I like stuffed bell peppers but don't make them very
often. Sasha found a recipe that simplifies the dish so I might start
making them more often. This is Taste of Home's Unstuffed Peppers:
Ingredients
1 cup uncooked instant rice
1 pound ground beef
2 medium green peppers, cut into 1-inch pieces
1/2 cup chopped onion
1 jar (26 ounces) marinara sauce
1-1/2 teaspoons salt-free seasoning blend
1/2 cup shredded Italian cheese blend
1/2 cup seasoned bread crumbs
1 tablespoon olive oil
Directions
Preheat oven to 350°. Cook rice according to package directions.
Meanwhile,
in a large cast-iron or other ovenproof skillet, cook beef, green
peppers and onion over medium-high heat until meat is no longer pink;
drain. Stir in rice, marinara sauce and seasoning blend. Stir in cheese.
Toss bread crumbs and oil; sprinkle over the top. Bake until heated through and topping is golden brown, 8-10 minutes.
Pope
Leo has escalated his quiet but growing feud with the Trump
administration, instructing U.S. bishops to take a stronger public stand
against the president’s hardline immigration policies, according to
Reuters.
Meeting a delegation of bishops and
social workers from the U.S.-Mexico border at the Vatican on Wednesday,
the first American-born pope urged them to “speak strongly” on behalf of
migrants and refugees affected by Trump’s deportation drive.
El
Paso Bishop Mark Seitz, who attended the meeting, said Leo, who was
born and raised in Chicago, was visibly moved after being handed dozens
of letters from immigrants describing their fears of arrest and
separation under the administration’s enforcement policies.
Pope
Francis was my favorite pope -- of those who were alive during my
lifetime. But I have been very impressed with Pope Leo. This only
impresses me further. Our teachings are well known and established. JD
Vance is not a Catholic, he's a poser. We know in the Church the
teachings of Christ and we know where Jesus stood on immigrants. How
can you be Catholic and not know, for example, about Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini? Pope Leo's statements are wedded in Church teachings going back centuries.
More
recently, however, the underlying issue took a dramatic turn. The
Religion News Service reported this week on developments in Chicago,
where a variety of faith leaders are opposed to the administration’s
immigration agenda. The report specifically highlighted what transpired
when the Rev. David Black, wearing a clerical collar, stood in front of
an ICE facility, with empty arms raised, and invited armed agents to
repent. From the RNS report:
“We could hear them laughing,” Black added.
The
same Religion News Service report noted that the Rev. Hannah Kardon, a
United Methodist pastor who leads United Church of Rogers Park in
Chicago, has also protested at the local ICE facility, and she too said
she has been shot multiple times with pepper bullets, “including while
she was praying with her eyes closed and hands lifted, wearing a
clerical collar.”
Sarah
Posner, a journalist with extensive experience covering the religious
right movement, noted soon after: “Try to imagine if federal agents
under a Democratic administration had fired pepper balls at conservative
clergy protesting — let’s just say — abortion.”
Indeed,
let’s not forget that it was just six months ago when Attorney General
Pam Bondi convened a meeting of a task force to eradicate what the White
House described as “anti-Christian bias” within the government. The
hyperpartisan Republican lawyer began the meeting by attacking Joe
Biden, whom Bondi said had “abused and targeted Christians.”
Six
months later, as Christian leaders are actually abused by Trump
administration officials, the political world is overdue for a
conversation about the severity and frequency of the clashes between
Team Trump and the faith community.
Wednesday, October 8, 2025. Attorney General Pam Bondi made a
complete ass out of herself before the Senate Judiciary Committee
yesterday. Let's explore that.
Isaiah's
latest THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS "DaBImbo Bondi, Freak Of Her Own
Party" Freak Show AG Pam daBimbo Bondi explains, "It's me daBimbo
Bondi. I acted the fool in the Senate today. I showed the country why I
have no man, why I hve no children. I'm staring down 60 and in my
party I'm a freak. But I will never forget last November when fat ass
Chump stood before me and said, "Pammy, you re just the right amount of
stupid to be in my administration." Miss Sassy JD Vance heckles Bondi
by exclaiming, "Childless cat lady!" Isaiah archives his comics at THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS.
daBimbo
Bondi appeared before the Senate Judiciary yesterday and caused quite
the stir. First, there was the odor. She hd n inflated sense of self
so it's always funny when an overly confident person thinks they are
being so impressive but everyone around them thinks otherwise. She's
smirking and acting like she's winning but all anyone's thinking is,
"Does she not clean her vag?" Because one person after another was
talking about that odor. I didn't smell it but I've got a cold and went
into that hearing with menthol over all my resonators. But Pam be
stanky. And how she couldn't know was what everyone was asking. So
when you see a video clip of her grasp that she stunk up the room and
that's she's apparently so pathetic she doesn't even use soap and water
-- and she really needs to.
After that, the thigs that
stood out was the bad make up. She really is staring down 60 -- next
month -- as Isaiah noted in his cartoon. On that, I just shake my
head. It's as though she learned how to put on make up in the 80s at
Merle Norman. Bags under the eyes do not disappear because you put make
up on them but what the does accomplish is to make any wrinkles under
the eye all the more visible. Doesn't DoD have it's own private beauty
salon now? Miss Pete won't help her out?
I stared at
her awful performance and thought all she was missing was her throwing
wine as she tried to come off not like an Attorney General but like a
'reality' TV performer. In fact, let's drop back two decades to pull
from Ava and my "TV Review: The Simple Life:"
"Where the hell are we?" is the last thing you hear as the opening credits end at the start of Fox's "reality" show The Simple Life.
If you've missed the show, let's us put you wise, hell is apparently
portable and seems to follow Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie around.
[. . .]
The
most frightening thing for us was thinking that young viewers watching
might think, "This is how to act. Paris & Nicole act this way and
they were raised well, right?"
If nothing else, The Simple Life
demonstrates that "money" and "good breeding" do not go hand in hand.
Older viewers will probably get that point. Younger viewers will
probably be salivating over the day when they too can wear push up bras,
march around in stilettos and bark out orders like, "Take off your damn
pants!"
Pam was as fake as any 'reality' TV performer and as screwed up in the head as any. Cher has a favorite curse word. I don't use that word. I've never used
it my entire life. She uses it frequently. That's her business, not
judging her. But if ever I was tempted to use it would be to describe
Attorney General Pam daBimbo Bondi. Pam kind of says it every time she
says "country." I don't go harsh on the "u" in the first syllable. Pam
does. Maybe she's trying to share something with us about herself.
Let's pull in Lawrence O'Donnell's take from MSNBC last night.
He's
going into Pam at the start of the above video. Later in the program
Senator Adam Schiff joins him. My honest first reaction watchin
lastnight was, "Oh s**t." Because I planned to touch on Shiff here and
usually if Lawrence touches on it, there's nothing more to say. That's
true of two topics they cover but I had a third and they didn't grb that
so we will in a minute.
It's audio above, take it up
with MSNBC. I have no idea why so much is not going up at the MSNBC
YOUTUBE page. But let's note some video coverage before we unpack
further.
Now let's move to the line of questioning that I think covered and reflected the hearing best.
Senator Mazie Hirano: For the record, at
your confirmation hearing, you said that you did not have experience
with FISA but, if confirmed, you would consult with experts at DOJ. Now
that you've had that opportunity, do you support adding additional
safeguards for searching American communications in the 702 database?
AG
Pam daBimbo Bondi: Senators, Section 702 is a vital source of foreign
intelligence and instrumental in keeping Americans safe. We also take
individual rights of American -- they're individual rights of all
American very seriously and many statutory reforms to FISA have
incorporate safeguards. They have to incorporate our safeguards to
protect our civil liberties. The Dept of Justice looks forward to
working with you to discuss anything regarding 702. Appreciate that my
staff and senator I also want to thank you for this hearing.* Your
staff met with my staff and I greatly appreciate that. Thank you.
Senator
Mazie Hirano: Thank you. We're going to be working on 702 so I
appreciate the openness to further amending 702. At your confirmation
hearing, you assured me that it is the Dept of Justice's decision to
determine what cases will be prosecuted. Last month in the US, US
Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia was forced out. President
Trump then posted the message [displayed on the screen] behind me asking
about prosecuting James Comey. You then appointed a new US Attorney
who within days secured an indictment against James Comey. That social
media post behind me says what about Kobe was directed to Pam. Are you
the Pam the president was referring to?
AG Pam daBimbo Bondi: I'm sure I was.
Senator
Mazie Hirano: So it's very clear to me that when the president posts
something like that, that he considers the DOJ to be his law firm and
you his lawyer. And in fact, very shortly after the post to you, Comey
gets indicted. President Trump's new border czar Tom Homan was video
taped taking a bag with $50,000 in cash from undercover FBI agents after
suggesting that he could help with government contracts. Sounds like a
bribe. Did DOJ officials shut down the bribery investigation into Mr
Homan? Ms Bondi, did you approve closing the Homan investigation?
Bribery investigation?
AG
Pam daBimbo Bondi: Senator Hirano, as I stated earlier, the Dept of
Justice and the FBI conducted a thorough review and they found no
credible evidence of any wrong doing. You were also on video outside
the White House protesting with a group called Cava where Antifa members
were. Does that mean you're a member of Antifa?
Senator
Mazie Hirano: No, I simply asked the question as to whether or not you
approved the shutting down of the investigation of Mr Homan. I have to
assume you did because the FBI, it reports to you. But the American
people would look at this situation where the person is taking $50,000
-- $50,000 in cash, no less. And you testified today that a thorough
investigation was done. Now I have to assume -- I conclude -- that since
no wrongdoing was determined that -- in answer to Senator Whitehouse's
question -- he [Homan] kept the money. He kept the money and I hope
that he put that on his tax returns as income. Next question. Over 1200
rioters were convicted of charges related to January 6th President
Trump has since pardoned nearly every one of them. As if that weren't
enough, last month there were reports that a lawyer for the January 6th
rioters met with senior DOJ officials about setting up a compensation
fund -- a compensation fund like the one Congress set up after 911 --
to compensate these rioters. Miss Bondi, is anyone at DOJ considering
setting up a compensation fund for January 6th rioters? Yes or no?
AG Pam daBimbo Bondi: Senator, I have had no meetings or discussions about a fund.
Senator Mazie Hirano: So would you support such a fund?
AG Pam daBimbo Bondi: Senator, you can send me the information on the fund and I'll be happy to look at it.
Senator
Mazie Hirano: But do you think that's a good idea to, you know, this is
what I'm getting at, because just to actually set up a fund and have
people talking with your senior people at DOJ -- political people --
about creating a fund and you won't let us know what you think about
that . . . Yeah, that's pretty unbelievable. On January 30th of this
year, the Trump DOJ's anti-trust division sued to block the merger of
two tech companies. Then well connected lobbyists met with your
political deputies who overruled the career staff and approved the
merger. So there's a settlement on that. And, separately, DOJ sued
TicketMaster last year for monopolizing concert tickets and forcing
consumers to pay outrageous fees. TicketMaster has hired the exact same
lobbyist who met with senior DOJ political people regarding the merger
of the two tech companies. So my question is, Ms Bondi, have lobbyists
met with your political deputies about the TicketMaster case?
AG
Pam daBimbo Bondi: Senator Hirano, as I stated earlier, I am not going
to discuss anything that is ongoing. Gail Slater runs the anti-trust
division.
Senator Mazie Hirano: And I was --
AG Pam daBimbo Bondi: Gale Slater, if I can finish, Gale Slater is doing an incredible job running my anti-trust unit.
Senator
Mazie Hirano: It's highly likely, Ms Bondi, that the same lobbyist who
met with your people basically got rid of the anti-trust case.
AG Pam daBimbo Bondi: Senator, I don't think a lot of people like that you were out protesting with Antifa.
Senator Mazie Hirano: Right
now, next question, you have fired dozens of career prosecutors because
they worked on cases involving President Trump or January 6 rioters.
For example, one career federal prosecutor secured -- who secured over
100 convictions in Florida. He also spent time in DC prosecuting
January 6th cases. He received an outstanding review only two days
before you signed a memo firing him. The memo cited no reason for his
firing. Are you firing career prosecutors solely because they worked on
cases like January 6th that the president doesn't like?
AG Pam daBimbo Bondi: Senator Hirano, I'm not going to talk about personnel matters with you.
Senator
Mazie Hirano: Well we all know that hundreds of career prosecutors
have left the DOJ and literally hundreds of were told --
AG Pam daBimbo Bondi: Senator, I
[Cross talk]
AG Pam daBimbo Bondi: Are you an ICE officer? Are you a Homeland Security Officer? Are you?
[Cross talk]
Senator Mazie Hirano: But
just say that DOJ losing these career prosecutors and the thousands of
hours of experience they have prosecuting criminals, that is not a
reassuring situation.
AG
Pam daBimbo Bondi [note in this statement, she stops and starts and
talks over Hirano non-stop]: Senator, many employees took the fork in
the road and resigned. DOJ is hiring committed prosecutors who will
actually come into the office and work and not work remotely and
prosecute violent criminals around the country and terrorists. And I'm
very proud of the work all of our
[Crosstalk]
Senator
Mazie Hirano: I'm running out of time so I think you should stop with
your continuous interruptions. In my opinion, Mr Chairman, I just want
to close by saying that what was once the Dept of Justice has become
the Dept of Revenge and Corruption.
Rather than pursue cases without fear or favor, this DOJ seeks to favor
the president's friends and instill fear in his alleged enemies. If
you're a friend of the president, this corrupt DOJ will bend over
backwards to help you. Just like it dropped the bribery investigation
on Tom Homan, like it's considering paying money to January 6th rioters
and like it has put anti-trust decisions in the hands of well connected
lobbyists. But if you're on the wrong side of this president, you will
face the wrath of DOJ no matter what the facts, law, or justice support.
James Comey is indicted days after the President social media
directive. Experienced career prosecutors are fired just because they
were assigned to work on January 6th cases. Blue states are sued to get
highly sensitive, private voter data whereas red states are left alone.
The double standard is clear and the American people are waking up to
the corruption and the favoritism and the lawlessness of the DOJ.
So
much in the above. First, Antifa? What was that attack, what was that
smear? This isn't appropriate. And it's inappropriate in a manner
that people are missing. With Senator Sheldon Whitehouse she would
attack his wife and imply that some shady corrupt deals went down. With
Senator Dick Durbin, she would attack him for one of the donors to his
campaign. And this really ties into Adam Schiff.
Chump
has long targeted Adam Schiff. He wants him prosecuted for whatever
trumped up charge they can find. He mentioned Adam in the social media
post to Bondi about him wanting Comey charged.
Here's
the only significant thing Bondi did in the hearing: Gave Adam a pass.
If he is charged with anything, all Adam's attorney needs to do is show
the way she attacked him in the hearing. It wasn't objective. It
wasn't appropriate. It was filled with malice. And I think a jury
would quickly agree that Bonid came off unhinged and appears to let
personal feelings determine who she charges.
But with
her threats and with Antifa being labeled a terrorist organization by
her and Chump? Was it really the role of the AG to bring thses things
up in hearing because they could also be seen as veiled threats due to
the position she holds.
She's a dumb bimbo, she doesn't
et any of that. She can scream 'are you an attorney' at Schiff all she
wants, she's still not a person with common sense.
With
Hirano above, she refused to answer questions regarding Homan taking
$50,000 from undercover FBI agents. She repeatedly invoked "personnel
matters" -- as though it was the Fifth Amendment -- with senators asking
about Homan. That's not a personal matter. That would be a crime.
And it is in the public interest to know whether or not Tom Homan took a
bribe. She doesn't want to be ccountble and she doesn't want to answer
questions.
When not refusing to answer with the claim that
something was a personnel issue and she wasn't going to comment, Pam
would insist that she couldn't comment on an ongoing investigation.
Is Homan now the subject of an ongoing investigation?
If not, there's no reason for her to avoid the question.
But
she doesn't think that she works for the American people. For example
it is "my anti-trust unit." No, Bondi, it's the American people's
anti-trust unit.
She has no concept of what government is and that
goes to the reality that Chump chose the most ignorant people in the
world to serve in the administration.
She disrespected the Senate
yesterday. They were doing the people's business so her lies and scorn
were aimed at the American people. Only an idiot would treat their
boss that way. Donald Chump is not her boss. The American people are.
She made very clear that she doesn't believe -- despite being a public
servant -- that she has any duty to serve the American people and that
she doesn't feel she's answerable to them.
She's an
idiot and a moron and that came through loudly over and over. Senator
Cory Booker asked about grants that had been cut and the appeal process
for them. She "And I believe one is with the city of New Jersey."
Idiot. There's no city of New Jersey in the state of New Jersey. Or
take when she was yelling at Adam Schiff and screeching that he needed
"to apologize to Donald Trump for trying to impeach him,"
She doesn't even know the law. We get that right?
Adam Schiff wasn't part of an effort to try to impeach Chump.
Chump was impeached. Twice. He wasn't removed from office but he was impeached.
But she's such a stupid idiot.
That's what really shined through in her testimony yesterday.
If
she wanted to look like stark raving bitch -- Congrats, Pam, you'll
pulled that off. Throughout the hearin, she had to rely on his huge
binder and was constntly reding from it. Even reding from it, she
couldn't get the English language correct.
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instructions above. Wrap each ear of corn separately in foil. Place corn
on grill. Cover; grill over medium heat 20 to 25 minutes or until
tender, turning occasionally.
White
House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller clashed with CNN after
journalist Boris Sanchez asked him if the administration is “profiling
brown people.”
They were talking about
President Donald Trump’s deployment of the National Guard in Chicago
when Sanchez asked Miller to answer to Illinois Governor JB Pritzker’s
accusations that “black and brown people” are being targeted.
[. . .]
On
Monday’s episode of CNN Newsroom, Sanchez asked: “Is it the case that …
this immigration crackdown is designed to go after people of color.”
Stephen Miller laughed before he responded: “Oh what a dumb question.”
“The
illegal aliens that are here, are taking jobs away from blacks, they’re
taking jobs away from whites, they’re taking jobs away from Latinos,
they’re taking their health benefits away, they’re taking they’re school
spots away and of course, in many cases, they’re committing heinous
crimes,” Miller said.
What a lying piece of crap Stephen Miller is. I understood everything AOC said about him and agree with her 100%.
Tuesday, October 7, 2025. The Supreme Court hears another case from the
ADF which lied to them previously, the plaintiff has no standing and
that might be more apparent if the press could stop calling her a
therapist (she's a counselor, there's a huge difference) and would
actually examine her (lack of) training, Chump signals he'll consider a
pardon for his pedophile friend Ghislaine Maxwell, his shutdown
continues and why wouldn't it -- look at the dysfunctional cabinet he
assembled, and much more.
The hate
group Alliance Defending Freedom is yet again attempting to lie to the
Supreme Court. You'd think you pull that stunt once and you're banned.
That's how it should be at any rate. Justin Jouvenal (WASHINGTON POST) reports:
As
a licensed therapist and evangelical Christian, Kaley Chiles said she
wants to help religious teens who struggle with sexual orientation and
gender dysphoria “live a life consistent with their faith” and the
identities God has laid out in the Bible.
Nonetheless, she turns them away.
Chiles
says a state law banning conversion therapy for minors — treatment
intended to change the identity or behavior of gay and transgender
people — silences her and deprives young people of help many desperately
seek to reconcile their faith and feelings.
Not
far from Chiles’s practice, which sits near the foot of the Rockies,
Silas Musick tried to take his life in 2010. The transgender man said
the conversion therapy he underwent in Colorado Springs left him
distraught. He later testified in support of Colorado’s ban and calls
conversion therapy bad medicine.
Those clashing
perspectives will square off Tuesday at the Supreme Court in one of the
highest-profile cases of the new term, one that crosses multiple fault
lines in the nation’s culture wars: gay and transgender issues,
religious liberty, medical practice and First Amendment rights.
Don't
believe her, she's a F**KING liar, a piece of garbage trash. Any
self-respecting person would not associate themselves with the group of
liars about to lie to the Court yet again. Lie to the court? Sam Levin (GUARDIAN) explains:
Lawyers
from Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), which has opposed abortion and
LGBTQ+ rights in high-profile litigation, are representing a woman
challenging a 2019 Colorado law that prohibited conversion practices for
youth under age 18. The ban applies to licensed clinicians who seek to
change a patient’s sexual orientation or gender identity, tactics
medical groups have discredited as harmful and ineffective.
That woman is Kaley Chiles. Back to the article:
ADF’s
petition in the case, Chiles v Salazar, cited several scholars to
support its argument that conversion practices should once again be
permitted. Two of those experts, however, told the Guardian that ADF had
“profoundly” misrepresented their research, which discussed the
“psychological damage” of conversion therapy.
The family of a deceased researcher, also quoted by ADF, said they were “deeply disturbed” by the “distortion” of his work.
“This
is the most upsetting use of my scholarship that has ever happened in
my career,” said Clifford Rosky, a University of Utah professor of
constitutional law and civil rights. He has worked to ban conversion
practices, but ADF nonetheless cited his research on sexual orientation
and LGBTQ+ rights, co-authored with renowned sexuality researcher Dr
Lisa Diamond, to bolster its petition. “It’s upsetting because this is
lethally dangerous to LGBTQ+ kids,” he said.
When Smith's suit was filed at the federal district court in 2016,
she had not begun designing websites, nor had she received any requests
to design a wedding website for a same-sex couple. In 2017, her lawyers
from the ADF filed an affidavit from Smith stating that she had received
such a request several days after the initial filing, and appended a
copy of the request.[6] Smith never responded to the request, and has stated that she feared she would violate Colorado's law if she were to do so.[6]
However, the name, email, and phone number on the online form belong to
a man who has long been married to a woman, and who stated that he
never submitted such a request, as reported by The New Republic on June 29, 2023, a day before the Supreme Court's decision was released.[30]
The ADF stated on June 30 that they believe the name was submitted to
Smith's website by "a third party or a troll" using the man's personal
details; neither they nor their client attempted to verify the
requestor's identity.[31][8]
Colorado did not consider the claimed website submission as an actual website and dismissed the request as evidence.[8]
The federal district judge, Judge Marcia S. Krieger dismissed the
website request claim as there was no indication that the request
actually involved a gay couple.[6]
Legal experts did not see the request having a decisive impact on the
way the Supreme Court ruled on the matter, although constitutional law
scholar Erwin Chemerinsky
suggested that if the falsity of the request had come up in litigation,
the court could have sent the case back to the district court to
resolve the factual issue.[8][6]
The discovery of this claim in the ADF filings had led to questions of
why this information was not discovered before the case was decided by
the Supreme Court.[8] It was later discovered by The New Republic
that Smith had made a wedding website for a heterosexual couple in
2015, which had been removed from her business's profile prior to her
filing the case but remained visible in the Wayback Machine archives. Kate Redburn, a fellow and lecturer at Columbia Law School, stated to The New Republic
that the discovery of this website "could seriously undermine [Smith]'s
story by revealing a fourth option", as Smith appeared to have offered
wedding website services before filing the case without repercussions
related to free speech.[32][33]
The New Republic article notes that, "[Smith's] website six
months prior to the lawsuit being filed in 2016 does not include any of
the Christian messaging that it did shortly afterward...archived
versions of the site show."[34]
The controversial ruling sparked widespread criticism from
prominent legal theorists and law reviews regarding the plaintiff's lack
of standing.[35][36][37][38] ADF's president and CEO called it "a critical ruling affirming all Americans' free speech".[39][40]
Now Kaley Chiles 'counselor' joins them. Kaley went
through high school hating gay people in part due to the fact that
everyone called her a "d**e" and thought she was a lesbian. At one
point, in the locker room after gym class, it's said that she was pelted
with tampons and called a "carpet biter."
The
dumb idiot has a number of certificates but she majored in Bible
studies for her bachelor degree and supposedly she got a MA in Clinical
Mental Health from an online diploma mill.
As
a psychologist, I would recommend anyone seeking counseling of any kind
to be very wary of a charlatan with those 'qualifications.'
Were
I a Supreme Court Justice, I would want to note what specific courses
she has taken that give her insight and information on LGBTQ+ teens.
Because she hasn't taken any.
----------------------
End of Elaine's post.
With
fat and ugly Lori Smith, this group lied to the Court. There ws no
request for request for her to design a website for same-sex couple.
They lied to the court. Lori also didn't have standing and the case
should never have made it before the Court. Are we aware of the
whispers that two sitting Justices on the Court have relationships with
ADF?
That would explain why they're being
allowed to appear before the Court again despite lying, that would
explain why the Court agreed to hear the case despite a lack of
standing.
THE WASHINGTON POST doesn't help anyone with sloppy reporting.
She's not a therapist.
She's a licensed counselor.
It makes a difference.
And she's a quack wanting to what? Conversion therapy.
Legal
or not, she can't do it. She's not licensed or trained for therapy.
She's a dumb ass counselor. That's maybe a step above "life coach."
She's not trained to do therapy.
She has no standing and the Court should never have agreed to hear this garbage suit.
Does THE WASHINGTON POST honestly not understand the difference between a counselor and a therapist?
Counselors
focus on specific issues with solution-oriented support; therapists
apply psychotherapy to address ongoing patterns; and psychologists use
advanced diagnostics and testing to treat complex mental health
disorders.
Education and experience requirements for
counselors and therapists typically take 7-9 years, while requirements
for psychologists take 10-13 years.
Even
counting her stupid certificates, she does not have seven yeas of
education for this role. And she has no training with regards to LGBTQ+
people.
And this quack's wants to be allowed to 'treat'?
Ann
E. Marimow gets it wrong at THE NEW YORK TIMES as well. Does no one
proof the copy anymore? Even online, Kaley Chiles doesn't claim to be a
therapist. Doing so would risk her losing her licensing to be a
counselor. To the idiot general studies majors who went on to become
(bad) journalists, let me explain it to you, this is not unlike an LVN
being passed off as a doctor. She is not a therapist. Her training is
insufficient. Stop being so sloppy and get the facts right.
And
let's note one more damn thing. She's not licensed and/or trained to
counsel teenagers. You have to be at least 16 for her to counsel you.
She lacks the training to work with anyone younger on a one-on-one
basis and, yet again, that's on her damn resume that she's posted
online.
Does no one do the damn work required?
Last night on MSNBC, Lawrence O'Donnell revealed shocking news about Chump that was also shocking news about the media.
Donald
Chump, the mn QAnon and Rosanne Barr and many, many others have spent
years insisting was a protector of children, was someone secretly
fighting global sex rings, on camera says yesterday that he will
consider pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted sex trafficker and
pedophile. Where re you? Hey, Roseanne, did they suck out your
courage when they sucked out your fat?
And not
the media just going along wit Chump's statements? What does he man he
has to look into the case? He sent Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche
to speak with Maxwell on two consecutive days and now he doesn't know
about the case? She's supposed to be in maximum security prison. But
Chump authorized her to be moved to Club Fed in Bryan, Texas. And he's
telling the press he's knows nothing about the case and they're just
silent and letting him get away with it instead of peppering with
questions?
Donald
Trump has been accused of either "lying through his teeth" or being
"legitimately senile" after suggesting he'd forgotten who convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell is.
While Chump toys
with releasing Maxwell, Congress remains shut down for two reasons --
first, Democrats are attempting to protect the healthcare of millions of
American and, second, Speaker of the Closet Mike Johnson is attempting
to bury a bipartisan resolution in the House to release the Epstein
files. J.D. Wolf (MEIDASTOUCH NEWS) reports:
Rep.
Thomas Massie (R-KY) accused House Speaker Mike Johnson of working
behind the scenes to block a bipartisan bill that would force the
release of the Jeffrey Epstein files. In a tweet, Massie said Johnson
has delayed the swearing-in of the newest member of Congress, Democrat
Adelita Grijalva of Arizona (who would be the final signature needed),
and spread misinformation about the legislation to prevent a vote,
contradicting Johnson’s recent public statements favoring “maximum
disclosure.”
Massie’s
remarks came in response to a clip of Johnson on MSNBC insisting he
wants “every page of this out” and claiming former president Donald
Trump is “not implicated.” Massie dismissed those comments as
misleading, saying Johnson’s actions show the opposite.
Today on MSNBC's MORNING JOE finds a third reason Johnson's keeping the House closed.
Rep.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has urged her supporters to "laugh" at what
she described as the "insecure masculinity" behind the MAGA movement —
singling out White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller as an
example.
During an Instagram Live session on
Sunday, the New York Democrat argued that mockery could be an effective
tool to counter authoritarian tendencies she pins on the Trump
adminitration. "One of the best ways that you can dismantle a movement
of insecure men is by making fun of them," Ocasio-Cortez said. "Laugh at
them!"
She then pivoted to
Miller, calling him "a clown" and commenting on his appearance. "I've
never seen that guy in real life, but he looks like he's, like, 4 feet
10 inches," she said. "And he looks like he is angry about the fact that
he's 4 feet 10 inches. And he looks like he is so mad that he's 4 feet
10 inches, that he has taken that anger out on any other population
possible."
Public records list Miller's height
as 5 feet 10 inches. Ocasio-Cortez, 35, continued to tell her viewers
that humor was a key part of resistance. "Yes, the resistance to
authoritarianism is very real. The risks of abuse of power are very
real," she said. "But one of the most powerful cultural things you can
do to a political movement predicated on the puffery of insecure men —
that's what this is about."
AOC
is correct. We've noted that here for years. Take those Proud Boys.
MAGA loves to hug on that MAGA group. Have Black Pride or Latino Pride
or Gay Pride and watch MAGA hiss, "Pride is a sin!" But never at their
Proud Boys. And, as we've noted for years, why would a group of men call
themselves "boys"? There's some really messed up about that. MAGA men
are notoriously insecure -- especially the really young ones. That's
why they are so angry at women and at the notion that women have
rights. If you caught Cyndi Lauper's special Sunday on CBS, didn't you
love how she and Cher did their "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" duet and
adlibbed "Girls just want to have fundamental rights"?
MAGA
boys don't like that. They're the original "hide her away from the
rest of the world" boys. Not that they can support a wife that they
made stay at home. And while I'm sure that some males and females can
handle home schooling, the sad reality is that one reason MAGA boys are
so disconnected from the country that they live in is due to home
schooling. Most often it's due to the fact that they are behavioral
nightmares whose uneducated parents never taught them how to behave.
They
are overcompensating for their tiny little egos and they can't handle
laughter -- especially not when it's aimed at them and their
underwhelming life 'accomplishments.'
Grasp
that big bad Stephen Miller has a wife who went to work for Alien Musk
and did so, supposedly, after Stephen socked Alien in the eye. He may
have punched out Alien but clearly Stevo doesn't rule the house the way
he and other MAGA men like to pretend.
He's a little, impotent boy. And as he tries to act big and in control, he looks more pathetic. Author Stephen King reminds him:
"Sorry,
Steve--The Constitution isn't far left or far right," he wrote. "It's
the basis on our democracy, and you're playing the terror card to try
and overturn it. Won't work."
Trump's
administration has been deploying national guard troops to certain
democratic-run cities in recent weeks under the guise of fighting crime,
but a recent effort to deploy troops to Portland, Oregon has been
blocked by a federal judge.
Stephen Miller is a joke. He shrieks and screams in that shrill manner of his and no one takes him seriously anymore. Cameron Anderson (DAILY BEAST) reports:
White
House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller was called out for MAGA’s
violent rhetoric after a fire tore through a South Carolina judge’s
house.
Judge Diane Goodstein, who had a record
of anti-Trump rulings, had been walking her dogs on a beach when her
$1.1 million Edisto Beach home went up in flames around midday on
Sunday.
Goodstein had reportedly been receiving death threats for a few weeks, the local FITSNews reported.
Three people were hospitalized after the blaze, which is being investigated by authorities.
Last month, Judge Goodstein issued a temporary restraining order
to block the Trump administration’s Department of Justice from getting
access to the South Carolina Election Commission’s voter registration
data.
Democratic Congressman and attorney Daniel
Goldman, who served as lead counsel in the first impeachment of former
President Donald Trump, was quick to tag Miller on X with footage of the
fire.
“Stephen Miller and MAGA-world have been
doxxing and threatening judges who rule against Trump, including Judge
Goodstein,” Goldman wrote on X.
“Today, someone
committed arson on the Judge’s home, severely injuring her husband and
son. Will Trump speak out against the extreme right that did this??”
Speak
out? Based on Chump's past actions, he'll probably immediately move to
pre-emptively pardon the arsonist. And it's not just the country
turning on Stephen Miller, it's also his own family. Hannah Broughton (THE MIRROR) reports:
Notorious Trump political advisor Stephen Miller has been called out by a member of his own family in a scathing post on social media, that claimed he was the "face of evil".
Kasmer
wrote on Facebook that she needs to "grieve" for her once "harmless"
relative, Stephen Miller. She also shared pictures of herself and Miller
as children, while urging him to stop supporting Trump's hardline
crackdown on immigration.
She wrote, "I am
living with the deep pain of watching someone I once loved become the
face of evil. I grieve what you've become, Stephen.
"I will never knowingly let evil into my life, no matter whose blood it carries—including my own."
Chump
chose the worst and the dimmest when building his cabinet. No one of
integrity wanted to work with him. It is the wort cabinet ever.
Attorney General Pam daBimbo Bondi is drawing her own boos and hisses. Josephine Walker (AXIOS) reports:
More
than 275 former Justice Department employees are demanding Congress
increase oversight of the department following a mass exodus of career
officials who question the integrity of the department's work.
Why
it matters: The letter comes a day before Attorney General Pam Bondi
testifies in front of Congress for the first time since her
confirmation, and amid widespread questions about the department's
decisions to target President Trump's political foes such as former FBI
director James Comey.
It also comes after roughly
4,500 employees officially departed the DOJ following the DOGE-sponsored
"fork in the road" buyout offers.
What they're saying: "For
decades, the guiding tenet for those working at the department was to do
the right thing, in the right way, for the right reasons. Many believe
that's no longer possible," Stacey Young, executive director and founder
of Justice Connection, which organized the letter, said in a news
release on Monday.
"They're being asked to put
loyalty to the President over the Constitution, the rule of law, and
their professional ethical obligations," she said.
"We're
seeing the erosion of the Justice Department's fabric and integrity at
an alarming pace. Our democratic system cannot survive without the
primary institution that enforces the law."
The department did not immediately respond to Axios' request for comment.
What's
inside: The letter is signed by a wide variety of former employees,
including prosecutors, special agents, intelligence analysts,
immigration judges and grant managers who slam the DOJ for "failing" in
three main areas.
The Trump
appointee accusing the president’s political foes of mortgage fraud
skipped over his agency’s inspector general when making criminal
referrals, according to seven people familiar with the matter, bypassing
rules meant to ensure that federal officials don’t abuse their power
for partisan purposes.
It's just one development after another, one exposure after another.
The
Trump appointee accusing the president’s political foes of mortgage
fraud skipped over his agency’s inspector general when making criminal
referrals, according to seven people familiar with the matter, bypassing
rules meant to ensure that federal officials don’t abuse their power
for partisan purposes.
Bill
Pulte, director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, earlier this
year made criminal referrals against targets including Lisa Cook, the
Federal Reserve governor whom President Donald Trump has tried to
dismiss, for alleged crimes related to their mortgages. Breaking with
standard procedures, Pulte circumvented that agency’s internal watchdog,
typically the office that would make such referrals, by asking the
Justice Department to investigate Cook and two other prominent
officials.
“The referrals did not come from the
OIG,” one of these people said, using shorthand for the office of the
inspector general. “It took people there by surprise.”
Let's wind down with this from Senator Adam Schiff's office:
Washington, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senator Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) joined NBC’s Meet the Press with
Kristen Welker for a wide-ranging discussion where he reiterated
President Donald Trump’s responsibility for the government shutdown, the
health care price spikes facing millions of American families, and
Congressional Republicans’ refusal to work with Democrats to lower
health care costs and stop millions from losing their health care.
Schiff also discussed President Trump’s ongoing attacks against his
political enemies, including Democratic-led cities across America,
highlighting Trump’s willingness to destroy the rule of law and
weaponize key nonpartisan arms of the government like the Justice
Department and the National Guard.
On Trump and Republicans refusing to negotiate an end to the government shutdown and lower costs for Americans:
I’m confident all Democrats
understand that millions and millions of their constituents are about
to be priced out of their health care. I was in California last
week, in Oceanside and in Anaheim, average families of four are going to
see the premiums go up by 900 to $1,000 a month. No one can afford
that, and that’s going to happen all across the country. So, I think all
my colleagues understand the crisis.
We need a president who can act like an adult, who can come to the
table and negotiate an end to their self-imposed health care crisis.
Right now, we don’t see that. We see Trump out on the golf course. We
see the Speaker telling his House colleagues not to even come to
session, that there’s no work for the federal government to do
apparently. That’s completely unacceptable. And
in addition to the need to restore health care affordability for
people, we need to make sure that any agreement that we reach with
Republicans, they will honor. Because right now, they’re telling
us, “You can reach an agreement with us, but we’re simply going to
withhold any money that’s important to you, any programs that are
important to you.” And as for the Speaker telling you, or not telling
you, his position on the president threatening mass layoffs of federal
employees, there’s no one forcing him to do that. He will do that
because he wants to do that. Because he and Russell Vought want to cause
even more pain for the American people. That is unprecedented. No other president during shutdown has sought to maximize the harms to people, but that’s where this president is coming from.
On Trump eroding the trust between the American people and the military:
[…] The president was being candid when he described these American cities as the enemy within. He views them as the enemy within.
That is unprecedented in its dangerousness. That is that the American
president who views cities that didn’t support him or states that didn’t
support him as the enemy, that he describes the opposite party as
beholden to Satan. That’s where this president is coming from. And the
idea that we will militarize these cities, that we will impose the U.S.
military on the mayors and governors of those cities and states should
be unthinkable.
And for Speaker Johnson to claim, as he did when you interviewed him,
that somehow these National Guard troops that, over the governor’s
opposition, are being forced to engage in policing or immigration
enforcement, are very happy to be doing it — I can tell you in
California, the National Guard were not happy to be doing it. It is, I
think, greatly impacting morale in the National Guard. And it is also
disrupting the trust that Americans have for their National Guard. We
have a particular bond in California where they come to our rescue
during fires and floods and other natural disasters. That is being
eroded as, I think, is also military readiness when we’re diverting
military resources for these improper purposes.
On Trump’s baseless quest for retribution and the need for Republicans to stand up to the corruption:
[…] He’s described me as the enemy within. He’s described other Democratic elected officials as the enemy within. He
is using the Justice Department to go after his political enemies, and
he’s using the Justice Department to protect his political friends,
like Tom Homan, the border czar, who reportedly took 50,000 in cash
from undercover FBI agents. And they made the case go away. This
should concern every American, not just those he’s tweeting about, like
myself, but anyone who cares about whether the Justice Department can
be used against people for expressing their views, or doing their job,
or holding the president accountable, anyone who cares about
whether the administration can go after late night comedians, or tell
corporations who they can hire, or tell law firms who they can
represent.
It is all part of the same attack on our democracy. And I will say,
if this goes on, if Republicans allow this to go on for four years,
there will be nothing left of our democracy. We
have an opportunity to stop this. It would require just a handful of
Republicans of conscience to oppose these lawless actions, this abuse of
the Justice Department and abuse of the [FCC] and everything else. We
need them to stand up and do their duty.
