Speaker of the House Johnson just stabbed irony in the back.

 

JOHNSON: "This is the side that stands with law enforcement, the brave men and women who are on the front line. The idea that those who put their own lives on the line to protect us would be assaulted for doing their jobs is unconscionable."

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Trump pardoned J6 rioter (Jared Wise) who threatened police. Wise was hired by theTrump DoJ. 

The pardoned rioter, a former F.B.I. agent who was charged with encouraging the mob that stormed the Capitol, is a counselor to Ed Martin, the director of the so-called weaponization committee. 

As violence erupted, his charging document said, he told other rioters who were attacking law enforcement officers, 'Kill ’em! Kill ’em! Kill ’em!'  FACT.

Trump pardoned all the rioters/insurrectionists who were convicted in a court of law and who attacked the U.S. Capitol and the U.S. Capitol police, beating them and spraying them with chemical bear spray. Some died the next day, several committed suicide.

The side that stands for law enforcement supports, promoted, and elected a convicted felon and adjudicated sexual assaulter, who tried to overthrow the 2020 election through violence, as the chief executive of the United States for all the world to see.

Mike Johnson, like his boss, is a liar.

Trump's America

 

The whole world is watching.

Meanwhile, America's greatest con man and grifter is selling cheap perfume to his dupes:

Here he is, folks. The President of the United States selling his new men’s cologne for $199 and women’s perfume for $249.

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— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) June 30, 2025 at 7:50 PM

 

"It Can't Happen Here"

 

Yes, it can.  And it already has. Liz Cheney warned America about "sleep-walking into dictatorship."

IMO, that's where we are. Now. Not the classic take-over that we've seen in European and other nations, but the American version, where a criminal president is given power by the highest court in the land to commit crimes while in office and not face accountability.

That's where we are.

An American president, with the complicity of his personal lawyer, Pam Bondi, is threatening to "denaturalize" and deport American citizens he deems unworthy of their legal citizenship.

Heather Cox Richardson:

 "...it was at a press conference in Ochopee, Florida, today  [July 1, 2025] that Trump showed just how profoundly the immunity conferred on him a year ago is undermining democracy.  

Trump continues to say he will arrest and deport U.S. citizens to third countries. On April 14, a microphone picked up Trump’s comment to President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador that “homegrowns are next” after the undocumented immigrants Bukele was imprisoning for Trump. Today, Trump told reporters that “bad criminals” have migrated to the U.S., “but we also have a lot of bad people that have been here for a long time. People that whacked people over the head with a baseball bat from behind when they're not looking and kill them, people that knife you when you're walking down the street. They're not new to our country. They're old to our country. Many of them were born in our country. I think we ought to get them the hell out of here, too. You want to know the truth? So maybe that’ll be the next job that we'll work on together.” He is also continuing to push the idea of attacking his political opponents.  

Today, Trump called for an investigation into Alejandro Mayorkas, homeland security secretary under President Joe Biden. He also threatened to arrest the Democratic nominee for New York City mayor, Zohran Mamdani, if he doesn’t work with ICE agents to arrest migrants, although local and state governments have no legal obligation to work with federal immigration enforcement. Trump claimed—incorrectly—that Mamdani is a communist, and said that “a lot of people are saying he’s here illegally.”  

In fact, Mamdani is a naturalized citizen. Today Alan Feuer and Adam Goldman of the New York Times reported that a former FBI agent, Jared Wise, who was charged with telling the January 6, 2021, rioters storming the Capitol to kill police officers, is working with the task force in the Justice Department set up as a way for President Trump to seek retribution against his political enemies. 

Once a new system of detention facilities and ICE agents is established and the idea that a Republican president can legitimately attack his political opponents is accepted, a police state will be in place."

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"In answer to the question 'How many more facilities like this do you feel that the country needs in order to enact your agenda of mass deportations?' Trump said today [July 1, 2025]: 

“Well, I think we'd like to see them in many states, really, many states. This one, I know Ron's doing a second one, at least a second one, and probably a couple of more. And, you know, at some point, they might morph into a system where you're going to keep it for a long time.” 

Once that system is in place, it will not matter if Trump is able to do the work of the presidency. Today, a reporter from the Fox News Channel asked Trump about the new detention facility in the Everglades: 

“Mr. President, is there an expected time frame that detainees will spend here? Days, weeks, months?” 

Trump answered: “In Florida? I'm going to spend a lot. Look, this is my home state. I love it, I love your government, I love all the people around. These are all friends of mine. They know very well. I mean, I'm not surprised that they do so well. They're great people. Ron has been a friend of mine for a long time. I feel very comfortable in the state. I'll spend a lot of time here. I want to, you know, for four years, I've got to be in Washington, and I'm okay with it because I love the White House. I even fixed up the little Oval Office, I make it—it's like a diamond, it's beautiful. It's so beautiful. It wasn't maintained properly, I will tell you that. But even when it wasn't, it was still the Oval Office, so it meant a lot. But I'll spend as much time as I can here. You know, my vacation is generally here, because it's convenient. I live in Palm Beach. It's my home. And I have a very nice little place, nice little cottage to stay at, right? But we have a lot of fun, and I'm a big contributor to Florida, you know, pay a lot of tax, and a lot of people moved from New York, and I don't know what New York is going to do. A lot of people moved to Florida from New York, and it was for a lot of reasons, but one of them was taxes. The taxes are so high in New York, they're leaving. I don't know what New York's going to do about that, because some of the biggest, wealthiest people, and some of the people that pay the most taxes of any people anywhere in the world, for that matter, they're moving to Florida and other places. So we're going to have to help some of these states out, I think. But thank you very much. I'll be here as much as I can. Very nice question.”

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It's obvious that highly unpopular President Trump is not mentally fit. He was asked about how long DETAINEES will spend in the camps set up in Florida. Trump believed the reporter asked him how long HE'LL be spending time in Florida, blathers on and on about himself, and never answers the question.

WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO AMERICA?

Zohran Mamdan was democratically elected to be the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York City. Trump isn't happy with that, so he's going to send his personal lawyer, Pam Bondi, and the DoJ to look into denaturalization because he said so.

America, open your eyes. An American president threatens to denaturalize a duly elected citizen because he disagrees 

with that citizen's politics.

Why are you allowing this??? Why aren't you marching in the streets against Trump and his anti-American administration???

President Donald Trump called the citizenship status of Zohran Mamdani — the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York City — into question at a Tuesday afternoon press conference in South Florida, falsely implying that he could be in the country illegally. 

 “A lot of people are saying he’s here illegally,” Trump said of the 33-year-old democratic socialist. “We’re going to look at everything. And ideally, he’s going to turn out to be much less than a communist, but right now, he’s a communist.”

 

From Alternet:

"Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tennessee) is calling for Democratic New York City mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani, who was born in Uganda but is a naturalized U.S. citizen, to lose his citizenship — a proposal he made in a letter to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi. 

And Ogles isn't the only far-right MAGA Republican who is pushing for the denaturalization of people they disagree with politically. The Trump Administration is not only pushing for an end to birthright citizenship, but also, for ramping up denaturalization and stripping more people of their U.S. citizenship. 

 In an op-ed published by MSNBC's website on July 1, law professors Cassandra Burke Robertson and Irina D. Manta argue that the denaturalization push from MAGA Republicans is at odds with "constitutional principles." 

The Trump Administration made denaturalization a priority during the first term, creating a special Justice Department section to pursue these cases," the legal experts explain. 

"The Administration now appears positioned to expand these efforts with a policy requiring that denaturalization be pursued wherever legally possible. As the apparent next step in the Trump Administration's mass deportation regime, this rarely used but potentially far-reaching government power is getting newfound attention." 

 Robertson and Manta add, "As legal scholars who study denaturalization, we believe the new Justice Department policy could significantly expand the circumstances under which naturalized Americans might lose their citizenship in ways that raise serious constitutional questions." 

 The attorneys point out that denaturalization "was relatively rare" during "most of American history." "It spiked during the Red Scare era when the government targeted alleged communists and Nazi sympathizers but largely disappeared after the 1960s after the Supreme Court imposed constitutional limits on the practice in Afroyim v. Rusk," Robertson and Manta note. 

"In that case, the Court held denaturalization was unconstitutional in most circumstances, leaving open only cases in which someone 'illegally procured' citizenship by not meeting requirements or obtaining it through fraud or concealment of material facts. 

In the half-century after this decision, fewer than 150 Americans were denaturalized, mostly former war criminals who had hidden their pasts." 

According to Robertson and Manta, MAGA Republicans' denaturalization push could lead to troubling violations of constitutional liberties. 

 "Civil denaturalization cases provide no right to an attorney, meaning defendants without resources often face the government without representation," the legal scholars argue write. 

"There are no jury trials, with judges making citizenship determinations alone. The burden of proof is 'clear and convincing evidence' rather than the criminal standard of 'beyond a reasonable doubt.' 

Additionally, there is no statute of limitations, allowing the government to build cases on decades-old evidence that may be incomplete or unreliable." Robertson and Manta continue, "We believe this procedural framework violates constitutional principles. 

The Supreme Court has recognized citizenship as a fundamental right, with Chief Justice Earl Warren describing it as the 'right to have rights.' Taking away such a fundamental right through procedures that would be inadequate for minor civil disputes appears to violate basic due process protections. More fundamentally, we argue that aggressive denaturalization policies conflict with constitutional principles of citizenship." 

Trump’s BBB is very unpopular with the American people.

The "One Big Beautiful Bill" does not fully eliminate taxes on tips, overtime, or Social Security as claimed; it offers limited deductions with caps (e.g., $25,000 for tips, $12,500 for overtime) and excludes high earners, with no provision to remove taxes on Social Security.

 

“If Republicans vote to pass this bill they are TOAST in the next election. According to the latest polls, this is the most unpopular legislation maybe ever: "Washington Post, -19 points, Fox News -21 points.”

HISTORY

 

It cost US taxpayers over $25 million to strike Iran.

 

Via Reddit:

 

Strike Set Back Iran’s Nuclear Program by Only a Few Months, U.S. Report Says 

 "Preliminary classified findings indicate that the attack sealed off the entrances to two facilities but did not collapse their underground buildings.  

Before the attack, U.S. intelligence agencies had said that if Iran tried to rush to making a bomb, it would take about three months. After the U.S. bombing run and days of attacks by the Israeli Air Force, the report by the Defense Intelligence Agency estimated that the program had been delayed, but by less than six months.

 The report also said that much of Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium was moved before the strikes, which destroyed little of the nuclear material. Iran may have moved some of that to secret locations."

Will Trump and Bibi bomb the sites again in 3 months? And then in another 3 months again?

 

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Sent to me in an email by a friend:

"President Obama's nuclear deal with Iran (JCPOA) took effect in January 2016. Its term was for 15 years. Iran, China, France, Russia, Germany, the United Kingdom, the European Union, and the United States all signed the agreement thanks to the diplomatic leadership of President Obama. Iran agreed to stop enriching uranium, and to stop developing a nuclear weapon. As long as the deal lasted, Iran would be held at a point where they were several years from even beginning to build a nuclear weapon. The Middle East, and the entire world, were a safer place. The signatories all insisted on rigorous independent inspections to ensure that Iran complied. The deal would've lasted until 2031. Unfortunately, Trump pulled out of the deal in his first term. Now Israel attacked Iran, and the US dropped the most powerful non-nuclear bombs in the world. But the experts are saying that it may have only set back Iran's nuclear program by three to six months. President Obama had Iran in a place where in 2031 they would be several years from developing a nuclear weapon. Trump has Iran in a place where their nuclear program is set back until the end of this year. But hey, 'Operation Midnight Hammer' sure sounds like the tough guys are in charge."

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So was Trump’s “Completely and Totally Obliterated” just Bush’s “Mission Accomplished” but in a louder font?

America's most successful Con Man:

 

Carrick Ryan:

I must admit, there's a part of Trump that's kind of impressive.

He convinced the party of Reagan to advocate for tariffs and market intervention.

He convinced the party of law and order to celebrate the first convicted felon President, and the pardoning of violent insurrectionists.

He convinced the party of family values that it didn't matter if he cheated on his pregnant wife with a pornstar.

He convinced millions of women to vote for him even when they've heard him brag about sexually assaulting them.

He's convinced Epstein conspiracy theoriests to somehow accuse anybody but him, despite mounting circumstantial evidence of his complicity.

He's convinced evangelical Christians to vote in the least religious President in US history.

...and now he's convinced isolationists, who called Obama a "neocon" and cheered the "end of foreign wars", to now openly support yet another foreign war.

But he's not a salesman. A salesman actually gives you what he's selling. Trump is conman, someone who promises big but never comes through with the goods.

What has Trump promised that he's actually delivered?

Did he build the wall? And did Mexico pay for it? Did he lock her up? Did he enact a "Muslim Ban"? Did he repeal Obamacare? Did he eliminate national debt? Or add to it? Did he end the war in Ukraine or Gaza? Did he decrease the cost of groceries? Did he keep the US out of foreign wars?

Did he make America great again?

...or a global pariah?

I've done a lot of fraud investigations in my time, and there's almost always a devastating moment when someone realises with horror they've been conned. But there's also always a few that just don't want to believe it... no matter how much evidence you show them.

...and the conman usually just continues to con them, until they've fleeced them of everything that they've got.

FROM POLITICO:

 

Trump floats regime change in Iran, muddying the administration's message 

 Top Trump officials said their strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites were limited, but they don’t have much control over the knock-on effects in the Middle East and their party. 

 President Donald Trump’s top national security officials spent much of Sunday insisting his administration doesn’t want to bring about the end of Iran’s government, only its nuclear program. 

Then Trump left the door open for exactly that. “It’s not politically correct to use the term, 'Regime Change,' but if the current Iranian Regime is unable to MAKE IRAN GREAT AGAIN, why wouldn’t there be a Regime change??? MIGA!!!” 

Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. While Trump did not call for the ouster of the regime, or say that the U.S. would play any role in overthrowing the Iranian government, his words undercut what had appeared to be a coordinated message from his top advisers. 

Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth each insisted Sunday that the U.S. was only interested in dismantling Iran’s nuclear capabilities.

YOUR SUNDAY MOMENT OF ZEN

 

 

TRUMP BOMBED IRAN!

HE BOMBED A COUNTRY THAT DID NOT ATTACK THE UNITED STATES!

SATURDAY NIGHT MUSIC

 

Van Morrison -- Evening in June

 

 The Decemberists -- June Hymn

 

 

E.P.A. Plans to Reconsider a Ban on Cancer-Causing Asbestos 

The Trump administration’s move sets back a decades-long effort to end the use of the material, which is widely banned in other countries.

 

WHY?

Didn't Trump promise he was only going after the criminals? Why did his goons throw this woman out of the country after living here peacefully for almost 30 years?

Why?

Pastor's Wife Deported After 30 Years in U.S. as Family and Officials Clash Over Her Legal Status

 In a matter of days, Maria Isidro – a nanny and a preacher's wife – went from being in Live Oak with her family to being deported to Matamoros, Mexico, after a one-way trip from the federal government. 

Isidro, a Mexican immigrant who came to the U.S. in 1998, went to what she thought was a routine immigration check-in June 3 in Tallahassee. She thought U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement needed more paperwork for her case. But instead, she was detained and held for eight days before she was removed to Mexico.

 On June 11, after an 15-hour trip by van and by plane from a Florida detention center to Mexico, immigration officials threw a red mesh bag of her belongings at her feet and drove off.

HAPPY JUNETEENTH!

 

THE GUY WHO BANKRUPTED CASINOS...

 

earlier today mused about firing head of the Federal Reserve Bank, Jerome Powell, and appointing himself to head it.

BREAKING: Fed Chair Jerome Powell confirms that Trump's tariffs are wrecking the American economy, driving up unemployment and inflation and slowing growth since March. "That’s what you see. You see the effects of tariffs."

 

BREAKING: Fed Chair Jerome Powell confirms that Trump's tariffs are wrecking the American economy, driving up unemployment and inflation and slowing growth since March. "That’s what you see. You see the effects of tariffs."

Ketchup tsunami incoming.pic.twitter.com/DRzlA2OCx4

— Really American 🇺🇸 (@ReallyAmerican1) June 18, 2025

TRUMP'S DYSTOPIAN AMERICA

 

These thugs are on the streets of America. No identification, no warrants of removal/deportation. They're grabbing people off America's streets -- Americans included, as well as people here legally and not legally.

Everyone who voted for Trump is complicit in this insult to the Constitution and the rule of law.

 

SOURCE

Israeli journalist Barak Ravid, who served as an intelligence officer with the Israeli Defense Forces, told CNN Wednesday that Israel fully expects President Donald Trump to involve the U.S. in its bombing campaign against Iran.

TRUMP IN 2013:

I DON'T KNOW IF THIS IS TRUE, BUT IT WAS JUST POSTED ON BLUESKY:

BREAKING:

 

We have a madman running the country!

Last night he ordered the evacuation of Tehran, a city of 10 million people!

Trump posted Mike Huckabee's text to him. Huckabee tells Trump to listen to the voices in his head:

Malcolm Nance

@MalcolmNance

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47m

WHAT THE ABSOLUTE F**K? Mike Huckabee is trying to invoke God to make Trump NUKE Iran? That sure the f**k is how it reads. We have mentally ill people in power. This is insane.

Trump doesn't believe his own National Security Advisor:

Ed Krassenstein

Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, just two and a half months ago testified under oath, saying this: “The Intelligence Community continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and Supreme Leader Khamenei has not authorized the nuclear weapons program that he suspended in 2003.” Trump Now: "I don't care what she said. I think they were very close to having one."