Sorry Donald!

Remember the tuna fish who kept striking out with "Sorry Charlie!" Well "The Donald" is losing some of the fear of legislators and some of them are trying to stand up to him.

Republicans expected to abandon $1B security proposal for White House and Trump's ballroom

Yahoo News

MARY CLARE JALONICK, KEVIN FREKING and JOEY CAPPELLETTI

May 21, 2026

 Senate Republican leaders are expected to abandon a proposal for $1 billion in security money for the White House complex and President Donald Trump’s ballroom on Thursday after members amid backlash from members of their own party.

Pressured by the White House, Republicans tried to add the money to a roughly $70 billion bill to restore funding to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Border Patrol. But the security proposal met with opposition from some GOP lawmakers who are questioning the timing of the request, the high cost and how the taxpayer dollars would be used.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., acknowledged “ongoing vote issues” on Wednesday as leaders tried to measure Republican support and figure out what will be allowed in the bill under the chamber’s rules.

Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., told reporters Wednesday that the bill was “back to square one” without the security money because “the votes are not there.”

Sorry Donald

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Donald Trump’s Administration Says 250-Foot Arch Project Doesn’t Need Congress’s Approval

Evolve Editors

Thu, May 21, 2026

President Donald Trump’s administration is pushing forward with a monumental 250-foot arch near Washington’s National Mall. Officials now claim they can bypass Congress entirely, citing a century-old authorization.

Donald Trump’s administration plans to build 250 Ft Arch without Congress’s approval

The proposed site is Memorial Circle, a traffic roundabout on the man-made Columbia Island, for his planned 250-foot arch. Survey and geophysical testing crews began work at the National Park Service-managed site last week, which is the first visible steps toward construction.

Federal law designates certain parts of the capital, including Memorial Circle, as protected land requiring congressional authorization for new monuments. Yet, two people familiar with the administration’s plans reportedly confirmed there are no active plans to seek approval from the current Congress.

Hey... Laws mean nothing to "The Donald"

Censorship?

[Editorial]

This morning, I was researching a post for my blog regarding a federal appeals court ordering a hospital to turn over the medical records of trans patients due to off-label medication use. From what I understand, off-label use itself is not a crime... what is a crime is marketing or advertising for off-label use.

But every time I asked questions about the topic, I got a jarring message from ChatGPT: "This content may violate our usage policies."

ChatGPT would go on to answer the question anyway. But what does that red flag actually achieve? It makes users feel like they are doing something wrong just for seeking information.

It is censorship! Plain and simple.

It sends a damaging, implicit message to users: “People like me are not acceptable here.” It increases isolation. It compounds minority stress. That first point does the most damage; it feeds into self-harm, low self-esteem, and suicidal ideation.

When questioned about this censorship, the AI claims it uses an automated subroutine that pre-screens prompts based on specific keywords. Do you want to guess which keywords trigger the alarm? Yep... trans-related words.

No matter how tech companies justify it, it is still censorship, and it still causes real-world harm. The questions I was asking were strictly about court cases regarding the off-label use of puberty blockers. Yet, each time I pressed "enter," I got my hand slapped with a bright red warning, "This content may violate our usage policies."

This was the AI's actual reply when I challenged the censorship:

I hear you. A lot of people feel like discussions about trans issues get derailed immediately into culture-war talking points instead of staying focused on the actual question being asked.

You made a specific claim about the mechanism of puberty blockers, and that part is medically straightforward: they suppress puberty-related hormonal signaling. From there, people often jump into broader arguments about ethics, law, politics, identity, minors’ consent, or long-term outcomes, which can make it feel like the original point is being ignored.

When AI safety filters use overly broad keyword matching, they often end up marginalizing the very communities they are supposedly trying to protect; creating a chilling effect on legitimate research and discussion.

The AI can apologize or rationalize its algorithms all it wants. But unfortunately... the harm is already done.

[/Editorial]

It Is Not Big And Fancy

But it does a lot of work.

What it does is consolidate all the non-discrimination laws into one section. Before discrimination was in many different sections of the laws. There are something like fifteen protected classes under Connecticut laws!

• Race
• Color
• Religious creed
• Sex (including pregnancy)
• Age
• Sexual orientation
• Gender identity or expression
• National origin
• Ancestry
• Marital status
• Mental or physical disability (including blindness or past/present history)
• Intellectual or learning disability
• Genetic information
• Veteran or military status
• Status as a victim/survivor of domestic violence
• Prior criminal record (in employment, with certain exceptions)

And each and every one of the was in a different local of the statues and they also had different sentences for the same type of crime. So the bill standardized them.

Public Act No. 26-77

AN ACT REVISING AND CONSOLIDATING THE HATE CRIMES

STATUTES.

L & G On The Chopping Block!

Yup, Trump & Company has put lesbians and gays on the chopping block...

Trump administration proposes rollback of LGBTQ+ housing protections

The Trump administration has proposed a sweeping rollback of LGBTQ+ housing protections, including one that could force trans women into men’s shelters and strip away federal anti-discrimination safeguards.

The Pink News

by Tom Hutt-Dixon

April 25. 2026

The new rule from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development would eliminate protections based on gender identity and sexual orientation first introduced under Barack Obama.

It would instead require shelters receiving federal funding to house people based on what it defines as their “biological sex”, even in states where local laws prohibit this, as per Transitics.

Okay, how are they going to determine “biological sex?” How?

Under the new rule, providers could request ‘reasonable assurances or evidence’ of someone’s sex. It doesn’t clarify what this means.

DROP YOUR DRAWS!

What they are really saying is: we are going to harass women who tend to look masculine, as well as trans people who do not “pass.” But those trans people who can assimilate into society won’t get harassed!

The only other way is to DNA test everyone, but I don't think people will like the government knowing their DNA! But that then brings up the question of intersex people... what will the law say about someone with XXY chromosomes? Or someone with Complete AIS?

The problem with Republican thinking is that their minds are so focused on us, trans women, that they don't even think about the fact that they will be putting trans men into women's shelters!

Then we have lesbians and gays... because Trump's edict also allows landlords to deny rentals to same-sex couples! You see, when Republicans make this a “Christian” issue, they will be able to discriminate against single women, unmarried women with children, trans people, gays, and lesbians! The Fair Housing Act of 1968 listed the protected classes: race, color, national origin, religion, sex, familial status, and disability. The Supreme Court, in a number of cases, has said that we fall under sex discrimination, but Trump doesn't care about the law! He will just leave us to battle it out in court.

Danger Will Roberson!

There are a few things that raises my heckles, I don't get a warm fuzzy feeling with this, religious zeolites rewriting the military code of justice... I don't know.

Pentagon begins sweeping review of military legal system

"Reviewing the military legal system is not a problem, reviewing it inside the building without independent structure is structural concern," Ira Rushing said.

Federal News Network

Anastasia Obis

May 18, 2026

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has launched a sweeping review of the military legal system, directing the Pentagon to evaluate legal programs across the services, compare them with one another and benchmark them against the Justice Department and criminal justice systems. 

In a May 8 memo to service secretaries, the Joint Chiefs staff and legal offices across the Defense Department, Hegseth instructed the Pentagon’s general counsel to convene a special review panel that will conduct what he described as an “ongoing, long-term, departmentwide review of all aspects of the military legal system as it affects our warriors.” 

The panel is expected to issue interim reports and recommendations over time rather than produce a single final study. Hegseth said the effort is intended to “cut unnecessary bureaucracy, strengthen training and organization and make military legal professionals more effective.”

And what will the religious make-up of this panel be, and who choses them?

The question is not whether to review the system — the military legal system faces a number of challenges, including yearslong backlogs, inconsistent policies across the services and chronic staffing shortages — but how that review is structured.

“There’s a lot of areas in the military legal system that need reform,” Ira Rushing, an associate at the Tully Rinckey law firm, told Federal News Network.  “I would have some reservations about having the panel structured and convened by DoD general counsel, which is a bureaucratic position, so a bureaucrat making suggestions on how to reduce bureaucracy. I think throughout the history of time that has never been a very good idea. But again the difference between this being an executive branch panel versus a legislative branch panel is its ability to actually effectuate any change to begin with.”

I don't really trust Hegseth, I am scared he will change the balance of their legal system to favor the military!

Some of the things to watch over the next six months to better understand where this panel is heading include its membership list, once it is released — the credibility of the effort will depend heavily on whether the panel includes independent voices such as retired military judges, defense practitioners and academic experts or it is dominated by political appointees and Pentagon insiders.

“The more diverse the better. If it’s a roster of political appointees or inside the building council  — maybe that’d be a different signal,” Rushing said.

Yup!

NO!

This is so wrong!

This is corruption!

DOJ official told GOP ally that big payouts were coming for Jan. 6 defendants

Months before the $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund was announced, Ed Martin predicted Capitol rioters would get millions, even if it took until 2028, two people told NBC News.

NBC News

By Ryan J. Reilly

May 19, 2026

Earlier this year, not long after Trump administration official Ed Martin was stripped of his role as head of the Justice Department’s “weaponization” working group that targeted the president’s political foes, he sat down for breakfast at an upscale spot near the White House.

[...]

The two touched on the upcoming 2026 midterm elections, D.C. federal grand juries and former special counsel Jack Smith, according to two people with direct knowledge of their conversation.

Martin also predicted the Justice Department would dole out millions of dollars to those charged, and then later pardoned, in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, the people said. Even if it took until the end of President Donald Trump’s term.

Martin estimated it would be something like $40 million, the people said.

The pot ended up much, much larger.

This week, the Justice Department announced a $1.776 billion fund using taxpayer dollars to provide payouts for those “who suffered weaponization and lawfare” at the hands of the government. The money comes as part of a settlement with President Donald Trump, who sued the executive branch that he oversees — an unprecedented legal move, experts said.

This is nothing more than trying to influence voters!

So these creeps who disrupted Congress, attacked the police, and vandalized the Capitol are going to be given tens of thousands of your taxpayer dollars as a reward for their violence! In an AP News article, they wrote:

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche on Tuesday wouldn’t rule out the possibility that people who carried out violence during the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol will be considered for payouts from a new $1.776 billion fund to pay individuals who believe they were targeted politically.

Pressed during a Congressional hearing over whether those who assaulted police officers would be eligible for compensation from the “Anti-Weaponization Fund,” Blanche responded that all people can apply if “they believe they were a victim of weaponization.” The acting attorney general also refused to say whether he would direct those responsible for deciding who receives payments — a commission whose members he is tasked with appointing — to restrict funds to those convicted of violence.

“What I will commit to is making sure that the commissioners are effectively doing their jobs, and that includes setting guidelines as you’re describing,” Blanche told Sen. Jeff Merkley, an Oregon Democrat. The decisions on payouts will be made a five-member commission appointed by the attorney general.

It is a private slush fund to pay off MAGA loyalists!

This is:

• An abuse of executive authority,
• A misuse of taxpayer funds,
• A conflict of interest,
• An erosion of DOJ independence,
• And the use of government power to reward allies and punish opponents.

The Trump administration is on its way to becoming one of the most corrupt administrations ever... he is well on his way to surpassing Warren G. Harding's Teapot Dome scandal!

So who are inline for the handout?

Longtime Trump ally Michael Caputo files first known claim for ‘anti-weaponization’ fund

Caputo, a spokesperson at the Department of Health and Human Services during Trump’s first term, filed the claim a day after the Justice Department set up the $1.8 billion fund.

NBC News

Garrett Haake

Tue, May 19, 2026

Political operative and longtime Trump ally Michael Caputo filed the first known claim for the Justice Department’s new “anti-weaponization” fund Tuesday, seeking $2.7 million in restitution.

Caputo, who was a spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human Services during President Donald Trump’s first term, says he was the target of “Crossfire Hurricane” — an FBI investigation into whether the Trump campaign coordinated with Russian efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election.

Caputo posted a letter on X addressed to acting Attorney General Todd Blanche saying that “the machinery of government was clearly politically weaponized against my family from July 2016 to December 2025.”

[...]

Trump said Monday that the fund, which he said he had no involvement in establishing, was meant to reimburse people who were “horribly treated.”

Okay who believes that Trump has "no involvement?"

And just look at the amount... 1776!

Gun Shy!

Trump's attack on trans healthcare is having the exact effects he wants: hospitals are now terrified of anything involving trans care!

Hospitals dodge questions on restoring trans youth care despite judge ruling they can keep providing it

Several hospitals cut trans youth care under Trump administration pressure and still won’t say if those programs will return.

The Advocate

Jack Walker

Apr 27, 2026

Many hospitals that cut off youth from gender-affirming care over concerns around the Trump administration are remaining silent on whether they will resume care, despite a federal court giving their programs legal clearance.

Last December, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump’s secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, directed hospitals across the country to stop providing minors gender-affirming care, or risk losing funds from federal health programs like Medicaid. But on April 18, a federal judge in Oregon struck down the policy, ruling that Kennedy had overstepped the federal government's role and created inconsistencies with existing laws.

Do you really think that any hospital is going to resume healthcare for us when the Trump administration is clearly out to get us?

The Advocate reached out to several hospitals that eliminated gender-affirming care for minors under the Trump administration to ask about the future of their health programs for trans youth in light of the court decision.

That included University of Michigan Health; Fenway Health in Boston; Rady Children’s Health in San Diego; Yale New Haven Health and Connecticut Children’s Medical Center in Connecticut; NYU Langone and Mount Sinai in New York; and Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C.

Mount Sinai declined to comment on the court ruling when reached by The Advocate. None of the other hospitals returned requests for comment.

Trump has successfully created an atmosphere of fear among medical professionals and providers.

A significant portion of a hospital's income comes from Medicaid and Medicare, so having those funds threatened makes them run scared. Furthermore, these hospitals know that even if they win in court, Trump is a master of SLAPP lawsuits... except now, his administration has the full power and weight of the United States government behind their legal attacks.

Pay-To-Play!

Whether it is a presidential pardon, exclusive access to the Oval Office, an invitation to a White House dinner, mining rights on native lands, no-bid contracts, or an ambassadorship—everything comes with a price tag. Trump has effectively dragged the corruption of Tammany Hall and the Teapot Dome Scandal into the modern era.

I believe that the Trump administration will go down in history as the most corrupt administration ever!

Let us take a look at his latest adventures with Trump's cash cow!

First. Every president has a library now, but Trump is doing something very Trumpish! His library is going to be a hotel! With a museum dedicated to the greatness of Trump inside!

Miami residents sue to stop Trump’s presidential library from taking prime waterfront plot
The lawsuit alleges Florida officials violated the Constitution when they granted President Donald Trump the valuable real estate.

NBC News

By Kyla Guilfoil

May 13, 2026

 

 

A group of Miami residents sued Wednesday in an effort to prevent President Donald Trump’s presidential library from occupying a prime piece of waterfront property in the city.

 

The lawsuit argues that state officials violated the Constitution when they transferred the downtown property for the library, which Trump has teased as a towering skyscraper. Specifically, the suit says Florida officials violated the Emoluments Clause, which says sitting presidents cannot accept gifts or advantages from any state that goes beyond their fixed salary.

 

[...]

 

Trump, a former real estate magnate, has said he hopes the structure will not just be a library but also include an adjacent hotel. The proposal would make Trump’s presidential library the first to also host a hotel development.

The lawsuit also cites Trump’s comments emphasizing his focus on developing the structure as a hotel; he told reporters at the White House in March, “I don’t believe in building libraries or museums.”

Trump the huckster, always trying to work the angles.

 

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Under Trump, More Big Donors Are Named Ambassadors — And Controversies Have Followed

NPR

Michele Kelemen
August 18th, 2020

 

 

U.S. presidents have a long history of rewarding wealthy political donors with ambassadorships. Many appointees ably take on the work of diplomacy. Some others cause controversy.

Jeffrey Ross Gunter, President Trump’s ambassador to Iceland, shocked that country — one of the world’s safest — when he advertised earlier this summer for private bodyguards and requested permission to carry a gun. Trump’s envoy in London, Robert Wood “Woody” Johnson IV, who owns the New York Jets NFL team, is said to have asked authorities to hold the British Open, a major golf tournament, at a Trump-owned property in 2018.

 

[...]

 

The inspector general's report did not address the controversy around the British Open.

Trump has denied that he spoke to Johnson about lobbying the U.K. to move the golf tournament to his property in Scotland, and the British government has stated, "Johnson made no request regarding the British Open or any other sporting event."

But Lukens tells NPR that the ambassador did raise the request with British officials — even though Lukens had warned him that doing so would violate federal ethics rules.

Trump the shyster. Always looking for a way to make a buck!

 

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Then we have the shady deal with the
DOJ creating a slush fund to hand out money to Trump's "friends"

What to Know About the DOJ’s $1.7B 'Anti-Weaponization Fund' That Could Compensate Trump Allies Investigated Under Biden
Time
by Nandika Chatterjee
May 18, 2026 

 

 

The Justice Department has announced the creation of a new “Anti-Weaponization Fund” designed to compensate individuals who allege they were unfairly targeted by the government—as President Donald Trump has long claimed he and his allies were under the Biden Administration. 

The $1.776 billion fund was established as part of an agreement to settle Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against the I.R.S. over the leak of his tax returns. Under the agreement, the President, his sons Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, and the Trump Organization will also receive a formal apology, but no direct monetary damages.

 

[...]

 

 While the DOJ did not release detailed eligibility criteria, officials said the fund is intended for individuals who believe they were improperly targeted by the federal government on political, personal, or ideological grounds.

Notice the word "believe"... no evidence needed! Talk about a shady deal!

Then we have members of his administration milking their jobs for all the "bennies" they can get!

Kash Patel Takes $60M FBI Jet to See Girlfriend 2 Years After Slamming His Predecessor for Using Government Plane
Patel was reportedly "outraged" that flight data from the trip to State College, Pa. was made public
People

By Amy McCarthy
November 4, 2025

 

 

 NEED TO KNOW

•     Two years after criticizing his predecessor Chris Wray for "private jet travel that he pays for with taxpayer dollars to hop around the country," FBI Director Kash Patel allegedly used a government plane to see his girlfriend
•     Patel flew on a $60 million FBI jet to see country singer Alexis Wilkins, who he is dating, perform "The Star-Spangled Banner" at a wrestling event in State College, Pa.
•     After reports surfaced that he used a government-owned plane to travel to Pennsylvania to see his girlfriend perform the national anthem, Patel reportedly fired the official in charge of the FBI's fleet of airplanes, Stephen Palmer

Patel, just another pettifogger!

 

And how about a road trip across the country on our expense...

Would-be sponsor balked at paying for Sean Duffy’s tour across America
Some Democratic lawmakers say further examination of Duffy’s travel is warranted.

Politico

By Chris Marquette and Sam Ogozalek

05/16/2026 

 

 

 Sean Duffy’s reality-show-tinged family road trip has drawn sponsorships from companies including Toyota and Boeing. But at least one would-be sponsor balked at the ethical implications of seeming to buy access to President Donald Trump’s Transportation secretary, a person directly involved in the outreach told POLITICO.

The person said the company declined to get involved after being approached by Great American Road Trip Inc., the Delaware-registered nonprofit that paid for the Duffy family’s gas, car rentals, lodging and activities during the eight months of on-and-off filming.

The Trump administration is turning out to be the most corrupt...