Rosie O'Donnell has heaped gasoline on her blazing feud with President Donald Trump. "You know, I think that there is a line in the sand with people raping children," the comic and long-running MAGA nemesis told former CNN White House Correspondent Jim Acosta on his podcast, The Jim Acosta Show. "This is a sex trafficking international coverup, he's in the middle of it, and there's no way, even if they redacted his name a patrillion times from the Epstein files, that he's going to get away with it." "Our president is a serial pedophile rapist, and that's what he is!" she added.
President Donald Trump's administration said Friday that it is exploring whether the federal government can take control of the 9/11 memorial and museum in New York City. The White House confirmed the administration has had "preliminary exploratory discussions" about the idea, but declined to elaborate. The office noted the Republican pledged during his campaign last year to make the site a national monument, protected and maintained by the federal government. But officials at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum say the federal government, under current laws, can't unilaterally take over the site, which is located on land owned by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. The U.S. government shouldering costs and management of the site also "makes no sense," given Trump's efforts to dramatically pare back the federal bureaucracy, said Beth Hillman, the organization's president and CEO.
Hundreds of struggling Arkansas farmers are pleading with the federal government to provide emergency funding amid a farm economy crisis. Almost everything that could go wrong for Arkansas farmers went wrong this year, leaving many facing bankruptcy or even the closure of farms that have been passed down for generations. A dismal global market and plunging commodity prices mean there's little hope of breaking even, even as input costs soar because of inflation and tariffs"on top of bad weather earlier in the year. Though President Trump's "Big, Beautiful Bill" provided a much-needed update to safety net subsidies for farmers, they won't see those federal dollars until late next year. By then, some have projected that as many as one-fourth"or even one-third"of Arkansas farmers could face bankruptcy or be forced out of business.
News of a potential plan from Donald Trump's administration to block transgender Americans from owning firearms was met with an avalanche of opposition " including from major Second Amendment groups historically aligned with Republicans. Read more
Dummkopf Trumpf's niece, the clinical psychologist and bestselling author Mary Trump, sees "similarities" between her uncle's (79) increasingly erratic behavior and that of his father, the NYC property magnate Fred Trump, who suffered from Alzheimer's before dying in 1999 at the age of 93. "I think the most important thing to know about Donald's health is that this is a person who has had very serious, severe psychiatric disorders that have gone undiagnosed and they have worsened because they've never been treated," Mary Trump said. "So much of what we're seeing is the result of those undiagnosed, untreated psychiatric disorders. On top of that ... there are clearly some physical health issues, and often it seems that ... it's not just that he's forgetting things. He doesn't seem to be oriented to space and time or place and time. I see it in his eyes." Read more
One of the worst state governors in American history, Ron DeSatan, joyfully opened up another ICE gulag in Florida. Dubbed Deportation Depot', the migrant concentration camp is at former Baker Correctional Institution outside Jacksonville. DeSantis alleged that Baker County residents were "probably excited" about the facility, because he got "90% of the vote" in the predominantly Republican North Florida county. But residents interviewed by reporters were surprised, dismayed, and frightened that the abandoned prison was re-opened for migrants The double Ivy League graduate DeSatan bleated the six million dollar cost to Florida would be reimbursed by the Dummkopf Trumpf junta, but which contractors benefited from this nepotistic deal is unclear. The Baker torture chamber could eventually hold up to 2,000 unfortunate detainees in the seven dormitory buildings that are surrounded by a 12-foot chain link fence with razor wire. Read more
A plane crash in a Denver-area business park early Friday morning has left two dead. The Beechcraft BE35 crashed shortly after takeoff around 6:20 a.m. near Colorado's Centennial Airport, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. In a press conference, Douglas County Sheriff public information officer Deborah Takahara said police were called to the scene on reports of an "explosion." A light rain was falling at the time of the crash, she said. The cause of the crash and the identity of the victims are not yet known. No one on the ground was injured.
The white supremacist who wore a "Camp Auschwitz" hoodie during the 6 Jan 2021 attack on the US Capitol has been detained in Virginia on charges stemming from a dog attack. Robert Keith Packer (60) was arrested "following an investigation into an animal-related incident" that had occurred in Newport News. Packer was charged with one count of animal attack resulting from owner's disregard for human life, a felony. The miscreant was also charged with attacking while at large and no city license, both misdemeanors. Civil charges have also been filed against Packer, including dogs running in a pack and vicious dog. Four people were taken to the hospital with dog bites stemming from the attack. The fate of his dogs remains unclear. Read more
The legal arguments for Trump's tariffs are weak, so he's arguing their rejection would bring ruin. Read more
US President Donald Trump on Friday signed an executive order creating a "state sponsor of wrongful detention" designation meant to penalize countries that wrongfully imprison Americans. The new designation is meant to deter countries from illegally detaining US citizens and encourage them to release wrongful detainees that they have in custody. It will be up to the secretary of state to determine which countries will be given the designation.
An Orange County woman has been charged with illegally registering her dog to vote in California elections in 2021 and 2022, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Laura Lee Yourex, a 62-year-old Costa Mesa resident, was charged with five felonies on Friday after she registered her dog, Maya, to vote in the 2021 gubernatorial recall election and the 2022 primary election, prosecutors said. Read more
"It's an honor to sign this. I think that's a big one, I'll be honest," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. The president was joined at the White House by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Air Force Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, for the announcement. Trump said the three men talked about the name change for months. It was unclear if the president can unilaterally rename the department without legislation from Congress. In the meantime, Trump authorized the Pentagon to use secondary titles such as "secretary of war" and "Department of War" in official correspondence and public communications so the department can go by its original name. Read more at: www.stripes.com Source - Stars and Stripes
In a large-scale immigration enforcement raid at a huge Hyundai facility in Georgia on Thursday, 475 immigrants suspected of living and working in the U.S. illegally were detained, federal authorities announced.
... .. On Aug. 28, Judge Royce Lamberth, a Ronald Reagan appointee who has served on the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., since 1987, ruled that removing Michael Abramowitz as director of VOA "would be plainly contrary to law." That's because Congress responded to efforts during the first Trump administration to compromise the independence of VOA by establishing that the firing of the news outlet's director requires a majority vote of a six-member bipartisan panel called the International Broadcasting Advisory Board. The secretary of state serves as a seventh ex officio board member. The IBAB could not possibly have provided this approval in Abramowitz's case, Lamberth noted, because in January, Trump fired all six of its regular members and didn't name replacements. Lamberth declined to indulge the administration's strategy of legal distraction.
The two teens arrested in an attempted carjacking that left former DOGE-bag Edward Coristine (AKA "Big Balls") beaten to a pulp in Washington DC, have now been slapped with assault and robbery charges. Their confrontation with Edward Coristine served as the excuse for Dummkopf Trumpf's fascist occupation of the nation's capital. The judge ordered the female (15) to be released from a youth gulag and into the custody of her caretakers on a strict 24-hour curfew. The male (15) is already at home with his parents after being released. The suspects have not been identified because of their age.
Hundreds of federal officers descended on a small southeast Georgia community and raided the Hyundai Metaplant...
