Dolly Parton has been facing some “health challenges,” and her sister, Freida Parton, has asked for prayers for the country star.
After Dolly Parton postponed her Las Vegas residency in September, her
sister Freida took to social media to ask her fans to pray for her.
“Last night, I was up all night praying for my sister, Dolly. Many of
you know she hasn’t been feeling her best lately. I truly believe in the
power of prayer, and I have been lead to ask all of the world that
loves her to be prayer warriors and pray with me,” Freida shared on
Facebook.
If her sister's asking for prayers, this must be more than just Dolly still recovering from the death of her husband. I hope she's okay. I will keep her in my prayers. She's given so much to so many. Few bring joy to the world but she has. So if you're someone who prays, make a point to include Dolly in them.
Tuesday, October 7, 2025. The Supreme Court hears another case from the
ADF which lied to them previously, the plaintiff has no standing and
that might be more apparent if the press could stop calling her a
therapist (she's a counselor, there's a huge difference) and would
actually examine her (lack of) training, Chump signals he'll consider a
pardon for his pedophile friend Ghislaine Maxwell, his shutdown
continues and why wouldn't it -- look at the dysfunctional cabinet he
assembled, and much more.
The hate
group Alliance Defending Freedom is yet again attempting to lie to the
Supreme Court. You'd think you pull that stunt once and you're banned.
That's how it should be at any rate. Justin Jouvenal (WASHINGTON POST) reports:
As
a licensed therapist and evangelical Christian, Kaley Chiles said she
wants to help religious teens who struggle with sexual orientation and
gender dysphoria “live a life consistent with their faith” and the
identities God has laid out in the Bible.
Nonetheless, she turns them away.
Chiles
says a state law banning conversion therapy for minors — treatment
intended to change the identity or behavior of gay and transgender
people — silences her and deprives young people of help many desperately
seek to reconcile their faith and feelings.
Not
far from Chiles’s practice, which sits near the foot of the Rockies,
Silas Musick tried to take his life in 2010. The transgender man said
the conversion therapy he underwent in Colorado Springs left him
distraught. He later testified in support of Colorado’s ban and calls
conversion therapy bad medicine.
Those clashing
perspectives will square off Tuesday at the Supreme Court in one of the
highest-profile cases of the new term, one that crosses multiple fault
lines in the nation’s culture wars: gay and transgender issues,
religious liberty, medical practice and First Amendment rights.
Don't
believe her, she's a F**KING liar, a piece of garbage trash. Any
self-respecting person would not associate themselves with the group of
liars about to lie to the Court yet again. Lie to the court? Sam Levin (GUARDIAN) explains:
Lawyers
from Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), which has opposed abortion and
LGBTQ+ rights in high-profile litigation, are representing a woman
challenging a 2019 Colorado law that prohibited conversion practices for
youth under age 18. The ban applies to licensed clinicians who seek to
change a patient’s sexual orientation or gender identity, tactics
medical groups have discredited as harmful and ineffective.
That woman is Kaley Chiles. Back to the article:
ADF’s
petition in the case, Chiles v Salazar, cited several scholars to
support its argument that conversion practices should once again be
permitted. Two of those experts, however, told the Guardian that ADF had
“profoundly” misrepresented their research, which discussed the
“psychological damage” of conversion therapy.
The family of a deceased researcher, also quoted by ADF, said they were “deeply disturbed” by the “distortion” of his work.
“This
is the most upsetting use of my scholarship that has ever happened in
my career,” said Clifford Rosky, a University of Utah professor of
constitutional law and civil rights. He has worked to ban conversion
practices, but ADF nonetheless cited his research on sexual orientation
and LGBTQ+ rights, co-authored with renowned sexuality researcher Dr
Lisa Diamond, to bolster its petition. “It’s upsetting because this is
lethally dangerous to LGBTQ+ kids,” he said.
When Smith's suit was filed at the federal district court in 2016,
she had not begun designing websites, nor had she received any requests
to design a wedding website for a same-sex couple. In 2017, her lawyers
from the ADF filed an affidavit from Smith stating that she had received
such a request several days after the initial filing, and appended a
copy of the request.[6] Smith never responded to the request, and has stated that she feared she would violate Colorado's law if she were to do so.[6]
However, the name, email, and phone number on the online form belong to
a man who has long been married to a woman, and who stated that he
never submitted such a request, as reported by The New Republic on June 29, 2023, a day before the Supreme Court's decision was released.[30]
The ADF stated on June 30 that they believe the name was submitted to
Smith's website by "a third party or a troll" using the man's personal
details; neither they nor their client attempted to verify the
requestor's identity.[31][8]
Colorado did not consider the claimed website submission as an actual website and dismissed the request as evidence.[8]
The federal district judge, Judge Marcia S. Krieger dismissed the
website request claim as there was no indication that the request
actually involved a gay couple.[6]
Legal experts did not see the request having a decisive impact on the
way the Supreme Court ruled on the matter, although constitutional law
scholar Erwin Chemerinsky
suggested that if the falsity of the request had come up in litigation,
the court could have sent the case back to the district court to
resolve the factual issue.[8][6]
The discovery of this claim in the ADF filings had led to questions of
why this information was not discovered before the case was decided by
the Supreme Court.[8] It was later discovered by The New Republic
that Smith had made a wedding website for a heterosexual couple in
2015, which had been removed from her business's profile prior to her
filing the case but remained visible in the Wayback Machine archives. Kate Redburn, a fellow and lecturer at Columbia Law School, stated to The New Republic
that the discovery of this website "could seriously undermine [Smith]'s
story by revealing a fourth option", as Smith appeared to have offered
wedding website services before filing the case without repercussions
related to free speech.[32][33]
The New Republic article notes that, "[Smith's] website six
months prior to the lawsuit being filed in 2016 does not include any of
the Christian messaging that it did shortly afterward...archived
versions of the site show."[34]
The controversial ruling sparked widespread criticism from
prominent legal theorists and law reviews regarding the plaintiff's lack
of standing.[35][36][37][38] ADF's president and CEO called it "a critical ruling affirming all Americans' free speech".[39][40]
Now Kaley Chiles 'counselor' joins them. Kaley went
through high school hating gay people in part due to the fact that
everyone called her a "d**e" and thought she was a lesbian. At one
point, in the locker room after gym class, it's said that she was pelted
with tampons and called a "carpet biter."
The
dumb idiot has a number of certificates but she majored in Bible
studies for her bachelor degree and supposedly she got a MA in Clinical
Mental Health from an online diploma mill.
As
a psychologist, I would recommend anyone seeking counseling of any kind
to be very wary of a charlatan with those 'qualifications.'
Were
I a Supreme Court Justice, I would want to note what specific courses
she has taken that give her insight and information on LGBTQ+ teens.
Because she hasn't taken any.
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End of Elaine's post.
With
fat and ugly Lori Smith, this group lied to the Court. There ws no
request for request for her to design a website for same-sex couple.
They lied to the court. Lori also didn't have standing and the case
should never have made it before the Court. Are we aware of the
whispers that two sitting Justices on the Court have relationships with
ADF?
That would explain why they're being
allowed to appear before the Court again despite lying, that would
explain why the Court agreed to hear the case despite a lack of
standing.
THE WASHINGTON POST doesn't help anyone with sloppy reporting.
She's not a therapist.
She's a licensed counselor.
It makes a difference.
And she's a quack wanting to what? Conversion therapy.
Legal
or not, she can't do it. She's not licensed or trained for therapy.
She's a dumb ass counselor. That's maybe a step above "life coach."
She's not trained to do therapy.
She has no standing and the Court should never have agreed to hear this garbage suit.
Does THE WASHINGTON POST honestly not understand the difference between a counselor and a therapist?
Counselors
focus on specific issues with solution-oriented support; therapists
apply psychotherapy to address ongoing patterns; and psychologists use
advanced diagnostics and testing to treat complex mental health
disorders.
Education and experience requirements for
counselors and therapists typically take 7-9 years, while requirements
for psychologists take 10-13 years.
Even
counting her stupid certificates, she does not have seven yeas of
education for this role. And she has no training with regards to LGBTQ+
people.
And this quack's wants to be allowed to 'treat'?
Ann
E. Marimow gets it wrong at THE NEW YORK TIMES as well. Does no one
proof the copy anymore? Even online, Kaley Chiles doesn't claim to be a
therapist. Doing so would risk her losing her licensing to be a
counselor. To the idiot general studies majors who went on to become
(bad) journalists, let me explain it to you, this is not unlike an LVN
being passed off as a doctor. She is not a therapist. Her training is
insufficient. Stop being so sloppy and get the facts right.
And
let's note one more damn thing. She's not licensed and/or trained to
counsel teenagers. You have to be at least 16 for her to counsel you.
She lacks the training to work with anyone younger on a one-on-one
basis and, yet again, that's on her damn resume that she's posted
online.
Does no one do the damn work required?
Last night on MSNBC, Lawrence O'Donnell revealed shocking news about Chump that was also shocking news about the media.
Donald
Chump, the mn QAnon and Rosanne Barr and many, many others have spent
years insisting was a protector of children, was someone secretly
fighting global sex rings, on camera says yesterday that he will
consider pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted sex trafficker and
pedophile. Where re you? Hey, Roseanne, did they suck out your
courage when they sucked out your fat?
And not
the media just going along wit Chump's statements? What does he man he
has to look into the case? He sent Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche
to speak with Maxwell on two consecutive days and now he doesn't know
about the case? She's supposed to be in maximum security prison. But
Chump authorized her to be moved to Club Fed in Bryan, Texas. And he's
telling the press he's knows nothing about the case and they're just
silent and letting him get away with it instead of peppering with
questions?
Donald
Trump has been accused of either "lying through his teeth" or being
"legitimately senile" after suggesting he'd forgotten who convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell is.
While Chump toys
with releasing Maxwell, Congress remains shut down for two reasons --
first, Democrats are attempting to protect the healthcare of millions of
American and, second, Speaker of the Closet Mike Johnson is attempting
to bury a bipartisan resolution in the House to release the Epstein
files. J.D. Wolf (MEIDASTOUCH NEWS) reports:
Rep.
Thomas Massie (R-KY) accused House Speaker Mike Johnson of working
behind the scenes to block a bipartisan bill that would force the
release of the Jeffrey Epstein files. In a tweet, Massie said Johnson
has delayed the swearing-in of the newest member of Congress, Democrat
Adelita Grijalva of Arizona (who would be the final signature needed),
and spread misinformation about the legislation to prevent a vote,
contradicting Johnson’s recent public statements favoring “maximum
disclosure.”
Massie’s
remarks came in response to a clip of Johnson on MSNBC insisting he
wants “every page of this out” and claiming former president Donald
Trump is “not implicated.” Massie dismissed those comments as
misleading, saying Johnson’s actions show the opposite.
Today on MSNBC's MORNING JOE finds a third reason Johnson's keeping the House closed.
Rep.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has urged her supporters to "laugh" at what
she described as the "insecure masculinity" behind the MAGA movement —
singling out White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller as an
example.
During an Instagram Live session on
Sunday, the New York Democrat argued that mockery could be an effective
tool to counter authoritarian tendencies she pins on the Trump
adminitration. "One of the best ways that you can dismantle a movement
of insecure men is by making fun of them," Ocasio-Cortez said. "Laugh at
them!"
She then pivoted to
Miller, calling him "a clown" and commenting on his appearance. "I've
never seen that guy in real life, but he looks like he's, like, 4 feet
10 inches," she said. "And he looks like he is angry about the fact that
he's 4 feet 10 inches. And he looks like he is so mad that he's 4 feet
10 inches, that he has taken that anger out on any other population
possible."
Public records list Miller's height
as 5 feet 10 inches. Ocasio-Cortez, 35, continued to tell her viewers
that humor was a key part of resistance. "Yes, the resistance to
authoritarianism is very real. The risks of abuse of power are very
real," she said. "But one of the most powerful cultural things you can
do to a political movement predicated on the puffery of insecure men —
that's what this is about."
AOC
is correct. We've noted that here for years. Take those Proud Boys.
MAGA loves to hug on that MAGA group. Have Black Pride or Latino Pride
or Gay Pride and watch MAGA hiss, "Pride is a sin!" But never at their
Proud Boys. And, as we've noted for years, why would a group of men call
themselves "boys"? There's some really messed up about that. MAGA men
are notoriously insecure -- especially the really young ones. That's
why they are so angry at women and at the notion that women have
rights. If you caught Cyndi Lauper's special Sunday on CBS, didn't you
love how she and Cher did their "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" duet and
adlibbed "Girls just want to have fundamental rights"?
MAGA
boys don't like that. They're the original "hide her away from the
rest of the world" boys. Not that they can support a wife that they
made stay at home. And while I'm sure that some males and females can
handle home schooling, the sad reality is that one reason MAGA boys are
so disconnected from the country that they live in is due to home
schooling. Most often it's due to the fact that they are behavioral
nightmares whose uneducated parents never taught them how to behave.
They
are overcompensating for their tiny little egos and they can't handle
laughter -- especially not when it's aimed at them and their
underwhelming life 'accomplishments.'
Grasp
that big bad Stephen Miller has a wife who went to work for Alien Musk
and did so, supposedly, after Stephen socked Alien in the eye. He may
have punched out Alien but clearly Stevo doesn't rule the house the way
he and other MAGA men like to pretend.
He's a little, impotent boy. And as he tries to act big and in control, he looks more pathetic. Author Stephen King reminds him:
"Sorry,
Steve--The Constitution isn't far left or far right," he wrote. "It's
the basis on our democracy, and you're playing the terror card to try
and overturn it. Won't work."
Trump's
administration has been deploying national guard troops to certain
democratic-run cities in recent weeks under the guise of fighting crime,
but a recent effort to deploy troops to Portland, Oregon has been
blocked by a federal judge.
Stephen Miller is a joke. He shrieks and screams in that shrill manner of his and no one takes him seriously anymore. Cameron Anderson (DAILY BEAST) reports:
White
House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller was called out for MAGA’s
violent rhetoric after a fire tore through a South Carolina judge’s
house.
Judge Diane Goodstein, who had a record
of anti-Trump rulings, had been walking her dogs on a beach when her
$1.1 million Edisto Beach home went up in flames around midday on
Sunday.
Goodstein had reportedly been receiving death threats for a few weeks, the local FITSNews reported.
Three people were hospitalized after the blaze, which is being investigated by authorities.
Last month, Judge Goodstein issued a temporary restraining order
to block the Trump administration’s Department of Justice from getting
access to the South Carolina Election Commission’s voter registration
data.
Democratic Congressman and attorney Daniel
Goldman, who served as lead counsel in the first impeachment of former
President Donald Trump, was quick to tag Miller on X with footage of the
fire.
“Stephen Miller and MAGA-world have been
doxxing and threatening judges who rule against Trump, including Judge
Goodstein,” Goldman wrote on X.
“Today, someone
committed arson on the Judge’s home, severely injuring her husband and
son. Will Trump speak out against the extreme right that did this??”
Speak
out? Based on Chump's past actions, he'll probably immediately move to
pre-emptively pardon the arsonist. And it's not just the country
turning on Stephen Miller, it's also his own family. Hannah Broughton (THE MIRROR) reports:
Notorious Trump political advisor Stephen Miller has been called out by a member of his own family in a scathing post on social media, that claimed he was the "face of evil".
Kasmer
wrote on Facebook that she needs to "grieve" for her once "harmless"
relative, Stephen Miller. She also shared pictures of herself and Miller
as children, while urging him to stop supporting Trump's hardline
crackdown on immigration.
She wrote, "I am
living with the deep pain of watching someone I once loved become the
face of evil. I grieve what you've become, Stephen.
"I will never knowingly let evil into my life, no matter whose blood it carries—including my own."
Chump
chose the worst and the dimmest when building his cabinet. No one of
integrity wanted to work with him. It is the wort cabinet ever.
Attorney General Pam daBimbo Bondi is drawing her own boos and hisses. Josephine Walker (AXIOS) reports:
More
than 275 former Justice Department employees are demanding Congress
increase oversight of the department following a mass exodus of career
officials who question the integrity of the department's work.
Why
it matters: The letter comes a day before Attorney General Pam Bondi
testifies in front of Congress for the first time since her
confirmation, and amid widespread questions about the department's
decisions to target President Trump's political foes such as former FBI
director James Comey.
It also comes after roughly
4,500 employees officially departed the DOJ following the DOGE-sponsored
"fork in the road" buyout offers.
What they're saying: "For
decades, the guiding tenet for those working at the department was to do
the right thing, in the right way, for the right reasons. Many believe
that's no longer possible," Stacey Young, executive director and founder
of Justice Connection, which organized the letter, said in a news
release on Monday.
"They're being asked to put
loyalty to the President over the Constitution, the rule of law, and
their professional ethical obligations," she said.
"We're
seeing the erosion of the Justice Department's fabric and integrity at
an alarming pace. Our democratic system cannot survive without the
primary institution that enforces the law."
The department did not immediately respond to Axios' request for comment.
What's
inside: The letter is signed by a wide variety of former employees,
including prosecutors, special agents, intelligence analysts,
immigration judges and grant managers who slam the DOJ for "failing" in
three main areas.
The Trump
appointee accusing the president’s political foes of mortgage fraud
skipped over his agency’s inspector general when making criminal
referrals, according to seven people familiar with the matter, bypassing
rules meant to ensure that federal officials don’t abuse their power
for partisan purposes.
It's just one development after another, one exposure after another.
The
Trump appointee accusing the president’s political foes of mortgage
fraud skipped over his agency’s inspector general when making criminal
referrals, according to seven people familiar with the matter, bypassing
rules meant to ensure that federal officials don’t abuse their power
for partisan purposes.
Bill
Pulte, director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, earlier this
year made criminal referrals against targets including Lisa Cook, the
Federal Reserve governor whom President Donald Trump has tried to
dismiss, for alleged crimes related to their mortgages. Breaking with
standard procedures, Pulte circumvented that agency’s internal watchdog,
typically the office that would make such referrals, by asking the
Justice Department to investigate Cook and two other prominent
officials.
“The referrals did not come from the
OIG,” one of these people said, using shorthand for the office of the
inspector general. “It took people there by surprise.”
Let's wind down with this from Senator Adam Schiff's office:
Washington, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senator Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) joined NBC’s Meet the Press with
Kristen Welker for a wide-ranging discussion where he reiterated
President Donald Trump’s responsibility for the government shutdown, the
health care price spikes facing millions of American families, and
Congressional Republicans’ refusal to work with Democrats to lower
health care costs and stop millions from losing their health care.
Schiff also discussed President Trump’s ongoing attacks against his
political enemies, including Democratic-led cities across America,
highlighting Trump’s willingness to destroy the rule of law and
weaponize key nonpartisan arms of the government like the Justice
Department and the National Guard.
On Trump and Republicans refusing to negotiate an end to the government shutdown and lower costs for Americans:
I’m confident all Democrats
understand that millions and millions of their constituents are about
to be priced out of their health care. I was in California last
week, in Oceanside and in Anaheim, average families of four are going to
see the premiums go up by 900 to $1,000 a month. No one can afford
that, and that’s going to happen all across the country. So, I think all
my colleagues understand the crisis.
We need a president who can act like an adult, who can come to the
table and negotiate an end to their self-imposed health care crisis.
Right now, we don’t see that. We see Trump out on the golf course. We
see the Speaker telling his House colleagues not to even come to
session, that there’s no work for the federal government to do
apparently. That’s completely unacceptable. And
in addition to the need to restore health care affordability for
people, we need to make sure that any agreement that we reach with
Republicans, they will honor. Because right now, they’re telling
us, “You can reach an agreement with us, but we’re simply going to
withhold any money that’s important to you, any programs that are
important to you.” And as for the Speaker telling you, or not telling
you, his position on the president threatening mass layoffs of federal
employees, there’s no one forcing him to do that. He will do that
because he wants to do that. Because he and Russell Vought want to cause
even more pain for the American people. That is unprecedented. No other president during shutdown has sought to maximize the harms to people, but that’s where this president is coming from.
On Trump eroding the trust between the American people and the military:
[…] The president was being candid when he described these American cities as the enemy within. He views them as the enemy within.
That is unprecedented in its dangerousness. That is that the American
president who views cities that didn’t support him or states that didn’t
support him as the enemy, that he describes the opposite party as
beholden to Satan. That’s where this president is coming from. And the
idea that we will militarize these cities, that we will impose the U.S.
military on the mayors and governors of those cities and states should
be unthinkable.
And for Speaker Johnson to claim, as he did when you interviewed him,
that somehow these National Guard troops that, over the governor’s
opposition, are being forced to engage in policing or immigration
enforcement, are very happy to be doing it — I can tell you in
California, the National Guard were not happy to be doing it. It is, I
think, greatly impacting morale in the National Guard. And it is also
disrupting the trust that Americans have for their National Guard. We
have a particular bond in California where they come to our rescue
during fires and floods and other natural disasters. That is being
eroded as, I think, is also military readiness when we’re diverting
military resources for these improper purposes.
On Trump’s baseless quest for retribution and the need for Republicans to stand up to the corruption:
[…] He’s described me as the enemy within. He’s described other Democratic elected officials as the enemy within. He
is using the Justice Department to go after his political enemies, and
he’s using the Justice Department to protect his political friends,
like Tom Homan, the border czar, who reportedly took 50,000 in cash
from undercover FBI agents. And they made the case go away. This
should concern every American, not just those he’s tweeting about, like
myself, but anyone who cares about whether the Justice Department can
be used against people for expressing their views, or doing their job,
or holding the president accountable, anyone who cares about
whether the administration can go after late night comedians, or tell
corporations who they can hire, or tell law firms who they can
represent.
It is all part of the same attack on our democracy. And I will say,
if this goes on, if Republicans allow this to go on for four years,
there will be nothing left of our democracy. We
have an opportunity to stop this. It would require just a handful of
Republicans of conscience to oppose these lawless actions, this abuse of
the Justice Department and abuse of the [FCC] and everything else. We
need them to stand up and do their duty.
A
new poll shows that 43 percent of Americans now view the Supreme Court
as too conservative, the highest rate Gallup has ever measured.
Americans’
views of the country’s highest court are increasingly polarized, with
opinions sharply divided along party lines and a growing percentage
seeing the Supreme Court as too far to the right of center.
The Supreme Court is made up of six conservative-leaning justices and three who are liberal-leaning.
Three
were appointed by President Donald Trump during his first term, with
Amy Coney Barrett’s appointment in October 2020, following the death of
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, shifting the court to a 6-3 conservative majority
from the previous 5-4.
[. . .]
The
polling also shows that since 2021, more people have disapproved of the
way the Supreme Court is handling its job than those approving of it.
The latest Gallup poll shows 52 percent disapproval and 42 percent
approval.
This is what the Crooked Court is allowing to happen
in America. They are destroying the rule of law and doing so to serve
Donald Chump. We need to grasp that. They need to grasp that despots
don't live forever and Chump's already 79, morbidly obese, with serious
health problems. He may well die of a stroke while in office. But
whether that happens or he leaves in 2029 to be replaced by a Democrat,
impeachment will be what many are calling for.
Of Chump?
Of
the six crooked judges on the Supreme Court. A cabal trained to lie
during confirmation hearings by The Federalist Society. Judges who lied
and now say precedent doesn't matter. Our entire legal system is built
on precedent.
They have made the case for their own impeachments.
Those
who care about the Constitution are reeling. The president of the
United States this morning suggested using “dangerous cities as training
grounds for our military.” The indictment of former FBI Director James
Comey looks politically motivated, flimsy, and indefensible. We rely on
the courts to uphold the rule of law. But that guardrail is fragile too,
as we are reminded especially next week with the start of the new
Supreme Court term.
Monday marks two decades
since John Roberts became chief justice, during which time public trust
in the high court has plunged to record lows, according to polls. In
many ways, these coming months will test what is left of the Court’s
credibility. On presidential power, on voting rights, on campaign
finance, and more, our democracy is on the line.
In
Donald Trump’s first term, the Court often rebuffed his worst abuses,
and it refused to overturn his defeat in 2020. It was a conservative
court, not necessarily a MAGA court. This time seems different. Last
year, Trump v. United States gave presidents vast new immunity from
prosecution for illegal acts committed in office. The president is “the
only person who alone composes a branch of government,” Roberts wrote
approvingly as the Court swept away one of the most potent guardrails
against abuse of presidential powers.
A few things stand out as the oral arguments will soon begin.
The
first is that much of the practical damage has already been done.
Today’s great constitutional issue is the bid to radically expand
presidential power. Repeatedly, lower courts have stopped or blunted or
slowed the power grab — rulings made by judges appointed by Republicans
and Democrats.
But then Trump’s lawyers started
rushing to the Supreme Court, where the justices whispered an epic
constitutional shift. They used the newly famous “shadow docket.”
Usually little or no explanation was offered, and the justices did not
even sign their names. But they have sided with Trump 85 percent of the
time, granting permission to fire senior appointees in violation of laws
enacted by Congress, to begin dismantling the Department of Education
without Congress’s assent, to summarily deport migrants to countries
they are not from, to withhold billions in congressionally appropriated
funds, to engage in racial profiling, and the list goes on.
This
term, the justices will have no choice but to confront directly and
publicly the big questions about presidential power. In November, they
will hear arguments on whether Trump can unilaterally impose massive
tariffs on worldwide trade, the centerpiece of his economic policy.
Every lower court has ruled that Trump acted illegally, as the relevant
statutes do not give him the power to unilaterally impose import taxes.
Conservative
former federal judge Michael McConnell has called this “the most
significant case on presidential power since the steel seizure case in
1952.” In Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer, a Court appointed
entirely by Democratic presidents nevertheless rebuffed Democrat Harry
Truman.
History will judge this Court, too.
History will judge this Court, Michael Waldman is correct.
Monday, October 6, 2025. Mike Johnson keeps lying about the Chump
Shutdown, Chump terrorizes the people of Chicago while threatening
Portland as well, the six crooks on the Supreme Court need to remember
their allegiance to the Constitution and that Chump won't be in office
past January 2029, and much, much more.
Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois blasted
recent federal immigration enforcement efforts in Chicago on Sunday,
dismissing assertions by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem that
the city was a “war zone” and blaming federal agents for escalating a
sense of conflict.
“The secretary
doesn’t know what she’s talking about,” the governor said in an
appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union,” adding that Chicagoans were
“booing her on the street.”
Mr.
Pritzker singled out a late-night Border Patrol raid last week at an
apartment building on Chicago’s South Side, when video taken by
bystanders showed residents of the building restrained with zip ties.
Federal agents were “just picking up people who are brown and Black and
then checking their credentials,” Mr. Pritzker said. He added: “They are
the ones that are making it a war zone. They need to get out of Chicago
if they’re not going to focus on the worst of the worst, which is what
the president said they were going to do.”
And so I wake in the
morning and I step outside
And I take a deep breath
and I get real high
And I scream from the top of my lungs
What's goin' on
-- "What's Up," written by Linda Perry, first recorded by her band 4 Non Blondes' BIGGER, BETTER, FASTER, MORE album
Do you get what's at stake right now? Some on the left don't.
Eight months into his second term, Trump has taken a wrecking ball to
those beliefs. “What’s happening is anathema to everything we’ve ever
stood for in the Department of Justice,” said another former official
who served in both Democratic and Republican administrations, including
Trump’s first term.
We recently returned to our group with a new survey and follow-up
interviews about Trump’s impact on the rule of law since retaking
office. The responses captured almost universal fear and anguish over
the transformation of the Justice Department into a tool of the White
House. Just as chillingly, the new survey reflects near consensus that
most of the guardrails inside and outside the Justice Department, which
in the past counterbalanced executive power, have all but fallen away.
The indictment of James Comey, the former F.B.I. director whom Trump
ordered the Justice Department to charge, represents a misuse of power
for many of our respondents that they hoped never to see in the United
States.
These respondents
include former attorneys general, solicitors general and their deputies
in the Justice Department and White House counsels, as well as former
U.S. attorneys and retired federal judges from across the country.
(Forty-two people who took the survey last year did so again, and we
added eight more to replace those who did not. The group is again evenly
divided between Democrats and Republicans.) Some of the former
officials we surveyed, in both parties, are speaking out against the
wrongs they see unfolding despite the professional and personal risks.
But
many of them — more so than last year — don’t want to speak on the
record. These are people with stature in their world, custodians of the
American Bar who have represented clients of all stripes, taught law
students, served on professional committees. But now they’re worried
about retribution, for their law firms or their family members, if they
draw Trump’s ire.
Our new survey
channeled their collectively grim state of mind. All but one of the
respondents rated Trump’s second term as a greater or much greater
threat to the rule of law than his first term. They consistently
characterized the president’s abuses of power — wielding the law to
justify his wishes — as being far worse than they imagined before his
re-election.
And every single one of
the 50 respondents believe that Trump and his attorney general, Pam
Bondi, have used the Justice Department to go after the president’s
political and personal enemies and provide favors to his allies.
Do
you get how important things are right now? I'm sure you do or you
wouldn't be visiting this site. But CODESTINK doesn't. They took part
in one protest to Chump's fce -- when he went out to eqt recently in
DC. That's it. But where is this scum -- these entitled White women
who are wrongly identified as "the feminist group CODEPINK"? They're
not "the" anything except maybe THE FAKE ASSES. Men created the group,
men co-write the columns with Medea I Need Attention Benjamin.
TABITHA
SPEAKS POLITICS and Roland S. Martin have covered the useless antics of
CODESINK in the last few weeks but haven't identified the antics as
CODESINK led. I don't think they realize who's leading it. While the
rest of us are fighting for our country, CODESTINK follows Kamala Harris
around on her book tour trying to disrupt every event. For those who
may have missed it, Kamala did not win the presidency.
Due
in a large part to these garbage people like CODESTINK. Medea and kind
could never accept a Black woman as president They can't even get
Black women to join CODESTINK and stay in. Since 2004 when they were
first criticized for their overwhelming Whiteness, they've insisted that
they're working on being inclusive. That's 21 years ago. They're
still not inclusive.
A bunch of White harridans misleading the left.
Kamala has no power at present.
Chump does. And they're scared of Chump so they waste their time instead going after someone who holds no political office.
We
can't afford their nutty behavior. They already worked to put Chump
into office by attacking Kamala ahead of the election and pimping
professional con artist Jill Stein who never stood a chance in hell of
winning.
You'd think they'd bow their heads in
shame, issue an apology and shut their damn mouths. Intead, they're
still trying to get media attention and distract from reality.
A federal judge
on Sunday night blocked the Trump administration from deploying hundreds
of out-of-state National Guard troops to Oregon, even as President
Trump turned to the Texas guard in a widening hunt for military forces
to send to Democratic cities.
The
Trump administration had tried to send hundreds of California National
Guard troops to Portland, Ore., while mustering hundreds more from
Texas, despite a stern ruling from Judge Karin Immergut of U.S. District
Court in Oregon just Saturday that sought to block military forces.
Judge
Immergut, an appointee of President Trump, called an emergency hearing
Sunday, then broadened her restraining order to cover “the relocation,
federalization or deployment of members of the National Guard of any
state or the District of Columbia in the state of Oregon,” telling
Justice Department lawyers that the president was ”in direct
contravention” of her order.
The
blizzard of moves by the Trump administration, from Texas to California,
Illinois to Oregon, has left governors and the courts scrambling to
keep pace. First, the administration tried to sidestep Judge Immergut by
turning to California. Then the president ordered as many as 400
members of the Texas National Guard to deploy for “federal protection
missions” in Portland, Chicago and potentially other cities, according
to a letter released by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, on Sunday night.
What Chump is doing is not America, it's not our laws, it's not our Constitution.
Chicago
is under assault and the assault is from a lawless federal government.
They are terrorizing the people of Chicago. Last week, at midnight,
they assaulted an apartment complex, pulling every person in that
complex out onto the streets, zip-tying children, holding the elderly in
the back of a packed U-haul for up to 3 hours.
This is not America.
This is not how arrests take place or how you treat the people in this country.
A progressive member of the Chicago City Council was detained
Friday after pressing federal agents about the due process rights of a
detainee being held in a hospital within her ward.
Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes told
reporters she had gone to Humboldt Park Hospital upon hearing that a
roughly 37-year-old man—who was being chased by Immigration and Customs
Enforcement agents during an operation in the neighborhood—had fallen,
broken his leg, and was taken to the hospital by the agents.
The agents, whom she identified as ICE, were not letting the man speak with lawyers, Fuentes said. A video
of the incident, which begins amid a back-and-forth between the elected
official and two agents, was shared on Fuentes’s Facebook page.
The
footage begins with Fuentes stressing that the detained man has
constitutional rights, to which one agent replied, “No. No.” The
alderperson asked whether the agents had a signed judicial warrant for
him.
“You need to leave,” the agent answered,
threatening to arrest her. The other agent, a masked man, told Fuentes,
“You are going to be placed under arrest—”
Before
he could finish, his partner violently yanked Fuentes’s arm with both
hands, turned her around, and placed her in handcuffs. A woman behind
the camera can be heard saying, “This is an alderperson who is being
[placed] under arrest!”
While being handcuffed,
Fuentes inquired repeatedly about a warrant for the injured man, and
seemingly told the men the handcuffs were hurting her. She emphasized
that she had not touched the agents, and the man who handcuffed her said
she was “under arrest for impeding.”
“That man has
constitutional rights,” Fuentes repeated, before the masked agent
brought her to the exit door. “I did not touch you. It is a public
space. I am not trespassing. I am asking you: Do you have a signed
judicial warrant?”
The masked agent eventually replied that he did not need a warrant.
This
is what the Crooked Court is allowing to happen in America. They are
destroying the rule of law and doing so to serve Donald Chump. We need
to grasp that. They need to grasp that despots don't live forever and
Chump's already 79, morbidly obese, with serious health problems. He
may well die of a stroke while in office. But whether that happens or
he leaves in 2029 to be replaced by a Democrat, impeachment will be what
many are calling for.
Of Chump?
Of
the six crooked judges on the Supreme Court. A cabal trained to lie
during confirmation hearings by The Federalist Society. Judges who lied
and now say precedent doesn't matter. Our entire legal system is built
on precedent.
They have made the case for their own impeachments.
In Chicago, ICE is not the solution, it is the problem.
Rabbi Michael Ben Yosef, a frequent attendee at protests, was among
those detained. Video shows a few state troopers pinning him to the
ground and detaining him about 7:30 p.m. near Lexington and 25th. He was
charged with misdemeanor resisting arrest.
Yosef said he was
holding a microphone and leading chants on a sidewalk when an ISP
trooper started pushing protesters out of the way and approached Yosef.
“It
was like I had no time to react, and next thing I know I was grabbed,
they locked my arms and the other [troopers] came with him and threw me
to the ground, pinned me down,” Yosef said about two hours later after
he was released.
“All I saw was just the ground, and I saw
sideways. I couldn’t see nothing. It was like I was literally trapped,”
he said, adding that he was on his stomach as three troopers knelt on
his back.
“I couldn’t resist. I was like crushed,” he said.
The
city didn't ask them in, the city doesn't want them in. Why don't
they take a hint and leave instead of causing all this chaos? ICE
needs to get the hell out of Chicago. You're causing the problem.
Would ICE work better
if Krisit weren't sleeping with her second in command? After THE NEW YORK POST reported on the affair in 2023,
that should have prevented a working relationship in this
administration. But there's no oversight in this administration,
instead everyone gets to be just as crooked as they want.
Over the weekend, the Trump administration escalated its war against
the American people, launching coordinated military operations in
Portland and Chicago.
In Portland, Trump has ordered an
extraordinary and unconstitutional invasion, sending hundreds of
California National Guard troops, previously federalized for deployment
in Los Angeles, into Oregon’s largest city.
More than 100
California soldiers arrived in Portland Saturday night, and the
remainder were in transit Sunday. The Democratic governors of both
states, Tina Kotek of Oregon and Gavin Newsom of California, have
opposed Trump’s action.
Newsom, in a social media post Sunday
night, declared the sending of California National Guard to Portland a
“breathtaking abuse of the law and power by the President of the United
States. America is on the brink of martial law.”
Governor Kotek
had opposed the deployment of Oregon National Guard troops by filing
suit in the federal district court in Portland. Judge Karin Immergut,
appointed by Trump during his first term, handed down a 31-page order
barring the action, ruling that the state of Oregon had sovereign rights
under the 10th Amendment to the Constitution.
In remarkably
scathing language, the judge wrote that Trump’s attempt to federalize
the Oregon National Guard with the claim that Portland was under siege
by left-wing Antifa terrorists was “simply untethered to the facts.” She
added, “This country has a longstanding and foundational tradition of
resistance to government overreach, especially in the form of military
intrusion into civil affairs. This historical tradition boils down to a
simple proposition: this is a nation of Constitutional law, not martial
law.”
Late Sunday night, Immergut issued an order against
California or other troops being brought to Portland, calling it in
“direct contravention” to her previous ruling.
A parallel invasion
is taking place in Chicago. On Sunday night, Secretary of War Pete
Hegseth, with the support of Texas Governor Greg Abbott, ordered the
mobilization of 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployment
to Illinois, as well as “Oregon, and other locations throughout the
United States.” Trump has already federalized 300 soldiers of the
Illinois National Guard, ostensibly to protect the ICE detention center
in the suburb of Broadview, just outside the city.
On Saturday
morning, ICE agents opened fire on demonstrators which it claims were
seeking to block access to the Broadview facility with their cars,
wounding one woman, a US citizen, who was then arrested by the FBI. As
with every statement by Trump, Miller, Noem and ICE, this account of the
Chicago incident is undoubtedly a pack of lies. The DHS claimed that
she had been in possession of a firearm, though the criminal charges
filed by the government made no such assertion.
The
White House is speaking the language of civil war. White House adviser
Stephen Miller—one of the chief architects of the administration’s
fascistic program—responded to Immergut’s ruling by declaring it “legal
insurrection.” He added, “The President is the commander-in-chief of the
Armed Forces, not an Oregon judge.” Following the Nazi principle of the
“Big Lie,” Miller wrote, “Portland and Oregon law enforcement, at the
direction of local leaders, have refused to aid ICE officers facing
relentless terrorist assault and threats to life.”
In other news, Donald Chump's Shutdown continues. Speaker of the Closet Mike Johnson emerged from hiding Sunday to
insist that his efforts to cover up for late sex trafficker Jeffrey
Epstein had nothing to do with Chump's Shutdown. Will Neal (DAILY BEAST) reports:
Mike Johnson absolutely does not want to talk about Jeffrey Epstein in relation to the government shutdown.
“It’s totally absurd!” the House Speaker proclaimed during a Sunday appearance on NBC’s Meet the Press. “This has nothing to do with that. It’s another red herring.”
Critics
of the MAGA administration have accused Donald Trump of using the
ongoing shutdown to stave off further scrutiny of his relationship with
the late pedophile. Johnson rebukes that.
[. . .]
Johnson was responding to host Kirsten Welker’s observation that the
shutdown precludes new documents on Epstein’s crimes being released to
the public—and not just because it marks a hiatus to the House Oversight
Committee’s ongoing review of the Justice Department’s handling of the
case.
“[Democrats] say the House is not in session because you don’t want to
swear in this newly elected member, the Congresswoman, Democratic
Congresswoman from Arizona, who would be a critical vote to releasing
the Epstein files,” Welker said to Johnson.
We went to the Speaker's site, which links to the Democratic proposal.
The specific section Johnson mentioned - section 2141 on page 57 -
repeals the changes to Medicaid made by Trump and the Republicans' One
Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), which Johnson admitted.
"It's a compelling talking point to say that Democrats want to provide
health care to undocumented immigrants, but it's just not true in terms
of the cuts they're trying to reverse," Larry Levitt, executive vice
president for health policy at KFF, a nonprofit and nonpartisan health
policy information organization, told the Associated Press.
It's important to note that undocumented immigrants broadly do not qualify for Medicaid, Affordable Care Act subsidies, or other federally-funded health care coverage.
"Undocumented immigrants are not eligible for federally-funded health
coverage," Drishti Pillai, director of Immigrant Health Policy at KFF, wrote. "The GOP's Big Beautiful Bill didn't change that. Overturning the health care provisions in the law won't either."
[. . .]
Johnson on NBC accused Democrats of wanting to "to claw back $50 billion
that we put in for rural hospitals to prop them up," but that funding
only offsets approximately one-third
of the federal Medicaid funding that rural hospitals lost due to the
OBBBA. Fully restoring Medicaid funding to rural hospitals would do more
for them than the GOP's five-year temporary rural health fund.
Democrats are also insisting on extending federal subsidies for people
who purchase coverage through the ACA marketplace. If Republicans get
their way, and those subsidies are lost, then ACA premiums could more than double. An estimated 10 million Americans,
according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, could lose
their health insurance between the GOP's Medicaid cuts and the loss of
subsidies.
As the shut down over these issues approaches its second week, according to a Washington Post poll,
nearly half of Americans blame Trump and the Republicans for the
government shut down - with 47 percent blaming the GOP and president -
while less than a third (30 percent) believe congressional Democrats are
responsible for it.
Meanwhile, Epstein and Maxwell aren't the only sexual predators Chump hangs out with. JD Wolf (MTN) reports:
Robert Morris, the founder of Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas, was a
prominent evangelical pastor who served as a spiritual advisor to Donald
Trump, counseling him during his presidency and boosting his profile
within conservative Christian circles.
During this time, Morris actively contributed to Republican campaigns, including FEC-recorded donations
of $2,700 to Trump’s 2016 campaign and $5,600 combined to Trump’s 2020
campaigns through Trump Victory and Donald J. Trump for President, Inc.
[. . .]
Recently, Morris pleaded
guilty to five felony counts of lewd or indecent acts with a child,
admitting to sexually abusing Cindy Clemishire in the 1980s starting
when she was 12 years old. Under a plea agreement, he was sentenced to
10 years, with only six months to be served in Oklahoma county jail, and
was ordered to register as a sex offender and pay $250,000 in
restitution.
A GOP candidate who was caught following a nonbinary adult performer
online dropped out of the race for Wisconsin governor on Friday, about a
week after a local paper reported on his online activity.
“As a result of our politics today, I cannot focus on the issues I
know will turn Wisconsin around. I have come to the conclusion I do not
have a path to the nomination,” business owner Bill Berrien said in a
statement, which attacked the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel for reporting the story.
“It was a major attack piece and we confirmed opposition research
started in January of this year, if not earlier,” he said. “And for
what? For reading! Nothing illegal, nothing unethical, and nothing
immoral. Just reading. Wouldn’t you want your political and business
leaders (and all of society, frankly) to be widely read and thoughtful
and aware of different perspectives and ideas? Yet, when a supposedly
major metropolitan newspaper condemns someone for reading, we have
ourselves a problem.”
The Journal-Sentinel reported earlier this month that
Berrien followed nonbinary, queer adult performer Jiz Lee on the
blogging platform Medium, as well as several other sex- and
polyamory-positive accounts. Some of the articles that he “clapped for” –
i.e., liked – on the platform included “My Husband Loves Watching Me Flirt with Another Man” and “‘Ethical Porn’ Starts When We Pay for It.”
But on the campaign trail, he attacked LGBTQ+ rights.
Let's wind down with this from Senator Tammy Duckworth's office:
[WASHINGTON, D.C.] – Combat Veteran and U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth
(D-IL), along with U.S. Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI) and U.S.
Representative Lauren Underwood (D-IL-14), today reintroduced
legislation that would improve Veterans’ access to contraception and
increase efficiency and cost-effectiveness for contraceptive products at
the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The Access to Contraception Expansion for Veterans (ACE Veterans) Act would
allow Veterans to request a full-year supply of contraceptive products
from the VA—the largest integrated healthcare system in the United
States—and require VA providers to inform patients of their option to
request a full year of contraception at the time of the prescription
being issued.
“Our women Veterans who wore the uniform and made daily
sacrifices to help keep us safe should never have to worry about their
access to contraception,” said Duckworth. “By allowing
Veterans to request a full-year supply of contraceptives, our
legislation would help protect our heroes’ right to decide if and when
they choose to have a child and keep them in control of their own
bodies, careers and futures. I’m proud to reignite this
effort with Senator Hirono and Congresswoman Underwood to help Veterans
get the basic care they need while also saving taxpayer dollars and
reducing unintended pregnancies.”
“As the Trump Administration and Republicans across the
country work to limit or ban access to contraception, legislation like
the ACE Veterans Act is more important than ever,” said Senator Hirono. “Our
veterans shouldn’t have to face barriers to accessing contraception or
experience gaps between prescription refills. I’m proud to join my
colleagues in reintroducing this bill to help ensure the people who
bravely served our country can access the critical preventive care they
need.”
“Many veterans, especially younger women veterans, rely on
the Veterans Health Administration for contraceptive care, but are
unable to get the reliable and uninterrupted access to contraception
that many civilians receive—an essential piece of reproductive health
care,” said Underwood. “The ACE Veterans Act
guarantees veterans the option to receive a full-year supply of
contraceptives through VHA, rather than being limited to a 3-month
supply—a critical step that will improve health outcomes for women, and
lower costs for the VA.”
Missing more than two consecutive contraceptive pills can increase a
woman’s chance of contraceptive failure and the potential for unintended
pregnancy, which has been linked to adverse health effects including
maternal depression, intimate partner violence, low birth weight,
preterm birth and infant mortality. In 2022, the VA expanded the amount
of oral contraceptives patients can receive to a 12-month supply—this
marked important progress, but the policy still allows for more
restrictive dispensing limitations, depending on the type of
contraceptive.
The VA’s current policy also doesn’t require its providers to inform
patients they have the option to receive a 12-month supply of certain
contraceptives at the time the prescription is issued. By addressing
these two weaknesses in the current VA policy, the ACE Veterans Act would
help women Veterans get the contraceptive care they need and reduce
their rate of unintended pregnancies—improving the reliability of our
heroes’ health care and saving a substantial amount of taxpayer dollars.
Along with Duckworth and Hirono, the legislation is cosponsored in
the Senate by U.S. Senators Patty Murray (D-WA), John Fetterman (D-PA),
Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD), Martin Heinrich (D-NM) and Jeanne Shaheen
(D-NH).
The legislation is endorsed by AMVETS, Service Womens Action Network,
Women Veterans Interactive and the National Women’s Law Center.
Duckworth has been a fierce leader and advocate for improving our
Veterans’ and servicemembers’ access to the care they need. Earlier this
month, she sent a letter
to VA Secretary Collins demanding he block ICE from stealing VA
resources at Hines VA Hospital in Chicago. Last month, Duckworth joined
U.S. Senators Patty Murray (D-WA), Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Chuck Schumer
(D-NY) in reintroducing legislation to help make it easier for our Veterans who struggle with infertility to build their families. Earlier this year, Duckworth railed against the Trump Administration for indiscriminately firing Veterans Crisis Line workers and introduced her Protect Veteran Jobs Act
with U.S. Senator Andy Kim (D-NJ) to reinstate the thousands of
Veterans who were fired in Trump’s mass layoffs—an effort Republicans
shamefully blocked in March.
