... Pirro visited the White House Monday evening after Trump lashed out at her on camera hours earlier in the Oval Office, telling reporters she "folded like an umbrella" in her move to drop charges.
"The judge was extremely unfriendly to Jeanine, and frankly, I think she choked because the judge was really vicious," Trump said.
"Instead of going after the people that did it, the judge went after her and went after her department," he continued. "And I guess she choked. I don't know what the hell happened." ...
What IDIOT hired her and the incompetent contractor? Oh wait ...
Yet another woman going down?
Former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem became the first major dismissal of Trump's second term after she claimed the president signed off on a $220 million ad campaign for the department. Noem and the administration had also faced intense backlash over the shooting deaths of two protesters at the hands of Immigration and Customs Enforcement earlier this year.
Trump fired former Attorney General Pam Bondi in April following increased scrutiny over her handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files and a string of losses in trying to prosecute a number of the president's political enemies.
... In a separate case last year, federal prosecutors in Pirro's office initially sought a felony indictment against a former Justice Department employee who hurled a sandwich at a federal agent during Trump's law enforcement surge in D.C., but a grand jury refused to indict. Then her office pursued a misdemeanor assault charge against him instead, but he was ultimately found not guilty at trial.
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... Prosecutors pinned the blame in Hearn's case squarely on Interior for providing "less than fulsome information" at the outset of the case, writing that the agency "slowly started trickling" new details to the U.S. attorney's office only after dozens of requests....
Sec Doug Burgum thrown under the bus.
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... Pirro visited the White House Monday evening after Trump lashed out at her on camera hours earlier in the Oval Office, telling reporters she "folded like an umbrella" in her move to drop charges.
"The judge was extremely unfriendly to Jeanine, and frankly, I think she choked because the judge was really vicious," Trump said.
"Instead of going after the people that did it, the judge went after her and went after her department," he continued. "And I guess she choked. I don't know what the hell happened." ...
What IDIOT hired her and the incompetent contractor? Oh wait ...
Yet another woman going down?
Former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem became the first major dismissal of Trump's second term after she claimed the president signed off on a $220 million ad campaign for the department. Noem and the administration had also faced intense backlash over the shooting deaths of two protesters at the hands of Immigration and Customs Enforcement earlier this year.
Trump fired former Attorney General Pam Bondi in April following increased scrutiny over her handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files and a string of losses in trying to prosecute a number of the president's political enemies.
... In a separate case last year, federal prosecutors in Pirro's office initially sought a felony indictment against a former Justice Department employee who hurled a sandwich at a federal agent during Trump's law enforcement surge in D.C., but a grand jury refused to indict. Then her office pursued a misdemeanor assault charge against him instead, but he was ultimately found not guilty at trial.
:---P
... Prosecutors pinned the blame in Hearn's case squarely on Interior for providing "less than fulsome information" at the outset of the case, writing that the agency "slowly started trickling" new details to the U.S. attorney's office only after dozens of requests....
Sec Doug Burgum thrown under the bus.
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Another absolutely clear case of Donald Trump giving zero fucks about the rule of law. How is it not incredibly clear to everyone when one of his loyal sycophants can't even find enough evidence to proceed, that rather than accepting that fact, Donald Trump digs deeper into his fantasy and continues to refute reality.
It's incredibly clear in this article. How is this not cause for concern for those still support him? Rule of law is one of the fundamental underpinnings of any functional government.
A Trump-appointed federal appeals judge spent months running a Washington public affairs firm after being appointed to the bench last year, an arrangement that contributed to an exodus among the firm's staff and clients and only ended when the firm went out of business at the end of June.
Jennifer Mascott, a former conservative law professor who sits on the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals, was deeply involved in daily operations at the firm, Adfero, for at least six months after she was confirmed as a judge in October 2025, according to 14 former employees and clients granted anonymity to discuss internal details of the firm's final months.
Nine of the former employees said Mascott, who inherited her ownership stake in the firm from her late husband in 2023, worked at least once a week out of Adfero's office in Washington and oversaw the firm's staffing, business development efforts and client relations in between her full-time judicial duties in Wilmington and Philadelphia....
O Really wrote: Tue Aug 04, 2026 11:04 amMaybe she's been boxed.
:headscratch:
It's a term meaning fired. Comes from the practice in some offices of having the personal effects of a person collected and put into a box on his/her desk to find when they return from lunch. Solicits the reaction like "oh shit - I've been boxed!"
Similar, but more cruel than the practice in one law firm of piling a bunch of dirty socks on somebody's desk after they've lost a case. So they could experience the "the smell of de-feet"
O Really wrote: Sat Aug 08, 2026 4:16 pmIt's a term meaning fired. Comes from the practice in some offices of having the personal effects of a person collected and put into a box on his/her desk to find when they return from lunch. Solicits the reaction like "oh shit - I've been boxed!"
Ah, thanks.
Similar, but more cruel than the practice in one law firm of piling a bunch of dirty socks on somebody's desk after they've lost a case. So they could experience the "the smell of de-feet"
:puke-left: , but the draft was on April 24, 2025. I choose to believe that Dart has since embarrassed the Giants. I don't want to hate both NYC/NJ teams.
The CEO of a Michigan credit union is no longer employed there, according to the organization, after she posted on social media what appeared to be an AI-generated image of her and her family wearing sweaters emblazoned with the Donald Trump-associated words "Lake America".
... Smith had been the chief executive officer of the Family First Credit Union when she posed for a family photo at the Detroit airport en route to Halifax, Canada....
Smith then shared the image on Facebook on 11 September – the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the US – along with the caption: "Like our sweatshirts? Not sure Canada will."
The post ended with "Lol lol". It went viral and then provoked backlash from people in Canada – where a portion of the lake is.
Those online users found it disrespectful, and the post has since been deleted according to Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) News.
Many in the comments highlighted that the post was particularly insensitive, given Halifax's role in hosting thousands of stranded airplane passengers who were diverted there when US airspace closed on the day of the 9/11 attacks....
Clueless. Even if we give her full credit for innocent and humorous intent, then accept her sincere regret, this remains a prime example of how Everything Trump Touches Dies.
Vrede too wrote: Sat Sep 26, 2026 8:10 am
Even if we give her full credit for innocent and humorous intent, then accept her sincere regret, this remains a prime example of how Everything Trump Touches Dies.
Can't do that. She may very well have thought it was just humorous trash-talk, and under different circumstances it could have been. Those circumstances being that nobody could take arbitrary re-naming of one of the Great Lakes seriously. But that's not what we have. We've got a President* of the US making serious claims of being able to annex sovereign nation and major ally Canada as a US state. That same President* now comes and claims to be able to rename an international body of water simply as an insult. So any public reference to that is an act of support for a bonafide madman insulting the nation's (former) best friends. And from a border state too. Totally unacceptable and not forgivable.
I came across this story this morning listing over two hundred idiotic things trump and his underlings have done. I wasn't sure where to put it but this looks like the place. It'll take half an hour to read it, but it's pretty good. Some of this I've never even heard of.
neoplacebo wrote: Sat Oct 31, 2026 7:15 amI came across this story this morning listing over two hundred idiotic things trump and his underlings have done. I wasn't sure where to put it but this looks like the place. It'll take half an hour to read it, but it's pretty good. Some of this I've never even heard of.
‘World-Historic Levels Of Strategic Buffoonery:’ 285 Acts Of Idiocy Trump’s Cronies Hope You’ve Forgotten
It's easy to swat a mosquito. It's much harder to swat a cave full of them. Every day. Day after day after day after day.
Covering the Trump administration is a lot like the latter. There's so much chaos, open corruption and indifferent cruelty, mixed with wild incompetence and blatant lies, that it's tricky to keep track of it all. At some point it just starts to register as ambient buzzing.
Some might argue the overwhelming absurdity is deliberate. It's easier to pretend we aren't in the midst of what American historian Timothy Snyder describes as "superpower suicide" if the man who's responsible for it doesn't know what magnets are.
"Empires have risen and failed before, but to my knowledge no state has ever chosen to kill its own power, and succeeded with such rapidity," wrote Snyder in an essay unpacking the term.
The fix to what Snyder described as "world-historical levels of strategic buffoonery" will not be easy.
"From where we stand now there are two ways forward: one is the self-induced downfall of the American republic; the other is to reconsider American ideals and to restructure American politics so as to bring the people greater power over a more just future."
So here we are. And there are those mosquitoes again. Grab your flyswatter, won't you?
(A brief note: We cannot emphasize enough how not-even-remotely-exhaustive this list is. We've undoubtedly missed many things. Likely a lot! Other omissions, like the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, aren't on the list because you've hopefully not forgotten those.
I haven't forgotten.
Also note that the ever-combative Trump administration has disputed the accuracy of some items, like all the times he fell asleep in the Oval Office, for instance, or the fact that his Department of Health and Human Services secretary once reportedly cut off a dead raccoon's penis to study later. So to make HuffPost's lawyers happy, consider them alleged.) ...
lawyers
I'm keeping the tab open, but I'm not sure I'll read through the list. Just the first few depressed me. If any of you come on some really good ones to share please do.
neoplacebo wrote: Sat Oct 31, 2026 7:15 amI came across this story this morning listing over two hundred idiotic things trump and his underlings have done. I wasn't sure where to put it but this looks like the place. It'll take half an hour to read it, but it's pretty good. Some of this I've never even heard of.
‘World-Historic Levels Of Strategic Buffoonery:’ 285 Acts Of Idiocy Trump’s Cronies Hope You’ve Forgotten
I'm keeping the tab open, but I'm not sure I'll read through the list. Just the first few depressed me. If any of you come on some really good ones to share please do.
He is a Mormon and played at Ole Miss, very well btw. However he first played at USC and I can't find that he revealed himself to be a MAGAt until:
