White House Press Secretary says Trump wants to invade “every Democrat-run city”
It’s war on anyone who’s not a fascist, but the media insists it’s a “crime crackdown.”

AND NOW THE NEWS
#547
SEPT. 12, 2025
a recurring roundup
of news, memes,
and my brilliant opinions
This is damned-near-literally an approval of Gestapo tactics.
Supreme Court “temporarily” allows Trump’s illegal evisceration of foreign aid
Supreme Court allows Trump to illegally fire FTC member

BUT THAT’S UNCONSTIPATIONAL
Texas attorney general wants students to pray in school – unless they’re Muslim
ICE and DHS kidnapped women outside the DTLA Federal Detention Center protest for filming

FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF DYSTOPIA
North Carolina now requires teachers to publicly list all the books in their classrooms
And the list isn’t even intended for parents to scrutinize and criticize — the lists are public, so anyone anywhere can file a complaint and second-guess public education.
DHS claims videotaping ICE raids is ‘violence’
Feds kidnap Boston man on his way to church on Mother’s Day

GIVE US YOUR TIRED, YOUR POOR, YOUR HUDDLED MASSES YEARNING TO BREATHE FREE, SO WE CAN IMPRISON THEM
Federal agents are enjoying their newly-restored powers to racially profile
Alarming levels of dehumanization by ICE and Border Patrol
A US citizen detained by ICE for three days tells his story
Irish woman with green card faces US deportation over $25 bad check from 2015, long since paid
Plane to purgatory: how Trump’s deportation program shuttles immigrants into lawless limbo
Under Trump administration, ICE scraps paperwork officers once had to do before immigration arrests
Excerpt: For more than 15 years, before they conducted any operation to arrest an immigrant in the United States, officers with Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Enforcement and Removal Operations division have been required to fill out a form with details about their target — name, appearance, known addresses and employment, immigration history, any criminal history and more — and give it to a supervisor for approval.
This year, in a sign of how the agency has moved from targeted enforcement to broad street sweeps under the Trump administration, that policy has been ended, six current and former officials and agents of ICE and the Department of Homeland Security told NBC News.
“It’s hard to fill out a worksheet that just says, ‘Meet in the Home Depot parking lot,’” one of the former ICE officials said.

LIMITLESS COLLUSION and COMPLICITY
President of Northwestern, under attack by Republicans, resigns
Texas A&M University removes dean after viral video depicting trans-inclusive education
Is there no-one in academia with what used to be called balls?
DOJ says names of two associates Epstein wired $100k and $250k to should stay secret
Amazon, IBM, and Dell helped build China’s surveillance state brick by brick, investigation finds
Paramount picks former head of right-leaning think tank as “ombudsman” for CBS News
Republican false electors from 2020 will not face trial
This is a paragraph Brett Kavanaugh wrote on his little computer and then sent out into the world

LIMITLESS STUPIDITY and BULLSHIT
DHS lies that raided crews were not firefighters
Republican Congresswoman calls for Charlie Kirk statue in US Capitol
Republican Senator says radioactive shrimp will turn you into the alien from Alien

WHAT WILL BE RUINED NEXT?
As COVID surges in the US, Americans can’t get vaccinated: ‘terrified I might kill somebody’
Trump regime quietly seeks to build national voter roll
Trump moves to scrap Biden rule that protected public lands

AND I SAY TO MYSELF, WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD
Parliament burns in Nepal as protests force prime minister to quit
Anti-Islamic US biker gang members run security at deadly Gaza aid sites
Brazil’s Bolsonaro found guilty in 2022 coup attempt

THE CRUELTY IS WHAT THEY LIKE BEST
Trump admin returns Russian dissident asylum seekers to Putin
This is killing people, period.
Trump’s new law will limit payments to hospitals that treat low-income patients
This is killing people, period.
$10 million in contraceptives have been destroyed on orders from Trump officials
Citing concerns about ‘DEI’, Trump regime halts program that aids deaf and blind students
Police dismantle longstanding White House peace vigil on Trump’s orders

ALWAYS LOOK ON THE BRIGHT SIDE OF LIFE
Review revealing ‘shame’ among troops deployed to cities accidentally sent to Washington Post
“Rise up, America. It is time to take back this country.”
Court staff cover up Banksy image of judge beating a protester
Protesters shout “Free DC, free Palestine, Trump is the Hitler of our time” as Trump eats dinner
DC resident blasts Star Wars ‘Imperial March’ at National Guard
Trump ally Charlie Kirk shot dead at campus event in Utah
My first reaction to the news was laughter and applause, and my second reaction was certainly not to regret my first.
Here’s Charlie Kirk, on the subject of his own murder:
“I think it’s worth [it] to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational.”
Trump blames the ‘radical left’ for Charlie Kirk’s killing, before a suspect or motive is even known

KNOW YOUR REPUBLICANS
Trump minimizes domestic abuse during a talk at the Museum of the Bible
Video shows Republican Congresscritter lied about shoving protester [click ‘option 5’]
1/6/21 rioter who wore ‘Camp Auschwitz’ hoodie is arrested on animal attack charges
Trump human trafficking advisor is former baseball exec who said game ‘controlled by Satan’
Vice President JD Vance doesn’t ‘give a shit’ that Venezuela boat strike was a war crime
I don’t think you can have ‘war crimes’ without a war, so the attack on the boat was merely eleven murders by the government of the United States.
Drug dealer whose sentence was commuted by Trump is found guilty of violating terms of his release
Trump attacks Tom Hanks after West Point cancels event honoring actor

OUR FRIENDS, THE DEMOCRATS
Mamdani holds huge lead in New York mayor’s race, but top Dems still won’t back him
Ezra Klein has always been boring, but after this he’s dead to me

THINGS THAT BARELY MATTER IN THE SCHEME OF THINGS
Black hole collision shows Einstein and Hawking were right

AMERICAN POLICE ARE OUT OF CONTROL
IGNORING THE CLIMATE EMERGENCY
THE LORD WORKS IN MYSTERIOUS WAYS
MY BROWSER HISTORY, MINUS THE PORN

And that’s the way it is,
and nothing will
meaningfully improve
until billionaires fear for their lives
9/12/2025
Logo illustration by Jeff Meyer. Tip ‘o the hat to the Anderson Valley Advertiser, Bleepity-Bleep, Lorem Ipsum Dolor, Mitchipedia, Sloth Unleashed, Toad’s Lily Pad, Voenix Rising, We Are Nothing Like the Gestapo, and anywhere else I’ve stolen links, illustrations, or inspiration.
Special thanks to Linden Arden, Becky Jo, Joey Jo Jo emeritus, Jeff Meyer, John the Basket, Dave S, Name Withheld, and always extra special thanks to my lovely late Stephanie, who gave me 21 years and proved that the world isn’t always shitty.

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