61 thoughts on “The “Wurst” of the Worst”

  1. https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/08/13/subway-sandwich-man-arrested-felony/

    Man who hurled sandwich at law enforcement in D.C. charged with felony
    “I did it. I threw a sandwich,” the man allegedly said to police after his arrest.
    A man arrested in D.C. on Sunday night is facing felony charges for throwing a wrapped Subway sandwich at a federal law enforcement officer, Jeanine Pirro, U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, announced in a video posted on X on Wednesday afternoon.
    Video of the incident, which took place near the corner of 14th and U streets NW, shows a man in a pink collared shirt, shorts, crew socks and New Balance running shoes yelling at several law enforcement officers while holding a sandwich. As he turned to walk away, he hurled his hoagie at the chest of one of the officers and then ran off with the officers in pursuit. The video, which has gone viral, does not show the man being arrested.
    In court documents filed Wednesday, police allege that Sean Charles Dunn approached law enforcement officers, including Metro Transit Police and U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers, and began yelling obscenities and calling them “fascists.” At about 11:05 p.m., according to the federal court filing, Dunn approached an officer and threw a sandwich at him. He was charged with “assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers and employees of the United States.”
    Following his arrest, Dunn allegedly told one of the arresting officers: “I did it. I threw a sandwich.”
    The Washington Post was not immediately able to contact Dunn for comment. Dunn is 37 and lives in the District, according to a spokesperson for the U.S. attorney’s office in D.C.
    The arrest came the night before President Donald Trump announced his takeover of D.C.’s police force and the deployment of 800 National Guard troops in response to what he has described as out-of-control crime in Washington. Trump said Monday he was taking the step “to rescue our nation’s capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor and worse.”
    “He thought it was funny,” Pirro said of the sandwich-thrower in her video. “Well, he doesn’t think it’s funny today because we charged him with a felony: assault on a police officer.”
    In the days after the incident, comments on the subreddit for D.C. were largely supportive of the suspect’s alleged actions. They were also full of sandwich puns. “Our hero,” wrote one user. “Our gyro*,” another corrected. The event also spawned memes and art depicting the suspect, foot-long held above his cartoon head, as a spray-painted mural over the words “Battle for D.C.”
    Under Pirro’s video announcing the felony charge, commenters expressed gratitude for her statement. “Judge Jeanine I absolutely love you!” one wrote. “Caught a felony because he assaulted an officer and a sandwich! you can’t make this stuff up.”
    “We’re gonna back the police to the hilt,” Pirro said at the end of her video. “So there, stick your Subway sandwich somewhere else.”
    She crossed her arms and smiled.


  2. CNN-News 18
    Premiered 3 hours ago #washingtondc #trump #nationalguards
    US National Guard troops have begun appearing on the streets of Washington DC, a day after President Donald Trump deployed the troops to the city and took control of its police force as he argued violent crime was out of control.
    Armoured vehicles were spotted at urban centres and tourist sites around the US capital on Tuesday evening.
    Officials have said that 800 National Guard troops are expected to be deployed, as well as 500 federal law enforcement agents.

  6. not only does the emperor have no clothes, he has little or no hair
    https://www.nickiswift.com/1939714/

    TRUMP’S CHUNKY BALD SPOT AT KENNEDY CENTER HAS HIM LOOKING NURSING HOME-READY
    By Lea B Aug. 14, 2025 4:15 am EST
    A new shot of Donald Trump’s thinning hair from a recent public engagement certainly won’t help put those balding rumors to rest. On August 13, the president visited the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., to announce this year’s award recipients, and his massive bald spot was on display for everyone to see, serving as a brutal reminder of his advancing age. (He turned 79 on June 14.) “I’ve been asked to host. I said, ‘I’m the President of the United States. Are you fools asking me to do that?”‘ Trump jested during his opening speech. Due to his frequent bleach jobs, his wispy hair struggles to hide his bald spots no matter how much Trump tries to disguise them with a combover, and the whole thing pretty much feels like a ticking time bomb waiting to explode.
    […]
    Months before his Kennedy Center appearance, Donald Trump also unintentionally exposed his balding hair during a sit down with South African president Cyril Ramaphosa in the Oval Office of the White House last May. Footage of Trump leaning on his chair while facing Ramaphosa showed a big patch of bare scalp on the top of his head, which he failed to conceal with his signature combover. The image sparked mockery among social media users, some of whom speculated about the POTUS’ haircare routine, according to The Independent.

    Despite his thinning hair, Trump takes pride in the fact that not a single strand on his head is fake (or so he claims). He once joked that all future political candidates shouldn’t be allowed to run if they rely on wigs or toupees. “If it’s not your hair, don’t run for office,” Trump quipped during a South Carolina rally in 2018, per The Hill. He’s repeatedly denied wearing a hair piece to mask his bald spots himself, which he demonstrated by letting an audience member touch his hair in 2015. “It’s my hair, I swear,” Trump insisted.

    Michael Wolff, who’s authored several books on Trump, told The Daily Beast podcast in July that the way 47 wears his hair is deliberate. “Trump would point [to Joe Biden and say], ‘Look at him. Nobody even sees him. Everybody notices me.’ Which is absolutely true,” Wolff agreed. “Side by side, you know, who do you notice? You notice this guy, this appalling-looking guy who is Donald Trump, and not just the relatively normal old man-looking guy that Biden was.” He added, “He looks that way because he thinks that’s an effective way to look.”

  7. “He thought it was funny,” Pirro said of the sandwich-thrower in her video. “Well, he doesn’t think it’s funny today because we charged him with a felony: assault on a police officer.”

    Judges making videos now? So much for judicial temperament.

    Everything Dodo touches is a clown show.

  9. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/13/trump-washington-dc-takeover-parks-grass-replace/85644783007/

    Trump’s push for a grass makeover comes as he’s vowed not only to tackle crime in the nation’s capital but to also make DC “so beautiful again.”

    “We’re going to be redoing the parks, redoing the grass,” Trump said on Aug. 13 as he named the latest slate of Kennedy Center honorees from Washington’s John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

    “You know, grass has a lifetime, like people have a lifetime. And the lifetime of this grass is long. It’s been gone, when you look at the parks.”

    “The grass is old, tired, exhausted,” Trump said. “We’re going to be redoing the grass with the finest grasses. I know a lot about grass because I own a lot of golf courses. And if you don’t have good grass, you’re not in business very long.”

    *LoL! Lots of projection in there. He is “the grass.”

  10. Trump’s serving up all the red meat he can find — hoping MAGA forgets the Epstein files he promised to release. They haven’t. Maxwell’s next deal this afternoon in chat room.

  11. Grass
    Carl Sandburg
    1878 – 1967

    Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo.
    Shovel them under and let me work—
    I am the grass; I cover all.

    And pile them high at Gettysburg
    And pile them high at Ypres and Verdun.
    Shovel them under and let me work.

    Two years, ten years, and passengers ask the conductor:
    What place is this?
    Where are we now?

    I am the grass.

  12. Something that caught my attention a few days ago.

    Amazon is one of several companies that have made Northern Virginia an epicenter for data: 13% of the world’s data center operational capacity is here.

    And the demand for data is growing with the proliferation of AI applications like ChatGPT. There are plans for 70 more data centers in Virginia, many the size of multiple football fields.

    If built, they’ll consume so much power that the state’s main utility company, Dominion, is contracted to build 40 gigawatts of new energy capacity for these new centers — that’s nearly three times the state’s current maximum power production.

    I never thought of Northern VA as a hotbed of high tech. When I think of that area I think mostly of the federal government. At which point I went “oh”
    What does the Maga crowd fear more than urban blacks, Mexicans, or even privileged rich fks from NYC getting sweetheart deals? “The government is going to come and take all my guns!!!” And what is the worlds greatest concentration of AI computing power good for?
    That’s right, boy, they are coming to get ’em.
    And all this stuff that is happening in DC?
    Just practice.
    Jack

  15. From my morning read

    Driving the news: The Producer Price Index, a measure of prices paid to wholesalers, came in fiery hot, rising 0.9% in July — the biggest gain in three years. For context, economists expected a mere 0.2% monthly increase, following a flat reading in June.

    It is started; I wonder who Trump is going to fire today.
    Jack

  16. this fucking idiot doesn’t understand that more people walk on the grass in a major tourist destination than they do at an exclusive white only golf course?

  17. the magas should be ashamed of themselves with all their “patriot” bullshit that they handed the country to this asshole that thinks it’s now his, exclusively

    i understand they are incapable of shame

    it’s cuz they’re dumb

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    I have a theory. And I am bringing the receipts today.
    They’re going to let Ghislaine Maxwell escape — so he won’t have to pardon her.

    This isn’t just a theory. Would you really put it past them?

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  20. As a follow on to the “you can’t make this up” sandwich assault caper, from WaPo…

    Attorney General Pam Bondi said Thursday that a Justice Department employeehas been fired after he was arrested for allegedly throwing a sandwich at a federal law enforcement officer Sunday evening.

    I guess the purge at DOJ wasn’t thorough enough to rid it of folks who prefer democracy to authoritarianism.

  22. I don’t condone violence, but I don’t think it’s possible to hurt another human being with a wrapped hoagie, it is more “giving someone a free hoagie” than violence

  30. Doesn’t she realize they’re not above offering her a free suicide?

    Sayonara……..Japanese for “work release”

  33. Trump Plans Raids on DC’s Homeless Tonight, Sources Say

    “Arrests will occur at night, in an effort to avoid news cameras,” Jesse Rabinowitz, communications director at National Homelessness Law Center, said via email.

    A DC government worker briefed on the plan says law enforcement will target up to 62 different sites across the city, and that land not controlled by the federal government may not be immune from sweeps. (People sleeping in front of churches and businesses may also be targeted, the source says.)

    It is unclear whether DC Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) or federal law enforcement will lead the efforts, or if the National Guard members Trump deployed to the district earlier this week will assist.

    Crucially, advocates point out, there are not enough shelter beds in the nation’s capital to accommodate all of the people who regularly sleep outside. According to a joint press release from the National Homelessness Law Center, the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless, and Miriam’s Kitchen, there are currently just 40 shelter beds available and nearly 900 people who may need them.

    *But the fascists can build a damned concentration camp in two weeks.

  34. @GovPressOffice
    BEYOND THE BEAUTIFUL, “PERFECT MAPS”
    – DONALD J. TRUMP HAS MUCH BIGGER PROBLEMS. SOON, I – GAVIN C. NEWSOM – WILL BE SHARING RECORDS THAT SHOULD CONCERN HIM.
    I DIDN’T WANT TO RELEASE THEM – OUT OF RESPECT FOR THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT (NOT THE PRESIDENT) – BUT MIKE “LITTLE MAN” JOHNSON’S HOUSE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE HAS REQUESTED THEM!!!
    WHOOPS.
    WON’T BE PRETTY FOR DONNIE J. MANY ARE SAYING IT COULD BE THE FINAL NAIL IN HIS LONG CAREER OF LYING. THIS AND THE MAPS. “IT’S OVER.” THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER. – GCN

    *What records does the HOC need from California that would hurt tRUMPsky?

  35. Would Maxwell escape let Trump off the hook?
    They moved her to a prison with a record of inmates walking away. If she disappeared, it could spare Trump the political blowback of a pardon.

  36. https://www.newsweek.com/gay-lgbtq-dating-app-republicans-supreme-court-marriage-2113522

    On X, the account @HalfwayPost wrote earlier this week, “BREAKING: Several gay dating apps are reportedly threatening that, if the Supreme Court bans gay marriage, they’ll reveal all the closeted Republican officials and members of Congress who have accounts on their platforms.”

    The post has been viewed more than 7 million times, with many social media users believing it to be a statement of fact. However, the account—run by comedian Dash MacIntyre and self-described as “comedy and satire”—says in its bio, “I don’t report the facts, I improve them.”

    Newsweek spoke with Grindr, Feeld and Hornet, three of the most popular LGBTQ+ apps in the U.S. All three apps denied any threats to expose Republican politicians.

    “Rumors like this gain traction because the LGBTQ community is deeply aware that some of their most vitriolic opponents are hypocrites in high places,” Brett Krutzsch, a scholar of religion at the Center for Religion and Media at New York University and the editor of the Revealer, told Newsweek via email.

    “The LGBTQ community has a long history of debating the merits of outing conservatives against their will,” Krutzsch said. “When facing the possibility of the Supreme Court overturning Obergefell, the idea of outing closeted Republicans taps into a form of queer power, even if it isn’t coordinated by a dating app or if it doesn’t produce the desired political result.”

  37. There is a report going around mangomoron is cold calling the Nobel committee members begging for the Nobel Peace award. If true this should really set off the laughter.

  42. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025/08/12/trump-planning-new-military-unit-rapidly-crush-unrest/

    The Trump administration is reportedly weighing plans to establish a “domestic civil disturbance” force of hundreds of National Guard troops to deal with protests and unrest.

    The plan, seen by The Washington Post, suggests a rotation model using troops from units in multiple states, with personnel equipped with weapons and riot gear, and deployments lasting 90 days to “limit burnout”.

    The first 100 servicemen would be ready to be deployed within one hour, according to the plans, with the second and third waves mobilised within two and 12 hours.

    If military aircraft and aircrews were needed on standby, the plans could cost hundreds of millions of dollars, according to documents seen by the Post.

    The proposal suggests Donald Trump plans to continue using US forces domestically.

    *US Constitution? Anyone? Bueller? National Guard members? Anyone?

    ps – Using your own troops against civilians isn’t probably the absolute best way to get a Nobel Peace Prize. Just saying.

  44. Republicans really want to make sure folks can never get out of debt, own a home, or are able to live a balanced life. The interest on student loans will start immediately. I guess you have to join ICE for loan forgiveness, if that’s a thing down the road and everyone hadn’t already been rounded up.

    “Beginning July 1, 2026, students borrowing for their undergrad education will have their interest payments during school added to their loan balance. In the past, qualifying undergrad students were able to get “subsidized” federal loans that did not charge interest while the student was in school.

    The new law makes all undergrad loans
    “unsubsidized.” In plain English, that means that even though students do not have to make payments on their loans while they are in school, the interest on the loan is charged, and if unpaid while in school, the interest charged is added to the loan balance.

    That will mean bigger payments once the student leaves school and repayment starts.” -Suze Orman

  45. https://www.newsweek.com/jd-vance-fishing-trip-kent-england-david-lammy-foreign-office-2113460

    JD Vance’s fishing trip in England was technically illegal because British Foreign Secretary David Lammy did not have the required rod license.

    David Lammy’s admission matters because it involves a senior UK minister and a visiting senior U.S. official, raising questions about compliance with domestic laws and attention to detail during high-profile diplomatic engagements.

    ***
    https://www.thedailybeast.com/staff-mutiny-forces-pub-to-turn-away-jd-vance/

    A staff mutiny forced the management of a plush British countryside pub to turn away JD Vance, just weeks after the same venue hosted Kamala Harris, according to reports.

    The vice president had reportedly attempted to dine at The Bull in Charlbury, Oxfordshire, an early 16th-century countryside pub with a Michelin Bib Gourmand, a prestigious award from the Michelin Guide that highlights restaurants offering excellent food at moderate prices.

    However, the staff reportedly staged a mutiny, telling management that they wouldn’t show up to work if the venue accepted Vance’s dinner booking…

    Charlbury, a small town near the 18th-century manor where Vance and his family stayed while in the Cotswolds, was also the scene of a colorful protest against his visit on Tuesday. The “Dance Against Vance” protest was punctuated by placards dubbing him a “war criminal,” and images of a meme that shows a bald and baby-faced Vance with rosy, swollen cheeks.

    “We’ve had a curtailment of our freedoms here, just by his mere presence, in terms of where we can walk and where we can be,” said Steve Akers. “And the American Secret Service knocking on people’s doors and asking about their Facebook profiles.”

    Akers was responding to reports that Vance’s protection detail had demanded social media profile information from those living in the area. Thames Valley Police, the British force that supported the United States during the vice president’s visit, denied these claims, however. “Residents were under no obligation to answer any questions and were not asked about social media,” a force spokesperson said.

    *They were still asked about private information by a foreign government & I hope nobody felt pressured into giving their info. Eff off US.

  47. Kevin Thompson, the CEO of 9i Capital Group: “Calling it a debt trap is putting it mildly. This design pushes people to stay in the workforce longer, keeping them tied to repayment well into their lives. From a business perspective, it’s a tool to keep labor in the system. On the ‘bright’ side, more companies are offering loan repayment perks—but those are just retention levers to keep people tied to the company.”

    *Jamie – IDK

  48. Now here’s some bipartisanship I can get behind:

    AXIOS reporting Reps. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) have the votes to force release of the Justice Department’s documents on Jeffrey Epstein, triggering a vote within days of the House’s return in September.

    AXIOS: The Epstein petition is widely expected to obtain 218 signatures, with most Democrats and several right-wing Republicans likely to sign on.

    Speaker Johnson’s shut down didn’t stop the MAGA momentum on this.

  51. I decided to listen to a baseball game and one of my two choices is Detroit versus Minnesota tied up top of the 11th! 😮

    I can tell by how low energy the announcers are twins. are bad this year

  52. How do they get Maxwell out of the country to somewhere without extradition?

    This is an entertaining conspiracy until it happens.

  54. I think the move to Club Fed was just to keep her quiet, temporarily. She was probably promised a pardon after the 2028 election if SCOTUS doesn’t overturn her conviction.

    The thing to focus on are the Epstein files, and to see if Melania backs off of her billion-dollar demand of Hunter Biden…to which he’s said he’d love to have Melania and Donald deposed about Epstein and their meet not-so-cute.

  59. Governor Newsom Press Office • @GovPressOffice
    DONALD IS FINISHED — HE IS NO LONGER “HOT.”
    FIRST THE HANDS (SO TINY) AND NOW ME —
    GAVIN C. NEWSOM — HAVE TAKEN AWAY HIS
    “STEP.” MANY ARE SAYING HE CAN’T EVEN DO THE “BIG STAIRS” ON AIR FORCE ONE ANYMORE
    — USES THE LITTLE BABY STAIRS NOW. SAD!
    TOMORROW HE’S GOT HIS “MEETING” WITH PUTIN IN “RUSSIA.” NOBODY CARES. ALL THE TELEVISION CAMERAS ARE ON ME, AMERICA’S FAVORITE GOVERNOR. EVEN LOW-RATINGS LAURA INGRAM (EDITS THE TAPES!) CAN’T STOP TALKING ABOUT MY BEAUTIFUL MAPS. YOU’RE WELCOME FOR LIBERATION DAY, AMERICA!
    DONNIE J MISSED “THE DEADLINE” (WHOOPS!) AND NOW I RUN THE SHOW. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER! – GCN

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