I believe an unlikely mix of alleged drug trafficking related politicos and alleged white nationalist related politicos united to elect the infamous “Bloc of Four” in the abysmal voter turnout election of 2005. During their four year term the drug business was good again and white nationalists used Coatesville as an example on white supremacist websites like “Stormfront”. Strong community organization and support from law enforcement, in particular Chester County District Attorney Joseph W. Carroll has begun to turn our community around. The Chester County drug trafficking that I believe centers on Coatesville continues and I believe we still have public officials in place that profit from the drug sales. But the people here are amazing and continue to work against the odds to make Coatesville a good place to live.
"The attempt to end birthright citizenship in the United States is an attempt to reverse history, to push our nation back, way back, before the Dred Scott decision of 1857 and the secession crisis that soon delivered the nation into the Civil War. Calling this action “unconstitutional” is utterly inadequate; the maneuver is the soiling of sacred text with profane lies.
Birthright citizenship is a shield of protection to anyone born in this country, as close to a national self-definition as we have; it is our legal DNA. Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment should be emblazoned on small laminated cards and carried in every American’s pocket. The language is amply clear:
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside.
That language is as fundamental to the Constitution as any other provision, perhaps even more important to the survival and growth of our pluralistic republic than the First Amendment, which protects free speech, free press, the right of assembly, and the right to petition the government. It is as inherent to constitutional function as federalism itself.
The Trump administration now scoffs at this history, purporting to end this guarantee with an executive order signed on Donald Trump’s first day back in the Oval Office and tragically titled, in a fantastic act of Orwellian doublespeak, “Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship.” The administration makes a phony originalist argument based on the claim that the Fourteenth Amendment’s guarantee extended only to the freedmen and their descendants. Quite the contrary, the amendment’s authors explicitly envisioned the immigrant population and its descendants as part of their plan. Congressman John Bingham, Section 1’s author, defended the amendment by drawing on the authority of the Constitution’s Framers, who had “invited the workers and builders whose honest toil clothes and shelters nations,” and who hailed from “every civilized nationality” to become “citizens of the Republic.” This is why, in blocking Trump’s order last week, the Federal District Court Judge John C. Coughenour said without caveat: “This is a blatantly unconstitutional order.”
“Johnson early Monday afternoon acknowledged the opposition the budget resolution faced, saying “there may be more than one” GOP member planning to vote against it.
“But they’ll get there,” Johnson told a crowd of activists at an event sponsored by the right-wing policy group Americans for Prosperity. “We’re going to get everybody there. This is a prayer request. Just pray this through for us, because it is very high-stakes, and everybody knows that. … I don’t think anybody wants to be in front of this train. I think they want to be on it.”
“Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-New Jersey), formerly a Democrat, said he called Trump on Monday to tell the president to reinforce his pledge not to cut Medicaid.
“Don’t touch seniors’ Medicare, and don’t cut Medicaid, because it isn’t just for lazy welfare people. It’s for real people,” Van Drew said. “That’s the new Republican Party, a populist party, a party of working people, a party of blue-collar people.”
Johnson early Monday afternoon acknowledged the opposition the budget resolution faced, saying “there may be more than one” GOP member planning to vote against it.”
The House speaker is set to put a budget resolution up for a floor vote on Tuesday but is facing a potential revolt from swing-district Republicans.By Jacob Bogage, Marianna Sotomayor and Liz Goodwin
February 25, 2025 at 6:00 a.m. ESTToday at 6:00 a.m. EST
The Sopranos - Patsy and Burt failed extortion attempt at “Starbucks”:
“Trump has said he wants a share of “rare earths”, a class of 17 minerals. In fact, Ukraine has few of these. The US president appears to have confused them with rare metals and critical materials, such as lithium and graphite. Alyoshin said there was a further misconception that quick profits could be made. “People think you put a shovel in the ground and dig up money. We have been working on this project for five or six years. With investment we can begin production in 2028,” he said...”
“It’s as if we lost the war to America. This looks to me like reparations,” Volodymyr Landa, a senior economist at the Centre for Economic Strategy thinktank in Kyiv, said. Ukraine’s overall reserves are worth $14.8tn. They include lithium, titanium and uranium, as well as coal, steel, iron ore, and undersea shale gas. Many deposits had not been developed, Landa said, either because they were not feasible or due to political instability.
“There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don’t know we don’t know.”-Donald Rumsfeld
Unknown unknowns:
The potential real world violence of Elon’s Hitler Youth hackers working inside U.S. government.
FED UP Army Vet Files MASSIVE LAWSUIT against Trump
Kris Goldsmith is an Army veteran and CEO of Task Force Butler, an organization that identifies, tracks, and holds accountable extremist organizations and actors. He is a plaintiff in a new lawsuit against the federal government that aims to prevent Elon Musk and DOGE from accessing private information that could be used to target critics of Donald Trump and extremist groups.
"Kash Patel’s confirmation as Director of the FBI is not just another Trump-era power grab—it is a tremendous swing toward the complete politicization of federal law enforcement. This is the moment where the rule of law is officially subordinated to the will of an authoritarian movement.
I fear that very few Americans, including the 49 Senators who just voted against his nomination, truly understand the magnitude of the threat Patel poses to our constitutional rights and way of life.
To be clear, this isn’t to say that these Senators—or the millions of Americans like you who closely follow reputable news sources—aren't well aware of Patel’s history. His open threats against his perceived political enemies, his written and spoken promises to weaponize federal law enforcement, and his role in advancing Trump’s most dangerous authoritarian ambitions are well-documented. What I mean is that unless you’ve been in the room with Patel—while he's in his element, unscripted, and playing to an adoring crowd—unless you’ve seen firsthand how he whips his supporters into a hysterical frenzy, you cannot fully grasp the danger we now face.
That’s why I need to tell you about what I saw in Branson, Missouri.
An Immersive Experience with Kash’s Cult in the ‘Vegas of the Ozarks’
The following account isn’t just drawn from memory—it’s backed by a 24-page intelligence report I compiled after attending the event, along with several hours of footage and over 400 still photos.
The weekend before the 2022 midterm elections, I traveled to Branson, Missouri, on an undercover mission to infiltrate the ReAwaken America Tour as a QAnon-radicalized veteran. This Christian nationalist roadshow, founded by serial grifters Clay Clark and Michael Flynn, is designed to radicalize MAGA diehards into believing they are on a mission from God in a literal war against demonic forces. It’s where former Trump officials, conspiracy theorists, and extremist preachers stand shoulder-to-shoulder, indoctrinating their audience with a singular message: Trump’s return to power is divinely ordained, and their enemies—Democrats, antifascists, journalists—must be crushed.
While researchers and journalists have extensively documented ReAwaken America, including livestreams of the main stage programming, what happens off-camera is even more disturbing. Watching from my office as part of my work in threat analysis was one thing—being there, embedded in the crowd, was something else entirely.
The livestreams boasted eight-hour days, but in reality, the programming was much longer. There were VIP meet-and-greets, private dinners, and after-hours cocktail events where attendees could rub shoulders with their heroes—Trump loyalists, QAnon influencers, and extremist operatives. These were the spaces where Flynn and Clark promised their followers access to “insider knowledge,” drawing them deeper into the movement.
Then there was the vendor tent—a marketplace of extremism where fringe personalities, many too obscure for mainstream media attention, operated as minor celebrities within this alternate reality. These figures, despite their relative anonymity to the outside world, wield enormous influence among their followers.
It was here that I met Michael Flynn Jr., son of the disgraced general, and one of the earliest amplifiers of the Pizzagate conspiracy theory—the claim that Hillary Clinton was trafficking children to harvest their blood. I hadn’t immediately recognized him when I reached out to shake his hand. He introduced himself by referring to his father as “General Flynn,” and we spoke for nearly an hour.
Flynn Jr. was aggrieved. He described his family as victims of a weaponized FBI, lamenting that even Trump’s team had abandoned him after he was fired for spreading conspiracy theories. But what stood out most wasn’t the content of his rant—it was the way he spoke. As he went on about the “deep state’s persecution” of his father and the necessity of building an army for Trump, I could see the occasional pause in his expression. He knew he was lying. He knew the contradictions in his own words. But none of that mattered. He was there for a purpose: to help his father recruit an army.
Inside the Mansion Theater for the Performing Arts, a 3,000-seat venue, Clark bragged from the stage that they had sold 1,000 more tickets than the venue could hold. A quarter of attendees were forced to linger in the vendor spaces at any given time—prey for the grifters.
This was the environment Kash Patel stepped into...
In autocratic regimes, the first step in dismantling democracy isn’t always an outright coup—it’s seizing the institutions that enforce the law. By installing Patel at the helm of the FBI, Trump’s movement has neutralized one of the last remaining checks on its power. This is not an accident; it is a deliberate strategy, one that has played out in authoritarian takeovers throughout history.
Now, as FBI Director, Patel has the ability to ensure that future investigations into corruption, election interference, and abuses of power never even begin.
The law will no longer be applied to the powerful—it will be weaponized against their enemies.
This is the moment where Trump’s cronies have the power to bend federal law enforcement so that it ceases to function as an independent institution. It is now on its way to becoming an enforcement arm of an authoritarian project."
I’m watching WWII films & series about how civilians reacted in Nazi occupied Europe.
It’s the closest thing to living in Republican/Nazi Party Occupied United States.
At first the French didn’t believe what they saw. They tried to live as normally as they could.
The version on Amazon Prime is dubbed in English
“The Trump administration can for now continue its mass firings of federal employees, a federal judge ruled on Thursday, rejecting a bid by a group of labor unions to halt Donald Trump’s dramatic downsizing of the roughly 2.3 million-strong federal workforce.
The ruling by US district judge Christopher Cooper in Washington DC federal court is temporary while the litigation plays out. But it is a win for the Trump administration as it seeks to purge the federal workforce and slash what it deems wasteful and fraudulent government spending.
The National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) and four other unions sued last week to block the administration from firing hundreds of thousands of federal workers and granting buyouts to employees who quit voluntarily.
The unions are seeking to block eight agencies including the Department of Defense, Department of Health and Human Services, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and Department of Veterans Affairs from implementing mass layoffs.
In his 16-page order, Cooper started by acknowledging Trump’s “onslaught of executive actions that have caused, some say by design, disruption and even chaos in widespread quarters of American society”
He went on to add: “Affected citizens and their advocates have challenged many of these actions on an emergency basis in this Court and others across the country.”
However, Cooper on Thursday said he likely lacks the power to hear the case, and that the unions instead must file complaints with a federal labor board that hears disputes between unions and federal agencies.
Cooper wrote: “NTEU fails to establish that it is likely to succeed on the merits because this Court likely lacks subject matter jurisdiction over the claims it asserts. The Court will therefore deny the unions’ motion for a temporary restraining order and, for the same reasons, deny their request for a preliminary injunction.”
Trump has tapped the Tesla CEO, Elon Musk, to lead a so-called “department of government efficiency”, or Doge, which has swept through federal agencies slashing thousands of jobs and dismantling federal programs since Trump became president last month and put Musk in charge of rooting out what he deems wasteful spending as part of Trump’s dramatic overhaul of government. Trump also ordered federal agencies to work closely with Doge to identify federal employees who could be laid off.”
It’s well known that Trump is a mobster who was rescued by the Russian mob. They propped up Trump when he could not get legitimate financing.
“Recall that Trump was $4 billion in debt after his Atlantic City casinos went bankrupt. He couldn’t get a bank loan from anywhere in the West, and Bayrock comes in and Trump partners with other people as well, but Bayrock essentially has a new model that says, “You don’t have to raise any money. You don’t have to do any of the real estate development. We just want to franchise your name, we’ll give you 18 to 25 percent royalties, and we’ll effectively do all the work. And if the Trump Organization gets involved in the management of these buildings, they’ll get extra fees for that.”
It was a fabulously lucrative deal for Trump, and the Bayrock associates — Sater in particular — were operating out of Trump Tower and constantly flying back and forth to Russia. And in the book, I detail several channels through which various people at Bayrock have close ties to the Kremlin, and I talk about Sater flying back and forth to Moscow even as late as 2016, hoping to build the Trump Tower there.”
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"In Russia, the mafia is essentially a state actor. When I interviewed Gen. Oleg Kalugin, who is a former head of counterintelligence in the KGB and had been Vladimir Putin’s boss at one point, I asked him about the mafia. He said, “Oh, it’s part of the KGB. It’s part of the Russian government.”
“As President Trump makes an abrupt pivot toward Russia, upending generations of American foreign policy, he is also defying members of his own party in Congress, many of whom have spent their careers arguing for a hawkish stance against Moscow and strong backing for allies in Europe facing its most immediate threats.”
Congressional Republicans have mostly tempered their criticism or deferred to the president as he topples what were once their party’s core foreign policy principles.
"Will a NY Federal Judge use his “inherent authority” to refuse to dismiss the indictment of Mayor Eric Adams as demanded by Trump and his DOJ, and instead appoint a Special Prosecutor of his own to investigate the corruption scandal that’s engulfed the Trump Administration? Michael Popok takes a deep look at the unique circumstances present to allow Judge Ho to save the criminal justice system from an ethically challenged and corrupt Trump DOJ.
“Judge Dale E. Ho, who on Wednesday will hold a hearing in the foundering corruption case against Mayor Eric Adams of New York, is facing a storm of demands that he look deeply into the federal government’s reasons for seeking to drop the prosecution.
On Monday night, three former U.S. attorneys from New York, New Jersey and Connecticut filed a brief asking the judge to conduct an extensive inquiry into whether the Justice Department’s motion to dismiss the Adams case was in the public interest or merely a pretext for securing the mayor’s cooperation with the Trump administration’s anti-immigration policies.
Earlier in the day, Common Cause, the good-government advocacy group, asked the judge to deny the Justice Department’s motion, which it called part of a “corrupt quid pro quo bargain.” The organization asked the judge to consider appointing an independent special prosecutor to continue the case.
And the New York City Bar Association, with more than 20,000 lawyers as members, said in a statement that the order by a top Justice Department official, Emil Bove III, “cuts to the heart of the rule of law” and asked for a “searching inquiry” into the facts.
On Tuesday morning, Judge Ho set a hearing for 2 p.m. Wednesday in Manhattan federal court to discuss the reasons for the government’s motion and the procedure for resolving it.
The judge, in a two-page order, offered no hint about his position and made it clear that under a federal rule, the executive branch was “the first and presumptively the best judge” of whether to drop a prosecution.
But he also emphasized the court’s independent responsibility. The government’s discretion, he wrote, “should not be judicially disturbed unless clearly contrary to manifest public interest.”
The legal and political crisis encompasses both the Justice Department and New York’s City Hall, calling into question Mr. Adams’s future as well as the independence and probity of federal prosecutions…
The law gives judges scant ability to refuse a prosecutor’s request to drop criminal charges. But Mr. Adams’s case may be an exception…
“What is at stake here is far more than an internal prosecutorial dispute about an individual case,” the former U.S. attorneys wrote. “The public furor that has arisen during the past week raises concerns about respect for the rule of law and the division of power between the executive and judicial branches of government in our nation…”
Nick Akerman, the lawyer for Common Cause, also asked that his organization be heard as a friend of the court, noting that because the government had agreed with Mr. Adams to dismiss the indictment, no one was representing the public before the judge.
He asked that Judge Ho consider the appointment of an independent prosecutor, as State Senator Zellnor Myrie, a Democrat who is running for mayor, did last week. It is a remedy that is unusual but plausible, said Stephen Gillers, a legal ethics expert at New York University School of Law.
Professor Gillers said that if Judge Ho ordered the government to proceed with the case and it refused, the judge might then explore the possibility of appointing a special prosecutor.
“He’d be vindicating the interest of the grand jury and the court itself in not letting the case die,” Professor Gillers said…
Late Monday night, Justice Connection, an organization that supports Justice Department employees facing “unprecedented attacks on their employment, their integrity, their well-being and their safety,” made public an open letter praising prosecutors in New York and Washington who resigned or whose jobs were threatened.
It was signed by more than 850 former federal prosecutors and was addressed to their counterparts still in the department. Among the signers was Jack Smith, the special counsel who carried out two federal criminal investigations of Mr. Trump.
“You have responded to ethical challenges of a type no public servant should ever be forced to confront with principle and conviction,” Justice Connection’s letter said, adding that current prosecutors would face more challenges ahead.
“Generations of former federal prosecutors are watching with pride and admiration and stand ready to support you in this honorable pursuit,” the letter said."
Judge Dale E. Ho will hear the government’s rationale for its request to stop the corruption case against New York’s mayor. Former U.S. attorneys are asking him to investigate.
