The Common Ills: 2025

Wednesday, November 26, 2025

The Snapshot

Wednesday, November 26, 2025. Chump's war on immigrants continues and snares the mother of Karoline Leavitt's nephew, Chump who did not serve continues to try to overcompensate for his micro penis by attacking Senator Mark Kelly, and much more.

The bullies of Chump's gestapo forces never tire of intimidating and harassing people. A court is hitting back at the lawless force. Taylor Dolven (COLORADO SUN) reports:

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents’ conduct during arrests in Colorado has been “unlawful,” a federal judge ruled Tuesday in an order that restricts how immigration officers can arrest people in the state.

The preliminary injunction ruling is a significant victory for immigrants rights groups, who sued ICE last month to stop “indiscriminate” arrests and detentions. The lawsuit alleges that ICE agents are arresting and detaining people in Colorado because of their skin color, accent or perceived nationality, without determining flight risk, to fulfill arrest quotas set by the Trump administration.

ICE must repay the bond money posted by three named plaintiffs in the case, all immigrants arrested in Colorado, remove their ankle monitors and stop making warrantless arrests in the state without determining and documenting each person’s flight risk, according to the the ruling by U.S. District Judge R. Brooke Jackson in Denver.

“ICE’s hubris and violent behavior have been on national display for months,” said Hans Meyer, owner of the Meyer Law Office and an immigration attorney for the plaintiffs. “But as Judge Jackson’s decision makes clear, no one — including ICE — is above the law.”

Let's drop back to Monday for this from THE NEWSHOUR (PBS).

Amna Nawaz:

A sweeping new investigation by the Associated Press is raising serious questions about what's happening inside America's immigration courts.

White House correspondent Liz Landers has more on how the administration has circumvented the asylum process.

Liz Landers:

Every day, all across the country, asylum cases are being tossed out, and asylum seekers exit the courtroom into the waiting arms and cuffs of immigration officers, that according to a new report from the Associated Press headlined "Migrants thought they were in a court for a routine hearing. Instead, it was a deportation trap."

One of its authors, Josh Goodman, joins us now.

Josh, thank you for joining the "News Hour."

Josh Goodman, Associated Press:

Thank you.

Liz Landers:

In reporting this story, you and your colleagues went to 21 immigration courts. Can you describe the scene as you watch migrants walk into court and then walk out into a legal snare?

Josh Goodman:

Yes, we witnessed multiple arrests over several months. This was a routine practice by which government attorneys would go before a judge, dismiss a case, which would typically be a good outcome for someone trying to stay in the United States.

And as soon as they would leave the courtroom, they would be arrested by ICE agents or federal agents, frequently with masks. Nationwide, it's estimated that there were over 2,000 arrests in this manner. Some of the courts were quite chaotic, arresting people in hallways. People were being trapped in elevators. Journalists were being rough-handled, scenes of fathers being torn from their children, women begging federal agents to let their husbands go.

These are people who wanted to follow the rules. They didn't have a criminal record. They were making an asylum claim and going through all the stages that are required and were completely blindsided by what happened to them.

Liz Landers:

What has changed in these immigration courts under this new Trump administration?

Josh Goodman:

So these immigration courts were kind of structurally flawed from the very beginning. They are not part of the independent judiciary in the way that tax court or federal court or any multiple courts around the United States are.

They are part of the executive branch. They actually are part of the Justice Department. They had a degree of professionalism over time that was built up. And these judges were allowed to really rule like any other court. But they were always very vulnerable to some sort of takeover.

What we have seen now under the second Trump administration, they are effectively exploiting those vulnerabilities, issuing new orders about what judges can and cannot rule on. And they're really narrowing the scope that these judges have to decide the cases.

Liz Landers:

How do the attorneys and judges within the immigration court system feel about the role that they're playing under this new Trump administration tactic?

Josh Goodman:

What I found is that overall these are people who are very patriotic. They signed up to work in the immigration system because they wanted to protect America's borders, root out the true people who need asylum from some of the people who are claiming it for nonlegal reasons or economic refugees, for example.

And they did not sign up for this at all. One of the judges I talked to said, this is really like deciding death penalty cases in a traffic court environment, because they have so few tools to actually mete out justice that — and they have such a huge docket — that they are rushing through these cases without giving them the due consideration that they need.

And I noticed in some of the text messages between the federal agents and the attorneys a great deal of empathy and people kind of saying to themselves, this is cruel and we don't really want to be a part of this.

Liz Landers:

I was struck by that in your reporting, that these attorneys who are arguing in front of these judges are in direct contact, it seems, with the ICE agents who are waiting outside.

Josh Goodman:

This process starts about two weeks in advance. Every attorney is assigned a number of people, like maybe 40 cases that day. They have to come up with a list for the client — the client here is ICE — of people who they would — quote, unquote — call "amenable" to detention.

And then, on the day of the hearings, the attorney and the ICE officer in the hallway are coordinating almost in real time so that they can identify what the individual looks like, what kind of shirt, black shirt, a white shirt, whatever they're wearing, as well as if indeed the judge dismissed the case, because that was the hook.

If the judge didn't dismiss the case, they couldn't arrest these individuals. If they're trying to reach a quota every day, it's a lot easier to pick up people at court.

Liz Landers:

One of the stated reasons that the Trump administration has adopted this new policy is to work through the asylum system's yearslong backlog. Is it affecting the backlog and is it affecting other systems?

Josh Goodman:

That's a great question. The backlog is a huge challenge. It has been for many, many years. It keeps growing. The numbers themselves are not 100 percent clear.

The government has said that they have managed to reduce the backlog from about 4.2 million to 3.8 million cases, which is still mind-boggling for only 600 judges nationwide. But they're also benefiting from the fact that the border itself is sealed. In other words, there's not a lot of new people coming in and clogging up the system.

But every time that there are arrests in the streets, any time there are major roundups, those people also get sort of thrown back into the system, and they can actually increase the numbers. So, it's not entirely clear, but I think, at a very minimum, what we can say is that the backlog is not growing as fast as it once was.

Liz Landers:

So you find in this reporting that a number of these judges, these immigration court judges have been laid off. You guys profile in your story a judge in Ohio who had been fired.

Why are immigration judges getting fired right now if there is such a backlog to process these cases?

Josh Goodman:

Yes, I mean, this is a great conundrum. There's about 90 judges that have been fired since February. And the government, Trump administration, very clearly says that they are not targeting anyone from a viewpoint perspective.

But the data speaks for itself. These judges were more favorable to migrants than the national average.

Let's look at some of the people targeted. Robert Birsel (NEWSWEEK) reports:

Immigration authorities detained a University of Oklahoma professor of Iranian studies on Saturday while he was on his way to an academic conference in Washington, D.C., despite having a valid H-IB visa, a colleague said.

He was released this week, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) told Newsweek on Tuesday.

“This Iranian national was detained for standard questioning. He’s been released,” a DHS spokesperson said via email.

Violent criminals? And this person even had paperwork to prove he was all checked off to stay in the country. Gestapo thugs. Untrained menace let loose on the streets of America. Guess we now understand what Blackwater did in Baghdad.

Tom Latchem (DAILY BEAST) reports:

Leaked Immigration and Customs Enforcement data show that nearly three-quarters of detainees have no criminal conviction, undermining President Donald Trump’s promise to remove “millions and millions of criminal aliens.”

The figures, leaked to the libertarian Cato Institute, expose the gulf between the administration’s rhetoric and results, as Trump’s top enforcer, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, insists the dragnet is targeting America’s “worst of the worst.”

Since Oct. 1, 73 percent of people booked into ICE custody had no criminal conviction, while nearly half had neither a conviction nor pending charges, according to the Cato analysis. Just 5 percent had a violent conviction.

Good for Cato but this has been the pattern -- as Cato itself has previously pointed out -- and now we know it remains the pattern.

And look who ICE snared now: a relative of Propaganda Pig. Tara Prindiville and Dennis Romero (NBC NEWS) report:

Officials have detained the mother of White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt's nephew amid the Trump administration's ramped-up immigration enforcement efforts, a source familiar with the matter confirmed to NBC News.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents took the woman into custody in Revere, Massachusetts, this month, the source said.

A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said Bruna Caroline Ferreira is a "criminal illegal alien from Brazil" who overstayed her tourist visa, which expired in June 1999.

The woman has an arrest on suspicion of battery, the spokesperson said. It’s not clear how the case was resolved.

So they have an 11 year old son, Michael Leavitt and Bruna. They were engaged and lived in a condo together until he won million dollars. Karoline, Michael's sister, had to troll old men to find her a sugar daddy, but Michael won his earnings. And, if you're not following, the woman arrested is the mother of Karoline's nephew. I don't know why the reports struggle on the connection. She's also very pretty -- unlike the porker Michael chose to marry. Karoline apparently hates Bruna and you have to wonder if Homeland Security's been used by Karoline to 'ease family tensions' by getting Bruna out of the country? Homeland Secuirty's got all these neagtive things to say about the woman but no outlet can even find where charges have ever been filed against her. Alexx Altman-Devilbiss (KFOX 14) adds:

Ferriera's sister, Graziela Dos Santos Rodrigues, stated on a GoFundMe page to help with legal costs that Ferriera was brought to the United States by her parents in 1998 and "has done everything in her power to build a stable, honest life."

"She has maintained her legal status through DACA, following every requirement, and has always strived to do the right thing," Rodrigues continued.

We've talked about the lies Homeland Security keeps telling. Grace Hall (MIAMI HERALD) notes:

U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis criticized testimony from a top ICE official about efforts to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia, calling it unhelpful and inconsistent with his affidavit.

Abrego Garcia, returned to El Salvador in March and later brought back to the U.S., faces human-smuggling charges and is fighting repeated attempts to deport him to various countries, including Liberia, instead of Costa Rica, which he prefers.

Now let's return to the topic of US Senator Mark Kelly.

Eric Garcia (INDEPENDENT) reports:

Hence on Monday, the Pentagon announced that it would perform a “thorough review” of “serious allegations of misconduct” against Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.). The Pentagon said Kelly could be recalled for active duty “for court-martial proceedings or administrative measures.”

Kelly is a popular senator in Arizona, a state Trump won. He also served in the U.S. Navy as a captain and as an astronaut — he flew four space missions and his identical twin brother Scott is also a retired NASA astronaut — before he ran for Senate in 2020 after his wife, then-Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was shot in the head in a political assassination attempt in 2011. Kamala Harris had him on her shortlist to be her running mate.

But he sent Trump into a rage last week when he – along with fellow Democratic Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.), Democratic Reps. Jason Crow, Chrissy Houlahan, Maggie Goodlander and Chris DeLuzio – released a video telling active duty U.S. servicemembers that they could refuse to obey illegal orders.

Trump responded by calling the behavior seditious and said that it could be punishable by death. Republicans either outright defended Trump’s words or they pretended not to see it.

This case will likely fall apart in the same manner Trump’s attempts to prosecute Comey and James.

And it will likely cause just as much backlash and make Kelly a hero among Democrats the same way that Gavin Newsom did after Trump sent the National Guard and Marines into Los Angeles without the governor’s permission.

Kelly for his part does not seem bowed by Trump’s attack on him. But it is just another example of how Trump is using the federal government to exact revenge against anyone he perceives as his political enemies and equating his enemies with the country’s enemies.

We're back in on this. I was hoping we were out; however, a lot of 'experts' and reporters on military matters do not know what they're doing. Not a bit. I watched in shock, at Lt Ehren Watada's court-martial after Judge Toilet (John Head -- two-time toilet) ended the court-martial in his illegal attempt to give the government a do over. I was elated. And yet I'm watching all these 'experts' -- even one from the National Lawyers Guild give their expertise to the media and they're all saying this is going to be tough when they do it over with the next court-martial -- WHAT! As I said then there is no next time. Judge Toilet was prodding and coaching the government prosecutors and they still couldn't make a winnable argument so he stopped the case. Double jeopardy had attached. There's no do over.

And there wasn't.

Or take the Status Of Forces Agreement Bully Boy Bush pushed through on Thanksgiving of 2008 and all the liars who said and wrote that it ends the Iraq War and forces US troops out of Iraq in three years. No.

Did you read it? Because I did. In full on Thanksgiving day and we did an Iraq snapshot about it that day. We usually take Thanksgiving and Christmas and July 4th and Memorial Day off -- am I forgetting one? -- but this was important so we had to do a snapshot.

And then idiots pretended it ended the Iraq War. It didn't. Some -- not all -- US troops left at the end of 2011. It was a drawdown, not a withdrawal. (The 2,500 currently in Iraq are supposedly going to leave by the end of this year.) The drawdown would not have happened if Nouri al-Maliki -- US puppet and despot -- had gotten what he wanted. He insisted on a larger number of troops than Barack was offering. .Iraq wanted US troops out of Iraq. That and the UN's refusal to continue to provide fig leaf cover to the illegal war is why the US government moved to a SOFA. It replaced the UN mandate (each country keeping troops in Iraq had to do their own version of a SOFA because the UN mandate was expiring and the UN was not going to extend them. Each year, Nouri would sign it -- after lying to the Iraqi Parliament and the Iraqi people that he wouldn't -- and it would extend foreign troops' presence in Iraq. He no longer had the power to do this yearly -- he would be toppled trying that. So the SOFA covered 3 years and was renewable. If Barack had agreed to more solider, Nouri would sign the SOFA. The US military was what kept him in place. He conveyed that to Senators John McCain, Joe Liberman and Lindsey Graham. They were not silent about the request, they spoke of it in an open meetings of Congress.

People need to stop pretending they know what they're talking about when they don't.

One of the few commentators worth listening to on military law is Eugene R. Fidell. He is almost always right (in fact, I can't think of a time when he was ever wrong). He's been cited here over and over since 2006 for that reason. October 19, 2020, he wrote "Wrestling with Legal and Illegal Orders in the Military in the Months Ahead" (JUST SECURITY):

Good order and discipline are the familiar watchwords of military forces around the world. A disciplined force is one in which comprehensible, lawful orders are given and promptly followed. But must all orders be obeyed? If not, what is a soldier to do? These questions are not new, but they are particularly timely given the concerns many understandably feel about the possibility that the Trump administration will employ the armed forces in questionable ways before, during, and even after the 2020 election, even though Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has firmly stated that the armed forces will not be involved in the election.

American military law is about as clear as it can be as to when orders must be followed and what sanctions are possible in the event of disobedience. No one could have predicted some of President Donald J. Trump’s dismaying conduct and treatment of the armed forces, and there is no guarantee that future administrations will be steadier, although it would be difficult for them not to be. Given what we’ve witnessed over the last few months, armed forces should critically review their training for both judge advocates and commanders, including the development and analysis of hypotheticals that explore possible scenarios arising from domestic unrest and possible use of the Insurrection Act.

What does military law say about orders, and what can happen if a soldier disobeys?

The Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) is America’s criminal code for the armed forces. It is an Act of Congress and applies not only to those on active duty in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, Space Force, and Coast Guard, as well as reservists, but also to personnel of the National Guard and Air National Guard when they have been called into federal service. National Guard and Air National Guard on state orders are subject to state codes of military justice that largely replicate the federal statute. For federal military personnel, the UCMJ’s implementing regulations can be found in the Manual for Courts-Martial, which is an executive order issued and amended from time to time by the president, as well as service-specific regulations issued by each branch of the armed forces. All of these have the force of law.

The UCMJ’s “punitive articles” criminalize the disobedience of lawful orders given by military superiors. These may be oral or in writing. Usually, a servicemember cannot be prosecuted for violating a lawful order unless it can be proved that he or she actually knew about it. “General orders,” on the other hand, are different. These orders from senior officers are like statutes and regulations: Everyone is deemed to have notice of them if they have been properly disseminated.

There are potentially severe penalties for disobeying lawful orders. A disobedient soldier might simply be “chewed out” or given nonjudicial punishment if the commander considers the disobedience a minor offense. But disobedience of a lawful order can, depending on the circumstances, lead to the death penalty in time of war and in peacetime to confinement for up to five years, a stigmatizing punitive discharge (dishonorable or bad-conduct for enlisted personnel, dismissal for commissioned officers), loss of pay, and other sanctions.

Only lawful orders have to be followed. This is what the Manual for Courts-Martial says about the lawfulness of orders:

(i) Inference of lawfulness. An order requiring the performance of a military duty or act may be inferred to be lawful, and it is disobeyed at the subordinate’s peril. This inference does not apply to a patently illegal order, such as one that directs the commission of a crime.

(ii) Determination of lawfulness. The lawfulness of an order is a question of law to be determined by the military judge.

(iii) Authority of issuing officer. The commissioned officer issuing the order must have authority to give such an order. Authorization may be based on law, regulation, custom of the Service, or applicable order to direct, coordinate, or control the duties, activities, health, welfare, morale, or discipline of the accused.

(iv) Relationship to military duty. The order must relate to military duty, which includes all activities reasonably necessary to accomplish a military mission, or safeguard or promote the morale, discipline, and usefulness of members of a command and directly connected with the maintenance of good order in the Service. The order may not, without such a valid military purpose, interfere with private rights or personal affairs. However, the dictates of a person’s conscience, religion, or personal philosophy cannot justify or excuse the disobedience of an otherwise lawful order. Disobedience of an order which has for its sole object the attainment of some private end, or which is given for the sole purpose of increasing the penalty for an offense which it is expected the accused may commit, is not punishable under this article.

(v) Relationship to statutory or constitutional rights. The order must not conflict with the statutory or constitutional rights of the person receiving the order.

That's an excerpt. Eugene is an expert. Pete Hegseth? A man who pays a woman to drop assault charges is not a man who respects the law. He is a piece of trash who thinks he can buy his way out of anything, but he is not someone who respects the law -- further demonstrated by his repeatedly billing himself as the Secretary of War when there has no such position since FDR was president and only Congress can change the title from Secretary of Defense. Looselips Hegseth is not just targeting Senator Mark Kelly, he's also targeting the Boy Scouts. Katie Hawkinson (INDEPENDENT) reports:

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wants the U.S. military to cut all ties with Scouting America, the organization formerly known as the Boy Scouts, according to a new report.

Hegseth said the military is planning to sever ties with the organization, claiming it is no longer a meritocracy and is designed to “attack boy-friendly spaces,” according to a draft memo to Congress obtained by NPR. Scouting America, which “aims to prepare young people for lives of impact and purpose,” was founded in 1910 and has more than one million youth members, according to its website.

Is there a bigger bunch of babies? The only thing bigger than these babies is the huge chips that they carry around on their shoulders. A life of resentment is all they've lived and they've played the victim over and over. Petey may not realize it but he's at the height of his life. He's not going to have another job where can create his own beauty salon the way he's done at the Pentagon. This is it. And he has nothing but hatred to project right now. That was true even on Easter.

I wasn't planning on covering this topic again but a friend in the House asked me to saying the media was being so-so on the coverage and the right wing was rabid. "So you need a bitch on this one?" Apparently yes. So this is a topic we'll be covering regularly. It would be more in depth today but that call asking me to cover it came in ten minutes ago.

Cowardly weak sister Chump is going after Senator Mark Kelly. He already screwed over this country when he refused to go to Vietnam and lied about having bone spurs, now he thinks he can go after those who did serve? No, no, no, no. Get your little pampered ass back in your lane, fatso. No one's buying the lies and attacks you're spreading. Shame on you, Donald Chump.

Let's wind down with this from Senator Patty Murray's office:

Bicameral introduction follows Trump administration’s shutdown chaos and effort to strip food assistance from millions of Americans; 1 in 9 Washingtonians rely on SNAP benefits to put food on the table

ICYMI: Senator Murray Statement on House Passage of “Big, Ugly Betrayal” Cutting Health Care & SNAP for WA State Families to Fund Tax Cuts for Billionaires

Senator Murray briefly relied on food stamps as a child and has always fought to fully fund SNAP benefits; Murray fiercely opposed Republicans when they passed the largest cuts to SNAP in American history this summer by passing their Big Ugly Bill.

Washington, D.C. — U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, joined Senator Ben Ray Luján (D-NM) and other Democratic colleagues in introducing the Restoring Food Security for American Families and Farmers Act of 2025. The legislation would repeal all the devastating cuts made by Republicans to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in the so-called “Big Beautiful Bill,” the partisan Republican reconciliation bill that was signed into law in July. U.S. Representatives Jahana Hayes (D-CT) and Angie Craig (D-MN) introduced companion legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Republicans’ partisan One Big Beautiful Bill Act made the largest SNAP cuts in history—breaking a 50-year bipartisan commitment—in order to fund new tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy. Congressional Republicans approved cuts that the Congressional Budget Office estimates will eliminate $187 billion in food assistance over the next decade—as grocery prices rise and President Trump’s tariffs raise costs on Americans across the board. These Republican SNAP cuts will take meals from millions of Americans, including children, seniors, veterans, workers, and people with disabilities, while harming farmers, ranchers, small businesses, and grocers who rely on SNAP dollars. Additionally, the Republican legislation creates a massive unfunded mandate on state governments that could force deep cuts or even eliminate SNAP entirely in some states. SNAP is a lifeline for over 42 million Americans, including 16 million children, 8 million seniors, 4 million people with disabilities, and 1.2 million veterans. In Washington state, over 888,000 residents received SNAP benefits in Fiscal Year 2024—approximately 11 percent of the state’s population, or one in nine Washingtonians.

“SNAP is an investment in people and a commitment we make that, in the richest country on earth, kids and families should not be forced to go hungry,” said Senator Murray. “But Republicans broke that commitment with their Big Ugly Bill that made the largest cuts to SNAP in history—taking food away from families who need it the most, to fund new tax breaks for billionaires who need them the least. And during the Republican shutdown, the Trump administration did everything they could to deny SNAP benefits to struggling families—even going to court to block benefits from reaching people who needed them. I’m proud to join my colleagues in introducing this bill to fully repeal Republican cuts to SNAP and I will keep doing everything in my power to speak out and fight back against these terrible cuts to programs Americans rely on to meet their basic needs.”

Additionally, nearly 1,500 national, state, and community-based organizations joined a letter voicing support for this effort.

In addition to Senators Murray, Luján, Klobuchar, and Merkley, and Leader Schumer, the legislation is cosponsored by U.S. Senators Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Michael Bennet (D-CO), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE), Cory Booker (D-NJ), Maria Cantwell (D-WA.), Chris Coons (D-DE), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), Dick Durbin (D-IL), John Fetterman (D-PA), Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Maggie Hassan (D-NH), Martin Heinrich (D-NM), John Hickenlooper (D-CO), Mazie Hirono (D-HI), Tim Kaine (D-VA), Mark Kelly (D-AZ), Andy Kim (D-NJ), Angus King (I-ME), Edward J. Markey (D-MA), Chris Murphy (D-CT), Jon Ossoff (D-GA), Alex Padilla (D-CA), Gary Peters (D-MI), Jack Reed (D-RI), Jacky Rosen (D-NV), Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Brian Schatz (D-HI), Adam Schiff (D-CA), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), Tina Smith (D-MN), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Mark Warner (D-VA), Raphael Warnock (D-GA), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Peter Welch (D-VT), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), and Ron Wyden (D-OR).

The full text of the bill can be found HERE.

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The Snapshot

Tuesday, November 25, 2025. The courts are learning just how often the Chump administration lies, Chump continues to terrorize the country with his war on immigrants, he and his supporters continue to demonstrate they don't know a damn thing about the US military for all their patriotic pretense, Chump fan bases online turn out to be overseas and non-American, and much more.

Starting with Chump's war on immigrants.

Queens, New York. No warrant and the ICE gestapo breaks down a locked door to get inside. No warrant. A cousin listed the address. A cousin that doesn't live there. And they had no warrant and they just knocked down the door and terrorized her and her child.

Now to CNN's interview earlier this week with Marimar Martinez.

An American citizen shot five times in Chicago by Chump's gestapo.

The CNN report goes a little soft. It just notes the lie that DHS told where they claimed that she was ramming them with her car. The event happened in early October. As Greg Sargent (THE NEW REPUBLIC) noted:

In particular, just after the shooting, DHS put out a statement claiming that the agents in question had been “boxed in by 10 cars” and that Martinez’s vehicle “rammed” theirs. The statement also suggests she threatened the agents with a “semi-automatic weapon.” All this “forced” an agent to shoot Martinez, who then “drove herself to the hospital.” DHS added that she’d previously doxed agents online. In short, the shooting was wholly justified: The victim was the one doing the terrorizing—of law enforcement.

Yet these claims are undermined by the criminal complaint against Martinez. It only mentions two cars menacing the agents, not 10. It doesn’t mention her gun, let alone her threatening of the agents with one. It says she was taken to the hospital by ambulance. And as the Chicago Sun-Times reports, Martinez’s lawyer says body-cam footage even contradicts the claim that she directly threatened the officers with her vehicle and shows that the agent said, “Do something, bitch,” before opening fire.

They lie. That's all they do. Well, they terrorize and they hunt people. But they also lie and they keep getting caught in their lies.

Daniella Silva (NBC NEWS) reported Thursday:

A judge dismissed charges Thursday against Marimar Martinez, who was shot by a Border Patrol agent multiple times in Chicago and accused of using her car to assault and impede federal law enforcement.

The move came after federal prosecutors filed a motion to dismiss their own case. Martinez's case has been one of the most high-profile examples of civilians being accused by federal authorities of ramming into a vehicle driven by immigration agents.

Martinez and co-defendant Anthony Ian Santos Ruiz pleaded not guilty last month to Justice Department charges that they used “their vehicles to assault, impede, and interfere with the work of federal agents in Chicago.”

Andrew S. Boutros, the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, filed court documents Thursday morning to dismiss the charges.

U.S. District Judge Georgia Alexakis granted the government’s motion to dismiss the charges Thursday evening, court documents show. The charges were dismissed with prejudice, meaning Martinez and her co-defendant cannot be filed again against them.

Prosecutors said Border Patrol agent Charles Exum shot Martinez in self-defense after she and Santos Ruiz allegedly rammed their cars into a federal vehicle on Oct. 4.

“After striking the agents’ vehicle, the defendants’ vehicles boxed in the agents’ vehicle, the complaint states,” prosecutors said in a statement when charges were announced last month. “The agent was unable to move his vehicle and exited the car, at which point he fired approximately five shots from his service weapon at Martinez, the complaint states.”

Martinez’s legal team had argued that it was federal agents who rammed her car with their vehicle and that the shooting was unjustified and an excessive use of force.

The motion to dismiss comes after it was revealed last week at a court hearing that the Customs and Border Protection agent who shot Martinez multiple times had bragged about it in messages to other officers.

According to Reuters, records presented at the hearing showed that in a group Signal chat with other agents, Exum wrote: “I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.”

In a message to another recipient, Exum sent a news article about the event followed by the message: “Read it. 5 shots, 7 holes,” Reuters reported.

Across the country, people are fed up. They've had enough of the Chump and his gestapo terrorizing people, breaking laws and never being punished. Enough. They've had enough of families being broken up, of parents kidnapped doing school drop offs, it's disgusting and it's un-American.

Michael Lee Simpson (SWNS) reports:

Lisbeth Torres, 26, a healthcare worker, slammed Trump as a “joke” and said immigration officials are taking construction and farm workers – doing jobs others don’t want to do.

Her father, Norberto Torres, 50, originally from Jalisco, Mexico, was approached by ICE agents on November 7 while opening his food truck in Salem around 9:40 a.m.

She described him as “a good citizen” who “took jobs that other people didn’t,” highlighting his work ethic and contributions to the community.

Norberto – a husband and father of five – faces deportation to Mexico, and parts of the family may follow while Lisbeth stays in the US to support them.

People who contribute to our economy and our security are being treated as though they're violent criminals. It's not right. Charlie Jones (THE MIRROR) describes the horror when ICE grabs someone and the family does not know where their family member is:

A man's family has been left desperate for answers after he was detained by immigration enforcement agents six weeks ago, with witnesses saying he started shaking and collapsed midway through the incident.

Vicente Ventura Aguilar's family hasn't heard from him for the six weeks since he was detained, with Homeland Security saying he was never in custody.

The Mexican man, who didn't have legal immigration status but had lived in the US for around 17 years, was detained during a raid in South Los Angeles on October 7.

His brother, Felipe Aguilar, heard from a friend of the missing man, who was also arrested by immigration enforcement, who said that Vincente began to shake, fell unconscious and dropped to the ground while shackled the following day at an immigration facility near the border.

Lindsay Toczylowski, co-founder of the Immigrant Defenders Law Center, is representing Ventura Aguilar’s family. She said DHS never responded to her inquiries about him.

That is outrageous. It's inhumane and it clearly captures the hatred that is the Chump administration. And Greg Bovino clearly captures the grift aspect that is the Chump administration. Tom Latchem (DAILY BEAST) reports on how it appears Bovino staged raids to be able to sneak off to an early Thanksgiving celebration which is creepy family:

On Wednesday, WBTV reported that between 35 and 40 Border Patrol agents puzzled local officials with their presence in Blowing Rock—a tiny town of 1,500 two hours northwest of Charlotte with virtually no crime, and where Bovino’s sister lives, but where few immigrants do—before leaving minutes later.

Census data shows that Blowing Rock is 93 percent white, with a non-white population of about 100 people.

Asked about Bovino—who a judge declared a liar this month over false evidence he gave about using tear gas—Rep. Norma Torres cast serious doubt over his North Carolina detour.

“It is not suspicious at all—[nothing] out of... this administration is [suspicious]—and I am pretty sure that this is what he is doing, to benefit himself, to ensure that he is able to be home and enjoy a holiday with his family, while he separates immigrant families,” the California Democrat said.

“His behavior has been dodgy from day one, he is an unethical person, and time and time and time again, ICE and Border Patrol have been found by our courts to be lying in their reports, and they will continue to do so until Congress holds them accountable.”

Last night on MS NOW, Rachel Maddow noted:

In Charlotte, North Caroline, a lawsuit against Trump's immigration agents there has resulted in a release of this video in which ICE agents are exclaiming to each other, "This is great! This is fun!" while they try to smash their car into a vehicle driven by a US citizen. The ICE agents in this vehicle allegedly had a 12-pack of beer with them in the vehicle -- a twelve pack of Modelos with them in that car while they were enjoying themselves and talking about smashing into that guy while they were on the job

That's not up on YOUTUBE. In the full show -- not posted yet on YOUTUBE -- not even in audio form -- it's around 1925 mark.

Does Chump ever take a beat to think about how he is hurting people? No. Thought isn't Chump's strong suit and others aren't his focus.

As Ben notes this morning on MEIDASTOUCH NEWS, Chump is too busy freaking out over his non-stop failures -- including his cases against James Comey and Letitia James being kicked out of court.

Last week, Chump attacked Democrats in Congress who did a PSA. We noted that here and we noted UCMJ -- see "The Snapshot" from Friday -- and that is where it begins and ends.

Or should be when a nut case doesn't occupy the Oval Office. UCMJ -- which is the code of the military, which is what they train troops on -- is explicit on this point: If you are given an illegal order, you do not obey it.

Chump is now trying to go after Senator Mark Kelly. He wants him brought back into the military so that he can be court-martialed.

This is insanity.

The only thing this accomplishes is to expose how stupid Donald and his followers are. They're so stupid because they don't even know UCMJ -- in fact, they probably don't even know what UCMJ means. Their stupidity is all the more frightening when you think that, unlike Donald, some of them might have served in the military but if they did then they are so stupid that they were actually a threat to this country because they couldn't absorb their training.

The military code of justice demands that any US service member given an illegal order has the duty to refuse it.

Quack Quack! says lame duck Chump as he tries to waddle in a straight line. Thomas Kika reports:

Republican members of Congress continue to vent their frustrations and threaten to leave Washington amid the fallout from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, with some citing worries at the arrival of President Donald Trump's "lame duck" era.

Greene, long a staunch and outspoken ally of the president, announced on Friday evening that she will be resigning from Congress on Jan. 5, only halfway through her current term, citing her dissatisfaction with Trump's current term after her recent break from him on numerous issues. On Monday morning, a Punchbowl News report cited multiple anonymous GOP members of Congress with similar sentiments, with some predicting that more high-profile resignations are possible before the 2026 midterms.

“More explosive early resignations are coming," one Republican told Punchbowl. "It’s a tinder box. Morale has never been lower. [House Speaker] Mike Johnson will be stripped of his gavel and they will lose the majority before this term is out.”

Following the release of that report, its writer, Jake Sherman, took to X to share that more and more GOP members of Congress had reached out with their own similar sentiments and thoughts of resigning, expressing frustration over the bleak outlook for Congress for the next year or so.

Some House Republicans told Punchbowl News that they believe Greene’s resignation to be the first of many, with one senior House majority member telling the outlet, “This entire White House team has treated ALL members like garbage.”

“And Mike Johnson has let it happen because he wanted it to happen,” the source told Punchbowl. “More explosive early resignations are coming. It’s a tinder box. Morale has never been lower. Mike Johnson will be stripped of his gavel and they will lose the majority before this term is out.”

Ex-MAGA firebrand Greene’s shocking resignation fed the growing flames of dissent among Republicans against the Trump administration, which has faltered in its influence in the wake of the investigation into disgraced sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Vic Verbalaitis (THE DAILY BEAST) echoes the report noting:

[Analyst Doug] Heye said that he believes more Republican House members will defect in the coming days and weeks following the surprise resignation of Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Friday.

Chump's not just a lame duck, he's a loser and an anchor around the GOP's neck. And, more important, he's an elderly anchor around the GOP's neck. Ewan Gleadow (RAW STORY) explains:

The midterm elections could swing massively in favor of Democrat candidates, and it's because of an issue with Donald Trump the GOP have not addressed.

Greg Sargent of The New Republic and Amanda Marcotte believe the problem of age will weigh heavy on the election cycle next year. Trump, 79, is "not looking good these days" according to Marcotte, who says the "elephant in the room" of the 2026 midterms is the president's age.

She said, "I will not be surprised if turnout is really high in the midterms. And that’s all before you even get into the fact that the elephant in the room is that Donald Trump is 79 years old, and he is not looking good these days."

"And I think that his ability to be a strongman leader of the MAGA cults kind of depends on him looking like someone who’s going to survive for the next few years. I think there’s a bet that increasingly few people are interested in taking."

All of this comes at a very bad time for Chump. David McAfee (RAW STORY) reports:

A large number of MAGA social media influencers were exposed over the weekend as being being based in other countries.

Podcaster Matt Binder posted screenshots showing that Charlie’s Voice Rising, a popular Charlie Kirk fan account, is based in Eastern Europe (non-EU).

One popular influencer wrote "wait this is crazy" along with a screenshot showing that Defiant Ls, a MAGA account that has 1.6 million followers, is from Japan.

Dem influencer DreamLeaf wrote, "This one is great," along with evidence that a MAGA account called "Americaman" is actually based in Indonesia.

PatriotTakes, which is dedicated to research monitoring and exposing right-wing extremism and other threats to democracy, drew attention to post Trump himself had shared.

"Trump just boosted a MAGA account based in 'South Asia' #AmericaFirst," he wrote, before Brian Tyler Cohen said, "Perhaps it would be easier to identify which MAGA accounts are actually based *inside* the United States."

So these fan clubs aren't really based in the US. Makes you wonder if they are also farms paid by foreign governments.

Adam Van Eekeren (EXTRA.IE) sums it up, "The newest feature has sparked fury from within the MAGA movement as massively popular pro-Trump X accounts have now been exposed as foreign actors. Many accounts that have promoted an ‘America First’ ideology are now known to be operating out of countries such as Thailand, Nigeria, and Eastern Europe."

Let's wind down with this from Senator Elizabeth Warren's office:

Paramount Skydance made deals with Trump prior to gaining merger approval, now reportedly admin favorites to take over Warner Bros.

Senators warn that botched merger review could raise costs, reduce choices for Americans

“The American people deserve full confidence that the federal government is enforcing these laws independently, transparently, and free from political pressure or financial influence.”

Text of Letter (PDF)

Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) led Senators Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) in writing to U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Antitrust Division Assistant Attorney General Abigail Slater, warning that a potential Warner Bros. deal could be tainted by political favoritism and corruption. Warner Bros., in an upcoming formal auction process, is expected to receive bids from major media companies potentially including Paramount Skydance, Netflix, Apple, Amazon, and Comcast, raising the specter of a new, massive media giant that drives up costs and reduces choices for American families.

Recent reporting revealed that the Trump administration prefers for Paramount Skydance to win the bid, raising questions of political favoritism. The close relationship between the Trump administration and Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison could politicize the merger approval process. In July, the Trump administration approved the merger between Paramount and Skydance, just weeks after Paramount donated $16 million to Trump’s Presidential Library — and after Ellison reportedly agreed to a secret “side deal” to run millions of dollars’ worth of pro-Trump ads.

“The Department of Justice (DOJ) must guarantee that any review of a potential Warner Bros. transaction is conducted transparently, independently, and in accordance with federal antitrust and anti-corruption laws — not politics,” wrote the lawmakers. “Regardless of which bidder is selected, the combination of one of these companies with Warner Bros. would further consolidate the media market — risking higher prices and less variety for consumers.”

The lawmakers demanded that the review of any potential transaction involving Warner Bros. follow the law and avoid the taint of corruption and political favoritism. If the review is botched and a new media giant emerges, the company would have even more market power to raise costs at a time when working- and middle-class Americans are already being squeezed by skyrocketing costs across the board.

To ensure the DOJ review is fact-based and transparent, the senators are pressing for answers on interactions that might bias the transaction review process. In particular, the senators ask whether DOJ officials have discussed any matters related to a potential Warner Bros. transaction with lawyers, lobbyists, or consultants hired by Warner Bros. or any of the reported bidders. They also seek further clarification on whether conversations have been held with non-DOJ lawyers, as well as White House officials or Donald Trump, relating to transaction review at the DOJ, including a potential transaction involving Warner Bros.

“A transparent and lawful merger review process ensures that antitrust and public interest laws function as intended — to protect competitive markets, prevent concentration of power, and safeguard American families from higher prices and fewer choices,” the lawmakers concluded. “The American people deserve full confidence that the federal government is enforcing these laws independently, transparently, and free from political pressure or financial influence.”

Senator Warren has consistently fought back against corrupt corporate media consolidation:

On October 10, 2025, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), and Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) questioned Skydance’s refusal to address President Donald Trump’s reported secret side deal.
On August 1, Senator Warren released a statement in response to Paramount’s and Skydance’s responses to her letters to each of the companies, describing the responses as “dodgy” and calling for “a full, independent investigation” into whether the companies or their executives engaged in any criminal behavior connected to the approval of the companies’ multi-billion-dollar merger.
On July 24, Senator Warren responded to the Trump administration’s approval of the Paramount-Skydance megamerger, saying “bribery is illegal no matter who is president.”
On July 23, Senator Warren published an op-ed in Variety: “Elizabeth Warren on Colbert 'Late Show' Cancellation: Is the Paramount Trump Payoff a Bribe?”
On July 21, Senators Warren, Sanders (I-Vt.), and Wyden (D-Ore.) pressed David Ellison, CEO of Skydance, about reports of a secret deal between Skydance and President Trump—and how it may be related to Paramount’s recent multi-million-dollar settlement agreement with Trump.
On July 17, Senators Warren and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), along with Representatives Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.), Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.), and lawmakers in Congress, unveiled the Presidential Library Anti-Corruption Act to close loopholes that allow presidential libraries to be used as tools for corruption and bribery.
On July 15, Senator Warren released a new report exposing how companies, special interests, and foreign governments may be pledging donations to President Trump’s future Presidential Library as a corrupt tool to secure favorable outcomes from his administration.
On July 2, Senator Warren called for an investigation into Paramount’s settlement with Trump.
On May 19, Senators Warren, Sanders, and Wyden wrote to Shari Redstone, Chair of Paramount, with concerns regarding whether Paramount may be engaging in potentially illegal conduct involving the Trump Administration in exchange for approval of its megamerger with Skydance.

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