The Trump Presidency, Season 2

[Cristiano]

Release of ‘missing minute’ of Epstein video contradicts Bondi claim cameras stopped recording

 

[Cristiano]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Trump dreams of making Chicago a colony

He views communities that don't support him as enemies to be subjugated.

www.publicnotice.co

 

[Free]

Trump dreams of making Chicago a colony

He views communities that don't support him as enemies to be subjugated.

www.publicnotice.co

How do you make a colony of something that's already an integral part of your country? Oh, sorry, we're talking about Trump here. It's all new, batshit insane and logically stupid rules for everything now.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

How do you make a colony of something that's already an integral part of your country? Oh, sorry, we're talking about Trump here. It's all new, batshit insane and logically stupid rules for everything now.

See the section of the article headed "The imperial boomerang":

Hannah Arendt in her 1951 classic “The Origins of Totalitarianism” referred to the fascist tendency to unleash colonial ideology and colonial violence on the imperial center as the “imperial boomerang.” A year earlier, Aimé Césaire made a similar point in “Discourses of Colonialism,” arguing that Hitler and the Nazis “applied to Europe colonialist procedures which until then had been reserved exclusively for” the colonies.

James Baldwin, in writing about Vietnam, said that “every bombed village is my hometown”— a statement of solidarity, but also an argument that American government treated the Vietnamese abroad much as they treated Black people in New York City and throughout the country.

There's also this

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-8675.12809

Tl;dr -- applying colonial methods of control to the home country, or to sections of the home population, is one of the defining features of fascism.

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

It's been there all along. All their "Take our country back!" rhetoric they've been pushing for a decade or more, paints a narrative, not of a nation but of a territory, usurped and controlled by a foreign rival. (in our case, a democratically elected congress).

They've been building up towards normalizing using lawless militant action to re-take their lost 'colony/territory/vassal state' from the start.

 

[Free]

Likely winner of the least surprising news story of the week.

Ghislaine Maxwell Lawyer Makes Stunning Quid Pro Quo Confession

Arthur Aidala, who represented Jeffrey Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, admitted the truth about Maxwell’s prison transfer.

newrepublic.com

Ghislane Maxwell’s former lawyer just admitted what we all suspected: The sexual abuser and Epstein accomplice was transferred to a nicer, minimum-security prison so that she could give the Trump administration something in exchange—like a favorable testimony.

Arthur Aidala, who represented Maxwell in her 2022 sex-trafficking trial and appeals, appeared on CNN on Monday to talk about the case.

“Obviously I can talk in generalities,” Aidala continued. “Anybody who’s represented by a lawyer who knows what they’re doing, [and who] goes in and meets with the government … there’s always a quid pro quo.… Anytime the government wants information from a citizen, the citizen says, ‘Well, I have a right to remain silent. If you want me to give up that right, I need something in return.’ Usually, it’s a plea bargain. Usually, your charges are going to be lowered, and your exposure.”

Former Biden adviser Neera Tanden, who was present, started laughing at Aidala.

“Why are you laughing?” he said. “I’ve done that for 35 years!”

“Because you just admitted to a quid pro quo with the Trump administration!”

“That’s how the whole system works! The whole system works on quid pro quo.”

 

[Free]

I posted this on imgur but getting a downvote shit kicking over there (I think the MAGA brigade are on watch), so I'll post it here to try and get some love.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

I don't know how it works in the US, but in the UK we have a national electricity grid that pulls power from different generators, with the mix changing minute by minute if necessary, to match demand.

So the National Grid draws on hydroelectric, nuclear and biomass as steady, constant, though minor, power sources, then from renewables subject to their availability, and then supplements this with power generated from hydrocarbons and imported from Continental electricity generators as necessary.

National Grid: Live

Shows the live status of Great Britain’s electric power transmission network

grid.iamkate.com

 

[Veritable Quandry]

I keep seeing words like "intermittent" and "random" about wind. Wind is variable but predictable. On road trips I often drive up near the great lakes, and see wind farms. Because it is a generally flat landmass next to a large body of water. Weather there is determined by the simple fact that land and water heat and cool at different rates, so there is always a temperature difference, and there is almost always wind. The strength and direction may change but we have records of weather going back to British and American forts in the late 18th century. We can't predict on a daily basis, but seasonal and annual patterns are consistent. Energy companies knew this when they selected sites for wind farms. In Oregon the Columbia River Gorge is full of windmills because it is a narrow passage from high plateau to coastal valleys, and so it always has strong winds. Wind power is predictable. With battery storage and some additional sources from fossil fuels or nuclear, it makes a very predictable energy supply.

 

[Free]

I keep seeing words like "intermittent" and "random" about wind.

Spoken by brainless cultists.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

“Yield, man!” – another dark moment in United States law and policy

10th September 2025 The Speaker of the House of Representative Mike Johnson yesterday told elected civil politicians to “yield” to military force. A video of the remarks can be seen her…

davidallengreen.com

 

[Cindy Claveau]

 

[Cindy Claveau]

 

[Cindy Claveau]

Trump says he can beat LaBron

Right.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

The Rush: Trump Favored to Beat LeBron at UFC 240*…or is he?

 

[Cindy Claveau]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

The Guardian: Trump’s retreat from Nato was priced in. But his humiliation of Qatar and India spells total chaos

In this new phase of Trump’s foreign policy, uneasiness about his unreliability is hardening into understanding that overexposure to the whims of his regime is straight-up dangerous, because there is no degree of investment in him that will bear fruit. A ruthless deal-maker is only worth engaging with when they observe one fundamental rule: once the deal is made, even if it is a bad one, it is abided by. Trump has violated that tenet. And when it comes to Israel, Trump no longer appears as someone who can be persuaded, flattered and wooed by Arab states. He simply does not have the attention span to prevent the conflict from sprawling in ways that are increasingly redrawing the physical and political map of the Middle East. He is a lazy and capricious emperor, sitting on the heap of a nation roiled by violence and crisis.

 

[Cindy Claveau]

GOP staff on Capitol Hill hated Stephen Miller so much they spread rumors he likes playing with dolls

Stephen Miller, the influential White House official spearheading much of the Trump administration’s immigration agenda, was reportedly so widely disliked during his earlier time on Capitol Hill that Republican staffers invented a rumor he liked to play with porcelain dolls to embarrass him.

Such mockery hasn’t subsided since Miller left the office of then-Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama to join the Trump camp, with the president allegedly gossiping about Miller behind his back over his intense and awkward manner, according to a new report.

These claims come from an in-depth Rolling Stone profile of Miller, Trump’s deputy chief of staff and homeland security adviser, which paints a picture of the California native as a powerful force inside the administration, acting as the shadow boss of supposedly independent agencies like the Just

 

[Free]

DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing

The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States.

The study, which was conducted by the National Institute of Justice and hosted on a DOJ website was available there at least until September 12, 2025, according to an archive of the page saved by the Wayback Machine. Daniel Malmer, a PhD student studying online extremism at UNC-Chapel Hill, first noticed the paper was deleted.

“The Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs is currently reviewing its websites and materials in accordance with recent Executive Orders and related guidance,” reads a message on the page where the study was formerly hosted. “During this review, some pages and publications will be unavailable. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.”

Certainly not an inconvenience to our right wing government.