“Sigal Chattah, the Israeli-born acting U.S. attorney in Nevada, who declined to prosecute an Israeli government official arrested last month for attempting to go on a date with an undercover agent posing as a 15-year-old girl, has drawn attention for her seemingly bottomless online footprint of unapologetically genocidal social media posts, text messages likening a political opponent to Hamas, and a campaign ad featuring a photo of Rep. Ilhan Omar engulfed by flames. But a shallow dive into the long list of donors who contributed to her 2022 Nevada attorney general campaign gives a fuller picture of Chattah, and by extension the emerging Mafia bureaucracy comprising Trump’s Department of Justice.” (08/27/25)
“President Trump, his cabinet, and those who have profited from his rise seem to revel in public displays of cruelty. Take former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) head Elon Musk, holding a chainsaw at a televised event to celebrate the firing of civil servants. Or Trump’s White House sharing a video featuring Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers marching handcuffed immigrants onto a deportation flight, with Jess Glynne’s musical hit ‘Hold My Hand’ playing in the background. Or how about ICE allowing right-wing TV host Dr. Phil to film its sweeping immigration raids for public consumption? And don’t forget those federal agents tackling California Senator Alex Padilla to the floor (and handcuffing him!) when he asked a question at a Department of Homeland Security press conference.” (08/26/25)
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“Whenever I see someone going out of their way to denounce the Palestinian resistance while expressing some vaguely pro-Palestine sentiment, I take it as an admission that they aren’t capable of basic human empathy. They look at October 7, think ‘I can’t imagine myself doing that,’ and conclude from this that the perpetrators of October 7 must be worse people than they are. They stop their examination there. They never ask themselves what it would have been like to live the life of a young man who ended up joining Hamas. They never ask themselves what it would have been like to live one’s entire life in a giant concentration camp under the thumb [of] a genocidal apartheid state which routinely murders and abuses your countrymen.” [editor’s note: The people Johnstone refers to are as much victims of Hamas as of the Israeli regime — and were trying to overthrow Hamas leading up to October 7 – TLK] (08/26/25)
“Recent headline: ‘Judge Releases Illegal [sic] Migrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia.’ Another: ‘Trump Administration Seals Landmark Deal: U.S. Government Holds 10% Stake in Intel.’ I didn’t vote for illegal [sic] criminals to remain in the country, nor did I vote for a government takeover of business. One illegal [sic] criminal in the country is one too many, and one-tenth of government ownership of Intel is one-tenth socialism, and that’s 100% too much. But we get the government we deserve. We, the people, have let the country head towards the toilet, and we have no one to blame but ourselves.” [editor’s note: Nice try at fobbing off blame to people who never supported his idiotic ideas. No sale – TLK] (08/26/25)
“With the Trump administration rolling back essential health insurance protections and rejecting a national, single-payer health insurance program, America’s race to the bottom continues full steam ahead for millions of Americans with preexisting health conditions. The administration will now amend the Biden-era rule that limited the duration of short-term plans to no more than four months, and says it will not enforce the current rule, including the time restrictions and new consumer notification requirements, in the interim. It is refusing to enforce a Biden-era rule limiting junk short-term health plans that are notorious for charging more or denying coverage altogether for people with conditions like asthma, diabetes, and cancer.” (08/26/25)
“A new report released Friday from the Congressional Budget Office is surprising, even stunning. The ‘CBO’ is not thought to be a friend of Republican presidents and Congresses. Questions always arise from ‘supply-siders’ about whether CBO rejects serious ‘dynamic scoring’ of developments in the law and in major regulatory actions. Whatever the agency’s methodology, it issued a report on the Trump tariffs at the close of last week. ‘We project that increases in tariffs implemented during the period from January 6, 2025, to August 19, 2025 will decrease primary deficits (which exclude net outlays for interest) by $3.3 trillion if the higher tariffs persist for the 2025‒2035 period,’ Phillip Swagel, CBO’s director wrote. ‘By reducing the need for federal borrowing, those tariff collections will also reduce federal outlays for interest by an additional $0.7 trillion.'” [editor’s note: So under perfect conditions, over a ten-year period, tariffs would reduce the politicians’ deficits by about 20% at the expense of American consumers? Big whoop – TLK] (08/26/25)
Source: Common Dreams
by Rev. Graylan Scott Hagler
“In my 50-some years of community and political ministry, and organizing that resisted Boston’s test with ‘stop and frisk’ after the hoax of Charles Stuart murdering his wife and blaming it on a Black man, I thought I had seen it all. Then when Edward Coristine (a 19-year-old former Department of Government Efficiency worker and software engineer known online as ‘Big Balls’) was assaulted in Dupont Circle in reportedly a carjacking incident it was deja vu of Boston and the neighborhood where I lived, Roxbury, being turned upside down again. I thought I had already seen the worst of white reaction to Blackness, but again I was wrong.” (08/26/25)
