Attribution: NETANYAHU DROPS AID SUPPLIES OVER GAZA by Marian Kamensky, Austria
[Marian Kamensky is the editorial cartoonist for the Swiss satirical montly magazine Nebelspalter and Germany’s satirical magazine Eulenspiegel and Playboy magazine. He is currently living in Vienna. You can visit his website at www.humor-kamensky.sk]
just in case we don’t want to think about people starving to death, let us count other ways of cruelty
John Oliver discusses the massive problems caused by gang databases, how people wind up on them, and why nobody looks good in lime green. You might think you’re pulling it off but trust us, you’re not.
and something altogether different from trevor
back to john last night for more distractions according to the folks at Deadline https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/other/
Dodo’s ultimate bottom-of-scraped-barrel distraction will be wag the dog (AKA start a war to divert unwelcome attention). already to go is a song for it from the late Tom Lehrer
Recording date: September 11th 1967
craig, some more discussion on that immunity issue
After facing untold scrutiny, much of it coming from Trump’s own MAGA base, Deputy Attorney General, Todd Blanche — who was also Trump’s former defense attorney — spent two days in Florida interviewing Epstein’s longtime accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell. Plus, George Conway and MSNBC legal analyst Andrew Weissman join The Weekend to react to Trump’s threats to prosecute former President Obama and his staff.
so did any of the spaghetti thrown against the wall stick? has that ‘toon at top of thread been erased from your brain yet?
Each week mangomoron degrades more than the week before. He held a press conference on Sunday, more like a four year old explaining the modern world to a three year old. Babbling, rambling and incoherent rantings. Yet, the media did its very best to pretend a cognizant almost eighty year old person was spewing statements of intelligent thoughts.
If you follow along on the video while reading a press report it is like two different worlds. The reason is it is two different worlds. One bizzarro world and the other a different bizzarro world. The video is the only real world available, the one we live in.
From last thread, I will add my recommendation for both Northern Exposure and Ted Lasso. Love fish out of water scenarios.
what i saw of “Stick” with Owen Wilson was good, sweet and uplifting, nothing racy, violent, or vulgar
there are so many good programs on streaming services now I usually just turn it off because I can’t pick, which apparently is a common phenomenon I hear people describe.
They’re calling it a trade deal.
But nothing’s signed, prices are going up, and the only thing guaranteed is a headline.
We dug into the so-called EU agreement—and let’s just say, I’ve seen firmer commitments in a fortune cookie.
that didn’t take long
I am making a list of Epstein distraction ploys for today’s Live On Tape.
Am I missing any?
-AutoPen
-Rosie O’Donnell Citizenship
-Coke Cane Sugar
-Russia Hoax
-Fake trade “Deals”: Japan, Indonesia, Europe
-Wind turbines BAD
-Arrest Obama
-Trump’s Swollen Foot
today’s meme…
meme #2…
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/07/28/texas-prairie-rescue-covert-campaign-wildflowers-development/
Students and naturalists have been sneaking onto private land to extricate threatened native plants: “This is a war between us and the developers, and nobody’s calling uncle.”
Just two days after their surreptitious dig, a dozen men and women in business suits smiled for the cameras as they scooped shovelfuls of what might be the county’s last expanse or tallgrass. Homes may rise on the pockets that held the greatest biodiversity.
The developers tout their project’s walkability and eco-friendliness, with ample open space, water-smart landscaping, and native vegetation. But even the greenest projects come at a cost: The city is trading an ecosystem that naturally mitigates the effects of climate change for still more impervious growth that only exacerbates them.
The trend is accelerating across Texas, where blackland prairie once stretched roughly 12 million acres from the Red River to San Antonio — an area nearly twice the size of Vermont. No more than 5,000 acres are left statewide…
All that concrete increases flooding and emissions, depletes aquifers, and compounds the urban heat island effect — the same problems prairies naturally alleviate, said Norma Fowler, a plant ecologist at the University of Texas at Austin. Long grasses and herbs help the ground soak up rain. Their roots reach a depth of 16 feet, producing humus-rich soil that holds water and releases it slowly. Prairies also cool cities, temper the impact of wildfires, and sequester up to one ton of carbon per acre each year. It’s why biodiversity loss and climate change are inherently linked.
There are fewer caterpillars to feed the birds, for example, and fewer bees to pollinate blooms and crops like east Texas’ famed blueberries.
*We will end us unless some of us stops us.
Those Covid checks with Adolf’s signature (which was ridiculous & unnecessary) weren’t actually signed by him. Not the same as an auto-pen, exactly, but still.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/business/economy/trump-sugar-forced-labor-ban-lifted.html
For decades, Central Romana has faced allegations from labor rights groups that it subjected its workers to poor labor conditions. The Biden administration banned imports from the company in 2022, saying that it had information indicating that the company had taken advantage of vulnerable workers, improperly withheld their wages, forced them to do excessive overtime, and created abusive working and living conditions.
Civil society groups have also complained of Central Romana forcibly evicting families from homes, threatening workers who complain about working conditions and providing dilapidated housing without clean water or electricity.
Central Romana, the largest landholder and private employer in the Dominican Republic, is partly owned by the Fanjul family, which has been influential in U.S. politics for decades.
In 2024, the Fanjul Corp. gave a $1 million donation to Make America Great Again, a political action committee supporting Trump, as well as a $413,000 donation to the Republican National Committee…
The Trump administration [this spring] quietly rescinded an order that had blocked a major Dominican sugar producer with political ties to President Donald Trump from shipping sugar to the United States because of allegations of forced labor at the company.
*Is that why Adolf wanted Coke to use real sugar (as Mexico already does) in countries where it does not?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12339721/Leon-Black-billionaire-accused-raping-autistic-teen-Jeffrey-Epsteins-house-paid-late-pedophile-158million-five-years-tax-estate-planning-advice.html
Billionaire private equity titan Leon Black paid Jeffrey Epstein $158million between 2012 and 2017 in a series of ‘extraordinary’ transactions that are now being scrutinized by the Senate Finance Committee.
Black, who is accused of raping an autistic teenage girl at Epstein’s townhouse in 2002, claimed the payments were for advice on trust and estate planning, tax issues and the operation of his family office.
Now, investigators are probing whether or not Black owes taxes on the payments to the late pedophile…
There are resounding questions over why Black – a successful financier in his own right who is the co-founder of money management firm Apollo – turned to Epstein, whose credentials were less impressive, for advice.
*Follow the money. Bonus: There’s a pic of Black with Epstein and Fanjul (the sugar guy using slave labor).
https://www.newsweek.com/jd-vance-heckled-disneyland-california-2098501
Vance has previously spoken against Disney, calling for an end to what he alleged were government handouts and denouncing their diversity and inclusion initiatives. In 2022, he called Disney “woke” and accused them of “declaring war on America’s children.”
The vice president’s visit unfolded against the backdrop of public outrage over recent ICE raids, which have intensified scrutiny of the Trump administration’s immigration policies in California and elsewhere.
Democratic California Governor Gavin Newsom reposted a video on X of Vance in Disneyland on Saturday with the caption: “Hope you enjoy your family time, @JDVance. The families you’re tearing apart certainly won’t.”
*Still looking for the video of JD running away, fists clenched, short steps like he had to pee, looking back at the camera like that old Big Foot video.
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-adds-kamala-harris-beyonce-oprah-list-wants-prosecuted-rcna221482
Shortly after the election, Trump appeared on NBC News’ “Meet the Press” and suggested vengeance wasn’t part of his plans for a second term. “I’m not looking to go back into the past,” he said, adding, “Retribution will be through success.” The Republican president echoed the point in his second inaugural address, declaring, “Never again will the immense power of the state be weaponized to persecute political opponents.”
I have some bad news for anybody who believed any of these claims. The Hill reported:
President Trump on Saturday doubled down on his accusations that former Vice President Harris paid celebrities to endorse her during the 2024 presidential election. The president, echoing previous claims that Harris paid Beyoncé, Oprah and Al Sharpton to support her White House bid throughout the campaign trail, said Harris and the celebrities involved should be ‘prosecuted.’
I don’t seriously expect anything to come of this, because federal prosecutors know what Trump does not: Bringing criminal charges against political foes based on made-up allegations doesn’t work.
*But could those he threatens sue him for lying about them?
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-air-force-one-gift-qatar-2104988
A jet donated by Qatar that is expected to become President Donald Trump’s next Air Force One could ultimately cost American taxpayers $1 billion or more in retrofitting and upgrades.
…a $934 million transfer of funds was made to an unnamed classified project from the Pentagon, with officials in the Air Force saying that millions of dollars were needed to pay for renovating the aircraft.
The Qatari jet, delivered as a “bona fide gift” to the United States, arrived at a time when the Pentagon sought alternatives to delayed Boeing aircraft for presidential use. While officials emphasized the absence of any quid pro quo, the process of converting a 13-year-old Boeing 747 into a secure, advanced command center for the president could add a significant, taxpayer-funded price tag that goes against the concept of a gift.
*At 13-years old, it stays above Adolf’s age threshold.
The jet is being housed in San Antonio, awaiting extensive retrofitting and security upgrades before it can be used as Air Force One.
*Question: Air Force One is government property. The massive tax-payer dollars for upgrades are OURS, even if the plane was gifted to Adolf and not the US. Shouldn’t it be there for the next POTUS to use?
The renovation’s official price is classified, but congressional budget analysis and reports from The New York Times have traced a $934 million transfer from the over-budget Sentinel nuclear missile modernization program, believed to be earmarked for the jet’s transformation.
*So Adolf leaves office, at 98.6 or room temperature, and the plane stays?
President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social in May: “The Boeing 747 is being given to the United States Air Force/Department of Defense, NOT TO ME! It is a gift from a Nation, Qatar, that we have successfully defended for many years. It will be used by our Government as a temporary Air Force One, until such time as our new Boeings, which are very late on delivery, arrive.”
Anyone up for studio chat today?
Maxwell is asking the court to throw out her conviction.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/28/politics/ghislaine-maxwell-supreme-court
…urged the Supreme Court on Monday to take up her pending appeal and overturn her sex-trafficking conviction, claiming she was covered by an agreement Epstein made with federal authorities that shielded her from prosecution.
“This case is about what the government promised, not what Epstein did,” Maxwell’s attorneys told the justices in a new brief.
President Trump built his legacy in part on the power of a deal – and surely he would agree that when the United States gives its word, it must stand by it,” Maxwell’s attorney, David Oscar Markus, said in a statement.
“We are appealing not only to the Supreme Court but to the president himself to recognize how profoundly unjust it is to scapegoat Ghislaine Maxwell for Epstein’s crimes, especially when the government promised she would not be prosecuted.”
In her appeal at the Supreme Court, filed in April, Maxwell argues she should have been covered by a non-prosecution agreement Epstein secured as part of his agreement to plead guilty. The New York-based 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against Maxwell, finding that the agreement made with prosecutors in Florida did not bind the authorities in New York.
*Hmmm, so SCOTUS does the deed and Adolf doesn’t have the stench of pardoning a sex trafficker on him?
craig, earlier you wrote and asked
I am making a list of Epstein distraction ploys for today’s Live On Tape.
Am I missing any?
-AutoPen
-Rosie O’Donnell Citizenship
-Coke Cane Sugar
-Russia Hoax
-Fake trade “Deals”: Japan, Indonesia, Europe
-Wind turbines BAD
-Arrest Obama
-Trump’s Swollen Foot
don’t forget
israel/hamas deal on and off several times
putin disappointment so might/might not punish with sanctions
keep senate from recessing
weather forecasts are worthless now due to trump’s NOAA cuts, people will die because of it
I honestly don’t think trumpco effectively pardoning a convicted elite sex-trafficker is going to placate the magas, that’s their pet issue
never interrupt your enemy while they’re making a mistake i guess
The most panicked cover-up in plain sight ever
chat studio open, would live to chat about this: “As the political firestorm surrounding the late Jeffrey Epstein reignites, a recent report by The Washington Post finds that there is “no public evidence of any wrongdoing on [President Donald] Trump’s part.”
Big qualifier there: “public evidence” — so why is he hiding the “non-public” evidence
Chat room is open at
https://streamyard.com/mmzzwvkv59
Checked in at 12:45 nobody home. On your question about public evidence, it is always a good idea to look for the weasel words with Donald and that is a classic example.
Anon – He won’t have to pardon her. Maxwell is asking SCOTUS to throw out her conviction. His tiny hands will remain clean and MAGAts can blame SCOTUS.
i haven’t figured out a permanent link yet Jamie. Each day is new link until i master that detail, usually at about 4p. Doors open now, for about a half hour.
today’s link:
Chat room is open at
https://streamyard.com/mmzzwvkv59
Watching Buttiegieg on Morning Edition if anyone wants to watch
Chat studio closed. Open again about this time tomorrow (with a new link until i figure out how to create a permanent one_
a wholly-owned subsidiary of trumpco
Yes, but SCOTUS gives him cover v Adolf actually pardoning her. She wants out of prison now; he can always pardon her on his way out the door.
do you think that’s going to fool anyone?
Our AI legal avatar reads the research: Ghislaine Maxwell is asking the Supreme Court to toss her conviction — just as the DOJ interviews her again. Is she striking a deal? Why now?
Plus: Pete Buttigieg goes on NPR to weigh in on Epstein, Congress shuts down to avoid the files, and Foxanne Fury is here to distract you with swollen feet and sugary sodas.
🎥 Full cast:
Marcus Vale (AI Lawyer)
Lady MawMaw (Mystic-in-Residence)
Foxanne Fury (Distraction Queen)
Special Guest On Another Show: Pete Buttigieg (NPR, Morning Edition)
Actually, if SCOTUS overturns it, a pardon would be unnecessary. If they don’t do it, Adolf can pardon as he’s leaving or after the midterms if Repugz hold both houses.
It didn’t get much traction, but renaming sports teams & threatening to block a new stadium for non-compliance should be on the list.
Was renaming the theater at the Kennedy Center after Melania a distraction that came from it someone else?
Love the bobbing brows on Vale!
Foxanne Fury of The News Avoidance Network has the latest distractions:
✍️ The president signed with a machine
🇮🇪 Tariff threats over Rosie O’Donnell
🥤 Coke. Cane. Sugar.
Totally normal news. Definitely not a cover for anything Epstein-related.
Foxanne’s full meltdown:
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/renaming-kennedy-center-donald-melania-trump-violate-law-created-rcna221505
House Republican proposals to name the Kennedy Center after President Donald Trump and its opera house after first lady Melania Trump would violate the law by which the Kennedy Center was created, four sources familiar with the issue told NBC News.
The measure, sponsored by GOP Rep. Mike Simpson of Idaho, is now part of key legislation funding the Interior Department, but would still need to pass through the full House and the Senate to become law.
The next day, Rep. Bob Onder, R-Mo., introduced the “Make Entertainment Great Again Act” to rename the whole center “Donald J. Trump Center for Performing Arts.”
But three former board members for the Kennedy Center told NBC News that the law creating the center prohibited any of the facilities from being named, other than the Eisenhower Theater, after the president whose administration first authorized its construction in 1958.
The project stalled and was revived under President John F. Kennedy, whose family led an effort to get the center built and named in his honor following his assassination.
Two months later, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the legislation making it a living memorial to Kennedy.
According to U.S. code, “After December 2, 1983, no additional memorials or plaques in the nature of memorials shall be designated or installed in the public areas of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.”
Republicans would have to pass legislation to change that. “Legally, they can’t just slap her name on it without congressional action,” said a spokesperson for Rep. Chellie Pingree of Maine, the lead Democrat on the Interior Appropriations subcommittee.
*If MAGAt Nutzi Republicans do pass a law to change the name, it will be known colloquially as
H/tler Hall & Mausoleum for the State-Sanctioned Arts
Republicans in Congress sure are hellbent on protecting pedophiles, at least one of whom has 34 felonies and is an adjudicated rapist.
bullies thugs and rapists
today’s GOP 🇺🇸
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/08/peter-thiel-wants-to-inject-himself-with-young-peoples-blood
Trump delegate and Gawker bankrupter Peter Thiel is no stranger to the idea of increasing his lifespan through science. “I stand against confiscatory taxes, totalitarian collectives, and the ideology of the inevitability of the death of every individual,” he wrote in libertarian journal Cato Unbound seven years ago. On Bloomberg TV in 2014, Thiel explained that he was taking human-growth hormone pills as part of his plan to live 120 years.
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https://gizmodo.com/someone-is-trying-to-discredit-the-story-of-peter-thiel-1796135794
When Inc. magazine’s Jeff Bercovici reported last August that billionaire Trump-supporter Peter Thiel had repeatedly expressed interest in the idea of harvesting the blood of young people to maintain his own youth, it left an indelible mark on Thiel’s public persona, as captured by headlines like “Peter Thiel Wants to Inject Himself with Young People’s Blood” and “Here’s Why Peter Thiel May Be Interested In Younger People’s Blood.”
Thiel’s ultra-libertarian politics and history of supporting vaguely nefarious projects—such as his successful plot to kill Gawker, his controversial application for New Zealand citizenship, and his recent suggestion that political corruption could be a good thing—have earned him the aura of a Silicon Valley fiend. His interest in Ambrosia, an obscure startup that injects older customers with blood drawn from youthful donors, was the perfect detail to round out his villainy.
So it came as a shock Wednesday when TechCrunch reporter Sarah Buhr published an article that claimed the story about Thiel’s blood interest was untrue. Bercovici had reported that Ambrosia founder Jesse Karmazin told him that Jason Camm, the “chief medical officer” for Thiel Capital, approached Karmazin in July 2016 to express interest in Ambrosia. That reporting, Buhr wrote, was false: “According to Karmazin…he was never contacted by Thiel or anyone associated with Thiel Capital.”
The record indicates exactly the opposite, however. According to emails obtained by Gizmodo, and Bercovici’s accounts of conversations with Karmazin and Thiel’s own associates, the original story remains accurate: Karmazin did tell Bercovici that Camm contacted him to express interest in Ambrosia’s young-to-old blood transfusions. What’s not so clear is why Karmazin decided to change his story—or whether anyone in Thiel’s orbit has pressured him to do so.
We posed the following question to Karmazin: “Did anyone at any company owned or founded by Peter Thiel encourage, pressure, or instruct you to deny that you had contact with Jason Camm?”
His response, in its entirety: “No comment.”
*Traslation: Yep
There was a TV miniseries titled, “You, Me & The Apocalypse. There was an elderly 1%er who gathered her estranged children, and a grandchild discovered along the way. They retreated to her bunker to survive the asteroid. It was no act of love that she gathered them together in her bunker and took special interest in her grandchild. She needed blood donors…and organ donors.
Now, after sitting out the 2024 election cycle, Thiel is back in the game. He has quietly donated more than $850,000 this year to finance Republican incumbents attempting to retain their party’s control of the House in next year’s midterm elections.
*It won’t matter. Republicans voted to take away vital services and protect a predator, and voters won’t vote for an R. He’d be better off wiping his backside with it.
If this is a recent photo, he looks his age: 57 Maybe the vampire protocol (not the facial) is supposed to keep you young on the inside.
https://www.uniladtech.com/science/news/biohacker-bryan-johnson-plasma-exchange-blood-age-123829-20250129
Bryan Johnson spends around $2 million a year trying to de-age himself as he attempts to turn back his biological clock.
The venture capitalist and dad-of-three has made a name for himself for being obsessed with halting the aging process and was even receiving blood transfusions from his son in an attempt to have the youngest possible biological age.
Johnson wrote: “I am no longer injecting my son’s blood. I’ve upgraded to something else: total plasma exchange.”
The tech millionaire also shared the steps he was taking, saying: “1. Take out all blood from body. 2. Separate plasma from blood. 3. Replace plasma with 5% albumin & IVIG.”
In the replies to his post, one user wrote: “Be careful. Step 1 might kill you.”
Another said: “First you’re vampiring your kid’s blood, now you’re doing full oil changes? Maybe try being a normal dad who just plays catch.”
A third person commented: “I’d rather die five years earlier and enjoy my life.”
*Too much money ruins most folks. Why not give that $2 million/year to a good cause? Maybe even have folks say nice things about you when you do die?
When you guys post and I don’t get it, I know I’ve checked out too long.
miss five minutes of the news cycle these days and you’re out of the loop
trumpy “floods the zone” for a reason
he probably realized medical services get it all in the end anyway, why wait?
i’m actually happy for him to use himself as a guinea pig, he might end up compelling groundbreaking techniques
Not to worry. I’m watching the new Netflix show “Lazarus Project”. Any second now, time will reset and everything will be changed for the better
lol “the ideology”
Here is Trump blatantly cheating in golf, imagine his conduct in non-trivial circumstances
https://x.com/patriottakes/status/1949496947808637164
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