Tuesday, August 26, 2025
America Tips Into Fascism
With Little Explanation, Trump Throws Wind Industry Into Chaos
The Trump administration is halting wind projects that had been approved, financed and underway while providing little to no justification.
Monday, August 25, 2025
Feds Bashed for 'Rounding Up Food Delivery Bikes' in DC: 'Terrible Use of My Tax Dollars'
Also:
Where D.C. Crime Is Bad, Residents Question Trump’s Motives--
The president might have found allies in Southeast Washington, where violent crime has long vexed residents. But when he described the city as “disgusting,” with “roving mobs,” his remarks left those looking for help cold.
Sunday, August 24, 2025
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Tuesday, August 19, 2025
Putin's Puppet Donald Trump throws War Criminal Vladimir Putin a "welcome back" party in Alaska
What a fucking disgrace-- great job, GOP traitors and assholes!
Only two big shots showed up to this party: convicted felon Donald J. Trump, the wannabe dictator who occupies the Oval Office, and the indicted international war criminal Vladimir S. Putin, President-for-Life of the Russian Federation.
To call yesterday’s meeting in Alaska a “summit” stretches credulity. Let’s call it what it really was: a photo op. The President of the United States gave Putin the consummate photo op to recycle on Russian state television whenever it’s convenient.
Putin is a monster. A monster with ironclad control over thousands of nuclear weapons and a police state, a former KGB agent whose psyche never recovered from the collapse of the Soviet empire and who continues to seek to reclaim those nations lost from Moscow’s grip when the Warsaw Pact dissolved and the Soviet Union broke apart.
Donald Trump gave Putin the trappings of legitimacy on the world stage.
Also
https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/putin-played-preznit-fuckwit-like
who the fuck thought this was a good idea?
‘let’s take a deteriorating old coot in serious cognitive decline, drag him out of bed at four in the morning, bundle him into Dipshit Force One and fly him thousands of miles to a despot playdate with a crafty old war criminal who has bested him every time they’ve previously met.’
and then what? just pray that Dear Leader doesn’t shit the bed?
yeah, well guess what: all that praying didn’t work. Anyone hoping for a show of strength and resolve from America’s Mad King got this instead:
good boy, Donny. another iconic image for the ages, with the guy who walks you like a dog.
Also:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-freaks-over-reports-massively-152007488.html
Trump has been fuming for days over the media’s coverage of his do-nothing meeting Friday with Putin. “These people are sick!” he wrote in another post on Truth Social Sunday.
But as much as Trump would like to pretend, Moscow isn’t looking to cede territory—it’s looking to steal. The U.S. president claimed Sunday that Ukraine could end the fighting immediately if it were only willing to give up on reclaiming Crimea, and receiving a long-awaited NATO membership.
U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff said Sunday Putin had agreed that the U.S. could offer Ukraine an “Article Five-like protection,” instead of actual membership into the military bloc. Russia also agreed to implement a law not to “go after any other European countries and violate their sovereignty,” Witkoff said. “And there was plenty more.”
But as of yet, no ceasefire agreement or peace deal has actually materialized from the meeting—only the president’s fan fiction.
Also:
https://jimacosta.substack.com/p/putin-plays-trump-again
It was apparent from the get-go that Putin landed in Anchorage with all of the leverage in this encounter with Trump. Ever the student of American presidential weaknesses, Putin knew his counterpart needed a distraction. So Putin extracted something of a coup from Trump that far exceeded the embarrassment from their last high-profile summit in Helsinki, Finland. This time, Putin was not just permitted to land on American soil, amid allegations of war crimes. Trump gave him the red carpet treatment, complete with a ride in the presidential limo, and a news conference that was tailor made for Russian state television.
To the amazement of likely every credible diplomat on the planet, Putin was allowed to speak first. As the host of the summit, Trump should have handled the opening to their joint remarks. Any White House with a shred of institutional knowledge would have insisted on that. Instead, the Russian dictator was the alpha male and he proceeded to repeat a litany of Kremlin talking points, laughably accusing former president Joe Biden of somehow causing the war in Ukraine. Putin even parroted the U.S president’s oft-repeated lie that the war would have never happened had Trump been in office at the time of the Russian invasion. Putin knows flattery gets you everywhere with Trump, even when it’s delivered with his patented KGB smirk - undoubtedly a face palm moment for leaders across much of Europe.
At the very least, the White House should have required Putin to take questions in exchange for his tour of a U.S. military base. Talk about a potential espionage bonanza. Instead, Putin was allowed to skate off without answering questions about the crimes against humanity committed in his country’s war of aggression against Ukraine. The vodka must have already been flowing in Moscow when Trump cried about “the Russia hoax.”
Sunday, August 17, 2025
Saturday, August 16, 2025
Tuesday, August 12, 2025
Nobody knows what Trump is talking about anymore and no one seems to care
For starters, on two occasions, Trump told reporters he will be meeting later this week with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Russia. The meeting will be held in Alaska.
Monday, August 11, 2025
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Friday, August 8, 2025
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Friday, August 1, 2025
Tuesday, July 29, 2025
RFK Jr. to Oust Advisory Panel on Cancer Screenings, HIV Prevention Drugs
What a sick demented evil piece of shit GOP asshole*
*used to be a Dem but is effectively a GOPer now
DNI Tulsi Gabbard's Ridiculous Charges Against Obama For Treason
She's such a stupid GOP asshole* who of course works for the biggest GOP asshole of them all
*She used to be a Dem and apparently switched to Republican
Trump and the Catholic Church Fight a Law Requiring Clergy to Report Child Abuse
GOP = Guardians of Pedophiles
SMOKING GUN Evidence of Trump Pedophilia Resurfaces
Katie Johnson's allegations of underage rape by Trump revisited
He is such a sick nasty pedophile GOP asshole (read the whole post)
Nearly 70% of Americans now believe that the Trump administration is concealing information about the notorious sex trafficker and child rapist, Jeffrey Epstein. But still, among my progressive circles, a fair proportion of people are still dismissing this possibility—and, with it, the idea that Trump actually abused teen girls at Epstein’s “parties”—as a baseless conspiracy theory. To be sure, much of MAGA’s conviction that Trump is hiding something personal have dubious origins in the wild and pernicious lies perpetuated in QAnon, the cult that spread the belief that a cabal of elite child cannibals and molesters have been trafficking toddlers. But you can, of course, believe the right thing for the wrong reasons. And, given the solid evidence to hand about Trump’s misconduct—some of it new, much of it old—the real conspiracy theory at this point has a radically different basis. Nobody in the mainstream media has yet named it, and it desperately needs acknowledgement.
Saturday, July 26, 2025
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Tuesday, July 15, 2025
Experts Question the Legality of Deploying National Guard Officers as Immigration Judges
Using “military courts to hear civilian cases is the essential component of martial law.”
Elon Musk’s Grok Is Calling for a New Holocaust
The chatbot is also praising Hitler and attacking users with Jewish-sounding names.
US posts highest annual measles case tally in 33 years amid Texas outbreak
Milestone comes as health secretary RFK Jr has injected upheaval into US vaccine policy and spread misinformation.
Why ‘monstrify’? Look at who benefits when few are considered fully human
This multi-pronged campaign of monstrification strengthens the personal loyalty of white supremacists and Christian nationalists towards Trump and sows discord and poisons solidarity among his targets and critics. Monstrifying narratives have been undermining the possibility of a more inclusive body politic for millennia. But there’s an antidote to us-them messages of hate, fear and exclusion that claim that only a tiny minority of people are truly human. That antidote is to realize that by recognizing the humanity of others we don’t disavow our own humanity: We demonstrate it. It behooves us to demand that all people receive equal protection under the law, and to call out monstrifying narratives that, in the end, dehumanize us all.
The Roberts court allows Trump's gutting of the Education Dep't in a lawless ruling
Fucking sick fascist fucking GOP asshole fucks.
Sotomayor, in dissent, wrote that "it is the Judiciary’s duty to check ... lawlessness, not expedite it."
Thursday, July 10, 2025
Wednesday, July 9, 2025
Trump's DOJ, FBI conclude Epstein had no "client list," died by suicide
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.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Freaking GOPO assholes and MAGA morons who believe this crap
Monday, July 7, 2025
AOC: "I don't think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE."
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.
Thursday, July 3, 2025
A corrupted Supreme Court sinks to new lows with their ruling blocking nationwide injunctions in response to Trump's obscene birthright citizenship order
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.
In Sudan, where children clung to life, doctors say USAID cuts have been fatal
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 Real Impact of the Supreme Court's Planned Parenthood Decision Is Ruining American Justice
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.