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9 hours ago
Thursday, November 27, 2025
The DC shooting is on Chump who doesn't do his job and doesn't make the country secure
West Virginia National Guard Specialist Sarah Beckstrom has passed away. She and National Guard member Andrew Wolfe were shot in DC on Wednesday. She was 20. Wolfe is 24 and remains in critical condition. Nadine Yousif (BBC NEWS) notes, "Both were shot at close range near Farragut Square in downtown just after 14:00 EST (19:00 GMT) on Wednesday. Police have arrested one suspect in the shooting, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, a 29-year-old from Afghanistan." Yousif also notes:
Ms Beckstrom and Mr Wolfe were among those who were deployed in August, the West Virginia National Guard confirmed to BBC News.
National Guard troops are a reservist force that can be activated to serve as military troops, but have limited power as they cannot enforce the law or make arrests.
The location of the shooting, just blocks from the White House, meant a number of law enforcement officials were quickly on the scene to treat the two victims and apprehend the gunman.
The suspect was shot four times while he was apprehended, law enforcement sources told CBS News.
The suspect is Rahmanullah Lakanwal. He is from Afghanistan. In April of this year, the Chump administration granted him asylum. Ewan Palmer (DAILY BEAST) notes, "FBI Director Kash Patel refused to answer a question about whether the Afghan suspect accused of shooting two National Guard troops in Washington, D.C., was granted asylum by the Trump administration." Again, in April of this year, he was given legal asylum. As someone who worked with the CIA in Afghanistan, he was allowed into the country in 2021. His remaining here was based on the outcome of his vetting. In April of this year, the Chump administration completed the vetting and offered him asylum. Ka$h doesn't want to say that. Mainly because it puts the blame on Chump and also because yesterday found Chump immediately trying to blame this on Joe Biden.
In fact, Chump only stopped his latest round of blame others when MEIDASTOUCH NEWS and other outlets began noting it was Chump, not Joe Biden, who granted the suspect asylum.
Julian E. Barnes (NEW YORK TIMES) notes, "Representative Jim Himes of Connecticut, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said he had requested additional information about the suspect from the C.I.A. after its director, John Ratcliffe, said he had been allowed into the United States due to his prior work with the agency."
Today, Chump got push back to his face when he lied again this time insisting that, under Joe Biden, there was no vetting.
Reporter: Your Justice Department inspector general reported this year that these Afghans who were brought into the U.S. were thoroughly vetted by DHS and the FBI. So why do you blame the Biden administration?
President Donald Trump: "Because they let him in. Are you stupid? Are you a stupid person? Because they came in on a plane, along with thousands of other people that shouldn't be here, and you're just asking questions 'cause you're a stupid person."
No, the stupid person is the 79 year old man in make up, with the fat ass, stuffing his fat mouth with fast food despite the fact that he weighs well over 300 pounds and has swelling issues. The stupid person is the one raging at THE NEW YORK TIMES for their article noting that he's got energy level problems and is falling asleep in public -- not just one time. He's not up to the job.
And that's why he's lying yet again. His administration granted asylum in April. He was sworn in on January 21st. He picked his administration, he even fired career officials. This is on him and no one else.
I don't think you can be posting to social media in the early morning hours and still provide the needed supervision to those you've delegated responsiblities too. And when the people appointed to secure our nation -- Kristi Noem, Pete Hegseth, Tulsi Gabbard, John Radcliffe (8 months as DNI is not really experience, don't kid), Ka$h Patel, etc -- are not experienced or qualified for the job, you appointing them means you have to supervise them even more.
He is derelict in his duty. He has put the nation at risk with his security picks all by itself. But he does not focus on what he's supposed to. He's delcared some form of war this week on The Lincoln Monument which again begs the question is Miss Donald the presidnet of the United States or the fat and flabby interior designer from Doral, Florida which is infamous for its poor taste?
We're stuck in situations like this because Fat Ass Chump does everything but his job. It is not his job to persecute or question Senator Mark Kelly when Mark Kelly repeats the Uniform Code of Military Justice. Yet he and Hegseth -- instead of doing their jobs -- are attacking Kelly. I've said since he made these crazy nominations that we could have another 9/11 and if we do, America needs to call him out because he has not done his job and he has put our security at risk. We see that now with the DC shooting.
Nicholas Wu, Lisa Kashinsky and Samuel Benson (POLITICO) note:
Donald Trump is going to war with Democrats over the military. It could backfire on him.
The president’s attacks on six Democrats who recorded a video encouraging military members to buck unlawful orders are elevating members of a faction that just delivered big off-year wins for their party. Most hail from swing states or districts, identify as centrists and are leveraging their national security backgrounds to argue that Democrats can retake the patriotic lane.
Trump is also boosting some potential 2028 presidential hopefuls, Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly and Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin, while further undercutting the GOP’s attempts to make New York progressives like Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez the face of the Democratic Party.
“Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump are providing Mark Kelly with the kind of visibility that almost no amount of money could buy,” said Barrett Marson, an Arizona-based Republican strategist, referring to the Defense secretary who ordered an investigation of Kelly. “Every 2028 contender wishes they could be attacked like this by the Trump administration.”
Since Trump accused the six of “sedition” and even suggested they could be executed, they’ve racked up millions of views on social media, done the cable news circuit and blasted out fundraising appeals highlighting the attacks.
It’s heightened the stature of even those who have already been the subject of speculation about their 2028 aspirations. Kelly, who was on the short list to be Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate last year, has already visited a raft of early primary and general-election battleground states this year. But only after Trump’s attack was he invited on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” this week.
Chump's also to blame because he's the one who ordered the National Guard to DC. Campbell Robertson, Shawn Hubler and Chris Hippensteel (NEW YORK TIMES) report:
The shooting of two National Guard members in Washington, D.C., shocked Americans on Wednesday, but not everyone was surprised.
“I knew this would happen,” a member of the California National Guard texted The New York Times as news spread, speaking on condition of anonymity because he did not have authority to comment publicly.
As part of the force sent to Los Angeles this summer to assist in the president’s immigration crackdown, the soldier, who has served in the Guard for six years, said he and his commanders worried that the assignment “increased our risk of us shooting civilians or civilians taking shots at us.”
That concern, which was echoed by at least two other California Guard members, was well known, including in the U.S. capital, where the two members of the West Virginia National Guard were critically wounded around 2:15 p.m. by a lone gunman near the White House, according to the Washington Metropolitan Police Department.
He needs to stop trying to blame Joe Biden and instead prove to the American people that he can make it through a work day in public without falling asleep, he can stop staying up all night on the computer like some Red Bull drinking teenager and he can provide supervision to the needed imbeciles he has put into jobs that are supposed to make the country secure.
He is a liar. He has dementia. He's a stroke victim waiting to happen. He needs to stop playing around online, stop cooking up schemes -- unethical and corrupt schemes -- to enrich his own pockets and get off his fat ass and get to work.
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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.
“This Iranian national was detained for standard questioning. He’s been released,” a DHS spokesperson said via email.
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.
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.
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. and
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 a 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.
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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Tuesday, November 25, 2025
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