and getting attention from South Park kids to the Sesame St. neighborhood.
Attribution: Cuts to Public Media by Adam Zyglis, The Buffalo News, NY
87 thoughts on “Tuned In to the ‘Tooned Out”
After signing a $1.5 billion deal with Paramount, “South Park” used its premiere episode to roast the president—and to make fun of their own network’s settlement with Trump. Sam Seder joins to discuss.
two more by Dave Whamond, Canada, PoliticalCartoons.com
yesterday’s
and this one today
more critiquing of the cartoon that literally shows the emperor with no clothes
Jon Favreau and Tommy Vietor break down the new South Park episode that takes aim at Donald Trump.
House Speaker Johnson is meek as a mouse | Horsey cartoon
Mike Johnson has shown no interest in asserting the prerogatives of Congress as a co-equal branch of government.
Josh Johnson covers the aftermath of revelations that Trump knew he was on the Epstein list: Pam Bondi bails on her CPAC appearance, videos connecting Epstein to Trump surface, and everyone in the MAGA-verse, from GOP lawmakers to the QAnon Shaman, want answers. #DailyShow #JoshJohnson #Trump #Epstein
one more from Dave
Attribution: House shuts down to avoid Epstein vote by Dave Whamond, Canada, PoliticalCartoons.com
Lady MawMaw explains WSJ story in 15 seconds..
Dumbass referring to Tim Scott as a “pretty tough cookie” after their tour of the new Fed construction site. I remember Scott and his “I just love you” greeting for Dumbass during last year’s presidential campaign. Yeah, tough cookie alright. 🙄
Trump’s “Cha-Cha” with the truth..
Chico hacked into Trail Mix with a foil hat and Hunter’s laptop, and now he’s demanding a job.
Meanwhile, Jamie dropped a truth bomb on the GOP’s racial distraction tactics — and Lady MawMaw saw it all coming in her cards.
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Let me correct yesterday’s report about today’s stage in the Tour. Today’s stage is 93 km and has one Cat 2 climb and two HCs. Sorry for any confusion.
Pogeaux – a little more information about today’s stage. The Tour is flexible to accommodate changes, sometimes a stage will change while the riders are pedaling.
The discovery of an outbreak of contagious nodular dermatitis affecting cattle in a herd located specifically in the Col des Saisies has necessitated the culling of the animals. In light of the distress experienced by the affected farmers and in order to preserve the smooth running of the race, it has been decided, in agreement with the relevant authorities, to modify the route of Stage 19 (Albertville–La Plagne) and to avoid the ascent to the col des Saisies.
Donald Trump is set to land in Scotland on Friday evening, and will spend the next five days in the country.
Friday’s front page pays tribute to the US president – without actually naming him.
The headline of the front page reads: “Convicted US felon to arrive in Scotland”.
It then goes on to say: “Republican leader, who was found liable for sexual abuse and defamation, will visit golf courses.”
Republican leader…..nice touch
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BB, well, that explains my confusion yesterday. (I was beginning to think I dreamed the route up yesterday or looked at the wrong stage). Be interesting to see if Pogacar wants to keep the KOM jersey or is satisfied with the Maillot Jaune.
Looks like either Martinez is not a great descender or he got cooked on the last 2 climbs. He’s lost 30″ to Roglic and is only 20″ from being caught by the peloton.
And now with 23km left, the peloton has gobbled up Martinez and Paret Peintre and is 10″ from reeling in Roglic. Looks like UAE TEAM EMIRATES XRG (Pogacar’s team) has said enough of this shit, let’s give Tadej a chance to retain the polka dots.
And indeed, with 21″ to go all the leading KOM contenders are back in the peloton, starting up the last HC of this year’s Tour – La Plagne – 19.1 km at 7%.
An interesting article on Bloomberg, I hope you can get through the paywall.
While you all are distracted by Epstein and Southpark the smart Silicone Valley money is busy investing in killing machines. In anticipation of their need.
Run that one through your brain cells, with a little 1960’s science fiction twist. Yes, your neighborhood could look like Gaza.
One thing about being 70 is I know I’m going to die, I have the proof all around me. So being taken out by an AI killing machine sounds way more interesting than wasting away with cancer.
Yeah, I’m in one of those moods.
The federal government is seeking to crack down on homelessness in the US, with Donald Trump issuing an executive order to push local governments to remove unhoused people from the streets.
Cities and states have adopted an increasingly punitive approach to homelessness, seeking to push people out of parks and city streets, even when there is no shelter available. The supreme court ruled last year that cities can impose fines and even jail time for unhoused people for sleeping outside after local governments argued some protections for unhoused people prevented them from taking action to reduce homelessness.
The National Homelessness Law Center condemned the order, which it said “deprives people of their basic rights” and would ultimately worsen the problem.
“Today’s executive orders, combined with Maga’s budget cuts for housing and healthcare, will increase the number of people forced to live in tents, in their cars, and on the streets. This order does nothing to lower the cost of housing or help people make ends meet,” said Jesse Rabinowitz of the National Homelessness Law Center.
Advocates for unhoused people’s rights have long argued that criminalization only exacerbates the housing crisis, shuffling people in and out of jail or from one neighborhood to the next, as they lose their belongings and connections to providers, fall further into debt and wind up in increasingly unsafe conditions.
During his campaign last year, Trump used dark rhetoric to talk about the humanitarian crisis, threatening to force people into “tent cities”, raising fears that some of the poorest, most vulnerable Americans could end up in remote locations in settings that resemble concentration camps.
*Gotta fill up those for-profit concentration camps; more forced labor.
If anyone is interested, I put up the first blog article in a couple of years about my gypsy peregrinations in the first 20 years of life. I Never Did Anything Twice.
today’s meme…
Schrödinger’s Epstein Files
Is you is or is you ain’t my list?
Civilization is maintained by people following a few rules. The drunken/drugged out park campers don’t get a break any more than the crazy assed silicone billionaires.
Support of either one is stupid IMO. It makes you a nonserious person.
Those offended about removal of drunken/drugged out campers from our neighborhood parks don’t have them on their front door. Lets take the campers to their neighborhood park.
The “unhoused” from my experience in dealing with them* don’t have a housing problem. There is housing out there. Mostly it just interferes with their Drugging /alcohol use.
Yeah, I’m a hard ass on this one, I worked too damn hard to create a neighborhood park to have a bunch of assholes camp out in it and ruin it for the neighborhood families.
*If you don’t know a few “unhoused” by first name, you really don’t understand the problem. And passing out free food under the bridge doesn’t count.
Jack
One thing to note about Epstein is that he loved hanging out with the rich and famous. In order to court their favor, he went out of his way to be helpful as in support of their pet charities and providing rides in comfort on any schedule in his plane. That list of plane passengers reads like Whos Who. Before they severed ties with him over the creep factor both of the Clintons used that plane for locations, principally Africa, in connection with their foundation.
Since all this ties in neatly with all of conspiracy theories, there is more than enough fuel for this particular fire no matter who you happen to hate.
The Homeless/Unhoused in addition to drugs and drink are often mentally unwell. As a result of collusion left and right almost all hospitals and treatment centers for the insane were shut down. The left wanted them freed due to medications but you have to take the pills for them to work and the right wanted to spend the money on themselves. Many just end up in jail which have become our mental wards.
Jamie
Not only did he want to hang out with them, he loved to have his picture taken with them. I suspect everybody who is anybody in late 20 century NYC has a picture out there some where with Epstein. That doesn’t mean they all attended the sex parties. Though many may have had invitations.
Jack
Dealing with the homeless takes a lot of patience. And you are almost never successful. They don’t fit into the modern world so they get pushed off into marginalized neighborhoods.
What do you do with Andy who is standing in the middle of a busy intersection yelling at the sky. Andy, who is known to be a child molester, who decides that he wants to camp out in the newly built neighborhood park.
This isn’t a fiction, Andy is real.
I know what I did, but what would you do?
Jack
Well, in today’s episode of As the Spokes Turn, the top 3 finishers were Arensman, Vingegaard and Pogacar. Pogacar retains the lead in both the overall time-based lead (GC) and in the climbing (King of the Mountains) classification. No time advantages or disadvantages today for anyone with a shot at the podium, except for Roglic, who cracked and dropped out of the top 5 and is for all intents and purposes too far behind to even consider a top 3 finish.
One of the more successful efforts to deal with the chronically homeless not only provided housing but also had a full time staff to deal with mental issues. Most do gooding groups never get into that depth of services and in some ways they do as much harm to the local neighborhoods as they help the people .
Jack
BTW
Providing trained staff to deal with problems cost money. Handing them a tent and moving them to my old neighborhood is cheap and lets you pat yourself on the back. “You done good”
Jack
One plan that I’ve seen are clusters of tiny homes that would have an on site manager/medical to deal with issues as they arose.
Examples in the Tacoma area:
Kingfisher Village:
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This village in South Tacoma, operated by the Low Income Housing Institute (LIHI), provides 60 tiny homes and 24/7 staffing, along with case management.
LIHI’s Tiny House Villages:
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LIHI has been a leader in building tiny house villages for the homeless in Seattle and Tacoma, with over 700 tiny homes in 17 villages, according to a YouTube video.
In Tacoma and Pierce County:
Kingfisher Village:
Opened in July 2025, this village is a partnership between LIHI, Pierce County, and the Encampment Resolution Program (ERP).
Referral Process:
Referrals to Kingfisher Village are coordinated through Pierce County, focusing on individuals living on state and public rights-of-way in Tacoma and Pierce County.
Tiny homes are not a complete solution to homelessness, but they are a valuable tool in the effort to provide safe, stable, and supportive housing for people in need.
I like Pogacar, he has done a lot over the last few years.
Anybody want to chat for today’s show. Just tell me when, anytime this afternoon. The studio is ready, just a click away at https://streamyard.com/288xs3ry8w.
Would be fun to set up a small group.
While you all are distracted by Epstein and Southpark the smart Silicone Valley money is busy investing in killing machines. In anticipation of their need.
Craig
Just let me know when anyone wants to talk and I’ll pop in. Or I can just tell you background among friends stories.
Homelessness has reached crisis levels in cities across the country. Families with children had the largest single-year increase in homelessness between 2023 and 2024; overall, the number of people experiencing homelessness increased by 18% over the same period, according to the US Department of Housing and Urban Development. Meanwhile, California’s increase was 3%.
*Families, Jack. Can’t just write off everyone.
The trained staff doesn’t exist for either liberal or conservative fantasy solutions to homelessness
I promise the Trump plan is “disappear the poor people”
having to look at poor people ruins a fabulously wealthy day
well, it doesn’t completely ruin it, but why look at poor people when you can disappear them?
The issues never change only the sides switch. This is a quote from Roberta Weintraub a very, very conservative member of LA School Board in 1977:
She aggressively sought expulsion of students–regardless of age–caught carrying weapons to school, saying, “I really don’t give a damn whether the kid is 10, 12 or 15, guns kill and so do knives.”
I appreciate the effort you make to try to generate a fresh discussion topic every day, patd, I also realize you must cast a wide net to do so 🫡
I never thought this place needed a fresh topic and thread every day, but that’s just me
ok keep your face down ✌️
Confusion, confusion, it is the best way to separate people from their money and that is the main object for “spokespersons for the homeless, they don’t represent the homeless but rather those who make a living off the homeless..
Homeless families are easy to take care of and they aren’t the ones setting up camps in our public parks.
BTW, if they were then you are not doing the children a favor by letting them stay there, with their drug addled parent.
Jack
where are you putting the kids?
Where are you abandoning them?
Every situation is unique there are no simple solutions
A whole lot of tragedy though and no appetite among the haves to address it
check out what rents are out east and you’ll wonder how everyone isn’t homeless
One thing I know Jack is if I’m ever down on my luck and need help, no one is going to give a fuck. 🇺🇸
Jack,
Families fallen on hard times and abused women/children do have shelters, but depending on who is running them, they can be a source for the managers to rip off funds from taxpayers with little service to get them out and back into normal society.
i’ll throw the studio doors open at at 4pm again when i’m assembling today’s show. Hop in Jamie if you’re not tired of this. Anyone else who’d like to chat jump right in at 4pm ET: https://streamyard.com/288xs3ry8w
The numbers are growing while over the last 50 years, the highest tax bracket has dropped from 90% down to 28% and the deficit and debit with all the lovely interest just heads for the stratosphere.
Super-rich outstrip their extraordinary grab of half of all new wealth in past decade.
Billionaire fortunes are increasing by $2.7 billion a day even as at least 1.7 billion workers now live in countries where inflation is outpacing wages.
A tax of up to 5 percent on the world’s multi-millionaires and billionaires could raise $1.7 trillion a year, enough to lift 2 billion people out of poverty.
The advocates of homeless camping in public parks are advocating destroying the only nice thing about some of these neighborhoods. It doesn’t affect their park, their neighborhood. If by chance it does, well they have the money to go else where, private places, sure they cost money but they are safe.
Jack
your frustration is valid, Jack
parks getting ruined does suck
can confirm
Golf Greeting
meme #2…
Good, sir. Addressing problems from a position of relative helplessness is daunting verging towards absurd but there’s already enough “fuck it what can you do?” people in the world and you’re not one of them. ❤️
Demonstrably so 🫡
BB, it’s hard not to like Pogacar. No less that Lance Armstrong put him as perhaps the greatest to come along, comparing him to Eddy Merckx. Lance, despite his fuckups, is certainly in a position to opine on cyclists.
and by the way, public parks being ruined by mischiefmakers (to be euphemistic), disproportionally impacts lower income families, so two disadvantaged cohorts lose out there
That you even have concern for public resources like parks puts you left of center, the rich people don’t need public resources
it really is that just they don’t want to look at poor people, ruins their illusions
Lance, despite his fuckups
It’s not that he’s a fuck up. It’s that he’s manipulative and vindictive. I can’t believe he’s successfully rehabbing his image 😬
he went out of his way to ruin the lives of people that were telling the truth about him to cover his own ass. That was his sin, not the drugs.
I think Contador’s greatest sin was eating a steak 😒
Before last April, Grace had been homeless in San Diego for a few years, cycling between living in a car and living in a tent alongside their dog, Kaboose. That month, after a disconcerting experience involving a group of men photographing them without consent, Grace began looking for help. A couple of days later, they got a call back from the homeless outreach team at Father Joe’s Villages, San Diego’s largest homeless services provider.
In addition to housing, Father Joe’s offers services to address the complex needs of those experiencing homelessness, including health care, substance use treatment, and job training through initiatives like the culinary arts program Grace graduated from late last year.
In 2020, Daniela DeJesus Gutierrez was barely getting by — and had a baby on the way.
As the Covid-19 pandemic raged, she’d lost most of her employment and was trapped in a harmful relationship. But a lifeline emerged: a pilot program distributing cash to 100 low-income mothers in New York City.
When the first payment arrived in 2021, Gutierrez cried. And the support kept coming: $500 each month, for three years. Bolstered by newfound financial stability, Gutierrez was able to care for her newborn, leave her partner, and eventually find a new job.
In New Orleans, we’ve begun to implement an encampment response framework that prioritizes housing rather than shelter stays, building on a model first piloted in Houston.
Public resources for responding to homelessness are vital but come with many strings attached, which can slow down our ability to rehouse people. We created a flex fund with private philanthropic dollars to hold units until move-in day or for one-time expenses such as application fees and move-in kits.
The Motor City was one of the first of the now 105 cities nationwide participating in the Built For Zero program, a movement to end homelessness developed by the nonprofit Community Solutions. Since joining the program in 2015, Detroit has reduced veteran homelessness by approximately 60 percent.
Norway’s definition of a homeless person is someone who does not own or rent a home; lives in makeshift or temporary housing; stays temporarily with relatives, friends or acquaintances; lives in a correctional service and is due for release within two months; or does not have accommodation for the coming night.
Some countries define homeless people as simply those who are sleeping on the streets.
Definitions aside, the fundamental right to housing has been enshrined in numerous international agreements. The 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognized adequate housing as a right, for example. The UN’s Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing, who has raised concerns over how housing is increasingly viewed as a commodity rather than a human right, sees homelessness as the “most visible and most severe symptom of the lack of respect for the right to adequate housing.”
“In the big cities like Oslo and Bergen, there are more mental illness and drug abuse problems,” explains Urstad. “But on the coasts there’s a very different situation.” In rural areas, says Urstad, homeless people tend to be younger, there are fewer immigrants and there is also better access to housing.
In practice, the implementation of Norway’s housing policy is split between the state, municipalities and the private sector. While the state sets laws and regulations as well as distributing loans and grants, welfare nonprofits work directly with homeless people on the ground, and municipalities help disadvantaged groups access homes and are responsible for finding temporary accommodation for the homeless.
This “sustained, coordinated and integrated strategy” has been key to the success, according to Urstad. “We often hear about silos between different services,” he adds. “But we managed to connect people.”
“I never thought this place needed a fresh topic and thread every day,…”
anon, anymore they are all just a variation of the same topic:
BiD
Don’t confuse success stories with reality. One of the first things I learned is how to write a good success story, Then load it with pictures of old women and cute children. And yes, I did it for the same reason those folks wrote their success stories, to get money from funders. The truth on the ground is a different story , the better written the story the farther from reality it is imo.
Anon
From what I’ve seen the folks at the social service nonprofits have to deal with so many repeat problems that seem to have no real solution that when someone comes in with a genuine fixable problem they will go all out to try and help. Or at least that is the impression I got from the women I worked with at the Bishop Sullivan center.
Jack
Jack – Success stories are a part of that bigger reality, and those stories give hope to others, and ideas to build upon. That help and hope means the world to someone who needs it. Is your solution to turn away and let everyone fend for themselves, without any community support? It smells of Republicanism.
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Jack helped to build something nice for his community that was ruined by heathens BiD, Give him a break.
He’s not wrong and neither are you
I’m still grappling with pogo the lesser “mastering” Crazy Train, and i assume that includes the solo 😭
Nobody there. I’ll skip for today and go read.
Twenty years ago I was trying to find a place to sleep. I had been kicked out of the house and only had a truck. It took me a long time to accept that I was homeless. I lied very well to myself. Eventually I did find someone with an extra bed room where I could sleep. Then an other. Then another finally finding a cheap apartment by myself.
Back then we used made up names to avoid law enforcement and others to know who we actually were. We are reentering that terrible time.
run, rabbit, run
not a theme, just a chill song (very 1978 in a good way)
✌️
if this place was never anything more than friends hanging out, you did good, Mr. C 🫡
I realize everybody needs to eat though so good luck with the YouTube channel also
Bid
Success stories are sales promotions, the ones you posted are classic examples. They make you feel good don’t they. But do they really work? or are they just good con artists. Having been a community leader in a very poor neighborhood, the question was very important. Because a poorly run social service group can cause tremendous harm to a frail neighborhood. I have seen some that I was happy to have in the neighborhood, I’ve seen others that we fought against. I’m always suspicious of any one without years of track record to demonstrate their ability.
Anon,
they haven’t destroyed it yet but at the first several tried. I’m a hardass, the police wouldn’t tell them, nor would the parks department, but I didn’t have any trouble telling them they should move on, this park was for the children. I was polite, and pointed out that it was for their own good as the neighbors around the park were very protective about their children and they would probably be safer elsewhere. Doing it early and often seemed to have worked as it was still a park where people felt comfortable bringing their children when I stopped by last fall.
Jack
When the powers that be won’t enforce basic rules then someone will through vigilante means. I have known it to happen and usually vigilantes aren’t nearly as polite. When we were first working to create the park one of the Hispanic resident called me about a dead dog on the park grounds. I told him who to call to have it picked up. A week or so later I was over in that part of the world and learned the whole story. There was a part pit bull dog threatening the children playing in the park. Several of the neighbors had called the city to report the problem but nothing happened. Then one day the dog was out running loose and again scaring the children. Someone picked up his pistol and shot it in the head. Thus a dead dog
Jack
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The DOJ’s talking to Ghislaine Maxwell again.
We asked an AI lawyer if she can still plead the Fifth —
…and got answers that might scare your Uber driver.
Sorry I missed you Jamie. I was assembling my pre-recorded stuff and got distracted I guess.
Anon, just to be clear, i’m not doing any of this for any money. I do it for fun, persuasion and meeting all the folks on youtube, tiktok, bluesky and x
Craig,
Not a problem. I’ve got a to be read pile likely to out live me and keep seeing additions calling, calling, calling.
Ooh Mr. Bale is rather luscious.
just to be clear, i’m not doing any of this for any money
everybody has to eat 🫡
i get it, though 👍
“dinner party with el jefé”
“Craig’s Diner”
yw
take that 12 rules book you did and make each rule a YouTube short
The views will come
people are lonely, they will hang out with a video
WSJ now adding names in the Epstein birthday book from Vera Wang to Bill Clinton. All of these among his collected celebrities before his fall.
Trump just signed an Executive Order titled “Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets,” targeting the homeless (who find themselves that way for failings of capitalism that lost them along the way, because you have zero inherent worth if you don’t produce.
Aktion Arbeitsscheu Reich was a punitive campaign in Nazi Germany targeting individuals deemed as “work-shy” or “asocial.” In April and June 1938, as part of the “Arbeitsscheu Reich” (work-shy Reich), more than 10,000 men were arrested as so-called “black triangle anti-social elements” and sent to concentration camps. During the so-called June-action, about 2,500 Jews who had received previous convictions for varied reasons were also targeted.
An implementing directive of the Reich Criminal code in April 1938 defined “asocial” as any person who showed continual misconduct or repeated violations of the law, who did not fit into the community and submit to the “self-evident order” the Nazi state desired.
These particularly were vagrants, beggars, prostitutes, gypsies and alcoholics. Even people with untreated venereal diseases were included as well.
Could a pardon force Ghislaine Maxwell to testify?
AI says yes — the Fifth might not save her.
Referred to as a bonus deduction by some, it provides an additional $6,000 deduction to taxpayers who are 65 or older at the end of the tax year. For a married couple filing jointly, the deduction equals $12,000.
However, the deduction is not tied to Social Security and can be claimed by anyone who meets age and income eligibility guidelines.
“You could be 65 years old, claim this additional deduction and not receive Social Security until age 70,” says Jaime Eckels, a certified financial planner and partner with Plante Moran Financial Advisors in Auburn Hills, Michigan.
To receive the full amount, a taxpayer’s modified adjusted gross income must fall below the following amounts:
Single taxpayers: $75,000
Married couples filing jointly: $150,000
“There are already a number of people who don’t pay taxes on benefits,” Baker notes. These are typically low-income seniors.
It’s below the line, (and) I don’t want people to be confused by that,” Eckels says. Below the line refers to adjustments that occur on a tax form after a person’s adjusted gross income is calculated.
That’s an important distinction because adjusted gross income and modified adjusted gross income are used to determine eligibility for Roth IRA contributions, tax credits and subsidies for health insurance coverage purchased on the government marketplace, among other things. A person’s modified adjusted gross income also determines if they pay higher premiums for their Medicare coverage, while the adjusted gross income is included in the calculation for whether Social Security benefits are taxed.
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Social Security benefits face 24% cut in less than a decade as trust fund dries up, new analysis reveals
Trust fund insolvency by 2032 would trigger automatic 24% benefit cuts affecting 62 million Americans, CRFB found
The new law’s temporary, enhanced deduction for seniors increased the size of the benefit cut by about a percentage point – though it would be larger if the deduction and other temporary policies were made permanent.
Over time, benefit cuts would deepen as the growth in Social Security’s expenses continues to outpace incoming revenues, as CRFB projected the benefit cut would rise to well over 30% by 2099.
The depletion of Social Security’s trust funds could be compounded by the insolvency of Medicare’s hospital insurance trust fund, which is also projected to be depleted in 2033 and faces an 11% cut to scheduled benefit payments that could affect access to healthcare.
“Policymakers pledging not to touch Social Security are implicitly endorsing these deep benefit cuts for 62 million retirees in 2032 and beyond,” CRFB said. “It is time for policymakers to tell the truth about the program’s finances and to pursue trust fund solutions to head off insolvency and improve the program for current and future generations.”
Jack – Even though it didn’t last, folks knew someone cared enough to about the community to take the initiative and do something. Thank You.
If we had a world where nobody ever tried to do something decent, and nobody ever showed they cared, it would be a pity. As long as there’s one decent person who keeps doing the helpful things, the bastards haven’t won.
The decision to allow ICE access to Medicaid data marks a significant shift in how health information is used in immigration enforcement. It’s the latest development in the Trump administration’s hard-line immigration agenda and has sparked concerns among experts about its potential to violate medical privacy laws and deter vulnerable populations from seeking care.
*It’s not about immigration if ICE has Medicaid records. They are looking to target the disabled and mentally ill. Sure, they will scoop up the unhoused from the streets, but for disabled folks in care homes, and anyone in a sober house or something like that, ICE (J6/ProudBoy bounty hunters) will grab them, too.
RFKJ wanted a list of those with autism. Well, if they are getting Medicaid, ICE will find them.
Ghislaine Maxwell, who sources told ABC News initiated the meetings with the Department of Justice, answered questions for about nine hours over two days after being granted a limited form of immunity, the sources said.
The immunity allowed Maxwell to freely answer Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche’s questions without fear that her responses could later be used against her, the sources said.
ABC News Chief White House Correspondent Mary Bruce asked President Donald Trump on Friday if clemency is on the table for Maxwell.
“I can’t talk about that now because, you know, it’s a very sensitive interview going on,” Trump responded. He went on to call Blanche a “great attorney” and said “I don’t know exactly what’s happening. But I certainly can’t talk about pardons.”
*The sentence will be commuted (because MAGAts would not forgive pardoning a sex trafficker and they probably don’t understand what commuting a sentence is); I predict she will be released after the 2028 election, or possibly after the 2026 election if Republicans hold the House and Senate.
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After signing a $1.5 billion deal with Paramount, “South Park” used its premiere episode to roast the president—and to make fun of their own network’s settlement with Trump. Sam Seder joins to discuss.
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Josh Johnson covers the aftermath of revelations that Trump knew he was on the Epstein list: Pam Bondi bails on her CPAC appearance, videos connecting Epstein to Trump surface, and everyone in the MAGA-verse, from GOP lawmakers to the QAnon Shaman, want answers. #DailyShow #JoshJohnson #Trump #Epstein
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Attribution: House shuts down to avoid Epstein vote by Dave Whamond, Canada, PoliticalCartoons.com
Lady MawMaw explains WSJ story in 15 seconds..
Dumbass referring to Tim Scott as a “pretty tough cookie” after their tour of the new Fed construction site. I remember Scott and his “I just love you” greeting for Dumbass during last year’s presidential campaign. Yeah, tough cookie alright. 🙄
Trump’s “Cha-Cha” with the truth..
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Let me correct yesterday’s report about today’s stage in the Tour. Today’s stage is 93 km and has one Cat 2 climb and two HCs. Sorry for any confusion.
Pogeaux – a little more information about today’s stage. The Tour is flexible to accommodate changes, sometimes a stage will change while the riders are pedaling.
https://www.inkl.com/news/the-national-s-front-page-as-donald-trump-set-to-arrive-in-scotland
Donald Trump is set to land in Scotland on Friday evening, and will spend the next five days in the country.
Friday’s front page pays tribute to the US president – without actually naming him.
The headline of the front page reads: “Convicted US felon to arrive in Scotland”.
It then goes on to say: “Republican leader, who was found liable for sexual abuse and defamation, will visit golf courses.”
Republican leader…..nice touch
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BB, well, that explains my confusion yesterday. (I was beginning to think I dreamed the route up yesterday or looked at the wrong stage). Be interesting to see if Pogacar wants to keep the KOM jersey or is satisfied with the Maillot Jaune.
Looks like either Martinez is not a great descender or he got cooked on the last 2 climbs. He’s lost 30″ to Roglic and is only 20″ from being caught by the peloton.
And now with 23km left, the peloton has gobbled up Martinez and Paret Peintre and is 10″ from reeling in Roglic. Looks like UAE TEAM EMIRATES XRG (Pogacar’s team) has said enough of this shit, let’s give Tadej a chance to retain the polka dots.
And indeed, with 21″ to go all the leading KOM contenders are back in the peloton, starting up the last HC of this year’s Tour – La Plagne – 19.1 km at 7%.
An interesting article on Bloomberg, I hope you can get through the paywall.
While you all are distracted by Epstein and Southpark the smart Silicone Valley money is busy investing in killing machines. In anticipation of their need.
Run that one through your brain cells, with a little 1960’s science fiction twist. Yes, your neighborhood could look like Gaza.
One thing about being 70 is I know I’m going to die, I have the proof all around me. So being taken out by an AI killing machine sounds way more interesting than wasting away with cancer.
Yeah, I’m in one of those moods.
Jack
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/24/trump-homelessness-executive-order
The federal government is seeking to crack down on homelessness in the US, with Donald Trump issuing an executive order to push local governments to remove unhoused people from the streets.
Cities and states have adopted an increasingly punitive approach to homelessness, seeking to push people out of parks and city streets, even when there is no shelter available. The supreme court ruled last year that cities can impose fines and even jail time for unhoused people for sleeping outside after local governments argued some protections for unhoused people prevented them from taking action to reduce homelessness.
The National Homelessness Law Center condemned the order, which it said “deprives people of their basic rights” and would ultimately worsen the problem.
“Today’s executive orders, combined with Maga’s budget cuts for housing and healthcare, will increase the number of people forced to live in tents, in their cars, and on the streets. This order does nothing to lower the cost of housing or help people make ends meet,” said Jesse Rabinowitz of the National Homelessness Law Center.
Advocates for unhoused people’s rights have long argued that criminalization only exacerbates the housing crisis, shuffling people in and out of jail or from one neighborhood to the next, as they lose their belongings and connections to providers, fall further into debt and wind up in increasingly unsafe conditions.
During his campaign last year, Trump used dark rhetoric to talk about the humanitarian crisis, threatening to force people into “tent cities”, raising fears that some of the poorest, most vulnerable Americans could end up in remote locations in settings that resemble concentration camps.
*Gotta fill up those for-profit concentration camps; more forced labor.
If anyone is interested, I put up the first blog article in a couple of years about my gypsy peregrinations in the first 20 years of life. I Never Did Anything Twice.
today’s meme…
Schrödinger’s Epstein Files
Is you is or is you ain’t my list?
Civilization is maintained by people following a few rules. The drunken/drugged out park campers don’t get a break any more than the crazy assed silicone billionaires.
Support of either one is stupid IMO. It makes you a nonserious person.
Those offended about removal of drunken/drugged out campers from our neighborhood parks don’t have them on their front door. Lets take the campers to their neighborhood park.
The “unhoused” from my experience in dealing with them* don’t have a housing problem. There is housing out there. Mostly it just interferes with their Drugging /alcohol use.
Yeah, I’m a hard ass on this one, I worked too damn hard to create a neighborhood park to have a bunch of assholes camp out in it and ruin it for the neighborhood families.
*If you don’t know a few “unhoused” by first name, you really don’t understand the problem. And passing out free food under the bridge doesn’t count.
Jack
One thing to note about Epstein is that he loved hanging out with the rich and famous. In order to court their favor, he went out of his way to be helpful as in support of their pet charities and providing rides in comfort on any schedule in his plane. That list of plane passengers reads like Whos Who. Before they severed ties with him over the creep factor both of the Clintons used that plane for locations, principally Africa, in connection with their foundation.
Since all this ties in neatly with all of conspiracy theories, there is more than enough fuel for this particular fire no matter who you happen to hate.
The Homeless/Unhoused in addition to drugs and drink are often mentally unwell. As a result of collusion left and right almost all hospitals and treatment centers for the insane were shut down. The left wanted them freed due to medications but you have to take the pills for them to work and the right wanted to spend the money on themselves. Many just end up in jail which have become our mental wards.
Jamie
Not only did he want to hang out with them, he loved to have his picture taken with them. I suspect everybody who is anybody in late 20 century NYC has a picture out there some where with Epstein. That doesn’t mean they all attended the sex parties. Though many may have had invitations.
Jack
Dealing with the homeless takes a lot of patience. And you are almost never successful. They don’t fit into the modern world so they get pushed off into marginalized neighborhoods.
What do you do with Andy who is standing in the middle of a busy intersection yelling at the sky. Andy, who is known to be a child molester, who decides that he wants to camp out in the newly built neighborhood park.
This isn’t a fiction, Andy is real.
I know what I did, but what would you do?
Jack
Well, in today’s episode of As the Spokes Turn, the top 3 finishers were Arensman, Vingegaard and Pogacar. Pogacar retains the lead in both the overall time-based lead (GC) and in the climbing (King of the Mountains) classification. No time advantages or disadvantages today for anyone with a shot at the podium, except for Roglic, who cracked and dropped out of the top 5 and is for all intents and purposes too far behind to even consider a top 3 finish.
One of the more successful efforts to deal with the chronically homeless not only provided housing but also had a full time staff to deal with mental issues. Most do gooding groups never get into that depth of services and in some ways they do as much harm to the local neighborhoods as they help the people .
Jack
BTW
Providing trained staff to deal with problems cost money. Handing them a tent and moving them to my old neighborhood is cheap and lets you pat yourself on the back. “You done good”
Jack
One plan that I’ve seen are clusters of tiny homes that would have an on site manager/medical to deal with issues as they arose.
Examples in the Tacoma area:
Kingfisher Village:
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This village in South Tacoma, operated by the Low Income Housing Institute (LIHI), provides 60 tiny homes and 24/7 staffing, along with case management.
LIHI’s Tiny House Villages:
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LIHI has been a leader in building tiny house villages for the homeless in Seattle and Tacoma, with over 700 tiny homes in 17 villages, according to a YouTube video.
In Tacoma and Pierce County:
Kingfisher Village:
Opened in July 2025, this village is a partnership between LIHI, Pierce County, and the Encampment Resolution Program (ERP).
Referral Process:
Referrals to Kingfisher Village are coordinated through Pierce County, focusing on individuals living on state and public rights-of-way in Tacoma and Pierce County.
Tiny homes are not a complete solution to homelessness, but they are a valuable tool in the effort to provide safe, stable, and supportive housing for people in need.
I like Pogacar, he has done a lot over the last few years.
Anybody want to chat for today’s show. Just tell me when, anytime this afternoon. The studio is ready, just a click away at https://streamyard.com/288xs3ry8w.
Would be fun to set up a small group.
Craig
Just let me know when anyone wants to talk and I’ll pop in. Or I can just tell you background among friends stories.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-14/la-homelessness-drops-for-second-year-as-new-policies-take-hold?srnd=phx-citylab
Homelessness has reached crisis levels in cities across the country. Families with children had the largest single-year increase in homelessness between 2023 and 2024; overall, the number of people experiencing homelessness increased by 18% over the same period, according to the US Department of Housing and Urban Development. Meanwhile, California’s increase was 3%.
*Families, Jack. Can’t just write off everyone.
The trained staff doesn’t exist for either liberal or conservative fantasy solutions to homelessness
I promise the Trump plan is “disappear the poor people”
having to look at poor people ruins a fabulously wealthy day
well, it doesn’t completely ruin it, but why look at poor people when you can disappear them?
The issues never change only the sides switch. This is a quote from Roberta Weintraub a very, very conservative member of LA School Board in 1977:
I appreciate the effort you make to try to generate a fresh discussion topic every day, patd, I also realize you must cast a wide net to do so 🫡
I never thought this place needed a fresh topic and thread every day, but that’s just me
ok keep your face down ✌️
Confusion, confusion, it is the best way to separate people from their money and that is the main object for “spokespersons for the homeless, they don’t represent the homeless but rather those who make a living off the homeless..
Homeless families are easy to take care of and they aren’t the ones setting up camps in our public parks.
BTW, if they were then you are not doing the children a favor by letting them stay there, with their drug addled parent.
Jack
where are you putting the kids?
Where are you abandoning them?
Every situation is unique there are no simple solutions
A whole lot of tragedy though and no appetite among the haves to address it
check out what rents are out east and you’ll wonder how everyone isn’t homeless
One thing I know Jack is if I’m ever down on my luck and need help, no one is going to give a fuck. 🇺🇸
Jack,
Families fallen on hard times and abused women/children do have shelters, but depending on who is running them, they can be a source for the managers to rip off funds from taxpayers with little service to get them out and back into normal society.
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The numbers are growing while over the last 50 years, the highest tax bracket has dropped from 90% down to 28% and the deficit and debit with all the lovely interest just heads for the stratosphere.
The advocates of homeless camping in public parks are advocating destroying the only nice thing about some of these neighborhoods. It doesn’t affect their park, their neighborhood. If by chance it does, well they have the money to go else where, private places, sure they cost money but they are safe.
Jack
your frustration is valid, Jack
parks getting ruined does suck
can confirm
Golf Greeting
meme #2…
Good, sir. Addressing problems from a position of relative helplessness is daunting verging towards absurd but there’s already enough “fuck it what can you do?” people in the world and you’re not one of them. ❤️
Demonstrably so 🫡
BB, it’s hard not to like Pogacar. No less that Lance Armstrong put him as perhaps the greatest to come along, comparing him to Eddy Merckx. Lance, despite his fuckups, is certainly in a position to opine on cyclists.
and by the way, public parks being ruined by mischiefmakers (to be euphemistic), disproportionally impacts lower income families, so two disadvantaged cohorts lose out there
That you even have concern for public resources like parks puts you left of center, the rich people don’t need public resources
it really is that just they don’t want to look at poor people, ruins their illusions
It’s not that he’s a fuck up. It’s that he’s manipulative and vindictive. I can’t believe he’s successfully rehabbing his image 😬
he went out of his way to ruin the lives of people that were telling the truth about him to cover his own ass. That was his sin, not the drugs.
I think Contador’s greatest sin was eating a steak 😒
Before last April, Grace had been homeless in San Diego for a few years, cycling between living in a car and living in a tent alongside their dog, Kaboose. That month, after a disconcerting experience involving a group of men photographing them without consent, Grace began looking for help. A couple of days later, they got a call back from the homeless outreach team at Father Joe’s Villages, San Diego’s largest homeless services provider.
In addition to housing, Father Joe’s offers services to address the complex needs of those experiencing homelessness, including health care, substance use treatment, and job training through initiatives like the culinary arts program Grace graduated from late last year.
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In 2020, Daniela DeJesus Gutierrez was barely getting by — and had a baby on the way.
As the Covid-19 pandemic raged, she’d lost most of her employment and was trapped in a harmful relationship. But a lifeline emerged: a pilot program distributing cash to 100 low-income mothers in New York City.
When the first payment arrived in 2021, Gutierrez cried. And the support kept coming: $500 each month, for three years. Bolstered by newfound financial stability, Gutierrez was able to care for her newborn, leave her partner, and eventually find a new job.
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In New Orleans, we’ve begun to implement an encampment response framework that prioritizes housing rather than shelter stays, building on a model first piloted in Houston.
Public resources for responding to homelessness are vital but come with many strings attached, which can slow down our ability to rehouse people. We created a flex fund with private philanthropic dollars to hold units until move-in day or for one-time expenses such as application fees and move-in kits.
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The Motor City was one of the first of the now 105 cities nationwide participating in the Built For Zero program, a movement to end homelessness developed by the nonprofit Community Solutions. Since joining the program in 2015, Detroit has reduced veteran homelessness by approximately 60 percent.
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Norway’s definition of a homeless person is someone who does not own or rent a home; lives in makeshift or temporary housing; stays temporarily with relatives, friends or acquaintances; lives in a correctional service and is due for release within two months; or does not have accommodation for the coming night.
Some countries define homeless people as simply those who are sleeping on the streets.
Definitions aside, the fundamental right to housing has been enshrined in numerous international agreements. The 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognized adequate housing as a right, for example. The UN’s Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing, who has raised concerns over how housing is increasingly viewed as a commodity rather than a human right, sees homelessness as the “most visible and most severe symptom of the lack of respect for the right to adequate housing.”
“In the big cities like Oslo and Bergen, there are more mental illness and drug abuse problems,” explains Urstad. “But on the coasts there’s a very different situation.” In rural areas, says Urstad, homeless people tend to be younger, there are fewer immigrants and there is also better access to housing.
In practice, the implementation of Norway’s housing policy is split between the state, municipalities and the private sector. While the state sets laws and regulations as well as distributing loans and grants, welfare nonprofits work directly with homeless people on the ground, and municipalities help disadvantaged groups access homes and are responsible for finding temporary accommodation for the homeless.
This “sustained, coordinated and integrated strategy” has been key to the success, according to Urstad. “We often hear about silos between different services,” he adds. “But we managed to connect people.”
“I never thought this place needed a fresh topic and thread every day,…”
anon, anymore they are all just a variation of the same topic:
BiD
Don’t confuse success stories with reality. One of the first things I learned is how to write a good success story, Then load it with pictures of old women and cute children. And yes, I did it for the same reason those folks wrote their success stories, to get money from funders. The truth on the ground is a different story , the better written the story the farther from reality it is imo.
Anon
From what I’ve seen the folks at the social service nonprofits have to deal with so many repeat problems that seem to have no real solution that when someone comes in with a genuine fixable problem they will go all out to try and help. Or at least that is the impression I got from the women I worked with at the Bishop Sullivan center.
Jack
Jack – Success stories are a part of that bigger reality, and those stories give hope to others, and ideas to build upon. That help and hope means the world to someone who needs it. Is your solution to turn away and let everyone fend for themselves, without any community support? It smells of Republicanism.
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Jack helped to build something nice for his community that was ruined by heathens BiD, Give him a break.
He’s not wrong and neither are you
I’m still grappling with pogo the lesser “mastering” Crazy Train, and i assume that includes the solo 😭
Nobody there. I’ll skip for today and go read.
Twenty years ago I was trying to find a place to sleep. I had been kicked out of the house and only had a truck. It took me a long time to accept that I was homeless. I lied very well to myself. Eventually I did find someone with an extra bed room where I could sleep. Then an other. Then another finally finding a cheap apartment by myself.
Back then we used made up names to avoid law enforcement and others to know who we actually were. We are reentering that terrible time.
run, rabbit, run
not a theme, just a chill song (very 1978 in a good way)
✌️
if this place was never anything more than friends hanging out, you did good, Mr. C 🫡
I realize everybody needs to eat though so good luck with the YouTube channel also
Bid
Success stories are sales promotions, the ones you posted are classic examples. They make you feel good don’t they. But do they really work? or are they just good con artists. Having been a community leader in a very poor neighborhood, the question was very important. Because a poorly run social service group can cause tremendous harm to a frail neighborhood. I have seen some that I was happy to have in the neighborhood, I’ve seen others that we fought against. I’m always suspicious of any one without years of track record to demonstrate their ability.
Anon,
they haven’t destroyed it yet but at the first several tried. I’m a hardass, the police wouldn’t tell them, nor would the parks department, but I didn’t have any trouble telling them they should move on, this park was for the children. I was polite, and pointed out that it was for their own good as the neighbors around the park were very protective about their children and they would probably be safer elsewhere. Doing it early and often seemed to have worked as it was still a park where people felt comfortable bringing their children when I stopped by last fall.
Jack
When the powers that be won’t enforce basic rules then someone will through vigilante means. I have known it to happen and usually vigilantes aren’t nearly as polite. When we were first working to create the park one of the Hispanic resident called me about a dead dog on the park grounds. I told him who to call to have it picked up. A week or so later I was over in that part of the world and learned the whole story. There was a part pit bull dog threatening the children playing in the park. Several of the neighbors had called the city to report the problem but nothing happened. Then one day the dog was out running loose and again scaring the children. Someone picked up his pistol and shot it in the head. Thus a dead dog
Jack
🔔 Trail Mix: Live On Tape — where AI meets legal absurdity.
🚨 NEW VIDEO — We Asked AI: Can She Be Forced to Talk?
The DOJ’s talking to Ghislaine Maxwell again.
We asked an AI lawyer if she can still plead the Fifth —
…and got answers that might scare your Uber driver.
Sorry I missed you Jamie. I was assembling my pre-recorded stuff and got distracted I guess.
Anon, just to be clear, i’m not doing any of this for any money. I do it for fun, persuasion and meeting all the folks on youtube, tiktok, bluesky and x
Craig,
Not a problem. I’ve got a to be read pile likely to out live me and keep seeing additions calling, calling, calling.
Ooh Mr. Bale is rather luscious.
everybody has to eat 🫡
i get it, though 👍
“dinner party with el jefé”
“Craig’s Diner”
yw
take that 12 rules book you did and make each rule a YouTube short
The views will come
people are lonely, they will hang out with a video
WSJ now adding names in the Epstein birthday book from Vera Wang to Bill Clinton. All of these among his collected celebrities before his fall.
Trump just signed an Executive Order titled “Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets,” targeting the homeless (who find themselves that way for failings of capitalism that lost them along the way, because you have zero inherent worth if you don’t produce.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aktion_Arbeitsscheu_Reich
Aktion Arbeitsscheu Reich was a punitive campaign in Nazi Germany targeting individuals deemed as “work-shy” or “asocial.” In April and June 1938, as part of the “Arbeitsscheu Reich” (work-shy Reich), more than 10,000 men were arrested as so-called “black triangle anti-social elements” and sent to concentration camps. During the so-called June-action, about 2,500 Jews who had received previous convictions for varied reasons were also targeted.
An implementing directive of the Reich Criminal code in April 1938 defined “asocial” as any person who showed continual misconduct or repeated violations of the law, who did not fit into the community and submit to the “self-evident order” the Nazi state desired.
These particularly were vagrants, beggars, prostitutes, gypsies and alcoholics. Even people with untreated venereal diseases were included as well.
Could a pardon force Ghislaine Maxwell to testify?
AI says yes — the Fifth might not save her.
Language makes the difference.
https://money.usnews.com/money/retirement/articles/trumps-big-beautiful-bill-what-it-really-means-for-social-security-taxes
Referred to as a bonus deduction by some, it provides an additional $6,000 deduction to taxpayers who are 65 or older at the end of the tax year. For a married couple filing jointly, the deduction equals $12,000.
However, the deduction is not tied to Social Security and can be claimed by anyone who meets age and income eligibility guidelines.
“You could be 65 years old, claim this additional deduction and not receive Social Security until age 70,” says Jaime Eckels, a certified financial planner and partner with Plante Moran Financial Advisors in Auburn Hills, Michigan.
To receive the full amount, a taxpayer’s modified adjusted gross income must fall below the following amounts:
Single taxpayers: $75,000
Married couples filing jointly: $150,000
“There are already a number of people who don’t pay taxes on benefits,” Baker notes. These are typically low-income seniors.
It’s below the line, (and) I don’t want people to be confused by that,” Eckels says. Below the line refers to adjustments that occur on a tax form after a person’s adjusted gross income is calculated.
That’s an important distinction because adjusted gross income and modified adjusted gross income are used to determine eligibility for Roth IRA contributions, tax credits and subsidies for health insurance coverage purchased on the government marketplace, among other things. A person’s modified adjusted gross income also determines if they pay higher premiums for their Medicare coverage, while the adjusted gross income is included in the calculation for whether Social Security benefits are taxed.
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https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/social-security-benefits-face-24-cut-less-than-decade-trust-fund-dries-up-new-analysis-reveals
Social Security benefits face 24% cut in less than a decade as trust fund dries up, new analysis reveals
Trust fund insolvency by 2032 would trigger automatic 24% benefit cuts affecting 62 million Americans, CRFB found
The new law’s temporary, enhanced deduction for seniors increased the size of the benefit cut by about a percentage point – though it would be larger if the deduction and other temporary policies were made permanent.
Over time, benefit cuts would deepen as the growth in Social Security’s expenses continues to outpace incoming revenues, as CRFB projected the benefit cut would rise to well over 30% by 2099.
The depletion of Social Security’s trust funds could be compounded by the insolvency of Medicare’s hospital insurance trust fund, which is also projected to be depleted in 2033 and faces an 11% cut to scheduled benefit payments that could affect access to healthcare.
“Policymakers pledging not to touch Social Security are implicitly endorsing these deep benefit cuts for 62 million retirees in 2032 and beyond,” CRFB said. “It is time for policymakers to tell the truth about the program’s finances and to pursue trust fund solutions to head off insolvency and improve the program for current and future generations.”
Jack – Even though it didn’t last, folks knew someone cared enough to about the community to take the initiative and do something. Thank You.
If we had a world where nobody ever tried to do something decent, and nobody ever showed they cared, it would be a pity. As long as there’s one decent person who keeps doing the helpful things, the bastards haven’t won.
https://www.newsweek.com/ice-accessing-medicaid-data-raises-privacy-health-concerns-2100763
The decision to allow ICE access to Medicaid data marks a significant shift in how health information is used in immigration enforcement. It’s the latest development in the Trump administration’s hard-line immigration agenda and has sparked concerns among experts about its potential to violate medical privacy laws and deter vulnerable populations from seeking care.
*It’s not about immigration if ICE has Medicaid records. They are looking to target the disabled and mentally ill. Sure, they will scoop up the unhoused from the streets, but for disabled folks in care homes, and anyone in a sober house or something like that, ICE (J6/ProudBoy bounty hunters) will grab them, too.
RFKJ wanted a list of those with autism. Well, if they are getting Medicaid, ICE will find them.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/deputy-ag-blanche-set-meet-2nd-day-ghislaine/story?id=124064062
Ghislaine Maxwell, who sources told ABC News initiated the meetings with the Department of Justice, answered questions for about nine hours over two days after being granted a limited form of immunity, the sources said.
The immunity allowed Maxwell to freely answer Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche’s questions without fear that her responses could later be used against her, the sources said.
ABC News Chief White House Correspondent Mary Bruce asked President Donald Trump on Friday if clemency is on the table for Maxwell.
“I can’t talk about that now because, you know, it’s a very sensitive interview going on,” Trump responded. He went on to call Blanche a “great attorney” and said “I don’t know exactly what’s happening. But I certainly can’t talk about pardons.”
*The sentence will be commuted (because MAGAts would not forgive pardoning a sex trafficker and they probably don’t understand what commuting a sentence is); I predict she will be released after the 2028 election, or possibly after the 2026 election if Republicans hold the House and Senate.
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