This is a re-post from my other blog, Daily Agitator, and I am just trying to expand the readership by re-posting….this is for those that may not know of my other blog.
There should be NO acceptance of a genocide by anyone…..regardless of the situation.
The US should be the champion of anti-genocide issues instead we turn a blind eye for whatever reason….why?
Educate, Agitate
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Donny done a lot of things that I consider illegal and for the most part got away with it….but his latest idea I think goes a bit too far….
You knbow that our idiot Donny has his own social media, right? It is called Truth Social and he spends every waking hour on it and degrade something or someone…..now he is giving instant acdcess to certain people….
President Donald Trump’s media company is launching a new product that will allow banks and financial traders to access Truth Social’s data at the “fastest” speed for a fee, giving them exclusive real-time access to posts that may affect the markets, as Trump’s posts frequently do.
The product is known as “Truth API,” and Trump Media & Technology Group, which runs Truth Social plans to leverage it into a “meaningful source of revenue for the company,” said interim CEO Kevin McGurn.
“Markets already move on Truth Social posts,” McGurn said. He also added that the company hopes to “create a lot of friction” for firms that have already been scraping Truth Social data, which the company says is against its terms of service.
The new product comes as the Trump administration faces scrutiny over potential insider trading, spurring the White House to send a warning to staff discouraging them from making bets related to the U.S. and Israel’s war on Iran on prediction markets. This followed reports of unusual activity surrounding bets before the start of the war, which came unannounced, during which traders placed over $500 million in bets on the war starting as well as $950 million in bets on oil prices.
Trump himself is also under scrutiny for questionable trading activity. In an analysis published Thursday, CNN documented over 20 times in which Trump promoted companies just days after buying stock in them. Breaking from prior presidencies, Trump’s assets aren’t in a blind trust, which means that he can see stock trades being made in his portfolio — and could, consequently, be manipulating markets for personal gain. Last year alone, managers of Trump’s assets made over 20,000 stock trades.
“This is why we’ve long said government officials should not be able to trade stock while they’re in office,” said Dylan Hedtler-Gaudette, interim vice president of policy and government affairs for the Project on Government Oversight, to CNN. “That definitely applies to the president and the disproportionate power of that office.”
This, to me, is basically saying that insider trading is okay as long as you use Donny’s magic site…..
Do you feel me on this or am I being overly critical?
I Read, I Write, You Know
“lego ergo scribo”
It has been six long years since Donny and the GOP started their attack on the results of the 2020 vote…..fraud has been the rallying cry and they, GOP, have tried every move they could think of to try and get the voter reversed.
Just yesterday another of their silly attempts was crapped on by a federal judge…..
A federal judge in Georgia has shut down a Justice Department push to dig back into the 2020 vote in Atlanta’s Fulton County, ruling that a subpoena for information on local election workers went too far and wasn’t justified. US District Judge William Ray called the request’s scope “staggering” and said the DOJ’s interest in enforcing it didn’t outweigh the burden on the county, especially since “the statute of limitations for any possible crime arising from the 2020 Election has long expired,” CNN reports. The April subpoena sought the names and contact information of every 2020 election worker in the county, including volunteers and county employees.
In his order, Ray said federal investigators claimed Fulton County may not have kept ballot images as long as required and that some seized ballots “look suspicious.” But he questioned whether a valid grand jury was actually behind the subpoena, noting no evidence that the grand jury itself sought the workers’ personal data.
- “In these hyper-political times in which we currently live, there are sure to be some who disagree with this decision because they believe the allegations of fraud in the 2020 Election and believe that ‘light’ should be brought to those claims,” Ray wrote, per the AP. He said those allegations can be investigated, but not through the grand jury process, “which exists to investigate potential crimes and to bring viable indictments.”
- “Everyone, whether you support the President or you do not, or whether you believe the 2020 Election was fair or believe that it was not, should be concerned about the DOJ’s ability to utilize the power of the Grand Jury to appropriate your private information without a legitimate purpose,” the judge wrote.
- Ray was appointed by President Trump, who has long claimed, without evidence, that voter fraud was behind his 2020 loss in Georgia.
- The ruling comes as the DOJ faces setbacks in court while pressing state and local officials on election practices, CNN reports. Its Civil Rights Division has recently warned that officials who let noncitizens remain on voter rolls or cast ballots could face criminal charges and has notified several Michigan cities it plans to send federal election monitors for upcoming contests. The FBI has reportedly made the Georgia investigation a top priority and has asked field offices to supply hundreds of analysts.
It is time to put this silliness to bed.
After 6 years and nothing gained then you are just wasting time and resources….there are REAL problems in this country in search of solutions….why not try that for a couple of years?
But since the DoJ is having a hard time with this issue they have moved to yet another strain on our rights….the act of dissent….
In two instances in western New York, ICE’s Office of Professional Responsibility — which has apparently switched from serving as an internal watchdog to targeting online critics — has tried to force people who posted criticisms of ICE to sign a “Warning Notice” admitting that their criticisms were unlawful.
David Streever of Rochester, New York, sued ICE on Monday in federal court in D.C., alleging that ICE’s OPR violated his First Amendment rights when it went to his home last month and then tracked him down while he was traveling to issue him a “Warning Notice” about a critical email he sent to then-acting ICE Director Todd M. Lyons. He refused to sign it.
“Like many Americans, I was deeply upset after the shootings in Minnesota and I felt compelled to do something,” Streever said in a press release about his lawsuit. “Writing an email to the head of ICE seemed like the least I could do to express my sense of outrage. I never dreamed it would lead to a knock on my door by federal officers or descending on my hotel in the dark of night.”
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo/ice-takes-on-new-role-in-suppressing-dissent
I like being the one to point out to this mental midgets that dissent has made this nation!
Dissent is one of this nation’s defining characteristics. Every decade since the earliest days of colonization, Americans have protested for just about every cause imaginable, and every time they did, defenders of the status quo denounced the protesters as unpatriotic and in more recent times as un-American. But protest is one of the consummate expressions of “Americanness.” It is patriotic in the deepest sense.
Even before the United States was conceived, there was dissent. During the 17th century religious dissent played a significant role in the planting and development of the English colonies. In the 18th century political dissent led to the open rebellion that resulted in the birth of the United States. In the 19th century dissenters demanded the abolition of slavery, suffrage for women, fair treatment of Native Americans, and the banning of immigrants. And they protested against the War of 1812, the Mexican War, the Civil War (on both sides), and the Spanish-American War. In the 20th century dissenters organized to prohibit alcohol but also demanded workers’ rights, women’s rights, African American rights, Chicano rights, reproductive rights, and LGBTQ+ rights. They also protested against every war (declared and undeclared) fought by the United States. In the 21st century dissenters have protested against abortion, NAFTA, globalization, the Iraq War, the PATRIOT Act, the National Security Agency, bank bailouts, and out-of-control deficits. Most recently dissenters have mobilized to protest against systemic racism, sexual harassment and assault, and Congress’s inability (or refusal) to enact meaningful legislation to address climate change and gun violence. And then there are those who, despite their real grievances, having fallen for the widespread disinformation circulating on untrustworthy internet sites, raise their voices in protest on the basis of conspiracy theories, lies, and a distorted view of American history. Clearly, dissent has many faces.
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-dissent-shaped-america/
I do not care how hard they try to control dissent as long as I am breathing I will dissent whenever there is a need…..and brother there is a dire need today!
Got anything to add?
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“lego ergo scribo”
I WOULD LIKE TO WISH MY CANADIAN FOLLOWERS A VERY HAPPY CANADA DAY.
SCOTUS seems to be the theme or the meme for today…..they will be ruling on the law against AR-15s….a good law in my opinion…..
The Supreme Court is stepping directly into the fight over bans on AR-15-style rifles. On Tuesday, the justices agreed to hear challenges to assault-style weapons restrictions in Connecticut and Cook County, Illinois, setting up a major Second Amendment clash in the term that begins in October, NBC News reports. Both laws bar certain semiautomatic rifles that gun-control advocates label “assault weapons,” including AR-15s, which have been used in mass shootings such as the 2012 attack at Sandy Hook Elementary School and the 2022 Uvalde school massacre. Connecticut expanded its ban after 20 children and six adults were killed in the Sandy Hook mass shooting.
The court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, has recently broadened gun rights, including a 2022 decision that the Second Amendment protects the right to carry guns outside the home. Last week, the court struck down a Hawaii gun law. When the justices declined to hear a similar case last year, four conservatives signaled they view AR-15 bans as unconstitutional; Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote that the court “should and presumably will address the AR-15 issue soon.”
Under longstanding precedent, bans of “dangerous” or “unusual” weapons are allowed, but gun rights advocates say that as “the most popular rifle in the country,” AR-15-style rifles shouldn’t be considered unusual, Politico reports. At least 10 states have banned “assault weapons,” arguing that they don’t qualify as “arms” protected by the Second Amendment, per the Hill. Challenges to the Connecticut and Cook County laws were brought by individual gun owners and gun-rights groups including the Firearms Policy Coalition and the Second Amendment Foundation. Lower courts have so far upheld both bans.
I look for SCOTUS to strike down the law for they have not been a friend to the people but rather the gun industry….it has a lot more money to give than joe blow.
Do not get me wrong….I have no problem with gun ownership just that of assault weapons and such….no one needs that for hunting or personal protection….if they are that bad of a shot then get a shotgun the coverage is better.
Do you think SCOTUS will do the right thing?
I Read, I Write, You Know
“lego ergo scribo”
***Please forgive the harsh words.***
After a short respite from being the focus of so-called ‘domestic terrorism’ anitfa is being blamed for the problems Donny is having with the reflecting pool on the National Mall.
Once again the case by idiots is being made that antifa is some sort of organization of the far left….news broke that a couple of antifa ‘terrorists’ have bee tried in Minnesota…
Fifteen Minnesotans charged for conspiracy to impede or injure federal agents are part of what President Trump considers a terrorist group, prosecutors said.
The president signed an executive order last September that labeled antifa a “domestic terrorist organization.” Antifa is short for anti-fascist or anti-fascism. To put it simply, it’s people who oppose fascism.
But is it just a label? An idea? Or, as President Trump declared, a terrorist organization?
The Congressional Research Service investigated America’s antifa movement in 2020. It called it, “decentralized, consisting of independent, radical, like-minded groups and individuals.”
Decentralized means an organization that’s not controlled from one place or by one person. Essentially, antifa has no structure, no official membership and those who use the label can have different ideologies.
In his executive order declaring antifa as a domestic terrorist organization, Mr. Trump said the federal government should “investigate, disrupt, and dismantle any and all illegal operations … conducted by antifa or any person claiming to act on behalf of antifa.”
https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/what-is-antifa/
To prove the stupidity of these cocksuckers….
On July 4th of last year protesters were in Texas to protest ICE and the treatment they were dolling out to immigrants….did not end well for some protesters were arrested and they have finally come to court.
Eight people who joined a July 4 protest outside a Texas immigrant detention center were just handed sentences that could mean they spend most of their lives in prison, the Guardian reports. A federal judge on Tuesday handed down sentences of 50 to 100 years in a case that has become a flashpoint over how far the government can go in branding left-wing activists as terrorists. The so-called Prairieland defendants planned to set off fireworks to show solidarity with those detained at the Prairieland Detention Center, NBC DFW reports
Prosecutors said members of what they called a “North Texas antifa cell” plotted violence at the ICE facility in Alvarado, where vandalism escalated into an AR-15 round fired from nearby woods that wounded a police lieutenant. The shooter, Benjamin Song, who said he fired as he feared the officer was about to shoot a protester, received 100 years; six others got 50 to 70 years on riot, explosives, and terrorism charges, and another defendant, who wasn’t at the protest, got 30 years for concealing documents. He was accused of moving leftwing materials at the request of his wife after she was arrested; his attorney says he simply moved a box of his own artwork, zines, poetry, and journals, none of which were illegal, the AP reports.
A former US attorney called the stacked sentences unusually long, far exceeding those for leaders of the January 6 Capitol riot. The Trump administration praised the outcome as a warning to “Antifa terrorists,” while defense lawyers and families denounced the case as criminalizing freedom of speech, association, and lawful gun ownership. Antifa is not an organization, but an umbrella term for left-wing anti-fascists. Appeals are planned.
What bullshit is this?
More report….
https://www.commondreams.org/news/prairieland-ice-trial
This is Trump justice….treasonous assholes on J6 did not get such massive sentences and yet these protesters did ….a test of stupid’s bullshit about antifa and domestic terrorism…..it is made up crap.
This is NOT justice but nazi strong arm of opponents that they are too afraid of to meet head on.
As usual these toads prove just what cowards they truly have become.
Have you ever heard the term “cruel and unusual punishment”?
Whatcha got to say?
I Read, I Write, You Know
“lego ergo scribo”
A couple of Congress people have decided to try and take on Donny and his money making machine….
Sen. Tammy Baldwin and Rep. Ro Khanna are introducing a bill Thursday to establish a federal review board for direct foreign investment in the U.S., as President Donald Trump courts global ventures as part of trade deals he makes with nations around the globe.
The bill, shared exclusively with CNBC before it is introduced, would create the “Foreign Investment Review Authority” as an independent executive branch authority. The panel would be responsible for reviewing direct foreign investments and determining whether they are permissible.
It would function as a board, with a chair appointed by the president, subject to Senate confirmation; designees of the secretaries of Commerce and Labor and the attorney general; along with four presidentially appointed and Senate-confirmed board members from a political party that is not the same as the president’s. It would also create an Office of the Chief Ethics Officer and a Public Oversight Board to receive complaints.
Baldwin, D-Wis., and Khanna, D-Calif., say the board is necessary to ensure foreign direct investments aren’t undercutting U.S. workers. They also say it would potentially stop corrupt deals, with the lawmakers pointing to investments Trump has secured in his negotiations of trade deals around the globe.
Like I said a damn good idea….expose Donny’s manipulations and using his office to make money….
This will probably go nowhere but at least some Dems are trying to fight Donny and spotlight his abuses of office.
A shame that he will not be held responsible or forced to pay back all the cash he and his family have made office the office of president.
The ‘stable genius’ needs to be cut off at the knees….and soon.
I Read, I Write, You Know
“lego ergo scribo”
Personally I have had enough about the Epstein files….but this article I think my readers may want to read….
I think a lot of us have already figured this crap out.
I Read, I Write, You Know
“lego ergo scribo”
I make no bones about it that I think that SCOTUS is nothing more than a group of political hacks that are doing partisan work and in the process destroying what is left of this nation.
Then and when you need confirmation of their partisan crap Chief Justice had to go and whine about our perception of the court.
Chief Justice John Roberts wants Americans to know he doesn’t see the Supreme Court the way some critics might. Speaking Wednesday at a legal conference in Hershey, Pa., Roberts said many people wrongly believe the justices are “political actors” choosing outcomes based on policy preferences rather than legal analysis, NBC News reports. “I think they view us as truly political actors, which I don’t think is an accurate understanding of what we do,” he said. He was responding to a question about what the public most misunderstands regarding the high court, Politico reports.
Roberts, part of the court’s 6-3 conservative majority that has shifted federal law rightward on issues including abortion, guns, and voting rights, didn’t address any specific cases. But he stressed that the court is often obligated to hand down decisions that are disliked, saying rulings are “based on our best effort to figure out what the Constitution means and how it applies.” He acknowledged that the public is free to criticize the court’s work, while urging that critiques target decisions, not individual judges, warning personal attacks are “not appropriate” and can lead to “very serious problems,” especially amid heightened security concerns. He also did not mention President Trump, who himself has been among critics of the court at times, CNN reports.
Seriously?
This POS is saying this crap without laughing?
Our criticism can lead to ‘very serious problems’? Really thanx to the Roberts court we already ass deep in serious problems and they can thank themselves for all the problems…..Citizens United, abortion rulings, education rulings, allowing insider trading by politicians, gutted voting rights etc etc….
Roberts and his happy band of hacks have turned the court into a partisan political arm of government.
I have no sympathy for Roberts and his fragile feelings.
If he wants us to stop hating them then I propose he and his partisan dipsticks retire to Mar-A-Lago and let the country move forward for with them it will stand still and then start in reverse.
Any thoughts?
I Read, I Write, You Know
“lego ergo scribo”
Little Donny Do-Little has now thumped his chest and called for news reporting contrary to his lies as treason…..
US President Donald Trump late Sunday floated “treason” charges against media outlets that he accused of reporting false information about the Iran war as the human and economic costs of his illegal military assault continued to mount.
In a tirade posted to his Truth Social platform, Trump wrote that media outlets he accused of circulating “fake news” should “be brought up on Charges for TREASON for the dissemination of false information.” The maximum penalty for treason in the US is death.
Trump specifically called out the Rupert Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal for reporting over the weekend that “five US Air Force refueling planes were struck and damaged on the ground at Prince Sultan air base in Saudi Arabia.” Citing two unnamed US officials, the Journal noted that “the tankers were hit during an Iranian missile strike on the Saudi base,” and that the planes were “damaged but not fully destroyed and are being repaired.”
The US president called the story “false reporting” without substantively refuting its content. Trump wrote that four of the refueling planes are “in service” and one “will soon be flying the skies”—none of which is inconsistent with the Journal’s reporting.
Trump, who regularly uses his social media platform to circulate AI-generated videos and photos, also complained about an AI video purportedly showing the USS Abraham Lincoln on fire. The president claimed the video was “distributed by Corrupt Media Outlets,” without offering any examples. AFP published a fact-check of the video last week, deeming it “fabricated footage.”
Trump’s latest attack on the US media came after his Federal Communications Commission chair, Brendan Carr, threatened Saturday to pull the broadcasting licenses of media outlets he accused of “running hoaxes and news distortions.” Carr did not provide specific examples.
The US president said Sunday that he was “thrilled to see” Carr’s threat, railing against “Corrupt and Highly Unpatriotic” news organizations.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-treason-charges-media
What’s next on Donny’s stupid list to be called ‘treason’?
The most treasonous person calling some one on treason….now that is rich.
Any thoughts my good readers?
I Read, I Write, You Know
“lego ergo scribo”
Keeping with the drug meme for today…..
Since 1971 the USA has been fighting a war of drugs and has spent an estimated $1 trillion on that fight and yet there has been no evidence that all the cash spent is winning the war or even making a dent.
Since about 1990 I have been writing that if we are serious about this then put an end to the profit margins for drug dealers and legalize.
I know this will offend the sensibilities of some but they will get over it.
I have not been alone in this call over the years and it has arisen again thanx to the attack on all those small narco boats…..
This is another opinion on the legalization thing…..
I was never that into cocaine — preferring the euphoria promised by MDMA or the relaxation offered by cannabis — but back in 2015, a cocaine-serving lounge bar, Route 36, in La Paz, Bolivia, was the talk of the backpacking circuit, and the scarcely-believable novelty of the place was alluring.
At Route 36, bags of cocaine are served on silver platters, and a friend and I got incredibly high that night. Too high, perhaps, though it was all undeniably good fun. But as soon as my first-person dispatch for Vice from the lively dusk-till-dawn session went viral, I feared that I perhaps shouldn’t have glorified the use of a moreish drug that typically leaves a trail of violent destruction in its wake.
As the years passed, however — with cocaine becoming both unprecedentedly popular and increasingly affordable despite the billions spent on the war on drugs to avoid these exact outcomes — I’ve come to realize that accepting that adults take cocaine, and legally regulating the drug, is the only sensible path forward. Establishments like Route 36, the world’s first cocaine bar, might just represent a more enlightened, peaceful future for us all.
After all, U.S.-led authorities around the world have tried everything else, and to great human cost. Coca fields across the Andes, where cocaine’s main ingredient grows, have been sprayed with harmful herbicides like glyphosate, harming the local Indigenous people for whom coca holds unique spiritual and nutritional value, and killing anything that tries to grow in the contaminated soil. Consumers and traffickers of cocaine have been imprisoned en masse, helping to create a prison–industrial complex which serves as a university of crime for its incarcerated and a fertile recruitment ground for armed drug gangs.
This is the only way we can ‘win’ the war on drugs…..for we have had 50+ years of failed policies and wasted money.
Do the country a favor and end this war and get back to make the well-being of people of this country a priority.
Enjoy your Cyber Monday and be vigil.
I Read, I Write, You Know
“lego ergo scribo”