
Griff Dog
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Griff Dog
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No Christian Nationalist fascists. Pop Culture & Zeitgeist junkie. Ally to all tolerant souls. M Go Blue.Mowtown kid 🏳️🌈 b4 AIDS FOUNDER of #blockthebot.



WOW: A stunning new report in the WSJ reveals that military advisers intentionally excluded Donald Trump from the command room during the recent high-stakes operation to extract a downed U.S. airman in Iran, because they feared his erratic behavior could jeopardize the mission. According to The Wall Street Journal, Trump was in such a volatile state after Iran shot down a U.S. jet that he spent hours screaming at aides in the West Wing, obsessing over the political fallout and invoking Jimmy Carter and the 1979 hostage crisis. Officials made the call to limit his access, only briefing him at “meaningful moments” instead of giving him real-time control. Meanwhile, the operation itself nearly fell apart, with aircraft stuck in desert sand and U.S. forces scrambling to avoid Iranian detection. The airman was eventually rescued, but the chaos didn’t end there. Just hours later, Trump woke up and fired off his profanity-laced threat online, warning Iran it would be left “living in Hell.”



🚨BREAKING: The Department of Justice is demanding that Wayne County, MI turn over its ballots from the 2024 election to investigate voter fraud claims. Michigan’s attorney general and secretary of state have responded saying that’s not going to happen. democracydocket.com/news-alerts/do…



Worth adding that Russia did as a matter of fact intervene for Trump in 2016 and that the evidence is widely known, abundant, and collected in various forms, including a Senate investigation, the Mueller report, multiple intelligence investigations, multiple reportorial investigations in the US and elsewhere, and multiple books. Leaving out that crucial fact allows the reader to miss the way this echoes prior authoritarian "investigate the investigator" moves as well as the fundamentally Orwellian character of this. nytimes.com/2026/04/18/us/…






Don't forget that "Alligator Alcatraz" is still open and still rife with abuses and inhumanity: lnk.thebulwark.com/4cQfkuF





Donald Trump Jr. joined 1789 Capital as a partner in November 2024 - the month his father won the election. Since then, four of the fund's portfolio companies have received government contracts totaling more than $735 million. The largest single award: a $620 million Pentagon loan to Vulcan Elements, a 30-person rare earths startup. It was the largest loan in the history of the Pentagon's Office of Strategic Capital. In February, Trump Jr. told the Financial Times he was "very involved in the strategic decisions regarding where to invest our resources" at 1789. He also said the firm "understands what the administration wants to do, because we helped craft some of the messaging." Now Bloomberg is reporting that Mixed Martial Arts Group Ltd. - an Australia-based company with Conor McGregor as an investor, in which Trump Jr. invested and serves as adviser via the Trump family-affiliated American Ventures LLC fund - is pitching the US military and first responders for training contracts. Senators Warren, Kim and Blumenthal sent a letter to Pete Hegseth in January asking whether DoD contract decisions involving companies linked to Trump Jr. were affected by conflicts of interest. "If this is the case, it could mean that the Trump family is profiting from funds appropriated by Congress to keep Americans safe," they wrote. Hegseth is the man who fired the generals. He now controls the contracts. Trump Jr. helped craft the administration's messaging. The pattern is documented and the timeline is not in dispute.

The Holy Father Leo, who has little time for those hack journalists writing for editorial offices with a clear political slant, gave journalists a dressing-down today: “A certain narrative has spread, not entirely accurate, because of the political situation that arose when, on the first day of the journey, the President of the United States made some remarks about me. Much of what has been written since then has been little more than commentary upon commentary, in an attempt to interpret what was said. One example is the address delivered at the Prayer Meeting for Peace on 16 April. That address had been prepared two weeks earlier, well before the President commented on me and on the message of peace I am promoting. And yet it was interpreted as though I were trying to engage once again in debate with the President, which is not at all my interest. I come to Africa primarily as a pastor, as Head of the Catholic Church, to be with, to celebrate with, to encourage and to accompany all African Catholics.” One–nil. Game on.


