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Bentleyspop

Halifax2TheMax said:

Bentleyspop said:

mickeyrat said:

A consulting firm with close ties to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem secretly got money from $220 million Department of Homeland Security ad contracts.

Ad work by the Strategy Group, run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson, is the first known example of money flowing from Noem’s agency to businesses controlled by her allies and friends.

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Well yes this is definitely corruption. But because it was all done in the service of showing fealty to the
 🍊 🤡 💩  the brainwashed and grifted cultists will say its okay.

But if they find that just one Biden WH staffer took home just 1 broken and useles pen then they must serve hard time.

 * The following opinion is mine and mine alone and does not represent the views of my family, friends, government and/or my past, present or future employer. US Department of State: 1-888-407-4747.

I heard they took all the Ts from the keyboards in the White House and CCOOTWH’s having them investigated, rounded up and executed.

Crimes against America are permissible. Crimes against the 🍊 🤡 💩 are not.

mickeyrat

At some prisons, staff said the Bureau of Prisons had stopped providing basic hygiene items for officers. “You have to literally go around carrying your own roll of toilet paper,” one officer told ProPublica. “No paper towels, ... no soap.”

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mickeyrat

Two weeks ago, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention caveated its long-standing position that vaccines do not cause autism. The Autism Science Foundation said that it is “appalled” by the C.D.C.’s new stance; the American Medical Association warned of “dangerous consequences.” 

The Department of Health and Human Services maintains that it is hewing to “gold standard, evidence-based science”—“a piece of doublespeak so thick that it might unsettle Orwell,” the physician Dhruv Khullar writes. Discounting dozens of rigorous studies that have analyzed millions of patients and failed to connect vaccines to autism, the C.D.C. website claims that about half of parents of children with autism believe vaccines contributed to that autism. The H.H.S. will now provide “appropriate funding” for studies on vaccines and autism, and last week it appointed a physician with a history of vaccine skepticism as the second-in-command at the C.D.C. “The episode puts to rest any doubts about whether Americans can still trust information from the nation’s top health agency,” Khullar writes.  

The privilege that American scientists have taken for granted is the ability to go about their work free of political interference. What happens when those with disfavored views are fired or muzzled? Read more: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/12/08/the-undermining-of-the-cdc?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dhfacebook&utm_content=app.dashsocial.com/newyorkermag/library/media/613641204

mickeyrat

It isn’t fog. It’s toxic air.

Photographer Annie Flanagan went to Clairton, Pennsylvania, where residents live in the shadow of the country’s largest coke plant. Coke is a product used to manufacture steel. ProPublica’s investigation showed that levels of benzene, a cancer-causing gas, were 37 times higher than what the facility reported in the past. 

The Trump administration has halted efforts to monitor for benzene near large industrial plants like this one, leaving communities in the dark about the air they breathe. 

This is what Annie saw — and inhaled — while on assignment in Clairton.

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josevolution

I’m sure Fetterman will rescue Pennsylvania not! 

josevolution

Federal appeals court rules Alina Habba, Trump's former personal lawyer, is unlawfully serving as the US attorney for New Jersey. 

https://cnn.it/4ouxHYR

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Another hack that’s not qualified! 

Gern Blansten

they'll blame a liberal activist judge....whether that's the case or not

josevolution

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So they do an MRI on him but he doesn’t know what part of his body was looked at? 😂😂 there’s zero chance that’s true 

Halifax2TheMax

josevolution said:

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So they do an MRI on him but he doesn’t know what part of his body was looked at? 😂😂 there’s zero chance that’s true 

* The following opinion is mine and mine alone and does not represent the views of my family, friends, government and/or my past, present or future employer. US Department of State: 1-888-407-4747.

But the doctor told him it was the best MRI he’s ever seen. A perfect MRI.

mickeyrat

via Forbes adbook post....

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Admiral Frank Bradley ordered the second strike on a suspected drug trafficking vessel in September in the Caribbean in order to fully destroy the boat, and rejected a report in the Washington Post that an order came from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to “kill everybody” that has drawn new scrutiny from legislators.

Halifax2TheMax

mickeyrat said:

via Forbes adbook post....

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Admiral Frank Bradley ordered the second strike on a suspected drug trafficking vessel in September in the Caribbean in order to fully destroy the boat, and rejected a report in the Washington Post that an order came from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to “kill everybody” that has drawn new scrutiny from legislators.

 * The following opinion is mine and mine alone and does not represent the views of my family, friends, government and/or my past, present or future employer. US Department of State: 1-888-407-4747.

Somebody’s lying.

gimmesometruth27

i doubt anything will come of it. fucking lawless administration and complicit gop wing of congress and doj.

gimmesometruth27

Halifax2TheMax said:

josevolution said:

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So they do an MRI on him but he doesn’t know what part of his body was looked at? 😂😂 there’s zero chance that’s true 

* The following opinion is mine and mine alone and does not represent the views of my family, friends, government and/or my past, present or future employer. US Department of State: 1-888-407-4747.

But the doctor told him it was the best MRI he’s ever seen. A perfect MRI.

agreed. there is no way in hell any adult would not know the body part that is being scanned. i mean, you have to sign a consent to be scanned, and i am sure white house docs would have said what they "want to get a closer look at." no way trump would just be like "yeah ok scan whatever you like and don't tell me why or what you are looking at."

mickeyrat

We found more than two dozen cases of immigration agents using "less lethal" weapons in ways that appear to flout the government's own rules, including by aiming at someone’s head, spine or groin or deploying chemical agents near children.

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brianlux

mickeyrat said:

via Forbes adbook post....

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Admiral Frank Bradley ordered the second strike on a suspected drug trafficking vessel in September in the Caribbean in order to fully destroy the boat, and rejected a report in the Washington Post that an order came from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to “kill everybody” that has drawn new scrutiny from legislators.

Today's letter from Mr. Dan Rather:

Could The Boat Strikes Sink Hegseth?

Old-fashioned reporting is turning the screws on the Trump administration

Dan Rather and Team Steady Dec 1

If there was any doubt that this country desperately needs — now more than ever — a vigorous and unyielding press, look no further than the recent reporting on Pete Hegseth, the Fox TV weekend anchor turned Secretary of Defense.

The Washington Post has some serious editorial ownership issues with Trump sycophant Jeff Bezos, but kudos to its reporters who continue to fight the good fight.

Last week the paper broke the story that Hegseth verbally ordered the military to leave no survivors in its attacks on suspected drug trafficking boats off the coast of Venezuela.

On September 2, after a missile strike by the U.S. military, two men can be seen on video clinging to burning debris. “The order was to kill everybody,” a Pentagon official told the Post. A second strike killed any survivors.

While Hegseth has denied telling SEAL Team 6 to “kill them all,” he also thinks his possible war crime is a joke. He posted an AI-generated meme of a smiling children’s book character firing a rocket from a helicopter at drug boats.

But this is no joking matter. Have we no shame? As a country, as a people, have we come to this?

Some on the Hill are deeply concerned. The reporting got the attention of Congress as lawmakers from both parties worried out loud about whether the attacks constitute war crimes.

In addition, Title 18 of the U.S. Code defines a war crime, among other illegal acts, as “the act of a person who intentionally kills [...] one or more persons taking no active part in the hostilities, including those placed out of combat by sickness, wounds, detention, or any other cause.”

And we would never have known about the incident if Hegseth had his way.

It was only six weeks ago that the Pentagon press corps packed up and left the building after Hegseth ordered they cover the Department of Defense on his terms. He demanded the media sign a pledge to only publish information cleared by his press office. So the media walked. In their place are a few right-wing outlets “covering” the Pentagon like Pravda covers the Kremlin.

Now Hegseth’s scheme for control is showing cracks. The Post’s piece quoted “some current and former U.S. officials and law-of-war experts.” They suggest that the strike campaign “is unlawful and may expose those most directly involved to prosecution.”

As hard as the Trump administration tries to suppress journalists, good reporting continues to find example after example of probable corruption — from pay-to-play pardons, to crypto schemes to enriching the family Trump. The White House press secretary denies it all, saying recently, “Neither the president nor his family have ever engaged, or will ever engage, in conflicts of interest.”

And the more the press digs, the angrier Donald Trump becomes. His detestation of the news media has escalated to levels usually reserved for middle school playgrounds. As with all bullies the president’s notion about how he should be treated — that he should be revered and free from criticism — is unrealistic. And unworthy of the leader of a constitutional democracy.

Last week, the White House unveiled a new assault on freedom of the press: a page on its official government website that tracks supposed media bias. The oh-so-subtle tagline reads: “Misleading. Biased. Exposed.” It is the cyber equivalent of stamping one’s feet.

Seemingly for sport, the page names and shames news organizations for coverage the president doesn’t like. Inductees into its “Hall of Shame” include The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, the Associated Press and CNN, among dozens more. The site also boasts a database of hundreds of stories, tagged with alleged offenses like “bias,” “lies,” and “left wing lunacy,” and lists reporters’ names, calling them “media offenders.”

This week’s “Offenders of the Week” include CBS News, The Boston Globe, and The Independent for their coverage of Trump’s calls for the hanging of six Democratic members of Congress who posted a video reminding the military that they should not follow illegal orders.

An unintended consequence of this latest Trump tantrum is that now many of the well-reported articles about Trump and his illegal, unethical and democracy-eroding activities are easily found in one convenient place, at WhiteHouse.gov. And kudos to the journalists and media organizations that made the cut, they have skillfully touched a nerve.

The Washington Post is at the top of the White House’s media enemy’s list because the paper broke several stories in recent days that had the White House spitting nails.

Besides the Hegseth story, it was the first to report that the United States Coast Guard was declassifying swastikas, the emblem of the Nazi Party, and nooses as hate symbols; instead, calling them “potentially divisive.” The USCG reversed that decision within days of publication.

Although the White House is specific about what it finds offensive and it clearly points out what it thinks reporters get wrong, it is the White House that is usually wrong. CBS News, The Independent and The Daily Beast are accused of “describing [Kilmar Abrego Garcia] as a ‘Maryland dad,’” which he is, and “omitting facts about his criminal history,” which they didn’t do because. . . he has no criminal history.

This newest trope to disparage the media comes on the heels of an uptick in personal insults from the president. In just the past week, Trump called reporters “piggy,” “a terrible person and a terrible reporter,” and “a third rate reporter who is ugly, both inside and out.” He asked correspondent Nancy Cordes of CBS News, “Are you stupid?” If only she had responded, “No, sir, Mr. President. Are you?” The beneficiaries of these insults have all been women.

Obviously, he doth protest too much. A man in control of the narrative would not stoop to attacking the media so many times in new and nasty ways.

Perhaps to counter the new White House bias tracker, Reuters has a new tracker of its own. But this one is keeping track of the targets of the president’s vengeance. While campaigning for president Trump often told his supporters “I am your retribution.” That is one campaign promise he has kept. In spades.

The Reuters’ list includes federal employees, law firms, state and local government officials, prosecutors, universities and, of course, the media. The Trump 2.0 tally so far is 470 acts of retribution and counting.

“Nine media organizations have faced federal investigations, lawsuits, threats to revoke their broadcast licenses and limits on access to White House events,” the website stated.

Trump condemns the press with an old line from Russian dictator Joseph Stalin, calling them “the enemy of the people.” That’s a label that should be reserved for actual threats to our country and our democracy. The real enemy here is the man these reporters are holding to account.

Halifax2TheMax

gimmesometruth27 said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

josevolution said:

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So they do an MRI on him but he doesn’t know what part of his body was looked at? 😂😂 there’s zero chance that’s true 

* The following opinion is mine and mine alone and does not represent the views of my family, friends, government and/or my past, present or future employer. US Department of State: 1-888-407-4747.

But the doctor told him it was the best MRI he’s ever seen. A perfect MRI.

agreed. there is no way in hell any adult would not know the body part that is being scanned. i mean, you have to sign a consent to be scanned, and i am sure white house docs would have said what they "want to get a closer look at." no way trump would just be like "yeah ok scan whatever you like and don't tell me why or what you are looking at."

* The following opinion is mine and mine alone and does not represent the views of my family, friends, government and/or my past, present or future employer. US Department of State: 1-888-407-4747.

It gives CCOOTWH plausible deniability when the bill for the co-pay comes due so he can weasel out of paying the 20% his health care coverage won’t cover. Unless of course he gets that new healthcare legislation passed that will reduce premiums and co-pays by 200, 300, 400, 800%. We should be hearing about it in two weeks or so.

“Whats this? A bill for an MRI? A co-pay? Are you kidding me! I didn’t have an MRI on my brain! My brains a perfect brain! I think it was for my very perfect cankles. No wonder health care costs so much! They can’t even bill for the correct procedures. Many people are saying if they could bill it right the first time, we could reduce the cost of medical care 1,000, 2,000, 3,000, up to 6,000%! Many people say this. Imagine, getting a bill for an MRI on MY brain! Thank you for your attention to this matter!”

Gern Blansten

gimmesometruth27 said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

josevolution said:

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https://share.google/C9nMVR5FHwdRDFT55

So they do an MRI on him but he doesn’t know what part of his body was looked at? 😂😂 there’s zero chance that’s true 

* The following opinion is mine and mine alone and does not represent the views of my family, friends, government and/or my past, present or future employer. US Department of State: 1-888-407-4747.

But the doctor told him it was the best MRI he’s ever seen. A perfect MRI.

agreed. there is no way in hell any adult would not know the body part that is being scanned. i mean, you have to sign a consent to be scanned, and i am sure white house docs would have said what they "want to get a closer look at." no way trump would just be like "yeah ok scan whatever you like and don't tell me why or what you are looking at."

It was the brain...we know this because trump specifically said it wasn't the brain

Poncier

Gern Blansten said:

gimmesometruth27 said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

josevolution said:

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https://share.google/C9nMVR5FHwdRDFT55

So they do an MRI on him but he doesn’t know what part of his body was looked at? 😂😂 there’s zero chance that’s true 

* The following opinion is mine and mine alone and does not represent the views of my family, friends, government and/or my past, present or future employer. US Department of State: 1-888-407-4747.

But the doctor told him it was the best MRI he’s ever seen. A perfect MRI.

agreed. there is no way in hell any adult would not know the body part that is being scanned. i mean, you have to sign a consent to be scanned, and i am sure white house docs would have said what they "want to get a closer look at." no way trump would just be like "yeah ok scan whatever you like and don't tell me why or what you are looking at."

It was the brain...we know this because trump specifically said it wasn't the brain

But but but person woman man camera TV.

josevolution

Gern Blansten said:

gimmesometruth27 said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

josevolution said:

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https://share.google/C9nMVR5FHwdRDFT55

So they do an MRI on him but he doesn’t know what part of his body was looked at? 😂😂 there’s zero chance that’s true 

* The following opinion is mine and mine alone and does not represent the views of my family, friends, government and/or my past, present or future employer. US Department of State: 1-888-407-4747.

But the doctor told him it was the best MRI he’s ever seen. A perfect MRI.

agreed. there is no way in hell any adult would not know the body part that is being scanned. i mean, you have to sign a consent to be scanned, and i am sure white house docs would have said what they "want to get a closer look at." no way trump would just be like "yeah ok scan whatever you like and don't tell me why or what you are looking at."

It was the brain...we know this because trump specifically said it wasn't the brain

Poncier said:

Gern Blansten said:

gimmesometruth27 said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

josevolution said:

source:%20NBC%20News
https://share.google/C9nMVR5FHwdRDFT55

So they do an MRI on him but he doesn’t know what part of his body was looked at? 😂😂 there’s zero chance that’s true 

* The following opinion is mine and mine alone and does not represent the views of my family, friends, government and/or my past, present or future employer. US Department of State: 1-888-407-4747.

But the doctor told him it was the best MRI he’s ever seen. A perfect MRI.

agreed. there is no way in hell any adult would not know the body part that is being scanned. i mean, you have to sign a consent to be scanned, and i am sure white house docs would have said what they "want to get a closer look at." no way trump would just be like "yeah ok scan whatever you like and don't tell me why or what you are looking at."

It was the brain...we know this because trump specifically said it wasn't the brain

But but but person woman man camera TV.

It’s all good all they have to do is pick him up by feet turn him upside down and shake all his loose marbles come together and he’s good for another two weeks 😂

mickeyrat

Republican Sen. Rand Paul on Tuesday accused Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth of either lying in his public response to news reports that the US military carried out a follow-up strike on a suspected drug boat in September, or being incompetent. https://cnn.it/442WGLr