W.M.W

And with the money saved, he can buy plenty of rakes, right?

Not exaggerating. #MAGA

@metzgov As you can see from the video, it will take a shit-ton of money (we don't have) to rebuild Alcatraz. x.com/JOKAQARMY1/sta…

The prison on Alcatraz was closed because operating prison on a tiny island is needlessly expensive. Yet, it is an item on drump's 2027 budget. There is no logical reason for this expense. It is purely driven by reactionary nostalgia.

🚨 US Special Forces helicopters are taking fire from local Iranian tribes as they search for the pilots of the downed F-15. American pilots are on the ground in Iran. American rescue helicopters are being shot at. This is a live combat search and rescue operation inside Iranian territory. The same Iran Trump says is defeated. The same Iran whose military Hegseth says is in ruins.

Q: Is the public going to learn the identities of the men who abused the girls in the Epstein files? Acting AG Todd Blanche: Like, what does that mean? I don't understand what that means.

Absolute bombshell. Donald Trump openly confesses that his administration's goal is to breach the Hormuz Strait simply to steal oil and make a fortune. He is literally bragging about blatant imperialism and state theft on social media. The mask is completely off.

Twenty-six generals and admirals in fourteen months. No misconduct cited for a single one. A former Fox News weekend host who never held a senior military command has removed the Joint Chiefs Chairman, the Army Chief of Staff, the commander of Army Transformation and Training, the Chief of Chaplains, and at least 22 other senior officers from the most powerful military on earth. He blocked four Army officers from promotion to brigadier general, two Black men and two women, by unilaterally striking their names from a list of 36. When Army Secretary Dan Driscoll refused to remove them, Hegseth did it himself. No hearing. No review board. No Senate consultation. The names were struck because the man who reads the list decided they should not be on it. The pattern is not random. It is architectural. Every removal serves the same function: shortening the distance between a presidential decision and its execution. The officers who remain are the ones who did not resist. The officers who resisted are gone. The replacement for the Army Chief of Staff is Vice Chief General Christopher LaNeve, who served as Hegseth’s personal military aide. The man who carried the briefcase now signs the orders. The chain of command has been rebuilt so that every link answers directly to the man who removed the previous link. General Randy George was the commander of the United States Army’s ground forces. That title matters now in a way it did not matter six weeks ago. Before February 28, ground forces in Iran were a theoretical exercise discussed in war colleges and think tanks. After five weeks of air strikes, with the IRGC publishing bridge target lists across four allied nations, with the President saying the military has “not even started” destroying what remains, with MEUs staged in the Gulf and the 82nd Airborne deploying and JSOC operators at forward bases in four countries, the ground option is no longer theoretical. It is a logistics package. And the man whose job was to assess whether that package should be opened was told to retire the same day the President posted “much more to follow.” Lieutenant General Hodne ran the command that trains every soldier who would execute a ground operation. Major General Green led the chaplain corps that would minister to every soldier who dies in one. George decided whether the operation should happen. Hodne prepared the soldiers to carry it out. Green prepared them to live with it. All three were removed on the same afternoon. Congress has not held a hearing. No subpoenas issued. The legal authority for a Defence Secretary to unilaterally override promotion lists and force immediate retirement of Senate-confirmed officers during wartime has not been tested because nobody with the authority to question it has chosen to. The IRGC has said attacks will “intensify from next week.” The Ford carrier is heading back. The CNN intelligence assessment confirms half of Iran’s launchers and thousands of drones remain. The President has named the next targets: power plants, desalination, oil wells, Kharg Island. And every general who might have said “this crosses a line” is already gone. Twenty-six officers. Zero misconduct findings. One question that every general still serving is asking behind closed doors: who is left to say no? And what happens when the answer is nobody? open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

WHAT EVERYONE IS MISSING ABOUT TODD BLANCHE, TRUMP'S NEW ATTORNEY GENERAL REPLACING PAM BONDI Something that nobody is talking about concerning Todd Blanche replacing Pam Bondi as Attorney General, allegedly over her handling of the Epstein files, is the fact that Blanche is also oddly & curiously the head of the Library of Congress. "So what?" you say? Well, consider: ▪️As head of the Library of Congress, Blanche has access to & control over restricted presidential papers and other archive materials that would let him gatekeep or selectively release sensitive historical documents that could create political leverage, or cover-up wrongdoing. He has the power to write or rewrite the "history of the future" related to this administration. ▪️As head of the Library of Congress, he could quietly steer Copyright Office decisions on AI "Fair-Use" rules and digital deposits. Imagine subtle policy tweaks that let certain entities (government contractors? favored tech firms?) scrape vast troves of copyrighted material without backlash, while others get crushed. Or, he could arrange back-channel access to the Copyright Office's massive digital database—millions of unpublished or pre-release files that function like a pre-publication surveillance goldmine on tech, media, and innovation. Unnoticed by the public. It could shape the entire future of AI, crypto/NFT IP. ▪️He could influence the Congressional Research Service (CRS) to slant "neutral" reports that lawmakers rely on for literally all their bills—including those involving DOJ policy, surveillance, immigration, and investigations. The Public barely knows CRS exists—reports are often marked "for congressional use only" or buried in obscure portals. He could theoretically influence (or at least monitor) the research pipeline on national security, DOJ/FBI matters, surveillance laws, or Epstein-adjacent files. Want to soft-pedal a report that might embarrass the executive branch? Or ensure "friendly" framing on immigration enforcement or crypto policy? It's the perfect backdoor into legislative thinking without anyone screaming "executive over-reach." These powers, combined with his ongoing DOJ role as Attorney General, open the door to cronyistic favors for Trump, Trump's backers, and questionable cross-branch coordination between the legislative & executive branches that most Americans would never notice, or just be altogether invisible to the public eye. Am I the only one not comfortable with this arrangement? cc: @dezzie_rezzie

In other words, drump has a lot to hide.

Trump was warned this would happen. He did it anyway. Now, over 10,000 Veterans lost their homes. 90,000 more are on track for foreclosure. On top of cutting jobs, slashing benefits and throwing our heroes into an unnecessary war. The most anti-Veteran President in history.

The same day that Hegseth fires multiple senior army leaders, he announces that individuals "trusted" by the administration will be able to carry arms on base... On the same day Trump is purging his cabinet... This is like coup level shit.

Every accusation...

BREAKING: “SHOULD WE KEEP HER?” Trump throws loyal liar Leavitt under the bus and blames her for his awful approval ratings! In a truly nasty moment, Donald Trump publicly humiliated his own Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt during a rambling Oval Office rant about “bad press” yesterday. While issuing his usual complaint that his negative press coverage is somewhere in the 90th percentile, Trump turned on Leavitt and said: “Maybe Karoline's doing a poor job, I don't know … You're doing a terrible job. Should we keep her? I think we’ll keep her.” Oomph! This is classic Trump, the same man who once made wildly inappropriate “it’s those lips, the way they move” comments and relied on her to lie for him every single day is now casually threatening to discard her like yesterday’s trash the moment he feels slightly she’s not selling his fiction well enough. Leavitt has been one of his most loyal defenders, bending over backwards to spin all his disasters. But as soon as Trump wants a scapegoat for his terrible press, he throws her under the bus in public for everyone to see. This is how Trump treats the people closest to him. He holds them at bay until they’re no longer useful, then humiliated and discarded without a second thought. If you can’t decide whether watching Trump publicly shame and threaten to fire Karoline Leavitt service disgusts or amuses you, please like and share.

Trump muses about being a king: "I can't get a ballroom approved. It's pretty amazing, right? If I was a king, we'd be doing a lot more. I'm doing a lot, but I could be doing a lot more if I was a king."

BREAKING: Trump STORMS OUT of Supreme Court after his own Justices tear apart his birthright citizenship case. What a loser. Donald Trump showed up to the Supreme Court on Wednesday to intimidate nine justices into stripping citizenship from 200,000 American-born babies a year. He left humiliated, with his motorcade speeding away down Independence Avenue before the other side had even finished arguing. Trump made the unprecedented decision to personally attend oral arguments in his birthright citizenship case — the first sitting president in American history to do so. He was escorted in ten minutes early and seated in the front row, presumably to send a message. The message the justices sent back wasn’t exactly what the adamantly anti-immigrant crusader had in mind. Within 90 minutes, multiple members of the court's own conservative supermajority — justices Trump either appointed or championed — were openly dismantling his administration's arguments. Chief Justice John Roberts called a key part of the government's position "quirky." Justice Neil Gorsuch and Justice Amy Coney Barrett both signaled serious skepticism. And when Trump's solicitor general, D. John Sauer, tried to argue that modern realities like "birth tourism" justified rewriting 157 years of constitutional interpretation, Roberts delivered the most perfectly devastating response of the entire term: "Well, it's a new world. It's the same Constitution." Trump didn't wait around to hear more. His motorcade was spotted zipping away from the Supreme Court at 11:25 a.m., while the challengers' lawyer was still being questioned. The man who came to project dominance fled before the other team even got to speak. Here's what was actually at stake in that courtroom. Trump's executive order — signed on day one of his return to power — would eliminate automatic birthright citizenship for children born in the United States to undocumented immigrants or temporary visa holders. It has never gone into effect, blocked by courts from the moment it was signed. If ultimately upheld, it would strip citizenship from approximately 200,000 babies born every year. By 2050, according to a new study, it would create 6.4 million U.S.-born children with no legal status — stateless in the only country they have ever known. It would disproportionately affect Hispanic and Asian families. It would even potentially leave abandoned infants with no citizenship anywhere on earth. All of this to undo the 14th Amendment — ratified in 1868 specifically to guarantee that America would never again create a permanent underclass of people born on its soil with no claim to its protections. The Constitution has answered this question for 157 years. On Wednesday, even Trump's own justices seemed to know it. While we’ll have to wait for an official ruling to see what the Justices ultimately decide in this particular challenge, Trump’s hasty retreat from the Court proceedings presages what the expected decision will be — and it’s not what the Racist-in-Chief was intimidating the Justices for. Trump came to the Supreme Court to make history. He made it — just not the kind he was hoping for. Please like and share this post if you believe every child born in America is an American, no matter what Donald Trump says.

He is the 1st President of the United States in history to sit in the Supreme Court of the United States to watch his Solicitor General, who used to be his criminal defense appeals lawyer, deliver the stupidest Supreme Court argument of the 21st century. He knows he lost.

🚨Trump today: “We can’t take care of daycare. We’re a big country. We’re fighting wars. It’s not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things.” The United States has spent: $21 billion on the Iran war in 30 days. $100 million on Trump’s golf tab this term. $200 billion requested for Pentagon weapons. $8 trillion on wars since September 11th. But daycare is not possible. Medicare is not possible. Medicaid — which covers 72 million Americans including children, seniors, and people with disabilities — is not possible.

For what it's worth, the orange idiot just lost another alliance.

Breaking: The Supreme Court has just issued a ruling siding with Trump to bring back “gay conversion therapy.” This practice involves physically abusing teenagers to try to turn them heterosexual, including with electric shocks and chemically-induced nausea.