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A few Joe My God posts I want to share. Maybe some other sources if I want to share them.

tRump’s failing economy / Taking credit for Biden stuff / Stopping clean energy to push fossil fuels / The environment. 

Jim Beam To Shutter Production Throughout 2026

 

Hassett: We’ve Deported So Many Workers That People Are Going Back To Their Old Construction Jobs [VIDEO]

This is not true.  The construction industry has crashed in Florida.   No workers so nothing being built.  Half crews means nothing built.  The work is far to hard for most people.   Hugs

 

Duffy Takes Credit For Biden Infrastructure Funding

 

Trump Halts All Offshore Wind Projects Over “Radar”

 

Ethics Watchdogs Alarmed By Trump/Fusion Merger

 

 

 

tRump being hateful and who he is.  

Trump Denies Disaster Relief For Colorado Wildfires

 

 

 

The grift and use of taxpayer money as a slush fund by the tRump people.

FBI Buys “Specially Armored Luxury BMW” For Patel

 

 

tRump wants to be or thinks he already is US royalty.   It is why he hates anything positive about the Kennedy family

NYT: How Trump “Adopted The Trappings Of Royalty”

In his first year back in office, Mr. Trump has unabashedly adopted the trappings of royalty just as he has asserted virtually unbridled power to transform American government and society to his liking. In both pageantry and policy, Mr. Trump has established a new, more audacious version of the imperial presidency that goes far beyond even the one associated with Richard M. Nixon, for whom the term was popularized half a century ago.

 

New Battleship Class To Be Named For Glorious Leader

Trump is expected to announce plans to build a new, large warship that Trump is calling a “battleship” and is part of his larger vision to create a “Golden Fleet” that includes as many as 50 support ships, according to people familiar with the matter who were not authorized comment publicly.

 

Bigotry / Hate / Racism / DEI Misinformation / White Supremacy

TX Judge Files Federal Lawsuit To Overturn Obergefell

 

 

WH Threatens To Defund Smithsonian For Wokeness

 

JD Vance To Turning Point: “In The United States, You Don’t Need To Apologize For Being White Anymore”

 

Johnson Vows To Place Charlie Kirk Statue In US Capitol

Vance: The US Was, Is, And Always Will Be Christian

 

DHS Triples Self-Deportation “Exit Bonus” To $3000 For Migrants Who Voluntarily Leave US By The End Of 2025

 

 

 

tRump’s illegal actions for oil.  

US Seizes Second Oil Tanker Near Venezuela Coast

 

Coast Guard In “Active Pursuit” Of Ship Near Venezuela

 

 

Epstein stuff / DOJ

DOJ Denies Redacting Trump’s Name From Epstein Files

 

Raskin: Calls To Impeach Trump Officials Are Unrealistic

 

Massie: We’re Drafting Contempt Charges For Bondi

 

DOJ Un-Redacts Epstein Docs After Contempt Threats

 

DOJ Halts Funding For Human Trafficking Survivors

 

Clinton Spox Calls On DOJ To Release All Epstein Files

 

 

The US health system

South Carolina Measles Outbreak Continues To Grow

Food Safety Experts: System Is Headed For Breakdown

 

 

 

Stupid health ideas designed to do nothing to help the people but to enrich the wealthy

Rand Paul: My Plan Replaces Obamacare With Amazon

 

 

We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

Please note that this is from October so a lot more US citizens have been detained and abused by ICE.   Hugs

We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

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Leonardo Garcia Venegas was detained by immigration agents while filming a raid on his worksite, despite having a REAL ID on him and telling the officers he was a citizen.

Reporting Highlights

  • Americans Detained: The government doesn’t track how many citizens are held by immigration agents. We found more than 170 cases this year where citizens were detained at raids and protests.
  • Held Incommunicado: More than 20 citizens have reported being held for over a day without being able to call their loved ones or a lawyer. In some cases their families couldn’t find them.
  • Cases Wilted: Agents have arrested about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, for allegedly interfering with or assaulting officers, yet those cases were often dropped.

These highlights were written by the reporters and editors who worked on this story.

When the Supreme Court recently allowed immigration agents in the Los Angeles area to take race into consideration during sweeps, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said that citizens shouldn’t be concerned.

“If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States,” Kavanaugh wrote, “they promptly let the individual go.”

But that is far from the reality many citizens have experienced. Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear. At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them. One of those women had already had the door of her home blown off while Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem watched.

About two dozen Americans have said they were held for more than a day without being able to phone lawyers or loved ones.

Videos of U.S. citizens being mistreated by immigration agents have filled social media feeds, but there is little clarity on the overall picture. The government does not track how often immigration agents hold Americans.

So ProPublica created its own count.

We compiled and reviewed every case we could find of agents holding citizens against their will, whether during immigration raids or protests. While the tally is almost certainly incomplete, we found more than 170 such incidents during the first nine months of President Donald Trump’s second administration.

Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer. That includes four who were held for weeks with their undocumented mother and without access to the family’s attorney until a congresswoman intervened.

Immigration agents do have authority to detain Americans in limited circumstances. Agents can hold people whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino.

Immigration agents also can arrest citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers.

These cases have often wilted under scrutiny. In nearly 50 instances that we have identified so far, charges have never been filed or the cases were dismissed. Our count found a handful of citizens have pleaded guilty, mostly to misdemeanors.

Among the detentions in which allegations have not stuck, masked agents pointed a gun at, pepper sprayed and punched a young man who had filmed them searching for his relative. In another, agents knocked over and then tackled a 79-year-old car wash owner, pressing their knees into his neck and back. His lawyer said he was held for 12 hours and wasn’t given medical attention despite having broken ribs in the incident and having recently had heart surgery. In a third case, agents grabbed and handcuffed a woman on her way to work who was caught up in a chaotic raid on street vendors. In a complaint filed against the government, she described being held for more than two days, without being allowed to contact the outside world for much of that time. (The Supreme Court has ruled that two days is generally the longest federal officials can hold Americans without charges.)

A man with a mustache wears a white T-shirt and stands with his arms crossed on an empty road.
George Retes, an American combat veteran, at the site of his arrest by immigration agents on California’s Central Coast. Retes was detained for three days without access to a lawyer and missed his daughter’s third birthday.

In response to questions from ProPublica, the Department of Homeland Security said agents do not racially profile or target Americans. “We don’t arrest US citizens for immigration enforcement,” wrote spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin.

A top immigration official recently acknowledged agents do consider someone’s looks. “How do they look compared to, say, you?” Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino said to a white reporter in Chicago.

The White House told ProPublica that anyone who assaults federal immigration agents would be prosecuted. “Interfering with law enforcement and assaulting law enforcement is a crime and anyone, regardless of immigration status, will be held accountable,” said the Deputy Press Secretary Abigail Jackson. “Officers act heroically to enforce the law, arrest criminal illegal aliens, and protect American communities with the utmost professionalism.”

A spokesperson for Kavanaugh did not return an emailed request for comment.

An immigration raid on 79-year-old Rafie Ollah Shouhed’s car wash left him with broken ribs. Courtesy of Rafie Ollah Shouhed. Compiled by ProPublica.

Tallying the number of Americans detained by immigration agents is inherently messy and incomplete. The government has long ignored recommendations for it to track such cases, even as the U.S. has a history of detaining and even deporting citizens, including during the Obama administration and Trump’s first term.

We compiled cases by sifting through both English- and Spanish-language social media, lawsuits, court records and local media reports. We did not include arrests of protesters by local police or the National Guard. Nor did we count cases in which arrests were made at a later date after a judicial process. That included cases of some people charged with serious crimes, like throwing rocks or tossing a flare to start a fire.

Experts say that Americans appear to be getting picked up more now as a result of the government doing something that it hasn’t for decades: large-scale immigration sweeps across the country, often in communities that do not want them.

In earlier administrations, deportation agents used intelligence to target specific individuals, said Scott Shuchart, a top immigration official in the Biden, Obama and first Trump administrations. “The new idea is to use those resources unintelligently” — with officers targeting communities or workplaces where undocumented immigrants may be.

When federal officers roll through communities in the way the Supreme Court permitted, the constitutional rights of both citizens and noncitizens are inevitably violated, argued David Bier, the director of immigration studies at the libertarian Cato Institute. He recently analyzed how sweeps in Los Angeles have led to racial profiling. “If the government can grab someone because he’s a certain demographic group that’s correlated with some offense category, then they can do that in any context.”

Cody Wofsy, an attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union, put it even more starkly. “Any one of us could be next.”

The video Garcia Venegas made of an immigration raid on a construction site shows him walking away from the officer while trying to film and then stating that he’s a citizen before being detained. Courtesy of Garcia Venega

When Kavanaugh issued his opinion that immigration agents can consider race and other factors, the Supreme Court’s three liberal justices strongly dissented. They warned that citizens risked being “grabbed, thrown to the ground, and handcuffed simply because of their looks, their accents, and the fact they make a living by doing manual labor.”

Leonardo Garcia Venegas appears to have been just such a case. He was working at a construction site in coastal Alabama when he saw masked immigration agents from Homeland Security Investigations hop a fence and run by a “No trespassing” sign. Garcia Venegas recalled that they moved toward the Latino workers, ignoring the white and Black workers.

Garcia Venegas began filming after his undocumented brother asked agents for a warrant. In response, the footage shows, agents yanked his brother to the ground, shoving his face into wet concrete. Garcia Venegas kept filming until officers grabbed him too and knocked his phone to the ground.

Other co-workers filmed what happened next, as immigration agents twisted the 25-year-old’s arms. They repeatedly tried to take him to the ground while he yelled, “I’m a citizen!”

Officers pulled out his REAL ID, which Alabama only issues to those legally in the U.S. But the agents dismissed it as fake. Officers held Garcia Venegas handcuffed for more than an hour. His brother was later deported.

A man with a small goatee seated on the steps of a single-wide home, wearing a blue shirt, jeans and a pair of sandals.
Leonardo Garcia Venegas told agents he was a citizen both times he was detained. His REAL ID was dismissed as a fake.

Garcia Venegas was so shaken that he took two weeks off of work. Soon after he returned, he was working alone inside a nearly built house listening to music on his headphones when he sensed someone watching him. A masked immigration agent was standing in the bedroom doorway.

This time, agents didn’t tackle him. But they again dismissed his REAL ID. And then they held him to check his citizenship. Garcia Venegas says agents also held two other workers who had legal status.

DHS did not respond to ProPublica’s questions about Garcia Venegas’ detentions, or to a federal lawsuit he filed last month. The agency has previously defended the agents’ conduct, saying he “physically got in between agents and the subject” during the first incident. The footage does not show that, and Garcia Venegas was never charged with obstruction or any other crime.

Garcia Venegas’ lawyers at the nonprofit Institute for Justice hope others may join his suit. After all, the reverberations of the immigration sweeps are being felt widely. Garcia Venegas said he knows of 15 more raids on nearby construction sites, and the industry along his portion of the Gulf Coast is struggling for lack of workers.

Kavanaugh’s assurances hold little weight for Garcia Venegas. He’s a U.S. citizen of Mexican descent, who speaks little English and works in construction. Even with his REAL ID and Social Security card in his wallet, Garcia Venegas worries that immigration agents will keep harassing him.

“If they decide they want to detain you,” he said. “You’re not going to get out of it.”

A plywood shell of a house with men on top of it adding roof framing.
Men building a home in rural Baldwin County, Alabama. Garcia Venegas was detained by immigration agents twice while working on homes in the area.

George Retes was among the citizens arrested despite immigration agents appearing to know his legal status. He also disappeared into the system for days without being able to contact anyone on the outside.

The only clue Retes’ family had at first was a brief call he managed to make on his Apple Watch with his hands handcuffed behind his back. He quickly told his wife that “ICE” had arrested him during a massive raid and protest on the marijuana farm where he worked as a security guard.

Still, Retes’ family couldn’t find him. They called every law enforcement agency they could think of. No one gave them any answers.

Eventually, they spotted a TikTok video showing Retes driving to work and slowly trying to back up as he’s caught between agents and protestors. Through the tear gas and dust, his family recognized Retes’ car and the veteran decal on his window. The full video shows a man — Retes — splayed on the ground surrounded by agents.

George Retes’ family noticed his car in a compiled video posted to TikTok. This clip from that longer video shows his white vehicle surrounded by tear gas. Immigration agents later pinned him on the ground. nota.sra/TikTok

Retes’ family went to the farm, where local TV reporters were interviewing families who couldn’t find their loved ones.

“They broke his window, they pepper sprayed him, they grabbed him, threw him on the floor,” his sister told a reporter between sobs. “We don’t know what to do. We’re just asking to let my brother go. He didn’t do anything wrong. He’s a veteran, disabled citizen. It says it on his car.”

Retes was held for three days without being given an opportunity to make a call. His family only learned where he had been after his release. His leg had been cut from the broken glass, Retes told ProPublica, and lingering pepper spray burned his hands. He tried to soothe them by filling sandwich bags with water.

Retes recalled that agents knew he was a citizen. “They didn’t care.” He said one DHS official laughed at him, saying he shouldn’t have come to work that day. “They still sent me away to jail.” He added that cases like his show Kavanaugh was “wrong completely.”

DHS did not answer our questions about Retes. It did respond on X after Retes wrote an op-ed last month in the San Francisco Chronicle. An agency post asserted he was arrested for assault after he “became violent and refused to comply with law enforcement.” Yet Retes had been released without any charges. Indeed, he says he was never told why he was arrested.

Retes said that agents knew he was a citizen. “They didn’t care.”

The Department of Justice has encouraged agents to arrest anyone interfering with immigration operations, twice ordering law enforcement to prioritize cases of those suspected of obstructing, interfering with or assaulting immigration officials.

But the government’s claims in those cases have often not been borne out.

Daniel Montenegro was filming a raid at a Van Nuys, California, Home Depot with other day-laborer advocates this summer when, he told ProPublica, he was tackled by several officers who injured his back.

Bovino, the Border Patrol chief who oversaw the LA raids and has since taken similar operations to cities like Sacramento and Chicago, tweeted out the names and photos of Montenegro and three others, accusing them of using homemade tire spikes to disable vehicles.

“I had no idea where that story came from,” Montenegro told ProPublica. “I didn’t find out until we were released. People were like, ‘We saw you on Twitter and the news and you guys are terrorists, you were planning to slash tires.’ I never saw those spike tire-popper things.”

Officials have not charged Montenegro or the others with any crimes. (Bovino did not respond to a request for comment, while DHS defended him in a statement to ProPublica: “Chief Bovino’s success in getting the worst of the worst out of the country speaks for itself.”)

The government’s cases are sometimes so muddied that it’s unclear why agents actually arrested a citizen.

Andrea Velez was charged with assaulting an officer after she was accidentally dropped off for work during a raid on street vendors in downtown Los Angeles. She said in a federal complaint that officers repeatedly assumed she did not speak English. Federal officers later requested access to her phone in an attempt to prove she was colluding with another citizen arrested that day, who was charged with assault. She was one of the Americans held for more than two days.

DHS did not respond to our questions about Velez, but it has previously accused her of assaulting an officer. A federal judge has dismissed the charges.

Other citizens also said officers accused them of crimes and suddenly questioned their citizenship — including a man arrested after filming Border Patrol agents break a truck window, and a pregnant woman who tried to stop officers from taking her boyfriend.

The prospects for any significant reckoning over agents’ conduct, even against citizens, are dim. The paths for suing federal agents are even more limited than they are for local police. And that’s if agents can even be identified. What’s more, the administration has gutted the office that investigates allegations of abuse by agents.

“The often-inadequate guardrails that we have for state and local government — even those guardrails are nonexistent when you’re talking about federal overreach,” said Joanna Schwartz, a professor at UCLA School of Law.

More than 50 members of Congress have also written to the administration, demanding details about Americans who’ve been detained. One is Sen. Alex Padilla, a California Democrat. After trying to question Noem about detained citizens, federal agents grabbed Padilla, pulled him to the ground and handcuffed him. The department later defended the agents, saying they “acted appropriately.”

New headlines. It feels so good to be caught up.

tRump’s ego / tRump con artist / tRump steals from the taxpayers

WH Insisted FIFA “Peace Prize” Be As Big As World Cup

 

Trump: I’ll Give Myself $1B In My Lawsuit Against DOJ

 

Trump Boasts That He Can Identify A Giraffe [VIDEO]

 

WH Pitches Glitzy $112B Resorts On Gaza’s Rubble

 

 

Horrible people doing horrible things / Elections 

Bannon Gets Turning Point Crowd To Boo Rob Reiner

 

Stefanik Quit Race After Trump Withheld Endorsement

 

GOP Bill Would Authorize Pirates To Attack Drug Boats

 

 

Racism / Hate / DEI / Bigotry

Ramaswamy To Turning Point: Stop Being So Racist

 

State Dept Nominee Has Past Of Antisemitic Writings, Praise For Rioters, Call To Execute Teachers Union Chief

He has additionally espoused a view of the United States as a white, Christian nation, claiming that white people are undergoing a “cultural genocide” and deliberate replacement. 

Multiple Trump nominees have had histories of racist, violent, white supremacist, and even pro-Nazi tweets. But almost all of them still end up being confirmed by Senate Republicans.

 

 

Bessent Spits In Own Food And Storms Out Of DC Restaurant After Confrontation By CODEPINK Activist

 

 

The Ukrainian war 

Orban: “It’s Not Clear” Who Started Russia/Ukraine War

 

Epstein files / protecting tRump

At Least 550 Epstein Pages Are Entirely Blacked Out

 

Massie Blasts DOJ’s Partial Epstein Release As Illegal

 

DOJ Deletes Epstein Doc Containing Trump Photos

NPR identified more than a dozen files released by the DOJ on Friday that are no longer available Saturday afternoon, including one that shows President Trump’s photo on a desk among several other photographs. The removed files also show various works of art, including those containing nudity.

 

 

Health / US healthcare system

NYC Hit Hardest In Spreading “Super Flu” Outbreak

Trump: Lowering Drug Costs 800% Will Win Midterms

“Prices will be dropping by 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, and even 800%!

 

 

Some news articles I wanted to get to but did not have time. Now I am caught up to today

So Ron and his sister arrived two days ago.   Lucky for me she is a doer who jumps in to do stuff and doesn’t wait for others to do for her.  She has really helped Ron get a lot of stuff done.  She helps when my back goes out.  She is doing supper right now so I can catch up on the last few days of news.   I really hope she finds a place to her tastes here as she is a good influence for Ron.   Hugs, loves to all, and best wishes to all who wish them.   Scottie

Thanks to Ron’s sister jumping in and doing all the extra stuff I have been trying to do I can rest my back while doing my posting.   I could get used to this.   Hugs

Affordability and costs of things in the US

Scott Bessent Claims Without Evidence That “Rents Are Coming Down Substantially” Due To Mass Deportations

 

Judge Declines To Halt Liberace’s Ballroom (For Now)

 

President Liberace Raises Ballroom Cost To $400 Million

 

 

 

tRump’s illegal war for profit to please the corporations he told to give him a billion dollars for his campaign and he would do what ever they asked.  Wow US military young adults sold for tRump’s profit.   Hugs

 

Trump Announces “Complete Blockade” Of Venezuela

 

Trump: I’m Getting Our Stolen Oil Back From Venezuela

 

Trump Asks Big Oil If They Want To Return To Venezuela

 

WaPo: Voldemort Secretly Behind “Drug Boat” Strikes

 

Politico: Trump Lied About “Warrior Bonus” For Troops

The $1,776 per person bonuses, unveiled by Trump in his nationwide address Wednesday night, will be covered with funding approved in the Big Beautiful Bill that passed in July, according to the congressional officials and later confirmed by the Pentagon. The payouts — which will cost roughly $2.6 billion — will be a “one-time basic allowance for housing supplement to all eligible service members,” said the official.

 

Trump Says He Will Not Rule Out War With Venezuela

 

Two “Drug Boat” Strikes Bring Murder Count To 104

 

 

 

DEI / Hate / Bigotry / Racism / White Supremacy.  

Coast Guard Enacts Downgraded Policy On Swastikas

 

Christian Nationalist/J6 Flag Posted In Education Dept

 

DHS Funneled $1 Billion Contract To Trump Donor

 

ICE Leader Jailed With ICE Detainees After Federal Charge For Strangling Decades-Younger Girlfriend

 

Trump Judge Threatens Contempt Over ICE Conditions: “Putrid, Cramped, Filthy, Unheated, Lights Blaring 24/7”

 

 

Hegseth: “I’m Making Military Chaplains Great Again”

 

White House To Ramp Up Stripping Of Citizenships

 

EEOC Solicits Lawsuits For “Anti-White Male” Bias

 

Trump Endorses Maine Racist Paul LePage For US House

 

 

Ryan Walters Melts Down: “The Left-Wing OK Supreme Court Has Attacked Christianity, The Bible, And Trump”

 

Tennessee High Schools To Get Turning Point Clubs

 

 

CBS News To Air Town Halls About God And Feminism

 

Franklin Graham At Pentagon Xmas Worship Service: “God Hates And God Is Also A God Of War” [VIDEO]

 

 

House Passes Bill Criminalizing Trans Youth Healthcare

 

Mehmet Oz: “The Creation Of A Penis Costs $150,000 Per Child, If You Add Testicles, That’s Extra” [VIDEO]

The Trump administration announced several moves Thursday that will have the effect of essentially banning gender-affirming care for transgender young people, even in states where it is still legal.   

The second would block all Medicaid and Medicare funding for any services at hospitals that provide pediatric gender-affirming care.

 

 

 

Really stupid things say and blame democrats for just because they think it sounds good not realizing how dumb it seems.   

 

Beetleboob Blames Dems For Colorado Power Outage

Wiles: Trump Lied About Clinton Visiting Epstein’s Island

DAMAGE CONTROL: White House Has Entire Cabinet Post Defenses Of WH Chief Of Staff Susie Wiles On X

 

Trump Installs WH Plaques Ridiculing Former Presidents

 

DOJ Launches Crackdown On Left Wing Activism

 

DOJ Offers States Secret Deal For Role In Elections

As Democracy Docket previously reported, in his previous role as a prosecutor in the Los Angeles district attorney’s office, Neff was put on leave after bringing charges against an election software executive based on information from conspiracy-driven election denier group True the Vote. The saga ultimately cost taxpayers $5 million to settle a lawsuit over the flawed prosecution.

Neff is also affiliated with True The Vote, the far-right QAnon group featured in Dinesh D’Souza’s debunked “2000 Mules” film.

 

 

tRump’s many crimes

Jack Smith: I Have Proof Beyond Any Reasonable Doubt Trump Criminally Conspired To Overturn 2020 Election

 

 

 

 

Boosting the fascist state and the dear leader.

 

Vance: Those Who Privately Trash Trump Are “Traitors”

 

Trump Again Dozes Off During White House Meeting

Slumped over in his chair at the Resolute desk, Trump’s face slackened—eyes drooping, the corners of his mouth sagging—as he fought off sleep. The elderly president has now been caught appearing to doze off at four official events in six weeks.

 

Dem Rep: I Was Muted During Kennedy Renaming Vote

 

Dear Leader’s Name Added To Kennedy Center Signage

 

DOJ Is Racing To Redact Thousands Of Epstein Pages

 

Blanche: DOJ Won’t Release Full Epstein Files Today

 

Trump Administration Now Targeting Wildlife Refuges

 

 

Positive news / Good things / Pro-LGBTQ+ Stuff

 

Palm Springs Neighbor City Of Palm Desert Rejects Anti-Pride Resolution After Impassioned Speeches By Locals

 

Study: COVID Vax Lowered Death Risk For All Causes

 

Australia To Buy Back Guns After Bondi Mass Shooting

 

Romney Calls For Higher Taxes On Wealthy “Like Me”

 

 

And now to more recent news. Yes! I finally caught up. Oh wow

This is incredible and the best I have felt in 5 months.  I have had so much old news, many hundreds of back logged news I wanted to share.  I recently found out that the mail stuff I would share was stuck on my phone so did not post.  I cleared that.  Today right now all old news mail articles are posted, the stuff I want to share is posted.   I still have to do the video on what happened because I got long term Covid.  Sadly I was able to do this because Ron was gone to Texas to help his sister and now they are on their way home.  More pressure to do as much as I can with my pain and disability.  So I have two more rooms to work on before they get here later this week.  I want to do a video on the entire thing but may not.   My goal was to clear all these tabs and then do videos …. but we will see, Hugs

Prices / affordability /

 

Bill Would Ban AI-Driven “Dynamic” Grocery Pricing

 

Trump Admin Races To Thwart Possible Tariff Refunds

 

Johnson Won’t Allow Vote On Extending ACA Subsidies

 

 

tRump Admin trying to hurt workers and lower incomes

Trump Admin Moves To Dissolve TSA Union Contract

 

 

 

Grifting / Cons / tRump family scams / tRump family news

Trump Presidential Library To Include “Fake News Wing”

 

President Liberace Boasts About New West Wing Sign

 

Trump: “My Arc Will Blow Away The Arc De Triomphe”

 

Trump Sues BBC For $10 Billion Over Capitol Riot Film

 

Wiles Torches Top White House Officials In Interview, Says Glorious Leader “Has An Alcoholic’s Personality”

Audio Busts Wiles Lying About Musk’s Ketamine Use

 

Wiles: Trump Lied About Clinton Visiting Epstein’s Island

 

DAMAGE CONTROL: White House Has Entire Cabinet Post Defenses Of WH Chief Of Staff Susie Wiles On X

 

Vance: Those Who Privately Trash Trump Are “Traitors”

 

 

Johnson Won’t Allow Vote On Extending ACA Subsidies

 

 

 

 

Hate / DEI  /  Racism /  ICE

 

COPS: Wisconsin Man Used Grindr To Harass Victim

https://youtu.be/HVKzTOzT1SQ

 

 

Rep. Ilhan Omar: My Son Was Pulled Over By ICE

https://youtu.be/pupz-Dechn8

 

Bessent Cancels “Woke” Commemorative Quarters

Mr. Bessent opted instead for the more general, and much whiter. 

 

Texas Universities Use AI To Root Out “Woke” Courses

 

Heritage Hires Anti-LGBTQ Extremist For Key Post

 

 

Carlson: Nick Fuentes Is Successful Because He’s Right

 

Rep. Randy Fine: Denaturalize And Deport All Muslims

 

Paladino: “Expel All Muslims From Western Nations”

 

Rioter/GOP Senate Candidate Jake Lang Claims He’ll “Storm” Colorado Prison To “Break Out Tina Peters”

The city, home to one of the largest Muslim populations in the United States, has recently become a repeated target for out-of-state activists who falsely claim it operates under “Sharia law.” The tensions began when Jake Lang, a Jan. 6 rioter who has described himself as a political prisoner, arrived on Michigan Avenue attempting to burn a Quran.

 

Border Chief: Everyone Must Carry Citizenship Proof

Federal law enforcement agencies are detaining US citizens who do not carry proof of their citizenship in what civil rights advocates describe as a flagrant violation of constitutional rights—and a top Trump administration official is claiming the government has the authority to do so.   Bovino recently lied in court about being hit with a rock by anti-ICE protesters, despite video showing that never happened. According to reports, some Border officials privately refer to Bovino a “Little Napoleon” due to his height and volatile temper.

 

 

 

 

 

Things that are just wrong on too many levels / Medical Misinformation / tRump’s illegal war to steal oil / Rule by decree

Zelensky Drops Request For Ukraine To Join NATO

The only one making concessions here is Ukraine

 

 

JetBlue Has Near Miss With US Aircraft Near Venezuela

The pilot of a JetBlue flight reported on Friday that he narrowly avoided colliding with a U.S. military aircraft over the Caribbean after an Air Force refueling tanker passed in front of the commercial plane without broadcasting its position, according to air traffic control radio communications.

 

DOE Moves To Build Nuclear-Powered AI Data Centers

 

FDA Likely To Roll Back Warning Labels On Supplements

 

Trump Signs Order Designating Fentanyl As A WMD

so fuking stupid, it’s an fda approved drug

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US Kills Eight More In Three Pacific “Drug Boat” Strikes

 

Pentagon To Downgrade Military Command Groups

It would reduce in prominence the headquarters of U.S. Central Command, U.S. European Command and U.S. Africa Command by placing them under the control of a new organization known as U.S. International Command. Those familiar with the plan said it aligns with the Trump administration’s national security strategy, released this month, that declares that the “days of the United States propping up the entire world order like Atlas are over.”

Their way to rid themselves of officers who will refuse to follow an illegal order and put command in the hands of those who will.  All of this is to reduce the number of Admirals and Generals who could credibly disobey the illegal orders that will be coming soon.

 

 

The Atlantic: New Pentagon Policy Is A “Suicide Note”

This past September, the Trump administration terminated these agreements. The center’s former head, James Rubin, called this decision “a unilateral act of disarmament,” and no wonder: In effect, the United States was declaring that it would no longer oppose Russian influence campaigns, Chinese manipulation of local politics, or Iranian extremist recruitment drives. Nor would the American government use any resources to help anyone else do so either.

 

Hegseth Refuses To Releases Full Double-Tap Video

 

 

 

Things that are good and need to be mentioned.

Australia To Further Tighten Gun Control Laws [VIDEO]

 

Wisconsin Judge Advances Case Against Fake Electors

 

 

Yes more recent news. But wow has the US gone nuts! The grifting, hate, and denying basic facts of reality is really scary.

Trump: European Nations Want Me As Their Leader

 

 

Boebert Spent $3381 In Donor Money To See Kid Rock

 

Miami Herald: DeSantis Secretly Diverted $35M Meant For Needy Children To Anti-Weed And Anti-Abortion Ads

 

Trump Plans To Seize DC-Area’s Public Golf Courses

 

 

US Begins Selling $1M “Trump Gold” Fast Citizenship

Foreign nationals can now pay $1 million plus a $15,000 processing fee for the Trump Gold Card, which grants them U.S. residency “in record time,” the website states. Corporations, meanwhile, can also partake in the program by making a $2 million contribution and paying the $15,000 processing fee.

 

GOP Senator: Make Things Affordable By Earning More

 

 

Almost 400 J6 Rioters Seek Millions In “Restitution”

The St. Louis-based lawyer declined to share copies, citing his clients’ privacy, but said most are seeking $1 million to $10 million for alleged injuries and property damage during their arrest, prosecution and, in many cases, imprisonment. Earlier this year, US officials agreed to pay nearly $5 million this year to settle a claim brought by the family of Ashli Babbitt, who was shot and killed by a police officer inside the Capitol on Jan. 6.

 

 

SC Measles Outbreak: 111 Cases, One Person Vaxxed

 

South Carolina Measles Outbreak Continues To Worsen

 

 

QAnon Ron Johnson Backs Using Bleach To Treat Autism

 

FDA To Label COVID Vax With “Most Serious Warning”

 

Denmark Designates US As Potential Security Threat

 

Florida Sues Starbucks For Anti-White Discrimination

In the lawsuit filed Wednesday, Uthmeier’s office alleged that for the “past five years and continuing to the present day, defendant has excluded or disfavored nonminorities in numerous employment practices and programs.”

 

NPS Gift Shops Get Deadline To Purge “DEI” Merch

The move is part of the administration’s wider campaign to scrub federal institutions of “corrosive ideology” recognizing historical racism and sexism. The directive instructs park staff to report by Friday any retail items that have content that “inappropriately disparages Americans past or living” or that includes “matters unrelated to the beauty, abundance or grandeur” of a natural feature in its description.

 

Border Chief Wants “Honor Of Cuffing” Rep. Ilhan Omar

DHS Is Using TSA Lists To Make Deportation Arrests

 

 

Hegseth Posts Cartoon Of “Trans” Person Being Kicked

 

FL City Hits Back At Duffy With 11 Rainbow Bike Racks

Key West Hits Back At Duffy With Rainbow Fences

Hit the link for many photos of Key West homes now sporting rainbow picket fences. As for Ms. Walker, the self-proclaimed “Christian Republican” felt compelled to boast about her complaint on X.

 

Arlington Pride Canceled After City Axes LGBTQ Rights

Literal Potty Police Demand IDs In Texas Capitol

 

Kirk’s Killer May Face Anti-Christian Hate Crime Charge

 

 

Leavitt: US May Seize More Oil Tankers Near Venezuela

Yet the Russian oil shadow fleet is left totally alone by the tRump admin?  I wonder why the oil tankers off Venezuela are OK to attack yet the same sanctioned oil tankers of Russia are off limits?  What is the difference between illegal sanctioned oil tankers?  Oh yes Putin has something over on tRump.   Hugs 

 

Navy Submits Possible Punishments For Sen. Mark Kelly

 

WSJ: Pentagon Readies “Land Strikes” On Venezuela

 

 

DOJ Sues Georgia’s Fulton County For 2020 Election Records And Four Blue States For Lists Of Voter Rolls

“States have the statutory duty to preserve and protect their constituents from vote dilution,” said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division.

This is code for balck people voting which white supremacist feel makes their votes less important.   Hugs

 

 

Duffy Threatens To Pull $73M In NY Highway Funds

 

Cops: ICE Leader Strangled Decades-Younger Girlfriend

 

 

Public Transportation Is The Way To Go

We can have it if we want it, but we have to do the work of getting it.

Solving Transportation Problems

More news headlines to choose from. Getting caught up. Only 90 more to go before I can look at / open the new articles.

 

Trump’s Injured Hand Appears To Be Getting Worse

Wow. Could Trump be receiving the Alzheimer’s drug Leqembi? It is administered via IV in the hand, causes swelling in the brain requiring regular MRIs, and one of the main side effects is tiredness. Is the President taking secret Alzheimer’s drugs?

Leqembi is a new Alzheimer’s drug given by infusion & requiring regular MRI’s to monitor side effects. Trump’s father died from Alzheimer’s & Trump clearly has dementia. Leqembi explains the hand trauma & MRI’s that Trump has been receiving.

 

 

Forbes: Eric Trump Is 10X Richer Since 2024 Election

 

 

Junior-Backed Outfit Gets $620 Million Pentagon Deal

 

IG Report: Signalgate Leak Risked Endangering Troops

WSJ: Hegseth Forced Out Admiral Over Boat Strikes

 

 

Former Oklahoma Schools Chief: Fire Everybody Who Agreed With Flunking Student For “Bible Says So” Essay

Samantha is an entitled little shit who did not follow the assignment and thus she failed! Not following: Citing sources The word requirement No clear ties to the article No clarity of writing She tried a gotcha, fucked around and found out! Good!

 

TN Library Chief Accused Of Keeping Books He Wants Banned, Demanding List Of Patrons’ Personal Details

 

DOJ Orders Prisons To Drop LGBTQ Safety Standards

 

Florida Man Accused Of Trying To Run Over LGBTQ Jogging Group Claims So-Called “Gay Panic Defense”

 

Hate Group Melts Down After Utah Chick-fil-A Store Posts Congratulations To Recently Married Gay Couple

 

COPS: Arkansas Anti-LGBTQ Activist Staged Daughter’s Kidnapping In Order To “Teach Her A Lesson” [VIDEO]

The Hambys were reportedly supported by a local far-right Christian nationalist group. In the video below, Jeffrey Hamby rages that they are the victims because their daughter has been removed from their custody. According to one local outlet, their crusade against LGBTQ books cost the county $575,000 in legal fees. There’s much, much more to the story at both links above.

 

HHS Deadnames Former Leader On Official Portrait

The hate, bigotry, cruelty, and spitefulness is the point.  This is a useless gesture like replacing Biden’s portrait with a picture of an auto pen.  These people have no other important duties than to be assholes it seems.    The kind of people who you hate to have move into the neighborhood.    Hugs

 

 

Junior Accuses Missouri Activist Of “Trying To Steal GOP House Seat With Unlawful” Gerrymander Referendum

Last week Missouri’s Republican attorney general sicced ICE on organizers collecting signatures for the referendum.

 

 

REPORT: New ICE Recruits Are “Fat, Illiterate, Violent”

 

Ingraham: It’s “Borderline Illegal” To Call ICE Thugs

 

DHS Thugs Busted Lying About Attack On US Citizen

Putin Rejects Portions Of Trump’s Peace Proposal

 

Trump Hints At Naming Kennedy Center For Himself

tRump has long hated the Kennedys and their place in US society.  He has always felt they were taking the place of US royalty / dynasty that he feels should rightfully be his families place / stature.   Remember tRump told Queen Elisabeth that his family was equal to her as his family was US royalty and his kids were on equal footing with hers.   Such a desperate cry for attention.   Hugs

 

 

Park Service Ends Free Admission On MLK Day And Juneteenth, Adds Free Admission On Trump’s Birthday

 

Bondi Orders FBI To Investigate “Extremist” Antifa

 

State Department To Deny Visas For Fact-Checkers

 

DOJ May Seize 2020 Ballots Of GA’s Largest County

 

Evicted By ICE

Fox News Copes With Trump’s Disastrous Economy