Wednesday, July 30, 2025

Donald Chump is trying to speed up climate change

Isaiah's THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS "Propaganda Pig Approved Tulsi." went up a few hours ago.


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Chump continues his war on science.  Abigail Dillen (ROLLING STONE) reports:

President Donald Trump's administration has officially put Americans on notice that it will be doing nothing to address climate change. Actually, worse than nothing, the Environmental Protection Agency also announced that it will soon be taking back everything it had done to date to address the biggest source of climate pollution in the country.
Specifically, Lee Zeldin, the EPA administrator, is proposing to reverse the "endangerment finding" that is the predicate for rules requiring polluting industries to rein in their greenhouse gas emissions. To hear Zeldin tell it, he is exposing some elaborate, bureaucratic ruse to bilk taxpayers. In fact, the endangerment finding is a simple affirmation that greenhouse gas pollution is causing climate change and therefore endangering people. And, of course, it sits atop a mountain of scientific evidence.

As a lawyer who has been working on climate change for the last 20 years, it's hard to overstate how much it changed everything when the EPA finally recognized the scientific consensus and took meaningful action to tackle greenhouse gas pollution from cars at last. 
A quick history: By the 1990s, the terrifying inaction of the U.S. government was driving an ambitious push to compel the EPA to act. In 1999, a group of environmental organizations petitioned the agency to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from new motor vehicles. The EPA denied the petition primarily on grounds that greenhouse gases were not pollutants within the scope of the Clean Air Act. The petitioners took the EPA to court, and in 2007, the case made its way up to the Supreme Court. In the landmark decision, Massachusetts v. EPA, the court ruled that greenhouse gases are indeed pollutants that the EPA has the authority to regulate and the obligation to regulate if, in the EPA's judgment, they endanger human health and welfare. 
Once the EPA was required to make that judgment, it had to face up to the climate science that was by then incontrovertible. In 2009, the EPA found that "elevated concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere may reasonably be anticipated to endanger the public health and to endanger the public welfare of current and future generations." Based on this finding, the EPA began setting standards for tailpipes, power plants, and oil and gas fields - the big three when it comes to greenhouse gas pollution in the U.S.

It is a point of pride at Earthjustice, where I am privileged to work, that we were part of the legal team that litigated Mass v. EPA, along with several subsequent cases concerning the EPA's authority to regulate climate pollution under the Clean Air Act. Over time, the Supreme Court had several opportunities to backtrack, but it never did. Instead, the court repeatedly affirmed the decision that our national clean air statute is capacious enough to address the biggest pollution threat ever.


He doesn't care.  He's an obese old man with female health problems.  He'll be underground in five years. He's eating himself into a grave.  So he doesn't care what happens to anyone else.   The world becomes uninhabitable?  He'll be dead, he doesn't care.  In fact, he probably likes the idea.  If all civilization dies in the next decade or two just means people won't live on this planet forever remembering how much he destroyed it.



In one of its most significant reversals on climate policy to-date, the Trump administration on Tuesday proposed to repeal a 2009 scientific finding that human-caused climate change endangers human health and safety, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced. If successful, the repeal could strip away the federal government’s most powerful way to control the country’s planet-warming pollution and fight climate change.
The repeal was based in part on a hastily produced report — authored by five researchers who have spent years sowing doubt in the scientific consensus around climate change — that questions the severity of the impacts of climate change.

The 2009 scientific finding at the heart of this repeal has served as the basis of many of the Environmental Protection Agency’s most significant regulations to protect human health and environment, and decrease climate pollution from cars, power plants and the oil and gas industry.

Zeldin on Tuesday spoke proudly of his agency’s move to repeal the endangerment finding as the “largest deregulatory action in the history of America,” speaking on “Ruthless,” a conservative podcast, and referred to climate change as dogma rather than science.

“This has been referred to as basically driving a dagger into the heart of the climate change religion,” Zeldin said.
In addition to reversing the endangerment finding, the EPA’s proposal also seeks to repeal rules that regulate greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles, since they stem from the finding. The Biden EPA sought to tighten those standards to prod the auto industry to make more fuel-efficient hybrids and electric vehicles.

The text of the proposal said that while greenhouse gas emissions have continued to rise in the atmosphere, it has been “driven primarily by increased emissions from foreign sources,” and has happened “without producing the degree of adverse impacts to public health and welfare in the United States that the EPA anticipated in the 2009 Endangerment Finding.”

The US is the world’s second largest emitter of greenhouse gases, and historically has emitted more planet-warming pollution than any other country. Many rigorous scientific findings since 2009 have showed both climate pollution and its warming effects are not just harming public health but killing people outright.



What will the impact be? If the EPA proposal takes effect, it would spell the end of nearly all US climate regulations, including those governing emissions by vehicles, factories, power plants, and more. That change would come even as the US is beginning to face more severe effects of climate change and as the world struggles to fend off warming caused by greenhouse gas emissions. 
Is this a done deal? No. The EPA announced its proposal on Tuesday, but before it can reverse the finding, the plan will go through a review process, including a public comment period. It’s also all but certain to be challenged in court by environmental groups.

I know it's depressing.  Remember that Rashdia Tlaib, Jill Stein, Butch Ware, Margaret Kimberley, Norman Solomon and so many others brought us here.  They worked to destroy Kamala Harris.  They are the reason that Donald Chump is in the White House.  Never forget that.  




"The Snapshot" (THE COMMON ILLS):

Wednesday, July 30, 2025.  Chump doesn't have trade deals (though many in the media humor him), Pam Bondi can't stop lying, nursing mothers and Maine police officers among the latest targeted by ICE, and much more.



Prices continue to increase under Donald Chump.  Tariffs are taxes and those are costs passed onto consumers.  "American companies big and small are suddenly facing much higher costs leaving them to decide whether to swallow that cost and lay off workers or pass it on to you the consumer," Stephanie Ruhle noted last night on MSNBC's THE LAST WORD WITH STEPHANIE RUHLE.



Frameworks are not contracts, Dan Nathan pointed out,  "We just don't have a lot of detail about that."


At SUBSTACK, economist Paul Krugman writes:


First off: two more of my inequality primers are now free at the Stone Center web site. The list so far:

Why did the rich pull away from the rest?

The importance of worker power

A Trumpian diversion

Oligarchs and the rise of mega-fortunes

Now, on to current events.

Trump has now announced a trade “deal” with the European Union that looks a lot like the “deal” he made with Japan. I use scare quotes because there is little sign of a quid pro quo. The United States is imposing a 15 percent tariff that is lower than previously threatened, but still vastly higher than we had before Trump. Overall U.S. tariffs seem likely to settle roughly at the level that prevailed after the infamous Smoot-Hawley tariff of 1930.

In return we got a vague promise of higher European investment in the United States. When Japan made a similar promise last week, administration officials asserted that this would mean hundreds of billions flowing into rebuilding U.S. industry. Japanese officials, however, say that the money will consist almost entirely of loans and loan guarantees. This strongly suggests that Japan will, if it does anything at all, simply be sticking Trump’s name on money flows that would have happened anyway. There’s every reason to suspect that the same will be true of whatever the EU does.

And like the Japan deal, this deal seems to place lower tariffs on cars made in Europe, which have very little U.S. content, than on cars made in Canada, which contain many American parts. Add in the punishing tariffs on steel and aluminum, and Trump’s trade policy seems, if anything, to be tilting the playing field against U.S. manufacturing.

When I point out that Trump’s idea of trade deals seems counterproductive even in terms of his claimed goal of boosting manufacturing, I get some pushback from readers along these lines: “Oh, yeah? If you’re such an expert on trade negotiations, tell me what deal you think you could have made.”

OK, I can answer that. If I had been in charge of negotiating with the European Union, I would have been able to get a deal with the following components:

· Very low tariffs on U.S. exports of manufactured goods to Europe, on the order of 1 percent

· Near balance in bilateral trade, with U.S. exports to Europe close to 90 percent of our imports from Europe

· U.S. companies allowed to operate freely in Europe, earning hundreds of billions a year in profits

· European corporations investing more than $150 billion a year — real investment, not loans — in the United States

Why do I believe that I could have negotiated a deal like that? Because that’s what U.S.-EU international transactions actually looked like in 2024. So that’s what we could have gotten by doing nothing.



Paul Krugman discussed the economy with THE NEW REPUBLIC's Greg Sargent -- here for audio, here for transcript.  Excerpt:


Krugman: The U.S. runs a trade deficit overall. We buy more stuff from abroad than we sell. That’s not because U.S. goods are uncompetitive, really. It’s basically because the U.S. has been an attractive investment destination, which keeps the dollar strong. And it’s just arithmetic that the inflow of capital to the U.S. equals the trade deficit. I know arithmetic has a well-known liberal bias, but you can’t really reduce the trade deficit unless you reduce the flow of investment into the U.S. It’s not really about tariffs at all. Other things Trump is doing—making the U.S. looks like a crazy place—may end up reducing that flow of investment, but the tariffs won’t do that at all. So that’s the broad macroeconomic picture. And then if you look at the micro—sorry, economist talk—but if you look at what it’s actually doing to industries, Trump is in general putting higher tariffs on the goods that we use to produce manufactured goods than he is on the consumer goods that are produced with those inputs. So he’s actually raising the costs of U.S. manufacturing more than he is giving them protection from foreign competition.

So the overall thrust of his strategy is actually anti-manufacturing. During Trump’s first term, a bunch of studies went through trying to figure out the impact of the tariffs on manufacturing, and they all came to the conclusion that Trump’s tariffs on overall cost the US some manufacturing jobs. And we thought, Well, he won’t make that mistake again. But he is. He’s making that mistake again, but five times bigger.

Sargent: How long would you give this? In fairness, how long should we wait? How many years do we have to wait until we can say definitively that Trump has failed to restore manufacture in the U.S. with his regime? How long do we have to wait?

Krugman: I would say.… I mean, it’s never going to happen. But if you look at it, maybe here’s a point of comparison. Biden had the Inflation Reduction Act, which had nothing to do with reducing inflation but was a lot about promoting green manufacturing and so on. And you could see within two years, it was obvious that the IRA was generating a huge boom in investment in manufacturing in the U.S. So I think to give Trump more than two years to show that this is actually doing something positive would be holding him to a different standard. If you don’t see this in two years, then it’s a failure. I have no question. There’s just nothing in there.

If you actually looked at the trade deal with Japan and now with Europe, who was hopping mad, screaming, This is a terrible deal? It was a lot of industry groups. The auto industry was in hysterics over last week’s Japan deal because it was just clear to them. They said, Stuff that we have a stake in, which includes manufacturing in Canada and Mexico, is being disadvantaged relative to cars from Japan, which is not us. Anyway, I don’t think we’re going to see anything. Now if we can talk about the other provisions of the deal later on, it turns out they’re completely empty. If we’re not seeing a boom in manufacturing investment by the end of Trump’s term.… To even wait that long would be giving him more time than people gave Biden, and Biden’s policy actually did boost manufacturing.

Sargent: It’s just so crazy. This is just never talked about. These two things are never talked about together. On the one hand, Trump is doing all these tariffs to supposedly try and spur manufacturing this country. Meanwhile, they’re functionally doing all they can to wipe out the nascent green energy manufacturing industry in the U.S., which is actually something that competes well with China if it works over the long haul. The whole thing is so ridiculous. Why don’t more people point that basic disconnect out: that they’re wiping away the manufacturing jobs of the future while imposing tariffs to create manufacturing jobs? Why don’t we hear that said more often?

Krugman: Yeah, the media is really—well, not only on this—dropping the ball. And I have to say, I don’t think it’s the reporters. I think that the reporters at major news organizations may not all be top-ranked economists but they do know enough about it to know that the whole switch in policy [is] actually toward reduced manufacturing and wiping out a lot of jobs. They’re editorial decisions. To cast this as a win for Trump, that’s an editorial decision. I’m sure that wasn’t the reporter’s idea of how to portray it. And we can talk.… That’s a whole other discussion. Basically, for the most part—not my department, but this is crazy—the fact that we’re actually going backward and undermining a lot of the industries of the future barely [gets] reported.

Sargent: And never in the context of Trump and Vance’s constant rhapsodizing about manufacturing. You mentioned that there were other things in the deal that are empty, I want to quickly touch on those. You wrote in your piece that the promised $750 billion in spending on U.S. energy and the $600 billion increase in investment in the U.S. are probably illusory or nothing. What’s the deal with that? The whole thing is starting to look awfully like a pretty big scam as so much that Trump does is.

Krugman: I should say, by the time people hear this, there will have been a second Substack post which is already in the can for the day after we had this conversation looking into those things. So yeah, the Europeans said we’re going to do $600 billion of investment in the U.S. Take them in two pieces. Not clear that that actually helps, but the question you should immediately ask is, How are they going to do that? Europe is not China. The Chinese government can tell companies or banks, Send the money there, but Europe doesn’t work that way. Europe is a market economy like ours. And this was a deal with the European commission in Brussels, which isn’t even a government. The European commission negotiates trade deals, but it has absolutely no authority over domestic economic policies within European countries.


This morning, Ben tries to make sense of it all for MEIDASTOUCH NEWS.




Jon Luke Evans.  That's our next topic. Donald Chump's war on immigrants and the various lives he's destroying.  Patrick Whittle (AP) reports:

The chief of police in a Maine resort town has called for an investigation into the arrest by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement of one of its officers, who the chief said was federally approved to work in the country in May.

ICE arrested Old Orchard Beach Police Department reserve officer Jon Luke Evans, of Jamaica, on July 25. The agency said Evans was illegally present in the U.S. and unlawfully attempted to purchase a firearm.


You read that right.  Chump's gestapo is now arresting police officers. Daniella Silva (CNN) adds:


The Old Orchard Beach Police Department said in a statement on Monday that as part of its standard hiring process, Evans completed an I-9 federal immigration and work authorization form to verify that he was legally able to work in the U.S.

Police Chief Elise Chard said in the statement that the town reviewed multiple forms of identification and submitted the forms for Evans to the Department of Homeland Security’s E-Verify Program. The system is operated by the Department of Homeland Security in partnership with the Social Security Administration to let employers know if a prospective employee has legal authorization to work in the U.S.

“The Department of Homeland Security then verified that Evans was authorized to work in the U.S.,” Chard said. “The form was submitted and approved by DHS on May 12, 2025.”

“Evans would not have been permitted to begin work as a reserve officer until and unless Homeland Security verified his status,” she said.

“In Old Orchard Beach, reserve police officers are part-time, seasonal employees who must meet the same background checks, pass the same physical agility tests, and receive the same medical evaluations as full-time police officers,” Chard said.




More and more, the question around the country becomes: When's ICE coming for you?

AP notes another horror story:


 A Marine Corps veteran’s wife has been released from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention following advocacy from Sen. John Kennedy, a Louisiana Republican who backs President Donald Trump’s hardline immigration crackdown.

Until this week, Mexican national Paola Clouatre had been one of tens of thousands of people in ICE custody as the Trump administration continues to press immigration officers to arrest 3,000 people a day suspected of being in the US illegally.     


 Jillian Frankel (PEOPLE MAGAZINE) adds:


  Since late May, Paola, who was still breastfeeding 4-month-old daughter Lyn when she was arrested, had been held at a facility about three hours from her family, who live in Baton Rouge, La.

Now she's back home with husband Adrian, 26, and their two children, including nearly 2-year-old son, Noah.

The couple spoke with PEOPLE from Louisiana, as their young kids cooed and laughed in the background, one day after they were reunited when ICE freed Paola from detention.

Her case is one of an increasing number around the country drawing attention to federal immigration policies. President Donald Trump successfully campaigned last year on cracking down on illegal immigration, but some of his deportations have stirred major debate.

Paola, though no longer held in Monroe, La., is required to wear an ankle monitor for the remainder of her legal proceedings.  


Again, when's ICE coming for you?


US Senator John Kennedy was able to work to free her.  But ICE frequently tries to do run-arounds when it comes to Congress.  For example, William J. Ford (MARYLAND MATTERS) reports:


Six members of Maryland’s congressional delegation were turned away Monday when they showed up to inspect a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Baltimore where they said people are being temporarily held for deportation or awaiting court hearings.

Democratic Sens. Angela Alsobrooks and Chris Van Hollen and Reps. Johnny Olszewski Jr. (D-2nd), Sarah Elfreth (D-3rd), Glenn Ivey (D-4th) and Kweisi Mfume (D-7th) entered the George H. Fallon Federal Building, where the ICE detention facility is located.

In a joint statement, the lawmakers said the visit was part of their oversight responsibility as members of Congress, and that they were “exercising our legal authority … to inspect the Baltimore federal holding facility, and, if necessary, speak directly with detainees.”

But they were denied entry by an ICE official who told the lawmakers that it was an office, not a detention facility, and that they were not authorized to to enter, even though they wrote the head of ICE and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem last Monday to alert them to the visit.

Despite the claim that it’s just an office, Alsobrooks said previous visits by congressional staffers, and a court brief filed by Maryland Attorney General, indicate that immigrants are being held for several days at a time in “hold rooms” at the facility. Those rooms are designed to hold detainees for up to 12 hours while awaiting a court appearance, but are not meant for longer stays, lawmakers said.

“They are breaking the law in there,” Alsobrooks said. She said the official they encountered refused to say who gave the order to bar lawmawkers from the building.


Senator Angela Alsobrooks' office issued the following regarding the above incident:


“It was abundantly clear that the people working in this facility have been instructed to hide the horror of the inhumane treatment of the people in their custody.” – Senator Alsobrooks

We will not let this cover-up continue – we will continue pushing for accountability and the humane enforcement of our immigration laws.” – Senator Van Hollen

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Senator Angela Alsobrooks, Senator Chris Van Hollen, and Representatives Kweisi Mfume, Glenn Ivey,  Johnny Olszewski, Jr., and Sarah Elfreth (all D-Md.) conducted oversight on the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Baltimore and on the President’s draconian and inhumane tactics he is employing – throwing innocent people in jail, housing undocumented people in awful conditions, snatching people off the street, and more. The lawmakers were denied access to the facility despite it being within their constitutional authority to conduct Congressional oversight.

After the visit, Senator Alsobrooks remarked:

“It was abundantly clear that the people working in this facility have been instructed to hide the horror of the inhumane treatment of the people in their custody.” 

She continued:

“And the man behind it all – Donald Trump – clearly does not care about any of us.

“His inhumanity is not limited to the people of these facilities. 

“We recently had the awful flood in Western Maryland. People’s lives were disrupted and their homes and livelihoods taken away. And what is the response of this Administration: deny Maryland disaster relief. You know why? 

“Because he couldn’t care less, really, about any of us.”

Senator Van Hollen remarked: 

“Donald Trump told the American people that his Administration’s immigration policy would focus on ‘the worst of the worst,’ detaining dangerous criminals. That’s a targeted approach that we could support, but it was a lie. In reality they are pursuing a cruel mass deportation agenda where scores of people – the vast majority of whom pose no public safety threat – are held under inhumane conditions at places like this Baltimore ICE office and shipped off without any due process. Congress has a legal authority and responsibility to conduct oversight, but the Trump Administration refuses to let the American public see the truth. We will not let this cover-up continue – we will continue pushing for accountability and the humane enforcement of our immigration laws.”

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The gestapo agents of ICE make whatever threats that they want and break whatever laws they want. Imagine being told in the United States that "you have no rights."  18 year old high school student and United States citizen Kenny Laynez doesn't have to imagine it.  ICE bullied him and told him "you have no rights."  Cristian Benavides (CBS NEWS) reports: 


Video Laynez recorded of the arrest shows an officer telling him, a U.S. citizen who was born and raised in the country, "You got no rights here. You're an amigo, brother."

"It hurts me, hearing them saying that I have no rights here because I look like, um, you know, Hispanic, I'm Hispanic," Laynez told CBS News. 

The car was pulled over for having too many people sitting in the front seat. Two passengers were undocumented, according to Laynez, and officers are seen on the video using a Taser. The teens' two co-workers were both detained, and Laynez says he has been unable to contact them.

"We're not resisting. We're not committing any crime to, you know, run away," Laynez said, recalling the arrest.

Laynez's phone continued recording after he was detained, capturing an exchange in which an officer tells another, "They're starting to resist more. We're gonna end up shooting some of them."

Another officer replies, "Just remember, you can smell that too with a $30,000 bonus."

Florida Highway Patrol did not comment.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection told CBS News in a statement that the individuals "resisted arrest" and said immigration agents are facing a surge in assaults while doing their job. The statement made no mention that a U.S. citizen had been detained.


ICE lies.  Over and over.  And they get caught lying above.  


  Diamond Walker and Valentina Palm (PALM BEACH POST) reported:


 Kenny Laynez's cellphone camera captured every undocumented immigrant’s nightmare on video when it happened to him on the morning of May 2. One problem: He is a U.S. citizen. Here's more to know about what happened.

Kenny Laynez, a U.S. citizen, was driving with his mother and coworkers to their landscaping jobs when they were pulled over on Singer Island by Florida Highway Patrol and Border Patrol agents. Officers dragged them from the car, grabbing necks, twisting arms, using a Taser, and later joked about raises and promotions.

Laynez, who was born and raised in West Palm Beach, was held for six hours at a federal facility in Riviera Beach before being released. His mom, who is Guatemalan and has legal status in this country, was not detained. His coworkers were taken to the Krome Detention Center in Miami and later released on bail.

“I have rights. I was born and raised here," Laynez told the officers, according to a copy of the video shared by the Guatemalan-Maya Center of Lake Worth Beach.

"You don’t have any rights here. You are a ‘Migo,’ brother,” said the officer, who hurried him into a van. "Migo" is short for "amigo," the Spanish word for "friend, " an apparent reference to Laynez's ethnicity.




There's no resisting arrest on the recording.  ICE is lying.  They are the new gestapo.  They break the law and act with impunity.  


Donald Chump's war on immigrants continues to include Cubans.  Now we have a long history with Cuban Americans at this site.  I don't believe you come to this country -- or go to another -- seeking a new start while dragging your grudges over here with you.  Meaning, don't you turn Florida into a staging ground for your war on Castro or whomever.  I'm not the voice of Cuban immigrants or Cuban Americans.  But I do think that we need to realize something: Donald Chump has turned his back on Cubans.  No voting group has done more for the Republican Party -- especially in the state of Florida.  And their thanks for that?  One attack on Cuban immigrants after another.  Cuban-Americans have every right to feel outraged.  This is not how you thank your base. Nick Mordowanec (NEWSWEEK) reports:


A Cuban immigrant detained and held in Florida's "Alligator Alcatraz" facility after about 25 years of legal U.S. status had his court hearing canceled last minute and without provided cause, according to his attorney.
The abrupt cancellation of a scheduled immigration court hearing on July 23 for 31-year-old Gonzalo Almanza, a green card holder and U.S. permanent resident since 2000, ties to debate over due process, detainee treatment, and legal access at the recently opened immigration detention center in Florida's Everglades region.

Almanza's case echoes broader legal struggles facing migrants and permanent residents as lawyers and civil rights groups challenge the facility's operations in court, arguing detainees are denied basic rights and access to counsel.

No record currently exists for Almanza within the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) database.
Almanza, who arrived in the United States at the age of 6, has been detained at the Alligator Alcatraz facility since July 11.

His wife, Aschly Valdez, said Almanza was taken into custody by immigration authorities because of a past racketeering charge, despite ongoing efforts to fulfill legal obligations and restitution.






On the bromance of Chump and Epstein, there are many new developments.  I think Pam Bondi's lying is one of the important ones that's not getting enough attention.  Does Pam Bondi just lie every time she opens her mouth?  Dan Ruetenik (CBS NEWS) reports:


Attorney General Pam Bondi was questioned about the gap during a July 8 Cabinet meeting with President Trump. She said the missing minute was the result of a nightly reset of the video that caused the recording system to miss one recording minute every night, and attributed that information to the Bureau of Prions.
"There was a minute that was off that counter and what we learned from [the] Bureau of Prisons was every year, every night, they redo that video," Bondi said. The equipment was old — "from like 1999, so every night is reset, so every night should have that same missing minute," she said.

Bondi said the department would share other video that showed the same thing happened every night when the video system reset. That video, however, has not yet been released. 

Experts in surveillance video, including video forensic professionals, told CBS News that a nightly reset would have been unusual and was not something they encountered in most video systems.

One thing that is clear, forensic experts say, is that the version of the recording released by the FBI was edited and not raw, as the government stated. Bondi, FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino and others have said publicly that the video would be released unaltered. 
When the DOJ and FBI shared the video with the public, they said in a news release that it was the "full raw" video, and that "anyone entering or attempting to enter the tier where Epstein's cell was located from the SHU common area would have been captured by this footage." 

Jim Stafford was one of several video forensic analysts who looked at the video for CBS News using specialized software to extract the underlying coding, known as metadata. He said the metadata showed that the file was first created on May 23 of this year and that it was likely a "screen capture, not an actual export" of the raw file. 

He also told CBS News the metadata showed that the video was in fact two separate videos stitched together. It was also slightly sped up, so the video covering 11 hours runs approximately 10 hours and 53 minutes in length. 

CBS asked the FBI and Justice Department for a response, but they declined to comment. The Bureau of Prisons said they "had no additional information to provide". 

She lied ny on-stop about the video she released.  Who can trust a word out of her mouth at this point?  In February, the files were on her desk, she was soon to release them.  July 6th there was nothing, per Bondi, to release.  As this month winds down we learn that in May she met with Chump and warned him that he was in the files.  Who can trust her?


The one other thing I'd add is former Senator Claire McCaskill's correct in the video below from this morning's MORNING JOE.




Let's wind down with this from Senator Alex Padilla's office: 


WATCH: Padilla pushes back against indiscriminate ICE raids and the militarization of Los Angeles
 
A one-pager on the Registry bill is available here.

LOS ANGELES, CA — Today, U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Immigration Subcommittee, hosted a press conference in Los Angeles alongside immigration advocates, impacted families, and community leaders to announce legislation to expand a pathway to lawful permanent residency for millions of long-term U.S. residents. Amid the Trump Administration’s indiscriminate immigration enforcement in California and across the country, the bill would offer a forward-looking, strategic update to our outdated immigration system to counter President Trump and Stephen Miller’s demonization of undocumented immigrant communities.

Padilla’s Renewing Immigration Provisions of the Immigration Act of 1929 would update the existing Registry statute of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) by adjusting the Registry date to meet current circumstances so that an immigrant may qualify to apply for lawful permanent resident status if they have lived in the U.S. continuously for at least seven years before filing an application, do not have a criminal record, and meet all other current eligibility requirements to receive a green card.

This overdue update would provide a much-needed pathway to a green card for more than 8 million people, including Dreamers, forcibly displaced citizens (TPS holders), children of long-term visa holders, essential workers, and highly skilled members of our workforce, such as H-1B visa holders, who have been waiting years for a green card to become available. According to 2023 FWD.us estimates, if the undocumented individuals covered in this bill eventually became citizens, they would contribute approximately $121 billion to the U.S. economy annually and about $35 billion in taxes.

Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is co-leading the legislation in the Senate, and Representative Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.-18) is leading companion legislation in the House of Representatives.

“Americans know there’s a better path forward than the Trump Administration’s cruel scapegoating of hardworking immigrants and fearmongering of California communities,” said Senator Padilla. “We believe that if you’ve lived here for over seven years, paid taxes for years, contributed to your community for years, and you don’t have a criminal record, then you deserve a pathway to legalization. My bill is a commonsense fix to our outdated immigration system and the same kind of reform that Republican President Ronald Reagan embraced four decades ago, calling it a ‘matter of basic fairness.’ This legislation creates no new bureaucracies or agencies — it’s simply an update to a longstanding pathway to reflect today’s reality and provide a fair shot at the American Dream for millions of Dreamers, TPS holders, and highly skilled workers who have faced delays and uncertainty for decades.”

“Recently, we have seen devastating arrests of immigrants who have spent their lives in this country, building communities and families in the United States, without any due process. Most have never committed any crime. Protections for these hard-working individuals are long overdue. It’s common sense that immigrants who pose no safety threat and contribute to our country should be able to call America home with certainty; additionally, it’s also common sense that the small percentage of undocumented immigrants who do commit violent crimes should be removed. Expanding the registry pathway to citizenship is a practical solution to provide stability to immigrants who have worked and contributed to our country for years. It’s part of the solution, and I look forward to working to pass this bill into law,” said U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Durbin, Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

“When Donald Trump ran for president, he pledged to deport violent criminals. Instead, masked, heavily-armed agents, often refusing to identify themselves, are aggressively, sometimes violently, targeting day laborers, busboys, farmworkers, and some of the hardest-working people in this country. It’s outrageous and deserves the condemnation of every Member of Congress. We need to control our borders, but we also need a straightforward reform solution for those who have resided peacefully for a long time in America,” said Representative Lofgren. “My colleagues and I are reintroducing our registry legislation to simply update a historically-bipartisan provision that provides lawful permanent resident status to vetted immigrants who have been a part of our communities for years. Providing stability to our communities and our workforces – versus terrorizing them – will make our country stronger.”

The bill is cosponsored by U.S. Senators Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Patty Murray (D-Wash.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.).

Section 249 of the Immigration and Nationality Act, also known as the Registry, gives the Secretary of Homeland Security the discretion to register certain individuals for lawful permanent resident status if they have been in the country since a certain date and meet other requirements. Section 249 was first codified in 1929 and Congress has modified it four times, most recently during the Reagan Administration in 1986. No changes have been made since 1986, and the cutoff date for eligibility remains January 1, 1972 — more than 50 years ago.

Specifically, the Renewing Immigration Provisions of the Immigration Act of 1929 would:

  • Amend the existing Registry statute by moving the eligibility cutoff date so that an immigrant may qualify for lawful permanent resident status if they have been in the U.S. for at least seven years before filing an application under Registry.
  • Preempt the need for further congressional action by making the eligibility cutoff rolling, instead of tying it to a specific date, as it is now.

Padilla continues to lead the charge to pass commonsense immigration reforms that strengthen communities, protect long-term residents, and unlock America’s economic potential. He was joined today by community members impacted by the Trump Administration’s cruel immigration raids, including Alejandro Barranco — a veteran and the son of Narciso, who was violently detained by masked Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents in Orange County.

“As the son of a hardworking immigrant, I never imagined our family’s story would become national news. Yet the violent and unjust treatment my father endured on June 21st is one that countless others are experiencing across this country. My father, a man who has spent over 30 years working to provide for our family, was beaten and detained by men with no identification—simply for doing the work that makes this country great. This attack wasn’t just on him; it was on every immigrant who has ever sacrificed for the American dream. It’s long overdue for this country’s broken immigration system to be fixed, or more families will continue to be torn apart. I stand with leaders like Senator Padilla to fight for a pathway to citizenship for people like my dad, whose contributions make America stronger,” said Alejandro Barranco.

“I ask the American people: if you trust us to pick your crops, help build your homes, take care of your children and elderly parents, play with sons and daughters in the same sports teams, why won’t you trust us to be part of the American dream? A path to citizenship is the only solution that will protect us and the nation. Only a path to citizenship will allow us to live free in this our home, the United States of America,” said Angelica Salas, Executive Director for Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA).

Senator Padilla is a leading voice in Congress for providing long-term undocumented immigrants with pathways to citizenship or permanent legal residence. As Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids and mass deportation assaults intensified in Los Angeles, Padilla marked the 13th anniversary of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy by urging Congress to take immediate action to deliver permanent protections for millions of families, parents, and individuals who are increasingly at risk amid President Trump’s mass deportation agenda. He also delivered remarks on the Senate floor ahead of the anniversary, pushing for permanent protections for Dreamers rather than the indiscriminate ICE raids stoking fear in Los Angeles communities. Padilla previously introduced the Citizenship for Essential Workers Act, which would create a pathway to citizenship for immigrant essential workers, including Dreamers, as his first bill in Congress.

Senator Padilla has been outspoken in criticizing Trump’s mass deportations and unprecedented militarization and escalation of tensions by deploying National Guard troops and active-duty U.S. Marines to respond to overwhelmingly peaceful protests in Los Angeles. He recently introduced the VISIBLE Act to require immigration enforcement officers to display clearly visible identification during public-facing enforcement actions. He also led the entire Senate Democratic Caucus last month in demanding that President Trump immediately withdraw all military forces from Los Angeles and cease all threats to deploy the National Guard or active-duty service members to American cities. Padilla spoke on the Senate floor following his forcible removal from Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem’s press conference, where he was thrown to the ground and handcuffed after attempting to ask a question.

Video of Senator Padilla’s opening remarks from today’s press conference can be viewed here and downloaded here. His closing remarks are available to watch here and can be downloaded here.

Additional photos from today’s event can be found here.

A one-pager on the bill is available here.

Full text of the bill is available here.

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