Do you feel like the winds of change are blowing today too?
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Got shit to do today.
Later, losers.
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The Democrats are the party of Murder.
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Trump has had it in for Jimmy Kimmel, a prominent critic, for a very long time. After CBS axed fellow late-night Trump critic Stephen Colbert, the president repeatedly said that Kimmel was “next.”
The Trump administration weaponized the regulatory powers of the federal government to punish speech it doesn’t like. This is a favored weapon of modern autocrats. What just happened shows how far down the authoritarian road the United States has traveled in just eight months.
During a Wednesday podcast appearance, FCC head Brendan Carr threatened to revoke the broadcasting licenses of any stations that continued to air Kimmel’s content.
“It’s time for them to step and say this garbage…isn’t something that we think serves the needs of our local communities,” he said.
Carr’s threat should have been toothless. The FCC is prohibited by law from employing “the power of censorship” or interfering “with the right of free speech.” But Nexstar — the largest owner of local stations in America — is currently attempting to purchase one of its major rivals for $6.2 billion — a merger that would require express FCC approval.
To get FCC approval, Andrew Alford, the president of Nexstar’s broadcasting division, said that Kimmel would not be broadcast from Nexstar’s stations. Without access to Nexstar’s roughly 200 stations — covering about 39 percent of the national market — Kimmel would suffer an enormous ratings blow. And so, shortly after Nexstar’s announcement, ABC/Disney announced that he’d be suspended indefinitely.
https://www.vox.com/politics/461887/jimmy-kimmel-suspension-air-abc-ch
arlie-kirk-nexstar
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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The MAGA Campaign to Suppress Dissent—Even on the Right
Charlie Kirk’s assassination was a tragedy. It is also an opportunity for conservatives who hope to silence their political rivals.
By Jonathan Chait | September 18, 2025, 11:30 AM ET
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/09/trump-political-v
iolence-charlie-kirk/684253/
The horrific murder of the conservative activist Charlie Kirk inspired politicians on all sides to call for calm. “The time for unity, the time for peace, it is now,” Republican Senator Katie Britt of Alabama said. Fellow Republican Senators James Lankford, Thom Tillis, and John Curtis offered similar bromides, and Utah Governor Spencer Cox urged every American to “always forgive your enemies”—a lesson he said he learned from Kirk himself. This is the sort of rhetoric that American politicians typically resort to in the aftermath of political violence. But when it came from Republicans, they were promptly attacked from the right.
“If You’re Not Focused on Fighting Left-Wing Violence, Step Aside,” a Federalist headline demanded. “If I hear an elected Republican say the phrase ‘political violence’ or ‘both sides’ I’m going to scream,” wrote Shashank Tripathi, a co-host of the Ruthless podcast.
Such criticism is in line with the president’s. Donald Trump, who granted clemency to nearly 1,600 people associated with the January 6, 2021, riots, has made it plain that he is not opposed to political violence. The only threat worth combating, he insists, is left-wing violence. In his Oval Office speech after Kirk’s assassination, Trump did not call for unity. Instead, he exploited plausible concerns about left-wing extremism by accusing the “radical left” of stoking the kind of rage that leads a young man to commit murder.
But blaming the left exclusively for violence is not just a rhetorical flourish from a pugilistic president. Instead, it is a pretext, a justification for what appears to be coming next. Trump and his supporters are promising to exploit the tragedy of Kirk’s assassination to undertake a sweeping government crackdown on the left. His targets include civil society, opposing politicians, the news media, and even late-night comics such as Jimmy Kimmel, a special fixation for the television-addled president, whom ABC just yanked off the air for comments he made about Kirk’s suspected killer on his show.
Trump, who rose to power promising salvation for anyone who had been unfairly canceled by overly sensitive leftists, was never actually against cancellation. His concerns were about who was getting canceled. The Kirk shooting is his chance to redefine the attributes of a healthy democracy, including peaceful protest, candid criticism, unfettered journalism, and political satire, as illegitimate, subversive, or violent.
The idea of using government power to harass and break up the American left has been floating around right-wing circles for years. The national conservatives, a growing faction of Republicans who favor illiberal use of state power to crush their enemies, have been longing to turn the government into a weapon of vengeance. But these ambitions had been on the fringe of the party. Now they are in the White House.
In his first term, Trump’s authoritarian impulses were curbed by the conservative institutionalists in his administration. This time, he has no such constraints. Although the Republican elite still includes traditional conservatives who view the Democrats as a legitimate political opposition entitled to operate legally, the natcon wing is ascendant. Kirk’s murder has provided the party’s extremists with a galvanizing event that could tamp down internal opposition to suppressing the left, at least temporarily.
This intention was made plain when Trump vowed, the night of the shooting, to “find each and every one of those who contributed to this atrocity and to other political violence, including the organizations that fund it and support it,
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Quote:I always thought Fascists were also thieves, one of their many flaws. The war has been over for 80 years, but European art stolen by the Nazis is still being traded, for example. For another example of ongoing theft and trade:
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Many experts agree that fascism is a mass political movement that emphasizes extreme nationalism, militarism, and the supremacy of the nation over the individual.
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UAE got the chips, while Team Trump got the crypto riches
September 17, 2025
https://attentiontotheunseen.com/2025/09/17/uae-got-the-chips-while-te
am-trump-got-the-crypto-riches/
The New York Times reports:
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
About those chips?
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Should the UAE Invest in a Tech Sector?
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Trump Plots to Fire Prosecutor for Failing to Charge His Nemesis
Administration officials want New York Attorney General Letitia James prosecuted despite a lack of evidence.
By Janna Brancolini | Sep. 19 2025 5:20AM EDT
https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-plots-to-fire-prosecutor-fo
r-failing-to-charge-his-nemesis-letitia-james/
President Donald Trump plans to fire a top prosecutor after he refused to bring charges against one of Trump’s leading political enemies due to a lack of evidence in the case.
The administration claimed James—who successfully sued the Trump Organization for fraud last year and is leading multiple lawsuits challenging the president’s policies—had declared a second home in Virginia as her primary residence to get more favorable loan terms.
But so far, investigators have determined that James only listed the home as a primary residence on a limited power of attorney form that allowed her niece—who was her co-purchaser—to sign documents on her behalf, ABC News reported.
The loan officers who approved the mortgage never considered the document, sources told the outlet, but the Trump administration nevertheless demanded that the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, Erik Siebert, bring criminal charges against her, according to ABC.
After Siebert refused, officials told him that Trump plans to fire him, potentially plunging one of the nation’s most prominent U.S attorney offices into crisis.
The Eastern District of Virginia handles most of the country’s espionage and terrorism cases because it’s so close to Washington, with multiple government offices falling within its jurisdiction.
Siebert, whose last day is expected to be Friday, has worked as an assistant district attorney since 2010 and has served as interim U.S. attorney since January.
His original interim tenure expired in May, but Trump himself nominated Siebert in May to fill the position on a long-term basis, and the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia unanimously agreed to keep him in the role until the Senate confirms a nominee.
The administration plans to replace him with someone who will more aggressively investigate James, sources told ABC.
The New York attorney general has been a frequent target of Trump, who, in April, celebrated the news of the mortgage fraud investigation.
“Letitia James, a totally corrupt politician, should resign from her position as New York State Attorney General, IMMEDIATELY,” he wrote on Truth Social at the time. “Everyone is trying to MAKE NEW YORK GREAT AGAIN, and it can never be done with this wacky crook in office.”
The DOJ is also investigating James for “deprivation of rights,” a crime that involves a government official violating someone’s constitutional rights in an official capacity. The president stripped James of her security clearance in February.
Last month, her attorney Abbe David Lowell told the Daily Beast that the probes against James represented “the most blatant and desperate example of this administration carrying out the president’s political retribution campaign.”
The administration has also targeted Sen. Adam Schiff and Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook with similar mortgage fraud claims, despite evidence to the contrary.
The irony is that loan fraud was also at the heart of James’ case against President Trump and his sons, Don Jr. and Eric Trump.
The court found that for years the Trump Organization had committed fraud by over-inflating the values of its properties to secure better loan terms. The judge ordered Trump to pay $364 million plus interest dating back years, a total that has since ballooned to about $527 million.
In August, an appeals court threw out the fine, calling it “excessive,” but kept the ruling of fraud in place.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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WHAT EXACTLY IS FASCISM?
David Frum explains it in under 2 minutes.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DN3-HTLkoFe/
Chris Hayes and his guests make it clear we’re well on our way to getting there.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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A Lawless Nation
A relatively short story you may not have heard about. But it’s a very important story — indeed, arguably it amounts to a significant international crisis.
You see, General Motors has been building a factory complex in Mexico. But last week Mexican government agents descended on the facility, arresting hundreds of U.S. citizens who had been working on the project, claiming that they were in Mexico illegally. Many, probably most, were in fact there legally. But they had trouble explaining this, because the agents didn’t speak English.
So those U.S. citizens were arrested. And not just arrested: they were placed in shackles and imprisoned under terrible conditions. When the Mexican government finally realized that it had made a mistake, it sent the Americans home but kept them shackled until they reached the departure airport. Incredibly, the Mexican president initially backed the raid and has never had the grace to offer a full-throated apology for what happened.
OK, if you don’t recognize this story, it might be because I changed a few facts. This wasn’t a General Motors project, it was a battery factory being built by the Korean auto company Hyundai. The events didn’t take place in Mexico; they took place in America, specifically in Georgia. The arrested employees were South Korean citizens, not Americans, and they were unable to communicate because none of the ICE agents making the raid spoke Korean. But everything else about the story was exactly as I described it.
The reason I pulled the identity switcheroo was to help readers imagine how we would react if something like this happened to Americans trying to do business abroad. There would be a wave of outrage, coupled with demands for retaliation — maybe even demands that we invade Mexico. And you would expect many companies — not just American corporations — to reconsider any plans they might have had to invest in Mexico. Who wants to do business in a lawless country where anyone visiting is at risk of being chained up and imprisoned?
Why imagine that the South Korean reaction is any different? South Korea isn’t what Donald Trump would call a “shithole country.” It is, in fact, one of the greatest economic success stories in history, a nation that was poorer than Haiti in the early 1960s and now has a European-level standard of living. It’s a manufacturing powerhouse: The reason Hyundai was building that factory was that the Koreans are very good at manufacturing, often better than we are.
Oh, and South Korea is or was an important U.S. ally. Not long ago relations between the two nations were good enough that we signed a free trade agreement, although Trump has ripped up that agreement without bothering to explain why solemn U.S. promises apparently don’t matter anymore.
And the South Koreans are, by all accounts, every bit as outraged as you might expect. One editorial, flagged by Daniel Drezner, declared
The sight of our workers being led out in chains resembles images of African slaves in the 18th and 19th centuries being dragged out by their owners.
How did this happen? Even if there had been good reason to believe that a significant number of the South Koreans at the site were violating the terms of their visas — which they weren’t — civilized nations don’t suddenly arrest hundreds of citizens of an allied nation without warning and place them in chains. Why not contact Hyundai about the alleged issue? Why not notify the South Korean government?
As far as we can tell, what happened in Georgia was a symptom of ICE running out of control. The agency has been told by Stephen Miller, Trump’s immigration czar, to meet a quota of 3,000 arrested immigrants a day. So when its agents raided a facility full of nonwhite people, it just grabbed them, chained them, and locked them up.
The Hyundai raid hasn’t received much attention in the U.S. news media, which is arguably understandable given everything else going on. But the diplomatic and economic fallout will be immense. Trump has been saying that his policies ha
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Trump Claims $17 Trillion Investment Boom, Says US Is Now The ‘Hottest Country In The World’
(Trump is a lying sack of shit. There are no trillions.)
Funds Shifting Away From US Assets Due to Trump, Mercer Says
By Richard Henderson | Sept 17, 2025
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-18/funds-are-shifting-
away-from-us-assets-due-to-trump-mercer-says
Donald Trump’s efforts to rewire global trade and pressure the Federal Reserve into cutting interest rates are prompting investors to trim their US exposure, according to Mercer LLC.
A growing number of the investment consulting firm’s 3,900 clients overseeing a combined $17 trillion are switching money from the US to Europe, Japan and elsewhere, said Hooman Kaveh, global chief investment officer at the New York-headquartered firm. The outflows are due to concerns over tariffs, Trump’s pressure on the Fed, the rising deficit and the prospect of a weaker dollar, he said.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Republicans blocked a motion to subpoena the CEOs of 4 banks that moved Epstein`s money and later reported $1.5 billion in suspicious transactions
It seems that the entire Republican party is now involved in keeping these secrets from the American public
https://x.com/JohnCleese/status/1968435774451265555
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Republicans blocked a motion to subpoena the CEOs of 4 banks that moved Epstein`s money and later reported $1.5 billion in suspicious transactions
It seems that the entire Republican party is now involved in keeping these secrets from the American public
https://x.com/JohnCleese/status/1968435774451265555
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
You guys practically denied that Epstein even existed for 4 years, and if there was any info to release to the public you had the power to do it. And everyone knows that if any of it had Trump dead to rights it would have been brought up every single day up until election day last November.
Nobody cares what you Lefty cocksuckers are whining about today.
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