Joe Biden is behind Obese Sports Illustrated Models and Nuclear Iran

Fox News is on to replace Harvard University as the smartest source of human knowledge.

For example: Can you guess why Sports Illustrated models were more obese before Donald Dumb took the White House? It's Joe Biden's fault. So say the scintillating Trump sycophants of Fox News.

Do you know why the Mount Etna volcano is erupting now? It's Joe Biden's fault. If Trump had been in office during the 2021-2024 four-year term, no wars would be starting now, no volcanoes would be erupting now, and Sports Illustrated models would be so sexy now.

Had Joe Biden not "stolen" the 2020 elections, the world would be peaceful, there would be no trade wars, no yo-yo tariffs, Palestinians and Israelis would be madly in love with one another, Mount Etna would not have erupted, Russia would not have invaded Ukraine, Iran would not be closer to owning a nuclear weapon, China would not have become the superpower it is today, and swimsuit models would not be as obese, etc.

Even though it was Biden who signed the JCPOA putting heavy restrictions on Iran's nuclear capabilities, it was the asshole Donald Dumb who walked out of the agreement. Now the idiot is trying to negotiate a new "deal" with Iran that, if it pans out, would not be any better than the JCPOA. In fact it might end up being the same agreement, maybe even better for Iran which has more cards now that it had in 2015, with the difference that "Big-Balls" Trump would have demonstrated his macho low-IQ lower-primate qualities.

This impenetrable stupidity reminds me of a Seinfeld episode in which Frank Costanza and Kramer make a deal over selling some used raincoats (25% to Kramer as a finder's fee). That would be the JCPOA. Then Kramer (a.k.a. Donald Dumb) reneges on the deal and want more (35%). Frank gets upset and is now willing to give Kramer only 15% because he reneged on the first deal. After arduous negotitaions, they eventually agree to settle it in the middle, i.e. at 25%, which was the original deal.

Unless he wants to follow his Zionist slavemaster Benjamin Netanyahu and bomb Iran, Donald Dumb doesn't have a chance to secure a better deal than Biden and Obama's JCPOA deal. Donald Dumb thinks that his own irresistible charm and his threats can force Iran to agree to a lesser deal than what was negotitated in the JCPOA. 

In the end, if - and that is a big if - Iran and the US come to an agreement, it will be pretty much the same as the JCPOA. But during the years since 2018 when the moron walked out of the JCPOA, Iran has had seven years to do what it pleases, including enriching uranium closer to weapons grade than it was in 2015. Which means that Donald Dumb has helped Iran in its development of a nuclear bomb, when Biden and Obama had pulled the brakes on it. When you're dumb, you're dumb.
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Fox News’ Jesse Watters claims that Sports Illustrated swimsuit models were ‘obese’ during the Biden era
Joe Sommerlad
Wed, June 4, 2025

Fox News host Jesse Watters claimed that America’s swimsuit models were obese during the four years of Joe Biden’s presidency.

During a weekend installment of Jesse Watters Primetime in which the host and pundit Julie Banderas were discussing the latest Sports Illustrated runway show in Miami, the latter described the event as “a great strip show,” adding archly: “Did you see what they weren’t wearing?”

“This is a strip show?” Watters responded.

“No, it was a Sports Illustrated runway walk, but none of them actually have covered their behinds,” Banderas replied. “But that’s not my issue.”

Jesse Watters discussing the latest Sports Illustrated catwalk show on Fox News's Jesse Watters Primetime (Fox News)

Pivoting to discussing model Livvy Dunne, who had performed the splits on the catwalk, the pundit continued: “I don’t have a problem with her because she actually was a gymnast and she actually did compete for the national championships for LSU [Louisiana State University].

“I have competitive gymnast kids, so I respect that she can do a split. I don’t know if doing it in a thong is appropriate.”

From there, Watters began to riff: “Remember back in the Biden era, all of the swimsuit models were obese. This is a good change. This is a healthy change of pace.” [Implying: Thanks to Donald Dumb, swimsuit models are better looking than during Joe Biden's term]

“And it is Sports Illustrated,” Banderas chimed in, without picking him up on the observation.

“They’re athletes. She’s obviously very athletic. I mean, that’s all I was thinking about. Weren’t you? Weren’t you thinking about her athletic ability when she made that turn there? Like right now, you’re probably thinking she’s probably really good at squats.”

“I’m not even looking at the screen,” Watters joked, before challenging Banderas to speculate on the extent of his own athletic prowess.

“How flexible do you think I am? Do you think I could do a straddle?”

This controversial remark is far from a first for Watters.

Recent controversies on his show have included rapper Kid Rock claiming that “ugly a** liberal women” are the reason for America’s declining birthrate and the host himself declaring that “everyone knows” that wearing a Chicago Bulls cap is a signifier that the wearer belongs to the notorious Central American criminal gang MS-13.

When the Bimbo-in-Chief Speaks for the Moron-in-Chief on World Affairs

Donald Dumb and his bimbo spokesperson did not know there was a presidential election in South Korea, one of the US's most critical ally against China. IGNORANCE and SELF-CENTEREDNESS remain the hallmarks of the Trump MAGA movement.

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Cringe Karoline Leavitt Clip Perfectly Sums Up Trump’s White House, Say Critics

Lee Moran

Updated Wed, June 4, 2025

A moment from White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt’s Tuesday briefing is going viral, with critics saying it perfectly encapsulates the Trump White House’s approach to foreign affairs.

Leavitt was asked if the White House had a response to the presidential election in South Korea, where liberal candidate Lee Jae-myung defeated conservative rival Kim Moon Soo.

“Yes, we do. In fact. Let me find it here for you,” Leavitt said, flipping through a binder in front of her. “Should be somewhere in here,” she said, still flipping through.

Q: Does the White House have a reaction to the election in South Korea?

LEAVITT: Yes, we do. Let me find it for you. Thank you. Um. We do not. pic.twitter.com/ROycyonXUn

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 3, 2025

After a pause and more shuffling, she added: “Hmm. We do not.”

She laughed awkwardly as she said, “But I will get you one,” before abruptly moving on to a new question from another reporter.

The clip quickly gained traction on social media.

Critics said it showcased the Trump administration’s lack of preparation and attention to world events.

“A total clown show,” remarked the Republicans Against Trump group.

When she gets a question that requires her to give an answer that doesn't involve praising Trump or trashing Biden, she's got nothing. https://t.co/x38FESqzhj

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) June 3, 2025

A White House run by dumbasses

— Sycamore’s Source (@sycamoressource) June 3, 2025

Q: Does the White House have a reaction to the election results in South Korea?

WH Press Secretary Leavitt: “Yes, we do. In fact, Let me find it for you. It should be somewhere here. Thank you. Um. We do not.”

A total clown show.
pic.twitter.com/2tR4CGjePM

— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) June 3, 2025

Karoline saying “we do” and then immediately following it with “we do not” is the most honest accidental summary of this administration’s foreign policy: confused, unprepared, and trying to fake it with a binder full of nothing.

Pam Bondi did that with Epstein files. It’s their…

— Evaristus Odinikaeze (@odinikaeze) June 3, 2025

Follow up should have been, “Does the White House KNOW there was an election in South Korea?” https://t.co/GmoXrCQXpw

 

What You'll Find in Most MAGA Trump followers' Homes

...And they'll say they love USrael !!! Hahahaaa

By the way, the Seattle area is infested with Jew-hating neo-Nazis: As we visited once in the mid-1990s the Seattle area (University of Washington) for a scientific collaboration, my German boss and myself were invited by a local researcher into a bar. Thinking it safe to speak his mind to a Mideastern man and a German man, he out of nowhere launched into a hate-filled diatribe against Jews, referring to New York as "Jew York". My boss and I were stunned by what we assumed would be a liberal open-minded fellow scientist. We kept side-eyeing one another in utter shock.

We did take time off to hike the outer rim of Mount Rainier.

If Donald Dumb wants to find pure unadulterated Jew-hating antisemites, he shouldn't be looking for them among Palestinian students and refugees who are victims of Zionist colonialism and consider Israelis - not Jews - as their executioners, he should easily find them among his most ardent followers of his "base": The christian nationalist evangelical nazi white supremacists. They're easy to identify because they are more dumb - and dangerous - than even he is.

Because white christian people in South Africa practiced apartheid doesn't necessarily make every white christian person a racist and a segregationist. Similarly, because foreign Zionist Jews are carrying out the longest-running ethnic cleansing and genocide in the history of the world against the indigenous Palestinians doesn't necessarily make every Jewish person a racist Zionist supremacist genocidal colonial settler. But Zionist propaganda wants you to believe that every Jew is a Zionist and an Israeli, when there is a world of difference between a Jew and a Zionist. Criticizing Zionism or resisting Israeli occupation does not equate with antisemitism.

I bet you the home in Lacey, WA was infested with MAGA paraphernalia and Trump portraits. But the police won't show them to you so as not to inconvenience the Moron-in-Chief.
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FBI discovers cache of guns, armor and Nazi paraphernalia while raiding home in Washington state
GENE JOHNSON
Wed, June 4, 2025



Weapons Cache Nazi Paraphernalia. In this undated photo released by the Thurston County Sheriff's Office, a cache of military weaponry and Nazi paraphernalia are photographed during a raid at a home in Lacey, Wash. (Thurston County Sheriff's Office via AP) ASSOCIATED PRESS


SEATTLE (AP) — Law enforcement discovered a cache of weaponry and armor, including a machine gun and grenade launchers, along with Nazi paraphernalia during a raid of a home in Washington state, authorities said Tuesday.

Derek Sanders, the elected sheriff of Thurston County, said in a Facebook post that the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Division asked his office for assistance Monday as an FBI special weapons and tactics team executed a search warrant in Lacey, near the state capitol of Olympia, “as a result of a violent robbery and theft of military weaponry/armor.”

The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Seattle said in a statement to The Associated Press on Tuesday night that the search warrant related to an Army CID and FBI investigation into an assault Sunday at Joint Base Lewis-McCord, just north of Olympia.

Sanders' statement said two people were arrested and booked into Thurston County Jail for investigation of firearms-related offenses.


“The suspects identified in this case were actively involved in Nazi White Nationalist efforts,” he wrote.

Sanders did not immediately return messages seeking comment Tuesday night.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office statement said Army investigators had identified suspects in the assault at the military base and the FBI executed the search warrant late Monday night into early Tuesday.

Reached for comment, the FBI said its Seattle office was “assisting our partners Thurston County Sheriff’s Office and Army Criminal Investigation Division” and referred questions to them.

Additional information was expected to be included in a federal criminal complaint to be unsealed Wednesday. The two people arrested were expected to make initial appearances at U.S. District Court in Tacoma on Wednesday afternoon.

In his post, Sanders said agents had seized 35 firearms at the home, including short barrel rifles and an MG42 machine gun — a type typically supported with a bipod and which was used by German troops during World War II. Other seized gear included grenade launchers, explosives, body armor, ammunition and ballistic helmets, and multiple rifles were staged at windows throughout the residence, the sheriff said.

He posted photos from the home showing an array of weapons, ammunition and body armor surrounded by Nazi paraphernalia, including a red Nazi flag emblazoned with a black swastika.

CIncinnati Priest Calls Police to Silence Parishioners over Pornography Suspicions

You wanna know why churches, priests, reverends, megachurches, elders, preachers.... are always entangled in sordid stories of sexual abuse? It is because they elevate themselves to higher orbits than ordinary people by claiming to have heard the vocation and become men of God... Once you raise yourself above other people, even with false pretexts couched in primitive religious beliefs from the Bronze Age, you are held to higher standards.

But deep down, these "holy men" are regular men with high libidoes. Just like everyone else, they are tempted to cheat and engage in unorthodox sexual behavior. When it comes to fornication, adultery and child sexual abuse, they are biologically like ordinary people, except that most ordinary people resist the temptations and, even when they succumb to them, they live with the consequences.

But the "holy men" who fall to temptation have a problem: When caught with their pants down, they have only one place to hide: their "reverence" as men of God in the hope of escaping chastisement and punishment. It's a vicious cycle: The more you "reverend" yourself, the higher you go in the simpleton minds of the faithful. But then the more you "reverend" yourself, you more you believe that you are entitled and immunized with a license to break the rules. The higher you elevate yourself, the harder you fall. People expect more of you because of the claims your religion makes. You cannot be ordinary AND a man of God. 

Therefore, you must abandon the claims if you want to be treated normally, namely deconstruct the fantasies of Bronze Age monotheism, mostly concocted in the deserts of Arabia by smelly nomads, that claim all this bullstuff about prophets, 90-year old pregnant women, virgin this and virgin that, immaculate conceptions, rise from the dead, return of a messiah from the great beyond etc. 

There are literally hundreds of religions with a "Return of the Jedi Messiah" claim as one of their foundational tenets. They can't all be true. But as of yet, not one messiah has ever demonstrably returned. Any hallucinating illuminatus who dared claim that he was the messiah has been trashed as a false prophet. It's as if these religions do not want the Messiah to actually return, because once he does it's the end of the story: they lose their jobs and their control over simpleton believers.

I often wonder what criteria have been set by Christian leaders to determine exactly whose claim to be the returning messiah is correct. How shall we know whether a fakeer in the streets of Mumbai, an indigenous resistance fighter in the Amazon jungle, or a bowtied reverend in Missipippi is the messiah? In fact, none of the former is eligible: Only a nomad from the deserts of Arabia is eligible. After all, the three monotheistic cults were all born within a 600-kilometer range of one another in the Near East, and hence any returning prophet, messiah or mahdi will have to be a Semite from the region.

All three monotheistic cults have a messiah plot in their fiction: The Jews are waiting for a four-star bellicose general who would smite ll the gentiles and wipe them off the face of the earth; Christians are waiting for sweet, meek and mild Jesus to return in the form of a mighjty hobbit with fire and brimstone; and Muslim Shiites await any one of a dozen Mahdis who died and are expected to return. And guess what: each one of these messiahs will usher the permanent reign of HIS OWN RELIGION over the other rival religions. How lovely, multicultural and tolerant.
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'It's sad and embarrassing': Rumors and pornography accusation disrupt Cincinnati parish
Dan Horn, Cincinnati Enquirer
Tue, June 3, 2025


Our Lady of the Visitation Church in Green Township, where tension between some parishioners and priests recently burst into public view.

Months of tension between Catholic parishioners and their priests at a West Side parish boiled over last weekend with a disruption during Mass, accusations about pornography and a plea from Cincinnati’s archbishop to end "sinful" rumors and gossip.

The problems burst into public view Saturday at Our Lady of the Visitation in Green Township, when police officers escorted a man who’d interrupted the afternoon service out of the church.

The incident occurred moments after Archdiocese of Cincinnati Chancellor Jason Williams read a statement from Archbishop Robert Casey defending a Visitation priest, Martin Bachman, and its pastor, Don Siciliano.

Casey’s statement referred to accusations and complaints about the priests as unfounded and unfair.

“Several concerns have been brought to the attention of the archdiocese,” Casey wrote. “These have been investigated, and no wrongdoing – either criminally or ecclesiastically – has been substantiated.”

Casey then urged parishioners to avoid spreading falsehoods about anyone, including their parish priests. “Rumors which quickly spiral out of control have the potential to severely harm the good reputation which each of us should enjoy,” he wrote. “Consequently, like gossip, the spreading of rumors is sinful, and we should all work to overcome this tendency of our fallen human nature.”

Jake McQuaide, a Visitation parishioner and NFL player, stood to protest after Williams read Casey’s statement, shouting at Williams and demanding, specifically, that he address an allegation that Bachman had accessed pornography on a computer at the church.

“We want to put these rumors to rest,” McQuaide said. “Can you answer this for me?”

“This is not the time,” Williams responded.

Williams then said the accusation against Bachman was false, but the back-and-forth continued until Green Township police officers approached McQuaide and walked him out of the church.
'It's sad and embarrassing'

Police Capt. Mitch Hill said the archdiocese had asked police to attend the service in case there were disruptions. He said McQuaide, who could not be reached for comment, was not detained or charged with a crime.

Bachman did not respond to calls or an email seeking comment. But an archdiocese spokeswoman, Jennifer Schack, said the allegation that Bachman used a parish-owned computer to access pornography is false.

Casey said in his statement that Bachman would begin a sabbatical in July, which he said was planned prior to the accusations and is unrelated to them.

Todd Zureick, the Visitation parishioner who filed a complaint with the archdiocese about the pornography allegation, said he saw images on the computer that included thumbnail links to adult pornography sites and other sites with explicit content. He said he received the images from a third party, whom he has not identified, and then shared them with the archdiocese in April.

Zureick said he does not believe the images are illegal but that they are inappropriate for a workplace, especially a church.

He said the archdiocese failed to adequately investigate the complaint, which has resulted in the public airing of accusations and more frustration among parishioners.

“It’s sad and embarrassing that the lack of institutional control and leadership at Visitation has led to this,” Zureick said.

Casey, however, said in his statement that the matter was investigated thoroughly and that no misconduct was revealed.

“Both Father Siciliano and Father Bachman are priests in good standing in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati,” Casey wrote. “There are no ecclesiastical investigations being conducted related to their conduct.”

He also described some of the accusations that have been made as “defamatory statements” and said Green Township Police have found no criminal misconduct related to any priest at Visitation.
Another investigation connected to the church

Hill confirmed his department has found no criminal wrongdoing. But police records show they did investigate an unrelated complaint in late 2023 with connections to Visitation.

The name of the person who filed the complaint is redacted, because of a state law that conceals the names of crime victims. But The Enquirer found the property listed on the complaint is owned by the archdiocese and matches Bachman’s address.

According to a police report, the man who filed the complaint said he had been encouraged by an unknown person he’d met online to deposit money into an investment account. By the time he realized it was “a scam,” the police report said, he had deposited $58,000.

Weeks later, the man who filed the complaint said he’d been contacted again by the person he’d met online, and this time she was threatening to reveal sexually explicit conversations he’d had with her “to his parishes” if he didn’t pay more money.

Hill said police, who investigated the matter as a telecommunications fraud, don’t know if that threat was carried out. But he said the $58,000 investment was never recovered.

Schack did not respond late Monday when asked if archdiocese officials were aware of the fraud investigation.

Casey’s statement also does not mention the fraud investigation.
Parish petition raised concerns about management

Long before the uproar last weekend, parishioners at Visitation, St. Jude in Bridgetown and St. Joseph in North Bend had expressed concerns about leadership in their parishes. All three parishes are part of a “family of parishes” that is overseen by Siciliano and Bachman.

The parish family was created a few years ago as the archdiocese began consolidating parishes and schools into groups that could share resources and priests. Those changes have, at times, upset parishioners.

A change.org petition started early this year listed a string of complaints and concerns from parishioners at Visitation, St. Jude and St. Joseph about the operation of their parishes and parish schools.

“We … are deeply concerned about the current direction of leadership and decision-making within our parish,” the petition states. It goes on to request better communication from church leaders, more transparency in parish finances, more autonomy for school faculty and protection from retaliation for parishioners who speak out.

As of Monday, the petition had 651 signatures.

Maggie Lysaght, the Visitation parishioner who started the petition, said the concerns expressed in the petition are based on input from more than 200 parishioners. She said the problems they reveal shouldn’t be overshadowed by the pornography accusations that arose at the church last weekend.

“There are a lot of unhappy parishioners,” she said.

In his statement, Casey indicated he’s aware the consolidation of parishes might be a challenge for some parishioners.

“Times of change can be difficult,” he wrote. “We may not like some decisions that are made, and things may not always unfold according to our personal preferences.”

This article originally appeared on Cincinnati Enquirer: Rumors and pornography accusation disrupt Cincinnati west side parish

Miles Taylor Fights Back Against Vindictive Donald Clouseau Dumb

Dictators are petty insecure narcissistic people who assume that they must be loved by ALL people, as they live in a fantasy bubble full of their own excrements.

The scenario is simple: Donald Dumb appoints Miles Taylor to Homeland Security during his first term. Mr. Taylor quickly sees the inevitable fact: Donald Dumb is undeniably a moron. Unlike most other cowards who fearfully accept the boot of the dictator on their neck, Mr. Taylor writes an op-ed critical of the Moron-in-Chief.

Incensed, the vengeful Moron-in-Chief demands that Mr. Taylor be investigated for whatever fake and made-up suspicions. Again, most other cowards would seek to buy forgiveness by swearing allegiance to their tormentor. But not Mr. Taylor: He is calling on independent government watchdogs to investigate the Moron-in-Chief for abuse of power.

This is what it takes: Trump was taught by his equally deranged mentor Roy Cohn to be aggressive to the extreme, never give up, never back down even when at fault, to always lie when caught cheating, and to always throw made-up accusations against his foes, accusers and critics. For every arrow, cast a dozen arrows. Which explains the pathetic mindset of the Orangutan.

What Mr. Taylor is doing is to also push back and never back down when facing the Bully-in-Chief. Let's see who blinsk first. But at the very least Mr. Taylor deserves our utmost respect.

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Ex-Homeland Security official Taylor fights back against Trump's 'unprecedented' investigation order
REBECCA SANTANA
Tue, June 3, 2025


FILE - In this March 5, 2019, photo, Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, left, talks with Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, right, and her chief of staff Miles Taylor. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon), File)

WASHINGTON (AP) — A former Homeland Security official during President Donald Trump's first administration who authored an anonymous op-ed sharply critical of the president is calling on independent government watchdogs to investigate after Trump ordered the department to look into his government service.

Miles Taylor, once chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security, warned in an interview with The Associated Press of the far-reaching implications of Trump's April 9 memorandum, “Addressing Risks Associated with an Egregious Leaker and Disseminator of Falsehoods,” when it comes to suppressing criticism of the president. That memo accused Taylor of concocting stories to sell his book and directed the secretary of Homeland Security and other government agencies to look into Taylor and strip him of any security clearances.

Taylor sent a letter via email to inspectors general at the departments of Justice and Homeland Security on Tuesday.

Coming on the same April day that Trump also ordered an investigation into Chris Krebs, a former top cybersecurity official, the dual memoranda illustrated how Trump has sought to use the powers of the presidency against his adversaries. Speaking to the AP, Taylor said the order targeting him sets a “scary precedent" and that's why he decided to call on the inspectors general to investigate.

“I didn’t commit any crime, and that’s what’s extraordinary about this. I can’t think of any case where someone knows they’re being investigated but has absolutely no idea what crime they allegedly committed. And it’s because I didn’t,” Taylor said. He called it a “really, really, really scary precedent to have set is that the president of the United States can now sign an order investigating any private citizen he wants, any critic, any foe, anyone."

Trump has targeted adversaries since he took office

Since taking office again in January, Trump has stripped security clearances from a number of his opponents. But Trump’s order for an investigation into Taylor, as well as Krebs, marked an escalation of his campaign of retribution in his second term.

Trump fired Krebs, who directed the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, in November 2020 after Krebs disputed the Republican president’s unsubstantiated claims of voting fraud and vouched for the integrity of the 2020 election, which Trump lost to Democrat Joe Biden.

Taylor left the first Trump administration in 2019. In the anonymous New York Times op-ed published in 2018, he described himself as part of a secret “resistance” to counter Trump’s “misguided impulses." The op-ed's publication touched off a leak investigation in Trump’s first White House.

Taylor later published a book by the same name as the op-ed and then another book under his own name called “Blowback," which warned about Trump's return to office.

After signing the memorandum April 9, Trump said Taylor was likely “guilty of treason.”

The letter by Taylor's lawyer to the inspectors general calls Trump's actions “unprecedented in American history.”

“The Memorandum does not identify any specific wrongdoing. Rather, it flagrantly targets Mr. Taylor for one reason alone: He dared to speak out to criticize the President,” the letter reads.

Taylor's lawyer, Abbe Lowell, said the request to the inspectors general was an attempt to “get the administration to do the right thing.” Lowell said that depending on the outcome of their complaint, they'll explore other options including a possible lawsuit. Lowell, a veteran Washington lawyer, announced earlier this year that he was opening his own legal practice and would represent targets of Trump’s retribution.

Violation of First Amendment rights alleged

In the letter, Lowell calls on the inspectors general to do their jobs of “addressing and preventing abuses of power.”

The letter says Trump's April 9 memo appears to violate Taylor's First Amendment rights by going after Taylor for his criticism of the president, calling it a “textbook definition of political retribution and vindictive prosecution.” And, according to the letter, Trump's memo also appears to violate Taylor's Fifth Amendment due process rights.

The letter highlights Taylor's “honorable and exemplary” work service including receiving the Distinguished Service Medal upon leaving the department, and it details the toll that the April 9 memorandum has taken on Taylor's personal life. His family has been threatened and harassed, and former colleagues lost their government jobs because of their connection with him, according to the letter.

Taylor told the AP that since the order, there's been an “implosion in our lives.” He said he started a fund to pay for legal fees, has had to step away from work and his wife has gone back to work to help pay the family's bills. Their home's location was published on the internet in a doxxing.

Taylor said that by filing these complaints with the inspectors general, he's anticipating that the pressure on him and his family will increase. He said they spent the last few weeks debating what to do after the April 9 memorandum and decided to fight back.

“The alternative is staying silent, cowering and capitulating and sending the message that, yes, there’s no consequences for this president and this administration in abusing their powers in ways that my legal team believes and a lot of legal scholars tell me is unconstitutional and illegal,” Taylor said.

Trump "Loyalty Essays" Now Required in Federal Jobs Application

After DOGE firings White House asks new job seekers to write Trump loyalty essays, from lawyers to janitors
Andrew Feinberg
Mon, June 2, 2025

After a months-long freeze on hiring new federal employees and the Elon Musk-led DOGE cuts to the government workforce, the Trump administration is ready to resume civil service hiring — as long as the applicants answer a few essay questions about their level of loyalty to the president and his mission.

The Office of Personnel Management last week quietly published a memorandum authored by Vince Haley, the White House’s head of domestic policy that was addressed to the head or acting head of every agency across the entire executive branch.

According to the White House’s directive, a copy of which was reviewed by The Independent, anyone applying for a civil service position at entry level or above — including such jobs as nurses, janitors, economists and lawyers, among others — must respond to a series of essay questions before they can even be considered for an interview.

The “merit hiring plan” lays out in detail how to implement a January executive order signed by Trump to “prioritize recruitment of individuals committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passionate about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United States Constitution.”

The plan also seeks to prevent anyone who is “unwilling to defend the Constitution or to faithfully serve the Executive Branch” from being employed in the civil service.

One question asks applicants about their “commitment to the Constitution and the founding principles of the United States,” while another question asks applicants to state how they would “help advance the President’s Executive Orders and policy priorities” and to “identify one or two relevant Executive Orders or policy initiatives” that they find significant to them.

They must also explain how they’d help implement these orders or initiatives.

If applicants write answers that are satisfactory enough to land them an interview, the memorandum also states that they must participate in an “executive interview” with a political appointee from “agency leadership” who will evaluate their “organizational fit and commitment to American ideals.”

For civil service experts and good-government advocates, the new applicant screening process is setting off alarm bells.

Adam Bonica, a Stanford University political scientist who publishes the “On Data and Democracy” newsletter on Substack, wrote on Sunday that the White House’s directive “signals a profound departure from a cornerstone of American democracy: the non-partisan, merit-based civil service” and looks to implement Project 2025 efforts to deconstruct the nonpartisan civil service in favor of a return to the “spoils system” that was in place until the late 1800s.

“A merit-based civil service that took generations to build is being dismantled via memo,” he charged.

The new hiring guidelines aren’t the only way Trump and his allies are upending the nonpartisan system that was set up to govern federal hiring in the wake of President James Garfield’s 1881 assassination by a disgruntled office seeker.

Shortly after he returned to power in January, Trump signed an executive order that ordered agencies to reclassify career employees who work on policy matters into a new “schedule” that strips them of nearly all civil service protections.

The directive largely re-implements an October 2020 order Trump signed to establish what was then called “Schedule F” and was set to be comprised of any federal worker in “confidential, policy-determining, policy-making, or policy-advocating positions.”

That broad category includes most of the government’s non-partisan experts such as scientists, doctors, lawyers and economists, whose work to advise and inform policymakers is supposed to be done in a way that is fact-driven and devoid of politics.

Combined with the more than 100,000 open positions created by the massive number of firings and resignations across the entire executive branch during Trump’s first few months back in power, these new policies could allow the administration to recruit an equal number of MAGA devotees who would eventually acquire protection from removal by future administrations.

Max Stier, president of the nonprofit Partnership for Public Service, told Axios on Monday that it looks like the administration is “emptying the shelves of the existing nonpartisan expert civil servants” and “restocking” those same shelves with “loyalists.”

Jeri Buchholz, a former head of HR at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, told the outlet that traditional federal hiring, by law, was meant to “focus on the knowledge, skills and abilities required for the position.”

She said the Trump White House’s required questions are by contrast “philosophical” and “not even aptitude related,” making them difficult to square with the “merit hiring plan,” especially since it purports to require agencies to speed up hiring decisions.

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Independent.

Trump's Private Militia Soon to Replace ICE in Brutalizing US Population

Brace yourselves. Civil War II is coming. The paramilitarization of the US is nothing new: Dozens of white christian nationalist groups already exist, well armed and ready to defend "white America". But none is government-mandated.

Blackwater appears to be on its way to becoming Trump's private militia. Just like Wagner was Putin's private militia.
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Opinion
Think Trump’s deportations have been bad? Wait until his civilian army gets started.
Brandon Bolte and Isabel Skinner, opinion contributor
Mon, June 2, 2025



Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem incorrectly defined habeas corpus during a recent congressional hearing, augmenting serious doubts that top White House administration officials understand and are willing to respect the rule of law and legal rights of civilians on U.S. soil.

Indeed, Noem oversees the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which has been “forcibly disappearing” undocumented immigrants, international students and permanent residents off the streets. ICE officers frequently wear masks, which could help them avoid accountability for tactics like warrantless arrests, “knock and arrests” and smashing car windows.

In practice, ICE operates with relatively little oversight, but in principle, it is accountable to the federal government and has been subject to extensive civil litigation in the courts.

Yes, ICE is deeply flawed, but there is a real risk of something far worse.

Over the past few months, Erik Prince, former head of the private military company Blackwater (now known by the name Constellis), has pitched multiple proposals to the White House to help with mass deportations. Prince has argued that achieving President Trump’s aggressive deportation goals will require the government to “supplement” ICE’s capabilities. According to one of his proposals, a new Prince company, 2USV, would train and deploy an army of as many as 100,000 armed and deputized citizens.

The administration has not yet decided to implement the plan, though Trump said he “wouldn’t be opposed to it, necessarily.” As academic experts on non-state armed groups like militias and on immigration, we are alarmed at this possibility.

This is because scholarly research on the type of group Prince would mobilize suggests three key patterns. First, these groups are often tasked with committing human rights violations in pursuit of the government’s political goals. Second, the current domestic political environment in the U.S. is conducive to their formation. Lastly, employing groups like this would allow federal government officials — including the president ◊ to evade accountability for illegal or inhumane tactics.

Prince’s proposed “army” would be a “pro-government militia,” which the academic literature defines as an organized, armed group that is government-sponsored and not part of regular security forces.

Because these groups can be kept at arms’ length from political elites, research shows that many governments around the world use these militias to “evade accountability for strategically useful violence.” Governments shift blame to such militias to retain deniability in the face of domestic pressures or international condemnation. For this reason, they are associated with significant reductions in a country’s respect for human rights, as seen in other countries throughout history, including Serbia, Argentina and Chile.

The Serbian nationalist “Tigers” committed numerous war crimes in Bosnia and Croatia in the 1990s, but Serbian Security Service officials clearly linked to the group’s operations were acquitted on all charges by the International Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia. That was because it could not be “proven beyond a reasonable doubt” that they “planned or organized the crimes.”

Other militias have conducted disappearances, assassinations and torture so that the government could keep its hands “clean,” as during Operation Condor in the 1970s in Argentina and in connection with the Sept. 11, 1973, coup in Chile.

Paramilitaries are often thought of as characteristic of dictatorships, but research shows that informal pro-government militias tend to emerge in “weak” democracies where leaders are navigating fragile institutions of accountability. “Strong” democracies usually prevent these groups from emerging because they have more robust constraints on the executive branch and corruption is harder to hide from the public.

The troubling fact is that Trump’s attacks on American political institutions and independent media integrity have eroded U.S. democracy.

One metric used by political scientists to measure regime types is the Polity score, which ranges from -10 (very autocratic, such as North Korea) to 10 (very democratic, such as Sweden). As of 2020, the U.S. had been downgraded to a 5, putting it in the category of “weak democracy.”

What does this mean for the future of U.S. immigration enforcement?

Expanded efforts through shady paramilitary groups is becoming surprisingly possible in the U.S., and the conditions are ripe for this proposed army to commit human rights abuses. It’s worth remembering that Prince’s former company Blackwater was involved in human rights abuses in the past, including a massacre of at least 14 Iraqi civilians, whose perpetrators were pardoned by Trump in 2020.

The administration is already relying on dubious means to rush deportation processes while the courts try to slow them down. Consequently, the Department of Homeland Security is already choosing to ignore court rulings with some operations, like one recent deportation of migrants to South Sudan. Their willingness to violate the rule of law is captured by former acting ICE Director Tom Homan’s statement: “I don’t care what judges think.”

Skeptics may argue that the U.S. is unique, that these abuses couldn’t happen here, or that American electoral institutions and the free press can still hold policymakers accountable for deeds of private contractors.

But democratic institutions in the U.S. are undoubtedly disintegrating. The press can only hold leaders accountable if it is believed, and current trust in the press is at an all-time low.

It may be that Prince’s private army proposal will never be accepted. It may be that continued deportation efforts are challenged in courts and the administration will begin to abide by substantive rulings against it. It is possible future immigration policy will be more humane.

But for now, the political incentives exist for the unprecedented use of pro-government militias on American soil. Immigrants may be the current target of increasingly reckless enforcement efforts, but repressive action by domestic paramilitaries may not stop there.

This must be prevented while mechanisms of accountability still survive.

Brandon Bolte, P.h.D., is an assistant professor in the School of Politics and International Affairs at the University of Illinois Springfield and an expert in militias, rebellion, and armed conflict. Isabel Skinner, P.h.D., is an assistant professor in the School of Politics and International Affairs at the University of Illinois-Springfield.

Colorado Anti-Jewish Terrorist is Egyptian: Should USrael Start Bombing Egypt?

An Egyptian national who came into the country two years ago and overstayed his visa has been charged in the gruesome terrorist antisemitic attack that left eight people injured in Boulder, Colorado, Sunday. It therefore sounds logical if USrael starts bombing and blockading Cairo. USrael should kill 10,000 Egyptians for every victim of the heinous flame-thrower attack against peaceful Jews in Colorado. Also, the US should now ban Egyptians from entering the US, and those who still dare to appear at airport and land customs should be arrested and deported to El Salvador without notifying the US ally Egyptian government. Consistency and equal treatment are highly civilized concepts.

Mohamed Sabry Soliman, 45, was arrested at the scene, after he allegedly set his victims on fire as they peacefully rallied on behalf of Israeli hostages still being held by Hamas in Gaza. Soliman was heard yelling "Free Palestine" and other anti-Israel slogans during the attack on victims ranging in age from 52 to 88. Therefore, Soliman is an antisemite who carried out yet another anti-Jewish pogrom, just like Hamas on October7, 2023. In the US under the Grand Moron, yelling "Free Palestine" without even hurting a fly is an act of antisemitism that should be severely punished.

"Run for Their Lives is an apolitical global organization with the sole mission of walking peacefully to raise awareness for the 58 hostages still held in captivity by Hamas in Gaza," the group said in a statement to Fox News Digital. Run for Their Lives said it has been holding events every week since Oct. 15, 2023 "without any violent incidents until today." It called the plight of the remaining hostages an "international humanitarian crisis" but never exprressed any empathy for the unfolding starvation and genocide of more than 60,000 innocent Palestinian civilians - the majority of whom are women and children -  and said there is a "collective responsibility to release them all."

If the scale of the Hamas attack dwarfs the terror attack of the Egyptian man in Colorado, then the fate of the remaining Israeli hostages is peanuts in comparion to the ongoing genocide in Palestine. In fact, Netanyahu has often expressed his opinion that the hostages are not a priority. He is willing to dispense with them as long as he can continue his savagery and barbarity against Palestinians.

"We call on world leaders to do everything they can to ensure the swift return home of each of the 58 hostages. Run for Their Lives remains committed to our mission until ALL the HOSTAGES are returned back home!" the organization said. But NOT ONE WORD ON THE UNFOLDING HOLOCAUST IN PALESTINE.

During his attack, the Egyptian man, Soliman, was heard yelling, "How many children you killed?" Jews around the world fear retaliation for what Netanyahu is doing in Palestine. We have been innundated with ever expanding definitions of "antisemitism" that now include ANY opinion that may be construed as critical of the barbarity of the Jewish settler movement and the Netanyahu government. And as long as the formula "Israelis = Jews = Zionists" is used to shield Israel against any criticism - then radicalized angry people will seek retribution against Israelis by attacking Jews anywhere around the world. Peaceful protesters for a Free Palestine have been arrested, detained, deported and otherwise persecuted in the US. Patently unfair and reeking of vulgar bias.

Israeli Lesbian Hostage Should Fear Christian and Jewish Conservatives

Just as Hamas believes that gayness is a sickness, so does Donald Trump and his radical white Christian nationalists and Christian Zionists, as well as Netanyahu and his primitive fundamentalist terrorist settler government.

Just as Lindsey Graham just wished that Greta Thunberg (on a humanitarian aid boat headed to Gaza) would drown and die because of her support of Palestinians, so does Donald Trump and his radical white Christian nationalists and Christian Zionists, as well as Netanyahu and his primitive fundamentalist terrorist settler government.

Released Israeli hostage Emily Damari says she never told her Hamas captors that she was a lesbian for fear of consequences. Hamas is an ultra-religious radical Islamist organization with very conservative beliefs similar to those of the ultra-religious radical Christian movements in the US or the Jewish fundamentalist settler movement in Israel. In other words, Damari would run the same risk if she was faced with American Christian conservatives or primitive Orthodox Jewish extremists of the settler movement.

ICE Tactics = Zionist Tactics

In Palestine, Zionist settlers are using starvation, terror, bullying, bombings, targeted killings, school and hospital destruction, assassinations of doctors, movie makers, journalists, humanitarian aid workers, etc., basically to force the Palestinians out of their ancestral land and snuff out every bit of what makes a country function.

The objective: to render life so unbearable and so unlivable that the Palestinians will VOLUNTARILY leave Palestine. This way, history will not blame Israel for genocide and ethnic cleansing: 75 years from now - assuming the foreign Zionist settlers succeed with this tactic - they can claim that the Palestinians left on their own and that no one chased them out of their homes and villages. 

This is not new: This is exactly how the foreign illegal European Zionist invaders of Palestine took over Palestine in the 1930s and 1940s: They assassinated, raped, massacred entire villages (Deir Yassin, Tantura, etc.), demolished homes, uprooted olive groves, killed herds of sheep and goats, expelled and burned their way such that the indigenous Palestinians fled their villages terrorized by the Jewish terror organizations of Haganah, Stern, Lehi, Irgun Zwai Leumi, etc. What did Zionist propaganda say? The "Arabs" i.e. the Palestinians, fled on their own and no one forced them to leave.

This propaganda by the overwhelmingly more sophisticated and wealthy European Jews - having learned the genocide trade from their own fellow German Nazis - worked because they had monopoly over the narrative. There was no Internet, no social media, no live television... Only a couple of Western newspapers laden with the Holocaust guilt covered the Palestinian genocide, not as a calamity against a defenseless indigenous people, but more as a heroic war of a civilizing colonial conquest that culminated in the independence of the Jewish Settler Colony in Palestine. People around the world believed the lies and the charade. Even in my childhood in the Middle East, we believed and warmly welcomed the news of the good Europeans defeating the bad Palestinians. We were suckered by the Zionist propaganda into believing its lies, even as wave after wave of Palestinian refugees fleeing their ancestral homes, villages and cities were crossing our border seeking shelter from European Jewish barbarity.

At the time, Zionist propaganda tried to delete the word "Palestine" or "Palestinian" from the discourse as an early tool with which to deny the existence of the victims of genocide. The Zionists, even today, continue to refer to the indigenous Palestinians as "Arabs". In doing so, they not only try to negate the existence of Palestine, but they use the "Arab" label as an ethnic cleansing tool: Oh, "these people" are Arabs, they can go to any other Arab country; they don't need to remain in Palestine. Would you accept that the Russian fascist invaders of Ukraine argue that since the Ukrainians are "Europeans" they should leave and live anywhere they want in Europe and abandon Ukraine? In fact, Zionist propaganda keeps promoting the notion that the native indigenous Palestinians are recent "squatters" of Palestine who came from Lebanon, Syria, Egypt and Jordan, in complete denial of the millennial existence of Palestinian villages, towns and cities with their ancient culture, stone wall houses and millennial olive trees.

Now ICE - the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency - is not there yet, but inching ever so close to the Zionist model. Even though the foreign settlers of America did eradicate and ethnically cleanse and genocide the indigenous native Indian populations across the entire American continent, north and south, it is more difficult for the White European intruder settlers who now constitute a majority in the US to do the same nowadays with those they accuse of being intruders. 

Faced with an emancipated Black African slave population to whom they were forced to grant US citizenship, and an immigration wave stretching across the 19th and 20thy centuries that built America, the White European settlers of the US are now in a quandary: They stand to cease being a majority by 2050 or thereabouts. Hence, you understand the Trump movement's underlying motive for the brutality and cruelty it is inflicting on non-European, dark-skinned immigrants from various origins and its welcoming of the fake white refugees from South Africa.

ICE is implementing the same tactics as the Zionists: terrorize, expel, deny visas, scare off, humiliate at border crossings, put in jail without due process, and dehumanize until prospective immigrants,  students, exchange visitors and scientists stop coming and those already here start leaving. In addition to this an environment of fear, the white racist dictatorship under Donald Trump is also undermining all the domestic mechanisms for redress and relief: Attack the courts, punish lawyers, silence and buy up the media, attack the universities and all sources of free speech. 

But because they are basically igorant and dumb, without a shred of understanding of the dynamics of history, the racist whites of Trump think they can succeed in the US like the Zionists in Palestine. But times have changed, information is free, lies can no longer monopolize the narrative, people are more aware of their rights, which, I'm afraid, leaves the racist white underbelly of the US, mostly illiterate ignorant peasants from the south and midwest, with one option: Resort to violence. And what ICE is doing these days constitute the early groundwork for more violence in the future.

Just as the desperate Zionists can no longer lie as they did a century ago, cannot turn back the clock, and faced with an unmanageable situation, have turned to extreme violence as their back is against the wall, the white European settlers of America too have their back against the wall. Genocide and ethnic cleansing are no longer the walk in the park that they used to be a century or more ago. Ultimately therefore, the white racists - Trump and his coterie of white Christian supremacists - will have to trun to extreme violence against a vast expanse of their own population if they want to remain in control. 

The white foreign settlers of South Africa tried violence and lost. In losing, they evaded civil strife and civil war. Zionists too are fully aware they cannot sustain their barbarity with lies and propaganda, and they are resorting to extreme violence and may well descend into a civil war between the "good" Israelis and the ultra-religious barbarian fundamentalist Israelis. Similarly, as Trump's cruelty and savagery creeps up as normal in parallel with Zionist cruelty and savagery in Palestine, the US may very well be descending into various forms of civil strife with localized uprisings, insurgencies, intra-regionalization of conflicts, etc.... The white racists of America have been arming themselves specifically for this objective, thanks to the NRA and its affiliate white Christian supremacists and so-called Christian Zionists: As of January 30, 2025, data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives put the number of guns circulating in the US at 512 million.

 

The Voodoo Priest RFK Jr.'s MAHA Report relies on AI-Made Up Studies

RFK Jr. is a cheat, a charlatan, a voodoo priest, a shaman, a quack not-even-a-doctor-or-a-scientist, an anti-vaccine spiritualist new-age crook whom the Supreme Moron has placed in charge of your health and that of your children.
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Secret AI Code Found in RFK Jr.’s Botched MAHA ‘Science’ Doc
Erkki Forster
Fri, May 30, 2025

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy’s error-laden Make America Healthy Again report may have been crafted with the help of artificial intelligence.

Some footnotes in Kennedy’s much-touted report on Americans’ health include URLs with the marker “oaicite,” The Washington Post reported, which indicates the use of OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT.

The 73-page document cites over 500 works to support its assertions on issues ranging from vaccine safety to the dangers of ultra-processed foods, but a NOTUS report found that many of its citations misrepresented existing research or referenced studies that do not exist.

White House Christian Bimbo-in-Chief Press Karoline Leavitt says the shoddiness in RFK Jr.'s MAHA report is simply due to "formatting issues". Kinda like "my dog ate my homework"'s response from the dumb blonde (sois belle et tais toi, say the French, and that is no compliment).

Oren Etzioni, a University of Washington professor who studies AI, told the Post that he was shocked by the sloppiness of the MAHA report.

“Frankly, that’s shoddy work,” Etzioni said. “We deserve better.”

The White House has scrambled to revise the report since NOTUS published its findings Thursday, fixing broken links and deleting one of the “oaicite” markers, according to the Post.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt acknowledged “some formatting issues” with the report but maintained that they “do not negate the substance of the report” during her briefing Thursday.

She did not say whether the report was generated by AI, referring questions on the matter to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

After the Daily Beast inquired whether any part of the MAHA report was created or edited using AI tools, HHS Deputy Press Secretary Emily G. Hilliard said in a statement: “Minor citation and formatting errors have been corrected, but the substance of the MAHA report remains the same—a historic and transformative assessment by the federal government to understand the chronic disease epidemic afflicting our nation’s children.”

“Under President Trump and Secretary Kennedy, our federal government is no longer ignoring this crisis, and it’s time for the media to also focus on what matters,” she added.

But Georges Benjamin, the executive director of the American Public Health Association, said the flawed references in the report undermine its credibility.

“It should be junked at this point,” he told the Post. “It cannot be used for any policymaking. It cannot even be used for any serious discussion, because you can’t believe what’s in it.”

Laurel and Hardy are in charge of the country's health. Evelyn Hockstein/REUTERS

Published on May 22, the document was written by a commission of Trump Cabinet officials and government scientific leaders to address a rise in chronic diseases among American children. However, Kennedy—an anti-vaccine activist and environmental lawyer—has refused to name specific authors.

The report, which calls for a reevaluation of the childhood vaccine schedule and claims that American children are overmedicated and undernourished, is intended to inform policy recommendations to be released later this year.
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Further on the same subject...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s predecessor has called him out for the bungled Make America Healthy Again report.

The MAHA report, which HHS released to much fanfare this week, was riddled with errors and cited nonexistent studies to back its claims. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt dismissed the mistakes as “formatting issues.”

“I understand there were some formatting issues with the MAHA report that are being addressed, and the report will be updated, but it does not negate the substance of the report,” Leavitt said Friday.

Former Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, who served under the Biden administration, was having none of it.

“This ‘formatting’ BS doesn’t sell,” Becerra told Mother Jones. “You’re supposed to do that checking before you publish, at least if you’re a rigorous publisher.”

Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as he tries to puke the frog out of his throat. He released a Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) report that included a slew of fake citations. / Samuel Corum / Samuel Corum/Getty Images

“We caught this one,” Becerra said of the faulty report. “Which ones didn’t we catch?”

Kennedy’s MAHA report included a slew of errors in its citations, and a portion of the more than 500 cited sources do not even exist, NOTUS found.

Becerra said Friday that he tried to hold back on criticizing the Trump administration until it got “a chance to settle in.” But at this point, “They got their chance.”

“I’m going to start talking,” said Becerra, who recently announced a run for California governor. “We have an obligation to protect the health of the American people, and to be silent is to acquiesce. There are too many people acquiescing to what’s going on right now.”

Becerra further denounced Kennedy’s longstanding refusal to promote the measles vaccine and his recent announcement that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will no longer recommend the COVID vaccine for children or pregnant women.

“Two young children died in Texas this year from measles,” Becerra said. “They should be alive today.”

Both NOTUS and The New York Times reported that at least nine citations found in the MAHA report so far were fake, and that it largely misrepresented the findings of other existing studies. Several experts have connected the errors to the use of artificial intelligence.

By the end of the day Thursday, the White House had updated the report and removed seven fake citations.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. still struggling with the frog in his throat (and the worm in his brain). He received backlash for reversing a recommendation for pregnant women and young children to get the COVID vaccine. / Win McNamee / Win McNamee/Getty Images

In the last few months, at least 20,000 people have left HHS, with half getting laid off and the other half taking buyouts. Many of the expelled staff were dedicated to monitoring pregnancy outcomes and preventing health crises like opioid addictions, gun injuries, and intimate partner violence.

Becerra slammed HHS for trying to “muzzle” researchers and the “folks that are underneath” Kennedy who are “allowing this to happen.”

“As dangerous as the guy in the Oval Office is,” Becerra added, “I think the big danger is those who enable him to do this, because that’s how you end up with tyranny and dictatorship—when others follow and let it happen.”

Dick Nixon: I Am not a Crook. Elon Musk: I Am not Taking Drugs. Bill Clinton: I Did not Have...

 ...sexual intercourse with that woman!

Oliver North (1980s) lied in his congressional testimony by saying that he never diverted funds from Iranian arms sales to support the Nicaraguan Contras. In fact, his boss Ronald Reagan's own diaries, released years later, showed that Reagan was selling weapons to the terrorist regime of Iran in exchange for Syria's release of US hostage held by the Hezbollah terror organization in Syrian-occupied Lebanon. The Israeli government was delivering the weapons to Iran by flying them from Tel Aviv to Tehran. The money from the arms sales were used to fund the illegal terrorist organization of the Nicaraguan Contras. Reagan was a Republican.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair lied to his Parliament, just as W. Bush and Colin Powell lied to Congress and to the UN,  by saying that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction that could be deployed within 45 minutes. The subsequent invasion of Iraq by Blair and George W Bush found no such weapons. Bush was a Republican.

Dick Nixon's watergate scandal: He vehemently denied and declared "I am not a crook". He eventually resigned his presidency to avoid being impeached and thrown out of office. Nixon was a Republican.

No point saying anything about Trump's lies, falsehoods and misleading statements. A tally of them by the Washington Post came up with 30,573 documented false or misleading claims during his first presidential term, an average of 21 per day. I have not yet seen a tally of his lies since he began his wretched second term this past January. Trump is a Republican.

 

The Moron Big Brother is Really Watching You. It's No Longer Orwellian Fiction

Just like his dictator buddies Xi Jinping and Vlado Putin, Donald Dumb needs to watch over his flock's every move and every word in order to protect thhem from themselves and their bad ideas.

 

Trump appears to be building an unprecedented spy machine that could track Americans
Ja'han Jones
Fri, May 30, 2025

As Donald Trump and his administration pursue crippling austerity measures across the country, they’re plunging millions of dollars into the president’s pet projects. And that includes reportedly giving hundreds of millions of dollars to a company that’s expanding the government’s ability to spy on its own citizens.

The New York Times has a new report on the administration awarding contracts to the controversial tech company Palantir, which is apparently helping Trump develop a database of Americans’ private information, scraped from various government agencies, that could theoretically be used to track or persecute them.

According to the Times: 

The push has put a key Palantir product called Foundry into at least four federal agencies, including D.H.S. and the Health and Human Services Department. Widely adopting Foundry, which organizes and analyzes data, paves the way for Mr. Trump to easily merge information from different agencies, the government officials said. Creating detailed portraits of Americans based on government data is not just a pipe dream. The Trump administration has already sought access to hundreds of data points on citizens and others through government databases, including their bank account numbers, the amount of their student debt, their medical claims and any disability status. Mr. Trump could potentially use such information to advance his political agenda by policing immigrants and punishing critics, Democratic lawmakers and critics have said.

The White House did not respond to the Times’ request for comment, and Palantir declined to comment on its work with the Trump administration. It pointed to a company blog post that said organizations that license its products “define what can and cannot be done with their data; they control the Palantir accounts.”

The Times’ report aligns with concerns about surveillance and the weaponization of federal data highlighted by Rachel Maddow during a recent episode featuring Times reporter Julia Angwin.

Palantir is one of several private companies that have capitalized on Trump’s authoritarian ambitions. The company has been tapped as a key player in Trump’s mass deportation plans, and earlier this year, Palantir CEO Alex Karp gave investors a pretty grim summary of what the company’s full slate of work for the Trump administration could entail.

As the outlet Mother Jones reported:

‘I’m very happy to have you along for the journey,’ the CEO said. ‘We are crushing it. We are dedicating our company to the service of the West and the United States of America, and we’re super-proud of the role we play, especially in places we can’t talk about.’ ‘Palantir is here to disrupt,’ he continued. ‘And, when it’s necessary, to scare our enemies and, on occasion, kill them.’ (Palantir did not respond to a request for comment.)

Needless to say, putting American data in the hands of a company whose CEO boasts about his company’s capacity to kill and intimidate doesn’t inspire confidence that the data will be handled responsibly.

On that note, I’ve been laser-focused on the government’s surveillance capabilities in the age of artificial intelligence, particularly under the Trump administration. To learn more about the technologies that enable the sort of surveillance Trump and Palantir could soon unleash on Americans, check out my interview with surveillance and privacy expert Albert Fox Cahn from 2023.

Racist, Drug Addict, Illegal Immigrant Elon Musk Uses Drugs Smuggled Through Border

Elon Musk is the prototype of the entitled White American Anglo-Saxon Protestant: 

- illegally enriching himself while cutting the livelihoods of average Americans; 

- stealing the Social Security private confidential information of American citizens and exploiting them in his tech companies; 

- financing the campaigns of the likes of Trump in exchange for future favors and deals;

- using the same drugs that are smuggled across the southern border while claiming to fight drug smuggling; 

- cheats on his drug tests by getting advanced notice about when he'd be tested for them;

- embracing white supremacist ideology in sympathy with the white apartheid racists of South Africa of which he was a member; 

- degrading and undermining the social security administration with the objective of ultimately eliminating it under the pretext that it is wasteful and fraudulent.

Trump Addresses Elon Musk's Alleged Drug Use After Bombshell New York Times Report

Marco Margaritoff

Updated Sun, June 1, 2025

President Donald Trump appears indifferent to the alleged drug use of one of his top advisers.

The New York Times reported Friday that Elon Musk was regularly consuming ketamine, ecstasy, psychedelic mushrooms, Ambien, Adderall and other drugs while on the campaign trail with Trump. The newspaper said it based its report on private messages it obtained, along with interviews with “more than a dozen people” who know Musk.

It’s unclear whether his drug use changed once he took his place at the helm of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, an initiative that has fired thousands of federal staffers and gutted key agencies under the stated aim of curbing wasteful spending. He officially left his role with DOGE earlier this week.

Trump appeared not to care about this when asked Friday by a reporter if the reported drug use troubled him.

“I’m not troubled by anything with Elon,” he said at the Joint Base Andrews in Maryland. “I think he’s fantastic. Did a great job. And, you know, DOGE continues. And by the time he’s finished, we’ll have numbers that’ll knock your socks off.”

“He did a fantastic job,” the president added. “And he didn’t need it, he didn’t need to do it.”

Musk spent a fortune to help reelect Trump and was later made a “special government employee” to spearhead DOGE. The world’s richest man then gained access, potentially illegally, to highly sensitive government data and hired a group of unvetted 20-somethings for help.

The tech billionaire has called Social Security, one of the most enduring safety nets Americans have ever had, a “Ponzi scheme.” He also danced around onstage at the Conservative Political Action Conference in February wielding a symbolic chainsaw to celebrate his work.

The Times reported that Musk’s drug consumption ramped up around the same time he started joining Trump on the campaign trail last year, and that he regularly traveled with a medication box that held some 20 various pills.

Rather than address the allegations on Friday, Musk attacked the Times’ credibility.

“Is The New York Times — is that the same publication that got a Pulitzer Prize for false reporting on the Russiagate?” he asked. “Is that the same organization? I think it is.”

Musk has previously admitted to taking “a small amount” of ketamine every other week, and was famously shown smoking marijuana on the “Joe Rogan Experience” podcast in 2018.

Musk said Friday that despite his DOGE tenure being over, he hopes to remain Trump’s “friend and an adviser.”

Further....

Generally speaking, drug testing in the workplace is supposed to be conductd at random intervals — but according to insider sources, that's not the case for the sometimes-world's richest man.

A New York Times exposé about Elon Musk's fear and loathing on the campaign trail found that the billionaire not only has been on boatloads of risky and illegal drugs during his turn into hard-right politics, but was also being tipped off about when he'd be tested for them.

As we've long known, SpaceX's federal contractor status requires that all its employees — including its mercurial CEO — pass drug tests. Given Musk's admitted penchant for mind-altering substances, and for ketamine in particular, his ability to pass those tests has long been a concern.

If the NYT's sources are to be believed, we may now know how the 53-year-old keeps passing: because he's been warned in advance when the "random" tests are going to occur, and been able to plan accordingly.

(Though those sources didn't get into it, anyone who's ever had to pass a drug test themselves knows that there are typicaly two options: drink so much water that you pee all the drugs out of your system, or get urine or hair from someone else and pass it off as your own.)

As those same sources allege, Musk's substance use increased significantly as he helped propel Donald Trump to the White House for a second time. He purportedly told people that his bladder had been affected by his frequent ketamine use, and had been taking ecstasy and psilocybin mushrooms too.

The multi-hyphenate businessman and politico also carried around a daily medication box with at least 20 pills in it — including ones with markings that resemble the ADHD drug Adderall, according to people who saw photos of it and regaled it back to the NYT. (He's also been linked to cocaine and a cornucopia of other substances.)

When it comes to stimulants like Adderall and anything else in Musk's daily pill box — which, despite how the article makes it sound, is not that abnormal a thing for a man in his 50s to be carrying around — there's a good chance that the billionaire has prescriptions that could excuse at least some abuse. He also has claimed that he was prescribed ketamine for depression, though to be fair, taking so much that it makes it hard to pee would suggest he's far surpassed his recommended dosage.

As Futurism has noted before, Musk's drugs of choice described here are not often screened for on standard drug panels. Though we don't know how in-depth federal drug tests are, standard tests primarily screen for cocaine, cannabis, amphetamines, opiates, and PCP, though some include ecstasy/MDMA as well. Testing for ketamine is, on the other hand, pretty rare.

If Musk is being tipped off about his drug tests — and is either flushing his system or taking a sober underling's urine or hair — none of that would matter. But given that the worst of his purported substance abuse revolves around ketamine, there's always a chance that he's in a recurring K-hole and getting off scot-free, unlike his employees, who are held to a much higher standard.

El Salvador's Palestinian President Nayib Bukele is a Trump Asskissing Vassal

 
‘We are under a dictatorship.’ Six years into his rule, El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele tightens his grip
Analysis by Michael Rios and Max Saltman, CNN
Sun, June 1, 2025


El Salvador's Nayib Bukele delivers a speech to high school students at the Adolfo Pineda National Gymnasium in San Salvador on March 15. - Marvin Recinos/AFP/Getty Images

Nayib Bukele, the self-declared “world’s coolest dictator,” will mark six years as El Salvador’s president on Sunday, a period defined by contentious reforms, which critics say have brought peace to the streets at an incredibly high price.

His iron-fisted crackdown on crime in the country, that was once the most violent nation in the western hemisphere, led to the arrest and detention of around 87,000 people, often with little due process.

The government has defended the move, pointing to significant reductions in gang violence nationwide, but opponents say it has come at the cost of mass incarceration and the erosion of civil liberties.

The dragnet expanded as time wore on to include civil society groups and journalists investigating official collusion with the country’s gangs, critics say.

On May 19, Ruth López, an anti-corruption lawyer for the human rights group Cristosal, who is also a prominent critic of Bukele, was detained by Salvadoran authorities for allegedly stealing “funds from state coffers.” However, López still has not been charged with a crime despite remaining in detention.

Soon after Lopez was arrested, Bukele’s government passed a law taxing foreign donations to NGOs like Cristosal at 30%, which rights groups have described as an existential threat.

“What we have seen is a massive concentration of power in (Bukele’s) hands,” Juan Pappier, deputy director for Latin America at Human Rights Watch, said of Bukele’s six years in power. Bukele’s rule has been “based on demolition of the checks and balances of democracy and increasing efforts to silence and intimidate critics.”

The reduction of gang-related crime in El Salvador has made Bukele popular in the Central American nation, so much so that he was reelected in a landslide victory last year, even though the country’s constitution had barred anyone standing for a second term. (Bukele’s allies in Congress eventually replaced the Supreme Court’s top justices with judges willing to interpret the constitution in his favor.)

Since March 2022, the country has been under a “state of exception,” allowing the suspension of numerous constitutional rights. In the capital San Salvador, many people say they now feel safe walking through neighborhoods once considered dangerous. Though they acknowledge the country has seen a massive increase in incarcerations and a suspension of rights, Bukele’s supporters believe the resulting peace and security has been worth the tradeoff.

Not everyone agrees.

Samuel Ramírez, founder of the Movement of Victims of the Regime (MOVIR), a human rights group that works with families of people believed to have been detained without due process, says thousands have been arrested over unfounded suspicions of being linked to gangs.

Bukele has previously admitted that some innocent people have been detained by mistake but said that several thousand have already been released.

Ramírez and other activists believe that many are too afraid to speak publicly.

“Here we see soldiers armed to the teeth in the streets, the police, even armored trucks in the streets — tanks. That’s synonymous with a country at war,” he said. “The gangs, for me, have already been neutralized. And now the war is against the people, so they don’t demonstrate, don’t speak out.”
Alleged back door dealings

Though he presents himself as a law-and-order leader, Bukele has long faced allegations that he negotiated the peaceful security situation in El Salvador through back-door dealings with the gangs.

In 2021, the Biden administration accused Bukele’s regime of bribing MS-13 and Barrio 18, two of the most notorious gangs in El Salvador, to “ensure that incidents of gang violence and the number of confirmed homicides remained low.” Alleged payoffs included cash, cell phones and prostitutes for imprisoned capos.

Bukele promptly denied the allegations, calling them an “obvious lie.”

But four years later, independent newsroom El Faro published an explosive interview with two self-styled gang leaders from Barrio 18 who claimed that, in exchange for hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash, they had intimidated voters into casting their ballots for Bukele during his 2015 bid for mayor of San Salvador.

The two men gang leaders also claimed that when he became president in 2019, Bukele had arranged that the most powerful gangs in El Salvador refrain from wanton murder and extortion, lest they make him look bad, El Faro reported.

Bukele has not yet responded publicly to their allegations, but obliquely referenced the reporting from El Faro in a post on May 10, sarcastically implying the only “pact” he made with the gang leaders involved putting them in prison.

The journalists from El Faro who broke the story fled the country before it was published, anticipating arrest.

“I think Bukele will try to put us in jail. I have no doubt about that. I have no doubt, after what he did to Ruth López, that Bukele has decided to raise the bar and persecute those he considers the most visible critics in El Salvador,” El Faro Editor-in-Chief Óscar Martínez told CNN.

He said seven of the publication’s journalists are facing arrest warrants for reporting on the alleged deals. Even so, he said the newspaper would continue its journalistic work. For the past two years, the publication has been running most of its operations in exile from Costa Rica.

“If there was any semblance of democracy left in El Salvador, it was in independent journalism,” said Noah Bullock, executive director of Cristosal.

CNN has reached out to the presidency for comments.

‘We are under a dictatorship’

Last week, Bukele’s government passed a law taxing foreign donations to NGOs at 30%.

He had proposed a similar law in 2021, but it didn’t pass. In any case, Bullock says that it’s irrelevant whether any law is proposed, passed or tabled in El Salvador: after six years of virtually unfettered power, Bukele is a law in and of himself.

Gracia Grande, the program officer at the Salvadoran branch of the Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy, told CNN that the law is an existential threat to her NGO’s work.

She said the law will make it impossible for them to continue working. It gives them three months to renew their registration as an NGO, but they don’t know how the process will work.

Grande’s assessment of the situation is unambiguous: “Right now, we can say very openly that we are under a dictatorship.”

Despite the growing outrage from rights groups, Bukele’s punishing penal system has won him fans.

US President Donald Trump has praised the crackdown and cut a deal with Bukele, who agreed to hold hundreds of Venezuelan deportees in El Salvador’s Center for Terrorism Confinement, alongside thousands of detained Salvadorans.

Known as Cecot, the mega-prison is considered the largest penitentiary in the Americas and is notorious for the spartan conditions, which rights organizations have denounced as inhumane.

“I think what is happening here is a kind of laboratory for what could happen in other countries,” NGO worker Grande warned. “Even the United States.”

During Trump’s April meeting with Bukele at the White House, Bukele suggested the US president follow his lead when it comes to mass detentions.

“Mr. President, you have 350 million people to liberate, you know,” Bukele said of the US population. “But to liberate 350 million people, you have to imprison some. You know, that’s the way it works, right?”