I’ve seen some complete crackpot postings online that say that every mass shooter has been trans (apparently, the shooter in Minnesota was a trans woman). So apparently on the lunatic fringe, trans = homicidal.
I’m currently watching the Netflix Documentary on Katrina. I remember it being a clusterfuck, but it was so much worse. The next one should be interesting.
Yes, it will be. The leopards will be feasting on the people who voted for them. FAFO, and all that. Unfortunately, FEMA also helps earthquake- and fire-prone California; and hurricanes can hit the liberal Northeast.
[Formatting adjusted by Puzzlegal. Hope it’s okay. OP said: Sorry about the formatting. I accidentally posted this in another thread.]
Thanks to him, we no longer have any allies. Haven’t top politicians in at least two of our former allies already said that very thing?
Hundreds of thousands of Americans are expected to skip the barbecue and spend their Labor Day protesting President Donald Trump and the billionaires who support him.
“We’re excited to see a lot of folks turning out and really turning up the heat on the administration and on the billionaires that are really driving the agenda, especially as we’re seeing increased attacks on our communities,” Saqib Bhatti, executive director of Action Center on Race and the Economy, told USA TODAY.
More than a thousand "Workers Over Billionaires” events are planned nationwide on Labor Day and the surrounding days.
Taking place in small and large cities in nearly every state, the events are designed to build on the momentum of other large-scale protests including No Kings Day in June and Good Trouble Lives On in July. They are led by labor organizations, including the AFL-CIO, and other advocacy groups such as May Day Strong, Public Citizen and Indivisible.
Maybe they can use this song for the Resistance. (Cross-posted in the Martial Law 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 felon is cutting funding again all by his loathsome.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has told House Speaker Mike Johnson that he won’t be spending $4.9 billion in congressionally approved foreign aid, effectively cutting the budget without going through the legislative branch.
Trump, who sent a letter to Johnson, R-La., on Thursday, is using what’s known as a pocket rescission — when a president submits a request to Congress to not spend approved funds toward the end of the fiscal year, so Congress cannot act on the request in a 45-day timeframe and the money goes unspent as a result. It’s the first time in nearly 50 years a president has used one. The fiscal year draws to a close at the end of September.
The letter was posted Friday morning on the X account of the White House Office of Management and Budget. It said the funding would be cut from the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, an early target of Trump’s efforts to cut foreign aid.
If the White House standardizes this move, the president could effectively bypass Congress on key spending choices and potentially throw into disarray efforts in the House and the Senate to keep the government funded when the next fiscal year starts in October.
This will, of course, be his go-to move now that much of his recent favorite stunt has been ruled illegal.
NEW YORK (Reuters) -A divided U.S. appeals court ruled on Friday that most of Donald Trump’s tariffs are illegal, undercutting the Republican president’s use of the levies as a key international economic policy tool.
The court allowed the tariffs to remain in place through October 14 to give the Trump administration a chance to file an appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court.
Trump has made tariffs a pillar of U.S. foreign policy in his second term, using them to exert political pressure and renegotiate trade deals with countries that export goods to the United States.
The tariffs have given the Trump administration leverage to extract economic concessions from trading partners but have also increased volatility in financial markets.
“The statute bestows significant authority on the President to undertake a number of actions in response to a declared national emergency, but none of these actions explicitly include the power to impose tariffs, duties, or the like, or the power to tax,” the court said.
And yet another masterless stroke of diplomacy from the felonials.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Marco Rubio has revoked the visas of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and 80 other officials ahead of next month’s annual high-level meeting of the U.N. General Assembly, a step the Palestinian Authority decried as against international law.
A State Department official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss visa issues that are normally confidential, disclosed Friday that Abbas and other officials from the Palestinian Authority were among those affected by new visa restrictions. Palestinian representatives assigned to the U.N. mission, however, were granted exceptions.
The move is the latest in a series of steps the Trump administration has taken to target Palestinians with visa restrictions and comes as the Israeli military declared Gaza’s largest city a combat zone. The State Department also suspended a program that had allowed injured Palestinian children from Gaza to come to the U.S. for medical treatment after a social media outcry by some conservatives.
Wait a moment. I thought conservatives where all hyped up on America being this super-Christian country. Conservatives whined about children getting medical treatment?
Color me unsurprised. Fucking hypocrites.
Missouri’s now heeding the felon’s call to rig future elections.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo (AP) — Republican Gov. Mike Kehoe said Friday that he is calling Missouri lawmakers into a special session to redraw the state’s U.S. House districts as part of a growing national battle between Republicans and Democrats seeking an edge in next year’s congressional elections.
Kehoe made the announcement just hours after Texas GOP Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law a new congressional voting map designed to help Republicans gain five more seats in the 2026 midterm elections. It marked a win for President Donald Trump, who has been urging Republican-led states to reshape district lines to give the party a better shot at retaining control of the House.
Missouri is the third state to pursue an unusual mid-decade redistricting for partisan advantage. Republican-led Texas took up the task first but was quickly countered by Democratic-led California, where Gov. Gavin Newsom is asking voters to approve a map aimed at giving his party five more seats.
Kehoe scheduled Missouri’s special session to begin Sept. 3. He released a proposed new map that targets Democratic Rep. Emanuel Cleaver’s Kansas City-area district by stretching it eastward into rural Republican-leaning areas.
Here’s what happens to whistleblowers in the Second Felonial Era.
The Social Security Administration official who alleged in a whistleblower complaint that the Department of Government Efficiency had put the personal data of millions of Americans on a vulnerable server said in an email Friday that he’s submitting his “involuntary resignation” because of actions the agency has taken against him.
Charles Borges, who’d been the SSA’s chief data officer, said in an email to colleagues — which was obtained by NBC News from a person who received it — that he had experienced retaliation since his whistleblower complaint became public.
He said the SSA’s actions “make my duties impossible to perform legally and ethically” and have caused him “physical, mental and emotional distress.”
He added that since reporting his concerns to management, he has “suffered exclusion, isolation, internal strife, and a culture of fear, creating a hostile work environment and making work conditions intolerable.”
The email also said he’d “recently been made aware of several projects and incidents which may constitute violations of federal statutes or regulations,” but “repeated requests by for visibility into these events have been rebuffed or ignored by agency leadership, with some employees directed not to reply to my queries.”
Revenge Tour, stop number ninety-nine and a half.
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump just yanked former Vice President Kamala Harris’ Secret Service protective detail, just as she’s about to go on a national book tour. Harris joins the list of other former top U.S. officials and their family members to have this very expensive taxpayer-funded service revoked by the president.
This could put Harris, the first Black woman to serve as vice president, in danger given the gaps between the protection provided by the Secret Service and any private firm she likely would hire to continue her coverage, current and former Secret Service officials told USA TODAY on Aug. 29.
Private security will never provide the same level of protection as the Secret Service, these officials say.
Too bad Biden wasn’t able to canx the felon’s Secret Service protection when Biden was president.
Hegseth loves him some traitors and is making sure the United States Military Academy does also. (The bolding is mine.)
Defense chief Pete Hegseth is restoring to West Point Military Academy a giant painting of rebel Gen. Robert E. Lee that shows him wearing his gray Confederate uniform and accompanied by a slave guiding his horse.
The painting was originally hung in the storied academy’s library in 1952—at the height of racial segregation, voter suppression, and Jim Crow laws in the South—as part of an effort to rehabilitate the disgraced general’s image, The New York Times reported.
Its return is part of a broader effort by President Donald Trump’s administration to reintroduce Confederate symbols, restore monuments that whitewash the evils of slavery, and remove references to slavery from national museums and parks.
Oh, yeah. And he loves himself some slavery. See the bolded part above.
It’s too early for me to check today’s funnies. Luckly, the author of that piece has me covered.
It’s not clear how Hegseth could bring the Confederate portrait back out of storage without breaking the law, the Times reported.
Attorneys for Kilmar Abrego Garcia are asking a federal judge to issue a gag order against Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Attorney General Pam Bondi, to bar them from making “baseless public attacks” against the Salvadoran national who was wrongfully deported to El Salvador earlier this year.
Abrego Garcia’s lawyers said in a Thursday motion filed in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee that Trump administration officials have targeted their client since he was released from prison, leveling “highly prejudicial, inflammatory and false statements.”
“To safeguard his right to a fair trial, Mr. Abrego respectfully renews his earlier requests that the Court order that all DOJ and DHS officials involved in this case, and all officials in their supervisory chain, including [Bondi and Noem], refrain from making extrajudicial comments that pose a substantial likelihood of materially prejudicing this proceeding,” the attorneys said in a 15-page motion to U.S. District Judge Waverly Crenshaw.
Again. Actually, I hope the fools keep blabbering. And then when the case gets chucked, I’ll be dancing in the streets.
And check out the “impartiality” of Bondi’s justice department.
For the second time in just a few weeks, the Justice Department has done Attorney General Pam Bondi’s brother, Brad, a solid.
On Wednesday, the DOJ dropped felony wire fraud charges against a client of Brad Bondi named Sid Chakraverty, a property developer who was accused of defrauding programs meant to support women- and minority-owned businesses.
According to the motion to dismiss, filed by a Trump-appointed U.S. attorney, the move was in keeping with the administration’s stance that programs “that use race- and sex-based presumptions”—as did the one Chakraverty was said to have scammed—are unconstitutional. It was an abrupt reversal from a motion the Trump appointee had signed 24 days earlier, Bloomberg reports, “defending the merits of the prosecution.”
Thanks, Bondi. I was wondering if it was okay to commit fraud if my victim supports a cause I don’t like.
House Democrats are asking the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) to open an investigation into the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) after it told a watchdog group that it was no longer retaining text messages when the nonprofit sought communications about immigration enforcement in Los Angeles.
The letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who is serving as NARA’s acting archivist, asks for an investigation into whether Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem “failed to notify NARA about unlawful destruction of Federal records.”
The request comes a day after American Oversight called for an investigation into DHS’s response to its public records requests, in which the agency told the group that “text message data generated after April 9, 2025, is no longer maintained.”
Government agencies are required to retain public records, including their text messages.
“DHS did not explain why it wrote otherwise in the July 23 letter or why it could produce no text message records in response to American Oversight’s FOIA request,” House Homeland Security Committee ranking member Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) wrote in the letter to Rubio, referring to the Freedom of Information Act.
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American Oversight requested records in July related to DHS’s actions in Los Angeles as the agency conducted widespread raids.
But DHS responded to the FOIA request saying it had stopped preserving text messages.
Please tell me the FBI hasn’t lost its people who can do a forensic dive into deleted messages.
wow. Companies have to preserve emails and other documents for several years. I learned how important the tape backups were 25 years ago.
“We’ve decided we’re not following the law anymore”
i dunno what other jobs Marcos has or thinks he has, yet Secretary of Stating is a hard job. And while one must not be seen as the rival of the President, competence is key. Sergei Lavrov in Russia, minister of the same as SoS - about as long as Putin. He’s the guy in Alaska wearing the CCCP t-shirt. He is no bootlicker, is very smart and speaks several languages fluently.
Marcos speaks Floridian and Mexican (sometimes Cuban)
He’s the same guy who entertained Hilary fot the ‘reset’ button. Even taller than Marcos than he was Hilary I’ve not seen a pic of him shaking hand with Lavrov. And to be frank, Marcos isn’t in his league.
A very nice international clusterfuck, with egos to match each other, ignorance not fought, sensitivities ignored. I present to you: India is unhappy with trump, trump does not understand (gift link):
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/us/politics/trump-modi-india.html?unlocked_article_code=1.iE8.3ad5.2kIj1_01hYCz&smid=url-share
In India, Mr. Trump is now seen in some quarters as a source of national humiliation. Last week, a giant Trump effigy was paraded around a festival in the state of Maharashtra, with signs declaring him a backstabber.
Mr. Modi’s strongman identity depends, in large part, on how tough he is on Pakistan. Acknowledging that Mr. Trump had a role, let alone nominating him for a Nobel for it, would be seen as surrender.
“The idea that Modi would accept a cease-fire under U.S. pressure or that he needed or sought mediation — it doesn’t just go against his personality,” said Tanvi Madan, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. “It goes against Indian diplomatic practice. Modi sold his relationships with U.S. presidents as an asset — strategically and politically — and now the opposition is portraying his friendship with Trump as a liability.”
Everything trump touches turns to orange goo… who knew? Poor moping trump:
“I won’t get a Nobel Peace Prize for this, I won’t get a Nobel Peace Prize for stopping the War between India and Pakistan,” Mr. Trump posted. “No, I won’t get a Nobel Peace Prize no matter what I do.”
When reporters swarmed around other officials and asked about Mr. Trump’s declaration, one official pushed back: “Do you believe me or Trump?”
Well, if you put it like this…
I know just like Congress, the Supreme’s get 16 week vacations and that’s just to “hear” the various arguments of lawyers for the foes of trump will be heard. By then, of course part of the argument by the gov is there’s too much momentum (and righteousness) to stop his policies any time (while he’s alive) soon.They’ll have negotiated what they don’t like and that might be rolled back or new laws written.
I’ll keep doing what I want or what regular Americans are telling me they want, and like what I’m doing.
is his essential domestic message.
Got the 2/3rds to stop him? 52%?
@puzzlegal Thanks a million for fixing my shoddy formatting. Your fix is perfect!
Damn, I hate when I make a typo!
Can I walk on this crosswalk barefoot while smoking a cigarette?
They’re not children they’re mini-terrorists 
Yes, but they are all working for the darkside now.
For the Krugman photo, too bad Donald couldn’t have joined the gang on the cover of Zep II wearing that thing.
How soon will Donald go after the non-dissenting anti-tariff judges?
Texas seems so bellwether-y, and as I feared in this case, now Missouri’s govenor wants to ratfuck elections.
Currently - of course I’m only takking about today (tomorrow should be different) - Hegseth and Noem are trying to come across like they might be from another fucking planet.
Heh, discourse won’t let me fix the ‘takking’ typo.
Well screw discourse a second time because there was another edit I wanted to make, but can’t, being: “(tomorrow should be different GOP goblins)”.
Representative Waters wants to know what’s wrong with the felon.
Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., called for the 25th Amendment to the Constitution to be used against President Donald Trump Friday, suggesting he was unfit during a discussion about his removal of Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors.
“It is time to call for Article [Amendment] 25 of the Constitution of the United States of America to determine his unfitness, to determine that something’s wrong with this president. And I would suggest that we move very aggressively to talk about the danger to this country and to our democracy and not play around with this because this is absolutely one of the most destructive things that this president could do,” Waters said during an appearance on MSNBC’s “The Weeknight.”
Trump removed Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook on Monday, alleging she misrepresented mortgage information.
“This stands to basically upend the entire economy. This stands to really deal with what is going to happen on Wall Street, what’s going to happen with interest rates, what’s going to happen with the president of the United States being able to make decisions that he will personally benefit from,” Waters added.
“And, so, the world, and certainly the United States, should be watching this very closely. As far as I’m concerned, we have to move very aggressively. It is not about lingering and trying to think that maybe the courts will help us.”
She’s dead on correct with that last bit.
Senator Sanders calls for Killer Kennedy to quit.
(Reuters) -U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders on Saturday called on Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to resign, days after a senior public health official was fired and four others resigned in disputes over Kennedy’s unorthodox opposition to vaccines.
Sanders, an independent senator from Vermont who caucuses with Democrats, wrote in a New York Times guest essay that Kennedy is “endangering the health of the American people now and into the future.”
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Sanders, the ranking member of the Senate’s health committee and an opponent of Kennedy’s confirmation earlier this year, wrote that Kennedy ousted Monarez because she refused “to act as a rubber stamp for his dangerous policies.”
“Despite the overwhelming opposition of the medical community, Secretary Kennedy has continued his longstanding crusade against vaccines and his advocacy of conspiracy theories that have been rejected repeatedly by scientific experts,” Sanders wrote. He said that vaccines for diseases such as polio and COVID-19 had saved hundreds of millions of lives around the world.
Unorthodox? Delusional is the correct adjective.
Good news! The felon has another chance to show how wonderful he is at controlling COVID. (The bolding is mine.)
If you’re like most people in the U.S., you probably either know someone with COVID-19 right now, know someone who just got over an infection or have the virus yourself.
COVID cases are high as kids go back to school and folks return home from summer trips. It’s part of the COVID pattern, the virus tends to peak in late summer and again in the winter, but just because it’s part of a pattern doesn’t make a COVID infection any less severe, scary or annoying than years past.
While COVID cases are high throughout the country (read: don’t discount your stuffy nose as “just a cold”), cases are particularly high in certain states. Here’s what to know:
“We’re seeing COVID increase in many communities across the United States, particularly severe, at least according to our current data tracking, in the West and in the South,” said Dr. Sarah Whitley Coles, a founding member of Those Nerdy Girls, an online organization that’s dedicated to sharing accurate health and science information.
I bolded that bit because the felon and his coconspirators, especially Killer Kennedy, have destroyed any trust whatsoever in the federal government’s health department. Here is a direct link to Those Nerdy Girls website.
The article linked above about the COVID surge has this “reassuring” tidbit.
It’s worth knowing that COVID tracking data is less reliable now because of COVID funding cuts by the Trump administration, less testing and the discontinuation of certain tools researchers relied on.
Of course it’s reassuring! Remember what the felon said back in 2020? Less testing makes his numbers better.
Killer Kennedy is LESS attentive to briefings than the felon.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has never actually been briefed by CDC experts before making major public health decisions, according to a departing top official at the agency.
The bombshell claim from Dr. Demetre Daskalakis came in a Thursday night CNN interview after the ousting of the newly appointed director of the Centers for Disease Control left the agency in chaos. He gave further details in an interview with the Daily Beast.
Daskalakis resigned from his position as director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases on Wednesday in response to the firing of CDC Director Susan Monarez, who was appointed to the role by President Donald Trump. He is one of four top officials to quit in protest.
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Daskalakis expanded on his criticisms of Kennedy in a Thursday appearance on The Source with Kaitlan Collins, claiming that the 71-year-old has not been briefed by a CDC official on a number of key public health concerns, despite multiple requests from within the agency.
“I think that another important thing to ask the secretary is, has he been briefed by a CDC expert on anything, specifically measles, COVID-19, flu? I think that people should ask him that in that hearing,” Daskalakis told Collins, referring to Kennedy’s scheduled appearance before the Senate Finance Committee next week.
Why bother asking? We all know his answer to that question and, of course, to the causes of every disease ever. Seriously, what we’re witnessing during the Second Felonial Era is the turning of the governmennt of the United States of America into The First and Only White Nationalist Christian Anti-Science and Anti-Medicine Church of the Orange.
And let’s see what one of the clergy of TFAOWNCASAAMCO has to say.
Tulsi Gabbard, a former Democrat-turned-Republican now serving as director of National Intelligence, is blasting former White House press secretary Jen Psaki in the wake of the Minneapolis Catholic school shooting that left two children dead and 18 others injured on Wednesday.
Psaki went viral on X for her post which asserted “prayer is not freaking enough” in the wake of the tragic incident.
Gabbard accused Psaki and other critics of public prayer of harboring “hatred of God,” calling them “agents of darkness” in a lengthy X post Friday.
Agents of Darkness? That’s the stance of an official of the federal government, folks. And I bet you thought my post just before this was hyperbole.
And the chief cleric of what used to be separate branch of government preaches it, too.
House Speaker Mike Johnson has accused California Governor Gavin Newsom of attacking religion and declared that “the human heart” and not guns are to blame for mass shootings in America.
In the wake of Wednesday’s tragedy in Minneapolis, Newsom and other Democrats criticized the notion of sending “thoughts and prayers” in response to the shooting, which left two children dead and another 17 victims injured.
An acolyte gets promoted. A Peter Thiel acolyte. Gives new meaning/new terror to the term “Peter Principle”, doesn’t it? (The bolding is mine. The grift is the felon’s.)
Donald Trump has tapped Deputy Health Secretary Jim O’Neill, a market fundamentalist Silicon Valley investor and long-time associate of billionaire Peter Thiel, as acting director of the Centers for Disease Control.
Taking the place of Susan Monarez, whose firing has raised alarm over the dangerous incompetence of the health department under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., O’Neill will bring to the role no medical or scientific background.
But surely there must be some qualification, some special competence which brought him to this position, right? (Still my bolding, still the felon’s corruption.)
But he does have a history of feverish advocacy of deregulation and libertarianism, as the progressive group Public Citizen highlighted when he was nominated for his current role at Trump’s health department.
Well, of course!. And don’t call me Shirley.
Chief acolyte flees, à la Blues Brothers, in Wisconsin after preaching the felon’s gospel.
Vice President JD Vance took a unique measure to evade protesters in Wisconsin, the state’s Democratic Party account claimed on social media.
Vance visited the battleground state on Thursday to tout President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill," as the president looks to rebrand the signature spending package, which several polls have indicated is falling flat with Americans.
While speaking at a steel fabricating facility, Vance lauded the GOP’s policy package for its potential to improve local manufacturing and lower taxes for workers — railing against concerns expressed by Democratic lawmakers about its negative impact on health care and other top priorities.
As Vance departed from the event, a video has made rounds that seemingly shows, according to Wisconsin Democrats, the vice president’s motorcade driving the opposite way on a one-way street. Protesters are then seen running from one street, where they were initially stationed, to another.
“Disgraceful,” they posted on X, accusing Vance of attempting to avoid demonstrators.
Is it wrong of me to be disappointed this didn’t happen in Chicago, Illinois?
Who needs detectives when you have CSI: WH?
President Donald Trump’s love of surfaces (marble and stone in particular) may just have opened a new career path for him: detective-in-chief.
Trump announced that he had successfully solved a White House whodunit involving “limestone plus” that was recently installed in the Rose Garden in Truth Social post on Aug. 30.
“Three days ago, while admiring the stonework, I happened to notice a huge gash in the limestone that extended more than 25 yards long. It was deep and nasty!,” he wrote. “I started yelling, “Who did this, and I want to find out now!” — And I didn’t say this in a nice manner. I wondered, “Was it vandalism or, was it stupidity?”
But luckily for Trump, the White House, with its “finest security equipment anywhere” was able to identify the apparent culprits through video footage.
“They brought back the stupid people, with their boss watching (in sunglasses!),” wrote Trump.
The subcontractor, Trump said, was using a steel cart that was “broken and titling badly, with it rubbing hard against the soft, beautiful stone.”
The next course of action?
Trump said he’ll “replace the stone, charge the contractor, and never let that contractor work at the White House again."
“Surfaces are very important to me as a Builder,” he wrote.
Not only as a builder, but as a cosmetics aficiando, right?
Also, I have a thought and prayer regarding this contractor. I hope the next president (if any, during my lifetime) hires this person to a permanent position, and pray they undo the entire clusterfucking of the Rose Garden.
The felon’s DOJ (remember when “Justice” wasn’t a euphemism?) is really rigging immigration cases now. (The bolding is mine.)
In an apparent effort to address the millions of backlogged immigration cases, the Justice Department made a rule change to allow attorneys without immigration law experience to act as temporary immigration judges.
The DOJ’s Office of Immigration Review published the rule in the federal register Thursday, which removes the requirement that temporary immigration judges have substantive prior experience in immigration law.
Jurists who are approved by Attorney General Pam Bondi may serve as immigration judges, which represents a tide change after more than 100 judges were fired or bought out by the Trump administration earlier in 2025.
The DOJ hopes that by expanding the net as to who may hear immigration-related cases, the more than three million case backlog may finally be assuaged.
That ain’t what they’re hoping.
We’re damn near into Hubbard level sycophanty now.
JD Vance cracked up a lot of people on social media Thursday after he made an unintentionally hilarious claim about President Donald Trump’s sense of humor.
That right there cracks me up. The felon doesn’t have one.
During an interview with Will Cain on Fox News, the vice president suggested that one lesson the Democrats could learn from his fearless leader is “to laugh at themselves a little bit.” Seriously.
The tears I’m getting while listening to Vance, his idol, and the other traitors in the felon’s cabal aren’t from laughing.
29 injured, 13 hurt in tractor-trailer crash in Florida.
More than two dozen people were hurt in a chain-reaction collision involving 18 vehicles on Florida’s Interstate- 95 in Miami-Dade.
Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) officials said the incident — which injured 29 people including 13 who were hospitalized — happened at around 11:25 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 28, in the southbound lanes of I-95 near Ives Dairy Road, according to NBC Miami, Local 10 News and the Miami Herald.
A tractor-trailer that was traveling southbound on I-95 failed to stop and crashed into vehicles in traffic, FHP Lt. Alex Camacho told Local 10 News.
“As a result, the tractor trailer collided into several vehicles causing a chain reaction of crashes,” Camacho said.
Not a word about the driver’s identity. But I’m now guiltily wondering what new group of CDL holders will no be demonized.
I had you going there for a moment, didn’t I? Regardless of the driver’s identity and visa status, we already know who will be demonized.
And, finally, more proof magagflatearthers are a cult.
A number of prominent MAGA media figures and Fox News hosts were absolutely ecstatic this week over the prospect of Melania Trump finally gracing the cover of Vanity Fair, declaring that they couldn’t “wait to see all the liberal meltdowns” over the first lady’s appearance on the fashion magazine.
There was just one little problem – the picture they shared is a fake.
This past weekend, Semafor reported that Vanity Fair’s new chief editor Mark Guiducci “has made his presence felt” at the Conde Nast publication since taking over for Radhika Jones at the top of the masthead.
“Guiducci’s mandate to rethink the publication’s relationship with power and celebrity is likely to mean a greater open-mindedness to seeking access to figures likely to repel magazine’s liberal readers,” Semafor noted. “He’s told people he’s potentially interested in putting Melania Trump on the cover.”
The story took off in right-wing media after stories claimed Vanity Fair staffers were furious over the possibility of a Melania Trump cover, with one unnamed “mid-level editor” saying that they’d “walk out the motherf***ing door, and half my staff will follow me” if the magazine tried to “normalize this despot and his wife.”
You have to read the rest of the article for the humor. The very best part, though, is the fake image itself. Here’s the description from the link.
Meanwhile, on his YouTube show, Franchi admitted that he had created the cover image himself, which showed the first lady wearing a gold crown alongside captions that read “The American Queen” and “Melania Trump’s Silent Revolution.”
The felon wants to be a king with all of the “divine rights” of a monarch, and his supporters and voters fucking want him to be one, too.
Cry the beloved country!
What is that?
… The First and Only White Nationalist Christian Anti-Science and Anti-Medicine Church of the Orange .….
He must play a mean violin. (The bolding is mine.)
After a violinist who has played with high-profile orchestras was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement last week, members of Utah’s music community are rallying in support of his release.
Donggin Shin, 37, who came to the U.S. from South Korea with his father when he was a child, was abruptly arrested at a hotel parking lot while he was on a work trip in Colorado, his attorney Adam Crayk told NBC News. He was placed in ICE detention on Aug. 18. With a hearing slated for early September, his colleagues from the Salt Lake City area are hoping to send a message to the administration and beyond that Shin, who goes by the name John, is a valued part of the community.
“John has been in this country since he was 10 years old and he was brought here by his parents. He didn’t get a choice in the matter,” violinist and conductor Gabriel Gordon said. “He is not somebody that is taking from the community, but is giving.”
A senior Department of Homeland Security official said in response to NBC News’ questions about Shin, “Our message is clear: criminal illegal aliens are not welcome in the United States.”
Shin, who works a day job in telecommunications but has played with the prestigious Utah Symphony and Ballet West, is currently being held at the Denver Contract Detention Facility in Aurora, Colorado, according to an ICE database — more than 500 miles away from his home.
According to charging documents, Shin was identified by ICE’s Fugitive Operations Team, which is generally focused on apprehending immigrants who have committed serious crimes and are considered threats to national security. In Shin’s case, the arrest was prompted by an old misdemeanor impaired driving offense that occurred while Shin was navigating his father’s battle with brain cancer, Crayk said.
“We are literally having fugitive ops and Homeland Security Investigations, which are two law enforcement agencies that focus on really terrible, terrible things, relegated now to looking for people like John,” Crayk said.
Cruella de Vile seems to have a new motto: Off with their heads! (The bolding is mine, as are the footnotes.)
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has fired two dozen FEMA employees after a “threat actor” accessed the agency’s computer network.
The personnel move came after a cybersecurity review, as the New York Post first reported on Friday.
“FEMA’s career IT leadership failed on every level. Their incompetence put the American people at risk,” Noem said in a DHS press release, headlined, “Secretary Noem Terminates Inept FEMA Employees After Uncovering Massive Cyber Failures, Demands Accountability.”
“When DHS stepped in to fix the problem, entrenched bureaucrats worked to prevent us from solving the problem and downplayed just how bad this breach was.”
Failures found included the lack of multi-factor authentication and using “prohibited legacy protocols,” according to the press release.1
Terminated IT employees at FEMA included Chief Information Officer Charles Armstrong, Chief Information Security Officer Gregory Edwards and 22 others.
Noem added in her statement: “These deep-state individuals were more interested in covering up their failures than in protecting the Homeland and American citizens’ personal data, so I terminated them immediately.2 The American people deserve results from their government.
1They should have used Signal.
2Well, of course. It’s always the “Deep State”, isn’t it?
And now we know why Killer Kennedy thinks he can tell a child’s health just by looking at the child.
A scientist who resigned from the CDC this week is warning that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy has shown signs he believes in “eugenics.”
Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who resigned in protest of the Trump administration’s firing of CDC Director Susan Monarez, told MSNBC Saturday morning that America needs to “wake up” to the secretary’s rhetoric.
“I really hear the echoes of the word, ‘superior genetics,’” Daskalakis said. “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 just wow.)
The scientist continued, “So fast forward to West Texas and measles, where he says, you know, getting the infection is fine, really, because only the strong will survive. You know, like it makes your immune system stronger, which is false. It actually makes your immune system weaker.”
What did the military leaders think about the felon’s deployment of them to Los Angeles? (The bolding is mine.)
(Reuters) -As President Donald Trump began his push to send the National Guard and Marines to U.S. cities, military leaders privately questioned whether the troops had received proper training and warned of the “far-reaching social, political and operational” risks of aiding law enforcement, according to a Reuters review of military records disclosed in court.
U.S. Army officials planning an operation in MacArthur Park during the June deployment in Los Angeles determined that using troops to protect agents carrying out Trump’s immigration crackdown posed an “extremely high” risk to civilians, troops and the military’s reputation, according to an internal document.
Officials warned that the operation could attract protests and spiral into a riot with potential for “miscommunication and fratricide” as well as accidental harm to civilians, including children, the operation planning document said.
They’re worried about people getting hurt or killed during this insane power grab. The felon likely is twiddling his phone with one hand and something else with another at the prospect of innocent people dying.
Nah, he’s golfing.