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  1. "El sábado por la noche, mientras #JDVance subía a un podio en Pakistán y declaraba que no se había alcanzado ningún acuerdo para poner fin a la #guerra en #Irán, #Trump se encontraba en Miami presenciando un combate de #MMA.
    Trump pasó varias horas rodeado por el Secretario de Estado #MarcoRubio; algunos de sus hijos; varios directivos de la #UFC; Sergio Gor, embajador de EE. UU. en la India; el artista musical #VanillaIce [en serio]; #DanBongino, ex subdirector del FBI; y el gurú de la #manosfera, #JoeRogan. [Solo la mejor gente 🤦🏼‍♀️]
    #idiocracia #kakistocracia #ley"

    @Nonilex

  2. On Saturday evening, as #JDVance took a podium in Pakistan & said no deal had been reached to end the #war in #Iran, #Trump was in Miami watching a #MMA fight.

    Trump spent several hours orbited by Secy of State #MarcoRubio; a few of his children; some #UFC officials; Sergio Gor, the US ambassador to India; the recording artist #VanillaIce [seriously]; #DanBongino, the fmr deputy director of the FBI; & the #manosphere shepherd #JoeRogan. [only the best people 🤦🏼‍♀️]

    #idiocracy #kakistocracy #law

  3. #danbongino #fbi #Epstein #EpsteinFiles

    These are the consequences of working for this administration, Dan Bongino is hated everywhere he goes , here he is called “ pedophile protector “ and “ faggot “ in a mall .

    bsky.app/profile/did:plc:t46sq

  4. #DanBongino SINKS himself as he receives INSTANT backlash online for posturing as an #Epsteinfiles crusader and attacking #Democrats for document release, when HE was the one who had SIGNED OFF on the END of the INVESTIGATION before LEAVING the Trump team. youtu.be/5w8Np79XkJU?...

    Dan Bongino SINKS As Epstein F...

  5. As Will Sommer notes, as Trump tries dusting off the Big Lie that the 2020 election was stolen from him and resurrects the loony conspiracy theories bolstering that Big Lie, he is getting the 2020 "election loon gang" back together — e.g., Tulsi Gabbard, Dan Bongino.

    #Trump #Republicans #elections #voting #BigLie #ConspiracyTheories #TulsiGabbard #DanBongino
    /10

    thebulwark.com/p/trump-gets-th

  6. During an extended rant about #immigration on a podcast released on Monday by #DanBongino, his former deputy #FBI director, #Trump called for #Republican officials to “take over” voting procedures in 15 #states, though he did not name them.

    “The Republicans should say, ‘We want to take over,’” he said. “We should take over the voting, the voting in at least many — 15 places. The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting.”

    #law #ElectionLaw #midterms #democracy #Constitution

  7. @georgetakei Cruella de Ville calls out ICE for abhorrent, inhuman behavior. Kristi Noem asks for autograph ( probably )

    'Make it "From one puppy killer to another"' is likely demand

    #USpol #ICEout #NazisRaus

    #FriendsOfEpstein #puppyKiller #KristiNoem #DanBongino

  8. Umstrittener FBI-Vize Bongino kündigt Rücktritt an

    Der stellvertretende Chef des FBI, Dan Bongino, will zu Jahresbeginn seinen Posten aufgeben. Warum bleibt unklar. In der Vergangenheit war er dafür bekannt, über einen eigenen Podcast Verschwörungstheorien zu verbreiten.

    ➡️ tagesschau.de/ausland/usa-fbi-

    #USA #FBI #DanBongino

  9. Dan Bongino says he's leaving as deputy FBI director in January
    "I think he wanted to go back to his show," Trump says when asked about Bongino.
    abcnews.go.com/Politics/dan-bo
    via ABC News App
    #DanBongino
    #FBI
    #Unqualified
    #Incompetence

  10. FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino Confirms he is STEPPING DOWN from his position of FBI Deputy Director to focus on his Family. #viral #news #fbi #danbongino #mastodon #new
    thehill.com/homenews/administr

  11. #EpsteinFiles?

    #FBI Dpy Dir #DanBongino plans to “resign”

    #Bongino said Wednesday he will resign from the FBI next month, ending a brief & tumultuous tenure in which he clashed with the #DOJ over the handling of the #EpsteinFiles & was forced to reconcile the realities of his “job” with the claims he as a #FarRight #ConspiracyTheory peddling podcaster.

    Tho… #Trump / #Epstein BFFs …
    They never went there & yet here we are, with Bongino kicked to the curb. Just sayin.

    apnews.com/article/bongino-fbi

  12. #pipebomb #ConspiracyTheories #DanBongino

    "Dan Bongino On Past Pipe Bomb Conspiracy Theories: ‘I Was Paid For My Opinions’

    The arrest of a Jan. 6 pipe bomb suspect blows up a right-wing conspiracy theory espoused by many in the MAGAverse.

    WASHINGTON – Dan Bongino, the deputy director of the FBI, admitted Thursday his past support for a Jan. 6 conspiracy theory was motivated by money.

    In recent years, Bongino repeatedly said on his podcast that the pipe bombs discovered near the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, which did not explode, were some sort of 'inside job,' the work of a government official out to get President Donald Trump and his supporters."

    huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/dan

  13. Mostly Monda Reads: Merely Players

    “He’s so excited! Donald gets a Peace Prize! Happy Happy, Joy Joy!” John Buss @repeat1968

    Good Day, Sky Dancers!

    I was sent this link to The Bulwark this morning by a Sister Resister at Indivisible NOLA. We’ve had our own contingent of international and national reporters down here for some time. Between Hurricane Katrina and the BP Oil Spills, we are generally both newsworthy and jazzy enough to get headlines. Tim Miller, his husband, and their daughter relocated to this area in 2023. He’s been out of the game for a long time, even as a Republican staffer for numerous campaigns. New Orleans, like many big cities, is a safe haven for people trying to live their lives their way without hiding while still retaining a small-town feel due to its strong neighborhood culture.

    His analysis of that “Wee Man Greg Bovino Wants Headlines—Not Criminals” just fits so nicely with the South Park Narrative of Pete Hegseth and Kristie Noam and their search to hold onto “Content” and basically appear costumed whenever they pop up anywhere. Miller makes a great argument that Greg Bovino craves that same Mojo.

    Tim Miller takes on the ICE raids unfolding in Louisiana, exposing how the operation leans on cruelty, spectacle, intimidation, and political theatrics instead of real public safety.

    You may watch this analysis below at the link to the Bulwark above.

    I agree with that. Miller mentioned an AP Report in the podcast that elucidates the drama that underlies this cruel policy. I suppose it’s a no-brainer that all these people involved with this are certifiable sociopaths and narcissists, and that besides grabbing the headlines, they also seek to grab the attention of the Hair Furor. However, there still may be a more devious motive behind all the headline-grabbing cruelty and drama. Are they using our city to distract from their self-created messes like the Epstein files, the Venezuelan War Crimes, SignalGate, or their vast history of major incompetence? Are these productions wrapped up in distractions for us and red meat for the base? Are we just an exotic backdrop for a massive content grab? Our we New Orleanian mere players strutting about? This level of produced cruelty has to be organized by Stephen Miller.

    Here’s the AP headline. “Records reviewed by AP detail online monitoring, arrests in New Orleans immigration crackdown.”  The analysis is provided by Jim Mustian and Jack Brook.

    State and federal authorities are closely tracking online criticism and protests against the immigration crackdown in New Orleans, monitoring message boards around the clock for threats to agents while compiling regular updates on public “sentiment” surrounding the arrests, according to law enforcement records reviewed by The Associated Press.

    The intelligence gathering comes even as officials have released few details about the first arrests made last week as part of “Catahoula Crunch,” prompting calls for greater transparency from local officials who say they’ve been kept in the dark about virtually every aspect of the operation.

    “Online opinions still remain mixed, with some supporting the operations while others are against them,” said a briefing circulated early Sunday to law enforcement. Earlier bulletins noted “a combination of groups urging the public to record ICE and Border Patrol” as well as “additional locations where agents can find immigrants.”

    Immigration authorities have insisted the sweeps are targeted at “criminal illegal aliens.” But the law enforcement records detail criminal histories for less than a third of the 38 people arrested in the first two days of the operation.

    Local leaders told the AP those numbers — which law enforcement officials were admonished not to distribute to the media — undermined the stated aim of the roundup. They also expressed concern that the online surveillance could chill free speech as authorities threaten to charge anyone interfering with immigration enforcement.

    “It confirms what we already knew — this was not about public safety, it’s about stoking chaos and fear and terrorizing communities,” said state Sen. Royce Duplessis, a Democrat who represents New Orleans. “It’s furthering a sick narrative of stereotypes that immigrants are violent.”

    The U.S. Department of Homeland Security did not respond to questions about the intelligence gathering and referred the AP to a prior news release touting “dozens of arrests.” The agency has not released an accounting of the detainees taken into custody or their criminal histories.

    I immediately get validated reports of what’s going on out there. There have been instances of citizens being chased while walking home from their neighborhood grocery store. Children are harassed at Day Care, Parks, and Elementary Schools. This is from NOLA.com.  “In Kenner, Border Patrol leader Gregory Bovino faces mixed reactions and police backup.”  That backup now includes many Louisiana Law Enforcement Agencies, including the State Patrol, the Fish and Wildlife Agents, as well as many local sheriffs and police.

    As the U.S. Border Patrol conducted their third day of immigration raids in the New Orleans area, Chief Patrol Agent Gregory Bovino, the agency’s leader, toured the streets of Kenner Friday to mixed reaction from the public, taking photo ops at one point to fielding protesters at another before ultimately using a Kenner Police blockade to leave the area.

    Bovino and a team of at least six agents conducted operations at gas stations and in neighborhoods along Williams Boulevard, the main corridor of the city lined with Latin American restaurants and department stores. At one point Bovino’s team approached a vehicle at a gas station to question a passenger before letting him go. It’s unclear if they detained anyone on Friday.

    Bovino and his entourage wore green uniforms and face coverings, and he dismissed a request Friday from New Orleans Mayor-Elect Helena Moreno, a Democrat, that federal agents remove masks as part of a broader demand for more transparency.

    “I think this is about as transparent as it gets right here,” Bovino told NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune in response to Moreno’s demands.

    At a Star Gas Station on Williams Boulevard where Bovino’s team stopped for a break, customers asked to take pictures with him while he waited to purchase pork cracklins and an energy drink. He offered to buy one of them their coke while a gaggle of photojournalists took pictures.

    In the parking lot outside, a man in a camouflage jacket and a red “Make America Great Again” hat held up a makeshift metal sign saying “THANK YOU I.C.E ❤︎ U D.H.S. U.S.A!” in blue paint.

    “We love you and we work for you,” Bovino told the man before entering his SUV.

    But in Kenner, a suburban city of about 65,000, the political landscape is much different from its more progressive anchor. While having the largest Hispanic population per capita of any Louisiana city at 30%, its government is almost entirely Republican. Its police chief, Keith Conley, has in recent years complained about the increase in undocumented immigrants and is one of the only officials in the parish that’s been a vocal supporter of Border Patrol’s efforts in the city.

    Our Mayor-Elect, Helena Morena, was born in Mexico.  The former news anchor is a formidable presence for the Sociopath Squad. As for me, I rarely leave the confines of Orleans Parish because I know the minute I do, I’m in Sleazy Steve Scalizelandia with all the KKK, Evangelical Fascists, and NAZI shit that implies.

    Today’s headlines brought one from Boston that truely is truely cruel and unhinged. This is reported by People Magazine. “Immigrants Approved for Citizenship ‘Plucked Out’ of Line Moments Before Pledging Allegiance: Report. As of Dec. 2, USCIS is halting all applications for immigrants from the 19 countries the Trump administration has deemed high-risk.”

    Immigrants were moments away from pledging allegiance to the United States in Boston — the final step of the long process to becoming a U.S. citizen — when government officials pulled them out of line, according to a new report.

    The scene unfolded at Boston’s Faneuil Hall on Thursday, Dec. 4, according to the report from WGBH, a National Public Radio member station.

    As people who were already approved to be naturalized — having completed the lengthy U.S. citizenship process — lined up to pledge allegiance, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) officials told them they could not continue due to their countries of origin, the outlet reported.

    USCIS officials took individuals from the line because the federal agency has directed its employees to halt all immigration applications for nationals from the 19 countries that already faced travel restrictions since June due to a proclamation from President Donald Trump, per WGBH and NBC News. The Trump administration designated the list of largely African and Asian countries as high-risk.

    Gail Breslow, executive director of Project Citizenship, a nonprofit that helps immigrants apply for citizenship, told WGBH that many of her clients received cancellation notices for their citizenship ceremonies and appointments — but for many, it was too little too late.

    “People were plucked out of line. They didn’t cancel the whole ceremony,” she said of the Dec. 4 scene at Faneuil Hall, which WGBH noted is similar to instances playing out at naturalization events across the U.S.

    One of the nonprofit’s clients, a Haitian woman who has had a green card since the early 2000s, “said that she had gone to her oath ceremony because she hadn’t received the cancellation notice in time,” Breslow told the Boston outlet.

    Haiti is on the list of 19 countries with full or partial restrictions, which also includes Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, the Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela.

    “She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled,” Breslow said of her client.

    “People are devastated, and they’re frightened,” she added.

    You can also read more about this in BB’s post from Saturday. She directly quotes from the WGBH. This all is so awful that it deserves a thorough review.

    This reminds me a lot of hearing the stories from my mother’s childhood in Kansas City, MO., where they frequently read in magazines and Newspapers that the Irish and the Italians shouldn’t be allowed in the country. That was because all Italians were characterized as Mafia Gangsters and all Irish were Drunk Brawlers. Oh, isn’t Bongino the kid of Italian immigrants? I also heard of them being called Papists. What’s the difference between this and getting ugly with Somali immigrants? Heather Cox Richardson finds the similarities astounding as well.  This is from her Friday post on Facebook.

    In place of the post–World War II rules-based international order, the Trump administration’s NSS commits the U.S. to a world divided into spheres of interest by dominant countries. It calls for the U.S. to dominate the Western Hemisphere through what it calls “commercial diplomacy,” using “tariffs and reciprocal trade agreements as powerful tools” and discouraging Latin American nations from working with other nations. “The United States must be preeminent in the Western Hemisphere as a condition of our security and prosperity,” it says, “a condition that allows us to assert ourselves confidently where and when we need to in the region.”

    The document calls for “closer collaboration between the U.S. Government and the American private sector. All our embassies must be aware of major business opportunities in their country, especially major government contracts. Every U.S. Government official that interacts with these countries should understand that part of their job is to help American companies compete and succeed.”

    It went on to make clear that this policy is a plan to help U.S. businesses take over Latin America and, perhaps, Canada. “The U.S. Government will identify strategic acquisition and investment opportunities for American companies in the region and present these opportunities for assessment by every U.S. Government financing program,” it said, “including but not limited to those within the Departments of State, War, and Energy; the Small Business Administration; the International Development Finance Corporation; the Export-Import Bank; and the Millennium Challenge Corporation.” Should countries oppose such U.S. initiatives, it said, “[t]he United States must also resist and reverse measures such as targeted taxation, unfair regulation, and expropriation that disadvantage U.S. businesses.

    The document calls this policy a “Trump Corollary” to the Monroe Doctrine, linking this dramatic reworking to America’s past to make it sound as if it is historical, when it is anything but.
    President James Monroe outlined what became known as the Monroe Doctrine in three paragraphs in his annual message to Congress on December 2, 1823. The concept was an attempt for the new American nation to position itself in a changing world.

    In the early nineteenth century, Spain’s empire in America was crumbling, and beginning in 1810, Latin American countries began to seize their independence. In just two years from 1821 to 1822, ten nations broke from the Spanish empire. Spain had restricted trade with its American colonies, and the U.S. wanted to trade with these new nations. But Monroe and his advisors worried that the new nations would fall prey to other European colonial powers, severing new trade ties with the U.S. and orienting the new nations back toward Europe.

    So in his 1823 annual message, Monroe warned that “the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers.” American republics would not tolerate European monarchies and their system of colonization, he wrote. Americans would “consider any attempt on their part to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety.” It is “the true policy of the United States to leave the [new Latin American republics to themselves, in hope that other powers will pursue the same course,” Monroe wrote.

    This is a replay of the Manifest Destiny era. It also erases many rights given to all by the U.S. Constitution.

    So, this is the Project 2025 Agenda, the white christian nationalist agenda, and what appears to be parts of the Confederacy with its inherent ideas that only white men are truly equal, wrapped into one big bomb threatening our democratically-based republic.  This administration might as well be Sociopaths-R-US.

    And, of course, the wrinkled old WIPO on the Supreme Court are playing for their billionaire pay again. This is from AXIOS. “Supreme Court seems ready to let Trump fire independent commissioners.”  Say goodbye to an Independent Federal Reserve Bank, among many others.

    The Supreme Court appeared poised to allow President Trump to fire members of the Federal Trade Commission during oral arguments Monday.

    Why it matters: A win for the president in Trump vs. Slaughter would be a major blow to a 90-year-old precedent that has kept the job of independent agency commissioners safe from being fired for political reasons.

    Driving the news: Trump teed up the case when he fired Rebecca Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya, Democratic FTC commissioners, earlier this year.

    • The case focuses on the precedent of Humphrey’s Executor, a 1935 ruling which holds that independent agency commissioners cannot be fired without specific cause.

    What they’re saying: The conservative majority on the court seemed hesitant to deny presidents the power to fire agency commissioners.

    • “Once the power is taken away from the president, it’s very hard to get it back in the legislative process,” said Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
    • Justice Amy Coney Barrett did not appear to support an argument that the protection of independent agency commissioners has gone back to the country’s founding. Chief Justice John Roberts said the FTC has a lot more power today than it did in 1935, making the precedent less powerful.
    • U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer, argued that Humphrey’s Executor, which has been weakened but not eliminated in recent years, limits presidential powers in an unconstitutional way. He described some agencies as “headless” and “junior varsity legislatures.”

    Liberal justices asked why the court would overturn a longstanding precedent and imply the president does not trust Congress to give agencies the right amount of power.

    • They also argued that independent agencies have roots in the country’s founding, and most are formed just like the FTC.
    • “You’re asking us to destroy the structure of government,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor said to Sauer. “Independent agencies have been around since the Founding…. This is not a modern contrivance.”
    • “Once you’re down this road, it’s a little bit hard to see how you stop,” said Justice Elena Kagan, arguing that the “real-world consequences” of handing Trump a win here would give presidents too much power.

    And this is only Monday morning.

    What’s on your Reading, Action, and Blogging list today?

     

    #johnbussBskySocialJohnBuss #corruptSupremeCourtJustices #danBongino #dueProcess #manifestDestinyOnSteroids #ourImmigrantsMakeUsStronger

  14. "FBI Dpty Director #DanBongino offered up a baffling excuse Thurs for fueling #ConspiracyTheories...

    “You know, listen, I was paid in the past, Sean, for my opinions. That’s clear,” Bongino said. “And one day I will be back in that space. That’s not what I’m paid for now...."

    The former talk radio host then launched into yet more #conspiracy winding about the so-called “collusion hoax.” So, it seems Bongino’s opinion days aren’t so far behind him after all."
    newrepublic.com/post/204026/fb

    #News #US

  15. where IS that dick-for-brains Bongo Bingo Boing Boing #DanBongino?

  16. #KashPatel Waived #Polygraph Screening for #DanBongino , Senior Staff — ProPublica

    As the FBI’s deputy director, #Bongino receives some of the country’s most sensitive secrets, including the President’s Daily Brief. His ascent to that position without passing a standard bureau background check is unprecedented, insiders say.
    #security #fbi #backgroundcheck

    propublica.org/article/fbi-kas

  17. “FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino reportedly fed up with DOJ over Epstein files—may be out soon. Another sign the Bureau’s top brass is in chaos. #FBIFail #DanBongino #EpsteinCoverup

  18. The #FBI's search of #JohnBolton’s house comes at a time of internal tumult at a bureau already reeling from political purges & an exodus of experienced agents. Earlier this week — in an extraordinary & unexpected move — the White House installed #Missouri’s attorney general, #AndrewBailey, to serve as *co-director* of the bureau with #DanBongino, the FBI’s number-2 official, who has fallen out of favor over his actions in relation to the #EpsteinFiles.

    #Trump #RevengePolitics #law

  19. Olivia wants you to know that many good time slots are still available through August!

    #DanBongino #Babysitting #USPol

  20. Furor over Epstein files sparks clash between #PamBondi & #DanBongino at DOJ

    The #DOJ & #FBI are struggling to contain the fallout & appease the demands of #FarRight *conservative* personalities & influential members of Trump’s base after the admin’s decision this week to withhold records from the #JeffreyEpstein #SexTrafficking investigation [likely because #Trump is in them].

    #law #idiocracy #BreadAndCircuses #PanemEtCircenses #ConspiracyTheories
    apnews.com/article/epstein-fil

  21. I’m loving that the Epstein thing has blown up and won’t go away. The best part is that these dumb fucks did it to themselves.

    #EpsteinFiles #DonaldTrump #PamBondi #DanBongino #FaschPatel #BillBarr #USPol