They chose him gleefully with shiteating grins on their faces.

Israel to Destroy 'all Houses' Near Lebanon Border

Understatement of the year there. They plan to capture and occupy and ethnically cleanse 20% of the total landmass of Lebanon. 1.2 million are already displaced, 1/4 of the total population of the country.

Unless a minor miracle happens during the midterms he's got nothing to worry about. He's got a congress and SCOTUS that will let him do anything he wants and he can't be reelected so he doesn't have to worry about running again. So what if his base is crumbling, they've already outlived their usefulness to him and he has proven that he does not care one iota about public opinion. He will have stolen billions from the tax payers by the time his term is up and been given immunity from any repercussions, he has already won.

I do hope that I am wrong though.

Having gone through boot camp at Parris Island I can tell you how important is it for recruits to finally see their families again after 3 months of hard training. You're going to see people who just spent 3 straight months having their young brains rewired and learning to be warriors snap if their moms or grandparents get arrested just for showing up.

More: Trump made the unprecedented decision to sit in on oral arguments, staring down the court's nine justices as they quizzed his lawyers on one of the most consequential constitutional questions they face this year: whether all children born in the United States can continue to automatically receive citizenship.

But after less than 90 minutes of watching several of his own handpicked justices tear his arguments apart, the president abruptly left.

The Daily Beast watched as his motorcade exited the Supreme Court and zipped down Independence Avenue at about 11.25 am.

"We are the only Country in the World STUPID enough to allow "Birthright" Citizenship!" he posted on Truth Social after returning to the White House, ignoring the fact that dozens of countries confer citizenship at birth with no conditions.

The mouth breathers in Congress are just going to let it happen too.

Congress has let itself become irrelevant.

If I were religious that would say this is the mark of the beast.

I hope they gave him a blanket to fly home with.

More: An internal ICE financial ledger I obtained shows how the agency is turning local police departments across the county into a vast, decentralized immigration army. This includes payments if cops sign up to be deputized, reimbursements for transportation, salary supplements for cops who process migrant children, and per-arrest-style incentive payments.

All of this is taking place under an ICE program called 287(g), part of a 1996 law that granted the Attorney General (and later the Secretary of Homeland Security) the authority to enter into written agreements with state and local governments on immigration.

Turns out Pakistan is acting as a go-between for these negotiations that "aren't happening."

-------- Bull rolls off the tongue better

More: "These new disclosures suggest that Donald Trump stole documents so sensitive that only six people in the entire U.S. government had access to them, that the documents President Trump stole pertained to his business interests, and that Susie Wiles, then the CEO of Donald Trump's super PAC, witnessed President Trump showing off a classified map to passengers on his private plane," Raskin said in the letter.

Raskin asked Bondi to tell lawmakers in a classified setting who was on the plane, what the map showed and which of Trump's various business interests were relevant to the documents. The letter includes an image of an aircraft manifest with a redacted passenger list from a 2022 flight from Florida to New York.

A grand jury indicted Trump in 2023 for improperly taking classified documents and obstructing a federal investigation. According to the indictment, the papers included "information regarding defense and weapons capabilities of both the United States and foreign countries; United States nuclear programs; potential vulnerabilities of the United States and its allies to military attack; and plans for possible retaliation in response to a foreign attack."

The FBI determined some of the documents Trump withheld "would be pertinent to certain business interests" of Trump's, Raskin said, quoting from material he said the Justice Department gave the judiciary committee earlier this month. And a Justice Department memo said "classified documents pertinent to his business interests" established "a motive for retaining them."

Jack Smith, the special counsel overseeing the documents case as well as a separate criminal case against Trump for trying to overturn the 2020 election results, dropped the prosecutions after Trump won the 2024 election. Smith made a public report of the election case, but District Court Judge Aileen Cannon has blocked the release of Smith's report on the documents case.

"Apparently blinded by the frenzied search to find any scrap of evidence that could be twisted and distorted to level an attack against Special Counsel Smith," Raskin wrote, "you have, quite amazingly, missed the fact that some of the documents you provided include damning evidence about your boss's conduct and may well violate the gag order your DOJ and Donald Trump demanded from Judge Aileen Cannon."

More: Ares Management on Tuesday opted to curb investor withdrawals from its $10.7 billion private credit fund, just a day after Apollo Global Management unveiled similar measures in one of its vehicles. Ares has capped redemptions in its Ares Strategic Income Fund at 5%, after withdrawal requests surged to 11.6%, according to a Bloomberg report.

Other managers, including Blue Owl Capital and Cliffwater, have also scrambled to halt or restrict withdrawals in recent weeks, as rising default fears spark an investor retreat from the sector.

Comparisons to the build-up to the 2008 Global Financial Crisis are now intensifying as concerns over underlying loan quality grow.

Morgan Stanley recently warned default rates in private credit direct lending could surge to 8%, well above the 2-2.5% historical average, with pressure concentrated in sectors vulnerable to AI disruption, such as software.

This not a good thing. More religious wackos in government is the last thing we need.

MAGA might have driven the final nail in the coffin but the ground work for this was laid decades ago by Limbaugh and his ilk. Trump doesn't deserve credit for the work of his predecessors, he just did the one thing he's good at and co-opted someone else's movement and ran it into the ground.

This is believable considering the Iranians weren't known to have any missiles that had a range long enough to get near anywhere near Diego Garcia.

The flight attendants should strike if they're serious.

I'm not a fan of Sen Fetterman but it's not up to the party if he stays or goes it's up to the people who vote for him. If the party wants him gone they need to run a better candidate, it shouldn't be very hard.

More: Last June, the man credited with introducing President Trump to his wife asked the administration for a favor.

Paolo Zampolli, a former modeling agent turned presidential special envoy, had learned that his Brazilian ex-girlfriend was in a Miami jail, arrested on charges of fraud at her workplace. They had been in a custody battle over their teenage son. Now he saw an opportunity.

He reached out to a top official at Immigration and Customs Enforcement, explaining that his ex was in the country illegally, according to records obtained by The New York Times and a person familiar with the communications. Could she be put in ICE detention? That could help him get his son back.

The official, David Venturella, promptly called the agency's Miami office to ensure that ICE agents would pick up the woman from the jail before she was released on bail, according to the records and a person with knowledge of the conversation who requested anonymity to discuss it. During the call, Mr. Venturella noted that the case was important to someone close to the White House.

The woman, Amanda Ungaro, was placed in ICE custody and ultimately deported, an outcome that may well have happened regardless of Mr. Zampolli's meddling. But the ICE official's willingness to spring into action for a Trump ally " even one in a low-level, largely ceremonial role " reflects a recurring theme of the second Trump administration: The levers of the federal government can be pulled to settle a personal score.

More: "The most expedient thing to do for the people around me was to continue to fight, and if I had to ignore the truth at that moment for their expediency, I felt like it was the right thing to do," Robinson said. "We can deal with this on the back end, but I certainly don't want to be the person that costs the president of the United States the election. Didn't want to cost anyone else their election."

Seriously?

Though he admitted feeling regret following his 2024 loss, Robinson said he does not regret lying and would make the same decision again. Instead, one of his "biggest regrets" was not changing his staff earlier in the campaign, because if he had, he would've won, he said.

This all seems to be a rather recent epiphany for Robinson, given that just eight months ago, Robinson appeared on a different podcast and denied CNN's report, calling it "fake news." Even if it were true, he said then, what's so bad about a grown man watching pornography in the privacy of his own home?

In that sense, yes, Robinson is right. But the reason why Robinson was unfit for public office, and the reason why he lost the election, isn't because he used to watch porn, or even that he lied about it. It's that he used the porn forum to say vile things, including "Slavery is not bad. Some people need to be slaves" and "I'm a black NAZI!"

More: Other states, such as Texas, have already begun working with DHS to mass-verify the citizenship status of their voters through SAVE. Election officials cite this as a reason why North Carolina should join in. The problem is, many of those states have encountered serious issues with the database.

"After running its entire voter list " more than 18 million records " through the SAVE database, the office identified 2,724 potential noncitizens registered to vote in Texas," Executive Director Sam Hayes said in a press release.

That's only 0.015% of the state's registered voters. But the real number of noncitizen voters in Texas is even smaller than that, because the SAVE database keeps making mistakes, an investigation by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune found. In Texas, the database incorrectly flagged hundreds of voters as potential noncitizens, with one county reporting an error rate of at least 14%.

Missouri had similar problems. In St. Louis County, the state's most populous county, around 35% of those initially flagged by SAVE were in fact registered at naturalization ceremonies, The New York Times reported. In Boone County, home to the University of Missouri, more than half the voters identified as noncitizens were actually citizens.