“No adult should go by an ‘ie’ or ‘y’ variation of their name – Billy, Timmy, etc. Once puberty hits, any man with self-respect prefers to drop it to sound less like a buddy and more like an adult. CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan doesn’t care. While it’s not ‘Donny,’ and maybe it is Donie on his birth certificate, it doesn’t matter – you come off like a douche with the ‘y’ sounds on a name that could easily be shortened to ‘Don.’ Donie, the porky Irishman CNN employs to cut their anti-Americanism with an accent, had a special Sunday night called ‘Misinformation: Extreme America’ that was supposed to be about political extremism. It devolved into what seemed like an attempt to get him laid at the next These Lives Matter or Occupy Someplace mutant march/riots on the left.” (04/15/25)
“A Massachusetts federal judge stopped the Trump administration late Monday from yanking legal status from more than 530,000 Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan, and Venezuelan nationals who were brought into the US under a controversial Biden administration program. Boston US District Judge Indira Talwani, an Obama appointee, ruled that the migrants are entitled to a case-by-case review and declined to put her decision on hold while the Trump administration appeals it. ‘The early termination, without any case-by-case justification, of legal status for noncitizens who have complied with DHS programs and entered the country lawfully undermines the rule of law,’ Talwani wrote in a 41-page ruling. ‘The court finds the balance of equities and public interest weigh in favor of preliminary relief.'” (04/15/25)
“Disneyland guests were briefly evacuated from the theme park’s New Orleans Square on Saturday night after a naked man exposed himself and climbed onto the entrance of a restaurant, Anaheim police said. Video shared to Instagram shows the nude man standing on top of Tiana’s Palace (a New Orleans-style eatery inspired by the Disney film ‘The Princess and the Frog’) as cast members direct stunned onlookers away. The man appears to gesture toward the crowd before the clip cuts out. ‘Last Saturday, around 10pm, Anaheim Police officers were called to assist Disneyland security who had a nude male detained inside the park near New Orleans Square,’ Anaheim Police Department spokesperson Matthew Sutter told SFGATE in an email. ‘He was arrested for being under the influence of narcotics, trespassing, and public nudity.'” (04/14/25)
“When I was 15, I worked at the local McDonald’s in Stittsville, Ontario. It was my second-ever job after under-the-table dishwashing at a Cajun joint and I was excited to see how the mince was made in an iconic restaurant chain. Reality was we had a few laughs — like the time my buddy put pot in the muffin mix — but the job itself was long, hard, badly paid and meant you had to simultaneously deal with an indifferent owner and customers who were surprisingly demanding for a drunk buying a $4 burger at midnight. One day I was asked to rummage through the trash to find a customer’s glasses. … I quit and started working as a grocery store cashier instead, where I stayed for about seven years. Same demanding customers, but sufficiently less greasy to count as a vertical move.” (04/15/25)
“Most of us can remember at least a few troubling scenes from George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984: the mandatory love demanded for the spectral dictator Big Brother; the malleability of facts at the Ministry of Truth; or the ruling party’s memorably grim slogans, ‘War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery.’ But for me, the most disturbing image of all — and I first read the book in high school — was the ‘Two Minutes Hate,’ aroused among the public by threatening images on giant video screens. Within just 30 seconds, Orwell wrote, ‘a hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledgehammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one’s will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic.'” (04/14/25)
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“Every day the Gaza holocaust continues, the western empire tells the truth about itself. The US government is telling you the truth about itself. Israel is telling you the truth about itself. Their western allies are telling you the truth about themselves. The western media are telling you the truth about themselves. One of the most important stages when preparing to leave an abusive relationship is the information-gathering stage. This is when you begin quietly observing and making note of your partner’s abusive behavior, letting them tell you the truth about themselves with their actions rather than their words. The information-gathering stage is important because long-term abusive relationships are usually very confusing for the victim; if the abuse were simple and easy to understand, the relationship wouldn’t have continued into the long term.” (04/14/25)
“On March 15, National Security Adviser Michael Waltz informed fellow Trump Administration officials through their now-infamous Signal chat that a U.S. missile attack had resulted in the collapse of an apartment building filled with Yemeni civilians. Vice President JD Vance replied, ‘Excellent.’ Democrats on Capitol Hill have since expressed outrage — not at the deaths of innocent civilians, or at the United States’[s] unprovoked attack on a sovereign country, but at the fact that the conversation was not more carefully shielded from the public. The Trump administration claims to have resumed bombing in Yemen to stop the Houthi rebels’ [sic] attacks on shipping vessels in the Red Sea, despite the fact that the Houthis, who serve as the de facto government of much of the country, had ceased those attacks months ago.” (04/14/25)
“On Monday, Mississippi state auditor Shad White will release a compilation of audits conducted by his office that tabulated a collective $400 million in waste over the course of his tenure. ‘In the last few weeks, we’ve jokingly started calling ourselves MOGE, the Mississippi Office of Government Efficiency, like Elon Musk’s DOGE,’ White told Fox News Digital, referring to Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency under the Trump administration. ‘We approach our work with the same attention to every penny as DOGE, and I’m happy to be Mississippi’s Musk,’ White said. While the auditor’s office cannot cut any of the wasteful spending, it alerts state lawmakers to what it discovers.” (04/14/25)
“Republican leaders in Congress have been working feverishly over recent days to renew the rich people: friendly 2017 Trump tax cuts set to expire at this year’s end. Both the House and Senate have now passed bills that do that renewing, and also add in some assorted new goodies. All that remains before this latest giveaway to grand fortune becomes law: a bit of dickering between House and Senate GOP leaders over the tax cut’s particulars and then President Donald Trump’s John Henry on whatever legislation that dickering ends up producing. Trump can barely wait for the signing ceremony. But he’s also pushing for much more than an extension (and expansion) of those 2017 tax cuts. His ultimate goal: erasing taxes on income from the entire federal tax code.” (04/14/25)
“A trial in the landmark antitrust case against social media giant Meta kicks off in Washington on Monday. The US competition and consumer watchdog alleges that Meta, which already owned Facebook, bought Instagram in 2012 and WhatsApp in 2014 to eliminate competition, effectively giving itself a monopoly. The FTC reviewed and approved those acquisitions but committed to monitor the outcomes. If the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) wins the case it could force Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to sell off both Instagram and WhatsApp. Meta previously said it was sure it would win and experts have told the BBC it is likely to argue that Instagram users have had a better experience since it was taken over. ‘The [FTC’s] argument is the acquisition of Instagram was a way of neutralizing this rising competitive threat to Facebook,’ says Rebecca Haw Allensworth, a professor of antitrust at Vanderbilt Law School.” (04/14/25)
