“JetBlue flight landing at Logan Airport in Boston rolls off runway on to grass; no injuries reported”

https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/jetblue-plane-boston-landing-grass-logan-airport/

Overkill much? #bully

“ #Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said Thursday he has ordered the deployment of more than 5,000 Texas National Guard troops across the state, along with more than 2,000 state police, to help local law enforcement manage protests against Trump and ongoing federal immigration raids”
#NoKings
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-protests-texas-national-guard-4f8ffc07788515c0d0e7ae40c7980565

Reality keeps getting in the way of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s and the White House’s economic claims.

Do they not realize that job growth this year is off to the worst start since the Great Recession? https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-economy-scott-bessent-weak-data-rcna212574

" #Trump was booed at Kennedy Center’s glitzy opening night performance of “Les Mis” ...

Near the end of intermission, an audience member loudly cursed Trump’s name, an outburst that drew applause from packed house...

Several drag queens attended in protest.." https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/06/12/trump-booed-kennedy-center-les-miserables/

“Troops and marines deeply troubled by LA deployment: ‘Morale is not great’

Several service members told advocacy groups they felt like pawns in a political game and assignment was unnecessary”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/12/los-angeles-national-guard-troops-marines-morale?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

With Trump's Magical Mystery Military March coming up, I thought I should repost this cartoon, which seems more apropos now than when I drew it a month or so ago...

@GottaLaff

well... that was less than a 1/2 scarmucci to throw 250 years out the window.,. fucking assholes....

@GottaLaff

fuck… even commander in thief would have been slightly more accurate…

@GottaLaff @politico

Commander TACO

King Chickenshit....

FU - politico

I wanna puke.

@politico seriously? SERIOUSLY?

Trump is a convicted felon who screened his military backdrop audience, his fragile ego is holding an insanely expensive "military" parade, he calls service members "suckers & losers," he's cutting VA to shreds, but he's "leaning in"?? NO.

(image via Josh Marshall)

"National Guard troops already have temporarily detained civilians in the #LosAngeles protests over immigration raids, the commander in charge said Wednesday, but they quickly turned them over to law enforcement"

https://apnews.com/article/national-guard-immigration-raids-los-angeles-c9957a0d4ded48e40ce78efb0b7a8fbf

Today's "GOP"

Via ‪Jen Bendery‬:

Republican senators freaked out when asked about #Trump's military parade costing $45 million.

Some hid in elevators.

Some stared off into space.

Sen. Todd Young (R-Ind.) snapped:
“I answered the question I wanted to answer!”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gop-senators-trump-military-parade-cost_n_6849b95de4b0cf5f0c9ad0ab

Add this “oops” to all their others.

‪Politico‬:

The CDC is rehiring more than 400 people who had received layoff notices.

Around half of those employees are in the National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD and Tuberculosis Prevention.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/11/cdc-backtracks-on-layoffs-rehires-more-than-400-people-00400404

2/ "Now, seven months later, the Trump family project has become both a Serbian scandal and a glaring example of just how far a foreign government was willing to go to further the financial interests of Mr. Trump’s family. And it underscores recurring concerns that the family’s business dealings have become harder to separate from Mr. Trump’s official decisions"

#WompWomp 1/...

“A #Trump Family Project Spurs Resignations and a Criminal Charge in Serbia

A group of preservationists has thrown a wrench in the plans for a Trump-branded hotel complex backed by the president’s son-in-law, Jared #Kushner, in Belgrade”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/us/politics/trump-serbia-kushner-development.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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Oops. There's that pesky truth again.

Via Rupar‬:

BEYER: Isn't this embarrassing?

BESSENT: You seem not to have seen the economic data. GDP growth has been quite substantial

BEYER: GDP growth is half what it was last year, sir

BESSENT: Job growth is solid

BEYER: Job growth is a third what it was last year, sir

"In the days before #Trump suddenly paused most of the punishing #tariffs on foreign countries he had revealed in early April, more than a dozen congressional lawmakers were tied to 1000s of $worth of stock transactions, incl significant purchases as stock market tumbled"

https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/11/politics/congress-stock-market-trading-trump?cid=ios_app

@GottaLaff

One of the few side benefits of Trump's planned global recession, fossil fuel usage plummets.

https://www.icis.com/chemicals-and-the-economy/2025/04/oil-prices-fall-out-of-their-triangle-as-trumps-trade-war-risks-global-recession/

The industry paid $445 million for a fascist movement too.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/23/big-oil-445m-trump-congress

https://www.desmog.com/2024/10/25/project-2025-trump-mapped-how-6-billionaire-family-fortunes-fund-climate-denial/

Declining oil revenues means less money available to fund Trumpism.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/03/trump-fossil-fuel-donors-data-centers

LOL!

Comm... Commo.... COMMON SENSE?!

😂🤦🏻‍♀️

Again, you wanna talk who's paying for what?

Those same protesters are taxpayers footing the bill for Trump's little military onslaught

Via ‪Aaron Rupar:‬
‪
Q: The president said that paid insurrectionists were involved in the protest in LA. Does the WH have details about who they believe is paying these protesters?

LEAVITT: The president has a lot of common sense ... it's a good question the president is raising

@GottaLaff

This is the third attempt to relocate federal infrastructure to Alabama.

Tuberville tried & failed to get Space Force relocated to Alabama.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4131604-biden-tuberville-feud-space-force-command/

https://www.al.com/politics/2025/04/tuberville-on-ouster-of-space-force-leader-who-disagreed-with-trump-get-on-boardor-get-out.html

Then an FBI regional HQ.
https://calhounjournal.com/senators-britt-and-tuberville-urge-fbi-director-patel-to-expand-huntsville-campus/

He weakened military preparedness in an attempted extortion.
https://apnews.com/article/tuberville-military-holds-senate-officers-45c4230a8aee5222bf32b43823e29acc

https://newrepublic.com/post/179328/tommy-tuberville-cant-explain-alabama-ivf-ruling

Alabama is addicted to expensive & corrupt boondoggles like the littoral ships
https://www.propublica.org/article/how-navy-spent-billions-littoral-combat-ship

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/04/us/politics/littoral-combat-ships-lobbying.html

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