American coal and gasoline.
And now we know who’s responsible for the bad wildfire smoke monitoring.
Are you surprised?
No doubt the convicted felon will try to have United’s license to operate canceled.
Corruption in this administration, unthinkable. Well, maybe not. Let’s go to the FCC.
A couple of the FCC commissioners accepted tickets to the Kennedy Center’s annual awards gala from Paramount shortly after the FCC approved the merger with Skydance media. Olivia Trusty was gifted $12,000 tickets, and Brenden Carr sat in a private skybox. Tickets for those are $125,000.
100 to 1 he doesn’t.
Next, he attacks Iran for not combing their deserts.
Regarding the Blue Angles low pass over the beach crowd that sent chairs, tents, etc .. flying; both the pilot and Commander recognized the error. The administration, no.
That’s the sound of Freedom! Semper fi and Hooyah," Navy Acting Secretary Hung Cao
“That’s the sound people in other countries hear before we kill their people” Me to my kids growing up while jets fly over the house during fleet week.
Lisa Murkowski points out that under Trump’s voter suppression bill, rural Alaskans would have to spend over $1,000 to register to vote.
Since Hegseth has announced mandatory testosterone checks for servicemen and women over the age of 30 a shots if they’re found lacking, it got me thinking. Does someone connected to Trump have an interest in producing and distrubting testosterone? i.e. Where’s the grift going?
Also, a significant number of Trump supporters absolutely hate the idea of forced vaccination. Are they okay with this?
Which would surprise no one.
It’s certainly possible that he really does believe that.
But notice how consistently his Batshit beliefs are spouted when it’s to his advantage:
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he can charge tariffs (which Americans pay, but who cares—it’s still Donald who has business owners trooping through the Oval Office offering him bribes for exemptions) when he claims that Canadians are at fault for fires due to not raking
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he can prevent the construction of wind farms that he believes ruin the view from his properties, by claiming to believe that windmills cause cancer
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he can cut funding to public health by claiming to believe that injecting disinfectant cures COVID, etc.
He claims insane things–and each one, always, leads to an advantage for his own business interests or ability to raid government funds to spend on his own projects.
I’m fairly ignorant of most stuff “medical”, but just how much testostone is a woman supposed to have???
What if the test shows they have too much??? Well, we know the answer…
I’m not sure if he’s including women in the testosterone tests. The reports I’ve read say reporters have asked clarifying questions, but not received an answer.
I don’t think he took a survey before announcing the new program. But the testosterone supplements are going to be voluntary, from what I understand. At any rate, if you don’t like forced vaccinations, the military is not for you.
I suppose the testosterone tests might be, in part, a threat to locate and “out” trans people.
"Trans"formers? A really stupid movie, I guess Kegsbreath believes it is a documentary.
Transformers are real formers.
He never considered women. Never does.
Why not? His boss thinks Hannibal Lecter is a real person.
Only the best peope, edition 999 3/4.
An employee of a company that runs an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Colorado is under arrest after shooting and injuring a woman on Thursday evening. The incident happened after the woman participated in a protest in front of the facility earlier that day, according to the Aurora police department.
When officers arrived on the scene, they said they found the woman with a gunshot wound in her lower body. She had a friend with her, who was unharmed.
Police said they stopped a man in his vehicle not far from the scene. They seized his car and gun and identified him as Brandon Booth, 42, an employee for Geo Group.
“We are aware that an off-duty Aurora ICE Processing Center employee was involved in a shooting incident,” a spokesperson for Geo Group said in an email. “This individual has been placed on unpaid administrative leave, and we will fully cooperate with law enforcement.”
Geo Group is a $4bn company that runs a vast network of private immigration detention centers and state prisons across the US. The company has deep ties to the government with numerous multi-year contracts with the Department of Homeland Security for detention facilities, transportation services and immigrant-tracking programs. In June, the former Geo Group executive David Venturella was named the acting director of ICE.
WASHINGTON, July 17 (Reuters) - The U.S. tax agency’s top attorney was forced from his role in recent days after refusing White House demands to participate in tax audits, according to three people familiar with the matter.
Ken Kies, the Internal Revenue Service’s acting chief counsel and Treasury Department assistant secretary for tax policy, told administration officials their requests would violate a law prohibiting the president, vice president and other White House officials from ordering the IRS to “conduct or terminate an audit or other investigation of any particular taxpayer,” said the people. They spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of professional reprisals.
That law is part of the protections that insulate the tax system from political tinkering, and tax officials consider it the primary safeguard against weaponization of the tax code.
More multitasking: war on foreigners, education, and journalists in one battle.
President Donald Trump’s administration finalized rules Thursday that impose stricter limits on how long foreign students and journalists can stay in the United States, the latest bid to tighten legal immigration in the country.
Under a change that could be implemented as soon as September, foreigners on student visas would be admitted for the length of their academic program up to a maximum of four years.
Foreign journalists would be limited to stays of just 240 days, or around eight months, but could apply for extensions of similar duration. Chinese nationals would get just 90 days, with extensions of 90 days.
Here’s one huge problem with this asininity. While my major is technically a four-year degree, it really depends on when you start at the university due to the course rotation. One may end up attending for five years. And that’s not the only major that happens with.
On Thursday, the New York Times reported that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had linked the outbreak of cyclosporiasis, an infection notorious for inducing explosive diarrhea, to iceberg lettuce from Taylor Farms that was supplied to Taco Bell.
Per the reporting, Taco Bell said it was voluntarily pulling the lettuce from select states where it received the contaminated produce: Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and West Virginia. An announcement from the CDC warned the public not to eat food items with shredded lettuce from Taco Bell, but hasn’t identified Taylor Farms as the source.
But while Taco Bell may have served the tainted lettuce, it would be remiss to lay all of the blame on the fast food chain (although one aggrieved customer is already suing it after contracting the illness).
The contamination occurred at the farms or facilities where the food was processed, from a single supplier in Mexico, Food and Drug Administration officials said. The supplier, Taylor Farms, has been involved in previous outbreaks, including another outbreak of cyclosporiasis in a salad mix in 2013.
Taco Bell, to its credit, also immediately pulled its ingredients from some of its locations last week as soon as it learned about the situation, according to local reports.
And then there’s the broader political context that many experts are drawing attention to: how the Trump administration has slashed funding to the CDC and paralyzed the nation’s food safety bodies.
Last February, shortly after Trump took office, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) dissolved its National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods, which provided scientific guidance on food safety policy. Ryan Cooper at The Prospect notes that the committee was working on advice for foodborne illness outbreaks before being terminated. The FDA also shut down its National Advisory Committee on Meat and Poultry Inspection.
Not spared during the wave of cuts that wreaked the federal government, the USDA lost over 20,000 workers last year, with 913 of them coming from its Food Safety Inspection Service.
That’s enough of the article to clue you in.
Ever heard of doing a job halfheartedly? Here’s the handcuff version.
Two plainclothes Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents left a man partially handcuffed on the ground Monday after they attempted to arrest him at Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas and onlookers confronted them, according to police and federal officials.
A video of the incident obtained by CNN shows a man in a light blue polo shirt yelling as he’s being held to the ground by the agents. His shoe had fallen off, and his luggage was pushed over to the side.
The agents – a woman with a white crossbody bag, wearing a hooded sweatshirt and a face mask, and a man in khaki pants, hooded sweatshirt and backpack – appear to handcuff him, video shows.
During the encounter, onlookers stopped and can be heard on video questioning the ICE agents. As more travelers stopped, a uniformed Transportation Security Administration officer stood in front of the agents and the man, creating a makeshift perimeter, video shows.
“Back up, it’s law enforcement,” a TSA officer can be heard saying. “Everyone back up.”
Shortly after, the ICE agents walked away, leaving the man and saying nothing to the TSA officer attempting to control the crowd or the onlookers. Some of the travelers briefly followed the agents, asking who they were. In a separate video, others were heard shouting at the TSA agent, questioning whether something would be done about the incident.
Maybe he shouldn’t’ve been getting mulligans his whole life.
Whenever President Donald Trump gets an idea for a major project or renovation in Washington, DC, a pattern has emerged: move forward and ask questions later.
Public sagas over Trump’s proposed “triumphal arch,” the East Wing ballroom construction and the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool renovation have followed this playbook – provoking outcry and numerous legal challenges.
Now, the greenways of a manmade peninsula just south of the National Mall is next on Trump’s quest to remake the nation’s capital in his style, and they’re poised to be made over in a way that’s par for the course for this president.
The administration is on track to push ahead with turning the 300-acre East Potomac Park and its public golf course into a championship course without first getting approvals from two key agencies that have oversight of DC public spaces.
Neither the National Capital Planning Commission nor the Commission on Fine Arts have received any golf course plans from the Trump administration to review, officials from both told CNN. Neither agency meets in August, and ground is supposed to be broken by the start of the following month.
And based on what has been publicly reported, a project of this complexity and ambition would typically require months of regulatory reviews to examine environmental impact, questions over historical preservation, planning and design, the officials at each agency said.
On Friday, the administration provided a federal judge overseeing a legal challenge to the project with new information about the venture. It included a disclosure that the government did not finish testing soil from the demolition of the East Wing that was deposited onto the golf course before deeming it was safe.
NEW YORK, July 17 (Reuters) - Donald Trump’s social media company has discussed charging Wall Street traders and investment firms as much as $100,000 a month for faster access to the U.S. president’s posts on his Truth Social platform, according to people familiar with the matter.
Trump Media & Technology Group, which owns Truth Social, has in recent weeks also pitched a discounted plan of $60,000 per month if the firms sign up for a three-year plan, the sources said, requesting anonymity as the discussions are confidential.
TMTG on Thursday unveiled a paid-for, licensed data feed called “Truth API” to provide banks and trading firms the fastest access to posts from the 10 most influential Truth Social accounts, but did not give any pricing details.
Hey, the boss hallucinates “facts”; why not let the AI legal aide do the same?
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A federal judge appointed by Donald Trump scolded the Department of Justice for submitting a court filing that included fake case law, which appeared to have been hallucinated by AI.
The case involved an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainee who had been granted a bond order that was automatically delayed pending appeal.
The delay had since expired, making the issue moot, Judge Hala Jarbou of the Western District of Michigan wrote Thursday in what should have been a short and straightforward case dismissal.
But Jarbou was also forced to address the DOJ’s response to an earlier court order that cited a non-existent case supposedly from the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals.
“It seems this citation was likely produced by generative artificial intelligence,” Jarbou wrote. “It should be obvious that any attorney who uses AI must scrupulously review its work product to ensure that the cited cases exist and that the citations accurately and fairly represent the underlying case law.”
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he can charge tariffs (which Americans pay, but who cares—it’s still Donald who has business owners trooping through the Oval Office offering him bribes for exemptions) when he claims that Canadians are at fault for fires due to not raking
He can’t charge a tariff on Canada for wildfire smoke, nor will USAians end up paying for it, because USAians aren’t buying the smoke (well they are but euphemistically and then on US based noxious emissions). What he could do is impose a cross-border penalty, a multinational sanction, an extraterritorial forfeiture et al. on Canada for breeches of US environmental laws, assuming you lot still have them. And that would also require an existing bi-lateral agreement under international law, which the US actively rejects as undermining American sovereignty and it’s Constitution.
The sanction the Canadians would hence ignore, at minimum citing force majeure.
The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
He never considered women. Never does
Except to cancel their promotions or force them to retire.
breeches of US environmental laws, assuming you lot still have them
Hmmm…
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Didn’t those get Doge’d?