Shawn Connery

They lie and they lie and they lie

I thought this was Jay Bootlick

From "Alien Removal" to "Love Removal Machine"

That we're somehow in a major conflict for no clear reason whatsoever this side of the moon phase seems uuuhhhh... suboptimal

It's like they read a book about the Gilded Age and thought, wow, we should do all of this again -- tariffs and trade wars, massive corporate power, white supremacy and immigration fights, a creepy sex panic and, of course, unlimited acts of brazen corruption and graft.

A Kuwaiti F-18 could do the funniest thing right now

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem testified that detainees receive medical attention within 12 hours.

That’s just plain false.

Listen to the U.S. Citizens who were wrongfully detained and denied critical care.

After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death “Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.

Secretary Marco Rubio claimed no one died as a result of cuts to USAID. That’s not what we found.

After Trump officials cut food aid to Kenya, children starved to death in an American-made hunger crisis.

(Published Dec. 2025)

Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rule...

DHS invoked the “national emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rules for a $220 million taxpayer-funded ad campaign, which has secretly benefited a firm with ties to Kristi Noem.

(Published Nov. 2025)

Comparing noems dog killing to Minneapolis

Only 1 in 4 Americans Support Trump's War on Iran, Reuters/Ipsos Poll Shows - Bucks County Beacon A majority of Americans also believe the Trump administration is "too willing to use military force."

Only 1 in 4 Americans Support Trump’s War on Iran, Reuters/Ipsos Poll Shows | A majority of Americans also believe the Trump administration is "too willing to use military force."

3 major takeaways from Noem's first oversight hearing since Minneapolis deaths Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem faced more scrutiny and at least three calls for her resignation on Tuesday from senators on both sides of the aisle.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem faced more scrutiny and at least three calls for her resignation on Tuesday from senators on both sides of the aisle. https://to.pbs.org/4bmrV88

As Trump endangers our servicemembers' lives in the Middle East, he's also cutting care for veterans back home.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/u...

A handwritten letter from a child detained at Dilley center. It features a drawing of a house and a crying person’s head. Translated text reads: "We are all stuck in rooms that can hold 12 people they won’t let us go out to the playgrounds and park and it’s very boring to do every day God touch the hearts of those at ICE let us out We are not criminals I want to go home."

While detained at the Dilley detention center, 13-year-old Gerson Lopéz Garcia wrote: “We are all stuck in rooms that can hold 12 people … let us out we are not criminals I want to go home.”

➡️ Read more of the children's letters: https://propub.li/3OJUwLV

Expert panel breaks down U.S. objectives in Iran war For more perspective on war in Iran, Amna Nawaz spoke with Alan Eyre, Joel Rayburn and Holly Dagres. Eyre was part of the Obama administration's negotiating team for the Iran nuclear deal and is now a...

"We're hearing from senior U.S. officials that they do want the Iranian people to take control of their own future, but much of the clerical establishment is still in power, so it's hard to envision that," says Holly Dagres. https://to.pbs.org/3MTAuhy

Federal court rejects Trump administration attempt to slow tariff refund process A federal court on Monday rejected the Trump administration’s attempt to slow the process of refunding billions of dollars’ worth of tariffs the Supreme Court struck down as illegal last month.

A federal court on Monday rejected the Trump administration's attempt to slow the process of refunding billions of dollars' worth of tariffs the Supreme Court struck down as illegal last month.

The problem is, these guys aren't very smart.

But he spent more time talking about the first lady and the ballroom than about the service members who died since Operation Epic Fury began.

U.S. Marines Fire on Protesters in Karachi U.S. Marines fired on protesters who were storming the U.S. Consulate in Karachi, Pakistan, over the weekend, U.S. officials said. The protesters, some carrying Hezbollah flags, tried to enter the gro...

👀 U.S. Marines Fire on Protesters in Karachi
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

State Department urges U.S. citizens to leave more than a dozen Middle Eastern countries U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs Mora Namdar posted on the social media site X that Americans in countries including Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Israel should “DEPART NOW” us...

The State Department urged Monday that all U.S. citizens leave more than a dozen Middle Eastern countries due to safety risks with the ongoing escalations that have slipped the region into significant chaos.
https://to.pbs.org/4bkrRWw

Chris Murphy: "It's just so disgusting to listen to the president be waxing poetically about the drapes he's buying while there are six Americans who are dead. There are six families who are about to bury their children because of a war of choice that no one in this country wanted, an illegal war."

The United States has become a proxy of Israel is something that I don’t think is even a moderate exaggeration. A truly remarkable example of surrendering national interest to a foreign country.

Trump’s Case for War With Iran Faces Growing Scrutiny U.S. intelligence showed threats from Iran loomed, as they had for years. But they were not imminent.

"U.S. officials and lawmakers with access to classified information ... say the administration’s assertions are incomplete, unsubstantiated, or flat-out wrong."

- Wall Street Journal

That's some ninja logic

"So my friend here was gonna kick this guy's teeth in; he was gonna lash out at us, so in a purely defensive move we kicked him in the balls first"

The US Embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, has been hit by Iranian drones. It’s on fire. (Al Arabiya)

same

Gallego: "Young American men and women are dying because of these idiots"

Just a reminder that Trump didn't just bumble us into an unnecessary war -- he deliberately created the conditions that he's now screaming about

Getting the US into avoidable disaster in Iraq took months and months and months.

In Vietnam, it took years and years and years.

We are just three days into this totally unnecessary, one-man's-whim fiasco.