Where is Chump? I have no idea. I've heard -- true or not -- that there's something on his forehead -- wound? bruise? -- that he's hiding. No idea if that's true.
His health is always a question mark as we watch him continue to decay. Friday, Marcia noted "My grandmother thinks Chump's on dialysis." He may well be.
In news of other Republican trash, Steven W. Boyd was appointed as a 7th District Court judge in Idaho in 2019.
Why?
Because he's a Republican and they support rape -- especially child rape. That's why they went running from Congress. That's why they're scared about this week when they have to return.
They are pro-rape. They are pro-pedophiles.
Boyd made it clear that he supports those MAGA pro-pedophile values. The Grand Old Pedophile Party -- I think that's what MEIDASTOUCH NEWS' Ben coined for this appalling political party.
If you're wondering why I'm saying that, Judge Boyd just gave a sweetheart deal to a man who repeatedly exploited a child.
An Idaho man was sentenced after pleading guilty to two counts of felony injury to a child as part of a plea agreement.
Candon Dahle, who played on BYU's baseball team prior to his arrest, was sentenced to 180 days in jail and eight years of probation on Thursday.
Dahle was arrested in Utah County on Feb. 7 for child lewdness before being extradited to Idaho for court proceedings. He took a plea deal, pleading guilty to two counts of felony injury to a child.
Judge Steven Boyce sentenced him to 5 to 10 years in the Idaho State Prison, but suspended the prison time in favor of eight years of probation and 180 days in jail. He is also required to do 200 hours of community service and pay just over $2,600 in fines.
The victim spoke during the sentencing, saying Dahle sexually abused her for five years, starting when she was 7 years old, according to EastIdahoNews.com. Dahle also gave a statement at the sentencing, apologizing to the victim, her family, and his family.
He exploited a child starting when she was seven an continuing on until she was 12. He did it for five years. But MAGA Judge Boyce isn't even giving him one year behind bars. Based on the convictions, he should be doing a minimum of five years in prison (a max of ten) but Kaitlyn Hart (EAST IDAHO NEWS) explains that the judge decided to suspend the sentence. MAGA Judge Boyce is such trash that Dahle's not even going to have to register as a sex offender. Five years of abuse but he's not going to have to register. Hart reports:
The victim spoke last, telling the court about the specific abuse she suffered from Dahle.
“My earliest memory of the abuse is 7 years old, but I know he was touching me before that. Almost every time we were together, Candon was touching me under my clothes … some memories are so damaging, because it was me holding in cries of pain while Candon was pleasured,” said the victim. “I was just 11 years old when he covered my mouth because he didn’t want the family close by to know what he was doing.”
She continued, expressing the depression she has experienced because of the abuse, and how it felt when she found out he had been arrested.
“Every single day since I was seven, Candon has made me hate myself. I wake up every morning and have to give myself a reason to stay here. I want Candon to know that many days, I have felt I would have rather he ended my life than forced 7-year-old me to have to live through all those years of what he did to me,” said the victim. “You forced me to keep your secret for seven years. I sat through your baseball games, I watched the world cheer for you. I watched you achieve every church standing and be celebrated, all while I screamed inside because I knew the truth.”
Before concluding her statement, the victim addressed Dahle, telling him that she intends to take her power back and not let the abuse shape her life.
“Candon acts powerful and entitled, but all it took was a 14-year-old girl to show the truth … your honor, I have worked so hard the last five months to find things I love again because he took everything from me,” said the victim. “I need you to know that if he gets off today, I will wonder for the rest of my life why I ever put myself and my family through this. Please don’t take away the only part of this that gives me some sense of peace.”
Remember this 15-year-old girl on Wednesday when survivors of Jeffery Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell speak out. And remember that another injustice has been brought to you by the Grand Old Pedophile party.
Charlie Ward.
I don't have time for BLUESKY. I hate the liars -- see Elaine's "Stel Pavlou is a racist and idiot" -- who lie about me instead of dealing with the issues I've raised. And I hate the people on it who just lie through their teeth. I applaud the truth tellers and I especially applaud the Black women refusing to be silenced because that is what a number of the White left tries to do to us, discredit us and silence us and gaslight us.
But we were relaxing last night and talking -- a group of us -- and I got on BLUESKY.
If you followed me, I followed you back -- one exception. I had been on in some time, I hope I got everyone.
But I also broke my word.
Sorry.
Back in November when we were trying to build an alternative to TWITTER, I said anyone who followed on BLUESKY would get followed back.
And I've done that this whole time with one exception.
Charlie Ward.
If I knew how to send a message, I'd send one to him explaining why I'm not following him back.
He's QAnon, he's anti-vax and many other things. Sorry. The whole point of BLUESKY was escaping the trash of Twitter.
I don't monitor every comment by everyone I'm following on BLUESKY and I don't agree with everything they agree on 100%. I went to college with Rebecca and love her to tears but I don't agree with everything Rebecca believes. We agree on main issues. And I hope that's true of the ones I've followed back. But QAnon and anti-vax and other positions that Ward has, I'm sorry I have to break my word there.
And he should absolutely unfollow me.
That would drop me to 439 followers. And that's a problem. Why? I'm only following 396 of you.
Up until Ward, I've not knowingly broken my promise -- link to me, I'll link to you.
But somehow 43 of you aren't getting followed. If you read this site, the public e-mail address is common_ills@yahoo.com and you can e-mail me and say, "Hey, I followed you but you haven't followed me back." I'll rectify that as soon as I see the e-mail -- or Martha and Shirley will as soon as they see the e-mail.
A few hours ago, I did add this:
thecommonills.blogspot.com is the site I started over 20 years ago.
That's because a nobody failure lied on BLUESKY that I was MAGA. I do a lot of reposts on BLUESKY. Not many posts of my own. So if anyone's confused -- or just want to spread a lie -- adding that should clear things up.
Why don't we note BLUESKY 'tweets' here anymore is a question that comes up a lot.
There was a button for that on BLUESKY that would let me put one in a snapshot. Then they took it out. Then I'd just copy and paste and that worked for awhile but then it began to 'float' and it would be in the middle of a paragraph or something similar.
Other issues in e-mails. Do I watch every video that goes up here? No. I don't have that kind of time. I don't imagine anyone does. If there's one you object to, you can always e-mail. If there's a minor thing, I'm not going to worry about it. If there's a major thing, I'll not note them again. I'm not in the mood for bigotry of any form -- that racism, that's sexism, that's homophobia, etc. My hope is that with the videos being reposted here that there's a variety and one voice is speaking to some people and another to another.
I've said I'm big tenting and want to see Democrats retake the House and Senate in the mid-terms. A number of you have e-mailed about Ali Velshi. I don't watch him. Lawrence was on vacation, MSNB has not been good about posting strong videos from their show -- I'm still waiting for them to post Stephanie Rhule's video about ICE crashing the fire fighters. And they didn't post Chris Hayes speaking to US House Rep Robert Garcia (so we used a non-MSNBC post and that video was taken down late Sunday.) But a number of you have streamed the Velshi videos (two videos) and complained. So I probably will stream if I post him again and if I don't have the time to stream it first, I just won't post it.
The complain is the same in e-mail after e-mail: He spends too much time attacking Democrats and not enough time calling out Chump.
In normal times, that wouldn't bother me. I think we have to police our own.
But we're not in normal times.
We have someone destroying country day after day, hour after hour in the White House.
And the Republican Party has demonstrated that they will not stand up to him -- some are in love with him and others are scared of him.
So we need to get Democrats elected in November of 2026 and we need to do it in order to save our country.
If some elected Democrat is attacking another elected Democrat? We'll either ignore it -- which means I don't think very much of the attack or the exchange -- or we'll call it out because one of them is being dishonest or counter-productive.
This doesn't apply to media. An e-mail is bothered by this from Saturday night:
By the way, it's distressing to see MOTHER JONES -- run by two women -- run a lie -- a LIE -- by a woman -- Inae Oh -- that makes Bernie the leader on this issue.
He's not calling for Junior to be fired. He's also showing up days after Senator Patty Murray has already taken a stand. THE MOTHER JONES article omits Patty. The snapshot runs in the morning here Monday through Friday unless it's a holiday. We noted Parry's statements in Friday's snapshot which means she made them at least on Thursday. Her office wasn't open for Friday business before the snapshot went up that morning.
But it wasn't even Thursday. She made them Wednesday:
August 27, 2025
Senator Murray Calls for Immediate Firing of RFK Jr., Commends CDC Director Monarez’s Stand for Science and Public Health
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.”
It is 2025. MOTHER JONES is run by two women and the idiot Inae Oh is a woman. She's a woman we will NEVER link to because I don't support bitches.
Inae Oh builds her article around Bernie and includes a Friday Tweet from Minority Leader Chuck Schumer calling for Junior to be fired.
Patty Murray led on this issue. To pretend otherwise is to lie.
For
three women to work at MOTHER JONES -- to work at denying Patty her
credit, at rendering a woman invisible, is just disgusting.
I can't believe that after 20 years of being online I'm still having to make these arguments.
But there is your answer. Drive-bys who whine constantly that I don't highlight enough press releases from male members of Congress. In the snapshot, I try to work in at least one press release. Sometimes I don't -- don't have the time or don't have the space. Sometimes there's more than one. But the first place I look when trying to put one in the snapshot is always Senator Patty Murray. She's the first one for a number of reasons. She's a workhorse and she gets the job done. When we were covering Senate Veterans Affairs Committee hearings while she was Chair, we always got sent press releases to make sure nothing on veterans was missed. If Patty doesn't have anything or anything that I think we really need to highlight, I then go to Senator Elizabeth Warren's site, I also regularly check Senators Tammy Baldwin, Sheldon Whitehouse, Ron Wyden and Mazie Hirano.
There is no excuse for MOTHER JONES to ignore Patty's role in this.
I am done with Inae Oh because I don't trust her. I don't trust any woman who stabs women in the back. She's a bitch in my book. We work hard enough and for so little credit that it's bad enough when a man refuses to credit our work but when another woman does that -- a woman who presumably knows how often we are robbed of our credit, I just don't have time for you.
Women have to reinvent the wheel because we are regularly robbed of our credits and written out of history. Women in charge does not translate as better conditions for women. Women in ICE facilities are being treated worse than ever with Kristi Noem as the Secretary of Homeland Insecurity. Women writers suffered greatly when Katrina vanden Heuvel took over at THE NATION (refer to our piece at THIRD "The Nation featured 491 male bylines in 2007 -- how many female ones?" if you're not familiar with the way Katrina glorified men).
Senator Patty Murray showed real leadership while others were looking down at their desks hoping not to be called on. MOTHER JONES writes that up but 'forgets' to include Patty.
No, that's not acceptable. It's not acceptable if it's a magazine run by men. It's especially not acceptable from a magazine run by two women.
Shame on anyone who pretends otherwise.
