WTF!

You all know what that stands for... so what earned that...

RI Hospital sends more than 112,000 pages of youth gender-affirming care records to Texas judge

by: Jusolyn Flower

WPRI Ch12

Posted: Oct 29, 2026

Rhode Island Hospital relinquished thousands of pages of medical records related to youth gender dysphoria treatment to a federal judge in Texas over the last five months, newly filed court documents show.

According to an Oct. 19 status report, R.I. Hospital has submitted a total of 112,647 pages of records to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas through 12 “in camera” productions conducted every two weeks since May. The most recent production was Oct. 16.

“In camera” is a Latin term that translates to “in chambers,” meaning the judge must review the records without any members of the press or public present. It is usually invoked to protect the subjects’ privacy.

WTF does Texas need medical records from Rhode Island for perfectly legal procedures? Here in Connecticut that would be a violation of Connecticut law!

Shortly afterward, the American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island and attorneys with the Lawyers’ Committee for Rhode Island filed an emergency motion on behalf of the state’s Office of the Child Advocate to quash the DOJ’s order. They described it as an “unprecedented intrusion” into patient privacy and accused the Trump administration of using it as part of a “coordinated campaign” to deny the existence of gender identity, strip rights from transgender people and eliminate access to gender dysphoria care.

This is nothing more than a fishing expedition!

The Rhode Island judge used the law and quashed the subpoena but... in another federal they didn't so now...

Although McElroy quashed the subpoena, O’Connor found her ruling only blocked the DOJ itself from obtaining the records. He said it did not prevent the Texas court from holding the records under seal and left the enforcement order requiring compliance in place.

Duh! WTF!

Now, two conflicting rulings involving the same administrative subpoena are being reviewed in separate federal court systems: The Fifth Circuit is reviewing the Texas order requiring enforcement, while the First Circuit is reviewing the Rhode Island order that quashed the subpoena.

Tuesday you can vote. You can vote to bring this tyranny to an end!

Law & Order!

When Congress has no backbone, it is like a lawless Western town where corruption runs rampant and the sheriff looks the other way.

Trump Skirts Court Commands as Distrust Between Branches Spirals

Repeated compliance disputes and personal attacks on judges are straining relations between the executive branch and the judiciary.

New York Times

By Charlie Savage

Nov. 2, 2026

Since President Trump returned to office nearly two years ago, courts have frequently ordered his administration to pause or halt aggressive actions after they drew legal challenges. But again and again, his executive branch has skirted judicial constraints through delayed, contested or incomplete compliance, all while Mr. Trump has attacked judges appointed by presidents of both parties.

An examination of confrontations across the country shows a widening breakdown in trust between the executive branch and the federal judiciary. Judges increasingly greet Justice Department representations with skepticism. Administration officials, meanwhile, have treated courts with disdain — accusing judges of bias and seeking their removal. In an extraordinary step, the administration recently filed a misconduct complaint against nearly every active district judge in Minnesota.

The result has been a poisoning of the relations between the branches to such a degree that it is now straining the judiciary’s ability to serve as a check on executive power, as Mr. Trump approaches the second half of his term.

Judges throw out a case, the DOJ brings it back with a slight twist, or they lie to the judges like in the golf course case. U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes has ordered an investigation if DOJ lied to him!

CBS News reported that,

Reyes has sparred with the government since it cut down hundreds of trees earlier this month with little notice to the court or plaintiffs. In a hearing two weeks ago, after more than 430 trees were felled, the judge told lawyers for the government that they had "lost credibility," and she was "furious" and "thoroughly unamused."

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She said she only intervened "because the Government did what it assured all it would not do," by chopping down hundreds of trees on the golf course.

Reyes found that the D.C. Preservation League is likely to succeed in showing the Trump administration's plans for the golf course violate the legal requirement for an environmental review.

The judge said she was appointing a special master to investigate whether the court had been intentionally misled or whether the government had acted in bad faith regarding the renovation timeline and the sudden removal of the trees.

The New York Times article went on to say,

Others have been more complex and less clear-cut. Judges and the administration have fought over interpretations of specific judicial commands and failures by officials to live up to assurances they made to courts without explicit written orders. Sometimes, the executive branch has gotten around the courts by coming up with a new legal rationale for a policy that a judge said was not authorized by the authority officials initially cited.

Just like Trump did contractors he shorted on his hotel constructions!

USA TODAY exclusive: Hundreds allege Donald Trump doesn’t pay his bills

Donald Trump casts himself as a protector of workers and jobs, but a USA TODAY NETWORK investigation found hundreds of people – carpenters, dishwashers, painters, even his own lawyers – who say he didn’t pay them for their work.

Steve Reilly

USA TODAY

June 9, 2016

During the Atlantic City casino boom in the 1980s, Philadelphia cabinet-builder Edward Friel Jr. landed a $400,000 contract to build the bases for slot machines, registration desks, bars and other cabinets at Harrah's at Trump Plaza.

The family cabinetry business, founded in the 1940s by Edward’s father, finished its work in 1984 and submitted its final bill to the general contractor for the Trump Organization, the resort’s builder.

Edward’s son, Paul, who was the firm’s accountant, still remembers the amount of that bill more than 30 years later: $83,600. The reason: the money never came. “That began the demise of the Edward J. Friel Company… which has been around since my grandfather,” he said.

Donald Trump often portrays himself as a savior of the working class who will "protect your job." But a USA TODAY NETWORK analysis found he has been involved in more than 3,500 lawsuits over the past three decades — and a large number of those involve ordinary Americans, like the Friels, who say Trump or his companies have refused to pay them.

Just as Trump did with contractors who say he shortchanged them on his hotel construction projects!

The Times in the article also said:

In some cases, skeptical judges have dismissed high-profile indictments and quashed investigative subpoenas, including at times finding that the Justice Department had improper motivations. And judges have increasingly been concluding that the department has been misrepresenting facts in civil litigation hearings and filings.

There is a common thread running through all of this: Trump has a long history of using his power and resources to bully his way through disputes, whether dealing with contractors or business associates. Now, he is using the institutions of government to bully those he considers his enemies.

How Trump Is Using the Justice Department to Target His Enemies

The New York Times
By Alan Feuer and Lily Boyce

Oct. 17, 2025

From the moment Donald J. Trump began his campaign to return to the White House, he has expressed a clear desire to seek vengeance against his perceived enemies. In the last few weeks, the pressure campaign has intensified with two of his foes — James Comey and Letitia James — now indicted.

Back in power, Mr. Trump has weaponized the Justice Department to his own ends, critics say, in a more direct manner than any president since the Nixon era. The department, now led by Mr. Trump’s former personal lawyers, has fired dozens of career prosecutors, many of whom had worked on cases involving Mr. Trump. And the president and his allies have targeted or pushed out several U.S. attorneys as he seeks quick movement on cases involving a number of his political adversaries.

Why is he able to get away with it is because the Republicans are afraid of him... but as he loses his luster some of them are getting backbone and we shall if those who bowed down to him get re-elected. And those that just squeaked by will see that the emperor has no clothes.

The Pot Trade!

New York and all of New England—except for the “Live Free or Die” state—sell pot! Talk about ironic.

If you drive by a pot store in Massachusetts near the northern border, you see a parking lot filled with New Hampshire cars. If you live near the Connecticut/Massachusetts border, you see the exact same thing with Connecticut cars packing the Massachusetts lots. Why? Because when Connecticut was looking at the $$$ in tax revenue to milk the potheads, and the Republicans pushed through an amendment capping the potency of the pot.

Capitalism at its best... let your wallet do your voting. Massachusetts has reasonable laws, so their border stores stay packed.

New Hampshire wants to allow pot, but they have a problem unique to their state. First of all, pot isn't legal there yet; you can still get fined for possession. (Meanwhile, in some Republican states, you can actually get jail time for possession!)

But let me digress a little. New Hampshire operates state liquor stores, no private stores allowed. When my brother lived in Maine, he used to stop at the state liquor stores right on I-95. Yep, the state has massive liquor stores built right onto the interstate highway! It’s easy off, easy back on, and let me tell you, sometimes you can’t even find a parking space during the holidays.

So the real problem is: does the state want to go into the business of selling pot? One major issue is that the feds might take a dim view of a state government directly selling marijuana. And since pot sales still have to be done in cash... well, it gets complicated.

Most importantly, New Hampshire doesn’t want to jeopardize its lucrative booze business. The state makes roughly $120 million to $144 million in pure, net profit that goes straight back into the government's wallet every single year—and not from the taxpayers' pockets!

They simply don't want to upset their cash cow.

Oh, what a tangled web we weave when we try to make a buck!

Tammany Ring

[Editorial]

Did you ever hear of it?

It was a major corruption ring in New York City back in the 1890s. The "Tammany Ring" was the inner circle of corrupt political bosses and leaders who ran Tammany Hall, the headquarters of a private political organization. Then in the 1920s, we had the "Teapot Dome" scandal, where public officials bypassed normal channels to hand out lucrative federal assets to private corporate friends behind closed doors.

Hey, wait a minute… we’re not talking about Trump, are we? We’re talking about something that happened a century ago... right?

We’re not talking about the Reflecting Pool fiasco, where the job was rushed through a no-bid process... correct? Teapot Dome was in the 1920s.

And we’re not talking about the "Bleeding Statues" you know, the gold-plated statues on the bridge over the Potomac?

What? You haven’t heard of the "Bleeding Statues"? Well, you know how Trump rushed a $5 million no-bid federal project to regild the "Arts of War" and "Arts of Peace" bronze horse statues near the Lincoln Memorial? Turns out you can’t do that in a week or two. It’s a multi-year project requiring proper curing of the materials used. As a result, the protective layers are bleeding down onto the stone pedestals. Now, where have we heard that before? Oh! I know... the Reflecting Pool!

Meanwhile, the "Arc de Trump" is also a no-bid contract!

And Trump’s pièce de résistance, the White House Ballroom, is yet another no-bid contract! The icing on that cake is that no one can find any building inspection records... you know, for plumbing, electrical, or structural safety. If any of the work was substandard or if corners were cut, we’ll never know!

Now, questions are being raised over Trump’s War. Before the invasion of Iran, financial watchdogs and federal authorities uncovered multi-billion-dollar spikes and suspiciously timed oil market bets made just minutes or days before major conflict announcements.

The "Tammany Ring" and the "Teapot Dome" scandal used to be the benchmarks for American corruption... but Trump has set a whole new gold standard.

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The Flyover!

Do you remember the flyover by Air Force 1 of the White House on Halloween?

Trump billed it as a special treat for the trick-or-treaters on Halloween. Well people noticed that there were an awful lot of camera crews recording it!

This is from the White House photo...

A photo op... that cost us taxpayers hundred of thousand of dollars, as one commenter wrote, it cost more than most people make in a year.

You want to make a bet that you see this photo creeping up in ads for Trump

The Quite Before The Storm

It is the day before the elections. It is the quiet before the storm. Everyone is poised to see what Trump will do next. Here in Connecticut, early voting is closed today.

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Trump is trying to get his grubby little hands on the elections. So far, the courts have slapped his hands away.

The latest development came just yesterday, when Republicans once again got their hands slapped in Alaska. The brouhaha centers on candidates running for Congress with duplicate or nearly identical names—specifically, Daniel J. Sullivan.

So far, the courts have heard, and will hear, two state-court proceedings, one federal district-court proceeding, and a federal appeal. In the proceedings so far, the courts have ruled against the Republicans. And the odds are that they will lose their appeal as well. There was nothing illegal about Daniel J. Sullivan's candidacy!

But there's another name on the ballot that you don't hear much about. He's also running for office, but against a Democrat. Perhaps that's why Republicans have been so quiet about him.

His name is Eric Hafner. He's sitting in a federal prison in New York, has never set foot in Alaska, and is running for Congress as a Democrat.

So I have three questions about the coverage of the Alaska brouhaha:

Political incentives: Which party benefits from highlighting each controversy?

Media incentives: Which story generates more national attention, conflict, and audience interest?

Editorial consistency: Why wasn't the Hafner precedent made a central part of the national reporting on Sullivan?

The third question is the biggie! It points out the hypocrisy of the Republicans and the news media.

Well It Did What It Was Designed To Do!

Alternate title: Rinse and Repeat!

Alaska Democrats ask judge to remove imprisoned out-of-state U.S. House candidate from November ballot

September 5, 2024 by Eric Stone, Alaska Public Media – Juneau

The Alaska Democratic Party is asking a judge to kick a convicted felon serving a 20-year sentence in a New York federal prison off this November’s general election ballot. Eric Hafner is challenging Democratic Congresswoman Mary Peltola for Alaska’s lone seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Hafner placed sixth in the top-four primary. He advanced to the general election ballot after the third- and fourth-place candidates dropped out in an apparent effort to consolidate the Republican vote.

Hafner is currently in federal prison for threatening public officials in New Jersey and has never lived in Alaska. He’s running as a Democrat but does not have the backing of the state party. Any candidate can run under whatever party banner they like under Alaska’s open primary system. The Alaska Democratic Party’s executive director did not respond to an interview request.

Yep… the Republicans did it in the last election too! What is the difference between the two?

The party says that means he never should have been certified as a candidate in the first place. They also argue that Alaska’s election laws don’t allow the sixth-place candidate to advance to the general election under any circumstances. The Democrats say his presence on the ballot could also siphon voters from Peltola.

Oh gee, where have we heard that before?

The courts allowed him to stay on the ballot just like they ruled now! Newsweek wrote about him here…

Who Is Eric Hafner? Democrat on Alaska Ballot Accused of Being GOP Ploy

By Steve Mollman and Joshua Rhett Miller

Oct 29, 2026 

A Democrat serving a 20-year federal prison sentence has advanced to Alaska's general-election ballot for a second time, renewing scrutiny of an unusual candidate whom the state's Republican Party went to court to help keep on the ballot.

Eric Hafner, who has never lived in Alaska, advanced from the state's 2026 U.S. House primary after also making the general-election ballot in 2024. His candidacy is drawing fresh attention amid the explosive controversy over Alaska's two Dan Sullivans.

Why isn’t this all over the evening news?

Why isn’t the FBI investigating him and the Republicans? Huh?

I want to repeat… under Alaskan law, all it takes is $100 to get on the ballot! That allows anyone to get on the ballot… if anything needs to be changed, it’s their law.

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Updated: 3:20PM

The judge has ruled on the case...

Judge tosses Trump's attempt to block Alaska Senate results if GOP incumbent loses

November 1, 20262

NPR News

Hansi Lo Wang

A federal judge has thrown out the Trump administration's highly unusual attempt to block the certification of results from a key U.S. Senate race in Alaska if the Republican incumbent loses.

In a ruling released Sunday, U.S. District Judge Sharon Gleason found the federal government does not have the ability to bring this lawsuit, which cited the preamble of the National Voter Registration Act.

It asked the judge to stop state officials from certifying election results to allow for an investigation into whether voters were confused by having two similarly named Senate candidates appear on Alaska's ranked-choice ballot.

But Judge Gleason concluded that such a court order would likely violate Alaskan voters' right to a secret ballot.

"The absence of any explanation from the United States as to how its requested relief could redress its alleged injury while simultaneously maintaining the secrecy of the ballot is telling," wrote Gleason, a nominee of former President Barack Obama.

Of course Trump's team is going to appeal!

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Updated: 11/2 @ 7:30AM

Ball & Strikes reported that;

This case started back in May, when Daniel J. Sullivan filed to run for Senate as a Republican, despite never having previously been affiliated with the party. After the state GOP complained, the Alaska Division of Elections determined that under state law, Daniel J. Sullivan was ineligible to run because he did not file “in good faith for the purpose of genuinely pursuing election,” and instead sought to “confuse or mislead” voters. The letter noted, for example, his request to be identified as “Dan,” like the incumbent. It also alluded to the subject matter of the Times story, highlighting his work with a political consultant who is a “known longtime supporter of Democratic candidates,” including Peltola.

Sullivan appealed, and in June, an Alaska trial court judge reversed the Division of Elections’s decision. The gist of Judge Thomas A. Matthews’s order, which the Alaska Supreme Court later affirmed, is that under state law, the qualifications to run for Senate straightforwardly track the language of the U.S. Constitution: Candidates must be at least 30 years old and citizens for at least nine years, and live in the state they seek to represent. Given that Daniel J. Sullivan checks all three boxes, Matthews found that officials had no authority to invent an additional “good-faith” requirement and use it to “exclude an otherwise qualified candidate.”

Look, everyone knows that this was done to “confuse or mislead” the voters... however it is not against the law.

Whatever you think of Daniel J. Sullivan’s candidacy, it is not an illegal effort to stop people from voting: He is running for office, under his real name, in the state where he lives. Anyone who gets “tricked” into voting for him (and only for him) is still, in fact, voting. Even if one of the more ambitious Trump prosecutors decides to give it a shot, the First Amendment will present serious challenges, since going after candidates and their supporters for ostensibly harboring ulterior motives would criminalize a lot of things that parties in this country already do.

You know what they always say... if you don't like the law change it! I did.

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For The First Time!

[Editorial]

We have been on the ballot before. They wanted to ban us, but voters in the past voted for us in referendums. However, this election appears to be different! For the first time, referendums might take away our rights guaranteed under Constitution and the Fourteenth Amendment!

In his famous 1963 "Letter from Birmingham Jail," Martin Luther King Jr. critiqued people who sit back, watch the political landscape, and stay silent while their rights are rolled back. We are in a similar situation now!

King famously wrote about the danger of people who prefer "order" over justice:

"I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Council-er or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to 'order' than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice…"

It is not just the Trumps and the MAGAs of the world; it is the ordinary person who votes to take away

the rights that every other citizen has, people who know nothing about trans people but are willing to deny us of our rights!

In the South, laws were passed banning Black people from playing sports and banning them from using White bathrooms. Why? Because it made White people uncomfortable to sit at a lunch counter with a Black person. They used religion to justify it… they quoted the Bible to show that it was alright to discriminate.

They normalize bigotry. White people said they were not racist, but they kept Black people in menial jobs… because "that’s just the way it is." Children growing up in school thought nothing of the fact that there were Black and White schools—it was perfectly normal to them. That is what the Republicans are doing to LGBTQ+ people… making it seem okay to discriminate against us. Making it seem okay to refuse to sell us a cake because your religion says it's okay. The Republicans are hoping for another generation of bigots.

White people voted for racist candidates because of their economic policies or because they brought new factories to town… totally ignoring their bigotry and discrimination!

In two days, we go to the polls… how are you going to vote? Are you going to take away a person's rights because you believe the Republican lies about us? You believe that a child gets a “sex change” at school. You hear them say, “Well, I’ve always voted Republican,” as they put their blinders on to what ICE is doing, to the corruption, to Trump being cozy with Putin, to the war, and to the lunacy of Trump. They turn a blind eye and hold onto fantasy visions of the era of Father Knows Best.

Vote to end the craziness of the Republican party. Vote for sanity! Don't take away our right to be ourselves.

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No Body Wants Him.

Sniff, sniff.

The Alaskan Republicans told Trump to stay out of it!

The Republican candidates said... "You're not welcome!"

Alaska officials ask judge to deny Trump administration’s ‘impossible’ demand to set aside Senate ballots

The Republican-led state government urged the judge to dismiss the “unwarranted federal interference” in the Alaska Senate race.

NBC News

Oct. 31, 2026

By Kyla Guilfoil

The Republican-led state government in Alaska implored a federal judge on Saturday to permanently dismiss the Trump administration’s lawsuit that seeks to block the certification of the Alaska Senate race if GOP Sen. Dan S. Sullivan loses.

“The United States’ opposition provides no reason for this Court to entertain this meritless lawsuit any longer,” the filing said, adding that “the relief demanded is inappropriate and not even possible given Alaskan voters’ vital right to ballot secrecy.”

Wah, wah... they don't want me!

Some Republicans want Trump to stay away from their midterm campaigns: ‘We’ve told them he cannot come’

President told battleground lawmakers at a Rose Garden dinner Wednesday that he will be heavily involved in the final 30 days

The Independent

Andrew Feinberg

Friday 04 September 2026

Republicans in some of the most competitive races in the country have told President Donald Trump's political operation that they do not want him campaigning in their districts this fall — including in seats he won by double digits two years ago.

"We've told them he cannot come," a senior Republican working on a competitive House race in such a district told Politico, which reported the account Friday. "Candidly, he would not be helpful here."

Wah! Nobody wants me!

The crowds are dwindling, and he is looking more and more like an "old man" on stage. They are booking him into smaller venues so the empty seats don't show!

The British Mirror is telling it like it is...

Donald Trump humiliated as Ohio rally held in 'tiny' venue as crowd size dwindles

President Donald Trump appears to be getting humbled with the turnout for his recent campaign rallies as the president seems to be struggling to get more attendees

Angelica Cheyenne

28 Oct 2026

President Donald Trump doesn't appear to have the same turnout for his campaign rallies for the upcoming midterm elections as he did for his 2024 presidential election — and it's showing.

While the 80-year-old POTUS continues to brag about how many people are either attending his recent rallies or who want to, the venues where his events are being held tell a different story. For example, Trump's Mississippi rally on Monday took place in a venue that only held 1,400 people despite claiming that 22,000 people were outside watching in a town with only 14,000 residents.

Despite much of Trump's MAGA base believing there to be a phantom crowd of thousands, there hasn't been any video evidence this far to support the commander-in-chief's claim of 22,000 attendees.

Wah! Nobody is coming anymore! Sniff, sniff!