The Big Beautiful Bill is allocating $300 million of FEMA money towards reimbursing local law enforcement agencies for protecting Trump’s Mar-a-Lago and Bedminster properties while he’s there.
Of course it’s FEMA money.
Google Images for pin stuck in cheeto.
Why isn’t Barack Obama suing? Seriously. I’d be out with lawyer statements everywhere if it were me as a former president. “Shut that post down or fuck off.” Do the targets of this crap shot of these sites that are “official” think it’ll just blow over? Afraid of money? What?
yendis
July 22, 2025, 1:34pm
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If the autopen is not allowed then surely fountain pens, ball point pens or anything other than a feather quill are also not allowed.
Also, it’s’ kind of amazing that Mr. “I can declassify things with my mind” is trying to suggest that there’s improper ways of expressing Presidential intent.
Big talk from a guy whose autopen draws pubic hair.
I’d be suprised if he had that much…
…unless he ordered the “top & bottom” special when he got his hair plugs.
Trump lives in a state of confusion. Eliminating that, I’m not sure a lucid Trump would be better for the country or the world. We might get a a permanent state of emergency or state of war. On the other hand, lucid Trump might just concentrate on what he does best–grifting MAGAs. Unfortunately, he also would find more ways to appropriate tax dollars for his benefit and his cronies’ as well.
Monty
July 23, 2025, 12:27am
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It’s not fat enough. That’s why you should use an orange. Perhaps one of these .
somehow I knew that you were going to suggest an ugli
Monty
July 23, 2025, 1:29am
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The Village People are not happy with the felon!
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“While we don’t want Y.M.C.A. to be used for political endorsements of any kind, President Trump merely sharing a video containing our song does not meet the standard for copyright infringement,” the group acknowledges in a statement.
“However, we will attempt to find the original person or entity who posted the offensive video featuring President Barack Obama, and have such video taken down as not being endorsed by Village People, nor any of the owners of the copyright,” they add.
This next part of the article is quite interesting.
The doctored footage that Trump shared was originally posted by TikTok user “neo8171 ,” an account with less than 8,000 followers that has also been responsible for spreading misinformation about Kamala Harris ’ identity and sharing an AI image of Biden shaking hands with the devil.
The AI video has a watermark at the bottom that reads “Phantom Shadow,” making it unclear whether @neo8171 created the video.
Accomplice Miller can tell your visa status just by looking at you!
Donald Trump ’s senior White House aide Stephen Miller pushed a bonkers, racist claim on Monday after he suggested that he could spot someone’s immigration status just by looking at a picture of them.
Miller, in a Fox News appearance, reacted to an ABC News clip of Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D) emphasizing that LA is a “city of immigrants” and it won’t get rebuilt “without immigrant labor” after devastating wildfires earlier this year.
“If you look at photos of the Empire State Building being constructed — in record time, by the way — you know what you don’t see there? Any illegal aliens,” Miller told Fox News’ Laura Ingraham.
“You look at the photos of us landing a man on the moon, you look at the NASA control room, you don’t see any photos of illegal aliens. Americans built this country, Americans sustained this country, Americans have powered this country for two and a half centuries.”
There’s a new South Korean television series called S라인 (S Line) . This is the synopsis from that Wiki link:
Set in the near future, where people’s past sexual relationships are visually linked by a glowing red “S Line” visible above their heads. A detective, a mysterious teacher, and a girl born with the ability to see these lines navigate a series of disturbing events triggered by the phenomenon.
Miller’s real-life version is V Line, evidently. And “I can tell by looking at him” is nothig but racist.
Let’s ignore the law to keep the felon’s buddies in office. (The bolding is mine.)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — The Justice Department fought to keep President Donald Trump ’s former lawyer, Alina Habba, in place as the top federal prosecutor in New Jersey on Tuesday after a panel of judges refused to extend her tenure and appointed someone else to the job.
Habba, who had been named the interim U.S. attorney for the state in March, appeared to lose the position earlier Tuesday, when judges in the district declined to keep her in the post while she awaits confirmation by the U.S. Senate.
Acting under a law that generally limits the terms of interim U.S. attorneys to 120 days, the judges appointed one of Habba’s subordinates, Desiree Leigh Grace, as her successor.
But just hours later, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced that she had in turn removed Grace, blaming Habba’s removal on “politically minded judges.”
“This Department of Justice does not tolerate rogue judges,” Bondi said on social media. The attorney general’s second in command, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, said in a post on social media that he didn’t believe Habba’s 120-day term expired until 11:59 p.m. Friday.**
I think I know where the White House’s copy of the constitution is. It’s in the “throne room”.
Y’all remember Afghanistan, don’t you?
Significant human rights issues included credible reports of: killings; severe physical abuse; harsh and life-threatening prison conditions; unjust detentions and abductions, including disappearances; serious problems with independence of the judiciary; political prisoners or detainees; arbitrary or unlawful interference with privacy; punishment of family members for alleged offenses of a relative; serious abuses in a conflict, including widespread civilian deaths or harm, disappearances and abductions, and severe physical abuse; unlawful recruitment or use of children in armed conflict by the Taliban; serious restrictions on freedom of expression and media freedom, including detentions of and violence against journalists, and censorship; serious restrictions on internet freedom; substantial interference with freedom of peaceful assembly and freedom of association; restrictions on religious freedom; restrictions on freedom of movement and residence and on the right to leave the country; inability of citizens to change their government peacefully through free and fair elections; serious and unreasonable restrictions on political participation; serious corruption; serious restrictions on and harassment of domestic and international human rights organizations; extensive gender-based violence, including domestic and intimate partner violence, sexual violence, child, early, and forced marriage, and other harmful practices; substantial barriers to accessing sexual and reproductive health services; crimes involving violence or threats of violence targeting members of ethnic and religious minority groups (Hazara, Sikh, Shia, Salafi, Ahmadi, Hindu, and Christian groups); trafficking in persons, including forced labor; existence and enforcement of laws criminalizing consensual same-sex sexual conduct; crimes involving violence against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, or intersex persons; significant restrictions on workers’ freedom of association; and the existence of the worst forms of child labor.
There was widespread disregard for the rule of law and official impunity for those responsible for human rights abuses. The Taliban and ISIS-K reportedly engaged in child recruitment and used child soldiers younger than 12 during the year. Armed groups threatened, robbed, kidnapped, and attacked foreigners, medical and nongovernmental organization workers, and other civilians. Members of the Taliban reportedly killed persons in retaliation for their association with the pre-August 2021 government.
Now, why do I mention that? Oh, it could be because of this. (The bolding is mine.)
An appellate court has allowed the Trump administration to end a program that grants temporary deportation protections and work permits to more than 10,000 people from Afghanistan and Cameroon.
In a brief order Monday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit wrote that the plaintiff — an immigration advocacy group called CASA — has a plausible case against the administration for choosing to end temporary protected status, or TPS, for Afghans and Cameroonians. But the court said “there is insufficient evidence to warrant the extraordinary remedy” of blocking the government from phasing out TPS while the lawsuit works its way through the courts.
One week ago, the appeals court temporarily blocked the Trump administration from ending TPS for Afghanistan for one week, while it considered the merits of CASA’s case.
The administration had planned to end the program for Afghans last week. The program is set to end for Cameroonians in two weeks , on Aug. 4.
Evidently rights mean nothing–unless you speak really slowly in a language foreign to the defendant. (The bolding is mine.)
On a recent afternoon, more than 10 minors, among them babies , young children and teenagers, filed into a brightly lit immigration courtroom in Phoenix to appear before Immigration Judge Munish Sharda.
None of the children were represented by attorneys.
The children from a variety of Spanish-speaking countries, as well as Afghanistan , sat quietly as Sharda explained their legal rights, which were simultaneously translated into Spanish by an interpreter.
Did anyone consider translating the judge’s statements into Pashto or Dari?
Sharda, the immigration judge assigned to handle juvenile dockets in Phoenix Immigration Courts, looked imposing, seated behind a desk on an elevated platform, wearing a black robe. His tone was of someone who has repeated the same jargony legal explanation countless times.
And although Sharda spoke somewhat slowly and carefully, it was doubtful the children grasped much, if anything, the judge was telling them, including that the government has no constitutional obligation to provide them attorneys.
Instead, Sharda instructed, “You should find somebody else for legal services, an authorized person. They must be persons authorized to be in court.”
Immigrant children who crossed the border without a parent or guardian are increasingly in the crosshairs of the Trump administration. That has meant more children facing immigration judges without lawyers, and stricter screening processes for releases from shelter custody that have prolonged stays to more than five months.
This is the very definition of The Cruelty is the Point .
Your ethnicity trumps your citizenship. (The bolding is mine.)
Kenny Laynez’s cellphone camera captured every undocumented immigrant’s nightmare on video when it happened to him on the morning of May 2. One problem: He is a U.S. citizen.
The video showed Florida Highway Patrol officers and Border Patrol agents stopping the 18-year-old landscaper and his three coworkers — one of them his mother — as they drove by luxury buildings in Singer Island to a job.
The camera captured officers dragging his coworkers out of their van by their necks and twisting Laynez’s arms and pushing him face down to the pavement.
The video also recorded an officer shoot one of Laynez’s coworkers with a Taser, saying he had resisted arrest.
“I have rights. I was born and raised here," Laynez told the officers , according to a copy of the video shared by the Guatemalan-Maya Center of Lake Worth Beach .
"You don’t have any rights here. You are a ‘Migo,’ brother,” said the officer, who hurried him into a van. “Migo” is short for “amigo,” the Spanish word for “friend” and here a reference to Laynez’s ethnicity.
Laynez won his release from a Riviera Beach federal facility six hours later, with the video still on his cellphone because he said he refused to give the device to an officer.
One of the felon’s victims wants said felon and accomplices charged with criminal contempt.
Lawyers for a 20-year-old Venezuelan asylum seeker who was wrongly deported earlier this year will ask a federal judge in coming days to consider opening criminal contempt proceedings against the Trump administration for “egregious violations” of her orders.
The potential proceedings would open a major new front in the monthslong legal saga surrounding the man, referred to only as “Cristian” in court filings, who was deported to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador in mid-March under the Alien Enemies Act, a sweeping 18th-century wartime authority President Donald Trump invoked to speed up removals of migrants his administration claimed are members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua.
Last week, he was sent back to his home country as part of a prisoner swap with Venezuela.
US District Judge Stephanie Gallagher, of the federal court in Baltimore, decided earlier this year that Cristian’s deportation violated a court settlement protecting some young migrants with pending asylum claims and ordered officials to “facilitate” his return to the US so he can have his asylum application resolved. The government did little to carry out her directive and his case largely flew under the radar in recent months.
But last week, Cristian was among a group of about 250 Venezuelans who had been imprisoned in El Salvador’s CECOT prison that were flown back to their home country in exchange for 10 US nationals.
“He was a pawn in this prisoner exchange deal,” Cristian’s lawyer, Kevin DeJong, said during a hearing on Tuesday in the case. “They were taking active, purposeful steps to deport him to the country in which he actually fears persecution.”
The attorney told the judge that “given the history of violations here, criminal contempt should be on the table.”
“There have been recurring violations and just blatant disregard for the settlement agreement, the court’s orders,” DeJong said. “Someone should be held accountable for these egregious violations.”
He said they would file a request for the judge to consider opening criminal contempt proceedings within the next 10 days.
We’re practically at the level of North Korean adulation now.
WASHINGTON – House Republicans were singing from the same sheet music as the Trump administration July 22 when a key panel voted to name the Kennedy Center opera house after first lady Melania Trump .
“This designation is an excellent way to recognize her support and commitment to promoting the arts,” said Rep. Mike Simpson , R-Idaho, who shepherded the Appropriations Committee’s spending bill that funds John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-Maine, opposed the change and alleged it’s part of giving Trump power to run the Kennedy Center “with very little oversight” from Congress.
"The Republicans snuck in, I think, something that is slightly divisive, which is renaming one section of the Kennedy Center after a family member of this administration,” Pingree said.
The committee voted 33-25 to adopt the name change as part of a larger amendment. The full House and the Senate would still have to vote on the proposal approved by the Appropriations Committee as part of the spending bill for the interior, environment and other agencies.
But the move reflected support from Republicans, who control both chambers of Congress. The theater would be named the “First Lady Melania Trump Opera House” if the legislations becomes law.
Monty
July 23, 2025, 3:33am
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Nah. There’s no way, no way at all this is for the felon’s own benefit. (The bolding is mine.)
After pushing through a sweeping package of tax cuts in his mega-bill signed into law earlier this month, President Donald Trump is now eyeing another potential tax break for home sellers.
Trump said July 22 that his administration is considering eliminating capital gains taxes that are levied when a home is sold for more than the previous purchase price.
“We are thinking about no tax on capital gains on houses,” Trump said during an Oval Office meeting with the president of the Philippines.
Trump, a wealthy real estate developer who has extensive property holdings, didn’t go into details about his proposal, and the White House didn’t immediately respond to questions.
Questions? Why would you have more than the one and only question that matters here: How will this benefit you, Mister Convict?
Actually… I wouldn’t mind not paying capital gains taxes when the trust sells the house in San Diego (which is still benefitting from Prop. 13). But it would be a one-time thing for us. And there’s no way in Hell I’d vote for Trump, even if he does do something to our benefit. (Nor will I ever vote for a Republican.)
It was built faster than any previous Empire State Buildings?
This is what I was thinking. Considering selling my LA County condo. But I’m guessing it’s for homes over a certain amount of sale in the end, like, over 2 million.
The Empire State Building was built without illegal immigrants?
Illegal immigration didn’t really exist back then. Most of the workers were first- and second-generation Irish immigrants.
From a Truth Social post today:
Paramount/CBS/60 Minutes have today paid $16 Million Dollars in settlement, and we also anticipate receiving $20 Million Dollars more from the new Owners, in Advertising, PSAs, or similar Programming, for a total of over $36 Million Dollars.
Paramount et al paid $16 million to settle that lawsuit and get on with their merger. But why do the new owners have to give him anything? They had nothing to do with the lawsuit. That is straight up extortion to get the merger. I know nothing matters but that is pretty fucking blatant.
Monty
July 23, 2025, 5:55am
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Blatant? What is this word, “blatant” of which you speak?
That’s quite a lot of dosh forgone.
And bye bye to the last vestiges of housing affordability.
