BREAKING: OMG. A judge just ruled that a woman getting raped on a Navy ship was PART OF HER JOB’S DUTIES and that she should file a WORKER’S COMP COMPLAINT about it! This is beyond belief… Elsie Dominguez has been fighting for justice for five years over a heinous sexual assault by the captain of the USNS Carson City, who used his key card to enter her locked room and raped her in her bed. She went through all the proper procedures for reporting the assault, and then sued the Navy for failure to care for and protect her after little was done. But on August 11th, a judge dismissed her case and told her to file a workers’ comp claim. When she sued the federal government, a court ordered the Labor Department to determine whether this rape should be handled as a Federal Employees’ Compensation Act claim since it occurred while she was working within a temporary travel status as a civilian contractor. It did. Now a worker’s comp claim is her only legal path forward, and her justice has been denied. "It's a really frustrating legal outcome," said her lawyer. "If anyone should think getting raped is part of your performance of your job duties, [it] is offensive. I have immense respect for Elsie that she raised her hand and she fought this fight with us, even though it was kind of a losing battle from the start.” Coast Guard prosecutors in February 2025 did issue a complaint of sexual misconduct against the ship’s captain, Yamil Sanchez Padilla, who simply voluntarily surrendered his merchant mariner credentials and the criminal case was withdrawn. This is just a glimpse into how hard it is to find justice for sexual assault victims in the military – and you can bet that under Pete Hegseth’s command, it has gotten a LOT worse.

 

BREAKING: WTF! Hegseth allegedly fired the Army's top general after he refused to bury probe into Kid Rock's Apache helicopter flyby. Pete Hegseth wants Americans to believe he removes the nation’s military leaders based on merit and what he calls the “warrior ethos.” New reporting suggests otherwise: he may have fired the Army's top general for daring to investigate an unauthorized military flyby of a Trump-supporting over-the-hill musician's Tennessee mansion. According to the Washington Post, days before Hegseth abruptly fired Army Chief of Staff General Randy George in April, General Chris LaNeve — the Army's number two officer and now Hegseth's preferred replacement — told George that Hegseth didn't want an active investigation into an unauthorized March 28 Apache helicopter flyby of Kid Rock's estate to continue. George, apparently troubled by the encounter, reportedly confided to colleagues that LaNeve suggested the review simply be scuttled. Talk about military discipline! Two Apache helicopters buzzed a musician's private property at low altitude, an incident serious enough that Army officials at Fort Campbell grounded the pilots and launched a formal investigation. Kid Rock himself posted a celebratory video online, taking the opportunity to trash California Governor Gavin Newsom in the caption. When the story generated unflattering coverage, Hegseth personally intervened, killed the investigation, exonerated the pilots, and told them to "Carry on, Patriots." Weeks later, Hegseth and Kid Rock literally flew together in Apache helicopters for what the Pentagon called a "community relations event." Notably, the Army was ALSO reviewing a separate helicopter flight that dipped to 625 feet over a "No Kings" protest against Trump that same day. Two flights. One favored a Trump ally. One targeted Trump critics. Only one investigation mattered enough to Hegseth to shut down. George was removed just days later, without explanation, in a move so abrupt that news leaked to CBS before the Army secretary could even attempt to intervene. He's just the latest in a growing purge: more than two dozen top military officers have been dismissed under Hegseth, disproportionately women and minorities, typically without cause beyond vague complaints about insufficient "loyalty." Now LaNeve's own path to becoming Army chief is complicated — Senator Joni Ernst reportedly opposes his nomination, and Republicans on Capitol Hill have already grilled him for stonewalling basic questions about military decisions. This is what military leadership looks like when loyalty to a president's celebrity friends outweighs institutional integrity: real generals pushed out, real investigations killed, all to protect Kid Rock's feelings. And meanwhile, our military is waging a quagmire of a war in Iran without its most qualified leaders and strategists. It’s almost as if someone was trying to weaken our military at the behest of a hostile foreign power. Putin’s investment in Trump’s victory has never paid off so well. Please like and share if you need someone to make this all make sense!

BREAKING: WIFE FOR PAY? An ex-White House aide says Melania Trump only shows up to be Trump’s wife in public if she gets PAID for it and otherwise wants nothing to do with him or the First Lady job! If the shoe fits, Melania… The president’s bizarre and clearly extremely strained relationship with his wife continues to undergo more and more scrutiny as it appears she has been replaced by a young, blonde, obsessive disciple – Natalie Harp. In fact, Melania has been almost entirely absent from the public eye for his entire second term. When she does show up, it’s usually very briefly – unless she’s holding a personal press conference to throw Epstein’s victims under the bus. That may be explained by a former White House official revealing that Melania was being paid to attend campaign events. Former deputy press secretary Sarah Matthews spent a year on the Donald Trump campaign before joining the White House staff for its final seven months in Trump’s first term, and she had some very interesting things to share. "When I was working on the campaign for a year and then at the White House for the last seven months of the first admin, I met the vice president, I met almost every cabinet official. I met members of the first family; I met all of them at one point or another. The only person I never met was Melania Trump," Matthews told the On Sunday podcast. "I never met the first lady, even though I was the deputy spokesperson for the president on his campaign and in the White House. That kind of sums it up, where it was this known thing that she was just not around, and she didn't want to be around," she said. “We know too that—it’s been reported—that Melania gets paid for showing up at events when they were on the campaign trail, which is crazy to think that you have to pay your own wife to show up somewhere.” Matthews wondered if Melania's "rate has gone up after all of this news, because I'm sure she doesn't like any of this being out there — whether or not it's true." Which begs the question…what else is/has Melania been paid to do? Has their entire marriage just been a sugar daddy arrangement? Did he just purchase her from one of Jeffrey Epstein’s fixers? Whatever the truth might be, it’s just another peek behind the curtain into how literally everything in Trump’s life is a scam, a con, or a delusion.

 BREAKING: “MAYBE I WASN’T KIDDING”: Trump doubles down on his bizarre plan to rename Lake Ontario “Lake America” – suggesting that everyone who thought he was joking is in for a surprise!

Trump used a new interview with MAGA hack Glenn Beck this morning to revive his threat to rename Lake Ontario, just one day after posting that his administration was giving ‘serious consideration’ to calling it ‘Lake America.’ 

“You know, people thought I was kidding,” Trump told Beck. “Maybe I wasn’t, because the last one you saw was the Gulf of Mexico’s Gulf of America. Now we have a gulf and we have a lake.”

The comment came one day after Trump posted an image proposing to rename Lake Ontario “Lake America,” saying the United States was giving the idea “serious consideration.”

On its face, this is just stupid and puerile – a president of the United States amusing himself by crossing out the name of a lake shared with one of our closest allies and replacing it with “America.”

But Trump’s attacks on Canada have a political purpose whether or not this particular stunt was dreamed up with one in mind. Picking fights with allies and portraying America as some sort of victim plays directly to the grievance and jingoism that used to fire up his political base. 

And it comes at a convenient moment, as the debacle in Iran continues to fester and our ADHD president needs to think about something else. 

The more serious problem is that Canada isn't some prop at a Trump rally. It is a sovereign country, major trading partner and longtime American ally. 

Deliberately attempting to humiliate and antagonize it can have consequences that extend far beyond a moronic social media post and online bluster.

BREAKING: KEEP HER NAME OUT OF YOUR FILTHY MOUTH! Trump makes Dolly Parton’s death all about himself with an infuriating lie, claiming that she “really liked him” when there is NO WAY that was true! This guy is the WORST… Narcissistic scumbag Donald Trump once again tried to make a major celebrity’s death all about himself and tried to steal the spotlight away from beloved music star Dolly Parton, telling hateful bigot Glenn Beck that she “really liked him” in a nonsensical ramble: “We all knew her so well. I knew her a little bit. She wasn't a very political person. She really liked me, I will tell you, but she also wanted to stay very, you she was of the opinion, you know, the 50 % who needs to lose. I don't think it's 50. I think it's probably 20 % of the fans. Okay. Not 50, but she was a great person that she was just a nice person.” This is just ridiculous. Dolly Parton was far too smart and good-hearted a woman to ever support a vile rapist like Donald Trump. If we have any hints about how she felt about him, we need look no further to when she stood by and smiled broadly as her co-stars in the 9-to-5 movie rightfully trashed Trump for being a ““sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot” in a 2017 speech. This is a new low for a man who reinvents the definition of “pathetic” on a daily basis, and he should be ashamed of himself for putting words in the mouth of a legend like this, just to make himself feel better about the fact that everyone hates him!

“Tired but undeterred”: A Smithsonian curator refuses to let this administration erase queer history

“Tired but undeterred”: A Smithsonian curator refuses to let this administration erase queer history: As a civil servant, Katherine Ott took an oath to uphold the Constitution. To them, that means preserving queer history.