BREAKING🚨 The government FRAMED a Milwaukee immigrant, accusing him of threatening Trump's life—despite his innocence, the government is still refusing to delete the lies. Ramón Morales Reyes, 56, a Mexican immigrant who has lived here since 1986, was arrested by ICE on May 22, 2025, his car left empty on the roadside. He was accused of sending a letter threatening to assassinate Trump. That same day, a Milwaukee police officer, who also works with the FBI, interviewed him and signed an affidavit saying he did not believe Morales Reyes sent the threatening letter. He does not speak English, and the letter was handwritten in English. WPR's Elissa Eaton and Rich Kremer first reported. Six days later, then-DHS Secretary Kristi Noem's office published his mugshot and called him an "illegal alien who threatened to assassinate President Trump." The White House Instagram account posted his face beside the forged letter. The letter came from Demetric Scott, the man awaiting trial for robbing and stabbing Morales Reyes in 2023. On a recorded jail call, Scott laid out the plan: "if he gets picked up by ICE, there won't be a jury trial so they will probably dismiss it that day." Scott was convicted of identity theft and witness intimidation and sentenced in February to more than 16 years. That DHS press release is still online. The only change is a small line at the bottom saying he is no longer under investigation. "They knew it was a lie, and they still haven't taken it down," attorney Mark Thomsen said Friday. "They haven't thought for a second about apologizing." Morales Reyes spent three weeks in ICE custody, was released on bond, and still has a deportation hearing in December. His daughter Ana, 25, said he barely leaves the house now. "He's been going through depression, anxiety. He doesn't like going out anymore because he feels like everyone knows him due to what he was framed as." If you appreciate my posts, it would mean the world if you followed my page. Thank you for being here.
BREAKING: Trump CAUGHT pressuring Secret Service agents to eat his golf club’s HOT DOGS – then sticking TAXPAYERS with the bill!
Donald Trump apparently loves the hot dogs at his Virginia golf club so much that he insists the Secret Service agents protecting him get them too. And then his own golf club charges the Secret Service for the food.
That’s the bizarre picture painted by a new Forbes investigation into Trump’s golfing habits – including his peculiar obsession with the hot dogs served at the snack stand beside the 11th hole at Trump National Golf Club outside Washington.
“He has this weird, very odd pride about how good the hot dogs are,” a former club employee told Forbes.
According to the employee, Trump will summon the chef and order hot dogs for everybody around him – including the Secret Service agents assigned to protect him. And we’re not talking about an agent or two.
There can be as many as 30 (!) golf carts carrying Secret Service personnel following Trump around the course, with the kitchen sometimes preparing as many as 50 hot dogs.
But Trump doesn’t just want to hand them out. According to the former employee, he actually wants to see the agents getting them. “It got to the point where we had to start a Secret Service account at the club so that he could see them getting the hot dogs,” the employee said.
Why an account? Because federal ethics rules restrict Secret Service agents from simply accepting gifts from the people they protect. So Trump’s club is obliged to charge the agency for the food, whether the agents want it or not.
This means Trump gets to play the generous host dispensing his idea of haute cuisine, while the bill ultimately goes to – you guessed it – the American taxpayer. Us.
And remember this is all happening at Trump’s own golf clubs, where he spends, er, quite a bit of time. Statistics reveal that Trump has spent time at one of his golf properties on roughly 165 of the approximately 600 days since he returned to the White House, totaling more than 1,400 hours at properties he owns.
The White House argues that the visits aren’t vacations, per se, noting that Trump also holds meetings and attends political events at his clubs. But wherever the president goes, the Secret Service has to go too – and protecting him costs money. A lot.
The hot dogs themselves probably aren’t going to break the federal budget. But there’s something almost comically ironic about a billionaire president standing on his own golf course, ordering the government employees protecting him to try his favorite hot dogs – and then having his own business send their employer the check.
Apparently the only thing Trump likes more than his golf club’s hot dogs is not paying for them himself.
City ends banner program after pastor displays anti-trans flags across downtown
City ends banner program after pastor displays anti-trans flags across downtown: The pastor hung the flags in direct response to Pride Month flags displayed in June.
The Supreme Court is out of control. Are Democrats willing to fight for reform to restore Democracy?
The Supreme Court is out of control. Are Democrats willing to fight for reform to restore Democracy?: The far-right justices consistently ignore evidence, show no regard for precedent, & distort history to justify their radical decisions.
Louisiana State Penitentiary, aka Angola, sits on land that was once a slave plantation named Angola, after the African homeland of the majority of the enslaved people forced to work on it. After the Civil War, the state replaced slavery with "convict leasing." Turning the plantation into a state prison in 1901 and forcing mostly Black men to labor in the same fields, under the same brutal conditions. It earned the nickname "the bloodiest prison in the South" and remains the largest maximum-security prison in the U.S., holding over 6,000, mostly black, men today. This image isn't ancient history. It's a direct visual line from slavery to convict leasing to mass incarceration. To be black in America means you have to ask yourself how growing up in a country like this has shaped you, because if you haven't unpacked that yet I promise you it's still shaping you. Integration was a mistake. I can totally understand how Jewish people could become Nazis because I see black people everyday believing they're Americans. I'm a colonized person, descended from ancestors who were stolen away to this place, and I'm still stolen. I'm still being abused. My people are still being locked away and forced to labor. if we don't accept being wage slaves they make us prison slaves. If we won't follow the rules in the open air prison that is America they'll make it even worse for us behind one of their locked walls. I don't aspire to whiteness. I love myself. I love everything about me that white supremacy says I should hate or be ashamed of. It's daily work, because my treatment in the world reflects that others believe these things about me. Part of what's so triggering for others is in their mind I shouldn't have any love for myself and belief in myself, primarily because they think they're somehow better than me and yet they don't possess these beliefs. "How can SHE be happy and I'm not happy?" I'm happy because I know myself. Because white supremacy, capitalism, and Patriarchy aren't shaping me anymore. Black people in this country have to accept that white workers do not care about us, and asking them to care is weak af. We're not begging anymore for our lives to matter. If they matter we must establish that as fact by defending ourselves like our lives matter. It's not ok to let our community be locked away in these concentration camps. It was never ok.
At 9:10 this morning, after spending the entire weekend hiding inside his Bedminster golf club, avoiding the waiting press and their cameras, Donald Trump posted his first social media post of the day. By 10:35 this evening, he had posted more than 60 times, with each share more concerning than the last. The posts became so disturbing at times that many began openly questioning if the president of the United States was having a mental health crisis, with some of his fellow MAGA Republicans even ridiculing him back. The president’s delusional posts spanned from him appearing to have attacked Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney while the two were playing hockey, with Trump standing above him and yelling at Carney to “GET UP, GOVERNOR,” to a post of Trump changing the name of New Mexico to New America. There was a fake image of Trump day trading from the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office, showing him making “Hundreds of Billions of Dollars on Stocks,” and even one of him pretending to command Space Force from a space station while he detonated huge nuclear fireball explosions across the Earth’s surface below. Those weren’t even the worst of what he shared. It was one AI-generated image after the next, including one with Trump seated on a massive, dark black metallic throne inside what looks like a dystopian military command center, surrounded by black armored robotic soldiers towering over him. Behind him, fire is everywhere, even filling the ceiling, as Trump keeps one hand beside a glowing, futuristic clear control panel, while an army of smaller attack machines look ready to defend him. At the bottom of this ominous image are the words: “GIVE THEM NIGHTMARES,” in bold white and red. In another, Trump stands alone at the center of another dark, dystopian scene, on what appears to be the presidential seal. He is dressed in a long black coat and red tie, with two enormous black armored robots rising into the sky through the fog behind him. The robots are covered in Americana imagery, including American flags and eagle insignia. Closer to him are dog-like fighting machines, each with a bright red glowing eye. Across the bottom of this fake image, in large gold letters this time, are the words: “THEY WILL DREAM OF US FOREVER.” He went from science fiction to real life and back again, posting about declaring the moon above our planet as property of America: “THE MOON IS OURS 🇺🇸.” He shared a cartoon of himself smashing the entire country of Iran with a giant American Flag hammer. There was a post with examples of the new UNITED STATES SPACE FORCE SERVICE UNIFORM that looked like it was stolen from a 1970s or 80s dystopian science fiction film about a galactic empire meets fascist regime. He declared Mar-a-Lago the “Southern White House,” and he posted a video of himself teeing off that was captioned, “He is a great golfer, wins all the time, but an even better President!” The president said he was the greatest president of all time and referred to himself in the third person. The official White House X account posted its own fake video. This time, showing Donald Trump with a bright green, glowing, supernatural-powered ring, using it to cause destruction and harm. They captioned it with a quote from the Green Lantern oath: “In brightest day, in blackest night, no evil shall escape my sight. Let those who worship evil’s might beware my power… Green Lantern’s Light!” His entire weekend schedule listed only executive time, and the press traveling with him have not had a single opportunity to see him since they arrived at 6:29 Friday night. This is the same pattern we have watched repeat over and over again. Around the same time, the bruises on his hands become more pronounced and covered with makeup; he disappears or is insulated for days with Trump loyalists only to then reappear, a little more energized than when we last saw him. The explanations each time change, but the pattern does not. Between the bizarre posts, his disappearance, and his worsening health, we are all left with more questions than answers. Ty Cobb, Trump’s own former White House attorney, was asked recently whether he believed the president was still mentally capable of serving. Cobb’s response was, “I think he’s gone.” He called Trump’s nightly posting sprees “screeds” delivered “without oversight” and said, “The Cabinet will not invoke the Twenty-Fifth Amendment for a man who is clearly insane.” Back in April, Dr. Vin Gupta, a senior medical analyst, listed five symptoms he has observed in the president: erratic behavior, an inability to finish sentences, frequent confusion, illogical trains of thought, and word-finding difficulties. “The President,” Dr. Gupta concluded, “is exhibiting all the signs of dementia.” The White House continues to reject every concern for the president’s physical and mental health. But at this point, the frequency of these posts and his instability begin to speak for themselves. He has made, or had someone else post on his behalf, more than 60 truly deranged social media posts. He is acting out violent fantasies, threatening foreign leaders in childish ways, posting about changing the name of New Mexico to New America, and posting a picture of himself working the drive-through window at McDonald’s. The president of the United States is gone indeed. While he was having a mental breakdown in front of the world, I was trying to share a special moment with one of my daughters. It rained in San Diego today for the first time since February, and although for most that wouldn’t be something special, for us it is. I was sitting with my daughter, talking about how much we love that smell of the rain as it hits the dry ground. We sat there for a moment and just took it in. It was something so basic and ordinary, so small in comparison to almost everything else, but it felt like a gift. As I sat there, I kept getting notifications each time he shared something, and the weight of his incompetence got heavier with each one. I tried to forget for just a few minutes that this is the man who holds the power to start even more wars, and he spent his Sunday sharing fantasies of destruction like a child playing with toys he does not understand. I kept thinking about how much our lives are at risk with him in charge. Every single one of us. But it goes deeper than that. Because this is also the man responsible for responding appropriately and effectively if a real crisis were to happen right now. His job is to lead, protect and serve, and from what we have seen, every time the stakes get higher, he proves he has no idea what he is doing. If this were someone we loved, like an aging parent or grandparent, we would be having one of the hardest conversations a family can have. We would be asking whether they could still live alone. We would want to know if they were eating, if they were keeping up with basic hygiene, or if they were even capable of taking care of themselves in that way. We would also be asking if they understood what they were doing when they picked up their phone and shared 60 images of themselves commanding robot armies and detonating nuclear explosions from outer space. We would be heartbroken, scared, and most likely calling their doctor and taking away their car keys. Instead, we are letting the person posting this nonsense command the most powerful military on Earth. He holds the nuclear codes and is ultimately responsible for the safety of more than 330 million Americans. He has already botched a pandemic that killed more than a million people, taken us into another forever war in Iran that he said he would never start, and now he is destroying everything in his path. If a catastrophic emergency were to happen right now, a cyberattack on our infrastructure, a military assault of some sort, or even a natural disaster like a devastating hurricane, Donald Trump would be responsible for our survival. And from what we saw today, there is no scenario where he could actually rise to the moment and lead us through it. What makes this moment even more unsettling is that none of what we are seeing is new. The pattern of broken and disturbed men seeking political power is the backdrop to so many other dark periods of authoritarian takeovers. Adolf Hitler was a failed artist, rejected twice from the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts, who spent years drifting and homeless before finding in politics the validation he could never earn anywhere else. By the time he held power, his personal physician, Dr. Theodor Morell, was administering daily injections of what historians believe included amphetamines and opiates. He was erratic, paranoid, incapable of tolerating disagreement, and surrounded exclusively by “yes men,” people who only told him what he wanted to hear. Joseph Goebbels, his chief propagandist, projected the image of a devoted family man, while using his control of the Reich’s film industry to coerce and exploit women. His personal diaries, which survived the war, reveal a man consumed by vanity, insecurity, and an almost pathological need to be seen as important. He kept lists of personal grudges and used state power to settle them. Benito Mussolini was violent toward women and known for physical aggression long before he ever held office. None of their cruelty was something their positions of power gave them. It was something they brought with them. These were not men who were corrupted by power. They were men who sought power to expand the reach of their cruelty. They were social outcasts and predators who discovered that politics would give them the one thing they could never earn on their own: control over other people. The contrast between these past strongmen and their little sidekicks like Stephen Miller is shocking. Stephen was even described by his own classmates as someone whose personality traits seemed to make him enjoy provoking pain in others. Members of his own family publicly disavowed his views. Trump’s personal history, the dozens of accusations of sexual misconduct, his connections to Jeffrey Epstein, the Access Hollywood tape, the E. Jean Carroll verdicts, the vindictive obsession with anyone who has ever crossed him, are part of his character. They are who he is. Maybe the most devastating part is Trump’s complete lack of respect for how it is affecting those beyond our own borders. Today, voters in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt went to the polls and the far-right Alternative for Germany, the AfD, won nearly 44 percent of the vote. That is more than double the 20.8 percent they received in the last election, five years ago. The center-right Christian Democrats, the party of Chancellor Friedrich Merz, won just over 17 percent, less than half of what they won last time. If the AfD were to form a government in Saxony-Anhalt, it would be the first time the far right has controlled a state government in Germany since the end of World War II. The deeply alarming part is that Germany built memorials to warn the world about exactly this. Outside the Reichstag, their national parliament building, sit 96 cast-iron plates, each one bearing the name of a member of parliament who was persecuted and murdered by the Nazis for opposing Hitler. Those slabs exist so that no future generation could say they were not warned. I stood beside those slabs and felt the gravity of that warning. And then there is the glass dome, built in 1999, that sits above the parliamentary chamber in the Reichstag so the public can always look down on their elected officials and watch them. A permanent reminder that the government is ultimately controlled by the people, not by a single evil man or his enablers. It is a permanent reminder that power must answer to the people. Because of the poison Trump is spilling all over the world, those warnings are being tested right now. Fascism is already here, and it is spreading just as it did in the 1930s. We are now squarely under two months from the midterm elections. I’m sure many of us are already seeing the ads playing on TV. I know I am. This is our time to start to make our resistance visible. We need to start putting signs in our yards and go to local protests while the weather is still good and the days are still long. Consider finding organizations in our communities that are doing the work to get people to the polls, whether that means registering voters, organizing rides, knocking on doors, or helping someone figure out where and how to vote. Most importantly, we have to keep talking to the people around us. Our neighbors, friends, and family members. The people we see every day who may not be paying attention as closely as we are, especially on days like today, when it is very hard to explain away his erratic posting. The reality is that the more days he spends posting online, the more it helps Democratic candidates come November. Whether his supporters say it out loud or not, nobody wants to live in this kind of instability. It’s not safe, and he’s certainly not doing anything for the American people. His decline is a political liability for Republicans, and it is a flashing red warning for the entire country. The more we see of it, the more his own party splinters away from him, and the greater the odds that we have the biggest blue wave in the history of our country. That is why I still have hope for America. And you should, too. I’ll see you tomorrow, Heather
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BREAKING🚨 ICE agents drove their SUVs onto a CROWDED SIDEWALK full of neighbors, nearly hitting the city council vice president. The council president calls it attempted murder. For about 40 hours, starting at 6 a.m. Thursday, ICE agents sat on every street of Taskers Chance, a small subdivision in Frederick, Maryland. Many residents stopped leaving their homes. Volunteers offered to walk people to work or give them rides so they wouldn't have to go out alone. The Baltimore Banner's Sara Ruberg first reported the story. Around 9:30 Friday night, five or six vehicles lined up on Stoneybrook Court and began flashing their lights, City Council President César Díaz said. Then the agents drove onto the sidewalk where observers were standing and chanting. "People had to move or risk getting run over," Díaz said. Council Vice President Katie Nash was nearly struck. Díaz said he had to step back to avoid being hit himself. Some observers sat down in the road and linked arms, chanting "We shall not be moved." Others linked arms in front of the house the agents appeared to be targeting. Nash called Frederick police and asked them to come protect the observers. Minutes later, she said, agents pulled out batons and hit the people forming that human barrier. None of the observers was violent or throwing anything, she said. Videos show agents charging the house, dragging seated protesters away and piling on top of them. Frederick officers stood nearby and did not step in. Maryland police are barred from assisting immigration enforcement, and also from interfering. Agents opened the door and went inside, where a person was standing. A couple of people were injured. No one was arrested, and the agents left soon after. Nash said an ICE agent had walked up to her Thursday evening and told her he knew her name, her license plate and where she lived.
In 1476, a 24-year-old artist in Florence was anonymously accused of sodomy. The note was dropped into a wooden box outside the town hall, it named him alongside three other men, and the artist was Leonardo da Vinci. The charge was dismissed. Two months later somebody filed it again, and it was dismissed again. Both times the stated reason was the same: Florentine law required such an accusation to be signed, and whoever wrote these had not signed them. One of the four men named was Leonardo Tornabuoni, whose family was close to Lorenzo de' Medici. Historians have suspected ever since that this is the real reason the whole thing went away so quietly. He stayed under the eye of the Officers of the Night for a while afterward, a magistracy created in 1432 for the single purpose of policing men who slept with men. He never married, left no record of a relationship with a woman, and spent his adult life surrounded by young men he trained, painted and left money to. Both denunciations still sit in the Florentine record. The man they named went on to paint the Last Supper.
BREAKING🚨 A federal appeals court just ruled there is NO constitutional right to CLEAN drinking water — and no right to be told the truth by officials during a public health crisis. The full Fifth Circuit handed down the decision Friday in New Orleans, ending a lawsuit brought by four Jackson, Mississippi residents. Priscilla Sterling, Raine Becker, Shawn Miller and John Bennett said the city let lead leach into their drinking water and then told them it was safe to drink. State health department testing from 2010 to 2013 showed lead in Jackson's water increasing "at an alarming rate." The residents say the city ignored the warnings and switched part of Jackson from a safe groundwater source to corrosive surface water that was already pulling lead out of the pipes. Court records state several of Sterling's children have been diagnosed with lead poisoning, and that two other households are showing effects of lead poisoning or other contamination. Judge Kurt Engelhardt, writing for the majority, called the loss of clean water and honest information "grievous" and said it did "not infringe upon any deeply rooted constitutional right." "We are skeptical that the right to not be harmed by lead-contaminated water fits within the right to bodily integrity," he wrote. He added there is no "constitutional right to truthful information from officials during a public health crisis." The court then listed what the poisoned residents can do instead: file tort claims in state court, petition legislatures, or elect representatives who will better manage the public water system. "The Constitution does not provide redress for every governmental wrongdoing," Engelhardt wrote. If you appreciate my posts, it would mean the world if you followed my page. Thank you for being here.
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