Katie Phang, grifter Musk, MAGA freaks jail innocent woman

First up, Katie Phang.

  

I watched her MSNBC show and was shocked when the show was recently ended.  C.I. told me she was now doing a show on the MEIDASTOUCH NETWORK.  So if you enjoyed her program and its focus on MSNBC, make a point to check her out online.

Ann covers Alien Musk and does an outstanding job of it.  But she had a ton tonight and I said I'd grab anything she needed me to.  If you missed it, the brainless Musk is throwing yet another temper tantrum in public.  Musk headed DOGE that Chump's lying in court otherwise.  On DOGE, Ja'han Jones (NBC) reports:

If you are concerned about what Elon Musk — or any of the right-wing trolls, bigots and other people he hired at the dubiously titled Department of Government Efficiency — may do with the treasure trove of Americans’ data they’ve accessed, you’re not the only one.

Data that can be used for things like training artificial intelligence tools is extremely valuable — it’s practically a currency of its own these days. And having written about Musk’s data-hungry enterprises, including Tesla and Twitter, I’ve been worried about DOGE’S widespread access to federal data. Those worries aren’t limited to what DOGE staffers could theoretically do with that data, but also what Musk could do with it once he leaves.

Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., sent a letter to President Donald Trump on Wednesday urging the administration to require that every “special government employee” (like Musk) sign a certification that says they agree not to use any governmental data for personal gain.

“I write to request that you require each Special Government Employee (SGE) to sign a certification that the SGE understands and agrees that no SGE may ever use non-public information from the federal government for their own personal benefit, especially after leaving government service,” she said.

Shaheen listed the broad access Musk’s team already has:

I make this request because there have been numerous reports of SGEs accessing some of the U.S. government’s most sensitive information, including but not limited to data from the Social Security Administration, the Department of the Treasury’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the Office of Personnel Management and Departments of Commerce, Education, Energy, Labor, Health and Human Services and Transportation.

The letter references The Washington Post’s recent reporting about an alarming Trump administration plan to create a centralized system to house Americans’ private information as collected by various federal agencies. Shaheen notes that right-wing, pro-Trump influencer Steve Bannon has also expressed concerns about what Musk and his team could do with the data and has called for Musk to sign a certification agreeing not to use the data for personal gain.

It's the very least Musk should do.  The very least.  Still on Musk, he's announced that he is done contributing money to politics ("I think I've done enough.").  Tom Boggioni (RAW STORY) notes

:Musk's pronouncement came as news to Republicans who are still hoping he will shore up the campaign of Virginia's GOP candidate Winsome Earle-Sears who "faces a major cash disadvantage against Democrat Abigail Spanberger."

With Musk foe Steve Bannon quipping Musk is "Taking his toys and going home,” the report notes "Musk’s political capital seems to have faded after he and groups he backed — America PAC and Building America’s Future — contributed more than $19 million to support Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Brad Schimel, a Republican who lost by 10 percentage points."

There is actual wealth and then there is press wealth.  C.I.'s done a very good job educating on this topic over the years.  Chump isn't that wealthy, he's on the hook for so many loans to this day.  C.I. was right when she told us back in February that Telsa would step in if Musk continued to tank the company and they have now.  And she's probably right that Musk's 'richest man in the world' was always inflated.  He's got money, unlike Chump, he's got big money.  But he's not so rich that he can afford this nonsense. 

It's late but I want to note a non-Musk issue.  Troy Matthews (MEIDASTOUCH NEWS) reports:

A San Antonio, Texas woman was released from jail this week after serving five months while police investigated her miscarriage to determine if it constituted an illegal abortion, until prosecutors finally dismissed the case.

Mallori Patrice Strait was arrested in December on charges of "abuse of a corpse" after having a miscarriage in the bathroom of a fast food restaurant. Police filed an affidavit that they had found "human-like material" in the toilet, leading to sensationalized stories in local media that Strait had flushed her "baby" down the toilet.

A judge set Strait's bond at $100,000 and she was forced to sit in jail for the next five months while prosecutors scrambled to find any evidence of wrongdoing on her part. While she was in jail, a local extremist anti-choice group took custody of the "fetal remains" and gave it a name and a funeral.

Ultimately, prosecutors found no criminal wrongdoing and the district attorney filed a motion to dismiss the case this week. The Bexar County Medical Examiner found that Strait had simply had a miscarriage in a public restroom, and no evidence existed she was a fault for the miscarriage, or had attempted to flush any fetal tissue.

That is so outrageous and offensive.

Here's C.I.'s "The Snapshot:"

Thursday, May 22, 2025.  The bad bill passes the House this morning, Chump's got a new bald spot, he's also a War Criminal and that's apparently why the State Dept still hasn't released their annual human rights watch report, CREW is suing for freedom of information but note which 'independent' (partisan) group isn't, and much more.

Because he's stupid, Donald Chump destroyed the economy.  Because he's stupid and proud, he's unable to fix it.  And the country's going to suffer.  Right now?  Businesses are eliminating job openings.  Aliss Higham (NEWSWEEK) reports:

A decrease in job openings typically indicates that employers are hiring less, which can be a sign of an economic slowdown, business uncertainty, or reduced demand for labor. For job seekers, it becomes more difficult to find employment, and wage growth may slow due to less competition for workers.

The Robert Walters Global Jobs Index, published on May 20, found there was a 16.2 percent month-on-month decline in professional job vacancies in the U.S. between March and April, due in part to President Donald Trump's wide-ranging trade tariffs. On April 2—a day he dubbed "Liberation Day"—he announced a minimum 10-percent tariff on all U.S. imports and higher individualized rates on some countries.

"For most employers, hiring additional employees is a luxury when tariffs are raising operating costs, lowering demand, and could potentially keep inflation and interest rates elevated," Noah Yosif, chief economist at American Staffing Association, told Newsweek.

Didn't help when Chump ranted and raved at Walmart for telling the truth last week about tariffs but maybe he can rant and rave some more about how employers will just have to 'eat it' on this and hire regardless.  Because he says so.  That's not working out too well, by the way, because he says so. US House Rep Thomas Massie has made that clear.  Hafiz Rashid (THE NEW REPUBLIC) explains:

One House Republican is calling out the Trump administration’s lies that the “big, beautiful” budget bill won’t raise the deficit.

Speaking to CNN’s Manu Raju on Tuesday, Representative Thomas Massie said that “Under the policies of this bill, we’re going to add $20 trillion dollars to the debt over the next 10 years, which is three and a half to $5 trillion more than would have been added otherwise.”

When Raju told Massie about the White House’s claims that the bill is deficit neutral, Massie chuckled. 

“That’s a joke,” the Kentucky congressman, whose votes often align with libertarian principles. 

Earlier in the day, President Trump attacked Massie after a meeting with House Republicans on Capitol Hill.

“I don’t think Thomas Massie understands government. I think he’s a grandstander, frankly,” Trump said. “We don’t even talk to him much, I think he should be voted out of office.” 

Michael Luciano (MEDIAITE) adds:

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) made an appeal for campaign donations on social media on Tuesday night, hours after President Donald Trump labeled him a “grandstander.”

Massie, a longtime deficit hawk who votes against most bills no matter which party proposes them, said House Republicans’ spending bill will exacerbate the deficit.

Of the bill, Nikki McCann Ramirez (ROLLING STONE) notes, "The so-called "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" would make permanent President Donald Trump's 2017 tax cuts, which were a boon to the wealthiest earners in the nation. In order to pay for those cuts, the GOP plans to kick millions of people off of Medicaid, food assistance, and other critical social safety net programs."  The bill passed this morning just a little while ago  Tuesday night on MSNBC, Lawrence O'Donnell explained how these bills destroy House majorities when the midterms roll around. 

He also noted in the video that US House Rep Chip Roy, a Republican, always objects and always falls in line  And that's just what Roy did this morning.  Republican Thomas Massie did do as he said he would and voted against the bill.

Some reaction on BLUESKY.

Economist Paul Krugman was on Lawrence O'Donnell's program last night.  I don't see the segment posted at MSNBC.  But yesterday, Krugman wrote the following about the bill:

I have already focused on the bill’s cruelty. It’s also deeply irresponsible, undermining America’s hard-won reputation as a country that honors its obligations. The cuts to Medicaid and food stamps won’t come close to offsetting the revenue loss from the tax cuts for the rich. Neither will revenue from tariffs. And can we all now acknowledge that DOGE’s promise to eliminate hundreds of billions in “waste, fraud and abuse” hasn’t just failed? It has ended up being a complete waste of time, which it has tried to conceal with fraudulent claims of achievement, all while abusing dedicated civil servants and driving them out of government in ways that will impoverish America in the long run — and maybe not that long. We’re a world leader in education, science and technology that is systematically destroying the very basis of our success.

So we’re looking at a large increase in an already high budget deficit when we’re already at full employment, interest rates are already at multiyear highs, and future growth prospects are declining.

Financial markets normally cut wealthy nations with stable governments a lot of slack, with reason. Rich, well governed countries have immense ability to raise revenues if needed, especially if, like the United States, you collect a smaller percentage of GDP in taxes than almost any other advanced economy:

In other words, until now markets have believed that the U.S. has the resources to deal with its deficit whenever it musters the political will. And bond buyers have been willing to assume that we are a serious country that will eventually get its fiscal house in order.

But markets’ patience with American dysfunction isn’t unlimited. Consider how quickly things went wrong for the UK. In 2022 Liz Truss, Britain’s Prime Minister, announced a “mini-budget” that involved cutting taxes and blowing up the budget deficit. Markets freaked out: long-term interest rates soared and the pound plunged. The tabloid The Daily Star famously set up a webcam showing a photo of Truss next to a head of iceberg lettuce wearing a wig, and asked which would last longer.

The lettuce won, because Britain’s parliamentary system allowed it to get rid of a disastrous leader. We, unfortunately, can’t. 

As Lawrence noted Tuesday night, before the vote, the historical result from something like this is losing the House in the midterms.  Those elections will take place in about 18 months.  Control, if history holds, of the House will go to the Democrats.  Not good news for Chump.  And his disaster bill that just passed the House?  If the Senate goes along with it, it's going to further destroy the US economy. 

It's not a good time for Chump.  Mike noted last night how Miss Sassy JD Vance sounds like a raving lunatic.  Yesterday's snapshot noted all the morons Chump sent to testify before Congress on Tuesday -- all the morons who demonstrated to the American people that they didn't understand the law and apparently thought the Constitution was a text unavailable in English so they not only couldn't read it, they also couldn't refer to it.  Of course, we all know that ignorance of the law is no excuse for breaking it.  And break it is all they want to do.  Let's again note US House Rep Jasmine Crockett from Tuesday's House Judiciary Committee hearing:

US House Rep Jasmine Crockett: This entire situation could have been avoided if people would just know their jobs and actually do their jobs because the entire chaos that ensued, it ensued because of the unlawful detainment and arrest of the mayor in the first place.  But let me get to my actual remarks.  The Republicans have called today's hearing for one reason purpose: To help an administration that's already rooted in lawlessness and corruption execute their dangerous assault on American democracy.

That's true of everything the Chump administration does: This entire situation coul have been avoided if people would just know their jobs and actually do their jobs.

Gabe Whisnant (NEWSWEEK) reports:

The Trump administration has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in a legal battle over whether the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) must comply with public records requests under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), like other federal agencies.

The administration contends that DOGE, as a "presidential advisory body" located within the White House, is exempt from FOIA's transparency requirements, despite a lower court ruling that the department is likely bound by the act.

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) is suing.  You might think Judicial Watch was.  But, no, they're scared and up in Chump's ass.  When it was then Vice President Dick Cheney's 2001 National Energy Task Force, Judicial Watch at least pretended to be about protecting the interest of the American people.  I think I like it better now that we don't have to pretend that they were ever anything other than a partisan op run by a steroid freak.

I find it hilarious that Chump and his Crime Syndicate are attempting to argue that DOGE doesn't have to be transparent when not only did both he and Musk repeatedly insist (lie) that DOGE was going to be transparent but DOGE had access to our medical files, to our Social Security files, to our IRS tax filings and now we're being told that DOGE doesn't have to be transparent or respond to Freedom of Information requests.

On the topic of DOGE, just a reminder since I keep seeing YOUTUBERS trying to glorify Ben Cohen -- the ugly one, not the sexy British football player -- let's note this from Ava and my "Media: The programs we deserve, the programs we don't:"

Just a day ago, the YOUTUBE program THE MAJORITY REPORT served up more garbage with the segment "WATCH: Ben & Jerry's Cofounder Arrested Protesting RFK Hearing."  

 

Ben Cohen was at the hearing to protest Gaza.  But the two hosts (Sam Seder did not host or participate in the segment) kept praising him for protesting Medicaid cuts and for this and for that.

 

And as you listened to them lap at the crotch of Ben Cohen -- while slipping in two sentences about unnamed AIDS activists -- you saw just how much whoring and lies take place from people who are supposed truth tellers.

 

Ben was there for Gaza.  They tried to pretty it up but that's what he was there to protest.

 

Don't believe us?

 

Here's what he Tweeted:

 

 Before I was arrested at the Capitol for protesting the slaughter of children in Gaza, I wrote this statement to explain my actions. Thanks,
@Newsweek
, for publishing it.

 

And on May 18th, he Tweeted:

 

 We are expected to be good Americans and look the other way as Israel prevents food, water, and medicine from reaching the remaining people of Gaza. Israel is literally starving them to death…We must speak out and demand a change in policy. We can’t be complicit in starving kids to death.

 

So they distorted the intent of his protest -- they whored to make him more sympathetic.

 

Worst of all, they whored period.

 

 They can't tell you the truth that Marcia told you at the start of the month in "MAGA and Jerry ice cream? Pass and pass on the hideous Ben Cohen."  Watch the segment, the first THE MAJORITY REPORT has done on Ben Cohen in forever.  

Where in the segment do they tell everyone that our 'left' 'buddy' Ben Cohen is a supporter of Musk and a supporter of DOGE?

 

They don't.  Cohen isn't just praising both Musk and DOGE in the occasion Tweet,  he's started a website -- DOGE VS BLOB -- praising DOGE and hailing it's 'work.'  You know it's work, right?  Lies about Social Security has all these people ripping it off.  Actions like firing needed employees and trying to take over buildings that the federal government does not own.

 

The question becomes is THE MAJORITY REPORT just that damn stupid or are they lying to you because they actually know Ben's gone over to the dark side?

 

Stupid or a whore?

 

It's always a question these days considering what crawled back into the Oval Office.

Marcia told you the truth back on May 7th about Ben Cohen and his applause for DOGE and his embrace of it.  But THE MAJORIY REPORT won't and they're not the only ones.

When I'm asked about problems on our side -- the left -- I think about that.  I think about how a tiny sliver of crackpots are called by the left.  A small number.  And those crackpots never include people like John Stauber.  He's anti-trans, pro-Chump, he's gone full MAGA with a war on science and so much more.  But hes also got friends still -- STILL -- on the left and they don't want him called out.  So they look the other way.  

Ben Cohen is repugnant and not a part of the left.  He made the choice when he embraced DOGE.  People like him do not need to be applauded.  They need to be called out. 

While THE MAJORITY REPORT lied and whored for Ben Cohen -- including that he was there to protest what Robert Kennedy Jr was doing to destroy the safety net -- they did do a sentence on AIDS activists.  

Didn't name them.  They were too busy raving over DOGE lover Cohen.

Here's FREE SPEECH TV doing an actual report on the AIDS activists who protested Junior

I guess they aren't 'celebrity' enough for lazy YOUTUBErs to cover. 

What an embarrassment for YOUTUBErs.

Chump has become a non-stop embarrassment.  And I don't just mean his hair; however, Isabel Keane (INDEPENDENT) reports, "President Donald Trump appeared to debut a new bald spot Wednesday, much to the amusement of the internet.  Many took to social media to joke after photos and videos taken during a contentious Oval Office meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa seemingly revealed a glowing bald patch."  Poor Chump.  Balding and at the same time most of America's learned that he can no longer get an erection.  On that, an update.  Due to the fact that this dysfunction has been going on for some time and the heart medicine he's on, he now has another south of the beltline problem: Shrinkage.  Due to the lack of blow flood, he's complained that it's smaller.  It's a button now, a little nubbing.  He can't get hard and it's about an inch long.  Inch worm, inch worm.

There are so many reasons people laugh at the Convicted Felon.  Mainly because he's a dirty joke.  And greedy.  And corrupt.  Kevin Breuninger (CNBC) reports:

The Trump administration has formally accepted a Boeing 747 jet that was gifted to the U.S. by the government of Qatar, the Pentagon said Wednesday.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth accepted the luxury plane "in accordance with all federal rules and regulations," Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said in a statement to CNBC.

In other news of corruption, Isaac Schorr (MEDIAITE) notes:

The Wall Street Journal called out President Donald Trump over his opaque cryptocurrency business in a new editorial all but accusing him of using his office to enrich his family.

After observing that “Trump likes to blur lines between personal business and public office,” the Journal submitted that he would “help himself by calling off his Thursday gala with the top 220 holders of his meme-coin,” or at least by disclosing “his crypto contest’s winners so Americans know who may be trying to buy access to the President.”

Trump announced his intention to release a meme coin shortly before moving back into the White House this January. And in April, he announced that the top 220 holders of the coin would be invited to a private dinner with him, while the top 25 would also enjoy an “ultra-exclusive private VIP reception.”

As the influential Journal editorial board noted, the “real identities” of the meme coin holders are not public, though a majority of the top 220 and supermajority of the top 25 are believed to have bought their coins on foreign exchanges.

As Ann noted Tuesday, Senator  raised that issue with State Dept Secretary Marco Rubio in a committee hearing and Marco played dumb. Little Liar Marco, Ann dubbed him.  Hafiz Rashid (THE NEW REPUBLIC) notes Marco's cry baby explosion in that hearing:

Secretary of State Marco Rubio flippantly said he does not have to listen to court orders at a Senate hearing Tuesday.

Senator Chris Van Hollen asked Rubio about the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador on the government’s own admission. Rubio repeated the Trump administration’s false claims of Abrego Garcia’s gang membership and alleged crimes.

“We deported gang members. Gang members, including the one you had a margarita with. And that guy is a human trafficker, and that guy is a gang banger, and the evidence is going to be clear in the days to come,” Rubio said, referring to Van Hollen’s visit to El Salvador last month to verify Abrego Garcia’s well-being.

Van Hollen interrupted and tried to refute Rubio’s lies, telling Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chair Jim Risch that Rubio “can’t make unsubstantiated claims like that.”

“Secretary Rubio should take that testimony to federal court in the United States because he hasn’t done it under oath,” Van Hollen asserted, only to be reprimanded by Risch. Then, Rubio made his outrageous claim about the federal judiciary.

“There is a division in our government between the federal branch and the judicial branch. No judge, and the judicial branch, cannot tell me or the president how to conduct foreign policy,” Rubio said. “No judge can tell how I have to outreach to a foreign partner or what I need to say to them. And if do reach to that foreign partner and talk to them, I am under no obligation to share that with the judiciary branch.”

We deported gang members! Little Liar Marco insisted.  'No judge can touch me!'  

Marco Hammer?  I think he'll find out very soon that any judge can touch him.  But again, gang members?  No.  And our Director of National Intelligence knew that was a lie.  Did she not share her 'intelligence' with others?  Erin Banco (REUTERS) reports, "A top adviser to Tulsi Gabbard, the U.S. director of national intelligence, acknowledged in a March 24 email that the Venezuelan government may not have specifically directed the activities of a gang that the Trump administration has used to justify fast-tracking deportation of immigrants, but argued that a link between Venezuela and the gang was 'common sense'."  No one has ever accused Tulsi Gabbard or Chump of having common sense.  So it turns out the whole lie just got exposed.  The intelligence community cannot back up Chump's allegation that this is gang related.

No wonder Chump disobeyed the court order halting the plane from leaving America.  If he hadn't done that, if a judge had been allowed to actually examine and rule, it would have been clear that the whole thing was made up.  That Chump lied and that his lie destroyed lives.  

TALKING POINTS MEMO notes:

New emails obtained by the NYT erase any doubt that DNI Tulsi Gabbard’s chief of staff Joe Kent was doing political damage control when he ordered the intel officials to redo its analysis that contradicted President Trump’s claims about Tren de Aragua:

“We need to do some rewriting” and more analytic work “so this document is not used against the DNI or POTUS,” Joe Kent, the chief of staff to Ms. Gabbard, wrote in an email to a group of intelligence officials on April 3, using shorthand for Ms. Gabbard’s position and for the president of the United States.

Chump put those 300 men into slavery.  They were kidnapped in this country and shipped to a gulag in El Salvador.  And he lied.  He lied.  Grasp that.  This is the stuff of War Crimes.  

As we've noted repeatedly, human rights are not an issue that matters to the Convicted Felon.  He proved that yet again with his Middle East whore last week as he played footsie with terrorists and despots.  Now TIME's Debbie Sharnak explains that the US State Dept's annual human rights report is on hold for 'changes:'

When they are released, these reports will now reportedly exclude information on issues such as government efforts to deny freedom of movement and peaceful assembly, failures to retain or provide due process for political prisoners, and the harassment of human rights organizations. The Trump Administration has also signaled it will cut sections about the rights of women, the disabled, and the LGBTQ+ community.

These Country Reports offer a detailed account of the state of every country’s human rights practices and are meant to inform congressional decisions on foreign aid allocations and security assistance. The reports have taken on added importance over the years. They’re increasingly used as a tool to pressure governments to improve their practices, while advocacy organizations and lawyers rely on them to aid in asylum cases and demonstrate fear of persecution. By revising and cutting out substantial sections addressing an array of rights concerns that the U.S. has cared about for almost five decades, the Trump Administration is undermining the definition of human rights as a concept.

These State Department reports were first introduced at a key moment in U.S. human rights history—although they did not arrive without controversy. As human rights grew as an important organizing concept in the 1960s and the 1970s around the world, U.S. presidents were largely resistant to incorporating it into U.S. foreign policy decision-making. President Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford’s powerful Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, encapsulated this opposition by claiming that taking into account morality or human rights in foreign policy was “totally devoid of contacts with reality and would lead to empty posturing.” Instead, Kissinger’s State Department was dominated by Cold War concerns that relied on a realist approach to foreign policy and focused on great power politics that eschewed concerns like human rights.

Chump's a tyrant himself and he demonstrates it with his lack of respect for human rights. 

He served up more crazy drama on the world stage yesterday as he carried out a planned ambush on the president of South Africa.  Tom Bogoioni (RAW STORY) reports:

CNN host Dana Bash and fact-checker Daniel Dale pounced on Donald Trump Wednesday afternoon after the U.S. president "ambushed" South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa in the Oval Office with patently false claims of murders of white farmers in his country.

After Trump showed a highly manipulative video disparaging South Africa, he followed up by making sweeping assertions and arguing with the African leader, which seemed to have stunned CNN's Bash.

Cutting away, Bash told her audience, "Okay we're going to continue to monitor what has been a truly extraordinary what? Half an hour plus inside the Oval Office. I just, I want to go back to Daniel Dale because there's a lot of fact-checking to do."

:

Dale jumped in, explaining, "The last nine months of 2024 in South Africa: 19,696 murders. How many of them occurred on farms? 36."

"36 about 0.2 percent," he re-emphasized. "That includes employees like security staff, farm workers. How many of them were actual farmers? Seven out of more than 19,000 and it's not even clear that those are all white farmers. Contrary to what the president said, many farmers in South Africa are Black."

"Even the white ones who have been victims of crime, it's not clear, have been targeted for racial reasons," he elaborated. "Experts and white farmers themselves in South Africa have repeatedly told media outlets and think tanks that they feel they are often targeted for robbery and even attacks because they are geographically isolated and therefore vulnerable."

JD Wolf (MEIDASTOUCH NEWS) adds:

During a high-profile meeting at the White House today with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, Trump inaccurately described a private memorial in South Africa, the Witkruis Monument, as a "burial site" for white farmers. Referencing a video of the monument, Trump stated, "These are burial sites, over 1000 of white farmers... both sides of the road, you have crosses."

In reality, the Witkruis Monument, located in Limpopo province, is a symbolic memorial, not a cemetery. It features thousands of white-painted metal crosses meant to represent victims of farm attacks—arranged across a private plot but containing no graves. Trump's comments are the latest in a series of controversial statements that have drawn criticism for misrepresenting the scope and nature of rural violence in South Africa.

The monument itself has long faced scrutiny for its narrow focus on white victims, despite farm attacks impacting South Africans of all races. Critics argue the site promotes a racially selective narrative that overlooks the broader context of rural crime.

 He is an idiot, he is a racist, he is an enemy of democracy.  We have to take back the House in the 2026 mid-terms.  

We didn't have room yesterday for a press release from Senator Patty Murray's office in full.  I noted that I would post it later Wednesday.  I just realized I did not do that.  We don't really have room for it today but let's wind down with it:

READ MORE — CNN: After NIH staffing cuts, cancer patient in clinical trial worries she may lose crucial time; Washington Post: NIH scientists have a cancer breakthrough. Layoffs are delaying it.

Senator Murray: “If RFK Jr.’s mass firings weren’t having an impact on clinical care at NIH, he would provide those details and tell us which positions he’s eliminated. He’s not—because he knows that if he did, he would be caught lying. This isn’t just about Natalie, this is about the millions of Americans like her who are already being harmed by the destruction Secretary Kennedy is causing at HHS, or will be soon.”

****FROM TODAY – WATCH and READ: Senator Murray’s exchange with RFK Jr.***

***FROM LAST WEEK –WATCH: Senator Murray rebuts Secretary Kennedy’s claims about her constituent, Natalie***

Washington, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA),  Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, released the following statement on U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s outburst during today’s Senate Appropriations hearing, where Secretary Kennedy repeatedly lied, dodged Senator Murray’s questions, and made a number of totally unfounded allegations, in particular relating to Senator Murray’s constituent, Natalie, who is suffering from Stage Four colorectal cancer and whose care was delayed as a direct result of the Trump administration’s staffing cuts across HHS. Senator Murray brought up Natalie’s story to Secretary Kennedy at a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee hearing last week; additional background on that exchange is below.

At the appropriations hearing today, Secretary Kennedy claimed to Senator Murray: “You told me two or three days ago, four days ago that we had cut a clinical trial in your state and it turned out what you said turned out to be completely untrue and you knew it was not true because you corresponded.” This was not at all what Senator Murray suggested or what happened. At the HELP hearing on May 14th, Senator Murray laid out how Natalie’s treatment in a trial at the NIH Clinical Center had been delayed by the staffing cuts, according to her doctors at NIH, and then she asked Secretary Kennedy directly how many staff were cut from the NIH’s Clinical Center. Video and transcript of their initial exchange on May 14^th is HERE. A full transcript of their exchange today is available HERE.

“RFK Jr. is a shameless liar and a dangerous conspiracy theorist—he should have never been confirmed. As much as he lies and deflects, I’m not going to stop holding him accountable for the real harm he is inflicting on people in this country.

“Natalie’s care has been complicated, but here’s what’s not: her NIH doctor told her twice that her care was explicitly delayed due to NIH staffing cuts—specifically, that she would have to wait eight weeks rather than four to have her cells re-infused. On the question of credibility, I will trust an NIH doctor over an anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist every day.

“After an initial contact with RFK Jr.’s office last Wednesday, it was complete radio silence with no answers until about an hour before today’s hearing. It should not take me raising this issue with RFK Jr. face-to-face to make sure NIH is working the way it’s supposed to.

“I still have no answer about how many NIH clinical staff have been fired. I still have no answer why Natalie was told by her NIH doctor that her care was being delayed due to staffing cuts. For weeks, my staff has been demanding answers about agency staffing cuts.

“Meanwhile, my staff has been in constant touch over the past three weeks with dedicated career staff at NIH and FDA—the same people the Trump administration is trying to push out the door—to address Natalie’s case. But it has been no thanks to RFK Jr. or HHS political leadership.”

“If RFK Jr.’s mass firings weren’t having an impact on clinical care at NIH, he would provide those details and tell us which positions he’s eliminated. He’s not—because he knows that if he did, he would be caught lying. This isn’t just about Natalie, this is about the millions of Americans like her who are already being harmed by the destruction Secretary Kennedy is causing at HHS, or will be soon.”

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At last week’s HELP Committee hearing with Secretary Kennedy, Murray grilled Kennedy on the Trump administration’s moves to slash staff and block funding at the National Institute of Health (NIH), and laid out how is affecting one of her constituents, Natalie Phelps of Washington state: “One of my constituents, Natalie Phelps—a mom of two from Bainbridge Island in Washington state. She has been fighting aggressive Stage Four colorectal cancer for nearly five years now. Her best hope now is a clinical trial at the NIH Clinical Center. She flew out to the NIH just a few weeks ago for her first appointment, and her care team wanted her to come back in four weeks to start treatment. But because of the thoughtless, mass firing of thousands of critical employees across NIH and HHS that you have carried out, Natalie’s doctors at that clinical center have told her that they have no choice but to delay her treatment by an additional four weeks. Now, an extra four weeks may not sound like a long time but, I will tell you, for Stage Four cancer patients like Natalie, this could mean the difference between life and death.” Video of the full exchange between Senator Murray and Secretary Kennedy is available HERE.

Later in the hearing, Secretary Kennedy asserted that Natalie was ineligible for her clinical trial and called her story a “canard,” saying: “Senator Murray had raised the issue of a constituent of hers who she said had been denied a place in a clinical trial in Washington due to the RIF. We’ve been able to run down that case. The patient was medically ineligible for that trial. It had nothing to do with the RIF. And NIH has been trying to get her into another clinical trial, but none of our clinical trials have been shut down because of the RIF. That was a canard.”

Senator Murray returned to the hearing to respond directly to Secretary Kennedy: “Secretary Kennedy came back and said my constituent, who I spoke about earlier, [her care] was not delayed by staffing cuts. First off, she is already enrolled in that clinical trial. It’s not a question of eligibility—the issue, as I stated clearly, was the delay in care that she got. And what you stated, Secretary Kennedy, is not true.”

“I spoke with Natalie, actually, last night. She asked her NIH doctor directly why, when she was informed of the delay, and her doctor at NIH said very plainly TWICE: her care was delayed because of staffing cuts. And Mr. Chairman, I think it’s important for the record to show, my staff has put in inquiries with HHS leadership and they’ve been unresponsive so far.And, just to make clear, this is just one case of many. But those are the facts,” Senator Murray said.

Senator Murray has been a leading voice in Congress raising the alarm over HHS’ unilateral reorganization plan and slamming the closure of the HHS Region 10 office in Seattle and the CDC’s National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Spokane Research Laboratory. Senator Murray has sent oversight letters and hosted numerous press conferences and events to lay out how the administration’s reckless gutting of HHS is risking Americans health and safety and will set our country back decades, and lifting up the voices of HHS employees who were fired for no reason and through no fault of their own.

In particular, Senator Murray has been leading the charge against the Trump administration’s efforts to gut lifesaving research at NIH and pushed out nearly 5,000 NIH skilled scientists, grants administrators, and other employees at the agency. When the Trump administration attempted to illegally cap indirect cost rates at 15 percent, Senator Murray immediately and forcefully condemned the move, led the entire Senate Democratic caucus in a letter decrying the proposed change, and introduced amendments to Senate Republicans’ budget resolution to reverse it, which Republicans blocked. Murray has led Congressional efforts to boost biomedical research. Previously, over her years as Chair of the Labor-HHS Appropriations Subcommittee, Senator Murray secured billions of dollars in increases for biomedical research at NIH, and during her time as Chair of the HELP Committee she established the new ARPA-H research agency as part of her PREVENT Pandemics Act to advance some of the most cutting-edge research in the field. Senator Murray was also the lead Democratic negotiator of the bipartisan 21st Century Cures Act, which delivered a major federal investment to boost NIH research, among many other investments. 

Senator Murray forcefully opposed the nomination of notorious anti-vaccine activist RFK Jr. to be Secretary of HHS, and she has long worked to combat vaccine skepticism and highlight the importance of scientific research and vaccines. Murray was also a leading voice against the nomination of Dr. Dave Weldon to lead CDC, repeatedly speaking up about her serious concerns with the nominee immediately after their meeting. In 2019, Senator Murray co-led a bipartisan hearing in the HELP Committee on vaccine hesitancy and spoke about the importance of addressing vaccine skepticism and getting people the facts they need to keep their families and communities safe and healthy. Ahead of the 2019 hearing, as multiple states were facing measles outbreaks in under-vaccinated areas, Murray sent a bipartisan letter with former HELP Committee Chair Lamar Alexander pressing Trump’s CDC Director and HHS Assistant Secretary for Health on their efforts to promote vaccination and vaccine confidence.

Senator Murray’s opening remarks at today’s hearing, as delivered, are below:

“Secretary Kennedy—things are not going well. It is clear what you are doing across HHS is devastating to children, families, seniors, and the millions of Americans HHS programs support.

“You were required to send us an operating plan detailing how you’re spending funds that Congress provided for programs families rely on. You sent us what you titled the ‘Hill Version,’ which had over 530 asterisks in place of funding levels.

“Mr. Secretary, we need the real version with actual funding levels. This committee needs to know how you are spending taxpayer dollars right now—and what programs you’re cutting and eliminating.

“You are blocking billions in funding that Congress appropriated from going out the door, including $3 billion at NIH, and $1 billion in Head Start and $3 billion in child care funding alone.

“And that’s on top of all of the other funding you’ve illegally ripped away: $11 billion from state and local health departments, $1 billion supporting local substance use and mental health programs, and $66 million in Title X funds for cancer screenings, birth control, and preventive care.

“You are dismantling HHS, throwing away generations of investments in our health care system and firing critical employees. We’re talking about the people who administer Head Start, LIHEAP, and Meals on Wheels. Or entire teams working on preventing chronic disease and Alzheimer’s, tracking IVF success rates and safety, maternal health, and much more.

“On top of all of this, you propose a budget with truly devastating cuts that would leave America sicker and weaker.

“But you’re not waiting to see whether Congress approves that budget proposal. This administration is starting to unilaterally implement it right now—in defiance of Congress and the laws we have passed. If you aren’t already, you are sprinting down the road of illegally impounding billions in funding, through intentional action and through incompetence.

“To my colleagues on this dais: We heard several weeks ago, what we risk by ceding American leadership on biomedical research. If we bless these staffing and funding cuts across HHS, that means deciding we are comfortable with China leading the future development of every drug, device, and vaccine. The supply chain challenges we faced during the pandemic will be the new normal. Our access to the latest treatments and cures will depend on other countries.

“It’s time to stand up and assert Congress’ authority. This Committee has dedicated itself in a bipartisan manner over decades to make sure we are the global leader in research and development. And now all of us know this administration is setting us back where it may take decades to regain that position.

“If we don’t, decades of scientific breakthroughs and medical discovery—and the bipartisan work to support them—risks being burned to the ground, and it will be very hard to rebuild.”

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Miss Sassy.  You can take the pig out of the pigsty but you can't take the pig out of the pig.  Krystina Alarcon Carroll (RAW STORY) reports:

Vice President JD Vance hammered Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts about the role of the Supreme Court and claimed Roberts was ‘profoundly wrong’, in a New York Times interview.

“Interesting Times” podcast host Ross Douthat spoke with the Vance while in Rome. Their conversation got heated when speaking on immigration.

“It’s not like we’re just throwing that process out,” Vance said.

“We’re trying to comply with it as much as possible and actually do the job that we were left –”

Douthat attempted to interrupt, “OK, but —”

Vance prevented Douthat from challenging him.

“Let me just make one final philosophical point here,” Vance said.

“I worry that unless the Supreme Court steps in here, or unless the District Courts exercise a little bit more discretion, we are running into a real conflict between two important principles in the United States.”

The Vice President later added, “I saw an interview with Chief Justice Roberts recently where he said the role of the court is to check the excesses of the executive. I thought that was a profoundly wrong sentiment.”

Vance added, “That’s one-half of his job. The other half of his job is to check the excesses of his own branch. You cannot have a country where the American people keep on electing immigration enforcement and the courts tell the American people they’re not allowed to have what they voted for. That’s where we are right now.”

His eye liner must be running.  Miss Sassy, you don't understand politics.  When did "the American people keep on electing immigration enforcement"?  

Are you claiming that carried Chump to his tiny victory?

Maybe your fat belly scares your freaky wife but you don't scare me you little pansy.

Donald Chump got 77,302,580 votes while Kamala got 75,017,613 votes -- he got 49.8% of the vote to her 48.3% of the vote.

He did not get a majority.

He lies like this because he did it in elementary school and he didn't have any friends and hid by the teacher all the time.  Otherwise, he would've gotten his ass kicked on the playground and learned to stop that lying.  But, again, the little coward hid by the teacher.  He had no friends.  Probably ate his buggers.  Now he's a liar for life and nothing will ever change that.  He's lied for far too many decades.

Just a little candy ass who lies.  

We don't believe your lies.  

We know you're garbage, a fat little man hating on gays, trans people and cross dressers while you smear eye liner on.  And you don't want anyone to talk about that.  Or to talk about how you crossed dressed in law school.

Not college.  I went to college.  Then I went to law school.

Miss Sassy  took a desk job in the military writing press releases.  After that, Miss Sassy went to college.  At the age of 26, he started law school.  This wasn't an 18 or 19 year old.  This was a grown man near 30.  And he's cross dressing.  He's putting on not just his eye liner, but other make up, and a wig, and a skirt.

And he now attacks gays, trans people and cross dressers?

I think the little coward protests too much.  We'll probably find out in a decade that he's been paying men to tie him to the bed and have their way with him.  

Elections put people in office.

That is not the law.

You have to follow the law, you damn fool.  What?  You got a runner in your hose every time you should have been in classes and never learned the basic about the law.

Congress makes laws.  The executive branch enforces them.

Is that too much for you to grasp?

Probably so.  Enjoy your moment, Miss Sassy.  Barring Chump dying in office, this is the highest you're ever getting in life.  He picked you because you were an unlikable weasel.  Tucker had him convinced the CIA would off him if he chose a qualified running mate -- I'm not joking about that.  If you missed those reports, where were you?  So Chump chose someone unlikable and stupid.  

And Miss Sassy -- even though this was reported -- is too damn stupid to grasp that reality. 

He doesn't know the Constitution.  He just knows what his sugar daddy -- who, yes, is gay -- Peter Thiel tells him.

Peter's the one who got him to grow a beard because without it he just looked like the fat loser he is.

That's fat and sweaty at 33.  He sure sweats a lot for a fat girl.  Guess Peter Thiel was a chubby chaser.

Again, Miss Sassy doesn't know what he's talking about.  Avery Lotz (AXIOS) explains:

The bottom line: It is the role of the Supreme Court to interpret the law — and, when necessary, declare it unconstitutional if it poses a violation.

Judicial review, established in the case of Marbury v. Madison in 1803, allows the court to determine a legislative or executive act in violation of the Constitution.

Here's C.I.'s "The Snapshot:"

Wednesday, May 21, 2025.  It's as though Chump and his appointees set out yesterday to prove over and over just how ignorant of the law they are.  Jasmine Crockett lays it out, Patty Murray, Maggie Hassan, Elizabeth Warren and Chris Murphy expose the ignorance of Chump's Cabinet in a series of questioning at one hearing yesterday after another.

Does it matter?  Yes, it does.  US House Rep Jasmine Crockett outlined why yesterday at a House Judiciary Committee hearing on ICE.

US House Rep Jasmine Crockett: This entire situation could have been avoided if people would just know their jobs and actually do their jobs because the entire chaos that ensued, it ensued because of the unlawful detainment and arrest of the mayor in the first place.  But let me get to my actual remarks.  The Republicans have called today's hearing for one reason purpose: To help an administration that's already rooted in lawlessness and corruption execute their dangerous assault on American democracy.

The fat and impotent Donald Chump is clearly unbalanced but long before all that, he was just stupid.  He remains ignorant to this day.  And that explains the losers and liars he's used to assemble a Cabinet.  Never has a team of less qualified people been put together and allowed to do so much destruction.

The worst of the worst -- that's the best description for Chump's Cabinet and, goodness, has it been on display. 

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's 'experience' was pretty much limited to killing her dog and publicly humiliating her husband.

Needless to say, that did not prepare her for the office she currently holds.

Senator Maggie Hassan: Secretary Noem, the White House Deputy Chief of Staff recently said that the Trump administration is actively looking at suspending habeas corpus.  Last week, you were asked about this and I want to clarify your position because it's obviously really important to get this right.  So, Secretary Noem, what is habeas corpus?

Secretary Kristi Noem: Well, habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country and --

Senator Maggie Hassan:  No.  No.  Let me -- let me stop you, ma'am.  Habeas corpus, excuse me, that's incorrect.

Secretary Kristi Noem: President Lincoln used it.

Senator Maggie Hassan: Excuse me.  Habeas corpus is the legal principle that requires that the government provide a public reason for detaining and imprisoning people.  If not for that protection, the government could simply arrest people -- including American citizens -- and hold them indefinitely for no reason.  Habeas corpus is the foundational right that separates free societies like America from police states like North Korea. As a Senator from the Live Free or Die state, this matters a lot to me and my constituents and to all Americans.

We're all aware that Kristi didn't graduate college, not really.  In real time, she dropped out.  Years and years later, after she was in Congress, she went back and they gave her course credit for serving in Congress at the time. Without those extra breaks and extra credits, Kristi could not have graduated So the point here is, Kristi's not a lawyer.  She's taken no classes in the law.  She doesn't know the law.  If you want a dog shot, Kristi's your killer but if you want someone who understands the law and the Constitution, you'd be better off looking for a fifth grader who even half-assed applies themselves to their studies. 

Erin Doherty (CNBC) notes:

Kristi Noem was grilled on the concept of habeas corpus during a Senate hearing, weeks after White House deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller floated suspending the due process for migrants.

Noem falsely claimed that "habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country."

Instead habeas corpus guarantees a person's constitutional right to challenge, in a court of law, their detention by the government.

Grasp that this idiot doesn't know what habeas corpus is and, worse, she's so stupid, she's convinced herself that the US Constitution says it is a right granted to the president.

Do we all get how stupid she is?  She wasn't qualified for the office and she's been in it for months acting under the mistaken belief that habeaus corpus is a right of the US president and that this is via the Constitution.  If she were an attorney, that kind of 'error' and the way she has applied it could get her disbarred. 

Secretary Kristi is only one of the many idiots in the Chump administration.  Billy Long?  He's another idiot that Chump's nominated.  69-year-old Billy. Billy.  That doesn't give anyone pause, right?

How about this -- like Krsti-with-an-i, Billy is another college school drop out -- woah-woah.   But he is a certified auctioneer.  Only the worst and the dimest for Donald Chump.  But, hey, WIKIPEDIA notes that, in 2023, "he attended a three-day course offered by a Florida tax consultancy."

And this is the fool that Chump wants to head the IRS (someone who has spoken of wanting to abolish the IRS, by the way). 

Yesterday, Senator Elizabeth Warren had some questions for Little Billy. 

 

We'll note the senator's statement in full in a post later today we do not have room in The Snapshot, sorry.  On the transcripts above, I did the first one.  The other three I'm taking from official press releases.  

We saw the incompetence of Chump's administration of full display.  The worst and the dimest.  

You can see the same ignorance in Chump himself.  Brett Samuels (THE HILL) reports:

President Trump on Tuesday lambasted Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.) over allegations she assaulted an officer in a clash outside an immigration detention facility.

“Oh, give me a break. Did you see her? She was out of control,” Trump told reporters during a visit to the Capitol.

“The days of woke are over. That woman — I have no idea who she is. That woman was out of control,” Trump added. “She was shoving federal agents — she was out of control. The days of that crap are over in this country. We’re going to have law and order.”

Yet again, Fat Boy doesn't know the first thing about being a president.  He has no intelligence so let's use artificial intelligence.  This is now a criminal case.  And Chump's commenting.

Generally, presidents are not supposed to comment on individual criminal cases. The judiciary and prosecutor's office should be free from presidential interference in the conduct of individual cases. However, the president may comment on criminal justice policy in general, and may even have the authority to pardon individuals convicted of federal crimes. 

 We used AI because we know Chump's an idiot with no intelligence of his own.  So next time before he speaks, maybe he can Google first and let AI explain it to him.

LaMonica broke no laws. I'm low on space and we're short on time but Elaines covered this topic so we'll just swipe from her:

 If you missed today's primary lesson, it may be do not waste your money sending your children to Widener University Commonwealth Law School.  Their graduates are apparently remedial level as evidenced by. Alina Habba.  The deluded fool is charging a member of Congress, LaMonica McIver, with assault because Alina's a racist.  Matthew Chapman (RAW STORY) reports:

"That conduct cannot be overlooked by the chief federal law enforcement official in the State of New Jersey, and it is my Constitutional obligation to ensure that our federal law enforcement is protected when executing their duties," wrote Habba. "I have persistently made efforts to address these issues without bringing criminal charges and have given Representative McIver every opportunity to come to a resolution, but she has unfortunately declined."

In a statement, McIver called the charges politically motivated and an effort to impede congressional oversight.

"We were fulfilling our lawful oversight responsibilities, as members of Congress have done many times before, and our visit should have been peaceful and short," wrote McIver. "This administration will never stop me from working for the people in our district and standing up for what is right. I am thankful for the outpouring of support I have received and I look forward to the truth being laid out clearly in court."

Further complicating the issue, legal analyst Lisa Rubin noted on X that the charges Habba has supposedly filed against McIver are not currently available on the public docket.

Michael Luciano (MEDIAITE) notes, "McIver, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka (D) and Reps. Rob Menendez (D-NJ)and Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ) visited the center on May 9. Baraka was arrested on that day, and shortly afterward, Habba hailed his arrest. But on Monday, Habba announced she is dropping the charges against the mayor and will proceed with the prosecution of McIver, alleging the lawmaker 'assaulted, impeded, and interfered with law enforcement'."  Alex Woodward (INDEPENDENT) adds, "Criminal charges against a sitting member of Congress escalate threats from the Trump administration under an emboldened Justice Department to target his political enemies. Last week, Democratic House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries called federal law enforcement agencies targeting members of Congress a 'red line'."

Habba's eager to go through the rest of her life without a law license.  She may be able to bully and intimidate and break the law while the overweight and impotent Donald Chump occupies the White House.  But he's out the door January 2029 and Habba will be 44 years old.  No law degree.  Maybe she'll go back to Iraq where her extended family's known to have attacked Black Iraqis repeatedly over the years?

If you're confused about the law on this, maybe Habba is, US House Rep Jason Crow outlined it recently in a letter to Homeland Security's Secretary Kristi Dog Killer Noem and the acting and faking director of ICE Patrick Lyons: 

Members of Congress possess explicit statutory authority to conduct unannounced oversight visits to facilities operated by or for the Department of Homeland Security. This was outlined in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 (Public Law 116-93), Division D – Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2020, Sec. 532 and re-affirmed in each year since, including Section 527(a) of the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2024 (Public Law 118–47), which stipulates:

None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available to the Department of Homeland Security by this Act may be used to prevent…a Member of Congress…from entering, for the purpose of conducting oversight, any facility operated by or for the Department of Homeland

Security used to detain or otherwise house aliens… [nor] to make any temporary modification at any such facility that in any way alters what is observed by a visiting Member of Congress… compared to what would be observed in the absence of such modification.

Furthermore, subsection (b) clarifies that nothing in this section requires a Member of Congress to provide prior notice of intent to enter such a facility for oversight purposes.

Such a sad site to see idiots placed in jobs they can't grasp as they struggle to pretend they're qualified.

Yesterday was Chump and his appointees and would be appointees demonstrating over and over how they do not understand the law.

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