Wednesday, April 9, 2025

The YOUTUBE Gossip boys wasting everyone's time


Please read Mike's "Trashy racist Katrina vanden Heuvel and other closeted Socialists" and grasp that's why I don't do political.  There are too many liars.  I'm not talking about Mike, I'm talking about THE NATION.  That rag is pure trash.  And it's not for Democrats.  

I'm a Democrat.  I'm not a Socialist or a Communist.  Just a Black man who's a Democrat.  And I don't need the nonsense of THE NATION or of these freaks and tricksters who have condemned our country to four more years under Donald Chump.  

I don't read a lot of political blogs.  I read THE COMMON ILLS from the start because it was inclusive, it covered music -- not just Kat's great music reviews but C.I.'s always done deep cuts -- references to songs most people either forgot or never heard of. And she's got an ethical code.  She's not a liar like Kyle Kulinski or those other Socialists.  She doesn't blow in the wind from one position to the next.  If X is wrong, she calls out X and it doesn't matter if the person doing X is right or left or whatever. 


The Kyle Kuliniskis are just liars.  I can't stand him on YOUTUBE.  He got his start off Peter Thiel money.  Did you see Mike's "Was Kyle Kulinski gay-for-pay?"?  I agree with Mike, Kyle used to do those endless talks about his balls because it was one of the demands Peter placed on him for all the cash he slid over to Kyle.  Kyle's a Socialist who merged with Cenk of TYT and they came up with the idea to run Socialists for Congress by posing them as Democrats.  Every member of Justice "Democrats" is actually a Socialist.  But they knew they couldn't get elected if they were open so they hid in their political closets.  Rashida Tlaib did finally come out in February of this year.  I'll give her credit for that if nothing else. 


They're just little liars.  They pretend to be Democrats so that they can trash Democrats and trick people into believing this is what Democrats think.


Take Hakeem Jeffries.  He's the Minority Leader.  They thought they could kick him out of that post and started talking up AOC for it.  But they knew they couldn't do it as Socialists.  So they pretend they're Democrats.  They used a similar strategy to attack Kamala Harris and put Chump back into the White House.

They're liars and tricksters.

And those two stunted White boys of THE VANGUARD -- Zac and Gavin.  Yuck.  They just reek White privilege and entitlement, don't they?  They're so deeply stupid about everything whether it's politics or their pretense to know pop culture.  I don't think -- left, right whatever -- there are two bigger idiots on YOUTUBE than those two.  This is from Ava and C.I.'s "Media: Stop the insanity:"


 
Why are Zac and Cody obsessed with TYT?  More to the point, as alleged adults, why aren't they concerned with anything else?

 
Is this a Socialist Circle Jerk where they work overtime to clear Kyle by constantly indicting Cenk?


If not, the only thing they're 'accomplishing' is making TYT look better because while Zac and Cody focus endlessly on attacking TYT, TYT can rightly assert that, from time to time, they talk about actual issues.  They don't do it well.  They never did.  They were just as offensive when they were supposedly on our side as they are now.  They're not deep thinkers and they aren't entertainers. 

Maybe Zac and Gavin's similarity to Cenk and Ana explains the boyz TYT obsession?

 
For those late to the party, Francesca had a public debate with Cenk that did not go well in the last five months.  Also during this time period, she publicly spoke out against Ana and, again, she stated she was scared of Cenk.  


She got fired.  It's not the end of the world nor was it surprising that TYT dropped her.


What was surprising was that she got dropped instead of having the courage and dignity to walk away. 
 
 
Ben Jealous and Benny Carollo had both already left TYT and for good reason.  They were also public about the whys of the departures.  THE VANGUARD covered the departures repeatedly over and over.
 

So shouldn't someone put on their thinking cap and leave behind their sympathetic nods to ask  Francesca why wasn't TYT's  transphobia and racism enough to make you walk?  
 
She stayed for years.   She only left when she was fired.
 
How pathetic is that?
 

And Zac and Cody, how pathetic are they?  
 
 
People are being deported from this country, Chump is purging our education systems and museums of Black history and women's history and LGBTQ+ history.  He is talking like a madman of seizing the land of foreign countries.  He is refusing to follow court orders.  He's carrying out a ton of crazy and illegal activities.

And where is THE VANGUARD?
 
 
Serving up another year's worth of segments telling viewers Cenk and Ana are bad bosses!'
 

At this late date, how is that even news?



They are so inconsistent because they're liars.  That's why I hate so many people 'covering' politics.  They lie to you to trick you.  It's like when JOURNOLIST got exposed -- Ezra Klein's list serv where a group of journalists plotted daily on how to shape their coverage.  It would be very easy for us to try to do that in this community, but we don't.  We have integrity.  

I really hate Zac and Gavin.  They pretend that they're 'woke' but then they'll praise Marianne Williamson for not defending trans people in her interview with Bill Maher.  That was smart, they insisted.  Of course, Ava and C.I. had already documented how in her run for the 2024 Democratic Party presidential nomination, MariQuack had stopped defending LGBTQ+ rights.  They did that by noting her refusal to Tweet -- even during Pride Month -- about LGBTQ+ issues and then produced all of her Tweets from her 2020 run when she supported LGBTQ+ rights.

And that's why I think most people who 'do' politics are liars and creeps.  Marianne turning her back on the LGBTQ+ community.  Zac and Gavin pretending they're woke and supporters of trans people but then thrilled when their candidate doesn't defend them as Bill Maher makes transphobic remarks.  They're spineless cowards.

I don't play on issues.  I am firm on equality always.  And you know I love my cousin Marcia so nobody better try to come for her or any other LGBTQ+ person without expecting real and strong pushback from me. 

Crackers like Zac and Gavin are just White entitlement on YOUTUBE.  They've never had to struggle.  They've never really been discriminated against.  That's why they don't have Black people on their show.  They are little Lena Dunhams who can't actually relate to people of color.  

Kyle, Zac, Gavin, Krystal Ball --  On that one.  On Kyle's nit-wit Socialist wife?  I would love to publish her MSNBC personnel file.  It is hilarious to read.  She was kicked out for cause, don't let her spin it any other way.  She had one problem after another.  One critique after another in her file where she was written up for getting this wrong or messing this up.

It's hilarious to read and goes to how she's just a fake ass.
  
Fiorella's a fake ass too.  And we all knew that after the election when she kept 'talking' about it but couldn't find Black people.  We do see that.  I don't think the White racists of the left grasp that.  But we do watch, as Black people, various coverage and we do notice when it leaves us out.  


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


Wednesday, April 8, 2025.  The economy's tanking, unemployment's increasing, a big strong man needs 20 agents to protect him, Propaganda Pig continues her attempts to obscure reality while Zac and Cody re-enlist in their attacks on a Black woman..



Let's start with Madonna.  



 

Little girl don't run away so fast
I think you forgot to kiss, kiss her goodbye
Will she see me cry when I stumble and fall
Does she hear my voice in the night when I call
Wipe away all your tears, it's gonna be all right
I fought to be so strong, I guess you knew
I was afraid you'd go away, too
Little girl you've got to forget the past
And learn to forgive me
I promise to try, but it feels like a lie
Don't let memory play games with your mind
She's a faded smile frozen in time
I'm still hanging on, but I'm doing it wrong
Can't kiss her goodbye, but I promise to try
-- "Promise To Try," written by Madonna and Patrick Leonard, first appears on Madonna's LIKE A PRAYER.


Little girl . . . That one goes out to the little sensitive cupcake in the Chump administration.  And which one would that be?  



The MAGA podcaster who was tapped to be the FBI’s second in command has chosen to be protected by as many as 20 agents—while his predecessors have often had no security detail at all, NBC News reported.

Last week, the agency put out a call for agents willing to sign up to abandon their ordinary duties and protect Deputy Director Dan Bongino 24 hours a day for month-long stints, unnamed FBI officials told NBC.



Oh, look at the sweet princess who needs "as many as 20 agents" to feel safe.   Back to the article:


While it’s typical for FBI directors to have a security team made up of agents, deputy directors have typically not had one. Former and current officials told NBC that Bongino’s predecessor, Paul Abbate, was only assigned one agent for protection. He carried a service weapon and only had a full detail when he traveled overseas.


But Paul Abbate wasn't a weak sister the way little girl Dan is.  

20 agents?  He needs 20 agents protecting him in order to feel safe. 

Promise to try, Dan, promise to try.  You're still hanging on, but you're doing it wrong


Does he need the 20 agents to also check under the bed each night for monsters?




Meanwhile, rumbles of the mutiny continues.  Matthew Chapman (RAW STORY) explains:

Republicans are growing restless and frustrated over President Donald Trump's escalating trade war — and some strategists are warning he's set to trigger a dangerous backlash, Politico reported on Tuesday.

Trump's "Liberation Day" tariffs, dubbed a "reciprocal" scheme even though the tariffs are in most cases far higher than those imposed on U.S. products by foreign countries, impose duties of 10 to 49 percent on virtually all foreign goods. The list of tariffs even singles out remote, uninhabited volcanic islands near Antarctica that have no trade with the U.S.

The result has been a panicked selloff in the stock market and forecasts of a likely imminent recession — which, GOP officials say, are not what their voters wanted.

The president "won in November because many voters saw him as an antidote to their economic malaise; as a candidate, he frequently promised to lower Americans’ everyday prices," noted Adam Cancryn and Myah Ward.

"But as president, he has chosen instead to plunge the country into fresh financial chaos, while insisting the market losses as a result of his tariffs are 'medicine' Americans need to take."

Whit Ayres, who polls for Republicans, said, “Trump was elected in part to lower inflation and juice the economy. Higher prices and slower growth are exactly the opposite of what Americans voted for.”

"The economic turbulence unleashed by the White House’s blanket tariffs is sending shudders through every level of the Republican Party. Alarmed officials worry the administration is driving the U.S. toward recession and dooming the GOP’s midterm chances — yet they have no idea what will convince Trump to change course," noted the report.

Who's fault is the tanking economy?  We all know and so does Chump.  But if he's struggling to own his failure, let's help him out by noting this from Brad Reed (RAW STORY):


CNN's Stephen Collinson believes that there is no easy way out for President Donald Trump when it comes to his trade war — and that means the American economy is headed for what he describes as an "ugly endgame."

In his latest analysis, Collinson makes the case that Trump has backed himself into a corner by refusing to budge from his trade wars with nearly every nation on the planet, including a remote island that is primarily populated by penguins.
"A president who believes he enjoys almost absolute power and who has torn off the constraints of his first term is not looking for an off-ramp," Collinson warns. "And his zeal for confrontation and sense of mission may also have implications beyond the economy and for other policy areas — such as his expansionist designs on Greenland and Canada, his mass migrant deportations and cultural warfare."
Collinson thinks that it will be hard for America's trade partners to actually negotiate with Trump give his beliefs about basic economic concepts such as trade deficits, which Trump has insisted that other countries eliminate as a precondition before he'll consider lowering his tariffs.


The tariffs have brought out the worst in the administration.  Even Alien Musk and Peter Navarro are at each other's throats. John L. Dorman and Alice Tecotzky (BUSINESS INSIDER) report on Propaganda Pig Karoline Leavitt's role in the mud:


White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Tuesday seemingly brushed aside any concerns regarding the public fight between Tesla CEO Elon Musk and top Trump trade advisor Peter Navarro.
"These are obviously two individuals who have very different views on trade and on tariffs," she said during a briefing at the White House. "Boys will be boys, and we will let their public sparring continue."

The bimbo grows ever more stupid with each passing day.   Peter Navarro is 75 years old.  Alien Musk is 53 years old.  Neither man is a boy.  One is an elderly man, the other is middle aged man.  Propaganda Pig has Daddy issues which is why she married someone 32 years older than she is but those are issues for her to work through in much needed therapy not in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room.


Last night on THE 11TH HOUR WITH STEPHANIE RUHLE, Stephanie and her guests discussed the tariffs and the claims and counter claims Chump and the administration keep putting out there.




Small-business owners are already feeling the effects of Donald Trump’s tariff scheme that he claims will boost American manufacturing and bring jobs back to the United States.

Many have flocked to Reddit to share their struggles, desperately searching for advice amid fears of losing their livelihoods.

“Any other small shops trying to figure out what to do? I’ve single handedly created and ran my small business for almost three years. I sell bamboo clothing and bedding, and now with this tariff I’ll likely have to close,” one user posted on the r/smallbusiness board.

On “Liberation Day,” Trump implemented tariffs ranging from 10 percent to 60 percent on imports from about 90 countries, which he claims will eliminate the trade deficit between the U.S. and other countries (economic experts have scoffed at the far-fetched assertion). China will see the worst of it all; the country faces a new 34 percent reciprocal tariff, along with a previously announced 20 percent tariff. On Monday, Trump threatened to increase the rate to 104 percent if China did not rescind its retaliatory tariffs.  

One Reddit user received an email from their Chinese distributor informing them that it will no longer distribute their products in the United States. “I planned for so many different things over the past few months which should allow us to weather the storm for the next year or so, but I didn’t expect our largest supplier to back out of the U.S. market entirely,” the user wrote.


He is wrecking the economy.  He does not know what he's doing.  He's surrounded by con artists and idiots.  Peter Navarro is an idiot. DOGE has fired over 200,000 workers already.  Now small businesses are struggling to stay open and, if they can't, that's even more people added to the unemployment rolls.  Extremists -- right wing or left wing -- only know how to tear apart, not how to build.  (Ask poor Jeffrey Bowman what it's like when DSA turns on you and works to get you kicked out of Congress.)  It's The Politics of Destruction and it's all they know and it's all they do.  


Senator Maria Cantwell's office issued the following:


WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA), senior member of the Senate Finance Committee and ranking member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, pressed United States Trade Representative Jamieson Greer on the administration’s slapdash implementation of sweeping tariffs without sufficient input or accountability to Congress.

Prior to President Trump’s implementation of the tariffs, there was no formal bipartisan briefing of Congress detailing how the tariff rates were set, analyzing on how they might impact the American economy, or even communicating what the White House was aiming to accomplish.

“What did the Trump administration do to prepare [Congress], to communicate with us, to tell us about findings as it relates to these emergency orders by the President?” Sen. Cantwell asked during a hearing today in the Senate Finance Committee.

“Our staff, the USTR staff, in the in the past two months that we've been in office, have had over 200 formal engagements with staff on the Hill,” Greer responded. “We also had the President issue very publicly his America First trade policy memorandum, which specifically said that he was going to look into the trade deficit and the possibilities of tariffs.”

Cantwell responded: “So, we've wreaked havoc on the economy by having one of the largest drops of the market. We have people's 401(k)s, in panic. We have retail organizations, like the retail industry, National Retail Federation, American Apparel Industry, Outdoor Association, Consumer Technology, Computer and Communications Industry, Main Street Alliance, Small Business Majority, all anxious, asking us to do something. And you're saying, ‘Well, some people have passed some notes to staff.’”

She continued: “We should be building alliances as a way to counter China, but the alliance building process now will become harder, and people are going to wonder, well, is the United States going to pull another fast one again and just wreak havoc?”

Greer said the United States has seen “many times in past decades when we have had real robust trade disputes with our partners.”

Sen. Cantwell responded: “I'm for trade. I represent trade. I represent a trade economy. I represent the success of what innovation and trade gets you. But you're coming here this morning with this, not only tanking of the market and 401(k)s, now you're coming here telling me that tariff is the tool. And I'm telling you -- innovation is the tool!”

The bill has since picked up 12 additional cosponsors – an equal mix of Republicans and Democrats – and been endorsed by multiple major U.S. business organizations, including the National Retail Federation, which is the largest retail trade association in the world.

In addition, a bipartisan group has introduced a companion version of Sen. Cantwell’s legislation in the House of Representatives, also cosponsored by equal numbers of Republicans and Democrats.

The bill restores Congress’ authority and responsibility over tariffs as outlined in Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution by placing the following limits on the president’s power to impose tariffs:

  • To enact a new tariff, the president must notify Congress of the imposition of (or increase in) the tariff within 48 hours.
    • The Congressional notification must include an explanation of the president’s reasoning for imposing or raising the tariff, and
    • Provide analysis of potential impact on American businesses and consumers.
  • Within 60 days, Congress must pass a joint resolution of approval on the new tariff, otherwise all new tariffs on imports expire after that deadline.
  • Under the bill, Congress has the ability to end tariffs at any time by passing a resolution of disapproval.
  • Anti-dumping and countervailing duties are excluded.

The full bill text is available HERE.

For the past three months, President Trump has been sowing economic chaos across the country with unpredictable and ever-changing tariff announcements. His back-and-forth announcements and actions, which have whipsawed American businesses and consumers, as well as close neighbors and allies, include:

  • On January 31 –  citing punishment for failing to crack down on fentanyl trafficking -- the Trump administration announced plans to impose a 25% tax on many goods imported into the U.S. from Canada and Mexico and a 10% tax on goods imported from China, then abruptly postponed those tariffs.
  • In February, he doubled down, announcing an additional 25% tax on all steel and aluminum imports.
  • At 12:01 a.m. ET on March 4, President Trump’s long-promised 25% tariffs on goods from Mexico and Canada and 10% tariff increase on goods from China took effect, causing stock prices in the United States to plummet.
  • Then, on March 5, he announced that automobiles from Canada and Mexico would be exempt from his tariffs for one month.
  • The morning of March 6, he announced that he would suspend the tariffs for some products from Mexico. Then, later that same afternoon, he announced he was suspending most new tariffs on products from both Mexico and Canada until April 2.
  • On March 11, Trump threatened to double tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum – increasing them to 50% –  before reversing himself later the same day.
  • On March 13, he threatened 200% tariffs on alcoholic products from the European Union, including all wine and Champagne.
  • On March 27, he announced plans to impose a 25% tax on all imported sedans, SUVs, crossovers, minivans, cargo vans, and light trucks, as well as some auto parts, beginning on April 2.
  • On March 29, President Trump said, “I couldn’t care less,” if automakers raise the price of cars in response to his tariffs.
  • On April 2, he announced a “National Economic Emergency,” and signed an executive order declaring a 10% minimum baseline tariff on all countries as well as additional tariffs on nearly 60 countries.
  • On April 7, he threatened to impose an additional 50% tariff on China.

Video of Sen. Cantwell’s Q&A with Greer today is available HERE; audio is HERE; and a transcript is HERE.

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Chump is wrecking the economy, he is wrecking democracy, he is wrecking people's lives.

Let's turn to the topic of immigration.



Lives are being destroyed.

Idiot Tim Waltz is back, if you missed it.  VANGUARD boys were lapping his nuts like crazy yesterday because he's White and he's  a Socialist and he's a liar and he was attacking Kamala Harris.


If you've forgotten, Tim's a damn loser.  Almost immediately upon being announced as Kamala's running mate, Tim told one lie after another and got caught over and over and over.  

No, you don't 'misspeak' when you say you were at Tiananmen Square when the massacre took place when you were not there


That's not slipping up, that's flat out lying and he did it over and over.  He also lost a debate to JD Vance.  How much of an idiot do you have to be to lose a debate to Miss Sassy?  He lost it.  He was sweating like a pig, stumbling around with words and he lost.

Now maybe you're confused because THE 'PROGRESSIVE' promoted him so heavily.  While attacking Kamala over and over, they promoted him.  That was because he was Socialst approved.  As Mike noted earlier this week in "Tim Walz, STFU:"


Can someone tell Tim Walz to shut up?  The only people who ever liked him were Socialists -- he's probably a Socialist himself.  When Kamala announced he was her running mate, DSA Tweeted that this was a victory for them (DSA).  So he's probably a Socialist.  But what he mainly is?  A failure.  Alex Galbraith (SALON) reports:


Tim Walz isn't laughing.

The former vice presidential candidate and current governor of Minnesota stopped by CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday, taking a moment to criticize former running mate Kamala Harris over comments she made last week. 

Speaking at the Leading Women Defined Summit in California on Thursday, Harris played the role of an in-the-know adviser whose advice wasn't heeded.



“There were many things that we knew would happen. I’m not here to say ‘I told you so,‘” the former vice president said. “I swore I wasn’t going to say that!”

Speaking to Jake Tapper, Walz let loose on the former vice president. He noted that she was the face of the Democratic Party's massive loss, saying she should own up to the result. 

“When I criticize, I’m criticizing myself,” Walz said. “I own this. I’m part of the ticket, and somebody has to come up with a strategy.”



When has that loser every criticized himself?

At this rate, Shapiro would have been a better choice.

Tim's announced and we're happy and think he's the real deal -- the DSA applause should have been a clue.


DSA
@DemSocialists
Harris choosing Walz as a running mate has shown the world that DSA and our allies on the left are a force that cannot be ignored. Through collective action, DSA and the US left more broadly have made it clear that change is needed. DSA members organized in our workplaces and unions to realign the labor movement to support Palestinian liberation.
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The Uncommitted movement, in which DSA members played crucial roles nationally and in multiple states, pressured the Democratic establishment into choosing a new candidate and backing down from a potential VP with direct ties to the IDF and who would have ferociously supported the ongoing genocide in Palestine.



DSA is a rat f**ker that rat f**ked our election.  

And they loved them so Tim Walz.  You saw all the closet cases put it out for Timmy Walz -- including that wretched COMMON DREAMS.  



He's not the real deal.

He's a natural born liar.  And one lie after another keeps coming from his stupid and uninformed mouth.


He turned out to be the worst choice for a running mate and yet liars like Zac and Cody of THE VANGUARD rush to pretend otherwise.  On TABITHA SPEAKS POLITICS yesterday, Tabitha noted these White liars.




She's exactly right.  And if Zac and Cody can't learn to shut their damn mouths and stop attacking Kamala, they're going to see the crowd size dwindle.  There is no reason for those of us who are Black to take part in these Hands Off rallies if we're going to be attacked.  And that's all that's happening.  White fat ass Tim comes back to attack Kamala and the White Socialists are all over it yet again.

They've never apologized for their actions and their lies and working to defeat Kamala Harris.  They've never owned that they put us in the hell that we are all currently living in.

But damned if they can't make time to yet again attack Kamala while pretending that they didn't do it all along.


Don Lemon brought some honesty yesterday.



It's what all the White YOUTUBERS have ignored.  The anger and the reason for the anger.  They pretend that they care about Black people but they don't.  Like Zac and Cody (I know it's Gavin but they're so immature they should be Zac and Cody) pretend to care about trans rights but when their hero Marianne Williamson is talking to Bill Maher?  They praised her for not defending trans rights.  They felt that was a rabbit hole and a distraction.

These are the same crap ass idiots who think Senator Chuck Schumer should step down from leadership.  When are Zac and Cody going to step down?

As Ava and and I noted in "Media: Stop the insanity:"

It was cute in the last months watching them talk to Mehdi Hasan about Mehdi's Jill Stein interview.  We praised Medhi for that interview.  
 
 
But wasn't it strange watching the boyz grovel over Mehdi?  Didn't it bother anyone that only months before, Zac and Gavin were pimping Jill Stein.  Just like Kyle had.  Yeah, they came on board in a luke warm manner for Kamala but only after they pimped everyone else.  They were for Cornel West.  And then they were for Marianne Williamson.  And then they were for Jill Stein.  In less than 18 months, that's what they served up.  

That's how shallow Zac and Cody are.  There is no thought deeper with those two than one of them burping and the other, after sniffing the air, asking, "Did you have Mexican?"  

Food and gossip, that's all they can really handle as they veer from one half-thought to the next trying to recall the words to their bittersweet nursery rhyme.
 

Grasp that Richard Nixon had an enemies' list while Donald Chump works from an enemies roll -- an enemies' ledger -- yet we've got THE VANGUARD serving up the 'hot goss' like they're E! buzz mavens.


The far left is an embarrassment.  They rush to and fro from position to position with no ethics and a strong hope that you don't remember what they said two months ago.  They lie just like Chump because they are extremists just like he is.


They are as much to blame for the deportations as Chump himself is.  Isabela Dias (MOTHER JONES) reports:


 On February 7, Luz Zambrano gave birth to her second child, Alana Samantha. She hadn’t expected to do so without her husband, Julio Zambrano Perez, by her side. But Luz went into labor only days after US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detained Zambrano Perez, during a routine check-in appointment. Weeks later, the Trump administration sent him, along with 237 other Venezuelan men, to a mega-prison in El Salvador. Luz has been left lost and confused.

“We don’t even know what to do,” Luz tells me. “We don’t understand what they are going to do with him. Nobody answers. Not here, not in Venezuela, not anywhere.” 

Zambrano Perez’s family says ICE misidentified him as a gang member because of two tattoos he has: one of a rose and another of a crown. (ICE did not respond to a request for comment.) Now, his fate is uncertain. In the aftermath of his disappearance to a foreign country, the asylum-seeking family—who was building their lives in a suburb of North Carolina—has been abruptly torn apart, perhaps indefinitely. As we speak on the phone, I can hear her infant’s cries in the background. Luz tells me she just went to the hospital. Her two-month-old baby has the flu.

In mid-March, President Donald Trump quietly signed a proclamation invoking the wartime Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to detain and remove, without due process, Venezuelans accused of being members of the Tren de Aragua gang. The administration then swiftly flew three planes to El Salvador, prompting a judicial clash with a federal judge who temporarily halted the deportations over whether the White House disobeyed a court order to return on-air flights to the United States. (On Monday, the Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration can resume removals under the Act.)

As our reporting revealed, many of the men dispatched to El Salvador without any notice appear to have been plucked by the US government because of their tattoos—despite the fact that they had no proven ties to the group. An analysis by CBS News failed to find criminal records for 179—or 75 percent—of the Venezuelans. One man whose loved ones we spoke with, Neri Alvarado Borges, has an autism awareness tattoo for his 15-year-old brother. Another is a makeup artist whose tattoos on his wrists depict a crown and the words “Mom” and “Dad’ in English. 

The Trump White House has admitted in court filings to have wrongfully sent another man, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, to El Salvador even though he had been granted protection from deportation to his native country by an immigration judge. Still, the administration claims US courts can’t compel them to bring the Maryland father of three back to the United States. During a district court hearing last week, a Justice Department attorney, who has since been placed on leave, acknowledged Abrego Garcia shouldn’t have been removed, saying the government’s “absence of evidence speaks for itself.” 


Some of us were focused in the lead up to the election.  Here we repeatedly made the point that the deportations Chump was bragging he would do if elected would (a) lead to profiling, (b) snap up US citizens by mistake and (c) wrongfully deport immigrants who had committed no crimes.  Zac and Cody were clearly off somewhere getting stoned.  Unable to do the work, they refuse to do it now.  

We need something for a smile and this photo Tabitha posted of the morbidly obese Donald Chump might do that.



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