Allan Ward

Below are the 30 U.S. cities with at least 100,000 residents that had the highest number of crimes against people, per 100,000, according to the latest FBI data report.

Goodness, Washington, D.C., forgot to be included!

JD Vance & Jim Jordon's Ohio makes a stellar showing. Heck of a job on crime!

Trump's people keep citing his mandate, but it's bullshit. Even on immigration, many Trump voters are feeling buyer's remorse with the administration's scorched earth tactics. Incredibly, Republican senators are so far up Trump's ass, and/or so craven, that they don't register this.

NEWS: I led 92 House Democrats in demanding an investigation into the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation – a private, unqualified U.S.-linked aid organization at the center of the worsening humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

Busted

Best community note contender.

Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties

“Walking corpses”: Israel's blockade starves Gazans, aid groups say "People in Gaza are neither dead nor alive, they are walking corpses."

More than a dozen children and adults had died from hunger within 24 hours, as of Tuesday.

Aid groups say that they have supplies to support, but that Israeli forces are preventing them from entering Gaza.

Palestinians have been gunned down and killed at the US-backed Israeli aid sites.

Right: This is exactly the ploy. She implicates, say, Bill Clinton, and spends the time until a pardon "cooperating" in some place more comfortable than the Fed.

And meanwhile, no more stories about what a pal Trump was with the sex trafficker in the WSJ.

South Park just annihilated Trump.

Oh boy.

Gotta love it. Paramount killed Colbert to placate Trump, paid South Park creators a ton of money, and they turn around and just mock him relentlessly.

Respect.

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In the middle of this, dude goes off on a 15 second rant about the interior decorating of the Oval Office. His brain is melting out his fucking ears.

"Driving a car means becoming a target for Israeli airstrikes. AFP reporters therefore travel on foot or by donkey cart."

Teen models, powerful men and private dinners: when Trump hosted Look of the Year In the early 90s, Donald Trump judged contestants at the world’s biggest modelling competition - since hit by allegations of abuse. This is how the people who were there remember it

Read this story with the context that Ivana Trump then signed up to model with Elite. Is there a shittier father in America? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020...

“Sorry, Pat, I still can’t guess”

"George Houraney, a businessman whose American Dream Calendar Girls beauty contest had been running in Las Vegas casinos since 1978, recalls encountering Epstein at Mar-a-Lago in January 1993. Houraney says that Trump asked him to organise a party that month with some of his pageant’s finalists, promising to invite heads of modelling agencies and prospective sponsors for his competition. “He had me fly in all these girls, and gave me a $30,000 budget for airfares and limos to pick them up at the airport,” he says. “The girls were all decked out, expecting to meet all these VIPs.” But after an hour at the party, Houraney says, there seemed to be only one other guest: Epstein. “I was like, ‘Donald, where are the guys? What’s going on here?’ And he said, ‘Well, this is it.’” Houraney says he realised “this is a Jeff Epstein party, basically”."

There's more about this party and Trump's involvement with George Houraney in this Guardian article from 2020 about Trump's pederasty. It's long, detailed, and grim reading.

"While suspicious of Epstein, Houraney was keen to have Trump as a business partner."

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020...

How a future Trump Cabinet member gave a serial sex abuser the deal of a lifetime Palm Beach multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein was accused of sexually abusing dozens of underage girls. Prosecutors, including future Trump labor secretary Alexander Acosta, cut Epstein an extraordinary...

You can read all the retrospectives about Epstein running now. But to really understand the case, go right to the @jkbjournalist.bsky.social series in the @miamiherald.com that ran 7 years ago (and for completely inexplicable reasons, never won a Pulitzer).

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/a...

Periodic reminder that the Senate Intel Committee, led at the time by a certain future secretary of state Marco Rubio, concluded this in its comprehensive review of Russian interference in the 2016 election:
www.intelligence.senate.gov/wp-content/u...

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Some Texas Officials Didn’t Respond to Flood Alerts, Echoing the Tragedies of Hurricane Helene Weather warnings predicted devastation from both the Texas floods and Hurricane Helene. But in both disasters, people were left in harm’s way.

A Texas official said “there wasn’t a lot of time” to alert camps of the flood risk. But AccuWeather’s chief meteorologist said warnings gave “plenty of time to evacuate people to higher ground.”

“The question is, Why did that not happen?” he said.

By @jenniferberryhawes.bsky.social

“An undercover ICE official who was present in the courtroom then texted another undercover ICE agent who was in the lobby to alert them that Carlos was leaving the courtroom and that he, as of a few minutes ago, had no legal status in the United States.”

Trump on Powell: "I'd love him to resign ... he's a stupid person."

It worries me that they say a 9% drawdown on $8m is only $333k a year when it’s actually around $720k. Not good with numbers? Probably shouldn’t be a trustee of a super fund.

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OMG brutal

I'm so over this lying, puritanical pixie.

This is an incredible interview by @gregsargent.bsky.social for @newrepublic.com.

It is completely wrenching and captures everything that’s wrong with ICE. Totally sick that it has come to this but maybe good reporting like Greg's can change some minds.

newrepublic.com/article/1959...

🚨Trump just reposted this below. He can’t claim he didn’t see the words. We have a totally deranged lunatic in the WH.

This is off the charts crazy Qanon stuff that only people who should be in a strait jacket would believe. 25th amendment anyone? Every day, new levels of insanity.

MSM =crickets

Opinion | Elon Musk’s Legacy Is Disease, Starvation and Death

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Death, Sexual Violence and Human Trafficking: Fallout From U.S. Aid Withdrawal Hits the World’s Most Fragile Locations Exclusive State Department records show: As the Trump administration abandons its humanitarian commitments, diplomats are reporting that the cuts have led to violence and instability while undermining...

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