Oh Boy It Never Ends: Mia Sara

Above is Isaiah's THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS "Linda McMahon Answers Senator Jack Reed."

Questioning this:

Ferris Bueller's Day Off star Mia Sara made her return to the red carpet yesterday to promote her first film in almost 15 years.

The 57-year-old actor is best known for playing the female lead Sloane Peterson opposite Matthew Broderick and Alan Ruck in John Hughes’s 1986 teen classic Ferris Bueller's Day Off. She was 17 when the film was released.

She makes her return to the screen in The Life of Chuck, Mike Flanagan’s new film based on a novella by Stephen King.

The film tells the story of Charles “Chuck” Krantz’s life in reverse-chronological order. The adult Chuck is played by Tom Hiddleston, with a younger version played by Benjamin Pajak and Jacob Tremblay. Sara plays his grandmother, Sarah Krantz, alongside Mark Hamill as her husband Albie.

FERRIS was not a blockbuster in real time. It was a hit film and sold $70 million in tickets in North America at a time when $100 million was the definition of a blockbuster. I'd argue the classic she's best known for is LEGEND. The film didn't do well at the box office but, with each year, it finds more and more admirers and that will only continue since it's part of Ridley Scott filmography.

I also question her playing the main character's grandmother with Mark Hamill playing the grandfather. Mia Sara is 57. Mark Hamill is 73. Who okayed that casting? I thought we'd made real moves to go past the 50 something man with the 28 year old female co-star. Apparently not.

Please go read Ava and C.I.'s "MEDIA: Happy Pride"

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

Wednesday, June 4, 2025. Dementia Donald continues to wreck the economy while making plans for blaming it on others, Homeland Security and ICE tell one lie after another, Glenneth Greenwald's kink shame desires that led him to dress up as a maid say a great deal about his hatred of women, and much more.

Let's open with a PSA.

You should see THELMA and if you have a loved one who is older and lives by themselves, you should get them to see it. It's a good movie, yes. But in southern California yesterday, a 93 year old woman would still have $10,000 dollars if she'd seen the movie. We were getting ready to speak with a group when I noticed someone was really bothered. I went over to say hello and make sure everything was okay. His mother was calling asking for $20,000 on questions asked. He couldn't figure it out. I told him about THELMA, just making conversation and how she's told over the phone that her grandson is in trouble and to send money to this address. It's a scam. While we were talking and taking questions, I saw the man step out to take a call. When he came back in, I asked if everything was okay? He said, "It's like that movie you were talking about." His mother got a call and she was told that her grandson was hurt -- and apparently someone was moaning in the background. and she thought it was her grandson The caller could help but it was going to take $30,000 with ten thousand right now. She went to her bank and took the money out and a man came by to pick it up. She only had a couple hundred over ten thousand. So now she needed to borrow 20,000. She thought it was real because the caller knew about her grandson, knew about her daughter (grandson's mother), knew all of this stuff. People can find everything out on social media but, in her case, her son thinks it's because a local paper did a profile on her about three weeks ago. She's 93, she's a fitness instructor, she's a human interest story. He told everyone assembled to make sure that their loved ones saw the movie I had told him about. Again, it came out last year, it's THELMA. A 93 year old rushed to save her grandson -- a great thing -- but it was a con and she's now out of ten thousand dollars. Hopefully, she'll go to the police. The son says there are security cameras all over the place where she lives so hopefully someone caught the man's face on camera. So that is your PSA.

On we go into Chump Land. Thibault Spirlet (BUSINESS INSIDER) states the obvious:

The US and global economy are losing steam, and a key forecaster said President Donald Trump's trade tariffs were part of the reason.

In its latest Economic Outlook, released on Tuesday, the Paris-based Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development cut its forecast for US economic growth in 2025, pointing to the fallout from the administration's trade policies. The 2.8% rate it predicted in March has now been reduced to 1.6%.

The OECD warned that these tariffs, which have pushed the effective US import rate to 15.4% — the highest since 1938 — were not only affecting US growth but reverberating across the global economy too.

Global growth was now projected to slow to 2.9% in both 2025 and 2026, down from 3.3% in 2024.

The OECD said the slowdown in growth was concentrated in the US, Canada, Mexico, and China. Growth in China, the world's second-largest economy, was expected to fall to 4.7% in 2025, down from 5% last year, and come in at 4.3% in 2026.

As of May 27, a blanket 10% tariff applies to all goods imported into the US, with some limited exemptions.

Last night, the topic was addressed on MSNBC's THE 11TH HOUR WITH STEPHANIE RUHLE

And Paul Krugman observes:

Why are markets beginning to treat America as unreliable? It’s not just the debt numbers. Yes, we have large debts, but we’re an immensely wealthy country that, among other things, has lower average taxes than most of our peers. So we certainly have the resources to honor our debts.

But do we have the political will? Maybe even more important, do we have the political seriousness?

Like many economists, I’ve spent a lot of time analyzing the substance of Trump’s tariffs — how much they are likely to raise prices and reduce trade volumes. I’ve also written about the impacts of policy uncertainty, about how hard it is for businesses to make plans when they have little idea what tariff rates will be even a few months from now, let alone over the next few years.

But I wonder whether we’ve spent enough time looking at the policy process — how decisions get made in Trump’s America. Consider: On April 2, “Liberation Day,” Trump announced extremely high tariffs on many countries, the biggest tariff hike in U.S. history. The tariff rates — which differed hugely from country to country — were determined by a formula universally panned as stupid and ridiculous. And this tariff announcement was made with so little planning and forethought that it included taxes on imports from remote islands inhabited only by penguins.

Then, a week later, these tariffs were replaced by a completely different set of tariffs. How did that happen? Two of Trump’s cabinet members were able to beard him in the Oval Office while Peter Navarro, responsible for the original tariffs, was in another meeting.

Does this sound like policymaking in a serious country?

While he's destroying the US economy, Chump's working hard to Make China Great Again. Rhian Lubin (INDEPENDENT) explains:

President Donald Trump’s trade tariff policy has seen America’s favorability plummet while China’s has risen, a new global analysis has found.

Since Trump entered office in January, “the overwhelming majority of countries simultaneously exhibit worsening views of the United States and improving views of China,” according to the analysis by technology research firm Morning Consult, and first reported by Axios.

America’s drop in favorability among the 41 countries surveyed comes as fewer visitors are traveling to the U.S. in part because of the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration policies.

The analysis as of the end of May found China had an 8.8 net favorability rating versus –1.5 for the USA. By comparison, in January 2024 the U.S. was above 20 while China was in the negative.

He's destroying the US economy. But he's not worried. No, he has no plan to fix the economy. But he is plotting how to blame his failures on other people. Klaus Marre (WHO WHAT WHY) reports:

Donald Trump is a master at making his own achievements — no matter how unremarkable they are — sound like they are the most amazing accomplishments in history; taking credit for the successes of others; and blaming everybody but himself for his own failures.

That is how an average US economy during his first term became the “greatest in history,” which is a claim so laughable that one look at any statistical category shows that it is false.

Of course, when you brag about being the greatest, and then find yourself in the Oval Office again, you have to deliver.

And that’s Trump’s current dilemma because, while he inherited a robust economy from Joe Biden, his erratic tariff policies are posing a real threat to everything from gross domestic product growth, unemployment, and inflation.

So far, the economy is still cruising along in some of those areas. However, most of the tariffs have also not yet gone into effect, and there is a very real chance that they will do great harm to the economy and, by extension, the American people.

Plenty of warning signs are already flashing. The US just lost its perfect rating from Moody’s, growth is stagnating, and consumers are concerned.

In addition, if congressional Republicans further balloon the debt by passing Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill,” there is a good chance that bond markets will react poorly, which is going to add to the current economic uncertainty.

He will blame it on others because that's what he always does. He will not take accountability. Even with all the people publicly warning him for months now that he is destroying the economy, Chump doesn't care in part because he thinks he'll evade responsibility for his actions. Alex Henderson files a dispatch from Chump Land:

On Friday afternoon, May 30, President Donald Trump held a media event in the White House Oval Office to thank Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk for his work with his administration and the South African centibillionaire's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). But critics of the mass layoffs of federal government workers being carried out by the Trump administration with DOGE's help are not feeling thankful. As they see it, layoffs at the U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA), the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and other agencies are a recipe for major problems — not something to celebrate.

Another agency experiencing major layoffs is the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

In an article published on June 2, the Philadelphia Inquirer's Jason Nark details the problems that Army Corps cuts are having in Pennsylvania thanks to campsite closings along Raystown Lake in Huntingdon County.

"The lake's Seven Points, Susquehannock, and Nancy's Boat-to-Shore Campgrounds — all popular and often booked out far ahead of summer — were closed, and the Army Corps began refunding campers who had made reservations," Nark reports. "In addition, farther north in Tioga County, Tompkins Campground on Tioga-Hammond and Cowanesque Lakes also closed, along with its swim beach and boat ramp. Tompkins has approximately 125 sites."

Nark points to 81-year-old Judy Norris, who has owned Seven Points Bait & Grocery for 49 years, as an example of a Pennsylvania business owner who is hurting because of Army Corps cuts and campsite closings. According to Norris, business was way down on Memorial Day Weekend.

The American Dream was a great tourism attraction. Democracy. Freedom. People came to this country to sight-see. Now it's a fright-see and travel is down. People aren't eager to come here because they're worried what could happen. Maybe Chump sicks ICE on them and they end up deported -- but not back home to, say France, no, instead to a gulag in El Salvador. A lot of Americans depend upon the income tourism brings this country. But even on the border towns to the north, tourism is down, Canadians aren't rushing to come into our country. This is the Chump effect and it's destroying the economy as surely as it destroys our image.

EL PASO MATTERS reports:

Two young men emerged from the Richard C. White Federal Building in Downtown El Paso on Thursday, laughing together as they turned left onto San Antonio Avenue. It was 1:50 p.m. and 99 degrees.

As they reached the corner of South Florence Street just a few steps away, a group of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents converged on them and grabbed Yasmir Marquez by the elbow. The two men were quickly surrounded by more federal law enforcement agents, one of whom showed Marquez a document. He turned to give his friend a hug before he was hustled into a waiting white van. Once inside, he was handcuffed.

Within three minutes, the other man stood alone on the sidewalk under the blazing sun watching in disbelief as the van drove away with his friend inside. “What the f— just happened?” asked the man, who was not arrested.

The courthouse arrests are a new tactic under the Trump administration’s efforts to scale up deportations, targeting migrants at immigration courts immediately after their court-ordered hearings. The migrants are ordered deported or have their cases dismissed and are then arrested by immigration agents as they leave the courtroom or the buildings, which allows for swift removal, the New York Times reported last week.

The Times obtained an internal ICE memo circulated on May 20 that the news organization reported instructed government prosecutors to help deportation officers with the operation to identify people whose pending immigration court case could be dismissed. Without their case pending in court, the migrants could be subject to expedited removal that doesn’t require a hearing before a judge.

Marquez’s arrest was the same day that a video from a San Antonio immigration court showing families arrested outside immigration court and their hands zip-tied went viral. Many more videos emerged showing similar ICE arrests at federal courthouses in Dallas, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Seattle, Miami and Las Vegas.

[. . .]

“This strategy is becoming more prevalent now, especially since this administration did away with the sensitive location protections,” said Fernando Garcia, executive director of the Border Network for Human Rights group in El Paso. “This is very troubling because now these people need to make a decision about whether to comply with a court order or not.”

Garcia referred to the Trump administration reversing a policy that, since 2011, put sensitive areas such as churches, schools and courthouses largely off limits to immigration enforcement actions. The protections were lifted when Trump took office Jan. 20.

The cruelty emerges from the top. And, by the way, I've figured out who Stephen Miller looks like -- Jim Rash -- the guy who played Dean Craig Pelton on COMMUNITY. Pedro Camacho (LATIN TIMES) reports:

Top Trump administration officials are unhappy about how ICE officials are currently enforcing the highly publicized immigration crackdown, according to a new report by the Washington Examiner.

The outlet quoted sources who took part or talked with people who were in a tense meeting between White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and dozens of senior U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials in Washington in late May.

The meeting in question had been reported last week by Axios, which confirmed its combative tone and noted that that Miller and Noem demanded ICE target 3,000 arrests per day—triple the daily average from early in Trump's first term. Two sources added back then that Miller's tone left attendees feeling their jobs could be at risk if goals weren't met. A third source characterized the tone as an attempt to motivate.

According to the Examiner, Miller "eviscerated everyone," telling the room: "you guys aren't doing a good job," and "you're horrible leaders." One official said Miller asked , "Why aren't you at Home Depot? Why aren't you at 7-Eleven?"

See, people build on their strengths. And immigrants and homeless men are often approached at Lowe's, Home Depot and 7-11 by adult White men who want to 'hire' the males for some bedroom 'fun.' Either 'fun' with the wife or solo. Clearly, cuck Stephen Miller was using his own data base built up by who knows what to offer suggestions on where to lurk.

Still on immigration, US House Rep Dan Goldman has attempted to get an answer as to why ICE is wearing masks in public. He's even asked them and been lied to by one who said because it was cold -- in the building. Whether it's true or not, a new explanation has emerged. M.B. Mack (LATIN TIMES) reports:

ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons defended the use of masks by federal agents during immigration enforcement operations, citing a sharp rise in online harassment and threats against officers and their families.

At a Monday press conference in Boston, officials announced that nearly 1,500 people had been arrested across Massachusetts in May alone. There, Lyons said agents have been "doxed," stalked online and targeted with death threats, according to the Associated Press.

The press conference had largely wrapped up when a reporter asked why ICE officers frequently wear masks during arrests. Lyons returned to the podium to answer directly.

"They are wearing those masks because we ran an operation with the Secret Service where we arrested someone that was going online, taking their photos, posting their families', their kids' Instagram, their kids' Facebooks and targeting them," he said.

The claim also insists that attacks on ICE agents have significantly increased. Real attacks or Alina Habba lies where she claims members of Congress and mayors attack ICE agents? They tell so many lies there's no reason for anyone believe any statement from that department. Secret Service is not wearing masks. Nor should they be. This is the administration that is outraged when protesters on campuses wear masks or even just some traditional scarf coverage reflecting religious beliefs. You can't have it both ways and you shouldn't.

ICE agents need to be hidden away?

Seems they're in the wrong line of work.

They put everyone at risk when they wear masks. Your face is supposed to be visible and you're supposed to be able to prove to the public that you're part of law enforcement.

Though Chump would love one, we don't have a secret police in this country. Nor are we going to start one.

I'm not the only one refusing to buy the lie. L eigh Kimmins (DAILY BEAST) reports:

Conservative commentator and longtime political strategist Bill Kristol blasted Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents for wearing masks during recent operations, calling the practice a tool of fear—not protection.

Appearing on CNN’s NewsNight on Monday, Kristol—best known for serving as chief of staff to Vice President Dan Quayle under President George H. W. Bush—dismissed ICE’s justification for the coverings, dismissing the practice as “ridiculous” and “pathetic.”

“I mean, it’s pathetic to pretend that, ‘Oh, we’re so concerned about their safety, they have to wear masks,’” Kristol, the co-founder of the nonprofit Defending Democracy Together, said.

“I grew up in New York City—40,000 cops, extremely dangerous circumstances. None of them were masked except in extremely rare occasions when they were going after some gang leader who might have relatives who go after them. ICE agents have functioned in this country. They didn’t wear masks. They shouldn’t wear masks.

“It’s total nonsense, and it’s for intimidation. It’s not really for their protection. It’s ridiculous.”

And repeating, ICE and Homeland Security and Alina Habba all lie so much, no one should believe a word out of their trashy mouths.

Doubt it?

Mike Balsamo, Scott Bauer and Adriana Gomez Licon (LOS ANGELES TIMES) report:

A claim by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem that an immigrant threatened the life of President Trump has begun to unravel.

Noem announced an arrest of a 54-year-old man who was living in the U.S. illegally, saying he had written a letter threatening to kill Trump and would then return to Mexico. The story received a flood of media attention and was highlighted by the White House and Trump's allies.

But investigators actually believe the man may have been framed so that he would be arrested and deported from the U.S. before he got a chance to testify in a trial as a victim of assault, a person familiar with the matter told the Associated Press. The person could not publicly discuss details of the investigation and spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity.

Law enforcement officials believe the man, Ramon Morales Reyes, never wrote a letter that Noem and her department shared with a message written in light blue ink expressing anger over Trump’s deportations and threatening to shoot him in the head with a rifle at a rally. Noem also shared the letter on X along with a photo of Morales Reyes, and the White House also shared it on its social media accounts. The letter was mailed to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement office along with the FBI and other agencies, the person said.

As part of the investigation, officials had contacted Morales Reyes and asked for a handwriting sample and concluded that his handwriting and the threatening letter didn’t match and that the threat was not credible, the person said. It’s not clear why Homeland Security officials still decided to send a release making that claim.

Why? Because they are liars. They are not interested in serving the American people -- they're not interested in doing their job -- instead they want to lie and try to frighten people into submission. They're liars. And they think lying protects and shields them. It does not. It only makes it clear that they cannot be trusted. Glenn Kessler (WASHINGTON POST) explains:

“We’re also identifying shocking levels of incompetence and probable fraud in the Social Security program for our seniors, and that our seniors and people that we love rely on. Believe it or not, government databases list … 3.47 million people from ages 120 to 129, 3.9 million people from ages 130 to 139. 3.5 million people from ages 140 to 149. And money is being paid to many of them.”

— President Donald Trump, in a speech to Congress, March 4

This is an example of how, even after falsehoods are exposed, the spin machine keeps working.

By the time Trump delivered his speech to Congress falsely saying that millions of people above the age of 120 were getting Social Security payments, The Washington Post on Feb. 19 had already published a detailed article that documented how claims of such payments — originally circulated by billionaire Elon Musk, then head of the cost-cutting U.S. DOGE Service — were wrong. (We never rated them, but they’re worthy of Four Pinocchios.)

Social Security databases rely on COBOL, a nearly 70-year-old computer programming language, and COBOL doesn’t have a standardized way to store dates. So a default date, such as 1875, was chosen for people lacking birth information. But when Musk’s team entered Social Security’s systems, they were shocked to find people listed in the system with absurd ages because of the limitations of an old programming language.

The problem was well known to people familiar with Social Security’s systems. In fact, since 2015, the Social Security Administration has automated the termination of benefits to people once they reach age 115 — and no American has ever lived to be 120 years old. Moreover, a 2023 report from the administration’s inspector general found that the vast majority of beneficiaries who lacked a birth date had died.

The IG in 2023 recommended a cleanup of the system so that the deaths were permanently recorded. But the Social Security Administration rejected the idea, saying that “correcting records for non-beneficiaries would divert resources from work necessary to administer and manage its programs,” especially because doing so “would have limited or no benefit to the administration of SSA programs, and would be costly to implement.” Errors might also be introduced in the process, the agency said.

They lie and then they lie again.

Next topic . . .

What? Doesn't every guy want to dress up as the TV maid Hazel as part of a sex fantasy? Yes, we've arrived at Glenneth Greenwald. What about the porn? One e-mail after another asks about that. And I actually think there's more than one reason to note it again and in depth.

First, the told you so dance -- one minute and thirty seconds in.

So Glenneth was paying a man to dominate and humiliate him. Hmm. I seem to recall us noting several times here the rumor that Glenneth was doing just that online with a MAGA mether who actually went behind bars for his part in the January 6th insurrection. Don't confuse him with a porn star. He wasn't. He was an online 'finmasster' and he is ugly and was ugly then. Looked like he needed a flea dip. And that's who Glenneth was interested in. So let's do the told-you-so dance.

In the video, Glenneth is paying for this behavior. He's trying to pass it off as just two consenting adults. Well one was consenting. Glenneth was paying.

Third, he's wearing a plaid skirt.

A plaid skirt.

So there's the cross dressing aspect. And the cross dressing aspect from a gay man who hates trans women and trashes them nonstop, from a freak who's part of the LGB-no-T movement.

A plaid skirt. I'm a woman and I don't own a plaid skirt. Most of us don't. They're usually uncomfortable and not something you'd want to be wearing if you had to be on the floor for an extended period of time (because he's on the floor as he licks the man's feet). Glenn had to have spent significant time picking that little outfit.

We have noted her for decades that Glenn is a disgusting sexist.

And he is.

But at various times people have tried to defend him and insist that he's not.

He is.

And that goes to that little fantasy of his.

He wants to be humiliated.

Okay.

But how is he humiliated?

By wearing a skirt and being treated (in his sick mind) as a woman.

That's what he thinks women should get.

Again, he's a sexist.

It's the Israeli government!!!!!

Glenn's fellow whores are lying like crazy that this video has been released to silence him regarding Gaza and it was released by the Israeli government!!!!!

Gaza?

Check the news cycle, no one really cares. Not to report on it, not to protest it.

Glenn's claiming he's a victim (and probably beating off while he makes that claim since humiliation is his kink).

Mary, when you let the man you're with film your act, you're not a victim.

You may be stupid (Glenneth certainly is that) but you're not a victim. What goes before the camera usually comes out at some point.

Glenneth's living in shame and every month is Shame Month and every month is Shame Year. His friends are embarrassed for him so they rush forward to invent lies about this being a government plot and blah blah blah.

Own your s**t. Own your kink.

Don't be an embarrassment like Glenneth Greenwald.

Happy Pride.

In "MEDIA: Happy Pride," Ava and I note various attacks on the LGBTQ+ community and how those attacks are out of step and destined to fail. Progress has come and the country's not going to return to letting hate merchants dictate thought.

We note in our piece, and I'll note here now, this from the VFW:

WASHINGTON -- June is Pride Month, and the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) stands with our fellow Americans honoring the invaluable contributions and sacrifices of all who have served our nation, including lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) veterans.

It is estimated that there are a little more than 1 million LGBTQ veterans in the United States. They are among us, counted with us and are one of the less than 1% of us who serve or have served our great nation. Our veterans, regardless of their background or identity, have stepped forward to protect our country, bravely defending the freedoms we all cherish. Their dedication, courage and selfless commitment are foundational to our nation's strength and security.

The VFW believes that the bond forged in service transcends all differences. Our mission remains steadfast: to foster camaraderie among veterans, to advocate for their earned benefits, and to perpetuate the memory and history of our fallen brothers and sisters-in-arms. We are dedicated to ensuring that every veteran feels valued and has access to the resources and community they deserve.

This June, the VFW encourages all Americans to reflect on the diverse tapestry of service members and veterans who have contributed to our nation's defense. It is through recognizing and valuing the service of all who have served that we truly uphold the ideals of liberty and justice for everyone.

The more than 1.4 million members of the VFW and its Auxiliary salute all LGBTQ veterans, past, present, and future, and say “thank you” for your service to our great nation.

The hate merchants are doing their last gasps as they die out. Their desperation attacks go to the fact that they have lost. It's already over, they just don't know it.

If you're LGBTQ+, know that you are part of this country and part of the world and you always have been. We've progressed enough as a society to realize that and embrace it. Celebrate this month and celebrate yourself.

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