In the United Kingdom this morning, Thames Valley Police arrested Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly Prince Andrew, on suspicion that he committed misconduct in public office.
The Orange Freak is so horribly embarrassing and dangerous. He's wasting money trying to duplicate the UN so that he can control it and in the process humiliating and isolating us from the rest of the sane world. Worse, the countries who have decided to join the Board of Peace are either complicit authoritarians or countries who fear the US under Trump. How can we rid ourselves of this menace?!
When I saw a headline saying $10B had been pledged to the latest Trump grift, I was wondering which countries would have been stupid enough to give Trump money. Now I see that it's going to appear magically, courtesy of Trump, who will no doubt try to hustle the taxpayers for it.
In a SCOTUS decision today, 6-3, Chief Justice Roberts struck down trump's tariff-taxes. A huge separation of powers decision.
Another victory for NEAL KATYAL & the toy maker Plaintiffs actually all small businesses & of course ,Costco as well.
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Further to the Epstein Files partially released so far:
2/19/26: Epstein Crimes are getting detailed along with the names of Perps & the identity & a wide arrange of accomplices.
Per the Wall Street Journal reported only today, 2/19/26, back in 2016 a potent witness who was an Epstein accomplice, the French "Model Scout" Jon Luc Brunel, who had photos & was cooperating " ... with lawyers representing Epstein's victims" to testify about Epstein's USA crimes but, went "dark" after receiving a three (3) million dollar bribe.
A critical date was an email Epstein sent on 5/3/16 to Goldman Sachs' lawyer, KATHY RUMNELL who just announced that she would "step down" as Chief Legal Counsel of Goldman Sachs on 5/30/26. IMO, that's only if disbarment proceedings do not overtake her Spring Break.
WSJ article: credited to K. Safar & Caitlin Ostroff.
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In the UK:
Ex-Royal, ANDREW MOUNTABATTEN-WINDSOR has been arrested for "misconduct in office" . In the UK, Andrew is the first Royal arrested in 4 centuries.
Similar to France after arrest & interrogation in the UK, investigation continues. Indeed, per BBC World News. Andrew's 2 Estates were searched early yesterday. At trial Andrew faces a maximum Life sentence.
But, as LISA RUBIN today stated on MS NOW, yesterday, media is focusing on the now rich & famous. But, there others, many others, some here in the USA that ran the massive & deep Epstein Crime Network. I concur with Lisa.
Here's just one (1) example, Gynecologist Dr. Mark London who is at Ohio States University's Wexner Center. Yes, that Wexner.
Apparently elsewhere in the world public humiliation (the minimum) and criming (the maximum) count toward removing someone from office/board/commission, etc. Not here since the head criminal “has been ‘totally exonerated’.” WTAF.
Bryan, so Mark London is at Ohio State University's Wexner Center. That Wexner. Would that be the Ohio State University where one James Daniel Jordan was the assistant wrestling coach who "saw nothing, knew nothing" while his associate, Dr. Richard Strauss, was diddling 143 boys in Jordan's care? That Ohio State? Yes. Yes, it is.
I think we will need to move the Republican crime wall to a much larger wall. And we'll need several dozen more skeins of red yarn.
Bryan, I read an article this week about how custom and border people at the St Thomas airport in the Virgin Islands (near the infamous island) aided and abetted him. He bribed them in various ways. So lots of help from peons.
So lovely, Apache, you note this behavioral quirk of the grifter, con man, rapist, money launderer, murderer, friend to dictators and murderers, and even better friend to rapists of underage girls.
To sue others allows his true expression of himself, or of itself, a bottomless pit of sewage, offal, skank, and American-style fakery.
He, or it, remains at war with all life, getting off only on the most vaudevillian huckstering of greasy orange cosmetics, cheap gold smears everywhere to accompany his (its) name, double-jerking-off two guys at the same time, sucking off a microphone, and regular parades of most vile insults and reductions of all life to the ad hominem.
America. A land that elected this cesspool of hatreds.
Might American schools ever stand for something other than this? Oh, I forgot: testing. They, all those far-off, neutered, anonymous elites ask the questions. Only they. Keeping the tens of millions anesthetized, blind. Allowing Donald to on his throne of suing, hating, raping, murdering, with every day his illiterate cowardly sycophants oozing further descents to terror and chaos.
Yep, a slam-dunk, unfortunately. I am worried about the gold at Fort Knox. How do we know if the DOGE BOIS or other MAGAs in high positions have not absconded with it? Truckloads could be loaded up late at night and sent to Mar-a-Lago and from there sent to an unknown location.
Yea, and I thought the republicans were budget/deficit conservatives, always complaining that the dems spend money (on infrastructure, health care, education) not meaningless wars, tax breaks for the wealthy, ballrooms, triumphal arches, and airplanes for his cabinet to use so they can carry out their sexual affairs in private......OMG.
Well, those who survive are not always the strongest or most honest, but wave bigger guns. It is lamentable but it would be indolent not to recognize it. To the victor the spoils, which also means to the victor the right to impose pain, fear and hypocrisy.
Agree and if this keeps going, he won't have to lie about elections anymore; they will be rigged. 6 Nov 2026 will be our next judgement day in the history of this country.
There ya go! But he’d probably try to keep the $10B from the bogus lawsuit and screw the taxpayers over to fund this new grift. I think his MAGAts are pretty well tapped out.
Elon isn't and neither are dozens of other mega-billionaires like Thiel and Bezos. We're already hearing radio and tv ads for Susan Collins touting a few trinkets she has been able to sneak by Trump and Bessent. Meanwhile, Bessent and Trump are withholding tens of millions of Congressionally allocated money for health care, research, infrastructure, climate change, etc.
Her message is like the arsonist that starts a fire and then expects a reward for calling 911.
And Bessent says he’ll write any check he’s told to ($10B to Trump) and is withholding financial records from Sen Wyden, who’s reconstructing Epstein’s financial infrastructure.
Just heard a report that Duke energy, perhaps the county’s largest supplier of electricity, will receive $75 million to refurbish a coal fired electricity plant so that is could work until 2040!!!!!
It’s the ‘charity’ he’s bilking taxpayers for—the $10 billion he’s paying himself in restitution for his taxes being leaked. Who wants to join me in a class action lawsuit against DOGE and this admin for OUR tax and social security data being breached and leaked? $10 billion apiece is the going rate in demandsfor suing the Govt….
Meanwhile, millions of families are now uninsured because of the cowardly Republicans in Congress. Unemployment is up, jobs are scarce, wages are stagnant again, housing is expensive and scarce, food and energy prices up and we are dealing with Trump's other BS instead of affordability.
There was a moment when Susan Collins was with John McCain as a last vote for protecting the ACA. Then she was a last vote to sink the John Lewis voter protection act. Now Collins is lined up to be the last vote for the MEGA SAVE the GOP by screwing voters act. Round heels Susie flat on her back. For despotism. In the form of Trump. Eew. Maybe it pays well. After her last vote for Brett Kavanaugh, Leonard Leo held a big fundraiser for her here on MDI. Mitch McConnell always rolled the pork into Maine just in time for elections. Collins is still de jure chief appropriator, but de facto appropriations chief Russell Voight will roll the pork into Maine Bath Iron Works - for Trump's name branded battleship boondoggle.
Thanks for the reminders -lin. I email Susie at least twice a week. She has even started answering once in a while. For years, she ignored my emails.
I think enough ME voters are telling others that she doesn't respond to us that now she feels she has to. Of course, most of her responses are boiler plate BS but I think she's feeling the pressure.
What is wrong with people! Perhaps if they spent more than 4 minutes a week engaging in the news they would know the US economy added 1.46 jobs in 2024 and last year, his inaugural year, jobs slowed to 181,000.
Are we sick of winning yet? All I feel is deeply embarrassed, worried, and afraid.
I think STAYING plugged in here for Lent is easily equivalent to the hardship of GIVING UP chocolate for Lent. I'm ordering more Grocer's Daughter Chocolate today.
Agree with you! Every morning I get up early, put on the coffee, and read Heather's "Letter". I forward it to my 37 year old son and my husband. They both also read it first thing in the morning. First thing! (I thought about giving up chocolate also. I opted for not cussing).
We're being "hustled" alright and as I told friends yesterday, we are being bankrupted as a nation by him, and if anyone knows how to bankrupt, he sure as hell does.
All Trump has to do is call Scott Bessent and get the $10 billion transferred to his pocket - er, to the Board of Peace account. The whole thing would be a joke if it wasn't such a travesty.
None of the shithole countries that have joined the Shithole Board of Peace, a con job run by the biggest Piece of Shit on the Planet have a billion to hand over to the GutFodder.
Exactly. I also thought of the $10B President Epstein is demanding from the Treasury/IRS for his whiny ass boo hoo hoo hurt feelings. Wonder why the $10B figure in both cases. Wonder what would happen if no one filed and/or paid federal taxes this year.
The ultimate irony will be if Israel pays it since we support them richly - and is why they have nearly free and totally univeral medical care (but we don't) and a college education costs about $3,300.00 per year - compare that to here. In effect the US people will be the ones paying Israel's bill. I think they know this and are very reluctant biting the hand that feeds them.
Maybe they're channeling President ConMan: tell them you're doing to give money back, pay your bill, whatever, and in the end do nothing! No one actually has transferred money yet, but in the meantime they curry favor.
What is more embarrassing and far more dangerous than the orange ding-dong are the 77 million voters who put that thug in office. Each one of those voters is a huge net negative for humanity.
Well said, Mr. Page. We must always beware the Moronic Majority's conditioned, reflexive hatred of socialists and socialism – which is, in effect, support for unrestricted capitalism -- and ultimately therefore (sometimes unwitting) endorsement of the capitalists' often secret or maliciously disguised but nevertheless omnipresent yearning for the Trumpstein-caliber omnipotence granted them by Nazism. This hatred will be the most important barrier to success in any post-victory struggle to avoid resurrecting the failed, plutocracy-tyrannized nation that spawned the ChristoNazis’ “Unified Reich,” and instead to construct from its ashes a new Republic capable of ensuring, in the immortal words of Abraham Lincoln, “....a new birth of freedom...that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
We’re still fighting the same bastards Lincoln was fighting. It’s just a damn shame he didn’t order Grant to hang for treason every CSA officer, one by one, as they were encountered on the battlefield.
No one is going to hang. Start dealing with that reality. Trump has the full unconditional power of the pardon and knows it. You can hate that but it's right there in our Constitution. Until Trump is gone and we fix it, there is little anyone can do about it. So we need to stop wasting our breath and energy on things that can't be changed and focus on what can be done, like making sure we elect a Democratic congress in 2026 and a better president in 2028. Protest yes but recognize how limited our power really is.
We will (hopefully) survive but it won't be a walk in the park.
Jon, I hate that you are right in realistic and practical terms. In normal times, your comment makes sense. But normal is over.
Obtaining a "better president" needn't wait for the 2028 election. Here's a thought. November 3, 2026 - Largest Blue Wave in US history. Immediate impeachment of Trump AND Vance. Democratic Speaker of the House becomes president. January 2029 is busy, busy, busy as the new sane president reverses every executive order by his predecessor. DOJ is purged of MAGA Nazis and professionals rehired. Simultaneously, DHS and HHS are restaffed with experts with career experience. US rejoins the WHO. USAID is resurrected.
The US apologizes to the world. All manner of weapons including fighter jets are sent to Ukraine. The Russian network of influencers, internet trolls and money launderers living in the US are rounded up and deported. Funds retrieved.
Trump is charged with multiple cases of sexual assault - there are dozens of cases. His immunity shield from the Extremes does not apply. He is held under house arrest at Mar a Lago. There is a hurricane. Storm surge sweeps away the whole neighborhood. Sharks in large numbers are seen all along the coast.
Vance is defended with millions donated by Thiel and Andreesson but the impeachment stands. He returns to Appalachia - but is never heard from again. Childhood buddies knocked on his door.
All that sounds crazy. Until you compare it to Trump's 2025 - which was as insane as any bad novel - or film by Tarantino, Scorsese or Coppola.
Time to think outside the box. 47 left the box in the dust a long time ago. Time to suit up and get creative. Creative visualization leads to daily decisions that add up and create the circumstances for success.
IMHO New Mexico and Virgin Islands should be at the forefront. Maybe NY and other states where there is no statute of limitations for rape.
E.G. Lutnick may not have been a rapist, but may have been a pimp, panderer, and was a business partner with Epstein, probably knowing he was running the honeypot operation. Supposedly they were partners in an advertising business.
Also obstrution of justice may be an ongoing issue.
Google: Howard Lutnick and Jeffrey Epstein were business associates primarily between 2012 and 2014, according to unsealed Justice Department records. While Lutnick previously claimed to have severed all ties with Epstein in 2005, the "Epstein files" released in early 2026 revealed several shared financial and social entanglements:
Adfin Solutions Inc. (2012–2014): On December 28, 2012, both men signed documents on behalf of their respective companies—Epstein through Southern Trust Company and Lutnick through a Cantor Fitzgerald affiliate—to acquire stakes in this advertising technology firm.
Property Transaction (1996–1998): Records show a historical real estate connection where Epstein sold a Manhattan property in 1996 that Lutnick eventually purchased in 1998 to use as his primary residence.
Continued Interaction:
2011: The two scheduled drinks at Epstein’s home.
2012: Lutnick and his family visited Epstein’s private island, Little Saint James, for lunch in December.
2015: Lutnick invited Epstein to a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton hosted at Cantor Fitzgerald.
2017: Epstein donated $50,000 to a UJA-Federation of New York dinner honoring Lutnick.
Lutnick, the current U.S. Secretary of Commerce, has maintained that these interactions were limited and mostly coordinated through assistants.
We need to separate the wheat from the chaff by calling out the churches that promote hate instead of love and that support the Republican message over the message of their savior and the one they supposedly pray to to help them.
Loren Bliss and others understandably make the association between a widespread perversion masquerading as Christianity... and Nazi/Fascism.
In America, failed far-right politicians ended up discovering "religion" and at last achieved complete tax-free "success" as wolves in sheep's clothing. They call themselves ministers of religion and live in comfort, even luxury, exploiting the yearning of naive, downtrodden and deeply resentful people, their obedient well-milked flock.
In effect, a highly successful Satanic takeover.
Religion concerns itself with the ultimate power and, wherever there is power, there will be abuses of power. Thus, blasphemy -- the diversion of religion for other purposes such as maximizing wealth and secular power -- becomes the endemic disease of religions, especially but by no means exclusively, the monotheisms.
The great temptation relates to the power of the One... one Deity, therefore one truth... and up springs the abuser, proclaiming that he alone possesses that One Truth... so that all others whose view -- even their culture, their appearance -- in any way differs from his own... is a hellbound heretic, an enemy to be hunted down and destroyed.
Hence, the ultimate perversion: the religion of hate.
Brainwashing is real, even within houses of worship. A pastor who loves power and adulation has the congregation (and their votes along with opinions of others...in his hands). The belief that our denomination is superior becomes a controlled group, regularly judging others ie "The Bible" they use is not as accurate as ours.
Why are they building houses for others who will probably destroy them in a year?..."those people" do not know how to care for anything!!! We should just take care of "our own"!
I am a Christian but no longer apart of a Church.
There remain a FEW faithful but I hate gossip, and "the better than thou" attitudes have been, in my opinion, unChristian.
....and isn't it weird, as you wrote, ...."the ultimate perversion: the religion of hate." But it is OK for some of us to put ourselves above others. Jesus, the Christ make Himself vulnerable.....allowing Himself to be taken, mocked and abused....placed upon a cruel cross, beaten to the bone and yet gave God's words of love to two convicts also on crosses. As he spoke with them...one believed and one mocked Christ and did not believe.....even so....Christ is all about free choice....not brainwashing....not demanding His way.
Marsha, if only the wheels of justice had run faster, the scumbag would be in jail instead of the White House. And yes, an intelligent, compassionate, joyful and sane woman would be president and we would have a much decent and happy country 😀. Thanks for your nice comment .
Not quite, Ally. The tax cuts are the result of the bribes. It's a perpetual-motion machine. Bribes produce more tax cuts, which make more money available for bribes, until there are no more taxes on the rich. And the rest of us get to cough up 50% of our harvest to our feudal overlords,
That's exactly why my stomach turns and I loose my sleep when I read that "only" 40% of the Americanvoters, after everything that it's going on ,support the scumbag. Thanks for your comment Rex.
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What I don’t understand is the lack of information with all of Epstein’s multiple dwellings the New Mexico ranch seeens beyond chillingly and almost folds into complete and utter moral depravity. Young Mr Harris will rue the for the rest of life his association with this administration. Our origins came from wealthy males with some wealthy females playing for ultimate control and power of lands, peoples, and society. Every modern day colonial power a corporation . Name all the Western countries and there was a company involved that exploited everything that could be exploited for certain people’s gains. The Roman Catholic Church played into this with is bishop princes and second son stream of male clergy. They helped out many people but never really separated from the dance totally. So this is just an ultimate continuation of colonialism. One hopes that someday this era will reach its zenith of moral and ethical mayhemed and a new era of equality for all humans may ultimately energy. Though still dicey. I think the base humans stink flows high past our galaxy and beyond. Aliens who would ever want to make contact with us? I think Madeline L’Engje protrayed this well as calling the earth shadowed by the Ethroi. We need to break civilizations bent and arc toward selfish greed and depravity to care for each other and our planet. It’s an exhausting time and passage through time but from last night speech and the ultimately fools errands and wild goose chases and ignorant actions of the current admiration we may arise in a better place to really heal ourselves and planet. It’s been a long time coming.Verne and H G Wells and other artists sometimes went mad in despair of our ability to mature. I hold out that hope and darkness before dawn perhaps.
The oligarchs control the messaging. And their message is that Trump and the Republicons will make you rich. They tell you every day and every way that the US economy is doing great. And then they turn around and arrest American citizens for protesting against their thuggery.
Last night Hannah Pingree told a group of voters that all of the governors are on the front lines against Trump. But so far, it's only been the Blue State governors that have been brave enough to stand up to Trump.
David Jolly could become Florida's governor and who knows what could happen in many other red states. Many of the morons that voted for Trump have already jumped ship, especially the bros between 18 and 45. It's us old farts that need to convince our fellow oldies to vote and to vote blue.
Not so many oldies - we are in the standouts and marches and messaging, but we are not convincing our kids and grandkids that they are never going to be wealthy like the oligarchs are wealthy (show them Paul Krugman today)!! They identify the superrich with their more modest “American dream” of social mobility. Get out in front, correcting that dangerous illusion.
It is hard to believe, Rex Page, but some of those people actually believed his lies sincerely, wanted to have a closed border, chose him because he said he would fix the Russian war in Ukraine the first day, the price of eggs would come down the first day, etc.etc. How anyone in his or her right mind can look at Trump and not know he is lying every time he opens his mouth is beyond my ability to imagine, but I do believe many of his people were sincere. We need to be reaching out with sincerity to the people who realize he duped them. BTW, important — he did not have a majority. Just a plurality. Of course there are irredeemable MAGAs, but you don’t know who they are. So we need to irrefutably call him out and at the same time reach out to those other Americans who are persuadable.
This is my war cry. A woman I know said she'd vote for him again because she loves his policies. When pressed she couldn't tell me what policies she loves though. I'm guessing it is deporting black and. brown citizens.
Rex, that is what scares me as well. The ones in my world (former work cohort that I no longer call friends) believe all the garbage they gobble up from their propaganda sources
Shawn, the challenge with these boycott lists is that if one followed all of them, one wouldn't buy anything at all. Which would be nice if one could survive on nothing. It comes down to making choices of the least bad.
I note that AT&T isn't on the list you've shared, yet AT&T is 100% evil.
PetSmart might advertise on Fox, but 80% of their political donations go to Democrats. Petco doesn't advertise on Fox, but 75% of their political donations go to Republicans.
Your response might be, "Don't buy pet supplies from chains. Buy from a local mom & pop shop."
And my response would be, "Prices at small, local shops are always higher, and there's a 90% chance that local shop owners are Republicans."
Dale, Point taken. This path is imperfect. Even I don't follow my own advice to the fullest. The greater point is that Trump exists because of Fox. Understanding that is the first step toward understanding how we got where we are.
Try Etsy, Ebay, Thrift Books, trash nothing, thread up, etc. I am disabled and used to shop at Amazon so much, I had an Amazon Credit Card!! It took 8 months to get to $0. I now buy less, spend less, and give more personal gifts! Go easy on yourself, just choose the best alternative when you can or choose one company at a time.
And he can’t keep his eyes open. This is not a monarchy where we must wait for the king to die before replacing him.
I hope the voting public remembers, in this year’s elections, they (congressional Rs) did this to us. They could have curtailed our national misery months ago.
I can see it coming: the Christian [sic] nationalists will support corrections to the New Testament referencing Jesus as the younger brother of Donald J. Trump. The Mount of Olives will be renamed Trump Peak. Trump will sit on the right hand of God the Father Almighty when he passes, and in time may replace God on His throne.
All of this simply goes to show us how absolutely hollow Trump is as a human. I cannot name one single virtue that he has. He has no core. That he and Pam Bondi connected should be no surprise as its common for the like-minded to bond to one another.
There is one good thing about him. He has shown how flawed our system is when people don't vote and more importantly aren't educated and use independent thinking. FACT CHECK is it sounds too good. Use COMMON SENSE. Day one prices will go down. Seriously?
Yes, Trump has shown to us our flaws in our education system: failure to teach critical thinking skills; failure to teach comparative history and comparative political systems. We've known the process of how the wealthy used wedge issues to lure ordinary Americans into voting against their own best economic and social interests since at least 2004. Thomas Frank, "What's the Matter with Kansas?" [2004] But, Trump (a hollow man) has shown to us the absolute degradation of many of our citizens, posturing themselves as Christians. I think that Trump may get the ever-lasting fame that he has sought: Donald John Trump will go down in the Guinness Book of World Records as the most hollow, empty, totally-devoid-of-even-one-single-positive-attribute human ever to have existed, anywhere on earth.
More to the point, why haven't we rid ourselves of him already? It's not as if we don't know the trump crew acts without legal authority most of the time ... actually, blatantly lawlessly
I agree with GinaAM - it's the Republican politicians who must shoulder the primary responsibility for permitting this deranged, totally self-absorbed, sorry excuse of a human being to remain in office. Put simply, they are simply cowards without a core of values that is worth even a bucket of spit. Trump got lucky in having such an ill-informed and values-depleted electorate to be in place when he walked onto the playing field.
Deanna-You’ve asked the billion $ question. Why is he allowed to continue-the Rs have to take responsibility because if there was any time a president could be impeached or the 25th amendment invoked this is it!
And, an article in WaPo (of all places!) points out that after taking the U.S. out of the WHO, the Trumplicans have come up with a plan to recreate it under Trump, and it will cost taxpayers three times as much as membership in the WHO did.
Well......He is always surrounded by his retinue of diviners: the Steve Millers tell him this, the gods speak in another way, his dreams propel him this way; his "vision" propels him that way; the criminal advisory insists otherwise --- where is the truth, where is the way forward?
"the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act to secure elections. In fact, in solving a nonexistent problem, the law dramatically restricts voting. Republicans in the House have already passed it. If the Senate passes it, Trump told an audience in Rome, Georgia, “We’ll never lose a race. For 50 years, we won’t lose a race.” This is a surprise. Professor please elaborate on this law about 2026 election.
I am concerned about the rule that requires women to have their maiden name on identifications. In the past the dutiful wife always took her husband's last name. Could that be a sign that a wife is one of his possessions? isn't that what republicans want? barefoot and pregnant and subservient. So, we did that, and now we are being punished for not being the Gloria Steinham , Virginia Slim woman?
Don't get me wrong. I NEVER thought of myself as a possession but as an equal. The name change was just a tradition and no more.
The worst sleazes in high places are finally getting nabbed.
Decent English people, like many decent others in our fellow democracies, have felt abhorrence over this recent decade of Donald – his vulgarity, his lies, his murders, his racism, his misogyny, his scorn for the rule of law democracy and especially his cozying up to Putin and other corrupt and murderous dictatorships.
These decent others in our fellow democracies couldn’t do much to alleviate the primary problem – the tens of millions of U.S. idiots always falling for the Donald lies, always copacetic with his corruptions. But, over time, they could gather evidence on Donald’s playboy and murder pals around the world.
Good. Crown authorities in the UK have now made their move.
Donald still has his thug militarized, terrorist private armies, still has his corrupt private prison industry beginning to make his gulag of torture concentration camps, still has his sycophant allies atop federal agencies to abet his thuggery, his bullying, and his terror campaigns.
But decent souls among our allies have finally taken to what weak, cowardly, blind, and impotent we could not do.
ex-prince Andrew was not arrested for his pedophilia, though he had lost his royal title and royal residence because of that. The arrest was for a more straightforward criminal activity, disclosing national secrets to someone not authorized to get them (Epstein...). Andrew was the British trade delegate for many purposes and had access to lots of confidential information useful in negotiations. Why he chose to send any to Epstein - who knows? To curry favor? to show off? to pay for some of Jeffrey's girls?
It's not exactly, John, that some among us get more reptile in them.
It's that, from among all the wonderful smorgasbord of our humanities, keeping us open to each other, to some human decency when dealing with complications, our more reptile class just jumps to criminality. All kinds.
Donald. Jeffrey. Former Prince Andrew. All trafficked, all their lives, in money laundering, extortion, and bribery with Putin and his oligarch crowd, with Mohammed bin Salman, Netanyahu, and all that Mideastern cohort of murderers, torturers, and mass murderers.
And they're lucky, this reptile class, as they have the Long Dong Clarence court (some call it the John Roberts court) open for business for the open sluices of dark money, even more high-toned bribery, and Citizens United business.
Had read of the Reptilian Brain in researching and wonder if there’s ‘just’ cause for people of this propensity …like perhaps those who are sexually abused themselves or bullied badly? But somehow the old monopoly study indicates the same once beyond certain holdings/property/perhaps wealth …this greed, lust for more-power,money,sex, whatever ..triggers something in mankind…but not all…there’s plenty of the very rich who are ..well…DECENT…may cover that .
So is there -the/a - more common cause in bullies, sex maniacs- pornos/murders/rude/vindictive/habitual liars ( perhaps racially biased could be added) ?
It certainly seems odd that these people generally commit the most crimes and aren’t more monitored. They have most of the obvious red flags early on. I believe we have the technology to do this. The first thing done in such cases is ‘their record’. And how many time we’ve heard ‘ had a history of mental illness’, had a variety of minor infractions , and often the reason for a light sentence when ‘all seemed fine’. Schizophrenia doesn’t usually show up until after 20 y.o. for example. But it’s defintely a mental illness.
Yes, TY J L for helping clear the point. 🫶 As was my findings during a long career in protective social work. Mental illness is often a late diagnosis underlying long term behaviors. Though not an excuse.
As a society recognizing and proper management of these afflictions , addictions, OR convictions should be sooner …Whether for the victim , the perp , or the traitor, be best practiced management ..sooner.
It is not an excuse in the sense that we as a society must do whatever is necessary, and wisest, to protect ourselves and human rights. I don't think we do is always wisest though. I recall many years ago when a recently released prisoner killed again, I saw a public official interviewed on TV about the killing. Ask it the prisoner had received counseling, she said that counseling was forbidden by state law (I forget which state) until the "punishment phase" had been completed, which is to say not until the perpetrator had been released back into society. Rehabilitation?
Free will is complicated, but as a practical necessity we have to be taught to behave in responsible ways, and held accountable for transgressions. But when abusers are so often victims of abuse themselves, we as a society could, I think, find wiser ways to stem abuse, and abusive situations, which I gather is part of why we have social workers. I don't have any trouble sending a predator such as Jeffry Epstein to jail, especially a privileged predator; same with Trump, but I think as a society there is too much direct and indirect abusive behavior that cheapens and corrupts our society, even costs many lives. The passion of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" is iconic, but the denouement gets less attention, when the Prince says:
"See, what a scourge is laid upon your hate, That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love. And I for winking at your discords too Have lost a brace of kinsmen: all are punish'd."
Having had a major hand in creating this monster, $COTUS now gives it a reprimand. They may have to hew closer to the Constitution, now that the recognize the rug is being yanked from under them.
It would help if the "GOP" appointees retain some shreds of decency, though with most of them that seems doubtful. But I have noticed a penchant for the Roberts court to consider themselves the ultimate brokers of state power, which is a title Trump claims as well, and there ain't room enough in the country for two such egos to avoid collision.
Are you referring to SCOTUS saying the tariffs are illegal? That will be interesting to see what happens if the money has to be returned. Fortunately for trump he only garnered 280 billion dollars not the trillions he told everyone we would be getting. I guess I'm not going to look for my $2000 check in the mail now.
For now. They may get to the pedophilia later. Even if not, the slow drip of Andrew’s public downfall and humiliation over years has no doubt been quite painful. Not to mention estrangement from the royal family. Even his daughters, both mothers, are put off.
These men who have had the kind of power that huge wealth has afforded them are still thinking that they can lie their way out of what the information in the Epstein files is proving. ANDREW And Wexner lie even when we know they are lying and they know that we know. They just do not care. It is the ultimate “screw you, whadda ya gonna do about it”.
Hopefully we will do something about it, and soon. Wexner may be in his 80s, but he needs to spend the rest of his evil life in prison.
Financial stuff is easier to prove than sexual assault; this is compounded by the perversion being harder to bring to trial and convict than are person crimes when so much time has elapsed.
Andrew passed useful government financial information to Epstein, presumably to Epstein's benefit. Trump stole and hoarded secret government information of various types. A coincidence? I suspect not. Trump learned from Roy Cohn how to be a vicious a-hole. He may have learned from Epstein how to monetize secrets. As president, he had the advantage of direct access.
“Benjamin Netanyahu and Russia’s president Vladimir Putin … have been indicted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes.” Things come in 3’s: The ICC has to add the unelected president who has been murdering people on boats in the Caribbean and hiring masked thugs without ID badges or warrants to kidnap people and put them in for-profit prisons or ship them to foreign torture sites. Surely there are enough crimes against humanity by now.
The media had no problem looking the other way when Obama was deporting illegal immigrants by the millions—but now they want to clutch their pearls when Trump enforces the same laws? Please.
Let’s get one thing straight: under Barack Obama, ICE didn’t just sit quietly at the border sipping coffee. They were out in the streets, raiding homes, pulling people over, even in sanctuary cities like Chicago. Don’t believe it? Go watch PBS’s own “Lost in Detention” from 2011. A woman got deported after a traffic stop in Illinois. So much for “humane.”
And where were the street protests? The activist mobs? Nowhere. Why? Because the media wasn’t interested in stirring up outrage when their golden boy was in charge. Under Obama, local governments actually cooperated with ICE. That’s what led to the rise of sanctuary cities—some Democrat-run areas started passing laws to *block* that cooperation.
Haven't seen you around. The thing is with the media right now, they report or say negative things, they get fired, shut down, banned from media briefings. Don't like a episode, take it off the air hours before it is supposed to go on ( the one about the detention camps which Barrie (trump loyalist) removed temporarily.)
Karen, I’m around every other day. And your statement is absolutely incorrect. What happens is when they Tell lies they get fired because their viewership goes down and the company makes less money and that’s what happened to CNN and MSNBC that lost 50% check it out 50% of their viewership over the election
When they continually try to lie and became less than incredible and their viewers, most of them believe it or not went to Fox and now Fox is the leading network on TV and it’s a news network of all things
It now has more viewership and primetime than MSNBC or MS now who had to change its name and CNN COMBINED AND IT HAS MORE VIEWERSHIP THAN ABC NBC AND CBS IN PRIMETIME
IT MAY NOT BE CREDIBLE TO YOU, BUT IT’S CREDIBLE TO. IT’S VIEWERS
We will NOT escape punishment for the cruelties we have allowed to take place among the Hispanic people who came to this country to work in jobs our citizens will not take and to do their hard work with excellence...to learn to speak our language, to care for our children and elderly with love and patience....and to share their beautiful culture including their music and dance with us. They do not belong in warehouses....what a waste of strength and talent and humble service!!!!! GOD IS WATCHING US AND NOT FROM A DISTANCE!!!! Persons of all colors and eye shapes and cultures enrich my own life.
I am ashamed of the leadership that has turned their face away from these horrors!
It will be a happy day when Trump and his thugs (men and women) remove their greedy , lying beings from any leadership position within this country!!!!
It will be a great day when Democracy and great men and women push and fight their way to the top where they belong!
https://t.co/tNmg9DCEoZ. Oooops by the way Phil did you see the names that were put out on that list of 300. Some really good names there like Gloria Allred, John, Brennan, George, Clooney, and Bill Clinton and Javier Becerra and Alec Baldwin and Cher and Corey Booker and all the Biden‘s And Michael Wolf of all people Rohanna, Ted Liu, Hakeem Jeffries, Robert Mueller. Pretty cool list. I wonder when you’re gonna want him to get arrested lol
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) — A visibly shaken Donald J. Trump told reporters on Thursday that the arrest of Andrew Mountbatten Windsor set a dangerous precedent of pedophiles facing consequences.
“King Charles released a statement where he said no one is above the law,” he said. “That was a horrible thing to say.”
Calling Andrew’s arrest “disgraceful,” Trump said it had made him “rethink the whole idea of becoming king.”
“If you can be a member of the royal family and still get arrested, what’s the point in having a crown?” he said. “You’re better off just having your own supreme court.”
Oh, the irony of ironies. The country still with a king — a descendant of the one we cast off — writes “let us be clear, the law must take its course” — while the one supposedly based on law and order tolerates a would-be emperor trying to steal everything not already locked down, and changing the name of everything that is.
King Charles is a strange guy with a helluva lot of quirks. But I am convinced that he’s fundamentally trying to do good in this world. Some years ago, Time Magazine had a cover feature on him and all the charities he’s actively involved in – hundreds of them – many of which he founded. It impressed me deeply!
His younger brother Andrew (from whom Charles already stripped the royal title) may have been a war hero in the Falklands War, but King Charles is not going to prevent him from being held to account for his crimes. And in addition to exploiting and abusing underage girls, those crimes crimes apparently include giving Epstein sensitive information in return for ... uh, services rendered.
Well, it’s not just because Charles is a good guy who founded a lot of charities. His previous namesake arrested in 1647 eventually lost his crown (to say nothing of the 10 pounds of ugly fat it sat on top of).
Not for nothing, when the king opens Parliament every year and dispatches the Gentleman (or Lady) Usher of the Black Rod down the hallway to inform the House of Commons that “His Majesty commands” their immediate, “honorable” presence in the House of Peers that they *first* slam the door in his face, forcing him to whip out that ebony rod and bang on the wooden door three times in a row before they open it and let him approach the Speaker.
A goofy ceremony maybe, but always observed — a metaphor to remind the King that there remains ONE chamber in the land even he cannot enter.
It’s fun to watch. The door truly shakes and you can see the dent left behind by hundreds of rod-bangings over hundreds of years. When they do let him in, tradition also calls for loud catcalls and snide put-downs. Great fun, but with many layers of meaning.
Your’e right It’sCome To This, the irony is so striking. And updating the arrest precedent from 1647 to 2026 will certainly keep the spotlight where it needs to be. The funny thing about those arcane rituals ( of which our constitutional monarchy is the best living example) is that they originate in clear and relevant principles. And Rick baby, for ffs, ALL the names should be investigated. Unless you consider sex trafficking and misconduct in public office to be purely party political issues? RELEASE THE FILES!
Finally! You've given us something that pertains to your area of expertise and it struck a note in the way people can perceive what's happening. A Dutch exchange student had an uncle who was an auditor for Philips. He said he had been all over the world, but all he had ever really seen were the trips between the airport and the Philips headquarters. Is that all you have to offer?
Charles and William are acutely aware that mishandling this scandal will mean the end of the monarchy, so I wouldn't be too lavish with the praise. But, certainly, a personal statement from the king, as opposed to the regular Buckingham Palace statement, is unprecedented.
Fair point. Of course, at that time, it wasn't a global scandal with screaming headlines on every corner. She might have been forced to respond differently if she were on the throne today.
I read some portions of King Chuck's published writing and was unimpressed, but I do think he cares about more than himself. That's not always a given in high places.
The media had no problem looking the other way when Obama was deporting illegal immigrants by the millions—but now they want to clutch their pearls when Trump enforces the same laws? Please.
Let’s get one thing straight: under Barack Obama, ICE didn’t just sit quietly at the border sipping coffee. They were out in the streets, raiding homes, pulling people over, even in sanctuary cities like Chicago. Don’t believe it? Go watch PBS’s own “Lost in Detention” from 2011. A woman got deported after a traffic stop in Illinois. So much for “humane.”
And where were the street protests? The activist mobs? Nowhere. Why? Because the media wasn’t interested in stirring up outrage when their golden boy was in charge. Under Obama, local governments actually cooperated with ICE. That’s what led to the rise of sanctuary cities—some Democrat-run areas started passing laws to *block* that cooperation.
The dictator is on record for admitting to covering up the release of the files, claiming that his “friends will get hurt.” It’s stunning that no one’s pounding on that. Not only is this an obstruction of justice, it’s practically an admission of guilt. He knows exactly what went on, he was a huge part of it and yet it all slides under the rug. His “I’m exonerated” is akin to Nixon’s “I am not a crook.” The more he says it, the guiltier he reveals himself to be. What the hell is wrong with us that he gets away with this?
The media had no problem looking the other way when Obama was deporting illegal immigrants by the millions—but now they want to clutch their pearls when Trump enforces the same laws? Please.
Let’s get one thing straight: under Barack Obama, ICE didn’t just sit quietly at the border sipping coffee. They were out in the streets, raiding homes, pulling people over, even in sanctuary cities like Chicago. Don’t believe it? Go watch PBS’s own “Lost in Detention” from 2011. A woman got deported after a traffic stop in Illinois. So much for “humane.”
And where were the street protests? The activist mobs? Nowhere. Why? Because the media wasn’t interested in stirring up outrage when their golden boy was in charge. Under Obama, local governments actually cooperated with ICE. That’s what led to the rise of sanctuary cities—some Democrat-run areas started passing laws to *block* that cooperation.
https://t.co/tNmg9DCEoZ. Oooops by the way Phil did you see the names that were put out on that list of 300. Some really good names there like Gloria Allred, John, Brennan, George, Clooney, and Bill Clinton and Javier Becerra and Alec Baldwin and Cher and Corey Booker and all the Biden‘s And Michael Wolf of all people Rohanna, Ted Liu, Hakeem Jeffries, Robert Mueller. Pretty cool list. I wonder when you’re gonna want him to get arrested lol
A reminder that — as of tonight — a little 5-year-old kid in a bunny hat from Minneapolis named Liam Ramos has already spent more time in police detention here in America than a SINGLE one of Jeffrey Epstein’s many friends, associates, clients, good buddies and business partners.
I just started reading a book called “JFK and the Unspeakable Why He Had to Die and Why it Matters”. Yes it’s about the assassination and we’ll researched and well documented. But it goes beyond that. It talks about the sheer evil and non value for humanity
I have read James Douglas’s fine book and have talked to him. To answer the objection of relevance, we are now paying the price of ignoring for over 60 years that our president’s murderers were never brought to Justice. Our nation is sick, and its inability to confront truths about itself is that sickness. Trump is taking advantage of our desire to always look the other way. If we couldn’t confront JFK’s murder we are unable to confront Trump’s tyranny.
We seem to always want to “move on,” “put this behind us,” and other ridiculous platitudes. I think now it’s cowardice that Ford pardoned the never-regretful Nixon. And here we are (with help from SCOTUS).
You are welcome. I have only begun to look at this in the last few years, when I discovered that a first cousin of my ex-wife of twenty five years, Michael Paine, was connected to Lee Oswald. Michael’s family, my in laws, is in a better position than most to query why Lee Oswald was hanging out with Michael Paine. They don’t want to know. I have a Substack “the White Gloves Legend” that follows my journey of discovery.
I used to and I have met Jefferson Morley and discussed. I think his work on Angleton is superb and the interview he did with Newman of Jane Roman was a major breakthrough. But this past year I disengaged because I got pissed at them for collaborating with Trump/Luna. Now I see that Luna may really mean it about transparency so I might reconnect.
The media had no problem looking the other way when Obama was deporting illegal immigrants by the millions—but now they want to clutch their pearls when Trump enforces the same laws? Please.
Let’s get one thing straight: under Barack Obama, ICE didn’t just sit quietly at the border sipping coffee. They were out in the streets, raiding homes, pulling people over, even in sanctuary cities like Chicago. Don’t believe it? Go watch PBS’s own “Lost in Detention” from 2011. A woman got deported after a traffic stop in Illinois. So much for “humane.”
And where were the street protests? The activist mobs? Nowhere. Why? Because the media wasn’t interested in stirring up outrage when their golden boy was in charge. Under Obama, local governments actually cooperated with ICE. That’s what led to the rise of sanctuary cities—some Democrat-run areas started passing laws to *block* that cooperation.
BREAKING: Donald Trump fell asleep at his "Board of Peace" meeting, and farted so many times while sleeping that the representative from Azerbaijan sitting next to him left the room for the bathroom where he reportedly threw up and then did not return.
https://t.co/tNmg9DCEoZ. Oooops by the way Phil did you see the names that were put out on that list of 300. Some really good names there like Gloria Allred, John, Brennan, George, Clooney, and Bill Clinton and Javier Becerra and Alec Baldwin and Cher and Corey Booker and all the Biden‘s And Michael Wolf of all people Rohanna, Ted Liu, Hakeem Jeffries, Robert Mueller. Pretty cool list. I wonder when you’re gonna want him to get arrested lol
Trump is a raving lunatic and anyone who supports him is also. It must become a law that anyone who wants to run for office or work for the government or military in any way must first undergo extensive psychological testing. How is it that South Korea can deal with their corrupt politicians so powerfully, while those who are supposed to be guardians of America are still wallowing in the mud, wringing their hands and clutching their pearls? If England can arrest their rotten Prince, why can’t America arrest the rotten president and his gang of thieves?
South Korea’s representatives climbed in through windows and took the despot down while most of the population was asleep. Can you imagine our Congressional body showing that kind of courage. They would call a recess and go home.
Those who support him are worse — they’re enablers. They facilitate criminality at home and war crimes abroad. He couldn’t pull any of this shit without them.
Worst of all — 98% of them know he’s a complete scumbag, but they’re too rotten, too lazy and too cowardly to do anything about it.
I agree about scrutiny and beyond psychological testing, unvarnished reviews of lawsuits he was involved with (suits and countersuits), bankruptcies, and his history with IRS as a taxpayer. The writing was on the wall.
Kristin-these are great questions. Since we’re supposed to be the “greatest” democracy on earth as some claim-why can’t “we the people” eliminate leaders who are clearly trying to deconstruct and destroy America and hence the world?
$10 billion. Exonerated. Lies and cons. Be LOUD. These are unprecedented times and we deserve WAY better 💔🤍💙
Use/share this spreadsheet (bit.ly/Goodtrouble) to contact members of Congress, the Cabinet and news organizations. Call. Write. Email. Protest. Unrelentingly.
Reach out (beyond your own) to as many in the Senate and House as you can. All of this is bigger than “I only represent my constituents” issues.
In my opinion, writing to your Senators and Representatives in opposition to the SAVE America Act is the most important protest you can make today. Trump is clear that he will do anything to steal the midterms. Making voting harder by forcing you to prove your citizenship when you vote is a key part of his plan.
Lawrence O'Donnell, in a recent show, focused on the fallacy of using the presumption of regularity when addressing anything the Trump administration does, since it is "the most powerful criminal syndicate in history." I posted what follows yesterday when it became clear that the SAVE acts had enough votes to pass if the filibuster were not in place in the Senate.
The filibuster has been chipped away in the Senate to get around the 60 votes required for cabinet appointments and lower judicial appointments in 2013 and for SCOTUS in 2017.
We are where we are now because that workaround to the filibuster allowed Trump to stack SCOTUS.
Does anyone really think that the "presumption of regularity" will prevent his minions in the Senate from working around the filibuster when his regime for life is being threatened? Kristi Noem has said they are going to make sure only the right people are voting.
The only thing preventing the SAVE America Act from becoming law is the filibuster…
Senate Republicans could still try to use the filibuster “nuclear option” on a category of bills.
The “nuclear option” is a maneuver in which a simple majority creates a new precedent that effectively overrides the 60‑vote filibuster rule, ending debate without formally revising it. The majority leader (or another senator) brings up a bill, makes a point of order that cloture on that kind of measure should be decided by a simple majority, and the presiding officer rules that under existing rules, 60 votes are required. A majority then votes to overturn the chair’s ruling; that vote itself is by simple majority and, once successful, becomes a binding precedent that 51 votes are enough to end debate on that category of business (e.g., nominations, or a class of legislation if they go that far).
You need at least 51 senators (including the VP as a tiebreaker) who are willing not just to support a given bill, but to vote to overturn the chair and permanently relax or end the filibuster for that category of measures. Political Wire reported that the SAVE Act passed that threshold in the Senate.
Past uses of the "nuclear option" have chipped away at the filibuster (for most nominations in 2013 and for Supreme Court nominations in 2017), showing the chamber accepts this as legitimate precedent‑making even though it is controversial.
More recently, commentators and some senators have described several 2025 majority actions—such as changing how certain budget baselines are treated—as “nuclear” because they used similar majority‑driven precedents to reshape the rules of procedure, showing that the tactic is not confined to confirmation fights.
The budget baseline change let them lock in permanent extensions and new cuts without showing the full sticker shock that a strict current‑law baseline would reveal. Politically, it gave Republicans a way to say they were “avoiding a tax hike” rather than passing a giant tax cut, because the adjusted baseline treated the Trump tax cuts as the default, and OBBB as preventing that default from expiring.
Assuming the filibuster will not change is an example of believing in the presumption of regularity. In normal times, that was enough to prevent using the "nuclear option," but we are no longer in normal times.
The issue then comes down to defining an appropriate, narrow class of legislation for the Rules to prevent the use of the filibuster.
Floridians,please call your legislators about Fl version of SAVE Act! Legislature is in session and bills are moving fast.
Note:Current FL Real ID’s do NOT indicate US citizenship.
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Whether the national bill passes or not, Florida is charging ahead with its own version. Similar voter citizenship bills (SB 1334/HB 991) are likely to easily pass and become law this year. Florida voters and would-be voters may want to start preparing as soon as possible.
What documents would you need to register to vote in Florida?
According to the bill, the following documents would be needed to register to vote, or to make changes to your registration such as your address or party:
An original or certified copy of a United States birth certificate
A valid, unexpired United States passport
A naturalization certificate issued by the United States Department of Homeland Security
A Consular Report of Birth Abroad provided by the United States Department of State
A current and valid Florida driver license or Florida identification card issued by the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, if such driver license or identification card indicates United States citizenship
A current and valid photo identification issued by the Federal Government or the state which indicates United States citizenship
An order from a federal court granting United States citizenship
Kathy: Thanks so much for the warning about the similar bills in the states!!! Does FL also have a version of the SAVE America Act where you have to show proof of citizenship when you vote?
State versions are more dangerous because there are so many states with Republican trifectas and there is no filibuster, so they would pass with a simple majority.
Only five states that show citizenship status on photo IDs are MI, MN, NY, VT, WA for cross border travel to Canada.
Real IDs show you are legally in the US but don’t show citizenship.
Currently no on requiring proof to actually vote.They're increasing the role of the Florida DMV.Also, the current House version disallows college ID's.
You write paragraphs and paragraphs of stuff in which you mix either wrong or misleading information along with shrieking red alert sirens that can blind as much as enlighten.
SAVE is dead in the Senate. Every Democrat (including, gasp, Jon Fetterman, I think) is on record to oppose it. Millions of us, together with all of them, have gotten to this place together. There is no path — the way you describe it — to its passage. It’s up to the Majority Leader to use the ‘nuclear option’ and he has already said there aren’t enough votes to do that — he means GOP votes. That’s how much they value the filibuster.
Which means the real battles are taking place at state levels — the nearer source of the nearest peril. Arizona and Florida Republicans (as mentioned below) are trying to pass laws that would allow ICE to be present at voting precincts. They’re not bothering with Massachusetts here!
On February 24, someone calling themselves “FBI Election Coordinator” (or some similarly bizarre title) is trying to get all 51 Secretaries of State to attend a meeting to discuss “White House plans to support the election cycle.” Or bullshit to that effect. Joyce Vance has written about this. I doubt any blue state Secretaries will attend. It’s meant for the purple states, of course.
They are trying all the unlocked back doors, not the heavily guarded front ones. They are searching for any backhanded way to get to “Brad, Brad, I just need 11,780 votes, Brad.”
You’re like the General trying to amass needed resources and personnel to the front door — paragraphs and paragraphs about it. But the attack is already coming from the rear. All of us have limited time and resources. We cannot afford to be non-strategic. That will not win us a single battle. It isn’t a matter of trusting Chuck Schumer. It’s a matter of paying much closer attention to where the fights are likeliest.
''When Justice Becomes Campaign Stage: What Trump’s DOJ Banner Reveals About Power and Precedent''
Today’s Associated Press reported that a large banner featuring Donald Trump’s face and a political slogan was displayed on the exterior of the United States Department of Justice headquarters in Washington, D.C. The banner was suspended between the building’s grand columns, transforming the solemn face of an institution meant to stand above politics into what looked like campaign propaganda. That is no small detail. It is a symptom of how deeply the norms that once protected the independence of American institutions have eroded.
The visual of a presidential image dominating the front of the Department of Justice evokes something unfamiliar in American civic life. The DOJ represents the idea that law matters more than personality, that statutes and precedents restrain power rather than gratify it. Classical architecture was chosen for this building precisely because it signals permanence and objectivity. Citizens entering its doors should be reminded that justice transcends fleeting political fortunes. What message does a giant political banner send instead? That justice is a function of image, a reward for loyalty, and a cause to be championed rather than an impartial system to be upheld.
A massive banner reading “JUSTICE” and “Make America Safe Again,” featuring Donald Trump’s image, hangs between the columns of the U.S. Department of Justice headquarters in Washington, D.C., according to today’s Associated Press report.
Look to history, and you see the danger clearly. In Germany in the 1930s, the image of Adolf Hitler was everywhere, including on government buildings. Courthouses plastered with his likeness communicated that justice was no longer an independent ideal but the extension of a singular will. The external markers of impartial institutions collapsed into a cult of personality. Today, in countries such as Turkey and Hungary, leaders have similarly used personal branding as a tool to subordinate judicial independence. Portraits, slogans, and ubiquitous images of the leader are not just decoration. They condition the public to equate the state with one person’s legitimacy...
" Portraits, slogans, and ubiquitous images of the leader are not just decoration. They condition the public to equate the state with one person’s legitimacy..."
Excellent point. And that's exactly what he's been trying to do.
You'll be pleased to know that Senator Tina Smith contradicts the advice of indivisible and thinks everyone should contact the senators who are vulnerable in their reelection bids. Not sure who they are and she couldn't say.
Interesting! I’ve been curious if Indivisible would change their opinion on reaching out beyond your own due to the events going on. I remember reading (and rereading) an article on their website early last year as I was trying to figure out how to use my voice beyond my very blue state and thinking that while in normal times I agree, we are not in normal times.
I do know many smaller Indivisible groups who use and share the spreadsheet.
The media had no problem looking the other way when Obama was deporting illegal immigrants by the millions—but now they want to clutch their pearls when Trump enforces the same laws? Please.
Let’s get one thing straight: under Barack Obama, ICE didn’t just sit quietly at the border sipping coffee. They were out in the streets, raiding homes, pulling people over, even in sanctuary cities like Chicago. Don’t believe it? Go watch PBS’s own “Lost in Detention” from 2011. A woman got deported after a traffic stop in Illinois. So much for “humane.”
And where were the street protests? The activist mobs? Nowhere. Why? Because the media wasn’t interested in stirring up outrage when their golden boy was in charge. Under Obama, local governments actually cooperated with ICE. That’s what led to the rise of sanctuary cities—some Democrat-run areas started passing laws to *block* that cooperation.
https://t.co/tNmg9DCEoZ. Oooops by the way Phil did you see the names that were put out on that list of 300. Some really good names there like Gloria Allred, John, Brennan, George, Clooney, and Bill Clinton and Javier Becerra and Alec Baldwin and Cher and Corey Booker and all the Biden‘s And Michael Wolf of all people Rohanna, Ted Liu, Hakeem Jeffries, Robert Mueller. Pretty cool list. I wonder when you’re gonna want them to get arrested lol.
We are about to go to war against Iran. Dozens of ships, aircraft carriers, missile-launching systems and related forces are on high alert, either in the Middle East right now or streaming toward it, awaiting orders to fire.
Not a single one of Donald’s wormtongues has bothered to explain why. Nobody seems to be available to tell the American people why war is about to be waged in their name — and why this is taking place right now. Never in American history have we been this close to a true regional conflagration without a peep of justification, explanation, or seeking to enlist tte support of Congress (let alone its consent), much less the backing of the country.
Whatever’s in the rest of those Epstein files or buried in the depth of police blotters in Britain must be truly horrific.
Do I believe Trump is going for another war in order to try to change the subject from Epstein? Could he truly be both that desperate AND that stupid? Is that what’s going on here?
Yes, I believe that’s exactly what’s going on here. Somebody please feel free to prove me wrong. But before you do, pause and reflect on the following — this time around, there are no cooler heads…
Yes my friend, those are my thoughts too. I actually sent emails to my Congress members pleading that they stop this madness. Congress does have the power to do that.
Evil indeed. Think of the sexual victimization of terrorized children by the Trumpstein Cult as the immediate precursor to the terror the MAGAstapo is now unleashing on anyone who refuses to kowtow to the ChristoNazi theocracy. Thus the vital, know-our-enemy relevance of the full text of the Jane Doe lawsuit against Trump and Epstein -- later withdrawn by the plaintiff in response to credible death threats: https://cdn.factcheck.org/UploadedFiles/Johnson_TrumpEpstein_Lawsuit.pdf
Distraction, distraction, distraction! It’s always, always been the ways of conmen. And Drumph uses the practice because it has worked for him so far and people lap it up.
ICTT, I think an Iran war is a "twofer." It's a distraction from the Trumpstein files and also, justification for postponing or cancelling the midterm elections. Granted, that would be unconstitutional, but Donald has been wiping his oversized butt on the Constitution for years and the impotent Congress has done nothing about it.
Even if a minority in SCOTUS would agree that canceling the vote is unconstitutional, someone would have to sue, the case would crawl through the legal system, and Roberts would slow-walk a hearing until it's too late.
https://t.co/tNmg9DCEoZ. Oooops by the way Phil did you see the names that were put out on that list of 300. Some really good names there like Gloria Allred, John, Brennan, George, Clooney, and Bill Clinton and Javier Becerra and Alec Baldwin and Cher and Corey Booker and all the Biden‘s And Michael Wolf of all people Rohanna, Ted Liu, Hakeem Jeffries, Robert Mueller. Pretty cool list. I wonder when you’re gonna want them to get arrested lol.
Well, perhaps it’s come to this. You’d rather have a nuclear bomb dropped on your ass.
Superb writing as always, Heather! I really appreciated your last sentence:
"... the law dramatically restricts voting. Republicans in the House have already passed it. If the Senate passes it, Trump told an audience in Rome, Georgia, “We’ll never lose a race. For 50 years, we won’t lose a race.”
That says it all. We must shut them down, Trump and all.
Actually, the law does just the opposite. It opens up boating to anyone with ID.
Tried getting a drivers license lately. Try buying a beer tried having a bank account.
Try getting a Social Security card and I guess you didn’t see Chuck Schumer the other day boy did he step in it if you haven’t seen Chuck Schumer’s full paw that now is in the possession of the White House you’re gonna get a real kick out of it
Good old Chucky and his hypocrisy and double standards he said on the halls on the floor of Congress if you don’t have ID and you don’t have a Social Security card, you can commit fraud so you need to ensure that they have that where can you go and what can you do without ID? If you don’t have ID your permitting fraud to happen Chuck Schumer in his own words. Ooooops
What does it say on this country’s 250th birthday that the country we wrestled our independence from arrested a member of the royal family? England’s monarchy may fall, as they have decided that the law is more important than any one man. But what of the nation that penned the idea that all men are ruled by laws, not a monarch, and that no man is above the law, treating our president with immunity to corrupt not only his office but the entire federal government? And that he made himself as untouchable as a king that so few in authority will challenge it?
Heather doesn't mention that those South Korean legislators called on each other immediately at 11:00pm, and gathered together after midnight to stop the coup.
I highly recommend reading this 2014 essay that analyzes the horrific, pathological mindset at the heart of the Epstein Files from the perspective of what was going on in the U.K. This was written in 2014 and shows how this global elite have protected each other. It's about the dark side of humanity... a culture of extreme cruelty that has *nothing* to do with sex but is, instead, about the *death* of the concept of treating people as if they were human beings. We MUST bring this culture to trial... every last one of its members!
Hence my growing conviction that Trump, the ChristoNazis and the MAGAT rabble -- most notably because of their utter absence of empathy (and their fanatical belief empathy is a sin) -- actually mark the emergence of a new subspecies of (sub)human, Homo sapiens inhumanus, its sociopathy -- including the replacement of the love-instinct with a far-more-powerful hate instinct -- the (deliberate) product of five decades of relentless neoliberal conditioning. (See https://news.yale.edu/2025/03/06/violent-experiences-alter-genome-ways-persist-generations )
We are told that South Korea took care of its criminal head of state who will go to prison, then we’re told about the former Prince Andrew of England. Then we’re told that the criminal in chief of America is wrecking havoc throughout the United States and the rest of the world and no one is stopping him. WTF!? I’d say the un United States is the laughingstock of the world, but I think it’s more honest to say that we’re the crying stock of the world. This is politically heartbreaking.
https://t.co/tNmg9DCEoZ. Oooops by the way Phil did you see the names that were put out on that list of 300. Some really good names there like Gloria Allred, John, Brennan, George, Clooney, and Bill Clinton and Javier Becerra and Alec Baldwin and Cher and Corey Booker and all the Biden‘s And Michael Wolf of all people Rohanna, Ted Liu, Hakeem Jeffries, Robert Mueller. Pretty cool list. I wonder when you’re gonna want them to get arrested lol. Make sure you check out that video first you’re gonna really enjoy it instead of seeing two people who were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Here’s 100 of them that were killed by an illegal criminals. American citizens women killed by illegal aliens. And their faces and their names let that sink in.
The Orange Freak is so horribly embarrassing and dangerous. He's wasting money trying to duplicate the UN so that he can control it and in the process humiliating and isolating us from the rest of the sane world. Worse, the countries who have decided to join the Board of Peace are either complicit authoritarians or countries who fear the US under Trump. How can we rid ourselves of this menace?!
BUT... NOT ONE country has given him ANY MONEY!
trump, the player, IS being played!!
When I saw a headline saying $10B had been pledged to the latest Trump grift, I was wondering which countries would have been stupid enough to give Trump money. Now I see that it's going to appear magically, courtesy of Trump, who will no doubt try to hustle the taxpayers for it.
Didn’t the would-be “king” say the country owed him $10B in reparations for his trials!
Yes, fellow Phil. The felon without a shred of conscience thinks so, says so.
And the New York Daily News called his administration "the most powerful crime syndicate in history."
BREAKING:
In a SCOTUS decision today, 6-3, Chief Justice Roberts struck down trump's tariff-taxes. A huge separation of powers decision.
Another victory for NEAL KATYAL & the toy maker Plaintiffs actually all small businesses & of course ,Costco as well.
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Further to the Epstein Files partially released so far:
2/19/26: Epstein Crimes are getting detailed along with the names of Perps & the identity & a wide arrange of accomplices.
Per the Wall Street Journal reported only today, 2/19/26, back in 2016 a potent witness who was an Epstein accomplice, the French "Model Scout" Jon Luc Brunel, who had photos & was cooperating " ... with lawyers representing Epstein's victims" to testify about Epstein's USA crimes but, went "dark" after receiving a three (3) million dollar bribe.
A critical date was an email Epstein sent on 5/3/16 to Goldman Sachs' lawyer, KATHY RUMNELL who just announced that she would "step down" as Chief Legal Counsel of Goldman Sachs on 5/30/26. IMO, that's only if disbarment proceedings do not overtake her Spring Break.
WSJ article: credited to K. Safar & Caitlin Ostroff.
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In the UK:
Ex-Royal, ANDREW MOUNTABATTEN-WINDSOR has been arrested for "misconduct in office" . In the UK, Andrew is the first Royal arrested in 4 centuries.
Similar to France after arrest & interrogation in the UK, investigation continues. Indeed, per BBC World News. Andrew's 2 Estates were searched early yesterday. At trial Andrew faces a maximum Life sentence.
But, as LISA RUBIN today stated on MS NOW, yesterday, media is focusing on the now rich & famous. But, there others, many others, some here in the USA that ran the massive & deep Epstein Crime Network. I concur with Lisa.
Here's just one (1) example, Gynecologist Dr. Mark London who is at Ohio States University's Wexner Center. Yes, that Wexner.
Apparently elsewhere in the world public humiliation (the minimum) and criming (the maximum) count toward removing someone from office/board/commission, etc. Not here since the head criminal “has been ‘totally exonerated’.” WTAF.
Bryan, so Mark London is at Ohio State University's Wexner Center. That Wexner. Would that be the Ohio State University where one James Daniel Jordan was the assistant wrestling coach who "saw nothing, knew nothing" while his associate, Dr. Richard Strauss, was diddling 143 boys in Jordan's care? That Ohio State? Yes. Yes, it is.
I think we will need to move the Republican crime wall to a much larger wall. And we'll need several dozen more skeins of red yarn.
:-O
Bryan, I read an article this week about how custom and border people at the St Thomas airport in the Virgin Islands (near the infamous island) aided and abetted him. He bribed them in various ways. So lots of help from peons.
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Thanks for the update.
Hello Phil... Don't forget that DJT is suing the IRS for 10-Billion for his leaked Tax-Returns.... Again, US Tax-Payer Money...
". . . is suing . . .."
So lovely, Apache, you note this behavioral quirk of the grifter, con man, rapist, money launderer, murderer, friend to dictators and murderers, and even better friend to rapists of underage girls.
To sue others allows his true expression of himself, or of itself, a bottomless pit of sewage, offal, skank, and American-style fakery.
He, or it, remains at war with all life, getting off only on the most vaudevillian huckstering of greasy orange cosmetics, cheap gold smears everywhere to accompany his (its) name, double-jerking-off two guys at the same time, sucking off a microphone, and regular parades of most vile insults and reductions of all life to the ad hominem.
America. A land that elected this cesspool of hatreds.
Might American schools ever stand for something other than this? Oh, I forgot: testing. They, all those far-off, neutered, anonymous elites ask the questions. Only they. Keeping the tens of millions anesthetized, blind. Allowing Donald to on his throne of suing, hating, raping, murdering, with every day his illiterate cowardly sycophants oozing further descents to terror and chaos.
Yep, a slam-dunk, unfortunately. I am worried about the gold at Fort Knox. How do we know if the DOGE BOIS or other MAGAs in high positions have not absconded with it? Truckloads could be loaded up late at night and sent to Mar-a-Lago and from there sent to an unknown location.
Yea, and I thought the republicans were budget/deficit conservatives, always complaining that the dems spend money (on infrastructure, health care, education) not meaningless wars, tax breaks for the wealthy, ballrooms, triumphal arches, and airplanes for his cabinet to use so they can carry out their sexual affairs in private......OMG.
And that was the DAILY NEWS!
Well, those who survive are not always the strongest or most honest, but wave bigger guns. It is lamentable but it would be indolent not to recognize it. To the victor the spoils, which also means to the victor the right to impose pain, fear and hypocrisy.
Today the NYDaily News, tomorrow the NY Post? Is he losing support from key media?
No Duh! Daily News!
Nailed it.
So, who lives in the shit hole nation now, run by THE self serving criminal with his overpaid masked flying monkeys?
America is the new shit hole nation because our elected leaders won't stand up to the Resident.
WTF?
Agree and if this keeps going, he won't have to lie about elections anymore; they will be rigged. 6 Nov 2026 will be our next judgement day in the history of this country.
There ya go! But he’d probably try to keep the $10B from the bogus lawsuit and screw the taxpayers over to fund this new grift. I think his MAGAts are pretty well tapped out.
Elon isn't and neither are dozens of other mega-billionaires like Thiel and Bezos. We're already hearing radio and tv ads for Susan Collins touting a few trinkets she has been able to sneak by Trump and Bessent. Meanwhile, Bessent and Trump are withholding tens of millions of Congressionally allocated money for health care, research, infrastructure, climate change, etc.
Her message is like the arsonist that starts a fire and then expects a reward for calling 911.
And Bessent says he’ll write any check he’s told to ($10B to Trump) and is withholding financial records from Sen Wyden, who’s reconstructing Epstein’s financial infrastructure.
And I understand that she has pledged to vote FOR the SAVE Act.
Just heard a report that Duke energy, perhaps the county’s largest supplier of electricity, will receive $75 million to refurbish a coal fired electricity plant so that is could work until 2040!!!!!
Probably??????
That reward should go to whoever actually leaked the tax returns.
MAGAs will blame the leaker not the orange pedophile!
In an ideal world
Well. ... the sign of an enclosed and self-deluding country. I guess he will pursue what he thinks is best for us, even if it means our extinction.
He'll pursue what he thinks makes him look good.
It’s the ‘charity’ he’s bilking taxpayers for—the $10 billion he’s paying himself in restitution for his taxes being leaked. Who wants to join me in a class action lawsuit against DOGE and this admin for OUR tax and social security data being breached and leaked? $10 billion apiece is the going rate in demandsfor suing the Govt….
Meanwhile, millions of families are now uninsured because of the cowardly Republicans in Congress. Unemployment is up, jobs are scarce, wages are stagnant again, housing is expensive and scarce, food and energy prices up and we are dealing with Trump's other BS instead of affordability.
There was a moment when Susan Collins was with John McCain as a last vote for protecting the ACA. Then she was a last vote to sink the John Lewis voter protection act. Now Collins is lined up to be the last vote for the MEGA SAVE the GOP by screwing voters act. Round heels Susie flat on her back. For despotism. In the form of Trump. Eew. Maybe it pays well. After her last vote for Brett Kavanaugh, Leonard Leo held a big fundraiser for her here on MDI. Mitch McConnell always rolled the pork into Maine just in time for elections. Collins is still de jure chief appropriator, but de facto appropriations chief Russell Voight will roll the pork into Maine Bath Iron Works - for Trump's name branded battleship boondoggle.
Call Susie. Tell her we're onto her tricks.
Susan Collins
(202) 224-2523
Exactly right. All of you who are from Maine. Make her life miserable. Write, phone, protest. Don't let her get away with this AGAIN!
Thanks for the reminders -lin. I email Susie at least twice a week. She has even started answering once in a while. For years, she ignored my emails.
I think enough ME voters are telling others that she doesn't respond to us that now she feels she has to. Of course, most of her responses are boiler plate BS but I think she's feeling the pressure.
What is wrong with people! Perhaps if they spent more than 4 minutes a week engaging in the news they would know the US economy added 1.46 jobs in 2024 and last year, his inaugural year, jobs slowed to 181,000.
Are we sick of winning yet? All I feel is deeply embarrassed, worried, and afraid.
I will
Unceasing. Relentless. Insatiable. Non-stop. The only scenario he knows.
Besides also inflicting terror, chaos, murder, and rape.
I was going to unplug for Lent but here I am. Every single day it plays out like this. It can't go on for another three years.
I feel you. It's like watching a train wreck Kelli. On steroids!
I think STAYING plugged in here for Lent is easily equivalent to the hardship of GIVING UP chocolate for Lent. I'm ordering more Grocer's Daughter Chocolate today.
Agree with you! Every morning I get up early, put on the coffee, and read Heather's "Letter". I forward it to my 37 year old son and my husband. They both also read it first thing in the morning. First thing! (I thought about giving up chocolate also. I opted for not cussing).
Oh, the very things that excite him most!
Now THAT'S a Sacrifice!
Possibly the same $10B from his lawsuit against the IRS
We're being "hustled" alright and as I told friends yesterday, we are being bankrupted as a nation by him, and if anyone knows how to bankrupt, he sure as hell does.
All Trump has to do is call Scott Bessent and get the $10 billion transferred to his pocket - er, to the Board of Peace account. The whole thing would be a joke if it wasn't such a travesty.
It's our tax dollar!
He thinks they should all be his dollars
They are as he will put his likeness on some form of dollar.
That made me 😂. Maybe a $3 bill.
None of the shithole countries that have joined the Shithole Board of Peace, a con job run by the biggest Piece of Shit on the Planet have a billion to hand over to the GutFodder.
They are banking on US aid - from Trump via de facto appropriator Russell Voight.
You know…I actually had the same thought when the first countries signed up—where are THEY going to get that amount of $$?
I absolutely love what you wrote! It’s a perfect description! Thank you
Exactly. I also thought of the $10B President Epstein is demanding from the Treasury/IRS for his whiny ass boo hoo hoo hurt feelings. Wonder why the $10B figure in both cases. Wonder what would happen if no one filed and/or paid federal taxes this year.
A scammer must scam.
He is going to get $10B of taxpayers money if I read correctly.
Now have a wild guess where most of that money is going to wind up......
And a scammer must be damned. We desperately need a national federal taxpayer boycott!
It’s all a farce. But a deadly one.
The ultimate irony will be if Israel pays it since we support them richly - and is why they have nearly free and totally univeral medical care (but we don't) and a college education costs about $3,300.00 per year - compare that to here. In effect the US people will be the ones paying Israel's bill. I think they know this and are very reluctant biting the hand that feeds them.
Like all the other “grand announcements” from orange pedophile, all hat and no cattle!!! The magas regale in these hollow announcements!
Here's my only favorite bit of pedo's best friend announcements:
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER
Maybe they're channeling President ConMan: tell them you're doing to give money back, pay your bill, whatever, and in the end do nothing! No one actually has transferred money yet, but in the meantime they curry favor.
What is more embarrassing and far more dangerous than the orange ding-dong are the 77 million voters who put that thug in office. Each one of those voters is a huge net negative for humanity.
Well said, Mr. Page. We must always beware the Moronic Majority's conditioned, reflexive hatred of socialists and socialism – which is, in effect, support for unrestricted capitalism -- and ultimately therefore (sometimes unwitting) endorsement of the capitalists' often secret or maliciously disguised but nevertheless omnipresent yearning for the Trumpstein-caliber omnipotence granted them by Nazism. This hatred will be the most important barrier to success in any post-victory struggle to avoid resurrecting the failed, plutocracy-tyrannized nation that spawned the ChristoNazis’ “Unified Reich,” and instead to construct from its ashes a new Republic capable of ensuring, in the immortal words of Abraham Lincoln, “....a new birth of freedom...that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
We’re still fighting the same bastards Lincoln was fighting. It’s just a damn shame he didn’t order Grant to hang for treason every CSA officer, one by one, as they were encountered on the battlefield.
Let us hope this time we do not repeat that ultimately suicidal error.
No one is going to hang. Start dealing with that reality. Trump has the full unconditional power of the pardon and knows it. You can hate that but it's right there in our Constitution. Until Trump is gone and we fix it, there is little anyone can do about it. So we need to stop wasting our breath and energy on things that can't be changed and focus on what can be done, like making sure we elect a Democratic congress in 2026 and a better president in 2028. Protest yes but recognize how limited our power really is.
We will (hopefully) survive but it won't be a walk in the park.
"Until Trump is gone and we fix it ..."
Until we fix it, and Trump's rubber stamp GOP majority is gone ...
You have the right strategy.
Unite and vote as a strategic joint exercise in taking power.
Vote Blue No Matter Who
Blue Wave 2026
And please start volunteering to get out the Democratic vote. We need a turn out that's too big to rig.
Jon, I hate that you are right in realistic and practical terms. In normal times, your comment makes sense. But normal is over.
Obtaining a "better president" needn't wait for the 2028 election. Here's a thought. November 3, 2026 - Largest Blue Wave in US history. Immediate impeachment of Trump AND Vance. Democratic Speaker of the House becomes president. January 2029 is busy, busy, busy as the new sane president reverses every executive order by his predecessor. DOJ is purged of MAGA Nazis and professionals rehired. Simultaneously, DHS and HHS are restaffed with experts with career experience. US rejoins the WHO. USAID is resurrected.
The US apologizes to the world. All manner of weapons including fighter jets are sent to Ukraine. The Russian network of influencers, internet trolls and money launderers living in the US are rounded up and deported. Funds retrieved.
Trump is charged with multiple cases of sexual assault - there are dozens of cases. His immunity shield from the Extremes does not apply. He is held under house arrest at Mar a Lago. There is a hurricane. Storm surge sweeps away the whole neighborhood. Sharks in large numbers are seen all along the coast.
Vance is defended with millions donated by Thiel and Andreesson but the impeachment stands. He returns to Appalachia - but is never heard from again. Childhood buddies knocked on his door.
All that sounds crazy. Until you compare it to Trump's 2025 - which was as insane as any bad novel - or film by Tarantino, Scorsese or Coppola.
Time to think outside the box. 47 left the box in the dust a long time ago. Time to suit up and get creative. Creative visualization leads to daily decisions that add up and create the circumstances for success.
Can't pardon state crimes.
IMHO New Mexico and Virgin Islands should be at the forefront. Maybe NY and other states where there is no statute of limitations for rape.
E.G. Lutnick may not have been a rapist, but may have been a pimp, panderer, and was a business partner with Epstein, probably knowing he was running the honeypot operation. Supposedly they were partners in an advertising business.
Also obstrution of justice may be an ongoing issue.
Google: Howard Lutnick and Jeffrey Epstein were business associates primarily between 2012 and 2014, according to unsealed Justice Department records. While Lutnick previously claimed to have severed all ties with Epstein in 2005, the "Epstein files" released in early 2026 revealed several shared financial and social entanglements:
Adfin Solutions Inc. (2012–2014): On December 28, 2012, both men signed documents on behalf of their respective companies—Epstein through Southern Trust Company and Lutnick through a Cantor Fitzgerald affiliate—to acquire stakes in this advertising technology firm.
Property Transaction (1996–1998): Records show a historical real estate connection where Epstein sold a Manhattan property in 1996 that Lutnick eventually purchased in 1998 to use as his primary residence.
Continued Interaction:
2011: The two scheduled drinks at Epstein’s home.
2012: Lutnick and his family visited Epstein’s private island, Little Saint James, for lunch in December.
2015: Lutnick invited Epstein to a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton hosted at Cantor Fitzgerald.
2017: Epstein donated $50,000 to a UJA-Federation of New York dinner honoring Lutnick.
Lutnick, the current U.S. Secretary of Commerce, has maintained that these interactions were limited and mostly coordinated through assistants.
Your perspective is spot on. We have a long way yet to go to realize any justice in this. Much further to go to regain what we are losing today.
Hatred.
Deeply conditioned self-hatred projected onto their neighbor... then onto all that lives.
The commandment to love your neighbor as yourself, inverted, perverted... into "Hate your neighbor as you (secretly) hate yourself..."
Destroyers who like to call themselves "Conservatives".
We need to separate the wheat from the chaff by calling out the churches that promote hate instead of love and that support the Republican message over the message of their savior and the one they supposedly pray to to help them.
Loren Bliss and others understandably make the association between a widespread perversion masquerading as Christianity... and Nazi/Fascism.
In America, failed far-right politicians ended up discovering "religion" and at last achieved complete tax-free "success" as wolves in sheep's clothing. They call themselves ministers of religion and live in comfort, even luxury, exploiting the yearning of naive, downtrodden and deeply resentful people, their obedient well-milked flock.
In effect, a highly successful Satanic takeover.
Religion concerns itself with the ultimate power and, wherever there is power, there will be abuses of power. Thus, blasphemy -- the diversion of religion for other purposes such as maximizing wealth and secular power -- becomes the endemic disease of religions, especially but by no means exclusively, the monotheisms.
The great temptation relates to the power of the One... one Deity, therefore one truth... and up springs the abuser, proclaiming that he alone possesses that One Truth... so that all others whose view -- even their culture, their appearance -- in any way differs from his own... is a hellbound heretic, an enemy to be hunted down and destroyed.
Hence, the ultimate perversion: the religion of hate.
Peter Burnett,
Brainwashing is real, even within houses of worship. A pastor who loves power and adulation has the congregation (and their votes along with opinions of others...in his hands). The belief that our denomination is superior becomes a controlled group, regularly judging others ie "The Bible" they use is not as accurate as ours.
Why are they building houses for others who will probably destroy them in a year?..."those people" do not know how to care for anything!!! We should just take care of "our own"!
I am a Christian but no longer apart of a Church.
There remain a FEW faithful but I hate gossip, and "the better than thou" attitudes have been, in my opinion, unChristian.
....and isn't it weird, as you wrote, ...."the ultimate perversion: the religion of hate." But it is OK for some of us to put ourselves above others. Jesus, the Christ make Himself vulnerable.....allowing Himself to be taken, mocked and abused....placed upon a cruel cross, beaten to the bone and yet gave God's words of love to two convicts also on crosses. As he spoke with them...one believed and one mocked Christ and did not believe.....even so....Christ is all about free choice....not brainwashing....not demanding His way.
That's the commandment you somehow never see them demand be posted in all public buildings.
If only the electorate had chosen an intelligent, compassionate, joyful, and sane woman as president.
Marsha, if only the wheels of justice had run faster, the scumbag would be in jail instead of the White House. And yes, an intelligent, compassionate, joyful and sane woman would be president and we would have a much decent and happy country 😀. Thanks for your nice comment .
Right! If only………
My argument is every tax cut afforded to the rich is socialism.
Naw. It's just political corruption. Bigly political corruption.
Socialism is when we bail them out after their failures. “For me but not for thee.”
Aka lemon socialism.
Morning, Lynell. I sure get where you're coming from here. I'd almost call it a bribe.
Not quite, Ally. The tax cuts are the result of the bribes. It's a perpetual-motion machine. Bribes produce more tax cuts, which make more money available for bribes, until there are no more taxes on the rich. And the rest of us get to cough up 50% of our harvest to our feudal overlords,
Government of the Donald, by the Donald and for the Donald...
Gag me...
That's exactly why my stomach turns and I loose my sleep when I read that "only" 40% of the Americanvoters, after everything that it's going on ,support the scumbag. Thanks for your comment Rex.
Trump has not made any effort for good paying jobs for Americans and no effort to make 2025 or 2026 more affordable. Write weekly and say there is no value from the Republican administration. ✊🇺🇸
#shorts - The 2 Things Trump Cares About I Anthony Scaramucci
https://youtube.com/shorts/ekTYcmzS0CE?si=akpRE0CxOaY4Yt9M
I never liked this guy, Scaramucci, but this time he was brief and right on target. Nothing wasted, just a description of reality. Thanks JaKsaa.👍
Exactly! The word "only" should be replaced by: "still" or the phrase:"as many as". Shame. It is difficult to watch such blind devotion.
What I don’t understand is the lack of information with all of Epstein’s multiple dwellings the New Mexico ranch seeens beyond chillingly and almost folds into complete and utter moral depravity. Young Mr Harris will rue the for the rest of life his association with this administration. Our origins came from wealthy males with some wealthy females playing for ultimate control and power of lands, peoples, and society. Every modern day colonial power a corporation . Name all the Western countries and there was a company involved that exploited everything that could be exploited for certain people’s gains. The Roman Catholic Church played into this with is bishop princes and second son stream of male clergy. They helped out many people but never really separated from the dance totally. So this is just an ultimate continuation of colonialism. One hopes that someday this era will reach its zenith of moral and ethical mayhemed and a new era of equality for all humans may ultimately energy. Though still dicey. I think the base humans stink flows high past our galaxy and beyond. Aliens who would ever want to make contact with us? I think Madeline L’Engje protrayed this well as calling the earth shadowed by the Ethroi. We need to break civilizations bent and arc toward selfish greed and depravity to care for each other and our planet. It’s an exhausting time and passage through time but from last night speech and the ultimately fools errands and wild goose chases and ignorant actions of the current admiration we may arise in a better place to really heal ourselves and planet. It’s been a long time coming.Verne and H G Wells and other artists sometimes went mad in despair of our ability to mature. I hold out that hope and darkness before dawn perhaps.
Mary OMalley,
Let's cherish the daily kindnesses, we receive and return to anyone and everyone kindness as often as possible.
We can leave it there....
Ditto Ligia 👍. 😊
I bet at least 76 million of them watch Fox News exclusively. Someone needs to pull it's plug.
Absolutely 💯 % right Mary and also deport all the talking heads to El Salvador.
Absolutely!
The oligarchs control the messaging. And their message is that Trump and the Republicons will make you rich. They tell you every day and every way that the US economy is doing great. And then they turn around and arrest American citizens for protesting against their thuggery.
Last night Hannah Pingree told a group of voters that all of the governors are on the front lines against Trump. But so far, it's only been the Blue State governors that have been brave enough to stand up to Trump.
David Jolly could become Florida's governor and who knows what could happen in many other red states. Many of the morons that voted for Trump have already jumped ship, especially the bros between 18 and 45. It's us old farts that need to convince our fellow oldies to vote and to vote blue.
Step one GJ is to get them away from their faux Fox News screens.
Absolutely!
Not so many oldies - we are in the standouts and marches and messaging, but we are not convincing our kids and grandkids that they are never going to be wealthy like the oligarchs are wealthy (show them Paul Krugman today)!! They identify the superrich with their more modest “American dream” of social mobility. Get out in front, correcting that dangerous illusion.
It is hard to believe, Rex Page, but some of those people actually believed his lies sincerely, wanted to have a closed border, chose him because he said he would fix the Russian war in Ukraine the first day, the price of eggs would come down the first day, etc.etc. How anyone in his or her right mind can look at Trump and not know he is lying every time he opens his mouth is beyond my ability to imagine, but I do believe many of his people were sincere. We need to be reaching out with sincerity to the people who realize he duped them. BTW, important — he did not have a majority. Just a plurality. Of course there are irredeemable MAGAs, but you don’t know who they are. So we need to irrefutably call him out and at the same time reach out to those other Americans who are persuadable.
This is my war cry. A woman I know said she'd vote for him again because she loves his policies. When pressed she couldn't tell me what policies she loves though. I'm guessing it is deporting black and. brown citizens.
Rex, that is what scares me as well. The ones in my world (former work cohort that I no longer call friends) believe all the garbage they gobble up from their propaganda sources
Throw in the non-voters, please
The menace is propped up by Fox. Boycott every product that advertises on Fox (not just Fox News) and you will take away Trump’s Trumpet.
Here’s the list from trueusa.org
AAG, ADT, Ageless Male, Allstate, Amazon, Angie’s List, Arby’s, Bass Pro Shops, Bayer, Booking.com, Carvana, Chevrolet, Chrysler, ClearChoice Dental Implant Centers, Copper Fit, Depend Underwear, E-Trade, Empire Today Flooring, Expedia, Farmers, Fiat, Flonase, Ford, Force Factor, Gabi, Geico, General Motors, Georgia-Pacific, Golden Corral, GoodRx, HomeAdvisor, IHOP, Jackson Hewitt Tax Service, Jeep, Johnson & Johnson, Jointflex, Kraft Heinz, Legacybox, Lexus, Liberty Mutual, LifeLock, Lincoln, Mercedes, MyPillow, Navage, NewDay USA, NFL Network, NiteThru, NordicTrack, Novartis, Nugenix, Nutrisystem, Office Depot, Oxiclean, Papa Johns, PetSmart, Pfizer, Poligrip, Pray.com, Prevagen, Proactiv, Progressive, Procter & Gamble, Publisher’s Clearing House, Qunol, Safelite Auto Glass, Salonpas, Sandals, Sanofi, SeroVital, Sheex, SimpliSafe, Smart Mouth, Smile Direct Club, South Beach Diet, Stamps.com, Subaru, Tecovas, Theraworx, The Jewelry Exchange, T-Mobile, Toyota, Travelocity, USAA, Vari, Verizon, Vroom, Walgreens, WeatherTech
Thank you for the list of advertisers!
Shawn, the challenge with these boycott lists is that if one followed all of them, one wouldn't buy anything at all. Which would be nice if one could survive on nothing. It comes down to making choices of the least bad.
I note that AT&T isn't on the list you've shared, yet AT&T is 100% evil.
PetSmart might advertise on Fox, but 80% of their political donations go to Democrats. Petco doesn't advertise on Fox, but 75% of their political donations go to Republicans.
Your response might be, "Don't buy pet supplies from chains. Buy from a local mom & pop shop."
And my response would be, "Prices at small, local shops are always higher, and there's a 90% chance that local shop owners are Republicans."
Dale, Point taken. This path is imperfect. Even I don't follow my own advice to the fullest. The greater point is that Trump exists because of Fox. Understanding that is the first step toward understanding how we got where we are.
Try Etsy, Ebay, Thrift Books, trash nothing, thread up, etc. I am disabled and used to shop at Amazon so much, I had an Amazon Credit Card!! It took 8 months to get to $0. I now buy less, spend less, and give more personal gifts! Go easy on yourself, just choose the best alternative when you can or choose one company at a time.
Thank you for this list!!!!!! Very helpful!!!
"pray.com"!
And he can’t keep his eyes open. This is not a monarchy where we must wait for the king to die before replacing him.
I hope the voting public remembers, in this year’s elections, they (congressional Rs) did this to us. They could have curtailed our national misery months ago.
I can see it coming: the Christian [sic] nationalists will support corrections to the New Testament referencing Jesus as the younger brother of Donald J. Trump. The Mount of Olives will be renamed Trump Peak. Trump will sit on the right hand of God the Father Almighty when he passes, and in time may replace God on His throne.
All of this simply goes to show us how absolutely hollow Trump is as a human. I cannot name one single virtue that he has. He has no core. That he and Pam Bondi connected should be no surprise as its common for the like-minded to bond to one another.
There is one good thing about him. He has shown how flawed our system is when people don't vote and more importantly aren't educated and use independent thinking. FACT CHECK is it sounds too good. Use COMMON SENSE. Day one prices will go down. Seriously?
Yes, Trump has shown to us our flaws in our education system: failure to teach critical thinking skills; failure to teach comparative history and comparative political systems. We've known the process of how the wealthy used wedge issues to lure ordinary Americans into voting against their own best economic and social interests since at least 2004. Thomas Frank, "What's the Matter with Kansas?" [2004] But, Trump (a hollow man) has shown to us the absolute degradation of many of our citizens, posturing themselves as Christians. I think that Trump may get the ever-lasting fame that he has sought: Donald John Trump will go down in the Guinness Book of World Records as the most hollow, empty, totally-devoid-of-even-one-single-positive-attribute human ever to have existed, anywhere on earth.
More to the point, why haven't we rid ourselves of him already? It's not as if we don't know the trump crew acts without legal authority most of the time ... actually, blatantly lawlessly
I agree with GinaAM - it's the Republican politicians who must shoulder the primary responsibility for permitting this deranged, totally self-absorbed, sorry excuse of a human being to remain in office. Put simply, they are simply cowards without a core of values that is worth even a bucket of spit. Trump got lucky in having such an ill-informed and values-depleted electorate to be in place when he walked onto the playing field.
Deanna-You’ve asked the billion $ question. Why is he allowed to continue-the Rs have to take responsibility because if there was any time a president could be impeached or the 25th amendment invoked this is it!
Breaking: SCOTUS just struck down trump's BS tariffs.
And, an article in WaPo (of all places!) points out that after taking the U.S. out of the WHO, the Trumplicans have come up with a plan to recreate it under Trump, and it will cost taxpayers three times as much as membership in the WHO did.
Well......He is always surrounded by his retinue of diviners: the Steve Millers tell him this, the gods speak in another way, his dreams propel him this way; his "vision" propels him that way; the criminal advisory insists otherwise --- where is the truth, where is the way forward?
"the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act to secure elections. In fact, in solving a nonexistent problem, the law dramatically restricts voting. Republicans in the House have already passed it. If the Senate passes it, Trump told an audience in Rome, Georgia, “We’ll never lose a race. For 50 years, we won’t lose a race.” This is a surprise. Professor please elaborate on this law about 2026 election.
I am concerned about the rule that requires women to have their maiden name on identifications. In the past the dutiful wife always took her husband's last name. Could that be a sign that a wife is one of his possessions? isn't that what republicans want? barefoot and pregnant and subservient. So, we did that, and now we are being punished for not being the Gloria Steinham , Virginia Slim woman?
Don't get me wrong. I NEVER thought of myself as a possession but as an equal. The name change was just a tradition and no more.
There is no money! Never was, never will be! It’s all fraudulent Bullshit!
Call it that, call it lies, bluster and bullshit! Each and every day till he’s gone, and his money grubbing children with him.
Hum… oh forget it. It was tried already.
Who will rid us of this meddlesome dictator?
M.A. Porter,
"HUMILIATING" being the most descriptive adjective!!!!
We are allowing it.
I'm not as nice as I used to be, but I'm hoping we get rid of some of these anti-vaxxers. Natural selection type of thing.
The worst sleazes in high places are finally getting nabbed.
Decent English people, like many decent others in our fellow democracies, have felt abhorrence over this recent decade of Donald – his vulgarity, his lies, his murders, his racism, his misogyny, his scorn for the rule of law democracy and especially his cozying up to Putin and other corrupt and murderous dictatorships.
These decent others in our fellow democracies couldn’t do much to alleviate the primary problem – the tens of millions of U.S. idiots always falling for the Donald lies, always copacetic with his corruptions. But, over time, they could gather evidence on Donald’s playboy and murder pals around the world.
Good. Crown authorities in the UK have now made their move.
Donald still has his thug militarized, terrorist private armies, still has his corrupt private prison industry beginning to make his gulag of torture concentration camps, still has his sycophant allies atop federal agencies to abet his thuggery, his bullying, and his terror campaigns.
But decent souls among our allies have finally taken to what weak, cowardly, blind, and impotent we could not do.
ex-prince Andrew was not arrested for his pedophilia, though he had lost his royal title and royal residence because of that. The arrest was for a more straightforward criminal activity, disclosing national secrets to someone not authorized to get them (Epstein...). Andrew was the British trade delegate for many purposes and had access to lots of confidential information useful in negotiations. Why he chose to send any to Epstein - who knows? To curry favor? to show off? to pay for some of Jeffrey's girls?
Apparently some things are illegal in the UK even when the ultra wealthy and connected do them.
In S. Korea too.
If only our representatives had the courage and patriotism to do what the South Koreans did.
It's not exactly, John, that some among us get more reptile in them.
It's that, from among all the wonderful smorgasbord of our humanities, keeping us open to each other, to some human decency when dealing with complications, our more reptile class just jumps to criminality. All kinds.
Donald. Jeffrey. Former Prince Andrew. All trafficked, all their lives, in money laundering, extortion, and bribery with Putin and his oligarch crowd, with Mohammed bin Salman, Netanyahu, and all that Mideastern cohort of murderers, torturers, and mass murderers.
And they're lucky, this reptile class, as they have the Long Dong Clarence court (some call it the John Roberts court) open for business for the open sluices of dark money, even more high-toned bribery, and Citizens United business.
Had read of the Reptilian Brain in researching and wonder if there’s ‘just’ cause for people of this propensity …like perhaps those who are sexually abused themselves or bullied badly? But somehow the old monopoly study indicates the same once beyond certain holdings/property/perhaps wealth …this greed, lust for more-power,money,sex, whatever ..triggers something in mankind…but not all…there’s plenty of the very rich who are ..well…DECENT…may cover that .
So is there -the/a - more common cause in bullies, sex maniacs- pornos/murders/rude/vindictive/habitual liars ( perhaps racially biased could be added) ?
It certainly seems odd that these people generally commit the most crimes and aren’t more monitored. They have most of the obvious red flags early on. I believe we have the technology to do this. The first thing done in such cases is ‘their record’. And how many time we’ve heard ‘ had a history of mental illness’, had a variety of minor infractions , and often the reason for a light sentence when ‘all seemed fine’. Schizophrenia doesn’t usually show up until after 20 y.o. for example. But it’s defintely a mental illness.
It a point to ponder.
Schizophrenics are more likely to be victims of crime than perpetrators. Antisocial Personality Disorder is another matter.
Yes, TY J L for helping clear the point. 🫶 As was my findings during a long career in protective social work. Mental illness is often a late diagnosis underlying long term behaviors. Though not an excuse.
As a society recognizing and proper management of these afflictions , addictions, OR convictions should be sooner …Whether for the victim , the perp , or the traitor, be best practiced management ..sooner.
We knew . We know.
It is not an excuse in the sense that we as a society must do whatever is necessary, and wisest, to protect ourselves and human rights. I don't think we do is always wisest though. I recall many years ago when a recently released prisoner killed again, I saw a public official interviewed on TV about the killing. Ask it the prisoner had received counseling, she said that counseling was forbidden by state law (I forget which state) until the "punishment phase" had been completed, which is to say not until the perpetrator had been released back into society. Rehabilitation?
Free will is complicated, but as a practical necessity we have to be taught to behave in responsible ways, and held accountable for transgressions. But when abusers are so often victims of abuse themselves, we as a society could, I think, find wiser ways to stem abuse, and abusive situations, which I gather is part of why we have social workers. I don't have any trouble sending a predator such as Jeffry Epstein to jail, especially a privileged predator; same with Trump, but I think as a society there is too much direct and indirect abusive behavior that cheapens and corrupts our society, even costs many lives. The passion of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" is iconic, but the denouement gets less attention, when the Prince says:
"See, what a scourge is laid upon your hate, That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love. And I for winking at your discords too Have lost a brace of kinsmen: all are punish'd."
Having had a major hand in creating this monster, $COTUS now gives it a reprimand. They may have to hew closer to the Constitution, now that the recognize the rug is being yanked from under them.
They've seen, J L, Donald's militarizes storm troopers attacking U.S. cities.
They've seen him intent on covering for his pedophile pals.
Not so good having crowned their immune-from-law monarch.
It would help if the "GOP" appointees retain some shreds of decency, though with most of them that seems doubtful. But I have noticed a penchant for the Roberts court to consider themselves the ultimate brokers of state power, which is a title Trump claims as well, and there ain't room enough in the country for two such egos to avoid collision.
Are you referring to SCOTUS saying the tariffs are illegal? That will be interesting to see what happens if the money has to be returned. Fortunately for trump he only garnered 280 billion dollars not the trillions he told everyone we would be getting. I guess I'm not going to look for my $2000 check in the mail now.
For now. They may get to the pedophilia later. Even if not, the slow drip of Andrew’s public downfall and humiliation over years has no doubt been quite painful. Not to mention estrangement from the royal family. Even his daughters, both mothers, are put off.
These men who have had the kind of power that huge wealth has afforded them are still thinking that they can lie their way out of what the information in the Epstein files is proving. ANDREW And Wexner lie even when we know they are lying and they know that we know. They just do not care. It is the ultimate “screw you, whadda ya gonna do about it”.
Hopefully we will do something about it, and soon. Wexner may be in his 80s, but he needs to spend the rest of his evil life in prison.
Financial stuff is easier to prove than sexual assault; this is compounded by the perversion being harder to bring to trial and convict than are person crimes when so much time has elapsed.
Andrew passed useful government financial information to Epstein, presumably to Epstein's benefit. Trump stole and hoarded secret government information of various types. A coincidence? I suspect not. Trump learned from Roy Cohn how to be a vicious a-hole. He may have learned from Epstein how to monetize secrets. As president, he had the advantage of direct access.
Surely Cohn honed Trump's malignant "gifts". Was DJT just born that way, or simply infected by lifelong contact with dirty money? Hard to say.
“Benjamin Netanyahu and Russia’s president Vladimir Putin … have been indicted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes.” Things come in 3’s: The ICC has to add the unelected president who has been murdering people on boats in the Caribbean and hiring masked thugs without ID badges or warrants to kidnap people and put them in for-profit prisons or ship them to foreign torture sites. Surely there are enough crimes against humanity by now.
Please, please let Andrew make a deal to “tell all” about who else should be outed and indicted in the Epstein files……
I've been hoping too that he was at parties attended by our Con Man President and can spill that tea.
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The media had no problem looking the other way when Obama was deporting illegal immigrants by the millions—but now they want to clutch their pearls when Trump enforces the same laws? Please.
Let’s get one thing straight: under Barack Obama, ICE didn’t just sit quietly at the border sipping coffee. They were out in the streets, raiding homes, pulling people over, even in sanctuary cities like Chicago. Don’t believe it? Go watch PBS’s own “Lost in Detention” from 2011. A woman got deported after a traffic stop in Illinois. So much for “humane.”
And where were the street protests? The activist mobs? Nowhere. Why? Because the media wasn’t interested in stirring up outrage when their golden boy was in charge. Under Obama, local governments actually cooperated with ICE. That’s what led to the rise of sanctuary cities—some Democrat-run areas started passing laws to *block* that cooperation.
Haven't seen you around. The thing is with the media right now, they report or say negative things, they get fired, shut down, banned from media briefings. Don't like a episode, take it off the air hours before it is supposed to go on ( the one about the detention camps which Barrie (trump loyalist) removed temporarily.)
Karen, I’m around every other day. And your statement is absolutely incorrect. What happens is when they Tell lies they get fired because their viewership goes down and the company makes less money and that’s what happened to CNN and MSNBC that lost 50% check it out 50% of their viewership over the election
When they continually try to lie and became less than incredible and their viewers, most of them believe it or not went to Fox and now Fox is the leading network on TV and it’s a news network of all things
It now has more viewership and primetime than MSNBC or MS now who had to change its name and CNN COMBINED AND IT HAS MORE VIEWERSHIP THAN ABC NBC AND CBS IN PRIMETIME
IT MAY NOT BE CREDIBLE TO YOU, BUT IT’S CREDIBLE TO. IT’S VIEWERS
Phil Balla,
We will NOT escape punishment for the cruelties we have allowed to take place among the Hispanic people who came to this country to work in jobs our citizens will not take and to do their hard work with excellence...to learn to speak our language, to care for our children and elderly with love and patience....and to share their beautiful culture including their music and dance with us. They do not belong in warehouses....what a waste of strength and talent and humble service!!!!! GOD IS WATCHING US AND NOT FROM A DISTANCE!!!! Persons of all colors and eye shapes and cultures enrich my own life.
I am ashamed of the leadership that has turned their face away from these horrors!
It will be a happy day when Trump and his thugs (men and women) remove their greedy , lying beings from any leadership position within this country!!!!
It will be a great day when Democracy and great men and women push and fight their way to the top where they belong!
https://t.co/tNmg9DCEoZ. Oooops by the way Phil did you see the names that were put out on that list of 300. Some really good names there like Gloria Allred, John, Brennan, George, Clooney, and Bill Clinton and Javier Becerra and Alec Baldwin and Cher and Corey Booker and all the Biden‘s And Michael Wolf of all people Rohanna, Ted Liu, Hakeem Jeffries, Robert Mueller. Pretty cool list. I wonder when you’re gonna want him to get arrested lol
Another priceless Borowitz:
Trump Says Andrew's Arrest Sets Dangerous Precedent of Pedophiles Facing Consequences
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) — A visibly shaken Donald J. Trump told reporters on Thursday that the arrest of Andrew Mountbatten Windsor set a dangerous precedent of pedophiles facing consequences.
“King Charles released a statement where he said no one is above the law,” he said. “That was a horrible thing to say.”
Calling Andrew’s arrest “disgraceful,” Trump said it had made him “rethink the whole idea of becoming king.”
“If you can be a member of the royal family and still get arrested, what’s the point in having a crown?” he said. “You’re better off just having your own supreme court.”
Oh, the irony of ironies. The country still with a king — a descendant of the one we cast off — writes “let us be clear, the law must take its course” — while the one supposedly based on law and order tolerates a would-be emperor trying to steal everything not already locked down, and changing the name of everything that is.
King Charles is a strange guy with a helluva lot of quirks. But I am convinced that he’s fundamentally trying to do good in this world. Some years ago, Time Magazine had a cover feature on him and all the charities he’s actively involved in – hundreds of them – many of which he founded. It impressed me deeply!
His younger brother Andrew (from whom Charles already stripped the royal title) may have been a war hero in the Falklands War, but King Charles is not going to prevent him from being held to account for his crimes. And in addition to exploiting and abusing underage girls, those crimes crimes apparently include giving Epstein sensitive information in return for ... uh, services rendered.
Well, it’s not just because Charles is a good guy who founded a lot of charities. His previous namesake arrested in 1647 eventually lost his crown (to say nothing of the 10 pounds of ugly fat it sat on top of).
Not for nothing, when the king opens Parliament every year and dispatches the Gentleman (or Lady) Usher of the Black Rod down the hallway to inform the House of Commons that “His Majesty commands” their immediate, “honorable” presence in the House of Peers that they *first* slam the door in his face, forcing him to whip out that ebony rod and bang on the wooden door three times in a row before they open it and let him approach the Speaker.
A goofy ceremony maybe, but always observed — a metaphor to remind the King that there remains ONE chamber in the land even he cannot enter.
Thanks for sharing this telling tidbit of tradition, of which I was unaware.
It’s fun to watch. The door truly shakes and you can see the dent left behind by hundreds of rod-bangings over hundreds of years. When they do let him in, tradition also calls for loud catcalls and snide put-downs. Great fun, but with many layers of meaning.
Your’e right It’sCome To This, the irony is so striking. And updating the arrest precedent from 1647 to 2026 will certainly keep the spotlight where it needs to be. The funny thing about those arcane rituals ( of which our constitutional monarchy is the best living example) is that they originate in clear and relevant principles. And Rick baby, for ffs, ALL the names should be investigated. Unless you consider sex trafficking and misconduct in public office to be purely party political issues? RELEASE THE FILES!
And this is a beautiful thing to add. I just read this talk about Biden’s failures. Here’s a good one.
As of late February 2026, 30-year fixed mortgage rates have fallen to a 3.5-year low, hovering around 6.01%
Thank you so much, Mr. Biden.
Finally! You've given us something that pertains to your area of expertise and it struck a note in the way people can perceive what's happening. A Dutch exchange student had an uncle who was an auditor for Philips. He said he had been all over the world, but all he had ever really seen were the trips between the airport and the Philips headquarters. Is that all you have to offer?
Charles and William are acutely aware that mishandling this scandal will mean the end of the monarchy, so I wouldn't be too lavish with the praise. But, certainly, a personal statement from the king, as opposed to the regular Buckingham Palace statement, is unprecedented.
Indeed! Elizabeth would never have made an official statement. But she would probably have banished Andrew from the realm.
Umm. She forked over a £12 million settlement and met Andrew's legal fees in the Guiffre case with no discernible rap across the knuckles.
Fair point. Of course, at that time, it wasn't a global scandal with screaming headlines on every corner. She might have been forced to respond differently if she were on the throne today.
I read some portions of King Chuck's published writing and was unimpressed, but I do think he cares about more than himself. That's not always a given in high places.
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The media had no problem looking the other way when Obama was deporting illegal immigrants by the millions—but now they want to clutch their pearls when Trump enforces the same laws? Please.
Let’s get one thing straight: under Barack Obama, ICE didn’t just sit quietly at the border sipping coffee. They were out in the streets, raiding homes, pulling people over, even in sanctuary cities like Chicago. Don’t believe it? Go watch PBS’s own “Lost in Detention” from 2011. A woman got deported after a traffic stop in Illinois. So much for “humane.”
And where were the street protests? The activist mobs? Nowhere. Why? Because the media wasn’t interested in stirring up outrage when their golden boy was in charge. Under Obama, local governments actually cooperated with ICE. That’s what led to the rise of sanctuary cities—some Democrat-run areas started passing laws to *block* that cooperation.
I am glad the boy's mom is not alive to see this.
I wish she were. She coddled and indulged his bad behavior, letting him become an undisciplined, arrogant, insufferable boor.
The dictator is on record for admitting to covering up the release of the files, claiming that his “friends will get hurt.” It’s stunning that no one’s pounding on that. Not only is this an obstruction of justice, it’s practically an admission of guilt. He knows exactly what went on, he was a huge part of it and yet it all slides under the rug. His “I’m exonerated” is akin to Nixon’s “I am not a crook.” The more he says it, the guiltier he reveals himself to be. What the hell is wrong with us that he gets away with this?
I quibble with your exempting that he won't try to steal "everything not already locked down." I'm confident he'll smash through those locks as well.
Otherwise, I agree wholeheartedly with you, ICTT!
And still ,it's never enough for him ICTT.
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The media had no problem looking the other way when Obama was deporting illegal immigrants by the millions—but now they want to clutch their pearls when Trump enforces the same laws? Please.
Let’s get one thing straight: under Barack Obama, ICE didn’t just sit quietly at the border sipping coffee. They were out in the streets, raiding homes, pulling people over, even in sanctuary cities like Chicago. Don’t believe it? Go watch PBS’s own “Lost in Detention” from 2011. A woman got deported after a traffic stop in Illinois. So much for “humane.”
And where were the street protests? The activist mobs? Nowhere. Why? Because the media wasn’t interested in stirring up outrage when their golden boy was in charge. Under Obama, local governments actually cooperated with ICE. That’s what led to the rise of sanctuary cities—some Democrat-run areas started passing laws to *block* that cooperation.
One of Borowitz's best!
And this is a beautiful thing to add. I just read this talk about Biden’s failures. Here’s a good one.
As of late February 2026, 30-year fixed mortgage rates have fallen to a 3.5-year low, hovering around 6.01%
Thank you so much, Mr. Biden.
https://t.co/tNmg9DCEoZ. Oooops by the way Phil did you see the names that were put out on that list of 300. Some really good names there like Gloria Allred, John, Brennan, George, Clooney, and Bill Clinton and Javier Becerra and Alec Baldwin and Cher and Corey Booker and all the Biden‘s And Michael Wolf of all people Rohanna, Ted Liu, Hakeem Jeffries, Robert Mueller. Pretty cool list. I wonder when you’re gonna want him to get arrested lol
A reminder that — as of tonight — a little 5-year-old kid in a bunny hat from Minneapolis named Liam Ramos has already spent more time in police detention here in America than a SINGLE one of Jeffrey Epstein’s many friends, associates, clients, good buddies and business partners.
I just started reading a book called “JFK and the Unspeakable Why He Had to Die and Why it Matters”. Yes it’s about the assassination and we’ll researched and well documented. But it goes beyond that. It talks about the sheer evil and non value for humanity
I have read James Douglas’s fine book and have talked to him. To answer the objection of relevance, we are now paying the price of ignoring for over 60 years that our president’s murderers were never brought to Justice. Our nation is sick, and its inability to confront truths about itself is that sickness. Trump is taking advantage of our desire to always look the other way. If we couldn’t confront JFK’s murder we are unable to confront Trump’s tyranny.
We seem to always want to “move on,” “put this behind us,” and other ridiculous platitudes. I think now it’s cowardice that Ford pardoned the never-regretful Nixon. And here we are (with help from SCOTUS).
The worst decision ever was to pardon Nixon. Being the cynic I am, I still wonder the real reason Ford pardoned him.
Thank you.
You are welcome. I have only begun to look at this in the last few years, when I discovered that a first cousin of my ex-wife of twenty five years, Michael Paine, was connected to Lee Oswald. Michael’s family, my in laws, is in a better position than most to query why Lee Oswald was hanging out with Michael Paine. They don’t want to know. I have a Substack “the White Gloves Legend” that follows my journey of discovery.
This is better than good.
Do you follow JFK facts on Substack
I used to and I have met Jefferson Morley and discussed. I think his work on Angleton is superb and the interview he did with Newman of Jane Roman was a major breakthrough. But this past year I disengaged because I got pissed at them for collaborating with Trump/Luna. Now I see that Luna may really mean it about transparency so I might reconnect.
What this has to do with what I wrote I haven’t a clue.
I think the thread grew from the first reply to you from William Gaffney, mentioning "sheer evil and the non value for humanity."
Excellent book; I've read it twice. Should be mandatory reading in every 11th grade history class.
First, however, the educational system in general must ensure our children can read and comprehend.
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The media had no problem looking the other way when Obama was deporting illegal immigrants by the millions—but now they want to clutch their pearls when Trump enforces the same laws? Please.
Let’s get one thing straight: under Barack Obama, ICE didn’t just sit quietly at the border sipping coffee. They were out in the streets, raiding homes, pulling people over, even in sanctuary cities like Chicago. Don’t believe it? Go watch PBS’s own “Lost in Detention” from 2011. A woman got deported after a traffic stop in Illinois. So much for “humane.”
And where were the street protests? The activist mobs? Nowhere. Why? Because the media wasn’t interested in stirring up outrage when their golden boy was in charge. Under Obama, local governments actually cooperated with ICE. That’s what led to the rise of sanctuary cities—some Democrat-run areas started passing laws to *block* that cooperation.
Good work. Thank you.
BREAKING: Donald Trump fell asleep at his "Board of Peace" meeting, and farted so many times while sleeping that the representative from Azerbaijan sitting next to him left the room for the bathroom where he reportedly threw up and then did not return.
An unnamed source reports, "Those were not farts."
Trump speaking from his primary mouth.
We're trying our hardest to keep our sense of humor. It's getting harder by the hour.
:)) And I heard that "lots of people said they were not."
https://t.co/tNmg9DCEoZ. Oooops by the way Phil did you see the names that were put out on that list of 300. Some really good names there like Gloria Allred, John, Brennan, George, Clooney, and Bill Clinton and Javier Becerra and Alec Baldwin and Cher and Corey Booker and all the Biden‘s And Michael Wolf of all people Rohanna, Ted Liu, Hakeem Jeffries, Robert Mueller. Pretty cool list. I wonder when you’re gonna want him to get arrested lol
Good Lord. So disgusting and pathetic. The king really has no clothes.
Or insufficient diapers
Jeff Tiedrich refers to Orange as a ‘narcoleptic fart factory’.
He’s not wrong.
Uncle Jeff is my other daily read. Between him and HCR I am able to stay relatively sane 😜
Trump is a raving lunatic and anyone who supports him is also. It must become a law that anyone who wants to run for office or work for the government or military in any way must first undergo extensive psychological testing. How is it that South Korea can deal with their corrupt politicians so powerfully, while those who are supposed to be guardians of America are still wallowing in the mud, wringing their hands and clutching their pearls? If England can arrest their rotten Prince, why can’t America arrest the rotten president and his gang of thieves?
South Korea’s representatives climbed in through windows and took the despot down while most of the population was asleep. Can you imagine our Congressional body showing that kind of courage. They would call a recess and go home.
Yes Rudyard, they would run home and hide under the bed . The land of the brave.
I had that same thought, Rudyard. Few members of Congress would stand up and fight for America.
Those who support him are worse — they’re enablers. They facilitate criminality at home and war crimes abroad. He couldn’t pull any of this shit without them.
Worst of all — 98% of them know he’s a complete scumbag, but they’re too rotten, too lazy and too cowardly to do anything about it.
When you have a little time ICTT, please let us know who made the other 2% . It would be funny to know 😄
A great guessing game — I’ve no real idea in the Senate. A few true voidoids in the House are obvious, but even they are a tiny minority.
Good question that will be met with supreme silence from this Congress.
I agree about scrutiny and beyond psychological testing, unvarnished reviews of lawsuits he was involved with (suits and countersuits), bankruptcies, and his history with IRS as a taxpayer. The writing was on the wall.
Kristin-these are great questions. Since we’re supposed to be the “greatest” democracy on earth as some claim-why can’t “we the people” eliminate leaders who are clearly trying to deconstruct and destroy America and hence the world?
$10 billion. Exonerated. Lies and cons. Be LOUD. These are unprecedented times and we deserve WAY better 💔🤍💙
Use/share this spreadsheet (bit.ly/Goodtrouble) to contact members of Congress, the Cabinet and news organizations. Call. Write. Email. Protest. Unrelentingly.
Reach out (beyond your own) to as many in the Senate and House as you can. All of this is bigger than “I only represent my constituents” issues.
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In my opinion, writing to your Senators and Representatives in opposition to the SAVE America Act is the most important protest you can make today. Trump is clear that he will do anything to steal the midterms. Making voting harder by forcing you to prove your citizenship when you vote is a key part of his plan.
Lawrence O'Donnell, in a recent show, focused on the fallacy of using the presumption of regularity when addressing anything the Trump administration does, since it is "the most powerful criminal syndicate in history." I posted what follows yesterday when it became clear that the SAVE acts had enough votes to pass if the filibuster were not in place in the Senate.
The filibuster has been chipped away in the Senate to get around the 60 votes required for cabinet appointments and lower judicial appointments in 2013 and for SCOTUS in 2017.
We are where we are now because that workaround to the filibuster allowed Trump to stack SCOTUS.
Does anyone really think that the "presumption of regularity" will prevent his minions in the Senate from working around the filibuster when his regime for life is being threatened? Kristi Noem has said they are going to make sure only the right people are voting.
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The only thing preventing the SAVE America Act from becoming law is the filibuster…
Senate Republicans could still try to use the filibuster “nuclear option” on a category of bills.
The “nuclear option” is a maneuver in which a simple majority creates a new precedent that effectively overrides the 60‑vote filibuster rule, ending debate without formally revising it. The majority leader (or another senator) brings up a bill, makes a point of order that cloture on that kind of measure should be decided by a simple majority, and the presiding officer rules that under existing rules, 60 votes are required. A majority then votes to overturn the chair’s ruling; that vote itself is by simple majority and, once successful, becomes a binding precedent that 51 votes are enough to end debate on that category of business (e.g., nominations, or a class of legislation if they go that far).
You need at least 51 senators (including the VP as a tiebreaker) who are willing not just to support a given bill, but to vote to overturn the chair and permanently relax or end the filibuster for that category of measures. Political Wire reported that the SAVE Act passed that threshold in the Senate.
Past uses of the "nuclear option" have chipped away at the filibuster (for most nominations in 2013 and for Supreme Court nominations in 2017), showing the chamber accepts this as legitimate precedent‑making even though it is controversial.
More recently, commentators and some senators have described several 2025 majority actions—such as changing how certain budget baselines are treated—as “nuclear” because they used similar majority‑driven precedents to reshape the rules of procedure, showing that the tactic is not confined to confirmation fights.
The budget baseline change let them lock in permanent extensions and new cuts without showing the full sticker shock that a strict current‑law baseline would reveal. Politically, it gave Republicans a way to say they were “avoiding a tax hike” rather than passing a giant tax cut, because the adjusted baseline treated the Trump tax cuts as the default, and OBBB as preventing that default from expiring.
Assuming the filibuster will not change is an example of believing in the presumption of regularity. In normal times, that was enough to prevent using the "nuclear option," but we are no longer in normal times.
The issue then comes down to defining an appropriate, narrow class of legislation for the Rules to prevent the use of the filibuster.
Doesn’t seem like much of a barrier, does it?
https://politicalwire.com/2026/02/18/trumps-election-bill-tops-50-votes-in-senate/
Floridians,please call your legislators about Fl version of SAVE Act! Legislature is in session and bills are moving fast.
Note:Current FL Real ID’s do NOT indicate US citizenship.
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Whether the national bill passes or not, Florida is charging ahead with its own version. Similar voter citizenship bills (SB 1334/HB 991) are likely to easily pass and become law this year. Florida voters and would-be voters may want to start preparing as soon as possible.
What documents would you need to register to vote in Florida?
According to the bill, the following documents would be needed to register to vote, or to make changes to your registration such as your address or party:
An original or certified copy of a United States birth certificate
A valid, unexpired United States passport
A naturalization certificate issued by the United States Department of Homeland Security
A Consular Report of Birth Abroad provided by the United States Department of State
A current and valid Florida driver license or Florida identification card issued by the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, if such driver license or identification card indicates United States citizenship
A current and valid photo identification issued by the Federal Government or the state which indicates United States citizenship
An order from a federal court granting United States citizenship
https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/politics/elections/2026/02/20/florida-elections-voter-citizenship-register/88754257007/
Kathy: Thanks so much for the warning about the similar bills in the states!!! Does FL also have a version of the SAVE America Act where you have to show proof of citizenship when you vote?
State versions are more dangerous because there are so many states with Republican trifectas and there is no filibuster, so they would pass with a simple majority.
Only five states that show citizenship status on photo IDs are MI, MN, NY, VT, WA for cross border travel to Canada.
Real IDs show you are legally in the US but don’t show citizenship.
Currently no on requiring proof to actually vote.They're increasing the role of the Florida DMV.Also, the current House version disallows college ID's.
You write paragraphs and paragraphs of stuff in which you mix either wrong or misleading information along with shrieking red alert sirens that can blind as much as enlighten.
SAVE is dead in the Senate. Every Democrat (including, gasp, Jon Fetterman, I think) is on record to oppose it. Millions of us, together with all of them, have gotten to this place together. There is no path — the way you describe it — to its passage. It’s up to the Majority Leader to use the ‘nuclear option’ and he has already said there aren’t enough votes to do that — he means GOP votes. That’s how much they value the filibuster.
Which means the real battles are taking place at state levels — the nearer source of the nearest peril. Arizona and Florida Republicans (as mentioned below) are trying to pass laws that would allow ICE to be present at voting precincts. They’re not bothering with Massachusetts here!
On February 24, someone calling themselves “FBI Election Coordinator” (or some similarly bizarre title) is trying to get all 51 Secretaries of State to attend a meeting to discuss “White House plans to support the election cycle.” Or bullshit to that effect. Joyce Vance has written about this. I doubt any blue state Secretaries will attend. It’s meant for the purple states, of course.
They are trying all the unlocked back doors, not the heavily guarded front ones. They are searching for any backhanded way to get to “Brad, Brad, I just need 11,780 votes, Brad.”
You’re like the General trying to amass needed resources and personnel to the front door — paragraphs and paragraphs about it. But the attack is already coming from the rear. All of us have limited time and resources. We cannot afford to be non-strategic. That will not win us a single battle. It isn’t a matter of trusting Chuck Schumer. It’s a matter of paying much closer attention to where the fights are likeliest.
''When Justice Becomes Campaign Stage: What Trump’s DOJ Banner Reveals About Power and Precedent''
Today’s Associated Press reported that a large banner featuring Donald Trump’s face and a political slogan was displayed on the exterior of the United States Department of Justice headquarters in Washington, D.C. The banner was suspended between the building’s grand columns, transforming the solemn face of an institution meant to stand above politics into what looked like campaign propaganda. That is no small detail. It is a symptom of how deeply the norms that once protected the independence of American institutions have eroded.
The visual of a presidential image dominating the front of the Department of Justice evokes something unfamiliar in American civic life. The DOJ represents the idea that law matters more than personality, that statutes and precedents restrain power rather than gratify it. Classical architecture was chosen for this building precisely because it signals permanence and objectivity. Citizens entering its doors should be reminded that justice transcends fleeting political fortunes. What message does a giant political banner send instead? That justice is a function of image, a reward for loyalty, and a cause to be championed rather than an impartial system to be upheld.
A massive banner reading “JUSTICE” and “Make America Safe Again,” featuring Donald Trump’s image, hangs between the columns of the U.S. Department of Justice headquarters in Washington, D.C., according to today’s Associated Press report.
Look to history, and you see the danger clearly. In Germany in the 1930s, the image of Adolf Hitler was everywhere, including on government buildings. Courthouses plastered with his likeness communicated that justice was no longer an independent ideal but the extension of a singular will. The external markers of impartial institutions collapsed into a cult of personality. Today, in countries such as Turkey and Hungary, leaders have similarly used personal branding as a tool to subordinate judicial independence. Portraits, slogans, and ubiquitous images of the leader are not just decoration. They condition the public to equate the state with one person’s legitimacy...
https://essayx.substack.com/p/when-justice-becomes-campaign-stage
" Portraits, slogans, and ubiquitous images of the leader are not just decoration. They condition the public to equate the state with one person’s legitimacy..."
Excellent point. And that's exactly what he's been trying to do.
That raised a huge red flag to me as well, Michael!
Thank you Megan! Your chart makes it so easy to send a blizzard of messages to all members of Congress!
We need to make more noise.
You'll be pleased to know that Senator Tina Smith contradicts the advice of indivisible and thinks everyone should contact the senators who are vulnerable in their reelection bids. Not sure who they are and she couldn't say.
Interesting! I’ve been curious if Indivisible would change their opinion on reaching out beyond your own due to the events going on. I remember reading (and rereading) an article on their website early last year as I was trying to figure out how to use my voice beyond my very blue state and thinking that while in normal times I agree, we are not in normal times.
I do know many smaller Indivisible groups who use and share the spreadsheet.
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The media had no problem looking the other way when Obama was deporting illegal immigrants by the millions—but now they want to clutch their pearls when Trump enforces the same laws? Please.
Let’s get one thing straight: under Barack Obama, ICE didn’t just sit quietly at the border sipping coffee. They were out in the streets, raiding homes, pulling people over, even in sanctuary cities like Chicago. Don’t believe it? Go watch PBS’s own “Lost in Detention” from 2011. A woman got deported after a traffic stop in Illinois. So much for “humane.”
And where were the street protests? The activist mobs? Nowhere. Why? Because the media wasn’t interested in stirring up outrage when their golden boy was in charge. Under Obama, local governments actually cooperated with ICE. That’s what led to the rise of sanctuary cities—some Democrat-run areas started passing laws to *block* that cooperation.
https://t.co/tNmg9DCEoZ. Oooops by the way Phil did you see the names that were put out on that list of 300. Some really good names there like Gloria Allred, John, Brennan, George, Clooney, and Bill Clinton and Javier Becerra and Alec Baldwin and Cher and Corey Booker and all the Biden‘s And Michael Wolf of all people Rohanna, Ted Liu, Hakeem Jeffries, Robert Mueller. Pretty cool list. I wonder when you’re gonna want them to get arrested lol.
We are about to go to war against Iran. Dozens of ships, aircraft carriers, missile-launching systems and related forces are on high alert, either in the Middle East right now or streaming toward it, awaiting orders to fire.
Not a single one of Donald’s wormtongues has bothered to explain why. Nobody seems to be available to tell the American people why war is about to be waged in their name — and why this is taking place right now. Never in American history have we been this close to a true regional conflagration without a peep of justification, explanation, or seeking to enlist tte support of Congress (let alone its consent), much less the backing of the country.
Whatever’s in the rest of those Epstein files or buried in the depth of police blotters in Britain must be truly horrific.
Do I believe Trump is going for another war in order to try to change the subject from Epstein? Could he truly be both that desperate AND that stupid? Is that what’s going on here?
Yes, I believe that’s exactly what’s going on here. Somebody please feel free to prove me wrong. But before you do, pause and reflect on the following — this time around, there are no cooler heads…
Yes my friend, those are my thoughts too. I actually sent emails to my Congress members pleading that they stop this madness. Congress does have the power to do that.
And not only that stupid but that cruel and dare I say this… evil.
Evil indeed. Think of the sexual victimization of terrorized children by the Trumpstein Cult as the immediate precursor to the terror the MAGAstapo is now unleashing on anyone who refuses to kowtow to the ChristoNazi theocracy. Thus the vital, know-our-enemy relevance of the full text of the Jane Doe lawsuit against Trump and Epstein -- later withdrawn by the plaintiff in response to credible death threats: https://cdn.factcheck.org/UploadedFiles/Johnson_TrumpEpstein_Lawsuit.pdf
Distraction, distraction, distraction! It’s always, always been the ways of conmen. And Drumph uses the practice because it has worked for him so far and people lap it up.
Keep up the pressure! It’s working!
ICTT, I think an Iran war is a "twofer." It's a distraction from the Trumpstein files and also, justification for postponing or cancelling the midterm elections. Granted, that would be unconstitutional, but Donald has been wiping his oversized butt on the Constitution for years and the impotent Congress has done nothing about it.
Even if a minority in SCOTUS would agree that canceling the vote is unconstitutional, someone would have to sue, the case would crawl through the legal system, and Roberts would slow-walk a hearing until it's too late.
Donold is much too selfish and cruel to have ever had a pet or know anything about caring for an animal but he's definitely wagging the dog here.
And a possible ripple effect of "postponing" the Midterms? Please tell me Im wrong.
I think you are. They are searching for ways to suppress and manipulate the vote, not cancel it. A critical distinction.
Or we could stick it out and bomb up your ass if you prefer
https://t.co/tNmg9DCEoZ. Oooops by the way Phil did you see the names that were put out on that list of 300. Some really good names there like Gloria Allred, John, Brennan, George, Clooney, and Bill Clinton and Javier Becerra and Alec Baldwin and Cher and Corey Booker and all the Biden‘s And Michael Wolf of all people Rohanna, Ted Liu, Hakeem Jeffries, Robert Mueller. Pretty cool list. I wonder when you’re gonna want them to get arrested lol.
Well, perhaps it’s come to this. You’d rather have a nuclear bomb dropped on your ass.
It's all exhausting, isn't it? Still hard to believe how many Americans voted for this.
But we can't stop fighting, and we can't fight without facing what's happening. So thank you Ms. Richardson for continuing to shine the light.
Superb writing as always, Heather! I really appreciated your last sentence:
"... the law dramatically restricts voting. Republicans in the House have already passed it. If the Senate passes it, Trump told an audience in Rome, Georgia, “We’ll never lose a race. For 50 years, we won’t lose a race.”
That says it all. We must shut them down, Trump and all.
Actually, the law does just the opposite. It opens up boating to anyone with ID.
Tried getting a drivers license lately. Try buying a beer tried having a bank account.
Try getting a Social Security card and I guess you didn’t see Chuck Schumer the other day boy did he step in it if you haven’t seen Chuck Schumer’s full paw that now is in the possession of the White House you’re gonna get a real kick out of it
Good old Chucky and his hypocrisy and double standards he said on the halls on the floor of Congress if you don’t have ID and you don’t have a Social Security card, you can commit fraud so you need to ensure that they have that where can you go and what can you do without ID? If you don’t have ID your permitting fraud to happen Chuck Schumer in his own words. Ooooops
Board of Peace is more like Bored of Peace.
This sounds more like a bunch of old men sitting around saying “I get a piece of this, you get a piece of that, he get’s no piece.
Now, which one of you idiots put in an order for Kreplachistan?”
Board of Grift, Graft and Gimme, nothing more.
His Holiness Pope Leo XIV will not be joining the “Board of Piece” the Vatican has already announced.
Donold J. Trump Board of Peace has got to be one of the most oxymoronic things ever to be proposed to our Nation and, especially, the world.
It would almost be laughably Orwellian if it wasn't such a grim turn away from diplomacy, alliances and lawful conduct.
Like a confederacy of dunces making up rules to the board game of Risk.
What does it say on this country’s 250th birthday that the country we wrestled our independence from arrested a member of the royal family? England’s monarchy may fall, as they have decided that the law is more important than any one man. But what of the nation that penned the idea that all men are ruled by laws, not a monarch, and that no man is above the law, treating our president with immunity to corrupt not only his office but the entire federal government? And that he made himself as untouchable as a king that so few in authority will challenge it?
Nothing good.
Forum shopping: extradite Trump to South Korea to stand trial for insurrection.
YES!!!
Heather doesn't mention that those South Korean legislators called on each other immediately at 11:00pm, and gathered together after midnight to stop the coup.
I highly recommend reading this 2014 essay that analyzes the horrific, pathological mindset at the heart of the Epstein Files from the perspective of what was going on in the U.K. This was written in 2014 and shows how this global elite have protected each other. It's about the dark side of humanity... a culture of extreme cruelty that has *nothing* to do with sex but is, instead, about the *death* of the concept of treating people as if they were human beings. We MUST bring this culture to trial... every last one of its members!
https://georgiebc.wordpress.com/2014/11/23/sociopaths-psychopaths-and-death-eaters/
Thank you for the link. It’s horrifying and even worse, people have been warned for over 10 years but this evil is still simmering.
Hence my growing conviction that Trump, the ChristoNazis and the MAGAT rabble -- most notably because of their utter absence of empathy (and their fanatical belief empathy is a sin) -- actually mark the emergence of a new subspecies of (sub)human, Homo sapiens inhumanus, its sociopathy -- including the replacement of the love-instinct with a far-more-powerful hate instinct -- the (deliberate) product of five decades of relentless neoliberal conditioning. (See https://news.yale.edu/2025/03/06/violent-experiences-alter-genome-ways-persist-generations )
A scary point in evolution for sure. Maybe more like de-evolution
Even reading one of Trumpty's meandering discourses satisfies my Minimum Daily Requirement for Word Salad.
All roughage, no nutritional value.
Makes a highly effective emetic, however.
That's certainly the reaction I would have if I ever had to actually listen to one. That and bleeding ear drums.
We are told that South Korea took care of its criminal head of state who will go to prison, then we’re told about the former Prince Andrew of England. Then we’re told that the criminal in chief of America is wrecking havoc throughout the United States and the rest of the world and no one is stopping him. WTF!? I’d say the un United States is the laughingstock of the world, but I think it’s more honest to say that we’re the crying stock of the world. This is politically heartbreaking.
https://t.co/tNmg9DCEoZ. Oooops by the way Phil did you see the names that were put out on that list of 300. Some really good names there like Gloria Allred, John, Brennan, George, Clooney, and Bill Clinton and Javier Becerra and Alec Baldwin and Cher and Corey Booker and all the Biden‘s And Michael Wolf of all people Rohanna, Ted Liu, Hakeem Jeffries, Robert Mueller. Pretty cool list. I wonder when you’re gonna want them to get arrested lol. Make sure you check out that video first you’re gonna really enjoy it instead of seeing two people who were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Here’s 100 of them that were killed by an illegal criminals. American citizens women killed by illegal aliens. And their faces and their names let that sink in.