Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Reboot?

Another TV reboot?  I have not been waiting for this one.  DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES.  I managed to avoid it until the very end when they finally found a Black woman for the cast -- Vanessa Williams.   Seasons seven and eight.  Alfre Woodard was a regular in season two but they really didn't do anything with the character.  Vanessa's Rene was integrated into the show.  I didn't mind Terri Hatcher.  Didn't have a problem with Nicolette Sheridan but Felicity Huffman was annoying as hell.  


The star, who played Gaby on all eight seasons, previously said she'd be "the first one to sign up for a reboot," but thinks the show's creator needs convincing.

Eva Longoria is ready to return to Wisteria Lane — except for one small problem.

"I can't sleep with any more people on that street. I have slept with every person on the street, as did Nicolette Sheridan," Longoria joked on Monday's episode of Watch What Happens Live.

The Desperate Housewives actress previously stated that she'd be "the first to sign up for a reboot," so host Andy Cohen asked who would need "the most convincing" to join her.


Do we really need this reboot?  At the end, weren't all the White -- Anglo and Latino -- actresses fighting with one another?  

What shows would you like to see reboot?

I could go with a FRINGE reboot.  I feel like Anna and Joshua's characters wrapped up.  So maybe a FRINGE reboot where a new team is led by Astrid?

I could go with a NIKITA reboot.  

Sitcom wise, how about a HAPPY ENDINGS reboot.  


Going out with C.I.'s "The Snapshot:"


Tuesday, April 29, 2025.  Donald Chump continues to attack US citizens and immigrants and appears determined to see that someone gets popped in an ICE action, Pete Hegseth takes another belt as he remains Secretary of Defense, a MAGA liar needs to be exposed, and much more. 



Starting with the deeply unpopular Donald Chump, Kate Plummer (NEWSWEEK) reports:

President Donald Trump's approval rating among Hispanics has declined, new polling has revealed.

According to a new CNN poll, the proportion of Hispanic Americans who approve of the Republican has dropped by 13 percent since February, while a second poll has also suggested growing discontent among that group of the electorate.
Hispanic voters were integral in securing Trump the keys to the White House for a second time. While the demographic traditionally lean Democratic, Trump increased his share of the Hispanic vote from 16 percent in 2016 to 42 percent in 2024.


Of course it's declined.  Look at how he's terrorizing the immigrant community.  And then look at how he's terrorizing American citizens who are Latinos.  

And how he's putting everyone at risk -- the people being targeted as well as the ICE agents he's using.  From Ava and my "Media: Dangerous rip offs:"


They're being held like animals in cages with the exception that we'd demand much better conditions for animals.  This is repelling people, this reality of what Chump is actually doing. 

Again, nothing really happens in THE STUDIO but, in THE PLAYER, someone gets murdered.

Is that what's going to finally bury Chump's immigration plans?




The Trump administration has secretly allowed immigration agents to invade homes without a warrant for over a month, according to a leaked internal memo.

The memo, obtained by USA Today and issued by Attorney General Pam Bondi March 14, orders Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials to break into the homes of suspected members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua without a warrant.

It stated that ICE can curb the “proactive procedures” put in place to obtain a warrant, since they “will not always be realistic or effective in swiftly identifying and removing alien enemies.”


Is someone going to have to die to stop this policy?  If so, is it an ICE official that's going to get popped?

Grasp that this is the United States and guns are nearly as common as cell phones.  Also remember that 46 of the country's fifty states have open carry laws.  How many more warrantless kidnappings are going to take place?  And at what point is some concerned citizen seeing some woman like Rumeysa Ozturk being accosted on the street by people with no badges, no uniforms but maybe wearing masks -- at what point is some concerned citizen going to think these are mobsters trying to kidnap a woman off the street?

And if they shoot and kill an ICE agent, exactly what defense does the government think they can mount then?

Or maybe the ICE agent doesn't get killed.  Maybe they unload on the concerned citizen and kill that person on the street?

There are reasons that apprehension policies are in place.  There are reasons that require the police to identify themselves. 

Chump has tossed aside all legal requirements and those requirements exist not only to protect citizens, they also exist to protect law enforcement.  He's endangering everyone with his recklessness.

Someone is likely to get popped in one of these extralegal assignments Chump is carrying out.  When there's that kind of blood on his hands, what's Chump's defense going to be?



Secretary of State Marco Rubio forgot the Gospel According to Donald Trump on Sunday by admitting that anyone on U.S. soil is entitled to a fair hearing before being removed from the country.

“Yes, of course,” Rudio said in response to the host’s question of whether the Fifth Amendment still applies under Trump during his morning interview with MSNBC. “That’s what the law says!”

Perhaps conscious of having contradicted the latest White House statements and directives on the matter, he then scrambled to tell the network that “if you’re in this country illegally, you have no right to be here and you must be removed.”


If you are in the country with no right to be here?  That's a legal determination and it's why we have immigration courts. 

Instead, we have King Chump Dump circling the toilet and showing how heartless he can be.  Coach D explains it in the video below.


So, yes, Hispanic support for Chump is declining and will only continue to decline.  It's a direct result of Chump's policies. 




Border Czar Tom Homan and White House Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced Trump's latest anti-immigrant measures on Monday, Trump's 99th day in office.Andrew Leyden/ZUMA
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President Donald Trump is continuing to prioritize his anti-immigration agenda despite multiple polls in recent days showing that most Americans disapprove of it.

On Monday, the White House announced that Trump will sign two executive orders, one directing Attorney General Pam Bondi and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem to draw up a list of sanctuary cities and states that are not complying with the federal government’s deportation orders, and another that will boost law enforcement capabilities to arrest immigrants.

At an early morning briefing alongside border czar Tom Homan, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt tried to justify the plan by reiterating the administration’s go-to—and false—trope that undocumented immigrants disproportionately commit crimes in the US. “It’s quite simple,” Leavitt said. “Obey the law, respect the law, and don’t obstruct federal immigration officials and law-enforcement officials when they are simply trying to remove public safety threats from our nation’s communities.” (In reality, research shows undocumented immigrants commit crimes at lower rates than US citizens.) The orders come just days after a federal judge blocked federal officials from carrying out a previous threat to withhold funding from 16 sanctuary jurisdictions.

Also on Monday, the White House debuted a set of lawn signs that appeared to highlight undocumented people who have been arrested since Trump’s return to power. The White House account on X posted a video of the signs set to Michael Bublé’s rendition of Nina Simone’s song “Feeling Good.” (A representative for Bublé—who is Canadian and has spoken out against Trump’s desire to annex the country as a 51st state—did not immediately respond to a request for comment about whether Bublé has a statement on the video.)

The Wall Street Journal reports that Trump will direct the Justice Department to open civil-rights cases against jurisdictions that he believes favor undocumented immigrants over US citizens. The Journal reports that the executive order cites at least 25 states that have adopted laws that provide immigrants with lower in-state tuition rates at public universities than those available to U.S. citizens. It is not clear which executive order the directive will be part of.


Let's note something about the above.

Michael Buble is not an American citizen. 

But this is who the MAGA cretins rip off to glorify.


MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN -- MAGA -- has never been anything more than racism.


"Feeling Good"?  No one in the world would argue did the definitive version of that song.

It's American Nina Simone.





Nina Simone recorded "Feeling Good" for her 1965 album I Put a Spell on You. The song has also been covered by other famous artists, including American singer Sammy Davis Jr., English rock band Traffic, Canadian singer Michael Bublé, American jazz saxophonist John Coltrane, American singer and actor Brian Stokes Mitchell, British singer George Michael, English pop singer Tony Hadley, American band Eels, American musician and singer Joe Bonamassa, Irish musician and singer Eden, English rock band Muse, British blues rock band Black Cat Bones, American DJ and electronic music producer Bassnectar, American singer and musician Sophie B. Hawkins, American rock musician Leslie West, Swedish DJ and music producer Avicii, American singer Chlöe, Palaver Strings & Kebra-Seyoun Charles, Victory, American rock music duo Sirsy (Melanie Krahmer), American rapper and singer Lauryn Hill, French DJ David Guetta, American singer Micah Dubitzky, and many others. It was also performed by American singer and pianist John Legend as part of the Celebrating America performance marking the inauguration of Joe Biden. 


It's Nina song to this day.  When it played in the last film in the QUIET PLACE franchise, Nina's version was when they went with.  Played in Bridget Fonda's POINT OF NO RETURN?  Nina's version.  Over and over, the world has responded to Nina's version.

And the supposed Make America Great goons, overlook Nina for a White Canadian man.  It's about racism.  

And, as Betty's been noting repeatedly this year, it's about Chump erasing Black people and their accomplishments:




In other news,  Charles Tiefer (TPM) notes:


The Trump White House this month announced two new executive orders radically changing procurement procedures, especially defense procurement procedures, in ways that will unleash waste, fraud and abuse. These orders — which largely flew under the radar — will effectively wipe out spending safeguards with potential effects that are hard to overstate considering that President Trump announced he will expand the defense budget to a breathtaking $1 trillion, and that the secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, is no counterweight to politically driven spending.
To summarize, the new executive orders purport not merely to change or improve regulations, but to simply eliminate most of the existing procurement rules developed through years of oversight processes and outside scrutiny. They effectively undo procurement safeguards put in place after tremendous waste was exposed during the Cold War. In their place, the executive orders would elevate certain procedures that allow the government to spend unlimited sums without competition — the so-called “other transactions” process that need not be competed and that circumvents safeguards put in place to protect tax dollars. The Executive Orders say there should be a “first preference” for other transactions processes, which is like having a “first preference” for bringing a pistol with no safety to compete in a boxing match.

These revisions will also likely interfere with the system relied upon by competitors challenging improper awards, the “bid protest” system, which has long been a critical check on decisions made based on suspicious preferences rather than best value to the taxpayer. The orders proclaim that their goal is to “centralize decision-making,” which apparently means to move decisions on choosing weapon systems away from specialized, analytical government technical personnel steeped in the objective review of weapons choices so as to allow the decisions to be made by politically appointed officials attuned to politically favored contractors.


He is a danger to the entire country.  HIs stupidity puts us in all danger, his corruption puts us in danger, his inability to hire skilled people puts us all in danger.

On the last one, Hegseth hits the fan again.




Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s cybersecurity is again under scrutiny following a report from the New York Times that he used his personal cellphone for sports betting and highly sensitive military communications.

The Pentagon leader reportedly used his personal cellphone to create two Signal group chats about planned U.S. attacks on Houthis in Yemen. One included his wife and brother — neither of whom had security clearance — and the other accidentally included a reporter from the Atlantic.
Former FBI special agent and CIA officer Tracy Walder told NewsNation Hegseth’s communication practices are “very serious.”

“When you are sending that specific of information, like F-18 flight plans, targeting information, I would have been fired at the CIA if that is how I shared information,” Walder said. “FBI as well, because I held a security clearance there. So, that’s a fireable offense.”

The report said Hegseth’s personal phone number was found on betting sites, WhatsApp and Airbnb, as recently as March.

Cybersecurity experts have warned Hegseth’s phone was likely a prime target for spyware like Pegasus, given the public availability of his number and his position at the top of the Defense Department.

“This is why we don’t communicate classified information through those channels,” Walder said.




Colin Carroll, a former Pentagon official who was fired amid leaks at the Defense Department, said Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was focused on “weird details” after the Signal group chat scandal was exposed.

Carroll joined “The Megyn Kelly Show” on Saturday, where he shared more about his experience working in the Pentagon and witnessing firsthand a “tale of two Petes.”
“Do you think he’s OK?” Host Megyn Kelly questioned about Hegseth.

“I honestly, I don’t know. I’m not sure,” Carroll replied.

Carroll began telling a story about how once, when House Freedom Caucus members visited the Pentagon, Hegseth was sharp and performed well during the budget-related discussion.

“The secretary crushed that meeting. I have never seen a meeting like that. There’s not a secretary in living memory that could have done as good a job with those guys,” Carroll said.

“At the same time, I’ve seen the secretary in more internal meetings where he is super focused on, like, very, in my opinion, weird details and very agitated and kind of yelling and just, nothing’s good,” Carroll later said.

Carroll, the former chief of staff to Deputy Secretary of Defense Steve A. Feinberg, noted he didn’t know Hegseth before he took his administration position.


Some BLUESKY reaction on Hegseth:



 





Turning to MAGA, MAGA liars are liars who love to play the victim.  They'll even lie to the press to make themselves look like a bigger victim.




If you love stupidity, you really need to know about Natalie Beisner.  On Saturday, she went to West Hollywood and elsewhere with alleged rapist Matt Gaetz as the two tried to find Chumpers.  For those who don't know, West Hollywood is Gay Town for LA.   Whiteys felt comfortable going there but you wouldn't catch their asses in Oakland and it's worth noting that reality since Natalie -- a very lousy actress -- insists she left the Democrats in 2020 due to charges of White privilege.  She does not have that, she insists.  Despite the fact that she's had a few acting jobs -- none that were big or memorable -- and she can't act.  Not even a little.  But she had looks that are considered attractive.  (She's already aging out of them.  On White woman, the first to go is usually the chin and it's starting to slide and the skin around it to pucker.)  She left because, in 2020, while she was 'following' the rules (she wasn't, she didn't get the vaccine), it was okay to protest with Black Lives Matter but not to go about this or that daily activity.

Let that register for a moment.

It's a dumb ass MAGA talking point.

They whine that they were following the rules and they don't like the rules.

Then why aren't you applauding BLM for bringing them down?  

That wasn't a Democratic Party action.  In terms of White people, there were some Democrats participating.  There were a lot of Socialists and anarchists participating.  Mainly, it was Black people standing up and saying no more.  

So why are you a cry baby about that Natalie?  You wanted the social distancing to end and, thanks to BLM, it did.  If you weren't such a racist, you'd be on your knees thanking BLM for achieving what you, in all your weakness, couldn't.


She also likes to whine about Granny.  The one she claims died in 2020.  Claims?  We'll come back to that.  But Granny died alone, alone, alone!  

Oh, the horror.  2020 was so horrible for her!  Those damn Democrats!

That's why she left the party.

Anybody see problems with her lies?

Joe Biden wasn't president in 2020.

Donald Chump was.  It's under Chump that the country had social distancing and other protocols.  Natalie's granny was dead long before Joe became president.

Are you starting to get how stupid Natalie is?


How about this?  BLM protests took place outside in the open air.  All along the COVID concern, like the influenza at the start of the first century, was mainly an enclosed area concern.  If you didn't know that, you didn't do the work required.  Ava and I did.  We ended up covering COVID early on.  In the one last century, for example, Boston hospitals realized the importance of the open air to prevent spreading.  

I am sympathetic to Natalie in one regard: The messaging was confusing.  I think Joe should have fired Faucci.  Faucci could never admit a mistake but constantly changed direction and directives.

That doesn't help with public safety.  You need to be able to say, "We continue to learn and based upon the latest findings, we now know . . ."  That was confusing.  To everyone, not just simpletons like Natalie.  

THE LOS ANGELES TIMES reported Monday on Natalie bizarre hook up with Matt Gaetz and noted, "Actress Natalie Beisner, who voted for Hillary Clinton and Obama, said the pandemic shutdowns made her rethink her political views. Beisner said that due to the shutdowns, she lost two jobs and her grandmother died alone, while at the same time, protesters prompted by the death of George Floyd could gather en mass. When she raised such concerns, Beisner said she was called racist and selfish."

Do they do any fact checking at LAT anymore?  

I ask because they say her granny died alone due to the shutdowns.

That's really something that sounds like a lie.

Probably because it is.

Women don't get a great deal of attention in this society, even when they get attention.  Kathy Bates' MATLOCK's a great show but it's not just older women that are erased and ignored.  As a feminist, I don't ignore women.  So I didn't get introduced to Natalie today.  No, I remember when she got an award for writing.  For writing about her grandmother dying.  "Woman Home."  That's what she titled her scribbles and the title didn't make sense to me but, at any rate, she's writing about a grandmother dying.  In 2020, she's writing about it.  And it has nothing to do with COVID and her mother's present and she's present in her grandmother's room.

In this June 7, 2020 interview, she's discussing her bad essay and how she writes -- or, rather, how she types.


Now many people have two sets of grandparents.  So maybe the essay, in 2020, is about one grandmother dying and the she ended up with another dying?  

Problem with that?  She taped a 'walk away' from the Democratic Party story and posted it online. "My Journey Away From The Democratic Party" is what she entitled it.  The video is long.  Seven seconds shy of ten minutes. She mentions every real and every imagined grievance she has with the Democratic Party -- and lot of insisting that she's not a racist.  You know what she doesn't mention in that nearly ten minute video?

A dead grandma.

But she trots out the story for LAT.  I guess, if she's not lying, her dead grandmother has left her with grief -- a kind of intermittent grief that comes and goes.  For instance, when taping her own ten minute video about how awful things were during COVID 'thanks to the Democrats' (again, Chump was in the White House in 2020), she forgets to mention the death of her grandmother?  I guess there's only so much a person can cover in ten minutes and grandma wasn't important enough to make the highlight reel.

Priorities. 

Last year, she did several segments on The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast talking about her 'walking away' from the Democratic Party and, guess what, she never mentioned grandma dying during COVID and being all alone at the time.  She apparently felt THE LOS ANGELES TIMES needed her to save this story, for five years, so that they would have an exclusive.

Either that or she's a liar.  



Let's wind down with this from Senator Patty Murray's office:

42 lawmakers write to RFK Jr. demanding answers on Trump admin’s actions undermining Head Start as Trump reportedly plans to eliminate the program

Washington, D.C. — Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), and Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Ranking Member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies, led a letter to Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. calling out the Trump administration’s direct attacks on Head Start, reminding him of his legal obligation to administer the program, and demanding the Department of Health and Human Services immediately release Head Start funding and reverse the mass firing of Head Start staff and gutting of the offices that help ensure high-quality services are available for thousands of children and families across the country.

“We write to express our strong opposition to the actions you have taken to directly attack and undermine the federal Head Start program. Since day one, this Administration has taken unacceptable actions to withhold and delay funding, fire Head Start staff, and gut high-quality services for children. Already this year, this Administration has withheld almost $1 billion in federal grant funding from Head Start programs, a 37 percent decrease compared to the amount of funding awarded during the same period last year,” write the lawmakers. “It is abundantly clear that these actions are part of a broader effort to ultimately eliminate the program altogether, as the Administration reportedly plans to do in its fiscal year 2026 budget proposal.”

The lawmakers detail how the program plays an instrumental role in supporting kids and families across the country, writing: “Head Start provides early childhood education and comprehensive health and social services to nearly 800,000 young children every year in communities across this country, and employs about 250,000 dedicated staff. Head Start is a critical source of child care for working families, particularly in rural and Tribal communities, where Head Start programs are often the only option for high-quality child care services. Head Start programs ensure children receive appropriate health and dental care, nutrition support, and referrals to other critical services for parents, such as job training, adult education, nutrition services, and housing support.”

“You even acknowledged the value of Head Start following a recent visit to a Virginia Head Start center,” the lawmakers write, contrasting that statement of support with the Trump administration’s actions. “However, as a result of your actions to withhold and delay funding and undermine the administration of this vital program, Head Start centers are in serious jeopardy and have already had their day to day operations impacted. Programs are increasingly worried that they will not be able to make payroll, pay rent, and remain open to serve the hundreds of thousands of children and families who depend on their services in communities across the nation.”

“Since the very start of this Administration, Head Start programs have been under attack,” the lawmakers write, detailing office closures and funds that were frozen for Head Start grants across the country. “At one point, the National Head Start Association reported 37 programs serving nearly 15,000 children across the country could not access their federal funding. Head Start programs operate with thin margins and on short-term budgets from HHS, and without any communication from the Administration about the status of funding, programs were forced to temporarily close or to lay off staff.”

The lawmakers underscore how the gutting of Head Start offices and the firing of staff who keep the federal program running puts the entire program in jeopardy: “On April 1st, you abruptly closed five of the ten regional offices that help local grantees administer Head Start programs in 22 states . This left hundreds of programs without dedicated points of contact to address mission critical issues like approving grant renewals and modifications, investigating child health and safety incidents, and providing training and technical assistance to ensure high-quality services for children. While some grantees were assigned a new program specialist, we understand many have not been receiving responses to their inquiries. This is on top of the estimated 97 Office of Head Start central office staff that were terminated due to their probationary status and the recent reduction in force. You promised ‘radical transparency’ as Secretary, yet it is unclear how these actions will improve Head Start programs, and you and your staff refuse to respond to basic inquiries and requests for information.”

Importantly, they note that without funding that has so far not gone out the door, many more programs could be forced to close.

“Head Start grantees are still waiting on payments and grant renewals from the Office of Head Start, including programs whose grants end on April 30th, 2025. These notices should have gone out by now, yet we are concerned to hear programs report they have received little to no correspondence regarding their grant renewals,” the lawmakers continue to detail how local Head Start programs are receiving no notice for the path forward for grant funding. “Additionally, because we started fiscal year 2025 under a short-term continuing resolution, as is usual, some grantees have only received partial funding for the first few months of the year. But with a full year funding bill in place, these grantees should have received full funding by now, yet some are reporting that they have not received the full amount of their grants and will run out of funds this month or next. On Wednesday, April 16th, the delays in Head Start funding led to the closure of Head Start centers serving more than 400 children in Sunnyside, Washington.”

“The Administration has a legal and moral obligation to disburse Head Start funds to programs and to uphold the program’s promise to provide high-quality early education services to low income children and families across this country,” the lawmakers write. “There is no justifiable reason for the delay in funding we have seen over the last two months, and you have refused to offer any kind of explanation.”

The lawmakers conclude by warning that eliminating the program would be devastating, demanding answers on the administration’s actions, and demanding the reversal of them: “[W]e urge you to immediately reinstate fired staff across all Offices of Head Start, and cease all actions to delay the awarding and disbursement of funding to Head Start programs across this country.”

In addition to Senators Murray, Sanders, and Baldwin, the letter was signed by 39 colleagues, including Jack Reed (D-RI), Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI), Andy Kim (D-NJ), Ben Ray Lujan (D-NM), Charles E. Schumer (D-NY), Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE), Peter Welch (D-VT), Gary Peters (D-MI), Michael F. Bennet (D-CO), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Jacky Rosen (D-NV), Tina Smith (D-MN), John Fetterman (D-PA), Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), Christopher A. Coons (D-DE), Christopher S. Murphy (D-CT), Jeffrey A. Merkley (D-OR), Mark Kelly (D-AZ), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Dick Durbin (D-IL), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), Tim Kaine (D-VA), Alex Padilla (D-CA), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), Ron Wyden (D-OR), Raphael Warnock (D-GA), Cory Booker (D-NJ), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Edward Markey (D-MA), Angus King (I-ME), Brian Schatz (D-HI), Martin Heinrich (D-NM), Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD), and Mark R. Warner (D-VA).

Full text of the letter is available HERE and below:

Dear Secretary Kennedy:

We write to express our strong opposition to the actions you have taken to directly attack and undermine the federal Head Start program. Since day one, this Administration has taken unacceptable actions to withhold and delay funding, fire Head Start staff, and gut high-quality services for children. Already this year, this Administration has withheld almost $1 billion in federal grant funding from Head Start programs, a 37 percent decrease compared to the amount of funding awarded during the same period last year. It is abundantly clear that these actions are part of a broader effort to ultimately eliminate the program altogether, as the Administration reportedly plans to do in its fiscal year 2026 budget proposal.

Head Start provides early childhood education and comprehensive health and social services to nearly 800,000 young children every year in communities across this country, and employs about 250,000 dedicated staff. Head Start is a critical source of child care for working families, particularly in rural and Tribal communities, where Head Start programs are often the only option for high-quality child care services. Head Start programs ensure children receive appropriate health and dental care, nutrition support, and referrals to other critical services for parents, such as job training, adult education, nutrition services, and housing support.

You even acknowledged the value of Head Start following a recent visit to a Virginia Head Start center, where you said, “I had a very inspiring tour. I saw a devoted staff and a lot of happy children. They are getting the kind of education and socialization they need, and they are also getting a couple of meals a day.”

However, as a result of your actions to withhold and delay funding and undermine the administration of this vital program, Head Start centers are in serious jeopardy and have already had their day to day operations impacted. Programs are increasingly worried that they will not be able to make payroll, pay rent, and remain open to serve the hundreds of thousands of children and families who depend on their services in communities across the nation.

Since the very start of this Administration, Head Start programs have been under attack. On January 27th, 2025, the Office of Management and Budget issued a memo (M-25-13) that suddenly froze the disbursement of grant funding for federal programs and services government-wide, including Head Start. Despite the Administration’s clarification that Head Start programs would not be the target of the funding freeze, many Head Start programs across the country were unable to draw down their grant funds through the Payment Management System (PMS) for weeks. At one point, the National Head Start Association reported 37 programs serving nearly 15,000 children across the country could not access their federal funding. Head Start programs operate with thin margins and on short-term budgets from HHS, and without any communication from the Administration about the status of funding, programs were forced to temporarily close or to lay off staff. In Wisconsin, the National Centers for Learning Excellence, which serves more than 200 children and their families, shut down for a week and laid off staff due to the funding freeze.

On April 1st, you abruptly closed five of the ten regional offices that help local grantees administer Head Start programs in 22 states. This left hundreds of programs without dedicated points of contact to address mission critical issues like approving grant renewals and modifications, investigating child health and safety incidents, and providing training and technical assistance to ensure high-quality services for children. While some grantees were assigned a new program specialist, we understand many have not been receiving responses to their inquiries. This is on top of the estimated 97 Office of Head Start central office staff that were terminated due to their probationary status and the recent reduction in force. You promised “radical transparency” as Secretary, yet it is unclear how these actions will improve Head Start programs, and you and your staff refuse to respond to basic inquiries and requests for information.

On March 14th, 2025, the Office of Head Start (OHS) notified all Head Start programs that “the use of federal funding for any training and technical assistance or other program expenditures that promote or take part in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives” will not be approved and that any questions should be directed to regional offices. Programs have not received any guidance for what would be considered “DEI” but this policy is potentially in direct conflict with statutory and regulatory program requirements, such as providing culturally and linguistically appropriate instructional services for English learners. Many programs cannot direct questions to regional staff, as half of regional offices were abruptly closed, and as unprecedented actions are being taken to delay and withhold funding, Head Start programs have been intentionally left with little to no guidance.

Head Start programs are now arbitrarily required to provide justifications for each draw down of funds that is necessary to operate their programs, despite already receiving a federal grant award for these purposes. As of April 14th, Head Start programs have reportedly received correspondence from an email address “defendthespend@hhs.gov” requiring programs to submit a “specific description of why the funds are necessary and why they are aligned to the award” before programs can have funding disbursed. It has been reported that political appointees must sign off on every draw down of funds. This creates an illusion of improving oversight but only serves to add unnecessary red tape by requiring the manual sign off on hundreds of thousands of individual actions annually across the Department based on two to three sentence justifications. Already some grantees have reported delays in receiving funds, and have reported that furloughs or closures are imminent if funds are not released. For an administration that purports to value local autonomy and efficiency in federally funded programs, your actions have achieved the exact opposite.

Finally, Head Start grantees are still waiting on payments and grant renewals from the Office of Head Start, including programs whose grants end on April 30th, 2025. These notices should have gone out by now, yet we are concerned to hear programs report they have received little to no correspondence regarding their grant renewals. Additionally, because we started fiscal year 2025 under a short-term continuing resolution, as is usual, some grantees have only received partial funding for the first few months of the year. But with a full year funding bill in place, these grantees should have received full funding by now, yet some are reporting that they have not received the full amount of their grants and will run out of funds this month or next. On Wednesday, April 16th, the delays in Head Start funding led to the closure of Head Start centers serving more than 400 children in Sunnyside, Washington.

The Administration has a legal and moral obligation to disburse Head Start funds to programs and to uphold the program’s promise to provide high-quality early education services to low income children and families across this country. The fiscal year 2025 appropriations act provided $12.3 billion for Head Start, the same as the fiscal year 2024 level. The Head Start Act includes an explicit formula for how appropriated funds should be allocated. There is no justifiable reason for the delay in funding we have seen over the last two months, and you have refused to offer any kind of explanation. However, this week leaked fiscal year 2026 budget documents indicated the Office of Management and Budget was directing the Department, consistent with the Administration’s proposal to eliminate Head Start in fiscal year 2026, to “ensure to the extent allowable FY2025 funds are available to close out the program.” If this explains any of the delay in awarding fiscal year 2025 funding, we want to be clear, no funds were provided in fiscal year 2025 to “close out the program,” and it would be wholly unacceptable and likely illegal if the Department tries to carry out this directive.

Finally, the leaked budget documents provided a justification, albeit brief, for eliminating Head Start in fiscal year 2026 that makes this Administration’s priorities clear and puts the Department’s actions over the last several months in context. The Administration argues that eliminating Head Start, “is consistent with the Administration’s goals of returning education to the States and increasing parental choice.” It is shocking to see an argument that eliminating a program that provides comprehensive early childhood care and education to 800,000 children and their families would increase parental choice. It is particularly concerning to see that argument in the context of the significant delay in awarding fiscal year 2025 appropriated funds and what that indicates about the intent behind the Department’s actions. We believe it is obvious that eliminating Head Start would be detrimental to hundreds of thousands of children and families. Similarly, we believe it is obvious that delaying funding like we have seen over the last two months, forcing Head Start programs to close, and leaving families to scramble to find quality, affordable alternatives puts the education and well-being of some of the most vulnerable young children in America at risk. In our view, that is unacceptable.

Therefore, we urge you to immediately reinstate fired staff across all Offices of Head Start, and cease all actions to delay the awarding and disbursement of funding to Head Start programs across this country.

Please provide us with a written response to the questions below no later than 10 days from receipt:

1. Will you reinstate the staff who administer Head Start programs and reopen the closed regional offices responsible for overseeing Head Start programs in 22 states?

a) When is HHS going to share information on the reorganization plan for the consolidation of the regional offices?

b) Please provide the contact information for each program specialist designated to the 22 states who lost their regional office.

c) Who is responsible for ensuring there are no delays or lapses in funding, nor any disruptions to Head Start program operations now that these states do not have a regional office?

2. How many employees at the Offices of Head Start have been terminated, including the five regional offices and the central office?

a) Which officials at HHS were involved in the staffing reduction decisions for OHS and what planning, if any, was undertaken prior to these reductions? Please describe the events that unfolded and name each office that was involved in the decision. Further, please name the official(s) who approved the staffing reductions.

3. Can you confirm that the Administration will distribute all Head Start funds appropriated by Congress to Head Start programs in FY 25, as required by the Head Start Act?

4. Please provide a list of all grantees with 5-year Head Start grant renewals that start between now and the end of the fiscal year: May 1st, June 1st, July 1st, August 1st, and September 1st.

a) Will any funding be delayed for grantees that are due to receive their annual funding on May 1st or beyond?

5. Why are funding awards delayed for grantees that received partial awards during the first continuing resolution for FY25?

a) When can HHS guarantee that all funds will be awarded for partially funded Head Start programs?

6. What is the “Tier 2” department for review that is delaying drawn down for Head Start programs in the Payment Management System?

a) When should programs expect to receive their funds?

b) Please provide all communication that went to Head Start grantees on the new review process.

7. What guidance and clarifications have been provided to Head Start grantees on DEI expenditures?

a) How is HHS evaluating Head Start programs’ expenditures and grant awards for DEI?

b) What justifications are being used to prohibit DEI?

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Monday, April 28, 2025

Weekend box office

A semi-strong weekend bolstered by a re-release.  Via THENUMBERS.COM, here's the weekend box office:

1 (1) Sinners Warner Bros. $45,708,664 -5% 3,347 +39 $13,657 $123,235,091 2
2 (-) Star Wars Ep. III: Revenge of the Sith 20th Century… $25,495,049   2,800   $9,105 $405,765,626 1,041
3 N The Accountant 2 Amazon MGM S… $24,533,959   3,610   $6,796 $24,533,959 1
4 (2) A Minecraft Movie Warner Bros. $22,707,253 -44% 3,841 -191 $5,912 $379,953,914 4
5 N Until Dawn Sony Pictures $8,003,402   3,055   $2,620 $8,003,402 1
6 (3) The King of Kings Angel Studios $4,219,311 -76% 3,175 -360 $1,329 $54,715,011 3
7 (4) The Amateur 20th Century… $3,683,350 -47% 3,060 -340 $1,204 $33,738,370 3
8 (5) Warfare A24 $2,652,229 -45% 1,905 -765 $1,392 $21,800,596 3
9 (-) The Legend of Ochi A24 $1,443,157 +2,648% 1,153 +1,149 $1,252 $1,509,628 2
10 N Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii Trafalgar Re… $1,322,827   654   $2,023 $2,620,076 1


SINNERS is number one and crosses the $100 million mark.  Ben Stiller can rightly holler, "Told you so!"  And I appreciate him speaking out last week.  Week after week, the industry trades have trafficked in racism when it comes to films with a Black led cast.  They start predicting they are failures and insisting they are failures.  The put that word out and it hurts box office.  And fine if they did that with all films but they don't.  They just do it with the ones starring a Black person or persons.  Ben has no investment in SINNERS.  He didn't have to stand up.  But he did and good for him.  More people should follow his example.

Second place went to the re-release of STAR WARS III.  Third place was THE ACCOUNTANT II.  It probably won't surpass the total of the first one but it's not dead in the water.  That was a strong opening and, if it hadn't been for STAR WARS, it would have been number two for the week.  MINECRAFT fell to number four but, again, without STAR WARS, it would have been number three.  And $22 million is very good for a third weekend.  It's done very well and will easily be on the year's top ten moneymakers.  The next two weeks will determine how high on that list it will be.  It's only the second film released in 2025 to cross the $100 million mark domestically (the other is CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD).  


Going out with C.I.'s "The Snapshot:"


 Monday, April 28, 2025.  Donald Chump's polls crater, the first 100 days have been a nightmare, if it weren't for lies then he'd have no 'good' news about the economy, all that Pete Hegseth, and much more.


At THE NEW REPUBLIC, Claire Potter and Neil J. Young serve up "JD Vance Likes 'Normal Gays.' Should We Count That as a Win?"  Should we count it as a win?  I don't know but it is good to know what his type is.  So when JD turns into Miss Sassy with that blonde wig, he's looking for a straight acting gay man?  Good to know his Grindr profile.  


Poor JD.  The first 100 days ends tomorrow and every day he has piled on that eyeline but accomplished nothing else.  In the s**t show that is the Donald Chump presidency, he's gotten lost like everything else.  


Michael Tomasky (TNR) observes:


Remember how April 2 was “Liberation Day”? That was the day Donald Trump announced his tariff regime; it was, I think, the third grand announcement out of about six total. I know you remember it—the shock to the markets created headlines that are hard to forget.

What you may not remember is that it was also Trump’s second Liberation Day. The first, I was reminded recently as I reread his inaugural address while reflecting on the administration’s 100-day mark that arrives this week, was Inauguration Day itself: “That is why each day under our administration of American patriots, we will be working to meet every crisis with dignity and power and strength. We will move with purpose and speed to bring back hope, prosperity, safety, and peace for citizens of every race, religion, color, and creed. For American citizens, January 20th, 2025, is Liberation Day.”

How’s that working out?

There is much to say about these 100 days. The odor of fascism is unmistakable—and entirely intentional. The bullying of universities and law firms; the probably illegal firings of those 18 inspectors general (you’d forgotten that one, I bet!); the ghastly executive order instructing the Justice Department to investigate two U.S. citizens for expressing their political views; the purposeful lawlessness of so many actions, designed to force showdown after showdown at what Trump assumes will be a pliant Supreme Court; the daily inversion of reality peddled by Karoline Leavitt, Cabinet officials, and not least Trump himself. 

And more: the brazenly indefensible treatment of Mahmoud Khalil, a legal resident and green card holder, arrested without a warrant and held in a Louisiana detention facility where he missed the recent birth of his son, apparently just for engaging in political activism that Trump didn’t like. The clearly illegal deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. The list goes on and on, and now, as of last week, includes a two-year-old U.S. citizen who was deported and another child-citizen with metastatic cancer who was deported without access to medication. 

[. . .]

First and more obviously, we have the prospect of the impact of Trump’s tariffs policy on real people. Will they cause inflation and a recession, as most experts now believe? As fate would have it, Trump will go to bed the night of his 100th day in office—Tuesday—and wake up the very next morning to the release of the first quarter GDP number. Economists expect anemic results. The Atlanta Fed even predicts negative growth, around -2.5 percent. During Trump’s first week in office, its forecast nudged a gaudy 4 percent, but the president’s actions have liberated that figure ever downward.

Second and more insidiously: Even the gross incompetencies take us into treacherous territory because they contribute to making this all about one man, the man who must be in front of the cameras every day. He doesn’t have policies so much as he has urges, which he must announce to the world on a constant basis in a desperate plea that we keep him front of mind at all times. Some of those urges are cruel; some of them are a joke. What unites them is that they make the story entirely about him.

That is not how it’s supposed to work in democracies. Which we still are, for now, as we reach this 100-day mark. Only 1,361 to go.


RAW STORY's Travis Gettys notes that Chump granted an interview to THE ATLANTIC and quotes Chump insisting, " I run the country -- and the world."

I believe that's a typo.


I think what Donald Chump actually said was, "I ruin the country -- and the world."


That would certainly be in keeping with reactions others are having.  


Dan Balz, Scott Clement, and Emily Guskin (WASHINGTON POST) note, "As he nears the end of his first 100 days in office, President Donald Trump is facing growing opposition to his ambitious and controversial agenda, with his approval rating in decline, majority opposition to major initiatives, and perceptions that his administration is seeking to avoid complying with federal court orders, according to a Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll."   


Althea Legaspi, Asawin Suebsaeng and Ryan Bort (ROLLING STONE) note:

President Donald Trump's approval rating has dipped below 40 percent, according to a new survey by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

The survey also found that about four in 10 Americans say Trump has been a "terrible" president during his second term, with about one in 10 describing his performance as "poor," and two in 10 saying he has been "average." Only three in 10 Americans rated Trump's performance as "great" or "good."


See, it's not just one poll.  Adam Gabbatt (GUARDIAN) explains:


Americans, including some Republicans, are losing faith in Donald Trump across a range of key issues, according to polling released this week. One survey found a majority describing the president’s second stint in the White House so far as “scary”.

Along with poor ratings on the economy and Trump’s immigration policy, a survey released on Saturday found that only 24% of Americans believe Trump has focussed on the right priorities as president.

That poll comes as Trump’s popularity is historically low for a leader this early in a term. More than half of voters disapprove of Trump’s performance as president, and majorities oppose his tariff policies and slashing of the federal workforce.


Not just one poll, all the polls.  Julianne McShane (MOTHER JONES) notes:


New polls show that President Donald Trump’s approval rating has hit record lows as he nears the 100-day mark of his second term on Tuesday.

An ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos poll found that Trump has the lowest 100-day approval rating of any president in the past 80 years, with only 39 percent of respondents saying they approve of Trump’s term thus far. The 80-year comparison appears to refer to when Gallup first started measuring public approval of presidents, back during President Harry Truman’s term; according to data compiled by ABC, Trump had the lowest approval ratings of all presidents at 100 days in both of his terms, and he’s the only president to have the disapproval of the majority of Americans only three months into his term.

Seventy-two percent of respondents to the ABC poll also said they believe Trump’s economic policies—such as his tariff-induced global trade war—will likely cause a recession in the short term, and 53 percent believe the economy has gotten worse since Trump took office. More than 60 percent said that his administration does not respect the rule of law and that he is going too far in trying to expand his power. Majorities also disapproved of nearly every other action. The poll asked about Trump’s moves—reducing funding for medical research, shutting down the Department of Education, freezing foreign humanitarian aid, seeking to deport international students, and sending a group of Venezuelans to a notorious prison in El Salvador without due process—and they were all disliked.


Some BLUESKY reactions.







The Convicted Felon feels certain things aren't being factored in.  Like his talks with China.  Or, rather, 'talks' with China.    Pablo R. Suanzes (EL MUNDO) reports:


The president claims Xi called him, and Beijing demands that he "stop creating confusion" with "baseless rumors".

Donald Trump likes to boast and exaggerate. Every day he claims to have broken all kinds of historical records, surpassed unprecedented marks, achieved feats more than successes. This not only involves inflating macroeconomic figures or saying things that are obviously false, such as having already reached 200 trade agreements in recent days, but also putting leaders of other countries in a more than uncomfortable position, torn between correcting inaccuracies or blatant lies, unleashing the wrath of the White House, or avoiding problems by ignoring or dodging questions. 


If people would just accept lies, Chump would be doing so much better, right?


Secretary of the Treasure Scott Bessent went on ABC's THIS WEEK and, sadly, Martha Raddatz wanted facts, not lies.


Excerpt.

RADDATZ: OK. And now I am joined by President Trump's Treasury secretary, Scott Bessent.

Thanks for joining us this morning, Mr. Secretary. We appreciate it.

Let's start with the polls. For the very first time the president's polling numbers on the economy are under water with 53 percent saying it has gotten worse under President Trump, with 72 percent of those in our poll saying it is very or somewhat likely that his economic policies will cause a recession.

Your reaction?

SCOTT BESSENT, U.S. TREASURY SECRETARY: Well, Martha, I haven't seen the polls. And for the past 35 years, my business was analyzing data. So, I think we’ve probably got to dig down into those.

But what I do know is that Americans are behaving very different than what the surveys say. So, the surveys may say that, but consumers are still spending. So, I prefer to look at what Americans are doing rather than how they're answering pollsters.

RADDATZ: And it doesn't worry you the poll numbers that you have seen?

BESSENT: When I start seeing data to the contrary, then the – we can look at that. But, you know, again, these poll numbers, and also, you know, when I look at the sum of the things that are being published, there was a story ten days ago that said, this is the worst April for the stock market since the Great Depression. Ten days later, the Nasdaq is now up in the month of April. And I haven't seen a story that says, oh, the stock market has biggest bounce back ever. So, I think – I think –

RADDATZ: Well, it certainly – it certainly has gone back and forth.

Let – let’s jump –

BESSENT: I think a lot of this is media driven.

RADDATZ: Let's talk about the "Time" interview with President Trump. He said he has made 200 deals on tariffs. Two hundred deals? Who has he made deals with? Is there actually any deal at this point?

BESSENT: I believe that he is referring to sub deals within the negotiations we're doing. And, you know, Martha, if there are 180 countries –

RADDATZ: But those aren't actual deals?

BESSENT: Martha, if there are 180 countries, there are 18 important trading partners, let's put China to the side, because that's a special negotiation, there's 17 important trading partners, and we have a process in place, over the next 90 days, to negotiate with them. Some of those are moving along very well, especially the – with the Asian countries.

RADDATZ: And President Trump's strategy really has been to announce these tariffs, and dial some back, pause them, make exceptions. Explain why you see this as a good negotiating strategy.

BESSENT: Well, in game theory, it's called strategic uncertainty. So, you're not going to tell the person on the other side of the negotiation where you're going to end up. And nobody’s better at creating this leverage than President Trump. You know, he's shown these – the high tariffs, and here's the stick. This is where the tariffs can go. And the carrot is, come to us, take off your tariffs, take off your non-tariff trade barriers, stop manipulating your currency, stop subsidizing labor and capital and then we can talk.

But I tell you, Martha, that we've had several of these Asian countries have come in and said, oh, well, we'll stop doing this, this, and this. And I look at these lists and I think, how did we get here? How did we get here? Because this trading system has been so unfair. And as President Trump says, I don't blame the countries, I blame the previous administrations that let them get away with it.

RADDATZ: But, Mr. Secretary, look at what you just heard from Barton O’Brien there. The administration says it's worried about main street not Wall Street. But you heard that smallbusinessman saying his inventory in China might as well be lit on fire because already what has happened and the concern about what's happening next.

How do they plan for things if they don't know what's going to happen?


[. . .]

RADDATZ: Let's talk about China. President Trump, again, said he's spoken to President Xi of China, and negotiations are ongoing. But China has firmly denied this saying that China and the U.S. have not consulted or negotiated on the tariff issue.

So are negotiations actually happening? Who is talking?

BESSENT: Look, this was IMF-World Bank Week. They are in D.C., as you know. I had interaction with my Chinese counterparts, but it was more on the traditional things like financial stability, global economic early warnings. I don't know if President Trump has spoken with President Xi. I know they have a very good relationship and a lot of respect for each other.

But, again, I think the Chinese will see this high tariff level is unsustainable for their business.

RADDATZ: Why would they deny that negotiations are going on?


Mean Martha!  Wanting facts when Scott just wanted to sell lies.


By the way, I want to emphasize this already noted above:


Because this trading system has been so unfair. And as President Trump says, I don't blame the countries, I blame the previous administrations that let them get away with it.


The previous administrations?  Because, from the start of 2017 to the start of 2021, that would include Chump himself.  Is Chump now saying that he failed the country in his first administration?


His current administration is a huge failure.  

If I were Tulsi Gabbard or Robert Kennedy Junior or, honestly, any of the inept members of his Cabinet, I would wake up each day thrilled that Chump hadn't yet fired Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth because he takes the heat off the rest of them with his never ending screw ups.  Simon Druker (UPI) reminds, "Last month, Hegseth made headlines after accidentally leaking confidential military plans related to a then-pending military strike by accidentally including The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg in a Signal group chat." And then we all learned of another nonsecure group chat -- this one also on Signal but on his personal phone -- not his government issued phone -- where he shared details of impending strikes with his wife, his brother, his attorney and, who knows,  possibly his butcher.  Tom Bowman and Quil Lawrence (NPR) reported Friday:


Normally the names of senior staff at the Pentagon don't make the news, but the precarious position of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth means that every move is drawing scrutiny. NPR reported this week that the White House is looking for possible replacements with Hegseth under fire for putting sensitive military attack plans into at least two insecure group chats.

In-fighting over alleged leaks from the secretary's office have now resulted in five senior advisers resigning or being fired. On Friday the Pentagon announced four new senior advisers had been promoted; they include Col. Ricky Buria, a former junior military assistant; Justin Fulcher, a member of the DOGE team embedded at the Pentagon, and Patrick Weaver, formerly a Department of Defense "special assistant."


He has betrayed the country and he risked national security.  Not once.  And Chump deserves to be impeached for not removing Hegseth from office.  John Stoehr notes:


Last weekend, in an opinion piece for Politico, a former Pentagon spokesman warned that “there are very likely more shoes to drop in short order, with even bigger bombshell stories coming this week.”

And lo, a voice came:

・Wall Street Journal: “Polygraph Threats, Leaks and Infighting: The Chaos Inside Hegseth’s Pentagon”;

・Associated Press: “Hegseth had an unsecured internet line set up in his office to connect to Signal”;

・Times: “Hegseth’s Personal Phone Use Created Vulnerabilities”;

・National Public Radio: “Former Pentagon official on Hegseth turmoil: ‘It looks like they actually broke the law’”;

・CBS: “Hegseth orders makeup studio installed at Pentagon.”

Unfortunately, we are where we were at the beginning of the week. Hegseth isn’t going anywhere. Yes, he is “embattled,” as we say in the news, but every story about him says that Donald Trump has his back.


Tom Vanden Brook and Michael Loria (USA TODAY) remind, "Hegseth has denied releasing sensitive information. But several current and former military officials have told USA TODAY that the information Hegseth disclosed, the timing of attacks, is among the most closely guarded national security information."  And former National Secuirty Advisor (2013 to 2017) Susan Rice explained to Brian Tyler Cohen, "Military operation details are by definition classified.  Deliberations about whether to conduct a military strike on an adversary are inherently classified.  So here they are engaging recklessly in classified discussions over unsecure commercial applications."  


Instead of owning his mistake, Hegseth blames others which is par for the course in the Chump administration.  Héctor Ríos Morales' report for THE LATIN TIMES captures this attitude in its headline, "DHS Says It's Not To Be Legally Accountable For Court-Barred Deportations Because They Were Carried Out By DoD."  When he was president, Harry S. Truman said, "The buck stops here."  Chump not only chooses bitcoin over dollars, he also chooses dishonesty over accountability which is why his report card for his first 100 days is a solid F.


Meanwhile, Chump's shock troops attacked Colorado Springs yesterday.  Edward Helmore (GUARDIAN) reports:


More than 300 law enforcement officers from at least 10 federal agencies raided an illegal after-hours nightclub in Colorado Springs early on Sunday, arresting more than 100 people authorities said were undocumented immigrants and seizing guns, cocaine, meth and pink cocaine.

More than a dozen active-duty military members were detained as well, authorities said.

The federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) posted a video on X of the post-raid scene, with dozens of partygoers holding their hands up. Another video showed dozens of people fleeing the building through its entrance after federal agents smashed a window.

The DEA Rocky Mountain division said agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice), the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), homeland security, the US army’s criminal investigation division and the Colorado Springs police had joined the raid.


No paperwork on them!  In the early Sunday morning hours!  At a night club!  And they didn't have paperwork!


How many of the 100 do you think are citizens?  30?  50?  Even more?  What's your guess?  Chump is a menace and that's why the American people have turned on him.  


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