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second: Trump 2.0 has deleted or altered nearly 400 US datasets, endangering public health, education and more. A database of federal law enforcement officer misconduct records. A survey measuring physical, sexual and emotional violence against children and youth. Real-time pollution readings collected by air quality monitors from US embassies around the world. These are among the hundreds of federal datasets that the Trump administration has taken down or altered as part of its aggressive campaign to wipe all mentions of data findings that do not align with the administration’s priorities. [go to link] - http://www.fireflyfans.net 08.18 23:38 |
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second: A New Level of Trumpian Evil. North Korea is the worst government on Earth; Trump prefers it to the prosperous democracy next door. Why? Because North Korea isn’t simply a bad government, just another murderous authoritarian regime. It is something that has become rare, even among dictatorships: a full-blown totalitarian state, in which the government controls every aspect of life and even thinking dissident thoughts is a crime: [go to link] - http://www.fireflyfans.net 08.18 19:16 |
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second: Trump, not surprisingly, like he does with everything else, blamed the press for covering it, accusing reporters of trying to turn warriors into victims. As if the press loves to make up stories about sailors living in squalor and trying to take their own lives: [go to link] - http://www.fireflyfans.net 08.18 18:35 |
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second: What's The Difference Between Iran & Vietnam? Trump Had A Plan To Get Out Of Vietnam [go to link] - http://www.fireflyfans.net 08.18 18:10 |
| second: Trump bows to pressure from North Korea's Kim Jong Un, scales back military exercises with South Korea [go to link] - http://www.fireflyfans.net 08.18 16:00 |
| second: Trump Is Turning His Back on Most of East Asia—and Embracing Kim Jong-un. He is saying, explicitly, that he has warmer regards for Kim Jong-un—one of the world’s most vile and murderous dictators—than he has for the democratically elected leaders of South Korea: [go to link] - http://www.fireflyfans.net 08.18 08:47 |
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THG: Ossoff Just WENT THERE with 'NATALIE' Dig at Trump [go to link] - http://www.fireflyfans.net 08.17 22:27 |
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THG: Supreme Court tells Trump to go kick rocks on E Jean Carroll case [go to link]? - http://www.fireflyfans.net 08.17 20:53 |
| second: Canadians petition Parliament to expel US ambassador Hoekstra for normalizing annexation threats and US diplomatic interference in Canadian unity. — The New York Times [gift link] [go to link] Canadians’ opinion of the United States has rapidly gotten worse since Mr. Trump took office and began targeting Canada with tariffs and talk of making it part of the United States. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 08.16 18:47 |
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second: Navy weighs major warship redesign to match Trump’s preferences. The service is evaluating the feasibility of moving the multistory tower that acts as the carrier’s command center farther forward, toward the middle of the ship, to resemble older vessels, the officials said. The review, which has not been previously reported, is in response to Trump’s concerns about the “look” of the new Ford-class ships, where the tower is near the rear, these people said. The Navy also examined the issue during his first term as president. A study found that moving the island would cost billions of dollars in redesign costs and significantly delay the program. More at [go to link] - http://www.fireflyfans.net 08.16 17:50 |
| second: The buck stops somewhere else: A look at Trump’s tendency to avoid blame when things go awry. Concerns about a weak economy and still-high inflation? His predecessor, Joe Biden, saddled him with that, he says, despite Trump promising an immediate turnaround. The war in Iran? Actually, this was Trump making up for timid earlier presidents who, he argues, squandered 47 years of opportunities to curb Tehran’s nuclear ambitions. Accepting the 2016 presidential nomination, Trump said, “Nobody knows the system better than me, which is why I alone can fix it.” But as president, he has often suggested that the solution and blame rest elsewhere. Much more at: [go to link] - http://www.fireflyfans.net 08.15 21:27 |
| second: Trump asks the Supreme Court to let White House ballroom construction continue, arguing the 65% built project is impossible to deconstruct. — SCOTUS blog [go to link] “Quite frankly, if the building were tragically ordered to be taken down, or even altered, by the court, there would be no way to do so.” The concrete that has been used in the project is “the type used in nuclear power plants” and is “virtually impossible to deconstruct.” - http://www.fireflyfans.net 08.15 21:11 |
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second: We don't even need to say who. There's something deeply bizarre about the possibility that humanity's first truly simultaneous global celebration, across every time zone, might be triggered by the death of a single human being. [go to link] - http://www.fireflyfans.net 08.15 19:51 |
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second: Chief Justice John Roberts needs to read the Constitution. There’s an article in the latest New Yorker on Chief Justice Roberts. In it, he’s quoted as saying: “Only the President (along with the Vice President) is elected by the entire Nation.” What an embarrassing and easily falsifiable lie. Anyone with a passing familiarity with the US Constitution and the GW Bush election in 2000 and Trump in 2016 would know this is false. Most high school students could have told him he’s wrong. The votes in presidential elections are for slates of electors in each of the states. Those electors are the ones who actually elect the president. The number of citizens represented by each states’ electors varies wildly, so this process is undemocratic at two levels. Twice in my lifetime, the Electoral College has overruled the election results of the entire Nation. [go to link] - http://www.fireflyfans.net 08.15 19:45 |
| second: Trump creates drama or a crisis, arouses a counterforce, attacks this new enemy, experiences fear—will my luck hold?—defeats the new enemy, feels relief, relaxes, Noonan wrote. Then, restless again and on the prowl, he creates new drama. Noonan wrote that the mentality comes with a faith that "things just break his way," and suggested it runs deep. She mentioned Regime Change, the book about his second administration by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, and a scene where Trump spoke to Tucker Carlson ahead of the Iran war. "I know you're worried about it, but it's going to be OK," Trump told Carlson, who was trying to talk him out of it. Trump said he knew everything would be all right "because it always is." [go to link] - http://www.fireflyfans.net 08.14 19:04 |
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second: Attorney General Todd Blanche: "I am not sure of the uproar of having a Border Patrol or ICE agent at a polling location. What's the risk?" Uh, maybe because it’s illegal? Federal statute 18 U.S.C. § 592 prohibits deploying “troops or armed men” to locations where elections are held, to prevent interference or intimidation. You’d think an Attorney General would know this. [go to link] - http://www.fireflyfans.net 08.14 09:20 |
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second: A single sheet of paper sits somewhere in the files of the Justice Department, announcing, in capital letters, that the United States is “FOREVER BARRED and PRECLUDED” from pursuing any claims against President Donald Trump, his two eldest sons, and the Trump Organization. One page. One signature. Last week, Trump appealed the 56-page ruling in which Judge Kathleen Williams of the Southern District of Florida dismantled the settlement that produced it and sanctioned the lawyers who engineered it. Whether that page has any legal force is now a question for the court of appeals; the Senate, for its part, gave its answer by confirming the man who signed it as attorney general. The plain answer is that it has none. In short, Trump’s tax immunity deal is unenforceable. [go to link] - http://www.fireflyfans.net 08.14 06:11 |
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second: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has declared that the U.S. economy is no longer in a "K shape," a term used to describe increasing financial inequality between high- and low-income households. "I got sick of hearing about this K-shaped economy," Bessent said in a CNBC interview on Aug. 4. "I can say here definitively, the K-shaped economy is over." [go to link] If he said it, it MUST be true. A K-shaped economy was coined to describe how people at the top are doing well and those in the middle and the bottom are not. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 08.13 23:04 |
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second: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is facing criticism from members of his own party over the Pentagon's decision to exclude congressional Democrats from recent closed-door briefings. Republican senators say the approach could make it harder to secure support for President Donald Trump's proposed $1.5 trillion defense budget. Several GOP lawmakers have urged Hegseth to resume bipartisan engagement with Congress. Hegseth has so far made at least two recent trips to Capitol Hill to brief lawmakers on the administration's defense priorities, but Democrats were reportedly excluded from the closed-door sessions. The briefings came as the Pentagon seeks congressional backing for a record defense spending increase. [go to link] - http://www.fireflyfans.net 08.13 19:14 |
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second: Monday’s announcement by Trump calls for separating combination shots — including the measles, mumps and rubella, or MMR, vaccine — into separate injections. Appointments for that and other vaccinations should be spaced out whenever possible, the order states. To accomplish that, drugmakers would need to revive a slate of individual vaccines that have not been marketed separately in the U.S. for decades. They would also have to build new manufacturing plants. Health experts say there is no scientific basis for changing course. “We do things that are less convenient and more expensive if there’s a good reason to do it,” said Dr. Anna Durbin, of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “There is no good justification for this. I think it’s very bad public health policy.” [go to link]> - http://www.fireflyfans.net 08.13 18:34 |
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second: Trump has been repeatedly stymied in his efforts to bring the Iran war to a close. Resuming a limited bombing campaign didn’t get it done. Neither did making apocalyptic threats to wipe out Iran’s entire civilization. Every time Trump touts a possible breakthrough in negotiations, the hard-liners in Tehran seem to delight in changing their terms and yanking away a possible deal. • So Trump’s new strategy is to try doing nothing, and see whether that works. The president is de-emphasizing both diplomacy and military action, and instead placing his faith in economic pressure, in the hope that time can accomplish what force could not. [go to link] - http://www.fireflyfans.net 08.13 17:05 |
| second: Trump’s secret flight swap used staff and media as decoys. More than a hundred aides, officials and reporters were kept onboard to fly towards Britain from Turkey, without being told there was a threat to their lives. “It appears that the idea was we can reduce the danger to President Trump by offering up 100 or so people to be killed by the Iranians in his place.” [go to link] - http://www.fireflyfans.net 08.12 19:12 |
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second: Trump justified his anti-vax decree by pointing to an alleged link between vaccines and autism. Yet dozens of careful scientific studies have failed to find any such link. However, you know what does have a strong, well-documented correlation with autism? Air pollution. Childhood exposure to air pollution is clearly associated with higher rates of autism. Moreover, scientists have found a found a strong association between autism and pre-natal maternal exposure to particulate matter from fossil fuel pollution. So Trump’s campaign against vaccines won’t reduce autism, but it will cause many children to suffer devastating, possibly deadly, infections diseases. Meanwhile, autism rates will rise as a result of his crusade against clean energy and in favor of dirty energy. [go to link] - http://www.fireflyfans.net 08.12 16:46 |
| second: The Trump administration claims oil is flowing normally again. There’s just one problem. “It is not possible to reconcile the disparity between what we see and what he is quoting,” said Matt Smith, director of commodity research at Kpler. [go to link] - http://www.fireflyfans.net 08.12 16:12 |
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second: None of these statements are false; they highlight the statistical rarity of transgender athletes competing at high levels in the United States compared to various social issues, organizations, and security incidents. • There are more active Ku Klux Klan chapters than trans athletes in America. • There are more states where child marriage is legal than trans athletes in America. • There have already been more school shootings in 2026 than trans athletes in America. • There are more anti-government extremist groups in almost every single state than trans athletes in America. • There are more Republican pedophiles than there are trans athletes. [go to link] - http://www.fireflyfans.net 08.12 08:06 |
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second: When, in 1987, Ronald Reagan implemented tariffs against Japan over a semiconductor tiff, he complained that “imposing such tariffs or trade barriers and restrictions of any kind are steps that I am loath to take.” When Trump unveiled his widespread tariffs in April 2025, he did so gleefully, cradling an infographic in a Rose Garden ceremony. Trump saw the tariffs as a quick fix, declaring that “jobs and factories will come roaring back into our country.” But reversing half a century of Republican economic blunders isn’t as simple as slapping tariffs on the rest of the world. [go to link] - http://www.fireflyfans.net 08.12 06:35 |
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THG: Trump's Plan to Rig the Midterms Just Lost in Court 21 Times [go to link] - http://www.fireflyfans.net 08.12 02:41 |
| second: Trump took office on an explicit promise to bring prices down and to avoid costly foreign wars. He is instead spending billions of dollars on a war that is pushing up the price of energy, fertilizer, and everything that is made out of energy and fertilizer (i.e., food), and he’s making no effort to justify the sacrifice to the public because he doesn’t want to admit that’s what he did. [go to link] - http://www.fireflyfans.net 08.12 01:44 |
| second: After winning an election in which Trump explicitly and repeatedly promised to bring down the cost of living, he’s done the reverse. [go to link] - http://www.fireflyfans.net 08.12 01:39 |
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second: Gulf States Accept a New Normal in Hormuz: Iran Is in Control, NOT Trump. Oil-and-gas exporters dislike the emerging deal to reopen the waterway but see it as the least-bad option. Persian Gulf energy producers are concluding that Iran’s control over the Strait of Hormuz will become permanent, disrupting their oil and gas exports and global energy supplies indefinitely. [go to link] Tough luck, Trumptards, but the fat boy's war flopped - http://www.fireflyfans.net 08.12 01:31 |
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second: There has been a great deal of discussion of how the USA has run down its stocks of certain classes of advanced military equipment. This expenditure of ammunition is indeed shocking, and even before the latest Trump escalation in July had led to dangerously low stockpiles in certain areas; stockpiles so low that, I for one, do not believe that the US military will be capable of fighting a major war for years. ~ Phillips P. OBrien | Aug 11, 2026 [go to link] - http://www.fireflyfans.net 08.12 00:33 |
| second: Trump’s decision to use the National Guard in law and enforcement missions in Washington, D.C., and other cities ultimately proved ineffective, despite costing $1.7 billion. “The Dumocrats love it, and are against anything ‘TRUMP,’” he pooped. “These people, and others like them, are so bad for our Country. Their stated course is anything to hate or demean ‘TRUMP.’ This will be met with a lawsuit, which is being drawn now.” [go to link] - http://www.fireflyfans.net 08.11 23:04 |
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second: Iran says it will not negotiate with Donald Trump and will maintain its current strategy until his presidency ends in 2029. Tehran also insists the Strait of Hormuz will remain closed until Washington accepts its conditions. Read More: [go to link] To make Trump extra angry, Iran should only negotiate with Obama. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 08.11 17:16 |
| second: 6ix, Trump trashes around, trying all his many words, but the Iranians won't surrender to him and he doesn't know what new words and horrible threats will work magic. For example, he rejects Iranian demands for war reparations before opening the Strait of Hormuz. Instead he demands that the Iranians compensation him for lives lost in past regional conflicts. He thinks that is a very clever plan, but the Iranians laugh at him. They aren't intimidated by his mighty threats to bankrupt them. What next? Maybe threaten to bomb Iran, again? It didn't work before, but maybe next time it will. Maybe bigger bombs will work? How about another vague threat to nuke Iran? - http://www.fireflyfans.net 08.11 16:30 |
6ixStringJack: Maybe, huh? Be sure to give us an update on that story as it develops, Shit Golem.  - http://www.fireflyfans.net 08.11 12:45 |
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second: Prompted by an Iranian assassination threat, Donald Trump departed on a secret military flight from Turkey last month when the White House said he was flying aboard Air Force One, in an extraordinary ruse that involved hiding the president in an airport catering cart. He boarded Air Force One in view of television cameras, and then was secretly shuttled minutes later to a smaller plane via an airport catering truck typically used to load meals. A credible threat to Trump involving Iran set the “deception operation” in motion. [go to link] Iranians certainly got into Trump's head. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 08.11 11:13 |
| 6ixStringJack: Hey... I've wrote thousands of lines now in Python code with the assistance of free AI, which has required days of my "illiterate" ass playing AI whisperer. Meanwhile, Ted Bundy Clone is so fucking stupid he struggles with wiping his own ass on a good day. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 08.11 04:00 |
| 6ixStringJack: Nah... Just post more political cartoons. Because you don't know how to use that brain you've let waste away. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 08.11 02:22 |
| 6ixStringJack: "Gilligan, you are the angriest illiterate man I've ever come across. Yet, you make me laugh. Perhaps that's why?" Illiterate? That's funny, cocksucker. Why don't you show us how you think the apostrophe is used. Or tell is all about the "Coal Minors". Or maybe you can use the wrong version of To/Two/Too or There/Their/They're another 20 times for us today. I don't think you've met your daily quota on those yet. You're the dumbest fucking person I've ever met. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 08.11 02:20 |
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second: It seems extremely unlikely that the Trump administration will be chastened by its failure in Iran. Shamelessness has been central to Trump’s business and political success, and his reaction to setbacks is to deny objective facts and construct fantasies of achievement. The rigors of war do not seem to have persuaded him of the need for a more coherent process of policy formulation and assessment; he continues to blurt out his every whim, and a cabinet of sycophants and amplifiers is unlikely to impose discipline on an undisciplined principal. Nor can the two parts of the government that have apparently provided solid strategic judgments—the CIA and the military—salvage the process. They are advisory bodies, not policy actors, and Trump repudiates or ignores their counsel whenever it conflicts with his claims or preferences. ~Kori Schake [go to link] - http://www.fireflyfans.net 08.11 01:38 |
| THG: Gilligan, you are the angriest illiterate man I've ever come across. Yet, you make me laugh. Perhaps that's why? - http://www.fireflyfans.net 08.11 00:47 |
| 6ixStringJack: Fag. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 08.11 00:43 |
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THG: Oil prices climb as Trump is only 'semi-negotiating' [go to link] - http://www.fireflyfans.net 08.11 00:20 |
| 6ixStringJack: Shut the fuck up, Ted Bundy Clone. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 08.10 23:07 |
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THG: Ossoff: "There's something uniquely despicable about lying a nation into war." [go to link] - http://www.fireflyfans.net 08.10 22:45 |
| THG: "There's something uniquely despicable about lying a nation into [go to link]? - http://www.fireflyfans.net 08.10 22:32 |
| THG: "There's something uniquely despicable about lying a nation into [go to link]? - http://www.fireflyfans.net 08.10 22:32 |
| 6ixStringJack: If any of that's true, whose fucking fault is that, Shit Golem. I say we round up all Democratic straight-ticket voters and ship them all to Iran. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 08.10 21:55 |
| second: The Department of Homeland Security has stopped releasing timely, reliable statistics on immigration enforcement. The administration’s immigration crackdown continues in a fog of fake numbers and statistical subterfuge. ICE statistics show that the agency deported about 400,000 people during Trump’s first year in office, a figure well short of the White House’s goal of 1 million annual removals. [go to link] - http://www.fireflyfans.net 08.10 18:32 |
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second: Lake Mead hit its lowest depth since it was created nine decades ago. Forty million people in seven states depend on Lake Mead and the Colorado River. Trump calls climate change a hoax. His own Interior Department ordered the largest water cuts in the river’s history. Hoaxes don’t drain reservoirs. [go to link] - http://www.fireflyfans.net 08.10 17:31 |