milo meets the deportation bus he ordered
Milo Yiannopoulos discovering that when you cheer for an unaccountable deportation force, sometimes the fan service is mandatory.
Milo Yiannopoulos, the British troll who spent years praising Donald Trump and demanding “total legal immunity for ICE agents,” has reportedly been detained by ICE in Louisiana. The man who helped sell the alt-right’s cosplay fascism to the GOP base is now getting a close-up tour of the detention system he once treated as performance art.
The self-branded “most fabulous supervillain on the internet” has long backed Trump’s hardline immigration crackdown, cheered on the very agents now holding him, and built a career vomiting hate at trans people, Muslims, Black Lives Matter, feminists, and, for variety, other gay people while calling himself “ex-gay.” Now his name shows up in ICE’s detainee registry as officials suddenly discover the joys of silence when asked for comment.
This is the same guy who headlined “Gays for Trump” in 2016, made a living laundering alt-right rhetoric into Fox-friendly snark, and demanded a legal forcefield for ICE so agents could operate without consequence. Trump’s immigration state, built on cruelty and impunity, has finally extended its loving embrace to one of its own hype men. The deportation machine doesn’t care how many CPAC lanyards you’ve collected; it just grinds.
#leopards-ate-my-face#trumps-america
space force goes to community college
Trump explains that the moon "loves" him while announcing a taxpayer-funded Space Hogwarts for the Space Force kids.
Trump has announced, via executive order of course, the creation of a shiny new U.S. Space Academy — because if you’re already turning the military into a campaign prop, why not bolt a for-profit-looking space school onto it? The same administration that treats climate science like witchcraft now wants to run a space education pipeline, presumably staffed by whichever donors can print the cheapest "patriot astronaut" merch.
This isn’t about NASA, research, or actual strategy; it’s about building another branded institution where loyalty to Trump outranks basic competence. An executive order lets him bypass the whole "Congress makes laws" annoyance and unilaterally sketch out a new, military-adjacent academy that will soak up money, prestige, and young recruits into his politicized Space Force cosplay operation. Militarization, but make it intergalactic.
And because everything must double as propaganda, the Space Academy will almost certainly function as a taxpayer-funded recruitment funnel and media backdrop — uniforms, salutes, and flag-draped launchpads for campaign ads. Actual higher education is underfunded and student debt is crushing a generation, but there’s always room in the budget for a new space-flavored loyalty factory.
#killing-democracy#forever-grifting
trump wants cheap money, fed chair accidentally remembers his job
Kevin Warsh explains that the Fed’s job isn’t to reelect Donald Trump, causing great confusion in Washington.
Kevin Warsh showed up at Jackson Hole and delivered the radical, extremist message that the Federal Reserve’s job is to, brace yourself, keep prices stable. Markets heard, "we might raise rates," while Donald Trump heard, "how dare you not tank the dollar to goose my poll numbers." Inflation is still above target thanks in part to a war in Iran and decades of politicians pretending deficits are imaginary, but Trump’s main concern is that interest rates aren’t low enough to turn the stock market into his personal campaign ad.
Instead of the usual soothing "forward guidance" that Wall Street loves and presidents weaponize, Warsh basically said: we tried that during the last crisis, it’s become a crutch, and we’re done spoon-feeding you. Meanwhile, three Fed board members already wanted a hike in July, inflation progress is "modest" at best, 10-year yields are at their highest since 2007, and the US just casually strolled past $40 trillion in debt like it was a Starbucks rewards milestone. Against that backdrop, Trump is still demanding cuts that economists say would pour gasoline on prices, because nothing says "stable economy" like turning monetary policy into a campaign prop.
So the Fed is gingerly trying to act like an independent central bank in a functioning democracy, while the White House treats it like another reality show side character that’s supposed to hit its marks and make the boss look good. Warsh is talking about Main Street and long-term stability; Trump is talking about short-term sugar highs and rage-posting when he doesn’t get them. One of these is how you run a serious economy. The other is how you end up learning what actual currency crises look like.
#killing-democracy#money#forever-grifting
trump declares open season on usda regulations
Trump gestures majestically toward an imaginary slaughterhouse, explaining that food safety laws are optional if your favorite radio host owns cows.
Trump, having just enraged ranchers by pausing tariffs and greenlighting up to 300,000 metric tons of foreign beef, has now discovered a new solution: let ranchers and farmers process their own food, federal safety rules and statutory authority be damned. After praising them as “smart, efficient, and immaculately CLEAN” – because nothing says serious policy like a Yelp review – he announced on Truth Social that he’s authorizing “legal documents” so they can bypass the allegedly “nasty Monopoly” of big processors.
The inspiration for this bold regulatory revolution? An interview with Glenn Beck, who just so happens to be a conservative commentator and a ranch owner, urging Trump to take on the “meat processing cartel” and ease slaughter regulations. Agriculture secretary Brooke Rollins is now promising “big announcements” to waive “red tape” and expand sales across state lines, while also calling it a “matter of national security” that America can “feed and fuel ourselves” – a handy phrase that apparently covers anything from food safety rollbacks to making Glenn Beck’s life easier.
There’s just one catch: nobody seems sure the administration actually has the legal authority to do this. Existing law puts strict limits on meat processing and interstate sales, and the bipartisan bill that would actually change those rules is stalled in Congress. Even Republican sponsor Thomas Massie is gently waving a Constitution in Trump’s direction, saying the action is “great” but should be a law, not just an executive order. But why bother with that whole ‘separation of powers’ thing when you can govern agricultural policy by talk-radio vibes and social media posts?
#killing-democracy#lawlessness
trump’s tacky ballroom almost becomes a no-fly zone
Marine One departs from Trump’s construction cosplay zone, where air safety meets ballroom feng shui.
Donald Trump’s White House makeover is going so well that it’s now a hazard to air travel. Safety officials say moving Marine One’s landing spot off the South Lawn — to make room for Trump’s controversial new ballroom and helipad — helped cause an incident where the presidential helicopter got uncomfortably cozy with a passenger jet leaving Reagan National.
The NTSB’s preliminary report says Marine One’s crew was supposed to give air traffic control three minutes’ notice before takeoff. Instead, thanks to “communication issues” tied to the relocation, they couldn’t get through, tried backup channels that also failed, and just went ahead and launched anyway while commercial traffic was still departing. The American Airlines Embraer had to be rerouted “out of caution” as separation distances dropped below FAA rules — a particularly stellar achievement after DC already had a deadly midair collision in 2025.
The FAA has since moved an antenna and tweaked procedures, which is reassuring except for the part where controllers reportedly lost contact with Marine One again this week, albeit briefly. Meanwhile, the new South Lawn helipad is being redesigned because Trump doesn’t like how it looks and thinks it slopes funny. So yes, the president is effectively having the nation’s most sensitive landing pad reworked like a botched golf green, while the people in charge scramble to make sure his aesthetic tantrums don’t end with a helicopter and a passenger jet sharing the same patch of sky.
#national-security#full-stupid
trump’s fda pick arrives just in time for the explosive diarrhea era
Trump’s FDA: now with 50% fewer inspectors and 500% more salad‑induced regret.
America’s latest public health innovation: 17,000 cases of explosive diarrhoea in one summer, courtesy of cyclospora‑tainted lettuce and an FDA that’s been cut down to the point where an outbreak can rampage for ten weeks before the CDC bothers to sound the alarm. E. coli, salmonella, cyclospora – it’s like the Trump administration turned the entire food supply into a live‑action science experiment, minus the science and plus a lot of Gatorade.
Health and Human Services swears the response has been “robust,” which is certainly one word for waiting months while people like 59‑year‑old David Hargrave have diarrhoea every day for a month and a half because the government couldn’t be bothered to keep enough inspectors on the job. Food safety experts say gutted staffing and botched communication helped turn a manageable outbreak into a national gut‑punch; the administration insists everything is fine, which is exactly what you want to hear from the people who just turned salad into a weapon.
Into this gastrointestinal apocalypse strides Trump’s FDA nominee, Dr. Overton: Johns Hopkins‑trained surgeon, current chief policy officer at the America First Policy Institute, and now aspiring head of the agency in charge of vaccines, abortion pills, and whether your lunch tries to kill you. Public health experts worry she’ll put Trump’s agenda over actual science, which the White House tries to spin as her being a champion of “Gold Standard Science” – a phrase that now apparently covers dismantling childhood vaccine schedules and meddling in reproductive healthcare while the lettuce poisons everyone.
Even Senate health committee chair Bill Cassidy – a Republican doctor, not exactly Antifa – has “strong concerns” about her cheerleading for Trump’s vaccine overhaul orders. Meanwhile the MAHA movement is mad about Trump boosting domestic glyphosate production, accusing Overton of helping push an order to crank out more suspected carcinogen. So on one side: deregulation die‑hards who think the FDA should be a vibes‑based suggestion box. On the other: conspiracy influencers who think she’s not reckless enough. The only clear winner so far is cyclospora.
#healthcare#killing-democracy
trump rescinds roadless rule, offers endangered species a fast lane to oblivion
An American black bear in Glacier National Park, thoughtfully considering which oil road will run through its living room first.
The Trump administration has decided America’s forests were just sitting there, failing to be monetized hard enough, so it’s scrapping the Clinton-era Roadless Rule that’s protected old-growth habitat for more than two decades. The rollback opens up over 45 million acres of national forests to roads, drilling, and logging, and conveniently puts 7.4 million acres of endangered-species habitat and nearly 1,800 miles of rivers and streams on the extinction express.
Officials are selling this as a plan to "improve forest health" and "reduce wildfire risk", because nothing says fire safety like bulldozing roads into intact ecosystems and inviting in chainsaws and oil rigs. According to the Center for Biological Diversity, more than 400 already-imperiled species — from grizzlies and gray wolves in the Rockies, to wild salmon in Alaska’s Tongass, to Mexican spotted owls and hellbenders in the south and south-west — just got a presidentially sanctioned shove toward disappearing forever. Also on the chopping block: clean drinking water for millions of people in places like Bozeman, Atlanta, Phoenix, Flagstaff, and Sitka.
So yes, under Trump, the national strategy appears to be: sacrifice biodiversity, worsen wildfire risk, jeopardize multi-billion-dollar fishing economies, and contaminate drinking water, all so a few companies can carve ruts through what’s left of the country. Forest management, they call it. The forests get managed, all right — straight into a ledger and then into the ground.
#anti-science#killing-democracy
trump wildfire czar allegedly discovers taxpayer-funded private fire department
Trump wildfire official heroically defends the most vulnerable community of all: his own 480-acre ranch.
The Trump administration’s approach to wildfire management has really crystallized: communities can burn, but the undersecretary’s ranch gets bottle service. Michael Boren, the Trump-appointed undersecretary of agriculture overseeing the US Forest Service, is facing calls for an investigation after multiple officials say he leaned on the agency to beef up the response to a small Idaho blaze that happened to be very close to his 480-acre ranch. While larger, more dangerous fires across the West scrambled for aircraft and crews, the seven-acre Cabin Creek fire in Sawtooth national forest reportedly enjoyed a response that firefighters describe as "more than you’d usually see" for something that wasn’t threatening life or property – unless you count one guy’s investment portfolio as a vulnerable ecosystem.
Democratic senators Ron Wyden, Amy Klobuchar, and Martin Heinrich are asking agriculture secretary Brooke Rollins why, during a record fire season, this one little campfire special got VIP treatment. They politely describe it as "inappropriate interference" and a "potential misuse of taxpayer funds" that may have diverted scarce resources from high-priority fires actually threatening communities. The USDA, naturally, has gone full mime on the senators’ letter, but previously insisted this is all a "non-story" and that Boren was just doing what any good citizen would do: repeatedly calling up the agency he runs to question why more aircraft weren’t protecting his personal acreage. Regular oversight, they call it. Everyone else calls it: your tax dollars at work, guarding the sacred right of Trump officials to never smell smoke on their own property while everyone else chokes on it.
#forever-grifting#corruption
trump discovers the 'because i said so' clause for federal money
Stock photo of a handshake symbolizing a federal grant, moments before an executive order saws the arm off at the elbow.
The Trump brain trust has a new idea: turn the entire federal grants system into his personal Patreon, where funding for cities and states can be canceled whenever he feels like it. NPR reports that new Trump-led proposals would let the administration yank federal grants on a whim, which just happens to be terrible news for blue cities and states. Total coincidence, of course. Just a routine update where the president gets a big red "CUT THEIR FUNDING" button and no one can stop him.
This isn’t budgeting, it’s a protection racket with letterhead. Governors and mayors who don’t clap hard enough? Kiss your infrastructure money goodbye. Public health programs in states that voted the wrong color? Oops, the faucet "malfunctioned." The whole point of federal grants is some semblance of predictable, rules-based governance; the whole point of this proposal is to replace that with vibes-based retribution from a guy who rage-posts at 3 a.m.
So yes, the new model of American federalism is: obey, flatter, or get defunded. The administration is quietly rewriting the fine print so that billions in federal support become conditional on political loyalty, not public need. Blue states built the tax base; Trump wants the power to decide who gets their own money back — and who gets a lesson in presidential payback.
#killing-democracy#fascism
pentagon tries to cancel its own ai vendor for insufficient worship of war
Pentagon officials carefully reviewing the First Amendment before tossing it directly into a shredder labeled “national security.”
The Trump Pentagon decided that if a private company won’t help build the robo-panopticon of its dreams, it can just be labeled a “supply chain risk” and exiled from billions in contracts. Anthropic’s crime? Saying Claude shouldn’t be used for domestic surveillance or autonomous weapons because the tech isn’t reliable and, minor detail, might violate people’s rights. Defense secretary Pete Hegseth took that as a personal insult and slapped the company with a designation usually reserved for foreign sabotage threats, then Trump jumped on social media to brand them a “radical left, woke company” for not wanting to strap ChatGPT’s weirder cousin to a drone.
Unfortunately for the cosplay authoritarians, a federal judge reminded them that the First Amendment still exists. Judge Rita Lin called the Pentagon’s move “illegal and baseless,” ruling that the government can’t just mumble “national security” like a magic spell and retaliate against critics. The court blocked Trump’s order banning federal use of Anthropic’s tools and overturned Hegseth’s stunt designation, which Anthropic said could have cost it billions and trashed its reputation. The Justice Department tried to argue this was all just a harmless contract dispute, not punishment for AI safety views — a claim the judge treated with the respect it deserved.
This was the first time a U.S. company has ever been publicly branded a supply-chain risk under an obscure procurement law, and naturally it happened because the administration wanted more surveillance and more autonomous weapons, and the vendor said, “Maybe don’t?” The Pentagon’s position is that private companies shouldn’t “constrain military action,” which is a poetic way of saying the government should be able to conscript your tech into the war machine or financially kneecap you. Anthropic still has a second lawsuit pending over a related designation that could block it from civilian contracts. Apparently, if you tell Trump’s Pentagon that your AI won’t help them spy on Americans or run killbots, they’ll do their best to delete you from the federal marketplace — and call it freedom.
#killing-democracy#lawlessness#forever-grifting
trump tries to rerig the mail again, judge hits 'return to sender'
USPS trucks lined up like they’re about to deliver democracy, while Trump keeps trying to mark everything ‘Return to Voter: Not Accepted.’
The Trump White House is once again treating the U.S. Postal Service like its own private ballot shredder, and yet another federal judge has had to step in and say, "No, you actually can't kneecap elections by memo." Judge Indira Talwani temporarily blocked the USPS from implementing a Trump-ordered plan to restrict mail-in voting, pointing out that dropping a legally-dubious new rule fewer than 70 days before the midterms is less "good governance" and more "democracy arson." States have already printed millions of ballots and, minor detail, are legally required to mail them out starting next week.
Yesterday, Talwani had reluctantly let USPS move forward after the Supreme Court wagged its finger and said the case was premature because nothing was finalized. So the Postal Service rushed out a formal plan on Friday like a teenager trying to finish their book report on the bus, instantly changing the legal stakes. Now, with three court decisions in under a week and a 14-day freeze on the rule, the administration’s dream of logistically sabotaging mail ballots before November is circling the drain. The judge politely translated the situation: forcing states to comply with a "likely unconstitutional" regulation they literally cannot implement in time is not election administration, it’s voter suppression cosplay with federal letterhead.
So yes, voters may be confused by the legal whiplash, but the administration’s odds of pulling off its last-minute ballot chokehold are shrinking by the day. The strategy appears to be: break the system, blame "fraud," then complain that the courts won’t let you break it fast enough. America’s mail service: still delivering, despite the guy in the Oval Office trying to turn it into a partisan dead-drop.
#killing-democracy#lawlessness
trump white house to covid: you first
The FDA approves new Covid vaccines while the Trump administration tries to make sure no one can figure out how to get them paid for.
The FDA just did its boring, competent job and approved updated Covid-19 vaccines targeting the dominant XFG variant. Moderna, Pfizer-BioNTech, and Novavax-Sanofi are ready to ship doses for the 2026-27 season, especially for seniors and people with health conditions. You know, the folks who actually die when a "little seasonal wave" hits.
Unfortunately, while the FDA is trying to keep people alive, the Trump-RFK Jr. brain trust is busy turning vaccine policy into a constitutional escape room. Last fall the administration quietly walked away from recommending Covid shots for everyone, leaving the CDC to mumble about "individual-based decision making" like a malpractice lawyer wrote the guidance. Then RFK Jr., now health secretary because of course he is, tried to stack the CDC vaccine advisory panel with his own handpicked anti-vax fan club — a move a judge blocked in March, freezing the panel in limbo.
That little authoritarian cosplay has consequences: without a functioning CDC vaccine panel, it’s not clear whether insurers are required to cover the updated shots. The system that was supposed to guarantee access is now waiting on whether Trump’s sabotage of public health bureaucracy accidentally kills coverage, not just people. Covid levels are low but rising, the vaccines are ready, and the only thing missing is a government that cares whether its citizens survive the winter.
#killing-democracy#anti-science
hostage situation at the kennedy center: nice arts memorial you got there
The Kennedy Center, moments before being declared structurally unsound unless someone carves TRUMP into the marble in 10-foot letters.
The Trump-appointed Kennedy Center board is back in court demanding the right to slap "renovated and restored by President Donald J. Trump" on the front of the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center and rebrand the grounds as "President Donald J. Trump Plaza" by Sept. 8, because nothing says nonpartisan national arts memorial like a giant campaign billboard. When U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper asked what was so special about that date, DOJ lawyer Brantley Mayers basically shrugged and said, "the board said so," which is always what you want to hear about a rushed rewrite of a national monument.
The judge then had the gall to ask why turning a presidential memorial into Trump Tower: Performing Arts Edition doesn’t violate federal appropriations rules against aggrandizing individuals. DOJ’s answer: it’s fine because they’re honoring Trump as president, not as Kennedy Center board chair. The judge gently noted that this was "cutting it a little fine"—legalese for "are you serious right now"—while considering putting the whole stunt on pause. This came days after DOJ helpfully suggested in a filing that if Trump’s name can’t go back up, the Kennedy Center might just have to be demolished, because apparently the marble will spontaneously disintegrate if it isn’t properly branded.
The board’s filing warns of a "financial and structural death spiral" without "prominent recognition" of Trump, helpfully clarifying that the building will become so unsafe it will "be required to be taken down" if donors are deprived of their required dosage of presidential ego. Attorneys for Rep. Joyce Beatty, an ex officio board member, translated the threat into plain English: "What a nice Kennedy Center you have here. What a shame should something happen to it." They argue the financial mess comes from slapping Trump’s name on the facade in the first place, and now the defendants are threatening to wreck a national memorial if they don’t get to re-emblazon it with Dear Leader’s name—twice.
Meeting minutes show Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick explaining that it’s "important to President Trump" that if he’s going to "put his time and effort" into the building and fundraising, he be recognized. Trump then appeared virtually, trashed prior management, promised a $257 million renovation in two years, and the board—Trump included—voted to honor his "current and future existential and unprecedented contributions" by renaming the front like a casino marquee. Beatty dryly noted that the renovation is actually funded by congressional appropriations, also known as taxpayers, and that Trump hasn’t successfully renovated anything yet. Lutnick, undeterred, told reporters that Trump is "the most credible person in the world" and that this is all just to "induce" and "entice" him, because he only enjoys two things: golf and building monuments to himself. American cultural heritage is now a loyalty test and a hostage note.
#corruption#killing-democracy
florida discovers medicaid is actually a republican pac
Ron and Casey DeSantis, bravely standing up for the right of Medicaid settlement dollars to pursue their true passion: funding Republican PACs.
Florida’s grand jury has concluded that Ron DeSantis’s administration “misappropriated” $10 million in taxpayer money from a Medicaid settlement, sent it through the Hope Florida Foundation – a charity conveniently linked to Casey DeSantis – and then “quickly funneled” it into two political action committees. Those PACs then spent the cash fighting a marijuana legalization ballot measure and padding the Republican Party of Florida. So yes, the safety net for low-income people and kids has officially been repurposed as a GOP slush fund.
The jurors describe a “sophisticated scheme to fund political activities” in which absolutely no one can remember who decided to send $10 million in public money to Hope Florida. Everyone involved apparently caught the same rare condition where you can approve eight figures of taxpayer cash but not recall basic details like who ordered it, why, or where it went. They still found “insufficient evidence” to charge anyone, which is a polite legal way of saying: we see the heist, we see the money trail, but the culprits all successfully role-played amnesiac houseplants.
DeSantis, naturally, says the only real crime is the leak of the report, insists the whole thing was “legally sound,” and claims there was “no diversion of any Medicaid funds” because it was just a private contribution that somehow emerged from a Medicaid settlement with a state contractor and then just happened to land in a foundation branded with his wife’s pet project. Casey DeSantis, we are assured, knew nothing – she just “championed” the initiative that conveniently sat at the center of the money pipeline.
Meanwhile, current attorney general and former DeSantis chief of staff James Uthmeier is named in the report as being in a “position of authority” over the settlement and involved in directing the money after it reached Hope Florida. His PAC, Keep Florida Clean – which is a delightful name for a fund allegedly rinsed with Medicaid settlement cash – was the “prime recipient of the majority” of the $10 million. Uthmeier now says he can’t comment, but assures everyone that if the report is true, it just proves nobody did anything wrong. Ashley Moody’s office signed off on the deal without doing basic due diligence, and now swears they had no idea how the money would be spent. The grand jury’s recommendation? Florida should pass a law saying state money has to go into General Revenue and that there should be actual consequences for violating it – a bold, experimental concept in a state currently operating under the honor system for people who demonstrably have none.
#corruption#forever-grifting
don jr discovers a revolutionary new asset class: dad
Donald Trump Jr, hard at work demonstrating how efficiently you can grow a venture fund once you cut out the middleman and invest directly in your father’s government.
Congressman Jamie Raskin would like to know how 1789 Capital went from "serially investing in total market flops" to suddenly nailing every company about to be showered with Trump administration money. The firm’s assets under management jumped from $150m in 2024 to $3.5bn by May 2026, shortly after it hired one (1) Donald Trump Jr as partner. Apparently the only thing this fund needed to beat the market was a direct bloodline to the guy signing the checks.
The miracle doesn’t stop at domestic grift. Roughly 40% of the cash is from foreign investors, who seem very excited to invest in a fund that just happens to buy into companies right before they get massive Pentagon loans, Commerce grants, or billion-dollar defense contracts. Vulcan Elements, an "unproven startup" that somehow scored a $620m Pentagon loan and a $50m Commerce grant, is one such beneficiary. Another is Anduril, run by Trump ally Palmer Luckey, which has seen billions in contracts while 1789 Capital quietly takes a stake and its friends land on the Defense Policy Board overseeing the very sector they’re profiting from. Regulatory capture is so 20th century; this is full vertical integration of the grift.
Trump, naturally, went on CNBC to brag that his kids have "inside information" because his policies touch every part of the economy, but insisted he tells them to "stay away"—which is a bold claim for a family that keeps showing up on the receiving end of federal money like it’s Amazon Prime. Don Jr, for his part, swears he only talks to his father every few weeks, never about business, and holds no official role in the administration. Just a private citizen whose fund keeps buying into companies right before dad’s government dumps hundreds of millions into them. Pure coincidence, say the people who have never once met a coincidence they couldn’t monetize.
#corruption#forever-grifting
georgia’s trump-backed nazi-adjacent senate campaign is going great
Mike Collins’s idea of a diverse coalition: interns who call themselves “twink fascists” and in-laws who boost Patriot Front, but don’t worry, it’s all just very ironic hate imagery.
Jon Ossoff is out here doing the bare minimum of basic democracy maintenance: pointing out that his Trump-backed opponent Mike Collins has a habit of collecting white nationalists the way other people collect Funko Pops. The latest addition to the Collins Extended Fascist Universe is Preston Parra, a 24-year-old ex-staffer who calls himself a “twink fascist” on X, posts swastikas, photos of himself in KKK robes, Nazi lyrics, the N-word, and “White Power” — and then insists it’s all just satire. Because when you’re totally not a white supremacist, you definitely say, “I do think that the white race contributes more to the world.”
Collins’s team responded with the usual GOP Mad Libs: the vile posts are condemned, the guy has “no affiliation” anymore, and actually the real problem is extremism from Jon Ossoff’s allies, somehow. What they skip over is Parra’s actual paper trail: intern in Collins’s office, then paid contractor for his leadership PAC, working with him right up until Collins launched his Senate run. When contacted for comment, Parra responded with a racial slur, because of course he did — really driving home the whole "misunderstood performance art" defense.
And this isn’t even a one-off. Collins’s son-in-law, David Alan Scheer II, is a white nationalist influencer who pushes Nazi and antisemitic content and Patriot Front propaganda while being registered to vote at a Collins-owned property and showing up in campaign photos and at the primary victory party. Georgia Republicans are starting to notice that when your orbit keeps coughing up neo-Nazis, Klan cosplay, and fascist cosplay groups marching with Confederate flags, maybe it’s not just a coincidence. As one conservative activist put it: you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas. The Trump wing of the GOP, however, appears to be working on a new slogan: "You lie down with Nazis, you get a Senate candidate."
#fascism#racism
trump declares war on cartographers, renames lake ontario
Trump gestures at a map while aides quietly Google “can the president legally rename an ocean.”
Donald Trump has signed an executive order to rename Lake Ontario as Lake America, because if there's one thing that will fix a spiraling trade war with Canada, it's aggressively rebranding shared bodies of water like a failing casino. He framed the move as payback for Canada "ripping us off" on trade and freeloading on defense, casually ignoring the actual mutual-defense treaties that exist in the grown-up world.
An unnamed administration official helpfully explained that most of the lake’s volume is in the US, so obviously Washington gets naming rights, like this is a condo association dispute and not international geography. This follows Trump’s earlier stroke of branding genius where he tried to turn the Gulf of Mexico into the "Gulf of America", because if you can't win policy fights, you can at least bully the map.
Trump then mused about maybe renaming the Atlantic and Pacific too, because once you’ve started scribbling on the globe with a Sharpie, where do you stop? Substantive governance continues to be on backorder, but the administration remains deeply committed to performative nationalism and turning the planet into a Trump-branded real estate brochure.
#full-stupid#trade-war#killing-democracy
trump’s iran war is so ‘winning’ the navy can’t afford payroll
US sailors in life vests, bravely standing watch while their paychecks are repurposed to keep Trump’s vanity war on layaway.
Trump’s big, beautiful war on Iran is going so spectacularly well that the US navy is now shaking its own couch cushions to make payroll. Internal Pentagon memos show the navy is literally raiding its own salary accounts to keep the blockade and bombing campaign going, then frantically "backfilling" the paychecks with whatever unspent change they can scrounge from other line items. You know it’s bad when a retired officer flatly says, “The piggy bank is broken,” and that’s the optimistic assessment.
While Trump poses as Commander-in-Deals, Iranian strikes have trashed US bases across the Middle East, munitions stockpiles are gutted, and non-emergency maintenance on shore facilities is being quietly pushed off into the magical future where wars are free and ships fix themselves. The administration’s solution? Pressure Congress for emergency cash to paper over a $35.7bn-and-counting boondoggle that voters already hate, while Pentagon civilians sit on the truth so Trump doesn’t look like he’s trading long-term readiness for a short-term Fox chyron.
Publicly, navy spokespeople insist everything is fine, resources are being “actively managed,” and readiness is totally not being sacrificed on the altar of Trump’s re-election cosplay. Privately, service leaders warned months ago they’d have to start gutting training, exercises, and routine ops to keep “Epic Fury” running. So the world’s most expensive military is now operating like a payday loan shop, rearranging congressionally restricted accounts to keep a politically radioactive war on life support. Fiscal conservatism, Trump-style: torch billions overseas, then pretend the fire is very strategic.
#imperialism#money#killing-democracy
america’s mental health crisis meets trump’s golf habit
Secret Service scans the fairway for threats while the biggest one is still holding the fundraiser inside.
A California judge has paused criminal proceedings against Jeanine John Taele, a former Marine arrested with a loaded gun, hollow‑point ammo, an illegally modified AR‑style rifle, body armor, and a fake "security protection agent" badge tied to Trump’s Los Angeles golf course fundraiser. Instead of fast‑tracking him into the "totally normal guy with lots of guns" pipeline, the court ordered a mental health evaluation after his lawyer said he couldn’t understand or participate in the hearing, and he showed up in a suicide‑prevention gown.
So the system that shrugs at massive civilian arsenals and endless war finally blinks when all that hardware and trauma wanders too close to a presidential tee time. Federal and local law enforcement are patting themselves on the back for preventing "what could have been a dangerous situation"—as though a president who spends half his life at luxury golf clubs isn’t already a walking security nightmare by design. The state will absolutely mobilize when the danger is pointed at Trump; when it’s pointed at the public, it’s just Tuesday in America.
#national-security#trumps-america
britain debates best way to handle the toddler with nukes
Keir Starmer performs emotional hostage diplomacy next to Trump, who is wondering if the United Kingdom is the one with the good resorts or the one with the nukes.
The UK is running a live experiment in Trump management styles. First we had Keir Starmer, who essentially offered Trump a second state visit before the introductory handshake was over, like a desperate Airbnb host comping the minibar. Trump pocketed the royal pageantry, mumbled through a few days of small talk, then went right back to publicly trashing him while Starmer clung to the "special relationship" like a hostage reading from cue cards.
Enter Andy Burnham, who once told Trump he wasn’t welcome in Manchester and, now that he’s prime minister, still basically stands by it with a resigned "shit happens". Rather than reheating the soggy flattery that Trump feeds on but never respects, Burnham’s going with a cold, transactional we’ll talk, then I’ll forget you exist approach. Trump, who calls him a "mayor of some town" and "extremely liberal" (MAGA for "communist goblin"), is about to meet an allied leader who isn’t auditioning to be his emotional support poodle.
The backdrop to this little diplomatic rom-com is Trump’s never-ending Iran adventure, which has jacked up global prices and somehow made even petrol sacred to Americans again. The world has now "priced in" his chaos: the foreign wars, the narcissism, the hole in his psyche that can’t be filled by any number of parades or state dinners. Burnham’s bet is that treating Trump like a volatile contractor instead of a sun king might actually work better—if only because it’s the closest thing to respect a sociopath president is capable of processing.
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