President Trump's Justice Department and FBI have concluded they have no evidence that convicted sex offender and disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein blackmailed powerful figures, kept a "client list" or was murdered, according to a memo detailing the findings obtained by Axios.
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Freaking GOPO assholes and MAGA morons who believe this crap
Goddamn, GOP assholes have really outdone themselves.
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
The majority opinion in Trump v. CASA, the birthright citizenship case, was honestly inevitable, a culmination of all the ways in which the conservative justices have warped the Court in order to serve Trump. Indeed, the Court’s previous term will go down in infamy as the one in which they gave Trump a permission slip to do whatever he wants by inventing sweeping presidential immunity.
One year later, Trump needed his reliable pals on the Supreme Court to step in on the birthright citizenship case because four federal district courts and three federal appeals courts had enjoined him from implementing his executive order eliminating birthright citizenship. That shouldn’t be a surprise, or even remotely controversial. There’s simply no world where an executive order can undo the Fourteenth Amendment’s guarantee of birthright citizenship, and since the order was so obviously unconstitutional, the lower courts issued universal, or nationwide, injunctions to block the policy.
Those nationwide injunctions stopped Trump from stripping citizenship from babies, even in states that were eager to let him do so. Twenty conservative states filed an amicus brief urging the Court to let Trump’s executive order go into effect.
But the conservatives on the Court didn’t feel like grappling with whether Trump’s executive order was unconstitutional. Indeed, they very much want you to know that the administration’s requests did not ask the Court to rule on the birthright citizenship issue at all. Heavens, no. This is just about whether lower courts can issue universal, or nationwide, injunctions.
This is, to put it charitably, a self-serving lie, a way for the conservatives to soothe themselves, to pretend they aren’t responsible for Trump turning the immense machinery of his immigration crackdown on literal babies. No, all they did was strip the lower courts of the ability to issue universal injunctions. Of course, once those injunctions are narrowed, the administration is free to get started on its plans to deprive babies of citizenship anywhere the narrower injunctions don’t apply.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s dissent calls this exactly what it is:
The Executive has not asked this Court to determine whether Executive Order No. 14160 complies with the Constitution. Rather, it has come to us seeking the right to continue enforcing that order regardless-i.e., even though six courts have now said the order is likely unconstitutional. What the Executive wants, in effect, is for this Court to bless and facilitate its desire to operate in two different zones moving forward: one in which it is required to follow the law (because a particular plaintiff has secured a personal injunction prohibiting its unlawful conduct), and another in which it can choose to violate the law with respect to certain people (those who have yet to sue).
As the party asking for a stay of the lower court injunctions, the administration had to show it would suffer irreparable harm if it was not allowed to immediately start enforcing the executive order. That harm is also supposed to be weighed against the harm to the plaintiffs. The Court blows this off, basically saying that the plaintiffs in the case won’t be harmed because they would be protected by a narrower injunction. But that’s disingenuous and the conservative justices know it. The issue isn’t whether the specific plaintiffs are protected, but what harms all people affected by the policy will suffer if Trump is allowed to proceed.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s dissent explains that babies who would be subject to Trump’s order “will face the gravest harms imaginable.” The order bars the federal government from issuing any citizenship documents, such as Social Security numbers, to babies born to non-citizen parents. Without that, Sotomayor notes, the child cannot qualify for any public services. And because the order also strips birthright citizenship from children born to parents here legally, but only temporarily, parents can face a situation where their baby can be deported even as the parents remain in the country lawfully.
So, immigrants and their children face the loss of the privileges of citizenship, a patchwork nightmare where a baby may be a citizen in one state but not another, and the very real threat of deportation. What harms does the administration face if it has to wait a few months while litigation proceeds? According to the majority, the mere act of enjoining the government is a form of irreparable injury because Trump can’t enforce the order against people who weren’t a party to the case.
The conservatives also ignore how hard it would be to undo these harms if Trump’s executive order is ultimately found unconstitutional. Babies will already have been deported. Parents may have self-deported with their child. Families may have relocated to a state covered by a narrower injunction. Thanks to the administration’s scorched-earth method of litigating cases, suing it is incredibly costly.
But none of that matters to the majority. To them, Trump’s desires carry the day. He wants to be able to carry out his executive orders and he doesn’t feel like waiting. For the conservative justices, that outweighs families torn apart and the deportation of literal babies. It’s a stark reminder that these justices care only for the powerful, and see injustice only when the powerful are deprived of doing whatever they want. They are completely untroubled that their ruling will cause harm grave harm to others.
The Trump administration’s cuts to USAID had an immediate and deadly impact in war-ravaged Sudan, according to civilians, doctors and aid officials.
The Supreme Court’s generosity toward President Trump’s flagrant violations of constitutional norms has cast a shadow long enough to obscure nearly everything else about the court’s term that ended last week. While that’s understandable, there is one decision, issued during the crush of the final days, that shouldn’t be overlooked. Not only will its immediate impact be significant, but it also reveals something about the current majority’s pursuit of a long-term goal: ridding American law of the notion that if a right is violated, there must be a remedy.
Fucking typical evil war mongering GOP asshole
See also
No matter what Trump says, the US has gone to war – and there will be profound and lasting consequences.
Trump has fallen slap bang into the trap laid for him by Netanyahu. His reckless gamble makes a nuclear weapon for Iran more, not less, likely
The Guardian view on Trump bombing Iran: an illegal and reckless act
Emil Bove III, a Trump judicial nominee, voiced his intent to disobey court orders as others stonewalled and misled judges, according to a complaint.
We now live in a country where:
🔴 A U.S. Senator is tackled by federal security goons for asking a question
🔴 Trump calls dissenters “scum” and deploys the military to silence them
🔴 Journalists are targeted, silenced, shut down
🔴 Politicians are being assassinated (!!!)
🔴 American troops are deployed on US soil to suppress our right of free assembly
This is not normal. It’s not “just politics.”
It’s repression. It’s authoritarianism. It’s fascism in real time.
Such a fucking fascist fucking outrage from the fascist fuck GOP asshole fucks:
LOS ANGELES — California Sen. Alex Padilla was detained and handcuffed during an altercation at Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s press conference in Los Angeles on Thursday.
Video provided by Padilla’s office shows the senator approaching the lectern as Noem was touting federal law enforcement’s immigration crackdown efforts in Los Angeles. He was stopped and shoved back by multiple men.
“I’m Senator Alex Padilla. I have questions for the secretary,” he said. He tried to speak further as he was forcibly removed into an adjoining room, where he yelled “Hands off!”
The video shows Padilla being forced to the ground and his arms handcuffed behind his back. He has since been released and is in a holding room. The spokesperson said the senator was told he could speak to Noem after the event.
The confrontation earned a swift rebuke from fellow Democrats, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who condemned the action from the floor shortly thereafter.
“Forcibly removing a United States Senator from a press conference is disgraceful,” Rep. Pete Aguilar, the third-ranking Democrat in the House, said on X. “This administration’s chaos and corruption is out of control.”
Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/12/california-sen-alex-padilla-handcuffed-at-noem-presser-00403253
Pure evil done by Elon Musk, DOGE and Trump. Fucking criminal murderous assholes.
Also see
It's truly an awful bill in so many ways, from these fucking GOP assholes.
See also
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/24/politics/house-tax-spending-cuts-bill-explained
https://apnews.com/article/trump-tax-breaks-bill-medicaid-80b5781377bcd0870a1dccb3c7b8dc05
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-22/trump-s-tax-cuts-what-s-in-his-big-beautiful-bill
Such a disgraceful racist fuckface GOP asshole
More here
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-musk-south-africa-president-meeting-tense-relations/
and
In lieu of a functioning Congress, it has become clear the administration is governing by Executive Order (EO) with no regard for the Constitution, Congress or laws of this country. This April 28, 2025 EO is about unleashing high-impact, aggressive law enforcement “best” practices at the state and local level with indemnification for officers involved. It promises private-sector pro bono assistance (law firms who bent the knee and made deals with Donald Trump to avoid EOs to punish the legal profession.) I was stopped dead in my tracks at Sec. 4.
Sec 4-Using National Security Assets for Law and Order Within 90 days of the date of this order, the Attorney General and the Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the Secretary of Homeland Security and the heads of agencies as appropriate, shall increase the provision of excess MILITARY and NATIONAL SECURITY assets in local jurisdictions to assist state & local law enforcement.”Many think it’s a road too far for Trump to declare Martial Law (i.e. S. Korea) or to invoke the Insurrection Act. In Sec. 4 he says he plans to deploy by EO military and national security assets to our towns and cities to assist local law enforcement. They would be there to see that police and “local leaders” are not relying on state and community laws and norms but are aligned with the Administration’s best practices created to enforce Donald Trump’s objectives and narratives, many of which are illegal. Tyranny in America requires the subjugation of a widely dispersed American population and cannot quickly happen from Washington DC. What if he could do this simply by Executive Order, with the willing participation of DOJ, DHS and DOD, send U.S. Armed Services and other “national security assets” to your home town?
During an interview last week with Meet the Press host Kristen Welker, Trump said he’s fine if the US has to endure a recession. He’s also repeatedly promoted the upside of Americans enduring Soviet-era deprivation on his behalf. “I don't think a beautiful baby girl that's 11 years old needs to have 30 dolls,” Trump said. “I think they can have three dolls or four dolls ... they don't need to have 250 pencils. They can have five."
Fucking GOP assholes:
Donald Trump and his goons only needed 100 days to break the government. Good luck putting it back together.
What will you remember about Donald Trump’s second first 100 days? Probably the cruelty and arrogance of the people in charge, and the fecklessness of so many institutions that were supposed to fight back. Maybe the image of the world’s richest men, and some of their wives, sitting obediently in front of the president’s cabinet on Inauguration Day. Or the way the New York Times described Elon Musk as having “extended his arm diagonally upward, palm facing down.” Or the enthusiasm with which the Secretary of Agriculture encouraged Americans to raise chickens. Or the words, “They hate our beef because our beef is beautiful and theirs is weak.”
But personally, I’m going to remember all the mistakes.
I have never seen a government get so many things wrong, in so many different ways. It was like an Obamacare website every 18 hours. It was like the soft opening of Jurassic Park. And these were not the sort of run-of-the-mill snafus that are endemic to any large organization. They all had something in common: People who thought they knew better than everyone else took on work they didn’t understand, and sidelined the people who did. They were making mistakes, quite simply, because the people who didn’t make mistakes were gone, and because there was no one left to tell them not to, or to correct them when they did.
In 100 days the administration has, in no particular order:
“Accidentally cancelled,” in Musk’s words, funding for “Ebola prevention.”
Sent Harvard an “unauthorized” list of demands, which led the nation’s wealthiest university to stop negotiating with the administration and fight back in the courts.
Rescinded job offers for the Veterans Crisis Line, “due to an administrative error.”
Fired Health and Human Services employees that, according to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., “should not have been cut.”
Accidentally fired, and tried to rehire, employees at the National Animal Health Laboratory Network who were working on the administration’s response to bird flu.
Fired, and scrambled to rehire, people responsible for maintaining the nation’s nuclear weapons stockpile.
Fired, and then un-fired, workers at the Environmental Protection Agency.
Fired, and then rehired, people responsible for ensuring the safety of medical devices.
Fired workers at the Small Business Administration, then un-fired them, and then fired them again.
Accidentally fired people who had already taken a buyout offer.
Tried to fire 22 US attorneys, but sent the termination emails to the wrong addresses.
“Mistakenly” gave the “normalize Indian hate” guy the power to rewrite Treasury payment systems.
Accidentally published classified information about the National Reconnaissance Office.
Shared an unclassified list of new CIA employees via email.
Tried to sell a government complex that includes a secret CIA facility.
Inadvertently put both the Justice Department and the FBI headquarters up for sale.
Accidentally made Brian Driscoll (aka “Drizz”) acting director of the FBI and then just went with it rather than acknowledge the mixup.
Accidentally revealed living peoples’ Social Security numbers as part of their big dump of JFK assassination files, after Trump ordered the documents released with 24 hours notice.
Accidentally cut off the ability of people in Maine to get Social Security numbers for their newborns because, according to the acting Social Security administrator, “it looked like a strange contract.”
Accidentally made it possible for anyone to update the Doge.gov homepage, which resulted in the words “THESE ‘EXPERTS’ LEFT THEIR DATABASE OPEN” staying up on the site for 12 hours.
Claimed $8 billion in savings on an $8 million contract.
Completely invented a non-existent $50 million program to supply condoms to Gaza.
Hired a new IRS chief—on Tax Day—without telling the Treasury Secretary, leading to the new IRS chief being replaced with yet another new IRS chief three days later.
Paid $2 billion because the acting solicitor general appealed the wrong court ruling.
Submitted an internal legal brief saying that their congestion pricing case against New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority is bad, as an unsealed filing in their congestion pricing case.
Added Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg to an emoji-riddled group chat about war plans in Yemen.
“Accidentally” terminated and then reinstated environmental grants in Michigan.
Cut off funding to food programs “that were not meant to be cut.”
Announced an investigation into a non-existent medical school.
“Mistakenly” removed Jackie Robinson and Japanese-American soldiers from the Department of Defense website.
Imposed tariffs on an island of penguins.
Made tariffs 4 times too high because of an incorrect math equation.
Broke, for 10 hours, the mechanism for actually collecting tariffs.
Accidentally told an immigration attorney from Massachusetts, who is a US citizen, she had to leave the country.
Accidentally told Ukrainian refugees they had to leave the country.
Accidentally detained US citizens in immigration sweeps.
Deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia to El Salvador due to an “administrative error.”
Accidentally pronounced 82-year-old Ned Johnson of Seattle dead
more at
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/donald-trump-100-days-to-break-the-government-doge-musk/
He is an evil death cult demented moronic asshole
The details are horrifying... the loss of such important expertise
From Paul Krugman: "Anyone sounding the all-clear on tariffs, or Trump economic policy in general, should be kept away from sharp objects and banned from operating heavy machinery. We’re in a hardly better place than we were before Donald Trump announced a tariff pause (in a Truth Social post, of course.) In fact, we may be in a worse place.
Let me make four points about Trump’s post-pause tariff regime.
1. Even the post-pause tariff rates represent a huge protectionist shock
2. Destructive uncertainty about future policy has increased
3. We’re still at risk of a major financial crisis
4. The world now knows that Trump is weak as well as erratic"
Also see this analysis of his psyche and obsession with tariffs
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/opinion/trump-tariffs-rationale-power.html
Of all the lawless acts by the Trump administration in its first two and a half months, none are more frightening than its dumping of human beings who have not had their day in court into an infamous maximum-security prison in El Salvador — and then contending that no federal court has the authority to right these brazen wrongs.
In an astounding brief filed in the Supreme Court on Monday, the solicitor general of the United States argued that even when the government concedes that it has mistakenly deported someone to El Salvador and had him imprisoned there, the federal courts are powerless to do anything about it. The Supreme Court must immediately and emphatically reject this unwarranted claim of unlimited power to deprive people of their liberty without due process.
That would seem to be the obvious response. It was Thomas Jefferson who called the right of habeas corpus to protect against unlawful detention one of the “essential principles of our government.”
Jefferson’s concerns are underscored by the case of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a lawful resident of the United States, whom the federal government admits it wrongly deported to El Salvador. He has been incarcerated in El Salvador along with some 200 Venezuelan migrants deported there last month by the Trump administration, which says they were involved in criminal and gang activity.
