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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.
