Tuesday, February 10, 2026

Stop The Presses!

Whoa this is big! Trump banned the Democratic governors from the annual governors meeting at the White House.
AP News
By  JOEY CAPPELLETTI, STEVE PEOPLES and STEVEN SLOAN
February 10, 2026


An annual meeting of the nation’s governors that has long served as a rare bipartisan gathering is unraveling after President Donald Trump excluded Democratic governors from White House events.

The National Governors Association said it will no longer hold a formal meeting with Trump when governors are scheduled to convene in Washington later this month, after the White House planned to invite only Republican governors. On Tuesday, 18 Democratic governors also announced they would boycott a traditional dinner at the White House.

[...]

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt, a Republican who chairs the NGA, told fellow governors in a letter on Monday that the White House intended to limit invitations to the association’s annual business meeting, scheduled for Feb. 20, to Republican governors only.

“Because NGA’s mission is to represent all 55 governors, the Association is no longer serving as the facilitator for that event, and it is no longer included in our official program,” Stitt wrote in the letter, which was obtained by The Associated Press.
Is that going to piss off Trump, just remember that the Trickster" has a long memory.
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It Won’t Work!

[Editorial]

Been there, done that!

With the internet, it’s now easier than ever to get pills—whether it's abortion pills or puberty blockers.

I’m old enough to remember the stories of backroom abortions; back when the rich took “vacations” to Switzerland while Black folks had to find "someone who knew someone." Today, it’s just a few taps on a keyboard and the hormones are on their way.

Back in the 2000s, I got my own hormones from Canada because my insurance wouldn't cover them. I’d send the prescription to a pharmacy there, and a few days later, they’d arrive in the mail. I figured the drug dogs were only looking for the hard stuff. The worst I expected was that the male dogs might have a—shall we say—unusual reaction to the scent.

If it was that easy twenty-five years ago, I can only imagine how much easier it is now. But then again, Trump is paranoid about us.

In the end, all he has done is handed organized crime a brand-new revenue source.

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Character Counts

How many times have you heard that in employment? When you are in business, your character is important; your word is everything. This seems to be true for everything except politics.

Trump has shown he has no character at all… I take that back — he has the character of a conniving leech.

He cares more about having his name plastered over everything.
Yahoo News
Analysis by Aaron Blake, CNN
Fri, February 6, 2026


Donald Trump’s insatiable desire to name things after himself has been clear for a very long time. And as president, he’s rapidly pushed the envelope in that regard, naming things after himself in ways it appears no previous president ever has.

But even by his standards, this quest has taken a desperate — and seemingly politically unwise — turn.

Trump last month sought to have Congress rename Dulles International Airport near DC and New York City’s Penn Station after himself.

CNN’s Manu Raju and Adam Cancryn report that Trump pitched the renamings to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer as a condition for releasing billions of dollars in frozen funds for a major New York infrastructure project. Schumer, a New York Democrat, turned it down. The news was first reportedby Punchbowl.
You know there’s a word for that. It’s called extortion.
While things are named after presidents, experts have said there is simply no precedent for naming things after a sitting president like this. The New York Times recently dug into the data, backing up that other presidents have almost always had to wait until after leaving office.
But what did you expect from Trump? Look at his list of failed businesses!
  • Trump Steaks
  • Trump Vodka
  • Trump Ice
  • Trump University
  • Trump Shuttle
  • Trump: The Game
  • Trump Taj Mahal
  • Trump Castle
  • Plaza Hotel (NYC)
  • Trump Hotels & Casinos
  • Trump Entertainment
Does this foretell failures ahead for other named properties, like,
  • The Donald J. Trump United States Institute of Peace
  • The Trump-Kennedy Center
  • Trump Accounts
  • TrumpRx
  • The Trump-Class Navy Warships
  • The Trump Gold Coin
  • The Trump Ballroom
  • The Trump Arch
And now Dulles Airport and Penn Station? Is the government going to share the same fate as his businesses?

Politico reports that TrumpRx is a scam!
Trump’s drug-pricing deals won’t benefit most Americans today. They could over time.
Most Americans likely will not benefit immediately from efforts to lower prescription prices. Administration officials expect effects to spread as markets are reshaped.

But will most Americans feel like the deals make their lives more affordable?

The answer is likely “No” — at least not in the near future — according to some health policy analysts and drug-pricing experts.

The confidential agreements lack some critical details and largely don’t help the roughly two-thirds of Americans who use private health insurance, they say. It’s also unclear whether the deals — which are voluntary on the part of drugmakers — will last beyond the current administration.

“The vast majority of consumers are not going to see any benefit in their pocketbook,” said Chris Meekins, a Raymond James health care analyst, and a former health official in the first Trump administration.

Rachel Sachs, a senior adviser in the Office of the General Counsel at the Department of Health and Human Services during the Biden administration, said the deals’ confidential nature makes them harder to judge.
Trump loves secrecy! But you know what? The voters are beginning to see the smoke and mirrors!
Rising share of Democrats want their party’s congressional leaders to stand up to Trump
Pew Reserach
By Hannah Hartig and Jocelyn Kiley
January 29, 2026


A year into his second administration, Americans’ views of President Donald Trump – already more negative than positive – have continued to slip.
  • Trump’s approval rating stands at 37%, down from 40% in the fall.
  • By more than two-to-one, Americans say the administration’s actions have been worse than they expected (50%) rather than better (21%).
  • Only about a quarter of Americans today (27%) say they support all or most of Trump’s policies and plans, down from 35% when he returned to office last year. That change has come entirely among Republicans.
A new Pew Research Center survey of 8,512 U.S. adults, conducted Jan. 20-26, also finds that – across six key qualities and abilities needed to serve as president – more Americans express little or no confidence in Trump than say they are extremely or very confident in him.

Confidence is down on all six measures since last year, particularly among Republicans.
The romance is over!


Donald Trump’s insatiable desire to name things after himself has been clear for a very long time. And as president, he’s rapidly pushed the envelope in that regard, naming things after himself in ways it appears no previous president ever has.

But even by his standards, this quest has taken a desperate — and seemingly politically unwise — turn.

Trump last month sought to have Congress rename Dulles International Airport near DC and New York City’s Penn Station after himself.

CNN’s Manu Raju and Adam Cancryn report that Trump pitched the renamings to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer as a condition for releasing billions of dollars in frozen funds for a major New York infrastructure project. Schumer, a New York Democrat, turned it down. The news was first reported by Punchbowl.
Trump knows this is extortion! But he doesn't care and you know what else, he knows once he leaves  - his name will come down! So... is he thinking that he will stay in power longer 2028?
But usually his efforts to leverage his authority for personal glorification are a little more subtle like that — with the quid pro quo a little less direct. His proposition to Schumer practically slaps you across the face in its degree of blatant self-dealing.

Republicans should probably start asking themselves how much they’re willing to entertain this level of self service.
But the Republicans are spineless and will not stand up to Trump, yes some Republicans are starting to stand up to Trump. Why now? They see cracks.
The survey also found Trump hitting a record low on the percentage of Americans who said he “cares about people like you.” Just 33% said that applied to Trump. A whopping 77% of independents disagreed.

And Americans said 63%-37% that they disagreed with the idea that Trump “puts the good of the country above his personal gain.”

To put a fine point on that: Nearly two-thirds of Americans said Trump is mostly out for himself.
Trump & Company is all about Me! Me! They know that their coattails are tied to Trump.
Support for Trump’s policies
  • There has also been a significant decline over the last year in the share of adults who say they agree with Trump’s plans and policies.
  • Last year, 35% said they supported all or most of his plans, 17% supported some of them and 47% supported only a few or none.
  • Today, 27% say they support all or most, 20% support some and 52% support few or none.
The decline in support has come exclusively among Republicans. Last year, 67% said they supported all or most of Trump’s plans and policies. Today, 56% do.

Very small shares of Democrats say they support his policies. Most (87%) support only a few or none.
CNN went on to write.
That may be fueled, in part, by perceptions Trump is enriching himself financially in office. (The White House has repeatedly maintained it’s committed to ethics and transparency.) But potential conflicts of interest are a lot more difficult to explain than PLASTERS HIS OWN NAME ACROSS A BUILDING.

And Trump’s quest to name things after himself seems especially ill-timed given the state of the economy. We’re currently in the midst of what the vast majority of Americans regard as bad economic times, and about three-quarters of Americans don’t think he’s done enough to lower prices.
The Daily Beast writes...
The erosion extends beyond Trump himself and into broader Republican electoral prospects. In the 2024 congressional elections, Republicans won non-college voters by 13 points. Looking ahead to 2026, that advantage has narrowed sharply to just 4 points, based on CNN polling and Enten’s aggregate.

“A four-point lead among non-college voters is not anywhere close to being good enough,” Enten warned, pointing out that Democrats are “dominating among voters with a college degree, up by 20 points.”
The voters are waking up to realize that Trump is in this for:
  1. Himself
  2. His families
  3. His billionaire friends
We The People are not on the list.
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Monday, February 09, 2026

It Was The Best of Halftimes, It was the Worst of Halftimes,

It was the best of halftimes, it was the worst of halftimes, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Love, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of hate, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to jails, we were all going direct the other way—in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
Dickerson was writing about another era but it is just as fitting now

AP News
By  MARIA SHERMAN
February 8, 2026


The sun hung low when Bad Bunny emerged in Puerto Rico’s sugar cane fields during his halftime show, surrounded by jíbaros in pavas (rural farmers in traditional straw hats), viejitos playing dominos (an affectionate term for older men) and a piragua stand (shaved ice) — undeniable symbols of Puerto Rico.

From a small Caribbean island with a complicated colonial history, to the world: The artist born Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio brought Puerto Rican culture to the Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California, for his 2026 Super Bowl halftime show in what was always going to be a landmark moment for Latinos.

[...]

In English: “My name is Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, and if I’m here today at Super Bowl 60 it’s because I never, ever stopped believing in myself and you should also believe in yourself, you’re worth more than you think.”

[...]

Behind him, a screen read “The only thing more powerful than hate is love” in English text, a direct reference to one of his recent speeches at the 2026 Grammys.
It was all about love, unity, and embracing our difference.
So what did Trump think of the show, for the turn to WUSA 9,
“Nobody understands a word this guy is saying, and the dancing is disgusting, especially for young children that are watching from throughout the U.S.A., and all over the World,” Trump said on social media. “This ‘Show’ is just a ‘slap in the face’ to our Country,” which Trump claimed is “setting new standards and records” daily.

“There is nothing inspirational about this mess of a Halftime Show and watch, it will get great reviews from the Fake News Media, because they haven’t got a clue of what is going on in the REAL WORLD,” he added before again urging the NFL to immediately replace its new kickoff rule. Trump said it’s “ridiculous.”
And then we had...


Turning Point USA’s “All-American” Halftime Show will probably go down in history as the most painful thing I experienced this week, and that will include the root canal I have scheduled on Thursday.

While millions of Americans tuned into Bad Bunny’s much-anticipated performance during the real halftime show during the actual Super Bowl, I was tasked with watching and recapping the “All-American” alternative thrown by Erika Kirk (widow of the late conservative podcaster Charlie Kirk) and led by Kid Rock. There were also a handful of country music Z-listers I’d never heard of until this week. I can only assume this was some sort of karmic punishment for taking French instead of Spanish in high school.

[...]

“Yeah, but Turning Point probably doesn’t have their shit together,” my husband replied. And he had a point. At 7:41 p.m., a 15-minute countdown began on the livestream, as did a series of creepy, conservative ads for things such as the TPUSA “Make Heaven Crowded” tour and the United States Department of War, as well as vague concepts like “saving our civilization.”
But the best part was, when Kid Rock took the to the stage the Hindustan Times writes,
Kid Rock, known for songs like All Summer Long and Born Free, was heavily criticized after his performance. “Wow! Kid Rock may be the worst Lip syncer I have ever seen. If you're just going to lip sync it, why not have Mike Lindell or Dr. Phil do it for you?,” Republican Jack Kimble wrote.

[...]

Another added, “Kid Rock showed up for one minute and lip sync’d every third bar from the first verse of Bawitdabawkbawkchickenhead while tweaking in jorts and playing with his fedora and then it awkwardly cut to a classical performance.”
To me it seems like the “All-American” was a big flop! Who would have expected it? 



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Mini-Post: Why’s Everybody Always Pickin’ On Me?

Let me count the ways!
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz spoke on Monday about the doctor shortage in rural communities—and his solution isn't going over well with critics.
Comic Sands
By Amelia Mavis Christnot
Feb 05, 2026


Former television presenter and author Mehmet Oz, MAGA Republican President Donald Trump's choice to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, spoke at a "fireside chat" for the "Action for Progress" initiative in Washington, D.C. on Monday.

During his remarks, Oz stated that rural communities would benefit from having AI avatars stand in for doctors. The Trump administration passed a law dramatically reducing funding for rural hospitals, which are already understaffed.
Gee... I think I can think of a better way... restore the cuts!
The multimillionaire has also said healthcare is a privilege, not a right, and suggested more people go to work immediately out of high school and retire later to eliminate the national debt.
Hey folks that what happened when you vote for a con artist! Some say the TrumpRx is scam


The American people know that Trump’s new “TrumpRx” website is nothing but a dressed-up window shopping page where Americans can peruse jacked-up prices for medications they can no longer afford thanks to the GOP war on health care. Most Americans won’t save any money by using the site, and experts warn that families could waste hundreds of dollars purchasing brand-name drugs on the site that are available for cheaper in generic form or through insurance. This latest Trump scheme is a slap in the face to the 22 million hard-working Americans who just saw their health insurance premiums double, triple, and even quadruple due to the Trump-GOP health care cuts — not to mention the millions losing coverage entirely. The vast majority of Americans wanted Trump to extend the Affordable Care Act (ACA) tax credits that kept health coverage affordable for millions. Instead, they got another election-year vanity project from a president who uses his power to make life easier for billionaires and big corporations while selling out working families every chance he gets. 
Politico reported...
The drug-pricing deals can undoubtedly be seen as political wins at a time when Democrats are pounding the White House over high prices. They will save Medicaid money in the short run, allow Americans to buy discounted drugs with cash directly from drug companies and boost domestic pharmaceutical manufacturing.

But will most Americans feel like the deals make their lives more affordable?

The answer is likely “No” — at least not in the near future — according to some health policy analysts and drug-pricing experts.

The confidential agreements lack some critical details and largely don’t help the roughly two-thirds of Americans who use private health insurance, they say. It’s also unclear whether the deals — which are voluntary on the part of drugmakers — will last beyond the current administration.

“The vast majority of consumers are not going to see any benefit in their pocketbook,” said Chris Meekins, a Raymond James health care analyst, and a former health official in the first Trump administration.
Once again... Trump's healthcare is all smoke and mirrors!
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It Is Doing What Trump Wants It To Do.

[Editorial]

I am at a crossroads with my blog. It is taking an emotional toll on me.

It is hard writing about all the injustices. I don’t just write about them—I read many articles on the topic, and that’s the part that is really getting to me.

There are so many people out there encouraging ICE to bash more heads. There are so many cheering the killing. They see ICE as heroes defending the nation. I can’t understand it.

I read comments to get a sense of how people are thinking (I used to be on the Family Institute of Connecticut email list to keep up with what they were saying), and the tone is starting to change over what ICE is doing. The polls are showing it.

I think Trump is on a downward spiral, and I also think that is when he is most dangerous. I have seen one judge’s order after another ignored. There are executive orders being shot down by the courts one after another. As his poll numbers tank, I worry that he is going to do something crazy on election day.

He lashes out at one group one day and praises them the next. He slaps a huge tariff on a country, then rolls it back. He singles out states that didn’t vote for him and makes personal demands of them, like naming railroad stations after him. He’s vindictive.

I worry that he is going to do something reckless along the lines of January 6 if Congress flips.

So I don’t know where my blog is heading. My daily hits are around 2,000 to 10,000 per day, and that weighs on my thoughts. Some days I just want to walk away; the next day I publish five blogs.

I don’t want to publish negative stories all the time, but there is so much bad out there that I just can’t leave it unchallenged.

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Sunday, February 08, 2026

Gag Me With A Spoon!

Okay... all you Super Bowl fans. This is your warning, MAGA spent millions on ads during the game!
The same crowd that wants to keep politics out of sports has purchased a multimillion-dollar commercial spot to air during the Super Bowl.
Daily Beast
Josh Fiallo
Feb. 4 2026


Those hoping to escape the daily chaos of MAGA 2.0 during the Super Bowl may want to take a bathroom break after the National Anthem.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent boasted on Wednesday about the pricey ad spot purchased to tout “Trump accounts,” set to air just after pop singer Charlie Puth performs the “Star-Spangled Banner” this coming Sunday.

Bessent, 63, said he anticipates a “flood of sign-ups” as a result of the commercial airing in full on Feb. 8.

“I would tell everyone to look for the commercial right after the national anthem at the Super Bowl this weekend,” he testified to the House Financial Services Committee. “I think we are prepared for a flood of sign-ups, and then they will go live on July 5.”

The Treasury Department did not immediately respond to the Daily Beast’s request for comment.

Thirty-second advertisements in prime spots cost $10 million for this year’s Super Bowl in Santa Clara, California, NBC has revealed. The average cost for standard spots are $8 million, and pre-game broadcast spots run at about $7 million, according to the Sports Business Journal.

Semafor reported in January that a pro-Trump group would be footing the bill for the ad.
So enjoy the game but don't gag over the MAGA commercials!

Then we have the racist, xenophobic halftime show!
The conservative organization first announced its plans for a halftime show alternative following right-wing backlash to Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny.
Hollywood Reporter
By Ethan Millman
February 2, 2026


Kid Rock is set to headline Turning Point USA’s MAGA-friendly alternative “All-American” Super Bowl halftime show, the organization announced on Monday.

TPUSA — the organization co-founded by the assassinated right-wing political figure Charlie Kirk — had first announced its plans for a halftime show of its own last fall, following conservative backlash over the selection of Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny to headline this year’s event.

“We’re approaching this show like David and Goliath,” Kid Rock said in a statement of the upcoming show. “Competing with the pro football machine and a global pop superstar is almost impossible … or is it?”

[...]

Aside from Kid Rock, a vocal Trump ally, the lineup also includes musicians Brantley Gilbert, Lee Brice and Gabby Barrett. The show will air on TPUSA’s socials, as well as Daily Wire+, Real America’s Voice, TBN, CHARGE!, The National News Desk, NTD.com and OAN News.

“The All-American Halftime Show is an opportunity for all Americans to enjoy a halftime show with no agenda other than to celebrate faith, family and freedom,” Turning Point USA spokesman Andrew Kolvet said in a statement.
Not one of them have won any Grammys!

The simple fact is that they are having an alternative halftime show because Bad Bunny is Latino and sings in Spanish. Never mind that he just made history by winning Album of the Year at the 2026 Grammys—his 6th win total—that clearly doesn't matter to the MAGA crowd. He has over 100 Latin Gold/Platinum records and a massive global reach! But none of that matters because they have has-been Kid Rock, an artist who hasn't had a major hit in nearly 20 years and has zero Grammy wins to his name. To me it seems like is was for Trump's patronage he would be a nobody.
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Speak No Evil

Their goal is to eradicate us, speak no trans stuff, write no trans stuff they want to wipe us out, they want to criminalize us!
She was fired for acknowledging trans people exist. Now she’s fighting back.
“There’s no satisfaction in doing this, only sadness.”
LGBTQ Nation
Daniel Villarreal (he/him)
February 4, 2026


Melissa McCoul, the now-former Texas A&M University lecturer who was fired for teaching that transgender people exist, filed a federal lawsuit against the university on Tuesday. McCoul alleges that university administrators violated her free speech and due process rights just to appease transphobic politicians after a student recorded her classroom disagreement with the lecturer.

McCoul’s lawsuit accuses the chief of staff of Texas Gov. Gregg Abbott (R) of pressuring the university’s now-resigned President Mark A. Welsh III to fire her. It also accuses A&M’s supervisors of telling university Provost Alan Sams not to give her a required disciplinary hearing before her termination.
You know their a thing here called a Constitution and the Frist Amendment?
McCaul says she was fired even though she didn’t violate any law or university policy. “Instead, [McCaul was] terminated for exercising her academic freedom guaranteed under the First Amendment,” her lawsuit states. McCaul seeks reinstatement to her position, punitive damages, back pay, and other restitution.
But laws and the Constitution mean nothing to the Republicans!
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Saturday, February 07, 2026

Their Hatred Knows No Bounds

They are sending people to their deaths, and the administration seems to revel in it. Their hostility toward LGBTQ+ individuals apparently knows no limits.
Attorneys say new transfer agreements and court tactics allow the U.S. to sidestep asylum rulings, risking removals to countries where LGBTQ+ people face imprisonment, torture, or execution.
The Advocate
Christopher Wiggins
Jan 29, 2026


The Trump administration is quietly advancing immigration policies that attorneys and LGBTQ+ advocates say could send asylum seekers to their deaths, including by transferring queer and transgender people to countries such as Uganda and Iran, where same-sex relationships and gender nonconformity are criminalized and can be punished by imprisonment, torture, or execution.

[...]

LGBTQ+ asylum seekers facing possible removal to Uganda
Much of the concern centers on Uganda, where LGBTQ people face some of the most severe legal penalties in the world. Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Act, passed in 2023, prescribes life imprisonment for consensual same-sex relationships and allows for the death penalty in cases labeled “aggravated homosexuality.” The law also criminalizes what it calls the “promotion” of homosexuality, a provision that human rights groups say has been used to justify arrests, harassment, and the suppression of LGBTQ+ advocacy.

Ugandan authorities have continued to arrest men accused of same-sex conduct under these laws.

“Uganda is not a safe place for LGBTQ people,” Wolf said. “The idea that we would send people there to try to adjudicate their protection claims is deeply concerning.”
There is a law in the US that says you cannot do that! The Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights at the Harvard Kennedy School writes in The U.S. Refugee Re-Vetting Order Violates the Principle of Non-Refoulement that,
It marks a profound shift in how the United States interprets one of its core obligations under international law: the prohibition on refoulement, the principle that forbids returning a person to a country where their life or freedom would be threatened. By turning refugee status from a durable legal commitment into a conditional category subject to political reinterpretation, the administration is testing the limits of what non-refoulement can withstand.

[...]

U.S. jurisprudence mirrors the international cases. In Matter of Toboso-Alfonso the Board of Immigration Appeals recognized sexual orientation as a basis for a “particular social group”.  In Avendano-Hernandez v. Lynch, the Ninth Circuit held that a transgender woman who suffered police and military abuse in Mexico faced a clear probability of torture if returned. In Bringas-Rodriguez v. Sessions, the court rejected the notion that LGBTQI+ survivors of violence must first seek protection from authorities known to persecute them.These decisions affirm that criminalization and state-enabled violence meet the threshold that “life or freedom would be threatened.” There is no question that the United States has long recognized this standard, even as current policy drifts from it.
There is no question that the United States has long recognized this standard, yet the current administration shows a complete lack of respect for these laws.

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Saturday 9: You Make Me Feel So Young

On Saturdays I take a break from the heavy stuff and have some fun… 
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Unfamiliar with this week's tune? Hear it here.

1) This morning, do you feel younger or older than your years?
Well I’m at an age where getting out of bed consist of a lot grunts and groans, snaps and pops!

2) In this song, Frank Sinatra tells us that every time he sees his lover's grin, he's happy. What's something you can reliably count on to lift your spirits?
A chocolate milk shakes!

3) The lyrics mention hide-and-seek. What games did you play when you were young? 
Well, it depends upon what you mean by “games” I liked playing Monopoly, and hide-n-seek.
 
4) Frank Sinatra was a fan of Campbell's chicken and rice soup, believing it helped his throat feel better after an evening of performing. Is Campbell's soup in your kitchen right now?
Yeah, but I have to throw them out, they have been in cupboard for years and they are out dated.
 
5) Frank's favorite dessert was a slice of lemon ricotta torte. He believed every meal should include "a final flourish." Do you more often indulge in or skip dessert?
Well tonight I’m going to dinner with some friends and I’ll ask for a “dogie bag”. It is going to be hard to pick between Tuscan Seafood Pasta & Lobster Carbonara

6) At Sinatra's home in Palm Springs, CA, you'd find a less sophisticated dessert. He always kept Entenmann's Crumb Cake on hand for his young granddaughters. Share a memory of your grandparents.
I don’t have many memories of my grandfathers, the only memory of my are their big feet. My maternal grandmothers memories… the food at holidays.
 
7) In 1956, when this song was popular, Frank was tooling around Southern California in a blue Continental Mark II. That model was known for its interior of hand-stitched imported Scottish leather. 70 years later, Scottish leather is still used in luxury cars because it's both soft and durable and the production methods minimize environmental impact. If you could splurge on something right now, what would it be? A luxury car, jewelry, travel, clothes, something else? (No responsible answers allowed!)
Oh, man! When you are my age you splurge doctors, last weekend I did my bills and all the checks that I wrote were for doctors!
 
8) Also in 1956, The Invasion of the Body Snatchers and Forbidden Planet were popular at the box office. Do you have a favorite sci-fi movie?
I’ll go with 2001: A Space Odyssey
I would say that we the first real Sci-Fi movie, the other were monster movies.

9) Random question: What were you doing three hours ago?
Zzzzz… cutting wood, getting “Zs”, sleeping. It was 5 AM when I wrote this.
 
Who's watching the Super Bowl?
 
A friend is coming over to watch it with me, hot dogs and chili, with tons of munchies.

P.S. The high temperature tomorrow will be around 0F! With a fire in the woodstove!
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Friday, February 06, 2026

Changes!

A couple of the medical associations have changed their policies on us.
The recommendations are not establishing new clinical practice guidelines for gender-affirming care, one organization said.
The Advocate
By Trudy Ring
Feb 05, 2026


The American Medical Association, which has long supported gender-affirming care for transgender youth, has now endorsed some restrictions.

The AMA recommended Wednesday that any gender-affirming surgeries be delayed until adulthood, The New York Times reports. While genital surgery is almost never performed on minors, some teens undergo top surgery or facial modifications. Gender-affirming care for youth more commonly includes puberty blockers, hormone therapy, social transition, and counseling.
Healthcare providers in New York state were successfully sued for $2 million! If I had to guess I would say that this was the results of the lawsuit.
Numerous hospitals have stopped providing gender-affirming care to young people, fearing the loss of funding. The actions by the AMA and the ASPS may stop with the surgery recommendations, or they may lead to further restrictions on this care, making it harder for trans youth to access.

The plastic surgeons group cited two studies that are controversial among health care professionals and supporters of trans rights — the U.K.’s Cass Review and a report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the latter of which promotes conversion therapy and discredits gender-affirming care. Advocates and experts have said both the Cass Review and the HHS report are filled with misinformation, ignoring studies that indicate gender-affirming care is beneficial for young people.
See this morning's post.

Market Place writes that,
That rule is not in effect yet, and 19 states have sued to block it, but hospitals are spooked; many wouldn’t be able to operate without Medicaid and Medicare funding. Already in recent weeks, a number have stopped offering gender-affirming care to minors, at least for now.

The attacks on transition-related care, at both the state and federal levels, are having a profound effect on transgender kids and their families. They’re also having a profound effect on health care providers. 

In Colorado, two big hospitals that offered gender-affirming care to kids and teenagers, Children’s Hospital and Denver Health, both stopped in early January. Casey Cash, a family nurse practitioner in Fort Collins, was on vacation with her family for the new year when the news broke.
The hospitals are running sacred and can't blame them... most of their funding comes through Medicare and Medicaid funds. Many families are migrating north to Democratic states, but also many doctors and healthcare providers are also fleeing. Med schools are seeing a drop in students in states that ban abortions and trans healthcare... they want a complete education with training for abortions and trans care.
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This Is Disgusting!

This is what Trump posted on X
Tell me this this isn't racist?
Trump shares racist video depicting Obamas as apes
CBS News
By Melissa Quinn
Updated on: February 6, 2026
 
 
President Trump posted to social media late Thursday an election-conspiracy video that includes racist footage depicting former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama as apes.

The video, which is just over a minute long, promotes false claims that the 2020 presidential election was rigged against Mr. Trump. Toward the end of the video is a roughly two-second clip that shows the Obamas' heads edited onto the bodies of primates, with the song "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" playing.

Mr. Trump shared the video to his Truth Social account at 11:44 p.m. Thursday. 

Obama was the nation's first Black president and Michelle Obama was the first Black first lady. Mr. Trump has a history of sharing disparaging and racist memes about the Obamas. The president also amplified for years a conspiracy theory that Obama was born in Kenya and therefore ineligible to serve as president. Amid pressure to disavow the so-called "birther" claim, Mr. Trump finally said during the 2016 presidential campaign that "President Obama was born in the United States. Period."
Trump true colors have come out! He follows in his father's KKK footsteps! 
 
The Guardian writes that,
By 8.30am ET Friday, the post had attracted about 4,000 likes but also garnered outrage from both sides of the aisle for the inclusion of such a blatant racist trope about the US’s first Black president and his wife, both Democrats.
That also says a lot about his loyal followers!
 “There’s no ‘misinterpretation’ and no excuse. This is who he is, who he’s always been, and why he should never be anywhere near power again. And there’s a reason the tapes from The Apprentice have never been released,” he said.
When the flack about the post, Trump does what he does best... TACO = “Trump Always Chickens Out.”


US President Donald Trump has removed a social media video which included a racist clip depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes.

The clip - set to the song The Lion Sleeps Tonight - was at the end of a 62-second video containing claims about voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election.

Republican Senator Tim Scott - who is black - had called for the president to remove the post, describing it as "the most racist thing I've seen out of this White House".

The White House initially defended the clip as an "internet meme video" and told critics to "stop the fake outrage".

The clip - which is reminiscent of racist caricatures comparing black people to monkeys - appears to be taken from an X post shared by conservative meme creator Xerias in October.

That video also depicts several other high-profile Democrats as animals, including New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Trump's predecessor in the White House, Joe Biden, also is depicted as an ape eating a banana.
How the hell did he think that this was appropriate!


Update: 5:40PM

This is what they are now saying, The Guardian writes;
Multiple outlets cite a senior White House official as saying:
A White House staffer erroneously made the post. It has been taken down.
The post was up for 12 hours.
You know this is actually worsen the incident. Think about what they are saying, that it implies that racist content is circulating casually enough inside the operation that a staffer had it ready to post.


Update: 10:PM

This photo says it all about why the White House didn't think anything about the video...




Update: 2/7 @ 5AM

More updates on Trump's racist post... he is not apologizing!
Asked if he condemns the racist part of the video, Trump said, "Of course I do."
ABC News
By Justin Gomez , Isabella Murray, Hannah Demissie, Michelle Stoddart, Sarah Kolinovsky, and Nicholas Kerr
February 6, 2026


President Donald Trump told reporters he didn't see the entire video before it was shared on his social media platform late Thursday night that included a racist animation of former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama depicted with the bodies of apes and suggested he won't apologize for it.

Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One on Friday evening, Trump said he only saw the first part of the since-deleted video that focused on debunked claims about the 2020 election.

"I guess during the end of it, there was some kind of picture people don't like. I wouldn't like it either, but I didn't see it," Trump said. "I just, I looked at the first part, and it was really about voter fraud."
Okay this raises many, many more questions!

What he just said was, he doesn't review stuff that he signs that are is in his name! So he lets underling write and post stuff on social media with knowing what's being posted! That is scary!
Asked if he would apologize for the video, Trump said, "No, I didn't make a mistake. I mean ... I look at a lot of, thousands of, things, and I looked at the beginning of it. It was fine."
So he admits that he is doing a half-ass of running the White House!
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, when first asked for comment early Friday, had said, "This is from an internet meme video depicting President Trump as the King of the Jungle and Democrats as characters from the Lion King. Please stop the fake outrage and report on something today that actually matters to the American public."
My dear, we are not faking it! And if you don't see it you are just as bad as your boss!


Update: 2/7 @ 6AM



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He Is At It Again!

Question: What is ICE doing to undocumented immigrants?

Arresting them and deporting them?



Courts and executive branch agencies have customarily interpreted the citizenship clause as granting U.S. citizenship at birth to everyone born in the United States except for children born to diplomats, Native Americans, and invading military forces. Indeed, other than these three narrow exceptions, courts and past presidential administrations since 1868, when the 14th Amendment was ratified, treated as irrelevant the citizenship or immigration status of a child’s parents. (In 1924, President Calvin Coolidge signed the Indian Citizenship Act, which gave U.S. citizenship to all Native Americans born in the United States.)

Despite this, on the first day of his second term, Trump issued an executive order narrowly interpreting the citizenship clause. According to the executive order, children born in the United States should not be treated as U.S. citizens if they are born to a father who is neither a U.S. citizen nor lawful permanent resident and a mother who was living in the United States – at the time of the child’s birth – under a temporary visa or without the federal government’s permission.
Okay, lets look at the 14th Amendment:
Fourteenth Amendment  Equal Protection and Other Rights
Section 1 Rights
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Lets take it apart, "...and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside" You know the part where it says "subject to the jurisdiction" all those ICE arrests means that they are subject to the laws!

Um... "deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law" that means Trump cannot ship undocumented people out of the country without a court hearing!
The Justice Department’s claim that the 14th Amendment grants citizenship only to the children of people who owe “primary allegiance” to the United States likewise builds on decontextualized quotations. Of the three members of Congress and two senators that the government highlights, four – Senators Justin Morrill and Philemon Bliss as well as Representatives John Broomall and Martin Russell Thayer – describe allegiance as deriving directly from birth in the United States. Morrill, for example, said that “every man, by his birth, is entitled to citizenship, and that upon the general principle that he owes allegiance to the country of his birth, and that country owes him protection.” The government’s brief quotes a comment from Morrill about allegiance and protection, but by not presenting this statement the brief ignores Morrill’s broader position: a man is a citizen of the country in which he is born because he owes it allegiance and it owes him protection. Independently, Bliss, Broomall, and Thayer express similar views. At no point do any of them qualify citizenship like the Justice Department claims.
Um... where does it say that in the Amendment? I don't see that written anywhere?

The only reason why they are attacking the 14th Amendment is because they are xenophobic!
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Thursday, February 05, 2026

Mixed Out Comes.

As you read this, keep one thing in mind... the Republicans think being trans a choice!
“They have no intention of actually using the data,” a Utah health provider treating transgender youth said.
The 19th News
By Emily Anderson Stern, The Salt Lake Tribune
February 4, 2026

Few Utahns have witnessed the effects of withdrawing transgender kids’ access to care as Collin Kuhn, a clinical child and adolescent psychologist who specializes in helping their clients navigate challenges and questions related to gender.

The difference between receiving care and not receiving care, they said, is “night and day.”

“All of a sudden, socially, their world opens up,” Kuhn said of transgender clients after they start hormone therapy — treatment that, Kuhn added, doesn’t start until the client has met with them or another mental health professional for a year or longer. “They’re not just isolating and sitting in their rooms behind a screen.”

[...]

But in 2023, Utah lawmakers passed what they referred to as a “moratorium” on gender-affirming care for transgender youth, then-state Sen. Mike Kennedy’s SB16. The bill’s GOP proponents, at the time, repeatedly insisted they were concerned for minors’ health and safety. So as part of the law, the Legislature commissioned an in-depth review of all research into the effects of hormone treatments.
And the results didn't come out the way they thought it would.
As the Republican supermajority now moves toward permanently banning such care in Utah, lawmakers continue to sidestep public dialogue about the results of that research — which concluded that gender-affirming care for minors with gender dysphoria is largely found to result in positive outcomes and reduce the likelihood of suicide.

Records obtained by The Salt Lake Tribune indicate legislative staff aiding the Health and Human Services Interim Committee initially planned on lawmakers discussing the review’s findings after the report’s delivery last May.
Hey wait a minute! We have to hide this... 
Gov. Spencer Cox said at a June news conference that he felt Utah’s limits on access to gender-affirming care are “probably in the right place right now,” adding, “There doesn’t seem to be an appetite to readdress it. I think things have shifted significantly over the past couple years.”
WTF! Trans kid will die! Trans kid will be effected for the rest of their lives with their deep voices all because the governor doesn't have the appetite to readdress it!


This is not good news!
A New York woman received $1.6M for pain and suffering and $400K for future medical expenses after suing doctors over teen transgender surgery
By Chloe Cole Fox News
February 5, 2026


Two million dollars.

That’s how much money a 22-year-old woman just won in a New York lawsuit against her doctors. She sued them for medical malpractice after they cut off her breasts when she was 16. They told her she could become a boy, even though that’s biologically impossible. Now she has won the first-ever lawsuit against doctors who try to give sex changes to kids.

That brave young woman isn’t alone.
This is the bull that the right-wing is pushing out!
The woman in New York has a heartbreaking story. She accused a psychologist and surgeon of pressuring her to get a sex-change surgery when she was a teenager. While her mother was opposed to the surgery, she felt like she had no choice but to allow it. That checks out: Doctors tell parents all the time that without a sex change, their child is going to commit suicide. How can a parent argue with that?
I don't know any therapist with forced or encouraged their patients to transition!
For that matter, every doctor who’s even remotely involved in providing sex changes should stop — immediately. People like me are coming for them. They pressured us and hurt us in profound ways. We demand justice. The $2 million that New York woman just won is a start. But this won’t end until the medical profession atones for its actions and stops giving sex changes to children once and for all.
The National Review writes,
By Brittany Bernstein
February 2, 2026


Welcome back to Forgotten Fact Checks. This week, we look at the lack of mainstream media coverage of a major verdict in a gender “detransitioner” medical-malpractice case, and cover more media misses.

As readers of National Review will know, a woman who received a double mastectomy at only 16 as an act of “gender-affirming” care was just awarded $2 million in the first successful medical-malpractice lawsuit brought by a detransitioner.

[...]

Twenty-eight detransitioner lawsuits are now in different stages of legal proceedings across the U.S., according to the New York Post. But Varian’s is the first known successful lawsuit. The case could open the floodgates for lawsuits of its kind.
This is horrible! This will not only affect minors but also those over 21... the hospitals and healthcare providers are going to backing off surgeries!


Then we have discrimination in the health care industry!


In summary
The Unruh Civil Rights Act provides the fundamental protection for equal access to health care regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity, experts say. The state has not acted to uphold those protections, transgender rights groups claim.
On Friday evening, California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a lawsuit against the state’s largest children’s health provider. The complaint accused Rady Children’s Health in San Diego of taking steps to illegally terminate gender-affirming care for transgender youth.

News of the lawsuit spread quickly through chat groups of parents of transgender kids, LGBTQ organizations and the broader transgender community. It was the first major action the state has taken against a hospital that had severely limited or ended transgender health services.

Many in the community see this move as a major step towards protecting transgender health, but some still question why the state’s legal claims don’t rest on broader civil rights questions. Instead, the key argument relies on the state’s corporations code — a provision governing business transactions — to try to compel Rady into continuing gender-affirming care.
The hospitals are between a rock and a hard place with the fed saying that they will cutoff Medicare and Medicaid funding and the state saying not so fast!
California’s civil rights law — the Unruh Civil Rights Act — is the backbone of the state’s guarantee of equal access to transgender health services, which can include puberty blockers, hormones, surgery and therapy, said Megan Noor, a staff attorney at the Transgender Law Center. The law prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. 

Noor said that means, for example, if a hospital offers puberty blockers to a cisgender child who is starting puberty too young, they cannot deny access to that same treatment to a transgender child even if it is for a different purpose, such as giving the child more time to explore their gender identity. 
But the hard fact is the feds will bankrupt the hospital by cuttings the funding!
Hospitals say their hands were forced by an unfriendly federal government that does not recognize the existence of transgender people. 

On his first day in office, President Donald Trump issued an executive order characterizing transgender health procedures as “chemical and surgical mutilation” and directing agencies to defund any supportive programs. 

Since then his administration has intensified the pressure against health care organizations. Over the summer, federal investigators issued subpoenas to clinics and hospitals around the country, alleging fraud and seeking medical records. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in November published a self-described peer reviewed report “on the medical dangers posed to children” of gender-affirming care.
And as usual we get caught in the middle!
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They Just Made A Big Mistake

[Editorial]

The Republicans just made a big, big mistake! Huge.

The Hour reported that,
“As the 102 Democratic majority stood up and cheered, Republicans including Sen. Rob Sampson of Wolcott, Rep. Ben McGorty of Shelton, Rep. Kurt Vail of Stafford walked out. State Rep. Cara Pavalock-D'Amato of Bristol wore a sweater with the words "ICE IN," on the back. The walkout and ICE criticism comes at a time of heightened tension and scrutiny nationwide.”
While Republicans continue to harp on crime and undocumented immigrants, residents are starting to look around and ask: Where? Most of us don’t see it. Yes, crime exists, but we don’t need federal "surge" tactics in our neighborhoods. As the GOP tries to force national rhetoric into local politics, voters are seeing through the facade.

We see the videos on Facebook and the reports on TV. We see the violence and realize: That isn’t us. We aren’t like that. So why are there ICE raids here?

As the polls show, the people don’t like what they are seeing,  Quinnipiac University reported that,
“61% Of Voters Think The Trump Administration Has Not Given An Honest Account Of The Fatal Shooting Of Alex Pretti, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; 58% Of Voters Think DHS Secretary Kristi Noem Should Be Removed”
So I hope that the Connecticut Republicans continue supporting Trump. Because the voters are saying enough! Enough!


Wow six! It is a regular crime wave! This is the bull that the CT Republicans are pushing! Six undocumented arrested by ICE and they want to call in ICE thugs! 

And this also is why they are losing...
In the weeks since ICE agents began conducting operations across the city, Westminster Presbyterian has given its members a place to protest on their own terms.
The New York Times
By Claire Fahy
Feb. 3, 2026


On Sunday morning, as some people packed the diners in downtown Minneapolis in search of warm breakfast and coffee, others filed into the pews at Westminster Presbyterian.

One detail, however, hinted that this wasn’t a typical weekly service — a woman with knitting needles was making a red hat worn by many of those who have poured into the streets to deplore the presence of immigration agents.

The church offered a quieter but, for many, an equally powerful form of protest: prayer. Absent were the animal onesies and profanity-laden chants of the crowds outside the B.H. Whipple Federal Building. In their place were hymns, scripture and a full-throated sermon.

“The main reason why Operation Metro Surge has not gone according to the Department of Homeland Security’s plan is because the architects assumed that Minnesotans would turn on one another, or decide that it’s too costly to show solidarity to people who are suffering or who are gripped by fear,” the Rev. Matthew Skinner declared from the pulpit. “So far, we haven’t done that.”

Places of worship have played pivotal roles in protests throughout history. The Presbyterian Church has urged members into action in the Revolutionary War and supported the civil rights movement. Since Immigration and Customs Enforcement began operations in Minnesota in December, leaders of many faiths have provided support for the people resisting.
ICE’s presence isn't driving wedges between us; it’s uniting us. We see the violence and hear the rhetoric, and we respond: That this is not us. That is not the U.S. The Republicans seem to have forgotten the lessons of Selma, Montgomery, Birmingham, and Little Rock. They’ve forgotten that there comes a point where the American people simply say, "Enough." In the 1960s, that message was delivered on the evening news; today, it’s being delivered via social media.

These aren't "radical leftists" protesting in the streets or praying in the pews—they are our neighbors. And that is exactly why the GOP is losing the room.

[Editorial]
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Wednesday, February 04, 2026

It Is Getting Worst!

It used to be we only got arrested, now they sicced bounty hunters on us!
A new Kansas law lets those “aggrieved” by the presence of a trans person in a bathroom to file a civil suit for monetary damages.
The Intercept
Natasha Lennard
February 3 2026


With masked paramilitary forces grabbing nonwhite people from the streets and shooting civilians with impunity, it can be difficult to keep focus on all the other ways Republicans are entrenching a fascist status quo nationwide. For trans people, however, the legislative and policy assaults, which have been escalating red states for nearly a decade, are only getting worse — and, as ever, drawing all too little concern from Democratic leaders.

Just last week, the Kansas legislature passed some of the most far-reaching measures to push trans and gender-nonconforming people out of public life to date. Bathroom bans that bar trans people from restrooms aligned with their gender identity have become grimly common; over 20 states have such a law on the books. But Kansas’s new anti-trans bathroom bill adds a dangerous twist: a bounty hunter provision.

The law would permit private citizens to sue and seek monetary reward based on claiming to encounter a trans person in the bathroom. That’s on top of some of the harshest punishments of any existing bathroom bans, such as criminal charges, steep fines and even jail time.
This is sick!

How can we fight this? We need our trans men friends to start obeying the law and use women's bathrooms! We need our women friend s to dress up looking as masculine to get arrested! We need to tie them up in court with wrongful arrests!
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First Amendment!

The Constitution doesn't mean anything; the Law doesn't mean anything. Court orders? They’re treated the same way. The Trump administration does whatever it wants!
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Those forty-five words lay the foundation for our freedoms!

Those forty-five words lay the foundation for our freedoms! Yet, those using their First Amendment rights are being punished with court hearings without even being arrested—targeted simply for following a vehicle while a woman was denied the right to travel here in the United States!
By Ashley Grams
Updated on: February 3, 2026
CBS Minnesota


As the immigration crackdown continues in Minnesota, Nicole Cleland, a resident of Richfield, Minnesota, believes federal agents identified her through facial recognition software. 

Cleland has actively protested against the deployment of federal agents in the Twin Cities. She says she's a trained observer, following officers of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, as well as Customs and Border Protection. Her account is detailed in a lawsuit filed alongside other observers against the Department of Homeland Security 

On Jan. 10, Cleland says she was following a truck with federal agents inside.

[...]

Cleland described the unmasked Border Patrol agent as stern while warning that he was using facial recognition and his body camera was rolling. 

"He said, 'I'm giving you a warning. This is the only verbal warning that you're going to get,'" Cleland recounted. 

One source briefed on DHS tactics confirmed to CBS News that Border Patrol uses facial recognition software, including Mobile Fortify, to scan the faces of demonstrators.
Then they denied her right to travel like some communist country!
Cleland said three days after that interaction with Border Patrol, she received an email notice that said her Global Entry was revoked. 

"You can click on a link and there is a letter that just says, 'Your status has been changed. We're not obligated to give you any reason for that change,'" Cleland said after showing WCCO the revocation notice. 

Cleland says she's used Global Entry since 2014 and was reapproved in 2024. Global Entry status typically lasts for five years. 

While CBP did not share a reason, Cleland describes the timing as "pretty coincidental," noting she had no issues with the traveler program in the past.
No hearing, no court, nothing but some bureaucrat red-lining her because she exercised her 1st Amendment rights for a redress of grievances. The other thing is that the government now has a database of those who are legally using their 1st Amendment rights!

Attack on the freedom of the press...
Agents searched Hannah Natanson’s Virginia home and seized devices in inquiry tied to a classified materials case
The Guardian
Richard Luscombe and Jeremy Barr
Wed 14 Jan 2026


The FBI raided the home of a Washington Post reporter early on Wednesday in what the newspaper called a “highly unusual and aggressive” move by law enforcement, and press freedom groups condemned as a “tremendous intrusion” by the Trump administration.

Agents descended on the Virginia home of Hannah Natanson as part of an investigation into a government contractor accused of illegally retaining classified government materials.

An email sent on Wednesday afternoon to Post staff from the executive editor, Matt Murray, obtained by the Guardian, said agents turned up “unannounced”, searched her home and seized electronic devices.

[...]

“It’s a clear and appalling sign that this administration will set no limits on its acts of aggression against an independent press,” Marty Baron, the Post’s former executive editor, told the Guardian.
Hey, the Constitution is only for losers!

Oh, and they forgot one little detail when they got the warrant... they forgot to tell the judge it was for a reporter... Ops. Sorry about that boss.

The website Reporters Committee reports that,
“In its affidavit, the government did not reference the federal law that prohibits, with few exceptions, raids targeting journalists or newsrooms to seize unpublished work. The government appears to have ignored a crucial press freedom guardrail in searching a journalist’s home and did not alert the magistrate judge to the law’s application in this case, let alone show how or if it had complied with the statute’s considerable protections.”

That federal law is the Privacy Protection Act of 1980, which created essential protections for journalists and newsrooms from government searches and seizures. Congress passed it out of concern that such raids could stanch the free flow of information to the public.
The Trump & Company seems to have a little problem with reading — they keep adding thing like "freedom of the press only if it is good news..."

Then we have the Department of Justice banning gun possession in Washington DC!
February 2, 2026


U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro on Monday threatened jail time for people who bring firearms into Washington.

“I don’t care if you have a license in another district, and I don’t care if you’re a law-abiding gun owner somewhere else,” Pirro said on Fox News. “You bring a gun into this district, count on going to jail.”

[...]

But the remarks prompted outrage from gun rights advocates and some Republicans, adding to mounting friction between the Trump administration and gun owners following the fatal shooting of Minneapolis intensive care nurse Alex Pretti.

The National Association for Gun Rights called Pirro’s assertion “unacceptable and intolerable,” suggesting it shows how “broken and out of touch” local gun laws are.
The 2nd Amendment... bah humbug!

The Guardian writes that the Trump adminstration has ignored court orders;
Chief US district judge Patrick Schiltz demanded ICE lead Todd Lyons explain himself personally in a three-page order issued Monday evening, declaring that “the court’s patience is at an end”.

The rebuke follows weeks of tilting anger during the so-called “Operation Metro Surge”, the Trump administration’s large-scale, aggressive and now deadly immigration enforcement campaign in Minneapolis-St Paul. The operation has generated numerous emergency lawsuits from immigrants claiming unlawful arrest or detention, with judges consistently ruling in their favor.

Schiltz, appointed by George W Bush, accused the Trump administration of deliberately delaying or ignoring judicial directives across Minnesota’s federal courts. His order came in the case of a man he had ordered released on 15 January who remained in custody as of Monday night.
Ha, laws? They're just for Democrats!

Then they are politicizing the law by attacking opponents and going after judges whose rulings they don't like. The right-wing Washington Examiner reported that.
A federal appeals court judge quietly dismissed a judicial misconduct complaint the Justice Department filed against U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, dealing a setback to the Trump administration’s effort to challenge one of its most prominent judicial critics in the fight over deportations to El Salvador.

The complaint was rejected on Dec. 19, 2025, by Jeffrey Sutton, the chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, although the order did not become public until this weekend. Sutton concluded that the DOJ failed to back up its allegations with evidence and fell well short of the standard required for a misconduct finding, according to a seven-page decision.

The complaint centered on James Boasberg, the chief judge of the federal district court in Washington, D.C., who repeatedly clashed with President Donald Trump’s administration last year over its use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelan migrants to a high-security prison in El Salvador.
Laws mean nothing to this administration. With the Supreme Court ruling that the President is above the law, a spineless Congress, and a base that loves the lawlessness, people are being denied their constitutional rights. The government has crossed the line from "serving the people" to "monitoring the subjects."

"Your papers, please!"
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