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The Epstein - Trump files coverup: missing files relating to Trump pedo allegations --
An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump. n.pr/4qTItsU
— NPR (@npr.org) February 24, 2026 at 5:11 AM
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Polls and economy tanking for the Malignant Fascist before his State of the Union --
To put this in perspective, Trump won noncollege (working class) voters by 56-43 in 2024. He's now utterly upside down with them at 41% approve to 58% disapprove. The MAGA coalition is falling apart.
— Greg Sargent (@gregsargent.bsky.social) February 24, 2026 at 8:07 AM
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NEW Strength In Numbers/Verasight poll: Ahead of SOTU, Trump's approval falls to new low of 37% — & just 20% among independents. Issue approval on immigration and deportations falls to new lows of -15, and voters say admin is spending on the wrong issues. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/ahead-of-s...
— G Elliott Morris (@gelliottmorris.com) February 24, 2026 at 7:00 AM
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WINKLER: “.. Small businesses are suffering record bankruptcies .. The agricultural economy is sliding .. Optimism about the economy is no different than in early 2020 .. “.. That's the true State of the Union in 2026.” @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) February 24, 2026 at 8:18 AM
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The Malignant Fascist's memecoin scam enriched his family, as retail value evaporates --
The Trump family fleecing suckers. It’s what they do.
— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) February 24, 2026 at 6:56 AM
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What could possibly go wrong with using Musk's AI for military applications? --
Grok insists my dissertation adviser was a man I've never met and says my first book won several prizes that don't even exist but I'm sure it'll work out fine to give it access to classified defense systems.
— Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) February 24, 2026 at 8:14 AM
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ICE trained officers to violate Constitutional rights contained in Fourth Amendment --
A revamped training program for ICE officers trains them to break the law and disrespect the constitution, ICE whistleblowers disclose. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/p...
— Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) February 24, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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The corporate grab begins for refunds from the MF's illegal tariffs --
The logistics and freight company is the first major U.S. firm to sue for tariff refunds after the Supreme Court deemed Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ levies as unlawful.
— Forbes (@forbes.com) February 24, 2026 at 5:50 AM
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Won't happen because Trump's a coward, and anyway Putin won't let him --
ZELENSKY: “I hope to come here with Trump one day, so he can see what this war is really about… Putin is this war — the cause of its beginning and the obstacle to its end.” Powerful message to the resilient 🇺🇦 people from their president. Full: x.com/zelenskyyua/...
— The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) February 24, 2026 at 8:59 AM
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Proud of Olympic gold medal women's hockey team. The misogynist men's team? Nah --
I’m so fucking proud of the Olympic gold-winning US women's hockey team for declining to attend Trump's stupid State of the Union address.
— JoJoFromJerz (@jojofromjerz.bsky.social) February 23, 2026 at 5:50 PM
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In his Substack column, Nobel laureate Paul Krugman discusses the ignorant Malignant Fascist's obsession with tariffs and his imagined power to levy them, despite its un-Constitutionality:
"In reality, by the time of the Supreme Court ruling, Trump’s assertion that tariffs are a magic elixir that solves all problems wasn’t convincing anyone. Independent voters disapproved of his tariff policy by a three-to-one margin. Accordingly, when the Court’s decision came down, some Democrats immediately worried that the ruling would help Trump politically, giving him an escape route from an unpopular and ineffectual policy. Here’s how G. Elliott Morris put it:
'As I see it, the Court, by striking down Trump’s tariffs, permitted him to defiantly retreat from one of his most unpopular policies; he could have simply blamed the judiciary and moved on.'"Yet he didn’t. Why?
"It has been clear from the beginning that a primary motivation for tariffs was that they empowered Trump personally. They allowed him to punish governments he didn’t like, demand subservience from other countries as the price of lower tariffs, and offer waivers and exemptions to companies that put money in his own pocket. And maybe Trump can’t bear the thought of losing that power." (our emphasis)
The point about offering using "waivers and exemptions" to tariffs for companies so that the MF could line his and his family's pockets is the single greatest motivator for him. Tariffs are a major tool for his extortion of companies and nations willing to pay bribes that benefit him and his corrupt family. For that reason, and because his megalomaniacal ego won't admit defeat, the tariff war will continue.
Jimmy Kimmel was back last night from a week off and had a lot of Trump-Epstein file distractions to cover. Once again, a full, honest, and funny/infuriating recap that you won't get from the compromised media. He includes a new feature "This Day in American History," inspired by Trump lickspittle FCC chair Brendan Carr.
Today marks the fourth anniversary of Trump puppet-master and war criminal Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was joined by seven prime ministers and four foreign ministers from European countries to show support for the country's fight against the imperial ambitions of Putin's Russia:
More than a dozen senior European officials were in the Ukrainian capital on Tuesday in a show of support on the fourth anniversary of Russia’s all-out invasion of Ukraine — a grim milestone in a war that has killed tens of thousands of people and put European leaders on edge about the scale of Moscow’s ambitions on the continent.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was defiant despite the devastating toll — insisting that Russia has not “broken Ukrainians” nor triumphed in the war.
Zelenskyy said his country has withstood the onslaught by Russia’s bigger and better equipped army, which over the past year of fighting captured just 0.79% of Ukraine’s territory, according to the Institute for the Study of War, a Washington-based think tank.
“Looking back at the beginning of the invasion and reflecting on today, we have every right to say: we have defended our independence, we have not lost our statehood,” Zelenskyy said on social media, adding that Russian President Vladimir Putin has “not achieved his goals.”
“He has not broken Ukrainians; he has not won this war,” Zelenskyy said. [snip]
The number of soldiers killed, injured or missing on both sides could reach 2 million by spring, with Russia sustaining the largest number of troop deaths for any major power in any conflict since World War II, a report last month from the Center for Strategic and International Studies estimated.
European leaders see their countries’ own security at stake in Ukraine amid concerns about Putin’s wider goals and has demanded its leaders be consulted in the ongoing U.S.-brokered talks.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz wrote on X that “for four years, every day and every night has been a nightmare for the Ukrainians — and not just for them, but for us all. Because war is back in Europe.”
“We will only end it by being strong together, because the fate of Ukraine is our fate,” he added...
Unfortunately, the Malignant Fascist and his regime don't see it that
way. The MF has the corrupt team of Witkoff and son-in-law Kushner happy to bargain
away Ukrainian land seized by the invaders for "peace," ignoring the lessons of the last 100 years about appeasing tyrants (except, we suppose, what's
expected of you when you're working for one). On the other hand, the American public strongly supports Ukraine in its fight against Russia, specifically that it shouldn't cede Donbas to Russia for "peace," as the Malignant Fascist would have them do.
So what high level
representative did the US send to the observation?
The only American listed among the official guests in Kyiv ceremonies was Lt. Gen. Curtis Buzzard, a U.S. officer who represents NATO in Ukraine.
Not even the US Ambassador or Li'l Marco could make it? Another sad milestone for Ukraine, as well as one for an America in decline and retreat.
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Psychotherapist Dr. John Gartner, appearing on the Daily Beast Podcast with Joanna Coles, talks about the deranged Malignant Fascist's mental decline and erratic behavior, his sundowning, all the symptoms of frontotemporal dementia, a degenerative disease that in Gartner's professional opinion has the MF in its grip:
As the brakes, the inhibitions, the self-awareness of the frontal lobe starts to deteriorate, people start to act out in aggressive and chaotic and impulsive ways that can be very dangerous, and gets very quickly out of control. [snip]
The worst possible deficit you could have is in someone who has control of the nuclear arsenal, who makes decisions about going to war or peace. And he's making these decisions in an arbitrary, confused and paranoid way. It's like the Queen of Hearts is in control of our military. [snip]
He has very little intellectual curiosity, very little capacity to concentrate, very little interest in anything, and anything having to do with the country. He's only interested in himself, aggrandizing himself, and putting his name on things, his picture on things.
But the Justice Department makes it particularly creepy because, of course, he's persecuting his enemies and shielding his friends and taking their name out of the Epstein files. And so, Big Brother's Justice Department. Justice is what Big Brother says it is." (our emphasis)
Gartner makes the point in the interview that in frontotemporal dementia, the manifestation is not in memory loss, as it would be with Alzheimer's disease, but in the behavior that's exhibited by the MF: the sundowning, verbal stumbles, rage and lack of impulse control. There will come a point when the decline will be so obvious that even his delusional cult will have to acknowledge his severe dementia.
BONUS: Armed trespasser shot and killed at the MF's Florida estate was a MAGAt disillusioned with the MF's Epstein - Trump files coverup. Can you hear the ice cracking underneath him?
The Epstein-Trump files coverup / redacted and buried, but not forgotten --
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— Susan 🌻💙🌊🌎🌳🐄🐖🐑🐓 (@susancr.bsky.social) February 23, 2026 at 9:20 AM
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— God (@thegodpodcast.com) February 21, 2026 at 3:10 PM
Virginia Giuffre's family to attend State of the Union as guests of House Democrats #Pinks www.wusa9.com/article/news...
— Kat 🕊️💙🦋🇺🇦🌻🌊🟧🟦🌈🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🎭💖 (@smith83k.bsky.social) February 23, 2026 at 9:07 AM
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Trump's pocket judge still in cover up mode --
Breaking: The Trump-appointed Judge Aileen Cannon has permanently blocked the release of special counsel Jack Smith's report on the classified documents case — saying releasing the report would be unfair to Trump and his co-defendants.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1.bsky.social) February 23, 2026 at 9:20 AM
Trump's weakness on verge of State of the Union address weave --
Enten: "Trump's net approval rating. Look at the pre-SOTU polls. Look at that -- negative 27 points! My goodness gracious. Compare that to where he was in 2020, 2019, and 2017 -- minus 10, way lower now. The bottom line is Donald Trump has never been weaker going into a State of the Union."
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) February 23, 2026 at 8:36 AM
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Trump's tariff "refunds" yet another swindle --
If retailers raised prices during tariffs, that doesn’t create a liability to each customer—it creates profit (or covers costs). So if or when tariff refunds arrive, the default outcome is: firms recoup, shoppers don’t. Bottom line: You aren't getting a penny back.
— Justin Wolfers (@justinwolfers.bsky.social) February 23, 2026 at 8:51 AM
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Trump's "bug eyed jackhole" FBI Director gets sloshed on your dime (btw, where are the Epstein files?) --
What expensive jet did Kash file there in? The bug eyed jackhole could not find a courtroom with a magnifying glass and a GPS device, but wedged his way into a hockey locker room in Italy.
— bmaz (@bmaz.bsky.social) February 22, 2026 at 10:17 PM
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The FBI Director, everyone. You paid for it.
— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) February 22, 2026 at 7:10 PM
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Kash Patel in 2023 slamming then FBI Head Chris Wray for using FBI jet for private events: “I’m just saying Chris Wray doesn’t need a government funded G5 jet to go to vacation. Maybe we ground that plane. $15,000 every time it takes off. Just a thought.” Now he takes OUR jet everywhere to party!
— Dean Obeidallah (@deanobeidallah.bsky.social) February 23, 2026 at 8:12 AM
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The reason we're here is that tens of millions of people will punch a hole in a wall if they hear someone used food stamps to buy soda but they're fine if the right-wing podcaster turned fbi director uses his taxpayer funded private jet to go party whenever he feels like it bsky.app/profile/thed...
— Adam Serwer (@adamserwer.bsky.social) February 22, 2026 at 6:01 PM
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Trump's domestic terrorist organization and J6 insurrectionists --
The Venn diagram between ICE agents and Jan6ers is a big ass circle.
— Big Lord Bunny (@ceepain.bsky.social) February 23, 2026 at 10:05 AM
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"Leopards ate my face" party voter FAFO --
face-eating leopards yada yada yada www.nj.com/mosaic/2026/...
— Will Bunch (@willbunch.bsky.social) February 22, 2026 at 4:52 PM
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Earthlings' retirement plans? --
My retirement plan
— Todd [REDACTED] (@toddlambert.com) February 22, 2026 at 3:40 PM
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After the Supreme Court struck down his unlawful tariffs under the International Economic Emergency Powers Act, the mentally disturbed Malignant Fascist -- never one to accept defeat -- is pushing forward on temporary, widespread tariffs of 15% under another act. Data journalist G. Elliott Morris writes in his Strength In Numbers that the MF has picked the worst issues for him to continue fighting: tariffs (taxes of course) and flouting judicial rulings that he disagrees with:
"At a press conference, Trump called the majority justices — including three conservatives and two of his own appointees — a “disgrace to our nation” and his appointees “an embarrassment to their families.” The president announced new temporary tariffs of 10% on all imports via an obscure provision of a 1974 law, and then upped the rate to 15% via a post on his social media app. As of writing, a judge has not weighed in on the legality of these new taxes. Trump’s many other uses of emergency powers are in jeopardy, too.
But let’s focus on the narrow analytical question of how this will play with the public. In attacking the Court and doubling down on unpopular tariffs, the president has blundered a major political gift for the sake of ideology and a blind pursuit of his trade war. As I see it, the Court, by striking down Trump’s tariffs, permitted him to defiantly retreat from one of his most unpopular policies; he could have simply blamed the judiciary and moved on.
Instead, Trump put himself on the wrong side of two issues where supermajorities oppose him: tariffs, and obeying rulings by American judges." (our emphasis)
Morris point out that the MF is underwater by 19 points on the tariff issue, and that 82% of Americans say the MF must obey court rulings (including 76% of Republicans), but has chosen to ignore public opinion which is strongly against him. In these actions, the more he shows his authoritarian fascism to the public, the better the chances for Dems to expand their power.
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Sparky the Penguin has some great ideas about what a Presidential candidate should do from day one in office. Number one would be accountability for the many MAGAt monsters who have violated their duty to the Constitution and committed crimes, as well as erasing all of the narcissistic Malignant Fascist's memorials to himself and taxing billionaires to fund Federal programs and reduce the tax burden on working families. Sounds like a good platform to run on.
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The Milan Cortina Olympics ended Sunday as the twin flames in co-host cities Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo were extinguished during a closing ceremony inside the ancient Verona Arena, roughly mid-distance between the far-flung mountain, valley and city venues that made these the most spread-out Winter Games ever.
In declaring the 2026 Games over, International Olympic Committee President Kirsty Coventry told local organizers that they “delivered a new kind of winter games and you set a new, very high standard for the future.”
The next Winter Games will be held in neighboring France, which received the Olympic flag in the official handover earlier in the ceremony. Following the same spread-out model, the 2030 Winter Games will stage events in the Alps and Nice, on the Mediterranean Sea, while speedskating will be held either in Italy or the Netherlands.
A total of 116 medal events were held in eight Olympic sports across 16 disciplines, including the debut of ski mountaineering this year, over the course of 17 days of competition. With the final events wrapping up just hours before the ceremony, the 50-kilometer mass start men’s and women’s cross country medals were awarded by Coventry inside the Arena. [snip]
The Milan Cortina Games spanned an area of 22,000 square kilometers (8,500 square miles), from ice sports in Milan to biathlon in Anterselva on the Austrian border, snowboarding and men’s downhill in Valtellina on the Swiss border, cross-country skiing in the Val di Fiemme north of Verona and women’s downhill, curling and sliding sports in co-host Cortina d’Ampezzo.
The closing ceremony concluded with the Olympic flames extinguished at the unprecedented two caldrons in Milan and Cortina, viewed in Verona via video link. A light show substituted fireworks, which are not allowed in Verona, to protect animals from being disturbed.
The Milan Cortina Paralympics’ opening ceremony will also take place in the Verona Arena, on March 6, and the Games will run until March 15. (our emphasis)
We didn't watch some of the Games; like most people (we suspect) we had favorite events that we followed. But what we saw was top notch. Kudos to Italy for putting on a safe, well-organized, beautiful Winter Olympics. Bravo!
Arab and Muslim nations on Saturday sharply condemned comments by the U.S. ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, who said Israel has a right to much of the Middle East.
Huckabee made the comments in an interview with conservative commentator Tucker Carlson that aired Friday. Carlson said that according to the Bible, the descendants of Abraham would receive land that today would include essentially the entire Middle East, and asked Huckabee if Israel had a right to that land.
Huckabee responded: “It would be fine if they took it all.” Huckabee added, however, that Israel was not looking to expand its territory and has a right to security in the land it legitimately holds.
His comments sparked immediate backlash from neighboring Egypt and Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and the League of Arab States.
Saudi Arabia’s foreign ministry described Huckabee’s comments as “extremist rhetoric” and “unacceptable,” and called for the State Department to clarify its position on them.
Egypt’s foreign ministry called his comments a “blatant violation” of international law, adding that “Israel has no sovereignty over the occupied Palestinian territory or other Arab lands.”
“Statements of this nature — extremist and lacking any sound basis — serve only to inflame sentiments and stir religious and national emotions,” the League of Arab States said... (our emphasis)
Send a fundamentalist Baptist preacher with no diplomatic experience to be Ambassador to Israel and this is the embarrassment you get. Dangerous.
The US and Canada urged their citizens in parts of Mexico to shelter in place on Sunday as a Mexican cartel retaliated for the death of its leader. [snip]
In videos shared online, burning vehicles and plumes of smoke could be seen rising from Puerto Vallarta and other cities in Mexico.
The US Embassy in Mexico said in a statement on its website that no airports have been closed, but most domestic and international flights were canceled in both Guadalajara and Puerto Vallarta. All ride-sharing services are suspended in Puerto Vallarta, the embassy said.
Puerto Vallarta media reported that cars near a Costco and several other stores were set on fire. Costco did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.
Flights already on their way to the region from the US turned around, and Air Canada said it was suspending operations to Puerto Vallarta on Sunday and Monday.
"While no airports have been closed, roadblocks have impacted airline operations, with some domestic and international flights canceled in both Guadalajara and Puerto Vallarta," the US State Department said. "Seek shelter and remain in residences or hotels."
Flights to Mexico City, Edmonton, Houston, Minneapolis/Saint Paul, Denver, Detroit, and Toronto were canceled on early Monday morning, per the Puerto Vallarta Airport. [snip]
The Mexican government said the retaliatory violence came after it killed Nemesio "El Mencho" Oseguera Cervantes, the leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, on Sunday.
The State Department announced last week that it had sanctioned Kovay Gardens — a Mexican timeshare resort — and 17 other companies and five individuals linked to "timeshare fraud schemes" organized by the Jalisco cartel.
"Many of these individuals and entities are based in or near Puerto Vallarta, a popular tourist destination that also serves as a strategic stronghold for CJNG," a press release from the Treasury Department said.
In 2024, the US State Department said it would pay a reward of up to $15 million for information leading to the arrest and/or conviction of Cervantes. The department said that under Cervantes, the cartel has killed rival trafficking groups and law enforcement.
We hope Mexico had a follow up plan for quelling the violence that was inevitably going to follow the Cervantes' killing. The reach of these cartels in Mexico is jaw-dropping.
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Though 65 million light-years may seem like a huge distance — the light that Webb collected to create this image has been journeying to us from NGC 5134 since soon after Tyrannosaurus rex went extinct — NGC 5134 is fairly close by as far as galaxies go. Because of the galaxy’s relative proximity, Webb can spot incredible details in its tightly wound spiral arms.
Webb’s Mid-InfraRed Instrument (MIRI) collects the mid-infrared light emitted by the warm dust that speckles NGC 5134’s interstellar clouds, tracing clumps and strands of dusty gas. Some of the dust is composed of complex organic molecules called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, which feature interconnected rings of carbon atoms and provide a way for astronomers to study the chemistry happening in interstellar clouds. Webb’s Near-InfraRed Camera (NIRCam) records shorter-wavelength near-infrared light, mostly from the stars and star clusters that dot the galaxy’s spiral arms.
Together, the MIRI and NIRCam data paint a portrait of a galaxy in constant ebb and flow. The gas clouds that billow along NGC 5134’s spiral arms are the sites of star formation, and each star that forms chips away at the galaxy’s supply of star-forming gas. When stars die, they recycle some of that gas back into the galaxy. Massive stars more than about eight times the mass of the Sun do so spectacularly, in cataclysmic supernova explosions that spread stellar material across hundreds of light-years.
Stars like the Sun give back some of their material as well, though more gently; these stars will balloon into bubbling red giants before shrugging off their atmospheres and sending them into space. Whether expelled by explosive supernovae or gentle red giants, this gas can then be incorporated into new stars.
This give and take between gas and stars is the focus of the observing programme (#3707) for which these images were taken. This programme aims to study 55 galaxies in the nearby Universe that are actively forming new stars and have been studied across a broad range of wavelengths. The new Webb data contribute a rich understanding of individual star clusters and star-forming clouds and have already been used to study the life cycle of tiny dust grains, the shape and properties of star-forming clouds, the links between interstellar gas and dust, and the process by which newly formed stars reshape their surrounding environment.
By using Webb to study the infrared light nearby galaxies like NGC 5134 whose stars and gas can be seen in detail, astronomers can apply their knowledge to galaxies too distant to be observed so closely — like those that are scattered in the background of this image, barely more than points of light.
[Image Description: A spiral galaxy, seen tilted diagonally. It has a blue-white, glowing spot at its core. Its oval-shaped disc glows faintly blue throughout with light from its many stars. The disc is filled with waves and strands of bright red dust that swirl around the core. At places there are holes torn in the dust, while elsewhere it forms dense clumps that glow orange. Several tiny, distant galaxies appear across the background.]
Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, A. Leroy
The owner of a Donald Trump-themed hamburger restaurant chain in Texas is facing deportation after immigration authorities under the command of the president detained him.
Roland Mehrez Beainy, 28, entered the US as “a non-immigrant visitor” from Lebanon in 2019 and was supposed to have left the country by 12 February 2024, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) spokesperson told the Guardian.
Citing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Texas’s Fayette County Record newspaper reported that Beainy applied for legal status after purportedly wedding a woman – but the agency maintained there is no proof he ever lived with her during the alleged marriage.
Ice said its officers arrested Beainy on 16 May – five years after he launched the first of multiple Trump Burger locations – and placed him into immigration proceedings, an agency statement said. [snip]
In remarks to the Houston Chronicle, Beainy denied Ice’s charges against him, saying: “Ninety percent of the shit they’re saying is not true.” He is tentatively scheduled for a hearing in immigration court on 18 November.
Trump Burger gained national attention after Beainy opened the original location in Bellville, Texas, in 2020, the same year Trump lost his bid for a second presidential term to Joe Biden. Replete with memorabilia paying reverence to Trump as well as politically satirical menu items targeting his enemies, Beainy’s chain expanded to other locations, including Houston... (our emphasis)
We don't know what's happened in this case to the not-brainy Beainy and, frankly, we don't care.
All the Trump Burger locations are closed as of last October. Sad!
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"I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is the best policy." -- George Washington, born on this day in 1732. A Founding Father and our first President's view thus stands in direct opposition to the beliefs of the "thing" Americans voted into office twice -- a dishonest, criminal, evil person to his core who, as one yardstick, has told many tens of thousands of lies during his time on Earth (30,573 alone in his first term). Washington famously declined to run for a third term, setting a tradition that was observed until FDR, and is now enshrined in the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution (something, like honesty, the MF has no interest in or respect for). As one of the most researched of American presidents, Washington's strengths and flaws have been written about by numerous historians and biographers. But most can agree that he set a standard of integrity, courage, resolve and honesty that we are sorely missing in our "leaders" today.
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