Jon Pelican

Maryland health officials warn providers about an upsurge in mumps cases Maryland health officials are warning about an uptick in cases of mumps.

Measles is a bellwether. Because it’s the most contagious vaccine-preventable disease, when vaccination rates drop, it’s the first to start spreading.

Now we’ve got mumps rolling up.

Expect more.

This is just the beginning of RFK Jr.’s successful infectious disease reintroduction plan.

So the United States will only use empty warehouses to house people it wants to terrorize, not people it wants to shelter from the cold.

We really are not a very good-natured country.

Democrats, do not be fooled. If you cave and approve DHS funding, they’ll be back and worse than last time. Republicans keep showing you their hand, stop shaking it.

Never forget that the people who convinced you trans people are a threat to your children all belong to a network of child rapists.

Obsessive, manic, panic-dripping posts coming fast and furious from the illegitimate and destructive president of the United States on this topic...

For those of you who grew up after 9/11, we got along just fine without a Department of Homeland Security for 212 years.

The DHS was formed to try to prevent future terror attacks — now, it is orchestrating them.

Danger (and more Trump regime criminality) looms, as we all knew it would.

This is what authoritarians are never gonna understand: average, everyday citizens do not like watching paramilitary thugs brutalize children. All the vaporware memes in the world can't fix that for them

Not sure who needs to hear this but the voter fraud rate is a mere 0.000003%. Anyone telling you otherwise is making shit up so they can take away your right to vote.

Translation: I will steal this election, and my lawyers will find a thin excuse to justify it.

"We're working hard to rig elections."

US strikes second alleged drug boat in a week, bringing death toll to 133 Strike appears to be first in Caribbean since November, with vast majority of recent strikes happening in the Pacific

The bloodthirsty Trump regime, always hungry for violence and eager to resume punching down on innocents, has resumed its murder of people in tiny boats in the Caribbean. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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ICE to spend $38bn turning warehouses into detention centers, documents show US homeland security eyeing 24 buildings, some as ‘primary locations’ for deportations, in escalation of Trump agenda

The Trump regime is spending insane amounts of money on concentration camps for tens of thousands of its "enemies" while cutting healthcare, federal services, and everything we taxes for. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

‘A different set of rules’: thermal drone footage shows Musk’s AI power plant flouting clean air regulations Images confirm xAI is continuing to defy EPA regulations in Mississippi to power its flagship datacenters

Isn't that a surprise? The richer they are, the less they seem to mind destroying the planet for everyone else, as if they want to make sure no one outlives them for long. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

FDA refuses to consider Moderna flu shot in move experts claim is part of ‘anti-vaccine agenda’ Agency says application rejected due to lack of ‘adequate and well controlled’ trial, but experts say ‘they’re just coming up with reasons’

If it's good for the populace, Trump and his regime of destroyers and killers will destroy it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Trump doubles down on racist video, saying no staffer has been disciplined US president, who blamed aide for post depicting Obamas as apes, maintains video is not a problem

He posted it himself, and he's glad he did, and he'll do more and worse in future. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Guess which president is personally heavily invested in the fossil fuel industry?

ICE chief admits there’s no reason for immigration agents to be at voting sites The chief's comments follow threatening statements by Trump and his close allies about the upcoming 2026 midterm elections.

🚨BREAKING: Todd Lyons, the acting chief of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), has admitted to senators that federal immigration officers would have “no reason” to be at voting locations this November. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Washoe Tribe buys 10,000 acres in one of California’s largest ever land returns

Tribe, which was forcibly removed from its lands near Lake Tahoe, used $5.5m grant and private donations for purchase

BLUMENTHAL: What is so different about ICE that it regards itself as an exception to the 4th Amendment?

LYONS: We don't

BLUMENTHAL: Why did you keep your memo about the warrant policy secret?

LYONS: I didn't

BLUMENTHAL: We learned about it when whistleblowers came to us

Goldman: "Will the survivors and victims who are here please stand up one more time. By show of hands, how many of you or your loved ones actually have met with the DOJ? None ... How many of you were ignored by the DOJ? All of them." (Bondi responds by smearing Goldman.)

"drawdown" = "a reduction in the size or presence of a military force." Another military term used by the Trump regime to describe its armed war of aggression and violence against America and the public.

US border czar says immigration crackdown in Minnesota will ‘conclude’ Tom Homan says that Trump has backed ‘significant drawdown’ in the state, where two US citizens have died

"Immigration crackdown" = "Random, widespread oppression". www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Man pardoned by Trump for attacking US Capitol found guilty of child abuse Andrew Paul Johnson was found guilty of five counts including molesting a child under 12 and another under 16

These are the people now "serving" (disserving) as ICE "agents." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Massie: "Here is an email that was sent by the victims' lawyers to the DOJ. It was a list of names not to release. What did the DOJ do with this email? They released it! Literally the worst thing you could do the survivors you did."

Cohen to Bondi: "You tried to investigate Ms. Good's widow and you tried to investigate Mr. Pretti. They were executed like Kristi Noem executed her dog."

Point of no return: a hellish ‘hothouse Earth’ getting closer, scientists say Continued global heating could set irreversible course by triggering climate tipping points, but most people unaware

And still much of humanity is unaware, and most business moguls are happy to deny and accelerate the destruction of a habitable earth. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Lieu takes Bondi verbally out behind the woodshed.