(The individual who took this Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of a returning POW during the Vietnam War passed away a short time ago as we learn here, and as wonderful as the moment is that he captured...well, let’s just say there was more to the story, and I’ll leave that there.)
To start, Josh Gay of Ring of Fire tell us that the Department of Labor for Mango Mussolini is eliminating a report/spreadsheet used to investigate potential hiring discrimination based on race and sex, because of course...”whoever controls that data controls what you can prove” indeed, and Trumpette Andrea Lucas, chair of the EEOC, decided to stop collecting the data...oh, but Lucas is apparently running a case against Nike, saying the company discriminates against white employees (and if you believe that, I have a bridge to one of the five New York boroughs to sell to you)...I didn’t know this came from that accursed Project 2025, but that tracks too, I have to say...also didn’t know the EEOC processed 88K worker complaints, winning $660 million for over 17K workers (and when it comes to Labor Day and the Trumpers, this isn’t surprising I know)...
...and John and Yasmin Khan of The Damage Report inform us that a Canadian pollster has found that there’s push back not only against #47, but other Repugs running for Congress, with Dem U.S. Senate candidates leading in 4 of 5 races, and yes, I know this is just one poll...the only one where a Repug is up is in South Carolina, where Darline (“Don’t Know Much About Foreign Policy”) Graham is ahead...and once again, it’s independent voters pushing back the hardest in this poll...God bless the Canadians in that poll who still have a favorable opinion about this country (around 74 percent) despite all the Trumpist bullsh*t (and by the way, the Canadian tariffs are due to kick in today)...
...and sticking with our neighbors to the north, David Shuster of Rebel HQ tells us that it looks like Don The Con’s name change of Lake Ontario to Lake America was every bit the mistake you can imagine it to be with the “MAGA faithful”...and oh yeah, that goes for the stinking tariffs also (63 percent opposed according to the poll cited here, separate from the one in the Damage Report clip I believe)...and oh yeah, Apple Maps and Google Maps (which went along with this idiotic name change) have been deleted by “hundreds of thousands” – serves them right...and the inverse applies to MapQuest IMO...good job in this report to show the economic impact to this typical idiocy from Bronzer Beelzebub on both sides of the border (and I sincerely hope that Canadian town renames the streets and gets rid of the New York references because we deserve it)...
...and this is another typically well-done IMO report from More Perfect Union, this time from Salwa Shameem who tells us what’s really going on with this “Board of Peace” grift, led by Wonder Boy Jared Kushner...looks like they want to glass Gaza and the people and turn it into another playground for the ultra-rich...oh, and the World Bank Fund that was supposed to contain funds for Gaza’s reconstruction is completely tapped out, with some of the dough going to J.P. Morgan...oh, and it also looks like the U.N. Security Council is another rubber stamp on behalf of the corporations trying to make bank out of all of this despicable suffering (author Casey Michel is interviewed)...additionally, it looks like every member country trying to join this board has to pay a billion up front (and as luck would have it, the board was approved before the charter was finalized, which is NOT how this stuff is supposed to work, to my knowledge)...also, Our Treasonous Orange Pustule remains as chairman of the board even after he no longer resides in An Oval Office (so many levels of grift going on here...someone, or a group of folks, are going to have to try and investigate this at some point, including hidden bank accounts)...no mention of Gaza in the charter, as we also learn...and apparently, Kushner’s “Affinity Partners” is the group making inroads overseas to other shadowy outfits for funding (and it links back to those damn West Bank settlements)...one of my questions is what kind of military involvement this country may get roped into to preserve this scam operation (I don’t think private contractors by themselves will “cut it,” at least not without help); if anybody thinks there WON’T be some kind of “intifada” in response, then you haven’t been paying attention...also, “Little Marco” is trying to dismantle the ICC, which could hold all of the miscreants mentioned here accountable (I can’t help but recall how much our supposedly august members in “the world’s greatest deliberative body” were in such a rush to confirm Rubio as Secretary of State because they thought he was “in the club”...the phrase ”so-called international law” is another typical F-U from the Trump regime)...”war will always be a money maker” – sadly, I think that’s about right...
...and America’s Finest News Source is on the beat again with another timely clip (just kidding...this is a repeat, but I think it’s pretty spot-on for now)...
...and happy belated 75th birthday to Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders...this tune was the lead-in to Flush Limbore’s radio show and he used it without permission of course, so Hynde quite rightly took him to court...I believe the terms of the settlement were that he could continue to use it as long as it didn’t include Hynde’s vocals and Limbaugh made a contribution to PETA (a favored Hynde charity), which I though was a good way to take care of the matter FWIW.
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