the Iron and Golden Domes of Digital Control

Back at it?

A January 2019 article by the Intercept’s Sam Biddle, who, citing unnamed sources, reported that Ring’s Ukraine-based research and development team—known as Ring Labs—had been given “virtually unfettered access” to a shared Amazon server “containing every video created by every Ring camera around the world.”

According to the Intercept report, Ring also employs Ukrainians to further development of its computer vision—wherein a program is capable of analyzing and correctly identifying physical objects, such as cars, trees, and people—which included footage from the interior of Ring customers’ homes.

Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is back at the helm of the surveillance doorbell company, and with him is the surveillance-first-privacy-last approach that made Ring one of the most maligned tech devices. Not only is the company reintroducing new versions of old features which would allow police to request footage directly from Ring users, it is also introducing a new feature that would allow police to request live-stream access to people’s home security devices.

This is a bad, bad step for Ring and the broader public.

Ring is rolling back many of the reforms it’s made in the last few years by easing police access to footage from millions of homes in the United States. This is a grave threat to civil liberties in the United States. After all, police have used Ring footage to spy on protestors, and obtained footage without a warrant or consent of the user. It is easy to imagine that law enforcement officials will use their renewed access to Ring information to find people who have had abortions or track down people for immigration enforcement.

Siminoff has announced in a memo seen by Business Insider that the company will now be reimagined from the ground up to be “AI first”—whatever that means for a home security camera that lets you see who is ringing your doorbell. We fear that this may signal the introduction of video analytics or face recognition to an already problematic surveillance device.

It was also reported that employees at Ring will have to show proof that they use AI in order to get promoted.

Not to be undone with new bad features, they are also planning on rolling back some of the necessary reforms Ring has made: namely partnering with Axon to build a new tool that would allow police to request Ring footage directly from users, and also allow users to consent to letting police livestream directly from their device.

After years of serving as the eyes and ears of police, the company was compelled by public pressure to make a number of necessary changes. They introduced end-to-end encryption, they ended their formal partnerships with police which were an ethical minefield, and they ended their tool that facilitated police requests for footage directly to customers. Now they are pivoting back to being a tool of mass surveillance.

Leave it to Forbes magazine to semen drip and go ga-ga over these monsters.

Jews: David Ellison, son of software centi-billionaire Larry Ellison, nurtured a relationship with Paramount over the past 15 years as a movie producer. His father’s fortune and political status also scored points.

The Federal Communications Commission greenlit the $8 billion merger between Paramount and Skydance Media on Thursday, 383 days after the deal was first announced. The merger, which is set to close on August 7, will transform Larry Ellison, 80, and his son David Ellison, 42, into one of the most powerful duos in Hollywood, wielding influence over TV shows, movies, news and more. As Paramount’s chairman, CEO and owner of 50% of its voting rights, David Ellison will oversee an entertainment empire with more than 1,200 film titles, including everything from “Top Gun: Maverick” to a remake of “It’s A Wonderful Life,” plus distribution rights to another 2,400 films. Other crown jewels include popular channels MTV, Nickelodeon, Showtime and CBS News. But it’s his father who controls the purse strings and owns the equity, according to regulatory filings. The elder Ellison may have helped get the deal over the hump in other ways, too.

The black flies are swarming: Blackstone’s most recent annual report reveals that it spends large amounts of money protecting its most senior employees. Blackstone no longer breaks out money spent on personal protection for senior executives as part of their individual pay, deeming that it amounts to a benefit for the company as a whole. In 2022, however, when these expenses were last broken out, Blackstone said it spent $3.5m on security services for founder and CEO Steven Schwarzman and his family alone.

Senior executives like Schwarzman benefit from the services of “close protection agents” assigned to keep them safe. Blackstone also employs former military and police personnel to protect its offices. Writing last week on LinkedIn, a former member of the New York police department and VP of physical security at Blackstone in New York City, said his job involves everything from physical security to emergency building work. Blackstone also has a dog, “Annie”, who is trained to sniff explosives, at the entrance to the building.

The flies are bothering Trump in Scotland. Sign of the devil.

• Midges, specifically the Highland midge (Culicoides impunctatus), are tiny, biting flies that swarm, especially in damp, calm conditions. They are most active around dawn and dusk, but can be present throughout the day in suitable weather. While individuals may react differently to bites, midges do not transmit diseases.
• Horseflies, or clegs (Haematopota pluvialis), are larger flies with a painful bite that can bleed and be itchy. They are active in warm, dry weather and can even bite through clothing.

Jews, the Ants, and Goy, the Plant.

Racists, oh those typical everyday racists:

A ceremony in the very same location two years ago removed that name and the base came to honor Gen. Richard Cavazos, a Texan, former III Corps commander and Medal of Honor recipient. For the two years it bore his name, it was the only Army base named for a Hispanic American.

“I tell you true, my dad would say the name on that gate does not ever define what that fort’s legacy is,” she said. “That fort is the backbone of the Army, and the Army code is instilled in every soldier that passes through that gate.”

Monday’s ceremony returned the name Hood to the base after President Donald Trump announced last month that all nine Army bases renamed to remove homage to Confederate-linked generals would return.

However, federal law now bars the use of those Confederate names, so each of the bases has returned to their original name but to honor a different person. When established in 1942, then Camp Hood was named to honor John Bell Hood, who led a Texas unit against Union forces in the Civil War. Today, the 280,000-acre post is home to roughly 38,000 service members.

Back to the UnHoly Jew: Which Jew is the Most Destructive?

The so-called endangerment finding, which the Obama administration issued in 2009, laid out a comprehensive case for how human emissions of carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases threaten human health and welfare. The finding serves as the legal basis for most of EPA’s climate rules, including limits on power plant and vehicle emissions — and undoing it, agency Administrator Lee Zeldin said in March, would eliminate “the holy grail of the climate change religion.”

“Sixteen years later, the scientific evidence supporting the endangerment finding is even stronger, with zero countervailing evidence,” a group of climate scientists, some of whom worked on the 2007 case that led to the endangerment finding, wrote in a June open letter in the scientific journal American Geophysical Union Advances.

During a podcast appearance on Tuesday before the announcement, Zeldin raised a litany of complaints about the finding, including that EPA ignored the benefits of carbon dioxide, refused to consider economic costs of regulation and never took public comment.

However, the Obama administration did consider benefits, did take public comment and said that the economic costs of potential future regulations that stem from the finding would be considered when such rules were adopted.

EPA defended Zeldin’s statements in response to questions, arguing that the finding should be revisited to incorporate developments made in the past 16 years and that the economic cost of potential future regulations should be incorporated at this first stage.

Here we go, the fucking Ketamine creeps: Pay more, why not, AmeriKKKa?

Palmer Luckey wants to know if you’d buy a ‘Made in America’ computer for 20% more than ‘Chinese-manufactured options from Apple’

Threat from climate change, advances in fishing

Krill is one of the most abundant marine species in the world, with an estimated biomass of 63 million metric tons. But advances in fishing, climate change and growing demand for krill’s Omega-3 rich oil – for fishmeal, pet food and human dietary supplements — have increased pressure on the krill stocks. In the 2023-24 season, a fleet of 12 industrial trawlers from mostly Norway and China caught 498,350 tons of krill — until now the largest harvest since CCAMLR began collecting catch data in 1973.

AP journalists traveled to the icy waters around Antarctica in 2023 and observed how factory ships trawl in close proximity to whales whose numbers are still recovering from a century of industrial culling that nearly drove them to extinction.

[In this photo provided by Sea Shepherd, the krill trawler Long Fa is surrounded by whales near Antarctica on March 24, 2025]

Pet good and fish meal to kill those whales: [In this photo provided by Sea Shepherd, a whale swims near the krill trawler Fu Xing Hai with mountains of the Antarctic Peninsula in the background, on April 2, 2025]

But a tentative deal fell apart at last year’s CCAMLR meeting over a last minute proposal by the United Kingdom and Australia for an even lower catch limit than the one agreed to during talks, AP reported last year. China, objecting to the persistent Western demands, then withdrew its support for the marine reserve and refused to renew the existing management system.

“The truth was it was the UK,” Matts Johansen, chief executive of Norway’s Aker BioMarine, the world’s largest supplier of krill-based products, said at the United Nations Oceans conference in June. “Just a couple days before the vote, the UK threw another suggestion and that’s when the Chinese backed off.”

Cellular energy is produced in the mitochondria by oxidative metabolism. This simply means that a fuel (glucose) combines with oxygen but, like any fuel, it has to be ignited. The best way to analogize that is to say that thiamine can be compared with a spark plug that ignites gasoline in a car. It “ignites” glucose. The resultant energy is used to add a phosphate molecule to adenosine three times to make ATP (the electronic gradient). We have “rolled an electronic stone up an electronic hill”. As the adenosine donates phosphate molecules, it becomes adenosine monophosphate (AMP) that must be “rolled uphill again”. As it is “rolling down the electronic hill”, it is transferring energy. Therefore, ATP can be thought of as an energy currency. Note that there must be a continuous supply of fuel (food) that must contain the equivalent of a spark plug (thiamine) in order to maintain an energy supply with maximum efficiency.

The loss of any one of a huge number of components in food that work in a team relationship with thiamine, lowers the energy maximum. That is why thiamine deficiency has been earmarked as the major cause of a disease called beriberi that has haunted mankind for thousands of years. Its deficiency particularly affects the lower part of the brain and the heart because of their huge energy demand. Since the lower brain contains the control mechanisms that enable us to adapt to the environment, as depicted above, it is easy to see that we would be maladapted if there is energy deficiency, just as Selye predicted. In fact, one of his students was able to produce a failure of the General Adaptation Syndrome by making his experimental animals thiamine deficient. It also suggests that a lot of heart and brain disease is really nothing more than energy deficiency that could be easily treated in its early stages. If the energy deficiency is allowed to continue indefinitely because of our failure to recognize the implications, it would not be surprising that changes in structure would develop and produce organic disease.

Understanding Mitochondrial Energy, Health and Nutrition by Derrick Lonsdale MD, FACN, CNS

Shit dog, this kinky haired communist even talked to this amazing guy:

Take Your Thiamine and Eat Your Cake Too?

Dirty genes, epigenetics, maladaptive Western diets & lifestyles, environmental factors play into our chronic illness problem by Paul Haeder / November 2nd, 2019

Here’s my interview:

Paul Haeder: So you are 95 years old, and have seen many changes in Western Society and innovative arenas of thought and knowledge around disease and human health. What are some of the biggest impacts you believe from your learning have greatly changed the way you see health? What are some of the most troubling aspects of medicine and health you can discuss after, what, more than 50 years in medicine?

Derrick Lonsdale: I started my medical career, after National Service as a medical officer in the RAF, in family practice for 7 years under the NHS. Not liking the bureaucracy I immigrated to Canada with a short service commission in the RCAF. I did residency in pediatrics at Cleveland Clinic and in 1962 I was invited to join the staff.

I was on the pediatric staff at the Cleveland Clinic from 1962 to 1982. I headed a section on biochemical genetics. A six year old boy who had repeated episodes of brain disease had every conventional test normal. He proved to be the first case of vitamin B1 dependency, a mutation in the gene that enabled glucose to fuel energy metabolism. It changed my professional life. With the extensive library research required, I learned the details of energy metabolism and began to be aware that it was the core issue of disease. I began to realize that the present medical model, dependent on the Flexner report of 1910, is inadequate. I found that so many of the children referred to the Clinic were emotionally sick from diet rather than from poor parenting. I published a suggested new medical model, based on a combination of genetics/environmental stress/and energy, represented as three interlocking circles. The body is an electrochemical “machine” and if the genetic code is perfect (it never is) all it requires is energy.

Genetic mutations seldom act by themselves. Another factor comes into play, giving rise to the gene expression. Diabetes sometimes makes its first appearance after a cold or an injury, strongly indicating that energy deficiency affects the gene(s) at root. The troublesome aspects of modern medicine are far reaching. The profession has been taken over by the insurance companies and the pharmaceutical industry. Drugs only treat symptoms and do not address cause. Surgery to remove a sick organ is tacitly an admission of medical failure.

PH: Great scientists like Robert Sapolsky have looked at the diseases of Homo sapiens as they are tied to stress, as in his book, Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers.

DL: Hans Selye was the great interpreter of the physiologic and pathophysiogic effects of stress. He was able to show that the General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS) in experimental animals required energy for the animal to adapt to the many forms of stress that he used in his experiments. Lab data obtained from stressed animals imitated the lab data from sick humans and he formulated the idea that human diseases were “the diseases of adaptation”. One of his students was able to produce the GAS by making the animal thiamine deficient, thus showing the importance of energy metabolism. The only way that we can help the body in synthesizing the required energy is by providing the right fuel and the catalysts that enable oxidation to occur efficiently. Pharmaceuticals only address symptoms but do nothing for their underlying cause.

PH: Discuss your work and knowledge around just the real and perceived stress of our Western Culture (not tied to our Western diets — that’s for a later question) and how that plays havoc on the human biological system?

DL: Well, I guess that comes under the heading of stress. Just like Selye’s animals, we require energy to adapt b . . . meaning that our brain/body complex defense mechanisms go into action. We live in a world that takes little notice of our biology. The further we get away from it the greater the risk. There are thousands of toxic chemicals that increase the stress load. The relatively new science of epigenetics has yet to emerge in clinical medicine. This, as you know, is the science of how nutrition and lifestyle influence our genes. Epigenetics is even emerging in the complex field of cancer.

PH: On Hormones Matter, you have many articles tied to thiamine deficiency, but also other areas:

October 14, 2019, Sleep Requires Energy

September 30, 2019, A New Medical Model to Prevent Physician Burnout

September 17, 2019, SIDS and Vaccination

September 12, 2019, Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis: An Unusual Treatment

August 22, 2019, When Glaucoma Is More Than an Eye Disease

July 1, 2019, Energy Loss as a Cause of Disease

DL: Yes, but they are all tied to our capacity to synthesize energy. I did sabbatical in Australia after David Read published thiamine deficiency as a cause of SIDS. My colleagues and I published abnormal auditory brain-stem evoked potentials in threatened SIDS and showed that megadose thiamine stopped the apnea alarms from ringing. We also published our work. Thiamine deficiency disease gives us the prototype for dysautonomia. Interestingly, many case reports of dysautonomia have been published in association with an assortment of diseases, without recognizing the importance of the association. I have suggested that it hallmarks the association as evidence that each disease is caused by oxidative inefficiency. The dysautonomia is really very much part of the disease expression.

PH: So, Dr. Lonsdale, there seems a sense of urgency in these pieces, and the thread to each of them goes to deficiency in nutrition. Why is it in 2019, we have Western medicine treated disease rather than preventing disease?

DL: A good question. The medical profession as a whole has rejected the deficiency of non caloric nutrients as a common cause of disease. They claim that vitamin enrichment has abolished them and that these diseases are only of historical interest. Hence they are not familiar with the symptoms that would have been recognized 70-80 years ago. Many of these patients are diagnosed as “psychosomatic” and there are probably millions of Americans affected. Any physician who claims that a patient’s symptoms are due to (e.g.) beriberi is considered to be “off his head” and is exactly what happened to me at Cleveland Clinic. I actually saw beriberi in CCH patients and nobody would believe me. I have outlined their cases in our book that needs to be read by every physician, since laboratory proof is used.

PH: We have in the USA more than 150 million people with at least chronic illness, many with co-occurring. We have an obesity epidemic. We have a society that is fed the propaganda of Madison Avenue. How do you see this logjam getting broken when so much of Western Medicine “depends” on the food industries of high salt, fat, sugar?

DL: Chandler [Marrs] and I are more than convinced that thiamine deficiency is widespread because this deficiency is easily induced by inordinate ingestion of sugar in many different forms. The last statistics that I saw for the U.S. was 150 pounds of sugar per capitum per annum. We have suggested that the early symptoms, if recognized at onset, are easily treated. We believe that if there is failure to recognize them, chronic disease follows later, giving rise to an assortment of neurodegenerative diseases. Each is named by the first individual to recognize the repeated appearance of a constellation of symptoms and signs (Parkinson, Alzheimer etc). Not acknowledging the overlap of these symptoms in patients with a diagnosis of one disease versus another, each is thought to have a separate cause that must be specifically identified as a “cure”. We regard that as trying to shut the stable door after the horse has gone.

In 1936 Sir Rudolph Peters opened the studies of oxidative metabolism by the discovery of the catatorulin effect. He showed that there was no difference in the respiration of thiamine deficient pigeon brain cells compared with cells from a thiamine replete pigeon until glucose was added to the preparation. The thiamine sufficient cells immediately began to respire, whereas the TD cells did not. I have seen hundreds of patients whose extremely variable symptoms were due to mild to moderate thiamine deficiency and proved it via lab testing.

PH: Where do you see the work you and Chandler have accomplished going? Most people I see and work with as a teacher and social worker just can’t understand the axiom – You are what you eat. I could take that further, of course, by saying “you are what you read, do, say, believe, hold dear, don’t believe, hope for, dream of, observe, watch, hear, listen to.”

DL: We believe that we must try to address both physicians and patients, hence our reports on Hormones Matter. It has led to a great deal of correspondence between patients and us. What appalls us is the many years of suffering expressed by many of them and their rejection by their physicians as “problem patients”. One young woman discovered from reading our book that her Flagyl toxicity symptoms were due to TD. Not only did her physician insist that her symptoms were “psychological”, she was rejected from that multi-doctor clinic “ because she would not accept the psychology diagnosis”. Her physician denied Flagyl toxicity even though the symptoms are published.

PH: Is it a matter of hormones in most cases you have experienced in both medicine and in communicating with individuals with major physical health concerns?

DL: Hormones enter the picture because they are under the control of the limbic brain with the autonomic system. Energy deficiency in the brain affects their synthesis and their distribution.

PH: What could med schools be doing to really help the health of a community, the country?

DL: Med schools have produced research to show that a lot of disease in America is biochemical in origin. Even if these common symptoms are correctly found to be biochemical in origin, they then assume that a drug must be found to correct them. The whole climate of medicine is based on pharmaceutical “genius”.

PH: Talk about the violence-hormone-vitamin deficiency connection in more depth, if you will?

DL: Our emotional sensations arise from the lower brain and are tied to the perceived event. They can be modified by the cortex but it implies brain communication. TD is equivalent to a mild degree of hypoxia and is thought of as causing pseudohypoxia. Because this is dangerous to the organism, either of them will excite the tendency to initiate the fight-or-flight reflex behavior. Hence, I see a boy who has had a mild redress in school, nursing it with a sense of human injustice, bursting into nonsensical violence. Nobody has ever questioned a perpetrator as to the quality of his diet. Nobody has reported a physical exam that might show the imprint of dysautonomia. Some years ago a probation officer in Cuyahoga Falls managed to get a judge to bind over juvenile criminals to her for dietary supervision. The recidivity rate fell to virtually zero.

PH: What do you attribute your longevity to?

DL: I don‘t know. I do take a lot of supplements.

PH: What role does epigenetics play in your research around energy and Vitamin B?

DL: I think that my use of megadoses of thiamine is epigenetic.

PH: Diseases of adaptation v. diseases of maladaptation is what you allude to when speaking of Seyle. Give a connotation and denotation of what this is saying for the average reader to understand.

DL: Stress is defined as a mental or physical environmental force acting on an organism, including humans. Like Selye’s experimental animals such a person first must perceive the form of the stress and adapt to it. Infection excites a defensive response that is organized automatically by the brain. A deadline, a business problem, a divorce etc requires a thought process conducted by the brain. Both physical and mental stress require energy expenditure. It explains why a divorce might result in sickness in one person and not in another, depending on the energy status. In other words, the ability to meet life stresses depends on the combination of adequate nutrition and genetics.

PH: Industrial agriculture and industrial food and industrial everything have come from the industrial revolution, from then to now. What can we do to reverse this turbo charged world of turbo charged living, eating, consuming and surviving? Your message is clear, smart and elegant, but in Capitalism, we always want to blame the victim, the patient, the person. It’s our fault if we are in constant fatigue, or if we are fat and can’t lose weight, or if we have difficulty dealing with the everyday “norms” of modern society.

DL: I don’t think that we can do anything about altering the cause. All we can do is to repeat and repeat what IS the cause, pointing out HOW it affects us. If a person will not change diet, he/she may well accept supplements because they are trained to taking pills for health correction. Perhaps, artificial as that may be, clinical improvement will enhance the perceived importance of nutrition and lifestyle, acting as a learning process.

PH: Where is the new frontier in medicine, in your estimation?

DL: I think that it is in the hands of ACAM [ACAM is the pioneer integrative organization and advocate of education for dedicated professionals who set out to make a difference in the standards of healthcare. Our membership includes MD, DO, ND, ARNP, NP, DC, DDS, scientists, medical students/residents, dietitians, nutritionists, researchers, and more.] and ICIM [The International College of Integrative Medicine is a community of dedicated physicians who advance innovative therapies in integrative medicine by conducting educational conferences, supporting research, and cooperating with other scientific organizations, while always promoting the highest standards of practice.]

PH: I have friends and others researching the chemical-human disease connection, to include Dr. Rosemary Mason, looking at the unbelievable amounts of chemicals – poisons – in our ecosystems, food systems, and bodies.

Campaigner and environmentalist Dr Rosemary Mason has written an open letter to the Chief Medical Officer of England, Sally Davies. In it, Mason states that none of the more than 400 pesticides that have been authorised in the UK have been tested for long-term actions on the brain: in the foetus, in children or in adults.

The UK Department of Health (DoH) has previously stated that pesticides are not its concern. But, according to Mason, they should be. She says that Theo Colborn’s crucial research in the early 1990s showed that endocrine disrupters (EDCs) were changing humans and the environment, but this research was ignored by officials. Glyphosate, the most widespread herbicide in the world, is an EDC and a nervous system disrupting chemical.

Speak to these concerns, too, Dr. Lonsdale.

DL: I totally agree but this kind of common sense usually falls on deaf ears. I have entered my posts on the metronidazole toxicity group and sent a letter to the FDA in regard to the nature of its toxicity. It hasn’t changed a thing but a lot of people have been helped. A paper I wrote in 1980 reporting 20 adolescents who had proved thiamine deficiency disease caused my phone to light up but it has long been forgotten. We can only just keep plugging on!!!

Heroin addict on the job now: RFK Jr. Swims in Sewage-Tainted Creek with Grandchildren Despite Bacteria Warning

Only months after he had gotten clean himself, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the Kennedy family lost his younger brother to addiction at a Palm Beach hotel in 1984.

RFK Jr., nominated by President-elect Donald Trump to head the Department of Health and Human Services, has spoken openly about his own 14-year battle with addiction to heroin.

But his “best friend,” brother David, didn’t make it. He died at age 28 of a drug overdose at the Brazilian Court Hotel in April 1984. David Kennedy’s autopsy showed a mixture of cocaine, the painkiller, Demerol, and the tranquilizer, Mellaril.

On the eve of RFK Jr.’s confirmation hearings, their cousin, Caroline Kennedy, urged lawmakers to reject his nomination saying he’s led other family members “down the path of drug addiction.”

“His basement, his garage, and his dorm room were the centers of the action where drugs were available,” the daughter of the late president, John F. Kennedy Jr. said.

And then his fucking kooky son? War Porn, Blue Bloods, and Fathers (and sons)

RFK Jr., let out the news recently, on Megyn Kelly. The newspapers picked it up:

“He felt that he shouldn’t be arguing about it unless he was willing to have skin in the game and take his own risk,” Kennedy said on “The Megyn Kelly Show” of his son’s decision to go to the war-torn country.

Kennedy said his son signed up for the Foreign Legion at the Ukrainian Embassy and was a drone pilot before he was promoted to a “machine gunner.”

“He didn’t have any military experience and kind of talked his way into the unit,” he added. “He’s been in firefights, mainly nighttime, and a lot of artillery fights with the Russians.”

“He had a job for a law firm, a really good law firm in Los Angeles, and I was looking forward to him living with me for the summer,” he said of his son’s initial plans.

When probing him further about Conor Kennedy’s plans, his son said, “I’m not going. I want to talk to you. I don’t want you to ask me what I’m doing.”

“I was like, ‘Um…,’” he explained. “And he said, ‘I will explain it to you at some point, but I do not want you to ask me now, and if you could just respect that it would mean a lot to me.’ So I did.”

I live in a retirement community. In my everyday discussions with fellow residents, I find that the idea of energy metabolism as the “bottom line” of health is almost completely incomprehensible. Since my friends are all well-educated professional people, I came to the conclusion that few people really have an idea about energy. For example, we talk about people who indulge in physical sports being energetic, while people sitting behind a desk are classed as sedentary. What we fail to realize is that mental processes require even more energy than physical processes. Both physically and mentally active people consume energy, so it is obvious that some kind of attempt must be made to talk about energy as it applies to the human body. — Derrick Lonsdale MD, FACN, CNS, March 2, 2023

Heroin Addict’s Wet Dream:

“I think it’s a hope for the US as well as for Israel that the people of Gaza will stop resisting and will no longer live there,” said Laila Ali, a member of the Palestinian Youth Movement.

dabbling with radio, graduate degrees, newspaper gigs, even a few books under my belt, and I am still that fucking underachiever, one of the useless ones, a communist in someone else’s land — no body

I am never really in a stupor, but I’ve wiped asses and changed colostomy bags and taken fist hits to the head from folks with major Developmental, Intellectual and Psychological Disabilities.

Worked in a memory day facility, driving a handicap bus to various points in and around Portland as part of their activities of daily living. People who have had to have ice packs at the ready because of some combination of birth defects that cause the body temperature to rise rise rise and then seizures seizures seizures.

I’m not saying that I am/was above this sort of work, but since I have been marginalized and flummoxed by pretty negative reference calls, I have had to do something. The great American novel? Shit, I’ve gotten second and third place in literary contests for fiction, but, then, my New York agent, missed the target by one editor for Picador Press to buy something.

I’m 68 and I can’t take it anymore, the “it” being my fellow fucking AmeriKKKan man and woman.

This?

Israeli forces intercepted the Gaza Aid Flotilla ship, the “Handala,” minutes before midnight local time on Saturday and took the 20 passengers on board captive, according to the Freedom Flotilla Coalition.

The humanitarians and journalists on the ship – including Amazon Labor Union founder Christian Smalls, French-Swedish politician and European Parliament member Emma Fourreau, and Jewish-American actor Jacob Berger – sought to deliver aid to Gaza, after two other recent efforts had been stopped by Israeli attacks.

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Oh yeah, those toughies, those Chinese and those Russians and those Indians, and the other nuclear tipped fucking Cunt-Trees, not a fucking ship or real navy flotilla deployed?l Fucking scum of the earth, the BRICS and the EuroTrash or NZ or Australia. Fourteen Eyes any Motherfucker?

This is AmeriKKKa, not just at this fucking tractors and steam and oil engines show: He’ll help me pack? I had my client with me, so, again, fucking neutered, since without a client, I would have talked to this hulk of a guy.

The Caterpillar museum?

Palestine:

Israel’s Armored Caterpillar Bulldozers Will Be Active in Gaza

Israel’s unmanned bulldozers breaking ground in Gaza war

So I am also doing gigs as a DSP/PSW, direct support professional. Working with adutsI get paid through an agency who then gets paid through the state. My clients have 100 up to 250 hours a month and a thousand miles (we get reimbursed $.51 a mile using our own vehicles.

It’s fun, but . . . Can you imagine all those famous folk I have interviewed and rubbed shoulders with and those I have brought to various colleges as guest speakers and authors and activists, wrapping their fucking heads around that?

Irony of ironies: I was an organizer for SEIU in Seattle, for part-time faculty, but also for home care workers and non-nursing hospital workers.

I have a client who is 39, and just had the top surgery, going from Hannah to Tomas, as they are transitioning into malehood. Imagine that, on SNAP and Medicaid, and he/they is going through testosterone shots twice a month, and is saving up for the bottom surgery.

How many cocksuckers out there getting nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, fiction, history are ground truthing this shit?

Total wacked out shit for someone like me, no, with (does it matter) two graduate degrees and two undersgraduate ones?

Ground-truthing in an age of hate, and trans people are on the chopping block, and my client is even more into the realm of off the center track of Puritanical Trump Pedophile Rapist Trumplandia, so he sticks out like a sore thumb with his animae and fun colorful outfits and satanic tattoos.

Unlike other states, Arizona doesn’t have a standalone hate crime charge. The closest thing is an enhancement that can be added after a conviction—if prosecutors prove bias was a motive. And even then, it only applies to felonies, not misdemeanors, according to Detective Charlee McDermott of Phoenix Police Department’s Bias Crimes Unit.

Here’s how that plays out in real life: If someone kills a person while hurling slurs, that fact might extend their sentence—but that’s not a guarantee.

“Legislation like this isn’t just about punishment. It’s about making sure that marginalized communities know they’re protected, that their government acknowledges the threats they face, and that violence against them won’t be tolerated.” -Cathryn Oakley, Senior Director for Legal Policy at the Human Rights Campaign

Imagine this trans client coming to the tractor and engine show? It was a veritable white man and white woman conclave!

Hot dogs, BBQ pulled pork sandwiches, kettle corn, and sure, the fucking AmeriKKKan civil war pukes:

We are a dead culture, man, 2025?

ALL military and civilian reenacting units want to recruit new individuals who have a good attitude and are interested in the history of the American Civil War. You will find plenty of enthusiasm for your interest upon talking to our members as you travel through the camps.​

We advise looking at all military units and/or civilian groups, both blue and gray, before joining any unit. Talk to the people in each group and see if you would like them as friends. Decide if you would enjoy their “living history philosophy” before you sign up. If you are intending to join as an individual without your family, your options are open to get into any unit. If you intend to get your family involved too, make sure the unit you join is interested in helping your family portray the era, as well. A few of the military company units allow family members to camp with them on the military street, while others have camps located nearby that your non-military family can set up in as civilian members.

Why not Birth of a Nation screenings at your local synagogue and church? Or this one below?

Exterminate all the Brutes outdoor fair?

No Other Land:

With a GRAIN of salt, Gabor:

While the bumpkins eat cotton candy and slurp up lemonade and listen to backfiring polluting fucking noisy engines, well well:

LIFE FUCKING GOES ON IN NORMAN ROCKWELL LAND.

Fucking Rockwell’s America is now Epstein-Fink-Ellison-Ackman-Brin-Altman-Trump PedoPhiliaLandia:

It doesn’t totally appear to have worked in MAGA world, parts of which are still angry over his administration’s handling of the Epstein files – and it certainly didn’t work at Zeteo where we, as we do every week, documented the latest on not only Epstein but also all the other actions Trump and his allies took that harm democracy, hurt common decency, and undermine the Constitution.

We also didn’t take our eye off the war crimes American taxpayers are funding in Gaza, as Israel-made starvation rages.

From ICE reportedly forcing detainees to eat “like dogs”, to fresh attacks on the press, to pulling the US out of UNESCO again, here’s your ‘This Week in Democracy – Week 27’:

Saturday, July 19

• On Truth Social, Trump complained that “nothing will be good enough” for those who have been calling on his administration to release the Epstein files.
• On Fox, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard accused, without evidence, former President Barack Obama and his administration of engaging in “treasonous conspiracy” to “effectively launch a years-long coup” against Trump after he won the 2016 presidential election. Asked about whether Obama should face criminal charges, Gabbard did not rule it out, saying that the actions “demand accountability.” Gabbard claimed Obama and his officials manipulated intelligence to undermine the legitimacy of Trump’s victory. But her claims contradict intelligence from a 2020 Senate investigation, and a recent CIA review that concluded that Russia indeed interfered in the 2016 election through a disinformation campaign that sought to harm Hillary Clinton’s candidacy.Upgrade to paid

Sunday, July 20

• On Truth Social, Trump reposted a video from a TikTok user that included an AI-generated portion that depicted Trump and Obama sitting in the Oval Office and FBI officers handcuffing Obama, before cutting to the former president in a jail cell.
• Trump threatened to interfere with a deal to build a new football stadium in Washington, DC, if the local NFL team didn’t change its name back to the “Redskins,” a name that was dropped in 2020 due to being considered a racial slur tied to the country’s genocide of Indigenous peoples. He also called for the Cleveland Guardians to revert to their former name, the “Indians.”
• Trump renewed his call for Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff, who led impeachment proceedings against the president during his first term as a then-member of the House, to be prosecuted for mortgage fraud, calling him a “THIEF!” and sharing an affidavit related to one of Schiff’s properties. It’s unclear how Trump gained access to the document, but it has raised concerns about the president using bureaucratic agencies to target political opponents. The document doesn’t reveal anything that hasn’t already been addressed by Schiff, who noted during his bid for the Senate that his family uses both their Maryland and California homes throughout the year.

Monday, July 21

• The Washington Post reported that in the six months since Trump took office, he and officials have been accused of defying one-in-three judges in lawsuits against his administration, including “snubbing rulings, providing false information, failing to turn over evidence, quietly working around court orders and inventing pretexts to carry out actions that have been blocked.”
• The Department of Homeland Security restored Temporary Protection Status (TPS) and work authorization to tens of thousands of Haitians living in the US until at least February 2026 after a federal judge blocked the Trump administration from trying to terminate their statuses in early September.
• Meanwhile, a federal appeals judge overturned a lower court’s order blocking the Trump administration from terminating TPS for roughly 14,600 Afghans and 7,900 Cameroonians.
• A former Louisville, Kentucky, police officer who was convicted of violating Breonna Taylor’s civil rights during a March 2020 police raid that resulted in her being killed was sentenced to 33 months in prison. The sentence comes after Trump’s DOJ asked the judge to issue a single-day prison sentence for the officer, claiming that the case shouldn’t have been charged with federal crimes.
• The Trump administration published 230,000 documents related to the 1968 assassination of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., a move that his family and supporters publicly opposed. In a statement, Rev. Al Sharpton called the release “a desperate attempt to distract people from the firestorm engulfing Trump over the Epstein files.” MLK’s daughter, Bernice King, said on Twitter, “Now, do the Epstein files.”
• The Pentagon announced that the 700 active-duty Marines who were deployed to Los Angeles in June are withdrawing from the city, with spokesperson Sean Parnell saying in a statement that “stability [is] returning to Los Angeles.”
• Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) sent a letter to Skydance Media CEO David Ellison, which was working on a merger with Paramount, asking whether there is any truth to Trump’s claims that Paramount will actually pay him approximately $32 million (including $16 million to $19 million in advertising value), double what was announced by the company earlier this month in their settlement related to Kamala Harris’ 2024 ‘60 Minutes’ interview. Paramount denied that the settlement included any side deal for advertising, while Skydance refused to comment.
• Republican Rep. Jim Jordan, the chair of the House Judiciary Committee, issued a subpoena to a DOJ prosecutor who investigated Trump under special counsel Jack Smith in cases related to Trump’s retention of classified documents and efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
• A coalition of over 20 non-profit organizations that specialize in supporting victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and unhoused individuals sued the Trump administration, arguing that new funding requirements from the departments of Housing and Urban Development and Health and Human Services could result in the loss of hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal funding.
• The White House pulled the Wall Street Journal off the reporters’ pool covering Trump’s Friday trip to Scotland after the Journal published an article last week about a “bawdy” letter the president wrote to Epstein back in 2003. In response, the New York Times released a statement in solidarity with its competitor, writing that the move is “an attack on the core constitutional principles underpinning free speech and a free press.” The Times called it “simple retribution by a president against a news organization for doing reporting he doesn’t like. Such actions deprive Americans of information about how their government operates.”
• Human Rights Watch published a harrowing report documenting the horrendous conditions immigrants detained in three Florida ICE facilities face, including being shackled for long periods on buses without food, water, or functioning toilets, extreme overcrowding in holding cells where people were forced to sleep on cold concrete floors, and being denied access to basic hygiene and medical care. In one instance, a detainee described a group of men being forced to kneel with their hands shackled behind their backs and eat “like dogs” after officers made them wait hours for their lunch.
• A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to restore the ability for immigration judges to appoint legal counsel for immigrants deemed unable to represent themselves, such as those with severe mental disabilities.
• A coalition of school districts and advocacy groups nationwide sued the Trump administration for freezing $6 billion in federal funding already allocated by Congress for key education programs.
• On Truth Social, Trump lashed out at the federal judge overseeing Harvard University’s lawsuit against his administration over $2 billion in federal funding cuts, calling her a “TOTAL DISASTER,” an “automatic ‘loss’ for the People of Our Country!,” and a “Trump-hating Judge.”

• CNN reported that the head of FEMA’s Urban Search and Rescue branch resigned, citing a delayed response by the agency in the wake of the Texas floods as the tipping point after months of efforts by the Trump administration to gut the agency.
• A coalition of 21 Democratic attorneys general sued the Trump administration to block its efforts to restrict undocumented immigrants from accessing more than a dozen federal health and safety net programs, warning that changes have caused significant disruption and could lead to the “collapse of some of the nation’s most vital public programs.”
• A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to restore a government website that featured a public spending tracker database overseen by the Office of Management and Budget, finding that its removal violated legislation passed by Congress requiring the agency to make apportionment decisions publicly available within two business days.
• Federal judges in Maryland filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit by the Trump administration against all of the state’s 15 judges, the court clerk, and the state US District Court, calling it a meritless “assault on the separation of powers.” The motion noted that “this unprecedented lawsuit is fundamentally incompatible with the separation of powers.” The suit came in response to an order blocking the administration from deporting immigrants in Maryland until at least 4 p.m. on the second day after they file a habeas corpus petition.

Tuesday, July 22

• The Trump administration once again pulled the US out of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), a move that will take effect in December 2026. In response, the Committee to Protect Journalists’ chief global affairs officer called the decision to withdraw from UNESCO, which has a mandate to protect journalists and press freedom, “a clear declaration of disdain for facts and for the public’s right to be informed.”
• On Twitter, Attorney General Pam Bondi published a statement from Deputy AG Todd Blanche announcing that he is arranging a meeting between Epstein associate Ghislane Maxwell and DOJ prosecutors. He claimed that, “Until now, no administration on behalf of the Department had inquired about her willingness to meet with the government.”
• Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, Trump baselessly accused Obama of committing treason, falsely claiming the former president and his administration “tried to rig the [2016] election, and they got caught. And there should be very severe consequences for that.”
• A spokesperson for Obama issued a statement noting that while they would “not normally dignify the constant nonsense” from the Trump administration with a response, the claims Trump made are “outrageous enough to merit one.” The statement noted that the president’s “bizarre allegations are ridiculous and a weak attempt at destruction,” and that “nothing” in documents issued by Gabbard last week “undercuts the widely accepted conclusion that Russia worked to influence the 2016 presidential election but did not successfully manipulate any votes,” — findings that were affirmed by the bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee in 2020, which was led by now-Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
• ABC News reported that trans women will no longer be eligible to compete for the US in Olympic or Paralympic Games in women’s categories after a policy change by the leading games committee, which cited Trump’s executive order banning trans athletes from girls’ and women’s sports.
• During a press conference, State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce noted that local journalists who are starving in Gaza aren’t “at the top of our list,” saying, “When you go somewhere and you know it’s a war zone, that’s a risk that is taken and accepted.” Bruce added that the department’s focus is on the “hostages” and the need to remove “a terrorist group controlling a section of a country.” Palestinian journalists in Gaza live with their families in the enclave area and, like the other 2 million Palestinians there, are not allowed to leave without Israel’s permission. For the last 21 months, Israel has also refused to allow any foreign journalists to enter the enclave outside of Israeli military-planned propaganda trips.
• CNN reported previously unpublished photos and video footage of Trump and Epstein, including pictures of Epstein attending Trump’s 1993 wedding to Marla Maples and a video of the two men chatting and laughing at a 1999 Victoria’s Secret fashion show. Asked about the newly uncovered photos and videos on a brief call with CNN, Trump responded, “You’ve got to be kidding me,” repeatedly calling the network “fake news” and hanging up.
• Hours after judges on the US District Court in New Jersey declined to appoint Trump’s former lawyer and interim US attorney for the state, Alina Habba, for a permanent position, AG Bondi accused the “politically minded” and “rogue” judges of refusing to allow her to continue in her position. Bondi also removed Habba’s court-appointed successor, Desiree Grace, who had been serving as the second-highest-ranking official in the US attorney’s office.
• Trump wrote on Truth Social that his settlement with Paramount stemming from the 2024 ‘60 Minutes’ interview with Kamala Harris should put other media outlets “ON NOTICE that the days of them being allowed to deceive the American people are OVER.”
• Bloomberg reported that the Trump administration awarded a $1.26 billion contract to build what would be the largest immigrant detention facility in the country at Fort Bliss, an Army base in Texas.
• The Washington Post spoke with three men who were detained at El Salvador’s megaprison after being deported from the US, with one describing it as a “horror movie.” They said they were beaten with wooden bats, held in cells of nine to 15 people with metal benches for beds, and denied access to their lawyers. Additionally, they said guards fired rubber bullets and plastic pellets at some detainees.
• CNN reported that approximately 2,000 National Guard troops are slated to be mobilized to provide assistance for ICE at detention facilities.

Wednesday, July 23

• CNN reported that the Pentagon’s inspector general received evidence that the war plans Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared with a group chat on Signal were taken from a US Central Command document, which was marked “classified” at the time, contradicting Hegseth.
• The House Oversight Committee subpoenaed Ghislaine Maxwell for a deposition. Meanwhile, a committee spokesperson revealed that the body will also subpoena the Justice Department to release the Epstein files.
• A federal judge rejected a request by the DOJ to unseal grand jury testimony from investigations into Epstein that took place in 2005 and 2007, writing that the court’s “hands are tied” due to precedents that prohibit the release of confidential grand jury material. His order also noted that the Trump administration itself conceded that the court lacked the authority to unseal the records, despite its motion to unseal them.
• Two federal judges ordered the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who is currently in custody while awaiting trial on human smuggling charges. The rulings also required Abrego Garcia to be returned to Maryland from Tennessee and prevented immigration officials from immediately detaining him to initiate deportation proceedings.
• The Venezuelan make-up artist who had also been sent to a Salvadoran prison and falsely accused of being part of the TdA gang said that he was mistreated and allegedly sexually abused by the guards in El Salvador.
• The Wall Street Journal reported that AG Bondi told Trump in May that his name was in the Epstein files, following a review by Justice Department officials who discovered his name “multiple times” in the “truckload” of documents. The bombshell report comes one week after Trump told reporters that Bondi told him he wasn’t in the files.
• The New York Times reported that the State Department is working on a plan to shut down PEPFAR, a federal program to combat HIV/AIDS in developing countries, in the coming years, and replace it with “bilateral relationships.” The reporting comes one week after Republican lawmakers voted to restore $400 million in federal funds for PEPFAR, which were initially on the chopping block in Trump’s $9 billion recissions package.
• A federal judge threw out a case by the Trump administration that sought judicial permission to cancel dozens of collective bargaining agreements between several federal agencies and unions representing agency employees.
• A federal appeals court ruled that Trump’s executive order to end birthright citizenship is unconstitutional, upholding a lower court’s ruling that blocked it from going into effect nationwide.

• The Washington Post reported that Kari Lake, the special adviser for the US Agency for Global Media, locked the agency’s acting CEO out of his email and electronic systems. In addition, she also ordered the Voice of America director to accept a new position in North Carolina or be fired from the media organization.
• Columbia University announced it reached an agreement with the Trump administration to pay a $200 million settlement in order to restore over $400 million in federal grants that had been canceled due to the administration’s perceived failure of the school to combat antisemitism on campus. The White House also said Columbia would pay an additional $21 million to resolve alleged civil rights violations against Jewish employees. As part of the settlement, the school will notify the Department of Homeland Security when international students are arrested. (Most universities only inform DHS when foreign students are suspended or expelled.)
• During a press briefing, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt called for the New York Times and the Washington Post to be stripped of their Pulitzer Prizes, which were awarded for their reporting on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
• CNN reported that the Trump administration issued a new directive to Customs and Border Protection personnel, asking teenagers detained in ICE operations whether they would like to self-deport to their home country, a move to rapidly deport children who arrived in the US without a parent or guardian.
• Attorney General Pam Bondi announced the Justice Department launched a “strike force” to investigate claims Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard made against Obama and his administration.
• After Joy Behar accused Trump on ‘The View’ of targeting Obama out of jealousy, the White House threatened the co-host and the daytime talk show in a statement to Entertainment Weekly, calling Behar “an irrelevant loser suffering from a severe case of Trump Derangement Syndrome,” and warned that she “should self-reflect on her own jealousy of President Trump’s historic popularity before her show is the next to be pulled off air.”
• The Department of Homeland Security posted to its Twitter account a picture of John Gast’s 1872 painting “American Progress,” hailing the genocide against the Indigenous people of the US, accompanied by text which seemed to match neo-Nazi rhetoric.

Thursday, July 24

• The Washington Post reported that ICE directed staff in June to dramatically ramp up the use of ankle monitors on the roughly 183,000 adult migrants enrolled in the agency’s Alternatives to Detention program. In a memo to staff, an ICE official wrote, “If the alien is not being arrested at the time of reporting, escalate their supervision level to GPS ankle monitors whenever possible and increase reporting requirements.”
• In a joint statement, AFP, AP, BBC News, and Reuters wrote, “We are desperately concerned for our journalists in Gaza, who are increasingly unable to feed themselves and their families.” They also urged Israel to allow journalists in and out of Gaza, adding that it is “essential that adequate food supplies reach the people there.”
• Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and John Cornyn (R-Texas) called on Attorney General Pam Bondi to appoint a special counsel to investigate the Obama administration’s intelligence assessments about Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
• A Venezuelan immigrant who the US deported to El Salvador’s megaprison in March filed an administrative claim, seeking $1.3 million in damages, arguing he was wrongfully removed from the US without due process.
• Trump signed an executive order to make it easier for cities and states to remove people experiencing homelessness from the streets and into treatment centers. The order directs AG Bondi to overturn legal precedents and consent decrees limiting the ability of local and state officials to remove homeless encampments.
• Despite threats from Trump, the Washington, DC, city council announced a deal on a stadium agreement for the Washington Commanders, pending additional votes. While the stadium is located on federal land, Congress gave the city permission in January to control the property for 99 years.

• Trump signed the $9 billion recissions package into law, canceling roughly $8 billion in foreign aid and about $1.1 billion in federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which helps fund PBS and NPR.
• On Fox, FCC chair Brendan Carr warned that potential “consequences” for Joy Behar and ‘The View’ are not “quite finished.” He added that the US media needs a “course-correction” in their coverage of the Trump administration, and said, “It’s time for America’s legacy broadcasters to return to promoting the public interest,” or “they’re going to continue to run into issues like Colbert, where it just doesn’t make economic sense to run a partisan circus.”
• Trump’s former lawyer Alina Habba announced that she would serve as New Jersey’s acting US attorney, one day before her tenure as interim US attorney was set to expire, and after the Justice Department fired her successor earlier this week.
• The Trump administration sued New York City over its sanctuary city policies that restrict police and jail officials from cooperating with ICE enforcement, claiming the policies violate the supremacy clause of the Constitution.
• Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche met with Epstein associate Ghislane Maxwell. Afterwards, he posted on Twitter that he will continue his interview with her on Friday, and that the Justice Department “will share additional information about what we learned at the appropriate time.”
• The FCC approved Paramount’s merger with Skydance Media, with chair Brendan Carr saying in a statement that Skydance committed to unbiased journalism and wouldn’t implement DEI policies or programs.
• Far-right conspiracy theorist and Islamophobe Laura Loomer posted a photo on Twitter with the caption, “Productive afternoon of meetings at the State Department.” It’s unclear what the meetings entailed or why she was meeting with officials at the department.
• The New York Times reported that the Justice Department is in possession of 100,000 pages of Epstein files that it is refusing to release to the public.
• The Times also reported that Trump’s name appeared on a contributor list for a 2003 book celebrating Epstein’s 50th birthday, despite the president’s claims that he didn’t pen a “bawdy” letter or drawing for the book.
• A former Jan. 6 prosecutor and two other DOJ employees sued AG Bondi over their terminations, accusing her of “disregarding long-standing statutory and regulatory protections that govern how and when members of the civil service can be terminated” and saying that they were given cause or required due process for their dismissals.
• The Trump administration filed an emergency appeal with the Supreme Court, asking the justices to authorize the termination of millions of dollars in grants linked to diversity initiatives, including gender identity and equity in healthcare, at the National Institutes of Health. The funding cuts were deemed “void and illegal” by a federal judge earlier this year, who noted in his decision that he had “never seen government racial discrimination like this.”
• Judge James Boasberg said he might initiate criminal contempt of court proceedings against Justice Department lawyers involved in a case surrounding the Trump administration sending Venezuelan immigrants to El Salvador in March, in violation of Boasberg’s court order.

Friday, July 25

• Speaking to reporters, Trump said he hasn’t considered pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell, but noted, “I’m allowed to do it.”
• Sources told ABC News that Maxwell, a convicted sex offender, answered questions from Deputy AG Todd Blanche, who also happens to be Trump’s former personal lawyer, for about nine hours over two days after being granted a limited form of immunity.
• Asked about his administration’s lawsuit against New York City’s sanctuary city policies, Trump said, “We’re going against a lot of other places too,” and added, “That’s going to be a pretty routine filing with other cities too.”
• The Trump administration said it will unfreeze more than $5 billion in federal education funding that was withheld from public schools for nearly a month.
• A federal judge dismissed a Trump administration lawsuit against Illinois, Chicago, and Gov. J.B. Pritzker over the state’s sanctuary policies.
• Another federal judge blocked the Trump administration from ending birthright citizenship, marking the third ruling banning the order from taking effect since the Supreme Court’s June decision restricting nationwide injunctions.
• The Guardian reported on a video revealing immigration agents brutally arresting a teenage US citizen, who is Latino, and telling him: ‘You’ve got no rights.’

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Empire of Chaos-Amnesia-Agnotolgy-Entertaining Itself to Death . . . .

And so I go about my own ground-truthing, another useless nobody, sure, not the salt of the earth, but a nobody still:

The Nobodies

Fleas dream of buying themselves a dog, and nobodies dream of escaping poverty: that one magical day good luck will suddenly rain down on them–will rain down in buckets. But good luck doesn’t rain down yesterday, today, tomorrow, or ever. Good luck doesn’t even fall in a fine drizzle, no matter how hard the nobodies summon it, even if their left hand is tickling, or if they begin the new day with their right foot, or start the new year with a change of brooms.

The nobodies: nobody’s children, owners of nothing. The nobodies: the no ones, the nobodied, running like rabbits, dying through life, screwed every which way.

Who are not, but could be.
Who don’t speak languages, but dialects.
Who don’t have religions, but superstitions.
Who don’t create art, but handicrafts.
Who don’t have culture, but folklore.
Who are not human beings, but human resources.
Who do not have faces, but arms.
Who do not have names, but numbers.
Who do not appear in the history of the world, but in the police blotter of the local paper.
The nobodies, who are not worth the bullet that kills them.

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cataloguing the threads shown bare in this unglorious gulag of UnUnited Snake$ of Amnesia and Israel-First

The Press is the Fourth Estate and that’s long Gone. Education? Going, going gone.

There are some Jews who are good, never ever defending that savage religion, and again, on the chopping block:

CH: The firing of Finkelstein is an ominous threat to academic freedom. It signals that there is no protection, even tenure, for those who oppose not only the genocide, but the state sanctioned narrative. Those without tenure, who form the vast majority of university faculties, have even less job security. The assault is built around the specious argument that support for Palestinians rights is a form of antisemitism, even if you are Jewish. It is designed, of course, not to root out antisemitism but silence the left, liberals and crush all dissenting voices.

Finkelstein is not alone. Over 3,000 university students were arrested, most during the Biden administration, on college campuses. Student activists, along with faculty and administrators, have been expelled. Middle Eastern departments have been gutted, closed or put into receivership. This witch hunt, foolishly given credibility by university administrators eager to curry favor with their rightwing critics and the Trump administration has led the White House to withdraw $11 billion in research funding. Harvard alone stands to lose $2 billion. The Trump administration is seeking to revoke student visas from many of the 1.1 million foreign students in the U.S. It is threatening to also revoke nonprofit status from universities such as Harvard and withdraw accreditation from Columbia University, despite Columbia’s capitulating to every demand made by the Trump administration.

MF: I mean, it’s scary to imagine what happens next, right? You’re a student and you’re placing yourself in massive amounts of debt. You’ve been working so hard for your degree. You’re a faculty member. You have been, I mean, I was one of these. You’ve been working for decades towards this career. You finally have it. What do you do? And we’re seeing the real material impact of this.

And I say it again and again, but once we’ve gotten to the point in which our students are being disappeared by ICE, they’re being detained, they’re being deported, that is, you know, we keep reaching these tipping points and it’s so scary that I don’t even have language to articulate it. But I also think, and I think the students have really shown us this, but I think on a larger scale, nothing’s going to change if people aren’t willing to really give up things.

The muzzling is on EVERY level of the Military Industrial Education Legal Chemical Mining Pharma Medical Entertainment Banking Finance Real Estate Insurance Surveillance Prison Media PR Lobbying Congressional COMPLEX:

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Does anyone know what we are now exposed to via air, water and food? How about exposure over 20 years? We are beginning to see these long-term effects. The bigger issue is how we came to accept the common practice of taking known chemical poisons and feeding, injecting, and rubbing it into the eyes and skin of rabbits, dogs, guinea pigs, mice and rats to determine the level of harm. Then we declare the chemical poisons harmless to us at something less than that level.

How did the world become so insane that this is okay with anyone?

Glyphosate re-assessment in Europe is corrupt: Toxicology By Nancy Swanson

The artist Amy Sherald has cancelled the final leg of her touring solo exhibition American Sublime, due to open at the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) in Washington, DC, in September, after representatives of the museum allegedly suggested removing a portrait of a non-binary transgender person posing as the Statue of Liberty to avoid falling afoul of US President Donald Trump’s targeting of transgender communities.

“This painting exists to hold space for someone whose humanity has been politicised and discarded,” Sherald says in a statement. “I cannot in good conscience comply with a culture of censorship, especially when it targets vulnerable communities.”

The painting is one of many striking and powerful portraits in Sherald’s show, which explore ideals of American culture like family, freedom and economic prosperity. It is currently on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York (until 10 August) after opening at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art last year. All of Sherald’s sitters are Black and they are portrayed with equal measures of vulnerability and strength.

The sitter for Trans Forming Liberty (2024), Arewà Basit, is a non-binary trans-femme artist, actor, singer and songwriter. In an audio description about the work, Basit says Sherald’s image of Lady Liberty is a woman “who is empowered, empowering and represents the fullness of what liberty and justice could give and what it can mean”. Basit adds that when looking at the portrait, “I truly see myself, which is remarkable”, feeling a sense of “full pride and acceptance of oneself”.

And so the Jews, the majority of them, those other Jews, not Finklestein, are part of that MIC / / / Military Jewish Industrial Education Legal Chemical Mining Pharma Medical Entertainment Banking Finance Real Estate Insurance Surveillance Prison Media PR Lobbying Congressional COMPLEX1

An American former contractor for the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) said in an interview that aired Friday that during his time working in Gaza, he saw Israeli soldiers and US contractors use “indiscriminate” force against civilians at aid sites, in what he described as “war crimes.”

An American former contractor for the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) said in an interview that aired Friday that during his time working in Gaza, he saw Israeli soldiers and US contractors use “indiscriminate” force against civilians at aid sites, in what he described as “war crimes.”

The GHF questioned Aguilar’s motives, saying he had recently been fired for “inappropriate behavior” and accusing him of making “false claims with no basis in reality.”

The interview came as international pressure and criticism mounted surrounding the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, as reports of Palestinians suffering and dying from hunger and from gunfire near GHF aid sites continue to grow daily.

In an interview with the BBC, former US special forces soldier and GHF aid worker Anthony Aguilar described the US- and Israel-backed aid mechanism as “amateur,” saying GHF conduct was “inexperienced, untrained,” and had “no idea how to conduct operations of this magnitude.”

“That would be my most benign assessment,” he said.

“My most frank assessment — I would say that they are criminal,” he continued.

“In my entire career, I have never witnessed the level of brutality and use of indiscriminate and unnecessary force against a civilian population, an unarmed, starving population,” he said.

“I have never witnessed that in all the places that I have been deployed to war, until I was in Gaza — at the hands of IDF and US contractors,” he said.

Utah wanted to open a 1,200-bed homeless shelter by October. It’s not going to happen.

Utah’s proposed 1,200-bed homeless campus won’t open in October as the state’s Office of Homeless Services tries to nail down a location.

Utah? How about Topaz? [Japanese Internment — Topaz Utah, with a Caucasian Family Assisting Farming ] So that big stolen Native State has no place for the Capitalists’ fodder? Ask the First Voices: Goshute, Paiute, Ute, Shoshone, and Navajo. These tribes include the Confederated Tribes of Goshute, Skull Valley Band of Goshute, Northwestern Band of Shoshone Nation, Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah, San Juan Southern Paiute Tribe, Ute Indian Tribe, Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, and the Navajo Nation.

And so we have crocodile tears for the Mercenaries, the Murderers? IDF halts training activity during heatwave after troops hurt by heatstroke.

It’s been five years since Nevada Department of Wildlife (NDOW) staff specialist Joe Bennett spotted 20 dead bighorn sheep near a guzzler while flying over Southern Nevada. The manmade water source had run dry, and the sheep, reliant on it for water, had died within 40 feet of the failed water source.

“It was the worst day of my career,” he said. “The next day, we were hauling water.”

The situation was, on one hand, an anomaly — Southern Nevada’s bighorn sheep are highly adapted to the region’s harsh climate, and they’ve largely avoided illnesses plaguing other sheep herds across the state.

On the other hand, the death of dozens of sheep represented what climate, wildlife and other experts say they are seeing day after day across the Southern Nevada desert — desert-adapted wildlife feeling the toll of abnormally dry conditions carrying on season after season, and not enough relief through monsoons.

“You start seeing mortality in plants and animals,” said David Simeral, associate climatology research scientist at the Desert Research Institute. “The ones that can move, move. Plants can’t move.”

The Las Vegas area only pulls about 20 percent of its precipitation from the summer storms, Simeral said; but when Southern Nevada misses out on its monsoonal moisture, desert vegetation and animals, despite being adapted to the climate, hit their thresholds.

[Two desert bighorn sheep are ferried by helicopter to base camp for processing during a capture and translocation operation run by the Nevada Department of Wildlife in Valley of Fire State Park on June 10, 2025. By capturing and relocating an estimated 150 sheep, NDOW hopes to reduce overexploitation of water and forage resources while leaving the majority of the population.]

[After a five-year drought and decades of mismanagement, Tehran is at risk of running out of water in several weeks, the government warned.]

So, 500,000 dead and dying in Palestine, no water for USA and much of the world, and we have to fucking see this queer headline: “Israeli DJ’s Tomorrowland Music Festival Performance Canceled Amid Security Concerns and Protests — An Israeli DJ was pulled from the lineup of the global electronic music festival Tomorrowland just hours before he was”

The fucking beautiful canaries in the Homo Consumopethicus coal mine. According to data from both Aububon Society and Cornell Lab of Ornithology, there are actually 2,069 bird species in North America, as of June 2024.

Across the country, most bird species are struggling with habitat loss, as humans encroach on the forests, prairies and wetlands that they rely on.

Droughts and rising temperatures resulting from climate change are also a factor. About two-thirds of North American bird species are at increasing risk of extinction due to global temperature rise, according to the National Audubon Society.

11,000 Bird Species on Planet Earth. And we are doing what in 2025?

And not ONE fucking semen or clit drip in the Pedophile and Rapist in Chief’s criminal enterprise believes this. As temperatures, biodiversity losses, and sea levels rise globally, scientists are concerned about the likelihood of abrupt climatic shifts occurring, particularly within sensitive subsystems of the climate system such as the Amazon rainforest, Antarctic sea ice, and the Tibetan Plateau. Abrupt shifts can manifest as, for example, large and sudden changes in the rate of precipitation in a monsoon system, ice melt in Antarctica, or permafrost thaw in the Northern Hemisphere.

Terpstra et al. sought to identify abrupt shifts that might occur in the future, focusing on climate subsystems discussed in the 2023 Global Tipping Points Report. The team examined outputs from 57 models from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6). All the models simulated a climate change scenario over 150 years, with carbon dioxide concentration increasing by 1% annually until it reached 4 times preindustrial levels.

[The number of severe dust storms in southwestern Greenland nearly quadrupled following recent abrupt climate shifts.]

GE Aerospace CEO H. Lawrence Culp is urging the Pentagon to press on with the Navy F/A-XX fighter program, arguing that it will further the development of adaptive engine technology—which faces delays in the Air Force’s latest budget.

“We stand ready to deliver and encourage the Pentagon to move forward with this important program [F/A-XX] that Congress has already funded,” Culp said in a July 17 earnings call with financial reporters.

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See the criminals?

Get it straight.

History: George W. Bush signed the Hague Invasion Act in 2002, threatening military intervention if the Hague ever tried US officials or their allies. That same year, he also “unsigned” the treaty establishing the International Criminal Court (ICC).

Bush invaded Iraq in a criminal war of aggression, which UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said clearly violated international law. A million Iraqis died due to this illegal imperial war.

Oh, always Trump on Your Mind?

You know who helped establish the precedent for attacking UNESCO? Barack Obama. He cut US funding for UNESCO in 2011, after the UN body voted to admit Palestine.

That Numero Uno President in Bill Clinton and Obama’s minds:

The Reagan administration complained that the UN body was “collectivist”, discussed disarmament (read: peace) proposals, and considered the New International Economic Order that was demanded by the formerly colonized countries of the Global South.

A US State Department official under Reagan also attacked the International Labor Organization (ILO), United Nations environmental program, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), and International Telecommunications Union, the New York Times reported at the time.

Thanks goes to Ben Norton for the above historical clarifications for my readers: “Trump’s blatant attacks on international law are nothing new for the US. They’re bipartisan.”

Donald Trump is withdrawing the US from UN bodies, tearing up climate change treaties, and attacking multilateral orgs — just like the presidents before him. Imperialism is bipartisan in Washington. Ben Norton

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Remember the attack on Chris Hedges by the Jew Yorker Magazine? Death of the Liberal Class

Listen to the Jewish Fucking Voice here?

‘In this uncompromising rant, Hedges indicts the press, the Church, the arts, labor unions, universities, and the Democratic Party for failing to protect the middle and lower classes from the depredations of corporations and their enablers in government. The case is there to be made, but Hedges hopscotches haphazardly through a century of liberal disappointments, and doesn’t begin to support his conclusion, in which he anticipates the collapse of civilization and recommends survivalist measures and “a return to radical militancy.” All the same, much here is intriguing, such as Hedges’s profiles of two “liberal defectors” who, like him, once wrote for the Times: Doug McGill, who says that he was “always a pawn in the big game,” and Sydney Schanberg, whose righteous style wasn’t welcome at the paper after his return from Cambodia .’

At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is not exactly forbidden to say this, that or the other, but it is “not done” to say it, just as in mid-Victorian times it was “not done” to mention trousers in the presence of a lady. Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in the highbrow periodicals.

–GEORGE ORWELL, “Freedom of the Press”^[1]

To allow the market mechanism to be sole director of the fate of human beings and their natural environment, indeed, even of the amount and use of purchasing power, would result in the demolition of society. For the alleged commodity “labor power cannot be shoved about, used indiscriminately or even left unused, without affecting the human individual who happens to be the bearer of this peculiar commodity. In disposing of a man’s labor power the system would, incidentally, dispose of the physical, psychological, and moral entity of “man” attached to the tag. Robbed of the protective covering of cultural institutions, human beings would perish from the effects of social exposure; they would die as the victims of acute social dislocation through vice, perversion, crime, and starvation. Nature would be reduced to its elements, neighborhoods and landscapes defiled, rivers polluted, military safety jeopardized, the power to produce food and raw material destroyed.

–KARL POLANYI, The Great Transformation^[2]

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