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2024 Derek Hunter: Kamala\u2019s newest lie: Trump will send the army after you<\/a><\/h2>\n… So now we have another lie: the \u201cenemy within\u201d lie. This is a 33-second clip of an interview Trump did with Maria Bartiromo<\/a>. It started circulating Monday in left-wing circles with the claim that, were he reelected, he would consider using the military against his political opponents.
\n(2024 Derek Hunter more…)<\/a><\/p>\nBulwark: Understanding Trump’s Pivot to “Crime”<\/a><\/h2>\nWhere does Kamala Harris go to get her apology?<\/p>\n
NY Times: Trump Says Having \u2018a Little Fight With the Wife\u2019 Should Not Count as a Crime<\/a><\/h2>\nPresident Trump said that offenses that happen at home should not undermine his record of crime reduction in Washington.
\n…<\/p>\n
\u201cJust a casual dismissal of domestic violence as a crime,\u201d Sarah Longwell, a longtime Republican political strategist, wrote on social media.<\/p>\n
Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – September 8, 2025<\/a><\/h2>\n…
\nThe administration appears to be in a rush to replace democracy with a dictatorship before the whole administration collapses. On Saturday, Elliott Morris of Strength in Numbers<\/em> reported that 46% of Americans\u2014almost half of them\u2014\u201cstrongly disapprove\u201d of the job Trump is doing as president while only 24% \u201cstrongly approve, a 22% enthusiasm gap.
\n(Heather Cox Richardson more…)<\/a>
\n<\/p>\n
\n\n- \n
Jennifer Rubin: The military is not a cereal box to be \u2018rebranded\u2019<\/a><\/h2>\nThe legacy media don\u2019t get it. Just because Donald Trump barks out an executive decree does not mean it is the law of the land. When he insisted that the Defense Department would be renamed the Department of War, far too many headlines suggested that it was a done deal. The irresponsible, frankly unserious, billionaire-owned media calls this \u201crebranding<\/a>,\u201d as if a Cabinet agency is a cereal box.<\/p>\nThe Defense Department is not a \u201cbrand,\u201d and treating it as such insults the men and women who serve. In the real world, Trump does not get to name and rename entities established by law. In this case, the Department of Defense was created by statute in 1947<\/a> along with the CIA and the National Security Council.
\n
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\n\u201cThe War Department and Navy Department merged into a single Department of Defense under the Secretary of Defense, who also directed the newly created Department of the Air Force.\u201d<\/p>\nNo wonder military personnel are flummoxed. Politico reported<\/a>, \u201cMany expressed frustration, anger and downright confusion at the effort, which could cost billions of dollars for a cosmetic change that would do little to tackle the military\u2019s most pressing challenges \u2014 such as countering a more aggressive alliance of authoritarian nations.\u201d
\n(Jennifer Rubin more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Bill McKibben: America: A (Fracked) Gas Station With Nukes<\/a><\/h2>\nOne part of the Trump plot to wreck America gets clearer
\n
\n![\"John](\"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/John-McCain.webp\" "\\"John")
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\nWay back in January of 2015, six months before Trump began America\u2019s escalator-like descent, Senator John McCain of Arizona took to the floor of the Senate to describe Russia as \u201ca gas station masquerading as a country.\u201d He was responding to the invasion of Crimea, and demanding the U.S. stand up to Moscow; within a few weeks others has shortened his bon mot to \u201cgas station with nukes.\u201d It hit at an essential truth: Russia, for all its size and might, hadn\u2019t developed much of anything in recent decades; Vladimir Putin survived by pumping gas to the rest of the world, resting on the weapons his Soviet predecessors had bequeathed him.<\/p>\nEight months into the second Trump administration, what are we? The president and his minions have been enriching themselves, and doing it by stripping the state that better women and men had built in the decades before. Our scientific and medical prowess? Our great universities? Our shared culture, from public broadcasting to the NEA to the Kennedy Center? Even our history, as the Smithsonian comes under attack. But we still have a lot of fracked gas, dammit! And\u2014viewed one way\u2014much of what they\u2019ve been doing seems designed to insure that fracked gas will be our central legacy.<\/em>
\n(Bill McKibben more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Boing Boing: SCOTUS approves racism as “reasonable suspicion” for immigration raids<\/a><\/h2>\nNY Times: The Supreme Court Decision on ICE and Racial Profiling, Explained<\/a><\/h2>\nThe ruling allowed immigration agents to stop people for reasons that lower courts had deemed likely unconstitutional.<\/p>\n
\n- \n
James Eagle: The world’s central bankers are trapped<\/a><\/h2>\n…
\nThis is the killer chart not because it shows what will happen, but because it reveals what must happen if the whole edifice isn’t to collapse. These aren’t forecasts; they’re prayers. Prayers that every central bank will cut rates just enough to keep their governments solvent, but not so much that inflation roars back.
\n…
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\n(James Eagle more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
404 Media: \u2018It’s Just a Mess:’ 23 People Explain How Tariffs Have Suddenly Ruined Their Hobby<\/a><\/h2>\n“The real kick in the teeth is no matter how much manufacturing is brought back to the US these items will never be made in the USA. There is no upside.”
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\n… Customers are also learning that they are not only responsible for the tariff on any given item, but they are also responsible for the \u201cbrokerage fees\u201d charged by UPS and FedEx, which is a customs-clearance processing fee associated with international packages.
\n(404 Media more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Your Local Epidemiologist: Covid-19 state vaccine access, flu on the horizon, grandparents to the rescue, Florida\u2019s school requirement rollback, food safety cuts, and more<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n- \n
Search Engine Roundtable: New Google Court Doc: Open Web Is In Rapid Decline<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n![\"open-web-decline-google-legal-doc\"](\"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/open-web-decline-google-legal-doc-1757251539.png\" "\\"open-web-decline-google-legal-doc\\"")
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\n(Search Engine Roundtable more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Bulwark: Yet ANOTHER Right-Wing Payola Media Scandal!<\/a><\/h2>\nThis time, the allegations involve paying influencers to post positively about India, a country increasingly in MAGA\u2019s crosshairs.<\/p>\n
\n- \n
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Kareem\u2019s Daily Quote<\/a><\/h2>\n…<\/p>\n
People demand freedom of speech as compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
S\u00f8ren Kierkegaard (1813-1855), existentialist philosopher
\n(Kareem Abdul-Jabbar more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Intercept: This Imam Refused to Be an FBI Informant. Now ICE Wants to Deport Him.<\/a><\/h2>\nFoad Farahi resisted the FBI for two decades. Then the Trump administration rounded him up.
\n
\n![\"Foad](\"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/farahi-e1757000147291.webp\")
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\n(Intercept more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
WSJ: Epstein Birthday Letter With Trump\u2019s Signature Revealed<\/a><\/h2>\nThe 2003 birthday book also includes a letter that references Trump with a crude joke about a woman from another Epstein associate<\/p>\n
NY Times: Trump Says It\u2019s Not His Signature. But Personal Letters Look Similar.<\/a><\/h2>\nCNN: Trump\u2019s Epstein letter denial just suffered another huge blow<\/a><\/h2>\n…
\nThe key fact here is that this comes from Epstein\u2019s estate. In other words, for this letter to have been fake, someone would have had to plant it in Epstein\u2019s possessions a long time ago, somehow.<\/p>\n
Jason Easley: Mike Johnson Humiliates Himself And Walks Back Trump Epstein Informant Claim<\/a><\/h2>\nSpeaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) had to walk back his absurd claim that Trump was an Epstein informant while talking to reporters on Monday.<\/p>\n
\n- \n
Borowitz: Trump Furious at Having to Pay All His Hard-earned Bribes to E. Jean Carroll<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n
\n![\"Obama](\"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Obama-forged-it.jpg\" "\\"Obama")
\n<\/center><\/p>\n
\nTimeline: Tracking the Trump Justice Department\u2019s Anti-Voting Shift<\/a><\/h2>\nTracking the Lawsuits Against Trump\u2019s Agenda<\/a><\/h2>\nTrump Pardons Database<\/a><\/h2>\nProject 2025 Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\nDOGE Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\nProPublica: Elon Musk\u2019s Demolition Crew<\/a><\/h2>\nWired: 6 Tools for Tracking the Trump Administration\u2019s Attacks on Civil Liberties<\/a><\/h2>\n\n- The Impact Map<\/a>\n
- United States Disappeared Tracke<\/a>r\n
- ICE Flight Tracking<\/a>\n
- Regulatory Changes Tracker<\/a>\n
- Trump Administration Litigation Trackers<\/a>\n
- Far Right Groups Targeting Pride Month<\/a>\n<\/ol>\n<\/ul>\n
<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"curated citations to news sources 2024 Derek Hunter: Kamala\u2019s newest lie: Trump will send the army after you … So now we have another lie: the \u201cenemy within\u201d lie. This is a 33-second clip of an interview Trump did with Maria Bartiromo. It started circulating Monday in left-wing circles with the claim that, were he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5189"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5248,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5189\/revisions\/5248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n(2024 Derek Hunter more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
Bulwark: Understanding Trump’s Pivot to “Crime”<\/a><\/h2>\nWhere does Kamala Harris go to get her apology?<\/p>\n
NY Times: Trump Says Having \u2018a Little Fight With the Wife\u2019 Should Not Count as a Crime<\/a><\/h2>\nPresident Trump said that offenses that happen at home should not undermine his record of crime reduction in Washington.
\n…<\/p>\n
\u201cJust a casual dismissal of domestic violence as a crime,\u201d Sarah Longwell, a longtime Republican political strategist, wrote on social media.<\/p>\n
Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – September 8, 2025<\/a><\/h2>\n…
\nThe administration appears to be in a rush to replace democracy with a dictatorship before the whole administration collapses. On Saturday, Elliott Morris of Strength in Numbers<\/em> reported that 46% of Americans\u2014almost half of them\u2014\u201cstrongly disapprove\u201d of the job Trump is doing as president while only 24% \u201cstrongly approve, a 22% enthusiasm gap.
\n(Heather Cox Richardson more…)<\/a>
\n<\/p>\n
\n\n- \n
Jennifer Rubin: The military is not a cereal box to be \u2018rebranded\u2019<\/a><\/h2>\nThe legacy media don\u2019t get it. Just because Donald Trump barks out an executive decree does not mean it is the law of the land. When he insisted that the Defense Department would be renamed the Department of War, far too many headlines suggested that it was a done deal. The irresponsible, frankly unserious, billionaire-owned media calls this \u201crebranding<\/a>,\u201d as if a Cabinet agency is a cereal box.<\/p>\nThe Defense Department is not a \u201cbrand,\u201d and treating it as such insults the men and women who serve. In the real world, Trump does not get to name and rename entities established by law. In this case, the Department of Defense was created by statute in 1947<\/a> along with the CIA and the National Security Council.
\n
\n<\/a>
\n<\/center>
\n\u201cThe War Department and Navy Department merged into a single Department of Defense under the Secretary of Defense, who also directed the newly created Department of the Air Force.\u201d<\/p>\nNo wonder military personnel are flummoxed. Politico reported<\/a>, \u201cMany expressed frustration, anger and downright confusion at the effort, which could cost billions of dollars for a cosmetic change that would do little to tackle the military\u2019s most pressing challenges \u2014 such as countering a more aggressive alliance of authoritarian nations.\u201d
\n(Jennifer Rubin more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Bill McKibben: America: A (Fracked) Gas Station With Nukes<\/a><\/h2>\nOne part of the Trump plot to wreck America gets clearer
\n
\n<\/a>
\n<\/center>
\nWay back in January of 2015, six months before Trump began America\u2019s escalator-like descent, Senator John McCain of Arizona took to the floor of the Senate to describe Russia as \u201ca gas station masquerading as a country.\u201d He was responding to the invasion of Crimea, and demanding the U.S. stand up to Moscow; within a few weeks others has shortened his bon mot to \u201cgas station with nukes.\u201d It hit at an essential truth: Russia, for all its size and might, hadn\u2019t developed much of anything in recent decades; Vladimir Putin survived by pumping gas to the rest of the world, resting on the weapons his Soviet predecessors had bequeathed him.<\/p>\nEight months into the second Trump administration, what are we? The president and his minions have been enriching themselves, and doing it by stripping the state that better women and men had built in the decades before. Our scientific and medical prowess? Our great universities? Our shared culture, from public broadcasting to the NEA to the Kennedy Center? Even our history, as the Smithsonian comes under attack. But we still have a lot of fracked gas, dammit! And\u2014viewed one way\u2014much of what they\u2019ve been doing seems designed to insure that fracked gas will be our central legacy.<\/em>
\n(Bill McKibben more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Boing Boing: SCOTUS approves racism as “reasonable suspicion” for immigration raids<\/a><\/h2>\nNY Times: The Supreme Court Decision on ICE and Racial Profiling, Explained<\/a><\/h2>\nThe ruling allowed immigration agents to stop people for reasons that lower courts had deemed likely unconstitutional.<\/p>\n
\n- \n
James Eagle: The world’s central bankers are trapped<\/a><\/h2>\n…
\nThis is the killer chart not because it shows what will happen, but because it reveals what must happen if the whole edifice isn’t to collapse. These aren’t forecasts; they’re prayers. Prayers that every central bank will cut rates just enough to keep their governments solvent, but not so much that inflation roars back.
\n…
\n
\n<\/a>
\n<\/center>
\n(James Eagle more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
404 Media: \u2018It’s Just a Mess:’ 23 People Explain How Tariffs Have Suddenly Ruined Their Hobby<\/a><\/h2>\n“The real kick in the teeth is no matter how much manufacturing is brought back to the US these items will never be made in the USA. There is no upside.”
\n
\n<\/a>
\n<\/center>
\n… Customers are also learning that they are not only responsible for the tariff on any given item, but they are also responsible for the \u201cbrokerage fees\u201d charged by UPS and FedEx, which is a customs-clearance processing fee associated with international packages.
\n(404 Media more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Your Local Epidemiologist: Covid-19 state vaccine access, flu on the horizon, grandparents to the rescue, Florida\u2019s school requirement rollback, food safety cuts, and more<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n- \n
Search Engine Roundtable: New Google Court Doc: Open Web Is In Rapid Decline<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n<\/a>
\n<\/center>
\n(Search Engine Roundtable more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Bulwark: Yet ANOTHER Right-Wing Payola Media Scandal!<\/a><\/h2>\nThis time, the allegations involve paying influencers to post positively about India, a country increasingly in MAGA\u2019s crosshairs.<\/p>\n
\n- \n
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Kareem\u2019s Daily Quote<\/a><\/h2>\n…<\/p>\n
People demand freedom of speech as compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
S\u00f8ren Kierkegaard (1813-1855), existentialist philosopher
\n(Kareem Abdul-Jabbar more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Intercept: This Imam Refused to Be an FBI Informant. Now ICE Wants to Deport Him.<\/a><\/h2>\nFoad Farahi resisted the FBI for two decades. Then the Trump administration rounded him up.
\n
\n<\/a>
\n<\/center>
\n(Intercept more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
WSJ: Epstein Birthday Letter With Trump\u2019s Signature Revealed<\/a><\/h2>\nThe 2003 birthday book also includes a letter that references Trump with a crude joke about a woman from another Epstein associate<\/p>\n
NY Times: Trump Says It\u2019s Not His Signature. But Personal Letters Look Similar.<\/a><\/h2>\nCNN: Trump\u2019s Epstein letter denial just suffered another huge blow<\/a><\/h2>\n…
\nThe key fact here is that this comes from Epstein\u2019s estate. In other words, for this letter to have been fake, someone would have had to plant it in Epstein\u2019s possessions a long time ago, somehow.<\/p>\n
Jason Easley: Mike Johnson Humiliates Himself And Walks Back Trump Epstein Informant Claim<\/a><\/h2>\nSpeaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) had to walk back his absurd claim that Trump was an Epstein informant while talking to reporters on Monday.<\/p>\n
\n- \n
Borowitz: Trump Furious at Having to Pay All His Hard-earned Bribes to E. Jean Carroll<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n
\n
\n<\/center><\/p>\n
\nTimeline: Tracking the Trump Justice Department\u2019s Anti-Voting Shift<\/a><\/h2>\nTracking the Lawsuits Against Trump\u2019s Agenda<\/a><\/h2>\nTrump Pardons Database<\/a><\/h2>\nProject 2025 Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\nDOGE Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\nProPublica: Elon Musk\u2019s Demolition Crew<\/a><\/h2>\nWired: 6 Tools for Tracking the Trump Administration\u2019s Attacks on Civil Liberties<\/a><\/h2>\n\n- The Impact Map<\/a>\n
- United States Disappeared Tracke<\/a>r\n
- ICE Flight Tracking<\/a>\n
- Regulatory Changes Tracker<\/a>\n
- Trump Administration Litigation Trackers<\/a>\n
- Far Right Groups Targeting Pride Month<\/a>\n<\/ol>\n<\/ul>\n
<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"curated citations to news sources 2024 Derek Hunter: Kamala\u2019s newest lie: Trump will send the army after you … So now we have another lie: the \u201cenemy within\u201d lie. This is a 33-second clip of an interview Trump did with Maria Bartiromo. It started circulating Monday in left-wing circles with the claim that, were he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5189"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5248,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5189\/revisions\/5248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
President Trump said that offenses that happen at home should not undermine his record of crime reduction in Washington.
\n…<\/p>\n
\u201cJust a casual dismissal of domestic violence as a crime,\u201d Sarah Longwell, a longtime Republican political strategist, wrote on social media.<\/p>\n
Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – September 8, 2025<\/a><\/h2>\n…
\nThe administration appears to be in a rush to replace democracy with a dictatorship before the whole administration collapses. On Saturday, Elliott Morris of Strength in Numbers<\/em> reported that 46% of Americans\u2014almost half of them\u2014\u201cstrongly disapprove\u201d of the job Trump is doing as president while only 24% \u201cstrongly approve, a 22% enthusiasm gap.
\n(Heather Cox Richardson more…)<\/a>
\n<\/p>\n
\n\n- \n
Jennifer Rubin: The military is not a cereal box to be \u2018rebranded\u2019<\/a><\/h2>\nThe legacy media don\u2019t get it. Just because Donald Trump barks out an executive decree does not mean it is the law of the land. When he insisted that the Defense Department would be renamed the Department of War, far too many headlines suggested that it was a done deal. The irresponsible, frankly unserious, billionaire-owned media calls this \u201crebranding<\/a>,\u201d as if a Cabinet agency is a cereal box.<\/p>\nThe Defense Department is not a \u201cbrand,\u201d and treating it as such insults the men and women who serve. In the real world, Trump does not get to name and rename entities established by law. In this case, the Department of Defense was created by statute in 1947<\/a> along with the CIA and the National Security Council.
\n
\n<\/a>
\n<\/center>
\n\u201cThe War Department and Navy Department merged into a single Department of Defense under the Secretary of Defense, who also directed the newly created Department of the Air Force.\u201d<\/p>\nNo wonder military personnel are flummoxed. Politico reported<\/a>, \u201cMany expressed frustration, anger and downright confusion at the effort, which could cost billions of dollars for a cosmetic change that would do little to tackle the military\u2019s most pressing challenges \u2014 such as countering a more aggressive alliance of authoritarian nations.\u201d
\n(Jennifer Rubin more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Bill McKibben: America: A (Fracked) Gas Station With Nukes<\/a><\/h2>\nOne part of the Trump plot to wreck America gets clearer
\n
\n<\/a>
\n<\/center>
\nWay back in January of 2015, six months before Trump began America\u2019s escalator-like descent, Senator John McCain of Arizona took to the floor of the Senate to describe Russia as \u201ca gas station masquerading as a country.\u201d He was responding to the invasion of Crimea, and demanding the U.S. stand up to Moscow; within a few weeks others has shortened his bon mot to \u201cgas station with nukes.\u201d It hit at an essential truth: Russia, for all its size and might, hadn\u2019t developed much of anything in recent decades; Vladimir Putin survived by pumping gas to the rest of the world, resting on the weapons his Soviet predecessors had bequeathed him.<\/p>\nEight months into the second Trump administration, what are we? The president and his minions have been enriching themselves, and doing it by stripping the state that better women and men had built in the decades before. Our scientific and medical prowess? Our great universities? Our shared culture, from public broadcasting to the NEA to the Kennedy Center? Even our history, as the Smithsonian comes under attack. But we still have a lot of fracked gas, dammit! And\u2014viewed one way\u2014much of what they\u2019ve been doing seems designed to insure that fracked gas will be our central legacy.<\/em>
\n(Bill McKibben more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Boing Boing: SCOTUS approves racism as “reasonable suspicion” for immigration raids<\/a><\/h2>\nNY Times: The Supreme Court Decision on ICE and Racial Profiling, Explained<\/a><\/h2>\nThe ruling allowed immigration agents to stop people for reasons that lower courts had deemed likely unconstitutional.<\/p>\n
\n- \n
James Eagle: The world’s central bankers are trapped<\/a><\/h2>\n…
\nThis is the killer chart not because it shows what will happen, but because it reveals what must happen if the whole edifice isn’t to collapse. These aren’t forecasts; they’re prayers. Prayers that every central bank will cut rates just enough to keep their governments solvent, but not so much that inflation roars back.
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\n(James Eagle more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
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404 Media: \u2018It’s Just a Mess:’ 23 People Explain How Tariffs Have Suddenly Ruined Their Hobby<\/a><\/h2>\n“The real kick in the teeth is no matter how much manufacturing is brought back to the US these items will never be made in the USA. There is no upside.”
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\n… Customers are also learning that they are not only responsible for the tariff on any given item, but they are also responsible for the \u201cbrokerage fees\u201d charged by UPS and FedEx, which is a customs-clearance processing fee associated with international packages.
\n(404 Media more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
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Your Local Epidemiologist: Covid-19 state vaccine access, flu on the horizon, grandparents to the rescue, Florida\u2019s school requirement rollback, food safety cuts, and more<\/a><\/h2>\n
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Search Engine Roundtable: New Google Court Doc: Open Web Is In Rapid Decline<\/a><\/h2>\n
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Bulwark: Yet ANOTHER Right-Wing Payola Media Scandal!<\/a><\/h2>\nThis time, the allegations involve paying influencers to post positively about India, a country increasingly in MAGA\u2019s crosshairs.<\/p>\n
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Kareem\u2019s Daily Quote<\/a><\/h2>\n…<\/p>\n
People demand freedom of speech as compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
S\u00f8ren Kierkegaard (1813-1855), existentialist philosopher
\n(Kareem Abdul-Jabbar more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
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Intercept: This Imam Refused to Be an FBI Informant. Now ICE Wants to Deport Him.<\/a><\/h2>\nFoad Farahi resisted the FBI for two decades. Then the Trump administration rounded him up.
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\n(Intercept more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
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WSJ: Epstein Birthday Letter With Trump\u2019s Signature Revealed<\/a><\/h2>\nThe 2003 birthday book also includes a letter that references Trump with a crude joke about a woman from another Epstein associate<\/p>\n
NY Times: Trump Says It\u2019s Not His Signature. But Personal Letters Look Similar.<\/a><\/h2>\nCNN: Trump\u2019s Epstein letter denial just suffered another huge blow<\/a><\/h2>\n…
\nThe key fact here is that this comes from Epstein\u2019s estate. In other words, for this letter to have been fake, someone would have had to plant it in Epstein\u2019s possessions a long time ago, somehow.<\/p>\n
Jason Easley: Mike Johnson Humiliates Himself And Walks Back Trump Epstein Informant Claim<\/a><\/h2>\nSpeaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) had to walk back his absurd claim that Trump was an Epstein informant while talking to reporters on Monday.<\/p>\n
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Borowitz: Trump Furious at Having to Pay All His Hard-earned Bribes to E. Jean Carroll<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\nTimeline: Tracking the Trump Justice Department\u2019s Anti-Voting Shift<\/a><\/h2>\nTracking the Lawsuits Against Trump\u2019s Agenda<\/a><\/h2>\nTrump Pardons Database<\/a><\/h2>\nProject 2025 Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\nDOGE Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\nProPublica: Elon Musk\u2019s Demolition Crew<\/a><\/h2>\nWired: 6 Tools for Tracking the Trump Administration\u2019s Attacks on Civil Liberties<\/a><\/h2>\n\n- The Impact Map<\/a>\n
- United States Disappeared Tracke<\/a>r\n
- ICE Flight Tracking<\/a>\n
- Regulatory Changes Tracker<\/a>\n
- Trump Administration Litigation Trackers<\/a>\n
- Far Right Groups Targeting Pride Month<\/a>\n<\/ol>\n<\/ul>\n
<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"curated citations to news sources 2024 Derek Hunter: Kamala\u2019s newest lie: Trump will send the army after you … So now we have another lie: the \u201cenemy within\u201d lie. This is a 33-second clip of an interview Trump did with Maria Bartiromo. It started circulating Monday in left-wing circles with the claim that, were he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5189"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5248,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5189\/revisions\/5248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe administration appears to be in a rush to replace democracy with a dictatorship before the whole administration collapses. On Saturday, Elliott Morris of Strength in Numbers<\/em> reported that 46% of Americans\u2014almost half of them\u2014\u201cstrongly disapprove\u201d of the job Trump is doing as president while only 24% \u201cstrongly approve, a 22% enthusiasm gap.
\n(Heather Cox Richardson more…)<\/a>
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Jennifer Rubin: The military is not a cereal box to be \u2018rebranded\u2019<\/a><\/h2>\n
The legacy media don\u2019t get it. Just because Donald Trump barks out an executive decree does not mean it is the law of the land. When he insisted that the Defense Department would be renamed the Department of War, far too many headlines suggested that it was a done deal. The irresponsible, frankly unserious, billionaire-owned media calls this \u201crebranding<\/a>,\u201d as if a Cabinet agency is a cereal box.<\/p>\n
The Defense Department is not a \u201cbrand,\u201d and treating it as such insults the men and women who serve. In the real world, Trump does not get to name and rename entities established by law. In this case, the Department of Defense was created by statute in 1947<\/a> along with the CIA and the National Security Council.
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\n\u201cThe War Department and Navy Department merged into a single Department of Defense under the Secretary of Defense, who also directed the newly created Department of the Air Force.\u201d<\/p>\nNo wonder military personnel are flummoxed. Politico reported<\/a>, \u201cMany expressed frustration, anger and downright confusion at the effort, which could cost billions of dollars for a cosmetic change that would do little to tackle the military\u2019s most pressing challenges \u2014 such as countering a more aggressive alliance of authoritarian nations.\u201d
\n(Jennifer Rubin more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
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Bill McKibben: America: A (Fracked) Gas Station With Nukes<\/a><\/h2>\n
One part of the Trump plot to wreck America gets clearer
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\nWay back in January of 2015, six months before Trump began America\u2019s escalator-like descent, Senator John McCain of Arizona took to the floor of the Senate to describe Russia as \u201ca gas station masquerading as a country.\u201d He was responding to the invasion of Crimea, and demanding the U.S. stand up to Moscow; within a few weeks others has shortened his bon mot to \u201cgas station with nukes.\u201d It hit at an essential truth: Russia, for all its size and might, hadn\u2019t developed much of anything in recent decades; Vladimir Putin survived by pumping gas to the rest of the world, resting on the weapons his Soviet predecessors had bequeathed him.<\/p>\nEight months into the second Trump administration, what are we? The president and his minions have been enriching themselves, and doing it by stripping the state that better women and men had built in the decades before. Our scientific and medical prowess? Our great universities? Our shared culture, from public broadcasting to the NEA to the Kennedy Center? Even our history, as the Smithsonian comes under attack. But we still have a lot of fracked gas, dammit! And\u2014viewed one way\u2014much of what they\u2019ve been doing seems designed to insure that fracked gas will be our central legacy.<\/em>
\n(Bill McKibben more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
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Boing Boing: SCOTUS approves racism as “reasonable suspicion” for immigration raids<\/a><\/h2>\n
NY Times: The Supreme Court Decision on ICE and Racial Profiling, Explained<\/a><\/h2>\n
The ruling allowed immigration agents to stop people for reasons that lower courts had deemed likely unconstitutional.<\/p>\n
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James Eagle: The world’s central bankers are trapped<\/a><\/h2>\n
…
\nThis is the killer chart not because it shows what will happen, but because it reveals what must happen if the whole edifice isn’t to collapse. These aren’t forecasts; they’re prayers. Prayers that every central bank will cut rates just enough to keep their governments solvent, but not so much that inflation roars back.
\n…
\n
\n<\/a>
\n<\/center>
\n(James Eagle more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
404 Media: \u2018It’s Just a Mess:’ 23 People Explain How Tariffs Have Suddenly Ruined Their Hobby<\/a><\/h2>\n
“The real kick in the teeth is no matter how much manufacturing is brought back to the US these items will never be made in the USA. There is no upside.”
\n
\n<\/a>
\n<\/center>
\n… Customers are also learning that they are not only responsible for the tariff on any given item, but they are also responsible for the \u201cbrokerage fees\u201d charged by UPS and FedEx, which is a customs-clearance processing fee associated with international packages.
\n(404 Media more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Your Local Epidemiologist: Covid-19 state vaccine access, flu on the horizon, grandparents to the rescue, Florida\u2019s school requirement rollback, food safety cuts, and more<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n- \n
Search Engine Roundtable: New Google Court Doc: Open Web Is In Rapid Decline<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n<\/a>
\n<\/center>
\n(Search Engine Roundtable more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Bulwark: Yet ANOTHER Right-Wing Payola Media Scandal!<\/a><\/h2>\n
This time, the allegations involve paying influencers to post positively about India, a country increasingly in MAGA\u2019s crosshairs.<\/p>\n
\n- \n
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Kareem\u2019s Daily Quote<\/a><\/h2>\n
…<\/p>\n
People demand freedom of speech as compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
S\u00f8ren Kierkegaard (1813-1855), existentialist philosopher
\n(Kareem Abdul-Jabbar more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Intercept: This Imam Refused to Be an FBI Informant. Now ICE Wants to Deport Him.<\/a><\/h2>\n
Foad Farahi resisted the FBI for two decades. Then the Trump administration rounded him up.
\n
\n<\/a>
\n<\/center>
\n(Intercept more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
WSJ: Epstein Birthday Letter With Trump\u2019s Signature Revealed<\/a><\/h2>\n
The 2003 birthday book also includes a letter that references Trump with a crude joke about a woman from another Epstein associate<\/p>\n
NY Times: Trump Says It\u2019s Not His Signature. But Personal Letters Look Similar.<\/a><\/h2>\n
CNN: Trump\u2019s Epstein letter denial just suffered another huge blow<\/a><\/h2>\n
…
\nThe key fact here is that this comes from Epstein\u2019s estate. In other words, for this letter to have been fake, someone would have had to plant it in Epstein\u2019s possessions a long time ago, somehow.<\/p>\nJason Easley: Mike Johnson Humiliates Himself And Walks Back Trump Epstein Informant Claim<\/a><\/h2>\n
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) had to walk back his absurd claim that Trump was an Epstein informant while talking to reporters on Monday.<\/p>\n
\n- \n
Borowitz: Trump Furious at Having to Pay All His Hard-earned Bribes to E. Jean Carroll<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n
\n
\n<\/center><\/p>\n
\nTimeline: Tracking the Trump Justice Department\u2019s Anti-Voting Shift<\/a><\/h2>\n
Tracking the Lawsuits Against Trump\u2019s Agenda<\/a><\/h2>\n
Trump Pardons Database<\/a><\/h2>\n
Project 2025 Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\n
DOGE Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\n
ProPublica: Elon Musk\u2019s Demolition Crew<\/a><\/h2>\n
Wired: 6 Tools for Tracking the Trump Administration\u2019s Attacks on Civil Liberties<\/a><\/h2>\n
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- The Impact Map<\/a>\n
- United States Disappeared Tracke<\/a>r\n
- ICE Flight Tracking<\/a>\n
- Regulatory Changes Tracker<\/a>\n
- Trump Administration Litigation Trackers<\/a>\n
- Far Right Groups Targeting Pride Month<\/a>\n<\/ol>\n<\/ul>\n
<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
curated citations to news sources 2024 Derek Hunter: Kamala\u2019s newest lie: Trump will send the army after you … So now we have another lie: the \u201cenemy within\u201d lie. This is a 33-second clip of an interview Trump did with Maria Bartiromo. It started circulating Monday in left-wing circles with the claim that, were he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5189"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5248,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5189\/revisions\/5248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
- United States Disappeared Tracke<\/a>r\n
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