It's Kinda Not a Secret Anymore: Donald Dumb Wears Adult Diapers

I wonder if Natalie Harp pinches her nose when she changes them for him.

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Social Media Thinks Donald Trump Wore An 'Adult Diaper' At Recent Rally
Mariam Qayum
Sat, August 22, 2026


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Donald Trump has faced plenty of speculation about his health over the years, but his latest viral moment has social media users focused on his appearance.

A video of the president walking away from a stage at a rally in New York has sparked a wave of online reactions after viewers noticed what appeared to be an unusually shaped bulge beneath the back of his suit jacket.

The footage was shared on X by White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, who described the moment as "beautiful." In the clip, the 80-year-old can be seen leaving the stage during his speech to embrace Migdalia Martinez and retired NYPD Sergeant Jesus Freytes, whose 12-year-old son, Jacob, was tragically killed by a stray bullet in the Bronx.

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Social Media Divided Over Donald Trump's Latest Appearance

"In a beautiful impromptu moment, President Trump exits the stage in the middle of his speech to embrace Migdalia Martinez and retired NYPD Sergeant Jesus Freytes, whose 12-year-old son Jacob was tragically killed by a stray bullet in the Bronx," Leavitt wrote in the caption.

The video quickly spread across social media, with viewers focusing on the back of Trump's suit as he walked down the stage. Some users speculated—without evidence—that the bulge could be a diaper.

"America, run by a man in diapers," one person wrote. "I know a full diaper when I see one," another commented.

"We've got Trump's BBL before GTA 6," someone else joked.

"That is definitely a diaper," one user claimed, while another wrote, "Spent too long with Nicki Minaj."

"Looks like an adult diaper," someone else added.

Others pushed back against the speculation, suggesting there could be an entirely different explanation for the appearance beneath his clothing.

"It's probably some sort of bulletproof undergarment," one person suggested.

Another commenter questioned why Trump's health is being scrutinized in this way, writing, "So you're telling me nobody ever questioned Biden's health but now people are questioning Trump's health." [Biden was persecuted by Trump's Radical Right extremists as he was aging in office]

"Diaper is not something to be ashamed of. We all wore one," another person wrote.

There is no confirmation from Trump or his representatives that the bulge seen in the video was related to a diaper or any health condition.

The viral clip alone does not establish what was beneath his jacket or provide evidence of a medical issue.

President Donald Trump's health has become a topic of public discussion, with the White House insisting that he remains in "excellent health" and fully capable of carrying out his duties.

However, critics and outside medical experts have pointed to what they describe as visible signs of aging, physical strain and fatigue.

Trump Hates the Living Suckers and Losers as Much as the Dead Ones

The senile demented criminal with his Saved-by-Jesus drunkard womanizing "warrior" Secretary of Whore

He dodged the Vietnam War draft 5 times by claiming he had bone spurs in his feet, the poor darling. He was after all from the New York elite and would not mingle with the plebeian Americans (Blacks, Asians, Hispanics...) that make up the bulk of the US Armed Forces and who have been hunted down by Trump's own ICE-GESTAPO. For this arrogant billionaire, he is much much better than all the "riffraff" that make up the troops, which makes it easy for him to send them to their death for the sake of his genocidal Zionist friends.

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Trump Hates the Troops. The Troops Are Taking Notice
Jason Linkins
Sat, August 22, 2026 

If you want to get the unfiltered skinny on how the never-ending war with Iran is going, it's written in the dust. Responsible Statecraft's Trita Parsi reported this week that U.S. service members marooned in the Persian Gulf have been expressing themselves in messages fingered onto a dusty aircraft flap. The anonymous graffiti, which calls to mind the helmet scrawls of disgruntled soldiers in Vietnam, include "Operation Epstein Fury," "Peace deal #64 incoming … ALL THIS FOR THE HOLY LAND," and "Bibi's cucks." Sounds like things aren't going so well! "I have no frame of reference, I can't compare it to the sentiments of U.S. soldiers in previous conflicts," Parsi wrote. "But I suspect these are new sentiments, or at least a new willingness to express them this openly and directly."

Whether these sentiments are new is indeed unclear, but it's not without a frame of reference. Trump has always been fairly explicit in his disrespect for the grunts who do most of the work—and all of the dying—in this racket that we call "war." But only now is a seemingly unwinnable war bringing this all to a head. It's no longer possible to pretend that the president doesn't have boundless contempt for U.S. service members. They're trapped in a war that was essentially kicked off to distract from all the other terrible news the Trump administration generates—or at least to turn attention away from the Epstein files. (Though if these dust etchings are any guide, Trump failed in this attempt to wag the dog.)

In recent weeks, this dynamic has been playing out on board the USS Abraham Lincoln, an aircraft carrier that has been on a nine-month deployment to support Trump's war with Iran. Conditions on board the carrier have deteriorated to the point where some seamen have jumped overboard in an attempt to escape the misery. The crew has, for several weeks, been dealing with food shortages and grotesque sanitation issues. As TNR's Hafiz Rashid reported, "In recent town hall meetings with military leaders, including acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao, things have gotten heated, with family members expressing fear and worry over mental health and the risk of self-harm for the ship's personnel."

As it happens, this trouble is not confined to the USS Lincoln: Crews on the USS Benfold, Carl Vinson, and Tripoli have also reported miserable conditions in recent weeks. Pete Hegseth, our self-styled "secretary of war," has gone to great lengths to downplay and even deny these accounts, characterizing them as misrepresentations while covering up the reason the Lincoln, which is now finally coming home, wasn't resupplied. The dust scribbles surfaced by Parsi tell a different story.

If anything, the story is an old one. There has always been good reason to question Trump's respect for U.S. service members. As The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg reported in September of 2020, Trump canceled a visit to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery in Paris, questioning his senior aides as to why he should go to a cemetery full of "losers." Per Goldberg, "In a separate conversation on the same trip, Trump referred to the more than 1,800 Marines who lost their lives at Belleau Wood as 'suckers' for getting killed." All of this came about because he didn't want to get his hair mussed in the rainy conditions. (Trump's former chief of staff, John Kelly, would later confirm Goldberg's reporting.)

Trump's disparagement of the military is pretty consistent. He's slagged off the armed forces' top officers as "dopes and babies" and compared them unfavorably to the military leaders he, for whatever reason, holds in high esteem: Adolf Hitler's generals. He's complained about having to see disabled veterans at military events, and has advocated for the exclusion of wounded soldiers at official functions because, "Nobody wants to see that." These kinds of insults were a staple of his first run for office, during which time he mocked Gold Star families and, famously, Vietnam POW survivor John McCain.

But Trump's disregard is hardly limited to mere aesthetics. As The Huffington Post's David Wood reported in 2017, Trump's gigantic military buildup shoveled billions of dollars to the Pentagon, but not much of that kitty ended up benefiting the working grunts who risk their lives on our nation's behalf.

Only the outlines of Trump's proposal to lavish money on the military have been drawn up. There's a request for Congress to add $30 billion to this year's defense budget and a vague plan to add $54 billion to next year's spending. Not included in those plans: money for the best infantry weapons, the safest troop-lift helicopters, the most protective lightweight body armor. Instead, grunts will have to settle for budget leftovers with antiquated rifles, helicopters built for their grandfathers during the Vietnam War, and communications gear that is overweight and unreliable.

The least surprising observation you can make about Trump is that he is an asshole and a cheapskate. Still, the president's Iranian misadventure has fully exposed both his ineptitude as commander in chief and the consequences of this lack of care for military members and their families. As conditions on U.S. ships erode, the administration is finding itself in a media war with the concerned families of troops deployed to the region. Stockpiles of vital munitions are being burned through at an alarming rate. And for some reason, Trump has picked this moment to order a bizarre retrofitting of U.S. aircraft carriers, demanding that they be kitted out with obsolete steam catapults. (TNR contributor Brynn Tannehill has the lore drop you need if you've been confused by this story.)

Public opinion about the war in Iran has been consistently awful for Trump, whose overall approval hit a low of 33 percent this week. As Parsi reports, those who are stuck on the front lines of this folly are not likely to disabuse their fellow Americans of this being anything but FUBAR. As one service member told him: "What people in the media don't understand when they compare past conflicts to this one, is this operation has no morale behind it. That makes a world of difference to service members deployed to undesirable locations indefinitely." Parsi thinks that the only thing left to do now is to "simply end" the war. But Trump is knee-deep in this big muddy, and there truly is no end in sight.

Introducing the New Moron on the MAGA Block: 'Daarleen' Graham. ...

... who is replacing her dead brother, Lady Lindsey Graham.

Appointed - not elected - to replace her brother in the US Senate, this southern moron from the slavery state of South Carolina, she admitted she knows nothing of foreign policy and national security while Donald Dumb, who prefers to be surrounded by imbeciles like him, emphatically declared yesterday that 'Daarleen' will vote in the Senate according to his wishes, and not to her conscience.

Just like his "binkie blonde" slave Natalie Harp, "Daarleen" joins the coterie of dumb-blonde yes-women that hover around the Great American Moron. I bet you that "Daarleen" is stepping into her brother, Lady Lindsey's shoes just because she's, in southern tradition, a subservient, submissive kitchen-bound female who will do what "they" tell her to do.

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South Carolina Republicans split over Darline Graham’s ‘eyebrow-raising’ debate performance
Patrick Svitek, Dianne Gallagher, CNN
Fri, August 21, 2026


Sen. Darline Graham listens to a question at a campaign event in Florence, South Carolina, on August 19. - Sean Rayford/Getty Images

Fresh off the losses of three candidates he endorsed in Republican primaries, President Donald Trump faces a much higher-profile test of his political power in South Carolina.

Trump is set to hold a rally Friday night in Myrtle Beach with Sen. Darline Graham, whom he endorsed for her late brother's Senate seat and whose campaign was shaken by a recent debate when she couldn't answer a question about Taiwan and the South China Sea because she was "not that informed about national security." [She has also declared that South Carolina has a 50 million population!!!. She seems to be uninformed even about the state in which she lives.]

Both Trump and Graham are at a crucial moment. Some stalwart supporters of the president are openly rejecting his pick in Tuesday's Republican primary runoff, despite a strong effort by the White House that included Trump calling old rivals to push them to endorse her.

A defeat in South Carolina would further call into question the second-term president's ability to keep his party ranks in line.

"The entire world is laughing at South Carolina right now and laughing at Darline Graham Nordone," said former state Rep. Adam Morgan, who is supporting her opponent Rep. Ralph Norman. He used the full name for Graham that some of her critics like to invoke to distinguish her from Sen. Lindsey Graham. Morgan added that Darline Graham's debate flub had to be a "serious gut check" for Trump and his political team.

Trump is showing no signs of backing away from his exclusive support for Darline Graham or making a double endorsement like he did in the South Carolina governor's runoff after his first pick didn't win the primary.

"President Trump's endorsement is the most powerful endorsement in the history of American politics," White House spokeswoman Allison Schuster said in a statement. "Anyone claiming otherwise is a complete and utter fool." [I beg to differ: In the disastrous state that Trump has plunged the country in, Trump's endorsements are deadly to his candidates, as primaries around the world have revealed.]

As Trump headed to Myrtle Beach, Graham won the endorsement of the state's governor, Henry McMaster.

"Throughout her time in the U.S. Senate, she has stood for the values that South Carolinians live by, continued Lindsey Graham's work, and stood firmly with President Trump to advance his America First agenda," McMaster wrote on X.

How the White House ramped up its backing of Graham

Trump moved quickly to consolidate GOP support behind Graham after she finished first in the August 11 primary but did not get enough of the vote to avoid a runoff. Trump called at least two of her opponents that night – Rep. Russell Fry and former Gov. Mark Sanford – and asked them to endorse her, according to sources familiar with the calls.

The results were mixed.

Fry was not ready to immediately back Graham and waited until three days later, after at least one other call from Trump, to do so. They talked about Trump possibly coming to South Carolina to stump for Graham in the runoff, and Fry suggested a place in his district, the Myrtle Beach area, as a good location.

Sanford, who also ran a long-shot campaign against Trump in the 2020 presidential primary, backed Norman on Friday in an X post touting his "experience in legislative circles, matched by a conservative voting record and conservative stands."

Businessman Mark Lynch, who ran against Lindsey Graham in the June primary, told CNN he had not spoken to Trump. He endorsed Norman within hours after losing the primary.

"South Carolinians do not want 'Queen Darline' appointed as their senator by D.C. special interests and Democrat PACs," Lynch said in a statement to CNN.

Graham's campaign did not respond to a request for comment for this story. But she shrugged off the debate flub while speaking with reporters afterward, saying South Carolinians are "worried about their pocketbooks more than they're worried about the South China Sea." [Of course, stupid, ignorant, illiterate South Carolinians don't even know where the South China Sea is or how their moronic lives could be affected by Taiwan or whether they may have to send their children fight against a Chinese invasion of Taiwan. They are more worried about their pocketbooks that their idol, Donald Dumb, has been emptying so that he can make billions trading stocks on his on-off war with Iran.]

During a campaign event Wednesday in Florence, an audience member asked if she had any concerns about "credibility" in the Senate in light of the debate answer.

"Is national security important? Absolutely," she said. "Can I learn? I'm smart. Yes, I'll learn. I'll become informed. Everybody has a first day on the job. President Trump, was he a politician? Has he done a good job? Yes, he has."

[The idiot is right. The Great Moron Donald Dumb has been learning on the job, which is why the country has spiraled into uncertainty, exploding national debt, foreign wars, skyrocketing inflation, and a regression on all the advances made over past decades. Can you imagine a company hiring someone with no education or experience to a top managerial position because she is a relative of a friend of the CEO, and without an interview? Is NEPOTISM a really good business practice by someone who claims to run the country like a business].

Trump also defended Graham's debate answer on Friday, saying that "she's surrounded by very good people, and she said that she's totally for the military." He added that Graham will "do what the military wants, and really, what the president wants."

Yet even some Graham supporters cringed at the moment, which came when a moderator, journalist Greta Van Susteren, asked Graham if Taiwan and the South China Sea were "national security issues for the United States." Struggling to answer, Graham voiced general support for the military and added national security is "not my thing."

A Republican lawmaker who endorsed Graham after she made the runoff called her debate performance "eyebrow-raising" and said it "didn't inspire confidence."

"I'm a little surprised she didn't have a better pivot than 'I don't know about that'. She won't make that mistake again, that's for sure. I would think she'll be able to learn more during the rest of this term," the lawmaker said. "She had decent answers about domestic issues."

A GOP source told CNN Graham's team was downplaying the gaffe to donors and Republicans who'd endorsed her, echoing the candidate and telling them that "people struggling with affordability aren't concerned about the South China Sea."

Dorchester County GOP Chairman CJ Westfall, a Graham critic, noted his group texts with state Republicans started lighting up when Graham gave that answer.

"The people who were watching that are the hardcore Republicans," said Westfall. "And a special runoff? Those voters are the most hardcore of the hardcore."

Critics of Graham are piling on


Rep. Ralph Norman, left, and Sen. Darline Graham take part in a special GOP Senate runoff debate in Newberry, South Carolina, on August 18. - Meg Kinnard/AP

The debate moment appeared to be a turning point for Republicans who had previously been holding back on airing reservations about her candidacy.

Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, a longtime Norman ally who ran against Trump in 2024, said on X that Lindsey Graham was "well informed" about national security and it is "not something you inherit." Kevin Roberts, head of the Heritage Foundation and a strong Trump ally, called Darline Graham's answer "embarrassing and inexcusable."

"Can we just stop this ridiculous experiment in nepotism now???" former Trump adviser Steve Cortes wrote on X.

Graham's critics also noted that she said during the debate that South Carolina has a population of 50 million people when it is actually about a tenth of that size. Rep. Nancy Mace, a Norman supporter, highlighted Graham's error on social media and said, "I can't even right now with this Senate race."

Beyond the national security question, the debate signaled that the race had entered a new, more contentious phase. Graham seized several opportunities to attack Norman, including in a closing statement that was particularly animated.

"Fact is, I've done more in 20 days than you have done in 20 years," Graham told Norman, a five-term congressman.

Norman largely shrugged off her jabs as part of "silly season," but his allies are sharpening their rhetoric against her. A pro-Norman super PAC, Palmetto First PAC, is running a TV ad that says Graham "inherited" the seat and asks, "What if Darline Graham had any other last name?"

The cast of outside groups backing Graham has only grown in the runoff. The latest entrants include two super PACs aligned with artificial intelligence industry and a third group focused on clean energy, Invest in Tomorrow Coalition PAC, that recently helped unseat Rep. Andy Ogles, a Tennessee Republican, in his primary.

Norman has sought to make up for the overwhelming outside funding backing Graham by self-funding his campaign. He loaned his campaign $1.3 million on Monday, according to a campaign finance filing, adding to the $400,000 he put into his campaign last week.

As for endorsements, Fry is not the only big name in South Carolina politics that has coalesced behind Graham since the primary. She has also picked up endorsements from Sen. Tim Scott and Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette. Evette was Trump's initial choice in the primary for governor but lost to Attorney General Alan Wilson in the runoff.

Graham has also garnered endorsements from some anti-abortion groups as intra-party critics question have highlighted her friendship with — and two past small political donations to – a former GOP state lawmaker who fought the state's near-total abortion ban. One of the organizations, the Susan B. Anthony List, followed Trump's lead and backed Graham even though Norman has an "A+" rating on its legislative scorecard.

"I have gotten to know Darline Graham and I am confident she is 100% committed to advocating for unborn children and their mothers in the U.S. Senate," Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of SBA Pro-Life America, said in a statement.

Dannenfelser visited South Carolina on Thursday to campaign with Graham, as did the second highest-ranking Republican in the Senate, Majority Whip John Barrasso.

Norman has gained some interesting, if lower-profile, endorsements in the runoff. Among them is the Republican Party in Lexington County, Graham's home county and where she got the most votes in the primary.

Mark Weber, the chairman of the Lexington County GOP, said he moved to South Carolina from California in 1989 and has come to appreciate that the state "truly believes in state's rights and local control."

"While I am a Trump support[er] and Lexington and SC is Trump Country," Weber said in a text message, "SC voters don't want anyone to twist our arms or tell us how to vote."

How to Overcome Hopelessness in the Trump Era

Even Trump will pass in the trash bin of history. We've been there before in the late 1880s, 1930s, 1960s...Jim Crow laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States from 1877 until the mid-20th century are the precedent form what Trump is doing to the US.

The Jim Crow era effectively ended with the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which outlawed legal segregation and discriminatory voting practices. Trump and the Republican party are trying a reprise of these laws, but while Jim Crow laws persisted for nearly a century, Trump's foulness will not persist after he's gone. 

Back in the 19th century, the country was still an infant and an acneed teenager with violent spells. It has slowly matured into a powerful but responsible country, with ups and downs along the way. The Trump phenomenon is but a hiccup caused by the immature republican morons who refuse to grow up. They want to take the country back to the 19th century and Jim Crow laws. One has to be an idiot to believe they can succeed.

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How to Overcome Hopelessness in the Trump Era
Skye Perryman
Thu, August 20, 2026 


How to Overcome Hopelessness in the Trump Era

Democracy Forward is a national legal organization that has made a habit of filing lawsuits against the federal government since Donald Trump retook office in 2025, challenging everything from the administration's actions against immigrants to its proposed "anti-weaponization" fund. Skye Perryman, the group's president and CEO, is publishing Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times, a new book about resisting authoritarianism and the actions big and small people can take in their lives to do so, on August 25 via Penguin Random House. In the following excerpt, Perryman writes about how the only way to lift a nation out of oppression is for its people to fight through it.

"IT DIDN'T HAPPEN OVERNIGHT." I had asked my grandmother how long it took for the Southern magnolia trees in my grandparents' small Texas town to go from bulbs to majestic blooms. "Years and years," she said, "It takes care, time, and sun."

My grandparents lived in Magnolia, a small east-Texas town. The town was known for its tall pine trees, its railroad, and, yes, its magnolia trees. But when my grandmother moved to Magnolia decades before I was born, there were no magnolia trees on her farm or in her yard. So, she began planting. She planted magnolia trees on her farm, in her yard, and also in city spaces, like at the public school and town hall. By the time I was growing up, I would never have known that her farm once lacked magnolia trees amidst its already mighty pines. The glorious white blossoms and distinctive dark green leaves are in the background of so many of my memories — and all because of my grandmother's work of planting and tending over the decades. As a child of the Great Depression, material things were not where she found her comfort. Instead, she appreciated the beauty that could emerge from planting a single bulb or seed and the years of nurturing that followed — for her it was the greatest inheritance she could leave.

I have found myself thinking of those magnolia trees often these last months as I have traveled the country and spent time with so many people experiencing despair, and as I, too, have struggled with moments of deep doubt and feelings of helplessness. Many of us find ourselves lost — afraid of where the nation is heading and desperately wanting to flip the proverbial switch but overwhelmed by the fact that there isn't just one switch to flip. 

There are concerns at the state and local levels. At the Supreme Court. In Congress. And, in the White House. People are angry at the daily incursions on their rights, at the layers upon layers of corruption as a president and his allies enrich themselves while millions struggle to make ends meet. They have witnessed innocent people, including American citizens, be killed at the hands of their own government. They are scared by the deportations, disappearances, and detentions. They have woken up to masked agents on the streets and community members afraid or, worse, gone. They are bewildered and enraged by overreach and lawlessness, by the blatant disregard for our rights. They are angered by the Supreme Court's decimation of voting rights, and by the historic numbers of unexplained decisions on its shadow docket that prevent people from being protected by lower court rulings by not considering the full record or hearing argument. A friend said to me, "Even when we see the wins your team achieves in court, or are inspired by millions in the streets, or are encouraged by off-cycle election victories, we wake up the next day to another nightmare. It seems as if nothing we do matters." This is an understandable and real feeling.

And it may not go away.

The feelings of hopelessness, defeat, and powerlessness are a feature, not a bug, of the political machine replacing our democracy with autocratic rule. In fact, the number one tool that autocratic leaders use to consolidate power is not voter suppression, election denialism, or gerrymandering — it is convincing people that there is nothing they can do to change their circumstances. That they have no power. Convincing people to give up. That any effort to save our nation is too late, too futile, and too naïve.

And that's why, despite these feelings, or in the face of these feelings, we must keep going.

We must commit to ourselves — and to one another — that we will not succumb to the belief that we have no power. We DO have power. And we need to find and use it.

We must also have the determination to look at where we are — at the harms and the realities and heartbreaks — and to not look away. To see it for all that it is. We are living in a nation that is rapidly backsliding into autocracy. Our institutions were not delivering for us before and now, stressed and tested to the point of collapse, they are delivering even less. We must be able to see what is happening and understand: This is where we are. There are no shortcuts out of this. The only way out is through.

But we are far from powerless.

We must do everything we can in our communities and in all upcoming elections to halt the backslide to autocracy. We also have to remember that the work must continue over time. Journalist and historian Anne Applebaum, who has studied rising authoritarianism across the globe, reminds us that autocratic threats "cannot easily be defeated or dismissed in one electoral cycle." Just as magnolia trees can take decades to reach maturity, and need steady tending along the way, creating a society that cares for all of us needs active, ongoing efforts. There are no quick fixes to a long-term challenge.

As I have talked with people who are in despair about the seemingly impossible task we have ahead, I have turned to the words of muckraking photojournalist Jacob A. Riis, who documented the seemingly immovable abject poverty faced by people in New York City in the late 1800s as the rich lived in gilded mansions. I first discovered Riis when studying economics, learning how the inhumane conditions experienced by many at the end of the Gilded Age, documented in Riis's powerful photojournalism book How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York, gave rise to the progressive movement in the early twentieth century. In law school, I learned that this movement had to work against every institutional power structure — including the Supreme Court — to demand real change. 

Riis wrote in his memoir, The Making of An American, "When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before."

Eventually, Riis's work helped shine an important light and contributed to a movement that brought about significant social reforms — from wage and hour laws to worker safety laws, child worker protections, and more. But the work was long and arduous. It was not solved in one election cycle or through one initiative.

The work we must do now is day-by-day, hammer-by-hammer, step-by-step work. We must do what Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called the work to "hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of Hope." We must remember too, that though some may consider this a new fight, we are building on the movements and actions of people who have been hammering away at the struggle for representation, freedom, and justice for a long time — including those in the Black, Brown, Indigenous, immigrant, and LGBTQ communities. Movement builders and communities with the lived experience of persistent injustice know that the work continues beyond one election cycle.

The only way out is through. The work of justice has always been urgent. The ultimate action that strikes the blow to injustice — and, yes, to autocracy — will make its mark because of the work of ordinary people like you who in this extraordinary time took singular steps, day by day, conversation by conversation, to move the mountain of despair. The majestic magnolia blossoms started from a single bulb that did not develop and bloom until years later. The ultimate split in the rock happens after many hammers. Both recent events and our rich history teach us that what is on the other side of this crisis is, in fact, up to us. But it will take us all doing our part. There are no shortcuts. The only way out is through.

Excerpted from Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times: How to Reclaim Your Power, Fight for Freedom, and Reimagine Democracy by Skye Perryman. Text copyright © 2026 by Skye Perryman. Published in the United States by Ten Speed Press, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC.

How Trump Promotes & Aids White Christian Nationalist Antisemitic Hate Groups

Again, I bring up the hypocrisy of the MAGA-Republican universe which, on one hand supports the neo-Nazi Zionists in Palestine and persecutes Palestinians, while at the same time promoting Trump's white Christian nationalist racist barbarians here at home. 

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), an anti-hate group, has paid informants to infiltrate the violent neo-Nazi white Christian nationalist groups of Donald Trump and obtain information on their activities. In the filthy disgusting ways of Trump and his goons, Trump's "Personal Department of Justice" is turning this into the accusation that the SPLC, whose sole objective is to uncover and expose Trump's racist criminals, is "funding" these very racist criminal organizations by paying informants to join/infiltrate these organizations. In other words, Trump is seeking retribution against organizations that fight his own backers the neo-Nazis, antisemites, white nationalists and such.

This would be similar to a situation where the FBI pays an infiltrated informant into drug cartels, but is now accused of funding the drug cartels.  

I thing Trump and his goons are learning their methods from the Zionists who do the same with Palestinian organizations. Yet, the SPLC has been at the forefront of the fight against antisemitism. By attacking the SPLC, Trump is revealing his own antisemitism.

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White supremacists spin a Justice Department indictment against a hate-monitoring group to legitimize extremism and expand recruitment
Art Jipson, University of Dayton
Thu, August 20, 2026 


Attorney General Todd Blanche announces the indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center on April 21, 2026, in Washington. Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images. [Next to him is FBI Director Kash Patel, whose racial background has often made him a victim of the racist white christian nationalist followers of Donald Dumb]


In April 2026, a federal grand jury returned indictments charging the Southern Poverty Law Center with wire fraud, bank fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering. The indictment alleges the SPLC, a nonprofit legal advocacy group, secretly funneled more than US$3 million in donated funds to people associated with violent extremist groups, including the Ku Klux Klan and Aryan Nations.

Prosecutors allege that the SPLC secretly paid members of those groups to act as confidential informants without telling donors. Eight informants received the money between 2014 and 2023, according to U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche.

The SPLC has denied the charges and seeks their dismissal, with lawyers for the group adding that the charges constitute "vindictive prosecution." The SPLC's interim president, Bryan Fair, has stated that the informant program "saved lives" and reflected decades of dangerous civil rights work.

Critics of the prosecution at Lawfare, a media site focused on the U.S. legal system, argued that the indictment is among "the most cynical criminal cases ever brought by the Department of Justice." They noted that the SPLC had no legal duty to disclose the confidential nature of its informant program to donors.

Within hours of the Justice Department's indictment, I found that white supremacist influencers on Telegram, Gab and other social platforms were celebrating the arraignment. They portrayed the charges as proof that journalists and civil rights groups documenting extremist movements could no longer be trusted.

The indictment became a rallying point to discredit not only the SPLC but the wider body of research on hate groups and political extremism. I believe that these narratives will be used to help justify increasingly radical and, in some cases, violent responses.

Ideological ammunition

Some conservative advocacy groups and right-wing media outlets – including Moms for Liberty and the Daily Signal – immediately stripped the indictment of its legal context. In online posts, they recast it as established proof that the SPLC had been deliberately creating extremist activity rather than investigating it.

  

Telegram search results show multiple white nationalist channels discussing the SPLC indictment in April 2026. Art Jipson

A Telegram search I conducted on May 6 identified 22 posts mentioning the SPLC across at least six white nationalist channels. Most appeared within 72 hours of the indictment. The posts did not engage in sustained discussion. They repeated a small set of claims.

The Super Sincere Alpha GOONMAXXING Aryan Sigma Patriot channel wrote: "The SPLC is a hate group."

Other channels cited the indictment as proof that the SPLC had been paying sources to manufacture the very extremism it claimed to fight. In the White Lives Matter Official Telegram channel, users were urged to "become an activist for your race" while referencing the SPLC as an opposing force.

The similarity across channels and social media is notable. The same framing appeared repeatedly within a short time window. This suggests rapid circulation of a shared narrative across networks rather than independent commentary.
The neo-Nazi, neo-fascist layer

Comments on the Southern Poverty Law Center indictment by members of the Commander George Lincoln Rockwell channel – named for the founder of the American Nazi Party – demonstrate how antisemitic conspiracy theories work, not as explicit rhetoric but as a broader narrative.
The Commander George Lincoln Rockwell channel on Telegram. Art Jipson

Internet discussions portrayed the SPLC as a politically motivated or illegitimate actor. Posts in Patriot Front Updates, for example, circulated allegations of fraud and money laundering while criticizing the SPLC and its efforts to identify and challenge white nationalist activity.

I found that this criticism of the SPLC also became connected to a broader antisemitic conspiracy narrative – one that portrays the organization as operating on behalf of purported Jewish interests rather than simply as an advocacy organization with political and ideological commitments.

These narratives circulated alongside the "great replacement theory," which falsely claims that shadowy elites are encouraging immigration and demographic change to replace the white population and diminish its political and cultural influence. It's a conspiracy theory that the SPLC and others have documented as central to contemporary white nationalism.

In this logic, the indictment is not an isolated fraud case – it is evidence that a coordinated network of institutions has been systematically suppressing white identity.
Victimhood as recruitment

Scholars of white nationalism have long identified victimhood narratives as central to that movement's appeal. By portraying white people as under attack or unfairly displaced, these narratives transform social change into a story of persecution and provide a powerful justification for political mobilization.

My research on white nationalism shows how contemporary extremist movements rely less on formal membership and more on decentralized digital spaces. It is there that narratives, grievances and identities are continuously reinforced.

In these environments, major news events like the SPLC indictment become opportunities.
Why this pattern repeats

Extremist movements have long used mainstream controversies as recruitment opportunities.

Participants often interpret external events through narratives of threat, injustice and persecution. In doing so, they transform moments of controversy into evidence that their worldview is correct.

In the 1990s, for instance, the deadly standoffs between federal officers and the Branch Davidians religious sect near Waco, Texas, and survivalist Randy Weaver in Ruby Ridge, Idaho, became foundational persecution narratives for militia and Christian Identity movements. These groups saw the sieges as proof that the federal government was hunting gun owners and religious dissenters.

In online extremist communities, these events can become powerful tools for reinforcing group identity and attracting individuals who are searching for explanations or belonging.

With a real-world legal event like the SPLC indictment, extremists can point to government action as evidence that their worldview is being validated. The result is a narrative that appears responsive to current events, even when the connection is shallow or distorted.
Redirected domestic terrorism policy

Legal scholars have noted that the Justice Department indictment fits within the Trump administration's broader pattern of redirecting domestic terrorism policy away from white supremacist groups.

The Trump White House's 2026 Counterterrorism Strategy does not mention violent far-right groups as a domestic terrorism threat at all.

That context matters for understanding how the SPLC case landed in extremist spaces: not as an isolated fraud allegation but as institutional permission. The indictment has become a symbol before the evidence has been weighed.

In today's fragmented digital media environment, symbols travel faster than facts, especially when they confirm what a radicalized audience already wants to believe. I believe the real danger is not that white supremacists believe the SPLC is guilty. It is that the controversy, whatever its legal outcome, has already done its work.

This article is republished from The Conversation, a nonprofit, independent news organization bringing you facts and trustworthy analysis to help you make sense of our complex world. It was written by: Art Jipson, University of Dayton

S. Carolina Nepotism Brings Ignorance to Senate: Lady Lindsey's Sister Darline Says she's a Rookie

In America, any jackass can become a politician. It's one of those non-elitist lateral democracies that elevate mediocrity, thugness, illiteracy and ignorance to the top. Donald Dumb and Ronald Reagan are the most prominent representatives of dumb idiots who became presidents. 

When Lady Lindsey Graham died some weeks ago, the slavery state of South Carolina appointed his sister Darline (should be pronounced with the heavy disgusting southern accent, like "Daarlieen") to his seat in the Senate in the good old southern tradition of nepotism.

Darling Daarlieen is now admitting she knows nothing of politics but is willing to learn on the job like the great moron Donald Dumb. She says she is "not that informed on national security" and has no problem therefore voting in the Senate on matters she is ignorant of. For a Senator not to know what or where Taiwan or the South China Sea are, at a time when China is about to invade the island, should be concerning. I believe the Union should not have forced those imbecile racists of the south into the Union.

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‘I’ll Learn’: Darline Graham Does Clean-Up On Stunning Debate Answer
Li Zhou
Thu, August 20, 2026


While meeting with voters on Wednesday, Sen. Darline Graham (R-S.C.) attempted to spin her eyebrow-raising answer to a question at the South Carolina Senate debate on Tuesday night.

Graham was asked if Taiwan or the South China Sea was a national security issue for the U.S., and she admitted that she was "not that informed on national security."

At a Wednesday campaign event, one attendee asked Graham if her debate response undermined her credibility since senators would have to cast votes on issues like declaring war. Graham again acknowledged that she was not a "national security expert" like her late brother, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), but said she would work to bolster her understanding of the issues.

Graham also said that the voters she spoke with at the event cited the "price of groceries, the price of gas, rising health care costs," and not Taiwan, among their concerns.

"Is national security important? Absolutely. Can I learn? I'm smart. Yes, I'll learn. I'll become informed," she said.

"President Trump, was he a politician?" Graham asked the crowd. "Has he done a good job?"

Over 5% of Israelis Have Permanently Left the Zionist Colony in Palestine since 2023

Nearly 270,000 Israelis have permanently left the colony over the past three years: 86,500 Israelis in 2023, 91,500 in 2024 and a similar number in 2025.

270,000 over a population of 5 million is 5.4 % of the Jewish population of the Zionist colony in Palestine.

Israel is thus beginning to "decolonize" itself. It thus follows, albeit several decades later, all the other European colonization enterprises that decolonized their "empires" within decades after World War II. It's about time. 
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‘Tsunami’ of emigration reshapes Israel’s future, experts warn
Simon Speakman Cordall
Thu, August 20, 2026 

An increasing number of highly-educated and wealthier Israelis are leaving the country due to concerns over the government's hardline and right-wing policies.

An increasing number of Israelis are leaving the country ahead of critical elections later this year, reversing a trend that has sustained Israel for decades.

A study by the Israeli tax authority published earlier this month builds on a series of reports suggesting that as the Israeli government grows more hardline and right-wing, more typically highly-educated and wealthier Israelis are fleeing a country many claim to no longer recognise.

The study found that emigration was not only higher in 2023 and 2024 than in previous years, but that those who had left were from higher tax brackets.

Many Israelis who self-identify as liberal believe that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government has made the country less secular and weakened the independence of its institutions, particularly the judiciary.

The government's efforts to weaken judicial oversight in 2023 brought tens of thousands of Israelis to the streets to protest what they saw as an attempt to fundamentally alter the nature of their country.

Misgivings over the character of the government among Israel's educated elite were exacerbated by the Hamas-led attack of October 7, 2023, and the response to it, which saw Israel embark on a genocide in Gaza – killing more than 73,000 Palestinians – and war on multiple fronts across the region. While many Israelis may not be opposed to those wars in principle, the open-ended nature of them, and the government's inability to achieve the victories it has claimed it would, has left many feeling trapped in a cycle of continuous conflict.

An August survey by Tel Aviv University was another to find that the scale of emigration from Israel was increasing, with the bulk of those leaving being among the better educated and more prosperous.

Nearly 270,000 Israelis have left the country over the past three years, the Tel Aviv University study found, drawing on Central Bureau of Statistics data. More than 86,500 Israelis left in 2023, followed by about 91,500 in 2024 and a similar number in 2025.

Israel is facing a "tsunami" of emigration, the opposition's Gilad Kariv, the chair of the Israeli parliament's Immigration, Absorption and Diaspora Affairs Committee, warned, which the government was doing nothing to address.

Stigma

Analysts and observers have often described the sense of stigma that accompanies those who leave Israel, as many Israelis, especially those leaning to the right, instinctively assume that immigration to Israel is the natural urge of Jews worldwide.

In the 1970s, then-Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin described Israelis who left the country as "a cascade of wimps", a term picked up by others across all spheres of Israeli politics. Even the terminology of migration carries a clear value judgement: Aliyah, the Hebrew term for Jewish immigration to Israel, means "ascent", while emigrants have traditionally been known as yordim – "those who descend".

Israel's migration balance has tipped into the red before, but only briefly and often in response to short-term financial crises, the Israeli demographer and statistician Sergio Della Pergola said. Other countries, such as Ireland and New Zealand, often also experienced higher outward migration than inward; but for Israel to experience such a high outward flow over a sustained period was alarming, he added.

"This time, it's not clear what role the economy is playing," Della Pergola told Al Jazeera. "Some may be leaving to pursue individual career opportunities, but overwhelmingly, we're seeing people leave from what they regard as a persistent sense of uncertainty over their security and concerns over the country's political direction."

Della Pergola said that the prominence of figures regarded as "extremists" had deepened Israel's political polarisation. He cited National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, who recently called for killing 30-40 Palestinians in Gaza each night, as one example. But he argued that such figures were ultimately instruments of Netanyahu's political strategy rather than independent forces.

"Make no mistake, these are all players in an orchestra conducted by Netanyahu," he said.
Economically vital

Retaining young, educated and liberal people is vital to sustaining the growth that young economies, such as Israel, depend on, Michael Ben-Gad, a professor at City St George's, University of London, said. Ben-Gad referenced concerns voiced decades ago by other economists, such as Dan Ben-David, who warned that Israel's economic, and therefore political, future was reliant upon its ability to innovate and develop.

Yet, as demand for skills in innovation and development has reached unprecedented levels, the Israelis best equipped to provide them are disproportionately represented among those leaving the country, according to a qualitative study by Lilach Lev Ari, an immigration and demography professor at Oranim College in northern Israel.

"The profile is becoming much more defined, particularly among those who immigrate to the United States," Lev Ari said of the recent wave of emigres, compared with those studied in her earlier quantitative research on Israeli emigration. "Increasingly, it's highly educated, high-achieving young families leaving the country – partly, many say, as a consequence of the judicial reforms, the socio-political atmosphere, and the war."

"It's a rising emigration wave that's been going on for almost three years now, and it's one we should be alarmed about," Lev Ari said.

Political economist Shir Hever said that much of the debate has focused on the departure of high-earning, high-profile professionals, such as doctors, while paying too little attention to nurses and other essential staff whose loss could be equally damaging.

The emphasis placed on development and technology, he added, also revealed something more fundamental about the nature of the Israeli state.

"Israeli economists like to say that the survival of the Israeli state is dependent on it retaining its edge in research and development, but why? Why is that the case if it's not true for other states, such as Romania?" he said.

"Maybe it's only true because Israel needs that edge, because it's ultimately a colonising project."

Foreign-Born US Citizens Now in Donald Dumb and ICE-GESTAPO's Crosshairs

It doesn't take much to understand the xenophobia and the racism that are now pervasive throughout US institutions under the convicted criminal felon and pedophile president. He's attacked migrants. He's attacked immigrants. He's attacked H-1B visa holders. He's attacked foreign students. He's targeting the constitution's birthright citizenship. He's been on a campaign targeting Americans of Palestinian, African, Hispanic and Latino backgrounds. And now his ICE-GESTAPO white supremacist gang is making lists of foreign-born citizens and green-card holders. What more can this thug do before people understand that the US is on downward spiral of hatred and Nazi-like governance?
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Probation officers compile lists of ‘foreign-born’ Americans to hand over to ICE
Landon Mion
Thu, August 20, 2026

Canyon County, Idaho, probation officers have compiled lists of foreign-born people for ICE agents without independently verifying their immigration status. They're not even bothered to independently verify whether those identified on the list were US citizens, legal residents (green card holders) or illegal aliens.

In May, a probation officer emailed ICE about a man she would meet the next day for his regular check-in.

"His meeting has not changed and he is expected to be here tomorrow morning at 7:30 a.m.," Norma Naranjo, a senior probation officer for Canyon County's misdemeanor probation department, wrote in a May 13 email to six ICE agents.

The next day, the man arrived for his appointment a few minutes early, and Naranjo contacted the ICE agents again to ask if they would be coming soon.

"He is here. Are you guys on your way?" she wrote.

It was unclear from the heavily redacted emails if ICE agents took the man into custody at his probation appointment.

The list compiled for ICE has been made without confirming that the people in question are in the country illegally. One probation officer said in an email that the names he submitted included everyone in his files who had reported being born outside the United States. Foreign birth alone does not indicate unlawful immigration status; foreign-born people can include naturalized U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents, commonly known as green-card holders.

Immigration attorneys and advocates fear that foreign-born lists could lead to people in the country legally being detained, particularly as ICE agents during the Trump administration detained or caught up U.S. citizens and people with lawful or pending immigration status in immigration enforcement actions. Some lawfully present noncitizens, including green card holders, can also be subject to removal based for any puny reason under federal law.

One immigration attorney said the county's efforts to compile a list of foreign-born people is "an invasion of privacy." "It's one thing to know that someone is "undocumented", it's another thing to just start targeting every single person who was born in another country," the attorney said.

ICE has requested a list of people that could be in the country illegally, typically on an annual basis and across administrations. 

Steve Cushman, director of constituent services for Canyon County, said he did not know exactly when the lists were first requested and provided, but added that it is his understanding that it goes back as far as the Obama administration.

Even though records show ICE requested lists of people believed to be in the country illegally, rather than all foreign-borns, other messages, however, show at least some officers using foreign birthplace as a way to identify people for targeting.

When pressed on whether ICE is concerned that U.S. citizens or others with legal status could be included in the list, officers refer to a previous statement that verifying a person's status "is within the purview of federal authorities", adding, "ICE may still target someone if they think the conviction is a deportable or removal offense even if they have legal status. 

The sheriff's office in Canyon, Idaho, is facing a lawsuit from the ACLU of over allegations that the county and other law-enforcement agencies involved in an October 2025 ICE raid racially profiled Latino attendees and unlawfully detained people at a horse-racing venue. 

Tiny Example of Corporate US Health Insurance Corruption

I get most of my healthcare overseas. Cheaper, better quality and more humane. I recently got an MRI for $150 only. In the US, the average cost of an MRI is $1,325, with prices ranging from $400 to $12,000 depending on various factors, including the corrupt thieves in the health insurance industry.

Below is an example of how the health insurance companies in the US literally rob patients and doctors blind, making the US healthcare system the most expensive, least affordable, and least effective around the world. The woman below would have paid $1,200 out of her own pocket for an MRI or CAT scan while covered by her insurance company which would probably bill the medical facility for another $2,000 (I am guessing). Without insurance, the patient would pay the facility $450 only.

Are Americans idiots to be swindled like that by their health insurance companies and by a government that forces people to go through these corporate scammers? The US continues to refuse to offer its people a government-run health care program because the criminals of the Republican Party want "government out of people's lives". 

There is one such government-run program called Medicare for the retired seniors that was passed by Democrats (1965 by President Lyndon B. Johnson), but Republicans have been fighting ever since. Trump wants to cancel it and force people to go through corporate health insurance scammers like him. President Obama tried to pass a law (known as Obamacare) offering Americans a choice between a government-run program and the scamming corporate programs, but corrupt right-wing politicians like Trump and his republican serfs refused to pass the law.

Because this is how most things function in the US, the people are really hostages to a bunch of corrupt companies that actually run the country from behind the Republican Party criminals who pay the politicians, senators and House members to keep them from fixing the corruption and actually helping the people.

Wouldn't it be more honest for the country to change its name to THE UNITED SCAMS OF AMERICA. It will still be USA but at least without hypocrisy.
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A Woman Called to Cancel Her $1,200 Imaging Appointment — a Hospital Staff Member Told Her to Opt Out of Insurance — the Price Dropped to $480
Reni
Wed, August 19, 2026 



An American patient tried to cancel her imaging appointment after learning it was $1,200 with insurance. However, a medical staff member suggested she opt out of it because then the price would drop to $480. The internet was left stunned by the stark difference in cost.

According to the Daily Dot's findings, the original TikTok video appears to have been removed. But @WallStreetApes shared it on their official X account, sparking heated debates about medical insurance.

The woman from the video explained she was on a call with hospital staff when initially trying to confirm her imaging appointment. After learning the cost with insurance, she realized it was expensive and beyond her budget, so she canceled it.

On hearing her decision, she was put on hold by the representative she was on a call with, and another staff member took over. The other woman told her, "Girl, opt out of your insurance…You don't have to use it."

She was unaware that opting out of medical insurance was an option, but was open to it and asked for an estimate without the medical insurance. When learning that it was $480, she was left entirely speechless and ended the video on a stunned note.
The Patient Tried to Understand the Price Difference and So Did X

The X account that posted the video noted the $720 price difference and called it a "scam" in their review. They claimed to have come across multiple posts with similar circumstances to the woman.

They mentioned that cash pay is often much cheaper than when paying with medical insurance. However, the account also mentioned that she got lucky with being offered the option to opt out.

According to the X user reviewing the video, many places don't usually disclose it. But when offering a patient the chance to pay by cash, medical staff are at risk of losing the contract with the major health insurance company they're in business with.

The account also claimed, without citing legal sources, that such disclosures could expose medical staff to legal consequences. With over 620,000 views as of publication, users expressed similar sentiments as the account and the patient.

Many commenters expressed frustration with American health insurance pricing. One user quoted the account, noting, "US health insurance is out of control, and it's such a scam—(an) expensive scam."

Similarly, another claimed, "It's not just insurance companies, it's the unholy trinity of insurance companies, the AMA (American Medical Association), and pharmaceutical drug companies." [I would add the Republican Party to this creepy criminal alliance.]

This article is based on a video shared by @WallStreetApes on X. The original TikTok video was not publicly available at the time of publication. The Daily Dot could not independently verify the patient's account, the prices shown, or the legal and contractual claims made by @WallStreetApes. Readers should consult a licensed healthcare professional or insurance advisor before making decisions about their coverage.

Florida MAGA-Republican and DeSantis Ally is a Child Sex Abuser

 White, US-born, 67-year-old, MAGA Republican Palm Beach Clerk is a Child Sex Abuser

Wed, August 19, 2026 


Republican Mike Caruso on Nov. 18, 2018, in Palm Beach, Florida. Caruso was arrested on child sex abuse charges on Aug. 18, 2026. Saul Martinez/Getty Images

The moron MAGA-Republican governor of Florida, (Mo)Ron DeSantis, has suspended a MAGA republican ally - Michael Caruso - from his role as Palm Beach County Clerk of the Circuit Court and Comptroller because Caruso was arrested on child sex abuse charges.

Michael Caruso, 67, has been charged with kidnapping; lewd or lascivious molestation; lewd or lascivious exhibition; luring or enticing a child; and child abuse (mental injury). The news comes a year after DeSantis appointed Caruso — who served in the Florida House of Representatives for seven years — to his clerk role in August 2025. Caruso had also just filed paperwork in February to run for reelection this November.

MAGA republicans like DeSantis and Caruso pretend to be devout Christians, Catholic-turned-Evangelicals to be specific, and are behind Donald Trump's scandalous, racist and disastrous policies. As time and events have shown, not a day goes by without one of those white extremist Right-Wing American bigots (who claim to uphold "family values" and accuse Democrats, migrants and immigrants of all sorts of filthy crimes) being caught abusing children, committing adultery, serially divorcing spouses they cheated on, betraying their country, committing financial crimes, attacking the poor and the vulnerable, and conducting themselves in ways unbecoming of a true Christian. Donald Dumb, the Great Evangelical Moron, has been showing them to way to corruption, pedophilia, treason and any other filth you can think of.

In October 2025, the father of the 5-year-old child (the victim of the US-born American White MAGA republican Caruso) saw the child engage in inappropriate behavior with his brother by placing his genitalia on his brother's face. When the father talked to the child, the latter told him that Caruso had orally assaulted him and also showered with him during a cruise in August 2025. The father reported the incident to the police.

The police learned of at least two other instances in which Caruso is accused of sexually abusing the child in 2024 by exposing himself and inappropriately touching the child's genitals, the document also stated.

The boy's father approached Caruso and his wife a few times, and recorded one of the conversations with Caruso in February 2026 at the request of law enforcement. Caruso stated, "If you report this to the authorities there won't be any of me left, I can tell you that."

The attorney for the child, Lisa Haba, called Caruso's arrest Tuesday "a decisive line in the sand." "When someone targets a child, they don't just break the law — they shatter a community's trust," Haba said in a statement. "We intend to make sure this survivor's voice is heard through every step of this process."

Separately, Haba also condemned DeSantis's office for releasing identifying information about the child, which may be seen as a De Santis's effort to intimidate the family of the victim by breaching their right to privacy.

"Child sex abuse victims should never have identifying details about them released, and it is abhorrent that the child victim in connection with the arrest of Michael Caruso has been subjected to this breach. This is a clear violation of Marsy's Law and has shattered the child's privacy," Haba said in a statement.

"I call on all media outlets to immediately redact identifying details of this child victim in connection with this case. I urge all government officials to redact identifying details of this child in official documents and commit to strengthen their policies to protect child victims in the future," she continued.

In his executive order, DeSantis finally decreed that Caruso was "hereby prohibited from performing any official act, duty, or function of public office; from receiving any pay or allowance; and from being entitled to any of the emoluments or privileges of public office during the period of this suspension, which period shall be from the effective date hereof until a further executive order is issued, or as otherwise provided by law."

"If he's convicted, he is going to be in for a world of hurt," DeSantis said, lauding the state of Florida for bringing back the death penalty for crimes involving pedophilia. DeSantis claimed he was previously unaware of Caruso's sexual deviancy when he appointed him last year, which is not true because Caruso has faced at least one previous allegation of sexually abusing a child. In divorce proceedings in 2013, he said his now-ex-wife, Beverly Caruso, brought a child sex abuse charge against him.

DeSantis and Caruso were elected the same year. Despite suspicions around Caruso's sexual deviancy, DeSantis referred to him as a "legend" for voting in alignment with him. Caruso's current wife, Tracy Stein Caruso, is also a DeSantis appointee. She is a board member of the Health Care District of Palm Beach County and county chair of the Housing and Finance Authority.

According to The Miami Herald, Michael Caruso was also a Little League baseball coach for 30 years and a Boy Scouts volunteer for eight years, which placed him in close [proximity to potential child victims. As this republican beast has now been exposed for what he is, additional child sex abuse accusations are likely to emerge. 

How Democrats Plan to Give The Great American Moron Nightmares Post-2026 Midterms

Watch out, GOP-Republican slaves of the Great Moron. Some of you will sink with him. 

Here’s what Trump really has to worry about if Congress flips in the midterm elections
John Bowden
Tue, August 18, 2026 


[The Great American Moron]

If Democrats regain control of Congress, they plan to launch investigations into Donald Trump, his family's financial dealings, pardons issued, and handling of the Epstein case.

Donald Trump has told voters his greatest fear: Should Democrats return to power in both chambers of Congress next year, he'll face a third impeachment effort, watch Democrats pack the Supreme Court and see his enemies end the legislative filibuster.

What prominent Democrats on the Hill are promising, however, is something more akin to a death by a thousand cuts, as the constraints of Congress close around him.

November's midterms are increasingly looking like they'll result in the worst possible outcome for Republicans: The destruction of two congressional majorities, including a hard-fought Senate majority that the GOP won with a crushing victory in the 2024 election cycle and election analysts, at the time, warned could require a multi-cycle effort by Democrats to undo. The 2026 map shifted quickly under Republicans' feet, however, driven by retirements, the interference of the president, and the recruitment of formidable Democratic candidates in red-purple states like Texas and Alaska.

Just listen to Sen. Jim Justice, a conservative Republican, who warned his party in comments to reporters this week that the ongoing war with Iran was doing more damage to Republicans than they realized.

"This situation in Iran is causing repercussions like you can't imagine," Justice told reporters on Monday, according to Punchbowl News. He added that his party was "scared to death about the midterms".

Donald Trump, his family, and his allies are all likely to be the targets of congressional investigations if Democrats retake one or both majorities in Congress (Reuters)

But while the president warns of the expansion of a massive progressive effort to reshape government if his party loses, Democrats on key committees say that there are better ways to rein in Trump's more radical urges while still leaving open the possibility of taking positive action to reverse some of the reshaping that has already occurred, thanks to the efforts of Elon Musk's DOGE and the Trumpification of the Department of Justice.

Rep. Grace Meng, a New York congresswoman and the senior Democrat on the Justice subcommittee of the powerful Appropriations panel, told The Independent that under a Democratic speaker, her committee and the chamber's Oversight panel would work together to halt efforts like the planned DoJ "anti-weaponization" fund, and the use of the Justice Department as the president's personal "criminal defense firm".

"Oversight and appropriations go hand in hand," said Meng. "The process on the appropriations committee is not the most exciting necessarily, but we've been able to hold them accountable, and sometimes with our bipartisan Republican House colleagues."

Meng said that the Appropriations process could be used to re-establish oversight on many parts of the administration which saw those guardrails eroded or removed over the course of 2025 and early 2026.

Rep. Grace Meng said that Democrats can use the appropriations process to rein in Donald Trump (Getty)

"We will, for example, make sure that we are ramping up oversight for agencies like ICE," said the congresswoman. "It's not my subcommittee, but it's also part of the appropriations process."

"There are a lot of ways, not necessarily the most sexy ways and the most exciting, but this is an effective way that we can hold them accountable."

And the congresswoman predicted that Republicans would show more of an appetite to work with Democrats come January, especially if the president's approval ratings continue to slide, including among GOP voters. She cautioned, however, that GOP support, like the bipartisan opposition that emerged against the anti-weaponization fund, came with an asterisk attached.

"I think it depends on, quite frankly, the way that let's say an amendment or a rider is written," said Meng. "Like the language that we use, so that it's not something that sounds like it's only targeting President Trump, but that would apply to all presidents in the future."

On the issue of the actual investigations Democrats plan to launch, the list of targets is long.

Among the most prominent are the Trump family's crypto schemes and the other lucrative financial dealings that caused his family's net worth to explode in 2025, the pardons issued by Trump after he took office for a second time, and the Trump administration's handling of the Epstein case — including the transfer of Ghislaine Maxwell to a lower-security facility around the time she spoke with Todd Blanche, the new attorney general. Plenty of other potential targets could follow.

Democrats are still working to prevent Trump and Todd Blanche, his "personal" attorney general, from implementing a fund that could benefit January 6 rioters (AFP/Getty)

Jamie Raskin, a Maryland Democrat, served on the Oversight panel during Trump's first term and is now set to clash with Blanche on the Judiciary panel (Reuters)

Democrats will likely find the Justice Department unwilling to enforce subpoenas they issue for administration officials or Trumpworld allies, but at the same time the White House and broader administration are unlikely to abandon the Hill entirely.

Meng and Rep. Jamie Raskin, a Maryland Democrat serving as ranking member on the Judiciary Committee, both pointed to the firings of Trump Cabinet officials after appearances in congressional hearings as proof that their party could conduct effective oversight of the administration even if the DoJ wasn't, as Meng put it, a "willing partner". Raskin, who formerly served on the Oversight panel during Trump 1.0, is now one of the leading Democratic voices in the House against the potential DoJ fund to reward January 6 rioters.

"Even in the minority, we have been playing offense against the Administration on a daily basis. The House Judiciary Committee has conducted oversight hearings with two cabinet secretaries—Attorney General Bondi and Secretary Noem. Both were fired shortly after Judiciary Committee Democrats powerfully exposed and condemned the corruption and lawlessness pervading the work of these two cabinet officials," Raskin told The Independent in an emailed statement.

"Our efforts in this Congress will continue and expand next Congress. We already have a strong team of investigators and experienced counsel engaged in this work, and that capacity will expand significantly in the Majority."

How the Charade of Passe-Partout Antisemitism is used for Political and Financial Gain

All-purpose antisemitism now needs whistleblowers to denounce the Omerta. Some whistleblowers are Jews, including German Jewish leader Josef Schuster (pictured below), who characterized Israel's Right-Wing Terrorist Chief Itamar Ben-Gvir's conduct as "deeply shameful and irresponsible." 

Schuster might just as well accuse Ben-Gvir of Antisemitism (Palestinians are Semites) following Ben-Gvir's threats against Palestinians, "I think that targeted killings should be carried out in Gaza, removing 30, 40 people every night." Schuster commented that "these were statements that showed contempt for human life. They stood "diametrically opposed to Jewish values and damage Israel's reputation. I explicitly distance myself from Itamar Ben-Gvir."

Now you know why antisemitism against Jews is increasing. Zionists have insisted that Jew=Zionist=Israeli and that no one should criticize Israel for any reason whatsoever. Since according to Zionists, there is no distinction between a Jew, an Israeli and a Zionist, one cannot criticize Israel without being accused of antisemitism. If Zionists are perpetrating genocide and ethnic cleansing in Palestine, according to most of the rest of the world, then they are guilty of promoting antisemitism around the world. 

Schuster just explicitly attributed rising antisemitism to Israel's genocidal racist conduct in Palestine, and Zionists should divorce themselves from the Jewish people because they are jeopardizing the safety of Jews everywhere. 

Whistleblower alleges political pressure, lack of evidence in antisemitism probes targeting schools
ERIC TUCKER and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER
Updated Tue, August 18, 2026 


FILE - People take photos near a John Harvard statue, left, on the Harvard University campus, Jan. 2, 2024, in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Trump administration task force created to combat antisemitism pushed for settlements with Ivy League universities despite government investigations that were rushed and incomplete or that failed to establish legal violations by the schools, a former Justice Department lawyer alleged in a whistleblower disclosure obtained by The Associated Press.

The complaint alleges that the investigations into some of the nation's most prestigious academic institutions were designed to strong-arm the schools into cutting deals for political purposes. Outcomes of the investigations were "predetermined, without regard to the evidence" in a "politically mandated effort" to extract money from schools through settlement demands and funding freezes under the pretext of rooting out antisemitism, the complaint alleges.

The work of the multi-agency task force, launched by the Justice Department under then-Attorney General Pam Bondi in February 2025, was "marked by extraordinary procedural irregularities, predetermined outcomes without factual or legal support" and disregard for the law and Constitution, lawyers for the former government attorney wrote in seeking watchdog investigations into their client's complaints.

The complaint taps into a broader public discussion about the administration's efforts to confront allegations of antisemitism at colleges, a problem that received renewed attention during campus protests over Israel's war in Gaza that some Jewish students said made them feel unsafe. President Donald Trump returned to the White House with a goal of rooting out antisemitism that he said had gone unchecked during the Biden administration, but critics have called his government's response heavy-handed and said it infringed on free speech rights and coerced concessions from public institutions.

A key House Democrat is publicizing the whistleblower's allegations

Lawyers for the former Justice Department attorney, identified as Haley Van Erem, filed the disclosure Tuesday with the inspectors general at the departments of Justice and Health and Human Services and the Office of Special Counsel.

Van Erem spent nearly a decade working in the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division before being assigned to help with the task force last year.

She left the Justice Department in May 2025 because she was "unwilling to be made vulnerable to further participation in politically motivated investigations unsupported by facts and contrary to law," according to the complaint, which also accuses the task force of having targeted Muslim professors.

Spokespeople for the Justice Department and Health and Human Services Department did not immediately respond to requests seeking comment Tuesday.

Rep. Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, wrote separately to Harmeet Dhillon, who as the assistant attorney general in charge of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division has been a public face of the department's efforts to counter antisemitism. In his letter, he said antisemitism at colleges and medical schools is a real problem that needs to be investigated.

"But," he told Dhillon, "your 'investigation' into antisemitism was fake, a pre-baked frame-up operation thoroughly political in nature."

Raskin wrote that "the whole project was designed to harass professors and administrators at major universities, to curtail their freedom of speech and academic freedom, and to strip targeted institutions of hundreds of millions of dollars in grants that they had already been awarded on the merits of their applications."

Scrutiny over the handling of investigations into elite schools

The whistleblower complaint deals chiefly with investigations into three Ivy League universities: Brown, Harvard and Columbia.

It alleges that in the case of Brown, the investigative team did not find evidence to support a violation of Title VI, the section of the Civil Rights Act that bars discrimination on the basis of race, color or national origin in programs that receive federal funding, but that "leadership refused to permit a notice of no violation and instead sought some form of settlement or resolution despite acknowledging the absence of a legal basis for doing so."

Investigators did find evidence of discrimination at Columbia, the complaint says, but the investigation was done on an accelerated timetable before adequate factual development and legal review were completed and relied on allegations that "were unsupported, based on news reports or litigation filings, or that implicated protected First Amendment activity."

Columbia University agreed to pay the government $200 million as part of an agreement restoring access to federal funding. Brown University separately agreed to pay $50 million to Rhode Island workforce development organizations to end the three federal investigations involving allegations of antisemitism and racial bias in admissions, with no findings of wrongdoing.

In the investigation into Harvard, Trump administration officials discussed "extraordinary funding freezes and sweeping proposed settlement terms" before an investigation had been completed that could establish Title VI violations. Sean Keveney, then-HHS acting general counsel, said he believed Harvard would settle because they were "over a barrel," according to the complaint.

A federal judge last year ordered the Trump administration to reverse its cuts of more than $2.6 billion in research funding for the university, saying the government "used antisemitism as a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this country's premier universities." And a different judge last week dismissed a Trump administration lawsuit that accused Harvard University of turning a blind eye to harassment of Jewish students.