Friday, August 29, 2025. The week winds down with Chump and his administration's incompetenc and corruption on full display including the non-partisan judgment that Tulsi Gabbard is not up to her job, Senator Patty Murray calls for Robert Kennedy Junior to be fired as Secretary of Health and Human Services, the actions of the ICE gestapo get even worse as they now target fire fighters who are actively fighting fires, Ghislaine Maxwell is a liar on so many levels, Chump continues to watch with glee as Palestinians are murdered in Gaza, and much more
Let's start with the outing of an undercover CIA agent by the head of our national intelligence.
Poor Trashy Garbage,
she is so not up to the job. She is the Director of National
Intelligence and she just outed an undercover CIA agent. You can't get
much worse at the job. She really shouldn't have been nominated, let
alone confirmed.
Trina's got the law Tulsi
broke when she outed a CIA agent. And some could argue that she didn't
do so knowingly . . . if she were an underling in another dept, say a
spokesperson for the US State Dept; however, she's supposed to be over
national intelligence. "I didn't know," does not cut it. Her job
demands she vet and consult before going public with anything let alone
posting to social media. Someone who does not have the common sense to
vet the names of people she's about to publicly identify is someone who
should not be the Director of National Intelligence. I can't imagine
George HW Bush being silent when he was president while the head of our
intelligence agency exposing an undercover CIA agent.
Yet Donald Chump has made no statement.
He
should be issuing a public apology for what took place. He doesn't
have to name the operative in order to do that. But this undercover CIA
agent was outed while he was president and outed by his appointee.
That demands an apology. It demands a lot more.
Including
Tulsi being fired. But Chump doesn't have a backbone. He's a lily
livered coward -- as many veterans who served in Vietnam like to point
out.
He's a lily livered
coward who is going to act like it's no big deal. By doing that, he
exposes not only the yellow streak down his cowardly back but also makes
it clear to those serving in the CIA that he does not have their back
and will not honor their service.
But
intelligence experts say a "smart" director would have consulted with
the CIA before making the list public to avoid exposing a covert
officer.
“It could potentially put CIA cover
procedures at risk. It could put relations with foreign governments at
risk," said Larry Pfeiffer, a former chief of staff at the CIA.
The
undercover officer had worked for more than 20 years in intelligence
posts before being exposed by Gabbard and served as an expert on Russia
and Eurasia on the National Intelligence Council between 2014 and 2017,
and an attorney who has represented intelligence officers suggested the
DNI had broken the law by following Trump's order.
“Can
you say ‘Privacy Act violation’? I certainly can,” attorney Mark Zaid,
whose own security clearance was revoked by Trump, posted on X. “Further
proof of weaponization and politicization. The vast majority of these
individuals are not household names & are dedicated public servants
who have worked across multiple presidential administrations.”
Brian Fiarchil, a retired career CIA operations officer, questioned Gabbard's judgment and qualifications.
"Gabbard
doesn’t know squat about intelligence," Fiarchil posted. "She’s simply a
Trump lapdog who will do anything to stay in his good graces, and Trump
hates the intelligence agencies.”
Again, she can be prosecuted for outing the undercover agent. "I didn't know!!!" It's her job to know.
You know what's not her job?
Posting on Twitter.
That's
not her job. I talked to a former CIA director about this at length
and he seriously doubts it would have made it out to the public had she
attempted to issue a press release. He believes that people under her
would have had the brains to vet the names on the press release first.
But, again, airhead cult member Tulsi decided that she'd just Tweet it
because she's just a twat.
And Donald's even worse.
These events demand that he first Tulsi and publicly apologize to the CIA for what happened. He's president. It's his job.
But we know he's a coward and we know he's fat and lazy.
Gabbard also recently announced
plans to gut ODNI’s Foreign Malign Influence Center, alleging that it
had been used by the Biden administration to “justify the suppression of
free speech and to censor political opposition.”
This is another ironic move from Gabbard, who has a history of foisting foreign misinformation on the American public herself.
In sum, the person whose only job is to coordinate with and
synthesize the information produced by America’s intelligence agencies
didn’t bother to do her only job before outing and defenestrating a
20-year veteran of America’s clandestine services. That’s a potentially
prosecutable dereliction — or it would be, if appointed or elected
officials were charged with offenses for which public servants of lower
rank would doubtlessly find themselves in the dock. Not exactly the
high-test populism we were promised from this administration.
At MEIDASTOUCH NEWS, Ben's covering a number of topics this morning but let's put in here because we're going to reference Gaza in just a second and he's noting Chump's refusal to end the war on Palestinians in Gaza.
Voting is about making a decision. And the decision in 2024 was between Chump -- a convicted criminal vowing to deport immigrants with a plan that would lead to racial profiling and who promised a government of retribution and publicly flirted with being a dictator -- or Kamala Harris who has a plan to move more people into houses, to help working families, to end the war on Gaza, to uplift every boat in this country.
A
Missouri man who voted for President Donald Trump has told Newsweek he
regrets his vote after his wife, who has held a green card for more than
30 years, was detained by federal agents.
Donna
Hughes-Brown, a legal permanent resident originally from England, was
detained by federal authorities at O'Hare International Airport in
Chicago for five days upon returning to the United States from vacation
in Ireland on July 29, 2025. She was then transferred to a facility in
Campbell County, Kentucky.
Her husband, James Brown, told Newsweek that he "100 percent" regrets his vote for Trump.
"You
look at the news, and they're not telling the truth about what's
actually happening to a lot of legal immigrants," Brown told Newsweek.
"What's bad is that Trump is so demeaning to people, and he's so
condescending and so retaliatory that people are afraid to say
anything."
I wish him
and his wife peace. And I wish them happiness. I wish that he had voted for Kamala Harris;
however, I've long said that your vote is your vote and you have to vote
with the best information you have at the time.
A
lot of people were misinformed. On the immigrant issue? Hey, we
covered it here -- fully and honestly. I noted going back to the spring
of 2024 that what Chump was talking about meant racial profiling.
Here, I covered it at length, Ava and I wrote multiple pieces at THIRD.
It wasn't that hard to do. So ask yourself why whores like Amy Goodman
couldn't do it -- because they refused to do it. They instead offered
lying segments in the fall of 2024 telling you that Kamala and Chump
were the same on immigration. They attacked her on immigration. If this is a new topic for you, refer to Ava and my "Media: How Amy Goodman harmed immigrants and helped elect Chump."
Liars
like Good Whore were part of the Norman Solomon garbage efforts to
defeat Kamala. He'd started the effort to defeat Joe Biden. But then a
Black woman becomes the nominee so he needed to hide his White sexism
and racism and that's when he pulled in US House Rep Rashida Tlaib and
others to front his movement.
Those people? I don't forgive.
If
you voted to impeach Chump (twice), then you damn well knew what a
threat he was to this country. Rashida has refused to apologize or own
her actions. Anyone with a brain knew Chump was not going to save the
Palestinian people. We knew it and he hasn't. Palestinians in Gaza,
speaking to the press, knew that as well and repeatedly argued that
Kamala was the person to vote for. But, hey, Rashida knew better than
Palestinians in Gaza, right? Rashida knows everything apparently --
everything to do wrong. Her inability to apologize for what she did by
campaigning against Kamala has harmed her and harmed the cause regarding
Gaza.
We -- Americans (which Rashida herself is) -- don't want to get involved in these causes. We were stabbed in the back.
I
spent every day advocating for Gaza. Now? It's not my fight. Gaza freaks
made that clear in the fall of 2024 when they attacked Black people,
trashed us online. Told us if we supported Kamala to keep Gaza out of mouths.
That's
when we, Black people, felt the need to pull their hall pass and point
out that Arabs are White. Rashida is White. And she's just another
White racist. Now there are Black people in Iraq. And Alana Haba's
family loudly and publicly discriminated against Black Iraqis. You find
that in a lot of Arab areas because it happens in many White areas and
Arabs are White.
And, as
Tabitha of TABITHA SPEAKS POLITICS pointed out, without our bodies at
Gaza demonstrations to take the clubbings and arrests, suddenly White
activists stopped protesting. A lot of people reveal that their racism
really just comes down to envy (see Ava and my ""). That includes a
number of activists.
But
if you made a mistake and you learned from it, I can work with you. I
can trust you. Those of you who damn well knew better and worked to
harm this country? You're on your own.
At
21, Steve Vilchez is much like any other senior at Illinois State
University. Studying biology teacher education, he aspires to teach high
school science.
But, Vilchez has an unusual
story to tell. From 2016 until the aftermath of the Jan. 6, 2021 attack
on the U.S. Capitol, he was a passionate teenage Donald Trump fan.
Breaking
with Trump and the Republican party he dominates was a slow and
challenging process, Vilchez said, particularly since Trump surged back
to power this year.
Vilchez has found support in Leaving MAGA, an online community of former Trump supporters of which, he said, he’s by far the youngest member.
Setting
out to tell others about his experiences, Vilchez told Raw Story: “I'm
doing much better now than I was when I was in MAGA.”
People
can learn. Vilchez did (and he voted for Kamala in 2024). But we can
all learn (I learn every day and still am aware of how little I know).
And I can work with people who can learn.
We're all learning just how horrible and horrifying Chump can be with regards to immigrants and with regards to the use of his personal gestapo ICE. A telling remark was made this week. Tom Latchem (DAILY BEAST) notes:
President
Donald Trump's so-called "border czar," Tom Homan, explained that
federal agents are wearing masks over their faces because it's what
criminals do.
Homan, whose official title is
the executive associate director for Enforcement and Removal Operations
(ERO), spoke to the press outside the White House on Thursday when he
was confronted with federal Homeland Security police covering their
faces.
“Criminals have been wearing masks for a long time," Homan claimed.
Criminals do wear masks, Holman, and hae been doing so for a long time. These criminals include ICE. It's a secret police armed with no knowledge and very little training that goes around schools terrorizing children who witness parents in cars as ICE agents smash the car's windows and pull them parent out of the car. They are ciminals and let's hope the future includes some version of a US Hague where Holman and others can stand trial for their crimes against humanity as well as their refusal to follow the most basic laws in the United States.
Educators, child psychologists, and immigrant rights leaders warned
this week that the Trump administration’s mass deportation agenda is
inflicting deep harm on children returning to school, creating fear,
trauma, and disruption across classrooms nationwide.
At a virtual press conference hosted by America’s Voice,
experts described how Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
activity near schools has fueled absenteeism, psychological distress,
and academic disengagement, while local educators scramble to implement
“safe zone” protections and support traumatized families.
Vanessa Cárdenas, Executive Director of America’s Voice and moderator
of the discussion, said, “The usual first-day jitters of back to school
this year have been replaced by fear. Kids are missing school, afraid
to leave their homes. Parents are having to make plans in case they are
disappeared. And teachers are having to be trained in safety protocols
should they encounter ICE while schools are navigating these new
realities. This is the hidden cost of Trump’s mass deportation
agenda—not just economic devastation, but educational chaos and
psychological scarring.”
Dr. Allison Bassett Ratto, a child clinical psychologist in
Washington, D.C., said the current immigration enforcement climate is
devastating children’s mental health. “This creates a toxic climate of
fear and uncertainty for children and families, which in turn causes
intense stress, anxiety, and even trauma,” she explained. Children
witnessing ICE raids, she noted, are not seeing “violent criminals being
apprehended by uniformed police officers who they’ve learned to know
and trust as community helpers. Instead, what they see are their
classmates, their family members, their neighbors often being
apprehended in violent and confusing ways while going about their daily
lives, doing things like picking up their children from the bus stop or
going to their jobs.”
Ratto warned that children exposed to these events—whether directly
in their neighborhoods or through media—often feel that “nowhere and no
one is safe.” She added that stress and trauma “can truly become
chronic, leading to both immediate and long-term damage to children’s
mental and physical health.”
This is the kind of stain that can destroy a country. What are you saying to the children, for example, who you are teaching to be in fear of the government? At THE PALM BEACH POST, Maya Khadr writes:
This spring, a 19-year old university student named Ximena Arias-Cristobal was sent to an immigrant detention center in Dalton, Georgia for an alleged traffic violation. The traffic charges were eventually dropped, but it was too late. Authorities in Dalton had already called ICE under a federal program that turns police encounters into deportation pipelines.
With her final exams approaching and her family’s future depending on her academic success, Ximena was detained in a privately-run detention center notorious for inhumane conditions and severe rights violations.
Unfortunately, her story is not an isolated incident. It’s part of a broader reality across the country as local police departments become extensions of federal immigration enforcement through what are called 287(g) agreements
That refers to Section 287(g) of the 1996 Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act. The program authorizes ICE to train and deputize state and local law enforcement to carry out immigration duties, effectively turning police officers into ICE agents while conducting their routine police work.
This 287(g) perpetuates racial profiling and other civil and human
rights abuses. But the Trump administration is leading a big push to
expand the program. Since the beginning of the second Trump
administration, there’s been a 566 percent increase in 287(g)
agreements, with 765 new agreements signed nationwide as of mid August.
These agreements are generally limited to certain cities, counties, or
state agencies. But states like Florida and Georgia have passed laws
requiring all counties in their states to participate in
287(g). Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis even pushed universities to sign
agreements that turn college campuses into targets of mass deportation.
Apparently no space is safe for immigrant communities.
This program is eroding public safety and trust in
law enforcement. When people fear that dialing 911 could result in the
deportation of themselves or a loved one, crimes go unreported, victims
stay silent, and witnesses refuse to cooperate with criminal
investigations.
A 2018 study by the Cato Institute found no evidence that these partnerships with ICE decreased crime rates. They simply made communities lesssafe for everyone.
Last night, Chris Hayes and Stephanie Ruhle both made powerful points about ICE's decision to now target fire fighters actively fighting fires for arrests. MSNBC hasn't posted Stephanie's segment online but they have posted Chris.
This is what it has come to: Fire fighters trying to protect Americans are being stopped from doing that by the ICE gestapo. Who the hell is providing oversight of their actions? Who the hell signed off on this?
Do you think the American voters went to the polls and saw a measure that read "Do you support arresting fire fighters while they are carrying out their duties? Will you be okay if it's your area or home they are trying to save when ICE pulls them physically off the job?" and said, "Oh, let's vote for that one! I hope it comes with sprinkles!!!"
No one voted for that.
Let's move over to Donald Chump's Epstein scandal. It has not gone aeay and it is not going away.
Former
Attorney General William Barr testified before the House Oversight
Committee that he personally reviewed 11 hours of video footage related
to Jeffrey Epstein’s death. However, investigators and independent
analysts have raised concerns about inconsistencies between Barr’s
account and the FBI-released video, pointing to unclear camera coverage.
Barr’s deposition was part of a broader committee investigation into
the actions of senior officials surrounding Epstein’s incarceration and
death.
Donald Trump’s immigration blitz has reportedly extended to firefighters going about their jobs tackling a wildfire blaze.
Immigration
officials sparked outrage after swooping in on the site of Washington
State’s largest wildfire and arresting two people identified as
firefighters battling the blaze, according to reports.
Fire
bosses overseeing the Bear Gulch inferno in the Olympic National
Forest, just west of Seattle, confirmed in a terse evening statement
that they were “aware of a Border Patrol operation” at the scene.
Two
people on private hand crews were held on Wednesday after U.S. Border
Patrol agents arrived mid-morning and ordered workers trying to quell
Washington’s Bear Gulch blaze to line up for ID checks, according to the
Seattle Times.
The paper said firefighters in
gear could be seen sitting on logs in front of federal officers and a
marked U.S. Customs and Border Protection vehicle, and that at least one
firefighter was being handcuffed.
One crew
member told The Seattle Times that a federal officer had barked at them,
“You need to get the (expletive) out of here. I’m gonna make you
leave.”
Another said they had
been warned not to film. “You risked your life out here to save the
community,” the firefighter said. “This is how they treat us.”
The arrests were made at a site where two crews were ready to cut wood for nearby residents while awaiting a supervisor.
Ari notes the topic that won't go away is about to get a lot more explosive with Congress returning from their summer recess.
Isaiah has Hollywood Madam Heidi Fleiss noting that of course a client list exists. It is the insurance that saves you. Over and over. And everyone knows it. Roddy McDowell used to laugh about the December 1974 raid on his home that 'turned up films' (pirated) because that's not what they were after and it's why he avoided jail time. He acted as a sex broker -- think Dolly Levi without all the singing -- for many powerful men included J Edgar Hoover. And the FBI did try to find that list in their raid but they couldn't.
A list existed. Maybe it's been destroyed, maybe it hasn't. But it did exist and Maxwell's a damn liar when she says otherwise.
Let's wind down with this from Senator Patty Murray's office:
Senator Murray: “If there are any adults left in the White House, it’s well past time they face reality… We cannot let RFK Jr. burn what’s left of the CDC and our other critical health agencies to the ground—he must be fired.”
Senator Murray at July 9, 2025 HELP markup of Monarez nomination:
“We could actually have the best CDC director in the world, and it
wouldn’t change the fact that we have a person leading HHS who is an
anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist—and a Committee that I fear is failing
to do its bipartisan, public oversight of public health disasters… I
really do hope that Dr. Monarez will defy my expectations, I hope she
will stand up for science, and put public health first.” – MORE HERE
Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray
(D-WA), a senior member and former chair of the Senate Health,
Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following
statement in response to Director Susan Monarez’s public statement regarding RFK Jr.’s attempts to weaponize public health and put the lives of the American people at risk and the abrupt resignation of senior officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
“I had serious doubts about Director Monarez’s willingness to
stand up against RFK Jr.’s personal mission to destroy public health in
America—I’m glad to say that I was wrong.
“Susan Monarez’s willingness to stand up for science and
protect the integrity of the CDC is commendable and deeply
important—however, it only further underscores the reality at HHS:
Director Monarez is not the problem, RFK Jr. is. If there are any adults
left in the White House, it’s well past time they face reality and fire
RFK Jr. He is a dangerous man who is determined to abuse his authority
to act on truly terrifying conspiracy theories and
disinformation—leaving us unprepared for the next deadly pandemic and
snuffing out potential cures while he’s at it. He has already taken
utterly reckless steps to dismantle our public health infrastructure,
and he has even undermined President Trump’s own legacy of helping
establish access to lifesaving vaccines through groundbreaking mRNA
research.
“Further we should all be deeply disturbed by the resignation
of highly qualified CDC officials whose work quite literally saves
lives. It will be an extremely frightening world if the CDC is hollowed
out and its ranks filled only by conspiracy theorists that RFK Jr.
agrees with. RFK Jr. comes into conflict with every credible researcher,
scientist, or doctor because he lives in his own unhinged world of
anti-vaccine disinformation—our current trajectory is not tenable. We
need serious people working at CDC and across HHS.
“We cannot let RFK Jr. burn what’s left of the CDC and our
other critical health agencies to the ground—he must be fired. I hope my
Republican colleagues who have come to regret their vote to confirm RFK
Jr. will join me in calling for his immediate termination from office.”
