~~~ Konstantin Toropin of the AP: “The Pentagon’s statement, posted on social media, cited a federal law that allows retired service members to be recalled to active duty on orders of the defense secretary for possible court martial or other measures. It is extraordinary for the Pentagon, which until ... Donald Trump’s second term had usually gone out of its way to act and appear apolitical, to directly threaten a sitting member of Congress with investigation.” Thanks to RAS for the link.
⭐Ella Lee of the Hill: “A federal judge on Monday dismissed the cases against two of ... [Donald] Trump’s political adversaries after finding that the prosecutor he hand-picked to pursue charges against them was unlawfully appointed. U.S. District Judge Cameron Currie said that Lindsey Halligan, the U.S. attorney selected by Trump to prosecute former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James (D), was never eligible to assume the post. She dismissed the indictments without prejudice, meaning the Justice Department could try to bring the charges again with another prosecutor, though the path forward is uncertain. Halligan is the fourth U.S. attorney loyal to Trump to have been found to be unlawfully serving in her post by a judge.” MB: That's all she wrote. This just happened, so I'll link to a more detailed story when one comes up. ~~~
~~~ Update. Jeremy Roebuck & Salvador Rizzo of the Washington Post: “A federal judge dismissed charges against former FBI director James B. Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James on Monday, delivering a blow to ... Donald Trump’s efforts to engineer prosecutions of two of his prominent foes. U.S. District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie ruled that Lindsey Halligan, the prosecutor overseeing both cases, had been unlawfully appointed to her position and, therefore, indictments she secured against Comey and James must be thrown out. Currie, however, denied a request to bar the Justice Department from seeking to indict them again under a lawfully appointed prosecutor.” The New York Times story, by Alan Feuer & Devlin Barrett, is here. ~~~
~~~ Politico's report is here. Judge Currie's ruling re: Letitia James is here. Her ruling re: James Comey is here. Thanks to Politico; via the courts. Both rulings begin with "On [date], Lindsey Halligan, a former White House aide with no prior prosecutorial experience, appeared before a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia." IOW, it appears that one big point of the ruling is that Halligan had no idea what she was doing. In the next graf, in both orders, Currie knocks Pam Bondi: "... I agree with [Defendant] that the Attorney General’s attempt to install Ms. Halligan as Interim U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia was invalid." Blondie doesn't know what she's doing, either.
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Cassandra Vinograd & Nick Cumming-Bruce of the New York Times: “Ukrainian and American officials said they had made good progress on Sunday in talks about a contentious U.S. plan to end the war with Russia, even as President Trump lashed out at Ukraine, accusing its leaders of ingratitude.... 'They [the talks?] reaffirmed that any future agreement must fully uphold Ukraine’s sovereignty and deliver a sustainable and just peace,' [a joint] statement read. 'As a result of the discussions, the parties drafted an updated and refined peace framework.'”
Matthew Bigg of the New York Times: “Ukraine’s government has been insufficiently thankful for American aid..., [Donald] Trump said Sunday, appearing to repeat his criticism of President Volodymyr Zelensky just as representatives from both nations were meeting to discuss a peace plan with Russia.... Mr. Trump’s comment, which he shared in a post on social media, was only the latest expression of disdain for the Ukrainian leadership that he has made since his return to office. 'UKRAINE ‘LEADERSHIP’ HAS EXPRESSED ZERO GRATITUDE FOR OUR EFFORTS,' Trump said. Hours later, Mr. Zelensky thanked Mr. Trump in a statement on social media. 'We are grateful for everything that America and President Trump are doing for security, and we keep working as constructively as possible,' he said.” (Also linked yesterday.) ~~~
~~~ Lizzie Johnson, et al., of the Washington Post: “U.S. and Ukrainian officials met in Geneva on Sunday to work through a new version of a controversial plan to end Russia’s war in Ukraine ahead of a Thanksgiving deadline imposed by the United States, while ... Donald Trump faced mounting criticism from lawmakers and his own base over the proposal. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who is leading the U.S. delegation, sought to downplay widespread claims that the plan was written by the Russian side. The leaked draft ignores many of Kyiv’s red lines.... [Rubio] also de-emphasized the Thanksgiving deadline, suggesting more negotiations could be ahead.” (Also linked yesterday.) ~~~
~~~ Gabriel Gavin & Daniella Cheslow of Politico: “A U.S. framework aimed at ending the war in Ukraine would leave the country more vulnerable to Russian aggression in the long term if it imposes limits on Kyiv's armed forces, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen warned on Sunday. In a statement following talks on the sidelines of a G20 summit of major economies in South Africa, von der Leyen laid out a series of red lines in response to proposals being put forward by ... Donald Trump's White House.... According to von der Leyen, the EU has three key criteria for any peace deal: 'First, borders cannot be changed by force. Second, as a sovereign nation there cannot be limitations on Ukraine's armed forces that would leave the country vulnerable to future attack and thereby also undermining European security,' she said. 'Third, the centrality of the European Union in securing peace for Ukraine must be fully reflected,' von der Leyen continued. 'Ukraine must have the freedom and sovereign right to choose its own destiny. They have chosen a European destiny.'” ~~~
~~~ Heather Cox Richardson has an excellent accounting of the various conflicting stories Trump administration officials and others were telling about the Putin-friendly Trump "peace plan." MB: Not only is it a classic right-hand-doesn't-know-what-the-left-hand-is-doing screw-up, it turns out the right hand doesn't want the left hand to know what it is doing. Forget about Ukraine. This "peace plan" is more about JayDee & Marco fighting for Trump's job, which ole Don Dementia stands by in a state of complete confusion. IOW, the Trump administration continues to be appalling.
Eric Schmitt of the New York Times: “The nation’s top military officer on Monday will visit Puerto Rico and one of the several Navy warships dispatched to the Caribbean Sea to combat drug trafficking as the Trump administration weighs the possibility of a broader military campaign against Venezuela. The stated reason for the trip by the officer, Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is to thank troops ahead of Thanksgiving, according to two U.S. officials.... But General Caine has been a major architect of what the Pentagon calls Operation Southern Spear, the largest buildup of American naval forces in the Caribbean since the Cuban Missile Crisis and the blockade of Cuba in 1962. The general is expected to consult with commanders on the armada’s preparations, one of the two officials said.” ~~~
~~~ David French of the New York Times: “Trump has put the military in an impossible situation. He’s making its most senior leaders complicit in his unlawful acts, and he’s burdening the consciences of soldiers who serve under his command. One of the great moral values of congressional declarations of war is that they provide soldiers with the assurance that the conflict has been debated and that their deployment is a matter of national will.... No legal opinion can compel any member of the military to commit 'manifestly unlawful' acts during a war.”
Jennifer Bahney of Mediaite: “... Donald Trump claimed that the Republican Party was better off without 'lowlifes' like Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) on Sunday, just a day after seeming to soften his stance when speaking about her with reporters.”
Marcy Wheeler tries to makes sense of the late week's biggest developments: “Three things happened in the last week that have befuddled a lot of observers, but which might best be understood as the kinds of developments we’ll see increasingly as the power structure around Trump grows fragile and fluid: A positively giddy Trump welcomed Zohran Mamdani to the White House[;] 'The White House' rolled out yet another plan to sell out Ukraine to Russia[;] Marjorie Taylor Greene announced she will quit in early January[.] All of these, in my opinion, arose out of and reflect Trump’s increasing political weakness, his separate mental and physical decline, and the fight for power that results.” (Also linked yesterday.) ~~~
~~~ Steve M. with a sensible, cautionary note: "By going to the White House and charming Trump, Mamdani bought himself some time. But the truce won't last very long." (Also linked yesterday.) ~~~
~~~ AND Margaret Sullivan writes, it was a bad week in news about "journalists," too.
Oh, My. Ken W. Wonders (Rhetorically, No Doubt) if the Fix is In. Charlie Savage of the New York Times: “The U.S. attorney in Miami, who is running a sprawling investigation into former officials who investigated ... [Donald] Trump, has been granted an unusual request to convene an extra grand jury at the federal courthouse in Fort Pierce, Fla. The location ensures that just one judge can oversee it: Aileen M. Cannon.” (Also linked yesterday.) ~~~
~~~ On the Other Hand. Michael Kranish & Aaron Schaffer of the Washington Post: “Nursing home magnate Joseph Schwartz was sentenced in April to three years [in prison] for defrauding the government of $38 million.... Around that time, Schwartz paid $960,000 to two lobbyists 'seeking a federal pardon.'... The lobbyists, right-wing provocateurs Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl, noted on the disclosure form that they had been convicted of telecommunications fraud in Ohio in connection with a robocall scheme designed to deter the turnout of minority voters.... On Nov. 14, seven months after ... Schwartz’s conviction, Trump granted Schwartz a 'full and unconditional' pardon.” ~~~
~~~ Marie: Everybody in this tale is corrupt: the President*, the intermediaries, the criminal. See if you don't think the obvious corruption here doesn't fit nicely with the widespread behavior of "the Epstein class." ~~~
~~~ Anand Giridharadas in a New York Times op-ed: “At the dark heart of [the Epstein] story is a sex criminal and his victims — and his enmeshment with ... [Donald] 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.... 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.”
Alan Feuer, et al., of the New York Times: “When Alexis Wilkins, an aspiring country singer dating the F.B.I. director, Kash Patel, sang The Star-Spangled Banner at the National Rifle Association’s annual convention in Atlanta in the spring, she arrived with ... a SWAT team from the bureau’s local field office.... But seeing that the event at the Georgia World Congress Center had been secured, and that Ms. Wilkins was in no apparent danger, they left before the event was over.... Soon after, Mr. Patel ripped into the team’s commander, saying that his girlfriend had been left without taxpayer-funded defenders.... Mr. Patel’s heavy use of taxpayer-funded resources during his first nine months on the job has contributed to growing questions inside the administration about whether ... he is using taxpayer-funded resources inappropriately.... This includes an intense use of security to protect himself and his girlfriend. He has also used a government jet for some of his recreational travel, such as a golf trip with buddies to a private resort in Scotland over the summer.... Government security protection for Ms. Wilkins to attend events or performances has drawn particular attention....” (Also linked yesterday.)
Scott MacFarlane of CBS News: "Amid a growing wave of firings, resignations and retirements from the Justice Department, some former agency officials are curating a public online display of the farewell messages of ousted employees. Some of the letters from purged non-political career Justice Department attorneys warn of a threat to democracy and a crumbling of the norms and standards in federal prosecutions. Justice Connection, a group of former Justice Department employees, has organized and posted the online page of goodbye messages. The organization's executive director and founder, Stacey Young, a former civil division attorney for the Justice Department, said the Justice Department purge has now eclipsed 5,000 employees since January, including resignations, firings and retirements." ~~~
~~~ The Justice Connection's main page is here.
MAGA Is a Foreign Enterprise. Greg Graziosi of the Independent: “On Friday, X introduced a feature called 'About This Account,' which allows other users to see where an account was based when it joined the site, how often it's changed its username, and by what means they downloaded the X app.... [That's when users X discovered that] many popular MAGA and right-wing influencer accounts were not based in the U.S.... X users noted on Friday that the feature was removed a few hours after it went live, leading to some speculation that the sudden change was a reaction to the discovery of the right-wing accounts' countries of origin. The feature does appear to be functional again as of this report.... There is some question over the accuracy of the information..., as ... anyone opening their X account while using a VPN could have an origin reflecting the VPN's use and not the actual country where they reside.” Thanks to RAS for the lead.
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Brazil. Ana Ionova of the New York Times: “Shortly before he was expected to start serving a 27-year sentence, Brazil’s former president [Jair Bolsonaro] took a soldering iron to his tracking device.... At first, Mr. Bolsonaro told the police that he had banged his ankle monitor causing it to malfunction.... But when an agent on the scene asked about the burn marks on the device, Mr. Bolsonaro admitted using a soldering iron to try to melt it. In a video of the exchange released by the authorities, Mr. Bolsonaro can be heard apparently telling the agent that he had started torching the monitor hours earlier. A Brazilian Supreme Court justice then ordered Mr. Bolsonaro’s arrest on suspicion that he had intended to break out of the home where he had been under house arrest since August.”
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One of today's links refers to the Fat Hitler reich's plan for war on Venezuela, named "Southern Spear".
Bill Maher wonders about the interesting names
invented by Drunk Pete for his LETHAL war thingies.
He suggests that good ol. "'Nother Round" seems to have a habit of coming up with titles that all sound like gay porn movies: "Operation Rough Rider", "Operation Midnight Hammer", and "Operation Southern Spear". The kicker is the funniest.
I don't want my MTG....(apologies to MTV)
I read something last night about how Margie is wasting an opportunity to lead a revolt in the Party of Traitors against the Fat Hitler takeover of the party, ya know, make it a real party again, instead of a collection of bobble head ninnies and whackadoodles.
Hmmm...whatever that writer is smoking, I'd like to try some. Or maybe not.
Greene has no interest in being the savior of anything other than herself and her bank account. Her apostasy regarding Fatty comes largely because she sees him (I believe) as a demented lame duck and doesn't want to be ranting from a deck chair when the SS Fat Hitler goes down. She says she could win in the next election, but she knows how dirty MAGA can get when they put a target on someone's back. She should. She helped write the book.
When you look at her record, she's done absolutely nothing in Congress. Never had a single bill passed. Didn't even get a post office renamed (like a former PoT Squeaker of the House). Her heyday ended in January. It was great when Biden was in the White House. She could rant and rave and make shit up and pretend to be the aggrieved victim, a fearless warrior for MAGA and everything Trumpy fighting against deep state lib'ruls and Hunter Biden's laptop. All that stuff is gone.
Now that MAGA runs the show, she realizes that she needs to actually do some work and that ain't Margie's speed. Oh, she might want to run for president, but largely because she sees what a gigantic grift shop it can be for the right criminal mind. She's gotten wealthy on insider trading, using information she picked up behind closed doors. But she ain't about to try to lead a revolution to "fix" that party. They ain't the Party of Traitors for nothing.
I suppose she could go the Sarah Palin route, write a few terrible books, get a gig on Fox as a regular screamer, go on the rightwing rant circuit, but she's had a taste of what one can grab when at the middle of things.
My guess is....you know what? I really don't give a shit what she's gonna do now. I'm just glad she's gone.
Margaret Sullivan's piece (linked above) offers instructions to journalism students on what not to do, or rather, how not to be a journalist.
But another take on the Olivia Nuzzi situation is even more revealing, which makes any instruction on how not to be a journalist a bit old hat, more like Monty Python's primer on How Not to Be Seen.
Colby Hall, one of the founders of Mediaite suggests that rather than doing stuff journalists should not be doing, Nuzzi has been reading a much different manual, one staking out the rules for the New Journalism, in other words, H
....(quick fingers)...as I was saying....In other words...How to BE seen. Not only seen, but how to BE the news yourself.
Hall points out that Nuzzi, at one point, was an excellent journalist, but after recent sordid revelations has devised a different sort of plan. To wit:
"What strikes me instead is how her comeback strategy makes perfect sense. Not morally, perhaps, but economically. Structurally. The glamour shots, the literary memoir, the Vanity Fair gig—none of it feels like tone-deaf narcissism anymore. It feels like someone who understood the game’s true rules and is playing them better than most.
Which leads me to the uncomfortable question: What happens when an industry spends 15 years telling talented young journalists that personal brand is currency, that access is the game, that being a character in the story makes better content—and then acts shocked when someone takes that logic a few degrees too far?
Here’s what we don’t say out loud: There’s no money in journalism anymore. No fame, no glamour, no prestige. But there’s lots and lots of money in media—in being a brand, an influencer, a personality. We stopped paying journalists and started rewarding performers."
This goes a long way toward explaining the crazy state of journalism today, and makes people like myself, and most of you out here seem like out of touch old fogies for thinking that the fourth estate should be concerned with writing about true things, getting the story, righting (and writing about) wrongs, doing the salutary work of offering some measure of ethical accounting for the figures in power.
Nope. The days of Johnny Apple, Molly Ivins, Sy Hersh, and Jack Anderson are long gone.
"We spent a decade-plus dismantling the institutional guardrails that once protected young journalists. Salaries plummeted. Job security evaporated. Newsroom mentorship disappeared. What replaced it? A ruthless attention economy where your Instagram and Twitter followers mattered far more than your editor’s guidance, where “personal brand” became the only portable asset in an industry of constant layoffs and collapses. We told a generation of talented writers: You’re not a reporter for an institution. You ARE the institution. Your access is your value. Your personality is your product.
And Olivia Nuzzi was brilliant at this game, which is why she succeeded."
And, of course, it doesn't help that the news industry is mostly now owned by giant conglomerates whose interests are economic, not journalistic. Just look at the Washington Post.
Our complaints about how much the media sucks are based largely on what we believe their role should be. Looks like that role is gone. We wonder why none of those White House reporters stood up and pushed back when that ignorant fat man called a reporter "piggy". It's because access is key, not the story, not standing up, not doing what we believe is the job of journalism.
I guess if you're not gonna right wrongs, you might as well write wrongs.
Read the French column yesterday. Often like him when his lawyerly approach doesn't get too Christian.
Commented thusly:
As difficult as it must be for the military (from top to bottom) to obey illegal orders, particularly when lives are involved, shouldn't it be equally difficult for lawyers to write the "golden shields" that salve their consciences and insulate them from legal consequence?
I can understand and support attorneys defending even the obviously guilty. I can't understand lawyers who use their skills to justify water torture and/or murder.
Please write about those lawyers. What do you think of them?
(Maybe he will.)
Emperor of the MAGAverse has spoken!
Make more movies I like with stars who love me and directors who have multiple sex assaults on their resume!
So it's not enough for this bloated turd machine to screw up world economies, to murder people in boats with zero evidence of wrongdoing, to wag the dog to keep Jeffrey away, to attack democracy seven ways from Sunday, to grift and grab and gloat and whine. Now he wants to control Hollywood as well.
"President Donald Trump personally urged Paramount’s owner Larry Ellison to bring back Rush Hour, the buddy-cop martial arts franchise fronted by Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker, according to new reports.
Ellison, a key political ally and major financial backer, is now a large shareholder at Paramount and inching toward a takeover of Warner’s storied catalogue. That gives the president, for the first time, a foothold in Hollywood’s creative machinery and leaves open the opportunity to revive the style of comedies and blackbusters common in the 1980s and 1990s."
So...movies with lots of shooting and shit blowing up, ya know, like they used to, way back in the 80's.
The arrogance and belief in his own omnipotence is astounding, and getting worse as the brain cells erode and the dementia deepens. He tells networks who to hire and fire, now he wants to tell Hollywood what movies to make. Guess it will be lots of T and A and Manly Men blowing shit up.
"Rashomon"? "Citizen Kane"? "Bicycle Thief"? "Rear Window"?
Nah. "Rush Hour!"
Editorial Boards
Fake Investigations
"Trump’s DoJ investigating unfounded claims Venezuela helped steal 2020 election"
"GOP Moves To Chill Research Into Extremist Groups
A powerful United States Senate committee has requested that multiple academic research centers focused on political extremism hand over years worth of documentation on federal watch list programs, the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol, vaccine mandates, the 2020 election, and Trump supporters, according to information obtained by WIRED.
People familiar with the committee inquiry view committee chair Sen. Rand Paul’s sprawling queries as a targeted effort to chill or discourage academic research on far-right groups, ideologies, or individuals."
Representation
"Black Residents in West Tennessee Just Won Fairer Districts. Now Comes SCOTUS.
The Supreme Court may further erode the Voting Rights Act in an upcoming decision. Beyond affecting Congress, that would reverberate across local governments nationwide."
Ken, I suspect that lawyers who write things like "golden shields" call them "opinions" for reasons, one of which is to avoid personal responsibility and professional taint.
Any good lawyer can write a Devil's Advocate opinion. Any senior policymaker can frame a desired policy and then request a "what if ..." legal analysis with specific reference to those advocacy points. Then, in the interagency clearance process, the. requesting policymaker can strip out the legal " con" judgments developed by the lawyers,and then raise the decision point to "the highest level of ignorance." The policymaker gets a "legal vetted" decision from authority, because after "Legal" provided the initial pro/con analysis, it does not have compelling authority in the "policy" decision. The " cons" were relegated to footnotes or attachments, which principals don't read. Their staffers do, but are often aware that apparent ignorance is career bliss.
It is really tough being a lawyer in an administration which seeks opportunities to bend the law and policy process beyond the breaking point.
IANAL.
"Power Shutoffs Due To Unpaid Bills Are Soaring
Soaring electricity prices are triggering a wave of power shutoffs nationwide, leaving more Americans in the dark as unpaid bills pile up. Although there is no national count of electricity shutoffs, data from select utilities in 11 states show that disconnections have risen in at least eight of them since last year, according to figures compiled by The Washington Post and the National Energy Assistance Directors Association (NEADA).
In Pennsylvania power shutoffs have risen 21 percent this year, with more than 270,000 households losing electricity, according to state data through October."
Tom Sullivan here: Preverse Moral Arithmetric summarized Frank Bruni's column in The New York Times gift link:
on the The Outrageous False Equivalences That Prop Up President Trump
The subtitle on Sullivan's piece reminded there is a documentary Orwell: 2+2=5 now available for rental I want to watch.
Marty Baron's speech on the freedom of the press, journalism, democracy, and what to do.
https://gatewayjr.org/baron-no-longer-is-confident-a-free-press-can-endure-but-he-wont-declare-war-on-trump-and-clings-to-optimism/
I read George Packer's essay in The Atlantic titled An Anatomy of the MAGA Mind hoping to understand how maga world accepts the false equivalences and other outrages, but didn't find it especially helpful.
"Beginning with his election in 2016, anti-liberal intellectuals made a Faustian bet that this coarse real-estate developer and reality-TV star would be the vehicle for realizing the Good, the Beautiful, and the True. “Trump was the strongman brought to bring liberalism to heel,” Field writes. But in attaching themselves to MAGA, they did less to influence the new regime than Trump did to corrupt them. Field shows, for example, how the Claremont Institute became a nest of conspiracy theorists and election denialists, with one of their own Straussians—the constitutional scholar John Eastman—providing Trump with a bogus legal justification for overturning the 2020 presidential election.
....
What’s clear is that MAGA ideologues—including the prize recruit to the anti-liberal right, J. D. Vance—have entered a downward spiral of ever cruder language and thought, usually with notes of bigotry and xenophobia, and sometimes blatant ugliness, as if to show their bona fides. They’ve abandoned tradition for radicalism, careful scholarship for vulgar discourse, reason for the irrational, universal truths for narrow identities, and philosophy for partisanship."
akaWendy,
Just yesterday I came across an article about sci fi books and found out about We, a dystopian novel by Russian writer Yevgeny Zamyatin that was apparently an inspiration for 1984. It sounds kind of like the world our technolords want to create, an authoritarian surveillance state.
Patrick,
You're right of course.
My favorite Netflix fix over the last few years was "The Lincoln Lawyer," a pleasing video version of Michael Connelly's entertaining novels. I had that and my Catholic youth in mind as I raised the question about lawyerly ethics to Mr. French.
Yes, I see how it's done. Advocate for the Devil, as you say, much like taking the con position in a formal debate. We've all done that. But to play John Eastman, to pick just one, and expect to be taken seriously by either the courts or in the court of public opinion is a step too far for me. In Eastman's (mentioned above in Wendy's post) case it's proven a step too far for the California Bar Association.
I was just wondering if it's also a step too far for the very Christian French when the lawyers are not playing an intellectual game but eroding what remains of our democracy or contributing to murder on the high seas..
That Berkeley hired John Woo after his torture memos still gravels me.
Another legend gone.
"Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
Star of The Harder They Come had hits including You Can Get It If You Really Want and I Can See Clearly Now"
"If I Follow My Mind"
Illegal Orders
"Pentagon says it’s investigating Sen. Mark Kelly for video urging troops to defy ‘illegal orders’"
And the shutdown winner is?
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-expected-propose-aca-subsidy-extension-premium-deadline-nears-report-says-2025-11-24/
BTW, the Pretender's administration has ruined another word for me: "Warrior."
We're a long way from Sgt. Rock.
Ken: me too! Hogsbreath uses a lot of those stoopid words to make himself sound militarily strong and manly. You have called Fat Hitler The Pretender for as long as he has been on his Throne of Lies-- I would say that "pretender" pretty much describes all the people/puppets/idiots he has around him. He is such a faker, so dastardly cowardly and an imitator of all he admires. Poor man-- five times he "missed" the opportunity to join the real patriots, those who enlisted even if it was a risk, hence becoming Colonel Bonespurs. Hogsbreath can aspire to reach the heights Drumplgas does, then he can go back to his drunk tank happy, meanwhile, Drumplgas goes on with his fantasy of dancing the night away underneath his golden boudoir, emerging only to sit at the historical desk he never "works" at... What a lovely nightmare they are. Pretending is ALL they do, well, that and ruin lives...
Even after pleading guilty to money laundering!
"Hamas Victims Sue Crypto Mogul Pardoned By Trump For “Facilitating Millions In Payments” To Terror Groups
Victims of Hamas’ October 2023 attack on Israel sued Binance and its founder Changpeng Zhao, accusing them of facilitating millions of dollars in payments to the group and other U.S.-designated terrorist groups. According to a complaint made public on Monday, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange laundered money for Hamas even after pleading guilty in November 2023 and paying a $4.32 billion criminal penalty for violating federal anti-money-laundering and sanctions laws."
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to approach the vultures on bended knee..
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/business/consumer-bureau-humility-pledge.html
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