Vanessa Global

I dislike religion & theism, including Christianity, as toxic to truth, & healthy, constructive moral-value structure. They poison human intelligence & critical thinking. Most of humanity worships gods & regards their beliefs & rituals sacred, so I just try to see the relative good in people.

When it's all said and done, many in the tyrannical Trumpamagalon regime will be guilty of criminal offences here in the US and under international law. Eventually they will be held to account and some amount of justice will be served.

He probably simply equated the name 'Charlie Kirk' with 'Christian' & has a deep belief that 'Christian' means 'GOOD'. Unfortunately, that's one of the most scary things about Americans in general, although less so than in the 1900s due to huge abusive scandals & the rise of internet communications.

Attn Black people, stop scrolling.

This is not a drill: Chicago

$1 Trump coin is ‘real,’ US Treasurer says | CNN Business A portrait of President Donald Trump may be featured on a commemorative $1 coin issued by the United States Mint in honor of America’s 250th birthday in 2026, according to first drafts of the images c...

And the garbage continues ad infinitum.

www.cnn.com/2025/10/03/b...

Reading Skills of 12th Graders Hit a New Low

Gift article.

Take-away: No, they didn't read the article.

They're also not analyzing the data or understanding your graph or the subtle distinction you're trying to make.

Journalists at 3 Newspapers Quit Over Edits to a Charlie Kirk Story

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

As this article points out, China started encouraging Brazil and Argentina to focus on China exports after the Trump trade wars on 2017-2019. Trade to us has declined since then.

The United States, Brazil, and China Soybean Triangle: A 20-Year Analysis - farmdoc daily share.google/ihoaHrCvbhmm...

Leaked texts on Scott Bessent’s phone suggest the White House got played bailing out Argentina—and U.S. soybean farmers are the casualties “This is highly unfortunate,” the text said. “Soy prices are dropping further because of it. This gives China more leverage on us.”

According to a photo of a private text on the phone of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Argentina responded to the treasury secretary’s $20 billion bailout by turning around and removing its export taxes on soybeans & striking a huge new deal with China. China then immediately pulled out of its...

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This seems to be the most comprehensive list. Wikipedia has a list that mostly correlates with this one, but notes that a couple of Reagan's were only for a few hours.
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They have done so in reasoned and thoughtful written opinions—opinions that, in the nor- ‘mal course, we would get to parse, assess, and embrace or reject, while fully explaining our reasoning.

I really appreciate Justice Jackson contrasting the lower courts' meticulous and responsible approach to judging—extensive deliberations, written opinions—with the Supreme Court's slapdash, unreasoned work over the shadow docket. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

The FBI is weighing an arrest and perp walk for Comey — and suspended an agent for refusing to help, sources say The FBI is considering carrying out a "showy" arrest and perp walk of the agency's now-indicted ex-Director James Comey, sources tell CBS News.

“The source told CBS News that [Kash Patel and Dan Bongino] asked for "large, beefy" agents to conduct an arrest of Comey "in full kit," including Kevlar vests and exterior wear emblazoned with the FBI logo.” The leadership of the FBI is now in the hands of infantile psychopaths.

Viewing, valuing, & sharing of content is always far higher than 'LIKE' & 'SHARE' depict. Other ways are common. Not everyone has the same access, technology, media culture, political freedoms, safety. Official ways of posting, consuming, liking, & sharing can make one a target of abuse & violence.

THIS is my little offering of what some might call a timeline cleanse. I use all kinds of pictures for speaking & writing exercises. THIS picture sort of takes the cake because apparently it's meant to be serious. However, I wouldn't exactly call it self-explanatory.

By the way, the word 'resistance' is a VERY general word, while the word 'protest' is more specific & then progresses to more specific words for types of protests.

While I DO see 'protests' all over the media, including TV, legacy media in ALL countries, by nature, is narrow in it's coverage.

No, there are MANY kinds of protests, in English, at least. Street protests, sit-ins, and public visual demonstrations such as dumping oil on paintings are all visual, posssibly audible.

A boycott is one of various kinds of non-visual, inaudible protests that can be TALKED about on TV.

Street protests are good visual displays of dissent & unity, but are not so effective against tyrannical regimes.

Revoking MONEY & LABOR is an effective double whammy punch, particularly in our current national & global situation.

The monster will fill in, but not fast enough, and not well enough.

In normal times, voters only really need politicians to care enough about voters to want to KEEP their jobs, for street protests to be effective. Some politicians DO CARE in a deeper way about the people because they care about how the world works for people in one way or another. People DO differ.

They will fill positions, BUT not with the best people to get the job done & done well.

Also, there is the other RELATED simultaneous form of protest -revoke CONSUMPTION.

Revoking your MONEY & your LABOR is an effective double whammy punch, particularly in our current national & global situation.

Hundreds of thousands of federal employees no longer can file whistleblower complaints through these 28 watchdog office's web-based hotlines, nor can any members of the public who have a complaint about those agencies.

All of these 28 Office of Inspector General websites are now down -- including at the VA, Justice Department, EPA, IRS, Education Department, USDA, Interior Department, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and elsewhere.

The websites for the offices of inspectors general at the Justice Department, Veterans Affairs, EPA, IRS, and other agencies now say: “Due to a lack of apportionment of funds, this website is currently unavailable.”

Those websites’ whistleblower hotlines are now offline too.

Hegseth to upend troops’ access to watchdog, whistleblower complaints New Pentagon directives will overhaul the channels that allow troops and defense personnel to file whistleblower complaints, report toxic leadership or point out discrimination.

Meanwhile at the Pentagon, a new memo from Pete Hegseth may chill #whistleblower disclosures of “valuable information in detecting and deterring waste fraud, abuse and corruption within the DOD,” according to former watchdog Rob Storch

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

In addition, oversight.gov and ignet.gov are down. That means hundreds, if not thousands, of watchdog reports on dozens of agencies are now offline. Some may be archived elsewhere but will generally be harder to find - if they were archived

The council of inspectors general says in a letter to Congress about being defunded that it hosts websites for 28 watchdog offices - incl. for the VA, DOJ, and IRS inspectors general. Those websites' #whistleblower hotlines could go dark

www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Trading on Tom Homan: Inside the Push to Cash in on the Trump Administration’s Deportation Campaign A Pennsylvania businessman who had Tom Homan on his payroll led companies to believe his connections to the future border czar could help advance their bids for government work, industry executives sa...

NEW: Now that Tom Homan is border czar, his former business associate is continuing to work with companies actively seeking to land a chunk of the $45 billion Congress approved to spend on Trump's mass detention and deportation plans.

My count of now unaccessible watchdog websites is now up to 16 after OMB witheld funds from a central watchdog council that operates many OIG websites.

This means the reports housed on these websites aren't accessible, nor are links for whistleblowers.

"How BI² landed an ICE contract worth as much as $10 million is in part a tale of the Trump administration’s increasing reliance on controversial surveillance and biometric technology in its immigration crackdown"

It's also about a lobbying shop that has tight ties to Trump

This is a thundering ruling by Judge William Young (a Reagan appointee).

He says that it's "perhaps the most important case" in his district and writes more than a dozen pages on "JUSTICE IN THE TRUMP ERA," focused on Trump's "bullying" and "retribution." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

BREAKING

A federal judge that the Trump admin's policy targeting pro-Palestinian students for deportation violated the First Amendment.

His blistering, 161-page ruling starts with a threat he received in chambers and his response.