... The plutonium levels were more than double the Environmental Protection Agency’s “action level,” when further steps must be taken to ensure public safety, according to the letter. ...
The story is here.
Friday, October 31, 2025
Irony alert: Masked ICE, DHS, CBP employees who get to hide their identities roam the streets with facial recognition capability to gather images and fingerprints of citizens
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
You thought you were voting for deportations of illegals, and you got an Obama-style police state instead.
If you see ICE, CBP, DHS on the street, turn around and go the other way, and vote against these bastards.
You Can't Refuse To Be Scanned by ICE's Facial Recognition App, DHS Document Says
... On Wednesday 404 Media reported that both ICE and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) are scanning peoples’ faces in the streets to verify citizenship.
... The app can also scan peoples’ fingerprints and provide information based on those, and uploads location data “so ICE can identify where the encounter took place.”
“Although the intended purpose of the Mobile Fortify Application is to identify aliens who are removable from the United States, users may use Mobile Fortify to collect information in identifiable form about individuals regardless of citizenship or immigration status. It is conceivable that a photo taken by an agent using the Mobile Fortify mobile application could be that of someone other than an alien, including U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents,” the document continues.
... “By using the Mobile Fortify app to provide real-time responses to biometric queries, ICE officers and agents can reduce the time and effort to identify targets compared to existing manual processes,” the document says.
Thursday, October 30, 2025
In other news, our misinformed, out of touch, SAT verbal section flunker Mad King Ludwig thinks other countries are testing nuclear weapons and, by golly, we should too!
Trump directs nuclear weapons testing to resume for first time in over 30 years
... No country except North Korea has conducted a nuclear test explosion in this century, according to the Arms Control Association (ACA) - and even Pyongyang announced a moratorium in 2018.
... The US-based ACA ... estimates ... America's nuclear stockpile sits at about 5,225 warheads, while Russia has approximately 5,580.
... "Trump is misinformed and out of touch," Daryl G Kimball, executive director of the ACA, wrote on X. "The US has no technical, military, or political justification for resuming nuclear explosive testing for the first time since 1992."
"Trump will trigger strong public opposition in Nevada, from all US allies, and it could trigger a chain reaction of nuclear testing by US adversaries, and blow apart the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, " Mr Kimball added. ...
Trump keeps escalating the domestic militarism in order to foment unrest where none exists, so that he can justify federal martial law if unrest does occur
Trump wields the military like it's his own personal plaything, just itching to violate the Posse Comitatus Act.
Meanwhile those liberal fanatics at the American Enterprise Institute have really gone off the deep end in their Trump derangement.
... Trump has mobilized thousands of National Guard members in D.C., Los Angeles and Memphis, with deployments to Chicago and Portland, Oregon, delayed by court decisions. He has claimed unfettered authority to deploy military personnel onto American soil, including active-duty troops, which by law are prohibited from performing law enforcement duties except in extreme cases or if the president invokes the Insurrection Act.
... “They are increasing their ability to mobilize National Guard forces, federalize them and use them over the opposition of localities and governors,” said Kori Schake, director of foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute.
... While the courts have at times contested Trump’s domestic military deployments, Congress has abdicated its oversight responsibility, Schake said, prompting larger concerns of institutional decay.
“They’re behaving like a parliament, not like a presidential system,” she said. “And it’s going to break the American order, our constitutional order, if Congress and governors can’t check executive power.”
We already accept that we can vote only where we are registered, so why do we allow campaign contributions from people and entities who can't vote where we are registered?
... Here's a reform that would change everything: You can only donate to candidates and political organizations in the state where you are registered to vote.
Not where you own property. Not where you have business interests. Not where you "care deeply" about the issues. Where you are registered to vote – the place where you've committed to being a citizen and living with the consequences of governance.
This single rule would fundamentally reshape American politics.
... Change the incentives by changing where the money comes from, and you change what kind of people can succeed in politics – and what kind of Congress they create.
It's time to return politics to the people who actually have to live with the results.
Lindsay Mark Lewis, here.
Wednesday, October 29, 2025
Who needs to run if elections are suspended in yet another phony national emergency?
Trump is not allowed to stop spending money which was lawfully appropriated by the Congress for specific purposes, or to spend it on other things, but that's exactly what he's doing anyway.
He's illegally taxing every American with his tariffs under a phony emergency power granted him by our servile Congress.
He's not allowed to shake down and detain citizens on the pretext that they may be illegally present, but that's exactly what he's done. He's made a mockery of citizenship.
He's not allowed to search without a warrant, but he's doing it anyway. You let him do it every time you fly, so what's the big deal if now he's invading homes and businesses without warrants in search of illegal aliens? You don't care.
He uses his bully pulpit literally to bully people, to suppress their speech. He threatens investigations of his opponents, and makes good on them with actual probes and charges. Some in Congress admit they are afraid of him.
No one made him the judge, jury, and executioner, but that's who he thinks he is. He is in fact murdering non-combatants pure and simple every day, and Pete Hegseth and Marco Rubio are his accomplices, as is the U.S. military, to its everlasting shame.
Trump is the greatest . . . violator of civil rights and the rule of law since Lincoln.
He's made an ass of the law.
He's flooded the zone with illegality, impropriety, personal corruption, crime, and ugliness.
And Congress just lets him. The courts just let him. The people just let him.
They all just shrug. They're the French, and he's their Napoleon.
Ministry of Truth: DHS propaganda videos routinely lie about chaos in American cities to prepare the people for active duty military deployments, paid liar admits it was only in a few lol
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| DHS paid liar Tricia McLaughlin says they lie in less than 2% of hundreds of propaganda videos |
Trump administration uses misleading videos to portray chaos, push deportations
The Department of Homeland Security posted a swaggering montage to social media in August declaring it had triumphed in its takeover of Washington, D.C. It showed footage of federal agents fighting what a DHS official called a “battle for the soul of our nation” and working “day and night to arrest, detain and deport vicious criminals from our nation’s capital.”
There was one problem. Several of the clips had been recorded during unrelated operations months earlier, in Los Angeles and West Palm Beach, Florida. The official’s sound bite about deportations in D.C. played over a clip from May showing detainees on a Coast Guard boat off the coast of Nantucket, the Massachusetts island 400 miles away.
Officials in President Donald Trump’s administration have used similarly misleading footage in at least six videos promoting its immigration agenda shared in the last three months, a Washington Post analysis found, muddying the reality of events in viral clips that have been viewed millions of times.
Some videos that purported to show the fiery chaos of Trump-targeted cities included footage from completely different states. One that claimed to show dramatic examples of past administrations’ failures instead featured border crossings and smuggling boats recorded during Trump’s first term.
The Post provided DHS a detailed list of videos featuring misleading footage. DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin did not dispute the errors or explain what had happened but said the videos were a small percentage of the more than 400 that the agency has posted this year. ...
A White House video claiming Chicago was “in chaos,” which used footage from other states, has been viewed more than 1.4 million times across Instagram, TikTok and X. ...
But the pattern of misleading clips in their news-style videos amount to more than just minor editing errors, said Eddie Perez, a former director for civic integrity at Twitter, now called X. Instead, they suggest that the administration has worked to undercut criticism by pumping out videos that could deceive Americans about the scale or success of their policies, transforming government channels into propaganda tools.
“What we are witnessing is the collapse of government accountability through communication based on facts,” he said. “They’re not trying to communicate actions and outcomes. They’re acting like filmmakers, trying to make people laugh, to make them feel scared, to inspire certain emotions regardless of the truth.” ...
Tuesday, October 28, 2025
Tyrant Trump wants the American military in our streets just like the PLA is in China, in violation of the Posse Comitatus Act which prohibits the use of federal troops to enforce domestic law
Maybe that all-volunteer-army idea wasn't such a great one after all.
A "large standing Army in time of Peace hath ever been considered dangerous to the liberties of a Country". -- George Washington
The "means of defense against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home". -- James Madison
"When once a standing army is established in any country, the people lose their liberty". -- George Mason
Trump Says He Is Prepared to Send ‘More Than the National Guard’ Into U.S. Cities
... “We have cities that are troubled, we can’t have cities that are troubled,” Mr. Trump said. “And we’re sending in our National Guard, and if we need more than the National Guard, we’ll send more than the National Guard, because we’re going to have safe cities.” ...
The president delivered his speech on the U.S.S. George Washington, an aircraft carrier docked south of Tokyo, at an American military base in Japan that was set up in the aftermath of World War II. It was an unsubtle show of force as Mr. Trump prepares to meet China’s top leader, Xi Jinping, this week, for talks that hold great stakes for the global economy. ...
Nick Fuentes blames the Joos for his white nationalism lol
Nick Fuentes Says He Was ‘Radicalized on Race’ by Listening To Mark Levin
... I was listening to Mark Levin’s show. This goes to show how normie I was. I listened to him every day. In high school, yes. I was a fan. I loved his show. I actually liked how he was kind of obnoxious and mean to his callers, vicious, and I liked that. I thought that was funny.
But I’ll never forget one show, he goes live and he says, “America is becoming a majority non-white country. Does anybody think that’s a good idea?” And I was thinking to myself, yeah that actually doesn’t sound so good. I didn’t even really think that America’s becoming majority minority like that. ...
Climate alarmist Bill Gates, author of How To Avoid A Climate Disaster in 2021, now says it's alarmist to suggest we face a climate doomsday
The climate alarmist New York Times isn't having it, here:
... In a lengthy memo released Tuesday, Mr. Gates sought to tamp down the alarmism he said many people use to describe the effects of rising temperatures. Instead, he called for redirecting efforts toward improving lives in the developing world. ...
While he called climate change “a very important problem” that needs to be solved, he said that “the doomsday outlook is causing much of the climate community to focus too much on near-term emissions goals.” And that was “diverting resources from the most effective things we should be doing to improve life in a warming world,” he wrote.
The world is warming faster than at any point in recorded history. Last year was the hottest on record. Scientists warn that unless countries make a rapid shift away from burning fossil fuels, the planet is likely to experience extreme weather and other changes faster than humans can adapt. Low-lying island nations are already seeing their land disappearing under rising seas caused by melting glaciers and polar ice sheets. An estimated 62,775 people died from heat in Europe last year. ...
The Times, true to its MO of lying by omission, ignores the science, which shows that in this age of supposedly extreme global warming cold still kills for more people than heat ever does, nine cold deaths for every one heat death:
... In most epidemiological studies, excess cold deaths far outnumber heat deaths. In that same global analysis, of the 9·4% attributable temperature-related deaths, 8·5% (range 6·2–10·5%) were cold-related and only 0·9% (range 0·6–1·4%) were heat-related,2 which corresponds to approximately 4·6 million deaths from cold and about 489 000 from heat, a ratio of roughly 9:1 of cold versus heat. ...
Monday, October 27, 2025
Prices of 20 food items posted new all time highs on a quarterly average basis under Donald Trump in 3Q2025
The 20 foods shown making new all time highs represent 43% of the 46 foods I have been tracking in the FRED database at the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank. Prices are per pound unless otherwise noted.
Beef Products:
Round Roast $8.182
All Uncooked Roasts 8.72
Choice Chuck Roast 8.839
Round Steak 9.04
All Uncooked Steaks 12.12
Choice Sirloin Steak 14.003
Ground Chuck 6.43
100% Ground Beef 6.298
All Uncooked Ground 6.593
Other Meats:
Whole Chicken 2.072
Pork 3.716
Dairy Products:
Ice Cream 6.425/half gallon
Cheddar Cheese 6.071
Other Foods:
Orange Juice 4.682/12oz. frozen
Coffee 8.808
Sugar 1.043 (two quarters in a row)
Bananas 0.664
Potato Chips 6.84
Chocolate Chip Cookies 5.179
Beer 1.832/pint
Sunday, October 26, 2025
The president's tariff retaliation against Canada is purely out of personal pique and is a tyrannical abuse of power
The Congress has the tariff authority, not the president, according to the constitution, and needs to reign in the powers it has delegated to the executive if it cares what is good for the country.
65% of the country disapproves of the GOP-controlled Congress.
Saturday, October 25, 2025
As Mad King Ludwig speeds a carrier strike group from the Med to the Caribbean, American failure to restore freedom of navigation in the Red Sea is highlighted by the latest Suez Canal navigation report for 3Q2025
It's a picture of dismal failure.
The U.S. Navy has not made the Red Sea safe for free trade.
The Houthis remain a potent threat to shipping.
3Q2025 statistics compared with 3Q2023 show the number of ships transiting the Suez Canal down 49.8%.
Net tons passing through is down 65.8%.
Incompetent ICE is full of sound and fury, signifying nothing: DHS estimates only 600,000 to be deported by the end of Trump II's first year, and even some of that is phony
They're wasting their time, energy, and taxpayer billion$ tracking down individuals when they should be cracking down on the employers, but that would take a native intelligence which Trump administration morons like Stephen Miller do not possess.
They're also alienating and energizing the opposition at the grass roots all across the country to turn out and vote against them in November 2026, which is one of the most politically stupid moves of these dunderheads to date.
It's almost like they're being paid by George Soros to do it.
Reported here:
... The Department of Homeland Security says that it has deported more than 400,000 people since Mr. Trump took office, and that it expects to deport 600,000 in total by the end of Mr. Trump’s first year in office.
Still, those numbers are slightly misleading. The Trump administration counts people who are turned back at the border and other ports of entry as “deportations,” even though they have never lived inside the United States.
Earlier this year, Stephen Miller, Mr. Trump’s deputy chief of staff, met with senior ICE leaders in Washington and discussed ways to pick up the pace of enforcement. Soon after, he appeared on Fox News and said the agency would try to hit a goal of 3,000 arrests a day.
Since the summer, the agency has typically arrested more than 1,000 people a day. ...
Three more years of 1,000 people a day would amount to just over 1 million deportees, out of 11 million or more illegals in country.
Friday, October 24, 2025
Lying Trump will never rise to the level of Reagan, let alone of any other president
If Reagan were alive today, he'd reject Donald Trump and his trade war against the whole world, including and especially against our friends and allies in Canada.
Reagan's full remarks from April 1987, excerpted by Doug Ford in the ad, are shown below.
One man is about to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Venezuela
The more the Uniparty changes, the more it stays the same.
Bush invades Iraq. Putin invades Ukraine. Trump invades Venezuela.
Expect Xi to invade Taiwan at any minute.
One big happy family of invaders, carving up the world.
90% of all stocks are owned by the top 10% by wealth in America, so naturally the market is setting new records on persistently higher inflation
They make their money raising prices on the 90% beneath them, who MUST be fed the narrative that inflation is "mild".
Wouldn't want to tell the truth and start a revolution or anything.
Stonks been bery bery good to Chico.
Core cpi inflation year over year in September 2025 coming in right between volatile food and energy is not comforting
Core cpi inflation year over year in September 2025 was 3.0%, a rate 52% higher than the 1.97% average rate under Trump I.
Food yoy was 3.1% and energy yoy was 2.8%.
None of this is good news!
The energy inflation rate year over year under Trump I averaged 1.2%, under Trump II in September 2025 it is 2.8% or 133% higher
It averaged nearly 10% under Joe Biden, so there's that, but prices are still rising off that!
I hope you didn't leave the lights on at home, because the electricity will cost you 38% more in September 2025 than it did under Trump I
Electricity averaged $0.136 per kWh under Trump I.
And that stop for gasoline on the way to work is going to cost you 34% more than under Trump I
Gasoline used to average $2.49 per gallon under Trump I.
Under Trump II in September 2025 it's $3.34, 34% more.
Don't forget to turn down the thermostat before you leave for work after your 66% more expensive Trump breakfast
Piped utility gas used to average $1.04 per therm under Trump I.
Under Trump II it's $1.61 in September 2025, 55% more.
Can you afford even to wake up to Trump?
Coffee hits new all time high in September 2025 of $9.14 per pound, 111% higher than it used to be.
Coffee averaged $4.33 per pound under Trump I.
Thursday, October 23, 2025
National Debt hits $38 trillion
Nov 21, 2024: $36.034T
July 4, 2025 ONE BIG UGLY BILL
Aug 11, 2025: $37.004 T
Oct 21, 2025: $38.019 T
Obamacare's chickens have come home to roost!
David Dayen should have entitled this The Planned Failure of Obamacare Is Now Upon Us.
The Health Insurance Cost Crisis Is Now Upon Us
... We should be clear that this premium apocalypse is a function of returning Obamacare subsidies to where they were in the original version of the law. That was poorly designed to target the middle class with bearing the bloat in the health care system, and no work was done on basic health plans or other public options at the state level. (A federal public option was stripped from the legislation by the threat of that exemplary moderate, Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman, to withhold his support unless it was dropped.) Now, Democrats are effectively warning that a return to their original vision of Obamacare spells doom. (And what we’re really talking about is how much the government should send to private insurance companies, a horribly inefficient way of ensuring health for American citizens.) ... The ACA was seen as a “starter home” that could be built on, and Democrats built on it. It’s Republican neglect that is taking the wrecking ball to it, with all the political fallout on their backs. ...
Yes, Obamacare was the enemy of the middle class, making it "bear the bloat". Communists have always hated the middle class because the middle class stands in the way of the revolution. Obamacare was designed this way on purpose, by Democrats and Obama who were the communists we always said they were. Senator Max Baucus rightly called it what it was, income redistribution.
Premiums have steadily risen along with deductibles, to the point that everyone pays their premium, then pays out of pocket, no one ever reaches their deductible, and the plan never pays anything. Most people never reap any benefit under Obamacare. Now premiums will explode without the subsidies, making dropping it more attractive than ever.
And No, Republicans had no duty to "build" on Obamacare. It was rammed down their throats in the first place. No Republicans ever voted for this goddamn commie boondoggle.
The best thing which could happen right now is for the millions imprisoned in this system to opt out of it and let Obamacare implode. That would force the Congress back into the corner it was in in 2009.
Not one more penny should be spent to prop up this system which benefits only the insurance companies. Can you say Luigi Mangione?
Obamacare should be repealed, and nothing done to replace it. It would be painful, but it is the only way.
In the aftermath, someone will start to sell real insurance again out of the ashes, and the current greedy bastards of the insurance industry will scramble to follow them as they lose business and market share. That, the capitalist option, is the only public option which makes any sense, but currently that is against the law.
Just repeal it.
Wednesday, October 22, 2025
The presidency is reduced to a mere product under Trump
GOP senators have lunch with the president at The White House and leave with swag.
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