Yrump eliminates plan to requite passenger compensation for delayed flights. So much for prtecting ordinary people – yrump is protecting money people.
Interesting read!
Goldman Sachs on Thursday strongly backed its top lawyer, Kathy Ruemmler, a day after a congressional committee released her chummy emails with notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein before she joined the investment bank.
Those emails feature Ruemmler, who served as White House counsel to former President Barack Obama, and Epstein exchanging thoughts about President Donald Trump, former President Bill Clinton, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, and overweight highway rest stop patrons.
“See you at 2, I ordered sushi for you,” Epstein wrote Ruemmler in March 2018 as part of an email thread that began with him sending her a Daily Beast article headlined, “How close is Donald Trump to a psychiatric breakdown?”
Ruemmler
In 2023, Ruemmler told The Wall Street Journal, “I regret ever knowing Jeffrey Epstein.”
“He also planned for her to join a 2015 trip to Paris and a 2017 visit to Epstein’s private island in the Caribbean,” the Journal reported then. The newspaper, citing a Goldman Sachs spokesman, reported that Epstein introduced her to potential legal clients, including Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft.
Ruemmler
“Trump is living proof of the adage that it is better to be lucky than smart,” Ruemmler wrote Epstein on Aug. 26, 2015, according to the email thread received by House Oversight from Epstein’s estate pursuant to a subpoena.
Epstein, who previously had been a long-time friend of Trump’s, replied, “ill give you details when I see you. when are you in ny?”
Ruemmler replied by saying she was going to New York two days later, and was considering driving there.
“I will stop to pee and get gas at a rest stop on the New Jersey turnpike, will observe all of the people there who are at least 100 pounds overweight, will have a mild panic attack as a result of the observation, and will then decide that I am not eating another bite of food for the rest of my life out of fear that I will end up like one of these people,” Ruemmler wrote.
Months later, in January 2016, Epstein emailed Ruemmler, saying, “I stopped talking to [Bill] Clinton when he swore, with whole hearted conviction to me, that he had done something. , he had forgotten that he also swore the exact opposite to me only weeks before.”
On July 14, 2016, Epstein writes Ruemmler: “pretty black dress. you and ruth ginsburg.”
Ruemmler replied less than 20 minutes later: “I like that dress … narciso Rodriguez. Where did you see that picture? RBG [the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg] was my date to state dinner.”
Epstein replied that the photo was on “every news channel today,” because Ginsburg had apologized for comments she made to The Times about Trump, in which she said, “I can’t imagine what the country would be — with Donald Trump as our president” and that her late husband would have said it was “time for us to move to New Zealand.”
“Yikes,” Ruemmler wrote.
The following day, Epstein wrote a single word, “today,” to Ruemmler.
Ruemmler
She replied, “that’s a broad question,” and Epstein shot back, “I no longer use terms like ‘broad,’ ” with a “frown” emoji following that.
Ruemmler
A year later, when Ginsburg’s fears had been realized and Trump had been elected president, Ruemmler, on July 20, 2017, wrote, “ Trump is truly stupid.”
“Duh,” Epstein replied the following day.
Ruemmler earlier that same year said in an email to Epstein that Trump was “ so gross.”
Epstein replied, “Worse in real life and upclose.”
Ruemmler
In August 2018, Ruemmler emailed Epstein a link to a New York Times op-ed that said there was a case to be made for impeaching Trump, in connection with hush money payments others made to two women to keep them quiet about their alleged sexual trysts with him before the 2016 election. Trump having sex with the women: porn star Stormy Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougal.
“ You see, i know how dirty donald is,“ Epstein wrote in that thread. “my guess is that non-lawyers ny biz people have no idea. what it means to have your fixer flip.”
In a thread earlier that year, Epstein appeared to have forwarded a message from former Trump White House advisor Steve Bannon, who wrote, “do you think Bill Clinton would like to join you me chud and steve? could be very funny, all off the record.”
Ruemmler replied, “While he might like to, his lawyer would advise him against it. :-).”
In the same thread, Ruemmler wrote, “Barf,” after Epstein said that an unnamed woman was saying that a man named Ben was “giving her a very hard time” by asking her “to do wife like things.”
In June 2018, Epstein, in an email to Ruemmler, mentioned Facebook and its founder, Zuckerberg.
Epstein
“I thought you might like to look at the recent internet and privacy opinions and pose some open questions to be discussed,” Epstein wrote. “mark wants to bring the internet to the rest of the world … and healthcare … his wife is nice but boring .. what do you see as the challenges .. what does she or he see. social.”
In other emails:
Epstein repeatedly insulted Trump. In a January 2018 email to Wolff, Epstein referred to the president as “dopey donald” and “demented donald,” saying that his finances were “all a sham”.
Later that year, Epstein emailed with Lawrence Summers, the former treasury secretary and Harvard University president, about Trump. Epstein called him “borderline insane”.
“Trump ., is scaring the markets not china,” Epstein wrote in August 2015 to an unidentified acquaintance who had asked about economic turmoil.That December, Epstein was texting with an unidentified acquaintance, who wrote that “they’re really just trying to take down Trump and doing whatever they can to do that…!”
“Its wild,” Epstein replied. “because i am the one able to take him down.”
The next month, Epstein wrote to Wolff about Trump and Mar-a-Lago. “Trump said he asked me to resign, never a member ever,” Epstein wrote. “of course he knew about the girls as he asked ghislaine to stop.”
In May 2017, Mr Summers wrote to Epstein asking “How guilty is Donald?” before detailing his own views.
“Of crudity surely,” wrote Mr Summers. “Of gross ignorance surely. Of being utterly without the intellect temperament for job surely. Of being over line on family profiting very likely. Of gross disregard for appearances almost surely.”
The sixteen assault allegations against Donald Trump, recapped
Sixteen women have come forward with allegations against President Donald Trump, each accusing him of inappropriate conduct. The most recent, from writer and columnist E. Jean Carroll, appeared in NY Magazine on Friday.
The women’s charges range from unwanted touches and aggressive, sudden kissing to the latest accusation against Trump — that he attacked a woman in a dressing room and forced his penis inside her. Donald Trump, his campaign and the Trump White House have insisted all of the stories are fabricated and politically motivated.
So far:
- 16 women have accused Donald Trump of various forms of sexual assault, including one accusation of rape and another, in which the accuser has not used the word “rape” but whose description meets the legal definition of rape. This figure includes standing accusations from both before and after the release of the Access Hollywood tape on October 7, 2016.
- Four other women have publicly said Mr. Trump walked in on them and other pageant contestants while they were undressing. Buzzfeed reports another three women have confirmed the pageant stories but did not want their names used.
- The alleged incidents range from the early 1980s to 2013.
- Donald Trump has adamantly denied all of the stories and accuses the women of being political tools who were trying to undermine either his candidacy or presidency.
SEXUAL ASSAULT ACCUSATIONS
Here is what we know about the accusations of assault against Donald Trump, including the date of the alleged assault. These are standing allegations of assault that have not been disavowed by the alleged victim.
Kristin Anderson – Early 1990s. Story in the Washington Post on October 14, 2016.
Anderson says she was in a Manhattan bar with friends when the person next to her reached up her skirt and touched her vagina through her underwear. She says she turned and recognized the person as Donald Trump.
E. Jean Carroll – late 1995 or early 1996. Story in NY Magazine June 21 and expected in upcoming book.
Carroll describes running into Trump in a department store, where she says he recognized her for her widely-read advice column. Carroll says they went into a dressing room after Trump asked for her advice on a present – lingerie – for another woman. Inside, she alleges that he shoved her against a wall, “forcing his fingers around my private area, thrusts his penis halfway — or completely, I’m not certain — inside me.” A senior White House official issued a statement to NY Magazine calling the accusation, “a completely false and unrealistic story.”
Rachel Crooks – 2005. Story in The New York Times on October 12, 2016.
A 22-year-old receptionist at the time, Crooks said Trump gave her an unwanted kiss on the mouth after meeting him in 2005.
“Jane Doe” aka “Katie Johnson” – 1994. Lawsuit filed June 2016, refiled October 2016 as reported by Buzzfeed and others, then dropped in November 2016.
Jane Doe is an unnamed plaintiff, who has also gone by “Katie Johnson” in legal papers. She claims she was repeatedly raped by Trump and Jeffery Epstein at Epstein’s New York City apartment in 1994, when she was 13 years old. A witness, also given a pseudonym — “Tiffany Doe” — said she recruited “Jane Doe” and others. Doe, using the name “Johnson,” gave an interview to the Daily Mail in which she said she did not know who Trump was at the time of the alleged attack but identified him later when she saw him on television. It is not known why she withdrew the lawsuit. She has not spoken publicly or withdrawn her rape allegation since then.
Jessica Drake – 2006. Story made public at a news conference October 22, 2016.
While working as an adult film actress, Drake says Trump invited her to the room where he was staying in Lake Tahoe. In the room, she says he grabbed, hugged and kissed her and two other women who accompanied her without permission. Later, she alleges that Trump called her and pressed her to return to his room, offering $10,000 at one point. Drake says she declined.
Jill Harth – 1992-1993. Story in the The New York Times on October 9, 2016.
A Florida businesswoman who partnered with Trump and later dated him. Harth alleged that he groped her under the table at dinner with her boyfriend then repeatedly got her alone, and it would turn into a “wrestling match.” She sued Trump for breach of contract, sexual harassment and at one point attempted rape. She settled and then in 1998 dated Trump.
Cathy Heller – 1997. Story in the Guardian on October 15, 2016.
At a Mother’s Day brunch for Mar-A-Lago club members’ families in 1997, Heller alleges that when she was introduced to Trump, he grabbed her and tried to kiss her on the lips. Heller says she leaned back to avoid him and then he kissed her on the side of her mouth. CNN has reported Heller is a Democratic donor.
Ninni Laaksonen – 2006. Former Miss Finland. Story in Ilta-Sonomat on October 27, 2016. In English in the Telegraph.
Laaksonen told Finnish newspaper Ilta-Sonomat that Trump “squeezed her butt” as she and other pageant contestants stood next to him for a publicity photo, ahead of an appearance on The Letterman Show.
Jessica Leeds – Early 1980s. Story in The New York Times on October 12, 2016.
Leeds says she sat next to Trump in first class on an airplane and that he kissed her, groped her chest and reached up her skirt, leading her to move back to coach. “He was like an octopus,” she told The New York Times. In a NY Post report published October 14, 2016, a British man whose interview was arranged by the Trump campaign said that he was on the flight, that Leeds’ account is false and he remembers Leeds acting inappropriately.
Mindy McGillivray – Jan. 24, 2003. Story in Palm Beach Post on October 12, 2016.
Working as an assistant to photographers at Mar-a-Lago in 2003, McGillivray charges that Trump nudged or grabbed her from behind.
Jennifer Murphy – 2004. Story in Grazia on October 12, 2016.
A former Miss USA and “The Apprentice” contestant, Grazia says that Trump kissed her on the lips after walking her to the elevators following a meeting in New York, which he said was to discuss a possible job.
Cassandra Searles – 2013. Made story public in Facebook post in early 2016.
Miss Washington 2013, Searles wrote on Facebook, “He probably doesn’t want me telling the story about that time he continually grabbed my ass and invited me to his hotel room.”
Natasha Stoynoff – December 2005. Story on People.com on October 12, 2016.
Stoynoff was a celebrity reporter covering Trump for People Magazine. She alleges that Trump assaulted her while she was at Mar-a-Lago interviewing him and Melania Trump for a story about their one-year anniversary. She alleges Trump took her to a private room, pushed her against the wall and aggressively kissed her. Stoynoff also says a staffer told her Trump was waiting for her the next day at a massage appointment.
Temple Taggart McDowell – 1997. Story in New York Times May 14, 2016.
McDowell, who was Miss Utah USA 1997, charges that Trump suddenly kissed her without her consent on two separate occasions.
Karena Virginia – 1998. Story made public at a news conference October 20, 2016.
Virginia says that while she was waiting for a ride following the U.S Open tennis tournament, Trump walked up to her, grabbed her arm and touched her breast.
Summer Zervos – 2007. Story made public in a news conference October 14, 2016.
A former contestant on “The Apprentice,” Zervos alleges that Trump told her he wanted to discuss a possible job, but alone in a Beverly Hills Hotel bungalow, grabbed her breasts, kissed her and tried to lead her into a bedroom.
PAGEANT CONTESTANTS ALLEGING TRUMP WALKED IN WHILE THEY WERE DRESSING
Mariah Billado – 1997 Miss Vermont Teen. Story in Buzzfeed on October 12, 2016.
Tasha Dixon – 2001 Miss Arizona. Story in CBSLA on October 11, 2016.
Victoria Hughes – 1997 Miss New Mexico Teen. Story in Buzzfeed on October 13, 2016.
Bridget Sullivan – 2000 Miss New Hampshire. Story in Buzzfeed May 18, 2016.
Buzzfeed on October 12, 2016 reported that three other anonymous sources from 1997 Miss Teen USA pageant confirmed Billado and Hughes’ story.
OTHER ALLEGATIONS OF IMPROPER CONDUCT
Lisa Boyne – Summer 1996. Story in The Huffington Post on October 13, 2016.
Boyne alleges that at a group dinner, Trump and other men forced women to walk over the table to leave their seats and that Trump looked up the women’s skirts and commented on their underwear and genitalia.
Ivana Trump – 1989. Accusations in early 1990s court deposition, made public in The Daily Beast on July 27, 2015. Ivana disavowed stories of rape in a 1993 book and further commented on July 28, 2015.
The mother of three children with Trump, Ivana Trump charges that Trump “violated their bond of love” in a 1989 incident, which she has not described any further in public. She wrote that her reported words charging her ex-husband with “rape” in a deposition were figurative, that stories about a rape are “totally without merit” and she “ did not mean rape in the “criminal sense.” She is under a confidentiality agreement and cannot discuss her marriage publicly without approval from Donald Trump.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced on Thursday evening a new operation dubbed “Southern Spear” to quash “narco-terrorists” in the Western Hemisphere. |
Govenor Pritzker: Trump ‘might take us to war with Venezuela’ to distract from Epstein controversy
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) suggested Wednesday that President Trump ramping up military operations in the Caribbean is his way of distracting from controversy surrounding files connected to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Lawmakers released thousands of new files related to the case Wednesday, after House Democrats leaked emails from Epstein that raise new questions about how much Trump knew when it came to the late disgraced financier’s relationship with underage girls.
“My great fear, of course, is that with the release of that information, which I think will be devastating for Trump, he’s going to do everything in his power to distract,” Pritzker told The Associated Press in an interview.
“What does that mean? I mean, he might take us to war with Venezuela just to get a distraction in the news and take it out of the headlines.” he added.
In recent months, the Trump administration has faced intense backlash over its handling of files linked to Epstein from both sides of the aisle — with pressure mounting for the release of all of the documents. Democrats late Wednesday successfully moved a discharge petition across the finish line to do just that, and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said he would bring it to the floor for a vote next week.
The move comes days after the U.S. military’s largest aircraft carrier — the USS Gerald R. Ford — arrived in Latin America as part of the Defense Department’s pressure campaign against drug cartels and vessels in the Caribbean. Venezuela, whom the administration has pinned much of the blame on for the illegal movement of narcotics, responded by announcing their own “massive deployment” of soldiers as tensions rise in the region over the deadly boat strikes.
According to Venezuelan Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino López, officials were putting “the entire country’s military arsenal on full operational readiness.”
Epstein: Trump ‘knew about the girls’
Three emails released by Oversight Democrats involved Trump in communications between Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell and with columnist Michael Wolff.
One email from January 2019 shows Epstein telling Wolff that “of course [Trump] knew about the girls as he asked [Maxwell] to stop.”
In another from April 2011, Epstein tells Maxwell that Trump is the “dog that hasn’t barked” and “spent hours at my house” with a victim of his sex-trafficking ring.
When was North Carolina on any Border?
After a months-long deportation campaign in Chicago, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents are reportedly getting ready to leave the Windy City and depart for Charlotte, North Carolina, and later New Orleans.
On Monday, CBS News reported that some of the more than 200 “Border Patrol teams dispatched to Chicago could be diverted to Charlotte, North Carolina for an operation that is expected to start there this month.” Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), meanwhile, will continue its work in Chicago. The Charlotte contingent will be led by sector chief Gregory Bovino, who oversaw deployments in Chicago and Los Angeles earlier this year.
Neither CBP nor the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have publicly confirmed the reported redeployment, and local officials in Charlotte say they were caught off guard by the news. Charlotte‑Mecklenburg Police Department (CMPD) Chief Johnny Jennings told WBTV, a local CBS affiliate, “I don’t know if that’s going to happen or not. They haven’t reached out to me, so I’m not sure what’s going to occur.” In a statement, the department added that it “does not participate in ICE operations, nor are we involved in the planning of these federal activities.” The Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s Office likewise told WBTV it “had not been contacted by any border patrol representatives, nor has it been involved in any planning or conversations.”
America First?
The Trump Organization requested 184 foreign workers to work across various company properties, a record number that has increased over the years.
The company sought to hire workers through H-2A and H-2B visas for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, two golf clubs and at Trump Vineyard Estates in Charlottesville, Va., according to data from the Department of Labor.
Over the course of Trump’s first term and the first nine months of his second term, the Trump Organization’s visa requests increased from 121 in 2021 to 184 in 2025, according to Forbes. Overall, the company has filed to hire 566 foreign laborers, primarily to work as servers, farm workers, kitchen staff, clerks and housekeepers.
Epstein Warned Trump Was ‘Evil Beyond Belief’ and ‘Mad’ After Mental Health Scrutiny
Emails show the late pedophile raging that Trump could “crack” after being sent a Daily Beast article on the president’s psychological state.
Trump Already Screwing Over Dems on Key Shutdown Concession
The Trump administration has already flipped on one key Democrat condition for ending the government shutdown.
The deal struck with the Democrats included extending government funding through Jan. 30 next year, as well as stopping the Trump administration’s mass firings of federal workers and guaranteeing back pay for staff who worked through the shutdown.
It also stated that thousands of federal staff terminated during the shutdown would get their jobs back.
In a new interview conducted on Wednesday before the House approved the bill, a key GOP player admitted the job cuts will not be reversed.
Tom Emmer, the majority whip in the United States House of Representatives, revealed the revised plans following a lunch meeting he had with Trump last week.
“He’s not going to bring back the people that they fired,” Emmer said of Trump. “They were unnecessary; otherwise, they’d still be there. So, they’re not coming back.”
Trump Cabinet Investigations
(does not include thousands of court cases agaist Yump) – partial list – none seme to be experts in their roles
Kristi Noem under Congressional Investigations (click here)
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth
Treasury Secrtary Scott Bessant
Tulsi Gabbard, Director of National Intelligence
Kelly Loeffler,Administrator of the Small Business Administration (none)
Russ Vought’, Director of the Office of Management and Budget
Brooke Rollins, Secretary of Agriculture
Linda McMahon, Secretary Education
Chris Wright, Secretary of Energy
Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F Kennedy, Jr.
Secretary of the Interior, Doug Burgum
Lori Chavez-DeRemer, Secretary of Labor
Marco Rubio, Secretary of State
Doug Collins, Secretary of Veterans Affairs
Sean Duffy, Secretary of Transportation
This is getting serious
Newly disclosed Jeffrey Epstein emails complicate matters for Donald Trump
Donald Trump has long insisted that he did not know about and had no involvement in Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operation. Indeed, as the political controversy surrounding the president and his former friend has intensified over the course of the year, Trump began condemning the scandal as a “scam” and a “hoax” concocted by his Democratic critics.
But despite the Republican’s efforts to make the story go away, the slow-moving avalanche of revelations continues to create new problems for the president and his White House.
On Wednesday morning, Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released a package of emails, obtained by the Epstein estate, in which the convicted sex offender wrote, among other things, that Trump had “spent hours” at Epstein’s house with one of Epstein’s victims. In a separate message, Epstein said the future president “knew about the girls.”
In April 2011, for example, as Trump took on a higher political profile, Epstein sent an email to longtime confidante Ghislaine Maxwell that read: “i want you to realize that that dog that hasn’t barked is trump.. (victim) spent hours at my house with him ,, he has never once been mentioned. police chief. etc. im 75 % there.”
The fact that Trump and the late millionaire pedophile had a relationship is not new. Not only have we all seen the video footage of the two men hanging out, but as my MSNBC colleague James Downie noted, Trump told New York magazine in 2002: “I’ve known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy. He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.”
But knowing that the two men were onetime friends is one thing; seeing an email in which Epstein wrote that Trump had “spent hours at my house” with one of Epstein’s victims is something else altogether.
There’s also this email, in which Epstein wrote that Trump “of course … knew about the girls.”
Horrible At least 20 people have died in ICE custody under the Trump regime in 2025. It’s the deadliest year for ICE prisons in over two decades.1 One of the worst is in Broadview, IL.
A new lawsuit describes horrific conditions at the Broadview prison: “There is blood, other bodily fluids, and hair in the sinks and on the walls.” Hundreds of people are pushed into cells “like a pile of fish” and “treated worse than animals.”2 Trump’s violent “Operation Midway Blitz” invasion in Chicago is rounding up families and neighbors by the hundreds and throwing them into unsafe conditions at the Broadview detention center.A federal judge ordered the release of hundreds of people arrested as part of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Illinois, according to CNN affiliate WLS, dealing a blow to federal efforts to detain and deport as many undocumented people as possible. US District Judge Jeffrey Cummings on Wednesday morning sided with attorneys from the National Immigration Justice Center and the ACLU. The plaintiffs alleged more than 3,000 people were arrested between June and October. Those who will be released must be granted bond by noon on November 21. |
Steve Taylor
As a foreign visitor, you can’t do any kind of work in exchange for any sort of compensation at all — even non-monetary compensation — unless it’s from your employer abroad. This is overwhelmingly why people are getting denied entry. or being deported (except for Mrs. Trump, she can stay).
Even volunteer work exchanges, where you do basic chores around a house or a farm and get free lodging and food in exchange: is illegal in the United States.
I’m not defending this. In fact, it pisses me off that the country that claims to be so “free” and where millions of jobs (especially on farms) go unfilled wants to micromanage anyone cleaning out a barn in underpopulated Wyoming in exchange for a free week’s stay on a ranch. From the point of view of the law, this basically turns you into an illegal migrant.<
A man finds an envelope with $7000 in it
A few days later, he reads a notice stating that a wealthy man has lost his money and is offering a $500 reward to anyone who returns it.
He soon locates the owner and gives him the envelope, and the rich man counts the money and says, “I see you have already taken your reward.” The poor man responds,
“What are you talking about?” The wealthy man continues, “This envelope had $7500 in it when I lost it.”
The poor man replied “I am sorry sir but when I found it up it only had $7,000”
The two men began arguing, and eventually they end up in court to sort out their differences. Both men present their case, the poor man first, then the wealthy man who concludes by saying,
“Your Honor, I trust you believe me.”
The Judge says, “Of course.” The rich man smiles, and the poor man is devastated.
Then the Judge takes the envelope out of the wealthy man’s hands and gives it to the poor man who found it.
“What are you doing?” the rich man yells angrily. The Judge responds,
“You are, of course, an honest man, and if you say that your missing envelope had $7500 in it, I’m sure it did – but if the man who found this envelope is a liar and a thief, he wouldn’t have returned it at all, which means that this envelope must belong to somebody else. If that man steps forward, he’ll get the money – otherwise, it stays with the man who found it.”
“What about my money?” the rich man asks.
“Well, we’ll just have to wait until somebody finds your envelope with the $7500 in it.
It is Home Depot stuff, Yrump was snookered
Ingraham asked Trump “So these aren’t from Home Depot?” Trump replied, “Nah, this is not Home Depot stuff,” he said, reports The Daily Beast.
Policy consultant Adam Cochran quoted Trump in a post on X, along with a screenshot from the store selling a molding that appears in the Oval Office.
“It is literally Home Depot Stuff,” Cochran said.
Cochran then added, “Then again Trump is dumb and surrounded by crooks. Maybe he thinks it’s real gold, has been paying for real gold and getting shafted.”
Ned Ford on Yrump stopping the wind turbines in New England
The problem New England faces with energy is that there is a citizen constituency against EVERY possible solution. Canada has long hoped to sell more electricity to the U.S., which it can easily do, but the transmission capacity into the core New England states is as much opposed as any other solution.
There doesn’t appear to be an immediate shortage, but we will have to wait for The Idiot to be taken out of office before we can progress with the cheaper options. New England states are very much in the lead of the U.S. for efficiency programs. New England has competent energy management, but the easiest solution to any growth from this point is higher rates, and burning more natural gas in the existing gas power plants. Natural gas pipelines are limited in capacity, but that’s only really a problem in the winter, when gas is also being used for heating.
Offshore wind and solar is cheap, complements the existing heavy dependence on natural gas and some of those wind farms are going to be completed, because The Idiot was too late to make them stop. A lot of them are re-developing contracts to face the new realities. Without Federal support, wind and solar are still a small fraction of the cost of any other options. The Idiot doesn’t believe in a free market, but he doesn’t control everything.
Americans got snookered, GOP lied.
“The Dems got back pay for workers, higher SNAP, a promise to vote of Obama Care,and keeping employees Yrump wanted to fire. Epstein files with Yrump in them will be revealed.”
Or so they thought! Republicans are already backtracking!!!!
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is refusing to commit to a critical element of the Senate’s bipartisan agreement to end the shutdown and fund the federal government.
Eight members of the Democratic caucus on Sunday voted to advance legislation that included a promise by Senate Republicans to hold a vote on reinstating the Affordable Care Act subsidies. Without the reinstatement, millions of Americans could see their monthly premiums skyrocket, and millions are expected to lose their health insurance.
But when asked if he would hold a vote in the House to uphold the Senate Republicans’ bargain, Johnson refused to commit.
Minutes later, speaking on CNN, Johnson said of any potential vote on Affordable Care Act subsidies, “I’m not committing to it or not committing to it.”
Democrats should have known the Republicans cannot be trusted.
Veterans Day
Today is Veterans Day is a special day dedicated to honoring and expressing gratitude to the men and women who have served in the United States Armed Forces like my father. He served both in WW2 and Korea.
It is a time to recognize the courage, sacrifice, and dedication of those who have defended our country and protected our freedoms.
Veterans Day celebrates all veterans—past and present—for their commitment and service. Communities across the nation including here in Gulfport hold ceremonies, parades, and moments of reflection to show appreciation, and it serves as a reminder of the importance of supporting veterans and acknowledging their invaluable contributions to our nation.
Thanks dad.
News Alert: UK suspends intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major breakThe United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. The UK’s decision marks a significant break from its closest ally and intelligence sharing partner and underscores the growing skepticism over the legality of the US military’s campaign around Latin America. |
Tell me something we do not know
Trump 2.0 is a profound, ongoing betrayal of America, and everything that has made this remarkable nation the most powerful and prosperous in the world. It is why we must fight. As dark as all this is, we cannot for one moment forget that what Trump is doing is wrong; he and his project remain unstable and his coalition fractious; he is doing deeply unpopular things, going far beyond his narrow “mandate;” he is old, impulsive, reckless and clearly in decline; and extremists and ideologues are often far better at circuses than governing.
Yrump’s $2000 gift to us would raise the deficit not lower it!
Still, somehow we have major national debates that show zero understanding of even the most basic arithmetic.
The latest example is the $2,000 tariff dividend check that Trump is promising us. The arithmetic here is about as simple as it gets. We have roughly 340 million people in the country. Let’s say 10 percent don’t get the check because they meet Trump’s category of “high-income.”
That leaves over 300 million people getting Trump’s $2,000 checks. That comes to more than $600 billion. Trump’s tariffs are raising around $270 billion. That means we will be paying out $330 billion more in Trump tariff dividend checks than he is raising in tariff revenue. That would add $270 billion to the deficit—this coming from the same guy who is making an obsession of paying down our national debt.
And just to be clear, we were already looking at a budget deficit for 2026 of $1.8 trillion. If we add $330 billion, the deficit for the fiscal year will be $2.1 trillion. To put this in simple language that even a reporter for a major national news outlet can understand, Trump is proposing to add $2.1 trillion to the debt in 2026; he is not paying it down.
Kevin Hassett, director of the White House National Economic Council, said the dividend payments would have to first be passed by Congress anyway.
Pardons did not help much
Georgia Republicans who came under legal scrutiny after allegedly playing a role in trying to overturn President Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss are celebrating after the president issued a sweeping preemptive pardon – though the presidential decree will have no direct effect on the state racketeering case out of Fulton County.
The Dems got back pay for workers, higher SNAP, and keeping employees Yrump wanted to fire. Epstein files with Yrump in them will be revealed.
Jen Psaki shows Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson and Vice President JD Vance explaining out loud that the reason they don’t want to fund food assistance to millions of Americans is because if they do, Democrats will have even less incentive to vote for the Republicans’ budget bill, in effect admitting that they’re deliberately causing pain to people they know Democrats care about as leverage to get their way on a bad budget bill.
Rough Week Erases Most of Crypto’s 2025 Gains |
Bitcoin just had one of its worst weeks since spring, which feels appropriately grim, given we’re back to 5 p.m. sunsets. The No. 1 cryptocurrency by market cap lost about $300 billion in value as of Friday afternoon after earlier that week dropping below $100,000 for the first time since June. Only a month ago, bitcoin was sitting pretty at an all-time high of more than $126,000. Other cryptocurrencies retreated in turn, with ether falling to about $3,100 and solana plummeting to $150. Crypto-related stocks including Coinbase and Robinhood also dropped during the week. Yrump is sold on crypto and wants the government bet on crypto with our money. Since crypto lost the gains so far this year, what is it to say it will not crash next week? |
The Senate deal to end the shutdown does not include Tariffs, Obamacare or Medicaid!!!! The Democrats caved.
Only a reversal of Trump’s firings of federal employees during the shutdown and provisions to prevent such actions in the future, the source said. It also would ensure food stamps are funded thorough fiscal year 2026.
Several Democrats emerged from the meeting, however, pledging to oppose the deal, including Sens. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.), Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) and Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.).
“A wink and a nod to deal with this health care crisis later – with no actual guarantees – is just not enough for me or the Wisconsin families I work for,” Baldwin said in a statement.
“The secretary of war texted me yesterday and said, ‘I might have some air traffic controllers. If you could use them, I’m gonna offer them to you,’” Duffy said.
They’re offering air traffic controllers via text? Classic MAGA chaos,” another person chipped in. “We’re toast!”
A better idea would have been to appoint a Secretary of Transportation who has a clue of the subject matter instead of a TV host. He has had months to recruit more air traffic controllers & stood idly by while DOGE cut 400 employees from FAA.
The cancelled flights are all on Yrump and his incompetent minions.
Donald Trump had yet another public meltdown this week, this time in front of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, after being fact-checked on Walmart’s Thanksgiving meal prices.
During a press interaction, a reporter noted that while the meal may be slightly cheaper, it also contains fewer items this year. Trump immediately interrupted, flailing at the reporter:
“Well, I haven’t heard that, you’re telling me Who are you with? Who are you with?”
When told she was with NBC News, Trump fired back with his now-familiar line: “Fake news! NBC You’re fake news. Gone down the tubes along with most of the rest of them.”
The reporter pressed further, asking why there seemed to be such a disconnect between Trump’s portrayal of the economy and how many Americans actually feel. Trump predictably blamed Democrats for the government shutdown and insisted Americans “feel much better” about the country, a statement completely at odds with everyday realities.
This circus unfolded around his repeated claim that Walmart’s Thanksgiving meal bundle is 25% cheaper this year, which he tried to spin as a win for affordability. But a closer look tells a different story. The 2025 Walmart bundle contains only 23 items instead of 29, and cheaper brands, missing essentials like onions, celery, sweet potatoes, chicken broth, poultry seasoning, muffin mix, marshmallows, whipped topping, and pecan pie.
The reason is obvious: Trump’s tariffs and mismanaged economic policies have driven up costs across the board. Walmart chose to reduce items rather than raise prices, creating the illusion of a bargain while leaving Americans with less.
Under Trump, real families are left paying more, buying less, and dealing with the consequences of policies that fail to deliver. What he calls a “win” is actually another example of how his leadership has made life harder for everyday Americans.
South Africa, South America…what’s the difference?
Trump gave a speech to business leaders (and for some reason some footballers) at a conference in Miami today. It was the usual fare, aside from a little detour he went on where he claimed that there are a lot of people in Miami who fled Communist tyranny in South Africa. While it’s true Miami does have a larger than average South African Diaspora, it would be pretty weird to describe the South African government as ‘communist’.
Best anyone can make out is that Trump was supposed to talk about South America and tried to style it out. He then leaned into it so hard he declared South Africa shouldn’t even be in the G20, and that he wouldn’t be going to the G20 summit in South Africa.
USDA’s order:
The Department of Agriculture ordered states to stop issuing full food stamp benefits and to “immediately undo” steps taken to issue assistance from the program for NovemberThe Pain is just beginning
MAGA voters need to experience real and sustained pain in the pocketbook to learn the perils of electing a charismatic imbecile. The other cohort responsible for this mess, 86 million voters who couldn’t be bothered last November, needs to find out what happens when a felon campaigning on revenge and terror isn’t real enough to move them to vote. They may not care about ICE brutality, but they will care about soup kitchen lines when they’re standing in them. The economic pain is real, and worsening, even after Tuesday’s election blowout. But if there’s any upside to giving nuclear codes to a toddler, it’s that Americans, myself included, are learning an abiding lesson: We’ve been taking our precious democracy for granted.Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem reportedly authorized the purchase of 10 Spirit Airlines planes before she realized that the airlines didn’t own the planes. Also, none of the planes came with engines.
The detail comes from a new report in The Wall Street Journal on Friday about the infighting between members of President Donald Trump’s administration over how to increase deportations of immigrants.
Noem, along with Department of Homeland Security adviser Corey Lewandowski, had recently planned to buy 10 Boeing 737 jets from the budget airline, Spirit Airlines. The plan was to use the jets to deport immigrants that have been snatched off the streets by masked agents under orders from Trump.
Sources told the Journal that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials had already cautioned the two that buying the planes would be more expensive than just expanding existing flight contracts. And when officials looked at the proposal, they noticed that Spirit Airlines didn’t actually own the planes, and that none of the planes came with engines.
Along with using the jets to carry out more deportations, the Journal reported that Noem had also intended to use the jets for personal travel. FBI Director Kash Patel has recently come under scrutiny for using a $60 million FBI jet to go see his girlfriend perform “The Star-Spangled Banner” at a wrestling event in Pennsylvania.
Patel defended his actions because his girlfriend is “a rock-solid conservative and a country music sensation who has done more for this nation than most will in ten lifetimes.”
Oz saying nonsense
Trump administrators continued touting the deals with Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk that will make certain Medicare and Medicaid enrollees eligible for reduced-price obesity and diabetes drugs like Ozempic and Zepbound.
Oz said. “Mr. President, our estimate, based on the company numbers as well, is that Americans will lose 135 billion pounds by the midterms.”
The Census Bureau’s latest estimate placed the current U.S. population at 342 million. Going off that number, every American would need to lose about 394 pounds over the next year to hit Oz’s figure.
Trump’s ‘law school graduate’ VP gets history lesson over ‘absurd’ constitutional claim
Former U.S. attorney Barbara McQuade on Friday gave the Trump administration a legal history lesson after Vice President JD Vance claimed it would not deliver Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) funds to hungry Americans despite a court order to do so. U.S. District Judge John J. McConnell Jr. on Thursday “ordered the Trump administration to make a payment to fully fund” the program through November by Friday, ABC News reports. Asked about the decision Thursday, Vance called it “an absurd ruling” and blamed SNAP funding on the Democratic Party. “… You have a federal judge effectively telling us what we have to do in the midst of a government shutdown, which what we’d like to do is for the Democrats to open up the government,” Vance said Thursday. “Of course, then we can fund SNAP. We can also do a lot of other good things for the American people. But in the midst of a shutdown, we can’t have a federal court telling the president how he has to triage the situation.” “We’re not going to do it under the orders of a federal judge,” Vance claimed. Reacting to the vice president, McQuade didn’t mince words. “Yeah. You know, JD Vance is a law school graduate — shame on him,” she said. “He knows that as far back as the seminal case of Marbury vs. Madison at the dawn of the Republic, the courts have said it is emphatically the province of the courts to say what the law is. It is the role of the courts to tell the president what to do when he is violating the law, the courts. The president’s remedy is to file an appeal, and if they get a different ruling there, that’s fine. But in the meantime, they are obligated to follow the court’s order.” McQuade pointed to the judge’s remarks, noting it’s “obvious” there’s money to fund SNAP but the White House won’t do it “because they want to put pressure on Democrats in Congress.” “President [Donald] Trump’s own social media posts were cited by the court to support that conclusion by the judge,” she noted. “And so this idea that somehow the president doesn’t have to follow the order of the court, that’s what’s absurd.”Steve Bannon
told a crowd of aspiring conservative staffers on Capitol Hill this week that the job of Republicans between now and the midterm election next year is to seize complete control of government institutions and turn as many of President Donald Trump’s executive orders as possible into law as a way to avoid politic defeat in the coming years and, ultimately, keep MAGA loyalists from being tried and sent to jail. “I’ll tell you right, as God as my witness, if we lose the midterms and we lose 2028, some in this room are going to prison,”The picture of the year.
Now, desperate and flailing, Sargent and Post said Trump is “openly” responding “to his losses by rigging the 2026 midterms” with “pernicious gerrymandering schemes”
“He actually came out and said it in another quote right after Election Day this week,” said Sargent. “He said this of Democrats: ‘Now, if we do what I’m saying, they’ll most likely never obtain power.’” “So there you have it — end the filibuster, pass all these voting restrictions, and we will lock in Republican power forever,” said Sargent. “You’re not supposed to admit openly that you want to do these voting restrictions in order to rig the elections in your favor and create one-party rule — you’re supposed to say you want to do it in order to eliminate fraud, which is all b——, but that’s what they say. And at least most Republicans know that they’re supposed to say that. But Trump says straight out, let’s do all this stuff in order to lock in power for ourselves. It’s just amazing.”Yrump is making a cash cow out of the presidency
This photo deserves a place in every history book because it captures the true essence of Donald Trump. Earlier, during an Oval Office event, a man suddenly collapsed right beside him possibly in serious distress yet Trump didn’t even flinch. No concern, no action, no empathy. Instead, he looked irritated, as if someone had ruined his photo opportunity. This single moment says everything about who he really is.
Evidence unsealed of how Trump’s Jan. 6, 2021 rally was funded
WASHINGTON – A trove of new records released in the federal election-interference case against former President Donald Trump described how money was spent on Trump’s “Stop the Steal” rally near the White House on Jan. 6, 2021.
The revelations were among 1,900 pages of evidence for federal charges against Trump that he tried to steal the 2020 election. The evidence also includes details of how his supporters spent election night at the White House and how Trump reacted to the riot at the Capitol.
U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan is weighing the evidence to determine whether Trump is immune to federal charges, based on a Supreme Court ruling in July.
Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, opposed the release less than three weeks before the election as an example of prosecutors publishing “cherry-picked materials” that “would prejudice potential jurors and endanger potential witnesses” three weeks before the election.
But Chutkan ruled that keeping the documents confidential could also be considered election interference.
Steven Cheung, a Trump campaign spokesperson, called the release of evidence in the case interference in the election and said the case should be thrown out. He said “the entire case is a sham and a partisan” that “should be dismissed entirely.”
Budget documents show as much as $3 million for Jan. 6 rally and related events
The newly released documents also show that an unnamed organization budgeted as much as $3 million on the Jan. 6 rally and related events, including for bringing VIP guests and protesters to Washington and ad buys for a show of force.
Several versions of the “Confidential – Not To Be Disclosed” document are included, with some redactions, and appear to have been prepared for House Jan. 6 Select Committee investigating the attacks, which disclosed some of the information.
But the documents released Friday show that $1 million was budgeted for Turning Point Action, a grassroots non-profit group founded in 2019 by Charlie Kirk to embolden young conservatives “through grassroots activism.”
The money was earmarked for having TPA deploy social media influencers and students from around the country to Washington to attend the rally, to produce “all the video content at the event” and to run nationwide ads “educating millions about the significance of January 6th for President Trump.”
Yrump’s lies on TV:
Kash Patel receives a rebuke and chaos is king in the FBI (click here to see more)
He also used gov planes to travel to see his girlfriend.
Newsom Steps in to Replace Trump at Major Summit
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has confirmed that he will attend the major global climate summit, which the Trump administration is refusing to send representatives to.
Newsom, widely touted as a potential Democratic 2028 presidential candidate, will be stepping in as the 79-year-old Trump stays away from the United Nations climate conference in Brazil, COP30, on Friday.
USDA tells grocery stores: No special discounts for SNAP recipients
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) informed grocery stores they cannot offer discounts to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients amid the government shutdown.
The notice on the USDA’s website said that SNAP-authorized grocers “must offer eligible goods at the same prices and on the same terms and conditions” to SNAP recipients. It also states that unless a store has a waiver allowing it to bypass the program’s equal treatment requirement, “offering discounts or services only to SNAP paying customers is a SNAP violation.”
China leaping ahead of the US With Trump making significant cuts to government research grants, China has been able to turbocharge their effort to bring top scientific talent to the country.
An interesting read: Republican advances
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It’s a feature of The Dark Arts practiced by narcissists and psychopaths. The reversal of truth and lies
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How sad we as a country are
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) continues to ruffle MAGA feathers as she did on Tuesday’s House Republican conference call, during which she warned that President Donald Trump is losing support over healthcare battle,
Trump the war monger:
Panama
Canada
Greenland
Venezuela
Mexico
and now Nigeria
Norway has decided that she won’t be buying USA military ships
instead she will buy British frigates to patrol her coast against Russia’s imperial disease.
Norway will sign the deal worth 13.5 billion dollars with the UK.
Spain has cancelled her billions dollars contracts with the USA, choosing to invest it in the European defense alliance.
Canada has decided not yet whether to purchase South Korea’s submarines or Germany’s. Nobody in Canada is thinking about asking her bellicose neighbor South of the border!
Thank you Donald Trump
Now trump is planning to invade Mexico?He claims that this will be done to clear out Mexican Drug cartels. WHAT? he is planning to invade Mexico to clean up cartels? Didn’t Putin use the excuse of clearing out Nazis, to invade Ukraine? How is Mexico going to tolerate AMERICAN TROOPS, matching down their streets. Didn’t Hitler not start with invading Poland? Does anyone see where this is going? Will he want to conquer the whole continent? |
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The U.S. launching strikes within Venezuela is looking increasingly likely as the Trump administration continues to bolster the buildup of military assets in the region, turning up the pressure against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, whom U.S. officials have characterized as an “illegitimate leader.”
The administration has identified military facilities in Venezuela used to smuggle narcotics as potential targets for the attack, although President Trump has not made a final decision on whether to carry out strikes inside the South American country, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday night. Potential targets under consideration are military-controlled airports and ports, including airstrips and naval facilities, the outlet reported, citing one U.S. official.
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Start of WWIII?
Venezuela pleads with Moscow for help as U.S. ramps up the pressure
Documents show Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro drafted a letter asking Russia for missiles, radar and upgraded aircraft as U.S. forces amass in the Caribbean.
- Toyota downplays Trump’s dubious claim about a $10 billion investment
- One month later, Republicans still can’t avoid blame for the government shutdown
- Three-star general is the latest to part ways with Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon
Senate rebukes Trump’s trade agenda in a series of rare, bipartisan votes
Ignoring evidence, Kristi Noem says no citizens have been detained by immigration agents
Trump presses Democrats to help clean up the Republicans’ health care mess
A month into the shutdown, Trump urges Republicans to scrap the Senate filibuster
Trump brings signature ignorance, recklessness to U.S. nuclear stature
Mike Johnson gives away the Republican game on SNAP and the shutdown
End of Free Speech?
Trump, Stephen Miller, and Ted Cruz are trying to end dissent and criminalize free speech. Cruz is pushing a dangerous anti-protest bill that would punish organizations that supported the No Kings rallies and increase the risk for anyone speaking out against the Trump regime.
Trump and Stephen Miller are mobilizing the Department of Justice, Department of Homeland Security, and FBI to target organizations and people opposing their authoritarian takeover.2 Cruz’s bill, endorsed by Kash Patel, would help the Trump admin round up political opponents and prosecute them.
This dangerous bill (the “Stop FUNDERs Act”) is a threat to anyone who shows up to protests or even expresses a dissenting opinion. Congress must stop this unconstitutional attack on the First Amendment and prevent MAGA officials from criminalizing protest.
Trump has already demanded that Pam Bondi use the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) to prosecute his political opponents, and Cruz’s bill would give Congressional approval for this attack on free speech..
Stephen Miller, the architect behind President Donald Trump’s notorious immigration crackdown and the administration’s targeting of non-white people for arrest and deportation, is joining a growing list of senior Trump appointees shielded in military housing.
The Atlantic reports Miller, his wife Katie Miller, and their children fled to military housing after suffering protests and catcalls from voices in their affluent Washington, D.C. neighborhood and now benefit from U.S. military protection in addition to their personal security.
“Miller … who is known for his inflammatory political rhetoric, singled out the tactics that had victimized his family — what he called ‘organized campaigns of dehumanization, vilification, posting peoples’ addresses,’” reports the Nation.
Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem also moved out of her D.C. apartment building and into a home designated for the Coast Guard commandant on Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling after the Daily Mail described where she lived. And both Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth live on “Generals’ Row” at Fort McNair, an Army enclave along the Anacostia River, according to officials from the State and Defense Departments.
Another anonymous senior White House official moved to a military community after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, according to Nation writer Michael Scherer. However, so many Trump officials have made the move that they are now straining the availability of housing for the nation’s top uniformed officers.
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s request to move to McNair didn’t initially work out “for space reasons,” according to officials.
There is no record of this many political appointees living on military installations, and critics tell the Nation that it appears to be “blurring … traditional boundaries between the civilian and military worlds” as Trump makes “the military a far more visible element of domestic politics, deploying National Guard forces to Washington, Los Angeles, and other cities run by Democrats.”
John Hopkins University international studies associate professor Adria Lawrence told the Nation that housing political advisers on bases sends a message that one particular political party owns the military.
“In a robust democracy, what you want is the military to be for the defense of the country as a whole and not just one party,” Lawrence said.
South Korea gifted President Trump a golden crown and a coveted medal in a show of flattery during his visit to the country Wednesday.
The House included these provisions, but they were not successful. They did pass a rule change to prohibit Congress from challenging Trump’s tariffs though.
‘Didn’t specifically say that’: Toyota debunks Trump’s claim of major investment
Trump’s actions he is taking in Latin America:
Does that mean he’s going to get us into a war?
He’s talking about putting the CIA in Venezuela.
He’s talking about taking action on land in either Colombia or Venezuela.
And what does that mean for Americans and for the potential to escalate into real open conflict?
But let’s be straight with the American people about what’s going on here. Trump wants Venezuelan oil.
Trump is modern day Hitler and is declining:
https://youtu.be/Mzz_xOjwsH8