I have a theory about the orange slime's health

You've all noticed, I presume, that he is cyclically very puffy and then not, cyclically very gray and then back to his original orangeness. I've been observing this recently, and to my nurse's eye, I'm wondering if he's not on dialysis. He would, of course, never admit it to anyone, but it would account for the cycling. It seems to run over about a 3-5 day period, which is about how often he goes "somewhere", disappears into the depths of the White House, or jets off to Mar-a-Lardo. It would be easy enough to get it done privately. Even peritoneal dialysis, which doesn't require a lot of equipment, just time.

What do you all think?

Bobbie Reads Tarot---July 4 2026

LA school district demands inquiry after Ice officers filmed urinating on campus

A Los Angeles school district is demanding an investigation of an incident last month during which Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agents gathered at a local high school before a raid and were seen publicly urinating on school grounds, not far from where elementary school students were attending summer classes.

According to a statement from El Rancho unified school district, which also released video evidence in the form of surveillance-camera footage, the incident took place on the morning of 17 June at Ruben Salazar high school in Pico Rivera, in south-eastern LA county.

After school staff observed eight to 10 marked and unmarked Ice vehicles arrive on the high school campus, which is adjacent to an elementary school, a park and a preschool playground, they asked the federal agents to leave.

The school has since written to Kristi Noem, the US homeland security secretary, to request an inquiry. “At no time was a legal or legitimate reason offered or provided as to why Ice agents entered and remained on school grounds, nor did they provide any judicial warrant,” the school district said in the statement.

After the Ice agents agreed to leave the high school campus, school district staff told managers that they had seen the federal agents “urinating at Salazar in public view”. A review of surveillance camera video, posted on YouTube by the school district, appears to show 10 federal agents urinating near storage containers in the high school parking lot, from 8.54am to 9.04am.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/04/los-angeles-ice-officers-urinating

Go find a gas station or a 7-11, you uncivilized bastards!

The IOC handed LA the 2028 Olympics. Now Trump is weaponizing them

When the International Olympic Committee first handed Los Angeles the 2028 Summer Olympics back in 2017, IOC president Thomas Bach called it “a golden opportunity” for all involved. Fast forward to last month when Kirsty Coventry took the reins from Bach at the IOC. So much has changed.

In January, LA was hit with deadly wildfires. That same month a different sort of natural disaster took shape as Donald Trump returned to the White House. Bach had previously praised LA for its “strong foundation”, but that foundation has crumbled under the weight of the wildfires, a citywide budget crisis and an erratic president whose marauding Immigration and Customs Enforcement look like they arrived straight from robbing a liquor store to instill fear across Los Angeles.

The LA28 Olympics are now a slow-motion train wreck.

Just ahead of his inauguration, Trump assured Casey Wasserman, the chair of the LA28 Olympic Organizing Committee, that “These are America’s Olympics,” adding, “These are more important than ever to LA and I’m going to be supportive in every way possible and make them the greatest Games.” Then, in March, speaking to the IOC, Wasserman insisted that “irrespective of politics today, America will be open and accepting to all 209 countries for the Olympics.” He added, “LA is the most diverse city in the history of humanity and we will welcome the people from around the world and give them all a great time.”

On one hand, that may be true. Trump is not likely to squander an opportunity to engage in sportswashing: using sports to self-aggrandize on the global stage while stoking nationalism, bolstering the state security apparatus and deflecting attention from domestic social problems. Trump frequently yammers about how the Los Angeles 2028 Summer Olympics and the 2026 World Cup are among the events in his second term that gets his fascist heart a-tittering the quickest. Staging the mega-events is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to appear important on the world stage. Moreover, during Trump’s first term, he assured LA28 Olympic organizers that the federal government would supply security to protect the event.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/jul/04/la-olympics-2028-trump-ice-ioc-kirsty-coventry

I predict he will use the 1936 Berlin Olympics as a blueprint. It will fail horribly, like most things he does.

'A dark day for our country': Democrats furious over Trump bill's passage

Democrats have erupted in a storm of outrage over the passage of Donald Trump’s budget bill, delivering scathing critiques that offered signs of the attack lines the party could wield against Republicans in next year’s midterm elections.

Party leaders released a wave of statements after the sweeping tax and spending bill’s passage on Thursday, revealing a fury that could peel paint off a brick outhouse.

“Today, Donald Trump and the Republican party sent a message to America: if you are not a billionaire, we don’t give a damn about you,” said Ken Martin, the Democratic National Committee chair.

“While the GOP continues to cash their billionaire donors’ checks, their constituents will starve, lose critical medical care, lose their jobs – and yes, some will die as a result of this bill. Democrats are mobilizing and will fight back to make sure everybody knows exactly who is responsible for one of the worst bills in our nation’s history.”

The bill’s narrow passage in the House on Thursday, with no Democratic support and only two no votes from Republicans – which came from Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania – is “not normal”, wrote congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/04/democrats-trump-bill

I have no use for Massie, but I'll hand him a bone on this one. Fitzpatrick I don't know at all so I'll pass.

MAGA lawmaker begs Wisconsin's Democratic governor to protect constituents from megabill

Republican Rep. Derrick Van Orden of Wisconsin wrote a letter urging his state’s Democratic governor to take steps to protect rural hospitals from the fallout of Republicans’ widely reviled budget bill — which Van Orden voted for.

Van Orden’s urgent letter, which was dated Wednesday ahead of the bill’s Thursday passage, added to the list of Republicans who have effectively acknowledged the legitimacy of widespread fears that Republicans’ Trump-backed budget will harm some of the most vulnerable Americans — even as many Republicans have suggested it won’t.

Van Orden’s letter essentially called on Gov. Tony Evers to hurry up and sign the state budget, in order to protect rural hospitals from some of the steep Medicaid cuts that are likely to be triggered by congressional Republicans’ megabill.

“I cannot emphasize enough the importance of signing the proposed state budget into law without delay,” Van Orden wrote. “As you are aware, timely enactment is especially critical this year due to the proposed increase in the state provider tax, which must be effectuated before the anticipated signing of the One, Big, Beautiful Bill on or around July 4, 2025.”

Van Orden’s letter included flowery, Orwellian language touting the GOP bill as ensuring the solvency of BadgerCare, the name of Wisconsin’s Medicaid program, and “bolstering our rural healthcare systems,” but the gist of it was clear: The GOP budget is a threat to Medicaid and rural hospitals, and Wisconsin ought to act accordingly.

https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/van-orden-letter-evers-wisconsin-budget-medicaid-rcna216850

How many ways can you say HYPOCRITE?

Mexican Boxer Julio Csar Chvez Jr. Arrested By ICE

Mexican boxer Julio César Chávez Jr. was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Studio City, California, on Wednesday.

The Department of Homeland Security announced Chávez’s arrest in a Thursday press release, describing the 39-year-old former middleweight champion as a “public safety threat” with alleged links to the Sinaloa cartel.

“Chavez is a Mexican citizen who has an active arrest warrant in Mexico for his involvement in organized crime and trafficking firearms, ammunition, and explosives,” the statement read.

The son of multiple-time world champion Julio César Chávez Sr., the boxer recently lost a high-profile 10-round bout with influencer-turned-boxer Jake Paul.

In the statement, DHS said it was processing Chávez for expedited removal from the United States.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/boxer-julio-cesar-chavez-ice-arrest_n_6866c94de4b0225e8f8be09d

JHRC, who's next?

Rep. Ogles is openly calling on Pam Bondi to betray the Constitution

Last week, Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., sent a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi that called for a federal investigation to determine whether New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani — a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Uganda — should be subject to denaturalization proceedings based on eight-year-old rap lyrics that Ogles claims could constitute material support for terrorism. At a news conference Monday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt indicated that the allegations, “if true, were something that should be investigated.”

And earlier in June, the Justice Department issued a memo announcing its directive to “maximally pursue denaturalization proceedings.”

The Trump administration made denaturalization a priority during the first term, creating a special Justice Department section to pursue these cases. The administration now appears positioned to expand these efforts with a policy requiring that denaturalization be pursued wherever legally possible.

As the apparent next step in the Trump administration’s mass deportation regime, this rarely used but potentially far-reaching government power is getting newfound attention. As legal scholars who study denaturalization, we believe the new Justice Department policy could significantly expand the circumstances under which naturalized Americans might lose their citizenship in ways that raise serious constitutional questions.

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-doj-denaturalization-zohran-mamdani-andy-ogles-constitution-rcna216056

Andy Ogles is not only a blot on Tennessee, he is a blot on the entire nation.

Member of white supremacist group charged in alleged plot to solicit murder of 'high-value targets'

A 24-year-old man is facing charges after allegedly working with a transnational terrorist group to create a hit list of “high-value targets” for assassination that included U.S. officials, nongovernmental organizations and leaders of private companies, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.

Noah Lamb was charged and indicted in Northern California federal court with eight counts of conspiracy, soliciting the murder of federal officials, doxing federal officials and interstate threatening communication, according to a federal indictment unsealed Wednesday.

Authorities allege that between November 2021 and September 2024, Lamb collaborated with members of the Terrorgram Collective to create a list of targets they viewed as “enemies of the cause of white supremacist accelerationism,” the indictment states.

The Terrorgram Collective is described as a network of white supremacist, neo-Nazi and accelerationist groups who promote violence and white supremacy, according to the Anti-Defamation League. The group primarily connects through the social networking app Telegram.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/member-white-supremacy-group-charged-alleged-plot-solicit-murder-high-rcna216701

He's white, of course, so he's just "mentally ill", right? But not an immigrant, either....

US tries to deport stateless Palestinian woman again despite judge's order

The US government has tried for the second time to deport a stateless Palestinian woman, according to court documents – despite a judge’s order barring her removal.

Ward Sakeik, a 22-year-old newlywed, was detained in February on her way home from her honeymoon in the US Virgin Islands. Last month, the government attempted to deport her without informing her where she was being sent, according to her husband, Taahir Shaikh. An officer eventually told her that she would be sent to the Israel border – just hours before Israel launched airstrikes on Iran.

After her lawyers filed suit on behalf, US district judge Ed Kinkeade issued an order on 22 June barring the government from deporting Sakeik or removing her from the Texas district where she is being detained while her case is decided.

But on Monday, the government tried once again to deport her. Officers at the detention facility woke her up early in the morning on Monday, and told her she “had to leave”. When she tried to tell the officer there was a court order blocking her removal, the officer responded: “It’s not up to me.”

“Sakeik informed me that when she arrived at intake, her belongings had been placed outside the door,” her lawyer testified in court documents.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/02/stateless-palestinian-woman-deportation-ward-sakeik

Give it arest, ICE, FFS...she has NO criminal record!