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King Dong
Attribution: Trump taking Over DC And More by Bob Englehart, PoliticalCartoons.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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Attribution: Trump takes over DC police by Jonathan Brown, PoliticalCartoons.com
Seth addresses Donald Trump meeting with Putin in Alaska, hosting a peace summit and more in his monologue for Monday, August 11, before taking a closer look at Trump giving an unhinged press conference announcing his decision to send federal troops to Washington, D.C., despite the fact that crime is down.
Ivy, although it’s not physically apparent, it seems a cranial-anal inversion has already happened- he opens his mouth and shit spews out as he tries to explain the shit going on in his head. I was thinking more of engaging in self penile- anal intercourse.
And Poobah, it was a Maryland highway. Otherwise, yeah.
Now that the capitol of the United States is under near martial law expect lots of fun changes. You might can be asked for your identification and proof of citizenship. You might can have your possessions searched. Herr mangomoron is going to be running the city now.
Some people are reconsidering venturing to the District, I know of one who has had to cancel her work in the District because she is a Trans Woman. Her identification shows that, but with the constant attacks on Trans people and identification the concerns of being held and her identification confiscated, she does not feel safe. I have to reconsider my travel there too.
Enjoyed your visit Pog wherever you were. We have now had a core group of chat roomers show up at various times. Can we settle on a time to try a live gathering? My platform account level allows up to 8 “on stage” at the same time.
Participants so far:
Jamie
whskyjack
BlueInDallas
Renee
Carolyn
Pogeaux
The National Park Service and U.S. Park Police decided to close Dupont Circle Park for WorldPride DC this weekend, government sources said.
Eight-foot-tall metal fencing now surrounds the popular gathering spot at the heart of a bustling neighborhood.
Did they ever reopen it? even if they did reopen, bet there’ll be either another closing soon and/or beefed up fed police patrolling it.
I like this picture so I repeat.
Statue or cartoon :
Typical maggot male sitting on the terlet staring in rapt frowning concentration at the red MAGAt hat he holds in his hand as if it were a great red turd which has somehow found its way into his trembling fingers.
Waking up can be so traumatic.
You can almost see the wheels turning in his head as he slowly comes to realize what he’s about to do with his red magat hat.
Well, my problem is that retirement is still a dream and Mrs. P (my boss 24/7) somehow thinks that fooling around on a chat during the day isn’t particularly productive, and she certainly doesn’t want our staff to think it’s ok to do such things during the workday.
So, despite his efforts to conceal the tariff damage by postponing implementation of them on our biggest trading partner for another 90 days, (WaPo) inflation is here. And don’t get me started on the cost of coffee.
Inflation held steady in July as tariffs ripple through prices
The consumer price index showed that overall inflation increased at a 2.7 percent annual rate, the same as in June.
New inflation data out Tuesday provided more evidence that President Donald Trump’s tariffs are starting to push up prices on everyday goods, as trade policy begins to hit consumers’ wallets.
The Labor Department’s consumer price index for July showed that the annual pace of inflation remained at 2.7 percent from July 2024. That’s the same as the annual rise reported in June and above April’s a post-pandemic low of 2.3 percent, but it was just under economists’ expectations.
…
Just wait until the tariffs on China kick in; 2.7% will seem quaint.
pogo, that was from the OLD labor dept. The Labor Department’s consumer price index for July showed that the annual pace of inflation remained at 2.7 percent from July 2024.
who knows what the new Trump labor dept data will come up with, but one thing for sure it will be what Dodo wants it to be.
RIP Bobby Whitlock. Songwriter, keyboards and vocals with Delaney and Bonnie for a couple of years , backed George Harrison on All Things Must Pass, then onto Derek and the Dominos’ Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs. Terrific musician and all around good guy. He was tight with Steve Cropper and Donald “Duck” Dunn who were going to produce a solo album of his until he left Memphis to go with Delaney and Bonnie. I neglected to note that Bobby got his early chops playing with Sam and Dave and Booker T. and the M.G.s, Where he met Cropper and Dunn.
PatD, they ended up not closing Dupont Circle, there never was any fencing — i was just there for my Adirondack chair video the other day. I’m getting out today to scout the neighborhood. So far last couple days I’ve seen nothing other than some DEA officers aimlessly wandering around obviously with nothing to do
Pog, a weekend chat would be just fine
today’s meme…
a friend who lives in the city and works downtown just wrote, “I biked to the office didn’t see one federal agent or national guard”
Here’s a clip of federal agents last night wandering around peering into cars with flashlights. Locals jeering at them.
NEW — Video taken by a witness and shared with me tonight from DC’s Trinidad neighborhood shows FBI and Secret Service agents patrolling by foot and peering into cars with flashlights. (Per witness, residents made fun of agents, saying they can't get women and that's why they were doing this lol)
Walking down the middle of the street because they are afraid to walk on the sidewalk like a regular citizen.
I’ll bet even they are embarrassed by Trump.
Jack
Federal takeover of DC isn’t about crime
Taking down Harvard isn’t about anti-semitism
Tariffs aren’t about reinvigorating U.S. manufacturing
Having big law pay hundreds of millions isn’t about legal fairness
Sacking the head of BLS isn’t about getting the numbers right
Joseph Allen
It’s all about power. That’s it.
Amen Jamie — and what happened to all those right wing nightmares about black helicopters and feds knocking on the door. But this is okay?
Think I’ll wander down to Dupont Circle later with my phone for livestream in our Chat Room.
peering onto cars
lol thats what gangs do
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I had Lady MawMaw (ChatGPT5) just make this for us. Putting it in the sidebar
Dodo’s rant about DC having higher crime rate than other capitol cities (for that matter the USA has a higher crime rate than other developed countries) overlooks one of the reasons: guns vs gun restrictions.
🚶♂️ Today, 3 PM ET — Dupont Circle Field Report
I’ll be roaming my D.C. neighborhood, hunting for fascist chic… and reading the fascist chi.
It’s part walking tour, part pop-up chat — and yes, guests can drop in from anywhere.
📍 Visit the chat launch pad: https://trailmix.cc/home/chatroom/
🎤 Want to hop on? Use the link at showtime to grab a spot in this recorded stream.
P.S. If you see me interrogating a park bench, just go with it.
I am getting text-based AI scams sent to my phone. Don’t reply to numbers you don’t know.
🚶♂️ Today, 3 PM ET — Dupont Circle Field Report
I’ll be roaming my D.C. neighborhood, hunting for fascist chic… and reading the fascist chi.
It’s part walking tour, part pop-up chat — and yes, guests can drop in from anywhere.
📍 Visit the chat launch pad: https://trailmix.cc/home/chatroom/
🎤 Want to hop on? Use the link at showtime to grab a spot in this recorded stream.
P.S. If you see me interrogating a park bench, just go with it.
lol you should flip those two words to:
“Watch Fascism”
Sounds like there might be a distinction there, Anon, but not sure what it is
This would be a good time, btw, for you to put on a wig and sunglasses, join me
What Anon said. I get phishing scams pretty regularly – 3 Sunday and yesterday – A Kelly Services solicitation for part-time work from home stuff to earn $150 in 60-90 minutes, a refund for a recalled item from Amazon from an outlook.com address and a Coinbase “withdrawal code” regarding who knows what from who knows who – just call a number (888)*****.. if I didn’t request it.
The motto of my and Colbert’s high school is “WATCH” . Always thought that was ok if you’ve decided to have a motto.
It was furnished to the school by its founder, the Rev Dr Anthony Toomer Porter in the late 19th C.
This building was always pretty neat
Even if they did use it to preach at you.
I enjoy the phishing scams and outright scams. I use separate email accounts for each entity. Seeing a Amazom (yes had one like that) email on an account not associated with Amazom(n) makes it easy to delete.
I started this way back in the early 1990’s. I have a lot of email accounts, more inactive than active now.
Taylor Swift had the Empire State Building lit up in orange to market her new album, which is available in orange vinyl.
Is she using her new era to troll Orange Adolf & reclaim the color?
Well, If I need chairs for my new deck, I know where to get them now, Craigs neighborhood, people are so lazy they won’t even steal good chairs.
edit: insert criminals for people
Convicted child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell has reportedly been cleared to leave prison on work release.
*Resume should be something else. Previous work experience: Procuring, grooming & abusing minors.
Trumps new appointee to run the BLS
E J Antoni, a frequent BLS critic, got his Ph.D. in 2020 from Northern Illinois University and is chief economist at the Heritage Foundation’s Hermann Center for the Federal Budget.
Northern Illinois State normal school, I mean University.
Jack
Sounds like there might be a distinction there, Anon, but not sure what it is
your wording implies you have to look for it, my wording implies it’s everywhere already.
🚨 Fascism Watch: DC to Florida 🚨
We found zero fascists in Dupont Circle… but Florida friends had plenty to report.
From DeSantis purges to the mystery of untouched deck chairs in “the most crime-infested city” — it’s a tale of two states.
Databases used by US federal courts for sharing and managing case documents have been hacked. Politico first reported on the hack last week on August 6; today, an investigation from The New York Times states that Russia is suspected to be involved in the attack. The Administrative Office of the US Courts initially identified the severity of the cyberattack in July, although the extent of the breach by “persistent and sophisticated cyber threat actors” has not been disclosed and may still not be known by national officials.
Both the Case Management/Electronic Case Files (CM/ECF) and PACER systems have been impacted by the attack. CM/ECF is used by legal professionals and courts to store documents, while PACER grants the public limited access to those same files. Anonymous officials told Politico that chief judges for federal courts in the 8th Circuit were briefed on the attack, but were unable to confirm what agency provided the briefing. The 8th Circuit includes Arkansas, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota.
If DC’s the “most crime-ridden city on earth,” why does even the outdoor furniture feel safe? 🪑
The petition also asks the justices to consider “whether Obergefell v. Hodges … and the legal fiction of substantive due process, should be overturned.”
Davis has been married four times to three husbands.[18][197] The first three marriages ended in divorce in 1994, 2006, and 2008.
Davis has two daughters from her first marriage and twins, a son and another daughter, who were born five months after her divorce from her first husband.[citation needed]
Her third husband is the biological father of the twins, the children being conceived while Davis was still married to her first husband. <—
The twins were adopted by Davis's current husband, Joe Davis, who was also her second husband; the couple initially divorced in 2006 but later remarried.[6][59] Joe Davis has also stated his support for her stance against same-sex marriage.[58] Davis's son Nathan works in her office as a deputy clerk and has taken the same position of denying marriage licenses to same-sex couples.[198] Shortly after the same-sex marriage license controversy, Davis said she and her husband switched from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party.[1]
Davis says she experienced a religious awakening in 2011, following her mother-in-law's dying wish that she attend church.[13] Since then Davis has identified herself as a Christian, belonging to the Apostolic Pentecostal movement,[199] which favors what they describe as a literal interpretation of the Bible. <—
*So, she should be stoned per the buy-bull.
But this shining example of marriage wants SCOTUS to overturn gay marriage.
My old neighbors moved back to Finland a decade ago. They had a camera up and they also listed temp/weather conditions. There was never anything to see.
Maybe that’s what we need are citizen journalists we can check in with for conditions. ICE? Protests? Just folks walking their dogs?
Legacy media shows chaos if they think it will help the fascist agenda, and hide ICE and concentration camp news. Foreign media does a better job covering us.
An outbreak of a respiratory disease, possibly Covid-19, is running rampant through the remote Florida immigration jail known as “Alligator Alcatraz”, according to the attorney of an infected detainee removed from the camp last week.
Eric Lee said he was told by his client Luis Manuel Rivas Velásquez that conditions at the facility had deteriorated significantly since Thursday as more migrants held there by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agency experienced symptoms.
Lee said authorities removed Rivas Velásquez, a 38-year-old Venezuelan man, from the camp after he was diagnosed in a hospital visit last week, then secretly taken to a similar facility in Texas.
*To spread the disease to TX?
He added: “Based on what multiple detainees have told me, in the last 72 to 100 hours, there is some respiratory disease which has made the majority, or I would even say vast majority of detainees, sick in some form.
“There are people who are losing breath. There are people who are walking around coughing on one another. Their requests for masks from the guards are denied, and they only are allowed to shower once or maybe twice a week.
“I said to Luis, ‘pass the phone. Let me hear it from somebody else. I just want to make sure that people’s stories are straight.’ And unfortunately they very much are.”
The development follows a claim by a woman, a state licensed corrections officer, who said she contracted Covid-19 after working at the camp in unsanitary conditions for about a week last month, and was subsequently fired.
If the outbreak is Covid, Lee added, it would have consequences beyond Alligator Alcatraz.
“The disease doesn’t recognize the prison walls and guards are going to get sick. They’ll give it to their kids, it’s going to get into the Miami school system, people are going to get sick and die as a result of the conditions that are in this facility,” he said.
Lee said Rivas Velásquez told him in a phone call that he pleaded for medical attention for 48 hours after contracting breathing difficulties, and eventually collapsed inside the metal cage in which he and dozens of other inmates were being held.
He said his client was taken to Miami’s Kendall regional medical center, where he was diagnosed with a respiratory infection, then returned only briefly to the Everglades camp before disappearing for three days. Lee said Rivas Velásquez called on Sunday from a new detention camp in El Paso, Texas.
“He said when he was returned to the Alcatraz facility he asked the guards to provide his medical records and they said they would not do that,” Lee said.
“The guards came to his bed, opened his pillow, took all the poetry and letters he’d been writing, and all the notes he’d been taking about his experiences, and told him he’s no longer allowed to write.”
Apart from the brief call from Texas, Lee said he had no further information about his client’s wellbeing.
My Aye-Eye wants to dispute this but I recall stories had it that Alan Greenspan as Fed Chair phoned the Bureau of Labor Statistics every morning to find out what the latest figures were. He placed a great deal of weight on the accuracy of these numbers.
Apparently now we’re not going to be at all reliant on accurate numbers.
I hated doing math anyway.
From D.C.’s Dupont Circle to Florida’s county halls — fascist fashion shows are popping up everywhere. 🫡
NO FASCIST TAKEOVER OF DC!
NO MILITARY OCCUPATION OF OUR CITIES!
Saturday- August 16th – 2pm – Rally & March to the WH
*Craig – Looks like the action is coming to you & your Adirondack chair.
Thanks for the update BiD. I might live chat that..
Saturday- August 16th – 2pm – Rally & March to the WH
Governor Newsom Press Office
DONALD “TACO” TRUMP, AS MANY CALL HIM, “MISSED” THE DEADLINE!!!
CALIFORNIA WILL NOW DRAW NEW, MORE
“BEAUTIFUL MAPS,” THEY WILL BE
HISTORIC AS THEY WILL END THE TRUMP PRESIDENCY (DEMS TAKE BACK THE HOUSE!). BIG PRESS CONFERENCE THIS WEEK WITH POWERFUL DEMS AND GAVIN NEWSOM — YOUR FAVORITE GOVERNOR — THAT WILL BE DEVASTATING FOR “MAGA.” THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER! – GN
Attribution: Trump takes over DC police by Jonathan Brown, PoliticalCartoons.com
Seth addresses Donald Trump meeting with Putin in Alaska, hosting a peace summit and more in his monologue for Monday, August 11, before taking a closer look at Trump giving an unhinged press conference announcing his decision to send federal troops to Washington, D.C., despite the fact that crime is down.
Ivy, although it’s not physically apparent, it seems a cranial-anal inversion has already happened- he opens his mouth and shit spews out as he tries to explain the shit going on in his head. I was thinking more of engaging in self penile- anal intercourse.
And Poobah, it was a Maryland highway. Otherwise, yeah.
Now that the capitol of the United States is under near martial law expect lots of fun changes. You
mightcan be asked for your identification and proof of citizenship. Youmightcan have your possessions searched. Herr mangomoron is going to be running the city now.Some people are reconsidering venturing to the District, I know of one who has had to cancel her work in the District because she is a Trans Woman. Her identification shows that, but with the constant attacks on Trans people and identification the concerns of being held and her identification confiscated, she does not feel safe. I have to reconsider my travel there too.
Enjoyed your visit Pog wherever you were. We have now had a core group of chat roomers show up at various times. Can we settle on a time to try a live gathering? My platform account level allows up to 8 “on stage” at the same time.
Participants so far:
Jamie
whskyjack
BlueInDallas
Renee
Carolyn
Pogeaux
craig, back in june they closed DuPont Circle park according to https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/dupont-circle-park-closed-worldpride/3929737/
Did they ever reopen it? even if they did reopen, bet there’ll be either another closing soon and/or beefed up fed police patrolling it.
I like this picture so I repeat.
Statue or cartoon :
Typical maggot male sitting on the terlet staring in rapt frowning concentration at the red MAGAt hat he holds in his hand as if it were a great red turd which has somehow found its way into his trembling fingers.
Waking up can be so traumatic.
You can almost see the wheels turning in his head as he slowly comes to realize what he’s about to do with his red magat hat.
Well, my problem is that retirement is still a dream and Mrs. P (my boss 24/7) somehow thinks that fooling around on a chat during the day isn’t particularly productive, and she certainly doesn’t want our staff to think it’s ok to do such things during the workday.
So, despite his efforts to conceal the tariff damage by postponing implementation of them on our biggest trading partner for another 90 days, (WaPo) inflation is here. And don’t get me started on the cost of coffee.
Just wait until the tariffs on China kick in; 2.7% will seem quaint.
pogo, that was from the OLD labor dept.
The Labor Department’s consumer price index for July showed that the annual pace of inflation remained at 2.7 percent from July 2024.
who knows what the new Trump labor dept data will come up with, but one thing for sure it will be what Dodo wants it to be.
RIP Bobby Whitlock. Songwriter, keyboards and vocals with Delaney and Bonnie for a couple of years , backed George Harrison on All Things Must Pass, then onto Derek and the Dominos’ Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs. Terrific musician and all around good guy. He was tight with Steve Cropper and Donald “Duck” Dunn who were going to produce a solo album of his until he left Memphis to go with Delaney and Bonnie. I neglected to note that Bobby got his early chops playing with Sam and Dave and Booker T. and the M.G.s, Where he met Cropper and Dunn.
PatD, they ended up not closing Dupont Circle, there never was any fencing — i was just there for my Adirondack chair video the other day. I’m getting out today to scout the neighborhood. So far last couple days I’ve seen nothing other than some DEA officers aimlessly wandering around obviously with nothing to do
Pog, a weekend chat would be just fine
today’s meme…
a friend who lives in the city and works downtown just wrote, “I biked to the office didn’t see one federal agent or national guard”
Here is a twit post regarding the military doing stops at Howard University. Kamala Harris went to Howard. It is a traditionally Black university.
meme #2…
Keep Epstein Alive
Here’s a clip of federal agents last night wandering around peering into cars with flashlights. Locals jeering at them.
Walking down the middle of the street because they are afraid to walk on the sidewalk like a regular citizen.
I’ll bet even they are embarrassed by Trump.
Jack
It’s all about power. That’s it.
Amen Jamie — and what happened to all those right wing nightmares about black helicopters and feds knocking on the door. But this is okay?
Think I’ll wander down to Dupont Circle later with my phone for livestream in our Chat Room.
lol thats what gangs do
Trail Mix Chat Studio
🕰️ Next Session
Date: TODAY, Aug. 12
Time: 3pm ET
Topic: Craig wanders his Dupont Circle DC neighborhood looking for signs of the federal takeover. Join the chat.
I had Lady MawMaw (ChatGPT5) just make this for us. Putting it in the sidebar
Dodo’s rant about DC having higher crime rate than other capitol cities (for that matter the USA has a higher crime rate than other developed countries) overlooks one of the reasons: guns vs gun restrictions.
🚶♂️ Today, 3 PM ET — Dupont Circle Field Report
I’ll be roaming my D.C. neighborhood, hunting for fascist chic… and reading the fascist chi.
It’s part walking tour, part pop-up chat — and yes, guests can drop in from anywhere.
📍 Visit the chat launch pad: https://trailmix.cc/home/chatroom/
🎤 Want to hop on? Use the link at showtime to grab a spot in this recorded stream.
P.S. If you see me interrogating a park bench, just go with it.
I am getting text-based AI scams sent to my phone. Don’t reply to numbers you don’t know.
🚶♂️ Today, 3 PM ET — Dupont Circle Field Report
📍 Visit the chat launch pad: https://trailmix.cc/home/chatroom/
🎤 Want to hop on? Use the link at showtime to grab a spot in this recorded stream.
P.S. If you see me interrogating a park bench, just go with it.
lol you should flip those two words to:
“Watch Fascism”
Sounds like there might be a distinction there, Anon, but not sure what it is
This would be a good time, btw, for you to put on a wig and sunglasses, join me
What Anon said. I get phishing scams pretty regularly – 3 Sunday and yesterday – A Kelly Services solicitation for part-time work from home stuff to earn $150 in 60-90 minutes, a refund for a recalled item from Amazon from an outlook.com address and a Coinbase “withdrawal code” regarding who knows what from who knows who – just call a number (888)*****.. if I didn’t request it.
The motto of my and Colbert’s high school is “WATCH” . Always thought that was ok if you’ve decided to have a motto.
It was furnished to the school by its founder, the Rev Dr Anthony Toomer Porter in the late 19th C.
This building was always pretty neat
Even if they did use it to preach at you.
I enjoy the phishing scams and outright scams. I use separate email accounts for each entity. Seeing a Amazom (yes had one like that) email on an account not associated with Amazom(n) makes it easy to delete.
I started this way back in the early 1990’s. I have a lot of email accounts, more inactive than active now.
Taylor Swift had the Empire State Building lit up in orange to market her new album, which is available in orange vinyl.
Is she using her new era to troll Orange Adolf & reclaim the color?
RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/us/politics/russia-hack-federal-court-system.html
Well, If I need chairs for my new deck, I know where to get them now, Craigs neighborhood, people are so lazy they won’t even steal good chairs.
edit: insert criminals for people
Jack
https://www.newsweek.com/ghislaine-maxwell-jeffrey-epstein-files-donald-trump-update-2112468
***
https://www.rawstory.com/ghislaine-maxwell-work-release/
Convicted child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell has reportedly been cleared to leave prison on work release.
*Resume should be something else. Previous work experience: Procuring, grooming & abusing minors.
Trumps new appointee to run the BLS
Northern Illinois State normal school, I mean University.
Jack
your wording implies you have to look for it, my wording implies it’s everywhere already.
🚨 Fascism Watch: DC to Florida 🚨
We found zero fascists in Dupont Circle… but Florida friends had plenty to report.
From DeSantis purges to the mystery of untouched deck chairs in “the most crime-infested city” — it’s a tale of two states.
3 and 1/2 hrs of the blues.
https://www.engadget.com/cybersecurity/russia-reportedly-implicated-in-hack-on-us-federal-courts-databases-204029993.html
Databases used by US federal courts for sharing and managing case documents have been hacked. Politico first reported on the hack last week on August 6; today, an investigation from The New York Times states that Russia is suspected to be involved in the attack. The Administrative Office of the US Courts initially identified the severity of the cyberattack in July, although the extent of the breach by “persistent and sophisticated cyber threat actors” has not been disclosed and may still not be known by national officials.
Both the Case Management/Electronic Case Files (CM/ECF) and PACER systems have been impacted by the attack. CM/ECF is used by legal professionals and courts to store documents, while PACER grants the public limited access to those same files. Anonymous officials told Politico that chief judges for federal courts in the 8th Circuit were briefed on the attack, but were unable to confirm what agency provided the briefing. The 8th Circuit includes Arkansas, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota.
If DC’s the “most crime-ridden city on earth,” why does even the outdoor furniture feel safe? 🪑
https://nypost.com/2025/08/11/us-news/ex-kentucky-clerk-kim-davis-asks-supreme-court-to-overturn-same-sex-marriage-ruling-legal-fiction/
The petition also asks the justices to consider “whether Obergefell v. Hodges … and the legal fiction of substantive due process, should be overturned.”
***
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Davis
Davis has been married four times to three husbands.[18][197] The first three marriages ended in divorce in 1994, 2006, and 2008.
Davis has two daughters from her first marriage and twins, a son and another daughter, who were born five months after her divorce from her first husband.[citation needed]
Her third husband is the biological father of the twins, the children being conceived while Davis was still married to her first husband. <—
The twins were adopted by Davis's current husband, Joe Davis, who was also her second husband; the couple initially divorced in 2006 but later remarried.[6][59] Joe Davis has also stated his support for her stance against same-sex marriage.[58] Davis's son Nathan works in her office as a deputy clerk and has taken the same position of denying marriage licenses to same-sex couples.[198] Shortly after the same-sex marriage license controversy, Davis said she and her husband switched from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party.[1]
Davis says she experienced a religious awakening in 2011, following her mother-in-law's dying wish that she attend church.[13] Since then Davis has identified herself as a Christian, belonging to the Apostolic Pentecostal movement,[199] which favors what they describe as a literal interpretation of the Bible. <—
*So, she should be stoned per the buy-bull.
But this shining example of marriage wants SCOTUS to overturn gay marriage.
My old neighbors moved back to Finland a decade ago. They had a camera up and they also listed temp/weather conditions. There was never anything to see.
Maybe that’s what we need are citizen journalists we can check in with for conditions. ICE? Protests? Just folks walking their dogs?
Legacy media shows chaos if they think it will help the fascist agenda, and hide ICE and concentration camp news. Foreign media does a better job covering us.
https://www.businessinsider.com/is-the-us-in-recession-jobs-unemployment-mark-zandi-2025-8
A top economist who thinks we’re on the brink of a recession says he’s eyeing these 3 warning signs
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/12/politics/state-department-human-rights-violations-report?utm_source=cnn_August+12+-+What+Matters+spotlight+template+2025&utm_medium=email&bt_ee=51vn%2BT09WejfqoYCgsNBZi4nuSFuo06XaZSXEeUHyeIy35oDstdepkb9GNrUXcJL&bt_ts=1755036095600
Now the State Dept. is deleting items considered to be violations to the minimum. Omissions include same sex and violence against women.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/12/attorney-covid-outbreak-alligator-alcatraz
An outbreak of a respiratory disease, possibly Covid-19, is running rampant through the remote Florida immigration jail known as “Alligator Alcatraz”, according to the attorney of an infected detainee removed from the camp last week.
Eric Lee said he was told by his client Luis Manuel Rivas Velásquez that conditions at the facility had deteriorated significantly since Thursday as more migrants held there by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agency experienced symptoms.
Lee said authorities removed Rivas Velásquez, a 38-year-old Venezuelan man, from the camp after he was diagnosed in a hospital visit last week, then secretly taken to a similar facility in Texas.
*To spread the disease to TX?
He added: “Based on what multiple detainees have told me, in the last 72 to 100 hours, there is some respiratory disease which has made the majority, or I would even say vast majority of detainees, sick in some form.
“There are people who are losing breath. There are people who are walking around coughing on one another. Their requests for masks from the guards are denied, and they only are allowed to shower once or maybe twice a week.
“I said to Luis, ‘pass the phone. Let me hear it from somebody else. I just want to make sure that people’s stories are straight.’ And unfortunately they very much are.”
The development follows a claim by a woman, a state licensed corrections officer, who said she contracted Covid-19 after working at the camp in unsanitary conditions for about a week last month, and was subsequently fired.
If the outbreak is Covid, Lee added, it would have consequences beyond Alligator Alcatraz.
“The disease doesn’t recognize the prison walls and guards are going to get sick. They’ll give it to their kids, it’s going to get into the Miami school system, people are going to get sick and die as a result of the conditions that are in this facility,” he said.
Lee said Rivas Velásquez told him in a phone call that he pleaded for medical attention for 48 hours after contracting breathing difficulties, and eventually collapsed inside the metal cage in which he and dozens of other inmates were being held.
He said his client was taken to Miami’s Kendall regional medical center, where he was diagnosed with a respiratory infection, then returned only briefly to the Everglades camp before disappearing for three days. Lee said Rivas Velásquez called on Sunday from a new detention camp in El Paso, Texas.
“He said when he was returned to the Alcatraz facility he asked the guards to provide his medical records and they said they would not do that,” Lee said.
“The guards came to his bed, opened his pillow, took all the poetry and letters he’d been writing, and all the notes he’d been taking about his experiences, and told him he’s no longer allowed to write.”
Apart from the brief call from Texas, Lee said he had no further information about his client’s wellbeing.
My Aye-Eye wants to dispute this but I recall stories had it that Alan Greenspan as Fed Chair phoned the Bureau of Labor Statistics every morning to find out what the latest figures were. He placed a great deal of weight on the accuracy of these numbers.
Apparently now we’re not going to be at all reliant on accurate numbers.
I hated doing math anyway.
From D.C.’s Dupont Circle to Florida’s county halls — fascist fashion shows are popping up everywhere. 🫡
NO FASCIST TAKEOVER OF DC!
NO MILITARY OCCUPATION OF OUR CITIES!
Saturday- August 16th – 2pm – Rally & March to the WH
*Craig – Looks like the action is coming to you & your Adirondack chair.
Thanks for the update BiD. I might live chat that..
Saturday- August 16th – 2pm – Rally & March to the WH
Governor Newsom Press Office
DONALD “TACO” TRUMP, AS MANY CALL HIM, “MISSED” THE DEADLINE!!!
CALIFORNIA WILL NOW DRAW NEW, MORE
“BEAUTIFUL MAPS,” THEY WILL BE
HISTORIC AS THEY WILL END THE TRUMP PRESIDENCY (DEMS TAKE BACK THE HOUSE!). BIG PRESS CONFERENCE THIS WEEK WITH POWERFUL DEMS AND GAVIN NEWSOM — YOUR FAVORITE GOVERNOR — THAT WILL BE DEVASTATING FOR “MAGA.” THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER! – GN
*Gavin Newsom’s epic trolling of TACO
yay Gavin
NEW THREAD by Craig our fearless leader