US Facing Worse Financial Crisis Than 2008

 

Peter Schiff Predicts 'Worse Financial Crisis Than 2008' As Fed Holds Rates: 'The Solution Involves Much Higher Interest Rates' As Years of Easy Money Trigger Stagflation And Investor Exodus

Tanya Rawat
Fri, June 20, 2025


Peter Schiff Predicts 'Worse Financial Crisis Than 2008' As Fed Holds Rates: 'The Solution Involves Much Higher Interest Rates' As Years of Easy Money Trigger Stagflation And Investor Exodus

Economist Peter Schiff issued warnings about America’s economic trajectory during Wednesday’s Federal Reserve meeting, predicting the central bank’s decade-long policies will trigger an unavoidable crisis worse than 2008.

What Happened: The Federal Open Market Committee kept interest rates unchanged at 4.25%-4.50% for the fourth consecutive meeting, while projecting two rate cuts in 2025. However, Schiff told Fox Business that Fed Chair Jerome Powell “basically admitted that they have no idea what’s going to happen.”

The Fed’s updated projections show Personal Consumption Expenditures inflation rising to 3.0% in 2025, up from March’s 2.7% forecast, while real GDP growth was downgraded to 1.4% from 1.7%. Unemployment is expected to reach 4.5% in 2025.

Schiff argued these forecasts dramatically underestimate the severity of coming problems. “All of the inflation chickens that the Fed has been releasing for more than a decade are coming home to roost,” he said, attributing inflation pressures to years of artificially low rates rather than tariffs.

The economist predicted stagflation, combining recession with “much higher inflation happening at the same time,” potentially escalating to hyperinflation. He warned of a “global exodus out of U.S. stocks, out of U.S. bonds” as foreign investors retreat from American assets.

Why It Matters: Schiff’s warnings align with growing economic concerns about America’s economic foundations. Nobel laureate Paul Krugman recently warned of an “emerging-market-type crisis” featuring sudden capital flight, housing crashes, and dollar devaluation.

Concerns about America’s fiscal sustainability are mounting across Wall Street. Tesla Inc. CEO Elon Musk recently warned the U.S. faces “de facto bankruptcy” as federal debt surpasses $37 trillion, with interest payments consuming 25% of tax revenue. JPMorgan Chase & Co. CEO Jamie Dimon has warned of potential bond market disruption.

The economist insisted that lower rates won’t solve America’s problems because cheap money caused them. “The solution involves much higher interest rates,” Schiff said, acknowledging this would trigger widespread bankruptcies, defaults, and “a protracted recession, probably a much worse financial crisis than 2008.”

After Tesla's Ugly Robot-Taxi Disasters, it's Space X Crappy Rockets Exploding

... before lift-off, also known as "pre-launch rapid unscheduled disassembly. It now seems that the entire Musk construct of Mars colonization was merely a series of Ketamine-triggered hallucinations backed by a good dose of MAGA moronism.

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Latest Starship Explosion Drastically Decreases SpaceX's Chances of Reaching Mars Without Having to Wait Years
Sharon Adarlo
Fri, June 20, 2025



With tech billionaire Elon Musk out of the White House after his disastrous turn as a bureaucrat, he can now focus on more pressing subjects — such as his SpaceX Starship rockets that keep on exploding into fiery columns of fire, with the latest dramatic failure this past Wednesday in Texas, when the massive spacecraft hadn't even left the ground yet.

This recent setback ratchets up the pressure on Musk even further, who faces a hard deadline and steep technical challenges in his vaunted goal to reach Mars.

Much of that deadline is self-imposed, as CNN points out in an excoriating new breakdown of the situation. In May, Musk said he plans to send an unmanned crew to Mars next year, but the latest blast — the latest in a string of similar explosions that have plagued Starship — seem almost certain to set him back enough to force SpaceX to miss a crucial celestial launch opportunity called a transfer window.

Depending on the position of Earth and Mars from one another, the distance between the two planets can vary from 35 million to over 200 million miles. To make the journey shorter and to save cost on fuel, explorers must time their rocket launch during the transfer window, a period when Mars and Earth are in an optimal alignment that minimizes the journey's length.

The next transfer window for Mars is in late 2026 and will only last for a few weeks; miss it, and the journey will be way more expensive and far longer to be practical.

To still make the deadline, Musk faces the extraordinary challenge of fixing any technical challenges with Starship and present an upgraded version of the vehicle and the Super Heavy rocket booster in time before the Mars transfer window next year.

In addition, SpaceX has to figure out how to fuel Starship, which needs to be topped off with propellant in orbit before making its journey to the red planet. This would involve launching numerous Starships into space and using them to fuel up the one headed to the Red Planet — a process that will pose a spectacular logistical challenge of its own.

"We’ve never done that," Bruce Jakosky, professor emeritus of geological sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder, told CNN. "Nobody’s done that — transferring fuel from one spacecraft to another in orbit autonomously."

Another technical challenge SpaceX needs to solve is Starship's heat shield, which has to survive entry into Mar's atmosphere and the journey back to Earth. Back in May, Musk himself conceded that it posed "one of the toughest problems to solve."

And all that is without getting into the technical feasibility of human flight to Mars, including how to shield any crew from cosmic radiation.

Before any of that, of course, Starship needs to stop exploding.

Fuchs News: Massive identity theft scheme led by US-Born White Americans

Federal Authorities have uncovered a massive identity theft scheme led by a Kentucky-based criminal white gang affiliated with the KKK.

According to the ATF statement, about 15 white US-born Americans working at Home Depot were discovered to be using stolen Social Security numbers and identities obtained from the cash register of the store to rob their victims of their bank savings.

Working with other federal and state partners, ATF agents conducted a major workplace raid at a Home Depot in Louisville, KY earlier this month. The raid resulted in the arrest of 15 Home Depot employees, all white and US-born.

While the arrests have sparked outrage from some in the local community where the criminal lived, the ATF said this identity theft scheme proves that US-born white Americans are not as innocent as the Trump MAGA world want us to believe, and that the vast majority of crimes in the US are caused by white US-born Americans and not by immigrants as the racist Trump xenophobes continue to suggest.

Some of those arrested have close ties with white supremacist organizations like the KKK whose fortunes have recently improved with the arrival of Donald Trump to power and his "normalizing" of hatred and racism by white Americans against dark-skinned Americans and immigrants.

The investigation into the identity theft scheme is still ongoing and that the exact number of individuals impacted is still unknown. The ATF has said that a majority of the victims appear to be Home Depot customers with "Hispanic-sounding" names. For example, a disabled person by the last name of Hernandez, who is unable to work and has been struggling to get their Social Security disability payments because Trump's DOGE has placed restrictions on social security benefits, is one of the victims of the identity theft.

Another victim received a notice from the IRS to repay more than $15,000 after their income was falsely increased due to the  white Home Depot criminals using his identity.

Many are wondering why the Trump administration is focused on harassing and deporting duly employed tax-paying immigrants of Hispanic backgrounds, while white criminals are running free to upend lives. The answer is simple: Trump is a racist SOB who has freed the criminal white supremacist cockroaches from the sewers of American and is defending them and helping their cause by trying to reduce the numbers of dark-and-brown-skinned Americans.

 

 

 

Record High Heat Wave in the US: It's Joe Biden's Fault

Tongue in cheek: If Donald Dumb had been president over the past 30 years, none of this so-called climate change would have happened. But because it happened under Obama and Biden, it's their fault.

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Record high temperatures in the current heat wave will bake the central and eastern U.S., through much of next week.

Salt Lake City registered 104 degrees Fargenheit (40ْ C), its first high this season.

The National Weather Service, which Trump and Musk have winnowed down, has issued extreme heat watches, warnings and heat advisories for large swaths of the central and eastern U.S..

The heat will travel from west to east: Plains and upper Mississippi Valley through Sunday while the rest of Mississippi Valley could be hit through much of next week, extending through the eastern parts of the midwest, the mid-Atlantic and Appalachia. Finally in the northeast, the heat will reach it Sunday with relief in New England by Wednesday. .

Sunday through Tuesday, some locations could hit or top 100 degrees during the heat wave, including Denver Friday and Saturday, which only happens twice a year on average. Boston, New York City, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. could near the century mark during the peak of the heat wave. Some locations could do so multiple days during the heat wave.

Brutal humidity will accompany the heat wave, particularly in the Mississippi and Ohio Valleys, and parts of the mid-Atlantic and Northeast.

But relax: Donald Dumb and RFK Jr. are working on it. According to their quantum physics computations, the trajectory and intensity of the heat wave could be altered by standing naked on the Mar-al-Lago's golf course while humming "Born in the USA", praying to the goddess Vodou Loa of Hawaii and snacking on the newly marketed "Trumpamins" supplement pills which consist of OEM Made-in-China vitamins blessed by Donald Dumb himself.

Making up "Antisemitic" Attacks is Easy without AI; Mediocre Intelligence Suffices

What better way to stir up anti-Palestinian sentiment? Claim being a victim of  imagined attacks. The poor "victim" of this attack is a GOP-MAGA Jewish lawmaker who called his hypothetical attacker a "deranged" man who appears to be a great multi-tasker: He was simultaneously driving, honking his horn, waving a Palestinian flag, lobbing death threats (by screaming from his car window? or with written banners?), and attempting to run the MAGA moron off the road, while saying "death to Israel", etc. In other words, this "attack" has all the pillar ingredinets of Zionist propaganda. It's a lot to do while driving....and allegedly chasing the victim's car at what is presumed to be high speed.

All of this and Miller did not record the incident on his cell phone? That was a standard lie before cell phones: Police or any official person could impugn anyone they didn't like with a crime without any evidence. That is, rapes committed by white people in the savage southern states were immediately attributed to black folks, followed by a fair lynching! Racist police would harass Black drivers and often kill them, then claim they were refusing to "cooperate". Makes sense: Black people are horrifying rapist subhumans, and white people are their sweet and meek angelic victims.

Now with cell phones, it is expected that the self-declared victim or a companion or a bystander would have taped the incident to support the claim. Didn't the GOP-MAGA moron below have someone with him in the car? The "attacker" did so many things that should have allowed the "victim" to film some of the attack. 

But in the Zionist propaganda "How to" manual, there is no better way than this sort of Quixotic battles between good and evil to continue drilling in the vacuous skulls of the larger American public stories about Israel the Victim and Palestine the Terrorist. I probably repeat myself by saying that Israel is the only colonizer in the history of mankind that claims to be the victim of, and require defense against, its own colonized victims. 

It's not new: When the nomadic Hebrews (whose fake descendancy is claimed by the modern new Eastern and Central European converts to Judaism) arrived to colonize Canaanite Palestine some 3,000 years ago, they butchered the indigenous Canaanite Palestinians under orders of God-Yahweh who specifically told them to kill every man, woman, child and beast. 

According to https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-occupation-of-canaan-1250-1050-bce, the Canaanite Palestinians were a Semitic people speaking a language remarkably close to Hebrew, they were already sedentarized in villages, towns and urban centers, and were very civilized. Like their brethren Canaanite Phoenicians (Lebanese) to the north, they blended their own civilization with those of their on-off conquerors and occupiers, the Mesopotamian and Egyptian civilizations. 

The Hebrews, on the other hand, were uncivilized, tribal, and nomadic, according to the jewishvirtuallibrary.org site. The torah-old testament occasionally says interesting things, while the rest of it is pure self-ingratiating garbage from the Bronze Age: the Hebrews didn't know how to build houses. They lived in stinking tents and even had the arch of the covenant housed in a tent. Which prompted Kings Solomon and David to beg the Phoenician King Hiram of the Lebanese city of Tyre to build them houses and a temple for Yahweh. Hiram obliged, sent masons and cedar wood from the Lebanese mountains, and built royal houses and the Hebrew Temple modeled on the Phoenician Temple of Melkart, supreme god of the powerful city of Tyre.


GOP congressman says he was run off the road by ‘deranged man’ on the way to work

The hero-victim of the above alleged incident, Ohio MAGA Representative Max Miller, said he was run off the road by a “deranged man” who waved a Palestinian flag in his direction and lobbed death threats at him and his family. In a video posted to social platform X, Miller pledged to hold the individual involved accountable, saying, “I will not hide in the face of this blatant antisemitic violence.” How brave!

“As I was driving to work, some unhinged, deranged man decided to lay on his horn and run me off the road, when he couldn’t get my attention, to show me a Palestinian flag, not to mention death to Israel, death to me — that he wanted to kill me and my family,” Miller said in the video. Unfortunately, the Ohio lawmaker could not specify whether the death threats were made verbally or otherwise.

Apparently Miller identified the individual: “We know who you are, young man, and the police are going to be paying you a visit, and I hope what you did this morning is worth it to you and anyone else who plans on doing this to anybody within our district, state or country,” he added.

When people make up stories like that, cracks immediately appear in their narrative. Rocky River Police Department said that Miller called the station Thursday morning to “report a road rage incident”, but came to the station later at 2 p.m. EDT to give a written statement. Apparently the congressman did not want to wait to speak with officers in the morning. No information was provided as to how the congressman was able to identify the "young man" attacker: Did he take his car plate number? Did he take a photo? 

Regardless of whether this story is true or not, the damage is already done: The drill has been done, as it is repeatedly done day and night to make sure that Americans don't escape the dual mental prison of: Jews are victims and Arabs are terrorists. It's like a vaccine: Once you're jabbed with the fake information, you are given tiny puny booster reminders to prevent you, the patient, the subject, from recovering. You remain sedated by the continuous drilling so you can't escape the mental juggernaut. It's like a Pavlovian reflex training: Once trained, all you need is a fake reminder to stir up the desired response.

In Saudi Arabia, Trump-like Tyrants Long Had Power Without Elections

Trump must be jealous of MBS... Saudi Journalist dead "intact" by Tweet: no dismemberment with a  chainsaw. I see now why millions of western tourists will be "dying" to flock to the Wahhabi Kingdom by 2030.
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A Saudi journalist tweeted against the government – and was executed for ‘high treason’
Stephanie Kirchgaessner
Wed, June 18, 2025





Turki al-Jasser, a Saudi journalist executed by the Saudi Arabian government on Saturday.Photograph: Twitter/X

The tweet posted by Saudi journalist Turki al-Jasser in 2014 was chillingly prescient: “The Arab writer can be easily killed by their government under the pretext of ‘national security’,” he wrote.

On Saturday, the Saudi interior ministry announced that al-Jasser had been executed in Riyadh, for crimes including “high treason by communicating with and conspiring against the security of the Kingdom with individuals outside it”.

Al-Jasser is believed to have been in his 40s and the execution – which in most cases in Saudi is carried out by beheading with a sword – followed seven years of detention. Dissidents who spoke to the Guardian alleged he was subjected to torture during his imprisonment.

It was the first high-profile killing of a journalist by the Saudi state since the 2018 murder of Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post columnist and prominent critic of the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, who was lured into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul and murdered by Saudi agents. A UN report concluded that the murder was an extrajudicial killing by the state, and an intelligence assessment released by then president Joe Biden in 2021 concluded that Prince Mohammed approved the murder.

But the circumstances around that murder and al-Jasser’s killing, and the international response to it, are markedly different. Most dissidents and experts who followed al-Jasser’s case say he was probably detained by Saudi authorities in 2018 after being identified as the writer behind a popular anonymous Twitter account that accused the Saudi royal family of corruption and human rights abuses.

In public, al-Jasser was the founder of the news blog Al-Mashhad Al-Saudi (The Saudi Scene), which press freedom group Reporters Without Borders said regularly addressed topics such as women’s rights and Palestine. But it was the account on what was then known as Twitter (and now as X) that is believed to have riled Saudi authorities and led to his arrest during a broader crackdown on dissent.

“Turki had two Twitter accounts. While he was vocal using his real name, he was even more satirical and vocal with the other account, which was in the crosshairs of the Saudi government,” says Abdullah Alaoudh, senior director for countering authoritarianism at Middle East Democracy Center. “The government assumed his and other anonymous Twitter accounts were part of a coordinated effort and delusional conspiracy to topple the Saudi government.”

The Saudi government gained access to the real identities and IP addresses behind thousands of anonymous Twitter accounts following Saudi agents’ infiltration of the company in 2014-2015. The Department of Justice charged two former Twitter employees and a Saudi national in the plot. Ahmad Abouammo was found guilty by a federal jury of fraud, conspiracy, acting as a foreign agent for bribes, and conveying user information to the kingdom on behalf of the royal family. At the time, assistant attorney general Matthew Olsen of the justice department’s national security division, said the guilty verdict showed the justice department would hold accountable anyone who aids “hostile regimes in extending their reach to our shores”. Two other indicted men fled to Saudi Arabia before they could be arrested.

A Twitter spokesperson said in 2021 that it acted swiftly at the time of the incident when it learned there were malicious actors accessing Twitter user data. That view has been challenged by the family of another man who was arrested after the Twitter breach, who believe the social media platform is at least partly responsible for dissidents’ arrests.

Abdulrahman al-Sadhan, a former aid worker, was arrested in 2018 and sentenced three years later to 20 years in prison and a 20-year travel ban. He is alleged to have maintained an anonymous account that mocked the kingdom’s leaders.

“They broke his hand, smashed his fingers, saying this is the hand you tweet with,” Areej al-Sadhan told CBS News in a 2023 interview. “They tortured him with electric shocks, beating and sleep deprivation.”

Reporters Without Borders said al-Jasser was the first journalist to be sentenced to death and executed in Saudi under the rule of Mohammed bin Salman, and the second in the world since 2020, when the Amadnews director, Ruhollah Zam, was put to death in Iran.

The state department did not respond to a request for comment.

When the Saudi crown prince was asked by Fox News’s Brett Baier in 2023 about a case in which a Saudi court sentenced a man – Mohammed bin Nasser al-Ghamdi – to death for posts on X and his YouTube activity, Prince Mohammed blamed “laws” in the kingdom and said he was doing his best to “change them”.

“Do we have bad laws? Yes. We are changing that, yes,” he said. Asked whether al-Ghamdi would ultimately be killed Prince Mohammed said: “I’m hoping that in the next phase of trials, the judge there is more experienced, and they might look at it totally different.”

Al-Ghamdi’s death sentence was later commuted.

Legal scholars have pointed out that the crown prince could legally have intervened in al-Jasser’s own execution. Under Saudi law the crown prince or the king must approve every execution.

The Saudi government has been approached for comment.

“With Jasser’s execution, Mohammed bin Salman has once again shown us that he remains a vindictive, thin-skinned tyrant who kills people who criticize him,” said Sarah Leah Whitson, executive director of Dawn, a pro-democracy group founded by Khashoggi.

“He has weaponized the Saudi judiciary to prosecute and execute a Saudi man under the country’s bogus counter-terrorism law exclusively because of his critical commentary about the country on social media. Western governments are eager to pretend that MBS has morphed into some kind of reputable statesman, but it’s hard to reform a sociopathic autocrat with zero domestic guardrails.”

This article was amended on 18 June 2025 to clarify that the US intelligence assessment of the killing of Jamal Khashoggi was released by Joe Biden in 2021, not in 2020, as we originally said.

Trump's Rape of US Economy is so Violent that Jerome Powell is Out of Ideas

Trump Slams Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell Ahead Of Interest Rate Decision as ‘Stupid’

Top economist warns America is heading toward economic disaster the Fed can't fix
Aislinn Murphy
Thu, June 19, 2025

Euro Pacific Asset Management Chief Economist Peter Schiff voiced some criticism of the Federal Reserve and sounded the alarm about the economy during an appearance Wednesday on "The Claman Countdown."

Schiff’s comments on the show came not long after the Federal Open Markets Committee (FOMC) wrapped up its latest meeting in the afternoon, electing to keep the central bank’s benchmark interest rate at its current level.

Federal Reserve Chain Jerome Powell subsequently gave remarks to the media about the decision.

Schiff told host Liz Claman the "biggest takeaway is that Powell basically admitted that they have no idea what’s going to happen."


Economics and political commentator Peter Schiff

"They don’t really know what’s going to happen to consumer prices. They don’t know what’s going to happen to employment," Schiff argued. "I don’t even think their forecasts are educated guesses so much as wishful thinking."

The benchmark federal funds rate will stay at a current range of 4.25% to 4.5% after the Fed’s latest decision.

FOMC policymakers also released a summary of economic projections, known as the so-called "dot plot," which showed members anticipate two interest rate cuts in 2025, followed by one cut each in 2026 and 2027.

Jerome Powell, chairman of the Federal Reserve, during a news conference after a Federal Open Market Committee meeting in Washington, D.C., Nov. 7, 2024.

They also project PCE inflation will rise to 3% this year before declining to 2.4% in 2026 and 2.1% the following year. Real gross domestic product (GDP) is seen as slowing to 1.4% in 2025 before growth picks up to 1.6% next year and 1.8% in 2027. Unemployment is seen as rising to 4.5% in 2025 and 2026, before dipping to 4.4% in 2027.

Schiff said he thought inflation will be "a lot higher" than the Fed expects and that the U.S. economy will be "a lot weaker."

He acknowledged the Fed "brought their inflation forecast up a bit" for the near-term and "their growth forecast down" but added that such changes weren’t "big enough."

According to Schiff, the "big problem" for inflation is "all of the inflation chickens that the Fed has been releasing for more than a decade are coming home to roost" rather than the Trump administration’s recent spate of tariffs on imports from foreign countries.

"We have a lot of dollars sloshing around the world thanks to years and years of artificially low interest rates and quantitative easing, and more of those dollars are going to be coming home as foreigners get out of U.S. financial asset," Schiff told Claman.

"You’re seeing a global exodus out of U.S. stocks, out of U.S. bonds, and all that cash is going to come back home, bidding up prices."

Schiff predicted the U.S. will experience stagflation "with a recession and much higher inflation happening at the same time, really complicating the defense ability to try to do something about either problem."

Lower interest rates will not help the U.S. economy, he also argued, labeling them as the "cause."

"The solution involves much higher interest rates," he said. "Now, I understand that’s going to be very painful, given the economy that we’ve created, built on a foundation of cheap money."

"It means stock prices come down, real estate prices go down, companies fail," he added. "There’s going to be bankruptcies. There’s going to be defaults. There’s going to be a protracted recession, probably a much worse financial crisis than 2008, but all that has to happen because the alternative to that is even worse."

The U.S. is on the path to "runaway inflation" that could become "hyperinflation," Schiff predicted.

The latest meeting of the FOMC was the fourth time it has gotten together this year.

The FOMC also chose not to change the rate at the three previous meetings in January, March and May.

The Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve building in Washington, D.C., June 25, 2024.

In late May, the personal consumption expenditures Index showed a 0.1% month-over-month and a 2.1% year-over-year increase in inflation for April.

Eric Revell contributed to this report.

Well, My Parents Came Here Legally!

Keep your heads down, don't challenge the status quo, and white America will tolerate you. You should be grateful that the whites of this country - who arrived as illegal migrants and violently stole the land from its rightful owners - let you into this country. You're here NOT to be free; you're here to work your ass out to improve the decaying American dream. And because you're somewhat "white", you are white America's most favorite foreign "race". 

But deep down, we'll never consider you "real Americans". You will always be foreigners, with or without a US passport, whether you're born in Shanghai or in San Francisco. Remember that in 1882, we passed the Chinese Exclusion Act, because after we used you and abused you to build America's railroads, we got tired of you and your disgusting Chinatowns. Remember that in 1942 we put you in concentration camps in the deserts of Nevada and New Mexico. Keep that in mind. 

Right now, we are focused on the darker-skinned Mexicans and other Latin Americans, as well as Arabs and Africans because they don't look like anything close to us. But once we get rid of most of them and tame the rest, your turn might be next, especially when we soon go to war against China, at which time y'all with slanted eyes will be suspects.

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No One Cares If Your Parents ‘Came Here Legally’
Kristin Corpuz
Wed, June 18, 2025


Joe Sohm/Visions of America via Getty Images

“Well, my parents came here legally.”

It’s a sentiment I’ve seen repeated over and over again in the comments section under videos of protesters exercising their First Amendment rights throughout Los Angeles by protesting federal immigration raids this week.

And the unfortunate reality? When you click into their profiles, many of these commenters share one key characteristic: They’re of Asian descent.

It’s both disappointing and shocking to see so many fellow first-generation Asian Americans whose parents were privileged enough to play by the “rules” distance themselves from immigrant families who weren’t.

But this is by design. Systemic white supremacy has aimed to pit people of color against each other in favor of gaining socioeconomic status — and it’s always worked, historically.

The concept of the “model minority” has haunted me ever since I found out what it was: the idea that, because Asian (specifically East Asian) people have lighter skin and a closer proximity to whiteness in other ways, that they are perceived as almost white.

We’re made to believe that if we keep our heads down, act studious and non-threatening, that maybe white America won’t look at us like we’re dangerous. That we might become one of them — even though they will never view us as such. That this feigned “acceptance” is worth turning our backs on other people in the Asian diaspora (read: darker-skinned Asians from Southeast and South Asia and the Middle East), Black, and brown people from other communities.

Many Asian immigrant parents came to this country with this mentality, and raised their American-born children to obey, to behave, to not make waves or be too loud or bring unnecessary attention to ourselves. Because then maybe we’ll be admitted to that college, invited into that boardroom, or allowed in that country club. But in reality, we’d never actually be in the inner circle as our most authentic selves.

Though first-generation Asian Americans have begun rebelling against the idea and have only gotten louder and prouder over time, the model minority myth is a chronic sickness that keeps coming back to poison the minds of younger generations. And it is this mentality that leads Asian Americans to leave ignorant, damaging words in the comments.

Of course, it isn’t just Asian Americans, but since this is my community, I feel called to address it. Distancing yourself from the struggle of humans who have every right to be here as the “pilgrims who discovered the new world” is exclusionary and only causes further divide between communities that have a lot more in common than we’re led to believe.

As so eloquently stated in a now-viral post on Instagram, “Our greatest blessings are the circumstances we are born into, including when and where we’re born. Our citizenship and place of residence is dumb luck, or often, a reflection of our parents’ sacrifices, but a privilege nonetheless. It is a privilege we aren’t owed or guaranteed, it is one borrowed in this lifetime. Check yourself before you judge acts of desperation you are so lucky to know nothing about.”

It seems like these Asian Americans in the comment section are quick to forget the courage their parents had to display so they could have their matcha bowls and pilates classes and Sephora hauls. So they could have freedom of speech — and the freedom to spread ignorance in the comment section.

I wear my “child of immigrants” badge proudly. My parents immigrated to the United States from the Philippines in the ’80s in pursuit of the “American Dream”: the sacrifice of leaving their home country, their native tongue, their families, all in search of an economically prosperous life and better opportunities for me and my siblings. Not a day goes by that I don’t think of their bravery to start over in a foreign nation.

And though they did immigrate legally, their path to citizenship and permanent residence was a long one, and assimilating to American culture did not stop them from experiencing racism and xenophobia — the very same racism and xenophobia that is now being targeted at Latinx Americans under the current administration. That their immigration was a choice and not a necessity to flee danger does not make them or me “better” or “more deserving.”

A beautiful, vibrant community is being torn apart and dehumanized in Los Angeles, a city that was built on the backs of immigrants. It would be an understatement to say that it has been painful watching videos of families getting separated, children being pulled off the stage of their kindergarten graduations, men and women being abducted from their places of work and shoved into the backs of unmarked vehicles by armed, masked, unidentifiable officers.

And it is not lost on me that, once this administration decides to move on from targeting the Latinx community, it is likely they will choose another to aim their hatred at.

It is in times like these that people of color (and more specifically, immigrants and children of immigrants) need to display solidarity and remember our humanity. It’s time to stand up and support our own — even if they don’t have the same background as we do.

Trump: Had I been President in 1861, I Would Have Prevented the Civil War

"Could've been solved": Trump suggests he would have handled the Civil War better than Lincoln
Cheyenne McNeill
Thu, June 19, 2025


The Real-Life SuperHero MAGAMAN a.k.a. Donald Dunce. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images

President Donald Trump suggested that he could have handled the Civil War better than then-President Abraham Lincoln in a meeting with reporters at The White House on Wednesday.

“The Civil War, it always seemed to me maybe that could've been solved without losing 600,000 plus people,” Trump said.

Trump: "The Civil War -- it always seemed to me maybe that could've been solved without losing 600,000 plus people." pic.twitter.com/58jd0br4de

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 18, 2025

Trump is right to have civil war on his mind. The president recently took the nearly unprecedented step of deploying American troops stateside. Though the courts eventually ordered Trump to return control of the National Guard to California Gov. Gavin Newsom, he recently deployed even more National Guard members to Los Angeles.

The overstepping of states' rights led Newsom to accuse Trump of wanting a civil war, which Trump denied earlier this month.

"I don't want a civil war. Civil war would happen if you left it to people like him," he said.

In a recent episode of "The Daily Show" from earlier this week, comedian Jon Stewart agreed with Newsom’s assessment.

“He doesn't want to deploy the military overseas. He wants to save the military for the real threat: us,” Stewart said. “The MAGA mindset appears to be, ‘We didn’t vote for foreign war. We voted for civil war.’”

The Dictator is a Traitor: China will Build Trump's "America First" Mobile Phone

Under Trump's orders and his asinine "America First" slogan, US manufacturers with plants abroad must relocate to the US... except Trump's own mobile phone factory which will be operating from China. He's the Dick-Traitor who is allowed to bypass rules, laws and the constitution.
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Trump’s sons say their new phone will be built in the US. Experts say it looks a lot like a phone from China
Lisa Eadicicco and Hadas Gold, CNN
Tue, June 17, 2025 

Jojo and Dick announcing the Made-in-China Trump Mobile in New York's Trump Tower, Richard Drew/AP

When the Trump Organization unveiled its new Trump Mobile wireless service on Monday, it said its upcoming T1 smartphone will be “proudly designed and built in the United States.”

But experts told CNN they’re skeptical that a smartphone can be built in the US based on the specifications, price and timeline laid out by Donald Trump, Jr., and Eric Trump, when they announced the phone.

Experts pointed out striking similarities between the T1’s specifications and an already available, Chinese-made phone.

“Unless the Trump family secretly built out a secure, onshore or nearshore (fabrication) operation over years of work without anyone noticing, it’s simply not possible to deliver what they’re promising,” said Todd Weaver, CEO of Purism, one of the only known companies to actually manufacture a cell phone in the United States.

CNN has reached out to the Trump Organization for comment.

President Donald Trump is not involved in the daily operations of the Trump Organization, which is run by the president’s eldest sons, the company said in January. The announcement comes as the president has been pushing to bring manufacturing jobs back to the United States, particularly in the tech industry. He’s pressured companies like Apple and Samsung to manufacture their phones in the US, saying companies who make their phones elsewhere will face a tariff of at least 25%.

The Trump family say on Trump Mobile’s website and in the formal announcement in Trump Tower on Monday that the phone will be “Made in the USA.” But later, in a clip from an interview with conservative media personality Benny Johnson, Eric Trump said “eventually all the phones can be built in the United States of America.” CNN has asked the Trump Organization whether the T1 phone will initially be built in the US.

Both Weaver and a second expert, Max Weinbach, an analyst at market research firm Creative Strategies, independently told CNN they believe the T1 phone looks like a version of the already available Revvl 7 Pro 5G, made by China-based Wingtech, which provides manufacturing services for smartphones and other products. The phone retails for around $169 on Amazon.

Weinbach and Weaver base this off the specifications listed by Trump Mobile, including the phone’s body, battery and camera resolution. There’s no direct evidence linking Trump’s phone directly to the Revvl 7 Pro 5G or any specific phone made outside the US. CNN has reached out to Wingtech for comment.

“There (are) only realistically four or five smartphone ODM (original device manufacturers) that would actually be able to manufacture something like this,” Weinbach said. “All of them are based out of China.”

The Revvl device has the same screen size, battery capacity and storage as the T1 phone according to the information listed on the Trump Mobile website , and both phones have a headphone jack – a rare find on modern smartphones. The Revvl’s camera is slightly different, and the T1 phone has more memory.

Another device labeled the Vtex Smart Phone listed on Made-in-China, a website for connecting buyers with Chinese suppliers, has specifications that are nearly identical to the T1’s – including the same battery capacity, camera arrangement and supported software version, although it’s unclear if the device has a headphone jack, and there are some differences in the memory and display. CNN has reached out to Shenzen Vitek Electronics Co., the company behind the Vtex Smart Phone, for comment.

Weinbach says it’s common for companies to customize devices made by ODMs before selling them under their own brand.

“A lot of them share the same components, parts, boards and antenna hardware,” he said. “So, you can swap out a couple of things.”

In a press release, the Trump Organization said Trump Mobile’s products are not “designed, developed, manufactured, distributed or sold by The Trump Organization or any of their respective affiliates or principals.”

Building a phone in the US would be challenging, if not impossible, for a September 2025 launch in part because the US doesn’t currently have the necessary fabrication plants, said Ryan Reith, group vice president for the International Data Corporation’s Worldwide Device Tracker. And many of the components would likely still come from overseas.

“Any phone (that) is going to be sold in September, or shipped in September into the US, the majority of it’s not going to be manufactured in the US,” said Reith. “That’s a given.”

For example, Trump has pushed for months for Apple to build its signature product, the iPhone, in the United States. But that would mean a massive supply chain shift away from China and India. Nor would it mean just a change in factory resources – those countries also have highly specialized work forces that the US lacks. The result could mean price hikes or design changes for the iPhone, some analysts estimate.

Weaver told CNN that sometime within the last year intermediaries working with the Trump Organization had been looking at Purism’s phone and speaking to the company about what it takes to make a phone in the United States.

Purism makes the $1,999 Liberty Phone, which touts itself as a secure “Made in America” phone, although even they are forced to source some parts from abroad.

“There are certain areas where you’re going to still need to have a global supply chain. One example is a crystal that goes in our GNSS chip or GPS chip. That single crystal is only manufactured in China,” Weaver said.

Weaver pointed out the Federal Trade Commission has “strict guidelines” on claiming an item is “Made in the USA.”

“I do believe there will be a massive amount of back pedaling that goes on,” Weaver said. “Just to manufacture a phone in the US with the chip sets you’re actually getting, purchase and support with the US supply chain is a massive undertaking, and that’s also the reason why we happen to be the only ones doing it.”

Trump Betrays US Afghans Who Saved American Lives

Forewarning to Iranians: 

The US is about to invade Iran. When it does that, do NOT under any circumstance work for or with the US forces as interpreters or field guides or in any capacity. They'll promise to defend you and protect you, but when they lose the war, like they always do, they'll either abandon you or take you with them to the US where you'll be treated like shit.

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Afghan ally detained by ICE after immigration court hearing
Madeleine May
Updated Thu, June 19, 2025
 

An Afghan man who worked alongside U.S. troops in Afghanistan was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers last week in San Diego.

In a video obtained by CBS News, two unidentified ICE agents put Sayed Naser in handcuffs and escorted him from the federal courthouse in downtown San Diego after he attended a mandatory immigration hearing on Wednesday, June 11.

"For more than three years I worked for the U.S. military back in my home country," Naser said in the video as the masked officers took him into custody. "I came here to make a better life. I didn't know this was going to happen like this for me."

An Afghan ally who served alongside U.S. forces was legally paroled into the U.S. and showed up for his first hearing.@DHSGov detained him anyway—using a vague “improvidently issued” excuse.

He followed the rules.

We have the video.

This must stop.#AfghanEvac #DueProcess pic.twitter.com/zZXjzQUDMT

— #AfghanEvac (@afghanevac) June 13, 2025

Naser was legally paroled into the U.S in 2024, according to his lawyer, Brian McGoldrick. In addition to an active asylum case, he has a pending Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) case because of his long history supporting the U.S. military. SIVs are provided to foreign nationals who worked with U.S. military forces in war zones including Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan. Naser has no criminal record in the U.S. or Afghanistan, according to court records reviewed by CBS News.

"This man served with our troops. He came through the front door. He followed every rule. And we locked him up anyway," said Shawn VanDiver, executive director for #AfghanEvac, a nonprofit that advocates for U.S. wartime allies. He said it's unknown how many Afghan allies have been detained by ICE officials.

The Department for Homeland Security and ICE did not respond to a request for comment.

Naser served as a civilian interpreter for the U.S. military in Afghanistan from 2015 to 2018. He and his brothers also co-owned a logistics company that provided anti-mining support to American troops, according to employment records viewed by CBS News.

"This individual was an important part of our Company commitment to provide the best possible service for our clients, who were the United States Military in Afghanistan," says one employment document submitted as part of Naser's SIV application.

But after the U.S. withdrew from the country in August 2021, his partnership with American forces put targets on the backs of Naser and his family. In 2023, Taliban fighters killed his brother and abducted his father at a family wedding. The attack drove Naser out of the country and forced his wife and children to flee their home.

"I cannot return to Afghanistan under any circumstances because I am accused of collaborating with U.S. forces. From the Taliban's perspective, anyone who worked with foreign forces during the past 20 years is a spy, an infidel, and must be killed," Naser wrote in his asylum declaration. His family remains in hiding outside of Afghanistan.

After his brother was killed, Naser fled to Brazil, where he was granted a humanitarian visa. He then made the more than 6,000 mile journey on foot through the Darién Gap before reaching Mexico. In 2024, he set up an appointment with U.S. Customs and Border Protection through the app formerly known as CBP One — which allowed migrants to schedule appointments at legal ports of entry — where he was granted lawful parole into the U.S.

As part of his asylum process, Naser was required to attend an in-person hearing last week in front of a judge and a lawyer from the Department of Homeland Security. But when Naser showed up to court, the DHS lawyer said that his case was "'improvidently issued."

"Nobody knows what that means," said McGoldrick, who tried to dispute the ruling. When pressed, the DHS lawyer refused to clarify further.

"'Improvidently issued' is becoming ICE's new catch-all — a vague, unchallengeable justification being used to clear dockets and meet removal and detention quotas," said VanDiver. "It's being weaponized to put lawful, parole-compliant asylum-seekers in cells."

When Naser left the courtroom after his hearing ended, he was immediately detained by ICE agents.

Video shared by #AfghanEvac showed Sayed Naser being taken into custody by ICE officers at a courthouse in San Diego. / Credit: Image from video/@AfghanEvac

Naser is now being held in the Otay Mesa Detention Center in San Diego. According to McGoldrick, he could be kept there for up to three months while his asylum case is adjudicated. If he is denied asylum, Naser will be put on an expedited removal list and likely deported. His lawyer does not know where he would be deported to, and DHS did not respond to our request for more information.

"He's still in shock. He cannot believe this is happening to him," McGoldrick said.

Naser's wife, who remains in hiding with their children, found out about her husband's detention when she saw the video of his detainment on social media.

Increase in arrests in courthouses

The last few weeks have seen an increase in ICE arrests outside of immigration hearings in courthouses around major American cities. In May, CBS News reported that the Trump administration was launching an operation to expedite the deportation of certain migrants by dismissing their cases and subsequently arresting them at courthouses around the country. The move shocked immigration advocates, as their clients are legally required to show up at their hearings.

Public arrests outside courts in Los Angeles led to more than a week of demonstrations as protesters faced off against thousands of law enforcement officials, including the National Guard.

On Sunday, Mr. Trump called on ICE to increase arrests in order to achieve his goal of the "largest Mass Deportation Operation of Illegal Aliens in History," according to a post on Truth Social, the social media platforms he owns.

Reports from within the administration say that White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem have been pushing agencies since late May to meet a higher quota of deportations — including as much as 3,000 immigration-related arrests per day.

Typically, ICE agents need probable cause in order to detain someone to check their immigration status. This requires a higher standard of evidence pointing to an individual's alleged violation of immigration law.

It's not clear in Naser's case what evidence there is that he was violating the law, his lawyer said. ICE provided a warrant for Naser's arrest to his attorney outside the courtroom after he was detained.

"It's really shocking what's happening in courthouses in San Diego and around the country," said McGoldrick. "You walk down the hall and it's like you're walking down executioner's row. There's all these armed personnel just eyeballing everybody as we come down. It's just so intimidating that our clients are terrorized."

Uncertain future for thousands of Afghans

The Trump administration has demonstrated a sharp turn away from supporting Afghans who worked with the U.S. government in the military's two-decade-long conflict with the Taliban.

In May, Noem announced that the administration was terminating Temporary Protected Status for Afghans. TPS is an immigration designation that allows people from countries deemed dangerous by the U.S. to live and work in the United States without being detained by DHS. Nearly 11,000 Afghans who are in the U.S. under TPS will be at risk of deportation when the change in policy comes into effect in mid-July, said VanDiver.

Earlier this month, the Trump administration also instituted a travel ban on nationals from Afghanistan and 11 other countries, citing a need to address security concerns. Ahead of this announcement, over 100,000 Afghan wartime allies and their families had been vetted and cleared to enter the U.S., says #AfghanEvac. They are now unable to travel to the U.S. unless they are granted an SIV visa and can fund their own travel, without government support. Many live in danger of retribution from the Taliban.

"Afghanistan remains under the control of the Taliban. There are still assassinations, arbitrary arrests, and ongoing human rights abuses, especially against women and ethnic minorities," said VanDiver. "The United States cannot abandon its allies and call that immigration policy."

Trump, Musk and Miller's Dirty Laundry Still Smells of Jeffrey Epstein's Filth

Musk might be thinking of having his 20th child with Stephen Miller's wife Katie, although her looks are nothing to brag about. But she is an extremist Jewish hardline conservative, and he is a neo-Nazi South African of Apartheid vintage. That consummation wouldn't be kosher! Still, they can work together on lies and misinformation to the pleasure of the dumbass US president.
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Stephen Miller’s wife ordered Social Security workers to cover up a lie from her new boss Elon Musk: report
John Bowden
Tue, June 17, 2025


Stephen Miller’s wife ordered Social Security workers to cover up a lie from her new boss Elon Musk: report

The wife of one of President Donald Trump’s closest and most trusted advisers, Stephen Miller, served in the White House for only a brief time, but in that period used her position to pressure the Social Security Administration to lie on behalf of the White House and its then-special government employee, Elon Musk, according to a new report.

Katie Miller allegedly instructed the head of the SSA to tell reporters that 40 percent of all calls placed to SSA phone lines were linked to fraudulent Social Security claims — a number the president and Musk plucked out of thin air as the White House and Musk’s DOGE effort set about making cuts to a wide range of federal agencies this year, the New York Times reported.

“The number is 40 percent,” Katie Miller reportedly told the acting SSA Administrator Leland Dudek in an April 1 call, the Times reported. “Do not contradict the president.”

“Mr. Musk’s team mobilized dozens of Social Security employees to affirm their views about fraud and began a project to ensure dead people were properly classified so they weren’t mistakenly paid — even though DOGE officials acknowledged in an internal memo that payments were not being made in those cases,” the Times wrote.

While [Katie] Miller left the government in late May alongside Musk, the new head of the SSA refuted that figure directly in a statement to the Times.

Katie Miller (seen walking with boss Elon Musk in the White House) reportedly instructed the head of Social Security to tell reporters that 40 percent of all calls placed to the agency’s phone lines were linked to fraudulent claims — a number Musk and President Trump allegedly plucked out of thin air. (Getty)

“We’re going to be a fact-based, rule-based organization that can count,” said Frank Bisignano, who joined the agency as commissioner in early May. Bisignano’s predecessor, Dudek, did not back up Musk’s claims either.

According to the Times, the DOGE cuts at SSA — driven by Musk’s fixation on Social Security as a major source of waste and fraud — were badly mismanaged and resulted in many newly open basic customer service roles being replaced by “specialized professionals like lawyers, human resources staff and technologists” who are paid higher rates than colleagues who exited those roles or retired after being offered buyouts earlier this year.

A staffing shortfall at the agency is now compounded by a growing backlog of Social Security claims.

Katie Miller followed Musk out the door and now works with him on his various business ventures, despite a massive, public blowup between the Tesla chief and Trump earlier this month. In now-deleted posts, Musk alleged that Trump, for whom her husband retains fervent loyalty, was linked to the deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and further claimed that Trump was responsible, through his own alleged inclusion in them, for the Epstein flight logs and other files being hidden from the public.

Katie’s fence-sitting between the two was the subject of its own CNN profile earlier this month.

Dudek, who led the agency when Katie Miller ordered it to parrot the White House line, is apparently out of a job after his time as acting commissioner came to an end. In a statement, he fought back against criticism that he was unqualified — a claim stemming from the fact that he got the job after being placed on leave from his mid-level position at the SSA for going beyond the scope of his duties to help the fledgling DOGE effort make headway at the agency. That punishment prompted him to pen a LinkedIn post “confessing” his efforts to help DOGE.

“I confess. I helped DOGE understand SSA. I mailed myself publically accessible documents and explained them DOGE,” he wrote in a February LinkedIn post first reported by CNN. “I confess. I moved contractor money around to add data science resources to my anti-fraud team to examine Direct Deposit Fraud.”

“I confess. I bullied agency executives, shared executive contact information, and circumvented the chain of command to connect DOGE with the people who get stuff done,” he added at the time.

That post caught the eye of Musk, who at the time still enjoyed a close relationship with Trump. In a tweet, the former DOGE-er-in-chief said that Dudek “was brought back right away [by Trump] and now HE is upper management.”

Upon his departure, Dudek thanked the president for his time at the agency. But privately, according to the Times, he has expressed “deep misgivings about the effect of DOGE’s oversight,” to his confidantes.

“Thank you President Trump for the opportunity to serve. Thank you DOGE team for your trust. Thank you SSA for all you do,” wrote Dudek in May.

Bisignano, after taking over the agency, assured agency staffers that he was not planning the same kind of large-scale layoff policies that DOGE was pledging earlier this year at many federal agencies, some of which had to rehire workes who were sent home.

Elon Musk departed the administration at the end of May, and promptly began a feud with the president (AP)

“I have no intent to RIF people,” he said during a 90-minute address to agency managers last month, according to the Federal News Network.

But in his statement to the Times, Bisignano made clear that he knows how to play by the Trump White House’s expectations, as he pushed back against the assertion that DOGE had messed up by claiming 40 percent of all Social Security help line callers to be linked to fraudulent claims.

“The work that DOGE did was 100 percent accurate,” he insisted.

Putin Kills an American Citizen in Kyiv

A massive Russian strike on the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv has killed an American citizen a couple of hours after our dumbass American president was defending Vladimir Putin at the G7 meeting in Canada.

Donald Dumb keeps defending Putin, even as the latter is devastating Ukraine. The arse US Moron-in-Chief even claimed that had the G7 group of wealthy countries not kicked out Putin and his miserable Russia out of the club in the aftermath of his annexation of Ukrainian territory of Crimea in 2014, Putin would not have invaded Ukraine. It is terrifying that an imbecile like this leads the US and makes such stupid statements and disastrous decisions.


The two loverboys. To the left is the vicious Russian dictator. To the right is his American ass-licker and wannabe me-too dictator

An American citizen was killed in a Russian strike on Kyiv last night, a mere few hours after the Moron-in-Chief bragged about his great personal relationship with Vladimir Putin. It might be that the US victim was a dual national of the US and Ukraine who initially found refuge as a Ukrainian in the US, then acquired US citizenship before he was deported by Donald Dumb's Gestapo ICE police. It certainly is a possibility. 

Meanwhile, the Moron-in-Chief asked G7 world leaders in Canada on Monday to invite Russia back into the group, as if Donald Dumb wants to reward Putin for his dastardly criminal war against Ukraine.

A mere few hours after Donald Dumb's moronic statement, Putin ordered one of the most lethal attacks on the Ukrainian capital so far this year. Around 175 drones, 14 cruise missiles, and at least two ballistic missiles struck residential areas in and around the city overnight.

Scene from the Ukrainian capital after it was hit with missiles and drones that killed a US citizen / Global Images Ukraine / Ivan Antypenko/Suspilne Ukraine/JSC

What is behind the love affair between the two criminals? Some say Putin has very compromising information on Donald Dumb and uses that information to make Donald Dumb kiss his arse in compliance to his will. Others say it is merely a teenage infatuation by Donald Dumb for a strong, blond and white primate like him. The dumb and ugly US president told his G7 counterparts that Russia’s expulsion from what was then the G8 was a “big mistake”. He even insisted that Putin would never have invaded Ukraine if he had remained “at the table.”

The dumbass in the White House also emphatically asserted that he’s the only G7 leader Putin still talks to. The U.S. president has long touted his relationship with the Russian leader as a positive, including repeatedly suggesting before his election that he could end the war in Ukraine “within one day” of returning to the White House. Donald Dumb has the uncanny ability (because of a brain ranking him mentally as a 10-year old) of reducing complex geopolitical situations to a courtyard fight in which he is the big bully. His "one day" of resolving the conflict is now in its sixth month and counting, and Putin keeps giving him a middle finger dipped in Vodka.

“He doesn’t speak to anybody else. He doesn’t want to talk because he was very insulted when he got thrown out of the G8, as I would be,” the US president said. Perhaps if Donald Dumb can convince the G7 leaders to send Putin a box of marbles, then they all can play together again!

More to the point of his sycophancy to Putin, Donald Dumb said that he doesn't agree to the G7 proposal to impose sanctions on Russia if it refuses to agree to a 30-day ceasefire with Ukraine. While wanting to cripple Iran with more sanctions, he is refusing to impose sanctions on Putin's regime because "sanctions cost the U.S. a lot of money, you’re talking about billions and billions of dollars."

The American killed in Kyiv is a 62-year-old resident of the Solomianskyi district, according to Kyiv’s mayor who announced the death on Telegram, as reported by Reuters. Klitschko said the U.S. citizen was pronounced dead at the scene but provided no additional details.

Meanwhile, the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, also attending the G7 meeting, said, “Putin does this [barbaric shelling] solely because he can afford to continue the war. He wants the war to go on... It is wrong when the powerful of this world turn a blind eye to it. The terrorists must feel the pain—not innocent, peaceful people.”

To further emphasize his support for Putin and his disdain for Zelensky, Donald Dumb left the G7 meeting one day earlier and before it concludes because he wanted to skip a scheduled discussion about Ukraine on Tuesday and avoid speaking with Zelensky.

Non-migrant US-Born White Teacher: 52 Counts of Sexual Abuse of Her Students

She's not a migrant, illegal or otherwise. She's a US-born white American teacher who sexually abused her own minor students.

Shouldn't ICE raid her home, arrest her and deport her, say, to Guantanamo? or perhaps back to the venerable Italy where her parents immigrated from and which has contributed to so much crime (extoritons killings, rapes, drug dealing, racketeering, etc...) in America. If consistency, equal treatment and blind justice are the objective, then of course she should be removed from American soil. BUT she's white, i.e. a priviliged criminal entitled to most favorite status. She'll have to spend years in jail costing millions in taxpayer's money. 

Donald Dump and Fox News keep accusing ALL Mexican-Americans and other Latin American immigrants of being "rapists", "criminals", and "drug dealers", and use this lie as a justification for their mass arrests and deportations by the American Gestapo known as ICE. But we all know the real reasons for this campaign: WHITE SUPREMACY and RACISM. 

The extremist white christian nationalists in power today in Washington DC want to cull the "dark-skinned" population of America with the objective of maintaining themselves as a majority in this country: Immigrants, foreign students, migrants, Temporary Protected Status refugees....all from brown or black countries, while white Apartheid Nazis from South Africa are welcomed!  The "demographic time bomb" is ticking for these inbred mongrels from the sticks of America: They are projected to no longer be a majority by some time around 2050, at which time they will be one of many minorities. 

If you feel you don't understand the logic behind Trump's chaotic barbarism and cruelty, then you now know the answer. Everything he and his Fascist goons are doing, everyone they're targeting, converge on reducing what they consider the "dark-skinned" burden on America's demographics. 

This paradigm behind their policies and actions was first exposed when President Barack Obama was elected. The virulence and hatred that their "base" began voicing at the time grew in crescendo, with Donald Dump casting doubt on the "Americanity" of Obama who he accused on not being born in the US, and the reaction to the first Black African President went downhill from then. 

What is insulting in the white racists' posturing on the so-called "race" is that one drop of Black African or Latin American blood is sufficient to downgrade the individual from a "pure white". Obama's mother was a "pure white" from the heartland state of Kansas, which makes him half white and half black. Why is he then considered "Black" when he could very well equally qualify as "White"? Because racism is extremist and stupid. 

In the scientific classification of species, including the human species, there is no such thing as a "race". All organisms, including humans, belong to thefollowing categories of biological classification:

Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, and Species. Humans are all of the homo sapiens species with no regard to how much melanin is made by their skin cells. Humans therefore comprise a range of skin colors varying from the very dark to the very white, and we are all somewhere in between. "Race" is an antiquated concept born out of the pervasive ignorant racism of the 19th and 20th century, now completely debunked as ignorant and false.


Illinois teacher indicted on 52 additional charges in student sexual abuse case

An Illinois grand jury has filed an indictment against an Illinois high school teacher on 52 additional charges relating to the alleged sexual assault and abuse of a student in 2023.

Video released in April showed 30-year-old Christina Formella getting pulled over during a traffic stop and being taken into custody after being charged with various sex crimes for having an inappropriate sexual relationship with a student in 2023.

Formella had been accused of sexually assaulting the boy in a classroom during a tutoring session before class began at Downers Grove South High School in December 2023. The victim’s mother discovered the alleged assault when looking through her son’s text message thread on his cellphone and then contacted police, prosecutors said.

During Formella's first court appearance March 17, she was charged with two counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse and one count of criminal sexual assault.

On Tuesday, DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert Berlin announced that Formella had been indicted on 52 additional counts involving previously unknown sexual abuse and assault of the student.

The grand jury indicted Formella on 20 counts of sexual assault, 20 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse, six counts of indecent solicitation of a child and six counts of grooming, all felony charges.

Berlin’s office said in a news release March 15 the victim, who was 15 at the time of the alleged assault, went to the Downers Grove Police Department with his parents to report inappropriate sexual contact allegedly committed by the boy’s tutor and soccer coach, who was later identified as Formella.


Christina Formella being arrested

The Downers Grove Police Department and DuPage County Children’s Advocacy Center opened an investigation, which led to the initial charges.

A further investigation that involved interviews with the victim in which he alleged additional sexual abuse by Formella, determined the sexual abuse began in January 2023 and continued through August or September 2024.

During that time period, Berlin’s office said, Formella allegedly sent the boy multiple text messages that were "grooming in nature." The investigation also found the victim and Formella allegedly engaged in sexual acts about 50 times, both at the school and at Formella’s home. The allegations claim the two engaged in sex acts at least 45 times at the school.

"The new allegations against Ms. Formella, including the allegations of grooming and that the abuse lasted nearly two years, are beyond disturbing," Berlin said. "I thank the victim in this case for having the courage to come forward during what I imagine is an extremely difficult time for him.

"I also thank the DuPage County Children’s Center, particularly Investigator George Fencl, as well as Assistant State’s Attorneys Jaclyn McAndrew and Michael Fisher for their work not only in this case but for their continued efforts protecting our children."

Formella appeared in court Tuesday morning for a status hearing, where the state filed a second petition to deny her pretrial release, though Judge Mia McPherson denied the request.

Her next appearance is scheduled for Aug. 4.

Bodycam footage of Formella’s arrest showed her appearing confused when police asked her to exit the vehicle during a traffic stop.

They then arrested her and placed her in the back of a police vehicle, where she asked questions about her detention.

Formella could be heard sobbing in the back seat of a police vehicle and asked for her husband, her childhood sweetheart whom she married last year, according to reports.

"I feel like I’m gonna throw up," she said in the March 16 video, continuing to cry in the back seat.

Formella, who was also a soccer coach, began tutoring the alleged victim after he broke his collarbone, and they began messaging each other on a school platform, according to court documents obtained by TMZ. The pair then allegedly exchanged provocative texts, followed by FaceTime chats that led to the December 2023 sexual incident.

AI is Existentialist: It Confronts Humans with the Culture-occulted Pointlessness of Life

All "Smart" jobs will be gone. Intellectuals, thinkers, engineers, scientists, doctors, historians.... will soon be replaced by autmomation, robots, artificial intelligence.... Machines are increasingly more competent than humans. What is happening is that "smart" people built their fame and fortune on their ability to store and process large amounts of data in their brains during many long decades of learning, education and training. But AI servers are now doing it all better than humans.

But there are a few jobs that, at least for now, seem to have immunity against smart robots. Plumbers are one example. No robot is going to bend under your sink and show you his crack, or plunge into cesspools to drain them, or repair a faucet.... But we will still need plumbers to build the robots. There's a critical physical fine touch that these jobs require that seems to escape machines. But who knows? Maybe second and third generation robots will replace all of us, including plumbers, as we become condemned to sit in our living rooms with literally nothing to do and nothing to think about. We'll be like astronauts who lose their muscle mass as a result of the lack of gravity; sitting down and not using our neurons and muscles will make us wilt down.

The French Jesuit and paleontologist Teilhard de Chardin predicted that our evolutionary trajectory will eventually turn us exclusively into a mass of nervous tissue, a solitary brain. But AI may be turning this prediction upside down: We will no longer need our brains since machines will do the thinking for us. Could we just turn into an isolated mass of muscle tissue? But for what purpose? It is the juxtaposition and cooperation between brain and brawn that has made us the very successful species that we are. What happens if we need neither? Should we even exist? What would be the point?
It's often said that the journey is more important that the destination. Life itself is nothing but a journey in which an organism "lives" by processing energy to accomplish the "destination", the sole purpose of existence: reproduce and transmit our genes. If machines can do all the journeying for us, should we really worry about any destination at all?

Think about it. We all know we are going to die some day. Why don't we just give up early on? Because until we get there and die, we can do a few interesting things like the basics (eating, gossiping, having sex, waging wars...) as well as the "sophisticated" (art, music, science....). If robots take away those "interesting" things from us, we'll be faced head-on with the absurdity of life. There will be no room left for indulging in the illusion of our exaggerated value. We'll be without the theater of life that makes life tick.

AI may be forcing us to confront the fundamental axiom of our biological existence: It is a pointless, aimless, no-destination exercise that humans have almost exclusively camouflageed under the illusory concept of "culture".
Someone once said something along the lines of "Life is like a desert that we must traverse, and woman is the camel that carries us through" (chauvinistic male-oriented, because would a woman see life as a desert and the male like a jackass to ride?). I would reframe that saying as follows: Life is like a journey through the desert, and CULTURE is the camel that fools us, drugs us into the illusion that life is worthwhile. Culture here is in the broadest sense of the term: religion, art, sports.... all human manifestations of "culture" are like a drug that masks the realization of pointlesssness palatable and the journey bearable.
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The Godfather of AI reveals which jobs are safest — and where 'everybody' will get replaced
Alice Tecotzky
Mon, June 16, 2025


The Godfather of AI reveals which jobs are safest — and where 'everybody' will get replaced

The "Godfather of AI" said certain industries are going to be wiped out sooner than others.

Geoffrey Hinton said that "mundane intellectual labor" is at the most risk.

He said mass job displacement is the biggest immediate threat to happiness, and it's already here.

Now is a great time to become a plumber, at least according to the so-called Godfather of AI.

Geoffrey Hinton, who previously worked at Google and earned his nickname for his work on neural networks, laid out the risks of mass joblessness during an interview on the 'Diary of a CEO' podcast that aired June 16. He said that, eventually, the technology will "get to be better than us at everything," but some fields are safer than others in the interim.

"I'd say it's going to be a long time before it's as good at physical manipulation," Hinton said. "So a good bet would be to be a plumber."

Gen Zers, who are trapped in a brutal job market, are gravitating more and more toward blue-collar work, as BI previously reported.

"For mundane intellectual labor, AI is just going to replace everybody," Hinton said. He flagged paralegals as at risk, and said he'd be "terrified" if he worked in a call center. You would, he said, have to be "very skilled" to have an AI-proof job.

Hinton sees the risk of mass job displacement as the biggest immediate threat to human unhappiness. Even if there's a universal basic income, as Hinton advocates, he thinks people would lack a sense of purpose without a job.

According to Hinton, mass displacement is more likely than not, and is already upon us in some ways. He said AI is starting to be used for jobs previously popular with recent college graduates.

Some argue that the fear that AI will displace entry-level work is overblown. Hinton agreed with the idea that some roles will be replaced by humans working with an AI assistant rather than just the technology, but he said that means one person will do what used to be the work of 10 people. For many industries, he said, that will mean mass firings.

A few areas, like healthcare, will be able to absorb the change, since there's almost endless demand.

"But most jobs, I think, are not like that," Hinton said.

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Not Soon Enough: The Bigot Christian Jimmy Swaggart to Meet his "Maker"

The fornicating Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart who was caught with his pants down many times is now in hospital in critical condition. Not soon enough. He is 90 and just suffered a well-deserved but belated heart attack.

The American televangelists' non-profit empires are actually business dynasties in which the "Call of the Lord" is a gene running deep in the genome of these miscreants who build fortunes by bilking credulous faithful Americans out of their money. Jimmy has a son, Donnie.... How can anynone resist Jesus's Saving Grace with names like Jimmy and Donnie? So cute.

The Cworn Prince and heir to the Swaggart throne, Pastor Donnie Swaggart said during a service on June 15 that his father was found at his home around 8 a.m. and was revived before being taken to a local hospital, saying that only a “miracle” could extend his father’s life. But I seriously doubt that God would indulge Jimmy with a miracle, and that for many reasons. One, these nusmkulls are protestants (of the very bad kind) who long ago rejected the Catholic propensity for supersititions and so-called miracles. Two, Jimmy had been in bed with many prostitutes, and he was caught. I don't think God likes this kind of hypocrite - typical southerner Evangelical Trump-adoring criminals - false prophets.

Donnie went on to say that his father, luckily for the rest of us, “...never regained consciousness.... so many people arrive[d] at one time and were able to get a heartbeat back" in the 90-year old religious fornicator. Donnie cried and wiped tears, "Right now, he is in the ICU, and without a miracle, his time will be short. But we believe God − we’re not giving up.” But didn't protestants reject the Catholic Papist supersitition of miracles?

Jimmy Swaggart, a prominent evangelist for decades, is a native of Ferriday, Louisiana, and serves as the pastor of the Family Worship Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

During the peak of his exposure in the 1980s, Swaggart became involved in various prostitution scandals that peaked in 1988 when he delivered his infamous "I have sinned" speech on live television.


"Reverend" Jimmy Swaggart tearfully asked for God's forgiveness, as he resigned from his "ministry" business on February 21, 1988, due to exposed sexual misconduct.

Many other televangelists ploughed the same trade of lies, bigotry, money-pilfering and enrichment, sex scandals galore... while preaching virtue and family values. Jim Bakker, who cohosted with his wife Tammy Faye Bakker the television talk show The PTL Club (also called The Jim and Tammy Show), too was caught with his pants down in a motel with a prostitute, prompting him and his supporting, though cuckolded, wife Tammy to appear on TV seeking forgiveness and more money to rebuild their reputation and their declining empire. They needed more money to repair an air-conditioned kennel for their dogs. Tammy Faye's image as she cried on TV while her mascara was running down her cheeks is fondly remembered. 

 

Trump's Cowardly Law Firm Appeasers Facing Bankruptcy

For law firms that appeased Trump, the consequences go from bad to worse
Steve Benen
Mon, June 16, 2025
After Donald Trump launched an unprecedented offensive against prominent law firms, four of the firms chose to fight back against the president’s authoritarian-style assault. Given that the quartet filed separate lawsuits against the White House, and they’re undefeated in court so far, it appears they made the smart decision.

As The New York Times recently noted after one of the four firms’ court victories, “The ruling seemed to validate the strategy, embraced by a minority of firms, of fighting the administration instead of caving to a pressure campaign and making deals with Mr. Trump to avoid persecution.”

For the rest of the targeted firms, the consequences of their misjudgment have gone from bad to worse. Reuters reported:

A group of seven partners is leaving Willkie Farr & Gallagher, which struck a deal with U.S. President Donald Trump in April to avert an executive order targeting its business, to join Cooley, which is representing one of the law firms fighting Trump’s orders. ... There was widespread dissatisfaction in Willkie’s San Francisco office over the firm’s agreement with the administration, according to a source familiar with the matter who said as many as 15 associates have expressed interest in leaving.

Other firms that chose a Trump appeasement strategy are facing similar problems: Damian Williams, the former top federal prosecutor in Manhattan, recently announced that he’s leaving Paul Weiss (one of the firms that struck a deal with the White House) and joining Jenner & Block (one of the firms that fought back).

Indeed, it’s been difficult to keep up with the number of partners who’ve abandoned Paul Weiss in recent weeks as a result of its Trump agreement.

In case that weren’t enough, The Wall Street Journal recently reported that at least 11 big companies “are moving work away from law firms that settled with the administration or are giving — or intend to give — more business to firms that have been targeted but refused to strike deals.”

The article added, “In interviews, general counsels expressed concern about whether they could trust law firms that struck deals to fight for them in court and in negotiating big deals if they weren’t willing to stand up for themselves against Trump.”

Let’s also not forget that some of these same firms are also starting to realize that their deals with the president are worse than they first realized.

The entire strategy has backfired spectacularly. From the firms’ perspective, appeasement was supposed to guarantee relative tranquility and client satisfaction. Instead, these firms are losing clients, partners, associates and credibility within the industry.

If that weren’t quite enough, The New York Times reported that the firms that have already prevailed against the White House have noticed that Trump and his lawyers haven’t even appealed their defeats in court.

W. Bradley Wendel, a law professor at Cornell who is an authority on legal ethics, told the Times, in reference to White House officials, “They knew that these were losing positions from the beginning and were not actually hoping to win in court, but rather to intimidate firms into settling, as many firms did. Now that they have racked up the four losses in district courts, it is not surprising that they are not appealing, because I don’t think they ever thought these were serious positions.”

The firms that tried to placate and pacify the president must be kicking themselves right about now. All they had to do was defend themselves, their profession, the law and the integrity of the system itself, and they could’ve avoided all kinds of problems.

But it’s also worth remembering that it might not be too late for the firms to course-correct. I’m reminded anew of a recent NBC News report about a progressive group that launched a media campaign targeting the firms that reached deals with the president.

‘Big law, stop bending the knee,’ reads a poster from the ‘Big Law Cowards’ campaign by the liberal nonprofit group Demand Justice. The group says the ads will be wheatpasted strategically around Washington on Thursday near the locations of the firms that have reached deals with the administration. The group will also have a mobile billboard circulating with ads criticizing the firms, along with a broader digital campaign.

The underlying point of these efforts isn’t to chastise the firms for making the wrong decision; it’s to remind those firms that it’s not too late to reverse course and join the ranks of the firms resisting Trump’s gambit.

Will any of the firms abandon their existing deals? If one firm does it, will others follow? Watch this space.