The United States is now facing the greatest threat to our free way of life in our history. Even the US Civil War was not the danger that is Donald Trump. In the Civil War, the South wanted to separate from the rest of the Union. Today, Trump does not want to separate from the US, he seeks to destroy the fundamental functions and purpose of the US. He seeks to destroy the Constitution, replacing the Judiciary and Legislative Branches with puppets of the Executive. Plainly stated, Trump seeks to establish himself as a dictator . . . and as of May 2025, he may succeed.
House Democrats on Monday released a screenshot of a letter signed by President Donald Trump, which was included in a collection of notes sent to notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein for his 50th birthday in 2003.
The letter features a conversation between Trump and Epstein inside an apparently hand-drawn outline of a woman’s torso. Trump’s signature is located just below the hips of the drawing.
“HERE IT IS: We got Trump’s birthday note to Jeffrey Epstein that the President said doesn’t exist,” the X account for the House Oversight Committee’s Democratic minority wrote in a post revealing the letter. CNBC has requested comment from a spokesman for Trump’s legal team. The White House did not immediately respond to CNBC’s request for comment.
The screenshot released Monday afternoon reveals the letter exactly as it was described in a mid-July report from The Wall Street Journal, which first uncovered the existence of the “bawdy” message.
What is an American?” This was the question Senator Eric Schmitt (R, MO) posed at the fifth annual National Conservatism Conference in Washington. His answer is that the nation is fundamentally not based on the idea of equality or freedom or any other ideal. Nor is it accessible to people of all races and religions. It is fundamentally, he told an assembled crowd, a white homeland.
The white Europeans who settled America and conquered the West “believed they were forging a nation—a homeland for themselves and their descendants,” he said. “They fought, they bled, they struggled, they died for us. They built this country for us. America, in all its glory, is their gift to us, handed down across the generations. It belongs to us. It’s our birthright, our heritage, our destiny. If America is everything and everyone, then it is nothing and no one at all. But we know that’s not true. America is not a ‘universal nation.’ ”
The implications of this vision are serious. This is a repudiation of our Constitution and the core of a national identity that includes all its citizens. It means that to be American is not about citizenship at all. “What is an American?” Schmitt asked. It is a white person. America is a white homeland that organically binds together white people of the past, present and future. And its policies must be guided for their benefit if they are to succeed.
“A strong, sovereign nation—not just an idea but a home, belonging to a people bound together by a common past and a shared destiny.”
And there you have it, folks — America is NOT a land where “all men are created equal” — we are a “white homeland” and we should act like it.
According to MAGA, students saddled with overwhelming debt didn’t deserve student loan forgiveness. People suffering from food insecurity didn’t deserve government assistance. All of those fancy know-it-all researchers curing cancer didn’t need government funding. But when they’re the ones hurting? Suddenly it’s time for Uncle Sam to bail them out.
Back in March, President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social: “To the Great Farmers of the United States: Get ready to start making a lot of agricultural product to be sold INSIDE of the United States. Tariffs will go on external product on April 2nd. Have fun!”
But now, according to Arkansas station KAIT, hundreds of farmers gathered in Brookland to beg state leaders for help.
Chris King, a Woodruff County farmer, reminded the crowd that Trump had once told him, “I love you,” and now he wanted to see “the fruit of that love.”
King explained that this was his 39th harvest, and he had never seen conditions so dire.
“I have never been as worried as I am now about whether or not my kids and grandkids will be able to carry on,”he admitted.
President Donald Trump announces his first round of tariffs in April.
The problem, he said, is simple: They can’t sell for profit.
“I just would like to see somebody help us get our markets back. We need our exports, and we just need to be paid for what we do, and that’s not happening, and we’re in real trouble,”King said.
But who cost King and his buddies those exports in the first place? Trump, the man they happily elected. Why should anyone feel sorry for them, funneling more blue-state resources to people who insist on punching themselves in the face?
Scott Brown, a farmer from Biggers, was just as gloomy. He warned that “you are going to lose 25-30% of the farmers in this country if they don’t do something.”
And he said that Trump’s tariffs are the final straw.
“I think the tariffs are the ice cream on the cake of a perfect storm. When you try and sell a product, okay, U.S. soybeans leaving New Orleans without the tariff to China are cheaper than Brazilian soybeans, at the current market. But when you put the tariff on top of them, Brazilian beans are cheaper.”
Maybe you shouldn’t have voted for the guy who ran on tariffs and promised they’d be fun?
Because for these farmers, Trump’s “fun” has meant lost markets, collapsing prices, and neighbors talking about going under.
And there’s the crux: U.S. consumers don’t need these farmers for cheaper groceries—we can get them from overseas. Trump can’t raise tariffs on imports much higher without driving up grocery prices even further, which would crush Republicans at the ballot box.
Meanwhile, farmers are being slammed with Trump-induced inflation, Trump-induced labor shortages as immigrant workers are deported or driven away, and Trump-induced cuts to the very programs that once gave them a cushion. Their hospitals and clinics haven’t closed yet—but give it time, that’s coming, too. So much fun, they’ll be tired of all the fun.
Brown conceded that, in the short term, “they have no choice but to mail us a check.”
He also insisted that no farmer likes taking taxpayer dollars, but “nobody wants to go broke, nobody wants to lose everything. Long term, we have to have options, markets, and places to sell our product.”
How about no? Students didn’t get debt relief, even though millions were promised a fresh start from crushing loans. Hungry families are watching food pantries close as pandemic-era assistance dries up. Cancer researchers see their funding slashed, teachers are told to buy their own supplies, and veterans fight tooth and nail for basic benefits. But these Trump-voting farmers think they’re owed a taxpayer bailout?
If they want relief, maybe they should stop voting for politicians who keep kneecapping them while distracting them with culture war nonsense about trans kids. Zero sympathy. None. So they can fuck off.
Led by Donald Trump, Republican leaders—including members of Congress and several governors—have in recent weeks endorsed armed military occupations of American cities.
The most prominent display of this attitude can be seen in Washington, D.C., where Trump has deployed federal law enforcement along with the National Guard to combat a nonexistent crime wave. For a few weeks now Americans have watched as federal agents have been tasked with handling moped accidents, drunk men throwing sandwiches, and trash cleanup duty.
The action in Washington follows the deployment of federal assets in Los Angeles, which is led by Mayor Karen Bass, a Black woman. Other cities have been threatened with occupation by Trump including Chicago, Baltimore, and most recently New Orleans. All of the cities vote Democratic, have large minority populations, and are led by Black mayors.
But just a few years ago conservatives and Republicans were busy accusing Democrats of wanting a “police state.”
The right spent nearly a decade accusing former President Bill Clinton of plotting to allow United Nations-backed agents of the “New World Order” to do things like construct FEMA camps and conduct armed takeovers of American cities.
By the time former President Barack Obama took office in 2009, the right whipped itself into a frenzy over the “JADE HELM” conspiracy. Under JADE HELM, Obama was purportedly amassing military forces to take over red state cities and towns. None of it was true, as JADE HELM was an innocuous military exercise.
The fearmongering over the impending police state did not stop when former President Joe Biden took office in 2021. In 2024 while serving as governor of South Dakota, Kristi Noem said there would be “war on our hands” if Biden used the National Guard to patrol the U.S.-Mexico border.
Now that Noem is serving as Trump’s Homeland Security secretary, she backs using the Guard to invade states like California.
A group of 28 congressional Republicans released a letter in 2024 pushing Biden not to federalize the Texas National Guard after Gov. Greg Abbott began using the guard to install razor wire on the southern border. Republican attorneys general also voiced protest as well.
But these same people are perfectly fine with Trump deploying the National Guard to enforce his imperialist presidential agenda.
Conservative groups like the NRA, which have argued that Americans have to be armed to the teeth to counter federal power, have been quiet even as federal troops have marched on Washington.
The truth is that the right never really cared about a federal police state. The SOLE motiviation of Republicans is thatcities with large Black populations led by Black leaders be forced to buckle to Trump’s whims, backed up by armed feds.
If it means enhanced power for Republicans and allowing them to dominate Democrats, minorities, or both, then the right is all for it.
Figures like conspiracy theorist Alex Jones made millions selling ineffective medication, based on his promotion of fears about a “police state.” Now Jones is busy parting with contributors to his own network who reportedly demonstrate insufficient fealty to Trump.
The entire elaborate “police state” warning was another fraud from the right. They aren’t opposed to a police state—they just want it to be THEIR POLICE STATE.
This story is a bit confusing but here’s what I can piece together.
Robert Keith Packer, 60, pardoned by Trump
Yet another pardoned Jan 6er commits more crimes, arrested.
Trump’s pardons of the J6 criminals did nothing but return criminals to our streets.
Robert Keith Packer, 60, was arrested on Thursday “following an investigation into an animal-related incident” that had occurred on Monday in Newport News, a city spokesperson said.
Packer was charged with one count of animal attack resulting from owner’s disregard for human life, a felony, the spokesperson said. He was also charged with attacking while at large and no city license, both misdemeanors.
“As part of the investigation, authorities seized one adult dog, six 11-week-old puppies, four live rabbits, and one deceased rabbit from the property,” the spokesperson said.
Police told Newport News ABC affiliate WVEC that four people were taken to the hospital with dog bites stemming from the attack. Packer’s neighbors told police that his dogs have been terrorizing the neighborhood for several months and that he does nothing to stop the dogs from attacking people.
Federal prosecutors in the Jan. 6 case said that Packer has been a “habitual criminal offender for 25 years with 21 convictions for mostly drunk driving, but also for larceny, drug possession, and forgery.” He was incarcerated for several previous offenses, they said.
Blue-collar workers f####d around when they voted for Donald Trump in 2024. Now, they’re finding out.
Voters without college degrees backed Trump over then-Vice President Kamala Harris by 14 points, according to exit polling. Yet August’s jobs report showed that industries whose workers often do not possess college degrees have lost jobs, in part thanks to Trump’s nonsensical trade policy.
The jobs report showed that the mining industry—which Trump has touted he is saving—lost 6,000 jobs in August.
However, aside from the government—which took a massive hit thanks to now-former co-President Elon Musk’s destructive Department of Government Efficiencycuts—no industry has done worse than manufacturing.
In his inaugural address, Trump promised to restore the American manufacturing sector, declaring that, “America will be a manufacturing nation once again.”
Yet manufacturing lost a whopping 12,000 jobs in August. Altogether, the manufacturing industry has lost 78,000 jobs in 2025, a massive contraction.
Ultimately, the only industry doing okay right now is health care, which accounts for virtually all of the job growth over the last four months. But that’s about to take a hit, too, as the GOP’s “One Big, Beautiful Bill” cuts billions from Medicaid that will cause millions to lose their coverage and leave rural hospitals and long-term health care facilities in trouble.
If you thought the Trump administration cared, however, well, you’d be wrong. Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer went on Fox Business to deny that Trump’s tariffs are wreaking havoc on the economy.
“Tariffs are working,” she said, even though the data shows they clearly are not.
“Unemployment is still holding steady,” she added, even though unemployment is now the highest it’s been since 2021 and federal jobs data shows that there are now more job seekers than job openings. “Statistically, it’s nonexistent.” (Someone needs to tell this billionaire asshole that when you lose a job, or can’t find one, statistics are the last thing you worry about.)
We know what’s in the Epstein files — Trump’s name and details about Trump fucking little girls.
Stop With The BS That “We” Don’t Know What’s In The Epstein Files
I see people almost to the point of defending Trump. I see people claiming that Trump only went to Epstein’s parties to socialize because nothing has been proven and none of the victims have spoken out.
Let me clue everyone in as to why Trump sued the WSJ for eleventy billion dollars over reporting about the provable birthday letter that Trump sent to Epstein. I wouldn’t doubt that Murdoch was complicit regarding the lawsuit. Trump sued the WSJ to send a message to the people who know what’s in the Epstein files: the victims, the victim’s lawyers the prosecutors such as Maureen Comey. If any of the above people make a statement about Trump , he will destroy their lives, he will sue them until the cows come home.
The victims, the victim’s lawyers, the prosecutors, need those files released to give them cover to be able to speak out publicly. Without the backing of making those files public, powerful people, will destroy the lives of the victims and their lawyers and the prosecutors.
This is why the Epstein files will never be released, it keeps a muzzle on the many people who already know what’s in those files.
It make me sick to hear people say we have no proof, the proof is out there, under lock and key.
To say that Trump , a piece of shit who raped a woman in the changing room of a clothing store, who had sex with a porn star at a golfing event, only went to Epstein’s parties to socialize is laughable. Trump made a deal with Maxwell to buy her silence, right out in the open, a quid pro quo. She sits in a fucking country club awaiting her freedom solely based on one word, “waiver.” Whitehouse and Garcia sent stern letters to the head of the Federal Bureau of Prisons asking for documents as to the reasons for Maxwell’s transfer, still fucking waiting for a response. What if they get no response, then what? I guess the answer is we just keep using the one word, “waiver,” and move on. There is no good reason to grant that waiver other than to protect Donald fucking Trump.
The victims get screwed again and Trump walks away from his crimes – – again.
Virginia gubernatorial candidate Winsome Earle-Sears, a Republican and the state’s current lieutenant governor, released a new ad Tuesday attacking her Democratic opponent Rep. Abigail Spanberger for asserting that the LGBTQ+ community deserves human rights.
The entire ad focuses on Spanberger’s past support for transgender rights and falsely accuses the Democrat of wanting men—including sex offenders—to use women’s bathrooms. The ad goes on to quote Spanberger saying that “our LGBTQ neighbors have the same legal rights as anyone else,” casting the statement as part of the left’s “insane” belief system.
But Spanberger’s statement is a bedrock foundation of U.S. law and tradition.
The Declaration of Independence clearly notes in its preamble that “all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
Similarly, the 14th Amendment to the Constitution states, “No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
To follow Earle-Sears line of argument would involve stripping rights away from millions of Americans, echoing the belief system of groups like the Ku Klux Klan or the Nazis, who did not believe in equality.
The ad ends with the tagline, “Spanberger is for they/them not us.”
This is the same construction used in 2024 ads by President Donald Trump attacking Kamala Harris for supporting LGBTQ+ rights, accusing her of being “for they/them while President Trump is for you.”
Earle-Sears’ ad, along with Trump’s, is part of an ongoing right-wing trend of attacking the basic humanity of LGBTQ+ people. These attacks are meant to whip up support among conservative voters who oppose equality, leading to Republican electoral wins.
For her part, Spanberger recently releasedan ad highlighting how Earle-Sears has “been in lockstep” with Trump. Virginia is one of the few swing states that Trump lost in the 2024 election to Harris.
In her ad, Spanberger notes the negative effect that Trump’s cuts to the federal workforce have had on Virginia, where federal workers compose much of the population.
Republicans currently hold the governorship in Virginia, but Spanberger has led in recent polling. And election forecaster Larry Sabato recently shifted the state from “lean Democratic” to “likely Democratic,” perhaps highlighting why Earle-Sears felt desperate enough to release her bigoted ad.
