ack in April, Jesús Escalona Mújicas was on his way to his job at a construction site when he was pulled over by federal immigration officers and Texas police in a joint raid near Bryant, Texas. Escalona Mújicas, a 48-year-old native of Venezuela, was pressed against his car as his hands were bent behind his back and cuffed. He was taken to a neaby gas station where he was interrogated. He was then arrested and thrown in the immigration detention jail (aka, “Processing Center”) in Conroe, Texas. The officers who arrested him claimed to have a deportation order for Escalona Mújicas based on the Alien Enemies Act, which Trump had recently invoked to speed up deportations of alleged gang members from central and south America. An agent told him: “the President does not want to see Haitians, Nicaraguans, Cubans, or Venezuelans here.” Escalona Mújicas protested that he wasn’t a gang member and had a temporary work visa. But his denials were smugly dismissed by the arresting agents.

Theatrical release poster for John Carpenter’s In the Mouth of Madness.

“You can be sincere and still be stupid.”

― Fyodor Dostoevsky

  • Back in April, Jesús Escalona Mújicas was on his way to his job at a construction site when he was pulled over by federal immigration officers and Texas police in a joint raid near Bryant, Texas. Escalona Mújicas, a 48-year-old native of Venezuela, was pressed against his car as his hands were bent behind his back and cuffed. He was taken to a neaby gas station where he was interrogated. He was then arrested and thrown in the immigration detention jail (aka, “Processing Center”) in Conroe, Texas. The officers who arrested him claimed to have a deportation order for Escalona Mújicas based on the Alien Enemies Act, which Trump had recently invoked to speed up deportations of alleged gang members from central and south America. An agent told him: “the President does not want to see Haitians, Nicaraguans, Cubans, or Venezuelans here.” Escalona Mújicas protested that he wasn’t a gang member and had a temporary work visa. But his denials were smugly dismissed by the arresting agents.

Soon after his arrest, ICE sent out a press release including a photo of Escalona Mújicas in handcuffs, wearing a John Deere sweatshirt with the caption: “documented Tren de Aragua gang member.” But the arrest report didn’t even get Escalona Mújicas’s nationality right, claiming that he was “an alien of El Salvadorian origin without legal status in the United States.” So it’s no surprise that they falsely arrested and then publicly smeared him as a “Tren de Aragua gang member,” even though his name was not listed in the admittedly problematic (for false positives) TxGANG database. What was the evidence the Trump administration used to as proof of Escalona Mújicas’s gang affliation? His Air Jordans.

In fact, Escalona Mújicas had no criminal history and had never heard of the Tren de Aragua gang until he got to the United States. When he lived in Venezuela, he worked as a forklift operator at Empresas Polar, the Venezuealan subsidary of Pepsi. Escalona Mújicas was deported back to Venezuela in May, but the Trump administration hasn’t rescinded its false accusation that he is a gang member, a slander that may well keep him from immigrating to any other country.

ICE photo of Jesús Escalona Mújicas, which falsely referred to him as a “documented member of Tren de Aragua gang.

  • Last week, Angel Minguela Palacios, a strawberry delivery driver with no criminal record, was on his last stop of the day when he pulled up at the Japanese-American Museum where Gavin Newsom was speaking to drop off fruit to a tea room, when he was arrested by Border Patrol agents, who had surrounded the building as a show of force against the governor. Palacios knew nothing about Newsom’s event, but was soon accosted by an ICE agent. Instead of responding to the agent’s questions, Palacios handed them his red “know your rights” cards. The agents insisted he submit to their interrogation. He refused and handed the agent his ID. Then he was arrested and handcuffed. Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino was videotaped patting the officer who arrested Angel on the back, saying: “Well done.” Palacios was the only person arrested in this “show of force” raid and in the DHS press release they implied that he was a Tren Aragua gang member and drug trafficker. Bovino brayed: “We’re here making Los Angeles a safer place, since we don’t have politicians who will do that, we do that ourselves.” But Palacios wasn’t charged with drug trafficking or gang affliation. All they ended up saying was that he had overstayed his visa, which is a civil not a criminal offense. Angel has lived with his partner, a US citizen, in LA for 8 years and helped raise her daughters and son. Together they have a six-year-old son who is autistic.

  • Javier Ramirez was at a tow yard in Montebello, California, when ICE agent raided the place. Ramirez says one of the masked men pointed at him and yelled, “Arrest him, he’s Mexican!” The agents tackled Ramirez to the ground, injuring his arm and took him to jail, where he was held for nearly a week. Ramirez is a US citizen and father of four. After he provided proof of his citizenship, ICE charged him with assaulting their agents. However security cameras showed he didn’t resist his wrongful arrest and he was eventually released. Ramirez says he now constantly looks over his shoulder, fearing another raid: “They are literally racial profiling us. If you even look Latino, they will come and get you.”

  • A 6-year-old girl living in Queens, along with her mother and teenage brother, are hundreds of miles away from each other after federal agents grabbed the family members following a routine check-in at immigration court in New York City last week. “School is supposed to start in three weeks. Dayra and her mother should be buying school supplies,” Councilmember Shekar Krishnan, a Democrat representing Jackson Heights, told News 4. Instead, Dayra, a student at PS 89, the Jose Peralta School of Dreamers in Queens, and her mother are in a detention facility nearly 2,000 miles away in Texas.

  • George Retes, an Iraq war vet and US citizen, is a security guard who was driving home in Los Angeles and happened to encounter an immigration raid. When he asked ICE agents to let him pass, the masked men smashed his windows, dragged him out of his car, and held him for 3 days and nights without charge in an isolation cell, where he was prohibited from making a phone call, contacting a lawyer or seeing a judge. He was finally released without charges. While he was in detention, his daughter turned three.

  • A dad was waiting in his car to pick up his kid outside the Linda Vista Elementary School in San Diego, when masked ICE agents pulled him and took him away. School staff had to sort out arrangements for child left behind by ICE. Principal: They’re very little—to not get picked up by your parent is very traumatizing.” This was the second arrest outside an elementary school in Southern California this week.

  • ICE abducted and plans to deport Muhammad Zahid Chaudhry, the husband of Melissa Chaudhry a US citizen and former Democratic congressional candidate in Washington State. Chaudhry is a disabled U.S. Army veteran, who is confined to a wheelchair—after suffering debilitating injuries during training for his deployment in Iraq.

Chaudhry, a native of Pakistan, is a green card holder who has been living legally in U.S. for over 25 years. Despite this, ICE arrested him at his naturalization hearing at at the United States Citizen and Immigration Services office in Tukwila, Washington

Chaudhry has been awarded multiple medals for his service:

  • Army Service Ribbon
  • Global War on Terrorism Service Medal
  • Armed Forces Reserve Medal
  • Reserve Achievement Medal
  • National Defense Service Medal
  • Recruitment Achievement Medal
  • Army Strength Management Award

After his discharge from the Army, Chaudhry has worked with the local chapter of Veterans for Peace in Olympia, Washington.

  • The Wall Street Journal reports that most of the arrests in the military occupation of DC have been targeted at immigrants, including raids of pre-schools: “Earlier this week, federal agents parked outside Casa Lala, a bilingual daycare center near Mount Pleasant, and made arrests. “The staff were terrified. Students were scared. Parents were scared,” Santos said. She said her 5-year-old son “asked if Donald Trump was going to come into his school.”

  • We don’t have the right to shout “ICE” in a train station?

  • ICE is holding at least 150 Canadians in custody, including two toddlers. ICE held one 2-year-old child for 51 days, twice the time permitted by law. A three-year-old was confined for four days in a room meant for a maximum of 12 hours of detention. According to a lawsuit filed against the barbaric conditions at the South Texas Family Residential ICE Detention Center in Dilley, Texas, the children are provided with no toys, organized activities or schooling. The lawsuit quotes on 13-year-old saying, “I don’t want to die here.” It alleges that a nine-month old infant lost 8.82 pounds after being held in custody for a month.

  • This is demonstrably untrue. But for this administration, “support for terrorism” could mean watching Nature or Burns’s The Civil War on PBS…

  • The lawyers for Kilmar Abrego Garcia asserted to a federal judge that the Trump administration is attempting to coerce him into a guilty plea by offering to deport him to Costa Rica. If he refuses, they’ve threatened to deport him to Uganda…

  • A judge ruled that the state and federal governments acted illegally by not conducting an environmental review before building the Alligator Auschwitz  in the Florida Everglades. The judge ordered the closure of the concentration camp within 60 days. The suit was brought by the Miccosukee Tribe. DeSantis has already announced he will defy the court ruling. If he does so, Gov. Pritzker has should send the Illinois National Guard to Florida to enforce the judge’s order. It wouldn’t be the first incursion into the South by troops from Illinois. Illinois troops, which contained the first two black regiments in the US Army, played vital roles under Grant in the battles of Shiloh, Vicksburg, and Chickamauga.

  • According to a killer report by the Miami Herald, many of the contractors DeSantis picked to build and operate Alligator Auschwitz have been accused of fraud and price-gouging:

“One of the firms allegedly allowed armed Mexican nationals with no legal immigration status to be brought into the United States by a subcontractor to provide security for its work in building a border wall as part of a federal contract. Another recently agreed to a multimillion-dollar settlement addressing allegations that it had sold to the U.S. federal government products made in prohibited countries like China. A third shares top executives with two businesses that were accused by ex-employees of filing inflated hurricane insurance claims in federally-declared disaster areas.”

I look inside myself \And see my heart is black I see a white wall I must have it painted black

  • Cost of painting Trump’s border wall black: $500 million.

  • ICE recently shelled out $2.4 million for a fleet of new trucks and SUVs, which were custom detailed with gold wraps reading “DEFEND THE HOMELAND, INTEGRITY, COURAGE, and ENDURANCE.”

  • ICE has lowered the hiring standards (it will no longer require agents working the southern border to speak Spanish) and raised the salaries for ICE agents. The starting salary is now $90,000 with a $50,000 signing bonus.

  • According to the budget lab at Donald Trump’s alma mater–The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania–Trump’s mass deportations will increase deficits by nearly $1 trillion…

  • ICE is using the “Taylor Swift” loophole in private aviation regulations ( designed to make it more difficult to track the ftravel of celebrities) to condeal the routes of its deportation flights. ICE is also using fake license plates on its cars and vans.

  • New Yorker: “The last person who asserted the authority to use military personnel for routine law enforcement anywhere in the country for any reason was King George.”

  • Charlie Kirk took to X to announce that “President Trump is going out on patrol tonight in DC. Shock and awe. Force. We’re taking our country back from these cockroaches. Just the start.” Alas, Trump didn’t go on patrol, but he did manage to make it to a Park Service staging area for federal law enforcement and national guard troops and addressed them on the topic of restoring the grass on the National Mall and other “national parks:”

One of the things we are going to be redoing as your parks. I know more about grass than any human being anywhere in the world. We are going to be regrassing your parks, new sprinklers systems. It will look like Trump national golf club. Grass has a life. You know that? Grass has a life. We have a life, and grass as a life. The grass here died about 40 years ago.

  • Stephen Miller on the protests against the military occupation of DC: “All these demonstrators that you’ve seen out here in recent days, all these elderly white hippies, they’re not part of the city and never have been … we’re gonna ignore these stupid white hippies that all need to go home and take a nap because they’re all over 90 years old.”

  • About 8 in 10 Americans, 79%, say immigration is “a good thing” for the country today, an increase from 64% a year ago and a high point in the nearly 25-year trend. Only about 2 in 10 U.S. adults say immigration is a bad thing right now, down from 32% last year. Trump doesn’t care what most Americans think. Neither do his political opponents.

  • A year and a half ago, our modern-day, puppy-shooting Annie Oakley said this about Biden potentially sending National Guard troops into cities…

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Meteorologist Jeff Beradelli on the explosive growth of Hurricane Erin:

Hurricane Erin achieved something most storms do not this weekend. “Extreme Rapid Intensification”. Did climate change play a part? Science says, yes.

In 12 hours winds increased by ~65 mph. Only 3 other storms have done that and Erin was the earliest & only August storm to do so.

Also, there was a 78 mb drop in 24 hours, a feat only achieved by 2 other storms since 1980, and those were both in October (Milton & Wilma).

Erin was the 5th earliest cat 5 on record.

The image below shows that water temps in the vicinity of the Rapid Intensification (RI) were almost 2F above normal, hot waters made much more likely by climate change. In fact, studies show episodes of Rapid Intensification (esp. extreme RI) have increased significantly over the past few decades as waters have warmed. RI has increased by almost 5 mph per decade over the past 40 years. That means that a storm – which in the 1980s – had a RI of 40 mph in 24 hours, would likely have an RI of 60 mph in 24 hours now (on average). That makes storms much more destructive (if they landfall of course)

It’s not coincidence, it’s climate change.

Now, worth mentioning you need a whole lot more than hot water for a cat 5 & RI – all factors must line up – but if they do, hotter than normal water makes it much more possible.

  • Meteorologist John Morales: “The rapid intensification threshold is 35 mph in 24 hours. For extreme rapid intensification, it’s 58 mph in 24 hours. Erin saw an 85 mph gain in max windspeed in 24 hrs. By barometric pressure, it is a top-20 strongest Atlantic hurricane.”

  • What AI data centers have done to your electricity bill: prices in the US are up 38% in the last 5 years, after being stable for the previous 5 years.

  • A study in  Nature found glaciers in the Alps and Pyrenees mountains of Europe have lost about 40% of their mass since 2000. 2022 and 2023 set new records for percentage of ice loss.

  • The Mediterreanean is becoming a tropical sea. With water temperatures of 32C, these warming water have encouraged hundreds of species native to the Red Sea, such as the lionfish, to invade the Mediterranean via the Suez Canal. The consequences to the sea’s ecosystems could be devastating.

Heatmap: “From 2020 to 2023, the average American breathed in concentrations of smoke-related PM2.5 that were between 2.6 and 6.7 times higher than the 2006 to 2019 average.”

  • Former NOAA scientist Holden Harris, whose doctorate was funded by the National Science Foundation, on life after being fired by the Trump Administration: “Today, among my four part-time and consulting jobs, I sell frozen chocolate bananas on the beach in Jacksonville Beach. That cannot be the best return on taxpayer investment.”

  • Trump called the Native American tribal leaders fighting an open-pit copper mine owned by the subsidiary of a foreign company that will destroy Oak Flat, one of the most sacred sites in the Southwest “anti-American.” MAGA!

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  • BatchData: 30% of homes in West Virginia are owned by investors.

  • There are now more people over the age of 50 with outstanding student loan debt (9.2 million borrowers with an average debt of $48,000), than there are under the age of 25 (6.8 million with an average debt of $13,400). Soon there will be more people over the age of 70. Many people can never pay these off…

  • While Fox News is having a meltdown over Mamdani’s plans for a few city-owned grocery stores, the Trump Administration is buying up massive stakes in US corporations…

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  • Is this state capitalism? Mussolini-style economic fascism or a pump-and-dump scheme?

  • Maia Mindel: “Hearing that the U of Chicago cuts to the humanities come from the university taking out loads of debt to expand over the past two decades and being unable pay the interest. The problem with the Chicago School of Economics is that eventually you run out of other people’s money?”

  • Florida Senator Rick Scott disclosed $26,000,000 in stock trades. The disclosure was made more than a year.

  • Nancy Mace: “In my time in Congress, I actually helped secure the largest infrastructure grant in state history, in South Carolina history. So I’ve worked very hard on the policies that matter to voters here.” She voted against the Biden infrastructure bill.

  • Mace had to cancel a downhill in her district, when only 8 people showed up.

  • In order to guard against “radical leftist ideology” infecting their youngsters, the State of Oklahoma will require teacher certification applicants from California and New York to pass an exam administered by the rightwing, propagandized history mill PragerU before they can teach in the Sooner state.

  • The Democratic Party is going the way of the Whigs. Everybody hates Trump, but no one wants to join the Democratic Party of broken promises, corporate money grabbers and senile leaders, who hold on to their seats by killing off every youth movement fueled by new popular ideas.  They can’t raise money and they can’t register new voters. Since 2020, the Democrats have lost ground to the Republicans in all 30 states where voter registrartion is tracked. In the last four and a half years, the Republicans have registered 4.5 million more new voters than the Democrats.

  • Michael Pruser, a data analyst at Decision Desk HQ: “I don’t want to say, ‘The death cycle of the Democratic Party,’ but there seems to be no end to this. There is no silver lining or cavalry coming across the hill. This is month after month, year after year.”

Whatever happened to all this season’s losers of the year? Every time I got to thinking, where’d they disappear? Then I woke up, Mom and Dad are rollin’ on the couch Rollin’ numbers, rock and rollin’, got my KISS records out Mommy’s alright, Daddy’s alright They just seem a little weird Surrender, surrender

  • Once a champion of the working class, Sherrod Brown is now running as the pro-crypto (fraud) candidate…Another Can’t Beat ‘Em Join ‘Em Democrat.

  • Brown’s 72, has already served in congress for 32 years and is apparently willing to bend nearly every principle he once professed to hold just to get back to DC. Is this recycled and re-branded candidate the best the Ohio Democrats can offer?

  • James G. Zogby, Executive Committee of the Democratic National Committee:

I ask a serious question: Why’s the Dem Party establishment hell-bent on self-destructing? Some Dem leaders refuse to endorse NYC’s Mamdani; MN Dems overturn the endorsement of Omar Fateh; & leaders refuse to recognize the big majority of Dems who want to stop arms to Israel.

Mamdani decisively won the Dem primary – he is the party’s nominee. And yet the Dem leaders of the House & Senate & the national party haven’t endorsed him.& some Dem consultants & elected officials are working for discredited former Governor Cuomo.

Omar Fateh won the endorsement of the Minneapolis Dem caucuses. Some Dem officials were threatening to withhold money from the party if Omar is the nominee. So the state party overturned the endorsement saying the caucuses were flawed. Losers always say elections are messy.

Mamdani & Fateh are both people of color, Dem socialists, & supporters of Palestinians. Both have generated tremendous excitement among voters Dems must win.

Why does the party want to refuse to understand the need to change, alienate voters they need & snuff out excitement.

  • One of Eric Adams’ top campaign advisers, Winnie Greco, handed a reporter for The City a bag of chips stuffed with cash after an Adams campaign event. When the reporter refused the bribe, Greco replied: “I make a mistake,” she said. “I’m so sorry. It’s a culture thing. I don’t know. I don’t understand. I’m so sorry. I feel so bad right now. I’m so sorry, honey.” Later she called the CITY offices, pleading:

Can we forget about this? I try to be a good person. Please. Please. Please don’t do in the news nothing about me…I just wanted to be her [the reporter] friend. I just wanted to have one good friend. It’s nothing.

Here’s how the NYT described the attempted subbornment of the press…”The news that an adviser to Mr. Adams, Winnie Greco, had attempted to pay a reporter from an online news outlet, The City, stood out as a bold departure from political norms. Ms. Greco had put a red envelope stuffed with cash inside a potato chip bag and slipped it to the reporter after a campaign event.” A “bold departure from political norms?”…the language in the NYTs gets more tortured by the day. The Daily News would just call it a “bribe.”

  • Cuomo on seeking his old buddy Donald Trump’s help to defeat Mamdani:

Let’s put it this way: I knew the president very well. I believe there’s a big piece of him that actually wants redemption in New York. He feels that he was rejected by New York. We voted for Hillary Clinton. Bill de Blasio took his name off things. So I believe there will be opportunities to actually cooperate with him. I also believe that he’s not going to want to fight with me in New York if he can avoid it.

  • Mamdani told the press this week that Cuomo is still running because “Andrew Cuomo is someone who doesn’t understand that no means no.” He’s good.

  • Sex and the City, the Mamdani Reboot: Fewe $1,000 shoes, more sex!

  • I hope Mamdani commissions the de-Disneyfication of Times Square and returns it to its debouched and iniquitous roots.

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It’s impossible to drum up any sympathy for John Bolton, but the FBI raid on his house is a pretty ominous sign for the rest of country. Interesting move to start the round-up of Trump’s enemies with Bolton. If there’s no GOP or Fox News pushback from his former colleagues, it will make it a lot easier to go after his other “persecutors”: Comey, Clapper, Brennan, Letitia James…

  • As I said during the similar raid on Mar-a-Lago, nearly all alleged “national security” documents are over-classified, designed to conceal potential malfeasance by our government, not external threats to it.

  • Trump signed an executive order last week instructing Pam Bondi to bring criminal charges for protester who burn the American flag for creating a public nuisance and violating environmental law (most of which his administration has gutted).

  • The “Free Speech” president’s latest attack on free speech: Trump to sign executive order criminalizing the burning of the American flag. Even Scalia said such a law or executive order is unconstitutional. So this order itself is a crime against the Constitution and against the flag itself and its protected right to be burned by its owner.

  • The fact that the Pentagon recommends burning “worn-out” US flags (on Flag Day, no less) shows that Trump’s EO criminalizing the burning of flags is a direct assault on free speech, since it only applies to those who burn flags as a form of political protest.

  • Can’t wait to see what the African-American History Museum looks like after Trump’s “attorneys” go through it…

  • And who is the lawyer Trump is sending to audit the Smitshonian for “improper ideology”? One of them is Lindsey Hallihan.

  • Does it look or sound like Lindsey has spent more time in her life in a museum or at a hair salon?….White House official Lindsey Halligan: “While slavery is obviously a horrible aspect of our nation’s history, you can’t really talk about slavery honestly unless you also talk about hope and progress … we need to stop focusing so much on the lack of progress.”

  • Halligan competed in the Miss Colorado USA pageant twice. In 2009, she was a semifinalist, and in 2010 she was third runner up. Halligan got a BA in”Enemies of the State” (ie, journalism) at Regis (never heard of it) College in Denver. She got her law degree from the University of Miami (ranked 92 in the country) and then practiced “insurance law” in “Miami FLA” where she was sanctioned by a judge for “not acting in good faith.” This impressive resumé lured Trump into appointing her special assistant to the president in charge of rooting out “improper ideology” at the Smithsonian.

  • Terence Tao, the “Mozart of Math,” on getting his funding cut by Trump: “This is not a routine policy shift – it is a deliberate dismantling of the institutions, funding, and freedoms that have sustained American science for generations.”

  • Stephen Walt on the abbreviated Trump-Putin  summit: “Trump is a terrible negotiator, a true master of the ‘art of the giveaway.’ He doesn’t prepare, doesn’t have subordinates lay the groundwork beforehand, and arrives at each meeting not knowing what he wants or where his red lines are. He just wings it.”

  • A German court ruled that Karl Marx’s writings are inconsistent with “free, basic, demoratic order.” How soon before a similar finding is made by Rubio’s State Department or the soon-to-be declared, Department of Homeland History, which will be sure to ban Marx’s letter to Lincoln, whom he greatly admired: “The working men of Europe feel sure that as the American war of independence initiated a new era of the ascendency of the middle-class, so the American Anti-slavery war will do for the working class.”

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I never envisioned CounterPunch winning a journalism award from Washington Monthly magazine. But that delusion ended this morning when Christoph Irmscher won the Kukula Award for Excellence in Nonfiction Book Reviewing. Christoph is a professor of English at Indiana University and the author of excellent books on Audubon, Louis Agassiz, and Longfellow. Washington Monthly honored his piece The Pride Paradox, a review of Arlie Hochschild’s Stolen Pride: Loss Shame and the Rise of the Right. Ever humble, Christoph told me that my photograph of a decaying farmhouse in southeastern Kentucky was the decisive factor. But it’s really all about his well-chosen words. Congrats, Christoph!

  • Fox’s Jesse Watters:  “In order to have masculine politics, you need to live your life as a man. You need to live a life of action, and you have to live it outdoors. The first step is having your own compound. Trump had Trump Tower. He’s got his golf courses. He’s got the White House now. You call people in and hold court and control everything. That is what they need.”

  • For a manly man, Jesse spends a lot of time getting his eyebrows shaped…

Supreme Court Justice Flavio Dino ruled that foreign court orders aren’t legally binding in Brazil unless they’re approved by the Supreme Court. This means the Magnitsky Act sanctions against Justice Alexandre de Moraes aren’t legally binding on Brazilian soil: “Brazil has been the target of numerous sanctions and threats,” wrote Dino, “which constitute an attempt to subvert our national sovereignty by reducing its institutions to a vehicle for the automatic ratification of external agendas…”Foreign judicial decisions can only be enforced in Brazil following due homologation or compliance with established international judicial cooperation mechanisms.”

Thanks, Judge. I’m going to use “homolagtion” in a sentence one day.

  • Is it wrong to hope that you’ll be abducted by aliens and whisked off of this crazy-ass planet?

Trump on the US hosting the World Cup: “I may play…I’m a very good athlete. My son is a good athlete. A good soccer player. On the tall side for soccer…I may put on shorts, I look extremely good in shorts, and join the play.” Trump in shorts. I’m surprised they didn’t use that image to torture If there’s one thing the poor folks being held in Gitmo can be thankful for, it’s that their torturers didn’t force them to stare for hours like Alex in Clockwork Orange at an image of Trump in shorts.

  • Derek Guy: “I need politicians to be as mad at housing prices as they are about Cracker Barrel’s new logo.”

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