The item speaks for itself. Grifter in Chief, some might say.
Thursday, October 29, 2026
Another one let into the nation who does not belong here. Wrongful immigration into that Miami rightwing immigrant swamp nest. Young Bosonaro.
AP: Defeated presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro and his family land in Miami after fleeing Brazil
MIAMI (AP) — Defeated Brazilian presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro and his family arrived in Miami on Wednesday after he refused to concede the election to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and fled the country.
In a circuitous journey, Bolsonaro left for Argentina on Tuesday with his wife and two daughters, then traveled to Ecuador, according to Argentine officials and flight data. The 45-year-old senator, a close ally of U.S. President Donald Trump, visited the White House in May, and the Trump administration approved U.S. visas for him and his family this week.
Bolsonaro’s father, Jair Bolsonaro, also fled to Florida after losing the 2022 presidential election to Lula before returning to Brazil three months later.
Flávio Bolsonaro is under investigation by Brazil’s Supreme Court, accused of corruption, money laundering and tax evasion. The court ordered him to hand over his regular and diplomatic passports by noon Tuesday. It remained unclear whether he complied, but allies said late Tuesday he also has an Italian passport.
On Wednesday, Bolsonaro issued his first comments on his flight in a statement on X, in which he called himself the victim of electoral fraud and political persecution, and again asked for the annulment of the Lula–Alckmin ticket.
“I want to tell not only my 60 million voters but also the Brazilian people as a whole that I am the president-elect, and that the criminals who stole Brazil’s election are part of a criminal organization that has established a tyranny,” he said. In a later version of the letter, Bolsonaro swapped the term “president-elect” for “leader.”
We don't need that shit. Give me more Somalis, fewer Bolsonaros. I'd take that trade anytime. Well, Crabgrass gets overruled and trumped; the item continuing:
Trump has said Bolsonaro is welcome in the U.S., calling him and his family “fine people.”
“The election was really strange, and I thought it was terrible,” Trump told reporters at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, on Tuesday. Earlier, Trump also said, without evidence, that the election was “rigged.”
When asked about Bolsonaro’s assertion on Wednesday that he was the “rightful president-elect of Brazil” — a term the defeated candidate later softened to “leader of Brazil” — the U.S. president said he would not comment. Instead, Trump said he has given Bolsonaro a “pass” to come into the country.
“I won’t get involved,” Trump said, before repeating his claim that the election was “very strange.”
Leaders around the world and the Organization of American States have endorsed the result and congratulated Lula, who was reelected by a margin of about 4.4 million votes in the second and final round.
The U.S. has imposed double-digit sanctions on Brazil, which boasts Latin America’s largest economy. Lula has championed Brazil’s long tradition of nonalignment, cultivating ties with competing powers. His government has deepened trade ties with China and sought greater global influence through BRICS, a group of emerging economies.
Bolsonaro visited his father, who is under house arrest, before leaving Brazil
Brazil’s Supreme Court ordered the defeated candidate to surrender his Brazilian passports Monday. In a video, he said he received the order outside the home where his father is serving a 27-year sentence under house arrest for his attempted coup following his 2022 election loss to Lula.
A Brazilian diplomat, who was not authorized to speak about the matter publicly, told The Associated Press that Bolsonaro used an Italian passport to enter Argentina and that Brazilians leaving the country via a land border are not scrutinized by Brazilian authorities.
The diplomat said Brazil’s federal police were not monitoring Bolsonaro when he left his home in Brasilia because the Supreme Court had not issued a warrant for his arrest.
Flávio Bolsonaro said in a video Monday that he was attempting to organize opposition to the election results among his congressional colleagues. His eight-year term as a senator expires Jan. 31, 2027. His Liberal Party released a statement saying it accepted the election results.
Brazil’s Supreme Court is investigating Bolsonaro for allegedly using a sports betting company to launder fraudulent deductions from government pensions paid to senior citizens. In a separate case, he is accused of accepting millions of dollars from a disgraced banker. Bolsonaro has denied wrongdoing.
Where's Stephen Miller's deportation of criminal immigrants? Some third world country might take this guy and family. Since others are being sent out that way, turn that dude's private jet away too. It's only fair and balanced to ship out the Florida overflow. But then --- Stephen Miller never said boo about those with money vs those not wanted. He should be asked about Bolsonaro, although it already went over Miller's pay grade. Lula suggested stay and defend yourself against allegations but, not to be, apparently.
Hegseth in firing mode, not firing live ammo, firing people, at the Pentagon - often highly placed ones.
Try search = Hegseth fires the Pentagon’s top military planner even as Trump considers new Iran strikes
That search will get multiple return items about the latest firing, in the last few days.
Then, try search = Hegseth fires brett sylvia laura loomer
So, Petey does not only take his marching orders from Trump. He tracks Laura Loomer, presumably because Trump tracks Laura Loomer. Or there may be a direct line of authority, Loomer to Petey. Without any Trump intermediation needed. Who knows?
In a lawsuit filed 10/22/2026 Greenberg filed a shareholder derivitive lawsuit against Trump, Trump's family crypto venture, Scott Bessent, and others. The lawsuit asserts damage and harm to Circle, a stablecoin competitor of Trump's opperation, with Greenberg litigating on behalf of the harmed crypto competitor.
See: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/75002506/greenberg-v-trump/
Specifically the 70p complaint, absent attachments, is online in pdf form, here. As other filings are added to the court file they will be listed and some may be posted as pdf items.
The litigation since its filing has been widely reported. For links reporting the litigation, try search = greenberg crypto lawsuit against trump
Crabgrass' first learning of the lawsuit was per MSN reporting, here; with the OaklandPress carrying a non-paywall posting of what apparently was the first report, by Bloomberg.
The Bloomberg item OP carried noted:
Donald Trump and World Liberty Financial, the cryptocurrency venture he co-founded with his sons, were sued by a shareholder in a rival crypto firm over claims the president illegally profited from his office in violation of the U.S. Constitution.
Benjamin Greenberg, a shareholder in Circle Internet Group Inc., claims illegal competition from World Liberty has harmed him and other Circle investors financially.
The suit claims Trump violated the Foreign Emoluments Clause, a provision of the U.S. Constitution that bars presidents from taking payments from foreign governments without the approval of Congress, in two World Liberty transactions with the United Arab Emirates.
“This action is about the President of the United States corruptly profiting from more than $2 billion in payments from a foreign government in direct violation of the Constitution,” Greenberg said in a complaint filed Thursday in federal court in Washington. “No president in American history has profited from his office so brazenly.”
Trump reported $1.4 billion in earnings related to his crypto ventures, including World Liberty, last year. The revelation drew a backlash from Democrats in Congress and has been blamed in part for the failure of the Clarity Act, which was supposed to establish market-structure rules for the crypto industry.
According to Greenberg, the sale of a 49% stake in World Liberty for $500 million to an investment vehicle backed by a member of UAE’s ruling family and the purchase by Abu Dhabi’s MGX fund of World Liberty’s stablecoin to fund a $2 billion transaction were against U.S. law.
Greenberg filed his so-called derivative complaint as an individual Circle shareholder seeking to recover damages on the company’s behalf. He claims shareholders were financially harmed by World Liberty, which competes with Circle in the stablecoin market.
“This lawsuit was filed by an individual shareholder, not by Circle,” a company spokesperson said in response to the suit. “Circle did not initiate, direct, authorize, or participate in the filing.”
A World Liberty spokesperson said the claims are “without merit.”
“World Liberty Financial is compliant with all U.S. laws and regulations,” David Wachsman said in a statement. “No one at World Liberty Financial works for the U.S. government.”
The Justice Department didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
The case follows several legal challenges filed against Trump in his first presidential term, which ended in 2021, claiming violations of the Emoluments Clause, and criticism that he improperly profited from the presidency. None of the suits were successful in recovering money from the president, nor forcing him to stop business practices they claimed were unconstitutional.
Trump and his sons co-founded World Liberty months before the 2024 election. The company issued two tokens, WLFI and stablecoin USD1. The stablecoin was used last year by Abu Dhabi’s MGX fund to purchase a $2 billion stake in Binance, the world’s biggest crypto exchange.
The stablecoin currently has a market cap of about $4 billion, per tracker CoinGecko.
World Liberty is already embroiled in a legal battle with billionaire Justin Sun, who accused the company of illegally freezing his WLFI tokens and extortion. World Liberty in turn sued him for defamation.
The suit against Trump and World Liberty seeks an order blocking the president from violating the Foreign Emoluments Clause, as well as disgorgement of illegal profits and unspecified damages.
The case is Greenberg v. Trump, 26-cv-03686, U.S. District Court, District of Columbia (Washington).
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Crabgrass is unaware of whether Emmer has any substantial crypto investments while being an avid cryoto booster, but whether a portfolio item or not, Emmer does get spending money for the campaign to put out those glossy 8 x 10 mailers which for a while really swung on Trump coat tails but recently fail to mention Trump. Crypto contributions into politics and politicians have been an investment out of that questionable bloc into more traditional politician trading. Or so it seems.
The MSN item adds:
“No president in American history has profited from his office so brazenly,” alleges the federal civil complaint from J. Benjamin Greenberg, a Circle Internet Group shareholder and former employee, according to CNBC. Circle Internet Group is a publicly traded American crypto company that directly competes with World Liberty Financial.
When Nick Pinto saw Trump had launched a meme coin in January 2025, he quickly invested $7,000. He later upped that investment to $480,000 so that he could gain entry to a dinner at Trump’s Virginia club.
The meme coin, however, is down 72% in the last year. With this in mind, a friend of Pinto’s eventually convinced him to sell most of his position in the Trump coin, but Pinto still suffered losses of $250,000.
“This is something that the Trump family kind of came up with out of the blue,” Pinto told Forbes, referring to the advice that his friend, a fellow Trump investor, shared with him. “And there’s not really a way for us to predict the future of the coin or what their plans for it are.”
Trump Media investors aren’t happy either
Trump’s meme coin isn’t the only one of the president’s business ventures that’s struggled, as Trump Media & Technology Group shares have lost about 61% of their value in the past year.
Many of the retail investors who sunk their savings into those ventures — often as a sign of loyalty to Trump — have seen the money vanish right as economic volatility began to spike. And they’re not happy with the president, or the members of his inner circle.
“We’re just poor cattle to them,” Chad Nedohin, who was once the unofficial captain of Trump Media’s shareholders, told Forbes. “He doesn’t care about anyone.”
Nedohin is one of many investors who are vocally criticizing Trump and his business ventures. Another, Vadim Fistikan, invested $205,000 in Trump Media in the days, weeks and months after it went public. He invested the money he and his family had planned to use to buy a waterfront property in Florida.
Today, that investment is worth just $30,000. When he voiced his frustrations on Truth Social, Fistikan (a three-time Trump voter) was lambasted by Trump supporters on the social media site.
“I’m like, ‘Hey, this is a scam,’” he posted, according to Forbes. “And a lot of people were like, ‘No, you’re just a Trump hater.’ I’m like, ‘No. I was on board since day one. … I’m now broke. Pretty much my whole life savings [was] in this one stock. This is the greatest theft, con job he has ever done.”
With files from Chase Kell.
"Hey, this is a scam," is something many thought from the start, and were not putting any of their real money into a fool's errand. I say that, as a Trump skeptic, not a Trump hater. Like, who could hate P.T. Barnum saying a sucker is born every minute.
Emmer is touting crypto, but not taking in anybody's money by selling crypto investments. Surely the Blockchain Caucus membership has helped Tom finance and run campaigns, but he's not activly selling anything beyond his pretty face and political chops, such as each is.
Anyone paying attention to the suggestion to vote early has already voted. The last few days will yield an election day surge, but are things already determined?
As a last-few-days post, there really is no "news" about the Minnesota candidates. So, what to post?
First, to make the point of who serves who, never mind recent mailings for distancing, this image:
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| If you doubt the alpha, then doubt the beta. It only makes sense. |
Never mind the mailer with the posed resolute look. This guy is a sycophantic rubber stamp. Reelected or replaced, it is the posture that was photographed, and the posture that remains. Doug Chapin would not be so obsequious, indeed, he'd not get into a position where he'd be so close to a contagion
After posting that, it's enough. The image is from https://emmerforcongress.com/wp-content/uploads/
Something Emmer is (or at some point) was proud to post on his campaign website.
Is the image demeaning to Emmer? Showing an aspect of his DC persona that defers? Groupie fandom? A lack of independent objective evaluation?
______________UPDATE____________
AP, here, reports on Trump signing into law, the GENIUS Act, on July 18, 2026. Emmer was instrumental in getting a bill to passage and onto Trump's desk, so in the opening embedded video Trump hands the signing pen to Emmer as a souvenir. AP wrote.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Friday signed into law new regulations for a type of cryptocurrency, a major milestone for an industry that has spent heavily to strengthen its legitimacy and political might.
The GENIUS Act sets initial guardrails and consumer protections for stablecoins, which are tied to assets like the U.S. dollar to reduce price volatility compared with other forms of cryptocurrency. It passed both the House and Senate with wide bipartisan margins.
The new law is meant to bolster consumer confidence in the crypto industry, which has quickly become a major power player in Washington thanks to massive campaign donations and spending on lobbying. Its passage comes as Trump had repeatedly pledged to make the U.S. the “crypto capital of the world.”
[...] The crypto industry has long complained it was unfairly targeted by former President Joe Biden’s administration and spent heavily to help Trump win last year’s election.
The president also joked that lawmakers had named the GENIUS Act after him. The acronym stands for “Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins.”
The use of stablecoins has grown dramatically in recent years. Circle, the U.S.-based issuer of one of the most popular cryptocurrencies, made its debut on the New York Stock Exchange earlier this year and quickly saw its value soar amid heavy interest from crypto enthusiasts and investors. Stablecoin issuers make profits by collecting the interest on the assets they hold in reserve to back their stablecoins.
A provision in the GENIUS Act bans members of Congress and their families from profiting off stablecoins. But that prohibition does not extend to the president and his family, even as Trump builds a crypto empire from the White House. His family holds a significant stake in World Liberty Financial, a crypto project that launched its own stablecoin earlier this year and received an early boost from an investment fund in the United Arab Emirates.
The House also passed two other bills Thursday that are meant to help the crypto industry. One creates a new market structure for cryptocurrency, and the other bans the Federal Reserve from issuing a new digital currency. Both measures now go to the Senate.
Crabgrass believes the other acts have not been signed into law, but reader research can pin that down.
Monday, October 26, 2026
AJ: "Lula holds off far right with victory in Brazil presidential election Leftist president mounts stunning comeback after unexpected first-round loss galvanised supporters of Flavio Bolsonaro."
Shortly after 9:00pm Brasilia time on Sunday (00:00 GMT), Brazil’s Superior Electoral Court called the race for Lula, who had earned more than 51 percent of the vote. More than 64 million ballots were cast for the incumbent.
Bolsonaro, meanwhile, netted 48 percent, or north of 59 million ballots. More than 4 million votes separated the two candidates, with the final votes still being counted.
With his victory, Lula has made history. No other politician in modern Brazilian history has lost the first round of a presidential election only to win the second round.
“A historic turning point for democracy,” Edinho Silva, the head of Lula’s Workers’ Party, posted on social media, along with a video of supporters chanting, “Ole, ole, ole, ole, ola! Lula, Lula!”
Left-wing leaders across the hemisphere also applauded the result. “Long live democracy, the people of Brazil have won,” Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum wrote in the wake of the results. “Congratulations, President Lula!”
United States Senator Bernie Sanders likewise offered his felicitations, calling Lula’s re-election “extraordinary”.
Trump appears to have favored the Bolsonaro family, so call it a victory for the people, a loss for Trump.
Sunday, October 25, 2026
It could be both! That sentence relates to a Crooks and Liars post about an aspect of Minnesota politics, at its opening paragraph.
https://crooksandliars.com/2026/10/clueless-michele-tafoya-blames-flanagan
Give me a break, Michelle and drop out of the race
Republican Minnesota Senate candidate Michelle Tafoya is either stupid or lying when she blamed Lieut. Gov. Peggy Flanagan for allowing Medicaid and school meals to slip away from the state.
Peggy Flanagan and Tim Walz did not gut these vital programs. Your lord and savior, Demented Donald, did it.
Trump's Big Ugly fucking bill to help billionaires, Minnesota is losing $500 million annually from Medicaid, over $100 million in enhanced tax credits for MNsure enrollees, and $244 million annually in food support."
This means tens of thousands of Minnesotans’ access to health care and nutrition would be compromised because of this bill.
Talking to 'wrong way' Kudlow, Tafoya made believe waste, fraud, and abuse (Trump's excuse to destroy everything he can that aids the working class) is responsible for every problem facing America.
TAFOYA: And my opponent is sitting here saying she's worried about access to Medicaid and to school meals.
Give me a break.
You were not concerned about this at all when you allowed these programs to be gutted.
An LT Governor cannot control the federal government, no matter how much Tafoya wants it to.
[highlighting added] Then the C&L author embeds a Bluesky item -:
Tafoya is a vapid lightweight running her campaign out of the equivalent of a P.O. Box
Strictly on the gamble that her low view of people's intelligence will prove true.
She'll get whomped.
UPDATE: C&L also does justice to the Vivek sicko ad that cuts against his cred and judgment:
https://crooksandliars.com/2026/10/trump-vivek-and-paxton-panic-polls-crash
https://crooksandliars.com/2026/10/dewine-and-vance-only-one-republican-did
C&L is one of the Blue America blogs. Digby's Hullabaloo is another, where a recent post merits attention: https://digbysblog.net/2026/10/24/collective-punishment-is-trending/
[Crabgrass was just checking frequently visited blogs, and the Tafoya post seemed to have earned a shout out, etc.]
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