Apr 10, 2026
Apr 9, 2026
Today's Belle
You fight a war in order to change the landscape - to make things more conducive to furthering your policy objectives.
Trump has handed Iran the perfect means to raise their stature on the world stage, prove their potential to exert influence, and show us all that as long as we're dependent on the largesse of the Dirty Fuels Cartel, we will never be free from the grip of whoever chooses to be the biggest asshole.
We've been watching Iran beat Trump like a rug at spring cleaning, and his biggest failure may be that he's got a fair bunch of people in the world thinking that Iran has somehow become the good guys.
NO MATTER WHAT,
NOTHING'S GOING TO
MAKE ME FORGET
ABOUT THE EPSTEIN FILES.
Leopards Eating Faces
This kind of thing is starting to break through. It's not exactly a landslide just yet, but it'll probably accelerate when the last of the oil shipments come in, and people start to realize Trump is even way more of a fuckup than they're just now starting to understand.
Apr 8, 2026
Erika
When you've secured your very own exclusive lifeboat, sinking the ship that everybody's on becomes profitable.
Never forget, population reduction is always part of the plan.
Their Next Gambit
It's always a matter of coercion or outright force for these assholes.
Trump’s border chief threatens to close customs at top US airports
Markwayne Mullin said officers in some Democrat-run ‘sanctuary’ cities could not be relied upon to enforce immigration policy
President Trump’s new homeland security secretary has suggested he will withdraw customs officers from the airports of Democrat-run “sanctuary cities” that protect undocumented migrants.
The proposal from Markwayne Mullin, who was appointed to the role last month, would affect international travellers at many of the busiest airports in the United States, including JFK in New York, Los Angeles international airport and Denver international airport.
“If they’re a sanctuary city, should they really be processing customs into their city?” Mullin said on Fox News in his first interview since taking up the role.
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His words are seen as an attack on local sanctuary policies, which typically limit police co-operation with federal immigration authorities.
“Right now remember the Democrats are wanting to defund Customs and Border Patrol,” Mullin added, misnaming Customs and Border Protection. “Well, who processes those individuals when they walk off the plane?
“If they’re a sanctuary city and they’re receiving international flights, and we’re asking them to partner with us at the airport, but once they walk out of the airport they’re not going to enforce immigration policy? Maybe we need to have a really hard look at that, because we need to focus on cities that want to work with us.”
Twelve states and 18 cities are recognised as sanctuary jurisdictions by the US government. Their status has survived a number of legal challenges.
New York, Los Angeles, New Orleans, San Francisco, Seattle, Philadelphia, Denver, Boston and Chicago are all on the list. Each of those cities has a big airport.
Mullin, a former Oklahoma senator, replaced Kristi Noem as head of the department after Trump fired her last month. She had carried out the president’s mass-deportation agenda for more than a year.
Model was ‘paid $25 a minute to talk dirty with Kristi Noem’s cross-dressing husband’
Experts said Mullin, a longstanding ally and friend of Trump, was unlikely to go through with the customs proposal as it would devastate the aviation industry, but still expressed concern.
“I did some research. By administration’s own definitions this would end international air travel at US airports where about 58 per cent of international traffic happens,” Todd Schulte, president of the pro-immigration political advocacy organisation FWD, wrote on X, “so would crash economy (hence won’t happen). [But] it’s very bad it even gets floated!”
Gavin Newsom, the governor of California and a possible Democratic presidential contender for 2028, also condemned the idea. “If you thought the economy was bad with Trump’s war driving prices at the pump up … just wait until international travel is halted at some of the busiest airports in the world,” he said on X. “Talk about a stupid idea (no wonder it’s being considered by the Trump admin).”
California Governor Gavin Newsom gestures during a press conference on law enforcement efforts targeting illicit fentanyl in San Diego.
Gavin Newsom called the proposal “stupid”
Federal funding for the Department of Homeland Security lapsed on February 14, triggering a partial government shutdown and a prolonged stand-off between Democrats and Republicans over immigration enforcement funding.
The Trump administration has long fought a legal and political battle with sanctuary jurisdictions. Last year a federal judge in San Francisco issued an injunction prohibiting the White House from retaliating against sanctuary cities by withholding federal funding.
They don't get what they want with persuasion and negotiation, so they try to muscle their way through.
Fuckin' bullies. Weak shit bullying pussies.
Markwayne Mullin said officers in some Democrat-run ‘sanctuary’ cities could not be relied upon to enforce immigration policy
President Trump’s new homeland security secretary has suggested he will withdraw customs officers from the airports of Democrat-run “sanctuary cities” that protect undocumented migrants.
The proposal from Markwayne Mullin, who was appointed to the role last month, would affect international travellers at many of the busiest airports in the United States, including JFK in New York, Los Angeles international airport and Denver international airport.
“If they’re a sanctuary city, should they really be processing customs into their city?” Mullin said on Fox News in his first interview since taking up the role.
Sign up for The Times’s weekly US newsletter
His words are seen as an attack on local sanctuary policies, which typically limit police co-operation with federal immigration authorities.
“Right now remember the Democrats are wanting to defund Customs and Border Patrol,” Mullin added, misnaming Customs and Border Protection. “Well, who processes those individuals when they walk off the plane?
“If they’re a sanctuary city and they’re receiving international flights, and we’re asking them to partner with us at the airport, but once they walk out of the airport they’re not going to enforce immigration policy? Maybe we need to have a really hard look at that, because we need to focus on cities that want to work with us.”
Twelve states and 18 cities are recognised as sanctuary jurisdictions by the US government. Their status has survived a number of legal challenges.
New York, Los Angeles, New Orleans, San Francisco, Seattle, Philadelphia, Denver, Boston and Chicago are all on the list. Each of those cities has a big airport.
Mullin, a former Oklahoma senator, replaced Kristi Noem as head of the department after Trump fired her last month. She had carried out the president’s mass-deportation agenda for more than a year.
Model was ‘paid $25 a minute to talk dirty with Kristi Noem’s cross-dressing husband’
Experts said Mullin, a longstanding ally and friend of Trump, was unlikely to go through with the customs proposal as it would devastate the aviation industry, but still expressed concern.
“I did some research. By administration’s own definitions this would end international air travel at US airports where about 58 per cent of international traffic happens,” Todd Schulte, president of the pro-immigration political advocacy organisation FWD, wrote on X, “so would crash economy (hence won’t happen). [But] it’s very bad it even gets floated!”
Gavin Newsom, the governor of California and a possible Democratic presidential contender for 2028, also condemned the idea. “If you thought the economy was bad with Trump’s war driving prices at the pump up … just wait until international travel is halted at some of the busiest airports in the world,” he said on X. “Talk about a stupid idea (no wonder it’s being considered by the Trump admin).”
California Governor Gavin Newsom gestures during a press conference on law enforcement efforts targeting illicit fentanyl in San Diego.
Gavin Newsom called the proposal “stupid”
Federal funding for the Department of Homeland Security lapsed on February 14, triggering a partial government shutdown and a prolonged stand-off between Democrats and Republicans over immigration enforcement funding.
The Trump administration has long fought a legal and political battle with sanctuary jurisdictions. Last year a federal judge in San Francisco issued an injunction prohibiting the White House from retaliating against sanctuary cities by withholding federal funding.
Meow
Putting aside the massive Purity Policing thing she seems to be attempting - trying to set herself up as the Great Arbiter of Integrity - she makes a fair point.
Question: Is she ready to propose a few solutions to reform the thing, or is she just pimping for the attention, or is she angling for better assignments, or what?
She's certainly not making any new friends among her colleagues. I guess it could be she's having a Mr Smith Goes To Washington moment - disillusioned, and lashing out against the injustice of the powers-that-be.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) vented that she is tired of serving with a bunch of “immoral freaks” in Congress on Tuesday, with the conservative lawmaker recently ripping both Democrats and Republican representatives for alleged sexual and financial crimes.
“I am sick of serving in Congress with immoral freaks who abuse their office and bring dishonor to the institution,” Paulina Luna posted on X. “Congress is rotted to the core and it needs a complete overhaul. The American people deserve better than this.”
While the congresswoman did not call anyone out by name in her post, it isn’t too hard to figure out who she is angry with. Paulina Luna shared a story from The Hill a few hours earlier where she insisted Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX) and Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL) both “need to go.”
That report came a month after “Luna filed two resolutions to censure Gonzales or strip him of his committee assignments following allegations that he had an affair with a separate congressional staffer, who died by suicide,” according to The Hill.
As for Cherfilus-McCormick, a House Ethics Committee investigation found “clear and convincing evidence” in March that she stole $5 million in FEMA funds in 2021. A federal grand jury indicted the representative last year for it, claiming Cherfilus-McCormick used a “substantial portion” of the dough to fund her 2022 campaign; she has denied any wrongdoing and argued the charges against her were racist.
Paulina Luna on Tuesday said the latest lawmaker who should be branded an “immoral freak” is Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA).
Swalwell — who is running to succeed Gavin Newsom as California’s next governor — “will ‘soon’ face sexual harassment allegations from a number of ‘credible women,’ including former staffers,” The Washington Free Beacon reported on Monday. Cheyenne Hunt, the head of the liberal advocacy group Gen Z for Change, accused Swalwell of sleeping with “many of his interns” and made them all sign NDAs, the report noted.
Apr 7, 2026
Robert Arnold
He's mad. And righteously so.
If there was a god,
I'd pray for peace.
but since there isn't,
I guess I'll have to work for it.
A Quote
April 7, 1915 - July 17, 1959
The story behind the quote is probably apocryphal, but it always comes as a jolting surprise when I stop to think how that kind of thing was happening not all that long ago.
Yes, we've come a long way, but still, I knew people who were alive and adulting when Billie Holiday was born, so it's not exactly ancient history. Not to me anyway.
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