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A Call to Harms
Attribution: Uncle Trump wants you by Michael de Adder, CagleCartoons.com
Author: patd
“But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
"Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad."
"How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
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in the same vein Attribution: MAGA welcomes martial law by Malcolm McGookin, CagleCartoons.com
[Malc McGookin is a Brit/Australian whose cartoons are published all over the world. A former animator, amongst other projects, he worked on Danger Mouse, Count Duckula and The BFG feature movie He also directed and scripted series for Childrens Television Workshop (the Sesame Street people). He draws for the Sunday Mail in Brisbane; he’s drawn for Prospect and Private Eye as well as the now defunct News Of The World and many other Fleet Street papers.]
from one of the many commenters to the above this morning:
@XX-qd6ke
2 hours ago
An Insurrectionist threatening to invoke the Insurrection Act??? A Draft Dodger demanding he be honored with a military parade??? A Felon demanding law & order??? The irony is not lost.
At least 56 people were arrested over the weekend as protesters against federal immigration raids were ordered to leave downtown Los Angeles overnight and law enforcement shot less-lethal rounds.
Demonstrators spilled onto the 101 Freeway, partially shutting it down, while others set fire to driverless Waymo cars. Police reported looting.
Around 300 National Guard members are in the city after President Donald Trump ordered the deployment of 2,000 troops in a move California Gov. Gavin Newsom criticized as inflammatory. About 500 Marines are also ready to deploy.
“Border czar” Tom Homan defended the deployment, threatening Newsom and Mayor Karen Bass with arrest if they impede efforts. Trump called on them to apologize to Angelenos for their handling of the protests, but Newsom responded saying: “Tom, arrest me. Let’s go.”
Tanks scheduled to roll along the National Mall in a June parade for the Army’s 250th birthday are nearly double the weight limit allowed on D.C. roads without a permit, raising concern from D.C. officials about potential damage even as the Army has said it would foot the bill for any repairs.
For the spectacle Saturday — which is also President Donald Trump’s 79th birthday — thousands of soldiers, dozens of tanks and more than 100 other vehicles are scheduled for a procession on Constitution Avenue. The Army has stressed that it is taking protective measures to mitigate road damage, including installing metal plates at some potentially vulnerable points along the route, such as where the tanks will turn.
Constitution Avenue and other city roads maintained by local government generally support vehicles with a maximum gross weight of 80,000 pounds, according to the D.C. Department of Transportation. The Abrams main battle tanks — 28 of which are scheduled to participate in the parade — each weigh about 70 tons, almost double the street’s weight limit. The District requires a permit for any vehicle exceeding the limit. A spokesman for DDOT said that as of June 4, overweight-vehicle permits for the parade had been filed but were not yet finalized.
“We’ve worked really hard to get our roads in a state of good repair,” D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) said at a recent news conference. “I remain concerned about it, I have to tell you. These are, for the most part, local streets.”
NBC Washington has reported that street damage could total $16 million.
Asked about this amount, Army spokesperson Steve Warren told The Washington Post: “It was an initial estimate for what it could cost if no mitigation efforts were taken. The worst-case scenario.”
During the parade, tanks will move at walking speed and are being fitted with new rubber track pads, which provide a buffer between the metal and the road surface, Warren said.
The protective plates will be placed along the route between June 9 and 13. “These measures will help ensure little or potentially even no damage to the roads,” Warren said.
If any city streets are “rendered unusable,” Bowser said, the city is likely to be responsible for fronting costs to fix them, and it would then seek reimbursement from the federal government.
The parade’s impact on the District will go beyond wear and tear on the roads. When asked whether the city would be reimbursed for other expenses such as trash collection, street closures and city police overtime, Army officials did not have an answer.
D.C. leaders said the pool of federal money they rely on to reimburse staffing and security expenses for activities associated with the federal government, such as the presidential inauguration, will be exhausted by the end of this fiscal year. Congress in December awarded D.C. $90 million for the Emergency Planning and Security Fund in fiscal 2025, which runs through October.
Trump’s proposed fiscal 2026 budget, introduced this month, offers just $39 million for the fund. Bowser said her office has been in “constant talks with the administration” about security funding and will aim to work with Congress to increase D.C.’s allotment.
“We think we need $100 million,” Bowser said.
Still, the mayor said the Army is well suited to handle military equipment with care — and without causing damage. “They have moved equipment in more precarious situations, so we’re relying on their expertise,” she said.
Military officials estimates that the sweeping celebration — which includes fireworks, a parachute jump and a full day of festivities on the National Mall — will cost the Army between $25 million and $45 million. The overall bill for the federal and city governments remains unclear.
[continues]
even as the Army has said it would foot the bill for any repairs.
Who foots the bill for the Army?
82 years ago. Eerie, scary similarities. Not just history anymore; its ground reality in America. TODAY.
So apparently this whole thing started because the feds were going after day laborers lined up at Home Depot to get work. What is the threat here?
today’s meme…
meme #2…
Don’t ask me why i’m engaging with these folks, but i find it mildly amusing for the moment (until I don’t).
To my questioning the threat of day laborers.. On TikTok:
whiterollypolly
Certainly a financial threat. Go pick em all up and take them to your house to paint your fence. Hopefully they don’t return and rob you blind. I wonder if the guys that raped and murdered Laken Riley, Jocelyn Nungaray, Rachel Morin ever sat with a lunch box at a Home Depot waiting for some honest work?
46m ago On our YouTube site:
@Whyus793
1 hour ago
Were they here legally wanting to paint your fence?
these fuckers are so fucking racist
The kind of person who gets up at four in the morning to try to pick up at work at Home Depot isn’t up late committing crimes.
you’re also finding out that some of the Internet’s most disgusting people can be found in YouTube comments
That’s where you go when you’ve hit rock bottom
Craig – as you enjoy the magats on TT, I spend time on twit with those against Ukraine, and other countries.
Wait until there’s a hailstorm and they need a new roof. The people that do the physically-demanding work aren’t the MAGAts who voted based on fear and hatred. That new roof will cost more, if you can find anyone to do the work. Get in line.
I do believe RonDuh Santis found out that immigrants were doing essential work after he kicked a bunch of folks.
They are working in the fields, building houses, working in restaurants, and taking care of children and elderly of us long-time colonizers.
Orange Adolf isn’t just cruel, he is one of the stupidest men on the planet. Is it his inherent cruelty that makes him so stupid? If it was his insatiable greed, he wouldn’t make the decisions he makes that end up doing him in.
The policies of his administration have hurt enough of his followers that the only ones left are white supremacists and adherents of fringe church groups like CREC and Opus Dei; there’s a lot of crossover. It’s a Venn diagram of cruelty.
Just a month ago I proclaimed Trump as finally worse than Reagan as worst-ever President. Reagan seriously wanted to have hippies shot on sight. (I was living in California when Reagan was Governor and I remember the outrage.)
Now, this fiasco in LA accentuates it; Trump has crossed over into true fascism , and is getting away with being a dictator.
The Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC), which organised the voyage from Italy to raise awareness of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, said last night that the ship had come ‘under assault’ in the Mediterranean Sea.
The Madleen was said to have been shadowed by speedboats and drones before ‘quadcopters’ surrounded and sprayed the ship with an unidentified ‘white irritant substance’, shortly before the IDF seized it.
Images showed the deck of the charity vessel splattered with white liquid. Activist Yasmin Acar, among those on board, said it had been deployed by Israel and was affecting her eyes.
‘Communications are jammed, and disturbing sounds are being played over the radio,’ the coalition wrote on Telegram.
Images showed the deck of the charity vessel splattered with white liquid. Activist Yasmin Acar, among those on board, said it had been deployed by Israel and was affecting her eyes.
‘Communications are jammed, and disturbing sounds are being played over the radio,’ the coalition wrote on Telegram.
Images showed the deck of the charity vessel splattered with white liquid. Activist Yasmin Acar, among those on board, said it had been deployed by Israel and was affecting her eyes.
‘Communications are jammed, and disturbing sounds are being played over the radio,’ the coalition wrote on Telegram.
Images showed the deck of the charity vessel splattered with white liquid. Activist Yasmin Acar, among those on board, said it had been deployed by Israel and was affecting her eyes.
‘Communications are jammed, and disturbing sounds are being played over the radio,’ the coalition wrote on Telegram.
After diverting the boat, Israel’s foreign ministry posted a picture of the activists all in orange life jackets being offered water and sandwiches.
*Wow! Israelis won’t allow food aid to get to starving folks in Gaza, but they’ll offer food to those they’ve prohibited from giving that aid.
Here’s a sampling of some of my replies. Not changing any minds of course, but it’s fun:
Sure, let’s arrest people based on where they stand and how they look. What could possibly go wrong.
If you’re cool with arresting people based on vibes, you’re not pro-law—you’re just pro-power. And power always turns. Next time it might be your truck in the parking lot.
Seems like some folks think due process is optional if you’re holding a shovel instead of a stock portfolio.
US President Donald Trump trips while boarding Air Force One prior to departure from Morristown Municipal Airport in Morristown, New Jersey, on June 8, 2025, en route to Camp David. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP) (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images) (Photo: ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS via Getty Images)
JD greased the steps
happened in march too
🚨 NEW: Nearly 80-year-old Trump tripped and almost fell down while boarding Marine One tonight.
This comes after he was seen with bruises on his hand, dragging his leg, and using the baby steps to board Air Force One.
Trumpco targeting journalists with projectiles on LA, more than one isn’t a coincidence
The foreshadowing of the Insurrection Act is another shoe dropping on the road to Authoritarianism.
Tripping up the steps to AF1 – how very Bideny of him. Oh, and either Little Marco hit a growing spurt or Dumbass is shrinking fast – they appear to be just at the same height. In 2016 Little Marco was 5’10 – about what I’ve shrunk to.
Imagine working as a White House communications expert when, on a brisk February morning, you look up to see a crew of unannounced Elon Musk associates climbing the roof of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. You squint and quickly learn that this unit belongs to Starlink, the very company you had identified as posing serious security concerns. But there they are, scaling the roof to install internet service for the White House.
… in a stunning new report from the Washington Post today, alleging that DOGE and Trump administration officials outright dismissed concerns from the White House’s communications team that Musk’s Starlink internet service was rampant with security risks. That reportedly included an exceedingly flimsy WiFi network that could rival your own personal setup:
A “Starlink Guest” WiFi network appeared on White House phones in February, prompting users only for a password, not a username or a second form of authentication, according to the people. That WiFi network was still appearing on White House visitors’ phones this week.
Maybe this is a better resistance song than one that just repeats, F DT, F DT, F him. It’s not just against someone/something/an idea, but for a better idea.
So on and so on and scooby-doobie-do.
Challenging Lindsay Graham
Pediatrician Running To Unseat Lindsey Graham Says He’s ‘Full Of Sh*t’ In Fiery Campaign Video
Glendale officials announced on Sunday night that the city has terminated its contract with U.S. Homeland Security and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to house immigration detainees, calling the public’s perception of the agreement “divisive.”
“This is a local decision and was not made lightly,” the city stated in a release.
The city announced it will no longer house federal immigration detainees at the Glendale Police Department facility after a day of violent protests in Los Angeles over recent ICE raids and the federalization and deployment of the National Guard.
*Ha! Orange Adolf & Peewee German couldn’t let it be a peaceful protest. They had to incite violence and now a large city in SoCal is cutting ties…and others may follow suit. Hope other cities are thinking outside the box.
NBC is putting a more violent spin on LA protests.
De-escalation? Stop having masked goons kidnap and disappear folks without due process. None of this would happen if they were doing it constitutionally.
Orange Adolf is confessing, again, saying there were “professional agitators” there. Yep, and tRUMPco sent them in.
Just last month, we had a new roof put up. For three days we were serenaded by a Spanish music.
Jamie – a good song list to keep around.
*JFC, TACO is a POS!
“I was just informed Trump is deploying another 2,000 Guard troops to L.A.
The first 2,000? Given no food or water.
Only approx. 300 are deployed – the rest are sitting, unused, in federal buildings without orders.
This isn’t about public safety. It’s about stroking a dangerous President’s ego.
This is Reckless. Pointless. And Disrespectful to our troops.”
-Gavin Newsom
How does Gavin know they were given no food or water & when he found out, did he provide it?
In early October 2019, reports began circulating that President Trump’s eldest daughter Ivanka had secured trademarks for voting machines, among other products, in China.
What’s True
China granted trademarks for multiple products, potentially including voting machines, under Ivanka Trump’s eponymous brand in late 2018.
In 2024, a federally accredited lab named Pro V&V conducted a wave of hardware and software changes to ES&S voting machines. These were major changes—new ballot scanners, printer adjustments, updated firmware, and a new Electionware reporting system. But they were passed off as “de minimis” tweaks, a label meant for minor changes that don’t require full public review or testing.
SMART Elections immediately flagged the move. But by then, it was too late. The machines had already been used in the election. And Pro V&V? The lab responsible for certifying them? It all but disappeared. Their once-public website became a hollow page. No logs. No documentation. Just a phone number and a generic email address.
This is the lab that signs off on voting systems in Pennsylvania, Florida, New Jersey, California—and countless other places. And when people started asking questions, they vanished.
In Rockland County, New York, voters noticed their ballots didn’t seem to count. People swore under oath that they voted for Senate candidate Diane Sare. But in district after district, the machines didn’t reflect it. In one case, nine voters said they picked her. Only five votes showed up. In another, five claimed to vote for her—only three were recorded.
It wasn’t just third-party candidates. Kamala Harris’s name was missing entirely from the top of the ballot in several heavily Democratic districts. In areas that overwhelmingly backed Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand for Senate, somehow, Harris got zero votes. Zero.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump received 750,000 more votes than Republican Senate candidates in those same districts. That’s not just voter preference. That’s a statistical impossibility.
Back in June 2024, Musk tweeted: “Anything can be hacked.” He had the means. He had the motive. He had the tools. And he threw his weight behind Trump at the exact moment voting machines were being quietly altered—with no oversight, no transparency, and no paper trail.
Moreover, Trump openly admitted that Musk had an advanced knowledge of the voting machines used in Pennsylvania—a decisive swing state central to Trump’s path to victory in November.
“He knows those computers better than anybody. All those computers. Those vote-counting computers,” Trump told the crowd. “And we ended up winning Pennsylvania like in a landslide.”
On May 22, 2025, Judge Rachel Tanguay ruled that the allegations in the SMART Elections lawsuit were serious enough to move forward. The case—SMART Legislation et al. v. Rockland County Board of Elections—goes to hearing this fall.
It won’t change the 2024 outcome. Congress already certified it. Power has shifted. But the lawsuit could set off something bigger: state probes, decertifications, even criminal investigations.
Because this isn’t about glitches anymore. This is about a national election that may have been silently rewritten behind closed doors—by a private company, a vanishing lab, and a system with no accountability.
As Dissent in Bloom put it: “If one underfunded watchdog group can dig up this much from a quiet New York suburb, what else is rotting in the shadows of this country’s ballots?”
A large crowd of people gathered at the Texas Capitol in Austin on Monday in solidarity with those protesting Immigration and Customs Enforcement actions in Los Angeles, according to organizers.
8:51 p.m.: Tear gas has been used against a group of protesters.
“APD wasn’t allowed to use tear gas after the protests in 2020. Any tear gas would be deployed by DPS.”
8:30 p.m.: Law enforcement pepper-sprayed protesters in the street on 9th and Congress.
Marines headed toward LA, illegal AF, to march on civilians.
in the same vein
Attribution: MAGA welcomes martial law by Malcolm McGookin, CagleCartoons.com
[Malc McGookin is a Brit/Australian whose cartoons are published all over the world. A former animator, amongst other projects, he worked on Danger Mouse, Count Duckula and The BFG feature movie He also directed and scripted series for Childrens Television Workshop (the Sesame Street people). He draws for the Sunday Mail in Brisbane; he’s drawn for Prospect and Private Eye as well as the now defunct News Of The World and many other Fleet Street papers.]
from one of the many commenters to the above this morning:
as of 5:40 a.m. EDT
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/live-blog/la-unrest-live-updates-crowds-protesting-immigration-raids-rcna211757
I stirred up the MAGAts in comments to my post on TikTok last night. Turns out they don’t like their Dear Leader being called a dictator… https://www.tiktok.com/@craig_crawford/video/7513595527448087838
Think I’ll stir them up some more this morning…
BB, more today from the local rag on preps for parade pavement destruction
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/06/09/army-parade-route-dc-national-mall/
Who foots the bill for the Army?
82 years ago. Eerie, scary similarities. Not just history anymore; its ground reality in America. TODAY.
So apparently this whole thing started because the feds were going after day laborers lined up at Home Depot to get work. What is the threat here?
today’s meme…
meme #2…
Don’t ask me why i’m engaging with these folks, but i find it mildly amusing for the moment (until I don’t).
To my questioning the threat of day laborers..
On TikTok:
whiterollypolly
Certainly a financial threat. Go pick em all up and take them to your house to paint your fence. Hopefully they don’t return and rob you blind. I wonder if the guys that raped and murdered Laken Riley, Jocelyn Nungaray, Rachel Morin ever sat with a lunch box at a Home Depot waiting for some honest work?
46m ago
On our YouTube site:
@Whyus793
1 hour ago
Were they here legally wanting to paint your fence?
these fuckers are so fucking racist
The kind of person who gets up at four in the morning to try to pick up at work at Home Depot isn’t up late committing crimes.
you’re also finding out that some of the Internet’s most disgusting people can be found in YouTube comments
That’s where you go when you’ve hit rock bottom
Craig – as you enjoy the magats on TT, I spend time on twit with those against Ukraine, and other countries.
Wait until there’s a hailstorm and they need a new roof. The people that do the physically-demanding work aren’t the MAGAts who voted based on fear and hatred. That new roof will cost more, if you can find anyone to do the work. Get in line.
I do believe RonDuh Santis found out that immigrants were doing essential work after he kicked a bunch of folks.
They are working in the fields, building houses, working in restaurants, and taking care of children and elderly of us long-time colonizers.
Orange Adolf isn’t just cruel, he is one of the stupidest men on the planet. Is it his inherent cruelty that makes him so stupid? If it was his insatiable greed, he wouldn’t make the decisions he makes that end up doing him in.
The policies of his administration have hurt enough of his followers that the only ones left are white supremacists and adherents of fringe church groups like CREC and Opus Dei; there’s a lot of crossover. It’s a Venn diagram of cruelty.
Just a month ago I proclaimed Trump as finally worse than Reagan as worst-ever President. Reagan seriously wanted to have hippies shot on sight. (I was living in California when Reagan was Governor and I remember the outrage.)
Now, this fiasco in LA accentuates it; Trump has crossed over into true fascism , and is getting away with being a dictator.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14794683/sweden-snubs-greta-thunberg-freedom-flotilla.html
The Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC), which organised the voyage from Italy to raise awareness of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, said last night that the ship had come ‘under assault’ in the Mediterranean Sea.
The Madleen was said to have been shadowed by speedboats and drones before ‘quadcopters’ surrounded and sprayed the ship with an unidentified ‘white irritant substance’, shortly before the IDF seized it.
Images showed the deck of the charity vessel splattered with white liquid. Activist Yasmin Acar, among those on board, said it had been deployed by Israel and was affecting her eyes.
‘Communications are jammed, and disturbing sounds are being played over the radio,’ the coalition wrote on Telegram.
Images showed the deck of the charity vessel splattered with white liquid. Activist Yasmin Acar, among those on board, said it had been deployed by Israel and was affecting her eyes.
‘Communications are jammed, and disturbing sounds are being played over the radio,’ the coalition wrote on Telegram.
Images showed the deck of the charity vessel splattered with white liquid. Activist Yasmin Acar, among those on board, said it had been deployed by Israel and was affecting her eyes.
‘Communications are jammed, and disturbing sounds are being played over the radio,’ the coalition wrote on Telegram.
Images showed the deck of the charity vessel splattered with white liquid. Activist Yasmin Acar, among those on board, said it had been deployed by Israel and was affecting her eyes.
‘Communications are jammed, and disturbing sounds are being played over the radio,’ the coalition wrote on Telegram.
After diverting the boat, Israel’s foreign ministry posted a picture of the activists all in orange life jackets being offered water and sandwiches.
*Wow! Israelis won’t allow food aid to get to starving folks in Gaza, but they’ll offer food to those they’ve prohibited from giving that aid.
Here’s a sampling of some of my replies. Not changing any minds of course, but it’s fun:
Sure, let’s arrest people based on where they stand and how they look. What could possibly go wrong.
If you’re cool with arresting people based on vibes, you’re not pro-law—you’re just pro-power. And power always turns. Next time it might be your truck in the parking lot.
Seems like some folks think due process is optional if you’re holding a shovel instead of a stock portfolio.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-stumbles-on-air-force-one-stairs-after-mocking-biden-for-the-same-thing/ar-AA1GkV08?ocid=BingNewsSerp
US President Donald Trump trips while boarding Air Force One prior to departure from Morristown Municipal Airport in Morristown, New Jersey, on June 8, 2025, en route to Camp David. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP) (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images) (Photo: ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS via Getty Images)
JD greased the steps
happened in march too
one more time
showing it from different angles (specially see the 3:12 angle)
“happened in march too”
JD has a lot of grease
he has stopped doing his rallies, hasn’t he?
snowflakes…
As you wish: I shall call him Orange Chickensh/t Taco Don. All better?
Ha! JD greased the steps. I thought maybe his bone spurs were flaring up.
What’s sad is MAGAts who claim it wasn’t him tripping up the steps to AF One.
Sly Stone is no longer not skipping concerts. Really dead this time.
Trumpco targeting journalists with projectiles on LA, more than one isn’t a coincidence
The foreshadowing of the Insurrection Act is another shoe dropping on the road to Authoritarianism.
Tripping up the steps to AF1 – how very Bideny of him. Oh, and either Little Marco hit a growing spurt or Dumbass is shrinking fast – they appear to be just at the same height. In 2016 Little Marco was 5’10 – about what I’ve shrunk to.
RIP Sly 🙌
Imagine working as a White House communications expert when, on a brisk February morning, you look up to see a crew of unannounced Elon Musk associates climbing the roof of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. You squint and quickly learn that this unit belongs to Starlink, the very company you had identified as posing serious security concerns. But there they are, scaling the roof to install internet service for the White House.
… in a stunning new report from the Washington Post today, alleging that DOGE and Trump administration officials outright dismissed concerns from the White House’s communications team that Musk’s Starlink internet service was rampant with security risks. That reportedly included an exceedingly flimsy WiFi network that could rival your own personal setup:
A “Starlink Guest” WiFi network appeared on White House phones in February, prompting users only for a password, not a username or a second form of authentication, according to the people. That WiFi network was still appearing on White House visitors’ phones this week.
Maybe this is a better resistance song than one that just repeats, F DT, F DT, F him. It’s not just against someone/something/an idea, but for a better idea.
So on and so on and scooby-doobie-do.
Challenging Lindsay Graham
Pediatrician Running To Unseat Lindsey Graham Says He’s ‘Full Of Sh*t’ In Fiery Campaign Video
https://www.comicsands.com/annie-andrews-lindsey-graham-ad?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram
https://ktla.com/news/local-news/glendale-terminates-divisive-detainee-holding-contract-with-ice/
Glendale officials announced on Sunday night that the city has terminated its contract with U.S. Homeland Security and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to house immigration detainees, calling the public’s perception of the agreement “divisive.”
“This is a local decision and was not made lightly,” the city stated in a release.
The city announced it will no longer house federal immigration detainees at the Glendale Police Department facility after a day of violent protests in Los Angeles over recent ICE raids and the federalization and deployment of the National Guard.
*Ha! Orange Adolf & Peewee German couldn’t let it be a peaceful protest. They had to incite violence and now a large city in SoCal is cutting ties…and others may follow suit. Hope other cities are thinking outside the box.
NBC is putting a more violent spin on LA protests.
De-escalation? Stop having masked goons kidnap and disappear folks without due process. None of this would happen if they were doing it constitutionally.
Orange Adolf is confessing, again, saying there were “professional agitators” there. Yep, and tRUMPco sent them in.
Just last month, we had a new roof put up. For three days we were serenaded by a Spanish music.
Jamie – a good song list to keep around.
*JFC, TACO is a POS!
“I was just informed Trump is deploying another 2,000 Guard troops to L.A.
The first 2,000? Given no food or water.
Only approx. 300 are deployed – the rest are sitting, unused, in federal buildings without orders.
This isn’t about public safety. It’s about stroking a dangerous President’s ego.
This is Reckless. Pointless. And Disrespectful to our troops.”
-Gavin Newsom
How does Gavin know they were given no food or water & when he found out, did he provide it?
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ivanka-trump-voting-machines/
In early October 2019, reports began circulating that President Trump’s eldest daughter Ivanka had secured trademarks for voting machines, among other products, in China.
What’s True
China granted trademarks for multiple products, potentially including voting machines, under Ivanka Trump’s eponymous brand in late 2018.
https://dailyboulder.com/report-voting-machines-were-altered-before-the-2024-election-did-kamala-harris-actually-win/
In 2024, a federally accredited lab named Pro V&V conducted a wave of hardware and software changes to ES&S voting machines. These were major changes—new ballot scanners, printer adjustments, updated firmware, and a new Electionware reporting system. But they were passed off as “de minimis” tweaks, a label meant for minor changes that don’t require full public review or testing.
SMART Elections immediately flagged the move. But by then, it was too late. The machines had already been used in the election. And Pro V&V? The lab responsible for certifying them? It all but disappeared. Their once-public website became a hollow page. No logs. No documentation. Just a phone number and a generic email address.
This is the lab that signs off on voting systems in Pennsylvania, Florida, New Jersey, California—and countless other places. And when people started asking questions, they vanished.
In Rockland County, New York, voters noticed their ballots didn’t seem to count. People swore under oath that they voted for Senate candidate Diane Sare. But in district after district, the machines didn’t reflect it. In one case, nine voters said they picked her. Only five votes showed up. In another, five claimed to vote for her—only three were recorded.
It wasn’t just third-party candidates. Kamala Harris’s name was missing entirely from the top of the ballot in several heavily Democratic districts. In areas that overwhelmingly backed Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand for Senate, somehow, Harris got zero votes. Zero.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump received 750,000 more votes than Republican Senate candidates in those same districts. That’s not just voter preference. That’s a statistical impossibility.
Back in June 2024, Musk tweeted: “Anything can be hacked.” He had the means. He had the motive. He had the tools. And he threw his weight behind Trump at the exact moment voting machines were being quietly altered—with no oversight, no transparency, and no paper trail.
Moreover, Trump openly admitted that Musk had an advanced knowledge of the voting machines used in Pennsylvania—a decisive swing state central to Trump’s path to victory in November.
“He knows those computers better than anybody. All those computers. Those vote-counting computers,” Trump told the crowd. “And we ended up winning Pennsylvania like in a landslide.”
On May 22, 2025, Judge Rachel Tanguay ruled that the allegations in the SMART Elections lawsuit were serious enough to move forward. The case—SMART Legislation et al. v. Rockland County Board of Elections—goes to hearing this fall.
It won’t change the 2024 outcome. Congress already certified it. Power has shifted. But the lawsuit could set off something bigger: state probes, decertifications, even criminal investigations.
Because this isn’t about glitches anymore. This is about a national election that may have been silently rewritten behind closed doors—by a private company, a vanishing lab, and a system with no accountability.
As Dissent in Bloom put it: “If one underfunded watchdog group can dig up this much from a quiet New York suburb, what else is rotting in the shadows of this country’s ballots?”
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A large crowd of people gathered at the Texas Capitol in Austin on Monday in solidarity with those protesting Immigration and Customs Enforcement actions in Los Angeles, according to organizers.
8:51 p.m.: Tear gas has been used against a group of protesters.
“APD wasn’t allowed to use tear gas after the protests in 2020. Any tear gas would be deployed by DPS.”
8:30 p.m.: Law enforcement pepper-sprayed protesters in the street on 9th and Congress.
Marines headed toward LA, illegal AF, to march on civilians.
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