Mikey Likes It!: 2025-10-26

Sunday, October 26, 2025

Idiot of the Week

Quick post. The Chump shutdown continues and more and more? Chump and Speaker of the Closet Mike Johnson lies are exposed. They are trying to destroy healthcare in America. David Dayen (TAP) reports:

You could be forgiven for not realizing there’s a government shutdown going on, the second-longest one in U.S. history in fact. Between ICE terror campaigns, revenge prosecutions, summary executions of Caribbean (and now Pacific) fishing boat crews, and the literal destruction of the East Wing of the White House, there isn’t a lot of bandwidth for the void of federal appropriations and the furlough of over 750,000 employees.

Republicans are very much trying to conceal the shutdown from the general public. President Trump dubiously got the troops paid, and he’s trying to figure out how to pay air traffic controllers to prevent flight delays. There have been vindictive cuts to spending projects in blue states and attempted layoffs of federal workers, but the layoffs have been blocked, and stopping infrastructure projects that have yearslong timelines isn’t immediately felt. The House is completely out of session, probably to prevent a 218th vote to release the Epstein files, but also to just take the oxygen out of the room on the shutdown. It’s hard to report on an empty chamber. (House Republicans’ main vehicle to end the shutdown is totally out of date, and they still aren’t coming back to fix it.)

Both sides feel they have a strong hand politically, and while the polling on who is responsible is mostly split, the lack of salience is the key feature. The business-as-usual nature of the shutdown helps keep it going.

But you can’t hide the government from the public forever. And the accountability moment that Democrats have warned about for months is finally upon us. People are opening up their mailboxes or going online and seeing massive increases to their health insurance premiums, kicking in next year.

The new prices won’t begin until January 1, but open enrollment begins on November 1—ten days from now—and new premium rates are publicly posted in at least a dozen states. Healthcare.gov, which 28 states use, will update prices by the beginning of next week. The average annual cost in 2025 of a family health insurance premium is $27,000, and the failure to maintain enhanced subsidies for Affordable Care Act exchanges means that more middle-class and working families will have to pay a greater portion of that.

Chump is not trying to help the American people. And we're all seeing that. In Louisiana? A lot of people need help with healthcare, a lot. And Mike Johnson is harming them. Wouldn't it be great if he lost his seat in Congress in the 2026 mid-terms?

Idiot of the Week? Ewan Palmer (DAILY BEAST) reports:

A top Donald Trump loyalist at the Department of Justice has been mocked online for sharing a photo confusing the Declaration of Independence with the Constitution.

Harmeet Dhillon, a 2020 election denier who Trump picked as assistant attorney general for civil rights, posted a photo on X on Thursday showing her holding hands with the president in the Oval Office.

“I love the Constitution AND my favorite President!” Dhillon wrote. However, as many social media users pointed out, Dhillon was actually standing in front of the Declaration of Independence, not the historic document that outlines how the federal government operates and guarantees the rights and freedoms of U.S. citizens.

“That is… not the Constitution,” liberal political commentator Brian Tyler Cohen posted to his 610,000 X followers.

CNN’s former White House correspondent John Harwood wrote, “A top DOJ official ought to know the difference between the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.”

What an idiot.

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

Friday, October 24, 2025. Chump's war on immigrants continues to hurt us all, Todd Blanche needs to learn the law before he attempts to practice it, Homeland Security is having an in house contest to determine which employee can tell the most lies in one month, and much more.

On yesterday's ALL THINGS CONSIDERED (NPR), Arian Florido pointed out, "At least 20 people have died in ICE custody so far this year, making it one of the deadliest years in immigration and customs detention in the past two decades. This comes as the Trump administration is hoping to increase the number of people it has in detention. NPR's immigration policy reporter Ximena Bustillo has been tracking these conditions." Chump continues his war on immigrants. And on Americans.

And Chump's gestapo continues to terrorize people on the streets of this country. Dan Gooding (NEWSWEEK) reports:

A pregnant Illinois woman has told Newsweek she thought her life was about to end when a federal agent pointed his gun through her car window earlier this week.

Lesly Guevara shared videos on TikTok of her encounter with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers chasing two suspects in Berwyn after she appeared to block them and began beeping her car horn to alert those nearby to the officers’ presence on Monday.

“I kept beeping at them because I know that they say that once you see ICE agents or any of the sort like that, to make a lot of noise, let people know that they’re around,” Guevara told Newsweek on Wednesday.

After the federal agents’ car moved, Guevara, who said she is due to give birth next month, and had her fiancé and 10-month-old son in the car with her, said she noticed an agent walking toward her with his gun raised, telling her she had been impeding officers.

“I started going off on him,” she said. “’You’re really gonna shoot a pregnant woman? You’re really gonna do that right now?’

“I feared for my life and their life, but I felt like I am sick and tired of people taking advantage of my people going through all of this, so I had to do something.”

When not attacking pregnant women, ICE can be found attacking the disabled/challenged. Maria Villarroel (THE MIRROR) reports:

ICE agents appeared to violently arrest a blind man who was peacefully protesting the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Portland. A video shows the man being violently dropped on his head before being dragged away by authorities.

Footage of the arrest went viral on social media, as many expressed rage over such violence toward a disabled man.

Quinn Haberl, who is 4’’6’ tall, was wearing a neon vest as he sat outside an ICE facility in Portland. He was seated right beside a thick blue line painted on the ground signaling where federal property began. His position suggests he did not trespass on the facility.

The chilling video then shows agents coming around Haberl, who was holding his walking stick. One agent grabbed each of his limbs as the man fell to the ground. Witnesses screamed in horror, “He is blind!”

Are you starting to grasp why Kristi Noem and Donald Chump are going to spend eternity rotting in hell? Back to the article:

The demonstrator was then dragged through the driveway toward the building. The officers tried to lift Haberl off the ground, but at one point, they lost their grip and fell to the asphalt. The video then shows agents forcing him to the ground, cuffing him, and picking up his walking cane.

This pure evil, don't pretend it's anything else. Local police need to be cracking down on ICE. Abuse is not permitted nor allowed by any federal official. "I work for Chump" does not waive your legal responsibilities. It may -- and probably will -- condemn you to hell; however, it does not give you a license to beat people up.

Quinn states, “I think they wanted to make a point. So they picked up the weakest person they could find and made a big show out of it." They will be consumed with guilt and self-medicate to try to get through the coming years. You better find yourself a therapist because that's what you're going to need to avoid killing yourself as you live with the guilt over what you did, over what shameful things you did.

You really think you can attack an American citizen and live with it? Billal Rahman (NEWSWEEK) reports:

Dayanne Figueroa, a U.S. citizen and paralegal, said an unmarked government vehicle struck her car at the 1600 block of West Hubbard Street in Chicago on the morning of October 10, while she was on her way to get coffee before going to work.

“I was in shock and terrified,” Figueroa told Newsweek. “Instead of handling the situation as a routine traffic incident, the masked agents, armed in hands, forcibly removed me from my car without questions and without informing me that I was under arrest.”

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) told Newsweek that Border Patrol was making a targeted arrest when Figueroa’s vehicle blocked agents and struck an unmarked government vehicle.

That's what they said. But they take after the head of their department, Kristi Noem. You know, the woman who stood before God and country and promised to love and honor Byron Noem but then, by press reports including the conservative NEW YORK POST, in 2021 began her ongoing extra-marital affair with Corey Lewandowski who, for the record, is also married and per NEW YORK last month, the affair continues. Also continuing? His employment under her. She's a liar, the employees under her are liars. Doubt it? Back to the article:

Footage obtained by Newsweek appears to show armed federal agents detaining Figueroa, dragging her by the legs to remove her from her vehicle. Some agents brandish guns, and bystanders can be heard shouting, “You hit her,” as the situation unfolds.

Additional video obtained by Figueroa’s family from another witness provides a different angle of the encounter. The bystander who is filming tells federal agents: “You hit her. We all saw it.”

“You guys are f*****g scumbags, f*****g Nazis. They hit her car. You guys hit her, and you f*****g know it,” the bystander is heard saying.

“As agents were departing, the driver, a U.S. citizen, struck an unmarked government vehicle,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told Newsweek.

Eye witnesses and video from two different angles do not support the false claims being made by Homeland Security. They need to be sued.

And, in fact, the woman whose car was hit? She should develop whiplash and sue the department for damages. In fact, anyone in their car when Homeland Security hits them should get a good personal injury attorney.

Money's the only thing these whores understand. Ethics? A term they never learned. But hit them in their bank account enough and they might do a little adjustment.

Let's drop back to Wednesday's snapshot since Homeland Security's Trish wanted to dish with a lie -- something's she' become known for:

Again, tell a lie and you're a made person in the Chump mob and they don't fire you. Look at Kristi Noem and the people under her. Farrah Tomazin (DAILY BEAST) notes:

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and her department have been accused of lying to the public after being caught passing off an old photo of a drug boat to promote Trump’s war on narco-terrorists.

On Monday, the DHS News account posted a photo on X designed to discredit Colombian President Gustavo Petro, who had accused Trump of murdering an innocent fisherman in an attack on a boat the U.S. claimed was run by drug smugglers.

“Colombian President claims one of the Narco boats destroyed by the US Naval Task Force was ‘just a poor Colombian fisherman’. Does this look like a fishing boat? It looks like he had tons of bait (cocaine, attracts lots of fish). Colombian president is a liar!!” the post said.

The photo featured the rear of a motorboat, with what appeared to be numerous bags of drugs.

However, the post was deleted after social media users pointed out that it came from a 2024 operation that took place about 1000 kilometers south of the Canary Islands, which was reported at the time by Spanish newspaper El País.

“This photo is from a drug bust that occurred in 2024, zero ties to the current situation,” said a community note that was added to the post as a consumer-based fact check.

Kristi is forever lying. Nicole Charky-Chami (RAW STORY) notes that those under her lie as well:

A senior ICE official is under fire after publicly sharing a 13-year-old child's information — and an expert warns it "could lead to serious consequences."

DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin, 31, who is the most senior public affairs official under Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, revealed the identity, alleged criminal history and a photo of the child detained by ICE, The Daily Beast reported Monday.

McLaughlin is accused of sharing children's information not just once, but multiple times.

Her social media post and the DHS actions “could lead to serious consequences inside the government, such as an Inspector General investigation, disciplinary action, or even congressional scrutiny," Los Angeles-based criminal defense attorney Arash Hashemi told The Beast.

Public anger was rising after a Brazilian-born seventh-grader in Massachusetts was reportedly taken by federal agents to a juvenile detention center more than 500 miles away from his family.

In an attempt to stop the public criticism, McLaughlin and DHS tried to use social media.

"They claimed that the boy had an 'extensive rap sheet,' while listing some of his apparent past offenses. They also stated—falsely, it transpired—that he had been in possession of a firearm," The Beast reports.

It's illegal for DHS or law enforcement to share a child's information.

McLaughlin lied about him having a gun? See, they lie and then they lie again.

Again, Trish is a known liar.

Let's address other issues. Ben at MEIDASTOUCH NEWS coves a new topic, an ad using a speech delivered by then-President Ronald Reagan which condemns tariffs and has outraged Donald Chump.

Let's drop back to February 18, 2014's "War Criminal Steven D. Green dies in prison:"

War Criminal Steven D. Green is dead. AP's Brett Barrouquere, who has long covered Green, reports the 28-year-old Green was found dead in his Arizona prison cell on Saturday and that, currently, the operating belief is that it was a case of suicide.

May 7, 2009 Steven D. Green (pictured above) was convicted for his crimes in the March 12, 2006 gang-rape and murder of Abeer Qassim Hamza al-Janabi, the murder of her parents and the murder of her five-year-old sister while Green was serving in Iraq. Green was found to have killed all four, to have participated in the gang-rape of Abeer and to have been the ringleader of the conspiracy to commit the crimes and the conspiracy to cover them up. May 21, 2009, the federal jury deadlocked on the death penalty.

Alsumaria explained, "An ex-US soldier was found guilty for raping an Iraqi girl and killing her family in 2006 while he might face death sentence. . . . Eye witnesses have reported that Green shot dead the girl’s family in a bedroom while two other soldiers were raping her. Then, Green raped her in his turn and put a pillow on her face before shooting her. The soldiers set the body afire to cover their crime traces."

Evan Bright reported on the verdict:

As the jury entered the court room, Green(red sweater vest) let out a large sigh, not of relief, but seemingly of anxiety, knowing the weight of the words to come. As Judge Thomas Russell stated "The court will now publish the verdict," Green interlaced his fingers and clasped them over his chin. Russell read the verdict flatly and absolutely. Green went from looking down at each "guilty" to eyeing the jury. His shoulders dropped as he was convicted of count #11, aggravated sexual abuse, realizing what this means. A paralegal at the defense table consoled Green by patting him on his back, even herself breaking down crying at the end of the verdicts.
After Russell finished reading the verdicts, he begged questions of the respective attorneys. Wendelsdorf, intending to ensure the absolution of the verdict, requested the jury be polled. Honorable Judge Russell asked each juror if they agreed with these verdicts, receiving a simple-but-sufficient yes from all jurors. Green watched the jury flatly.

We covered Green and his War Crimes here in depth and repeatedly. Some ignored, some that you would think would be covering it. At one point, a left site e-mailed me that they couldn't cover it because they didn't have this or that and couldn't afford to use the photo that AP owned.

That's the photo above. And I posted on that saying here's my copy use it. My copy wasn't as dark as AP's. They scanned their photo to be dark. They got their photo from the same place I got mine -- it's Green's mug shot. It's not an AP photo. They got a public photo, with no copyrights on it, and slapped their name on it and called it copyright. Again, no one steals more copyrights than the media.

Taxpayers owned the photo of Green, they own Reagan's speeches delivered while president. That's reality.

THE NEW YORK POST is squealing like the pig they are about how Todd Blanche and the Justice Dept are threatening California over proposals to arrest ICE agents who break the law. It's a conspiracy they insist!

They don't know what the hell a conspiracy is -- that's THE POST, that's Todd, that's the Justice Dept. There are laws around the country in every community. Those laws are in place for a reason. Government officials discussing the need to enforce the laws? Not a conspiracy and I don't think the biggest Trumper judge in the world would agree that this was a conspiracy -- even before you add in the fact that this issued is being discussed publicly by government officials in California.

You have to obey the law.

ICE is breaking it. California is within their rights to address people found to be breaking the laws.

At present, they're only talking about after the fact. They're not talking about doing it in the middle of an operation. I would be in favor of active arrests but that's not what's being discussed.

ICE cannot break the law. There are laws in place and if they don't like those laws? They can work to change them. But you're not going to beat up people in the streets -- or in a courthouse hallway as with the thug that pushed the woman down and ICE tried to pretend they were shocked by one of their own before putting him quietly back on the payroll -- and get away with it.

Kristi and Chump apparently told them anything goes. No, that's not the case. They have to operate within the frame work of the law. If they break the law, they can be arrested just like ayone else.

It's amazing because Steven D. Green got arrested.

And no one in the military screamed, 'You can't do that!"

That's the military police!

No, it wasn't. He had discharged and flown home and was arrested by the US government as he got off the plane.

The military is not above the law. But Chump wants to put his gestapo above the law?

Oh, hell no.

Todd Blanche needs to watch his public statements. They're ignorant and reveal that he is sadly out of his depth in his government position.

Just another incompetent appointed by Chump.

Now we need to talk about the White House. There are so many issues and we can't cover everything in the snapshot.

Ruth's "Donald destroys our White House" and Stan's "An interesting documentary." and Mike's "Chump and FettyCrap -- can we send them to Mars?" note the destruction of the White House.

I think they've done a great job. I've posted videos here but avoided comment myself. That's because of the type of person I am. I can be cold. You get a surprise death in the family? You want me there. Any kind of emergency or surprise? You need me. I can zoom in and focus on the most pressing issues.

Loss of objects is never my most pressing issue. But the groups we're speaking to are driving home to me just how important the destruction of the East Wing is to Americans.

So, quickly, Donald Chump does not respect history or, for that matter, this country. He's destroyed the White House -- physically destroyed. It was not his to do so. But he doesn't care. He'll talk "America first!" but then save Argentina cattle ranchers at the expense of the American people.

History does matter. Where we were and how we got to the present matters. But not to an uneducated con man like Chump. It's all for sale in his mind. There are no public commons, everything can have a tag slapped on it and sold.

This is what happens when someone with no respect for the institution or the people of this country is president. We need to be sure this never happens again.

And people are right to be upset about this. It was a slap in the face to this country.

Apparently, Chump fancies himself First Lady. This really would be a First Lady project, after all. Maybe all these years of wearing his orange foundation on his face (more recently on his hands as well) has allowed him to get in touch with Miss Donald and let whatever's left of his hair down.

But what he did was wrong and goes to the huge disrespect that he has for the American people.

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We'll wind down with this from Senator Patty Murray's office:

ICYMI: Senator Murray Statement on House Passage of “Big, Ugly Betrayal” Cutting Health Care & SNAP for WA State Families to Fund Tax Cuts for Billionaires

Senator Murray briefly relied on food stamps as a child and has always fought to fully fund SNAP benefits; Murray fiercely opposed Republicans when they passed the largest cuts to SNAP in American history this summer by passing their Big Ugly Bill.

Washington, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, joined Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Ben Ray Luján (D-NM), and 42 of their colleagues to send a letter to USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins calling on the USDA to release the billions of dollars at its disposal to ensure Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits continue in November.

The senators raised the alarm about the USDA’s failure to use available funding to continue SNAP, writing: “We were deeply disturbed to hear that the USDA has instructed states to stop processing SNAP benefits for November and were surprised by your recent comments that the program will ‘run out of money in two weeks.’ In fact, the USDA has several tools available which would enable SNAP benefits to be paid through or close to the end of November.”

“First, the USDA must, at a minimum under the law, use the contingency funding that is available for SNAP, as noted by USDA officials. Second, the USDA has interchange authority under 7 U.S.C. 2257 that permits the transfer of funds from other USDA nutrition programs. In fact, this authority was recently used by the USDA when it transferred money from child nutrition programs to the WIC account to maintain WIC benefits during the shutdown,” the senators continued.

“In the event that more resources are needed than what is available in contingency funding, the USDA should explore all legal means to augment funds to pay the full amount of SNAP benefits in November. Americans are already struggling with the rising cost of groceries, and they cannot afford a sudden lapse in grocery assistance. We urge you to immediately communicate to states and committees of jurisdiction the USDA’s plans to disburse the contingency funding to state agencies and utilize all available legal authorities so that American families can get benefits without interruption. Democrats remain at the table and ready to negotiate reopening the government,” the senators concluded.

In addition to Senators Murray, Booker, Klobuchar, and Luján, Senators Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Michael Bennet (D-CO), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE), Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Chris Coons (D-DE), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), Dick Durbin (D-IL), Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Maggie Hassan (D-NH), Martin Heinrich (D-NM), John Hickenlooper (D-CO), Mazie Hirono (D-HI), Tim Kaine (D-VA), Mark Kelly (D-AZ), Andy Kim (D-NJ), Angus King (I-ME), Edward Markey (D-MA), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Chris Murphy (D-CT), Jon Ossoff (D-GA), Alex Padilla (D-CA), Gary Peters (D-MI), Jack Reed (D-RI), Jacky Rosen (D-NV), Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Brian Schatz (D-HI), Adam Schiff (D-CA), Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), Tina Smith (D-MN), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Raphael Warnock (D-GA), Mark Warner (D-VA), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Peter Welch (D-VT), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), and Ron Wyden (D-OR) signed the letter.

The full text of the letter to Secretary Rollins is available HERE and below.

The Honorable Brooke Rollins

Secretary U.S. Department of Agriculture

1400 Independence Avenue, SW

Washington, DC 20250

Dear Secretary Rollins,

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is our nation’s largest food assistance program, serving 42 million people, including 16 million children, 8 million seniors, and 4 million people with disabilities. Any halt in SNAP funding will have devastating impacts for program beneficiaries, increasing food insecurity and undermining family budgets. Given the critical importance of SNAP benefits, the USDA must take all steps possible to ensure that families do not go hungry.

We were deeply disturbed to hear that the USDA has instructed states to stop processing SNAP benefits for November and were surprised by your recent comments that the program will “run out of money in two weeks.” In fact, the USDA has several tools available which would enable SNAP benefits to be paid through or close to the end of November. First, the USDA must, at a minimum under the law, use the contingency funding that is available for SNAP, as noted by USDA officials. Second, the USDA has interchange authority under 7 U.S.C. 2257 that permits the transfer of funds from other USDA nutrition programs. In fact, this authority was recently used by the USDA when it transferred money from child nutrition programs to the WIC account to maintain WIC benefits during the shutdown. In the event that more resources are needed than what is available in contingency funding, the USDA should explore all legal means to augment funds to pay the full amount of SNAP benefits in November.

Americans are already struggling with the rising cost of groceries, and they cannot afford a sudden lapse in grocery assistance. We urge you to immediately communicate to states and committees of jurisdiction the USDA’s plans to disburse the contingency funding to state agencies and utilize all available legal authorities so that American families can get benefits without interruption. Democrats remain at the table and ready to negotiate reopening the government.

Sincerely,

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