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“The World No Longer Takes Trump Seriously” tops a Friday article in The Atlantic by Tom Nichols. Donald J. Trump, a man very much “not in full,” a man who’s spent his entire adult life complaining that “the world is laughing at us” (him), finds himself dismissed as a clown by the very dictators club he is desperate to have welcome him. <sad trombone>

The harder Trump tries, the harder he fails. And the more damage he does to his “Make Me Great” agenda, the more Americans pay for it in loss of services and international respect.

Max Boot this morning examines Trump’s pointless, silly, and illegal procalamtion that he’s changed the name of The Department of Defense to the Department of War. This comes on the heels of the military strike last week that killed 11 on a speedboat in the Caribbean:

The strike is a troubling new chapter in a trend that began in 2001, and continued through Republican and Democratic administrations, with the United States employing missile and drone strikes to kill suspected terrorists without benefit of trial. The administration is piggybacking on that history by designating Tren de Aragua as a foreign terrorist organization. But calling it a terrorist group doesn’t automatically give the president the power to kill its purported members.

(Trump should instead go to a gun show and buy something in a larger caliber than his willy.)

Trump is now committing war crimes on top of human rights violations for which at minimum, in a just universe, an indictment from the International Criminal Court (ICC) would prevent him from visiting his extraterritorial properties should he leave office without (likely) facing U.S. indictments. <louder sad trombone>

Max Boot writes this morning:

Senior officials, indeed, seem to revel in their contempt for the rule of the law. Hegseth said on Friday that the “War Department” would be concerned with “maximum lethality, not tepid legality.” On Saturday, Vice President JD Vance, posting on X, called the strike on the alleged drug-smuggling boat “the highest and best use of our military.” When an online critic argued that “killing the citizens of another nation who are civilians without any due process is called a war crime,” Vance replied: “I don’t give a s— what you call it.”

In Trumpistan, the law is what Trump says it is.

Maybe there will be an ICC indictment in Vance’s future as well.

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It’s not just L.A. and Chicago

Don’t think AG Pam Bondi’s shock troops are focused solely on high-profile targets like large cities and name-brand universities. The Trump DOJ has given notice that any attempt by your local government to remedy harms to Black people from historic discrimination will be viewed as “unlawful race-based discrimination” against white people. DEI and all that.

This item popped up over the weekend from the Asheville Watchdog (byline Andrew R. Jones and Dan DeWitt):

Citing potential violations of federal civil rights laws, the U.S. Department of Justice has sent a letter to Buncombe County threatening to investigate and take enforcement against the county if it approves recommendations from the Asheville-Buncombe Community Reparations Commission, according to a DOJ letter obtained Friday by Asheville Watchdog.

The DEI police are here. Read the letter.

The letter dated Sept. 4 came one day after the Reparations Commission briefed Buncombe commissioners at their regular meeting about its final report. The commission was created in March 2022 as part of Asheville’s historic effort to provide reparations for Black residents who had suffered systemic racism across generations.

The final report included 39 recommendations in five areas: criminal justice, economic development, education, health and wellness, and housing.

“The U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division has recently become aware of concerning recommendations presented to you by the Asheville-Buncombe County Community Reparations Commission,” the DOJ letter read.

“After our initial review, we are deeply concerned that many of the recommendations, if implemented, would violate federal civil rights laws,” the letter continued, citing both the federal Fair Housing Act and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

The DOJ refused comment on the letter.

The Reparations Commission report makes recommendations meant to “repair generations of harm experienced by Black residents across five key areas: criminal justice, education, housing, economic development, and health & wellness.” Can’t have any of that. Nope.

The Watchdog has more background.

Bullies gonna bully

Trump’s weaponized DOJ means to bully into submission (or into silence) those not in alignment with its Make America Great Again efforts to put certain people in their place.

Dwight Mullen, a retired University of North Carolina Asheville political science professor and the former chair of the Reparations Commission, said its recommendations were clearly supported by evidence generated in an exhaustive years-long process that included extensive community input as well as the hiring of a consultant to quantify the impact of racial injustice.

The findings also parallel a decade’s worth of reports researched and written by his students for the State of Black Asheville initiative.

“There’s consistency there, and the Trump administration has responded by, well, let’s cut off the data … because somehow that’s racist,” he said.

Still, Mullen said, his initial impulse is to advise the county to temporarily table the decision about whether to support the recommendations because the legal fight would sap the limited funds available to address the results of racial injustice.

“The resources we have can’t compare to the resources that can be marshaled by the federal government,” he said. “It’s an unfair fight.”

Pam Bondi is getting her crimestopping tips from Libs of TikTok.

One day before Dhillon issued her letter, she posted on X, “The folks in Buncombe County and Asheville NC have heard from @CivilRights tonight. If they pass an illegal, race-based program, they will Find Out … we are serious about ending DEI racism in America!” 

The post was in response to a post, tagged to Dhillon’s office, from the far-right Libs of TikTok’s account, which blasted the reparations commission’s proposals. 

“How is this real,” Libs of TikTok posted. “Asheville, NC passed a $2.9 million reparations policy. Includes free transportation only for Black pregnant women and funding for housing only for Black people. This isn’t legal!”

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Coming soon? Casting a vote for a Democrat (especially a Black one) is discrimination against white Republicans.

Update: “Solely”

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Killing cartel members who poison our fellow citizens is the highest and best use of our military.

— JD Vance (@JDVance) September 6, 2025

We are hearing a whole lot of chest thumping from MAGA leadership these days about how America is declaring war on drug dealers. They have deployed Navy destroyers to patrol Venezuela ostensibly to root out the drug gangs that are killing Americans. That post above from JD Vance is a good example of the hysteria they’re ginning up. They’re literally making a case that they have the right to summarily execute anyone they think is a drug trafficker, no need for any proof because the danger is so extreme.

I’ve already written about one of Trump’s favorite despots, former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, is now sitting in The Hague awitingtrail fro comes against humanity for doing exactly what Vance is crowing about. So there’s that.

There’s also this:

I asked why most [people at a Bitcoin conference] seemed enthusiastic about Trump. There was his increasing closeness to crypto-enthusiasts like Kennedy; his stated willingness to embrace crypto-friendly policy; and also, notably, his promise to release a now forty-year-old man from prison: Ross Ulbricht.

Ulbricht was pardoned last week, at the close of the second day of Trump’s Presidency, a day after Trump’s pardon of roughly fifteen hundred people involved in the January 6th insurrection. The delay had caused some of Ulbricht’s acolytes to worry. “People were posting in our chat, like, ‘O.K., there’s an hour and a half left of Day One . . . ’ ” Rich Clarke, the bitcoin meetup group’s organizer, who works in real estate, told me. “And a lot of my friends on Facebook were posting things like ‘Hope It Happens.’ ” He went on, “I think it was a shrewd move to pardon Ross sort of all on his own, after Trump did the mass pardons. It kind of gives the gesture more gravitas.”

In 2011, Ulbricht, an Eagle Scout from Austin, Texas, founded Silk Road, an online black market that existed until his arrest, in 2013, for crimes related to drug trafficking, money laundering, and computer hacking. According to authorities, more than a million transactions took place on Silk Road, out of the government’s regulatory reach, generating more than two hundred million dollars in revenue. Drugs like methamphetamine, cocaine, and heroin made up a huge portion of the site’s sales, from which Ulbricht apparently took millions in commissions. Silk Road “lowered the barriers to drug dealing by enabling drug dealers to reach customers online they could have never met on the street,” a federal prosecutor said in a closing argument. (Prosecutors also presented evidence that Ulbricht was involved in a murders-for-hire plot, but the government admitted that there was no evidence that the alleged targets had been harmed, and charges were not pursued.) In 2015, Ulbricht, who went by the dark-Web sobriquet Dread Pirate Roberts—a reference to a shifting character in “The Princess Bride”—received two life sentences without the possibility of parole.

Donald Trump, scourge of drug and sex traffickers, pardoned one of the most notorious drug and sex traffickers in modern history to fulfill his promise to Bitcoin bros in the campaign — and keep them on his side as he makes billions from his own crypto investments as president.

This is what he wrote on Truth Social when he signed the pardon:

“I just called the mother of Ross William Ulbright to let her know that in honor of her and the Libertarian Movement, which supported me so strongly, it was my pleasure to have just signed a full and unconditional pardon of her son, Ross. The scum that worked to convict him were some of the same lunatics who were involved in the modern day weaponization of government against me.”

Hey, he needed the votes and wanted to make some money. What else could he do?

And anyway, it’s not like he’s latino or Black so it’s fine. Carry on.

Yes, he is declaring war on an American city. Good times. She tried to warn America but they were obsessed by eggs and couldn’t hear it.

Seems like a lot….

Josh Marshall wrote something intriguing this morning that I highly suggest you read in its entirety. I don’t know quite what to make of it but it’s worth keeping in the back of your mind. An excerpt:

Yesterday Speaker Mike Johnson was on the Hill talking to reporters running Trump defense on the Epstein files. It sounds like pretty standard stuff — and then he says this: “When he first heard the rumor he kicked [Epstein] out of Mar-a-Lago. He was an FBI informant who tried to take this stuff down.” It’s an odd moment. Because Johnson says it in this kind of off-handed way and without explanation like it’s just one in a litany of talking points. But he clearly suggests that Trump played some role bringing about Epstein’s downfall, that he was an FBI informant who presumably told the authorities about Epstein’s sex crimes. The clip got a lot of attention on social media, unsurprisingly. One of Trump’s top surrogates is suggesting that far from being implicated in Epstein’s crimes, Trump is some secret good guy in the shadows, the guy who out of the limelight helped the authorities bring Epstein to justice.

Total fantasy, right?

Well, this reminded me of something I saw in one of those recent interviews with journalist Michael Wolff, who has been out in the media letting everyone know that he has some large quantity of taped interviews with Epstein from during Trump’s first presidency but before his rearrest and eventual suicide.

Wolff said that Epstein suspected that Trump was the guy who ratted him out to the authorities. So maybe some version of Johnson’s claim isn’t that far-fetched. But of course this isn’t actually exonerating at all. In fact, it implicates Trump about as badly as anything we’ve heard to date. You can’t tell what you don’t know. Trump was in a position to rat out Epstein because he knew all about his operation and had for years. They were close carousing buddies for years, partying and trying to one-up each other, competing to bed young women. Whether that also included girls under 18 for Trump we don’t know for certain. But we have abundant evidence about their carousing and bro-one-upsmanship with women just over 18. Even if he never touched a girl under 18, Trump clearly knew Epstein was. If he’s the one who ratted Epstein out to the authorities leading to his 2008 plea deal, that only confirms his knowledge more clearly.

But the details of why Trump appears to have turned on Epstein are key too. Wolff lays out the details starting just after minute 32 in this interview, which you can watch on Youtube. There’s a lot going on here. So I’ll try to walk you through the key points. (For more detail and flavor, I strongly recommend watching that five or six minute part of the interview.)

Of course he knew all about it. He was part of it. We’ve seen the video of him at the party with Epstein macking on the young cheerleaders at Mar-a-lago. This was supposedly in 2000. Maybe none of those girls were under 18 but plenty were probably right around that age — the age of Don Jr and Ivanka. Trump would have been 53 at the time.

He was friends with Epstein for 15 years, during which time they both owned model agencies, which were nothing more than a form of slavery with plenty of rumors about sex trafficking in that business. Trump’s employed plenty of underage girls.

Marshall speculates about the Trump Epstein breakups and presents a case that Trump might very well have dropped a dime on his good buddy when they fell out over a potential money laundering scheme around a very expensive piece of property. This might explain a bit about the sweetheart deal Epstein ended up getting — bodies buried etc. Any, well worth reading the whole thing.

I can’t stress this point enough: You can’t tell what you don’t know. This isn’t an accusation. It’s formal logic. So even if we accept the idea that Trump played a role in Epstein’s downfall, it’s not exonerating. It shows what we’ve long suspected: that Trump had known about Epstein’s operation for years and was fine with it. (That’s assuming for the moment he wasn’t a direct participant — it’s the weekend, I’m being generous.) He only made a call when Epstein was threatening to expose a money laundering scheme.

Wolff said this a few weeks ago, apparently on the basis of recorded interviews from 2018 and 2019. But last night I saw a few articles from that period that strongly hinted at something like this. So I suspect reporters had heard something about this but couldn’t quite nail it down. In other words, I think this has been known as a rumor at least for some time.

So why did Johnson say this?

It’s conceivable, I guess, that he was just riffing and that there’s nothing to it. But that’s a helluva riff. I don’t think you’re just spitballing and land on the idea that the president of the United States was a confidential source who had inside knowledge and started the Epstein investigation. My best guess is that Johnson said this because Epstein was right and Trump did rat him out to the authorities. But as we said, this is not a good story for Trump, so why say it? Again, the best explanation is that it’s in those files the DOJ is sitting on. The White House fears it’s going to come out and so they’re putting the best spin on it they can. Trump was a real life Bruce Wayne type richie, wheeling and dealing by day, helping the authorities take down bad guys in the shadows. With Trump’s most ardent supporters, they might get some traction with that. But again, as noted above, it’s actually super damning. Yeah I knew he was a big time pedophile and we were big pals and partied together all the time and I was fine with it. But then he tried to expose my money laundering scheme so I called my friends at the FBI. I don’t think that’s a great story.

I think the money laundering angle might just be one of the incentives to keep this whole thing under wraps as well.

Interesting stuff. I don’t know if we’re going down more rabbit holes or not and if I had to guess, none of this is going to see the light of day unless there is a wholesale change in the government and our political system. Stranger things have happened I guess.

This woman believes that Trump signed an executive order eliminating all taxes for anyone who makes under $120,000 a year:

What do you get when you combine:

An Appalachia Education, Cult of Personality, Arrogant Delusion, Willful Ignorance, Misinformation, Blue People, and Head full of Lice?

I would imagine it would look something like this: pic.twitter.com/qqZgb1zYMP

— ⚓️ 🇺🇸 Proud Navy Veteran (@naretevduorp) September 6, 2025

When I saw this I wondered if this was a common delusion among the MAGA cultists. It turns out that it is. She got the number wrong but it didn’t come out of nowhere. This is from last February:

The Trump administration’s latest tax policy quasi-proposal, announced by Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick in an interview with CBS News, is for the elimination of taxes for folks making less than $150,000 per year.

Obviously, Trump can’t actually sign an executive order to do such a thing but he could certainly put on one of his little shows and pretend he can. So far, he hasn’t done that. His rationale is that THE TARIFFS!!! will bring in so much money we won’t really need an income tax again. Of course, we’ll be paying for those too but whatevs…

Ok. But this woman should consider this before she gets behind that idea:

If, along with extending the TCJA tax cuts that disproportionately benefit high-income earners, the Trump administration intends to eliminate the income tax for individuals making less than $150,000, it raises the obvious question of who will be left shouldering the tax burden. The answer is either the middle class or no one—because both Social Security and Medicare will be shut down.

Back in the alleged golden era before there was an income tax which we didn’t have such things as social security and Medicare. Most old people died in penury and they died much younger. But that seems to be the plan. Just look at “MAHA.” If they have their way, most of the worker drones will be killed by the next pandemic so we won’t have to worry about it.

I think what is most astonishing about people like the woman in that video is that she’s so very sure of herself. I think that’s what MAGA has given her — confidence that her instincts are correct and a feeling of belonging to a large group of people who agree. It’s too bad her instincts are so wrong and that her arrogance is going to destroy her — and the rest of us too. I hate to say it but I think that’s part of the appeal. She may go down but as long as we go down too, it’s worth it.

He is just so depressed these days. Even his BFF Kim Jong Un has betrayed him. Sad!

He’ll always have Bolsonaro…

Mommy always said there were no monsters

Via Yahoo News:

A terrified young boy from Firth, Idaho, burst into tears, in video captured by his mother, after learning that President Donald Trump was real.

This video, filmed by Annabelle Dalley, shows her young son Andy asking, “Is Donald Trump a real person?” with tears in his eyes.

“Yes Donald Trump is a real person,” Dalley answers, before her son erupts in tears.

“Andy was watching videos on YouTube, realized he is of Mexican culture and was in fear of being deported due to Trump being the president,” Dalley told Storyful.

“Andy was born here!”

Not that it will matter.

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Recall this scene from Aliens (1986)?

Newt: My mommy always said there were no monsters – no real ones – but there are.
Ripley: Yes, there are, aren’t there?
Newt: Why do they tell little kids that?
Ripley: Most of the time it’s true.

This is not one of those times.

(h/t NMB)

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Coax them off their couches

Donald Trump paused last week from adding more tacky, gold-painted plastic accents from Home Depot to the walls of the Oval Office. He announced he’d changed the name of the Department of Defense to the Department of War (which he can’t legally do without an act of Congress).

“We’re going to go on offense, not just on defense,” boozy Secretary of Whatever Pete Hegseth told reporters. Trump is offensive, all right, and clearly fantasizing about having troops shoot Americans in the streets of Chicago to show he means business. Not economic business. He’s trashing that.

But Trump could fill the White House with black velvet art and talk out of a bruised hand puppet and MAGA Republicans would smile and praise him like Peter Falk does the dictator in The In-Laws (1979). The 25th Amendment will not save us.

The spirit of 1776 has been dormant for the longest time. But if Trump succeeds in anything positive in his second term, it may be in awakening it.

Americans filled the streets of Washington, D.C. and Chicago on Saturday to protest Trump’s federal takeover of the District on the pretext of fighting crime. But you’d have to look below the fold of the Washington Post to know it. The New York Times is keeping its masthead down as well. So is The Los Angeles Times.

So from The Associated Press:

Thousands of protesters marched across Washington, D.C., on Saturday in one of the largest demonstrations against President Donald Trump’s federal takeover of policing in the nation’s capital.

Behind a bright red banner reading “END THE D.C. OCCUPATION” in English and Spanish, protesters marched over two miles from Meridian Hill Park to Freedom Plaza near the White House to rail against the fourth week of National Guard troops and federal agents patrolling D.C.’s streets.

The “We Are All D.C.” protest — put together by local advocates of Home Rule and the American Civil Liberties Union — was perhaps the most organized demonstration yet against Trump’s federal intervention in Washington. The president justified the action last month as a way to address crime and homelessness in the city, even though city officials have noted that violent crime is lower than it was during Trump’s first term in office.

I’ll get to why big-city protests won’t save us either in a moment. First some images.

District of Columbia

People from all over are showing up for DC. This is not a moment. It’s a movement. We are united in our demands. We are all DC! #FreeDC

— Free DC (@freedcproject.bsky.social) 2025-09-06T18:08:27.816Z

This protest is larger than his inauguration. 🤣

— Raider (@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social) 2025-09-07T00:40:05.758Z

Check out the MASSIVE crowd in DC marching to the White House to protest the federal takeover of the city! #FreeDC! pic.twitter.com/OF2LlOfkc1

— Nick Knudsen 🇺🇸 (@NickKnudsenUS) September 6, 2025

“This is no longer just a march—this is a movement,” tweets Brian Allen. Let’s hope he’s right.

🚨 MASSIVE: Crowds are now marching toward the White House in what’s being described as the largest protest yet against Trump’s military occupation of D.C.

From Malcolm X Park to Freedom Plaza, demonstrators are demanding an end to the federal takeover. This is no longer just a… pic.twitter.com/cUk6aQkYiR

— Brian Allen (@allenanalysis) September 6, 2025

Chicago

The Associated Press has an extensive photo galley here.

The streets of Chicago are full with tens of thousands of people standing up to ICE and Trump.

Join us.

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— Kat Abughazaleh (@katmabu.bsky.social) September 6, 2025 at 7:53 PM

Tonight's protest march in Chicago really benefiting from golden hour.

— Dave Byrnes (@djbyrnes1.bsky.social) 2025-09-06T23:20:57.815Z

People gather Saturday afternoon in Chicago to protest President Trumps intent to increase immigration enforcement actions in the city pic.twitter.com/7pYnLOEtdm

— armando l sanchez (@mandophotos) September 6, 2025

Thousands—and thousands—of protesters are flooding downtown Chicago right now for a massive regional Palestinian solidarity rally. Traffic on Michigan Avenue is snarled.

Buses from Ohio, Michigan and other Midwestern states have arrived. The crowd is fired up. pic.twitter.com/Og7jTmXlo6

— unraveled (@UnraveledPress) October 21, 2023

Now what?

Heather Cox Richardson observes:

Trump’s threats against American citizens are outrageous, but they also feel desperate. Trump’s popularity is tanking, the economy is faltering, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is facing a chorus of calls to resign or be fired, and the American people are taking to the streets. Thousands of people turned out today in Washington, D.C., for the “We Are All D.C.” march to protest the presence of troops in the city, and in Chicago for the “Chicago Says No Trump No Troops” protest. The protests are notable for the seas of signs the peaceful protesters carry.

All that is fine. But note that major national news outlets gave the protests the big ignore.

I attended a weekly protest in Hendersonville, NC a few weeks ago. About two dozen people. Two German tourists who stopped by were astonished that weekly protests were occurring in small towns across America. All they see is coverage of the big events, and as Saturday’s protest coverage shows, not much of that.

A friend at a political event last night (my fourth of the day) had just come from an organizing meeting where their national group was considering mounting a big rally in Washington, D.C. Considering the one-and-done nature of such events, perhaps more (and weekly) local events are more productive. To push back on Trump, people have to take to the streets in numbers not seen since the Women’s March.

And not the usual suspects who always take to the streets. The sort of people who’ve never protested must start. For that, they must overcome their reluctance and get the message that, yes, the country is in crisis. They must see that people like them, you, people from their neighborhoods, take Trump 2.0’s actions seriously enough make enough noise to get noticed. If we believe the nation is in crisis, clicktivism and writing your representatives is not enough. Your neighbors don’t see that. Back up words with public actions. Throw a better party. Make it easier for the couch-sitters to say, “I’ll have what she’s having.”

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It’s been another one of those news cycles, hasn’t it? Believe me…I feel your pain.

So stop doomscrolling already, grab your favorite tranquilizer (prescription or otherwise), don a pair of noise cancelling ‘phones and settle back for another one of my chillaxing “Book of Saturday” mixtapes (vol. 4, if you’re counting). I’ve sequenced the songs in a manner designed to evoke and sustain a particular mood-so for maximum effect, may I suggest that you listen to it in order. And remember, I am not a licensed music therapist, I just play one on TV.

Peace.

Ultra Vivid Scene – “Mirror to Mirror”

Pink Floyd – “Remember a Day”

John Foxx – “Europe After the Rain”

The Cleaners From Venus – “Girl on a Swing”

New Musik – “This World of Water”

Wire – “Map Ref 41 Degrees N 93 Degrees W”

Fous de la Mer – “Watersong”

Steve Hackett – “Icarus Ascending”

Kevin Kendle – “Cumulus”

Cocteau Twins – “Lazy Calm”

Robin Trower – “Daydream”

Greenslade – “Bedside Manners Are Extra”

Emerson, Lake, & Palmer – “From the Beginning”

Jakko – “Dangerous Dreams”

The Apartments – “Things You’ll Keep”

The Go-Betweens – “The Streets of Your Town”

Jay Semko – “dueSouth Theme”

Jethro Tull – “Skating Away on the Thin Ice of the New Day”

John Martyn – “Over the Hill”

Family – “Observations from a Hill”

Peter Gabriel – “Solisbury Hill”

Pete Townshend – “Pure and Easy”

Camel – “Highways of the Sun”

Gil Scott-Heron – “I Think I’ll Call it Morning”

Gordon Lightfoot – “Beautiful”

Previous posts with related themes:

Book of Saturday

Book of Saturday II

Book of Saturday III

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