Tuesday, June 3, 2025

Why does YARDBARKER publish Chris Barker's sexist attacks?


He's written some garbage entitled "20 actors who were given chances to be A-list movie stars, but failed."  

It's uninformed and ignorant throughout.  Like here with his number two pick: Courtney Cox:


We already mentioned both Aniston and Kudrow, so let’s round out the distaff cast of “Friends” with Cox. Yes, there are the “Scream” movies, but not once has Cox been the foremost face of those movies. She’s a piece of a puzzle in an ensemble horror series. Beyond that, she’s been in movies like “The Runner” and “3000 Miles to Graceland.” “Friends” ended in 2004, and by 2009 Cox was starring in “Cougar Town.” She retreated to the world of sitcoms within half a decade.


No, not in this article.  You didn't mention Aniston or Kudrow.  Maybe in the original article you've stolen from the two were mentioned.  Not here though.  And when was she given a chance to be a "movie star" -- your term, idiot.  Never.  Lisa Kudrow has been given a few chances and, guess what, Lisa Kudrow is NOT a movie star.  She's not even a TV star.  Courtney is a star in the SCREAM movies and that's nothing to scoff at. And Courtney is a TV star.  And, another lie you tell, she's back in the world of sitcoms in 2009.  She made a pilot entitled REHAB in 2005, months after FRIENDS ended but it was not picked up.  Then, in 2007, she was the star and executive producer of DIRT which ran for two seasons.  Chris Barker's an idiot and a sexist. Courtney was forty when FRIENDS went off.  She didn't make the rules of a sexist film industry.  

Here's the idiot on Sam Worthington: 

You might argue, “Worthington is in the ‘Avatar’ movies!” We grant you that, but can you name his character? How many of you have seen the “Avatar” movies but could not have named the male lead? Besides, the humans in those movies don’t matter. It’s all about Pandora, the Na’vi, and James Cameron’s uncompromising vision. Outside of “Avatar,” here are the attempts at making Worthington a non-CGI alien movie star: “Terminator: Salvation” and “Clash of the Titans.” Look at his filmography outside of “Avatar” over the last 15 years and try to make the claim he panned out as a movie star.

Jake.  His character's name is Jake.  Anyone who has seen THE AVATAR films knows his character's  name. As for TERMINATOR SALVATION, the film grossed $371 million.  Are you next going to attack his co-star Christian Bale?  Going to insist that the Batman films don't count?  What idiot move will you make next, Chris?  CLASH OF THE TITANS?  It grossed $493.2 million worldwide.  Do you not get that the box office for TS and COTT qualifies both films that you're insulting as blockbusters.  Not hits, blockbusters, you idiot. WRATH OF THE TITANS?  It made 302 million worldwide.  Although not a blockbuster, HACKSAW RIDGE was a hit. 

Then he attacks Shelley Long:

Long is one of the most famous examples of a TV star who didn’t pan out as a movie star. She was nominated for playing Diane Chambers on “Cheers” four times before deciding to leave the show to focus on her movie career. While Long had been in a couple movies during her “Cheers” tenure, these are the four films she starred in after leaving the show: “Hello Again,” “Troop Beverly Hills,” “Don’t Tell Her It’s Me,” and “Frozen Assets.” Other than her turn as Carol Brady in the “Brady Bunch” movies, which are better than they have any right to be, Long didn’t achieve much success post-“Cheers.”


For those who don't remember, Long and David Caruso were attacked for years for leaving TV.  Caruso never had a hit film he was the start of.  When she left CHEERS, Shelley was 38.  Again, women's careers don't work like men's and the film industry is generally done with you by 45 in most cases when you're a woman.  She starred in cult classics like CAVEMAN.  She starred in hit films like NIGHT SHIFT, IRRECONCILABLE DIFFERENCES, THE MONEY PIT, OUTRAGEOUS FORTUNES, HELLO AGAIN and THE BRADY BUNCH MOVIE.  That's six hit movies.  A number any actress would be proud to have starred in.  In addition, she made Robert Altman's DR T. & THE WOMEN which is a classic and an art film.  No one ever thought it would be a blockbuster.  Remember that DISNEY-TOUCHSTONE was looking for female led live action films to make around $20 million at the box office during this time.  When DISNEY's BUENA VISTA started DECEIVED was one of its biggest hits forever (Goldie Hawn film that made $28 million). Bigger budgets went to Bruce Willis' COLOR OF THE NIGHT and Sean Connery's MEDICINE MAN which is why their five million dollars over shooting costs brought in did not make them hits.  Women worked cheap and the movies were made cheap.  It's not fair to impose 21st century expectations on Shelley's filmography from the 80s and 90s. 


Here's him trashing Amy Schumer:

Schumer was able to make the move from standup to sketch comedy, so it made sense to see if she could work in film as well. “Trainwreck” got a lot of attention, but in the end didn’t prove to be the jumping-off point many anticipated. And yet, that remains the pinnacle of her movie career. “Snatched” and “I Feel Pretty” have been utterly forgotten. Schumer got another chance in 2025 with “Kinda Pregnant,” but did you even know the Netflix movie even exists? If you did, based on the reception you probably didn’t like it.

Did you even know the NETFLIX movie even exists?  Two "even"s, Chris?  That's bad writing.  But, yes, I did know.  And why are you bringing up that NETFLIX film?  You didn't with any man.  You also ignore her voice work in animated hit films, don't you?

Here he goes off on Dakota Johnson:


People are, by and large, too quick to cry “nepotism” just because an actor has famous parents. Jack Quaid, for example, is quite talented. On the other hand, there are the Dakota Johnsons of the world. The daughter of Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith is, well, a bad actor. Yes, the “Fifty Shades” movies were successful, but the book series it was being adapted from was the selling point and Johnson could essentially be a living mannequin and have been sufficient for those movies (and she has the acting skills of a living mannequin, so maybe the casting was apt). It does feel like the disaster that was “Madame Web” has slammed on the brakes for Johnson’s career. And if not, well, maybe nepotism is more powerful than we think.


Jack Quaid?  You sexist trash, did you mention Jack Quaid?  Because Jack Quaid has no 50 SHADES hit films.  He's in two SCREAM movies but you refused to count those for Courtney Cox -- who is in way more than two. He is not the star or one of the stars of either of those films.  He did star in COMPANION -- which only made $37 million worldwide. He did star in NOVOCAINE which only made $34 million worldwide.  He did star in NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH which only made $7,136 worldwide.  And Dakota Johnson is very talented.  Your sexism, I note, doesn't allow you to mention that Dakota's the granddaughter of Tippi Hendren.  She's also produced five feature films and one documentary film that I'm not seeing you noting.  She's starred in three hit films and she is very talented.

You're just a hack writer who hates women.


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


Tuesday, June 3, 2025.  Dementia Donald's lies keep getting tripped up by reality, his latest plan is to bring the likes of Blackwater onto US streets, Alien Musk continues to fail non-stop, and much more.

Convicted Felon Donald Chump continues his attempts to terrorize the US economy and tax payer.  Chris Isidore (CNN) reports:

President Donald Trump is using his love of tariffs to threaten high-profile American companies.

Over the past month, Trump has said he’d like to target two specific and very different companies – Apple and Mattel – with tariffs aimed at their key products over comments by their CEOs.
Company-specific tariff threats will likely face legal problems, especially after a decision late Wednesday by the US Court of International Trade questioned the president’s authority to unilaterally impose tariffs without action by Congress – a decision that was put on hold by a Court of Appeals decision on Thursday.

He's a stooge.  Sometimes the press is as well.  I said Walmart was not going to eat the tariffs.  I said that was a lie.  But the press ran with it as truth.  It was a lie.  Leave it to THE NEW YORK POST and Ariel Zilber to point that reality out:


Walmart has quietly been hiking prices on items ranging from toys to office supplies, with some markups reportedly climbing more than 100% — despite President Trump’s demand for retailers to “eat the tariffs.”

Photos circulating online, particularly on the Walmart subreddit, have documented the dramatic price hikes since the White House imposed a 145% tariff on imports from China in early April, before lowering the levy to 30% last month.

The price of toys, the bulk of which are made in China, were particularly impacted.
A “Jurassic World” T. rex rose from $39.92 on April 27 to $55 by May 21 — an increase of nearly 38%. Price tracking site AisleGopher shows the same item cost $29.74 in November.

A “Baby Born” doll jumped from $34.97 in March to $49.97 in May, a roughly 43% rise, while a Lite Brite Magic Screen set moved from $14.97 to $21.97 (up nearly 47%). The popular Etch A Sketch jumped from $14.97 to $24.99 — nearly a 67% increase.
The price on some office supplies also surged, with a roll of tape that previously sold for $4.24 soaring to $9.94, a 134% spike.
Other notable hikes include a heating pad rising roughly 25%, from $19.98 to $24.96, and a fishing reel surging from $57.37 in April to $83.26 in May, a 45% increase. That same reel was listed for $51.12 as recently as mid-March, according to AisleGopher.


Here's Jay Reed reporting on it yesterday:





And here we are dropping back to May 19th:

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As we were noting on Friday, Walmart's announcement was huge news:


Lets start with something major.  Eleanor Tolbert (THE MIRROR) reports:

President Donald Trump's tariffs may affect your daily grocery trips.

Walmart says it must raise prices due to tariff costs after posting solid first quarter sales, the Associated Press reported. In the quarter one earnings call Thursday, Walmart CEO Doug McMillon said that even at reduced levels, higher tariffs will result in higher prices.

I half-watched a report on this last night.  I wasn't impressed with the report which basically just stated what the above does and then moved on.  

Maybe they assumed everyone gets how important the above is?  I don't think everyone does. 

Walmart isn't just a minor store that a few states have.  It is global.  But let's just focus on the US aspect because it's all over the United States with an estimated 95% of Americans shopping there at least twice a year.  Let's note DEMANDSTAGE's stats:


Walmart Statistics 2025: Top Highlights

  • Walmart attracts 255 million customer visits each week.
  • Walmart has 10,660 stores globally.
  • The U.S. has 4,606 Walmart stores and 600 Sam’s Club locations.
  • Walmart operates 5,454 stores internationally.
  • Walmart’s revenue reached $500.4 billion in the first three quarters of fiscal year 2025.
  • Walmart employs around 2.1 million people worldwide.

How Many Customers Does Walmart Have?

Walmart sees 255 million customer visits each week across its global network.

This is a notable increase from 2023, when 240 million customers visited weekly, reflecting a rise of 15 million visits between January 2023 and January 2024.

The following table displays the number of weekly customer visits to Walmart stores worldwide over the years. 

YearWeekly Customer Visits
2024255 million
2023240 million
2022230 million
2021240 million
2020265 million
2019275 million
2018270 million
2017260 million

Source: Business Insider, Statista.

Here are some additional statistics about Walmart Customers:

  • Nearly 19 out of 20 Americans visit Walmart at least twice a year.
  • The average Walmart shopper makes 67 trips annually, including visits to Sam’s Club.
  • On average, Walmart shoppers spend $54 on 13 items per trip.
  • The typical Walmart customer is a white baby boomer with an annual income of less than $80,000.
  • Walmart earns over $1.56 billion daily by serving millions of customers.
  • Every second customer worldwide spends an average of $15,288 at Walmart.


Does that impress upon you how many people this is going to impact?

That was Friday morning and we went into more of it and noted how various outlets had treated it Thursday night as a brief headline if they noted it at all.  It was big news and it remains big news.  

CBS NEWS reported Saturday:


President Trump ripped into Walmart, saying on social media Saturday that the retail giant should "eat the tariffs" instead of blaming the duties on imported goods imposed by his administration for its increased prices.

Walmart on Thursday warned that everything from bananas to children's car seats could increase in price despite the softer tariffs on China.

"We can control what we can control," Walmart CEO Doug McMillon said on the company's first quarter earnings call Thursday. "Even at the reduced levels, the higher tariffs will result in higher prices," he added.

The price hikes are expected to go into effect later this month.

As Mr. Trump has jacked up import taxes, he has tried to assure a skeptical public that foreign producers would pay for those taxes and that retailers and automakers would absorb the additional expenses.


The administration dispatched bad liar Scott Bessent to lie on NBC's MEET THE PRESS.


KRISTEN WELKER:

It's wonderful to have you on after a long foreign trip. Thank you for being here. Let's start right there with Moody's downgrading the nation's credit rating. And they do cite the debt. I want to read you a little bit of what Moody's says. It says, quote, "If the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is extended, which is our base case, it will add around $4 trillion to the deficit over the next decade." Several Republicans, Mr. Secretary, are citing similar concerns. Does the president's tax bill need to do more to address the nation's debt and deficit?

SEC. SCOTT BESSENT:

Well, Kristen, first – first of all, I – I think that Moody's is a lagging indicator. 


And we edit there.  I don't like liars and he's lying.  Please note, he's had this habit all of his life, when he starts a lie, he stammers.  He starts repeating the same word.   It's his tell. I-I?  He's lying.

Back to the transcript.


KRISTEN WELKER:

Fair enough. But under President Trump's first administration he added $8 trillion to the nation's debt in his first term. So there's plenty of blame to go around. Let me –

SEC. SCOTT BESSENT:

No, no, no, no, no.  

His repeated "no"s inform that he's lying.  We're not posting his lies.


KRISTEN WELKER:

It did include the – the tax cuts as well. But let me ask you about Walmart, this big news from Walmart. It says it will start raising prices on its consumers, Mr. Secretary, as early as this month due to the tariffs. Now, President Trump out with a very stern warning on social media saying Walmart, quote, "should eat the tariffs," adding the company made far more than expected last year. Is the president asking American companies to be less profitable?

SEC. SCOTT BESSENT:

I – I was on the phone with Doug McMillon, the CEO of Walmart


Lying. 


KRISTEN WELKER:

Well, you know, in my conversation with former Vice President Mike Pence, he says he sees tariffs as a tax. How far, Mr. Secretary, is the president, is the administration willing to go to prevent CEOs from increasing prices?

SEC. SCOTT BESSENT:

Well, I – I think what we are hearing here


Again, he's lying and we don't have the time.


KRISTEN WELKER:

But the Federal Reserve has said that tariffs are inflationary. Just to be very clear, you said you called Walmart. Is that what CEOs can expect, that you, that the president, that other members of the administration will apply pressure to try to prevent them from passing on these prices to CEOs?

SEC. SCOTT BESSENT:

I – I didn't apply any pressure. 


Scott's a liar and he lied to try to stop the bleeding.  

The truth?  Richard Luscombe (GUARDIAN) reports:


The US retail giant Walmart will “eat some of the tariffs” in line with Donald Trump’s demands, the president’s treasury secretary Scott Bessent insisted on Sunday, claiming he received the assurance in a personal phone call with the company’s chief executive, Doug McMillon.

A spokesperson for Walmart said the company would not comment on conversations between its executives and administration officials. However, a source familiar with the conversation said the phone call between Bessent and McMillon was arranged many days prior to Trump’s post – and that the company’s position had not changed.

Walmart said this week it had no alternative to raising prices for consumers beginning later this month because it could not absorb the cost of the president’s tariffs on international trade, which have caused turmoil in international markets.


Again, this was a huge story the moment that it broke and it's a real shame that so many outlets were sleeping on the job Thursday evening and Thursday night and didn't see it for the big story -- more than a mere headline -- that it was.  Other retail outlets will follow suit.  We covered it all on Friday.


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It was a lie, it was always a lie  And the press should have been skeptical instead of going along with Chump's lie.

Last night on MSNBC's THE 11TH HOUR WITH STEPHANIE RUHLE, Stephanie addressed the bond market. 




Why?  "Because if there is any guardrail that might convince President Trump to back off some of his more extreme policies, it is the almighty bond market."

Let's move to another Chump disaster: Immigration.  Brandon Bolte and Isabel Skinner (THE HILL) explain: 

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem incorrectly defined habeas corpus during a recent congressional hearing, augmenting serious doubts that top White House administration officials understand and are willing to respect the rule of law and legal rights of civilians on U.S. soil.  
Indeed, Noem oversees the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which has been “forcibly disappearing” undocumented immigrants, international students and permanent residents off the streets. ICE officers frequently wear masks, which could help them avoid accountability for tactics like warrantless arrests, “knock and arrests” and smashing car windows. 

In practice, ICE operates with relatively little oversight, but in principle, it is accountable to the federal government and has been subject to extensive civil litigation in the courts. 

Yes, ICE is deeply flawed, but there is a real risk of something far worse.   

Over the past few months, Erik Prince, former head of the private military company Blackwater (now known by the name Constellis), has pitched multiple proposals to the White House to help with mass deportations. Prince has argued that achieving President Trump’s aggressive deportation goals will require the government to “supplement” ICE’s capabilities. According to one of his proposals, a new Prince company, 2USV, would train and deploy an army of as many as 100,000 armed and deputized citizens. 
The administration has not yet decided to implement the plan, though Trump said he “wouldn’t be opposed to it, necessarily.” As academic experts on non-state armed groups like militias and on immigration, we are alarmed at this possibility. 

This is because scholarly research on the type of group Prince would mobilize suggests three key patterns. First, these groups are often tasked with committing human rights violations in pursuit of the government’s political goals. Second, the current domestic political environment in the U.S. is conducive to their formation. Lastly, employing groups like this would allow federal government officials — including the president ◊ to evade accountability for illegal or inhumane tactics. 

Prince’s proposed “army” would be a “pro-government militia,” which the academic literature defines as an organized, armed group that is government-sponsored and not part of regular security forces.

We're going to allow Erik Prince to terrorize people on US streets?  The same way he did in Baghdad?  Have we forgotten that?  Have we forgotten all the people Blackwater -- Erik's company -- killed?  Innocent people.  The Nisour Square Massacre was not the only incident but it was the most infamous.  September 16, 2007, escorting some never publicly named US official, they refused to remain -- as told -- in the Green Zone and took to the streets of Baghdad on a shooting spree that left 17 Iraqi civilians dead and another twenty injured. 

 
Turning to the subject of US mercenaries.  Blackwater's latest slaughter continues to garner attention.  On Sunday, Blackwater fired into crowds and they've repeatedly changed their story ever since.  Are the mercenaries in our out?  Martin Fletcher (Times of London) notes that any effort to eject them from Iraq -- any Iraqi effort -- "would be resisted strenuously by the US Government, whose security arrangements will be thrown into chaos if Blackwater can no longer operate in Iraq."  Which is why US Secretary of State and Anger Condi Rice spent 15 minutes on the phone with puppet of the occupation Nouri al-Maliki.  Ned Parker (Los Angeles Times) noted that "several contractors predicted Monday that it was unlikely the Iraqi government would carry through with the threat to expel Blackwater."For all intents and purposes they belong to the [U.S.] Department of State," one contractor said of Blackwater employees".  Kim Sengupta (Independent of London) reports on "an extraordinary telephone news conference, the US embassy spokeswoman could not answer whether the company was still working for the Americans inside the Green Zone, or what its legal position was along with similar foreign contractors within Iraq."  Sengupta also notes the ever changing story of Blackwater for why the opened fire on unarmed Iraqi civilians killing at least 8 on Sunday.  Ned Parker (Los Angeles Times) notes that Ali Dabbagh spoke to the press in Baghdad and noted that the Iraqi investigation "had found that guards with the private security company Blackwater USA had fired without provocation on a Baghdad traffic circle, killing eight people and wounding 13"  and that a child was among the dead.  As Leila Fadel, Joseph Neff and Hussein Kadhim (McClatchy Newspapers) point out, "Whether the Iraqi Interior Ministry will be able to enforce its decision to ban North Carolina-based Blackwater Security from operating in Iraq is likely to be a major test between the government of Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki and the United States. Blackwater, founded by a major Republican Party benefactor, is among the most prominent -- and most controversial -- of dozens of companies that provide security to both government and private individuals in Iraq.  In 2003, the U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authority exempted the companies and their employees from prosecution under Iraqi law, but Iraqi officials disputed whether that exemption remains in effect, and U.S. officials declined to comment."


That's what Chump wants to put on US streets?


Three Blackwater employees were convicted in a US court; however, on his way out of office in December 2020 -- after he lost the US presidential election the month before to Joe Biden -- Dementia Donald pardoned them.

That matters for a number of reasons.  The primary one being Erik Prince's employees were allowed to skate on their crimes.  Now there is talk of unleashing these mercenaries on American streets.  So when they kill 17 American civilians, will we see Chump rush to do pardons again?

We're not done with Chump's pardons yet.  But let's stay on immigration for a little bit more.


Demian Bio (LATIN TIMES) reports on one group that will be patrolling inside the US:

The Trump administration is reportedly set to send hundreds of border agents to the U.S. interior to help Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) counterparts arrest migrants there.

CBS News reported that the effort is expected to involve around 500 agents, including some tasked with intercepting the unlawful entry of migrants and drugs. It is expected to start as early as this week.
The administration has already tapped agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the DEA, the FBI and the IRS to help ICE with its tasks. The outlet added that DHS officials have also asked the Pentagon to allow tens of thousands of National Guard troops to be involved as well.

The report was published before Kenneth Genalo, the ICE official leading the branch in charge of arrests and deportations left his post last week. The development was part of a shakeup that also saw Robert Hammer stop being the head of ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).

So Chump would just be tossing aside The Immigration and Nationality Act 287(a)(3) which governs where border agents are allowed to work within the US?  My understanding was that they had to be within 100 miles of an international border.  An international border is not, for example, the border between the states of Nebraska and Kansas.  
 



There is also no justification for the attack that Cuck Stephen Miller has been making at Joe Biden.  Miller's embarrassed because everyone's trying to figure out if his wife is cheating on him and left with Musk for that reason or if it was a thruple and they just decided Miller was unnecessary -- as sort of happened on the second season episode of ELSBETH "Hot Tub Crime Machine."  So he blathers on at the mouth that the man got into the US on a travel visa and, when it expired, he applied for a Green Card and that all of this took part under Joe Biden.

Stephen Miller wants you to really believe that he could satisfy his wife -- the one who's leaving him and the White House to work for Musk.  He also wants you to believe that Joe Biden is personally reviewing travel visas and Green Card applications.

Again, Joe's not responsible.  Now if you don't like that he pardoned someone, Joe's responsible there.  He did review the people he considered pardoning.  And if he made a mistake there, Stephen, let's call it out.

I don't see one.  But then I generally am pro-pardon and think the presidents should be issuing many more pardons than they have.

But don't step out of the room, Stephen, we're not done yet.

By the same token, Donald Dementia is responsible for the pardons he issued.  You never want to talk about that, Stephen. 

The pardons for the January 6th insurrectionists.  Many already had criminal records but Chump didn't care about that. 

Stephen, let's talk about Andrew Taake.  Chump pardoned him January 20th.  Mere months ago.  Robert Downen (TEXAS TRIBUNE) reported mere weeks after Chump pardoned Taake:

A Houston man who was recently pardoned by President Donald Trump for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection has been arrested on an outstanding child sex crimes charge.

Andrew Taake, 36, was taken into custody on Thursday after spending more than two weeks as a fugitive, the Harris County District Attorney’s Office said. He had previously been charged with online solicitation of a minor stemming from a 2016 incident in which he allegedly sent sexually explicit messages to an undercover law enforcement officer who was posing as a 15-year-old girl.

Taake was among the roughly 1,600 people, including 120 Texans, who were charged for their roles in the U.S. Capitol riot, which ultimately resulted in five deaths, injuries to 140 police officers, at least $2.8 million in damage and roughly 1,575 federal criminal cases.

Federal prosecutors said Taake used bear spray and a metal whip to assault officers, and that he was caught after bragging about the incident to a woman he met on an online dating app. Screenshots of his messages to the woman, who later alerted law enforcement, show that he sent a selfie of himself to the woman that he said was taken “about 30 minutes” after the incident, according to court records.


Little dick energy Stephen, we're not done with you yet. 


 Phil Helsel (NBC NEWS) reported ten days after Chump's January 20th pardons:


A Missouri woman convicted in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and recently pardoned by President Donald Trump was sentenced to 10 years this week for killing a mother of two in a drunken-driving crash.

Emily Hernandez was seen holding the broken nameplate of then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., after the mob of Trump supporters attacked the Capitol in 2021. She served 30 days in federal prison and was released.

On Wednesday, she was sentenced in Missouri state court to 10 years in prison for a 2022 drunken-driving crash that killed Victoria Wilson and seriously injured her husband, Ryan Wilson, court records show.



An Indiana man who was pardoned by US President Donald Trump over the US Capitol riot was killed by police during a traffic stop days later.

Matthew Huttle, 42, was shot and killed on Sunday when police pulled his vehicle over, and he allegedly resisted and ended up in an "altercation" with an officer, an Indiana State Police (ISP) statement said.

It remains unclear what he was being arrested for. Police added that Huttle had a firearm in his possession during the traffic stop.


Theodore Middendorf was charged in Illinois for predatory criminal sexual assault of a child, per records obtained by NPR. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 19 years in prison.

He is registered as a sex offender in Indiana for the crimes against a 7 year old in 2018.
Peter Schwartz had a "jaw-dropping criminal history of 38 prior convictions going back to 1991," prosecutors said.

The convictions included assault with a deadly weapon, battery, terroristic threats and domestic violence.
His now-scrubbed Jan. 6 sentence of 14 years was among the highest of defendants.


These are people Chump pardoned on January 20th.  And you want to go to town on people who got into this country when Joe was president?  You know we can use that same category on your man Chump right?  We didn't though.  We played fair.  We only brought up people that he pardoned which means he's supposed to have reviewed every part of their history.  And his pardons make clear that Donald Chump supports pedophiles.

Maybe next time, Stephen, you can just shut your mouth?  Probably be for the best.  "It was like he was tossing rope."  That's only one of the many things I've been told your wife is blabbing who will listen.  You were tossing rope.  Now I haven't met her but I would interpret that to mean that you couldn't get it up.  Is that the case?  I have no idea.  I'm just repeating the DC gossip. 


Following a horrific attack against Boulder, Colorado, protesters calling for the release of Israeli hostages held captive by Hamas, President Donald Trump is blaming the alleged act of terrorism on the immigration policies of the Biden administration. 

"Yesterday's horrific attack in Boulder, Colorado, WILL NOT BE TOLERATED in the United States of America," Trump wrote on Truth Social. The president added that the suspect, Mohamed Sabry Soliman, "came in through Biden's ridiculous Open Border Policy, which has hurt our Country so badly. He must go out under ‘TRUMP' Policy.'" 

She notes that Miss Sassy JD Vance and Karonline Leavitt have joined Stephen and Chump in trying to blame this on Joe.  Curious.  When did Donald Dementia ever blame the 9/11 hijackers being admitted to the US?  Because 15 of the 19 hijackers arrived in the US after the 2000 election -- that would mean the bulk of them came into the country when Bully Boy Bush was in charge.

Check the archives, I've blamed Bully Boy Bush for 1 million and 1 incidents over the year.  I've never blamed him for the 15 hijackers that came into the US while he was occupying the Oval Office.  

Equally true, Dementia Donald will blame Joe for any and everything but, as Ruth noted last night, when it comes to taking accountability for his own actions, Chump never does that.  It's never his fault, as Ruth noted. 



President Donald Trump is planning on resettling “thousands” of white South Africans in the U.S., a State Department official has revealed in a new report.

Earlier this month, Trump granted a group of 59 white South Africans entry to the United States as “refugees.” Afterwards, Trump was accused of ambushing South African President Cyril Ramaphosa with claims of a “white genocide” by flashing articles and videos of alleged violence against white farmers in the country.
Several pieces of evidence that Trump provided were found to be misleading, incorrect, or entirely unrelated to his claims.

Now, a government official has told that the number of white Afrikaner refugees is expected to surge “towards the second half of summer.”

“We won’t be talking about dozens of arrivals, but hundreds and perhaps thousands,” the official told the outlet.




Donovan Wilson (THE HILL) hands out a report card to Musk on DOGE:

Peer past the sometimes-frustrating bureaucracy, and one finds hard-working individuals supporting the vital missions for the American people.

By DOGE’s own estimates, Musk’s team will fall short of its stated goal of cutting $2 trillion from the federal budget. Of course it will. Without changes to defense spending and entitlement reform, it was always just a pipe dream.

Instead, the real unstated mission of DOGE was to make working for the federal government untenable. Unfortunately, on that front, Musk had more success. Morale among the federal workforce gets understandably low when the next email could be notice to clear out your desk and vacate the building.

DOGE’s reforms come at the expense of functional government and to the harm of the American public.


Exactly.  And we must never forget how some encouraged this and applauded this. That would include our left 'buddy' Ben Cohen.  Never forget that.  He applauded DOGE and cheered it on and has yet to apologize for that reality.  Government is not a business.  For decades and decades people have tried to insist that government should be run like a business.  Nope.  A business is a for-profit enterprise.  That's not a government.  A government has obligations that must be met, it has made promises to various citizens -- seniors and veterans for example.  Government's have stakeholders, not stockholders.   Musk never understood that because he was so poorly educated K-12.   Teo Armus (WASHINGTON POST) reports:

It would have been hard to see much of a crisis brewing at the Arlington Mill Community Center, given the joyful stream of middle-schoolers bolting inside last month.

But it was there in the way 11-year-old Mason Soto greeted his teacher, Andrew Gelsinger.

“Mr. Andrew!” yelled Mason, running into the classroom. “You’re still here!”

Less than a week had passed since Gelsinger abruptly lost his position at the free after-school program in Northern Virginia — one of tens of thousands of roles funded by AmeriCorps that were slashed in cuts to that federal agency.

Gelsinger sat in the classroom with his students, some of them weeping, as they were told they would not be able to come back to Aspire Afterschool Learning to start their homework, grab a snack or play volleyball.

Just a few days later, Gelsinger’s bosses tapped into surplus funds to bring him and most other teachers back through the summer. How much the nonprofit’s budget could stretch after that, though, was uncertain.

In April, the Trump administration’s U.S. DOGE Service canceled nearly $400 million in AmeriCorps grants, effectively firing service members at Aspire and more than 1,000 other organizations across the country. Those groups were told the lost funding “no longer effectuates agency priorities.”
[. . .]
Aspire was created in 1994 to serve families that fall outside the more widely known image of Arlington County, a wealthy D.C. suburb that is home to lobbyists, federal workers and the Pentagon.

The Arlington parents who send their children to the nonprofit — at no cost — are the nurses, day laborers and janitors who make this community function for everyone else. Many of them can’t afford tutors or summer camps. In some cases, recently arrived immigrant parents rely on Aspire’s teachers to help their children pick up English.
Over the past three decades, the organization has grown from a shoestring operation inside a church basement to a nonprofit with a dedicated space in a county community center, where a group of largely Black and Latino students — most of whom qualify for free or reduced-price lunch — come after school for extra lessons in math, reading and writing.

Juan Jose Soto, Mason’s father, said it was an easy decision to send the 11-year-old and his older brother there, given the difficulties in finding someone to watch them. He and his wife worried about them walking home alone after the older son, Joseph, was hit by a car while heading back from the bus stop by himself.

“Work doesn’t allow us to be on top of them all the time,” Soto said. “They don’t have anyone to watch over them. They’re safer here.”

Mason would get distracted easily at school, but at Aspire he was able to catch up and pushed his grades toward a mix of A’s and B’s.

A big part of that, Soto noted, was the teachers. Most classrooms had a pair of them, and in this case Gelsinger and his co-teacher, Dakota Yoon, managed to coax a restless kid who often blurted out comments in class to jot down his thoughts in a notebook instead.



So you've got a program producing results, helping kids and parents and along comes Musk -- cheered on by the disgusting Ben Cohen -- and it's snip, snip, snip at the safety net.   Hannah Natanson (WASHINGTON POST) is also handing out a report card:

  The results seem to run counter to the goal of efficiency.

At air traffic control towers at two dozen West Coast airports, officials are unable to easily pay to have the windows washed and shades cleaned, said a Federal Aviation Administration employee. A DOGE-ordered overhaul of the payments system means FAA staffers must write statements justifying all expenditures, the employee said — not just for window-washing, but also elevator maintenance and even pens and pencils, the employee said. Purchase orders that used to take 15 or 20 minutes to fill out now consume 1 or 2 hours for each tower.

“These are things that people don’t think about, but clean windows are crucial for controllers,” the employee said. Because he is so often busy with purchase justifications, he has fallen behind on landscaping, fire alarm safety and pest control, all of which are “staples in the air traffic towers,” he said.

The added reviews extend beyond financial issues to questions of policy and political speech, including press releases. 






Tech billionaire Elon Musk, whose time as a special government employee came to an end on Friday, said in a Sunday interview that he doesn’t want to “take responsibility” for all actions of the Trump administration.

In an interview on CBS News’s “Sunday Morning,” Musk said he disagrees with some moves President Trump has made, though he hesitated to discuss them in more detail, saying that doing so might create “a bone of contention.”
“It’s not like I agree with everything the administration does,” Musk said in the interview. “I mean, I agree with much of what the administration does, but we have differences of opinion. You know, there are things that I don’t entirely agree with.”

“But it’s difficult for me to bring that up in an interview because then it creates a bone of contention,” Musk continued.


Let's see, you agree with what DOGE did, you agree with racism, sexism, homophobia and transphobia.  I think the only thing you disagree with is tariffs.  That might endear you to some but I'm not that stupid.  I know a lot of stupid people made Alien Musk -- Alyssa Milano and others who rushed to applaud him.

I never got taken in.  I upset people when I would note that I don't trust Charlize Theron.  Don't care.  She's a White woman who grew up under apartheid and she never dencouned it or the harm it did to South Africa's Black population.  Sorry, kids, I fought that battle years ago, as I've shared here many times over the years.  We had student on campus.  He was an athlete.  He was an exchange student. He was White.  He was from South Africa.  And he got to go on and on in a supposed journalism article in the student paper about how wonderful life was for Blacks in South Africa.  And blah blah blah.  I called it out in a letter to the editors that ran in the next edition. And it unleashed a war.  I was attacked, I was savaged.  And this when I was sleeping with the editor, by the way.   Didn't find out until months later that the editor was one of many stabbing me in the back.  So what ended up happening is that they attacked the wrong person on the wrong issue.  They used sock puppets to attack me in the edition after my letter ran.  Then all these letters came in -- including from professors -- saying that I had captured the reality of South Africa in my letter and that it was journalistic malpractice to have printed the story they did where they repeated the lies as truth and never noted the reality of apartheid.  

It was a teachable moment.  

And it demonstrated for me that White South Afrikaners  would lie.  That they knew how outrageous their government was and they benefited from it so they would lie. So, no, I never got taken in by 'good lefty' Alien Musk.

Now there were White people in South Africa who fought against apartheid.  And I am thrilled when ever I meet one of them and, here's the thing, no one I've ever met who fought against it was shy about saying that.  The only Whites from South Africa that I've met over the years -- especially after apartheid finally fell -- that don't want to talk about apartheid are the ones who supported it.

Again, I never fell for Alien Musk.  It's a shame so many others on the left did.  

And now that Musk is known as a racist who championed apartheid and has implemented and glorified racism on Twitter, he can't escape that.  He's stupid for thinking he can.  And for thinking disagreeing with Chump on tariffs is going to make a difference in how people see him.   In other problems for Musk, Anthony Cuthbertson (INDEPENDENT) notes:


Eruptions from the Sun are causing SpaceX’s Starlink satellites to fall to Earth “faster than expected”, according to Nasa scientists.

A team from the US space agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center made the discovery after investigating the impact of solar activity on the lifespan of satellites in low-Earth orbit.
Their findings revealed that Elon Musk’s space internet constellation is particularly prone to the effects of geomagnetic storms, which heat up the planet’s atmosphere and increase the drag on satellites.

The study coincides with the Sun reaching the peak of its 11-year activity cycle, known as the solar maximum, which has seen large amounts of geomagnetic storms and other extreme space weather.

“Our results indisputably show that satellites reenter faster with higher geomagnetic activity,” the researchers said.

“We clearly show that the intense solar activity of the current solar cycle has already had significant impacts on Starlink reentries.”
SpaceX has previously blamed space weather for botched launch attempts of its Starlink satellites.

Imagine that, Musk got it wrong.  All his life. 

Is that why SpaceX has been such a huge failure for Musk?  Because it continues to be a failure as Mark R. Whittington (THE HILL) documents:

As video blogger Ellie Sherrif pointed out that although the failures of the seventh and eighth flights seemed to be similar in that the Starship exploded soon after it separated from the Super Heavy first stage, they had completely different root causes, which SpaceX attempted to address for the ninth flight.
Then the question arose: Had SpaceX fixed the problems that had caused failures for both the eighth and seventh tests?

The good news is that SpaceX fixed those problems. Starship did not explode soon after separation from the Super Heavy. But, as so often happens during test flights of cutting-edge rockets, other problems arose.

The ninth test flight of the Starship was a good news/bad news event. The good news: The Starship did not explode over the Gulf soon after separating from the Super Heavy. And the Super Heavy first stage was a reused rocket from the seventh flight. Proving reusability was a big deal toward making SpaceX’s monster rocket a viable launch vehicle. Unlike in previous tests, all of the engines in the Super Heavy remained lit during the ascent phase.

But, as Ars Technica reported, plenty of bad news occurred during the most recent flight as well. The Super Heavy, tested during descent to the limits, did not touch down in the Gulf but instead exploded.



The bad news continued as the Starship cruised through space toward its planned controlled landing in the Indian Ocean.

First, a test involving the deployment of Starlink simulators failed when the bay doors did not open.

Then, Starship began tumbling when the rocket lost attitude control due to a fuel leak. It broke apart over the Indian Ocean. SpaceX was unable to relight one of the Starship’s Raptor engines in space. Reentry data from the reusable heat tiles on the rocket was lost.


Let's wind down with the unqualified Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.  Ewan Palmer (DAILY BEAST) notes:


A veteran Pentagon correspondent used a Fox News appearance to savage Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for attempting to restrict media access at his department.

Barbara Starr, who spent more than 20 years as CNN’s Pentagon correspondent, claimed Hegseth is ending journalists’ access to certain areas at the Pentagon because he’s “embarrassed” by the chaos engulfing his time in the Trump administration.
“Hegseth is embarrassed,” Starr said on Fox’s MediaBuzz Sunday. “He’s embarrassed by this—so much exposure to information, classified by all accounts, that he posted on Signal about that air attack in Yemen. He’s embarrassed that information came out that he was going to meet with Elon Musk and brief him on China.”

Starr added that Hegseth should be more concerned with how the U.S. will react if Russia’s President Vladimir Putin responds to Ukraine’s large-scale drone attack against Russian military bombers in Siberia, rather than focusing on “the PR structure, if you will, of his press operation.”



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