"federal funding to Catholic Charities in south Texas ..." ?!
What has happened to Church / State separation ? Could be trouble if south Texas ever joins the union, right?
The Second Term of Donald J. Trump as President of the United States of America
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What has happened to Church / State separation ? Could be trouble if south Texas ever joins the union, right?
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Meanwhile Trump media company drops lawsuit against the Guardian
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Trump media company drops lawsuit against the Guardian
TMTG drops defamation claim over report that prosecutors were investigating payments received as possible money laundering
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I would like the whole story on Russian / Putin involvement.
Meanwhile, "drops lawsuit"?
- Because it's a political hot potato? Too hot to handle?
- Not worth the bother?
- other ?
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If this were to go to court any number of people will be subpoenaed to testify under oath. I rather doubt that they want that to happen.
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Lieu Holds Up $6.2 Billion Wire To Cayman Islands — Miller Refuses To Say WHO Got It
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The screen went black for three seconds. Then Stephen Miller's own voice filled the chamber: "I have never instructed anyone to alter border statistics. That has never happened. Not once. Not ever."
Congressman Ted Lieu let it play. Then he froze the frame. Then he said four words that made the room explode: "Let me show you."
What followed was not a leaked clip. Not anonymous footage. It was an official DHS internal meeting video. With timestamps. With metadata. With Stephen Miller's face in crystal clear resolution doing exactly what he just told America never happened.
This is the full breakdown of the hearing that just sent a senior DHS official to the DOJ for criminal investigation.
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Congressman Ted Lieu let it play. Then he froze the frame. Then he said four words that made the room explode: "Let me show you."
What followed was not a leaked clip. Not anonymous footage. It was an official DHS internal meeting video. With timestamps. With metadata. With Stephen Miller's face in crystal clear resolution doing exactly what he just told America never happened.
This is the full breakdown of the hearing that just sent a senior DHS official to the DOJ for criminal investigation.
624K views · 28K reactions | The screen went black for three seconds. Then Stephen Miller's own voice filled the chamber: "I have never instructed anyone to alter border statistics. That has never happened. Not once. Not ever." Congressman Ted Lieu
The screen went black for three seconds. Then Stephen Miller's own voice filled the chamber: "I have never instructed anyone to alter border statistics. That has never happened. Not once. Not ever."...
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And the Pope is too nice to tell JD what he should do to himself.
counterpoint: Sadly, this self-righteous message includes wishful thinking.
"second-rate conman"?
President Trump has conned tens of millions of U.S. voters to choose him over two women, each better suited to the presidency than Trump: Secretary Clinton, & Vice President Harris.
Trump isn't the only one that would wish to obtain the office of president for personal gain and recreational exercise of injustice with unprecedented impunity.
"second-rate conman"?
President Trump is a first-rate conman.
etymological note:
"conman" is a subcategory of swindler that misrepresents to gain the confidence of his victims.
A confidence man.
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BREAKING
A divided three-judge panel on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Chief Judge James Boasberg must immediately end his contempt investigation into the Trump administration for defying a court order last year. The order in question was issued on March 15, 2025: Boasberg told the administration to turn around planes carrying Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador — planes that were already in the air. The administration kept flying. The planes landed. 137 men were transferred into a notorious maximum-security prison in El Salvador without any judicial hearing, without any review, in direct defiance of a federal judge's order.
Boasberg found probable cause that the administration had acted in "willful disregard" of his directive. He launched contempt proceedings. And today, the appeals court — with two Trump appointees in the majority — shut those proceedings down entirely. Circuit Judge Neomi Rao, a Trump appointee, wrote that Boasberg's order had not been "clear and specific" enough to justify contempt, and that the administration had a "clear and indisputable" right to have the investigation terminated. Judge J. Michelle Childs, the Biden appointee on the panel, dissented.
Let's be precise about what this ruling means. It does not say the administration was right to defy the order. It says the investigation into whether they defied the order must stop. There will be no criminal contempt finding, no penalty, no formal public accounting of who gave the order to keep flying, who knew about the judge's directive, and who decided to ignore it anyway. The 137 men who were deported in defiance of a court order are still in that El Salvador prison. None of this changes that.
This ruling fits a larger pattern that has been building throughout Trump's second term. When administration officials defy court orders on immigration — whether on deportation flights, on detaining legal residents, on due process — the appellate courts Trump reshaped during his first term keep stepping in to neutralize the consequences. The judges he appointed rule that the investigations are overreach. The standards for contempt are reinterpreted narrowly. The accountability evaporates.
Todd Blanche, Trump's former personal defense attorney who now serves as Acting Attorney General, told reporters earlier this month that Trump has a "right" and a "duty" to direct the Justice Department's investigations — including investigations of his political enemies. The same logic applies in reverse: the courts Trump shaped are increasingly willing to protect his administration from the investigations it deserves. Today is one more data point in that direction. A judge found probable cause. An appeals court said stop anyway.
And 137 men remain in a foreign prison...
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PAGING RFK JR: A major nationwide study out of Denmark, tracking more than 1.5 million children over 25 years, found NO LINK between Tylenol (acetaminophen) use during pregnancy and autism.
Researchers looked at over 31,000 children exposed to Tylenol in the womb and found autism rates were actually lower (1.8%) compared to 3% in those not exposed. The findings held even after accounting for dosage, timing during pregnancy, and other risk factors.
This adds to growing evidence, including a 2024 Swedish study, showing no association between prenatal acetaminophen use and autism.
Disinformation from the White House has created anxiety for expecting parents. This new research helps bring some clarity, and reassurance, grounded in large-scale, long-term data. Not kooky conspiracy theories.
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The government hid every piece of evidence from the killing of Renee Good. A federal judge just said hand it over.
Renee Good was shot and killed by ICE agent Jonathan Ross on January 7 in Minneapolis. She was sitting in her car. She was an American citizen. A poet. A mother. She committed no crime. And for three months, the federal government has refused to release a single piece of evidence about how she died.
They removed Minnesota's Bureau of Criminal Apprehension from the investigation. They blocked state investigators from accessing any materials.
They refused to identify Ross publicly until news outlets did their own investigations. A high-ranking White House official personally overruled ICE's own initial agreement to cooperate with a use-of-force investigation.
They didn't just cover it up. They built a wall around the cover-up.
On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Bryan tore a hole in that wall. He ordered federal prosecutors to turn over Ross's complete personnel and training files, all statements Ross made in the 60 minutes before and during the shooting, witness statements, body-worn camera footage, cell phone data, medical records related to Ross's fitness for duty, and DHS and ICE use-of-force policies. They have three weeks.
"This judge is effectively doing the investigation that the United States has turned its back on," said Shauna Kieffer, a defense attorney in Minneapolis.
The order came through a side door. Ross was involved in a separate violent incident last June where he attempted to arrest a man during a traffic stop and was dragged by the car.
That man was convicted of assault. His defense attorney argued that evidence from the Good killing could reveal a pattern of reckless behavior by Ross that's relevant to sentencing. The judge agreed.
If Ross's conduct is found to have contributed to the earlier incident, the court could reduce the convicted man's sentence below the guideline range. Meaning the evidence about how Ross killed Renee Good could prove that Ross himself was the problem all along.
The state of Minnesota, led by Attorney General Keith Ellison, is also suing the Trump administration for blocking the state's own investigation into the shooting. The federal government fought every attempt to get this evidence into the open. A judge just overruled them.
The body camera footage exists. The witness statements exist. The truth about what happened to Renee Good exists. And it's coming out.
In the 1950's in casual speech there was a cliché "as safe as aspirin", a familiar OTC analgesic.
Once the link between aspirin use was statistically connected to the deaths of hundreds of thousands each year, that lay expression lapsed.
Acetaminophen may seem a safer analgesic alternative, with a caveat.
The combination of acetaminophen and beverage ethanol may cause injury to the liver that neither of these cause to the same degree, when consumed alone.
She was murdered
on camera
with witnesses.
When will her murderer begin serving 25 to life for this senseless violent crime?
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There is a very fine line between a medicinal dose of Tylenol and a fatal one. And Tylenol is found in many OTC drugs so it's surprisingly easy to "double up" on what you thought you were taking.
You may save a life w/ the insight in #3,037 S2 *. Thank You
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Please forgive the brief divergence:
So despondent she decided to end it all, Penelope trudged off to the pharmacy to buy a family-sized bottle, 1,000 Aspirin,
planning to swallow all one thousand tablets. BUT !
After she swallowed the first two, she felt better.
* pappy made similar miscalculation. The end.
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As for "doubling up" - got a cold so you take a cough suppressant, and a decongestant, and you're sore and achy so you take a tylenol, and something to soothe your throat - odds are every one of those things contain tylenol.
