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A federal Judge ruled that city officials in Naples cannot force a performance inside.
Gov. Ron DeSantis vowed Florida will resist allowing children to attend a drag show at Naples Pride. The vow came a day after U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds urged the city of Naples to fight a court ruling permitting the show.
U.S. District Judge John Steele, an appointee of Democratic President Bill Clinton, ruled
earlier this month that Naples city officials cannot prohibit a drag
performance from being held at an outdoor venue, Cambier Park. He also
declined to stay his ruling while Naples appeals the decision. The Pride
festival is scheduled to kick off June 7.
[. . .]
An attorney for Naples Pride said the drag show is protected by the First Amendment.
It is protected.
Doo-Doo has hissed publicly, "I want Florida to be pro-family.."
First off, Florida's still a part of the United States so my first concern is that it be pro-First Amendment.
Second, Doo-Doo does not speak for every family.
Or even most.
That's why he lost the GOP primaries to Chump.
Grasp that. That's how unpopular he was. Even Nikki Haley performed better than Doo-Doo.
When it comes to trashing LGBTQ+ people, little Ronnie scuffles around in his high heels and tries to pose like a tough guy.
But as we saw throughout 2023 and 2024, Little Ronnie wasn't adult enough to stand up to Chump.
He's a coward and a bully. He picks on those he perceives as weak.
Ron Ron go s**t yourself again like you did in Congress. Chump loved whispering that about you on the campaign trail and like the little bitch you are, you took it.
I'd take my daughter to a drag show. I'm the parent, it's my decision and my choice. Go hide with your freaky friends who hate LGBTQ+ people publicly but then, like your gal Bridget of Moms For Bigotry, they're getting in bed with other women.
And if you missed the point of that story -- a little drama boy had to stick his nose in it when it really wasn't about him and this distracted a lot of people -- the thruple Briget and her husband had with the woman? The woman also engaged with Brigit without the husband. And it was only when the husband tried to force himself off on the woman solo that the woman had a problem with the arrangement.
They're all a bunch of liars and hypocrites and Little Ronnie who boomed-boomed in his pants when he was a member of Congress -- per Chump -- can go s**t himself again if he wants but we're not falling for his act anymore. That he thinks we would goes to why he and his are the Idiots of the Week.
Friday, May 30, 2025. Musk prepares to leave the administration and
he's taking a 'trophy' wife with him, Leavitt and Junior try to match
Chump with their own public lies, Chump's immigration tragedy continues,
how Dems shouldn't speak to prospective voters, and much more.
In the four months since Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency
began slashing federal spending and staffing, a handful of the agencies
he has targeted trimmed their combined spending by about $19 billion
compared with the same period last year, according to U.S. Treasury
Department summaries reviewed by Reuters.
That is far below Musk's initial goal of $2 trillion in savings and
amounts to about a half of 1% of total spending by the federal
government.
DOGE
is a failure. It led to massive firings which increases unemployment,
it's leading to major problems for people trying to access everything
from our national parks to their local Social Security agency. Only
foul fools -- like Ben Cohen -- would ever applaud this nonsense. It's
such a failure that Musk is using exit interviews to lash out and blame
others. Chump's handed him the perfect gift . . . his budget bill.
That bill will steal from every American to give only to the extremely
wealthy. And Musk is pointing to it to pretend as though DOGE would
have worked but now this big budget bill is going to knock out all of
his hard work.
Hard work?
Does
he men apparently having sex with a White House staffer -- a married
White House staffer? Is it okay if the White House staffer's husband
was involved and it was a thruple? Was it a thruple gone wrong and is
that why the wife is leaving with Musk?
Katie Miller, a top adviser and spokesperson for the Department of
Government Efficiency at the White House is headed out to work for the
tech billionaire, according to CNN.
It’s prompted rumors to swirl across the internet that there’s trouble in West Wing paradise.
Miller is married to White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller who on Wednesday fired off a lengthy post on X over Musk criticizing Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.”
Katie Miller, who also served in the first Trump administration, was named to work with DOGE in December.
So Musk was her supervisor?
Propaganda
Pig Karoline Leavitt stuck her snout in the air earlier this week to
prove that she can't pronounce words and to insult LGBTQ+ graduates of
Harvard. Hmm. Let's go back to her problems with words. Donald
starred in the tacky TV show THE APPRENTICE. Is there a reason his
staff struggles with the term "apprenticeship."
Oh
that's right, she cant hear clearly because of the mud in her ears
because no one hosed her off after she crawled out of her pigsty.
So Propaganda Pig is slamming LGBTQ+ people and for what?
It
appears Chump presided over an administration where his bro had sex
with one of his bro's employees -- one of his bro's married employees.
Remember that the next time Chump's bringing up LGBTQ+ people.
And
right now let's just take a moment to ponder whether it was just Musk
and the cheating wife or whether it was a thruple. As disgusting as it
is to picture Stephen Miller having any kind of sex at all, it could
have been a thruple.
Later
today, Chump will host Musk in the Oval Office in a press conference to
mark the end of their FAREWELL TO DEMOCRACY TOUR. Chump will continue
solo on his DEGRADE AND DESTROY AMERICA tour which he's hoping will wind
down in January of 2029 but, with any midterm luck, could be shut down a
lot sooner.
Tesla
CEO Elon Musk is leaving Washington -- to the relief of Tesla shareholders
everywhere. The personal and corporate brand damage done during Musk’s
turn to politics was real, but it can heal if Musk takes his medicine.
Will he?
The Musk political whirlwind is
well-documented at this point. He backed President Trump’s candidacy
after the Pennsylvania assination attempt. Tesla stock soared after
Trump’s victory, hitting almost $490 in December. Investors were
convinced the budding bromance between Musk and Trump would yield
benefits for Tesla. Then Trump tapped Musk to head the Department of
Government Efficiency, or DOGE.
After
that, Musk was seen more in Washington and less at his companies.
DOGE’s controversial actions turned off left-leaning voters, the ones
most likely to buy Tesla vehicles. Tesla stock traded below $222 in
April, or more than 50% from its peak, as concerns mounted.
The Pentagon has ended Elon Musk’s
directive for federal workers to provide a list of five of their
accomplishments every week as it distances itself from one of DOGE’s
most contentious policies.
[. . .]
The
department has required weekly emails from staff since March, shortly
after Musk demanded in February that federal employees explain their
work to him as he began to take an axe to the government.
The
DOGE directive resulted in 2.3 million people receiving an email titled
“What did you do last week?” from the government’s Office of Personnel
Management.
But
it prompted widespread anger and confusion, particularly when Musk
declared on X: “Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation.”
In
our period of time, we keep hearing about this poll or that poll and
Dems are just doing awful. It has nothing to do, please pretend, with
the backstabbers (can Socialists be backstabbers when they're stabbing
Democrats in the back?) like Norman Solomon who can never stop trashing
the Democratic Party?
In this period of time
when an out of control Chump is in the White House, we're all on edge
and the polling is reflecting that though some are trying to use the
polling to insist that Bernie and his small number of lemmings should be
followed off a cliff and others use it to insist that the party needs
to make a hard right.
Reality is the party's just fine in and of itself.
It needs to learn to speak better.
I
don't like all the nonsense pile on the Democratic Party that Dean
Phillips, Socialists and Republicans are doing of late. It's a
distortion in oh, so many ways.
But last night I did catch a Democrat damaging the party.
Maxwell
Frost is in the House of Representatives. He's got a great voting
record. He often gives great interviews and he can be very inspiration
and motivational when he speaks publicly.
Last night he was interviewed by Jen Pskai for her MSNBC show -- MSNBC has not posted it on YOUTUBE.
If
they do, I won't post it here. I would've included in this snapshot so
you could see what I'm talking about for yourself but, again, it was
awful and I'm not posting it as a stand alone.
His remarks might have worked on a college campus (I think they would have).
On primetime cable they turned most people off.
Democrats, to win elections, need Democrats to turn out. Maxwell didn't encourage that with his remarks.
I'm
going to personal for a moment. I'm tired. I'm tired of being online,
I'm tired of speaking to groups of people. I'm exhausted. I'm having
seizures. Sometimes, when I'm speaking, I can feel one about to come on
and I'll cross my hands across my chest with my hands in my armpits so
that people don't see them shaking while I try to wrap it up quickly so
I can down some orange juice or something else for my blood sugar. Now
I'm trying to hold it together to the mid-terms. Too many people
screwed us over in November of 2024. Not just Rashida but certainly
her. People are on edge and I see it everywhere we speak.
Again, I'm trying to maintain this schedule up through the midterms.
So when Maxwell Frost goes on TV and starts talking about what people -- citizens -- need to do?
Stop.
Most
people are exhausted -- and that's in good times, non Donald Chump
days. They have all these bills that they're struggling to pay, they're
working long hours.
They are doing their job.
Why don't people vote? Some people don't vote because of the remarks Maxwell Frost made.
I can't think of anything more stupid to say, more turn down the vote to say.
He went on about how vote and then after and then --
No.
No.
No.
Most
people see their job as voting and voting is the end of it. They are
voting for you to do your job. Maxwell's holistic answers would please a
college audience. But when you're talking to people out there
struggling to pay their bills, struggling to take care of family
members, struggling to make it through the day and you're telling them
that they need vote but then after they're also going to need to do this
and that and . . .?
No.
They're going to vote for someone who says they're going to work and do the job they were voted into.
When you start adding other duties?
You're
not their boss and people don't like being told what to do. You also
come off rather lazy because you're saying that voting for you isn't
enough.
Again, I grasp that we need to hold people's feet to the fire. And I'm doing that.
But
I speak to voters five days a week, sometimes six. And in every large
group I hear people talk about how depressing it is right now and about
how they are stretched to the limit, they took off work to go to a
protest or they made time to go to their reps office and it may seem
simple to you but these are people who have very limited free time and
already taxed with duties and obligations.
And your answer is to tell them: Vote for me and then after the election, you'll need to . . .
Why don't people believe politicians?
Because they've always got an excuse don't they?
I
don't want hear anyone running for election telling voters that, after
the election, there's a honey-do-list that the voter will need to
accomplish. No. There's no chore wheel. You're being elected to do a
ob. And those of us who are fortunate enough to have the time to hold
your feet to the fire will. But we're also going to vote regardless.
Likely voters who might bow out? You give them a chore list and that's
one more reason that they won't show up on election day.
Maxwell's
very bright and a budding star in the party for so many reasons -- and
I've re'Tweeted' him many times on BLUESKY -- but that interview? If
you want to talk about attitudes towards our Democrats in office, that
interview is a reason why there are so many negatives right now.
Tariff refunds?
Leave
it (always) to Lawrence O'Donnell to catch the meat of the story that
others reporting on it and commenting on it miss. He did so again last
night.
The stay is motivated in part due to Chump's promise of tariff refunds.
The
administration lies non-stop. Chump sets the tone from the top, but
they all lie. They especially lie when it comes to money. Steve Bennen (MADDOW BLOG) reports:
At
an Oval Office event on Wednesday, a reporter asked Donald Trump why he
never followed through on his threats to impose economic sanctions on
Russia. The president never quite got around to answering the question,
but he did seem eager to emphasize a completely unrelated point.
“I
went to Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and [the United Arab Emirates], and we
brought back $5.1 trillion,” Trump claimed. “So, I made that money in
about two hours, the money that we’re talking about.” After briefly
suggesting — without a shred of evidence — that Ukraine has misused U.S.
security aid, the Republican went on say, “I’m more interested because I
picked up $5.1 trillion and, by the way, got a beautiful big,
magnificent free airplane for the United States Air Force, OK? Very
proud of that, too.”
For now, let’s not dwell
on the fact that the plane from Qatar wasn’t free, and it’s proving to
be far more controversial than the White House cares to admit. Let’s
instead consider that statistic the president is apparently quite
excited about.
If the “$5.1 trillion” figure
sounds at all familiar, that’s because Trump can’t seem to stop talking
about it. He referenced it a week ago when unveiling the “Make America
Healthy Again” report, which came two days after he pushed the same line
during a visit to Capitol Hill, which came one day after he repeated
the talking point at the White House.
For
reasons unknown, the president went on to say last week that the figure
might even be “$7 trillion” at some undetermined point in the future.
To
be sure, the boast certainly sounds impressive. Americans are
apparently supposed to believe that Trump went to the Middle East, met
with some officials for “about two hours” and left with investments so
enormous, they represent roughly a sixth of the United States’ GDP.
But that’s not what happened.
For
one thing, as The Washington Post reported, Trump has started referring
to Biden-era foreign investments as his own, pretending that they’re
new and that he deserves credit for them. The Post’s report added:
Around
the same time, The New York Times took a closer look at the data and
reported, “The list of some of the agreements published by the White
House left many details vague. The value of the agreements appeared to
total about $283 billion.”
Chump's
lies and self-aggrandizing statements have always been bad but with the
dementia setting in, things have just gotten worse. At least he now
has dementia as an excuse. Propaganda Pig Karoline Leavitt can't offer
the same excuse. She's just a liar. And a sow.
Social
media users railed against Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt for saying
the House spending bill, aka “the big, beautiful bill,” will not
increase the nation's deficit.
"Leavitt: ‘I also want to take the opportunity to debunk some false
claims that have been circulating in the press. The blatantly wrong
claim that the one big beautiful bill increases the deficit is based on
the CBO and other scorekeepers who use shoddy assumptions.’"
[. . .]
On Bluesky, Peaceful Progressive posted a red alert emoji saying,
"BREAKING: KKKaroline Leavitt says Trump's Big Beautiful Bill won't
increase U.S. national deficit, despite Elon Musk expressing
'disappointment' that it will add TRILLIONS of dollars to the debt. This
Administration can't even keep their own propaganda straight!" They
added a clown emoji at the end of the post.
Riverboatjack
told her followers, "I would love to hear Leavitt describe how on earth
this thing doesn't add 5 trillion to the deficit. There's no way to
squint the math."
But one of the biggest liars in the administration this week was Junior. ABC NEWS reports:
"I was surprised to see what seems to be an error in the citation of my
work in the report, and it does make me concerned given that citation
practices are an important part of conducting and reporting rigorous
science," Keyes wrote to ABC News in an email.
Keyes is cited in a paper titled "Changes in mental health and
substance use among US adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic," which
appears on page 52 of the MAHA report and lists JAMA Pediatrics as the
journal. A representative for the journal confirmed to ABC News the
paper does not exist.
Keyes noted she has done research on the topic cited in the MAHA
report, but that she and her listed co-authors did not write the paper
cited. "I would be happy to send this information to the MAHA committee
to correct the report, although I have not yet received information on
where to reach them," she noted.
Betty did a great job covering this last night ("Junior gets caught cheating on his homework"). When I first heard of the controversy yesterday, I thought, "Oh, ____, he's distorting again."
When
we used to speak he had a real problem with anything requiring
thought. He could parrot very well. But on at least two times, a
mutual friend drug me into a disagreement saying, "Tell him that's not
what it says." It wasn't on both times. I consulted the text he was
referring to and it wasn't what was being said. He was taking it out of
context and could only read it in the most literal way. Looking back, I
wonder if he's been undiagnosed because he clearly has a learning
disability. (That's not meant as a slam. I'm dyslexic.) So I thought,
until I read Betty's post, that people were laughing because he had so
obviously misunderstood whatever he was quoting from.
But that's not it. He just lied. He just made it up.
What
has to be in his mind? Besides that worm, what has to be in his mind?
He knows the paper was a lie. Did he think he could charm his way out
of it? As Betty noted:
Citation
errors and phantom research used as scientific evidence to bolster
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s landmark “Make America Healthy
Again” commission report were apparently due to “formatting issues,”
according to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.
Propaganda
Pig. They trotted her out to vouch. Which is how you know it's a
lie. Everything out of her mouth and snoot is a lie.
Let's
turn to the topic of immigration. Chump continues his disaster and
cruel and illegal policies as he targets immigrants and those who look
like they might be immigrants. Jen Psaki covered the topic last night
on MSNBC.
She
also spoke with US House Rep Dan Goldman about this issue. Again, not
posted at MSNBC. However, she did air some of this video that Dan
posted.
On
the topic of all the lives being ruined, these are people we know and
we love. And they're being ripped from our communities. Uriel Blanco (CNN) reports:
A year ago, Andry José Hernández Romero left Venezuela to seek a better future in the United States.
He
wanted to continue growing his career as a makeup artist. He left
behind his lifelong home in the little town of Capacho Nuevo, where he
lived with his mother, father, and younger brother.
On
May 23, 2024 – just two days after his 31st birthday – Andry left with
the hope of one day opening a beauty salon in the US, or making a living
from one of his other passions: design and tailoring. But all that hope
has turned to anguish.
The Venezuelan makeup
artist made it to the US, but his journey became “tragic,” his mother,
Alexis Romero, told CNN. Andry is one of hundreds of Venezuelan migrants
who were deported by the US government to El Salvador in March. His
loved ones have had no news of him; they are completely out of touch.
As
of now, there is no certainty about what will happen to him or the rest
of the detainees in the Terrorism Confinement Center (Cecot) prison.
“Please
bring him back, it’s been two months of anguish. We can’t take it
anymore. Please, put your hand on your heart and send him back. This
anguish is eating us alive … I hope these people say, ‘Yes, he’s coming
back.’ That they say something, anything, just a little thing,” pleads
Alexis, 65.
Andry Hernández Romero turned 32 this
Wednesday. He is from Capacho Nuevo, a town in the Venezuelan border
state of Táchira that, according to official estimates, has fewer than
30,000 inhabitants. He is passionate about design, makeup, costume
making, and acting. These artistic skills have made him well known in
his hometown, where he has been an essential part of a local festival.
We're winding down with this from Senator Patty Murray's office:
Washington, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray
(D-WA), Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee and a senior
member and former chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education,
Labor, and Pensions (HELP), issued the following statement in response
to the Trump administration’s abrupt cancellation of a contract with
Moderna to develop an mRNA vaccine to combat bird flu in humans.
“As bird flu continues to spread across the U.S.—and infect
humans—it’s hard to imagine something more shortsighted than canceling
the contract for a new vaccine that’s shown promise in protecting people
from the disease. mRNA technology has shown incredible promise and
helped save millions of lives—but now this administration is casting
doubt on the very technology this president propelled in his first
administration that ultimately ended a pandemic. We are all now
suffering the dangerous consequences of Republicans confirming an
anti-vax conspiracy theorist to serve as the nation’s top health
official. This contract has helped fund an early trial with promising
results. Now, all that work is being put in serious jeopardy—talk about
government waste and inefficiency. Donald Trump and RFK Jr. want to stop
lifesaving vaccines from being discovered, and they are very
intentionally pushing this country down a dangerous path: we will be
less prepared for the next influenza pandemic, putting the lives and
health of the American people at real risk.”
Senator Murray has been a leading voice in Congress against RFK Jr.’s destruction of HHS and America’s health infrastructure, 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 leadingthe 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, repeatedlyspeaking 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.
We're going to be beyond this at some point. A lot of lives will have been destroyed by then. And we'll look back it and wonder how Chump got away with this. We'll wonder where our humanity was. This is a disgusting period to live in as people are ripped from this country, from their families and their friends and the lives they've made for no reason other than hatred.
A
top House Democrat on Wednesday night opened a probe into the private
dinner that President Donald Trump hosted for top investors in his meme
coin, seeking to highlight the ethical and legal concerns raised by the
president’s willingness to profit while in office.
Rep.
Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee,
demanded Trump turn over the names of the guests who attended last
week’s gala after pouring millions of dollars into the president’s
crypto venture. The Maryland congressman also pressed the president to
disclose what steps he used to determine the source of the funds used to
purchase the meme coin, citing concerns that some of the money could
have come from foreign governments seeking to influence the White House.
“Publication
of this list will also let the American people know who is putting tens
of millions of dollars into our President’s pocket so we can start to
figure out what — beyond virtually worthless memecoins — they are
getting in exchange for all this money,” Raskin wrote in a letter, which
was first reported by The Washington Post.
Ethics
experts and Trump’s political opponents say the meme coin dinner was
the starkest example to date of Trump’s willingness to blur the lines
between his for-profit business interests and his office.
We
need real investigations into Chump's corruption and that's not going
to happen with Republican control of Congress. We have got to win
control of the House in the mid-terms. We have no time for idiots like
David and the hoggettes. They need to sit down and shut up.
I'm
sick of the elderly White Socialists who keep saying 'we need young
blood.' We always need young blood and old blood and middle blood. But
you don't put a 25 year old in charge. And that's if they have
experience. He can be in charge of a 20 something organization. If
they want him to be. But he's too immature and wet behind the ears and,
honestly, stupid to try to be shoving his way into a leadership role.
He
will not help us with young men because he's too fey and too prissy.
The young men that some are so insistent we must woo are not going to
get on board with David Hogg -- the only man who, as C.I. notes, can
make Timothee Chalamet look butch. You don't appeal to men with someone
who is masculinity challenged.
He
has nothing to offer. No skills. No intelligence. No work history.
And even the thing they try to sell him on -- he can speak Young People,
he is conversant in youth! -- is not, in fact, true.
He's a little priss who looks like he uses hand lotion and never had a callous on his hand his whole life. Young men do not relate to that. It wasn't that long ago that I was in high school and college and law school.
Former
Trump White House advisor turned MAGA podcaster, Steve Bannon, straight
up called for President Donald Trump to suspend the writ of habeas
corpus on Thursday, in response to recent court rulings striking down
his tariffs and use of emergency powers to deport migrants without due
process.
“So you’ve got that,”
Bannon concluded after accusing judges of executing a “judicial
insurrection” and adding, “You’ve got the courts on him being
commander-in-chief and deporting the 13 million illegal alien invaders.
The courts are saying there, and I say, hey, on the first, suspend the
writ of habeas corpus. Suspend it. Do what Lincoln did. And Lincoln had a
harder argument, ladies and gentlemen.”
The
Constitution says habeas corpus “shall not be suspended, unless when, in
cases of rebellion or invasion, the public safety may require it” — and
it has only happened inside the U.S. during the Civil War and World War
II.
Bannon and guests have
brought up the idea of Trump suspending habeas corpus more and more in
recent weeks, beginning with a late-April conversation between him and
Rogan O’Handley – who goes by the moniker “DC Draino.”
Nut
job Naomi says nothing about it. She's reTweeting Moms for Bigotry
because Naomi got real fat and real old and it made her hateful. She's
Tweeting her crazy Chemtrail conspiracy theories. But the nut job who
wrote THE END OF DEMOCRACY two decades ago has nothing to say when her
best buddy is calling for habeas corpus to be suspended.
You get that she's not just a nut, she's a nut beyond saving.
Despite
what you may hear in conservative media or from the White House, it’s
Donald Trump — not transgender athletes — who poses a true threat to
women’s sports.
Trump, who threatened to
“protect” women “whether the women like it or not,” has weaponized
hatred toward transgender people for political gain, borrowing a bigoted
strategy used by other extremist movements (like Nazi Germany, for
example). And this week, Trump threatened to withhold federal funding
from the state of California because it’s allowing a trans woman to
participate in high school track-and-field finals. Trump has also
announced a Title IX probe into the state for allowing trans
participation in sports more broadly.
Thursday, May 29, 2025. Donnie Dementia doesn't like the phrase "TACO" or the verdict a court just delivered on tariffs, he does like deporting a five-year-old girl who will likely die if she's deported and he likes deporting an evangelical pastor and he likes deporting the daughter of a US veteran born overseas while her father was serving in another country because Chump isn't just a Convicted Felon, he's a cruel and corrupt human being.
President Donald Trump bristled at suggestions that Wall Street believes he’s ultimately unwilling to follow through on extreme tariff threats, saying his repeated retreats are instead part of a strategy to exert trade concessions.
“It’s called negotiation,” Trump said on Wednesday, adding that he intentionally would “set a number at a ridiculous high number” and then “go down a little bit” as part of talks.
Trump was asked during an Oval Office event to respond to reports of a so-called “TACO” trade, in which investors seize on market tumbles after the president makes tariff threats, predicting he will ultimately relent and equities will rebound.
The acronym -- which stands for Trump Always Chickens Out -- was coined by a Financial Times columnist and has since been adopted by traders attempting to navigate the dozens of changes to tariff policy Trump has announced over the early months of his presidency.
Trump Always Chickens Out. Neither the markets nor business people respect Chump. Alison Durkee (FORBES) adds:
Feb. 7 Trump made his first public comments about imposing sweeping tariffs on foreign imports—after already announcing separate tariffs on goods from China, Canada and Mexico—telling reporters he wanted reciprocal tariffs that match the duties countries levy on American goods, saying he wants to make sure “we’re treated evenly” and that “we don’t want any more, any less.”
Feb. 13 Trump signed a memorandum directing his administration to fix its “non-reciprocal trade arrangements” with other countries by “determining the equivalent of a reciprocal tariff with respect to each foreign trading partner,” taking into account what tariffs a country levies on American goods, but also related costs like value-added taxes and nontariff trade barriers like regulations that make it harder for the U.S. to import their goods.
March 26 The Trump administration announced 25% tariffs on imported cars to be imposed starting April 3, with an extension to imported auto parts starting May 3, as Trump suggested the levies would accelerate “tremendous growth in the automobile industry” as automakers build more U.S.-based plants.
March 27 Trump indicated his auto tariffs would be “permanent” throughout his second term.
March 31 White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters there would be “no exemptions at this time” to Trump’s impending tariffs on foreign goods.
April 2 Trump rolled out his tariff policy at a “Liberation Day” event at the White House, releasing details of the plan that showed nearly all countries (even uninhabited ones) facing tariffs ranging from 10% and 50%—but the Trump administration appeared to calculate by just dividing a country’s trade surplus with the U.S. by its export value, rather than the more sophisticated formula the administration claimed (flip-flop No.1 ).
Contrary to Leavitt’s March 31 comments, the executive order imposing the tariffs exempted “copper, pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, lumber articles, certain critical minerals, and energy and energy products” (flip-flop No. 2).
Trump also backtracked on his previous commitment for the U.S. to charge reciprocal tariffs matching the ones other countries impose on American goods, saying in his speech the administration would instead “charge them approximately half of what … [other countries] have been charging us, so the tariffs will be not a full reciprocal,” adding, “I could have done that, I guess, but it would have been tough for a lot of countries and we didn’t want to do that” (flip-flop No. 3).
We will stop with flip-flop number three but, please note, Alison Durkee goes on to compile 21 Chump flip-flops on tariffs since the start of the year.
Trump Always Chickens Out.
The American people agree with that.
Tuesday on CNN (video above), Harry Enten looked at the polling data and explained, "Trump: a clear plan for tariffs and trade? The majority answer here is 'no.' 'No, Donald Trump does not have a clear plan for tariffs and trades.' This is the one thing that perturbs voters and the markets more than anything else. It’s not whether or not you put tariffs on or not. It’s whether you’re going to actually do it and stick to your guns. The American public does not believe that Donald Trump sticks to his guns. 55% say 'No, he does not have a clear plan for trades and tariffs.' And, I will note, of course, the center of the electorate -- the all-important independent vote? 64% of independents say "No, Donald Trump does not have a clear plan for trade and tariffs'."
And the topic only got worse for him late yesterday with a court ruling declaring that Chump doesn't get to override the Constitution and steal the power of tariffs from the US Congress. Lawrence O'Donnell explains it in the video below.
Pope Leo XIV has subtly made a plea to President Donald Trump to hurry up and do something about Vladimir Putin, after Russia launched a huge drone strike on Ukraine.
In his latest tweet-posting spree, the man once known as Robert Prevost doubled down on his appeals for the U.S. president to fulfill his promise to end the Russia-Ukraine war.
“The people of Ukraine have been struck by fresh, serious attacks,” the Chicago-born pontiff wrote on X Wednesday.
Earlier this week, Russia hit Ukraine with the biggest drone and missile attacks since Putin launched a full-scale invasion in early 2022. The aerial assault of 367 drones and missiles killed at least 12 people—including three children.
Remember Chump's campaign promise to end that war on day one?
Day one.
Check my math but I believe this is day 139. So he couldn't pull it off on day one. And 138 days extra and he still can't pull it off.
“Before I even arrive at the Oval Office, shortly after we all together win the presidency, we will have the horrible war between Russia and Ukraine settled. It will be settled. The war is going to be settled. I’ll get them both. I know Zelensky, I know Putin. It’ll be done within 24 hours, you watch.”
“Russia and Ukraine will immediately start negotiations toward a Ceasefire and, more importantly, an END to the War. The conditions for that will be negotiated between the two parties, as it can only be, because they know details of a negotiation that nobody else would be aware of.”
— President Trump, in a social media post, May 19
Over and over during the presidential campaign, Trump pledged to end the three-year war between Russia and Ukraine — which began when Russia invaded its neighbor. He made it seem easy — “within 24 hours” — and repeated that claim in campaign rally after campaign rally. As shown above, he sometimes suggested he could cut a deal before he even took the oath of office, citing the relations he forged with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Russian President Vladimir Putin during his first term.
Emotional. That's what Putin calls Chump now. Emotional.
As the intersection of the Trump administration’s offensive against immigrants and higher education rests a misguided new policy. As NBC News reported, the president’s team this week “stopped scheduling new interviews for international students seeking visas to study in the United States,” as the State Department prepares a new effort to screen students’ social media accounts.
Evidently, students found to have expressed the “wrong” ideas will be excluded from American colleges and universities.
A day after his administration advanced this policy, Donald Trump was pressed for an explanation. It went badly — not because the president offered a weak defense, but because he didn’t seem to know what the reporter was talking about.
Asked specifically when his administration might resume interviews for foreign student visas, Trump responded, “On what?” Reminded that she was asking about foreign student visas, Trump asked, “For the French?” possibly in reference to the reporter’s accent.
When he eventually figured out what the question was about, he offered an evasive “we’re gonna see,” before changing the subject and whining anew about Harvard.
Watching the exchange, it was hard not to get the impression that he simply didn’t know about his administration’s new policy on foreign student visas — which has proven to be a familiar problem in this White House.
However, according to several polling results following the election, the then-Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris secured the vote among younger age groups. Trump, though, did gain ground, especially among the youth male vote, which they both targeted while on the campaign trail.
A CBS News poll compiling exit poll results found that voters between the ages of 18 to 29 picked Harris by 54% to 43%, while those aged 30 to 44 chose Harris by 51% to 47%.
And a Navigator Research analysis, which compiled data from 5,000 self-reported general election voters, detailed that Americans under the age of 30 voted for Harris by four more percentage points.
President Donald Trump's immigration enforcers have reportedly arrested the daughter of a U.S. veteran.
Alma Bowman, 58, was taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in March during a scheduled check-in at its Atlanta field office, according to Atlanta News First. She has been living in the country since she was 10 years old.
"She is an American citizen, and to lock her up in immigration detention is deeply offensive to her humanity, to the Constitution, and is just plain wrong," family attorney Samantha Hamilton, of Asian Americans Advancing Justice, told Newsweek.
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Family attorney Samantha Hamilton told Newsweek: "Alma is one of thousands of people across the world who have been born to U.S. citizens in countries where the U.S. has erected military outposts, but whom have not been recognized as U.S. citizens. The plight of 'Amerasians' has been widely studied. But in Alma's case, her father legitimated her, brought her to the U.S., and she has lived in Macon, Georgia since she was 10 years old."
Representative Hank Johnson said: "She's an American citizen. That has been clearly established. The fact that one of her parents was an American means that she is an American."
Gabriela USA and Malaya Movement USA said in a joint statement issued in March: "Her detainment is a major cause of concern due to her ongoing medical issues, even being hospitalized just last week which has resulted in her needing to use a wheelchair."
A critically ill Mexican girl who could die within days if her treatment is paused has been ordered by the Trump administration to leave the U.S., according to her family and doctor.
Deysi Vargas’s 4-year-old daughter, named only as Sofia in a GoFundMe page, urgently required better medical care for a life-threatening condition and was granted temporary humanitarian permission to enter the U.S. from her home country of Mexico in 2023, The Los Angeles Times reports.
Sofia has short bowel syndrome, a rare condition that stops her from absorbing nutrients in food. When she was born in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, she had to be attached to feeding tubes 24 hours a day. Since moving to the U.S., her condition has significantly improved, but she still requires treatment every day.
Now the Trump administration has ordered Sofia’s deportation, leaving her at risk of death, an attorney representing the family said.
“This is a textbook example of medical need,” Rebecca Brown of the pro bono firm Public Counsel told the paper. “This child will die and there’s no sense for that to happen. It would just be a cruel sacrifice.”
The family is currently living in Bakersfield, California, just over 100 miles north of Los Angeles.
The threat to Sofia’s life was confirmed by Dr. John Arsenault of the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, where she receives regular treatment every six weeks.
But Chump's willing to kill her. Not even a two-dolls for Christmas miser sentiment offered for this young girl. If you wonder why so many people hate Chump around the world -- or even just in this country -- look no further than his efforts to deport this little four year old girl who has done nothing to hurt anyone and who will most likely die if she's tossed out of the country.
JASMINE GARSD, BYLINE: If you live out by the Little Manatee River in the swamplands south of Tampa, you probably know the name Maurilio Ambrocio. He's an evangelical pastor at a local church. He's lived here for 20 years. Ambrocio also owns a landscaping business. And a few weeks ago, news about him spread fast.
GREG JOHNS: We were helping a neighbor, and he said, did you hear? I was like, hear what? He said, he heard that Maurilio got deported. I was like, what? What did you just say?
GARSD: This is Maurilio Ambrocio's neighbor, Greg Johns. His eyes water as he recalls when Hurricane Milton hit last year. Ambrocio called to ask if he was OK.
JOHNS: Do you need propane? Do you need water? What do you need? That's the type of neighbor - you know, this man is a part of the neighborhood.
GARSD: Johns says he voted for President Trump last November. In fact, he did so at Ambrocio's church, which doubles as a polling booth.
JOHNS: I did. I did because I was not happy with, you know, some of the direction that the country was going.
GARSD: He was hoping migrants with criminal records would be targeted, but this, he said, this is not what he expected.
JOHNS: You're going to take, you know, a community leader, a pastor, a hardworking man. What, did you need a number that day?
GARSD: That day was April 18. Ambrocio had gone in for one of his mandatory check-ins with immigration agents. Pastor Ambrocio has a form of legal protection called a stay, and that means although he entered the U.S. unlawfully, he's allowed to stay as long as he meets with immigration officials who ask him if he's still employed and hasn't committed any crimes. But on April 18, that didn't matter. He was detained. NPR reached out to ICE to ask why Ambrocio was detained this time around. In an email, they said, because he was in the U.S. illegally. They didn't clarify why now. Here's Ambrocio's wife, Marleny.
MARLENY AMBROCIO: (Speaking Spanish).
GARSD: "For my five children," she says, "it's like the world ended."
(SOUNDBITE OF EGG FRYING)
GARSD: While she fries an egg for breakfast, she tells me she dreams about her husband every night. Last night, she says, he knocked on the door of their trailer home. "In the dream, he bought me perfume."
M AMBROCIO: (Speaking Spanish).
GARSD: "And he started spraying it on me. I giggled, and I said, Maurilio, when did they release you?"
M AMBROCIO: (Speaking Spanish).
GARSD: "But he didn't respond. He just looked at me silently." And then she woke up to the very real problems her husband's detention has left them with.
M AMBROCIO: (Speaking Spanish).
GARSD: "How are we going to eat?" she asks, "to pay the bills?" Maurilio was the breadwinner. All of his children are American citizens. The four youngest are still in school. Nineteen-year-old Ashley is now the only one with a job - several jobs, in fact.
We walk out to the field, away from the trailer and her mother. A thunderstorm is coming. The cicadas scream and a hot breeze runs through the Spanish moss. Like many young Americans whose migrant parents have been detained, the burden to provide for her family now falls on her. She's had to take over her dad's landscaping business, learning payroll, coordinating job assignments and speaking to his clients. She's also taken on a lot of his pastoral duties at church, and she's a hostess at a restaurant.
It's cruel, it's inhumane. And there are thousands of reported examples and many more examples that aren't reported. This is not what people thought they were voting for.
As we noted yesterday, he's also trying to toss Dylan out of the country. This is the young man who worked so hard in the last year to get an apartment for his family and pay rent so that they could leave the homeless shelter. This is the hard working, focused young person that America needs. Unless you're Donald Chump. Taylor Odisho (LATIN TIMES) reports:
A Venezuelan high school student who arrived in the U.S. seeking asylum in April 2024, during President Joe Biden's term, was detained by federal immigration authorities following an immigration court hearing on May 21.
Dylan is a 20-year-old student at Ellis Prep High School who entered the States with permission to seek asylum under policies enacted during then-President Biden's administration, CBS News reported. Through the program, Dylan was granted protected status, meaning he could apply for work and driver's learn permits, while he awaited his court date.
Dylan enrolled in a high school program for older newcomers, despite graduating in Venezuela, because he wanted to attend college in the U.S. He saved enough money as a delivery driver while attending English and preparatory classes to move his mother and his two younger siblings out of a homeless shelter and into their own apartment.
However, everything changed when asylum-seeking Dylan was detained last week. A spokesperson for New York Legal Assistance Group stated the young man's detention "robs him of the opportunity to pursue that relief with the full protections afforded to him under the law."
New York City's corrupt mayor Eric Adams refuses to intercede. But then, Chump kept Adams from going to prison so why would Eric Adams do anything that would cross Sugar Daddy Chump?
We've been noting Chump's pay-for-play pardons this week. Ann noted three more of them last night in "Grifters Chump, the Chrisleys, Walczak." Another one to add to the list: Michael Grimm. Remember him?
President Trump has signed off on a full pardon for former Rep. Michael Grimm of New York, according to a White House official.
Grimm, a Republican, was convicted in November 2014 of tax fraud and related charges stemming from his ownership of a Manhattan restaurant before joining Congress. Prosecutors said he underreported wages and revenue to the government, and that he filed false tax documents. Grimm was sentenced to eight months in prison.
Prior to being paralyzed last November, Grimm was a NEWS MAX personality who regularly and repeatedly attacked Kamala Harris while singing the praises of Donald Chump. Quid pro quo. Payback for such 'valuable' 'insights' as saying Kamala wants to "destroy the country" and being a bobblehead gas bag in the unintentionally hilarious film THE PERSECUTION OF DONALD TRUMP. It's always pay-for-play with Chump.
Let's wind down with this from Senator Elizabeth Warren's office:
Trump, DOGE service cuts will require people to make nearly 2 million additional trips to understaffed Social Security field offices each year
In 31 states, over 25% of seniors must travel over an hour to access nearest Social Security field office
Washington, D.C. – A new analysis from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities revealed that recent cuts to Social Security phone services are forcing long, unnecessary travel burdens on seniors and other beneficiaries.
The Trump Administration and Elon Musk’s DOGE made cuts to Social Security Administration (SSA) phone service, including removing the ability to change direct deposit and other banking information over the phone. These changes will require Americans to make nearly 2 million additional trips to already-understaffed Social Security field offices each year — resulting in hours of wasted time, money spent on gas, and more.
The new analysis found that half of all seniors must drive at least 33 minutes to visit a field office, and nearly a quarter of seniors (13.5 million) live more than an hour round trip from their nearest office. Further, an estimated over 6 million seniors do not drive, and nearly 8 million seniors report a medical condition or disability that makes it hard to travel.
Earlier this year, DOGE identified dozens of Social Security Administration offices across the country it proposed to close — which would make accessing offices even more difficult and time-consuming for Americans.
Senate Dems’ Social Security War Room is a coordinated effort to fight back against the Trump administration’s attack on Americans’ Social Security. The War Room coordinates messaging across the Senate Democratic Caucus and external stakeholders; encourages grassroots engagement by providing opportunities for Americans to share what Social Security means to them; and educates Senate staff, the American public, and stakeholders about Republicans’ agenda and their continued cuts to Americans’ Social Security services and benefits.
