With three weeks before hurricane season begins, Dotard Trumpf fired the acting head of FEMA, Cameron Hamilton. His sin was contradicting Trumpf when he said: "I do not believe it is in the best interest of the American people to eliminate FEMA." Hamilton was deployed four times overseas as a USN SEAL before he worked for the State Department and DHS. Trumpf's budget proposes a $644 million cut to FEMA. The Dotard was sharply critical of FEMA's response to Hurricane Helene, a devastating storm that killed 250 people and inflicted $78.7 billion in damage from Florida to North Carolina. Link: whitehouse.gov Read more
The Trumpf junta is bringing the first group of white South Africans it has classified as refugees to the US early next week. The racist Dotard halted virtually all other refugee admissions shortly after he took office in January, but the junta hastily put together a program to admit Afrikaners, who he claims have been the victims of racial persecution in their home country. The junta plans to send government officials to Washington Dulles International Airport in Virginia for a gala event celebrating the arrival of white people to America. Archived link (no paywall): archive.ph Read more
"Mohammed Aburidi (24, Palestinian) and Tareq Aburidi (19, Palestinian) with possessing firearms and ammunition as aliens admitted to the US on nonimmigrant visas. If convicted, each faces a maximum penalty of 15 years in federal prison. An indictment is merely a formal charge that a defendant has committed one or more violations of federal criminal law, and every defendant is presumed innocent unless, and until, proven guilty." Note that the press release reads "Palestinian Nationals..." and not "Two Florida Men..." Imagine if Justice Department statements read "Two Black Men...." There is no reason for this brazen language in the document other than to imply that the two defendants have an inherent mens rea simply for being Palestinian. Read more
President Donald Trump said Thursday that he would pull his nomination of Ed Martin Jr. to be the top federal prosecutor for the nation's capital, bowing to bipartisan concerns about the conservative activist's modest legal experience, divisive politics and support for Jan. 6 rioters. Instead, the president said Martin will be tapped as an associate deputy attorney general and pardon attorney, putting him in the position of recommending pardons for a slew of defendants involved in the violent insurrection at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. When he returned to office in January, Trump granted sweeping pardons and commutations of all people charged with crimes in connection with the riot, or vowed to dismiss their cases.
President Donald Trump has fired Carla Hayden, the longtime head of the Library of Congress, in a move that Democratic lawmakers panned as "callous" and "ignorant." House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., described Hayden as "accomplished, principled and distinguished" in a statement Thursday night. "Donald Trump's unjust decision to fire Dr. Hayden in an email sent by a random political hack is a disgrace and the latest in his ongoing effort to ban books, whitewash American history and turn back the clock," Jeffries wrote. Hayden was formally notified of her termination in an email from the White House's presidential personnel department just before 7 p.m. Thursday, according to a copy of the email reviewed by CQ Roll Call.
Stiglitz doesn't mince words. He argues that today's social platforms"particularly X (formerly Twitter) and Instagram"function as propaganda machines with a reach far beyond anything history has seen.
Their ability to shape political discourse, influence elections, and polarize societies happens almost instantaneously and at a massive scale.
ROFLMMFAO
Man is highly petty to say the least
The picture of the world's richest man killing the world's poorest children is not a pretty one," he told the Financial Times.
Gates also cites the grants that Musk cancelled in Gaza and Mozambique, which are meant to prevent the spread of HIV from mothers to babies " but which Musk has falsely said are used to fund condoms. Read more
President Donald Trump announced Thursday he's appointing Fox News host and former prosecutor Jeanine Pirro the interim US attorney for Washington, DC, after his first pick faced what appeared to be insurmountable pushback from Republicans on Capitol Hill. "I am pleased to announce that Judge Jeanine Pirro will be appointed interim United States Attorney for the District of Columbia," Trump wrote on Truth Social, touting her as the first woman elected to several previous positions and calling her a "powerful crusader for victims of crime." Read more
President Trump suggested to Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday that the top tax rate should increase for individuals who are making millions of dollars a year, according to an administration official. Read more
I don't know her. Trump added. "I met her yesterday...
Jill Biden appeared to give her former president husband Joe a secret signal on The View after co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin asked a very risky question. Biden, 82, was asked about Democrat insiders saying he'd suffered a sharp cognitive decline during his final year in office and began answering the question. But after a few moments of relatively fluid speech the former president suddenly stopped and said: 'I've spoken enough.' Jill, who was sat beside her husband, picked up the answer without a beat, sparking theories she may have nudged him or kicked him under the table to shut him up.
The number of Americans filing new applications for unemployment benefits fell more than expected last week, suggesting the labor market continued to chug along, though risks are mounting from tariffs. Read more
The usual suspects. The only way to find vote fraud is to look for it.
(King Dotard XIV) announced Alcatraz reopening just hours after Escape from Alcatraz' aired on a South Florida PBS station The 1979 film starring Clint Eastwood about the daring 1962 escape attempt aired on the local PBS channel just six hours before the president made his demand that the prison be reopened
