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Friday, July 11, 2025

The official White House account on X released an image of Donald Trump as Superman. Now, you might think that is funny, or stupid, or witty, or maybe you have so much Trump fatigue as this point that you simply don't care. But I think it's much more than that.


One person has died from "injuries they sustained as a result of yesterday's immigration enforcement action" in California, United Farm Workers said on Friday.

Federal agents clashed with protesters during an immigration raid at a farm in Ventura, one of at least two large-scale raids in Southern California on Thursday.


What I learned about rich people, conspiracy, "genius," Ghislaine, stand-up comedy, and evil from 2,000 phone calls.


Gallup polling shows that Trump's approval ratings at the six-month mark in both of his terms are lower than any other modern president at the same time in their administrations, at 38% and 40% for each term respectively. read more


Thursday, July 10, 2025

"He said, "No way". I said, "Way". read more


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The Runaways were formed in late 1975 by drummer Sandy West and guitarist Joan Jett....

Same raids...

"Children Left Alone After Mothers Arrested in Immigration Raids

"I Just Hope I Get My Mom Back," Says 15-Year-Old Juan Martinez, Who Is Now Caring for His Brothers, Ages 8 and 9"

Thursday morning, 15-year-old Juan Martinez received a frantic call from his mother. She told him Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents were right outside the Glass House Farms complex where she worked and would enter at any moment. "She was rushed," said Martinez. "She was panicking."

Martinez didn't know what to do. "It was really, really stressful," he said. "I couldn't drive over there. I couldn't do anything. I was helpless."

The next communication from Martinez's mother came at 11:36 a.m., close to the end of her regular 3 a.m. to 12 p.m. shift. In a hushed voice text she said she was in custody in a van and being taken to Los Angeles. She told him to take care of his brothers. "That made me cry," Martinez said.

Martinez's mother was among more than two dozen Glass House Farms employees arrested during Thursday's ICE raid on the cannabis company's properties in Carpinteria and Camarillo. An undocumented migrant from Guerrero, Mexico, she had been living and working in Southern California for 16 years and has no criminal record, Martinez said.

Martinez has not heard from her since. Meanwhile, he is doing his best to look after his two siblings, ages 8 and 9.

"I'm actually really lost right now," he said. "I don't know what to tell them because I don't want them to freak out. Because they're little, they're little kids."

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The is a Mother Jones article from a few years ago that went into the depths of this dark story.

"But the part I for one hadn't heard before was the very end; the part about his fascination with a book called, "The Man from ----.".

During one of our last conversations, Julie mentioned, in throwaway fashion, a diary entry she had stumbled upon about a book recommendation from Epstein. Summarizing for me, she explained that she'd asked Epstein why he had so many girls around.

"I asked him why he was like this," she recalled, "and he said to me to read some book ... .He told me it influenced him to become wealthy."

The book was The Man From ----., an obscure 1965 James Bond ripoff written by Theodore Mark Gottfried under the pen name of Ted Mark.

It's about a con man who travels the world under the guise of being a "sex researcher" in order to spy for the US government. The novel begins with protagonist Steve Victor in Damascus for the kickoff of an "extensive survey of Arab and Oriental sex practices."

There he is approached by a US diplomat and invited to the embassy. In short order, Victor is recruited to spy for the US government.

"Julie didn't know what the book was about, but she remembered the conversation well.

"It was one of the last things we talked about ... .He said to me, Read this book, and that will help you understand,'" Julie told me. "I never read it and don't think I ever will."

more in the last few paragraphs of the article... that book was apparently what his life became.

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