As Heather Cox Richardson reports today, we now know that the day after the lethal floods occurred in Texas, Kristi Noem did not renew the contracts for four call center companies answering emergency calls for FEMA help — so that on July 6, FEMA answered only 35.8% of the calls it received and the following day, only 15.9%:
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#Nigeria pushes back on #Trump deportation demands
“Foreign Minister Tuggar said the US was pressuring several African nations to accept foreign nationals whom it wants to deport.
"We already have over 230 million people," Tuggar said.
“In the words of the famous US rap group Public Enemy — you'll remember a line: 'Flava Flav has problems of his own. I can't do nothing for you, man.'"
The Godfather Presidency: How #Trump’s Governing Style Mimics the Mob’s | Vanity Fair
“Forget the comparisons to fascists and autocrats.
The most accurate model for understanding the transactional tough guy in the White House is the politically connected underbelly of 1970s and ’80s New York real estate.”
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/how-donald-trumps-governing-style-mimics-the-mob
#TrumpMedia approves $400M stock buyback
The Trump Media buyback will be funded separately from the company’s #bitcoin #treasury plan, which includes $1.5B in equity & $1B in convertible notes.
#Trump indirectly owns more than 114M shares of the company through a revocable trust & is the largest shareholder.
Trump Media posted a $400.9M net loss in 2024 on just $3.6M in revenue but says it ended the year with over $775M in cash.
#law #fraud #securities #Emoluments
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/23/trump-media-stock.html
Explosions were reported near a #US #military #base in #Qatar Monday after #Iran vows to retaliate for #Trump’s assault on #nuclear sites. The development coincided with a warning from the US #Embassy in Qatar’s capital, #Doha, urging American citizens there to shelter in place. Qatar’s govt on Monday also closed its airspace & suspended flights as a “precautionary measure” while the #MiddleEast braces for a potential expansion of the fighting between #Israel & Iran.
As Sherrilyn Ifill says, the right-wing bloc controlling the Supreme Court "truly believe[s] that Trump’s power should not be constrained."
They intend to permit an autocratic Republican — a Democrat would never be allowed such power by this court — to do all he can to dismantle democracy. Because this is their own core objective as theocratic-leaning right-wing Catholics (with the exception of Gorsuch, raised Catholic but now Episcopalian).
Edited 123d ago
Valuable commentary about Trump's decision to bomb Iran continues to unfold. With this posting, I'm going to begin a new thread of commentary on this topic, since the previous one had gotten long.
In a statement entitled "Bombing God's Love," Brian Kaylor calls on Bob Dylan as a witness that
"Dropping bombs on people doesn’t count as loving God."
Though Trump invoked the name of God several times after annoucing he had bombed Iran….
Trade by shakedown.
https://fortune.com/2025/07/27/us-eu-trade-trump-tariffs-investments-energy-defense-barriers/
Edited 111d ago
As Paul Waldman notes, somehow the US got through a couple of hundred years without law enforcement officers needing to cover their faces. Yet suddenly this is the norm for the Trump administration, which claims this is necessary to protect the officers. Why?
#Trump #ICE #masks #violence #authoritarianism
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https://paulwaldman.substack.com/p/masked-men-with-guns-are-there-to
Via Steve Herman 4 minutes ago: 1/...
(AFP) - Explosions heard in Tehran after an IDF spokesperson issued an evacuation warning for the city of 10 million people.
🤨Just now:
“ #Trump has announced that a ceasefire has been reached between Israel and #Iran and will enter into effect at 7 a.m. #Israel time”
https://thereport.be/article/?app=breaking&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jpost.com%2Fmiddle-east%2Firan-news%2Farticle-858739
ADDED. He's insane, WTF:
Edited 145d ago
"Two plus two equals four. There are twenty-four hours in a day. And when someone shows you who they are—when they defend ethnic cleansing, enable authoritarianism, and gaslight you for noticing—believe them."
#resist #trump #republican #voteblue #nokings
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/06/20/the-shell-game-of-fascist-gaslighting/
Keep ‘em coming
Via Kyle Cheney:
BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered the #Trump administration to restore millions of dollars in canceled grants to University of California researchers, calling the terminations flagrantly illegal and unconstitutional.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.450653/gov.uscourts.cand.450653.54.0.pdf
Apparently, Canadian journalist Dean Blundell got the goods... #letter #trump
This IS exactly as described in the WSJ article, complete with "Donald" being used as pubes. The letter made up a page in a leather-bound book of birthday wishes, collected by Ghislaine Maxwell for #epstein 's 50th birthday, in January 2003... one year before the real estate squabble that caused the friendship to break up.
h/t: @cryptadamist
Edited 119d ago
Well, the New York Times, ABC, CBS and all the other "respectable" outlets are doing nothing but licking a dictator's boots right here in the USA.
Thank God we have *checks notes* fashion magazines like Marie Claire and Teen Vogue for the real reporting!
Marie Claire is covering this new crowd sourced website called People Over Papers which attempts to report #ICE sightings across the US.
https://thedemlabs.org/2025/01/31/people-over-papers-crowdsourced-ice-watch-map/
https://www.marieclaire.com/politics/people-over-papers-ice-raids-interview
Edited 145d ago
#DOJ Leader Suggested Violating #CourtOrders, #WhistleBlower Says
#EmilBove III, a #Trump judicial nominee [& fmr Trump criminal defense atty], voiced his intent to disobey court orders as others stonewalled & misled judges, according to a complaint.
#law #felon47 #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/us/politics/justice-department-emil-bove-trump-deportations-reuveni.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
#Trump admin asks #SupremeCourt to clarify last night's "third country" #immigration order after a federal judge said it did not apply to a subset of the litigation re: 6 people the government wants to deport to #SouthSudan.
#DOJ calls the judge's actions "unprecedented defiance" of #SCOTUS.
A federal appeals court ordered the return of another man deported to #ElSalvador in violation of a #CourtOrder. Jordin Melgar-Salmeron was deported on May 7, 30 minutes after the court ruled.
https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25982192/melgarorder062425.pdf
#law #immigration #rendition #Trump #EmilBove #DOJ #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers
#Trump Strike Set Back #Iran’s #Nuclear Program by Only a Few Months, US Report Says
#Classified findings indicate that the attack sealed off the entrances to 2 facilities but did not collapse their underground buildings.
A preliminary classified US report says the American bombing of Iran’s nuclear sites sealed off the entrances to 2 of the facilities but did NOT collapse their underground buildings, acc/to officials familiar w/the findings.
Pure idiocy
#EPA Says It Will Eliminate Its #Scientific #Research Arm
The decision comes after a #SCOTUS ruling allowing the #Trump admin to slash the federal work force & dismantle agencies.
#science #Climate #ClimateCrisis #idiocracy #law #UnitedStates #BrainDrain
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/climate/epa-firings-scientific-research.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Xk8.l81V.O4DgmQBqHXzk&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
#Immigration authorities gave Sae Joon Park an ultimatum: Leave voluntarily or face #detention & #deportation.
For 55-yr-old US #Army #veteran Sae Joon Park, this was the hardest moment of his life. Not getting shot in combat. Not the years battling PTSD or addiction. Not prison. It was leaving the US, a country he called home for nearly five decades.
#Trump #immigration #law
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/24/g-s1-74036/trump-ice-self-deportation-army-veteran-hawaii
Exclusive: US #CDC #vaccine presentation cites study that does not exist, author says
A review on the use of the preservative thimerosal in vaccines slated to be presented on Thursday to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's outside vaccine committee cites a study that does not exist, the scientist listed as the study's author said.
#Trump #RFKJr #AI #HHS #science #medicine #idiocracy #kakistocracy
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/us-cdc-report-shows-no-evidence-linking-thimerosal-containing-vaccines-autism-2025-06-24/
"Millions of evangelical Christians whose faith is tied to political ideologies of far-right nationalism and White evangelical racism would not see Trump’s action as destructive, but rather as cause for celebration. For them, the bombings are acts of destiny that are divinely guided. They are the start of the End they have been waiting for."
~ Ruth Ben-Ghiat
Officials in #SouthDakota are pushing hard to build #Trump‘s proposed National Garden of American Heroes in the #BlackHills near #MountRushmore, but the effort has sparked a backlash from #Indigenous groups who see the area as #sacred.
A #mining company has offered to donate 40 acres (16 hectares) less than a mile from Mount Rushmore, where massive sculptures of 4 of the nation’s most prominent presidents are carved out of granite.
#Sioux #LandRights #law
https://apnews.com/article/trump-statue-garden-mount-rushmore-19dcbff11491afaca74e0b2e7b3536a0
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#Trump officials made unusual requests for data on #voters and #voting equipment.
#DOJ officials have asked at least 9 #states for copies of voter rolls; 2 have partially complied. It has sparked serious concerns about #ElectionInterference ahead of the 2026 midterms.
#law #ElectionLaw #dictatorship #tyranny #autocracy #MafiaState
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/16/trump-voter-fraud-elections/