Michele Fiore raised $70,000 to build a statue for a Las Vegas cop killed in the line of duty. She spent it on cosmetic surgery, her rent, and her daughter’s wedding. A jury convicted her in two hours. Trump pardoned her before she was ever sentenced.
Paul Walczak took $10.9M out of his nursing home employees' paychecks: their Social Security, their Medicare, their taxes, and bought a $2 million yacht.
Sentenced to 18 months and $4.4M restitution.
His mother attended a $1M-a-plate Mar-a-Lago dinner.
Twelve days later: full pardon. He never spent a night in prison.
Paul Walczak took $10.9M out of his nursing home employees' paychecks: their Social Security, their Medicare, their taxes, and bought a $2 million yacht.
Sentenced to 18 months and $4.4M restitution.
His mother attended a $1M-a-plate Mar-a-Lago dinner.
Twelve days later: full pardon. He never spent a night in prison.
On the left: ICE agents until very recently, wearing windbreakers and IDs clearly shown
On the right: ICE agents under Trump with faces covered, no identification and full fascist militarization,... Including military assault rifles for use on civilians
WOW! THE GOP FRAUD NEVER STOPS: Entitled much? Bruce Bartman. Marple Township, Delaware County, PA. Registered Republican.
Voted for Trump using his dead mother's ballot. Tried registering his dead mother-in-law too. Two dead relatives, back-to-back.
Projection is the confession. Media silent. Cult silent. Congress silent.
The American people want answers.
The Trump administration admitted in court that it canceled billions of dollars in federal funding “based solely” on whether a state voted for Trump.
Using taxpayer dollars to reward political allies and punish opponents is not democracy.
It’s authoritarianism.
I am deeply appalled and angry to see “Firework” used on the @WhiteHouse TikTok account as a backing track for video footage of military strikes. I did not approve this, I was not asked, and I absolutely do not condone it.
I wrote this song to be an anthem of hope, healing, and inner strength for people going through their darkest personal moments. To see a message of self-worth and upliftment weaponized to soundtrack destruction and violence is a complete violation of everything my song stands for.
My music is for bringing people together, not celebrating warfare.
We can now confirm that the substance found in Lorenzo Salgado’s van was not a narcotic or any other illicit substance. As his family has said all along, this was an electrolyte powder to stay hydrated working outside in the hot Texas summer.
The attempt to cast a shadow over Lorenzo Salgado’s name has failed.
Nancy Lacore is the Democratic candidate running for South Carolina’s 1st District. Hegseth pushed her out last August without cause, ending her 35 yrs in the navy where she went from helicopter pilot to 3 star admiral running the entire Navy Reserve.
A Despicable Betrayal of the Dead
Four American soldiers died for this country last weekend. Their bodies were flown home. Their families stood on the tarmac at Dover and watched the flag-draped cases come off the plane. And then the fascist authoritarian Trump regime wiped their names off the official list of the war dead like they were a clerical inconvenience.
1st Lt. Tyler James Feehan.
Sgt. Angel S. Rampersad.
Pvt. Isabella Gonzales.
Sgt. Michael Emmanuel Swinton.
One day the Pentagon's public casualty count said 18 Americans had been killed in the Iran war. The next day it said 14. The four most recent deaths — three in a missile attack in Jordan, one in Iraq — were simply deleted. Military sources told The New York Times the order came because the deaths happened after Trump's April "cease-fire." The Pentagon's official line was the pathetic excuse of "temporary data disruptions."
This is not a mistake. This is a calculated insult. These men and women put on the uniform, followed orders, and paid with their lives. The government they served responded by erasing them from the public record the moment their deaths became politically inconvenient. That is not leadership. That is cowardice dressed up as administration.
There is no honorable way to explain this. You do not get to decide that a soldier's death "doesn't count" because it happened after a speech. You do not get to scrub their names while their remains are still being received with ceremony. You do not get to treat the ultimate sacrifice as a data point that can be adjusted for better optics.
This is the purest form of disrespect: not an open sneer, but a quiet bureaucratic deletion that pretends the dead never existed on the official ledger. Every family who has lost a child in this war just received the same message — your grief is real, but Trump's version of the truth is more important.
That is not how a serious country treats its dead. It is how an authoritarian regime treats them when it has something to hide.
Remember how Republicans went totally batshit when Lloyd Austin took three days to notify the White House about his emergency hospitalization - but when it’s been 41 days & we’re still not sure if Mitch McConnell is alive - the silence is deafening.