That could also go in the schadenfreude thread.
I mean, what the actual fuck?
You missed the announcement?
Trump told his ‘big, beautiful face’ now hangs on a banner from the Department of Labor
I think the announcement came at the Cabinet Meeting/World Class Suck Up Festival.
I don’t think that other guy had his face everywhere, just those damned swastikas.
True, but I’m not entirely sure Hussein otherwise.
ETA: and whoever it is … will wind up in deep Kimchi.
Trump has seized control of the Washington DC Union Station from Amtrak: Trump administration seizes control of Washington’s Union Station from Amtrak
This attack on Amtrak at Union Station is also potentially a way to intimidate journalists. Both the CNN office, and the NPR office, are walking distance from Union Station, as well as other companies and associations that are very likely in their crosshairs. A lot of organizations have set up shop there because for people in the DMV (DC Maryland Virginia) area Union Station is great because it is serviced by Metro, MARC (Maryland Commuter Train) and VRE (Virginia Commuter Train).
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“Big Brother”?
More like “Baby Bother*”.
*This is what my older sister used to call me and my older brother. 
trump should be sent to bed without supper. Forever.
Somewhat amusing to see the National Guard in BDUs who would clearly rather be anywhere else try to ignore the reasonably constant stream of either complete aversion or verbal abuse.
Oh fuck, he’s going to paint everything gold.
In fairness, I don’t think even he could make Amtrak worse. (Although that’s from the perspective of a West Coaster: I understand that people in that Boston-Washington corridor experience Amtrak as a more or less functional mode of transportation, which is outside of my experience in California.)
I’m posting this in both this thread and the clusterfuck continues thread.
Folks, I started this thread on August 14, 2025 and the clusterfuck continues thread on November 11, 2024. I’ve tried to keep up with them daily over the past ten months, sometimes posting more than one update a day. I have always tried to give a pithy title to the links I’ve posted. What I am proud of is my personal analyses thus far in these two threads. For a number of reasons, I don’t think I can make daily updates, and certainly not “breaking news” updates, in the foreseeable future.
Would a Teeming Millionthtm volunteer to continue the effort, the Resistance, in this thread?
The dude who threw a sandwich evades felony charges.
After a grand jury failed to return a felony indictment against the Washington, DC, man accused of throwing a sub-style sandwich at a law enforcement officer in the first days of Trump’s federal takeover of the city, federal prosecutors on Thursday filed a lesser misdemeanor charge.
Prosecutors filed the charges Thursday, two weeks after the initial complaint was filed against the man, Sean Charles Dunn, a former Justice Department attorney who was fired immediately following his arrest.
Dunn, prosecutors have alleged, threw a sub-style sandwich at a Customs and Border Protection officer one evening in early August, calling them “fascists” and yelling and cursing at the officers gathered.
His attorney declined to comment on the charge.
The office of US Attorney Jeanine Pirro did not immediately respond to a CNN request for comment.
Previously, the Justice Department said in court it was charging Dunn with a felony assault charge but, after a grand jury declined to hand up an indictment in the case, have now filed a lesser misdemeanor charge, cutting the maximum sentence from 8 years in jail to 1 year.
Since prosecutors filed the charges by information – instead of by complaint as they previously did – they can skirt around using a grand jury and instead go right to the judge, who would need to decide whether there is probable cause and the case can proceed.
The National Guard actually is cleaning up DC…literally.
National Guard troops that President Donald Trump ordered into Washington, D.C., have been spotted picking up trash after Trump slashed the federal workforce.
The troops, whom Trump deployed after declaring a “crime emergency” in the capital, were seen wearing yellow gloves and orange vests over their camouflage uniforms in Lafayette Park across from the White House on Tuesday, according to WTTG-TV.
Joint Task Force-D.C., which has been overseeing the Guard’s operations since Trump deployed the troops, said the service members have been tasked with helping on more than 40 “beautification projects” around the city, according to The Washington Post. Officials say the troops were also collecting trash in Lafayette Square, the Tidal Basin, and the National Mall.
I must mention Lafayette Square is where Saint John’s Episcopal Church is located. Remember that place?
And why is this happening? Surprise! Surprise! Surprise!
Much of the work being carried out by the Guards would normally fall under the remit of the National Park Service, which, despite struggling for staff before the Trump administration, has suffered at the hands of Trump’s sweeping cuts to the federal workforce.
Let’s take a moment to listen to what an esteemed constitutional scholar has to say.
Former President Barack Obama is speaking out against President Donald Trump’s deployment of the National Guard in Washington, D.C.
“The erosion of basic principles like due process and the expanding use of our military on domestic soil puts the liberties of all Americans at risk, and should concern democrats and republicans alike,” Obama posted Thursday.
I wonder how many of those national guard people are unhappy to be there? I hope it’s a high number. I sincerely hope that when push comes to shove, they won’t kill anyone. Same goes for the protestors that are starting to gather. No violence, please.
That’s giving this administration just what they want.
I wonder how much more it’s costing, as compared to the national park employees who used to do this work. I saw in another source that they used to have 200 people doing this kind of work, and now it’s only 20. Gee, I wonder why trash was getting worse…
Maybe the Labor Day protests can use this song for the Resistance. (Cross-posted {with a different title} in the Clusterfuck Continues thread.)
Rock legend Neil Young is ripping Donald Trump with a new song that explicitly blasts the president.
“There’s big crime in D.C. at the White House,” Young sings in the chorus of “Big Crime,” which he released Thursday on YouTube with his backing band, the Chrome Hearts.
Other lyrics also swipe at Trump, including “don’t need no fascist rules, don’t want no fascist schools, don’t want soldiers walking on the streets” and “got to get the fascists out, got to clean the White House out, don’t want soldiers on our streets.”
The Honorable Judge Faruqui is on a roll! Pirro ain’t. (The bolding is mine.)
Judge Zia M. Faruqui has handed yet another legal defeat to Trump-appointed D.C. Attorney Jeanine Pirro, calling her attempt to jail a local attorney and West Point graduate “one of the weakest requests for detention” he’d ever seen, according to WUSA9.
Anthony Bryant, who served a tour in Afghanistan, was arrested early Monday morning on charges of assaulting, resisting or impeding police, threatening a federal official and threatening to kidnap or injure a person.
Pirro’s office alleged that Bryant approached National Guardsmen who were patrolling 14th Street on Sunday night and allegedly yelled “These are our streets!” and “I’ll kill you.” Pirro also claims that Byrant “threw his shoulder” into one of the Guardsmen’s shoulders. The police found a legally registered handgun on Bryant when they arrested him.
Bryant was released after his initial arrest, but then arrested again and placed in jail on Wednesday on the order of Judge G. Michael Harvey. On Thursday, Judge Faruqui stepped in.
“This is perhaps one of the weakest requests for detention I have seen and something that, prior to two weeks ago, would have been unthinkable in this courthouse,” Faruqui said, adding that the government has a “as close to zero” chance of demonstrating Bryant was a real threat.
Bryant’s attorneys also alleged that the police report failed to mention that Guardsmen yelled slurs at Bryant, who is Black. There is no video of the alleged scene because National Guardsmen conveniently don’t wear body cameras. This made the prosecution’s claims virtually impossible to prove.
Ah. Yet another feature for the Second Felonial Era. Use the military who don’t wear body cameras for law enforcement in the US**.**
Free speech has been assassinated in Washington, Dictatorship of Columbia.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi on Friday fired a Department of Justice official for making a vulgar gesture to members of the National Guard deployed to Washington, D.C., on her way to work.
The employee, Elizabeth Baxter, was a paralegal at the department’s environmental defense section, according to a memo to her published by the New York Post, which first reported the dismissal.
“Based on your inappropriate conduct towards National Guard service members, your employment with the Department of Justice is hereby terminated, and you are removed from federal service effective immediately,” Bondi wrote in the memo.
DOJ spokesperson Chad Gilmartin shared the story on X and confirmed the reporting. Another spokesperson, Gates McGarvick, also reposted it, writing: “Very simple: if you don’t support law enforcement, @AGPamBondi’s DOJ might not be a good fit.”
But attack federal police officers on January 6, 2021 and you get out of jail free. Right.
Mike Johnson supports martial law but maybe not for his hometown.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Friday defended the Trump administration for mulling a broader deployment of National Guard troops to major cities to fight crime, but he was noncommittal when it came to a federal law enforcement crackdown in his own district.
“I don’t know, that’s not my call,” Johnson said in an interview on CNN’s “News Central” when asked if the National Guard should be deployed in Shreveport, La. “It may be necessary; I don’t know. Let’s take one city at a time and see.”
“We have to address the crime problem in any city where it is, if it’s a problem like that,” he added.
And why the waffling here, Mikey? Oh, perhaps it’s because your home district is a crime hellhole?
Shreveport, LA has a significantly higher overall crime rate (66.82) compared to the national average (33.37), with both violent and property crime rates also exceeding national averages.
I’ve a question for those who said Trump didn’t have the authority to call out the National Guard on January 6, 2021. How does he magically have that authority now?
@Monty , you’re not the only one. I’ve been wondering the same thing.