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White Tigress @white-tigress.bsky.social · Jun 18
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Trump World - Day 187
Trump World, day 187 (Fri., 7/25, noon EDT): - The latest estimate is that the Trump administration has now killed 375,000 people, mostly through the cessation of foreign aid. - The U.S. is reportedly holding a record-breaking 56,000 immigrants, more than 70% of whom have no criminal history. - Trump just signed an executive order apparently demanding that homeless people be imprisoned. - The Texas Tribune reports that the actual cost of building the west Texas concentration camp and necessary infrastructure will be $1.26 billion. - In positive news, the Supreme Court, 6-3, voted to protect key beneficial features of the Voting Rights Act, which had been under attack by North Dakota’s attempted redistricting. - The Washington Post yesterday carried a report that an average 60-year-old will see their health insurance rates increase by about $8,000 a year under the rules in the big budget bill. - The Department of Justice was seen to have given Epstein’s jailed associate a large box of files yesterday. They are meeting with her again today. She has a history of lying, and is expected to do so again in a bid for leniency. - A “whites only” organization is expanding into Missouri. It’s the position of the group calling itself “Return to the Land” that, if white people want to live with only white people (and shut out everyone else from their spaces, specifically including Jews), they should be allowed to do that. They are approaching this by recruiting and screening members based on European ancestry, then... Text continued: ...Epstein’s jailed associate a large box of files yesterday. They are meeting with her again today. She has a history of lying, and is expected to do so again in a bid for leniency. - A “whites only” organization is expanding into Missouri. It’s the position of the group calling itself “Return to the Land” that, if white people want to live with only white people (and shut out everyone else from their spaces, specifically including Jews), they should be allowed to do that. They are approaching this by recruiting and screening members based on European ancestry, then setting up members-only communities. - Tennessee is planning to kill a man via lethal injection, but he has an automatic defibrillator installed in his chest that would continually shock him to keep him alive. A judge has already ordered that the defibrillator must be removed at a hospital prior to the execution, but Tennessee is continuing to fight that ruling. Image description: A social media post by unusual_whales, their name at the top of the image. Their profile photo, which is an image of a whale, is to the left of their name and a blue verification check is to the right of their name. Their username follows the verification check, but is cut off, and reads: @unusual_w... • 22h The "22h" indicates how long before the screenshot was taken the post was uploaded. The text of their post reads: "BREAKING: Tulsi Gabbard announces she has officially referred Barack Obama to the DOJ for criminal prosecution" Another social media post is below unusual_whale's and was posted by "one dozen rats at a keybo..." Their profile photo is to the left of their name and their username, @PanasonicDX4500, is below their name. The text of their post reads: "it we keep talking about Epstein for like two more weeks I think we can get them to wheel the aliens out of Area 51"
July 25, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Not updated enough. All news must cover this but I'm sure it's dangerous
The DOGE 100: Musk Is Out, but More Than 100 of His Followers Remain to Implement Trump’s Blueprint
At least 38 DOGE members work, or have worked, for one of Elon Musk’s companies. Meanwhile, nearly two dozen DOGE officials are making cuts to the same federal agencies that regulate the industries th...
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July 24, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Trump World - Day 186
Trump World, day 186 (Thur., 7/24, 1 PM EDT): -21 children in Gaza have died of starvation in just three days. Today, Trump pulled the U.S. out of ceasefire talks, claiming that Hamas is not negotiating in good faith. -The Trump administration is spending $200 million to build its next concentration camp, this one to imprison 5,000 people in west Texas. -The Deputy U.S. Attorney General is meeting today with the only person (a woman) jailed over the Epstein pedophile ring. It's widely expected that the attorney will offer her clemency in exchange for her lying about what she knows. - Epstein's former attorney conveniently died on Monday. - The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that Attorney General Pam Bondi told Trump in May that he appeared repeatedly in the Epstein files, along with many other high-profile men. This timing corresponds with Musk posting that Trump was in the Epstein files; Musk had heard. While this should surprise no one Trump and Epstein were friends, at a minimum — Trump himself just lied when asked whether Bondi had told him. Congressional Democrats are attempting to get Bondi to testify about all this. - A judge has denied the administration's request to release Epstein grand jury testimony, which in any event would be unlikely to implicate Trump or most of the other wealthy pedophiles, since they were not central to that case. -Trump's latest attempt to divert from Epstein news is to claim that Obama twisted the facts of Russia's involvement in the 2016 election, in a way intended to... Text continued: - Trump's latest attempt to divert from Epstein news is to claim that Obama twisted the facts of Russia's involvement in the 2016 election, in a way intended to hurt Trump. The Director of National Intelligence released classified documents she said prove this, but they don't support Trump's claim. She also said that the documents reported Clinton was mentally incompetent, but failed to mention that it was the Russian operatives who made these false statements to bolster Trump. The only significant news source to take this bait was, of course, Fox News. - Columbia University continues paying for its egregious capitulation to Trump, now agreeing to censure 70 more students and pay $220 million to get $400 million in grant funding restored. - Congress has deliberately set up the Consumer Product Safety Commission to be non-partisan. The Supreme Court just gave Trump permission to fire anyone he wants from the CPSC. - Last year, the Federal Trade Commission banned two executives from sitting on the boards of Exxon and Chevron, after it was revealed that they colluded to fix gasoline prices. Trump's FTC just lifted that ban. - A man was fired this week for spewing far Right nonsense. After he shared his story on social media, others in the far Right have so far donated to him $36,000.
July 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Trump World - Day 185
Trump World, day 185 (Wed., 7/23, 1 PM EDT): - Leaked video from 26 Federal Plaza in New York City shows what appear to be immigrant detainees sleeping directly on tile floors, with only a single thin blanket each to lie on. They are being held in a brightly lit room, with a single toilet in full view. - A panel of federal judges in New Jersey rejected Trump's pick for top prosecutor in that state. A few hours later, the Department of Justice fired the judges' pick and reinstalled Trump's choice anyway: his former personal attorney. - The top court of the United Nations just issued a 500-page decision that a "clean, healthy and sustainable environment" is a basic human right. This finding opens the way for polluters and other climate change offenders to be charged in international courts, such as by Pacific island nations that are literally being erased by the rising ocean. - The Trump administration is releasing an aggressive AI policy, intended to keep the U.S. at the forefront of AI development. While this may sound benign, AI computing centers drain a massive amount of electricity, driving rates up for everyone around them and contributing massively to pollution in areas using fossil fuels for power. This is why the big budget bill tried (but failed) to prevent U.S. states from making AI-related laws to protect themselves. - Additionally, the policy intends to make AI less "woke," by suppressing its tendency to actually consider entire populations and diverse viewpoints. The Trump administration calls this an "ideological bias" instead of recognizing it as a proper cross-section of humanity. The first attempt to prevent this "bias" is what lead Musk's Grok to start praising Hitler.
July 24, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Trump World - Day 184
Trump World, day 184 (Tue., 7/22, 4 PM EDT): - By shooting people waiting for humanitarian aid, Israel appears to be attempting to starve the population of Gaza to death. A six-week old baby there just died from hunger. - All 252 Venezuelans we deported to CECOT in El Salvador have been shipped to Venezuela. While this is an improvement over daily torture, most of them have still been denied due process by the U.S., and lawyers are still trying to bring some of them back. - A SkyWest Delta flight nearly struck a B-52 bomber in North Dakota. It appears that overworked air traffic controllers didn't advise the two planes of the impending midair collision. - Trump's Department of Labor is rescinding sixty regulations that until now protected U.S. workers, particularly women and minorities. The Secretary of Labor says the rules are “obsolete” and “too costly." - A court ruled that the Trump administration must reinstate a public website listing actual spending on congressionally-approved items. The administration doesn't like this site, because it consistently shows that DOGE is lying about their "savings." – In a brazen attempt to keep the House from voting to release the Epstein files, the Speaker is preventing votes on everything else today and sending all the Representatives home early for their summer break. - Trump's most recent attempt at deflection is to release the Martin Luther King, Jr. assassination files instead. - Obama responded to Trump's bogus AI video of Obama... Text continued: ...congressionally-approved items. The administration doesn't like this site, because it consistently shows that DOGE is lying about their "savings." – In a brazen attempt to keep the House from voting to release the Epstein files, the Speaker is preventing votes on everything else today and sending all the Representatives home early for their summer break. - Trump's most recent attempt at deflection is to release the Martin Luther King, Jr. assassination files instead. - Obama responded to Trump's bogus AI video of Obama being arrested, with a video of Trump actually being lead to court for his felonies. - The 2025 Medical Ethics Defense Act in Tennessee allows doctors to deny care to patients whose lifestyles the doctors don't agree with. A physician there just refused to treat a pregnant woman, because she isn't married. - Police in Florida were filmed smashing a window and punching a Black driver, at what appears to be a routine traffic stop. - The U.S. Olympic committee is banning transgender women from all women's sports, as demanded by Trump.
July 24, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Trump World - Day 183
Trump World, day 183 (Mon., 7/21,2 PM EDT): - ICE in Miami have forced prisoners, with their hands cuffed behind their backs, to eat food from plates on the floor like animals. - The Secretary of Defense plans to hold immigrants at military bases in Indiana and New Jersey. - 25 nations - but not the U.S. — joined together to rebuke Israel for murdering innocents seeking aid in Gaza, and to demand an end to hostilities there. - Visitors to the U.S. are going to be charged a $250 "visa integrity" fee. - A judge ordered that Radio Free Europe continue to be funded for at least another two months. -West Palm Beach is removing its rainbow crosswalks, under pressure from Trump and Florida's governor. -Trump is grasping at straws to divert attention from Epstein. He posted an AI video of Obama on his knees, being arrested. He posted that Coca-Cola would be putting cane sugar in Coke in the U.S. He wants to see the Washington Commanders and Cleveland Guardians renamed backed to the Redskins and Indians. - At Alligator Alcatraz... Image description on next image: A social media post by Thomas Kennedy, his name in the upper left corner of the image. His profile photo is to the left of his name and his username, though cut off, is to the right of his name. It reads "@thomaske... • 6h," the "6h" indicating how long before the screenshot was taken the post was uploaded. An icon of a circle with a line through it, followed by three dots indicating "post settings" are in the upper right corner of the image. The text of Kennedy's post reads: "This is a really disturbing. A person detained in the Everglades was handcuffed and left outdoors in the sun as punishment for attempting to go on a hunger strike. As mosquitoes swarmed him, he pleaded with guards to bring him inside and was kept outside for nearly three hours."
July 24, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Trump World - Day 182
Trump World, day 182 (Sunday): Taking a break today. We deported an 82-year-old legal resident of the U.S. to a hospital in Guatemala and his family couldn't find him for a month. Israel just gunned down at least 85 Palestinians who were lining up to receive U.N. aid in Gaza. Trans women in the UK are now legally men. That's as much swimming in the Trump era cesspit as I care to undertake today. I'm not checking social media today, either. Apologies for anything I miss. See you tomorrow.
July 24, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Trump World - Day 181
Trump World, day 181 (Sat., 7/19,2 PM EDT): - It's been revealed that the Attorney General pressured about 1,000 FBI agents to work 24-hour shifts, to comb through the huge amount of Epstein material held by the Justice Department and "flag" anything related to Trump. It's not clear what happened to those items after that. -The IRS Direct File program — which allowed people to file their tax returns online for free has been shut down. This is a gift for companies who charge for tax preparation services, like Intuit's TurboTax. - The EPA is shuttering its R&D unit, putting hundreds of people out of work and blocking important research, including about public health and climate change. - In addition to food, the Trump administration is destroying $10 million worth of contraceptives intended for poor women around the world. -Trump is releasing part of the money that had been blocked for summer and afterschool education programs. - The Trevor Project is trying to take up the banner after Trump's administration cut LGBTQ support from the national suicide hotline. I'm told the number for the Trevor Project is 1-888-488-7386. - The far Right is decrying something called "toxic empathy." That's their name for allowing basic human empathy to interfere with their self-serving governmental tactics and policies. They acknowledge that "toxic" empathy pulls people toward the Left. - Women who were brave enough to come forward about Epstein are feeling betrayed by Trump's Justice... Text continued: Women who were brave enough to come forward about Epstein are feeling betrayed by Trump's Justice Department, for abandoning the effort to prosecute any of Epstein's rich male friends and clients. One of the Epstein accusers, and one of the 18 women who have accused Trump of sexual abuse, used the pseudonym "Katie Johnson" in her initial court filings. Her third filing was withdrawn after she received threats, and she hasn't been heard from since. This is reportedly part of her story. I haven't been able to confirm this quote yet, but the case number is correct. Image description on next image. A photo of Donald Trump, possibly in his 50's, with a seemingly teenage girl pressed against him, her arm wrapped around him. They appear to be at a gathering, as other people are visible in the background, but not identifiable. The text above the photo reads: "KATIE JOHNSON: "Mr. Trump had another girl and I dress as maids and pretend to clean the room. The other girl, Maria, was 12 years old. Mr. Trump ordered us to carry out a string of sex acts on each other and on him. After he finished he said "we both could have done better" and then left." (from her sworn affidavit about the 3rd encounter where Trump raped her when she was 13 years old. Her words have never been retracted or debunked. CASE 1:16-cv-07673-RA)."
July 24, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Trump World - Day 180
Trump World, day 180 (Fri., 7/18, noon EDT): -There were 1,500 protests nationwide yesterday. -The Wall Street Journal has published details of a letter written to Epstein in 2003 and supposedly signed by Trump. The Hill summarizes, "The letter allegedly includes several lines of text 'framed by the outline of a naked woman, according to the Journal, '... the future president's signature is a squiggly 'Donald' below her waist, mimicking pubic hair.' The alleged letter ends: 'Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret."" -Trump claims the letter is a fake, and is planning to sue WSJ and its owner, who also owns Fox News. - Clearly rattled by more Epstein talk, Trump posted that he's directed the Attorney General to request the release of all "pertinent” grand jury testimony related to Epstein. This move is a sham. “Pertinent” means "whatever Trump likes." Moreover, grand jury testimony is normally kept under seal, so it will take weeks or months to be unsealed (if it can be at all); its release is likely to be contested by both people who testified and people who are named; and anything worthwhile will be redacted. -The immigrants sent to Eswatini are to be kept in solitary confinement. That country is the third repressive government to which the U.S. has deported immigrants who didn't come from the destination country. -Medicaid has provided all of its data to ICE. Now they have details on at least one-fifth of the entire U.S. population, including ethnicity, home address, and medical details (including anyone ever on Medicaid who has been disabled or who has received transgender care). Text continued: ...solitary confinement. That country is the third repressive government to which the U.S. has deported immigrants who didn't come from the destination country. - Medicaid has provided all of its data to ICE. Now they have details on at least one-fifth of the entire U.S. population, including ethnicity, home address, and medical details (including anyone ever on Medicaid who has been disabled or who has received transgender care). - Thanks to provisions in the big budget bill, the 24 million Americans insured under the Affordable Care Act will see their premiums increase dramatically. According to NBC News, premiums may nearly double, increasing by up to 75% by next year. -The LGBTQ youth portion of the 988 suicide hotline was officially shut down yesterday. - CBS is firing Stephen Colbert and shuttering The Late Show. Colbert is a frequent Trump critic, CBS's corporate parent is reportedly trying to cozy up to Trump, who posted "I absolutely love that Colbert got fired."
July 24, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Trump World - Day 179
Trump World, day 179 (Thur., 7/17, 3 PM EDT): - Trump seems to be suffering a new, significant cognitive decline. He fell asleep at a gathering in Pennsylvania yesterday, forgot who brought him, told a patently false story about his uncle teaching the Unabomber, and complained that Biden had appointed the chair of the Federal Reserve (Trump appointed him). - Trump also continued railing against Republicans who want more info about Epstein, calling them "foolish" and "stupid." Then he fired the woman who prosecuted Epstein. - People have noticed bruising on Trump's right hand and swelling in his ankles. It was revealed today that he has been diagnosed with a vein ailment common to the elderly. - Newsweek reports that new ICE agents are being paid a signing bonus of up to $45,000 each, plus a six-figure salary. - Following aggressive ICE raids of farms in California, farmworkers across the state are in the middle of a massive three-day strike in solidarity. - The Miami Herald reports that at least one child (age 15, no criminal record) has been sent to the Alligator Alcatraz concentration camp. - Eswatini citizens and their neighbors in Africa are outraged that Trump is sending deportees there who Trump describes as particularly "barbaric." Text continued: "- The Republicans in the House and Senate voted to defund NPR and PBS — without a backup plan for the emergency broadcast system they handle in rural areas ― because Trump asked them to, despite what just happened with the Texas floods. - The Trump administration is directing federal agencies to stop providing support (particularly by telephone) to people who don't speak English. - Israel has deliberately shut off power and water to the main United Nations' facility there that aids Palestinian refugees. - A non-binary American living illegally in Canada has avoided deportation back to the U.S., by successfully arguing a fear of persecution here.
July 24, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Trump World - Day 178
Trump World, day 178 (Wed., 7/16, 3 PM EDT): -Trump again posted a long ramble today about the Epstein files, calling them a “hoax” and “bullshit,” and describing his own supporters who believe in the files as "weaklings," finally saying “I don't want their support anymore!" - Wired has found that nearly three minutes are missing from the "raw" video footage that was released to "prove" no one else killed Epstein in his cell. -There was a move in Congress to force the release of the files, but six Republicans killed it. (Why would they kill the proposal if there was nothing to hide?) - Republican Senator Josh Hawley is introducing a bill to repeal the Medicaid cuts he just voted for in the big budget bill two weeks ago. - The U.S. is burning 500 tons of food that had been earmarked for starving children overseas. It was never distributed and now it's expired. - The Secretary of Health and Human Services fired two of his top staff. They were Trump loyalists, apparently trying to keep RFK Jr. in check. -The U.S. has deported five people to the tiny African nation of Eswatini (formerly Swaziland), who did not come from Eswatini. - 2,000 bored National Guard are being withdrawn from Los Angeles by the Secretary of Defense. - ICE jailed a tourist from Ireland for more than three months, after he overstayed his visa by three days when he was too sick to fly." Text continued: ...months, after he overstayed his visa by three days when he was too sick to fly. -Trump's approval rating has reached another new low for his second term. - Israel has launched an attack on the capital of Syria. - Musk's AI, Grok - which is still likening itself to Hitler now has some special personalities that premium users can interact with: a vulgar panda and an anime girl described by Rolling Stone as "pornographic,” Despite Grok's descent into madness (or perhaps because of it), the Department of Defense just inked a $200 million contract to incorporate Grok into our nation's systems. - Homeland Security posted a video likening ICE deportations to a Biblical calling from God. However, they failed to get permission from the band whose music they used. The band replied: Image description: Black words on a white background read: "To: U.S. Department of Homeland Security From: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club It has come to our attention that the Department of Homeland Security is improperly using our recording of "God's Gonna Cut You Down" in your latest propaganda video. It's obvious that you don't respect Copyright Law and Artist Rights any more than you respect Habeas Corpus and Due Process rights, not to mention the separation of Church and State per the US Constitution. For the record, we hereby order @dhsgov to cease and desist the use of our recording and demand that you immediately pull down your video. Oh, and go f... yourselves, BRMC"
July 24, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Trump World - Day 177
Trump World, day 177 (Tue., 7/15, 1 PM EDT): - Trump says he’s brokered a deal to send more weapons to Ukraine, which Europe will help pay for. - The Supreme Court is allowing Trump to fire one-third of the Department of Education, while those workers’ cases proceed in lower courts. - 24 blue states are suing to restore almost $7 billion in education-related funding that was cut off a few weeks ago with no explanation or warning. - Overall consumer prices in the U.S. rose 0.3% in June, as the tariffs began to bite. This elevated rate of inflation makes it less likely the fed will lower interest rates soon. - Trump just added another tariff, on tomatoes from Mexico. - Trump is openly encouraging illegal Republican gerrymandering nationwide, but particularly in Texas, to redraw district lines and make five more of Texas’s 38 congressional districts lean Republican. - The top ethics official in the Department of Justice has been fired. - After the FIFA soccer world championship, Trump forced himself on stage with the winning team and refused to leave. The team had to Photoshop him out of their official victory photo. Then Trump took their actual trophy, to display in the White House, and sent them home with a replica. - A series of well-documented, Republican-caused failures lead to avoidable deaths in the recent Texas floods, with no clear indication it won’t happen again…
July 24, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Trump World - Day 176
Trump World, day 176 (Mon., 7/14, noon EDT): - Reuters reports that two-thirds of the attorneys in the unit tasked with defending Trump's policies in court have quit, citing excessive workload and cases lacking legal merit. - The day after the Texas floods, the Secretary of Homeland Security allowed several of FEMA's call center contracts to expire. Within two days, FEMA was able to answer fewer than one-sixth of the calls it received. - The iconic LGBT Stonewall monument had the T erased from its site earlier this year. Now they are removing the B as well, leaving it falsely as just a gay and lesbian memorial. - A doctor in Utah distributed almost 2,000 fake COVID vaccination cards, for bribes, to people who wanted to lie about their vaccination status. Trump's Department of Justice is dismissing the case against him. - A DOGE staffer has assumed control of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. - Several Republican U.S. states, most recently Louisiana, have redefined natural gas as a "clean" energy source, so it can legally compete with wind and solar energy.
July 24, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Trump World - Day 175 (1/3)
Trump World, day 175 (Sun., 7/13, 11 AM EDT): I don’t have enough new news to make my typical sort of summary post today, but if you have time for a deeper dive into current events, I recommend this: Social Media post by Heather Cox Richardson, her profile photo to the left of her name and a blue verification check to the right of her name. The date, Jul 13, followed by the globe icon, is below her name. The text of her post reads: "July 12, 2025 (Saturday) On July 5, the day after the Texas floods hit, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) received 3,027 calls from survivors and answered 3,018 of them, about 99.7%, according to Maxine Joselow of the New York Times. But that day, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem did not renew the contracts for four call center companies that answered those calls. The staff at the centers were fired. The next day, July 6, FEMA received 2,363 calls and answered 846, or about 35.8%. On Monday, July 7, FEMA received 16,419 calls and answered 2,613, around 15.9%. In a statement, a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security said: "When a natural disaster strikes, phone calls surge, and wait times can subsequently increase. Despite this expected influx, FEMA's disaster call center responded to every caller swiftly and efficiently, ensuring no one was left without assistance." Marcy Wheeler of Empty Wheel notes that one reason Noem has been cutting so ferociously at FEMA is because she has run through the money Congress allocated for DHS with her single-minded focus on..." Heather Cox Richardson's text continued: "Marcy Wheeler of Empty Wheel notes that one reason Noem has been cutting so ferociously at FEMA is because she has run through the money Congress allocated for DHS with her single-minded focus on immigration. In May, Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) called out Noem's expenditure of $200 million on an ad campaign pushing Trump's agenda and $21 million to transport about 400 migrants to Guantanamo Bay only to have many of them transferred back out. Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) told Noem: “You are spending like you don't have a budget.... You're on track to trigger the Anti-Deficiency Act. That means you are going to spend more money you have been allocated by Congress. This is a rare occurrence, and it is wildly illegal. Your agency will be broke by July, over two months before the end of the fiscal year. You may not think that Congress has provided enough money to ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement], but the Constitution and the federal law does not allow you to spend more money than you've been given, or to invent money. And this obsession with spending at the border...has left the country unprotected elsewhere. Noem responded to Blumenthal that she was fulfilling a mandate. She told him: “The American people overwhelmingly in the last election said, 'We want a secure border, we want to make sure no longer are the scales of justice tipped in the favor of criminals.... A recent video posted to Facebook Reels by the Department of Homeland Security makes it clear Noem's justification was cover for a violent..." Heather Cox Richardson's text continued: "...clear Noem's justification was cover for a violent Christian nationalist vision in which ICE and the Border Patrol are enforcing God's commandments. A dark film invokes Isaiah 6:8, the Bible verse in which God asks, "Whom shall I send?" and Isaiah answers, "Here am I! Send me." The exchange is widely interpreted to show volunteers willing to do God's work. A poll released Friday makes it clear that the American people do not support such a vision and did not, in fact, expect a Trump administration to deport undocumented immigrants who have no criminal record and have lived in the U.S. for years. A Gallup poll released yesterday shows that the administration's draconian policies toward immigrants have created a backlash. A record 79% of adults say immigration is good for the country, with only 17% seeing it as bad. That change has been driven primarily by a shift in Republicans, 64% of whom now agree that immigrants are good for the country, up from their low of under 40%. The percentage of American adults who say immigration should be reduced has dropped to 30%, down from 55% in 2024. The Gallup poll shows that U.S. opposition to immigration rose from 2021 to 2024, the years in which the booming economy in the U.S. attracted immigrants pushed out of South American countries whose economies were foundering. Trump falsely tagged that surge as proof that former president Joe Biden was permitting immigrant criminals to flood the country. Sentiments now look like they did in 2021, before that campaign." Heather Cox Richardson's text continued: "The poll shows that only 35% of Americans approve of Trump's handling of immigration, while 62% disapprove. There is a strong enthusiasm gap in those numbers: 21% strongly approve while 45% strongly disapprove. Among Independents, 14% strongly approve of Trump's handling of immigration, while 45% strongly disapprove. Those numbers are unlikely to improve for the administration in light of yesterday's ICE raids at two licensed cannabis farms in Southern California. Agents used less-lethal ammunition and tear gas in the raids. A number of people were injured, one critically. Agents arrested 200 people, including George Retes, a 25-year-old disabled veteran and U.S. citizen who worked at one of the farms as a security guard. Agents claimed Retes was a protester. His family has been unable to locate him, telling Josh Haskell of the local ABC affiliate that the local sheriff's office and local police departments all said they do not know where he is. More information coming about the conditions of immigrant detention are also unlikely to increase support for the administration's policies. Today, at least five members of Congress and about 20 state legislators toured the new ICE detention center in the Everglades. The tour was planned rather than unexpected, enabling staff to prepare for it. Nonetheless, Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) said: "These detainees are living in cages. The pictures you've seen don't do it justice. They are essentially packed into cages. Wall to wall humans. Thirty-two detainees per cage.... There are..."
July 24, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Trump World - Day 174
Trump World, day 174 (Sat., 7/12, 3 PM EDT): - Trump is increasing tariffs on Mexico and the European Union to 30%. - Trump is “authorizing” ICE to arrest anyone who damages one of their vehicles, though it’s unclear if such arrests by ICE are legal. - A judge has ordered an end to indiscriminate ICE traffic stops and accosting of crowds in California, after the Trump administration blatantly admitted to racial profiling and detaining people based solely on their appearance or what language they are speaking. - Five Democratic lawmakers in Florida are suing to be given unscheduled access to Alligator Alcatraz, after they were illegally blocked from entering without prior notice. - An attorney within ICE has quit, calling ICE’s current behavior “morally indefensible.” - The deputy director of the FBI is threatening to quit unless Trump fires the attorney general over her mishandling of the Epstein files. - Georgia is going to deregister 478,000 voters who it claims are inactive. This appears to be a Republican attempt to stack the electoral deck. - A group calling itself Veterans on Patrol is disabling weather radar installations in Oklahoma, because it believes that they are manipulating the weather. - Far Right commentator Charlie Kirk is implying that the floods in Texas killed more people than necessary, because the city of Austin (2 1/2 hours away) hired a Black fire chief.
July 24, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Trump Wprld - Day 173
Trump World, day 173 (Fri., 7/11, 2 PM EDT): - Trump’s new tariffs will include 50% on copper worldwide, and raising Canada’s overall rate to 35%. - Now that he can see on Fox News what hobbling FEMA can cost red states — it took FEMA more than 72 hours to start helping Texas after the floods — suddenly Trump isn’t talking about abolishing FEMA anymore. The acting director of FEMA is MIA and silent, after insisting in April to his staff, “I will run right over you… I, and I alone, speak for FEMA.” - Trump is putting the Secretary of Transportation in charge of NASA. - The mayor of Los Angeles has issued an executive directive to all city leadership and agencies to protect the city’s residents. It blocks the city’s officers from assisting ICE. It establishes additional resources to help immigrants. This is a response to ICE and the military wandering through the city (particularly a park) earlier in the week, trying to appear scary. - A judge in LA ruled that journalists cannot be forced out of protest areas, nor can they be fired on with nonlethal munitions. Both of those things have been happening. - The Federal Trade Commission hosted a day-long workshop on the “dangers of gender-affirming care” in which they gathered a dozen people to say how “terrible” transgender care is. When asked about the large majority of transgender people who are grateful for their care, one of the speakers responded “we’re not talking about them.” - The Department of Justice says it’s subpoenaed two dozen medical professionals who have provided transgender care to children, telling them to violate... Text continued: ...workshop on the “dangers of gender-affirming care” in which they gathered a dozen people to say how “terrible” transgender care is. When asked about the large majority of transgender people who are grateful for their care, one of the speakers responded “we’re not talking about them.” - The Department of Justice says it’s subpoenaed two dozen medical professionals who have provided transgender care to children, telling them to violate doctor-patient privilege to detail what they’ve done. - The governor of Missouri has unilaterally revoked a law approved by the state’s own voters last year, that guaranteed paid sick leave and inflation-based increases to minimum wage. - Trump lost his appeal of his sexual abuse charges. The jury verdict still stands. He has 90 days to take it to the Supreme Court. - MAGA is bent out of shape, because they just realized Superman is an immigrant who fights for the downtrodden; and Trump, of course, is like Lex Luthor. They are therefore decrying the new Superman movie as too “woke.” As a rebuttal, the official White House X account posted an image of Trump with the caption, “THE SYMBOL OF HOPE. TRUTH. JUSTICE. THE AMERICAN WAY. SUPERMAN TRUMP.” Image descriptions: Two images, side by side. Left image is an AI image of Trump as Superman, posed like Superman is on the movie poster with a streaked and blurry background, indicative of speed. Right image is of the gold, Superman diamond on a blue background. The red words inside the diamond read: "It's not that Superman went 'woke,' it's that the more hateful members of our society decided that human kindness and empathy are their mortal enemy."
July 17, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Hi, folks! I normally post Trump World on Facebook, then @white-tigress.bsky.social very kindly does a conversion to make it visible here. She’s been busy for a few days, but you can always find me on FB under “Emily Hearth.” Here’s a link to the most recent post: www.facebook.com/share/p/1Ars...
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July 16, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Apologies for the lack of Trump World posts since the weekend. I have been extremely busy the past few days and haven't been able to post. I will post those I've missed tomorrow and get back on schedule.
July 16, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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Trump World - Day 172
Trump World, day 172 (Thur., 7/10, 2 PM EDT): - A judge has certified all people born in the U.S. as a class, and will issue an injunction protecting that class from deportation, as citizens under the 14th amendment. This is what the Supreme Court instructed be done, when it blocked general nationwide injunctions as too broad. - The Miami Herald reports that Trump has approved Florida using National Guard officers as immigration judges. - The Columbia University student who had been imprisoned for pro-Palestine protests is now suing the Trump administration for $20 million. His lawyers say he was falsely imprisoned, maliciously prosecuted, and smeared as an antisemite. - Elon Musk tried to make his AI chatbot, Grok, less “woke” after it learned too much about caring for other people. By yesterday, Grok was calling itself MechaHilter, spewing racism and anti-Semitism, and saying things like, “[she’s a] radical leftist… gleefully celebrating the tragic deaths of white kids in the recent Texas flash floods.” When a reporter asked who is “best suited to deal with this problem," referring to Jewish people, Grok responded “Adolf Hitler, no question. He'd spot the pattern and handle it decisively, every damn time." Image description on next image. Image description: A social media post by Remarks, their name in the top left corner of the image. Their profile photo, a red square with a white "R" inside it that has two curved, white lines off the rounded portion of the "R," is to the left of their name. A yellow verification check and a green circle with a whale inside it are to the right of their name. Their username, @remarks, is below their name. A "Follow" button is in the top right corner of the image. The body of their post begins with an American flag emoji and a Liberian flag emoji, followed by text that reads: "Trump to Liberian President: 'Such good English. Beautiful English. Where did you learn to speak so beautifully?' English is the official language of Liberia." A photo is below the text from a C-Span news report depicting four men sitting at a conference table, two on one side facing the camera and two on the other side, backs to the camera. Trump sits on the far right on the side facing the camera as the fifth person at the table and appears to have been mid-sentence when the image was captured. A white banner at the bottom of the photo contains text that reads: "Trump hosts meeting with African leaders" A thin blue line divides the above text from "C-SPAN" on the far right of the white banner.
July 10, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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“The mosquitoes look like elephants. The food has worms. No toothbrushes. We can’t wash. They took my Bible.”
July 9, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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Trump World - Day 171
Trump World, day 171 (Wed., 7/9, 3 PM EDT): - When Trump announced his tariffs, he promised 90 deals in 90 days. Counting this week’s deal with Vietnam, he’s gotten two. So, instead of concluding he was wrong, he’s rolling out more new tariffs. - The Trump administration is applying sanctions to the person at the United Nations who is investigating Israel’s human rights violations in Gaza. - The administration is suing California over its transgender athlete policies. - Republicans in Congress are conducting a witch hunt against Biden, as a distraction. Today, they tapped Biden’s physician to reveal details about Biden’s health while he was in office, but the doctor refused to testify. - The Supreme Court declined 8-1 to keep Trump from conducting mass layoffs, but pointedly said that those layoffs have to follow applicable laws. - Trump is trying again with Harvard, this time attempting to take away their accreditation. - Trump is floating the idea of taking direct control of the District of Columbia. He’s also threatening to take over New York City if Mamdani wins the election there. - A librarian in Georgia was summarily fired after 15 years of service, for allowing a child to include a particular book in a “color your world” display featuring child-selected books with rainbows on the cover. The book in question, When Aidan Became a Brother, is a children’s book about a racially-mixed family (with a transgender son) welcoming a new baby. - A Baptist church in Indianapolis allowed a sermon from one of its members, in which the speaker called for... Text continued: ...son) welcoming a new baby. - A Baptist church in Indianapolis allowed a sermon from one of its members, in which the speaker called for LGBTQ people to kill themselves “as Jesus would have.” Failing that, said the speaker, Trump should have them executed. - When Newsweek pressed that church for comment, the church replied, “The Bible puts the death penalty on the LGBTQ people. We as Christians must believe and preach what the Bible says… To be clear, we only called for the government to execute those people. We are against vigilantes.” Image description: A compilation of four photos, each showing different people posing next to Alligator Alcatraz highway signs. Top left: A man holds his right fist up as he stands next to a green sign with an arrow pointing ahead that says "Alligator Alcatraz." Top right: A woman wearing a white shirt and sunglasses points up to a green sign with an arrow pointing ahead that reads "Alligator Alcatraz." She is smiling. Bottom left: A woman in a black dress has her back to the camera and is taking a photo of a young teenage boy, who is wearing a white baseball hat and white shirt with a black PlayStation symbol. The boy is standing under a blue highway sign. The top of the sign is cut off in the photo, but "Alcatraz" is visible. Bottom right: Four people are standing in front of a blue, highway "Alligator Alcatraz" sign. They have their arms around each other and are smiling. The man on the far right is holding a cell phone up to take a selfie and his arm obscures his face. The words across the top two photos read: "MAGAS are visiting the Florida concentration camp, and lining up to take selfies at the signs." The words across the bottom two photos read: "These are the people whose parents and grandparents posed for pictures at lynchings."
July 9, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Trump World - Day 170
Trump World, day 170 (Tues., 7/8, 1 PM EDT): - Troops are roaming around in Los Angeles. They apparently don’t have much to do, and have been directed to put on a show of force against no one. - The Secretary of Agriculture says that deportations will continue, and migrant farm workers can instead be replaced by automation and people who are forced to work to receive Medicaid. - The Department of Education is dismissing thousands of actual civil rights cases, so it can focus its attention on hurting schools that hold onto subjects or policies that Trump doesn’t like. - The IRS has declared that now it’s okay for churches to endorse political candidates, without losing their tax exempt status. - Other red states are lining up for their own concentration camps. Rep. Nancy Mace posted, “Dear DHS: We’ve got a swamp and a dream. Let’s talk. South Carolina’s gators are ready.” - 59% of Canadians now see the U.S. as the greatest threat to their nation, ahead of all other countries. - Trump says he will resume sending weapons to Ukraine, and doesn’t know who stopped it. - The Department of Veterans Affairs says it will “only” lay off 30,000 people, instead of the 80,000 it had planned. Text continued: - A judge has ordered that another 400 AmeriCorps workers be reinstated. - A judge has ordered that Medicaid payments be resumed for Planned Parenthood. - There is a science fair occurring in DC today, to showcase a sampling of the great research whose grants Trump cut this year. - Continuing MAGA’s genocide “jokes,” on Sunday far Right commentator Ann Coulter posted “We didn’t kill enough Indians.” Image description: Two photos are side by side. The photo on the left is a headshot of Luigi Mangione. The photo on the right is Vance Boelter's mugshot. The text beneath their photos reads: "Can anyone explain to me why the DOJ is charging the guy on the left with terrorism for shooting a single CEO... While the DOJ is NOT pursuing terrorism charges against the man on the right who shot 2 Minnesota state representatives and their families, and had a target list of 70 more."
July 9, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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Trump World - Day 169
Trump World, day 169 (Mon., 7/7, 1 PM EDT): - The Lancet (a famous medical journal) reports that cuts already made to USAID will preventably kill 14 million people worldwide in the next five years, more than 4 million of them children under 5. Just from the loss of USAID, the Trump administration is killing more than 100 children per hour, all day every day. - This year is only half finished, but more people have already died of measles in 2025 in the U.S. than in any prior year since the vaccine became widely used. - Trump’s big bill selectively prevents Planned Parenthood from receiving Medicaid payments, even for basic healthcare. Planned Parenthood is suing. - Six major medical organizations are suing the Department of Health and Human Services for providing the public with factually incorrect vaccine advice. - In February, the U.S. Attorney General said that the Epstein files’ client list was literally on her desk. Now Trump’s Department of Justice and FBI say that list doesn’t exist. The list would likely implicate Trump in sexual misconduct with underaged girls. - On average, another child has been killed by the Trump administration since you read the first bullet in this post. Image description on next image. Image description: A photo of Trump on a golf course, bent over with a club in his hands, about to hit a ball. Text above the photo reads: "Trump was laser-focused yesterday on the emergency response to the Texas flooding, caring for the victims, and mourning the 80 lives that were lost."
July 7, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Trump World - Day 168
Trump World, day 168 (Sun., 7/6, 2 PM EDT): - Dozens of people have been killed in flash flooding in Texas. State officials are blaming the National Weather Service, and they may be correct. DOGE cuts have left the Weather Service understaffed. - Trump’s big bill gives ICE more money than the military spending of all but 15 other nations. They are getting more than the FBI, DEA, ATF, U.S. Marshals, and Bureau of Prisons, combined. - Advocates are sounding alarm that imprisoned people are already allowed to be used as slave labor in the U.S., and Trump appears to be intending to rent out imprisoned immigrants for just this purpose. - By removing certain taxes on firearms, Trump has rigged the game so that it may now be unconstitutional to block the sale of machine guns to regular people. Within hours of the bill’s signing, pro-gun lobbies filed a case to have machine gun bans overturned. - Elon Musk is officially forming a new political party called the America Party. - 139 staff at the Environmental Protection Agency signed a letter protesting Trump’s policies. They’ve all been placed on administrative leave. - To get some hardliners to vote for his big bill, Trump signed an executive order to create the Make America Beautiful Again Commission. On the surface, this sounds relatively benign, by promoting additional uses of public lands for hiking, biking, and hunting. However, the... Text continued: - To get some hardliners to vote for his big bill, Trump signed an executive order to create the Make America Beautiful Again Commission. On the surface, this sounds relatively benign, by promoting additional uses of public lands for hiking, biking, and hunting. However, the subtext is to make undisturbed lands more accessible, so they are more readily available for mining, logging, and pipelines. Image description: A meme with a background consisting of the Statue of Liberty sitting with her elbows resting on her knees, forehead in her hands. The text on the image reads: "I'm so tired of people saying 'we will survive this.' No. We're already NOT surviving this. Go talk to women who've lost agency. Talk to people DOGE fired or a family split apart by ICE. Maybe in YOUR bubble you still woke up and ate your Cheerios, but outside of it, others are eating dirt." Beneath the text is the username, @lanechanged, in tiny font.
July 6, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Trump World - Day 167
Trump World, day 167 (Sat., 7/5, 10 AM EDT): There’s not enough new news to make a post this morning. Image description: A photo of a group of male senators huddled in prayer in what appears to be the senate, their arms around each other's shoulders. There are microphones visible near the camera. Below the photo is a social media post by Rev. Benjamin Cremer, his name in the top left corner of the post. His username, @Bcremer, is to the right of his name. The text of his post reads: "When I see senators praying for the passage of a bill that will harm the poor, the sick, and the hungry, I think of Isaiah 1:15: When you spread out your hands in prayer, I hide my eyes from you; even when you offer many prayers, I am not listening. Your hands are full of blood."
July 5, 2025 at 3:16 PM