The Second Term of Donald J. Trump as President of the United States of America
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3 days ago ... Mike Rogers speaks with one of the leaders of the Service Employees International Union-United Services Workers West after their president ...ht tps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnFUHkgqOAc
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ooseStprndt2h32la2860026c903mh781gm1i4u94g0ua9gf08t5ml958f43 ·BREAKING: Gavin Newsom brilliantly dunks on MAGA House Speaker Mike Johnson after he suggests that the California governor should be brutally "tarred and feathered" for opposing Donald Trump's fascist crackdowns in Los Angeles.
Johnson never stood a chance against the Democratic superstar...
"The president said possibly in jest that if he were [Border Czar] Tom Homan he would arrest Gavin Newsom, do you believe that Newsom should face consequences in a legal way?" a reporter asked Johnson at a press conference.
"Umm... Uh. Look, I.... This is not my lane. I'm not gonna give you legal analysis on whether Gavin Newsom should be arrested but he ought to be tarred and feathered I'll say that," said Johnson. "Look he's standing in the way of the administration and the carrying out of federal law, right?"
Tarring and feathering was an incredibly cruel form of public torture that was first popularized in medieval times. The victim would be stripped naked, coated in hot tar, then doused in feathers and run out of town. Suggesting that such a punishment should be inflicted on a sitting governor amidst an ongoing crisis is irresponsible at best and a flagrant incitement to violence at worst.
"He is applauding the bad guys and standing in the way of the good guys," Johnson continued. "He is trying... He is a participant, an accomplice in our federal law enforcement agents being not just disrespected but assaulted."
Despite what Johnson is asserting, the "good guys" are most certainly not the ICE agents who are kidnapping people, denying them due process, and tearing apart innocent families on behalf of a convicted felon president. The "good guys" are the people who are standing up to these fascists.
"Uh, this is a serious problem and, uh, the governor is now filing a lawsuit against the president. What a joke. Do your job man. That's what I'd tell Gavin Newsom: Do your job," Johnson added. "Stop working on your rebranding and be a governor."
The irony here is that if Johnson were interested in doing his own job he would immediately move to impeach and remove Donald Trump for any one of his myriad crimes including his blatant corruption and bribery, his continued defiance of the courts, or his circumvention of the law to send the National Guard into Los Angeles.
"Stand up for the rule of law. He's not doing that," Johnson continued. "So I don't know what the ultimate measure will be there but I know that in the interim time the President of the United States is showing real leadership and we're not going to allow LA to burn."
It must be noted that the chaos unfolding in Los Angeles is a direct result of escalatory actions taken by the Trump administration. State and local officials do not want the National Guard or Marines in the city but Trump needs the violence to worsen so that he can look tough to his supporters.
"We've seen this movie before, right? " Johnson added. "This thing gets out of hand real quickly especially in a big city like that and if local and state officials are unwilling or unable to do their job the President of the United States will do his and we support that fully."
This man is a coward of the lowest order. Just like every other spineless politician in the Republican Party he makes sure to lace all of his remarks with fawning praise of Donald Trump, the worst president in American history.
True to form, Gavin Newsom didn't back down in the face of Johnson's attacks.
"Good to know we’re skipping the arrest and going straight for the 1700’s style forms of punishment. A fitting threat given the @GOP want to bring our country back to the 18th Century," Newsom wrote on X, sharing a clip of the tar-and-feathering quote.
Where Johnson's comments were rambling and riddled with lies, Newsom's were succinct, honest, and cut right to the point. Democrats want to bring the United States into the coming century. Republicans want to sink us into a MAGA Dark Age.
No.
Presidential circumvention of due process is not "carrying out federal law" in the sense you wish to imply here Johnson.
'Proof is in the pudding': Trump DOJ tells court it will seek dismissal of Abrego Garcia case
The filing is likely to do little to quell the mounting legal fight surrounding Abrego Garcia's detention and efforts to secure his return By Breanne Deppisch , Ashley Oliver Fox News / June 10, 2025 3:38pm EDT The Trump administration on Tuesday said it plans to seek the dismissal of a civil case ordering the government to return Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia to the U.S., arguing in a new court filing that the case is now "moot," given that he is now back in U.S. custody.In the filing, lawyers for the Trump administration told U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis that they plan to submit an official motion to dismiss the case on "mootness grounds" by June 16. Justice Department officials said they have "done exactly what plaintiffs asked for and what this court ordered them to do" – that is, to return Abrego Garcia to the U.S. from El Salvador, where he was deported in March in what Trump officials acknowledged was an administrative error.But ...
'Proof is in the pudding': Trump DOJ tells court it will seek dismissal of Abrego Garcia case
Trump administration seeks dismissal of Abrego Garcia deportation case after his return to U.S., while lawyers plan sanctions over handling of his transfer from El Salvador.
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Such a fashionable shade of lipstick on their pig!
Trump wants to 'liberate' Los Angeles, residents say 'no thanks'
By Brad Brooks / June 11, 20255:04 AM GMT-5- LA's Little Tokyo residents reject Trump's 'liberation' plan
- Residents say troops are making situation worse
- Protesters scatter into Little Tokyo at night, causing unrest
A dozen people who live, work or frequent the neighborhood, where Japanese is heard spoken as frequently as English in shops and restaurants, on Tuesday told Reuters that Trump's use of the military was inflaming the protests against recent immigration raids in Los Angeles.
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A new Republican Senator tried to pass a law last night that would increase minimum sentences for assaults against police officers, except for assaults on police officers on January 6.
I went to floor to object and tell him how dangerous that is. Here's part of the exchange.
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I went to floor to object and tell him how dangerous that is. Here's part of the exchange.
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Shared to FB by an Australian friend
A friend of mine believes violence and revolution and possibly even civil war is inevitable.
I hope he's wrong, but ... he makes convincing arguments.
First of all, the perpetraitor has no shame. He cannot and will not be forced out of office no matter what the circumstances. In his mind, he is always right and everybody else is wrong. Therefore...etc.
My friend also argues that there is no way the VP and the Cabinet will invoke the 25th amendment. If they did, the perpetraitor would insist he is still capable and force a Constitutional crisis. But they won't -- because even as they privately admit that the man is out of control, as long as he is in the oval office they get to keep their positions of power. Remove him and some of them might go out with him too. The 25th amendment doesn't work if the cabinet is filled with cowards.
Impeachment? Well ... maybe. But first you need a majority of Democrats in the house and 60 votes in the Senate. Not right now and not likely if the rethuglicans plan on playing games with the next election(s).
So there are no legal ways to get him out of the White House.
Physical incapacitation? Well, there's plenty of evidence for that? Mental incapacitation? That was obvious years ago. Unless he dies or has a stroke, the rethuglican party is happy to use him as the figurehead on the battering ram of Project 2025.
The Praetorian Guard solution? As was done to Caligula on the way back from the games? His own guards took him down. The members of the military take an oath to protect the nation against all enemies, foreign and domestic. But before any of our uniformed servicemen can act, they would have to have a serious crisis of conscience. It's possible, but it's unlikely.
My friend offered a couple of other speculations which I will not repeat here because I consider them unacceptable. But he did make the point that even if the perpetraitor dropped dead tomorrow, we would still be stuck with all of his enablers and the mess they are committed to making. They want revenge, they want punishment of all those they have decided have oppressed them. And in the red states, they're still fighting a war they lost 160 years ago.
My friend went on to say that the perpetraitor is committed to violence. Therefore, he believes, there will come a time when the pushback becomes inevitable. That's when the military has to decide if they are going to stand with what our government has become or with the 70% of the nation that stands against it.
The perpetraitor's attempt to terrorize Los Angeles is only his first move. His goal is to declare martial law and suspend the 2026 elections. Permanently.
And that might be the spark that triggers the civil war.
There is this. Taco-Donnie is a coward. He backs down, but rather than let anyone see him back down, he creates a new distraction, so his embarrassment is never on the front pages ....
Oh, that's another point. The major media is owned by oligarchs and cowards. Do not expect to get an accurate picture of events from any of the major news organizations. They're scared of him.
If only we had a news media that was willing to go after him, the same way that the Washington Post went after Richard Nixon and lit the bonfire that brought him down.
There is one way out. It's very unlikely -- but if/when somehow the situation for him becomes untenable, rather than fleeing in panic, he will announce that he has accomplished everything he set out to do and he is going to retired to ... I dunno, someplace where there's no extradition.
But I'm not holding my breath for that either.
Whatever happens, there is only one safe prediction -- we can't predict it. It's that kind of madness.
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oosrStnedp6715g7il0tmm3147mul1h212m7a44227u89g53h115ga8ci8hl ·A friend of mine believes violence and revolution and possibly even civil war is inevitable.
I hope he's wrong, but ... he makes convincing arguments.
First of all, the perpetraitor has no shame. He cannot and will not be forced out of office no matter what the circumstances. In his mind, he is always right and everybody else is wrong. Therefore...etc.
My friend also argues that there is no way the VP and the Cabinet will invoke the 25th amendment. If they did, the perpetraitor would insist he is still capable and force a Constitutional crisis. But they won't -- because even as they privately admit that the man is out of control, as long as he is in the oval office they get to keep their positions of power. Remove him and some of them might go out with him too. The 25th amendment doesn't work if the cabinet is filled with cowards.
Impeachment? Well ... maybe. But first you need a majority of Democrats in the house and 60 votes in the Senate. Not right now and not likely if the rethuglicans plan on playing games with the next election(s).
So there are no legal ways to get him out of the White House.
Physical incapacitation? Well, there's plenty of evidence for that? Mental incapacitation? That was obvious years ago. Unless he dies or has a stroke, the rethuglican party is happy to use him as the figurehead on the battering ram of Project 2025.
The Praetorian Guard solution? As was done to Caligula on the way back from the games? His own guards took him down. The members of the military take an oath to protect the nation against all enemies, foreign and domestic. But before any of our uniformed servicemen can act, they would have to have a serious crisis of conscience. It's possible, but it's unlikely.
My friend offered a couple of other speculations which I will not repeat here because I consider them unacceptable. But he did make the point that even if the perpetraitor dropped dead tomorrow, we would still be stuck with all of his enablers and the mess they are committed to making. They want revenge, they want punishment of all those they have decided have oppressed them. And in the red states, they're still fighting a war they lost 160 years ago.
My friend went on to say that the perpetraitor is committed to violence. Therefore, he believes, there will come a time when the pushback becomes inevitable. That's when the military has to decide if they are going to stand with what our government has become or with the 70% of the nation that stands against it.
The perpetraitor's attempt to terrorize Los Angeles is only his first move. His goal is to declare martial law and suspend the 2026 elections. Permanently.
And that might be the spark that triggers the civil war.
There is this. Taco-Donnie is a coward. He backs down, but rather than let anyone see him back down, he creates a new distraction, so his embarrassment is never on the front pages ....
Oh, that's another point. The major media is owned by oligarchs and cowards. Do not expect to get an accurate picture of events from any of the major news organizations. They're scared of him.
If only we had a news media that was willing to go after him, the same way that the Washington Post went after Richard Nixon and lit the bonfire that brought him down.
There is one way out. It's very unlikely -- but if/when somehow the situation for him becomes untenable, rather than fleeing in panic, he will announce that he has accomplished everything he set out to do and he is going to retired to ... I dunno, someplace where there's no extradition.
But I'm not holding my breath for that either.
Whatever happens, there is only one safe prediction -- we can't predict it. It's that kind of madness.
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Well Steve, Rush Limbaugh said the purpose of the U.S. military is to kill people and break things.
In Moscow & Pyongyang such sabre rattling is common.
It's out of place in Washington DC.
or at least was recognized as out of place by 46 of our 47 presidents.
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This is fing enraging. Trigger happy asshole shot a woman with a "rubber" bullet trying to get to her apartment they were blocking.
The excellent woman filming and helping with medical care is Alexandria @labyrinthlore on TikTok.
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This is fing enraging. Trigger happy asshole shot a woman with a "rubber" bullet trying to get to her apartment they were blocking. The excellent woman...
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Citizen / $taxpayer / editor note:
Christmas is special in part because it's only one day out of 365.25
If every day was Christmas, Christmas would be less special.
Trump is such a maelstrom of excesses, few of them stand out among all the others.
Well, here's yet one more stunner for you.
U.S. President Trump, reportedly the only U.S. president to serve while simultaneously a convicted felon,
appears to be groping for a means to pardon himself. BUT !!
Legal authorities claim the U.S. president's Constitutionally enumerated authority to pardon is limited to federal crime / conviction.
The question of whether a president can pardon himself aside, an issue apparently currently without precedent, legally not in the case of Trump's dozens of felony convictions from New York law court.
Just over a year after Trump became the first former president to be found guilty of a felony, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit heard arguments Wednesday on Trump's efforts to move his appeal of the verdict from state court to federal court.
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President Trump may not be the first banana Republican, but he seems to be the worst of the bunch.
Christmas is special in part because it's only one day out of 365.25
If every day was Christmas, Christmas would be less special.
Either of these Trump stunners might precipitate a whirlwind of controversy if about nearly anybody else. BUT !
Trump is such a maelstrom of excesses, few of them stand out among all the others.
Well, here's yet one more stunner for you.
U.S. President Trump, reportedly the only U.S. president to serve while simultaneously a convicted felon,
appears to be groping for a means to pardon himself. BUT !!
Legal authorities claim the U.S. president's Constitutionally enumerated authority to pardon is limited to federal crime / conviction.
The question of whether a president can pardon himself aside, an issue apparently currently without precedent, legally not in the case of Trump's dozens of felony convictions from New York law court.
Trump's attorney asks judges to move appeal of NY hush money conviction to federal court
The Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit heard oral arguments Wednesday / By Aaron Katersky and Peter Charalambous / June 11, 2025, 11:35 AMJust over a year after Trump became the first former president to be found guilty of a felony, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit heard arguments Wednesday on Trump's efforts to move his appeal of the verdict from state court to federal court.
Trump's attorney asks judges to move appeal of NY hush money conviction to federal court
President Trump's challenge to his felony hush money conviction in New York should be heard in federal court, an attorney for the president argued Wednesday.
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President Trump may not be the first banana Republican, but he seems to be the worst of the bunch.
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Taylor Hunter
orstoeSndpgl76708glm50t9gug625hcu4lgc3i48uh9451hh68au292fa02 ·"You shot a journalist on live television.
You struck another in the forehead while he was standing alone under a freeway.
You sent one man into emergency surgery after punching a hole in his leg with a “less-lethal” round.
You bruised a New York Times reporter’s ribcage.
You gassed a foreign correspondent while she was wearing a press badge.
You shot a 74-year-old woman in the back.
You nailed a man in the chest with a 40mm grenade while he was holding a phone.
And you left a woman bleeding from the skull in the middle of the street while people begged your officers to call an ambulance—and they didn’t.
And now you're "investigating."
This is a public warning—not the kind your tactical goons give, with chest armor and foam rounds and dead eyes behind mirrored shields. No. This is a journalistic warning. You no longer get to control the narrative.
Closer to the Edge has completed a full, verified investigation of eight people injured by law enforcement during the protests in Los Angeles. Seven were journalists. One was a protester. All of them were harmed under your watch.
We are publishing their stories. One at a time. With verified quotes. With real names. With witness footage, medical updates, and your own damn statements when available. You told the public you’re investigating? Then we’ll do it faster, better, and with the one thing your officers seem allergic to: accountability.
Let’s preview what’s coming:
Lauren Tomasi was broadcasting live when the LAPD rode in on horseback. One of your officers lifted his weapon, aimed, fired, and struck her in the leg. “I got hit,” she said, her cameraman taking cover. The clip went global. The Prime Minister of Australia called it “horrific.” You told reporters you were “reviewing the footage.” That was the extent of it. She walked it off. We won’t.
Toby Canham was standing alone under a freeway overpass, filming with a tripod. He was not part of any crowd. A CHP officer shot him in the forehead. “Fuck, I just got shot in the head,” he yelled, the camera still rolling. He suffered whiplash and a hematoma. He told reporters, “I was the only person standing overlooking the freeway. I was an easy target.”
And that’s exactly what you made him.
Nick Stern was hit in the leg by a 14-millimeter sponge round fired at close range. He collapsed. He was hospitalized and required surgery to remove the round from his thigh. He nearly passed out from blood loss. “I couldn’t walk. They had to carry me into the ER,” he said. He was on assignment, camera in hand. The only riot was what you unleashed on his body.
Livia Albeck-Ripka of The New York Times was struck just below the ribs. “It was pretty intense, instant pain,” she said. “I just have a nasty bruise. I’m lucky.” You haven’t even acknowledged that she was struck. Not publicly. Not once. You shot a reporter for the paper of record and didn’t even offer a press release.
Lauren Day was tear-gassed and struck with pepper rounds while reporting for Australia’s ABC network. Her cameraman was hit in the chest. “The fact that you’re press is no protection,” she said. Her face burned. Her throat swelled. She called it “a really shocking thing to experience in a democracy.” We call it cowardice with a badge.
Kimie Saito is 74 years old. She was covering a protest in Paramount for the World Socialist Web Site when officers shot her in the back with a rubber bullet. “I felt something hit my back,” she said. Her report is detailed, credible, and the only one of its kind. Not a single other media outlet has asked about her. But we will.
Sergio Olmos was filming with his iPhone when officers struck him in the chest with a 40mm sponge grenade. “I got hit in the chest and it’s a moment of, ‘What the fuck?’” he told CalMatters. “It was the most amount of less-lethals I’ve seen used in a single-day protest.” He’s been to war zones. This was worse. He said the police presence in L.A. was “like a civil war.”
And then there’s the unnamed woman protester. We still don’t know her name. But we’ve seen the footage: blood pouring from her skull, her body slumped on the pavement while people scream for help. “Call an ambulance! She’s bleeding!” they shout at your officers. You did nothing. Not one officer rendered aid. Not one officer called in medics. You formed a perimeter around a bleeding woman and stood there like statues—armed, armored, and useless.
We’re not forgetting any of them. You don’t get to disappear this.
Your “investigation” is a press strategy, not a pursuit of truth. Ours is public. Ours is exact. And when we publish these stories—one by one—you’ll feel every line like a direct hit.
Not from a sponge round, but from the kind of weapon you fear most: documented, relentless, factual truth.
We don’t carry sponge grenades.
We carry quotes.
And we do not miss.
See you tomorrow.
Sincerely,
Closer to the Edge"
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ntsrSoodepi7m2l03mch4f4hh9815f13a133605274759019t10lm81ig8l4 ·BREAKING: Donald Trump gets jaw-dropping news as the entire 12-person Fulbright Scolarship board quits in protest due to the MAGA administration's illegal political interference in their operations.
This is an academic bombshell of historic proportions...
"Effective immediately, members of the Congressionally mandated Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board voted overwhelmingly to resign from the board, rather than endorse unprecedented actions that we believe are impermissible under the law, compromise U.S. national interests and integrity, and undermine the mission and mandates Congress established for the Fulbright program nearly 80 years ago," the board wrote in its official statement.
The Fulbright scholarship program is one of our nation's most prestigious and helps fund foreign exchanges for brilliant American students while bringing distinguished foreign scholars, students, and artists to the United States.
The program is technically overseen by the State Department which is currently run by spineless MAGA hatchet man Marco Rubio. According to the board, this administration has "usurped the authority" afforded to them.
The State Department canceled roughly 200 scholarships for American researchers to work abroad, constituting a gross overreach of power in pursuit of partisan right-wing aims.
An additional 1,200 scholarships to foreign nationals are currently under review.
"We believe these actions not only contradict the statute but are antithetical to the Fulbright mission and the values, including free speech and academic freedom, that Congress specified in the statute," the board wrote.
"It is worth noting that the awards that were overridden include studies in categories such as biology, engineering, architecture, agriculture, crop sciences, animal sciences, biochemistry, medical sciences, music, and history," they added.
The insinuation of Trump's ideology into the Fulbright program is part of a broader agenda to undermine academia, promote ignorance, and foment xenophobia.
The State Department's public diplomacy office sent rejection letters to scholars based on MAGA aversion to their research topics. Not coincidentally, the diplomacy office is run by suspected white nationalist Darren Beattie, who has stated that "competent white men must be in charge if you want things to work."
According to The New York Times, the board was also understandably concerned about Rubio's budget proposal which would gut funding for the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs from $691 million to $50 million. The Fulbright program falls under said Bureau.
"Our resignation is not a decision we take lightly. But to continue to serve after the Administration has consistently ignored the Board’s request that they follow the law would risk legitimizing actions we believe are unlawful and damage the integrity of this storied program and America’s credibility abroad," the board wrote.
"Indeed, the erosion of the Fulbright program weakens America and our national security interests. Institutions and the rule of law matter and have distinguished our country for almost 250 years. As a Board, we are proud of our stewardship of the program, the way we’ve worked to uphold its mission, integrity, and adherence to the law," they continued.
"It is our sincere hope that Congress, the courts, and future Fulbright Boards will prevent the administration’s efforts to degrade, dismantle, or even eliminate one of our nation’s most respected and valuable programs. Injecting politics and ideological mandates into the Fulbright program violates the letter and spirit of the law that Congress so wisely established nearly eight decades ago," they concluded.
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There is a pattern emerging here.
The following description suggests the Trump administration is trying to undermine the further education of those that can't fund their own education.
It appears, if the Trump administration can persuade universities that prospective students are potential liability, instead of asset,
enrollment may plummet.
Why would the most lying, most criminal U.S. president in history prefer an uneducated electorate?