The headline is a late paragraph in the story. A screen capture:
Justice is sometimes served with a sandwich of your choice.
Friday, November 07, 2025
The man who was hit with the sandwich was CBP agent Gregory Lairmore, who told the jury earlier this week that the sandwich “kind of exploded all over my uniform” and “smelled of onions and mustard”, according to the Washington Post. The defense pushed back, as it appeared in imagery from the scene that the sandwich did not leave its wrapper.
Justice is sometimes served with a sandwich of your choice.
Do a web search = Pelosi retiring
800 years a politician in office and all that time public provided medical care suppressed.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/2ySJtn6oCUA
Progress smiles. It may have a chance.
Slim chance, others like-minded remain. But - hope.
Better, faster, cheaper.
A friend/relative was a successful contractor before retirement and explained the success as that, better, faster, cheaper. So the business prospered, profit was there, and capitalism smiled and said, "See."
Like a well oiled machine.
That is a prelude for world trade - capitalism, right - being a bettter, faster, cheaper survival game.
No. The tariff monster says. Regionalism, Sovereignty, Divide and Conquer, all that above capitalism. Capitalism only is a God when we talk rich not paying taxes because - CAPITALISM. Wages kept dirt low because - CAPITALISM. A God when it fits. A devil otherwise.
Free trade, PROTECTIONISM.
And while under rule of law only the U.S. of A Congress can impose tariffs and other taxes, a fat cat narcissistic fascist does not care a whit for restraint. Tariffs are a play tool. Push other nations around. Grind their nose in it.
Fun. Boss King. That being said -
https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/05/were-on-the-unfuck-stage-of-trumps-abuse-of-power/
UPDATE: Written while having morning coffee. From Brazil as likely as not. Pay more for coffee because the fascist King says so? Fuck that.
Wednesday, November 05, 2025
The Supremes will have an opportunity to right the boat. Betting they decline to is not a bad bet.
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| https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/04/trump-tariffs-supreme-court-oral-arguments |
From that Guardian item:
Treasury secretary Scott Bessent, who plans to attend the oral arguments in the case, has said the administration has “lots of other authorities” to do so.
According to the non-partisan Tax Foundation, Trump’s tariffs amount to an average tax increase per US household of $1,200 in 2025 and $1,600 in 2026.
A coalition of 12 states and small businesses, Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maine, Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, Oregon and Vermont, have sued the Trump administration to block the tariffs.
Several other small businesses also filed suit against the Trump administration to block the tariffs. The cases, Learning Resources, Inc v Trump and Trump v VOS Selections, were consolidated by the court.
“No one person should have the power to impose taxes that have such vast global economic consequences,” Jeffrey Schwab, Liberty Justice Center’s senior counsel, said in a statement on the lawsuit filed on behalf of small businesses against the tariffs. “The Constitution gives the power to set tax rates – including tariffs – to Congress, not the President.”
About 40 legal briefs have been filed in opposition to the tariffs, including from the US Chamber of Commerce, the largest business lobby group in the US.
The US Chamber has urged Congress to reclaim its constitutional role in setting tariffs, stating in a letter on 27 October to the US Senate: “American families are facing thousands of dollars in higher prices as a result of these increased taxes. Small businesses, manufacturers, and ranchers are struggling with higher costs, with additional economic pain likely in the coming months.”
The US Senate voted 51 to 47 last week to nullify Trump’s so-called reciprocal tariffs, with four Republicans joining Democrats in the vote, though the House is not expected to take similar action.
But despite opposition in the Senate, the House of Representatives is unlikely to take similar action. House Republicans created a rule earlier this year that will block resolutions on the tariffs from getting a floor vote.
Tariffs are the opposite of "Tax the Rich" since they amount to a consumer flat tax. If consumers pay more and buy less, how is that a good thing? Other than for the Rich?
There is more to Mamdami's decisive victory than that he won. There is Schumer. There is Gillibrand. Both need to be replaced by progressives.
Guardian has the story, with a screen capture below. Read it all via the link. Give particular attention to the last paragraph of the capture.
From the link at the start of the post, you have live links to follow as you please. those in the capture show, but are not live. Schumer and Gillibrand are out of touch. They, and the soundly defeated Cuomo are New York old guard Dems. As is Jeffries who had the sense to join the win late, but not miss the train as did the deliberate pair of Senators. Gillibrand jumped and hounded Al Franken out of the Senate over a me-too lust to get the Supreme Court nominee, Kavanaugh. Short term mind. Franken is closer to Mamdani than Jeffries, Schumer or Gillibrand in world view and US political orientation.
Gillibrand replaced Hillary, and who can tell the difference? For all I know she may have made as much out of politics as the Clintons, but I doubt that. At any rate, Gillibrand has had an empowered time, with no good use of the power. Regular citizens have no universal healthcare, with too many seeing inflation eat away at security while being in paycheck to paycheck survival mode. Wall Street is not Main Street. That is a cliche, but who likes that pair of dysfunctional Senators? You can like a Mamdami, a Franken, but those two stiffs? Empty suits.
Anyway, changing of the guard is needed, yet unlikely, the inertia being heavy and solid. AOC dumped that long standing old guy with a century or so of seniority, but it was viewed as anomaly rather than trend. Mamdami, now, it's a trend. So sweep the path clear for more people-friendly office holders who might, we hope, finally make the wealthy pay a fair share. And progressive change will unseat Trump and JD and that pack of incompetent Hegseths. The sooner, the better.
Do hope for the future trending well. The alternative, Trump fascism, stinks.
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| more Guaerdian - a changing electorate |
In summary, in short, the electorate changing means AIPAC will have to spend more to do its vain and insidious mischief.
And then, if awakening spreads, and GOTV holds among the needy, spending a ton won't cut it.
AIPAC's hunting progressives, may it backfire for a few fucking decades. And then some! They are unprincipled beyond Israel uber alles and anti-progressive mindset, so fuck 'em.
Israel's been into war criminality a lot recently, so release the politicians to be free to do good, and punish.
And spend the billions here, not subsidizing ethnic cleansing. The people would welcome that.
Tuesday, November 04, 2025
An interesting website, discovered, reported. It's not about our nation at its nicest.
Most recent post: https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/dnsa-intelligence/2025-10-30/top-secret-testimony-cias-mkultra-chief-50-years-later
Finding that, I learned something of who Sidney Gottlieb was. Strange.
First, two images from an earlier post on the site. You can follow the link if you do not recognize folks. That way you'll find out.
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| grinning for who they were and what they know and did |
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| An event today triggered search yielding this image, and finding the GWU site. |
Best and brightest, all that. Moving on to Gottlieb's MO - as fleshed out in the second of the two opening links.
The long-secret transcripts of Gottlieb’s testimony to the staff of the United States Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities (“Church Committee”) were published today by the National Security Archive, 50 years after the historic intelligence oversight hearings, along with a selection of declassified CIA memos and other records concerning MKULTRA and related projects that Gottlieb was asked about during his Senate deposition. The Church Committee transcripts are among the highlights of the Digital National Security Archive collection, CIA and the Behavioral Sciences: Mind Control, Drug Experiments and MKULTRA, published in 2024 by ProQuest. Other documents were found among the recently declassified documents archived in the CIA’s FOIA Reading Room.
Among other things, the recently declassified transcripts from the closed-door hearings held on October 15-18, 1975, shed new light on the bizarre and abusive research projects associated with Gottlieb and the Agency’s Technical Services Staff (TSS), including the administration of mind-altering drugs in situations where, in Gottlieb’s words, “the unwitting and total lack of awareness on the part of somebody who was being interrogated that way might have been the key thing.”
At one point, Senate staffers asked Gottlieb about a document indicating that one interrogee had been secretly given a large dose of LSD that induced a “severe classic paranoid reaction” so extreme that he was declared mentally ill by an equally unwitting psychiatrist and was thus “discredited in the eyes of the group with which he had been working.” Gottlieb said that “it had been recognized that this kind of thing might be a need that P-1 [LSD] might help with, to make somebody behave erratically for the purpose of his colleagues losing faith in his ability to act responsibly.”
Other parts of the hearing focused on Gottlieb’s involvement in CIA assassination plots, especially those targeting Cuban leader Fidel Castro, and its support to the activities of other federal agencies through MHCHAOS, the subject of the earlier Rockefeller Commission report. The Committee also asked Gottlieb about his own experiences taking LSD, which he characterized as “disorienting” and “otherworldly.” Gottlieb said that LSD “gave you propioceptions,” which he said meant “perceiving feeling in yourself as opposed to feelings of things outside yourself, like seeing a door as opposed to feeling something inside your own body.”
Details about MKULTRA and related programs first emerged in the mid-1970s alongside revelations about CIA assassination plots and other misdeeds that were exposed in leaks to the media and in official investigations, most notably by the Church and Pike committees and the Rockefeller Commission. In the late-1970s, the CIA’s Victims Task Force reached out to presumed victims of the CIA’s experiments, some of whom later filed lawsuits after learning that the Agency had secretly drugged them or members of their families.
As author Stephen Kinzer wrote in Poisoner in Chief, his 2019 biography of Gottlieb, it was in 1975 that journalists writing about revelations from the Rockefeller Commission “pierced Gottlieb’s shroud of anonymity for the first time” after stories linked him to the death of Army scientist Frank Olson, drug tests on unwitting U.S. citizens, and the destruction of records related to these programs. “Gottlieb was an obvious target” according to Kinzer. His chief bureaucratic ally, Richard Helms, who had been named CIA director in 1966, had been fired two years earlier. MKULTRA “was no longer well regarded.” Perhaps worst of all, “he was tainted by the fact that his Technical Services Division had collaborated with the Watergate burglars.”
But while declassified records and other evidence show that U.S. research into human behavior control and efforts to operationalize these methods extended across multiple U.S. agencies and involved numerous officials, few, if any, were more central to these programs than Gottlieb, who was involved in nearly every aspect of the program, including research, field tests, and the use of these methods in intelligence operations. The declassified evidence also shows that Gottlieb was a key bureaucratic player who signed off on hundreds of MKULTRA subprojects and who developed clandestine relationships with universities, prisons, hospitals, private laboratories, and private foundations that made it difficult to trace the programs back to the Agency.
See, also, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Gottlieb -- https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Sidney_Gottlieb
https://www.msn.com/en-us/society-culture-and-history/pop-culture/what-was-project-mkultra-inside-the-cia-s-mind-control-experiments-that-may-have-involved-charles-manson/ar-AA1Aw4ZM
There is nothing like an ongoing story that admits thoughts of spin-off happenings.
Charlie Manson, Charlie Kirk, each with his own place in Americana legend. Bless the Charlies.
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