The difference between “No, you!” and “Every accusation is a confession” is that the latter continues to be proven true.
Of course it means nothing to Republicans. No form of actual debate does either.
And if it repeated over and over and over again, it loses meaning to everybody.
Yep. Like ‘fascist’.
As opposed to “woke,” which morphs instantly into whatever idea needs to be dragged through the mud at the moment.
This has moved beyond the US. There’s a roundabout in Britain somewhere whose critics are calling “woke” because it prioritizes pedestrians and bicyclists.
Well, they should be calling it “Walk” or “Spoke”!
Sorry. 
Go to your… bikeshed.
No, they don’t.
Hey, if that’s the case, sign me up. I’ll let the pharmaceutical industry pay me to take the meds I used to pay them to get.
But I guess we don’t need to worry. We’ve been told it’s delusional to think Loomer has any real influence.
Oh, man! I’m so excited to bring today’s roundup to you. The first one is double whammy: one for the felon and one for his co-conspirator down Florida way.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Federal and state officials in Florida must produce agreements showing which government agency or private contractor has legal authority to detain people or perform immigration officer roles at “Alligator Alcatraz,” the immigration detention facility in the Everglades, a federal judge said Monday.
Officials must provide by Thursday all written agreements and contracts showing who has legal custody of the hundreds of detainees at the facility that was hastily constructed more than a month ago on an isolated airstrip in South Florida’s Everglades wilderness, said U.S. District Judge Rodolfo Ruiz, an appointee of President Donald Trump.
Ruiz’s order was part of an ongoing civil rights lawsuit against the state and federal governments by immigration attorneys who say “Alligator Alcatraz” detainees’ constitutional rights are being violated since they are barred from meeting lawyers, are being held without any charges, and a federal immigration court has canceled bond hearings.
Who has authority over the detention center has been a murky issue since it opened at the beginning of July.
The felon’s back to screwing up immigration issues.
The Trump administration plans to make visa applicants pay thousands of dollars to enter the country, according to the description of a State Department pilot program that will be issued on Tuesday.
According to a notice in the Federal Register, the year-long program will apply to visa applicants hailing from countries that have high visa overstay rates and insufficient vetting procedures.
The countries most likely to be affected include Haiti and Venezuela, each of which had more than 20,000 citizens overstay their temporary visas in 2023.
Brazil, Russia, and India also had tens of thousands of people overstay their visas in recent years.
Chad had the highest percentage of visa holders overstaying their welcome in 2023 (49.5 percent), but had only 761 temporary visa holders overall.
Bond amounts will range from $5,000 to $15,000 once the program takes effect in 15 days, and will apply to applicants from a list of countries not yet announced.
For the countries that will be affected, most would-be travelers could be priced out of making the trip.
Currently, citizens applying for a B-1 or B-2 visas—for business or tourism, respectively—have to pay an application fee of $185 and schedule an interview.
15 days, you say? The felon’s math disability even extends to the number of days in a forthnight.
Donald Trump’s vow to expand in vitro fertilization (IVF) access to millions of Americans is on hold, with White House officials backing away from plans to require Obamacare health plans to include the service as an essential health benefit, the Washington Post reported on Sunday.
The Post reported that White House officials have privately moved away from the prospect of pushing for legislation to address the issue despite it being one of Trump’s signature campaign promises, citing two persons with knowledge of internal discussions in Trumpworld.
A senior administration official also acknowledged to the newspaper that changing Obamacare to force insurers to cover new services would require congressional action, not an executive order. The president has governed largely by executive fiat in his second term as he grapples with a closely-divded Congress and an unruly GOP majority in the House of Representatives.
All of a sudden he’s worried about how congress is going to view his executive orders? And, “father of IVF”? Eeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwww!
And now we have the real reason the felon fucked up the Rose Garden.
“It’s a beautiful white stone and it’s a stone that’s the same color as the White House itself,” Trump said.
Ah, the white white white porch. Why does that remind me of, say, antebellum slave owner mansion?
Wisconsin’s governor has dreams of being DeSantis.
Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon signed an agreement last week with ICE, enabling local law enforcement in select counties to work alongside federal agents in tracking and detaining illegal immigrants.
Limited members of the Wyoming Highway Patrol in five counties – all of which encompass major interstates – will be able to assist ICE with enforcement during the execution of their day-to-day work and at the direction of and under the oversight of the federal law enforcement agency, according to a statement from Gordon’s office.
Florida now has Alligator Auschwitz. How soon before Wyoming has Bear Buchenwald or Grizzly Gundelsheim?
Very soon, if Cruela de Vile has her way.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem envisions more “Alligator Alcatraz”-like immigration detention centers across the country, including near airport runways, to boost the “efficiency” of Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda.
The Florida facility is serving as a model for state-run detention centers, and “the locations we’re looking at are right by airport runways that will help give us an efficiency that we’ve never had before,” Noem told CBS News.
Noem told the network she has appealed directly to state officials, and “most of them are interested.”
Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Monday he is “reviewing” whether to remove all members of an influential advisory committee that offers guidance about preventive health services.
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force is composed of medical experts who serve four-year terms on a volunteer basis. They are appointed by the HHS secretary and are supposed to be shielded from political influence.
The task force reviews reams of scientific evidence to make recommendations on services such as cancer screenings, HIV prevention medications and more. It makes its recommendations using a grading scale, and ObamaCare requires insurers to cover services the task force recommends with a “grade” of A or B at no cost to patients.
HHS arrests daughter of prominent priest.
Yeonsoo Go, a South Korean student at Purdue University and the daughter of a beloved Episcopal priest in New York, told a friend she was nervous about a visa hearing last week, given the stream of headlines about the Trump administration’s aggressive pursuit of immigration enforcement.
Her fears were realized when she and her mother left her hearing in Manhattan on Thursday to find US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents waiting for her.
Go, 20, was arrested and placed in federal detention nearby, before eventually being moved – like so many recent ICE detainees – to a facility in Louisiana.
Now, church communities in New York and South Korea are condemning her treatment by US immigration authorities and rallying for her release.
Go was arrested and placed in expedited removal proceedings after overstaying a visa “that expired more than two years ago,” Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told CNN in a statement.
“The fact of the matter is those who are in our country illegally have a choice –they can leave the country voluntarily or be arrested and deported,” the statement said.
But an attorney for the Episcopal Diocese in New York, where Go’s mother serves as a priest, said Go’s current visa doesn’t expire until December, and Thursday’s hearing was part of her application to extend it.
Go, a graduate of Scarsdale High School in Westchester County, is the daughter of the Rev. Kim Ky-rie, the first woman ordained in the Seoul Diocese of the Anglican Church of Korea.
Puppetmaster Putin warns the felon.
The Kremlin has urged Donald Trump to be extremely “careful” after the American president said he’d ordered two nuclear submarines to be repositioned in response to statements made by the former Russian president, Dmitry Medvedev.
Medvedev, a close ally of Putin who now serves as deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, angered Trump by likening him to “Sleepy Joe” Biden and boasting about Russia’s nuclear strike capabilities on social media. Trump wrote in a furious tirade on Truth Social that he’d sent the subs to “the appropriate regions” in case “these foolish and inflammatory statements are more than just that.”
Responding on Monday to Trump’s announcement, Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters: “We approach any statements related to nuclear issues with great caution. Russia is firmly committed to nuclear non-proliferation, and we believe that all parties should exercise the utmost restraint when it comes to nuclear rhetoric.”
Even the Russians shoudl know the felon has zero capacity for restraint.
The felon’s EOs have gotten Albert Pike’s statue on the restoration list.
A statue of a Confederate general that was torn down in 2020 during racial injustice protests will be restored in Washington, D.C., the National Park Service has announced.
In June 2020, the Albert Pike statue near D.C. police headquarters was toppled and vandalized by protesters. NBC4 Washington was there when protesters used ropes to pull the statue down.
“Many of these protesters say that the Confederacy represents racism, slavery and here on Juneteenth they are trying to pull down…this statue,” local reporter Shomari Stone said during a broadcast at the time. “People have spray-painted BLM, for Black Lives Matter, they have written Black Lives Matter on it, and they are continuing to try to pull this down.”
Protesters later poured lighter fluid on the statue and set it on fire.
On Monday, the National Park Service said it will restore and reinstall the statue.
“The restoration aligns with federal responsibilities under historic preservation law as well as recent executive orders to beautify the nation’s capital and re-instate pre-existing statues,” the service wrote in a press release.
The release cited two executive orders signed by Trump in March, including “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.”
In this executive order, Trump ordered the Interior Secretary Doug Burgum to determine whether, since January 2020, public statues and other monuments “have been removed or changed to perpetuate a false reconstruction of American history, inappropriately minimize the value of certain historical events or figures, or include any other improper partisan ideology,” and to take action to reinstate these statues as appropriate.
I bet you think the EPA is out to protect the environment. (The bolding is mine, and I removed a heading.)
The Environmental Protection Agency is opposing Colorado’s plan to close its remaining coal-fired power plants by 2031.
In a preliminary decision released in the Federal Register on July 16, the EPA detailed its argument that the closure of a few remaining coal plants in Colorado would violate federal law and could negatively impact grid reliability.
According to The Colorado Sun, there are six coal-fired power plants still operating in the state. In an effort to transition to clean and renewable energy sources, the plants were set to close by 2031.
A spokesperson for Colorado Springs Utilities noted that, although the closure date of the Nixon 1 coal plant has not officially changed, the EPA’s decision could complicate things in the near future.
“Moving forward with the 2029 date poses serious reliability challenges, and we are in discussions with the state on how best to address this,” they told the Sun.
According to Cyrus Western, the EPA Mountains and Plains Regional Administrator, those discussions are of no concern to the agency.
“Whatever the conversations that go on between the state of Colorado and those utilities, that’s their business,” Western explained, per the Sun. “But we’ve made it really clear that these shutdowns are not going to happen on our watch, and the Clean Air Act does not allow for these federal steps to be shut down against the will of the power generation owner.”
Ah, but I’m still enjoying the felon-in-cheat and the Florida felon getting called on their little shell game with Alligator Auschwitz.
This makes me think: How much are the taxpayers going to have to spend to restore the Rose Garden to being an actual garden? Or to have the Oval Office de-gilded? Or to undo all the other “improvements” that He Who Shall Not Be Named will do to the White House over the next three years?
We must pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure we remove all traces of the scum from our public buildings.
Amen … pass the plate.
Wyoming’s governor. Please don’t blame my home state for this shit!
If I’m remembering correctly, wasn’t there at least one Egyptian Pharaoh who removed (or tried to remove) all references to his predecessor from the records?
I can just see something similar being done here. A gap in all historical records of any reference to him and his works.
Well, I think we need to have a record of his malfeasance. But we don’t need the Melania Trump center for Performing Arts. And we don’t need the shit he’s doing to the White House.
Her remarks test my sanity daily! As she makes millions typing nonsense!
Yes, there was, and it was a practice that was attempted in other places as well
That’s right, I had come across that entry once before when one of the references was made in a book I was reading.
Perhaps references to “The Dark Times” and “The Perfidious Leader” when discussing things that were done and their effects.