And a great big foxtrot uniform to Tom Hanks.
Tom Hanks won’t be receiving an honor from the U.S. Military just yet.
The Elvis actor, 69, was slated to receive the 2025 Sylvanus Thayer Award at a Sept. 25 ceremony hosted by the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, but the event was called off by the school’s alumni association, The Washington Post reported.
The decision to cancel the event was announced in an email sent to faculty by retired Army Col. Mark Bieger, president and chief executive officer of the West Point Association of Graduates, per the outlet. He explained in his email why the decision was ultimately made.
“This decision allows the Academy to continue its focus on its core mission of preparing cadets to lead, fight, and win as officers in the world’s most lethal force, the United States Army,” he wrote.
How, exactly, does honoring Hanks interfere? Perhaps this bit later in the article provides the real reason.
Hanks was a vocal supporter of the Biden administration, and also endorsed Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election. In 2022, the actor narrated a video for Joe Biden’s inauguration anniversary, touting his administration’s accomplishments. Hanks also joined a group of prominent Greek-Americans in signing an open letter in support of Harris’ presidential bid in October 2024, per The National Herald.
Here is South Korea’s government response to the raid on a Hyundai plant. (The bolding is mine.)
South Korean President Lee Jae-myung ordered “all-out efforts” to respond to the arrests of hundreds of its citizens in an immigration raid on a Hyundai facility in Georgia, as the key American ally and trading partner reeled from the news.
Federal and immigration agents arrested 475 people — mostly South Korean nationals — while executing a judicial search warrant as part of a criminal investigation into alleged unlawful employment at the facility.
At an emergency government meeting Saturday, South Korea’s Foreign Minister Cho Hyun said he was “deeply concerned” and felt “heavy responsibilities for the arrests of our citizens.”
The foreign ministry told NBC News that the government had set up a response team and that Cho was prepared to travel to Washington to meet officials if needed, while Cho reiterated earlier remarks made by Lee that the rights of South Koreans “must be not unjustly infringed.”
Of course that last bit means he expects to the US to not ship these people off to a third country.
Now we know why the felon turned the Rose Garden into a concrete slab.
President Donald Trump debuted the newly paved Rose Garden patio in a Sept. 5 dinner for Washington insiders that he branded the “Rose Garden Club.”
Speaking to dinner guests on the patio paved in white concrete, formerly a grassy lawn, Trump said the “Rose Garden Club” will admit members of Congress, senators and “people that can bring peace and success to our country.”
Trump said he would have hosted a group of top level tech moguls who attended a lavish White House dinner the night before on the new Rose Garden patio, but the weather prevented it.
How will the felon blame these job numbers on Biden?
The job market just delivered sobering news. U.S. employers added only 22,000 jobs last month — the slowest August hiring since 2010. The unemployment rate ticked up slightly to 4.3%, which remains relatively low considering that hiring has basically stalled since April.
A month ago, President Trump fired Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Commissioner Erika McEntarfer following the previous jobs report, claiming the data “was rigged” without providing evidence. However, changing personnel didn’t change the economic reality. Initial unemployment claims also rose to 237,000 for the week ending August 30, marking an 11-week high.
And who will he fire this time?
The felon’s killing culture. (The bolding is mine. The disgust should also be yours.)
CHICAGO (Reuters) -A normally raucous, colorful parade to mark Mexican Independence Day in Chicago turned quiet and nervous on Saturday as U.S. President Donald Trump signaled he intended to ramp up deportations in the nation’s third-largest city.
In a break from traditional celebrations, twirling folklorico dancers decked in glimmering jewelry and billowing, multi-colored dresses distributed “know your rights” pamphlets to sparse crowds in the city’s historically Mexican Pilsen neighborhood. Horses wore the colors of Mexico’s flag in their tails, while their riders wore neon-orange whistles around their necks in case they needed to alert attendees of Immigration and Custom Enforcement agents. Along the sidelines, volunteers also kept watch for ICE.
“This place would normally be packed,” Eddie Chavez, a lifelong Pilsen resident, said while waving a Mexican flag in a lone row of lawn chairs along the parade route. “Now it’s empty, like a ghost town.”
Trump alluded to immigration raids in Chicago in a Truth Social post that echoed the movie Apocalypse Now.
“I love the smell of deportations in the morning,” his post said, above an image of Trump in a military uniform juxtaposed against flames and Chicago’s skyline. “Chicago is about to find out why it’s called the Department of WAR.”
There you go, folks. As I mentioned in the martial law thread, the felon is openly waging war on America itself.
A real leader, Governor Pritzker, has something to say about that. (The bolding is mine.)
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) lambasted President Trump on Saturday for joking about immigration enforcement efforts, including plans to target Chicago, calling the president a “wannabe dictator.”
“The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city,” Pritzker wrote on social platform X in response to a meme shared by Trump. “This is not a joke. This is not normal.”
“Donald Trump isn’t a strongman, he’s a scared man,” he added. “Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.”
Who’d’ve thought it would be COVID vaccines getting folks mad at the felon?
Every year around this time, like clockwork, Marty Lazniarz would plan to get his regular COVID-19 vaccine — essential protection before heading out on a trip.
But this year, trying to get his routine shot has been anything but.
The 70-year-old retiree from Long Beach said it has been frustratingly difficult to get a COVID vaccine on time this year because of how the Trump administration has effectively postponed delivery of the shots, and made it harder for people to get them.
“The amount of confusion surrounding availability of the new vaccine has been maddening,” said Lazniarz, who lost his best friend to COVID a year and a half ago.
He’s far from the only one who is upset. Doctors and pharmacists report they are being inundated with questions about the uncertainty surrounding the long-available vaccines this fall.
Fueling that is the recent announcement from the Department of Health and Human Services, led by the vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr., that adults under 65 will have to consult with a healthcare professional or, in some states, attest that they have an underlying medical condition before they can get the updated version of the COVID vaccination this fall.
Here’s one of the “not the best” people the felon wants to deport.
MILLCREEK — Held inside a Colorado immigration detention facility, packed into a cell block with around 70 others, sleeping each night on a thin mat not knowing what the future held, John Shin says he sank into a depression.
The first day, after being shackled by immigration agents in Colorado Springs and sent to detention facility in Aurora, was particularly difficult.
“I was absolutely terrified. Obviously I cried all day,” he said.
The South Korean transplant to Utah, though, held on, refused to sign the paperwork immigration officials put in front of him even as he wondered how he would get out. Meantime, his supporters in the music community in Utah and beyond coalesced, clamored for his release.
“I did not want to give up because I have my family here,” said Shin, a violinist with a master’s degree in music performance from the University of Utah.
Did you catch that? The dude has a master’s degree and is a well-regarded musician. And what did he do to get into ICE’s crosshairs?
Shin, Crayk maintains, was the victim of a quota system applicable to immigration agents spurred by Trump’s “mass deportation efforts.”
“There are requirements that every single day, X amount of people have to be taken into custody. That’s not a joke. That’s not fictitious. There are requirements, and John was a really, really easy, low-hanging fruit,” Crayk said. “Right now the idea is, arrest everyone and we’ll let the courts work it out and let the ICE agents work it out.”
Shin, who has played violin for the Utah Symphony and Ballet West, among other groups, is among the many immigrants across the country who have been swept up by immigration authorities in recent weeks and months. He is originally from South Korea but has lived in Utah since he was brought here by his parents as a child, legally entering on a tourist visa. He now lives in North Salt Lake.
He was brought here as a child. That’s who DACA was intended to protect. But, of course, that’s a “woke” program and the felon killed it.
The felon doesn’t recognize the American flag (maybe).
Rose then presented Trump with a gift of an American flag in a clear plastic bag, telling him, “I’d like to leave you with this gift from a constituent back in Tennessee.”
”Oh, I could use that at night,” the president replied, appearing to believe it was a blanket. Laughing, Rose explained, “It’s an American flag.”
Oh, I’m quite sure the felon can “use that at night”. My apologies for the visualization that just brought to you.
The felon thinks the reason we didn’t win wars is the Department of Defense.
President Donald Trump made a bold statement Friday about the country’s defense policy that inspired immediate ridicule on social media.
It occurred while the president was announcingthe name change of the Department of Defense to the “Department of War” and explaining the rationale behind the rebrand.
The DOD was known as the “Department of War” from 1789 until 1949, when it was changed to “Department of Defense.”
Trump claimed ― without evidence, of course ― that the name change is necessary because the DOD name caused a change of attitude with America’s military members.
“Really it has to do with winning,” he said. “We should have won every war. We could have won every war, but we really chose to be very politically correct or wokey and we just fight forever.”
According to Trump, the Department of War won World War I, World War II, as well as “everything before,” and “everything in between.”
Once the department name was changed from “war” to “defense,” Trump said the military remained strong, “but we never fought to win. We just didn’t fight to win.”
Trump probably thought he was onto something, but the suggestion that America’s military has lost conflicts because they were “wokey” only made him a subject of social media mockery.
The rest of the article is some pretty amusing clap-backs at such an inane utterance.
I just fell on the floor. The NRA is against the felon!
The National Rifle Association is pushing back on a weapons ban for transgender Americans that the Justice Department is reportedly considering.
The discussions among senior officials in the department are centered around last week’s fatal shooting at a Catholic school in Minneapolis by 23-year-old Robin Westman, who was reportedly born male but identified as female. The potential weapons ban was first reported by the Daily Wire on Thursday and later confirmed by CNN and other outlets.
In a statement on X, the National Rifle Association said the Second Amendment “isn’t up for debate.”
I, for one, am thrilled to see that response. Why? Because they should then support, as they constantly say the second amendment is for, all of the other amendments to include the one providing for due process, the one they alluded to in their statement.
Speaking of amendments, Durham, North Carolina has given itself a new designation.
A North Carolina city has approved a measure declaring itself a “Fourth Amendment Workplace” and boosting protections for illegal immigrant workers targeted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
The Durham City Council passed the resolution on Tuesday with a unanimous vote to shield city workers against raids and arrests carried out by federal officials, according to The Duke Chronicle.
The Fourth Amendment protects citizens against unreasonable searches and arrests, and requires warrants with probable cause of a crime before seizing a person or property.
The resolution instructs city staff to “uphold the 4th amendment at their workplace and city agencies and report back to Council any barriers to effective training on the 4th Amendment for any departments,” The Chronicle reported.
I love it! They’re not calling themselves a sanctuary city, but are specifically citing the federal constitution.
The felon still wants to emulate 1930s Germany.
Rosie O’Donnell fired right back after President Donald Trump renewed his threats to strip his longtime nemesis of her U.S. citizenship.
After feuding with Trump for almost two decades, O’Donnell moved to Ireland in January with her youngest child, Clay, in response to his return to the White House.
On Wednesday night, Trump went on a posting spree on his social media platform Truth Social amid the bipartisan clamor for the release of the Epstein files.
He began by sharing a distorted photo of O’Donnell in which her face had been stretched digitally.
“As previously mentioned, we are giving serious thought to taking away Rosie O’Donnell’s Citizenship. She is not a Great American and is, in my opinion, incapable of being so!” Trump wrote.
Ms O’Donnell’s response is pretty good.
“Banishing me again? Logan Roy would be proud,” O’Donnell responded on Instagram Thursday in a reference to Brian Cox’s media mogul in Succession.
“EPSTEIN SURVIVORS are the reckoning and your gold lamé throne is melting,” the actor added.
By the way, here is the Wikipedia page with the text of the Nuremberg Laws. You will note those laws were enacted on 15 Septemberr 1935. The felon messed up his timing by, you guessed it, just about two weeks.
Another court loss for the felon.
A federal judge on Friday ruled against the Trump administration from ending temporary legal protections that have granted more than 1 million people from Haiti and Venezuela the right to live and work in the United States.
The ruling by US District Judge Edward Chen of San Francisco for the plaintiffs means 600,000 Venezuelans whose temporary protections expired in April or whose protections were about to expire September 10 have status to stay and work in the United States.
Chen said Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s actions in terminating and vacating three extensions granted by the previous administration exceeded her statutory authority and were arbitrary and capricious.
Arbitrary, capricious. That sums up the entire clusterfuck, doesn’t it?
Trump’s ventriloquist’s dummy in the House has lost it.
House Speaker Mike Johnson claimed President Donald Trump acted as an “FBI informant” on Jeffrey Epstein.
Johnson was questioned Thursday by CNN reporter Manu Raju about how the president has been using the term “hoax” frequently in regard to Epstein. This, Johnson argued, was not about downplaying Epstein’s abuse of underage girls.
“What Trump is referring to is the hoax that the Democrats are using to try to attack him,” Johnson said.
“He has never said or suggested or implied—I’ve talked to him about this many times, many times. He is horrified. It’s been misrepresented,” Johnson said. ”He’s not saying that what Epstein did is a hoax. It’s a terrible, unspeakable evil. He believes that himself. When he first heard the rumor, he kicked him out of Mar-a-Lago. He was an FBI informant to try to take this stuff down.”
Okay. Y’all can now get up off the floor yourselves. That’s some Honey Huan level parsing.
The felon’s DOJ says the names of two people who got thousands of bucks from Epstein shall not be named.
The Justice Department on Friday asked a federal judge overseeing the case of deceased sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein to deny a request from NBC News to unseal the names of two associates who received large payments from him in 2018, court documents show. The Justice Department cited privacy concerns expressed by the two individuals as the reason for not making their names public.
The first associate received a payment of $100,000 from Epstein and the second associate received a payment of $250,000, both in 2018, days after the Miami Herald began publishing a series of investigative stories where victims criticized a plea deal he received in Florida in 2008.
As part of the plea agreement, Epstein secured a statement from federal prosecutors in Florida that the two individuals would not be prosecuted.
The payments became public after Epstein was indicted and arrested in New York in 2019 and asked to be released on bail. Federal prosecutors in New York filed a memorandum on July 16, 2019, that argued Epstein should remain in jail to prevent him from tampering with witnesses.
They cited the payments he made to the two individuals, which began two days after the Miami Herald began publishing its stories on Epstein’s plea deal, also known as a nonprosecution agreement, or NPA.
Prosecutors wrote that on Nov. 30, 2018, Epstein “wired $100,000 from a trust account he controlled, to an individual named as [REDACTED] a potential co-conspirator — and for whom Epstein obtained protection in — the NPA.”
Prosecutors also wrote that “this individual was also named and featured prominently in the Herald series.”
I don’t know why, but for some reason, this has me thinking of this song directed at the felon.
Somebody’s knockin’ at your door;
Somebody’s knockin’ at your door;
O sinner, why don’t you answer?
Somebody’s knockin’ at your door.
Oh, oh, oh! It’s getting even sweeter!
A senior official in the Department of Justice was caught in a honeytrap scheme bragging about department plans to “redact every Republican” from Jeffrey Epstein’s client list.
Joseph Schnitt, an acting deputy chief in Attorney General Pam Bondi’s DOJ, was recorded on camera divulging details of a planned cover-up regarding the names of Epstein’s high-profile clients.
Schnitt was secretly filmed by a woman he met on Hinge who works for the O’Keefe Media Group, a far-right media organization founded by Project Veritas’ James O’Keefe.
Amy Coney Barrett is still showing her adulation for the dude who gifted her a top job.
Donald Trump-appointed Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett has rejected the idea that the country is in a constitutional crisis over its handling of Trump administration cases.
Barrett dismissed concerns about the president’s attacks on the judiciary, which have coincided with the Supreme Court frequently ruling in Trump’s favor.
She was speaking at a New York event to promote her lucrative new book, Listening to the Law, which celebrates overturning the abortion rights case Roe v. Wade.
Fuck it. I can’t quote anything after that because that last paragraph just broke me. What a despicable person. Birds of a feather, indeed, do flock together.
Why am I not surprised the state named after Florida Man is playing a shell game with people?
Florida has opened its second immigration detention site, dubbed “Deportation Depot,” amid an ongoing legal battle over its controversial “Alligator Alcatraz” facility.
The facility is at a temporarily closed state prison, the Baker Correctional Institution, which is housing 117 detainees with the capacity to hold 1,500 people, according to the office of Gov. Ron DeSantis. It is about 45 miles west of Jacksonville near the Osceola National Forest.
“Deportation Depot” opened a day after a federal appeals court temporarily blocked a judge’s order requiring the state and federal government to shut down “Alligator Alcatraz,” located deep in the marshy wetlands of the Everglades.
Yes, it’s a state enterprise, but not really, now, is it? This is DeSantis abdicating his role as governor of a state to someone else, to the federal president.
The Second Felonial Era will not deport Garcia to Uganda.
Attorneys for Immigration and Customs Enforcement said in a Friday letter that they intend to send Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the African nation of Eswatini after he expressed a fear of deportation to Uganda.
The letter from ICE to Abrego Garcia’s attorneys was earlier reported by Fox News. It states that his fear of persecution or torture in Uganda is “hard to take seriously, especially given that you have claimed (through your attorneys) that you fear persecution or torture in at least 22 different countries. …Nonetheless, we hereby notify you that your new country of removal is Eswatini.”
And what does Eswatini’s government have to say about this?
Eswatini’s government spokesperson told The Associated Press on Saturday that it had no received no communication regarding Abrego Garcia’s transfer there.
