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It’s not enough for anti-Trump voters and activists to speak out against the bigoted, oppressive, exclusionary and white nationalist-friendly agenda that President Donald Trump is forcing on the federal government, and, by extension, the nation.
We need our Democratic leaders, the people who are in the closest position to resist Trump’s policies, to speak out and do so without mincing words and using soft language. And, for that, we have Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett.
On Friday night (Jan. 31), the Trump administration began a purge of federal law enforcement employees, including prosecutors who handled Jan. 6 cases, officials involved in prosecutions against himself and FBI agents involved in investigations against him. Basically, we put a child-like bully back in the White House and now he’s exacting his revenge like he’s pretending to be his favorite cartoon villain. (In real life, he’s half the country’s least favorite cartoon villain.)
https://x.com/repjasmine/status/1885504967538004025
Anyway, Crockett kept it a buck.
From Raw Story:
The D.C. Field Office, in particular, has seen a wave of firings. It comes as the acting head of Trump’s Justice Department is also moving to eliminate the jobs of prosecutors who handled the Jan. 6 cases and worked with special counsel Jack Smith.
“Trump’s DOJ Deputy AG is ordering the FBI Acting Secretary to create a blacklist of officers for termination because they LAWFULLY INVESTIGATED an insurrection at the Capitol that resulted in severe injuries and deaths, including of law enforcement,” wrote Crockett, a former public defender, on X. “Instead of respecting the acts and contributions of the FBI for holding people to account for desecrating the hallowed halls of Congress, my Republican colleagues are now cheering for their removal.”
“LET’S BE CLEAR: Firing these experienced law enforcement officers is a victory for lawlessness, organized crime, and corruption,” she continued. “It is a get out of jail free card for the drug smugglers, human traffickers, child exploiters, and violent extremists that the FBI investigates.”
“But most importantly, tonight is a tragedy for the rule of law,” Crockett concluded.
That’s right, y’all. The so-called “party of law and order” who constantly deride their Democratic counterparts as being “soft on crime” are out here behaving disorderly as if they’re above the law and reminding us daily that they decide which crimes matter.
One would think Trump and his GOP goons were actually masters of manipulation, but, truthfully, white supremacy and idiocracy had already done all the work for them in the backward-ass country.
But MAGA, right?
After Selena Gomez shared (and then deleted) a video weeping over the Trump administration’s immigration raids, the White House shared its own response video late Friday (Jan. 31) featuring mothers whose children were reportedly killed by undocumented immigrants.
The White House clip, posted to X, intersperses clips of Gomez crying over mass deportations in her since-deleted video with the mothers, who are critical of the singer/actress and tell her: “You don’t know who you’re crying for.”
In the original clip, Gomez — a Texas-born Mexican-American — says through tears, “All my people are getting attacked, the children. I don’t understand. I’m so sorry. I wish I could do something, but I can’t. I don’t know what to do. I’ll try everything, I promise.”
In the White House response, Alexis Nungaray — whose 12-year-old daughter Jocelyn was killed in Houston in June 2024 — accuses Gomez of being insincere in her response. “Seeing that video, it’s hard to believe that it’s actually genuine and real because she’s an actress,” Nungaray says.
A September report funded by the National Institute of Justice using data from the Texas Department of Public Safety found that “undocumented immigrants are arrested at less than half the rate of native-born U.S. citizens for violent and drug crimes and a quarter the rate of native-born citizens for property crimes.”
Gomez’s original video was in response to Trump’s promise to begin major deportations as soon as he took office. Last week, Trump press secretary Karoline Leavitt took to X to announce that “deportation flights have begun. President Trump is sending a strong and clear message to the entire world: if you illegally enter the United States of America, you will face severe consequences.”
The two other mothers featured in the video are Tammy Nobles, whose 20-year-old daughter Kayla Hamilton was killed in 2022 in Aberdeen, Maryland, and Patty Morin, whose 37-year-old daughter Rachel was murdered in 2023 in Harford County, Maryland. Hamilton’s killer was an undocumented 16-year-old from El Salvador, while undocumented immigrants are facing charges for the murders of Morin and Nungaray.
Gomez’s video became a political lightning rod in the days after it was originally posted on Monday, with Republican Utah politician Sam Parker suggesting she should be deported as well because her grandparents originally entered the country illegally. “Thanks for the laugh and the threat,” Gomez responded on Instagram.
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Mark Zuckerberg is one of the many big tech CEOs who decided to kiss Donald Trump’s ring following his unfortunate presidential election win. Now, he’s defending his decision to suck up Trump.
Per the New York Times, the Meta chief defended his embrace of Orange Mussolini and his lame administration, loosening restrictions on online speech and ending diversity, equity, and inclusion directives during a wide-ranging question-and-answer meeting with Meta employees.
“I want to be clear, after the last several years, we now have an opportunity to have a productive partnership with the United States government,” Zuckerberg said to employees in a video obtained and shared by the New York Times. “We’re going to take that.”
Zuck said it’s “fundamental” that his company cooperates with governments worldwide while criticizing the previous administration.
“The government can sort of be actively opposing you, trying to get in the way and add a lot of friction, or can be actively trying to help you break down barriers to help you,” he explained. “It’s the right thing to do.”
Mark Zuckerberg Claims Meta Has A “Good Track Record” Regarding DEI
When talking about the Meta getting rid of its DEI teams, Zuckerberg claimed it was a sign of the current times we are now in, where DEI is under attack from the White House and Republican officials and being used as an excuse when things like the recent American Airlines flight crash happen.
“We’re in the middle of a pretty rapidly changing policy and regulatory landscape that views any policy that might advantage any one group of people over another as something that is unlawful,” he said. “Because of that, we and every other institution out there are going to need to adjust.”
In the same breath, Zuckerberg said he believes Meta has a “good track record” regarding diversity and having a diverse workforce.
Meta Employees We’re Not Feeling The Meeting
As expected, the meeting did not go well with some employees, specifically those upset at the format changes. In previous years, employees were allowed to vote on what questions would be asked of Zuckerberg, but that was not the case for this meeting.
A side chat room that allowed employees to provide live commentary during the meeting was also gone.
According to the tech CEO, the changes were intentional because of an increasing number of leaks.
“I think there are a bunch of things that are value-destroying that I’m not going to talk about,” he said, referring to the types of questions that have become public. “Maybe it’s the nature of running a company of this scale. But it’s a little bit of a bummer.”
According to the New York Times, following the meeting, the company sent employees an internal memo warning them they would be terminated if they spoke to the media.
Meta sounds like it is no longer a fun workplace and is an extension of the Trump White House.
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On Thursday, January 30, Donald Trump confirmed he is the last person anyone seeking healing should want to hear from after a tragedy. The convicted felon proved so when he proceeded to blame Barack Obama, Joe Biden and even DEI for the plane crash near Washington, DC on Wednesday night (Jan. 29).
Trump’s speech started off well enough with the President reading the speech in front of him, sounding wooden with no real empathy, as to be expected. Then he started ad-libbing and per usual, he started talking crazy. He also seemingly had an assist from FOX News.
Reports the Guardian:
Speaking to reporters at the White House, he quoted in familiar scattergun style from what he said were “various articles [that] appeared prior to my entering office”.
“And here’s one,” Trump said. “‘The FAA’s diversity push includes focus on hiring people with severe intellectual and psychiatric disabilities.’ That is amazing. And then it says FAA … says people with severe disabilities are most underrepresented segment of the workforce, [they] said, ‘They want them in, and they want them, they can be air traffic controllers.’ I don’t think so. This was January 14, so that was a week before I entered office. They put a big push to put diversity into the FAA’s program.”
He appeared to be reading from a report published by Fox News.
Trump continued: “Brilliant people have to be in those positions, and their lives are actually shortened, very substantially shortened because of the stress where you have many, many planes coming into one target, and you need a very special talent and a very special genius to be able to do it.”
During his diatribe he also baselessly blamed Joe Biden and Barack Obama for the crash. At one point he also placed blame on former transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg, who obviously no longer works in the administration.
Needless to say, social media is dragging the Orange Overload for his latest failure at leadership, and deservedly so. See some fo the most poignant commentary in the comments.
https://x.com/AOC/status/1885048064462716946
1. Bruh…
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Tragedy struck Washington, D.C. after an aerial collision between a U.S. Army Blackhawk helicopter and a passenger plane occurred at 8:47 p.m. ET last night (Jan. 29).
According to Newsweek, the horrific accident happened when both the passenger plane, which was flying in from Wichita, Kansas, and the U.S. Army Blackhawk helicopter attempted to land at Reagan International Airport in Washington, D.C. Unfortunately, it is suspected that all 64 passengers in the commercial plane and the three soldiers in the helicopter have not survived the crash. A search for survivors are underway.
The collision comes just a week after “President” Donald Trump reportedly fired the head of the TSA and the Aviation Security Advisory Committee, froze hiring of all Air Traffic Controllers, and also laid off 100 top FAA security officers. Now we’re not saying he’s responsible for this tragedy, but if anyone is wondering how such an incident could come to pass, that wouldn’t be a bad place to look.
Still, others feel it was on the helicopter pilot to have avoided the incident as a former pilot explained that the passenger plane had the right of way and the Blackhawk should’ve flown away to make room for the civilian aircraft.
Newsweek reports:
Former helicopter pilot Paul Beaver spoke with Sky News about the accident, saying that because the airline pilot was coming in to land, they would have had right of way. The helicopter pilot should have taken “avoiding action” to move out of the airplane’s flight path.
Air traffic control recordings from right before the crash show the air traffic controller speaking with the helicopter (PAT 2-5) operators.
The air traffic controller said: “PAT 2-5 do you have the CRJ in sight?”
Then: “PAT 2-5 pass behind the CRJ.”
The helicopter pilot responded: “PAT 2-5 has aircraft in sight, request visual separation,” just moments before the crash.
Donald Trump for his part took to social media to weigh in on the incident and after describing just how good of a night it was to fly a plane, he asked, “Why didn’t the control tower tell the helicopter what to do instead of asking if they saw the plane. This is a bad situation that looks like it should have been prevented. NOT GOOD!!!”
We still can’t believe y’all truly voted for this kind of malarkey instead of an overqualified Black woman. respectfully.
No word on whether any survivors have been found as of yet, but authorities promise to recover every single body that is currently missing from the accident. And Trump has already blamed Barack Obama, Joe Biden and even DEI.
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Tragedy struck Washington, D.C. after an aerial collision between a U.S. Army Blackhawk helicopter and a passenger plane occurred at 8:47 p.m. ET last night (Jan. 29).
According to Newsweek, the horrific accident happened when both the passenger plane, which was flying in from Wichita, Kansas, and the U.S. Army Blackhawk helicopter attempted to land at Reagan International Airport in Washington, D.C. Unfortunately, it is suspected that all 64 passengers in the commercial plane and the three soldiers in the helicopter have not survived the crash. A search for survivors are underway.
The collision comes just a week after “President” Donald Trump reportedly fired the head of the TSA and the Aviation Security Advisory Committee, froze hiring of all Air Traffic Controllers, and also laid off 100 top FAA security officers. Now we’re not saying he’s responsible for this tragedy, but if anyone is wondering how such an incident could come to pass, that wouldn’t be a bad place to look.
Still, others feel it was on the helicopter pilot to have avoided the incident as a former pilot explained that the passenger plane had the right of way and the Blackhawk should’ve flown away to make room for the civilian aircraft.
Newsweek reports:
Former helicopter pilot Paul Beaver spoke with Sky News about the accident, saying that because the airline pilot was coming in to land, they would have had right of way. The helicopter pilot should have taken “avoiding action” to move out of the airplane’s flight path.
Air traffic control recordings from right before the crash show the air traffic controller speaking with the helicopter (PAT 2-5) operators.
The air traffic controller said: “PAT 2-5 do you have the CRJ in sight?”
Then: “PAT 2-5 pass behind the CRJ.”
The helicopter pilot responded: “PAT 2-5 has aircraft in sight, request visual separation,” just moments before the crash.
Donald Trump for his part took to social media to weigh in on the incident and after describing just how good of a night it was to fly a plane, he asked, “Why didn’t the control tower tell the helicopter what to do instead of asking if they saw the plane. This is a bad situation that looks like it should have been prevented. NOT GOOD!!!”
We still can’t believe y’all truly voted for this kind of malarkey instead of an overqualified Black woman. respectfully.
No word on whether any survivors have been found as of yet, but authorities promise to recover every single body that is currently missing from the accident. And Trump has already blamed Barack Obama, Joe Biden and even DEI.
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Snoop Dogg recently revealed that he lost over half a million followers on social media after performing at the Trump-affiliated Crypto Ball, an event tied to the former president’s supporters. The backlash was swift, with many fans upset by what they saw as Snoop indirectly endorsing Trump and his controversial political affiliations.
This move seemed to contradict Snoop’s past criticisms of Black artists who aligned themselves with Trump, often calling them “Uncle Toms” and “jiggaboos.” Given his outspoken views on politics and social justice, his appearance at the Crypto Ball left many questioning his stance and loyalty to the community. In response to the wave of hate and backlash, Snoop took to social media to address the criticism. Rather than engaging in negativity, he responded with his signature calmness and positivity, saying, “For all that hate, I’m going to answer with love. Y’all can’t hate enough on me. I love too much. Get your life right, stop worrying about mine. I’m cool, I’m together. Still a Black man, still 100 percent Black.”
His message seemed aimed at reminding fans that despite the controversy, he remained true to himself and his roots. While Snoop’s performance at the event was divisive, his response showed he was unbothered by the hate, reinforcing his commitment to his own beliefs and his legacy in the hip-hop world. It remains to be seen how this moment will affect his career, but Snoop’s message of love and self-confidence has continued to resonate.
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Donald Trump’s presidency is wasting no time with absurdity, and sadly, people are bending their knees to please his ridiculousness.
Google is capitulating to Orange Mussolini and will show US Google Map users the Gulf of America on maps after Trump signed an executive order rebranding the body of water we all know as the Gulf of Mexico.
Google Maps users in Mexico will still see the Gulf of Mexico when they open the app. International users will see both names when they use Google Maps.
Google’s decision comes after Trump went on a renaming spree because he’s a petulant child in a grown man’s body.
“As directed by the President, the Gulf of Mexico will now officially be known as the Gulf of America,” the Interior Department said in a statement.
To justify the decision, the EO claims the area is an “integral asset” to the United States because it produces 14% of US crude oil, has “vibrant American fisheries,” and is “a favorite destination of American tourism.”
The tech giant, which donated $1 million to Trump’s inauguration and saw Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai attend the celebration of America’s downfall, said it was following its longstanding policy of aligning map labeling with updates in official government databases.
The Gulf of Mexico Was Not The Only Thing Renamed By A Trump Executive Order
The Gulf of Mexico being stupidly renamed to the Gulf of America isn’t the only thing the Orange Menace renamed via an executive order. Trump reverted the Denali, North America’s tallest peak, back to Mount McKinley, reversing the move by Barack Obama in 2015 as a symbolic gesture to Alaska Natives.
We all know Trump changed the name because he can’t stand Barack Obama because he’s a very petty man.
Buckle up; this is going to be a LONG 4 years.
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Snoop Dogg has received sharp criticism for performing at Donald Trump’s inauguration. Harry-O is now defending the MC for participating in the convicted felon’s event.
As spotted on TMZ, the man who is alleged to have provided Suge Knight the seed money to start Death Row Records is coming to the rescue of Snoop Dogg. While Suge Knight has always denied the claim a judge ruled in Harry-O’s favor back in 2005. Born Michael Harris, the former entertainment entrepreneur served almost 33 years in prison for drug charges. In 2021, he received a surprise pardon from then president of the United States, Donald Trump. Since his release, he has worked with Snoop Dogg in relaunching Death Row Records.
In an exclusive interview with TMZ, Harry-O explained Snoop’s appearance at the inauguration wasn’t a political statement but an overall show of support to the now POTUS. “Snoop is a non-political guy. He didn’t want to get mixed into the politics so he kept who he felt should be the president to himself,” he said. “And whoever became the president he wanted to support them.” While this sounds feasible, Harry-O’s portrayal of Snoop isn’t exactly true.
Back in 2017, he appeared in the “Nightfall Remix” video, which featured him doing a mock execution on a clown that had strong resemblance to Donald Trump. In 2018, during an interview with DJ Suss One on SiriusXM, Snoop Dogg didn’t pull any punches with his opinion about both Donald Trump and Kanye West saying “f*** you and f*** him!”
You can see Harry-O discuss Snoop’s appearance below.