INFLUENCE magazine is garbage.
It is not journalism. They ran an 'interview' with hate merchant Laura
Loomer. They let her spew one lie after another and never correct her
-- they even note that they did not check or verify her claims before
publishing. That is not how you do journalism. Sarah Rumpf (MEDIAITE) reports:
Among
Loomer’s claims in this interview is saying she graduated as
valedictorian from Barry University in Miami Shores, after getting
kicked out over a stunt she pulled with James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas
secretly filming her professors (likely a violation of state law, as
Florida is a two-party consent state). Local news reports said she had
“claimed” she had been suspended from the university, but never were
able to get Loomer or the university to verify the suspension or if she
had ever received a diploma at all, much less as valedictorian.
She
also claims she was “permanently banned on every single social media
platform as a result of my investigative reporting.” Quick Google
searches dispel that assertion, with numerous media outlets reporting
her suspensions came because of crackdowns on misinformation and
extremism, tweets she posted targeting Muslim members of Congress or
rideshare drivers, over hate speech rules, and so on for Facebook and
Instagram, Twitter, Uber, and Lyft, etc.
Loomer
regurgitates unfounded claims she has made about the August 2022,
saying “[t]here was a lot of suspicious activity on election night at
the Orange County Supervisor of Elections Office, when the machines went
down, and the difference in votes between me and U.S. Rep. Daniel
Webster was only a couple thousand votes.”
Loomer
lost that GOP primary challenge to Webster by seven points — a closer
call than the incumbent congressman’s team expected, but a clear result
nonetheless. Loomer refused to concede and “broke into tears” on
election night, declaring without any evidence that the election had
been stolen from her, echoing Trump’s baseless claims about the 2020
election.
She would end up part of a lawsuit filed
in September 2022 challenging the results of her election. It was
dismissed with prejudice two months later.
Loomer’s
claims of “suspicious activity” at the Orange County elections office
are vague, but there just aren’t any contemporaneous reports of
problems, and then-Supervisor of Elections, Bill Cowles, had a long
track record of reliability, respected by candidates and political party
operatives on both sides of the aisle.
Over
the years, there have been occasional glitches on the Orange County
elections website, like this one reported by News 6 Orlando in 2024, but
they were resolved quickly and did not affect the actual vote counting,
which is observed by media and representatives from the political
parties and candidates.
Of course, the major
problem with Loomer’s unrelenting accusations about the 2022 election is
that the paper trail is clear that she lost. Orange County has had
paper ballots for decades, even before the infamous Bush v. Gore 2000
election recount spurred statewide reforms. Loomer lost because Webster
got more votes.
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If
Ogles didn't fact check an interview, especially one with someone as
nutty and delusional as Loomer, he's not a reporter. Calling him a
journalist is to degrade the profession of journalism. Having a
disclaimer saying it's in her own words is just lazy.
Tuesday, November 25, 2025. The courts are learning just how often the
Chump administration lies, Chump continues to terrorize the country with
his war on immigrants, he and his supporters continue to demonstrate
they don't know a damn thing about the US military for all their
patriotic pretense, Chump fan bases online turn out to be overseas and
non-American, and much more.
Starting with Chump's war on immigrants.
Queens,
New York. No warrant and the ICE gestapo breaks down a locked door to
get inside. No warrant. A cousin listed the address. A cousin that
doesn't live there. And they had no warrant and they just knocked down
the door and terrorized her and her child.
Now to CNN's interview earlier this week with Marimar Martinez.
An American citizen shot five times in Chicago by Chump's gestapo.
The
CNN report goes a little soft. It just notes the lie that DHS told
where they claimed that she was ramming them with her car. The event
happened in early October. As Greg Sargent (THE NEW REPUBLIC) noted:
In particular, just after the shooting, DHS put out a statement
claiming that the agents in question had been “boxed in by 10 cars” and
that Martinez’s vehicle “rammed” theirs. The statement also suggests
she threatened the agents with a “semi-automatic weapon.” All this
“forced” an agent to shoot Martinez, who then “drove herself to the
hospital.” DHS added that she’d previously doxed agents online. In
short, the shooting was wholly justified: The victim was the one doing
the terrorizing—of law enforcement.
Yet these claims are undermined by the criminal complaint against Martinez. It only mentions two cars menacing the agents, not 10. It doesn’t mention her gun, let alone her threatening of the agents with one. It says she was taken to the hospital by ambulance. And as the Chicago Sun-Timesreports,
Martinez’s lawyer says body-cam footage even contradicts the claim that
she directly threatened the officers with her vehicle and shows that
the agent said, “Do something, bitch,” before opening fire.
They
lie. That's all they do. Well, they terrorize and they hunt people.
But they also lie and they keep getting caught in their lies.
The
move came after federal prosecutors filed a motion to dismiss their own
case. Martinez's case has been one of the most high-profile examples of
civilians being accused by federal authorities of ramming into a
vehicle driven by immigration agents.
Martinez
and co-defendant Anthony Ian Santos Ruiz pleaded not guilty last month
to Justice Department charges that they used “their vehicles to assault,
impede, and interfere with the work of federal agents in Chicago.”
Andrew
S. Boutros, the United States Attorney for the Northern District of
Illinois, filed court documents Thursday morning to dismiss the charges.
U.S. District Judge Georgia
Alexakis granted the government’s motion to dismiss the charges
Thursday evening, court documents show. The charges were dismissed with
prejudice, meaning Martinez and her co-defendant cannot be filed again
against them.
Prosecutors
said Border Patrol agent Charles Exum shot Martinez in self-defense
after she and Santos Ruiz allegedly rammed their cars into a federal
vehicle on Oct. 4.
“After striking the agents’ vehicle, the defendants’ vehicles boxed in the agents’ vehicle, the complaint states,” prosecutors said in a statement
when charges were announced last month. “The agent was unable to move
his vehicle and exited the car, at which point he fired approximately
five shots from his service weapon at Martinez, the complaint states.”
Martinez’s
legal team had argued that it was federal agents who rammed her car
with their vehicle and that the shooting was unjustified and an
excessive use of force.
The motion to dismiss comes
after it was revealed last week at a court hearing that the Customs and
Border Protection agent who shot Martinez multiple times had bragged about it in messages to other officers.
According
to Reuters, records presented at the hearing showed that in a group
Signal chat with other agents, Exum wrote: “I fired 5 rounds and she had
7 holes. Put that in your book boys.”
In
a message to another recipient, Exum sent a news article about the
event followed by the message: “Read it. 5 shots, 7 holes,” Reuters
reported.
Across the
country, people are fed up. They've had enough of the Chump and his
gestapo terrorizing people, breaking laws and never being punished.
Enough. They've had enough of families being broken up, of parents
kidnapped doing school drop offs, it's disgusting and it's un-American.
Lisbeth
Torres, 26, a healthcare worker, slammed Trump as a “joke” and said
immigration officials are taking construction and farm workers – doing
jobs others don’t want to do.
Her father,
Norberto Torres, 50, originally from Jalisco, Mexico, was approached by
ICE agents on November 7 while opening his food truck in Salem around
9:40 a.m.
She described him as “a good citizen” who
“took jobs that other people didn’t,” highlighting his work ethic and
contributions to the community.
Norberto – a
husband and father of five – faces deportation to Mexico, and parts of
the family may follow while Lisbeth stays in the US to support them.
People who contribute to our economy and our security are being treated as though they're violent criminals. It's not right. Charlie Jones (THE MIRROR) describes the horror when ICE grabs someone and the family does not know where their family member is:
A
man's family has been left desperate for answers after he was detained
by immigration enforcement agents six weeks ago, with witnesses saying
he started shaking and collapsed midway through the incident.
Vicente
Ventura Aguilar's family hasn't heard from him for the six weeks since
he was detained, with Homeland Security saying he was never in custody.
The
Mexican man, who didn't have legal immigration status but had lived in
the US for around 17 years, was detained during a raid in South Los
Angeles on October 7.
His brother, Felipe
Aguilar, heard from a friend of the missing man, who was also arrested
by immigration enforcement, who said that Vincente began to shake, fell
unconscious and dropped to the ground while shackled the following day
at an immigration facility near the border.
Lindsay
Toczylowski, co-founder of the Immigrant Defenders Law Center, is
representing Ventura Aguilar’s family. She said DHS never responded to
her inquiries about him.
That
is outrageous. It's inhumane and it clearly captures the hatred that
is the Chump administration. And Greg Bovino clearly captures the grift
aspect that is the Chump administration. Tom Latchem (DAILY BEAST) reports on how it appears Bovino staged raids to be able to sneak off to an early Thanksgiving celebration which is creepy family:
On
Wednesday, WBTV reported that between 35 and 40 Border Patrol agents
puzzled local officials with their presence in Blowing Rock—a tiny town
of 1,500 two hours northwest of Charlotte with virtually no crime, and
where Bovino’s sister lives, but where few immigrants do—before leaving
minutes later.
Census data shows that Blowing Rock is 93 percent white, with a non-white population of about 100 people.
Asked about Bovino—who a judge declared a liar this month over false evidence he gave about using tear gas—Rep. Norma Torres cast serious doubt over his North Carolina detour.
“It
is not suspicious at all—[nothing] out of... this administration is
[suspicious]—and I am pretty sure that this is what he is doing, to
benefit himself, to ensure that he is able to be home and enjoy a
holiday with his family, while he separates immigrant families,” the
California Democrat said.
“His behavior has
been dodgy from day one, he is an unethical person, and time and time
and time again, ICE and Border Patrol have been found by our courts to
be lying in their reports, and they will continue to do so until
Congress holds them accountable.”
Last night on MS NOW, Rachel Maddow noted:
In
Charlotte, North Caroline, a lawsuit against Trump's immigration agents
there has resulted in a release of this video in which ICE agents are
exclaiming to each other, "This is great! This is fun!" while they try
to smash their car into a vehicle driven by a US citizen. The ICE
agents in this vehicle allegedly had a 12-pack of beer with them in the
vehicle -- a twelve pack of Modelos with them in that car while they
were enjoying themselves and talking about smashing into that guy while
they were on the job
That's not up on YOUTUBE. In the full show -- not posted yet on YOUTUBE -- not even in audio form -- it's around 1925 mark.
Does
Chump ever take a beat to think about how he is hurting people? No.
Thought isn't Chump's strong suit and others aren't his focus.
As
Ben notes this morning on MEIDASTOUCH NEWS, Chump is too busy freaking
out over his non-stop failures -- including his cases against James
Comey and Letitia James being kicked out of court.
Last week, Chump attacked Democrats in Congress who did a PSA. We noted that here and we noted UCMJ -- see "The Snapshot" from Friday -- and that is where it begins and ends.
Or
should be when a nut case doesn't occupy the Oval Office. UCMJ --
which is the code of the military, which is what they train troops on --
is explicit on this point: If you are given an illegal order, you do
not obey it.
Chump is now trying to go after
Senator Mark Kelly. He wants him brought back into the military so that
he can be court-martialed.
This is insanity.
The
only thing this accomplishes is to expose how stupid Donald and his
followers are. They're so stupid because they don't even know UCMJ --
in fact, they probably don't even know what UCMJ means. Their stupidity
is all the more frightening when you think that, unlike Donald, some of
them might have served in the military but if they did then they are so
stupid that they were actually a threat to this country because they
couldn't absorb their training.
The military code of justice demands that any US service member given an illegal order has the duty to refuse it.
Quack Quack! says lame duck Chump as he tries to waddle in a straight line. Thomas Kika reports:
Republican
members of Congress continue to vent their frustrations and threaten to
leave Washington amid the fallout from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene,
with some citing worries at the arrival of President Donald Trump's
"lame duck" era.
Greene, long a staunch and
outspoken ally of the president, announced on Friday evening that she
will be resigning from Congress on Jan. 5, only halfway through her
current term, citing her dissatisfaction with Trump's current term after
her recent break from him on numerous issues. On Monday morning, a
Punchbowl News report cited multiple anonymous GOP members of Congress
with similar sentiments, with some predicting that more high-profile
resignations are possible before the 2026 midterms.
“More
explosive early resignations are coming," one Republican told
Punchbowl. "It’s a tinder box. Morale has never been lower. [House
Speaker] Mike Johnson will be stripped of his gavel and they will lose
the majority before this term is out.”
Following
the release of that report, its writer, Jake Sherman, took to X to
share that more and more GOP members of Congress had reached out with
their own similar sentiments and thoughts of resigning, expressing
frustration over the bleak outlook for Congress for the next year or so.
Some
House Republicans told Punchbowl News that they believe Greene’s
resignation to be the first of many, with one senior House majority
member telling the outlet, “This entire White House team has treated ALL
members like garbage.”
“And Mike Johnson has
let it happen because he wanted it to happen,” the source told
Punchbowl. “More explosive early resignations are coming. It’s a tinder
box. Morale has never been lower. Mike Johnson will be stripped of his
gavel and they will lose the majority before this term is out.”
Ex-MAGA
firebrand Greene’s shocking resignation fed the growing flames of
dissent among Republicans against the Trump administration, which has
faltered in its influence in the wake of the investigation into
disgraced sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
[Analyst
Doug] Heye said that he believes more Republican House members will
defect in the coming days and weeks following the surprise resignation
of Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Friday.
Some
House Republicans told Punchbowl News that they believe Greene’s
resignation to be the first of many, with one senior House majority
member telling the outlet, “This entire White House team has treated ALL
members like garbage.”
“And Mike Johnson has
let it happen because he wanted it to happen,” the source told
Punchbowl. “More explosive early resignations are coming. It’s a tinder
box. Morale has never been lower. Mike Johnson will be stripped of his
gavel and they will lose the majority before this term is out.”
Ex-MAGA
firebrand Greene’s shocking resignation fed the growing flames of
dissent among Republicans against the Trump administration, which has
faltered in its influence in the wake of the investigation into
disgraced sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Chump's
not just a lame duck, he's a loser and an anchor around the GOP's
neck. And, more important, he's an elderly anchor around the GOP's
neck. Ewan Gleadow (RAW STORY) explains:
The
midterm elections could swing massively in favor of Democrat
candidates, and it's because of an issue with Donald Trump the GOP have
not addressed.
Greg Sargent of The New Republic and Amanda Marcotte believe
the problem of age will weigh heavy on the election cycle next year.
Trump, 79, is "not looking good these days" according to Marcotte, who
says the "elephant in the room" of the 2026 midterms is the president's
age.
She said, "I will not be surprised if turnout
is really high in the midterms. And that’s all before you even get into
the fact that the elephant in the room is that Donald Trump is 79 years
old, and he is not looking good these days."
"And
I think that his ability to be a strongman leader of the MAGA cults
kind of depends on him looking like someone who’s going to survive for
the next few years. I think there’s a bet that increasingly few people
are interested in taking."
A large number of MAGA social media influencers were exposed over the weekend as being being based in other countries.
Podcaster
Matt Binder posted screenshots showing that Charlie’s Voice Rising, a
popular Charlie Kirk fan account, is based in Eastern Europe (non-EU).
One
popular influencer wrote "wait this is crazy" along with a screenshot
showing that Defiant Ls, a MAGA account that has 1.6 million followers,
is from Japan.
Dem influencer DreamLeaf wrote,
"This one is great," along with evidence that a MAGA account called
"Americaman" is actually based in Indonesia.
PatriotTakes,
which is dedicated to research monitoring and exposing right-wing
extremism and other threats to democracy, drew attention to post Trump
himself had shared.
"Trump just boosted a MAGA
account based in 'South Asia' #AmericaFirst," he wrote, before Brian
Tyler Cohen said, "Perhaps it would be easier to identify which MAGA
accounts are actually based *inside* the United States."
So these fan clubs aren't really based in the US. Makes you wonder if they are also farms paid by foreign governments.
Adam Van Eekeren (EXTRA.IE) sums it up, "The
newest feature has sparked fury from within the MAGA movement as
massively popular pro-Trump X accounts have now been exposed as foreign
actors. Many accounts that have promoted an ‘America First’ ideology are
now known to be operating out of countries such as Thailand, Nigeria,
and Eastern Europe."
Let's wind down with this from Senator Elizabeth Warren's office:
Paramount Skydance made deals
with Trump prior to gaining merger approval, now reportedly admin
favorites to take over Warner Bros.
Senators warn that botched merger review could raise costs, reduce choices for Americans
“The American people deserve
full confidence that the federal government is enforcing these laws
independently, transparently, and free from political pressure or
financial influence.”
Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren
(D-Mass.) led Senators Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Richard Blumenthal
(D-Conn.) in writing to U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Antitrust
Division Assistant Attorney General Abigail Slater, warning that a
potential Warner Bros. deal could be tainted by political favoritism and
corruption. Warner Bros., in an upcoming formal auction process, is
expected to receive bids from major media companies potentially
including Paramount Skydance, Netflix, Apple, Amazon, and Comcast,
raising the specter of a new, massive media giant that drives up costs
and reduces choices for American families.
Recent reporting revealed that the Trump administration prefers for
Paramount Skydance to win the bid, raising questions of political
favoritism. The close relationship between the Trump administration and
Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison could politicize the merger
approval process. In July, the Trump administration approved the merger
between Paramount and Skydance, just weeks after Paramount donated $16
million to Trump’s Presidential Library — and after Ellison reportedly
agreed to a secret “side deal” to run millions of dollars’ worth of
pro-Trump ads.
“The Department of Justice (DOJ) must guarantee that any review of a
potential Warner Bros. transaction is conducted transparently,
independently, and in accordance with federal antitrust and
anti-corruption laws — not politics,” wrote the lawmakers. “Regardless
of which bidder is selected, the combination of one of these companies
with Warner Bros. would further consolidate the media market — risking
higher prices and less variety for consumers.”
The lawmakers demanded that the review of any potential transaction
involving Warner Bros. follow the law and avoid the taint of corruption
and political favoritism. If the review is botched and a new media giant
emerges, the company would have even more market power to raise costs
at a time when working- and middle-class Americans are already being
squeezed by skyrocketing costs across the board.
To ensure the DOJ review is fact-based and transparent, the senators
are pressing for answers on interactions that might bias the transaction
review process. In particular, the senators ask whether DOJ officials
have discussed any matters related to a potential Warner Bros.
transaction with lawyers, lobbyists, or consultants hired by Warner
Bros. or any of the reported bidders. They also seek further
clarification on whether conversations have been held with non-DOJ
lawyers, as well as White House officials or Donald Trump, relating to
transaction review at the DOJ, including a potential transaction
involving Warner Bros.
“A transparent and lawful merger review process ensures that
antitrust and public interest laws function as intended — to protect
competitive markets, prevent concentration of power, and safeguard
American families from higher prices and fewer choices,” the lawmakers concluded.
“The American people deserve full confidence that the federal
government is enforcing these laws independently, transparently, and
free from political pressure or financial influence.”
Senator Warren has consistently fought back against corrupt corporate media consolidation:
On October 10, 2025, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), and Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) questioned Skydance’s refusal to address President Donald Trump’s reported secret side deal.
On August 1, Senator Warren released
a statement in response to Paramount’s and Skydance’s responses to her
letters to each of the companies, describing the responses as “dodgy”
and calling for “a full, independent investigation” into whether the
companies or their executives engaged in any criminal behavior connected
to the approval of the companies’ multi-billion-dollar merger.
On July 24, Senator Warren responded
to the Trump administration’s approval of the Paramount-Skydance
megamerger, saying “bribery is illegal no matter who is president.”
On July 23, Senator Warren published an op-ed in Variety: “Elizabeth Warren on Colbert 'Late Show' Cancellation: Is the Paramount Trump Payoff a Bribe?”
On July 21, Senators Warren, Sanders (I-Vt.), and Wyden (D-Ore.) pressed
David Ellison, CEO of Skydance, about reports of a secret deal between
Skydance and President Trump—and how it may be related to Paramount’s
recent multi-million-dollar settlement agreement with Trump.
On July 17, Senators Warren and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), along
with Representatives Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.), Jamie Raskin (D-Md.),
Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.), and lawmakers in Congress, unveiled
the Presidential Library Anti-Corruption Act to close loopholes that
allow presidential libraries to be used as tools for corruption and
bribery.
On July 15, Senator Warren released a new report
exposing how companies, special interests, and foreign governments may
be pledging donations to President Trump’s future Presidential Library
as a corrupt tool to secure favorable outcomes from his administration.
On July 2, Senator Warren called for an investigation into Paramount’s settlement with Trump.
On May 19, Senators Warren, Sanders, and Wyden wrote
to Shari Redstone, Chair of Paramount, with concerns regarding whether
Paramount may be engaging in potentially illegal conduct involving the
Trump Administration in exchange for approval of its megamerger with
Skydance.
That's Isaiah's THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS "Poll Slip" and is Donald Chump not the most physically repulsive man on the face of the planet?
He's suffering another loss and I'm not talking about Comey and James which I assume a lot of people are -- and should be. Huge loss for Chump, huge victory for justice. I want to note his attempts to destroy Hillary Clinton. Michael Davis (WITCHITA EAGLE) reports:
President
Donald Trump’s legal team asked the 11th Circuit to reinstate a
dismissed civil RICO suit against former Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton, the Democratic National Committee (DNC), and others over
alleged efforts to link his 2016 campaign to Russia. The case drew
scrutiny after the judge sanctioned Trump’s attorneys for pursuing a
frivolous claim. U.S. District Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks dismissed
the case as a “shotgun pleading” lacking legal or factual basis.
Middlebrooks
wrote, “In order to understand the scope of this abuse, multiply the
above discussion by thirty-one defendants and their lawyers, forced to
try to analyze and defend against the sprawling Complaints”
Middlebrooks
said, “I sifted through the thread of allegations against each
defendant only to find they added up to no cognizable claim. And the
pleadings were drafted in a way to disguise that fact.”
Middlebrooks also fined Trump’s lawyers, ruling the lawsuit was politically motivated and unsupported by evidence.
During
appellate arguments, Chief Judge William Pryor, Judge Andrew Brasher,
and Judge Embry Kidd questioned Trump attorney Richard Klugh about the
complaint’s lack of specific financial harm. Klugh argued the claims
were sufficiently supported and deserved reconsideration.
Middlebrooks wrote, “This is a deliberate attempt to harass; to tell a story without regard to facts.”
With
Trump being criticized for his over-the-top response, Vance ran to his
defense on Sunday by linking to a clip of Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI)
pressing her case on ABC her case against the president.
The
vice president responded on X by writing, “If the president hasn't
issued illegal orders, them (sic) members of Congress telling the
military to defy the president is by definition illegal.”
That brought a swift response from the ex-US Attorney and University of Alabama School of Law professor Joyce Vance on her Substack platform, where she wrote, “That doesn’t make any sense.”
Noting
Vance’s legal background, she added, “Anyone with a Yale Law School
education should be in a position to understand that a) members of the
military have an obligation not to follow an illegal order, b) that
reminding them of that obligation neither violates the law nor instructs
them to defy a legal order, and c) that using those false statements to
claim that members of Congress who made the video they object to so
strongly is not ‘by definition’ illegal, and certainly not for members
of Congress who have speech and debate clause privilege even if there
had been something incorrect about their statements.”
Didn't realize he was doing a new album this year.
I'll
review it next weekend. I just found out about it when I opened the
laptop a few minutes ago. Went to AMAZON and ordered the vinyl version
($20.99 currently). Supposedly, it's arriving Monday but this is AMAZON
and Jeff Bezos doesn't care about much anymore -- not about service
from Amazon, not about having a quality partner, not about democracy.
It's 12 tracks.
Monday, November 24, 2025. Chump has psychotic break overnight, he
continues to protect his Muslim extremist buddy in Michigan as his
trolls lie that Marjorie Taylor Greene broke with him over the weekend
because MTG supports Sharia law (again, MTG does not support Sharia law,
that is the lie the Chumpians are repeating), is Ghislaine Maxwell
leaking -- at Chump's direction -- info on the former prince Andrew, and
much more.
This morning, Ben Meiselas addresses Chump's late night crazy.
That's
an important video and it is clear that Chump is now just as crazy as
his extreme supporters. Two have a radio program. I have o idea what
channel I had to endure it in this morning's taxi ride.
Marjorie
Taylor Greene, the two dick jockeys insisted, broke with Chump because
she supports Sharia Law. This is apparently the new talking point for
the extreme crazy on the extreme right. She is a secret Muslim, the
two fey men trying to act butch insisted. This is how they'll take over
our county, the 'men' insisted and impose Sharia law. Chump is the
only thing that will save us, they repeatedly stated.
Sharia
Law? Best example of un-American law attacking our country and our
rights is in Hamtramck. That's where Muslim Amer Ghalib has attacked
the rights of the LGBTQ+ community. He's used his post as mayor to
bring in something very ugly into the United States.
So,
per the dick jockeys, he must be someone Chump opposes, right? Chump
has nominated this trash and filth to be the US Ambassador to Kuwait.
His hearing was a nightmare and the nomination is not progressing.
Considering Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait, you really can't make
Amer the Ambassador to Kuwait when he insists that Saddam was a
"martyr." He is the voice of hate and he's a radical who wants to
destroy the country.
And Chump wants to make him the US
Ambassador to Kuwait. He endorsed Chump in the 2024 election and
that's why Chump hasn't focused on Michigan as he goes around from state
to state destroying cities Michigan, especially in the
Detroit-Hamtramck region, has a huge number of immigrants. But Chump
and Kristi don't go there because, as a result of Amer, Chump carried
that region in the 2024 election.
I don't spend my time
worrying about Sharia Law because I don't think it could ever get a
real hold in the US -- outside of a community of Muslim extremists (most
Muslims in this country are not extremists) -- but I really don't
think I missed some speech or press release Marjorie Taylor Greene gave
or issued calling for Sharia Law. I really don't see that happening.
But
this is how Team Chump works. They find the needy who will do their
bidding -- in this case, two closeted gay men desperate to be accepted
in MAGA and seen as straight -- and hand out the marching orders. Take
Marjorie down with lies. That's what they're trying to do and that's
why they're promoting these lies that Marjorie rejected Chump because
she supports Sharia law (and she's joining THE VIEW -- they lied that
was happening as well). The only Republican willing to support Sharia
law would be Chump who is attempting to get the disgusting Amer Ghalib
named US Ambassador to Kuwait.
Elsewhere
across the country, we see the appalling results of the Convicted
Felon's return to the White House. Last week? A superior court judge
and a court intern -- both American
citizens -- found themselves harassed and bullied by ICE. Vic Verbalaitis (DAILY BEAST) notes:
Immigration
and Customs Enforcement agents threatened a Rhode Island Superior Court
judge and an intern after they botched a detainment operation on
Thursday.
Outside
the Licht Judicial Complex in Providence, Rhode Island, ICE agents
briefly took a high school intern into custody who worked at the
Superior Court, WPRI 12 Newsreported.
Courthouse
security had noticed someone taking photos of the intern from outside
the courthouse earlier that day. The individual, when approached,
identified himself as an ICE agent before he was told to stop taking
pictures.
The
intern, unsettled by the federal agents stalking him, was offered a
ride home by Superior Court Judge Joseph McBurney. However, ICE agents
surrounded the judge’s car and threatened to smash its windows if they
did not exit the vehicle.
The Superior Court’s head of security intervened, telling the judge and the intern to stay in the car.
The intern was briefly handcuffed and taken into custody by ICE agents, as seen in video from bystanders.
After an argument ensued, the ICE agents confirmed they had misidentified their target and left the scene.
Oh,
sure, no harm no foul, right? It's not like you didn't terrorize that
kid and it's not like that was the actual intention, right? That is the
intention and that was the action. CNN adds:
The agents took him out of a vehicle that
was being driven by Superior Court Associate Justice Joseph McBurney,
who was taking the teen to school.
The agents allegedly ignored the teen, who insisted they were detaining the wrong person.
Agents restrained the teen’s hands behind his back and took him across the street.
Katie Mulvaney (PROVIDENCE JOURNAL) notes
that it was only the judge insisting that they had the wrong person
repeatedly that forced ICE to check and see if this 16 year old was the
predator of children that they claim they were looking for.
And Americans are seeing and grasping what's going on. KGW reports
protests took place in McMinnville on Saturday over the arrest of the
17 year old and they quote Abraham Mejia stating, "A 17-year-old minor
being abducted in broad daylight -- whether
people agree with that or not, it's just unacceptable. It
hits home and it makes you feel almost fueled that you need to do
something about it and that's why I'm here today." Americans are on the
streets protesting, they're addressing it with family, friends and
members of their communities, they're speaking out and writing letters
to the editor -- such as the one below.
Imagine yourself walking down the street when suddenly you are
approached by a beefy-dude who gets into your face and begins to
aggressively force himself upon you. As you attempt to break away you
find yourself surrounded by four other men, some who have completely
covered their face behind a mask, and each of them yelling at you,
taunting you, and wrestling you onto the ground to place you in
handcuffs. This violent assault leaves you disoriented, traumatized and
bewildered. You are aggressively thrown into a van, and taken away to a
location which only upon arrival do you realize you are being detained
and judged as an enemy of the State. Having lived peacefully and
lawfully, having held a job, having begun the process that leads toward
citizenship, you are now, with no due process of law cast into a hole,
not allowed to call your family, your lawyer, or a friend. You are
disappeared and have become subject to the lawless immorality that is
readily, purposely and cruelly eradicating the customs, traditions and
way of life that once made our nation a beacon of hope and light to all
the nations.
What can we the people do about this immoral and egregious practice
that is bringing shame to our beloved country? The Des Moines
Indivisible Citizens Movement, those who organize democracy rallies at
Big Catch Plaza, are joining up with a larger King County grass roots
movement called The Whistle Warriors to develop and distribute whistles
throughout our community. Our mission is to empower immigrant families
and community residents with a simple, effective, community-supported
tool for rapid alert, ensuring community safety and promoting neighbor
to neighbor solidarity during times of ICE raids.
We encourage all citizens who witness these types of assaults to film
the event, and to blow the whistle attempting to draw a crowd who can
collectively document as many details as possible, texting the
Washington Immigrant Solidarity Network (WAISN) hotline at
844-724-3737. Our goal is to hold ICE accountable to the rule of law,
and to protect as best we can those who have lived amongst us as friends
and neighbors. Such nonviolent actions on our part carry the promise
that “we the people” are present and observing as we insist on upholding
our higher community standards of justice and decency, particularly
from those who act in our name.
The whistles can be picked up at the Big Catch Plaza whenever we
rally for a return to democracy with its promise of liberty and justice
for all.
When children began coming to his shop by themselves holding their
family’s grocery lists, bakery owner Francisco Cuadra knew “things are
getting bad.”
As Operation Midway Blitz’s trail bled from Illinois into Northwest
Indiana neighborhoods, Cuadra, owner of Santa Maria’s Bakery in Hammond,
said some of his customers became too afraid to go out and get bread
and basic necessities, regardless of their citizenship status.
“Once it started showing up on Facebook on the Hammond pages, people
taking photos of ICE out on Columbia Avenue, I noticed business drop
down a lot,” Cuadra said. “Just like how once the rumors began in
Chicago, they saw their business drop. Our customers have had to send
their kids to pick up products, because the parents are afraid to come
out. It’s really sad to hear that. When kids are picking up the
groceries and bread, because their families are afraid to come out —
that’s horrible.”
Cuadra has owned the bakery since 2010 but rising costs and dwindling
customers have made him feel like the business is a “ticking time
bomb.” Despite this, he keeps grocery and bread prices affordable and
donates what he can.
When news of an ICE arrest at East Chicago’s La Rancherita bakery
reached him, Cuadra knew his customers would feel even less safe
patronizing his shop.
“(ICE agents) are not respecting people,” Cuadra said. “If you’re
Mexican, they treat you like someone here illegally, it doesn’t matter
if you’re here legally. They’re even snatching American citizens if they
don’t have a ‘REAL ID.’ Which a lot of people don’t have yet because
they’re waiting for their license to expire to get a new one. But the
government is saying if it’s not a REAL ID, and they’ll detain you,
because there’s no star in the corner. They say you have to have the
star in the corner of it, or they’ll basically claim it’s not real, it’s
a fake.”
These are the actions that
lead Americans into the streets in protest. Americans of all ages
recognize this is not American behavior and it must be called out. Ana Despa and Claire Cranford (DUKE CHRONICLE) report:
A week of immigration enforcement activity
across North Carolina culminated in youth-led demonstrations across
Durham on Friday, as students and community members protested
unannounced Customs and Border Protection and Immigration Customs
Enforcement operations in the Triangle.
City-wide walkouts and an evening rally drew hundreds of
Durhamites downtown. Students, workers and immigration-advocates alike
demanded accountability from local and federal officials. But they vowed
to continue organizing as uncertainty and fear surrounding “Operation
Charlotte’s Web” continue.
CBP agents first entered Charlotte Nov. 15 before making an unannounced expansion into Durham and Raleigh Tuesday. The Department of Homeland Security has reported over 250 detentions across the state thus far.
For nearly four hours, a crowd of roughly 250 high school students
gathered at the CCB Plaza in downtown Durham by the Bull statue to speak
out against ICE and CBP agents targeting members of their community.
They passed a megaphone from one person to another, voicing support for
classmates who missed school this week as the presence of CBP agents
left the city on edge.
The classrooms felt empty, they said. Durham Public Schools reported a nearly 30% absenteeism rate this week, accounting for 9,209 of roughly 31,000 enrolled students.
The demonstration came together in less than a week,
growing out of a group chat of just 20 students who sought to take a
stand against the immigration raid in their city. Both students from
Durham and Chapel Hill were in attendance after they walked out of their
classrooms around noon. Some DPS students took the “unexcused absence”
to rally for their community.
This
month, American-born Pope Leo backed the U.S. bishops’ recent decision
to oppose indiscriminate mass deportations under the Trump
administration. Local church leaders brought that message of migrant
dignity to Colorado’s only federal immigration detention center.
Hundreds of people showed up to the event, called Immigrant Stations
of the Cross. It was organized by the Catholic Committee for the
Pastoral Care of Migrants and took place Saturday morning outside the
GEO/ICE facility in Aurora.
“I-I am… I’m moved,” said Father Luke Barder of St. Dominic Parish,
his voice shaking. “I look at this crowd, and I know many of them, and I
know many of them are all over the ideological spectrum. And it’s this
one thing that’s uniting us, and that they’ve come, is a sign of hope
for me.”
Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila and Auxiliary Bishop Jorge Rodriguez participated in the closing prayer.
“I’m really inspired to see the Catholic community, Archbishop
Aquila, Auxiliary Bishop Rodriguez, many clergy and laity stand together
and say that the Church is with you,” said Thomas Weiler of the
Catholic Committee for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Together
Colorado.
The gathering directly referenced the U.S. Bishops’ Special Message on Immigration
released this month by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, which
stated, “To our immigrant brothers and sisters, we stand with you in
your suffering, since, when one member suffers, all suffer (cf. 1
Corinthians 12:26). You are not alone… We oppose the indiscriminate mass
deportation of people.”
Changing subjects, let's not Australia's 60 MINUTES.
Is,
as the segment offers, Ghislaine Maxwell leaking info on Andrew to
please Chump? We don't know and we can't know because she's in Club Fed
in Texas where she's been given access to laptops and other devices
that are not the prison's and that are not being monitored. Is that why
it's happening? Did she tell Donald she could beef up troubles for
Andrew if she had computer access?
The late pedophile and sex trafficked Jeffrey Epstein remains in the
news. We're still waiting to follow Congress recently passed laws but,
at THE NEW YORK TIMES, Anand Giridharadas weighs in on some of the e-mails already addressed:
At the dark heart of this story is a sex
criminal and his victims — and his enmeshment with President Trump. But
it is also a tale about a powerful social network in which some,
depending on what they knew, were perhaps able to look away because they
had learned to look away from so much other abuse and suffering: the
financial meltdowns some in the network helped trigger, the misbegotten
wars some in the network pushed, the overdose crisis some of them
enabled, the monopolies they defended, the inequality they turbocharged,
the housing crisis they milked, the technologies they failed to protect
people against.
The Epstein story is
resonating with a broader swath of the public than most stories now do,
and some in the establishment worry. When Representative Ro Khanna,
Democrat of California, speaks of an “Epstein class,” isn’t that dangerous? Isn’t that class warfare?
But the intuitions of the public are
right. People are right to sense that, as the emails lay bare, there is a
highly private merito-aristocracy at the intersection of government and
business, lobbying, philanthropy, start-ups, academia, science, high
finance and media that all too often takes care of its own more than the
common good. They are right to resent that there are infinite second
chances for members of this group even as so many Americans are deprived
of first chances. They are right that their pleas often go unheard,
whether they are being evicted, gouged, foreclosed on, A.I.-obsolesced —
or, yes, raped.
It is no accident
that this was the social milieu that took Mr. Epstein in. His
reinvention, after he pleaded guilty to prostitution-related charges in
Florida in 2008, would
never have been possible without this often anti-democratic,
self-congratulatory elite, which, even when it didn’t traffic people,
took the world for a ride.
The emails,
in my view, together sketch a devastating epistolary portrait of how
our social order functions, and for whom. Saying that isn’t extreme. The
way this elite operates is.
As I’ve watched the Epstein story unravel across the
media—through the shouting of lawmakers and the flood of tawdry emails
dumped in the press—I’ve not been able to ignore how it’s all one big
pile of rot at the center of polite society. My TNR colleague, Matt
Ford, expressed similar sentiments
in a recent piece, confessing that the truly despairing thing about the
Epstein affair was that the whole idea of civic virtue seems to have
been murdered, and in its place, a culture of elite impunity has risen.
For
my part, I’m less worried about whether some Democratic Party luminary
catches an Epstein stray and more concerned about whether Democrats
bungle the opportunity to attack these corrupt arrangements and the
presidential administration that has made them its North Star. This iron
is, at the moment, particularly hot. A fresh Reuters/Ipsos poll
released Wednesday found that Trump’s approval ratings had hit startling new lows,
with respondents particularly “unhappy about his handling of the high
cost of living and the investigation into the late convicted sex
offender Jeffrey Epstein.”
Epstein and the economy—these are
the twin albatrosses around Trump’s neck. The question, however, is
whether Democrats will have the stomach and the sense to exploit both
avenues to Trump’s ruin. It may not seem like a problem, but Democrats
seem pathologically averse to multitasking, which explains why they’re
making the salience of grocery prices their priority to the exclusion of
all other matters. So monomaniacal is this approach that at various
times over the past year, Democratic lawmakers have called other
concerns “distractions”—up to and including Trump’s rampaging paramilitary forces.
The
two are connected. Epstein was the powerful and he counted out others
in his class to protect him. He counted on politicians and celebrities
and Noam Chomsky and others to protect and redeem him. If Brian Smith's
son was guilty of pedophilia and sex trafficking, he wouldn't have
gotten a sweetheart deal that reduced those actions to mere
prostitution. Behind bars, Brian Smith wouldn't have been treated like
royalty -- the way Epstein was and the way his co-conspirator Ghislaine
Maxwell is being treated.
And we see
Chump, Epstein's roll dog, destroy the economy for the working class.
We see costs rise and employment dive. He's not serving We The People,
he's enriching the 1%.
It's an abuse of power and he's involved in both. It's an abuse of power and both expose him for the liar that he is.
Mr. Trump is right. He has nothing to
hide because he stands to lose nothing. Whatever exists in those files
surely will not be enough to wrest him from his perch. At least not yet.
Even those who have shown some remorse — Larry Summers, for example —
took years. Other men named, like Steve Bannon, Peter Thiel, Noam Chomsky and Michael Wolff, have sought to distance themselves from Mr. Epstein or have not responded to press requests.
We’ve
been here before. For so many, the Epstein saga echoes a once-hopeful
#MeToo movement, when it seemed possible to reform the male-dominated
systems that kept women down. The movement led to a handful of convicted
men, but also fed a colossal backlash that reminds us how our country
has never adequately protected women. The backlash also, arguably,
contributed to the second election of Mr. Trump, who has overseen an era
that might be unique in its willingness to sacrifice democratic
institutions and American norms to control women.
As I write, there is a White House proposal that aims to lower the Office on Violence Against Women’s stature within the D.O.J. and cut its shoestring budget
by nearly 30 percent. This would devastate shelters, advocacy programs
and violence prevention measures, and escalate the danger for victims of
intimate partner and familial violence in all corners of the country.
At the same time, a report
on violent deaths of girls and women from 2014 to 2020 noted that laws
constraining abortion providers were associated with a 3.4 percent rise
in the rate of homicides related to intimate partner violence. We are
being killed for our own lack of choice. An estimated one in 20 women in
the United States gets pregnant from rape or sexual coercion, which
equates to a whopping six million women with violence-initiated pregnancies. Sixmillion. Two-thirds of the women who became pregnant from rape were injured during their assaults.
Again
it goes to who has the reigns of power. Again, it goes to a pattern of
victimization which those, like Chump, who stood by Epstein have
practiced their entire lives. Their sense of entitlement allows them to
harm others -- especially others with no power.
If you're wanting primary sources -- if you're wanting to read the e-mails yourself and not just depend upon reporting, James West (MOTHER JONES) notes:
Earlier this month, the House Oversight Committee released
a flotilla of Epstein emails—more than 20,000 in total. The revelations
created a tidal wave of news. In perhaps the most famous email, Jeffrey
Epstein claimed Trump “knew about the girls.” Epstein also called Trump
“the dog that hasn’t barked” and alleged that Trump had once spent
“hours at my house” with a sex trafficking victim.
A trove of that size would ordinarily be difficult and time-consuming
to sort, but this digital dump was especially cumbersome: packaged in
oddly titled folders, and tossed with a random assortment of
unsearchable detritus and system files.
What if you were able to just… read them like emails?
That’s the simple premise behind “Jmail,”
a re-skinning of the documents programmed to look and feel like an
everyday Gmail account, with all the design details impeccably parodied
and emails displayed in sequential chains, just like your own inbox. It
even includes a working search function. Its release this week created
it’s own internet storm.
Let's wind down with this from Senator Ron Wyden's office:
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Ron Wyden
today asked U.S. Coast Guard officials to join him this Sunday morning,
Nov. 23 at the Newport Municipal Airport to provide him and this central
Oregon Coast community answers about the relocation of a Coast Guard
helicopter essential to local public safety.
Wyden wrote in his letter to Admiral Kevin E. Lunday, Acting Coast
Guard Commandant, that he would like that Nov. 23 airport meeting with a
Coast Guard representative to happen before his annual open-to-all Lincoln County town hall scheduled later that day in Newport.
“On November 12, 2025, I wrote to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Noem
and you seeking timely answers about the recent change in Coast Guard
assets. To date, I have not received any answers or updates from the
Coast Guard or DHS,” Wyden wrote. “That ongoing silence
about a decision that carries life-and-death consequences for
Oregonians and visitors to this community is unacceptable to the people
I’m proud to represent.
Wyden reiterated in today’s letter that the Coast Guard station in
Newport serves the city and the central Oregon Coast as an essential
safety net for the state’s fishing industry, coastal visitors, and local
residents with boat crews and a MH-65 Dolphin helicopter aircrew that’s long been a proven lifesaver in search-and-rescue operations.
“Newport residents and small business owners remain extremely
concerned about how this move threatens search and rescue operations,
considering that the next closest helicopter appears to now be more than
90 miles away in North Bend, Oregon,” Wyden wrote. “The
fishing community in Newport is understandably worried that if someone
in the cold water of the Pacific is in need of immediate rescue, the
Coast Guard crews nearby will not have the necessary assets to save
their lives.“
