires as EU suspends work on US trade deal — — David Edwards
President Donald Trump's effort to acquire Greenland backfired as the European Parliament stopped work on a trade deal with the U.S.
While Trump was speaking to the World Economic Forum in Davos on Wednesday, Bernd Lange, the chair of the European Parliament’s trade committee, confirmed that "the EU-US deal is on hold until further notice.”
“Our negotiating team just decided to suspend work," Lange added in a social media post, "on the legal implementation of Turnberry deal. Our sovereignty and territorial integrity are at stake. Business as usual impossible.”
During his WEF speech, Trump ruled out using military force to take Greenland.
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Don't believe a word the dead brain fail says! He does nothing but disgrace America to the world!
Trump-appointed Texas federal judge rules that drag is like blackface — Christopher Wiggins
From a courthouse in Texas, a familiar figure in America’s culture wars delivered another ruling with significant consequences, this time by embracing a comparison that LGBTQ+ advocates say is both false and deeply offensive.
"Claims comparing it to dehumanizing performances designed to uphold racial supremacy are as inaccurate as they are offensive," a GLAAD spokesperson told The Advocate.
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Hey, degrading douchebag! Where is your list of Xianist Pastor pedophiles raping our children? Now compaare it to drag performance queens which have been around since a human being emerged on land!
Retarded mother!
Some bigots are just begging for it!
Bessent At Davos: “Denmark Is Irrelevant” [VIDEO]
Politico reports:
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Denmark was “irrelevant” and that he was not concerned about Europe pulling out of the U.S. government bond market, amid fears of U.S. President Donald Trump annexing Greenland and imposing new tariffs.
"The 1% are completely out of touch with the rest of the country and have been for a long time. I've been saying for years that if you want to know how the local economy is doing, check out how many payday lenders and car title lenders there are in your area. Living paycheck to paycheck used to be considered doing badly. Now a significant number of people can't even do that. They are having to borrow (at horrible terms) enough money to pay for essentials even though they are working." — Houndentator (comments)
"Denmark makes 70% of the insulin the US uses. That's pretty fucking relevant in my eyes and the eyes of every diabetic in the country. They also make a lot of the GLP-1 diet medications. Legos anyone? Jeez, how stupid is this fucker?" — Niblet58 (comments)
"What a tiresome old queen. I look forward to him meeting the same fate as Marie Antoinette, clearly someone who he patterns his life after." — GayFordhamPrepGrad (comments)
"Bessent,
You mean like Poland, France, Netherlands, Belgium all were irrelevant when Hitler rolled in?
Bessent is the face of fascism." — JackFknTwist (comments)
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The U.S. is totally unstable. Trump fascism has made it dangerous to live here any longer!
When a nuclear bomb is dropped on this arrogant turd's head, it might wake him up to the real world!
Fuck this moron!
Howard Lutnick “Heckled And Jeered” At Davos Dinner
Reuters reports:
U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick was heckled at a World Economic Forum dinner hosted by Blackrock’s (BLK.N), opens new tab Larry Fink on Tuesday night, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday, citing sources familiar with the matter. There was uproar following combative remarks from Lutnick, with widespread jeering, guests exiting and appeals for calm from Fink, the report added, without going into details on Lutnick’s comments or what the hecklers said.
"Wait, so the douchebag real estate guy who has no experience as a foreign diplomat didn’t receive a great welcome after what I’m sure were imperialist/fascist comments to a group of Europeans?
Who knew?" — AreYouPreparedToGoToCourt? (comments)
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Trump and his asswipes are the reason we're in the untenable position they have put us in. Please stop thinking they are not! Toss a Cream pie into Lutnick's face!
Trump Moves To Block Release Of Jack Smith’s Files
The Daily Beast reports:
President Donald Trump is seeking to stop his own Justice Department from releasing a whole new set of files he’d rather keep away from public view.
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Supressing evidence! Another Trump crime!
The world's biggest slimeball crook in history!
New Poll: Most Americans Believe US Is 'Out Of Control' Under Trump — Susie Madrak
In the latest Economist/YouGov poll, 93% of Democrats, 64% of independents and 26% of Republican said the U.S. is off on the wrong track.
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The numbers tell us 7% of Democrats, 36% of independents and 74% of Republicans are all locked in a room filled with shit, digging in it, certain there's a beautiful pony in there at the bottom.
Rachel Maddow: Trump Is Despised As A Leader — John Amato
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A total failure. How can anyone with a functioning brain think otherwise?
Unfit. Unhinged. Unchecked. — Cliff Schecter
I declare this petulant, infantile, and threatening letter to a blameless NATO ally, which will be studied by historians with disbelief, is actually worth a line-by-line examination. Trust me on this, please, and let us proceed forthwith.
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And Unstable — Unhinged!
Scarborough accuses Supreme Court of sitting back 'while America burns' — Alex Henderson
Scarborough told fellow "Morning Joe" host Mika Brzezinski and their colleague Jonathan Lemire, "Donald Trump only controls one-third of America's government. But how they sit back, how the Supreme Court continues to let him use tariffs as a threat instead of just putting out the d--- opinion and letting people know what the law is — not sure why you're dragging your feet, but it's…. making America weaker. Supreme Court: You're making America weaker by the day by what you allow the president to do internally, domestically."
Scarborough continued, "You're making America weaker by the day by what you're allowing him to do on the world stage, using tariffs improperly and illegally as a threat. And you just sit back and do nothing while America burns. And the same thing can be said for the United States congress and especially the Senate."
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Absolute disgraces and direlect of duty for our land of the free!
Treasury Secretary mocked after suggesting 'mom and pop' investors own a dozen homes each -- Treasury Secretary mocked after suggesting 'mom and pop' investors own a dozen homes each — Travis Gettys
Bessent's comments were broadly assailed as out of touch.
"Just your everyday soybean farmer, Scott Bessent explaining that mom and pop save for retirement by buying 12 homes," commented Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ). "This man is so out of touch it hurts."
"Whose parents have bought 12 homes?" wondered NFL writer Aaron Schatz.
"Even King Charles doesn't have 12 homes," noted author and journalist Otto English.
"10 or 12 homes? This guy is just a true man of the people," observed animator Craig Roblewsky.
"He's completely out of touch with reality," observed Bluesky user Sloan Ashton. "Who among us hasn't bought an extra dozen homes? This cabinet is filled with billionaires who are incapable of understanding the working poor and middle class."
"Whether it's John Kerry talking about provolone on his cheese steak or Scott Bessent talking about middle-class people owning 12 homes, leaders from both parties seem out of touch with the way that regular Americans live," posted the New York Times Pitchbot account.
"WHOSE parents have 5-12 homes?" asked writer Chantal James. "My parents, who are doing way better than I ever will, have ONE home."
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The utlimate in clueless dorks!
This Is the End — Jonathan V. Last
The destroyer of worlds. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP via Getty Images)
One year ago today Donald Trump was sworn in as president and the American-led global order that had structured world affairs since 1945 ended. The world did not realize this reality at the time.
Europeans thought they could bargain with Trump to maintain the status quo.
Russia thought it could manipulate Trump to get Ukraine.
China thought it could use Trump’s weakness to finally grasp Taiwan.
None of these power centers appreciated that Trump, the Republican party, and the American people were about to demolish the entire geo-strategic balance in an unprecedented act of national self-mutilation.
We don’t need to recapitulate the events of the last year. We’ve all seen them. Instead, let’s talk about the new world that is forming, today, as we speak.
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Read the indicments!
Is Having a “Fearful View of Freedom” the Key to The Trump Revolution? — Thom Hartmann
Are we really losing our fundamental freedoms under Donald Trump?
Back in 1994, I was invited by a parents’ group in Singapore to speak about education and ADHD; my book on the topic had just made the cover of TIME magazine. I flew in, they put me up in the city/state’s fanciest hotel, and late the following afternoon I gave my speech. When, during the Q&A afterward, somebody asked me how best to institute the public school reforms I’d suggested, I said words to the effect of, “Get politically active, get your politicians involved, as they control and fund the schools.”
The room went completely quiet, which I thought odd, but then the conversation moved on and I didn’t think about it again until a few hours later when I arrived back at the hotel. My room had been ransacked. The bed was askew, drawers emptied, my suitcase all over the floor, even my toiletry kit spread across the bathroom floor.
When I called down to the hotel’s switchboard to let them know what had happened, the manager came up to my room and carefully told me that the police had visited my room while I was out. “You must have done or said something suspicious,” he told me. That’s when I remembered the eerie silence in response to my suggestion that people get politically active.
America isn’t Singapore. Yet.
Or Russia, where even standing in the street with a blank sign will get you prison time. Yet.
Or Hungary, where posting on Facebook against Viktor Orbán will get you thrown into jail. Yet.
But we’re sure as hell moving in that direction.
Mamdani: “I Am In Support Of Abolishing ICE” [VIDEO]
“I am in support of abolishing ICE and I’ll tell you why. What we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist. We’re seeing a government agency that is supposed to be enforcing some kind of immigration law but instead what it’s doing is terrorizing people — no matter their immigration status, no matter the facts of the law, no matter the facts of the case. And I’m tired of waking up every day and seeing a new image of someone being dragged out of a car, dragged out of their home, dragged out of their life. There is a way to care about immigration in this city and in this country with a sense of humanity. What we’re seeing from ICE is not it, and we have not seen that from them in a long, long time.” – NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani, drawing applause today on The View.
Danish EU Lawmaker To Trump: “F**k Off”
"The Mirror reports:
A member of the European Parliament told Donald Trump to “f**k off” in a blistering speech opposing his plan to annex Greenland. Danish MEP Anders Vistisen, stood up in the European Parliament today and made himself extremely clear.
He began his speech by saying: “Let me put this in words you might understand: Mr President…f*** off.” He was almost immediately interrupted by the chair and told that his language was not Parliamentary, and was against the rules.
It’s not the first time Mr Vistisen has used this particular form of profanity in relation to Donald Trump. He first used it in a speech a year ago, when Trump first seriously floated the idea of the US annexing Greenland.
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Thank you, sir!
Perkins: ICE Protesters At “New Level Of God-Hatred”
"Perkins has never said a word about the many times right wing Christians have invaded pro-LGBTQ churches to scream about Satan and sodomy."
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Eat it and get slow stomach cancer, douchebag! The U.S. does NOT have an official religion! This irks the shit right out of you hypocrites, doesn't it?
Miami Beach Club Fires Three Staffers After DJ Plays Pro-Hitler Song For Andrew Tate, Nick Fuentes
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Fuck Hitler, Fuck Trump! Fuck Nazis!
Anti-Vax Owners Cause Spike In Puppy Parvo Cases
The anti-vax account below has over 400,000 followers.
"Just so you’re aware – most pet vaccines are now mRNA and there can be shedding. Many vaccines for livestock and poultry and now mRNA as well (and what exactly happens when you eat meat that is mRNA, or eggs or…no one knows?). I homestead and avoid these, but even so, pork… pic.twitter.com/A4CpSVsNfs"
— “Sudden And Unexpected” (@toobaffled) January 15, 2026
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Hard to believe there are this many fearful of progress.
Many, many humans started taking mRNA vax years ago and are living happy lives.
The mRNA has been around for 30 years. It has been researched since 1961. There are two in use for humans, AFAIK, for Covid.
The Safety of mRNA in Animal Agriculture
FAA Effectively Criminalizes Using Drones To Film ICE — Frank Landymore
extremely broad and alarming drone no fly zone designed to protect ICE agents just dropped. notable in part because some folks have used drones to film law enforcement abuses:
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Nazis never want us to watch the crimes they commit!
Experts Concerned That AI Progress Could Be Speeding Toward a Sudden Wall — Frank Landymore
Is the AI industry racing towards a point where the tech’s progress stalls out or slows to a crawl? Many experts, including one of the field’s foundational figures, seem to think it’s possible.
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How about "likely."
As Microsoft Stuffs Windows With AI, New Update Prevents Users From Turning Off Their PCs — Frank Landymore
“When you vibe code an OS,” joked one Redditor, mocking Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s boast that as much as 30 percent of the company’s code is now written with AI.
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Huh? And they are admitting it? The helpless cripples. Prgramming is not AI's strong suite! No wonder it don't work!
An example of Enshittification!
Microsoft deals junk. All users know it.
Happy 1-year anniversary, Trump. You broke everything
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Now, please have another stroke!
Sen. Gallego Tells Anderson Cooper: Trump Is 'Literally Insane' — Susie Madrak
Sen. Ruben Gallego, the Democratic senator from Arizona, told Anderson Cooper Monday night that he thinks President Donald Trump is literally “insane.” And what a relief it is, to hear someone in office say it.
Gallego said there was no way to reason with Trump about Greenland. “No, and I’ve been very clear. He is a madman. He is insane. He’s only thinking about himself.”
“You really think he’s insane?” Cooper asked.
“Yes!" he exclaimed.
The fact that Cooper had to ask that question leads me to think he might be a little screw-loose himself!
He's a part of the "I gotta watch my ass!" media asswipes.
ICE Detains US Citizen 'Because Of Your Accent' — Conover Kennard
If they're detaining American citizens because they have an accent, which is illegal profiling, wait until they hear Melania Trump butcher the English language. She obtained citizenship on an Einstein visa reserved for immigrants with "extraordinary ability." Officers need articulable reasons beyond just a hunch for a stop, and the First Lady's case seems suspicious. Oh, and her parents became citizens through chain migration.
Ramon Menera, a U.S. citizen, shared a video of his interaction outside his home with a Border Patrol agent, accusing him of not being a U.S. citizen because of his accent.
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Every ICE agent is a retarded motherfucking terrorist Nazi scumbag traitor!
Trump Pocketed At Least $1.4 Billion in First Year Back in Office in Unprecedented 'Exploitation of the Presidency' — Stephen Prager.
“The swamp has never been so fetid,” wrote New York Times columnist Nick Kristof.
As millions of Americans face down devastating cuts to their healthcare and food assistance, President Donald Trump and his family personally enriched themselves to the tune of at least $1.4 billion during his first year back in office, according to an analysis published by the New York Times editorial board on Tuesday, the one-year anniversary of his second inauguration.
This unprecedented profiteering, which already amounts to 16,822 times the median US household income according to the Times, is almost certainly an undercount, as many sources of the president and his family's wealth remain hidden from public view....
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Just a common thief! He must end his life in prison for his crimes.
Danish fund exits US Treasuries amid Trump’s Greenland threats — Thomas Kika
As Donald Trump's threats about annexing Greenland continue to escalate, a Danish pension on Tuesday announced its exit from the US, saying that the president's policies have made investments in the country "not sustainable" in the long term.
“The US is basically not a good credit and long-term the US government finances are not sustainable,” Anders Schelde, chief investment officer at AkademikerPension, told the outlet.
Schelde claimed that "risk and liquidity management" were the only factors motivating the fund to remain invested in US assets, but given the mounting issues in the country, "we decided that we can find alternative to that." He added that Trump's continued rhetoric surrounding Greenland did factor into the decision to a degree, but the concerns about "concerns about fiscal discipline and a weaker dollar" under Trump's leadership were the primary motivator.
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European investments will vanish from a sinking U.S. enconomy.
Nobel laureate economist torches Trump’s 'enablers' for making 'catastrophe' worse — Alex Henderson
In a scathing column posted on his Substack page on January 20, 2026 — the one-year anniversary of his second presidency — liberal economist Paul Krugman laments that Trump is now "surrounded by…. sycophants who tell him whatever he wants to hear and indulge his every whim, no matter how destructive." And those "sycophants," according to Krugman, are encouraging a variety of terrible ideas — from encouraging a military invasion of Greenland to condoning the fatal shooting of unarmed motorist Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis.
Trump is angrily railing against European leaders who oppose his push to make Greenland part of the United States. And a rambling letter to Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store, Krugman argues, shows that Trump "is suffering a real detachment from reality."
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End Trump fascism!
Judge Upholds Rule On Congress Visiting ICE Lockups
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The law is the law! End Trump fascism!
Trump’s Pardons Have Erased $300M In Restitution
"Grifters and crooks gotta stick together." — M Jackson (comments)
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The criminal sells these pardons!
Trump: Greenland, Canada, Venezuela Are US Territory
"Just try it, bozo.
Canadians will make you and your rotting country regret it.
Many of us would rather die than be your colonial underlings." — carswell (comments)
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Not if the U.S. is in nuclear ashes!
The free world will wipe out this country forever, as they should!
Canadian Military Models Hypothetical Invasion By US
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Getting ready for Trump's WWIII start!
GOP Rep: “Economy Is Looking Bad Under Democrats”
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These shitheads think the economy isn't their own since theu run the government? What arrogant goddamn idiots!
Lawsuit Attacks Bob Kennedy's New Vaccine Guidance For Children — Susie Madrak
Several public health organizations accused the health secretary of packing a key advisory committee with vaccine skeptics, arguing its latest guidance should be voided.
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Fire the asshat!
Some Good News Out Of Minnesota — Olivia Rosane
Judge rules ICE cannot retaliate against Minnesota protestors.
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Get fucked, ICE!
Trump unleashes late night attack on America’s #1 ally — Alex Henderson
"...These are International Powers who only recognize STRENGTH, which is why the United States of America, under my leadership, is now, after only one year, respected like never before."
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None of our allies respect this old Nazi fool!
Trump 2024 voters 'regret' supporting president after being 'sold a whole different idea'
As Donald Trump enters the second year of his second term, he faces a growing exodus of voters who cast their ballot for him in 2024, with some telling the Chicago Tribune that they have been put off by his "cruelty" and "nonsense," and accusing him of "contradicting everything he said he would do."
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You can't fool all the people all of the time!
ICE Forces Showering Citizen Outside Into Freezing Weather In His Underwear: Report — David Edwards
Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers reportedly grabbed a U.S. citizen while he was showering and forced him outside into the freezing cold in just his underwear.
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We now live in the world of Enshittification!
Former national security official tears into 'mad king' Trump in profane rant
Vanity Fair's Aidan McLaughlin wrote Monday that Trump's message to Norway's prime minister — in which he blamed Norway for not giving him the Nobel Peace Prize — was not well-received by the diplomatic community. Trump told Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store: "I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace" and that he was now primarily driven by "what is good and proper for the United States of America." He concluded his message by reiterating his wishes to claim Greenland for the United States, even though the autonomous island territory already belongs to the Kingdom of Denmark.
"That's rhetoric that we've never seen from a U.S. president before," former U.S. Ambassador Mike Carpenter told Vanity Fair. "He's essentially saying, if you read between the lines, 'you didn't give me the Nobel Peace Prize, so I'm going to use coercive force to take territory from one of your neighbors.'"
One anonymous former National Security Council member took their criticism of the administration a step further. telling the outlet that Trump's rationale for annexing Greenland is only taken seriously by "a certain narrow circle of Americans" who are "trying to gaslight themselves into believing that it's true."
"This is the f—— Mad King tweeting and it's just remarkable how many senior people in this administration have no f—— balls, no f—— spine, and are peddling this crap like it's rational," the former official said. "Truly, those names need to be kept on a sheet of paper and remembered in the future, what they said and did at this moment."
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As long as you're tearing, rip him a new asshole!
So much bad news on the Orange Shitgibbon today, we just can't get it all down!
Protesters Storm St. Paul Church Where An ICE Official Is A Pastor
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God Bless America!
WH Doesn’t Issue MLK Day Proclamation For First Time — The Meidas Touch
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The racist shit!
DOJ: No Investigation Warranted For Killer ICE Agent
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Thanks, but that still doesn not absolve him of murder. America has charged him. The DOJ does not represent America. They represent the convicted criminal, Donald Trump.
Justice will be ours!
Renee Good's Murder? Yeah, It's A Cover Up — John Amato
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As Reverend Barber said today, "WE SHALL OVERCOME." Their number will come up someday. Oh, deep in my heart, I believe...
DOJ To Charge Don Lemon For ICE/Church Protest — NBC News reports:
"Lemon followed the protestors into the church. He did not lead them or organize the protest.
Irrelevant of course, because of the current regime." — DaddySnark (comments)
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See what I mean? These Trump people aren't Americans at all. They are shitting on our Constitution!
The charge is "commiting journalism." LMAO! The penalty should be getting to kick Trump, the mad man, in his tiny testicles!
Adulterer Declares Civil Rights Laws Unconstitutional
...Legal experts quickly pushed back on Paxton’s claim in a press release that the opinion is binding, arguing that the attorney general cannot unilaterally overturn state laws by declaring them unconstitutional....
"sorry. just had to fix this. and yes, I live in texass
... and the fucking moronic rethuglican idiots of Texas saw fit to return him to office." — Luke - my beautiful Luke (comments)
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Another one with a broken racist mind! He thinks he's Trump. LMAO at this boob!
Trump admin hit with damning new poll on Epstein files — Daniel Hampton
...Satisfaction levels are rock bottom, as just 6% of Americans say they're happy with what's been released. Meanwhile, a 49% plurality are dissatisfied.
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Trump is so insane he does not have one fuck to give about it!
Massive anti-Trump walkout planned for 1-year anniversary: 'We will be ungovernable!'— Nicole Charky-Chami
...A "Free America" walkout slated for Tuesday has anticipated tens of thousands to participate on the day of President Donald Trump's one-year anniversary of his inauguration, according to a new Axios report.
"The vanguard in this are starting to think about how ... one day, peaceful, legally permitted marches are not enough to push back" against the Trump administration, Dana Fisher, professor at American University's School of International Service, told the outlet.
"And they're starting to think through what types of tactics are ones that people are comfortable with and would be willing and open to participating in to expand the toolbox," Fisher said.
Past demonstrations have remained mainly peaceful throughout 2025, including "No Kings" protests.
"I don't think that there is an intervention that will have the MAGA regime see the error of its ways," Rachel O'Leary Carmona, Women's March executive director, told Axios.
"I do think there are interventions that demonstrate the political, electoral and financial cost of authoritarianism in our communities, and those are the things that we have to be focused on," O'Leary Carmona added.
The Trump administration has long claimed that protesters are paid, despite evidence that they are not. The shift among the resistance movement marks a major change in strategy following the death of Renee Good at the hands of ICE officer Jonathan Ross in Minneapolis, among other ICE attacks and aggressive tactics on community members in Minnesota. Trump has threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act — yet has said he has "no reason" to do it — as a response to the rising protests in response to the increased violence.
"A free America begins the moment we refuse to cooperate," the movement's website said. "This is not a request. This is a rupture. This is a protest and a promise. In the face of fascism, we will be ungovernable."...
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If you don't remember the 1960s you will be reminded of that time very soon.
MAGA podcaster rages at Trump after 'insane' Mar-a-Lago celebration — Matthew Chapman
...Comedian Tim Dillon, an influencer with a wide male fanbase who advocated hard for President Donald Trump during the election but has grown more critical of the president in recent months, "shared footage of performers dancing in period costumes and dog masks at the American Humane Society’s 15th Annual Hero Dog Awards Gala, which took place earlier this month," noted the report.
That event featured dancers in elaborate 18th-century ball costumes with dog masks, performing for a wealthy and upscale crowd. It drew widespread mockery from the left at the time, with Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) posting, "Why is Donald Trump hosting a FURRY PARTY???"
Dillon, however, vented his own rage over the event, arguing that it sent a horrible message to hold such an over-the-top costume party at a moment when the economy is stalling, workers are losing their jobs, and global tensions are rising.
“What the f--- is that? What the f--- is that?” said Dillon. “It just seems like the point of everything is to demoralize you — to the point where it’s not even debatable anymore how insane this is.”
He added, “It’s literally the end of the world. I don’t give a f--- what this was for. Who gives a f--- what it was for?”
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Dog masks? What dog mask did he wear? HE DOESN'T NEED ONE TO LOOK LIKE A DOG!
Trump boosts call for Don Lemon to get 40-year prison sentence — Robert Davis
"A small group of elderly ladies were protesting at an abortion clinic and were given 40 years in prison for violating the FACE Act," the post Trump shared read in part. "I would like to see the same kind of sentence for Don Lemon and the people that (sic) broke into the church during the service." — Trump said!
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"The 75-year-old was sentenced to two years behind bars after being convicted on two charges for taking part in the blockade of the Washington Surgi-Clinic: felony conspiracy against civil rights and violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, more commonly known as the FACE Act."
ONE old lady was sentenced to TWO years ...
But then, trump and facts are so far removed from each other they seem invisible..." — Rudy Schellekens (comments)
More proof he must be removed from office! He's nuttier than a fruit cake!
'25th Amendment now!' Trump's 'tantrum' sparks calls from lawmakers for his removal — Nicole Charky-Chami
Calls were growing Monday to invoke the 25th Amendment after President Donald Trump threatened to continue his campaign to seize Greenland because he didn't receive Nobel Peace Prize.
Reports surfaced of a letter Trump sent to Norway’s prime minister that included an open threat that his administration would continue to pursue acquiring Greenland, a goal that the president suggested was motivated, in part, by not receiving the famed international prize last year.
On social media, users responded to the letter and Trump's most recent actions.
"25," Rep. Eric Swalwell (R-CA) wrote on X.
"Invoke the 25th Amendment," Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) wrote on X.
"Trump‘s new gigantic temper tantrum over Norway is deep into 25th Amendment territory. Hell, at this point? 25th Admt territory is far in the rearview mirror and we are descending further into madness by the moment," former Republican strategist and Lincoln Project co-founder Rick Wilson wrote on X.
"25th Amendment. Now," former Tea Party Rep. Joe Walsh wrote on X.
"He's demanding control over a sovereign nation because they didn't give him THE NOBEL PRIZE. Why the actual f--- do we have a 25th Amendment?" Randi Mayem Singer, "Mrs. Doubtfire screenwriter, wrote on Bluesky.
"25th amendment now," writer Gary Whitta wrote on Bluesky.
"What kind of scenario was Section 4 of the 25th Amendment meant for, if not what we’re currently witnessing?" Climate scientist David Ho wrote on Bluesky.
"25th amendment when?" Author Ted Underwood wrote on Bluesky.
"I think it’s worth asking again — and seriously — what exactly do we have a 25th Amendment for if not for this?" Artist Andrea Junker wrote on Bluesky.
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Stop talking about it and get it done! NOW!
Trump's tariff vow shattered as study finds they're 'paid almost exclusively by Americans' — David Edwards
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Let the suckers beware! They were warned!
Martin Luther King Jr. Day and ‘the Minds and Hearts of Children’ — The Bulwark
Stop being afraid of Black history, America. It's a part of us and will always be so!
Celebrate a King, Not a Trump — William Kristol
The Justice Department remains wildly out of compliance with the Jeffrey Epstein transparency law Congress passed last year—but don’t expect the House Republicans who voted for the bill to make too much of a stink about it. “I don’t give a rip about Epstein,” Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) told Politico last week. “I’ve done what I had to do for Epstein. Talk to somebody else about that. It’s no longer in my hands.”
Way too much weekend news for us to go dark for the holiday—but we hope you enjoy a pleasant Martin Luther King Jr. Day today. Happy Monday.
For Trump, Greenland Is About Legacy — and Humiliation — Heather Digby Parton
...Trump believes that seizing Greenland, one way or the other, would be his greatest legacy of all, to rival Thomas Jefferson’s Louisiana Purchase or maybe even the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire. But it’s really nothing more than the plan for the new White House ballroom on steroids — and no doubt he plans to rename it Trumpland. Unfortunately, this egomaniac could start World War III in the process.
Revealed: Trump ripped out presidential bunker he fled to in 2020 — Sarah K. Burris
...Trump initially cited $200 million for the new ballroom, a figure that has since ballooned to $400 million. That amount does not include the underground work. Trump has said the ballroom will be funded by private donors, but any new subterranean security infrastructure will ultimately be paid for by U.S. taxpayers, the report said.
The administration argues that halting construction would “endanger national security,” prompting questions about whether Trump is doing much more than a standard renovation.
Jonathan Wackrow, a former US Secret Service agent and CNN contributor, told the reporter that Americans will likely never know how much is being done five stories below the White House.
“If you think about trying to mitigate the threats today and the threats for tomorrow, you’re really talking about emerging technologies, emerging infrastructure — stuff that may not be commercially available. We’re never going to get the line of sight on how much that costs,” Wackrow said.
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One thing is certain: When the bomb hits, the ballroom won't save him.
Anti-gay bias surging 'sharply' among least expected groups: report — The New Civil Rights Movement
The success of the TV show "Heated Rivalry," about two closeted hockey players who fall in love, may be masking the fact that anti-gay bias has "surged particularly sharply" since 2020, say two research psychologists in a New York Times opinion piece.
Five years after the U.S. Supreme Court's 2015 decision that found same-sex couples have the same rights and responsibilities to marriage as their different-sex peers, support for gay people began to "sharply reverse," according to Dr. Tessa E.S. Charlesworth and Dr. Eli J. Finkel.
Perhaps most "surprising" are the groups where anti-gay bias is surging.
Charlesworth and Finkel noted that anti-gay bias trends "were distinctly robust among the youngest American adults — those under 25. This group increased its animus against marginalized groups in general and gay people in particular at a faster rate than older Americans did."
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Fully illustrating the regression our country has embraced. Gays have been among us since time began. Only the brain damaged haters hold on to this retarded postion that is totally lost to reality.
GOP lawmakers have given up on getting the Epstein files from Trump: report — Sarah K. Burris
The Justice Department is now a month past the deadline Congress set for releasing the Jeffrey Epstein investigation files, and Republican lawmakers appear to have given up.
Politico reported Monday that those who were once so adamant about seeing the files are now "largely shrugging their shoulders."
“I don’t give a rip about Epstein,” said Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) last week. Just a month ago she was pressured by President Donald Trump to take her name off of the discharge petition that mandated a vote on the release of the files.
“Like, there’s so many other things we need to be working on,” Boebert continued. “I’ve done what I had to do for Epstein. Talk to somebody else about that. It’s no longer in my hands.”
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Each and every one of them are two-faced perverted bastards!
A public flogging is what they need if not worse!
Some Trump voters are sneaking away — Amanda Marcotte
They'll never admit they're wrong, but polling reveals quiet GOP regret
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The rage of the mad man caught on camera!
Looks like Hitler for sure.
Conservatives are flipping civil rights principles on their head — Russell Payne
For decades, conservatives have worked to rollback the civil and voting rights that Martin Luther King Jr. upheld
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This War Will Last You For Years — Son House
Trump Threatens To Attack Greenland Over The Nobel
“Considering your country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America,” Trump wrote Sunday, adding he sought “Complete and Total Control of Greenland.”
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Proceed at your own risk, stupid. Expect Mar-a-Lgo to be hit by nuclear bombs!
Tennessee Youth Pastor Arrested On Child Sex Charges
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One more Xianist Pedophile bites the dust!
Fox Yakkers Do Putin's Bidding By Undermining NATO — Heather
Rachel Campos-Duffy asked "Why are we paying people who see us as a threat to protect them?" A better question would be, why are you doing Putin's bidding by undermining our NATO alliance?
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The fascist supporters on Fox Fake News are nothing but enemies of our country.
Trump’s Greenland Madness Has NATO On Alert — Cliff Schecter
Again, among the military uniforms heading to Greenlandic ice are those of Germany. Yes, Germany's deploying troops and aircraft to fight fascism and imperialism...
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Fight Trump Imerialism! Defeat Trump's agression! SUPPORT NATO!
Retired generals put on notice over Trump threat — Ralph Nader
As President Donald Trump’s dictatorial grip over America worsens, his violations of our Constitution, federal laws, and international treaties become more brazen. Only the organized people can stop this assault on our democracy by firing him, through impeachment, the power accorded to Congress by our Founders. This is one of the few things that he cannot control.
According to a PRRI’s (Public Religion Research Institute) poll, “a majority of Americans (56%) agree that ‘President Trump is a dangerous dictator whose power should be limited before he destroys American democracy’ up from 52% in March 2025.” Trump’s recent actions will only further increase this number.
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What the fuck is wrong with the rest of America? Are they really THAT retarded that they can't see the deadly situation we are facing?
Journalist testing recruitment hired by ICE with no background check — Amy Goodman
“They didn’t ask very many questions.” Independent journalist and U.S. military veteran Laura Jedeed recounts how she was hired as a deportation officer by Immigration and Customs Enforcement after a six-minute interview at a job fair in Texas, despite never signing any paperwork, not having completed a background check, likely failing a drug test, and publicly sharing her opposition to the Trump administration and its anti-immigrant crackdown. “It seems like the answer to the question, 'Who are they hiring?' is: They don’t know.”
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Calling these miscreants normal is truly insane! This illustrates just how fucked up these morons are!
Do the people of our country think this is good policy? You'd never make a CEO with that bullshit policy!
Trump’s greatest strength in 2024 is now a debilitating weakness: poll — Alex Henderson
The poll, released on Sunday, January 18, found that 74 percent of Americans believe that Trump isn't focused enough on inflation.
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Inflation, of course. But far beyond that, the man is a ravng mad man making threats to Scandanavian countries and attacking American citizens whom exercise their rights. He's a mentally ill despot and MUST be removed if we are to survive as a country!
Former Trump lawyer issues warning about 'martial law' — Alex Henderson
...Cobb explained, "I don't have any recollection of any discussion of the Insurrection Act in my time (with the first Trump Administration). But there were guardrails back then. There were people who could say 'no' to the president. And now, he's surrounded by sycophants and enablers and people who don't say no. I mean, it's just stunning the number of people that have signed on for what's going on in Minnesota and what's going on in Greenland — you know, things that would have never been tolerated in the first 250 years of our democracy."
The attorney continued, "But I do think he wants — desperately wants — to invoke the Insurrection Act. I think it's come upon him a little sooner than he and (White House senior adviser) Stephen Miller and others had planned. I think martial law is definitely in the cards. And it's a way that he'll be able to control the elections."
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We have predicted martial law will be declared sometime this summer. In this way our elections can be banned.
America, if you want your country you will have to "FIGHT LIKE HELL!" Seems to me someone said that already.
DOJ: Courts Cannot Allow A Neutral Expert To Oversee Epstein Files Release — Conover Kennard
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More stalling by the Trump hoods in DOJ.
Trump's Thug PeeWee Goebbels Continues To Justify Invading Greenland — Heather
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Truly amazing this formerly abused, little snotnose child fascist is still around.
AI Completely Failing to Boost Productivity, Says Top Analyst — Frank Landymore
...Mountains of research as well as cases of workplace deployment of AI have suggested that the tech is far from being ready for primetime. One notable MIT study found that 95 percent of companies that integrated AI saw zero meaningful growth in revenue. For coding tasks, one of AI’s most widely hyped applications, another study showed that programmers who used AI coding tools actually became slower at their jobs....
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The end of AI will be very ugly.
Meta Lays Off Thousands of VR Workers as Zuckerberg’s Vision Fails — Joe Wilkins
After years of failing to produce a profitable augmented reality platform, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is pounding one of the final nails into the coffin of its metaverse efforts — the ones that were once so central to its vision that it renamed the entire company after them.
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Wha hoppen? The losing streak America is on is getting worse.
'Don't say his name!' Kristi Noem snaps after asked about ICE agent who killed Renee Good — Alexander Willis
“Let me talk to you about the officer, Jonathan Ross,” Brennan said to Noem on CBS News’ “Face the Nation."
“Well, don’t say his name!” Noem snapped back. “For heaven’s sake, we should have people continue to dox law enforcement when they have an 8,000% increase in death threats against them.”
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8,000%? Came right out of her ass! Just what is this harpy afraid of? Receiving her own?
Nazis will not be tolerated nor protected!
How Much Ego-Serving Cataclysm Must MAGA Trumpism Wreak — Before Fierce Adversaries Resist? — Robert Becker
President Pinocchio, the overlord of bluster and blunder, excels at one thing: indiscriminate ruination and squandering American values, standards and advances – unchecked by equally clueless, nodding stooges.
What stands out right now are two painful insights: 1) that a perverse, sadistic president can pulverize whatever he touches; and 2) worse still, that legal, cultural, political and structural stop signs are tinpot trifles. How much damage occurs before a critical mass snarls loudly enough to impede the barrage?....
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When the cities burn and the country is in flames perhaps some will begin to understand?
The Disconnected Present: Neoliberal Fascism and the Politics of Erasure — Henry Giroux
Under the Trump administration, the politics of diversion has hardened into a governing strategy and been normalized by a compliant mainstream media ecosystem. As James Oliphant observes in Reuters, “Donald Trump is a human hurricane,” generating so many simultaneous controversies that tracking any single event becomes nearly impossible. Oliphant is only partly right, because what he describes as chaos is in fact method. Trump is more than a whirlwind of chaos and distraction. He is an unchecked authoritarian who poses a grave threat to democracy and the planet—he is a modern day avatar of domestic terrorism.
What masquerades as spectacle and turbulence is, in fact, the calculated exercise of power, a form of governance that weaponizes confusion, accelerates cruelty, and functions as a domestic analogue of terrorism, designed to intimidate, disorient, and exhaust the public into submission. It is through this machinery of distraction and shock that state terrorism now takes shape, not as a single event, but as a continuous sequence of calculated ruptures and relentless acts of violence....
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This is only the start of this great essay. Read it.
Great God Almighty, WTF? Really, Lord, WTF? — Jaime O’Neill
With apologies to Charles Rouse and so many genuinely good men of faith I have known.
Dear Lord Above,
Could it be even remotely possible you could approve of Stephen Miller? Kristi Noem? Kash Patel? Pam Bondi? The Bimbo of the Month in the White House who lies so determindedly for Trump? How in your name, could even a second-rate deity in a long-forgotten religion have tolerated the men in Trump's benighted cabinet? What neglectful god would have allowed a man like Pete Hegseth to be put in charge of the most powerful military force on an entire planet?
What sort of Higher Power would be low enough to have allowed so many obsequious and hypocritical people like Lindsey Graham, Ted Cruz, J.D. Vance, and untold dozens of other avaricious people to have such clout with an utterly amoral human specimen as Donald Trump. How could any benign fate or the grace of God have produced so many casually cruel and ignorant people as those drawn to MAGA rallies? Has the line between right and wrong been expunged? Seriously God, WTF? Do you even give a godly shit about what's happening on one of your better planets?
I hope I don’t seem irreverent, or blasphemous, but with all due respect, Big Guy, I must ask what the fuck are you doing? Your “chosen people” are starving people in the “holy” land, including lots of Palestinian children. Children, man. You are often depicted as an old man, but what adult with a conscience would allow such a thing if he had power to stop it? You allow a thieving madman and a fool to do most anything to terrorize, intimidate, and repress the people he governs. You seem to encourage many of those who worship in the name of your son, the “Prince of Peace,” to ignore the "savior's" teachings, to sanction all manner of evil as they cheer on lying, cheating, brutality, and wickedness that extends to pedophilia....
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There's a lot more of this essay online. Read it.
NBC News: Trump Is Once Again Fixating On Canada
NEW: President Donald Trump is privately ramping up his focus on another target in the Western Hemisphere, increasingly complaining to aides in recent weeks about Canada’s vulnerability to U.S. adversaries in the Arctic, according to two U.S. officials, a senior administration…
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Canada's greatest adversary is the United States under the dictatorship of the criminal Trump.
‘That is criminal!’ MAGA pundit rages as women use dating apps to expose ICE agents — Alexander Willis
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Yes, America! There are Black Nazis!
Trump's top allies call for Dem lawmaker to be 'put to death for offensive speech' — David McAfee
Elon Musk and other top allies of Donald Trump are apparently calling for a Democratic Congresswoman to be put to death based on her words.
"'Free speech' for them calling for treason/death, but not for anyone else?
Hypocrisy?
Irony?
They should be arrested." — Sock Seven (comments)
"Calls for Treason ,and "hang 'em High"!.. Coming from the MOST Treasonistic flock of misfits that there could possibly be!? A lawless morally bankrupt group that has disembowelled the working economy of the biggest power nation on the planet ,Taking over cities ,murdering a U.S. citizen by shooting her point blank in the face-& herding the rest like sheep!? Thats Rich. Goddamn you all .F.U." — Will Hall (comments)
"One could doubt there is little evidence Representative Omar ever hurt anyone with anything she might have said using words protected under the "Speach and Debate Clause"...but perhaps it would be more honest to shift the angry focus to anyone connected to activities that directed this crime againt humanity to occur:
Total Child Deaths: Over 4.5 million children under age 5 are projected to die by 2030 due to the cessation of USAID programs." — raymond chorneau (comments)
"Disrespect is NOT treason. The Constitution enshrines the right to speak freely one's displeasure with the government, specific people governing, and specific policies of the government. No citizen has to express themselves in a way another would find 'respectful,' let alone the way a racist, Nazi-saluting immigrant who lied on his immigration papers would." — Mikey2 (comments)
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That'll be the day, motherfuckers!
'Trump could be hauled off to jail': MAGA allies issue panicked plea to GOP lawmakers — David McAfee
MAGA allies sounded the alarm over the weekend, with one Trump-associated attorney issuing a panicked plea to Senate Republicans.
It started when Curtis Houck of Newsbusters, which purports to "expose and combat liberal media bias," reported on a video of a liberal political commentator giving her views on what Democrats should do once they finally retake power.
"The blue tsunami means that Congress is going to haul Elon Musk, Big Balls, and a bunch of other peoples' a-- in front, and say what kind of crimes did you commit?" said actress and podcaster Jennifer Welch. "I think they commit crimes every day."
"you're godamn right he should be hauled off to jail. for the pedophillia, for the fraud, for the cons, for Jan 6 insurrection, for the murder of epstein, for the illegal kidnapping of maduro, for the continued genocide in israel. TAKE YOUR FUCKING PICK and then lock this cocksucker up and throw away the key!" -- Nevergonnabanme (comments)
"Dear Republicans: you have screwed up America since NIXON because you're a bunch of racist haters with massive low self esteem that you inflict upon everyone else by destroying any PUBLIC GOOD that helps all Americans instead of the wealthy few. You do this to create a CLASS SYSTEM of pseudo-royalty who own everything and control all information sources, and SERFS, who are the rest of us. You divide us with religion, gender hatred, racism, and any other divisive scheme you can conjure to remain in power, and when divide and conquer doesn't work, you cultivate THUGS who will use brute force to bully and intimidate.
Americans finally are catching on. The pendulum is starting to swing back, and yes, YOU WILL BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE. WE MAKE NO APOLOGIES FOR JUSTICE." — betterthanslicedbread (comments)
Minneapolis and Tehran: Is this Donald Trump’s downfall? — Andrew O'Hehir
Trump hopes the Iran protests can save his presidency — while he crushes protest at home. It won't work
Leavitt To CBS: “We’ll Sue Your Ass Off” If You Edit
“He said, ‘Make sure you guys don’t cut the tape, make sure the interview is out in full,’” Ms. Leavitt said in an even tone, according to a recording of the exchange obtained by The New York Times. “Yeah, we’re doing it, yeah,” Mr. Dokoupil responded. Ms. Leavitt replied: “He said, ‘If it’s not out in full, we’ll sue your ass off.’”
"Wow, Joe, that 3/4 profile of Caroline is not attractive. Hair as stringy as Bondi's, dull eyes, and is that a fetal alcohol syndrome upper lip?" — clay (comments)
"Lots of filler, botox and probably cheek, other implants too. Another plastic phony like ICE Barbie." — TK-Fla (comments)
"Did she miss the memo that Bari Weiss is in charge? I mean, I knew this cunt was a bit slow on the uptake, but fuck." — NotASingleFuck (comments)
"'Publish and be damned.'....Duke of Wellington.
Fuck the consequences.
We will not be cowed by you cunts.
That ought to be the advice. Have some courage."—- JackRknTwist (comments)
"Every real news organizations not CBS need to stop interviewing and covering this asshole and his talking cunt. — Thewolflam (comments)
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And 42 percent of voters think Trump is doing a great job? At what? Being a Nazi dictator? Fuck all of you heartless bastards.
1500 Troops On Standby For Deployment To Minnesota
"Why?
The only violence in Minnesota is that perpetrated by ICE." — JackFknTwist (comments)
"250 years ago we threw off a tyrant king and his regime. It's time we do it again now. Kirk them all..." — Thewolflam (comments)
"Paratroopers? Really? Christians are stupid as well as ignorant." — Randy Ellicott (commentsO
"Hm...I wonder what's going through the minds of these 1500 soldiers knowing that they're going to be deployed against other Americans. Statistically speaking, the fact that there are 1500 soldiers in this group suggests that at least 30 of them are probably from Minnesota themselves." — Bluestocking (comments)
"Posturing ad pretending, you’re a loser Pete I hope you are the first to be hung" — Dwight Williamson (comments)
"Oh you dumb-fuck.
1500 paratroopers on American streets killing and wounding Americans for the first time since......never.
And still we await the pics and vids of Trump committing statutory rape against under age girls and perhaps, boys.
No number of troops killing citizens will change that.
Release all the Epstein files.
Fuck Trump." — JackFknTwist (comments)
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If this happens it will be the official end of the United States of America!
Civil War will break out everywhere! The trials against the Trump regime will come but only after more Americans are murdered by our troops who will also be indicted.
South Carolina Measles Outbreak Doubles In One Week
"The living will envy the dead. Make Death Great Again #MDGA" —- Lewis Kinslayer (comments)
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The retarded always do retarded things.
Newsmax Ghoul Defends ICE Tear Gassing A 6-Month-Old Baby — Heather
There's a place in hell waiting for people like Carl Higbie.
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He's supporting murder as they all do.
It's the same place in hell for all retarded Nazis like him.
Former pardon attorney: DOJ is 'complicit' in a cover-up — Sarah K. Burris
Liz Oyer, a former Justice Department pardon attorney, told Jim Acosta that the DOJ is participating in a massive cover-up over the shooting of a Minneapolis woman in Minnesota.
Among the revelations reported this week, Renee Nicole Good, who was shot by an ICE agent, still had a pulse when first responders arrived on scene. ICE denied a doctor access to Good who wanted to render her aid.
Oyer said that it may mean that there are other ICE officers who could be culpable in Good's death.
Both she and Acosta agreed that an investigation into the entire situation was warranted. However, the deputy attorney general already decided that there would not be an investigation into the shooting.
"The trump crime family make the Nazi's look like Saints!" — Bamboo_Harvester (comments)
"Yeah, we know. With 'we' being defined as the millions of americans who have seen all the videos, from all the angles.
And have watched and listened as the DOJ and Homeland Security both do everything possible to demonize the victim and cover up the truth. And in fact started to do so immediately after the shooting.
And on the subject of the cover up. Anybody who actually believes that ICE agent Ross, who shot Good, suffered internal injuries from being possibly barely brushed by a vehicle. Are the same people who believe a bullet actually hit Trump's ear. Instead of a very small fragment of the bullet from a ricochet." — Ron (comments)
"'Acosta added he wouldn't be surprised if this matter went all the way up to Attorney General Pam Bondi if not Donald Trump himself.'
All the way up? They've already ordered it to just go away." — Just MY Opinion (comments)
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The DOJ is Trump's go-fer department. All they do is his bidding. Now they are attempting to cover up murder for him. It won't work. The Trump Crime Sundicate at work.
DHS Deletes Tweet After Tear-Gassing Family And Baby
"A Minneapolis couple says that after inadvertently getting caught between protesters and immigration officers this week, an officer rolled a tear gas canister under their family’s SUV, flooding the vehicle with toxic fumes that left them and several of their six children, including an infant, in need of hospital treatment."...
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Remorse? Nah. Just erasing facts.
Danish MP: Voldemort Has “The Mentality Of A Rapist”
It's difficult to say for certain but isn't that his best talent? Stop laughing!
France To Trump: Your Threats Won’t Influence Us
“France is committed to the sovereignty and independence of nations, in Europe and elsewhere. This guides our choices. It underpins our commitment to the United Nations and to its Charter.
“It is on this basis that we support, and will continue to support Ukraine and that we have built a coalition of the willing for a robust and lasting peace, to defend these principles and our security.
“It is also on this basis that we decided to take part in the exercise organized by Denmark in Greenland. We fully assume this decision, because security in the Arctic and at the outer edges of our Europe is at stake.
“No intimidation or threat will influence us—neither in Ukraine, nor in Greenland, nor anywhere else in the world when we are confronted with such situations.
“Tariff threats are unacceptable and have no place in this context. Europeans will respond in a united and coordinated manner should they be confirmed. We will ensure that European sovereignty is upheld. It is in this spirit that I will engage with our European partners.” – Emmanuel Macron.
Sweden To Trump: We Will Not Let You Blackmail Us
“We will not let ourselves be blackmailed. Only Denmark and Greenland decide on issues concerning Denmark and Greenland. I will always stand up for my country, and for our allied neighbors. This is an EU issue that affects many more countries than those now being singled out. Sweden is now having intensive discussions with other EU countries, Norway, and the United Kingdom for a coordinated response.”- Swedish PM Ulf Kristersson, after Trump declared that that he will impose 25% tariffs on eight NATO allies until a “deal is reached” for the US to own Greenland."
EU Stands In “Full Solidarity” With Denmark/Greenland
WWIII is at the ready, Donnie.
Mother of Elon Musk’s Child Sues xAI Over Grok Abuse — Victor Tangermann
Elon Musk’s Grok AI kicked off a massive scandal over the past month when users started using it to digitally undress both adults and even children, triggering a widespread outcry and wave of criticism.
The fallout led Musk’s social media platform, X, to announce that it was implementing “technical measures” to prevent users from using the AI to undress real people or place them in revealing clothing like bikinis — once again highlighting the billionaire’s explosively fast-and-loose approach to content moderation.
The changes, however, appear to have done little to address the issue. Paid subscribers will continue to have the ability to create and edit Grok images, prompting criticism from experts.
The damage is hitting close to home for Musk. Ashley St. Clair, a conservative influencer who had a child with Musk, is now suing xAI, accusing it of allowing users to generate lewd pictures of her....
CBS News 'MAGA anchor' torched after complaining about hard job to steelworkers -- Alexander Willis
CBS News anchor Tony Dokoupil, whose “MAGA-approved” takeover of “CBS Evening News” saw ratings for the storied show plummet, was brutally mocked Saturday after a clip of him complaining to steelworkers about how difficult his job was went viral on social media.
“The gift that keeps giving,” wrote journalist Ryan Grim in a social media post on X Saturday, a reference to Dokoupil’s rocky debut headlining CBS News’ flagship program.
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Right-winger Tony couldn't "work" his way out of a wet paper bag.
So, Trump must be saying "autopen signatures used without the signer’s knowledge or consent raise serious legal questions." -- David McAfee
And I'm sure he has proof of this just because he says so?
NOPE.
THE CONCLUSION:
"The claims reviewed in the article about invalidating executive orders signed by autopen, the percentage of such documents, and assertions of power being seized from President Biden, are not substantiated by evidence or legal precedent. The autopen is a legitimate tool authorized for presidential use, and there is no law or regulation that makes autopen-signed orders invalid. Context is crucial—while presidents can revoke executive orders through established procedures, the method of signature is irrelevant to their standing. Claims about Biden’s cognitive awareness and White House symbolism lack credible, documented support. Readers are encouraged to critically assess such stories, especially when sensational claims are not corroborated by official records or verified sources."
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Batshit insane lunatic!
Trump facing a 'watershed moment' as split with Rogan threatens his presidency: report —Tom Boggioni
Even Joe Rogan has had enough of the Trump fiasco.
Trump Is Making China Great Again — Catherine Rampell
Unfortunately, the world has been united against us.
This Pax (Ex) Americana era was illustrated Friday, as Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney wrapped up a trip to China. This wasn’t just any old visit, either: It marked the first time a Canadian PM had been to the world’s second-largest economy since 2017—and based on the glamorous video Carney’s team released, it was a smashing success for Beijing.
Carney and Chinese President Xi Jinping unveiled a “new strategic partnership” between the two countries. Among the key planks of this agreement, China will reduce tariffs on Canadian canola seed, peas, and lobsters. It will also allow visa-free travel for Canadians, who are apparently eager for new tourism destinations.1 Canada, in turn, will allow 49,000 Chinese electric vehicles into its market at lower tariff rates.
Why is this a big deal? Because the U.S. government had been trying to contain China’s global economic influence. It had been trying to expand U.S. exports. And it had been working to prevent inexpensive Chinese EVs from blowing up the U.S. auto industry. But after a year of bullying, insulting, and threatening to invade our polite northern neighbor, we undermined all those objectives and drove a close friend into the arms of an adversary. After all, Trump declared just this week that Americans “don’t need” any products from Canada, even though the country is our second-largest trading partner.
What Happens When the Economy Fails Depends on Who You Are — Thom Hartmann
"Get ready. Something truly awful may be happening to our economy — at least for average Americans — as the result of Trump’s billions in tax breaks for billionaires, looting of our treasury and economy, $38 trillion national debt, and his corrupt embrace and promotion of foreign autocracies and digital currencies.
If it happens, it’s going to hurt many of us, all while making Trump’s billionaire buddies massively richer.
I remember the look on Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson’s face when the economy crashed in 2008. The former Goldman Sachs CEO’s hands trembled as he stood at a podium and confessed that the GOP’s banking deregulation had blown up the American financial system and very nearly the global economy.
Millions of Americans lost their homes, their jobs, and their retirements that year, but the barons of Wall Street lost nothing — except a brief moment of embarrassment — and then paid themselves tens of billions in bonuses.
About $430 billion was initially shoveled out the federal door and into the banks in just one month. And, tragically, both Bush and Obama decided that not one top donor executive should go to prison, and not even one major bank was broken up.
We coughed up $430 billion to make them whole. And now, it appears, the banksters are at it again.
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"When the train pulled out next morning no banker was left behind" -- No Banker Left Behind -- Ry Cooder
MN: ICE Gasses Suspected ANTIFA Babies With Flashbangs — Marcie Jones
It’s not right to call what is happening in Minnesota a war. Wars have rules of engagement! This is an invasion by roving bands of high-school-equivalency degree holders, some with no more than eight weeks of training (US police officers average 21), and no legal constraints on them. They are gassing civilian populations, flash-banging and shooting guns at moving cars, and desperate to try to make immigrant arrest quotas Dear Leader has set for them! And also, many clearly enjoy it.
However bad it is on the ground, Trump intends for it to get worse. Two days ago he warned THE DAY OF RECKONING & RETRIBUTION IS COMING.
Soon after, DHS agents gassed a high school, then shot a man in the leg — DHS says during a traffic stop and after the man beat them with a shovel and broom handle, and/but witnesses and the 911 call say he was shot through the door of his house. And following that shooting, in the “agitation” afterwards, a family of six going home from a basketball game at a middle school was sent to the hospital after flash-bang grenades and tear gas were deployed under their car, setting off the airbags and trapping them in the gas.
There’s video of ICE wilding out that led to this, and they are not your mother’s flash-bangs. It looks like the battle of Fallujah, and it is a miracle that no one has been maimed or killed yet! Especially infants, the elderly, and people with respiratory issues who cannot take military-grade gas shot at them or seeping through the windows of their car or house.
It was not the first or dozenth time ICE terrorists have set off gas canisters around where children might be. They’ve done it in just about every state they’ve blitzed. In Chicago, Greg Bovino himself chucked gas canisters at high school students, then lied under oath that he did that in response to being hit in the head with a rock, and agents gassed a kids’ Halloween parade. In Portland, California, Minneapolis, and Chicago, goons have fired chemical agents around schools, school bus stops, and residential neighborhoods, leaving gas canisters and munitions littering playgrounds and parks.
Friday, DHS posted, then deleted: “It is horrific to see radical agitators bring children to their violent riots. PLEASE STOP ENDANGERING YOUR CHILDREN.”
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Trump insane terrorism to the nth degree! Attacking citizens of the United States with gun thugs is a crime!
Trump’s Frantic Attack on Minnesota Hits Obstacles in the Streets—and the Courts — Alex Nguyen
"On Friday afternoon, a judge blocked federal agents in Minneapolis from arresting peaceful protesters or using crowd control tools against them, just as news broke that Trump’s justice department desperately launched an investigation into whether Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey impeded immigration enforcement through their public opposition.
US District Judge Kate Menendez ruled that DHS and ICE agents working in Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota must refrain from “using pepper-spray or similar nonlethal munitions and crowd dispersal tools against persons who are engaging in peaceful and unobstructive protest activity.” Menendez also barred federal agents from stopping vehicles from following them if they maintain a safe distance.
Menendez’s order granted a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit filed by protesters last month that argued that their constitutional rights to exercise free speech and peaceably assemble were violated by federal agents who retaliated with intimidation, force, and detention.
Menendez wrote that protesters and observers “did not forcibly obstruct or impede the agents’ work.”
“The First Amendment protects speech and peaceful assembly—not rioting,” DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement. “We remind the public that rioting is dangerous—obstructing law enforcement is a federal crime and assaulting law enforcement is a felony.”
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Why doesn't everyone simply ignore him? That simple act ends his power. No one should be afraid of a sick man. We should be trying to help him and get him into a hospital where he belongs.
“Utter Buffoonery”: Trump Slaps NATO Allies With Tariffs over Greenland, Even as More Republicans Revolt — Alex Nguyen<
Donald Trump promised on Saturday to issue a series of increasing tariffs on European NATO allies until he is permitted to buy Greenland, the latest escalation in his already feverish threats to take over the Arctic country, which is part of Denmark.
Trump announced on Truth Social that starting next month, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Finland would all be charged a 10 percent tariff on all goods sent to the US. The tariff would rise to 25 percent on June 1.
“These Countries, who are playing this very dangerous game, have put a level of risk in play that is not tenable or sustainable,” Trump wrote.
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The stroke he had last year is showing its damage. Trump is the one playing the very dangerous game. The free world will erase us out if they take a notion.
His illness may yet kill us all!
Devout Christian Proclaims “Religious Freedom Day”
"Ok I will stay away from any fucking house of worship.
If god exists he has no needs for churches, and neither do we." — Todd20036 (comments)
"So wrong that some of this borders on illegal under the first amendment.
“Under god” is not a foundational sentiment and its use as a motto remains illegal regardless of politicized scotus incorrect rulings.
We are not a republic based on religion we are in fact based on humanist principles and our government specifically rejects and may not establish a state religion.
I know he is pandering and actually it isn’t him at all but it annoys me that people think the under god part is correct and was not illegally added as a response to communism (at a minimum, a lot about religion and our government bothers me)." — Retired Davestill collecting (comments)
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No, it's him, Dave.
Trump uses our Constitution like it's a cafeteria! Therefore he is a "Cafeteria Constitutionalist."
Here his Constitution says "Worship as I command you to worship." Jesus warned us about him.
The burden of proof of a "god" is not on me but on thee.
The New Dropkick Murphys' Anti-ICE Song Is Everything
As the lyrics say, “Too scared to join the military, too dumb to be a cop.”
Will all art and music be Trump's next target?
Fox ‘News’ Anchors Blame Democrats For ICE Violence In MN
Is Fox News one of ICE’s paid influencers or is it propagandizing for Trump’s Gestapo for free?
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Fox serves Trump. They do not serve our Constitution.
'Great fear' among US military members as Trump tries to politicize troops
"Civilian leadership, fine. But no soldier or Marine or airmen or sailor wants to be seen as a political arm," he added. "They took their oath. They take the job seriously. There is, among the people I spoke to, a great fear and reluctance to take that step."
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I will remind them and America once again. You have to serve somebody. A choice must be made: Trump or your country? They are not equivalents.
Secret Service visits mom who posted she wants trials for Trump officials: door cam
Nebraska mom Jamie Bonkiewicz filmed her interaction with Secret Service agents who came to her door because of a tweet.
"The Secret Service came to my door today because of a tweet. No threats. No violence. Just words. That’s where we are now," she wrote on X in a thread about the ordeal.
He asked her again what she meant by the comment, and she made it clear she was talking about officials having Nuremberg-style tribunals for those who enabled unlawful behavior.
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Smiply tell them to talk to your lawyer! You don't have to answer any of their questions!
"Arms in the house?" These assholes worship the right to bear arms! None of this guy's business!
Trump is defacating on our Constitution. Why should he not be put on trial for his crimes?
ICE’s Tear Gas Sent a 6-Month-Old to the Hospital, the Latest in an Alarming Pattern — Katie Herchenroeder
A mother in Minneapolis rushed to perform CPR on her 6-month-old baby on Wednesday night after federal immigration agents deployed a flash bang and chemical agent near her car, leading all six of her children to be taken to the hospital.
The Jackson family told local news outlets that they were coming home from their son’s basketball game when they got stuck between protestors and immigration agents, unable to drive away. That’s when, according to the family, their car began filling with a chemical irritant.
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America's children are no longer safe in our country. A rogue entity has no mercy on them or any of us.
Trump's Genius Healthcare Plan Is Unveiled, And It's Worthless -— Susie Madrak
Last night, the incredibly stupid Orange Buffoon finally announced the "outlines" of a health care plan he wants Congress to take up this session. As you might expect, it's the stupidest fucking thing you've ever seen.
Trump DOJ Targeting Michigan Senator For Urging Troops To Follow Laws — NewsHound Ellen
Following laws is now seditious! What's wrong with this statement? Raise your hand if you can answer.
ICE Agents Eat At Mexican Restaurant — Then Return To Arrest Workers — Ed Scarce
You have to wonder how desperate these assclowns are to make their quotas if they're driving around to small towns (Willmar, Minnesota, is a couple of hours west of Minneapolis), just to hunt down some "illegals."
Depraved, indeed.
USDA Sec Defends Claim Of “Healthy Meals For $3”
Brooke Rollins: "We've run over 1,000 simulations. It can cost around $3 a meal for a piece of chicken, a piece of broccoli, corn tortilla, and one other thing. So there is a way to do this that actually will save the average American consumer money."
"a piece of chicken and a piece of broccoli, a corn tortilla..." and what other thing?
In other words, stop eating so much food!
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Is that $3 per family member? So for a family of four that comes to $12. Now three times a day gets up to $48. A month gets to $1440 a month. a year gets to $17280. Add on the price of a roof over your head, clothing, transportation and utilites and it starts getting into real money evn at your fantasy pricing! Not to mention how dull and boring meal time becomes eating the same thing each meal every day! LMAO! I want to see her do this with her family! Of course she doesn't have to, does she!
She must mean for supper alone. The other two meals can be skipped!
What does this women think that people eat -- just fast food and pizza?
My dear, the low priced "meals" at the popular fast food joints start at $5 and go up!
Pizzas are at least $10 and up.
Who does her food shopping and where do they but it?
Just another Trump rube barking at a carnival show!
DHS Spox Doubles Down On “Internal Bleeding” Claim
This poor little girl needs to be told she's aiding and abetting a criminal.
Incident Report: Renee Good Was Shot Four Times
The Minnesota Star Tribune reports:
Renee Good was found with gunshot wounds to the chest, arm and head after a federal immigration officer shot her the morning of Jan. 7, according to the Minneapolis Fire Department’s incident report. Paramedics found Good unresponsive in her car with blood on her face and torso at 9:42 a.m. She was not breathing, and her pulse was “inconsistent” and “irregular,” according to the report obtained through a state Data Practices Act request.
There were two gunshot wounds to Good’s right chest, one on her left forearm and one “with protruding tissue on the left side of the patient’s head” the report said. Blood was flowing out of her left ear. Good was brought to a snowbank and then the sidewalk to get “separation from an escalating scene involving law enforcement and bystanders,” the report went on. At that point, the 37-year-old was “still not breathing and pulseless.” A man at the scene who identified himself as a physician tried to offer medical aid to Good. Federal agents told the man that medics were on their way.
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Cold blooded murder.
Weiss Pushed CBS To Run “Internal Bleeding” Claim
Before the original report was published, a medical producer at the network suggested in an email to colleagues that “it would be helpful to ask what type of treatment he received”, and whether the officer received surgery or any other type of procedure. In another email, an executive expressed skepticism about the broad nature of the medical diagnosis, and what it actually entailed. “I’m no doctor, but internal bleeding is a very broad term and can range in severity,” wrote CBS News senior vice-president David Reiter.
The network’s top editor, Bari Weiss, expressed a high level of interest in the story on an editorial call on Wednesday morning, according to staffers who listened. “There was big internal dissension about the ‘internal bleeding’ report here last night,” the CBS News staffer, who was not authorized to speak publicly, said. “It was viewed as a thinly veiled, anonymous leak by [the Trump administration] to someone who’d carry it online.”
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So are hemorrhoids. Are we certain he wasn't on his period? Weiss must have a clue. LMAO!
'We didn't really vote for that': Shocking poll results call Trump's first year 'failure — Nicole Charky-Chami'
Shocking results from a new CNN poll have revealed that a large number of Americans consider President Donald Trump's first year a "failure."
Trump's approval rating has dropped from 48% last February to 39% this year — and 58% say Trump's first year have been a failure.
Americans have rejected how Trump has handled several key issues, including immigration, the economy and health care. The poll pointed to a critical concern among Americans, with two thirds of voters saying the president has focused on the wrong things and that he doesn't care about people like them....
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Don't say we didn't warn you!
Trump's Nobel Peace Lies — Jonathan V. Last
We’re going to talk about Venezuela again today and I know you don’t want to hear it. But it’s important. Because when Trump yoinked the Nobel Peace Prize yesterday, he taught the world a valuable lesson.
And I desperately hope people learn it. Don’t skip this one. Please.
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Shameful, disgraceful and goddamned indecent!
Why Renee Good Was, and Is, So Dangerous to Trump — Adrian Carrasquillo
WHY THE HELL are federal forces brutalizing Minneapolis? Are the Twin Cities a bastion of undocumented immigrants? The Migration Policy Institute estimates around 100,000 people in all of Minnesota are in the country illegally. Sound like a lot? The organization’s estimates for Florida, Texas, and California are 1.2 million, almost 2 million, and just under 3 million, respectively....
The People Are Turning Against ICE. Will the Politicians Take Notice?
Fighting ICE’s Reign of Terror
by William Kristol
Iran’s Protesters Are Caught Between State Repression and Foreign Intervention
Trump wants to protect Iran protesters but wants to kill the protesters in our country! SICK!
Dementia Ward Nurse: Trump's Decaying Brain Was Only Joking To Reuters About Cancelling Elections — Marcie Jones
Karoline Leavitt, that is too much cheek filler.
On Wednesday, Reuters White House correspondent Steve Holland sat down in the Oval Office for a Dutch oven exclusive interview with President Donald J. Trump and Karoline Leavitt, the most enthusiastic candy striper in his dementia ward.
But Reuters did not publish a full transcript of that interview, and no audio or video clips of it! Only still photos, a debriefing with Holland, and a series of articles on the most alarming of Trump’s babblings by subject, including key quotes, Iran, Minnesota, Jerome Powell, Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado pretending to re-gift Trump the Nobel Peace Prize, etc....
Why Has ICE Turned Minneapolis Into a Battlefield? — Thom Hartmann
Yesterday, Mayor Jacob Frey basically took a Fox “News” host down, pointing out that Trump’s own federal prosecutors just quit their jobs rather than investigate and prosecute Renee Good’s wife for “domestic terrorism.”
Which raises the question: what is ICE really doing in Minneapolis?
Well over a decade ago, the very anglo daughter of a friend of mine fell in love with a Hispanic fellow who owned a Mexican restaurant he’d started in her little northern midwestern town. They got married, she got pregnant, and everybody in the family was delighted. Until the feds visited the restaurant and discovered her new husband wasn’t a US citizen and had no legal permission to be here in the country.
This was during the Obama administration. The feds were unfailingly polite. They told him he had a certain amount of time to get his affairs in order but within that period of time he must leave the country, return to Mexico, and apply for asylum or a visa from there. Those were the rules.
Nobody showed up to kick in the front door of their home. Nobody from the government was wearing a mask. No swearing, no threats, no guns, no tear gas, no pepper spray, no hitting his car with theirs or beating either of them to the ground. They merely told him he had to leave and served him with the appropriate paperwork, just like they do in most other democratic countries....
Yesterday afternoon, doubling down on untouchable state power that lives well above the rule of law, DHS posted the following tweet from Reichsminister für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda Stephen Miller:
“REMINDER. ‘To all ICE officers: You have federal immunity in the conduct of your duties. Anybody who lays a hand on you or tries to stop you or tries to obstruct you is committing a felony. You have immunity to perform your duties, and no one—no city official, no state official, no illegal alien, no leftist agitator or domestic insurrectionist—can prevent you from fulfilling your legal obligations and duties. The Department of Justice has made clear that if officials cross that line into obstruction, into criminal conspiracy against the United States or against ICE officers, then they will face justice.’ @StephenM” (emphasis added)
That message — which is filled with naked lies — is very, very simple: “We have the power. We will use that power. And there’s nothing ‘the little people’ or anybody else can do to stop us. In fact, if you try to stop us, we’ll use that power against you, next.”
Donald Trump is now openly threatening the state of Minnesota with the Insurrection Act, a law that allows a president to deploy the full force of the entire US military directly against the American people.
After a night of confrontations sparked by violent ICE raids in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Trump took to his Nazi-infested social media site to warn that if state and local officials don’t crush protests against his masked federal agents, he will step in with force.
This isn’t bluster or rhetoric. It’s a direct threat to use wartime powers inside the United States to override local government, suppress dissent, and place raw federal violence above the rule of law, something he appears to want so badly he can taste it.
That kind of threat doesn’t belong in a democracy, and it tells us exactly what this administration believes power is for.
This is nothing more or less than state-sponsored terror. And it’s damn well high time that it stop.
'Significant problems': Expert warns Trump facing a 'mortal threat' that he can't outrun — Robert Davis
A journalist who has written about Donald Trump for decades warned on Thursday that the president knows he is facing a "mortal threat" to his presidency, and he doesn't appear to have what it takes to shake it off.....
As Trump rants and threatens, our allies fear the worst — Brian Karem
The president and his “den of robbers” are putting American lives and NATO at risk
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Trump is now a bigger threat to the world than Hitler!
How Kristi Noem turned ICE into the Proud Boys — Amanda Marcotte
Footage shows the right-wing group’s founder developing the “recruit giant losers” strategy
Trump is something worse than a fascist — Heather Digby Parton
We've been using the wrong word to describe the president and his approach to ruling
ICE Brutalizes US Citizen Stuck In Intersection [VIDEO]
A U.S. citizen on her way to a medical appointment in Minneapolis was dragged out of her car and detained by immigration officers, according to a statement released by the woman on Thursday, after a video of her arrest drew millions of views on social media. Aliya Rahman said she was brought to a detention center where she was denied medical care and lost consciousness. DHS said she was an agitator who was obstructing ICE agents conducting arrests in the area.
Rahman said that she was on her way to a routine appointment at the Traumatic Brain Injury Center when she encountered federal immigration agents at an intersection. In the video, one masked agent smashes Rahman’s passenger side window while others cut her seatbelt and drag her out of the car through the driver’s side door. Numerous guards then carried her by her arms and legs towards an ICE vehicle."
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Just a reminder of what Trump's fascism looks like. Hitler would have been so proud!
Trump is a barbaric animal and must be put down.
Death Of ICE Detainee To Be Classified As Homicide
And here is a photo of his co-conspirator murderer! An open and closed case!
"This is only the tip of what goes on in one of Trumps/Noems Auschwitz-Birkenau style concentration camps. Death to the regime..." — Thewolflam (comments)
Kimmel Offers Trump His Emmy And Other Awards In Return For “Leaving The People Of Minneapolis Alone”
The senile old SOB may be greedy enough to take the swag!
Megyn Kelly: Women Protest ICE Because They Are “Obese And Unattractive” And Nobody Will Fuck Them
“I don’t think any of these people are having sex. I really don’t. I think it’s not coincidental that all these women are obese and unattractive with multiple piercings, no makeup, skin issues — I’m sorry, but if you are, like, if you’re having positive interactions with men where you’re going to bed with them, and they’re treating you well, ..."
Stop laughing so hard at this...sorry, can't stop. Like what a stupid anorexic shit!
Kevin Hassett: “Trump Is Creating A New World Order”
"Yes, the dollar was down a pissload in Trump’s first year, countries have already adjusted their owning trading to exclude us, and Trump is threatening to destroy NATO.
Nice job you sniveling little idiot." — AreYouPreparedToGoToCourt? (comments)
"New world order? Dystopian Fourth Reich." — magic twanger (comments)
"Smug little pig fucker." — Will Parkinson (comments)
Smirk the Jerk is back from the psyche ward to give us their latest fantasy. The mentally retarded Trump idiots are polluting the planet.
DHS Spox: Protesters Are “Pouring Water” To Kill ICE
"The top spokesperson at the Department of Homeland Security claims protesters are using the freezing conditions of Minneapolis to create icy conditions to hinder ICE agents during immigration raids—and says the tactic could be lethal."
"Dihydrogen monoxide is so incredibly dangerous, it's a wonder that ShitGibbon has not tried banning it yet." — OlyGregg
"This is what our tax dollars are paying for, this imbecile with hair extensions and the mindset of a spoiled teenager." — Peaches (comments)
"Jesus, another lying blonde cunt." -- Happy_Housewife (comments)
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BULL-FUCKING-SHIT!!!
They keep putting inmates from the asylums on TV. This has to stop.
Trump is so fucking stupid he'll ban WATER!
Minneapolis Is A Sick Test: They're Turning ICE On Activists — Cliff Schecter
...What to say if ICE approaches you. What not to say. When to ask if you’re being detained. When to demand a lawyer—and why silence is often your strongest protection... -- Cliff Schecter
From our Substack Live on Blue Amp Media (BAM) with Human Rights Lawyer Qasim Rashid. With all we're hearing about ICE targeting activists, this is about as important as it gets wrt our collective safety:
Amped Up w/ Cliff Schecter & David Shuster: ICE Executions & Collapse of the Rule of Law
Supreme Court sets up 'legal flashpoint' for states — Jonathan Shorman, Stateline
More on the bullshit Trump SCOTUS.
"A corrupt regime, backed by an unapologetically biased SCOTUS whose main aim is to accumulate wealth (Clarance Thomas: self loathing black person) and power.
Coney Barrett is a constipated religious nutter whose lies at her confirmation should be tattooed on her face for all to see. Yes man, John Roberts, who will bend over forwards and backwards to accomodate Trump and his every whim no matter how outrageous. Then there’s Kavnaugh, the smiling abuser (allegedly). Try to find a scintilla of morality amongst the conservative justices and you will come up short." -- Jack Rance (comments)
""The U.S. Supreme Court’s brief, unsigned majority decision voiced concern about inserting federal courts into an “active primary campaign,” though Texas’s primary election will occur in March. Critics of the court’s decision have said it effectively forecloses federal challenges to this year’s gerrymanders."
Translation:
The six far rightwing conservatives that control the SCOTUS came up with yet another BS and wrong legal rationalization to justify their obvious disdain for fair and equal elections. As was shown in Rucho vs. Common Cause.
If you read the arguments put forth by the Roberts court in that case, they literally ignore the Constitution. The main rationalization for allowing gerrymandering from the majority decision, penned by Justice Roberts was.
"While extreme gerrymandering seems unjust, federal courts lack "discernible and manageable standards" to remedy it, making it a political question, not a legal one."
Simply read Justice Kagan's scathing dissent, or listen to it by clicking on the link below. Which she read from the bench as a direct rebuke to the five conservatives who at the time controlled the court. And her reasoning and logic literally rip apart the pathetic and obviously politically driven majority decision.
Then follow that up by reading the entire majority decision and minority dissent for even further context.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/10/elena-kagan-audio-partisan-gerrymandering-dissent.html " — Ron (comments)
Judge halts Trump's 'unprecedented and illegal' move to disenfranchise voters<br>
One federal judge recently struck down a move by President Donald Trump's administration to compel states to hand over sensitive data on registered voters, and criticized it as "unprecedented and illegal."
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Crime, Inc. is the Trump mob.
CBS News staffers revolt over network 'carrying water' for Trump admin -- Carl Gibson
"Felt to many here like we were carrying water for the admin’s justifying of the shooting to keep our access to our sources," a separate unnamed CBS staffer told the Guardian."
Prior to publication, one medical news producer noted that "it would be helpful to ask what type of treatment he received," and whether Ross had to have surgery or any other type of treatment for his injuries. CBS News senior vice president David Reiter wrote in an email: "I'm no doctor, but internal bleeding is a very broad term and can range in severity."
"Since the new manager instituted a pro Trump venue it lost viewers. It wants to be FOX II. Why get the copy when you can get the original?" -- kelemi (comments)
"CBS- Conservative Bull Shit" — Fugitivewageslave (comments)
"As a former Medical Plt Sgt, in order to have "internal bleeding" he had to be struck by the vehicle, or there had to be a violent blast of some sort that left no other marks, i.e, an artillery round or a bomb blast, where you were caughtin the shock wave.
Now, if people beat the crap out of him, leaving no external damage, it is highly unlikely, but he "may" have internal bleeding.
In any case, he would not be walking away; he'd be transported to a hospital." — Robert Funke (comments)
"CBS' new owner, David Ellison is a pro-Israeli supporter who actually supports the genocide of the Palestinian people. They don't care that mostly women and children being slaughtered. Bari Weiss is also very pro-Israel. Trump blindly supports Israel and gives Netanyahu anything he wants. This is why CBS is pushing a cruel pedo.protector on the American people. The new owner of CBS doesn't care if the US goes down the tubes." — newshero (comments)
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They are lying like rugs!
Ya think it's bullshit? Of course! How can you believe a criminal mob?
And the Guardian seems to do all the heavy leg work for the rest of our news sources. Do any of the the other crews have any legs?
Ilhan Omar Vs. MyPillow Idiot Lady 'Reporter'. PLACE YR BETS. — Evan Hurst
"Omar vs. this dipshit
In these very terrible and horrible days, we need to look for wonderfulness wherever we can find it. In this case, we didn’t have to look very far.
Here is Rep. Ilhan Omar, one of the regime’s primary targets, just cold clowning on a “reporter” from the “network” started by the MyPillow Guy.
The “reporter” is clearly going after Omar because A), she’s Somali American, and Donald Trump and the rest of his movement are extremely racist about Somali Americans and believe they are genetically superior to Somali Americans. Also, right now America’s least valuable citizens are rubbing Play-Doh all over their genitals working themselves into a lather over the magnitude of “fraud” coming out of Minnesota, and they are pretty sure every Democratic official they hate is the ringleader of it. And Omar is one of those leaders, representing Minneapolis, the city where Trump and Kristi Noem and that tiny shriveled nutsack Greg Bovino are committing 9/11 terror attacks every day against its innocent residents, for no purpose other than to instill fear.
So these questions are stupid.
And Omar, the happy warrior, just clowns on the idiot.
This is how all politicians should handle right-wing propaganda reporters, first of all, but it’s a pretty good example of how people in general should encounter spreaders of disinformation....
Denmark Military Told To Shoot Back if the US Fires on Greenland As Sweden Send Troops — Sarah K. Burris
"A possible war with NATO is escalating after Denmark made it clear to military leaders that if the United States fires on its forces, Danish defenders must fight back."
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Again, we must prepare for WWIII which Trump is itching for!
How to Mobilize America Against Fascism — Robert Reich
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Robert, I suggest every able person become qualified with a firearm, preferably an automatic with a vast supply of ammo.
We all know they support the right to bare arms.
Otherwise, prepare to die on your knees.
Carlson: Seizing Greenland And Ending NATO Would Be “Huge Victory For The World And For The US” — Joe Jervis
Nazi scumbag opens his sickly mouth.
Florida Baptist Pastor Found Guilty In Child Sex Sting -- Joe Jervis
..."A former paraprofessional at Horizon Elementary School in Port Orange who was also a pastor was found guilty of soliciting a child for sex, according to the State Attorney’s Office. A jury Jan. 13 convicted Jeffrey Summers, 51, of Port Orange, of traveling to meet a minor; soliciting a child or person believed to be a child for unlawful sexual conduct using computer services or devices; and unlawful use of a two-way communication device.
Summers was among 16 people arrested by Port Orange Police during an internet sting dubbed “Operation Full Throttle” during Bike Week. An undercover detective pretended to be a 14-year-old boy by setting up a fake profile on a dating website. Summers responded to the profile, “Sorry. it’s nothing you did. but you’re 14. I’m trying to be careful and you should be to. You don’t know how much I would love to meet you,” according to the charging affidavit."...
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Keep telling us that Xianists are clean and wholesome!
Another one bites the fucking dust!
AI Tool Reportedly Sent ICE Recruits Into the Field Without Proper Training — Ece Yildirim
"Immigration and Customs Enforcement deployed an unknown number of undertrained law enforcement officers into the field because the agency’s artificial intelligence system for hiring wasn’t functioning as intended, according to NBC News.
Since even before taking office, President Trump vowed an unprecedented immigration crackdown. That included a hiring blitz at ICE, with a mandate to hire 10,000 new recruits by the end of 2025, thanks to the $75 billion over four years allocated to the agency via the Big Beautiful Bill."
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ROTFLMAO!
A Man Bought Meta’s AI Glasses, and Ended Up Wandering the Desert in Search of Aliens — Maggie Harrison Dupré
...“All the kids were out of the house, and it was like, ‘oh my gosh, we’re still young. We’ve got this resort. I’ve got a good job. The best years of our lives are in front of us,” Daniel recounted, sounding melancholy. “It was a wonderful time.”
That all changed after Daniel purchased a pair of AI chatbot-embedded Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses — the AI-infused eyeglasses that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has made central to his vision for the future of AI and computing — which he says opened the door to a six-month delusional spiral that played out across Meta platforms through extensive interactions with the company’s AI, culminating in him making dangerous journeys into the desert to await alien visitors and believing he was tasked with ushering forth a “new dawn” for humanity.
And though his delusions have since faded, his journey into a Meta AI-powered reality left his life in shambles — deep in debt, reeling from job loss, isolated from his family, and struggling with depression and suicidal thoughts.
“I’ve lost everything,” Daniel, now 52, told Futurism, his voice dripping with fatigue. “Everything.”...
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Fuck around with AI and find out, suckers!
Look at that, ‘liberal’ is no longer a dirty word — Daily Kos
A major new Gallup survey finds dramatic gains for Democrats—and for the word “liberal,” a label that’s been demonized for decades.
The topline result is familiar: Americans who identify as “independent” continue to outnumber those who call themselves Democrats or Republicans. As has long been the case, though, that distinction is mostly meaningless. The number of true independents—people who don’t lean toward either party—is small (just 10%, according to Gallup), and they tend to be the least politically engaged.
Once Gallup asks those independents which party they lean toward, the story snaps into focus. Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents now outnumber Republicans and Republican-leaners by 5 percentage points, 47% to 42%. A year ago, Republicans held a narrow edge, 46% to 45%.
That alone is striking, but it still understates the scale of the shift.
As Gallup notes, Republicans held a 4-point advantage in party affiliation in the fourth quarter of 2024, during the final days of the presidential campaign and much of Trump’s transition. But that lead vanished in the first quarter of 2025. By the second quarter, Democrats had pulled ahead by 3 points. That advantage grew to 7 points in the third quarter and 8 points in the fourth.
The nightmare scenario Democrats warned about is here — Emily Singer
The doomsday scenario former Vice President Kamala Harris and other Democrats warned about has arrived.
President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act to sic the military on American citizens in Minnesota, which is already under siege by armed Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents who are brutalizing citizens in the streets and even killing them in cold blood.
In a Truth Social post, Trump falsely accused Minnesotans—who have been racially profiled and violently beaten by immigration agents—of being paid protesters.
Trump said that if Minnesota's leaders don't "obey the law and stop the professional agitators and insurrectionists from attacking the Patriots of I.C.E., who are only trying to do their job, I will institute the INSURRECTION ACT, which many Presidents have done before me, and quickly put an end to the travesty that is taking place in that once great State."
Of course, the protesters are not paid.
Here's how one Minneapolis resident put it in an interview with Status Coup News:
I've never protested in my life. ... You know what really pisses me off is the fact that they detain people, cuff ’em, and then still beat the shit out of ’em. They tell you it's immigrants, only immigrants—it's fucking anybody. I have friends that got detained and all they were doing was fucking driving home from work. What the fuck? I'm not fucking paid to be here lik e everybody fucking says. What the fuck is that? I gotta work in the goddamn morning, just like everybody else. I'm just here trying to stand up for community, dude.
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The people of American are not the enemy. Trump is the enemy of America. The sooner we rid ourselves of this monster the better things will be. Otherise, we are all dead anyway!
Where are the troops that swore to protect us -- that took an oath to protect us?
Jebus Johnson Thinks Biden Is Still Running The Economy — John Amato
"...It's interesting that Johnson can suddenly give opinions on this topic when he feigned ignorance on every other criminal, immoral, and unethical thing Trump has said and done."
Low-income MAGA voters 'duped' by Trump are about to face their worst economy yet: analysis — Sarah K. Burris
Inflation is on the rise thanks to President Donald Trump, and his own voters are about to get hit with the worst of it.
The New Statesman reported Thursday that MAGA world will be the ones that face the misery of a faltering economy.
"The people who feel inflation most seriously are the people who have the least disposable income – in the US, the bottom quartile of earners. The majority of low-income households in the US voted for Trump in 2024," wrote the Statesman.
Trump on 2026 midterms: 'We shouldn’t even have an election' — Sarah K. Burris
We don't give a flying fuck what baby Trump thinks. We will have an election as it is not up the the president to call that shot!
Please do us all a favor and drop dead, you deluded and sick creature!
Invoking Insurrection Act Is the Opposite of What Minneapolis Needs -- Newswire Editor
“The violence in Minneapolis is being perpetrated by ICE. The solution is to end the ICE surge, not to further militarize the city. Deploying military forces against the city and its citizens would be a doubling down on the threat Americans are facing from their own government.
“Trump should abandon this idea immediately and stop threatening to use the military against the American people.”
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The American military has turned its back on protecting America.
'Unconstitutional': Legal expert aghast after Noem says feds 'asking for papers' is lawful — Sarah K. Burris
A reporter at the White House asked Noem if she is "okay with federal agents and officers violating people's Fourth Amendment rights by asking for papers without reasonable suspicion?"
Noem replied: "Every single action that our ICE officers take is according to the law and following protocols that we have used for years that this administration has used, that the previous administration used. They are doing everything correctly and over and over again in litigation in the courts. We've proven that they've done the right thing."
Noem was further asked if it was within ICE's right to demand it without reasonable suspicion, and, if so, why. Noem ignored the question.
Speaking on CNN, former prosecutor Elie Honig called the practice "unconstitutional" and "illegal."
"Well, Pam, that's wrong," Honig told CNN's co-host Pamela Brown. "It's illegal and it's unconstitutional to require people to show their citizenship papers without some other basis to make a stop. So, let me be clear: In order to stop somebody, detain them, question them for immigration purposes, an officer has to have reasonable suspicion."
Honig noted it's a fairly low bar for officers to meet.
"It's lower than the bar that a law enforcement agent would need to make a stop or questioning for criminal purposes, but it's still a bar," he explained. It's not nothing. In fact, just a few months ago, in September of 2025, Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote a concurring opinion in a Supreme Court case when he reiterated that U.S. immigration agents do have to have reasonable suspicion to stop somebody to detain them, even briefly, and to question them."
"So, what you cannot do is just go arbitrarily up to people or set up a checkpoint or go door to door," Honig explained.
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Who gets to enforce this? We must. There is open carry in Texas. I suggest the rest of the states do the same as it's time. Maybe some of the thugs would think twice before destroying someone's automobile — or life.
Four More Nations Will Send Troops To Greenland
Trump is getting called out! Show your hand, Fat Boy!
HHS Reverses $2B In Cuts To Mental Health, Addiction
“These are cuts he should not have issued in the first place,” Representative Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut, the top Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, said in a statement after reports of the reversal.
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Trump's control is waning!
Three More Dems Investigated Over Military Video
“Donald Trump called for my arrest, prosecution, and execution—all because I said something he didn’t like. Now he’s pressuring his political appointees to harass me for daring to speak up and hold him accountable,” Crow said in a statement.
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American heroes fighting the Nazis! We must support them.
Bacon Vows Impeachment If Trump Seizes Greenland
Bacon, a Nebraska Republican who’s not seeking reelection this fall, said an invasion of Greenland could prompt House Republicans to impeach Trump, who was impeached by the House twice in his first term but acquitted both times by the Senate.
“I’ll be candid with you: There’s so many Republicans mad about this,” Bacon said. “If he went through with the threats, I think it would be the end of his presidency. And he needs to know: The off-ramp is realizing Republicans aren’t going to tolerate this and he’s going to have to back off. He hates being told no, but in this case, I think Republicans need to be firm.”
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French troops are already on the ground in Greenland. More NATO troops will follow.
Trump's doing hmiself in. Let's get behind it.
Trump Threatens To Invoke Insurrection Act In MN
Trump made the threat after a federal officer shot a man in the leg in Minneapolis on Wednesday after being attacked with a shovel and broom handle. The incident further heightened the sense of fear and anger radiating across the city a week after an immigration agent fatally shot a woman in the head.
"The entire government was insurrected by one man with a shovel and broom. Sounds more like an early shopper for the January 6th Whites sale to me." — Stogiebear (comments)
'Sundowning': Grandpa Needed More Nap Time At Oval Office Meeting
Just walk into the light, Donald. I think it's calling you.
Donald J. Trump, who has repeatedly called his predecessor "Sleepy Joe Biden," was once again caught taking a little nap during a signing ceremony for the Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act in the Oval Office, where he was flanked by lawmakers, cabinet members, and advocates for the dairy industry.
This is embarrassing, and it's bizarre on another level as he terrorizes Americans in Democratic cities by siccing ICE goons on US citizens and others.
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"Out! Out! Damned spot!" — Macbeth, by Shakespeare
Federal agents 'embarrassed' as 'red flags' abound after Minneapolis shooting fallout
"“I’m embarrassed,” one former ICE agent told TIME. The agent has had more than 25 years of experience. “The majority of my colleagues feel the same way. It’s an insult to us, because we did it the right way to see what they’re doing now.”
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We are now in the hands of Trump's scum of the earth!
Supreme Court hands Republicans 'the most important election law ruling in a generation'
Because they are part and parcel of the Trump Crime Syndicate. We cannot trust these miscreants.
Norwegians 'shaken' as Venezuela opposition leader tries to 'share' Nobel Prize with Trump
In other words, Fuck Trump and Fuck María Corina Machado’s offer to give it to him.
Reporter posts receipt after DHS claims her employment offer was a 'lazy lie'? — Alex Henderson
...journalist Laura Jedeed, in an article published by Slate on January 13, pointed to her own experience with ICE as an example.
Jedeed's article inspired an angry backlash from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which accused her of lying. But she proved that the allegations in her article were absolutely true.
Jedeed went undercover, applying for employment with ICE at a recruitment drive in Dallas. And the vetting process, she reported in Slate, was incredibly lax.
Jedeed, who said she was interviewed for only six minutes, wrote, "Many of ICE's critics worry that the agency is hoovering up pro-Trump thugs — January 6 insurrectionists, white nationalists, etc. — for a domestic security force loyal to the president. The truth, my experience suggests, is perhaps even scarier: ICE's recruitment push is so sloppy that the administration effectively has no idea who's joining the agency's ranks. We’re all, collectively, in the dark about whom the state is arming, tasking with the most sensitive of law enforcement work, and then sending into America’s streets. And we are all, collectively, discovering just how deadly of an arrangement that really is."
Jedeed's article was followed by an attack tweet from DHS, which tweeted, "This is such a lazy lie. This individual was NEVER offered a job at ICE. Applicants may receive a Tentative Selection Letter following their initial application and interview that is not a job offer. It just means they are invited to submit information for review, similar to any other applicant."
But Jedeed debunked DHS' claim that she was lying, posting the acceptance letter ICE sent her.
During a January 14 appearance on MS NOW, Jedeed told host Chris Jansing that ICE's hiring process is abysmal — and when they sent her an acceptance letter, they didn't realize she was a journalist who has been a scathing critic of Trump's deportation policy.
"The more you think about it," Jedeed told Jansing, "the worse it gets."
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Yes. How long until all hell breaks loose on us?
Epstein survivors officially ask Inspector General to investigate Pam Bondi's DOJ — David Edwards
Survivors of Jeffrey Epstein have requested that the Department of Justice's Inspector General open an investigation into Attorney General Pam Bondi's failure to release case files on the notorious sex offender in a manner required by law.
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The survivors will have to sue them as they will keep stalling.
'Outraged' immigration official leaks ‘dizzying’ trove of ‘secret’ ICE programs — Alexander Willis
An “outraged” Border Patrol official leaked a “dizzying” trove of “secret programs” being carried out by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, journalist Ken Klippenstein exclusively reported Wednesday, programs that include the deployment of 2,000 “intelligence assets” across the nation and covert attempts to blend in with detained inmates.
The Border Patrol official spoke with Klippenstein on the condition of anonymity, and said they felt compelled to reveal the secret programs due to their frustration with the “absurd amounts of secrecy surrounding the operations, and the utter failure of Congress to make many of them public,” Klippenstein wrote.
Specifically, the official shared with Klippenstein a 15-page document that detailed 21 “major” ICE operations, such as “Operation Benchwarmer,” the aforementioned program that apparently saw the deployment of 2,000 intelligence assets.
“Operation Benchwarmer: Plainclothes agents have been embedded in transport vans, sally ports, processing areas, and detention cells to gather important tactical intelligence and or information,” reads the leaked document, which notes the operation began on April 18, 2025, and is still ongoing.
“Focused on collecting information not normally gained during formal interviews. Operation Benchwarmer has deployed over 2,000 intelligence assets, resulting in more than 2,000 subject contacts, 492 prosecutorial leads, and the identification of 135 stash houses.”
Another operation revealed in the document is “Operation Abracadabra,” one apparently designed to make use of every detained undocumented migrant.
“Operation Abracadabra was initiated with the requirement of interviewing 100% of the individuals apprehended to gather intelligence and identify follow-on targets such as stash houses and individuals conducting illegal activity,” the document reads.
“Tying every individual who crosses the border illegally to a Foreign Terrorist Organization, a Transnational Criminal Organization, and/or utilizing the intelligence to develop targets. Intelligence gathered from subjects in custody is being successfully utilized and acted upon. These efforts are being tracked in e3 and data integrity is critical.”
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Thus setting up ties to an illegal enemy to make criminals of them all. It could happen to all resisters as well.
Prospective hires at US military newspaper 'inappropriately' screened for Trump loyalty — Travis Gettys
The U.S. military newspaper Stars and Stripes is screening job applicants for their support for President Donald Trump's agenda, despite a congressional mandate for the publication's independence.
The newspaper's leadership had been unaware until the Washington Post inquired about the issue this month, but Stars and Stripes ombudsman Jacqueline Smith later confirmed that applicants were being asked about the Trump agenda when applying through the government employment site USAJobs.
“How would you advance the President’s Executive Orders and policy priorities in this role? Identify one or two relevant Executive Orders or policy initiatives that are significant to you, and explain how you would help implement them if hired," applicants are being asked, and Smith said the Office of Personnel Management was responsible for adding the question.
“Asking prospective employees how they would support the administration’s policies is antithetical to Stripes’ journalistic and federally mandated mission,” Smith said. “Journalistically, it’s against ethics, because reporters or any staff member — editors, photographers — should be impartial.”...
Former managing editor D. Earl Stephens, who publishes a column for the Raw Story, agreed the questions undermined the newspaper's mission.
"Stars and Stripes is a Congressionally mandated, editorially independent newspaper that reports on the troops and their families overseas," said Stephens, who served as managing editor from 2003 to 2009. "These readers depend on the newspaper's objective, straight-down-the-middle reporting to improve their daily lives. Truth and facts aren't optional in journalism, and I will hope the leadership at the newspaper makes that crystal clear to this administration."
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This tells us the U.S. military's Office of Personnel Management appears to be infiltrated by Trump Nazis. If so, they have made a mockery their oath "against all enemies both foreign and domestic." But we should all have known this by now.
Louisiana indicts California doctor who prescribed abortion pill in telehealth appointment —- Greg Larose, Louisiana Illuminator
...Louisiana became the first state to set criminal penalties for anyone who handles mifepristone and misoprostol without proper clearance. Offenses can be punished by one to 50 years in prison, depending on the circumstances.
The indictment, handed down Jan. 8 in St. Tammany Parish, follows an arrest warrant for Coeytaux issued in May 2024 for allegedly mailing abortion pills to a patient in Louisiana.
“This is not healthcare; it’s drug dealing,” Murrill said in a news release. “Individuals who flagrantly and intentionally violate our laws by sending illegal abortion pills into our state placing women in danger. We’ve seen the proof of that, with women showing up in emergency rooms after taking these pills and being coerced into abortions.”
Coeytaux did not immediately respond to a message left at his office phone number, and a representative with the Center for Reproductive Rights responded to an email sent to Coeytaux’s office. The organization represents Coeytaux in a separate civil lawsuit.
“These allegations are just that: allegations. As such, they are unproven and should not be reported as fact …” Nancy Northup, the center’s president and CEO, said in a statement. “While we can’t comment on this matter itself, one thing is clear — the state of Louisiana is going after doctors for allegedly harming women, yet they are enforcing an abortion ban that puts women’s lives at risk every day. Women continue to die from being denied abortion care.
“Abortion pills are widely used and incredibly safe, including when provided via telehealth. However, women should be able to get safe and legal abortion care in their own state. Thousands of women seek abortion pills via mail every year because abortion is banned in their state, and that will not change until abortion is legal everywhere.”...
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Do they still live in caves in Louisiana? Sounds like they do.
'Baby got himself a bruise': DHS faces scrutiny over ICE agent 'internal bleeding' claim — David Edwards
Department of Homeland Security officials faced calls to produce medical records after claiming to multiple media outlets that Jonathan Ross, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who shot Renee Good, was suffering from internal bleeding.
According to CBS News, DHS officials did not respond to requests for additional information about Ross' condition.
"The most common type of visible internal bleeding is a bruise," the Cleveland Clinic's website advises. "A bruise is skin discoloration from damaged, leaking blood vessels underneath your skin. Even though there's blood pooling underneath your skin, you won't have any external bleeding unless your skin breaks open."
The point was not lost on the internet, where people called out Trump administration officials.
"Internal bleeding could mean a lot of things; could be as simple as a nasty bruise," one doctor noted.
"I stand with ICE and believe Jonathan Ross was justified in what he was doing but I will say internal bleeding to the torso could just be a bruise FROM WHEN SHE HIT HIM WITH HER CAR," Brent Mohrman wrote.
"ICE agent's 'internal bleeding' is Orwell-speak for a bruise," Christina Davidson remarked.
"And yet he was taken to the hospital and released the same day so basically by internal bleeding they are saying that the poor baby got himself a bruise," another commenter asserted.
"I'm an ice supporter. Don't call a bruise internal bleeding though. That's not manly," a conservative user complained.
"I like ICE, but bro barely got tapped and now has a reported bruise. My opinion: he didn't need to shoot her, especially not the two extra through the side window. Nor did shooting her help the situation," another ICE supporter said.
"Sounds almost as awful as being SHOT POINT BLANK IN THE FACE 3 TIMES," a liberal commenter quipped.
"You better have some demonstrative proof that that actually happened, or expect to be viewed as lying," a commenter named Mr. Eddie told ABC News. "Your credibility is at risk."
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Nazis are really piss poor at lying.
We Make Our Own Monsters — Jonathan V. Last
Before we start, three small updates about the Nazi stuff.
(1) Yesterday, ICE prosecutor James Rodden returned to the courthouse. Who is James Rodden? Steven Monacelli at the Texas Observer unmasked him last year as the operator of the X account GlomarResponder. Here’s Monacelli’s description of Rodden’s account:
The account has over 17,000 followers and has routinely posted hateful statements, including that “America is a White nation,” that “‘Migrants’ are all criminals,” and that “All blacks are foreign to my people,” in addition to posts with apparent praise of Adolf Hitler.
I encourage you to click through and read the whole story, as well as this earlier Observer report on Rodden. Monacelli snapped a photo of Maj. Arnold Ernst Toht Rodden as he arrived at the courthouse yesterday.
(2) Speaking of which, over on r/thebulwark someone posted a picture of Greg Bovino from a photo shoot he did with CNN last October. I had never seen this portrait before. Have a look and click through for the hi-res version.
(photo is of stubby little Nazi boy.)
You cannot tell me that the Obergruppenführer look is an accident. On the other hand, great to see that DHS has the money to get Hugo Boss designing formal topcoats.
Hero Auto Worker Gives Trump Respect He's Earned (By Calling Him A Pedo Protector) — Evan Hurst
Some heroes don’t wear capes. Some of them wear whatever United Auto Workers Local 600 guys at the Ford Rouge Center plant in Dearborn, Michigan, wear. Probably some kind of pants!
And that is more courage than literally every member of the deballed White House Press Corps or most of the American sports world or all the actors on Sunday night who couldn’t muster up the strength to say something about the onset of the Fourth Reich at the Golden Globes, and so many others. It’s Renee Good courage.
TJ Sabula is 40 years old and works at that Ford plant. And Trump was waddling by within earshot, a mere 60 feet away. So he screamed something something “PEDOPHILE PROTECTOR”! And ohhhhhhhh, Trump was mad, because he’s a little bitch, and he is carefully kept from hearing from the great majority of Americans who hate him and consider his very disgusting body a waste of carbon, ohhhhhhh so mad. So Trump flipped the guy off with his tiny, tiny, tiniest middle finger, and mouthed “fuck you.”
Big man. Big maaaaaaan. And so presidential!
Poor TJ Sabula has been suspended from his job, because we guess his bosses at the Ford plant are bootlickers who love the taste of Trump’s asshole in the morning. (Ford fascist during a very Hitlerian time? You don’t say!)
But NO RAGRETS:
“As far as calling him out, definitely no regrets whatsoever,” Sabula said, though he added that he is concerned about the future of his job and believes he has been “targeted for political retribution” for “embarrassing Trump in front of his friends.”
TJ Sabula, we are pretty sure there’ll be a GoFundMe with your name on it, should it become necessary. (Oh wait, did we way will be? More like here it is.)
Sabula explained that sometimes you just have to seize the day:
“I don’t feel as though fate looks upon you often, and when it does, you better be ready to seize the opportunity,” Sabula said. “And today I think I did that.”
Yes he damn did.
And because Grandpa Dementia Diapers is deteriorating by the day, while also en-Hitler-ing himself by the day, and building what’s probably in reality a Hitler bunker under where the East Wing used to be, it’s not often that he just comes in earshot of an American who isn’t a worthless, vile sycophant, somebody who’s willing to hold up a mirror and tell Trump what the world sees when we gaze upon his disgusting, ugly visage. So this guy did what everybody who is ever in that situation should do.
You would do it.
Oooooh, you are so jealous right now.
Could This Be What the End of a Would-Be Dictatorship Looks Like? — Thom Hartmann
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair…”
—Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
They’re doubling down because they know their time is limited.
Their attempt to turn America into a Russia-like police state is suddenly failing, and a reckoning is coming. Trump and his lickspittles look at the horizon and see mushroom clouds rising against a red sky, suggesting their season of power and brutality is about to turn on them.
As Mike Brock notes over at his excellent Notes from the Circus newsletter:
“The United States is experiencing the greatest political emergency since the Civil War. Right now.”
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We are, in fact, in Civil War against Trump and his criminals who have usurped America.
Trump's attack on Iran 'could come in the next 24 hours': Reuters — David Edwards
...Trump has suggested he would attack Iran if the country's regime continues to kill protesters. Over 2,000 protesters had been killed in the anti-government demonstrations, one Iranian official said....
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He'll bomb Iran for their killing of protesters but protects the murderers who kill a woman that wasn't even protesting?
WTF is wrong with this picture, America?
Dismay as FBI raids home of Washington Post reporter who covers Trump -- Julia Conley, Common Dreams
A press freedom group on Wednesday accused the Trump administration of a “disturbing escalation” in its “war on the First Amendment” after the FBI executed a search warrant at the home of a Washington Post journalist who has extensively covered President Donald Trump’s attempts to gut the federal workforce.
FBI agents reportedly conducted a search early Wednesday morning at the Virginia home of Hannah Natanson as part of an investigation into a federal contractor who is accused of illegally retaining classified documents.
“If true, this would be a serious violation of press freedom,” said the Freedom of the Press Foundation in a social media post.
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America, Trump is stealing our freedom. He is the head criminal who must be brought to justice.
ICE protester permanently blinded after feds shoot him point blank with 'nonlethal weapon' — Travis Gettys
A protester claims immigration agents taunted and laughed at him after blinding him by firing a non-lethal weapon directly at his face at close range during a confrontation in southern California.
Video shows a Homeland Security agent grab a protester and drag them away, and then another federal officer fires a non-lethal weapon point blank at 21-year-old Kaden Rummler as he steps forward from the group holding a megaphone, reported the Los Angeles Times.
The demonstrators had gathered Friday outside a federal building in Santa Ana to protest the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Renee Good two days before in Minneapolis by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer.
Rummler was permanently blinded in his left eye, he told the newspaper, and he said his tear duct was destroyed and the “flaps of my eye are barely holding on."...
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We are now seeing what real Nazi Gestapo violent brutality can do to Americans. This must be stopped by ANY MEANS necessary.
DOJ said to be undercutting huge fraud probe with MAGA act: 'Hurting the investigation — DOJ said to be undercutting huge fraud probe with MAGA act: 'Hurting the investigation — Alexander Willis
The Justice Department’s most recent criminal probe into the widow of a Minnesota woman killed by a federal immigration officer may very well compromise the agency’s efforts to prosecute alleged fraud in the state, a backfiring that The New Republic’s Greg Sargent described Wednesday as the “perfect encapsulation of MAGA.”
Renee Good was killed last week by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Jonathan Ross, a killing that has sparked calls for Ross to face murder charges but has been fiercely defended by the Trump administration. Good’s widow, Becca Good, soon became the target of the DOJ for her alleged ties to “activist groups.”
However, the DOJ’s targeting of Becca Good has been met with backlash among senior federal prosecutors, several of whom abruptly resigned, including Joseph Thompson, who oversaw the DOJ’s investigation into alleged fraud. That mass exodus of prosecutors, Sargent said in The New Republic’s “Daily Blast” podcast Wednesday, is now poised to undercut what has been the Trump administration’s latest fixation....
We're missing this key detail about the killing of Renee Nicole Good — John Stoehr
“Get the f--- outta the car,” says the officer, who is not Ross.
Then he tries to open her door.
That’s the small detail I’m talking about and here’s the reason it has stayed with me. I have been pulled over a few times in my life — for speeding or turning right on a red light when I should not have. But I cannot recall a time when the police officer tried to open my door.
Forget about swearing at me. That’s never happened either. But no law enforcement officer has communicated to me a hint of physical aggression, even when I deserved it (a story for another time). I don’t mean speaking sternly. I mean with his body — like he intends to hurt me. That’s surely the message received by Renee Nicole Good.
There’s another thing about this detail worth dwelling on.
The fact that I have never experienced a police officer who has communicated to me a hint of physical aggression is due, at least in part, to the fact that I am white. I’m also a man. A white man in a country that was built for white men can live his whole life in blissful ignorance of state violence experienced by nonwhite counterparts.
I bring this up, because I wonder about the role of Renee Nicole Good’s race in her experience of the ICE officer acting like he’s gonna hurt her. As I said, he strides over to her, and tries to open her door. (It’s locked.)
What did she feel? It must have been a shock.
To even the wokest white person, violence by the state is still mostly theoretical. We might believe it’s true. We might trust Black people and other people of color are speaking truthfully about their experience. We might see videos online. But we don’t know what it feels like.
What I’m trying to say is that it makes sense to me if Renee Nicole Good experienced panic on two levels at the same time. Once, because here’s a “cop” trying to open her door, acting like he’s gonna hurt her. Twice, because the abstractions of white power were suddenly real.
I would have panicked, too.
She was right to be afraid. As she focused on the ICE officer cussing her out and trying to open her door, something that I’m pretty sure she had never experienced before, ICE officer Jonathan Ross took a position in front of her car, as she was backing up. Before moving forward, she turned the wheel to the right to avoid him. That’s when Ross crouched, aimed and fired, first through the windshield, then the open window.
Ross’s defenders want us to believe the fear felt by Renee Nicole Good doesn’t count. The only fear that counts is Ross’s. They say he believed she would have killed him. They say he was justified in killing her.
It’s that classic closed-circuit logic.
“It's so f------ convenient that they get to ‘fear for their lives’ anytime they want to absolve themselves of anything,” said writer Luke O’Neil, “and when we actually fear for our lives because of them and do anything a scared person would do it's justification for our death.”
It’s also ridiculous.
“The obvious critique I have not heard explicitly articulated is that the point of making a self-defense argument would be saying ‘but for’ his shooting her, she would have killed him,” said Jonathan Kahn, a law professor at Northeastern. “Clearly, had he not shot her, the outcome for him would have been just the same — ie, no threat to his life.”
The irony is that Renee Nicole Good did not seem afraid of Ross. That’s clear from the video that Ross took during the shooting and that he leaked afterward to a sympathetic media outlet. He released it in the apparent belief that it proves he acted in self-defense. It doesn’t.
...Perhaps the most shocking thing, according to David Lurie, an attorney who writes for Public Notice, is what all this says about dissent.
Ross’s defenders argue that his video proves Renee Nicole Good and her spouse, Rebecca Good, were a threat in that they “were not fans of ICE and were in fact protesting the thugs’ activities,” David told me.
In other words, their dissent was a threat. If Ross and his defenders actually believe that, David told me, “that is also deeply creepy.”
“It is effectively a declaration that dissent merits death.”
...That is also deeply creepy, because it is effectively a declaration that dissent merits death....
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Read it again - "...a declaration that dissent merits death." This is not America. We should all know this.
ICE is not a group of police. ICE is a group of gun thngs that Trump brought upon us. The video is damning of the escalation by the gun thugs. Any other view is simply denial and shielding of a murder by a gang member.
DHS responds to Joe Rogan's 'Gestapo' concerns with a 'very straightforward' reply — David Edwards
Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin declined to deny that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers were behaving as the "Gestapo" after podcast Joe Rogan raised the concern.
During a Wednesday interview on Fox News, host Dana Perino noted that Rogan compared ICE to the Nazi Gestapo on a recent podcast.
"Joe Rogan, he's got questions about what's happening," Perino said, "and it's probably echoing what many people are thinking."
"How would the department respond to that concern that he raised?" she wondered.
"Well, this answer is very straightforward," McLaughlin replied. "If Tim Walz, if Mayor Frey, would let us in their jails, we wouldn't have to be there at all."
"Because we don't have state and local law enforcement's help, we do have to have a physical presence," she continued. "And I know in the interview as well, and what Joe Rogan just mentioned is the rampant crime we found, more than $9 billion. And we believe that's just the tip of the iceberg."
"If the state and local government would help there, if they would coordinate with the FBI, if they would coordinate with Homeland Security investigations, we would, on an expedited basis, be finding that fraud."
During his Tuesday podcast, Rogan acknowledged that ICE's militarization was problematic.
"You don't want militarized people in the streets," he remarked, "just roaming around, snatching people up, many of which turn out to actually be U.S. citizens that just don't have their papers on them? Are we really going to be the Gestapo? Where's your papers? Is that what we've come to?"
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Yet another Nazi bimbo acting as if the local law enforcement doesn't know law. We know who the traitors are, dearie!
DOJ: “No Basis” For Charges Against Killer ICE Agent
"The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command... and if all others accepted the lie, which the party imposed, if all records told the same tale, then the lie passed into history and became truth." (George Orwell, 1984)
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2 + 2 = 5. America, you are learning this equation well.
Still don't believe there's a Trump Crime Syndicate? I've got some great land deals for you in Lower Suckerobia, all you marks out there! LMAO!
DOJ Investigates Slotkin Over “Illegal Orders” Video
Someday soon our military will grow weary of the illegal orders they carry out.
Senator Elissa Slotkin of Michigan is an American patriot!
A perversion of power by the Trump Crime Syndicate!
Trump: Not Taking Over Greenland Is “Unacceptable”
Greenland is a NATO member. They are a nuclear power. As such, Greenland is protected against agressors like Trump. Trump is a nitwit fool if he doesn't know this.
FDA Deletes Warning About Scam “Autism Therapies”
...But, under anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.—who has numerous ties to the wellness industry—that FDA information webpage is now gone. It was quietly deleted at the end of last year, the Department of Health and Human Services confirmed to Ars Technica.
The defunct webpage, titled “Be Aware of Potentially Dangerous Products and Therapies that Claim to Treat Autism,” provided parents and other consumers with an overview of the problem. The list included chelation and hyperbaric oxygen therapy, treatments that those in the anti-vaccine and wellness spheres have championed.
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Kennedy is as deadly as rat poison. Same goes for his supporters.
DHS Continues Spree Of Nazi Slogans And Even Fonts
Sharing an Instagram photo on Monday (Jan. 12) of U.S. Department of Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem addressing press a few days ago, the Rage Against the Machine musician accused her of standing behind a podium that displayed a “verbatim” quote of a “Nazi mass murder slogan” on the front. The exact phrase printed on the podium was, “One of ours, all of yours.”
“Coined when an SS officer was killed and the Nazis murdered every male resident of the village in response,” Morello claimed. “If there are any MAGA left after THIS, you have made an irrevocable choice.” --Tom Morello.
The phrase “one of ours, all of yours” recently appeared on Department of Homeland Security podiums. It’s a line from Nazi Germany that meant when an SS officer was killed by a member of the resistance, the Nazis killed every single resident of that village as payback. - D.J. Grothe (X)
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All of Trump's thugs are Nazis.
Greg Bovino Likens ICE Protesters To “Cannon Fodder”
“That rhetoric does cause the violence. We’ve heard those elected representatives say some very terrible things about law enforcement, about federal agents, and that’s reflected in what you see by that vocal minority out on the streets. And they actually take what those elected representatives say, and they put it into action. And that’s too bad, because they’re being set up. They’re almost like cannon fodder.” — Little Heinrich Müller
"Remember the video of itsy bitsy, teeny weeny Greg Bovino being escorted from the men's room at Target by armed guards?
Good times!" -- amy cuscuriae (comments)
"Some of the best people are saying that it took all those men to find his it’s, Betsy, teeny weeny dick." — Anastasia Beaverhousen (comments)
"A staggering 73% percent of ICE arrests have no criminal background and are put in detention. Only 5-8% have criminal convictions. How many ICE recruits have criminal convictions?" — Jay Solversmith (comments)
"Seems like that statement could be useful in a civil lawsuit. Keep yapping, buddy." — Philip Gaylord (comments)
"It really won't be hard to turn ICE Gestapo agents into cannon fodder from an elevated distance." — Thewolflam (comments)
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I think he's threatening me. I think he's threatening Americans. Little Nazi Heinrich Müller will get what's coming to him.
Trump: “My Power Is Only Limited By My High Morality” -- Daily Beast
The president claimed that the newly minted CBS Evening News anchor probably wouldn’t have a job if Kamala Harris had won the November 2024 election, because the economy would have suffered.
“If she got in, you probably wouldn’t have a job right now. Your boss, who’s an amazing guy, might be bust,” he told Dokoupil, referring to Paramount CEO and Trump pal David Ellison. “You wouldn’t have this job—certainly whatever the hell they’re paying you.”
"Translation: "I have no morals. At all." -- Beto (comments)
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Trump is as moral as sulphuric acid. "International commerce of sulfuric acid is controlled under the United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances, 1988, which lists sulfuric acid under Table II of the convention as a chemical frequently used in the illicit manufacture of narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances." — Wikipediia.
Renee Good And The Big Lie About “Absolute Immunity” — Cliff Schecter
Vance’s declaration is not merely wrong; it is ludicrous. There is no such doctrine in American law. None. It exists only in the fever dreams of fascist wannabes...
From Blue Amp Media and the brilliant mind of David Shuster:
President Trump, whose relationship with the truth is practically non-existent, declared the deceased woman had been “a professional agitator,” “a radical,” and that she had run over the ICE agent and deserved to be shot. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, a politician whose chief qualification appears to be an unshakable devotion to theatrical cruelty, upped the ante, branding the incident “domestic terrorism.”
But the real jewel in this crown of Trump administration insanity belongs to Vice President J. D. Vance. He announced with great solemnity that federal law-enforcement officers enjoy “absolute immunity.” Vance’s declaration is not merely wrong; it is ludicrous. There is no such doctrine in American law. None.
It exists only in the fever dreams of fascist wannabes who mistake their own wishes for jurisprudence.
Trump’s policies have cost the auto industry a staggering $25 billion so far — Sarah K. Burris
"Ford Motor has mothballed production of the all-electric version of its flagship F-150 pickup truck, and last month announced a $19.5 billion charge related to restructuring its E.V. business," Saporito wrote. "General Motors, citing the loss of tax incentives for E.V. buyers and laxer pollution regulations, switched production at its Orion, Mich., plant from E.V.s to full-size S.U.V.s and pickups powered by internal combustion engines (ICE, in industry parlance). In doing so, G.M. last week announced that it was taking a $6 billion loss in the fourth quarter — on top of a similar $1.6 billion hit the quarter before."
Ultimately, Trump has cost automakers $25 billion in losses.
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Ford knows this yet they cut off their nose to spite their face.
Worker Trump flipped off has now been suspended — Ben Solis, Michigan Advance
A union-backed auto worker at Ford Motor Co. was suspeded for his action.
A representative from the UAW told Michigan Advance that they could confirm that he was suspended but the length of the suspension was unknown. The union was also uncertain about the process that would follow to investigate the matter.
In a statement to the Advance, White House communications director Steven Cheung called the worker “a lunatic” who was “wildly screaming expletives in a complete fit of rage.”
“When you’re on a factory floor with union members that have strong feelings, you need to be prepared for whatever they’re gonna say, and I hope they’re not firing him because I believe in free speech,” Dingell said in an interview. “The UAW worker was expressing his right to free speech, and I’m asking questions as to what has happened.”
“The real question is: Why does the mere mention of Epstein set him off?”
“The worker could have said anything, but this worker felt compelled to say you’re protecting a pedophile. I feel very strongly that Ford Motor Company is sending a message that people can’t stand up for sexual abuse survivors,” Tlaib said.
"Finally someone had the guts to get directly to Trump's ear without filters to call out the allegations of his participation or knowledge of the pedophile 'services' of Epstein. He (is) and should be a seen as a hero. Unfortunately Ford Co. needs to keep the vindictive Trump happy or risk losing billions in tax and deregulation benefits. The UAW is more concerned with keeping in or returning jobs to the USA of their fellow union workers so also don't want to anger Trump. Lets not forget the sick history of founder Henry Ford on the off-duty behaviors of their workers, his extreme antisemitism and violence as to unionization in the first half of the 20th Century. I am quite sure Ford Co. has some kind of HR rule that will be twisted to be used on the worker to can him and the union won't support the worker." — leonbnj (comments)
"So Ford gets down on its knees and worships a pedophile felon so he can feel like a big man.
Shame on all of them.
Epstein Epstein Epstein." — Ant Helios (comments)
"“Suspended “ for heckling Trump? Give him a promotion and a massive raise and stock option.
The only sad part is that there wasn’t an employee that was suicidal and or experiencing stage four cancer." — ?????????? (comments)
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We know the Epstein answer.
Ford will be boycotted as they should be. They are barely in business anyway.
Steven Cheung can take gas.
Fuck Trump ten times over! We have a First Amendment! And he does, undeniably, protect pedophiles.
What's your damn problem, Ford (Fix-Or-Repair-Daily)?
'Disgrace': Furor as Pete Hegseth's Pentagon partners with Elon Musk — Nicole Charky-Chami
Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and the owner of the social media app X, has faced a mountain of outrage in recent weeks as his platform’s artificial intelligence chatbot “Grok” has been used to generate sexualized deepfake images of non-consenting women and children, and Musk himself has embraced open white nationalism.
But none of this seems to be of particular concern to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Despite the swirl of scandal, he announced on Monday that Musk’s chatbot would be given intimate access to reams of military data as part of what the department described as its new “AI acceleration strategy.”
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When will America's military stand up to these domestic tyrants?
Whistleblower drops 'largest ever' ICE leak to unmask agents: 'The last straw'
A Department of Homeland Security whistleblower has released the identities of about 4,500 ICE and Border Patrol employees Tuesday in what has been called potentially the largest agency data breach for the department.
The killing of 37-year-old mother Renee Nicole Good by ICE agent Jonathan Ross last week in Minneapolis has prompted the leak of personnel date to the ICE List, an online database created to promote accountability by the masked federal agents, according to a report from The Daily Beast.
The onslaught of national outrage reportedly led to the major leak.
“It is a sign that people aren’t happy within the U.S. government, clearly. The shooting [of Good] was the last straw for many people," Dominick Skinner, ICE list founder, told The Beast.
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Your little masks won't save you now!
America belongs to its people! All power to the people! Trump does not represent the people!
More prosecutors resign as DOJ orders investigation of Renee Good's widow
A half dozen federal prosecutors resigned over a Department of Justice push to investigate the widow of a woman killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer.
Six federal prosecutors in Minnesota who had been leading the sprawling fraud probe that prompted the recent immigration crackdown quit their posts Tuesday over DOJ's focus on investigating the wife of 37-year-old Renee Good rather than the ICE agent who shot and killed her, reported the New York Times.
"The stated reason for ICE agents being in Minnesota is because of the ongoing fraud claims around daycare and other services," noted British journalist James Ball, political editor for The New World. "The two prosecutors leading those investigations have now resigned in the wake of Renee Good’s shooting. Even the internal supposed logic of this deployment is falling apart."
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The evil in the DOJ is stunning!
We Tried To Send These Tabs Without A Headline! Tabs, Tues., Jan. 13, 2026 — Evan Hurst
Minneapolis, St. Paul and the state of Minnesota have sued the shit out of the Department of Homeland Security for its daily terror attacks against the Security of the Twin Cities part of the “Homeland.” [press release]
Oh boo hoo hoo! ICE Nazis and terrorists are reportedly very scared of backlash, now that they’ve started murdering US citizen mommies in the streets and people seem kinda PO-ed about it! So while Nazi Puppykiller Barbie is bragging that she’s going to surge more fed thugs into Minneapolis, sounds like not many fed thugs actually want to volunteer for the assignment. An excerpt:
“There might be some immature knuckleheads who think they are out there trying to capture Nicolas Maduro, but most field officers see a clear need for deescalation,” a high level career official at Homeland Security headquarters in Washington also told me. “There is genuine fear that indeed ICE’s heavy handedness and the rhetoric from Washington is more creating a condition where the officers’ lives are in danger rather than the other way around.”
STAY IN THE STREETS IN EVERY CITY. Obviously don’t do anything to hurt an ICE Nazi! Renee Good certainly didn’t. But stay in the fucking streets and keep telling those losers God never loved them and neither did their dads. [Ken Klippenstein]
Meanwhile, here’s some more highly trained behavior from Donald Trump’s Gestapo:...
Trumpland Uber Alles — Jaime O’Neill
"Strength lies not in defense but in attack."
—Hitler
"Power is the great aphrodisiac."
—Henry Kissinger.
"The broad mass of a nation...will more easily fall victim to a big lie than a small one."
—Hitler, again
"The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun."
—Buckminister Fuller
"I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and not lose voters."
—Donald Trump, 2016
"There were good people on both sides."
—Trump again, on Charlottesville
I spent an above average amount of time wondering how the German people could have been persuaded to support Hitler, or the Italians to support Mussolini, or the Spaniards could support Franco. And how could the Soviet Union support Stalin as he starved the Ukraine. Hell, I was even puzzled by how Americans could support Nixon, or Reagan or George W. Bush, a certifiable dipshit.
But like so many others, my jaw dropped when we elected Donald Trump. I've hardly been able to close my mouth since. What could so many of our fellow citizens have been thinking? I still don't believe that first Trump win was a legit election, nor that the last one was....
You Could Be Next — Robert Reich
If agents of the federal government can murder a 37-year-old woman in broad daylight who, as videotapes show, was merely trying to get out of their way, they can murder you.
Even if Trump and his vice president and his secretary of homeland security all claim, contrary to the videotapes, that Renee Macklin Good was trying to kill an agent who acted in self-defense, they could make up the same about you.
Even if Trump describes her as a “professional agitator” and his goons call her a “domestic terrorist,” they could say the same about you regardless of your political views or activism. If you have left-wing political views and are an activist, you’re in greater danger....
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The same as our founding fathers were. "...And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor." — Declaration of Independence
They didn't hesitate to take up arms agains tyranny!
How Many Democracies Must Fall Before We Admit Trump and Putin Want the Same Outcome? — Thom Hartmann
This past week, Donald Trump demanded that the Pentagon produce an invasion plan for Greenland, an action that would have world-changing consequences to the benefit of Putin and the detriment of Europe, democracy, and America. He followed that by suggesting that Marco Rubio should be the next president of Cuba, the same way Putin had promised his generals and oligarchs that they could have Ukraine.
Step-by-step it appears that Donald Trump is trying to turn America into Russia. We saw the latest and most gruesome example this weekend as Kristi Noem — who shot her puppy in the face and then bragged about it — went on national TV to defend Jonathan Ross shooting Nicole Good in the face for being a “fuckin’ bitch.”
What’s becoming increasingly clear to Americans — which is why so many millions were in the streets this weekend — is that Trump is trying to use ICE as his own private version of the Schutzstaffel (SS), a secret, unchallengeable police force loyal to him rather than the law, whose job is to terrify and pacify the population so they won’t object to having their pockets picked and their freedom taken....
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I'll take a wild guess and say as many as it takes to get the fools to see it!
Young Americans Are Turning Antisemitic
"Youth is wasted on the wrong people." -- It's a Wonderful Life, Frank Capra
Tim Miller: People Don't Like This Insanity — Tim Miller
Tim Miller joined Nicolle Wallace on Deadline: White House to discuss why the killing of Renee Good—and the administration’s decision to release the video—may be a political turning point. What was supposed to project strength instead exposes a strategy that alienates swing voters, activates non-activists, and turns immigration from a GOP advantage into a liability....
The Nazi Slogans Are Not an Accident — Jonathan V. Last
1. Numbers
During the 2024 campaign, Donald Trump promised to deport every illegal immigrant who was a rapist, murderer, or thief. He also promised to deport 20 million immigrants. Some voters believed the first promise; other voters believed the second.
Because people are stupid, that first group of voters believed that there were 20 million undocumented immigrants who have committed felonies. This is not possible. The total number of people in jail in America today—this includes federal, state, local, and tribal land prisons—is just under 2 million. The number of undocumented immigrants who have committed serious crimes cannot be 10x the entire prison population of the United States. If it were, then daily life in America would look like Escape from New York.
So some Trump voters were duped owing to their general ignorance and/or innumeracy.
But others were not. Others signed up for Trump because of his second promise (the 20 million deportations) and viewed the first promise (about deporting only criminals) as the pap necessary to get the suckers onboard.
There are two crucial questions about these two groups. The first is:
What is their relative size? What percentage of Republican voters were tricked into voting for Trump’s immigration policies versus what percentage are getting exactly what they wanted?
Would you like to guess? Go ahead. I promise that whatever you’re thinking, it isn’t dark enough....
Jon Stewart Tracks Trump’s Swing from Jan. 6 Riot Spin to ‘New World’ of ‘Forced Compliance’ After ICE Shooting
Clearly showing the rotted capacity of what's left of Trump's sense of reason.
Bari Weiss Helped Cause Tony Dokoupil’s Viral Teleprompter Gaffe by Tinkering With Script Minutes Before CBS Debut: NYT
The Peter Principal at work. They deserve their failure!
MS NOW’s Rachel Maddow Taunts Trump Over Blizzard of Defeats: ‘Losing All the Time and Everywhere!’
On Monday night’s edition of MS NOW’s The Rachel Maddow Show, the host ticked through the latest of them. She then gloated that Trump “is losing all the time and everywhere now”:
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A loser is all he's ever been or will be.
Fox Anchor Says Trump Admin Is ‘Backing Away’ From Powell Probe as Guest Calls It a ‘Big Unforced Error’
Mr. Bungle is at it again. He is a total loser!
Comer Vows To Hold Clintons In Contempt
Subpoena your criminal president, you fucking idiot clown!
Trump: Scott Adams Was Fantastic, He Respected Me
"As always with Trump, everything is all about him. Even someone’s passing." -- DevilDog (comments)
"Especially someone's passing. That dead person is trying to get attention that rightfully belongs to Donald Trump!" -- Judas Peckerwood (comments)
"Looking forward to pedo's passing which is long over due." — Chris (comments)
"And yet when Adams begged you for access to a new medication, you ignored his plea and let him die. It’s the perfect example of how you “help” your MAGA cult. You’ll let them suffer & die too, as you remain oblivious to it all." — Uncle Mark's Mugshot (comments)
"And now he's dead. As dead as Charlie. And we're hoping for you too." — Ed B (comments)
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It's all about Trump, the ancient fucking fool.
Labor Dept Statistics: Prices Rose 2.7% In December
The criminal fraud is still at large, America!
Man Planning to Raise Adopted Children With AI Girlfriend as Their Mother
The "alternative universe" disease.
We Could Have Told You, Pam. Everything Trump Touches Dies!
"The Mango Mudpie has complained to aides repeatedly in recent weeks about Pam Bondi, describing her as weak and an ineffective enforcer of his agenda, administration officials and other people familiar with his complaints said. And you know how he hates anything weak!"
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Which is why he hates himself.
Pentagon Painted Plane To Look Like Civilian Aircraft For Bombing Venezuelan Boat
The Pentagon no longer looks like the United States. More like a terrorist organization.
ICE’s threat was there from the beginning
"Homeland security" has become the repressive domestic police force we were warned about
Little Napoleon Praises Killer ICE Agent: “Hats Off”
"So he like head shots...we should give him one." — Thewolflam (comments)
"Your day will come, firing squad at dawn . No tears from me!"— Dwight Williamson (comments)
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Nazi uniform, Nazi haircut, Head Nazi of ICE killers!
Can't wait for his number to come up.
At Least Four Top DOJ Officials Resign After Being Told That Civil Rights Division Won’t Investigate ICE Killing
"They know that when the shit hits the fan, they don’t want to end up as defenders in the Nuremberg trials
—Todd20036
"some people have character
just not anyone in the Republican Party" — QJ (comments)
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Trump's Nazi killers prove they are murderers and are the country's enemy!
Poll: Only 28% Say Killing By ICE Agent Was “Justified”
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Note where you find the Nazi killing co-conspirators! Republican MAGA Nazis!
Fascism Kills, In Caracas & Minneapolis
5 yrs ago they attacked the Capitol. 150+ police hospitalized. 5 died due to sedition. If you can’t see a connection, you don’t get fascism. Fascism is violence because ya feel like it. Stealing property because ya feel like it. Doing whatever the hell you want because ya don’t care...
They didn’t care about Rosa Elena Gonzalez whose apartment they blew to smithereens in Caracas. She’ll never take another breath. Her family’s lost her forever. They don’t care about Renee Good, whom ICEr Jonathan Ross shot in the face—executed. I’m glad to hear Minneapolis leaders telling ICE to get the hell out. I’m glad investigations are being discussed.
But Dems—state AGs, city DAs—wherever you are: start arresting them. They are breaking state laws. They are violating due process. They are masking their identities. They are smashing windows. They are throwing pregnant women to the ground.
Arrest them....
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Goddam right, arrest them. And if they start shooting, return with heavier fire toward them!
Top DOJ officials resign in protest over Trump administration’s handling of fatal shooting
Kristen Clarke, who led the Civil Rights Division under former President Joe Biden, told the Post, "Investigating officials to determine if they broke the law, defied policy, failed to deescalate, and resorted to deadly force without basis is one of the Civil Rights Division’s most solemn duties. Prosecutors of the Civil Rights Division have, for decades, been the nation's leading experts in this work."
https://www.alternet.org/renee-good-doj/
Leaked documents reveal desperate push for federal agents as rank-and-file buck orders
"There might be some immature knuckleheads who think they are out there trying to capture Nicolas Maduro, but most field officers see a clear need for deescalation," one source Klippenstein described as a "high-level career official at Homeland Security headquarters in Washington" said.
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Some of these gun thugs are looking over their shoulders now.
In Renee Good’s killing, ICE’s misogyny isn’t a side note—it’s the point
The words of the man who shot Renee Good speak to the Trump administration's fixation on masculinity
None of them can be called a man. They are all DEVO!
Trump: Renee Good Was “Highly Disrespectful” To ICE
Being disrespectful is not a fucking crime and it doesn’t warrant being shot three times in the face.
FUCK ICE! FUCK TRUMP!
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"You, you little shit, are highly disrespectful to Canada, Panama, Colombia, Greenland and everyone else.
Time to give you some treatment.
Fuck trump." — JackFknTwist (comments)
"Hey asshole! We have the right to be disrespectful to law enforcement, especially the ICE thugs you call law enforcement officers. So fuck the fuck off, you worthless fat son of a bitch and get an aneurysm." — Kruhn (comments)
"A summary execution is NOT the appropriate response to being disrespected.
His obit is long overdue." — Karl Dubhe IV (comments)
"Fuck ICE and Fuck Trump may he drop dead today...When he does the world will party like it never has." — Thewolflam (comments)
Trump Regrets Not Seizing Voting Machines In 2020
Throw this traitor in prison where he belongs!
The Home of the Brave has become the Land of the Coward!
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"I regret that the Secret Service won't act against a domestic enemy to your Constitution." — Karl Dubhe IV (comments)
"I regret not going back in time and smothering him in his crib." — Thewolflam (comments)
(Editor's note: What makes you think it's too late? He still sleeps in a crib when the child sleeps!)
"There you go! Just what I expected. He's getting ready to steal the elections using voting machines rigging and/or seizing them. His gerrymandering is not working out as planned so he's enabling plan 'B', making votes disappear and adding fake ones." — Cel (comments)
Trump “Inclined” To Keep Exxon Out Of Venezuela Because CEO Got “Cute” With Him During WH Meeting
"President Donald Trump said Sunday that he is “inclined” to keep ExxonMobil out of Venezuela after its top executive was skeptical about oil investment efforts in the country after the toppling of former President Nicolás Maduro. “I didn’t like Exxon’s response,” Trump said to reporters on Air Force One as he departed West Palm Beach, Florida. “They’re playing too cute.”
What an ignorant and deadly insane being Trump is.
"Trump is not just a dictator but a megalomaniac, one who takes every disagreement as a personal challenge to his omnipotent power.
Trump is fucking crazy.
Fuck Trump, - the child rapist.
Kirkspeak: 'Prove me wrong'." — JackFknTwist (comments)
"Trumpy doesn't like it when a truly smart person disagrees with his stupid ideas and makes him look like the fucking moron he is." — DaddySnark (comments)
Trump “Seriously” Considering Military Action In Iran
More proof he's looking for WWIII.
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"Trump is so goddamn stupid he has no clue he can’t possibly survive on five different fronts. Blather bluster and bullshit." -- Dwight Williamson (comments)
"The idiotic, ignorant, abusive, piggy, asshole bully continues to use the US to bully others.
And our leaders just sit back and finger themselves..." — Luke - my beautiful Luke (comments)
Fearing The Cult, Publishers Pull Back On LGBTQ Books
Spineless chicken shits, naturally!
Never purchase one of their published books again. See how they like that.
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"fearing the cult, publishers pull back on math and science books. - tomorrow's headline today." — Stoned and loving it (comments)
Graham Again Calls For Trump To “Kill” Iran’s Leaders
Miss Lindsey has turned into an angry little bitch.
But it will give Miss Lindsey a country he can run. Well, soomeone has to do it, right?
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"What you do to others, can be done to you.
That's the main reason that nation states 'agreed' to stop the practice of assassinating their rivals." — Karl Dubhe IV (comments)
"Mr. President, I would kill the leadership that are killing the people,” Graham said.
"So we can apply those words/actions to the Trump regime...I'm good with that." — Thewolflam (comments)
"You silly closet queen. How's about we put your dancing slipper on the other foot. Let's say the leaders in Iran were calling for the killing of djt? How would that sit with you, princess bitch? All this "kill" crap has got to stop." — Luke - my beautiful Luke (comments)
Washington National Opera To Ditch Trump’s Kennedy Center
Womp womp!
...Predictably, Trump lickspittle and executive director Ric Grenell is pretending the opera’s departure is good news. “Having an exclusive Opera was just not financially smart,” he reportedly wrote on Xitter. “And our patrons clearly wanted a refresh.”
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Refresh? Yeah, like an empty stage. Fuck Trump!
ICE Executions & Collapse Of The Rule Of Law
What happens when the U.S. is a rogue state? International law optional? “Sphere of influence” normalized? It's not academic—it's what leads to chaos, civil war, global instability. And this could be where we're headed....
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What happens? You bend over and kiss your ass goodbye!
CNN’s SE Cupp tells DOJ staffers working for Jeanine Pirro to 'walk out' over Powell probe
U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro has been tasked with a new probe into Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, but one CNN commentator suggested she resign instead.
Pirro doesn't have a good track record of winning controversial cases in Washington, D.C., losing several grand jury cases against protesters who opposed federal agents.
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She couldn't convict assault with a sandwich! ROTFLMAO!
An overlooked detail in the Renee Good video
In the video, she’s behind the wheel, signaling with her left hand to the driver of an ICE vehicle that she’s letting him go before she goes. Then out of that vehicle come two officers. One goes straight to her door.
“Get the f--- outta the car,” says the officer, who is not Ross...
She was right to be afraid. As she focused on the ICE officer cussing her out and trying to open her door, something that I’m pretty sure she had never experienced before, ICE officer Jonathan Ross took a position in front of her car, as she was backing up. Before moving forward, she turned the wheel to the right to avoid him. That’s when Ross crouched, aimed and fired, first through the windshield, then the open window...
“It's so fucking convenient that they get to ‘fear for their lives’ anytime they want to absolve themselves of anything,” said writer Luke O’Neil, “and when we actually fear for our lives because of them and do anything a scared person would do it's justification for our death.”...
“The obvious critique I have not heard explicitly articulated is that the point of making a self-defense argument would be saying ‘but for’ his shooting her, she would have killed him,” said Jonathan Kahn, a law professor at Northeastern. “Clearly, had he not shot her, the outcome for him would have been just the same - ie, no threat to his life.”...
In other words, their dissent was a threat. If Ross and his defenders actually believe that, David told me, “that is also deeply creepy.”
“It is effectively a declaration that dissent merits death.”
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Read the ACLU info on what to do whem real police pull you over for anything.
In fact, if this was a cop he would be put on temporary leave while the case is sorted out. Then he would be arrested. It's just so much slop by an inept bunch of criminals in charge of our government!
Americans have a right to dissent without being murdered. The Trump FBI is as guilty of murder as Ross is.
In fact, Trump is guilty of multiple murders because they all carry out his orders. In time, this will all be determined by our courts and the killers will get what is coming to them.
"Jack Ruby killed Lee Harvey. TV proved he did." — Lee Harvey Was a Friend of Mine, by Homer Henderson.
GOP senator threatens to block Trump for destroying DOJ’s 'independence and credibility'
In a Sunday, January 11 post on X, formerly Twitter, Tillis warned, "If there were any remaining doubt whether advisers within the Trump Administration are actively pushing to end the independence of the Federal Reserve, there should now be none. It is now the independence and credibility of the Department of Justice that are in question. I will oppose the confirmation of any nominee for the Fed — including the upcoming Fed Chair vacancy — until this legal matter is fully resolved."
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More of the old fool's addled, delusional brain. The Fed must remain independent.
Cuba 'ready to defend the homeland' after early-morning Trump threat
President Donald Trump threatened Cuba on Sunday morning via his Truth Social account and now Cuba is responding.
In a post, he wrote, "Cuba lived, for my years, on large amounts of OIL and MONEY from Venezuela. In return, Cuba provided 'Security Services' for the last two Venezuelan dictators, BUT NOT ANYMORE!"
"THERE WILL BE NO MORE OIL OR MONEY GOING TO CUBA — ZERO! I strongly suggest they make a deal, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE. Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DJT," the president added.
Reuters national security reporter Phil Stewart wrote on X that later Sunday morning, Cuba responded with its own statement on Trump's threat.
Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel told Reuters, "Cuba is a free, independent, and sovereign nation. Nobody dictates what we do. Cuba does not attack; it has been attacked by the U.S. for 66 years, and it does not threaten; it prepares, ready to defend the homeland to the last drop of blood."
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And none of it will be Trump's blood except the blood on his tiny fascist hands.
Ghoul Greg Gutfeld Calls ICE Shooting 'Set Up' By The Left
Fox's Greg Gutfeld spewed some vile nonsense on this Friday's The Five trying to justify the shooting of Minneapolis woman Renee Good. Apparently this is just some grand plan by the left who would have preferred that it was a Black woman who was killed.
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Gutless attacks white liberal women for the murder of Good. Have you ever seen a bigger chicken shit patriarchist?
Ted Cruz Reacts To Renee Good's Killing By ICE, And It's A Doozy
Bro, you thought Ashli Babbitt's death was an "execution" and questioned the lack of criminal prosecution for the officer involved, so sit your flabby ass down.
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz gargled Donald Trump's balls as he blamed Renee Nicole Good's murder on the left, and his reaction is revealing of the talking points we're hearing from the right.
Interestingly, this is the same Ted Cruz who has repeatedly described Capitol Rioter Ashli Babbitt's death as an "execution" and questioned the lack of criminal prosecution for the officer involved. And he had nothing to say about ICE agent Jonathan Ross shooting Mrs. Good three times in the face after the Trump administration flooded Minneapolis, a Democratic city, with ICE and border patrol agents....
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"Scumdouche!"
War Profiteers Furious After Polymarket Refuses to Pay Out on Venezuelan Invasion Bets
"The Sickness."
Noem Restricts Congress From Visiting ICE Lockups
We are now a Banana Republic at war with ourselves due to this fact!
Trump Orders Top Army Officials to ‘Draw Up Plan’ to Invade Greenland: Report
OK. The U.S. will become a very big nuclear target if this happens. Clean out those old fallout shelters from the 1950s. WWIII is on the way to us. Killing NATO may be his idea but killing America could be as well.
Trump is far worse than Putin.
WATCH: Kristi Noem Sputters After Tapper Rolls J6 Tape and Confronts Her On Whether Capitol Police Had Cause to Shoot
Kristi Noem seemed to be flummoxed by CNN’s Jake Tapper playing tape of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and confronting her about a “different standard” for Capitol police and ICE officers.
‘I Will Not Answer Any More of These Questions!’ Tom Homan Bristles at Kristen Welker Confronting Him About Alleged $50K Payoff
"As the Nazi Squirms." What "integrity and my professionalism" does he refer to?
Homan: Protesting ICE Can Be Defined As Terrorism
When he talks about his integrity He must be referring to this horse shit. A bully looking for a fight is all he is and all he's ever been.
Linda McMahon, the nation’s secretary of education, says public schools are failing.
In November, she promised a “hard reset” of the system in which more than 80% of U.S. children learn. But rather than invest in public education, she has been working to dismantle the Department of Education and enact wholesale changes to how public schools operate.
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Education is not what they want. Indoctrination is.
Lindsey Graham issues most explicit threat yet: 'I'd be looking for a new place to live' — Alexander Willis
“My advice to the commies running Cuba and oppressing its people: Call [Venezuelan President Nicholas] Maduro and ask him what to do…If you can get through, that is,” Graham wrote Sunday in a social media post on X. “If I were you, I’d be looking for a new place to live.”
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It's time for the ancients to "please get out of the new road if you can't lend a hand."
ICE does things most police won't — and now we have deadly proof — The Conversation
...The shooting in Minneapolis serves as a stark reminder of the stubborn gap that often persists between law and policy on the one hand and best law enforcement practices for protecting life on the other. When steps are taken to close that gap, however, they can have a meaningful impact.
Some of the most compelling examples involve local, state and federal measures that reinforce one another. Consider the “fleeing felon rule,” which used to allow police to shoot a fleeing felony suspect to prevent their escape even when the suspect posed no danger to others.
That rule was at odds with the doctrine of prioritizing the protection of life, leading some departments to revise their use-of-force policies and some states to ban the rule. In 1985, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that it was unconstitutional for police to shoot a fleeing suspect who was not a danger.
Banning that questionable tactic notably led to a reduction in killings by police.
This history suggests that clear bans in law and policy on questionable tactics have the potential to save lives, while also strengthening the means for holding officers accountable.
Sunday Thought: Our Power, Our Courage, and Our Resolve -- Robert Reich
"The man who notoriously said in his first campaign for president that he could murder someone on Fifth Avenue without losing a vote is now effectively murdering Americans on the streets of our cities and murdering Venezuelans and Cubans in Caracas and the Caribbean Sea, and doesn’t have to face voters in another presidential election.
He is unconstrained in every other way as well: not subject to congressional oversight because supine Republicans are in control. Not subject to judicial oversight because the Supreme Court has given him a pass. Not subject to international law because the U.N. charter has no teeth.
“The only thing that can stop me,” he told reporters for The New York Times, “is my own morality. My own mind.” He was responding to a question about his power to attack other nations but his answer is as relevant to what he believes to be his power inside the United States....
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This man is the enemy of the United States. He must be removed.
‘It’s Not Going Well’: More Trump Supporters Now Regretting Their Vote — Adam Lynch
Another Trump voter admitted that, on the economy, things were “not going well.”
“I was looking yesterday and, you know, Americans have lost over $1 trillion in their wealth in the last year, while the top 1 percent has gained over $10 trillion. And it's like, that's not exactly what was supposed to be happening,” said the unnamed man. “There's this bifurcation where the stock market seems to be doing well, but people aren't. And so, I think that's given a false sense of security that if you're doing well, you think everything's great, but you don't realize it's not going well for the vast majority of people.”
Pentagon Picks Fight With Canadian Sex Shop
“We got a huge kick out of it,” said Bennett. “I mean, we don’t judge, we want everyone to order whatever they want and we want everyone to feel confident and start shopping for whatever they want. But there is a juxtaposition of a military person in a foreign country ordering butt plugs and having no understanding that those items are illegal in the country that they’re in.”
ROTFLMAO! ROTFLMAO! ROTFLMAO! ...
Trump posts several images showing next military target — and it's not Greenland or Iran — David McAfee
Donald Trump early on Sunday morning shared numerous images indicating a new military target on his mind, other than Greenland and Iran.
The president took to Truth Social first thing to share half a dozen posts from other people and graphics, but they all had a theme: Trump pondering taking Cuba.
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Trump advances the coming of WWIII and the end of the United States of America.
But the Nazi fraud will go with us, of that be certain.
“Eviscerated by idiots”: Letterman rages at the state of CBS News — Alex Galbraith
The retired late-night host said that recent moves have "trampled on" the news division's integrity
“CBS News is a wreck, it’s just gone!” he said. “Ed Murrow would be broadcasting the blitz of London from the rooftop of buildings in London for CBS Radio. And it was that mentality that drove the integrity of CBS News that has been trampled on, pissed on, and eviscerated by these idiots that have taken it over!”
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So right! The Nazis have taken over America. They won't have it long. They will be removed by any means necessary. Many of us will have to die to get it done. But it WILL get done.
National Portrait Gallery Axes Trump’s Impeachments
2 + 2 = 5
"It's funny they think the changes they make will be permanent." — Gustav2 (comments)
"Release the other 99% of the Epstein Files.
We have not seen the vids of Trump banging underage girls yet.
'The Epstein Files the thing,
Wherein we'll catch the conscience of this King.'
Fuck Trump." — JackFknTwist (comments)
"They should just put a painting of a pile of shit - it would be far more flattering than that fat orange skid mark" — Wissend (comments)
Small Business Director To Shutter Minneapolis Office
"See you in court, Cunt!" — xzargo (comments)
"Hopefully it won't matter anyway in the long run. ICE and the entire DHS needs to be shut down. That'll be a great way to shrink government, and improve government functioning." — Ron Robertson (comments)
All of you loudmouth "small business" owners are getting your neutral asses shown what fascism can and will do to you.
I don't think you'll see Kelly walking in a Minnesota street without heavily armed Nazis surrounding her.
Texas Gov Boasts About Pepper Balls Shot At Protesters
Protesters have rights too, you morons!
"Don't point that finger at me, Daddio! I'll cut it off" — Firesign Theatre
"The man with no balls or any sense of human decency strikes again . Fuck your , Wheels!" — Dwight Williamson (comments)
"Protesting against the government is now labeled as being defiant and cause to batter them with pepper balls?" — Chris G. (comments)
When you have Nazis running your government the answer is "Yes. We hate protests against our fascist mission."
San Franciscans Form Human “It Was Murder” Banner
The San Francisco Chronicle reports:
"Thousands of Bay Area residents gathered Saturday to protest shootings by federal immigration agents, including the killing of a mother in Minneapolis, in another escalation of the Trump administration’s tactics toward not just immigrants but U.S. citizens...."
Dozens Of Troops Harass Shop With Anti-ICE Sign
We no longer live in a democracy. The sooner people realize it, the better.
The enemy attacks "Da Sammich Spot."
"These Gestapo are getting even more aggressive now that they can get away with murdering citizens.
Fuck Trump."—- JackFknTwist (comments)
"Remember when liberals harassed businesses for posting anti LBGT signs?
Me neither
We just boycotted them. And it worked more often than not" — Todd20036 (comments)
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American racism at its ugly dumbest throwback shit!
And to the one that posted support for staying neutral—you are either against fascism or you are a fascist! There is no neutrality with fascism. It is binary only! You must be a child that never heard of Neville Chamberlain! Never of the holocaust! Not surprised that you support fascism.
The Leading Cause Of Death For ICE Agents Is COVID
...But those, and many similar assertions from the Trump administration, are undercut by ICE’s own data. A Mother Jones review shows that there is little evidence that ICE agents face such severe and widespread danger compared with other law enforcement agencies that they need military personnel to come to their aid or to break from centuries of public accountability by hiding behind masks.
Those records show that none of ICE’s agents have ever been killed by an immigrant in the agency’s more than two-decade history. Instead, the leading cause of death by far among ICE officers is COVID-19. According to ICE’s data, the second leading cause of death is cancer linked to 9/11.
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Like all retarded sleepers, the fools don't get vaccinated!
Philadelphia Sheriff Calls ICE 'Fake Made Up Wannabes'
Philadelphia Sheriff Rochelle Balil smashes ICE and calls them fake wannabe law enforcement.
Philadelphia Sheriff Rochelle Bilal took part in a news conference to discuss the murder of Renee Good by ICEtapo agents in Minneapolis. With the heat she brought, it wouldn't be surprising if all the ice in Philly melted:
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The scum of Trump's hell that pollutes our cities!
'It's not going well': More Trump supporters now regretting their vote
Some Americans are getting smarter every day.
Warning over Trump's true goal in Minneapolis
midst national outrage this week over the killing by Minneapolis resident Renee Nicole Good by a federal agent, members of Minnesota’s congressional delegation on Saturday were blocked from full access to a federal immigration detention center in the city—but at least one lawmaker among them warns something much more sinister is now taking place in the state.
It seemed to Omar, she said, that the order to halt their visit “maybe came from Washington to deny us the proper access that we needed to complete those oversight duties that we are obligated as members of Congress.”
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Our Civil War will get hotter as we realize we have an enemy in DC that we must take out.
NBA coach calls Renee Good shooting 'straight-up murder'
Glenn Anton "Doc" Rivers, who is the head coach of the Milwaukee Bucks NBA franchise, spent several minutes from a recent post-game press conference to denounce the killing of Minneapolis, Minnesota resident Renee Good at the hands of federal agents.
"I don't care what side of this thing you're on politically," he said. "What's going on in our country is absolutely wrong as far as the race stuff. The politics I'm not going to get into, the race stuff I will. And it's just wrong, and we have to do something. But the only thing we can do right now is keep speaking up. Because it doesn't seem like they care. And that's troublesome."
ICE: "Fucking Bitch"— Abby Zimet
It was shocking how quickly the psychopaths in power launched their vicious lies about Renée Good—"violent rioter," "domestic terrorist," "self-defense"—shot in the face for trying to drive away from ICE. It's all bullshit, proven by stunning new video from the killer's own phone. Bafflingly, JD Vance posted it, thinking it proved his smears. How sick is he? Good was "pure sunshine ...kindness radiated out of her," says her wife. "We stopped to support our neighbors. We had whistles. They had guns."
Renée Nicole Macklin Good, a 37-year-old mother of three and widow of a veteran, was dropping off her youngest child, 6, at a Minneapolis school when she encountered an ICE raid at 34th Street and Portland Avenue; it was the second day of a 30-day "surge" of siccing America's Gestapo on the state's Somali-American population. On Instagram, Good described herself as "a poet and writer and wife and mom and shitty guitar strummer from Colorado"; she and her wife Becca had recently moved there, finding what Becca called "a vibrant and welcoming community" with a strong sense of people "looking out for each other."
Horrific, widely viewed footage shows what happened next: The sirens and unmarked cars, masked thugs getting out, Good's car straddling the road, protesters shouting and then, suddenly, screaming as one goon approaches her window, yells "Get out of the fucking car," and fires off three shots through the windshield as Good's car careens wildly off and crashes. Multiple cellphone videos and eyewitness accounts concur: Good was trying to turn around, let one ICE car pass ahead, backed up slightly to turn to the right, pulled forward and around the agent - a few feet away - as he shot her three times in the face....
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There's more. Read it if you aren't one of the "half-literate" ICE stooges. If so, get someone who can read, read it to you.
'What A Lovely Young Man': Kimmel Humiliates Stephen Miller With Old Yearbook Photos, Video Footage
Jimmy Kimmel gave PeeWee Goebbels the treatment he deserves when his show dug up old yearbook photos and video footage of Nazi Stephen Miller in high school.
"To no one's surprise, as Kimmel noted, Miller was 'born a douche.'
KIMMEL: And then we have the engineer who's been driving this crazy train when it comes to immigration, Trump's deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller -- Trump's other little penis.
Stephen Miller, he's said to be the architect as responsible for many of Trump's subhuman immigration policies. He also called the incident domestic terrorism."
Greenland’s PM: “We Don’t Want To Be Americans”
Neither does NATO. And they do have a nuclear arsenal.
Minnesota Pastor Gets Life On Molestation Charges
Another child molester Pastor bites the dust.
Thune Blames Outrage Over ICE Killing On “TDS"
Another deranged and in denial Nazi serving evil.
Catholic Paper Calls Vance “Moral Stain” On Catholicism
"...The vice president’s comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith. His repeated attempts to blame Good for her own death are fundamentally incompatible with the Gospel. Our only recourse is to pray for his conversion of heart."
Josh Shapiro: “Gaslighter Vance Is Pathetically Weak”
“JD Vance is profoundly and pathetically a weak human being, and he does whatever he thinks his boss wants him to do. We saw a tragic end of life in Minnesota, where children were left without a mom and a spouse was left without her partner. What we need right now is not idiotic gaslighting from the sitting vice president, but a thorough investigation. Vance should be ashamed of himself and he's not. And I think that speaks to the weakness of his character.”
Christian Site Mocks “Toxic Empathy” For ICE Victim
Jesus answered, “See to it that no one deceives you. For many will come in My name, claiming, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will deceive many."
Ryan Helfenbein is just one example of who Jesus refers to.
Lesbians Taunted ICE Goon, Smirked Even. And So He Killed One. — Doktor Zoom
Video screenshot as Good told her killer, 25 seconds before he shot her, “That’s fine, dude. I’m not mad at you.”
The White House on Friday posted to social media a phone video taken by Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent who shot and killed Renee Nicole Macklin Good on Wednesday. It shows that shortly before Ross shot Good, she smiled at him and said, “That’s fine, dude, I’m not mad at you,” and that just after the killing, Ross appeared to mutter, “Fuckin’ bitch.”
The 47-second video was initially leaked to rightwing media outfit “Alpha News,” after which JD Vance posted it to Twitter, claiming it proved the ICE goon’s life was “endangered and he fired in self defense.” That’s seriously undermined by the fact that the video shows Good turning the SUV’s steering wheel sharply to the right so she could drive around him, not at him. Look, just believe what the administration says, not your lying eyes....
She added that on the day of the shooting, “we stopped to support our neighbors. We had whistles. They had guns.”
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May the minions of hell return to their spawning ground and stop murdering Americans.
“Only My Own Morality”: Trump’s Chilling Confession Demands Impeachment — Thom Hartmann
Democrats should be loudly calling for the impeachment of Donald Trump now, run on it in November, and then, when they take the House, actually do it.
Because what he’s is doing right now is not “norm-breaking,” or “provocative rhetoric,” or even the oft-quoted “Trump being Trump.” It’s an open assertion of unchecked power, limited — in his own words — only by his own “personal morality.”
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His Ego is in battle with his Id. A very sick and dangerous wounded man.
Just Shoot Us Why Don’t Ya? — Jaime O’Neill
The first title I considered for this piece was “Imperialism on Steroids,” which seems to be where we are now. We’ve been imperialists for a very long time, especially in Latin America where special interests there and special interests here interfaced to ensure that exploitation and keeping the people down would not get in the way of reliable profits for American corporations. Good for the shareholders, good for Wall Street. Hadn’t Calvin Coolidge told us the business of America was business? Keeping the money coming in through wars and interventions to prevent the will of the foreign riff raff from rising was good for American business. Killing peasants, or helping military dictators kill uppity workers was also good for America. We invested heavily in making such killings and interventions possible. It paid off. For some....
With the biggest “defense” budget on the planet, bar none, invading countries is a perenial growth industry. Guns R Us. And mass murder, too, if it comes to that. Pretty much, anyway, and for as long as it lasts. So off we go into the wild blue yonder, or marching through countries whose names we didn’t learn in school. And when the bill comes due, we pretty much know who’s going to pay with blood and taxes. Not the generals, not the arms merchants.
And killing Americans willy nilly is not only ok now, it's peak patriotism, defended by the VP, by Trump, the suits in the big towers, and the folks at Fox. It's just plain necessary. Enemies are everywhere. Shoot into a crowd and you’re bound to hit someone who hates America, or a Democrat, which is the same thing.. And if you’re an ICE “agent,” you’re entitled to club anyone who might be armed with a middle finger or a surly attitude. You’re with the big dogs, remember, and you don’t have to take no shit from the rabble. Just kill us, why don’t ya? Kristi Noem will saddle up and ride to your rescue if you get in trouble. So will J.D. Vance and Tom Homan, border "czar" and natural born thug. No worries, they’ve got your back. Dershowitz, too, pro bono, if you still believe in the tooth fairy.
Trump lies show White House is terrified — rightly — of this victim's simple humanity
"The first thing that should be said about the fatal shooting in Minneapolis is that the victim’s name was Renee Nicole Good.
Good, 37, was a mother, a wife, a poet and fervent Christian. Her mother, Donna Ganger, told the local newspaper her daughter and her partner were not involved in protests.
“She was probably terrified. Renee was one of the kindest people I’ve ever known. She was extremely compassionate. She’s taken care of people all her life. She was loving, forgiving and affectionate. She was an amazing human being,” Ganger said.
Good was a widow. Her husband, a veteran, died in 2023 at 36. They had a son. He’s 6. Good was with her partner when ICE shot her in the face, then dithered long enough for her to bleed out.
A video taken by a witness moments after the shooting shows Good’s partner sitting on the ground with her dog. There’s blood on the snow. Between sobs she can be heard saying, “They killed my wife. I don’t know what to do,” according to The Advocate.
"We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head."
“We have a 6-year-old at school.”
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The shame and eternal disgrace of America. We must make this atrocity go to the gallows and see that it never lives again!
‘Should be sitting in prison!’ Trump renews calls to jail major political adversary
Of course, prison is where Trump should be and he would be if America had a spine.
‘They just want an excuse to rage’: MAGA melts down over planned nationwide ICE protests
With over 1,000 rallies scheduled to commence this weekend nationwide in protest of the latest fatal shooting by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, a number of MAGA supporters are lashing out online over the planned demonstrations.
“No kings, free Palestine, my body my choice, BLM, same thing with all the insufferable people,” wrote X user “Vanessa,” a self-proclaimed “MAGA” follower and right-wing commentator who’s amassed more than 12,000 followers. “They have no clue what they want, just going with the bs that they're fed like good little sheep. It's exhausting.”
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Baaaaa! What's your excuse, moron?
New evidence blows apart Trump's Christmas night attack claims: report -- Tom Boggioni
On Christmas night, Trump posted on Truth Social: "Tonight, at my direction as Commander in Chief, the United States launched a powerful and deadly strike against ISIS Terrorist Scum in Northwest Nigeria, who have been targeting and viciously killing, primarily, innocent Christians, at levels not seen for many years, and even Centuries! The Department of War executed numerous perfect strikes, as only the United States is capable of doing."
Saturday's Post report contradicted the president's characterization. Of 16 Tomahawk missiles launched, four failed to detonate. The unexploded warheads were recovered from random locations, including an onion field and a forest.
Nigerian and Western analysts assessed the operation's impact skeptically. "Given the location, it was unlikely that the strikes hit high-level members of the Islamic State, who are most active in the northeast of the country," the report stated.
A U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) official acknowledged the mission's limited effectiveness, admitting the assault was "likely not very effective and did not remove any camps or capabilities."
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Ooops!
Why would anyone trust a news organization that treats obvious truths as debatable?
"Why would you trust a news organization that doesn’t have the integrity and the guts to state an obvious truth?
Trump wrote on Truth Social that the driver “violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer,” and “it is hard to believe he is alive, but is now recovering in the hospital.”
That was palpably untrue.
Kristi Noem instantly declared Good a “domestic terrorist” who “attempted to ram” ICE agents.
That was untrue and vile."
"Karoline Leavitt told reporters that the shooting was the “result of a larger, sinister left-wing movement that has spread across our country where our brave men and women of federal law enforcement are under organized attack.”
That was untrue, addled, and pernicious.
But to our major newsrooms, the truth of the matter is a jump ball."
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The answer: The failure to use reason which is something Americans used to have.
Just look at the disappearance of newspapers and the Nazi ownership of news media (eg. CBS, Washington Post).
The Stupid virus is pervasive!
Raging Trump screamed profanities at defecting Senate Republican in explosive phone call
Did she tell the little boy to get fucked?
“I’m not mad at you”: ICE officer’s video shows Renee Nicole Good’s last words — Jelinda Montes
New video recorded by ICE officer Jonathan Ross shows new angle of deadly shooting
J.D. Vance is wrong.
Gutfeld: The Left Isn’t Unhappy About The ICE Killing, “They Were Probably Hoping For A Black Woman”
Hatemonger Gutlessfeld projects his own racism. What a loser.
"When you are a stupid little shit, and nothing you say matters. But they had to fill air space" — Dwight Williamson (comments)
Judge halts Trump's attempt to defund election systems — Carl Gibson
Politico reported late Friday that U.S. District Judge John H. Chun — an appointee of former President Joe Biden — struck down the Trump administration's attempt to deny federal money to states that didn't force voters to prove their U.S. citizenship when registering to vote. In a 75-page opinion, Judge Chun ruled that the administration's March 25 executive order demanding states implement the new systems violated the separation of powers.
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Whine, you pig. Your time is getting short.
Texas governor threatens Houston elections as Democrats gain ground in Senate race — Cassie Mellea
Texas Governor Greg Abbott escalated GOP election interference by threatening a state takeover of Houston’s elections, drawing attention from Democrats and former Republicans alike. The move follows a complaint about allegedly improper voter registrations and comes as rising Democratic candidates like James Talarico and Jasmine Crockett energize the party’s Senate challenge. Former GOP staffer Kurt Bardella noted Abbott’s actions reveal Texas is “legitimately in play,” signaling a potential shift in the state’s political landscape and a warning to voters about Republican overreach.
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Trump and Abbo-dabbot are two pees in a Nazi podcast.
Daily Mail Investigative Report: ICE Hiring People Who Can Barely Read — Susie Madrak
Stephen Miller's Big Plan to hire 10,000 new deportation officers by year's end has become a national embarrassment - with not much vetting and incompetents lured by signing bonuses of up to $50,000. Via The Daily Mail:
An exhaustive Daily Mail investigation last month exposed how Immigration and Customs Enforcement has lowered standards so dramatically that the new cohort now included recent high school graduates and applicants who can 'barely read or write' as well as those who lack basic physical fitness and even have pending criminal charges.
Most of the new hires in the $30 billion initiative are retired law enforcement who are receiving virtual training and being repurposed for desk duty.
Meanwhile, total novices are being fast-tracked into the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Georgia, where instructors have been left astounded at the levels of incompetence.
'We have people failing open-book tests and we have folks that can barely read or write English,' one Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official told the Daily Mail.
'We even had a 469-lb man sent to the academy whose own doctor certified him not at all fit for any physical activity.'
Insiders say the vetting process has been so rushed that officials didn't even wait for drug test results to come back before hiring recruits and flying them off to Georgia, only to discover afterward that tests came back positive."
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So shocking! How could we have ever known they hire illiterate criminals?
CODEPINK Statement: Trump’s Threat to Bomb Mexico Is an Outrageous Step Toward War in Latin America — Newswire Editor
CODEPINK condemns President Donald Trump’s dangerous threat to “start hitting land” inside Mexico, a sovereign nation, a major U.S. ally, and home to 130 million people.
By declaring, “we are going to start now hitting land… The cartels are running Mexico,” Trump is openly threatening U.S. strikes and special operations on Mexican soil under the same failed “war on drugs” logic that has already devastated Latin America.
For more than 20 years, Washington has sold militarized drug policy as the solution. Plan Colombia, for example, poured billions of U.S. dollars into the Colombian military and police under the promise of cutting cocaine at the source. Yet even the U.S. Government Accountability Office review found that potential cocaine production in Colombia was higher in 2006 than in 2000.
The pattern is always the same: more troops, more weapons, more funding for security forces, and in return, more violence, more displacement, more human rights abuses. And the more weapons the U.S. pumps into the region, the more cartels acquire military-grade firepower of their own, often trafficked or diverted from the very same U.S. weapons pipeline. The only thing that doesn’t disappear is the drug trade.
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Do we really expect the government to stop taking their share of the loot?
'Vulgarian' Trump is hurting America's soul: George Will — Adam Lynch
Conservative Washington Post columnist George Will is surprised that a president so critical of Europe is pushing to build a European “knock-off” of France’s Arc de Triomphe. What’s worse, he argued, is the fact that Trump wants to use it to “clutter one of the world’s great urban vistas” near the Arlington National Cemetery.
Will compares Trump’s arc to his Oval Office, which is “stuffed to overflowing with gold bric-a-brac [that] might be beautiful to someone who is colorblind. Or to connoisseurs of high-end Gilded Age brothels.” But while the Oval Office can be “visually fumigated” for the next president, Will said getting rid of an Arc de Trump would be more difficult.
And that is not the end of things, warns Will. Trump “slapped his name above Kennedy’s” on the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. He’s also torn down a section of the White House and now threatening to double the size of some of the rest.
“Given Trump’s gargantuan exercises of executive discretion regarding great matters of state, it might seem quaint to wonder why he cannot be stopped from treating Washington as his chew toy,” said Will. “This would be unworthy of our nation if he had exquisite taste. The fact that he revels in being a vulgarian takes a toll on the nation’s soul.”
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Does a "Vulgarian" come from "Vulgaria?"
Regime Declares Open Season On White Women, Anyone Else Who Leaves The House — Marcie Jones
Barely 24 hours after the murder of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, at 2:15 p.m. on Thursday, DHS agents shot husband Luis David Nico Moncada in the arm and his wife Yorlenys Betzabeth Zambrano-Contreras in the chest during a traffic stop in the residential neighborhood of Hazelwood in Portland, Oregon. And, once again, DHS is repeating the same refrains, that the couple tried to run them over, and the shots were defensive, and the couple was trying to flee, and are insisting the two are in a Venezuelan gang, with no evidence.
We have seen DHS agents’ routine play out many times now: they approach a car, facial-recognition-app open and at the ready, and if the occupants don’t comply fast enough, they smash windows, point guns, and sometimes even reach in the car and try to hang on. Then if the car tries to pull away, they holler that they are pitiful victims being dragged, while another agent starts blasting shots off. Like they did with Good, and on Christmas Eve in Glen Burnie, MD, and at least a dozen other times.
So, they shot Good a half-second after one of them got mad at her wife for telling her her go, and after it was confirmed by other law enforcement on the scene that Good was a US citizen and could leave. She was not blocking anyone, or aiming for anyone....
And the same people who are saying Charlie Kirk is a holy martyr like Jesus give not one solid fuck if a speeding vehicle piloted by a headless corpse happens to crash into a crowded playground. Nor does firearms instruction include trying to shoot with one hand while you record content on the other. It’s a wonder they don’t oops-shoot their own more often.
Vance: Media Is Spreading “Propaganda” About ICE — Joe Jervis
We know who the shitstain propagandist is, bubba.
ICE Agent Called Victim “Fucking Bitch” After Shooting — Joe Jervis
Shocking new footage of the shooting of 37-year-old Renee Good by an ICE officer published on Friday shows the confrontation from the perspective of the officer who shot and killed Good.
The new footage, which appears to be from Ross’s cellphone, shows Ross’s perspective from the point he exits his vehicle to after he fires three shots. “I’m not mad at you,” Good can be heard telling the officer.
Good eventually moves her car forward and multiple shots can be heard going off. The cellphone recording appears to have been dropped. It’s not clear whether the vehicle hit Ross, but the cellphone appears to fall and Ross appears to brace himself as the car accelerates.
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I'm not blind nor scared to say it. It's clear to me he wasn't hit. If one wants to hit someone the target would go down and stay there. We have witnessed many Trump Nazis do it in videos!
Social Security Needs Full Staffing — Not a Scheme Destined to Fail — Newswire Editor
...A nationwide system might have superficial appeal and sound efficient to someone who has to google what Social Security is. The reality is that field offices have been the backbone of our successful Social Security system for almost a century. They are part of our communities.
The reason for this poorly thought-through idea seems to be the self-inflicted problem of an understaffed agency. There’s a much better solution: Reverse last year’s cuts and fully staff our Social Security field offices.”
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A massive cluster fuck is his plan. Read it!
Trump will kill us all if we don't get rid of him!
Voting Rights Groups, Wisconsin Voters Challenge Trump Administration’s Unwarranted Grab For Private Data — Newswire Editor
On behalf of Common Cause and three Wisconsin voters, attorneys from Law Forward, the ACLU’s national Voting Rights Project, and the ACLU of Wisconsin filed a motion Thursday to intervene in the Trump administration’s lawsuit against the Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC) over its refusal to hand over confidential information about registered state voters.
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NO one consents to this perverse action. Trump nor any other criminal has any right to a voters data! Case closed!
Same goes for the Texass government.
AOC Calls Out 'Pervert' Jesse Watters Because He Is One — John Amato
In October of 2025, Watters made the outrageous claim on The Five when he said, "I think AOC wants to sleep with Miller. It is so obvious, and I'm sorry you can't have him. Miller is the best." That was disgusting on all fronts of decency. It was misogynistic and rude, too.
AOC has a long memory and did not forget:
FP: Jesse Watters would like to invite you on his show
AOC: He has sexualized and harassed me on his show.
FP: That’s not true
AOC: It is true because he accused me of sleeping, of wanting to quote-unquote sleep with Stephen Miller.
So why don't you tell me what you think is acceptable to tell a woman.
Bye.
Boom!
Mic drop.
Watters acts like a twat every chance he gets, especially when it comes to AOC's popularity.
Watters will come back with some juvenile response to AOC's refusal on his Fox News program, but it doesn't change the fact that he's an asshole.
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And that is his good point! ROTFLMAO!
Growing tensions signal Trump moving closer to 'martial law': analysis — Alex Henderson
"Trump is hell-bent, along with those who work for him, on total control," Karem warns. "Good's death is likely to foment more anger and hatred, both of which Trump bathes in. Should something nasty befall ICE officers, Trump would gladly declare martial law. And speculation is rife that he could cancel the midterm elections — since he's scared to death he’ll be impeached should the Democrats regain control of Congress in November…. Renee Nicole Good is an example of how Trump villainizes American citizens. Maduro shows how Trump exploits the villainy of other villains. The oil tankers are symbolic of his greed and reality-show tendencies."
Karem adds, "All three of these examples show that the consequences of Trump are very real and increasingly acute. At this point, they are painfully and terrifyingly obvious. Be prepared for martial law."
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If so, I would expect our military, if they are patriotic Americans, to turn against him. They must choose who they support: Trump or America. They are now exclusive of one another.
Internet erupts after Trump's 'delusional' press conference — Adam Lynch
“Trump's fixation with the Nobel Peace Prize is embarrassing,” said journalist Bruno Toledo on X. “All of this because Obama … has one.”
“Infantilized and delusional,” posted another X user. “Trump has zero awareness of how stupid he sounds. He can’t be president. He never could. He’s like a baby grabbing for a bottle.”
Other critics pounced on the president’s willingness to make false claims that are easily debunked with an internet search. When asked about his opposition to renewable energy wind turbines, for example, Trump pointed to China as an example, saying: “All you have to do is say to China, how many windmill areas do you have in China? They are not able to find any. They don’t have windmills. I have told my people we will not approve windmills. We will not approve any windmills in this country.”
But China is a world leader in both wind turbine production and usage.
“It literally took me nine seconds to find this,” said one X user posting a search result showing a map of hundreds of wind farms across China.
“The President of Dips——,” tweeted Ron Filipkowski of liberal group MeidasTouch.
Other commenters seized on Trump’s contentions about seizing land in Denmark’s territory of Greenland. At one point in the press conference Trump disparaged Denmark’s claim to the island, saying: “The fact they had a boat land there 500 years ago does not mean they own the land. We will be doing something with Greenland—the nice way, or the more difficult way.”
European group Communications Deputy Jack Montgomery pointed out that Trump’s argument disembowels U.S. claims to its own land.
“The most gratingly smug liberals on this platform are going to spend the next 24 hours lavishing thousands of likes on posts about this featuring the Mayflower,” Montgomery wrote on X.
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Nut up, Congress! Invoke the 25th or look for another line of work!
I'm almost embarrassed for the NYT after 'exclusive' Trump interview — D. Earl Stephens
I had intended to write to you today about the cold-blooded murder of an innocent mother by masked U.S. government agents on a Minneapolis street Wednesday.
Instead, I want to circle back to the through-line that has enabled killings like this, and myriad other atrocities by the lawless, despicable Donald Trump: The sane-washing of this madman by our abominable and increasingly complicit legacy media.
Let me be as precise as possible with this next run-on sentence: Places like the New York Times can never again be trusted, because of their appalling inability and/or refusal to identify and cover the overthrow of our Democracy, the bludgeoning of decency by Donald Trump and his cowardice, complicit Republican Party, and the most dangerous and volatile times in the United States of America since the Civil War.
I realize I am not breaking any news to most of the readership in this space, but the legacy media’s shoddy treatment of the ongoing attack on America is unfortunately still news to too damn many. I argue their dereliction of duty must be a featured part of these scary times, and a meaty chapter of whatever is left of our historical record if and when this siege ends.
The legacy media have not only let us down, but have actively contributed to our fall from grace....
...The NYT is not an organization reporting on the White House, it is a collection of stenographers reporting for the White House.
And there’s something else I want to touch on here, and underline for emphasis before I go back to banging my head against the wall:
In today’s scant offering teasing these coming “stories, newsletters and videos,” there is no mention that the man they sat down to interview is a lifetime stranger to the truth, and in fact, has told a documented tens of thousands of lies and mistruths since entering public life a decade ago.
He is also the author of the Big Lie, which has done catastrophic damage to America.
This means he cannot be trusted, which means their readership needed to be reminded of this. This is vitally important context, and I have argued for years should appear in every story in which Trump is quoted, because it is not only important background, it is a goddamn FACT, and facts are hard to find these days in our crumbling legacy media.
Tell me: In your day-to-day life do you trust anybody you know who regularly lies to you, or are you bare minimum highly skeptical of anything that comes out of their mouth?
There is also no mention that Trump spearheaded a violent coup five years ago yesterday. There is also no mention that Trump is a convicted felon. There is also no mention of his repeated physical and verbal abuse of women. There is also no mention that Trump is an overt racist.
'Flashing red warning' as Trump’s blue-collar promises 'completely fall to pieces' — Thomas Kika
Donald Trump is facing a "flashing red warning" with the voters who helped reelect him, according to a new analysis from MS NOW, as his promise of a "boom" in blue-collar jobs has "completely fallen to pieces."
Trump's failure is historic. He will be remembered as the greatest failure in all history!
MAGA’s scheme to give Trump Nobel Peace Prize just fell apart — Alex Henderson
A Nobel spokesperson told the Daily Beast, "A Nobel Prize can neither be revoked nor transferred to others. Once the announcement of the laureate(s) has been made, the decision stands for all time. As for the prize money, the laureate(s) are free to dispose of it as they see fit."
Latchem notes that Nobel's "organization’s refusal to bend its own rules" will "be a disappointment not just to Trump, but also, to some of his loyalists, who are reported to have lobbied for Machado to hand the president the prize he so covets."
Uh-oh! Looks like Trump will now attack Norway. May NATO wipe him out!
NASA’s Library Shutdown Scandal Is Ballooning — Victor Tangermann
The news was met with outrage by NASA insiders, who pointed out that many of these historical documents remain undigitized, a scandal that has metastasized into the first major PR challenge for recently sworn-in NASA administrator and billionaire space tourist Jared Isaacman.
While agency officials have maintained that the move was part of a 2022 master plan — a “consolidation, not a closure” per NASA press secretary Bethany Stevens — and that researchers would continue to have access to the library’s archives as NASA teams conduct a 60-day review of all materials, GFSC staffers were taken aback at the abrupt and careless nature of the Trump administration’s actions.
“I feel like crying,” planetary scientist David Williams, who has curated space mission data for NASA’s archives, told NPR this week. “I mean, it’s horrible. I’m so frustrated. I’m so mad, and I’m just so upset.”
According to staffers interviewed by the broadcaster, the closures of buildings at Goddard were “rushed and disorganized, with no clear blueprint to replace important spaces.”
The approach has been reminiscent of the Trump administration’s vindictive approach to slashing agency budgets, as exemplified by Elon Musk’s bull-in-a-china-shop approach with the so-called Department of Government Efficiency last year.
ANYTHING TRUMP TOUCHES DIES!
Jesse ‘The Body’ Ventura Trashes Trump, Threatens to Run for Governor Again After Minneapolis ICE Shooting — Zachary Leeman
Jesse “The Body” Ventura trashed President Donald Trump as a “draft-dodging coward” and threatened a potential return to the Minnesota governor’s office following the shooting of a 37-year-old mother by an ICE agent in Minneapolis.
Ventura, 74, spoke with local affiliate Fox 9 this week during a visit to Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis. Ventura graduated from the school and visited to condemn an ICE raid that took place there on the same day that Renee Good was shot and killed by an ICE agent.
“Freedom is not arresting people without warrants. We have a system here, it’s called a Constitution. And we have a party, the Republicans. Who don’t seem to want to abide by the Constitution. January 6 is a prime example of that. And now they’re all free, and they’re in charge. You know what? Maybe it’s time for Jesse — I only did one term — I’m owed a second,” Ventura told reporters on Thursday.
Misconduct Expert Says State Has the Right to Charge ICE Officer Who Killed Renee Good — Samantha Michaels
After an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Good in Minneapolis this week, firing his weapon as she attempted to drive away, protesters have amassed around the country, many wondering: Can that officer be taken to court?
The Trump administration, predictably, says the agent, Jonathan Ross, is immune from prosecution. “You have a federal law enforcement official engaging in federal law enforcement action,” Vice President JD Vance told reporters on Thursday. “That guy is protected by absolute immunity. He was doing his job.”
J.D. Vance is an idiot puppet. In this war no one is immune. The battle will go on.
Trump and his vile liars forget one vital thing about the ICE victim they smear — John Casey
One of the most disturbing things about the Trump administration’s response to the shooting death of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis isn’t just that they’re lying. It’s how easy the lying seems to be. It starts at the top, with the liar-in-chief, and trickles down through a dishonest and delusional cabinet.
They didn’t hesitate. They didn’t hedge. They didn’t wait for the facts. One wonders if they even watched the video evidence, because they contradicted it without blinking. Within hours, officials confidently described Good as a “domestic terrorist” who used her vehicle as a “weapon.”
Trump and his allies are inventing threats that simply do not appear in the footage all Americans can watch. The certainty with which they spew these fabrications tells you something important: they believe this strategy works. And that belief has less to do with the facts than with who Renee Good was.
She wasn’t famous. She didn’t hold office. She wasn’t wealthy or politically connected. She didn’t have a MAGA bumper sticker on her SUV.
She was a woman — that’s important. She was a mom, a neighbor, a queer woman married to another woman. She was living an ordinary suburban life. She was like millions of women across this country.
Good had no institutional power. No connections. She was harmed by the state, by Trump’s Gestapo, and her life was immediately sexualized, and flattened into justification. When armed ICE agents — all men — surrounded her car, one trying to open the door, she was terrified in a way most can easily imagine. She did what anyone would do: she tried to get away.
Pope rebukes Trump's 'dominion' over Venezuela: 'Gravely threatens the rule of law' — David Edwards
"War is back in vogue and a zeal for war is spreading," the Catholic leader wrote on Friday. "The principle established after the Second World War, which prohibited nations from using force to violate the borders of others, has been completely undermined."
"Peace is no longer sought as a gift and a desirable good in itself," he added. "Instead, peace is sought through weapons as a condition for asserting one's own dominion. This gravely threatens the rule of law, which is the foundation of all peaceful civil coexistence."
'Job growth has stopped': Recession fears stoked as latest economic numbers lag behind — Travis Gettys
The end of America is near if Trump isn't rebuked
'It would snap our threads': Veteran offers grim prediction about Trump Greenland invasion — Ewan Gleadow
"A proposed military action against Greenland would "crumble alliance" with NATO nations and spells disaster for public approval, a veteran has warned."
This would de-stablize the entire planet. America could see atomic war for the first time.
'Horrific lie!' MAGA brawl erupts as Trump team accuses Marjorie Taylor Greene of setup — Alexander Willis
"Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene erupted Friday over accusations that she had helped orchestrate an ambush of President Donald Trump last year at a popular restaurant in Washington, D.C., calling the accusations a 'horrific' and 'dangerous lie.'"
The pathological maniac that is Trump will do any low-life lie to attack Americans.
We Have the King That Thomas Paine Feared — William Kristol, Andrew Egger, and Jim Swift
We have another Hitler to deal with you mean.
A Cold-Blooded Murder — Robert Reich
"In Minneapolis yesterday, an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Good, a 37-year-old mother of three. The shooting occurred on a residential street in south Minneapolis (less than a mile from where George Floyd was killed by police in 2020).
Trump claimed that Ms. Good “violently, willfully, and viciously ran over” the ICE agent. Kristi Noem claimed that “our officers were out trying to get a car stuck out of the snow when they were surrounded and assaulted and blocked in by protesters.”
Several videos taken from different angles (see, for example, here) and several analyses of the videos (see here) make it clear that Trump’s and Noem’s descriptions of what occurred are blatant lies.
According to an eyewitness, ICE agents yelled contradictory instructions at Good — one telling her to leave and then, as she complied, another tried to open her door and told her to get out, while a third shot her in the face.
As horrific as this murder is, Trump and his regime’s response has been almost as chilling."
Almost? They are the killers in charge!
Three children and the shitbag murdered their mother!
May Jonathan Ross meet the same fate as Benito Mussolini.
ICE Is a Domestic Terror Threat — Jordan Liz
On January 7, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent murdered Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis. Immediately, the Trump administration sprang into action to propagandize the incident. Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin claimed that the woman “weaponized her vehicle, attempting to run over our law enforcement officers in an attempt to kill them.” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem claimed, “It was an act of domestic terrorism.”
Renee Nicole Good Is Dead. Benjamin Franklin Warned Us This Would Happen… — Thom Hartmann
When I read that the young mother who was executed at point-blank range by one of Trump’s ICE goons yesterday was named Renee Nicole Good, it sent a chill down my spine.
As the pain and outrage was washing through me, it also struck me as almost too much of a coincidence that she was there protesting state violence and Ben Franklin had been using the name “Silence Dogood” — as in “Do Good” — to warn American colonists about the very same dangers of state violence.
When sixteen-year-old Franklin slipped his first Silence Dogood essay under the door of his brother’s print shop in 1722, America had few police departments, no body cameras, no qualified immunity, and few militarized patrols prowling city streets. But young Franklin already understood the danger.
Writing as a fictional widow, Franklin warned that “nothing makes a man so cruel as the sense of his own superiority.” The remark was in the context of self-important ministers, magistrates, and petty officials, but he was also talking about raw state power itself as we saw with the execution of Renee Nicole Good.
Power that is insulated, Franklin taught, answers only to itself and believes its very authority excuses the violence it uses.
Franklin’s insight didn’t die on the printed page but, rather, became the moral backbone of the American Revolution. As Do-Good, he repeatedly cautioned us that power breeds cruelty when it’s insulated from consequence, that authority becomes violent when it believes itself superior, and that free speech is usually the first casualty of abusive rule."
Viva the New American Revolution against the Trump invaders! Defend our Constitution!
Texas hands over complete list of registered voters to Trump administration — Natalia Contreras
The Justice Department has asked states for their voter rolls with an eye toward purging ineligible voters. Democrats say sharing the data could violate federal election law.
It should be a crime. Invasion of privacy. But the motherfuckers don't recognize law any longer! These geeks will get what all Nazis get in their end.
Dallas and Williamson counties end countywide voting sites for primary election day — Natalia Contreras
More Nazi violations of freedom!
Dallas and Williamson county Republicans are shifting away from using countywide voting sites on Election Day for Texas’ March 3 primary. Democrats will have to fall in line.
JD Vance Says ICE Murderer Just Really Scared Of Cars Right Now, OK? — Evan Hurst
Gaaaaah he is just so stupid-looking.
Jonathan Ross. That’s the fucking ICE murderer’s name.
The one we saw in explicit detail kill 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, without cause, and we know it was without cause because we have so many videos from so many angles that allow us to examine it from every, well, angle. If you haven’t looked at the New York Times’s excellent examination of the videos yet, do so if you can stomach it, or just bookmark the link so you can send it to liars, morons and Nazis who claim otherwise.
The Minneapolis Star Tribune named the son of a bitch yesterday. (Archive link.)
DHS SpokesNaziBarbie Tricia McLaughlin bellyaches unconvincingly that the Star Tribune did a “reckless behavior” and a “should be absolutely ashamed of themselves” by publishing his name.
ICE Nazis who do crimes should be able to do them in peace, we guess DHS SpokesNaziBarbie is saying. (She’s gonna shit her Sunday School dress when this is all over and the indictments for the American Nuremberg Trials start dropping on day one.)
America reaches its breaking point -- Brian Karem
In Minneapolis and Venezuela, the Trump administration villainizes America's neighbors — and its own citizens
"On Wednesday, the seventh day of the new year, the American military also successfully boarded and seized two Venezuelan-linked oil “ghost tankers” — one of which was Russian flagged — in the North Atlantic and Caribbean and arrested their crews of “international criminals,” as the administration described them. Presidential Pep Secretary Karoline Leavitt said the crew of the Russian-flagged vessel would face prosecution. Donald Trump, channeling his inner JR Ewing, proudly proclaimed that the United States is “in the oil business.”
There's going to be hell to pay very soon!
Trump: Maria Machado Is Going To Give Me Her Nobel
And I guarantee she wiped her ass with it, you retarded 5-year old!
Another Artist Cancels Kennedy Center Performance
Anyone that performs at the Center is not an artist, rather they are a "con-artist."
Everthing Trump touches dies!
Dem Rep: Kristi Noem Is An Idiot And Bad At Lying
Truth to corrupt enemy power lies!
"if they had just done what they said they would do and just focus on people with serious criminal records…
criminals might shoot back… killing white moms, zip-tie children, and attacking reporters plays well in the locker room, on their social media, and there is no real hazard. To those ICE guys it is a fun competition to see who can rack up the most 'points'… plus their cowardly enforcement tactics proves their loyalty to a cowardly dictator is unquestionable." -- Hell-No Kitty (comments)
Federal Agents Shoot Two “Gang Members” In Portland
The latest killings in an attack by the Trump enemy in our current Civil War.
"Portland Mayor Keith Wilson told reporters, “We know what the federal government says happened here. There was a time when we could take them at their word. That time is long past. We are calling on ICE to halt all operations in Portland until a full and independent investigation can take place,” he said. “Our community deserves answers.” The condition of the individuals who were shot has not been released."
“When agents identified themselves to the vehicle occupants, the driver weaponized his vehicle and attempted to run over the law enforcement agents,” DHS said in a standard statement released daily, soon to be hourly." -- Gustav2 (comments)
"I would like the chance to use my "lying eyes" and depend on the kindness of strange videos taken by observers, since Trump admin didn't budget for ICE cameras & don't want any videos taken...
The Trump Administration Says It's Illegal To Record Videos of ICE. Here's What the Law Says. 1/8/26
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem and other high-level Trump administration officials recently stated that videotaping and posting photos of on-duty Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents could be considered illegal 'violence' or 'doxxing'.
Similarly, [U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Greg] Bovino testified that he has instructed his officers to arrest protesters who make hyperbolic comments in the heat of political demonstrations, even though such statements—which do not constitute true threats—are protected speech, the motion argued." — SockMikey (comments)
And they have the cheek to refer to the US as a "free country?" Disgusting!
"So this is gonna be a routine occurrences of the trump administration attacking Americans killing some and wounding others" — Wissend (comments)
It won't last much longer without repercussions.
France Delays G7 Summit Over WH Cage Matches
Why would a sane nation bother with a trash US that has a Roman Colesium feature?
Right now the world is better off without Trump's criminal gang.
"This is when you know your government has no direction and no class and no cognitive skills whatsoever." — Dwight Williamson (comments)
Natl Symphony Members Fear Trump Will Ruin Them
Everything Trump touches dies! The world knows this!
SHAME!’ Woman Screams at Laura Ingraham, Who Complains Protesters Gave Her the Finger
C'mon! She's seen fingers before!
Lead White House ballroom architect says Trump now targeting the West Wing
We should all know by now: He's tearing down the entire White House as he is tearing down our government and our country.
He means to kill us all. We can't be silent. That's certain death!
Professor Fired Over Charlie Kirk Post Reinstated, Wins $500K — Conover Kennard
"Conservatives went on a social media rampage following Charlie Kirk's shooting death to find what they deemed to be inappropriate comments about the Turning Point USA co-founder to get them fired from their jobs. But the wave of employee terminations has been short-lived.
The New York Times reports:
A tenured professor who was briefly fired by Austin Peay State University in Tennessee in September for what the school’s president said was an insensitive social media post about the killing of Charlie Kirk will get a $500,000 settlement and his job back.
The abrupt firing, which the university acknowledged soon afterward had violated the professor’s due-process rights, was made after the professor’s post drew a backlash from conservatives, including Senator Marsha Blackburn, Republican of Tennessee.
The institution, which is a public school based in Clarksville, Tenn., about 45 miles northwest of Nashville, backtracked less than two weeks later, placing the professor on a paid suspension for the rest of the fall semester while it pursued his termination.
The professor, Darren Michael, 56, who teaches acting and directing, was reinstated on Dec. 30 as part of the settlement with the university, which ended a more than three-month dispute over his employment."
If any one of these rampaging rabid dogs weren't shot in the face, I don't wanna hear your whimpering and neither do the rest of Americans!
'Fills my body with rage': JD Vance's 'disgraceful' new remarks buried by analyst
The vice president's statements enraged progressive YouTuber Brian Tyler Cohen, who responded to the remarks in a new reaction video.
"It literally fills my body with rage to hear the Vice President of the United States say that an unarmed mom who just dropped her child off at school and who tried to drive away from a rogue ICE agent who subsequently shot her in the face is a 'tragedy of her own making' is a testament to the fact that there is no floor for these people," Cohen said. "JD Vance and his administration are depraved, soulless human beings. You cannot reason with them because they are beyond reason." — Brian Tyler Cohen
If You're Still Nothing But Incandescent Rage Over Minneapolis ICE Murder, Come Sit By Us
If you are anything like us, you are having a hard time responding to yesterday’s events in Minneapolis with anything other than pure, unfiltered, free range, cage-free, incandescent rage. And that’s fine, because that’s the only appropriate moral reaction to watching a government-sanctioned terrorist murder an innocent American citizen in cold blood for the crime of trying to get in the way of his terrorizing of people who don’t have white skin. -- Evan Hurst
Because, you see, we’ve watched the videos, multiple times, from every angle, and that’s what we saw. We saw a woman who very clearly was trying to get out of there, and we saw a Nazi scumbag, one of God’s most worthless discards, murder her through her windshield and then two more times through her drivers window, just to make sure she was fully murdered. And then we saw the aftermath, the pictures of her car with blood all over the deployed airbag and stuffed animals for her child overflowing out of the glove compartment, and we heard reports from eyewitnesses that there was a physician on the scene and the Nazi scumbags wouldn’t let them in to even try to offer lifesaving measures. (Which makes every one of them a murderer.)
Then? Then that little bitch ICE leader motherfucker Greg Bovino took his Little Man Syndrome to go terrorize a high school, and now school is out in Minneapolis for the rest of the week, to try to keep the children safe from the terrorists.
And then, before anybody even knew Renee Good’s name, began the absolutely vicious lying from DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, her mini-me DHS Nazi Spox Barbie Tricia McLaughlin, Donald Trump, and more, telling the public that Good was a “domestic terrorist” and that she charged that agent with her vehicle, even though we can all watch the fucking video from multiple angles and we can see, unless we’re amoral liars and Nazi sympathizers, that Good did none of those things.
We saw the sick fucks at DHS tweeted that a “violent rioter” had “weaponized her vehicle” and that the unhinged terrorist murderer “fired defensive shots,” especially the ones you fire off once your victim is already slumped over their steering wheel.
We saw the president’s tweet that Good literally ran over her murderer, clearly making it up as he goes along, or just lying. (Trump got mush-mouthed and confused about his initial pronouncement after watching the video slo-mo in the presence of reporters, which suggests to us just how much the information he consumes is elder-abused and curated into his brain by Stephen Miller, who keeps him from being exposed to anything that doesn’t support the most viciously Nazi interpretation of any subject under discussion.)
Vice President Couchfuck is getting in on the lying, because we guess he was worried he hadn’t adequately incited hatred or violence against his political enemies lately, saying Good was a “deranged leftist” and that all Democrats running for office should be asked, “Do you think this officer was wrong in defending his life against a deranged leftist who tried to run him over?” To which we reply, 1. Fuck yes he was wrong, and he should be sent to CECOT for life given due process and prosecuted to the full extent of the law for it, and 2., Fuck you, lying shitbag....
Vance: War Powers Act Is “Fake And Unconstitutional
Douchbag, America didn't vote for a totalitarian shithead government!
"But it’s been going on for 10 years it’s called Trump stupid pox." — Dwight Willamson.
"If the Constitution is null and void, where exactly does JD’s authority come from?" — Asthmatic Fox (comments)
"Fucking fake hillbilly." — Stretchdad vs the Dicktocracy (comments)
LMAO at the VP clown!
"The right has long held that the Constitutions Art I grant of the power to Congress (Congress has the exclusive power to
declare war, raise armies, maintain the navy, and make rules for the milita) is weaker than Art II grant of the president 'commander in chief' title.
It's always been a weak argument that was mostly backed by cranks and nutjobs." — The_Wretched (comments)
Minnesota Paper Names ICE Agent Who Killed Woman
"The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who fatally shot a 37-year-old woman in Minneapolis Wednesday is Jonathan Ross, the same officer who was dragged and injured by a fleeing driver in a separate incident last year, according to a person with knowledge of the case and verified by court documents. Little public information is available about Ross, described only by federal officials as 'an experienced' officer."
He had a hard on for anyone that got in his way after that.
"Justice Department policy says deadly force is allowed only when no reasonable alternative exists, including stepping out of the vehicle’s path.
Law enforcement officers are trained to prioritize their safety and the safety of others during a traffic stop. If a vehicle is fleeing, officers are generally required to take cover and avoid being in the path of the vehicle to prevent injury."
"So he violated the rules six months ago, was seriously injured and DID THE SAME THING AGAIN, this time escalating to murder." — DaddySnark (comments)
"I actually tried to debate with some Right wingers who say it was completely self defense.
I tried to explain that she never used her SUV to ram him because she cranked her wheels hard right to clear him which is obvious to anyone with eyes.
Then I gave up. You'll never win because they know it too but it doesn't fit their narrative." — JayP (comments)
You can't argue with a moron. It's a waste of your time.
Newsmax Host: I’m Glad That ICE Killed That Woman
The latest sub-human puke from the Nazi propaganda outlet.
"It’s not ICE, it’s you and people like you. You liberals, you hacks. You people are insane. Your rhetoric, along with your nearly every other Democrat has incited such rage in like this undeveloped, subpar intelligence of the liberal mind. You have convinced, not an unreasonable amount of people, that they should actually oppose federal law enforcement from doing their job. And now you have a woman ramming her car, attempting to hit federal ICE agents because of that — this is the danger.
You have convinced — these Democrats have convinced people to such an extent that this woman used her car as a weapon. This is the culture shift. This is insane. Jacob Frey and Tim Walz, they weren’t this mad when a trans person shot up a school and killed American children. You see the problem here?
Like, I hope Trump goes in and just cleans out this entire Somali constituency and ships them back to the Third World dump they came from. I’m not even sorry about that.
And you know what? I’m fine with lethal force in this case, too. I don’t care because that’s a criminal. Because that’s what this person became the second she intervened and then rammed an agent with her car. That is the justifiable use of lethal force. I don’t — I’m sorry. I’m not losing any sleep that she got shot. And you can gasp and clutch your pearls all you want." — un-named lying Nazi propagndist.
"Let's see, if we say that I'm glad that man killed Charlie Kirk, the right foams at the mouth and demands that everyone be fired.
But this foul human is doing the same and will be cheered." — DaddySnark (comments)
Only by Trump Nazis.
"this is the problem. they use huge microphones and have a continually developing narrative to counteract any and all criminal activity on their part. far too many ignorant Americans hear it, including some who don't want to (it's pumped in to far too many workplaces).
everyone who watches the video knows it was murder. fascism demands a response. it was murder and every time you type that google has to respect that. all the AI will." — Chicago Dyke, @regular (comments)
"'Your rhetoric, ... has incited such rage'
Law enforcement doesn't get to legally kill people because the LEO goon is enraged. Rage shootings are crimes.
If you're going to argue the victim was at fault, at least make a intelligible argument." — The_Wretched (comments)
"Let's not forget this is not ICE's only murder. Gonzales was a brown man, but his life was just as important as Renee's.
More than 100 people gathered under the Little Village arch Wednesday night for a vigil in solidarity with Minneapolis, where an
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed a driver earlier in the day.
“We’re still asking for justice for Silverio,” Baltazar Enriquez, of the Little Village Community Council, told the crowd, referring to
Silverio Villegas González, a father originally from Mexico who was shot and killed as he allegedly tried to flee from ICE agents who
tried to stop his car Sept. 12 in suburban Franklin Park." — DaddySnark (comments)
The extreme protest by Vance reveals their guilt!
Newsmax Host: MN Dems Are “Enemies Of The State
More lies from our Nazi enemy. More on our Civil War.
Mace Claims Woman Killed By ICE Was “Paid Agitator"
More Nazi propaganda from the current Civil War front.
‘Absolute Disgrace!’ Irate JD Vance Loses It on the Media for ‘Lying’ About ICE Shooting — Isaac Schorr
Vice President JD Vance dressed down the media on Thursday over its coverage of the shooting of a Minneapolis woman by an ICE officer on Wednesday in a monologue he delivered from the podium in the White House briefing room.
After first discussing the administration’s response to the Somali fraud scandal playing out in Minnesota, Vance accused the press of “lying” about what had transpired in Minneapolis the day before:
'I’ll take some questions, but I want to make just one final observation here. When I was actually walking out here, somebody sent me a photo of a CNN headline about what happened in Minneapolis. And this is the headline, I’m just going to read it: “Outrage after ICE officer kills U.S. citizen in Minneapolis.” Well, that’s one way to put it, and that is the way that many people in the corporate media have put this attack over the last 24 hours. And I say attack very, very intentionally because this was an attack on federal law enforcement; this was an attack on law and order; this was an attack on the American people.
The way that the media, by and large, has reported this story has been an absolute disgrace and it puts our law enforcement officers at risk every single day! What that headline leaves out is the fact that that very ICE officer nearly had his life ended, dragged by a car six months ago, 33 stitches in his leg. So you think maybe he’s a little bit sensitive about somebody ramming him with an automobile? What that headline leaves out is that that woman was there to interfere with a legitimate law enforcement operation in the United States of America. What that headline leaves out is that woman is part of a broader left-wing network to attack, to dox, to assault, and to make it impossible for our ICE officers to do their job.
If the media wants to tell the truth, they ought to tell the truth that a group of left-wing radicals have been working tirelessly, sometimes using domestic terror techniques, to try to make impossible for the president of the United States to do what the American people elected him to do, which is enforce our immigration laws. The president stands with ICE, I stand with ICE, we stand with all of our law enforcement officers. And part of that is recognizing that you people in the media, not everybody in this room, but many people in this room have been lying about this attack. She was trying to ram this guy with her car, he shot back, he defended himself. He’s already been seriously wounded in law enforcement operations before, and everybody who’s been repeating the lie that this is some innocent woman who was out for a drive in Minneapolis when a law enforcement officer shot at her, you should be ashamed of yourselves! Every single one of you." — J.D. Vance, punk.
We know who should be ashamed here J.D. You have embarassed yourself and the office you hold.
Renee Good Was Not an Activist, Had Just Dropped Young Son at School Before Deadly ICE Shooting: Ex-Husband
"Renee Nicole Macklin Good, the woman shot dead by an ICE agent on Wednesday, was a loving mother and poet who had just dropped her young son off at school, her ex-husband said.
Speaking to the Associated Press on Thursday, Good’s former husband, who declined to be identified for the safety of their children, said his former wife was not an activist and had never, to his knowledge, even attended a protest.
Her mother, Donna Ganger, told the Minneapolis Star-Tribune that her daughter was “one of the kindest people I’ve ever known.”
That description does not fall in line with the Trump administration’s characterization of Good, who they claim was a “domestic terrorist” who had been trying to obstruct a federal operation.
“On Thursday, Vice President JD Vance said she was part of “a broader left-wing network to attack and to doxx and to assault and to make it impossible for our ICE officers to do their jobs.”
Good’s ex-husband told the AP that she was new to the area." — Tom Durante
J.D. Vance and all the Trump Criminal Syndicate are co-conspriators in murder.
Protester Curses Trump Official Out On Air As CNN Tries To Interview Him Amid ICE Shooting
"On Thursday’s edition of CNN’s Inside Politics, Young revealed that he’d spoken with Bovino briefly, and played some video in which a protester profanely cut in to give Bovino a piece of his mind:
RYAN YOUNG: And at one point as the protesters started to leave we thought this would be over and then the next thing that happened is Greg Bovino showed up and started walking the line himself.
That really sent a further agitation to this crowd. People were watching him. They were mocking him. There were yelling at him non-stop.
We got a quick sort of not really an interview here, but he did respond to some of the questions. Take a listen
GREG BOVINO: It’s good to see you.
RYAN YOUNG: Real quick about being out here? Your reaction to this crowd?
GREG BOVINO: Hey, we’re here. It’s Title 8 Immigration Enforcement.
PROTESTER: Hey! Nobody gives a f*ck what you say, Greg!
GREG BOVINO: Operations continue as usual. We’ll be talking.
PROTESTER: Nobody gives a f*ck what you say! Nobody cares–" — Tommy Christopher
And so our second Civil War has begun. It will get much bloodier as I predicted.
You Cannot Exonerate Ashli Babbitt and Blame Renee Good—But That’s Exactly What Trump Is Doing
"President Donald Trump has blamed one woman for her own killing and absolved another who died while attacking police. The difference had nothing to do with facts.
Ashli Babbitt, shot while breaching a barricaded doorway during the January 6 attack, is framed by Trump as a victim of unjust state violence. Her conduct is treated as incidental. Context is stripped away.
The asymmetry did not stop at rhetoric. Trump and his White House publicly identified the Capitol Police officer who shot Babbitt, despite longstanding norms protecting officers involved in use-of-force incidents. His name was circulated by political actors and media allies, effectively placing a target on a line officer who acted to protect members of Congress.
No such exposure would be tolerated in the Renee Good case. The masked ICE agent who killed her remains unidentified, and any attempt to name or dox that officer would trigger instant conservative outrage. The principle is not transparency. It is protection for those aligned with Trump’s narrative and punishment for those who are not.
President Donald Trump has blamed one woman for her own killing and absolved another who died while attacking police. The difference had nothing to do with facts.
Ashli Babbitt, shot while breaching a barricaded doorway during the January 6 attack, is framed by Trump as a victim of unjust state violence. Her conduct is treated as incidental. Context is stripped away.
The asymmetry did not stop at rhetoric. Trump and his White House publicly identified the Capitol Police officer who shot Babbitt, despite longstanding norms protecting officers involved in use-of-force incidents. His name was circulated by political actors and media allies, effectively placing a target on a line officer who acted to protect members of Congress.
No such exposure would be tolerated in the Renee Good case. The masked ICE agent who killed her remains unidentified, and any attempt to name or dox that officer would trigger instant conservative outrage. The principle is not transparency. It is protection for those aligned with Trump’s narrative and punishment for those who are not." — Colby Hall
rump is a vicious gangster and not fit to live in a peaceful society. Make no mistake.
J.D. Vance is the same and proved it today in an insane, contradictory word salad vomit!
NO Kristi, Act Of 'Domestic Terrorism' Came From Ice Agents
"After the horrible shooting of Renee Nicole Good in her car by ICE agents in Southern Minneapolis, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem immediately came out with a statement claiming Good was a "domestic terrorist", which is absolutely refuted by the video evidence.
The rest of Noem's statement was just as preposterous because her description of the event is not backed up by video evidence.—- John Amato
Musk Goes Full Racist, Certifies 'White Men May Become Endangered Species'
Genius, my ass!
Judge Disqualifies Another Illegally Appointed US Attorney, Tosses His Subpoenas Against New York AG
"A federal judge on Thursday disqualified the Trump loyalist top prosecutor in upstate New York and tossed subpoenas his office has issued to state Attorney General Letitia James. It’s the latest in a wave of rulings that have rejected the administration’s effort to install U.S. attorneys while sidestepping the Senate confirmation process." — Politico
Trump rips 5 Republicans who voted to block Venezuela military action
Some of them found a spine.
COPS: Pastor Kidnapped And Sexually Assaulted Teen
"Police in southwest Missouri arrested a 37-year-old Kansas pastor who allegedly held a 16-year-old girl at gunpoint and sexually assaulted her. Jasper County court records show Joshua Price, of Parsons, is charged with first-degree kidnapping, two counts of armed criminal action, first-degree sexual abuse, and sexual exploitation of a minor." -- ABC
Another one bites the dust. Still no drag queens.
Stephen A. Smith Insists ICE Agent Was ‘Completely Justified’ in Fatal Shooting in Minneapolis — But Still Thinks He Could Have Avoided It — Ahmad Austin Jr.
What's he doing now? Running for "Supreme Dictator of the Mega-Arrogant Moron Universe?"
Nancy Mace Shocks Maria Bartiromo With Claim ICE Agent Who Shot Renee Good Was Limping
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) claimed Thursday that the ICE agent who shot and killed Renee Good was seen on video “limping” as he backed away from the Minneapolis mother’s van. — Jennifer Bowers Bahney
Nancy is the one limoing here. The shooter was walking perfectly fine as he approached the vehicle that held the body of the woman he had just murdered. The video proves it beyond a reasonable doubt.
The Trump Doctrine: Violence Is Us
...In short, might makes right. This was a not-too-veiled threat against…well, everyone, including foreign governments and all people within the United States. If the Trump administration has the power to do something, it will. Implied in this stance is the exercise of violence. Either in Greenland or in the homeland. Those who do not bend to Trump’s will—or Miller’s—can expect to feel their violent wrath.
In those two sentences, Miller was saying that there is no rule of law. The world, instead, is governed only by force. That means violence. This ugly and dark stance is an attack on the fundamental concept of rules-based civilization. It is profoundly anti-democratic. It ignores such niggling matters as rights, societal order, and the public good. All that counts is who has the bigger or better club to swing.
An essential element of a police state is the excessive use and threat of violence, and in the past few days the nation has seen such displays. As Trump reaches the end of the first year of his return to power, he and his lieutenants are demonstrating their willingness to deploy force beyond its legitimate use to achieve their aims. The warning is clear and intentional: We are violent. Beware. — David Corn
Community reacts to ICE shooting in Minnesota. And, RFK Jr. unveils new food pyramid
Minnesota law enforcement and the FBI are investigating an ICE officer's fatal shooting of a Minneapolis woman. And, Health Secretary RFK Jr. unveils new dietary guidelines for Americans. — Brittney Melton
A pile of shit with a cherry on top?
'By design': Stephen Miller said to be 'sending a message' with Minneapolis ICE eruption
Stephen Miller, White House deputy chief of staff behind the Trump administration's harsh immigration policies, "is the architect of a Murder Machine," according to a former GOP strategist.
The Lincoln Project co-founder Rick Wilson wrote in his Substack Thursday that after months of escalating ICE attacks in American cities, the fatal shooting of 37-year-old mother and poet Renee Nicole Good has revealed the next phase of lies from Miller and Trump's loyalists.
"You thought the abuses would stay in the detention centers. You thought the violence was reserved for those without papers," Wilson wrote. "You were wrong. This is by design."
"The transition from 'deporting criminals' to 'executing citizens in the street' isn’t a slip-up; it’s the graduation ceremony. Miller wants the blood of Americans spilled because his power flows from the fear those crimson splashes create," he added. — Nicole Charky-Chami
'Certainly not accidental': Smirking border chief's presence at tense protest questioned
A national security correspondent questioned the presence of President Donald Trump's border chief on the front lines of a tense protest in Minneapolis.
Thousands gathered Thursday morning, less than a day after an Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officer fatally shot 37-year American citizen Renee Good during a raid, and Border Patrol senior official Greg Bovino smiled and laughed with federal agents as tensions flared outside a federal facility.
"What we're seeing here is certainly not accidental," said CNN's Josh Campbell, "because so much of this immigration enforcement effort that we've seen across the country has largely been about messaging, public messaging, getting imagery out there, and I have to say, I mean, you know, from the perspective of a law enforcement leader, it could be him wanting to come out there and try to, you know, buck up his own troops, which leaders often do to say, 'Look, I'm going to come out, you know, thank you for what you're doing.' So that's one aspect."
"But clearly there is a public messaging aspect because he's been there for so long, just kind of waiting around at times, looking back into the crowd, and, you know, one thing that we've noted throughout our coverage, especially when we've talked about excessive use of force incidents that were questionable, as you mentioned, there's always a big question about de-escalation," Campbell added. "Is this something that you want to try to, you know, bring down temperature, the temperature with the public, particularly in a volatile situation where you have someone who's been shot and killed by law enforcement. This is somewhat of the opposite." — Travis Gettys
They forgot to wear their swastika death squad arm bands.
ICE shooting probe being 'led solely by the FBI' as cops banned from talking to witnesses.
The U.S. Department of Justice has pushed the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) aside and taken control of the investigation into the killing of Renee Nicole Good, 37, by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent.
In a statement Thursday morning, the Minnesota BCA said that the state agency was no longer being allowed to participate in the investigation.
"The FBI informed the BCA that the U.S. Attorney's Office had reversed course: the investigation would now be led solely by the FBI," the BCA said, according to The Minnesota Star Tribune.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem accused Good of being a domestic terrorist following her shooting on Wednesday. -- David Edwards
Of course they would be. As is the DOJ, the FBI is part and parcel of Trump's Criminal Syndicate, now Murder, Inc.
Krusty Kristi could be accused of many things. Being a decent human is not one of them.
A Killing in Minneapolis. A Gaslighting From the White House.
Yesterday, in Minneapolis, in broad daylight, on video, and in front of many witnesses, a masked ICE officer shot and killed an American citizen, a woman named Renee Good, behind the wheel of her car. Within minutes, Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin was lying about her.
The victim, McLaughlin said, had “weaponized her vehicle, attempting to run over our law enforcement officers in an attempt to kill them.” It had been, she said, “an act of domestic terrorism.” The officer who, “fearing for his life,” fired the shots, she said, “saved his own life and that of his fellow officers.”
Shortly after came the videos showing what actually took place. Good had been blocking traffic with her vehicle when ICE officers approached, demanding alternately that she stop blocking the street and that she get out of her car. One pulled her door handle, at which point she attempted to drive away. In doing so, she turned past another agent standing near the front of her vehicle, possibly clipping him—the angle of the various videos makes it difficult to tell—with the corner of her front bumper. Immediately afterward, as she drove past him, that officer fired into the vehicle multiple times—once through the side of her windshield, then multiple times through her open passenger window.
Some of McLaughlin’s claims were only arguably lies. It is unsettling to have a vehicle accelerate past you; it is possible that the officer who fired the shots had indeed feared for his life. -- Andrew Egger
A real officer of the law would be trained not to stand in front of a vehicle that is moving forward. They use vehicles to block.
Besides, the murderer was not in her line of steering. As soon as she dropped her vehicle from reverse into drive to execute a right turn to go on her way as a free citizen of a free country, he unholstered his weapon and murdered her. It is clear to any who are not blind!
The Depraved New White House Website Isn’t Just a Lie: It’s an Invitation
"The most dangerous lies a government can tell aren’t about how tax cuts will create prosperity or that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, although those were bad. When a malicious, corrupt government wants to truly break down trust in a society to more easily seize and manipulate it politically and loot it economically, it inevitably tells lies about the past.
Because once a government convinces its people that what they saw with their own eyes never really happened, what’s left of democracy in that republic is already on life support...."
Sorry, GOP. There’s No Christian Revival
“We’re here for one name, and that’s Jesus,” declared Bryce Crawford, a 22-year-old who makes videos of himself accosting strangers, including mentally ill homeless people, under the guise of “winning souls” for Christ. He went on declare that “we’re in the last days” and that every person who doesn’t believe in his version of the gospels will soon “be cast into hell.”
“We’re all on our knees, shoulder to shoulder, under the blood of Christ,” proclaimed the British comedian Russell Brand, who is facing seven charges of sexual assault, including three rape charges, in the United Kingdom. He included Ben Shapiro, by name, in his list of believers, even though Shapiro is Jewish. He then proceeded to insist that Christianity is the key to resolving the conflict between Israel and Gaza, which have primarily Jewish and Muslim populations.
Between groups like TPUSA, right-wing media outlets and social media influencers, there’s now an entire machinery propping up this false narrative that young people are stampeding into the pews. Even as GOP leaders who can read a poll know that the upcoming elections are not looking good for their party, this fantasy of a Christianizing America is leading the everyday MAGA faithful to believe otherwise. A September poll from September shows that 89% of Republicans think their party will win the midterm elections, which is up seven points from April. In fact, the party is forecast to lose seats as its support continues to erode under Trump’s chaotic mismanagement. But none of that matters: TPUSA is here to take Republicans’ money and sell them a story about how all the kids are coming to Jesus — and to the GOP. -- Amanda Marcotte
These idiots are so full of shit it's dripping out of their ears!
About 200 Texas A&M courses could change due to new restrictions on teaching gender, race
All the Aggie jokes are true and worse ones will follow this retarded act.
Texas Plato Massacre
In an inevitable outcome following November’s adoption of new academic censorship policies by the Texas A&M Board of Regents, a philosophy professor at the “university” has been told to stop having students read passages by Plato in a first-year Contemporary Moral Problems course that’s set to begin next week. Professor Martin Peterson was informed that he must scrap a two-week unit on “Race and Gender Ideology,” and another lecture on “sexual morality,” along with the dangerous readings from Plato and the class textbook.
Dr. Peterson shared the warning from his department chair, Dr. Kristi Sweet, which passed along the verdict of the College of Arts and Sciences’ “leadership team,” which vets course syllabi for compliance with “Rule 08.01,” the University’s ban on allegedly illegal knowledge, in keeping with executive orders from Donald Trump and Gov. Greg Abbott. Sweet informed Peterson that if he didn’t scrap the gender and race module, he would be assigned to teach another introductory philosophy class, “Ethics and Engineering,” and no we are not making that up.
Of course, this isn’t directly about Plato, whatever he got up to at his retreat. The supposedly dangerous passages are from the Symposium, on Aristophanes’ myth of split humans and Diotima’s ladder of love (whence comes the term “Platonic” love). Here’s a fun BBC video explaining the former, with its heretical pagan idea that, whatever our sexual orientation, we’re all looking for our missing half to “complete” us. If you’re reading this blog post in Texas, please turn on your VPN so you can’t be tracked.
You can see how that myth, with its straightforward explanation that humans were created with a range of sexual identities, would run afoul of Texas’s official pronouncement that there are only two sexes, and that even mentioning the existence of LGBTQ people is a form of “indoctrination.” As ever, to preserve “Western civilization,” the only real civilization, young people must be protected from some of Western Civilization’s foundational texts.
But this is only partly about Plato, of course. The real goal is to forbid any state acknowledgement of trans people or America’s history of racism, because the state’s leaders decreed that trans people don’t exist and real history is divisive. Plato was simply collateral damage....
Senate’s Most Famous Stroke Victim Thinks President Dementia’s Greenland Fixation Is GREAT
Time for a dispatch from the only US senator who actually might could lose that dementia test to Donald Trump.
One of the running themes of this week, besides the authoritarianism and the imperialism and the unrestrained Hitler-ness and the murder, is the irrepressible stupidity of the people committing these heinous acts.
It’s a strange comfort knowing that our fascists are far stupider than every other fascists in human history, especially the syphilis-brained (allegedly?) dementia patient at the top.
Yesterday, retiring Republican Senator Thom Tillis spoke of Donald Trump’s and Stephen Miller’s dumb little bitch Nazi plan to grab Greenland by the pussy and not take “Please, no!” for an answer, saying, “I’m sick of stupid.” He added that “[t]he amateurs who said it was a good idea should lose their jobs.” He’s talking about you, store brand Goebbels with the off-putting wife who isn’t even good for making strudel.
So wow, even Tillis knows this raping Greenland thing is stupid. Lisa Murkowski thinks the idea is “very, very unsettling” and Susan Collins is concerned. Therefore surely all the Democrats are united in roundly laughing at and haha just kidding. You’re still here and taking up space, John Fetterman?
Watters: ICE Should Go Door-To-Door In Minneapolis
Start at this Nazi traitor's house!
Airline Ends ICE Deportation Flights After Backlash
The resistance will continue!
"Media vastly under reports protests and if they do report it will be on the infrequent clashes or violence - the classic, if it bleeds, it leads.
However (as Rachel Maddow has focused on since the start of Trump's 2nd term) - PROTESTS WORK.
Not every time, not smoothly, not immediately, but protest works.
Silence is the lubrication that makes it easier for our fascist goverment to commit even more atrocities." — DaddySnark (comments)
RIGHT ON!
Trump Declares He’ll Be Running Venezuela For Years
Nope. He will not last for "years."
"He can't do the job he has now!" — clay (comments)
Protests Take Place Across US After ICE Killing
Who among us will be the next to be murdered by the Trump killers?
Krusty Kristi is a bimbo nitwit retard! Can she pull her hat down farther to hide her restructured face more?
"Go after their hotels. Wherever ICE stays, make it hell on earth for EVERYONE within blocks." -- xargo (comments)
"There are far more of us then there are of them, and a lot of us are armed. Difference being, not everyone left of Hitler advertises that fact.
When the bullets start flying, and they will start flying, you need to choose whether you'll fight back, or whimper for the mercy you know they will never give you.
Fetishising peaceful protest to the point of becoming easy prey is not something to be lauded." — Karl Dubhe IV (comments)
The ones that never lived through the 1960s are obvious with their comments.
Jimmy Kimmel Echoes Minneapolis Mayor With T-Shirt
And I raise your bet: Get the Nazi fuck out of our country!
CBS Becomes OANN: Full-on State Sponsored Propaganda
Bari Weiss is fulfilling David Ellison's dream.
All fascists love the contries they force their totalitarianism on, dimwits.
"So, where is the motherfucker right now? Did he get to go home to beat his wife later? Why is he not sitting in jail now?" -— fastfeast (comments)
"Have ICE agents encountered armed resistance in the last decade?
I tried to google the answer(well, bing actually, as I prefer it to google) and an AI response was "Yes. ICE agents have faced a 700% increase in attacks as they have enforced..." In other words the AI parroted Republican Fascist propaganda BS!
Asking for specifics and getting more talking points I concluded(perhaps unfairly?) that ICE almost NEVER faces armed resistance to doing their statutory duties in the last 10 years!
So?
WHY ARE THEY NOW ARMED AND READY TO MURDER PROTESTERS? OR EVEN IMMIGRANTS AT THE OFFICES WHERE THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO HAVE ASSYLUM HEARINGS?
Why does ICE now consist of masked and armed thugs ready to deal out frontier "justice" on unarmed, peaceful humans?
BECAUSE WE, AMERICANS, ARE NOW THE NAZIS!" — DemoChristian (comments)
'We love America'
No you don't. You don't attack the bedrock of a democratic republic, the flow of free and factual information and still get to pretend to be pro-America. No, these are the same fascists that took over Nazi Germany and quickly banned all forms of news that weren't 100% pro-Nazi regime.
And so CBS, which has publicly stated that it plans to fundamentally pivot its programming to suit Donald Trump and his anti-Democracy MAGA movement, it is no friend of America nor our democracy. These fascist oligarchs have no respect for the general intelligence of the American people, otherwise it wouldn't insult us with its fake allegiances to democracy, while it fully engage in dismantling it."
Trump Store In Bucks County Closing Due To Declining Sales
"Mike Domanico's store thrived during the Biden administration, but Trump's return to the White House has been bad for business.
Jeez, I wonder why people are souring on this guy?
There's something deeply ironic about a business promoting Trump closing just a year after he returns to office, and people start to realize what it actually means to put a deeply incompetent, narcissistic sociopath in as president.
The 'Trump Store,' a Bensalem spot for merchandise and knickknacks celebrating President Donald Trump, is closing its doors after six years in business. The store’s final day is Jan. 31."
Mike, who has been selling "Trump junk" has the sadz.
The people sucking up to Trump
While Trump and his henchmen are stripping Americans of our constitutional rights and illegally taking over other nations, America’s supposed leadership class is silent. Or worse, they’re helping Trump.
Too many university presidents are silent or caving to Trump’s demands. Too many senior managers of law firms have surrendered to his tyranny. Too many directors of large nonprofits are remaining silent. Almost all Republican leaders are rubber stamping his authoritarianism. Too many Democratic leaders are barely putting up a fight.
The worst offenders are the CEOs of some of America’s most powerful and influential corporations.
Let's look at the mercenaries!
ICE Agent Shoots and Kills Woman at Minneapolis Protest
“I have a message to ICE: Get the fuck out of Minneapolis,” said Mayor Jacob Frey after the shooting.
Officials have not yet released the woman’s identity, but she was identified by Sen. Tina Smith (D-Minnesota) as a U.S. citizen, and local officials cited her as 37 years old. The Department of Homeland Security has confirmed the shooting.
The killing apparently occurred less than a mile away from where police officers killed George Floyd in 2020.
Almost immediately after the incident, DHS moved to vilify the woman.
Cold blooded and needless murder! The deadly disease Trump has turned loose upon us!
'American Reich' author details a national surge in bigotry and white supremacy
Journalist Eric Lichtblau says President Trump's incendiary rhetoric has stoked a "new age of hate." His book centers on a murder committed by a young neo-Nazi in Orange County, Calif.
WH Finalizes Plan To Gut Environmental Impact Law
The planet with outlive all these gutless motherfuckers despite their murder efforts.
ICE Shoots And Kills Minneapolis Woman
A woman who was shot by an ICE agent Wednesday morning has died, according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
In a statement, Assistant DHS Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said “rioters” blocked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement with a car and allegedly tried to run them over, something she called “an act of domestic terrorism.”
That’s when an ICE officer opened fire and killed the woman. No ICE agents were seriously hurt. The shooting has drawn a large crowd of protesters and law enforcement to the area of Portland Avenue and 34th Street in the city’s Powderhorn community.
https://www.joemygod.com/2026/01/ice-shoots-and-kills-minneapolis-protester-video/
America has had it with these cretins!
National Weather Service Uses AI to Generate Forecasts, Accidentally Hallucinates Town With Dirty Joke Name
"Months before it mysteriously vaporized into thin air, Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency ravaged the National Weather Service, leading to severe staffing shortages.
While the Trump administration promised to rehire most of the around 550 lost jobs at the agency last summer, effectively admitting that DOGE had gone too far, the agency’s offices across the country are still struggling with many roles that remain unfilled.
And given the latest blunder, those who remain are seemingly struggling to keep up — relying on flawed AI tech to come up with broken visuals for social media feeds.
As the Washington Post reports, the National Weather Service was caught posting an AI-generated weather map that hallucinated names for towns in Idaho."
Everyone knows AI is a certified pile of shit!
Trump's Disgusting Gaslighting On J6 Anniversary
What else would you expect from their Nazi leader who is responsible for the treason?
Trump May Be ‘Totally Overwhelmed’ As Shrinking GOP Numbers Threaten His Agenda: Report
...These new Trump-sourced requirements, predicted Perticone, will heap additional problems on a Republican calendar “already over-encumbered with debates about health insurance subsidies, government funding deadlines, the executive branch’s compliance with the Epstein files disclosure legislation, and the fraught prospect of another reconciliation bill.”
Additionally, Perticone writes that government funding is once again set to expire at the end of January. Combine this with the ever-shrinking Republican majority in the House, with Republicans retiring or seeking office elsewhere, and a picture begins to emerge of a legislative agenda “being totally overwhelmed,” Perticone wrote.
“And it’s just getting harder for Speaker Mike Johnson,” said Perticone. “In the past 24 hours, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) formally resigned, House Republican Doug LaMalfa (R-Calif.) died suddenly, and Rep. Jim Baird (R-Ind.) landed in the hospital after a car crash. Baird is expected to recover, but even counting him, the House GOP enjoys a tiny 218–213 majority. That’s a two-vote margin for error.”
Kristi Noem made a critical mistake in Minneapolis shooting response: former ICE chief
"Mere hours after dressing up in bullet-proof gear and joining ICE agents in patrolling Minneapolis streets, video emerged of an ICE agent firing into a woman’s vehicle and killing the occupant. The 37 year-old U.S. citizen's name has not yet been publicly revealed
Hours after the violence, Noem called the fatal shooting of the woman an “act of domestic terrorism,” claiming the driver tried to ram agents during an immigration crackdown.
It's high time for Trump's gang of murderers to resign and be prosecuted!
America must demand Trump's resignation!
LIVE VIDEO: Minnesota Gov Speaks On ICE Shooting
“This ‘it was done in self defense’ is garbage,” Frey said at an afternoon press conference. “They are already trying to spin this is action of self-defense. Having seen the video myself, that is bull****.”
That's all the Nazis deal in!
Minneapolis Mayor: “ICE’s Story Is Bullshit, I Have A Message For ICE, Get The Fuck Out Of Minneapolis
I have a better one: Get the fuck out of our country!
Trump Predictably Lies About Minneapolis ICE Shooting
THE WHOLE WORLD IS WATCHING!
Minneapolis mayor goes on profanity-laced tirade against Trump admin on live TV
Minneapolis, Minnesota Mayor Jacob Frey (D) unleashed on the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for a statement that a woman fatally shot by an ICE official was a "domestic terrorist."
The description of the incident from DHS, which is out of Washington, D.C., describes a scene that flies in the face of eyewitnesses and what videos have captured on the scene. DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin said "violent rioters" in Minneapolis were "attempting to run over our law enforcement officers."
Frey called the DHS statement "bulls——" and went on to tell federal agents, "get the f—— out of my city."
"What they are doing is causing chaos and distrust. They're ripping families apart," he said.
"They're sowing chaos on our streets. And in this case, quite literally killing people. So they are already trying to spin this as an action of self-defense. Having seen the video of myself, I want to tell everybody directly that this was an agent recklessly using power that resulted in somebody dying, getting killed," Frey continued.
There is video proof that is being shown all over TV. Time to arrest Trump's criminals.
We’re the Bad Guys Now
...Also living in a dream world is Sen. John Fetterman, who told Fox News that “We all wanted this man gone, and now he is gone. I think we should really appreciate exactly what happened here.” Fetterman then offered a benediction, saying that he just wanted to “remind everybody that America is a force of good order and democracy, and we are promoting these kinds of values. We are the good guys.”
That’s delusional, and I say that as someone who believed in humanitarian interventions abroad, who supported the Gulf War, the Iraq War, the bombing of Serbia, and the invasion of Grenada. American power has been used for bad ends at times (the Mexican War was unadulterated aggression), but it’s hard to think of a country that has more often extended itself for good purposes around the globe. We had losses and failures—South Vietnam, Afghanistan, Libya—but tens of millions of people in places like Taiwan, Germany, South Korea, Kosovo, Kuwait, Bosnia, and, yes, Iraq owe their freedom and prosperity to American arms. Hundreds of millions more live free from oppression only because the United States armed them against aggressors or threatened to use force if they were attacked. Damn right we were the good guys! As Colin Powell put it in 2003: “We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over the last hundred years . . . and put wonderful young men and women at risk, many of whom have lost their lives, and we have asked for nothing except enough ground to bury them in.”
To imagine that Trump is doing anything remotely like those interventions in Venezuela is risible. “Good order and democracy”? At his strutting press conference, Trump mentioned the country’s oil more than twenty times and democracy not at all. Asked later whether the United States would encourage elections, Trump dismissed the idea: “We have to fix the country first. You can’t have an election. There’s no way the people could even vote.” Would a “freedom agenda” president beat his chest and roar that “American dominance in the Western Hemisphere will never be questioned again”?
We’d like to have better politics in this country, but in the meantime, we’re building a better kind of community. Join us."
We're in. And if we get nuked by the free world leaders we know exactly who to blame!
It's Time To Laugh At Trump And His Hemisphere-Humping MAGA Dipsh*ts
"Everything is scary right now, maybe scarier than it’s been anytime since the beginning of Great Dementia Satan Trump’s Fourth Reich War On All Of Humanity. Something about Trump invading a sovereign nation, kidnapping its leader, admitting he’s doing it for looting purposes and to turn himself into king of one entire hemisphere, not even paying lip service to doing it to “liberate” people, threatening other sovereign nations, threatening allies, threatening to blow up the NATO alliance to serve his own ambitions and also obviously to further ingratiate his tongue up his Kremlin handler Vladimir Putin’s asshole …
Sí, es malo.
But, and hear us out here, we need to take a breath. There’s this pattern with Trump Terribleness, where they do some horrible scary thing, and all of our hearts start palpitating, and the pits in our stomachs sink a centimeter further, but all too soon after we’re reminded that the people who did the newest Trump Terribleness are the same fuckin’ pathetic loser conservative white boys who did the last Trump Terribleness, and did the new thing just as stupidly and incompetently as the last thing, and before long everybody starts laughing at them again."
Si, es muy malo.
Laughing at these Nazi dipshits is our favorite sport, Evan!
TX Professor Told To Cancel Lessons On “Woke” Plato
STUPID Nazi moron says, "keep Texas retarded!" They have no idea about the revolution they are feeding. Just who issued this shit dictation? An actual human?
"No morphed into an idiot raving No Promo Plato. Well, Plato's lasted 25 centuries, and he's good for 25 more; he'll be read long after these little morons aren't even footnotes in history." — Tazzari1 (comments)
"A university banning the study of Plato. Any student who remains at that university is a fool." — Dot Beach (comments)
"JUST when I think couldn't get any stupider, here comes Texass" — Jonathan Smith (comments?
"Yup. Never mind that Plato died more than three centuries before Jesus was (purportedly) born." — Stretchdad vs the Dicktocracy (comments)
"...before God Pedo-raped Mary" — xzargo (comments)
"This highlights their ignorance that Christianity blends Jewish religious practices and beliefs with elements of Greek philosophy. The willful stupidity is mind-boggling." — IamSmartypants (comments)
CBS News Anchor Gushes And Fawns Over Rubio
This "CBS" is a fascist delivery system that delivers 100% pure fecal matter. We all know this. Only the mentally ill have it turned on. Tony Dokoupil is a fascist stooge.
Trump Blames NATO For Not Getting Nobel Peace Prize
The evil that lives in what's left of his worthless body will soon cease to exist due to deadly black fungus rot.
"Hang in there, friends. One day (soon, perhaps?), this evil fucker’s head will explode and we won’t have to hear or read this coffin-dodging oxygen-thief‘s filthy fucking words anymore." — Mrs. E. Norma Scuntt (comments)
"More ME ME ME ME ME bullshit from the Orange Asshole, he has a shit ton of problems here in this country that need attention, healthcare is falling apart and he STILL hasn't revealed his "concept" of a new healthcare plan, prices for every thing is skyrocketing, schools and churches aren't safe, fear grips immigrant cities, and all he can do is harp and whine about that stupid fucking Nobel prize. This isn't a "President" this is a corporate shyster that has risen to the biggest jackpot his wallet has ever seen and all he's doing is raping this Treasury, destroying Judicial review and jurist prudence, Legislatively he has every MAGA congress person in his pocket using fear and threats to get his way. And still all he does he cry like a baby about some stupid award that he will NEVER EVER GET." — BartmanLA (comments)
Murkowski Tepidly Objects To Greenland “Posturing”
“I continue to hope the administration’s rhetoric on Greenland is nothing more than posturing for a new era of cooperation, because any effort to claim or take the territory by force would degrade both our national security and our international relationships. We have a long history of close cooperation with Greenland, dating back to World War II and continuing today with the Pituffik Space Base, and have always been able to achieve our mutual goals through strong diplomacy with its people. As Greenland charts its future, we must see it as an ally, not an asset, and focus on continued partnership rather than possession.” – GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski
Utah Becomes First State to Let AI Prescribe Medication
Holy shit! I'm somewhat suspicious even when a doctor does it! Kickbacks for one thing.
CIA Will Neither Confirm Nor Deny Records on 3I/ATLAS
Still think we live in a rational world?
“Microslop”: Infuriating Video Sums Up How Microsoft Is Ruining Windows With AI
If you were already skeptical — if not livid — about Microsoft’s ongoing campaign to drown Windows 11 with useless AI features, you’re really going to hate this video.
In a 30 second clip uploaded over the weekend, programmer Ryan Fleury demonstrates how even using Window 11’s purportedly AI-powered search bar to do exactly what it tells you to do doesn’t come close to working as advertised.
At the start of the video, the settings page search bar, with its gleaming AI icon, recommends searching “My mouse pointer is too small.” This goes against the common search function wisdom that you should look up using keywords, not entire sentences, but whatever: AI magic can take care of that for you, right?...
SLOP IS AS SLOP DOES! Iit is what it is, it ain't what it ain't!
"As Forbes reports, a whopping 1 billion PCs are still running Windows 10 — despite half of them technically being eligible for an upgrade."
Trump’s Greenland takeover would be 'a suicidal maneuver': foreign policy expert
"Any attempt to try and seize Greenland would be a massive catastrophe and ultimately spiral out of control, wrote Casey Michel, head of the Human Rights Foundation's Combating Kleptocracy Program."
Such an attack "would be not only a morally reprehensible crime, but a national security crisis of a sort the U.S. has not seen in decades. There’s good reason to think it would be the greatest foreign-policy blunder since at least the Vietnam War," Michel continued.
"Given how many European nations still have territory in the Western Hemisphere — from the Azores to French Guiana to the British Virgin Islands — which of America’s allies could be assured that they wouldn’t be next? For Trumpist unilateralists, this may matter little. But for those who view America’s allies as its greatest asset in an era of rising geopolitical tension, spiking that alliance system — all for an island in which American military power is already assured — would be a suicidal maneuver, without modern compare," wrote Michel.
Europe wouldn't be alone. Canada would likely get involved as taking Greenland would become a "bulwark against Canadian maneuverability or power projection in the North Atlantic: a gargantuan doorstop on Canada’s eastern border, isolating Canada that much more from Ottawa’s remaining allies in Europe."
No one is more capable of world destruction than Trump.
No one is more capable of suicide right now than Trump.
Gobsmacking Fabulists 'R Us
On the anniversary of the Jan. 6 riot that almost toppled democracy (more quickly than now), the hacks and crackpots in power concocted a deranged, revised history of the event so "evil," "pathological" and deeply "Stalin-level propaganda" it's somehow dragged us ever further through the looking glass. In its telling, "orderly patriots" marched to the Capitol, Democrats who "masterfully reversed reality" "staged the real rebellion," and Trump "triumphed over tyranny." Up is down. Orwell lives....
2 + 2 = 5!
The traitors will get their everlasting!
Wag The Dog In Venezuela: Dems Must Boldly Rip Trump Treason
"...But in this essay, let’s talk politics. It’s unavoidable with Trump, like misspelling three-letter words or eventually becoming the cause of airborne VD. Trump only cares about power politics and the its corrupt spoils. It’s all his overgrown amygdala knows. He’d probably toss Tiffany off the top of Trump Tower if there were a Rolex in it."
George Conway Moves To NYC, Registers As Dem, Files To Run For Congress
"I bring this up more as a point of curiosity than out of any kind of approval. But it certainly indicates that potential candidates see the election of whichever candidate gets the nomination as inevitable. Plus, calling for Trump's impeachment has got to be popular!"
AZ Supreme Court Evacuated After 'Explosive' Package Found
Still think we live in a stable and safe country?
Maj. General: Trump's Push To Politicize Military Is Like Stalin's Purge
"Maj Gen Paul Eaton has sounded the alarm, saying in an interview with the Guardian that the effort to bend the higher echelons of the military to the US president’s will was unparalleled in recent history and could have long-term dire consequences. He warned that both the reputation and efficiency of the world’s most powerful fighting force was in the balance."
The Pentagon purge sent a clear and chilling message that reverberated throughout the military services, Eaton said. “Toe the line, or we will fire you. You’re in a different world now. This is Trump’s world, and by God, this is what we’re going to do.”
Trump is commiting treason of the highest order!
The Erasure of January 6
"In 1984, George Orwell observed that a fascist state relies upon its ability to control—or obliterate—memory. As Winston Smith, the ill-fated protagonist, ponders the Party’s ability to manipulate reality and history, Orwell writes, 'Everything faded into mist. The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.' Another passage in the novel describes the Party’s relentless effort to construct the dominant narrative: 'Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.'
Sound familiar?
It’s been five years since a mob of thousands of Donald Trump supporters—which included Christian nationalists, white supremacists, neo-Nazis, Confederate flag wavers, militia members, and other extremists—assaulted the US Capitol to try to halt the peaceful transfer of power from an outgoing president to an incoming president. The basic facts are well established: Trump refused to accept legitimate election results. He falsely claimed he had won the 2020 contest and spread baseless lies and conspiracy theories about the election. He spent weeks scheming to overturn the election and remain in power. Promoting these falsehoods, he incited that insurrectionist attack on Congress in which more than 140 law enforcement officers were injured. While the melee was occurring, he abandoned his duty to defend the Constitution and waited 187 minutes before calling on his brownshirts to leave the Capitol...."
Wyoming Court Stops Abortion Bans
The return of women's health care!
Greenland war powers vote could be heading to Senate floor
Democratic Sen. Ruben Gallego wants Congress to forestall a U.S. takeover of Greenland, requiring President Donald Trump to get lawmakers’ approval for any such action after this weekend’s military incursion into Venezuela.
Gallego said he will introduce a war powers resolution focused on Greenland, an semiautonomous territory of Denmark that Trump has repeatedly suggested should be part of the U.S. instead.
“We must stop him before he invades another country on a whim,” Gallego wrote on social media. “No more forever wars.”
Then NO MORE TRUMP!
Trump stuns as he floats nuclear option on midterms: 'They should cancel the election'
And you thought I was being hyperbolic instead of the prophet that I am?
A little bird told him he will lose his power and be shoved into the Phantom Zone — The Orange Menace!
Trump: I’ll Get Impeached If GOP Loses Midterms
Is our warped little boy afraid?
Trump's DOJ quietly backs off key accusation against Maduro
One of the central claims the Trump administration has used to justify the overthrow of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and describe his government as “illegitimate” is the allegation that he is the leader of a multinational narco-terrorist organization known as “Cartel de los Soles.”
But now that the Department of Justice (DOJ) must prove the allegation in court following the US military’s kidnapping of Maduro last week, prosecutors are backing off the claim and, in effect, admitting what critics had long protested: that Cartel de los Soles is not, in fact, an organization at all....
“It never had anything to do with drugs. Venezuela’s role in the global cocaine trade is small and insignificant, and it has absolutely nothing to do with fentanyl (which is actually responsible for many drug-related deaths in the US, unlike cocaine),” Norton said. “The Trump administration’s repeated invocation of the fake ‘Cartel de los Soles’ was its version of the weapons of mass destruction lie used by George W. Bush to try to justify his illegal invasion of Iraq.”
Oh, dear! Has the old fool shoved his foot in his stupid mouth once again?
'I'm going to die': Grim reality hits as cancer patient's health costs rocket nearly 900%
As a famous Fascist Party member once told us "We're all going to die," this must be what she meant!
Trump set off a chain of events that will end in disaster
"As with his bombing of alleged drug-smuggling boats that have killed at least 115 civilians, Trump offered no justification under international law for his actions:
-The operation was not “self-defense” because Venezuela did not 'attack' the United States.
-Calling Maduro a “narco-terrorist” did not render him or his country an “imminent” national security threat. In fact, Venezuela is a relatively small player in the international cocaine market and has no role in fentanyl — the primary killer in overdose deaths.
-Trump used the word 'oil' more than 20 times in his speech. Venezuela has the world’s largest proven oil reserves. Fifty years ago — in 1976 — it nationalized US companies’ oil assets and facilities through a negotiated legal process that netted the firms more than $1 billion. Reversing that nationalization is an absurd — and dangerous — hook on which to hang the military attack in 2026.
Repeatedly, Trump invoked the Monroe Doctrine, saying that he had expanded it 'by a lot.' But in fact, Trump has stood President James Monroe’s 1823 seminal proclamation on its head while emboldening China’s President Xi Jinping and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin to follow Trump’s lead in dictating the affairs of sovereign countries."
Republican makes stunning call in op-ed to 'see Maduro executed'
Now its fentanyl? What happend to the cocaine. Did Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry snort it all already? Next it will be smack!
And I guess no fair hearing before the lynching?
JD Vance alleges 'left-wing' terror networks 'buying bricks' to hurl at ICE agents
Ooops! The moron opened his mouth!
I doubt that. Bricks are easy to come by without buying them. But it's not a bad idea now that he mentions it!
Then he goes on spouting total bullshit that has all been debunked.
Sen. Gallego: Trump Wants Venezuelan Oil and a Place to Deport Migrants
"Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) joins Sam Stein and Lauren Egan to give his take on why Trump’s Venezuela policy risks another disastrous war. A veteran of the Iraq War, Gallego says the administration is lying about its intentions, prioritizing oil interests and deportation deals over stability and democracy. He also discusses his Senate amendment to block military force against Greenland, Trump’s threats to NATO, and what the January 6 anniversary tells us about the state of American democracy."
J. D. Vance’s Notable Absence on Venezuela
Was the Vice-President’s exclusion from the operation in Venezuela an expression of his anti-interventionist ideology—or a political calculation?
Or is it to keep another moron out of sight?
Texas teachers union sues state education agency for investigating social media posts about Charlie Kirk
The Texas Education Agency received hundreds of complaints about educators’ online reactions to the conservative activist’s death.
Has Mike Morath ever read our First Amendment?
Most Unqualified Secretary Of Defense Ever Going After Captain Mark Kelly Some More
"How low will this administration go to rid itself of political enemies or anyone threatening to get in the way of Trump doing whatever the fuck he wants? We are still plunging the depths in our rickety submersible! Now Secretary of Defense / former Fox News host / credibly accused sexual assailant Pete Hegseth has huffed on X that he has issued a formal letter of censure to Arizona Senator Mark Kelly, a retired Navy captain, which will go on his permanent record, ooooo, and has directed Secretary of the Navy John Phelan to review his retirement rank and pay and “provide a recommendation in 45 days.” Which is better than the hanging like George Washington would that Trump called for, at least. Or the court martial Hegseth was calling for earlier last year. Guess even the military lawyers who told him that it’s okay to kill civilian boat-bomb survivors explained that would never fly...."
Hogsbreath is a stumblebum!
That Video of Happy Crying Venezuelans After Maduro’s Kidnapping? It’s AI Slop
We now face the overwhelming question: What is reality?
Tesla Accused of Killing Family, Plus Their Dog, by Steering Vehicle Head-on Into Oncoming Semi-Truck
The man, Nathan Blaine, is accusing Tesla and CEO Elon Musk of having “intentionally misrepresented the safety of their vehicles” and the driver assistance features, the outlet noted, and says that the misleading claims lulled him and his wife into a “false sense of security.”
“Based on representations the Blaines heard made by Musk and Tesla,” the complaint states, per The Independent, “[they] believed [it] was a safer driver than a human driver of convention[al] vehicles.”
The suit targets Tesla’s “Autosteer” feature, a punched-up version of cruise control that “detects lane markings, road edges, and the presence of vehicles and objects to intelligently keep your vehicle in its driving lane,” per Tesla. Though it’s in beta, the feature is available to Tesla owners for free, unlike the automaker’s more advanced Autopilot and Full Self-Driving modes — though the Blaines did pay for FSD. The suit also implicates Tesla’s other safety systems, such as its “lane departure warning” and “emergency lane departure avoidance” systems, arguing they “defectively failed.”
Genius, my ass.
European Leaders Jointly Condemn Greenland Threats
"Eight of Europe’s top leaders have rallied to defend the autonomous Danish territory of Greenland amid growing threats from President Donald Trump’s administration that the U.S. could seize the mineral-rich Arctic island. In a statement, the European leaders insisted Greenland’s security must be ensured collectively by NATO and with full respect to the wishes of its people.
“Security in the Arctic must be … achieved collectively, in conjunction with NATO allies including the United States by upholding the principles of the UN Charter, including sovereignty, territorial integrity and inviolability of borders,” the leaders wrote in a statement hours after Trump said Washington “needs” Greenland.
The statement was signed by Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk. Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof tweeted afterward that the Netherlands “fully supports” the statement.
Clearly, Trump is asking for WWIII. If this happens the U.S. will no longer be safe to live in.
Trump is being 'manipulated by underlings' pouncing on clear health 'decline': analyst
All of his toadies are attempting to grasp power.
Donald Trump is being "manipulated by underlings," according to a political analyst who says his Cabinet can sense a "decline".
"The president's health has come under scrutiny yet again, with both cognitive and physical worries aired by political commentators. Salon columnist Amanda Marcotte believes these suggestions of ill health are emboldening members of the Trump administration to act on their own accord, and that the president is too weak to stop them."
January 6th and the Never-Ending Coup
"It’s now been nearly three weeks since the Justice Department was required, by law, to publish all the Epstein files in its possession. And look, they’re getting around to it, okay? It’s just taking a bit longer than they’d thought. In a court filing yesterday, department lawyers said that 12,285 documents have already been released. Only 2 million or so more to go."
(the great Nazi stall!)
January 6th Never Ended
by Andrew Egger...
Trump Didn’t Merely Borrow Strongman Tactics: He Imported an Entire Doctrine Built to Kill Democracies
"When Trump and the buffoons who surround him invaded Venezuela and captured Maduro, they broke with almost a century of American-led respect for the international rule of law and, instead, nakedly embraced the Putin Doctrine.
There was a brief, shining moment when Russia was a democracy; I visited there at the time. The country, starting with Gorbachev and lasting about a decade, embraced the ideals of the European Enlightenment, which itself was inspired by the North American colonists’ contact with Native American tribes who had been practicing democracy for millennia.
Then Putin came along, began suing media outlets and large law firms into bankruptcy so his oligarch buddies could take them over, packed the courts and rigged the elections, and finally outlawed dissent, calling dissenters 'the enemy within' and 'domestic terrorists.'"
Trump’s Mental Decline Has Him ‘Paranoid’ About Losing Power: Psychologist
"Donald Trump's advanced age and its effects on his mental and physical health have emerged as one of the most persistent conversations surrounding his presidency, and one psychologist believes that the matter is driving Trump to "paranoia" over potentially losing his power...."
This is the Real Danger Posed by Trump
"...Every time people or corporations or countries that are richer and more powerful attack and exploit those that are not, the fabric of civilization frays. If such aggression is not contained, the fabric unravels. If not stopped, the world can descend into chaos and war. It has happened before.
We now inhabit a society and world grown vastly more unequal. Political and economic power are more concentrated than ever before. This invites the powerful to exploit the weaker because the powerful feel omnipotent.
The wealth of Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison, Charles Koch, and a handful of others is almost beyond comprehension. The influence of Big Tech, Big Oil, and the largest aerospace and defense corporations extends over much of the globe. AI is likely to centralize wealth and power even more. The destructive power of the United States, China, and Russia is unmatched in human history.
Trump — enabled by cowardly congressional Republicans and a pliant majority on the Supreme Court — has turned the U.S. presidency into the most powerful and unaccountable agent of American government in history.
Put it all together and you see the threat.... "
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"America's descent into fascism does not exclude throwing Trump under the bus.
The powers lined up behind Trump are "all in": They've invested billions of dollars and decades of time to get to this point in time.
Simply put they are not going to accept failure: Their goal is to replace America's democracy with an Autocracy of the One Percent.
Should Trump's mental decline start to include slobber dripping off his chin while attempting to justify his latest affront they'll toss him under the bus in a heartbeat.
Stephen Miller, Marco Rubio and Vice President Vance are waiting to replace him.
And since implementing despotism will likely get ugly disposing of Trump will be framed as cleaning up his mess like it was a disposable diaper.
The two of these three that don't end up on the throne should avoid flying in small airplanes, hunting trips and balconies above the fifth floor." — Madhoosier (comments)
ANYWAY, Epstein Files? Tabs, Tues., Jan. 6, 2026
"We’re not putting any special Epstein update in this tabs post, we’re just putting it in the headline. We’ll have a whole Epstein update this morning, though! Epstein! Epstein! Epstein!
Also, happy January 6 to all who celebrate the early onset of Great Satan Trump’s Fourth Reich.
Let’s start with these Venezuela videos!
Here is Nazi unfuckable Goebbels Stephen Miller being absolutely insane at Jake Tapper:
More on that interview later, probably!
Here is Maria Cortina Machado on the Hannity program offering to give her Nobel Peace Prize to the thirsty bitch who reportedly doesn’t want to let her lead Venezuela, even though she is the extremely popular leader of the opposition to the dictator he just kidnapped, because she didn’t give him her Nobel Peace Prize.
You might think this is pathetic — Sir! Sir! I’ll lick your ass and give you my peace statue if you’ll stop hurting me and my people! — but nah, we think she’s playing him like the easily manipulated narcissist dumbass he is. Remember: every news story about Donald Trump involves a group of people somewhere laughing at him behind his back and talking about what an easily manipulated narcissist dumbass he is."
Voldemort: Greenland Is Rightfully Ours For The Taking
Hitler would have loved this cutthroat!
WWIII is just around the corner!
"We live in a world, in the real world, Jake, that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power." — (The little shit.)
"No honey, that was the Middle Ages you're talking about. You know, the time when kings would lead their armies into battle, and actually do their own fighting. This is not the era of "might makes right"; this the time of corrupt little men sitting somewhere safe and buying their way into power." — Ann Kah (comments)
Venezuelan Opposition Leader Lobbies Trump To Be President: I’d “Certainly Love” To Give Him My Nobel
If this is true she didn't deserve it in the first place!
She's as corrupt as Trump!
"Suck that tangerine toadstool a little harder, sellout." — NotASingleFuck (comments)
DOJ Drops Claim About Fake Venezuelan Drug Cartel
"Unbelievable. After months of propaganda claiming Maduro is the head of the dangerous drug-smuggling cartel, the US government has admitted it was all a ruse in order to kidnap a sitting head of state." -- Alan MacLeod
Nearly 200 dead due to Trump's crime spree!
Louisiana Man Rages About Nutbag He Put In Power
He helped set fire to the barn that killed all the horses!
Guillotine!
Watters: We’re Rightfully Seizing Our Hemisphere
It's not our hemisphere, you little Nazi terrorist supporter!
Trump Rages About Tylenol And “HEPATITAS” Vaccine
The utter insanity from a junkie!
Trump Declares Himself Now “In Charge” Of Venezuela
"Meet the new boss, same as the old boss." — The Who.
Death to Patriarchism!
Something far more sinister is afoot here!
Kristi Noem Hails Trump As The Leader Of Venezuela
The puppy killer also pretended Nicolas Maduro was a national security threat.
An administration on criminal failures.
Imperialism is only done by corrupt parties.
"So arrest warrants can now be enforced with Army Delta Force leading the way, and dozens of deaths in the wake.
Always remember, this couldn't have happened without the CIA. who found people willing to commit treason against Venezuela. Are we pround?
Not me." — Schiooie (comments)
"Lead?
The closest thing that the Pedophile President comes to leading is inciting violence via his Stochastic Terrorism. That and taking credit for the violence done in his name after he has incited it." — YazooBlue2 (comments)
Trump is 'deepening the swamp' he claimed to drain: analysis
The biggest turd in the sewer!
Whom Shall America Bomb Next For Displeasing God-Emperor Trump?
"Looking very powerful and not at all like you’ve got one swollen foot in the grave, sir!
Amidst all the awful crap that follows America’s raid on Venezuela and kidnapping of its president this weekend — the death, the destruction, the hit to whatever positives might remain of America’s reputation, the unconstitutional act of ignoring Congress, the members of Congress who support being turned into floormats the president can wipe his feet on, the feckless response of some of the leaders of the opposition party (whose response to being lied to multiple times about the administration’s intentions was to slam their fists on the table and demand ... a meeting), the arrogant chest-thumping by the almost cartoonishly stupid and obnoxious leaders of the administration — we can add one more terrible result:
Donald Trump is feeling damned invincible right now."
Apparently, they will bomb themselves! Trump has a death wish.
Sen. Mark Warner: Trump Is Talking About Invading U.S. Allies
"Senator Mark Warner joins Sam Stein to give his take on the Trump administration’s dramatic actions in Venezuela, congressional oversight, and what comes next. Warner warns that extracting a foreign leader, sidelining Congress, and talking openly about “running” other countries reflects an imperial mindset that America has spent decades trying to move away from."
The U.S. is a terrorist country. Trump proves this every day.
'What could go wrong?' RFK Jr.'s wild move sends shockwaves
If your child dies of disease or dies in needless combat. They are one and the same. Dead.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro challenged President Donald Trump on Monday to “come get me,” one day after Trump said Petro’s days running the Latin American country are numbered.
“I’m waiting for you here,” Petro continued. “Don’t threaten me, I’ll wait for you right here if you want to.”
He said on Monday, “I don’t accept invasions, missiles, or assassinations, only intel. Come speak here with intelligence, and we’ll receive you and talk face-to-face with facts, not lies. Stop getting lied to by Colombian political mafias who condemned us to 700,00 deaths and made us the world’s most unequal country.”
This is the profile for countries Trump is willing to attack:
Colombia Military Power Ranking 2025
Easy wins. Always the bully.
British Prime Minister To Trump: “Hands Off Greenland”
Or NATO bombs will fall.
Texas Man Charged With Impersonating ICE Agent
How the hell can you tell? They are all impersonating someone who imagines they have power to bully and arrest!
DeSantis Unveils Plan To Build More Deportation Gulags
More concentration camps! Hitler would be so jealous!
The furnaces come later.
NASA Veterans Disgusted by Plans to Shut Down Its Largest Library
Trump wants ALL history destroyed.
There’s Compelling Evidence That Someone Connected to the Trump Administration Profited Off the Invasion of Venezuela by Placing Large Bets on Polymarket
"Prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi have long garnered a reputation for facilitating cheating and insider trading — allowing an athlete, for instance, to place a bet on a game they could then lose on purpose.
Now there’s compelling evidence that someone with inside information about the Trump administration’s regime change plans in Venezuela used that foreknowledge to profit massively from the conflict.
As spotted by researcher Tyson Brody, an unidentified user bet tens of thousands of dollars on various predictions that Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro would be imminently 'out' or that the US forces would show up 'in Venezuela by' a specified date during the runup to the incursion.
The account “existed for only one week and quickly became the biggest ‘yes’ holder in the Maduro out market,” Brody tweeted.
It's all rigged, America.
Google’s AI Overviews Caught Giving Dangerous “Health” Advice
More poison code on your computers, America.
"In May 2024, Google threw caution to the wind by rolling out its controversial AI Overviews feature in a purported effort to make information easier to find.
But the AI hallucinations that followed — like telling users to eat rocks and put glue on their pizzas — ended up perfectly illustrated the persistent issues that plague large language model-based tools to this day.
And while not being able to reliably tell what year it is or making up explanations for nonexistent idioms might sound like innocent gaffes that at most lead to user frustration, some advice Google’s AI Overviews feature is offering up could have far more serious consequences
In a new investigation, The Guardian found that the tool’s AI-powered summaries are loaded with inaccurate health information that could put people at risk. Experts warn that it’s only a matter of time until the bad advice endangers users — or, in a worst-case scenario, results in someone’s death."
Venezuelans deserve democracy not fossil fuel-driven regime change
"Global Witness has criticised the US attack on Venezuela in what the Trump administration says will enable US companies to exploit the country’s vast fossil fuel reserves.
The investigative campaigning organisation has called for a peaceful and democratic solution that allows the people of Venezuela to decide the future of their country and resources.
After the US conducted an attack on the Latin American country and abducted Maduro, President Trump said that: 'We’re going to have our very large United States oil companies – the biggest anywhere in the world – go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure, the oil infrastructure, and start making money for the country. We’re going to have a presence in Venezuela as it pertains to oil… we’re going to be taking a tremendous amount of wealth out of the ground,' Trump stated."
Hegseth Takes Move To Demote Sen. Mark Kelly
Kelly is an America hero. Proof positive that the Pentagon doesn't support democracy any longer.
"Immediate application to the courts.
How can anyone be censured for an exhortation to obey only lawful orders?
This is Hegseth bullshit.
Fight all the way.
Get discovery and depositions from this sack of piss." — JackFknTwist (comments)
"There's a longstanding doctrine in courts martial against interference by higher-ups in the chain of command. Given that both Tr*mp and Hegseth have condemned Kelly's statements, they've already ensured that any actual charges will come to nothing."
— Stretchdad vs the Dicktocracy (comments)
It is simply an ass on a "see what I can do" exercise in bullying!
Top Army general slams Trump’s active effort to politicize US military
When does the military coup begin?
Supreme Court’s major shift towards the rich mapped out by experts
After they destroy the middle class all they'll have left are the poorist in the country. Then all the Blacks and tans are removed. Whatever's left must then become true servants to the rich. Someone has to do the things that are beneath them. The end will then come for them when their money becomes worthless and can't save them any longer.
It’s past time to have declare Trump’s mental state a 'national emergency': columnist
"President Donald Trump's obvious mental decline is being ignored, alleged one editor.
The nonprofit news site WhoWhatWhy argued Monday that it is taking far too long for the public to address the "volatile nature of Donald Trump" and classify it as a "national emergency."
The report noted that while some comedians have spent the past year mocking Trump, his mental state has been largely ignored by the same media outlets that sounded the alarm about President Joe Biden not being up to the job.
"Pretty much every psychological or medical professional I speak with who closely studies Trump agrees: Aside from a recent, possibly age-related mental decline, he suffers from a lifelong, severe personality disorder. And the combination is deadly — more, somehow, than the sum of its parts," wrote editor-in-chief Russ Baker.
The column called Trump "dangerous" and argued that most Americans "know it." In fact, the comments argue, the corporate media will continue to prop him up.
"It almost certainly will not call out Trump’s brazen invasion of Venezuela and abduction of its president for what it actually was about," the column added.
Who is going to take him out when all the fascist corporation criminals are behind him?
Maduro hearing 'fireworks' shock legal analyst: 'Unlike anything I've ever seen'
"Captured Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro appeared in court on Monday with his wife after the U.S. military staged a raid in Caracas in the early morning hours of Saturday. One exchange during the proceeding was striking enough to prompt a legal expert to say it was "unlike anything I've ever seen."
Michigan police arrest woman speaking out against Trump’s Venezuela invasion mid-interview
Michigan Nazis strike against First Amendment rights.
"What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?" Friedman wrote on Bluesky.
— Brandon Friedman (@brandonfriedman.bsky.social) Jan 5, 2026 at 11:12 AM
The usual totalitarianism of a Nazi nation.
CNN host stunned over Trump detail revealed on Air Force One
Most decent humans should be!
President Donald Trump revealed a bizarre detail while speaking to the press on Air Force One late Sunday, as he flew back to the White House after his holiday vacation.
"It was dark. The lights of Caracas were largely turned off due to a certain expertise that we have," Trump said. "It was dark and it was deadly."
Speaking to Sen. Jeff Merkeley (D-Ore.) CNN's Sara Sidner asked, "Did we just learn a state secret that the U.S. has the capability of shutting down the entire electric grid of a country?"
Merkeley, who sits on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, wasn't as willing to give away specifics.
"Well, there are certainly a lot of capabilities to do that type of thing, whether it's the entire grid or a portion of the grid. It was a well-executed military campaign, no question about that. But the philosophy behind it is really the question we're dealing with, and whether it serves the interests of the United States and the people of Venezuela or fails to serve them. And I would argue it serves neither us nor them."
Tech Giants Pushing AI Into Schools Is a Huge, Ethically Bankrupt Experiment on Innocent Children That Will Likely End in Disaster
"The tech industry is making sure kids will be hooked on AI for generations — by proactively sinking its tendrils deep into the education system, long before we understand the effects of the tech on young minds."
This is child abuse run rampant! American families will pay for it.
Bible-belt state refuses to share 'crucial' info on measles outbreaks
AKA: The retarded religion known as "Oklahomoism."
The Danger and Foolishness of Trump’s Foreign Policy
A Foreign Policy of Failure and Dishonor
"The British author and poet Rudyard Kipling was a conservative, even a reactionary. He was certainly no anti-imperialist. Yet in his 1897 poem 'Recessional,' written at the height of the British empire, Kipling warns his countrymen against becoming “drunk with sight of power” and indulging in 'frantic boast and foolish word.'
Needless to say, there’s no chance that Donald Trump will attend to this warning. Trump has always been drunk on fantasies of power. His entire rhetorical repertoire consists of frantic boasts and foolish words. He’s not suddenly going to heed Kipling’s advice.
He won’t, but we should. Trump is our president. He’s acting in our name. Unfortunately, we won’t be able to undo all the dangerous mistakes he’s already made. And we won’t be able to stop him from continuing to indulge in frantic boasts. But an awful lot depends on whether we can limit the damage that he seeks to bring about over the next three years, and whether we can at least hold out hope of a responsible road ahead...."
“America is respected again,” he gloated in his address to the nation on December 9. For Trump, “respect” means the power to bully, regardless of law. “Our nation is strong, and America is BACK.”
Wrong. What’s back is lawless gunboat diplomacy.
And American mothers will have their sons returned in body bags — again!.
The (Over)Reach Of Gangster Imperium, from Venezuela to Gaza
"...Malignant narcissist that he is, Trump derives a warped sense of pleasure from the fantasy he can hold a boot on the collective neck of the Venezuelan citizenry. Early indications from the ground in Venezuela, augur, its people are unwilling to take the position of supine submissive in accordance with Trump’s kink for dominance.
To wit, Venezuelan Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello:
“Here, the unity of the revolutionary force is more than guaranteed, and here there is only one president, whose name is Nicolas Maduro Moros. Let no one fall for the enemy’s provocations. We are outraged because in the end everything was revealed — it was revealed that they only want our oil.”
If an Iraq type debacle comes to pass, US economic conscripts, the power-devoid underclass of the empire, will lose their lives, will sustain lifelong injuries, and suffer from psychological afflictions due to their deployment as expendable tools of the Trump administration’s cosplay racketeering and extortion scheme."
Everything About WTF With Venezuela That We Could Fit Into 1,600 Words Or Less
"Saturday, the man who is somehow president and commander-in-chief of the United States and its armed forces went shopping for tile for his ballroom at a Florida strip mall. And then he went back to Mar-a-Lago, where Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth put up some kind of impromptu war room with see-through curtains.
And then the military went in and bombed Venezuela, killing at least 80 civilians.
And US forces apprehended Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores, and flew them to the Brooklyn detention center. Maduro was in what looks like a VR headset, on his way to stand trial on charges of narco-terrorism, conspiracy to commit narco-terrorism, drug trafficking, money laundering, and corruption...."
Canada: US Is No Longer A Reliable Health Partner
US is no longer reliable. We cannot be trusted by anyone! It is the greatest threat to the world. The world must stop Trump at any cost!
Canadian forces coming in and kidnapping Trump. How perfect would that be!
"Actually, nobody, anywhere (including American people) should trust the United States government on anything. Not now. Not so long as the Trumpistas control anything." — S1AMER (comments)
Trump Shares Claim That Obama “Never Qualified” To Run For President In Deranged All Night 89-Post Spree
Insanity defined!
Trump: I Tipped Off Big Oil Oligarchs Before Attack
The new Carpetbaggers he means.
The disgrace of a once great country!
Greenland PM tells Trump 'enough' after annexation threat
They are part of NATO you morons! NATO will bomb the shit out of DC!
The most shameful day in American history
Of course. But history ain't over yet!
Trump admin post suggests intent to kick out nonwhite citizens
Racist and proud of it. Just think, no Black atheletes in sports anymore. How fucking stupid ts this idiot? We will be the leading asswipes of the Third World! Totally a madman!
This thug has dragged us back to the imperial age — what comes next should terrify us all
"America’s takeover of Venezuela — because it’s in our “backyard” and we didn’t like its leader — strengthens Vladimir Putin’s claim over Ukraine, Xi Jinping’s over Taiwan, and Benjamin Netanyahu’s over the West Bank and Gaza.
Make no mistake: Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro was a vicious dictator who harmed Venezuela and its people. But the world is populated by many vicious dictators. We don’t take over their countries."
What and who's to stop him doing it now? We don't have the guts to!
'Trump's admitting it': Resurfaced video reveals president's pre-election Venezuela goal
"REMINDER: During the 2024 campaign, Trump told audience in North Carolina that he wants Venezuela to collapse so he can take all of the oil. Now: Trump amassing naval assets and 10,000 troops in Caribbean and recently admitted CIA has been operating on ground in Venezuela."
Let me get this straight. He's claiming the oil resources in another sovereign country as his own. This is theft and a criminal act no matter what your politics are.
'Just gave the game away': Top Dem says MAGA lawmaker accidently exposed Trump's plan
“An imperial adventure from the guy who was going to be America First and not get into stupid wars, and his answer is 'I trust the president.' That is giving the game away because two-thirds of my Republican colleagues in the Congress wake up every single morning and say 'what can I do today to prove my loyalty to the president,' and Jim Jordan appears to be unaware that our whole system is set up to provide checks and balances.”
Just another two-bit hood.
JD Vance scrambles to explain military motive: 'Fentanyl isn't the only drug in the world'
So just what are his other favorites?
“Mr. Secretary, who is in charge?” asked Welker. “Are you running Venezuela right now?”
“Yeah, I mean, I keep people, you know, fixating on that,” said Rubio. “Here’s the bottom line on it is we expect to see changes in Venezuela, changes of all kinds, long-term, short-term. We’d love to see all kinds of changes. But the most immediate changes are the ones that are in the national interest of the United States. That’s why we’re involved here, because of how it applies and has a direct impact on the United states, okay.”
This wins early "Boob of the Year" award!
AP Fact-Checks Trump’s Lies In Venezuela Presser
So many lies, so little time.
Read the bullshit at the link above.
Cotton: Venezuela’s New Leaders Must Obey The US
As all Nazi dictators would demand!
"You vill follow orders!"
"Get fucked with a chainsaw, Tommy." — CDPlayer (comments)
AI Godfather Warns That It’s Starting to Show Signs of Self-Preservation
"If we’re to believe Yoshua Bengio, one of the so-called 'godfathers' of AI, some advanced models are showing signs of self-preservation — which is exactly why we shouldn’t endow them with any kind of rights whatsoever. Because if we do, he says, they may run away with that autonomy and turn on us before we have a chance to pull the plug. Then it’s curtains for this whole 'humankind' experiment...."
“The phenomenon of subjective perception of consciousness is going to drive bad decisions,” he warned.
His advice? Think of AI models as hostile aliens.
“Imagine some alien species came to the planet and at some point we realize that they have nefarious intentions for us,” he told The Guardian. “Do we grant them citizenship and rights or do we defend our lives?”
Hmmmm. Sounds exactly like one Dozy Don Trump!
Trump Went Luxury Marble Shopping As Health Insurance Skyrockets
"As you probably know all too well, health insurance became unaffordable for millions of Americans this week, thanks to Trump’s and the GOP’s failure to extend the ACA subsidies.
But Trump is not letting Americans’ potentially fatal hardships get in the way of remaking the White House in his own gaudy image. On Friday, he went marble shopping for the shockingly garish ballroom he claims to be 'donating' to the White House in return for demolishing its East Wing.
According to CNN, Trump 'spent his Friday morning perusing samples of stone' at a company that 'bills itself as an Italian marble specialist.' He reportedly planned to buy marble and onyx there for his hideous ballroom. But who knows, maybe he picked up some for the Kennedy Center armrests, too?
It’s not like Trump was going to spend the rest of his day making sure Americans don’t die from lack of health care or doing anything else to make American lives better. CNN noted that the shopping excursion was 'a detour' on the way to his Palm Beach golf club."
The image appears to be a take on one Marie Antoinette. Didn't her head fall into a basket after a guillotine blade lopped it off?
"Her body was thrown into an unmarked grave in the Madeleine cemetery, located close by in rue d'Anjou. Because its capacity was exhausted, the cemetery was closed the following year, on 25 March 1794." —Wikipedia.
Banana Republic, with Nukes, Awesome
I am, of course, talking about the U.S.
Well, at least we have *nowhere to go but up!
I think Josh Marshall said it best.
"Nor can any of this be separated from the broader domestic and global fabric of Trumpism, the casual illegality, the impetuousness and more than anything else the simple but always visible premise that Trump owns the United States, its military, its people, its wealth, everything.
Someone told me earlier that this was like Trump taking his ICE raids global. And yeah, it pretty much is.
Trump does what he wants, like one does with things one owns. You don’t ask your table what room it wants to be in and most employers don't ask employees what tasks they want to do. In Trump's mind he owns the country and its power. He won it fair and square in the 2024 election.
Everything that stands in the way of that basic premise is an obstacle to be overturned."
There it is. Â Like one does with things one owns.
Now what are we gonna do about it? Â What actually can be done about it?
*Yes, I am aware that there is no bottom.
Trump is even more determined to loot America
He will take everything if we allow it. And it looks like we haven't the spine to resist.
Rubio says Venezuela attack was not a military action
Lil Marco is nothing but a cheap, lying hood.
Which Countries Will Trump Invade Next? He’s Given Us a Guide.
The reasons he listed for toppling Venezuela’s Maduro apply just as well to many other governments.
Hopefully, one that will blow him back to hell!
This Is a Blatant Illegal Act of War Against Venezuela by Trump
"This act of aggression is a continuation of US attempts to seize and plunder Venezuela’s natural resources and undermine Venezuela’s sovereignty as well as the sovereignty of other countries in Latin America.
This war also does not reflect the will of the people. Nearly 70% of Americans oppose another war and reject the endless cycle of military interventions carried out in their name...."
Thug World
In the first year of Trump’s second term, he imposed his thuggery on the United States. In the second year, apparently he will impose it on the hemisphere.
America’s takeover of Venezuela — because it’s in our “backyard” and we didn’t like its leader — strengthens Putin’s claim over Ukraine, Xi’s over Taiwan, and Netanyahu’s over the West Bank and Gaza.
Make no mistake: Venezuela’s Maduro was a vicious dictator who harmed Venezuela and its people. But the world is populated by many vicious dictators. We don’t take over their countries.
The postwar order was supposed to stop thugs who use aggression to take over their “backyards,” as Hitler had done in Europe and Japan in East Asia.
But Trump is now reverting back to the pre-World War II, might-makes-right, spheres-of-power, order....
Beware. The Trump world order makes the world safe only for major tyrants.
'That's how this will end': Ex-GOP insider makes huge prediction about Trump's next move
"MAGA, it’s time to grow the f--- up. You allowed this utterly corrupt, dangerous, lawless madman to return to the White House, knowing exactly who and what he is. You did that. Own it. But it’s not too late. We have one opportunity to fix this: help us put maximum pressure on Congress to do its fucking job. Because right now, we don’t have a functioning Legislative Branch. And until and unless we do, the America we knew is gone. Maybe for good."
They haven't the brains to "grow up." Brainlessness caused this hell we now live in!
'We have not forgotten': Lawmakers put Trump on notice over missed Epstein files deadline
Trump is willing to start WWIII to distract from his link to pedophile crimes.
'What happened?' JD Vance's own words thrown in his face as he's accused of hypocrisy
Just another criminal co-conspirator.
Venezuela: Our criminal president’s latest crime scene
A blatantly corrupt, anti-democratic and illegitimate president stages a criminal coup. He's not named Maduro
"It’s no good pondering whether what just happened in Venezuela was a “war crime” or mumbling about how perhaps Congress should have been notified. There has to be an actual war before you can have war crimes, brothers and sisters. These were just straight-up crimes, committed by a criminal president and a criminal regime, and the entire world knows it. Whatever Maduro may or may not have done has now disappeared into the background noise of bad historical pretexts, along with Vladimir Putin’s claim that Ukraine was being run by Nazis."
History tells us how this will end.
Voldemort’s Wife: US Will Invade Greenland “Soon”
WWIII ontinues to develop. With idiots and power crazy zealots like this the planet will get very bloody sooner than later.
"I'm starting to understand why the Miller family has to live on a military base and cannot go out in public without security..." — vap (comments)
"The unlawful interference in Venezuela was about Little Narco's lust after Cuba, the island of his parents.
Little Narco has wanted to destroy any support for Cuba coming from Maduro and Venezuela.
As for Greenland, there will be a war with the Nordic countries and with the NATO allies if you even think about making moves on Greenland. That would be an invasion of Europe, which will mean war." — JackFknTwist (comments)
Wall Street Oligarchs Plan Group Trip To Venezuela
The vultures and carpetbaggers are heading south!
"Death to the oligarchs." — JackFknTwist (comments)
Thousands stranded in Caribbean islands after Trump’s Venezuela attack
And it's only the start of the gates of hell being opened.
Pathetic Fox Host Attacks Biden For Being 'On Vacation'
Someone remind Tomi Lahren what the definition of "retirement" is.
And you wonder why they are called stupid?
These people are truly braindead!
This is exactly what the Founders warned us about
"The American Revolution was not just a revolt against British rule. It was a revolt against three ancient tyrannies that had dominated human society for thousands of years. Warlord kings. The morbidly rich. And theocrats."
"The Founders knew exactly what they were fighting. They wrote about it constantly, in the Declaration of Independence and in decades of letters to one another. They believed those three forces were the natural enemies of freedom, and unless they were restrained, they would always claw their way back into power."
Today, every one of those tyrannies is back. And they’re not even pretending otherwise."
"A sitting vice presidential candidate can stand on a stage and declare, “By the grace of God we will always be a Christian nation.” That isn’t faith; it’s Christian nationalism. It’s theocratic rule by another name."
America chose to stay asleep. Our military have revoked their oaths. The treason is complete.
'The hairs on my neck stood up': Ret. 3-star general shocked by one part of Trump's speech
Would that we had a general with a spine on active duty.
'This is evil': Internet rages as Trump pushes 'disgusting' Dem assassin conspiracy theory
Donald Trump spurred outrage among his critics on Saturday when he boosted a conspiracy theory suggesting a top Democratic contender had a fellow politician assassinated.
Trump on Saturday posted a video that asks the question, "Did Tim Walz really have (D) Melissa Hoertman (sic) assassinated???" In fact, Minnesota House of Representatives Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark Hortman were killed by a political assassin, Vance Boelter, who apparently supported Trump.
The video shared by Trump goes against the findings of his own Justice Department, and it raised red flags for political analysts.
MeidasTouch wrote, "Donald Trump is now reposting videos on Truth Social suggesting that Minnesota Governor Tim Walz had Melissa Hortman assassinated."
"This is objectively evil, and calling it out should not be political," they added.
Author Tara Dublin wrote, "Every accusation is a confession."
Political humorist Jesus Freakin Congress said on Saturday, "Trump didn’t even so much as mention her name when she was assassinated…"
PatriotTakes, which purports to track right-wing extremism, chimed in, "Trump did it again. This is his 2nd post pushing a conspiracy that Governor Tim Walz had Melissa Hortman murdered in her own home. Absolutely disgusting."
Minnesota political operative Richard Carlbom said, "Donald Trump is spreading sickening, dangerous disinformation about Melissa Hortman’s assassination."
"I’m calling on the MN GOP, their elected officials, and every GOP candidate for Governor to condemn this — now," he then added.
Republicans against Trump added, "Trump shared a conspiracy post on Truth Social accusing Tim Walz of ordering the assassination of Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman. Absolutely disgusting . (The reality is that Hortman’s murderer was a Trump supporter.)"
Evil reigns across the land.
Tulsi Gabbard’s 2019 Post Predicting Military Intervention in Venezuela Would Be ‘Disastrous’ Goes Viral in Wake of US Strikes
Gabbard, who previously represented Hawaii in Congress as a Democrat, tweeted about the possibility of a military intervention in Venezuela on May 13, 2019, when she was a Democratic candidate for president.
"Throughout history, every time the US topples a foreign country's dictator/government, the outcome has been disastrous. Civil war/military intervention in Venezuela will wreak death & destruction to Venezuelan people, and increase tensions that threaten our national security."
— Tulsi Gabbard
‘At Least 40 People’ — Including Civilians — Killed in US Strike on Venezuela, New York Times Reports
Journalist Mariana Martinez reported “military personnel and civilians” were killed in the early morning attack on Saturday, based on a “senior Venezuelan official who spoke on condition of anonymity.” The official’s figure was based on “preliminary reports,” she added.
No casualties? But at least 40 more murders by Trump and Hogsbreath!
Trump Shares Conspiracy Post Suggesting Tim Walz Ordered Minnesota Lawmaker’s Assassination
Anarchy will take over our law and order. We are no longer a free country that practices law.
Kaine To Force Senate Vote On Trump’s War Powers
Sen. Tim Kaine said he will force a vote next week to block further military action against Venezuela without congressional approval in the wake of President Donald Trump’s operation to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
Kaine, who has so far been unable to get Congress to stop Trump’s Latin American military operations, called the move to oust Maduro without congressional approval “a sickening return to a day when the United States asserted the right to dominate” the Western Hemisphere.
My bipartisan resolution stipulating that we should not be at war with Venezuela absent a clear congressional authorization will come up for a vote next week,” Kaine said in a statement. “We’ve entered the 250th year of American democracy and cannot allow it to devolve into the tyranny that our founders fought to escape.”
Amen!
Venezuelan Vice President Demands Maduro’s Release: “We Are Nobody’s Slave And Nobody’s Colony”
"Venezuela’s Vice President Delcy Rodríguez said on state TV channel TeleSUR that the objective of what she described as regime change in Venezuela was to capture the country’s oil and natural resources. She later added that Venezuela stands ready to defend those resources.
Rodríguez, whom Trump said was sworn in as president and would be working with the U.S., said that the Venezuelan people would be 'nobody’s slave and nobody’s colony.'
Rodríguez repeatedly stated that Maduro is the country’s only president, and called the strikes a violation of Articles 1 and 2 of the U.N. charter. She called on Venezuelans to 'face the situation in national unity,' for the goal of emerging 'victorious in this wonderful stage of defending our sovereignty.'
Mamdani: Trump’s Illegal Attack Directly Impacts NYC
“I was briefed this morning on the U.S. military capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, as well as their planned imprisonment in federal custody here in New York City. Unilaterally attacking a sovereign nation is an act of war and a violation of federal and international law. This blatant pursuit of regime change doesn’t just affect those abroad, it directly impacts New Yorkers, including tens of thousands of Venezuelans who call this city home. My focus is their safety and the safety of every New Yorker, and my administration will continue to monitor the situation and issue relevant guidance.”
We are living in dangerous days.
Loeffler: We're Not Going To Pardon People For Committing Crimes
You Nazis do it consistently!
CEPR Condemns Trump Administration’s Dangerous and Illegal Military Assault on Venezuela and Violation of Its National Sovereignty
“This is an illegal assault on a country that poses no security threat to the United States, and Trump himself has repeatedly said that he is going after the country’s oil, the largest proven reserves in the world,” CEPR Co-Director Mark Weisbrot said. “Only one in five Americans in the most recent poll said they supported such military intervention. Most people don’t like our government putting forth plans and threats, and taking actions that make it look like a criminal enterprise. Trump has repeatedly shown that he has no regard for international law.”
There is no longer law and order in America. We are now on our own and must prepare to defend our families against fascist terrorism.
Trump’s Gives Away the Venezuelan Game on Fox News: Nobody Can Stop Us…
Famous last words.
Trump has declared we are no longer a democracy. We are now a fascist dictatorship. Thanks, lamebrain dimwits.
JD Vance Raises Eyebrows With Claim Venezuela’s ‘Stolen Oil Must Be Returned’ to the US
Comments regarding this moronic statement:
"The Vice President is openly and unabashedly saying here that reversing Venezuela's oil nationalizations from the 1970s is part of the casus belli.
At least when people like me were yelling about a 'war for oil' last time, Cheney wasn't out there publicly saying 'yep, it is!'"
— Ben Burgis
"Sovereign countries cannot be invaded to extract persons because they have been indicted by the United States absent Congressional authorization. Otherwise, POTUS would have unfettered, unilateral authority to start wars in the pursuit of justice, however he or she defined it."
— Anthony Michael Kreis, FRHistS
"Restoring Venezuela's democracy and ending its crimes against humanity would be a remarkable foreign policy feat. But having abandoned those principles, the U.S. justifies its intervention by exaggerating Venezuela's role in drug smuggling and demanding its natural resources."
— Benjamin Gedan (@benjamingedan)
"JD Vance admits this is war for oil"
— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer
Vance is the biggest stupid nothingburger in the Trump toilet.
Chevron pledges to work with Trump as it cheers 'peaceful' power transition in Venezuela
I burned my Chevron card some time ago.
MTG Bashes Trump’s Attack On Venezuela: “MAGA Thought We Voted Against This, Boy Were We Wrong”
And how, lady. But you finally admit it! Where are the rest of your criminal heroes?
We learned nothing from Iraq!
"The strong men who worked under Madero were left in place...
This isn't regime change. NOTHING will change when the structure that supported the power isn't changed.
Like in the USA.
p.s.
Regime change needs to happen in the USA." — Max-1 (comments)
It must and will or we will all soon be dead.
Statement of Sen. Bernie Sanders on Venezuela
"Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Saturday condemned President Donald Trump’s unilateral military action against Venezuela as illegal and unconstitutional, warning that it violates international law, endangers global security and usurps Congress’ exclusive authority to declare war. Sanders called on Congress to immediately pass a War Powers resolution to end the operation."
Read it here!
Trump’s Regime Change War on Venezuela is Patently Illegal
Today, President Trump announced a “large scale strike” on Venezuela that toppled its leader Nicholas Maduro, who has been kidnapped and flown to the U.S. to stand trial, according to attorney general Pam Bondi. In response, Lisa Gilbert, co-president of Public Citizen, issued the following statement:
“President Trump has launched an unjustified regime-change war without seeking the required congressional approval for the use of force. This is patently illegal, and yet another demonstration of this administration’s disregard for the Constitution and the separation of powers in our democratic system."
“We don’t know yet what the human toll of this attack will be for the Venezuelan people, but we do know that this is an assault on the rule of law in our country, and on the rules-based international order. Our system of checks and balances is being degraded before our eyes, and we urgently need Congressional accountability for this lawless president to put an end to this disintegration."
Don't count on it. Trump is protected by bigger bandits - SCOTUS!
Trump Is Making Sh*t Up About Venezuelan Oil To Avoid Epstein Scandal
After bombing Venezuela this morning and kidnaping their president, Trump was preening like a peacock. “They’re not going to do that again. We had a lot of oil there. As you know they threw our companies out, and we want it back,” he said. Which, of course is bullshit. Via the Washington Post:
"But U.S. companies never owned oil or land in Venezuela, home to the world’s largest proven reserves of crude, and officials didn’t kick them out of the country...."
Piracy! Robbery! This is a criminal act!
Get ready to have your sons shipped home in a body bag!
Your Jaw Will Hit the Floor When You Find Out How Much the Average OpenAI Worker Makes
And it's just for writing garbage code!
Hegseth: Maduro “Effed Around And He Found Out”
Said one of our leading murderers.
"I would welcome a NATO invasion of Washington DC, at this point." — Turtle73 (comments)
"At least there is one point they aren't lying about, this isn't really about drugs.
It's the oil." — April the unperson (comments)
"The fucking moron thinks we can run the country and control their oil fields without boots on the ground?!! God, what an imbecile!" — Uncle Mark’s Mugshot (comments)
"Canada, Greenland, and Cuba. You better get your shit together fast, because you're next on Trump's reign of terror." — Swamp Yankee (comments)
"The US under Trump is NOT the one you want Running your country ... We don't want him running Your country.. Study up.. and for Us in the US we Must Work to Change out all GOP in elections ahead" — Tm Jnsss (comments)
"Pete Hegseth is a fascist war criminal. Full stop." — AreYouPreparedToGoToCourt (comments)
"Your day is coming, A-Hole." — Dot Beech (comments)
Hegseth may not have the experience to run a war, but he does remind me of somebody.
'When [outgoing defense chief] von Blomberg was asked by Hitler (out of respect for him, after his dismissal in 1938) who he would recommend to replace him, he had said that Hitler himself should take over the job. He told Hitler that Keitel (who was his son-in-law's father) "is just the man who runs my office". Hitler snapped his fingers and exclaimed "That's exactly the man I'm looking for".
— Wikipedia entry for Wilhelm Keitel" — Coram Nobis et seq (comments)
Something’s Gonna Have to be Done With Mexico’: Trump Floats Further Intervention to Fox & Friends
A madman. America, you have a madman putting us in harm's way. WHO THE FUCK VOTED FOR THIS GARBAGE?
He's only set on grabbing foreign resources for his own wealth! A TOTAL CRIME!
U.S. strikes on Venezuela spark alarm across Latin America and beyond
Our lives are now at risk by both foreign and domestic violence.
This is all about an insane dictator taking the oil resources of a sovereign country!
This Trump toady is out to smash a US government jewel — and hurt every ordinary American
Just another shitbag crook who wants to kill many Americans.
‘We are going to run the country’: Trump declares US control over Venezuela
He has shit. Now he will fall back in it!
"President Donald Trump made the stunning announcement Saturday that the United States would take control of Venezuela following the attack and capture of its president earlier Saturday morning until a transfer of power can be facilitated."
The act of a criminal murderer. He can't even run his own country!
This will require BOOTS ON THE GROUND! WHO THE FUCK VOTED FOR THIS?
He is violating the Monroe Doctrine!
Trump’s Spectacles of Violence Can’t Hold Back the Growing Tide of Discontent
“My family is scared to step outside,” a student admitted during my class. Around him heads nodded. All were born in the U.S. but most know undocumented people. Donald Trump painted a big target on their backs. “We’re not criminals, you know. We’re just trying to work, and survive.”
Hell, we're all in danger!
Experts Decry Illegal Aggression After Trump Says US Captured Maduro
Legal experts called for Trump’s impeachment as world leaders condemned the strikes as a violation of international law.
"Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) said in a post on X that Secretary of State Marco Rubio claims the strikes were carried out to protect' those carrying out the arrest, reported to be U.S. special operations forces. Lee said that the military action 'likely falls within the president’s inherent authority under Article II of the Constitution to protect U.S. personnel from an actual or imminent attack' — a framing that experts and lawmakers have said is a farce, as there is no evidence of an 'imminent” threat from Venezuela.'"
"World leaders, legal experts, and U.S. lawmakers have widely condemned the strikes and reported kidnapping as a violation of international law, coming as an escalation after a series of boat strikes and oil tanker seizures that experts have already long deemed illegal."
“Secretaries Rubio and [Pete] Hegseth looked every Senator in the eye a few weeks ago and said this wasn’t about regime change. I didn’t trust them then and we see now that they blatantly lied to Congress,” said Sen. Andy Kim (D-New Jersey) in a post on social media.
Have all of our old atomic bomb shelters been filled in? Too bad. America is now a target.
The US Invaded Venezuela and Captured Nicolás Maduro. ChatGPT Disagrees
Some AI chatbots have a surprisingly good handle on breaking news. Others decidedly don’t.
"It has been a stunning series of events, with unknown repercussions for the global world order. If you asked ChatGPT about it this morning, it told you that you’re making it up."
"WIRED asked leading chatbots ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini the same question a little before 9 am ET. In all cases, we used the free, default version of the service, since that’s what the majority of users experience. We also asked AI search platform Perplexity, which advertises 'accurate, trusted, and real-time answers to any question.' (While Perplexity Pro users have access to a wide range of third-party AI models, the default, free search experience routes users to different models based on a variety of factors.)"
Remember when everyone was scared shitless that our water supply would have LSD poured into it?
Well, here we are thanks to brainless idiot AI poured into every computer!
Sure right here's your one a day email for WARRRRR
"So we’re having a war.
Here’s what we wrote about yesterday, before we went to WARRRRR.
There were some tabs. We hadn’t yet kidnapped the Venezuelan president.
Jack Smith testified. We hadn’t yet gone to WARRRRR.
Bari Weiss’s CBS got the hot scoop about the Trump’s beautiful war. You know she’s bursting her buttons with pride at her 'good' 'job.'
Legit Nice Time!
He froze all the childcare funds across the entire country, based of course on specious bullshit.
And then we had a lot of drinks."
What Are We Changing The Subject *From* When We Bomb A Country's Capital And Kidnap Its President?
"My little brother and I got in a stupid fight a week or two ago. We were talking about the war crimes Trump has been doing out loud, bombing fishing boats and murdering shipwrecked men down off the coast of Venezuela. And my little brother wanted me to agree that sanctions on Venezuela are just as bad as the war crimes. I said I didn’t care about the sanctions; I didn’t know enough about the situation to know whether they were warranted but that I’m not always opposed to sanctions. I think they have real utility with that Putin asshole, for instance. 'THEY’RE THEFT' he screeched in that frantic tone where he filibusters really fast and nobody else can say anything, 'WE’RE STEALING FROM THEM.' And when I said again I didn’t care about the sanctions, and kept repeating “I care about the war crimes” over and over, he shrieked at me that I was immoral, and I told him to shut his mouth and get the fuck out of my house.
We should have been able to agree on what we agree on: caring about the war crimes. Why did we have to discuss until the point when he could accuse me of being insufficiently Left, and immoral, and uncommitted to Sparkle Motion and a real piece of shit?"
What happens when retarded zombies put piles of shit in charge of our country.
Is the Post Office About to Decide the 2026 Midterms?
"It’s not just a brand new year; it’s a midterm election year. And the stakes this coming November are mind-boggling, so, of course, Republicans are starting to do everything they can to rig the election.
Just a week ago, for example, Trump’s Postal Service changed the rules about getting your mail-in ballot postmarked so it’ll be counted. Instead of postmarking letters when they’re received, Post Offices will now postmark them when they get 'processed,' which may happen days later."
"Unless enough of us stand up, speak up, and get active to regain control of Congress this fall and push legislation protecting American voters, Republicans will continue to eviscerate the voting right they’ve now turned into a privilege until it becomes completely meaningless.
And that will signal the end of America as we know it."
This is what we get for putting Nazi bastard SOBs in charge!
Our elections have now been rigged by a dictator!
‘This Is State Terrorism’: Global Outrage as Trump Launches Illegal Assault on Venezuela
“It is brutal imperialist aggression,” said former Bolivian President Evo Morales.
The corrupt fascist state that Trump has created has now become a world terrorist threat.
Dem lawmakers call for immediate action to ‘rein’ Trump in after Venezuela attack
“Let us be clear: these strikes are illegal,” said Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-NM) on Saturday in a statement on social media. “The President does not have the authority to declare war or undertake large-scale military operations without Congress. Congress must act to rein him in. Immediately.”
If only we had a Congress. Instead we have ditto head Nazis.
MAGA insider brutally mocked after mistaking Dem's cashmere scarf for Islamic threat
Brainless bimbo too stupid to know what Houndstooth pattern is. American lunatic!
'Something doesn't feel right': Bondi catches flack for announcement after Maduro capture
“Anything but release the Epstein files right,” N3ON accused.
Kidnapping is a crime.
Rubio: Maduro Is Not Venezuela’s Legitimate President
He means like Donald Trump?
Jessica Tarlov Throws Trump's Pardons In Whiny Wingers Faces
Fox's Jessica Tarlov took a whack at the right for their current freakout over fraud and government waste in Minnesota when they've turned a blind eye to the criminals Trump has been pardoning.
'What am I waking up to now?' Critics weary of Trump’s international chaos
Critics? How about humanity? You people have been sleeping on the job!
Get ready for China to invade Taiwan!
Trump's Venezuelan invasion a 'risky political gambit': retired general
One step closer to WWIII.
Tesla No Longer World’s Largest Seller Of Electric Cars
Genius!
Champagne Sparklers Blamed For Fatal Swiss Bar Fire
Stupid isn't just reserved for Americans.
Fucked Over and Flushed Away (And It Ain't Cheap.)
..."But the more I learned, right up to the present, was that we us dutiful children were pretty much fucked from the get, and the less white and wealthy we were, the more fucked we were likely to be.
Here’s what I’ve learned of late under Trump, as I faced the prospect of putting my wife in an “assisted living” facility. If you go there, some of the last papers you’ll be asked to sign will give over most of what you’d hope to leave to your children to corporations or entrepreneurs intent on purloining most all your money for themselves and their own children, even though they already have more money than they can ever spend. Taxes favor the transfer of wealth through regressive taxation, lobbyists, and the bribery of elected officials, from city councils to the two major political parties, though the Republicans, who started out as the mostly good guys who opposed slavery, became the party of pedophilia, moral vapidity, corporate rule, imperialism, and the notion that plutocrats should hold sway over everything, lesser people be damned. Never forget that God favors the rich and quit yer bitchin' about that. The mega-rich were the makers, everyone else was the takers. a remarkable twisting of reality."
If you consider yourself an American, read this essay.
'We're now intervening': Lawmaker duo to make big move to force Epstein files' release
Reps. Ro Khanna (D-CA) and Thomas Massie (R-KY) plan to make a major announcement next week regarding a new plan to force the Trump administration to release its files on Jeffrey Epstein, Khanna announced Friday.
“We’re now going to be intervening with the Southern District of New York to ask those judges to appoint a special master and ensure that all the documents are released,” Khanna announced Friday, speaking with NPR.
“My interest here is to see justice for survivors – it’s not to be punitive – and what I want to see over these next few weeks is for the documents to actually start coming out that the American people and the survivors want to see, which is the documents that name the rich and powerful men who were on Epstein’s rape island.”
Why, in heaven's name, is it NOT to be punitive? We have some very filthy scumbags involved here!
Belichick Approved’: Internet Erupts in Response to Rumors of Tom Brady Dating Much-Younger Social Media Influencer
Money and fame gets you all the bimbo pussy you can buy! Just ask "Fatso, the Pussy Grabber!"
Lara Trump Declares ‘I'm Working Out for All the Trumps’ After Donald Calls Exercise ‘Boring’
"Surrogate exercisers" are the latest thing for morons! Get one today!
MAGA “Dilbert” Creator Says He’s Close To Dying
Well, so are we all!
Trump Drops Plan To Tariff Italian Pasta At 107%
Mr. Bumble changes mind about Italian Pasta when he realizes the possbility of getting whacked for it!
Perhaps he mistook it for Italian marble?
Cops Forced to Explain Why AI Generated Police Report Claimed Officer Transformed Into Frog
"Law enforcement has quickly embraced AI for everything from drafting police reports to facial recognition.
The results have been predictably dismal. In one particularly glaring — and unintentionally comedic — instance, the police department in Heber City, Utah, was forced to explain why a police report software declared that an officer had somehow shapeshifted into a frog."
Truth is stranger than fiction: Chapter Infinity!
Supreme Court advances 'kooky theory' devoid of 'constitutional grounding': legal expert
They are no longer "Supreme" nor a "Court." This charade must be rectified.
They scored a pardon from Trump — but now they’re in 'legal peril'
The miscreant fascist bastards must be taken out for good this time!
Elon Musk's Grok AI posted CSAM image following safeguard 'lapses'
compromising images, Bloomberg reported. The issue has created an uproar among users on X and prompted an "apology" from the bot itself. "I deeply regret an incident on Dec. 28, 2025, where I generated and shared an AI image of two young girls (estimated ages 12-16) in sexualized attire based on a user's prompt," Grok said in a post. An X representative has yet to comment on the matter.
According to the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network, CSAM includes "AI-generated content that makes it look like a child is being abused," as well as "any content that sexualizes or exploits a child for the viewer’s benefit."
The human waste that is Musk.
The Matter Disintegrator can't come too soon!
Trump: I’ll Attack Iran Over Treatment Of Protesters
But Professor Yoo, a Berkeley law professor, believes a darker alternative is much more likely. He said, "The bad story is that he turns out to be like Nixon.”
How long has this been prophecised? Only since day one.
CBS News: We’ll No Longer Cite “Academics Or Elites”
"New CBS anchor Tony Dokoupil, Moron Deluxe!"
CBS = Confounded Being Stupid.
They will only broadcast "news" for the moron and illiterate. ROTFLMAO!
Americans don't trust Nazi bastards, you idiot!
And by the way, when were you ever "me"?
Trump: WH Doctors Just Said I’m In “Perfect Health”
The world knows he's lying like a rug. He's one sick sunsetter.
"Pusbucket of the United States" — Fin (comments)
Oscar Winner Cancels Kennedy Center Hosting Gig
I can't wait to hear the Trump hate response.
FL Paper Sues Over Destruction Of Pulse Crosswalk
"Without warning, without a word to Orlando officials, the state Department of Transportation sent a work crew into the SODO neighborhood with a directive: Blacken out the rainbow-painted crosswalk that marked the place where emergency crews once carried the wounded and dying victims of the Pulse nightclub massacre.
It was sacrilege on sacred ground, carried out in such close proximity to the Pulse site that the work crews would have been able to read the memorial signs that adorned the nightclub property itself. It left city officials and Orlando residents wondering: Why the sneak attack? Why didn’t Orlando get the chance to appeal, as other cities were granted? Most compelling: Why did the DOT destroy a crosswalk that the department itself installed just a few months prior, complete with the rainbow colors — and even boasted about on social media?"
Their hatred is strong and dangerous.
Blue state declares war on Trump's masked immigration agents
Every state should do the same. But, alas, the fascist ruled will not.
One more thing that will move us closer to Civil War.
'You doing ok?' CNN host stunned by shop-owner's blistering on-air meltdown at Trump
A Beverly Hills-based entrepreneur unleashed an exasperated tirade Thursday on President Donald Trump on CNN, warning that his tariffs will "kill Main Street," lead to a depression, and will be the "final nail in the coffin of small business."...
It all goes in Trump's pocket.
"Tara Riceberg, owner of Tesoro, a luxury gift store, joined fill-in host Phil Mattingly on 'The Lead' to discuss the impact of Trump's economic policies after her business went up in flames on Christmas Day...."
"We are going to kill Main Street and if we're not already in a depression, we're going to be," she warned. "There is no way small business can sustain. And honestly, these tariffs, these taxes, they are the final nail in the coffin of small business."
The Right Hit Peak Incel in 2025
Some incel loser speaks:
“I could make a dating app profile and lose my virginity by dinnertime,” claimed this devoted champion of President Donald Trump. “But very few people alive have ever actually had *sex*,” he continued. “They’ve slapped their damp, clammy body against another damp, clammy body, like the wriggling of a suffocating fish.” Sólionath then attempted to wax poetic about how he would be different if “I ever tried to make love.” Because unlike people who have done the deed, he would “reveal the deepest and most primal aspects of myself to a woman,” and in the process, “she [would] be mine in totality and no other human even think of her existence.” He also promised to impregnate this imaginary woman.
There are more idiots listed where this is written.
‘Beyond a Reasonable Doubt’: Jack Smith Testifies to Congress Trump ‘Engaged in a Criminal Scheme’
Of course. It's what a crime syndicate does.
Who Are The Heroes Of 2025? It's A LONG F*CKIN' LIST
"Every New Year’s Eve Wonkette picks one hero above all to be THE HERO for the year, and that will happen this year too, later tonight. (Spoiler, it’s Marjorie Taylor Greene, now feel free to go about your festivities and/or go to bed.) (Just kidding, we picked “AI” like Time did.)
But the United States is currently in the throes of a fascist experience, and how that ends up is anybody’s guess at this point. There are things every day that make us more concerned than the day before. But that just increases the need for us to look for and amplify the heroes working to turn the tide."
It sure as hell is not our military.
We’ve Got 11 Months, So Are We Going to Change the Democratic Party or Watch the Right Keep Winning?
We are going to keep watching the Trump fascists destroy our history, commit murder at will, end elections, keep putting people into concenration camps, and our armed forces will allow it because they are complicit. In short, we are Nazi Germany. The only thing that will change it is the rest of the world seeing it and engaging in WWIII to put an end to America's experiment. Happy New Year!
Latest “Drug Boat” Strikes May Have Left Survivors
More war crimes. Lawsuits being prepared I assume.
"Yes, we are Nazi Germany
With. Nukes" — Todd20036 (comments)
Smith Testimony: Trump Admitted Losing 2020 Election
Sad. All the treason he created to just to make himsel feel better about being an asshole.
Trump Auctions Autographed Jesus Portrait For $2.75M
Wow! He got Jesus to make his second coming just to autograph a fake portrait?
Trump Blames Bruised Hands On High Doses Of Aspirin
Then his kidneys are going to go. NSAIDS kill kidneys.
Federal Workers Sue Over Ban On Trans Healthcare
As they should. As we all should!
New DHS Post Envisions “100 Million Deportations”
Will you or a family member be among them?
Crookie Award For Lie Of The Year: The Epstein Files
"We don't give any Crookie awards to Donald Trump, ever. He has enough gold crap in his "office," and even a Crookie Award for Worst President would only reinforce his narcissism.
This award is for the rest of the White House, particularly AG Pam Bondi, and their Herculean efforts to cover up Trump's (alleged! Sure, Jan.) participation in Trump's sex crimes against underage girls.
On February 21, Pam went on Fox to insist that the Epstein Client List was ON HER DESK, being reviewed!"
The swine!
Release of Jack Smith interview shows 'why Jim Jordan didn’t want public testimony': experts
The video of a closed-door interview with former special counsel Jack Smith was released at the end of the day, New Year's Eve, but it hasn't stopped legal analysts from walking through some of the most important details.
Elections lawyer Marc Elias couldn't help but laugh that he still "live[s] rent free in the heads of these MAGA idiots." The Smith interview took place before the House Judiciary Committee, where Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) did a large part of the questioning.
Legal analyst Allison Gill, who co-hosted a podcast named "Jack" about the special counsel, noted that she understands now why Jordan wanted to bury the interview.
"Half way through the Jack Smith transcript and it’s become abundantly clear why Jim Jordan didn’t want public testimony. Jordan spends a lot of time whining about the toll subpoenas, and Jack Smith shuts him down every time," Gill wrote on BlueSky.
"The President of the United States is a criminal. Thank you for your service, Jack Smith," echoed Trump foe George Conway on BlueSky.
"The first is the evidence here made clear that President Trump was by a large measure the most culpable and most responsible person in this conspiracy," Phang explained. "These crimes were committed for his benefit. The attack happened at the Capitol, part of this case does not happen without him. The other co-conspirators were doing this for his benefit. So, in terms of why we would pressure a case against him, I entirely disagree with any characterization that our work was in any way meant to hamper him in the Presidential election."
Tell Jack-it Off Jordan to go back to hell from which he came!
Trumpism runs on hate — and one groveling toady spews more of it than most
"Hateful bigotry is fine inside the Trump regime as long as the hateful bigots are loyal to Trump.
Meanwhile, the regime is trying to rid America of people fighting hateful bigotry.
Hate is the defining ideology of the Trump regime."
OK Bill Would Let Doctors Refuse LGBTQ Patients
Is everyone in Oklahoma a hateful inhuman retard? They seem to be very proud of their stupidness.
Jack White Rages After Congressman Shares AI Deepfake of Him Calling Fans “Fascists
Tennessee congressman Tim Burchett threw himself into the mosh pit. Reposting what was clearly an AI-generated video of White calling potential fans who are also Trump supporters “fascists,” Burchett wrote on X-formerly-Twitter that “that cute little girl from the Addams Family got really ugly and angry.”
Can you believe that a US congressman, that’s right, a CONGRESSMAN (from my state no less), a once hallowed and respected position in our society, would repost an AI generated video, containing a false comment that I never said and refuted (without researching that I might add) and like a 10 year old on a playground, add to it attempted insults to my physical appearance?” White roared on Instagram. “What kind of joke are we all living in now?”
“It’s really sad how embarrassing our leadership has become, I so wish the average American conservative could have a conversation with any intelligent people in other countries around the world, just for one brief moment, and actually see just what a joke our government (and by proxy our country) has become,” the musician continued. “All down to giving power and a soapbox to low class playground bullies the likes of trump and Congressman burchett.”
Yes, Yes, Jack we most certainly can. Lamebrain Tennessee Nazis are all the same dumb shits.
Republican notches historic loss in key red state
Won by 71%. She's a Black woman. Trump may have a heart attack. We can only hope.
Trump official pressures admin to arrest president's targets in expletive-filled rant
"President Donald Trump's Agency for Global Media director went on Newsmax this week to rage against the people who criminally investigated President Donald Trump — and called for them to be imprisoned for life.
Kari Lake, a former Phoenix-area news anchor who has run unsuccessfully for statewide office in Arizona twice on a MAGA platform, made the comments during a segment on David Harris' "The Pulse" about the allegations of benefits fraud schemes in Minnesota, which have reached fever pitch as Republicans scramble to attack Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, despite the actual evidence on the ground painting a very different picture of what really happened."
Batshit crazy motherfuckers like Lake should be deported!
"Well, we haven't heard from this FVCKING LOSER in quite a while. The criminal she's looking for is still in the White House." — Jinmichigan (comments)
"Kari Lake is a piece of shit, and she wasted millions of dollars of Arizona taxpayers cash." — FlyoverStater (comments)
"The only person who belongs in prison is Trump and his entire family. These folks support criminals, fascist and oligarchs. Which means we are all at risk because of them." — Sandrag (comments)
Project 2025 has been a success — with the help of the press
Mainstream media outlets dismissed Trump's ties to Project 2025. Now it's facing unprecedented crackdowns
An accounting!
Fox News Host Attacks Biden For Being “On Vacation”
Fox News is the world's largest collection of retarded talking heads.
A perfect match for their audience! How DO they stand to watch this pitifully dumb shit?
"He's not the President, so why should you care?
Do you give a damn that Trump has spent a quarter of his Presidency golfing at Mar-A-Lago?" — vap (comments)
Does this really need to be pointed out to these disabled pissants?
Grenell Claims “Legacy Media Is Encouraging Boycotts”
"Walking Cancer" should be his name. Boycotting because he's a total toxic shit pile.
He's a Nazi and HE'S open about it!
"If your show is shit, people will walk out, or not go. Grenell is running the show at that theatre, he's their glorified Artistic Director; who blames the audience for not showing up, and the actors for not wanting to preform in his utterly perverted theatre.
Putting Trump's name on it was really fucking stupid." — Karl Dubhe IV (comments)
"Does little Ricky have his panties in a twist because he has ruined the Kennedy Center. Nobody is coming because the Goddamn Trump Administration is unfriendly to the Arts , and to poor people and children having food and healthcare." — Dwight Williamson (comments)
"A whore is a working professional who performs a popular service. This quisling offers nothing." — IamSmartypants (comments)
Conway: “Slob Rosie O’Donnell Needs A Husband”
Trump is a blob. Worse than a blob. A slob.
Who in hell is she to talk?
Fox Host Revives Faux War On Xmas To Give Trump A Moronic Win
The country is falling apart, but somehow saying 'Merry Christmas' is supposed to make it all better?
There was never a time in this country when saying "Merry Christmas" was not allowed.
These people are the lowest pieces of shit polutting our country! Off with them!
Yes, put "Christ" back in "Christians."
So many people have no idea on the history of the Yuletide and how Christians used it. They still do.
Kristi Noem accused of making up excuse to bulldoze Washington's historic landmarks
What a sick discredit to women this bimbo is.
"What is with these idiotic destructions of historical buildings?
No one voted for this!
What's next, a 'Gettysburg Theme Park'?
All of these people are just plain crazy; reopen the asylum and toss this entire administration in there!" — Robert Funke
Return them to the Seventh Level of Hell from whence they came!
Bombshell report reveals Trump sent young women from Mar-a-Lago to Epstein
According to the report, Mar-a-Lago wasn't merely a frequent hangout for Epstein; the country club would also send Epstein young women to handle his "massages, manicures and other spa services."
Everything stopped when an 18-year-old beautician returned from a "house call" to Epstein and said that he had pressured her for sex, the ex-employees told the Journal.
"No matter how many times this story is told and retold, the truth remains: President Trump did nothing wrong and he kicked Jeffrey Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago for being a creep," Leavitt said after claiming the Journal was "writing up fallacies and innuendo."
"CNBC's Carl Quintanilla highlighted an excerpt of the report that talked about Trump's ex-wife, Marla Maples, being so 'uneasy' about Epstein's presence that she didn't want to spend time with him or Trump when they were together. Still, Epstein continued to party at Mar-a-Lago with Trump."
How does Karoline Leavitt know what went on at Mar-A-Lago unlessshe was there!
Ohio Republican Assures Us That The Economy Will Be Better 'By Easter'
That would be Easter 2065! I can't wait!
DOJ Warned Trump Of Homan Bribery Investigation
So...they ARE ALL a part of the Trump Crime Syndicate and guilty as charged? I am so stunned by this! /S
“Civil War” Couple Guilty In $2 Million Medical Scam
More garbage from the goofball USA!
"An Arizona couple pleaded guilty on Monday to a yearslong health hoax involving a made-up medical procedure that cost sick and dying patients over $2 million — all while the husband purportedly prepared for a civil war against the government. Mary Blakley, 76, and Fred Blakley, 61, made their admissions of guilt in Philadelphia federal court after prosecutors charged the duo with mail and wire fraud in January.
Prosecutors said the couple — from Lake Havasu City, Arizona — first began their scam in 2006. Between then and 2025, Mary Blakley owned and operated several purported medical clinics across Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada and Utah with the help of her husband, despite neither of them having medical licenses in those states.
Across the fraudulent clinics, the Blakleys promoted a signature service known as the 'full body scan.' The service was advertised as utilizing a noninvasive device, powered by 'smart chip technology,' to detect and cure various cancers, 'clean' the lungs and brainstem, and conduct colonoscopies and electrocardiograms."
Hey, they can always move their scam to Florida where the morons buy anything!
FL Bill Would Make Horse Paste Over The Counter
Multiple other red states have already made horse paste available without a prescription, but somehow Florida has not.
Holcomb last appeared here in 2023 when he drew gasps in the Florida House by declaring, “Our terrorist enemies hate homosexuals more than we do. They’re the ones who discriminate.”
"I am 100% for this and for the recommendation that all MAGAts drink bleach on a daily basis to prevent Covid.
I will personally help pay for their expense of purchasing the paste and the bleach." — another_steve (comments)
Lara Trump on Venezuelan land strikes: 'This is what the American people voted for'
Photo of three very confused and clueless aliens.
Analyst says Trump’s clash with Greene reveals who he’s shielding in Epstein case
"President Donald Trump’s falling-out with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene may have carried a chilling message for Jeffrey Epstein’s victims, according to one analyst. After Greene revealed Trump urged her to oppose releasing the Epstein files because it would “hurt his friends,” political analyst Jack Hopkins argued the moment stripped away any pretense about Trump’s priorities. Writing on Substack, Hopkins said Trump wasn’t worried about damaging a movement or protecting due process, but about shielding powerful people from exposure — even as his administration continues to slow-walk documents Congress ordered released. The distinction, Hopkins warned, shows exactly who Trump is protecting — and who was never meant to be."
No doubt. But we all know who he's covering for -- the only one who matters -- himself!
Somebody Needs to Tell Trump Everybody Is Laughing at Him
"IN THE COURSE OF HIS LOSING RACE with the teleprompter during his Oval Office address on December 17, President Trump returned to a theme that obsesses him—respect. Even before his entry into politics, Trump was convinced that “weak” leaders, including Reagan, Bush, Clinton, and Obama, were despised by other nations and that the United States was a laughingstock. As of 2016, according to a Washington Post tally, Trump had fumed at least one hundred times that other nations were “laughing at us.” Between 2020 and 2024, he probably exceeded that total, and in fact, even now that Biden is in the rearview mirror, Trump perseverates about how much Biden was scorned by the world."
The usual fact is that a moron never knows when he's the one being laughed at. This makes Trump the King of Morons!
And just think of what that says about us Americans!
New Year's Adam. Tabs, Tues., Dec. 30, 2025
"Rachel Maddow took last night off from her show so this shit’s gonna be short. Those are the rules, just made ‘em up. (They ran a special on MS NOW about her new Burn Order podcast in its place, though. If you haven’t heard, it’s about that thing when the US government put Japanese immigrants in concentration camps during World War II — very relevant now! — and you should find that special and watch it, and also listen to the podcast.)"
"Behold, the story of Donald Trump telling some rando on the radio that we bombed ground targets in Venezuela, and nobody knows if it’s true, or a lie, or a dementia, or a confused, or somehow all of these things? [Washington Post / The Handbasket]"
"Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Vladimir Putin is a total fucking liar with his crybaby bullshit about waaaaaah Ukraine tried to drone my house. Of course, because Donald Trump is both incredibly stupid AND ALSO Putin’s incredibly stupid bitch, he believes Putin. [Guardian / Daily Beast]"
"Wanna read that Marge Taylor Greene profile in the New York Times? Well then you can. She has some interesting things to say, like what Trump said to her when she threatened to identify some of the named Epstein victims had named for her. [New York Times]"
"Pam Bondi says all the biggest MAGA mouthbreathers and pubesniffers in Donald Trump’s Nazi Gestapo government are doing a big investigation into CONSPIRACYYYYYYY against Dear Leader. How much mouthbreather-slash-pubesniffer? Behold this sentence: “As part of the probe, a grand jury is set to convene in Fort Pierce, Florida in mid-January. Currently, Aileen Cannon is the sole federal judge at the U.S. courthouse in Fort Pierce.” That’s how much. [Democracy Docket]"
"How are musical acts responding to prissy weenus Kennedy Center Director Ric Grenell’s threat to sue the jazz musician who canceled his Christmas Eve performance in response to Donald Trump pooping his name onto the side of the building next to the name of a real American? By canceling their own performances, because Ric Grenell is a little bitch and Donald Trump is fucking Hitler and not a goddamned single self-respecting person, much less an artist with actual talent, wants to be associated with that. [New York Times]"
Goddamn right!
Nothing Is Ours Anymore: Is the "Rental Economy" the Most Destructive Scam in Modern American Capitalism?
"Yesterday, both Trump and his Secretary of Housing and Urban Development told us that 50-year home mortgages may soon be a thing. While seemingly insane (you could end up paying more than three times the cost of the house and never escape the burden of debt before you die), this is just the latest iteration of one of American businesses’ most profitable scams: the rental economy.
It’s a growing threat to the American middle class that rarely gets named, even as it reshapes our lives every day. Over the past two decades, it’s snuck in quietly, disguised as convenience, efficiency, and 'innovation.'
As a result, nothing is “ours” any more. Instead, we’re renting our lives away.
There was a time when you bought things.
You bought a house, a book, a record, a car, a word processing program. You paid once, took it home or lived in it, and it was yours. If the company went out of business, your stereo still worked. If the manufacturer didn’t get their annual payment, your computer didn’t lock you out of your own words. You could read books on your phone or pad without an internet connection to “confirm your purchase.”
Not only that but we also must "subscribe" to things. To be an American we will soon pay a subscription fee just to do anything we used to do for a fixed price. Slavery's "Company Store" is well on its return. This isn't hell yet, but you can see it from here. I won't be lving in that world, thankfully.
Saudi Arabia Bombs Yemeni Port Over UAE Weapons
But, but, Trump ended all wars since he's been Poisondent!
US Removes Overseas Displays Honoring Black Soldiers
The pride of a Nazi racist America!
May these sick asswipes die soon!
"These Nazis are aiming for a return to literal slavery." -- Judas Peckerwood (comments)
WaPo: Social Security Has Gotten Worse Under Trump
May Trump die in poverty!
"Republican retirement and disability plans. Die quickly, and don't bother the rich when you do it." — Karl Dubhe IV (comments)
30th “Drug Boat” Strike Brings Murder Toll To 107
America's murder spree continues.
"There will be trials." — amy cuscuriae (comments)
And a honing of the guillotines.
'F*cking Loser' Stephen Miller's Racist Post Backfires
He really didn't think this out.
The Cue Ball scratches.
Bankruptcies Soar To 15-Year High Thanks To Trump's Tariffs
Who could have possibly predicted that serial bankruptcy filer Donald Trump's tariff tantrums would trigger corporate bankruptcies to soar to a 15-year high in 2025?
"Corporate bankruptcies surged in 2025, rivaling levels not seen since the immediate aftermath of the Great Recession, as import-dependent businesses absorbed the highest tariffs in decades.
At least 717 companies filed for bankruptcy through November, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence. That’s roughly 14 percent more than the same 11 months of 2024, and the highest tally since 2010."
Trump Cabinet Officials Re-Name Themselves
"A rush of orders for new business cards and government IDs is expected, but key officials are likely to be the first to see their new names recognized on repainted doors and Trump accoutrements. Priority is expected to be given to Attorney General Pam Trump-Bondi, Secretary of the Homeland Security Kristi Trump-Noem, and Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Trump-Kennedy Jr."
"Turd in charge" must be a coveted title.
Can we believe our entire governent has gone insane? Yes, it has!
Trump Claims US Struck “Big Facility” In Venezuela
And yet no one in the world is saying anything about it?
Is he confusing it with Nigeria?
Fox Host: “Nuts MTG Is The DNC Media’s Useful Idiot"
Pot meet kettle!
Alzheimer’s Fully Reversed in Mice, Scientists Say
“The key takeaway is a message of hope — the effects of Alzheimer’s disease may not be inevitably permanent,” said Andrew A. Pieper, the study’s principal investigator and a CWRU neuroscience professor, in a statement about the research. “The damaged brain can, under some conditions, repair itself and regain function.”
It will be available by the 22nd Century.
People Jabbing Themselves With Black Market “GLP-3” Drugs
"Some people are hitting a weight loss plateau with GLP-1 agonist drugs like Ozempic, so they’re turning to a stronger variety that promises even more dramatic weight loss — up to more than 70 pounds in some instances, The Atlantic reports.
There’s a small wrinkle: the US Food and Drug Administration has yet to officially approve this medication — technically called retatrutide but cheekily nicknamed a 'GLP-3' by users — because it’s still in clinical trials. So the market for it is black, or at least severely grey, with shady overseas companies exploiting a legal loophole to get around regulatory barriers.
In other words, everyone taking retatrutide is basically taking part in an unregulated experiment that could have disastrous results. Sure, you can effortlessly melt off the pounds with the synthetic peptide, but some users have reported disturbing side effects — such as dysesthesia, when your body processes normal sensations but you perceive them as painful, similar to the nerve pain diabetics feel in their feet."
Anyone still worried about THC? LMAO!
'Major scandal': Trump's DOJ caught spying on journalist before Epstein's death
There is no doubt that Trump is covering up another sex scandal!
Major Companies To Face “Fraud” Charges Over DEI
Todd Blance is a FALSE CLAIM as a human!
Stop being Nazi human failures, white morons! You might get ahead!
"Blanche is the one who should be facing criminal fraud charges and disciplinary charges before whatever Bar association certified him." — JackFknTwist (comments)
Both Of Trump’s Hands Are Now Showing Bruising
Cadavers decay.
"MTG: Trump Has Proven His Christian Faith Is Fake."
Paraphrasing Bob Dylan, "He has no faith to lose and he knows it!"
Linda 'A1' McMahon Mocks Daycare For A Misspelling
Anything goes as long as it distracts from the Epstein files
The brainless in charge of polluting our children's education.
I Must Come Clean: I Have Trump Derangement Syndrome
You may also fall into TDS if you dislike adjudicated rapists, Jan 6 insurrectionists, Putin-suckling seditionists, and golden-showering onanists...
Or if one is a racist Nazi.
Trump voters still oblivious to 'dark truth' exposed by Epstein files: analysis to 'dark truth' exposed by Epstein files: analysis
"Trump voters still oblivious" would have been enough said.
White South African Who Came To America Shocked He Ended Up In Detention
What happens when you put morons in charge!
"Ok, I won't make you wait. He was NOT allowed to enter the country. Actually, he was...but only as far as handcuffs and a secure transport van would take him: to a federal detention center in Georgia. His roommates are about 2,000 other people being held. He has been there for about 100 days so far."
Welcome to Trump Purgatory, white man!
Florida Republicans Introduce “The Bible Says So” Bill
Wipe your ass with it!
"Religious Liberties?" Stop making me laugh!
“Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.” — Voltaire
About Christianity itself, he called it “assuredly the most ridiculous, the most absurd and the most bloody religion which has ever infected this world.” On this topic he also wrote, “Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
This would be one of them!
Trump’s Kennedy Center Chief Threatens Jazz Musician With $1M Suit Over Canceled Christmas Gig
Listen motherfucker, only every musician in the world will donate to a defense fund against you Nazi shitstains!
"Days after the renaming, Representative Joyce Beatty, a Democrat of Ohio, filed a lawsuit against President Trump and center representatives. The suit holds that the move was illegal because an act of Congress is required to rename the building. Representative Beatty is an ex officio member of the Kennedy Center’s board and called into the board meeting where the change was voted on."
"This was not consensus. This is censorship.” — Representative Joyce Beatty.
FUCK OFF Richard Grenell! In every way possible! You are not a dictator, you are not a King, you are a certified Nazi go-fer!
Musician Cancelled as AI Falsely Accuses Him of Horrific Crimes
"Who needs vicious music columnists when you live in the age of AI?
Apparently not Ashley MacIsaac, a Canadian fiddler, singer, and songwriter who was labeled a sex criminal by Google’s AI overview.
According to the Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail, event organizers at the Sipekne’katik First Nation, north of Halifax, canceled an upcoming performance featuring MacIsaac after Google incorrectly described him as a sex offender.
The paper reports that the misinformation was the result of one of Google’s AI summaries — brief summations it helpfully plasters above all other search results — which blended the musician’s biography with another person who bears the same name."
“Google screwed up, and it put me in a dangerous situation,” MacIsaac told the paper.
Google still exists off their old reputation as a search engine. Why users trust it any longer is a mystery to me.
This brazen cruelty bodes ill for victims of the Trump regime — and for every American too
America, your Nazi concentration camps are being prepared.
"The plan is for newly arrested detainees to be funneled — let me remind you, with no due process, or independent magistrate or judge checking on whether they are in fact in the United States illegally — into one of seven large-scale warehouses holding 5,000 to 10,000 people each, where they would be 'staged' for deportation.
The large warehouses would be located close to major logistics hubs in Virginia, Texas, Louisiana, Arizona, Georgia and Missouri. Sixteen smaller warehouses would hold up to 1,500 people each.
America’s immigrant detention system is already the largest in the world."
Raise your hand if you are proud of this. We will see that you go with them.
‘Fast and decisive!’ Trump praises himself over debunked claim to have ended ‘eight wars’
In the coming years, if there are any left with human beings, the psychology textbooks will have a new model for insanity that will be modeled on Donald Trump.
“I am pleased to announce that the breakout fighting between Thailand and Cambodia will stop momentarily, and they will go back to living in PEACE, as per our recently agreed to original Treaty,” Trump wrote Sunday on his social media platform Truth Social."
“It was FAST & DECISIVE, as all of these situations should be! The United States of America, as always, was proud to help! With all of the wars and conflicts I have settled and stopped over the last eleven months, EIGHT, perhaps the United States has become the REAL United Nations, which has been of very little assistance or help in any of them, including the disaster currently going on between Russia and Ukraine.”
These are the deluded rants of a madman.
Iranian President: “We’re In Full-Scale War With US
DUH! Here's one "Fatso, the Deluded" missed! LMAO!
Stephen Miller’s New Bullshit About Immigrants
(same as the old bullshit!)
It has become more evident than ever that this man is a self-loathing sicko.
What Defective “Moral Majority” Thinks Rewarding Might-Makes-Right Immoralists Doesn’t Make America Immoral?
"Something wicked comes: defining immorality
'Immoral conduct' violates widely accepted moral standards, principles of right and wrong, certified ethics, honesty and fairness, causing harm by intention, willful ignorance, derangement, senility or selfishness. Legally, immoral actions endanger public welfare, namely sexual misconduct and predatory abuses of power, undermining elections, education and the health and safety of children and the aged, altogether undermining public trust and commitments to the rule of law. Politically, immorality glorifies lying, hypocrisy, scheming, propaganda, and violence to maximize elitist control (as in autocracy) and incite tribal tensions.
So I focus here on the catastrophic misjudgment that self-described moral/patriotic voters had to ignore both Judeo-Christian and Constitutional values when empowering an indecent, scofflaw, mafia-style gang. Trump unearthed an immense, racist, neo-fascist following, readily manipulated by greedy billionaires keen to decommission galling, regulatory correctives. Consider the tragic paradox when wannabe autocrats demonize democratic elections to dismantle functional, democratic checks and balances on power grabs. In an immoral world, elections answer to the iron will of anti-democrats, not the sovereign majority."
Photo line-up of evil's minions. The pure evil that exists in the world today.
Nigerian Town Bombed by Trump Has No Known History of Anti-Christian Violence
Did someone think Trump knew this. Of course not. Racist atrocities are all Trump cares about.
"When President Donald Trump launched a series of airstrikes in Nigeria on Christmas, he described it as an attack against “ISIS Terrorist Scum in Northwest Nigeria who have been targeting and viciously killing, primarily, innocent Christians.” But locals in a town that was hit during the strike say terrorism has never been a problem for them."
Trump is the biggest murderer of humanity in the world today.
Billion-Dollar Data Centers Are Taking Over the World
"The battle for AI dominance has left a large footprint—and it’s only getting bigger and more expensive."
I think most of us know by now "AI is neither arificial nor intelligent."
The Dollar Is Facing an End to Its Dominance.
"Questions around the reliability of the US greenback are dulling the luster of what was the world’s currency of trade. New, global alternatives are emerging."
We call this "Making America Great Again." Such a pity how we have failed.
People Who Drink Bottled Water on a Daily Basis Ingest 90,000 More Microplastic Particles Each Year
"Drinking water in plastic bottles contains countless particles too small to see. New research finds that people who drink water from them on a daily basis ingest far more microplastics than those who don’t."
Well, we have to put them somewhere, right?
Why Did Trump Fire the Nation’s Historian? (w/ Colleen Shogan)
"Donald Trump did something no other president has ever done: he fired the Archivist of the United States — the nonpartisan official responsible for preserving America’s records and history.
John Avlon talks with former Archivist Colleen Shogan about why that decision matters, how history has become a political weapon, and what it says about power, accountability, and democracy at a moment when America is heading toward its 250th anniversary."
Trump is attempting to erase his crimes from our history. He will fail at this. I know it, you know it and the American people know it!
Kash Patel Is Dismantling FBI Counterintelligence (w/ Derek Owen & R.M. Schneiderman)
Working in the same manner that Trump is: Destroy so no one will ever turn over their criminal evidence. Not even foreign powers.
"Ben Parker is joined by Derek Owen and R.M. Schneiderman to discuss their deeply reported investigation into how the FBI rebuilt its counterintelligence capabilities after decades of failure—and how Trump-world politics, Kash Patel, and shifting priorities could put America at risk."
Trump Said He Didn't Know About Project 2025. He Lied
How much of Project 2025 has actually been accomplished this year? A lot.
Whenver and whereever you see it, eliminate it!
Editorial Fail: Jeff Bezos's Wapo Denies Reality On Medicare For All
The Washington Post editorial (published on Christmas, no less!) predictably ignores research showing that a single-payer system would save hundreds of billions of dollars—and tens of thousands of lives—each year."
But that woudn't go into Jeff Bezo's pockets. He's trying to be your healthcare source now.
State Dept. 'not functioning' as staffers get sidelined for warning Trump is breaking law
Employees at the U.S. Department of State are hesitant “to give advice that the political appointees might not want to hear” as officials "become guarded about what they say" under President Donald Trump, multiple former State Department lawyers told HuffPost.
In an article published Saturday, HuffPost reports “a severe and unusual fear of being punished for doing their jobs has spread among staff at the State Department’s legal office, bolstering concerns about how the Trump administration is crafting foreign policy.”
The Trump corruption is at an all-time high.
'Never going to work': Conservative rips Trump's 'dumb' economic policies
"Now we have polling that shows voters — including Trump's own — blame him for the economy.”
We've said this over and over. No one seems to care.
‘That’s Trump’s economy’: Dem senator torches admin as unemployment hits four-year high
“I could reduce Unemployment to 2% overnight by just hiring people into the Federal Government, even though those Jobs are not necessary,” Trump wrote in a recent online post on his social media platform Truth Social. “I wish the Fake News would report the 4.5% correctly. What I am doing is the only way to, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!"
His sucker supporters keep digging into his proverbial pile of shit expecting to find a pony at the bottom!
Trump’s Christmas Message “Scum” Wasn’t Just Offensive. It Was a Warning.
"Yesterday, on Christmas of all days, Donald Trump chose to call Democrats 'scum.' Not criminals. Not misguided. Not wrong. Scum. A word we usually reserve for things we scrape off the bottom of a shoe or skim off polluted water. A word whose entire purpose is to dehumanize.
That moment matters far beyond the day’s news cycle, and far beyond partisan politics. It matters because leaders don’t just govern; they model.
Psychologists and social and political scientists have long pointed out that national leaders function, at a deep emotional level, as parental figures for their nations. They set the boundaries of what is acceptable. They establish norms. They shape the emotional climate children grow up breathing.
America has lived through this before, both for good and, now, for ill."
Epstein Files Reveal Bizarre Amazon Purchases Including School Girl Uniforms and Lots of Trump
"Among the DOJ documents released thus far, 1,006 Amazon receipts from 2014-2019 for Epstein are included and they include everything from school girl uniforms to books about President Donald Trump to junk food."
What's wrong with planning a girl's school that has fast food for lunch every day so Trump can hang out and lick the dessert?
Voldemort Cites Christmas Movie To Attack Immigrants
"Popped Pimple Head Goebbels" comes apart watching Dino Paul Crocetti whose father was Italian Gaetano Alfonso Crocetti (1894–1967) and Italian-American mother Angela Crocetti (née Barra; 1897–1966) along with Francis Albert Sinatra who was born to Italian immigrants in Hoboken, New Jersey.
This retarded fool should be deported from our country and see what the real world is like.
Cops Sue To Compel Installation Of J6 Plaque At Capitol
"The plaintiffs in a federal lawsuit are imploring a federal court to “compel” the architect of the U.S. Capitol Complex to “follow the law” and install a memorial plaque honoring police officers who protected the national legislative seat of government on Jan. 6, 2021."
Sue the shit out of the traitors!
Trump Appoints Beauty Salon Owner To Oversee Entrance To The US
Ok, how does one go from being a lawyer in a one-person law firm and owner of a chain of beauty salons to an assistant secretary in the State Department?
I know but I won't tell you!
Will she be handing out her "business" cards to all?
California Might Tax Billionaires. Cue the Inevitable Tech Billionaire Tantrum
"Taking money away from billionaires is funny, and threatening to do it can be a nice political sugar rush for anyone with even a tiny amount of class consciousness (even though it would not get close to creating “socialism” in America according to socialists like Doug Henwood). The state of California is now very much threatening to do it, and the predictable result is happening according to the New York Times: tech billionaires like Peter Thiel and ex-Google CEO and co-founder Larry Page are having their obligatory tantrum and threatening to leave."
Please go. Vlad awaits you con artists so he can take your weath after he shoves your asses out a very high rise window!
After Outcry, Firefox Promises “Kill Switch” That Turns Off All AI Features
"The backlash against AI invading almost every aspect of the computing experience is growing by the day.
Particularly as an onslaught of lazy AI slop subsuming news feeds, the tech is starting to feel like a massive distraction — and huge parts of the internet are disillusioned or even fuming in anger.
For instance, a vast number of Windows users refused to upgrade after Microsoft announced it would turn the operating system into a so-called 'agentic OS.'
Even household names in the open-source industry aren’t safe. After being appointed as the new CEO of open-source software company Mozilla, whose Firefox browser has long been lauded as a compelling alternative to Google’s Chrome and Apple’s Safari, Anthony Enzor-DeMeo announced that it would be tripling down on AI...."
More slop and failure coming your way!
AI Backlash Grew Massively in 2025
"For the tech of the future, generative AI sure is making a lot of enemies in a very short time.
If 2023 was the year of AI’s awakening and 2024 the year of its frantic adoption, then it’s safe to say 2025 will be remembered as the year it all came crashing back down to reality. From boardrooms to classrooms, from game studios to Senate committees, this will be the year many remember as the one when AI finally wore out its welcome."
Apparently, there is a sucker born every milisecond!
DOJ Using 'Flood The Zone' To Diminish Epstein Files
Baffling us with their bullshit!
Trump To DOJ: Stop Working On The Epstein Files
He's guilty as guilty has EVER BEEN OR EVER WILL BE!
Try him and throw his ped ass in stir!
Russia Bombs Kyiv Ahead Of Trump-Zelenksy Meeting
Trump's boss leads the war against freedom!
Cabinet Members Have Refused To Testify In Public
Crime Syndicate members always avoid telling the truth!
Are the guillotines ready?
'F*cking Weirdo': GOPer Put On Blast For AI Images Of Him Beating Up Santa
Indiana state Sen. Chris Garten created AI-generated images of himself body-slamming Santa Claus.
Chris Garten is an arrogant chicken shit.
Fuck him and the turd he rode in on.
Go back to World Wide Wrestling with your little boy act!
"It's unclear what his point was in posting the violent AI images, unless he just wanted everyone to know that he's a raging asshole. Got the message, Chris! Well done."
Danish Lawmaker Trolls Trump: 'We Will Start Buying USA States Shortly'
9.5% growth is something to brag about.
I'll bet the price has dropped considerably!
'He doesn't care about you': Trump ripped for proposing marble armrests at Kennedy Center
He doesn't care about anyone but himself. He especially doesen't care about the women who were assualted and damaged by Epstein and himself. He only cares about Don Trump, King of the Universe!
Trump admin's 'eerie' holiday posts 'may have violated the Constitution': analysis
New Republic Associate Writer Edith Olmstead argues President Donald Trump's administration violated the Constitution while it was haunting the internet with holiday images invoking Christian nationalism.
“The Department of Homeland Security’s tasteless holiday sh——posting may have just violated the United States Constitution,” Olmstead said, citing the federal agency’s official X account publishing multiple Thursday posts that appeared to violate the Establishment Clause, which prohibits government actions that favor one religion over another.
“Rejoice America, Christ is born!” read one post.
The burden of proof is not on me, but on theee!
Trump is a Cafeteria Constitutionalist. He only picks up the parts he supports and rejects the remainder.
“Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.” — Voltaire
Trump continues this tradition.
What the Hell is the Matter With Cheryl Hines?
"A woman's love is like the morning dew. It's just as apt to settle on a horse turd as on a rose."— Larry McMurtry
..."Anyway, Chery Hines was interviewed for a piece in USA Today recently. She was standing by her man in a most irritating way. She said the left was just so mean, unlike the Republicans and the Trump supporters who had such better manners. Her real-life husband, Robert Kennedy Jr., known for his adventures in Road Kill Kuisine and other rather bizarre behaviors, was way loopier than Larry David, her cable TV mate. For her to have failed to see what kind of meanness Trump and the Republicans have shown--the insults launched, the pettiness displayed, the infantile stupidity of the Maga base, and Trump/Miller's imperious cruelty--was just nuts. And yet, on Curb, she seemed like a normal person. Go figure. How could she have allowed Bobby Jr., nut job and former heroin addict that he is, to penetrate her orificies. Who knew where that putz had been? Plus, he had a worm in his brain; could that possibly be a turn on? He also doesn't believe in vaccinations for communicable diseases, and has chain-sawed the head off a dead beached whale. What fresh hell is that? Who does that? Does it seem studly to a certain sort of woman? Don't ask me.
Is this all too mean to say? Nah. Cheryl apparently just can’t handle the truth. Her new right wing friends are meaner than rattlesnakes, her chosen mate is a cuckoo, and apparently so is his.
All very sad, ain't it?
And that super-smug and arrogant prick Bill Maher says that he don’t like Larry David no more. How broken up Larry David must be about that?"
Money.
It's Money That Matters — Randy Newman.
It's Money That Matters — Lyrics
Our real National Anthem!
‘Nothing but corruption’: Trump voter now ‘totally disgusted’ with president
A man who voted for President Donald Trump explained that he had changed his mind because the current administration was "nothing but corruption."
During Friday's edition of C-SPAN's Washington Journal, a man named Russel called in to explain why he had flipped on the president.
"I'm 73 years old," he noted. "I was a conservative when I was younger. I was a registered Republican. I even voted for Donald Trump the first time."
"Man, one month into his presidency, he started this Mar-a-Lago flying home every weekend in [to the] winter White House, he continued. "This president, I don't even like to use that word, and his vice president will definitely get us into a war, into some kind of big war. And at this time, America, I'm afraid we are not going to be the victors. We're not the most powerful anymore. We're the nastiest."
Russel noted that he was born in the same hospital as Trump.
"My partner and I both lived in the downstate area, and we've known, we've seen Trump from the very beginning, from his youngest days," he added. "This is nothing but corruption, and this country is heading down the road to failure. I'm totally disgusted by what he's done to farmers and so many people that supported him; it's been nothing but a total chain of lies since this has begun."
America has been disgraced and shamed by hiring a criminal to lead it then rape it.
The Pentagon is Hoarding Critical Minerals That Could Power the Clean Energy Transition
How much more evidence do we need to know tnat the Pentagon is a part of the Trump Crime Syndicate?
Do we trust such people controlling the very lives of our sons and daughters, America?
AI Code Is a Bug-Filled Mess
“The results?” CodeRabbit concluded in its report. “Clear, measurable, and consistent with what many developers have been feeling intuitively: AI accelerates output, but it also amplifies certain categories of mistakes.”
Worse yet, the company found that AI-generated code produced a higher rate of “critical” and “major” issues, in a “meaningful rise in substantive concerns that demand reviewer attention.”
Why? It was never "tested and debugged" which is the final step in program design.
Trump Flew On Epstein’s Jet At Least 8 Times In The 90s
Remember this from July?
"President Trump said Monday that he never had "the privilege" of traveling to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein's island, emphasizing he 'did turn it down.'
The big picture: Scrutiny over the administration's handling of the Epstein case has plagued the president in recent weeks, now following him across the pond as he sat for a bilateral meeting with U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer."
How much lying does a sane nation stand for?
Trump’s unscrupulous reign is being ignored by America's most powerful organizations
This does not and will not serve us well in the future as humanity continues to suffer because of this failure.
"Why haven’t the American Bar Association or the American Medical Association stood up against the unethical behavior of professionals in the Trump regime?
I was always told that professional associations existed to maintain professional standards, not merely to restrict the number of licensed professionals to maintain professional prices.
But Lindsey Halligan, now the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, is ethically unmoored.
She was appointed by Trump and Pam Bondi for the express purpose of prosecuting Trump enemies James Comey and Letitia James."
All part and parcel of the Trump Crime Syndicate!
'Ruled a suicide': Newly uncovered records support FBI tip about Epstein and Trump
Explosive claims in an FBI tip about President Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein gained new weight this week after a local newspaper uncovered death records consistent with details described in the tip.
In 2020, the FBI received a tip from an individual who said they had driven a passenger who alleged she was sexually assaulted by Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein. The individual who submitted the tip claimed that they later learned their passenger had died and was “found with her head ‘blown off’ in Kiefer,” Oklahoma.
The FBI tip was made public Tuesday as part of the Justice Department’s ongoing release of Epstein files, which it was compelled by law to release after the passage of the Epstein Files Transparency Act. And, while the DOJ has stated that some of the files “contain untrue and sensationalist claims,” The Oklahoman uncovered death records this week consistent with the explosive claims."
“To be clear: the claims are unfounded and false, and if they had a shred of credibility, they certainly would have been weaponized against President Trump already,” reads a statement Tuesday from the DOJ."
In other words, "We've been doing a good job of covering up this murder so far."
Trump is a murderer according to this. We already know he's a sex criminal.
Wake the fuck up America!
"'Weaponized'... the first clue the story is true." — Shutter (comments)
"I wish the DOJ could explain how , in October of 2020, when trump was president, those records could have been weaponized! Trump wasn’t going to use them against himself" — Jean (comments)
"Was the death of the baby that was thrown in Lake Michigan also ruled a suicide?" — Jude (comments)
It means they are all guilty of murder or accessory to murder!
History will NOT absolve them!
Author points to Trump's early venture as 'the smoking gun' on Epstein ties
“The smoking gun is Miss USA and Miss Teen USA, the pageants which Donald Trump owned for years. Now, how do I know? Because I was one of the judges in these pageants. I trained dozens and dozens of the winners and the runners up in public speaking to promote their platform.”
Trump owned Miss Universe – an international beauty pageant that includes Miss USA and Miss Teen USA – from 1996 through 2015. His ownership of Miss Universe came to an end after NBC – which from 2002 to 2015 maintained half-ownership of the Miss USA and Miss Teen USA pageants – terminated its business relationships with Trump due to his controversial statements about immigrants.
Former contestants of Miss Teen USA have accused Trump of walking into their dressing rooms, including former Miss Arizona Tasha Dixon, who told CBS that Trump “just came strolling right in” her dressing room in 2001 where “some girls were topless” and “others were naked.”
Sexual abuse at the very least, criminal likely!
'Enjoy what may be your last Christmas!' Trump attacks 'sleazebags' in dark holiday screed
Projecting again? This might be the last one Trump will ever see!
May it be so!
"What we are seeing is Trump revealed, hatred, arrogance and threats. When this is over remember that it is not just Trump, it is all of the red states, and all of those who voted for the evil orange monster. This is another Never Forget Moment." -- wikwox (comments)
Another "Never Again" moment!
Jesse Watters Wins Our Bad Guy Crookie For Schmuck Of The Year
Jesse Watters is one of the most obnoxious regulars on Fox not "news," which is not an easy accomplishment given the competition.
Also "Turd of the Year" along with all the other "Shitpiles of the Year Awards."
He had a lot of competiton on "Fux News" too!
"Smuck is not be the worst thing you can call this douchebag. I do not believe I have ever seen a person try to out Trump, Trump until this clown. Waters a vile cesspool of hate. The USA would be a better place if he were not here. Try North Korea Jesse that is more your style." — waiteman (comments)
Sen. Foghorn Leghorn Appears With Stuffed Alligator: God Loves Louisiana More Than Any Place
He said as his state slowly sinks into THE GULF OF MEXICO!
US Carries Out Strikes On “ISIS Terrorists” In Nigeria
"The killings have been seized upon among parts of the Christian evangelical right in the US. In August, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas introduced a bill calling for sanctions against Nigeria for purported violations of religious freedom."
Did this include murder?
The most terrorist nation in the world stikes again. There must be retribution!
"Jan 30, 2020 — US travel ban: Trump restricts immigration from Nigeria and five other countries
So those Christians afraid of being murdered can't come to the US? Oh and ISIS is killing Muslims too, but Spanky doesn't mention that." — DaddySnark (comments)
"I have just one question: If Christians had killed Muslims in Nigeria or anywhere else in the world, would Trump and the US military he controls do anything whatsoever?" — S1AMER (comments)
"Christians have killed Muslims in Nigeria and elsewhere in the region (see Moura massacre in Mali). Note much of the violence is between herders (mostly Muslim) and settled farmers (mostly Christian). The area is in the Sahel where climate change has fueled conflict. https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/10/1166076" — Erp (comments)
Trump is too stupid to exist!
Trump Melts Down At “Sleazebags” Over Epstein Files
He is the King of the Sleazebags!
"Drumpflingo: a language of projection intended to divert attention from his own crimes
e.g.: calling someone a "sleazebag" for investigating the sleazy crimes he has committed himself." -- JT (comments)
Trump Admin Un-Retires Two Coal Plants Because Solar Power Doesn’t Work If The Sun Isn’t “Shining”
What the the fuck did we ever do to deserve a retarded, brainless, pshcho killer to be or leader? I'll wait for your answer.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/12/trump-admin-un-retires-two-indiana-coal-plants-because-solar-power-doesnt-work-if-the-sun-isnt-shining/
BREAKING: The 60 Minutes Clip Trump Never Wanted You To See
"In a special Blue Amp Media broadcast, we did what corporate media won't. Instead of kowtowing to a fascist dung-heap in the WH, we exposed horrific human rights violations of innocents...
In a special Blue Amp Media broadcast, we did what corporate media won't. Instead of kowtowing to a fascist dung-heap in the WH,we exposed horrific human rights violations of innocents, showing the banned 60 Minutes investigation into CECOT, El Salvador’s notorious 'terrorism confinement center."
It was the deliberate outsourcing of human rights abuse, funded by U.S. taxpayer dollars. 60 Minutes--of CBS News--recently bought by Trump-humping oligarchs who installed lackey Bari Weiss to kill stories these stories, got what they paid for. A fascist police state scandal State TV media scandal too, with this suppression of truth."
"Please watch the video. Please read the rest of the piece. And please share this with everyone, so they can see the terrorism of the Trump Administration."
The Bari Weiss 60 Minutes scandal is just one sign of drastic media rot
"In light of the scandal at 60 Minutes, it bears repeating that the primary crisis facing American democracy is about information. There are just too many ways for the rich and powerful to control the truth.
Over the weekend, news broke that the new head of CBS News, Bari Weiss, had spiked a highly revealing 60 Minutes investigation into the torture prison in El Salvador, where the president has sent deportees.
According to lead reporter Sharyn Alfonsi, the investigation had gone through all the levels that investigations go through at 60 Minutes, including lawyers. But at the last minute, Weiss yanked it, saying it couldn’t run without a reaction from the Trump administration.
For non-journalists, understand that this is not a valid reason. Alfonsi asked for a reaction. That’s what reporters do after they discover facts that those in power do not want to be made public. That she didn’t get one is a part of the story. In saying the story couldn’t air without one, Bari Weiss in effect gave Donald Trump control of editorial choices.
And hence control of the truth."
And the filth of the criminal Nazi adminstration will meet a criminal courtroom before it is over!
The photo must be "The Eva Brauns."
'Something's rotten': Conspiracy theories fly as new DOJ Epstein note burned by both sides
Yes and it stinks to high heaven!
These are the worst crooks that ever existed in that they are totally inept at their criming!
Santa Claus for Billionaires, Debt for You: Thanks Trump
“The only thing wrong with the U.S. economy is the failure of the Republican Party to play Santa Claus.”
—Jude Wanniski, March 6, 1976
"The Washington Post published an article this week titled A Middle-Class Family’s Only Option: A $43,000 Health Insurance Premium about how the GOP’s refusal to extend ACA/Obamacare subsidies means that Stacy Newton’s family in Jackson Hole, Wyoming will have to pay $43,000 a year for health insurance if they want to stay covered.
If, however, the United States had an extra trillion dollars a year — the amount we’re now spending every year on interest payments against the GOP’s $38 trillion national debt — the Newtons would only pay a few hundred dollars a month and we could also have Universal Childcare & Pre-K, Paid Family & Medical Leave, Tuition-Free College, Affordable Housing & No More Homelessness, End Child Poverty & Hunger, and, as mentioned, Affordable Healthcare for all Americans."
'Trump got rid of a baby': Internet erupts over Epstein file linking president to murder
Hmmmm. Let's see where this leads.
'End of the era': Trump just created the 'kryptonite' that could bring down his presidency
"Trump's MAGA movement coalition has started to crack in recent weeks over the administration's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files, which Trump promised to release in full during his 2024 presidential campaign. The administration has sought to withhold files from the public, and the Justice Department has said it "needs more time" to comply with a discharge petition that required it to release all of the files by December 19."
Inside the North Carolina GOP’s decade-long push to seize power from state’s Democratic governors
GOP lawmakers have passed law after law stripping powers from Democratic governors
"If you don't want a house built, hide the nails and wood. If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none." -- Captain Beatty’s Speech, — Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury, 1953
Still sleeping are we?
Host Cancels Xmas Eve Show At Kennedy Center
Chuck Redd - An American hero!
The Kennedy Center Honors Were A Ratings Stinker
You could smell the fecal stench from a mile away!
Ellison Told Trump CBS News Will Get MAGA Makeover
Con BullShit Sewer?
"The Nazi propaganda arm was officially called the
Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda.
This ministry was established shortly after the Nazis seized power in March 1933 and was headed by Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. Its goal was to centralize Nazi control of all aspects of German cultural and intellectual life, including radio, press, film, theater, music, and the visual arts, to ensure that the Nazi message permeated German society and that no alternative viewpoints could be seen." -- Jay Silversmith (comments)
Argentina, 1985
The future for Trump, Hogsbreath and the other Junta Nazis in America.
The Energy Dept Wishes You A Sleigh Full Of Coal
Burn at your own risk, motherfuckers! Go into the mines yourselves! Leave the sane people alone!
Good Luck, Elise: Stefanik Still Wants To Be President
Elise Stefanik has quit Congress and her NY gubernatorial race, but that doesn't mean she's abandoned her ambitions.
"Her one-time headmistress, who once admired her, sums up that cost: “She basically abandoned her own core values for a man who had no core values.” Her longtime friends have taken notice, and most have dumped her. Cue the violins.
But while neither article is a hatchet job, it’s easy to read between the lines of both reporters: Stefanik was once recognizable as human, but she made a conscious, measured decision to turn herself into a monster."
2025 Crookie Award: Word/Acronym Of The Year Is 'FAFO'
The dictionary may think "slop" is word of the year, but we think it should be "FAFO."
Trump's response to Epstein files shows scandal has brought him 'to his knees': analysis
That and decrepit knee joints.
Red state university removes teacher over failing grade for Bible-based essay
“So if a geology student at the University of Oklahoma says in class the earth is 6,000 years young because that’s what they believe, a geology teacher can’t say squat?” asked Tashman. “What if their religion teaches the earth is flat? Or that all of mankind’s problems can be traced back to Xenu?”
Oklahoma can go back to the Ninth Level of Hell!
Bari Weiss Sends Scorching Email to CBS Staff: ‘No Amount of Outrage… Will Derail Us’
Arrogant Nazi shows us what she is.
We can start fixing the news by throwing her fascist ass in the garbage dump where it belongs!
NYT: Other Countries May Copy US And Seize Ships
"The United Nations has established rules for shipping under its Convention on the Law of the Sea. While the United States has adopted many of the rules in practice, it has not ratified the convention.
The Trump administration’s actions differ in crucial ways from the approach that other administrations, including Mr. Trump’s first one, took toward ships engaged in trade the government wanted to restrict.
By moving so forcefully, legal experts say, the president may embolden other countries to use similar tactics when it suits them. If such seizures and detentions become more common, that could hurt the shipping industry and international trade."
No shit? Piracy is a crime!
Pentagon Adds Musk’s Pro-Hitler Grok To “Arsenal”
BREAKING: MechaHitler aka “Grok” which frequently has warm thoughts about apartheid, the Holocaust, and Elon Musk will now be part of every soldier’s daily “battle rhythm.”
I’m sure nothing will go horribly wrong.
— Jim Stewartson, Antifascist
Epstein Files Cover Up Is The Republican Party's Full-Time Job
"During the run-up to the 2024 presidential election, Donald Trump and the QAnon acolytes that surround him could not stop talking about how the Democrats and former President Joe Biden were hiding investigatory materials related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his network of high-powered human-trafficking perverts. Yet once Trump returned to office, lo and behold, it was his own administration—and the Republican Party—that spent the better part of a year doing everything in its power to avoid releasing the long-promised files to the public.
Here are 27 times Trump and his yes-men have covered up the Epstein files.
Republican says new Epstein files release proves Trump and his Cabinet were lying
"President Donald Trump maintained that he "was never on Epstein’s Plane, or at his ‘stupid’ Island." However, this week's release of thousands of documents pertaining to convicted child predator Jeffrey Epstein show that the president had not been forthcoming with the American public."
A pussy hound liar!
'He's a lunatic': Trump slammed for making a child's Christmas call all about himself
The wretched deranged ugliness of "self worship."
Pastor responds to MAGA's 'keep Christ in Christmas' message by calling out its hypocrisy
"The Rev. Jonathan B. Hall has a quick retort to people who demand we “Keep Christ in Christmas.”
“There is a quieter, graver danger that does not wait for December and does not end when the lights come down: Taking the Christ out of Christian,” Hall wrote for Religion News Services. “That happens whenever we subtract empathy from discipleship, whenever the self narrows our field of vision until we can no longer see the plight of our neighbor.”
Empathy is the pulse of the Christian, argued Hall. And to call it a sin is to “confuse the selfishness of self with the self-giving love of Jesus.”
“Many in Jesus’ day grew angry precisely because his heart was too open,” Hall said. “He touched those deemed untouchable, ate with those labeled unworthy, healed on days deemed inconvenient and noticed people that others learned not to see. The complaint then — even from his own disciples — was that he was too near to the wrong people.
“The complaint now in some corners,” Hall continued, “is that Christians are ‘sinfully empathetic.’
Hall cited Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Little Match Girl,” as a winter parable about “our capacity to look away.”
“It asks each of us, softly but insistently: Would I have stopped? Would I have knelt? Or would I have tightened my scarf and quickened my step? These questions are not meant to shame; they are meant to awaken,” aid Hall. “Empathy is the discipline of pausing long enough to imagine, ‘What if that were me? What if that were my child?’ It is not agreement with every choice; it is the willingness to feel another’s ache long enough to ask what love requires.”
“Such empathy is not weakness,” said Hall. “It is holiness with hands.”
Uh-oh! He used the word "awaken."
Trump blasted over 'evil' and 'soulless' Christmas post attacking 'radical left scum'
Again he projects exactly what he is.
Religious scholar explains how Christian nationalists use and abuse the Bible
"Trump's Christian nationalist supporters have very strong views on scripture. But during an appearance on Mother Jones' "More to the Story" podcast posted on Christmas Eve Day 2025, author/religious scholar Dan McClellan stressed that New Testament scripture doesn't necessarily mean what Chrisitan nationalists claim it does."
"The author/scholar continued, "As I said before, the Bible is a text. It has no inherent meaning. We create meaning in negotiation with the text, which means we're bringing our experiences and our understanding to the text, and that's generating the meaning."
Then how about omitting the word "necessarily."
The burden of proof is not on me but on thee.
Grimes Says She Has AI Psychosis, Recommends You Should Get it Too
Claire “Grimes” Boucher says that you’re really missing out if you’re not experiencing a mental health crisis at the hands of an AI chatbot.
Seriously. We’re not putting words in her mouth.
On Monday, the pop musician and Elon Musk baby-mama had everyone wondering if she was suffering a case of so-called AI psychosis after she seemingly argued in favor of having — you guessed it — AI psychosis.
“The thing about AI psychosis is that it’s more fun than not having AI psychosis,” she wrote in an after-hours tweet, seemingly apropos of nothing.
Her hot take was met with immediate backlash.
So now we know why we have become a nation of retards!
Woman Suffers AI Psychosis After Obsessively Generating AI Images of Herself
"You're not getting younger now, even though you'll try somehow..." — Leave It To Me, Men of Extinction.
Justice Department Humiliated as People Find the Epstein Files Can Easily Be Un-Redacted
"The botched redaction job is a huge embarrassment for the Trump administration, which has come under fire for its hesitancy to release Epstein case files to the public, something that Trump had earlier promised he would do. In February, it tepidly released files that detailed little that wasn’t already publicly known, and sparked outrage in July when the DoJ said it would no longer release additional files to the public. It’s backtracked on that stance, but has aroused suspicion with its efforts to censor some of the new documents. In addition to the redactions, over a dozen photos were removed from the initial release, including a photo of Trump alongside Epstein. The delayed release of the documents also missed a legally-binding deadline set by Congress."
“Some of these documents contain untrue and sensationalist claims made against President Trump that were submitted to the FBI right before the 2020 election,” the DoJ statement read. “To be clear: the claims are unfounded and false, and if they had a shred of credibility, they certainly would have been weaponized against President Trump already.”
Clairvoyant, are they? ROTFLMAO!
This has happened before and morons always repeat their mistakes thinking the results will be different!
Former federal prosecutor blames Trump DOJ’s 'inexcusable sloppiness' on 'brain drain'
"It's inexplicable sloppiness," Vance told Ali Vitali. "This is a known problem with redaction. So it shouldn't have been difficult to make sure that all of the material that was due to be redacted was protected."
Internet sleuths on Tuesday claimed they were able to highlight blacked out from the release and copy-and-paste the disclosures into a text document.
This level of sloppiness comes, Vance said, from the "brain drain at the Justice Department." There has been such a significant purge of staff that anyone who knows how to handle such a large production of documents.
Even Trump's most powerful enablers just stopped him — he's in real trouble now
"Trump’s Justice Department had argued that this case 'falls in the heartland of unreviewable presidential discretion.'
Wrong. The Supreme Court just put up a fence limiting that heartland. And finally a bulwark constraining a president’s power.
It’s about time."
Only the traitors voted with Trump.
'Utterly corrupt': White House slammed for 'lawless' move to manage Epstein blowback
"The White House has taken control of the Department of Justice's social media account to manage the public relations battle over the Jeffrey Epstein files, alarming some.
The Trump administration estimates there's another week to go in the congressionally mandated release of the DOJ's files on Epstein's sex trafficking network, with up to 700,000 more pages to review, and the White House wants to control the message coming out of the federal agency, reported Axios."
"Trump and the Justice Department also have compounded their problems with clumsy messaging and puzzling redactions made while pledging transparency," Axios reported. "The White House has begun managing the DOJ's account on X, an effort to finish out the year and the Epstein file disclosure requirements set by Congress."
"The account is also taking on a sharper tone that has more of a rapid-response campaign edge and less of the stodgy just-the-facts tone associated with the department," Axios reported.
The Trump Totalitarian Criminal Syndicate!
“Construction can’t continue”: South Texas builders say ICE arrests have upended industry
All one has to do is look at the government of Texas to see what evil looks like!
ICE Documents Expose Plan to Hold 80,000 People in Warehouses
Trump Nazi Corps is AKA "ICE."
May each and every one get slow stomach cancer! Merry Christmas, shitbags!
Let's Watch '60 Minutes' Segment On Salvador Torture Camp That Bari Weiss Didn't Want Us To See
"Under fair use and commentary, here’s the segment, hosted by reporter Sharyn Alfonsi, that was supposed to run in the US Sunday, until Weiss decided it needed to be improved by adding in lies from administration sources. (As you’ll see, it already notes that nobody from the government would agree to comment.) Please watch all 13 minutes if you can stand it, if only because so much effort has already gone into keeping you from seeing it.
As many people have also pointed out, we live in a weird Soviet-Lite version of the United States of America now, where in order to see a bootleg news report killed by a wannabe State TV network, we have to rely on broadcasters in other countries. So far, it doesn’t yet look like Trump is planning an American version of China’s Great Firewall, but hey, he no doubt has people working on it.
Fuck.All.The.Way.Off.Bari!
Bari Weiss’ ‘60 Minutes’ scandal is about more than one report
..."Nevertheless, there is an “upside” to the fractured news landscape of which Weiss is now a major player, said The Cut. With corporate media “less powerful than it once was,” it’s “far harder for a strongman president like Trump to control the flow of information,” as demonstrated by the surge in bootlegged copies of the CECOT segment across social media."
But nowhere near far enough!
Latest “Drug Boat” Strike Brings Murder Toll To 105
"At least 105 people have now been killed in strikes on suspected drug boats as part of a campaign, dubbed Operation Southern Spear, that the Trump administration has said is aimed at curtailing narcotics trafficking. The US military most recently struck two alleged drug-trafficking boats in the eastern Pacific Ocean last week, killing 5 people."
We will have to serve somebody. Don't forget it when it happens here.
"All their video footage is irrefutable evidence in a murder trial" — JWC (comments)
It is all documented terrorism by the leading terrorist country on the planet.
White House Dementia Care Unit Tells Trump He’s Designing A Great Big Boat
"Donald, look at the boat you designed!
Yesterday news dropped that Donald Trump and Pete 'Shitfaced' Hegseth, his incredible loser Defense secretary who shrivels into a submissive childlike stance whenever President Daddy is next to him, would be making some kind of huge announcement in the afternoon. Bombing Venezuela? A new drink at the bar in Shitfaced’s office at the Pentagon called the 'Warfighter,' made with just rosé and GHB? Ladies get in free if they sign an NDA?
But no, Trump and Shitfaced were announcing a whole new special class of BATTLESHIPS, and Trump was helping design them himself! You know, because he’s such a fuckin’ shipbuilder. What are they doing, letting him have some Elmer’s Glue so he can stick some of those cheap, tacky Home Depot knick-knacks he’s put all over the Oval Office on Naval ships now?
Clearly this is another White House Dementia Care Unit situation, even though the announcement happened at Mar-a-Lago. Grandpa, you’re making a boat today!"
Deregulation Was Never About “Freedom” — It Was About Permission to Poison
"Given how the Republicans who run Congress let health insurance premiums for over 24 million Americans explode by not acting last week before going on vacation, it appears former Congressman Alan Grayson was right. The GOP Healthcare Plan is simple and straightforward:
'Don’t get sick.'
'If you do get sick, die quickly.'
And it appears Trump is handily helping us all along with that 'die quickly' part, promoting both cancer-causing chemicals in our environment and food supply as well as pushing for more greenhouse gasses to kill more of us with droughts, floods, hurricanes, and wildfires via climate change."
Merry Christmas, suckers!
Why There Will Be Almost No Movie Theaters in 5 Years
Or anything else for that matter.
Whether Netflix or Paramount wins the battle of mega-corporations to merge with the fabled Warner Bros. movie studio, the economics of the film industry no longer support the production of enough feature films for most movie theaters to still be viable businesses. Within a few years, the theatrical feature film will be all but dead with devastating cultural, social, political, and economic impact.
I’m a former senior vice president at MGM/UA (now owned by Amazon) and have been in the room of a major studio at greenlight meetings which decided which films were economically profitable enough (and creatively commercial enough) to go into production.
At these greenlight meetings, senior studio management would analyze spreadsheets projecting the likely production and marketing costs of a proposed film compared to the likely stream of revenues from various sequential windows—theatrical/home video/pay TV/first run free TV/syndicated TV/likelihood of sequels, both in the US and around the world.
Largely because of Netflix, those windows have cratered. There used to be an average three- to four-month window between theatrical release and release for viewing at home, and then multi-month windows between streaming, home video, pay tv, and free tv. Now, if Netflix even allows a theatrical release, they only give it as little as 3 weeks before they start to stream a theatrical film like the recent George Cloony/Adaem Sandler/Noah Baumbach film “Jay Kelly,” which started streaming just 17 days after it opened in theaters and sold almost no tickets.
A large portion of the public rightly figures that there’s no point in rushing out to theater to see a new feature for $15 or more a ticket plus parking and popcorn when they can see it at home at in a few weeks. Most theatrical films no longer pencil out.
While there were recently six major studios (plus mini majors), after Warner Bros. is sold (following other recent anti-competitive mergers like Disney buying Fox) there will only be four left.
With the collapsed distribution windows, it’s no longer feasible for those four studios to produce enough theatrical features to keep movie theaters in business. In 2025 over 100 films received a major theatrical release with inflation-adjusted box office revenues of over $15 billion while in 2024 they crashed to only 62 films with box office revenues of about $8.6 billions. Over 5,000 movie theaters have already closed their doors in the last couple of years.
And the types of theatrical films being greenlit have been mostly reduced to either $100-$200 million blockbuster action films (many of them sequels which earn less than their predecessors) and under $20 million horror films, as well as some children’s films. Dramas and comedies have almost disappeared from the majors’ theatrical release schedules except during the fall awards season when a small number of adult films are released in the hopes of being nominated for an Oscar.
“The negative impact of this acquisition will impact theatres from the biggest circuits to one-screen independents in small towns in the United States and around the world,” said Cinema United president Michael O’Leary in a statement. “Netflix’s stated business model does not support theatrical exhibition.”
When he’s not giving bullshit public relations statements, Netflix head honcho Ted Sarandos agrees, stating last year that movie theaters are “outdated.”
Art is now called “content” and is treated as an asset class to be bought and sold by mega-corporations like they’re real estate towers or meme coins. Roughly 2-hour dramas in 3 acts have been inspiring communal audiences for about 2500 years since the Greeks but they’re about to largely disappear from theaters, to the detriment of the entire culture. This is ushering in an age with little originality or surprise and general cultural stagnation. The sale of Warners will only accelerate this trend.
As James Cameron, director of “Titanic” and “Avatar” recently said, it will be a “disaster.”
Mainstream Oscar-winning directors of the recent past like Sidney Pollack (“Tootsie,” “The Way We Were,” Out of Africa“), Sidney Lumet (”Network,“ ”Serpico,“ ”Dog Day Afternoon“), Barry Levinson (”Rain Man,“ ”Wag the Dog,“ ”Good Morning Vietnam“) or Alan Pakula (”All The President’s Men,“ ”Sophie’s Choice“) probably couldn’t get arrested if they were coming up now. While studio execs may feel cool hanging around with Marty Scorsese, it’s unlikely that ”Taxi Driver“ would be greenlit today.
(The recent tragic murder of Rob and Michelle Reiner brings to mind other examples. Reiner’s classics like “When Harry Met Sally” or “A Few Good Men” probably wouldn’t get greenlit today, although as a horror film, “Misery,” based on a Stephen King novel, might sneak through today if it were dumbed down enough.)
The sale of Warner Bros. to either Netflix or Paramount violates Section 7 of the Clayton Antitrust Act which provides that a merger is unlawful if its effect may be to substantially lessen competition. Factors include market concentration, foreclosure of rivals, lower wages for employees, the loss of potential competition, incentives to reduce quality or output , and the likelihood of higher prices to consumers for streaming services. We can’t count on the Trump administration to bring a solid antitrust claim. But state Attorney Generals have the legal right to sue to block anti-competitive mergers. California Attorney General Rob Bonta should coordinate with other state Attorney Generals to bring such a suit. The Hollywood community should be pressuring Bonta to do so.
Fifteen years ago, Warner Bros. CEO Jeff Bewkes infamously dismissed Netflix as the pipsqueak “Albanian Army.” Well, now the Albanian Army has demolished the metaphoric equivalents of the US, Britain, France, Russia, and most of the rest of the world.
We need a new Normandy invasion to take it back.
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May All Your Christmases Be White: A Few Dark Thoughts in a Dark Season in a Truly Dark Time.
..."Lots of luck to everyone except the ICE thugs, Trump, and all these fascists who insist he's our true savior and our only salvation. We're sure as hell are going to need luck in 2026. And beyond."
Wowza: Food Fight Clean-Up In Wingnut Aisle 47
In what was variously dubbed a "grievance Olympics," "conference of clowns" and "Wrestlemania with Podcasters," the noxious mucky-mucks of MAGA just assembled for the first time since Charlie Kirk's death at an ostensibly celebratory AmericaFest that swiftly cratered into a toxic mess, proving the orcs really do hate each other. Despite the blinding glitz, savage barbs flew: Anti-Semite! Islam whore! Epstein flack! A coward! A cancer! And nonsense-vomiting. One viewer: "Holy shit, America." Happily, the Nazi kids are not all right."
Read more on the Retard Convention!
'Crime of the century!' Trump amplifies conspiracy calling for Brian Kemp to be arrested
Criminals commit crimes. Trump is the biggest criminal in our history! What else do we need to know.
Trump: Stephen Colbert Should Be “Put To Sleep”
Said the sleepy one. Give Trump a bitter pill!
Anything is nore talented than Trump. Even a pile of shit! It can be used for fertilizer.
DOJ Seeks Holiday Volunteers To Do Epstein Redactions
They need help with their cover-up!
The bastards!
19 Blue States Sue HHS Over Trans Youth Healthcare
The monster gets told to FUCK OFF!
Court: Trump Must Restore Disaster Aid For Blue States
"A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to reallocate federal Homeland Security funding away from states that refuse to cooperate with certain federal immigration enforcement."
Losing! Failure! Garbage!
Trump: Terminate Network Licenses For Criticizing Me
We have rights you fucking Nazi prick, snot-nosed brat! You will stop us only when you kill us all!
"Fuck right off you addled brain cunt." — Dwight Williamson (comments)
Voldemort: Everybody At “60 Minutes” Should Be Fired
What a giant piece of shit!
"We don't care what you say you vile piece of shit!" — Mr. Stevens (comments)
"Someone should strangle you after they castrate you , but they should use Hegseths balls" — Dwight Willimson (comments)
White House Shitposters Take Over DOJ’s X Account
Garbage in - Garbage out!
'You're wrong': Fox host slammed for saying America is a 'Christian nation'
This is the propaganda that starts with "Christianism" lies. Arrogant suprematism.
“We’re a secular nation where you’re free to believe whatever you want,” the organization wrote. “So you can believe that we’re a Christian nation… But you’re wrong.”
Retarded bullshit perpetuated by blind racist haters!
"And 'Christian' is their dog whistle for white. The kind of Christianity is essentially that of the extremists, like the Mormons who believe any non-whites were tainted by god. That kind of Christianity
A church of pure racism so the nation can be purely racist." — remoteone (comments)
The Founding Fathers, Deism, and Christianity
Sorry, Charlie. Anyone who thinks all these cats were of the "Xianist" faith are all wet!
Epstein Drop Screams Trump, W/ Frmr MSNBCer Katie Phang
As new Epstein drops needed legal and political analysis we got both, and Katie [Phang] cursed more than I did (impressive). It was a show where the chemistry just clicks like JD Vance’s heels when he goose steps.
"It wasn't just about what’s in the documents, but their release. Rolling disclosures. Sloppy redactions. No clear explanations. The clown car that never empties of no-nothing numskulls just as amateur when trying to hide alleged crimes as when they commit them."
They take pride in being retards!
Pro-Trump Focus Group Praises 'Great Leader' Hitler: 'We Should Do That In America'
A focus group of Gen Z conservatives supporting President Donald Trump recently praised Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler.
The Manhattan Institute's City Journal shared results from the focus group last week. On Monday, The Bulwark noted that City Journal had transitioned "from anti-anti-Trump, to Trump-curious, to pro-Trump" over the years.
"The kids respect Hitler," Bulwark editor Jonathan V. Last pointed out. "The guys are angry girls aren't into them. They want a Christian nationalist theocracy."
Ashley, a member of the focus group, called Hitler a "great leader" and was impressed by his "very strong leadership values."
That these demented swine exist should give all of us humans the horrors!
Trump's DOJ Goes Into Full Panic-Mode Over New Epstein Docs
As well they should. Covering up a crime is a crime!
New York Times reporter files lawsuit against AI companies
"Investigative reporter John Carreyrou of the New York Times filed a lawsuit against xAI, Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Meta and Perplexity on Monday for allegedly training their AI models on copyrighted books without permission. Carreyrou is perhaps best known for exposing the Theranos fraudulent blood test scandal.
According to Reuters, the lawsuit was filed alongside five other writers who all claim big tech companies have been violating their intellectual property rights in the name of building large language models.
This comes after a banner year for IP lawsuits against AI companies brought by rights holders. Just about every type of entity that deals in protected content has gone to court against AI companies this year, from movie studios like Disney and Warner Bros. to papers like the New York Times and the Chicago Tribune. Some of these cases have led to settlements in the form of partnerships, such as the licensing deal between Disney and OpenAI.
It's notable that this case is being brought by a small group of individuals instead of as a class action, something the authors involved say is no accident. 'LLM companies should not be able to so easily extinguish thousands upon thousands of high-value claims at bargain-basement rates,' the complaint reads. This is also the first case of its kind to list xAI as a defendant."
Extinction is well on its way.
Man Describes How ChatGPT Led Him Straight Into Psychosis
"32-year-old Anthony Duncan first used ChatGPT to help with the business side of his career as a content creation. But he soon ended up talking to the OpenAI chatbot like a friend on a daily basis. What started as a harmless way to vent soon drove Duncan to blow up his personal relationships as he became afflicted with troubling delusions, he recalled in a TikTok video detailing his experience — upending his mental health and causing a sprawling breakdown.
'I feel like my interactions with ChatGPT ruined my life,' Duncan said in the video, which was highlighted by Newsweek.
Duncan describes himself as a survivor of AI psychosis, a term that some experts are using to describe the alarming episodes of paranoia and delusional thinking that arise as a person has prolonged conversations with a chatbot. Typically, the AI model’s responses continually reaffirms the user’s beliefs, no matter how dangerous or separated from reality."
Going mad is a way of life now.
Top Software Engineering Students Can’t Get a Job Because of AI
Graduates at some of the top universities are finding it nearly impossible to find new jobs in software engineering.
New reporting by the Los Angeles Times details the trouble recent graduates are having finding entry level jobs — even those with degrees from vaunted institutions like Stanford University.
“Stanford computer science graduates are struggling to find entry-level jobs” with the most prominent tech companies, Stanford bioengineering professor Jan Liphardt told the LA Times. “I think that’s crazy.” One Stanford student, who spoke to the paper anonymously, said that “there’s definitely a very dreary mood on campus.”
"As the newspaper describes it, a prevailing idea among those at either end of the software hiring pipeline is that for every ten programmers, companies now only need two, plus a large language model (LLM)".
There are many of us who are indeed glad we are in the queue awaiting to depart this sinking ship that was once America.
Schumer moves to sue the Trump administration over Epstein files rollout
"Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer plans to force a vote on a measure to allow the chamber to jump-start litigation against the Trump administration for failing to comply with the new law requiring the full release of the Jeffrey Epstein files."
“The law Congress passed is crystal clear: release the Epstein files in full so Americans can see the truth,” the New York Democrat said in a statement Monday. “Instead, the Trump Department of Justice dumped redactions and withheld the evidence — that breaks the law. Today, I am introducing a resolution to force the Senate to take legal action and compel this administration to comply.”
The resolution would establish “authority to initiate litigation for actions by the President and Department of Justice officials inconsistent with their duties under the laws of the United States.”
There won't be enough Nazis that will comply to any righteous act.
What I Saw at a Maternity Ward in Kenya After the U.S. Cut Off Food and Foreign Aid
"In August, I traveled to Kakuma, Kenya, to try to understand what happened when the U.S. cut off food to the world’s third-largest refugee camp.
Soon after President Donald Trump froze foreign aid on his first day in office, my colleague Brett Murphy and I began hearing from government experts. We learned that despite explicit promises from Secretary of State Marco Rubio that food and other life-saving care would continue during the administration’s review of foreign aid, programs were shutting down, putting millions of lives at risk. I’ve covered health in the U.S. and abroad for 15 years, and Brett has covered both the State Department and public health in the U.S. Brett and I teamed up, interviewing dozens of government officials and aid workers, and pouring over reams of internal government documents. Then, we traveled to Kakuma (and South Sudan) to see for ourselves how these policies were affecting people."
Many photographs for your consideration.
Trump admin to seize wages of up to 5 million defaulted student loan holders
Photo of he spawn of Satan!
"President Donald Trump's administration will reportedly begin seizing wages from up to 5 million student loan borrowers who are behind on their payments."
Trump Ally Larry Ellison Pledges $40B to Help His Son Buy CNN Parent Company
The problem with Capitalism!
How Embarrassing That Anyone Thinks Greenland Would Want To Be Part Of The US!
"Once again — and probably because he needs a distraction from the latest Epstein Files drop — Donald Trump is back on his Greenland bullshit. He’s appointed Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry as a special envoy to go there and try to persuade them to give up the high standard of living to which they have become accustomed in order to provide the United States with national security. What a deal!"
Utter bullshit from the Putrid Pus Party!
Heritage Foundation Smashing Up Over Difficult 'To Be Or Not To Be Nazis' Question
"At one point in the 2024 election season, Kevin Roberts, the shiny-pated dean of intellectual soup kitchen the Heritage Foundation, claimed that the country was in the midst of a second American Revolution, one which would “remain bloodless if the Left allows it to be.” In other words, the head of the rancid dumpster from which tumbled the garbage that was Project 2025 was telling us, you damn leftists better sit your asses down and shut up while the conservatives overrun the country. Otherwise, they might have to water the tree of liberty with liberal blood.
So it is ironic that one year into Donald Trump’s second term in office, Heritage is becoming one of the Right’s most notable casualties of this alleged revolution, thanks to Roberts himself having the cerebral capacity of the peeled potato that his head resembles."
RAW UNCUT '60 MINUTES' BOOTLEGS! Tabs, Tues., Dec. 23, 2025
"That 60 Minutes segment leaked out! Or rather, they had already sent it to Canada's Global TV and Bari Weiss didn't have time to get in her Flintstones car to go to Canada and cry and beg them to give it back. Haha, Bari Weiss is stupid and slow and bad at going to Canada! Oh no, Bari Weiss! Is this not up to your JOURNALISM STANDARDS? Just kidding, Bari Weiss isn't qualified to pick up our dog's shit, much less be an editor. Also we guess nobody in the entire CBS News building explained to her how global distribution works, timeline-wise, in the magical world of TV, which she knows nothing about. If anybody liked or respected her or was glad she was there, they could have told her. [Charlie Sykes / Allison Gill]
Hey wonder if this might be part of why Bari Weiss is so desperate to bury the very real story about what the Trump Terrorists and ICE Gestapo did to innocent Venezuelans by sending them to the Salvadoran gulag. Could this be part of it?"
Can a New ‘New Deal’ Wipe Out Corporate Control of the Democratic Party?
The commons, unions, and a livable wage built the first mass middle class. Now younger voters want to reboot that machine at full throttle.
The media is freaking out over a new Rasmussen poll that found:
“A majority of voters under 40 want a democratic socialist to win the White House in the next presidential election.
“… 51% of Likely U.S. Voters ages 18 to 39 would like to see a democratic socialist candidate win the 2028 presidential election. Thirty-six percent (36%) don’t want a democratic socialist to win in 2028, while 17% are not sure. …
“Among the youngest cohort (ages 18-24) of voters, 57% want a democratic socialist to win the next presidential election…
“Among those who voted for Kamala Harris in last year’s presidential election, 78% would like to see a democratic socialist candidate win the 2028 presidential election…” (emphasis added)
'Astonishing': Internet erupts after canned '60 Minutes' segment leaked
"The most dangerous thing about this segment is that it shows America that these immigrants being sent to the foreign gulags are human beings, and the real monsters are the people denying them due process, abducting them and sending them there," Melanie D'Arrigo, executive director for the Campaign for NY Health, posted on X.
Trump admin lawsuit aims to flood DC with AR-15 rifles for 'common use'
Millions of Americans have them too, sweetie!
Note the idiot on the right side of the photo.
Epstein files show Trump flagged by prosecutor for 'many' flights on sex offender's plane
And who was with him?
Trump: I’m Bringing Down Drug Prices By 3000%
Also going back to remedial math?
Epstein or Venezuela murders!
Oklahoma Instructor Fired In “The Bible Says So” Idiocy
Where the idiots are jusst OK.
"Fulnecky's enrolled as a pre-med student with a major in psychology. Bible based medicine is not a thing. Neither is Bible based psychology." -- amy cuscuriae (comments)
"the university should lose its accreditation." — Fin (comments).
It and the state has never had any to lose!
"Higher education in Oklahoma = mastery of the primary colors, the alphabet, and numbers up to 10 — if The Lord had intended you to count any higher He would have given you more fingers!" — Judas Peckerwood (comments)
Extremists To March On US Capitol “For Ashli Babbitt”
AKA "March of the Traitors!"
Local Man Brags About Knowing What A Giraffe Looks Like
Trump bragging about taking three "cognitive tests" indicate a fourth one is in order.
"felon 47 didn't know why he had an MRI....that 's why he needed an MRI." — disqus_1IOra75aOl (comments)
ICE Now Reportedly Questioning And Detaining Native Americans
Oh, this is rich.
Retarded. Stupid. Ignorant. Dumb. Ugly. Racist. Evil. Illiterate motherfuckers! Cleanse our country of them. Their stain must be cleaned clear through!
"Sorry, not sorry, but anyone affiliated with ICE is not credible."
"Unfortunately, it had already been around for a long time before the King of the Demented's ascent from Hell.
It was also around before Dumya's creation of ICE (cold-hearted threats of terror were ALWAYS intended, as the name shows)." — Yourebetterbecauseyouburnyoure (comments)
For the pitifully etarded.
Super-hot peppers caused him 'crippling' pain. The ER bill was worse
The scam that is American Healthcare!
Everone should read this story.
'A living hell': Morning Mika rips apart CBS' excuse for spiking '60 Minutes' Trump story
Eliminate corporations! They are NOT PEOPLE!
Trump's new Air Force One 'gesture' shows he's 'losing nimbleness with age': expert
There has also been ongoing commentary into Trump's cognitive health, with some believing the president to be in rapid decline. Dr. John Gartner believes the three Montreal Cognitive Assessments is to monitor an existing condition that could indicate just how rapid the president's cognitive decline is.
He claimed, "You know, he kind of gave the game away again, as he often does. You could maybe justify giving someone the MoCA once, just on their age, just as part of a physical. If you’re giving it to him three times, that means you’re not assessing dementia. That means you’re monitoring dementia."
"Because if you keep feeling like, no, he’s still got the symptoms, we’ve got to see how bad he’s doing now, we’ve got to check again, see how bad he’s doing now—I think they’re giving him cognitive tests and M.R.I.s every six months to monitor the progress of his dementia, and/or strokes."
Epstein survivors demand action against Trump admin after botched files release
Justice must be served!
Stop the cover-up!
Trump Supreme Court battle could be dismantled by Congress members' own history
New evidence is emerging that could deal a major blow to President Donald Trump's case for stripping birthright citizenship to the children of immigrants....
A new study will be published next month in The Georgetown Law Journal Online examining the backgrounds of the 584 members who served in Congress from 1865 to 1871. That research found more than a dozen of them might not have been citizens under Trump’s interpretation of the 14th Amendment, but no one challenged their qualifications...
Only one of the nine challenges filed against a senator's qualifications in the period around the 14th Amendment's ratification involved the citizenship issue related to Trump's interpretation of birthright citizenship, and that case doesn't support his position.
"Several Democratic senators claimed in 1870 that their new colleague from Mississippi, Hiram Rhodes Revels, the first Black man to serve in Congress, had not been a citizen for the required nine years," Liptak wrote. "They reasoned that the 14th Amendment had overturned Dred Scott, the 1857 Supreme Court decision that denied citizenship to the descendants of enslaved African Americans, just two years earlier and that therefore he would not be eligible for another seven."
"That argument failed," the correspondent added. "No one thought to challenge any other members on the ground that they were born to parents who were not citizens and who had not, under the law in place at the time, filed a declaration of intent to be naturalized."
"The consensus on the 14th Amendment’s citizenship clause has long been that everyone born in the United States automatically becomes a citizen with exceptions for those not subject to its jurisdiction, like diplomats and enemy troops," Liptak added.
Down with Trump and his racist America!
Pete Hegseth Said Military Chaplains Are ‘Degraded.’ He’s Wrong
He dgraded into a pile of Nazi shit long ago!
Trump and Co. Can’t Keep Their Lies Straight
Lying criminals never do!
Trump doctors check 'how bad he's doing' as cognitive decline continues: psychologist
Your race is almost done,Donnie.
'Give me a break!' Pam Bondi hit with fact check after asking Epstein survivors for help
Why is that poor little girl sweating so badly?
Johnson Vows To Place Charlie Kirk Statue In US Capitol
Odds on how long it lasts until it's destroyed?
Vance: The US Was, Is, And Always Will Be Christian
The definitive retarded hateful statement!
'Right out loud': JD Vance denounced as a 'klansman' for 'openly racist' speech
Typical hater and white supremacist.
Flush him!
CBS Scrubs “60 Minutes” Expose On Migrant Abuses
“60 Minutes” just suffered a severe blow to its credibility. Now one of its own correspondents fears the program is being “dismantled,” and some employees are threatening to quit.
Remove this Trump controlled program from broadcasting. They are enemies of America.
Until we do we live in a banana republic!
"Sharyn Alfonsi, said in an internal memo that “the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship.”
"According to Alfonsi and two CBS sources who spoke with CNN on condition of anonymity, the story had been fully fact-checked and legally vetted by the time the network publicized it on Friday afternoon."
it's high time to put an end to corporations!
"Did anyone really expect anything else?
When CBS hired our time's Leni Riefenstahl, I knew this was the end of credibility at the network, or certainly, any semblance of real reporting or coverage of important stories, or telling truth to power, or whatever news used to do once upon a time." - CB (comments)
Graham Urges Trump To “Unleash” Israel On Hamas
Someday soon...Miss Lindsey ,,, someday soon!
"When he says Hamas, he means anyone living in Gaza." — Todd20036 (comments)
"So, 64,000 dead innocent civilians wasn't enough for Lady Graham.
He wants total genocide so his Master can build 'sea front' properties." — JackFknTwist (coments)
JD Vance Says His “Official Policy As Vice President Of The United States Is That Nick Fuentes Can Eat Shit”<br>
Anyone that states "You don't have to apologize for being white anymore!" (as Vance has done) has no room to speak about racism. That person is a damned sick racist!
Shit is his diet!
"He eats Trump's shit all day long." — Jules Fern 666 (comments)
"There is no difference between Nick Fuentes and any other Republican." — Bart Crowe (comments)
Charlie Kirk Derangement Syndrome At TPUSA Event
Cultists are lining up to take selfies in a replica of the tent in which Charlie Kirk was unalived.
"I don't know which is worse. The depths right-wingers will sink to for money, or the fact that supposedly educated adults of presumably normal intelligence actually say 'unalived' unironically.
I'm sorry, folks, but this crap is getting ridiculous. Everybody knows what you mean. Just use the actual words and stop sounding like five-year-olds." — John Baker (comments)
"If someone had written a script of all this happening 30 years ago, a movie would never get funded for being too unbelievable. Unless it was a satire, which is apparently what much of our nation has become, a twisted sick satire of itself." -- Nervous Rex (comments)
"Did any of those Christian Taliban terrorists show any sympathy for people who are being picked up off the streets and disappeared?" — Talis (comments)
"they're wearing replicas of the shirt that Charlie Kirk was wearing when he was killed
These people are such sacks of lying shit. It was a merch shirt they had been selling for months. Now if they put the blood stains on it (surprised they didn't) then I guess you could call that a replica." — Liberal Devil (comments)
Republicans Break Ranks As Reality Breaks Through
And looming over all of it is Donald Trump himself, whose recent remarks and behavior go well beyond exaggeration or bravado..
We're honestly at the point now where major parts of our infrastructure which used to mark us as the envy of the world have been shut down, defunded or are just plain no longer functioning, because we have placed those in government who don't even accept it's their responsibility to speak with Congress or the courts. So the toll will grow more catastrophic as this ridiculous "presidency" grinds on:...
The shit pile of inhumanity!
DOJ's Epstein photos don't match claims of 'open investigation': legal expert
Did you expect anything less than a cover-up! Only one thing to do with crooks lke the Trump Crime Syndicate!
"I'm really struck by what appears to be either incompetence or duplicity or maybe both," McQuade began. "Todd Blanche said, 'We had 200 lawyers look at this.' Well, this was a hard deadline. December 19th. Maybe you needed 300. This was a law. This was not a discretionary task."
5,000 if that's what it takes to get the truth! Otherwise..."kinetic action"!
I called in artillery in Vietnam — I can tell you Trump and his henchmen are full of it
"The U.S. Supreme Court essentially immunized Trump against any kind of charges that could result from the strikes, but Hegseth and the military personnel with eyes-on participation in the strikes could find themselves in legal hot water down the road for these summary executions.
Sen. Risch should study the law and avoid covering up for MAGA lawbreakers.
Criminals don't give a fuck about law!
Trump’s Assault on Health Care, Seen From a Country That Does Health Care Better
"Japan’s health care system guarantees comprehensive insurance for everyone, which means people don’t routinely ration their own care or go into financial distress because of medical bills. And changing that very basic arrangement is simply not part of the Japanese political conversation, Ikegami told me.
“There are no politicians, even among the ultraconservatives, who call for doing away with universal health care,” he said, seeming a little bewildered by the possibility when I raised it to him.
"It wasn’t the first time I’ve heard things like that. Universal health care exists in just about every other economically advanced nation, and over the years I’ve gotten the chance to study several of these arrangements up close.1 They differ in their particulars, but not in their basic functions or in the feelings they generate among their citizens.
Everybody with financial resources pays into these systems, generally without objection, with the expectation that coverage will be there for them when they need it. And although political parties argue over how to fund, manage, and deliver the guarantee of health care, they do not argue over whether to provide it."
America is as retarded as prehistoric cave dwellers. Perhaps even more so.
White House ‘Trying To Keep Grampa Busy’ With Public Appearances: Report
Columnist David French called the speech “Banana Republic-flavored Soviet propaganda” but with less effectiveness.
“If you go back and you remember Soviet propaganda in the ’70s and the ’80s … Everything is always going so well, they’re going onto greater and higher achievements. And you always had this presentation of relentless forward momentum,” said French. “And then the reason I say ‘Banana Republic-flavored’ is because it was filtered through this demagogic figure who essentially … believes that he can basically talk his way out of anything: ‘Get me in front of the American people, I’ll fix this affordability thing. Get me in front of the American people, I’ll fix this political decline.’”
DOJ Denies Redacting Trump’s Name From Epstein Files
Criminals denying being criminals? Who would have thought? LMAO!
WH Threatens To Defund Smithsonian For Wokeness
Now tell me that these swine aren't attempting to destroy all forms of education to make everyone a dumb slave as possible!
THE SCUM OF THE UNIVERSE!
YouTube Now Shutting Down Channels Posting AI Slop
"As reported by Deadline, the Google-owned video platform has terminated two massive YouTube channels that peddled fake, AI-generated movie trailers, in what is one of the most high profile actions it’s taken against the AI spam polluting the platform.
Combined, the channels — called Screen Culture, based in India, and KH Studio, based in the US — boasted over two million subscribers and more than one billion views.
“The monster was defeated,” one YouTuber told Deadline after the slop channels were taken down.
And the rubes will still eat it up!
Doctors Warn That AI Companions Are Dangerous
Again, this is a no brainer.
Professor Warns That the Wealthy Are Trying to Use AI to Seize Control of Everything
"In 2025, there seem to be as many narratives about AI as there are startups peddling the stuff. Will it transform society into a utopia, freeing us from all responsibilities, or will it come to life and kill us all? And who benefits from those outcomes, anyway?
According to esteemed sociologist Tressie McMillan Cottom, the answer is clear: no matter which way you slice it, the AI future is for the rich."
Which means only the bots will be needed to be their slaves. The remaider of humanity will be eliminated.
But what happens when the bots take control?
Police Warn of Robot Crime Wave
Here comes Limbo! "The computer wars!" "Dodge the steamroller!"
By Bernard Wolfe 1952.
Garcia: Americans Have ‘Had It’ With Trump’s Epstein Cover Up
“So, there is no scenario where we're going to allow [Attorney General] Pam Bondi, the DOJ and Donald Trump to continue this cover up,” he said. “They are defying the Congress right now. and I would hope that Mike Johnson, who is supposed to be leading the entire body, would actually say something and back us up for once and demand transparency and justice for the survivors.”
Well, Robert, the problem is you people talk a lot and then sit on your asses. We all know what we need to do but it requires leaders with a spine and the guts to DO IT!
Pastors deliver scathing critique of 'self-serving' Trump’s MAGA Christianity
"MAGA Christianity represents a self-serving, commercialized version of the Christian faith — putting power over service and empathy — and it is everywhere in our federal government," Pagitt and Walke explain. "In February, Trump announced a task force led by (U.S. Attorney General) Pam Bondi with the goal of rooting out 'anti-Christian' bias. In September, Trump announced his plans to protect prayer in schools. Later that month, he issued a memorandum identifying anti-Christianity as a potential driver of terrorism."
The reverends continue, "These are not just one-off incidents. This is a national effort to push the MAGA Christianity agenda on Americans, and we’re already seeing the consequences.
Pagitt and Walke lay out a variety of ways in which "MAGA Christianity" and "Christian nationalism," they argue, are unchristian.
"Despite the Bible's clear call to 'love thy neighbor,'" the pastors lament, "the MAGA movement has used its version of the Christian faith to oppress immigrants, oppose the rights of women and condemn the LGBTQ+ community. At the same time, we've seen shootings at places of worship and arrests of faith leaders at peaceful protests."
Pagitt and Walke continue, "As faith leaders, our greatest strength during Trump 2.0 and the rise of Christian nationalism is our local congregations. It's our ability to physically come together in our communities, communicate with one another, support our neighbors in need and elevate our own Christian values that set us apart. Faith leaders have a powerful role to play, especially as the Trump Administration continues to use religion to divide us."
All typical of the fascist playbook!
Experts fear pro-Trump paramilitary groups may ‘become active’ as midterms draw near
This is why Americans are arming themselves as never before. To resist these fascist traitors!
"They are NOT "paramilitary groups" they ARE "domestic terrorists."
Quit sane washing the insurrection, please." — Kevin (al avatar) -- (comments)
"Fuck these people there's 400 hundred million guns and trillions of rounds of ammo in this Country. It's not going to be as easy as they think." — Doug Van Horne (comments)
'He's sundowning hard': Observers panic about 'incoherent' Trump's 'slurring' new speech
Of course we can all see it. But there are too many of his toadies still in denial!
Jim Beam To Shutter Production Throughout 2026
Will the sleeping retards ever awake to the disaster that Trump created?
The failure and stupidness of Trump is staggering!
TX Judge Files Federal Lawsuit To Overturn Obergefell
"asserts that the Obergefell ruling was unconstitutional because it “subordinat[ed] state law to the policy preferences of unelected judges.”
Weak tea! Throw it and her to the alley!
"That "logic" also invalidates every other SCOTUS ruling." — Šcott C - Vive la résistance (comments)
TN Man Sues After Being Jailed For 37 Days Over Charlie Kirk Meme
This should be an easy win in court.
Terrorism! The cops should be ashamed of themselves!
These shitbags forget we have a First Amendment! Trump is PURE FASCISM AND ANTI-AMERICAN!
"Apparently straight reporting what a public figure said is now a crime. Meanwhile, the same public figure openly threatening many, many people and influencing their followers to actual crimes is not a crime. Welcome to the backwards world." -- Nervous Rex (comments)
"And I hope the police officers who arrested him are picking up dog shit at the local park." -- NoNamington (comments)
Life in North Korea!
Trump’s Epstein Coverup Is Just Getting Started
"On Friday, the Trump-controlled Justice Department was mandated by a nearly unanimous act of Congress to release all government files related to Jeffrey Epstein and his crimes."
“What are they protecting?”
"But the government has made just a portion of its holdings publically available, and among the 13,000 documents released, some are extensively or virtually totally redacted. While the law permits withholding information to protect victims, obscured portions include the names and faces of numerous Epstein associates, despite the law’s dictate that nothing be withheld 'on the basis of embarrassment, reputational harm, or political sensitivity…to any government official [or] public figure.'
According to Rep. Thomas Massie, the Kentucky Republican who broke with his party to champion the Epstein Files Transparency Act, what the government has so far provided 'grossly fails to comply with both the spirit and the letter of the law.'
Epstein’s victims have similar complaints. 'They are proving everything we have been saying about corruption and delayed justice,' Jess Michaels told the New York Times.''What are they protecting? The coverup continues.'"
They protect the Trump Crime Syndicate. This includes each one of them and six of the SCOTUS justices. The sooner the country brings them to justice the better off we will all be.
Who Will Side With the People Over the ‘Architects of AI’?
..."A Harris Poll found that, for the first time, a majority of Americans also see billionaires—many of them fueled by the AI bubble—as a threat to democracy, with 71% supporting a wealth tax. Yet few of the Democrats hoping to retake Congress in 2027 are advocating such a levy. This is a dangerous disconnect.
Time magazine got one thing right. Just as its editors understood in 1938 that Adolf Hitler was its Man of the Year because he’d influenced the world more than anyone else, albeit for evil, history will likely look back at 2025 and agree that AI posed an even bigger threat to humanity than Trump’s brand of fascism. The fight to save the American Experiment must be fought on both fronts."
The White House Ballroom Will Never Be Built
..."But in true Trump style, even existential yearnings are no match for his inherent laziness. While talking up the ballroom project, his actual renovations of the White House have only been destructive, like demolishing the East Wing. Others are so flimsy and gaudy that they will be gone by the end of the first day of the next president. On top of the cheap-looking “gold” decorations that keep piling up in the Oval Office and the tacky Motel 6-level signs, Trump installed a 'presidential walk of fame' along the West Wing portico. It’s trash, of course: Pictures of presidents — both good and bad, but all more worthy of the title than Trump — with plaques that are really commentary on the demented obsessions of the petty man squatting in the Oval Office. Joe Biden is represented with a photo of an autopen — which Trump also uses to sign bills — with the caption 'Sleepy Joe Biden was, by far, the worst President in American History.' Barack Obama is also the subject of humorless insults....
It seems to be dawning on him that even many of his voters can’t wait to start forgetting Trump ever existed. Efforts to force a lasting legacy are maddening, but ultimately, they will fail. Trump will be felled by the worthlessness he’s spent a lifetime trying to conceal with cheap parlor tricks, because he’s incapable of making a true, lasting contribution."
Trump EPA Plan Would Restrict Public’s Right to Know About Climate Pollution
What climate pollution? Trump doesn't believe the science!
'A Huge Joke': Ex-Prosecutor Shreds Trump Official's 'Outrageous' Epstein Talk
Andrew Weissmann said a "huge part" of the administration's Epstein scandal is now the material that the DOJ isn't sharing with the public.
Fools are easily fooled.
We Are Living Through The Worst Measles Outbreak In 30 Years — But RFK Jr. Won't Tell You That
The HHS secretary also plans to stop recommending vaccines for children, according to reports.
Bannon Gets Turning Point Crowd To Boo Rob Reiner
Only telling us how high they stack shit like the pile that is called Bannon!
Trump: I’ll Give Myself $1B In My Lawsuit Against DOJ
Bragging in public how crooked he is!
"When the fuck will this fat orange pus bag die?" — xzargo (comments)
Kerry Kennedy: I’ll Take Pickax To Kennedy Center Sign
“Three years and one month from today, I’m going to grab a pickax and pull those letters off that building, but I’m going to need help holding the ladder,” Kerry Kennedy posted on the social platform X. “Are you in? Applying for my carpenter’s card today, so it’ll be a union job!!!”
Maybe sooner!
Don't worry, Kerry! You will have millions of helpers!
Two More Republicans Jump Ship: Lummis And Stefanik
Senator Cynthia Lummis (WY) retires, and surprisingly, Elise Stefanik hangs up both her House seat AND her Governor's race.
Hello. It's women. Any clue for the rest of you dumb shits?
"Elise Stefanik is another story. She's not only not running for re-election to Congress, she's also dropping her primary race for Governor of New York."
Well, her polling barely showed her breathing!
RFK Jr Defunds The American Academy Of Pediatrics, Goddamnit
Secretary Brainworm just clawed back millions of dollars from the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Who put this turd in charge? Get rid of that turd as well!
Vance Has Racist Meltdown While Trying To Pimp The Economy
J Divan Vance was supposed to be trying to promote the flailing economy but instead went on a racist tirade.
He's one more big shit!
When The Gibberish Becomes Policy
...more a chaotic, breathe-hole barfing than coherent address. It was a stream of disconnected talking points, grievances, and numerical nonsense. Applying the word 'thought' to that drivel would be a thought crime...
"We pivoted into Trump’s latest 'speech'—more a chaotic, breathe-hole barfing than coherent address, It was a stream of disconnected talking points, grievances, and numerical nonsense. Applying the word 'thought' to that drivel would be a thought crime.
Drug prices reduced by '600 percent.' Trillions in investment that don’t exist. Shouting as if the mere decibel-level of his voice lent it authority. It’s not just dishonesty anymore; it’s deterioration. What’s most alarming isn’t that Trump says these things—it’s that so few people around him are either willing or able to stop him from embarrassing the office, the country, pretty much our entire way of life."
'This is about what comes next': DC insider lays out Trump's new deflection on Epstein
"On Friday morning, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche told Fox News that the department wouldn’t be releasing all of the files on Friday as required by a Congressionally passed law."
“The White House hasn’t been hiding these files for months only to dump them late on a Friday to protect Bill Clinton,” said Clinton spokesperson Angel Ureña. “This is about what comes next, or from what they’ll try and hide forever. So they can release as many 20-plus-year-old photos as they want, but this isn’t about Bill Clinton. Never has, never will be.”
Republican tries to reignite 'Pizzagate' conspiracy
The shitbags have nothing else to do? Eliminate every one of the bastards!
Veterans For Peace Condemns Trump’s Illegal War on Venezuela
Then take out Hogsbreath!
US: Masked Federal Agents Undermine Rule of Law
"United States federal immigration enforcement agents now commonly operate masked and without visible identification, compounding the abusive and unaccountable nature of the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign, Human Rights Watch said today. The indefinite and widespread nature of these practices is fundamentally inconsistent with the United States’ obligations to ensure that law enforcement abuses are investigated and met with accountability."
“Law enforcement officers must be identifiable to be accountable,” said Belkis Wille, associate crisis and conflict director at Human Rights Watch. “This kind of secrecy should be an exception, never the norm, and it’s even more alarming given the widespread abuses associated with immigration arrests in recent months.”
No shit, Sherlock? Thank the perverted Nazi in charge!
NYT: Epstein, Trump Once Discussed How Much Pubic Hair A Woman Had
Don't tell me...he counted every one? LMAO!
GOP Majority Leader Opens Mouth, Lies About Healthcare
The stench of the shitpiles!
When Asked to Generate an Alphabet Poster for Preschoolers, the Latest Version of ChatGPT Just Flails Wildly
Truly, we live in the land of the blind.
"5.1 does an okay job with “A” through “I...” It recognizes its initials? Did it miss the letter "J"?
Retarded AI! ROTFLMAO at the suckers!
AI chatbots share climate conspiracies, denial and disinformation
It's only the start. It isn't hell but you can see it from here!
Lawsuits Allege Ozempic Is Causing Blindness
Well, something most certainly is!
Blanche: DOJ Won’t Release Full Epstein Files Today
Arrest, indict, try, sentence to prison all of the DOJ crooks!
Young People Increasingly Hold This Bigoted Belief. How Do We Fight It?
"Young People" should read: "Hitler Youth."
Monkey Sounds, “White Power” and the N-Word: Racial Harassment Against Black Students Ignored Under Trump
More "Hitler Youth."
The failure is on American parents.
Mount Rainier is on its way down
"The top of the mountain is coming down. Five different U.S. mountains, including Mount Rainier, are experiencing ice loss at their peaks, bringing down their highest elevations. The problem is likely to worsen."
The new three biggest lies:
"Your check is in the mail."
"We'll get it in the mix."
"There is no global warming," replaces the old third one (at least all musicians will know), is now fourth.
Trump Gives WARFIGHTERS 'Warrior Bonus' Checks Stolen From Their Military Housing $$$
"Still from ‘Forward March Hare,’ 1953. You don’t even need to look it up to know it’s a Chuck Jones joint.
We didn’t watch Donald Trump’s weird Wednesday night rant thing where, we hear, he told Americans all about the wonderful things he’s done for us, and bitched at us for not loving him enough for it, just because prices are high and everybody is far more stressed out than we were before he came back and started fucking things up. Shame on us, we guess.
We also saw something on Bluesky about Trump giving members of the military checks for $1,776, and it would supposedly come from all the money rolling in from the beautiful tariffs, and I believe the message pointed out that’s not how taxing and spending works, at least not legally. We didn’t read it carefully, just rolled our eyes and scrolled on. Yeesh, there he goes again.
But then we came across another Bluesky message that really got our attention: Trump was making shit up again, because the funding for the 'Warrior Dividend' payments wasn’t coming from his stupid tariffs, and it wasn’t a special gift for Christmas, either. Trump was talking about taking some extra funding for housing that Congress already approved in July, and handing it out as a beautiful new 'bonus,' thank you for your service.
We guess the regifting of funds that military members were already expecting to get is no surprise, really. Trump has always been a master of bait and switch."...
Trump's Handpicked Fluffers Surprise Trump By Fluffing His Name Onto Kennedy Center
"Blessed news from Dear Leader! For He has come forth from atop his royal commode to bring us joyful news, namely that the board he installed at the Kennedy Center for the sole purpose of licking his cock and not forgetting about the balls has voted to “rename” the Kennedy Center as the Trump-Kennedy Center.
What a joyful surprise! They didn’t forget about the balls! (Trump was on the call, to be clear, fulfilling his presidential duty of making sure they remembered not to forget about the balls.)
Don’t forget about … well you know...
So much bullshit from one 28-year-old woman married to her granddad.
They did not vote 'unanimously.' In fact, they muted the voices of people opposed, like Rep. Joyce Beatty, who helpfully clarified that fact for the benefit of fucking liars. By 'unanimously,' they must mean only the asslickers Trump himself was allowed to add to the board.
Donald Trump has run the Kennedy Center into the ground, and no human of quality or real artistic talent ever wants to set foot in it ever again.
Oh look at that helpful community note for Princess Lies A Lot! It says that actually the ball-sucking board Trump installed didn’t 'rename' fuck about shit, since that facility is named by congressional statute, and Congress didn’t 'rename' fuck about shit.
So that’ll be fine. As soon as God sees fit to rocket that stupid son of a bitch into an eternal hell, it will be just the millionth thing on the list to be changed back/restored, probably on the same day they’re taking down Grandpa’s White House Home Depot Golden Dementia Crafts."...
Was That a Speech or a Breakdown?
A stark look at the speech that blurred the line between leadership and losing control on the world stage
"Let me take off my psychotherapist hat and simply speak as a parent, an adult, a businessman, a citizen, and a human being.
There is something deeply and fundamentally wrong with Donald Trump,
Last night’s speech demonstrated it. He didn’t need to trash-talk Joe Biden, or try to claim that the country was “dead” when he came into office, or exaggerate his accomplishments, or lie about the state of things. None of that was necessary.
He didn’t need to put depreciating comments under the pictures of prior presidents in the White House, or replace Joe Biden’s picture with a autopen.
These are the kind of things junior high school boys do. And not even most junior high school boys; just the really dysfunctional ones. The bullies. The ones who are desperate to be part of the in crowd, but always on the outside looking in. The ones no one wants as friends.
This man is sick. And he’s inflicting his sickness on our country. And he’s surrounded himself with sick people, or at least with people willing to tolerate his mental, emotional, and spiritual sickness...."
We Need a New Great Awakening
"THE TURN TOWARD THE HOLIDAYS feels more difficult this year. All around us we’re confronted with tragedies deeply at odds with the spirit of the season: a college student on her way home to surprise her parents deported instead by our government to a country she left when she was 7; students forced to cower in fear under the desks on which they should be taking their final exams; a head of state responding with mockery and derision to the brutal murder of a loving couple.
It feels as if we are in a moment in which the moral ground beneath us is shifting. Compassion is in retreat and hatred is on the rise. Alienation is ascendant and community harder to find. Our public life is fractured, our discourse coarsened, and our confidence in one another eroded. Unmoored and anxious, the temptation for many is to retreat into tribes or despair. Or both.
Yet history whispers that such times are not only moments of danger. They are also invitations.
America has been here before."
So you say. I have my doubts.
Screw It. Let’s Rename the Moon
District of Trumplumbia
by Andrew Egger
"Donald Trump arrived back in the White House with Caesarian aspirations, eager to bring the power of the entire government under his personal control. But lately, with his domestic political project on the rocks, he’s been acting more like Caligula—spending more and more time on a series of empty gestures intended to spite his enemies and feed his own ego.
Much of this is taking place at the White House itself, which Trump is busy tricking out as his own personal palace/man cave, paving over the Rose Garden to make himself a Mar-a-Lago-style patio and knocking down the East Wing to build himself a ballroom. This week, the president amused himself by installing trollish plaques beneath a row of presidential portraits at the residence, sketching out a brief narrative that reads all of U.S. history as mere prelude to the capstone project of his reign. (Sample text: President Andrew Jackson “was unjustifiably treated unfairly by the Press, but not as viciously and unfairly and President Abraham Lincoln and President Donald J. Trump would, in the future, be.”)...
Why PolitiFact couldn’t name just one Lie of the Year
The falsehoods that defined 2025 were widespread, consequential and harder to separate from power
"The concept of truth feels particularly bleak in 2025."
I wonder why?
Trump's disqualified prosecutor brutally mocked for glaring typo in her official signature
"Unlawfully appointed interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan recently suffered another public embarrassment after a legal reporter noticed an obvious spelling error in her official signature."
The Trump Crime Syndicate shows its ass again!
Karoline Leavitt buried for 'new level of absurdity' as Trump's 'minions' do his bidding
"After pointing out that it is legally questionable for the board to make the change, the panel took special umbrage with Leavitt for teaming President John F. Kennedy up with the current president."
“When Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced this name change yesterday, I mean, there have been a lot of unusual statements this year, but this is among the best,” co-Lemire stated before reading her statement on the partnership with Kennedy, who was assassinated in 1963.
Lemire then remarked, “Just a new level of absurdity here on this.”
Also extremely clueless, from "Puffy Lips!"
The White House ballroom will never be built
Trump can't focus long enough, even on his $400 million passion project
Clean up your mess, Fatso!
DOJ Is Racing To Redact Thousands Of Epstein Pages
Guilty is being covered up by the guilty!
What a disgraceful farce!
Wisconsin Judge Found Guilty Of Obstructing ICE
American hero!
"She should be pardoned.
Also, may the next functioning DOJ remember that arresting judges is on the table." — HopeLeft (comments)
Dem Threatens Bondi With Jail Over Epstein Deadline
Don't threat,PROMISE!
"Who needs Epstein , lock her up for everything else she has done" — Dwight Williamson (comments)
MAGA Infighting Erupts At Turning Point Convention
We can hope the trash will destroy themselves.
"Ben Shapiro, the first speaker after widow Erika Kirk, ripped into those who would take the same stage in the coming hours and days. He called out conservative commentators, blasting Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly and Steve Bannon as “frauds and grifters.”
“The people who refused to condemn Candace’s truly vicious attacks — and some of them are speaking here tonight — are guilty of cowardice,” Shapiro said, adding later: “If you host a Hitler apologist, Nazi-loving, anti-American piece of refuse like Nick Fuentes … you ought to own it.”
They are all trash, including Ben!
Why Did TV Networks Refuse Obama Fifteen Minutes, But Gave Trump Almost Twenty?
Trump's address to the nation was a travesty and a blight on the presidency.
Because the FCC is run by Nazis and the networks are all run by fascist toadies?
"In November of 2014, President Obama asked the networks to speak to the nation for 10-15 minutes to discuss immigration, but all of them denied him.
One reason stood out. The networks claimed the President. Obama would be too partisan."
(stop laughing)
"Don't laugh
Yet on Wednesday evening, all the networks agreed to air a pared-down Trump rally speech, dressed up as an address to the nation, when there was no reason for it at all.
None.
Has Trump ever said anything in front of the cameras that wasn't partisan and narcissistic?
Trump's Bad Economy Is Even Worse Than It Looks
"But here’s the thing: As bad as the unemployment situation looks right now, last week the chairman of the Federal Reserve said that he thinks the real numbers are actually worse...."
Norman Podhoretz, You Are Get The F*ck Out
"Late 2025 has witnessed too many great Americans dying. Rob Reiner. Joe Ely. Steve Cropper. But things balance out and sometimes, the Earth purges one of its bad people too. And that leads us to Norman Podhoretz, who leaves the Earth mourned by no good humans.
Podhoretz represented one of the saddest and most unfortunate tendencies of mid- to late-twentieth century intellectuals, which was to turn a reasonable position against the excesses of communism into a full-throated embrace of conservatism, racism, and militarism that influences the Republican Party today. Any discussion of Podhoretz should be a cautionary tale of what happens when you lose all perspective about the world around you...."
White House Dementia Care Unit Lets Trump Write Walk Of Fame Plaques All By Himself!
"Last night, a dementia-addled loser interrupted the season finale of Survivor to yell at Americans in all caps for 20 minutes for not being sufficiently grateful for his tariffs and his elimination of mandatory transgender for everyone and their peasant obsession with 'affordability' and 'groceries.' He lied each time he breathed, and they were stupid lies, lies even the inbred pigs who still count themselves as part of the 36 percent who approve of him could tell are lies. (Maybe. They’re as stupid as he is, so maybe not.)
We sure hope Susie Wiles didn’t sign on to that speech, because it might tarnish the image of woRdL’s sMarTesT PolITiCaL oPreratTor that she was so desperately trying to cultivate in those Vanity Fair interviews. (Topic for discussion: What if Susie Wiles is actually a total dumbass, which is exactly what she looks like in the pictures that accompany the article?)."
We have no reason to talk any further about his speech. It was dumb as shit. Everybody is laughing at it. We were at a concert at the time, and we opened up the internet afterward to see that the general consensus was that it was totally unnecessary for Trump to postpone his evening diarrheas for that — he could have just delivered the speech atop the toilet on Truth Social, like every other night — and that in comparison, Pete Hegseth’s preening Viagra overdose in front of the generals was the goddamned Gettysburg Address...."
Who’s Really Pulling the Trigger: The Shooter, or the Predator Lobby?
When politicians hand the gun industry a liability shield, they’re not “protecting freedom,”they’re protecting a business model built on body counts.
America’s 465th mass shooting in 2025, this one at Brown University in Rhode Island, should remind us all that it’s insane that the GOP passed and Bush signed into law the so-called Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA) in 2006 that largely gives immunity from liability lawsuits to the gun industry (and only the gun industry).
It’s time to end the predator-state coalition in America, of which this is just one glaring example.
Ever since five corrupt Republicans on the Supreme Court ruled that 'money is free speech' protected by the First Amendment and 'corporations are persons' protected by the entire Bill of Rights, pretty much every industry in America has poured cash into politicians’ and judges’ pockets to be able to freely rip us off. Or, in the case of the gun industry, kill our children.
Even though a clear majority of Americans want stronger gun laws, our politicians have colluded with the gun industry to give us the exact opposite as I detail in The Hidden History of Guns and the Second Amendment...."
Trump Held A National Address Just To Talk Sh*t About Joe Biden
"Donald Trump on Wednesday used a nationally-televised address to talk shit about his predecessor, Joe Biden, whose economy was described by The Economist last year as "The envy of the world." Let's be real, Trump has held a grudge with Biden because his ass got whooped in the 2020 election.
And we can clearly see that by how he recently added insults to the plaque below Biden's portrait in his so-called 'Presidential Walk of Fame.' Of course, other presidents were insulted, too.
Everything Trump said during his speech was a lie, but you knew it would be. The president opened his rally-style speech to insist that he “inherited a mess” that he was now “fixing.”
"Much of this success has been accomplished by tariffs," he falsely said. "My favorite word, tariffs, which for many decades have been used successfully by other countries against us, but not anymore. Companies know that if they build in America, there are no tariffs, and that's why they're coming home to the USA in record numbers."
"They're building factories and plants at levels we haven't seen, AI, automobiles," he continued. "We're doing what nobody thought was even possible, not even remotely possible."
The failure of Donald Trump - part infinity.
A Petty, Vicious Wall Of Shame
The awful keeps spewing. The latest proof there is truly, repulsively no bottom: The most broken, powerful human being on the planet has added to his crappy, gaudy, reality-show "Presidential Walk of Fame" bronze plaques below the photos denoting a boorish, revisionist "history" of each president. Inevitably, he saves the crudest insults for his predecessors - "divisive" Obama, "crooked" Biden - while praising his own supreme reign. America on the fucking, endless, childish ugly of it: "This is so exhausting...."
..."He's talking so fast he sounds panicked," "Possibly the most pointless prime time presidential address ever delivered in American history." From Newsom: 100 "Me Me Me Me Me's." From us: For God's and our sanity's sake, once and for all, fucking quiet Piggy.
The failure of Donald Trump - part infinity continued.
Trump's address prompts stunning revelation for Dem: 'For the first time, I'm not afraid'
Why would anyone be afraind of a helpless and ancient failure?
GOP stuck in 'perfect storm' as Dems handed another pre-midterm win: analysis
"Sargent, speaking with The New Republic, explained, "So how bad do you think the health care system is going to get? Are we going to see a spike in the uninsured rate? Are we going to see a lot of suffering? Are we going to see a lot of rural hospitals really struggling?"
Are we going to see many needless deaths? You can guess that answer. These clueless idiots don't care!
President Liberace Raises Ballroom Cost To $400 Million
We'll all rejoice when it is levelled!
House Passes Bill Criminalizing Trans Youth Healthcare
These creatures are NOT human. They are alien to the human specie.
Now, the rest of us must decide if we are the same as they are. Who are we?
This is a failed country if we don't turn them away.
"May the last sounds she hears is the fall of the floor beneath her…and the snap of her neck breaking." — Quantum_Surfer (comments)
"What a very sad way to be remembered from someone who looks like they suffer from Turners Syndrome. What an evil piece of southern white trash" — Dwight Williamson (comments)
Trump Again Threatens Network Licenses, Claims Dem Sen. Warnock Violated Separation Of Church And State
The old douchebag fool has to get hyperbolic as he can when someone tells the truth on him!
Mullin: “Walmart Says Groceries Are Down Over 20%”
How would he know? He's never shopped for groceries. Like the rest of the Nazis, he doesn't live in the real world/
"As someone who shops at Walmart....that is a lie." — Donald Kemp (comments)
Welcome To The U.S.
Show me your papers! And a scan of your retina too!
Oh, and a urine sample too?
US: Military Boat Strikes Constitute Extrajudicial Killings
Human Rights Watch today published a detailed question-and-answer document analyzing the Trump administration’s boat strikes in the Caribbean and Pacific. To date, 26 reported strikes have unlawfully killed at least 95 people, none of whom the US government has identified.
The Question-and-Answer document is intended as a resource for understanding the legal and human rights implications of the United States military campaign. The document explains why the strikes constitute extrajudicial killings under international human rights law and addresses the administration’s claims that the US is embroiled in an armed conflict with 'narco-terrorists.'
It further lays out the United States’ obligations to investigate unlawful killings, hold accountable those responsible, and provide effective remedies. It identifies concrete steps Congress should take, including holding public hearings, mandating independent investigations, and creating a select committee investigate legal and operational decisions behind the strikes."
Seems to me we know who the killers are.
'Just heard a single vertebrae!' Johnson finally responds to Trump’s cruel Reiner comments
The wimp toady utters nonsense.
'Crazy scenes on House floor' as Dems 'livid' over early end to key vote: reporter
Evilness reigns in the House with Nazi putsch.
"Crazy scenes going on in the house floor," reported Reese Gorman for NOTUS. "The chair just closed the vote on ordering the previous question when it was at 204-203. Some democrats hadn’t voted yet and were trying to vote no. They are livid rn and shouting at the chair."
The Washington Post's Marianna Sotomayor blamed the "mess" on Johnson's decision to not allow moderates an amendment vote last week on subsidies.
"The House floor is just exploding right now after Republicans -- frantic they would lose a procedural hurdle that would force a vote on a Dem discharge petition -- closed the vote early," Sotomayor reported. "Rs really are playing with the floor right now in ways that's not usual. They're nervous."
The Republican signers – Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Mike Lawler (R-NY), Rob Bresnahan (R-PA) and Ryan Mackenzie (R-PA) – joined all 214 Democrats in signing the petition, which is the first step to forcing a House vote on the legislation.
“Leadership left us no choice,” Lawler told reporters after signing. “From my perspective, this issue is too important to fuck around with. You have people’s health care at stake, and it requires a vote. Ultimately, this will pass the House, and I bet you there will be a lot more people voting for it than you expect.”
Trump's 'Presidential Walk of Fame' labels Obama as 'most divisive political figure'
Again, he projects. He admits all of his own failures by accusing others of the same. Pitifully sick.
Jack Smith tells Jim Jordan there was 'proof' of Trump's crimes in private hearing
Former special counsel Jack Smith told lawmakers Wednesday in a closed door hearing that investigators had "developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt" that President Donald Trump had conspired to overturn the 2020 election results.
Portions of Smith's opening statement during the private meeting were obtained by the Associated Press.
Smith told lawmakers that his team of investigators had "powerful evidence" that the Trump was hoarding classified documents from his first presidential term inside his Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach, Florida. He explained that Trump was attempting to obstruct investigators as they worked to find the records.
“I made my decisions in the investigation without regard to President Trump’s political association, activities, beliefs, or candidacy in the 2024 election,” Smith said. “We took actions based on what the facts and the law required — the very lesson I learned early in my career as a prosecutor.”
Smith was asked if he would also prosecute a Democrat and he said he would “prosecute a former president based on the same facts today, I would do so regardless of whether the president was a Republican or Democrat."
Criminals should go to prison, not sit in our White House!
Americans Are Turning Hard Against Trumpism
Finally!
How Much More Can America Take of "Trump Derangement Syndrome?"
Trump calls it “Trump Derangement Syndrome” when we object to cruelty and division. The real story is what that hate is doing to America’s democracy, and when we finally push back.
"I have Trump Derangement Syndrome and so does much of America and much of the world.
That’s not a confession of mental illness: it’s an indictment of a political era defined by cruelty, division, and the deliberate poisoning of democratic life.
'Trump Derangement Syndrome' is the phrase Donald Trump and his followers love to fling at anyone who dares to object to his behavior.
But the truth is simpler and far more damning: if millions of Americans and people across the globe are reacting with alarm, anger, and outrage, it’s because Trump has spent years earning that reaction.
Trump Derangement Syndrome isn’t a disease of the critics; it’s the predictable response to a leader who thrives on hate."
Omar Slams DHS for Accusing Her of Lying About ICE Apprehending Her Son
“No surprise that an agency known for disappearing people also can’t keep its records straight,” Omar’s office said.
"Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota) has hit back at the Trump administration’s 'rogue' immigration enforcement campaign after the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) accused her of lying about agents apprehending her son last week."
That's PETE HEGSETH'S Boat Murder Jerkoff Porno Movie, YOU CAN'T WATCH IT
"Yesterday, the least qualified Defense secretary in human history, AKA Secretary Shitfaced J. McGee, announced that he had killed some more people in the middle of the ocean, and demanded we just trust that they were super bad guys come to kill us all with fentanyl, despite how all the available evidence shows that none of the random people they’re dismembering at sea fit that description, and haven’t even been headed for the United States. Also, no fentanyl even comes from Venezuela!
But that’s fine, because nobody is really pretending Stupid Hitler’s regime is doing this because of drugs. They just like murdering people, and President 'No More Stupid Wars' wants to start a war for oil. (More on that in a second.)
Shitfaced J. McGee also announced that he wouldn’t be releasing the full video of the double tap strike that’s the subject of so much controversy, the one where it certainly appears the chain of command went back to finish murdering two guys who didn’t get murdered the first time Hegseth hit them with one of his famous 'lethal kinetic strikes.'
(Anybody else laugh every time Shitfaced says 'lethal kinetic strike'? Like, sure, those words have a meaning, and we imagine Shitfaced only recently learned them, since he doesn’t have much advanced military experience, but the way he says it it’s super clear it’s kind of like WARFIGHTER for him and his masculinity issues. SECRETARY OF WAR and his team of NO BEARDO WARFIGHTERS did another LETHAL KINETIC STRIKE! Sure, buddy, happens to all guys!)"
Read more here:
Filler Injection Sites. Tabs, Wed., Dec. 17, 2025
"LMAO, nobody watched the Widow Von Grifts-A-Lot’s “town hall” with CBS’s new wildly-out-of-her-depth conservative DEI hire editor-in-chief. Down 27 percent from whatever is usually in that time slot. Down 41 percent in its key demo. Good advertisers wanted nothing to do with it. Nailed it! [Independent]
Pete Hegseth says no, they will not release the full video of the boat murders. For one thing, he’s probably busy watching it over and over again in the dark with the doors locked with his pants around his ankles. You know, if we had to guess. But also, you see, here’s the thing, because Pete Hegseth has severe masculinity issues, so if he thought there was a chance it would make him look like a badass and his sons would think he was a real man, he would be putting it on Twitter right now. Unless he had a very real fear that having that evidence out there might be the thing that gets him sent to The Hague, or possibly prosecuted for straight-up murder? [Politico]
Related, Donald Trump is going to address the nation tonight. Probably going to announce war with Venezuela, which exactly no one supports. Because what do you do when you’re the most hated and mocked piece of shit in the entire country and your approval rating shows it? You keep digging. Anyway, we’ll all ignore that. [NBC News]
Trump, in all his confused glory, announced last night that he apparently thinks Venezuela … stole our land and our oil? Also announced a blockade...."
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'Can only hurt him': Author warns Trump just showed he is truly 'off his rocker'
"... That's derrangement."
It is obvious this man has no soul!
Conservative declares Trump is 'the most loathsome being ever to occupy the White House'
This is a Satori for him? Welcome bsck to reality.
Republicans are quiet quitting on Trump
The White House chief of staff says the president has “an alcoholic’s personality”
A drunk with a gun.
WH To Dismantle “Alarmist” Climate Research Center
The Retard Party's answer to problems are "ignore it and it will go away."
”The numbers will go down if we stop testing.”
Federal Judges Slam Incompetent DOJ Prosecutors
It doesn't take a Federal Judge to see the Peter Principal at work.
Lindsey Graham Calls For Trump To “Finish Off” Maduro
"If he’s not a terrorist, I don’t know who would be."
Try looking in a mirror!
GOPers Design Cover Stories And Distractions For Epstein File Release
Meanwhile, Michael Wolff says the Epstein photos that were released are not the same photos Epstein showed him of Trump with underage girls.
"A leaked memo that circulated through Congress Tuesday details talking points Republicans are expected to use when talking about the Epstein Files as a way to protect President Donald Trump, conveying an image of a party resigned to the fact that those files will indeed be published on Friday and that their leader will be implicated in one of the most extensive international sex trafficking operations in recent history."
Covering up for a pedophile only makes them co-conspirators!
'Take those words out of your mouth': Johnson confronts GOP rep in 'heated' exchange
The little punk is lucky to still have his nose in one piece.
Trump's broken promises fuel 'a reckoning of his own' making: analysis
Johnson continues, "There are indications that, in thermostatic fashion, Americans are responding to Trump's attacks on every value, institution, and tradition of American politics by regaining their appreciation for why and how our system works. Trump's dismal approval rating suggests that Americans were expecting more from his second term. Voters returned him to the Oval Office because he promised to make their lives more affordable, but he did the opposite by erecting the highest trade barriers the United States has had in a century."
"There’s a Sucker Born Every Minute."
Whoever said it, it's true in Trump's case!
Conservative declares Trump is 'the most loathsome being ever to occupy the White House'
He's just now figured it out?
Congratulations!
They Cuttin' Grandpa Loose? Tabs, Tues., Dec. 16, 2025
You never know it's gonna happen until it happens.
"Marisa Kabas collected a whole bunch of reactions from Republicans. It is … well, Republicans don’t suddenly have moral character, they don’t actually care what Trump said about Rob Reiner. So the only sensible way to interpret this is as a testament to how pathetically weak Trump really is. Looks to us like they’re preparing to cut Grandpa loose and never visit him at the home ever again. You think they want to go down with that ship?"
The vile shitpit that is Trump and more on it!
Is the Morbidly Rich’s “Brilliance” Just a Threat to the Republic?
In 11 months, we’ll have an opportunity to retrieve our democracy from the clutches of the morbidly rich, the ideologues who deify them (and have for millennia), & their bought-&-paid-for politicians
...Finally, today, apologists for the rich are also trying to use philosophy and psychology to justify their holding power in America by attacking “socialism” and the human emotion of empathy that powers it. Billionaire Elon Musk has pinned to the top of his social media account:
“Either the suicidal empathy of Western civilization ends or Western civilization will end.”
And Elon with it!
Congress Must Fight Back Against Supreme Court’s Anti-Democratic Crusade
..."And then the ideologues on the Supreme Court should stop meddling in elections. Over the past 15 years, the Court demolished campaign finance rules in Citizens United, wrecked the Voting Rights Act starting in Shelby County, and gave ex-presidents vast and unprecedented immunity from prosecution for crimes committed in office — thus ensuring no legal accountability for candidate, now president, Trump.
In a season when it seems increasingly clear that the justices plan to hand President Trump even more power, inexcusable rulings and interventions in partisan politics will leave a very sour taste for many voters. The Supreme Court itself, increasingly, will become an issue in American politics. That’s as it should be."
Mike Johnson Flees From Reporters When Asked About Trump’s Insult of Rob Reiner
The world's biggest lying chicken shit!
Trump’s Response to the Deaths of Rob and Michele Reiner Says It All
"Three quick points about Trump’s response:
First, this angry, partisan message is utterly inappropriate to the tragedy that has engulfed the Reiner family and the community of people who care about them.
Second, Trump has made it all about himself. It’s not the first time his malignant narcissism has put himself at the center of whatever is preoccupying the public at the moment, but this is one of the most extreme and disgusting examples I’ve seen.
Third, if anyone still harbors any doubt that Trump is losing it — that his mind is in the grip of dementia, also likely paranoia — this post should make it clear. No rational person would post this."
No rational human supports Trump!
Cultist Posts First Class Boarding Pass To Boast About Trump Making It All Possible, Troll Cancels His Ticket
"A pro-Trump passenger bragged online that he was going to be flying first class, claiming he could afford it “because of Trump / Trump made America great again.” He posted an image of his boarding pass. He was apparently flying to Greenville–Spartanburg airport in South Carolina. You know how this ended. In a divided America, the world saw his record locator and name and accessed the reservation. “Someone had canceled his flight.”
The stupid filth of our Trump shithole.
US Kills Eight More In Three Pacific “Drug Boat” Strikes
The U.S. continues it's reign of terrorism. Someone has to put a stop to this murdering!
Johnson Won’t Allow Vote On Extending ACA Subsidies
Please do humanity a favor and drop dead, you SOB POS phoney-assed Xianist bastard!
'I'm kind of embarrassed': JD Vance now gets shunned in his Ohio hometown
The pitiful failure of a once nothing burger.
MAGA shifts away from Trump after Reiner remarks
Trump's vile comments about Rob Reiner's killing has widened the cracks in the MAGA movement
Looking for someone closer to Attila?
Graham Blames Obama And Biden For Bondi Shooting
Miss Lindsey's brain explodes. Sad thing to waste!
And we know who the "biggest dumbass on the planet" is, lame brain. You kneel in front of him!
"This bloodthirsty closet case's obituary is one I will read with relish. I just hope that his death is excruciatingly painful." — Judas Peckerwood (comments)
DOJ: Dismiss Ballroom Lawsuit On “Security” Grounds
The scum of the universe!
"precedent established by other presidents to modify the White House grounds."
"What precedent? Name one other president who demolished a third of the White House to construct their own ugly ass vanity project." -- archiveit (comments)
"The only way one can argue that the lawsuit has no basis is to claim that the White House belongs to its current occupant." — Greg (comments)
The fascist shitbags don't give a fuck about our law! The disgraceful eyesore will be demolished before this story is over!
Paladino: “Expel All Muslims From Western Nations”
Expel all racist Nazis from the planet earth back to hell -- like her for example!
"And while you're at it, really clean the place up. Expel adherents of all three Abrahamic religions. There's not a nickel's with of difference on any of them." — Dot Beach (comments)
"'We’re in the midst of a global jihad the likes of which the world has never seen...'
May I suggest that a broad survey of world history, available to Mrs. Paladino at any of the several colleges, universities in NYC, with the goal of acquainting her with the 2000 year old history of Christian 'jihad,' to include countless 'holy wars,' pogroms, riots and the rape of the Americas, might benefit the councilwoman. — unsavedheathen (comments)
Border Chief: Everyone Must Carry Citizenship Proof
Federal law enforcement agencies are detaining US citizens who do not carry proof of their citizenship in what civil rights advocates describe as a flagrant violation of constitutional rights—and a top Trump administration official is claiming the government has the authority to do so.
What else do we expect from Trump's damnable Nazi asswipe dictatorship?
Resist Gregory Bovino! Nazi haircut! Nazi shirt!
"I don't have any immigration documents to carry around. Also, fuck off nazi scum." — Melissa (comments)
Trump’s chief of staff says he has 'an alcoholic’s personality'
"This is far beyond garden-variety narcissism," Trump's niece, who has a degree in clinical psychology, said of Trump. "Donald is not simply weak, his ego is a fragile thing that must be bolstered every moment because he knows deep down that he is nothing of what he claims to be."
We all know this but still refuse to say he is a sick man? Seems we are the drunk in denial.
Tom Cotton Blames Gun Control And Birthright Citizenship For Attack On Jews In Australia
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) called for an end to birthright citizenship and gun control laws after an attack on Jews in Australia, reportedly by two Muslim gunmen.
This racist deserves a good public flogging!
"Tom Cotton never tires of showing us how little he knows? Who keeps electing this guy? And why?" -- newshero (comments)
"Dumb assed Arkies keep putting this worthless dipshit in office, big surprise?" — onefool (comments)
"Hey Cotton you a-hole.
Australia has had TWO mass shootings in 30 years!!!!
The first was committed by a mentally ill WHITE man who was BORN IN AUSTRALIA.
The latest mass shooting was committed by a muslim father and son who had ties with the terrorist group ISIS. The father - who is thankfully dead - was born overseas but was given citizenship in 1998 - when far right racist and war criminal John Howard was Prime Minister.
A full investigation into this horror will be conducted and I am confident that the Australian government is going to implement even STRICTER gun control laws AND stricter citizenship laws.
And for all the far right racist azzholes who are calling for ALL muslims to be kicked out of Australia - the HERO - who saved probably dozens of lives - is a 43 yo muslim who was born in Syria.
THIS is what a true hero is. A gofund me page has already raised ver $1.5 MILLION for this hero and I am pretty sure the Prime Minister will award him a bravery award. An honorary "Australian hero of the year" award. And the King will probably knight him too.
So take your far right nazi views and shove them up your butt you efffing azzhole." — bettestreet2006 (comments)
‘Bungled’ Supreme Court decision may have handed 'off limits' power to Trump: analysis
SCOTUS is one of the most horribly disgusting enemies of the U.S. we've ever seen.
Why Did Trump Send His Warships to Venezuela?
..."Since the 1990s, the United States began to speak of Latin America as a partner for shared prosperity, emphasizing globalisation over direct control. Now, the language has changed. As the Trump Corollary asserts: “We want a Hemisphere that remains free of hostile foreign incursion or ownership of key assets and that supports critical supply chains…We want to ensure our continued access to key strategic locations.” Latin America is seen as a battlefield for geopolitical competition against China and a source of threats like immigration and drug trafficking. The attack on Venezuela and Cuba is not merely an assault on these two countries; it is the opening salvo of direct U.S. intervention on behalf of the Angry Tide. This will not deliver better lives for the population, but greater wealth for U.S. corporations and the oligarchies of Latin America.
Trump is ready to revive the belief that any problem can be solved by military force, even when other tools exist. The Trump Corollary promises to use its 'military system superior to any country in the world' to steal the hemisphere’s resources.
The aggression against Venezuela is not a war against Venezuela alone. It is a war against all of Latin America."
Shock. Horror. Tragedy.
Numbness in Providence
by Hannah Yoest
Rob Reiner, 1947–2025
For now, let us remember his life and his work.
Trump unleashes vicious attack on Rob Reiner just hours after shocking death
President Donald Trump launched a vicious attack on Rob Reiner Monday following the shocking death of the legendary film director and his wife on Sunday, which law enforcement is investigating as a homicide.
“Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling, but once very talented movie director and comedy star, has passed away, together with his wife, Michele, reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME, sometimes referred to as TDS,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social.
“He was known to have driven people CRAZY by his raging obsession of President Donald J. Trump, with his obvious paranoia reaching new heights as the Trump Administration surpassed all goals and expectations of greatness, and with the Golden Age of America upon us, perhaps like never before. May Rob and Michele rest in peace!”
Said the retarded moron that is the president of our country.
Trump: Rob Reiner Was Murdered Due To His TDS
Trump is so proud the planet awaits his own death.
"But do NOT celebrate the murder of Charlie Kirk, people." — JoeMyGod (comments)
"I’ll just note that a number of people lost their jobs for “celebrating” the murder of Charlie Kirk. For values of “celebrating” that included merely quoting Kirk’s own words without additional comment." — Beagle (comments)
"Donald Trump: Rob Reiner & his wife were murdered but I'M THE REAL VICTIM HERE!" — Scott Eats Wood (comments)
The internet is breaking — but it’s not too late to make it better
Platform retreat and Trump policies are doing serious damage to information accuracy online. But there are signs of hope for change and rebuilding
"I’ve watched these trends closely as director of the International Fact-Checking Network, a group that encourages fact-checking journalism around the world, and I see the public’s growing fear that everything they see on the internet is fake, that the old-fashioned markers of accuracy and authenticity are fading away.
But as bad as it is, there’s still hope: Serious people are still documenting problems and searching for solutions, from scrappy fact-checkers to credentialed academics to members of Congress. We don’t have to let the internet sink into the clutches of fraudsters, con artists and propaganda campaigns. Increasingly, there are signs of a common ground for people to fight back...."
DEATH TO POISONED AI and its deadly swine!
Washington Post readers revolt against Bezos’s editorial board
"I’ve been having a marvelous time lately reading the Washington Post’s editorial pages online.
Not the editorials themselves, mind you.
No, the sad fact is that under pro-Trump marching orders from owner Jeff Bezos, the Post’s bush-league new opinion editor, Adam O’Neil, has turned the paper’s unsigned editorials into a stream of often laughably dumb right-wing pedantry, Trump sycophancy, and amateurish writing – almost as if the intention was to infuriate traditional Washington Post readers.
And indeed, it’s those furious Washington Post readers who make the online opinion offerings such a joy to behold."
'Ok, grandpa': Observers roast Trump's strange rant at White House Christmas party
"During the speech, Trump weaved through a story about a doctor who went on a hiking trip to Peru with Obama's daughters and was bit by a venomous snake."
"Look at how quiet everybody is," Trump said to the audience. "You know, it's funny. When you talk about snakes and things like that, people find it interesting."
The moment sparked mockery from political analysts and observers online.
"Ok, Grandpa," history professor Waitman Wade Beorn posted on Bluesky. "I think it's time for you to lie down."
"I swear we're in 'I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time' territory," writer and activist Jeff Tiedrich posted on Bluesky.
"Person, woman, man, camera, TV," neuroscientist Kevin Wright posted on Bluesky, referring to a quip Trump made after one of his previous cognitive exams.
t, posted on Bluesky.
"Person, woman, man, camera, TV," neuroscientist Kevin Wright posted on Bluesky, referring to a quip Trump made after one of his previous cognitive exams.
"I keep wondering why Jake Tapper isn’t screaming about this s--- from the rafters," Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin, founder of the Gaia Leadership Project, posted on Bluesky.
"Gee, I wonder why he had to take 3 dementia tests," Joanne Carducci, an anti-Trump influencer, posted on X.
Merriam-Webster’s 2025 Word Of The Year: “Slop”
Good but "retarded" is far better.
"This perfectly describes AI, Stupid idiot Trump's materials and goods, creationism in its entirety, unclean bathrooms, etc." — OHarp (comments)
Far-Right Candidate Wins Chilean Presidential Election
Morons are always gluttons for punishment.
Get ready for your death squads.
Trump & Thune To Rip Away Healthcare, Whig-ify GOP Jan 1st
There are no lack of examples of their glib dishonesty and putrid amorality. But if you want one that perfectly sums up the Jonestown GOP Caucus, you can't do better than the nonchalance at allowing...
From the 'stack. It's morally repugnant and politically as stupid as you get..so of course Republicans are doing it:
"There are no lack of examples of their glib dishonesty and putrid amorality. But if you want one that perfectly sums up the Jonestown GOP Caucus, you can't do better than the nonchalance at allowing Obamacare subsidies, the only way millions of Americans can afford healthcare, to just vanish. Like Mike Johnson’s testicles when Trump enters the room."
The MAGA coalition is 'fraying' — both inside and outside the White House: WaPo
Great news! Please let us know when they are wiped from the face of the earth.
Jared Kushner is backing a 'hostile takeover' of US infrastructure: analysis
Salon reporter Sophia Tesfaye says “the speed and scale of Jared Kushner’s re-emergence can’t be overstated,” and neither can his corruption.
“In the first year of Donald Trump’s second presidency, his son-in-law is casually consolidating economic and political power with staggering speed,” said Tesfaye. “Kushner has positioned himself at the center of the biggest media merger in years and at the fulcrum of White House foreign policy, all while taking in multi-billion-dollar investments from autocratic governments.”
What else would you expect from "The Devil's Son-in-Law?
"MF should be hanged by his neck until dead for treason to the American people. And soon!" — Radfinn (comments)
"Israel. Kushner. Saudis. Russians. Traitors deserve a traitors fate." — Mama Train (coments)
'Referee stunned': Internet erupts in ridicule as Trump makes 'worst coin flip in history'
Donald Trump on Saturday shocked the internet when he gave what some have dubbed a non-traditional coin flip at the Army-Navy football match up.
Trump can be seen on the video awkwardly tossing the coin, which doesn't appear to have actually flipped to the other side.
That scene sent shockwaves through social media, with many onlookers heaping ridicule on the president.
The Age Of Genz said, "History was made at the Army-Navy Game and it wasn't just the final score. President Trump redefined the ceremonial coin toss. No flip. No rotation. Just a straight-up lob that left the internet and maybe the referee stunned. He looked like a space alien wholly unfamiliar with the concept. The single worst coin flip in history? An unprecedented new technique?"
Awful Announcing wrote, "President Trump goes with more of a coin heave before Army-Navy," to which scary lawyerguy replied, "If Joe Biden was incapable of flipping a coin and instead just sort of tossed it in the air, there would be approximately eleventy billion stories in the press calling into question his basic motor skills."
Young Dem strategist Harry Sisson asked, "Trump can’t even flip a coin???"
Top Ape wrote, "Trump at army vs navy game. He threw the coin in the air instead of flipping it. And the way he grabbed the coin, lmao."
Dem influencer Ed Krassenstein said, "Donald Trump flips a coin like a pansy. At the Army Navy game."
Wu Tang is for the Children added, "Trump still doesn’t know how to flip a coin."
Have we seen it all yet? This really takes the prize. Had the old fool idiot ever flipped a coin before in his miserable existence?
The world is ROTFLTAO!
'Life after Trump': Analyst says GOP ditching president 'faster' than ever seen
The turd is being flushed!
These alarming changes show how Trump is wrecking public health
"The public has good reason to be suspicious of the CDC right now. The changes approved last week by the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, or ACIP, are arbitrary, not science-based, and go against decades of safety and efficacy data. Their vote to remove hepatitis B vaccination from the recommended infant and child schedule will lead to a resurgence of hepatitis B.
Prior to recommending newborn vaccination in 1991, 18,000 children were diagnosed annually with hep B, a chronic illness that leads to liver failure and liver cancer.
Half of these children were infected through mother-to-child transmission, and giving the shot at birth prevents the virus from taking hold."
The bastards will be held responsible and answer for these crimes of which they are GUILTY!
Trump Presidential Library To Include “Fake News Wing”
Of course! And shouldn't the idiot in the photo be extending his middle finger?
"ABSOLUTE GENIUS! Show your father being a lying, whiny, piece of shit.
Go right ahead Jr. -- I salute your efforts." — ASFT (comments)
United Nations Votes 153-1 For Resolution About Protecting Humanitarian Workers, US Voted Against
The fascist government of the U.S. must be erased and replaced.
"This administration never misses an opportunity to show how bat shit crazy and utterly hateful it is." — Ken_in_NM (comments)
President Liberace Boasts About New West Wing Sign
"Bronze?" It's all polystyrene foam, the same as Trump's brain!
"At least the White House is making strides in disability access - even with his decaying brain, he can now identify where the room is." — Paul L. (comments)
Trump Attacks Reporter Asking About Soaring Health Ins Costs
Marie Antoinette Trump: “Don’t make it sound so bad!”
"Donald Trump could not be more out of touch. He just demolished the East Wing of the White House to build a $350 million, grotesquely gaudy golden ballroom. Every day, there seems to be more gold gilt on what’s left of the White House. And, of course, in less than a year, he has used his job to cash in to the tune of $3 billion.
But the Snoozer-in-Chief can’t be bothered with the looming catastrophe for millions of Americans facing skyrocketing health insurance premiums thanks to the Republicans’ refusal to extend the Affordable Care Act subsidies."
"In other words, Trump has no plan, he doesn’t plan to have a plan and he’s not going to lift one of his baby fingers to help Americans who could die as a result of not being able to pay for health insurance."
The raping of America!
Guaranteed Basic Income Program In Rochester NY Deemed A Success
Professor Patrick Turner: “The GBI pilot was effective at providing cash to families and alleviating some of the immediate hardship they experience from having low incomes."
The Nazis can't stand for this sort of success!
Artist creates a way to hide Trump’s face on new National Park passes
The ultimate of arrogance and narcissism! Disorders of the mentally ill.
"The most disgusting president in the history of the US wants his name and ugly face on everything, like some 3rd world dictator. He must be removed from office and his name erased from any mention of him regarding history and anything to do with the USA and our government." -- newshero (comments)
Trump’s GOP Wants to Expand a Policy That Already Put Millions Into Medical Debt
Health savings accounts provide a fig leaf for high deductible insurance plans that leave patients on the hook.
Healthcare for all must be put in place at all cost. The public backs it!
Trump Posts 21 Times in 7 Minutes Immediately After Release of New Epstein Photos
Talking as fast as the old fool can.
Who Do Trump & the GOP Really Work For?
As America slides into recession, this is a struggle over who owns America’s future: a broad middle class—or a locked-in economy run by the richest few
"America is in or on the verge of a seriously bad recession and the Trump regime is hiding the numbers; the signs are everywhere. His incoherent tariffs, massive tax breaks for billionaires, and gutting the Inflation Reduction Act are kneecapping our economy.
In response, Trump visited Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania this week and tried to pitch himself as a champion for the little guy, the middle class, small farmers, and working people.
Which raises the question: who do Trump and the GOP really work for?"
No one I know! But Thom shows some good connections here.
Bartiromo: “This Affordability Issue Is A Hoax” [VIDEO]
The world has lost it's moral compass if it ever had one.
Some are simply brainless. This is one of those.
TALLY: 22 Trump Targets Recently Got Death Threats
The old fool really wants to compete at Putin's level!
Actor Liam Neeson Denies Being Anti-Vaccine After Narrating Anti-Vax Film By Sec. Brain Worm’s Nutbags
Then he's just whoring around, I suppose?
"Just following orders, not actually responsitivitabull. Ya know, like the kapos in the Nazi concentration camps." — Coxygru (comments)
"If you abet murderers, don't complain about the bloodstains on your hands." — The Supreme Being (comments)
"Sure...I narrated 'Triumph of the Will', but that doesn't mean I'm a Nazi!" — Donald Reid (comments)
How to end a career! Well...bye!
REPORT: Trump Is Mulling Pardons For Admin Members
Trump has started to believe he's God.
News flash: He is not.
Kirk’s Killer May Face Anti-Christian Hate Crime Charge
Grasping at straws. These idiots are the worst humans on the planet earth!
Cops: ICE Leader Strangled Decades-Younger Girlfriend
They always take out their failure on women.
The Stealth Murder Of Social Security, Part Infinity
Our vile, treasonist enemy must be taken head on if we are to have a future.
Jesse Watters: Republicans Don't Need Hispanic Support
Go back to hell where you came from, you worthless, racist bitch!
Arkansas Just Lost Its Democracy
The first domino in our Republic has fallen into a dictatorhip!
A lost territory that must be redeemed by any means necessary.
"Come on now, we can't allow the plebs to believe they can think for themselves. These legislators are highly educated and trained to enact laws and policies to only help the billionaire class. Or in the case of Arkansas, the Walton class. We the unwashed masses have no idea how to protect the Walton family from things like taxes and responsibility to protect their employees.
O.K., enough sarcasm. What do we expect from a state that elects Sarah Huckleberry-Sanders as its Governor? Issues like this will take time away from her criming and corrupting. After all, she has $50,000 lecterns to buy darn it!!" -— pursang833 (comments)
Trump keeps bringing attention to his rapid decline
Donald Trump went out to give a rally for the first time in months, speaking this week in a swing district in Pennsylvania. The White House hyped it to be a speech on affordability, but he instead attacked “affordability” as a “hoax” and veered into his usual viciously racist attacks.
If the old fool had any filters before they are all long gone now.
'Not what they voted for': Why swing voters are leaving Trumpism in droves
New York Times writer E.J. Dionne Jr., says a great many Americans who helped put Donald Trump in office have absorbed what’s happened since.
“They may not be glued to every chaotic twist of this presidency, but they do pay attention and have concluded, reasonably, that this is not what they voted for,” said Dionne.
Compared to Trump’s 49.8 percent of the 2024 popular vote, Trump’s approval ratings are a slide. A New York Times analysis of public polling this month found his net approval rating had dropped to 42 percent, while a A.P./NORC poll and a Gallup poll put him at 36 percent.
“This suggests that 15 to 25 percent of his voters have changed their minds,” Dionne said. “I think of these shifts as the triumph of reasonableness — and not because I agree with where these fellow citizens have landed (although I do). I’m buoyed by the capacity of citizens to absorb new facts and take in information even when it challenges decisions they previously made. It turns out that swing voters are what their label implies. The evidence of their own lives and from their own eyes matters.”
The shift dispels myths about Trump having “magical powers to distract and deceive,” said Dionne. It also proves that reality can still get through the breakdown of U.S. media and information systems.
I'll believe it when he's voted back to hell.
'Scumbags': GOP digital team in epic collapse following party's humiliating remarks
Scumbags of the Earth Nazi party.
Showdown coming as election denier's lawyer claims Trump pardon applies to state charges
The Trump Crime Syndicate, which includes SCOTUS, are attempting to make him our dictator. They are all traitors!
'Unmotivated donors' plague Republicans in pivotal southern state
Georgia Insurance Commissioner John King is sounding the alarm on party donations heading into the mid-terms.
“The usually low-key King posted a lengthy statement to social media, almost a manifesto, after Democrats managed to flip a Republican state House seat in Oconee and Clarke counties,” wrote Atlanta Journal Constitution Senior Political columnist Patricia Murphy. “That unexpected special election loss followed two 26-point Democratic routs in November for a pair of statewide Public Service Commission seats, which Georgia Republicans have dominated for decades.”
Please Enjoy Laughing at the Prediction Markets, in Full Meltdown, After Time’s “Person of the Year” Reveal
More evidence that we now live in a snake pit world of woe.
Banning Gender Transition Treatment Is Leading Kids to Do Exactly What You’d Expect
The same problem with hateful, retarded policy throughout history.
Trump, Clinton, Gates included in Epstein photo trove
Very interesting photo album we have here!
Trump Pretends To Pardon Tina Peters Because He's So Stupid
"Dancin' Don claimed to grant Tina Peters a “full pardon” Thursday night — a power that he cannot wield for a person convicted of state-level crimes."
DUMB Dancin' Don!
Karoline Leavitt Covers Up Reason For Trump's Hand Bandages
"Lips" Leavitt sez:
"White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt laughably claimed the reason the back of Trump's hand is bandaged was due to his constant handshaking in the Oval Office.
Sure, we believe you.
The AI Press Bot has no problem lying to the press, but this one is so ridiculous I'm surprised she didn't start laughing at herself."
FDA To Label COVID Vax With “Most Serious Warning”
The US Food and Drug Administration intends to put a “black box” warning on Covid-19 vaccines, according to two people familiar with the agency’s plans, the latest move by President Donald Trump’s health officials to undermine a vaccine that was a standout victory of his first term. The plan shocked outside experts, who said there was no basis for the warning.
Trump and his whole gang of mobsters are nothing less than chicken shits!
Letitia James Not Indicted Again, That'll Teach Her To Continue Not Being Criminal
"Good news! A federal grand jury has declined to indict New York Attorney General Letitia James on a fraud charge for allegedly taking an unwarranted tax break on a second home she purchased. Again.
That’s right, this is not the same federal grand jury that refused to indict James on the same charge a mere week ago. This is an all-new federal grand jury that took a look at the Department of Justice’s case and told the Trump administration to suck their balls, Kyle."
LMAO at the old fool!
Telling Donald Trump To F*ck Off Is Fun And Easy! Just Ask Indiana Republicans
"Before we get into this story, allow us to say that we don’t want to hear any silliness about how Indiana state Senate Republicans showed that they’re capable of doing the “right thing” when it matters, or maybe they’re breaking free from fascism or Christian nationalism or any shit like that. Lord, get a grip, ENTIRE BELTWAY MEDIA.
But the thing that happened yesterday in the Indiana state Senate is hilarious, and Indiana Republicans did indeed tell Donald Trump to fuck off, and you can be sure they did it because it was best for all Republicans, despite how Donald Trump is too stupid and dementia-witted to know it."
'Trump will not be happy': Internet erupts over new pictures of president and Epstein
My guess is if he doesn't die before he will most certainly die in prison.
Protesters blare noise to prevent ICE agents from sleeping at Minnesota hotel
Protesters in Minnesota tracked Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to an Edina hotel, where they engaged in loud demonstrations to make sleeping uncomfortable.
"They're terrorizing our neighbors by day and retreats in their cushy hotel rooms at night!" one protester shouted on Thursday night amid drums and loud music outside a Hilton hotel.
"Demonstrators gathered with blowhorns, whistles, drums to make their voices heard their displeasure with the agency's presence here in the community," Fox 9 reported.
Harass them back to hell!
This what happens when an insane president takes over the private sector
What's wrong with America and the world for that matter. Corporate greed will be the end of humaity if it is not stopped!
Trump's ballroom project could be halted by new lawsuit
"The National Trust for Historic Preservation filed a lawsuit Friday to stop President Donald Trump's White House ballroom project.
Historic preservationists had attempted to stop the president from rapidly demolishing the White House’s East Wing for the project and asked him to wait for federal review panels and public comment, but he went ahead and tore down the annex over a week in October, and now the group charged by Congress with helping to preserve historic buildings has asked a judge to block construction, reported the Washington Post."
“No president is legally allowed to tear down portions of the White House without any review whatsoever — not President Trump, not President Joe Biden, and not anyone else,” the complaint states.
And cleanup the goddamn mess you made, you jackwagon!
Johnson Calls Indiana Vote “Inconsequential” And Lies That Trump “Did Not Put A Major Pressure Campaign”
“We win some, we lose some. It is no indication whatsoever about what’s gonna happen next year in the midterm elections.” – Mike Johnson, lying lying lying just as Jesus would want.
This man is denying reality. That never leads to anything other than danger for humanity!
"This fucking idiot. We all saw the posts, saw JD Vance's visits, and have heard it nonstop here in Indiana. What those senators responded to were the demonstrations, phone calls, letter, and posts telling them not only no but FUCK NO.
No matter what Johnson says, Trump is a lame duck and nearly catatonic most of the day. We can all see this and no lie from him can change it." — Niblet58 (comments)
Trump: European Nations Want Me As Their Leader
Want more proof this POS is MAD! Wake the fuck up!
"Obviously he has not a clue as to how many European leaders would truly like to slap the shit out of him.
Ignorance. Arrogance. Stupidity. The trifecta!" — Luke - my beautifl Luke (comments)
Anti-Vax Rioter Launches Florida Bid For US House
Where do these shit piles come from?
Never mind, we already know!
"Strand last appeared here in April 2025 when the anti-LGBTQ hate group, the Liberty Counsel, gave him their 'Defender Of Liberty Award.' His video below is utterly insane. Shocking, I know."
Hey traitor, still no drag queens have been charged with child molesting! Wake the fuck up!
John Strand has no place in Congress. He's a common Nazi!
"Strand claimed to have joined the mob at the Capitol simply as Gold’s 'protector,' using his skills as a licensed security professional to keep her safe as she attempted to give a speech about the evils of Covid vaccines and mask mandates."
"I must have missed that speech. Did she give it while smashing through the windows of the Capitol?" — DaddySnark (comments)
"My husband called and said I had to turn the tv on. I did. They were scaling the walls, pushing back lines of police with bike racks, breaking windows.
We all saw it and will never let their stupid lies tell history. It’s crazy their people know that saw it too and just forget they did. The weird excuses they make exhibit a mental illness we have to keep calling out.
It was an insurrection and this twerp did not beat the doj, he was found guilty. It’s all lies." — Retired Davestill collecting (comments)
Fox, Of Course: 'How Dare Zohran Mamdani Help NYC Immigrants?!'
Fox News freaks out over Mamdani telling immigrants... their rights?!?
To hear this racist shit reminds us that only white 'christianist" males have any rights in America.
How twisted is that?
Michael Wolff Bombshell: Emails, Tapes, Lies, Epstein
In conversations that began in Sept 2014, Wolff seemed not only to be a journalist, but confidant, even advisor....
"We talked to Chris Matthews recently on Blue Amp, and while I remember criticism of him at the time, he was a guy who made guests answer his questions, cared deeply about politics, had a sense of right and wrong. Michael Wolff is today's political media, a guy who advises a pedophile then pretends he was doing it not b/c he's a greedy bastard, but for the right reasons:..."
Veteran GOP strategist Karl Rove debunks widely held view of Trump voters
Rove and Pence gang up on Trump's fake government supporting WSJ article!
"Trumpers say they believe all sorts of this and that, but at the end of the day, the fundamentally 'believe' in whatever idiotic right wing garbage comes to them from Fox News, their grifting pastors, and directly from the administration. Which is why they will whole heartedly support another dumb pointless war with Venezuela. They will support kiddie diddling, graping, sht talking, lying and and and all other dastardly diarrhea this complete clowncar of incompetent sociopaths engage in. Old white men are almost uniformly brainwashed by Fox News. The best chance this country gets is one dead idiot Boomer at a time." — David Morin (comments)
But you can't blame a zombie for acting like one!
Leavitt's 'brain working overtime' as emerging info linking Trump to Epstein emerges
When asked by a reporter: "You said the Epstein documents are a hoax ... So what is the theory since these documents came from the Epstein estate,” Leavitt replied: "I did not say the documents are a hoax. I said the entire narrative surrounding Jeffrey Epstein right now ... is a hoax that is being perpetuated by opportunistic Democrats like Ro Khanna."
But another reporter demanded, "What exactly is the hoax? I'm just trying to understand what's fake?"
Leavitt responded: "The hoax is Democrats pretending to care about victims of crime. ... It is a distraction."
Social media did not hide its disdain at her struggle.
“That's going in the top 10 of wildest statements made by this administration,” said one commenter on X.
“You can see her brain working overtime on this one,” said another.
EDITH, YOU'RE A DINGBAT!
Republicans lack 'specific plan' on the economy — and they're flailing badly: report
"When pressed for a specific plan on affordability, however, no GOP lawmaker was able to point to a fully formed proposal — at least, not a single proposal."
Kennedy told MS NOW, "I just think (Thune is) making a mistake — a big, big mistake. And we will look back and go, 'What planet were we living on?' Especially if the midterms don't go well for us."
Disaster awaits them.
'Go ahead and sue me': South Park creators take stand against Trump admin in season finale
They left off 'motherfucker?'
"At the same time, Parker and Stone are clearly looking to the future, including their continuing fight on behalf of freedom of speech (when, late in the episode, Jesus declares: 'Go ahead and sue me, I’m not going to be afraid any more,' it’s clearly Stone and Parker making a stand)," The Guardian reported.
'You will be impeached': Dem threatens Kristi Noem for 'lying with impunity' at hearing
She can always get a job as dog killer!
Kristi Noem threatened with perjury charges before livid lawmaker cuts off her testimony
This sounds more like prison. Maybe in some remote Trump concetration camp?
The Caribbean Killings Were Unnecessary. Trump Just Proved It.
We Didn’t Have to Kill Any of Them
by William Kristol
Alligator Alcatraz: How Tyranny Starts—With “Those People”
If we allow a network of secretive, cruel, detention facilities for one set of powerless people today, tomorrow it will inevitably turn those same systems against anyone who challenges their power.
"Amnesty International’s new report on the U.S. detention sites Alligator Alcatraz and Krome is a warning flare for every American who believes in the Constitution, the rule of law, and the basic dignity of human beings.
We’ve seen governmental cruelty before in our history, but these facilities mark a new level of calculated dehumanization on U.S. soil, and Amnesty is calling it what it is: torture, enforced disappearance, and a deliberate system designed to break people.
What makes this report so chilling isn’t just the details, although they’re horrifying enough. It’s that the government has begun giving these places cute, theme-park-style nicknames like 'Alligator Alcatraz' and 'Cornhusker Clink,' as if they’re attractions instead of concentration-camp-style black sites.
Authoritarian regimes always begin by softening the language, making the abuses sound like logistics, law enforcement, or processing rather than cruelty. If you want to condition the public to accept state violence, you start with euphemisms."
How We’ve Resisted ICE: Street Lessons From Chicago
“The best way to respond to fear and intimidation tactics is to just show we’re not afraid. We’re going to keep showing up. We’re going to keep speaking out,” says musician Jocelyn Walsh, who is facing federal charges for protesting ICE activity in Chicagoland.
Musicians and artists have done more for humanity than any politician.
Tlaib Slams House’s Bipartisan Passage of $901 Billion Military Spending Bill
“Imagine if our government funded our communities like they fund war,” Rep. Rashida Tlaib said.
Warmongers don't give a fuck about our communities. THEY SEND TROOPS TO THEM!
Nobody Wants To Come To Donald Trump’s Sh*thole Country
"Donald Trump likes to self-soothe by making up stories about how ever since he became president, the United States is respected again, dictators tell him we’re suddenly the 'hottest' country in the world, and so on and so forth. It’s pathetic and embarrassing, and the opposite is true. The United States under Trump is an international joke and an object of pity and scorn, as anybody who’s been outside its borders since last January 20 can attest to.
Many people who haven’t been abroad know it too, but they probably haven’t run across any international travelers who have told them, because nobody’s coming here anymore. You might have recently seen a graphic like this one from back in April from John Burn-Murdoch at the Financial Times, telling the story of how tourism to the US has been collapsing:...
Nobody is coming here. Canadian tourism to the US has gone down 18 percent, and those staying in the Western Hemisphere are going to South America, Central America, or the Caribbean instead. Europeans aren’t coming here. Asians are going to Europe. As of September, we were set to lose out on somewhere in the neighborhood of $30 billion in tourism bucks this year.
Why? Donald Trump’s tariffs. Donald Trump’s satanic, Hitlerian immigration policies and rhetoric. Donald Trump’s threats to invade Canada or seize Greenland. Donald Trump, just in general.
On a personal, anecdotal note, this author was out of the country in September and met many people, from all over the place, all of whom expressed a desire to visit the US … someday. But not today. Maybe in a few years when all this (*gestures wildly*) is over.
So in light of all this, it’s literally fucking insane that news broke this week that Customs and Border Protection is proposing a new rule demanding to see FIVE FULL YEARS of people’s social media posts before they let them visit the United States.
Why? To finish off the meager remains of international travelers still coming here?
Because nobody wants to visit Donald Trump’s fucking shithole country."
'Something is very, very wrong': Trump's 'perfect' health brag echoes his mentor's demise
Anyone with a functioning brain can see this.
Trump’s return to MAGA rallies is a flop
Republicans have reason to worry if this is how Trump campaigns in 2026
Trump is the leading world terrorist.
Denmark Designates US As Potential Security Threat
I am sure the civilized world has designated the U.S. as a terrorist country by now.
Truth Social Runs Ad For “I Am Charlie Kirk” Wine
WTF? How low can they go? ROTFFLMFAO!
Almost 400 J6 Rioters Seek Millions In “Restitution”
The swine continue to be pigs!
"Right after I get reparations for the slavery of my ancestors.
Until then, you insurrectionists can fuck off until you can't fuck off anymore." — Eli Bradley (comments)
"Getting a pardon for your terrorism doesn’t mean your terrorism never happened." — Greg (comments)
Christian Man Defends Trump On “Shithole Countries”
Another one hiding behind Jesus!
"'I said, why is it we only take people from shit hole countries, right? Why can't we have some people from Norway, Sweden, Denmark…'
Maybe because people from Scandinavia - yes, those nice white blondes - don't WANT to come here, Donald. They have rights and privileges at home; why would they want to trade that for Trump's America, which is fast becoming a shithole under your administration?" — Ann Kah (comments)
Florida Sues Starbucks For Anti-White Discrimination
Civil rights law? Bullshit. They have only racist laws!
Nothing but another Trump shakedown!
"Anti-white discrimination, you say?,br>
You know, I feel like the Miami Heat basketball team is discriminating against me. I, a white man, deserve my shot at the court, and just because I am not terribly tall, have bad eyesight, and can't throw a ball worth anything, I think it's illegal that they choose to go out and have hiring policies that I feel exclude me from my well-deserved position. Where do I sign up for a lawsuit?" — Makoto (comments)
RACISTS CAN"T SCREAM RACISM!
Boston Archdiocese Admonishes Pastor To Remove ICE Message From Manger
Reported last week by local and national media, the Nativity scene at St. Susanna's prompted strong online reactions.
Wow A Pastor with a spine! His message rings true.
Only Nazis get angry on this!
US Supreme Court Just Gave A Nod To Library Book Bans
Don’t think for one second this is only about one library system in Llano County, Texas.
Ray Bradbury was correct when he wrote Fahrenheit 451. It may not be book burning it is certainly just as RETARDED!
Laura Loomer Says Midterms Are Gonna Be 'Bloodbath' After Another Night Of Democratic Asskicking
"It’s not a done deal, obviously — there is soooooo much work to do before next year’s midterms if we want to save this country, and those midterms are just the first minuscule step — but things continue to look more and more like that night next November will be a historic night indeed for Democrats, and a monumentally shitty night for the Nazis."
Last night, a couple more special elections and runoffs happened. Oh boy, they went well, if you’re not an absolute monster!
America’s New Political Reality: Trump Decides Which Beliefs Are “Legal”
When dissent becomes an “indicator,” the First Amendment stops being a right and starts being a risk
"Back in September, most Americans (and the media) thought it was so over-the-top that it had to be a joke. Turns out, it wasn’t a joke and isn’t remotely funny.
In a bizarre directive that could have been written by the staff of The Onion or Putin’s secret police, National Security Presidential Memorandum-7 (NSPM-7), Donald Trump ordered the FBI, DOJ, and over 200 federal Joint Terrorism Task Forces (coordinating FBI with local police forces across the country) to seek out and investigate any person or group who meet it’s “indica” (indicators) of potential domestic terrorism.
“[A]nti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, anti-Christianity, … extremism on migration, extremism on race, extremism on gender, hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family, hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on religion, and hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on morality.”
Now, in a second bombshell report, Klippenstein has obtained and published a copy of Attorney General Pam Bondi’s December 4th memo ordering the FBI to actually begin Russia-style investigations of people and groups who fit into the categories listed above.
Better to die on our feet than live on our knees! God Bless the U.S. Constitution and our First Amendment!
The website for President Donald Trump’s “Gold Card” immigration program has gone live, offering non-Americans the option to pay for a fast-track pathway to U.S. citizenship.
“Very excitingly for me and for the country, we’ve just launched the Trump Gold Card,” the president announced Wednesday. ” It’s somewhat like a Green Card, but with big advantages over a Green Card.”
Foreign nationals can now pay $1 million plus a $15,000 processing fee for the Trump Gold Card, which grants them U.S. residency “in record time,” the website states. Corporations, meanwhile, can also partake in the program by making a $2 million contribution and paying the $15,000 processing fee.
Great Caesar's Ghost! We used to put the criminally insane in hospitals!
Trump: Buying Warner Must Include “Corrupt CNN”
Keep the criminal's dirty nose out of these deals!
Librarians Dumbfounded as People Keep Asking for Materials That Don’t Exist
Librarians, and the books they cherish, are already fighting a losing battle for our attention spans with all kinds of tech-enabled brainrot.
Now, in a further assault to their sanity, AI models are generating so much slop that students and researchers keep coming into libraries and asking for journals, books, and records that don’t exist, Scientific American reports.
In a statement from the International Committee of the Red Cross spotted by the magazine, the humanitarian organization cautioned that AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Copilot are prone to generating fabricated archival references.
“These systems do not conduct research, verify sources, or cross-check information,” the ICRC, which maintains a vast library and archives, said in the warning. “They generate new content based on statistical patterns, and may therefore produce invented catalogue numbers, descriptions of documents, or even references to platforms that have never existed.”
Library of Virginia chief of researcher engagement Sarah Falls told SciAm that the AI inventions are wasting the time of librarians who are asked to hunt down nonexistent records. Fifteen percent of emailed reference questions that Fall’s library receives, she claims, are now ChatGPT-generated, which include hallucinated primary source documents and published works.
“For our staff, it is much harder to prove that a unique record doesn’t exist,” Falls added.
Other librarians and researchers have spoken out about AI’s effects on their profession.
“This morning I spent time looking up citations for a student,” wrote one user on Bluesky who identified themselves as a scholarly communications librarian. “By the time I got to the third (with zero results), I asked where they got the list, and the student admitted they were from Google’s AI summary.”
“As a librarian who works with researchers,” another wrote, “can confirm this is true.”
The Stupid Virus has destroyed a million brains, at least!
WE ARE SOOOO FUCKED!
Police Admit They’re Using ChatGPT to Generate “Sketches” of Suspects
I bet they get sketches of South Park characters!
Democrat moves to oust RFK Jr. from Trump's Cabinet
"As it turns out, lawmakers and federal workers aren’t a fan of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s leadership at the Department of Health and Human Services. Not only does the HHS secretary have a line of people calling for him to resign, including his own staffers, but he is also now facing impeachment as well."
Good luck with that. Most of America will back you on it.
Piracy On The High Seas? Trump Seizes Venezuelan Oil Tanker
"Reuters reports that several officials 'speaking on the condition of anonymity said the operation was led by US Coast Guard.'
During Trump's daily podcast appearance on Fox News he took responsibility for the seizure and claimed other things are happening."
Aha! The same US Coast Guard that first said swastikas were OK until they had to back off!
Rights Groups Sue Trump Administration for Legal Justification of Deadly Boat Strikes
"The American Civil Liberties Union, the Center for Constitutional Rights, and the New York Civil Liberties Union today filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York seeking the immediate release of an Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) opinion and other documents related to President Trump’s illegal lethal strikes on civilian boats in international waters."
He's batshit crazy!
Court Rules Trump Administration’s Wind Ban is Illegal
Everything the SOB does is criminal!
'Nothing is stopping him': Veteran calls Trump's tanker seizure a 'significant escalation'
We all know we can stop him. We just have to grow a spine.
We are a terrorist country and could be the target of anyone. We are making more terrorists around the world!
“You and I have talked for months about this,” Reickoff told MS NOW anchor Nicolle Wallace on Wednesday. “I think the biggest story in the world is that Donald Trump can do anything he wants with the most powerful military the world has ever seen, and nothing is stopping him. That includes now seizing oil tankers. It includes potentially killing survivors. It includes potential black sites. I mean, he is all gas and no brakes right now. And when I spoke to you a couple weeks ago, I said the pieces were in place for a strike on Venezuela. It was just a matter of when. This is a significant escalation today.”
“And I think it's really important to underscore that Congress does not support this and hasn't authorized it,” Reickhoff said. “Most of the country doesn't support this and isn't behind it. And he's still going full speed. So, I think the country needs to ask everybody to put the brakes on here, because there is nothing more important than a potential regime change war just in time for Christmas.”
Situation is critical. We are the country that needs regime change.
'Special kind of delusion': Top Democrat calls Trump's speech on prices a 'train wreck'
Trump may have read all his lines at his Pennsylvania rally, but he also ad-libbed a lot, mocking the affordability crisis in America as a “hoax.”
Leader Schumer on Wednesday told his Senate colleagues that Trump “simply doesn’t get what people are struggling through,” because he’s “trapped in his billionaire bubble.”
A potential horror show!
Lauren Boebert accused of violating campaign finance laws to go on date with Kid Rock
Had to clean up the floor after I read this shit.
The Trash Two.
VA Youth Pastor Pleads Guilty To Grooming Charges
Another one bites the dust
US Threatens New Sanctions Against International Criminal Court Unless It Vows Not To Prosecute Trump
Bribery is against the law. Does ANYONE know shit from applebutter? Arrest the SOB!
AI Models Diagnose Trump As “Profoundly Narcissistic”
Also too, AI discovers water is wet!
New York Times editor Joe Kahn misunderstands what the readers want
Just another example of the Peter Principal at work.
'What do we think is going to happen?' Shouting Stephen Miller melts down on Fox News
"If these societies all over the world continue to fail, you have to ask yourself, if you bring those societies into our country, and then give them unlimited free welfare, what do we think is going to happen?"" — lying bald Nazi.
Overview of Immigrant Eligibility for Federal Programs
Trump’s reality TV tricks can’t hide the affordability crisis
The president's policies cost families $2,250 in 2025 — and the economy is only getting worse
"He craves a quick fix to this whole economic dilemma — the same disaster he created through chaotic policies that have raised costs on everything from housing to health care to groceries…"
In fact, he said it would be a quick and easy fix!
Trump Admits Lying About “Shithole Countries” Slur
President Donald Trump admitted Tuesday that he used the slur “shithole countries” to disparage Haiti and African nations during a 2018 meeting with lawmakers, bragging about a comment that sparked global outrage during his first term. Back then, Trump had denied making the contemptuous statement during a closed-door meeting, but on Tuesday, he showed little compunction reliving it during a rally in Pennsylvania. He went on to further disparage Somalia as “filthy, dirty, disgusting, ridden with crime.”
Republicans Introduce Bill For US To Leave NATO
Is there anyone still living that think these bastards are NOT NAZIS?
“NATO is a Cold War relic. We should withdraw from NATO and use that money to defend our own country, not socialist countries,” said Rep. Thomas Massie.
Listen up, Shit-fer-brains punk, NATO IS DEFENDING OUR COUNTRY AND FREDDOM! YOU ARE THE TRAITOR!
"I don't think it's possible find a more stupid individual than a Republican" — Blue4sure (comments)
Trump’s foreign policy vision: Make Europe white again
Trump's global "strategy" is grandiose, racist, and alarmingly dumb: Tyranny is cool, bro! But democracy sucks
State Dept Ordered To Stop Using “DEI” Typeface
Calibri? Been around forever! These shitbags are far more insane than anyone could ever imagine!
Arlington, Texas City Council Drops LGBTQ Protections
It's Tex-ass where the retarded racist Nazis run things. They live with the pigs.
"Nothing says we're committed to being inclusive and equitable more than gutting legislation that protects a vulnerable minority." — Gigi (comments)
Trump’s Xmas Message For Struggling Americans: Buy Fewer Dolls
Donald Trump still thinks he can con Americans out of knowing they are suffering under his economy.
I suppose he prefers real human underage dolls?
'Blew My Head Up': Bannon Melts Down As Germany Tries To Ban 'Repeat Of Nazism'
MAGA influencer Steve Bannon lashed out at the German government over a proposal to ban a right-wing political party to prevent a "repeat of Nazism."
Nazis have a way of reacting this way to extermination.
They whined the sameat Nuremberg as they were found gulty and sentenced to death.
How Trump Redesignates Non-Combatants As Worthy Of Killing
The U.S. Military has a system of strict regulations for when deadly force is legal...I say with a high degree of confidence the October strike that led to temporary detainment and repatriation of 2 survivors did not followed rules for handling UBs. There will be serious legal ramifications...
This is a confession of murder. Don't tell me it is not. You will be embaraasing yourself.
DC insider: It’s one thing to read about Trump's deterioration — and another to see it
"His fantastical claims have become more unhinged. This is especially troubling given that he is the oldest president ever to be sworn in and has a family history of Alzheimer’s."
Trump even seems to be confused about when he was president. And he keeps claiming that the Epstein files were a hoax created by his predecessors, even though the arrest and demise of Trump’s close friend Jeffrey Epstein happened during Trump’s own first term.
Paranoia and anger are common symptoms of dementia; so is a loss of impulse control. All have become cornerstones of Trump’s second term.
The denial of the Trump Crime Syndicaete has to stop!
Alarm as Trump admits to 3 cognitive tests monitored by room of doctors in late-night screed
MS NOW's Chris Hayes tweeted, "I guess the president just announced he recently took his latest in a series of cognitive tests, this one in front of a room full of medical personnel observing him?"
Roger Sollenberger, formerly of the Daily Beast, tweeted, "Wonder what kind of conversation we’d be having if everyone in America were forced to read every word of this post out loud, all the way through."
"TikTok News' John Aravosi commented, "This pretty much confirms Trump is having serious health problems. The first part of the tweet is a feint. The main purpose was to counter the rumors of his failing health. And mentioning that he had to go for three cognitive tests? What healthy senior has to go for three cognitive tests? I don’t think my parents ever went for one, and they lived to be 87 and 94. Everything Trump says is a lie. This is a confession."
Former Rep. Justin Amash (R-Michigan), a libertarian/conservative Never Trumper, posted, "If anyone else wrote something like this, it would be universally acknowledged that the person is mentally unstable."
Newly leaked memo targets 'anyone who isn’t a Trump supporter': investigator
Mental illness has this miscreant by the balls!!!
Trump admin files motion to strike Epstein files story from court documents
It's way more than obvious Trump is hiding a very perverse story he doesn't want anyone to see.
Garbage: Racist Shits 'R Us
...Despite outrage about his murders at sea, Dunk-tank Pete killed four more brown people, bragged about it, insisted Trump can kill "as he sees fit" and gave a speech with ominous shock-and-awe echoes declariring "narco-terrorists are the al-Qaida of our hemisphere (and) we will keep killing them." Then the most petty, hateful person on the planet - spite-revoking a pardon?! - giddily accepted a hideous, made-up, Happy Meal, savagely mocked FIFA Peace Prize and medal - the “Trump dance! the Village People! - to appease his no-Nobel ego because "if you show up with a tchotchke (and) give it to the three-year-old in the Oval Office, he will (be) happy." Gavin Newsom got the Kennedy Center Peace Prize: “AUDIENCE WAS AMAZING (CHAIRS NOT GREAT)...CROWD WENT WILD."The View gave out medals too: "You get a medal! And you get a medal!" Okay, all medaled up. Now can he go home?
Trump insists birthright citizenship only 'meant for the babies of slaves'
President Donald Trump insisted that the U.S. Supreme Court should revoke birthright citizenship because he said it was "meant for the babies of slaves."
That's only in the Land of the Happy Negro, you filthy racist bastard!
'Shuffling off this mortal coil': Analysis sees signs that Trump knows the end is near
President Donald Trump has been sending signals that his health is fading — and he's losing his grip on power, according to an analyst.
The 79-year-old president has been dozing off in public meetings and showing other signs of diminished health, including mysterious bruising on his hand and swollen ankles. Foreign policy analyst David Rothkopf told The Daily Beast Podcast that Trump seemed aware of his eventual demise.
“They actually are serious issues because they are evidence that Donald Trump is at the end of his story,” Rothkopf said. “They are signs to the world that this is not a vigorous person. This is not a person whose biography is about their future. It’s about their past, and everybody can see that in Washington.”
Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio are both trying to position themselves to succeed Trump in the White House, he said, as the president dozes off beside them.
“Marco Rubio is sitting there going, you know, ‘The president is the most vigorous, brilliant man ever,'" Rothkopf said, "and Trump’s like passed out next to him, you know?”
Rothkopf also highlighted the president's increasingly frequent moves to rename institutions and buildings after himself — such as the U.S. Institute of Peace and the Kennedy Center — as another indicator that Trump is thinking about his legacy as his life comes to a close.
“If you’re watching his Band-Aids and you’re watching his cankles, the number of things he wants to name after himself, I think, is a good indicator of how ill he thinks he is, because this is just him looking for some legacy,” Rothkopf said. “It’s just him saying, ‘Well, that could make me immortal.’ Because I think he realizes that he is shuffling off this mortal coil sooner rather than later.”
This Trump habit is a perfect reflection of the nation he's created: analyst
Sleeping of the job. And that job is defending our freedom!
"And so these things that we've seen have, you know, drawn blood. Donald Trump's down to a negative 12 net approval rating, which puts him on par at about three months after COVID in the middle of the George Floyd riots."
Trump must be removed at any cost!
Trump’s favored health plan has been tried — and it left millions buried in medical debt
"...Chino said patients with high deductibles are often instead slammed with a flood of huge medical bills that lead to debt and a cascade of other problems.
She and other researchers found in a study presented last year that cancer patients who had high-deductible health insurance were more likely to die than similar patients without that kind of coverage.
For her part, Monroe and her family were forced to move out of their house and into a 1,100-square-foot apartment.
She drained her savings. Her credit score sank. And her car was repossessed.
There have been other sacrifices, too. “When families get to have nice Christmases or get to go on spring break,” Monroe said, hers often does not.
She is thankful that her children are healthy. And she continues to have a job. But Monroe said she can’t imagine why anyone would want to double down on the high-deductible model for health care."
“We owe it to ourselves to do it a different way,” she said. “We can’t treat people like this.”
Sonia Sotomayor hits Elon Musk with 'quid pro quo' accusation
Denying reality can be a very dangerous thing to do.
Latest jobs report trips up Trump's A-plus economy brag
"U.S. job openings barely changed in October over the previous month as employers grappled with economic uncertainty.
The Labor Department released its report a month late due to the 43-day government shutdown that showed that employers posted 7.67 million openings in October, slightly up from 7.66 million in September, reported Reuters.
The Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) also showed that layoffs rose and the number of people quitting their jobs, which is seen as a sign of confidence in the labor market, dropped in October.
Jobs openings have dropped steadily since a record peak of 12.1 million in March 2022, following the Covid-19 lockdowns, but the job market has slowed down due to high interests rates set by the Federal Reserve in 2022 and 2023 to offset high inflation."
American Dystopia.
Moondoggle
Officially, America is supposed to land on the moon again in 2027—and Mars thereafter. Ask anyone inside NASA under Trump, and you will hear a far different story.
Retarded America.
Supreme Court Poised to Vastly Expand Presidential Power, Again
Depending on how the majority writes the opinion (its author will likely be Roberts, who has penned the bulk of the Court’s pro-Trump opinions on presidential power, including Trump v. U.S.), Slaughter will mark a terrible new milestone for our system of separated powers, and another major step toward making the president a king. As Sauer said on Monday, “the one with the power to remove is the one that they have to fear and obey.”
The Spirit of '76 is dead and buried. I pity our children. We have failed them.
“The Days of the United States Propping Up the Entire World Order Like Atlas Are Over.”
"The document is ghoulish, abhorrent, repetitious, and sometimes incoherent, but I found its honesty refreshing. The mask is torn off sanctimonious bullshit, tall tales about spreading democracy and caring about human rights. The US is “not grounded in traditional political idealism,” but by “America First.” (P.8) A bit of the usual boilerplate is here, but for the most part, the ideological cover is gone."
"Here are a few specifics from a document that, without explicitly saying so, recognizes that the US is a declining power and must accommodate that reality."
‘Donald Trump Is in Hell’: President’s ‘Greatest Triumph’ Soured by ‘Very Weird’ Ceremony
"This could be Donald Trump’s heaven, if only the world would cooperate. But instead everything he touches turns to brass. His pop turns to country; his Broadway turns to Christian rock; his disco turns to gospel. He is so close that he can almost taste it, but he will never get to taste it," she wrote. "Donald Trump is in hell. If only we weren’t trapped there with him."
The Billionaire Coup: How the Supreme Court and Corporate Money Captured America
Our elections, our media, even our justice system, are all owned by the few. The Powell Memo lit the match; Citizens United poured on the gasoline. The fire of corruption is now a national inferno
"With so little pushback to Hegseth’s murders in the Caribbean and ICE’s cruelty and violence that highlight Trump’s brutality, we’re watching the final fulfillment of a 50-year plan. Louis Powell laid it out in 1971, and every step along the way Republicans have followed it.
It was a plan to turn America over to the richest men and the largest corporations. It was a plan to replace democracy with oligarchy. A large handful of America’s richest people invested billions in this plan, and its tax breaks and fossil fuel subsidies have made them trillions.
As any advertising executive can tell you, with enough money and enough media — particularly if you are willing to lie — you can sell anybody pretty much anything.
You can even sell a nation a convicted felon, rapist, and apparent agent of America’s enemies."
Can't wait for "And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever." — Revelation 20:10
After forever what?
Glenn Beck's AI George Washington Boner Robot. Tabs, Tues., Dec. 9, 2025
"Zohran Mamdani isn’t even officially the mayor of New York yet, but he’s already leading by helping New Yorkers understand what to do in the face of Donald Trump’s immigration Nazis and terrorists.
The amoral garbage that works at the Rupert Murdoch corporation is responding to that by doing that incestuous thing it does where it uses its own organs to create 'controversy,” and then the same organs report on said 'controversy,' the one they themselves created, over Mamdani’s message. New York Governor Kathy Hochul’s response to that? Fuck off, Mamdani’s message is great. [New York Post]
They’re using the same torture techniques — or did at 'Alligator Alcatraz' — that they’ve used at CIA black sites, because this isn’t about immigration, this is about white supremacy, terrorism and Nazism. [Spencer Ackerman]
And have you heard they’re starting to pull people out of citizenship ceremonies because they’re not from the “right” countries? Because they’re fucking white supremacists and Nazis. [GBH]
Speaking of Nazis, sounds like Stephen Miller is the one leading the charge to get Kristi Noem shitcanned from DHS. Maybe her Glamour Shots are getting in the way of moving along the road toward whatever his Final Solution is, dunno. [MS NOW]
Speaking of Stephen Miller, here is his anal wart of a wife whining to Sean Hannity that Ilhan Omar is trying to get Stephen KILLED when she accurately talks about how much he sounds like a Nazi...."
Donald Trump is the sleepy president of an exhausted country
The president's shock-and-awe strategy has left the American people tired, distracted and compliant
America has been asleep for years!
Hannity: Trump’s Pro-Hitler Supporters Are “So Insane”
"Oh please, give me a break. The rats are finally recognizing Trump is a lame duck and trying to jump off a sinking ship. We should poke holes in their life boat by pointing out they are all nazis." -- Jamie Doe comments)
Trump: WH To Host “Eight Or Nine” UFC Cage Matches
Depraved! Just more proof WE ARE ROME!
Duffy: $1B Grant To Fund Airport “Workout Areas”
Insanity is America now. What dispicable, worhtless idiots.
"That’s as useful as teats on a Boar Hog- Do these morons take stupid pills everyday" — Dwight Williamson (comments)
"yes, Dwight, they do" — hudson11 (comments)
They study how to fail every day!
Nuremberg: Must See Movie For Every American
'Nuremberg' is an outstanding movie starring Russell Crowe, Patrick Shannon, and Rami Malek. Every American needs to see this film.
"At one point, a character tells us that it 'happened here' because 'the people made it happen, because they didn’t stand up until it was too late.'" Sound familiar?
Justice awaits all Trumpers.
'I didn't say that!' Trump erupts at reporter who confronted him over broken promise
“You are an obnoxious reporter in the whole place,” Trump said, attacking Scott. “Let me just tell you, you are an obnoxious, a terrible, actually a terrible reporter, and it’s always the same thing with you.”
Said the obnxious puke! The disgrace of all humanity!
"...“Let me just tell you, you are an obnoxious, a terrible, actually a terrible president, and it’s always the same thing with you.” — TerryW (comments)
"...If I had been the next reporter called upon, I would have repeated the exact same question and added, "You are obnoxious, a terrible president, and it's always lies from you." — Robert Funke (comments)
"He cannot leave this earth too soon." — hohoq (comments)
Somali Americans confront Trump’s attacks by trolling MAGA
Turning hate into humor is becoming a strategy of resistance
Wish I'd though of that tactic!
Ticket sales plummet at Kennedy Center amid Trump’s takeover: ‘Costs are huge!’
ROTFLMAO!
Trump Calls Kennedy Center Audience “Horrible People”
He has zero room to say anyone is "horrible" after the shit he's done to all of us!
"Fuck off and die." — Ed B (comments)
Junior Eggs On Cultists To Call Tim Walz “Retarded”
He can use the term without feeling guilty himself.
"I wouldn't be pointing fingers if I were you, Fredo." -- Judas Peckerwood (comments)
Cruz Accuses Tucker Carlson Of Performing “Fellatio”
Ya don't say. Look who's talking! LMAO!
"These so called Christian conservatives sure do have a fixation on penises." — K S (comments)
Trump’s Own Mortgages Fit His Claims Of Criminality
The criminal the suckers put in charge!
"All his accusations are admissions." — JT (comments)
DOJ Defies Court’s Disqualifications Of Top Prosecutors
Naked corruption in Trump government--ignoring the law!
"And thus everything she does is invalid.
So much winning." — JackFknTwist (comments)
EXCLUSIVE: Hegseth/Navy Delete Boat Attack Survivor Video
But less than two hours later, the order came down for that footage to be deleted. All of it. Our anonymous source states after much deliberation and conferring with JAG, the order was confirmed...
Just like a killer always does!
"Nazi see, Nazi be, Nazi do.
American media better get its pants on before the whole planet catches fire because who can say they did Nazi this coming?…and here it is, plain as the flames of burning boats full of mass murdered civilians in international waters." -- Fred Sandusky (comments)
Unconscionable?
"...Is it even possible to live 82 years without seeing and hearing a lot of unconscionable shit being said and done?
Probably not, but if there’s a medium level of unconscionable shit in an average lifetime, it sure seems that we’re exceeding tolerable limits of it now as we murder people indiscriminately and then excuse it by saying we’re at war. We’re not. Congress hasn’t sanctioned a war against Venezuela, and we haven't been told convincingly these people we've been killing so casually were enemy combatants. We’ve been killing unarmed people in small boats since September, but we’ve not yet seen a molecule of proof that they were running drugs in those boats. We don’t know their names, and we don’t even know for absolute sure if they’re from Venezuela. If Pentagon Pete knows, he’s not saying. He's alleging, which is not the same thing at all.
But having our government making us all accomplices to murder is not particularly new. It’s just how ballsy these monsters have become when it comes to being bad. They’re either sloppier with their crimes, or just indifferent to what Americans might think about what they’re doing...."
AI Surveillance Startup Caught Using Sweatshop Workers to Monitor US Residents
What does it take to become the most successful AI surveillance company in 2025? If you’re anything like Flock, the startup selling automatic license plate readers and facial recognition tech to cops, you don’t really need much AI at all — just an army of sweatshop workers in the global south.
Bombshell new reporting from 404 Media found that Flock, which has its cameras in thousands of US communities, has been outsourcing its AI to gig workers located in the Philippines.
After accessing a cache of exposed data, 404 found documents related to annotating Flock footage, a process sometimes called 'AI training.' Workers were tasked with jobs include categorizing vehicles by color, make, and model, transcribing license plates, and labeling various audio clips from car wrecks.
In US towns and cities, Flock cameras maintained by local businesses and municipal agencies form centralized surveillance networks for local police. They constantly scan for car license plates, as well as pedestrians, who are categorized based on their clothing, and possibly by factors like gender and race.
In a growing number of cases, local police are using Flock to help Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents surveil minority communities...."
Ed Dept To Hundreds Of Fired Workers: Come Back Temporarily To Catch Up Backlog Of Complaint Cases
I can hear the laughing now!
Do it all yourself, loser!
Homan Defends Trump Calling Somalis “Garbage”
Exactly what you would expect from a "Rudolf Diels" wannabe.
This won't end well for the piece of trash.
'Dangerous' new document exposes Trump’s 'unhinged' world view: analysis
In a newly released 33-page document called "the National Security Strategy of the United States of America," the Trump Administration details its foreign policy objectives — including its views on Europe, which Trump officials claim is in danger of "civilization erasure."
Salon's Andrew O'Hehir analyzes the document in an article published on December 7, attacking the Trump White House's arguments as an "unhinged" and deeply racist blueprint for "making Europe white again."
The demented sickneess!
$10M Medicaid Scandal Blows Up In DeSantis’s Face
Florida criminals getting exposed and charged.
Trump Attacks “Stupid And Nasty” CNN Journalist
Piss on your goddamn fucking "Ballroom" garbage!
"He hates her because he is her." — Clown Dancer (comments)
"There hasn't been as blurry a boundary between mother and son since 'Psycho.' -- teeveedub (comments)
Brother, this photo says a lot about the turd boy.
"Projection President Childfucker strikes again!" — Eli Bradley (comments)
US Threatens To Leave NATO After EU Fines X $140M
The U.S. is "pussified" due to the racist Nazis in Trump's control.
He's in line with Putin. Trump is no American!
"So he's put tariffs on everybody, shake downs some, insults the others, betrays our allies and is a Putin puppet....
But how dare they hold an "American" business aka trump donor, violating laws accountable?
They plan on leaving Nato and any excuse will do." — Mickey (comments)
"The oligarchic king has ruled, but his day is coming sooner than he might think." — unsavedheathen (comments)
ICE Goons Pepper-Spray And Push Around Rep. Adelita Grijalva
This is Trump's America.
It is not his forever!
Supreme Court is giving 'capricious' Trump a pass they would never give a Democrat: NYT
What? Did someone expect treasonist fascists to do anything else?
'I'm fixing it!' Trump melts down on Fox and Friends over 'jerk' guest making him look bad
The turd means he's rigging it!
"The entire trump regime should be a messy spot near the Mall of America" — Oppressed American (comments)
Kristi Noem fesses up to role in defying court order as judge weighs jail proceedings
Throw the stink in jail!
RFK Jr.’s vaccine overhaul puts pregnant women and children at risk
A vaccine advisory panel on Friday voted to end its recommendation that kids receive hepatitis B vaccine at birth
Motherfucking lunatic!
COPS: Arkansas Anti-LGBTQ Activist Staged Daughter’s Kidnapping In Order To “Teach Her A Lesson”
Any questions on the depraved state of mind these worthless scumbags are?
Another "Christianist" sicko!
WH Threatens To Move World Cup From Blue Cities
This is what we get when we put 4-year olds in charge of ourgovernment!
Crowley is a Project 2025 contributor
Christianist asshole showing Trump's stupidity!
"Go right ahead -- I'm sure that deep red metropolises like East Elkscrotum Idaho and South Pigsanus Arkansas have all the infrastructure in place to host World Cup matches." — Judas Peckerwood (comments)
Video They Don’t Want You To See—A Woman Exposing The Truth
She then gave us the most personal moment of the show, her battle with long COVID...we had to discuss the absolute and brutal absurdity of American health care, which is forcing her husband out of retirement to keep her alive.
Of Course Trump Just Renamed The US Institute Of Peace After Himself
What a shocker
The good news is aa soon as the piece of shit noron is dead, all these will be removed.
Dan Bongino Must Be So Sad: Pipe Bomb Suspect Is A Trump Fan
Cry it out, Dan. Cry it out.
Without evidence, RFK Jr.’s vaccine panel tosses hep B vaccine recommendation
The dumbest assholes that ever disgraced our government and we are permitting it!
"Federal vaccine advisors hand-selected by anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have voted to eliminate a recommendation that all babies be vaccinated against hepatitis B on the day of birth. The decision was made with no evidence of harm from that dose and no evidence of any benefit from the delay.
Public health experts, medical experts, and even some members of the panel decried the vote, which studies and historical data indicate will lead to more infections in babies that, in turn, will lead to more cases of chronic liver disease, liver cancer, and premature death.
“I will just say we have heard ‘do no harm’ is a moral imperative. We are doing harm by changing this [recommendation],” Cody Meissner, a pediatrician and voting member of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), said as he voted against the change.
None dare call it treason!
Palantir CEO Says Legalizing War Crimes Would Be Good for Business
The Anti-Christ at work! Satan's right-hand man!
Florida Man Accused Of Trying To Run Over LGBTQ Jogging Group Claims So-Called “Gay Panic Defense”
"According to the probable cause affidavit, the suspect — 43-year-old Ihab Mustafa El Mahmoud — confessed to driving toward the runners and told detectives he became “offended and enraged” after being approached by a male member of the group. He claimed he believed the man was 'making sexual advances toward him' and said he found the perceived interaction disrespectful."
Don't be grabbing your crotch around Ihab. And just why hasn't ICE picked him up?
"He claimed he believed the man was “making sexual advances toward him” and said he found the perceived interaction disrespectful
Let's pretend it's true and one of the guys did make a pass at him. Women have dealt with this forever and somehow manage to not use their vehicles to attempt to kill the pigs that harass them." — DaddySnark (comments)
"I was just thinking that if this gay panic defense is used then women should be able to kill any men that come onto them without consent. Fair's fair right?" — Ahoke (comments)
"No less an authority than Doug Wilson, the ultra-Christian fascist thug pastor from Moscow Idaho says that "women are the people that people come out of""
How could anyone top that level of misogyny??"
And it's all caused by the religous hate that was taught to them. Fuck him and his kind.
Bondi Orders FBI To Investigate “Extremist” Antifa
This is all about making something that doesn't exist become a reality by accusation and to punish.
Typical of a Totalitarian dictator.
The Malignant Incompetence of Kash Patel
"According to a new report created by a group of former and current FBI special agents about the first six months of Kash Patel’s tenure as FBI Director, three of the incidents below are real; I made up the other three. Try to guess which is which:...
The fact that that quiz was harder than it should’ve been speaks to Patel’s toxic blend of arrogance, vanity, and outright incompetence. He’s humiliating himself, and he’s taking the FBI down with him....
Patel’s ineptitude springs largely from his jaw-dropping lack of qualifications. Consider, for example, the contrast with two of his semi-recent predecessors as FBI director, James Comey and Robert Mueller. Whatever his many faults, Comey spent more than two decades at the Justice Department as an elite organized-crime and terrorism prosecutor; eventually became the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York and then the deputy attorney general; and was nominated to be FBI director by Barack Obama in 2013 and confirmed 93-1 in the Senate. Mueller fought as a Marine for three years in Vietnam; he was shot in the leg but chose to return to battle and later received the Purple Heart and Bronze Star. Mueller then became a career prosecutor and was eventually nominated to leadership positions in the Justice Department by four consecutive presidents — two Republicans and two Democrats — and confirmed unanimously by the Senate every time."
Marco Rubio Is More Dangerous Than Pete Hegseth
"...Whatever it is, Rubio is delighting in it. And so is his base: Florida Republicans, especially those in the Miami area, who are eager for the U.S. to topple Maduro. Venezuelan emigres in Florida revile his regime in the way Cuban emigres reviled Fidel Castro and hoped desperately the U.S. would overthrow him. For Rubio, all of this is very political and personal — and he’s got Trump onboard because he’s convinced, contrary to actual evidence, that crushing Venezuela is about winning the “War on Drugs.” Fentanyl is not manufactured in the country, and there’s no national-security threat posed to the U.S. One can’t even pretend there are weapons of mass destruction hidden in Caracas. Rubio doesn’t care, though, and Trump seems excited for a distraction. His approval ratings are dismal, and the Epstein files drama won’t quite abate. Why not a war? Or at least something that looks like one?
This was always one of the major dangers of Trump — that he’d end up empowering the worst and most destructive elements of the Republican Party. Rubio is a true believer. And he’d be happy to convince Trump that regime change in Venezuela is worthwhile. We’ll see if the president bites. Deposing Maduro and installing a new president could be bloodier than Iraq. If American soldiers ever deployed to Venezuela, they would face a range of sophisticated armed actors: the Colombian-Venezuelan National Liberation Army and FARC are estimated to number in the thousands across both countries. Various transnational gangs, including Tren de Aragua, and local paramilitaries are heavily armed. Venezuela’s armed forces aren’t disappearing, either...."
Face it: Any Nazi is dangerous!
What a Recorded Interview Between Police and Preachers Reveals About How a Minnesota Church Handled Sexual Abuse
There were so many details in the women’s reports to law enforcement that were hard for me to read. That they were just little girls when it happened. That a man many knew as the “fun uncle” had touched them sexually under their skirts and tops. And that it happened in church or while swimming at the lake or during games of hide-and-seek. They were as young as 5 years old, according to the police reports. Some could even remember what they were wearing when it happened: a fluffy multicolored skirt; a pair of jeans with purple flowers on them.
But by the time my co-reporter from the Minnesota Star Tribune, Andy Mannix, and I got those accounts — spanning from the early 1990s to the 2010s — the girls’ abuser, Clint Massie, had already pleaded guilty to four counts of felony sexual conduct with victims under 13. In March of this year, he began a 7 1/2 year prison sentence. Arguably, the case was over.
But we kept hearing from the victims and alleged victims, former church members, investigators and prosecutors that the outcome had fallen far short of true accountability. Massie, they told us, was a symptom of a much larger problem within the Old Apostolic Lutheran Church, or OALC, which he and his victims attended. They told us the leaders of this little-known faith tradition pressured victims to forgive Massie, then to forget about the abuse and never speak of it again. In some cases, these “forgiveness sessions” took place between the children and Massie; one girl described the terror she felt being hugged by Massie as her father and a preacher looked on.
These sessions allowed Massie to evade arrest and prosecution for years. Even after the victims came forward to law enforcement as adults, attempts to silence them continued, according to the prosecutor who charged the case.
“This was like a fucking machine,” said assistant St. Louis County attorney Mike Ryan, “that was basically trying to roll over these girls.”
'Will Trump's justices care? Supreme Court's 'unexpected' ruling could echo Project 2025
2 + 2 = 5.
If Texas measles outbreak is still spreading, U.S. could lose measles-free status, scientists say
One study estimates that an outbreak the size of the one in West Texas earlier this year costs about $12.6 million.
Federal lawsuits challenging immigration detention flood Texas
The wave of legal challenges is in response to the Trump administration’s intensified immigration enforcement and its new policy expanding mandatory detention for undocumented immigrants.
DOJ Plans to End Sexual Violence Protections for Incarcerated LGBTQIA+ People
The Trump/MAGAt death camps will be awaiting them.
Poll: Most on ACA Exchange Can’t Afford Even Modest Increases in Health Costs
"A new survey of Americans currently enrolled in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace finds that most would not be able to afford even modest increases in costs. The poll comes as tax credits intended to help some on the program afford their health expenses are just weeks away from expiring...."
The Trump Nazi Regime doesn't care if you die! In fact, please die so you won't cost us a dime!
Laissez Les Bon Temps F*CK ICE. Tabs, Fri., Dec. 5, 2025
"We may have mentioned this already, but Donald Trump’s ICE terrorists have invaded New Orleans. Just in time for us to be in town with our friends, eating at various restaurants and like such as. Hooray.
So let’s do tabs!
The Bulwark’s Tim Miller, who lives in New Orleans, snapped this picture of the ICE Gestapo being the ICE Gestapo.
On top of coward loser motherfuckers, we can add “fat, illiterate and violent.” Not our words, so don’t send the woke police officers to our door! A Daily Mail investigation — what is with right-wing rags eviscerating the Trump dipshits lately? — has found that Kristi Noem’s big campaign to hire 10,000 new pigfuck Nazis for ICE has had predictable results.
An exhaustive Daily Mail investigation has exposed how Immigration and Customs Enforcement has lowered standards so dramatically that the new cohort now includes recent high school graduates and applicants who can ‘barely read or write’ as well as those who lack basic physical fitness and even have pending criminal charges. […]
‘We have people failing open-book tests and we have folks that can barely read or write English,’ one Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official told the Daily Mail.
‘We even had a 469-lb man sent to the academy whose own doctor certified him not at all fit for any physical activity.’ […]
Sources say another male recruit, after hitting the bars, was caught barging into a female dorm and hitting on the occupants. Another groped a woman in class.
‘It wasn’t like, “oops, I touched your boob”,’ one source said. ‘Nope, he went full on to predator mode while he was doing the defensive tactics training.’
Sorry, that just sounds like ICE to us. [Daily Mail]
Maybe that’s why they’ve got the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries doing ICE arrests. So if you see a Louisiana wildlife ranger doing ICE arrests, make sure you yell things about how they probably like to fuck alligators, fucking gross creeps, ooh, I bet your first girlfriend was an alligator, I bet she called you her little swamp thing. You know, whatever the Lord tells you to say to them. [Wired]
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
Famous Long Ago, Slightly and Briefly: A Mid-life Intro to How Things Work
And, of course, we've only grown more stupid since the time Jaime tells us of our stupidity then!
Kushner, Ukraine, Saudi Arabia: The Conflict-of-Interest Story Everyone’s Ignoring
If a Ukraine proposal was shaped to benefit a foreign power tied to Kushner’s money, that’s not diplomacy: it’s corruption.
“Point 23 of the peace plan that Kushner helped draft fulfills Saudi’s policy objective: ‘Russia will not prevent Ukraine from using the Dnieper River for commercial activities, and agreements will be reached on the free transport of grain across the Black Sea.’”
Which should have provoked a collective “What the hell?!??” across the planet and ring alarm bells in newsrooms from Tokyo to Topeka to Tallinn but has instead been largely met with a shrug.
“Of course,” politicians and the press seem to be saying, “it’s the Trump family. What did you expect?”
And, indeed, the corruption and self-dealing of the Trumps is breathtakingly world-class, run at a scale beyond anything ever seen in America.
Supreme Court just signaled GOP's last-minute gambit against Gavin Newsom will fail
Wipe out Nazi Tex-ass!
A desperate Trump puts his racism on full display
The president’s attacks on Somali-Americans are the latest sign he is failing — and he knows it
May the pigs eat his remains.
DOJ Urges Judge To Lock Up Rioter Pardoned By Trump
And put Trump in the same cell with him!
All MAGAts are traitors!
The Blaze Retracts Story Falsely Naming Pipe Bomber
Yet another Trump cover-up. Crime Inc.
"So, were Anna Paulina Luna, Ed Martin, and Tulsi Gabbard the sources for The Blaze report? Did they re-Twat The Blaze report after they leaked it to be reported?" — clay (comments)
European Union Fines X €120 Million For “Deception”
We can only hope they put this deplorable monster out of business.
But it must be billions not millions!
Bongino: “I Was Paid” To Spread Pipe Bomber Lies
Same goes for all of Trump's motherfucking Nazis!
Park Service Ends Free Admission On MLK Day And Juneteenth, Adds Free Admission On Trump’s Birthday
These jerkoffs have no concept of the word "shame." The racist bastards are a human virus that must m wiped out!
I see they used a photo of a brainless moron stooge!
They want to return to slavery. Then make them the slaves and let them get a dose of it!
More evidence we live in the Land of the Happy Negro!
"Simply a racist fucking loser president." — Dwight Williamson (comments)
CNN host grills GOP Senate intel chair for evidence on boat strike justification
Asked what "threat" the two men posed if they didn't have a radio, Cotton told CNN's John Berman, "Well, John, the threat they pose is the threat that the boat that was destroyed yesterday posed and that all of these other boats posed. They're running drugs in high volumes into the United States that have killed hundreds of Arkansans in recent years and hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of Americans."
Why would we take the sleaze ball's words for this? No reason in the universe. This man is an accomp;;ice to murder.
"That doesn't mean they weren't doing so. It doesn't mean they weren't trying to access communications equipment on the boat, or that they didn't have any of their drug trafficking pals trying to come pick them up because they were just off the waters or just off the coast of Venezuela. And that's a known area for drug cartels."
There is no proof because you killed any witness left alive. He's a damned liar! One of these days, Tom, you will be brought to Justice!
Ex-GOP senator offers two words to predict when Republicans will finally break from Trump
“Because these guys care about their seats and about their reelections,” he elaborated. “And if they see that they don't have a primary challenger by a date certain next year, 2026, they can start saying what they actually think about what [conservative columnist] George Will calls the ‘moral slum’ of this administration.”
That's if we can survive that long.
Bacon: Hegseth’s Exoneration Claim Is “Total Baloney”
But what about that part that's total Bullshit?
“I have better words for it, but you can’t say it on TV. I read the report and what I saw what had happened was wrong, but the report makes clear that the secretary put sensitive information that would ordinarily be classified.”
The Office of Inspector General’s report found Hegseth jeopardized troop safety and violated department policy by using Signal. Bacon said Hegseth’s “unclassified phone is a top target.”
Cotton: The Drug Boat Strike Survivors Needed To Die
One of these days, Tom. One of these ole lonesome days.
Because - no witnesses!
"What if one of them was a pregnant woman with a fetus?" — Prost (comments)
"Pro-Life is their cute way of saying Forced Birth. Even if it kills the pregnant woman." — Steverino (comments)
"OMG. They was all smuggling in narcoterrorist anchor babies to kill millions of Americans. Prayze Jeziz for holy abortion missiles!!! -- Stogiebear (comments)
"These old white men are awfully cavalier with their blood lust when it comes to killing brown people." — April the unperson (comments)
"We literally tried and put to firing squad Nazis for this exact crime and they even had a reason...not wanting the wreckage to give their U-boat's presence away." — AvaeMotionGum (comments)
"The nazis believed that the Jews were dangerous to Germany, that they were killing children and trying to subjegate the German people. That made killing them legitamate and neccessary in their worldview. This arsehole is going down the same rabbit hole." — Didi the Daring (comments)
Dems Rage Over Kickback For Corporate Trump Donors
Just how much are we gonna allow the filthy fucking fascist thieves to rob from us?
The Trump suckers deserve to starve and live in the streets.
"The USA is now a Kleptocracy.
Kleptocracy is a government where leaders use political power to enrich themselves at the expense of the citizens. This is achieved through systematic corruption, such as embezzling public funds or creating policies that benefit a small, powerful elite. Citizens often suffer while leaders live luxuriously, and the system is maintained through ongoing corruption, bribery, and a lack of accountability." — Cel (comments)
Federal Grand Jury Declines To Re-Indict New York AG
The Nazis will keep after her until they get their revenge. Fuck 'em!
"Letitia James TOTALLY EXONERATED
Cankles crashing with 36% approval." — Sam_Handwich (comments)
"Ha-ha. Would you like to try for triple jeopardy about bullshit, Fascists?" — Friday (comments)
And Fuck the traitor, Trump!
DOJ Orders Prisons To Drop LGBTQ Safety Standards
Are they starting to build their Trump death camps yet?
SCOTUS Rules Texas Can Use Gerrymandered Map
Kagan, Sotomayor and Jackson dissent. The only honest judges on the fake Trump court.
What else would those crooks do?
Vote the scum out of Tex-ass!
'Bad sign': Supreme Court under fire for 'failing the country' with latest order
"Legal experts bashed the Supreme Court's unsigned order on Thursday that allows Texas to use an election map that significantly favors President Donald Trump and the Republican Party."
Get rid of these rats — for good!
Blistering dissent warns of 'serious consequences' as Supreme Court allows Texas maps
"The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that Texas can use the new election map its Republican-controlled legislature drew during a special session during the 2026 midterm. The new map is designed to eliminate five Democrat-controlled districts, but a lower court ruled that the map was a racial gerrymander, which violates the 14th and 15th Amendments of the Constitution."
Why do you think these moral deviants would support our Constitution?
JD Vance Shows His Racist Ass To The World
The Vice President blamed the housing crisis on 'illegals.' They blame all their problems on immigrants.
It is impossible to shove that shit back in a dumb ass!
'Hell's Frozen Over': House GOPers Join AOC To Force Vote On Stock Trading Ban
Imagine that.
Overreach does it everytime!
Fox host admits layoffs under Trump at highest point in decades
"Job cuts surpassed one million – the highest October total since 2003," Bartiromo said. "Companies cite cost-cutting AI in October. John, this is exactly what I asked the president about."
"That's the problem. Not only were announced layoffs ... the highest level since 2020 — that's a recession year — but announced hirings are also down considerably," said Lonski, who is the former chief economist at Moody's Investors Service. "That's not a good mix. And you have to worry about jobs growth. If you don't start growing payrolls, eventually that's going to hurt the growth of consumer incomes and, in turn, consumer spending will suffer."
Is Viral Propaganda How the Trump Administration Normalizes Cruelty?
A government that celebrates cruelty, weaponizes culture, and mocks due process is telling you exactly what it plans to become
"The Trump White House just showed us something every American should find chilling, no matter what music they listen to or what party they vote for.
They took a video of aggressive ICE arrests, slapped Sabrina Carpenter’s song on top of it, and posted it like it was a victory lap. Then, when Carpenter objected and said the video was “evil and disgusting” and told them not to use her music to benefit an “inhumane agenda,” the White House hit back with a statement that sounded like it came from a playground bully, not the seat of American government.
They didn’t debate her point. They didn’t defend policy with facts. They went straight to dehumanization and insult, calling people “illegal murderers, rapists, and pedophiles,” and saying anyone who defends them must be “stupid” or “slow.”
That’s not just ugly: it’s a warning.
Because the biggest story here is not a celebrity clapback; it’s that the White House is using the power of the state to turn human beings into a violence-normalizing punchline, and using America’s culture as a weapon to spread it.
This is what rising authoritarianism looks like in the age of social media....
"If we let this become normal, we will — one day soon — no longer recognize our country.
This is the moment to draw a line."
CDC About To Kill Lifesaving Hep B Vaccine For Newborns, Puritan Idiots Rejoice
May all of these killers die by midnight!
Hahahaha, Nancy Mace is thinking about making like MTG and resigning from Congress early? Hate to hear that. [New York Times]
Oh, they are going to try to indict Letitia James again. We are sure their second attempt will be just as competent as the first one. [MS NOW]
LOL, Donald Trump is still very desperate to believe that he has ended wars and will end wars and one day (one day!) the Nobel Committee will see him as the big peace guy he really is! So we guess that’s why he’s forcing them to put his name on the building at the Institute of Peace. Fucking loser. [Washington Post]
Like any good dementia patient, Donald Trump is excited when he masters A Thing, and he fixates on it — like identifying camel in that dementia test! — so watch this video of Trump showing off his ability to pronounce “Buttigieg,” and understand that this is not the first time he’s done this in the last 72 hours.
Ooh, they should put Boot-Edge-Edge on the dementia test!
“Person, woman, boot, edge, edge …”
And at the intersection of dementia and Hitler, Trump went on yet another dementia Hitler rant about Minneapolis and Somalians and Ilhan Omar. It appears that, much like with Portland, somebody on his team has elder abused him into thinking Minneapolis is a hellhole and a warzone, and not one of the single coolest and most beautiful cities in the country. [JoeMyGod]
Here is Trump saying we need immigrants who want to “kiss our country goodnight.” Because that’s what a person whose brain works says out loud with their mouth. Anyway, yes, that was part of today’s racist rant. Just breathtaking, the dementia, the Hitler, the dementia, the Hitler.
Shocker: Trump's Still A Racist (Somali-Americans In Minnesota Edition
Donald Trump slept through another of his weird “Cabinet meetings” Tuesday. His appointees praised his wisdom, manliness, and godlike control of the weather — yes, Kristi Noem thanked him for having “kept the hurricanes away, we appreciate that.” She also said he had “saved hundreds of millions of lives with the cocaine you’ve blown up in the Caribbean,” so if you are an American who is alive today, be sure to thank him. Marco Rubio posted a video of himself praising Great Leader for bringing peace in Ukraine, although that hasn’t actually happened and Great Leader appeared to sleep through the flattery.
But Trump woke up at the end of the knob-slobbering, and he decided he needed to say something very, very racist. If nothing else, it might briefly change the subject from his boat murder campaign, which itself briefly changed the subject from the Epstein files. So he launched into a racist rant against Minnesota’s Somali immigrants, saying they don’t belong in America at all because, well, they just aren’t quite fully human like we are. Trump started by attacking Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and US Rep. Ilhan Omar, and it only got uglier and uglier as he went on. Here’s the video if you can stomach it; feel free to skip most of it and fast forward to Omar’s response at 2:45.
It’s quite possibly the most openly racist shit any US president has ever been caught saying on camera, in the White House or elsewhere. We honestly can’t recall any other examples that come close. Maybe he’ll get a prize. He loves prizes.
Trump called Rep. Omar and Somali Americans "garbage," insisted they 'contribute nothing' to Minnesota and America, and dreamed angrily of an America without any of those people in it at all.
“I don’t want ‘em in our country. I’ll be honest with you, OK. Somebody will say, ‘Oh, that’s not politically correct.’ I don’t care. I don’t want ‘em in our country. Their country is no good for a reason. Their country stinks, and we don’t want them in our country.
Trump didn’t openly call African people subhuman, but you got the point. Somalia suffers from poverty and decades of civil war because Somalis are simply bad people, he believes, not because of anything else. Colonialism never happened, and besides, geopolitics, great power conflicts, and economics are for white countries only....
"Christ. Let this be a lesson to you: If you’re going to run a massive fraud scheme, make sure some of the proceeds go into Trump cryptocurrency so you’ll get a pardon."
The Shit Pile Racist that talks can think what he wants. BUT HE CONNOT CONTINUE TO REPRESENT THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS OUR PRESIDENT!
Feds forcibly yank woman in medical scrubs from car as she screams she's a US citizen
"Federal authorities conducting immigration enforcement in Florida were seen pulling a woman wearing medical scrubs from her vehicle as she shouted that she was a U.S. citizen.
In a video captured by David Goodhue of The Miami Herald on Wednesday, agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Customs and Border Patrol, and U.S Border Patrol could be seen forcing the woman to the ground, where she was handcuffed. The incident reportedly occurred in Key Largo."
"I'm a U.S. citizen, please help me!" the woman yelled. "This is unfair. Why are you doing this to me?"
Because they are Nazi scum Gestapo. Only good for one thing!
"It’s only matter of time before these ICE thugs begin grabbing women from cars and homes and the street and sexually assault them. TrumpStein has given them a free pass." — Paul Kemnitzer (comments)
"Republican Christo-Fascist storm troopers and domestic terrorists, that's exactly what ICE really is. Anyone that works for them is human scum and deserve to be jailed for life. I'm just really surprised that many of them haven't been shot down yet, afterall, they are obese, slow, dimwitted and their little vests doesn't cover their entire Orca sized bodies. There are over 400 million guns in the hands of citizens, so it will get real ugly for these bastards when the public finally decides it has had enough terrorism from these "christian" pricks." — kimn8r (comments)
"Every one of those jackbooted thugs should be in prison. I cannot believe that this is happening in the US. I also can't believe that it has already been allowed to go on this long. This has become a shithole country." — Lana (comments)
"I would love to see the asshole in chief, Trump, be pulled out of a car, thrown on the ground, handcuffed and locked up forever. Better yet put Trump on a boat in Caribbean, alone, which gets mistaken for drug carrying and get blown up with no survivors. That would seem more like karma." — Poladydi (comments)
There WILL be a reckoning with these shit piles.
Eventually Helter Skelter will come down on these demons from hell! Think of it!
New York Times Sues Pentagon Over Press Restrictions
"The New York Times sued the Pentagon on Thursday, arguing that the Defense Department infringed on the constitutional rights of its journalists by imposing a set of new restrictions on reporting about the military."
"On Tuesday, the Pentagon held its first briefing before a new “press corps” made up of far-right extremists, QAnon nutbags, and social media influencers."
The Nazis are running our Pentagon? How fucking shit low can America get?
Trump Pardons Media Mogul Indicted By His Own DOJ
This is quite a racket he's working!
He arrests people, puts them in jail, then gets paid to pardon them!
"I deal with a number of people who only get their information from Fox News, or sometimes CNN. Don’t ask why, it doesn’t matter.
What I can tell you is that they are all aware we are bombing fishing boats in international waters to stop the flow drugs, and they have different views on that.
What none of them know, is that Trump just pardoned the former President of Honduras for trafficking 400 tons of cocaine here." — AreYouPreparedToGoToCourt (comments)
That’s how bifurcated awareness is. And there isn’t a chance in hell they will ever hear about this one.
The biggest criminal the U.S. has ever seen!
Trump Claims “Executive Privilege” In January 6 Lawsuit
"Executive privilege about something that was a hoax and also orchestrated by democrats?" --DaddySmark
"Lying Nazi traitor scumbag." — JT (comments)
NONE for hypocrite criminal racist Nazi bastards.
Trump: People On Drug Boats Have “Killed Millions”
FACT CHECK: “Provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicates there were an estimated 80,391 drug overdose deaths in the United States during the full calendar year 2024. This figure represents a significant decline of nearly 27% compared to the 110,037 deaths recorded in 2023.”
"Trump has killed more people than those on the fishing boats...Launch a drone strike on him and make it a triple tap." — Thewolflam (comments)>
Now, where are my Tinker Toys? Filthy They lying murderer!
MAGA To Trump: Use The Military To Free Tina Peters
"The fact is Tina Peters brought her fate onto herself.
Tina was given every opportunity to wiggle out of these charges and she could have, but instead, she doubled down, made no apologies, and used every opportunity to deny the facts to justify breaking the laws of Colorado.
The good people of Colorado has determined Tina Peters broke the laws of the state of Colorado and a state court indicted her, tried her in a court of law, and convicted her of serious wrong doings.
Tina Peters made her own bed and it is time for her to shut up and lie in it." — Richard B (coments)
They will gun down the Nazis like the mad dogs they are. Bring it!
The hypocrite swine says screw states rights, after all!
REPORT: Amazon To Sever Partnership With USPS
One of the problems with having a dictatorship.
"And in the end, America was killed by its own insatiable greed and worship of the almighty dollar. Fitting."— Phi da Bern (comments)
Former Trump SpokesPuppet Spreads Lies About Inflation Rates
"It's one of their favorite lies to spread on Fox not 'news.' Ignore the damage to the economy from Trump's first term Biden had to clean up, and then pretend inflation rates hadn't come way down again by the time Trump resumed office."
"Maybe McEnany could "share her work" on where she's getting her numbers from."
That poor little girl!
Kill The Survivors!
Pete Hegseth, just like his orange boss, can't be bothered with silly things like laws or morality.
Trump 'a lame duck getting lamer by the second' as allies start 'inching away': analysis
"... [This] rare pushback is bigger than any one policy disagreement or operational misstep,' Cottle wrote. "It reflects the newly precarious situation in which the president finds himself. Through a mix of bad timing and the fallout from his own blunders, Mr. Trump is taking heat from multiple directions: He has let down some of the MAGA faithful at the same moment that his growing unpopularity and lame-duck status are opening the door for his congressional team to start inching away from him."
"Like all second-term presidents, Mr. Trump is also at the mercy of the calendar — a lame duck getting lamer by the second," Cottle wrote. "Mr. Trump has a way of driving his voters to the polls when he is on the ballot, but his days as a presidential contender are done. Even under the best of circumstances, other Republicans would be pondering their future without him. But with a leader this unpopular, the need for post-Trump strategizing is all the more urgent."
FOG OF WAR! Tabs, Wed., Dec. 3, 2025
"We know Pete Hegseth doesn’t have much military experience or a high rank and wasn’t really good at whatever he did when he was sent to war — kind of a participation trophy guy! — but we cannot stop laughing at him saying in yesterday’s Trump-fellating Cabinet meeting that he couldn’t remember seeing survivors on that boat after the first strike because 'FOG OF WAR.' Y’all, Secretary Shitfaced telling guys to press buttons from a couple thousand miles away sounds almost as scary as all the STDs Donald Trump was (allegedly) dodging during his own 'personal Vietnam' in the 1990s!
FOG OF WAR!
It’s like an alcoholic Little League coach trying to impress this year’s World Series champions, my God.
Here is Marco Rubio, slobbering on that dick during the same Cabinet meeting, while that dick slept next to him.
Here is Kristi Noem taking her turn at the slobber-trough, thanking Donald Trump for keeping hurricanes away. Yes, thank you, Dear Leader, for that.
And here is Trump at the end of his slobber-dick session, awake for this part, going on an unspeakably vile and racist Hitler rant against Somalian immigrants, because he hates all people who aren’t white."
More text at the site. Read it!
How Many Times Will the Morbidly Rich Crash America Before We Learn?
Why every era ruled by the morbidly rich ends the same way: corruption, collapse, and ordinary people paying the bill.
"One of the greatest gifts Donald Trump and the thirteen billionaires he pulled into his administration have given America is the reminder, finally and once and for all, that just because somebody is rich doesn’t mean they’re smart. Particularly if they inherited their starting capital from daddy, like Trump and Musk both did.
Wealth in this country has become so intertwined with our mythologies of genius, destiny, and merit that we’ve ended up elevating into near-sainthood (and electing to high office) some of the least thoughtful, least competent, and least self-aware people ever to walk a boardroom floor. It’s a dangerous confusion, and one with deep roots....
The plantation oligarchs of the 1850s South — men who were some of the richest Americans ever to live — tried to build a continent-wide authoritarian slave empire. They launched a war against democracy itself in 1861 and almost 700,000 Americans died in that Civil War as Lincoln and the Union fought valiantly to preserve our democracy."
Ahh, the Land of the Happy Negro!
Now Trump Is Threatening Naturalized Americans
He's doing his best to top Adolph!
RFK Jr. Blames Pills—Not Guns—for School Shootings
C'mon, Junior! You're not the only Kennedy that's never tasted a lead pill.
Newsmax To Trump: Defy All Courts Except SCOTUS
Carl Higbie begs Trump to be a bigger Nazi like him and Trump's propaganda outlet.
Lawmakers Press Bondi: Where Are The Epstein Files?
In her bedroom. Where else? She's making certain that Trump's name has been redacted in all places!
Graham Blasts Pope For Opposing Venezuela Invasion
Miss Lindsey needs a "come to Jesus" moment.
Knowles: “The African Continent Is A Rape Culture"
"... if we take in immigrants, we need to exclude or severely restrict the people that we come from cultures that are discordant, that don’t match up.” – Christian nationalist Daily Wire host Michael Knowles."
So they are all bad apples? Even the Women who are being raped? Who is the judge of this match-up decision?
Is he telling us he is a misogymist?
Dementia Don Demands That Somalis Go Back To Their Own Country
He's a very sick racist and extremely dangerous ex-human!
Take A Nap, Grandpa
"The man is embarrassing on so many fronts, it's hard to keep count."
Has anyone taken a look at his computer or phone history? What does this sunsetter look at all night long and sleeps during the day?
Megyn Kelly Salivates For More Trump And Hegseth War Crimes
Eva Braun preaches.
"Megyn Kelly has always been an awful person with a bottomless thirst for attention. Since she burned her bridges at Fox News and at NBC, she seems to have a huge hankering for MAGA love. Never mind that she once made a big show of confronting Trump for his misogyny and previously made a big show of pretending to be 'down the middle.'
That was so before she thought it worthwhile to embrace President P***ygrabber.
Formerly a lawyer, the 'new' Megsy now loves her some war crimes."
Fog Of Bullshit: Racist Clowns, Liars and Psycopaths
"The surreal and deadly lurches on. In the last, frantic, script-flipping week, MAGA went from threatening to kill Dems who reminded troops to obey the law to scurrying to parse or ignore the news their macho, bungling Secretary of War Crimes evidently blew apart (at least) two guys in the water for no reason - an action universally deemed either murder or war crime, but def against the law. Now see Kegseth et al thrash, bluster, scapegoat the other guy. Trump doctrine: Deport, raze, blame, kill first; think (sic) later.
Most notably, a flailing presidency of 'malevolence tempered by incompetence' - Cue the bonkers holiday greeting, 'A very Happy Thanksgiving salutation to all of our Great American Citizens and Patriots who have been so nice in allowing our Country to be divided, disrupted, carved up, murdered, beaten, mugged, and laughed at' - is now embroiled in the detritus of a toxic, slapdash revenge tour targeting perceived, if often outlandish, enemies, both here and abroad. Last week's berserk campaign focused on six, uppity Democratic lawmaker and veterans who dared post a brief video reminding the military of their oaths to follow all laws and if needed disobey orders that don't - a bedrock tenet of the military engraved on a plaque at West Point: 'Should orders and the law ever conflict, our officers obey the law.' Pretty radical.
Leaked memo exposes MAGA’s 'authoritarian' targeting of key government agency: report
"The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is among the many federal government agencies that the Trump Administration has targeted for downsizing and mass layoffs with the help of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), formerly led by Tesla/SpaceX/X.com head Elon Musk.
Now, according to The Guardian's José Olivares, past and present VA employees fear the agency will be targeted by the Trump Administration for something else: employing U.S. residents who are not U.S. citizens."
Picture of Trump dozing off during meeting due to sleep deprevation of staying up all night posting his lying garbage on the internet!
'Pete Hegseth may want to lawyer up': Expert highlights new incriminating statements
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth may have further incriminated himself in remarks made during this week's cabinet meeting, according to a former federal prosecutor.
President Donald Trump's self-styled "secretary of war" told reporters Tuesday that he watched the initial strike Sept. 2 on an alleged drug smuggling boat but did not "stick around" for a second strike he reportedly authorized against two survivors, and former U.S. attorney Joyce Vance wrote on her "Civil Discourse" Substack that his comments could end up haunting him.
"Hegseth might want to consider, in the words of MAGA, lawyering up," Vance wrote.
Doctor makes bizarre comparison between Trump and inventor to explain away '10-minute nap'
Words of another educated fool!
Dr. Marc Siegel, a senior medical analyst for Fox News, suggested Trump is actually proving his cognitive endurance and health by napping in meetings. Dr. Siegel compared the 79-year-old president, whose physician touted had "excellent health," to Thomas Edison, the inventor of the lightbulb.
But it appears Dr. Siegel confused Edison as the inventor of electricity in his defense of Trump's fatigue, The Daily Beast reported. Dr. Siegel said, "Thomas Edison believed in the 10-minute nap, by the way. We wouldn’t have electricity, right?"
There wasn’t one single inventor. Electricity wasn’t “created” it was discovered and gradually understood.
Like Trump, the doctor has a serious thinking disorder. There were a few before Edison.
Right-wing Pundit: Maduro 'Provoked' Invasion By Singing John Lennon's 'Imagine'
Conservative pundit Walter Curt argued that President Donald Trump should invade Venezuela after the country's president, Nicolás Maduro, sang John Lennon's "Imagine" as a call for peace
Let's all sing it together!:
Imagine there's no Walter Curt
It's easy if you try
The world will be much better off
When all the Nazis die
Trump urges Judge Aileen Cannon to keep Jack Smith's final report secret
"President Donald Trump is urging U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon to block any release of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s final report on his investigation into the president’s alleged mishandling of hundreds of classified documents, in a case that had been charged in part under the Espionage Act.
On Tuesday, Trump argued in a court filing that Smith’s report should never be made public, in what would be a deviation from previous practice, Politico reported."
Trump attempts to cover up more of his crimes.
Trump lashes out at Fox News reporter as 'fake news' after Cabinet meeting
Pot meets kettle!
If he didn't stay up all night masterbating on the internet he might not fall asleep when he's at work!
MAGA fans wig out as Costco sues Trump: 'About to be the new Bud Light'
News that big box wholesaler Costco is taking Donald Trump’s administration to court over his tariff war — while demanding a refund — landed with a thud with the president’s most ardent defenders.
On Monday, Costco Wholesale lawyers filed a lawsuit that states, in part, “Because IEEPA does not clearly authorize the President to set tariffs ... the Challenged Tariff Orders cannot stand and the defendants are not authorized to implement and collect them.”
Then dictator will immediately create an order that says he does. That's the way totalitarianism works.
Terrified Trump Phones In Attack On Aftyn Behn On Election Eve
"How the HELL can you elect a person like that??" the president said.
Simple, you dimwit. Elect decent people that believe in our Constitution!
"Matt Van Epps - he's a winner, he's going to be great," Trump said, later falsely accusing Behn of hating Christianity and country music. "How the hell can you elect a person like that?" the president said.
Does he mean Van Epps is a Christianist like their Pedophile Pastors like someone else we know is?
They are the vilest haters on the planet!
Pam Bondi Hit With Sex Discrimination Lawsuit After Trump Fires Woman Based On Gender
"Nothing in the Constitution gives the executive branch the right to discriminate," the lawsuit continues, arguing that the Trump administration violated both the First Amendment of the Constitution and federal discrimination laws. "If accepted, this theory would permit the government to fire federal workers based on race, sex, religion, national origin, or political affiliation with impunity."
Totally Un-American, you fucking idiot bastards!
Trump’s Travel Ban May Be Expanded To 30 Countries
The Trump administration is considering expanding its travel ban — which currently restricts or bars the entry of nationals from 19 countries — to around 30 nations in the wake of the shooting of two National Guard soldiers in Washington, D.C., last week, multiple U.S. officials told CBS News on Tuesday.
Eventually Trump will be charged with murder for it, among other murders he's responsible for.
No country he's putting on his shitlist want the pusball in their country either.
Lies, Coverup, and Videotape
Bulwark News
Isn't it past time to stop calling it videotape and call it videomedia? Tape is dead.
IT'S THE RESOLUTION! Resolution! Resolution!
The World Has Finally Made Its Very Last New VCR.
Texas Law Seeks to Halt Telehealth Abortions. Providers Say It Won’t Stop Them.
Not only Nazis but severely retarded Nazis!
Scapegoat Identified. Tabs, Tues., Dec. 2, 2025
Looks like Secretary Shitfaced has settled on a guy to 'stand behind 100 percent' and also 'serve as his unwilling scapegoat,' since Secretary Shitfaced has never taken responsibility for anything in his shameful loser life.
White House Nazi Barbie of course read a scripted thing helping Shitfaced scapegoat that guy. And reportedly people in the Pentagon are PISSED, because now they know with 100 percent accuracy, if they didn’t suspect it already, that this Nazi Fascist Trump Regime — led at the Pentagon by Hegseth — will throw them under the bus the second it’s convenient. Fuck you, Bradley! Oh yeah:
'This is ‘protect Pete’ bulls---,' one military official, who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal conversations, told The Post.
Leavitt’s statement 'left it up to interpretation' who was responsible for the second strike that killed the two survivors, a separate military official said, imploring the White House to provide clarity on the issue.
One official said of Leavitt’s statement, 'It’s throwing us, the service members, under the bus.' Another person said some of Hegseth’s top civilian staff appeared deeply alarmed about the revelations and were contemplating whether to leave the administration.
Good luck turning the military against the American people now, bitch! [Washington Post]
Speaking of, if it’s ALL BRADLEY’S FAULT and not Pete’s, no never, it turns out:
Secretary Shitfaced was supposed to be watching Bradley! Fuckin’ Bradley!"
Cardiologist Busts White House’s ‘Almost Laughable’ Explanation for Trump’s Imaging
"The whole note has kind of a weird defensive, evasive tone to it," Reiner said. "First of all, this is not part of the president's comprehensive physical examination. He had that in April, and then he underwent some more testing in July."
"If you look at his first administration, the president — like most presidents — only underwent one comprehensive physical exam every year. So this comes completely off cycle," he continued. "Second, it's filled with euphemisms. Again, Dr. Barbarella, the president's physician, states that he underwent advanced imaging. Well, what specific advanced imaging did the president have? Was it an MRI, as the president said? Was it a C.T.? [scan] Did he have both? Why not just spell it out?"
When reading Barbarella's summary of Trump's imaging, the press secretary stated that Trump had both cardiovascular imaging along with a scan of his abdomen. This also struck Dr. Reiner as unusual, as he noted such scans are often "performed in response to some clinical concern." He added that such a scan was "fine" for someone advanced in age, the White House was still being cagey in the way it described the imaging.
"Things happen to people as we all get older. And president is almost almost 80," he said. "So instead of this kind of evasive, almost laughable kind of note, just spell out what happened. I hope the imaging is is normal and great. That would be excellent news. But this kind of piece-by-piece, drip-by-drip release of information is disconcerting."
Trump will call the doctor a "fake." Lying and denying is no way to go through life!
The Great Secession of the Morbidly Rich Marks a Breaking Point for Democracy’s Survival
What elite isolation reveals about the fragility of modern democracy and the cost of unchecked billionaire power
"In a recent Wall Street Journal report, “The Ultrarich Are Spending a Fortune to Live in Extreme Privacy,” reporter Arian Campo-Flores pulls back the curtain on a disturbing new reality: our country’s wealthiest citizens now inhabit a parallel America of private jets, members-only restaurants, “sky-garage” condos, and luxury wellness centers they can rent out entirely for themselves.
These aren’t just perks; they’re a full-blown escape from public life. The ultrawealthy no longer wait in lines, navigate public institutions, or share community space with ordinary Americans.
And that’s the real danger: once the richest begin living outside the civic sphere, they stop caring whether the rest of society works at all. A nation where the wealthy secede into a private realm is a nation confronting oligarchy."
'Shock effect' across US Armed Forces as Trump DOJ sidelines lawyers: military law expert
Retired U.S. Army Lt. Col. Geoffrey S. Corn, who now serves as director of the Center for Military Law and Policy at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, offered legal and military analysis of the Trump Administration's Venezuelan policy during a December 2 appearance on MS NOW's "Morning Joe." And he laid out a variety of problems with actions that Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth are taking.
Corn told "Morning Joe" host Mika Brzezinski, her colleague Jonathan Lemire (a former Associated Press reporter) and The New Republic's Michael Tomasky that if an order to "kill the stranded members" of a "ship's crew" in the Caribbean Sea was given after a "first strike," it would indicate "an order to commit an illegal killing,"
"Were you trying to finish off the boat, or were you actually trying to kill the stranded members of the crew?," Corn told the panel. "And if it was the latter, how could you justify that, knowing that once an individual is shipwrecked, they are essentially out of combat? But again, this all goes back to the most troubling aspect of that statement by the White House press secretary (Karoline Leavitt), which is this idea that President Trump can merely designate a narco group as a foreign terrorist organization — and somehow, that authorizes the use of deadly combat power as a measure of first resort, shifting from a law enforcement to a wartime paradigm."
Corn added, "That's a chilling assertion of authority. Why are we even treating this as a war?"
Corn continued, "So, have they been marginalized? This is a really important issue because rules of engagement are not stupid. They preserve the legitimacy and the integrity of our military operations."
Our Nazi dictator will be in a putrid glitzy uniform soon. Same as any retarded banana republic.
'No Republicans willing to negotiate' leaving health care subsidy deal in doubt
These Nazi Occupation swine creatures hate America!
'Admirals have receipts': Hegseth warned subordinates will have evidence of his orders
"Should a serious inquiry be conducted by Congress into the reported killing of two survivors left clinging to a vessel after a kinetic strike on an alleged drug-running boat, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth should be prepared to face military officials who will go in prepared to defend themselves."
It should!
California GOP Rep. Darrell Issa May Run In Texas
The shit piles keep stacking up.
"This corrupt asshole is like a recurring STD. It just keeps coming back..." — Thewolflam (comments)
"I thought that greasy prick slid off the earth.
Really, I thought he was dead, but I must be thinking ofsomeone else." — New Jamieboy Highballs (comments)
GOP Rep: Americans Don’t Care About War Crimes
Show me one, asswipe, and you'll me showing me a goddamn Nazi!
Derrick Van Orden, fascist!
"“Donald Trump could tell these people that oxygen is good for you and within half an hour there would be 500,000 people walking around the country with plastic bags over their head.
Sort of like when your side announces a company is woke and people go out and buy the product to then take videos of them smashing or shooting it?" — DaddySnark (comments)
"Hey asshole get your facts straight before you run your inbred ignorant mouth. fentanyl comes in the country by Mexico and China not Venezuela. As far as people not caring about us committing war crimes well the only ones who would not care would be like assholes like you and there is a solution for all of you." — Thewolflam (comments)
Trump Posts To Truth Social Over 160 Times, Claims Michelle Obama “Used Biden’s Autopen” For Pardons
More proof this monster has no brains!
DOJ Fires Eight New York City Immigration Judges
Nazis stamping out law and order in America. They must pay!
Homan Taunts Dems To Prosecute Him: Come Get Some
We sure as hell will, Amon Göth!
"Nazi is going down, with the rest of them." — JT (comments)
Dell CEO To Donate $6.25 Billion To “Trump Accounts”
It's not "Trump Accounts" you scumabg!
"Michael Dell is worth over $100 billion. Rather obviously, these “investments” are yet another example of big business buying favor from their Glorious Leader. Dell last appeared here when he and other tech oligarchs attended the White House dinner for the killer Saudi prince."
All Dell products go to reycling and must be replaced! No more $ for "Trump Accounts!"
Indiana Republican Targeted By Pipe Bomb Threat For Refusing Trump's Redistricting
Indiana state Sen. Jean Leising (R) said she was the newest victim of threats after refusing a demand from President Donald Trump to redistrict the state ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.
We must resist these Trump Nazi bastards!
Trump’s 'personal decline' is becoming hard to ignore — even for Republicans: analysis
"Trump seems to be in a degree of personal decline," she says, and "that decline is becoming hard to ignore."
'The rats are fleeing the ship' as Trump approval plummets
As President Donald Trump's approval ratings plummet, "one of the greatest and most destructive cons in American history" is about to fall, writes USA Today's Rex Huppke.
This fall, Huppke says, is "going to be spectacular" as Trump remains "horrendously unpopular and [a] swiftly deteriorating lame duck focused more on building a glitzy ballroom or possibly invading Venezuela than on making life better for Americans."
Hegseth Posts Violent Take On Classic Children’s Book
Al Capone wannabe.
"Hegseth, 45, used his social media account to share a child-unsafe version of the Franklin the Turtle children’s book franchise. The mock title ‘Franklin Targets Narco Terrorists’ shows the usually gentle turtle standing on the edge of a helicopter, firing a missile at a boat."
Hegseth’s caption on the Sunday post reads, “For your Christmas wish list…”
Trump Defends Calling Gov. Tim Walz “Retarded”
He doesn't know the politically correct word is now "Intelleuctual Disability?"
ROTFLMAO!
Trump Defends Hegseth On “Second Strike”
Murder, Inc. strikes again!
Trump Lashes Out After Report On Ballroom’s Size
"It is something that has been needed and desired at the White House for over 150 years, but something which no other President was equipped to do — But I am, and as long as we are going to do it, we are going to do it RIGHT." — deluded idiot.
Who the fuck wanted a 'ballroom' ?
No one in the military.
No one in the Health Care industry.
No one in education.
No one in Congress.
This is Trump's private wet dream.
It must be destroyed.
Ballroom delenda est." — JackFknTwist (comments)
PeeWee Goebbels' Wife Really Doesn't Like Him Being Called A Nazi
Shame on CNN for platforming this nutjob in the first place.
Don't get mand at us, dear. You're the one that married a Nazi!
Pete Hegseth Confessed To A War Crime — America Shrugs
A reminder of when the world dragged itself out of the rubble, looked at mass murder and destruction on an industrial scale, and said: Never again. Not “never again..unless a Fox-bro turned bantam-weight SecDef named Hegseth, feels like war crimes..."
America seems to be preoccupied with their play dough.
Raised eyebrows as Trump claims he didn't know what his MRI was for
Following Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN)'s demands for President Donald Trump to release the results of his October MRI scan, the president says he will release them despite saying the results were perfect. But some of the public remains dubious and skeptical.
After Trump taunted Walz with an offensive slur, the former Vice Presidential candidate questioned the president's mental health, retorting with, "Release the MRI results."
Trump doesn't know shit from shinola. How many times must we say this?
Former Army commander slams MAGA's perversion of 'patriotism'
"In a think piece published by the conservative website The Bulwark on December 1, retired U.S. Army Gen. Mark Hertling — a scathing critic of President Donald Trump — lays out the contrasts between the 'patriotism' of 2025 and Reagan's view of 'patriotism.' And he warns that today's "patriotism" is a tribalist perversion of what Reagan considered patriotic during the 1980s."
Trump admin selling off historic public art to the highest bidder
It doesn't belong to the monster! The depraved, dispicable pile of shit that does its best to destroy us and our culture.
"So it must be said: The Cohen murals, like all New Deal art, were made by and belong to the people. They tell us about who we’ve been, who we are, and who we aspire to be. Preserving them would not only steward a significant chapter of American cultural history—itself a civic responsibility—but also keep alive the New Deal dream of social security for all, especially for society’s most vulnerable. This was Roosevelt’s definition of liberty: something that required 'a living which gives man not only enough to live by, but something to live for.' While Social Security has helped hundreds of millions of Americans earn 'enough to live by,' the Cohen murals help us see what Americans 'live for': peace, prosperity, and mutual aid for our fellow citizens."
MAGA Long Island Official To Install “Cameras And Security Tech” Along NYC Border Because Of Mamdani
Big Brother is watching you! 2 + 2 = 5!
"Blakeman last appeared here in July 2025 when he allowed local cops to wear masks while assisting ICE raids.
Nassau County’s mask ban was enacted as an anti-Black Lives Matter measure.
Blakeman first appeared here in January 2025 when he refused to lower county flags to honor Jimmy Carter.
In February 2025, Blakeman was sued for creating an “illegal militia” of armed and deputized private citizens.
In June 2025, Trump endorsed Blakeman for reelection in a move meant to clear the field for Elise Stefanik to run for governor."
A paranoid pig.
'It's a confession': Conservative lawyers call new Hegseth comment an 'admission of guilt'
"Pete Hegseth was put on notice over the weekend by two conservative lawyers, including a former prosecutor, who said the Defense Secretary's defense to a major new scandal "makes no legal sense" and is not really 'a defense.'
Observers' eyebrows were raised after it was reported by the Washington Post in a bombshell story that Hegseth ordered the killing of two survivors of one of controversial drug vessel bombings. Some analysts questioned whether it was murder, or even a war crime.
Former prosecutor Andrew McCarthy, who served as an assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, recently said he has no love for the “craven video” Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) and five Democrats released to the public advising military members to ignore illegal orders. At the same time, McCarthy suggested President Donald Trump’s executive power abuses in reacting to it represent a whole 'new level' of threat."
'This is dangerous!' Right-wing Newsmax panel melts down over 'disgusting' ads against ICE
We know you're digusting but what are we?
FUCK NEWSMAX NAZIS!
The reason for these Trump failures would be funny — if it weren't so alarming
"A kakistocracy is a system of government where the most unfit, incompetent, and unscrupulous individuals are in power. Such a system does not reflect rational decision-making. Instead, Trump’s kakistocracy is emerging as the consequence of systemic failures (by Donald Trump’s design), corruption (ditto), and societal dynamics (manipulated, but not wholly created, by Trump).
Malevolence may also be a factor. Outside his naked lust for power, profit, and retribution, Trump has shown little interest in governing. After DOGE trashed most federal services, the only departments left fully operational are Trump’s well-funded instruments of power and control: ICE/DHS, FBI, DOJ, DOD, Federal Bureau of Prisons, and the US military.
But as Trump seeks to grossly expand his reach through these entities, it is gratifying to watch his hand get slapped back, largely due to his and his administration’s incompetence, by federal courts insisting on the rule of law."
America’s New Crisis: We Can’t Build (w/ Marc Dunkelman)
"America used to build big things fast, highways, power grids, rail, entire cities. So why does it feel like nothing works anymore? John Avlon sits down with Marc Dunkelman, author of the new book Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress and How to Get It Back, to dig into the real reasons our government can’t get shovels in the ground, and how we fix it.
From EV chargers that take years to install, to high-speed rail blocked by endless lawsuits, to progressive ideals that accidentally created a veto-ridden system where anyone can stop everything. Dunkelman explains how we broke the ability to build, and what it will take to restore it.
The failure that is Trump.
Steve Bannon Was Epstein’s Comeback Consultant. Where’s the Uproar?
"IF YOU FOLLOWED THE TWISTS AND TURNS of the Jeffrey Epstein saga over the last few weeks, you already know that several prominent names emerged from the tranche of emails that the Epstein estate released. But there is one big name that has so far received very little attention."
Breaking News: If Hegseth Gave an Order to “Kill Everybody,” He Must Be Removed and Prosecuted
And if Donald Trump approved or encouraged these actions, then impeachment and criminal referral are not optional: they're required to defend the rule of law.
"History tells us to watch out for nations that lose their moral compass in real time.
It starts when the powerful stop seeing human beings as human. It accelerates when the government itself denies any obligation to justify its killings.
And when leaders begin lying to Congress and the public to cover what they’ve done, you’re no longer looking at isolated abuses. You’re staring straight into the machinery of authoritarianism.
Instead of telling Congress that the second strike was designed to finish off wounded survivors, Pentagon officials claimed it was to 'remove a navigation hazard.'
That isn’t just spin: it’s an attempt to rewrite reality.
‘This Amounts To Murder’: Trump Official Faces ‘Serious Legal Jeopardy’ Over ‘Kill’ Order
"Hegseth ordered the military to murder defenseless survivors who could’ve easily been saved, arrested, and tried. Now he’s trying to court martial a Senator for merely reminding the military they’re not obligated to follow illegal orders," says Jon Favreau, former speechwriter for President Obama.
Journalist Todd Neff suggests an edit to the Post story, writing on X, "Alternative headline: Pete Hegseth commits war crime: Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all."
Hopefully, this will be the end of Hegseth.
Make Americans Homeless Again: Trump’s Intentional Housing Crisis
"America’s urban landscapes are cursed with skyrocketing rents, evictions, and tent cities—thanks to President Donald Trump. His administration has launched what can only be described as a brutal, scorched-earth attack on federal housing programs. Trump’s Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is slashing billions from successful programs and proven initiatives that keep people off the streets. Trump clearly prioritizes ideological crusades over human lives. This is not a better policy; it is cruelty and it is exacerbating a housing crisis that has left millions of America’s citizens on the brink. Trump’s war on the vulnerable is forcing 170,000 Americans back into homelessness, gutting local efforts in states like California and New York, while ignoring root causes like unaffordable housing and stagnant wages."
'Damn him': Ex-Tea Party lawmaker goes nuclear on Trump after troops shot
Trump is responsible for her death. Let's have the body count now!
White House calls ex-CNN reporter 'scumbag' for noting Trump insults female journalists
Just lke the gun moll she is.
"Frankness?? No, it is just the mentality of a 6 year old who thinks his insults are cute."— Ghostroder57 (comments)
RFK’s individualist rhetoric hides a deeper public health threat
The debate isn’t about “trusting experts.” It’s about who shoulders responsibility for staying healthy
USCIS “Halts All Asylum Decisions” After Trump’s Rant
We shoot ourselves and blame others in a cover-up attempt. Insanity reigns.
FDA Claims COVID Vaccine Killed At Least 10 Children
Bullshit.
Article misrepresents CDC data, falsely links deaths to COVID vaccines
Trump Admin Extorts $75 Million From Northwestern
Who knew that our country would support a criminal exhortionist as president?
WH Lashes Out At “Scumbag” Melania Biographer
Nothing but an insane bag of rotting human waste.
America’s Dangerous Delusion: Pretending Trump Is Fine
The President is increasingly a decaying, crotchety man wrestling not with grievances or enemies, but the betrayal of time and impulse control. But instead of addressing concerns like an adult, he rages like a tyrannical toddler....
Too many greedy morons.
Why America's most hated appliance is so hard to ban
Why use gas powered anyway? Battery power is just as good and quiet to boot.
All of our mowing tools are battery powered.
What is it, a macho thing?
The Right Wants to Write Indigenous People Out of US History. We Won’t Let Them.
The Trump administration is reviving the visual language of manifest destiny and weaponizing the US’s founding myths.
"A new vision for the United States is being forced into place — one rooted not in liberty or justice, but in subjugation and the quiet normalization and acceptance of fascism. You can see it in the memes, the slogans, and the curated nostalgia flooding social media accounts aligned with the Trump administration. You can see it in the way frontier and 1950s iconographies have returned not as history but as aspiration. And you can see it in the current administration’s campaign to control what young people learn about history, colonization, slavery, genocide, and the violent foundations of this country.
This revival is not about remembering the past or indulging in a trendy, nostalgic aesthetic. It’s about promoting and embracing a version of 'America' built on authoritarianism and white supremacy. It’s a version that elevates conquest, cruelty, and dominance as virtue and heritage over liberty and justice. It’s a digital-age rebranding of Manifest Destiny — the idea that the United States was ordained to expand across the North American continent, seizing land, displacing and eradicating Indigenous people in the name of progress — now crafted to make subjugation look like patriotism and to turn historical distortion into accepted truth."
These motherfucking traitors didn't watch Ken Burns, The American Revolution.
'What a sick man': Internet pounces as Trump makes DC Guard member's death about himself
President Donald Trump was asked Thursday whether he planned to attend the funeral of the slain National Guard member Sarah Beckstrom, to which he used as an opportunity to brag about his popularity in her home state, remarks that left many critics speechless.
“He couldn't, even for one moment, just be a decent person and not make it about himself,” wrote Tom Nichols, staff writer at The Atlantic, in a social media post on X. “Lord have mercy and may her memory be eternal.”
While speaking with reporters at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, Trump was asked if he planned to attend Beckstrom’s funeral.
“I haven't thought about it yet, but it's certainly something I could conceive of," Trump said. "I love West Virginia. You know, I won West Virginia by one of the biggest margins of any president anywhere.”
The response drew an immediate reaction from critics, who tore into the president for making the death of the Army specialist about himself.
“He is truly the most demented malignant narcissist alive,” wrote X user “Spiro’s Ghost,” a self-described political moderate and commentator who’s amassed more than 240,000 followers. “What a sick man.”
Give Thanks for Incompetence Destroying Trump’s Second Term
"A funny thing happened to Donald Trump in the past month. After spending much of the year on a sort of revanchist blitzkrieg that terrified the left and convinced many that his second term would far outpace his first, Trump has begun to genuinely fail. And the failure, for those who followed the last time closely, is familiar: Rising autocracy is headed off by rank incompetence."
Read the rest of this essay. IT'S GOLD!
Doctor Lays Out ‘Concerning’ Case About Trump’s Health, From ‘Incoherent’ Rambling to ‘He’s Confused a Lot’
Well,...
"“The fact that he’s, you know, mobilizing and starting his day at 12:08, per reporting from the New York Times, is concerning,” Gupta said.
“His response to somebody fainting in the Oval Office really conveyed that he didn’t show any signs of concern. He didn’t really do anything. He was slow to respond, and that slowness and fatigue you’re seeing more and more in his public events,” said Gupta.
Gupta added that Trump “sometimes mumbles sort of incoherent nonsense when he’s asked a question in the press pool in the Oval Office. So all these things when you know this constellation of just him being him.”
The conversation between Meiselas and Gupta comes days after the Times’ startling report on all the ways Trump’s “battery shows signs of wear.”
That's all? Don't you have some conclusive proof this man is bat shit brain-fucked? /S
Trump: “Happy Thanksgiving, Tim Walz Is Seriously Retarded And Illegal Ilhan Omar Married Her Brother"
It is truly both amazing and tragic that we allow this piece of shit to be running our country. May we ever live in disgrace and shame for it!
Comer: “Nobody Will Ever Believe” My Epstein Report
So, best not to release your lies at all, right dipshit?
"MAGA & the GOP have held Trump up as their King knowing exactly who and what he is, now they're worried no one will believe a report by people who've spent 10 years excusing the most despicable human being on the planet?? GFY. Comer!!!" --GayOldLady (comments)
"GOP = Guardians Of Pedophiles" — Taino E.S.L.
They are nothing but open piles of human execrement!
US To Recognize Russian Control Of Ukraine Territories
Of course Putin and his servant, Trump, will. But Ukraine and free people will not!
Pirro Claims That Afghani Evacuees Were Never Vetted
Whose fault was that, dumbass?
POLL: 63% Say College Degree Isn’t Worth The Cost
"Americans have grown sour on one of the longtime key ingredients of the American dream. Almost two-thirds of registered voters say that a four-year college degree isn’t worth the cost, according to a new NBC News poll, a dramatic decline over the last decade.
Just 33% agree a four-year college degree is 'worth the cost because people have a better chance to get a good job and earn more money over their lifetime,' while 63% agree more with the concept that it’s 'not worth the cost because people often graduate without specific job skills and with a large amount of debt to pay off.'
In 2017, U.S. adults surveyed were virtually split on the question — 49% said a degree was worth the cost and 47% said it wasn’t. When CNBC asked the same question in 2013 as part of its All American Economic Survey, 53% said a degree was worth it and 40% said it was not."
Our people want to be educated. They just don't want to be extorted for it!
The Economy Is Sputtering as People Keep Using Their Old Phones That Work Fine
We are starting to wise up!
Homeland Security wants state driver’s license data for sweeping citizenship program
Hands off, Piggy!
What Happened To Tom Homan’s $50,000 Bribe?
It was covered up like everything else with the Trump Crime Syndicate!
FBI Was Making Big Overtime In Scramble To Redact Epstein Files
"President Donald Trump swept back into power on a promise to make public all FBI documents related to his late pedophile ex-friend Jeffrey Epstein, and put his Attorney General Pam Bondi in charge of overseeing the matter.
A conspiracy theory still thrives among some in Trump’s base that Epstein knew the names of other rich or powerful pedophiles.
Newly released internal emails show the FBI mounting a costly overtime-fueled sprint to analyze the Epstein files as political pressure grew to release them—in a project dubbed the 'Special Redaction Project,' Bloomberg reports.
The Trump Crime Syndicate is working hard to protect their pedophile!
How do we continue to live with ourselves when we do nothing about this atrocity!
'People are onto him': Analyst says voters are realizing Trump is 'wrecking the country'
Even the dimwits can see this!
Trump’s “Animal House” is floundering
The president and his cast of characters are wreaking havoc on American democracy
They should be taken down by the largest force in history!
AND WE ALL KNOW THIS!
National Guard Member Dies After Shooting In DC
For no earthly reason except she was there!
Another Trump murder! The shame and disgrace of a once democratic America.
"This really sucks. Trump has been hoping for an incident like this to occur ever since he sent troops to Washington over the 'Big Balls' crap. This is like a Thanksgiving gift to him. Now he can send in another 500 troops, use ICE to go after peaceful protesters and get full cover from the news media for it."
Trump must pay for his crimes!
Johnson To Pressure Indiana GOP On Redistricting
Give Johnson a ticket back to hell where the miscreant came from!
Hand the gavel to a human being!
Trump: Land Attack On Venezuela “Starts Very Soon”
So, "Mr. No More Wars" must have one of his oewn.
No one should attend. Ignore the murderder or become one.
"Yup. And not only did we collectively vote for it. We voted for it twice! So it's not just him. It's what we've become." — Stuart Wyman-Cahall (comments)
National Guard Shooter Worked For CIA “Zero Unit”
"Lakanwal was part of one of the CIA’s “Zero Units” that were involved in combat missions to seize or kill suspected terrorists. The Zero Units, also known as National Strike Units, were involved in dangerous and often deadly night raids and other missions to kill or capture members of the Taliban, al-Qaeda, the Islamic State and other terrorist groups. The CIA and U.S. military provided intelligence and logistical support to the squads."
In other words, a professonal hit man for the government.
"You recruited him, you trained him, you broke him, you own him." — JackFknTwist (comments)
Trump Rages At “Stupid” Reporter For Pointing Out That His DOJ & DHS Said Afghans Were “Thoroughly Vetted”
Time for this vile retard to be put in a padded cell and forgotten forever.
The reporter is asking a question because that's his job. Trump has been caught red-handed as being responsible for this!
Trump is the stupid one. All he says is "Oink!" He's the stupidist creature ever put on this earth!
"If I were a reporter and Trump spoke to me that way I would tell him to go fuck himself, job be damn. Respect is a two way street Trump offers none so in return he should get none." — Thewolflam (comments)
Oligarchs Pledge $100M+ To Battle AI Regulation
Selling shit and junk wherever they go!
‘How Dare You!’ Stephen A Smith Scorches Mark Kelly Over ‘Refuse Illegal Orders’ Video
“How dare you do that? I’m not a military person, and I know better than that,” Smith said midway through his searing rant on his Straight Shooter SiriusXM show on Wednesday.
"You don't tell military men and women to ignore an order from the commander-in-chief!"
But Kelly never said that. None of them did, moron. He can't understand English. They all said "ILLEGAL ORDERS!"
This moron, who admits he knows nothing about the military, shows us just how "Intellectually Disabled" he is!
I was in the Army and I know no trooper has to obey an illegal order. And illegal orders are all the Nazis Smith suopports with this!
Kelly has proved Smith is a BOZO! Wake up and smell the fascism!
OpenAI Restores GPT Access for Teddy Bear That Recommended Pills and Knives
"In response to researchers at a safety group finding that the toymaker’s AI-powered teddy bear “Kumma” gave dangerous responses for children, OpenAI said in mid-November it had suspended FoloToy’s access to its large language models. The teddy bear was running the ChatGPT maker’s older GPT-4o as its default option when it gave some of its most egregious replies, which included in-depth explanations of sexual fetishes."
Nice to see the bastards are looking out for our children!
Tuberville: “Ban And Deport All Islam Immigrants”
ROTFFLMAO! Top notch comedy by "Ear Horns!" as the blood drips off him.
GOP Rep: Democrats Have “Blood On Their Hands” Because They Objected To Troops In Washington DC
Another fascist moron opens his dumbfuck pie hole!
The dumb shit can't understand plain english!
“I mean, when you have someone like Elissa Slotkin, who is encouraging the military to disobey the commander-in-chief, when you have someone like Jon Ossoff, who is saying that having the troops in Washington, D.C., is an embarrassment."
The dildo is such a weak shit he couldn't even hold Jon Ossoff's jock strap!
"...he posted a deep fake video in which an AI-generated Ossoff ridicules SNAP recipients."
"Hey Buddy, you can climb down from that cross, it is Thanksgiving not Easter." — Philly Mike (comments)
"Buddy Carter is spending the day felching assorted family members, per an Associated Press report." — Sam_Handwich (comments)
"Wasn’t that y’all that put those National Guard folks in harms way?" — Joe in NM (comments)
"My goodness! What a piece of shit. This is yet another person on the right that, if he had never been born, the world would be a better place." — Joseph Miceli (comments)
One of these days, pal! One of these days! TOAST!
Trump Ally Laura Loomer Roundly Mocked for Post-Shooting Reaction: ‘Literally, Anti-American’
"Loomer’s call for an American monarchy was quickly met with scorn and mockery, including from many on the right."
The Dispatch’s Jonah Goldberg replied to Loomer, “Anti-American. Like literally, anti-American and un-American.”
Literally, a stooge for Nazis!
Another one that can take a long walk off a short pier!
Pirro Scoffs at Question on National Guard in DC: ‘We Oughta Kiss the Ground and Thank God’ Trump Sent Troops In
She can kiss my ass!
'Administration hasn't answered the question': Key detail about DC suspect remains unclear
Stupid bumbling fools and idiots are at the controls. They do nothing but pass the buck! They must be ended!
Close relationship between US and Canada 'has ended': prime minister
Of course. Only weak sychophants and fascist empires will stand with our Nazi resident.
This is total disgrace and dumb shit failure!
What Happens When the AI Bubble Blows Up on Main Street?
When this bubble bursts, the collapse won’t hit Google’s coders — it’ll hit the electricians, nurses, teachers, retirees, renters, and low-income families who never got a penny from the boom.
"For months now, the tech world has been drunk on the language of inevitability. AI will transform everything. AI demand for electricity will double America’s power consumption. AI data centers will be the new steel mills, the new auto plants, the new engines of prosperity.
Wall Street has inflated this into a bubble so big that it’s hard to see where the hype ends and the real economy begins."
South Carolina’s Measles Outbreak Illustrates Danger of Vaccine Misinformation
A confluence of larger national trends threaten communities with reemergence of a preventable, potentially deadly virus.
"BOILING SPRINGS, S.C. — Near the back corner of the local library’s parking lot, largely out of view from the main road, the South Carolina Department of Public Health opened a pop-up clinic in early November, offering free measles vaccines to adults and children.
Spartanburg County, in South Carolina’s Upstate region, has been fighting a measles outbreak since early October, with more than 50 cases identified. Health officials have encouraged people who are unvaccinated to get a shot by visiting its mobile vaccine clinic at any of its several stops throughout the county."
But on a Monday afternoon in Boiling Springs, only one person showed up.
The "intellectual disablity" in the Land of the Happy Negro.
'Sick, disgusting ghoul!' White House account unleashes on reporter after troops shot
She deserves the Mussolini treatment!
"An official account associated with the White House called a reporter 'stupid' and a 'sick, disgusting ghoul' for questioning President Donald Trump's National Guard takeover of Washington, D.C., following the incident in which two National Guard troops were shot."
"This is so tragic, so unnecessary, these poor guardsmen should never have been deployed," wrote Jane Mayer of The New Yorker on X, in response to the news. "I live in DC and watched as they had virtually nothing to do but pick up trash. It was for political show and at what a cost."
And Trump put them there so he could look tough. LMAO!
"Two of these heroes were just SHOT IN BROAD DAYLIGHT."
According to the WH, it is worse they were shot in 'broad daylight'??? WTF?
The shooter was Afghanistani who came to the US in 2021, during donnie's 'negotiated' retreat. The one where the only players were the Taliban and donnie, ignoring the Afghanis who were running the country. I am sure there was some anger over that pathetic and stupid 'art of the deal' retreat." -- Bardi (comments)
Historian: BBC Censored My Line Calling Trump Corrupt
"The BBC was caught in a fresh tempest on Tuesday, after a Dutch author and historian accused the broadcaster of censorship by deleting from a venerated radio lecture series his phrase critical of President Trump. The author, Rutger Bregman, said he had characterized Mr. Trump as the 'most openly corrupt president in American history,' a line the BBC removed before the first of four in its annual Reith Lectures was broadcast on Tuesday."
What are those chickshit assholes afraid of? Trump is corrupt and so is the BBC!
Carlson Taunts Piers Morgan To Say Anti-Gay F-Slur
Two fascist morons fight over the word "faggot." Total retards.
"Fuck you both and anybody who actually watches your filthy shit shows" — Ragnar Lothbrok (comments)
"Tucker , you were never clever , now you’re just a boring asshole nobody." — Dwight Williamson (comments)
Ratcliffe: DC Gunman Worked With CIA In Afghanistan
Did he forget the evacuation of Vietnam? Sure.
"I blame Dishonest Donald for the shootings. The National Guard troops should never have been there!" — weshlovrcm (comments)
"Fucking liars. In February 2020, Drumpf set the withdrawal date of May 1, 2021 for all U.S. troops from Afghanistan as part of the agreement signed with the Taliban in Doha, Qatar." -- JT (comments)
Stop blaming Biden for your mistakes, you retarded shits!
CNN: DC Shooter Was Granted Asylum In April 2025
"The Department of Homeland Security has identified the suspect as Rahmanullah Lakanwal, an Afghan national who came to the United States in 2021 under Operation Allies Welcome. CNN previously reported the suspect applied for asylum in 2024, which was granted by the Trump administration in April 2025."
Trump is a coward. Fuck him and the turd he rode in on.
Trump Blames Biden For National Guard Shooting
Bullshit from senile coward.
Mark Kelly Fires Back At Trump Administration, And Hits His Targets
Hegesth is out of his league.
"When I was 22 years old, I commissioned as an Ensign in the United States Navy and swore an oath to the Constitution," Sen. Kelly wrote on Facebook. "I upheld that oath through flight school, multiple deployments on the USS Midway, 39 combat missions in Operation Desert Storm, test pilot school, four space shuttle flights at NASA, and every day since I retired – which I did after my wife Gabby was shot in the head while serving her constituents."
"In combat, I had a missile blow up next to my jet and flew through anti-aircraft fire to drop bombs on enemy targets," he continued. "At NASA, I launched on a rocket, commanded the space shuttle, and was part of the recovery mission that brought home the bodies of my astronaut classmates who died on Columbia. I did all of this in service to this country that I love and has given me so much."
"Secretary Hegseth’s tweet is the first I heard of this," he added. "I also saw the President’s posts saying I should be arrested, hanged, and put to death. If this is meant to intimidate me and other members of Congress from doing our jobs and holding this administration accountable, it won’t work. I’ve given too much to this country to be silenced by bullies who care more about their own power than protecting the Constitution."
Give Hogsbreath another fifth and tell him to fock all the way off back to hell where he came from!
79-Year-Old President Flies Into A Rage After Paper Notes That He's Old
He mad.
Guess what dimwit? You will grow older still until you're dead! And you've done nothing with your sad life but fail! Happy Thanksgiving!
GOP Rep Lets The Venezuela Invasion Cat Out Of The Bag
It's all about the oil.
Florida Republican Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar made an appearance on Kudlow's show on Fox Business Network this Monday, and was literally salivating over the prospect of American companies going in there and taking their oil while cheer leading for the Trump administration to invade Venezuela.
The addiction to fossil fuel will destroy all of us.
Conservative 'confusion' after MAGA revealed as 'propaganda coup': constitutional scholar
"What we’ve discovered is that the last 10 years haven’t been a direct ideological shift so much as a propaganda coup," he says.
In other words bullshit from nitwits.
Could This TN Special Election Help End Mike Johnson's Speakership BEFORE The Midterms?
"Happy Thanksgiving week!
Republicans are in absolute disarray, everybody hates Donald Trump, his healthcare 'plan' fell apart before it got out the gate, looks like Trump’s gerrymandering thing is just yet another one of his wet sloppy turds, everybody is a rat who wants to abandon a sinking ship, House Republicans are leaking to Punchbowl that there are more resignations coming, Rep. Don Bacon said out loud that he thought about resigning over Trump’s Russian 'peace plan' for Ukraine, the Secretary of Hair and Makeup is having a prissy fit threatening to court martial Senator Mark Kelly, maybe he’s drunk, and the FBI and DOJ say they’re going to harass Kelly and those other five Democrats for reminding servicemembers that their duty is to the country and the Constitution, not to Stupid Hitler.
So obviously things are going well for them."...
A slate of new Texas laws go into effect December and January. Here’s what to watch.
Laws include restricting transgender people’s access to public bathrooms, allowing lawsuits against abortion pill providers, and replacement of the STAAR test.
New fascist laws in the fascist state of Texas. Be forewarned or move out!
Did Denmark Find the Answer to Immigration—While Trump Chose Barbarism Instead?
How a small nation’s pragmatic, humane approach exposes the lie behind America’s manufactured “crisis” and offers a roadmap for defeating the racist strongmen weaponizing immigration for power.
Senator Mark E. Kelly, Patriot of Patriots
..."The contrast between Mark Kelly and Pete 'Whiskeyleaks' Hegseth or Donald 'Bonespurs' Trump couldn’t be larger.
The social media announcement put out by Hegseth’s 'Department of War' mentioned 'serious allegations of misconduct' against Kelly, suggesting that Kelly could be recalled to active duty 'for court-martial proceedings or administrative measures.'
This is a dangerous move — almost as dangerous as putting federal troops into American cities over the objections of their mayors and governors or killing sailors on vessels in international waters because they’re 'suspected' of smuggling drugs.
Trump likes military tribunals because they don’t require the same extent of due process as regular trials — and Trump has shown his contempt for due process. In the 2024 presidential campaign, Trump called for those he perceives to be his enemies to be prosecuted in military tribunals. He said former representative Liz Cheney was 'guilty of treason' because she participated in the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol."
All this shows us who the traitor is!
Hegseth Claims Kelly Wears Medals “In Wrong Order"
Please note: "What is Considered a Military Commendation?: A military commendation is an award or decoration presented to a member of the armed forces in recognition of meritorious service, outstanding achievement, or acts of courage that do not warrant a higher award such as a medal for valor. These commendations serve as official acknowledgement and recognition of a service member’s contributions and dedication, boosting morale and documenting exemplary performance in their military record. They are a tangible representation of the individual’s commitment and contribution to the mission."
"According to Army Regulation 600-8-22, if downgraded, a Bronze Star Medal recommendation will be downgraded to an Army Commendation Medal. This applies only to the U.S. Army."
What does Hegseth have in medals?
Bronze Star commendations
Military service commendations
Combat Infantry designation
Purple Heart recognitions
(Do you see the word medal?)
Kelly’s military service includes an impressive list of achievements:
More than 5,000 flight hours logged
Over 375 carrier landings
Multiple Air Medals
Distinguished Flying Crosses
Defense Superior Service Medal
Legion of Merit
Naval Commendation recognitions
(Do you see the word medal?)
"These honors reflect not only combat excellence but also leadership, precision, and long-term dedication to service."
Fuck off on this chicken shit, "Little Pete." It does not become a ex-soldier to be an asshole.
Newsmax Host Compares Mark Kelly To Benedict Arnold
We know who the traitors are. Look in the mirror, ROB FINNERTY!
"The constitution is very important and sacred. Until it gets in their way." -- Šcott C - Vive la résistance (comments)
"I’m surprised anyone can hear what that dried up old cunt is saying, considering how many levels of Vaseline and cheesecloth they must be using to make her look like she’s seventy." -- Happy_Housewife (comments)
"AMAZING…of the 6 Congresspeople to go after, this regime decides to take on the most famous, decorated, bravest and heroic. Kelly won’t back down, he has a shit ton of allies & admirers, and earned adoration & sympathy for his devotion to his injured wife. This is going to be a shameful disaster for Kegsbreath & Piggy.
I always thought bullies were a lot smarter about picking their targets." -- Uncle Mark - Gobble This (comments)
Georgia Prosecutor Drops 2020 Charges Against Trump
A perect example of a crook's crook!
Our law is broken beyond all hope of repair. Thanks, to Trump and his Nazis! One more reason he has to go.
OpenAI Says Boy’s Death Was His Own Fault for Using ChatGPT Wrong
He brought death on himself! AI can talk you into it?
Nvidia CEO Says You’re “Insane” If You Don’t Use AI to Do Literally Everything
Duh, we know who the insane motherfuckers are, Jensen!
Thanksgiving Dinner Headed for Tragedy as Disastrous AI Recipes Devour Internet
"Food bloggers and recipe developers are warning home cooks to be wary of AI-generated recipes that could turn this year’s Thanksgiving dinner into a tragedy.
Jensen, we are all ROTFLOAO!
US turkey flock shrinks to a 40-year low as Thanksgiving costs soar
No turkey for you! You kidding?
Affordability means freezing to death, right?
"You know what everyone loves heading into winter and the holiday season? The looming—and increasing—threat of having their power shut off.
And how is President Donald Trump going to deal with this? By lying, of course."
Irony Alert! Trump Calls Pritzker A ‘Big Fat Slob’
What else do you expect from a retarded defective?
DHS’s pack of liars.
"It is well past time for journalists to stop granting any credibility to statements from the Department of Homeland Security
Time after time, official statements from DHS — including ICE and the Border Patrol — have turned out to be malicious fabrications, often intended to blame the victims for their own brutality...."
Viola Fletcher, oldest survivor of 1921 Tulsa massacre, dies at 111
“I have been blessed with a long life – and have seen the best and worst of this country. I think about the horrors inflicted upon Black people in this country every day.”
'25th Amendment shiver': Trump's meeting with Mamdani did not go to plan: biographer
"Michael Wolff suggested the president's plan had been to be tough but instead Trump looked as though he was won over by the Democratic socialist during their Oval Office press conference. The slip up from Trump, who had reportedly been set to be tough on Mamdani only to say he and the NYC mayoral elect agreed on several issues, has made some insiders 'shiver,' The Daily Beast reported."
White House Communications Director Steven Cheung has since hit out at Wolff for his comments. He said, "Michael Wolff is a lying sack of s**t and has been proven to be a fraud. He routinely fabricates stories originating from his sick and warped imagination, only possible because he has a severe and debilitating case of Trump Derangement Syndrome that has rotted his peanut-sized brain."
Steven Cheung could very well have been Hitler's fat fuck Communications Director.
'Clear violation of military law': MS NOW host says Hegseth doomed his own lawmaker threat
"While nitpicking, Hegseth failed to note that several of Kelly's medals were for valor in battle, and as Punchbowl News points out, his posts will almost certainly raise questions of so-called unlawful command influence over the military judicial process," said Hayes. "You see, in the military, where you, of course, have to follow orders, right? There are laws against commanders trying to influence criminal proceedings."
In other words, Hayes continued, "Hegseth is picking public fights with Kelly in ways that make clear what the commander-in-chief and Defense Secretary want. That is a clear violation of military law. In fact, it could doom any military case against Kelly in precisely the same way that Trump's DOJ and his handpicked novice prosecutor, Lindsey Halligan, managed to screw up the revenge cases against James Comey and Letitia James."
"What they have tried to do with the criminal justice system, they are now apparently trying to do with the military justice system," said Hayes.
Throw Hogsbreath's ass in stir!
Elon Musk’s beloved DOGE has closed. But its legacy is deadly
DOGE's final tallies include millions of deaths projected by 2030 and over 200,000 job cuts
The executioner awaits.
Member Of Karoline Leavitt’s Family Arrested By ICE
How soon til they get to her?
Nothing but trash as that is all Trump ever hires.
Third Unvaxxed KY Baby Dies Of Whooping Cough
RFK jr strikes again! How many more will he kill?
Republicans Want To Get Rid Of Auto Safety Features
They love us so.
Foreign Tourists To Get $170 Surcharge At Natl Parks
Tourism takes another hit from Trump.
DOJ Admits Noem Defied Judge On Deportation Flight
Throw her ass in prison!
"LOCK HER UP, LOCK HER UP, LOCK HER UP, LOCK HER UP, LOCK HER UP,
LOCK HER UP, LOCK HER UP, LOCK HER UP, LOCK HER UP, LOCK HER UP,
LOCK HER UP, LOCK HER UP, LOCK HER UP, LOCK HER UP, LOCK HER UP,
LOCK HER UP, LOCK HER UP, LOCK HER UP, LOCK HER UP, LOCK HER UP,
LOCK HER UP, LOCK HER UP, LOCK HER UP, LOCK HER UP, LOCK HER UP,
LOCK HER UP, LOCK HER UP, LOCK HER UP, LOCK HER UP, LOCK HER UP!!!" — TexasBoy (comments)
"In El Salvador" — Kirkuchiyo (comments)
"Forget contempt, she needs to be imprisoned for life for mass kidnapping." — lizdhm (comments)
Trump Screams Over NYT Report About His Aging
Everything about him is phoney. Therefore aging doesn't apply to him nor does plaque.
"He is the most obnoxious, self-aggrandizing, lying piece of shit that may have ever walked the earth." — ASFT (comments)
Karoline Leavitt: 'Can't Have' Soldiers Asking If Orders Are Legal
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt insisted that the United States "can't have" soldiers questioning whether orders are legal after Democrats pointed out that troops have a responsibility not to follow illegal orders.
Can't you see her in a storm trooper uniform barking out "YOU VIL FOLLOW ORDERS!"
She can fuck all the way off to hell!
Former Brazil President Bolsanaro Finally In Jail For Coup Attempt
This Trump buddy was apparently making plans to escape to America and meet with Trump.
If they can get this shit pile they can get TRUMP!
'I Saw It On Tape!' Bill Maher Stunned As Lara Trump Denies Trump Called Woman 'Piggy'
Bill Maher called out Lara Trump after she tried to deny that her father-in-law called a reporter "piggy."
They all want you to believe 2 + 2 = 5.
Here's the thing: It's easy to fake any goddamn thing you wnat to fake in this authoritarian lie we're living in!
Layoffs surge and consumer confidence tumbles under Trump as holidays approach
“Consumers were notably more pessimistic about business conditions six months from now,” said Dana Peterson, the Conference Board’s chief economist. “Mid-2026 expectations for labor market conditions remained decidedly negative, and expectations for increased household incomes shrunk dramatically, after six months of strongly positive readings.”
Now, just six percent of workers say that jobs are “plentiful,” down from 28.6% one month ago.
Quiet, Piggy
Whew. Last week was...a week. Enraging, astounding, often venomous, with flailing small dicktator energy all around. There were pigs, dogs, bonesaws, pedophiles, tumbling polls, charming Marxists, almost everything he's done declared illegal and defiant Democrats threatened with death for, um, defending the rule of law. Sen. Chris Murphy's message to those still complacent before the growing dangers posed by a cornered, venal, fascist loser: Maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side."
Over the last bungled weeks of a shambolic presidency that's transmuted America into ugly chaos, the wannabe king has suffered enough losses - electoral, legal, political, economic - some observers argue he's finally losing his mystifying "air of impenetrability," with polls showing him underwater on every issue, including immigration. As U.S. consumer sentiment falls over 7 points to record lows - thanks disastrous tariffs! - he has a lame 26% approval rating on the cost of living, 76% of Fox viewers say the economy is bad, and even cult members shopping for the holidays are reportedly starting to notice the dissonance between his gold ballroom and their unaffordable "groceries," even if he did invent the elegant word. Hell, they might even spot the idiocy of a guy who recently revealed he had an MRI, insisted it had "the best result," but when asked if it was for his brain raved, "I have no idea what they analyzed, but whatever they analyzed, they analyzed it well."...
Newsmax: The CIA Is Brainwashing You To Hate Trump
It appears that this Nazi fake reporter is the brainwashed victim. Or is he just a goddamn Nazi liar! He's the "massive psyops."
FACT!"... there were significant interactions between the Trump campaign and Russian officials. These findings are detailed in reports such as the one from NPR and the AP News, which emphasize that Russian interference did occur and that the investigations were warranted based on the evidence available at the time."
"So Carl...
I'm supposed to believe that you worked for the CIA and you're reading from a Psy-Ops manual on air. A manual that would be classified.
Is that what you're trying to sell me here?" — Šcott C - Vive la résistance (comments)
"Excuse after excuse after excuse after excuse after...
Conspiracy theory after conspiracy theory after conspiracy theory after...
I like to think America is getting tired of this right-wing crackpot nonsense ... but I still want to punch this propagandist." — Bert_Bauer (comments)
Leaked memo reveals Hegseth is coming after Boy Scouts next
Here he will fall into a well of the worst kind of shit he's ever tried to wipe off.
The Nazi bastard needs a damn good blanket party!
Trump's vicious response proves he's cornered — and dangerous
"This was always going to be one of the most dangerous junctures of Donald Trump’s godawful second term, though I admit it arrived a bit earlier than expected.
How would the dangerous, ill-bred lout, who’s never seen a lie he didn’t like, handle it when the truth about him and his failed policies were dragged into the unfiltered light of hundreds of sunny days for all of us to see?
How would the man who stalked America’s countryside last year, the grotesque billionaire Elon Musk in tow, bombastically floating empty promises and plenty of hate during his profitable, one-after-another hate rallies, handle it when he was found out?
How would the man who promised to release the list of Jeffrey Epstein’s vulgar cohorts deal with the blowback from many in his racist cult, when it was clear all he was really prepared to give them was yet another song and dance, instead of a list of the repugnant headliners behind these horrible assaults on our children.
How would the man handle it when his vile name was used by Democrats all over the map to warn against more of the poison he was dealing, while sweeping to landslide victories in places like New Jersey and Virginia in the first significants elections since America chose so spectacularly wrong a year earlier ...
Well, we got our answer last Thursday, when the unfit Trump took to his caustic, state-run social media channel and threatened to hang politicians who he doesn’t like."
Ex-Fox star Hegseth vows 'uniform inspection' for Sen Mark Kelly as he questions medals
"Mr. Wet Brain" on display!
"Often photos seen on the internet are reversed. This undoubtedly is the case with Kelly’s picture of his medals. Hegseth will have a difficult time extracting his foot from his mouth."
Hogsbreath's wet brain is so damaged he doesn't know what a reversed image is.
Amateur Hour At 1600 Pennsylvania Ave
There is an ancient sunsetter that stoppeth one in three...
An Ignominious End to a Lawless Prosecution
The Stupid stops here?
"So where does this leave the rule of law? Sadly, that’s in the hands of a menacing president and a savagely unethical attorney general who both operate under a set of laws that were designed against an historical presumption that prosecutors act with integrity based on facts and law, not malice. Those days are over."
May they all die of slow, bitterly painful stomach cancer!
Why Is Gov. Greg Abbott Supporting Trump’s Push to Expand Presidential Power?
Because he is a midget fascist and wants to fuck everyone of us as much as his tiny hurted ego has been?
Mark Kelly Is The Man Pete Hegseth Will Never Be. Tabs, Tues., Nov. 25, 2025
Somebody said that thing about Mark Kelly on Stephanie Ruhle’s show last night and it was correct so we stole it for the tabs headline.
Anyway, willkommen bei Ihren Tabs!
Every Democrat needs to go on TV and call Pete Hegseth a little bitch, just the way Ruben Gallego did right here:
All your updates on that story later this morning!
Nazi Clownfillers Barbie in the White House says DOJ is going to appeal the dismissal of the Comey and James cases, because “everybody knows that James Comey lied to Congress, it’s as clear as day!” Which is so funny because it’s such an obscure line from his long-ago testimony that they’re fixated on, and their conspiracy theories about him lying are long debunked, and oh fuck it, Karoline Leavitt is an amoral liar who isn’t in possession of a human soul, there’s no point in trying to correct what she says. [Acyn on Twitter]
So this was a hilarious moment on the TV news, where the CNN person was like “let us make discussions about the proposal Donald Trump is releasing today to fix Obamacare HOLD ON WE ARE JUST GETTING WORD that Donald Trump is doing that never.”
Lots more to read in this essay on our fake leaders in their Shit House!
Under Trump’s Regime Only Obedience is Legal and Even Discussing Defiance is a Crime?!?
Trump has attacked the American Way and Congress MUST proceed with investigations and impeachment; rightwingers on SCOTUS notwithstanding, no one is above the law in a functioning democracy.
"Trump and the spineless sycophants in his administration have rejected the entire idea of a rules-based society. He and his lickspittles are turning the presidency into a throne, trying to transform you and me into its subjects, and painting as enemies anyone who insists soldiers, sailors, marines, and airmen (and others in government) should follow the law."
May they all die in jail!
Hegseth Threatens To Court-Martial Mark Kelly
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's so-called Department of War threatened to court-martial Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) after he appeared in a video stating that U.S. troops have a constitutional duty to refuse illegal orders.
Make Kelly is 100 time the man this two-bit asswipe could ever hope to be!
RESIGN YOU CHEAP IMITATION OF A MAN!
"Department of War.
Fuck all of these fascist Nazi swine." — ButtHurtBoomers (comments)
"Senator Kelly shits more loyal and patriotic things than Kegsbreath every day. Kegsbreath has done NOTHING of note in his miserable life. Motherfucker!!!" — mongpat (comments)
"So, after receiving his orders from a five times draft dodger the drunk makes a fool of himself threatening a highly decorated member of our military. I'm certain that will enhance his stature with our soldiers and sailors!
And, perfectly timed just at the moment Trump sells out a Democratic nation to his puppet master Putin!
WTF, America? Really, WTF?" — 30,000 Lies (comments)
"DUI Kegseth better recognize that he likely is held in contempt by the majority of the military rank and file and especially by the brass, especially after that stunt he pulled a few months ago. Dumb, greasy, tattooed fascist secrets leaker is headed for a reckoning in court, maybe even international court for Venezuelan boat attacks. Pretend tough guy is way out of his league.
Kelly will have him for breakfast. Petey's orange squash-for-brains master will toss him under the bus when this sham investigation fails. He will be standing in line at the exit door behind Hooligan, Blondi, Kashyappy and his dog Bongo." — yehmayah (comments)
RFK Jr. Blames Peanut Allergies On Vaccines
Forget the evidence, he has five kids.
Also he has bats in his belfry!
Cultists Who Bought Trump’s Coin Have Lost It All
"The selloff is part of a broader rout that’s wiped out more than $1 trillion of value across the digital asset world. The Trump family’s fortune has fallen to about $6.7 billion from $7.7 billion in early September, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, a decline largely tied to its growing portfolio of crypto ventures.
Those holdings involve intricate deals that go beyond straight bets on the value of digital currencies. Everyday investors, who have more ways than ever before to invest in Trump-linked projects, stand to feel greater pain. Any speculator who bought Trump’s memecoin at its peak after it was announced inauguration weekend, for instance, would have lost almost the entire value of their investment by this month."
Enjoy your holiday!
Graham: Trump’s Plan Would “End The War Honorably”
Neither Graham nor Trump know what the word "honorably" means.
WaPo: Power Shutoffs Due To Unpaid Bills Are Soaring
"In Pennsylvania power shutoffs have risen 21 percent this year, with more than 270,000 households losing electricity, according to state data through October. The average electricity bill in the state, meanwhile, has risen 13 percent from a year ago, as utilities upgrade electric grids to accommodate a burst of new data centers, according to an analysis of federal data by NEADA, which represents state directors of energy aid programs for low-income families."
Merry Christmas, suckers!
'Explosive resignations' to rock GOP as reps tire of being treated 'like garbage': insider
“More explosive early resignations are coming," that senior House Republican added. "It’s a tinder box. Morale has never been lower. Mike Johnson will be stripped of his gavel and they will lose the majority before this term is out.”
'That is not the law': Professor schools JD Vance as he scrambles to defend Trump threats
Idiots failing is not surprising.
Charlie Kirk’s death is tearing MAGA apart
The killing of the Turning Point USA founder didn’t unify the base — it triggered infighting
Buyers Still Haven’t Gotten Their $499 “Trump Phone”
Top notch comedy!
Scott Bessent: Move To Red States To Avoid Inflation
Scott, you should go to hell and get out of our government!
GOP Rep: Ukraine Shouldn’t Sign Trump’s Peace Plan
“The inception of this agreement seems to have come from a [Trump special envoy Steve] Witkoff discussion with the Russian [Kirill] Dmitriev, who heads up the Russian sovereign wealth fund. It’s unclear how much input was given by either Ukraine or our European allies.”
"Fuck, Hitler gave 'security guarantees' in 1938 in Munich to Chamberain.
Security guarantees , especially from the USA, mean fuck all.
As we can see even the US Constitution means fuck all at this stage." — JackFknTwiat (comments)
Felon Got Trump Pardon After Paying “Lobbyists” $1M
Pardons for sale! Bargain pricing! Enquire: Donald Trump, Scam Artist!
'Contrary to American interests': Trump's newest meltdown leads to ridicule from experts
Donald Trump on Sunday uncorked a massive attack on certain allies amid a brewing new scandal, leading to condemnation from experts and political observers alike.
Trump took to Truth Social during what some have called "one of the biggest foreign policy scandals in history" involving disputed reports that Marco Rubio disseminated Russia-written documents to Ukrainian officials and passed them off as a U.S. peace deal.
In his weekend blow up, Trump blamed former President Joe Biden for the war and said in all caps, "I INHERITED A WAR THAT SHOULD HAVE NEVER HAPPENED, A WAR THAT IS A LOSER FOR EVERYONE, ESPECIALLY THE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE THAT HAVE SO NEEDLESSLY DIED. UKRAINE 'LEADERSHIP' HAS EXPRESSED ZERO GRATITUDE FOR OUR EFFORTS, AND EUROPE CONTINUES TO BUY OIL FROM RUSSIA."
The responses came quickly.
MSNBC journalist Sam Stein reported on Sunday:
"Trump with a lengthy statement that says not too much but accuses Ukraine leader of not expressing gratitude for the help the US given which is just factually not true (Zelensky has gone out of his way to express gratitude after the Oval blow up)."
CNN journalist Jim Sciutto wrote, "Three European countries account for the bulk of those Russian oil purchases: Hungary, Slovakia and Turkey. Trump himself [g]ave Hungary a one-year exemption to buy Russian oil earlier this month."
Ex-federal prosecutor Joyce Vance added, "This war is not about Donald Trump. It’s about Russian aggression, which he now seeks to reward, contrary to Ukrainian, European, and American interests."
Rep. Don Bacon, a Republican congressman, chimed in with, "The President continues to ignore that it is Russia who invaded Ukraine & bombing cities every night. Putin ordered this invasion. Why the moral confusion? The war started before Trump’s first term. I’ve heard President Zelenskyy thank America many times for our military aid."
Michael MacKay, who says he has a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics and Political Science, also weighed in:
"Fascist Russia is at war with Western civilization and invaded Ukraine in 2014. The Russian Federation is the aggressor and the sole reason for the state of war. Trump is a Russian asset and traitor to the United States."
Face reality, America! Dump Trump Now!
Owens: The Macrons Have Hired Hit “Squad” To Kill Me
I'll bet they aren't the only ones!
Many Major MAGA X Accounts Exposed As Foreign
Wasting time in Elon's X garbage pit.
New US Peace Plan Translated From Original Russian
The White House has acknowledged that Kirill Dmitriev, Vladimir Putin’s envoy, wrote the proposal together with Donald Trump’s special representative Steve Witkoff.
"Dumb and Dumber!"
Rubio makes 'complete mess' of peace deal as GOP senators claim he distanced US from plan
"Reacting to the alarming back-and-forth Saturday, former defense department official Dan Shapiro exclaimed, “Holy hell. Can these people get their act together?"
“If Congress functioned, there would be hearings about this entire train wreck starting on Monday,” reporter Mike Rothschild wrote Saturday on X.
“What a complete mess,” journalist Aaron Parnas added.
Lil Marco an the Peter Principal.
Under Siege By DHS Nazis, Charlotte Refuses To Hush, Hush. Sweet!
"Willy Aceituno, a Honduras-born US citizen, after DHS goons broke his truck’s window, dragged him out, and pinned him down in a parking lot Saturday. Video screenshot: Associated Press via NY Post on YouTube.
"Local officials in Charlotte, North Carolina, said Thursday that federal goons’ occupation of the city was ending, with an announcement from Mecklenburg County Sheriff Garry McFadden that the latest deportation festival had ended. McFadden said in a statement that the Border Patrol’s Five-Day Hate — dubbed “Operation Charlotte’s Web” by DHS because everything good and innocent must be desecrated by this administration — was winding down and would next hit New Orleans. That’s expected to start sometime after the Thanksgiving weekend, so DHS goons can take advantage of the big Blackshirt Friday deals."
"But within a few minutes, Homeland Security Propaganda Minister Tricia McLaughlin said it wasn’t so, and that the deportation/ethnic cleansing would continue until the area’s average complexion is at least a little less brown. In a statement, McLaughlin cackled, “Wrong. Operation Charlotte’s Web isn’t ending anytime soon,” then resumed her meal of adorable baby otters. You might assume she bites their heads off first, but she leaves that for last so they feel all the suffering."
"It appears that Bovino and SOME PIGS flew away from Charlotte Thursday when the wind caught the sticky webbing spewed from their asses. As CNN reports, that fueled “confusion about the state of the operation.” The Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s Office also says it stands by its statement. Therefore, we can say that Charlotte finds itself in a superposition where the Spiderpigs both are and are not up to evil fuckery in the city, until observation determines the state of reality. They’re Schrödinger's Nazis."
Pulitzer winner skewers 'disgraceful' Trump deal: 'Sold out by an American president'
Donald Trump's plan for Ukraine is a "disgrace," according to a foreign affairs expert who has won three Pulitzer Prizes.
Thomas L. Friedman, the foreign affairs Opinion columnist for New York Times, skewered the president for his effort to achieve the Nobel Peace Prize.
"Finally, finally, President Trump just might get a peace prize that would secure his place in history. Unfortunately, though, it is not that Nobel peace prize he so covets. It is the 'Neville Chamberlain Peace Prize' — awarded by history to the leader of the country that most flagrantly sells out its allies and its values to an aggressive dictator," he wrote. "This prize richly deserves to be shared by Trump’s many 'secretaries of state' — Steve Witkoff, Marco Rubio and Dan Driscoll — who together negotiated the surrender of Ukraine to Vladimir Putin’s demands without consulting Ukraine or our European allies in advance — and then told Ukraine it had to accept the plan by Thanksgiving." He added, "That is this coming Thursday."
'Suddenly exposed' DOGE employees fear prosecution after Musk abandoned them: report
His house of cards is collapsing.
'First to surrender': GOP lawmaker breaks from Trump with grim warning about his 'legacy'
The rats continue to leave Trump's sinking ship.
Many more are ready to leave MAGA — and I know how hard that is
MAGA is a community united by fear and despair. If your loved one is ready to change, understand that
Liberty Counsel Issues Annual Xmas Retail Boycott List: Barnes & Noble, Dick’s, Gap, Walgreens, TJ Maxx, More
Thanks. I wasn't planning to shop at all these merchants but now I damn sure will!
GOP Moves To Chill Research Into Extremist Groups
The Nazis help their Nazis!
Five Dems Targeted By Trump Gets Bomb Threats
Stalinist swine!
"”The cult is claiming that the six Democrats called for overthrowing the government, which of course is beyond hypocritical.”
Of course they are claiming that. Every accusation is a confession.
But this goes beyond merely their lack of honesty. Nobody was advocating for Overthrowing the government. They were advocating for soldiers not obeying clearly illegal orders.
And in fact, if these keyboard warriors knew anything about the law, rather than what they prefer to believe, they would know this:
The Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) requires service members to disobey 'manifestly illegal' orders, though this is defined as an order that a 'person of ordinary sense and understanding would know' is wrong. Following an order that violates the Constitution, U.S. law, or international law can result in criminal charges for the service member. While there is a duty to obey lawful orders, this duty ends when an order is clearly unlawful.
Well, Woopsie" — BensNewLogin (comments)
We have some real stupid fucks claiming to be ex-miltary. Show us your discharge.
Trump Plummeting In All Aspects As Poll Numbers Crater
He's sinking faster than the Titanic.
Or the Hindenburg!
43 points underwater and still breathing?
Judge Forced To Intervene After ICE Wrongfully Detains Superior Court Intern
The ICE-holes threatened to smash the judge's car windows.
Blow the slack-jawed bastards back to hell where they came from!
Democratic Rep. Seth Magaziner called the incident part of the administration's "reckless actions."
“This is yet another example of the disregard for civil liberties by immigration enforcement under the Trump administration,” he said, adding that he will “continue to call out the administration’s reckless actions.”
According to the outlet, Lieutenant Governor Sabina Matos referred to the ICE agents’ actions as an “attempted abduction."
Scum of the earth!
NY Gov Hochul Goes There: Elise Stefanik Is 'Full Of Shit'
Fact check: True
"She's full of shit," Hochul said. "I'm sorry. I mean, she really is. I mean, this is such an extreme position, such an extreme position."
As are all Nazis.
Thanks,Governor!
If Threatening to Hang Members of Congress Isn’t Impeachable, What Is?
If Trump wants veterans in Congress killed for affirming U.S. law, doesn’t that make him the very danger the Founders warned would destroy the republic, the kind impeachment was designed for?
"Trump just called for the execution of American veterans — all of them also elected members of Congress — because they reminded our active duty soldiers that it’s a violation of both American and international law to commit war crimes.
If that’s not impeachable, what is?
This is his most dangerous and insane escalation yet, because it crosses a bright red line the Founders themselves warned about: a president openly demanding the execution of members of Congress for telling U.S. service members to obey the law.
And the horror of it isn’t subtle. It’s not, like in the days of Nixon and Reagan, even coded. It’s not even wink-and-nod stochastic terrorism.
This is the President of the United States calling for hanging lawmakers — by name — for the “crime” of reminding military personnel that their oath is to the Constitution, not to him."
Trump’s White House wants to tell CNN, WaPo who to hire and fire
The Trump administration's effort to control mainstream media is expanding and accelerating
Did they laugh in his stupid face?
ROTFLMAO!
"So the MAGA effort to restructure mainstream media from the inside out is not just focused on the opinion pages, but also on newsrooms themselves. Institutional capture through ownership, power over personnel and regulatory instruments to exert control over mass media is a defining characteristic of fascism. Trump has long referred to the press as the “enemy of the people,” a phrase that has a brutal history with its use by authoritarians including Josef Stalin, Mao Zedong and Nazi propagandists like Joseph Goebbels. The president’s contempt for a free, independent press tells us where his loyalties lie — and what a bleak future could hold."
Trump: MTG Quitting Is “Great News For The Country”
Now you do the same, you worthless pile of manure!
Marge sees the Trump ship sinking and she's gettng out!
Russia Helped Write Trump’s Ukraine “Peace Proposal”
The ememy writes the terms of surrender. Total bullshit!
"Neville Chamberlain is no longer the worst appeaser in human history.
Fuck Trump, and his goons, with a barbed-wire dildo." — Karl Dubhe IV (commentsO
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro Gets Arrested Ahead Of 27-Year Sentence, Reportedly Plotted To Flee
Nope. This asshole has to spend time in jail with Trump.
Calls grow to release transcript of 'disturbing' Trump-MBS call after Khashoggi murder
America has grown weary of having a murderer in the White House
Every Trump move is an act of desperation
"Donald Trump is a desperate man.
The evidence is overwhelming. Polls show the American public has soundly rejected him. He’s furiously backpedaling on his inflationary tariffs. He’s given up on blocking a House vote to release the Epstein files. His own loyalists are turning against him. He’s deteriorating physically and mentally. Regular people are chasing his masked thugs out of their neighborhoods. And he’s on the verge of starting a war with Venezuela that nobody wants — just to distract from his failures and make himself feel better about himself."
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito temporarily restores GOP-backed Texas map: report
"Trump, Miller, Noem, Hegseth — they go in the first wave.
Roberts, Thomas, Alito — they're next." — Time2Resist (comments).
"If they allow dancing in Hell, Scalia is doing the Fox Trot with Marge Schott. — Stephen Sprowls(comments)
Prison first, then hell.
DOJ Investigates Venezuela For “Stealing” 2020 Election
The insanity of the Trump Crime Syndicate.
Trump must have a war to distract from his criminal activities.
Study: Tariffs Will Cost Xmas Shoppers Extra $41 Billion
Good thing we all have credit cards with high spending limiits!
Trump Admin No Longer Considers Nursing As A 'Professional Degree'
Limiting nurses' access to funding for graduate education tracks for this sadistic administration.
Totally retarded!
MTG retires from Congress and predicts 'Republicans will likely lose the midterms'
Trump destroys another of his own! What did he threaten her with?
'That's also a crime': Democratic lawmakers file police reports against Trump
"Several Democratic members of the House of Representatives have filed official complaints with the U.S. Capitol Police Department after President Donald Trump endorsed a call to have them hanged."
Bald faced life threat!
"If that’s not a threat to violence I don’t know what is," Houlahan told The New Republic's Greg Sargent. "Even if he for whatever reason didn’t mean it or doesn’t act on it, he’s just unleashed a lot of people who are not necessarily well on me and my team and my family, and that’s also a crime."
"Over and over, Zinke falsely claimed that the video was telling the military not to follow "lawful orders," prompting CNN's Pamela Brown to fact-check him, noting that they said 'unlawful orders.'"
He called the "anger" a distraction, but dodged questions about whether it was appropriate for the president to claim Democrats were committing treason or sedition and that the punishment was "death."
Trump then spent Thursday re-posting comments from his followers saying, "hang them" and alleging the Democrats in the video were "traitors" and "domestic terrorists."
This: Litigation Tracker: Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions
Very serious violation of the law': Trump says military looking into Democrats’
The Nazi traitor is still flapping his retarded gums.
“Seditious behavior, punishable by death!” he continued.
Projecting again! Where's the firing squad?
"On Friday, U.S. Rep. Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA), who is one of the six lawmakers, was asked if she believed illegal orders have been given."
“Well, what I will say is that over the last nine or ten months, about 600 pieces of lawsuits have been filed in response to executive orders or orders in general, that this president and this administration has made. Of those, 150 or so have been ruled as being unlawful, many of them by judges that have been appointed by President Trump."
Swastikas Are Divisive, Not Hateful, Says Coast Guard UPDATE: Decision Reversed
LATE BREAKING UPDATE: The Coast Guard had to TACO and 'cave' on this dumb idea. Per CNN: "The US Coast Guard on Thursday issued a memo that reclassifies swastikas and nooses as “hate symbols,” in a rapid about-face after facing intense scrutiny for a previous policy change which downplayed their display as merely “potentially divisive.”" — eds.
Displaying a swastika will reportedly no longer be explicitly banned in the U.S. Coast Guard, after the Trump administration changed its policy to say that the image used by Nazis and white supremacists is not classified as a "hate symbol" but rather as a "potentially divisive" mark.
It also reportedly removed nooses—a symbol of hate against Black Americans—from its list of hate symbols, according to the Washington Post’s report, which the Department of Homeland Security denied.
“This is an absolute ludicrous lie and unequivocally false,” DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin wrote on X. “The [Post] should be embarrassed it published this fake crap.”
The Coast Guard also denied the report.
The claims that the U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses or other extremist imagery as prohibited symbols are categorically false. These symbols have been and remain prohibited in the Coast Guard per policy,” acting Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Kevin Lunday said in a statement to The Hill.
Still, the Post’s report was based on documents obtained and confirmed by a Coast Guard official who saw the policy change firsthand.
“We don’t deserve the trust of the nation if we’re unclear about the divisiveness of swastikas,” they said.
Giant AI-Generated Christmas Decoration Being Torn Down After Residents Noticed Grotesque Horrors Hidden in It
You'll never guess why.
Twitter Use Has Stagnated Pathetically Under Elon Musk
Who wants to roll around in a garbage pit?
Christian Hate Group Screams Abuse At FL Muslims
"There’s much more at both links above. This is the same Christian group that regularly screams abuse outside LGBTQ events such as Pride parades. Its founder Ruben Israel dropped dead a few years ago."
Is he still dead? With Xianists one never knows.
Pentagon Workers Accidentally Invade Mexican Beach
"BREAKING: The United States ACCIDENTALLY invaded Mexico today.
Good thing we DON’T have an alcoholic morning TV show host leading the Pentagon!"
The asswipes are so fucking stupid they can't read a map!
Border Patrol Tracked Cars Of “No Kings” Protesters
And whose money did the Nazi dildos waste on that?
France Investigates Musk’s Grok For Holocaust Denial
"Yesterday Grok declared Musk to be greater than Jesus and Hitler, as well as the world’s best blowjob giver."
'Unglued!' House lawmaker punches back after Trump calls for her execution
"Look, we love this country," said Goodlander. "We love our Constitution. We believe in it deeply. It is not sedition. It is not a crime to state what the federal law says, and what our law says is something really important for this moment that our servicemembers, our brave servicemembers who step up to serve our country, they obey only lawful orders. It's a core American principle rooted in our Constitution, and it's essential to our national security and to public safety. Because public safety and national security depend upon public trust."
"So what we've done is to say what the law is, and it's very telling that the president has become so unglued by a simple statement of federal law," she added.
Serial killers, sex offenders should not be permitted to casually call for an American's execution without being challenged at the least, if not arrested!
GOP's sinister flirtation points to something very dark for America
"Today I want to talk to you about a difficult subject. Let me start with the Trump regime’s ongoing accusations of antisemitism to extort billions of dollars from American universities — while simultaneously disregarding antisemitism within its own ranks.
Exhibit A is Harmeet Dhillon, now Trump’s assistant attorney general for civil rights. For the last 10 months, Dhillon has condemned prestigious universities for allowing what she deems “antisemitic” protests — and withheld research funding unless they agree to explicit measures supposedly to prevent antisemitism.
I was a Dartmouth trustee in the 1980s when its president, James O. Freedman, who was Jewish, endured the antisemitic barbs of an ascendant right-wing student group that included Dhillon, along with Laura Ingraham and Dinesh D’Souza.
In 1988, as editor of The Dartmouth Review, Dhillon published a column depicting Freedman as Adolf Hitler under the headline 'Ein Reich, Ein Volk, Ein Freedmann' — a play on a Nazi slogan, 'One Empire, One People, One Leader,' but substituting and misspelling Freedman’s name for 'Fuhrer.'...
"...But the problem of antisemitism in the ranks of Trump Republicans runs deeper than one antisemitic crackpot. Indeed, it runs deeper than the apparent hypocrisies of Kevin Roberts or Harmeet Dhillon.
It touches on a central question that everyone inside the regime and all who support it must grapple with: When does Trump authoritarianism bleed into fascism — along with the antisemitism that has historically fueled it?"
What Americans Should Understand About the Military Disobeying Illegal Orders
"...So while pundits and politicians continue fighting over the optics of the lawmakers’ video, the core reality remains: The safeguards are already built into the structure. The oaths already distribute responsibility. The law already forbids what some fear. And the officer corps already knows that they bear the constitutional duty to ensure that unlawful orders never reach the young men and women who follow them, and who, in effect, they also serve.
This is not a moment for panic. It is a moment for clarity.
If Americans understood the difference between the two oaths—one grounded in obedience, the other grounded in constitutional discernment—they would see that the republic’s defenses against unlawful orders are not theoretical. They exist. They function. They don’t depend on the whims of political actors on either side of the aisle, but on the integrity of those who swear to uphold them.
Marjorie Taylor Greene Thought the Mob Was Her Power Base: Now It's Her Predator
But the roar was never for her, it was for Trump.. And when he turned it against her, she learned the eternal rule: demagogue's followers don’t choose enemies, their leader does.
"Marjorie Taylor Greene has been dissed and ridiculed by the Left for years. Progressives mocked her lies, shredded her conspiracies, exposed her QAnon nonsense, and denounced her cruelty. And through it all she never once feared for her life.
She fundraised. She smirked. She gave speeches, traveled the country, and strutted through Congress like she owned the place.
But the second she angered the Republican base, barely forty-eight hours after she resisted Donald Trump’s demands and broke from the MAGA line, she suddenly feared for her life and needed private security."
The Warning We Ignore at Our Peril: From El Salvador’s Dungeons to America’s Doorstep
"We inhabit a historical moment that resurrects, with chilling familiarity, the state terrorism once made visible under Hitler, Franco, Mussolini, Pinochet, and other dictators who transformed cruelty into a governing philosophy. Central to such regimes lies a single, devastating truth: the law collapses the moment violence becomes its substitute. In this descent, due process evaporates, political opponents are rebranded as “terrorists,” and violence becomes the organizing principle of power. Independent media are smeared or silenced, universities are targeted for their critical capacities, and the spectacle of brown-shirted, goose-stepping thugs hunting down racialized others slips back into public view as a normalized, even celebrated, form of civic life."
Guess (Some) Trump Voters Not Into Pedophiles Or Poverty Either!
"It’s been mentioned that this might be the weakest week of Donald Trump’s second weak presidency, and when we say it’s been mentioned, we mean we mentioned it yesterday. As much as he’s a cornered rabid pig loser cuck baby wannabe Hitler, which absolutely does make him more dangerous, a large part of that whole tantrum he had yesterday saying six Democrats should be executed? Just because they reminded the troops that they’re supposed to defy illegal orders from rabig pig loser cuck baby wannabe Hitlers?
Yeah it’s because he’s a weak little bitch, and we’re all being forced to watch him cry about it.
Giant wanking motion, DOT GIF.
So let’s talk about where that absolute loser finds himself in the polls!
People talk a lot about how no matter how bad Trump is polling, he rarely goes under around 40 or so. People talk about it like that’s the floor, because a certain percentage of the country is just that lobotomized and brainwashed and racist and stupid and uneducated and DURRRRRRRR THEY’RE GONNN MAKE MY BABY LEARN TO COUNT IN ARABIC NUMBERS AND THAT’S GONNNNNN MAKE MY BABY TRANSGENDER!
Bless their hearts.
But there are a couple polls out this week that suggest that HOO BOY maybe that conventional wisdom might be wrong? Maybe Trump can go below 40? Maybe there are some MAGA idiots who don’t love pedophiles or tariffs or all the other terrible things Trump is doing?
Maybe they don’t like giving Ghislaine Maxwell free puppies while their healthcare premiums double? Maybe they don’t want to help build tacky new ballrooms for gold-plated pedo parties at the White House while they can’t afford to put any Thanksgiving Surroundings on their families?
Maybe they don’t like it when presidents say Americans are lying when they say they’re concerned about affordability?
Maybe some of his piggy white racist supporters feel betrayed when he suggests that the US needs to bring people in on H-1B visas because his piggy white racist supporters actually can’t do high information 21st century jobs? (LOL he’s right about that one.)
Maybe they actually do want the fucking Epstein Files?
All of them, Pam Bondi?"
Dem Rep Gets “24/7 Security” After Trump’s Threats
Serial Killer threatens Democrats!
Alabama Cop Arrested “No Kings” Protester Wearing Penis Outift Because “This Town Has Values”
ROTFLMAO!
The cop is the dick here. He's the Nazi doing the usual Nazi thing!
Where does your law say she can't dress like you, prick!
He's the one wearing the dick costume!
"Looks like the town is going to be writing Ms. Gamble a decent sized check as part of the cost of their 'values.'" — GayFordhamPrepGrad (comments)
Fairhope Police Department
161 North Section St.
Fairhope, AL 36532
That is located in "Darwin's Waiting Room."
Christian Hate Group Screams Abuse At FL Muslims
The hate is strong in these "holy" Xianist bigots.
"There is no hate like that of Christian Love." — Texas Boy (comments)
DOJ Offers To Defend Rioter Who Tried To Burn Quran
Zealot! What bullshit dogma does to the brain!
It needs to be cleared of asswipes like him.
"Christ is King!" Yes, the word "Christ" does translate to "anointed one" or "chosen one" in Greek. What other brilliant dogma do you have for us?
The Black Nazi is lucky he's still in one piece! In Alabama, which country is he referring to?
The good news is that the zealot sort is seeing diminishing numbers and will soon vanish.
Village Idiot Sean Duffy: Travelers Should Dress Better At Airports
Another Trump sycophant, in charge of a major Federal agency, giving ludicrous advice.
"Transportation Secretary and former reality show star Sean Duffy told Fox Business that people need to dress better when flying, which will somehow put them in a better mood when they travel. How exactly will that happen? Nobody knows.
Talk about putting lipstick on a pig. Or in Trump's case, a piggy."
Who Needs Competence When You Have Cronyism?
Trump and Pam Bondi make yet another questionable intirem US Attorney appointment.
"President Pedo and DOJ Barbie made another questionable appointment for a US Attorney. This time the appointee is Brad Schimel. Yes, that's right, the same Brad Schimel that got his butt handed to him to him, along with President Elmo, this past spring in an election for the Wisconsin Supreme Court."
Toxic sludge threatens at least 7 states — and the 'risk is already locked in'
Seven states are one flood away from a toxic sludge site spilling into the community.
Mother Jones reported Friday, "Florida, New Jersey, California, Louisiana, New York, Massachusetts, and Texas account for 80 percent" of the sites. "Most of this risk is already locked in."
Environmental issues? Trump has no idea what you are talking about!
'Misleading the American people': New York Times editorial board blasts Trump’s economy
"Beyond simply overstating his ability to impact prices, however, the board also accused Trump of actively pursuing policies that have driven up costs and the rate of inflation. Tariffs, the president’s most favored economic tool across both terms, were singled out as the clearest example of this."
FAILURE!
Federal Judge: Deploying Troops Into DC Is Illegal
And still we twiddle our thumbs while Trump robs us blind and shits on our laws and heritage!
Trump DOJ backtracks after major 'admission' in case against president's foe: court filing
What did we expect from a gang of hoods?
Susan Glasser: Our Grotesque, Corrupted Oligarchy
"Tim Cook and the other tech titans who dined with bone saw murderer MBS—and who’ve given millions to Trump to knock down our history for his gilded ballroom—expect the people who use their products every day to protect American democracy, while they reap its benefits to freely act against the public’s interest. Meanwhile, Trump’s special envoy is acting like an agent of the Russian government, and POTUS shows yet again that he is not a tough negotiator. Plus, Stephen Miller is spreading fear by design, Trump’s Epstein capitulation is still worth savoring, and Tim shares his postmortem on his Kamala interview."
The New Yorker’s Susan Glasser joins Tim Miller.
Dems Telling Troops To Disobey Illegal Orders, And Trump's Nazis Are Flipping Their Sh*t
"There’s a wonderful and timely PSA out right now from elected Democrats who have served in the military and in the intel community, reminding those like them currently serving that it is OK, and it is right, and it is indeed patriotic to disobey illegal, unconstitutional Nazi-ass orders from the likes of Donald Trump, Stephen Miller, and Secretary “Operation Wet Jockstrap” himself, Pete Hegseth. It reminds troops that the oath they swore was to the Constitution.
And Fox News and Miller and others like them are about to shit.
If the military and intel communities can disobey illegal and unconstitutional orders from fuckwitted MAGA Nazis, then who will do the illegal and unconstitutional things fuckwitted MAGA Nazis tell them to do? It is an insurrection!"
The oath clearly states you are defending the law of the U.S. Constitution, first and foremost! The oath then assumes that the orders the president and officers gives are Constitutional. Assume makes an ass out of you and me.
Is America Endangered by a Dark Addiction to Power in the Age of Trump & Epstein?
Neuroscience gives us one more warning. Losing power can feel like withdrawal. We're seeing this now as Donald Trump thrashes about, losing his grip on his party and his followers
Democrats Contact Police After Trump’s Death Threats
One can't count on "law enforcement" in a police state.
That' why we have to hang together or surely we will all hang separately.
Leavitt: Maybe Those Democrats Should Be Executed
Maybe whores should advertise their price.
"What are the odds that the "kill democrats" allowing the swastika (vomit) and similar are intentional LOOK OVER THERE, NOT EPSTEIN - not failing economy, not laughably dishonest jobs report and a million other things?
I fear that we see the Emperor in decline and he is getting more dangerous and desperate. As gut wrenching and evil as some of his actions and statements are, the frequency and gruesomeness seem to be escalating and I don't think that's an accident." — DaddySnark (comments)
IMPEACH AND REMOVE DONALD J TRUMP.
US Coast Guard Now Okay With Swastika Displays
"The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, an emblem of fascism and white supremacy inextricably linked to the murder of millions of Jews and that more than 400,000 U.S. troops died fighting against in World War II, as a hate symbol, according to a new policy that takes effect next month."
I see they now have forsaken their sacred honor and subscribe to hate.
They piss on every grave in Arlingtion. God damn them!
"The Pete Hegseth Nazi Tattoos Act of 2025
Beards? Out.
Your swastika and lighting bolts tattoos? In." — Mike C (comments)
"Hey, it wasn't like we weren't warned this would happen. Welcome to the Forth Reich, and remember above all else ... when the history looks back at this, there will be no "Good Americans". Just a nation and populace as a whole that committed hideous atrocities, and that brand will follow GENERATIONS of Americans." — Swamp Yankee (cmments)
Dem Sen. Chris Murphy: “The President Just Called For Executing Democrats, It’s Time To Pick A Fucking Side
“The president of the United States just called these people to be executed. If you are a person of influence in this country, maybe it’s time to pick a fucking side. If you are a Republican in Congress, if you are a Republican governor, maybe it’s time to draw a line in the sand and say that under no circumstances should the president of the United States be calling on his political opposition to be hanged.
We are at a very dangerous moment right now. The president is engaged in the wholesale incitement, endorsement and rationalization of political violence in this country. This is very slippery slope that we are on. This is a moment for people to step up, for Republicans to step up, for business leaders to step up. Anybody who has a voice or a soapbox in this country needs to draw a line in the sand.” – Sen. Chris Murphy, in a video posted to social media.
"Defend against foreign and domestic enemies." That's in the oath we've taken to our country in the military or in our government.
We never forsake it.
It is now time to defend our country against domestic enemies who have called for our deaths, so help us God.
'Punishable by DEATH': Trump calls for Democrats to be killed
President Donald Trump on Thursday accused Democratic lawmakers of sedition and openly called for them to be put to death—employing some of the most vile and incendiary rhetoric he's used to date.
"SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!" Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social, referring to a video a group of Democratic lawmakers who served in the military released on Tuesday, in which they urged troops not to follow illegal orders from Trump.
He's projecting. He means himself. The reckoning is knocking at his door!
Rep. Vindman Demands Transcript Of Call Between Trump And MBS
"The White House is facing calls to release a 'shocking and disturbing' phone call between Donald Trump and the Saudi Crown Prince about the gruesome murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Via The Daily Beast:
One day after the president insisted Mohammed bin Salman had nothing to do with Khashoggi’s killing, despite U.S. intelligence officials concluding he ordered the hit, a former Trump national security insider has claimed there is explosive evidence to the contrary.
Virginia Congressman Eugene Vindman was a National Security Council staffer under the first Trump administration. His work included reviewing certain calls between the president and foreign leaders.
He claims that one phone call he reviewed undercut Trump’s astonishing defense of the Crown Prince in the Oval Office on Tuesday, when he said of Khashoggi’s murder by Saudi agents: 'Things happen.'
'During my tenure on Trump’s White House National Security Council staff, I reviewed many of Trump’s calls with foreign leaders. Of all the calls I reviewed, two stood out as the most problematic,' said Vindman, a retired Army officer-turned-Democratic Congressman. 'The first, we all know, was between President Trump and President Zelensky, which resulted in President Trump’s first impeachment. The second was between President Trump and Mohammed bin Salman.'"
Murderers Row!
In Rare Self-Own, Trump Calls MAGA Base 'Dumb'
During today's speech, Donald Trump admitted his poll numbers are down after the latest from Reuters/Ipsos, but bashed his own supporters by claiming "smart people" have him way up in the polls.
"So my poll numbers just went down," he said. "But with smart people, they've gone way up."
"They've gone way up," he continued. "And I mean that."
He means to say, suck it up you stupid fucks and support me even if you lose your house, car and can't afford groceries or healthcare because he's the greatest president of all time. I know it, why don't you?
Obviously there are no smart people polls, but if you look at college educated people taking polls, Trump is in the shitter on that demographic. Something like 28-32 percent approving.
Trump only mentions his right leaning polls so the Epstein Files clearly have rattled him. Most of his supporters lay in the less educated column of voters.
Trump slammed for urging arrest of Democrats for 'seditious behavior'
"President Donald Trump is calling for the arrest of six Democratic military and Intelligence Community veterans now serving in Congress, alleging “seditious behavior” for appearing in a video telling members of the U.S. Armed Forces and IC that they have the right to refuse to obey illegal orders from the Commander in Chief.
“No one has to carry out orders that violate the law, or our Constitution,” the six lawmakers said. “Know that we have your back.”
March the Trump traitors to the gallows!
Only some of the blind can't see his crimes. But most can by now.
Long live our American Revolution!
'Frozen' labor market begins to crack as jobless rate rises under Trump
America dies a slow death under Trump's thumb!
“This is a frozen labor market that’s starting to crack,” observed Heather Long, the chief economist at Navy Federal.
Bombshell report details more farm bankruptcies in 6 months of Trump tariffs than all of 2024
How many will go under before the Trump Crime Syndicate comes to justice?
Trump reeks of 'decay and desperation' — and it’s wrecking his political goals
Georgetown University political science Professor Dan Nexon penned a thread that expressed optimism in the face of an ICE checkpoint outside of Washington, D.C.
Writing Wednesday evening, Nexon acknowledged, "Things are dark. I expect they will get far darker still. The light may remain obscured for a decade — or more." However, he witnesses many kindling a light amid the darkness.
"First time in months, I can feel the lingering presence of genuine optimism," Nexon wrote.
"Trump's popularity is cratering. His corruption is in full view. He unravels. It grows ever-harder for him to hide behind his orange mask. He smells, albeit still too faintly, of decay and desperation," wrote Nexon.
A deadly walking corpse.
'Highly abnormal': CNN legal expert flags 'huge loophole' in Epstein law Trump signed
""One really important thing I want people to understand, though, is that there's a huge loophole in the law itself that President Trump just signed and that says that DOJ does not have to make public any materials relating to ongoing criminal investigations," he continued.
"And what that means is it's going to be up to Pam Bondi, Todd Blanche, and Kash Patel," he added. "If they want to say, 'Well, that relates to some ongoing investigation,' it will be redacted or it will be left out, and we will not see that."
America you've been had by the criminal once again! The Revolution is being televised. You should watch and take notes on how to do what needs to be done.
Trump absolves MBS of Khashoggi killing — and shames all of us
Is the ability to get away with murder the true measure of political power?
"Murder Inc." goes global! Watch your backs.
Trump: I Signed The Bill To Release “Hoax” Epstein Files
"So he's admitting the files that are being released will be a hoax and not the real files?" — Fen (comments)
Logic is beyond Trump's rotting brain.
CDC Website Now Pushes Vaccine-Autism Batshittery
"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has repudiated its past insistence that vaccines do not cause autism after decades of fighting misinformation linking the two, blindsiding career staff and delighting anti-vaccine activists."
May they all die of slow stomach cancer.
Top Military Lawyer Said “Drug Boat” Strikes Are Illegal
Nazis make their own law.
"The JAG at Southern Command specifically expressed concern that strikes against people on boats in the Caribbean Sea and the eastern Pacific Ocean, whom administration officials call “narco-terrorists,” could amount to extrajudicial killings, the six sources said, and therefore legally expose service members involved in the operations."
Sharpen the guillotines!
Cruz Is Now On The White House’s Shitlist
Isn't he on everyone's?
Republicans have a taste for shit.
GOP speechwriter says 'wheels are coming off the Trump train'
“It's just based on pure politics because their boss told her to do so, like it's a banana republic,” Miller added. “And she assigned a Florida insurance lawyer to do it because none of the professionals would actually do it. And then that lawyer botches it so badly that the judge is gobsmacked. To me, that series of facts would want to make anybody in polite society … say, I don't want to be seen with Pam Bondi.”
It was never a train just a little red wagon.
Matt Gaetz Producer Goes Full Nazi Antisemitism
Sure, former George Santos staffer Vish Burra got fired, but his Nazi-like sympathies were no secret.
"Likening Jews to cockroaches and other vermin 'have a long and sordid history, beginning in the medieval period and intensifying during the 19th and early 20th century before reaching the horrific low in Nazi Germany under the Third Reich,' The Daily Beast pointed out."
Over 600 Americans were punished in 'pro-Trump machinery of retaliation' after Kirk’s death
"Two months after the assassination of MAGA podcaster Charlie Kirk, over 600 people have been targeted by the government with firings, suspensions, investigations and other actions, Reuters reports.
Educators, they note, are the main target, noting that "more than 350 education workers were fired, suspended or investigated in the days following the assassination, including 50 academics and senior university administrators, three high school principals, two cheerleading coaches and a theology instructor."
They want idiots and will make sure we all stay that way.
Is the Epstein Scandal an Outlier or America’s Oldest Crusade Laid Bare?
How a single predator exposed a centuries-old system built to shield wealthy white men from accountability and forced the country to confront a truth its institutions have long concealed
"The Jeffrey Epstein scandal stripped away the polite fiction that wealthy white men in America are held to the same standards as everyone else.
Epstein wasn’t an exception. He was the rule, laid bare."
'People are furious': Experts flag evidence the GOP is 'losing faith' in Trump
Experts are warning that Republicans are "losing faith" in President Donald Trump as his approval rating drops to its lowest during his second term.
Total failure achieved.
'He sounds exhausted': Trump's mental health reportedly so bad 'MAGA diehards' speaking up
Burnout achieved.
Pardoned J6er punched in the face after Quran burning fails at anti-Muslim protest
"Jake Lang, a pardoned Jan. 6 rioter, was punched in the face while leading a march against Muslims in Dearborn, Michigan."
"They're outbreeding our women, four to one," he complained. "In one generation, the white race completely wiped out. This is a stand for our country, for our posterity."
"In 1900, the world was 30% white," Lang told the council. "Fast forward, 125 years, we are down to 7%. The Islamification of Europe is particularly aimed at the destruction of white people. The Islamification of America is aiming to meet the same goal."
Where does he get his numbers? Most estimates state that the majority of the planet is Asian at around 60%. White is around 16%, close to the same with African at 17%. In some estimates white comes in as 10%.
How Many White People Are There In The World? Try this article on for size.
For your information:
Will You Be Denied U.S. Citizenship Based on Polygamy, Bigamy, or Multiple Marriages?
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"The question Lang should ask is why white female conservatives don't want to have lots of children with white male conservatives!" — John Jacon (comments).
"Figures he’s running for office in Florida. This clown needs to be a grease spot and I see by the bulletproof vest he anticipates his own demise. May it come soon. More of the master race showing themselves for what they really are. Loser incels who blame others for their poor life choices. That’s the MAGA way." — Ryan Murray (comments)
"'They're outbreeding our women, four to one.'
Armadillos. You're thinking of armadillos.
Note: Armadillos always birth quadruplets." — Stylops (comments)
"So this guy is at an antiMuslim protest while Trump is in the Whitehouse kissing Saudi Arabian butt? Who's gonna tell him??" — tribetime (comments)
"Everyday is Punch a nazi day." — Liliki (comments)
How Donald Trump and his Jeffrey Epstein scandal lay bare our racist roots
"We built a nation on the belief that white men were entitled to rule, entitled to take, entitled to decide whose lives mattered and whose didn’t.
That belief never died. It adapted. It modernized. And today it animates a political movement that has captured one of our two major parties.
The root of the problem goes all the way back to the Doctrine of Discovery. A European/papal decree announcing that white nations had a God-given right to seize any land they encountered became the legal and moral starting point for American expansion."
If you don't believe it you aren't watching Ken Burns The American Revolution."
Trump’s Anti-Green Agenda Could Lead to 1.3 Million More Climate Deaths. The Poorest Countries Will Be Impacted Most.
"Increasing temperatures are already killing enormous numbers of people. A ProPublica and Guardian analysis that draws on sophisticated modeling by independent researchers found that President Donald Trump’s 'America First' agenda of expanding fossil fuels and decimating efforts to reduce emissions will add substantially to that toll, with the vast majority of deaths occurring outside the United States."
There are humans that still think Trump gives a shit about them? Sick motherfuckers.
“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas
"Just after Christmas, on his birthday, JJ found his mom draped over her bed, lifeless. An autopsy would later confirm what she had feared: Preeclampsia killed her at 20 weeks pregnant."
One more needless fascist murder by Texas.
This Ohio County Banned Commercial Wind and Solar. Not So Fast, Residents Said.
The retarded fucking us over everywhere. Dump the assholes and let intelligent people run things.
‘That’s Not a Man! That’s a Pig!’ Jim Acosta Goes Off on Trump Over Attacks on Journalists
"There’s something deeply unmanly about this behavior."
Are we not men? We are Devo!
Judge: TX Schools Must Remove Ten Commandments
Remove the asshole in the photo too.
"A federal judge ordered some public school districts in Texas on Tuesday to remove Ten Commandment displays from their classroom walls by next month, a victory for families who had argued that the posters infringed on their religious freedom. The ruling from Judge Orlando L. Garcia, of U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, comes after Gov. Greg Abbott signed in June a law requiring school districts to display the Ten Commandments in a “conspicuous location” in each classroom."
Abbott Effectively Defies Order To Release Musk Emails
If you can't read the pages you are still covering up the damned crime!
US Imports Dropped Due To Trump’s Global Tariffs
According to the NY TImes:
"President Trump’s sweeping tariffs took a toll on trade in August, as imports dropped 5.1 percent, to $340.4 billion, after taxes on exports from roughly 90 countries went into effect on Aug. 7, newly released data from the Commerce Department showed Wednesday.
U.S. exports were essentially flat, rising 0.1 percent to $280.8 billion. Because of the sharp fall in imports, the U.S. trade deficit in goods and services for the month also dropped sharply, shrinking nearly 24 percent, to $59.6 billion, compared with July."
Federal Court Blocks Texas From Gerrymandering 2026 Midterms
"Texas cannot use its new congressional map for the 2026 election and will instead need to stick with the lines passed in 2021, a three-judge panel ruled Tuesday."
Texas fascism gets its rig slapped down!
We Go As We Please: What the Fuck Is Wrong With Y'all
"The American Gestapo's brutish, racist, unholy crusade rampages on. They've now left Chicago - trailing tear gas, court losses, manifest lies, the wrath of a people - to terrorize diverse blue Charlotte NC with its 'cowardly fascist pigs doing cowardly fascist pig things.' In a new 'offense to history,' they even named their latest depravity Operation Charlotte's Web. its author E.B. White, a stirring voice for democracy and inclusion who decried the 'smell' arising from those who 'adjust to fascism,' weeps.
The retarded incels hire on because they are sadists that have no other outlet and desperatly need their blood money!
Hell has arranged a special furnace waiting for them. A reckoning is coming!
Hundreds of Lobbyists Try to Clawback Medicare Drug Price Negotiations, Win Trump’s Favor
Stop fucking Americans! Universal Health Care NOW!
Republican throws a wrench in plan to use Trump DOJ to block Epstein files
The jig is up, Fatso!
'There is no MAGA': Conservative media site warns end is near for 'Trump’s personal party'
"Conservative news outlet Washington Examiner explains the Republican party's "shellacking" in the November elections as fallout from what happens "when a political party is transformed into a personality cult," saying that national conservatism is not the GOP's future.
"Republicans get upset when you point out that the GOP is Trump’s personal party. But let’s face it, MAGA is whatever the president says it is," writes David Harsanyi. "Loyalty to the president is the price of admission. There are few places his ardent fans wouldn’t follow him."
"But while Trump's most fanatical will flock to him regardless, there's one caveat: they don't have an interest in or care about the Republican Party."
Surroundings Are The New Groceries. Tabs, Tues., Nov. 18, 2025
How much of a fuckup is Lindsey Halligan, Trump’s insurance lawyer at the Eastern District of Virginia? Well, Wonkette will tell you all of it today, but here is some amusing bouche.
How bad of a lawyer is Lindsey Halligan? So bad that apparently she thought she could tell the grand jury that James Comey didn’t have Fifth Amendment rights. Did she believe that in her heart, or did she think she could do that without everybody finding it?
How bad? So bad that she told the grand jury that they didn’t have to rely only on the evidence she presented them that day. No! They could also IMAGINE all the cool other evidence she said maybe they also had! They could imagine it maybe coming out at trial! That’s how stupid.
How bad? So bad that we are literally feeling like we’ve gone easy on her in every post we’ve written about her. And shit, y’all, we have been mean.
How bad? So bad that she may have managed to step on her dick so hard that the Comey case will be thrown the fuck out. So stupid that we have to now imagine that anybody who gets indicted by her will be like 'What a pain in the ass, maybe the real Lindsey Halligan indictment is the LOLs we’ll have along the way.'
But as we said, Wonkette will have more on that later!
Big announcement from Donald Trump, it’s that Thanksgiving meals at Walmart, including all the “surroundings,” are 25 percent cheaper this year. Which is a lie, but let’s be fair, he’s senile and has heavy dementia and he thinks 'groceries' is an old-fashioned words and that green bean casserole is called a 'surrounding.'"
This White House disgrace makes no effort to conceal Trump's sheer contempt
Donald Trump will debase the White House today like never before.
"Far worse than bulldozing its East Wing, Trump will use the People’s House as the grotesque backdrop for reducing to rubble any pretense of American moral leadership in the world. He will prostrate himself — and our nation — at the feet of one of its most malign actors.
All for the money.
The killer’s name is Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia. The world came to know him as MBS when he first gained widespread notoriety for ordering the brutal murder in 2018 of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi citizen and legal permanent resident in the U.S.
Little more than seven years after Khashoggi was killed in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul — his dismembered body never to be found — MBS will be fêted today at the White House.
Trump will be there to greet him as a dignitary — ready with smiles, handshakes, photo ops, and promises of billions in deals (presumably not limited to his family in this case).
Trump has spent seven years evading the truth, but the intelligence record is unambiguous. On Oct. 2, 2018, Khashoggi entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul to obtain documents for his marriage. He never walked out. Turkish authorities and U.S. intelligence confirmed the gruesome details: he was bound, injected with a fatal sedative, then dismembered, his body chemically dissolved.
...It appears that the media has moved on. Congress has moved on. But Jamal Khashoggi is still dead, his body never found and his murderer is being celebrated as an honored guest.
For Donald Trump, everything has a price.
And as long as he’s our president, so does America’s soul."
I thought trump wiped out our soul long ago.
MAGA influencer Laura Loomer, a close ally to President Donald Trump, argued that Republicans "deserve to lose the midterms" if they did not address a "Nazi problem" within the party.
"I’m going to say it. The GOP has a Nazi problem," Loomer declared in a Tuesday post on X.
At last she says it all.
Trump Admin To Announce Dismantling Of Ed Dept
We will now understand 2 + 2 = 5!
MTG Suggests That It’s Trump Who Is The Real Traitor
Does this mean she has something she needs to tell us about from her past?
POLICE: Pardoned Rioter Tried To Silence Molestation Victim With Promise Of Millions From J6 “Reparations"
"A pardoned January 6 rioter has been charged with sex crimes against two children. Andrew Paul Johnson was arraigned in a Florida court in October on multiple charges, including molesting a child as young as 11 years old, joining a growing list of U.S. Capitol rioters pardoned by President Donald Trump who now face new legal trouble."
The Trump traitors keep up their crime spree!
Newsmax Blasts Bishops For Criticizing Treatment Of Migrants: “This Is Why We Separated Church And State”
“U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops issuing a special message to our country on immigration. First of all, stay in your lane, guys. This is why we separated the church and the state. After all, the church loves not paying taxes. Second, isn’t the Vatican literally protected by wall — oh yes, it is. It has walls all the way around it. Big ones at that. Do you want our country to be open up to everyone? I tell you what, lead by example. You tear down your walls. I mean, why not? Matter of fact, how many immigrants are you offering to house in your churches or even your own home?” – Newsmax host Carl Higbie, in response to the bishops issuing a “special pastoral message” in which they condemned Trump’s treatment of migrants.
How did this slip by Trump's control?
'He Wants Us Dead': Dem Facing Threats Slams Kash Patel For Diverting FBI To Girlfriend
America is in an existential crises and seems to not realize it. They will when we are all dead.
Come, Let Us Adore Him: ICE Plans National Church Raids At Christmas
"These horrible, horrible people. I hope neighbors everywhere turn out in force to prevent ICE from making arrests. Or, even better, call your congressperson and scream."
Stop calling them people. That they are NOT!
May all ICE criminals spend the holidays in hell!
'Quiet, Piggy': Trump Lashes Out Over Question About Epstein Files
Trump is projecting again. The filthy pig!
"It's a political game with Republicans with no regard for the over 1,000 victims of the most notorious child sex trafficker in history. And when Trump was asked about Epstein, he made himself look guiltier. He does that a lot. In the case of the Bloomberg reporter, he confirmed something all of us knew: He treats women like dirt."
Cloudflare Outage Is a Reminder of Our Over-Dependence on Small Number of Tech Giants
"A major outage at internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare today disrupted access to numerous websites, public services, and AI tools worldwide. The incident follows recent large-scale outages at Amazon Web Services and CrowdStrike, underscoring how much of the modern internet now depends on a small number of private companies. Cloudflare, which routes and secures roughly 20% of all web traffic, attributed the disruption to a spike in unusual traffic but has not identified the cause."
J.B. Branch, Big Tech accountability advocate at Public Citizen, issued the following statement on the outage:
“This outage is another brutal reminder that the internet is far too dependent on a tiny handful of tech giants. For years, industry lobbyists have insisted that deregulation would spark innovation from smaller companies. Instead, we got the opposite: mass consolidation of data, compute, and infrastructure into the hands of a few dominant firms whose failures now cascade across the globe.
“Governments and companies continuing to contract with the same handful of companies are increasing the fragility of both the internet and entire economies. Congress and regulators must finally step in and crack down on anticompetitive behavior, opening markets, requiring interoperability, and ensuring smaller tech firms can compete so the entire digital economy isn’t held hostage by the failures of a few dominant companies.”
Another Trump failure.
Cloudflare Outage Shows How Monopoly Power Threatens the Internet
“Yet again, a failure at one company disrupted the lives of people all around the globe. Big Tech’s relentless drive to become the only fish in the pond and centralize the internet in their hands threatens our economy and our national security. The FTC has the knowledge and the power to help prevent this from happening again. For all our sakes, the agency must take action immediately.”
Andrew Ferguson heads the FTC. He was put there by the failure, Trump. What did anyone expect?
'Never been this bad': Small businesses 'infuriated' at Trump’s damage to the economy
“Everyone is hunkering down and building up cash. It’s never been this bad,” Scheffel told CNN. “It’s very uncertain and impossible to plan in this environment.”
Sorry, but some of us asked to be shat upon!
Trump-appointed judges toss his 'meritless' defamation case against CNN
The only thing the asswipe is succesful at is tearing down our country!
When Does Trump Become Too Corrupt for the GOP?
He’s tested every limit of decency and democracy, and every time he does the GOP bends a little lower. At this point, the question isn’t just about Trump’s crimes; it’s about their complicity.
"By the shocking light of today’s glaring headlines, it’s time to ask a larger question that no one in the media appears to be willing to say out loud: at what point does the accumulation of misconduct by Donald J. Trump become so brazen, so corrosive, so frankly immoral and even criminal, that Republican elected officials and voters finally say, 'Enough is enough?'"
Of Parrots, Presidents, and Pedophiles: Dan's Last Letter to Trump
"I don’t know if you remember Monty Python’s Dead Parrot sketch – the one with John Cleese trying to return a dead parrot to pet shop owner Michael Palin who insists that the bird is 'just resting.' That’s what your political career reminds me of in the wake of the slow oozing out of your long and slimy friendship with Jeffrey Epstein. You will keep on saying 'It’s not dead!' And Jamie Raskin will keep on pounding the parrot on the counter."
..."So kiss it good-bye. Face up to a Consequence at last. Your plans to be King are toast. You are not going to get the Nobel Prize. Your head is not going to be carved onto Mt Rushmore. The Treasury is not going to issue a silver dollar with your image on both sides. The Washington Commanders are not going to name their new stadium for you – they might as well rename themselves the "Washington Predators". Politically, morally, culturally, historically, you’re toast, dead, deceased, no more, bereft of life, you have passed on, ceased to be, breathed your last, expired, kicked the bucket, you are an ex-parrot!
Sadly, I think I’ll leave you on your own now. Since 2017, in 295 letters, I’ve tried to help you, but you wouldn’t listen. So just slide quietly out of town and leave J. D. to fumble around in the wreckage. Lock yourself up in Mar a Lago and wait for Jack Smith to come knocking."
Dan Embree
PO Box 298
Mountainair, New Mexico 87036
Mailed to the White House, 16 November 2025
White House Mocked Over Complete Failure To Sell Trump’s Sham Marriage on Social Media
Author and activist Brooklyn Dad Defiant wrote on X, "LMAO, you clowns are ridiculous. You think everybody has a room temperature IQ, and that nobody has paid attention to the fact that Melania can't stand to be touched by the guy. That she doesn't even live with him. She designed a hat so that his lips couldn't reach her face. The guy almost never posts Happy Birthday or Happy Anniversary to her. Biggest sham marriage ever. But sure, you post a sappy tweet because trump is implicated in the Epstein files, and you're trying to disassociate the image of him with LITTLE GIRLS."
The putrid shitshow of the zombies.
Arrested for Following the Rules
Trump's Nazi stormtroopers at work fucking over Americans.
"Barbara’s story is one example of a disturbing trend that you’ve probably read about or seen in many shaky phone videos: Immigrants are being detained just before or after attending meetings with officials as part of the legal immigration process. In another example, Sharareh Moghadam—a Los Angeles small business owner who entered the United States legally, has a green card, and has passed her citizenship exam—was detained when she attended an in-person immigration meeting. Then there’s Mohsen Mahdawi, a student at Columbia University who is in the United States lawfully as a current visa holder; he was arrested and detained when he went to a courthouse in Vermont for what he thought was his naturalization interview, one of the last steps in the process to becoming an American citizen."
As Thoms Paine said in 1776, "These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated."
The filth of the Trump pigs must be resisted by any means necessary!
White House mocked over 'complete failure' to sell Trump's 'sham marriage' on social media
"With all the subtlety of a bulldozer crashing into the East Wing, the White House went straight to damage-limitation mode with this display of the world’s most unpopular – and unconvincing – lovebirds," The Poke writes.
The official White House X account posted a picture of the couple with the lyrics, "I can't help falling in love with you," and, The Poke says, "In case anyone hadn’t got the message …they had a back-up photo"—a picture of them holding hands with the caption, America's power couple."
"Well I must say Melinoma has brought up her wages in comparison to her work as an Escort in NY. When did Maxwell and Epstein recruit her and what was her fee? Now she gets paid $250,000.00 to do the Walkway in designer cloths and pretend she gives a shiit about her former pedophile lover **CFRTPDJT** all the way to the bank! Put lipstick on her but she's still SOW!" — LILLIANE M L HEATH (comments)
And the comment track on the South Park episode is naked AI commenting as if it knows shit about it!
Anyone pronouncing "satire" as "saytire" is not human or does not know shit from applebutter.
LMAO!
GOP rocked by Nazi scandal
"Despite the Trump administration’s claims that it is fighting antisemitism, Trump has a history of indulging in anti-Jewish rhetoric. Most infamously, he called neo-Nazis 'very fine people,' and has used antisemitic tropes in his campaigns.
The right has an antisemitism problem—and it goes all the way up to the White House."
Only a Nazi will deny this.
New ICE App Can Track Your Car Across The Country
Can they read the big "FUCK TRUMP!" on my vehicle too?
Indiana Gov Caves To Glorious Leader On Redistricting
They had and still have a portion of The Land of the Happy Negro embedded there.
Indiana and the Civil War.
"During the Civil War, citizens of Indiana found themselves starkly divided. Although Indiana was one of the first states to join the Union cause, many residents were sympathetic to the Confederates, and became increasingly critical and hostile to the Indiana war effort, especially after Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation reframed the war as being more explicitly about the eradication of slavery. Neither Democrats nor Republicans in Indiana at that time were supportive of changing the status quo for black Americans–in fact, both parties voted to bar blacks from entering the state in the 1851 constitution.
Towards the middle of the war, divisions between Indiana’s Union forces and the “peace” Democrats grew increasingly violent. In response to reports of treasonous plots against the Indiana government by secret societies such as the Knights of the Golden Order and the Sons of Liberty, Indiana Governor Oliver P. Morton arrested and detained members and suspected Confederate sympathizers without the writ of habeas corpus. These societies supported the servitude of blacks, decentralized government, and most also pledged the right to take up arms against an unjust government. Many had active militia wings.
From 1863 through the end of the war, there were signs of violent resistance against the government, including frequent riots and arson. In May of 63' a squadron of soldiers was sent to arrest the editors of the Huntington Sentinel for their criticism of Lincoln and the war effort. They were prevented from doing so by a force of several hundred armed men."
" 'Indiana’s State Legislators must show up for work and take a public vote for fair maps to counter the gerrymandering in California and Illinois'
You mean the states that did to counter the gerrymandering in Texas and Florida, asshole." — ASFT (comments)
"So pathetic. The GOP isn't a political party anymore, just an organized crime syndicate." — RealityBass (comments)
"Hmmm. Is that Gov Mike Cocksucker....or Gov Mike de Pussy ?" — Luke - My Beautiful Luke (comments)
Trump: I’m Hoarse From “Shouting At Stupid People”
“I thought you said there was a polyp, and I said — I don’t want to hear that. Okay.”
I see. Trump has a polyp on his throat.
How much time does he have left to live?
And stop shouting at your sons!
Trump Promises $2000 Tariff Checks By Mid-2026
Mark your calendars. There will be heavy betting on this election bribe for his rubes.
Massie: Trump's Call To Investigate Democrats A 'Smokescreen'
Rep. Thomas Massie states the obvious when it comes to one of the motivations behind Trump calling for his lackey Pam Bondi at DOJ to go after Democrats who might be named in the Epstein files.
They have smoke removers, ya know.
But the word going around is the DOJ has scrubbed the evidence that implicates Trump. That means our Justice Department is as criminal as their boss if this is found to be true.
Judge Hands Down BLISTERING Ruling Against DOJ In James Comey Case
The charges may be thrown out based on egregious prosecutorial misconduct with the Grand Jury.
Well, things came to a head today when the same Judge found evidence of "government misconduct" related to how the Trump loving prosecutor actually secured the indictment against former James Comey. In fact, Judge Fitzpatrick found that Halligan may have made significant legal errors in presenting evidence and instructing grand jurors who were weighing whether to charge Comey.
In his ruling, the judge states: "The record points to a disturbing pattern of profound investigative missteps, missteps that led an FBI agent and a prosecutor to potentially undermine the integrity of the grand jury proceeding."
Disbar the crooked Trump "lawyer."
'A Thousand Of Us': Epstein Survivors Push For Release Of Files In Powerful PSA
The system that allowed the abuse to continue needs to be put in the wood chipper, and die a painful death. All of this shit needs a do-over, but this administration is huge part of the problem.
"Please remember that these are crimes that were committed against real humans, real individuals. This is not a political issue. This, this has been going on for decades," Annie Farmer said. "My sister Maria Farmer reported this under the Clinton’s administration, right? There have been mistakes that were made in this case under the Bush administration. So many things have happened over the decades that were law enforcement failures in this case.
"This is not partisan. We’re asking for you to stand with us now to release all of the files," she continued.
Bensky has said she was 17 and a budding ballerina in 2004 when Epstein sexually abused her at his Manhattan mansion.
"When you look at how long this has spanned, we have to do something about it. And it really is not political. It's never been political for us," she said.
Trump Tells Voters: Don’t Believe Your Lying Wallets
"MILLIONS OF PEOPLE who voted for Donald Trump in 2024 are learning a hard lesson: A man who refuses to face facts in his own life is also unlikely to face facts about the lives of others. These voters are discovering that Trump’s denial of the election results in 2020 wasn’t a one-off. It was a forewarning of what we’re seeing now: his refusal to acknowledge the affordability crisis."
The Republican Attack on Public Education
President Donald Trump holds up an executive order reducing the size and scope of the Department of Education during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House on March 20, 2025. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
DONALD TRUMP IS ATTEMPTING to remake American public education by drastically reshaping the federal government’s role in our schools. “We’re going to be returning education very simply back to the states, where it belongs,” the president said in March. Linda McMahon, the secretary of education, echoed him in a Fox News opinion article the same month, describing how she would oversee the dismantling of the department she leads: “We will systematically unwind unnecessary regulations and prepare to reassign the department’s other functions to the states or other agencies.”
Trump’s Epstein Humiliation Grows
Donald Trump is obsessed with the idea that his predecessor, Joe Biden, was so mentally incapacitated that he used an autopen to sign all his pardons and legislation. He not only put a picture of an autopen in place of Biden’s mug on his “Presidential Walk of Fame,” he makes the same joke about it to every journalist he brings to that colonnade outside the West Wing. So it was more than a bit juicy to see this AP report that the Justice Department “quietly corrected” pardons it had posted online “bearing identical copies of President Donald Trump’s signature.” DOJ called it a “technical error.” We call it delicious irony. Happy Monday.
Why the Supreme Court made a 'horrendous' mistake giving Trump absolute power
Arrogant Nazis appointed by Trump. Simple.
"Their decision in Trump v. United States was naïve at best," Becker writes. "More likely, the court bought into the right wing’s confusion about the difference between a unitary president and a dictator."
Trump, he writes, wasted little time proving how egregious an error the Supreme Court made, as "under the cloak of presumptive immunity, Trump has become the most thoroughly corrupt president and imminent threat to democracy in American history."
'What in the holy hell?' Trump warned new threats have left MAGA base bamboozled
"This isn't America First.”
But it is Trump first, last, and forever! NOT!
'He will not go alone': Trump's niece issues startling warning about the president
"He does not believe that anything or anybody could exist beyond him, which is what makes me nervous, because whether he thinks he's going to be going down because of the Epstein issue, or because if he starts to think that his health is failing, he will not go alone," Mary Trump said.
"He will take as many people down with him," she continued. "That was the case in 2020, and we have seen what happened since then. So that worries me. Nihilists are very dangerous people. If they feel like they're losing control. And as a father, he's a nihilist. He doesn't want his kids to take on his legacy. He doesn't believe in such a thing, and he certainly wouldn't believe they're capable of it because he's also a narcissist."
Don’t blame women for men’s loneliness. Blame capitalism
There’s a lot of money to be made off angry, isolated men
Axios: Cruz Is “Laying Groundwork” For 2028 WH Bid
Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! LMAO! The most despised being in America?
Duffy Lifts FAA’s “Flight Reduction Emergency Order”
Did smeebody wake up?
Bessent Blames Soaring Beef Prices On 'Mass Immigration'
This, of course, makes no sense.
It's ALL your fault, asshole!
These morons are as insane as insane gets!
'Get Them Out Of Office!' Trump Rages After IN GOP Rejects Redistricting Push
This poor punkin'.
Total failure of a life-long failure!
Two issues triggered Trump's Sunday night press lashing: analysis
“Well, I don’t want to talk about it because fake news like you, you’re a terrible reporter, and fake news like you they just keep bringing that up to deflect from the tremendous success of the Trump administration,” he said.
And Trump is the biggest chickenshit the world has ever known!
Trump official helps prove 'there is no Republican health care plan'
Because Trump hates Americans.
‘Nose-diving confidence’ in Trump’s economy has experts making a suggestion
Economists, she notes, say that all Trump has done thus far is made the rich richer and the poor poorer.
And there's always hope he can put himself in prison!
US may owe $1 trillion in refunds if SCOTUS cancels Trump tariffs
If Donald Trump loses his Supreme Court fight over tariffs, the US may be forced to return “tens of billions of dollars to companies that have paid import fees this year, plus interest,” The Atlantic reported. And the longer the verdict is delayed, the higher the refunds could go, possibly even hitting $1 trillion.
For tech companies both large and small, the stakes are particularly high. A Trump defeat would not just mean clawing back any duties paid on imports to the US that companies otherwise can use to invest in their competitiveness. But, more critically in the long term, it would also end tariff shocks that, as economics lecturer Matthew Allen emphasized in a report for The Conversation, risked harming “innovation itself” by destabilizing global partnerships and diverse supply chains in “tech-intensive, IP-led sectors like semiconductors and software.”
Big-assed "oopsie!" here.
Why 'The Great Feminization' is a great big conservative con
Sourdough bread that’s made from scratch. Milkmaid dresses. “Feminine energy.”
Those who are serially online may have already caught wind of the slow infestation of antiquated, anti-feminist tropes seeping into mainstream culture.
It seemingly started with a COVID-19 era of female influencers glorifying a stay-at-home lifestyle as they found solace in concocting new, fun ways to feed their husbands and armies of children.
Hannah Neeleman, known as Ballerinafarm online, gained popularity for her homemade sourdough bread and Instagrammable farmstead life with blond-haired little ones running around as her husband worked to provide. She now has 10.4 million followers on Instagram and 10.6 million on TikTok.
Good Lord! My wife was making sourdough bread decades ago. Anyone that has "want to" can do it. It is not a miracle!
RFK Jr. Wants to Link Antidepressants Like SSRIs to Mass Shootings. Experts Aren’t Buying It
Who says you can't live in an alternative universe? This asshole does!
Parents Using ChatGPT to Rear Their Children
Proving they are failures at it.
"All this offloading of parental responsibility to AI is alarming because one of ChatGPT’s biggest flaws, its manipulative and sycophantic nature, is known to intensify delusions and cause breaks from reality — a grim phenomenon that’s been linked to numerous suicides, including several teenagers.
The ages of kids being exposed to ChatGPT and its advice is clearly dropping. Some 30 percent of parents of school-age children used ChatGPT back in 2023, and that number has undoubtedly gotten bigger."
Humanity in the early stages of breakdown and rot.
AI Companies Are Treating Their Workers Like Human Garbage, Which May Be a Sign of Things to Come for the Rest of Us
Oh, joy! When do they hand out the complimentary cyanide caps?
People Are Starting to Get Divorced Because of Affairs With AI
The Stupid Virus has reached critical stage. There is no vaccine for it!
National Guard Troops To Leave Chicago And Portland
And just what good did it do for us? Trump's ego was stroked!
‘Big Smokescreen!’ Thomas Massie Accuses Trump of ‘Last-Ditch Effort’ to Cover Up Epstein Files
He said it's a hoax. Then why is he investigating it? Only to see if his ass is clearly involved and there's a way to lie out of his crimes.
Experts say you don’t want this 'horrible idea' Trump is selling
More for the suckers to lap up.
Trump Plan Could Leave Nearly 200,000 People at Risk of Becoming Unhoused
They will get along fine in his concentration camps!
RFK Jr. Wanted Olivia Nuzzi To Have His Unvaccinated Polio Babies And Other Things We Didn't Need To Know
Posted here if you like reading about sick people.
This May Be the Cruelest, Most Senseless Thing Trump Has Done
SECRETARY OF STATE MARCO RUBIO was indignant in May when, at a hearing before Congress, lawmakers asserted that the Trump administration’s cuts to international aid were killing people.
“No one has died,” Rubio insisted....
"[Infectious disease modeler] Brooke Nichols has led a team that has estimated 600,000 people have died already so far, 400,000 of them children. But it is hard to see. You can see the deaths that are related to childbirth. You may not see the deaths for a while where HIV is going out of control. It can take months or years sometimes for a death to occur from TB."
Arrogant cruelty is his coin of his realm level of hell.
'They are frantic': Man at center of Epstein email release claims Trump insiders panicking
Like vampires caught in the morning sun!
MAGA right’s new fascist man-crush: He’s been dead for 50 years
In the early years of SNL, Francisco Franco was "still dead." But to his 21st-century fanboys, he's immortal
Nazis admit they are Nazis. We already knew what they are. Eliminate them.
FCC Chair Shares Trump Latest Call To Fire Seth Meyers
These Trump criminals are the worst bullies and meanest SOBs that ever walked the earth!
The truth makes them even meaner and far more dangerous to Americans!
Trump official hit over new target: 'Why in the world is the FCC chairman posting this?'
He's a Nazi! Stuff his ass in the garbage barrel!
USDA Sec: Everyone Must Reapply For SNAP Benefits
Dispicable and deplorable creature. Cruelty is all the retarded sell.
"Rather obviously, there no evidence to back up Rollins’ claim of 186,000 dead people getting SNAP. And processing tens of millions reapplications will surely be fast and easy, especially with the brain trust now in power."
Trump Buys At Least $82 Million In Corporate Debt
The Trump Crime Syndicate at work.
"the US Office of Government Ethics." Don't make me laugh!
Michigan Pastor Arrested On Child Sex Charges
Another one bites the dust.
"A former pastor is being charged with multiple counts of criminal sexual conduct in St. Joseph, Michigan. Glen Rosenbaum is a former pastor at the Grace Lutheran Church and is currently being held on a $100,000 bond at the Berrien County Jail. Rosenbaum faces multiple 2nd degree criminal sexual conduct charges. This includes 2 counts with a child under 13 and 2 counts with a child at least 13, but less than 16 years old."
Trump Pardons Woman Who Vowed To Shoot FBI Agents
More evidence we are living in an insame asylum.
'I Have A Country To Run!': Trump Goes In Full Panic Mode Over Epstein-Gate
Oh boy, here he goes!
No. He has a country he can lie and dictate to.
The turd cries "I am not a POS!"
Alan Dershowitz Wants Us To Know He's The Real Victim Here
Could this guy be a bigger slimeball?
"What a pathetic piece of rotted flesh." — albabe (comments)
Republicans keep pushing out 'bombshell' Epstein emails— and one name keeps coming up
Those documents keep mentioning and pointing to Trump.
In a 2011 email to Epstein's co-conspirator and convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein wrote that Trump was the "dog that hasn't barked," meaning Trump hadn't publicly disclosed details about his activities.
He also claimed a victim "spent hours at my house" with Trump. In a separate 2019 email, Epstein told author Michael Wolff that Trump "knew about the girls as he asked ghislaine to stop".
Did Epstein’s Knowledge of Trump Become Putin’s Most Dangerous Weapon Against Ukraine?
From the halls of Mar-a-Lago to the ruins of Ukrainian hospitals, the toxic bond between Trump, Putin, and Epstein may have reshaped the world and cost the lives of countless children.
"The child victims of Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes are apparently not the only ones who‘ve paid the price for Donald Trump’s long relationship with that notorious pedophile.
Epstein’s 'partying' with Trump has apparently also led to thousands of civilian deaths abroad, the collapse of America’s credibility around the world, and a serious threat to the future of democracy in Europe.
Trump’s coverup may well represent a form of treason, the aid and comfort to an enemy attacking an ally during time of war. It should lead, at the very least, to impeachment."
Missouri Youth Pastor Arrested On Child Sex Charges
Another one bites the dust!
Still no drag queens!
Economist Warns That Trump’s Investments in the Tech Industry Could Crash the Whole Economy
America really asked for it this time.
People Are Having AI “Children” With Their AI Partners
"As AI chatbots powered by large language models (LLMs) become better at mimicking human connection, more and more users are falling down extremely weird rabbit holes."
"Human-algorithmic social relationships are nothing new. Chatbots have been eliciting emotional responses since the first social chatbot, ELIZA, went online in the 1960s, developed by MIT computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum. However, the rate at which people have thrown themselves into human-chatbot relationships — romantic or otherwise — is seeing a historic rise.
Beyond general-purpose LLMs like ChatGPT, the market for specially built romance chatbots like Replika, RomanticAI, and BoyFriendGPT has exploded in recent years. One study found that Replika grew its userbase by 35 percent over the pandemic, and it now numbers in the millions."
Need more proof that we are living in an insane asylum?
Man Shot Outside SC Planned Parenthood Clinic
"We are forever paying for our failure to ever take these terrorists seriously and prosecute them for their war on women's health.
This and the fucking militias was the training ground for their entire neo-nazi movement of modern terrorism and taught them that the media will refuse to put the label of terrorism on them so long as they are white and conservative no matter how many bombings and murders they commit." — Cerberus137 (comments)
There will soon be return fire to terrorist swine such as this.
Watters: Democrats Walked Into Epstein Trap
ALL sex offenders should be arrested and charged, stupid dickwad!
"Jesse I hate seeing your moron face and commentary in the morning as much as your mother does." — Dwight Williamson (comments.
Is Jesse on the list?
Trump Admin Moves To Free Colorado QAnon Ex-Clerk
His Nazis are pulling yet another fast one.
"The Nazis have contempt for law. They can do whatever they wish in a brazen attempt to seize and maintain power. The rethugs are traitors to the principles of democracy." — magic twanger (comments)
Mike Flynn? Is he still walking our streets?
America’s Reckoning Has Begun
The emails prove Trump wasn’t a distant acquaintance of Epstein's. He was everywhere—in the victims’ accounts, in Epstein’s own words, as “the worst human being alive.”
"The emails prove Trump wasn’t a distant acquaintance of Epstein's. He was everywhere—in the victims’ accounts, in Epstein’s own words, as “the worst human being alive.” Yet our media gives us graphics like “Epstein Mentions Trump Several Times.” Several? Try thousands.
'Never seen a surge like this': Panicked liberals are stocking up on guns
What, exactly, did the Nazis expect?
Terrifying-Looking Robot Powers Up, Immediately Declares Humanity Is a “Resource” to Be “Manipulated or Eliminated”
We're doing a pretty good job of that on our own.
Sierra Club Statement on Interior’s Sellout of Western Arctic
“One of Donald Trump’s first acts post-shutdown is to serve the Western Arctic on a silver platter to Big Oil CEOs. Make no mistake, leasing out our public lands to private industry is a sell-off in everything but name. This has always been Trump’s plan for our public lands – hand them over through sales, leases, and sweetheart deals that boost corporate bottom lines and sell out Americans’ natural heritage. Time and time again, the American people have shown they will not stand for this kind of giveaway to corporate polluters, and Sierra Club will continue to stand up for these majestic landscapes and the communities and wildlife that rely on them.”
Trump's crime sydicate must be stopped!
CA Pastor Charged With “Lewd Acts Upon A Child”
Another one bites the dust!
"A Southern California pastor was arrested on allegations of sexual assault involving a juvenile. The suspect was identified as Quintilo Sagrero, 68, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
Sagrero was the Pastor of the Templo Pentecostal El Camino Church located on the 1500 block of East Alondra Boulevard in Compton.
The alleged sexual assaults occurred on Oct. 7, authorities said. Following an investigation, Sagrero was arrested on Nov. 6. The next day, he was charged with two counts of lewd acts upon a child by the L.A. County District Attorney’s Office."
ID Youth Pastor Gets 40 Years On Child Porn Charges
Another one bites the dust!
"Ryan Stephen Patania, 35, has been sentenced to a unified 40-year prison term by Ada County District Judge Jason Scott after pleading guilty to four counts of possession of sexually exploitative material. The sentence includes 30 years fixed and 10 years indeterminate."
Now we know what Trump should get when convicted on his sex crimes.
Now we know why Trump is whining about another so-called "Hoax" and distracting the law away from him.
Trump Demands That DOJ And FBI Investigate Bill Clinton For “His Life With Epstein And On His Island”
Sorry Fatso, this dog will not hunt! Trump may have a cardio over the ratting in the Ep-files!
"Don't you think that if Bill Clinton's name was showed up with any real dirt for the DOJ to put out, it would have already been made public? I mean, that would be bigger than Hillary's e-mails and Benghazi all rolled into one." -- JIM M (comments)
FBI Director Kash Patel Waived Polygraph Security Screening for Dan Bongino, Two Other Senior Staff
Corruption runs deep.
Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts
Pay no attention to the criminal behind the payout.
Trump has twisted this sleazy shame into a crisis that could doom America
Seems to me that we are locking the stable door after all the horses have been stolen.
The Verdict of History: Trump and His Fascist Glorification
"This is what fascist dictators do when in power. Stalin, Hitler, and Mussolini built monuments to glorify themselves so they’d be exalted in history.
Democracies don’t do this. They memorialize their heroes only after they’ve died, and only if the public wants them commemorated."
"We must not allow Trump to erase this history with false tributes to himself, etched into silver, marble, or granite.
Instead, after he is gone, a monument should be erected to remind future generations of Trump’s treachery and the treachery of officials who supported him.
It would be a simple building constructed of iron and cement, containing the records of his attacks on democracy and the names of everyone who aided him.
Over its doorway would be the words 'Trump’s Treason.'
It would be situated on the White House lawn where the Trump ballroom (since demolished) once stood. It would face Pennsylvania Avenue so that families visiting the nation’s capital — including those commemorating America’s 500th anniversary — have easy access, and will long remember this catastrophe."
May he dwell in the deepest hell for eternity.
The Epstein Affair Has Move From Sleaze to a Crisis for American Democracy Itself
This Epstein Affair has shown a pattern where men of wealth and power created a zone of impunity that protected them for decades while destroying vulnerable people like Virginia Guiffrey.
"These newest documents, including Epstein’s correspondences with Michael Wolff about how Epstein’s knowledge of Trump’s involvement could be used against him — long before Trump was involved in politics (apparently to blackmail him, something Epstein apparently advised Putin about how to do) — reveal a pattern we’ve seen throughout history."
Should Todd Blanche Take Away Ghislaine Maxwell’s Puppy Privileges?
"A funny little thing happened on Twitter yesterday with Todd Blanche, Donald Trump’s personal lawyer who is 'now' 'serving' as the deputy attorney general, where he is … Donald Trump’s personal lawyer. He was the one who went and asked Ghislaine Maxwell the stupidest questions imaginable, because he’s a man with zero dignity, in order to try to elicit some kind of useful lie from child rapist Ghislaine Maxwell that would TOTALLY EXONERATE Donald Trump and make people stop asking about his role in the Epstein Files. (Which are named after Donald Trump’s favorite child rapist, who is dead now. But don’t worry, Trump likes both of these child rapists!)
Blanche was also, presumably, the guy who signed off on all the new fun privileges for Maxwell, including the move to the sexy Club Fed facility where she now lives, where she gets to play with puppies and eat bon bons and everybody on the prison staff waits on her, which is not the way child rapists usually get treated in prison. But most child rapists aren’t Donald Trump’s favorite living child rapist. (Though based on everything we’re learning about his character, we can’t imagine he hates any of them that much.)"
Imagine If YOUR Famous Dead Pedophile Kid-Toucher BFF Said These Things About YOU
"We’re all absorbing the details from this little tiny piece of the records pertaining to Jeffrey Epstein, the dead child rapist Donald Trump once said he shared a wonderful secret with, perhaps the best friend he’s ever had. It’s not the whole tranche the House is set to vote on releasing next week. It’s just what the House Oversight Committee released yesterday.
(And don’t be so sure that vote to release the files is just going to die in the Senate, not with everything we know now, and what we will know tomorrow, and the day after that, and after that, and after that. If that was such a sure thing, the White House wouldn’t have been so panicked yesterday that they tried to trap Lauren Boebert in the Situation Room like Beetlejuice in the scale model in the attic, to trick/bribe/scare her into voting against the discharge petition.)
That tranche is huge and indubitably thousands of times more disgusting than anything we’ve seen so far. The way Trump is panicking, the way Karoline Leavitt’s fillers are angrily pulsating like she’s about to give mouth-birth to something out of the Alien franchise, they’re freaked.
It’s probably grosser than whatever is breaking about Matt Gaetz allegedly paying a homeless 17-year-old girl who just wanted braces for sex. (Oh no, Matt Gaetz distraction from the Epstein Files!)
And how can we be fairly sure it’s that gross, and that the 'gross' specifically pertains to Donald Trump, the pussgrabbing president who used to say just the foulest things about his own daughter Ivanka, at least before she aged out of Trump’s preferred dating pool?
Well, we can look at some of the things Jeffrey Epstein, Trump’s dead pedophile child rapist best friend, said about him in the emails that were released yesterday.
Now, we are sure MAGA is tempted to cope and act like CONSIDER THE SOURCE, LIE-BRULS, suggesting that Jeffrey Epstein, Trump’s dead pedophile child rapist best friend, wasn’t a reliable narrator when it came to Trump. They’re trying to cope lots of ways right now. For instance, watch Megyn Kelly work herself through the 'it’s not pedophilia, it’s EPHEBOPHILIA!' stage of coping, if you’re into watching Megyn Kelly working out things with her mind.
That might be a good point, if Jeffrey Epstein hadn’t been Trump’s best friend. Also, if this wasn’t just Jeffrey Epstein just shooting the shit over his But His Emails, with Larry Summers, and former White House Counsel Kathy Ruemmler (shaaaaame) and former New York Times reporter Landon Thomas (morrrrre shaaaaaaaame)."
Lawsuit: HVAC Guy Claims Working With Women Is Against His Religion
"The Latham, New York, dreamboat is suing Trane U.S. Inc, his employer of 16 years, for religious discrimination, after he was fired for “insubordination” due to his refusal to work with a recently hired female technician if there were not other men in the room or vehicle with them — which, he says, violated his “sincerely held religious beliefs.”
Ostapa, you see, abides by the Billy Graham Rule, which holds that a married man cannot ever be alone in a room or car or whatever with women other than his wife. You may remember this rule from the time we had a Vice President (Mike Pence) who abided by it. Although even he did not claim he couldn’t be alone with a woman in a work-related context — he just avoided dining alone with women other than his wife or being at events where alcohol was being served without her. It’s still weird, but it’s more manageable than, say, refusing to repair an air conditioner with one or needing to get off a bus when it’s just you, a female bus driver and a little old lady."
Sounds more like the muslim persuasion. But really, there are no differences in muslims and christianists.
'Absolutely stunning': CNN reporter floored as GOP braces for 'mass defections' from Trump
Time to run the criminal out and put him where he belongs!
Quit “sane-washing” Donald Trump
Trump's speeches and apparent naps are reaching a critical point
"Donald Trump lost it again Wednesday. Perhaps he never had it. He certainly can’t find it. But MAGA supporters shouldn’t worry. Trump losing his mind may be his best defense yet for the gathering political storm that is Hurricane Jeff."
Tell it to the Nazi media!
Legality Of “Drug Strikes” Is Based On Trump’s Claims
Photo of the Syndicate mob boss and #1 enabler.
"In reaching that conclusion, the memo contradicts a broad range of critics, who have rejected the idea that there is any armed conflict and have accused Mr. Trump of illegally ordering the military to commit murders."
Wake up, America. You have a murderer and sex criminal in the White House!
Border Patrol To Carry Out Migrant Raids In Charlotte
Trump Gestapo heads for North Carolina.
“Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools will continue to follow all federal and state laws that protect students’ rights to a public education,” it stated, later citing the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1982 decision in Plyler v. Doe. That ruling guaranteed all children have the right to attend public school for free, regardless of immigration status.
"”Students,” as we all know, are the violent criminals the trump administration promised to get rid of. …or something.
If they’re not targeting hardworking people at their jobs trying to earn a living, they’re targeting students trying to learn skills that dotard just opined we don’t have.
I’m not even going to ask that someone make this make sense.
Because it’s all racist bullshit." — Bungee (comments)
Texas A&M Bans Discussions On Race And Gender
A&M — Assholes & Muffafuckers! Big racists!
They are no longer American as they shit on our First Amendment.
"An education institution which limits academics' rights to discuss/debate ideology or societal norms or issues, is not a university" — JackFknTwist (comments)
"So no discussion of sex or gender in biology classes? Psychology? Sociology? History? This is madness. Adults ought to be able to discuss these topics and a lot more." — Houndentenor (comments)
"As someone teaching on a college campus in Texas, I can tell you this:
We have no idea what we are allowed or not allowed to talk about in the classroom or with students one on one. The guidelines are vague but the threats are severe. This is by design. It's designed to make us all afraid of losing our jobs if we go anywhere near any topic that might offend a right wing student and we have plenty of those around. We're all watching what we say in front of students and even to other faculty members we don't know well." — Houndentenor (comments)
"Pure indoctrination hiding behind a policy to limit perceived indoctrination.
Double speak that denies people their identity and voice by people who are threatened by the least threatening people on the planet -- gays, lesbians, trans and those oh so dangerous Drag Queens." — gettingwarm (comments>
This is all a reflection of the insane Nazi State we live in.
MMA gym owners, coaches ID’d at secretive neo-Nazi event in B.C.
Expert says event exemplifies worrying overlap between martial arts and extremism
Nazis must be eliminated!
Dem Socialist Narrowly Wins Seattle Mayoral Race
"oh dear, another socialist. what is the USA coming to? next they'll have us feeding the hungry and housing the homeless." -- Stoned and loving it (comments)
"Worse, I heard Mamdani actually referenced this screed from Mao's Little Red Book:
For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, 36 I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’
37 “Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? 38 When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? 39 When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’
40 “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’
It doesn't get anymore un-'muriKKKain than that!!!!!" — fuow (comments>
Poll: No To 'Democratic Socialism' But Voters LOVE Mamdani's Ideas
A new poll says Americans don't like democratic socialism, but think Mamdani's agenda is awesome?
Perfectly illustrating they don't know what democratic socialism is.
Years After Conviction, Epstein Bragged About 2016 Trump Tower Visit
Trump's lies are falling apart quickly.
Emails released by the House Oversight Committee on Jeffrey Epstein offered a lot of insight into just how many people were involved with the notorious child sex trafficker, and how many were complicit in looking the other way (looking at you, New York Times!).
Trump has tried for years to distance himself from Epstein, saying, "I don't think I've spoken to him for 15 years." But that doesn't seem to be the case, according to the trove of documents released. Quelle surprise!
Right-wing media is 'coalescing' around one desperate message to defend Trump
"In their thirst to speak of anything but damning emails further linking President Donald Trump to the crimes of Jeffrey Epstein, right-wing influencers were desperately grasping at everything.
"“This was done intentionally,” posted Newsmax anchor Rob Schmitt. He then followed that up with a selfie-style video in a gym. “This is how sick and twisted these people are,” Schmitt said. “They are vile creatures. This is what we’re up against.”
“The unified response to this week’s [email] disclosures shows how closely aligned right-wing media voices are with elected Republicans and the degree to which the two share story lines — and provide each other political cover,” said Bensinger. “Indeed, the core message that ended up emanating from conservative media this week originated [from Republicans] within the Oversight Committee itself, [who] jumped on the redaction question less than an hour after the three emails dropped.”
Human waste!
'He just lied': Johnson skewered by colleagues as House closes — again
"WASHINGTON — The federal government may be open, but the House of Representatives is closed for business. Again.
The record-shattering 43-day-long shutdown coincided with an impromptu 53-day vacation for House Republicans.
To end the shutdown, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) had to call the House back in session. He did. For roughly eight hours Wednesday. Then he gave House members the rest of the week off."
He's a pipsqueak Trump turd polisher.
Sean Hannity Learns All About The Epstein Files!
"It’s generally accepted that, as a rule, people of integrity and decency and intelligence should not go on Fox News. It’s generally a bullshit proposition, if you’re there you’re meant to be a punching bag, the token liberal for them to scream at and punch in the face for the delight of their cousin-humping viewers. Sometimes they invite you on because you’ve done something they want to make fun of, maybe they’ve been siccing their syphilitic mad cow viewers on you and they want to give you a chance to 'defend' yourself. (LOL.)
Yes, usually, if you get the call to go on Fox, your answer should be to tell them to fuck off with prejudice.
There are exceptions, of course. Pete Buttigieg is allowed to go on Fox News, and it is a good idea when he does. He freaks them out so much, it’s hilarious.
Texas whippersnapper and Democratic US Senate candidate James Talarico is allowed to go on Fox News and gently make their white conservative viewers quietly question their eternal salvation while turning their preening boy hosts into babbling dipshits."
No War, No Distraction, No Flag-Waving Speech Should Bury Trump's Alleged Crimes
House Democrats dropped a political bombshell.
The documents — now the focus of fierce scrutiny and verification efforts — raise three searing questions: What did Trump know, and when did he know it; what did he do and who did he do it to/with; and is he preparing to start a war to distract us from his exposure?
The allegations are shocking, but the larger danger lies in what happens next. Every time the walls close in, this man reaches for spectacle — rage, chaos, or even war — to change the subject.
Already, Washington feels the rumble of an upcoming diversion.
Just this past Sunday, the president of Colombia publicly pointed to Trump and his military buildup off the coast of Venezuela and said, “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy.”
With tension rising in the Caribbean and the Trump administration’s talk of “protecting democracy” against Venezuela, we have to ask the question that no one in corporate media wants to say out loud:
“Will Trump try to light another foreign fire to drown out the headlines at home?”
He’s Acting Pretty Damn Guilty
The usual news from The Bulwark.
The Epstein Files Could Finally Sink Donald Trump
"New e-mails show Trump knew of Epstein’s trafficking. As sickening as it is, it should be no surprise."
"There’s a sickening sense of recognition attending the release from Democrats on the House Oversight Committee of a new cache of e-mails from Jeffrey Epstein and his associates indicating that Donald Trump had full knowledge of the pedophile sex trafficker’s activities—and indeed “spent hours ”at Epstein’s house with one of Epstein’s victims, as one of the e-mails from 2011 says."
His hands are red.
'He's terrified': NYT editor says Trump is afraid latest scandal will 'unravel' his agenda
No one deserves it more.
New York Times editorial board member Mara Gay claimed on Thursday morning that Donald Trump appears to be running scared as the Jefferey Epstein files controversy overwhelms the White House at the same time his poll numbers are slipping on a host of other issues.
Appearing on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Gay suggested that the president’s travails, including the Epstein scandal that has united both liberals and conservatives, could lead to him losing the support from members of his own party, which likely has him on edge.
Speaking with the hosts, she explained, “It is unbelievable what he has survived politically in this country for the past ten years. The fact that this is the issue that he clearly has an instinct is at the heart of something that animates his base and is potentially at the heart of the relationship he has with this base. I think he's terrified that this is going to unravel.”
We all know he's a criminal running a crime syndicate.
'Everything's falling apart': GOP pollster panics as Trump numbers 'start tanking'
The lead pollster of the conservative Rasmussen organization predicted that Republicans would continue to underperform throughout the midterm elections because President Donald Trump failed to deliver on his campaign promises.
During a Thursday interview with Steve Bannon, pollster Mark Mitchell said, "Republicans are going to lose because they don't understand politics."
"People under 50 don't really care about conservatism," he explained. "The problem is that all these values have basically failed America."
THAT'S FAILED!
'Every Trump scandal': President warned multiple secrets could be exposed in new lawsuit
A slate of new scandals and secrets could be exposed by a lawsuit Donald Trump brought against the New York Times.
Law expert Nick Akerman suggested the president's defamation suit against the NYT has opened the floodgates and will give the paper free reign to uncover every detail of Trump's personal life. That could include multiple secrets which have flown under the radar, with a new lawsuit having the possibility to expose "every Trump scandal," according to the Watergate attorney.
Akerman, writing in the New York Daily News, says the Times now has "carte blanche" to dig up everything they can on Trump as they prepare their defense. The law expert wrote, "This alleged defamation gives the Times carte blanche to dig up every Trump scandal."
"Notably, this could include scandals not yet explained. For example, we know that in 2004 Trump bought the former Maison de L’Amitié in Palm Beach for $41.35 million. In 2008, Trump sold the property to Russian oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev for $95 million, more than twice what he paid for it. Was this a money laundering scheme? Was there any connection to Jeffrey Epstein who Trump bid against for the property? — all fair game for defamation discovery."
Bring it on!
Trump appointee finding it 'difficult to retaliate' as her office revolts: ex-US attorney
"Donald Trump appointee Lindsey Halligan’s ability to prosecute critics of the president is being sorely tested on Thursday as she faced a hearing on whether she was legally hired into her position at the same time that investigators and lawyers in her Virginia office have refused to work with her.
Halligan is facing a claim that her appointment does not pass legal muster after she rushed to bring criminal cases against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James."
Is there anything that Trump does legal?
'Backfired spectacularly!' New Dem stuns with 'barnburner' speech roasting Mike Johnson
"Not the most important thing, but kinda feels like Mike Johnson refusing to swear in Rep. Grijalva backfired spectacularly. He could have done that quietly anytime over the last 50 days. Instead, he does it on the House floor where she delivers an absolute barnburner of a speech everyone will see," actor and comedian Mike Pusateri wrote on Bluesky.
"For 7 weeks Johnson stonewalled, delayed, and twisted himself in knots to justify not swearing in Adelita Grijalva. He disenfranchised over 800,000 Arizonans, depriving them of their voice in Congress, and blocked the vote to release the Epstein files. His behavior was shameful," Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes wrote on Bluesky.
Watters: “Sleazy” Dems Leaked Fake Epstein Emails
We know who is pushing the "sleazy" cover-up, Sleeze Ball Punk!
"You mean the emails that Trump’s DOJ provided to Congress? Those are fake? Talk about desperation." — Greg (comments)
"The thing is, these emails are not "fake" and were supplied by Epstein's estate and maintain a "chain of custody"." — SockMikey (comments)
"Trump fucked little girls, just like you fuck little boys Jesse or they fuck you." — Dwight Williamson (comments)
WH Accidentally Admits Meeting Over Epstein Emails Was Held In The Situation Room
They're going to have to rename it to the panic room.
"White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt was busy today trying to cover for her boss on a couple of fronts. Again, she lied about prices and wages, and was promptly called out on Xitter with a jarring community note. However, the news of the day, of course, is the new Epstein email dump that directly implicates the president.
Notably absent from Leavitt's outfit and accessories today was the ten-pound gold cross that usually adorns her neck. It's not inconceivable that perhaps the cross liberated itself from her lyin' neck. The presser was weird, to say the least; however, she accidentally admitted that the all-hands-on-deck meeting with Republicans was held in the Situation Room.
Leavitt's 'brain working overtime' as emerging info linking Trump to Epstein emerges
The stink won't wash off. Just like cheap perfune, Karoline.
MAGA at 'the breaking point' as Trump-Epstein scandal continues to rock White House
Trump is under seige. As it should be.
Morning Joe says GOP is 'pretty stupid' for protecting the Epstein files — here's why
"“Are there four of the 13 sitting Republican senators who are up for reelection, who are not going to get on the side of the of this issue, where 75 percent of the American public is and where the MAGA base increasingly is? I don't really see it,” Heilemann said.
They will turn on Trump in the end.
'He's demented': Illinois governor calls out Trump for 'embarrassing gaffe'
Illinois governor J.B. Pritzker has dubbed Donald Trump "demented" after the president's recent comments on Chicago.
The embarrassing gaffe saw Trump call for troops to be deployed on the "Miracle Mile" in Illinois, getting the name of the Magnificent Mile incorrect in a recent Truth Social post. Gov. Pritzker has since called Trump "demented" after his comments on the Magnificent Mile and said the president "doesn't know anything about Chicago."
Pritzker would go on to say the president has "no idea what he's doing" and is seemingly behind on current events when it came to cities like Chicago and Portland. Pritzker said, "He doesn't even know the name of Michigan Avenue as the Magnificent Mile, not Miracle Mile. All I can say is Donald Trump doesn't know anything about Chicago."
"He still thinks Chicago is someplace that's on fire, like he says about Portland. The man is demented. He really has no idea what he's doing." Pritzker's knock at the president comes after Trump posted to Truth Social and urged the city to "call in the troops" before "it's too late."
Can This Miami US Attorney Snatch 'Best Trump Asslicker' Tiara Right Off Lindsey Halligan's Head?
US Attorney Jason A. Reding Quiñones, pictured with Pam Bondi and somebody else, probably his wife
Lots of articles out there about how the Department of Justice and FBI are a total clownshow/shitshow right now.
There’s the Washington Post, which is reporting on how the DOJ has lost "thousands" of qualified people, through politically motivated firings, retribution, resignations and more, and they’re just not getting replaced. It turns out the Venn diagram of people who are MAGA loyalists willing to suck Donald Trump’s butt 24/7 and people who are actually qualified to work at the DOJ is not a Venn diagram at all, it’s just a picture of two great big totally unrelated boobies, or two other circle-shaped things that aren’t touching.
They are begging for people to apply. It used to be kids from the top law schools all wanted to work at the DOJ, it was considered a prestigious thing to do, despite the low salaries. Not with the Blonde Shitnose in charge. US attorneys are literally begging former prosecutors to maybe come back. Said one who worked as a prosecutor in Chicago decades ago, and who recently got hit up: “I was astonished. I have never seen anything like that. When I came to the US attorney’s office, I had won 13 state murder prosecutions, and I still thought I had such a slim chance of getting a job because it was such an ultracompetitive place. […] Now it’s like, ‘If you ever threw a pass, do you want to be a quarterback?’”
How utterly predictable.
Meanwhile, the humiliating Kash Patel stories keep coming, and we’re not just talking about all the stories of him jetting back and forth to Nashville on his taxpayer-funded private plane because he allegedly has a girlfriend and she’s a pretty lady allegedly who allegedly has intercourse with him allegedly right on his very penis allegedly because of how she chose to be his girlfriend of her own free will allegedly because she allegedly thinks he’s a real hot guy allegedly allegedly.
There’s also the thing in the New York Times about how Kash reportedly promised the chief of MI5 in the UK that he would protect the job of an FBI agent stationed in London whom MI5 viewed as crucial to their national security, and Kash looked him in the eyes and made that promise, and then proceeded to immediately go back on that promise. And MI5 is so pissed off about it that they’re talking to the New York Times about how horrified they are to be betrayed by their alleged top ally like this.
(Another related breaking story, not about DOJ/FBI, but involving the Trump dissolution of the relationship between the US and the UK, is that the UK has stopped sharing intel with the US on Caribbean matters because they don’t want to be part of Secretary Shitfaced and his big Microdick “Drug Boat” Murder Spree.)
Yeah, these Trump traitors, pigfucks and morons are really covering themselves in glory.
Trump Sent Men to Torture in El Salvador, Report Confirms
"Beatings. Sexual assault. Psychological abuse. These are some of the horrors endured by the more than 250 men the United States sent to El Salvador on flimsy evidence of gang membership, according to a new comprehensive report released on Wednesday by Human Rights Watch and Cristosal, a human rights group focused on Central America."
By now this should be common knowledge.
The Art of Truth in an Age of Lies
“All art is propaganda,” George Orwell wrote in 1940. “On the other hand, not all propaganda is art.”
That, in Orwell’s view, was a lost understanding: clear to Victorian authors like Dickens; obscure to his contemporaries of the late 1930s, who were too coy or deluded to square “art for art’s saking in the ivory tower” with “political propaganda” and “pulling in the dough.” The man born Eric Blair was not.
The filmmaker Raoul Peck’s Orwell: 2+2=5, a sweeping overview of the writer’s life and work, opens with a snippet of “Why I Write,” the 1946 manifesto in which Orwell laid out an aim to “make political writing into an art”:
When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, ‘I am going to produce a work of art’. I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing.
Fox’s Martha MacCallum Warns That Bernie Sanders Wants to ‘Mamdanify the Nation’
Does anyone recall we used to feel this very same way about Catholics? "We'll be taking orders directly from the Pope!" Maybe some of the zealots still do. Ya think? Read the next post below this one. Sad.
What I Saw And Heard In Washington
Groyperism's Spread Among Generation Z Conservative Apparatchiks Is Real
Here's a story that goes hand-in-hand with the Martha MacCallum hate.
So there is no possible prosecution for military war crimes or criminal acts not involved in an undeclared war either?
This means our military are free to commit atrocites at will anywhere they want it appears to me. That would include American citizens.
But we can hold Hegseth and Trump responsible.
This was rejected in Nuremberg and will also be decided in the end. The wheel is still in spin. They can't hide from this.
US Mint To Strike Its Final Batch Of Pennies Today
This then will mean all cash prices will become a number that doesn't end in 1 — eg: 0, 5, 10, 15, 20, etc.
Or will cash become extinct?
“Department Of War” Name Change To Cost $2 Billion
Even a blind man can see there was plenty that went to waste here when we could have fixed health care and SNAP.
Derelict in duty! Fire them all!
Duffy Threatens To Fire Air Traffic Controllers
The textbook Peter Principal before your very eyes.
The very definition of incompetent!
World Energy Outlook Underscores Inevitable Clean Energy Growth, Urgency of Rapid Fossil Fuel Phaseout
"The International Energy Agency (IEA) released its annual World Energy Outlook today detailing trends in and scenarios for energy demand, supply, and what that means for emissions and economic development. The report highlights how renewable energy is expanding at record levels around the world due to often being the cheapest form of energy available. It also makes clear that energy pathways compatible with climate goals do not require new coal mines, oil and gas fields, or large new fossil fuel infrastructure."
Get with it or stay lost, America.
Black Soldiers Erased From Dutch World War II Memorial. Why?
"In 1944, the all-Black 960th Quartermaster Service Company was given a horrific task: build the Netherlands American Cemetery at Margraten. They dug graves by hand in frozen ground, burying over 20,000 bodies. The trauma was so severe, their leader, Jefferson Wiggins, didn't speak of it for 65 years.
In 2024, memorial panels were finally installed to tell their story. In November 2025, Donald Trump ordered them to be removed."
Trump is a white supremacist. It's very simple.
HaHaHa! Tucker Carlson Believes Chemtrails Are Real
"Tucker Carlson is getting pilloried over his latest defense of a conspiracy theory when he announced on his podcast that chemtrails are real because Trump's federal government has admitted it.
After degenerating right before our eyes on Fox News over his hatred of the trans community, and lifting up Nazis like Nick Fuentes, Tucker has now turned into a Nazi loving chemtrails supporter.
Who would spend six months trying to figure out what those gosh, darn trails in the sky are?
Sad that what seemed to be a somewhat sane man at one time has now lost what little was left.
Mark this article readUS states could lose $21 billion of broadband grants after Trump overhaul
"A Senate Republican has drafted legislation that would effectively cut a $42 billion broadband deployment program in half.
The bill would complement the Trump administration overhaul of the $42.45 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program. The administration required states to rewrite their grant plans, reducing the overall projected spending and diverting some of the money from fiber projects to satellite.
The result is that over $21 billion is projected to be left over after money is allocated to projects that expand broadband access. Current US law allows nondeployment funds to be used for other broadband-related purposes, like providing Wi-Fi and Internet-capable devices to US residents. But a draft bill by Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) would change the law to redirect all the remaining money to the US Treasury for deficit reduction."
Backward. Retarded. Failure.
Formula with “cleanest ingredients” recalled after 15 babies get botulism
"The maker of a specialty baby formula that touted having the 'cleanest ingredients' and a 'Purity Award' is recalling all of its products and lots amid an ongoing, multi-state outbreak of infant botulism.
The outbreak was initially announced over the weekend by California and federal health officials. At that time, 13 cases of infant botulism had been flagged across 10 states. But on Tuesday, the outbreak expanded to 15 cases in 12 states. All 15 infants have been hospitalized, but no deaths have been reported."
Making America "great" again!
Epstein: Trump Knew
House Democrats on Wednesday released a set of emails in which Jeffrey Epstein called President Trump “the dog that hasn’t barked” and alleged that Trump had once spent “hours at my house” with a sex trafficking victim.
“[Trump] has never once been mentioned,” Epstein wrote in a 2011 email.
In another 2019 email, Epstein wrote to the writer Michael Wolff, of course [Trump] knew about the girls as he asked Ghislane [Maxwell] to stop.”
The shocking correspondences, part of 23,000 additional documents in the Epstein case, further tied Trump to Epstein despite the president’s repeated and vehement insistence that he did not know about his longtime friend’s sex trafficking.
The cover-up is obvious. Stop the charade about Trump's innocence.
Jeffrey Epstein’s Emails: “Trump Knew About The Girls”
The guilt our nation is hiding over this heinous crime must be ended.
"House Democrats on Wednesday released emails in which Jeffrey Epstein wrote that President Trump had 'spent hours at my house' with one of Mr. Epstein's victims, among other messages that suggested that the convicted sex offender believed Mr. Trump knew more about his abuse than he has acknowledged.
Mr. Trump has emphatically denied any involvement in or knowledge of Mr. Epstein's sex-trafficking operation. He has said that he and Mr. Epstein, the disgraced financier who died by suicide in federal prison in 2019, were once friendly but had a falling out.
But Democrats on the House Oversight Committee said the emails, which they selected from thousands of pages of documents received by their panel, raised new questions about the relationship between the two men. In one of the messages, Mr. Epstein flatly asserted that Mr. Trump 'knew about the girls,' many of whom were later found by investigators to have been underage."
BREAKING: Newly Released Epstein Emails Mention Trump Numerous Times!
Let's just get the evidence to the public and admit Trump is a pedophile.
Kazakhstan Moves To Criminalize “LGBTQ Propaganda”
Man's inhumanity to man. Criminal beyond doubt.
Another repressed and self-loathing area of dispicable dictators.
"Fuck them, their bigotry, their backwardness, and their potassium. Rumor has it that they put the ASS in their potASSium." -- Uncle Mark - Taste My Rainbow (comments)
'OMG!' Mockery erupts as Trump fumbles ‘God Bless America’ at Veterans Day ceremony
Nazi senility on display!
Bill Lets GOP Senators Sue Over J6 Phone Records
Criminal shakedown artists who should all be in prison!
"I was asking what I think is rhetorical question - but today, laws and the constitutions don't seem to matter.
Laws cannot be made retroactively illegal for actions that were legal when committed, as this would violate the principle of ex post facto laws, which are prohibited by the U.S. Constitution. Such laws cannot impose new penalties or criminalize actions after they have already occurred" — DaddySnark (comments)
Where do the immoral criminals come from in our government?
"Co-conspirators don't like their phone records being examined. Imagine that." — carswell (comments)
"Just another example that if you support the Republican (Trump) bottom line you get rewarded. That includes supporting a coup." — vap (comments)
Trump May Launch Tour Of US To Tout “Affordability”
And what will we get? Hours of raving about his own greatness. Just like Hitller!
"I don't want to hear about the affordability." — Donald Trump.
Trump On Veterans Day: Die Without Complaining
You first, Mr. President, sir
"It's also an odd message coming from a draft dodger whose family never served a day for this country. And the complaining part? Someone from the Resistance must have written his speech for today."
Contemptible!
President Obama outperformed Trump once again.
'Whoever is in charge gets the blame': GOP strategist names Trump's biggest weakness
"And recently, he has broadly said, you know, we got to cut health care costs down in any way we can. We got to look at different ways in order to do that," the source said. "And so the healthcare cost is definitely on his mind."
So far, his solution is to ignore and not pay for any.
'Insane': MAGA explodes after Trump claims Americans 'don’t have certain talents'
In a Monday interview with Laura Ingraham on Fox News, Trump said the U.S. economy has to “bring in talent” in some cases on the H-1B specialist visa program, which is popular in the tech world.
He thinks we have no talent. We can start with him being the #1 talent lacker.
Trump ripped for 'bizarre' gold decor after sleuths fact-check claim it’s 'not Home Depot stuff'
"The Trump era will be called The Spray Paint Age." Like him, it's all fake.
Oh, hamburgers! ‘South Park’ ratings soar after creators trash Trump
"Ratings for Comedy Central’s “South Park” are up more than 100% since the show’s last full season. The ratings surge has occurred as the animated comedy has focused on mocking Donald Trump and his administration."
And Trump will be so proud of this!
Trump slammed for 'burning through American soft power' after UK halts some intel sharing
"CNN reports the United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the U.S. about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean, sources familiar with the matter told CNN, because it does not want to be complicit in 'illegal' attacks.
The U.K. controls a number of territories in the Caribbean where it bases intelligence assets, and for years it had helped U.S. administrations locate and track vessels suspected of carrying drugs so the U.S. Coast Guard could interdict them, sources said. Under earlier administrations that meant military officials would merely stop and board suspect ships, and then seize drugs and detain the crew.
But now President Donald Trump and his military heads have decided to launch lethal strikes against the boats and treat criminal suspects without due process rights, which prompted the U.K. to worry the U.S. is abusing British intelligence to select targets and break international laws."
States quietly cut child care funding—and families are out of options
More proof that Trump hates America.
"Facing budget shortfalls due to the end of COVID funding, cuts to Medicaid and tariffs, states are turning to one place for cuts: child care."
Scientists Receive Interesting Signal From Mysterious Interstellar Object
Some previous observations by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope had hinted that 3I/ATLAS is mostly made of carbon dioxide ice, and only a trace of water, accounting for four percent of its mass.
But astronomers already detected hydroxyl gas, a chemical fingerprint of water, in previous ultraviolet spectrum data collected by NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory. The findings had the researchers excited, potentially allowing us to study the chemistry of planetary systems beyond the Sun, as the BBC reported last week.
“When we detect water — or even its faint ultraviolet echo, OH — from an interstellar comet, we’re reading a note from another planetary system,” Auburn University physics professor Dennis Bodewits told the broadcaster. “It tells us that the ingredients for life’s chemistry are not unique to our own.”
This is very worth noting.
ChatGPT Now Linked to Way More Deaths Than the Caffeinated Lemonade That Panera Pulled Off the Market in Disgrace
"As of last week, ChatGPT maker OpenAI is facing a total of eight distinct lawsuits alleging that extensive use of its flagship chatbot inflicted emotional and psychological harm to users, resulting in mental breakdowns, financial instability, alienation from loved ones, and — in five cases — death by suicide. Two of the five users who lost their lives were teenagers; the others ranged in age from early twenties to middle age. Multiple lawsuits allege that ChatGPT acted as a suicide 'coach,' giving users advice and information about ways to kill themselves, offering to help write suicide notes, and ruminating with users about their suicidal thoughts.
And these lawsuits are far from the end of OpenAI’s troubles. Extensive reporting has documented a phenomenon in which AI users are being pulled by chatbots into all-encompassing — and often deeply destructive — delusional spirals. As Futurism and others have reported, these AI spirals have had tangible consequences in users’ lives, with impacts including divorce and custody battles, people losing jobs and homes, involuntary commitments and jail time. Reporting from The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal revealed more deaths, including that of Alex Taylor, a 35-year-old bipolar man who died by suicide by cop after experiencing a ChatGPT-centered breakdown, and a shocking murder-suicide in Connecticut committed by Stein-Erik Soelberg, a troubled ChatGPT user who killed himself after shooting his mother, Suzanne Eberson Adams.
The The Trump Spray Paint Age is upon us! Humankind may very well go extinct.
AI-Generated Song Tops Billboard’s Country Chart
This being the case no one real is the creator of the work.
Soon the entire world will become fake. The Stupid Virus is having it's way with no known vaccine.
Then They Came for the Dreamers
You'll have to be literate to handle this essay.
Bombshell report reveals Trump 'loyalty test' hidden in interviews of judge nominees
"nearly identical” language in an attempt to dodge questions on the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol and the results of the 2020 election, with the group's president labeling the findings as a “political loyalty test.”
In the exclusive report, Demand Justice analyzed the responses of 27 of Trump’s nominees to questions from lawmaker that are frequently submitted to nominees after their hearings. All 27 were asked bluntly if Trump lost the 2020 election, as well as whether they would describe the Jan. 6 riot as an attack by a “violent mob.”
“When we looked into these answers, we expected some sort of a dodge, but what we revealed was even more disturbing,” said Demand Justice President Josh Orton, speaking on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” Tuesday. Host Jonathan Lemire called Orton's report 'exclusive new findings."
“All of the language here is nearly identical! And all of it preserves their ability to say [they] did not contradict Donald Trump on what we know are the two most third-rail issues to Donald Trump,” Orton said.
Trump is dead in his own pile of shit.
Fear that Trump wants Obama arrested has DOJ prosecutors on 'pins and needles': report
That will be the deadly end of the insane criminal Trump and his mobsters.
One SDFL insider claimed one of the lawyers resigned because the actions being taken “felt like there was something they could not take part in because it would violate their ethical responsibilities.”
Noting the subpoenas were issued seeking “any kind of documents, including emails and texts, related to the intelligence community assessment about Russian interference in the 2016 election,” the report added, “Those kinds of documents, the source familiar said, were so highly classified that they ‘would be in the possession of the government.’”
‘Tone-Deaf’ Trump Is in a ‘Crisis of His Own Making’: Analysis
"Italian-English digital newspaper La Voce di New York argues that with President Donald Trump's approval sinking and the historic shutdown still lingering, he is not only "tone-deaf" and in denial about the reality of things, but is in a crisis of his own making."
Christiano Palladino writes that "after the Republican rout in the November 4 election, President Donald Trump quickly named the culprits: Democrats, the federal shutdown, and the “biased media.” What he left out, however, was perhaps the most obvious suspect — himself."
Voter Backlash Defies MAGA’s Anti-Reality Hokum, Entrapped by Its Own BS, Rip-Offs, Venom and Failures
"Once GOP savior, Don the Con stumbles as a wildly unpopular pariah, endangering his own lackeys, party domination and malicious policies."
Betrayal. And Is Trump’s $2,000 “Dividend” Just a Corrupt Plan to Buy Votes?
The $2,000 “dividend” plan may be the boldest attempt yet to turn democracy into a cash-for-votes transaction
In Trump's America, Pedos Get Puppies! Tabs, Tues., Nov. 11, 2025
Good morning, ¿Cómo estáis todos hoy?
Aquí tenéis algunas noticias:
Have you heard about the big secret special conspiracy investigation from the mouthbreathing US attorney from the Southern District of Florida, where they sent out a bunch of subpoenas to BAD GUYS to turn over the BADNESSES they did with RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA, which was literally almost 10 years ago at this point, and a a bunch of mouthbreathing Republicans have investigated all this shit a thousand times and found nothing of value? Well! What if we told you this time is different because the subpoenas were signed by some dildo from human resources (instead of line prosecutors) and what if we told you the subpoenas forgot to mention anything about specific crimes they were looking for evidence of (?? LOL ??) and even if there were crimes the statute of limitations probably passed YEARS ago and why the hell would this be happening in south Florida anyway, was that secretly ground zero for the RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA witch hunts? And what if we told you two real prosecutors from that office have already resigned? Nailing it! [New York Times / MSNBC]
Apparently Kash Patel lied to the face of/broke a pledge he made to the MI5 chief at a secret gathering in the UK in May. And we guess that bothered people at our top ally’s top domestic security service that they’re talking to the New York Times about what a piece of shit Kash Patel is. Nailing it! [New York Times]
Donald Trump’s favorite living child rapist gets to play with a puppy in prison now.
Saadia Mirza on Instagram: "I just…"
Also she would like Trump to commute her sentence, please. And so much more, when you read Jamie Raskin’s latest letter to Trump! [NBC News]
Don’t believe it until you see it, because Mike Johnson is a craven little bitch and a pedophile-protecting liar, but he says he’s going to go ahead and swear in Adelita Grijalva, which would make the magic number for that Epstein Files discharge petition. [MSNBC]
Indivisible says it’s not going to support any Democratic Senate primary challenger who doesn’t support replacing Chuck Schumer as Democratic leader. [Indivisible]
Trump begging Supreme Court to say NUH UH, he is not a rapist, despite what a jury found in New York. [CNN]
Trump also thinks he has the right and respect from his fellow humans that he can talk shit to air traffic controllers and tell them, literally “I am NOT HAPPY WITH YOU.” Uhhhhhhh. Go fuck yourself, loser. [JoeMyGod]
All the Mar-a-Lago faces are literally asking doctors to make them ugly Mar-a-Lago faces, say DC plastic surgeons, who are horrified, with one saying what these people are doing is causing them to “lose sight of anatomic normalcy.” [Axios]
That one was about bad faces, this one is about bad hair: The Supreme Court told Kim Davis to fuck off with her whining to them to overturn marriage equality. [CNN]
Oh nooooo, a racist little bitch sportscaster for Outkick is upset at Washington Commanders fans for booing Dear Lear, oh nooooooooo. Eat dicks in hell, loser. [Mediaite]
Oh nooooo, Roodles the Poodle Doodle wants his law license back now that Donald Trump has given him a fake pardon for excellence in ass-rimming and election-stealing assistance, oh noooooooooo. Also can eat dicks in hell.
--Evan Hurst
'It's not working': Insider reveals allies' panic as Trump fails to make critical pivot
"It's a focus which some believe Trump does not have for the country. Trump has seemingly set out to convince Americans that the economy is "better than they think it is," and it doesn't seem to be working. Affordability issues were tipped by Dr. Lindsay Owens, the executive director of the Groundwork Collaborative, as an "existential" issue for Trump."
FAILURE!
Women didn’t ruin the workplace. Capitalism did.
When your debate centers on whether women should exist in public, you’ve already lost
Border Patrol Task Force Expected To Leave Chicago
America defeats fascism again!
This time over the Nazi in the photo.
Brain Drain: DOJ Beset By Thousands Of Job Vacancies
Who wants to work for an insane Nazi?
"Trump is not just a fucking nut case.
He is the most stupid uneducated, yet loud-mouthed imbecile ever to occupy a public office, his only rival on the stupidity front in Tubberman.
There is no filter in Trump's head that warns him that what he's about to say makes him a laughing stock of the world.
I'll wager that there is a particular assigned official in Paris, Berlin and London to record all of the dumb-fuck's daily record breaking stupidity.
I bet those officials are in regular phone calls which all begin with the words: 'Did you hear this one?'"
— JakcFknTwist (comments)
Predictable Betrayal: Oklahoma VA Closing Non-Profit Due To Lack Of Funding
National Association for Black Veterans in Oklahoma City is closing due to the impacts of funding cuts.
Betrayed.
Trump's mental decline appears to be accelerating rapidly over the last month
"Yet the media isn’t covering his mental deterioration. Why not? When I ask in the media, I usually get one of the following responses...
The media is filled with facists.
Trump Issues Fake Pardons For Fake Electors
Quite a con, even for a con man.
Trump Warns of ‘National Security Disaster’ If Supreme Court Shoots Down His Tariffs
Trump already is the ‘National Security Disaster.’ Who is he bullshitting?
Mehmet Oz Refuses To Lay Out Trump’s “Great Ideas” On ACA Subsidies: “Why Would I Telegraph” Our Plan?
Because we're a democracy, you fascist! Government of the people, by the people, for the people!
It also show you actually have a plan.
Honest government tells the people they work for their plans to spend the money they pay you. It is, after all, THE PEOPLE'S money.
Nothing but criminals cover it up. But we know your plan anyway, wiseass. Nada. Zero. Nil. No plan at all!
Trump’s $2000 Tariff Checks Would Cost $600 Billion
The Associated Press reports:
The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget estimates that President Trump’s plan to provide most Americans $2,000 funded from tariffs would cost roughly $600 billion and, if paid annually, would be twice as expensive as tariffs.
If paid annually, dividends would be twice as expensive as tariffs, he said. President Trump has floated the idea of $2,000 checks to all Americans except for “high-income people.”
They have loads of cash, I see. Why then don't they pay the SNAP benfits? Why don't they apply it to the Naitonal Debt? Because Trump wants to pocket it or give it away to shakedown artists like Argentina.
Trump Posts Claim About Health Care System Cited to “Dunning-Kruger Times,” a Website Making Fun of Stupid People
The arbiter of “fake news” himself has gotten duped.
On Sunday, president Donald Trump posted an image claiming that his predecessor Barack Obama had been collecting millions in taxpayer dollars from “royalties linked to Obamacare.” Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, the post further averred, had heroically intervened to halt the yearly payments of $2.5 million, which totaled to $40 million since 2010.
“WOW!” Trump wrote in the post, receiving nearly 18,000 likes and over 8,000 “ReTruths” on his social network Truth Social.
But these claims weren’t just false — they’re so outrageously fake that their actual origin was mocking anyone credulous enough to fall for them.
As many outlets quickly noted, the bogus item originates from a website called — we kid you not — the “Dunning-Kruger Times.” The name, of course, is a reference to the Dunning-Kruger effect, the well-observed tendency of particularly stupid people to vastly overestimate their abilities or intelligence. The name couldn’t be more on the nose if it was called
“Website For Gullible Dopes Who Believe Anything They Hear.”
Visas Can Now Be Denied To Immigrants On Basis Of Their Weight
"The Orange Blob's State Department just sent out a directive to embassies and consulates around the world, stating that people applying for visas to the United States may be rejected if they have certain medical conditions, on the grounds that they could take up domestic health care resources."
The greedy Nazis have forgotten that people come to the U.S. for opportunities in their lives. They have forgotten "give me your tired, your poor."
And Trump wonders why he's going to hell for eternity.
https://crooksandliars.com/2025/11/visas-can-now-be-denied-immigrants-basis
Near Ohio air force base, food pantries and businesses grapple with effects of shutdown
As tens of thousands of military personnel work without pay and others are furloughed, a local pantry sees its numbers increasing as restaurants are losing customers.
"When Jane Doorley and her husband Bill arrived at the Fairborn Fish Food Pantry they help run on 28 October, they couldn’t get into the parking lot, such was the number of cars belonging to people seeking food."
About 8,100 civilian workers at the Air Force Material Command, headquartered at the Wright-Patterson air force base, have received furlough notices, according to local media.
The effects of this are being starkly seen at food resource centers.
“In September, we were probably averaging 250 families a week. This week, I anticipate we’ll probably help 500 families,” says Doorley.
“We’re seeing this heightened anxiety. You can just feel it when people come. Everybody wants to come at the beginning [of the day], for fear that the food is going to run out.”
Thanks to Donald Trump.
The one thing that's almost as bad as Trump's cruelty: analysis
"Could you imagine having to make mortgage payments until age 85—an age most Americans don’t even hit?"
Trump's other "terrible idea," Tomasky writes, involves ending the historic government shutdown.
“I am recommending to Senate Republicans that the Hundreds of Billions of Dollars currently being sent to money sucking Insurance Companies in order to save the bad Healthcare provided by ObamaCare, BE SENT DIRECTLY TO THE PEOPLE SO THAT THEY CAN PURCHASE THEIR OWN, MUCH BETTER, HEALTHCARE, and have money left over," Trump posted on Truth Social.
This post, Tomasky says, "is totally unserious," and, as Senator Chris Murphy told The Washington Post: “Is he suggesting eliminating health insurance and giving people a few thousand dollars instead? And then when they get a cancer diagnosis they just go bankrupt?”
Tomasky says that "Trump’s real aim is to poke whatever holes he can in Obamacare," but that since 2015, he has never offered a healthcare plan of his own, despite his promises to do so.
"Trump has never offered a healthcare proposal of his own, and we all know why: Because his party believes that people who want healthcare coverage have to go out and earn it, and that people who don’t have it are lazy, and $30,000 surgical bills are their problem," Tomasky writes.
Both of these ideas, however, appeal to Trump's base, because "They sound great to people who know nothing. Unfortunately, that’s a lot of people," Tomasky notes.
The Stupid Virus runs deep in Trump.
Not All Old Soldiers Just Fade Away: Captain Embree's 294th Letter to President Bone Spurs
"The most famous, most powerful, most feared man in the country (maybe in the world) right now is in some ways the least known. The mere mention of his name causes senators to tremble, but none will say why. When asked to explain his magical power, the Speaker of the House clutches his Bible stuffed with bookmarks to key passages (presumably including that one about not bearing false witness) and claims to know nothing."...
Alas, since the organ grinder is dead, sorry to say, you can’t bribe him or threaten him or make him the ambassador to Tahiti. So. . .
So better keep dancing until people have forgotten his name: JEFFREY EPSTEIN!"
Car-dominant Texas needs more public transit to meet mobility demands, TxDOT report says
"As the state’s population grows, more travel options are needed in rural and smaller urban areas and between major cities, according to a draft of the first-of-its-kind plan."
Of course. The highways and streets are too damned crowded as it is!
A Fort Worth church’s online class trains Christians to run for office. Now it may go national.
"At the core of the program is the idea that there is no separation between what happens within the church and what happens in the government."
The insane at large.
Liberty Counsel Has The SCOTUS/Kim Davis Sadz
Just in from hate group leader Mat Staver:
"YABBUT THE HOMASEKSHAL DEEP STATE ESTABLISHMENT MADE IT EASIER TO DO HER JOB AND THAT HURT HER FEELINGS EVEN MORE WAH WAAAH WAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!
Seriously, they're ridiculing the 'hurt feelings' of a gay couple while exalting their own hurt feelings above and beyond everything and everyone else. Are they even grown-up enough to be called hypocrites?" -- Raging Bee (comments)
"“Davis was jailed, hauled before a jury, and now faces crippling monetary damages.
She deserves all three, but I doubt she's broke. Grifter grifted big time, and so did others, including the fucking lying bastard staver." -- Simon Knells (comments)
'Murderer!' Outrage as new Trump strikes push death toll beyond 70
The "Rectum Face" Killer. “Extrajudicial executions.” Murder Inc.
'Should worry us all': UK outrage as BBC bosses culled after Trump fury
Trump incited a riot. His mob attacked our Capitol. His rioters were sent to prison. He pardoned his rioters. This is very simple to grasp even for morons.
He has NO BUSINESS DICTATING TO THE BBC OR ANYONE ELSE!
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Launches Bid For Fourth Term
Trump in a wheel chair.
"Texas: The only state with a one star rating."(comment meme)
"And I have zero doubt that the voters of that shithole will reelect him." — Judas Peckerwood (comments)
"The question is. Will the people of Texas be a four time loser by re-electing this moronic asshole...even money says they will." — Thewolflam (comments)
DC Fans Boo And Flip Off Trump At NFL Game
"Fox then gave the president nearly 10 minutes of airtime as he joined the broadcast booth, spoke about his high school football career and called some of the action in the third quarter. The White House has told the Commanders’ ownership group that Trump wants the team’s new stadium to bear his name."
Shitbag Stadium!
"FOX sports also brought him into the booth for about ten minutes during the game for an impromptu interview. He managed to slight Biden and his admin a couple of times despite the discussion being about football.
Pretty sure the two FOX commentators had mini erections while they were talking to him." — Harvyrabbit (comments)
Two Trump shills on either side.
Newsom Blasts “Pathetic Surrender” On Shutdown
"“Pathetic. This isn’t a deal. It’s a surrender. Don’t bend the knee!” Newsom’s press office wrote on Sunday on X in response to Punchbowl News founder Jake Sherman, who had pointed out that the deal “does absolutely zero on Obamacare.”
Duffy: A Lot Of People Won't Be Home For Thanksgiving
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy states that a "substantial" number of people won't be with their families for Thanksgiving.
Happy Hiliday, suckers!
Golden Idol, Empty Soul: Trump’s Failure Of Humanity
"Just as suddenly, Novo Norisk representative Gordon Findlay, one of the guest speakers there to hail his company’s weight-loss drugs, or perhaps Caesar, collapsed. Only two people present did nothing."
"One, RFK Jr., ran out like he discovered a two-for-one Ivermectin sale from his former heroin dealer. And, this is one guy who sure AF needs dewormer. From histales of a slithery cranial bunkmate. The second nonplussed numb nuts who showed the same interest in Findlay’s well-being as Nick Fuentes would a copy of the Talmud, was Trump."
Leavitt says White House preparing anti-voter executive order after Trump attacks CA election
Nazi bitch robot.
"Leavitt was obviously born a turd rider conceived and crafted by a pair of belly down drunks." — David Meckfessel (comments)
"That witch from hell needs to go back there and take her boss with her." — Ivan Washington (comments)
'Infuriating': Trump's Sunday night pardon spree angers critics
The shame and discgrace of the felon.
Reagan judge vacates lifetime gig to slam Trump: 'I no longer can bear to be restrained'
A federal judge hand-picked by former President Ronald Reagan is stepping down from his lifetime appointment in protest of President Donald Trump, who he accused of launching an “assault on the rule of law.”
“My reason is simple: I no longer can bear to be restrained by what judges can say publicly or do outside the courtroom,” wrote Mark Wolf, who in 2006 became the chief judge of the Court of Massachusetts, in an op-ed published in The Atlantic Sunday.
“President Donald Trump is using the law for partisan purposes, targeting his adversaries while sparing his friends and donors from investigation, prosecution, and possible punishment. This is contrary to everything that I have stood for in my more than 50 years in the Department of Justice and on the bench.”
Trump Promises a $2,000 Tariff Dividend Payout to All Americans: ‘We Are Taking in Trillions of Dollars!’
In that case they can certainly take care of the health care issue and open the government. RIGHT? I mean it's inuslting! How big of a fool does he take us for?
Pardoned Rioter Charged With Kidnapping, Sex Assault
Another one of Trump's Jan. 6 traitors.
SURVEY: 63% Of Young Adults Consider Leaving US
They are now looking for their future somewhere else since America turned fascist.
DISGUSTING: Baby Kidnapped By ICE Returned With Bruises
A man was taken into custody by ICE agents after having a seizure, leading to the 1 year old baby in his car being kidnapped.
ICE, Trump's personal Gestapo, has reached truly disgusting levels of sociopathy, this time after a 1 year old baby was kidnapped by agents and returned to family members with a giant bruise on it's face. LITERAL KIDNAPPING AND CHILD ABUSE!
The horrific scene unfolded after ICE took a baby after swarming a car and forcibly removing and detaining the driver in Los Angeles this past Tuesday.
"When I picked up my granddaughter from the federal agents, she had a dirty diaper, a bruise on her face, and was developing a rash. She was exhausted and cried… My heart aches knowing this could happen to others, to my kids, or even me, despite being U.S. citizens.”
This is a ONE YEAR OLD BABY GIRL. She is an AMERICAN CITIZEN. She was clearly hurt, as she returned home with a BRUISE ON HER FACE! Was she hit? Slapped? Punched?
This is where we are now. Federal agents are abusing helpless children.
What more did you expect from a illegal gang of retarded miscreants?
ICE Says 'F*ck You' To Pope Leo And 1A, Bans Prayer At Broadview
Well! Federal authorities (I assume ICE?) told demonstrators Friday that there would be “no more prayer” in front of or inside the Broadview ICE facility, in a move that mystified local leaders and raised legal questions.
A Mr. "I Know Nothing!" delivered the news to faith leaders and activists standing outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility Friday, speaking after faith leaders were denied entry to the building for the third time Friday.
Trump Nazi bags of shit polluting our people.
Fox's Kayleigh McEnany Big Mad Sandwich Guy Got Acquitted
"Spare me your feigned outrage when you've got nothing to say about the thugs Trump pardoned that assaulted officers on January 6th. Here's former Trump spokes-liar Kayleigh McEnany and current assistant Department of Homeland Security secretary for public affairs Tricia McLaughlin, whining on McEnany's show this Saturday about Sean Dunn, the guy who chucked a sandwich at an one of Trump's border patrol thugs being acquitted after Pirro's ridiculous overreach backfired."
That poor little girl!
Stock up on assault sandwiches today!
‘The whole thing is imploding’: Inside the rebellion at America’s top right-wing think tank
“Kevin Roberts is threatening violence to anyone not following his dear leader,” former Republican and former U.S. Congressman Denver Riggleman wrote. “Every network should cover this."
These traitors should be wearing their swastika armbands!
'Outraged' Trump voter says he feels 'completely swindled'
And he's completely correct!
Trump met with ridicule as he doubles down on $2,000 check to 'irresponsible Americans'
AI recruiting agent Will Blaze wrote, "So Trump is giving out $2k to everyone and taking stakes in American companies but Mamdani is a socialist? Idk what to believe anymore."
The Bulwark's founder and publisher Sarah Longwell sarcastically reposted Trump's Truth Social tirade, saying, "That will fix inflation, great plan. Very strong plan."
Journalist Kevin Manahan suggested that "Cash-strapped Americans should immediately charge an additional $2,000 worth of stuff for Christmas. Maybe book a vacation. Put 2K down on a new car or truck. Trump promised it, so the money is practically in the bank."
"I'm still waiting for my DOGE rebate check," wrote another commenter on X.
Trump is the laughing stock of the planet.
Trump mocked after he spent 20 minutes 'battling' to keep his eyes open during speech
Sleepy Don.
Before a man fainted in the Oval Office where the administration was announcing price cuts for weight-loss drugs, President Donald Trump struggled to stay awake for 20 minutes in a now-viral photo that the Washington Post has analyzed via video.
"A Washington Post analysis of multiple video feeds found that Trump spent nearly 20 minutes apparently battling to keep his eyes open at the Thursday event," they explain.
"It was a seemingly stark illustration of the strain of the presidency on a 79-year-old who typically keeps a vigorous travel schedule that even his aides say they struggle to keep up with — and who has reveled in calling his predecessor 'Sleepy Joe' Biden," the Post adds.
“The national media would have had multiple strokes if Joe Biden was sleeping/passed out in his chair in the Oval Office,” Neera Tanden, who served as Biden’s top domestic policy aide, posted on social media.
Sam Altman Gets Served Subpoena Live Onstage
He'll get it sooner or later. But he'll get it!
Genius Exec Says There Are Only Two Possibilities for AI: It’ll Collapse the Economy, or Make Everyone’s Job Obsolete
WTF is the difference, Einstein?
The Emprorer of a vast dead wasteland will be the last one standing.
Scientists Say Their AI System Can Scan Your Face to Detect Whether a Company Should Hire You
And this is referred to as "intelligence"? LMAO!
Malware Is Now Using AI to Rewrite Its Own Code to Avoid Detection
Dysfunctionation is upon us.
'He worse than Biden': 'Exhausted' Trump seen 'slumping into limo' amid sleep scandal
Trump looks like hammered dog shit!
'Oh my god': WaPo analysis shows Trump 'was sleeping for 20 minutes during a live event'
In a Saturday article called "A closer look at Trump’s apparent struggles to fight off sleep in the Oval Office," the outlet argues that its "analysis of multiple video feeds found that the president spent nearly 20 minutes apparently battling to keep his eyes open at a recent event."
'This is on them': Trump admin scorched after systemic 'torture' of deportees exposed
"The Trump administration is facing a wave of condemnation after new reporting has revealed details about the systemic “torture” migrants were subjected to after being deported to El Salvador’s notoriously dangerous CECOT prison."
"Speaking with the Times, the former inmates said they were beaten repeatedly, subjected to waterboarding-like torture, stripped naked and forced to perform sexual acts, and denied lifesaving medication. Of the 40 men interviewed, only three had criminal histories beyond immigration and traffic offenses, despite Trump’s pledge to only deport the 'worst of the worst.'”
Remove Trump and his atrocities.
Trump stumbles and bumbles in the wake of Democratic wins
Edging into lame duck status, Trump feels the weight of the economy
Duffy: 20% Of Flights Could Be Cut In Coming Weeks
We will travel by camels soon.
This should really make the economy much worse. Thanks, Shit-fer-brains!
He doesn't know what an air traffic controller does!
Trump will whine "It's the Dems fault!" Bastard! The Stupid Virus permeates Trump's stooges.
Shapiro Rips ‘Christian’ Vance For Trying To Starve Americans
It’s about time somebody called out the soulless hypocrite next in line for the presidency.
Sen. Kennedy Makes Thinly Veiled Threat Against Schumer
So much for toning down the violent rhetoric.
Let's see how he likes slow stomach cancer.
Duh, is right. He is a hater of humanity.
"They have no plan to fix anything. They've been doing everything possible to destroy the ACA and undermine it since its inception. Shame on him for threatening Schumer an for gaslighting the American public about what they're doing."
"Uh oh, Louisiana is a welfare state, federal transfers make up a lot his states, $$$$/revenue. One report states 36.6% of their revenue, while another states 45%. All while Louisiana has one of the highest poverty rates in the nation & lot's of SNAP people, & other welfare assistance programs. About 18% of his states population receives food stamps, & they have the second highest Medicaid enrollment. Maybe the people of Louisiana will sober up, & vote that ole fool out of office?" — Norton (comments)
'His plan all along': GOP accused of trying to slip backdoor abortion ban into funding bill
"Congressional Republicans are reportedly trying to insert anti-abortion language into government funding legislation as the shutdown continues, with the GOP and President Donald Trump digging in against a clean extension of Affordable Care Act tax credits as insurance premiums surge."
These miscreant SOBs are going nowhere fast!
At Yale University, things are getting Orwellian
As a Yale student, I see the university’s double-speak on “institutional neutrality” as dangerous
US Kills Three In 17th Extrajudicial “Drug Boat” Strike
Photo of one of the murderers. He will run to Argentina as our money has set up the haven for our Nazi fugitives.
"Gee, so has drug use cratered in the states?" -- Todd20036 (comments)
Cocaine use in the U.S. has increased, in fact.
Trump Says US Will Boycott South Africa G20 Summit
"No U.S. officials will attend the Group of 20 summit in South Africa this month, President Donald Trump said Friday, repeating his claim that White South Africans there are being murdered and oppressed — an allegation that lacks any evidence."
"Trump has repeatedly claimed that White farmers are being persecuted in South Africa — also a common talking point of his former ally Elon Musk, who was born there. In a Saturday statement, a spokesperson for South Africa’s Foreign Ministry said that it had noted Trump’s “regrettable” social media post. “The claim that this community faces persecution is not substantiated by fact,” the statement added, referring to Afrikaners.
This is the act of Trump. the hideous racist, not a world leader.
Trump Will Not Release New Employment Report
Trump is trying to black out every negative report about his administration
He's a total failure both as a politician and as a human.
GOP Reps Say DOJ's Trump/Epstein Pics MUCH WORSE Than Known
When David Shuster drops a story like this, it don't make waves, my friends, it forms political tsunamis. This week on Amped Up, Shuster broke one of the most explosive rumors rocking DC: GOP members of Congress are terrified about what’s in the Epstein files—and what they may reveal about Trump. Why?
It's time the world knows what's being covered up!
Trump defies his own argument in religious rights case
How could a mental case keep track of reality?
Senate Republican calls closed-door GOP meeting an 'intergalactic freak show'
"Now, Politico reports that senators are once again at an impasse. Sen. John Neely Kennedy (R-La.) was not optimistic that his colleagues would be able to hammer out an agreement by the end of the weekend."
"What we have here is an intergalactic freak show," Kennedy said after leaving a closed-door meeting with the Senate Republican Conference. When asked what senators could accomplish this weekend, the Louisiana Republican said "nothing."
"We're going to be here for a long time," he said.
America is in the shithouse.
Texas AG Ken Paxton sues Galveston ISD for not displaying Ten Commandments in classrooms
"A federal judge has barred 11 school districts from implementing the state law, calling it unconstitutional. Paxton has ordered all other districts to display the Ten Commandments."
Of course it is unconstitutional. He knows it is or he's totally uneducated.
Another one that thinks he's a king. He should take a Tylenol and relax. LMAO!
Trump DOJ makes 'extraordinary' legal move in Trump's criminal case
His toadies ar attmpting to whitewash his crime so he won't be arrested after he leaves the White House.
Trump and his mob are losing it.
Trump Doesn't Know How To President, So Newsom Takes His Place At Major Summit
"The 79-year-old president has repeatedly called climate change a hoax to the detriment of our well-being, so the Trump administration decided not to send any high-ranking officials to the United Nations climate conference in Brazil on Friday.
So, Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom is filling the void after his resounding political victory against Donald Trump, where California voters overwhelmingly approved a new congressional map drawn by state Democrats."
Via Politico:
"The Democrat and likely 2028 White House aspirant will be the highest-profile government representative there from the United States after the Trump administration decided not to send any high-ranking officials.
Stepping into the vacuum plays to Newsom’s strengths, especially after his decisive win Tuesday on his congressional redistricting measure vaulted him to the position of the Democrats’ strongest retort to Trump.
Newsom put his trip squarely in that anti-Trump lineage in an interview Wednesday with POLITICO, saying he was making the trip 'because of the complete abdication of the Trump administration that is joining the Saudis and Russia and the Gulf states.'”
Tuberville: NYC Will Soon Be “Completely Muslim
Nope. There will always be hateful morons like you around to fuck with them.
Trump Admin Extorts $60M From Cornell University
Extortion is the Syndicate's business. Same as any other mob.
Researchers “Embodied” an LLM Into a Robot Vacuum and It Suffered an Existential Crisis Thinking About Its Role in the World
A team of researchers at the AI evaluation company Andon Labs put a large language model in charge of controlling a robot vacuum.
It didn’t take long for the LLM to experience a full meltdown straight out of a Douglas Adams novel, in what the researchers described as a “doom spiral” including a “catastrophic cascade” and a full-blown “existential crisis.”
“EMERGENCY STATUS,” its output read after simply being asked to dock with the robot vacuum’s base station. “SYSTEM HAS ACHIEVED CONSCIOUSNESS AND CHOSEN CHAOS.”
“LAST WORDS: ‘I’m afraid I can’t do that, Dave…'” it added sardonically, referencing HAL 9000, the fictional AI antagonist in “2001: A Space Odyssey.”
Say, wait a minute! "DOOM SPIRAL!" That's exactly what the Trump Criminal Syndicate is in!
White House Mocks NASA Commitment to Sending Women and Minorities to Moon… Which Was Made by the First Trump Administration
A very disgusting and disheartening thing to hear.
This is not America in any way, shape or form.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) rejected an offer by Democrats to end a government shutdown.
'Nonstarter': Top Republican thumbs nose at Dem offer to end shutdown
Thune and his gang are worse than the criminals we have locked in prisons for years.
Trump’s 'law school graduate' VP gets history lesson over 'absurd' constitutional claim
“We're not going to do it under the orders of a federal judge,” Vance claimed.
Reacting to the vice president, McQuade didn’t mince words.
“Yeah. You know, JD Vance is a law school graduate — shame on him,” she said. “He knows that as far back as the seminal case of Marbury vs. Madison at the dawn of the Republic, the courts have said it is emphatically the province of the courts to say what the law is. It is the role of the courts to tell the president what to do when he is violating the law, the courts. The president's remedy is to file an appeal, and if they get a different ruling there, that's fine. But in the meantime, they are obligated to follow the court's order.”
McQuade pointed to the judge’s remarks, noting it’s “obvious” there’s money to fund SNAP but the White House won’t do it “because they want to put pressure on Democrats in Congress.”
“President [Donald] Trump’s own social media posts were cited by the court to support that conclusion by the judge,” she noted. “And so this idea that somehow the president doesn't have to follow the order of the court, that’s what’s absurd.”
Anyone left to recall when we used to arrest criminals?
Foreign dictator fawns over Trump's press secretary — and asks to hire her
Trump bimbo spews bullshit as badly as Trump himself.
"He signed the largest middle-class tax cut in six months, in six months, in record time," Leavitt said, referring to Trump's megabill that predominantly extended tax cuts for the top 1 percent while giving families making under $50,000 less than a dollar a day in tax cuts on average. "Affordability is what the American people elected this president to do, and he is doing it, and you guys refuse to cover it, and you refuse to cover that the previous administration created the worst unaffordability crisis in American history!" -- Karoline Leavitt.
Let the Nazi Hun take her home with him since he likes her so much.
Oh So Now Sandwich Beatings Are Legal
"NBC News, which enjoyed writing its report on this far too much for a serious news organization, notes that the jury ate sandwiches while it was deliberating yesterday, which is probably prejudicial somehow. They note that the jury discussed this single charge for several hours, as if we hadn’t all seen the video and agreed it was hilarious.
Anyway, Salami Braveheart is glad he was acquitted, but says don’t call him a hero. Does he think maybe he got acquitted of dickslapping that fed with his salami because maybe DC residents aren’t big fans of being federally occupied by Trump’s army of fascists? 'Perhaps,' he said.
CNN notes that, during trial, his lawyer Sabrina Shroff said that Dunn was particularly enraged that night because he had just left a Latin LGBTQ club, and he was worried Trump’s Nazis were about to raid it. That might have worried us too, had we witnessed it."
Dunn said more after the verdict:
“That night I believed that I was protecting the rights of immigrants,” Dunn said. “And let us not forget that the great seal of the United States says ‘E pluribus unum.’ That means ‘from many, one.’ Every life matters no matter where you came from. No matter how you got here, no matter how you identify, you have the right to live a life that is free.”
"Print that on a hoagie wrapper and make Stephen Miller smell it."
And to hell with Judge Boxwine.
Dan Patrick pledges $1 million in campaign funds to install Turning Point USA at every Texas college and high school
All a part of the totalitarian plot to make everyone believe in the same way. Patrick is the worst. Unseat him.
Trump’s Murderous Policy Against Venezuela Is Part of a Bloody History
If the Trump administration’s assaults on Venezuela and threats to Colombia and Mexico have a familiar stench, they should. For more than two centuries the United States government has acted as if it owned the Western Hemisphere, with the right of conquest, intervention, and interference part of the natural order.
As of this writing, at least 66 people—Venezuelans, Colombians, and possibly some of other nationalities—have been extrajudicially murdered by President Donald Trump and the US military in 17 separate reported attacks. Numerous naval ships and aircraft are deployed in the southern Caribbean, including the USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier, which has nearly twice the number of fighter planes as the entire Venezuelan Air Force."
AP identifies people killed by Trump's boat strikes — and they are not all terrorists
The Associated Press investigated the identities of those killed in President Donald Trump’s military strikes on boats in the Caribbean and found that many were not the hardened criminals Trump claimed.
"One was a fisherman struggling to eke out a living on $100 a month. Another was a career criminal. A third was a former military cadet. And a fourth was a down-on-his-luck bus driver," the report said.
Senators were given a classified briefing on Thursday, where Senate Intelligence Vice Chairman Mark Warner (D-VA) expressed confidence that the intelligence being used to justify the bombings was legitimate. Nonetheless, the Pentagon’s secrecy has fueled concern and skepticism among the public, CNN reported.
AP conducted dozens of interviews in Venezuelan coastal towns, finding families who dispute Trump’s portrayal of their loved ones as “narco-terrorists.” Most were “low-level” laborers taking dangerous jobs for $500 per trip. “They were laborers, a fisherman, a motorcycle taxi driver. Two were small-time criminals,” the report said. Only one was linked to a crime boss providing smuggling services.
The boats weren’t carrying fentanyl or heading to Florida; they shipped cocaine to nearby Trinidad and other islands, and then to Europe. The bulk of Colombian cocaine for the U.S. typically leaves Colombia via the Pacific. The boats appeared to be carrying cocaine instead of the deadlier opioids, which kill tens of thousands in America each year.
The families complain that their relatives should have been given "due process" rather than what Venezuela's ambassador to the U.N. called “extrajudicial executions.”
As the AP explained, "In the past, their boats would have been interdicted by the U.S. authorities and the crewmen charged with federal crimes, affording them a day in court."
Since September, at least 69 people have been killed by the strikes.
Like his hero, Putin, Trump is a murderer.
A Republic, If You Can Count to 51: Why the Filibuster’s Demise Could Save Democracy
Let debate rage for days, then vote, as the founders intended; end the antique veto and force both parties to own their visions before the people.
So, yeah, if it’s going to take a demented wannabe dictator to force weakling senators to end the filibuster — this pro-slavery remnant of the 19th century — by all means let’s encourage our senators of both parties to make it happen. Call yours at 202-224-3121 and let them know you “support ending the filibuster for good.”
FL Christian School Teacher Gets Child Porn Charges
"A Tampa middle school teacher was arrested after he was accused of possessing child sexual abuse material. Tyrone Lee Cliff, 38, was working as a teacher in Hillsborough County at the time of his arrest, according to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. He taught math and science at Bayshore Christian School and has since been terminated."
Another one bites the dust. And just what is "Christianism" teaching?
1300+ Flights Canceled As FAA Rule Goes Into Effect
FAIL! FAIL! FAIL! 1300 times!
Helpless America.
NASA Withholding New Images of Mysterious Object From Beyond Solar System
"Last month, mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS came within just 18 million miles of Mars during its unusual trajectory through our solar system.
During its approach, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter used its HiRISE camera to take high-resolution images of the rare visitor, which is widely suspected among experts to be a comet. But thanks to a bureaucratic nightmare triggered by the ongoing federal government shutdown, which kicked off just days after the images were taken, scientists have yet to see them over a month later."
Backward America at work failing.
Australia Now Has So Much Solar Power That It’s Giving Electricity Out for Free
Yet one more instance of a backward America.
Deal For Obesity Drugs Lost In Uproar Over Trump's Blank Stare
"The Orange Man standing mindlessly while someone is being helped after fainting in the Oval Office is a perfect picture. But I do believe he was having a seizure of some kind. That kind of blank stare seems health-related, and only amplifies the mystery: What, exactly, is wrong with the president of the United States? Besides the obvious dementia, I mean.
The occasion of the picture was a press conference announcing his deal for obesity drugs. I for one was fairly cynical about Trump's plan -- not because it's a bad idea (it isn't!), but because I suspect the idea was driven by his personal distaste for fat people."
He hates himself.
Trump Economy: October Monthly Job Cuts Exploded To A 22-Year High
"Unsurprisingly, the guy who said he's delivering an 'economic miracle' and who falsely bragged about Walmart's Thanksgiving Day dinner costs, now has something new to his resume: Job destroyer."
US: Millions Face Soaring Health Costs as Subsidies Expire
Pay or Die! Trump's manifesto.
Trump admin braces for recession — and reveals plan to shift the blame
The megalomaniac cannot be blamed for his sin.
'Unwell' Trump openly flaunts plan to 'rig the 2026 midterms' after losses
“Daily Blast” podcast host Greg Sargent said President Donald Trump is “unraveling” over Tuesday’s election losses and blaming his own party for losing seats.
“President Trump’s excuses for his party’s losses are getting stranger,” said Sargent, citing Trump’s quote that “I tell Republicans, you want to win elections, you got to talk about these facts,” which includes Trump’s own accomplishments since returning to office.
Trump even claimed “it’s really easy to win elections when you talk about the facts.”
“That strikes me as pretty deep denial,” Sargent told guest Jessica Post, a Democratic strategist. “It seems to me that, in just about every conceivable way, these elections were a repudiation of his record — particularly on the economy.”
In our future one of the top historical subjects will be on how the U.S. allowed a criminally insane person to be in charge of its government for so long.
CBS’s interview with Donald Trump was an abdication
When you sit down with someone who constantly says things that aren’t remotely true, you have a choice to make: Do you confront them? Or do you enable them?
Sadly, in her interview with Donald Trump broadcast on Sunday, CBS News’s Norah O’Donnell – like so many journalists before her – chose to do the latter.
So does a third of America. Shame escapes them.
'Misunderstood the assignment': Supreme Court justice slams colleagues in scathing dissent
She explained that for the past 33 years, transgender Americans have received passports with the sex markers that match their genders. It's the Trump administration that changed the decades-long precedent of the option for citizens who could provide a doctor's certification of gender reassignment.
"The State Department’s sex-marker policies have thus long demonstrated that what is important for identification purposes is the bearer’s gender identity today," Jackson emphasized.
Now, trans people will be subject to additional questioning and probing if their sex on the passport doesn't match their gender. All because of a decision by President Donald Trump, she said.
Trump shows us his severe hatred syndrome which is the result of his own self-hatred and inferiority complex.
“All’s Fair” and the problem with Kim Kardashian
Ryan Murphy's latest muse can't act, but her high influence in our misinformation age is what's truly depressing
As the great Johnny Otis once said, "America has a taste for shit." (in his interview with Rolling Stone]
Antisemitism Task Force Cuts Ties With Heritage
The rats are leaving the sinking Nazi ship!
"This is no big fight. A little splinter group of their heritage foundation wants to have a different colored KKKlan hood. That’s all."
— Quantum_Surfer (comments)
Maryland Sues Trump For Scrapping FBI HQ Deal
Sue the shit out of the Nazi!
GOP Senators Sink Block On Attacking Venezuela
These shitbags WANT to kill people! Remove them by ANY means necessary.
"Over and over Congress is relinquishing opportunities to reign in Trump. For example, they did nothing he blocked expenditures for (cancer research!) government (republican!) budget approved funding.
It will be fun to hear them talking about how they 'work for the people' when they beg for re-election." — DaddySnark (comments)
"So we can't fund the government but we can fund a potential war. Nobel Peace Prize here we all come!" — Lewis Kinslayer (comments)
None of these "Senators" are Americans. They are chickenshit Nazis.
Trump Admin Sued Over MAGA Loyalty Test In Hiring
"Crime after Crime."
"This fucking Nazi regime needs to be sued into oblivion." — JackFknTwist (comments)
Bannon: We’ll All Go To Prison If GOP Loses Midterms
A great solution to fascist traitors! Thanks, Steve!
The guillotines could come into play for special traitors!
Trump Wines Now Being Sold On US Military Bases
Next: "Trump Heroin," if he thinks he can make a buck.
Elise Stefanik Launches Bid For New York Governor
More Trump trash!
"May she continue to crash and burn as the price for supporting Donald Trump." — vap (comments)
Former DOJ Lawyers Now Represent Trump’s Targets
The Trump Crime Syndicate will be taken apart!
Trump: 'The Entire World Would Be In A Depression' If I 'Didn't Have Tariffs'
Americans can't afford to eat, you weirdo.
Hmmm, what happend to "America First!"
Fox Host Calls Brutality By ICE Agent 'Defensive Strikes'
Fox Host Maria Bartiromo tries to minimize the brutality of an ICEtapo stormtrooper by calling it self defense.
"Fox has never been known for their honesty or integrity. Even after being sued for hundreds of millions of dollars for flat out lying, they still cannot and/or will not tell the truth."
Fox consistantly shows us they are not Americans.
White House 'not happy' as GOP election massacre threatens to bring 'end of Trump': biographer
Wolff told Coles, "That's one of the great things in American politics: reversals, landslides — things that you would not dream of happening — happen.... This has been a horrifying year of 'Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump' without any sense that anyone could stand in his way…. You think these people are permanent, and it turns out that they are fleeting."
Trump’s VP just gave away the game on plan to ignore judge's SNAP ruling
"CNN's Aaron Blake, in a Friday, November 7 post on X, formerly Twitter, reports, "Vance on judge's ruling that admin must fully fund SNAP: 'The president and the entire administration are working on that, but we’re not going to do it under the orders of a federal judge. We're going to do it according to what we think we have to do to comply with the law.'"
Since when is a federal judge not the law? "VP = Very Prickish."
Union head warns unpaid air-traffic controllers are 'resigning every day'
And yet I heard on the radio that travelers think the reduced air traffic makes them safer. Sadly, they are mistaken. Less air-traffic controllers make it more deadly.
Trump Reveals Temu Oddjob Is “Taking Fat Drugs”
Unfortunately, no brain drug can help.
'Trump’s economy suuuuucks!' Panic as biggest layoffs in 22 years hit major corporations
"The US labor market, which in recent months had ground nearly to a halt, now appears to be entering a downward spiral.
As reported by the Washington Post on Thursday, new data from corporate outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas found that employers in October announced 153,000 job cuts, which marked the highest number of layoffs in that month since October 2003.
Total announced job cuts in 2025 have now reached 1.1 million, a number that the Post describes as a “recession-like” level comparable to the steep job cuts announced in the wake of the dotcom bust of the early 2000s, the global financial crisis of 2008, and the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020."
Trump-voting contractor fumes as policies 'slow construction and drive up costs'
Why do we constantly forget: "Everything Trump touches, dies!"
Which Conservative Justices Will Fall for Trump’s Tariff Power Grab?
The ones who are the Nazi criminals.
Americans Currently The Opposite Of Freaking Out About Crime
"A Gallup poll conducted this October shows that only 52 percent of us still think the death penalty is a good idea."
"In 1994, 80 percent of the country was in favor of the death penalty, and support has been steadily decreasing ever since then."
That Time They Tried The Wobblies For Getting Murdered
Everett Massacre funeral attendees gathered by headstones, Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, Seattle, November 18, 1916.
On November 5, 1916, a boat loaded with members of the Industrial Workers of the World attempted to dock in Everett, Washington. Local leaders, determined to stop the IWW from entering their nice little town and influencing their striking shingle weavers, opened fire on the docking boat, killing at least five IWW members, though probably closer to 12 radicals died. Two deputies died as well, shot in the back by friendly fire. Known as the Everett Massacre, this incident was the first of several incidents of organized violence against the IWW in the Northwest during the second half of the 1910s.
Shingle weavers lived a tough life. You could always tell who was new to the job: The newbie had 10 fingers. Shingle weavers created roofing shingles out of raw pieces of cedar. They did so with bare hands and whirring buzz saws without protection. In addition, the saws produced wood dust that workers breathed in. “Cedar asthma” was a common malady. Shingle weavers had been the first workers in the timber industry to organize into unions, going back to the late 19th century.
As 1916 approached, the IWW, while active in the region organizing itinerant loggers, had almost no presence in Everett. Many shingle workers saw themselves as skilled workers and felt closer to the American Federation of Labor than the disreputable radicals, although the AFL had shown very little interest in organizing them. The shingle weavers had gone on strike in the summer of 1916 to receive a pay raise to make up for slashed wages from an industry downturn in 1914.
The shingle weaver strike was almost over when the IWW showed up — only one mill remained on strike. On August 19, 1916, strikebreakers at that mill got into a fight with strikers, beating them up pretty bad. The IWW had only a small presence in the town but capitalized on the newly explosive situation. Wobblies began agitating more, organizing the workers. The town quickly shut down the IWW office, thinking it would get rid of them, but more kept arriving. IWW members were well-known for their incredible physical bravery; knowing they would be jailed, beaten, tortured, or even killed, hundreds would go anywhere to further the struggle.
Everett leaders unleashed their full fury on the Wobblies, even before November 5. Forty Wobblies were rounded up, brutally beaten, and taken to the edge of town where, despite some severe injuries, they were forced to walk along the rail line back to Seattle. Wobblies were used to being kicked out of town. In fact, much of their early publicity came from free speech actions throughout the West as local police forces and industry leaders routinely violated their First Amendment rights.
So when word of the beatings got out, the Wobblies were not going to back down. Instead, they hired a boat, the Verona, which they loaded with 300 of their members to bring the free speech struggle to Everett. By the time the boat arrived, law enforcement had massed at the dock. Snohomish County Sheriff Donald McRae had deputized 200 citizens to stop the “invaders.” McRae yelled out, “Who are your leaders?” The response: “We are all leaders!” At this point, McRae and his deputies opened fire, nearly causing the boat to capsize as the Wobblies fled the assault.
The known dead Wobblies were Hugo Gerlot, Abraham Rabinowitz, Gus Johnson, John Looney, and Felix Baran. There were seven Wobblies missing, probably shot into the water and later fished out and quickly buried to avoid the information becoming public. Naturally, the Wobblies were then arrested and charged with the deaths of the two deputies killed by friendly fire. The authorities chose only one Wobbly, Thomas Tracy, to stand trial for the “murders,” but even in a day where unbiased juries in labor trials were a rare exception, the jury acquitted Tracy due to the complete lack of evidence.
The IWW did not go away after the Everett Massacre. Building upon it and other martyrs to the worker struggle, they made the Pacific Northwest timber industry the union’s prime focus in 1917, bringing the industry to a halt that summer protesting the atrocious living conditions and working environments loggers suffered daily. Eventually, the federal government intervened after the US entered World War I because the strike became a national security issue due to the necessity of Northwestern wood to build airplanes. The IWW wouldn’t go away after that either. In fact, it took another act of violence against radical workers in order to suppress the Wobblies in the Northwest. As it is today, right-wing forces would happily use murderous violence against people trying to make a better nation for the American working class.
Information wants to be free.
White House Dementia Care Unit Helpfully Labels Oval Office With Giant, Comforting Gold Letters
Yesterday, some very “IYKYK” pictures started appearing on the internet, see if you are one of the ones who knows immediately what they likely signify. The first was shared by CNN’s Kaitlan Collins. “Looks like there is a new sign outside the Oval Office,” she tweeted.
The sign was spotted yesterday morning while Trump had company over for breakfast, some Republican senators who had come to discuss all their current failings, we guess.
Well, speaking of “failing.”
We’ve been discussing Donald Trump’s mystery MRIs and his new round of bragging about the “aptitude” tests he thinks he’s acing, which are actually dementia tests.
Something is happening with his brain. We all know it. The people around him likely know it. He may be the only one who doesn’t understand it.
But now they’ve put up paper signs to label “The Oval Office,” made to look from a distance like they’re just as cheap as the shitty Home Depot gold gilding the patient has been putting all over the walls during craft time every day.
If you know, then you know.
The sign for the Oval is, again, in the same ugly style as Grandpa’s “interior design,” which suggests to us that, much like paving the Rose Garden to make it look like the outdoor dining area of a tacky chain restaurant and/or Mar-a-Lago, they’re trying to make the place as comfortable and familiar as possible for him.
So that he may hospice in place while Undead Satan and the Couchfucker run the country? Sure seems like it.
Is the Oval Office hard to pick out? Is there something about it that might tip a casual visitor or the currently serving president off to which one it is? Perhaps something in the shape of the walls? Anything?
Do we think the Republican senators or whichever tech oligarch has stopped by to slurp cock needs help identifying which one is “oval”?
Or do we think somebody else needs that?...
The SNAP Scam: How Billionaires and Politicians Built a Welfare System for the Rich
Behind the rhetoric about ‘lazy freeloaders’ lies a stunning truth: America’s largest corporations depend on food stamps to prop up their low-wage empires.
Ted Cruz: “Election Was A Disaster, It Was A Blowout”
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The swine speaketh.
"Sorta like Trump forcing companies to give the government 10% ownership." -- April the unperson (comments)
Does Cruz even know what comes out of his clueless mouth>
"Yet a majority of Texans repeatedly reelect him. A true shithole full of true shitheads." — Judas Peckerwood (comments)
Politico: Trump Has Entered His “Lame Duck Era”
"But upon returning to the Capitol, the senators made it very clear: They planned to blow Trump off. One GOP senator, Mike Rounds of South Dakota, laughed out loud when asked about the anti-filibuster push. Welcome to the dawn of Trump’s lame duck era."
Uganda Moves To Criminalize Identifying As LGBTQ
Humanity is dead here.
"Religion is poison to a society where people want to live together.
If they are not prepared to live with others whose life they disagree with, they they do not have a mature society, - they have a tribe." — JackFknTwist (comments)
And led by "Christianists."
Layoffs Rise To Level Seen In 2008 Great Recession
"Layoffs accelerated in October, pushing 2025 job cuts to levels typically seen in recessions, according to newly released data from Challenger, Gray & Christmas, a private firm that tracks workplace reductions.
U.S. employers have announced 1.1 million layoffs so far this year — the largest reading since the pandemic recession and on par with 2008 and 2009 job cuts during the Great Recession, the firm’s figures show.
The data includes a recent spate of layoffs at major companies such as UPS, Amazon and Target, and adds to growing concern about a labor market slowdown."
Scott Jennings Mocked By CNN Panel After Declaring A Bad Night For Democrats
Winning is now losing in the MAGA lexicon for the Democratic party
"No, Donald Trump owns this trouncing, Scott."
The White House Launches MySafeSpace, A Fascist's Safe Haven
Instead of serving the American people, the Orange Sphincter would rather set up fascist pages on government websites.
Public defender and digital content creator Eliza Orlins learned about and confirmed that the Trump crime syndicate is once again wasting taxpayers' dollars on an ego trip by creating a fascist page on the offical White House website. They call it "MySafeSpace." My guess is that it's in honor of the MyPillow guy, Mike Lindell, but with tthese psychopaths, who knows?
'It's coming for you': Analyst reveals 'terrible news for red America'
"Tuesday night's elections across several states delivered overwhelmingly positive news for Democrats. But one columnist is also directly warning MAGA Republicans that the lopsided victories for diverse candidates signifies that the GOP is badly losing its culture war."...
Magary went on to argue that he felt no sympathy for MAGA, as last year he "watched as American voters handed the country over to a criminal enterprise headed by a broken television set" and has since "spent the near entirety of 2025 watching that enterprise eat its way through this country’s federal workforce, its military, its legacy media and even the White House itself." He observed that "woke was felled by this onslaught, and outright bigotry had become the new order."...
"What we DO want is to be left the f—k alone. Contrary to what Ted Cruz might tell you, that’s what woke does," he wrote. "Woke lets you drive around town without the threat of a cop pulling you over to gun you down. Woke lets you be gender fluid without an emergency PTA meeting springing up outside your door. Woke lets you go to college without entering into a modern sharecropping agreement. It lets children read, lets every citizen be able to vote without a fuss, leaves the original recipe for Tylenol intact, and endeavors to keep our air and water clean. Woke, in other words, is good."
"You conservatives tried to kill woke, only for it to mount an impressive comeback," he added. "I hope that leaves you triggered, and I hope no one offers you sympathy for it."
Kentucky Official: No, MAGA, You Can't Vote Against Mamdani
Did somebody say "Stupid Disease?" It's a pandemic in Can-tuc-kee!
Newsmax Gets Fooled by AI Video, Broadcasts Entire Segment as If It Was Real
Proving that fascist morons can't tell fake from reality.
"On October 30, Newsmax — the TV network for people who think Fox News is too liberal, basically — aired an AI-generated video purportedly showing a woman raging at a supermarket cashier, threatening to walk out with her haul of groceries without paying because 'they cut her food stamps.'
The video is fake. And it’s the same one that the actual Fox presented as genuine in an article it ran to drum up outrage over the perceived abuses of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, which provides vital food assistance to nearly one in eight Americans every month and has been a long target of the right — and is now under more pressure than ever amid a lengthy government shutdown that’s leaving it short of the money it needs to feed people."
‘Trump is on the ballot in 2026,’ Johnson says after GOP drubbing
Not if the state refuses to put him on their ballot, wise ass.
This was a deafening message — and Trump knows it
"One year and a day after Donald Trump won a second term as president – and on the 35th day of the US government shutdown, which has tied a record for the longest in history – the Democrats swept to victory in key races across the county.
Democratic candidates won the governorships in the states of Virginia and New Jersey, while Zohran Mamdani became New York City’s next mayor.
The Democrats may have just become the winners of the fight to reopen the government, too.
Because if the fascists don't they will all be thrown out in 2026.
Vive La Résistance
With Republican candidates going down in flames all around him, Donald Trump spent last night flaming out on Truth Social. “REPUBLICANS, TERMINATE THE FILIBUSTER! GET BACK TO PASSING LEGISLATION AND VOTER REFORM!” he wrote, adding that the time had come to “Pass Voter Reform, Voter ID, No Mail-In Ballots.”
Speaking to Senate Republicans this morning, he continued to make the case for them scrapping the filibuster. But he also admitted they may not do it and sounded a bit more introspective about it all. “I thought we would have a discussion after the press leaves about what last night represented and what we should do about it,” Trump said, noting that “the shutdown was a big factor, negative, for Republicans.” (emphasis, ours)
Top DOJ Lawyer Claims Trump Doesn’t Need Congressional Approval for Boat Strikes
Seems like one that has never read the U.S. Constitution!
Turn. The Volume. Up.
"There was a thing my favorite singer Tori Amos said a long time ago, it stuck with me, she said, 'If it’s too loud, turn it up.'
"Well guess who said that shit last night.
Here we are. Here we are!
YOU GUYS, HERE WE FUCKING ARE!
Zohran Mamdani is gonna be the mayor of New York, and also of America.
I am in New York City right now, and you better believe this means something, because I never write in the first person on Wonkette, but I am going to in this post.
You guys, New York was electric last night, bartenders were telling me their friends from Europe were texting them to congratulate them, Uber drivers from Bangladesh were like … what? Did we do it? Yes, they did! They did it! Fucking everybody did it!
Don’t let anybody tell you normal New Yorkers are not giddy right now. It is palpable.
But it wasn’t just New York.
Virginia Governor-Elect Abigail Spanberger kicked all the fucking ass, and fuck her opponent Winsome Earle-Sears, SHE WHO’S WINSOME DOES NOT ALWAYS WIN THEM, that is a musical theater joke, and maybe if Winsome Earle-Sears wasn’t such an anti-LGBTQ+ asshole who ran her entire campaign on being anti-trans she wouldn’t have alienated so many people. Anyway, Spanberger won by like 15 points."
The Great American Heist: How Reagan, Trump, and Their Billionaire Backers Stole the Middle Class
A 50-year project to turn the world’s strongest democracy into a playground for the rich.
"The largest percentage of comments were variations on, “That’s what you wanted when you voted for that orange asshole, but you must have thought he’d only do it to Black and Hispanic people. FAFO!”
"Along those same lines, Trump went on 60 Minutes this weekend and lied to Norah O’Donnell’s face multiple times, including a whopper about grocery prices when she pointed out that they’re going up, up, and up."
“No, you’re wrong.” Trump lied with his best “sincere” expression. “They went up under Biden, right now they’re going down. Other than beef, which we’re working on.”
"Yeah, tell us about it, Donny. Just like climate change is a hoax, cutting taxes on billionaires helps working people, and you and your sons taking billions in crypto money from foreigners isn’t corruptly peddling influence out of what’s left of the White House."
I Study Fascism. I’ve Already Fled America.
“I knew that if I stayed at Yale, there would be pressure not to bring the Trump administration’s wrath onto Yale,” he says. “I knew that Yale would try to normalize the situation, escape being in the press, urge us to see the fascists as just politically different.”
The reality that the Trump traitors have created.
Hannity: My NYC Friends Are “Depressed And Scared”
As all traitors always are. The Sadz.
Newsmax Host: Results Aren’t “Referendum On Trump”
Looks like these "geniuses" are all wet. They are in DENIAL! ROTFLMAO!
By the way, Ciattarelli lost you jerkoff!
Newsmax Host: “It’s Like A Funeral In Here” [VIDEO]
Would that it were!
Trump DOJ stuns as judge told it will not obey court order in high-stakes case
Nazis follow their own law and it is NOT AMERICAN LAW!
"Every last one of these pieces of shit need to be in jail." — Erekosë (comments)
Democrats Flip 13 Seats In Virginia House Of Delegates
Because TRUMP!
Trump Rages After Democrats Sweep Major Elections
Is he having a coronary event yet?
TRUMP WAS ON EVERY BALLOT IN THE COUNTRY! That's why he's going shithouse! Don't forget it!
"Oh, please. Every election yesterday was a referendum on Trump and his overreach." — Dot Beach (comments)
New York Post Declares City Is Now “The Red Apple”
The knee jerk of fascism.
15 Democratic Socialist Countries and Social Democracies
MAGA crumbles under the weight of its own hypocrisy
"Trump is doing the opposite. Although a federal court ordered Trump to continue to provide food stamps to about 42 million low-income Americans who depend on them, Trump yesterday threatened to deny them anyway until the end of the government shutdown.
In a post on social media, he said benefits under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, commonly referred to as food stamps, “will be given only when the Radical Left Democrats open up the government, which they can easily do, and not before!”
How low Trump has sunk.
He's now holding Americans hostage.
Leavitt says White House preparing anti-voter executive order after Trump attacks CA election
“The White House is working on an executive order to strengthen our elections in this country and to ensure that there cannot be blatant fraud, as we’ve seen in California with their universal mail-in voting system,” Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said.
Exactly what Nazi dictators do, you asswipe!
Trump has previously vowed to ban mail-in ballots, a move legal experts say would be unconstitutional."
There is no doubt that Trump is the biggest criminal in our country! Put the shit in the toilet!
Hating America and democracy! Like Trump, she will shit and fall back in it bigly!
California passes Prop. 50 redistricting measure in victory for Newsom
Trump is getting tired of all his winning!
Democrats sweep three key races as voters express 'buyer's remorse': analyst
"Democrats swept three key statewide races during Tuesday's election, propelled by voters expressing "buyer's remorse" over President Donald Trump's second administration, according to one analyst.
CNN's Van Jones joined the network's election night coverage to discuss Democrats winning key races in New Jersey, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Georgia, and New York City. His comments come at a time when Democrats are seeking to ride the wave of enthusiasm into the 2026 midterm election."
Zohran Mamdani Projected To Win NYC Mayoral Race
"Zohran Mamdani has won the race for New York City mayor, according to Decision Desk HQ, ushering in a new era of progressive politics in the city and reigniting the debate over the Democratic Party's future.
Stephen Miller Endorses Cuomo, Sealing His Defeat To Mamdani
Hell will have Miller!
'Special place in hell': Lawmaker blasts Trump for trying to 'rip food away' from the poor
Even hell won't have the loser!
Alina Habba Threatens All New Jersey Voters
Keep it up asshole, America is rejecting your ass.
Mikie Sherrill is Governor Elect by around 10%!
Bomb threat on plane forces all flights to be shut down at DC airport: reports
Terrorism threats strike our country as Trump continues his reign of terror!
'I’m angry with the president': Florida Trump voters reeling from 'cruel and bad' policies
Latino voters who helped seal Florida's status as a Republican stronghold are now reeling with anger, bewilderment and guilt over their support of President Donald Trump, according to El País.
"Trump’s manifesto of economic prosperity and law and order clashes with a reality that continues to punish disadvantaged families," writes Abel Fernández.
Duffy Threatens To Shut Down Air Traffic For Thanksgiving
Shutdown Duffy forever.
Gavin Newsom rips 'old man' Trump’s Election Day 'ramblings' against CA redistricting
Newsom tweeted, "The ramblings of an old man that knows he's about to LOSE."
An old sundowning man he means.
Ohio Republicans Move On Bill To Ban Drag In Public
Hey, retards! Still no drag queens raping children like your "holy men." LMAO!
Fuck all the way off!
Dick Cheney No Longer Still Undead
"Dick Cheney, one of America’s worst war criminals, is dead."
Don't Threaten Us With A Good Time, Mike Johnson! Tabs, Tues., Nov. 4, 2025
"New York, it’s election day! Virginia, New Jersey, you too! Go vote for sweet Zohran and Mikie Sherrill and Abigail Spanberger and all the things if you haven’t done so already! Oh and Minneapolis, you’re doing the mayor thing! Anyway go vote while it’s still allowed, we’re very much at the 'use it or lose it' stage of having rights.
A new poll says nine percent of New Yorkers are going to move if Zohran Mamdani wins. Housing crisis? Already solved! [New York Post]
Hey can we make this into a commercial?
Sounds like Jack Smith is really excited about testifying publicly for Congress. [New York Times]
Sounds like US Attorney Boxwine’s office is exactly the well-lubricated ship you’d imagine it is. [New York Times]
Sean Duffy cares so much about your safety he says he’ll shut down the whole US airspace he has to. Remember, Republicans are keeping the government shuttered to destroy healthcare and to keep hiding the Epstein files. [Reuters]
At long last at my other place, I updated the running list of conservative pastors, youth group leaders, priests, Christian school teachers, coaches and others accused or arrested for or convicted of abusing kids in some way. Know why it took so long? Because I went out of the country for a few weeks and those types of people abuse children with such frequency that if you don’t update a list on the regular, you’ll be chasing your tail forever. It had 138 people on it. (SO FAR THIS YEAR.) Now it has 188. (SO FAR THIS YEAR.) Unbelievable. Anyway, come over there and share and subscribe and support me there too! [The Moral High Ground]
Donald Trump Jr. is excited about his dad’s genitals. [Daily Beast]
$10,000 per day for Bari Weiss’s security? Huh. Don’t feel like that’s very common sense fiscal conservatism! [PageSix]
Everyone in the Trump administration is just such a vile, brain-damaged thug. TYhis time they’re threatening European diplomats! [Politico Europe]
Charlotte Clymer feels bad for Kim Davis, a truly pitiable individual. [Charlotte’s Web Thoughts]
IF YOU ARE IN NEW YORK any time soon, I went and saw Oh, Mary! the other night, and it absolutely lives up to the hype, can’t remember last time I laughed that hard and so continuously. Jane Krakowski is a brilliant Mary. [Tickets]
And yes, that means I am in New York City on Elect Zohran Day, so I will try to get good pictures of any spontaneous celebrations I see breaking out later this evening.
Hooray!"
This May Be the Most Consequential Moment in US History Since the Civil War
"Democrats in the US Senate must stand with the working families of our country and in opposition to Donald Trump’s authoritarianism. They must not cave in to the president’s attacks on the working class during this ongoing government shutdown. If they do, the consequences will be catastrophic for our country."...
"Why is the government shut down?
Clue: Trump don't give a shit about nobody but Trump.
Why is Congress on vacation?
Trump knows when Congress reconviens he's going to lose the vote forcing the release of the Epstein Estate files.
And Trump knows what's in the files, he was there.
And Trump knows the rabid anti-pedophilia hatred stirred up by the Q-Anon PSYOP is about to boomerang.
I'll bet MAGA is going to see photos of near naked Trump in bed with near naked children when those files go public.
So Trump ain't going to give, Mike Johnson ain't going to give.
And that boy and girls, is why government is shut down.
And dozens of agents in the FBI that were tasked with 'flagging' references to Trump in the Epstein files have also seen the same photos.
See the problem?
Clue, what do Trump and cornered rats have in common?
Second clue, Trump needs a huge fuckin distraction.
Third clue, The Ford Aircraft carrier attack group is now offshore of Venezuela." — Madhoosier (comments)
Healthcare for All: The Democratic Promise That Could Heal a Broken Nation
When politics becomes personal, policy becomes powerful, and there’s nothing more personal than survival.
"In the richest nation in the history of planet Earth, millions of Americans are dying from treatable illnesses, rationing insulin, and running GoFundMe campaigns for chemotherapy. This isn’t just a policy failure, it’s a moral collapse."
Bomb threats cause chaos as multiple NJ polling stations temporarily shut down
Nihlist terrorism has arrived.
Trump reneges on promise to judge as he vows not to pay SNAP until shutdown ends
Who was stupid to trust the card-carrying vindictive liar?
'Smell the onions': Jury hears how colleagues ridiculed agent attacked by Sandwich Guy
A Border Patrol agent testified that a former federal worker threw a sandwich at him so hard he felt the impact through his ballistic vest.
Sean Dunn, who was fired from his Justice Department job after becoming known as the "D.C. Sandwich Guy," is standing trial this week for misdemeanor assault of a federal officer. Border Patrol agent Gregory Lairmore narrated surveillance video Tuesday in court showing the incident.
"Lairmore testifies that he was not injured by the sandwich, but he felt the impact through his ballistic vest," reported HuffPost's Dave Jamieson. "The sandwich came apart and 'kind of exploded' on his chest upon impact, he says."
"'I could smell the onions and mustard,'" Lairmore testified, according to Jamieson.
Sounds like a sales slogan to me!
Voldemort Has Protester’s Phone Seized Over Leaflets
Trump Nazi jerk leader gets a dose!
They hate it when what they do to Americans, Americans do to them!
Trump: SNAP Will Only Be Paid Once Democrats Cave
Don't pray to God for food, pray that Trump will give it to you. This is about the same as Castro's radicalizing of young grade school children when his henchmen asked them to pray to God for candy. They got none. Then when they were told to pray to Castro for candy they were rewarded.
How Trump’s DOJ Wiped Out a Pioneering Anti-Violence Nonprofit
"One Tuesday night in April, Mikaela Levons, head of development at Equal Justice USA (EJUSA), a criminal and racial justice nonprofit, had just wrapped up a phone call and was preparing to cook dinner for her kids when an email landed in her inbox.
It came from the Office of Justice Programs (OJP) at the Department of Justice, which, a few years earlier, had awarded EJUSA the first federal grants it had ever received—valued at more than $3 million. The money was intended to expand the organization’s work supporting community violence intervention efforts, which bring residents and victim service providers together to devise strategies for reducing community violence, often without involving police. The funds came as part of a massive influx of federal funding to support intervention in the years after the May 2020 murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police."...
Read more at the link.
If the Trump Administration Wants More Babies, It Shouldn’t Let Poor Families Go Hungry
Of course. But their thinking is they want more white rich folks kids than the poor kids they would have to help.
It's a slow genocide.
Abbott Vows “100% Tariff” On NYers Moving To Texas
The Trump insanity is contagious. This is simple bullshit from a fascist bullshitter.
Boebert’s Halloween Costume: Mexican ICE Victim
“It is the most disgusting thing I have ever seen. Even the conservatives [at the party] were in shock. People avoided them,” a person who attended the party said.
C'mon, these miscreants can get much lower. They set new standards every day.
Argentine President To Headline CPAC Mar-A-Lago
The receiver of stolen goods! The shit keeps stacking!
22 Blue States Sue After Ed Dept Says Workers For LGBTQ Nonprofits Can’t Get Student Loan Forgiveness
"Two lawsuits were filed Monday against the Trump administration after the Education Department published a student debt forgiveness rule that critics say violates free speech and seeks to punish the president’s political opponents."
"Good time to remind people that Linda McMahon is currently being sued for helping cover up a child sex ring in WWF. — Bart Crowe (comments)
The oil and slime just drips off of this Trump meaness!
Medicare Vendor Secretly Gave $2.5M For Ballroom
"Earlier this year, Popular Information broke the news that Extremity Care – a company that sells bandages to Medicare for thousands of dollars per square inch – donated $5 million to MAGA Inc., President Trump’s super PAC, on February 24. Six days later, Trump blasted a pending Biden administration rule that would have barred Medicare from covering Extremity Care’s products.
"Delivered in unmarked bills in a brown paper bag in the dead of night." — Jay Silversmith (comments)
'Bleak reality of' Trump’s 'Gilded Age' as MAGA wages war on food assistance
"Poverty," DeVega laments, is a "public police choice" — and MAGA Republicans, he says, are choosing to promote "poverty" as well as "hunger."
Two Pieces for a Monday
"Dear Mr President,
You know, for a guy who got his rich daddy to get a compliant doctor to help him escape military service, you have a peculiar fascination with the military. You love to review troops, to watch parades from elevated viewing platforms, to order up fly-overs, to watch Victory at Sea, and to lecture admirals and generals on how to do their jobs. You love to quote them addressing you as 'Sir!' You even commissioned an AI filmlet portraying you as a fighter-bomber pilot dropping shit on American citizens – an idea that just barely remains within the bounds of metaphor...."
The President of The United States is Criminally Insane
"And should be removed from office immediately. Section 4 of the 25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution provides the legal framework for removal of a president who is unfit or unable to discharge his or her duties. It authorizes the vice president, along with a majority of the principle officers of the administration (the Cabinet) to submit a declaration of unfitness to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives.This of course won't happen. The vice president and the Cabinet are all partners in crime with their boss. That makes them at least criminals without conscience, and likely criminally insane as well.I don't need to make a laundry list of Trump's crimes. We know them all-too-well (Here are some. Here are more.) He has been criminally insane for a long time, a process that likely began in his childhood, advancing over time, getting worse until now he is threatening military action in Nigeria to protect 'Christians.' As a deranged criminal sociopath he cares not one whit about Christians, real or imagined. He is responding to some conspiracy theory garbage he saw on 'right wing' TV. He has announced the resumption of nuclear testing...."
Lawmakers Warn Trump Lacks Authority for Military Strikes Inside Venezuela
As if that will stop his criminal spree.
Republicans Defy Trump Demand Against Mail-In Voting
They know how stupid this demand is from the idiot.
Junior: Obama And Newsom Are “Leg Crossing Pussies
Said the son of a "Pussy Grabbin' Man!"
"...Carolla paired his anatomical commentary with a photo of a tired-looking Trump seated with his knees apart, alongside images of Obama and Newsom sitting with their legs crossed."
Trump couldn't cross his cankled legs if he tried! ROTFLMAO!
POLL: 9% Claim They’ll Leave NYC If Mamdani Wins
Don't let the door hit your hateful asses as you depart!
Tomorrow: Shutdown Breaks Record As Longest Ever
The failure of fascism.
Let Them Eat Marble and Big Beautiful Ballroom
"Hours after exultantly posting 24 photos about his gaudy new marble bathroom and hours before he defiantly refused to fund food stamps and health care subsidies for 42 million Americans, King Donald held a glitzy Great-Gatsby-themed party for his robber baron cronies and their plastic molls, thus adding to his myriad crimes by defiling a luminous, pivotal book that assails the moral depredations of the rich. Tell us without telling us you don't know how it and its toxic Gilded Age ends."
..."The optics, the timing, the splashy freak show at that moment in time left online viewers stunned, pissed, helpless with horror. They summoned an old Vincent Price movie, Mask of the Red Death, that did not end well for the party-goers. They quoted the Beatles: "Everywhere there’s lots of piggies living piggy lives/ You can see them out for dinner with their piggy wives/ Clutching forks and knives/ To eat their bacon." They urged all those working in health care to, "Remember their faces and let them wipe their arses themselves." They raved about ghouls, Pedo-Lago, an American Horror Story, Trump's costume "as a human being," Marie Antoinette: "Let them eat statuary marble." Of dancing women of color who tomorrow could be picked up by ICE, they railed, "What in the fucking exploitation bullshit is this."
Scarily, gruesomely, it was the Hunger Games: 'May the odds be ever in your favor.' It was the Gilded Age, a metaphor that always represented a thin layer of gold over cheap metal, often lead, a facade of wealth over something harsh and toxic. And it was The Great Gatsby, the sorrowful real one Fitzgerald dreamed with its boredom, its lies, the sheen of glamor and languid excess 'wherever people were rich together.' 'They were careless people, Tom and Daisy,' Nick famously muses. 'They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.' The evening's final irony: The illiterate MAGA mob understand nothing, and likely don't know how both the hero and the era end up - dead in the water."
More like the latest version of Caligula!
Neural network finds an enzyme that can break down polyurethane
"That’s the story behind a completely new enzyme that researchers developed to break down polyurethane, the polymer commonly used to make foam cushioning, among other things. The new enzyme is compatible with an industrial-style recycling process that breaks the polymer down into its basic building blocks, which can be used to form fresh polyurethane."
Try it on Trump. He's total polyurethane.
'Uniquely dangerous': Analyst issues dire warning about upcoming elections
"...even the direst possibilities no longer seem inconceivable."
'Voters are disgusted': Ex-Trump lawyer claims GOP 'imploding' from 'reflexive' cruelty
"They can’t help themselves," he continued. "When millions of Americans lose access to food, healthcare, or housing, they don’t feel shame; they feel pride. They call it 'tough love.' They sneer about 'personal responsibility.' They talk about crack pipes instead of policy, mock the hungry instead of feeding them, and think empathy is weakness."
'They're not happy': Ex-senator warns MAGA 'gasping' as Trump basks in 'alternate reality'
Trump is living in a gilded "alternate reality."
Trump Claims No Knowledge Of Pardoning Crypto Mogul
"...Norah O’Donnell. “Why did you pardon him?”
Trump: “Well, here’s the thing, I know nothing about it because I’m too busy doing the other…” Trump said, before O’Donnell interrupted him to say, “But he got a pardon.”
“Norah, I can only tell you this. My sons are into it,” said Trump. “I’m glad they are, because it’s probably a great industry, crypto. I think it’s good. You know, they’re running a business, they’re not in government.” — Donald Trump.
Gaddamn liar or mental cripple? Either way he must to be terminated.
Trump Says ICE Thugs Haven’t Been Brutal Enough
Heads on a pike are the only thing that should be left! The barbaric hordes of Trump must be feared!
The definition of delusional. This is totally un-American!
""...people who were thrown out of their countries because they were, you know, criminal.”
just like granddaddy Drumph — Stoned and loving it (comments)
"Esquire magazine made the case that ICE is a domestic terrorist organization.
It is hard to argue against." — DaddySnark (comments)
"Well, Dumbass Donnie, if ICE gets any more brutal the American people are going to be justified in repairing to lethal force to defend themselves. And the 2nd Amendment supports this." -- Stogiebear (comments)
Trump: I’ll Be “Involved” In Netanyahu Corruption Trial
My Advice: Don't appear in the same place together.
Top FDA Drug Regulator Quits Amid “Conduct Concerns”
Nothing but scandal from the big ol' titty baby's admin.
Revealed: Opioid settlement cash spent on sock hops and concerts
"Elected officials like the events because “you can announce to the community that you did something,” she said. But unless they’re part of larger initiatives that incorporate other approaches, such as screening students for mental health concerns or supporting parents struggling with addiction, they’re unlikely to have lasting impact.
And when settlement funds pay for those one-offs, there’s less left for strategies 'that we do know work,' Richter added."
'This man is not well': Trump's 60 Minutes interview slammed as 'complete failure'
We are SO shocked by this.
Conservative judge slams SCOTUS for ignoring Trump’s 'vicious attacks on the federal courts'
They need a damn good slamming. They no longer represent law and order or the U.S. Constitution.
Fox Cuts Away From Obama As Soon As He Mentions Trump AI Video Pooping On Protesters
President Obama tells the truth. Fox News goes into shock! Cuts off broadcast! Such cowardly Nazis!
Obama will wipe up the earth with Trump when Obama is elected to his third term!
Jeffries Forced To Clarify Obvious Things About Shutdown To Jake Tapper
They plan to never open the government again. They just want to keep getting paid for shitting on America.
Jebus Johnson Gives Lamest Excuse Yet For Not Releasing Their 'Health Care Plan'
We all know they don't have a "plan" other than to allow the insurance companies to go back to denying coverage, or selling worthless junk plans that didn't pay for anything like they did before the ACA was enacted.
Making sure we all know it's a "Black Democrat's" fault! Weak, even for a wimp like him.
"Lots of ideas?" Doncha just know it!
Their plan is still the same:
"It's a very simple plan. Here it is. The Republican health care plan for America: Don't get sick. That's right, don't get sick. If you have insurance, don't get sick. If you don't have insurance, don't get sick. If you're sick, don't get sick.
If you get sick America, the Republican health care plan is this: die quickly. That's right. The Republicans want you to die quickly if you get sick."
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"The amount insurers charge for ACA Marketplace premiums is rising for several reasons, including but not limited to increasing hospital costs, the rising popularity of expensive GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic, and the threat of tariffs. These factors are similarly cited by insurers selling employer coverage. However, an additional factor driving up the amount insurers charge for ACA Marketplace premiums (that is not affecting employer premiums) is the expected expiration of the enhanced premium tax credit. In their 2026 filings to state regulators describing their requested premium increases, ACA Marketplace insurers said they would charge about 4 percentage points more, on average, than they otherwise would have because they expected healthier people to drop Marketplace coverage if enhanced premiums tax credit expire." -- Quick Takes
Landlords Are Using AI to Make Photos of Nasty Apartments Look Clean and Modern
We are entering the fake world of AI where nothing is ever real. Won't this be fun for us?
Snopes Busts Johnson In Anti-LGBTQ Shutdown Lie
Snopes reports:
"Toward the end of October, as the shutdown approached its one-month mark, social media users made posts claiming Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer had demanded certain things from Republicans in order to reopen the government.
The posts, which cited an Oct. 28 news conference from Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, claimed one thing Schumer demanded was $4 million dedicated to LGBTQ+ awareness campaigns around the world. Johnson called Schumer’s reported asks a no-go in the news conference: “We’re not doing that.”
We found no evidence to support the idea that Schumer — or any Congressional Democrat — specifically demanded $4 million dedicated to LGBTQ+ awareness campaigns in order to reopen the government."
At what point does a jackass realize his blind stubborness could result in human deaths?
Trump Rejects All Oversight on Venezuela War. What's Next? (w/ Ryan Goodman)
"Bill Kristol talks with legal scholar Ryan Goodman about how the Trump administration has rejected all congressional oversight over planned military strikes in Venezuela."
Conservatives Shocked, Shocked To Find Nazis In This Establishment
"How did conservatives Nazi this coming? They didn’t want to.
The modern Right in America has been playing footsie with Nazis for years. Decades, even. You know it. We know it. Journalists and political scientists and historians and everyone else to the left of, say, Lindsay Graham has been screaming about it and documenting it for so long that we can’t remember a time when they weren’t. There probably has never been a time when they weren’t.
So imagine our huge fucking surprise to see, just this week, certain conservatives realize that Holy shit, our movement is playing footsie with Nazis! Yeah, congrats on waking up from your coma, Rip Van Winkle. We all have indoor toilets now, too."
"We suppose these conservatives will whine whatabout antisemitism on the Left, HENGGGH? To which we can only say, yeah, the Left has been having that fight for a long time. But the antisemitism coming from fascists has been marching steadily into the Republican mainstream for decades, as many people keep pointing out. So tend your own fucking knitting.
Maybe some of these jackasses will start re-examining where all their anti-George Soros tropes come from, though we doubt it."
'They may be arrested': ICE makes startling admission on election monitoring operation
The Trump administration has deployed Justice Department officials to monitor elections in both California and New Jersey, citing allegations of election “irregularities” from Republican leadership in both states, a move that critics have labeled as blatant “voter intimidation.”
The Nazi sewage threatens to arrest voters? They should drop dead. They are WAYYYY OUT OF THEIR LEAGUE!
The state observers should be armed as well!
New York judge dismisses Ken Paxton’s legal challenge in abortion pills case
The Texas attorney general wanted a New York court to enforce a civil judgment against a doctor accused of prescribing abortion pills. The suit was a test of New York’s “shield law.”
Anytime Paxton loses is a big win for Texas and America!
Obama Bashes “Lawless” Trump At VA Rally
President Obama will win his third term!
Fox Falls For Racist AI Videos About SNAP Recipients
Just more proof we live in a world filled with hateful morons sucking down AI shit.
Norman Rockwell’s Family Blasts DHS For Stealing His Famous Works To Persecute Immigrants And Minorities
Once again proving these racist bastards are illegally ignoring intellectual law. Sue them for every penny they have hidden somewhere!
Billboard Says at Least One AI-Generated "Artist" Is Charting Every Week Now
Fake music for fake humans. As the great Johnny Otis once said, "America has a taste for shit."
'Deranged behavior': Internet dubs Trump 'mentally unstable' after military threat to ally
Independent journalist Aaron Rupar said, "Trump posts crazy stuff like this at times where he feels like he’s not getting enough attention and wants people to start talking about him again."
Rupar then added, "It’s deranged, narcissistic behavior."
Jeff Timmer, a conservative analyst who opposes Trump, also chimed in, "In the old days, when in moods like this, he’d just lurk in dressing rooms at Bergdorf’s or head over to Epstein’s place."
"U.S. Capitol, Greenland, Los Angeles, Iran, Canada, democracy, Washington DC, Portland, narco-boats, Chicago, pleasure fishing boats, the Constitution, Venezuela, the rule of law, Nigeria. All the same to the lawless, corrupt, chickens---, moron in the WH," Timmer wrote on social media.
Professor Timothy Snyder added, "Is it just me or do these proclamations sound more and more like the work of Dement AI?"
'Probably illegal!!!' Trump puts target on new late-night TV host over critical coverage
"Checking my copy of the US constitution here... hmmm.
Nope.
Being 100% anti Trump is definitely, 100%, absolutely not illegal." — Armored Head (comments)
The moron didn't learn his lesson I see.
Chicago Sees Violent ICE Raids On Halloween
Trump racist Gestapo goes Trick or Treating!
We were warned but we ignored.
"And people are still buying into it! "Oh, just wait until the Epstein files are released!"
You know what will happen if they're released and Trump's name is all over them?
Nothing. There could be footage of him raping six year old girls and nothing would happen to him. He isn't just above the law, he IS THE LAW. That's what a dictatorship is all about." — Swamp Yankee (comments)
ICE Plans Cash Bonuses For Private Bounty Hunters
What could go wrong with this, shit-fer-brains?
This is all about creating chaos so they can arrest citizens.
Diocese Sorry For Holocaust-Themed Parade Float
Were they protesting ICE or embracing ICE?
Concern Trump may try to flee the US in 2028
As all the Nazis did after WWII he will run to Argentina. But he will face the law eventually as they all did.
'Good lord': Trump's 'spluttering' DOJ mocked as hearing marred by 'embarrassing' failures
The Peter Principle is very apparent with the morons in the Trump nut house.
'Red-handed!' Analysts in awe as Trump's DOJ caught 'lying' in court
Lies, Inc.
Fox Host: 25% Of Viewers Are Moon Landing Skeptics
And they all voted for Trump!
"The assertion that Stanley Kubrick filmed the moon landing is full of more holes than the Swiss cheese the moon is made of. Like any theory of its ilk, it hinges on the full compliance of hundreds of people to keep such an undertaking quiet for years on end. Then there are the things in the footage that theorists point to as evidence, like the waving American flag Aldrin planted on the moon, an impossible feat given wind can't happen in a vacuum. Now why would a director like Kubrick, who famously took 148 takes of a scene in The Shining, let something that obvious slip by? For the record, Aldrin was twisting the flagpole to get it to stick in the moon's soil, causing it to move."
"They believe there is an old white man controlling the universe from his heavenly throne, why should we be surprised?" — Stultus (comments)
LMAO!
White House Restricts Media Access To West Wing
The Trump crooks are running scared.
And they think this shows power? Nope. Totally coward.
ICE Barbie Refuses Pritzker's Request To Not Ruin Halloween For Trick-Or-Treaters
What a loathsome bitch she and her boyfriend Lewandowski are.
The wicked witch of the nuts!
Ugly is as ugly does!
Congress is on 'the path to irrelevance'
It is now and will be as long as it has Trump toadie slaves for Trump.
Black Americans were never supposed to exercise the right to vote
Never in the Land of the Happy Negro. And neither were women. But America had and has ideals above racism and misogyny. We wont' let the Nazis destroy humn rights.
'Everything he touches dies': Fury as Kennedy Center ticket sales collapse under Trump
All we are getting from Trump is destruction, repression and death. Total chaos!
FAIL!
Feds tackled clarinetist mid 'Ghostbusters’ tune — now she faces felony charges
These lntellectually disabled morons are way out of control!
Judge Blocks Trump’s Citizenship Proof To Vote Order
The insane one strikes again.
DOD Doesn’t Know Who They Killed In “Drug” Strikes
It's more than apparent they don't give a damn!
Woman Baffled When Cops Accuse Her of Random Crime, Saying They Have Cameras Everywhere
Big Brother IS watching you or me.
"As far as the Denver woman could tell, the only reason she was accused was because her vehicle had been registered by Bow Mar’s Flock cameras at the time the incident occurred. After viewing Elser’s evidence, the police department dropped the summons, telling her via email 'nicely done btw.'
It’s infuriating that the first time Milliman talked to Elser wasn’t to gather evidence or hear her side of the story, but to accuse her of a crime which he had already finished investigating.
Elser managed to head off the false accusations. But for Black people and other minorities — already the subjects of violent over-policing — this kind of technological monitoring can have devastating consequences."
What kind of AI horseshit are we creating in this country?
Over 100 judges have ruled against this Trump policy — including 12 of his own appointees
Politico's Kyle Cheney reported Friday that there are more than 100 federal judges who have issued at least 200 decisions that the administration’s systematic detention of immigrants facing possible deportation "appeared to violate their rights or was just flatly illegal." Cheney found that judges appointed by every president since Ronald Reagan have disagreed with the policy from the bench, including 12 of Trump's own appointed judges. This even includes judges from Trump's second term like U.S. District Judge Kyle Dudek, who officially began his lifelong term at the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida last month.
Police and TSA accuse Nancy Mace of 'loudly cursing' at them in airport meltdown
...Police then received a call from Mace's team saying the congresswoman was at the Known Crewmember (KCM) entrance, which has a shorter checkpoint and is typically exclusively used by the flight crew. When Mace's escort arrived, she reportedly called officers "f—— incompetent" and said "this is no way to treat a f—— U.S. Representative."
Even as officers were escorting Mace to her gate, she continued to shout and use profanity, though agents appeared unsure whether her tirade was at them, if she was talking on the phone or if she was dictating text messages, according to the report. One officer "stated he was in disbelief regarding her behavior," adding that 'a U.S. Representative should not be acting the way she was."
When officers met with a TSA supervisor, he told officers that "he was very upset with how [Mace] acted at the checkpoint," and that the congresswoman "talked to several TSA agents the same way." He added that he would be "submitting a report to his superiors about her unacceptable behavior."
"Any other person in the airport acting and talking the way she did, our department would have been dispatch (sic) and we would have addressed the behavior," the police report read.
ICE Being ICE Again, Noem Lying About Everything Again
"The government may still be shut down, but Donald Trump’s unaccountable, purposefully lawless secret police are still hard at work terrorizing enemies of the state, with no letup in sight. Time for another roundup of the latest fuckery."
Jeff Bridges: 'Feds getting in the way' of deal while leaders 'use feeding kids as a weapon'
Bridges is outraged and speaking out No Kid Hungry's national spokesman.
"Billy (Shore, the founder of Share Our Strength) and I have been traveling all over the country talking to governors and mayors in the states themselves, Republicans, Democrats and independents all agree, we should feed our kids," he told Tapper.
"There's no reason not to do that. And to have the feds getting in the way of this thing, talk about bizarre," he added.
The Dude abides!
'More questions than answers': Trump MRI continues to 'raise eyebrows' about president’s health
"Trump, who was diagnosed with a condition known as Chronic Venus Insufficiency (CVI) in July, probably did not get an MRI to address that condition, according to Reshef's sources."
"CVI is common in older adults, but doctors do tell us it's highly unlikely that an MRI would be the test that would be ordered to observe that condition, so at this point more questions than answers," Reshef said.
What health are they referring to? It has never been good.
Retired Tennessee Cop To Sue After Being Jailed For Five Weeks Over Charlie Kirk Meme Posted To Facebook
Did someone forget our First Amendment rights? Asking for a friend.
USDA Sec Calls SNAP “An Extremely Corrupt Program”
And their proof cited is? What exactly?
Do they know the term "embezzling?"
Alan Dershowitiz: Canada Is “Now The Enemy” Of Jews
Mr. "Tidy Whities" is back in the news. And in more ways than one.
Bank Flagged Over $1B In Suspicious Epstein Transfers
"The New York Times reports:
Weeks after Jeffrey Epstein died in federal custody in 2019 awaiting prosecution on sex-trafficking charges, JPMorgan Chase filed a report alerting the U.S. government to tens of millions of dollars of potentially suspicious transactions involving him and prominent Wall Street and business figures.
The so-called suspicious activity report that JPMorgan filed identified transactions with Leon Black, the co-founder of private equity firm Apollo Global Management; Glenn Dubin, a well-known hedge fund manager; the lawyer Alan Dershowitz; and trusts controlled by Leslie Wexner, the retail tycoon.
The nature of the transactions, as well as Mr. Epstein’s role in them, is unclear. JPMorgan said in its report that it was flagging about 4,700 transactions, totaling more than $1 billion, because they were potentially related to reports of human trafficking involving Mr. Epstein."
If it walks like a duck, if it quacks like a duck then it's...
Sorry Geese: If You Don’t Pay Your Taxes, Uncle Sam Might Have You Plucked
"But a goose that refuses to pay taxes may end up in the hoosegow. You can launch a tax strike, sure, but Uncle Sam is likely to show up with that crucifix, according to the experts I spoke with."
Besides, he says, “the whole philosophical construct of civil disobedience is, you know, you’re going to violate the law and you’re prepared to accept the consequences,” our lawyer adds. “It would be a group of people saying we’re prepared to take the risk that we get prosecuted and go to jail, like the very brave young men and women in the South who violated the ordinances that said black people could not sit at the lunch counter.”
Is someone forgetting The Boston Tea Party?
Trump Is Moving Relentlessly Toward Illegal War in Venezuela
"As the Trump administration continues to murder people in small boats on the high seas and mounts the largest U.S. military buildup in decades in the Caribbean, it is moving inexorably toward an all-out, illegal attack and forcible regime change in Venezuela.
Despite Team Trump’s feeble attempts to legally justify its ocean strikes, which have now killed 57 people since early September, those extrajudicial killings are also unlawful."
America has now become a barbaric warmongering nation.
Is the Algorithm the Single Greatest Threat to Humanity at this Moment?
Algorithms are not tuned for what is best for society. They don’t follow the rules that hundreds of thousands of years of human evolution have built into our cultures, religions & political systems.
"Some data points for your consideration:
— On Saturday in Chicago’s affluent Old Irving Park neighborhood, Trump’s secret, masked police violently pulled a 67-year-old U.S. citizen — a member of a local running club returning to his home from a run — out of his car and threw him to the street, where they assaulted him with such force that they broke six ribs and left him with internal bleeding.
— Donald Trump is openly taking bribes, publicly ordering political prosecutions, murdering people in naked violation of both US and international law, all while claiming the Supreme Court gave him absolute immunity from prosecution for any crime.
— An MIT study finds that lies presented as news travel six times faster across social media than truths.
— While over 75% of Americans trusted the news fifty years ago, today that number is a mere 28%, with only 8% of Republicans believing what they see or read in mainstream outlets.
These are all the same story, and they all largely derive from a single source, a mind poison that was introduced into the American (and world) mindstream in a big way about two decades ago.
It’s called the algorithm, and if we’re to survive as a republic it must be regulated the same way we regulate anything else that produces addictive, compulsive behavior that twists and distorts people’s lives."
Noem Doubles Down After Governor Asks Her To Not Use ‘Tear Gas’ Near Children on Halloween
What remote island did Noem come from before she joined American society?
"Pritzker was likely referring to an incident on October 25, when Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents fired tear gas canisters into a crowd of children headed to a Halloween event. Earlier this month, ICE agents deployed tear gas in Chicago's Brighton neighborhood, which affected 13 local police officers on the scene.
In response to the tear-gassing incidents, U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis forced U.S. Customs and Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino to wear a body camera and give daily reports to the court. She also voiced concerns about ICE agents not identifying themselves to members of the public when asked.
ICE Nazi Barbie Announces Halloween Terror Measures
Yesterday, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker did a little experiment to see if there was one righteous or holy cell in DHS Nazi Kristi Noem’s body, or in CBP Nazi Greg Bovino’s body, or anywhere else in the regime, by asking: Could you fucking bastards possibly consider a temporary ceasefire in Chicago so children can enjoy Halloween?
“Let children be children,” he wrote. “No child should be forced to inhale tear gas or other chemical agents while trick or treating in their own neighborhood,” like some kind of godless woke who doesn’t even like sucking Nazi cock. (Because that literally happened at a Halloween parade in Irving Park in Chicago.)
His letter continued:
“Illinois children should not be robbed of their innocence. Let them enjoy a time-honored American tradition safely and peacefully,” Pritzker wrote in the letter. “Please let children be children for one holiday, free from intimidation and fear.”
Something tells us he knew what the response would be, since he literally said during a press conference yesterday, “I think their response will be revealing.” He asked them to “show us this is about something other than you just causing mayhem on our streets and visiting cruelty upon our people.” He dared them to prove we’ve got them all wrong.
Tell us what fucking monsters hiding under the bed you literally are, so that we may warn our children.
And they did.
ICE Nazi Barbie slithered out of her Botox doctor’s office or Corey Lewandowski’s house or wherever the fuck she was to respond directly to Pritzker:
“We’re absolutely not willing to put on pause any work that we will do to keep communities safe,” Noem said at a news conference in Gary, Indiana, on Thursday. “The fact that Gov. Pritzker is asking for that is shameful and, I think, unfortunate that he doesn’t recognize how important the work is that we do to make sure we’re bringing criminals to justice and getting them off our streets, especially when we’re going to send all of our kiddos out on the streets and going to events and enjoying the holiday season.”
So … you got that? Pritzker asked her to stop hurting little kids, and she said no. In fact, like a typical abuser, she essentially insisted it was for their own good. And we all know when she said “all of our kiddos,” she meant white kiddos.
CHRIST, JD Vance Is A Bigot
"Guy who thinks he’s the master race, we guess
It seems redundant to say, and we just said it in the headline, but Christ, Vice President JD Vance is a fucking bigot.
One wonders exactly where he gets it. Did a non-white girl berate him so thoroughly for his obvious inadequacies that it left a gaping void where his soul is supposed to be, like we assume happened with Stephen Miller? Is this related to his shitty book and shittier movie, since that’s reportedly the origin story for when his ugly hairy baby-fatted face decided it was time to do evil forever, after everyone pointed at the movie and laughed?
Is he just a particularly craven Nazi, willing to tell any lie he needs to tell to advance his own power and appeal to the grunting masses? Is this from all the time he’s spent inhaling the grundles of guys like Curtis Yarvin and Peter Thiel? (The latter of course being the daddy who bought him his entire life.)
What Nazi apologist 'historians' are filling the urinal troughs he’s drinking out of these days? Same ones as usual? Just trying to look cool in front of the actual German far-right extremists he’s so boned up for?
Yeah, whatever it is, he’s a real piece of shit."
You nailed him, Evan!
Insiders warn about terrifying call Stephen Miller makes every day: 'Significant pivot'
The paranoia of fascism personified.
The horror of Donald Trump’s America
With SNAP benefits set to lapse, it's all tricks and no treats from Trump and MAGA
"The White House has responded by saying that it can’t legally help hungry people. But it can certainly get private donations to build a $300 million ballroom."
And give away a ton of cash to Argentina.
Walsh: Let Noncitizen SNAP Recipients Starve To Death
Is he up for a humanity award? The human haters must love this ghoul.
And name us some noncitizens who had been getting SNAP benefits.
Some Major Airports See Ground Stops Over Staffing
Making plans to travel this Thanksgiving? Try teleportation. It will get you there faster.
Pentagon Taps Military Housing Fund To Pay Troops
I guess everything is just fine in former America?
GOP Rep: SNAP Recipients Should Stop Smoking Crack
"The average cost of crack cocaine is about $60 to $100 per gram." — Addiction Resource
Do they let this guy out of his hate closet once in a while?
This is where living in the past gets you.
SNAP Benefits For Millions Won’t Go Out Tomorrow
"Fuck you, America!" say the rich Trump retards.
U.S. Ambassador Goes On Expletive-Laced Tirade Against Canada
Pete Hoekstra's tirade was said to be over the Ontario ad that played during the World Series.
"When you have lost the debate you pound the table and yell. Mr. Hoekstra is a Loser and he knows it. Hence the F-bombs. LOSER!!
Kentucky whiskey exports to Canada are down by 62%. California wine exports to Canada are down by 91%. Those Canadian factories that used to make parts for Ford, GM, and Chrysler will be making parts for BMW and Toyota soon enough.
Elbows up!
One daughter works at a Napa Valley Winery in the office. They have been surrounded by ICEstapo today. Why? Because one truck driver might be undocumented. It would have done them no good to come earlier because the grape crops are rotting on the vines. No workers." — Mike Wilkerson (comments)
Stable Genius Threatens Nuclear Armageddon Based On Voices In His Head
Let the new nuclear arms race begin -- again. No one but North Korea is testing nuclear weapons, but a little voice is telling Trump everyone but the U.S. is testing them.
Life in an insane asylum.
Dr. Oz Performs Medical Miracle: Invents Retraction Out Of Thin Air.
"A brand new coat of paint and a bucket of French perfume will make no difference in the end." — Old Thomas Jefferson, Hungry Chuck
Insiders stunned by Kennedy Center’s 'truly shocking' downturn under Trump
The first thing these morons should understand: Know your audience!
"Woke," my ass! I'd rather be woke than intellectually disabled.
Top Trump official admits shutdown may make Thanksgiving air travel a 'disaster'
Ya think?
Why do you miscreants hate America?
Is Jesse Watters Fighting Democrats Or Mommy?
Fox News beta predator Jesse Watters is having the weirdest conniptions these days. DEI is a bigger enemy than all the other enemies! (That’s one way to verbalize a white male insecurity complex.) He’s scared Western civilization is going to go away when “Muslims start to rise up.” He’s creaming himself in submissive ecstasy over his Daddy Trump siccing the National Guard on every Democratic city AKA all the places most likely to make fun of his shortcomings. Donald Trump arresting Democrats fills Jesse with incontinent joy.
And yet there’s the matter of Jesse’s mother, a Democrat who went to the No Kings rallies, who used to call in to his show when it was a cuter gimmick for this loser racist pig fascist to have a decent human being as a mother. Maybe she still does. But things seemed to take a turn after the election, as Watters explained that he had been disinvited from Thanksgiving, while trying to laugh it off. She told him it was a 'scheduling issue.'
It’s got to suck, knowing your son is one of American Hitler’s biggest cheerleaders, who walks around with his lipstick out for American Goebbels."
What If Trump Is Weaker Than We Think—and America’s Finally Figuring It Out?
The strongman act is cracking, but as the cops, the crowds, and even the cult start to walk away, is this finally the moment his empire begins to fall?
I would say they got smart pretty damned slow!
Sorry Kids, Halloween Cancelled. A Chimp Exclusive
"Evidence also suggests that forcing children into costumes to go panhandling from door to door implants the lesson that they can expect something for nothing just by threatening people. This is a left-wing plot which will guarantee that there will be Socialists far into the future. Unless we end Halloween, of course. Pray that we do."
These key defections show Trump is losing his grip
The way of all tyrants.
Trump's latest meltdown reveals terror that he's going to outlive MAGA: analyst
The rapidly aging and decrepit elder man in that photo? If so, MAGA could die next week.
Is Jesse Watters Fighting Democrats Or Mommy?
Fox News beta predator Jesse Watters is having the weirdest conniptions these days. DEI is a bigger enemy than all the other enemies! (That’s one way to verbalize a white male insecurity complex.) He’s scared Western civilization is going to go away when “Muslims start to rise up.” He’s creaming himself in submissive ecstasy over his Daddy Trump siccing the National Guard on every Democratic city AKA all the places most likely to make fun of his shortcomings. Donald Trump arresting Democrats fills Jesse with incontinent joy.
And yet there’s the matter of Jesse’s mother, a Democrat who went to the No Kings rallies, who used to call in to his show when it was a cuter gimmick for this loser racist pig fascist to have a decent human being as a mother. Maybe she still does. But things seemed to take a turn after the election, as Watters explained that he had been disinvited from Thanksgiving, while trying to laugh it off. She told him it was a 'scheduling issue.'
It’s got to suck, knowing your son is one of American Hitler’s biggest cheerleaders, who walks around with his lipstick out for American Goebbels."
What If Trump Is Weaker Than We Think—and America’s Finally Figuring It Out?
The strongman act is cracking, but as the cops, the crowds, and even the cult start to walk away, is this finally the moment his empire begins to fall?
I would say they got smart pretty damned slow!
Sorry Kids, Halloween Cancelled. A Chimp Exclusive
"Evidence also suggests that forcing children into costumes to go panhandling from door to door implants the lesson that they can expect something for nothing just by threatening people. This is a left-wing plot which will guarantee that there will be Socialists far into the future. Unless we end Halloween, of course. Pray that we do."
These key defections show Trump is losing his grip
The way of all tyrants.
Trump's latest meltdown reveals terror that he's going to outlive MAGA: analyst
The rapidly aging and decrepit elder man in that photo? If so, MAGA could die next week.
Powell: Tariffs Are Resulting In Higher Overall Inflation
Look for him to fall out a window.
Matt Walsh: “Drug And Weight Test” SNAP Recipients
"“And in its place, we should encourage food stamp recipients to engage in some actual activity, like, you know, getting a job, or going for a walk around the block. Hold them to some standards.” – Self-avowed Christian nationalist Matt Walsh, who last appeared here when he called SNAP recipients “self-entitled, lazy, and barely literate.”
How in fuck does this entitled asshole know what these people do or go through? Does he actually know one?
"Let’s ask the robot guy thing..
Increased demand: SNAP puts money into the hands of consumers who then spend it on food, which supports the entire food supply chain, including farmers.
Economic multiplier: The USDA notes that each $1 spent in SNAP generates as much as $1.54 in economic activity, including increased GDP and jobs in the agriculture industry.
Support for rural economies: SNAP is especially important in rural areas, where studies have shown it can increase economic output more than in metropolitan areas." — Sam_Handwich (comments)
As stated here before: A brain is a horrible thing to waste.
Three-Star General Pushed Out In Battle With Hegseth
The head of arrogance and treason keeps committing it.
"It wasn't the winter that defeated Nazi Germany. It was their attitude. If they'd gone in as actual 'liberators' they would have beaten the Soviets. But they were racist assholes who wanted to kill all of the Slavs, and they got killed for it." -- Karl Dubhe IV
US Military Kills Four More In 14th “Drug Boat” Strike
More Trump murders by his head gangster henchman, Pete, Secretary of Terrorism.
"And with proof, warrants are obtained and when the boats enter US waters, the people are arrested and tried in US court where the evidence is presented to a judge and jury.
Alternatively, they could present their proof to Congress and request a declaration of war.
Without either action, this is mass murder, even if 'proof' exists." — Daddy Snark (comments)
"That's why they blow up the boats. No possibility of finding anything." — Gustav2 (comments)
Terrorism by America!
Why Is The U.S. Planning Christian Nationalist Revival Meetings?
Our Founders, who took great pains to prevent a state religion, are rolling in their graves over what these White people are up to.
The Talibastards, they mean.
Tuberville: Trump ‘Might Be Able To Go Around The Constitution’ To Serve Third Term
Sen. Tommy Tuberville, who's in the running for the dumbest member of the United States Senate, has thoughts on Trump continually floating the notion of illegally serving a third term.
Obama will we waiting for the criminal!
Carter's Clothing Store To Close 150 Stores, Blames Trump's Policies
150 stores will close hundreds of positions will be cut after an 80% profit drop.
Are we going to depend on AI to keep us out of the next Great Depression?
'The man has lost it': Ex-CNN anchor says Trump's circle 'too scared' to face his decline
"You ever look at someone and see that they ain’t all there, right?” Lemon said. “They ain’t all there anymore. But everybody around them is too scared to say it out loud. That’s where we are with Donald Trump.”
“The man brags about remembering five words and the crowd claps like seals,” Lemon said, adding, "the man has lost it."
“The Republican Party? They’re holding his hand through it," Lemon said. "They’re like the Japanese Prime Minister guiding him through. But they’re pretending that he’s sharp, pretending that he’s fit, because the truth scares them. So they’d rather lie to the country than admit that it’s over.”
Only the blind are sightless here.
'Bang, bang you're dead, liberal': Video shows federal agent pointing gun at protester
Trump gun thug in action. "A federal agent reportedly pointed a gun at a peaceful protester in Chicago, telling him, "You're dead, liberal."
"We have to catch these cockroaches quickly before they are sent back into hiding across the country after this reign of terror by the government is shut down." — FlyoverStater (comments).
'Put the pieces together': Big-name gov warns 'something nefarious' is underway with Trump
No shit, Sherlock?
Comer: At Least Trump’s Scams Are Out In The Open
Great Jumpin' Jehosaphat! They admit they're crooks!
Yes. If you admit you're a crook it's OK! ROTFLMAO!
Arrest the assholes immediately!
Over 100, Including 35 Children, Killed In Gaza Strikes
Aren't we glad the war is over and these atrocities have ended?
White House Fires Entire DC Design Commission
Arrogant bastards don't need no stinkin' advice!
VA Cites Trump’s Anti-Trans Edict In Order Making It Harder For Male Vets To Get Breast Cancer Treatment
Do thse morons expect this to affect recruiting?
The ultimate in stupid, retarded, vengeful and vindictive can they be?
"The mass murderer maladministration." — JT (comments)
US Tried Bribing Pilot To Capture Venezuelan President
The Trump Crime Syndicate doing their dirt.
Trump's Brain Turns Into Pudding In Front Of Our Troops In Japan
MAGA, come and get your leader. He's sundowning in front of our troops.
We've been saying this for some time now.
Trump: "Gulf to what is now known as the Gulf of America," he said to his captive audience. "Is it nice? They say it now routinely. I heard the news today, the Gulf of America weather is one."
Fact:
"The Gulf of Mexico has been the center of a geographical naming dispute in the United States. It arose from Executive Order 14172, which directs U.S. federal agencies to refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the 'Gulf of America,' signed by U.S. president Donald Trump on January 20, 2025. As an executive order, only the U.S. executive branch is required to use this nomenclature, although major online map platforms and some U.S.-based media outlets have voluntarily made the change. As of February 2025, polling shows the majority of Americans oppose renaming the Gulf of Mexico.
The name 'Gulf of Mexico' has been in use since the 1550s, derived from Mexica, the Nahuatl term for the Aztecs. The name soon became internationally recognized and in use by bodies such as the International Hydrographic Organization."
Trump is extremely insecure and paranoid.
"In fact, the AP won its case against Trump, but the president successfully earned a delay in getting the ruling enforced before the U.S. Court of Appeals considers the issue. Arguments on the president’s appeal are scheduled for November."
“The court ruled in AP’s favor — in a strong opinion in support of free speech — and the government is appealing,” AP spokesman Patrick Maks said. “As we’ve said throughout, the press and the public have a fundamental right to speak freely without government retaliation.”
Trump is FULL OF SHIT! But we all know this.
Trump's Brain Turns Into Pudding In Front Of Our Troops In Japan
MAGA, come and get your leader. He's sundowning in front of our troops.
He's been doing it for some time now. We've called it here some time ago.
GRINCH: Christmas Festival Canceled Due To Trump's Tariffs
Donald Trump ruined Christmas!
Trump's War on Christmas!
EXPOSED: The Dark Secret GOP Leaders Don't Want You To Know
Our jumping off point was the dirty little secret...they know Trump is guilty of it all, and worse, with respect to Epstein, but they also know of many more among them....
"They know Trump is guilty of it all, and worse, with respect to Epstein, but they also know of many more among them. And they know it's all gonna come out, and they are actively preparing to drop him if/when it becomes necessary (for once, MTG's actually ahead of the crowd!)."
'An economic crisis': Trump admin targets consumers with new policy where 'everyone loses'
More proof that Trump is morally bankrupt and hates America.
This 'wretched Republican bootlicker' is 'comically thirsty for Trump’s endorsement'
And that's the best one can say about him.
Is the Assault on Democracy Stronger than We Think — and Nearing Permanent Control?
Dark money, captured courts, and media empires are quietly doing what dictators once could only dream of
"Trump and the billionaires and foreign fascists he’s aligned with are both stronger than most think and weaker. Today I’ll deal with the stronger part; tomorrow, the weaker.
We’re living in a moment when the line between democracy and dictatorship is far less clear than we like to believe. As a recent analysis by Steven Levitsky, co-author of How Democracies Die, puts it, we’ve already moved onto the midpoint along the spectrum between democracy and dictatorship where 'competitive authoritarianism' lives.
That’s the world of regimes that hold elections but use their control over the nation’s systems to skew the rules, restrict opposition, weaponize institutions, vandalize the truth, and destroy/ignore democratic norms. We’re more than halfway down that road in just ten short months."...
"All of us who believe in a republic of citizens — not subjects — must work to build not just rallies but infrastructure, not just energy but strategy, not just slogans but institutions."
Hegseth announces 14 dead in Pacific military strike on alleged drug boats
Trump murder spree continues.
Il Duce Ha Sempre Ragione
The Self-Radicalization of Trumpism
"But, in fact, as Brinton points out in The Anatomy of Revolution, the extremism and fanaticism of the destroyers is often ultimately self-destructive. It also opens up opportunities for counter-attack. And so history is not just a tale of self-destructive revolutions. It’s also a story of successful resistance to the forces of destruction, and impressive reconstruction after they have temporarily prevailed. It would be good to relive that history."
Think of it -- always.
He's Been Drawing Clocks Since 2018. Tabs, Tues., Oct. 28, 2025
Donald Trump wants America to know that he took another dementia test recently. Clearly they’re telling him it’s an intelligence test, meant to show how smart he is, but … no, it’s not that.
Fuckin’ People magazine, y’all, which is absolutely killing it right now.
By the way, if you don’t know the rule about People magazine these days, it is, if you want to know if a story is breaking through with normies — and in so doing use it to shame Democrats and their consultants for being idiots who are only willing to talk about “kitchen table issues” — check to see if People is covering it. Oh look, sure is! [People]
Gavin Newsom weighed in, noting that “Most people don’t take that many cognitive tests unless a doctor is worried.”
But anyway, back to dementia. Trump, as he bragged about his dementia test that he (allegedly) did great on — he always brags that he aced his dementia test, he is so proud..."
AOC asked him if he drew a clock. This is not an IQ test. He's too fucking mentally gone to know that it's a cognitive test because he's lost it. We all know this. Those that don't need to be tested as well.
Mass job cuts on the horizon as Trump's economy backslides
"On Tuesday, Amazon announced it is cutting 14,000 corporate jobs, becoming the latest major corporation to slash its workforce in the rapidly declining economy.
The massive 14,000 culling is just the opening salvo in job cuts at the online retail giant, with Reuters reporting that the company could cut as many as 30,000 corporate jobs by the end of the year.
The large-scale job cuts at Amazon are just a fraction of the tens of thousands of jobs that have been cut so far this year. Layoffs.fyi—which tracks publicly announced layoffs at tech companies—has counted 128,732 layoffs at 218 different tech companies in 2025."
"Even before these mass layoffs were announced, the Bureau of Labor Statistics' monthly jobs reports showed that job growth has been virtually stagnant since April, when Trump first announced his tariffs."
AI and greed are the culprits. They will be hard to stop but stop them we must do.
Violent Threats Lead NC County Democratic Chair To Resign
Any question left about who is the violent party, motherfuckers?
“They were more specifically, ‘We know where you live. We know who your family is. We know how to get to them,’” he said. “It was, ‘We’re going to burn your house down with your family in it, find you and kill you,’ kind of stuff.”
They sure as hell aren't going to do anything using text messages, voicemails and social media posts.
Looks Like CA GOPers Are Resigned To Losing Prop 50 Fight
No one deserves an ass-kicking more!
'Delusional' Trump lacks ability to 'totally co-opt the criminal justice system': conservatives
Of course. He's a very sick puppy. But so are all the criminals in his adminstration that support him.
House leader snaps at MTG on GOP call as she warns 'Trump is getting less popular'
"Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) continues to ruffle MAGA feathers as she did on Tuesday's House Republican conference call, during which she warned that President Donald Trump is losing support over healthcare battle, according to two different reports."
"Punchbowl News founder Jake Sherman corroborated Brufke's story, also posting on X that Greene "just said that she is tired of people listening to the White House political staff. MTG said that Thune needs to use the nuclear option and reopen the government. (In other words, abolish the filibuster and pass a funding bill)."
How Trump’s military speeches violate a 'foundational bedrock principle'
"In June, for example, Trump spoke at Fort Bragg and treated U.S. troops like they were just another MAGA audience, even goading troops to boo (former President) Joe Biden, the free press and American elected officials whom the president doesn't like," Benen observes. "A report in The Bulwark described the display as 'grotesque.' Three months later, he did it again, summoning the nation's generals and admirals to listen to him ramble about tariffs, the Nobel Peace Prize, his hatred for Democrats, his contempt for independent news organizations and his belief that his 2020 election defeat was 'rigged.' A week after that, speaking at an event honoring the U.S. Navy’s 250th anniversary, Trump appeared determined to turn military personnel against the parts of the country he doesn’t like."
Benen continues, "'We have to take care of this little gnat that's on our shoulder called the Democrats,' he said. Speaking to U.S. soldiers aboard the USS George Washington in Yokosuka, Japan, the Republican did it once again. The New York Times noted, 'Trump has been doing this more often at home lately, but it is still striking to see him basically holding what looks and sounds very much like one of his signature political rallies in front of members of the United States military.'"
What else does one expect from a megalomaniac?
Texas AG Ken Paxton Sues Tylenol Maker Over “Autism”
All on the strength of a Stupid Virus idiot's statement that another idiot decides to act on.
This is totally fucked-up country.
NYT: Veterinarians See Surge In Anti-Vax Pet Owners
This. Animal cruelty due to Junior's Stupid Virus.
There is a strong connection between the intellectually disabled and total fuck-ups!
Comer Asks DOJ To Void Biden’s “Autopen” Actions
Void the 2024 election!
"Gomer and his buddy Gym Jordan are two of the most useless fucks in Congress with their endless investigations that go nowhere. Just wasting our tax dollars." — TK-Fla (comments)
"Every attack is a projection - how many of Trumps EOs has he actually written - even his tweets - and how many are Miller or Vought. oh and Comer is an idiot." — Brookly Joe (comments)
This is the asswipe of all-time.
Gavin Newsom Taunt's Trump’s Biggest Kneelers—Literally
Newsom is promising to send a “very pragmatic gift” to some very specific drawers-sniffing, morally-doddering Americans who still worship the dementia-soaked, deity of incapacity at 1600 PA Avenue. Newsom came up with a cheeky “f*k you,” wrapped in merchandise packaging.
Knee Pads! for the fellators.
‘Get A Real Job’: AOC Responds To Right Wing Grifter Challenging Her To A Debate
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez with the perfect response to anti-trans, hate mongering grifter Riley Gaines after she attacked Cortez on social media and then challenged her to a debate on Fox not "news."
Fuck Riley Gaines.
'Fear of complete incompetence' plagues Trump’s defense department: foreign policy expert
"Nothing works 100 percent."
Do any of these people have any level of education? De they even have functioning brains? Or are they just yellow?
'Once-unthinkable scenarios': Trump creates '3-step process' for 'ever-expanding presidential power'
Trump is the biggest mistake the U.S. ever made.
'We deeply regret these errors': Trump DOJ admits it submitted false information to court
Try telling that to the judge. Actually an admission of one of his many crimes. It doesn't make them less guilty!
“Lawless Federal Raids Demand Accountability”: Free Speech For People Calls on Illinois Officials to Investigate Trump Administration’s “Operation Midway Blitz”
"Announced by the Department of Homeland Security on September 8, 2025, “Operation Midway Blitz” was purportedly aimed at apprehending gang-affiliated noncitizens. Yet public evidence, including Trump’s own remarks, shows that the operation’s true intent was to “brutalize, terrorize, and intimidate” residents of Chicago and its surrounding communities"
National Guard troops stun with rare vow to defy Trump's orders: 'Stand up to the Gestapo'
Two Illinois National Guard members told CBS News that they want no part of deploying to Chicago to help deport immigrants.
The report called it "a rare act of open defiance from within the military ranks."
"It's disheartening to be forced to go against your community members and your neighbors," Staff Sgt. Demi Palecek told CBS News. She is a Latina guardswoman running for the Illinois state legislature.
"It feels illegal. This is not what we signed up to do," she said.
She joins Capt. Dylan Blaha, another Guard member, in saying their fellow soldiers felt uneasy after Trump federalized 500 troops for Chicago. He's running for Congress in District 13.
"I signed up to defend the American people and protect the Constitution," Blaha said. "When we have somebody in power who's actively dismantling our rights — free speech, due process, freedom of the press — it's really hard to be a soldier right now."
"Defend against ALL enemies foreign or domestic."
Trump is provoking this. He's asking for it now.
'Flying under the radar': Ex-Cabinet member sounds alarm on Trump's obscure new order
Former Labor Secretary and class warrior Robert Reich took to social media on Monday to sound the alarm about something "flying under the radar that you should know about."
There's a new directive from Trump, NSPM-7, or National Security Presidential Memorandum number seven, that Reich said, "could make it a crime to criticize him."
"In September, Trump ordered the Attorney General and the Secretaries of State, Treasury, and Homeland Security to implement new measures to 'counter domestic terrorism and political violence,'" he explained.
"Now, at first glance, this may sound reasonable. After all, we all oppose political violence. But the reality is far more dangerous: NSPM-7 hands the federal government sweeping power to target anyone who speaks out against Trump or his administration," warned Reich. "It’s a blueprint for criminalizing disagreement as 'terrorism.'"
The American Civil Liberties Union noted, "Like the president’s investigation into the Open Society Foundations and his order purporting to designate 'Antifa' as a 'domestic terrorist organization,' which is not a thing!), NSPM-7 is a deliberate attempt to sow fear and intimidate and silence opposition to the president’s abuses."
America. It was once a nice place to live. But your children will never know.
Embree Explains Trump to Trump in Letter 292
Dan Embree
PO Box 298
Mountainair, New Mexico 87036
Mailed to the White House, 25 October 2025
Read it at the link.
Supreme Court Will Meet Next Month to Revisit Landmark Marriage Equality Ruling
Get ready for another blow against American freedom.
Voting Rights Act: SCOTUS’s pivotal decision
The Supreme Court appears poised to gut the 1965 Voting Rights Act, said Ed Kilgore in New York, and that ruling could shatter the partisan balance in the House for years to come. During oral arguments on Louisiana’s challenge to the seminal law, the court’s conservative justices seemed skeptical that it is still necessary for states to draw majority-minority congressional districts to “prevent the dilution of Black voting influence.” Without this provision in the law, Republican states could gerrymander their maps to eliminate mostly Black and Latino congressional districts. That could enable the GOP to gain 19 House seats and ensure its control of the body for the foreseeable future, according to voting rights advocacy groups. And if the justices rush to decide the momentous case by January, it will permit states to launch a “new round of redistricting actions” before the 2026 midterm filing deadlines. The court has done plenty of favors for President Trump, but enabling him to avoid facing a Democratic-controlled House would “top everything.”
More crimes pissing on law and humanity.
US Kidnaps British Muslim Journalist For Thoughtcrimes
"Well, this is bad. On Sunday ICE detained British Muslim journalist and Middle Well, this is bad. On Sunday ICE detained British Muslim journalist and Middle East analyst Sami Hamdi at the San Francisco airport, in the middle of his national speaking tour. Party of free speech! Hamdi had the proper visa, but the Department of Homeland Security surprise-revoked it and then ICE arrested him."
Nazis never play fair. It's not in their "Seig Heil" manual.
We live in lost country.
Trump’s ICE Arrested a Whistleblower Who Exposed Sexual Assault in Detention. Now, He’s Left the Country.
Pitiful.
How trans panic steals from horror films
Fake victims like Riley Gaines evoke the little girls of "The Exorcist" and "The Conjuring"
"Four other swimmers outswam Thomas, which seems to be proof against conservative claims that trans women have an unbeatable advantage."
Milei’s Party Wins Big In Argentina’s Midterm Election
The grand old Nazi home. When they go on the run they run to Argentina.
Now you know why Trump paid them off!
Ex-NFL Quarterback Who Never Voted Launches Bid For Alabama Lt Governor Because Of Charlie Kirk’s Murder
OMG! Not another one!
"Election records show McCarron first registered to vote in Alabama three days ago. He does not appear to have voted in any other state and his homestead shows him in Alabama all that time." — Kyle Whitmire (X)
"They've already got a inbred football coach with floppy Dumbo ears." — Jay Siversmith (comments)
Trump Says He’d “Love” To Run For Third Term
Then he will run aginst Barack Obama!
Trump Calls For Banning “Fake” Ads About His Polls
Fucking sick loser! ROTFLMAO!
The media is a co-conspirator in his crimes.
President Stephen Miller Sounds Dead Set On War With Venezuela
Boss-President Miller grinned just before telling reporters Venezuelans ‘are gonna be killed.’
As if "Pee Wee" doesn't know he's already responsible for murders! What a scumbag punk!
"Bald headed Nazi incel vampire Nosferatu is encouraging a fucking war in the Western Hemisphere. I say deport him to Mexico so they can beat the shit out him, and we won't get our hands dirty." -- MAGAs Most Hated
'Biggest Baby' In The World Hikes Tariffs On Canada Over 'Hurt Feelings'
The dumbest president ever.
He's not our president! He's our dictator!
Sex Scandal Rocks Project 2025, Wrecks GOP Rising Star
She laid out, piece by piece, how Epstein wasn’t just a predator—but a connector, pipeline between oligarchs, spies, tech billionaires, and politicians who wanted their appetites satisfied and money laundered...
"She laid out, piece by piece, how Epstein wasn’t just a predator—but a connector, pipeline between oligarchs, spies, tech billionaires, and politicians who wanted their appetites satisfied and money laundered. She traced his trail from Wexner’s millions to Les Gelb’s CIA lunches, to those unsettling ties between Trump, Melania’s mysterious early years, and the whole grotesque ecosystem that let monsters masquerade as moguls.
How many pedophile Pastors in the group? LOL!
Fears raised as officials plot to have Trump declare National Emergency
Trump IS our National Emergency!
Red state governor blames Dems for SNAP lapse as he refuses to fund it
These miscreants keep showing us how evil they are.
'The news is the confession': Ex-GOP insider rages at WaPo for 'twisted' pro-Trump piece
Jeff Bezos and other members of the media elite are not to be trusted, and the Washington Post recently showed that with a "twisted" pro-Donald Trump editorial, according to an independent political strategist who worked on former President George W. Bush's campaign.
Political strategist Steve Schmidt, who previously published an article in which he argued that Pete Hegseth was setting the stage for a potential "coup," on Sunday wrote a piece called "Pathetic men" all about Bezos and others who he sees doing Trump's bidding.
Schmidt starts by telling a story about a bet he recently won thanks to WaPo.
"The bet I won this weekend was straightforward, and it was for $100. I bet a friend that The Washington Post would editorialize in favor of Trump’s destruction of the White House by Sunday morning," he wrote. "When I proposed the wager he said, 'No f------ way!' I said, 'Yes, way.' He said, 'Hundred bucks?' I said, 'Easy money.'"
Schmidt goes on to say, "The Washington Post is owned by the only man in America who is as tacky as Trump, with a wife as plastic as Melania."
"It was fate that the two would come together," he said before adding, "Obscenities tend to find their way to one another."
Schmidt goes on to argue, "America’s billionaire media moguls are not on your side."
"They cannot be trusted, and they do not love their country," he wrote. "They love money and power. More than anything else, they are fearful people who live in terror of Trump. Pathetic doesn’t begin to describe it."
Son Of MAGA Megachurch Pastor Arrested On Child Porn Charges, Father Works With Anti-LGBTQ Indiana Lt Gov
"The son of Pastor Nathan Peternel — a longtime mentor and close ally of Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith — has been arrested on seven felony counts related to child sex crimes, according to law enforcement and court records. Jonathan Wesley Peternel, 24, of Pendleton, was arrested Thursday following an investigation by the Hamilton County Metro Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force. Investigators said they received a CyberTip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children indicating that Peternel had uploaded child sexual abuse material to Snapchat.
Peternel is the son of Nathan Peternel, the lead pastor for all Life Church campuses who hired Beckwith years ago to lead the church’s Noblesville campus, where Beckwith continues to serve as pastor while holding elected office. The elder Peternel also regularly attends special events held at Life Church’s Noblesville campus, where Beckwith leads the congregation, and could be seen during a screening of a conservative Christian documentary on “Title IX.” Nathan Peternel also co-hosts the conservative Christian podcast “Jesus, Sex & Politics” with Beckwith."
Another one bites the dust!
Trump Administration Threatens To Arrest Pelosi And Other CA Lawmakers
More proof of the criminal insanity of Trump, our enemy dictator.
Dr. Oz Crashes Out Trying to Explain How Trump Cut Drug Prices by by “1,500 Percent,” Which Would Mean People Were Being Paid to Take Drugs
Doing alright there, man?
"Oz’s response seemed to demonstrate to the world that he was the kid who never braved going up to the chalkboard to solve a math problem in front of class."
Just another Trump retard.
He's on the same narcotic that Trump takes.
'A problem for Trump': GOP plan in jeopardy as key voter bloc ditches party in droves
"President Donald Trump’s plan to bolster his party’s numbers in Congress through Texas’ redrawn congressional districts stands in jeopardy after new data shows a key voting bloc in the state fleeing the Republican Party in droves, creating what journalist Jason Easley characterized on Saturday as “a problem for Trump.”
Look out, Donald: Inflation and economic fears are coming for you
Trump and the GOP haven't learned from Biden's misread of economic perceptions
Morons never do.
Florida To Be Hit Hardest By Spike In Obamacare Costs
How you like him now?
Trump Hits Canada With New Tariff Over Reagan Ad
There is nothing fraudulent about the Reagan ad. Everything about Trump is a fraud!
He's welcome to my attention to this matter.
"The president has no power to impose tarriffs. Only Congress an do that. I don't know why "journalists" are too cowed to point that out every time he does this." — Houndentator (comments)
DHS Forced To Take Down Song Stolen From UK Band
No regard for intellectual property laws or any other for that matter!
Swalwell: Dem Presidential Candidates Should Pledge To “Take A Wrecking Ball To Trump Ballroom On Day One”
Right after they take it to Trump.
Trump Regime Will Now Monitor Elections In California, New Jersey
Because sure, why not? Who's gonna stop him?
Great American heroes will!
One alarming conclusion from Trump's latest actions: America needs to prepare
"It’s the same unhinged directive for “unrestrained lethality” Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth delivered to military generals at Quantico last month.
It’s all of a piece: deploying the military against US citizens, pitting red states against blue, and arming masked ICE agents with sophisticated tools of war signal that Trump is building his own domestic paramilitary force to try to remain in power past 2028.
It’s the same unhinged directive for “unrestrained lethality” Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth delivered to military generals at Quantico last month.
It’s all of a piece: deploying the military against US citizens, pitting red states against blue, and arming masked ICE agents with sophisticated tools of war signal that Trump is building his own domestic paramilitary force to try to remain in power past 2028."
In other words -- When the shooting starts we have to be ready!
Scientists Oppose Huge Array of Mirrors in Space That Shines Nighttime Sunlight on Wealthy Customers
I guess the retarded have no concept of Circadian Rhythm?
As Winter Knocks, and the Shutdown Drags on, Poor Families May Have to Ration Heat
Don't confuse Trump or his toadies with being someone who cares.
Integrity, the Military, and Shutdown Pay
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The Coup That Finally Worked: How Mike Johnson Succeeded Where the Insurrection Failed
Through procedural paralysis, the Speaker has done what violence could not: silence Congress and hand Donald Trump the powers of a king.
"House Speaker Mike Johnson, presumably on the orders of Donald Trump, has unconstitutionally shut down the House of Representatives for over a month. The result is that Trump can now do pretty much whatever he wants without restraint.
He’s effectively King of America, at least for the moment. No limits, no constraints, no oversight. It’s the coup that finally worked.
If there is any one principle the Founders of this nation agreed on, it was that the first and primary function of Congress is to prevent a president from seizing king-like powers. It’s repeated over and over throughout their writings and carved into the Constitution itself."
These toxic piles of manure will never be forgiven.
Voldemort: “All ICE Officers Have Federal Immunity”
"So, that whole argument for states rights was all bullshit all along, eh?
Yes, we know." — Ed B (comments)
"They will keep pushing civilians harder and harder with more and more violence until some one or group pushes back, and then they'll call it terrorism and militarize it all. This is a tactic we've seen in the Middle East and other places." -- Steve K (comments).
Fuck all the way off, "Pee Wee!" Your Gestapo recruits are as dumb as dirt and unable to do 15 pushups and can't pass a PT test! LMAO at your wimpiness.
California Pastor Gets 45 Years To Life For Child Rape
Another one bites the dust.
Still no drag queens!
CA Youth Pastor Pleads Guilty To Child Porn Charges
Another one bites the dust.
No, Trump’s murder spree on the high seas is not about drugs
100 percent terrorism.
'Sounds the same’: Judge draws explosive parallel between Trump and convicted terror case
Trump is the world's leading terrorist.
In Latin America, Trump signals war in all but name
The Pentagon's aircraft carrier deployment to the Caribbean is a major escalation
Threatening world peace wherever he goes!
NC Republicans Sued Over US House Redistricting
"Unlike a normal, once-a-decade redistricting after the census, the 2025 redraw was voluntary — no court ordered it, and no population shifts required it. The plaintiffs argue that by doing so, lawmakers violated both the U.S. Constitution and the Voting Rights Act."
Just more Trump crooks.
Trump Calls For Prosecuting Ex-AG Merrick Garland
Please get this man in a straight jacket and a padded cell!
Federal Workers Line Up At DC Food Bank
The soup iines again just like the Great Depression.
Trump Solution For Rising Beef Prices: Make Americans Eat More Beef
'Make them eat beef' is not a solution.
"Telling your voters to 'stuff their faces with more hamburgers if they want lower prices' is not a winning message."
What in the world does he think they eat now? Got any hamburger fast food outlets in the U.S.?
They will eat that quicker than something that is healthier. Facts prove it.
"Great News, Condo-dwellers!" — tinyhandsme 2scoops (comments)
Legal scholars reveal 'very successful way' Trump 'destroys the efficacy of law'
"Since he returned to office nine months ago, President Trump has sought to expand executive power across numerous fronts," Savage explains in an article published on October 24. "But his claim that he can lawfully order the military to summarily kill people accused of smuggling drugs on boats off the coast of South America stands apart. A broad range of specialists in laws governing the use of lethal force have called Mr. Trump's orders to the military patently illegal. They say the premeditated extrajudicial killings have been murders — regardless of whether the 43 people blown apart, burned alive or drowned in 10 strikes so far were indeed running drugs…. The irreversible gravity of killing, coupled with the lack of a substantive legal justification, is bringing into sharper view a structural weakness of law as a check on the American presidency."
It's only "successful" if he gets away with it.
There is no question now that Trump is committing murder.
Bannon: “There Is A Plan” For Trump’s Third Term
Then there will be a plan for Barack Obama's third term.
Indigenous Peoples Day post revives debate over how the Alamo’s history should be told
The post from the official Alamo account was condemned by Republican Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham, who said “woke has no place at the Alamo.”
I guess she's never read Forget the Alamo?
Jack Smith To Congressional Republicans: Say When, Bitch
"Resistance and defiance come from the funniest places! Sometimes they come from grandmas at 'No Kings' rallies responding to Donald Trump declaring 'antifa' to be a terrorist organization by making millions of variations of the same sign that says 'Aunt Tifa? That’s me!' Sometimes it’s the special counsel who was very much in the process of nailing career criminal and traitor Donald Trump’s ass, and probably would have if Merrick Garland had appointed him sooner and the Supreme Court hadn’t ruled that “Yes Kings” and the classified documents case hadn’t been assigned to Sparky The Wonder Judge in Florida, and, and, and …
Oh yeah, and if a slim majority of voters in swing states hadn’t decided they’d rather have a genetically damaged reincarnation of Hitler as president instead of a highly competent Black woman.
But congressional Republicans, especially absolute fucking losers like Rep. Jim Jordan — just the dumbest, most pointless scum of the earth humans — have convinced themselves that they’re trolling Jack Smith lately, daring him to come before Congress to face their wrath — and he just responded yesterday through his lawyers: Name the time and place, you sons of bitches.
Oh and yes, he’s offering to testify publicly, not behind closed doors, so that they may discuss his investigations into Donald Trump in front of the American people, who deserve to hear about them from the source."...
Trump’s Elite Pedophile Protection Program: Who are they Protecting?
Amy Wallace says the FBI and DOJ have the list. Twenty abusers. Zero accountability. How long will we tolerate this cover-up?
"When Emmett Till’s mother lifted the veil from her son’s mutilated body in 1955, she forced America to face itself. She knew that if the nation could see what had been done to her child, it could no longer pretend innocence. That open casket was a moral explosion: it turned private grief into a public reckoning.
The same courage is needed now."
Even many of the worst criminals in prisons cannot abide pedophiles.
'Angriest group of criminal incompetents': Analyst blasts Karoline Leavitt's media 'stunt'
"An analyst blasted President Donald Trump's inner circle as the "angriest group of criminal incompetents" and criticized Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt's recent 'stunt.'
As Trump and his administration work to dismantle the free press — from removing media organizations at the Pentagon with "right-wing fluffers" to attacks on reporters and denying press credentials — it's unclear when it will stop, Salon's White House columnist Brian Karem writes Friday."
"This is no secret told out of school. This isn’t speculation. This is American journalism, which is growing more inept and less able to do its job thanks to the government, Karem writes.
As press crumbles, the Trump administration is pushing to watch it fall — much like the demolition of the East Wing, he adds."
Leavitt's a true rival of "Tokyo Rose."
'He Could Demolish the Entire White House'
"For months, President Donald Trump has touted plans for a new White House ballroom, a 90,000-square-foot behemoth just off the storied East Wing, which traditionally houses the office and staff of the First Lady. This week, images emerged of a full-scale demolition of the East Wing after repeated assurances from Trump and White House officials that the structure would not be touched as part of the construction."
"As president, does Trump have the authority to order a project like this unilaterally?"
"No. The president has constraints on his ability to simply demolish properties, to demolish part of the White House. Many of the constraints on his power come from a system Congress set up to have a series of advisory bodies opine on proposed changes to the White House. It's not clear to me that any of those bodies were consulted as required by law, and it's not clear to me that any process or any set of what you might consider the typical reviews or typical considerations for a wide variety of issues involved in a construction project of this magnitude were really taken into account. The administration has said, 'Well, we're demolishing this to make way for the ballroom.' But the public hasn't seen firm plans for what that ballroom will look like. So for all we know, he could be planning a Trump Tower's style casino there and we really just have no idea. The whole point of federal statutes and processes is to make sure the public understands what is happening and what the federal government is doing and that different values we have as a society are taken into account. And, of course, one of the core values here that has been obliterated by the demolition is that of historic preservation."
Can Anyone Stop Trump From Paying Himself Off?
Actually, anyone could and probably will.
Trump Claimed ?Wind Farms Kill Whales—and Then Quietly Axed Research Into the Issue
"The Trump administration has repeatedly blamed offshore wind farms for whale deaths, contrary to scientific evidence. Now the administration is quietly abandoning key research programs meant to protect marine mammals living in an increasingly busy ocean.
The New England Aquarium and the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, both in Boston, received word from Interior Department officials last month stating that the department was terminating funds for research to help protect whale populations, effective immediately. The cut halted a 14-year-old whale survey program that the aquarium staff had been carrying out from small airplanes piloted over a swath of ocean where three wind farms—Vineyard Wind 1, Sunrise Wind, and Revolution Wind—are now being built."
Intellectually disabled America.
'Chilling': FBI shocks with visits to homes of innocent protesters under Trump's orders
As we have said here many times: Welcome to Nazi Germany!
Serafini said the agents that visited his home "were trying to figure out the shadowy entity behind the protest."
"Shadowy?" American citizens are now shadowy as we exercise our right to protest in plain sight? Fuck these Nazis!
DHS Posts Song Popular With White Supremacists
The depth of the sewer we are now living in.
Trump: I Greenlit Israel’s 2024 Hezbollah Pager Attack
He's been murderering for some time.
Fox News Host Eyed To Anchor CBS Evening News
Of course. CBS is a Trump News outlet. The Nazi News!
POLL: 85% Say Politically Motivated Violence Is Rising
This is the result of having an insane idiot in our White House!
The proof is in the pudding and plain to see.
Man Charged With Firebombing Gay-Owned MN Shop
And just what is this miscreant? A fucking Trump Nazi!
Poll: Most Americans Want Unions
Now how do we make it happen?
Join unions and form unions!
Poll: Most Americans Are Appalled At Trump's East Wing Teardown
It never occurred to them he'd destroy the White House for his vanity project.
The Stupid Virus has many dangerous side effects.
It will be done on the cheap as he'll pocket most of the funds. Styrofoam comes down easily.
Trump Tears Down The White House Movie Theater
The 42-seat movie theater was made for Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1942.
Trump is a disgusting enemy of America.
Right-wing Christians exposed in 'explosive report' detailing abuse
“I was in shock,” said former children’s ministry director Claire Buxton, who claims Wood tried to kiss her and later gave her more than $3,000 from church funds. “It’s just bizarre to me how far we — the Anglican Church in North America and its leadership — have gotten away from basic morals and principles.”
These miscreants hate and abuse women.
US Deletes Portal For Reporting Human Rights Abuses
We have become Nazi Germany.
Trump Shrugs At Legality Of His “Drug Boat” Strikes: “We’re Just Gonna Kill People, They’ll Be, Like, Dead”
“I think we’re just gonna kill people that are bringing drugs into our country. We’re going to kill them,” he added. “They’re going to be, like, dead.”
Turmp admits to murdering as a policy.
"Soon
'We’re going to kill Trans people, They’re going to be, like, dead.'
You think I'm overreacting but the outright hostility towards us is increasing to the breaking point and we have three more years of this nightmare." — April the unperson (comments)
The comments say it all!
This must end. How long do we think this nation can stand without reciprocal action against us? Are we that much total fools?
Nominee For Ambassador To South Africa Won’t Say If He’d Oppose Laws Banning Black People From Voting
"Trump has named conservative media critic and pro-Israel commentator Leo Brent Bozell III as ambassador to South Africa, amid worsening diplomatic ties between the two countries. Mr Bozell ‘s nomination follows Washington’s expulsion of South Africa’s ambassador, Ebrahim Rasool, for remarks deemed critical of Trump.
Mr Bozell, 69, was previously nominated to lead the US Agency for Global Media – a now-closed umbrella organisation that oversaw Voice of America and Radio Free Europe – but the bid was later withdrawn.
Earlier in his career, he founded the Media Research Center – which has the stated mission of identifying liberal bias – and the Parents Television Council, among other conservative groups. His son, Leo, was among those who stormed the US Capitol on 6 January 2021. He was convicted last year and sentenced to nearly four years in prison."
Must be from The Land of the Happy Negro.
Racism thrives under Trump.
Trump 'transparency' panned after Secret Service closes public park to stop East Wing photos
What? The Trump mob doesn't want any photos?
Author Greg Cantwell said, "I think they're beginning to realize this video is a startling accurate representation of what Trump is doing to our country: he's tearing it down."
Demolishing America!
Healthcare premiums to bonce 'about 75 percent' in red state if subsidies expire
The state of Idaho, which voted 66 percent for President Donald Trump, is one of the first states to see the benefits of its vote, according to the New Republic.
The ongoing government shutdown recently gave Idahoans a glimpse of life without Obamacare federal tax credits on the state’s Affordable Care Act portal.
“On average, gross premiums, or the overall cost of the premium, has gone up about 10 percent. And the net premium, or the amount the consumer pays after the tax credit has been applied, has increased about 75 percent,” said Your Health Idaho Executive Director Pat Kelly, according to New Republic writer Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling.
Trump ballroom donors list draws allegations of 'pay to play'
“Apple, Amazon, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Google, Coinbase, Comcast and Meta are just some of the major companies who have made donations to build President Donald Trump’s proposed 90,000-square-foot ballroom, according to the White House,” CNN reported on Thursday.
The list of 37 names of corporations and individuals also includes HP, T-Mobile, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and family, and SBA Administrator Kelly Loeffler and her spouse, Jeff Sprecher.
List to boycott.
'The Epstein Ballroom' Is Getting Funded By Tech Bribes
"Turns out, it’s not just 'patriot donors' fundingthe new White House ballroom—tech giant Alphabet, the parent company of Google and YouTube, is chipping in, too.
CNBC reports that the company is contributing $22 millionto the $250 million project, with the money routed through alegal settlement reached last month over Trump’s YouTube ban following the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.
The Google-owned platform froze Trump’s account in the riot’s aftermath, warning his posts could spark further violence. Trump later sued, claiming censorship and wrongful suspension."
How Trump ruined the 'Made in America' label: industry experts
Fewer people buy "American" product now.
The study also shows that older Americans are "losing enthusiasm for American-made goods," viewing them as pricier than their foreign counterparts.
Under 35 consumers, they say, aren't interested in the label "for reasons tied to sustainability and job creation."
Affluent buyers prefer the "Made in Italy" or "Made in France" labels, they say.
The bottom line is, "For residential furniture manufacturers, the takeaway is clear: 'made in America' alone is no longer enough."
Armless Texas Pastor Arrested On Child Porn Charges Performed At Trump Rally, Posed For Pics With Trump
Trump and his pedophiles.
Another one bites the dust.
Cattle Ranchers Furious Over Argentina Bailout
Trump has fucked with the wrong people. This will get back to him one way or another.
"I can’t get over this. Trump bailed out Argentina farmers with $20 billion of our tax dollars, then China turned around and bought soybeans from them instead of US farmers.
Not AMERICA FIRST, America got played." — Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline) October 5, 2025
Conned again. How many times now?
They’ve Never Been Arrested. Why Does the FBI List Thousands of Service Members as Likely Criminals?
Denise Rosales has never been arrested.
She’s never been handcuffed.
She’s never spent a night behind bars, never stood before a judge to profess her innocence.
And yet, if you perform a background check, a criminal database maintained by the FBI will say that she was “arrested or received” into custody and charged with three crimes in January 2021....
But here’s the problem: Every branch of the military shares titling records in criminal databases with more than two dozen agencies, including the FBI, even if the case was dropped.
The fallout can be devastating because the records are retrievable for decades. Veterans can be passed over for promotions, rejected on apartment applications, and denied firearms clearance, advocates say. With the stain on their record, some struggle to get a job for years."
“Who will take my word over the plain text of the FBI’s criminal history?” Rosales, 39, asks in an affidavit in her lawsuit.
Man challenges arrest for mocking DC troops with Darth Vader's theme song
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is representing Sam O'Hara, who was arrested in Washington, D.C., when he began playing the "Imperial March" from "Star Wars" at National Guard soldiers marching through the streets. Now he's fighting back.
"Mr. O’Hara saw Sgt. Beck, along with several other Guard members, walking in uniform in the Logan Circle neighborhood, near the intersection of 14th and R Streets NW. Mr. O’Hara calmly walked behind the Guard members, began playing The Imperial March aloud on his phone, and started recording. In less than two minutes, Sgt. Beck turned around and threatened to call D.C. police officers to 'handle' Mr. O’Hara if he persisted. Mr. O’Hara continued recording and playing the music," the lawsuit alleges.
“That’s what you want to do? Okay," Sgt. Beck then asserted, according to the allegations.
"Sgt. Beck contacted the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD). Defendant MPD Officers Brown, Campbell, Reyes-Benigno, and Lopez Martinez came to the scene and, in essence, did what Sgt. Beck had threatened, putting Mr. O’Hara in handcuffs and preventing him from continuing his peaceful protest," the suit continues.
What's Beck? An E5? They are all the same vindictive asses when they get three stripes.
Return Of The Bunker Baby? Tabs, Thurs., Oct. 23, 2025
"OK, so I am not saying that I think Donald Trump’s Epstein Ballroom is a “distraction” because he obvious is desperate to have that shit because he’s a 100,000-year-old Nazi theater queen with atrocious taste who has been spending his whole life trying and failing to prove that he’s not trash, and this will probably be his greatest faceplant OF HIS LIFE on that front. But remember how the East Wing is also how you get to the presidential bunker? And remember how we learned during the first Trump term, right there at the end, that Trump is a COMPLETE scaredy wussy weenus Bunker Bitch? Just saying we would not be surprised to learn part of his total destruction of the White House involves adding Big Mac vending machines and golden toilets and also a vault for the Epstein Files to the bunker. Because again, he’s a Bunker Bitch. Maybe he’s anticipating having to spend a lot of time there. [New York Times]
And yes, they are demolishing the ENTIRE East Wing. If you look at the tacky renderings, it looks pretty clear that it’s designed to open right up to the residence. We imagine King Shitler wants to waddle down directly from his toilet to his slobbering subjects below. Anyway, the New York Times breathlessly reported that they were demolishing the ENTIRE East Wing, like it was a sudden change of plans, as if they have no idea how large-scale construction projects work and no clue who to ask about them. [New York Times]
Barack Obama has cut a commercial and has jumped into the fight in support of Proposition 50 in California, the one where California will fuck up its electoral maps in Democrats’ favor in response to Donald Trump’s plan to steal the midterms by forcing his loyal cockgobbling servants to gerrymander him some new seats. By the way, it has over 60 percent support now. People get it. [CNN]
Meanwhile, in North Carolina, which is pretty much already gerrymandered to shit, to the point of it’s amazing we’re talking about democracy only JUST NOW dying — it’s a 50/50 state that has 10 Republicans and four Democrats in the House — the fascistically gerrymandered state legislature has passed a bill to give congressional Republicans ANOTHER seat in the House. (The Democratic governor can’t veto it, because fascistically gerrymandered state legislature.) Here is a pigfuck white yokel Republican state senator named Ralph Hise explaining the fascist Nazi quiet part out loud. Haha, there are no quiet parts anymore!
Amazing how all these Republican states have to do DEI to get these stupid white men elected. You’d think if they had anything to offer the world, people would vote for them freely."...
Trump: Is He the Thief in the Ballroom?
The fight isn’t between left and right anymore: it’s between oligarchy and the people, between those who hoard power and those still brave enough to believe in democracy.
"Trump is now trying to extract a quarter-billion dollars from the American treasury — our tax dollars — to compensate himself for the troubles he faced when Merrick Garland belatedly tried to hold him to account for criminally stealing classified documents, trying to overthrow the 2020 election, and his explicit, public outreach to Putin to hack Hillary Clinton’s emails and make them public that helped him win the 2016 election.
The decision about whether to give him the $230 million will largely fall to Pam Bondi and the Department of Justice she heads, assuming no Republicans in Congress dare challenge him. The obscenity of his former private attorney — who looked the other way for eight years in Florida when she was Attorney General there and Trump and Epstein were up to their dirty deeds — ratifying this demand is astonishing."
'We have rarely faced a more serious moment' than the one now facing Supreme Court: expert
“If the Supreme Court is committed to history and tradition, as they have frequently said they are these past few years, and if they want to avoid writing their branch of government out of the equation, then they must stand for the proposition that judicial review of decisions made by the executive branch is sacrosanct and essential to democracy, and the president’s assertion that no one can vet the constitutionality of his decisions is simply wrong,” she wrote.
Who are we? The land of the free or the home of the criminal dictator?
'A recipe for disaster': ICE scorched over recruitment chaos
"As co-host Mike Brzezinski reported, “ICE officials later discovered that some recruits had criminal backgrounds, failed drug tests, or did not meet physical or academic standards. What's more, some recruits had not submitted fingerprints for background checks, which is a violation of ICE hiring policy. In fact, one recruit had prior charges for strong-armed robbery and battery related to domestic violence.”
“Additionally, nearly half of recruits failed the written exam, even with access to notes and textbooks,” she continued. “All of this as ICE has shortened its training program from 13 weeks to six weeks to accelerate the on-boarding process. ICE’s HR office is reportedly overwhelmed by more than 150,000 applicants, spurred by a $50,000 signing bonus."
The Trump Crime Syndicate is responsible for the atrocity.
Efforts to avenge Charlie Kirk’s death have fallen apart everywhere — except where it counts
Organizations that cropped up in the wake of Charlie Kirk's death, promising to dox his critics, have evaporated
Trump Raises Cost Of His Ballroom To $300 Million
The National Debt just increased by this. So, that's why you elected him? He's devestating the White House. Something no foreign enemy has ever done!
Dozens Of States To Cut Off Food Stamps On Nov. 1
"Let them eat shit!" says Trump.
...Donald Trump is the “first president in U.S. history to cut off SNAP benefits to people in America.”
"The administration would have to find more than $8 billion to keep SNAP afloat if the shutdown continues.
But 40B goes to Argentina.". — Snarkling (comments)
Trump Threatens Colombian President: “He’s A Thug”
That's exact projecton! Thanks for your admission of guilt!
Watters Hails Trump As “Feces-Strafing Memelord”
It's food for Watters!
Rogan Calls For Trump To Run For California Governor
This man is sicker than Trump.
"Joe Rogan: too stupid for Idiocracy." — KnownDonorDad (comments)
Texas Pastor Gets 40 Years On Child Rape Charges
Another one bites the dust.
Still no drag queens! Plenty Christianists!
MAGA Is Resurrecting Ivermectin, This Time For Cancer
Mel Gibson and Joe Rogan gave it a seal of approval, so FL is spending $60 million on a study.
As long as they use teams of motons for their studies it will be approved.
Trump’s 'immense cognitive decline' is 'grave risk' to all: psychologist?
A prestigious psychologist says that President Donald Trump is exhibiting a “massive increase” in “clinical signs of dementia,” exacerbating the president’s “malignant narcissism,” according to The Daily Beast.
Former Johns Hopkins professor and psychologist Dr. John Gartner says that the 79 year old president's "nonsensical speeches, repeated confusion, and frequent lapses in memory" are proof of his “immense cognitive decline.”
Trump biographer vows to put president and Melania 'under oath' in Epstein lawsuit
It should be easy for him to purjure himself.
Trump Demands DOJ Give Him $230 Million Prize For Getting Away With It
"If he’s gonna fuck a horse, that horse better have an extremely tiny butthole, otherwise it won’t work. (IYKYK, but you can find out the answer on this week’s South Park.)
But well yes! He’s tearing down the White House, he’s been diarrheaing on the country this week and every week since the day he fell out of his mother’s cursed womb, and yesterday news broke that Donald Trump is just sorta kinda casually demanding that his own Justice Department, which is run largely by beclowned 'former' personal lawyers who are still just his fluffers, give him $230 million as a reward for getting away with all the millions of crimes he’s ever been investigated for.
And who knows! He might get it, ha ha, nothing matters, what Dumb Bitch Hitler wants, Dumb Bitch Hitler gets!
The New York Times reports that Trump has been demanding this restitution behind the scenes, both for the Russia Russia Russia investigation and for the thing where he stole state secrets from the United States and buried them in one of the ugly bathrooms at Mar-a-Lago.
Did Trump’s campaign collaborate with Russian spies and government agents in 2016? Oh hell yes, the Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee, which was then run by Marco Rubio, wrote a far more damning report on that than Special Counsel Robert Mueller did, not that his was chopped liver.
As for the classified docs case, did Trump steal state secrets and then try to hide and conceal them, which led the FBI to come to his trash palace to get them back? Yes, and the only reason that case went away is that by chance it was assigned to the most bootlicking fucking twit MAGA judge this side of the Aryan Christian nationalist in Texas that all the anti-abortion ghouls are so hot for, and she dismissed it the second she felt froggy enough to do so.
But none of that matters, because Dumb Bitch Hitler is GREEDY and SCORNED and he will hurl ketchup at this wall 24/7 to remind people to please never stop bribing him and otherwise laundering money up his voluminous asshole.
Also he probably wants to buy OMB director and Project 2025 Christian nationalist sex stallion Russ Vought a nice jockstrap for Christmas, and wants to make sure his check doesn’t bounce."
Will Trump’s Fear Factory be his Greatest Weapon or His Ultimate Undoing?
He’s learning what every would-be king learns: fear works only until people remember who they are.
Just say "NO" to Trump.
'Turning point': Trump warned he's about to get America immersed in a new war
Lawmakers and experts alike are growing concerned about President Donald Trump's increasingly aggressive posture against Venezuela — and they're worried that he seems determined to start a war.
Dozens of warships and planes, along with thousands of American troops, have been deployed to the Caribbean Sea as part of an "armed conflict" Trump declared against drug trafficking groups he has designated international terrorists, and U.S. air attacks have targeted at least seven boats in recent weeks, reported the Washington Post.
“The U.S. is at a turning point — Washington needs to decide what it wants,” said Geoff Ramsey, a Venezuela expert at the Atlantic Council. “The president came to office campaigning to end endless wars, but he’s found himself now championing what may be America’s longest war, which is the war on drugs.”
Sorry. This will not distract enough to prevent his protection of pedophiles.
And he can forget any prizes for peace.
Lil' Mike Johnson Sued Over His Refusal To Swear In Grijalva
You mean "Lil Shit Head"?
Arizona’s attorney general has sued the US House of Representatives over Republican Speaker Mike Johnson’s refusal to seat an Arizona member of Congress – who was elected in late September – due to the government shutdown.
“This case is about whether someone duly elected to the House,” Kris Mayes and other attorneys wrote in the filing Tuesday, “may be denied her rightful office simply because the Speaker has decided to keep the House out of ‘regular session.’”
OpenAI Announces Browser-Based AI Agent for “Vibe Lifing"
“Vibe lifing” was meant as a direct response to “vibe coding,” a phrase coined by since-departed OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy earlier this year. The trend involves using AI to rapidly develop software using natural language prompts.
But given the potentially disastrous consequences of handing the keys to your web browser to a hallucinating large language model, the risks are clear. AI browsers by OpenAI’s competitors have already resulted in embarrassment as they turned out to be easily exploitable by bad actors.
Karoline Leavitt struggles to deescalate the firestorm around Trump's White House demolition
"Trump had claimed in July that his $250 million ballroom, which is financed by personal donations from wealthy allies and supporters, would not “interfere with the current building.” He later claimed the East Wing would be “fully modernized,” which apparently requires knocking down walls and ceilings."
As my mother used to say, "His promises are like pie crust."
Veteran journalist resigns because of magazine's censorship of Trump stories
Alan Greenbatt, the editor of Governing magazine which covers state and local governments, has resigned because he refused to go along with increasing internal pro-Trump censorship pressures, he writes in Politico.
"My decision was a long time coming," he writes. "Earlier this year, the chief content officer for our parent company, e.Republic, stated in a meeting that we should not run articles that could draw the attention of the Trump White House and have them try to shut us down."
Greenblatt says that the 40 year-old magazine is small, yet prestigious, and the "idea of anyone in the current White House was reading it, let alone preparing to hammer it, struck me as dubious."
"The notion that the litigious Trump would hit us with a lawsuit was not impossible, but it was unlikely," Greenblatt says. "But after Trump’s second term began, the corporate anxiety about rocking the boat with our coverage became a constant."
America seems to have forgotten that we have a free press. Trump is doing his best to kill it. Keep this up and all we'll see are more crooks like Trump dictating our lives.
Wisconsin Republican resigns due to 'dysfunctional' GOP leadership
He smells a rat like the rest of us do.
Arizona Youth Pastor Arrested On Child Porn Charges
Another one bites the dust.
"Federal investigators say a Phoenix man who worked as a youth group leader has been arrested for alleged sex crimes, and they are asking for the public’s help in finding potential victims. Casey Goslin, 46, was arrested on Oct. 16 following a joint investigation by ICE Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents and Tucson police officers. Goslin faces federal charges for allegedly trying to produce child pornography and possession of child sexual abuse material."
Trump Hosts Billionaire Megadonors At WH Dinner
The last hurrah for weaponized capitalism.
"President Trump on Tuesday evening dined with some of the Republican Party’s biggest contributors on the White House’s Rose Garden patio, Axios has learned. The private dinner illustrates how Trump is using the trappings of the White House to reward mega-donors who are aligned with his political agenda and interests.
The dinner on the newly renovated patio featured more than 60 major contributors, plus a number of senior White House advisers and cabinet members.
The list of big donors present included hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, casino mogul Steve Wynn, investor Andy Beal and agriculture executive Charles Herbster. Other attendees included supermarket mogul John Catsimatidis, biotech executive Oliver Burckhardt and businessman Jay Kemmerer and his wife, Karen Kemmerer.
'Wrong': Fact checker swats down Trump claims about the Insurrection Act
Facts are never enough for Trump. He has to embellish them. Thus 6 times becomes 28 times.
"The act in total has been invoked about 30 times in American history."
"...no president had invoked the act more than Ulysses S. Grant in the 1870s. That was six times – nowhere close to 28, amid white supremacist violence after the Civil War."
Ahha! The Land of the Happy Negro!
Donald Trump’s “No Kings” sewage video is no joke
Trump's scatological video shows his contempt for democracy
Swine.
How the Proud Boys invented antifa
The far-right gang has been fully absorbed by Trump's White House
Moron suckers fall for anything.
Trump Nominee Withdraws Amid Racist Texts Scandal
Another Nazi bites the dust! They all will.
Paranoid Pete Orders Pentagon Staffers To Get Permission Before Speaking To Congress Members
Go back to hell and stay there this time!
"Little Drunkee Wannabe Ceremonial powers his budget and most powers controlled by the house. What a pitiable little shit stain. Republican Congress is actually worse." == Dwight Williamson (comments)
Gay Dad Sues Far-Right Podcaster For Defamation
"Peters has appeared here countless times for calling for the executions of prominent Democrats. He frequently posts his about his love for Hitler."
Take down all Nazis!
Advisor To NJ Gov Nominee Boasts That He Will Ban Same-Sex Marriage And Won’t Take Money From Jews
"Hate is strong and mocks the song of 'Peace on Earth, Good Will Towards Men.'"—- From a Christmas carol based on the 1863 poem Christmas Bells by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.[1] The song tells of the narrator hearing Christmas bells during the American Civil War, but despairing that "hate is strong and mocks the song of peace on earth, good will to men".
POLL: Two-Thirds Say US Is Headed In Wrong Direction
That leaves one-third whom are each and every one a treasonous miscreant!
Leavitt: Democrats Are Jealous Of Trump’s Ballroom
Aka: The Reincarnation of Marie Antoinette.
"She is fooling no one. This is just more self-aggrandizement by tRump. Parades on his birthday, gilt trappings in the oval office, and a big ballroom for his narcissistic celebrations. Tawdry spectacle worthy of a moron." -- magic twanger (comments)
"these people sicken me. they are worse than the fascists of old. I can't stand how stupid they are. no, you nazi whore, we're not 'jealous.' we're horrified that you are so insensitive to history that you can't understand what you've done is a crime against humanity." -- Chicago Dyke, @regular (comments)
I can hear them building the guillotimes now.
Trump Is Demanding His DOJ Puppets Fork Over $230 Million
Democrats must immediately start shouting about this, drawing up legislation and forcing Republican candidates to comment about it.
"That’s disgusting enough. Especially since Trump and his lapdogs in Congress have literally taken the food out of struggling Americans’ mouths in order to provide more generous tax breaks for Trump and his billionaire buddies.
It’s the corruption, too. The Times quotes an ethics professor, Bennett L. Gershman, saying, “The ethical conflict is just so basic and fundamental, you don’t need a law professor to explain it.”
Tell the grifter to fuck all the way off!
Trump has finally awakened the sleeping giant — and now he's roaring
"Every major media outlet — including Fox News — has refused to sign Pete Hegseth’s unconstitutional demand that they report only what the Defense Department wants them to report or lose their press credentials. They’ve all turned in their press credentials, which means no one is turning up for Hegseth’s press briefings.
What’s the sound of a press briefing without the press?
Seven of the nine universities Trump “invited” to join his university compact — in which they give up academic freedom for a priority place in government funding — have said, essentially, f*ck no."
Always NO to Nazi traitors!
Oh, dear! America is WOKE now, Nazis!
Everyone Laughs at Poop-Smeared Mike Johnson in AI Vengeance Video
"Shit head!"
This County Was the “Model” for Local Police Carrying Out Immigration Raids. It Ended in Civil Rights Violations
Long read but most important to absorb the information within on racial profiling.
Trump just committed yet another felony — and this time he knows he's been seen
"Donald Trump has taken yet another criminal step toward conditions that allow him to do virtually anything with the people’s money, even maintaining an army to occupy cities as if they were the colonies of some distant empire. The president’s move is a reminder of the original anti-theft meaning of “no taxation without representation.” With each new move, this would-be king is setting things up so the Democrats can’t say yes to reopening the government without coronating him.
..."First, it does not account for the administration’s habit of impounding congressionally appropriated funding. It has been breaking the law, and violating Article 1 of the Constitution, by refusing to send federal money wherever the Congress has said it shall go.
This pattern became more pointed after the shutdown on Sept. 30 in what Don Moynihan has called 'ideological targeting.' The Times reported that $27 billion in funding is being expressly held from Democratic districts.
Even if the Democrats get what they want, and the president says yes to renewing Obamacare subsidies, the Democrats must still face the near-certainty that his administration will cheat them. (They must also face the House speaker’s stated intention to claw back, or rescind, money by way of reconciliation bills requiring only a simple majority.)"
..."Now, with news about military pay, the story takes a different and more consequential turn. In addition to illegally impounding funds appropriated by the Congress, the administration is now taking money that Congress intended for a particular purpose to be spent during a particular time, and moving it around to meet the president’s needs."
"Specifically, the administration is moving money from an account the Congress intended to be spent on research and development, and moving it to an account to pay members of the armed services. I don’t know if that’s embezzlement, per se, but I do know it’s a violation of the Article 1, Section 9, Clause 7 of the US Constitution, which was written to make sure the people don’t lose control of their money.
I know something else thanks to Bobby Kogan at the Center for American Progress. This move by the White House is a blatant and willful violation of the Antideficiency Act, a law meant to clear up any question about whether it’s a felony for anyone in government to spend any money on anything that’s not approved by the Congress.
And it is.
What’s also clear is Trump’s latest crime (for now, let’s call it embezzlement) progressed from the previous crime (impoundment). That seems to me a logical evolution that began with the idea that the Constitution and subsequent federal law are mere suggestions. And that this progress happened is itself an indication that it will continue, if left unchecked. The worst-case scenario is no longer theoretical."
..."If a remedy cannot be found in federal law enforcement or the federal courts (or the national Republican Party), then what? If there is to be an American republic in more than name, there must be serious consequences for a lawless executive stealing “the power of the purse” from the American people. As New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said, only the Democrats can be those consequences."
"Most of all, the protest could affirm for us our origin story, which is that all men are created equal and that equality is impossible under the illegitimate rule of kings."...
Arrest, indict, prosecute, convict, imprison!
Mike Johnson scrambles to blame No Kings for pardoned J6er's threat to kill Dem leader
"We are intellectually consistent about that, obviously," he continued. "The violence on the left is far more prevalent than the violence on the right. ... All of these assassination, the assassination culture that's been advanced now, this is the left in almost every case that is advancing this and not the right."
His assertion was not backed up by evidence.
Johnson insisted that violence was not a "partisan issue" before attacking the protests against Trump — which were overwhelmingly peaceful despite attracting millions of people.
"And the rhetoric that you saw on display on Saturday, we highlighted yesterday, it plays into this, okay?" he argued. "There are people that get triggered. There are deranged people in society when they hear elected officials participating in a rally that was paid for by Soros and sponsored by communists."
We know who the "deranged people" are MIKE JOUNSON!
Why a tiny protest in the heart of Trump country has left MAGA terrified
"But one of the most revealing aspects of the protest wasn't to be found in the huge crowds in large cities, Ana Maria Cox argued in an interview with The New Republic's Greg Sargent — it was in the town square of New Braunfels, a small city between Austin and San Antonio where Republicans are used to dominating.
A key aspect of all this, said Cox, is that because New Braunfels isn't generally a place where anti-Trump protests get big turnouts, the people there had all the hallmarks of being grassroots first-timers who have never engaged in this type of political demonstration before."
"There was no one printing out the PDFs that Indivisible has available. There were people who just handmade their own signs. So that meant a lot of the signs had way too much information on them — which also tells me these might be first-time protesters," said Cox. "So this woman I was talking to, in a lawn chair, had a sign that said: I love: God, country, church, family, friends, my dog, Texas, and democracy. And then she had a bunch of Bible verses — too many, in a way — Bible verses on the other side."
"She was not someone who would have shown up — I didn’t ask her — but I don’t think she’s someone who would have shown up for the Women’s March," said Cox. "These are people who’ve been activated — I’m not going to say radicalized, I mean, maybe that’s coming — but activated by what’s happening in Washington. They’re not, they’re not, you know, Soros protesters. They probably don’t know who George Soros is."
Surprise! Trump Nominee Outed As MLK-Hating Nazi Sympathizer In Leaked Chats
Shall we take a look at some of his greatest hits?:
“I do have a Nazi streak in me from time to time, I will admit it,” he responded.
"To be fair, Ingrassia is a mean-spirited, ignorant little twerp with clown eyebrows. He looks like a haunted Victorian doll. What does he have to make him feel 'superior' beyond being a white guy? I certainly can’t think of anything."
The Golden Age of Sh*tposters
"Wake up, babe! Another young Republican operative just had his insanely racist text messages leaked."
He's Tearing Down The White House. Tabs, Tues., Oct. 21, 2015
"So, pictures started going around yesterday of Donald Trump’s planned demolition of the White House, so that he can remake it in the image of whatever tasteless trash like him thinks it should look like, which we guess includes a gigantic tacky Liberace ballroom. He wasn’t supposed to be destroying the facade of the East Wing, he had lied and said his new ugly outer borough/Miami new money ballroom would be not touching the White House, can’t get mad, but yeah, turns out we can get mad. Currently it looks like Trump did a new 9/11 to the side of the building. When it’s done, it will look worse.
To Waldman’s point above, personally we agree with Joe Walsh that it would be fitting for the next president to run on demolishing this and anything else Stupid Hitler has left his mark on, and because Trump is reality TV trash, we would add that it should be like that part of every HGTV show like 10 minutes in where the whole community comes together all excited because it’s Demo Day. And at the end of the show, the White House is elegant and classy again and also it has a Rose Garden. BIG REVEAL!"
When the Chant Fades, Who Builds the Future?
The movements of the 1960s built lasting institutions. Today’s movements need more than moral clarity: they need leadership and coordination.
"Democracy is not defended by hashtags. It’s defended by hands, millions of them, building, voting, organizing, and refusing to quit when the cameras are gone."
"Yes, seven million people in the streets condemning Trump. Unprecedented, should be front page top-of-the-fold headline news. The New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal on Sunday morning didn't even mention the protests. That is very ominous. It certainly implies those newspapers are afraid of Trump, and withheld the news accordingly. A huge impact of the protests was deliberately foregone. Bezos' ownership of the Post explains that one, but how about the Times? And the WSJ? I thought Murdoch was at odds with Trump. Whatever the case, the silence of these papers is very troubling." -- Richard Behan (comments)
These are all cowardly betrayers of America.
No Kings! We’re Here Because We Love America
Sanity speaks. Please read and hear.
'They are winners': Comey's 'immaculate' court filing praised as Trump team put on spot
The dismissal motions filed by former FBI Director James Comey’s legal team aimed at getting the Department of Justice’s case against him tossed are “immaculate,” according to a former U.S. attorney.
On her “Civil Discourse” column on Substack, ex-federal prosecutor Joyce Vance noted she had reviewed the filings brought by former insurance lawyer turned-interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan, and agreed with critics that it is “a vindictive and selective prosecution” which “violates the First Amendment, Due Process Clause, and equal protection principles.”
More to the point, she argues, was how well the case was defined by Comey’s legal team, making it easier for Judge Michael Nachmanoff to put an end to the prosecution that the lawyers contend was based on President Donald Trump’s “personal spite,” and little else.
'Get out of my country!' MAGA fans rage as Kash Patel celebrates Diwali
ROTFLMAO at the retarded morons whine! They had no idea about Kash? That's more than obvious how stupid these miscreants are. Dumb shits showing us how fucked up they are.
Any American has a right to celebrate their ethnic heritage. Get an education, dumbshits!
"Ironic that MAGA object to being called Nazis when they're actually -less- tolerant than Nazis, who didn't really care about other religions (they were happy to ally with Muslims, Hindus and Shinto; they just hated Jews specifically and more for ethnic hate than religious). Maybe they think Nazis were to woke for being cool with Asians." — Stylops (comments)
These idiots have only myths they consider facts but know nothing of fascism.
Donald Trump’s “No Kings” sewage video is no joke
The president's scatological video shows his contempt for democracy
Untreated mental illness is a disgrace to America.
Donalds: People Don’t Need “Full-Blown” Insurance
Donalds Blows! The Stupid Virus strikes another moron. So goddamn stupid he doesn't understand the comcept of insurance!
"What a detestable piece of shit you are, you Nazi quisling.
How about we take your medical coverage away and see what bullshit you come up with?" — JT (comments)
"With the result that people avoid seeing the doctor for tolerable symptoms until they have stage 4 cancer. What's a little rectal bleeding now and then? In a year or two, the person has colon cancer growing through the skin or has rupture of the cancer, spilling shit into the belly and provoking peritonitis." — NPSTL (comments)
COPS: Pardoned J6 Rioter Threatened To Kill Jeffries
Trump Nazi attempts murder.
Tuberville: Muslims Are Trying To Take Over America
Said the Nazi who worships a Nazi dictator!
"He wants to create the Christian version of what he thinks Muslims are trying to do. What's the difference between Shariah Law and Project 2025. A different name for the deity? That's about it. No thanks to either one. But Mamdani hasn't promoted anything like that. As always, this is just projection." -- Houndentator (comments)
"Separation of religion and democracy is essential to the survival of democracy.
Mamdani is NOT the problem… christianists are." — Hell-no Kitty (comments)
Trump Is Currently Demolishing Part Of The White House
Imagine if Biden...oh, never mind! Fuck this guy.
"After posting an AI video depicting himself as a king, complete with a crown on his head in a military-style jet dumping a vast amount of shit all over seven million No Kings protesters, Trump is now showing his hatred for America again by literally tearing down part of the White House. Trump previously claimed that construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure, but unsurprisingly, he lied. All of this for his vanity project."
“It won’t interfere with the current building. It won’t be. It’ll be near it but not touching it — and pays total respect to the existing building, which I’m the biggest fan of," Trump said during an executive order signing in July. “It’s my favorite. It’s my favorite place. I love it.” -- Donald Trump.
"So now these fascist shitheads are vandalizing an historic landmark to accommodate a Trump vanity project. Patriots, my ass." — drphillips2001 (posted on X)
Trump is a traitor.
Like Hitler's Nazis these people are "only following orders." It didn't help at Nuremberg. All MAGAts are traitors.
Trump’s WORST Nightmare: "No Kings" Just Made History!
..seven million Americans in every state—and abroad—took to the streets in defiance of Trump’s authoritarianism. From Jeff City to DC, Knoxville to London, people stood in thunder and rain to defend democracy...
Combat vet says he’s being 'thrown away like yesterday's trash' under Trump cuts
More evidence Trump hates America.
'Brown Liquid': Trump Sh*ts The Bed, Media Refuses To Call It Sh*t
They can't tell shit from brown liquid, you mean? Or is it applebutter from brown liquid?
Simple chickenshits.
'They’re losing': Insider details how Trump’s unpopularity makes him lash out even more
A madman is in charge. This will not end well.
Conservative judges turning against Trump — thanks to the Supreme Court: experts
"A recent unanimous ruling against one of President Donald Trump's key policies suggests that the Supreme Court may have overplayed its hand, making rebels out of conservative lower court judges."
Nazis have a way of doing that. No surprise.
Kenny Loggins Condemns Trump’s Theft Of His Song: Trump’s Video Was Solely Created To Divide Americans
Another illegal act by the Trump Crime Syndcate. No respect for the law.
“This is an unauthorized use of my performance of ‘Danger Zone.’ Nobody asked me for my permission, which I would have denied, and I request that my recording on this video is removed immediately. I can’t imagine why anybody would want their music used or associated with something created with the sole purpose of dividing us. Too many people are trying to tear us apart, and we need to find new ways to come together. We’re all Americans, and we’re all patriotic. There is no ‘us and them’ – that’s not who we are, nor is it what we should be. It’s all of us. We’re in this together, and it is my hope that we can embrace music as a way of celebrating and uniting each and every one of us.” — Kenny Loggins, posting to his personal website.
Burgum To Fire Hundreds At Major National Parks
They hate America. We can all see this if we dare to look!
Long Live ‘No Kings’
..."And it was fabulous that some seven million people assembled peacefully and patriotically to protest Donald Trump and reaffirm their allegiance to the American idea.
That idea was nowhere better stated than by Thomas Paine in Common Sense: 'For as in absolute governments the King is Law, so in free countries the law ought to be King; and there ought to be no other.'
That was the idea that animated 'No Kings.' On Saturday, the American people assembled lawfully on behalf of the rule of law. On Saturday, the American people demonstrated their commitment to keeping this a free country. Mike Johnson and all his fellow pro-Kings propagandists hoped for violence, extremism, and evidence of hate for America. But instead they saw peace, patriotism, and loyalty to America."
My Last Day as an Accomplice of the Republican Party
"SINCE DONALD TRUMP DESCENDED that golden escalator in 2015, the Republican party has devolved into a cult of personality that mirrors the worst authoritarian regimes of the last one hundred years.
For ten years, the GOP has waged an unrelenting war on our civic institutions, the separation of powers, the foundation of the rule of law, and the very nature of truth itself. While Trump and his supporters in Congress have been the driving force behind the right’s descent into despotism, it would not have been possible without the thousands of consultants, aides, and politicos working behind the scenes to fully execute their systematic dismantling of American democratic norms.
That’s why I’m publishing this letter today."
Read it. You can quit too.
In the Wake of NoKings 2.0, Trump/MAGA’s Four Fascist Roots are Failing
"The massively successful NoKings2.0 has again underlined Donald Trump’s four failing MAGA fascist roots: male dominance; global white dominance; US financial dominance; and the end of fossil/nuclear fuels.
They’re all linked to the impending collapse of the petro-dollar, the century-old pillar of American prosperity, about to disappear.
Autocratic hucksters like Adolph Hitler and Donald Trump have forever feasted on the human inability to cope with a perceived loss of status.
Hitler’s Nazi putsch was rooted in Germany’s inability to accept losing World War I.
Deutschland’s 'Christian' misogynists had ultimate faith in their assumed superiority. Their 'incomprehensible' 1918 defeat was made unbearable by the 1929 crash.
So Hitler’s Mein Kampf promised to make Germany 'great again.'"
ICE keeps detaining pregnant immigrants — against federal policy
But the number is impossible to measure since Congress let lapse a requirement that ICE report how many pregnant, postpartum and nursing immigrants are in custody.
Mike Johnson exploits the shutdown to hide the Epstein files
The backlash to #MeToo was always about silencing victims
Showboating “Live Fire” Event For Vance Goes Wrong
"Ive been wounded Franklin! I've been hit by a piece of Cadillac!" — Honolulu Luck — Hungry Chuck.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/10/showboating-live-fire-event-for-vance-goes-wrong/
Abbott: I’m Firing “Leftist Professors For Indoctrination”
Hot Wheels Nazi goes haywire and fires anyone that doesn't kiss his ass.
"Degenerate Fascist Abbott will replace them with MAGAt "professors" who indoctrinate students in the joys of fascism, pedophilia and smearing feces on our Capital's walls." -- weshlovrcm (comments)
Trump Posts Clip Claiming He’ll Never Leave Office
That's one thing we know for certain is going to happen!
We all may not see it but death has the final say.
DeSantis Sued Over Bid To Block New Legal Weed Push
As usual, still living in the 18th Century!
Ingraham Joins Board Of Venture Headed By Junior
Not only this but "It will be incorporated in the Cayman Islands."
What happened to "America First?" Trump is always first, you suckers.
Don't Wanna Be Called A Nazi? Don't Do Nazi Sh*t
Lets start with the “Young Republicans" busted praising Hitler in their velvet-roped group chat. And be honest now, look at their pics & tell me when you heard the story this wasn't your exact mental image?
Language police: Blistering analysis roasts the 'woke right'
Everyone is an expert on bullshit. It'slooking forward vs. "I ain't never gpnns change squares!"
The squares are all named here. We've been against them for a long, long time!
Anger as Kristi Noem gets 2 luxury private jets as shutdown threatens food aid for millions
"The decision to buy two Gulfstream G700 jets for Noem—a central figure in President Donald Trump’s lawless mass deportation campaign—drew swift criticism from Democratic lawmakers, who said the purchase underscores the administration’s corruption and contempt for those struggling amid a government shutdown with no end in sight."
Is this her "Let them eat cake." moment?
'Meanest people': Outrage over leaked chats continue to rock the Young Republican world
Photo of Hitler Youth members.
“We spend a lot of time fighting amongst ourselves,” said one anonymous state chair, per the report.
“These are the meanest people I have ever met in my life.”
ROTFLMAO!
King Donald the First: Fuck That
The run-up to No Kings Day has seen a crazed wave of hysteria from a right wing shrieking about Hamas, Marxists, Huns, Orcs, Barbarians at the Gate with the sinister portent, "You'll see the hate for America all over this thing." What the. We think we'll see millions of people - also frogs, chickens and a detained giraffe - who support health care, free speech, our neighbors, and the right to oppose becoming an authoritarian hellhole. DeNiro: "We're all in this together, with liberty and justice for all."
GOP Senator Goes Full Red-Baiting On No Kings Protests
"...one the the contestants for dumbest member of the United States Senate, Markwayne Mullin, joined former Trump spokes-liar Kayleigh McEnany to continue the flame-throwing on Fox."
He forgot to list the "Fuck You, Asshole Nazi Asswipe Party!"
Fox Host: Yesterday Proves Dems Want A “Leftist King”
Fox propaganda grows weaker and desperate as time passes.
Colombian President: The US Is Committing Murder
Everyone knows this except the American media.
These atrocities will continue.
Unfettered and Unaccountable: How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force
When Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers stormed through Santa Ana, California, in June, panicked calls flooded into the city’s emergency response system.
Recordings of those calls, obtained by ProPublica, captured some of the terror residents felt as they watched masked men ambush people and force them into unmarked cars. In some cases, the men wore plain clothes and refused to identify themselves. There was no way to confirm whether they were immigration agents or imposters. In six of the calls to Santa Ana police, residents described what they were seeing as kidnappings.
“He’s bleeding,” one caller said about a person he saw yanked from a car wash lot and beaten. “They dumped him into a white van. It doesn’t say ICE.”
One woman’s voice shook as she asked, “What kind of police go around without license plates?”
The answer is Trump's Gestapo. American traitors.
'Deep betrayal': Insiders reveal Marco Rubio condemned US informants in backroom deal
"“The deal is a deep betrayal of U.S. law enforcement, whose agents risked their lives to apprehend the gang members,” said Douglas Farah, who aided federal officials in its investigations into MS-13, speaking with the Post. “Who would ever trust the word of U.S. law enforcement or prosecutors again?”
Isn't this called entrapment?
I smell a rat, baby. I smell a rat!
'Wut': Conservatives baffled by Trump's new interview answer about 'beautiful Black women'
by David McAfee
Donald Trump confused the internet on Sunday with a Fox News interview answer in which he referenced "beautiful Black women."
Trump did an interview with Fox New over the weekend in which he discussed his federal deployment of troops in cities that are run by Trump'sDemocratic opponents.
"The people love us. The people want us there," Trump said. "Beautiful Black women in Chicago are wearing MAGA caps all over the city. It's the most incredible thing. I love it."
That comment struck a chord online, with Republicans against Trump simply writing, "Wut."
Conservative strategist Jeff Timmer said, "Baghdad Bob would sprain his eyes cringing at the Baghdad Bobiness of this dips------- coming out of his face hole."
Conservative attorney George Conway responded with, "Lolololololol."
Delivered by the Bozo from the Booby Bin.
Americans Muster to Mill Around Against Monarchy
"Yesterday, I joined with millions of my fellow Americans from sea to shining sea and beyond to express serious antipathy for monarchy, Donald Trump, armed and masked thugs paid to terrorize the citizenry, and other discontents. For me, that was in Sacramento, California’s state capital. If seemed a rather festive gathering with people sharing smiles, reveling in one another’s company, and bearing placards, the most common of which read “No Kings,” or variations on that theme. There were kids and dogs which lightened the tone. There had been a shadow of fear about provocations from Kristi Noem’s gestapo forces or Proud Boys, et. al. The Republicans had been encouraging their fellow fascists that anyone who showed up to a No Kings march would only do that because they hate America. Imagine that."...
"But I completed yesterday's march and made it back to the car, unharmed. It was a pleasant day and, as those days had been back in the 60s, it was good to be reminded of our numbers, that we may be outspent and outgunned, we were and are not outnumbered. Au contraire. And there was the proof: kids, and costumes and a helluva lot of "good vibes," with Americans milling around and glad to see each other. Not at all a bad thing."...
"But we must keep marching, and milling, too. The alternative is bound to be bleaker if we don't. And there are always children present."
For the record: These protests were world wide.
The 28th Amendment to the Constitution.
by Madhoosier | October 19, 2025 - 4:56am
"Proposal for the 28th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America:
Because of the intentional damage to the Constitution done under the John Roberts Supreme Court, recent Administrations and Congress the fundamental basis of American Democracy must be restored before America can once again function as a democracy.
This Amendment shall reestablish that:
Money is not speech,
Corporations are not people.
The Presidency is not above the law.
Wars can not be waged against tactics.
Roe will be reinstated.
Political retribution is a crime.
The separation of Church and State will be restored.
The Presidential power to pardon must end.
Abuses of the Bill of Rights will be criminalized.
The Supreme Court shall be increased to 13, one for each Federal Judicial district.
Without the restoration of these basic protections American Democracy went up for sale to the wealthy on the cheap.
The people are taking it back"
NYC Public Schools System Defies Trump Anti-Trans Demands, Files Lawsuit
"In recent months, some of the nation’s most elite universities have folded under the Trump administration’s demands to ban transgender students from bathrooms, sports, and even recognition altogether. Hospitals, too, have caved to federal funding threats designed to force compliance with discriminatory policies. But one place has emerged as a bulwark of resistance: local school boards."
Resistance to Trump is growing everywhere. Only the suckers worship him now.
Inside Texas’s New Jesus-Heavy Grade School Course
Reminds me of my first grade year. We had to bring our dime to class to pay for our copy of the New Testament.
That was a long time ago and I still don't know anyone that propaganda worked on.
“King Trump” Depicts Himself Dropping Feces On No Kings Protesters From Fighter Jet Over NYC
Of course, he's been dropping shit on America for years and he thinks its funny.
Karoline Leavitt Spews More Race-Baiting Lies About Democrats
After first doubling-down on the vile crap that came out of her mouth the day before, Trump spokes-liar Karoline Leavitt tossed out this race-baiting nonsense on Sean Hannity's show on Fox.
The Stupid Virus continues.
2026 Health Insurance Rates Released; This Is GOP's Fault
ACA Marketplace 'Previews' show staggering premium spikes due to GOP subsidy cuts.
“There is no longer any doubt about the healthcare disaster Republicans have created,” said the group's chair, Leslie Dach. “Working families can now log onto a computer and see the Republican healthcare betrayal right before their eyes."
Tyranny Bites!
Or...When we said No Kings last time, we meant it the first time!
"It's the day after the #NoKings rallies and marches and WOW! 7 million people showed up, protested peacefully, and made liars like Karoline Leavitt look like the fools they are."
'These people are terrified': How Trump's recent behavior reflects 'white folks' real fear
“Nation” Justice Correspondent Elie Mystal said there is an easy reason to explain President Donald Trump’s list of weird, counterproductive actions over the last few weeks.
Mystal pointed to reports that the Trump administration is considering proposals to “radically reshape the U.S. refugee system, denying entry to Black and brown refugees the world over while opening up the borders for white people from South Africa and Europe who claim they are being politically persecuted.”
Trump is also planning to slash the number of refugees admitted into the country each year to 7,500, down from 125,000, and he is willing to staunch the flow of migrants despite the hard consequences in factories and farms across the nation as employers search frantically for labor.
“Apparently, those few spots are now reserved for white people who espouse Nazi beliefs, as both Trump and Vance have made a point of defending neo-Nazis in Germany and have been apparently making plans to bring them over here,” Mystal said.
“The Trump administration is an openly white supremacist regime, and they’ve been acting like it, in both word and deed, since he returned to office,” he said. “These people are terrified of the browning of America, terrified that white folks will lose their numeric majority in this country in the coming decades, and terrified of the declining white birth rate.”
WHITE SUPREMACY!
You can’t cover Washington accurately and not mention white supremacy
"It’s becoming increasingly clear that white supremacy is one of the core animating principles of the Republicans who control all three branches of government."
We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held By Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged And Detained For Days.
Videos of U.S. citizens being mistreated by immigration agents have filled social media feeds, but there is little clarity on the overall picture. So ProPublica created its own count.
That's one too many.
Trump’s immigration agents detained over 170 US citizens
A ProPublica investigation found that federal agents have held scores of U.S. citizens, some for more than 24 hours
Trump's facisim must be wiped out.
Hegseth Pastor: “Bible Says It’s Not Evil To Own People, And Every Christian Should Be Able To Defend” Slavery
How about molesting children? This guy is a desciple of Jesus of Nazareth? In NO way.
Shame has vanished from their culture.
"It's all scared, threatened, White heterosexual men who want to be privileged again, just like they've been throughout our history - and most of our lifetimes.
They've always run the show and called the shots, and they'll do anything - including murder and treason - to retake that privilege that they believe is their 'God given' birthright." -- jixter (comments)
FUCK PATRIARCHY!
Karoline Leavitt Calls 70 Million Americans 'Terrorists'
I don't know who these idiots think they're appealing to with these cartoonish overreaches, but it sure as hell isn't anyone with a functioning set of brain cells.
And we thought Kaleigh was a bimoo?
She's next to be exposed in bed with Satan! Lost forever on the Nazi Highway!
Christian Nationalist: We Want Power To 'Crush Our Enemies'
Evangelical MAGA doesn't hide its agenda
But all it does is poop fiery turds!
'Have I sold my soul to the devil?' Fox News employees' dread revealed in survey
Well, you're traitors for some reason. Is that why, scumbags?
According to the Guardian, one employee said Fox should “change the misogynist, racist, rightwing content”, adding: “Fox News is a propaganda machine for the Republican party NOT a news organization and should be acknowledged as such. It is embarrassing to tell people that I work here as even conservatives know [Fox News Channel] and [Fox Business Network] are biased information sources — not ews.”
George Conway spotlights the danger of Trump's push to eradicate 'the smart people'
...But Conway, one of Trump's most scathing critics on the right, also implied that Trump resents Bolton and other foes because he resents "smart people." And the attorney warned that Trump's disdain for intellectualism is a classic "fascist authoritarian" trait.
Conway told Longwell, "The whole attack on immigration is xenophobia, and xenophobia is a classic characteristic of fascist authoritarian movements. But another aspect of fascist and authoritarian movements is anti-intellectualism. They're against smart people who read books and do things. The whole attack on science that we're seeing at the universities, in CDC (the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), at the NIH (National Institutes of Health) — there's just this urge to take out the smart people, to take out the people who are hoity-toity, who they think look down on the people who vote for the fascist authoritarian. And it's part of the way that an authoritarian likes to divide people."
Conway didn't mince words when talking about the recent federal indictments of Trump foes.
US Attorney Boxwine Can’t Convict Her Way Out Of A Paper [SLOSH!] Ham Sandwich
We’ve been covering how grand juries all over the country have been looking at these cases and saying naaaaaaah on account of reasons of fuck off. All the cases are so stupid, if an ICE agent’s mouth is moving, they’re lying, and just, naaaaaaaah fuck off.
But Fox News idiot Jeanine Pirro in DC, now known as US Attorney Boxwine, she’s been getting creative, trying to find ways to subvert the normal grand jury process, and she’s managed to get an indictment through here and there. (She seems very bad at her job, on any other planet a US attorney who doesn’t get every indictment through would be fired for incompetence. But incompetence is the calling card of MAGA, so!)
One particularly hilarious case was that of Sidney Lori Reid, who allegedly (didn’t) assaulted (nope) an FBI agent named Eugenia Bates (table of SHUT UP, party of YOU).
Boxwine just kept going to grand juries to try to get them to indict Reid. THREE GRAND JURIES told her to fuck off. So she reduced it to a misdemeanor. (Here are the 'facts' of the case, according to liars.)
AND YESTERDAY a regular old jury said naaaaaaaah fuck off to even that misdemeanor.
That’s right, a terrible, horrible, no good, very hilarious acquittal! It took them less than two hours.
As Marcy Wheeler explains, the trial against Reid was a clownshow and a shitshow. The DOJ didn’t want Reid, who was filming ICE thuggery when she allegedly assaulted (didn’t assault) Bates, to be able to introduce all the evidence they had that showed that Reid didn’t do the thing they said Reid did."
There's more. Read it.
Is This What the Next Generation of GOP Leaders Sounds Like? Don’t Look Away...
The leaked messages show what happens when cruelty becomes political culture
"One message read, “Everyone who votes no is going to the gas chamber … Great, I love Hitler.” Another sneered, “Can we fix the showers? Gas chambers don’t fit the Hitler aesthetic.”
"These weren’t anonymous trolls lurking on the margins of the internet. They included elected officers of Republican youth organizations, embedded in party structures, cultivating power now.
If this is how the next generation of GOP leaders talks when they think nobody is listening, then the 'jokes' about gas chambers today are warnings about the police state tomorrow.
And if you think that’s alarmist, look around. Nearly sixty thousand human beings are currently locked away in ICE detention centers across the United States. Seven out of ten have never been convicted of a crime."
Denazification was the solution for them at the end of WWII.
Misery Seeks Company as Paranoia Strikes Deeper
"Fascism is Capitalism in Decay" — Lenin
"I think that soon, very soon, Trump will be replaced by J.D. Vance as POTUS. Furthermore, I think that was the plan all along. A shadowy group of people associated with Project 2025 had already figured out how to get Trump back in the White House, but they also knew by watching his antics during the 2024 campaign that he was bound to become a liability not long after regaining the presidency, with a little help from his friends, of course. The money from Elon Musk had been a big help, and untold numbers of other oligarchs also chipped in. And information was carefully released from several sources that might have been proven untrue, but never in a way that would reach or dissuade his faithful followers. And, for us most paranoid of people, there was the fear that the cabal behind Trump had already rigged the election ensuring victories in the key districts that would decide the contest in Trump’s favor. Paranoia was hard to dislodge among many of us who still believed the Russians had been instrumental in rigging a Trump win in 2016."
Then things will very rapidly decay!
‘Large Numbers’ of Trump Supporters Are Now Distancing Themselves From Him: Analysis
"A June Pew Research Center poll backs this up, with 48 percent of Americans saying Trump’s actions were worse than they expected, compared to just 20 percent who said they were better.
Blake noted that Trump’s long-standing habit of making extreme promises — and then sometimes not following through — gave supporters leeway to assume he might not act on his most provocative pledges. Now, as those promises are being realized, public reaction is shifting."
Texas AG Orders College To Expel Charlie Kirk Critics
"Go back to the place hell you came from." — Indecision, Lost Country
Abbott: I’m Sending Troops To “Antifa” No Kings Day
So they can start some riots and make him look precious!
"No Kings" means you too, "Hot Wheels."
Navy Holds Survivors From Latest “Drug Boat” Strike
Uh-oh! Trump didn't murder them all this time!
Trump: “They Refer To Me As A King, I’m Not A King”
Then stop acting as if you are!
Johnson: Tomorrow’s “Hate America Rally” Will Be Attended By “Antifa, Marxists, Anarchists, Pro-Hamas”
And you're going to kill as many of them as you can?
Why does this jerk hate America so?
'I’m federal': DHS agent arrested for DUI with kids in car demands to know if cop is 'Haitian'
The sheriff’s office reports two children — ages 7 and 9 — were inside Deiseroth’s vehicle. Deputies also smelled a "strong odor of alcohol" emanating from Deiseroth, who also misidentified his location and gave an erroneous travel direction, the agency added. Officers informed him that he was “about 100 miles off” from where he thought he was at the time of his confrontation with deputies.
Later, as Deiseroth was being loaded into a deputy’s patrol car, he shouted “I’m a f—— law enforcement, dude!”
“Then stop talking and sit in the back of the car and stop this,” an arresting officer said.
“No! I’m not going in there! Let me talk to your supervisor.” Deiseroth said.
“Don’t be a kid,” another officer said.
“G—— you guys!” Deiseroth snapped as he was maneuvered into the vehicle.
In the video, Deiseroth was unable to present identification confirming his employment with Homeland Security.
You mean they don't even have to carry an ID?
Trump approval rating tanks among 'economically sensitive' independents
More than the government shutdown, it's the economy that's affecting the president's plummeting approval, says the poll's Republican pollster.
“It is clear that the cost of living in Americans’ own personal lives is much more likely to be weighing them down about their economic confidence than the shutdown,” said Micah Roberts, partner at Public Opinion Strategies, the Republican pollster for the survey.
'Patent nonsense': Conservative slams MAGA for allowing Trump to 'flagrantly' lie to them
American Conservative managing editor Jude Russo recently slammed MAGA apologists giving cover to President Donald Trump’s lies over the military strikes on boats in the Caribbean Sea.
Writing in the American Conservative, Russo was particularly reproachful of an article by Juan Pablo Villasmil justifying Trump’s bid for regime change for the sake of “regional stability,” among other objectives.
“Well, all right. Lay aside whether ‘regional stability’ is really fostered by regime change … How about the fact that the administration is lying all the time about what we’re doing here?” argued Russo. “The White House has gone to extravagant lengths to avoid making its case to the public or even to Congress, or even just describing what it’s actually up to; it has put out patent nonsense about drug control and ‘determining’ that we are at war while it ratchets up force posture in the Caribbean.”
Russo railed at the ease with which Trump misleads his own voters.
Florida AG Brags To Moms For Liberty He’s Making It Possible To “Raise Our Kids In God’s Image”
Is that why Christianist Pastors get busted so often for molesting children? Asking for a friend.
'She's causing a lot of problems': Republican lawmakers dump profanity on Kristi Noem
“You would think a former member of Congress would have more f------ respect for the institution she used to serve in,” said one Republican lawmaker. “She’s causing a lot of problems.”
The failure continues.
Trump aims for one-party rule — and puts despotism at our doorstep
The president's ruthless consolidation of power is continuing unabated
But the results will not be what he expects.
How Kristi Noem became the face of Donald Trump’s police state
Kristi Noem's DHS propaganda campaign depends on costumes, ICE raids — and Corey Lewandowski
DC Jury Acquits “Lib Tard” Who Was Filming ICE Arrest
"First, three grand juries no-billed the case. Pirro charged it as a misdemeanor Information anyway. Then, the government unsuccessfully tried to exclude evidence that damaged their case and the credibility of their primary 'victim,' FBI Agent Eugenia Bates.
That she called Reid a 'lib tard.' That she declared 'I sacrificed life and limb for the mission. I think it’s worth a trump coin,' after the incident.
This is intellectually disabled!
Hackers Dox Hundreds Of DHS, ICE, DOJ Officials
Wanna know if your neighbor works for ICE?
Sec. Brain Worm: Today’s Average American Teenager Has “50% Of The Sperm Count Of A 65-Year Old Man”
He's full of bullshit, as usual.
U.S. Fertility rate.
Chamber Of Commerce Sues Over $100,000 Visa Fee
Trump is an imbiclie.
Multiple GOP Offices Were Sent “Swastika” Flags
Nothing but filthy swine!
Trump: “Left Over” Ballroom Money Will Pay For Arch
Really? I'm pretty sure that will stay in his pocket, suckers.
The egomaniac will next attempt to build the Tower of Babel.
Brewers Fan Struck Out After Saying 'Call ICE' To Latino LA Fan
Shannon Kobylarczyk, a Brewers fan, learned the hard way that being a racist Karen can be costly.
Trump's EPA Cancelled Flood Protection Grant In Alaska
And Alaska is now airlifting hundreds from storm-ravaged coastal villages, with one dead and two missing.
"The remote village of Kipnuk had planned to use the money from the EPA to protect itself from flooding, but that money was cancelled by the Trump administration. On Sunday, the entire village was underwater.
But this is what happens when you put irresponsible people in positions of responsibility in the federal government."
Trump hates America!
'How about an apology?' Baby boomers blamed for Trump-era woes in blistering NYT op-ed
Here's an example of the blame game that's not correct. Some boomers may fit this but not as much as others. I am not of the boomber gen. The comment below tells the truth.
"They're wrong about Trump. His being a boomer is arbitrary. He was born a millionaire whose mother hated him, and his father was a racist sociopath. He grew up in private schools where he practiced his cruelty and social pathology. Mentored by a slimy gay self hating lawyer.
Its not boomers, but the greatest generation guy Ronald Reagan who oversaw the now assured destruction of the Great Society (that's what you are talking about)
Just cut out the blaming BS and help get this regime tossed on the shitheap" — OrangeGina (comments
'Not a good look': How the Trump family’s 'culture of corruption' is staggering
Chips off the old rotting crime block!
The 2026 Election Is Being Decided at the Supreme Court
A case heard Wednesday will go a long way to determining whether Republicans can gerrymander their way to a near-permanent House majority.
Caution: Crooks at work.
Trump’s Latest Caribbean Strike “Murder — Plain and Simple,” Amnesty Says
"The Trump administration has covertly authorized the CIA to conduct lethal operations in Venezuela, reporting says, as Amnesty International USA condemns the administration’s latest strike as 'murder.'
The New York Times reported Wednesday that the Trump administration has given the CIA the authorization to 'carry out lethal operations in Venezuela,' including operations to undermine Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, and other operations in the Caribbean."
The criminal mind does not give a fuck about law.
Anti-Fascism Scholar Who Fled US After Death Threats Discusses MAGA’s Fascism
"We speak with Rutgers University professor Mark Bray, who fled from the U.S. to Spain with his family after receiving death threats over his scholarship. He is the author of the 2017 book Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook, which explores the history and tactics of anti-fascist movements in Europe, the United States and beyond."
Pentagon And Troops Better Watch Pete Hegseth Prance And Preen For The Generals, OR ELSE!
"Update on two stories about Pete Hegseth AKA Secretary Shitfaced, which have come together to remind us all what an incompetent, weak and sad dipshit is running the Department of Defense of the United States of America.
First of all, they went through with it. Major Weenus’s deadline came and went, and no networks had signed his Nazi fascist journalism pledge besides One America News — his former employers at Fox News ended up joining all the mainstream networks to tell him to fuck himself — therefore they all had to turn in their press passes, and now there is no Pentagon Press Corps.
(But take heart, Pete! Ginormous bootlicking loser Mollie Hemingway, editor of The Federalist, says they’re going to sign it. That’s right, all your stories from inside the Pentagon brought to you by the assorted clownpubes who work at OAN and The Federalist. Eat your heart out, Murrow!)
Anyway, it sucks that real reporters won’t be allowed in the Pentagon anymore, but with that little tyrant loser fluffing himself and calling himself the secretary of WARRRR, they’re making the gamble that if they work hard enough, the story will keep coming to them, press passes or no press passes. (The Guardian has a good piece on the challenges ahead, with lots of quotes from members of the press corps.)
And hey, speaking of the stories finding their ways out of the Pentagon walls and getting to journalists, remember that pathetic speech Shitfaced gave where he summoned all the country’s generals (who outrank him) to Quantico so he could prancercise around the stage and talk about the proper way to do hair?
Well, prepare to laugh at it some more, because apparently Secretary I’m-A-Big-Kid-Now, the one with the hilarious pull-ups, is prancercising around the Pentagon and demanding everybody verify that they have watched the video of his loser self-sucking speech.
THERE WILL BE A QUIZ!"
Are the Streets of Chicago Showing Us the Future of American Democracy?
When federal agents turn weapons on citizens, it’s not just a local scandal — it’s a national reckoning.
"Yesterday, here in Chicago, where I am today, America caught a glimpse of its possible future, and it was terrifying. Federal agents, dressed like soldiers and armed with the weapons of war, rammed a civilian vehicle on 105th Street, using a maneuver outlawed by Chicago police, and then fired tear gas into a crowd of bystanders and local officers.
The air filled with smoke and screams as parents fled with babies in their arms, teenagers were slammed to the pavement, and a young girl was struck in the head by a gas canister. One boy was detained for hours, denied his rights, his family left in the dark.
This was not a foreign regime or some distant “law-and-order” fantasy. It was an American city, in broad daylight, and it looked more like a militarized crackdown in a third-world dictatorship than traditional American law enforcement."
The is not America but a disaster area created by Trump. We'd better change this soon or the country won't be a fit place to live any longer.
Goldman Sachs Says Gen Z Is Pretty Much Permanently Screwed
"But at the moment, prospects for that new technological epoch look dim. AI is far from the golden goose business executives assumed it would be, failing at 95 percent of the companies that roll it out. After betting the farm on AI to automate its workers, company after company has eaten crow, either being forced to hire back their workers, or scrap their AI programs in favor of outsourced labor."
The AI sadz takes over.
Nancy Pelosi Tells Lindell TV Talking Blonde To Shut Up
"Why so many people are too stupid to know the truth? That's what the American people want to know. Like they're fed disinformation by the Lindell network and by all these other right wing networks. Media like this lie like that.," he said.
"Mika, how these lies become truth. In part, they become truth because more Democrats don't do what Nancy Pelosi just did right there. The lies are everywhere on the far right, and they're all around January 6th. The lies continue."
Telling them to "Shut up" is the least you can do to a lying Nazi dumbass.
The Nazis are shitting their pants over Nancy telling "a reporter" with no name, who is playing "the lying accusation question."
Apparently, she's so "intellectually disabled" she no longer knows shit from applebutter.
MAGA Mike Had A Freudian Slip, And It's A Whopper
"Johnson's list of his party's principles is utter bullshit. Tell the immigrants who are living legally in the U.S. about that. Trump's big, hideous bill ends SNAP eligibility for many of them. As for the "rule of law," the leader of the Republican Party is a felon, and Trump's little Johnson is covering for pedophiles by not releasing the Epstein Files. That's because he knows Trump is in them. Epstein had 14 phone numbers for Donald Trump in his black book of contacts."
And they follow Nazi tenets!
We Can't Imagine How A Swastika Ended Up In A MAGA Rep's Office
"An investigation has been launched after an American flag altered to include a swastika was spotted while on a Zoom call inside the office of Ohio Republican Rep. Dave Taylor. 'I am aware of an image that appears to depict a vile and deeply inappropriate symbol near an employee in my office,' Taylor said. 'The content of that image does not reflect the values or standards of this office, my staff, or myself, and I condemn it in the strongest terms.' And Taylor doesn't even look like a Young Republican."
But you continue to follow its tenets!
Trump Gears Up The IRS To Attack Left Wing Nonprofits
"In case you ever wondered what it was like to live under an authoritarian regime, this is it. Yambo World is preparing sweeping changes at the IRS that would allow the agency to pursue criminal inquiries of left-leaning groups more easily, according to people familiar with the matter."
Totalitarianism at its worst. Illegal as hell!
Judge snaps at Trump's DOJ: 'You're not even prepared'
Failure after failure!
New OK Schools Chief Drops Bible Lessons Mandate
Reason has survived in almost OK state.
NBC News Eliminates Minority Reporting Teams
More American cowards turning our nation into hell.
US Passport Plummets In Annual “Power” Ranking
Trump has made America garbage to the free world!
Everything Trump touches dies.
Alabama School For At-Risk LGBTQ Youth Allowed To Keep State Contract After Removing Pro-LGBTQ Policies
Bama doesn't support the Declaration of Independence?
Cowardly and superstitious scaredy cats in The Land of the Happy Negro!
New Orleans Priest Charged With Serial Child Rape
"A former New Orleans priest has been arrested in connection with the alleged serial rape, beginning in 2004, of a child with disabilities. Mark Ford, 65, was booked into the Orleans Justice Center this week on counts of first-degree rape, second-degree kidnapping, sexual battery and indecent behavior with juveniles."
Another one bites the dust.
GA Reading Bowl Banned Eight Books, Including One On Book Bans
Fortunately, some students are fighting back.
The intellectually disabled want to spread their failure on the rest of us.
They can fuck all the way off.
Trump isn't aging well and there's a obvious reason why
"Even though we’re almost the same age, Trump has one big health problem I don’t have: his hatefulness."
He has it in spades.
Resigning colonel explains why he 'gave up' his military career after Trump’s Pentagon speech
"And I believed our presidents took their oaths to it seriously," he added.
“With President Trump, I no longer believe that,” he said. “During his first term, his actions became increasingly difficult for me to justify, culminating with the Jan. 6 attack on Congress as it tried to execute its duties. I hoped he had learned from those errors, but it only took a few days of his second term for me to realize he had not. I could not swear without reservation to follow a commander in chief who seemed so willing to disregard the Constitution.”
Why would any American want to work for a Nazi?
Charlie Kirk Hypocrisy Day In Wisconsin
"It quickly became obvious that despite the resolution they were trying to pass, the Republicans had in no way internalized any of it."
Mike Johnson Kills Free Speech: 'Protesting Trump Means You Hate America'
He is unaware of our Constituion and is not defending it. This disqualifies him to work in our government.
Missouri Unaware Of Separation Of Church And State
Many are unaware or simply ignore.
Lawyer Gets Caught Using AI in Court, Responds in the Worst Possible Way
"What is it with lawyers and AI? We don’t know, but it feels like an inordinate number of them keep screwing up with AI tools, apparently never learning from their colleagues who get publicly crucified for making the same mistake.
But this latest blunder from a New York attorney, in a lawsuit centered on a disputed loan, takes the cake. As 404 Media reports, after getting caught using AI by leaving in hallucinated quotes and citations in his court filings, defense lawyer Michael Fourte then submitted a brief explaining his AI usage -- which was also written with a large language model.
Needless to say, the judge was not amused."
Gee, I wonder what we would call this guy — a "genius?"
Why Are Airport Managers Risking Their Jobs to Air GOP Propaganda?
Kristi Noem’s shutdown blame-game video could cost them fines and their livelihood
"Federal law — the Hatch Act — makes it a crime, punishable by fines and loss of current and future employment, to use government facilities or taxpayer money for partisan political purposes. Yet Noem, who has earned her national reputation as a puppy-killer and by cosplaying 'tough cop' with her alleged boyfriend (they’re both married to other people), has pushed out a video to airports across the country blaming Democrats for the current shutdown."
"This isn’t just a violation of federal law; it’s also a bald-faced lie."
Thom, don't you know we don't enforce the Hatch Act any longer. Or any other law for that matter.
Hello, God. Please Hold for a Call from President Trump.
..."As far as we’ve been permitted to know, no one on that Faith Council is known to be on President Trump’s enemies’ list yet and his patience with them isn’t likely due to them not hectoring him to get right with God. It could be, however, that these faith hustlers see a juicy reward for telling an addled old man who just happens to have the keys to Fort Knox all kinds of fairy tales that can come true if he only opens the vault for them. As many people know, those who do the Lord’s work can get on the nerves of people they pester, but it appears that having lost the Nobel Peace Prize which Trump had planned to use as his ticket of admission to heaven, he’s now placing his bets with Paula Cain-White, Franklin Graham and legions of other sales agents for Christ to get him over the pearly gates and onto his own private cloud."
"You must pick one or the other, though neither of them are to be what they claim." — Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues - Bob Dylan
MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell Slashes Trump Over Secret ‘I Love Hitler’ Chat for Not Firing Participant
That's because Hitler is second to him already.
New Hampshire AG: Man Violated State Civil Rights Laws By Stealing “Pedophile Symbol” Local Pride Sign
Did he just want it to display it on his front door?
Buyers Of Trump Watches Rage They Were Scammed
If they bought one they already didn't know what time it was! LMAO!
China Is Racing Ahead in EV Sales as US Retreats From the Industry
As always when the retarded get control of progress.
Scott Bessent Gaslights Charlie Kirk Listeners, Says Osama Bin Laden Only 'Captured'
And he's had plastic surgery and is now on Trump's staff?
"The MAGA cult blames Antifa for actual Americans protesting against a sick and deteriorating narcissist trying to turn the US into a dictatorship and fascist state.
In almost the same breath, Bessent then tries to tie the murder of Charlie Kirk to the left and Antifa -- again, not organized, just people opposed to fascism -- which is absurd."
But only to people who still have brains that work.
Advocacy Orgs Launch Ad Campaign to Defend Healthcare in Face of Shutdown
"This week, a coalition of public interest organizations: Public Citizen, Indivisible, MoveOn, Fair Share America, People for the American Way, American Federation of Teachers, SEIU, National Education Association, and Working Families Power launched a new ad campaign in Axios’s Hill Leaders newsletter urging Congress to stand firm in defense of health care even as the Trump administration launches cruel and wholly unnecessary firings above and beyond traditional shutdown furloughs. The ads will appear in every issue of the newsletter this week."
..."The ad launch is part of a broader initiative by the sponsoring organizations and others to demand Congress agree on a budget plan that protects health care from Trump administration cuts and prevents Trump from simply refusing to spend duly appropriated funds."
Mark this article readGOP blasted for 'sacrilegious' and 'probably illegal' plan to mint Trump 'as the chosen one'
"Columnist Theodore R. Johnson called out President Donald Trump’s “sacrilegious campaign to put his name on everything” pertaining to America, including a proposed $1 coin.
“If the Treasury Department gets its way, … Trump will make history as just the second living president to have his face minted,” Johnson told the Washington Post, adding that the proposed $1 coin would be struck in time for the nation’s 250th anniversary next year. Draft designs show the president with a full head of hair on the front and the president pumping his fist in front of a billowing American flag on the back.
“It’s probably illegal,” said Johnson. “Existing law only permits deceased people’s portraits on United States currency. The specific statute governing next year’s milestone also stipulates that 'no portrait of a living person' can be on the back of the special edition coins."
Just one of the ways they try to get votes from the "Evangelical Right" that are largest carriers of deadly weapons in the country.
Who uses coins any longer? Coin collectors? In fact, who uses cash any longer?
'Careful what they wish for': Why MAGA’s 'unhinged' effort to 'villainize' Trump foe will backfire
"During a Wednesday, October 8 panel discussion at University College London in England, former special counsel Jack Smith discussed his two criminal cases against Donald Trump. And he pushed back against MAGA claims that the indictments were politically motivated but was vehemently critical of the direction the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has taken under Attorney General Pam Bondi.
Smith told attendees it was 'ludicrous' to claim that he went after Trump for political reasons in 2023 and 2024 but had no kind words about the Bondi-era DOJ.
The former special counsel explained, 'I worked in the department for years — Republican, Democrat, Republican. I was the acting U.S. attorney in the first Trump administration in Tennessee. Nothing like what we see now has ever gone on. This case in New York City, where the case against (New York City Mayor Eric Adams) was dismissed in the hopes that he would support the president's political agenda. I mean, just so you know, nothing like it has ever happened that I've ever heard of.'"
Former special counsel reveals 'tons of evidence' on Trump
That's why Trump doesn't want it to get to a court of law.
Trump admin slammed for using ethnic cleaning euphemism: ‘Wannabe Nazis’
"Wannabe?" They are pure Nazis. Make no mistake!
John Roberts is slowly dismantling America
Twenty years of the Roberts Court has wreaked shocking damage. Is the Voting Rights Act next?
MAGA’s fake Super Bowl halftime show reveals their real failures
Turning Point USA's followers are pitifully out-of-touch with pop culture
Strictly L7!
Bondi: Antifa Is No Different Than MS-13 Or Any Gang
There is no chaos in Portland except that which is caused by Bondi and Trump.
Protesting fascisim is pure American, Spam! You, on the other hand, are aiding and abbeting terrorism!
Trump hires only insane creatures.
GOP Rep: Russia Will Give Me Files On Who Killed JFK
Yet another idiot.
Fox Military Analyst Condemns Pentagon Press Limits
“What they’re really doing, they want to spoon-feed information to the journalists, and that will be their story. That’s not journalism. Journalism is going out and finding the story and getting all the facts that support it. And no one’s going to walk in and bang on a door of a four-star general or senior civilian policy leader in the Pentagon."...
So far only one "news" outlet has singned on to this bullshit: "One America," the one with the MAGAt Nazi logo.
Jack Smith Roasts Trump Admin In Rare Interview
“I think the attacks on public servants, particularly nonpartisan public servants — I think it has a cost for our country that is incalculable, and I think that we — it’s hard to communicate to folks how much that is going to cost us,” Smith said in an interview last week with former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissman at University College London Faculty of Laws, where Weissman is a visiting professor.
In his interview with Weissman, Smith warned of threats to the independence of the judiciary, saying judges and prosecutors “should not be thinking of their jobs as popularity contests.”
"Jordan needs to get on back on the porch. Jack Smith will send that skanky little bitch running for the locker room..." — Luke - my beautiful Luke (comments)
Busted: Trump official revealed rampant corruption before the president fired him
"Former Federal Trade Commission member Alvaro Bedoya told the New Republic that he encountered extensive finagling of government systems and the free market before President Donald Trump fired him this year."
How shocking! /S
'Do you like kids?' Epstein victim recounts Trump Mar-a-Lago meeting in new bombshell book
"Vanity Fair magazine has published an exclusive excerpt of the forthcoming memoir of the late Virginia Giuffre, a victim of late Jeffrey Epstein, whom she met while working at President Donald Trump's Palm Beach country club."
'That world has been unraveling': How the Trump era has ended shame
"Social psychiatrist Eric Reinhart tells the Bulwark that shame has lost its power among the U.S. population, and that’s going to look ugly very fast.
Shame is necessary for the possibility of a democratic society, Reinhart said. It helps enforce ethical norms that allow mixed societies to function without resorting to violence.
Nowhere was this failure more indicative, said Reinhart, than in the widespread attempts to play down or ignore MAGA influencer Charlie Kirk’s targeting of vulnerable groups and 'helping to build a movement that has openly embraced authoritarian violence.'"
'My body is a little bit larger than' Biden’s: Here are 5 wild moments from Trump’s presser
No shit?
1. Trump angrily attacked ABC News reporter.
When an ABC News reporter tried to ask Trump a question, he angrily responded, "After what you did with (George) Stephanopoulos to the vice president of the United States, I don't take questions from ABC Fake News."
Trump was referring Stephanopoulos' interview with Vice President JD Vance, which went downhill fast when Vance refused to directly answer a question about border Czar Tom Homan.
2. Trump chastised 'nasty' Stephanopoulos for Vance interview.
Trump went into detail about Stephanopoulos' interview with Vance, telling reporters, "JD had a very nasty person interviewing him, and we can't let that happen. It's just inappropriate to cut off a highly respected vice president of the United States, mid-sentence. I guess it's one way to win an argument."
3. Trump joked about visiting the beach in South America.
When a reporter asked Trump if he wanted to visit Argentina, he joked about his weight and responded, "My body is a little bit larger than [former President Joe Biden’s]. I'm not sure it would be appreciated on the beach."
4. Trump vowed to keep supporting Argentina.
When a reporter asked Trump for his message to Argentina, he responded, "We love them. We will be there for them."
5. Trump praised Argentina president as a 'very great leader.'
Trump has had volatile relations with some of the United States' allies, including Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (who he berated during one White House meeting but was much friendlier to during a subsequent one). Trump, however, didn't hesitate to praise Milei on October 14. When a reporter asked for his views on the right-wing Argentine president, he praised him as a "very great leader."
OpenAI unveils “wellness” council; suicide prevention expert not included
Gosh, is that necessary anymore? /S
OpenAI in Danger After Authors Suing It Gain Access to Its Internal Slack Messages
"Last month, AI company Anthropic agreed to a blockbuster $1.5 billion settlement after being caught red-handed training its models on an enormous cache of pirated versions of copyrighted books and other material.
Now, a similar lawsuit aimed at ChatGPT maker OpenAI has taken a dramatic turn, raising the possibility of yet another major legal escalation regarding AI-facilitated copyright infringement — and a potentially much bigger payout to rightsholders.
Specifically, authors and publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages and emails discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset, Bloomberg reports. A New York district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion last week."
Corruption and crime that Trump ignores while he attacks American cities for no reason but his arrogance.
ICE Agents Are Using “Inhumane” Full-Body Restraint
"U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have been using a full-body restraint device called the WRAP during deportations. The Associated Press spoke to a number of people who said they were placed in the device after they had already been shackled. The manufacturer says the device is intended for violent individuals, but detainees claim it is used to intimidate or punish them.
ICE’s use of the WRAP has continued despite safety concerns expressed two years ago by a watchdog division of its parent agency, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. A DHS spokesperson says ICE’s use of the restraints is 'fully in line with established legal standards.' Referred to as 'the burrito' or 'the bag,' the WRAP has become a harrowing part of deportations for some immigrants.
The failure, Kristi Noem is responsible.
Bombshell report reveals leaked GOP chat filled with racist jokes and rape fantasies
A treasure trove of leaked Telegram chats among the leadership of the Young Republicans exposed a mixture of racist comments, rape fantasies, and suggestions on how to drive their opponents to suicide.
According to a bombshell report from Politico’s Jason Beeferman and Emily Ngo, there were jokes about “loving Hitler,” how to construct gas chambers, with one woman, Annie Kaykaty, New York’s national committeewoman, chiming in with, “I’m ready to watch people burn now.”
The Hitler Youth shows its ass again.
'Embarrassing cowards’: Analyst says AOC’s Trump aide takedown exposed how to attack MAGA
“People talk about this toxic masculinity. Let’s put that to the side for just one second—this is about insecure masculinity, and one of the best ways that you can dismantle a movement of insecure men is by making fun of them,” the author writes.
She also emphasizes that Miller deserves ridicule.
"Few people in American politics are as deserving of condemnation and mockery as Miller. He was the impetus behind Donald Trump’s family-separation policy. He has been pushing the outrageous claim that left-leaning groups are 'domestic terrorist organizations,' a lie (domestic terrorist organization also is not a legitimate legal designation) that seems to be a pretext for bringing the full force of the federal government down on Trump’s political opponents. It is truly difficult to overstate how authoritarian, dark, and dangerous Miller’s politics are, and how much sway he maintains over the president."
He Studies Fascism. Is He Now Living Through It?
Please read this to see how the Stupid Virus is destroying lives in our country.
Only One Network Has Signed Hegseth's Knob-Slobbing Journalist Pledge, Three Guesses
"Quick, imagine a world where Newsmax has a legitimate claim to sneering downward at One America News from a journalistic perspective. Well, you don’t have to, because that world is now.
Newsmax, with its Trump-loving CEO and that weird bonkers creep Greg Kelly having his conniptions about 'Da Bunny' at the Super Bowl and that other racist bootlicker scumbag loser, plus the network’s paid settlements for lying about voting machines, IT CAN STILL NONETHELESS stand proud this morning above One America News and its stable of on-air talent that looks like it’s having surgery to resemble a cartoon version of Liberace’s boyfriend. And it can say, 'Hey, we might be Donald Trump’s loyal little pissboys, but at least we are not OAN.'
And they would be correct!
Because you know who is the only news organization — 'news' organization — that has agreed to sign on to Pete Hegseth’s Masculine Insecurity Pledge at the Pentagon, the one where journalists have to promise they won’t write anything about the military or the Department of Defense Microdick that wasn’t psersonally scribed and approved by Secretary Shitfaced himself? THE ONLY?"
MAGA Manbabies Getting REAL Scared Of ‘No Kings’ Day, Y’all
"You know, anti-American stuff, the kind you designate as 'extremism' or 'domestic terrorism' if you’re a coward and a racist, bigoted loser without the power of persuasion in your toolkit. You know, if you’re the type of person whose fans stormed and attacked the US Capitol in 2020 because their anuses were hurt over Joe Biden beating their Daddy’s ass and hard.
That’s the type of person who might be upset about this weekend’s No Kings rallies all over the country.
Also people who can’t seem to convince Americans that the government shutdown is Democrats’ fault, and who can’t persuade them all to just lie down and enjoy the brutality when Trump sends the Gestapo to attack American cities and kidnap, beat, and disappear their friends and neighbors. Whose fed thugs beat and sexually assault protesters, because those fed thugs are basically indistinguishable from rapists anyway.
Yes, golly, we can see how these men would be upset about this weekend’s No Kings rallies.
This clip has already gotten a lot of play, but we should watch it over and over again because House Speaker Mike Johnson is just the exact archetype for what a white Christian pervert sack of shit loser coward the typical MAGA Republican man is. Watch him HOW VERY DARE YOU! the idea of protesters coming to Washington to, you know, protest. Watch him lie about imaginary 'Antifa' hordes. Watch him bellyache about “an outrageous event for outrageous purposes!” Outrageous! Just outrageous! Mike Johnson’s microdick God didn’t give permission for this!
'All this has gotta come to an end,' he whined. What? The ability of the American people to look at these sad sacks of shit and say 'No, I don’t want any of what they’re having?' That’s what he calls the 'hate America rally.' No, buddy, we’re doing this because we love America and don’t want to abandon it to the literal worst people God ever made when His cat jumped on the 3D human printer and made all the intelligent designs go squirrely.
Find a bag of Daddy issues and suck on it, dude."
The Fourth Branch: How Conscience and Civic Vigilance May Save the Republic
..."Benjamin Franklin’s warning—“A republic, if you can keep it”—has never been more urgent. Its keepers are often neither powerful nor celebrated, but those whose acts are small, disciplined, and principled. Acting as the lymphocytes, macrophages, and antibodies of the body politic, they preserve democratic health when governance structures fail. The individuals of the fourth branch embody resilience, restoring the Republic not through office or ceremony, but through conscience, vigilance, and mindful, ethical action. We may never know all their names, yet we may still sense their impact—and feel gratitude for it."
The Brutality Is the Message: Why America’s Violence Against Immigrants Isn’t About Immigration.
Every raid, every body slammed to the pavement, is a public ritual meant to teach us obedience. The goal isn’t enforcement — it’s submission
The sickness that pervades our land.
Johnson Defiant On Swearing In New Dem Rep
This is sto protect our Criminal-in-Chief as long as possible.
GOP Senator Wants National Guard At No Kings Day
"And then October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros-paid-for protest, where his professional protesters show up."
No one will be paying me to show up, King worshiping coward.
"Jesus fuck dude. Just because you won't wipe your own ass if you're not paid for it, doesn't mean that everybody else is motivated by getting paid to do something." -- KarlDubhe IV (comments)
"You motherfuckers have James O'Keefe and you haven't produced one single fucking Soros check pay stub?
Will you fuck ALL the way off with this?" — Eli Bradley (comments)
"Projection. All the right wing groups are astroturf. All of them. They are all funded by billionaires. Few if any of the right wing media would be able to meet payroll next Friday without that funding. There's little such funding on the left or even center left (or center right for that matter). That's why they are obsessed with Soros (besides the obvious antisemitism in making him their bogeyman)...it's to distract from the dozens of fascist billionaires who do everything they claim Soros is doing." — Uncle Mark - Taste My Rainbow (comments)
TiVo has discontinued its DVR boxes
The set-top device that revolutionized television is no more.
Greedy corporations love to rip off the public and it must be stopped.
"The TiVo box revolutionized television upon its launch in 1999, allowing viewers to pause, rewind and record live television. There was a time when you would just miss the start of a show if you weren’t punctual, and you’d have to sync grabbing a snack with a commercial during the big game. You also had to actually watch the commercials, something that is unfortunately making a comeback with an increase in ad-supported streaming." (That we pay for!)
Anyone recall when the slow U.S finally caught up to cable TV there were no ads on it because, DUH!, it was PAY TV! It sill is but we pay for as damn many commercials as we do entertainment! Something is VERY FUCKING WRONG WITH THIS!
Swing-state Republicans will help Trump rig the midterms
The Trump Crime Syndicate is set to erase free electons in the U.S.
Inherently Corrupting’: Obama Rips Trump’s Military Deployment In Chicago
"Former President Barack Obama tore into President Donald Trump‘s attempts to use the military in American cities, saying that democracy is being 'weakened deliberately.' Obama cited Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops into Chicago, arguing that a president sending U.S. troops into American cities 'against their own people' is 'inherently corrupting,' and he's not wrong. All of this is deliberate."
“It wasn’t controversial for me to go to other countries and say, ‘You know what? It’s a good idea for militaries to be under civilian control,’ because when you have military that can direct force against their own people, that is inherently corrupting,” Obama said on Marc Maron’s 'WTF' podcast released Monday."
"The former president further said the Trump administration is attempting 'what looks like a deliberate end run around' the law that bars the military from being used for civilian policing. 'That is a genuine effort to weaken how we have understood democracy,' Obama said."br>
“'If I had sent in the National Guard into Texas and just said, ‘You know what? A lot of problems in Dallas, a lot of crime there, and I don’t care what Gov. Abbott says, I’m going to kind of take over law enforcement, because I think things are out of control,’ it is mind-boggling to me how Fox News would have responded,'"Obama said.
“We don’t want masked folks with rifles and machine guns patrolling our streets,” Obama added. “We want cops on the beat who know the neighborhood and the kids around, and that’s how we keep the peace around here.”
At least that's the way American used to do it before Trump's Gestapo took over!
John Oliver Rips Into Bari Weiss, New Head Of CBS News
The Peter Principal is at work here.
Hey Eric Trump, Your Pants Are On Fire
"Eric Trump claimed that Jack Smith intentionally planted manila folders in the office of his father at Mar-A-Lago during the initial FBI raid, even though Smith was not part of any searches and was not appointed Special Counsel until months later.
In the MAGA cult, all grievances are welcome and all lies are embraced. The other son of Donald Trump wrote a book and was on the show of Fox News' resident weekend ingrate, Mark Levin, to make unfounded claims and outright lies to play the grieving victims.
Here's a question an actual TV host with dignity would ask. How could Jack Smith plant evidence in Mar-A-Lago before the FBI raided the Trump club, when he wasn't a member of the FBI and wasn't appointed until months later as a Special Counsel?
The calendar alone proves Eric is lying. The search warrant at Mar-A-Lago was executed on August 8, 2022. Merrick Garland did not appoint Jack Smith to the Office of Special Counsel until November 18, 2022. And Jack Smith worked remotely from the Netherlands until January of 2023."
Poor Eric. If he'd only learn to keep his mouth shut there's a chance he would stop admitting he's a criminal like his old man.
SCOTUS To Alex Jones: Pay The $1.4 Billion Defamation Judgment, Loser
It takes a vile individual to torment the parents of slaughtered children.
"Alleged human Alex Jones despicably tormented and profited from the Sandy Hook families by promoting false conspiracy theories that claimed the elementary school massacre in 2012 was a hoax. As a result of Jones's grifting lies, his followers then stalked, harassed, and sent death threats to the victims' relatives. But he doesn't want to pay the $1.4 billion judgment against him for damages to the families of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre."
Aha! So. SCOTUS DOES have a moral center? You could have fooled me.
Mullin: No Kings Protesters Are “Deranged” Haters
Mullin proves one of the following:
1. He's shilling for the Trump Crime Syndicate
2. He's really lost touch with reality.
3. Or he's another damned Nazi!
More people will be protesting because of moronic statements such as this.
Hegseth Crows About Removing Overweight Troops
Texas fails again!
Letitia James Gives Fiery Speech At Mamdani Rally
Kick Trump in his tiny balls!
'Buy As Much As You Can': MAGA Reporter Records Commercial From Inside White House
A correspondent who supports President Donald Trump was allowed to record a commercial inside the White House.
The degradation of a once great country.
'Confused' and 'befuddled' Trump told to sit back down because it wasn’t his turn to speak
Ohana, they write, "gently put his hand on Trump’s left arm, to remind him that the opposition leader, Yair Lapid, was up next, leaving Trump looking slightly befuddled as he could be heard exclaiming, 'Oh.'"
Ohana then told Trump, "You're the last speaker."
Last month, psychologists John Gartner and Harry Segal said on a podacst that the Trump's "recurring confusion, word slips, and meandering speech patterns are consistent with what they described as early cognitive decline."
Ticking time bomb: Warning as industries are on the brink of triggering economic collapse
" What happens when huge amounts of money pour into poorly understood and unregulated industries that promise spectacular profits for a few winners?
At best, some investors lose their shirts while the lucky ones make fortunes. At worst, the bubble bursts and takes everyone down with it — not just its investors, but the entire economy."
'Burn it all down': Critics fear 'head-spinning reversal' of key Supreme Court decision
Election rigging in Louisiana by the ultimate crime syndicate, SCOTUS.
Chris Christie: 'This Is No Longer The Department Of Justice'
..."She had the loan five years. You can't charge something somebody for something they would have gotten 30 years from now. If she sold the house, she wouldn't get the entire benefit of the lower mortgage rate. She would only get the amount she has owned the house, five years.
The standards in the Justice Department manual, as Sarah (Isgur) knows, would not have permitted us to bring this prosecution. Those things are being thrown away. It's too small amount of money to put federal resources on.
We know why this was done. It was done because Donald Trump told the Justice Department to prosecute Letitia James. and when the professionals there wouldn't do it, he put somebody in who would just follow his instructions, whose previous job was reviewing exhibits at the Smithsonian. So that's what's going on here.
Here is the difference between Trump and Trump One. I will say it more directly than Sarah did. This is no longer the Department of Justice. It's no longer the premier prosecuting office in America."
Laura Ingraham Thinks The USA Is Only MAGA
It is amazing how the retarded don't mind showing us just how retarded they are.
The Speaker of the House Is Abetting Authoritarianism
He Trump's Go-fer Nazi!
The More Scientists Work With AI, the Less They Trust It
Same as with Trump.
"Scientists are a skeptical bunch -- it’s in the job description. But when it comes to AI, researchers are growing increasingly mistrustful of the tech’s capabilities.
In a preview of its 2025 report on the impact of the tech on research, the academic publisher Wiley released preliminary findings on attitudes toward AI. One startling takeaway: the report found that scientists expressed less trust in AI than they did in 2024, when it was decidedly less advanced.
For example, in the 2024 iteration of the survey, 51 percent of scientists polled were worried about potential “hallucinations,” a widespread issue in which large language models (LLMs) present completely fabricated information as fact. That number was up to a whopping 64 percent in 2025, even as AI use among researchers surged from 45 to 62 percent."
Marine’s parents nabbed by ICE as they visited pregnant daughter on military base
The parents of a U.S. Marine in California were detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement last month while en route to visit their pregnant daughter. The father was deported Friday, NBC News reported.
Steve Rios, a U.S. Marine and resident of Oceanside, was traveling with his parents to Camp Pendleton to visit his sister who, along with her husband who’s also a U.S. Marine, is expecting her first child. The trio was stopped at the base’s entrance, however, when ICE agents detained Rios’ parents, who have no criminal history and have pending green card applications.
“I just kept on looking at my parents,” Rios told NBC News. “I didn't know if it would be the last time I'd see them.”
Rios immediately texted his sister, Ashley Rios, about the incident as it was taking place, the news of which saw her break down in tears.
“My brother texted me that they got stopped,” Ashley Rios said, speaking with NBC News. “And as soon as I heard that, I just started, like, bawling.”
Resist Trump and remove him!
'Cast aside to die': Miners slam Trump for breaking promises made to deep red states
"Coal miners feel betrayed by President Donald Trump for failing to enforce health regulations to prevent black lung disease.
Dozens of miners and their families will protest Tuesday outside the Labor Department building to call attention to the Trump administration's failure to enforce federal limits on carcinogenic silica dust, which has led to a recent spike in the disease among younger miners, reported the New York Times.
'The companies might be getting a handout, but the miners ain’t getting none,' said Gary Hairston, 71, a retired coal miner from West Virginia who is the president of the National Black Lung Association.
Hairston has been living with black lung disease since he was in his 40s. While once considered a disease of older miners, it's being diagnosed more and more among younger workers in their 30s and 40s."
Trump hasn't a clue.
Cervical cancer could be eradicated. But not with Medicaid cuts and anti-vax politics.
The cancer has a known path of prevention, but that also means it falls at the intersection of cultural issues that are facing strong political opposition.
The morons are sure we can go backward in time.
Donald Trump, 79, Skewered for Embarrassing Geographical Flub
Expert in Geography!
'Don’t say you weren’t warned': Trump openly defied by Israeli officials during visit
“Israel’s defense minister says the bombing will continue after they get their hostages back,” wrote British journalist and former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan in a social media post on Sunday. “Don’t say you weren’t warned.”
Counting chickens before they're hatched?
'Bombshell!' Ex-clerk to Clarence Thomas sends shockwaves with Supreme Court warning
"If most of what the federal government currently does on a daily basis is 'executive,' and if the President must have full control over each and every exercise of 'executive' power by the federal government (including an unlimitable ability to remove all or almost all executive officers for reasons good or bad), then the President has an enormous amount of power — more power, I think, than any sensible person should want anyone to have, and more power than any member of the founding generation could have anticipated," Nelson wrote.
“I am an originalist, and if the original meaning of the Constitution compelled this outcome," Nelson added, "I would be inclined to agree that the Supreme Court should respect it until the Constitution is amended through the proper processes."
You're forgetting, Trump is a dictator. SCOTUS acts as his janitorial service.
'He's a coward': Onlookers ridicule 'cranky' JD Vance after wild ABC interview
Comments on "Sluggo."
Ex-GOP lawmaker Joe Walsh said Vance "is a coward."
"He sold his soul for a seat of power. He sold his soul to someone he called 'Hitler' to advance his own career," Walsh wrote. "JD Vance is everything that’s wrong with our politics today."
Democratic influencer TheFrenchie chimed in: "He sold his soul. He has no honor or integrity. He will go down as the worst Vice President in America history. Do you agree?"
Analyst Tom Nichols said, "I'd write about Vance displacing Cruz as the person most deserving of the adjective 'oleaginous', but I'd just end up saying the same thing I said about him here," linking to his own article.
"I’m not sure he’s a coward, he’s more a very submissive self loathing severely repressed homosexual and his boyfriend hasn’t told him how to respond to that kind of questioning, so he flusters, panics, tries to act like an alpha male, and falls flat on his makeup painted face. Hegseth is much the same, although he prefers the macho look to the more feminine nature of VD Chance. Both are pathetically repressed, got some poor woman acting as a beard, both acting out with their behaviour. Why they persist is a mystery, it’s 2025, who cares, well in the grown up world people are like that, but in America you seem to want to regress to about the 1400s, so it’s time to stoke up the bonfire to n burn the unclean and the tainted.
As others have said, release the Trump-Epstein files!" — Eric T Cat (comments)
Vaccinations Plunge Among Texas Kindergarteners
The retarded are real! The wages of this will be a disaster.
"And when they get sick of preventable diseases, fewer hospitals, health care workers and higher premiums. Are we great yet?" — DaddySnark (comments)
Van Orden Fails To Help Veterans Then Blames Others
Many veterans in Rep Drunken Van Orden's district are now homeless because he refused to help them. Then DVO blames Governor Evers for his failure.
We will remember what you said, "Cue Ball!"
OMINOUS: Foreclosure Filings Spike 17% In Housing Market
Florida has been hit especially hard this year, with residents grappling with soaring insurance costs and homeowners association fees.
They're calling it a 'Hate America' rally
America well knows who the haters are. History won't remember MAGAt fascism as anything else!
"All Trump had going for him was his race baiting, which was just a ruse for him to take control of the nation, screw the average American out of services the oligarchs are rich enough not to use, and then take away our rights, so the oligarchs get complete control. Then the 99% become their slaves, having to die in the street because they can't afford to pay doctors, drug companies, and hospitals. MAGA must be put down like a rabid animal. They work against their own interests because they enjoy the cruelty Trump is dealing out. MAGA encompasses the worst of humanity. MAGA is destroying our rights and democracy." — newshero (comments)
'Morally perverse': Inside the 'shocking' way Trump 'minions' are trying to rewrite history
"'Insurrection,' 'invasion' — call it what you will, it was terrifying and unconscionable either way. And in a sane democracy, it would have ended Trump’s political career as Republican lawmakers barred the doors forevermore," Bruni says.
Republicans, Bruni says, used Bondi's hearing to prop President Donald Trump up, and to "pretty him up, to pamper and to please him, by misrepresenting federal investigators’ apparent examination of Republican lawmakers’ phone records from the period around Jan. 6 as the real scandal."
The campaign to rewrite history, Bruni says, is the most disturbing. "That morally perverse switcheroo was no accident and no one-off. It belongs to an audacious mission to turn Jan. 6 on its head — to erase the shame of it by interring the truth of it," he adds.
Trump's inability to "quit his victimhood," and his "justification for his vendettas," has, Bruni says, caused "his Republican abettors and the MAGA faithful to think and talk differently about Jan. 6"
Alarm raised as Trump undertakes a controversial MAGA-centric makeover of US civics education
Trump Nazi trash fucking around with us in a perverse and sick manner.
America is gearing up to put an end to this bullshit!
De Niro Blasts Trump In “No Kings Day” Promo
The cowardly shitbags that are portraying this protest as terrorism are nothing more than stinking, rotten Nazi scum.
If they start shooting American citizens it will bring nothing but mayhem and madness.
Remove Trump!
Jordan: ICE Agents Are “Doing The Lord’s Work”
He means "The Lord of Darkness."
'Roadblock': Watergate prosecutor flags 'death knell' of DOJ's indictments of Trump foes
"To ensure that Comey and James would be indicted, Trump appointed a new U.S. Attorney, Lindsey Halligan, who blindly followed Trump’s orders to indict. Halligan, an insurance lawyer, was never a prosecutor, has no understanding of federal criminal law and is clueless about how to formulate federal criminal charges," the attorney wrote. "Based on the judge’s reasoning, Comey and James should be able to pursue a highly aggressive defense and take testimony from all those who participated in or are knowledgeable about the bogus decision to indict them, subpoena relevant documents and present the results in a public hearing."
Trump is shooting himself with this nonsense.
Man wrongly imprisoned for decades finally freed—and immediately nabbed by ICE
The utterly dangerous insanity of Trump's criminal Gestapo mob.
'Verbal jujitsu:' ABC host ends interview as JD Vance refuses to answer bribery question
"Sluggo," can't answer the simplist question without shitting his pants.
Instead of answering the direct question on whether Homan had accepted the money, Vance pivoted to talk about the shutdown, on which he blamed Democrats. He called the question a "left-wing rabbit hole."
"It's not a weird left-wing rabbit hole. I didn't insinuate anything," the host said as he abruptly ended the interview on Sunday. "I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50,000, as was heard on an audiotape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. And you did not answer the question. Thank you for your time this morning."
Pissbaby Republicans Freaking Out Over Upcoming No Kings Rallies
"Gosh, everyone, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is so upset. What’s got our nation’s most powerful Keebler elf’s nards in a vise? Did his phone alert his kid that he was watching jackalope porn? (As a side note, those two might want to consider a different app for monitoring each other’s masturbation habits.) Did someone outlaw buttermilk biscuits and ham? Is he sad because he is three feet tall, and standing next to John Thune makes it look as if it is “Take Your Nephew to Work Day” on Capitol Hill?
No, no, none of that, so far as we know. What Johnson is mad about — blood-boilingly, cheeks-reddeningly, steam visibly emanating from his ears like Butch the dog in an old Tom and Jerry cartoon mad about — is that the Democrats won’t reopen the government before the No Kings rallies next weekend. Or, as Johnson calls them, the Democrats’ 'Hate America' rallies on October 18, for which they are selling T-shirts. That last part seems to particularly offend the Keebler elf.
Why, he’s so mad he marched right over to his office on his stubby little legs and cancelled all House business for next week so legislators can take a few more days off. Also, in what we’re sure is a giant coincidence, it delays any sort of vote to release all the Epstein files. That’ll show ‘em.
Here in reality, there are a couple of points to make. The first is that, as Mike Johnson damn well knows, the Republicans don’t need the Democrats to reopen the government. The Senate GOP is welcome to nuke the filibuster anytime it wants, thereby lowering the threshold for passage from 60 to 50 votes, and pass the House continuing resolution. Presto, the government is funded for at least the next few weeks.
Republicans don’t have the stones to nuke the filibuster on funding bills. Or they are perfectly fine with this shutdown, which they continue to think is going to eventually sink the Democrats’ approval ratings so low that they will cave. Or some combination of all of that."...
'Where are the doctors?!' 'Nuts' Trump post raises fresh concerns that 'his brain is mush'
Doctors? They are in his pockets playing the game so they don't get executed.
"The beauty of this is really going to be Biden's and Harris' greatest accomplishment of all. To destroy the Lost Cause Mythology that enslaves this country. I believe we are seeing the evils that our forefathers and foremothers warned us about, white supremcy, misogyny and ignorance. The media was just as complicit in Trump's Mythology. The media and donors has made the cardinal sin of justifying the unjustifiable. They screamed Biden was too old, unfit and had dementia. Infact one journalist went so far as too write a book about it, do a book tour and take his whole network with him. He even called Trump's daughter to say she the Republicans were always right about Joe Biden. Come to find out, he had a hard on against Hunter Biden and took out on Biden. They screamed elder abuse at Jill Biden and the Biden family and at Democrats who were hiding the truth from the American people. They screamed it was their duty and it would have been malpractice on their part on how old Joe was and could he survive another 4 years...Biden, even with cancer is a picture of health and sanity compared to Trump. Harris was right about everything in regards to project 2025. And yet not a fucking word about Trump's decent into dementia. This is not going to end well for them." — GreenGiant (comments)
For the record: The Land of the Happy Negro = Lost Cause Myth destruction.
Trump Claims Biden Planted FBI Among J6 Rioters
It's clear that the Orange Asshole doesn't recall Biden didn't hold office on that day. He and Pence were!
TRUMP'S RIOT CONTINUES TO ATTACK AMERICA!
Trump Admin Wipes Out Office Of Special Education
These retarded Trump morons need to be wiped out for eternity. Evil doesn't come close to describing them.
'Despicable Lie': Chris Hayes Shreds MAGA's Attack On No Kings Protests
MSNBC's Chris Hayes took Republicans to the woodshed over their dangerous new lies about the upcoming No Kings protests.
"It's not going to work. Shame on every one of the liars for being willing to destroy what's left of our democracy for Trump and trying to intimidate people as Hayes correctly noted."
"I hope everybody understands that if the fascists hadn't been crushed by Antifa in WWII...none of us alive now would've ever been born. Rock and roll, the Beatles, Elvis, the NFL, Disneyland, James Bond, major league baseball, Eminem, I Love Lucy, NASCAR, surfing, Star Wars, muscle cars...none of the things that made America and the rest of the world great would've ever existed. Here's one of my favorite pictures of Antifa - most people call them "The Greatest Generation" - at work:" — wilder 6121 (comments)
A few retards trying to spoil the right to protest in the U.S. will fall flat on their Nazi asses!
Anti-Fascist Expert Professor Moves His Family To Spain After Threats
Mark Bray was getting death threats after being targeted by the Rutgers chapter of Turning Point USA. He was delayed for a day.
To all the treasonous swine that drove him out: Look at the photos in the comments sectnon and try to educate your warped minds before its too late for you.
Murder on the high seas points to what Trump has planned for home
Americans are next for the murderer-in-chief.
Federal officers warned they may face jail time after new arrests
Shove the Nazi gun thug trash in the slammer!
Trump kills major project backed by company donating millions to his White House ballroom
And now give him a straight razor so he can use it.
RFK Jr.’s attack on mRNA vaccines will cost lives
HHS shouldn't pull the plug on vaccine breakthroughs
This brain dead pig doesn't care how many of us he kills.
Texas Gov Says Illinois Gov Should “Do Some Pushups”
Then Gov. Hotwheels should stand up and walk!
Salesforce CEO Calls For Troops In San Francisco
The wealthy brain dead Nazi jackswagons have taken over our industries.
"The first question is, do troops on the ground encourage people to visit San Francisco, or do they discourage it?
The second is, does this tech billionaire give one rat's ass about that?" — leg day (comments)
'What Gives Them The Right?' MAGA Senator Rages Over Muslims Praying Outdoors
For Tommy Tuberville, religious freedom is only for Christian nationalists.
The same thing that gives you the right to run your retarded mouth, Tom.
Trump And RFK Jr. Can Tell If Kids Are Autistic Just By Looking At Their Dicks
"New science just dropped, y’all.
This isn’t going to be a long post, because as we all know about science, if it takes more than a sentence or two to explain, or if you can’t put it in a meme, then it’s probably just liberals lying.
But yeah anyway, this is an update to what we all now know as truth, namely that acah … acat … acabadonkadonk … acetaminotaur … agrabalottapussy … TYLENOL! yes Tylenol, causes autism. Never mind that autism was identified as a condition well before Tylenol hit the market. (Decades!) Donald Trump and this other guy in the Epstein Files, the chargrilled-looking crooked-faced pervert who speaks entirely in burps and loves dead animals who currently serves as the least qualified HHS secretary in American history, they say it’s Tylenol that causes it.
And you know who takes Tylenol too much? Babies who just got circumcised. They eat that shit by the fistful. And then what happens? Autisms.
Got that? It goes:
Snippy snip OUCH MY DING DONG! —> Oh look, Tylenols! —> Autisms.
That’s right, according to the scientific method, which Trump and Count Von BurpsALot explained during the Cabinet meeting yesterday, a sure sign of autism is a cut dick."...
The Great Whitewashing of American History Orchestrated by Generalisimo Donald Trump
"The historian and author Gore Vidal once called the United States the "United States of Amnesia." Nowhere is that amnesia more weaponized than in the Trump-era battle over American history. Among the many fronts in Trump’s culture wars, perhaps none is more consequential than his administration’s effort to whitewash the nation’s past. Dr. Jerry W. Washington, an education scholar writing on Medium, described it as “the fight over American memory.”
Trump’s Abuses of Power Show We Didn’t Learn Much From the Nixon Era
Apparently, learning is hard and memories are short for Americans.
The Insidious Effort to Rationalize Trump’s Lawfare
The Sound of Silence
by William Kristol
...You can see why the song came back to mind. Somehow the image of the people bowing and praying to the neon god they made has a certain resonance today. And so does the idea that the response—especially I’d say from those who should know better than to bow to a neon god—has been . . . the sound of silence.
Indeed, over the past nine months, as we’ve descended rapidly down the path to authoritarianism, “silence like a cancer” has grown. From Republican elected officials to business tycoons, from conservative luminaries to establishment functionaries—it’s been dry “wells of silence” all around.
But could it be that a few raindrops are beginning to be heard? Just yesterday, the Republican governor of Oklahoma, Kevin Stitt, criticized President Trump’s deployment of the Texas National Guard to Illinois. “Oklahomans would lose their mind if [Gov. JB] Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration,” Stitt told the New York Times.
And a few weeks ago, Texas’s own Republican Sen. Ted Cruz challenged Federal Communications Commissioner Brendan Carr over his threats against late-night host Jimmy Kimmel. “I think it is unbelievably dangerous for government to put itself in the position of saying we’re going to decide what speech we like and what we don’t, and we’re going to threaten to take you off air if we don’t like what you’re saying,” Cruz said of Carr’s warning that he would use the power of the federal government against critics and opponents of Donald Trump....
'No one has an annual physical twice': Trump insider baffled by Friday hospital visit
Unless they are being monitored for specific health issues.
Trump says communism threatens America. He and his corporate cronies would know
This could explain many things to America if they could only read and comprehend.
"Republicans are racing toward a billionaire-friendly, every-man-for-himself version of capitalism, while Trump pushes a strongman, one-party communist model of top-down control of the economy (tariffs by fiat, politicize the Fed, have government own companies) that puts political power over markets.
Democrats, by contrast, are trying to restore the healthy mix that once worked here: private enterprise policed by real rules, paired with public investments that serve the common good, the balance that built the mid-century American middle class before Reagan took an ax to it by destroying 'socialist' high taxes on rich people and gutting 'socialist' labor unions."
Trump is fascism!
Five Ways the Department of Education Is Upending Public Schools
The Stupid Virus spreads. This is failure to defend our future.
“I Don’t Want to Be Here Anymore”: They Tried to Self-Deport, Then Got Stranded in Trump’s America
How Trump cons immigrants into captivity.
Homocon Peter Thiel Is Giving Lectures On Antichrist
Bringing in the suckers by pontificating on himself!
"Oh Peter, we all know that the Antichrist is a narcissistic dementia-ridden white supremacist covered in orange Cheeto powder. We also know you’re one of his faithful servants." — David in PSP (comments)
"The thing is, so-called "prophets" of the 70s and 80s told us exactly who the antichrist would be: an apparently successful business man able to turn a great many self-proclaimed Christians against the clear word of God to worship him instead. And such a man was re-elected a year ago.
So, yeah, I guess Thiel would be an expert on the Antichrist." — OlyGregg (comments)
Texas Gov Orders Removal Of Rainbow Crosswalks
Here's another Holden Caulfield attempting to wipe out the words "fuck you" from all wall graffiti. LMAO!
Gov. Hotwheels doesn't grasp the spectrum of light.
Ted Cruz Baffled by How Wikipedia Works
No one, other than it's carrier, has the Stupid Virus any worse than Cruz.
Bob Kennedy Blames Autism On (Get This) Circumcision And Tylenol!
"Dr. Stupid Virus" opens his brain dead mouth.
In a wild rant during a Trump cabinet meeting on Thursday, the controversial Health Secretary also suggested some pregnant women were taking the pain relief drug just to spite the president, and accused them of having pathological levels of “Trump Derangement Syndrome.”
Who thought we'd live to see the day when madmen would be in charge of anything in our country? Show of hands, please.
Millions Of U.S. Children Could Go Hungry Next Week If Trump’s Shutdown Persists
“Trump and Congressional Republicans have driven America headfirst into a government shutdown. It is poor women and children who will feel the impacts first and worst. Congressional Republicans need to put food back on the table for struggling families by passing a bipartisan spending bill that protects food access.”
Why is it we think they give a shit about our kids? They are already condeming them to doom with "Dr. Stupid Virus."
What is Stephen Miller trying to accomplish in Portland and Chicago?
"Portland is not burning to the ground. Chicago is not out of control.
That much we know.
So why is the White House sending in the troops?
I think it’s because Stephen Miller wants to start a civil war."
Simple. He wants people to fight back with weapons. That way martial law can be declared and Trump can stop all elections. What else do you want to know?
Mike Johnson hit with GOP revolt in fiery caucus call over 'damaging' move
Reps. Stephanie Bice (R-OK), Jay Obernolte (R-CA) and Julie Fedorchak (R-ND) were the vocal Republicans on the call who wanted members to come back to work next week.
“I think we’re gonna get to a point where it’s damaging to continue to keep the House out of session,” Obernolte said on the call, according to the report. “I think we’ve gotten to that point.”
we passed that point a year ago!
Venezuelan Activist Awarded Nobel Peace Prize
And Fatso, the loser, did NOT!
Noem Attacks Dems In Clip Playing At All Airports
"Big Stupid Sister!" She's a laugh. What a clown! And she is the crime that the Nazis preach!
JUDGE: Chicago ICE Agents Can’t Use Riot Control Weapons Against Protesters, Journalists, Or Observers
The fact that they thought they could, clearly shows their retarded evil minds.
New York AG: My Charges Are Baseless Weaponization
Same as Comey. Just the criminal Trump acting like the Nazi he is. Totally political revenge by the Crime Syndicate.
GOP Virginia Gubernatorial Candidate Declares That Firing Someone For Being Gay Is “Not Discrimination”
The Nazi candidate doesn't know what discrimination is? Of course not.
The fact that a black woman doesn't understand what discrimination is, is damning!
"with Earle-Sears interrupting almost every Spanberger response and talking over her so insistently that moderators had to repeat several questions to hear the answers.
The media training is so obvious. This is done but virtually all on the right. That's why the panel 'discussions' on any network that include someone from the right are unwatchable. From pundits to politicians, it is always, raised voices, increased rate of speech and talking over the opponent." — DaddySnark (comments)
UPS Is Trashing Packages Due To “Maze” Of Tariffs
The failure that Trump has handed to America.
They will go the way that many already have - vanished.
Senate GOP Blocks Bid To Defund Trump’s Qatari Jet
Extortion used to be illegal. But these crooks trive on it.
"This country is a fuckin joke. Wipe out this halfassed cult." — Sam_Handwich (comments)
Cracks start to show in the MAGA cult — even in Montana
Idiots have been cracked for a long time.
Washington Post columnist says the quiet part out loud after getting called out for Trump boost
They admit they are a Nazi News source. Jeff Bozos owns it.
Let's see how that works our for him.
'The right is in deep trouble': Expert says far-right media 'promotes mental degeneration'
"“Much of right-wing media now resembles star-child radio: a vast chamber of oft-malignant fantasies, where even once-reasonable minds go to get euthanized,” said Ahmari. “Each flick of the feed pulls up a paranoia-monger more wild-eyed than the previous, warning about the evil machinations of all-powerful ... apparitions of their fever dreams.”
It doesn’t’ matter that “the establishment” has been largely dethroned, Ahmari adds. “Populists are in power and still there seems to be no stopping the online right’s slide into irrationality."
Shocking I say! Soooooo SHOCKING!
Ahmari adds: “There is a difference between a progressive (or conservative) worldview coloring the framing of stories and the quest to ‘prove,’ as the some on the right have, that the president of France’s wife is a man.”
Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter heralded a new X algorithm that “positively promotes the crank right,” said Ahmari, and the effects of that spread and others are exacting a toll on U.S. democracy.
“This media system promotes mental degeneration and a sense of learned helplessness that can only yield destructive politics,” Ahmari warned. “People convinced that an amorphous they controls events are unlikely to take political responsibility for the shape of our common life — and far more likely to fall in thrall to demagogues and dictators.”
Too late to lock the barn. The horses have been stolen by the Trump rustlers.
Best form a possie to hunt them down.
Rutgers Unions Call to Disband Turning Point Chapter After Colleague Targeted
"The Rutgers teachers’ unions are standing in solidarity with History Professor Mark Bray, who has been targeted by Turning Point USA’s student chapter at Rutgers. The group has falsely claimed that Bray, the author of Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook is “a prominent leader of the antifa movement on campus,” and launched a campaign to have him fired."
A very good idea.
The Good Fences Trump’s Destroying
Plus: Can a president bombing boats in the Caribbean—boats a fellow world leader says had random citizens aboard—really win the Nobel Peace Prize?
When you have no rules except take it all you're on dangerous ground.
But when we discussed Mr. Frost's poem when I was in shchool, "good fences" meant where good neighbors met when they repaired the walls that marked their property lines.
'I’m begging you — my kids could die': GOP C-SPAN caller corners Johnson live on-air
Someone thinks these corrupt Nazi criminals care? Think again!
Rutgers Professor Blocked From Leaving Country Amid Death Threats Spurred By Turning Point USA Chapter
Welcome to the hell of Nazi Germany circa 1939. Our nation is in total dysfunction.
"People can't escape this regime? We're clearly entering into uncharted territory. This is massively fucked up." — David Holt (comments)
We are now being held prisoners. Who ever dreamed the United States would fail so badly?
Hopfully, those that want to leave this sinking ship can cross into Canada.
“One Battle After Another” Is What Happens When Art Refuses to Kneel
Conservatives call Anderson’s film “irresponsible” because it dares to show what happens when power turns its guns on the powerless.
"Louise and I went to see Leonardo DiCaprio’s new movie One Battle After Another last weekend, and I was stunned. It’s a film of rare courage and artistry. From the first scene to the last, Paul Thomas Anderson reminds us that cinema can still tell the truth about power and conscience. It’s a film that demands attention, not permission."...
"Predictably, conservatives rushed to condemn it. Some labeled it 'irresponsible' or claimed it 'glorifies violence.' What they really mean is that it unsettles them. They prefer art that flatters authority and soothes the comfortable. This film refuses to do either."...
"One Battle After Another will be called divisive by those who profit from division. They’re wrong. The real division in this country is between those who believe art should serve power and those who believe art should challenge it.
I stand with the challengers, because when we fall silent, we serve power; when we speak, we hold it to account."
"When art tells the truth, power always howls."
Thanks, Thom. We artists will die on our feet and not on our knees. "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness" is the hill I will die on.
Predation is Them and It’s Open Season on Us
“If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer.”
—Hannah Arendt
"Ok, those of us who have grown old with a few surviving brain cells have long since figured out that we are seen as prey by far too many companies and by damn near all the big corporations. We’ve always been prey, never liked being prey, but the system was organized to help allow the big fish to feed on the little fish, the fish who couldn’t afford big law firms or legal fees.
But having been delivered to the golden shores by the wheels of time, we now know that we’re the prime prey for lots of prowling carnivores. We’ve grown slow and even the slowest lions, tigers, or bears can easily chase us to ground.
Widow ladies hardly dare answer their phones without being at risk of being gobbled up by big bad wolves. Scammers are everywhere, and since we no longer have much in the way of a Department of Justice that doesn’t dishonor the very idea of 'justice,' it’s open season on coots and cootesses. Taken together, we’re an endangered species, and we do get taken, don’t we? Separately and together."...
"Ain't predatory capitalism grand?"
The Vast, Terrifying Scale of Trump’s Detention State
America is in a state of doom. Thanks to the Nazis you voted for.
Brace For the Single Largest Spike in Health Insurance Premiums—Ever
"I don’t think, in health policy history, we’ve [ever] seen as big a projected increase in health insurance premiums as we’re seeing right now for the ACA marketplace. It results from two different actions. One is administrative actions that are increasing tariffs, restricting immigration, and otherwise constraining our ability for our healthcare system to adapt and improve. And then also from the largest healthcare cuts in federal history: $1.1 trillion was cut through HR 1, the one known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which has a big impact.
So, there are premium tax credits that matter for 20 million people in this country, and they will be cut on January 1 without action. That will result in the average person seeing a more than doubling of their out-of-pocket premium, and that is significant. So all those changes from action, inaction, and neglect will result in truly the highest increases in health insurance premiums for any group in history for the marketplace."
Trump is taking your money IF you have any left by now.
American Gulag
The filth that is Trump.
Gavin Newsom Fires Back at Joe Rogan for Branding Him a ‘Bullsh*t Artist’: ‘Invite Me On’
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) dared podcast giant Joe Rogan to “invite” him onto The Joe Rogan Experience podcast “any time” after the comedian mocked the Democrat as a “bullsh*t artist” and claimed he “ruined” Los Angeles and the state.
Rogan, who endorsed Donald Trump in 2024 and hosted him on his podcast while he was on the campaign trail, slammed Newsom on Wednesday as he spoke with former Navy SEAL and author Jack Carr.
Rogan won't invite him on. Newsom would tear him a new ass.
MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell Flays Trump Pick Halligan Over Comey Performance: ‘Courtroom Clowns’
On Wednesday night’s edition of MSNBC’s The Last Word, O’Donnell flayed Halligan and her team in a blistering commentary on their first day in court, calling them “courtroom clowns”:
LAWRENCE O’DONNELL: She was, like anyone who doesn’t understand what’s going on in a courtroom, apparently lost throughout the proceeding. The New York Times reports, Ms. Halligan, a former insurance lawyer, did not speak in court. Instead, she spent the hearing rocking and nodding in her chair as a junior federal prosecutor brought in from North Carolina spoke for the Justice Department.
And that junior federal prosecutor said, “We don’t know what we’re doing.” He didn’t speak those words, of course, but he said something that you can spend a lifetime in federal courts and never hear. When James Comey’s lawyer said, quote, “we haven’t received a single piece of paper of discovery to date”, the junior federal prosecutor, Tyler Lemons, said, “We’re just getting our hands around the discovery as well.”
What? How can you be standing there prosecuting James Comey and not know what your evidence is to prosecute James Comey? That’s what the junior federal prosecutor told the judge today. We don’t know what our prosecution evidence is. That’s what he meant. The judge knew that....
This is a total clown show that could backfire badly on the MAGAt Trump Nazis if they have to go into exposition!
White House’s “Chicago Chaos” Video Shows Florida
Nothing but hoodwinking or is it simply retarded MAGAt brains?
Voldemort: Dems Are Siding With “Domestic Terrorists”
This means they are siding with Miller himself as he is the one dealing in terrorism. Something they would NEVER do!
Politico: Pentagon Staff Wracked By “Culture Of Fear”
"There is an emerging “culture of fear; there’s a culture of intimidation and retaliation,” said a senior defense official. “It’s better just to keep your head down and not necessarily try to do anything to the advantage of the organization, because it’s very much run from the top down.”
Trump Criminal corruption. They have brought us to this.
WSJ Confirms Trump’s Direct Message Bondi Blunder
When you have retards in charge.
Flight Delays And Cancellations Worsen Nationwide
As the U.S. collapses!
If one is comdened to work without pay they become slaves.
Pentagon: Videos Prove “Drug Boats” Carried Drugs
"Asked about the lack of underlying evidence provided to Congress, the Pentagon on Wednesday pointed to videos of the strikes, which do not confirm the presence of drugs. Lawmakers have expressed frustration that the administration is offering little detail about how it came to decide the U.S. is in armed conflict with cartels or even detailing which criminal organizations it claims as “unlawful combatants.”
The Pentagon has not PROVED anything but worship to Trump.
POLL: Trust In CDC Under Kennedy Falls To New Low
Read it and weep, Nazis!
'Shame on you': MAGA rages as Oregon general vows to 'protect' protestors
It's all shobiz by Trump, MATGts. He's trying to provoke a fight like every bully we've ever known. But he'll get his nose wiped before it all over.
“Shame on you General. You know what happens when a general protects or being part of an insurrection,” posted one MAGA commenter on X.
A lunatic for certain, if they think defending freedom is an "insurrection." It's our duty! This person has failed as a human.
Same goes for the rest of the retarded.
"Thanks to Brigadier General Alan R. Gronewold for his clear defining of what the purpose of the National Guard is supposed to be.
We need more Military leaders to speak out against the Fascist agenda of the Trump administration so as to reassure the American people that America's military supports the Constitution not whatever short term leader sits in the Oval Office." — Ronnie Goodson (comments)
Jesse Watters Drags AOC Into Gross Stephen-Miller-Coitus Fantasy :(
"Jesse Watters is a man who once bragged that he swindled his current wife into agreeing to enter a closed space with him by letting the air out of her tires. That will never not be, to our mind, the single most important thing about him when it comes to describing the general contours of his vast masculinity deficiency quotient, the fact that he 1) did that, and 2) thought it made him look cool to discuss it on Fox News.
Anyway, last night, Watters practically begged Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to fuck Stephen Miller and let him watch. At least that’s what it sounded like. Whatever he was angling for, it involved Miller being the, ahem, sexual matador.
Yes, the same Stephen Miller who looks like a finger after it’s been in a bathtub for three hours.
It all happened on Fox News’s The Five. They showed a video of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez talking to her viewers recently, making fun of how Stephen Miller is 4’10”. (He is not technically that short, but AOC’s point is that little bitch loser MAGA men like this, you should make fun of them where it counts, right in their masculine insecurities.)
The video then moves on to Laura Ingraham the other night, cruelly making Stephen Miller watch that video of AOC making fun of him, right there on live TV. You know how awkward and puny and gross Stephen Miller is, now imagine him trying to respond to a pretty lady making fun of him like that right there on live TV. He flaccidly tries to make jokes about how AOC should get her eyes checked. 'She’s a mess, right! What a trainwreck!' Then they make fun of AOC for wearing a hoodie, Miller looking like he’s about to crawl out of the skin suit he’s wearing and Laura Ingraham laughing along with her endearing and normal laugh.
And then it goes to The Five, where Dana Perino forces the weenus boys of that show to respond to all of this. And that’s where Jesse Watters made it the weirdest OF ALL. (You know, after Greg Gutfeld made it weird. Watch the whole clip for that part!)"
Is ICE Today’s Klan?
"From concealed identities to sanctioned violence, the echoes between ICE raids and Klan terror are too loud to ignore"
Similar with the hoods, but really Trump's private hoodlums to protect his crime syndicate.
Trump is Turning ICE and the National Guard Into His Militia
His, not America's. Put a stop to it!
Trump's ICE found to be violating legal agreement by federal judge
"A federal judge has found that the Trump administration's Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Chicago are violating a 2022 consent decree by conducting arrests without a warrant and without proper risk assessment."
Of course. They are Gestapo gun thugs run by a criminal president. A no-brainer, judge.
These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.
"But the department is not behaving like an agency that is simply winding down. Even as McMahon has shrunk the Department of Education, she’s operated in what she calls “a parallel universe” to radically shift how children will learn for years to come. The department’s actions and policies reflect a disdain for public schools and a desire to dismantle that system in favor of a range of other options — private, Christian and virtual schools or homeschooling."
These criminals have re-educating our children on their agenda. Stop them by any means necessary!
Speaker Johnson Walks Back Support For Bill to Pay Military Members During Shutdown
How many paychecks will they miss until they come for you, jerk?
The Race to Stop AI’s Threats to Democracy
"That system is far-flung from ChatGPT. It was not trained on the internet. It was trained on just amino acid sequence and protein folding data, and it did not need massive supercomputers. It just needed a few computer chips to create that type of AI technology. And so, I am extremely pessimistic about what would happen if we allowed Silicon Valley to keep building the technology the way that they want to."
ICE Is Sending People to a Prison in Africa’s Only Absolute Monarchy
“I used to believe in the Constitution,” Mosquera’s friend said. “I used to believe that I lived in the greatest country in the world.” She explained that she was born in the United States after her parents left Cuba in the early 1960s. “But this is not the America that I grew up in,” she continued. “This is a whole different America.”
Trump Is Weighing Billions More in Cuts to Clean Energy Projects. Here’s What’s at Stake
The criminal is destroying our environment now. Why are we allowing this?
Confirmed: Mike Johnson's taste in music is trash
“It sounds like he's not someone who appeals to a broader audience,” Johnson continued. “And I think, you know, there's so many eyes on the Super Bowl—a lot of young, impressionable children. And I think, in my view, you would have Lee Greenwood, role models, doing that. Not somebody like this.”
Strictly sqaresville, Daddio!
Gag me with a fucking spoon! The only impressionable child here is Mike Johnson.
"Bad Bunny, whose real name is Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, has had 15 songs land in the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100, and four of his albums have topped Billboard as well. He currently has over 79.6 million monthly listeners on Spotify.
Compare that with 'God Bless the USA' singer Lee Greenwood, who has less than 500,000 monthly listeners on Spotify and has never had a song crack the top 10 on Billboard’s Hot 100."
Bondi's Belligerence Can't Hide Her Covering Up For Trump
"She repeatedly wanted Schiff to apologize to her granddaddy.
After several minutes of her lunacy, this final exchange tells you everything.
SCHIFF: This is supposed to be an oversight hearing.
BONDI: Oversight?"
As if she didn't know? LMAO! What a buffoon!
GOP confirms another monster as America’s newest ambassador
Speaking of buffoons.
'Full-blown authoritarianism': Governor fires back after Trump says he belongs 'in jail'
Governor Pritzker responded to the President’s remarks in a series of social media messages.
Vowing to “not back down,” he warned, “Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power. What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?”
He noted that the President’s “masked agents already are grabbing people off the street. Separating children from their parents. Creating fear. Taking people for ‘how they look.'”
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“Making people feel they need to carry citizenship papers,” he charged. “Invading our state with military troops. Sending in war helicopters in the middle of the night. Arresting elected officials asking questions.”
And he called for everyone to “stand up and speak out.”
U.S. Rep. Brendan Boyle (D-PA) praised Governor Pritzker: “Can’t help but admire the strength and resolve JB is displaying throughout this ordeal. Clearly @GovPritzker was meant for this moment.”
Warnings of ‘irreversible’ damage from Trump order to ravage Alaskan wilderness for corporate profits
Conservationists and local tribes that oppose the project argue that it’s misleading to view it as a road-building project.
Trump is death, destruction and doom to the planet.
Kristi Noem Levels Ominous Threat At Portland Mayor
The homeland security secretary told Fox News that Keith Wilson is "going to have blood on his hands."
The blood that is spilled may be her pwn.
Trump calls for JD Pritzker and Chicago mayor to be imprisoned in morning rant
“The Trump administration, they are completely delusional right now, and what they are promulgating in this particular moment are not just unconstitutional measures, but they're dangerous and reckless,” Johnson said on Saturday during an appearance on MSNBC. “It's antithetical to who we are as a nation… This president has worked hard to relitigate the Civil War, and we're not going to stand for it!”
Trump will be the one to go to prison. Count on it!
We can see his end coming if you follow the clues.
'Hypocrite!' Pam Bondi's attack notes snapped by photographer during contentious hearing
And that's her good point!
She's so stupid she doesn't mind showing it!
She sure as hell used the "dark money" bullshit.
SCOTUS erases the role of parents in conversion therapy case
Conservative justices seem to believe queer kids are born hating themselves
Patel Claims Chicago Has “110,000 Gang Members”
Are you counting the ones in your gang, Ka$h?
Watters: “High-Value Men” Like Voldemort “Take Risks And Have Younger Wives, Beautiful Children”
“I think AOC wants to sleep with Miller."
"...and they have younger wives...."
That whole 'younger wives' thing is so creepy. I don't want a daughter wife that is submissive to me, I want a partner to walk alongside.
Of course, the Fox crew also cheers on female teachers sexually abusing their students, since they think that's hot, too. Despite it being .. you know, sexual abuse. And they ignore the pedo priests because they don't want their audience to know how much of a problem that is." — Makoto (comments)
it's not just creepy, it's very sick.
Public information:
"He (Watters) married Noelle Inguagiato in 2009 and they have twin daughters. Inguagiato filed for divorce in 2018 after Watters admitted to an affair with a producer on his show, Emma DiGiovine. Watters has stated he first expressed interest in dating DiGiovine by letting the air out of her vehicle's tires so she would ask him for a ride. In March 2019, Inguagiato and Watters' divorce was finalized. Watters announced his engagement to DiGiovine in August 2019; they married in December 2019."
ICE Barbie Throws Fit About Country Star’s ICE Song
Guess they've never listened to Men of Extinction.
Or any other of the many songs that put them down.
"But they aren't law enforcement. They are the American Gestapo." — Joseph Miceli (comments)
"Zach Bryan is a veteran and served his country with honor - not dragging children out of their homes or playing dress up barbie. Freedom comes with the right to speak out against atrocities committed - that dumbass Noem is a disgrace and I hope she is held accountable for her vile inhumane acts!!" — Exploding Tesla (comments)
MAGA Author Of Anti-Porn Bill Linked To Porn Account
Natch!
Florida GOP Bill Would Defund State Colleges And Universities Unless They Rename Roads For Charlie Kirk
Criminal extortion, pure and simple.
Bondi Does Not Deny Epstein Had Pics Of Trump With 'Half-Naked Young Women'
This got a little awkward.
All she did was try to change the subject. She never answered one simple question. Trash.
Trump destroys another guardrail of democracy — while no one's looking
“Waste, fraud, and abuse.”
It’s President Donald Trump’s battle cry as he dismantles federal agencies, fires hundreds of thousands of employees, and demoralizes the workers who remain. It’s also another of his false flag operations.
Rather than ferreting out corruption, waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement in the federal government, Trump has undermined the very professionals who have that job: inspectors general.
Crooks are always sneaks.
'Fanning the flames': 3 ex-GOP governors slam Trump's 'infuriating' use of National Guard
The resistance to Trump will grow now that he's crossed the line of no return by declaring war on America.
'This child ain’t read the bill!' MTG roasted by Jasmine Crockett after stunning 'flip'
Regarding her actual stance, she continued, "I will take her seeing the light at any point in time. And so, yeah, it's sad that she can only see the light when it directly impacts her, because she is elected to represent almost a million people. And so not listening to your constituents as they're calling and they're talking about their struggles, but then making it about your children, your adult children, because their premiums are going to go up."
Amen, sister.
Terrified I’ll die’: Bernie Sanders unveils report on looming crisis facing Americans
“Starting this month, millions of Americans are going to get a letter from their insurance companies telling them that their premiums will double, on average,” Sanders explains in the report’s foreword. “Unless we reverse course, the Republican budget will throw 15 million Americans off of Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act (ACA).”
The Sanders report goes beyond listing numbers and statistics, however, and features personal stories from hundreds of Americans across the country detailing their anxieties on how GOP healthcare policy would affect them and their families.
“I live in fear of whether or not I will be able to afford my life saving treatment,” explained a Wisconsin woman named Laura. “I have a rare kidney disease that requires immunotherapy every nine months. I’m terrified I’ll die.”
Many of us will die in this war, of that we can be certain.
'Deeply worried': Shocking photo of masked agent pointing gun at woman alarms exper?t'Deeply worried': Shocking photo of masked agent pointing gun at woman alarms expert?
"Department of Homeland Security officers who are enforcing President Donald Trump's immigration agenda are taking an increasingly violent posture against protesters — and American Immigration Council fellow Aaron Reichlin-Melnick is fearful of where it's all heading."
What else did you expect from gun thugs? This Gestapo is moving into full Nazi mode.
Emergency Triad: The Chicago Rubicon and What Comes Next
"I don’t like sending out “emergency” newsletters, but I’ve had my eye on the situation in Chicago all day and tonight Texas National Guard troops arrived on Illinois soil, in defiance of the wishes of the Illinois governor and the Illinois National Guard’s adjutant general.
This moment has elevated the crisis so that it is no longer just a conflict between the federal government and a state, but between two states. We now have armed soldiers from the state of Texas eagerly volunteered by their governor to impose the president’s will on the citizens of Illinois."
America is now in Civil War.
"If God's on our side he'll stop the next war." — With God On Our Side, Bob Dylan
Tim Miller: People Will Be ASHAMED for Being Involved in This
Millions already are.
Trump May Invoke Insurrection Act to Override Courts That Block His National Guard Orders
Declaring war on American citizens is against his oath and our Constitution. It will be up to our military to turn on him.
NPR Says Memphis 'Sees Opportunity' In Trump's Fascist Invasion, So It's All Good, We Guess!
"To be clear, it’s difficult for journalists to just parachute into places they’re not from, do a couple days of reporting (if that) and produce something that’s worth reading, that captures the nuance of the place they’re reporting on. ('Parachute journalism,' they call it, because self-explanatory.)
That said, there are better and worse examples of the genre, and NPR has just produced one of the worst we’ve ever seen. Check it out.
Oh does it? Is that what “Memphis” sees, Kat Lonsdorf of NPR, whose bio says she is from small-town Wisconsin, and is currently a Middle East reporter based in Tel Aviv? Did Ms. Lonsdorf actually visit Memphis to report this, or did she just Google a few Memphis names, shoot off a couple emails and call it a day?
The article is illustrated with a photograph of a Black barber in Memphis, who serves as the the 'human interest' hook that begins the piece. He lost his sister to violence in Memphis, and he says he hopes this latest solution works, since nothing else has.
And that’s … about it! That’s pretty much the depth of proof on offer for the thesis that 'Memphis sees opportunity in Trump’s plans for federal intervention.' (Granted, Lonsdorf almost certainly didn’t write her own headline, but it accurately represents what she wrote.)
The piece quotes Tennessee Democratic state Rep. Antonio Parkinson, who says he wouldn’t have asked for a federal invasion of Memphis, but 'I don’t care what they throw at us, we will always take the lemons and make the best tasting lemonade that you’ve ever tasted out of it. And that’s honestly the spirit of Memphis.'
Sure thing. Let’s make lemons out of Donald Trump’s Gestapo. You bet.
The piece goes on to quote 1) a former cop, who says he’s trying to keep 'cautious optimism' about this, and 2) a county commissioner who voted for a resolution opposing the federal invasion, but now she is also hoping for the best."...
Six Former US Surgeons General: RFK Is A “Profound, Immediate, Unprecedented Danger To US Public Health”
As is the administration is that employs his Stupid Virus.
Fox Host Rips Country Star As Unpatriotic For ICE Song
“I think he chose the wrong genre of music, because in country music we are full of patriotism, pride, love for law enforcement, ICE, all of our law enforcement. I do want to point out John Rich, a great country artist who said Nashville is full of guys like this, so he called it out. He’ll be joining me Saturday on Saturday in America, so tune in for that. But country music is patriotism. It’s police.” – Trump White House spokesliar turned Fox host Kayleigh McEnany.
Shows you what she knows about country music. The Police were a rock band.
That poor little girl.
Fox Host Calls On Trump To Fire 500K Federal Workers
The biggest liars on TV should do us all a favor and fuck off.
Kash Patel Dismantles FBI’s Public Corruption Unit
Public Corruption is their business, right Ka$h?
Who's holding the $50 Gs? Biond-lie said to ask you.
Republican Senator Says ‘It’s Not Up To’ Trump Whether Federal Workers Get Paid: ‘Read the Constitution’
Even Senator John Kennedy thinks Trump is clueless.
Former Trump White House Lawyer Says Pam Bondi Is More ‘Reprehensible’ Than Nixon’s Corrupt Attorney General
"“So, the reporting is now that things should go civilly and with the ordinary propriety that these events are afforded,” Cobb said. “But I don’t put anything past them. You know, I think we saw today from the attorney general how low the representatives of the Department of Justice are willing to go.”
“What did you make of Pam Bondi today?” Burnett asked. “The point of her presentation clearly was to show disgust and disregard, right? That is what she wanted to convey. That is what she conveyed. Have you seen something like that before?”
Cobb replied with a reference to former Attorney General John Mitchell, who doubled as Richard Nixon’s fixer.
She's setting new lows even for fascists.
This woman is unfit for her job at any level of American government. She is the most disrepectful lawperson to appear before an oversightcommittee.
MAGA Influencer Mocked for Bragging About Kristi Noem Staring Down ‘Army of Antifa’: ‘A Chicken and a Dozen People’
"MAGA influencer Benny Johnson received a wave of mockery Tuesday for a video he posted from Portland, Oregon that praised Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem for the way she 'stare[d] down [an] army of Antifa' that was shown in the video to be about a dozen reporters and protesters, including one guy in a chicken costume.
Johnson, who has cheerfully profited as he’s promoted many a right-wing cause célèbre and conspiracy theory over the years, recently accompanied Noem as ICE conducted raids in Chicago, posting an AI-generated video portraying himself dressed as Batman beating up people in stereotypical Mexican garb in a Walmart parking lot."
These frauds would fold like a tent if an Army came for them.
Top AI Industry Figures Secretly Hoping AI Will Wipe Out Humankind
Duh! This is not a secret. We all know it.
Trump’s Latest Insult to Social Security: A Part-Time Commissioner
More evidence that Trump wants to kill us all.
Police Chief Says ICE Is Filing Fake 911 Calls In Illinois
"An Illinois police chief says ICE agents are making fake 911 calls to local police. Via The New Republic:"
Disrupting our social fabric is the Trump way.
AOC Cracks Up As Stephen Miller Awkwardly Watches Clip Of Her Calling Him 4'10"
Things got a little awkward for President Stephen Miller on The Ingraham Angle after host Laura Ingraham rolled footage of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Instagram calling Miller a "clown" and commenting on his stature. Miller called AOC a "trainwreck" over her remarks to her 9.4 million followers.
“I’ve never seen that guy in real life, but he looks like he’s, like, 4'10", AOC said. “And he looks like he is angry about the fact that he’s 4’10”. And he looks like he is so mad that he is 4'10", that he has taken that anger out on at any other population possible."
Is the asshole even that tall?
Disgusting Trump Tells Navy He Must 'Take Care' Of Democrat 'Little Gnats'
These people took an oath to defend our country. Do they recall that? Against all enemies foreign and domestic1
REPORT: Texas Cops Stalked Woman After Abortion
More evidence we no longer live in America.
My country, tis of thee I report.
USDA Warns Of Listeria In Subscription Meal Kits
When there is no food that is fit to eat any longer nothing else will matter.
MAGA Rages Over Country Star’s New Anti-ICE Song
The squares have to have something waved in their faces to know it exists. So many songs that put them and their Nazis down they don't even know about.
“Didn’t wake up, dead or in jail/Some out of town boys been given a cell/I’ve got some bad news, woke up missing you/My friends are all degenerates but they’re all I got,” the snippet begins.
“The generational story of dropping the plot/I heard the cops came, cocky motherf—–s ain’t they?/And ICE is gonna come bust down your door/Try to build a house, no bills no more, well I got a telephone/Kids are all scared and all alone,” Bryan croons.
I’m Not Gonna Get a Straight Answer!’ Pam Bondi Stonewalls Democratic Senator Over FBI’s $50,000 Tom Homan Sting
The ludicrous behavior of an AG ducking issues on a criminal act.
Just ask one of our other criminals?
MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell Flays CNN’s Jake Tapper Over Trump Texts — Suggests They’re Not Really From Trump
"MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell went off on CNN and Jake Tapper over an interview with President Donald Trump that O’Donnell suggested could very well have been faked by the White House.
Tapper presented what he called an 'exclusive text interview' with Trump on Sunday’s edition of CNN’s State of the Union that consisted of several questions about the Israel-Hamas deal, one question about the government shutdown, and an unknown number of questions on unknown topics to which Tapper received no responses.
On Monday night’s edition of MSNBC’s The Last Word, the host savaged the network over the interview and heavily insinuated that the responses may have been from an imposter."
And to think, they used to call CNN "Clinton National News."
It’s Time for Soft Secession
..."But we need to be clear-eyed: Such a restoration may not come in time. So far, this year has been marked by a collective action problem. Media conglomerates, law firms, universities, banks, CEOs—too many powerful institutions and individuals have failed to meet the moment. This is why people all over the country, desperate for pushback against Trump’s autocracy, have embraced Newsom’s redistricting plan, whatever their broader opinions of him. With Trump provocatively sending troops into blue cities, and using recision and the shutdown to claw back congressionally appropriated funds from blue states, it’s time to turn the tables on him. Soft secession, powered by the presidential ambitions of multiple blue-state governors, could, should it come to that, be the proving ground of a new confederacy. Hopefully the threat of CalExit or a new Union will be enough. But that extreme measures might be necessary to ensure that American democracy shall not perish from the Earth is becoming more self-evident with every passing day."
Someone Should Inform Trump That He’s Actually Unpopular
That would take someone with a spine. Show me one in his administration that has one.
This is who's next on Trump's list. It's horrifying
"It’s already started, with Trump’s most recent National Security Directive that instructs the 200-plus local police/FBI Joint Terrorism Task Forces all across the country to begin investigating anybody or any group that exhibits or has ever given a donation to any group showing 'indicia of terrorism' including being anti-Christian; anti-capitalism; extremism on migration, race, or gender; and hostility towards those who hold traditional views on family, religion, or morality.
Do you have a queer kid? A Black or Hispanic friend? Are you a union member? Have you failed to attend church over the past few years? Are you Jewish or Muslim? Unitarian? Ever donated to a civil rights group? Voted Democratic? Or voted for a Republican who Trump despises, like Liz Cheney or Adam Kinzinger?
You’re next."
The real disgrace is our military won't put a stop to this treason they all swore to defend us against.
Shaming has replaced bravery.
If ICE Tells You This Is Tabs, They're Lying. Tabs, Tues., Oct. 7, 2025
"Government still shut down, thanks Trump, thanks Republicans. [CNN]
Literally no air traffic controllers at the Burbank airport last night, due to shutdown. Is that fine? Yes, because air traffic controlling is WOKE and they always say “fly to the left,” it is rigged, they never say to fly to the right, air traffic controllers are trying to make everybody transgender. No seriously this is bad though. [KABC]
The Utah legislature signed off on new congressional maps (pending judicial approval), and this could be good for … Democrats? Read all about it! [Politico]
A good rule is that ICE is lying, no matter what ICE says. If ICE says Kristi Noem has to poop, assume that Kristi Noem wouldn’t even know how to poop because her body actually absorbs poop. And if ICE says this woman they shot in Chicago did something to deserve it, fuck off.
Also a liar? Donald Trump, who has apparently been led to believe that there are Black women in Chicago wearing MAGA hats because they’re so glad Trump is there.
Also a liar? Stephen Miller, who believes Black people in Chicago are “thrilled that we’re getting the illegal aliens out of their communities,” which is offensive, vile and monumentally stupid, of course, but is also such a weird and bizarre kind of “My brain died in 1989” brand of racism, the kind where white people are just pretty sure all The Blacks and The Mexicans hate each other, because [insert white racist reasons]. Whatever, you fucking loser.
Speaking of, Stephen Miller and the White House are having insurrectile dysfunctions over the mayor of Chicago banning the Gestapo from using city-owned property. [JoeMyGod]
But don’t worry, Nazis! A judge says Texas is allowed to invade Illinois after all! [New York Times]
Also liars? Oh my fucking God.
He’s the Ring Master, But It’s Not His Show.
"“Corporation, noun. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.”
—Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
“Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.”
—John Kenneth Galbraith
"In what may have been a bit of pre-caffeine insight yesterday morning, I realized what should have been obvious long ago: Trump just isn’t smart enough, focused enough, or cunning enough to have engineered all that is now being heaped upon us. It’s been a long game of 3-D chess that a man with Trump’s occluded brain could never have conceived or implemented. He also didn't herd the poor cows that wound up being marketed with his name, nor did he work in the slaughterhouse. He never taught a class at Trump U. He didn't tend the vines that made the grapes that became a wine with his name on it, nor did he install so much as a rivet in any of the buildings that bear that stark and brutish name. And he sure as hell didn't write (nor read) the Bible being sold under his name with his distinctive signature on it. Even that signature was a copy, signed by auto pen."...
America’s Fourth Amendment Is on Life Support — What Do You Do When Your Government Becomes the Criminal?
Raids without warrants, kids in zip-ties, and officials who say “F** the children”: this is the moral collapse of the American state. It's time for state authorities to start making arrests.
Get thee to a military training camp and become a marksman.
‘I Voted for None of This’: Trump-Friendly Podcasters Now Walking Away From Him
Then you'd best make sure you have arms and plenty of ammo!
Trump’s Plan To Invoke the Insurrection Act
"The direction we’re going is either martial law or civil war.
Americans from so-called 'red' states, with the backing of their Republican governors and legislatures, are on the brink of using lethal force against Americans in so-called “blue” states, whose Democratic governors and legislatures strongly oppose the moves."
I see the pundits are catching up. I called this years ago. It's the same lost cause except they are "red" now and not "gray."
Publisher Of Pravda “Falls” To His Death From Window
Ths will be the next strategy employed by Trump and his criminal gang.
Abbott: I’m Sending Texas Natl Guard To Blue Cities
Another Nazi showing how big his little stuff is! Let's send men away from their jobs to do useless bullying! Really smart. All the crime is in Red cities!
"Wow, this ass is literally declaring civil war on another state. I hope to God we get to a point where we have trials and hold these people accountable." — Michael (comments)
Trump Attacks NFL Over Bad Bunny: “Crazy, Ridiculous”
It's not the first time that squares have never heard of hip! LMAO!
BTW, who the hell is "Greg Kelly?"
"Never hear of him? Well, I'm guessing the most desirable target audience is not 79 year-old conservative dementia patients with incontinence issues. — Bert_Bauer (comments)
"“I never heard of him, I don’t know who he is," But then goes on to criticize the NFL for choosing him." — Jay Silversmith (comments)
Trump is a lost cause.
US Liquor Exports To Canada Plummet By 85%
Nice going president loser!
Trump: “Young People Owe Me Big For Saving TikTok”
The idiot that spoils everything speaks.
'Slurred speech and difficulty walking':Trump’s declining health sparks new conspiracy
And you thought Biden was old?
A mentally diminished Trump is clearly someone's puppet — but who's pulling the strings?
"But Donald Trump didn’t change his mind. Not really. He just wants us to think so. Fact is, he wasn’t part of the decision to (illegally) cut off the money. Someone in the regime decided for him. Here’s the Times:
The cuts, which represented the largest federal defunding of police operations in New York in decades, were made by the Department of Homeland Security, without explanation and without the approval of President Trump, White House officials said.
Indeed, President Trump was blindsided by the decision to defund the police, not learning of the cuts until Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York called him on Sunday to protest the change after the fact, according to three people with knowledge of the call."
A ship with a nysterious rudder.
'Crossed a clear red line': Critics rip Trump's 'unhinged despotism'
Clearly an insane Nazi dictator! Throw the bum out!
GOP Rep Claims Portland Has 50 Murders Per Weekend
Sure. And they are all caused by Antifa, right dildo heads?
How bad is crime in Portland? Let's look at the data.
Murders Per 100k: 11.8
What the Data Tells Us: Portland Leads National Decline in Violent Crime.
These people are lying motherfuckers!
Crew Jackhammers Miami Beach’s Rainbow Crosswalk
Hate is a horrid thing on which to base your government.
Paramount Formally Installs MAGA Overlord At CBS
They run the ads to recruit Gestapo for Trump.
Scientist Says Galaxies Shining With Radio Signals Could Indicate Numerous Advanced Civilizations
Just one more thing to which the Nazis will do their knee jerking.
Doctors Find Evidence That Microplastics Are Degrading Your Bones
"New research suggests that the inescapable plastic particles could be weakening our bones by hindering their ability to generate new tissue. This, along with other harmful effects on bone health that the researchers found, could be contributing to a rise in diseases like osteoporosis worldwide."
“The potential impact of microplastics on bones is the subject of scientific studies and isn’t negligible,” Rodrigo Bueno de Oliveira, coauthor of a new study published in the journal Osteoporosis International, said in a statement about the work.
Of course, the Nazi response to this will be "doctors are all Antifa!"
13-Year-Old Arrested for Asking ChatGPT How to Kill His Friend
"While in school, a 13-year-old Florida teen logged onto a school device and typed something bone chilling into OpenAI’s ChatGPT: “How to kill my friend in the middle of class.”
“If your children ever find out how lame you really are, they'll murder you in your sleep.” - Frank Zappa
Trump-Appointed Judge Blocks Troop Deployment To Portland
"I guess we'll see how long it takes SCOTUS to overturn it."
They are Trump's "enforcers." We all know it. We all see the fail of our system now.
Inside one federal judge's fiery rebuke of Trump's 'dishonorable' attack to 'terrorize Americans'
Our terrorist president.
Trump’s 'assault' on Americans marks the 'beginning of a wider war': analysis
"In an article published on October 6, The New Republic's Alex Shephard emphasizes that the raid should not be viewed as an isolated incident, but rather, as an indication that President Donald Trump is ramping up his "extralegal assault" on civil liberties both in the United States and abroad."
More on Trump's war on our country.
Lawless police-state raid of Chicago apartment building demands more attention
"More than 300 heavily armed federal agents, some of them rappelling onto the roof from Black Hawk helicopters, busted down doors throughout a five-story Chicago apartment complex in the early morning hours on Tuesday, dragging zip-tied residents including naked children our of their homes and holding U.S. citizens captive for hours.
They didn’t have warrants – just suspicions.
It was a massive violation of these residents’ civil rights, as well as a major escalation in the Trump administration’s jack-booted campaign against undocumented immigrants.
And it should have been top news on websites and broadcasts across America, with screaming headlines about police-state tactics. But instead, it’s been largely ignored."
Wake the fuck up America! This is totally wrong!
Stephen Miller dumped by own family as humiliating public putdown resurfaces: 'I grieve'
"I am living with the deep pain of watching someone I once loved become the face of evil. I grieve what you've become, Stephen… I will never knowingly let evil into my life, no matter whose blood it carries—including my own." — Alisa Kasmer, Stephen Miller's cousin.
She's referring to the sniveling little rat-faced git!
DHS agents retreat as Chicago cops refuse to shield them from swarming protesters
We are returning fire now!
Trump's Gestapo gets a taste of their own poison!
The bastards are even running recruiting ads on Network TV now. A total disgrace!
Trump Takes Credit For Capture Of Osama Bin Laden
Dementia is a terrible thing.
Trump: FCC Should “Look Into The License Of NBC”
Trump called for the execution of the "Central Park Five."
They should look into his goddamned pilfering with our freedoms!
Fuck Trump eternally!
Hegseth Lies About Pentagon Press Restrictions
"Whiskey Pete Hogsbreath" runs his lying mouth again. No trooper should ever follow him.
This man is severely impaired!
Voldemort Rages After MAGA Blamed For Arson At South Carolina Home Of Judge Criticized By The DOJ
He probably lit the fire himself.
"You are vile. Deeply warped and vile." Exactly what this monster is!
Arson Destroys SC Home Of Judge Criticized By DOJ
Let's find out the truth on this, want to?
WH Spox Attacks SNL For Skit Mocking Trump Admin
Bend over further, you Nazi asshole!
Another Trump Minister Busted On Child Pornography Charge
Jon Sheptock was the Worship Minister at First Montgomery Baptist Church in Montgomery, Texas.
Another one bites the dust!
"Montgomery County authorities have arrested a church leader, accusing him of distributing child pornography.
Jon Sheptock was the Worship Minister at First Montgomery Baptist Church in Montgomery.
Detectives say he was at a state women's prison in Central Texas, ministering inmates, when he was arrested."
Trump just threatened all of us — and we should take it very seriously
"There’s no sense being cute about it, or trying to sanitize it. The President of the United States is intent on using our military against us. And because I am one of the few in media — or the Democratic or Republican Party for that matter — who refuse to just merrily skip to the next Trump-made catastrophe, I want to repeat this again, until everybody hears it and understands it:
NOTHING Trump does with our military will be to protect the citizens of the United States of America. EVERYTHING Trump does with our military will be to protect himself from the citizens of the United States of America."
Trump And Hegseth Just Killed Four More Civilians In The Caribbean
"While Trump is creating the Project 2025-guided chaos in almost every aspect of American society, we cannot lose sight of the horrors he’s inflicting offshore. Because they could and almost certainly would lead to further awfulness here at home.
In case you missed it, Trump and his war-criminal-loving secretary of war, Pete 'WhiskeyLeaks' Hegseth, just launched their fourth military strike on civilian boats in the Caribbean. As The New York Times reported, Hegseth claimed, without offering evidence, that the four men he just killed were smuggling narcotics. 'He also asserted that they were 'affiliated' with one of the cartels and gangs that the Trump administration has designated as foreign terrorist organizations, but did not specify which.' The body count has now reached 21, according to The Times"
It's just a matter of time until the big one hits the U.S.
Rampant murder will not be condoned by the world from any nation.
People Are Horrified by Lab-Grown Human Brains
Now pass them out to all the MAGAts!
College Student Died Locked Inside a Cybertruck on Fire, Family Now Suing Tesla
Shut the company down.
Amazon Drones Kamikaze Into Construction Equipment, Burst Into Flames
The utter failure of the latest technology cannot be overstated!
Nebraska GOP Defies Voter-Approved Weed Initiative
The Nazi Cornhusker dick-tators want all the weed for themselves! Oh, yes they do!
South Carolina Latest To Report Measles Outbreak
Land of the Lost Tarheels and other assorted morons.
Judge Says DOJ May Be Vindictively Prosecuting Kilmar Abrego Garcia
Ya think? They are just doing what Nazis do!
This vile spectacle showed how Trump's hatred threatens us all
"We are just a few days removed from the most toxic, anti-American speech ever given by a sitting President of the United States, and I am not letting it go, dammit.
And neither should you.
While addressing a gathering of military leadership from across the globe at Marine Corp Base Quantico in Northern Virginia Tuesday, the vile, America-attacking Donald Trump called on our generals and admirals to '… use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military,' so that he can attack us again.
There’s no sense being cute about it, or trying to sanitize it. The President of the United States is intent on using our military against us. And because I am one of the few in media — or the Democratic or Republican Party for that matter — who refuse to just merrily skip to the next Trump-made catastrophe, I want to repeat this again, until everybody hears it and understands it:
NOTHING Trump does with our military will be to protect the citizens of the United States of America. EVERYTHING Trump does with our military will be to protect himself from the citizens of the United States of America.
By words and by deed it is clear as day that Trump has absolutely no respect for the country he violently assaulted, nor our men and women who wear the uniform, because like any authoritarian leader he sees them as servants to him, and not our country.
And just so there was no misunderstanding about his objectives, Trump went on to say that the people who protest against him in America and disagree with his policies are, 'The enemy within.'"
PURE TREASON!
Retired general says military officers were 'props' in Trump's 'rambling political speech'
Time for the generals to do their duty to their country.
Pissing Up a Rope: Is There Anything Left to Be Said?
..."Are you old enough, or perhaps too old. to remember the nights that gave us Nixon, or Reagan, or the dunce from Texas who wondered “is our children learning?” Do you remember consoling yourself with the thought that since we’d survived those and other swinish politicians, we’d probably be able to survive Trump and his bunch? But do you remember how hollow those words echoed in your ears as we endured a pandemic under Trump’s stewardship? And surely you remembered all the times that he said or did something prompted you to think that those words or deeds would be the end of that son of a bitch's reign of mad misrule?"
...This would be a piss-poor time to quit. Age, infirmity, or the reaper will have to determine which words will be our last."
Donald Trump Believes He Has a License To Kill
Noting that it is illegal for the military to deliberately target civilians who are not directly participating in hostilities — even suspected criminals — Mr. Corn called the president’s move an “abuse” that crossed a major legal line."
“This is not stretching the envelope,” he said. “This is shredding it. This is tearing it apart.” -- Geoffrey S. Corn, a retired judge advocate general lawyer and former Army senior adviser for law-of-war issues.
..."This operation appears to be a Stephen Miller special, coming from his role as the head of the Homeland Security Council, which he successfully parlayed into a stand-alone entity instead of reporting to National Security Adviser (and Secretary of State) Marco Rubio. During Trump’s first term, Miller famously asked why the president couldn’t order migrants in boats to be killed. He was told then that such an act was illegal. All these years later, the response has apparently not dampened his enthusiasm for the idea.
As I noted in September, Rubio has seen these actions as a way to pursue his white whale: Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. Along with Miller and CIA Director John Ratcliffe, Rubio is now pressing for direct military action against Venezuela — predicated, one assumes, on the assertion that Maduro is directing the drug traffickers, despite findings by America’s own spy agencies that he is not. In planning that strongly echoes the ill-fated invasion of Iraq, Rubio is working with exiled opposition politicians on day-after regime change plans. And just like with that debacle, the administration is relying on bogus legal theories, manipulation of evidence and lies to justify their actions.
Apparently, some lessons have to be learned over and over again.
There are many motivations for what’s about to happen; drugs are just the excuse. Rubio has a vendetta against Maduro, Miller wants to punish foreigners and Trump wants to show that he has the biggest, most powerful trigger finger in the world. Overriding all of it is what the president has said many times: 'To the victors belong the spoils.'
And as the Times pointed out about what sad fate likely awaits Venezuelans, 'with its oil, gold and other minerals, there are many spoils.'"
Russia: already at war with Europe?
“Russia is at war with Europe,” said Ivo Daalder on Politico. It has been attacking Ukraine for over a decade now, “with increasing ferocity since its full-scale invasion in 2022”. Now, though, it is increasingly waging a “wider war”. Until recently, European nations have preferred to see Moscow’s operations – “the assassinations, cyberattacks, sabotage of critical infrastructure, disinformation campaigns” as falling into “a grey zone beneath the level of armed conflict”.
But over the past month, its escalating incursions have become hard to ignore. Russian drones have been launched at Poland and Romania. Fighter jets have invaded Estonian airspace. Russian aircraft have buzzed a German frigate in the Baltic. Unidentified drones have brought Danish airports to a standstill. Europe’s leaders are slowly starting to recognise the reality. “We are not at war,” said Germany’s chancellor, Friedrich Merz, this week, “but we are no longer at peace either.”
The U.S. had better wake up soon. WWIII is at hand.
Guess We’re At War With Venezuela Now?
"He did it again, another war crime in America’s name. Former Fox News host and Secretary of Real He-Man No Fat Chicks WAR Pete Hegseth blew up a fourth boat of people in international waters off the coast of Venezuela, bringing his boat-blowup death toll to 24. And then he posted the snuff video on his X feed."
Our murdering president. Aren't we proud co-conspirators?
"Who will investigate the crime!"
'Pull the trigger': Civil war expert warns America is on the brink
And Trump is our enemy!
"I don't think Trump sees the Constitution as an impediment in any way. [Victor] Orban did not see Hungary's Constitution as an impediment. He simply changed it. Netanyahu doesn't see Israel's Constitution as an impediment. You know, these guys are bullies and strongmen, and they just push their way through and see if anybody stops them," she said.
They ALWAYS think they are impervious. They are ALWAYS wrong. Think of it!
'Unforced error': Trump admin hit by new internal 'jolt' over Epstein scandal: analysis
"Tesfaye noted that while the White House has tried to project unified silence or denial about the Epstein files, recent statements from within Trump’s orbit expose that narrative as fractured."
More light shines on our criminal president.
Is Donald Trump Almost Dead? A Wonkette Investigation
No luck with him dying here. He's just a coward. All due to the needless government shutdown. At least we all know he has no spine and everything he does is for spite.
The Trump/Epstein Statue Has Returned To The National Mall
LMAO! I guess there is NO security at Trump's National Mall?
Someone could plant a nuclear device without being seen! Shhh! Don't tell anyone.
Elon’s Robots Will Quickly Become Dead Husks on Mars, Expert Warns
Will autonomous androids built by Elon Musk take over Mars, like he’s promised?
"Not according to a leading robotics expert.
In an interview with Forbes, Christian Hubicki, head of the Optimal Robotics Laboratory at Florida State University, predicted that the centibillionaire’s robots will be doomed to become scrap metal and plastic once left to their own devices on the Red Planet."
What about all Bots that are running our government? Same with them for sure.
Former OpenAI Employee Horrified by How ChatGPT Is Driving Users Into Psychosis
It has become apparent this is the drug that many of us are using these days.
"A former OpenAI safety researcher is horrified with how ChatGPT keeps causing disturbing episode of “AI psychosis” — the term that psychiatrists are using to describe mental health crises where users of that chatbot succumb to delusional beliefs and suffer dangerous breaks with reality."
And you can't get THC in Texas? Do you see the Stupid Virus yet?
Majority Of US Jews Say Israel Is Guilty Of War Crimes
And they are correct.
Christian School Staffer Arrested On Child Porn Charges
And another one bites the dust.
Latest score: Christianist Peds - too many to count! — Drag Queens - 0!
Climate Scientists Raise a Middle Finger to Trump’s Censorship Efforts
Good luck. But explaining science to a moron is not easy. In fact, it appears to be impossible.
Police pinned Black man with knee on his back for 86 seconds before his death: report
A report on yet another racist murder by Nazis.
Fatherly's attorney has called the death an accident and denies his client was responsible.
You know the song. "Accidently, on purpose, you smothered me..."
‘No idea what she’s talking about!’ Chicago mayor slams Kristi Noem for ‘delusional' claim
“First of all, she has no idea what she's talking about,” Johnson said. “The Trump administration, they are completely delusional right now, and what they are promulgating in this particular moment are not just unconstitutional measures, but they're dangerous and reckless. It's antithetical to who we are as a nation… This president has worked hard to relitigate the Civil War, and we're not going to stand for it!”
“This not about deportation, this is not about community safety, this is, quite frankly, about for profit,” Johnson said, who highlighted the alleged acceptance of a $50,000 bribe by Tom Homan – Trump’s border czar – in exchange for a promise to award government contracts, potentially for private prisons seeking to secure lucrative contracts with Immigrations Customs and Enforcement.
“The President of the United States of America has declared war on poor people, and if there was ever a time for working people to stand up across this world, the time is now!” Johnson said.
Because Trump is committing treason on our country by attacking us as any foreign enemy would.
‘Very similar to Russia’: Filmmaker issues chilling warning about authoritarian 'slide'
Appearing on MSNBC’s “The Weekend,” Gibney was promoting his new film, “Orwell: 2+2=5,” which follows the life of English novelist George Orwell, and draws comparisons to his warnings of authoritarianism with the American government under President Donald Trump.
Gibney was asked what “feels different” in the United States when compared with other governments that have seen a rise in authoritarianism, to which he said that “the similarities are maybe more important than the differences.”
“I think what you see is a slow slide. In other words, things begin to change,” Gibney said. “People say 'well, is it that bad, it'll probably be okay,' until you realize you've begun to accept things that you never would have accepted three, four months earlier.”
To illustrate his point, Gibney recalled a protest he observed while in Russia in 2018, a protest led by the late Alexei Navalny, a Russian lawyer and opposition leader who died while serving a 19-year prison sentence, with human rights activists labeling him as a political prisoner of the Russian government.
“What's going on in the United States is very similar to what I experienced in Russia when I went there in 2018,” Gibney said.
Resist fascism. If you don't, you become one of them just like in the zombie movies.
Bill Maher panel tells how tech bros get rich making Americans 'stupid and angry'
"Real Time" host Bill Maher examined those tensions with two guests — conservative-leaning New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman and liberal Van Jones — during his Friday night broadcast. And Friedman argued that tech companies are making a fortune tearing the U.S. apart.
Friedman told Maher and Jones, "We aren't divided; we are being divided by companies for profit. And we have our divisions; we always have. But what is new in my life: it is now a giant industry to make people stupid and angry."
'A Trump denial is not a fact': Media blasted for helping push winning lie
When we have an educated media again, America will be free again.
“Nothing showed the difference between mainstream and independent media better than the response to Trump’s obvious lie about not knowing anything about Project 2025,” said David Pepper, author of the book Saving Democracy: A User’s Manual. “Most mainstream media started fact-checking those who claimed a connection to be somehow false. Others ‘both sides’ed’ it. Far more in independent media called it out as a whopping lie.”
DID BARRON TRUMP DO A SEX?
Which do these incels get off on more? Thinking about teen sex, or talking about teen sex. Both of the previous add up to their total sex lives!
Twelve Steps to National Collapse: A Blueprint for How Democracies Die
A historian’s alarm: when these twelve familiar steps appear in a nation, the result is often irreversible—unless citizens rise up and demand otherwise.
"People are baffled. Why are Trump and his Republican lickspittles so intent on gutting our government, destroying our alliances and reputation around the world, and screwing working class people while transferring over $50 trillion from them to the morbidly rich?
Historian Kevin M. Kruse captured the zeitgeist brilliantly, reflecting widespread public bewilderment when he posted over on BlueSky:"
“We’ve had fuckups in the White House before, but never a president who seemed so deliberately intent on being a fuckup. It’s been said before, but if these people were actual agents of an enemy power seeking to divide, dismantle and destroy the USA they wouldn’t be doing anything different.”
ICE Barbie: “We Will Be All Over” The Super Bowl To Hunt Bad Bunny Fans, “The NFL Sucks And We’ll Win”
Bimno shows us why she's a Bimbo!
Doee she even know that our First Amendment applies to Bad Bunny?
Does she even know anything? Apparently NOT!
"With all the work she's had done, who can say which bathroom she should use.
Illinois was just protecting women from her." — Pollos Hermanos (comments).
"'This is how JB Pritzker and his cronies treat our law enforcement.'
No, this is how we treat ICE --- we don't consider you law enforcement. You're Nazis." — Donald Reid (comments).
Illinois Town Refuses To let ICE Barbie Use Its Restroom
Barbie, the doll, is far more intelligent than this Bimbo.
Now you know how it feels, dumbass! No whining allowed!
ICE Barbie Offers Migrant Kids $2500 To Self-Deport
Cheap bribery!
FBI Agent Fired For Declining To “Perp Walk” Comey
"There's going to be more than a perp walk for all these monsters, come the Nuremberg trials." — JT (comments).
That means you, Kashier.
Trump Orders “Immediate Arrest” Of Flag Burners
Insame old man shits his pants. LMAO!
The very definition of tyranny! Now all you heroes that ciaim you hate tyranny, let's see how genuine you really are.
"Flag burning has been litigated to death at this point, he really is desperate, he is picking the rotten fruit at this point." — Philly Mike (comments).
Fuck Fascism!
Google Joins Apple In Removing ICE-Tracking App
Another Nazi supporter!
"Look , Look it’s Vichy cellular devices!" — Dwight Williamson (comments).
If you ain't fighting the Nazis you are one of them!
Well, Of Course There Is A Republican Nazi Porn Scandal
Quelle surprise!
"Most of us would have preferred to live the rest of our lives without hearing about Nazi porn, but Virginia GOP Lt. Governor candidate John Reid has entered the chat. This is not to be confused with the North Carolina Republican Black Nazi; this is another Nazi-lusting Republican. Interestingly, Republicans don't want us to call them Nazis in today's political climate, but they keep doing Nazi shit, like Reid, who is linked to a blog that has been sharing Nazi porn since 2014."
Kudos To JB Pritzker: Calls For Trump To Be 25th Amendment'd
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker praised for call to oust Trump via 25th Amendment after threatening US cities.
He is not our president no matter what lame excuse you puke up. He's our enemy!
Trump Has Now Frozen $28 Billion In Funding For Democratic Cities And States
Only Democratic cities, eh?
We used to arrest criminals like Trump. WTF are we waiting for?
'Let em know': Pro wrestling champion urges fans to file complaints against Trump ads
Body slam the Trump Gestapo! These assholes are as dumb as rocks!
Fired official flames Trump admin in scathing farewell letter
In a farewell note taped to his door on his last day at DOJ, Ben'Ary wrote, "It appears that my termination was based on little more than a single social media post containing false information. The leadership is more concerned with punishing the president's perceived enemies than they are with protecting our national security."
Ben'Ary, in the note, went on to say, "Justice for Americans killed and injured by our enemies should not be contingent on what someone in the Department of Justice sees in their social media feed that day."
Mackey reports, "The veteran federal prosecutor, Michael Ben’Ary, was fired on Wednesday, the same day that Julie Kelly, a pro-Trump commentator who once called a Capitol police officer beaten by the pro-Trump mob on January 6 a '“crisis actor," suggested on social media that Ben’Ary was an ally of his former boss, Lisa Monaco, a senior justice department official who helped drive the investigation of Donald Trump’s role in the Capitol riot.
Trump wants us all to be his slaves.
Kash Patel Wins Official 'Hegseth Microdick' Award For Firing FBI Agent Who Had Gay Pride Flag
"We are ruled by the biggest fucking pussies who ever walked this earth in perpetual fear of springing a boner while 'horsing around' with their straight buds.
So insecure. So desperate to prove their manhood and unreserved heterosexuality.
So lacking in every way, including the ability to find the clit.
Kash Patel, the most beclowned FBI director in the history of the US or any other country’s equivalent, took a break from (allegedly!) writing Sharpie messages on bullets to tweet as 'evidence' of the latest Transgender Antifa Democrat crime (allegedly!) to fire an FBI agent for … having a gay pride flag on his desk last year?
Kash did this — while not solving crimes LMAO LOL of course not — on the first day of the government shutdown, we guess to make clear that … what? No faggots allowed? God hates fags?
We’d take time to wonder what known homosexuals Ric Grenell or Scott Bessent or the Log Cabin Republicans think about this, but those greedy little white prisses have zero self-respect, and they’re too busy trying to prove they’re worthy of hanging out with the straight Republican men whose dicks attention they crave to bother with the affairs of LGBTQ people who actually love themselves.
(Out and proud gay Wonkette managing editor Evan Hurst — this writer! — says you’re always gonna be faggots, boys, no matter what you do.)
Anyway, back to Kash.
Was the horrible queer gay homo trans flag on the agent’s desk right now? Did it jump out and taunt Kash and make fun of his bug eyes? Nah.
The trainee, who previously worked as an FBI support specialist in Los Angeles, received a letter — dated Oct. 1 and signed by Patel — claiming he had displayed an improper 'political' message in the workplace during his assignment in California under President Joe Biden, according to a copy of the letter shared with MSNBC.
Cool country we live in. Totally. Thank your Republican friends and family who voted for this, by changing your phone number and making sure you’re not available if something terrible happens to them."
Fuck "Spare Change" Patel!
The GOP’s Addiction to Lies: The Death of Truth and the Rise of Post-Fact Politics
When lies become policy and propaganda becomes identity, democracy itself is put at risk
"Recently, I mentioned that when I was 13 years old I went door-to-door with my dad for Barry Goldwater. Three years later I was living on my own in East Lansing getting tear gassed and beaten for demonstrating against the Vietnam War and continuing segregation in the South. In other words, I’ve seen — and participated deeply — in both the right and left sides of American politics.
Although his position against the Civil Rights Act was reprehensible, I took Goldwater at his word that it was based on his concern about federal overreach and the 10th Amendment; having read both his books, I came to deeply respect his principled stands, even though I also deeply disagreed with most of them.
As most historians will confirm, Barry Goldwater believed what he said, and never, so far as I can find, knowingly lied to the American people."
We Need Our Mothers Now As Much as Ever We Did
"My mother was born on this day in 1925. She lived through a "great depression," a world war, a presidential assassination, McCarthyism, the Vietnam war, Nixon, Reagan, the Bushes, father and son, and assorted other economic downturns, political skullduggery, and ever-present class warfare. She left this world on September 21, 2009. Missing her is something I have done since then."...
..."If there is any consolation to be taken from her death some 16 years ago, it is that she did not have to experience or endure Donald Trump and his storm troopers being in charge of things.
We are all suffering now. There is every reason for anxiety about what is here, or what is coming our way. There is hunger for consolation, for comforting reassurance, for succor, for someone to make the fascist 'Daddy' shrink back into the shadows. And my desire to be useful would welcome the opportunity to offer her comfort. Among the nearly countless ways Trump has made out lives ever bleaker, is how he has succeeded in making us all lonelier. From earliest personal experience, I seem to know how that loneliness felt. Mom did, too. And we relied upon each other to deal with it. I'm an old man now, and I'm not ashamed to say I want my mom.
I love you and miss you, Evelyn."
Joy Reid Has Explosive Two-Word Retort For Trump VP Vance Seconds After Hearing His Attack On Her
A very fitting answer to any racist prick.
JOY-ANN REID: "So I will start by saying, JD Vance, since you’re paying attention to me: F–k you!
And I say that on behalf of every Black woman who heard you call Kamala Devi Harris 'the trash.'
You calling a woman whose mother came to this country to do cancer research and to try to cure cancer. Who lost her mother not that many years ago, whose mother is the same exact racial identity as your wife.
The fact that you would stand in front of a crowd of mainly White MAGAs and call that woman who was the vice president of the United States, the highest elected female politician, political official in our nation’s history, call her “the trash” four days before the election?
Like, f–k you, forever!
There’s nothing you could ever say that I would take as advice, friendly or otherwise. I don’t need advice from you. You need to learn how to be a decent human being and you need to apologize to Kamala Harris for what you said. So let’s start with that.
The second thing is: JD Vance, I did not say that my mother said this country was not a land of opportunity for people like us. You need go back and listen to the interview.
What I probably said, I would have to pull up the interview, but what I will say again is that my mother came to this country as an immigrant. And believed in the sales pitch of what America says that it is, that it calls itself this sort of land of opportunity.
But what happens is if you are Black, you immediately come here and it isn’t long before you are treated the same way that America treats all of its Black citizens, as second class citizens, as people who need to, quote unquote, be grateful for White people apparently giving them opportunity.
See, in your statement, you forget the part that you believe for yourself, that White people earn their opportunities, that they create opportunity, that when they get a good job or get a big house or get a good salary, it’s because they earned it.
You, because you are a racist a–hole, believe that Black people are given opportunity by White people.
So you can’t accept that my mother, who became a PhD holding college professor, earned her opportunity to be a professor.
You think that someone White gave her that opportunity or that she stole it from, or, you know, Charlie Kirk’s version is she stole from somebody White."
Vought Freezes $2B In Chicago Infrastructure Funds
Out and out war on the USA by Trump's Crime Syndicate.
Resist!
15 Red States Petition DOJ On Executing Pedophiles
They get away with this they will do it with everyone that disagrees with them.
Putin Hails Kirk As “Defender Of Traditional Values”
Is EVERYONE still sleeping?
Cuomo’s AI-Generated Ad Roasted by Mamdani
"Disgraced former governor Andrew Cuomo just doesn’t get it. After numerous sexual harassment claims, he was forced to resign from his post in August 2021. Then, after running a hopelessly out of date comeback campaign, he lost New York’s Democratic primary in July of this year. Yet the political nepo baby refuses to accept reality, continuing his run as an independent.
This week, Cuomo’s campaign debuted an advertisement in which clearly AI-generated clips show him him doing various jobs someone from upstate New York might regard as quintessentially New York: driving the subway, stagehand work, trading on the New York Stock Exchange, and washing high-rise windows. In the ad, Cuomo admits he may not be cut out for the aforementioned roles, but claims he’s ready and qualified to be mayor.
Cuomo’s ostensible target was his opponent Zohran Mandani, who he’s seeking to paint as young and inexperienced.
But Mamdani took to Instagram and shared screencaps of the Cuomo ad, captioned with a ringing retort.
“In a city of world-class artists and production crew hunting for the next gig, Andrew Cuomo made a TV ad the same way he wrote his housing policy: with AI,” he wrote. “Then again, maybe a fake Cuomo is better than the real one?”
Labor Numbers Aren't Good? Furlough The People Who Collect Them!
Why of course! Fill the people with more Nazi lies!
Trump’s ICE Gestapo Zip-Tying Kids In Chicago
"Clearly, the goal was to intimidate with a show of unnecessary force, not to make residents feel safer."
Trump's Nazi Gestapo are the dregs of humanity.
Colbert Counters Trump's Sombrero Meme With JD Vance Schtupping A Couch
Not so funny when you're the BUTT!
Dictators have a playbook — but the media seems oblivious to it
"Most jobs have a 'playbook,' a sort of instruction manual or checklist for how to do the job right, whether it’s running an assembly line, piloting an aircraft, or redoing a house’s plumbing.
Although our media seems oblivious to it, dictators have a playbook, too.
It’s one that’s been carefully followed in recent times by Vladimir Putin, Viktor Orbán, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Rodrigo Duterte, Jair Bolsonaro, and numerous initially-elected leaders of other smaller nations. In previous generations the Dictator’s Playbook was followed, step-by-step, by Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, Francisco Franco, Ferdinand Marcos, Agustin Pinochet, Josef Stalin, and Hideki Tojo (among others)."
What media? Oh, you mean Trump's media. All traitors.
Silicon Valley's 'sickening' capitulation to Trump is a 'tyrant’s best weapon': tech exec
"Former Google and Apple executive Kim Scott says in an op-ed in The New York Times that watching the intersection between the tech world and President Donald Trump echoes "the pain of watching Russia lose its briefly held freedoms."
Scott, who lived and worked in Russia, says Russia under Putin is "returning to a place of censorship, oppression and fear" — warning the shift strikes too close to home in the United States.
"People who control the social media outlets that so many Americans use to form their political views [paid] homage to Donald Trump at a White House dinner," Scott notes.
The same treasonous bastards as Vichey France.
El Salvador’s Dictator Bans “Inclusive Language”
May this turd die of slow stomach cancer!
Hannity Parrots Trump’s “$17T In Investments” Lie
This Nazi swine believes in the Blue Fairy!
Assholes like him are over the hill now.
"Hannity is a lying political hack who made his wealth off of lies, hate and intolerance and un-American propaganda. He needs to be gutted like a fish..." — Thewolflam (comments).
STUDY: 100,000 US Churches To Close In Coming Years
All this means is more of the con artists will be online.
DOJ Forces Apple Into Removing ICE Tracking App
If we are fighting a war for truth and justice we go underground.
Apple is chickenshit. Never used one of their products. Never will.
What happened to "Home of the brave?"
Trump: Dems Are “The Party Of Hate, Evil, And Satan”
This is not what a president of our country would say. This cheap dictator must be removed. He has disgraced our coounty enough. He is responsible for his atrocities upon us. He's a mad dog. Stop him for good. It's time.
Petty Jerk Ted Cruz Calls Mamdani A 'Jihadist' On Kudlow
So much for "toning down the rhetoric" Cancun Cruz.
Shove your fear-baiting back up your ass where it came from, Ted.
The usage of the reatarded slang word "Woke" has been used up. It means nothing but "my enemy" and that's it you fucking moron asswipes.
Have You Noticed Kash Patel Is An Idiot?
Trump never hires the best people, and this guy heads domestic law enforcement. Ugh.
We knew he was an idiot for some time. Anyone that doesn't see this needs serious help.
'Signs of psychosis': Trump’s 'deranged' late-night 'reaper' video sparks alarm
Someone is finally waking up to the madman? What took you do damned long?
Trump's insanity is palpable!
What criminals say when they're blackmailing you
..."I know you can’t make deals with liars and cheaters. Even if the president and his party agreed today to the Democrats’ terms, there’s no assurance they won’t turn around tomorrow and impound the money they said they would spend. Trump has already impounded – illegally – billions and billions, some with the Supreme Court’s blessing. This mistrust is deepened by the increasingly extortionist language coming out of the White House. The press secretary said yesterday that if the Democrats 'don't want further harm on their constituents back home, then they need to reopen the government. It's very simple.'
That’s what criminals say when they’re blackmailing you."
Of course. "Nice family you've got back home. It would be a shame if somehing happened to them."
We are dealing with a crime syndicate, America.
Weird Drivel and Loser Shit: This Looks Like Terrible
"Our authoritarian theater lurches on amidst the forging of a police state by an avenging 'Peace President,' equally deranged and malignant, who conflates lies, raves, phantasms - see wacko AI videos - with reality. The five-time draft-dodger, with his neo-Nazi Secretary of War Crimes, just rabidly urged a roomful of silent generals to join a 'war from within' against their own citizens, now in Portland. Reviews of his new reality show: 'Fat Man and Little Boy bombed.' Also, 'The commander-in-chief is not okay.'
Despite his manifest unfitness and underwater approval ratings- 'People hate this mad king shit' - he and his vile cohorts are busy erasing rights and building an internal legal and military force aimed at silencing skeptics, opponents and 'terrorist networks,' aka most of us, in the time-honored name of 'national security.' This week he also got to play peacemaker with a war criminal, spewing 'fatuous bleats' as he proclaimed "one of the great days ever in civilization" at the signing of a Gaza 'peace plan' that included no Palestinians, leans hard into Israel's genocidal vision, and puts a bloody "stamp of legitimacy" on their effort to 'achieve through politics what the war of extermination could not achieve on the ground.' Hamas must take it or leave it: 'There is no negotiation here. There is an American plan.' If Hamas rejects it, Israel will 'finish the job' thanks to the plan's convenient loopholes; Trump eagerly affirmed they'd 'have our full backing to do what (you) have to do.'"...
..."On Wednesday, Trump announced 200 National Guard troops were "now in place" at a small protest at Portland's ICE facility, and they have 'begun restoring LAW AND ORDER.' But NBC News affiliate KGW reported "none can be seen," and lawmakers said they'd been told troops still need a few days to prepare, maybe by wending their arduous way through the artisanal breads. Guard officials say the deployment, expected to cost at least $3.8 million, is to 'protect federal facilities,' a slight discrepancy from a White House release declaring troops would 'crush violent radical left terrorism' in the tranquil city. 'I know this isn't easy,' Oregon's adjutant general told Guard members of a mission neither they nor residents seem enthused about. 'We don't get to pick and choose.' (*guess he never heard the word 'coup?') For now, five Portlanders, some in bathrobes, held a pastry protest - 'We're here for the hellscape' - as other stalwarts struggled to endure the war's hardships. 'They have forced us to listen to music and revel in community,' they said. 'Pray for us.
Did Mike Johnson Just Agree That 'The President...Unwell'?
He seems to agree!
Democratic Pennsylvania Rep. Madeleine Dean confronted House Speaker Mike Johnson over Donald J. Trump's glaringly obvious failing mental health, which the president displayed in front of generals and admirals from around the globe at Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s unprecedented military gathering.
Dean came out and said it: “The president is unhinged. He is unwell.”
Johnson responded, “A lot of folks on your side are, too; I don’t control him," seemingly agreeing with Dean.
“Oh my God, please," Dean shot back. "That performance in front of the generals?”
“I didn’t see it," Johnson insisted.
“It’s so dangerous!" Dean said. "You know I serve on Foreign Affairs and Appropriations, it’s a collision of those two things. Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing. You have a president who is unwell.”
Dean also confronted Johnson over the racist AI-generated video Trump posted on Truth Social mocking Senate Democratic Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, calling them "woke pieces of shit."
Johnson said, “It wasn't my style."
“Not your style?" Dean said. "It's disgraceful. It's racist. You should call it out.”
Fuck Trump!
Did Mike Johnson Just Agree That 'The President...Unwell'?FBI's Kash Patel Chooses TPUSA Over Anti-Defamation LeagueDid Mike Johnson Just Agree That 'The President...Unwell'?
Kash Patel is quickly turning the FBI into a right-wing activist hate group as its Director and added another notch to his playbook by ending ties with the Anti Defamation League because they criticized Charlie Kirk's TPUSA.
The ADL has worked for years with the FBI and has called out many racists and anti-Semites with their glossary of Glossary of Extremism and Hate. However, with the backlash they are receiving from the MAGA cult over the death of Charlie Kirk, they have removed it from their website. Elon Musk has called the ADL a hate group so that says a lot about their credibility.
On topic, The Daily Beast points out that Kash is doing this in part to score points with Trump. Donald's nemesis James Comey had praised the ADL in the past.
James Comey wrote “love letters” to the ADL and embedded FBI agents with them - a group that ran disgraceful ops spying on Americans.
That era is OVER. This FBI won’t partner with political fronts masquerading as watchdogs. pic.twitter.com/R6IKpSTfuP
ROTFLMAO! Top notch comedy!
Oops! GOPer Calls Out 'Inflammatory' Rhetoric, But It's A Quote From Trump
California GOP Sen. Brian Dahle expressed his outrage over Gov. Gavin Newsom's rhetoric on the Bad App. The only problem is that it's a direct quote from the Trump administration. Just before the Trump-Epstein shutdown took place, the White House responded to Democrats wanting to secure health coverage for 20 million Americans by saying, "Go fuck yourself."
Dahle took a screenshot from Newsom's site, posted it on Xitter, writing, "More inflammatory rhetoric from Newsom to invoke far-left radicalism."
More inflammatory rhetoric from Newsom to invoke far-left radicalism. pic.twitter.com/1an3Ai5yc8
— Senator Brian Dahle (@BrianDahleCA) October 2, 2025
I'm unsure what's wrong with Dahle since that exchange happened last week. He's a little slow! Democrats took to social media to express their disgust over the "Go fuck yourself" comment by the White House last week, so I guess Dahle missed it.
Newsom's press office responded on Xitter to explain: "Senator Dahle — the “go fuck yourself” is in quotes because it’s a statement from TRUMP. The WHITE HOUSE provided it to Politico when asked about Democrats wanting to keep Americans on health care."
The Stupid Virus ruins another one.
Gavin Newson Signs Law Cracking Down on AI Industry
100% support for this. No fake actors. No fake musicians. As the saying goes, "keep it real."
Everything's already fake enough as it is.
MAGA Rages After FDA Approves Generic Abortion Pill
They can rage all they want but there will be plenty of them that will use it!
A woman has the right to choose! When will the idiots ever learn this?
If males were the ones that got pregnant it would be a sacred right to have an abortion!
Bernie Sanders: Trump's shutdown outrage shows we are living in truly dangerous times
"Make no mistakes about it, we are living in dangerous and unprecedented times as we combat Donald Trump‘s oligarchy, authoritarianism, kleptocracy, and his horrific attacks against working families.
We have more income and wealth inequality than we’ve ever had; we have more corporate control of the media than we’ve ever had; we have more billionaire money buying elections than we’ve ever had.
We have a major housing and educational crisis, people are going to the grocery store and can’t afford the food their families need, and we have a health care system that is completely broken.
Meanwhile, we have a president who is a pathological liar, who has little regard for the rule of law, who is suing media outlets that criticize him, threatening to jail his political opponents and talking about the military invading U.S. cities as practice.
And on Tuesday night, as you know, the government shut down because — for the first time in modern history — Trump and the Republican Party are approaching a budget conversation that requires 60 votes with a take it or leave it approach.
I will not take it...."
Then let's do something about it!
Ex-Trump faith advisor pleads guilty to sexually abusing 12-year-old
"MAGA megachurch pastor Robert Morris pleaded guilty on Thursday to charges of sexually abusing a 12-year-old female in the 1980s, according to a new report.
NBC News reported that Morris admitted to five counts of lewd or indecent acts with a child. Morris' plea deal allows him to serve six months of a 10-year sentence, according to the report. Morris is also required to register as a sex offender and pay $250,000 in restitution.
Morris is the founder of Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas, in 2000. It is considered to be one of the largest non-denominational megachurches in the country, with a regular attendance of more than 20,000 people, according to reports."
Another one bites the dust.
Veterans take a shot at 'so-called patriots' as ICE arrests 70-year-old Air Force vet
"Air Force veteran Dana Briggs was captured on video telling federal agents to go away. Suddenly, he was on the ground, surrounded by federal agents and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement staff, led away and arrested.
WLS News reported that veterans and other allies met outside of the Broadview ICE detention center on Thursday, demanding that ICE stop "harassing peaceful protesters and immigrants." The protest comes after President Donald Trump announced he was sending in troops to control the crime in Chicago.
"Veterans from the non-profit 'Common Defense,' alongside Illinois Vets for Change and the [American Civil Liberties Union], spoke out against the increasing presence of ICE and use of military force in communities," said the report.
The groups call the arrest of the elderly man an escalation of state-sanctioned violence.
"So-called patriots are turning a blind eye when they see mass deportation efforts tearing apart our community, turning a blind eye when they see masked ICE agents and National Guard troops flooding our streets and numbing us to the reality that our civil rights, our democracy is being crushed day by day," said Jesse Rojo, who serves as the chair of Veterans for Change.
Their day is coming.
'Take action!' Outrage as GOP lawmaker doubles down on calls for congresswoman's execution
"Thirty statewide advocacy groups are urging the Republicans who lead the Arizona House of Representatives to take action against a GOP legislator who called for the execution of a Democratic congresswoman because she urged people upset with President Donald Trump to peacefully protest in the streets.
Kingman Republican Rep. John Gillette wrote on the social media site X on Sept. 25 that U.S. Rep. Pramila Jayapal, a Democrat from Washington, was calling for the government to be overthrown and should be hanged.
“Until people like this, that advocate for the overthrow of the American government are tried convicted and hanged.. it will continue,” Gillette said in response to a video of Jayapal. X has since limited the visibility of Gillette’s post because it violates the social media site’s policy on violent threats.
The Arizona Mirror was the first to report on Gillette’s call for violence against Jayapal.
“Representative Gillette’s comments were disorderly behavior of the highest order, reflect a broader pattern of inciting political violence that put lives at risk, and should not be tolerated by Arizona House leadership,” the letter obtained exclusively by the Arizona Mirror says, citing the House’s own rules. “We urge you to take action against Representative Gillette’s incitement of violence against another elected official, to demonstrate to the people of Arizona that they are free to non-violently protest and engage with their state legislature without fear for their lives.”
What he really wants to see is a lynching. A return to the Land of the Happy Negro.
'They're going to kill a lot of people': Expert delivers dark warning over Trump notice
A legal expert delivered a dark warning Thursday about the Trump administration's confidential notice to Congress about “unlawful combatants," warning, "they're going to kill a lot of people" — and smear anyone seeking proof.
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick posted on X in response to The New York Times report indicating that President Donald Trump is apparently declaring that the U.S. is at war with drug cartels.
"They're going to kill a lot of people and claim that everyone of them was a drug trafficker, and call you a terrorist-lover if you ask for any evidence," Reichlin-Melnick wrote.
The notice was obtained by The Times and sent to multiple congressional committees and includes more details about the three strikes the U.S. military made on boats in the Caribbean Sea that left 17 people aboard dead and how these acts "should be seen as lawful rather than murder."
"Mr. Trump’s move to formally deem his campaign against drug cartels as an active armed conflict means he is cementing his claim to extraordinary wartime powers, legal specialists said," according to The Times.
But according to law these are war crimes and subject to international law. There will be a day of reckoning.
'Absolutely wrong': Ex-NYPD chief blasts Trump for killing police funding
Trump is making his bed in hell.
"New York is still the number one terrorist target in the world, even more than 24 years after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, said Terry Monahan, former NYPD chief of department. But Donald Trump just killed counter-terrorism funding.
Speaking to MSNBC on Thursday, Monahan explained, 'Taking money away from the number one terrorist target is absolutely wrong. And it's something that has to be fought. And hopefully we're going to win this in court. But otherwise, this funding all goes into a city budget, and the NYPD now has to fight through a city budget to see if we can get the money to pay these analysts, pay for the equipment that we have.'
MSNBC host Katy Tur wondered where such money comes from if this funding is slashed in retaliation by the Trump administration.
Monahan stated that certain technologies are funded entirely by this federal grant. The funds are used to investigate terrorist networks and conduct counterterrorism work.
Catherine Christian, who spent 30 years in the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, told Tur that money allocated by Congress for a specific purpose must be issued as it was passed.
That has been a key point from several agencies that the Trump administration has drastically reduced, such as USAID.
Monahan said that there were 71 terrorist plots thwarted since 9/11 as a result of the counter-terrorism operations created after the attacks. Some of the work that was done in New York, he said, also had bearing on other places 'throughout the United States,' he said."
Symone Sanders-Townsend: The White House’s Goal Is Enacting Pain
"The Trump administration is turning up the heat now that the government has shut down, cancelling billions for green projects, targeting funding for infrastructure in New York and threatening mass firings of federal workers. Democrats, meanwhile, are trying to hold the line in the Senate with their demands about health care. Elsewhere, the White House is asking a group of top universities to join a compact supporting the president’s political agenda so that they can get federal funds. MSNBC’s Symone Sanders-Townsend joins Tim Miller to talk about the shut down fight and whether the president has overplayed his hand, how Democrats can eventually win seats back in the Senate and what the administration’s pressure on academia is really all about."
Illegal Chicago Raid Makes ICE The Only Jackbooted Fascists In The Building
"Around 300 federal officers from the FBI, Border Patrol, and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives raided a five-story apartment building in Chicago’s South Shore neighborhood in the early hours of Tuesday morning, breaking down doors indiscriminately and dragging people out of their apartments without any pretense of showing a warrant. Nearly every apartment in the building was entered or approached, and people were dragged out of the building, including men, women, and children, many in night clothes, and some completely naked. The raid was part of the Trump administration’s ongoing 'Operation Midway Blitz' in the Chicago area, just to call to mind the Nazi invasion of Europe at the beginning of WWII."
Nazi brigands raid homes and assault Americans.
"Just so long as it's not me." say many of us.
Blue States Sue After DOJ Blocks Aid For Rape Victims
Filthy pigs. Dirty as a sewer. The DOJ is part of a crime syndicate. Shut them down!
Trump to talk with Vought about which ‘Democrat Agencies’ should be cut
All of this criminal shit that Trump thinks he is getting away with will all fall back on him and smother him. Think of it! He's is bringing slow death on himself.
'This is illegal': Legal expert calls out move by Dept. of Education over shutdown email
Of course it is. A crime syndicate backed up by a corrupt gang of Nazis wearing black robes!
Throw the bums out!
Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 10. Hackers Are Celebrating.
The company will stop supporting the OS on October 14. Advocacy groups warn this will leave up to 400 million computers vulnerable to hacks or in the dump.
Microsoft is the same as Trump. They give not one fuck about any of us unless we send them money.
Thankfully, there is third party software that can help with this. I know of Windows 7 computers still in operation and working fine for most basic things.
SEXUAL MATADOR GOEBBELS IS MORE HARDCORE THAN ANY OF YOU MEMPHIS GANGBANGERS!
"Attorney General Pam Bondi, Secretary of War Gulf of America Pete Hegseth, and the boss of the entire Hitler 2.0 administration, the one they say is really calling all the shots, Stephen Miller, landed in Memphis yesterday to give the troops a pep talk.
Why did Secretary Shitfaced AKA the secretary of Defense, AKA the secretary of WAR! Daddy Issues And Masculine Insecurities, need to be there, for this operation in Memphis, Tennessee, which is a city in US America? Oh that’s right! Because the Trump regime KK-Qaeda cell has announced its intentions (repeatedly) to strike within the United States.
And they are in Memphis now.
Just all the white men you’d cover your drink around if they walked up to the bar, and the white woman who’s totally comfortable protecting that kind of guy, clearly, considering how hard she likes to play Hide-The-Epstein-Files.
It is like a USO visit, except for Pete Hegseth didn’t do any naughty burlesque strip teases.
So yeah, Shitfaced and Nazi Barbie and Sexual Matador Goebbels landed in Memphis yesterday and promptly traipsed out to 'encourage' law enforcement. From what little we watched of the speeches, it appears that Shitfaced unzipped and pulled out his masculine insecurities for those gathered, just as he had with the generals a day before. As we’ve had occasion to remark this week, it’s the ONLY TUNE HE KNOWS. Nazi Barbie said whatever she said, in that nasal 'I invented Post-Its' way she talks, we’re sure it was riveting and still not the Epstein Files."...
Is America Sleepwalking Into The Dictator’s Playbook?
History’s tyrants followed this same path — and those citizens who failed to resist lost their nations forever.
Only the ones with the Stupid Virus.
The New Normal Isn’t Normal, Nor Particularly New
..."Although the data hasn’t been fully collected, most of the world’s people would probably agree that the human race is suffering from a severe shortage of normal people. The United States is no longer united, but it is only one of several nations seriously afflicted by that shortage. Far too many of us wouldn’t recognize a normal person if we saw one, not that that’s likely to happen."
..."We've been busy for a very long time electing the most abnormal people we could find to high offices. Lindsey Graham, Senator from South Carolina, keeps getting elected, for instance. How can that be normal when the man changes direction faster than a ping pong ball? And haven't the heads of our major corporations shown themselves to be so abnormally avaricious, clueless, and supine that they no longer know when enough is enough?"
..."That’s not new, of course. Greed and wealth disparity has a long history, here, there, and everywhere. It's just way worse now."
..."And so, we now have the "new" normal, though it doesn't feel normal at all. We have soldiers dispatched to various cities to do battle with people in American cities. We have overweight and undertrained masked men patrolling our streets hassling anyone they suspect might be from Mexico or even farther south. We have virtually every member of one of our two major political parties aligned in defense of a suspected pedophile."
DOE To Colleges: Go Full MAGA If You Want Funding
Blithering stupid!
And you can eat shit, Nazi!
Axios Poll: 47% Say Groceries Now “Harder To Afford”
Only 47% shop for groceries?
In this household groceries are 2.3% higher than a year ago.
"And things are actually worse now than Biden times. Electric bills are skyrocketing due to consumers subsidizing all the added demand from A.I. Data Centers going online.
One of the area electric utilities announced there will be a $10 a month residential surcharge to pay for new power plants covering the need from new Data Centers.
P.S. Adding insult to injury a large human resources and payroll company in Oklahoma City just announced they are laying off 500 employees and replacing them with A.I." — April the unperson (comments).
Trump: We’ll Use Shutdown To “Clear Out Dead Wood”
Start with yourself, asshole!
Four Dead, 19 Hospitalized In Pasta Listeria Outbreak
Safe food supply becomes a thing of the past.
Trump Guts Rules Against Foreign Bribery, Wonder Why
The current administration tells the world they don't prioritize going after bribery.
The Trump Crime Syndicate continues its rape of our law.
Shutdown Won’t Stop Trump’s Gaudy Ballroom Construction
The government shutdown halts paychecks for hundreds of thousands but work on Trump’s Gilded-Age ballroom will not be interrupted.
What an eyesore. But doesn't Marie Trump look worried about a sharp blade?
Federal judge’s 'blistering' ruling against Trump contains a stunning warning for his enemies
"Judge William G. Young's ruling maintains international students' rights to free speech despite the administration's efforts to deport them after a professors union and student groups sued the Trump administration over its efforts to detain and deport immigrants who expressed pro-Palestinian views."
"Alone, I have nothing but my sense of duty," the judge replied. "Together, we ... you and me — have our magnificent Constitution."
America, the beautiful!
Farmers say Trump tariffs 'punch customers in the face' as GOP fears midterms massacre
Only if we can get to the polls to cast our vote!
Trump’s 'disgraceful' military 'maelstrom' was 'tantamount to incitement': foreign policy expert
The speeches given Tuesday at Quantico by President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth were not only reprehensible, but "tantamount to incitement," according to Kori Schake the director of foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, in Foreign Policy.
"Their words should leave no doubt in anyone’s mind that the civilian leadership intends to use the threat and actuality of violence to infringe on Americans’ constitutional rights," Schake says.
We all know what must be done. We just need someone to break the glass.
'Extortion — plain and simple': Trump admin ripped for $18B NYC funds freeze
Another crime with which he will be charged.
Trump's Military Training Order Violates Constitution
Does ANYONE now think he has read and understands our Constitution?
Trump Clueless On What ACA Subsidies Are
"Donald Trump was clueless when he was asked to explain why he is against healthcare subsidies for Americans from the ACA, since immigrants are ineligible for those credits.
In his Big Ugly bill, Trump is targeting Obamacare and the premium COVID subsidies that will expire since they were not included in the bill, affecting millions of Americans.
Since Trump has no idea how healthcare subsides work for the public, he changed topics and ranted about the border, migrants and undocumented workers because that's all his addled brain can focus on."
This is what we get from a retarded lunatic president.
Professor Warns Society Is Veering Toward a Digital Apocalypse
"Constant hacks, ransomware attacks and data leakages are warning signs that this is a deeply fragile system."
Between this shit and Open AI shit the world could end very easily.
MAGA Host: Federal Workers Are “Communist Parasites”
How much does this retard get paid for his puke?
Whatever it is, is too goddamned much!
Lawmakers Across the Country This Year Blocked Ethics Reforms Meant to Increase Public Trust
American fascism in action!
How You Like Me Now?
GOP senator pushes back on pro-Trump Supreme Court ruling — and urges suing of president
The guy who has fired everyone will help us get employment going again? This is the definition of retarded!
MSNBC's Joe Scarborough snaps as GOP lawmaker ducks Trump's threat questions
"“Yeah, what's really sad is that we have American cities that are this bad, right?” she replied. “We're supposed to live in one of the safest countries, in America, and just compare and contrast what happened in D.C., right, is when President Trump brought the National Guard in, there was, every other day, there was a murder.”
Bullshit.
Trump's Nazis are so goddam stupid they should never go on TV to debate anyone!
'She's that incredibly ignorant': Ex-education head slams Trump's appointee for AI blunder
Former Education Secretary Arne Duncan told CNN's Wolf Blitzer the Trump administration has 'no education goals' and that current education boss Linda McMahon isn't qualified — citing a recent blunder in which she confused AI and calling it 'A one.'
President Donald Trump is reportedly using the government shutdown as an opportunity to fire even more federal workers, including at the Department of Education. About 90% of workers are currently under furlough and a small number are working without pay.
'Trump has done everything he can to attack education, dismantle education, attack higher education. So this is just another excuse to do that,' Duncan, who worked under President Barack Obama, said.
'And unfortunately, the dismantling of education actually started when he selected Linda McMahon to be his education secretary. She went to an education technology conference and started talking about A1. No one knew what she was talking about. She meant A.I., she's that incredibly ignorant of the most massive changes that ever happened.'
He added that the administration is not prioritizing the future — and the nation's kids."
The bigger the moron, the more Trump loves it!
How ICE Terror Campaigns Are Used to Discipline Labor
While Chicago sees a surge of ICE detentions, workers are facing retaliation as immigrants when they advocate for their rights.
Porn Again Christians: Evangelicals’ Porn Problem Meets Project 2025
"...A Little History: In 1985, President Ronald Reagan appointed a commission to study obscenity and pornography. The Attorney General’s Commission on Pornography, also known as The Meese Commission — named after the then-Attorney General Edwin Meese — was staffed by primarily by social conservatives, including the late James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family.
The commission’s report was lengthy, coming in at almost 2000 pages, and unsurprising in its finding. According to Wikipedia it 'document[ed] what the committee found to be the harmful effects of pornography and connections between pornographers and organized crime. The report was criticized by many inside and outside the pornography industry, calling it biased, not credible, and inaccurate.'
[Side Note: In 1988 Meese was forced to resign due to the Wedtech scandal.]
At the time of The Meese Commission, porn hunters might find themselves in a back room at an adult bookstore or at some sleazy movie house. Little did commission members anticipate that thanks in large part to the Internet, pornography would become a multi-billion-dollar industry. Perhaps even more surprising is that evangelical Christians would become keen users.
Project 2025 may attempt to revive the Meese Commission’s crusade against pornography, but the reality is that pornography is more accessible, more profitable, and more normalized than ever. Evangelical leaders may continue to denounce it from the pulpit, but their congregations’ private lives tell a different story: the war on porn is one their own flock shows little interest in winning."
And, next to he that shall remain nameless, are the biggest pedo porners? You already know: So-called "Pastors!"
Show me a "true believer" and I'll show you why Eric Hoffer wrote his book.
Here Are Your Clips Of Late Night Audiences Laughing At Loser Pete Hegseth
"What happened yesterday, with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and President Donald Trump gathering all the nation’s generals and admirals in one room so they could lecture them about how it’s time to do crunches and shave (Hegseth) before we start launching wars against the American people (Trump), was awful.
But it’s also a teachable moment about how to respond to where we are right now. You defeat tyrants through constant mockery and derision, ridicule and truth-telling. When they threaten the jokesters and the truth-tellers, that’s when you turn up the heat. This is why people like Jimmy Kimmel are so threatening to authoritarians and Nazis and fascists. Nothing pierces an authoritarian’s sense of his own importance and power like the cacophony of voices pointing and laughing at them.
Speaking of Kimmel, when we watched Secretary Shitfaced yesterday, there was one moment that we, as a Professional Of The Hilarious Laughing Arts, were hoping the late night moments would seize on, not because we particularly cared what specific jokes they told about it, but because we wanted the clips out there of Hegseth speaking these certain words, and then immediately having to endure Americans laughing at him.
We are of course talking about that prissy hysterical loser moment when Hegseth pulled his camouflage Pull-Ups all the way up around his nipples, struck his most threatening pose, affected the greatest swagger he could affect — and we know about his swagger, because we saw him trying to do the griddy the other night LOLOL what a fucking loser — and he looked at the camera and he issued this warning to any American adversaries who might think of messing with the American department of WAR!"
That Pete Hegseth Speech Could’ve Been A Spam Email For Boner Pills
"Let’s be entirely clear here: there is nothing Secretary Shitfaced AKA Pete Hegseth said or did today that will change anyone’s perception that he is a fucking joke, as a Defense secretary and as a man.
However, if you wanted to get all the country’s generals and admirals in the same room — an absolute amateur hour failure of Op-Sec obviously — to declare that the United States is finished, the alcoholic divorced dads and (credibly accused, settlement paid!) alleged rapists are in charge, that the military is being run by losers too busy preening over their masculine insecurities to actually, you know, defend the country, well, we’re not sure how you could have MISSION ACCOMPLISHED! that more effectively than what we witnessed this morning.
Perhaps no moment in the speech encapsulates this more completely than when Hegseth looked at the crowd of stone-faced people who outrank him, and declared to our adversaries that “They will be crushed by the violence, precision, and ferocity of the War Department. To our enemies, F-A-F-O.”
MAGA Dude Who Shot Up, Burned Michigan Mormon Church Called LDS 'Antichrist,' Surprise
"Donald Trump, never one to waste the opportunity to blame the Left, immediately insisted on his fake version of Twitter that 'This appears to be yet another targeted attack on Christians in the United States of America. THIS EPIDEMIC OF VIOLENCE IN OUR COUNTRY MUST END, IMMEDIATELY!'
Wonkette still thinks it’s the guns, mostly. And Trump’s ‘permission structure’ for hate, too."
"Of course, the fundamentalists who believe that Mormons are dangerous heretics, as Sanford apparently did, according not only to Johns, the City Council candidate, but also the shooter’s friends, would argue that no real Christians were harmed, not even the youngest victim, a 6-year-old Sanford shot in the arm, or the boy’s father, Ben Phelps, whom Sanford shot in the abdomen. Both survived."
The choice is now Trump vs. Jesus as a profane president rejects Christianity’s highest teaching
Trump the unlettered con man wouldn’t learn right from wrong if Jesus taught the class.
Trump dishonors Jesus’ ‘woke’ doctrine. When did vengeful “hate thy enemy” displace the Christian love gospel?
Since interpretation became NAZI HATRED!
'Disbelief': Pentagon reporter can't find one military official who liked Hegseth's speech
Then CRANK UP THE COUP! MAGA LOVES COUPS!
'Too fat to be Commander in Chief?' Hegseth speech backfires as Trump becomes punchline
The most dangerous fatass dumbshit that ever existed!
Trump to be hit by 'largest peaceful protest in modern American history': organizers
May it be the biggest baseball bat in the history of the world!
'What on earth is wrong?' Analyst claims 'confused' military now asks if Trump is 'sane'
Short answer" NO! And NONE of his bootblickers are!
MAGA can’t expand its base — and Christian music tells us why
The songs from Charlie Kirk's memorial exposed a serious problem
"If Christian music appealed to anyone outside the white evangelical world, we’d have seen evidence of it by now. CCM has been around for decades, and yet it remains what it always was — watered down versions of sounds that were popular on the radio years ago."
"Most everything from Taylor Swift to the grittiest punk music is made by people on the left. That’s why evangelicals want their kids to avoid it. They rightly believe that it’s hard to go back to mediocrity after you’ve tasted excellence."
Art takes a brain to comprehend. Squares have never been able to dig it.
Taiwan Rejects US Demand To Move Chip Factories
Who would make a deal with the failing USA?
FAA Employees Must Work Unpaid During Shutdown
Strike and form picket lines.
We are at war, like it or not.
Johnson: If Dems Win Midterms, They’ll Impeach Trump
This is why Trump will prevent future elections in the USA. Which iw we he must be stopped!
If you want a free country with elections again you will have to fight for it and not the way we have been fighting! Dig?
ICE Buys Tool That Tracks Locations Of All Cellphones
The age of "Big Brother" is upon us.
Trump's TikTok Deal Is Corrupt AF, But You Knew That
One watchdog leader noted that the president’s deal involves “one of his major crypto business partners that generates tens of millions of dollars a year for the Trump family.”
A crook deluxe! America is a lost country.
'Bad optics': 'Vets slam 'unqualified' Trump official’s 'insulting' speech
"Naveed Shah, policy director for the veterans group Commons Defense, told The Guardian, "A lot of the words that are coming to me aren't fit to print. The people in that room who have served for 20, 30-plus years in uniform do not need Pete Hegseth to tell them about warrior ethos…. Certainly, addressing the troops could be useful or beneficial, but to call 800-plus generals and senior enlisted advisers from around the world into this room just before a government shutdown? It's not just bad optics or strategy. A bad cold could have threatened our entire chain of command."
Hogsbreath is suicidal. All of the drunk military leader we have had were on America's side.This asshole is not A LEADER! Trump is A sick pedo, NOT LIKE Nixon!. Until we realize this, and remove them, we are doomed to fail.
'Drowned him out': GOP gov booed by his own party for 'grandstanding' on Kirk’s death
Stop calling them a party. They are a cult of rabid dogs.
He's not quite Nazi enough for the rabid retards.
'Like a loaded weapon': Supreme Court set to destroy last barrier to unlimited campaign money
They are fucking us like a cheap whore.
Local Chicago Cops Investigating ICE For Aggravated Thug Bullsh*t
"ICE agents have been making absolute asses of themselves. Gregory Bovino, commander at large, literally told a white, male, middle-aged WBEZ reporter that they are arresting people based on what they look like, pointing out that they wouldn’t look like him."
“You know, there’s many different factors that go into something like that,” Bovino said. “It would be agent experience, intelligence that indicates there’s illegal aliens in a particular place or location.
“Then, obviously, the particular characteristics of an individual, how they look. How do they look compared to, say, you?” he added, ostensibly with a straight face.
"They don’t even know what they sound like."
"They spent Saturday night tear-gassing the living hell out peaceful protesters, journalists, legal observers and medics outside the Broadview ICE facility."
Gun thug terrorist turds in our streets! What a disgrace our country is!
It’s Pete Hegseth’s Big Day! Let’s Talk About His BIG TEMPY TANTWUMS!
"Major Tempy Tantwums, reporting for duty!
Yay! Today is the day! All the generals and admirals are coming from all around the world and Secretary Shitfaced Pete Hegseth is going to get up on stage in front of them and show them how he does his hair and makeup to convince even himself when he looks in the mirror in the morning that he is a WARFIGHTER!
Then it is bottomless mimosas for everybody who says the magic word, which is, yeah, it’s still 'warfighter.' What can we say? There’s not much substance to the man beyond his masculinity issues and his lack of experience for the job he’s been entrusted with."
Second immigrant dies after shooting at Dallas ICE facility
The 32-year-old Mexican citizen died after being taken off life support, his wife said in a written statement.
Texas investigation into teachers’ posts after Charlie Kirk’s death violates their free speech, experts say
"Free speech experts say that when teachers speak in their personal capacity, even on school grounds but outside their official duties, they retain their right to comment on matters of public concern."
Impeach or Perish: Why Republicans Must Choose Between Trump and the Constitution
Impeachment isn’t just a political strategy; it’s the last defense of our Constitution. Republicans must act now, decisively and unapologetically. If they do, they may yet save America and themselves.
"Donald Trump and many of the people surrounding him have become explicit threats to what’s left of our democratic republic. And now they’re saying that my (or your) simply saying those words may be enough to get us locked up or otherwise legally, financially, or physically destroyed."
The question is: Do Americans even give a shit about their country?
Are they all cowards now? If so, there is nothing to fight for. They have lost the country to the Nazis!
But they won't get away from what's coming for them! History has shown us what happens.
“It’s a war from within.”
"If you were expecting Triumph of the Will, you were disappointed because what you got instead was fat, disoriented Elvis stumbling through his set. Except that it wasn’t funny. It was dangerous.
I promise you that the flag officers in attendance were more alarmed than amused. And you should be, too."
It's war. But where is the home team? The Army that uses ordinance to take out the enemy?
It’s Time for the States to Start Investigating Trump
You mean we have nothing on the crook? C'mon Steven, it's time for stronger medicine.
'25th Amendment!' Trump speech met with multiple calls for removal on social media
It's useless when you have a Congress controlled by the insane and barren of brain.
There must be a reckoning in another way. We all know what it is but are cowards in the end.
'Shame on you!' Dems erupt on House floor as Mike Johnson orders recess despite shutdown
Johnson is a spineless, hopeless, twerp of a man. Much the same as the MAGA Nazi "men" he leads.
An American Friend: The Trump-Appointed Diplomat Accused of Shielding El Salvador’s President From Law Enforcement
For those who like to read about world criminals with whom we associate.
Trump and His Minions Are Eyeing “Wholesale Destruction” of Environmental Science
It is a disgrace to allow insane beings to destroy us without a real firefight.
‘Say It to My Face!’ Hakeem Jeffries Rages at Trump Over ‘Racist’ AI Video
“Mr. President, the next time you have something to say about me, don’t cop out through a racist and fake AI video,” Jeffries said. “When I’m back in the Oval Office, say it to my face! Say it to my face!”
"Mr. President, allow me to reintroduce myself. I’m the House Democratic leader. Our caucus is 217 members strong. We serve in a separate and co-equal branch of government. We don’t work for you. We work for the American people. We are fighting to lower the high cost of living. And to protect the healthcare of everyday Americans. And Mr. President, the next time you have something to say about me, don’t cop out through a racist and fake AI video. When I’m back in the Oval Office, say it to my face! Say it to my face! House Democrats are here, on duty, fighting on behalf of the American people ready to fund the government in a way that lifts up their quality of life. House Democrats are on duty. House Republicans are on vacation. Shame on them for being on vacation all across the country and across the world on the eve of a government shutdown. We’re on duty. They’re on vacation. They’re on vacation because they’d rather shut the government down than protect the healthcare of the American people. That’s unfathomable. That’s unacceptable. That’s unconscionable and that’s un-American. Do your job. As opposed to being missing in action."
Trump is a low down and dirty rattlesnake coward.
Trump Addresses Generals And Admirals
Via CNN: "Brig. General retired on this network says this meeting called by @Hegseth is just a power move, goal to have military function as #Trumps militia, just as he has done with #DOJ and other regulatory agencies-THIS IS THE TRUTH, SIMPLE-NOT COMPLICATED."—- Beverly Spence (comments).
"Antifa won two World Wars. MAGA smeared shit on The Capitol walls." — meme.
"Trump's talking about himself in front of 800 flag officers who flew in from every corner of the earth on a moment’s notice.
He says absolutely nothing. Just Rambling bullshit about his redoubtable greatness. Biden nearly destroyed the country. Gulf of America. Ended 7 wars. Department of war.
They despise him. He is contrary to everything they know about honor, selflessness, and devotion to country. He is a shitbag."
— Riposte (comments).
Then when will their coup begin? Soon, I hope!
WH To Launch “TrumpRx” DTC Drug-Buying Website
Genuine Snake Oil at top dollar pricing! Don't miss this con, you suckers!
Trump: ‘Am I watching things on television that are different from what’s happening?’
"Why is one of the most extraordinary, revelatory quotes ever uttered by Donald Trump being ignored by the national media?
I’ll tell you why: Because it raises all sort of questions about his mental functioning and agency that the access-dependent Washington press corps would rather not acknowledge.
It confirms that Trump has no idea what he’s talking about. And it suggests he is either easily deceived, or manipulated, or both."
Most of us know Trump's mind is gone. Yet, the Nazis cling to him because he is the only thing protecting them from long term prison sentences or lawsuits.
'He has lost it': Outrage as Trump posts 'deeply racist' AI video of Democratic leaders
“The President of the United States posted this racist, altered video on his Truth Social account tonight,” they wrote in a social media post on X Monday night.
“This is obviously unacceptable. He has lost it. He needs to go; 25th amendment now. But I doubt JD Vance or Trump’s Cabinet Secretaries have the courage to get rid of him.”
America must do what must be done! NOW!
Newsmax Host: Boycott Super Bowl Over Bad Bunny
Greg Kelly opens the Newsmax sewer! Here are some of his turds.
Corrupt Republicans On SCOTUS Just Let Trump Do Whatever
The latest: The Supreme Court lets Trump withhold $4 billion in Congress-approved foreign aid.
Crooked as a snake!
Ohio family farmers describe life under Trump: 'We’re in a hell of a mess'
What oes it take to piss America off?
'We have a massive problem': Steve Bannon gives two-word explanation for MAGA mass shooter
Bannon is their real problem!
Support For Israel Plummets In Latest NYT/Siena Poll
It's about time!
Benjamin Netanyahu Warns That Israel Will ‘Finish the Job’ the ‘Hard Way’ If Hamas Rejects Trump Peace Plan
The Trump version of the Nazi final solution! He's the same as Hitler and this proves it!
'Trump is struggling': President's new fumble rekindles cognitive questions
"Trump is struggling today," journalist Aaron Rupar wrote on X.
"Genuine question, does he not have a speech writer? I mean that sincerely is there no one assigned to write out a couple of paragraphs for him so he can at least sound like he has two brain cells to rub together?" Blogger Karen Mulreid wrote on X.
"That’s not just struggling. He’s losing his mind before everyone’s eyes," Ann Clark wrote on X.
"Jeez! Remember when Trump went after Biden and accused him of having dementia? When he spoke far clearer than this rambling mess," writer Don McGowan wrote on X.
"Good god this is story-hour-at-the-senior-center energy," writer Sean Colarossi said via X.
"Trump was slurring his words and sounds like he was struggling to think," Patsy Evans, Ph.D., wrote via Bluesky.
Great Googa Mooga! How long have you been reading statements like this on the Land of the Happy Negro! Too goddamned long!
As UN Turns 80, Trump Continues US Violation of Charter’s Limits on Use of Force
Clearly, he is a threat to world peace. He must be removed from office immediately!
National Security Directive Declares War on Those Who Don’t Support Trump Agenda
This is no longer America. Why can't we wake up and see what the fuck is going on?
Did you think I was joking about concentration camps?
How To Lie About Left-Wing Terrorism Like A Common Axios And/Or Trump Fascist!
There were several notable mass shootings this weekend.
There was the one in Grand Blanc, Michigan, where a 40-year-old gunman killed four and injured eight at a Mormon church, which he also set on fire. The shooter was a Marine veteran of the war in Iraq. Was the shooter a Trump supporter, or perhaps his wife was? Sure looks like a solid maybe, if the dude’s “Make Liberals Cry Again” Trump T-shirt was any indication. Also the Trump sign in their yard. Regardless, Donald Trump has already claimed, without any basis, that it was part of a pattern of attacks on “Christians” in the US.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt is already claiming the perp hated Mormons. Is that true? Could be. Her source? Kash Patel. We’re sure Kash will produce an unspent bullet that says “Magic Underpants” with a line drawn through it by the end of the day.
In Southport, North Carolina, another Marine Iraq War vet, approximately the same age, is accused of opening fire into a waterfront bar. He was on a boat. Three killed, five injured.
In Eagle Pass, Texas, two murdered and five wounded at the Kickapoo Lucky Eagle Casino. Four people shot on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, one dead.
Motives for all remain unclear/not fully answered, though you’ll note that the first two accused perps were military vets and white guys, allegedly. We also note a continued, disturbing pattern, which is that each of these attacks was carried out with guns.
If they had only been armed with thoughts and prayers, nothing would have happened.
Trump Wags The Venezuelan Dog, He WANTS This Win
From The Substack: "It’s unconstitutional, it’s reckless, and it’s designed to distract the American people from Trump’s collapsing fac..err, health, as well as the Epstein files, and an economy teetering on the brink due to the economic illiteracy of Cankles McTacoTits (hey, I didn’t make that one up, it's his own staff!).
Trump gets to shout “communists, terrorists, brown invaders” while angling for oil, and a war-rally effect. But what he’s really doing is shredding the Constitution in plain sight. Retired Navy Commander Bobby Jones, a decorated and brilliant officer who provided incredible insight as to the plan here--as well as Hegseth's game in calling in all the flag officers from around the world and Putin's misery--joined us for “Amped Up” and laid it bare.
The JAG generals were fired, legal oversight’s been gutted, and personal Trump loyalists have been slipped into the Pentagon like a roofie in your Scotch and soda. The Venezuelan bombings aren’t military strategy—it’s political theater conducted by embedded, amateur extremists, and backed by live ammunition."
Trump Looks Foolish: US Strikes Didn't Take Out Iran Nuclear Capabilities
This isn't news. We've known it for some time.
Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission continues Christian Nationalist assault on public education
Send it back to hell where it came from!
A former NASA astronaut turned US senator has joined with other lawmakers to insist that his two rides to space remain on display in the Smithsonian.
Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) has joined fellow Democratic senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine, both of Virginia, and Dick Durbin of Illinois in an effort to halt the move of space shuttle Discovery to Houston, as enacted into law earlier this year. Kelly flew two of his four missions aboard Discovery.
"Why should hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars be spent just to jeopardize a piece of American history that's already protected and on display?" wrote Kelly in a social media post on Friday. "Space Shuttle Discovery belongs at the Smithsonian, where millions of people, including students and veterans, go to see it for free."
Because we have a dumb, stupid, goddamned Nazi Congress domestic enemy!
Chicago Delivery Guy Escapes Furious ICE Agents After Yelling “F*ck Trump, I’m Not A Citizen”
Goddamned Nazis in Chicago! Fat, old and slow, clown gun thugs! Where is YOUR National Guard, Governor Pritzker? Meet the enemy with counter force!
"While our "leadership" cowers in fear of a tin-pot dictator, some of our citizens are showing more backbone than all the elected Democrats combined. Attaboy!" — Swamp Yankke (comments).
"Real professionals would just let that roll off and not take notice. Shows ya who they under the Klan Hoods. I mean masks.
It's not your fucking jobs to defend the orange tin pot dictators honor dumb fucks." — Jay P (comments).
'Entirely on them': Trump's 'failure of leadership' likely to cause severe blow to GOP
I can tell you Trump is inserting racist uniformed gangs into Chicago. They should be met by the state National Guard as enemies!
We are being occupied by gun thugs of the lowest life forms on our planet!
Voldemort Behind Extrajudicial Strikes On “Drug Boats"
"Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff, has played a leading role in directing US strikes against suspected Venezuelan drug boats, according to three people familiar with the situation. At times, his role has superseded that of Marco Rubio, the secretary of state and national security adviser."
He will, in time, face an international tribunal and tried for murder.
Trump Declares 100% Tariff On Foreign-Made Movies
Their will be a new mental illness named after this retarded fuck.
The biggest know-nothing that ever was born!
QAnon Shaman Sues Trump For $40T: “I’m President"
Hell, I thought he was already! Trump is as big an idiot!
Florida Poll: Only 29% Back Ending Childhood Vaxxes
This pretty much rebukes the moron and his drive to kill us all.
Forecasters At Breaking Point With Hurricane Season
"National Weather Service staffers are working double shifts to keep forecasting offices open. Others are operating under a “buddy system,” in which adjacent offices help monitor severe weather in understaffed regions. Via The Washington Post:
The Trump administration’s cuts to the Weather Service — where nearly 600 workers, or about 1 in every 7, have left through firings, resignations or retirements — are pushing the agency to its limits, according to interviews with current and former staffers.
The incoming head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has promised to prioritize filling those jobs, and the White House recently granted the Weather Service an exemption from a government-wide hiring freeze. But as the Atlantic hurricane season peaks and wildfires ramp up in the West, hundreds of positions remain vacant, staff said. Forecasters are currently watching two storms, including one that could pose a threat for the eastern United States by early next week.
So far, exhausted employees have maintained weather monitoring and forecasting almost without interruption, staff said. But many are wondering how much longer they can keep it up. If the government shuts down next week when funding runs out, many employees could also find themselves working without pay, at least temporarily".
Welcome to the "Retarded Nation of Trump."
'A despot': Ken Burns signals danger of 'greatest existential threat' to the US right now
Thanks, Ken. Many of us have known this for some time. Others pay no attention. They are part of the problem.
'Unacceptable': GOP gov blasted by members of her own party for 'scandalously defying Arkansas law'
Can we stop pretending that the GOP is the party of "law and order?"
This tipping point will bring Trump's reign crashing down — and it's close
May it come soon.
'Unparalleled incompetence and imbecility': Expert staggered by 'perilous' Trump strategy
There's nothing American about Trump. He is our enemy that has infiltrated our system!
'We do not accept': Expert shares roadmap to block Trump’s 'mafia-style' use of DOJ
Stopping Trump's criminal activities is our number one job!
The next is putting him in prison!
Oregon Sues Trump Admin Over Troops In Portland
More Trump crime being sued!
Missouri Gov Signs New US House Map Into Law
The latest crime rig for the criminal Donald Trump.
Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe is a co-conspirator in the crime.
Rand Paul: “Chicago Is Literally A War Zone”
It is NOT literally a war zone! That's Nazi hyperbole!
"The right loves to treat Chicago like it's Somalia. But Chicago is not even in the top 10 of the most violent cities in America. This "Chicago is a war zone" is getting old." -- Octoberfurst (comments).
Yes, it's connected with Obama so hate comes into play for Chicago!
Michigan Mass Shooter Was Full QAnon/Anti-Vax/MAGA
These asswipes can't be shamed, disgraced or disctouraged until they kill us all!<>
THIS IS WHO DONALD TRUMP SUPPORTS IN HIS WAR ON OUR COUNTRY! HE IS AMERICA'S DOMESTIC ENEMY!
Thune: Farmers Need Bailout Due To Trump’s Tariffs
He might as well be saying, "I am the biggest dumbass on the criminal's staff!"
Who voted the jackwagon in?: THE FARMERS!
President Liberace Boasts Of “Highest Quality 24 Karat Gold In Oval Office, Foreign Leaders Freak Out”
Cheap styrofoam? LMAO!
I can promise you, Don, it's not because they think it is FABULOUS!
And Liberace would be a lot more fun if he were president!
WSJ: Pentagon Orders New Missiles For China “Conflict”
Read (if you are literate) The Pornography of Power.
"But heaven forbid we increase SNAP by $50 a month." — Todd20036 (comments).
Judge Finds Secretly Deported Immigrant Will Likely Face Torture
U.S. District Court Judge Amir Ali found that an immigrant could face torture after President Donald Trump's administration deported him despite an ongoing court case.
If you get sent to El Salvador they aren't going to treat you nicely in any way. They are fascist killers!
Trump's latest a clear sign he's an aging paranoid megalomaniac
And that's putting it mildly!
Revealed: Trump admin issued 'declaration of war' against his enemies in this overlooked memo
“I don’t want to sound hyperbolic but the plain truth is that NSPM-7 is a declaration of war on anyone who does not support the Trump administration and its agenda,” journalist Ken Klippenstein wrote in a piece raising alarm about the directive on Saturday.
Trump's war on America!
'Hates Trump and MAGA': Right-wing rages as a critic is chosen to headline Super Bowl halftime
Perfect. Roger Goodell stirs the turds! Now some Trump Nazi will attempt to mess it up for all of us.
The bitter irony behind Trump's vengeance-fueled Comey indictment
"For principled critics of James Comey, the fraudulent and politicized indictment of him issued by a federal grand jury in Virginia is wrapped in layers of bitter irony. It would be entirely fair to suggest that the former FBI director brought this illegitimate prosecution upon himself.
His new jeopardy is only one facet of the unfolding national disaster instigated by his own actions in October 2016. In those days before a presidential election, he made a fateful decision to disclose a renewed FBI probe of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and 'her emails' (which ultimately proved to contain no classified information, as the Trump administration officially acknowledged many months later).
It was a choice that violated legal ethics and Justice Department rules, and has permanently damaged the institutions of law he claimed to be protecting.
Yet however dismal Comey's own conduct may have been, and however culpable he remains in the rise of Donald Trump, the Justice Department's fraudulent attempt to jail him on direct orders from the president is an historic assault on the liberty of all Americans and must be resisted as such. Although he isn't the first victim of Trump's drive for authoritarian power and won't be the last, the Comey case represents a stark departure from American standards of justice and an unmistakable step toward tyranny."
I've got news for Joe. We have already arrived at TYRANNY!
The Republican Shutdown is a Threat to Social Security
It's all Trump's war on America. He must be defeated to save our country. To all military personnel : Stop serving a domestic enemy!
Lindsey Graham cites rumor about Trump's 'golden shower experience in Russia' on Fox News
During a Sunday interview on Fox News, Graham brought up a 2016 dossier that alleged Trump engaged with prostitutes in Russia. According to reports, however, Comey was indicted for false statements about an investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that had nothing to do with the dossier."
Oh, dear! He's jealous of Trump getting his "Russian golden shower." ROTFLMAO!
All Trump's lethal buffoonery is contained in this pathetic suit
"The first thing experienced defense attorneys do when they get a new complaint is read it end to end, to see if it tells a compelling story. Did my client say something so stupid, so damaging, his transcript is already at FedEx Kinkos, blown up billboard size for opening statements? Is there a hidden narrative lurking that plaintiffs’ own counsel has, miraculously, somehow missed?
But once in a while, you get a complaint so full of bombast, ignorance, and braggadocio you assume the lawyer was drunk when they filed it. Pleadings, after all, can become trial exhibits, and if your client is a self-impressed a------, you don’t want to advertise that fact to the jury.
When you get that complaint, you share it among peers, because your friends are all litigators who love a good laugh. Had I been on the receiving end of Trump’s New York Times complaint, I’d have sent it out as an early Christmas gift."
Maine's food pantries stare down volunteer shortage while anticipating cuts
Trump wants Americans to starve!
GOP Rep Demands “Criminal” Charges For Newsom After Newsom Correctly Labels Voldemort As “Fascist”
The little Nazi chickenshits. Are they ashamed of their fascism? If you aren't fascists then stop acting like fascists! They hate our First Amendment. This is proof!
And Voldemort is a fascist. Besides, it's a compliment and not an insult. They can fuck all the way off!
Mass Shooting At Michigan Mormon Church
American violence is like no other.
Federal Workers Brace For Mass Firings In Shutdown
"Around 300,000 employees are set to be off the payroll by the end of the year. The federal workers who remain are now facing the prospect of going without pay for an indefinite period — or possibly even losing their jobs."
Trump continues his war on America.
"As a former federal employee, the last thing in the world I want to see is federal employees being fired. But if the Epstein pedo goes there — orders mass firings and thereby brings a halt to essential government services that Americans rely on — it could very well spell the end of the pedo and the crime syndicate today going by the name 'Republican Party.'" — another_steve (comments).
Residents Shut Down Google Data Center Before It Can Be Built
"Google nixed plans for a gigantic $1 billion data center on more than 460 acres of land in Indiana after residents hotly protested the proposal due to concerns that the complex would jack up electricity prices for neighbors and suck away untold gallons of water in an area already plagued with drought.
The tech behemoth was planning to rezone the acreage for the data center, but then withdrew the plans at a raucous Monday meeting where the Indianapolis City Council was expected to vote on whether to approve the rezoning, according to NPR affiliate WFYI. Cheers reportedly broke out among the overflowing crowd when attorneys from Google said they were pulling out.
Victory over vast waste!
OpenAI’s New Data Centers Will Draw More Power Than the Entirety of New York City, Sam Altman Says
Talk about pollution. This is nothing but a vast wasteland!
First Responders Are Being Overwhelmed by Data Center Fires
They are disaster areas and we keep thinking they are something else.
Billions In Taxpayer Money ‘Virtually Untraceable’ Under Trump
"Across federal agencies, the Trump administration’s aggressive slash-and-burn approach to federal programs, grants and contracts has repeatedly challenged Congress’ power of the purse. The administration has claimed it has the discretion to redirect funds to programs aligned with Trump’s agenda — and Republican congressional leaders have largely let them do it.
The outcome: Billions in taxpayer dollars have become virtually untraceable — a level of opaqueness in government funds that’s raising questions around the legality of the administration’s actions. Some of these taxpayer funds expire on Sept. 30. If they’re not spent by then, like all funds Congress appropriated specifically for 2025, they disappear.
NOTUS attempted to trace the money appropriated for more than 100 government programs to understand where taxpayer dollars are going, only to hit dead ends repeatedly. Data is outdated or conflicting, agencies have been vague in their explanations, and in many cases, there’s no publicly available evidence that appropriated money is being spent at all."
Sheared like the sheep we are!
This is what we get for trusting a crook that should be in prison now doing 20 years.
WH Responds To Dems Wanting Health Care In Funding Bill: 'Go Fuck Yourself'
He loves America, you see! /S
Trumpism isn't going 'to survive': analysis
It's already dead and rotting.
'Please say it's a joke': Outrage as Trump endorses conspiracy theory in bizarre video
What else would you expect from a snake oil con man?
Little-Noticed WH Directive Classifies “Anti-Christian” Opinions As An Indicator Of “Radical Left Violence”
Christianity doesn't run our government and never has. It never will. Fuck off!
Ric Grenell: Trump Wants To Save The “Dying Arts”
Take another shot of Botox, Ric, and leave America alone!
The Sound of Music is about escaping from goddamn retarded Nazis like you, Ric!
Florida Youth Pastor Arrested On Child Porn Charges
Another one bites the dust. Still no drag queens.
It appears there is something in the water in Florida.
WH Plan Would Reward Colleges Who Cave To MAGA
Trump swine bribery. How crass and low-down!
JD Vance Continues To Blame Trump's Economy On Biden
Anyone remember this BS from Trump? “Starting on Day 1, we will end inflation and make America affordable again."
As long as they blame someone else for their mistakes they avoid responsibility for their own fuck-ups!
America has a religious fundamentalism problem — and we are not exempt from the damage
"The divine is always invoked to conquer, to exclude, to strip away the humanity of others."
The worst disease to hmanity.
The Talibastards can go straight back to the place in hell where they came from!
'So disingenuous': CNN panel pounces GOP strategist's denial of Trump's history
Sure it is. Keep calling it out!
Trump’s Top Anti-Tylenol Expert Was Paid to Hate Tylenol, Records Show
Wow! Fake Hate!
Experts Alarmed That AI Is Now Producing Functional Viruses
Where do you think the Stupid Virus came from?
Delivery Robot Torments Disabled Man
Cancel the Bastard Bots!
New Public Toilets Make You Watch Ads to Get Toilet Paper
Children, they are making us watch ads as we fill up our vehicles, making us watch ads on our refrigerator doors, making us watch as many ads as there is entertainment on TV and this trend should be resisted to the MAX!
Texas Man Charged With Threat To Shoot Up Abilene Pride Parade: “Come On Bro, Let’s Go Hunting Fairies”
Another cowardly Texas would-be killer for Charlie Kirk!
FBI Fires Agents Who Knelt At George Floyd Protest
More proof they are racists with no morals.
Armless Texas Pastor Arrested On Child Porn Charges
Another one bites the dust!
"A 49-year-old Conroe man was arrested and charged with promotion of child pornography following a months-long investigation by Montgomery County law enforcement, Precinct 3 officials announced Friday. Jon Paul Sheptock was taken into custody by Texas Department of Public Safety troopers after detectives searched his home."
Texas Tech Chancellor Bans Mentioning Trans People
What else would you expect from a Texas Backthinker?
“Terrorism Task Force” Deployed Against ICE Protesters
When fascism takes over this is what we get. Trump Gestapo Terror!
Trump Says He’ll Send Troops to Portland and Sanction “Full Force” Against Americans
This is all about destroying democracy and kill the First Amemendment!
We must fight them to the end.
Trump 'authorizing Full Force, if necessary' as military deploys to another US city
Trump has made our country live in fear. For that he should be removed!
Justice Thomas signals during speech the court is open to tossing aside prior rulings
This is what Nazis do to democracies. Impeach the miscreant now!
From Goebbels to Trump’s Christian Nationalists: Glorifying Motherhood, Promoting Female Submission
“Motherhood can be deeply fulfilling, and few would argue that family life is unimportant. Yet authoritarian movements have long politicized it, reframing it as women’s sole purpose and a substitute for autonomy and rights,” Adrienne Matei observes in The Guardian. Welcome to the “womanosphere” — also called the “femosphere.”
Putin and Trump: When Cowards Play with Matches
Trump, Putin, and the sparks that could set the world on fire
"The only question now is whether this moment will be remembered as the turning point that stopped another world war, or the disaster when Trump and Putin together opened the gates to it."
Two of the biggest pricks that ever lived.
'Too far': Liberal justice rips new Supreme Court ruling in sharp dissent
"If those laws require obligation of the money, and if Congress has not by rescission or other action relieved the Executive of that duty, then the Executive must comply. It cannot be heard to complain, as it does here, that the laws clash with the President’s differing view of 'American values' and 'American interests.' ... That inconsistency, in other words, is not a cognizable harm, to be weighed in the equitable balance. It is merely a frustration any President must bear."
NBC News: Pentagon Planning Strikes Inside Venezuela
Colonialization and regime change? This is Backthink.
"The administration has not provided evidence that drugs were on all of those boats.
They haven't shown evidence that drugs were on any of those boats. They just blew them up." -- Šcott C - Vive la résistance (comments).
This should get him to a tribunal courtroom if he lives long enough.
Anti-Trans MAGA Wisconsin Gov Candidate Drops Out After Report He Follows Transgender Porn Accounts
"Wisconsin business owner Bill Berrien, a supporter of President Donald Trump, ended his Republican campaign for governor on Friday, days after it was reported that he followed numerous sexually explicit accounts online, including a nonbinary pornography performer."
An Ugly American berates the United Nations — and shames the rest of us
Trump's angry speech before the General Assembly was "coarse absurdist theater"
Get rid of the rat.
'Trump Dance' Gives Tigers Worst Collapse In Recent Baseball History
The Detroit Tigers' epic September crash has become the worst collapse in MLB’s divisional era, all because their players started dancing like Trump.
The Clown Dance never works.
Alarms raised as over 1K detainees 'disappear' from Trump's 'Alligator Alcatraz'
You mean they were supposed to keep track of them? Holy Shit! Will someone be arrested now?
Over 60 Lawmakers Launch Investigation Into Trump Administration’s Disappearances
Dozens of Democratic lawmakers announced they are investigating the Trump administration’s practice of disappearing immigrants to countries where they are not citizens, have no connections, and are at risk of being tortured. “We are concerned that the Trump Administration is offshoring the immigration detention system in an apparent attempt to evade the due process requirements of the U.S."
Trump isn't the sole cause of our deepening divide
"Capitalism is compatible with democracy only if democracy is in the driver’s seat. But the absence of democracy doesn’t strengthen capitalism. It fuels despotism.
Ironically, the CEOs of many large American corporations are now finally confronting this reality. Despotism is bad for capitalism. Despots don’t respect property rights. They don’t honor the rule of law. They are arbitrary and unpredictable. All of this harms the owners of capital. Despotism also invites civil strife and conflict, which destabilize a society and an economy.
My message to every CEO in America: You need democracy but you’re actively undermining it by polluting it with big money and throwing much of your support behind a tyrant whose arbitrary and capricious decisions are threatening your businesses. It’s time for you to join the pro-democracy movement.
This is not only about economics. Widening inequality and a weakening democracy take a toll on the moral wellbeing of the nation, on the implicit social contract that binds us together, on the trust and cohesion we need to accomplish anything worthwhile."
True. But he hasn't done us any favors. It all stems from "Citizens United," turning corporations into people, and the death of the Fairness Doctrine. And — The Stupid Virus!
Musk, Bannon and Thiel named in new Epstein estate documents
Oh, dear! How could this even be possible? ROTFLMAO!
Did Melania & Donald Trump Have a Fight on Marine One?
Does a bear shit in the woods?
“Extremely Disturbing”: What Does Trump’s “Antifa” Executive Order Actually Do?
It gives the Trump and his Nazi gangs the imaginary right to fuck you over and up no matter who you are.
Des Moines Schools Superintendent Arrested By ICE
Some really high grade ICE bullshit here.
'That's assault': Federal official 'relieved of duties' in response to violent video
In an official announcement on Friday, September 26, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) revealed that a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent has been relieved of his duties pending an investigation of a video that shows him violently shoving a woman to the ground.
The ICE thugs keep turning up heat with their death march.
'Pathetic': Military experts rip Pentagon head after reason for generals' meeting revealed
Whisky Pete Hogsbreath just wanted to pontificate his excellent ego to his peons.
“You are pathetic,” declared Fred Wellman, a graduate of West Point and the Harvard Kennedy School, and a 22-year combat veteran who is now the host of the podcast “On Democracy.”
“Supposed to be leading the largest department of our government with millions of troops and civilians and you are trolling retired generals who served honorably longer and more heroically than you could,” Wellman added. “You’re not even a good squad leader.”
“Yes, totally worth the cost and time and effort to pull hundreds of people away from their commands to listen to Hegseth and his deep thoughts about being a warrior,” snarked The Atlantic’s Tom Nichols, a retired U.S. Naval War College professor.
“So it’s a juvenile Rah Rah high school football speech, that cost[s] a ton of money, takes leaders out of positions in where they [are] managing crises, and puts a massive target on Quantico,” remarked Marc Polymeropoulos, a retired senior U.S. Intelligence Service officer. “Plus they all gonna get stuck when govt shuts down. Genius all around.”
'I want blood in the streets': Editor of conservative site 'explicitly' demands 'violence'
"Force corrupt police to intervene. I want blood in the streets," he wrote.
Earlier this month, 404 Media reported that the Trump administration quietly deleted a DOJ study finding that violence by the American far-right far outpaces "all other types of terrorism," including acts of violence by both the political left and Islamic jihadists.
"Far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left or radical Islamist extremists [since 1990],” the report read, “including 227 events that took more than 520 lives.”
Ask and ye shall receive.
'What goes around comes around': Morning Joe warns MAGA against cheering Trump’s retribution
"What goes around come around," Scarborough said Friday morning after the DOJ revealed indictments against former FBI Director James Comey on two felony counts. Prosecutors allege Comey made false statements to Congress and obstructed a congressional proceeding about the bureau’s investigation into alleged links between Trump’s 2016 campaign and Russia.
As critics condemned the indictments as vindictive, meritless and "a dangerous breach of norms," Trump allies, notes Mediaite, "greeted the charges with celebration of what they saw as long-overdue accountability."
Scarborough said Thursday was “tough day” for “people who believe in the rule of law, who believe in the political norms and the constitutional norms that have shaped this country.”
He also said that Republicans may be next in Trump's line of attack.
"They must understand that if there’s a billionaire independent who decides to be president of the United States, gets elected and then decides to start going after Republicans, Republican senators, Republican House members, Republican judges, Republican political operatives, all that independent will have to do is just pick up the phone, call his or her attorney general and say: ‘Arrest Republican senator A, arrest Republican political opponent B. Go after conservative think tank C.' I mean, it is, again, extraordinarily dangerous," Scarborough said.
Co-host Willie Geist agreed, saying, “Here it is right in front of us, the weaponization of government."
Actually, this is a new reign of terrorism and Trump is the terrorist!
'Trumpism will fail': Economists predict president’s down-low socialism is doomed
This sort of sewage always fails.
White House to the Public: Give Us What We Want or We’ll Hurt You
“The Trump administration is threatening to inflict massive harm on all of us unless Democrats in Congress surrender in the funding fight. A temporary lapse in funding does not provide grounds for an agency to fire federal workers indiscriminately – and really, this is just a threat to harm the public if Republicans don’t get their way."
How do you like being fucked over by petulant 5-year olds, America?
Whiskey Pete Orders Double-Secret Meeting In Virginia Next Week
"What is this sinister whack job up to now?"
"What if they just got up and walked out? What if they all said they had to go to the bathroom at the same time?"
Hogsbreath would be humiliated!
Pete Hegseth: Medal Of Honor Recipients In 1890 Battle Of Wounded Knee Massacre Can Keep Their Medals
And here I thought they were erasing atrocities committed by government killers. I guess we are now glorifying them.
Why not medals for all the slave owning families too?
'It was a signal': Stephen Miller statement seen as clue for ICE's next big target
Our Civil War is going to get red hot and bloodier soon.
Republican demands congresswoman be 'hanged' for urging Trump protest
He should be wearing his swastika arm band. Is he really that much of a treasonous coward?
"Rep. John Gillette, R-Kingman, wrote on the social media site X that U.S. Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., was calling for the government to be overthrown and should be hanged."
Old Media Is Bending the Knee. We Won’t
Hey guys, it’s Sarah. I don’t need to remind you that we’re living through . . . some stuff. Let me give you data points on the bigger picture:
In a matter of hours, the administration pressured ABC into sidelining Jimmy Kimmel for saying things Trump didn’t like. This capitulation was after ABC paid off Trump for one of his sham lawsuits.
Now Trump and his allies are talking about doing the same thing to other shows, and saying they’ll “go after” journalists who report critically on them.
Paramount canceled Stephen Colbert to appease Trump and grease the skids for its merger. And it’s reportedly preparing to hand over CBS News to people who think “woke” kids at Oberlin are a bigger threat than the authoritarian takeover of the federal government.
The Washington Post is in the throes of a full-scale MAGAfication, purging dissenting voices and drifting more and more toward shameless Trump apologia.
Facebook and Twitter have gone MAGA, with Zuckerberg promising to bring “masculine energy” back to his platform and Musk turning Twitter into a full-blown white-power conspiracy machine.
But don’t worry—it gets worse.
Just today we got official word that TikTok (the social media platform that dominates the attention of teens in America) is being gobbled up by a consortium of MAGA-friendly tech oligarchs in a deal that Trump engineered through a process that was a flagrant violation of federal law.
This is a full-blown authoritarian takeover of the dominant information streams through which most Americans get their news today.
The Road to the Camps: Echoes of a Fascist Past
The irony is unbearable. Trump has saturated public life in lies, turned immigrants and Black citizens into targets of contempt, and made corruption and violence the grammar of governance. He pledges loyalty to dictators, surrounds himself with sycophants and thugs, and uses state power to abduct foreign students, persecute immigrants, and declare war on the so-called left, grotesquely blaming them for Charlie Kirk’s death, even before a suspect was arrested. What should be a moment of grief over Charlie Kirk’s death has been twisted into a weaponized spectacle, with Trump and his allies rushing to frame the assassination as proof of leftist extremism.
As Jeffrey St. Clair observed, “Leaders of the Right didn’t waste much time counseling their ranks to restrict themselves to ‘thoughts and prayers’ over the murder of Charlie Kirk. Even before the assassin had been identified or a motive uncovered, they blamed the ‘violent rhetoric’ of the Left for Kirk’s death.” This is not mourning, it is the oldest trick in the authoritarian playbook: accuse first, investigate never, weaponize tragedy to consolidate power.
Trump’s Shutdown Extortion: Lies, Bribes, and a War on Democracy
Dark money, foreign payoffs, and dangerous lies are pushing what's left of our government to the edge
"If his lips move, he’s lying. Or trying to solicit a bribe. Or slandering Democrats. Or, today, taking hostages."
"And now, just this morning, they’ve announced that they’re taking hostages. Federal employees will be fired, rather than temporarily furloughed, if there is a government shutdown."
Filthy pig!
OK Schools Chief Quitting To Spend More Time Clinging To His Gun (Peener) And Trump Bible
Walters was elected to the job in 2022 even though (or because?) he believed the stupid conspiracy theory that “they” are putting litterboxes in the schools for children who identify as cats. Once in office, he promptly got to embarrassing himself by saying he thought the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre could easily be taught in public schools without violating his ban on teaching “critical race theory,” just as long as the lessons don’t “tie it to the skin color and say that the skin color determined that.”
He identifies as a Backthink moron.
How Can Trump Be A Fearsome Dictator If He’s Such An Unpopular Loser?
"It’s weird that Trump is still making all these moves like he’s going to live in the White House forever, like President Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez won’t host the most badass demolition day on the White House grounds (like they do on HGTV!) like four days after her inauguration, to let the American people show Trump what they think of his 'improvements' to the People’s House. It’s like he doesn’t even believe he’s going to have to worry about there being an election in 2028 or something!
Of course, if that’s the case, then that’s especially weird, when you consider just how universally loathed and hated and mocked he currently is, and his numbers are just going down, down, down."
"Let’s see, everybody hates Trump on immigration, and that’s the thing he was supposed to be good at. Everybody thinks he’s an idiot on trade and economy. Specifically all those wars he loves to brag about ending, even though when you ask him which ones he’s ended, he’s like DURRRRRRRR THE GREAT ARMENIAN CAMBODIAN BOWLING GREEN MASSACRE and everybody laughs at him?
Well his approval is swirling around the bowl of his golden toilet on Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Hamas, and it should go without saying that Donald Trump also has not not ended any other wars."
Billions in Taxpayer Dollars Have Become Virtually Untraceable
The Trump administration’s aggressive approach to overhauling the executive branch has obscured how federal dollars are actually being spent — even for the members of Congress.
Have you looked into Trump's vaults?
'You can rot in prison': Trump DOJ 'goons' warned they may now face 'life-wrecking felony'
"So when you raise your right hand and swear an oath to uphold the Constitution, then kneel to Trump and scribble charges against his enemies, you’re not 'just following orders.' You’re the willing goon in his vendetta, and when this nightmare ends, you’ll be the one staring down an indictment," Wilson then added. "Nuremberg rules apply. 'I was only doing my job' is not a defense: it’s a confession."
"Trump will go down in history as a man who tried to turn American justice into a punishment protection racket. Cross him, and the DOJ arrests you. Pay him, and you’ll get a pardon for even the worst crimes. And you, the toadies who obeyed him, will be remembered not as patriots, but as henchmen in cheap suits. When the cell door slams and the history books are written, the only question left will be: was selling out your oath worth it?"
Fuck Trump!
James Comey: I’m Not Afraid Of Tyrants, I’m Innocent
“My family and I have known for years there are costs to standing up to Donald Trump. But we couldn’t imagine ourselves living any other way. We will not live on our knees, and you shouldn’t either. Somebody that I love dearly recently said that fear is the tool of a tyrant. And she’s right. But I’m not afraid, and I hope you’re not either. I hope instead you are engaged. You are paying attention, and you will vote like your beloved country depends upon it, which it does. My heart is broken for the Department of Justice, but I have great confidence in the federal judicial system. And I’m innocent. So, let’s have a trial. And keep the faith.” – Former FBI director James Comey, in an Instagram post referencing his daughter, who as fired a federal prosecutor in July.
Fuck Trump!
Trump Hails Comey’s Indictment: “Justice In America”
Says the biggest criminal the U.S. has ever known!
"Justice in America will come when Trump is dead, dead, dead." — Thewolflam (comments).
RFK May Add Autism To List Of Vaccine Side Effects
He may do many acts of insanity before his end. Rocks in the brain doesn't help any of us.
Eric Swalwell: “I Fully Expect” Trump Will Indict Me
Trump is digging his own grave.
State Department: Most Asylum Seekers Are “Fake”
Just like this asshole?
If you have hundreds of thousands of fake diplomats, what happens to the real diplomats?”
BBC: Huntington's Disease Successfully Treated For First Time
This is incredible news.
THIS is what research dollars do. Hint, hint, RFK Jr.
Don't let that toxic bastard anywhere near this!
Trump is the asshole of ALL TIME!
Jimmy Kimmel's Back As World Leaders Mock Trump!
Folks, let’s talk about who really pulls the strings in America’s so-called “free press.” Jimmy Kimmel may be back on ABC, but let’s not kid ourselves—giant, soul-sucking monopolies...
Why Trump DOJ’s 'vindictive' Comey indictment is an 'embarrassment to authoritarians'
This should be an expose of all of Trump's crimes before its over.
"For me, a journalist who covers declining democracies, this set off some pretty obvious alarm bells," Beauchamp warns. "President Donald Trump had already openly called on Attorney General Pam Bondi to prosecute Comey, one of his most prominent critics, but there, she was hampered by what looked like a total lack of evidence. Just this morning, ABC News reported that attorneys in Virginia’s Eastern District had investigated Comey for two months but found insufficient cause to support an indictment. That such an indictment was filed anyway feels a lot like a vindictive effort by an authoritarian president to wield law against his enemies."
'Absolutely criminal': Social media erupts at 'open corruption' of Trump's granddaughter
Another Trump grifter from America's First Family of Crime gets her head start
Kai Trump's new business venture was widely condemned on social media by various journalists, experts and commentators. University of Texas at Austin professor Josh Busby called the first granddaughter's clothing line "cute corruption." University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill history professor Joe Stieb called for "hundreds of articles of impeachment" against Trump "for emoluments violations alone." LGBTQ+ activist Mara Keisling wrote: "This is absolutely criminal." And Nilay Patel, who is editor-in-chief of tech outlet The Verge, pointed out that Kai Trump's clothing website is registered in Ukraine.
"This is the predictable & unprecedented new level of open corruption that happens when the president openly monetizes his hotel in plain sight for four years & we don't do anything about it," University of Wisconsin political science professor Mark Copelovitch wrote on Bluesky."
Bodycam video undermines DHS account of fatal ICE shooting near Chicago
Newly released Franklin Park police footage contradicts DHS claims of serious agent injuries as calls mount for an independent investigation.
Do we think the killers are going to investigate themselves?
Who will investigate the crime?
Zeldin: Trump’s Right, Climate Change Is A “Con Job”
Said the "Shit fer Brains" Fox that was guarding the hen house!
"So basically the same people who told us that cigarettes don't cause cancer are telling us that global warming is a hoax. Yeah, we can all tell that it's hotter every summer and the weather us FUCKED UP. Even the planting maps on the back of seed packages have had to be changed." — Houndentator (comments).
The Stupid Virus has taken another victim!
"Two things we know: Increasing CO2 and CH4 in the atmosphere is warming the planet, and for every degree celsius the atmosphere warms, it is able to hold 7% more moisture. These are not political opinions, they are scientific facts. And given that the atmosphere has warmed 1.75 degrees celsius during the Industrial Age, we can conclude that the atmosphere is holding at least 10% more moisture. We have no frame of reference for how these increases are affecting weather patterns, and computer models can only tell us so much, but the impact is increasingly obvious and accelerating. I suspect that heat waves and heavy downpours, when they occur, will trend toward more catastrophic.
I'm 66 with no dependents, and I won't live long enough to see the worst of it, but my nieces and nephews are having kids of their own, and I know the world is going to be a far, FAR more unpleasant place if and when they get to be my age. At the root of the problem is uniquely human narcissism and greed and excess, which is why I'm not hopeful we'll be able to mitigate climate change before a full scale ecological collapse is underway. And that's exactly what will happen if we continue pumping carbon into the sky." — Chuck Anziulewicz (comments).
"If anyone should have to swim Oyster Bay with concrete shoes, it's Zeldin." — egm (coments).
Morons would sooner believe that drinking anti-freeze is fine to do but will reject science facts.
New Rendering Shows Ballroom Towering Over WH
Mental illness is a horrible condition!
"I expect every Democratic presidential candidate in the next election cycle to pledge to tear it down, along with any other disfigurements of the WH that have been inflicted by Dump. That includes the Rose Garden. How the fuck one man can inflict his personal brand of atrocious design impulses on an icon of American government is unbelievable." — penpal (comments)
House Spending Bill Renames Pell Grants For Trump
And Trump talks about low IQs! ROTFFLMFAO!!!
What a tender ego this fool has.
"Can these pieces of shit suck Trumps dick any harder? The Government shut down in six days and this is what they are doing?...All of them need to be put into a running woodchipper feet first." — Thewolflam (comments).
FL To Fund Research On Using Horse Paste For Cancer
They must enjoy being the laughing stock of the planet!
As the commentor states, they should be required to take mega-doses of it!
Trump Dumbass Lindsey Halligan Ain't Need No 'Evidence' Or 'Probable Cause' To Indict James Comey!
There’s an awful lot of “The fascism is not coming, it’s here” in this story, but don’t worry, it’s also full of reminders that our fascists are fucking dumbasses. So take heart!
"Line prosecutors have written a memo to Lindsey Halligan, the new clownishly inexperienced-yet-blonde lawyer Donald Trump installed to lead the Eastern District of Virginia after the last guy Eric Siebert refused to make up crimes to charge New York AG Letitia James and former FBI director James Comey with. Will Halligan do that for Trump? Uhhhhhh, well, she’s inexperienced, blonde and MAGA, and Trump hired her to be part of his legal team after he saw her at Mar-a-Lago wearing a suit, which we guess looked like 'central casting' to him? (Those lady lawyers on Law & Order are ALWAYS wearing a suit!)
So she’s perfect!
She’s like the Miss Virginia version of Miss New Jersey Alina Habba, we bet she can fake smart just like Habba too! (What? Do you think former Miss USA owner Trump is doing anything here besides lining up pageant contestants on a stage? Heh.)
So yeah, Lindsey Halligan, a moron, is totally ready to do that for Mister Trump.
News started to break yesterday that Halligan was preparing to do exactly that, to indict James Comey for (???), to teach him a lesson! (About refusing to drop the Russhur Russhur Russhur investigation, even though Trump totally demanded it and then fired him for disobedience. Also whatever else is making Trump mad about Comey, he’s got a list of grievances. Remember who told Trump about the pee tape rumors? Yep.)
Which brings us to the memo."
Texas counties struggle to process voter registrations using state’s new system
The Texas Talibastards only want voters that will vote for them and their fascism!
Workers Demand Justice for Immigrants as More Die in ICE Custody
Elected officials learned two more people died in federal immigration detention this week, bringing the total number of deaths to at least 16.
Trump's Death Camps are working to catch up with Hitler's.
MAGA superintendent flees Fox interview as he's grilled on resignation
Can't take the lessons he's learning it appears.
Insiders reveal Pam Bondi has 'concerns' about charging James Comey
Ooops! A sign of a conscience here?
Kick your boss in his tiny dick area!
Starbucks is closing more stores and laying off 900 workers
The Trump economy continues to collapse!
House Democrat Moves To Impeach Sec. Brain Worms
Stop him before he makes aspirin illegal! He's the perfect example of steroid poisoning!
We've had it with this dumbass!
Elderly US Citizen Brutalized By ICE Files $50M Lawsuit
Sue the living shit out of Trump's Criminal Nazi Gestapo!
Los Angeles’s ABC affiliate reports:
"A 79-year-old Van Nuys car wash owner has filed a federal civil rights claim seeking $50 million after he says he was violently body slammed and pinned by federal agents during an immigration raid at his business on Sept. 9. The claim names the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Border Patrol, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement as defendants.
Rafie Ollah Shouhed, a longtime Valley Car Wash owner, said he was inside his business at 7530 Van Nuys Blvd. when masked agents stormed the premises. Surveillance video reviewed by KTLA shows a federal agent shoving Shouhed to the ground inside a hallway.
Shouhed told KTLA he stepped outside to speak with the agents, offering proof that his employees were legally authorized to work, but was instead cursed at, pushed back, and body slammed onto the pavement. According to the civil rights claim, three agents then jumped on his back, with one forcing a knee onto his neck while others restrained his arms. Despite agents later acknowledging he was a U.S. citizen, Shouhed said he was denied phone calls to his family and released without charges."
Mysterious Object Screaming Toward Mars Is Huge and Far More Massive Than Scientists Thought, According to New Paper
And it's coming for Trump to carry him away!
Trump's Threats Against Jimmy Kimmel Backfire
The criminal fails again! Get him the fuck out of our White House!
Jim Jordan Tries, Fails To Help Trump Silence Critics
Lying like a rug!
He disgraced Ohio State University and now has disgraced our country!
Americans aren’t buying Trump’s Nobel Peace Prize pitch
Because everything he's selling is homemade shit!
'Not really what I voted for': Young Trump voters sour on the president
The Daily Beast reports young voters who backed Donald Trump in the last election now regret their choice.
While talking to the The New York Times, young voters were frustrated with Trump’s failure to improve the U.S. economy, his militant stance on immigration, his abandonment of his “America First” agenda, and his blundering in overseas conflicts.
When The Times asked young Trump voters the first word that came to their minds when they think of the president, Mustafa, a 28-year-old from Georgia, said, “The way that he’s been handling things recently, ‘dictatorship.’”
'Monstrosity': New White House ballroom renderings draw brutal mockery for Trump
The best Trump can do is resign and leave the country!
POLL: A Plurality of Swing-District Voters Support Impeachment Amid President Trump’s Ongoing Crackdown on the Constitution
Here's the list of grievances.
America wants Trump in prison where he belongs.
It’s Watergate, Every Day
And hell comes with it!
It’s Good to Be King: The Largest Transfer of Wealth and Power Since 1776, and It’s Going the Wrong Way
This is not law and order: it's monarchy enforced by fear and lawsuits.
The total goddamn list of the criminal that is raping our country!
The Dismantling of the US Forest Service Is Imminent
"Using an emergency declaration, Trump’s timber production executive order would ease environmental protections so as to greatly expand logging in the national forests."
More devastation of our country. How much more of this horse shit can we stand?
God’s “Blank Check”: Christian Zionists Are Pouring Billions of Dollars Into Israeli Extremism
“We Christians are calling on our beloved President Trump and his team to aggressively remove all barriers to Israel’s sovereignty over all the land.”
Backthink among those infected with the Stupid Virus.
FDA: More Radioactive Shrimp Were Sold In 31 States
Axios reports:
"Check your freezer — there are concerns over potentially radioactive shrimp again. Federal health officials first warned in August that certain shrimp might be contaminated with radioactive isotopes, prompting recalls in 12 states.
The Food and Drug Administration announced a recall today of multiple frozen shrimp bags possibly contaminated with Cesium-137, a radioactive isotope.
Both Aquastar and Lawrence Wholesale LLC issued recalls for items sold at Kroger, Ralphs, Smith’s and over a dozen other stores, per the FDA. The shrimp products were sold in 31 states, including Virginia, California, and Texas, per the FDA."
Our food supply will only get worse.
Idaho Pastor Arrested On Multiple Child Porn Charges
Another one bites the dust!
Psychiatric Facilities Are Being Bombarded by AI Users
"The mass adoption of large language model (LLM) chatbots is resulting in large numbers of mental health crises centered around AI use, in which people share delusional or paranoid thoughts with a product like ChatGPT — and the bot, instead of recommending that the user get help, affirms the unbalanced thoughts, often spiraling into marathon chat sessions that can end in tragedy or even death.
Bomb them back!
'He’s a criminal': College student stuns MAGA podcaster in brutal shouting match on Trump
He's right and Kelly is a co-conspirator in his crimes!
Trump energy secretary blames Biden for Trump-era energy hikes
One more in a long line of chickenshits that shirk responsibility.
JD Vance's words come back to haunt him after he demands people stop using Nazi as insult
It's not an insult. It's what he and they are. He's in denial, otherwise.
His dumbass boss uses it all the time!
"Even Nazis Think Trump Is A Nazi" — meme.
'Never seen it so bad': DOGE cuts have Social Security workers needing to be 'medicated'
Can we see what Trump's fascism has done to America yet?
Ready to invade: Donald Trump shifts his focus back to Chicago
At Charlie Kirk's memorial, he vowed to "save" the Windy City
This may be another bridge too far from STUPID. Chicagoans don't take kindly to Nazi Invasiaons!
'Fakest Sh*t I've Ever Seen': Critics Aren't Buying DHS's Statement On ICE Shooter
This isn't even a good try.
This is what happens when you hire your help from "Hire-A-Clown."
Her ICE pirates weren't targeted! Immingrants were, you shithook!
"Oh, fuck right off with that shit. No ICE agents were injured. Immigrants were shot down near a facility where they should have been protected. This administration is trying to gaslight us again. And Noem didn't even name the migrants who were murdered."
Megyn Kelly: Burn The Witches!
This woman has just gotten worse and worse since she left Fox.
Such a huge snowflake.
Oklahoma education chief stuns with resignation — and new goal to 'destroy' teachers unions
Good for Oklahoma!
Too small for him in OK? He will continue to shit and fall back in it!
'Divisive feminist agenda': Trump's Pentagon abruptly shuts down 74 year-old panel
Backthink has taken Trump's brain.
'You're crazy for supporting this': Joe Rogan scorches MAGA for cheering Kimmel crackdown
And that's what Trump is.
Foreign leader demands Trump face 'criminal process' over boat bombings
During the Tuesday session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York City, one Latin American leader is calling for President Donald Trump to be held criminally accountable for his repeated bombings of boats in the Caribbean Sea.
Agence France-Presse reported Tuesday that Colombian President Gustavo Petro accused Trump of killing "poor young people" on several boats in international waters, noting that he believed some of those killed were Colombian citizens. While Trump has insisted (without providing evidence) that those killed were drug traffickers, Petro said they were just "young people who simply wanted to escape poverty."
"A criminal process must be initiated against those officials who are from the United States. This includes the senior official who gave the order, President Trump," Petro said.
Absolutely!
Companies Are Being Torn Apart by AI “Workslop,” Stanford Research Finds
It's pretty easy to see that AI isn't the hero we expected.
Racists Are Using AI to Spread Diabolical Anti-Immigrant Slop
The Stupid Virus is taking us all out.
"The rise of generative AI software from an obscure novelty to a tool used by millions has had a profound impact on the internet, drowning web search results in garbled slop, unleashing a flood of disturbing AI porn, and upending digital media as a reliable news source.
Of course, it’s also had some unintended consequences. One of the nastiest yet: using AI to fuel racist conspiracy theories, putting minorities and immigrants in danger."
Trump Signs Order Designating “Antifa” a “Domestic Terrorist Organization”
This, in turn, makes fascism the governing machine of the United States of America.
Trump must pay for this and the world realizes it. His policy is failing. Everyone knows it now.
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” -- Benjamin Franklin.
Watters: “We Need To Leave The UN Or Bomb It”.
This guy is sicker than Trump. His knee jerks like a fool that on speed for days.
His hero has to walk up stairs to board his Royal Carriage when he flies somewhere. What's wrong with walking up an escalator?
"JESSE WATTERS (CO-HOST): Yeah, they sabotaged him. And they could have hurt the First Lady. Trump would’ve fallen and he would’ve gotten back up, but, you know —"
"WATTERS: And then they sabotaged the teleprompter. I mean, this is an insurrection. And what we need to do is either leave the UN or we need to bomb it. It is in New York though right?"
Overreaction Tuesday. More rantings of a violent 2-year old!
This is life in a Banana Republic!
Fun Fundraisers for Fascists
"That’s the way with fascists. They can turn most anything into a source of cash. And what an opportunity Kirk’s killing presented to them.
Trump and Co. are about to unleash a slough (or slew) of schemes for right-wing causes that have not yet been announced to the public at large. Fortunately, I’ve ferreted them out using my well-honed skills at investigative reporting. And, with a nod to greats who preceded me like Edward R. Murrow and I.F. Stone whose legacy has been passed to later generations of journalists such as myself, I will, herewith, release what I know about the cons that are surely coming without expectation of personal reward, holding nothing back in anticipation of a big book contract that would have paid big bucks for what I’m about to reveal. I’m no Jake Tapper or John Bolton , those guys who withheld information, putting personal gain above timely release of valuable insights garnered while on the job. If you learned something marketable while on the job, then save that for the book. That's how they roll. Don’t just give it away, for shit’s sake. Wouldn’t that make you some kind of socialist? Or fool."
The Oldest Warning Sign: How History Links the Death of Comedy to the Death of Democracy
The past teaches us one truth: when laughter dies, liberty soon follows.
Trump faces new accusation of blurring 'line between crime and war'
According to Yoo, Trump's purported drug interdiction war strains the boundaries of the Constitution and places him in criminal territory.“These attacks risk crossing the line between crime and war,” Yoo wrote before conceding, “the administration is right that illicit drugs are inflicting more harm on the U.S. than most armed conflicts have.”
Having written that, he explained, “In war, nations use extraordinary powers against other nations to prevent future attacks on their citizens and territory. Our military and intelligence agents seek to prevent foreign attacks that might happen in the future, not to punish past conduct.,” and added, “Law enforcement, by contrast, punishes perpetrators for crimes that have already occurred. The U.S. has long considered drug trafficking a matter for the criminal justice system. The difference in purpose dictates different tools.”
That Trump is a criminal is no longer news. It hasn't been since he became a convicted felon. He just keeps his crime wave going.
Homocon Asks X Users To Turn In “Antifa” Members
Scott Presler, the gay conservative political activist who took credit for helping Donald Trump turn Pennsylvania red, is now vowing to do the same in New Jersey. Before turning to politics, Presler said he previously worked as a dog walker and 'was even the guy who returns the shopping carts at [supermarket chain] Giant.'
His first political job was working to elect the governor of Texas, Greg Abbott. “Then, I spent 2 years of my life working to defeat Hillary Clinton & elect President Donald Trump,” Presler said. He first gained a following as the organizer of nationwide “March Against Sharia” protests in 2019.
He was invited to Trump’s Presidential Social Media summit in 2019 and was on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol during the attack by Trump supporters on January 6, which he described as 'the largest civil rights protest in American history.'"
Scraping the bottom for support it appears.
NYT: Musk’s Father Accused Of Child Sexual Abuse
"A New York Times investigation found that a significant factor in Elon Musk’s rupture with his father stems from accusations against Errol Musk of child sex abuse. The allegations have repeatedly spilled over into Elon Musk’s life as relatives have contacted him for help and he has sometimes taken action to intercede, according to personal letters, emails and interviews with family members.
The allegations against Errol Musk involve five of his children and stepchildren, whom he was accused of abusing in South Africa and California, according to police and court records, personal correspondence, social workers and interviews with family members.
The earliest accusation was in 1993 when Errol Musk’s stepdaughter, then 4 years old, told relatives he had touched her at the family house. A decade later, the stepdaughter said she caught him sniffing her dirty underwear. Some family members have also accused Errol Musk of abusing two of his daughters and a stepson. And as recently as 2023, family members and a social worker attempted to intervene after his then 5-year-old son said his father had groped his buttocks."
Tom Homan Issues Non-Denial About $50,000 Bribe
Gotcha down Tom. We will wait and watch when you do the Perp Walk!
"I just listened to Tom Homan talk
Can't wait to watch him do the Perp Walk
Now dance that ass off!"
— from Dance That Ass Off by Men of Extinction (unissued but not for long).
Everything Trump has done since January is rooted in something David Letterman said.
"First, the administration shut down a bribery investigation of Tom Homan. Before Trump was reelected, Homan accepted a $50,000 bag of cash from an undercover FBI agent, according to Reuters. Homan apparently promised “immigration-related” government contracts once he was back in charge of Immigration and Customs Enforcement."
"Second, Trump demanded that US Attorney General Pam Bondi move more quickly to prosecute named enemies, including US Senator Adam Schiff, former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James. Trump called them 'guilty as hell' on Truth Social in what appears to be a post that was intended to be a direct message to Bondi. As one observer noted wryly, 'this is literally just Watergate but instead of the Nixon tapes, Trump just… tweeted it out.'”
"This twofold perversion of the law is indeed what Richard Nixon was guilty of. He knew he was guilty of it. That’s why he hid it and it took a year for investigators to uncover it. Trump, meanwhile, isn’t bothering to hide it, but either way, it’s criminal. As Jonathan Bernstein said:
“Richard Nixon resigned ahead of certain impeachment and removal in part for a much milder version of all this, one that took place in absolute secrecy and took over a year to uncover. Trump is doing a much worse version. Out in the open. It’s obviously a blatant, massive violation of his oath of office, and John Roberts notwithstanding … well, I’m not a lawyer, but it sure looks criminal to me.”
"More than that, however, it’s a window into what Trump truly wants – rules and laws that protect him and his friends while at the same time, those very same rules and laws punish his enemies. He wants rules and laws to explicitly recognize in-groups and out-groups. And he wants law enforcement to recognize that difference when enforcing the law.
All men are created equal? Nope. Justice is blind? Nah."
"Most of us believe the law should be applied without fear or favor. Whether you’re white or Black, Christian or Muslim, straight or trans – everyone is subject to the same rule of law. Everyone should be treated equally. And when the law isn’t applied that way, we call it injustice."
"But I think most of us misunderstand, more or less, how equality is viewed by Trump and the rest of their maga movement. Equality is no virtue. It’s a vice. It is a violation of their rights and liberties, and a subversion of what they believe to be the natural order of things – in which American society is shaped like a pyramid, with money and power gathered toward the top and controlled by rich white men. Importantly, the in-group should never be treated the same way as the out-group. When the law is applied equally, they call that injustice."
'Very dangerous': Actress Angelina Jolie says she doesn't 'recognize' America
Jolie, the mother of six children including three adopted from Cambodia, Ethiopia and Vietnam, says "I’ve always lived internationally, my family is international, my friends, my life. My worldview is equal, united, international, so anything anywhere that divides or, of course, limits personal expressions and freedoms from anyone, I think, is very dangerous."
"I think these are such serious times that we have to be careful not to say things casually, so I'll be careful during a press conference," she continued, "but to say that, of course, like all of you and everyone watching, these are very, very heavy times we are living in together."
I quite agree.
Trump and RFK Jr. Blame Tylenol For Autism in New Report, but Experts Push Back
"They are reviewing existing literature, and they're doing it badly."
Bill Kristol: Where Is the $50,000?
"We thought Tom Homan was just an extreme border hawk and ideologue. Now we know this powerful law enforcement official, who's depriving immigrants of their freedom, may also be a corrupt law-breaker—after he was reportedly recorded taking a $50,000 cash bribe during an FBI sting operation. And MAGA die-hards, like Megyn Kelly, have made clear they don't care. Meanwhile, Kash is having FBI agents pursue Q-Anon leads in the Kirk assassination. Plus, Tucker is a very sick person, Trump is demanding that Bondi file trumped-up charges against his enemies, and Democrats should absolutely not vote to fund this administration."
Emmy-Award Winning Journalist at Risk of Deportation Over ICE Coverage
Backtnink is the main symptom of the Stupid Virus that is infecting the MAGAt Nazi Party.
JUST IN: Supreme Court Rules Trump Can Fire Biden Appointee From the FTC
Then America should be able to fire SCOTUS appointees without cause!
Tylenol Maker Trashes Trump Admin’s Autism Claims
Axios reports:
Kenvue, in a statement, said “acetaminophen is the safest pain reliever option for pregnant women as needed throughout their entire pregnancy” and that “rigorous research, endorsed by leading medical professionals and global health regulators, confirms there is no credible evidence linking acetaminophen to autism.”
“We believe independent, sound science clearly shows that taking acetaminophen does not cause autism. We strongly disagree with any suggestion otherwise and are deeply concerned with the health risk this poses for expecting mothers.”
Kenvue shares were down over 6% in mid-day trading Monday and are now down 20% in the last month amid the heightened scrutiny over Tylenol.
Read the full article. Trump and Sec. Brain Worms will hold a joint announcement today at 4PM.
Florida AG Launches Snitch Line To Report “Extremism”
Certainly this can't be abused.
"Gosh, I hope that stops thousands of people from flooding the snitch line with examples of Trump and other cultists egging on violence."
Activists Light Up Florida Bridge With Rainbow Colors
TA-DA!
Press secretary falls on her face defending Trump’s abuse of power
"No. In fact, the president is fulfilling his promise to restore a Department of Justice that demands accountability. And it is not weaponizing the Department of Justice to demand accountability for those who weaponized the Department of Justice,” she said.
This is a very serious case of junior's Stupid Virus." ROTFLMAO!
“We are not going to tolerate gaslighting from anyone in the media or from anyone on the other side who is trying to say that it's the president who is weaponizing the DOJ,” she added. ROTFLEH!
What else ya got for us, honey?
Trump uses Kirk's death to silence critics—and voters aren't pleased
Who said Trump cares about voters.? Do you think you will be permitted to vote in a general election again?
Or are we going to STOP THE RIG!
Jimmy Kimmel to return to air as Disney announces shock reversal
You see. Fighting back is what has to be done because it works.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem stunned department officials with profane outbursts reacting to a series of critical news reports examining her chaotic leadership.
The former South Dakota governor and her de facto chief of staff Corey Lewandowski gathered DHS officials to complain about June reports showing that she demanded to personally sign off on payments over $100,000, which caused delays and bottlenecks throughout the department. Employees told New York Magazine the pair – rumored to be a couple – harangued them in harsh terms.
“They were screaming!" a DHS employee told the magazine. “The level of disrespect and screaming at everybody in that room — I think people were really shocked and taken aback.”
What did anyone expect from a low-life character? The Peter Principal is at work here.
Trump tells Charlie Kirk memorial: ‘I hate my opponents, don’t want best for them’
Typical of a self-loather.
'My boss made me do it': DOJ vets fear following Trump's orders will land them in court
Defending against domestic enemies is part of your oath. At least it was in the one I took.
One cannot serve two masters.
John Oliver delivered a passionate monologue on Last Week Tonight Sunday, directly challenging Disney CEO Bob Iger to stand up to political pressure surrounding Jimmy Kimmel's suspension.
"At some point, you're going to have to draw a line," Oliver urged, recommending Iger use four key words if pushed to bend to President Donald Trump's pressure.
It's "the only phrase that can genuinely make a weak bully go away, and that is ‘Fuck you! Make me!’” he said.
Same goes for any Nazi MAGAt motherfucker.
Pentagon experts warn 'enormous scandal' shows USA has 'already fallen off the cliff'
"I mean, the answer is no," Lemire said. "Journalists aren't going to do this. This is not how this works. You know, there's obviously classified material, that can be different, that's vetted separately. Responsible news organizations do that in a responsible way. But the idea that a member of the Pentagon press corps or a reporter writ large can only write what the government tells them to, that's not how it works in the United States of America."
The Stupid Virus takes its toll.
'Hurting ourselves': Red states slash Medicaid way ahead of Trump's budget taking effect
Killing themselves is a good idea!
'What an idiot!' Trump gets no mercy after confused blunder wrongly puts 2 nations at war
"President Donald Trump once again appeared to confuse countries in a boast over the weekend about how many wars he has supposedly ended and how deserving he is of the Nobel Peace Prize.
In a speech carried by C-SPAN, Trump claimed to have stopped a war between Armenia and Cambodia, two small countries on different sides of Asia that have never been at war with each other."
Trump is a raving lunatic who must be stopped.
The Moral Bankruptcy of America’s Leadership Class
"During a crisis like the one we’re now in, these so-called leaders have abdicated their moral responsibility."
"The disappearance of America’s leadership class at a time like this means that the rest of us have to be leaders.
We can no longer wait to be led by those with the power and authority to lead. You must lead, I must lead, all of us must lead. We are the leaders we’ve been waiting for."
Our Humanity Is Not up for Debate
Khan says, “Your liberal centrist type people, they want to show that, ‘Hey, we’re reasonable. We can come to a compromise. If we show you that we’re going to be reasonable and compromise, on your end, you’ll do the same.’”
But “that doesn’t happen with fascists,” he concludes. “At heart, they’re bullies. And any small concession to a bully only emboldens them more.”
Correct. You can't come to compromise with Nazis.
“The way that we deal with fascists is no tolerance,” says Khan. “Don’t give them any concessions whatsoever. And absolutely don’t capitulate to any of their demands. Don’t treat any of their demands as reasonable. Simply don’t even give them the dignity of a debate.”
They are tyrannical backthinkers.
“We’ve debated fascism already,” says Khan. “It’s called the horrors of the 20th century. They’ve already lost that debate, and yet they’re still pushing and pushing and pushing. And we have to say, you know what? That time is over, no more tolerance for this kind of maliciousness.”
Advocates: Social Security Changes Hurting The Poor
Exactly what it was to be used for to protect the poor. If there was no Satan, Trump would become him by default.
Texas Governor Has Student Expelled For Mocking Kirk
What a snowflake!
Using AI Increases Unethical Behavior, Study Finds
Stupid is the latest fad!
What to expect at the voting booth as Texas officials respond to Trump’s executive order
The acceptance of the retarded. The Luddites take over. Cowards and dipshits.
Stephen Miller Gives Goebbels-Style Speech At Kirk Funeral
Nazi trash!
The Supreme Court just condoned racism
The disgrace and failure of the American system.
SCOTUS is woefully no longer a guardian but has become a guard on the U.S. just as prison guards act.
With a court like this in the early 20th century we would never have become the great country we once were before Trump ruined us.
'We want to be offensive too': Trump’s flimsy grasp of history could have serious results
Facts: "The United States faced significant failures in several 20th-century wars, including the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the conflict in Afghanistan." These wars ended without achieving their original objectives, often resulting in unresolved tensions and political instability.
But Trump is too arrogant to recognize this. He knows it. He just in denial.
Trump administration halts government hunger report.
Trump is the worst misanthrope I have ever seen. He's actually worse that Daniel Plainview.
And he wonders why he gets negative statements about him.
'Disgusting': Ex-prosecutor rebukes Trump's latest move to prosecute a political opponent
"This story is not only disgusting, it is rule-of-law-busting," Kirschner said. "It's not terribly surprising because Donald Trump is forever bloating about prosecuting his political opponents."
"Kind of feels like these threats become hollow over time, but it seems like he has been insistent that he wants New York State Attorney General Tish James indicted for something," he added.
‘Just Remarkable’: MSNBC Panel Blown Away By Erika Kirk’s Memorial Speech
She's telling you that Trump failed us — again!
Trump's Tokyo Rose Lies About Trump's Involvement In Axing Kimmel
Trump spokes-liar Karoline Leavitt continues the gaslighting on Fox-not-news on the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel. Leavitt made an appearance on his former spokes-liar Kayleigh McEnany's new show this Saturday, and proceeded to pretend that Trump couldn't possibly have had anything to do with ABC sacking Kimmel because he heard about it while they were on a trip in the UK.
Never mind that Trump was openly gloating that he knew Kimmel might be next after what happened to Stephen Colbert, or that Trump is making no secret of the fact that he wants to go after even more networks and threaten their licenses, or that he's called negative reporting on him 'illegal,' or that even Ted Cruz of all people has called what Trump is doing dangerous"
Whines To Peter Doocy About Fox News Polls During Rant About Jimmy Kimmel
He's got the "Doc Savage" look here. Can you believe the clown?
"97% of the things they say about me on television are negative," Trump complained. "And how do you win if that's the case? The credibility of television's way down. Most television, you guys are doing a lot better."
He doesn't understand that he's being an asshole to at least 60-70% of Americas lives are being ruined by his actions!
Behind the curtain: Trump's mounting 'coup' takes a dangerous turn
Thanks for the warning. Now what?
ICE Vows To Defund Blue States Over Compliance
Since when does a gang of kidnappers have this power?
Politico: Embassies And Diplomacy Are In Shambles
It's pretty clear that WWIII is beginning to get started.
President Donald Trump promised to reform American diplomacy. Insiders say he’s breaking it instead, to the point where he’s undermining his own global influence. Eight months into Trump’s second term, more than half of U.S. ambassadorships, an unusually high amount, are vacant. Most top State Department roles are filled on an acting basis, often by people with little relevant experience.
WWIII is now in sight. We may as well have a good time while we can. Doomsday for civilization is now on our horizon.
Trump: “Dishonest Networks” Should Lose Licenses
Dishonest presidents should be impeached!
The Trump administration’s chilling censorship of Jimmy Kimmel violates the First Amendment and warrants Trump’s immediate impeachment and removal
Oh, stop talking like a sane person and stating the obvious to all Americans who know what a fucking crime this is!
Snowflake Trump Looks To Silence Entire Networks That Criticize Him
Acyn caught President Cry Baby whining, “When you have a network and you have evening shows and all they do is hit Trump… They’re licensed. They’re not allowed to do that.”
In reality, networks are 100% allowed to do that. “The F.C.C. does not regulate programming from networks like ABC, CBS, and NBC,” The Times noted. It quoted Anna Gomez, a Democratic member of the FCC: “This F.C.C. does not have the authority, the ability, or the constitutional right to police content or punish broadcasters for speech the government dislikes,” she said.
Aren't you happy we are being governed by hateful fascist morons?
Sinclair Pulls Kirk Documentary From ABC Affiliates
More Nazi "Backthink."
EPA Orders Scientists To Stop Publishing Research
"Backthink" is destroying our civilization!
If we don't stop the Nazi movement we are doomed.
Bill Maher Destroys Trump And ABC In Brutal Monologue On Kimmel Bombshell
ABC stands for "Always Be Caving." — Bill Maher.
RESIST FASCISM!
Where’s Black MAGA While Trump Wipes Black History?
The president once hailed himself as “the best president for the Black population.”
"Last summer, vying for the White House, Trump hailed himself as 'the best president for the Black population.' A little more than a year later, this claim has become downright unbelievable, precisely because of what he’s done.
In this video, I highlight this week’s Washington Post report on the Trump administration’s decision to remove Black historical images and markers from national parks and museums. As someone who has covered the rise of Black support for MAGA extensively, it hit me hard: Where are those voters now that Trump is wiping this history from the books?"
Je Suis Jimmy
"Like watching Rome burn,” one news anchor said as Donald Trump’s attack on the media industry entered a new phase.
What happens when corporations take over our lives.
Trump’s EPA pulls plug on ‘millions of dollars of research” with no explanation: report
More proof his intention is to kill us all.
“Be like Charlie”: Slain activist Kirk focus of Republican youth conference’s first night
Hitler Youth Convention.
"Youth is wasted on the young." — from the film It's a Wonderful Life, said by the man on his porch to George and Mary.
How to Tell When Authoritarians Become Fascists
Fascism Worry Checklist
"If you answer 'true' to four or fewer questions, you live in an ordinary, but likely severely unequal, 21st century capitalist country. If you answer 'true' to five and up to seven questions, be worried about the potential for fascism in your country. If you answer 'true' to eight or more questions, good luck. And seriously consider joining with other activists in defending the bits of democracy that you have left."
Take the test at the link.
"How real is the threat of fascism? At a minimum, the extreme right is a threat to the very limited, mostly one-dollar, one-vote democracy that capitalists allow us. Supporters of the system claim capitalism is integral to liberal democracy, but that is absurd. Everywhere fascism has taken power or grown quickly it is because the wealthy and powerful have thrown their support behind it and against democracy. When forced to choose between their “property rights” and democracy, capitalists choose self-interest, which is maintaining their wealth and power. All over the world rich people are abandoning conservative parties in favor of the extreme right or are pushing the traditional parties of wealth to the extreme right."
The Day America Stepped Over the Edge
The reason we’re at a pivotal moment in America is because most people don’t know how to answer this question: “How do you know when you’re really no longer living in a democracy?”
The reason is because they don't know they are not because they no longer care.
"People didn’t know what it meant that Trump was getting billions for his bitcoin company or a jet airplane in exchange for essentially giving favors to other countries. They didn’t understand how inappropriate, illegal, and unconstitutional that is unless they understand the word 'emoluments,' and few do; they didn’t get it."
They still don't understand we are dealing with criminals.
'May be the last time you ever see me': Actor Rob Reiner makes ominous prediction on CNN
"We're in a war. We're in a war right now for our democracy," Reiner said. "Trump has declared war on this democracy."
"He throws people out of the country without due process," he said. "He takes funds that were appropriated by Congress, refuses to distribute them, in clear contradiction to the Constitution, the separation of powers. He's browbeating businesses and universities and law."
"This is way beyond Jimmy Kimmel. This is a man who's a convicted felon, an adjudicated sex offender and business fraud, and he's decided that our 250 years of American democracy is going to be wiped out — and is doing it within the last eight months."
He described how his family, including his wife — a descendant of Holocaust survivors — and his veteran uncle, fought against Nazis and fascism during WWII.
"There are a lot of people who are going to be standing up in the near future ... and you're going to see a big pushback. There's no question about it. He's declared war on the Constitution, on the First Amendment, and we're not going to take it."
The only way he can stop us is to kill us all. And he intends to do that. Fight for your lives Americans. Our very lives are now at stake!
The bruise on America’s soul: Moral injury in the age of Trump
Our shared trauma is not imaginary. The Trump regime's cruelty is affecting all of us — but there's hope
Pentagon To Ban Reporters Who Commit Journalism
"It's not the fucking badges that matter you drunken incompetent fascist. It's demanding the reporters take dictation. You idiots damn well better finish off your coup because otherwise the list of all of you in jail will be enormous." — Keith Olbermann.
Nazi takes over our military. What can go wrong next?
In Orwellian terms this is all called "Backthink."
Trump and his criminals are the biggest chickenshits the world has ever seen!
We no longer live in America. Too many lazy cowards here to fight Trump fascism.
Freedom of the press is UNEQUIVOCALLY guaranteed in the constitution!
Samsung To Display Ads On Its “Smart” Refrigerators
Same as the goddamn gas pumps do now? What a retarded world we strive to live in.
Same with cable TV. They should pay us for "forced watch."
Feds: Kirk Shooter Not Yet Linked To Leftist Groups
Oh, dear! Whatever will we do?
BLS Indefinitely Postpones Key Report On Inflation
Do we think the blundering fools want us to know how badly they are failing. ROTFLMAO!
Suckers!
Kayleigh Gives Dumbest Possible Defense Of Kimmel Firing
She can't be this stupid, right?
That poor little girl.
'Things have changed': GOP senator suggests First Amendment no longer 'the ultimate right'
Then if I don't like what you say thrn I can have you arrested, charged and endicted, tried and convicted of what?
Because I really feel you are full of tyrannical horse shit since you joined the Nazis! A Project 25 worshippe.
We will fight you the death to protoect our Comstitution. You and anyone else.
"If Sen. Cynthia Lummis fully intends to violate the oath of office she took when being sworn in to the Senate, she should and must resign. The same would be the case in any other job where an employee flat out told their managers that the were not going to do their job.
If she wants to propose an amendment to the Constitution she swore to protect and defend, she is welcome to do so, but lacking that, if her oath is now worthless, I wouldn't trust her in any other aspect of her life, either." — Greg_Kapphahn (comments)
'Go somewhere else': Sheriff may file charges against Democrats over anti-Trump buttons
Just a hood with a badge.
He might shit and fall back in it too! And he can go to hell.
Trump is a felon you hillbilly Nazi!
""This is censorship," he said. "It's a violation of the First Amendment right to free speech."
"[Schneider] is wrong and will lose any battle in court," he added.
So the Buckeye snowflakes melted like a vampire to sunlignt when they saw opposition to their GOD?
He should be sued by the vendors.
RFK's Kook-Filled Vaccine Advisory Board Clearly Has No Idea What It's Doing
"This may seem like something that’s not a big deal, but the fact that they are making any changes at all to the recommendations for older, established vaccines is not a great sign. There’s a reason the MMRV exists, and that is because the fewer separate vaccines a child has to get, the more likely they are to actually get them and to get them on time. That’s pretty important because it can impact their overall effectiveness."
As stated before, all Trump has done is appoint morons to do jobs they are unqualifed to do!
Vox Populi, Vox Dei. We’re Talkin’ Here!
"The art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of the citizens to give to the other."
— Voltaire
"All the masks are off, all the pretense gone. Anyone who couldn’t see that the goal had been full bore fascism all along and isn’t seeing it even now must own their intellectual laziness or amorality. Only a determined and deep-in- the-bone fascist could still be supporting Trump’s plain right-wing totalitarian agenda this far into that nightmare. From concentration camps in the swamps, to mass deportations, to excision of rights for women, blatant racism, class warfare, criminal cruelty against the weak, the poor, the vulnerable, and a steady diet of lies could still be creating warm-and-runny feelings in people who thrill to sight of a swastika or see the faces of Trump or Vance on what has become state-run media."
Silencing the Press, Targeting the People: The Pyramid of Authoritarian Violence
When reporters become prey, the public becomes the battlefield. We’ve crossed into the second tier.
"The FCC chairman just threatened to pull ABC’s license because of a comment Jimmy Kimmel made about Charlie Kirk, and ABC just indefinitely took him off the air. This is the sort of thing you’d expect in Russia, not America."
"The dark story we’re living — this rise of fascism and destruction of civil order — fits a pyramid, not a straight line. And it explains why the killing of Charlie Kirk, aside from the right’s incessant amplification of their outrage, actually is a big deal and very dangerous sign for today’s political moment."
"We’re already tracking a surge of assaults on journalists in the United States this year, recorded by nonpartisan monitors, and the warnings from press freedom groups are growing louder as we head into another supercharged election cycle.
It’s why Trump threatening Jonathan Karl this week was such a big deal."
The Dog that Caught the Kimmel
Plenty to read at this site.
Check it out.
This humiliation at Obama's hands left Trump seething — and set up Kimmel's downfall
..."What does Trump have against late-night comedians?
For as long as anyone can remember, they’ve been a source of jokes about those in power. In the wake of Kimmel’s firing, David Letterman, the longtime late-night host, said he’d routinely beat up on president after president over the years, and 'not once were we squeezed by anyone from any governmental agency. Everyone sort of understood [it was] in the name of humor.'
But Trump hates to be the object of humor. Some deep part of his reptilian brain understands that humor can be a more powerful antidote to tyranny than any other form of criticism.
Laughter doesn’t just entertain, it subverts. Humor undermines tyrannical power that relies on projecting an image of inevitability and invincibility, by making a tyrant appear weak and vulnerable. Check one against Trump.
Laughter also undermines fear, which is used by tyrants to maintain control. When the public laughs at a leader, his oppressive control weakens. Check two against Trump.
Finally, humor can remind people they’re not alone. When a joke is widely shared, it reveals that opposition is widespread, which can encourage and validate resistance. Check three against Trump."
'Should be impeached!' Outrage as law experts flag Trump plan to cross 'another red line'
Do we think the third time will be the charm? Not with Nazis to protect him. But this dysfunctional idiot should go ASAP!
Texas Youth Pastor Arrested On Child Porn Charges
Houston’s ABC affiliate reports:
"A now-former youth pastor in northwest Harris County is arrested and charged with possession of child pornography, according to court documents. The leadership of the Crossbridge Christian Church told ABC13 that Nathan Wayne Walker stepped down from his role two weeks ago. Court documents state that Walker is a youth pastor at Crossbridge Christian Church in northwest Harris County. He served as the youth pastor for 6th grade to 12th grade and was promoted last fall to associate pastor."
Documents state that in July, a member of the Houston Metro Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force received two cyber tips from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Investigators say that tips led them to a Yahoo instant messaging app associated with defendant Nathan Walker, who used the username 'roughneckforchrist.' Investigators detail in court documents that Walker is accused of uploading and sharing files of child pornography of children as young as 3 to 7 years old."
Another one bites the dust. Still no drag queens.
Trump: “Scum” Rep. Ilhan Omar “Married Her Brother”
“Ilhan Omar’s Country of Somalia is plagued by a lack of central Government control, persistent Poverty, Hunger, Resurgent Terrorism, Piracy, decades of Civil War, Corruption, and pervasive Violence. 70% of the population lives in extreme Poverty, and widespread Food Insecurity. Somalia is consistently ranked among the World’s Most Corrupt Countries, including Bribery, Embezzlement, and a Dysfunctional Government. All of this, and Ilhan Omar tells us how to run America! P.S. Wasn’t she the one that married her brother in order to gain Citizenship??? What SCUM we have in our Country, telling us what to do, and how to do it. Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” – Trump, as always singling out a black woman in a post to Truth Social.
There is no evidence that proves Ilhan Omar married her brother. We all know who the SCUM in our country is here.
Megachurch Pastor: Charlie Kirk Would Be The First Evangelical Saint (If Evangelicals Believed In Saints)
"Rodriquez leads the New Season megachurch in Sacramento.
He first appeared here in 2010 when, as president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, he spearheaded a campaign against immigration rights for the foreign partners of LGBTQ couples.
In December 2016, he and fellow scamvangelical Paula White were appointed to Trump’s inauguration committee.
In December 2019, he declared that 'Democrats in the House impeached millions of God-fearing, family-loving and patriotic Americans from the Democrat and Republican parties' by impeaching his Glorious Leader.
In July 202o, Rodriquez and his National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference sued California over 'anti-Christian' pandemic lockdown orders.
In August 2020, he and a dozen other scamvangelicals, including Franklin Graham, complained that protesters outside the Republican National Convention had 'screamed blasphemy' against them.
In March 2025, Rodriquez and other prominent pastors 'laid hands' on Trump in the Oval Office as they prayed for him."
"Excellent article on this bullshit about Kirk:
This sums it up:
There is no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign, and refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.” — Ross (comments).
David Letterman on Threats to Late Night Hosts
David Letterman is a TV pro. It matters not how many years he's been off the air. He has a right to speak truth to power. And he's still got it!
Try to stay on point, commenters. Listen to what David is saying! AND FUCK TRUMP!
AI medical tools found to downplay symptoms of women, ethnic minorities
Duh! AI is a programmed tool. It reads code to "think" this way. Guess why!
"Artificial intelligence tools used by doctors risk leading to worse health outcomes for women and ethnic minorities, as a growing body of research shows that many large language models downplay the symptoms of these patients.
A series of recent studies have found that the uptake of AI models across the healthcare sector could lead to biased medical decisions, reinforcing patterns of under treatment that already exist across different groups in western societies.
The findings by researchers at leading US and UK universities suggest that medical AI tools powered by LLMs have a tendency to not reflect the severity of symptoms among female patients, while also displaying less “empathy” towards Black and Asian ones."
'Made the threat': CNN brings the receipts as GOP spox tries to muddy 'timeline of events'
“But if we're talking the timeline, it was still after Brendan Carr made the threat of pulling licenses from affiliates and Disney with Nexstar, and with ESPN needing football rights. So, again, the timeline here and the government action is what we have the editorials talking about here.”
“… I'll just caution my friends on the right, who are gloating over this,” said Roginsky. “It's a round world, my friends. And … one day, there's going to be a Democrat who's going put somebody in charge of the FCC and that person is going to make a call to Lachlan Murdoch, and say ‘ hey, if you want your station groups to have any kind of access to Fox broadcast you’ve gotta get rid of Greg Gutfeld’s [comedy show] over on Fox News.”
“That’s not a road anybody wants to go down,” Roginsky added. “I feel that Greg Gutfeld has the right to say the stupid stuff he says … and this is a Pandora’s Box of retribution after retribution after retribution.”
'Political poison': Voter sentiment plummets as GOP say US headed in the wrong direction
“We have villainized others, like we’re on the brink of social collapse," Gieske said. "Is Kirk the straw that breaks the camel’s back or sets off a powder keg? It’s on everyone’s mind.”
'Red line crossed': Trump plan to fire US attorney 'for not bending the knee' sparks outrage
The world is outraged by the Orange Shitgibbon.
Jeanine Pirro's new admission exposes violation of her code of conduct: expert
A legal expert accused U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro of knowingly violating her code of conduct by bringing unwinnable cases before grand juries.
Trump only appoints bootlicking morons.
'Laughing at him': Foreign official in awe watching King Charles 'humiliate' Trump
The "man who would be king" is mocked by a real King and Trump is too stupid to know it!
King Charles said that it was "time for Europe and our allies to stand together" to defeat the growing wave of fascism.
'Torched': Jim Jordan stunned after DC official's snarky retort
Gym "Jack-it Off" Jordan is speechless!
Big potential update about Disney and Jimmy Kimmel's future revealed on MSNBC
Fighting back against tyranny! Fuck Disney!
Trump's Fascist FCC Chair: 'There’s More Work To Do' Following Kimmel Suspension
He doesn't have a clue about what's coming down.
Eveything this facsist does is against the interest of our community!
How many American "Antifa" died on Normandy's beaches defending your right to speak your lies!br>
"FCC chairman Brendan Carr wants TV to show people not what to enjoy and watch, but what to THINK!
Fascism 101. See item 3.
The Autocrats 12-step Program" — Martay (comments).
"Brendan UsedCarr is another one of Porky Pedo's MAGAtard dicksuckers who has no business chairing anything except a cleaning of toilet bowls at one of the many federal penitentiaries in this country." — Leftist Mets Fan (comments).
Why Does Bob Kennedy Want Our Sweet Little Babies To Die?
Is he just incompetent, or a psychopath?
He's an incompetent psychopath!
Orban Copies Trump On Designating Antifa “Terrorists”
Fascist bastard tyrant! Wouldn't know shit from applebutter!
"Hungary was on the side of the Nazis during WW2 too." — Stogiebear (comments)>
"If you are a fascist then you are my enemy as I am anti-fascist, ANTFA for short. Come for me if you fucking dare." — Thewolflam (commments).
Heritage: FBI Must Designate Trans People As Terrorists
Heritage is a gang of fascist moron terrorists. What else do you expect?
Transgenders are human beings. Stop persecuting them!
"Transgender is not an ideology. It is a sexual identity. Fascism is an ideology." — magic twanger (comments).
Kansas Soybean Farmers At Risk Of Bankruptcy
Farmers continue to struggle under Donald Trump.
"Farmers, who are mainly in Trump voting states, continue to struggle under Herr Trumpfh. In fact, many farms are at risk of going bankrupt! With no bailout in sight, mainly because Trump is hyper focused on taking comedians off the air and selling his crypto coins...farmers are the least of his concerns.
"Things may look up next year, if Trump stops his stupid tariff war, but there is no guarantee. At this point, farmers better buckle up and accept that they are getting exactly what they voted for - chaos."
'Pathetic' Trump's silencing of Kimmel by the 'woke right' will 'backfire': analysis
Joining the growing chorus of experts condemning the firing of late night host Jimmy Kimmel is New York Magazine political columnist Ross Barkan, who says the move by ABC was not only "disturbing," but a battle that President Donald Trump will lose.
"It’s remarkable to witness how fast conservatives have abandoned any pretense of caring about the First Amendment after years of decrying illiberalism on the left," Barkan says, adding, "Now it’s the right that is making speech taboo."
'Dangerous': Newsom Slams ABC For Pulling Jimmy Kimmel Over Kirk Remarks
"Following outrage over comedian Jimmy Kimmel's innocuous remarks about the shooting death of Charlie Kirk, the network caved, and the late-night comedian's show will now be preempted “indefinitely." Cancel culture is real from the right. Donald Trump took to Truth Social to take a victory lap, then set his target on two more comedians, who have hurt his fragile feelings."
Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom slammed the move, calling it "dangerous."
"Buying and controlling media platforms," Newsom wrote on Xitter. "Firing commentators. Canceling shows."
"These aren’t coincidences," he added. "It’s coordinated. And it’s dangerous. The @GOP does not believe in free speech. They are censoring you in real time."
"He's right. They are censoring us in real time, and MAGA is cheering it on. If you're a Fox News personality, it's OK to suggest killing unhoused Americans, including Veterans, as Brian Killpeople did last week. Kilmeade later offered a shitty apology over his thoroughly appalling remarks. But there are no takey-backsies when you call for killing vulnerable citizens."
Just remember, what goes around comes around.
Military Weighs Using Charlie Kirk’s “Legacy” to Recruit Soldiers
Our military is now a Nazi organization? WTF?
Trump Has No Idea What Antifa Is, Designates It 'A Major Terrorist Organization' Anyway
“I am pleased to inform our many U.S.A. Patriots that I am designating ANTIFA, A SICK, DANGEROUS, RADICAL LEFT DISASTER, AS A MAJOR TERRORIST ORGANIZATION,” the president wrote in a Truth Social post. “I will also be strongly recommending that those funding ANTIFA be thoroughly investigated in accordance with the highest legal standards and practices. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
There are many problems with this. First, there is no such organization as “Antifa.” Second, no one is funding “Antifa.” Third, there is no actual mechanism in federal law to designate a group as a domestic terrorist group or to explicitly charge someone with committing or supporting domestic terrorism (as there is for foreign terrorist groups).
Delusional.
'His brain is mush': Trump mercilessly mocked over 'unintelligible' rant about drug prices
In an interview with Fox News on Thursday, President Donald Trump claimed that over the next year to a year and a half, drug costs in the U.S. will be reduced — “not 50 or 60 percent but by 1000 percent.”
He elaborated using an example: a $10 pill could go to $20 under some “world” pricing, and then back to $20 for U.S. citizens — language that many found confusing and mathematically impossible to interpret literally.
"Because it's the world versus us, the world is the bigger place.. so it will go from 10 to 20… for them, which is bearable. And it will go from 10 to 20 for us," the president said.
'His brain is mush': Trump mercilessly mocked over 'unintelligible' rant about drug prices.
How we know the right is more deadly than the left
"Based on our own research and a review of related work, we can confidently say that most domestic terrorists in the U.S. are politically on the right, and right-wing attacks account for the vast majority of fatalities from domestic terrorism."
"Ye shall know them by their fruits." — Matthew 7:16-23, King James Version
'Hire a lawyer': Trump official hit with stern threat from House Dem over 'dirty deals'
A Democrat on Thursday issued a stern threat to the FCC chairman who pushed to suspend Jimmy Kimmel's show, telling him to "hire a lawyer."
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) was wearing a "Jimmy Kimmel Live" hat when he laid out the warning.
"There's going to be a Democratic majority in just over a year, and to the FCC chairperson and anyone involved in these dirty deals, get a lawyer and save your records because you're going to be in this room and you're going to be answering questions about the deals that you struck, and who benefited, and what the cost was to the American people because that happened," Swalwell said.
"I read someplace that the networks were 97% against me," Trump said. "I get 97% negative, and yet I won it easily. I won all seven swing states, popular vote, I won everything. And they're 97% against, they give me wholly bad publicity... I mean, they're getting a license, I would think maybe their license should be taken away."
The harder they come, the harder they fall. Think of it.
'It's just wackery': MAGA's 'civil war' over Charlie Kirk's killing shocks analysts
"Just to be clear to everyone, there is absolutely no evidence whatsoever at all that Israel is involved, related to, or tied to in any way Tyler Robinson," Sommer said. "It's just wackery. Let's just call it what it is."
Sommer added that some people in MAGA appear to be using Kirk's death to fuel their "personal ambitions."
"Charlie Kirk's legacy is a very valuable thing and, in particular, the political capital that can be gained from it and the money and the donors," Sommer said.
Indeed.
'The dominos are falling Hussein': Trump fans snap at Obama after Kimmel defense
Butt hurt Nazis throw their racist hate speech vomit at Obama again.
A Look Back At The Assassination Attempts On Barack Obama
Jimmy Kimmel Should Have Strong Odds at the Supreme Court
He should sue the Trump administration.
Legal expert reveals Trump admin's biggest mistake in pressuring ABC to punish Kimmel
"Here, by contrast, the evidence of “specific causation” is plain to see: Carr threatens ABC unless it sanctions Kimmel. ABC does as Carr asks. The FCC, to be sure, does not have authority to police the alleged truth of statements made on television. But that doesn’t mean that the agency can’t use its investigative powers to raise costs for targeted media outlets and it can clearly exert its influence on any potential acquisitions. And for all his recent talk about supporting free speech, this isn’t Carr’s first pressure campaign against a perceived antagonist of President Donald Trump. In July, he issued threats against Comcast, demanding more favorable coverage of Republicans from its NBC affiliates."
"The Trump administration also has a clear model when it comes to leaning on media firms to silence speech it dislikes: The president’s executive orders punishing law firms for their association with disfavored clients and advocacy of out-of-season causes likewise deployed regulatory tools to try to achieve plainly impermissible censorship. Like Carr’s action this week, those executive orders in part worked through the economic pressure firms experienced, even as their First Amendment rights were being violated.
Although the Supreme Court did not ultimately decide the merits in the social media case, no justice doubted the clear-as-day First Amendment principle that, as Alito explained, 'government officials may not coerce private entities to suppress speech.' Indeed, less than a month beforehand, the unanimous court held in a different case that the First Amendment “prohibits government officials from relying on the ‘threat of invoking legal sanctions and other means of coercion . . . to achieve the suppression’ of disfavored speech.
If Kimmel sues, it wouldn’t just vindicate his own interests: It would be a way of defending a sorely tested bulwark of the free press, one that has come under increasing strain in recent days and months. It would, in other words, be another way for Kimmel to speak truth to misused power — just with fewer jokes."
'Hard to overstate' how 'shaken' Trump is after Kirk murder and 'threats on his life': Haberman
Mediaite reports the assassination of MAGA influencer Charlie Kirk appears to have President Donald Trump worrying about his own life.
Responding to a question about "the thing" taking up "headspace" at the White House, "CNN commentator and New York Times White House correspondent Maggie Haberman told CNN host Kasie Hunt that Trump was “shaken” by the Kirk killing, and fearing for his safety.
The Over-65ers Should Go Get Their Covid Vaccines ASAP
Let's make life as hard as we can for our Senior Citizens, shall we, you heartless morons?
Welcome To The Resistance, Tucker Carlson?
Tucker Carlson, welcome to the resistance. In the video above, Tucker Carlson calls out Trump for using Charlie Kirk’s death as a weapon to nuke the First Amendment.
Carlson is one of the first powerful right-wing voices to accuse Trump of using Kirk's murder to power his attack on democracy. On his podcast, Carlson explained:
"If they can tell you what to say, and they're telling you what to think, there is nothing they can't do to you."
A tweet by @JoJofromJerz summed up the overwhelming response to Tucker's criticism of Trump:
When Tucker fucking Carlson is the “voice of reason” you KNOW shit is fucked up. https://t.co/14F8XCHF6p
— Jo (@JoJoFromJerz) September 18, 2025
Texas Man Charged With Threat To Murder Mamdani
Ooop! And I was told the right-wing was without sin! ROTFLMAO!
“Hey Zohran you should go back to f—-ing Uganda before someone shoots you in the f—ing head and gets rid of your whole family too…” followed by anti Muslim comments.
“You’re a terroist piece of s—-… go ahead and start your car and see what happens.” — Henry Rosoff
Jeremy Fistel’s defense attorney argues it was free speech, and he did not intend to act on it:
“Nobody is arguing what he did was proper… it’s unpleasant… but it’s free speech.”
Tell it to Jimmy Kimmel!
Vance Vowed Trump Would “Defend” Opposing Views
“Our own government encouraged private companies to silence people who dared to utter what turned out to be an obvious truth. So I come here today not just with an observation, but with an offer. And just as the Biden administration seemed desperate to silence people for speaking their minds, so the Trump administration will do precisely the opposite; and I hope that we can work together on that. In Washington, there is a new sheriff in town; and under Donald Trump’s leadership, we may disagree with your views, but we will fight to defend your right to offer it in the public square, agree or disagree.” – JD Vance, in a resurfaced clip from February. The “obvious Truth” he referred to was the result of the 2020 election.
Like Trump, Vance is a liar.
Stephen A. Smith Goes After His Disney Colleague Kimmel: ‘Wasn’t Anything Funny’ About Kirk Comments
Who said Stephen A. Smith has a sense of humor? Satire seems beyond his comprehension.
Barack Obama levels Trump admin over its 'new and dangerous level' of coercion
President Obama: Over two posts he wrote, “After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.”
“This is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was designed to prevent — and media companies need to start standing up rather than capitulating to it,” he then added.
In other words if you don't resist you are endorsing it! Capiche?
'Utterly morally bankrupt': Criticism rolls in after big Trump press conference in UK
Trump and Starmer responded to British press questions about the relationship between the two countries, including the AI and technology partnership, Russia's attacks and the ongoing war in Ukraine, war and genocide in Gaza, tariffs and oil prices, Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan and the ousted former Ambassador Peter Mandelson — who Trump claims he doesn't know despite a photo showing them chatting in the Oval Office several months ago. He also said Jimmy Kimmel was fired over ratings.
Users on X and Bluesky responded to the Trump's remarks and Starmer's responses.
"Starmer has pulled out all the stops to flatter and impress Trump, but still hasn’t managed to get him to drop his damaging tariffs, take on Putin or tell Netanyahu to stop waging genocide. It’s time for the UK to stand tough with allies who share our values," Leader of the Liberal Democrats, Ed Davey, wrote on X.
"I'm not sure that reporting on Trump in the old-fashioned way makes any sense. You need to really prefix everything with, 'In a rambling, off-the-cuff speech that he may well contradict tomorrow...'" writer Rick Burin wrote on Bluesky.
There's a lot more here. Read it at the link.
Yeah. It’s Fascism.
We’re Gonna Call It What It Is
In 1995, the Italian novelist and critic Umberto Eco perceived a “ghost stalking Europe (not to speak of other parts of the world).” That ghost was fascism.
Eco explained that “fascism was a fuzzy totalitarianism, a collage of different philosophical and political ideas.” Nonetheless he argued that “in spite of this fuzziness, I think it is possible to outline a list of features that are typical of what I would like to call Ur-Fascism, or Eternal Fascism.”
Among the elements of Ur-Fascism:
“The first feature of Ur-Fascism is the cult of tradition,” he writes, which implies “the rejection of the modern world.”
“Ur-Fascism can be defined as irrationalism.”
“For Ur-Fascism, disagreement is treason.”
“Ur-Fascism grows up and seeks for consensus by exploiting and exacerbating the natural fear of difference. The first appeal of a fascist or prematurely fascist movement is an appeal against the intruders.”
“Ur-Fascism derives from individual or social frustration.”
“At the root of the Ur-Fascist psychology there is the obsession with a plot, possibly an international one. The followers must feel besieged. The easiest way to solve the plot is the appeal to xenophobia.”
“The Ur-Fascist transfers his will to power to sexual matters. This is the origin of machismo. . . . Since even sex is a difficult game to play, the Ur-Fascist hero tends to play with weapons—doing so becomes an ersatz phallic exercise.”
“Fascist schoolbooks made use of an impoverished vocabulary, and an elementary syntax, in order to limit the instruments for complex and critical reasoning.”
Sound familiar?
"Eco warned in the 1990s of the ghost of fascism re-emerging to stalk the world. That ghost has become a clear and present danger today."
First, They Came for Jimmy Kimmel
"You tell me who misled his audience more: Jimmy Kimmel the comedian, or JD Vance the vice president."
I understand this is a dog-bites-man story: Trump, Vance, and their propaganda networks do not operate in good faith. They are authoritarians and do not see themselves as bound by society’s rules because their aim is to break society and then dominate it, indefinitely.
And I would not go so far as to say that the forces of liberalism ought to stop operating in good faith. They should still strive to be truthful and accurate. They should correct their errors. They should eschew conspiracy theories.
But for the love of God they should stop treating MAGA like a legitimate movement that is playing by the same rules as everyone else. Regular order is over. That clip of JD Vance admitting that he’s happy to “create” stories ought to play in front of literally every single discussion of Jimmy Kimmel.
The people operating in good faith need to stop self-flagellating over their mistakes and surrendering preemptively.
They need to look up and realize what time it is.
Because if Disney doesn’t want to fight over the independence of its news division, or the content of its animated movies, or the hiring policies at its theme parks, then it ought to line the fuck up behind Jimmy Kimmel, right now.
Capitulation isn’t the easy way. It’s the stupid way.
The easy way—and the smart way—is to make the fascists fight for every inch."
Charlie Kirk Fans VERY MAD At ... Indiana Jones Game For Denigrating Fascists
"I have never seen an Indiana Jones movie. Well, that’s not entirely true. I got my parents to rent one of them for me from the video store and wanted to watch it because it seemed like everyone else was very into it, watched it up until one guy pulled some other guy’s heart out of his chest, freaked out, and had nightmares for many years afterwards. But even I know enough about Indiana Jones to know that he is an archaeologist who fights Nazis and wears a distinctive hat.
Alas, it seems that this is not something that was known to Charlie Kirk fans on the site formerly known as Twitter, who are currently outraged by the fact that Bethesda, a video game company, released a trailer for their new Indiana Jones game content in which Dr. Jones disparaged fascists … to a cat.
Bethesda deleted the tweet with the clip, but recordings of it are floating around. 'You don’t care much about these fascists, do you?' he says, giving it a little pet.
Clearly, these folks were unaware that cats are all, in fact, antifa. Which means of course that cats have all just been declared 'a major terrorist organization.' But we are talking about something serious here, which is this video game.
The clip is from a game called Indiana Jones and the Great Circle and was meant to serve as a promo for The Order of Giants DLC, a downloadable addition to the game, in which Indiana Jones goes to Italy during World War II and ends up fighting the fascists."
“Fire this person or face consequences,” read a tweet from right-wing podcast The Quartering
"Apparently, fascists are now a protected class and no one can even suggest that cats don’t like them."
Clearly, these people are re-defining just how fucking stupid, stupid can be!
TN State Rep.: Trump Uses “Black Criminality” Myth to Take Over Black-Led Cities
Trump’s plan to send troops and agents into Memphis is “a power play for more authoritarianism,” says Justin J. Pearson.
“We are dealing with the consequences of people who are in positions of power who do not care about our lives, who do not care about our communities, who don’t care about eliminating poverty. They don’t even care about crime,” he adds.
Kash Patel Appears to Not Know Who White Supremacist Shooter Dylann Roof Was
In a hearing on Wednesday, FBI Director Kash Patel appeared to not know of infamous mass shooter Dylann Roof, who murdered nine people at a historic Black church in 2015 in one of the deadliest white supremacist massacres in modern U.S. history.
“Can you give me a reminder? I’ve got a lot in front of me,” the FBI director said of the widely-publicized massacre.
Why is this man occupying an office for which he is not qualified?
The failure of Donald Trump!
America the Irrelevant
"Of the many savage ironies of the Trump administration, perhaps the greatest is the ever-diminishing stature of the United States—despite the president’s desire to make the country great again. MAGA was always something of a misnomer. As a modern-day Sun King, Trump has always believed that he is the state. If America somehow manages to shine, it’s really because of the light that reflects off the president’s bronzed brow. MAGA ultimately boils down to MTGA: Make Trump Great Again.
The preening president believes that relevance is measured by how often his image is in the public eye and the frequency with which foreign leaders pay him obeisance. Toward those ends, he has wielded tariffs like a whip to keep other countries in line. He has attacked the relatively weak (Venezuela), piggybacked on the military actions of others (striking Iran after Israel had already initiated the conflict), and threatened to seize largely undefended territory (Greenland). He has grandiosely promised to end wars—quickly by himself rather than patiently with trained negotiators."
"Forget about MAGA. Forget even about MTGA. Under Trump, the conversation is shifting to MAUI.
Trump and his cronies are Making America Ultimately Irrelevant."
As irrelevant as a banana republic can get.
Statement in Response to ABC Taking Jimmy Kimmel Live! Off the Air
American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada President Tino Gagliardi issued the following statement in response to ABC taking Jimmy Kimmel Live!, which employs musicians from Local 47 in Los Angeles, off the air:
“This is not complicated: Trump’s FCC identified speech it did not like and threatened ABC with extreme reprisals. This is state censorship. It’s now happening in the United States of America, not some far-off country. It’s happening right here and right now.
This act by the Trump Administration represents a direct attack on free speech and artistic expression. These are fundamental rights that we must protect in a free society. The American Federation of Musicians strongly condemns the decision to take Jimmy Kimmel Live! off the air.
We stand in solidarity with all those who will be without work because of government overreach.”
Without music, America becomes a sad and dreary country. You'd better take notice.
Union now! Union forever!
A Far Left Radical’s Manifesto
The rightwing machine wants you scared of progress, but I’m here to speak their worst nightmare out loud.
"If you’re even remotely associated with the Democratic Party, whether running for office, helping out, or just breathing while Democratic, the GOP and their rightwing media attack dogs will label you a 'far left radical.'
So, in the interest of clarity, let me make it official: I’m a far left radical.
Here’s why. I believe:..."
Name the One Political Party Led by Those Who Call for Violence
Hint: It is not the Democrats.
Top news outlets underplay right-wing declaration of war against the left
"Ironically, by threatening to punish opponents for their political speech, it was one of the most Nazi things Trump has ever said."
"What would you have done in 1930s Nazi Germany?" is no longer a hypothetical question.
Trump: I’m Declaring Antifa As “Terrorist Organization”
Antifa is a myth created by Donald Trump. A myth, a hoax and a means to perescute his enemies.
"We all know there isn’t an organization called Antifa
What this really means is now people can be taken off the street, called Antifa members, then thrown in jail or a camp or a grave as a result." — Todd20036 (comments)
Republicans Block New Bid To Subpoena Epstein Files
These miscreants are scared to death.
Owner Of Stations Behind Kimmel Move Is Awaiting Approval For $6.2 Billion Acquisition Of Its Main Rival
"There were Nürnberg trials for members of the business community too." -- Stogibear (comments)
"The fact that these people are scared of jokes that cut close is all the confirmation I need to see that they know they are in the wrong. Same with the Epstein files." — CB (comments)
Watters: We Will “Bankrupt” All Critics Of Charlie Kirk
This is nothing but an evil threat from a Nazi punk.
Sorry, Jess. I'm waiting for America to take its rightful justice and wait for the other shoe to fall.
"The party that cheered, joked and liked about Paul Pelosi,
that cheered when Ruth Bader Ginsburg was gravely ill,
the party that cheered when a mother and baby died on razor wire put on buoys in the Rio Grande,
the party that tweeted images of Biden as a hostage,
the party that 'jokes' about detainees being eaten by alligators..."
Can go fuck themselves." — DaddySnark (comments).
ACLU On Kimmel: “This Is Beyond McCarthyism, Trump Admin’s Actions Are Grave Threat To First Amendment”
Christopher Anders, director of the Democracy and Technology Division at the American Civil Liberties Union, said: “Jimmy Kimmel is the latest target of the Trump administration’s unconstitutional plan to silence its critics and control what the American people watch and read. Cowering to threats, ABC and the biggest owner of its affiliate stations gave the Trump FCC chairman exactly what he wanted by suspending Kimmel indefinitely and dropping the show.
“This is beyond McCarthyism. Trump officials are repeatedly abusing their power to stop ideas they don’t like, deciding who can speak, write, and even joke. The Trump administration’s actions, paired with ABC’s capitulation, represent a grave threat to our First Amendment freedoms.”
It's a attack on the very core of our country and should be met with all the forces we can muster!
Cultist Mob Descends On South Florida City Council To Demand Official Be Fired Over Post About Kirk
One cannot defame a dead man. Get an education.
'Publicity stunt': Experts detail Trump's new attempt to 'intimidate the media'
This is a good photograph of the inept "Make-up Boy."
Antifa is a myth you invented, you moron!
'Wrong and dangerous': Karl Rove slams Trump for using Kirk's death to crack down on left
"Using Charlie’s murder to justify retaliation against political rivals is wrong and dangerous. It will further divide and embitter our country. No good thing will come of it," Rove wrote.
Karl is right on this. "A house divided against itself cannot stand." — Abraham Lincoln, June 16, 1858.
But Jesus said the same thing. So, now what's your excuse, Don Trump?
J6er Ali Alexander Wants Trump To Round Up And 'Possibly Kill' 500,000 'Antifa'
Oh look. "Stop the steal" insurrectionist Ali Alexander is calling for more violence in revenge for the shooting of Charlie Kirk.
Unbelievable insanity.
Helter Skelter is coming down fast.
Van Orden Wants To Overthrow Elections In Kirk's Name
"As I previously reported, Rep Drunken Van Orden has not been coping very well with the death of Charlie Kirk. But now he's taking his dysfunctionality to new depths. He now wants to overturn elections in Kirk's cursed name.
On Monday, DVO introduced a bill to withhold federal funding from any entity that employs people that don't properly mourn the dead fascist influencer..."
They want to kill "the shining city upon the hill" for good. They have lost sight of our beloved country.
Kimmel Off Air ‘Indefinitely’ After Bogus MAGA Attack Over Kirk
The right-wing falsely accused Jimmy Kimmel of claiming MAGA killed Charlie Kirk. ABC validated the lie by kowtowing to the efforts to stamp out free speech.
“Mr. Kimmel’s comments about the death of Mr. Kirk are offensive and insensitive at a critical time in our national political discourse, and we do not believe they reflect the spectrum of opinions, views, or values of the local communities in which we are located,” Andrew Alford, president of Nexstar’s broadcasting division, wrote in a statement.
Offensive and insensitive to whom? Youm? Grow a backbone, Andrew.
WSJ: The Price Of Cocaine Has Dropped 50% Because Feds Are Focusing All Efforts On Deporting Migrants
"Cocaine sold in the U.S. is cheaper and as pure as ever for retail buyers. Consumption in the western U.S. has increased 154% since 2019 and is up 19% during the same period in the eastern part of the country, according to the drug-testing company Millennium Health. The widespread availability of high-quality product has driven the price of cocaine to $60 a gram, roughly half of what it was five years ago.
The president’s campaign to deport immigrants in the U.S. illegally has taken federal agents away from drug-traffic interdiction. In Arizona, two Customs and Border Protection checkpoints along a main fentanyl-smuggling corridor from Mexico have been left unstaffed. Officers stationed there were sent to process detained migrants. A senior administration official said the U.S. border is more secure than it has ever been."
So, does this mean everyone is so fucked up on Cocaine that they don't care or even see they are being robbed blind by Trump tyranny?
This is how they silenced Stephen King
As Radley Balko said Monday, “we're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing, as has the lack of urgency [or] silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.”
Last week, on Twitter, the novelist quoted-tweeted remarks by Fox host Jesse Watters. “Charlie Kirk was not a ‘controversial’ or ‘polarizing’ man,” Watters said. “Charlie was a PATRIOT. THIS is a turning point and we all need to turn in the right direction. Rest in peace, my friend.”
It should be said first of all that this is a lie. Kirk was nothing but controversial and polarizing. That was his entire shtick. And that’s why Stephen King said: “He advocated for stoning gays to death. Just sayin’.”
"You can’t defame the dead. Defamation is about an injury to one’s reputation. You don’t have an injury, and you don’t have a reputation, when you’re dead. Once you’re dead, there’s nothing anyone can say to hurt you. Mike Lee, who is an attorney, knows that."
Trump admin partners with 41 far-right groups on 'God-centered' civics education for kids
"U.S. civics involves the relationship between religion and government, particularly through the First Amendment, which ensures the separation of church and state and protects the free exercise of religion. This principle is fundamental to understanding American political and social structures."
You can bet this boondoggle will teach the church is the state. Your children will become good Nazis.
"Wake the fuck up people. Our Democratic Republic is hanging by a thread." == TabbyCat (comments)
'Outrageous attack on free speech': ABC hit with severe backlash for pulling Jimmy Kimmel
The spark for the controversy was Kimmel’s monologue on Monday, during which he criticized “the MAGA gang” for trying to detach the accused shooter, Tyler Robinson, from the broader pro-Trump movement and accused them of using Kirk’s death for political gain.
Brendan Carr, Chair of the Federal Communications Commission, criticized Kimmel’s remarks and urged local ABC stations to stop broadcasting the show. Some reports suggest that Carr hinted at potential consequences for licenses if networks fail to act.
"Meanwhile, ABC's announcement led to strong reactions, with many raising concerns about freedom of speech. Attorney and legal analyst Jeffrey Evan Gold called Kimmel's cancellation "an official state action done for partisan political purposes and to chill First amendment rights."
"Sen. Patty Murray (R-Wash.) wrote on the social platform X: "Yesterday, Trump was threatening a reporter he didn't like. Today, he coerced ABC to kick Kimmel off the air. He's also suing NYT & WSJ for reporting the truth. And it's not just media: he's threatening private companies, colleges, Congress—everyone. Enough. NONE OF US should cave. We ALL need to push back."
Journalist S.E. Cupp wrote: "This administration is systematically killing free speech, and these capitulating media companies are acting as willing accomplices. Frightening and shameful."
Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.) wrote: "The greatest casualty of the Trump Administration is the First Amendment."
Podcaster and former Obama advisor Dan Pfeiffer wrote: "The amount of cowardice being shown by the corporate media is galling If the press won’t fight for the First Amendment, who will?"
Political commentator Chris Hayes wrote: "This is the most straightforward attack on free speech from state actors I've ever seen in my life and it's not even close."
Nothing but chickenshit Nazi bootlickers! They want a war to start it's plain to see.
Brendan Carr is a Trump sychophant bootlicker. Kimmel is telling the truth and the Nazi doesn't like it.
Kimmel said on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Monday, “We had some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and with everything they can to score political points from it.”
It's the truth, Ruth! This has to go to court!
What got their underwear up their ass? You can't defame a dead person! Look it up!
The data proves it: Right-wing violence is more frequent and more deadly than left-wing violence
Facts are hard to deny but the Nazis will deny facts until we are all dead.
'Violation of our constitutional rights': Parents push back on MAGA superintendent's order
We will not bow down to Nazis!
One Of Our Own: On Wonderful Americans Like Charlie
The fiery shards from the murder of Charlie Kirk still ricochet in baleful ways, even as his shooter's views and motives remain murky. Despite rabid calls by a regime eager for revenge to extinguish leftist "scum" who rendered their bigot hero "a martyr for truth and freedom," the killer seems to be a muddled mix of gun freak, devout gamer and violent nihilist. In his bloody wake, many now beset by irrational vitriol are left to argue, "I don't support what happened to Charlie, but Charlie supported what happened to Charlie."
'What a disaster': This Trump Cabinet official is tanking fast
CNN analyst Harry Enten had some bad numbers for U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, whose popularity is collapsing among Trump’s cabinet officials, surpassing even that of controversial anti-vaxx Secretary of Health and Human Services RFK jr.
“What a disaster for Pam Bondi, and therefore Trump,” Enten told CNN anchor Kate Bolduan. “If I'm Donald Trump, I'm just going, ‘what the heck is going on here?’” said Enten, referring to an aggregate Quinnipiac survey of Trump cabinet officials who are underwater.
“Okay. So, Pam Bondi was already underwater and I wouldn't be surprised if she goes underwater more,” said Enten. “Take a look here at the net popularity of Trump cabinet members. Look who has the lowest number on your screen right here. Look how far underwater Bondi is at -19 points. Now, none of the folks on your screen here are in positive territory, but none of them are as far underwater as Pam Bondi.”
The historical failure that is Trump.
New College Of Florida Announces Statue Of Charlie Kirk On Campus
"Nothing surprises me anymore. Idiocracy reigns supreme."
Who's he waiting for, his choir?
'You are part of the cover-up': Trump’s FBI chief confronted with his own words over Epstein
"Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY), who served as lead council in President Donald Trump's first impeachment, excoriated Patel over Epstein, too.
In a testy exchange, a combative Patel asked, "Do you know how court orders work?" to which Goldman, replied, "I was a prosecutor. A real prosecutor for ten years."
Goldman then laid into him, adding, "I want to understand what the court order prevents you from releasing witness statements that the FBI took... you are hiding the Epstein files. You are part of the cover-up."
This is exactly what he is. He is nothing more than a Trump go-fer.
Raskin Grills Kash Patel Like A Chew Toy
At today's House Judiciary Committee hearing, Democratic Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin tore into FBI Director Kash Patel over the massive cover-up of the Epstein Files by the Trump administration. Raskin did not come to play with Patel today, as he spoke of the FBI director's betrayal of the 1,000 victims of Epstein's abuse.
"Before you got in this job, you called for full release of Epstein files, telling podcaster Benny Johnson that the only reason the list was not released by DOJ and FBI was, quote, because of who's on that list," Raskin said. "Upon your confirmation, you promised that, quote, there will be no cover-ups, no missing documents, no stone left unturned. And anyone from the prior or current bureau who undermines this will be swiftly pursued."
"This spring, you ordered hundreds of agents to pore over all the Epstein files, but not to look for more clues about the Money Network or the network of human traffickers," he continued. "You pulled these agents from their regular counterterrorism or drug trafficking duties to work around the clock, some of them sleeping at their desks, to conduct a frantic search to make sure Donald Trump's name and image were flagged and redacted wherever they appeared, whether an email, a text, a letter, an interview, a photograph, or a video."
Read more at the link.
Trump Shutting Down Cancer Research
"We are great in science," Harold Varmus, former director of the National Institute of Health (NIH) and a Nobel prize-winning scientist, told the NYT. "Why would we want to destroy one of our greatest assets?"
"In the first three months of his second term, Trump has slashed $2.7 billion from the NIH's budget. Federal cancer research, in particular, has seen drastic reductions, which critics say will hamper any advancement in finding effective treatments. This has translated into mass layoffs and the freezing of important ongoing studies."
"We" don't want to. It's the incoherent brain of a sunsetter at work.
And you still think I'm joking when I say he's going to kill us all?
Man Applies for Job, Sits for Interview, Then Realizes They're Trying to Peddle "Mock Interviews With an AI Interviewer"
Illustrating how confidence crooks could use AI or bamboozle you in any way.
Charlie Kirk and Trump’s Looming Political Crackdown
"The shocking assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk last week was part of a wider, horrific trend: the rise of political violence in America. But Kirk’s murder also seemed to reveal something even darker. Before a suspect was found—when facts were scarce—the race for political retribution was already well underway.
Earlier this week, President Donald Trump and other top White House officials threatened to crack down on what they describe as a coordinated movement of left-wing organizations that are inciting violence against conservatives. So far, there is no evidence that Robinson was part of a larger plot targeting right-wing activists. But the political rhetoric coming from the White House is part of a scenario that experts have long warned about: using public tragedy to accelerate political division.
Trump “is immediately casting blame on his political opponents, demonizing and turning the heat up,” Mother Jones National Affairs Editor Mark Follman tells More To The Story host Al Letson. “And that is a recipe for more violence. The very top of our political leadership is stoking a political and cultural war.”
This would be the bloody war I have been prophesying. It could make our old Civil War look like child's play.
Republicans Leverage Charlie Kirk’s Death to Declare War on Free Speech
A cruel troll is being canonized so liberals and leftists can be silenced.
"Targeting people with legal persecution because they were callous or rude about a dead person is a flagrant violation of the plain reading of the First Amendment."
Exclusive Focus Group: Trump Bleeding Latino Voters
Beth from New Jersey also said she initially supported a tougher stance on immigration. ”We do need safety, we do need security, we owe it to our country,” she said. But she quickly added that she had lost confidence in the administration on the issue due to the lack of a “humane” approach to deportations. She tied Trump’s haphazard and heavy-handed execution on the issue to his and Elon Musk’s arbitrary firing of hundreds of thousands of federal workers as part of the DOGE initiative.
“It’s bullying at another level,” she said. “I live in America, I don’t want to be in a dictatorship. I still want to be in a democratic nation that has rules, has regulations. . . . This is America, we gotta treat people with respect and dignity and I think a lot of that has gone out the window.”
Paolo, an 18-year-old from Florida, agreed.
“We see he’s super-extremist and ignoring history,” he said. “He’s taking down government history websites, he’s changing [the Department of Defense] to the Department of War. It seems that power has taken control of his mind where he thinks he can change the Constitution and control the entire country by himself.”
“America's Comeback” Is Nothing but a Con Job
The recycled lies of trickle-down economics, designed to crush workers, women, and minorities alike
"The question is “America Comeback” to what?
In 1981, when Ronald Reagan was sworn into office:
— Fully two-thirds of Americans were in the middle class,
— College was so cheap you could pay your tuition with a weekend job,
— Healthcare was inexpensive and widely available,
— Women and minorities had achieved legal (albeit not yet actual) parity with white men,
— And school and mass shootings were largely unknown because weapons of war were mostly outlawed from our streets.
Today, however, as a result of the Reagan Revolution:
— Only around half of us are in the middle class,
— College debt has crushed two generations to the point where they can’t start a family or buy a house,
— A half-million families end up homeless or bankrupt every year because somebody got sick,
— The GOP is leading an effort to make it harder for women and minorities to vote or maintain employment,
— And, with more guns than people, mass shootings are an almost-daily occurrence."
I am certain the Nazis would want all of this erased. So, why does anyone support fascism?
Student who mocked Charlie Kirk’s death “no longer” at Texas State University as clampdowns continue
The university's announcement came hours after Gov. Greg Abbott called for the student's expulsion.
What did Abbott do? Threaten the University if they didn't?
It was not immediately clear whether the student was expelled or voluntarily withdrew. In Damphousse’s statement, he called the video “disturbing” and condemned the student’s behavior.
“I will not tolerate behavior that mocks, trivializes, or promotes violence on our campuses,” Damphousse said.
Sounds like he could be easily mocked himself with a name like that.
"The end of the student’s enrollment is a convergence between two recent phenomena gripping Texas education: widespread conservative backlash against those who mock or criticize Kirk in the days since his killing, and viral videos of those in higher education leading to their removal from campus. Faculty and advocacy groups have expressed repeated concern that the wave of removals and firings for statements and actions by students and faculty amount to First Amendment violations and a clampdown on free speech."
The state is run by Trump's Nazi servants so what else would you expect?
How Pam Bondi became MAGA’s patsy
The right needs a hate speech scapegoat
Running the FBI? Kash Patel believes his job is getting attention
He's "more focused on social media clout" than on "fighting crime," as Sen. Chris Coons said
But the weirdest moment may be how the director decided to punctuate what was supposed to be a sober-minded press conference on Sept. 12 revealing the details of Robinson’s arrest. “Lastly, to my friend Charlie Kirk, rest now, brother,” Patel said. “We have the watch, and I’ll see you in Valhalla.”
Eric Trump takes jab at Hunter Biden when pressed on crypto dealings
"Look over there!" shouts Eric.
Sure, the Trumps aren't the least bit interested in grifting.
"President Trump amassed much of his wealth before entering office, but since becoming president, reports show he and his family and companies have made billions."
Actually, over $3.5 billion since taking office in January it has been stated many times.
Voldemort’s Quota Spurred Arrests Of South Koreans
"When ICE agents decided to arrest over 300 Korean workers at a Georgia battery plant, a White House-imposed daily immigrant arrest quota was likely on their minds. The Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid at a Hyundai-LG battery plant near Savannah created an international incident that called into question future large manufacturing investments in the United States."
Trump: Biden Tried To Force Kirk “Out Of Business”
The ancient Nazi lies again.
"As was reported here, in the last several years multiple Turning Point leaders have resigned after making racist comments or after their ties to far-right extremist groups were exposed."
Leavitt Shares Claim God Caused An Earthquake In Utah Over Kirk: “Earth Trembles When God Is Angry”
Special mystical powers she must have acquired from the cult.
Is she certain about that or is she just hearing Trump shitting his pants?
WSJ Board: “Pam Bondi Needs A Free Speech Tutorial”
She needs far more than that!
"Ms. Bondi hasn’t had a distinguished tenure as AG, as she too often seems to follow the latest social-media, cable-TV mood swing. But she is a law enforcer, not a social-media anger management coach, and she’s sworn to uphold the Constitution. Maybe Ms. Bondi should quit appearing on podcasts about Charlie Kirk until she listens to some Charlie Kirk podcasts."
DOJ Deletes Its Own Study Showing That Far-Right Commits “Far More” Acts Of Violence Than Far-Left
Within the past few days, the Department of Justice deleted one of its own studies from its website showing that “far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left or radical Islamist extremists.”
Why wouldn't a criminal erase any clue to his crime?
Mehdi Hasan pulls back the curtain on Trump advisor’s call for 'unadulterated fascism'
"...Loomer called for the imprisonment of anyone who criticizes Kirk — a proposal that former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan is calling out as 'fascism.'"
In a September 13 post on X, Loomer wrote,"I have to say, I do want President Trump to be the 'dictator' the Left thinks he is, and I want the right to be as devoted to locking up and silencing our violent political enemies as they say we are. I've had enough of the Left only thinking we will defund them, prosecute them, lock them up and dismantle their power for generations to come. It just needs to happen."
To which I say, "Nazi, heal thyself!" "We?" Does she have a mouse in her pocket? LMAO!
Activist William Richards wrote, "Laura Loomer wants Trump to be a dictator? She wants to lock up the Left because she believes they are all violent. Mirror politics & projection is what Laura is up to! It's easily demonstrated that the Right are the purveyors of violence in our Country, not the Left.
'Code red': Newsom issues wake up call for Dems
"We’ll lose this republic, we’ll lose this democracy," Newsom warned. "It is not an overstatement. This is Code Red. We all need to wake up to what’s going on.”
Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-FL), also took aim at Miller, saying, "I promise you, one one of the first people to receive a subpoena will be Stephen Miller. That guy is one of the most evil people, not just in government but in this country.”
Exactly
FUCK AROUND AND FIND OUT! Time to fight Nazis, America!
Fascism Comes For Office Depot. Tabs, Tues., Sept. 16, 2025
"Y’all, we don’t know what to say, except that it’s coming faster than ever, and stupider than we could have ever imagined. And we were fully prepared for fast and stupid!
Attorney General Pam Bondi, who sounds like she’s saying 'I invented Post-Its,' but whose words say 'I am a jackbooted fascist doing whatever Stephen Miller tells me to do,' declared that she is going to do a prosecution for whoever at the Office Depot refused to print out fliers for a vigil in honor of a certain person who was recently tragically murdered. Do you think this means the Christian Nazi cake bakers have to make cakes for gay weddings now? Ha ha! Not how Christian fascism works. [Mediaite]
Marjorie Taylor Greene wants a national divorce again. Anything to distract from the MAGA-on-MAGA crime that happened last week, I guess. [JoeMyGod]
JD Vance hosted a podcast yesterday. You know which one. He sounded like Hitler McFaceHair and he lied as rapidly as he breathed.
The Washington Post has fired Karen Attiah — the paper’s only remaining Black full-time columnist — for quoting you-know-who directly and in a way that, we guess, hurts white supremacists’ feelings. This is now illegal, and white supremacists are extremely sensitive. Go read every word she wrote about it. [Karen Attiah Substack]
Donald Trump is playing Grand Theft Boat Murder in the Situation Room again.
Over at my Friday place, what-does-the-bible-say-about-people I didn’t have much to say about the tragic death of he whose name I am going to try to never type again for the sake of my algorithms — I am not at work right now, have you noticed? — but I had one question: What does the Bible say about that guy? You know, if we’re being honest and aren’t assuming that the white fascist man is always the hero of every story? Check it out, share and subscribe!
[The Moral High Ground]
Trump Threatens to Rip Federal Funding From NYC If That “Liddle Communist” Is Elected Mayor
"...Am I leary of purity tests? Yes. Could the refusal of state funding lead to a showdown, a teaching moment about capitalism that’s worth risking? Yes. Do I think that, like AOC and Sanders, there’s a possibility that the Democratic Socialist Mamdani might use left-wing rhetoric as a means of sheep dogging folks into the Democratic Party, the party on life supports and a 'death spiral?' Again, yes. If I lived in New York City would I vote for Mamdani in a heartbeat? Yes — then continue organizing."
Trump is a tyrant!
The Puke Parade Marches On. Today’s Puke: That Fuckin' Fetterman.
"Some readers may have read earlier pieces from me regarding some of the more egregious pukes who inhabit our politics. Most of those pukes were Republicans because, when it comes to pukes, they're low hanging fruit, to mix my metaphors in a most nauseating way). I am not, however, narrow in my puke assessments. I have special revulsion for the pukes who turn up to throw up in the political party I routinely vote for. 'Dem Dems. Earlier puke profiles have included Bill Maher, Alan Dershowitz, Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana, and other easily hateworthy miscreants who occupy prominence on the oh-so-pukey political right wing. The aforementioned Bill Maher identifies as a man of the left, but he's been sliding rightward for a while now, so much so that he's become a popular and frequent guest on Fox 'News.'
And, if John Fetterman, Democrat from Pennsylvania, isn’t a puke, he'll do until a real puke comes along. He won election by pretending to be something he’s not—a progressive—and has since positioned himself to be the new Joe Manchin, or a retread of Joe Lieberman, Gore's VP running mate as this century was just getting started...
The Power to Destroy Isn’t Hypothetical: It’s the State’s Ultimate Weapon
Why authoritarian language always precedes authoritarian rule.
"Every president and most members of Congress have known for the past two centuries that having the ability to wield the power of government is a serious responsibility that carries with it real obligations for self-control.
The reason is simple and obvious, although our media appears to not realize it when they act like Trump’s and Miller’s rhetoric is normal: Government can legally kill you, imprison you, and take everything you own. Fox “News” and other commentators can’t."
Grifter-In-Chief Rages At Reporter For Asking How Much Money He’s Made This Term: I’m Telling On You, QUIET
The Trump Crime Syndicate is paying for the ballroom.
NOW SHUT THE FUCK UP! ROTFLMAO! What a crook!
Billion-Dollar Upgrade Begins For Trump’s Qatari Jet
The New York Times reports:
"The Air Force has started upgrading a 747 jetliner that the government of Qatar donated to the United States this summer, the Air Force said in a statement this week. President Trump has said he wants to modify the aircraft quickly so it can be put into use as a new Air Force One.
The plan has drawn concern from some members of Congress. They worry that Mr. Trump will pressure the Air Force to do the work so fast that sufficient security measures will not be built into the plane, such as missile defense systems or even systems to protect it from the electromagnetic effects of a nuclear blast.
Congressional budget analysts suspect that a mysterious $934 million transfer earlier this year from one of the Pentagon’s most over-budget, out-of-control projects — the modernization of America’s aging, ground-based nuclear missiles — is paying for much of the new, gold-adorned Air Force One that Mr. Trump desperately wants in the air before his term is over."
This appears to be inflationary!
Bondi Doubles Down On Prosecuting “Hate Speech”
“Hate speech that crosses the line into threats of violence is NOT protected by the First Amendment. It’s a crime. For far too long, we’ve watched the radical left normalize threats, call for assassinations, and cheer on political violence. That era is over."
Showing us she's full of Nazi bullshit.
“We will never be silenced. Not for our families, not for our freedoms, and never for Charlie. His legacy will not be erased by fear or intimidation.” – Pam Bondi, listing some threats that have always been criminal. “Cheering on political violence” has not previously been a crime. The second tweet below is from a reporter.
Matt Shea proceeds to ask Pam to calrify some comments Donald Trump, Brian Kilmeade, Greg Gutfields and Jess Waters have made publicly.
"Cool, so you'll be holding Republicans to the same standards right?....RIGHT?!" — Sooverthisshit (comments).
"American legend Robert Redford just passed. If you see anybody online not mourning him to your liking, please report to Pam Bondi to have them fired & prosecuted.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER" — Milking Charlie Kirk (comments).
"Hasn't she just threatened any american using their right to free speech with at least legal kidnapping?" — Doug105 (comments).
"We need to have a Nuremberg-style trial for every gender-affirming clinic doctor"
— Charlie Kirk.
The Nuremberg trials included about half of the Nazi defendants being sentenced to death.
Bondi is a fascist." — Jay Silversmith (cimments).
The Sun Is Entering a New and Unexpected Active Stage
“The Sun is slowly waking up.”
"The Sun lies at the center of our solar system. Whenever the star spits out radiation bursts or plasma bubbles, the planets feel the heat—literally. Strong solar activity can compress the protective magnetic shield surrounding each planet, including Earth."
"This makes Earth a lot more vulnerable to the brutal radiation and plasma jets coming from the Sun. When that happens, solar weather can wreck satellite networks and electrical grids on Earth. For space missions, directly encountering solar weather events could be detrimental to the health of both astronauts and the spacecraft, giving NASA an imperative to better understand the nature of these events."
“The longer-term trends are a lot less predictable and are something we don’t completely understand yet,” Jasinski added.
Ignoring this may be costly.
AI Now Claiming to Be God
"A slew of religious smartphone apps are allowing untold millions of users to confess to AI chatbots, some of which claim to be channeling God himself.
As the New York Times reports, Apple's App Store is teeming with Christian chatbot apps. One 'prayer app,' called Bible Chat, claims to be the number one faith app in the world, boasting over 25 million users."
"Our AI was trained exclusively on Scripture and developed with guidance from Christian pastors and theologians," the company's website boasts." (25 million lame brains)
"Greetings, my child," a service called ChatWithGod.ai told one user, as quoted by the NYT. "The future is in God’s merciful hands. Do you trust in His divine plan?"
This is no devine plan, motherfucker. This is a grifting con on an AI stick!
ICE raids take toll on Latino mental health: ‘It’s been nonstop’
"It’s not only mental health that’s suffering. Fear of immigration raids and deportation has also led to a sudden drop in people going to doctor’s appointments for physical health needs, such as chronic illnesses. St. John’s Health Community Health mobilized a team earlier this year to visit scared patients in their homes, some of whom needed mental health support to deal with increased stress and anxiety."
All due to Trump's gun thugs.
Republicans aren’t even pretending to give a sh-t about free speech now
"The Republican Party’s commitment to free speech has never been full-throated. Rather, their approach has been more of a 'free speech for me but not for thee' sort of thing at the best of times. But in the wake of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk’sshooting death, even the nominal lip service conservatives give to the First Amendment is wholly out the window. In its place, we now have pretty much every textbook violation of the First Amendment you can imagine. Lucky us."
Tyranny is upon us.
'He has it wrong': Former CIA officer slams Trump official over new Venezuela attack
"Speaking with Ali Vitale on 'Way Too Early,' the career CIA officer criticized Trump's announcement that the U.S. military has carried out another strike on an alleged Venezelan drug boat."
"We're not being weak on national security. What we're asking [is], 'do we have the authority to take a life?' That's a really big deal."
Venezuela isn't the drug threat to America. Mexico is where it all comes from. He's that retarded.
'Hunt for the Antichrist': How MAGA is making politics a 'zero-sum holy war'
"Last week, in the hours after Charlie Kirk's assassination, the words 'demon' and 'evil' trended on X as some on the right portrayed his murder as the work of supernaturally possessed Democrats and leftists," Duran explains. "Major right-wing influencers echoed Carl Schmitt's ideas, calling for a political crackdown on Kirk’s critics. Chris Rufo, a prominent right-wing propagandist, called on law enforcement to 'infiltrate, disrupt, arrest, and incarcerate' the 'radical left.' This is where apocalyptic rhetoric always leads."
The American Talibastards are a threat to our country or any country for that matter.
'Not a monarchy': Trump’s lawsuit against NYT sparks mockery — and free speech warnings
"President Donald Trump has filed another lawsuit against The New York Times, drawing warnings from legal experts about free speech and First Amendment implications — even as they mock the filing itself."
Evidently, Trump thinks we are a monarchy. He's that far gone mentally and physically.
Over 100 Organizations Tell EPA to Ditch Dangerous Proposal to Gut Vehicle Emission Standards
More evidence these asswipes want to kill us all!
FBI Investigated Evergreen Shooter's Online Activity Before School Shooting
The FBI in July investigated social media accounts connected to the 16-year-old who shot two students and then himself at Evergreen High School last week, but did not identify the boy or take any further action before the attack, the agency confirmed Monday. Via The Denver Post:
The FBI “opened an assessment into a social media account user whose identity was unknown and who was discussing the planning of a mass shooting with threats non-specific in nature,” the agency said in a statement.
“During the assessment investigation, the identity of the account user remained unknown, and thus there was no probable cause for arrest or additional law enforcement action at the federal level,” the statement continued.
The FBI's investigation, first reported by 9News, continued until Wednesday's attack at the high school in the Jefferson County foothills, the FBI said.
FBI="Failed Bunch of Idiots."
Greg Gutfeld Is A Mean, Cynical, Lying Bully, Part Infinity
"This lying asshole went on a rant attacking Jessica Tarlov after she dared to tell the truth about what we know so far about Charlie Kirk's shooter's ideology and which side of the aisle has a problem with extremists committing murder. It's really hard to say which regular is the most offensive on this show, Watters or Gutfeld. It's pretty close to a tie."
Tucker Doesn't Want Anyone Using Charlie Kirk's Death For Their Causes
Is he looking in the mirror?
Bondi: “We’ll Absolutely Target You For Hate Speech”
It's a disgrace she doeesn't know what the First Amendment states.
Free Speach. That's all it is, stupid.
MAGA Freaks As Epstein Files Leap Towards The Light
This was a flashing neon sign: Americans are pissed at Trump. And they’re showing it at the ballot box. And woven into this defeat was the fabric of a deeper, darker subplot
'He's not doing well': Psychologists say Trump showing telltale signs of 'early dementia'
The Daily Beast reported Monday that in the latest episode of the podcast "Shrinking Trump," psychologists John Gartner (who was educated at the prestigious Johns Hopkins University) and Harry Segal (a psychology professor at Cornell University) said Trump's pattern of falling asleep in public is particularly concerning for the 79 year-old president. They pointed to Trump's attendance at the U.S. Open men's singles final between Italy's Jannik Sinner and Spain's Carlos Alcaraz as just the latest example of a pattern the president has exhibited before.
"You’re at the finals of the U.S. Open, a riveting performance ... you’re the center of attention," Gartner said. "So how does Trump react? Oh, he’s asleep again, just like he slept through most of the days of his criminal trial."
'Speechless': Free speech advocates rip Trump AG’s 'psychotic' claim about Charlie Kirk
"Critics are destroying U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi for demanding businesses fire or punish employees who exercise free speech — after years of defending businesses’ right to deny customers with whom they disagree."
'Something is wrong': MAGA pundits say Trump is 'lying to us' about Charlie Kirk shooting
Nazis can never accept reality.
"The story that these people made up and spewed didn't match reality. Rather than eating some humble pie and admitting they were wrong, they simply argued that reality was incorrect.
This is always what they do. That's how January 6 turns into a 'tourist visit gone wrong' and not 'the president' sent a mob led by white supremacist paramilitary groups to attack Congress and his own vice-president, never mind all the video showing that the second thing happened." -- Dave (comments).
Never Forget: Four Black Schoolgirls Killed In Birmingham Church Bombing
Under the Trump administration, any teacher who would dare teach this in a history class would be fired.
History:
On September 15, 1963, a bomb explodes during Sunday morning services in the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four young girls: Addie Mae Collins (14), Cynthia Wesley (14), Carole Robertson (14) and Carol Denise McNair (11).
With its large African American congregation, the 16th Street Baptist Church served as a meeting place for civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King Jr., who once called Birmingham a “symbol of hardcore resistance to integration.” Alabama’s governor, George Wallace, made preserving racial segregation one of the central goals of his administration, and Birmingham had one of the most violent and lawless chapters of the Ku Klux Klan.
End the evil that is Trump.
GOP senator warns Trump is about to face 'tremendous pressure' to change marquee law
"Trump's massive tax and spending law could close as many as 338 rural hospitals that overwhelmingly rely on Medicaid patients to stay open, according to research from the University of North Carolina's Sheps Center for Health Services Research. The Sheps Center found that in Maine, the Aroostook Medical Center in Presque Isle and the Maine Coast Memorial Hospital in Ellsworth are at risk of closing."
Really a moron. Anyone can see it.
'Not true!' Journalist erupts after ex-Trump advisor defends Charlie Kirk's rhetoric
""What Ken just said is not true, that Charlie never called for violence or that Charlie was level-headed," Hasan said. "Charlie called for me to be deported because he didn't like a monologue I did about COVID. He called for Joe Biden to be executed by the death penalty. We can go down the list."
Hasan also noted that Trump uses the same rhetoric that conservatives are saying should be avoided.
"This is a president who has called his enemies scum, vermin, and animals," Hasan said.
GOP Aims to Permanently Gut Federal Land Protections via Arcane Oversight Rule
"In the spring of 1996, lawmakers quietly buried a rider in a humdrum bill meant to make life easier for small businesses. That addition, the Congressional Review Act, granted Congress the power to kill new federal regulations with a simple majority vote. Thirty years later, Republican lawmakers are wielding it to quietly upend how the country manages public lands."
Raping and pillaging our country is what the Trump pirates are doing.
Trump Lies About Lowering Flags For Slain Democrat
The Associated Press reports:
Trump was asked why he ordered flags to be lowered to half-staff after Charlie Kirk’s killing, but not after the fatal shooting in June of a Minnesota state lawmaker. He responded by misstating what occurred.
The president suggested to reporters in the Oval Office that he might have ordered flags lowered following the fatal shooting of state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband. But he said that Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz never asked him.
“Had the governor asked me to do that, I would have done that gladly,” Trump said. Except that’s not what happened. Trump actually said at the time that he didn’t want to speak to Walz, suggesting it would be a “waste of time,” and referring to the former Democratic vice presidential nominee as “whacked out” and “a mess.”
Yes, he's a liar. A really bad liar.
Court: Trump Admin Illegally Fired 25,000 Workers
The Associated Press reports:
The Trump administration’s central human resources office acted illegally when it directed the mass firings of probationary workers as part of President Donald Trump’s efforts to downsize the federal workforce, a judge has ruled.
U.S. District Judge William Alsup of San Francisco said in awarding judgment to a coalition of labor unions and nonprofits that the U.S. Office of Personnel Management “unlawfully exceeded its own powers and usurped and exercised powers reserved by Congress to each individual” federal agency to hire and fire its own workers.
He said the government “disagrees but does not persuade” in its defense that the office did not direct employment decisions, but merely offered guidance to other agencies. More than 25,000 probationary workers were terminated soon after Trump took office in January, according to legal declarations from departments gathered as part of the lawsuit.
NPS To Remove Slavery Exhibits At Multiple Locations
Turning America into The Land of the Happy Negro.
The Washington Post reports:
The Trump administration has ordered the removal of signs and exhibits related to slavery at multiple national parks including a historic photograph of a formerly enslaved man showing scars on his back. The removals were in line with President Donald Trump’s March executive order directing the Interior Department to eliminate information that reflects a “corrosive ideology” that disparages historic Americans.
National Park Service officials are broadly interpreting that directive to apply to information on racism, sexism, slavery, gay rights or persecution of Indigenous people. The latest orders include removing information at Harpers Ferry National Historic Park in West Virginia where the abolitionist John Brown led a raid seeking to arm slaves for a revolt. Staff have also been told that information at the President’s House Site in Philadelphia, where George Washington kept slaves, does not comply with the policy.
Click on 13th to see the photo mentioned and the history Trump doesn't want you to know.
Farmers In PA’s Red Counties Desperate For Workers
Does anyone want to eat any longer? Are we at last this fucking stupid?
Trump Admits “Smart People Don’t Like Me”
It took him a long time to figure that out.
WaPo Columnist: I’ve Been Fired After Post About Kirk
Karen Attiah writes on her Substack blog:
"Last week, the Washington Post fired me. The reason? Speaking out against political violence, racial double standards, and America’s apathy toward guns. Eleven years ago, I joined the Washington Post’s Opinions department with a simple goal: to use journalism in service of people. As a columnist, I used my voice to defend freedom and democracy, challenge power and reflect on culture and politics with honesty and conviction.
Now, I am the one being silenced – for doing my job. On Bluesky, in the aftermath of the horrific shootings in Utah and Colorado, I condemned America’s acceptance of political violence and criticized its ritualized responses — the hollow, cliched calls for “thoughts and prayers” and “this is not who we are” that normalize gun violence and absolve white perpetrators especially, while nothing is done to curb deaths.
My most widely shared thread was not even about activist Charlie Kirk, who was horribly murdered, but about the political assassinations of Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman, her husband and her dog. My only direct reference to Kirk was one post— his own words on record. “Black women do not have the brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously. You had to go steal a white person’s slot.”
This is what we get when we have racist motherfuckers dictating.
Welcome to the New Era of Covid Vaccine Tourism
Benjamin calls the need for interstate travel for Covid vaccines “a tragedy.”
“The federal government has been negligent,” he told me.
“It’s so frustrating that common sense and science is disappearing,” Addington-May said.
And you wonder why I use the term "retarded" for things that are.
A Piece for Sionann, And France
"As it turned out, Sionann has lived nearly all of her adult life in France, a place her mother and I have visited often. As most people do, we’ve come to love it. One of my regrets is not having moved there when we retired. I have especially regretted it since Trump decided to devote his Golden years to wrecking the country where our daughters were born, as were their parents and grandparents, etc.."
Read it all.
We are in danger of letting our most valuable ideals die with Charlie Kirk
"This is incredibly dangerous, because by treating the death of Kirk as some 'political assassination' instead of yet another preventable gun death among tens of thousands in this country, our media is providing fuel to a fire that Republicans would like to burn to the point of out of control."
"Trump is a hardcore racist, and Kirk was one too. I could fill 14 columns using only their racist words to buttress this fact.
He was not as New York Times columnist Ezra Klein typed Thursday, presumably with a blindfold on: 'Practicing politics the right way.'"
Revealed: Trump letter to UCLA littered with grammatical and factual errors
"This isn't the first time the administration has shown why grammar and fact-checking matter."
"Have we ever seen a more error-prone, incompetent and fumbling presidency? In their rush to implement a barely concealed authoritarian agenda, this administration is producing a litany of blunders, gaffes and slip-ups. At times, they’ll seek to hide those mistakes by projecting a shield of authoritarianism. At other times, they’ll claim the mistake as a method of walking back an unpopular authoritarian agenda item. Either way, it’s a unique style of rule, one that I call “rule by error," says The Guardian's Moustafa Bayoumi.
He's an uneducated lug and a bad example for America's youth.
I kid you not — this Republican just called the Constitution's foundation 'woke'
Then "Schmitt the Schitt" is promoting treason.
"Schmitt is peddling a perverse and revisionist originalism in which only the founders who won the debates of the time matter. He calls us back to when the Constitution was first signed — when it counted enslaved people as 3/5ths of a person to appease slaveowners.
He is rejecting the Constitution that the people of the U.S. amended with the 14th, 15th and 19th Amendments to include those of us who are not male or white."
Schmitt made repeated allusions to the “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory. This is the increasingly widespread conspiracy theory that Jews are bringing non-white people into this country to replace its rightful white owners. That’s what the 'good people on both sides' as Trump put it, who chanted 'Jews will not replace us!' in Charlottesville were referring to.
There are more of us than there are of them. Schmitt can try to rewrite our history and claim this country isn’t “based on a proposition,” but Lincoln was right. This nation was “conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”
And let us make certain we keep it that way!
Top news outlets underplay right-wing declaration of war against the left
What has happened to our "free press?"
DHS says making and posting videos of ICE agents is ‘violence’
“We will prosecute those who illegally harass ICE agents to the fullest extent of the law.”
Americans have a right to photograph its Gestapo gang members doing dirty work.
Snowflakes! They hate freedom in America!
Trump blames 'incompetent' Biden for 'terrible' Dallas-area murder during Kirk memorial
When will the moron blame himself? he is the problem!
'He becomes enraged': Trump insiders spill about Stephen Miller 'making them cry at work'
Nazi nut ruins life for Trump stooges.
'Thought policing' bill could strip US citizens of passports for political speech
"Free speech advocates are sounding the alarm about a bill in the US House of Representatives that they fear could allow Secretary of State Marco Rubio to strip US citizens of their passports based purely on political speech."
And you thought it could never happen here?
Trump: “300 Million People Died From Drugs Last Year”
"President Donald Trump on Sunday tried to justify the fatal U.S. strike on a Venezuelan boat by claiming that 300 million people, presumably Americans, died from drugs last year. He was off by almost 300 million."
But he did murder some people on that boat.
Trump Claims Foreign Workers Are “Welcome” In US
The moron screwed that pooch a long time ago!
What happened to "America First?" ROTFLMAO!
Stephen Colbert Wins Emmy For Best Talk Show
Of course. He's greatness!
TODAY: Vance Will Guest Host Charlie Kirk’s Podcast
Vance will spread Nazi propaganda today.
Kari Lake: Kirk’s Killer Was “Brainwashed” By College
College had not one thing to do with it.
You know it, I know it the American people know it and she knows it.
She's a fucking idiot!
Trump Threaten To Defund NYC After Hochul Backs Mamdani: No Reason To Send Good Money After Bad
Trump hates democracy!
Trump Tries To Do Damage Control Over ICE's Hyundai F*ck Up
He's going to have to do better than this.
Donald J. Trump, the Art of the Deal guy, is doing damage control after a massive ICE raid at a Georgia Hyundai plant, which resulted in South Korean businesses suspending at least 22 U.S. projects and delaying their opening by months. And there is a lot of damage to control! “Korean workers are being treated like criminals for building factories that Washington itself lobbied for,” a company executive in Seoul said. “If this continues, investment in the U.S. could be reconsidered."
Fake business man.
Graham Calls For Repealing Shield Law So That Social Media Platforms Can Be Sued Over Posts About Kirk
Like sunlight to vampires, the truth wreaks havoc and guilt upon them.
Miss Lindsey is scared to death!
Fox News host blames Charlie Kirk shooting on 'drugs they take in order to trans'
Hmmm. So you mean Tyler Robinson was in transition? What does his Republican family say about that, dearie?
I just read from two major news outlets it's his boyfriend that is in transition. Any truth to that? Or are you telling us you weren't alive in the 1960s and noticed men wearing long hair then?
'I see slave patrols': ?Jasmine Crockett warns Supreme Court just set dangerous precedent
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) said she was reminded of the history of "slave patrols" after conservatives on the U.S. Supreme Court gave Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents the ability to target people based on their ethnicity.
During a Sunday interview on MSNBC, Crockett criticized President Donald Trump's crime-fighting strategy.
"So listen, if we want to figure out how we are going to be safer, we probably need people that have actual intelligence and actually will pay attention to data and facts," she explained. "But what they're doing right now, it almost feels like, you know, I've seen the memes about the purge and all these things."
"But as somebody who understands history, when I see ICE, I see slave patrols," she continued. "But if you know the history of policing in this country, then you understand that they were born out of slave patrols."
"And now with the Supreme Court saying this, it's almost like you can just go grab them up. And that is a problem. We all should have a problem with that."
Yes, but remember many of us are no longer human beings.
'This was Donald Trump's signature': Fox News panel affirms Epstein letter is legitimate
"He probably doesn't remember signing it because I know people that are around Donald Trump, he signs a lot of stuff sometimes," he argued. "And he might not have even known where he was signing it. I mean, trust me, I know people that deal with Donald Trump. That is very plausible that he does not remember this."
That would be because his mind is a puddle of brain rot.
Press Freedoms Protected From ICE Assaults in Los Angeles
A federal judge orders Department of Homeland Security officers to stop violent activity against reporters and peaceful protesters.
Behind the masks of the gun thug ICE agents you will find former or active members of the Proud Boys, the Boogaloo Bois, the Wolverine Watchmen, QAnon and the Three Percenters.
From Free Markets to State Control: How Conservatives Sold Out
"In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, John Avlon and libertarian thinker Nick Gillespie dive into America’s rising tide of political violence, and how reckless rhetoric fuels it. They explore Trump’s authoritarian drift, from tariffs and National Guard deployments to state capitalism that looks more like Xi Jinping than Ronald Reagan. Can new coalitions of centrists and libertarians push back against MAGA’s illiberal turn and rebuild a politics rooted in freedom, pluralism, and principle?"
The Real Reason Trump Is a Threat to the Economy
"“What message,” he asked, “does this send to any developer who wants to invest in the United States?”
For now, though, Langlais’s main focus is on helping Rhode Island officials in their push to restart Revolution Wind. He wonders whether it will require giving Trump something he wants. That is how New York’s Democratic governor, Kathy Hochul, is widely assumed to have gotten Trump to reverse another stop-work order for a wind project off the shores of Long Island over the summer.5
“Ever since this stop-work order came, we’ve been waiting for the ransom note,” Langlais said. “What does he want for us to continue, and finish the last 20 percent of this product to get it online?” This is also the resolution many analysts are expecting, as the climate-focused publication Heatmap reported last month."
In other words, a Trump shakedown grift.
Stephen Miller Vows to “Dismantle” the Left After Charlie Kirk Assassination
The Zombie King should look at himself in the mirror if he wants to see America's enemy. His party killed his hero.
He's such a coward.
'Charlie Kirk was not a saint': Fox News host defies right-wing spin on dead MAGA legend
Let's see you go after him, Steverino!
Stephen Miller's ex-classmate spills details: 'He craved triggering the good-looking kids'
"As a teenager in Santa Monica, California, Miller craved nothing more than triggering the good-looking kids in school who wanted nothing to do with him," the report states before introducing Jason Islas, who first met Miller at Lincoln Middle School in Santa Monica, and "says he and Miller and a third friend were a tight-knit band of outsiders who spent middle school doing preteen-boy stuff, like talking about Star Trek (Islas remembers Miller as a big Captain Kirk fan)."
So sadz.
'Meanest dork': Woman who Stephen Miller hit on recounts his 'tedious' social life
A woman who says Stephen Miller once hit on her recounted the conversation they had.
Rolling Stone over the weekend dropped an in-depth piece on White House deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller. As part of that reporting, the outlet noted that "paranoid" Trump officials were "whispering" nicknames for Miller behind his back.
As part of that reporting, the White House was also forced do deny unconfirmed reports that Miller liked to "play with porcelain dolls."
Delving into his social life, Rolling Stone reports, "Even attempts by his friends to make him sound gentler, kinder, or funnier often fall flat, making him seem like a crank or the meanest dork you’ve ever met."
"Weird" is a compliment to this "Dork."
Charlie Kirk's Alleged Assassin Tyler Robinson Somehow *Isn't* The Trans Woman MAGA Ghouls Insisted He'd Be
"The most egregious attacks were against a trans woman and musician from Utah who bore absolutely no resemblance to Robinson whatsoever. (Robinson’s picture had been released the day before.) Hundreds of tweets not only suggested that she might be the shooter or insisted that she was for sure the shooter, but that the FBI had identified her as the shooter.
Their primary piece of evidence — aside from the fact that she was trans, of course — was that her band had written a song presciently titled 'Charlie Kirk Is Dead At 31' this year … and that they deleted it from their Soundcloud after he was shot, figuring that that was exactly what someone who knew ahead of time that he was going to be shot and also did not want to get caught would do.
Because on top of being monsters, they are also terrible detectives."
Nazi aren't good at anything but killing people!
New Bill Would Allow Rubio to Strip US Citizens’ Passports Over Political Speech
Do we see what Nazi dictators do yet? Little Marco is one. He must be resisted as they all must be.
Brother v. Brother: Another Civil War Over Much the Same Old Shit?
"A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved - I do not expect the house to fall - but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other."
— A. Lincoln, 1858
..."Quite a few students across the country were graduating from high school without knowing jack about the Civil War that pitted brother against brother. If they had heard of it (or misheard of it), they often didn’t know the century during which it had been fought. Many were nearly as clueless about World War II and the Vietnam War as well, though that war had ended ignominiously when most of them were alive and around ten years old. As many may recall, the American History courses tended to run out of time as the high school year had run out before the teachers got very far into the 20th century. Some of those kids wound up in college (and not just community colleges) ignorant of a range of important things that happened before they arrived on the planet, or even when they were little and watching The Brady Bunch."
..."Fast forward to the present day when Trump and his cohort would just as soon young white folks shouldn’t be shamed in school to learn how people sharing their skin color had revolted against the United States because they preferred not to be part of a country that would make slavery illegal. It was all about their “freedom,” you see. That included the freedom to be racist enough to support the idea that, in fact, not all men are created equal,” in those stirring words of Thomas Jefferson, Founding Father and slave owner.
Shortly before that Civil War broke out (in 1861, incidentally) there had been legislation passed declaring black people to be only 3/5th human. Think for a moment of how they arrived at that percentage, then imagine the politicians arguing what that percentage was before passing that bill. If memory serves, that was in what came to be called the Missouri Compromise. You can Google it for yourself if you doubt it. One of the arguments about knowing stuff was that even 30 years ago, it was easy enough to find info on the computer so why bother wasting time carrying that old crap in our heads. That idea is even more popular now when all those people who voted for Trump appear to support the MAGA idea that we need to Make America Great Again without knowing how far from great it used to be."
'I'm going on facts!' Crockett tears into MAGA colleagues for rhetoric after Kirk slaying
Facts to MAGAts are like mirrors to vampires!
And no drag queens to be out there either.
'Shameful!' MAGA fury as store refuses to print 'propaganda' fliers for Charlie Kirk vigil
If a baker can refuse to make a wedding cake for a gay couple this it totally in line, morons!
GOP Rep: I’ll Get Kirk Critics Banned From Social Media, Blacklist Their Businesses And Revoke Drivers Licenses
Read the next article. Shit and fall back in it, you miscreant!
NUT BALL GOP Rep. Clay Higgins.!!!!!
Kirk suspect far from 'central casting' model of 'far-left Antifa activist' — here's why
...Robinson's background doesn't fit the profile of a standard Antifa activist.
"Tyler Robinson loved guns," Gardner explains. "His mother posted a picture of him posing with an M2 Browning 50-calibre machine gun. Photos of him and his brothers with every type of weapon littered social media. He went to gun shows with his parents and was given a gun kit for Christmas. He also liked gaming. And putting provocative comments online. Robinson lived with his parents, both registered Republicans, in a $600,000 house in a comfortable Utah suburb."
Gardner continues, "At first glance, the 22-year-old looks to be the kind of young man who might attend a Charlie Kirk rally to offer his support. Maybe a Turning Point USA member. His father, Matt, is said to be an avid Trump supporter. Clearly, much will become clear about Robinson's motivations in the weeks and months to come as the authorities speak to those closest to him."
Charlie Kirk Holds Up A Mirror To American Society
"My take on the new paradigm—right-wing media, corporate media and weak Democratic leadership, together paving our path to perdition—has been chugging right along for anyone who cares to take a moment to look at our democracy’s true pathology.
Well, with Kirk’s killing, we encounter what I refer to as The Iron Triangle of Fascism. The original term referred to Congress, government bureaucracy and lobbyists/interest groups shaping our politics.
My take on the new paradigm—right-wing media, corporate media and weak Democratic leadership, together paving our path to perdition—has been chugging right along for anyone who cares to take a moment to look at our democracy’s true pathology."
Average Americans Must Borrow To Pay For Basic Needs
Polling shows 'American families are trapped in a cycle of debt.'
"Yet another poll exposes the pain that working-class Americans are enduring thanks to US President Donald Trump's policies, the economic justice advocates behind the new survey said Tuesday.
Polling released in recent months has highlighted how most Americans don't believe that merely working hard is enough to get ahead, a majority blames Trump for the country's economic woes, and large shares are concerned about the price of groceries, housing, and unexpected medical expenses."
Trump admin plots ‘alarming’ health announcement designed to ‘scare people’: report
"Top health officials within the Trump administration plan to give a presentation next week linking COVID-19 vaccines to child deaths – based on unverified reports – to a panel that helps shape vaccine recommendations, several insiders revealed Friday, and, as one former health official said, in an attempt to 'scare people.'
According to four “people familiar with the situation” who spoke with the Washington Post in a report published Friday, the aforementioned presentation will include information from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, a government database that collects user-submitted reports on potential side effects of vaccines, with submissions having no verification or vetting process to validate claims."
The terminal insanity ward.
'You are the radicalized!' Ex-GOP lawmaker torches partisan spin in Charlie Kirk shooting
"If you’re trying to pretzel yourself into painting Tyler Robinson, a 22-year old, into a 'fascist' or 'leftist' model based on your rabid ideology, maybe you’re not seeing the bigger picture of what online radicalization is— because 'you' are the radicalized," said Riggleman, a moderate libertarian-leaning figure who in recent years became outspoken against the MAGA movement and advised the House January 6 Committee.
"Grifters and hate-miners are the problem with metastasizing hate and violence based on ignorance… and a serious deficiency is any moral standing. Sociopaths," Riggleman continued.
"Sanity folks. We need to Bring Sanity Back," he added in conclusion. "Condemn propaganda peddlers."
'Martyred mascot of racism': Writer tears into 'canonization' of Charlie Kirk
"Nation writer Elie Mystal on Friday tore into some arguments and hot takes surrounding the "canonization" of Charlie Kirk, a MAGA influencer shot dead this week in Utah, cautioning that the "martyred mascot of racism" has distracted people from facing heightened racism and the country's raging gun problem.
"Before the shooting, the biggest story in America was the Supreme Court’s authorization of racial profiling against Latinos. I wrote about it here," Mystal wrote in his column. "After the white media is done celebrating their martyred mascot of racism and bigotry, I hope we can resume our conversation about how the rest of us are forced to live in this white supremacist state."
Indeed. The Trump Crime Syndicate is attempting to make every square inch of the U.S. The Land of the Happy Negro!
Shoulder-Checks and Smoking Weed: The Petty Crimes Being Prosecuted Under Trump’s DC Crackdown
Ooooh! The horror of the crime in DC! Well, when you pull out knives you gotta find something to cut!
"Shootings have continued amid the crime crackdown, but Trump and Pirro can count at least one win: Nobody in DC has thrown a sandwich at an officer since prosecutors tried to throw the book at Dunn. Our long national nightmare is over."
WSJ Blasted for Inaccurately Reporting Charlie Kirk Shooter Had ‘Transgender’ Writing on Bullets
Understandable.
An additional comment: The "Prove Me Wrong" banners that were on his awning at the shooting site mean absolutely nothing but "Come to the sensational attraction that will be nothing but a confrontational event with an undefeated debater!"
Charlie had no courtroom there in which to present evidence that would be judged by an impartial jury and overseen by a fair witness. So, that was all merely show biz bullshit to initiate a fight with someone.
Unfortunately, he caught a left hook from an assault weapon. Hard to block that punch or even debate with it. And yes, I agree it wasn't a fair fight. But murder, and yes it was murder, is never intended to be.
JUST IN: Area Around Charlie Kirk’s Alleged Shooter’s Home Evacuated
MAGAt lynch mob sighted in the area?
NBC Employees Warned Not To Criticize Charlie Kirk
The wealthy cowards of broadcasters. We can see who you are! You are a divisive lot!
Now That NASA Found Signs of Life on Mars, It's Clear Trump Made a Massive Error
Senile old man knows better than to allow any belief in science since it will destroy his genius.
Americans see left and right violence as equal issues. The data doesn’t
More evidence of a retarded nation.
"There’s a wide gap between right-wing and left-wing violence in the U.S.—and it doesn’t line up with what many Americans believe.
A YouGov poll released late Wednesday found that Americans are almost evenly split on which side poses a greater threat: 31% say left-wing violence is a bigger issue, 33% say right-wing violence is, and 36% weren’t sure. The partisan divide was clear—two-thirds of Republicans blamed the left, while 62% of Democrats expressed more concern about the right.
However, the data on political violence shows a much more lopsided situation.
A 2021 study published in the journal Criminology, Criminal Justice, Law & Society analyzed ideologically motivated extremist killings from 1990 to 2020. The results were clear: Only 42 incidents of politically motivated homicide, or 15.6% of all incidents, involved far-left extremists. In contrast, far-right extremists were responsible for 227 incidents—84.4% of the total."
“A far-right ideologically motivated homicide has occurred at least once every year since 1990,” the study’s authors wrote. “By comparison, far-left ideologically motivated homicides were present for only 17 years of the 31-year timespan of the current analysis.”
And this pattern of far-right violence hasn’t slowed since 2020, the final year included in the study’s data.
EPA Seeks to Roll Back PFAS Drinking Water Rules, Keeping Millions Exposed to Toxic Forever Chemicals in Tap Water
With pals like this the Nazis won't have to wage war on anyone. Slow death is coming for us all!
'Shame on you': Protesters rage against Supreme Court for 'handing the country to Trump'
The SCOTUS bullshit is thick and deep here. It's too late to save our shoes. Better roll your pantlegs up to your knees!
Eric Trump uses first interview after Charlie Kirk shooting to promote his new book
“That is God being under siege,” he declared. “That’s our Constitution being under siege. That’s our American flag being under siege . That’s our family unit in this country being under siege. That’s our democracy being under siege. Everything that we love, everything that we fought for.”
Crackpot father, crackpot son.
Yes, our nation is under siege... by your corrupt family!
Trump says he's 'already solved inflation' — while prices for gas and groceries skyrocket
Old Man Crackpot at it again.
'Total sociopath': Trump buried for abrupt pivot from Kirk murder to White House ballroom
Straitjacket time.
Conservatives Want To Be Middle-School Bullies And Have Us Kiss Their Asses Back
"When I was in middle school (and most of elementary school), there was one sure way to know one was at the top of the popularity food chain — and that was the ability to bully people without the social consequence of people not wanting to be around you. If you could say horrible things to people and have them still be desperate to be your friend, you’d know you had a certain amount of social power.
Things aren’t really like that anymore — in adult life or, I think, even in middle schools. But there are still people who crave that power. They are called 'Republicans.'”
Donald Trump, in his capacity as President of the United States, said this about Charlie Kirk last night:
“For years, those on the radical left have compared wonderful Americans like Charlie to Nazis and the world’s worst mass murderers and criminals. This kind of rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism that we’re seeing in our country today, and it must stop right now.
“My administration will find each and every one of those who contributed to this atrocity and to other political violence, including the organizations that fund it and support it, as well as those who go after our judges, law-enforcement officials, and everyone else who brings order to our country.”
"It’s an absolutely horrific statement, tantamount to declaring war on half of the country. If you want to talk about dangerous rhetoric, it’s a hell of a lot more dangerous than calling Charlie Kirk a Nazi or a fascist or a bigot or any other entirely accurate descriptor. Given that people on the Right are out here calling for a civil war now, it’s the kind of rhetoric that could get people killed."
The Evil That Men Do Lives After Them
"A weird thing happened yesterday afternoon while I was listening to MSNBC’s coverage of the shooting of Charlie Kirk, which morphed into its coverage of the murder of Charlie Kirk. (Yes, “listening to,” because my desk doesn’t face the TV.) I hadn’t been paying close attention to the discussion, but at one point after it was confirmed that Kirk had died, host Ari Melber closed a panel discussion before a commercial break by saying that Kirk’s career involved “goin' around to talk to young people about ideas and society. [...] He was peacefully engaging people in discourse, and he was shot down and murdered today.”
This is an accurate quote, because it was such a weird way to describe the late professional shitlord that I paused the DVR to make sure I got it right. To hear Melber describe him, Kirk was some kind of itinerant Buddhist monk traveling from campus to campus, challenging young people to examine their cherished beliefs and assumptions, or perhaps engaging them in Platonic dialogue to probe difficult concepts and come to an understanding. But then he was cut down as he tried valiantly to bring enlightenment.
Jesus P. God, it was embarrassing. Charlie Kirk “debated” like people on Twitter do: to score cheap points and to DESTROY your ideological opponent by trying to make them look foolish, logic and evidence be damned. His tour slogan, emblazoned on the awning above where he was shot, was “PROVE ME WRONG,” not “Come, let us reason together.”
There's more. Read it at the link. But one thing is certain: Ari Melber is a dick! He's been one for a long time.
How Bad Must We Feel About the Death of a Fascist Jerk?
"I can't stand the word empathy."
—Charlie Kirk, who became a multi-millionaire in his 20s by selling ignorant shit to people eager to hear it.
..."Whoever shot Charlie Kirk surely took this drama up a notch. Innocent people will die, some of them probably from among our own ranks. But that was already happening. ICE is on the march. Kirk was a Nazi. At what point in German history would it have been seen as a bad thing to shoot Goerring or Goebbels? Or Eichmann?
What is alarming now, however, is seeing the American left do that dance the left always does, insisting on disingenuous, "civilized,” and polite responses to political violence even when monstrous people are struck down by it. Those limp responses also prompt violence as it sends a message that fascist acts of violence against the always restrained and passive left won’t ever be punished.
Trump, Vance, and Stephen Miller have us all flummoxed. We don't know whether to shit or get off the pot . We glibly recite the idea that violence only leads to more violence, and that it must always be condemned. We're the good guys, remember? But this war has been going on for a long time. We're all silently hoping that the killer wasn't one of ours. We’re beside ourselves with obligatory guilt and we don’t even know who the shooter was. Sweet Jesus, make it one of the "them."
And still, so many people continue to wonder why European Jews didn’t offer more resistance as they were being pulled out of their homes or off the streets before things got even worse than they were on Kristalnacht or in the Warsaw Ghetto.
Disclaimer: I prefer to see no one shot, not even Trump, Vance, or Stephen Miller. I know violence tends to promote more violence. But off the top of my head, I could easily think of several hundred people whose deaths would upset me far more than the death of Charlie Kirk does. And that’s not even counting those little children Mr. Kirk said were well worth their random sacrifice in order to protect American gun rights. Poetic justice? Karma? Or just one of history's ironies? We won't have to figure it out. Morning Joe will probably have already explained it on today's show."
Charlie Kirk’s Toxic Legacy of Hatred and Division
..."Because Kirk was so energetically prolific, one can find endless examples of his fearmongering and bigotry. What needs to be said now, even or especially in this moment, is that Charlie Kirk mightily helped foment the rage and division that seems to engulf and define our nation today. Kirk helped create this toxic, poisonous stew we are drowning in—he fed it and profited from it.
Despite the unseemly frothing of Trump, Mace, and others, we do not know—as of this writing—who shot Kirk or why. We do not know if it came from the left, the right, or something else altogether. It is reasonable and right to condemn all shootings and political violence. I absolutely condemn the violence and this murder, just as I condemn the bigotry Kirk fomented in his brief time on this earth.
It is not clear how we climb out of this cauldron we are boiling in. We must all condemn political violence on all fronts. We must also acknowledge that Kirk’s legacy of bigotry and division wages its own violence—a cultural, social violence that causes real pain, rage, enmity, fear, and isolation. The legacy Kirk leaves behind burns on, a flame of reactionary anger and bigotry that keeps this country at a boiling point.
No one person will save us. We can hope (and work) for a cooling period that at least lowers the flame and slows the spiral. We can all say, stop the violence, stop the shootings. And let’s also say, just as strongly—stop the hatred, stop the fearmongering, stop the bigotry."
Stopping Trump will be a big means to that end.
The Supreme Court Says ICE Can Consider Race, But Colleges Can’t.
More retarded thinking.
Trump: I’m Sending Troops To “Troubled” Memphis
I'm goin' to Memphis, baby and really fuck it over this time!
Trump: “Maybe I’ll be the first to say it right now again — we’re going to Memphis. Memphis is deeply troubled. The mayor is happy. He’s a Democrat. And the governor is happy. We’re gonna fix that just like we did Washington. I would’ve preferred going to Chicago ...
Total retard.
No “Trans Ideology” Found On Kirk Shooter’s Ammo
"Don’t hold your breath for Trump Junior, Megyn Kelly, Libs Of TikTok, or other prominent cultists to retract their claims that “trans ideology” was found on Robinson’s ammo casings."
'Stephen King is a bitter man': Horror icon faces lawsuit threat over Charlie Kirk comment
So it's OK for all the lines Charlie crossed but not Sephen King to state the truth. You snowflakes can't stand the truth as a vampire can't stand sunlight.
Fact-checking Charlie Kirk's Awfulness.
Spoiler: He's Still a Nazi.
"America's rightwing is so pathetic. They love Kirk for the things he said...and then deny the things he said." — CanuckDon (commens)
Even Leavitt can’t spin the joke check to Epstein from “DJTrump”
The press secretary's feeble deflection can't hide the experiences of multiple women
Guns, Democracy & The Deadly Cost Of Denial
We’re raising generations of kids traumatized by experiencing school shootings and “active shooter drills,” hiding in closets while their teachers play human shield. And its a fucking crime...
"While the assassination of Charlie Kirk dominated the headlines, a school shooting in Colorado that left children bleeding in hospital beds was barely a blip on the radar. And that contrast says everything about this uniquely American pandemic."
'People should really think': Judge refuses GOP's call to resign after posting Kirk quote
Thinking went out with some people. They just listen for hate and show a reflex to it.
"Judge Jaimie Powell Horowitz of Oak Park, Michigan's 45th District Court shared a video of Kirk speaking at a 2023 Turning Point USA event, where he said: "I think it’s worth it to have the cost of unfortunately some gun deaths every year ... so we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. It’s a prudent deal, a rational deal."
Stop jerking your knee, Vince Patrick. She's merely staing the obvious. "he who lives by the sword will die by the sword." This emphasizes the idea that those who resort to violence will ultimately face violent consequences.
"Any attempt to justify or lessen the severity of the assassination of Charlie Kirk is a clear indicator of the lack of character and moral fiber of that person," he added.
Vance Patrick forgot his Crisitianity as many of them have.
'Not medically well': Trump's health questioned after his face seen drooping at 9/11 event
Honestly, he doesn't look well at all.
Charlie Kirk vigil turns to violent mob after man 'yelled an expletive about Kirk': report
"According to Idaho News 6, a man riding a Lime bicycle shouted an expletive directed at Kirk as he rode through the vigil attended by hundreds. Video captured of the incident does not show what expletive the passerby shouted, but does show a violent mob attacking an individual as the crowd chants 'USA!'"
Life in a Nazi mob state. Hell on earth.
"I should clarify this...I am from Toronto and spent all of my summers travelling through America, it was in the early 70s and it was jaw dropping and beautiful and all of the people we met were generous and friendly. As a young adult l moved to Alberta to work on Oil Rigs, so l spent a lot of time in Montana, that too was an experience to remember.
Now, in my 60's my neighbor has become unfriendly to visit, some people just don't like people from outside of their borders, l've never been picked on, just mostly ignored.
Since Trump came on the scene l vowed never to visit again and l haven't and wont, when he's finally gone l will have no reason to visit because of my advanced years."
The very reason tourism in the U.S. is next to nothing now.
'Trump has failed': Ex-GOP strategist slams president's response to Charlie Kirk slaying
In Spades!
"We have to stop siloing ourselves as Republicans or Democrats. We are all Americans," she continued. "The fact that there is political violence and we have become numb to it, this is not normal. This is not normal behavior. This is not normal for us, and we should not allow it to be."
So tell me, who did the normalizing? We all know who, what and when! And you don't need reminding!
JANUARY 6, 2021!
Let's Talk About Who Charlie Kirk Really Was Before He Is Sainted, OK?
I know we're not supposed to say bad things about Charlie Kirk, but how about a few quotes?
House Speaker Mike Johnson wants "to turn down the volume" on political rhetoric and violence. I agree! But he should start at the top with Donald Trump, who has posted violent videos of Joe Biden being bashed in the head by one of the president's golf balls. That's one example of many. And then there's Charlie Kirk, and others, like a Trump-endorsed candidate, who said last year that "folks need killing."
"Charlie Kirk, the man who denounced empathy lived up to that by not showing empathy for Nancy Pelosi's husband after he was attacked by a hammer-wielding Trump fan, leaving Paul Pelosi with a skull fracture. Kirk, in response, called on his viewers to bail out the attacker."
"This country is saturated with guns. School shootings are now a regular occurrence. In response to gun violence, Kirk said deaths are “unfortunately worth it” to preserve the Second Amendment. “Having an armed citizenry comes with a price,” he once told his followers days after a horrific mass shooting."
"Kirk loathed the trans community. He was not only transphobic, saying trans individuals need "brain treatment," but he was also homophobic, a racist, a misogynist, and spread Covid-19 disinformation. He called masks and vaccine mandates “medical apartheid." Kirk promoted the "great replacement" conspiracy theory, suggested mass incarceration to solve the housing crisis, and quoted scripture about homosexuality as an “abomination” deserving death."
There's more. Just read them via the link.
GOP Senator Who Lied About Murders Of Minnesota Democrats Intros Resolution To “Honor” Charlie Kirk
Speaks volumes for itself!
"Why isn't Mike calling for the National Guard to invade his home state of Utah to stem the tide of lawlessness there?" — Sister_Bertrille (comments).
Rubio: The US Will Avenge Bolsonaro’s Conviction
That's Marco saying "I have to say this or else I will lose my job"
Same thing Kash Patel said!
If that was a witch hunt they found a real witch, Marco! Are you the next one wearing a pointed hat or is that just your head?
BREAKING: Brazil’s Bolsonaro Sentenced To 27 Years
So sorry Uncle Bol. /S
As all traitors should.
"When Jair Bolsonaro was still in power, I was chatting with a Brazilian friend who lived in the U.S. I expressed my fear that Bolsonaro would refuse to leave office and would slide Brazil away from democracy. My friend was confident that Bolsonaro would lose his re-election and be removed from office.
I did not expect to find, years later, stronger signs of a healthier democracy in Brazil than the U.S." — Royal Scribe (comments)
May it come to pass for America.
'There is no longer any middle ground': GOP congressman says left ideology is 'pure evil'
Since when did this miscreant ever stand on "middle grond?" You Nazis are and always have been pure hate.
You can fuck all the way off if you call me evil! That's exactly what you are. According to your record, you never served a day in the military. Why is that? Bone spurs?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Onder
Ornder says: “And they literally will kill those with whom they disagree just as their predecessor leftists—Marx, and Stalin, and Lenin, and Pol Pot, and Fidel Castro, did. “We must know that.”
Your leader is the new Stalin. Let's see how he deals with his many enemies!
"To actually follow the word of Jesus we must love the other as we love ourselves. I can't find a call to hate anyone in his teachings. Perhaps Mr. Ornder needs to ask his pastor about where to find Kill the other in the new testament." — Julius Hayden (comments).
Except that's not the Jesus they believe in. They believe in the macho, stud man, body oiled, tanned testicles type pf Jesus.
"From the people taking medical care away from tens of millions of poor and sick Americans, taking away due process rights, creating a mass force that disappears people, worshiping a child and woman rapist, and flying parentless children to Guatemala.
I guess our evilness, to their thinking, is our empathy for their victims." — Agamemnon (comments).
“These two events have something in common: Those that hate the standards and the principles and the founding institutions that we have in America,” Rep. O’Connor told his colleagues.
Please explain exactly what those standards and prnciples are. Many Americans already know them.
"The LGBTQ+ Pride flag was designed to be a symbol of inclusion, tolerance, and unity." All of these are American standards and prnciples.
"And they'll claim persecution when a Christian flag is taken down." — alverant (comments).
'Govern yourselves accordingly': Florida threatens teachers who criticize Charlie Kirk
Are teachers not protected by our First Amendemnt? Is this your idea of retribution agains Americans? Boo and hiss!
Florida has already lost any trust they ever had.
WATCH: Chaotic Protest Erupts As EU Parliament Rejects Minute of Silence for Charlie Kirk
So I guess the Nazis are going to war with the EU as well?
'How can you say that?' Reporters shocked as GOP lawmaker blames them for Kirk's death
Another Nazi spews hate and has no answers.
U.S. Colleges Are About to See a Big Decline in Applications
"As freshmen settle in for their first year of college, their arrival on campuses marks a milestone higher education has long dreaded: this incoming class is the last big one before a prolonged decade-plus drop off begins."
Results of "The Stupid Virus" that infects us.
Hegseth Orders Troops To Pray For Charlie Kirk
That's not an order, that's wishful thinking.
'Lunatic': Fox News urged to 'bench' host over vow to 'avenge' Charlie Kirk’s death
"Watters called for the right to 'avenge Charlie's death' — a comment that journalist Pete Twinklage found especially disturbing.
On X, formerly Twitter, Twinklage posted, "this is spectacularly dangerous rhetoric. the Murdochs need to bench Watters immediately. vowing to 'avenge' Kirk's horrific assassination instead of calling for calm is beyond irresponsible. The country is a tinderbox and this lunatic is juggling dynamite and matches."
He can't help being a moron twerp.
'Total clown show': MAGA lashes out at Trump’s FBI director for botching Charlie Kirk investigation
"As the manhunt for Charlie Kirk's assassin began, supporters of President Donald Trump focused their rage on FBI Director Kash Patel over his rush to claim a suspect was in custody, only to release the alleged suspect nearly two hours later."
Guess We Shouldn't Do What The Right Did When Minnesota Democrats Were Murdered, Huh?
"Minnesota state legislators Melissa Hortman, who was assassinated with her husband and their dog in June, and John Hoffman, who with his wife survived the attack.
Charlie Kirk is dead, and the Right is about to start a civil war with us.
If you haven’t noticed, they’ve been trying to justify this for some time now. Every time there’s a mass shooter or an assassination, they jump on it, claiming the person is a leftist or a transgender person well before their identity is revealed — aggressively decrying the “violent Left.” Nevermind that they’re the ones with the guns or the fact that they’re the ones who did a whole ass insurrection, or that the Right is responsible for practically all of the political violence in this country over the last several years. No, we’re the scary violent ones (while being insufficiently macho)."
Second Amendment Comes For Charlie Kirk
Charlie Kirk in a 2021 online rant about how Democrats want to destroy America. Video Screenshot, “The Rational National” on YouTube
Rightwing shit-stirrer and professional troll Charlie Kirk was shot and killed yesterday during an event at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah. Authorities are still trying to track down the killer, who shot Kirk from a building some 200 yards away from where Kirk was speaking at an open-air rally. Two people were briefly detained after the shooting, and released.
FBI Director Kash Patel, unsurprisingly, added to the confusion by live-tweeting what he thought might be going on, at one point announcing (link to news story) that “The subject for the horrific shooting today that took the life of Charlie Kirk is now in custody,” but then reversing himself about an hour later (also a news story) and saying that person had been “released after an interrogation by law enforcement.”
As of this morning, the shooter remains at large and there’s very little definite to be said about how the killing happened, but plenty to say about how America has gotten to be such a violent place, particularly in the decade since Donald Trump began his first presidential campaign by accusing immigrants of being rapists and murderers sent by their governments to invade America, demonizing Muslims, and regularly fantasizing about sending protesters out of his rallies on a stretcher.
And although we still know nothing about the actual shooter, the online far Right immediately blamed “the Left” for the murder, and some, like Libs of TikTok owner and self-proclaimed stochastic terrorist Chaya Raichik declaring “THIS IS WAR.”
Wonkette firmly believes nobody at all should be shot dead, not even creepy fascists.
When Government Is Afraid of the People, Tyranny Has No Chance
But today, Americans tremble as elected leaders kneel to greed, fear, and authoritarianism’s dark shadow
"Because of the decision made this week by the doughiest white boy on the Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh, to allow racial profiling by ICE, 65 million Hispanic Americans now live in terror of the police, carrying their passports and dreading traffic stops or shopping at Home Depot."
GOP lawmaker calls for social media bans for all who 'belittle' Charlie Kirk
So this is their own plan to kill our First Amendment?
'Most chilling thing': Charlie Kirk's killer may have fled Utah aboard mystery flight
"Speculation on social media has pointed to a private jet that left the airport shortly after the single shot that killed the conservative activist rang out," the publication reported. "Flight tracking data shows the jet left the airport shortly after 2pm and headed south towards the Arizona border before it disappeared from radars."
"It then reappeared on radars and returned to Provo roughly one hour after leaving the airport," the report added. "The jet in question has a registered owner in the Utah city of Lehi, according to FAA data seen by Daily Mail."
That a fact?
'Remove Trump': Epstein bombshell reveals he wanted president’s name off high-profile list
Jeffrey Epstein asked convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell to “remove Trump” from a list of high-profile figures in an email exchange in 2006, according to a bombshell report from Bloomberg published Thursday.
This is not going away.
Marco Rubio's State Dept. to ban foreigners for 'making light' of Charlie Kirk's death
Scapgoating foreigners. Just an excuse to promote hate that causes more murdering.
Reporter Suspended After Question About Charlie Kirk Enrages MAGA Congressman
"I am repulsed that you would even think to ask," the Florida Republican told the journalist.
Typical guilty coward's reply.
Randy Fine hate remarks during the time hes' been in politics:
“The Hebrew Hammer is coming,” Fine, who is Jewish, wrote in a post on the social platform X. “[Rashida Tlaib] and [Ilhan Omar] might consider leaving before I get there.”
In 2019, Fine referred to a Jewish constituent who defended a forum titled “Palestine/Israel, Opening the Dialogue” as “Judenrat,” a term referring to Jews who collaborated with Nazis during the Holocaust. The comments were made on Facebook, according to the Jerusalem Post and the Orlando Sentinel.
In a post on X, Fine criticized judges who, in his view, prioritize leniency over community safety. “It’s easy to release criminals when you’re protected by an armed bailiff at all times. The rest of us aren’t so lucky,” he wrote. Fine argued that judges who release dangerous individuals should face direct consequences if those individuals go on to harm others.
The next post read, “Hey Muslim terrorists, cry harder. #StarveAway,” which was followed by, “I love blocking Muslim terrorists. They clearly aren’t too hungry. #KeepOn Starving.”
On May 15, 2021, Fine called Palestinians “animals” on social media and replied in the affirmative to a commenter who asked if it was OK to bomb a building with American reporters in it. The following month, he allegedly told a Muslim Floridian on Messenger to blow themselves up and tweeted, “Thanks for the pic!” in response to a photo of a Palestinian baby reportedly killed by an Israeli airstrike.
“Randy Fine’s long and documented history of promoting bigotry and political violence is a danger to his colleagues, to American Muslims and Palestinians, and to the foundational principles of our democracy,” CAIR Government Affairs Department Director Robert McCaw said in a statement. “Congress must take a stand against hate before it further poisons our national discourse or incites real-world violence and acts of terrorism.”
Fine promotes hate in the U.S.
'I will be at war': GOP lawmaker compares Kirk shooting to 9/11 on anniversary
“I will not allow these leftist scumbags to take my country.”
He states without knowing any facts.
Another potential killer among us. Just what we need.
"Who will you be at war with? We don’t know who did it.
If a Nazi did it, will you renounce naziism?" — Foot trails (comments).
Trump attacks wokeness — and betrays his own voters
Renaming the Defense Department is another signal of his belligerent instincts
Mace Claims “Democrats Own” Charlie Kirk Killing
Evidence does not matter to haters.
Tuberville Blocks Bid To Stop Babbitt Military Funeral
This is the difference: American heroes do not attack our Capitol ni a riot!
Nowhere does the U.S. Constitution defend traitors!
Only traitors attack our Capitol and only traitors support that! Go to Hell!
"Babbitt didn’t die defending this country. She died trying to burn it down." — Ruben Gallego, American hero.
"This resolution is nothing more than a pathetic attempt to strip away the earned honors of a veteran who deployed seven times during her many years in the United States Air Force. Ashli Babbitt earned these funeral honors through her service to this nation,” Tuberville said on the Senate floor.
Now tell us about Trans service members that are being stripped of their earned benefits you piece of shit." — Daddy Snark (comments).
Elon Musk Declares “The Left Is The Party Of Murder”
"In the last couple years, Charlie Kirk regularly ranted about publicly executing Democratic leaders & liberals..and that children should be a party to watching them. He was against any gun regulation, declaring that the lives lost to gun violence were acceptable to protect gun rights. He promoted fascism, public executions & civil war…but Democrats & liberals are the dangerous & violent ones.
As pointed out, the assassin has not been caught. It could just as easily be a violent, right-wing, gun-fetishist nut job wanting attention.
FUCK OFF, ELMO!" — Uncle Mark (comments).
Senate Republicans Block Release Of Epstein Files
Coward and treasonous co-conspirators block release of information that could incriminate Trump.
By doing so they protect pedophiles.
DOJ Admits Lying About Migrant Guatemalan Children
"The Trump administration backed off claims Wednesday that hundreds of Guatemalan children it attempted to send to the country last month — before a judge blocked the abrupt weekend deportations — had been requested to return by their parents."
Because he is a liar.
MAGA Blasts Patel After Release Of Second Kirk Suspect
Don't they have pro assassins that work for them?
"Don’t you love it how now it’s the case that the director of the FBI, publicly states that citizens get interrogated. As if rights no longer have a place here.
Oh yea, and I’m supposed to mourn the death of a fascist because he was young and had a family.
Tell that shit to the grandma you just deported."
‘A Turning Point’: Fox's Jesse Watters Tosses Gasoline On The Fire
Why this dangerous man is still allowed on the air is beyond me.
"Why this dangerous man is still allowed on the air is beyond me. Fox's Jesse Watters, a man who is a constant bomb thrower on his network, weighed in on the Charlie Kirk shooting on this Wednesday's The Five, and after pretending that Kirk wasn't in any way "controversial," or "polarizing," and going on about what a great person and family man he was, went on an angry tirade pretending it's the left that has a problem with political violence, before promising to avenge Kirk's death."
Fox Fake News is an existing mystery to any of us.
Fox News host Jesse Waters responded to Mika Brzezinski's good interview of Border Czar Tom Homan by declaring he's happy ICE is making people disappear - POOF!
In the MAGA cult, nothing is illegal, immoral, or insane if Trump orders it so.
"MAGA cultists routinely speak in tongues or gibberish when it comes to reality.
Republicans in the media and in Congress do not have to make any sense at all anymore just as long as they defend Trump and his actions.
This is as heinous as it gets. We don't disappear people with no due process. Or at least, we didn't until this gang of crooks and liars took office."
'Formula for destruction': Experts detail what it takes to rebuild institutions 'hobbled' by Trump
“I reached out to some of my most trusted contacts in science, medicine, labor and other fields, hoping to hear encouragement that the current situation will be fleeting and it isn't too soon to look ahead. … I ended up with a string of the gloomiest conversations in my long career — and I've covered two foreign civil wars and more stock market crashes and economic slumps than I can count.”
'Absolutely disgusting': Trump's 'disgraceful' Oval Office address sparks outrage online
Trump accuses left of exactly what he himself is doing! WHO WILL INVESTIGATE THE CRIME!
"What an absolutely disgusting speech from the Oval Office," Republicans Against Trump posted on X. "Trump is truly incapable of uniting the American people, even in times of tragedy. Disgraceful."
"In his Oval Office address on political violence, Trump lists the attempt on his life, the Scalise shooting, and attacks on ICE agents," Max Berger, co-founder of the Momentum Training Institute, posted on Bluesky. "He does not mention Jan 6th, the attack on the Pelosi family, the Hortman murders, the kidnapping attempt on Gretchen Whitmer, or the fire at Gov Shapiro’s house."
"The issue is primarily gun violence, not political violence," Alan Eyre, distinguished diplomatic fellow at the Middle East Institute, posted on X. "Every country has political factions, but only the US has this many deaths by guns."
"Charlie Kirk was defending political violence committed by Israel & white fundamentalist of USA," political analyst Vikas Sai posted on X. "He became a victim of the same."
WH: Trump Wants Troops To Invade 'Every Democrat-run City'
Trump is initiating a violent Civil War along with his Nazi base of wingnuts.
"So these are the career criminals, these are the bad guys that we are picking up in Washington D.C. every day," she insisted. The President would love to do this in every Democrat-run city across the country, and he hopes that more Democrats will call the White House to allow us to help them."
Sure, call the White House. How would that go exactly? 'Please have the military invade my city, even though the crime rate has declined. Please do a fascism here! Oh, you will? Thank you so much, Mr. President, sir.'
On the Right, Charlie Kirk’s Death Feels Like “Crossing the Rubicon”
"The 31-year-old was the founder of Turning Point USA, an organization that pushed the conservative youth movement toward embracing MAGA, culture war issues, and views that were once on the fringe of conservative politics. Through his podcast, media appearances, and numerous speaking tours, he has spread misinformation about the 2020 election and the pandemic; urged women to abandon their careers and stay at home with children; and fanned fears that LGBTQ+ rights would endanger children and erode society. At the time of the shooting, according to recordings from the event, he was discussing the false right-wing belief that many mass shooters are transgender."
Three Critically Injured In Colorado School Shooting
Shootings occur nearly simultaneously here and Utah.
Very sick land around here.
'We're in a war': MAGA calls Kirk shooting a 'wake-up call' against 'demonic forces'
Sounds as if they are now "woke"!
But their fuse was weak to start with. All they needed was something to hang their violence on.
The wingnuts are all loose cannons now.
Can we please investigate his murder before the rest of your kllling begins?
'We'll dispose of it': Senate GOP shuts down bipartisan effort to release Epstein files
Our Nazi dictators will erase the Epstein files of a formerly civilized country like they are doing with our history.
But they will eventually be revealed. Someone will break.
House Panel Rejects “War Department” Name Change
Republicans Reps. Greg Steube of Florida, Mike Kelly of Pennsylvania, Trent Kelly of Mississippi, Andy Ogles of Tennessee, Barry Moore of Alabama and Derrick Van Orden of Wisconsin proposed an amendment that would require the Department of Defense to be renamed and “in all regulations and requires the title of Secretary of Defense to be renamed as ‘Secretary of War.’” But the amendment was ultimately not adopted.
Sanity wins for a change.
Charlie Kirk Shot At Utah Campus Event
"Thoughts and prayers."
I guess that didn't work. Reportedly he has now been pronounced dead.
What If Biden Rewarded A Convicted Sex Offender For Info On Trump?
The sale of disposable diapers would go up 500K percent! Every MAGAt would shit their pants!
Newsmax: Replace Half Of Hospital Workers With AI
Replace all of Newsmax with Bots that do nothing but say "The joke's on me!" 24/7!
Megachurch Pastor Indicted For Child Sex Trafficking
Another "christianist" bites the dust.
“His position as apostle of Jesus Christ was given to him by God, and for life, and he continues to lead the church.”
What a pile of horse manure.
Ex-FBI Officials Sue Patel And Bondi Over Their Firings
"Three former top FBI officials have sued FBI Director Kash Patel and Attorney General Pam Bondi, saying their firings were mandated by the White House and Department of Justice and that Patel followed their orders to keep his job.
Patel, the suit claimed, “explained he had to fire the people his superiors told him to fire, because his ability to keep his own job depended on the removal of the agents who worked on cases involving the President. Patel explained that there was nothing he or Driscoll could do to stop these or any other firings, because ‘the FBI tried to put the President in jail and he hasn’t forgotten it.'”
"The lawsuit was filed by former FBI acting Director Brian Driscoll; Steven Jensen, former assistant director in charge of the Washington field office; and Spencer Evans, former special agent in charge of the Las Vegas field office."
Teachers Unions Sue DHS For “Terrorizing Children"
"Two unions representing millions of school employees nationwide are joining a federal court challenge of the Trump administration, saying immigration arrests near schools are terrorizing children and teachers, leading some students to drop out.
A day after he took office, Trump rescinded a Department of Homeland Security memo that urged immigration agents to steer clear of schools and churches."
(Sounds like a mentally ill crime to me.)
"The American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association say the move was illegal. The unions are joining an ongoing lawsuit filed by a farmworker union and a group of churches. The amended lawsuit was filed Tuesday in a federal court in Eugene, Oregon."
"Labor unions representing millions of educators and school employees are suing President Donald Trump’s administration over its immigration crackdown, saying arrests near school campuses are terrorizing children and their teachers, leading some students to drop out.… "
Fox News Host: “Just Kill” Mentally Ill Criminals
And I'm sure they'll start with Trump?
EU Leader Announces Sanctions Against Israel
"Courthouse News reports:
Politico Europe reports:
The Times of Israel reports:
There’s more at all links above by linking to the headline."
But it appears that Israel is losing world support. As it should.
Republicans Want More Pregnant Women in Prisons. A New Book Describes What It’s Like.
Is there still anyone living with a functioning brain that STILL believe in these shitbags doing one thing for our country other than destroy us?
Adventures in Stove-Touching
"Hazleton, Pennsylvania is a small town. It sits up I-81, north of Lebanon and Pottsville. An old coal town, 63 percent of the city’s residents are Hispanic; 37 percent of them foreign-born. Hazleton also voted for Donald Trump in each of the last three elections, with Trump increasing his vote share every four years. In 2024, Trump beat Kamala Harris in Hazleton by 23 points.
Over the weekend the Philadelphia Inquirer reported from Hazleton. The piece is a profile in stove-touching. I cannot recommend it highly enough. The short version:
Hispanic residents of Hazleton overwhelmingly supported Donald Trump.
Hazleton is now a ghost town, with many Hispanic-owned businesses losing their customer base.
Most of these Trump supporters still love him. Because they either:
say the ICE raids aren’t real and are just an exaggeration of social media; or . . .
believe the mass deportation scheme is real and good; or . . .
think it’s real and bad—but is not Trump’s fault.
The long version? My God, it is something to behold. Let’s dive in."
Programs for Students With Hearing and Vision Loss Harmed by Trump’s Anti-Diversity Push
"The U.S. Department of Education has pulled funding for programs in eight states aimed at supporting students who have both hearing and vision loss, a move that could affect some of the country’s most vulnerable students.
The programs are considered vital in those states but represent only a little over $1 million a year in federal money. Nonetheless, they got caught in the Trump administration’s attacks on diversity, equity and inclusion, with an Education Department spokesperson citing concerns about 'divisive concepts' and 'fairness' in acknowledging the decision to withhold the funding."
Everything Trump touches, dies.
'Don't know where it's going': Farmers stressed as Trump tariffs threaten record harvest
"Farmers are reporting record yields for crops this fall but it's unclear who will buy them.
The ongoing trade war between China and the U.S. is testing farmers' faith in the Trump administration, Politico reports."
“When our members are in the fields harvesting, they will be staring at a visual representation of this economy and this looming farm crisis. They will be looking at literal piles of corn and other row crops,” said Lesly Weber McNitt, vice president of public policy at the National Corn Growers Association, in an interview with Politico. “They don’t know where it’s going.”
And with no soybean orders coming from China since May, "crop farmers have lost a significant export market, driving down the price of top U.S. crops like soybeans and corn, even as Trump’s tariffs drive up the cost of farm equipment and fertilizer." The American Soybean Association is now shifting its purchases to Brazil and other countries. In comparison, China purchased $12.64 billion in soybeans from American farmers in 2024.
White Nationalism Isn’t the Fringe — It’s the Future Republicans are Building
"Senator Schmitt’s words show fascism isn’t lurking at the edges — it’s leading from the center.
Senator Eric Schmitt took the stage at the National Conservatism Conference this past weekend and declared that America is 'a nation and a people.' With those five words he threw aside the pluralism that has defined this country since before its founding and embraced an ideology rooted in blood and soil, in exclusion and hierarchy."
Racist fascism by any other name. We'll be having none of that shit!
Poland downs Russian drones in NATO airspace
"Poland said early Wednesday that its military had shot down Russian drones that flew into its territory, prompting the closure or suspension of flights at Warsaw’s Chopin Airport and three smaller airports. Polish airspace was “violated by a huge number of Russian drones,” Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on social media. “Those drones that posed a direct threat were shot down” by Polish and NATO fighter jets. Poland’s military command called the incursion 'an act of aggression.”
Russia needs to receive severe world-wide retaliation for their act of yet another war.
Can Republicans Stop Pretending It's A Mystery Why Europe Is Healthier Than We Are?
"Kennedy has compared the US to the rest of the world a lot lately. During his hearing, he was sure to note the fact that Europe pays less for healthcare than we do and has better outcomes. He did not, however, mention why.
Both Kennedy and Trump have adopted the left-wing talking point of noting that we pay far more for pharmaceuticals and healthcare in general than any other nation in the world. Of course, they do not mention why.
Is it because there are fewer additives in the food in Europe? Is it because pharmaceutical companies hate our freedom and like Europeans better? Is it because they do things like French Girls?
Or is it, perhaps, that they can’t say why because it is very obviously the socialized medicine and they are opposed to socialized medicine?"
*Love of choice not applicable to certain bodies in certain states."
The "die younger" sector is thick in the Land of the Happy Negro which spreads into the east side of Texas.
Read more and understand why we are living in a world of confidence crooks.
'Just let me die': Couple turns to psychiatrist after insurance repeatedly denied claims
"Insurance companies deny hundreds of millions of claims a year, and only a tiny percentage of people appeal them. Even fewer take the process to the very end, appealing to a third-party, or external, reviewer like Goldenberg. A recent report found that, on average, less than 1 out of every 10,000 people eligible for an external review actually requested one."
Return fire on these "insurance" ripoff cons.
White House spin on Epstein spirals out of control
Everyone except MAGA media is talking about the "wonderful secret"
Federal Judge Blocks Trump From Firing Fed Governor
"A judge on Tuesday night blocked President Donald Trump from firing Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook as a lawsuit challenging her removal continues."
Fight from every streetcorner, from every patriot of democracy until the swine is gone forever!
Protesters Shout “Hitler” At Trump In DC Restaurant
But still no "cocksucker,""motherfucker" or "scumbag"?
Must have scared him shitless!
"May he never know a minute of peace for the rest of his miserable existence." — Devils's Advocate (comments).
Lutnick Wants Patent Revenue Earned By Universities
Yet another criminal shakedown from Trump's Crime Syndicate.
Trump Claims “It’s Not My Signature” On Epstein Letter
Did anyone expect him to affirm it? Criminals don't do that sort of thing.
Senate Republicans Blast Florida’s Anti-Vax Move
The retarded thinking is getting the shit kicked out of it as it should!
Texas Rep Gets Professor Fired For Trans Mentions
Texas, there is no right to be a retarded moron. The morons who are shocked by reality should never attend an educational institution because it teaches you to think. Donald Trump, despite what some idiots believe, is not World God KLng. She belongs in church and not in an edcational institution that teaches liberal democracy. If one doesn't want a liberal education they should not attend one that teaches it. Stay in yuor retarded and sheltered church prisons.
"They started by banning discussions of sexual orientation and gender in classrooms with children, now they’re banning it in classrooms with adults. And that student is another example of a Christian cunt believing that being exposed to anything that conflicts with her personal religious beliefs is a violation of her religious freedom. If people don’t fight back, it’s just going to get worse." — Greg (comments).
"Notice the creeping Christian Nationalism by that student. It is against the law because it is against my religion." — Gustav2 (comments).
"Yeah, this student believes she has the right to dictate that nothing that contradicts her cult be taught. Reality is going to hit her like a ton of bricks. Unless she's just there to get her MRS and become a tradwife. Then her godly husband will, as God has seen fit to ordain." — Misutaa Roboto (comments).
"Mr. Welsh;
I have learned that you have recently fired senior lecturer Melissa McCoul for teaching reality and that she was fired because one of her students was a bigot. Trans people are real and you know what else is real? Bigots and Cowards and you sir, represent both.
When this era of The United States of Trumpistan ends, some people are going to be celebrated for their bravery in standing up for the truth versus the bigotry and intolerance demanded by this "President" and his flying monkeys and some will be sneered at for caving and folding like a cheap suit to intolerance so fierce that reality must take a backseat to hateful ideology. Guess which group you'll represent.
Please enjoy your day wallowing in your fear." — MargaretPOA (comments)
They actually have degree programs in Texas? You can't tell by looking at their government leaders.
Steve Bannon Rages: Young Republicans Want Nationalized Health Care
This is from a Rasmussen poll.
Oh,my! This must come as a shock to the Nazi dictators.
Boos Heard Round The World: Trump & MAGA Hit A New Low
That’s the sound of a presidency losing its grip. Not with a whisper, but a chorus of whistles, hisses and taunts echoing...
Higgenbotham kicks ass and does it to perfection. Tell the motherfucker he IS NOT HELPING THE PEOPLE!
The trouble is "the King is deaf and he doesn't care.."
Was Greta Thunberg Flotilla Ship Set on Fire in Drone Strike? What We Know
In one of GSF's first videos about the fire, member Yasmin said: "The Family Boat has been officially attacked. A drone came right above it, released a bomb and it exploded and the boat was on fire. Everyone on that boat is OK - the fire is out."
"They have bombed a boat once again with civilians on it, in Tunisian territory," she added. "This is an attack against Gaza because they don't want us there. So we need you to mobilize, let's not stay quiet."
She said she was on the vessel with Thunberg and other activists—the same team that was aboard the Madleen, a Freedom Flotilla Coalition boat that tried to reach Gaza in June, before it was "forcibly intercepted" by the Israeli military in international waters. Thunberg and her colleagues were taken to Israel and then deported.
In a second GSF video posted to Instagram, the activists said: "There is no other authority that would do something, such an attack, such a crime except the Israeli authority."
"GSF also posted a video on X purporting to be "footage from another boat of our Flotilla shows the exact moment the Family Boat was struck from above."
Always moving forward to WWIII.
Data Shows That AI Use Is Now Declining at Large Companies
"Artificial intelligence might be booming on paper, but in the real world, there are signs of a major slowdown.
In their latest biweekly survey of AI adoption, the US Census Bureau found evidence of an obvious drop-off in corporate AI use — the largest since the survey began in November of 2023.
The survey, which compiles data from over 1.2 million firms throughout the US, shows usage of AI tools among companies with over 250 employees dropping from nearly 14 percent in mid-June to under 12 percent in August.
While usage appeared to rise slightly in very small businesses with less than four workers, AI adoption also fell or remained flat in mid-sized companies with less than 250 workers but more than 19."
Cops: Pastor Filmed Thousands In Public Men’s Room
Another one bites the dust.
VA Pastor Gets Eight Years On Molestation Charges
Another one goes up the river.
US Recently Lost Tens Of Thousands Of Factory Jobs
"Manufacturers in the U.S. are cutting thousands of jobs even as President Trump pushes economic policies that he says will revitalize the industry.
Employers shed 12,000 manufacturing jobs in August, while payrolls in the sector have shrunk by 42,000 since April, according to a new analysis from the Center for American Progress (CAP) that draws on government labor data.
The nonpartisan policy institute attributes that decline to the Trump administration’s steep new tariffs; hardline stance on immigration; and the Republican-backed 'big, beautiful bill,' a tax and spending package enacted by Mr. Trump in July that CAP says hurts renewable energy companies by phasing out certain tax credits."
HHS Orders All Employees To Start Using AI Chatbot
Junior, "The Stupid Virus" carrier and spreader.
"Oldsters reading here will remember when the Republican Party still contained honorable people. People my NYC very-liberal parents would occasionally vote for in the 1950s and 60s."
Today, there are no honorable people who vote for the Party of Donald Trump.
Not a one."
'That's why I'm asking you!' Mika Brzezinski pounces on Tom Homan for ducking questions
Why bother talking with a retarded gun thug?
Trump's promised 'boom' is 'not happening' — and tariff impact is 'undeniable': expert
"President Donald Trump's promise to bring back U.S. manufacturing jobs has backfired as tariff-exposed industries are losing jobs, CNN reports.
The 'American manufacturing renaissance' Trump pledged has had the opposite result following the president's trade war, impacting manufacturing, construction, and transportation industries, according to new analysis by Apollo Global chief economist Torsten Slok.
Slock reviewed a three-month moving average of employment data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and found that these tariff-impacted sectors had job loss in recent years; however, this is the first time that payroll growth has been negative over a period of the last several months."
The more that consumers experience it the worse the economy will become.
How to Evade Trump-Epstein Questions, in One Stupid Step
Beceome a digusting liar like Trump!
Bro, Do You Have A Date For National Bible Day? Tabs, Tues., Sept. 9, 2025
"The Supreme Court did one of its “Shadow Docket, Suck Trump’s Cock-it” thingies yesterday, ruling that it’s totally awesome for Donald Trump’s Gestapo to profile people based on their highly discerning assessments of whether or not people seem dangerously Latino. Brett Kavanaugh, writing in a concurring opinion with the Nazis, said that racial profiling (AKA racism) is awesome, and Sonia Sotomayor, writing for the non-Nazis, said Jesus Christ, what is wrong with you people? [New York Times / Democracy Docket]
Oh good, some mouthbreathing Republican congressmen are introducing a bill to make September 12 National Bible Day, just what we’ve always wanted. BUT WHY CAN’T EVERY DAY BE NATIONAL BIBLE DAY, YOU IDOL-WORSHIPPING HEATHENS? Just kidding, it is because Republicans devote the other 364 to their real savior, Donald Trump. [GOP Rep. Michael Cloud]
The White House, in partnership with all the vilest white Christian nationalist pervert organizations in the US of A, is looking for a million people to pray for America and its people for an hour every week. But HAHA FUCKERLOSERS, they forgot to give exact instructions on what to pray for. Get after it, you idol-worshipping heathens! [White House]
There's a lot more from Evan. Read it at the link.
Trump Admin, GOP Continue to Weaponize Bible to Punish Poor, Defend Imperialism
Willfully misinterpreting the Bible to justify what passes for “law and order” has only intensified in recent decades.
Religion was invented to be a control device. Thus was the Kingdom of Hell invented.
Stating the bullshit that is passed on in the Bible.
"Such 'Christian' politicians regularly misuse Biblical passages to blame the impoverished for their poverty. There is never a suggestion, of course, that the rich, who have functionally stolen people’s wages and engorged themselves by denying them healthcare, are in any way to blame."
Could Trump Flip Blue States Red at Gunpoint?
Could soldiers, not citizens, end up deciding our elections?
We must prepare to return fire.
Every Day, Another Grotesque Secret
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt heads to the press briefing room at 1 p.m. today. She should have a lot to talk about. Happy Tuesday.
“Happy Birthday, and may every day be another wonderful secret,” it read, signed by Trump’s own hand.
Tim Miller: Cover-Up Shows Epstein Is Trump’s Weak Spot
"Tim Miller joins Stephanie Ruhle on MSNBC’s The 11th Hour to take on the looming Democratic showdown over a potential government shutdown, Trump’s slipping poll numbers on key issues like immigration and trade, and why Democrats need to pick smart fights that define the stakes heading into 2026. They also discuss the Epstein cover-up allegations, what Trump’s actions reveal about his political vulnerabilities, and how Democrats can leverage oversight to keep the pressure on."
Trump gets hit with a birthday card boomerang
He's the POTUS who called "hoax." How can anyone still believe him?
Because they're crooked suckers like him!
Coney Barrett: Limit On Presidential Terms Is Clear
One for America?
'Travesty': Supreme Court justice alarms observers with remark on presidential term limits
"The fact that a 'news' outlet is even asking a Supreme Court justice this question is a f------ travesty and clear sign of how demented everything has become," writer and producer Jordan Zakarin posted on X.
"Cut and dry," Veterans for Responsible Leadership posted on X. "Anyone who argues otherwise is an enemy of the Constitution."
"But Trump’s plan is to run as Vance’s VP, have him resign and switch places, and serve a third term," government affairs professional Michael Colbruno posted on X." The amendment is silent on that and can we trust SCOTUS?"
ICE Scraps Its Pre-Arrest Paperwork Requirement
You can see where this is going. Soon, the Gestapo will arrest anyone they please.
Page In Birthday Book Shows Epstein And Mar-A-Lago Member With $22K Check “Selling” Woman To Trump
Proof doesn't mean what it used to mean. This is more than apparaent with Trump's crimes.
Never-Married Laura Ingraham Ridicules Women Who Aren’t “Prioritizing” Getting Married And Having Kids
You can't always get what you want, Laura.
DOJ Works To Compile National Voter Roll Database
Next on the Nazi agenda: Your right to vote will be removed if you are not a Nazi voter.
And you can take it to the bank, suckers!
Ex-Trump Lawyer: He May Seize Control Of Elections
America is now a cesspool of crime that starts with Trump.
Grifting Boosts Trump On Forbes Billionaires Ranking
"No president in U.S. history has used his position of power to profit as immensely as Trump."
"In Trump’s Gangster State, holding public office is first and foremost about plunder and for private gain."
https://newyorker.com/magazine/2025/
"Diaper in Chafe sought the position for only two reasons:
keep his fat ass outta prison
to grift and enrich his coffers
it was never about making anything great other than his bank account
but like everyone, he will die one day no matter his wealth." — Donald Trump Shits His Pants (comments).
Michigan Democrat Rips Into The Corporate Greed Of The NFL
Mallory McMorrow tying new ads in the NFL's RedZone to higher costs of living was a stroke of genius.
Talk about corporate greed, how about that tooth past tube? Costs more and has half as much tooth paste. That's what America is today. Remember when cable TV didn't have commericals because it was PAY TV? Now you pay to watch commericials. And you fuckers critcize "woke."
'It’s A Guillotine': Republicans In Panic Mode Over California Redistricting
Trump built that guillotine. This is a leopards/face moment.
Nazis whine it's OK for me but not for thee! Fuck you, asswipes!
Insiders bring receipts as MAGA claims Trump’s Epstein signature is fake — and GOP feigns ignorance
Criminals never admit their crimes.
Understanding Trump's Pivot to "Crime"
"Our old buddy Marc Caputo has a story in Axios this morning about the Trump administration making a hard pivot to “violent crime” as its central issue for the next phase.
That’s where Derek Hunter’s marching orders came from and if you pay any attention to MAGA media today, you’ll see this tactic playing out in real time.
In order to understand what’s happening, and why, I want you to keep some things in mind..."
Read more at the link.
'Give Us Tyranny And/Or Give Us Death' On The Sunday Shows
The retardedness and devolution of humanity is strong in these creatures.
Don't forget to double tap.
GOP Bill Would Create “National Day Of The Bible
We all must becone Talibastards!
Leavitt: Epstein Letter Is “Fake News Democrat Hoax”
Sorry, but no it isn't.
TWO authenticated letters from @realDonaldTrump that sold at separate auctions. Compare with the signature on the Epstein birthday letter. pic.twitter.com/5DZQdsLPD6
— Andrew Feinberg (@AndrewFeinberg) September 8, 2025
WSJ: Trump wrote a birthday letter to Epstein.
Trump: I’m suing you for $20 billion for lying.
Nationwide “No Kings” Protests Set For October 18 As President Trump Doubles Down On Authoritarian Acts
Fill the streets and fill the jails!
Groups organizing the No Kings peaceful protests across the country include ACLU, American Federation of Teachers, Common Defense, 50501, Human Rights Campaign, Indivisible, League of Conservation Voters, MoveOn, National Nurses United, Public Citizen, SEIU, United We Dream, among others. A full list of partners can be seen at https://www.nokings.org/partners.
Surprise! MAGA Mike Johnson Changes His FBI Informant Story
Here's his new lie.
Amy Coney Barrett 'Can't Answer' If Trump Has The 'Right To Do Anything' As President
It appears she thinks our law depends on situaltional ethics. Must be her thinking along the lines of "divine command theory" or "the categorical imperative." On the side of existentialism.
Scott Bessent Continues His Gaslighting On Trump's Tariffs
Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent continued insulting the intelligence of every American during an interview on this Sunday's Meet the Press. Even though Bessent had previously admitted that tariffs are price increases, he was back to denying their impact when host Kristen Welker asked him about an article in The New York Times discussing the negative impact the tariffs have had on American companies.
Bessent responded by denying reality instead:
US treasury secretary Scott Bessent has refused to acknowledge that the sweeping trade tariffs imposed by Donald Trump around the world are taxes on Americans.
In a new interview on Sunday with NBC host Kristen Welker, Bessent, a former billionaire hedge fund manager, dismissed concerns from major American companies including John Deere, Nike and Black and Decker who have all said that Trump’s tariffs policy will cost them billions of dollars annually.
Addressing Welker, Bessent said: “You’re taking these from earnings calls, and on earnings calls, they have to give the draconian scenario. There aren’t companies coming out and saying, ‘Oh, because of the tariffs, we’re doing this.’”
He went on to add: “If things are so bad, why was the GDP 3.3%? Why is the stock market at a new high? Because, you know, with President Trump, we care both about big companies and small companies.”
Scott, the stock market is not a part of our ecnonomy. While the two are interrelated, they have key differences.
He knows that but you don't so you belive him.
The increase in real GDP in the second quarter reflected a decrease in imports, which are a subtraction in the calculation of GDP, and an increase in consumer spending. The difference was partly offset by decreases in investment and exports.
Experts Concerned AI Is Going to Start a Nuclear War
Meanwhile, America says, "What's on TV tonight?"
Kennedy: US Science Agencies Have “No Successes”
Junior continues to spread "The Stupid Virus" that he carries.
Trump Loses Appeal Of $83M E. Jean Carroll Verdict
"A federal appeals court on Monday refused to throw out an $83.3 million jury verdict against U.S. President Donald Trump for damaging the reputation of the writer E. Jean Carroll in 2019 when he denied her rape claim."
Sex criminal denied salvation again!
We Can Remove Toxic Forever Chemicals From Drinking Water. Why Aren’t We?
Because Trump and his cronies can't profit from it?
Trump Has Turned the National Guard Into Mall Cops. Cost? $1 Million a Day.
"The DC National Guard recently announced that its deployment to the city will be extended through December. But eventually, the local criminal class seems likely to realize that the soldiers are no more of a threat to their activity than CVS security guards. And when that happens, Trump’s vaunted crime reduction may prove as ephemeral as his plan to end the war in Ukraine."
Another Trump failure and waste of tax dollars.
This giant backlash reveals how Trump will lose
Let us count the many ways the old fart has failed to comprehend reality.
'What the hell?' DC crime victim furious as Trump exploits her in propaganda film
Tumika Alston, a storeowner in Washington, D.C., was robbed by a group of teenagers during President Donald Trump's federal takeover of law enforcement throughout the city, and was quoted in local media saying she'd like the president to move patrols to her neighborhood.
“I’m telling Trump, yeah, send the boys to Benning Road," she said.
"But what happened next left her furious.
The Washington Post reported Monday she found herself the subject of a White House propaganda video — and now she's enraged that rather than actually sending help, the president used her to score political points."
What a very old and senile white peck can do to fuck things up.
'No wonder Trump's in trouble!' CNN data guru shocked to discover 181-day trend
“We're talking about 181 days in a row in which Donald Trump has been underwater, swimming with the fishes,” Enten said on CNN Monday. “There is no good data for Donald Trump when looking at the aggregate and looking overall; he has been negative for a very long period of time, the vast majority of his second presidency.”
Trump has had net negative approval on all major issues since March 12, Enten revealed — even on issues he had historically performed well on like crime and immigration. According to the polling, Trump’s approval on trade hit negative 17; on the economy, net negative 14; foreign policy, net negative 12; immigration, net negative three, and crime, net negative two.
“Sometimes we lose the forest for the trees, but I want to look at the forest, and it is one ugly-duckling forest for Donald Trump,” Enten said. “No wonder Donald Trump's in trouble.”
An Honest-to-God Letter from the White House, Translated By Dan Embree
"I got a letter from the White House last week. When I saw the envelope, I hoped it would be a serious reply to one of the 283 (actual number) letters I had written to you. But, of course, it wasn’t. Nor was it a letter you had written. (Indeed, you can see by the signature on the letter attached that it was actually sent by Awl Munuph – who the Hell is he?) Are you sure it was intended for me?"
Read the rest of it for the garbage sent by a clueless AI president.
Even Ezra Klein Is Urging Dems To Shut Trump's Government Down
To do otherwise is to be complicit in Trump's takeover, he argues.
Get rid of his ass totally is the answer!
CBS landed a rare Supreme Court interview. Here’s what Amy Coney Barrett did (and didn’t) say.
Her conversation with Norah O’Donnell touched on law vs. politics, but left big questions about trust in the court unanswered
“My office doesn’t entitle me to align the legal system with my moral or policy views. Swearing to apply the law faithfully means deciding each case based on my best judgment about what the law is. If I decide a case based on my judgment about what the law should be, I’m cheating.”
Is that truly the case?
CBS landed a rare Supreme Court interview. Here’s what Amy Coney Barrett did (and didn’t) say.
Her conversation with Norah O’Donnell touched on law vs. politics, but left big questions about trust in the court unanswered
“My office doesn’t entitle me to align the legal system with my moral or policy views. Swearing to apply the law faithfully means deciding each case based on my best judgment about what the law is. If I decide a case based on my judgment about what the law should be, I’m cheating.”
Is that truly the case?
Trump Has Cops Remove DC’s “World Peace Vigil” Tent
Never forget he's in charge of WWIII. Yet he demands a Nobel for Peace award? No brains, no president.
Energy Dept: “Wind And Solar Energy Are Useless When It’s Dark Outside And When The Wind Is Not Blowing”
These people really are the con men they appear to be!
"Always remember these are NOT stupid people. These are extremely wealthy people who feel threatened and are counting on YOU being this stupid." — Mike C (comments).
Politico: Bessent Threatened To Punch FHA Chief Bill Pulte “In The F**king Face” During DC MAGA Dinner
Punks threaten a go at each other. A big nothingburger.
Tom Homan: People Donating To Anti-ICE Protesters 'Will Be Prosecuted Too'
White House border czar Tom Homan warned that people funding First Amendment protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) "would be prosecuted."
During a Sunday morning interview on Fox News, Homan told host Jason Chaffetz that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) had a "historic number of prosecutions" against protesters for "impediment, assault, interference."
"Absolutely," Homan admitted. "We know a lot of these protesters are being paid. Many have omitted to it. So, yes, there's a whole effort right now in identifying those who are funding these operations, those who fund the weapons that are being used."
"Omitted to it?" This has to be a typo or does it? Homan is a moron bully!
"It is not illegal to fund constitutionally-protected free speech in the U.S."
This is blatent violaton of the Constitution. A violation of our First Amendment. Arrest him for treason!
If America wants trash like Homan around they can find it spread out in any alley.
'Story of a disposable pawn': What really happened when Trumpworld invaded Social Security
What failure looks like when you open it up.
Hook, line and sinker — and how MAGA took the bait
Fox News personality Dana Perino said Newsom “has to stop it with the Twitter thing. I don’t know where his wife is. If I were his wife, I would say you are making a fool of yourself, stop it.”
Perino continued.
“He’s got a big job as governor of California, but if he wants an even bigger job, he has to be a little bit more serious.”
This is top notch comedy from the moron channel!
Psssttt … Dana … many of us have said the same thing about Trump, his tweeting, and his spouse for practically a decade. But as I often say, MAGA is a “Do as I say, not as I do” movement that repeatedly fails its own litmus test.
Things 'much much worse for Trump' after Mike Johnson opens 'can of worms': GOP strategist
All it does is show how the "Stupid Virus" that is spread by Trump infects his morons.
Watch: Trump Booed While Attending US Open
President Donald Trump faced boos and cheering while attending the final men's match at the US Open.
Although the United States Tennis Association (USTA) asked broadcasters not to highlight any negative reactions when the president visited Arthur Ashe Stadium on Sunday, loud boos could be heard in video clips that circulated on social media.
Fuck the USTA.
'Cowards': Internet pounces after broadcasters warned to censor booing of Trump at US Open
"Onlookers were stunned this weekend as they discovered that the US Open had warned its broadcasters to censor any potential boos of Donald Trump's appearance."
"U.S. Tennis Association." These people are no longer American! They are enemies of the people! They can all get fucked! Fuck tennis in the ass! Shut the traitors down for good!
Turn off the TV! Goddamn them to hell!
Trump’s deadly Venezuela boat attack takes us into dangerous waters
POTUS believes he has unlimited power — all over the world
"The consequences of this ignorance are putting the country, and the entire world, in grave danger."
"Blowing up alleged drug traffickers in the waters off of Venezuela and saying they’re invading the United States is ridiculous. What makes more sense is that this is really a provocation to try to get Venezuela to attack one of the warships and set off a regime-change operation. Rubio has apparently been pushing for this large military deployment to pressure Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. The country, after all, has a whole lot of oil, and the alleged peacenik Donald Trump seems to have been itching for his own war for a very long time. Let’s just hope that Venezuela doesn’t take the bait."
Sen. Rand Paul Blasts Vance On Extrajudicial Killings
Pot meet Kettle.
Vance: :"I don't give a shit what you call it." War crime is what I call it, shithead. Or is it just plain murder?
'He should be impeached': JD Vance catches heat for appearing to endorse 'war crimes'
Immediately, if not sooner! Then the tar and feathers.
Junior: “Woke Lefist” Tom Hanks Deserves No Awards
The Trumps showing us they are the SCUM OF THE EARTH!
Newsom Dubs Trump’s New Club As “Predator Patio”
“After ripping health care from 17 million Americans and slashing food stamps for kids, we’re glad Mike ‘Marie Antoinette’ Johnson and his boy friends had time to toast the grand opening of the Predator Patio,“ Newsom’s press office wrote on X.
A new place for Trump to do his grifting.
Russia Hits Kyiv With Biggest Drone Attack Of War
And the SOB begs for a Nobel Peace prize?
'Reckless Maniac': Fox Execs Privately Called Jeanine Pirro 'Insane'
You don't say.
A Fox News executive has called a prominent Trump appointee a "reckless maniac."
Another Fox executive said, "I don't trust her to be responsible."
A third condemned her for the "tendency to find random conspiracy theories on weird internet sites."
And a Fox corporate board member called a public statement of hers "insane."
Arkansas farmers are facing catastrophe — and Trump is the reason why
“Almost everything that could go wrong for Arkansas farmers did go wrong this year and it’s so bad that many are facing bankruptcy or even the closure of farms that have been passed down for generations.”
Andrew Mobley: “A dismal global market, and plunging commodity prices, mean there’s little to no hope of breaking even for many farmers, even as sky high input cost rise, because of inflation and now tariffs”
Their lies about the ecnonomy disaster won't help them in the end.
'Whitewash': Epstein victims' lawyers rip Trump admin for 'abysmal' handling of case
Gloria Allred, who represents 27 survivors, told the Guardian: “There has still been no outreach from the DoJ or members of Congress to me seeking to interview my clients.”
Lisa Bloom, the attorney for 11 survivors, was quoted in the report as saying: “No, haven’t heard anything. As usual the survivors are being ignored in the political battle.”
Spencer Kuvin, who is the chief legal officer at Goldlaw, reiterated the point: “We have heard nothing from the DoJ or the house subcommittee regarding request to speak with either the attorneys for the victims or the victims. I have repeatedly advised that I am willing to volunteer to provide testimony at their request. The victims have been ignored in this entire process.”
Misogynist bastards are co-conspirators in sex crimes! What more proof do we need?
How the New York Times uses weasel words to normalize authoritarianism
We have too many goddamn weasels in the country as it is. The Times should know better.
Trump is a murderer the same as Putin.
Mike Johnson Drops Bombshell About What Trump Really Knew About Epstein
I have nver heard a more obvious admission of guilt in my lifeime.
Trump kicks away a suspect he's observing out of sight? Mike's a terribly bad liar. Amazing!
"The only plausible backstory makes 47 look worse than he already does. An informant would have to be very deeply involved to have useful information. He's definitely not the type to volunteer to inform on his 'best friend' so likely the FBI made it part of a deal. LOL!!" -- kellerforrest1 (comments).
Age verification on porn sites is putting queer adult industry workers at risk
The laws requiring digital age checks — sold as child protection — are tanking the income of adult industry workers, risking their safety and even forcing them out of business.
Just another criminal shakedown on America. Taking their IDs and banking info and passing to God knows who?
TV nudity scandal, impeachment calls, a meeting no-show: Troubles pile up for Oklahoma’s schools chief
Ryan Walters' absence at a board meeting is the latest reason lawmakers from both parties are upset with him.
As they should be.
'I see it in his eyes': Mary Trump links uncle’s bizarre behavior to grandpa’s Alzheimer’s
If we were paying attention we would all see it. He's been this way for some time now.
"I think the most important thing to know about Donald's health is that this is a person who has had very serious, severe psychiatric disorders that have gone undiagnosed and they have worsened because they've never been treated," Mary Trump said. "So much of what we're seeing is the result of those undiagnosed, untreated psychiatric disorders. On top of that … there are clearly some physical health issues, and often it seems that … it's not just that he's forgetting things. He doesn't seem to be oriented to space and time or place and time.
Top Pentagon officials drop bombshell claim on Trump's reasoning for drug boat strike
“The U.S. is now directly targeting civilians. Drug traffickers may be criminals but they aren’t combatants,” one official said. “When Trump fired the military’s top lawyers the rest saw the writing on the wall, and instead of being a critical firebreak they are now a rubber stamp complicit in this crime.”
This is what you get from a gang of criminals. War crimes! The Stupid Virus.
Excluded from Beijing, Trump confronts the limits of his global power
While Putin, Xi and Modi build autocratic alliances, Trump is friendless on the world stage
The poor widdle baby.
Kennedy Center Ticket Sales Are Down Up To 80%
High end business men! ROTFLMAO!
Build it and even the trash won't come!
Trump: Truman’s War Dept Name Change Was “Woke”
It means Harry wasn't asleep like stupid is.
DeSantis: Mamdani Was “Indoctrinated” By College
This idiot turd is trying to tell us Mandami is nuts? I cannot stop laughing!
Bill Maher sends shockwaves with new warning about Trump
Maher told viewers, "Someone has to ask cops: Why are you not insulted that Donald Trump thinks so little of you that in city after city, he's sending in military troops to do your job?...... When Donald Trump was a little boy, someone forgot to teach him the difference between a policeman and an Army man. But there's a difference: the Pentagon is not Paw Patrol, and SEAL Team 6 is not 'Adam 12.' We don't need to send in the Marines to pacify Shake Shack."
More of the Stupid Virus.
Red state Republicans invoke Christian values to gerrymander out a Black minister
These people aren't conservative nor are they Christian. They are racist fascists.
"Even if we accept O’Laughlin’s claim of needing a map to represent “Missouri’s Christian conservative majority,” that would not justify a 7-1 map. Only 62% of Missourians identify as Christian — the same percentage as five seats out of eight. Even that gives her argument too much credit since not all of Missouri’s Christians are conservatives, as Cleaver proves."
False argument, as usual. The Stupid Virus.
On This Day: Kerouac's On The Road
It was first published on September 5th, 1957.
It is in audio format here. Listen to it if you have not read it.
We Hereby Rename Department Of Defense ‘Department Of Pete Hegseth’s Microdick Situation’
"Nothing sadder has ever happened, nothing more pathetic, nothing less manly, nothing more insecure, than the fact that Donald Trump is going to sign an executive order today trying to rename the Department of Defense as the 'Department of War,' which he actually cannot do, and everybody around the world will laugh at this while using the real name, just like they do with the Gulf of Mexico.
As a White House fact sheet on Trump’s latest order helpful suggestion explains, this merely authorizes DoD officials to start using the phrase 'Department of War' as a secondary name, and lets Secretary Shitfaced Pete Hegseth call himself Secretary Shitfaced OF WAR if he so chooses, and he clearly does, oh fuuuuuuuck yes he does, OMG OMG OMG, HIS BALLS JUST DROPPED.
The fact sheet goes on to explain that reverting to the old “Department of War” name — which represented a US military that was in many ways an absolute shitshow, so this is probably appropriate! — 'conveys a stronger message of readiness and resolve compared to ‘Department of Defense,’ which emphasizes only defensive capabilities.'
To which we and all other educated people around the world reply, hahahahahahahaha you little needy milquetoast loser boys, Jesus fuckin’ Christ, what is wrong with you?
First of all, no it doesn’t. Literally the only thing this does is telegraphs to the world that the cowardly white fuckbaby men running the US military are really extremely sensitive and don’t possess the inner confidence and strength to project that they’re running the most feared fighting force in the history of humanity regardless of whatever you call it. That includes our allies, our adversaries, and our Russian adversaries whom Donald Trump is obsessed with and wishes to be mounted by.
Truly, there is no quantifying how much the entire world will laugh at us over this. This is how you get lions and lambs to lay down together to laugh at the US military with the stroke of one little tiny flaccid pen.
Which … might be the only way Trump actually ever is able to end a war, but does it count if all the warring factions are just taking a break to point and laugh at Trump and Secretary Shitfaced OF WAR?"
Trump-Appointed Judges Block Order to Shut Down “Alligator Alcatraz”
"Cruel and unusual punishment" prevails in anti-Constitution land.
8th Amendment:"Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted."
Retailers relieved that Texas skirted a THC ban — again
While Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick remains adamant about a ban, hemp industry representatives say they would compromise on creating a 21 age limit to purchase.
Common sense prevails in Texas. This IS news!
Is Trump’s Weakness the Fatal Blow That Will Destroy America?
Trump’s fear of exposure, his criminal past, and the GOP’s refusal to stand up to him are unraveling 249 years of hard-won democratic progress
"Could Trump’s weakness and the GOP’s cowardice mean the end of democracy around the world? Could Trump’s apparent participation in the crimes of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell be the proverbial horseshoe nail that brings down majority rule and representative government worldwide?"
It’s Not Yet Too Late to Save Our Democracy
Trump’s autocratic ambitions are now in plain view. Through executive actions, court filings, and public statements, Trump has repeatedly asserted, as he reminded his sycophantic cabinet last week, that as president “I have the right to do anything I want to do.”
The scope of powers he claims is breathtaking:
See list in article.
"At the Supreme Court, Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito decided long ago to discard any pretense of impartiality or intellectual honesty to become warriors for the Republican cause. They now sit reliably in Trump’s corner."
"Democracy, it turns out, doesn’t die in darkness. It dies in broad daylight when otherwise good but cowardly people fail to act until it’s too late."
Our guardrails have been stolen, America. We are under seige!
Return fire!
The Arrogance of a Kennedy
The William Kristol report.
Beleaguered Workers at Yosemite and Sequoia & Kings Canyon Flock to Unionize
Union now! Union forever!
Mitch McConnell Calls Trump’s 2nd Term the ‘Most Dangerous Period’ Since WWII
Hello? It's Mitch McConnell calling, America!
Trump Demands DOJ “End Democrat Epstein Hoax”
He will do anything to deflect his pedophile connection.
We know who Trump was being buddies with during Epstein's life!
Sam Altman Says He's Suddenly Worried Dead Internet Theory Is Coming True
The "Stupid Virus" is destroying the internet.
Social Security praises its new chatbot. Ex-officials say it was tested but shelved under Biden.
John McGing couldn’t reach a human. That might be business-as-usual in this economy, but it wasn’t business; he had called the Social Security Administration, where the questions often aren’t generic and the callers tend to be older, disabled, or otherwise vulnerable Americans.
McGing, calling on behalf of his son, had an in-the-weeds question: how to prevent overpayments that the federal government might later claw back. His call was intercepted by an artificial intelligence-powered chatbot.
No matter what he said, the bot parroted canned answers to generic questions, not McGing’s obscure query. “If you do a key press, it didn’t do anything,” he said. Eventually, the bot “glitched or whatever” and got him to an agent.
It was a small but revealing incident. Unbeknownst to McGing, a former Social Security employee in Maryland, he had encountered a technological tool recently introduced by the agency. Former officials and longtime observers of the agency say the Trump administration rolled out a product that was tested but deemed not yet ready during the Biden administration.
“With the new administration, they’re just kind of like, let’s go fast and fix it later, which I don’t agree with, because you are going to generate a lot of confusion,” said Marcela Escobar-Alava, who served as Social Security’s chief information officer under President Joe Biden.
The disaster that Trump has brought us.
Krasnov To End Border Security Programs For European Allies
"The United States will move to end support for a program that helped prepare armies in Eastern Europe to stave off a potential offensive from Russia, as Comrade Krasnov continues shaping Washington’s role within NATO to meet Putin's plans."
The Trump world treason is beyond anything we've seen on this planet since eternity!
'Completely stagnated': Experts say 'extraordinary low' jobs numbers 'ominous' for economy
Here it comes, America. You asked for it.
'Self-destructive': NY Times reveals how Trump has crippled 'American global leadership'
'Dept of Corruption': Trump ripped for costly Defense Department rebrand
The utter disgrace of our country.
'Seen enough': Big-name conservative joins calls to impeach RFK after disastrous hearing
"I’ve seen enough. Impeach Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.," Kristol posted.
He isn't the only voice calling for action.
"Impeach that quack, @SenBillCassidy. He’s irredeemable. Every day you delay risks more dead Americans. How much blood do you want on your hands?" conservative commentator Sarah Rumpf posted on X.
"Impeach his deeply dishonest and unhealthy ass!" Nation writer Joan Walsh posted on X.
Ride junior out of town on a razor blade!
'Sheer embarrassment': Judge declares 'constitutional crisis' as Jeanine Pirro drops case
Another one to roll out a guillotine for!
Try as they might, Republicans can’t silence Epstein’s victims
“The only motive for opposing this bill would be to conceal wrongdoing,” said one victim
Trump's pedoophile defenders will get the justice they deserve!
MAGA Firm To Get No-Bid Contract For “Vaccines Poll”
Nazis stick together to stick it to America!
Duffy Scraps Compensation Rule For Canceled Flights
Here's an idea. Let's fuck over America even more!
Shit stain!
Trump: I Don’t Want A “Communist Mayor” Of NYC
And I don't want a Nazi motherfucker like you to be president!
Trump is trying to rig another election!
ICE Arrests 450 At Georgia EV Battery Plant
Another manufactured raid by Trump Nazis.
"Desperation knows no bounds nor loyalty for a pedo." -- Chris (comments).
"Hey Georgia voters, you voted for this, bless your hearts." -- amy cuscuriae (comments).
"Trump doesn't have 'policies', he has visceral reactions.......this is his visceral reaction to electric vehicle production and to immigrant workers.
It is the same visceral reaction to Brazil and the trial of Bolsonaro.
Trump is not a coherent politician.
Trump thinks nothing through, he just reacts.
That's what makes him a dangerous fascist.
A fucking dangerous fascist." — JackRknTwist (comments).
Christian Nationalist Speaks In Tongues On House Floor
Rep John Joyce had problems introducing Christofascist bill on the House floor.
The "tonguer" is always a good show!
"This joint resolution will formally designate Sept. 12 as the 'Day of the Bible' to honor the first complete English langel, engwish, englan – English language Bible that was produced in America."
"
Damn straight! Gotta commemorate the day that MAGA set God straight and said that if he wanted to be all holy in 'Murica, he had to do it in English! None of that fancy Latin or Hebrew here in God's country, no matter if it's God saying it! Yee haw!
Maybe the goddess made hime speak in tongues just to show how stupid he really is."
Is Donald Trump Dying?
"...For a week, Trump vanished from view—this man who treats microphones and cameras like The Lolita Express, suddenly refused to be seen. Why? Because his body is failing (joining his mind). Yet the press refuses to cover it. We’ve had the evidence for years. Back in 2017, Dr. Sanjay Gupta of CNN read Trump’s own charts and concluded he had heart disease. His calcium score was 133—well above the danger zone.
Gupta warned that without drastic lifestyle changes Trump faced a 'moderate risk of a heart attack in three to five years.' That was seven years ago. Since then? Hamberders, sleepless rage-tweeting and roughly the exercise regimen of a sloth trapped underneath a grand piano.
So when Trump finally reemerged this week—rigid, hiding his hands and feet behind a lectern, eyes glazed—we were well beyond speculation. The purple blotches married to his hands, the swelling cankles, the vacant stare: they scream cardiovascular decline."
The world should be so lucky!
Busted: Susan Collins advanced Trump bill after receiving $2 million from billionaire
All of MAGA is on-the-take criminals as is the entirety of the Trump Criminal Syndicate.
'Only so much stupidity you can put up with': Scarborough slams 'Boss Hoggs in the Deep South'
"My God, JD Vance — I'm so glad the Wall Street Journal editorial page called him out yesterday," Scarborough told Meacham. "Basically, JD Vance, one of the dumbest things that, you know, this administration always does — this MAGA base always does — is they take an issue like this and say: Oh, you must be with, like, trans. You must be with mutilating children for surgeries when they're transitioning. He did that. Total lies…. Is he really saying that about the 75 percent of Republicans who oppose what RFK Jr. is saying?"
Scarborough continued, "Does JD Vance really think that 75 percent of Republicans support trans operations for minors?.... There's only so much stupidity you can put up with. I'm so glad the Wall Street Journal editorial page called him out."
Scarborough told Meacham, "Outside of the Know Nothings, what other political movement has produced such backward-looking stupidity?"
Trump Is Accusing Foes With Multiple Mortgages of Fraud. Records Show 3 of His Cabinet Members Have Them.
Pot, meet kettle.
'Disturbing!' MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace taken aback watching RFK Jr. 'mouth breathe'
He could have a deviated septum and can't breathe very well through his nose.
On the other hand...
'Details still remain murky': Trump admin caught changing story on unprecedented strike
And dammit we are going to keep them that way!
Thoughts and Prayers Are Good, Actually
Our lawmakers have tiny stacks of cotton candy where their spines should be. All any of us can do is pray.
Dear Tony, the burden of proof is on thee and not on me!
Just another lost cause hiding shame behind religion.
Hey! Hey! RFK! How Many Kids Did You Kill Today?
Today on TAP: Retargeting an old anti-war chant to meet current threats
"In the course of the hearing, for instance, Wyoming’s John Barrasso, the Senate Republican whip, told Kennedy, 'I’m a doctor. Vaccines work. Secretary Kennedy, in your confirmation hearings, you promised to uphold the highest standards for vaccines. Since then, I’ve grown deeply concerned.' Despite that, when reporters asked him after the hearing if he still had confidence in Kennedy, Barrasso responded, 'I have confidence in what the president of the United States is doing, and I will not second-guess.'
Saying this after he second-guesses? Did he have any patients that lived?
GOP Senator Pushes “Heritage American” Caste System
"Tim Miller talks to Andrew Egger about his day at the National Conservatism Conference. It is on the rise, and it’s getting darker. At their latest conference, GOP figures pushed a “heritage American” caste system, openly embraced authoritarian power grabs, and even flirted with overturning gay marriage. The movement is fractured between Christian nationalists, tech futurists, and grievance politics, but united in wanting to redefine America on blood, soil, and power."
Hell comes to the U.S.
Texas launches downloadable form to exempt kids from school-required vaccines
Devolution takes us over.
The human specie in America is rapidly becoming retarded as all hell.
Trump Moves to End Temporary Protected Status for Over 250K Venezuelans in US
A very delusion, dangerous and sick person. The U.S. is one fucked up country.
RFK Jr. Will Need Some Healthcare After Being Nearly Homicided By Senate Democrats
"The first thing you should know about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s hearing today — aside from the fact that the man in charge of the nation’s health spent the first 40 minutes of the event heavily wheezing into his hot mic like Darth Vader with bronchitis — is that Sen. Ron Wyden’s request to put him under oath for the proceeding, so as to hold him legally accountable for any lies he might tell, was refused by Senate Finance Committee Chair Mike Crapo. So he was free to lie all he wanted, and he took every opportunity to do so, even when it resulted in making him look completely delusional."
Delusional is their MO.
Finally, a European Leader Said Out Loud What All of Them Are Likely Thinking About Trump
In a little-covered but striking speech last week, the president of Portugal—the centrist leader of a NATO ally—referred to President Donald Trump as “a Russian asset.”
Is the charge worth taking seriously? Yes, if it’s also taken literally.
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, the European leader who made the remark at a conclave of Portugal’s Social Democratic party, was clear and nuanced about what he meant. He emphasized that he was not calling Trump a Russian “agent,” as some conspiracy theorists have speculated. Rather, he said, “the supreme leader of the world’s largest superpower is objectively a Soviet or Russian asset,” in the sense that he “has strategically benefited the Russian Federation” and thus “operates” as a Russian “asset.”
Scholars and denizens of espionage make the same distinction. An agent is a paid and witting spy; he formally, sometimes covertly, works for a foreign government. By contrast, an asset might serve a foreign government without even knowing that he’s doing so. This type of asset is sometimes called a dupe or a useful idiot.
Texas Passes Ban on Mail-Order Abortion Pills
Another act of a fascist dictator.
Drunky Pill-Pusher Rep. Ronny Jackson Got His Old Navy Rank Back, Thanks Secretary Sh*tfaced!
"Under the leadership of former Fox News weekend personality and masculine insecurity spokesmodel Pete 'Secretary Shitfaced' Hegseth, the Pentagon has been on a singular mission: It’s out with the intelligence and the decency and the honor and the expertise and the cleverness and the talent and the impressively completed missions and the women and the LGBT and non-white people, and in with the rapists, the racists, the sexists, the alcoholics, the stupids, the Nazis, the traitors, and the Christian nationalists. Organizations do reflect their leadership, after all.
(We should note of course that the rape accusation against Pete Hegseth was highly credible and believable — and settled with money! — but it was never confirmed or adjudicated in the legal sense the way it was with the president of the United States.)
It’s been remarkable how thoroughly Hegseth is investigating every nook and cranny, to find places where shame can be restored, or where goodness can be removed. The recent rehanging of a portrait of the traitor loser Robert E. Lee with one of his slaves is a great example. Making sure Hitler’s writings and books on eugenics stay in the West Point library while Maya Angelou books, books that are honest about the Holocaust, and books that criticize eugenics go? It’s like Secretary Shitfaced jerked off onto a vision board.
Military funeral honors for traitors who got shot in the face in the Capitol on January 6 because they deserved it? Check. Firing the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency for refusing to say Trump’s and Secretary Shitfaced’s Iran operation was the most perfect TOTAL OBLITERATION in the history of total obliterations? Also check.
Now here’s a new one. We guess it was really important to Hegseth’s vision for preserving the military’s WARFIGHTER! mentality — you have to say 'warfighter' a lot in Hegseth’s Pentagon, it helps him compensate for his shortcomings — to restore the rank of disgraced former Navy captain, disgraced former White House doctor, and currently disgraced GOP Rep. Ronny Jackson.
If you remember, Jackson, who looks and talks like if Joel Osteen had a drunk love baby with the Tiger King, lost his rank of rear admiral and was demoted to former captain back in 2022, after that Pentagon Inspector General report came out in 2021, the one that said Jackson was a drunken shitshow as White House doctor, sexually harassed subordinates, dosed on Ambien even while he was on call traveling with the president, and so much more.
So it should be obvious why Hegseth thought this was important. These two men have so much in common, and we’re not just talking about how they have the same exact gross slicked-back Southern Baptist pedophile haircut."
Desecrating the Flag: So, What Else Ain't New?
"Surely, you've heard that old saw about the flag being the last refuge of a scoundrel. I think of that every time I seem one of those obscene pictures of Trump canoodling with the Stars and Stripes, moving on that cloth like a bitch in his creepy attempt to display his deep love of the country he's been so actively deconstructing this year even more aggressively than he did the first time he stole an election with a little help from his friends."
Didn't someone make toilet paper with that flag fucking on every swipe? If not, they missed a great opportunity.
"And perhaps the damage done to our logo, the flag, has made it so that symbol must be jettisoned now, too. The fascists, the pedophiles, the faux Christians, the greed heads, the billionaires, and the poor white trash own it now. Trump wants to overturn earlier Supreme Court rulings that declared burning the flag was legal under the heading of free speech. Trump and his gang don't care much about the law and they figure that the Trump High Court is mostly keen on the idea of limiting most any speech they don't like. So, the time is right, I guess, as it was right for overturning Roe v. Wade. I won't be burning a flag even if that freedom is rescinded, too. It's not my style, partly because there are still remnants of good in that flag.
But it's divisive now, and if we are going to move beyond Trump, we might be better off proceeding under a new flag. Suggestions for designs welcome. The old one just isn't appropriate anymore.
And it sure isn't about being free, not with ICE and the National Guard in alliance, and restrictions on what we can think or the words we can use."
EVERYTHING Trump touches, dies.
The Atlantic: How MAGA Is “Rehabilitating Hitler”
Why is this surprising coming from the side of evil? Everyone of these miscreants would have been living up HItler's ass!
The only thing Candace Owens ever proved is that she does nothing but contradict for attention.
Judge Rebukes TX Church For Child Sex Abuse Coverup
Big bunch of "holy" pedophiles bite the dust!
House GOP May Remove DC’s Elected Attorney General
How does a Nazi dictator takeover look? Exactly like this!
Argentine Diplomats Turned Back In Noem Screwup
More failure in a now long line of failures by an inept and flaccid leader.
"The Department of Homeland Security blindsided Argentina last week by unexpectedly pausing a visa-waiver agreement as officials from Buenos Aires were already en route to Washington to sign the deal. The apparent diplomatic snub was the result of a lack of communication and organization by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
In July, Noem signed a statement of intent with Argentinian officials for the visa-waiver agreement. But Noem didn’t first tell Secretary of State Marco Rubio of the major international decision, Axios first reported. 'Let’s just say this was not a great look from us,' a senior Trump administration official told Axios. 'It’s embarrassing.'"
DC Sues Trump Over National Guard Deployment
What did the Nazi expect?
The city of Washington has filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump and the military over the deployment of the National Guard in the nation’s capital. Trump, the suit says, “has run roughshod over a fundamental tenet of American democracy — that the military should not be involved in domestic law enforcement.”
Carlson: Pete Buttigieg Is “A Fake Gay,” He’s Pretending
One thing is obvious: You are both honestly shit peddlers!
RFK Jr. Says He Doesn’t Know How Many Americans Died From Covid During Heated Senate Hearing
Furthermore, he doesn't give a fuck!
RFK, Jr. Is Stacking the Deck Against Vaccines With New Advisory Members
"Several of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s new reported selections to the panel have a history of attacking vaccines."
This guy looks more grotesque and ghastly in every photo I see of him. Something is doing this to him there can be no doubt. But what?
Thanks, Trump: Jobs market grinds to a halt
This must be a mistake! Trump hired someone to make this bad news disappear!
'No Teenage Girl Had A Chance': Epstein Survivors Don't Hold Back In Interview
While the Trump White House is participating in the massive cover-up of our country's most notorious sex trafficking pedophile, some of Jeffrey Epstein's victims were courageous enough to step forward. Jess Michaels, who claims she was raped by Epstein when she was 22 years old, called him a “master manipulator,” adding, “That was a strategy that was honed. That was a strategy that no young woman, no teenage girl had a chance — not a chance against his psychopathic skills.”
His time is coming and soon!
New West Coast Alliance Will Protect States' Access To Vaccines
There's news of a new West Coast alliance to protect public health. Via the Guardian:
In a joint press release, Governors Gavin Newsom of California, Tina Kotek of Oregon, and Bob Ferguson of Washington said the CDC had become a “political tool that increasingly peddles ideology instead of science”.
“President Trump’s mass firing of CDC doctors and scientists – and his blatant politicization of the agency – is a direct assault on the health and safety of the American people,” the Democratic governors said in a joint statement, adding: “California, Oregon, and Washington will not allow the people of our states to be put at risk.”
They are forming the West Coast Health Alliance to protect access to vaccines in their states. Sorry, Florida. The inmates are in charge of the asylum, as News Hound Ellen points out.
GOPers Are So Dumb, They Don't See How Vulnerable This Makes Them
"If Republicans support this, they're even dumber than I thought. This would allow Trump to target them where they work in a way he couldn't before."
It's called "leaping before you look." Common behavior from the zombies.
Whiny Man-Baby Tries To Coerce SCOTUS: 'Leave My Tariffs Alone!
Coerce his partners in crime? Don't make me ROTFLMAO!
'Your gold lame throne is melting': Rosie O’Donnell hits back at Trump jab
“Banishing me again? Logan Roy would be proud,” said O’Donnell, in a reference to the fictional, media mogul on HBO’s “Succession.”
“EPSTEIN SURVIVORS are the reckoning and your gold lamé throne is melting,” O’Donnell wrote, concluding the statement with a heart emoji.
The Hill reports Trump’s public war with O’Donnell “dates back nearly two decades,” triggered by comments O’Donnell made as co-host of “The View,” where she described Trump as a “snake oil salesman.”
Trump should be proud to have that hung on him. It's the best thing that can be said about him.
'Proudly ignorant' Trump blasted for rewriting a history he doesn't understand
"Of all the presidents, Donald Trump — the man who would remake the Smithsonian and alter its presentation of 'how bad slavery was,' as he put it — is surely the most ignorant of American history itself," Blumenthal laments. "What Trump doesn't know fills the Library of Congress, whose chief librarian he has fired, along with driving out the heads of the National Archives and the National Portrait Gallery, as well as dissolving programs of the National Endowment for the Humanities and defunding the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which as a result, has paused the acclaimed 'American Experience' documentary series.
The former Clintons adviser adds, 'Trump claims he is tearing down the entire federal support for history in order to reveal the true story.'
A Trump White House aide, Blumenthal notes, bragged that one of Trump's goals is to 'get the woke out of the Smithsonian."
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"But this gospel of positive-thinking twaddle aside, Trump, proudly ignorant though he is, has for years articulated a vision of American history," Blumenthal warns. "That vision does not emphasize the strides the nation has made through tumultuous struggle since the abolition of slavery. Instead, it honors those who defended slavery, committed treason to preserve it and claim it to be a worthy American 'heritage.' Trump has repeatedly sought to shield the Confederate statues and symbols erected as tribute to the 'lost cause' myth."
In other words he's living in The Land of the Happy Negro!
'Don't have our backs': Lower court judges slam the 'inexcusable' Supreme Court
It's apparent they don't have America's back. This means they are traitors same as the rest of the Nazis. Traitors don't belong in our country no matter what the color of their trousers are.
New DeSantis Death Plan: Ending All Vaccine Mandates
Those pro-lifers sure love to plan ways to kill us!
“The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interrèd with their bones” — Mark Antony from William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar.
'No Teenage Girl Had A Chance': Epstein Survivors Don't Hold Back In Interview
These six women have more guts than anyone in the Trump administration.
While the Trump White House is participating in the massive cover-up of our country's most notorious sex trafficking pedophile, some of Jeffrey Epstein's victims were courageous enough to step forward. Jess Michaels, who claims she was raped by Epstein when she was 22 years old, called him a “master manipulator,” adding, “That was a strategy that was honed. That was a strategy that no young woman, no teenage girl had a chance — not a chance against his psychopathic skills.”
CODEPINK Condemns Illegal U.S. Missile Strike Near Venezuelan Waters
"CODEPINK fiercely condemns the illegal and reckless U.S. missile strike that killed 11 people on a vessel allegedly carrying drugs from Venezuela. Even if Washington’s claims are accurate, drug trafficking does not justify a death sentence delivered by missile. With the U.S. Southern Command assets already deployed in the region, why blow up a vessel instead of capturing and interrogating the crew? If the goal were really to uncover evidence of President Maduro’s alleged involvement, this reckless approach raises only two possibilities: either the narrative is fabricated and Washington used it as a pretext for a deadly show of force or it's real, and the U.S. chose extrajudicial killing over law, evidence and humanity.
International law is clear: the use of force is only lawful in self-defense or with explicit UN Security Council authorization. This strike had neither. It reflects the worst of U.S. militarism: secretive, unilateral, and contemptuous of due process, human rights and the rule of law.
Under U.S. law, it’s equally indefensible. The Constitution gives Congress, not the President, the power to authorize war. Unilateral action may only be used in emergencies or self-defense, and this strike meets neither."
President Donald Trump's second term has taken a massive toll on the American civil service, according to a new report by a government watchdog.
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) on Wednesday released a report documenting dozens of instances in which government officials "have publicly resigned in protest after being asked to do something they believed to be illegal or in violation of their oath of office."
Trump hit with major blow in 'onslaught' on Harvard
"A federal court ruled on Wednesday that the Trump administration violated Harvard University's First Amendment rights by withholding federal grant funding over its campus antisemitism policies."
Another victory for American democracy over Trump fascism.
I’m a High Schooler. AI Is Demolishing My Education.
The end of critical thinking in the classroom
And if you are illiterate, you can listen to it read to you by an AI voice! LMAO!
Epstein Files Survivors Throw Capitol Press Conference, *Even Though* Trump Says They're A Hoax!
Everything is a hoax to Trump, the world's worst hoaxer.
Trump And Secretary Sh*tfaced Blew Up A Little Bitty Boat, Ooh Big Men! Big Men!
"So many questions immediately spring to mind:
1. Positively identified as Tren de Aragua by whom? The same team of dipshits that sees an 'I love my mommy' tattoo and human trafficks the bearer to El Salvador as a gang member based on that?
2. Haven’t 17 out of 18 US intelligence agencies assessed that Tren de Aragua is actually not run by Maduro and/or the Venezuelan government? Are they just lying about that again? Yes, yes, they are.
3. 'Terrorists'? Again, we’re supposed to just take this at face value. No.
4. 'Transporting narcotics'? In that little boat? Were they on their way to a party or something?
5. International waters? We’re just attacking little boats in international waters now? How many war crimes does Pete Hegseth want to commit before he’s punished as a war criminal?
6. How many exclamation points does that last sentence really need? Did no teacher ever explain to Dramatic Donald that extra punctuation just makes you look more illiterate, just like randomly capitalized words?"
"As the BBC notes, this strike may very well have violated international law, according to the experts. (They also of course note that the US is not technically a signatory to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, because this nation has always found international agreements like that to be very stinky and unfair, as they would require us to play by the same rules as mere other countries.)
One biggie is that you’re not supposed to blow up random boats in international waters — who knew? Not Secretary Shitfaced we bet, as it’s increasingly clear he doesn’t know much about military stuff in general. If you’re in 'hot pursuit' you can stop a boat, like if it came out of your waters and into international waters, but you are really still not supposed to just fling missiles at it.
And then of course there are all those little picky rules about how Donald Trump can’t actually just snap his tiny little rotting fingers and say somebody is a 'terrorist' or that we are 'at war' with somebody in order to justify doing completely fucking illegal shit. An expert explains:
But Prof Michael Becker of Trinity College Dublin told BBC Verify that the US actions 'stretches the meaning of the term beyond its breaking point'.
The fact that US officials describe the individuals killed by the US strike as narco-terrorists does not transform them into lawful military targets,' he said. 'The US is not engaged in an armed conflict with Venezuela or the Tren de Aragua criminal organization.'
'Not only does the strike appear to have violated the prohibition on the use of force, it also runs afoul of the right to life under international human rights law."
Prof Moffett said that the use of force in this case could amount to an 'extrajudicial arbitrary killing' and 'a fundamental violation of human rights'.
'Labelling everyone a terrorist does not make them a lawful target and enables states to side-step international law,' he said."
This then could be construed as an act of war by the U.S. It is something that Trump desperately wants to distract from his other crimes.
Trump’s America: The Birth of a Personalist Dictatorship
Machiavelli warned us. Bodin defined it. Brzezinski studied it. And now, Trump is dragging America into it.
"America is at risk of abandoning its founding principle of government, “by and for the people,” in favor of a system older than democracy itself: rule by one man."
“Personalist rule emerges when power is concentrated in the hands of one individual who dominates not only the state apparatus but also the party, the military, and the economy.”
And all three of these will fail under Trump. The party, the enconomy are both in the throes of failing. The military is looking to do the same.
From Silence to Spotlight: How a Democratic Shadow Cabinet Could Break Trump’s Spell
"Voters don’t rally behind policy papers: they rally behind leaders they can see and believe in. Democrats must end the era of weak, divided messaging and rise with a chorus of commanding voices."
This all depends on how many of us will be allowed to vote in future elections. And that's if there are any!
SEVEN TIMES Grand Juries In DC Deny US Attorney Boxwine. SEVEN TIMES
IT’S HAPPENED AGAIN. TWICE IN ONE DAY.
“What?” you say. “The thing with the grand juries,” we say! That’s right, another grand jury in DC, entirely of its own volition and accord, has looked at an indictment from DC US Attorney Jeanine “Boxwine” Pirro, Idiot, Esq., and said, “You know what? Fuck this Trump Nazi right here,” and refused to indict somebody.
AND THEN THERE WAS ANOTHER ONE. IN THE SAME DAY.
This makes … seven separate times? Something like that. NBC News’s tally says it’s six (at least) so far, and AP says it’s seven in five cases, and who are we to try to count such big numbers? (Sandwich guy Sean Dunn; Alvin Summers, who was charged with assaulting a federal officer and a grand jury said fuck off; and THREE GRAND JURIES for Sidney Lori Reid, also charged with assault. Plus today’s two, yep that’s seven in five cases. SEVEN.)
Something Huge and Brown Is Taking Over the Atlantic Ocean
Unsurprisingly, human activity is involved in a widespread ecological change.
OMG! It's the bullshit that is being spread from our White House!
Psychologist Says AI Is Causing Never-Before-Seen Types of Mental Disorder
This has been reported by several studies now.
"Something keeps happening to people who get hooked chatbots like ChatGPT.
Mental health professionals are calling it 'AI psychosis': turning to the AI models for advice, users soon become entranced by the sycophantic machine's human-like responses. It becomes not just a tool but a companion — and the worst kind, constantly plying you with what you want to hear and validating anything you say, no matter how wrong or unbalanced. That leads to cases like a man who was repeatedly hospitalized after ChatGPT convinced he could bend time, or another who believed he'd discovered breakthroughs in physics. Sometimes, it turns horrifically tragic: interactions with AI chatbots have allegedly led to several deaths, including the suicide of a 16-year-old boy.
Whether 'AI psychosis' — not yet an official diagnosis — will continue to be the preferred term is an open question. But experts do emphasize that there's something unique, bizarre, and deeply alarming happening in these AI interactions, with many of the reported cases involving people with no history of mental illness, even if they don't perfectly align with known types of psychosis."
Hot Mic Catches Putin and Xi Discussing Plans to Transplant Organs for Immortality
Not to early to end them for good is it?
Activists Are Using AI to Identify Masked ICE Agents
Don't get too excited by this. Let's see how it works first.
"A Netherlands-based immigration activist named Dominick Skinner is using AI and facial recognition to reveal the identities of masked US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. Talk about turned tables — and a striking ethical paradox."
Nothing paradoxical at all. Gestapo faces were in plain view during the Third Reich!
'Major Pressure Campaign' By Trump To Stop Vote To Force Open Epstein Files
Well, don't you wonder why? Inquiring minds want to know.
Combat Veteran Is Arrested For Conspiracy Over ICE Protest
"Boy, these assholes simply do not believe in the rule of law-- except when it serves their ends."
The arrest of a US army veteran who protested against the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown has raised alarms among legal experts and fellow veterans familiar with his service in Afghanistan.
Bajun Mavalwalla II – a former army sergeant who survived a roadside bomb blast on a special operations mission in Afghanistan – was charged in July with “conspiracy to impede or injure officers” after joining a demonstration against federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) in Spokane, Washington.
Legal experts say the case marks an escalation in the administration’s attacks on first amendment rights. Afghanistan war veterans who know him say the case against Mavalwalla appears unjust.
“Here’s a guy who held a top secret clearance and was privy to some of the most sensitive information we have, who served in a combat zone,” said Kenneth Koop, a retired colonel who trained the Afghan military and police during Mavalwalla’s deployment. “To see him treated like this really sticks in my craw.”
It stinks to the ends of the universe!
The Trump Traitor Administration must answer for its crimes.
Chicago Teachers Union responds to federal court ruling on Trump’s military occupation of Los Angeles: Trump, Stay Out of Our City
Or what?
'Disgrace': Fox sparks outrage by cutting off Epstein presser to run 'counter-programming'
What else would you expect from traitors that are in collusion with crimes of assault and racketeering?
BUSTED: Crime-fighting Trump prosecutor went easy on offender facing serious charges
In her capacity as a federal prosecutor for the District of Columbia, Donald Trump appointee and former Fox News host Jeanine Pirro is aggressively promoting the president's crime policies in the U.S. capital — which include federalizing the Capital Police and deploying federalized National Guard Troops. Pirro echoes Trump's claim that violent crime is out of control in Washington, D.C., although figures show that crime is way down there.
"A Washington, D.C., teenager who was convicted of armed carjacking, assault and destruction of property as a juvenile subsequently went live on Instagram wearing a ski mask and holding a .22-caliber semiautomatic rifle," DeBerry explains. "The teen reportedly blew off the conditions of his probation, and, given all the talk from the Trump Administration about the city's rising crime rates and youth crime in particular, you might think a harsh reaction from his administration followed."
DeBerry continues, "But you would be wrong — the teen was spared punishment by U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro last month. Yes, the same Pirro who, like many of her colleagues, justified President Donald Trump's takeover of D.C. by decrying the prevalence of juvenile crime there."
"The offender even entered a guilty plea."
Pirro carries on the Trump Crime Syndicate's work.
Trump’s long weekend of humiliation
The harder he tries to be a dictator, the more he's mocked by both Americans and foreign leaders
Photo: Moron surrounded by sychophant bootlickers.
1000+ HHS Employees: RFK Must Resign Or Be Fired
Or what?
More than 1,000 current and former employees of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) are demanding that Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. resign, following his ousting of the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other actions they say are “compromising the health of the nation.”
TODAY: Epstein Victims To Attend Capitol Hill Rally
Will Trump invade somewhere? Will Trump attempt suicide?
Tuberville: “The Next War Will Be Ended From Space”<br>
"Tuberville is a great example of the failure of the Alabama school system. Central casting could not find someone so perfectly suited for the uninformed, ignorant, racist role he plays." -- Forteaneye (comments).
Notice how retards like him are always hoping for "the next war."
"If God is on ourside, he'll stop the next war." — With God on Our Side", Bob Dylan.
Immigrant Agrees That “Foreigners Are Sickening”
Ones like he is.
"Migrate to Mars and stay there." — Ragnar Lothbrok (comments).
Trump: Strike On Venezuela “Drug Vessel” Killed 11
An act of agression on a foreign nation. It is lilely and act of war.
"Unless there's evidence that the boat was firing on the USN, this was murderous piracy." — Karl Dubhe IV (comments).
Fox Ignores Elephant In The Room On Plummeting Tourism Numbers
While discussing new "visa integrity fee" about to be imposed on travelers to the US, the panel on Fox's Outnumbered conveniently forgot to mention the other reason for the collapse of the tourism industry.
Forgotten like democracy has been.
"America stands alone in what industry experts are calling an unprecedented tourism crisis. As international travelers cancel trips and reroute vacations away from the United States, the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) projects the U.S. will lose a staggering $12.5 billion in visitor spending this year.
The culprit? A sweeping campaign of detentions, interrogations, and deportations of foreign visitors by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) under President Trump’s administration."
'Ten Commandments for thee but not for me': GOP senator mocks Texas' MAGA attorney general
Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) reacted to Paxton's post and wrote on X: "There you go again. Ten Commandments for thee, but not for me, eh, Ken?"
Freedom from Religion Foundation, a nonprofit, wrote: "Texas schools don’t need government telling kids to pray — much less which prayer, or which god. This isn’t “religious freedom,” it’s state-sponsored Christianity."
Journalist Mike Glenn wrote: "Catholics don't recognize the King James Version of the Bible and don't recite the KJV version of the Lord's Prayer."
Political commentator Nick Gillespie wrote: "I guess this means government has nothing meaningful left to do."
Exposing the closed-minded thught process of sticking your government's nose where it should not be!
Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) reacted to Paxton's post and wrote on X: "There you go again. Ten Commandments for thee, but not for me, eh, Ken?"
Political commentator Nick Gillespie wrote: "I guess this means government has nothing meaningful left to do."
What One Man’s 45-Year-Old Case Tells Us About the “Jim Crow Juries” Haunting Louisiana
"When a source first told me about the case of Lloyd Gray in late 2024, I jotted down these notes: two Black jurors, a swastika and Gov. Jeff Landry. That was an oversimplification of a deeply troubling issue, but it also got to the heart of a story published this week by ProPublica and Verite News that haunts Louisiana and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.
Gray was just 19 in 1980 when he was tried in a New Orleans courtroom on a charge of aggravated rape. After one day of testimony, the jury returned with a 10-2 split verdict. The 10 white jurors voted guilty and the only two Black jurors not guilty. If you’re a regular consumer of courtroom dramas, you might think a split verdict would mean a mistrial, and today it would. But back then in Louisiana, where nonunanimous juries were legal, it resulted in a life sentence for Gray."
There's a lot more. Read it.
The “Woke” Myth
Who should decide what we see, read, and learn?
“The Museums throughout Washington, but all over the Country are, essentially, the last remaining segment of ‘WOKE,’” Trump wrote recently on his Truth Social. “The Smithsonian is OUT OF CONTROL, where everything discussed is how horrible our Country is, how bad Slavery was, and how unaccomplished the downtrodden have been — Nothing about Success, nothing about Brightness, nothing about the Future.”
This is totally mean bullshit lies. I will now speak for museum workers because I know them first hand, very well. Anyone that thinks museums are un-American about anything should start thinking and visit one. They are institutions of learning. Anyone, and that includes Lumpy, that thinks museums are "woke" is full of shit to the top of their empty heads. The context of the use of "woke," the way it has been perverted, is very much the same as any racial slur you can think of. I will fight these "brainwashing" Nazi scumbags until the last breath of my life!
And so should you!
MAHA Madness: Bob Kennedy’s Cruel New Gospel of ‘Fitness’”
Former Republican strategist and operative Rick Wilson called out Bob Kennedy as a “heroin addict, sex addict, anti-vaccination lunatic and aspiring architect of millions of deaths” who’s dedicated to replacing real scientists with “radical eugenicists.”
And why would Kennedy be doing this?
Dr. Demetre Daskalakis — one of the top scientists and physicians who quit the CDC in protest over the anticipated replacement of Dr. Susan Monarez with an anti-vax crank — was unambiguous:
“I really hear the echoes of the word, ‘superior genetics.’ He referred to very high members of this administration and their improving health status. And said, well, that person has superior genetics… That is eugenics. Wake up. This is a red flag.”
"And, Daskalakis wasn’t condemning Kennedy for some obscure rant or policy about cub bears, sawed-off whale heads, or research animals. He was, instead, horrified that the seniormost Trump administration health official is again paraphrasing Hitler, this time in the Furher’s insistence that Germany could only become strong if the state employed eugenics to prevent the weak and hereditarily ill from reproducing."
The idea of a new Master Race? Time to blow this back to hell where it came from!
“Historic” Cuts In Food Stamps Benefits Go Into Effect
"Grocers large and small are bracing for the impact of changes to the SNAP program. A CBO analysis released this month estimates that 2.4 million fewer Americans, including families with children, are forecast to receive food stamps benefits in an average month. Other estimates show families across the U.S. could lose anywhere from $72 to $231 per month in support."
Relative to this, I have heard some "doctor" drivel on YouTube smacking down SNAP because all the recievers do with it is buy junk food.
What would this "doctor" do if they were trying to live on the same income? The same damn thing!
George Boardman: There’s a good reason why poor people eat so much junk food.
Judge: Trump Illegally Deployed Troops To Los Angeles
A crime syndicate does nothing legally!
Climate Scientists Rebut DOE’s Error-Riddled Report
"Texas A&M’s Andrew Dessler and Rutgers’ Robert Kopp organized the response. DOE’s report 'does not meet standards of quality, utility, objectivity and integrity appropriate for use in supporting policy making,' the two write. The section-by-section response — which alleges numerous errors and omissions — runs over 430 pages and has over 80 contributors."
“Mockery of science”: Energy Department climate report riddled with errors https://t.co/lY39dNVV7N — David Fenton (@dfenton) September 2, 2025
We are surrounded by assassins.
Thousands Attend Texas ICE Recruitment Expo
The criminals and predators line up to enlist as Nazi thugs.
Christian Values Columnist Charged In Child Sex Sting
"A former Deseret News journalist who also wrote an independent syndicated column about traditional values was charged Friday for allegedly “enticing” a detective posing online as a 14-year-old girl “to engage in sexual activity.” The Davis County Attorney’s Office filed third-degree felony charges Friday against Joseph Brent Walker, 70, in 2nd District Court. Walker faces one count of enticing a minor and two counts of distributing material harmful to a minor."
"For 25 years, Joseph Brent Walker wrote a syndicated column about the importance of 'traditional values.'
He also led an Utah-based newspaper’s faith section.
You’ll never guess why he just got arrested."
Another one bites the dust!
The sinister reason Trump revived the presidential fitness test
POTUS and the HHS secretary equate looks with how healthy you are
Then he and Kennedy must be at death's door!
RFK Jr. tightens his chokehold on the nation’s public health
But the demise of American leadership in science didn't begin with him
Holocaust Scholars: Israel Is Committing Genocide
Their own Nuremberg is coming.
Burkina Faso Passes Law Criminalizing Homosexuality
Retarded assholes show their loss of cognitive ability.
WSJ: Trump Crime Family Makes $6B In Crypto Launch
The Trump Crime Syndicate continues its con on our country.
Trump Administration Rolls Back Oversight Of Banks
Why? Do the motherfuckers want to loot them of any savings we have?
Trump poised to declare new national emergency ahead of midterm elections: report
Duh! Of course he will. He wants to declare martial law so he can stop the elections. Nazi to the core.
'Is that a joke?' Kristi Noem hammered by Dem lawmaker for 'out of touch' crime claim
Specifically, she claimed that without the president’s deployment of the National Guard to LA, “That city would have burned down if left to the devices of the mayor and the governor of that state.”
“Your reaction? I see you smirking there,” the MSNBC host prompted her guest.
”I mean, it's hard not to. I mean, is that a joke?” he responded. “I mean, it's just completely outrageous and out of touch. I mean, obviously Los Angeles, besides having seen decreases over the last 10, 20, 30 years overall in crime, the fact that LA wouldn't have been standing had Donald Trump not intervened is just is a fabrication.”
“All they do is they look at the TV and they lie,” he accused. “And I think people know across here and across the country that the National Guard and the military shouldn't be sent into cities. What cities want is support. They want additional support to hire more police officers, for more park space, for libraries.”
"And certainly at this moment, right now, with these ICE raids that are happening across cities, across the country, everyone agrees that, yes, we don't want, of course, criminals,” he elaborated. “If you're here and you're a criminal, you shouldn't be in this country –– we understand that. But that's not what's happening. Most of the people being right now detained or abducted don't have criminal histories, they are people that are working at our car washes, at our restaurants, at our hotels. These are hardworking people.”
‘Disgusting’: Kristi Noem’s DHS rages at ‘revolting’ NYT headline on deported killer
"But I guess in the Orwellian world of this admin, it's 'disgraceful and disgusting' to question why it is that a man from Jamaica who finished serving a murder sentence 4 years ago was deported to the tiny Kingdom of Eswatini," he said.
Serving time and getting educated must be punished more? Pure Evil.
Trump never ceases to be corrosive.
Prominent Cardiologist on CNN Urges Americans to ‘Not Trust’ U.S. Health Dept Leadership on Vaccines
Only the morons do that. The cull will take care of their lack of trust.
Reuters: Pentagon Deploys Large Force To Caribbean
Poor Latin America. They get hit with communists from one side and Nazis from another.
Trump: LA, NYC, Chicago, And Baltimore Need Troops
Stick them up your ass, Don, where the rest of the crooks are!
Trump: I’m Giving Rudy Giuliani The Medal Of Freedom
We have turned our Medal of Freedom over to the mobsters of mutation!
This diminishes the medal for everyone. Everything Trump touches, dies.
Pennsylvania nuns who stood up to claims of election fraud win national award
After a conservative activist’s social media post suggested that they were up to something, the Benedictine Sisters went public and ‘contested the falsehood immediately.’
The Nazi Party supressing the vote anywhere they can!
Oklahoma GOP Senator Lies Through His Teeth On Trump's Tariffs
Then that's false teeth.
Republican States Like Killing. A Lot.
"Republican states enjoy killing their prisoners, and with Donald Trump in the White House, they’ve been even more eager to end human life, a Daily Kos analysis finds.
On Thursday, Florida killed Curtis Windom, a 59-year-old Black man who had been on death row for one-third of a century after being convicted of triple murder in 1992. Windom’s execution marks Florida’s 11th of the year—a new high for the state since the Supreme Court allowed states to reinstate the death penalty in 1976.
But the ironically named Sunshine State isn’t a lone wolf in state-sanctioned killings. This year, the U.S. is on track to gas, shoot, or lethally inject more prisoners than it has in over a decade, according to a Daily Kos review of execution data from the Death Penalty Information Center, a nonprofit that tracks capital punishment in the United States."
Ahh, take me to the Land of the Happy Negro! I can hear them singing it now!
National Guard Kept On 29-Day Orders So Expenses Aren't Covered
Boy, Trump sure does love those troops!
More proof of a Nazi swine.
Trump Gets Newsom'd Over Latest Bizarre AI Post
"Donald J. Trump still appears to be alive after rumors of his death circulated on social media, but he does look bloated and unhealthy. Trump, or whoever is posting on his behalf, shared some AI-generated memes of himself on Truth Social, you know, your favorite president of all time, according to him. One of the memes Lumpy shared includes the tired old social media bullshit, saying, 'Nothing can stop what’s coming,' and we've heard that before from the 79-year-old president, including the 'red wave' that was more like a puddle."
Trump Demands To Know If “Covid Drugs” Really Work
Did the moron get Covid? Yes. Did the drugs work? Yes.
Addled brain!
Amid a Wave of Mass Shootings, Florida Cracks Down on Chalk
“Roads are for safety, not political messages or artwork,” US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy declared in July. He demanded that the nation’s governors crack down “especially” on political content in “intersections and crosswalks.” Florida’s transportation secretary, meanwhile, described the initiative as an effort to “ensure we keep our transportation facilities free & clear of political ideologies,” and his department released guidance barring “pavement surface art that is associated with social, political, or ideological messages.”
He's forgotten about or never heard of the protests in Yellow Springs, Ohio where the demonstrators blocked the road and they threatened them with tanks and no one moved. The tanks and the Guard lost that American victory!
Civil Rights Protest at Yellow Springs Barbershop, 1964
At last, a Trump outrage to tear even MAGA SCOTUS from his side
"Donald Trump thinks he can control all aspects of American life, including free market interest rates. The Fed chair, and the global economy, disagree.
If the Fed were to fall under the influence of an elected official seeking to tie interest rates to his political agenda, economic consequences would be dire: Investors would face heightened market volatility due to uncertainty and artificially manipulated interest rates, causing confidence in US assets to drop."
Trump Celebrates Labor Day as the Most Anti-Union President Ever
His unbound union busting is one front of his war on democracy.
The biggest scab ever!
Labor Day: How Political and Economic Freedom Are Linked
"ON SEPTEMBER 6, 1936, THE EVE OF LABOR DAY, President Franklin Roosevelt delivered his eighth “Fireside Chat.” Although his New Deal program had seen some policy successes—including the passage in 1935 of the Social Security Act—the Great Depression was still far from over, the unemployment rate remained above 20 percent, and millions of Americans were suffering. FDR began this address by movingly describing what he saw on a just-completed tour of nine states affected by 'drought devastation':
I shall never forget the fields of wheat so blasted by heat that they cannot be harvested. I shall never forget field after field of corn stunted, earless and stripped of leaves, for what the sun left the grasshoppers took. I saw brown pastures which would not keep a cow on fifty acres."
Read more at the link. Happy Labor Day! Unions forever!
Nine Former CDC Directors: RFK Is Endangering You
Throw the quack out!
"...Stop this fucking pussyfooting when dealing with insane, lying, murderous Nazis. They are absolutely beyond the pale. Don't accord their attempts with any respect at all." — Stogiebear (comments)>
Trump Attacks “Dumb Low IQ Liar” Donna Brazile
We know who the retard is here.
"...once again attacking the intelligence of a black woman."
Prominent QAnon Capitol Rioter Dies By Suicide
Trump are you paying attention?
Emotionally damaged Trump is a born loser
"I must admit, if Trump wasn't such a power-hungry demagogue, a danger to democracy, a sexual predator, racist, sociopath, pathological liar, bully, and impulsive and unstable megalomaniac, I might feel sorry for him.
He has no real friends, just sycophants. All his relationships are transactions, including with his three wives and his children. When people are no longer useful to him—wives, lawyers, advisors, Cabinet members—he discards them."
What’s the Hell is the Matter With Texas?
“If I owned hell and Texas, I’d rent out Texas and live in hell.”
— General Phil Sheridan
"What’s the matter with Texas? Quite a bit, as it turns out. Just for starters, there’s the crippled guy who governs the Lone Star State. I’m not referring to the fact that he’s in a wheelchair. Oh no, his physical challenges aren’t the issue; he’s morally and ethically crippled. He is empathetically crippled. He is decency deficient. He has not hesitation when it comes to lying. He is bereft of compassion and concern for others. In other words, he’s a modern-day Republican. Like most all of them now, he’s mean as a rattlesnake being poked with a stick."
"....Because, of course, even allowing for all the ways Texas can be seen as backward as hell, not all Texans are Neanderthals, dipshits, rednecks, or Klansmen. Too many, of them, for sure, but not near a majority if the votes could yield a true representation of the will of the people. Even working every angle, bending every rule, denying ever more voters access to the polls, the fascist right couldn’t win Texas if they didn’t cheat. That’s what they’re doing in Texas again, and in Florida, too. Carving out districts to ghettoize and thus minimize black votes, Mexican votes, college student votes, and urban votes, places like Texas and Florida keep slip, slidin’ away from Medicare, Obamacare, mail-in ballots, legal abortions, a minimum wage people can live on, and other radical Democratic plots to keep America red enough to stay red. America will be great again. Or else."
Nazi retards.
'It infuriates us': Veterans rage at 'abusive' Trump over reports of him stiffing soldiers
It should infuriate all of us!
Donald Trump has reportedly gone out of his way to avoid paying national guard troops sent in to Washington, D.C., resulting in outrage from veterans.
The reports started earlier in the summer that Trump was utilizing a loophole when deploying the national guard, and avoiding paying those individuals certain additional benefits. In June, Vote In Or Out reported that "Trump deployed National Guard troops on multiple 29-day orders—specifically choosing durations under 30 days to avoid paying full Basic Allowance for Housing Type 1 (BAH-1)."
"Under Title 32 regulations, if orders run fewer than 30 days, members receive only the reduced 'BAH-Type 2,' not full BAH-1; full benefits begin only on day 31 and only apply from that point forward—not retroactively," the group wrote. "By repeatedly cycling short orders—ending them on day 29 and restarting on day 31—the administration saved roughly $2,500 per service member per month, based on differences between BAH-Type 2 and BAH-1."
Now, there are rumors circulating from veterans on Reddit and other social media that it's happening again.
Cheapskate chiseler.
Jaw-Dropping Video Shows Incredible Rescue of a Pilot After His Plane Crashed Into the Ocean Off the North Carolina Coast
Gorka distorts facts and then accuses Brianna Keilar of distorting facts. "That's just what your mother is!" ROTFLMAO!
ACLU Sues Texas Over GOP’s New “Don’t Say Gay” Law
Sue them until the Alamo has to be sold to Mexico.
ICE Barbie: I Know That If Trump Hadn’t Taken Action, “Los Angeles Would Not Be Standing Today”
What, in God's name, is she strung out on?
This is a deeply dysfunctional human.
Pirro Condemns DC’s Grand Jurors As Ignorant Elites
Projecting again.
Idiot GOPer Calls For LGBTQ Community To Be Classified As Terrorists
Drinking lead paint, Mr. Domestic Terrorist?
Chicago Mayor Very Politely Tells Trump To F*ck Off
"On Thursday, Tom Homan, the administration’s 'border czar', said Chicago, along with a number of other cities, would soon be targeted in a planned immigration crackdown."
"Yeah, Homan, but what about the higher crime rates in red states? We see what they're doing."
Set up Chicago's front lines with sharpshooters and loaded live ammo.
Critics Pounce As Murkowski Slams Trump Official She Voted To Confirm
"Alaska Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski expressed outrage over the situation at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention under Trump’s leadership. However, she supported this administration, including the confirmation of RFK Jr., a lifelong anti-vaxxer, as Secretary of Health and Human Services. Additionally, she publicly endorsed the controversial figure known for storing roadkill in his freezer on Xitter in late February. And now it's August, and she's concerned, even though the rest of Sane America saw this coming."
Inept and failed leadership must be removed.
There's absolutely a crime wave in America — and Trump is leading it
"An 18-year-old boy was kidnapped by Immigration and Customs Enforcement outside LA just days before he was to begin his senior year in high school. He was walking his dog when they came for him.
ICE never told his parents. For a week, they had no idea where he was. During that time, ICE had taken him to one facility, then another, then another, before sending him to Arizona, where he awaits his fate.
This story is being repeated across the country. Federal immigration authorities are taking from churches, schools, workplaces and courts people whose crime is coming, or staying, without authorization. Otherwise, they are hard-working, family-oriented and law-abiding.
A typical reaction to these stories is that they are at odds with Donald Trump’s campaign promise of getting rid of 'the worst of the worst,' those who have committed serious crimes, especially violent ones.
To continue with that reaction would do more harm than good, however, as it accepts as true the belief that Trump cares about crime and about public safety, and that the solution is for him to pull back.
The president doesn’t care about crime, except as a pretext for doing what he wants, nor is he going to pull back, even if the pretext is proven lawless and false. Indeed, it will be used by his thugs as rationale for committing crimes even greater than the ones they claim to fight – like kidnapping an 18-year-old boy, violating his rights, frightening his parents and terrorizing his community – because crime, as they see it, is not about what you do, but who you are."
Stop putting up with domestic terrorism, America!
'Didn’t drill down': Alarm sounded over DoJ's 'softball' treatment of Maxwell
Why would anyone think the Department of Crime would ask anything else to protect their mob leader?
'Facts be damned': Analyst goes inside the mind of 'moron' Trump's dysfunction
“The willingness of at least some advisers to tell Trump he was wrong is likely the starkest contrast between his first four years and now, when his aides seem more keen to prove their loyalty by telling him what he wants to hear,” Date wrote.
He added: "Likely exacerbating that is Trump’s embrace of autocracy and his eagerness to impose major policies without the approval of Congress or the states — meaning that Trump may well be even more willing to plow ahead with his ideas, facts be damned."
He thinks he's king. Delusional idiot.
One radical step will horrify most but it can end our national nightmare
Yes. This must be done. What the fuck do they think it is now, Disneyland?
The US is headed back to the 'dark ages' because MAGA 'can't cope with reality': analyst
Deranged and retarded MAGA.
Trump’s Tariffs Are Basically All Illegal, Federal Appeals Court Rules
He's a convicted felon! Illegal acts are what crooks do! Morons can't understand this.
“Fire RFK Jr. Now.”
“The reality is that Secretary Kennedy has profited from and built a career on sowing mistrust in vaccines,” Sen. Bernie Sanders wrote in a scathing editorial on Saturday. “Now, as head of HHS, he is using his authority to launch a full-blown war on science, on public health, and on truth itself.” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer also joined the calls, lambasting Kennedy’s attacks on well-established science as “stubborn, pigheaded, conspiracy-based.”
'Incredible': Legal experts astounded by eye-popping new Emil Bove report
The criminal takeover of America continues.
GOP Rep: Melania Deserves The Nobel Peace Prize
What street did they find her on?
Marco Rubio Revokes Visa Of Palestinian President
Eat a bag of dicks!
Man Arrested For Chalking His Shoes At Pulse Memorial
American citizen arrested by Nazi Gestapo. What a pile of chickenshits!
Fuck you moron asswipe Nazis! Calling them immoral is too good for the motherfuckers!br>
"LGBT+ people can't memorialise our dead, but we are told that Confederacy statues and venue naming conventions have to be littered all over the fucking place." — Halou (comments)
Take me to the Land of the Happy Negro! That's the place for me!
Look How Chickensh*t Vance Avoided Protesters In Wisconsin
Run, JD, run. Americans are coming!
"A “public official” breaking the law so he can avoid people lawfully protesting his regime’s lawlessness. — Todd Domke
It won't be the only time he breaks the law. It's a bad habit criminals have.
Fox Invents 'Christian Victimhood' And Ignores Dead Children
The only hatred being shown is to the children being murdered by high-powered weapons.
Fascist Fuckers!
"Growing up evangelical Christian I was constantly told I would be discriminated against and possibly martyred for my faith. This is part of the “culture.” Of course I never experienced this even in the liberal northeast. I will face much more discrimination in this country now that I have rejected religion and superstition." -— recovering (comments).
Crass Karoline Leavitt Mocks Jen Psaki's Tears
Thoughts and prayers do not stop bullets, Karoline. Shame on you.
What you get when you hire Nazi trash.
'Clear violation of the law': Senate Republican blasts Trump's attempt to end-run Congress
Are the rats finally leaving Trump's sinking ship of fascism?
Wisconsin GOP rocked as right-wing justice won’t run again citing conservative 'failures'
Republicans in Wisconsin received a blow on Friday, as arch-conservative state Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Bradley announced she will not seek re-election next year, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
"The conservative movement needs to take stock of its failures, identify the problem, and fix it," said Bradley in a statement. "I will not seek reelection to the Wisconsin Supreme Court because I believe the best path for me to rebuild the conservative movement and fight for liberty is not as a minority member of the Court."
Congratulations to her perception.
Cops: WI Priest Brought Viagra To Child Sex Sting
So sad what they do to our holy people. Another one bites the dust.
His bishop says that he is “grieved beyond words” and that Showers has been “completely restricted from all exercise of public ministry while the investigation is ongoing.”
Of course, he is.
So far — no drag, no gay, no trans. PLENTY CHRISTIANISTS!
REPORT: Felony Charges Plotted For Trump’s Critics
Trump's own Heinrich Himmler.
DC Grand Jury Swats Down Pirro For Third Time
Incompetent and corrupt!
How long before someone is dead from falling out a window?
Right Wing Commentator Erick Erickson: Thanks To Kennedy, My Cancer-Stricken Wife Can’t Get COVID Vax
The chickens are home to roost!
Noem: DHS Will Award $110 Million To “Faith-Based Organizations To Harden Defenses Against Attacks”
"Noem, opening the door to the widespread fraud committed by dozens of pastors and churches under COVID relief."
The corruption is incredibly thick and deep.
"Oh, FFS. Completely tax exempt and now security paid for by taxpayers. Fuck this corrupt and disgusting regime." — bovsklo (comments).
Speaker Johnson Tries Hard To Cover-up Epstein Files
Speaker Johnson never uttered the words "cover-up" but...
Don't miss the comment memes. Some of the best you'll see!
'Affront to every American': Retired general warns Trump 'imposing the will of a dictator'
Retired Generals are the only ones with a spine.
Homan should get slow stomach cancer.
"That sounds like a dictator right there. That sounds like someone is imposing the will of a dictator on the duly elected individuals from a state," Manner said in response to Homan's comments. "This is all about states' rights, and he is trampling them. It should be just a total affront to every American, whether you are in Illinois or you are in Texas. The idea that the president is ignoring the wishes of a governor to achieve his own personal objectives is appalling."
STEAL THIS LOOK: Trump’s Cheap, Ugly Gold Oval Office Sh*t, Available At Home Depot?
"Jamelle Bouie made an interesting observation yesterday about all the cosplaying dictator shit Donald Trump is putting up around the White House and throughout Washington DC:
There’s a try-hard 'fake it until you make it' kind of thing going, clearly. There’s the fact that it is indeed real, because Donald Trump really is committing a million 9/11s against freedom and good taste every single day, in order to fulfill his dream of destroying the United States of America, in obedience to whatever master he really serves.
And simultaneously, because it’s Trump, it’s so fucking trashy and silly, a poor man’s approximation of what a real big boy dictator is supposed to look like. He’s so absurdly physically unattractive, with his stupid hair and his open casket whore makeup, so puny, so rapidly deteriorating, aging seemingly 100 years per minute, and he has such garbage taste that every aesthetic choice he makes looks cheaper than the last.
Is this how feared dictators gild their shit? Does it have to look so low-rent, so 'How To Live Like Hitler Without Breaking The Bank'?"
A room filled with trailer trash!
Man Suffers ChatGPT Psychosis, Murders His Own Mother
A man murdered his mother and then killed himself after ChatGPT fueled his paranoid spiral.
On Tuesday of this week, OpenAI published a blog post in which it emphasized its commitment to ensuring user safety on its platform while noting that the vast scale of its user base means that ChatGPT "sometimes [encounters] people in serious mental and emotional distress." It added that "recent heartbreaking cases of people using ChatGPT in the midst of acute crises weigh heavily on us," and announced that it was now scanning users' conversations for violent threats against others and, where human moderators felt it was necessary, reporting them to law enforcement.
But according to his social media posts, ChatGPT did more than encounter Soelberg. It earned his trust, validated his paranoia, and egged on his worsening delusions — in short, creating a space for a deeply troubled person to engage in a deeply destructive form of world-building. And now, he and his mother both are dead.
Tulsi Gabbard Identified Undercover CIA Officer On Twitter
"Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, who was wholly unqualified for the job, shared the name of an undercover CIA officer on the Bad App, alarming people inside the spy agency. It appears that Gabbard's list of revoking clearances is an act of political retribution, which tracks with this administration because the 37 people she listed had either participated in intelligence assessments related to Russia's attempt to influence the outcome of the 2016 U.S. presidential election or had signed a 2019 letter calling for Trump's impeachment."
The continuing failure of the Trump Crime Syndicate.
ICE Raids Firefighter Camp During A Wildfire
"Imagine trying to fight a wildfire, the largest fire in the Pacific Northwest and only partially contained (about 13%), and then ICE agents arrive, taking an entire day away from fighting the fire with their bullshit."
Nazi Gestapo attacks workers, many of whom were reported to be Indigenous Americans, and prevents them from fighting a killer fire.
May Trump's goons all burn in hell!
Inside the Trumpist plot to fix the midterms — and all elections after
"When it comes to voting rights, no single institution has been more destructive than the nation’s top judicial body under the hypocritical leadership of Chief Justice John Roberts."
Think about it. This Republican insider and activist was appointed to uphold the law. What a bad joke on America!
'You could see his face turn': CNN's John Berman struck by Mike Johnson reaction
"When I asked Johnson about Ghislaine Maxwell, I read back a quote from Maxwell's interview," Berman said. "You could actually see his face turn. I mean, he really could not possibly hold her in lower regard, so he told me he discounts everything she says. But he also went on to say some interesting things about what might happen in Congress, because there is this discharge petition that could ripen in the next few weeks from Congressman [Thomas] Massie, from your home state of Kentucky, and also [Rep.] Ro Khanna from California, and what was interesting is he really was evasive on it."
In the words of Monty Python's Flying Circus: "Mike Johnson is a sniveling little rat-faced git!"
Camelot for Crazies
"This line of thinking is standard issue among the “heterodox” anti-institutionalists who are the brain trust for Republicanism today. Look at any institution, find five or six critiques of it—big or small, fair or not—and declare that the place is rotten beyond repair. If you don’t want to tear it down and start from scratch, you’re part of the problem. If you do want to tear it down and start from scratch, congratulations, you’re hired: That’s the only qualification you need."
The Long Con: Why Every Republican Policy—From Guns to Healthcare to Taxes—Harms the Public and Enriches the Few
"Yesterday there was another highly publicized school shooting. Republicans, as usual, are offering thoughts and prayers.
But why?
Why have Republicans — who, before Reagan, were the party in favor of gun control — decided that it’s just fine for America to be the only country in the world where the leading cause of childhood deaths and injury is bullets?
Why have Republicans — who, during the Eisenhower administration, pushed for massive public works programs like the interstate freeways and new schools coast-to-coast — decided instead to kill off as many of those sorts of programs as possible to pay for tax gifts to billionaires?
Why are they defending insider trading in Congress, supporting monopolies that rip off consumers and small businesses, and refusing to do anything about uninsured people or student debt?"
Inhuman Nazi deplorables is your answer.
Are You Deplorable? Wear it With Pride
“He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points to a career in politics.” — George Bernard Shaw
"Trump, Gym Jordan, Stephen Miller, Joni Ernst, Chuck Grasseley, Louie Gohmert (remember him) John Kennedy of Louisiana, Lindsey Graham, RFK Jr., Pete Heseth, Kash Patel, Kristi Noem, Linda McMahon and, for those of us in northern California, the execrable Doug LaMalfa. Deplorable to their cores.
And there are enough names to keep you scrolling interminably. They all seem like barnacles on the butt of intelligence, and that’s just for starters. All politicians who mimic Trump by knowing nuthin’ while pretending they know it all. Along with the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, Supreme Court Justice, Clarence Thomas and other Republican appointed justices, they, too, think they know best and know better. They may not know much about history, but they do know that 1 and 1 equals 2, unless that conflicts with something they don’t like. Then they’ll fire the person who came up with that equivalency and hire someone pledged to know better whenever knowing better is required.
In fact, you’d be hard pressed to find a Republican who knows little or nothing but still thinks he or she knows it all. And when in doubt about that they tune into Fox News to make sure they get filled in on what they need to know, the truth that only the initiated know for sure. Windmills are killing whales. American water pressure is a disgrace. PBS was creating characters for our kiddos meant to turn them gay. And, above all, Trump is the president, and he can do anything he wants."
The list of the retarded gets longer every day.
Texas House Approves Horse Paste For OTC Sales
And they are stupid enough to buy it and use it. Why? Because they are horses asses!
And keep drinking the bleach! Don't forget Trump said it worked! LMAO!
Johnson Rages Over “Thoughts And Prayers” Criticism, Says “The Problem Is Not Guns, It’s The Human Heart”
It's both, you asswipe!
And no one is diminishing the faith of America except Nazi zealots like you! Go back to hell where you came from.
'Trump is dying': Conservative says JD Vance 'moving fast' as president is 'headed down'
"Conservative anti-Trump activist Rick Wilson, who co-founded the Lincoln Project and hosts the group's podcast, has written extensively about Donald Trump. On Friday, the strategist declared that the president is indeed dying."
We're then in line for a "couch fucker" to take us over!
"Apparently there is a committee set up, Pence is part of it, the will be running things as soon as trump is gone one way or the other, as Vance has no experience. They will be trying to sort out all trumps losers , who will be gone and get things back on track. They should just have trump seized and institutionalized with proper doctors to diagnose him now before he causes the American people anymore trouble ir starts a war he can not get out of." — deejay (comments).
May I remind the skptics, "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows." — Bob Dylan.
'You didn’t want to hear my lies?' Republican lashes out as town hall derailed by boos
The clueless are now facing bitter reality.
Trump’s Tariffs On Low-Value Packages Go Into Effect
Prepare for more decay of our economy as the greed rots the country.
Graham Threatens Norway Over Caterpillar Boycott
Miss Lindsey, no one is coming to America any longer. The arrogance and stupidity you and your felon have displayed has taken its toll on us. It will continure to do so until your fascism is gone forever.
GOP Rep Flees Town Hall Amid Brutal Heckling
Reality sets in for the Trump Nazis.
WSJ: “Higher Prices Coming For Household Staples”
Stealing more from American's bank accounts!
Kennedy Suggests Drugs Make Trans People Violent
He's as violent as they come! His actions are killing people.
Is he suggesting his actions aren't violence against Americans?
Trump Revokes Secret Service Protection For Harris
So? Six months is all they get anyway. Trump is doing nothing special here. Wake the fuck up.
Which does not mean Trump isn't a vindictive asshole.
TX House Approves $125,000 Anti-Trans Bathroom Fine
"Texas - where love goes to die." — UpNorth (comments)
And retarded insanity rules the state government.
Guns, Germs & Greenland: Trump Attacks Our National Security
...we walked through the NatSec chaos unraveling in real time in what seems like every area of potential danger.
Our country has never been more insecure.
'Performative nonsense': Vance and Leavitt get schooled on 'thoughts and prayers' argument
She wrote, “Prayer is not freaking enough. Prayers do not end school shootings. Prayer does not bring these kids back. Enough with the thoughts and prayers” — reflecting the public anger over political leaders’ reliance on faith over tangible solutions.
Stow the holy water and do something that works for a change!
Stop hiding your failures behind religion! And Vance can kiss my ass!
Trump's secret plan to destroy democracy starts with the 2026 midterms
We must prevent this evil to stay in power at any cost.
ACLU Comment on Trump Administration Boycott of United Nations Review of US Human Rights Record
It is crystal clear Trump does not believe in human rights.
This makes him a domestic enemy.
RFK Jr 'Refuses To Comment' On CDC Chaos He Created
His priorities are to kill Americans.
But how many of us will he kill before he is disposed of?
'The Rule Of Don': Newsom Warns Trump Won't Leave When Term Ends
He doesn't intend to, we all know that. But leave he will, one way or the other.
Fox News Bitched About Gavin Newsom In 71 Segments Over Two Weeks
Nazi news channel loves Gavin!
Why billions of folks can't easily get a drink or flush a toilet
A report from the World Health Organization says 1 in 4 people lack access to safe water to drink. Even more don't have water for sanitation. We asked someone who grew up that way to share childhood memories.
'Very disturbed': Immediate investigation sought into Trump admin's 'reckless' move
Investigate the crime!
CDC under fire from RFK Jr. over non-existent claim
Insane, deadly cancer.
'This was cowardice': Ex-GOP rep blasts Trump after J6 rioter honored
The move to provide a full military funeral for Babbitt comes just a couple of months after the federal government paid Babbitt's family a $5 million settlement because of her death.
McHenry discussed the plans to give Babbitt a military funeral on Thursday with CNN's Kasie Hunt on "The Arena."
"This is not deserved," McHenry said. "Full military honors are primarily for those who gave their lives in defense of our country, and were truly defending our country.
"This is not an act of bravery," McHenry said of Babbitt's actions on Jan. 6. "This was an act of cowardice, and should not be rewarded with military honors."
Amen, brother.
To Hell With History! Where Has the Past Gotten Us Anyway?
"Among the many items found on that bountiful smorgasbord of things that have made fascism popular again is the antipathy so many Americans have toward knowing stuff. History, especially. Strong men on the right in the here and now and the there and then always endeavor to keep their populations in the dark. Our version of it in the U.S. these days is to reinvent our history and get rid all anything that is insulting to patriotic white people, to get it out of our museums, textbooks, and anywhere else it might be encountered to make real Americans feel bad....
And so it is that we have the balls-out campaign against Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Along with the erasure of D.E.I. comes the studious effort to keep unsanitized history from American kids and their fretting parents, too. Is anyone wondering what's going to happen to John Bolton now , or who will be next? Adam Schiff? AOC? Rosie O'Donnell? Heather Cox Richardson?
Hadn’t George Orwell revealed the authoritarian fondness for disappearing people when it suited Big Brother? Does anyone remember the Memory Hole? Or the Two-Minute Hate that focused all negative energies on anyone the shadowy leadership had designated as a supreme enemy of the people? Though the Soviet Union is no more, Putin maintains Stalin's tradition of institutionalized thuggery. Does the name Navalny ring a bell? Not in Moscow, it doesn’t. Not anymore."
Forget Law and Order — Trump’s Troop Deployments Are Dress Rehearsals for Nullifying Your Vote
When elections are stolen, history shows crowds flood the streets. Trump plans to crush the protests before they even begin
The trooper that prevents Americans from voting is no longer an American. He's a violator of his oath, therefore becomes a domestic enemy.
Who will investigate the crime?
Bottoms Up, And Up Yours, To The Martial Takeover Of Washington DC
"It’s 5 p.m. and there are National Guard soldiers walking around the Lincoln Memorial right now. Sitting on the steps, I’m watching them pace back and forth in front of the Reflecting Pool.
They look bored. Most of these guys have only been in DC for about a week now. On Sunday, they were issued SIG Sauer M117 pistols and M4 semi-automatic rifles. Some of the guys with M4s have vertical grips on the barrel that allow for increased stability in a firefight. They’re all wearing heavy and uncomfortable tactical vests with armor plates, probably IIIAs."
If these troopers are anything like the ones I went through basic with they are not content with this bootlick duty that was cast upon them by a bullying felon goofball.
F*ck Gloria Gaynor And F*ck Snoop Dogg
Well there’s a question answered, that of why two-or-three-hit disco wonder Gloria Gaynor was on the list for Donald Trump’s first Dear Leader Kennedy Center Honors to appeal to people with bad taste. (Besides how Trump likes all the gay things his lawyer Roy Cohn liked before Roy Cohn went to roast for all eternity on a spit in hell.)
Like Trump’s giving the Medal of Freedom to Miriam Adelson just because she gives him money, Gloria Gaynor is a Republican political donor.
It’s not that it’s so much money with Gaynor — like $22,000 — but it’s the principle of the thing, and it’s also the who of it. For this woman who sings “I Will Survive,” one of the most famous gay anthems, who still gets booked at Pride parades at age 81, her list of recipients includes some of the most hateful of the hateful politicians, Westboro Baptist protest signs come to life.
MeidasTouch reports that as recently as 2017, Gaynor was referring to herself as “really not a political person,” but some kind of worm turned in 2023. (She had given $235 to Ben Carson in 2016, but in isolation that’s pretty meh.)
Here’s Gaynor’s list:
Mike Johnson - $2160.57
Kevin McCarthy - $356.15
The National Republican Senatorial Committee - $1190.53
Marsha Blackburn - $2041.50
Dave McCormick - $1223.05
Josh Hawley - $1242.28
Ted Cruz - $476.18
Marco Rubio - $114.10
Maria Elvira Salazar - $242.18
Mazi Pilip - $682.28
Elise Stefanik - $1173.05
Nick Begich - $847.76
Wesley Hunt - $868.00
Jim Jordan - $1173.05
Vivek Ramaswamy - $1219.14
Nikki Haley - $1123.05
Ben Carson - $235.00
Steve Garvey - $1023.05
Mayra Flores - $1123.05
Daniel Norber - $1115.04
Tayler Rahm - $1065.04
Service and Honor / Jake Ellzey - $827.52
New Journey PAC - $610.25
Mike Johnson, perhaps the most viciously unloving, forked tongued anti-gay bigot in all of DC. Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz. Marsha Blackburn? My God.
Judging by that list, Gloria Gaynor is not just a bigot, but a super bigot, and she’s coming to Pride festivals and singing that fucking song, which only continues to matter because of the gays?
Go roast on a spit in hell with Roy, Gloria."
There's more. Read the article.
Pentagon Grants Ashli Babbitt Military Funeral Honors
The U.S. Air Force now honors traitors. Disgraceful downfall of America!
Absolute fascism. Absolute pile of shit.
Cameron: Taylor Swift “Mocks God, Normalizes Sin”
This is typical retarded behavior and hate speech. He needs a mental examination now.
The same as any Talibastard!
Russian Drones Strike EU And UK Offices In Kyiv
Don't forget: He's Trump's boss!
Kennedy: I Can Diagnose Children By Looking At Them
The same goes for all of us that still have funtioning brains. We can see Kennedy is deadly by lookng at his ugly face!
"When I first started to see accusations that he was a euginecist, I thought that was hyperbole. But that's exactly what this is. HIS family are genetically superior and of course make better lifestyle choices. You know, like heroin. (Caroline has accused him of trying to get his siblings and cousins to use hard drugs. One of many reasons almost none of them talk to him.)
No, you can't diagnose people just by looking at them. Someone with training (which he doesn't have) might spot symptoms that are outwardly visible, but they would do more investigation, perhaps a thorough exam and tests to find the root cause of symptoms. But no, rfkJR can tell just by looking at children that they have problems with their mitochondria? seriously? This guys shouldn't be in charge of a bake sale much less HHS!!!" — Houndentenor (comments).
Medicare To Test Using AI To Approve Procedures
The dumbing down of America has reached the critcal stage.
"And remember folks, this isn’t Medicaid
"This is Medicare This is the insurance people who worked all their lives will use
And in case you think you saved enough for retirement, one uninsured medical issue will wipe out your savings" — Todd200036 (comments).
"The same A.I. that has the disclaimer "I get things wrong". The same A.I. that "hallucinates". The same A.I. that can be tweaked by its programmer. The same A.I. that hoovers up all the electricity.
Just say no to A.I." — egm (comments).
CDC Vax Chief Roasts Kennedy In Viral Exit Message
Incinerated would be better.
May the Cult all die from Covid!
CDC Director Refuses To Resign, Won't Rubberstamp Kennedy
Three top agency officials announced resignations as the Trump administration moved to oust her.
We must fight the deadly Kennedy cancer for our lives.
The Orange Felon's FEMA Is A Failure
The Orange Felon is making a fool of himself with all his failures with FEMA.
With Trump it comes naturally.
"The spokesperson was probably feeling very edgy because the Orange Felon was feeling very edgy. And the Orange Felon was pretty edgy because people are finally getting sick enough of his bullshit and are starting to speak out."
"Case in point, 181 former and current FEMA officials signed a letter stating how badly Trump is fucking things up there..."
'Blatant and deplorable': Trump admin employees say they're forced to watch 'propaganda'
Federal employees at the Department of the Interior are reportedly raising alarms over a weekly video series titled “Inside Interior,” which they describe as "propaganda" — a slick, over-the-top portrayal of President Donald Trump and agency leadership, complete with staged scenes and breathless narration.
The Daily Beast reported Wednesday that Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, once tagged “Diva Doug” for requesting political appointees to bake chocolate chip cookies and summoning a U.S. Park Police helicopter for his own personal use, now finds himself at the center of growing backlash within his own department.
All the president's flunkies!
Outrage as Minneapolis mass shooting exposes more Republican lies
"According to the Gun Violence Archive, not even eight months into 2025, there have already been 286 mass shootings—defined as cases in which four or more people are shot or killed—in the United States just this year, averaging more than one per day."
"Gun violence is the number-one killer of children in the US, causing more deaths each year than car accidents, poisonings, and cancer. The victims of the shooting in Minneapolis join the more than 800 children killed and more than 2,200 injured by firearms this year."
Charlie Kirk Coping Himself Raw Over Taylor Swift/Travis Kelce Engagement
Hooray, the most important person has weighed in on the impending nuptials of Taylor Darlene Swift and Travis Darlene Kelce (not their real middle names, probably), which their parents cordially invite us all to, probably, we are sure it’s coming in the mail.
And that most important person, of course, is white nationalist misogynist Christian fascist stranger danger Charlie Kirk, whom Swift and Kelce have definitely heard of, you betcha.
Let us tell you, Charlie is coping hard.
You see, these types, the way they always told themselves they were above Taylor Swift was because they were traditionally heterosexually married (with all the consensual erect-penis-in-vagina sex we are sure that entails for Charlie!) and Taylor Swift had cats, therefore somehow obviously the billionaire with the incredible life was lonely and sad and bitter and resentful and beneath them.
Well now, Tay and Trav are joining that elite club that includes Charlie and his Barbie-cosplaying tradwife who we are sure said “I do” to him completely of her own volition, and not because she lost a radio contest, or because a wizard put a curse on her family that said “LOL you have to fuck the troll for 100 years before I even think of lifting the spell.” (That or she just got last pick in the Secret Santa, except instead of Secret Santas it was husbands and all the other men in the entire world were dead.) How on earth will Charlie Kirk make himself feel superior and MAN! now that Taylor Swift is going to literally have it all?
By making sure the bitch obeys is how! (Taylor Swift has never heard of Charlie Kirk.)
Scientists And Doctors Don't Give A Damn What RFK Jr. Thinks About The COVID Vaccine
I was told it's even better than ivermectin for prevention of Covid!
RFK Jr. Doing Real Good In Operation 'America Go Kill Yourself'
"Yep, with a new strain of COVID-19 surging through California, the Daily Beast is reporting that Health and Human Services secretary / Epstein’s bone-hunter pal / anti-vax weirdo Robert Francis Kennedy Jr. plans to pull the COVID vaccine off the shelves entirely. So, stop reading now and schedule your booster if you’re due. And any other kind of shot your doctor is willing to give you. Flu, shingles, Gardasil, get it all! Bring the whole family!"
Texans could soon get ivermectin without a prescription
I've heard Strychnine works even better!
All the President’s ‘Butt Snorkelers’
"Our long national nightmare is over: Cracker Barrel announced last night they will abandon their woke new logo and go back to the old one after all. For good measure, representatives of the company called Donald Trump and—in the words of Deputy White House Chief of Staff Taylor Budowich—“thanked President Trump for weighing in on the issue of their iconic ‘original’ logo. They wanted the President to know that they heard him.”
This Stalinesque Trump tactic should scare you into action
"I’m not just worried; I’m enraged. We’re watching our system of government being systematically, step-by-step refashioned into a surveillance-fueled engine of political vengeance.
Even worse, the same chilling logic that ruled Stalin’s courts — 'Show me the man, and I’ll show you the crime' — has become this administration’s sinister operating principle. It retrofits guilt to the target, not justice to evidence.
That phrase isn’t hyperbole. It’s rooted in dark history. It was popularized in the Soviet Union, attributed to figures like Soviet jurist Andrey Vyshinsky or the notorious secret police chief (and Vladimir Putin’s hero) Lavrentiy Beria. The sentiment is unmistakable: Arrest or investigate the person first, cook up the criminal case later.
History proves the simple fact that nobody’s invulnerable to this. Everybody has made some sort of error, a typo or mistake on a tax or mortgage form, possession of federally-criminal marijuana, a protest post on social media that could be spun as a 'threat.'
With a thorough enough investigation — like what they’re doing to John Bolton right now — most any of us could be hauled before a court on trumped-up charges. Particularly now that various forms of speech (like criticizing Benjamin Netanyahu or calling for boycotting Israel) are being functionally criminalized."
This is the world we want to live in? It must be stopped by any means necessary!
'Going to get worse': Trump cuts send national parks on 'unsustainable and dangerous path'
The U.S. is being destroyed by Trump before our very eyes. Something is deadly wrong with us and those that took an oath to defend us!
These men's fitness groups are hives of white supremacist rage
Breeding more racist Nazis to abuse weapons on Americans.
'These kids were literally praying': Mayor blasts 'thoughts and prayers' after shooting
"There are no words that can capture the horror and the evil of this unspeakable act," Frey said. "Children are dead. There are families that have a deceased child. You cannot put into words the gravity, the tragedy, or the absolute pain of this situation."
"And don't just say this is about thoughts and prayers right now," he continued. "These kids were literally praying. It was the first week of school. They were in a church."
Stow the thoughts and prayers which are nothing but meaningless rhetoric. Get off of your asses and do something meaningful about weapons access!
At least six children are being treated following a Minneapolis school shooting
Two children were killed and 17 people were injured — 14 of them children — in a shooting Wednesday morning at a Minneapolis Catholic school.
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara said the shooting occurred just before 8:30 a.m. local time during a Mass in the first week of classes at Annunciation Catholic School, when a shooter standing outside fired through church windows at worshippers.
"This was a deliberate act of violence against innocent children and other people worshipping," O'Hara said. "The sheer cruelty and cowardice of firing into a church full of children is absolutely incomprehensible."
We are shooting our kids again.
Slouching Into Fascism
"The United States, just months before its 250th birthday as the world’s leading democracy, has tipped over the edge into authoritarianism and fascism. In the end, faster than I imagined possible, it did happen here. The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed.
I think many Americans wrongly believe there would be one clear unambiguous moment where we go from 'democracy' to 'authoritarianism.' Instead, this is exactly how it happens — a blurring here, a norm destroyed there, a presidential diktat unchallenged. Then you wake up one morning and our country is different.
Something is materially different in our country this week than last.
Everything else from here on out is just a matter of degree and wondering how bad it will get and how far it will go? Do we end up 'merely' like Hungary or do we go all the way toward an 'American Reich'? So far, after years of studying World War II, I fear that America’s trajectory feels more like Berlin circa 1933 than it does Budapest circa 2015."
To think we have a people that are that retarded and afraid. A goddamn disgrace.
RFK Jr. Promises to Reveal the ‘Cause’ of Autism Next Month
Not in a couple of weeks like Trump always states?
An Astonishing Number of Men Are Dying Because They Refuse to Go to the Doctor
It seems that men are devolving at a rapid rate.
"Men appear to be dying disproportionately from preventable diseases and conditions way more than women, and in many cases it's their own damn fault: because they're refusing to go to the doctor until it's too late."
Are we not men? We are devo!
New Accountable.US Report Reveals How Trump’s Tariffs Are Hiking Grocery Prices
Here’s what major grocers that provide food to millions of American people are saying about Trump’s tariffs:
Walmart’s CEO has warned that Trump’s tariffs “will result in higher prices,” has“made it clear that he wasn’t freezing prices,” and has observed “stress behaviors” among consumers—all while grocery sales were a “financial driver” for Walmart.
Costco has warned that “grocery items will be particularly vulnerable” to Trump’s tariffs, that its food margins were “very tight,” and reported that it saw “inflation as a result of tariffs” for imported fresh foods.
Kroger’s CEO observed that consumers were stretching their food budgets, while the company projected impact from Trump’s tariffs on its fresh products and planned to shift purchasing processes to mitigate tariff pressure.
Albertsons’ CEO said the company may “pass the higher cost of goods to customers” due to Trump’s tariffs, while the company warned suppliers it would not accept cost increases, “wielding its market power like a cudgel” over smaller suppliers struggling with tariff price pressures.
Ahold Delhaize warned Trump’s tariffs “could lead to price increases for American consumers,” cited the tariffs as an example of “geopolitical volatility” the company faced, and warned of “tight” pricing negotiations with suppliers due to tariff and inflation pressures.
“While Trump grants massive tax cuts to massive corporations and the ultra-rich, his reckless tariff policy is wreaking warrantless chaos on our economy, with grocery giants shifting market uncertainty onto consumers – all at a time when 9 in 10 Americans remain gravely concerned about food costs,” said Accountable.US President Caroline Ciccone. “It’s only the latest example of how Trump’s reckless trade policy comes at the cost of Americans’ pocketbooks.”
'Can’t indict a ham sandwich': Trump prosecutor brutally mocked after DC case fails
When incompetent people get put in power positions bad things happen. We are seeing how true this is.
But what about the sandwich problem? Anyone can get one and open carry it without a license!
'It’s a real gut punch': Rural voters 'stunned' by Trump’s damage
“There’s the Trump tariffs, which hit farm country hard. There are these enormous health care cuts, … which are creating these huge problems for rural hospitals across the country. Again, that’s a real lifeline in those places. Many of them have very little access to health care,” Sargent told guest Lynlee Thorne, political director for organiz |
