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Jilly_in_VA's JournalMAGA Congressional Candidate Calls Texas Floods 'Fake': It's 'Murder'
A MAGA congressional candidate is facing backlash after spreading conspiracy theories about the deadly flash floods along the Guadalupe River in Texas.
Kandiss Taylor, who is running to represent Georgia in the House of Representatives, posted on X Saturday: “Fake weather. Fake hurricanes. Fake flooding. Fake. Fake. Fake.”
Her bizarre post came as authorities searched for dozens of people thought to have lost their lives in Texas’ flash floods. Of the 30 people confirmed dead so far, at least nine were children, and 27 girls are still missing from Camp Mystic, a riverside Christian camp in Hunt, Texas.
“This isn’t just ‘climate change.’ It’s cloud seeding, geoengineering, & manipulation,“ she added. ”If fake weather causes real tragedy, that’s murder. Pray. Prepare. Question the narrative.”
When she later acknowledged that tragedy had struck, someone in the comments called her out for walking back her earlier post. She wrote back: “I’m not walking back a thing. No one can control the way you raging liberals twist words. Brainwashed zombies.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-congressional-candidate-kandiss-taylor-calls-texas-floods-fake-its-murder/
There's crazy, and then there's MTG-level crazy. SMDH
DHS Dismisses Palestinian Woman's Treatment In ICE Detention As 'Sob Story'
A Palestinian woman released from Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention on Tuesday says she and others faced mistreatment while detained. Still, the Department of Homeland Security dismissed her account as one of many “sob stories.”
“The entire detention process was not great. I wouldn’t wish this upon anybody. It was very hard, very traumatizing, and very, very difficult, is what I would say,” Ward Sakeik told CNN’s Danny Freeman on Saturday morning.
After getting married, she began the process of obtaining a green card, but was taken by ICE officials in February on her way back to Texas from her honeymoon in the Virgin Islands, a U.S. territory.
DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told CNN that Sakeik’s arrest was not part of a targeted operation by ICE, but that she was flagged by Customs and Border Patrol trying to reenter the U.S. after flying over international waters.
In a statement shared with HuffPost, McLaughlin said Sakeik was not “complying with immigration policies.”
“The facts are she is in our country illegally,” McLaughlin said. “She overstayed her visa and has had a final order by an immigration judge for over a decade.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ward-sakeik-palestinian-dhs-sob-story_n_68698ed4e4b08e646a1751d5
Tricia Mclughlin is a cold-ass LIAR. I said what I said.
I stan for Rep. Jasmine Crockett and her questions about Melania Trump's path to U.S. citizenship
Jenice ArmstrongFour of President Donald Trump’s children were born to two different women, who both happened to be immigrants. The president’s own mother immigrated to this country from Scotland; his paternal grandparents came from Germany.
It’s essential to point this out because it not only underscores the hypocrisy of Trump’s deportation plan, but it also illustrates how diabolical it is that Trump is doing everything in his power to set up naturalization roadblocks for other immigrants.
Not only does the president want to rewrite the rules for birthright citizenship, but he wants to keep America’s refugee resettlement program suspended indefinitely. He makes exceptions for white South Africans to move here, but then tries to force out Haitians by taking away their temporary protection status.
Trump needs to be called out on his racist immigration policies. That’s why I stan, as the young folks say, for Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D., Texas), who is daring to question first lady Melania Trump’s path to U.S. citizenship.
She’s not the first to do so (the topic was all over the media during Trump’s first term), but Crockett’s comments made it part of the legislative record.
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/melania-trump-family-immigration-trajectory-20250703.html
This Los Angeles Detention center could be coming to a city near you
There’s a basement about a fifteen-minute walk from where I live. It is small, cold, and perpetually lit. It can hold as many as seventy men for days at a time. The basement has one exposed toilet, with no doors, for the people it detains, which they use in front of one another. Sparse meals appear sporadically, sometimes at 3:00 a.m. and sometimes not at all. The men in this concrete, windowless cage sleep either standing up, leaning against one another for lack of space, or on the cold floor. The basement has a separate room for women; families of detainees there say the conditions appear to be the same.
Some of the people in the basement were put there by masked government agents. Some were on their way to or at work. Others were on the street, at home, or picking up their children from school. Eventually, their government might expel them to another country, maybe one they’ve never visited, far from their families, loved ones, attorneys and anybody who cares for them.
Families and attorneys like me try to visit the basement. They spend hours outside of a locked door. They miss work and other necessary commitments for a chance to visit and provide some comfort. Some arrive carrying medicine their loved one needs – and they are forced to wait for hours too.
This basement doesn’t exist in Russia, or Hungary, or China. It sits below an American federal building in downtown Los Angeles. Federal taxpayers’ dollars keep it running. The ongoing immigration raids in the city keep it full.
I learned about the basement when a panicked son reached out for help from the Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law, the non-profit that I lead and which files federal litigation to secure the rights of immigrants and refugees. His father was arrested by government agents, who violently pushed him to the ground, pepper sprayed his face, and dragged him off. He had already spent three nights imprisoned in the basement, as his son tried in vain to see him.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/los-angeles-ice-immigration-detention-center-rcna216884
But the cruelty is the point, isn't it?
Welcome to kitten season, when animal shelters need all the help they can get
Strawberry, Blueberry, JoJo and Mazzy were about 6 weeks old when animal rescuers coaxed them out of long metal pipes in the parking lot of a storage unit company. Meatball was a single kitten living in a cold garage with a group of semi-feral adult cats.
Spaghetti, Macaroni and Rigatoni, meanwhile, were just 2 weeks old when the good folks of LIC Feral Feeders, a cat rescue in Queens, took them in and bottle-fed them until they were strong enough to survive.
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Kitten season, typically landing during warmer months, is the time of year when most cats give birth. That produces a surge of kittens, often fragile neonates. Shelters get overwhelmed, especially when it comes to the 24-hour care and feeding of extremely young kittens.
That, as a result, triggers a need for more foster homes because many of the 4,000 or so shelters in the U.S. don’t have the time or resources for around-the-clock care, said Hannah Shaw, an animal welfare advocate known as the Kitten Lady with more than a million followers on Instagram.
“We see about 1.5 million kittens entering shelters every year. And most of them will come into shelters during May and June,” she said. “Shelters need all hands on deck to help out through fostering.”
https://apnews.com/article/kitten-season-foster-shelters-a7728f596e87ceeb89b38cd42d69ad3e
I'm currently fostering my fourth, and would have given her back sooner to be adopted except she's been battling a stubborn case of...lice! Hopefully her next lime -sulfur bath will fix it for good.
Revealed: the far-right, antisemitic men's club network spreading across US
A nationwide US network of dozens of far-right, men-only fraternal clubs has what members describe as “literally hundreds” of participants who include past and currently serving military personnel, lawyers, civil servants, and prominent antisemitic influencers, a Guardian investigation can reveal.
The Old Glory Club (OGC) – which has at least 26 chapters in 20 US states and until now has drawn little attention – exemplifies the alarming rise of organized racist political groups in the past few years but especially during the rise of Donald Trump and his return to the White House.
The OGC network has held conferences, meetups and other events. Key members like podcaster Pete Quinones use their platforms to push far-right ideas about Jewish people and immigrants. Other members have used their platforms to respond to political events, and to advocate measures including “cancellation insurance” for members whose extreme political views might impede their professional lives.
Harry Shukman, a researcher at UK anti-fascist non-profit Hope Not Hate, who last month published an exposé on the OGC-affiliated Basketweavers organization in the UK, told the Guardian: “Groups such as the OGC are a new breed of extremist organisation which aims first to build an offline social network before taking over society.”
He added, “They seek to lower the bar to participating in the far right, and by doing so have proved attractive to a cohort of mostly male members, some of whom have never before undertaken any form of activism.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/05/far-right-mens-clubs-old-glory
When fascism comes to America, it will come toting a bible and wrapped in the American flag. And here it is.
MTG Wants to Make 'Deadly' Weather Manipulation a Felony
Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has a new top priority after doing her part to shuffle President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” across the finish line.
Greene announced in a Saturday tweet that she intends to wage war on the “deadly” practice of “climate modification” and “geoengineering” with a bill that would make any such efforts a felony offense.
Greene said the bill will prohibit “the injection, release, or dispersion of chemicals or substances into the atmosphere for the express purpose of altering weather, temperature, climate, or sunlight intensity.”
According to Greene, she’s been “researching weather modification” and now she is ready to take action after spending months “writing this bill” with her legislative counsel.
She added, “It will be similar to Florida’s Senate Bill 56. We must end the dangerous and deadly practice of weather modification and geoengineering.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-wants-to-make-deadly-weather-manipulation-a-felony/
This person is truly batshit crazy. 
I have a theory about the orange slime's health
You've all noticed, I presume, that he is cyclically very puffy and then not, cyclically very gray and then back to his original orangeness. I've been observing this recently, and to my nurse's eye, I'm wondering if he's not on dialysis. He would, of course, never admit it to anyone, but it would account for the cycling. It seems to run over about a 3-5 day period, which is about how often he goes "somewhere", disappears into the depths of the White House, or jets off to Mar-a-Lardo. It would be easy enough to get it done privately. Even peritoneal dialysis, which doesn't require a lot of equipment, just time.
What do you all think?
Bobbie Reads Tarot---July 4 2026
LA school district demands inquiry after Ice officers filmed urinating on campus
A Los Angeles school district is demanding an investigation of an incident last month during which Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agents gathered at a local high school before a raid and were seen publicly urinating on school grounds, not far from where elementary school students were attending summer classes.
According to a statement from El Rancho unified school district, which also released video evidence in the form of surveillance-camera footage, the incident took place on the morning of 17 June at Ruben Salazar high school in Pico Rivera, in south-eastern LA county.
After school staff observed eight to 10 marked and unmarked Ice vehicles arrive on the high school campus, which is adjacent to an elementary school, a park and a preschool playground, they asked the federal agents to leave.
The school has since written to Kristi Noem, the US homeland security secretary, to request an inquiry. “At no time was a legal or legitimate reason offered or provided as to why Ice agents entered and remained on school grounds, nor did they provide any judicial warrant,” the school district said in the statement.
After the Ice agents agreed to leave the high school campus, school district staff told managers that they had seen the federal agents “urinating at Salazar in public view”. A review of surveillance camera video, posted on YouTube by the school district, appears to show 10 federal agents urinating near storage containers in the high school parking lot, from 8.54am to 9.04am.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/04/los-angeles-ice-officers-urinating
Go find a gas station or a 7-11, you uncivilized bastards!
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