Donald Trump keeps showing Americans how unserious he is about the presidency, as he obsesses over nonsense like a ballroom and the length of the reflecting pool even as the economy and world relations fall apart. Americans have shown Trump how unserious they are about him, as his approval rating continues to fall into historically… The post The idiot has found a whole new way to screw things up appeared first on Palmer Report.
One of the Republican lawmakers who stood up to President Donald Trump over his longtime friendship with the late Jeffrey Epstein cursed out a Fox News journalist who accused her of an affair with another anti-Epstein Republican.“F--- you, first of all!’ Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) told a Fox News Digital reporter on Saturday when the latter brought up the allegations from a woman who claims to have been Massie's ex-girlfriend.The longtime MAGA supporter then added, “If you’re gonna bring me into this, like, the sexist stuff is like out of control. So there’s your clickbait that you were looking for.”Massie and Boebert have both been targets by Trump and his media surrogates ever since they broke with the president over releasing the Epstein files last year. Despite Trump downplaying their relationship and falsely claiming he kicked Epstein out of his home after learning about his Epstein connections, Trump in fact was close friends with Epstein for more than two decades. In September Massie came forward as the only male Republican lawmaker willing to oppose Trump on his refusal to release the un-redacted Epstein files.“It’s myself and three women, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Nancy Mace and Lauren Boebert," Massie said at the time. "And these are women taking up for women. And I think we need more men on the Republican side of the aisle to step forward and do the right thing.”Asked about Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-La.) attempts to thwart the release of the files, Massie said that "what Mike Johnson is doing by having his own resolution is to give political cover to those people who aren't supporting the effort by Ro Khanna and I. But here's the problem. When people go through this trove of documents, the political cover is going to go away."Massie added, "And they're going to be exposed once again... They're only going to increase the outrage. And in the meantime, you've got these survivors who are still not getting their justice. By the way, Mike Johnson has panned the legislative effort by Ro Khanna and I, saying it's poorly drafted, but he took three pages out of our bill and put them verbatim in his bill — completely cribbed them."He continued, "But he took the teeth out of it, is what he did. So he's got a meaningless resolution to provide a fig leaf to the people who are afraid to stand up for these survivors."
Friends,Today is the 82nd anniversary of D-Day — the Allied invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944. It’s referred to as “D-Day” after the military term for a day when a secret combat attack or operation is planned.It was the largest seaborne invasion in history. It began the Western Allied effort to liberate western Europe from Nazi Germany.Over 2,500 American soldiers, sailors, and airmen were killed during the initial amphibious assaults and airborne operations. All told, there were 4,414 confirmed Allied deaths on the first day of the invasion, which also included troops from the United Kingdom and Canada.At the time of the invasion, my father was 30 years old, in a tank battalion readying to go to Europe. My mother was 25, working in a factory producing gas masks for the war. Some of their friends participated in the invasion. A few were paratroopers. Others were pilots. Others were soldiers.As a small boy, I remember trying to talk with my father and my mother about D-Day. I wanted stories. The little I’d heard about it made it seem romantic and exciting. But they were reluctant to talk about it. They answered my questions in short sentences. Their voices were hurried. It was as if I was trying to open a door they’d rather keep closed. They had lost friends, relatives. D-Day, and the war it helped end, had left deep scars.Eventually they and their generation were called America’s “greatest generation” for their valor and sacrifice. They had fought fascism and won.Now, 82 years later, we have home-grown fascism. An entire political party seems to have given up on democracy. They’re supporting an ego-maniacal “strong man” who cares only about enlarging his own (and his family’s) wealth and power.His regime is marked by a degree of corruption, cruelty, and criminality never before witnessed in America’s national government.Trump’s and his “war” secretary, Pete Hegseth’s firing of so many top brass can be seen as a way to guarantee the loyalty of other officers to Trump rather than to America. Trump’s proposal to increase the U.S. military budget by nearly 50 percent can be understood as a bribe to officers. He wants them to side with him, if and when he tries to stay in power indefinitely.He has already tried to turn much of America into a police state.Public support for him is waning, and the federal courts have fought back. But it is startling and saddening how far Trump and his regime have gotten.What happened to the bravery and dedication of the greatest generation? What became of the sacrifices my parents and their peers made so that this nation could be free?How and why did so many Americans succumb to neofascism?I think it has to do with the anger so many Americans have felt that they and their children haven’t been able to get ahead, no matter how hard they work. Trump and other neofascists have channeled that anger toward immigrants, gays, transgendered people, Muslims, and Black people.Democrats and progressives should be channeling that anger toward the real culprits — a wealthy elite that’s used their money to gain political power and rig the economy to their benefit and against everyone else.Another reason so many have succumbed to Trumpian neofascism is the passage of time. Eighty-two years is long enough for a nation to forget, especially a nation whose collective memory is short to begin with. Very few living Americans remember the terror and heroism of our fight against Nazi fascism. The greatest generation has mostly died off.But we must not forget. Fascism is being born again, in America and in Europe. This time it’s masquerading as white Christian nationalism, but it’s as dangerous as ever.The best way to remember and honor the men and women who risked everything for us is to fight neofascism — fight for a stronger democracy, fight for the rule of law and social justice, fight against bigotry.Robert Reich is an emeritus professor of public policy at Berkeley and former secretary of labor. His writings can be found at https://robertreich.substack.com/. His new memoir, Coming Up Short, can be found wherever you buy books. You can also support local bookstores nationally by ordering the book at bookshop.org
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The New York Times on Saturday added significant new detail to a bombshell report first published by NBC News — and covered by Raw Story — revealing that the Pentagon has raised its counterintelligence threat assessment for Israel to "critical," its highest level.The most striking addition: a senior U.S. official's characterization of what Israel has been doing. The aggressiveness of Israeli intelligence collection on top Trump administration officials, the official told the Times, has been "unhinged."The Times also identified the specific American officials Israel is believed to have targeted: Steve Witkoff, Trump's chief Iran negotiator; Elbridge A. Colby, the Pentagon's top policy official; and Colby's deputy for Middle East policy, Michael P. DiMino IV.The paper also reports American personnel in Israel found that software to intercept their communications had been installed on their phones.That last detail underscores what officials described as a self-inflicted vulnerability. Senior Trump officials have routinely conducted national security business on personal cellphones, flown on private aircraft, and declined embassy staffing support abroad — habits that make them easy targets, according to the new report."The tendency of some senior Trump administration officials to fly on private aircraft, to conduct national security business on their personal phones and to reject staffing from U.S. embassies abroad made them especially vulnerable targets," a former senior official told the Times."Other current officials also acknowledged the use of personal cellphones by top American officials have made them easy targets for eavesdropping," the Times states.Israel's threat designation now stands higher than any other U.S. ally and higher than some adversaries, the report notes. The Pentagon declined to comment. The White House called the account false. Israel's embassy said Israel "does not gather intelligence on American entities, let alone U.S. government officials."
California ballot counting will continue until the key republicans in each race are pushed into 3rd place. That’s when ballot counting will conclude. At a certain point, the pretending gets ridiculous. This X message from the First Asst U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of California is a case study in pretending not to know […] The post California U.S. Attorney Office Pretends Not to Know Specifics or Origin of California Voter Fraud appeared first on The Last Refuge.
Five anti-ICE rioters were arrested in Newark overnight for assaulting law enforcement and smashing a car windshield, after hours of chaos at Delaney Hall.
