But of course, AGAIN

 On Tuesday, July 14, 2026, after yet another murder by ICE agents on American soil, CE has been ordered to cease vehicle stops due to concerns over aggressive tactics and potential violations of rights. This decision aims to protect individuals during interactions with immigration enforcement.

But death and destruction, chaos and belligerence are the oxygen that Trump breathes, so on Wednesday, July 15, 2026, this happened: Trump’s order to resume ICE traffic stops means more danger for the public. Even his own immigration czar admits that permanently ending the stops would better protect ICE agents, their targets and the public. (MS NOW)

I am so tired of saying, but of course so, the of course so always relating to the simple fact that Trump is an immoral, criminal giving zero shits about the lives of anyone but himself. Saying of course also is in regard to the simplest of facts that Trump is enabled to wreak havoc and murder upon this nation, because the so-called “checks and balances,” which were enshrined in the US Constitution giving the Congress the right to challenge the Executive Branch, have been completely removed and ignored by the Republican led majority in Congress.

Trump's private Militia, his “Brown Shirts,” his “Gestapo”, can once again run amok, kidnap, maim, and murder as they please, and will figuratively and literally ‘GET AWAY WITH MURDER!”

Donald Trump's ICE agents killed two more men who were not the targets of their operations. The fatal shootings of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Texas and Joan Sebastian Guerrero in Maine are the latest incidents of the federal government killing civilians during immigration operations. Add to that Renee Good and Alex Pretti and most likely a score of other people whose deaths had not been recorded, and we witness, once again, zero remorse, zero responsibility, and zero consequences.

And of course, I am so tired of begging the question: “What have we become as a nation?”

 

 

 

A murder by any name

 “In Maine on Monday, DHS said ICE officers were conducting surveillance at the last known residence of a person under a deportation order when they attempted to stop a vehicle as it was leaving the property. The driver tried to flee and an officer fired “fearing for public safety,” according to DHS. Independent Maine Senator Angus King said Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin told him the man who died — Joan Sebastian Guerrero — was not the target of the deportation operation.”  (Bloomberg)

Like most Americans, unlike the MAGA, those of us who believe in morals, values, democratic rules of law, I am appalled. I am not surprised, sadly, at this newest occurrence of murder by ICE.

A few more facts to piss off anyone who is not a MAGA cultist, a bigot, a racist, a xenophobe, to make this current murder by ICE even more disgusting.

ICE agents were directed to wear body cameras as part of a program to increase transparency and accountability. This directive was announced by Secretary Kristi Noem in response to public outcry following incidents involving federal officers. (Brennan Center for Justice)…And yet the ICE Gestapo agents of death still have no such camera attached to their bodies, permitting them to freely commit crimes of kidnapping and murder, as freely as they desire. 

ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) is not the official to take charge of scenes in a murder, but in each incident where a human is murdered, ICE immediately directs the local police to step down and back off. Imagine how unjust it is for the same Government agency that caused the murder of innocents to immediately become the Chief investigators. What evidence could be ignored or removed.

And last but not least, the real ugly thing about this is that to date, none of the murderers of innocents have been held accountable for their crimes. Instead, they have been praised by their Nazi-like leadership under the tutelage of Stephen Miller, and now Markwayne Mullin and the ever accomplices in murder, the Republican majority in Congress, and protected, all of them calling the murders by ICE Gestapo as Patriotic!

 

 

Another "gash" in the truth

 Trump keeps changing his story about the alleged ‘gash’ in the Reflecting Pool. When administration officials can’t keep their story straight about dubious details, it’s a big hint that they’re probably making stuff up. (MS NOW)

This is probably the one and only time the Reagan/Republican bull shit line about “Trickle Down” is true. The lies begin with Trump and are then owned and operated by members of the Trump Reich and set out to be planted and plotted by the Republican Party. There is never a “THERE, THERE”; instead, what we get are continuous lies, treason, corruption, and criminals walking away freely. Sadly, who is surprised? And even sadder than all of that is the fact that for Trump and his Reich, there are fewer and fewer consequences paid for!

David Hearn, a three-time Olympian, was arrested for allegedly touching a piece of paint that was peeling from the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, leading to charges of felony destruction of property. And now that the Reflecting Pool has been drained a third time yet, we witness no 200-foot or 350-foot, and the current Trump-quoted 450-foot gash. What we do see are the tire marks from the Trump Reich SUVs, which did a Trumpian show-and-tell drive on it right after the so-called blue lining had been added.

As do most authoritarian governments, when the Dear Leader and his gang of Gestapo goons like flunkies are found to be guilty, they crack down on the lowly citizen, making him or her the scapegoat. Quick retribution, based on a necessary cover-up, using their state-run media to insist that what you saw ain’t the truth.

Trump keeps on lying. The members of his Reich bend over backward to keep the Trump lie alive. Innocents, instead of the true corrupt criminals, are used as fodder. And so far, Trump and his Regime have clearly gotten away with this!

 

 

 

Following this?

 President Trump said Monday he is reimposing the U.S. blockade on Iranian shipping, escalating a standoff over control of the strategic Strait of Hormuz. (The Wall Street Journal)

What, wait! First, the Strait was open, toll-free kind of open at that. Then it wasn’t opened, but we were told that the Strait was open, and the United States decided that it wouldn’t be opened by the Iranians until the United States told them it was open.

It’s kind of like there was no war until there was a war, because we were told we won the war, which was not a war, until we won it…but we didn’t win it. Got it?

Then there was a ceasefire, except it was never a ceasefire because if it had been a ceasefire, then all fire would have ceased, and the only reason there would be the need for a ceasefire, if in fact there had been a war, and since there was no war, just something called Epic Fury, which was just a means for Testosterone-starved Pete Hegseth to pretend that his box of tin soldiers were he-men and all powerful. Following this?

And this war, not a war, was never supposed to go on for more than a week, because we were told directly by Trump that the US had obliterated the Iranian nuclear threat and destroyed the entire military complex of Iran. Except that, as is usually the case with Trump, he makes things up in his head and tells so many lies that he cannot remember what he lied about. So, conveniently, it seems the US did not obliterate all of the nuclear dust, and we the people had to go to war to make certain that in the near future, we would all be safe from Iran dropping a nuclear bomb on the US in the next month or two.

13 US Troops died, thousands of people were murdered or maimed, billions of tax dollars (not money from the billionaires), US Middle East bases were destroyed, and the cost of almost anything that must traverse via the Strait of Hormuz has exploded.

Now we are blockading the Strait once more. But do not despair, because while all of this is happening, Trump is rebuilding Washington, D.C., from a cesspool that used to be reflecting to a 250th birthday bash that was a busted and bogus celebration, to building a Ballroom for the elite, to building Triumphant Arches. 

Just another day in the United States Hell!

 

Just another ICE murder

 Fatal shooting in Biddeford, Maine; Speaker says ICE agents involved. (Seacoastline.com)

How to get away with murder and be free to murder again. All you have to do is wear a mask on your face, wear a bulletproof vest, and, oh yeah, be an employee of Stephen Miller, who, of course, works for Donald Trump. No worries, just shoot first, ask questions later, that is, if you hang around long enough to see your victim lying dead on the ground or in a car.

Know that you, the ICE murderer, will be protected by the Trump Reich In-Justice Department, be called a Patriot by the Republican Majority in Congress, and will have “dibs” on joining the Trump Militia when he needs you to disrupt the midterm elections in November.

Trump and his Gestapo within his Reich love to claim that it is only the worst of the worst that ICE is seeking out, deporting, kidnapping, or occasionally murdering, but in fact, the truth is that the worst of the worst are the ones being recruited to do the dirty work of murdering anyone they pretend is the enemy of the state.

And we, the people, watch, wonder, wait, when, oh when, if ever, will any of these American Fascists ever be stopped and finally face the consequences for their heinous and deadly actions?

Isn't a bit MACABRE!

 Top Republicans say they spoke with Mitch McConnell while still in the hospital. (MSN) but… Sen. Lindsey Graham dies at 71 after ‘brief and sudden illness’ (MS NOW)

The Republicans in Congress have, if not a macabre definition of death, or like their view on which life is worth their Pro-Life, they just prefer to pick and choose who is alive and who is dead. Of course, the decision regarding Life and Death always depends on pleasing either Trump or the audience of FOX!

It was easy to declare Lindsey Graham dead, because not only did Lindsey actually die, but he died while a Senator in a state governed by a MAGA Governor, meaning that it will be easy peasy to immediately replace the now deceased Senator. However Mitch McConnell maybe a live or maybe dead, but as far as the Republicans are concerned it is much more beneficial to keep the guy alive, because he lives in a state governed by a Democrat, and even though the Republican State House changed the Constitution to keep him from replacing a deceased Senator, it seems that the odds are a non-MAGA or a non Trumpster might become Senator.

Not hard to follow, is it! If you are in Congress in a red state, with no one but other MAGA Republicans in line to replace you, then the GOP can declare you died. If you are in a red state with a bunch of other people who aren’t MAGA enough for you wanting to replace you, then, according to Republican law, you are really not dead, at least until the next election in November.

The self-described political party identifying as a Pro-Life Party, which is also quite picky on whose life it is that matters…(not an immigrant, not kids needing nutrition or three meals a day, not a female whose pregnancy is life-threatening, and not those who cannot afford health care) but the fetus or zygote in the womb. This same political party is also quite picky about who is dead and whose death is too inconvenient for the party’s own survival!

 

 

'Our House'

 “Our house is a very, very, very fine house. With two cats in the yard. Life used to be so hard. Now everything is easy 'cause of you.” (‘Our House’/Graham Nash)

The White House is often referred to as "The People's House" because it symbolizes the residence and workplace of the President of the United States, representing the American people and their government. This term emphasizes the idea that the White House belongs to the citizens of the nation, not just the president. (White House Historical Association),

Nope, Nah, Not On Your Life. Maybe in a land far, far away, a long, long time ago, once upon a kind of civil-minded government governed by a moral and sane President, the White House, which in reality is owned by the taxpayers of this nation, was the People’s House, but the current squatter living there, rent-free, believes the house belongs to him. 

President Donald Trump shared a photo Wednesday of what he described as the “newly revamped” West Wing of the White House — and it’s as tacky as you might expect. Maple trees and plantings were also added outside the West Wing, per the president. (HUFFPOST).

The White House is becoming the Trump Palace, or even worse, Mar-Lago North. With no regard for the cost of renovation, or rather, the destruction of this once American symbol of democracy, is more symbolic of an empty malignant narcissist, whose only priority in life seems to pretend that the more gold-plated shit you attach to your house equates to being the Alpha Dog! 

There remains a billion-dollar-a-day war going on with Iran, hundreds of billions of dollars are being requested to rebuild the military assets lost in that war, and right now there seems to be an unanswered question regarding whether we, the people, will pay the staggering sum of $600 million for a Ballroom for the billionaire class.

Amidst all of this, this ego-centric flipping of the White House, Trump, (MAGA, Trump, who has given zero shits about you and your everyday cost of living-no, not just the Dumb-Ocrats), has no need to sign to help the rest of us with our housing.

Trump pointedly refused to affix his name to a major housing bill that both houses of Congress recently passed with huge veto-proof margins. The bill became law Saturday without his signature. (MS NOW).