After National Guard Killing, Trump Doubles Down on Afghan Betrayal
Biden’s disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal left thousands behind in the original betrayalWithout any of the careful deliberation we should expect from a president, Donald Trump instantly reacted to the National Guard shootings that killed a young woman and left another soldier in critical condition with a tweet:
“I will permanently pause immigration from all Third World Countries to allow the U.S. system to fully recover, terminate all of the millions of Biden illegal admissions, including those signed by Sleepy Joe Biden’s Autopen.”
He continued elsewhere that he would “end all Federal benefits and subsidies to noncitizens of our Country and denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility.”
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced,
“Effective immediately, processing of all immigration requests relating to Afghan nationals is stopped indefinitely pending further review of security and vetting protocols.”
At the direction of the president, the agency is to re-examine all people from 19 countries including Afghanistan who hold green card work permits.
Crowd below offering clearance papers to American troops above in hopes of boarding planes to U.S. at Kabul Airport August 28, 2021.
Trump on his Truth Social pledged to…
"remove anyone who is not a net asset to the United States or is incapable of loving our Country”.
rushing to extremes
Trump and his administration are precipitously taking… Read More »
Trying to Stay Sane with Chaos Monkey on the Loose
Chaos Monkey is software created to deliberately disrupt computer systems with unexpected errors to test resiliency and recoverability. It seems the monkey is running free in our midst, throwing new disruptions at us daily, to test how well the nation holds up. Here’s a mix of what’s been happening, and it doesn’t even touch on the armies invading our cities, a subject all its own.
Hunger Game
With the government shutdown in its 32nd day, four days from setting the record as the longest, food assistance from the SNAP program ends today, November 1st. It doesn't have to. There's about $5.5 billion in a SNAP (formerly food stamps) contingency fund meant for emergency to which the shutdown certainly pertains — lack of food being far 
The red states will be hurt the most but the shutdown of food assistance.
more an emergency that any on Trump's bogus list that now numbers eight. The fund has enough to cover more than half November's needs, yet the Trump administration has chosen to sequester it. House Speaker Mike Johnson claims it’s because the funds are not "legally available". It's remarkable that this Bible-believing Christian can lie so facilely. By statute the monies cannot be used for anything other than SNAP.
The Trump regime is holding 42 million people… Read More »
Wasn’t the Right Against Cancel Culture and Lawfare? »
Now they’ve embraced what they hated about the LeftWhat drove conservatives to anger over recent years was what they regarded as the liberal takeover of the culture, imposing dictates of diversity, equity, and inclusion 
and cancelling anyone who was so gauche as to emit an opinion they viewed as politically incorrect. We wrote of this a month ago, the right-wing's rapid adoption of a cancel culture that took the form of having people fired from their jobs should they have said anything negative about Charlie Kirk. As a footnote, a website called Expose Charlie's Murderers received over 63,000 tips about people judged to be applauding Kirk's death. Urging cancelling peoples' lives came from the top, JD Vance saying,
"When you see someone's celebrating Charlie's murder, call them out. And hell, call their employer."
Perhaps Nick Catoggio at The Dispatch got it right, that conservatives…
"never wanted an America where people don't get cancelled, they want an America where they get to… Read More »
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Murdering the Shipwrecked and Other News Items
This isn’t meant to be a newspaper, but to ignore the torrent of news that bombards us daily runs the risk of seeming clueless. So here are a few items from the last ten days or so to show we've stayed tuned:
Washington post says hegseth ordered war crime
As surveillance aircraft closed on the first alleged drug boat that the U.S. was about to destroy on September 2nd, “The order was to kill everybody” given verbally by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth according to two involved in the operation, The Washington Post reported Friday. When two survivors were spotted clinging to the burning wreckage, “The Special Operations commander overseeing the attack… ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions” and “the two men were blown apart in the water” that, according to a person who had seen the second video not released to the media, “people would be horrified” to see.
Hegseth dismissed the Post’s investigation as ”fabricated, inflammatory, and derogatory reporting”.
There were eleven people on that September 2nd boat and the next day Hegseth said on Fox News:
"I watched it live. We knew exactly who was in that boat. We knew exactly what they were doing. And we knew exactly who they represented and that was …
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This isn’t meant to be a newspaper, but to ignore the torrent of news that bombards us daily runs the risk of seeming clueless. So here are a few items from the last ten days or so to show we've stayed tuned:
Washington post says hegseth ordered war crimeAs surveillance aircraft closed on the first alleged drug boat that the U.S. was about to destroy on September 2nd, “The order was to kill everybody” given verbally by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth according to two involved in the operation, The Washington Post reported Friday. When two survivors were spotted clinging to the burning wreckage, “The Special Operations commander overseeing the attack… ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions” and “the two men were blown apart in the water” that, according to a person who had seen the second video not released to the media, “people would be horrified” to see.
Hegseth dismissed the Post’s investigation as ”fabricated, inflammatory, and derogatory reporting”.
There were eleven people on that September 2nd boat and the next day Hegseth said on Fox News:
"I watched it live. We knew exactly who was in that boat. We knew exactly what they were doing. And we knew exactly who they represented and that was … Read More »
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What Explains the Sadism of Trump World?
The Trump administration’s battle to withhold food aid, especially with so many going without a paycheck during the government shutdown, made for yet another ugly display of a theme that runs throughout his presidency: cruelty. “We have the greatest economy we’ve ever had", Trump says, but he sees no further than corporate America and the booming stock market and dismisses the difficulties people have in paying their bills. “I don’t know that they are saying that. I think polls are fake”.
Some 42 million families rely on financial assistance provided by SNAP (Supplemental Food Assistance Program, formerly referred to as food stamps) to pay for food, yet during the shutdown, the Trump administration refused to draw upon $5.6 billion set aside for just such emergencies. That was deliberate cruelty.
Two federal judges ordered the administration to tap the contingency fund, but the Department of Agriculture, which administers SNAP, claimed the funds were not "legally available" even though Congress had created the fund specifically for SNAP and just such emergencies as the shutdown. The $5.6 billion wasn't enough to fully fund the $8 billion outlay needed for November was the next excuse, despite the White House showing little difficulty shuffling funds around for other purposes, such as paychecks for the military and the agencies conducting mass deportation.
To the end, the Trump administration defied the district court’s order to fund food stamps in full for November, taking their insistence on only partial funding to the…
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The Trump administration’s battle to withhold food aid, especially with so many going without a paycheck during the government shutdown, made for yet another ugly display of a theme that runs throughout his presidency: cruelty. “We have the greatest economy we’ve ever had", Trump says, but he sees no further than corporate America and the booming stock market and dismisses the difficulties people have in paying their bills. “I don’t know that they are saying that. I think polls are fake”.
Some 42 million families rely on financial assistance provided by SNAP (Supplemental Food Assistance Program, formerly referred to as food stamps) to pay for food, yet during the shutdown, the Trump administration refused to draw upon $5.6 billion set aside for just such emergencies. That was deliberate cruelty.
Two federal judges ordered the administration to tap the contingency fund, but the Department of Agriculture, which administers SNAP, claimed the funds were not "legally available" even though Congress had created the fund specifically for SNAP and just such emergencies as the shutdown. The $5.6 billion wasn't enough to fully fund the $8 billion outlay needed for November was the next excuse, despite the White House showing little difficulty shuffling funds around for other purposes, such as paychecks for the military and the agencies conducting mass deportation.
To the end, the Trump administration defied the district court’s order to fund food stamps in full for November, taking their insistence on only partial funding to the… Read More »
With Time’s Passage Can We Now Speak Openly About Charlie Kirk? »
The months since Charlie Kirk's assassinations have seen opposite effects, a surge in growth as more school groups apply to form chapters and more young people join, while critics finally feel free to expose Kirk's bigotry and homophobia without fear of losing their jobs in the great anti-free speech pogrom that followed his death.
Andrew Kolvet, who has taken Kirk's place as the host of "The Charlie Kirk Show," a national radio program and podcast followed by some two million listeners every week, says Turning Point has received some 140,000… Read More »
The Rightwing’s Chokehold on American Media Is Tightening »
Many voices across America during the past week insisted on the safeguarding of unabridged free speech after the cancellation of Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show and after no less than the attorney general, Pam Bondi, 
declaring that the Justice Department will “will absolutely target you, go after you, if you are targeting anyone with hate speech”. That’s the very speech the amendment protects. “Pam Bondi Needs a Free Speech Tutorial” was the title of a Wall Street Journal editorial.
But there is the looming question of where we will be able to hear free speech other than populous ideology and propaganda as ever more media outlets are scooped up by rightwing owners.
ABC, Now TikTokOn Thursday, President Trump signed an executive… Read More »