Know The Facts and ...

Here's some information, some facts, of what's happening in this country and what  we want, what we’re getting, and how do we make our needs heard …

An ICE officer walked up to a Southwest gate at a Dallas airport and said he needed to board the plane. The gate agent asked a simple question:

“Do you have a warrant signed by a judge?”

He replied ‘No,’ but said he had an administrative warrant—a form ICE fills out for itself. It is not a judicial warrant and does not give an officer the right to walk down a jet bridge.

So the agent said, ‘No.’ The ICEstapo asked for the passenger list and was again told, ‘No.’ He asked to look at the computer screen while people boarded, so he could see the names himself. No again.

Three refusals. He left without an arrest.

Here's what makes this matter beyond one flight. The ICEstapo counts on people not knowing the difference between the two kinds of warrants. That confusion is the tool. It is how doors get opened that don't legally have to be opened.

One person at a gate knew the difference and acted on it, alone, mid-shift, with no lawyer standing behind them and no guarantee anyone would ever hear about it.

That's not a small thing. That's the whole thing. Know your rights.

That’s The Resistance.

Here’s a quick message to all sane Republicans and I know you’re out there:

He pardoned 1600 violent criminals and you said nothing.

He bulldozed the East Wing and you said nothing.

He interfered with the release of the Epstein Files and you said nothing.

He took over the Kennedy Center and named it after himself and you said nothing.

He accepted a $400 million gift from a  foreign government and you said nothing.

He threatened Canada, Cuba, Denmark, Greenland, Colombia, Venezuela and Brazil and you said nothing.

He tariffed just about everyone but Russia, causing inflation and instability worldwide and you said nothing.

He attacked a nation during mediated negotiations and you said nothing.

His ill-conceived war killed 175 children on day one and you said nothing.

He alienated and insulted our allied and you said nothing.

His ICEstapo terrorized and murdered US citizens and you said nothing.

He committed murder on the high seas and you said nothing.

He co-opted the Department of Justice and directed it to prosecute his enemies and you said nothing.

It’s time you start talking.

Attorney General Todd Blanche AKA the President’s Personal Attorney said:

“I’m not sure of the uproar of having Border Patrol or ICE at a polling station. What’s the risk?”

Here’s the answer, Todd:

Because it’s illegal. Federal statute 18 U.S.C. § 592 prohibits deploying “troops or armed men” to locations where elections are held, to prevent interference and intimidate.

You’d think the so-called Attorney General would know that.

Now, let’s talk about the GOP and their campaign of fear regarding transgender athletes and show some facts:

There are more active Ku Klux Klan chapters in this country than there are trans athletes.

There have been more child marriages in this country this year than there are trans athletes.

There have been more school shootings in America in 2026 than there are trans athletes.

There are more antigovernment extremist groups in almost every single state in this country than there are trans athletes.

It’s not trans athletes; it’s fear mongering and hate speech.

And the lies don’t stop … Cankles is taking credit for the cost of prescription drugs prices falling 3.1%, the biggest drop since 1963 but … Medicare’s first negotiated drug prices kicked in this year, cutting prices on 10 major drugs by 38% to 79% because of ...

Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act.

A law that not one single Republican voted for and yet they are taking credit.

 

Jeff Bezos, one of the richest men in the world, wants YOU—not me because I don’t buy anything from  Amazon—to tip his employees during these hot summer months.

I guess $40 to $80 million a day doesn’t buy as many bottles of water as we thought.

EAT THE RICH!

 

So, if it’s safe to mail Tax Refunds, Social Security Checks, Stimulus Checks, Prescription Drugs, Passports, Driver’s Licenses or the actual ID that you need to vote, then why isn’t is safe to Vote By Mail?

Asking for a country.

 

I understand why people are having such a hard time deciding which party to vote for in the Midterms.

I mean, the Democrats may have disappointed you.

And then with Republicans you have Child-Raping Murderers running Concentration Camps with our Tax Dollars draining the US Treasury directly into their Offshore Bank Accounts while making the Planet uninhabitable and the Food Poisonous.

It’s a real Sophie’s Choice, isn’t it?

So Vote as if ...

Your skin is not white 

You need medical care 

Your spouse is an immigrant 

Your land is on fire 

Your child is transgender

Your home is flooded

Your sister is a victim of gun violence 

Your brother is gay 

Your water is unsafe 

Your daughter is a sexual assault survivor 

Privilege has no place in elections but empathy does.

And this is your reminder that no federal election in the United States has ever been canceled or postponed due to war or any other reason.

The US Constitution does not grant any President any authority to unilaterally delay or cancel a federal election.

Period.

The Funny Papers

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The Funny Papers

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The Funny Papers

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The Resistance At Work

I found this past week fairly interesting, between those who spoke out against the regime, and Cankles own inept, lie-filled "speech" last week, but let's focus on the Truth Tellers, those who are standing up ...

This week Elizabeth Oyer, a former DOJ Pardon Attorney, testified before the Senate against Todd Blanche's nomination for attorney general about how he fired her after she refused to "rubber stamp" a dangerous political favor for Cankles:

"Two days after Mr. Blanche was confirmed as Deputy Attorney General, he fired me from my position as the department's career pardon attorney. I declined to rubber stamp a political favor for a friend of the president, and it cost me my job. Mr. Blanche's office had asked me to recommend restoring the gun ownership rights of a convicted domestic abuser [Mel Gibson]. I raised concerns about public safety, but Mr. Blanche's staff pressured me to go along anyway. I did not. Domestic violence is the leading type of homicide among women. When a domestic abuser is armed, his victim is five times more likely to be killed. But because this particular domestic abuser had a personal relationship with the President, Mr. Blanche's staff asked me to set aside my concerns. When I wouldn't, Mr. Blanche fired me within hours."

Gibson pleaded guilty to misdemeanor battery in 2011 after his romantic partner Oksana Grigorieva accused him of hitting her and their daughter, whom she was holding in her arms at the time. She also revealed that he punched her in the mouth, breaking her teeth, and was verbally abusive on numerous phone calls.

And, well, since we know that Cankles also abuses women, and is an adjudicated rapist, he saw a kindred spirit in Gibson.

Oyer continued:

"[Blanche] then took extraordinary measures to silence me. He sent U.S. marshals to my home in an effort to prevent me from speaking with members of Congress. I was shocked to hear Mr. Blanche's testimony about this yesterday. What he said about my firing is provably false. His claim that it had nothing to do with the concerns I raised is contradicted by documents and evidence. His claim that he tried to call me before sending marshals to my home is flat-out false. His claim that it is normal for DOJ to use armed law enforcement officers to deliver mail to the homes of its former employees is preposterous. The casual lies that Mr. Blanche tells, even while sitting in this chair, testifying to this committee are emblematic of a much larger problem."

The problem, of course, is that Todd Blanche is utterly immoral and works only for the president and not for We The People; he doesn't believe in the rule of law for the president, for domestic abusers like Mel Gibson, or even for himself. He wants power and like so many on the right he will do whatever his racist rapist con artist boss demands of him.

He should not be allowed anywhere near the Department of Justice and good on Elizabeth Oyer for standing up to Blanche and his thug boss.

Georgia Democrat Senator Jon Ossoff proved himself more than capable of taking on Cankles and his criminal regime and his inept appointees, like Jay Clayton, the nominee for Director of National Intelligence who refused to admit that Cankles lost the 2020 election.

"Who won the 2020 election?"

Clayton, the current U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, didn't disappoint and showed himself to be a Cankles lapdog.

"Umm... You know, I'm not, I'm not gonna do this with you."

"This is a job interview! We've established that you have an obligation to be honest and forthright with the committee. [Do you] have an obligation to be honest and forthright with the committee?"

"Yes."

"Who won the 2020 election?"

"Like I said, I'm not, I'm not going to get into that with you."

"But you do have an obligation to be honest and forthright with the committee?"

"Is anything that I just said not honest or forthright?"

"Yes, you're not being honest or forthright. Who won the 2020 election?"

"I think I've answered the question. We can keep doing this."

"Well, we're going to keep doing it because you're not being honest and forthright."

"I'm not going to engage in the theater."

"It's a simple question, Mr. Clayton. Who won the 2020 presidential election?"

"I've answered it."

"You're here asking for the support of senators to lead America's intelligence community. We've established that you have an obligation to be honest and forthright with this committee and with the American public, but you refuse to answer a simple matter of fact about the 2020 election. Is that right?"

"No, that's not right."

"Then answer the question! Who won the 2020 election?"

"I have answered the question."

"Answer it. What is your answer?"

"I've given you my answer."

"What is your answer? You refuse to answer a basic question about who won a presidential election, but you asked to lead America's intelligence community. Isn't it humiliating to be unable to answer this question, to have to indulge the President's delusions? We know, you know, everybody in this room knows the truthful answer to that question. Why can you not give it?"

"I think I gave you the answer."

This man wants to serve as the most powerful intelligence official in our entire national security organization and het he is so in fear of angering an 80-year-old toddler that he can’t answer a simple question.

His brazenness is rooted in a confidence that Republicans, also living in fear of angering a demented doddering asshat, will choose partisan interests over national ones. He knows that the GOP will vote to confirm him no matter what he does or doesn't say.

If he gets this job he will begin to enact Cankles’ fascist, criminal agenda and anyone, on either side of the aisle, should be voted out of office at the first opportunity.

When JD Vance's old "childless cat ladies" insult went viral during the 2024 campaign, Amanda McGonigle of Massachusetts decided to fight back by starting an Instagram account called CatsOnACouch and then what happened to her …

The account was mostly cat pictures to mock the Vice President. Her mission was to troll JD every day and rack up more followers than he has and nearly 2 million followers later, she's about a million short of that goal.

On May 14, Vance flew to Bangor, Maine, to tout his anti-fraud task force and Amanda McGonigle registered to attend, following every instruction the White House sent and subsequently receiving confirmation from Vance's own office along with event materials.

At the airport, waiting in line, five-armed Secret Service agents approached, called her by name and pulled her, and her friend, out of the line and informed her that the event was suddenly "private" and told her:

"We know where you stand."

Let that sink in; the US Secret Service, which exists to stop assassins, was assigned to monitor a cat account.

The ACLU of Maine filed suit naming the Executive Office of the President and the Secret Service. The complaint calls it what it is: viewpoint discrimination, First Amendment retaliation at a taxpayer-funded public event, closed to one citizen because of her jokes. Even the ACLU's lawyers got into it, calling her social media posts "purr-tected speech," and the puns did not stop there.

McGonigle isn't blinking either, noting that it's well within her rights to say:

"I think JD Vance is an unlikeable idiot."

Oddly enough the Secret Service declined to comment and so did the White House. But it’s not all funny. This administration has a pattern of using federal power against its critics, and this is what that pattern looks like at street level: armed agents, a watchlist with a cat lady's name on it, a public event that turns "private" the moment someone who laughed at JD shows up. Oh, and remember, JD Vance coined "childless cat ladies" so he created his own nemesis with his own mouth.

Amanda McGonigle was a million followers short of catching JD Vance when the Secret Service pulled her out of that line and that may have just closed the gap for her.

She’s one person closer with my follow.

In the wake of the horrifying murders of three innocent migrants at the hands of the ICEstapo, the Cankles regime has released their popagandists Flying Monkeys to smear the victims and justify their actions.

Lydia Moynihan, a correspondent for the New York Post, was sent on CNN to do verbal battle with former GOP strategist turned Democrat Ana Navarro, and it did not go well for her. She began by saying:

“[Cankles] feels very keenly in folks in his administration that he was elected to do this. He was elected because people wanted deportations. And I think it's important when we talk about this issue to provide the context because they see every day that passes if we aren't deporting potentially unvetted illegal criminals that—”

Navarro stopped her:

“THEY’RE NOT CRIMINALS!  He had a LEGAL permit to be in the country, and he was not a criminal, and over 70 % of the people that are getting deported and detained do not have criminal records! So be careful with your words and be accurate on national TV!”

“My point is that—”

“You’re lying!”

The moderator stepped in at this point to prove that Moynihan was, in fact, lying,

“In the two cases that we're talking about here, you have one individual who had no criminal record, who'd been in the country for 35 years, had never had an interaction with law enforcement, and he was not the target. In Maine, you had somebody, we actually don't know what his immigration status was, but we do know that he had a work permit and he had a Social Security number that issued. And Anna is correct, that most of the arrests that are being made are people who do not have criminal records.”

That’s The Resistance.

Shut them down. Shut down the lies. Stop the people who are defending the actions of the most heinous, morally reprehensible acts of fascistic violence committed on behalf of a demented pedophile.

Be the whistleblower or the sitting US Senator, or the cat lady, or the political commentator, or just a citizen with a voice … Stand up! Speak up!