Monday Roundup: "Gone With the Facts"

It is Trans Day of Visibility: GO OUT AND BE SEEN!!!!!

The International Transgender Day of Visibility takes on new significance as Trump's administration implements policies that erase transgender recognition from government. Since January, Trump has signed orders banning transgender troops, ending support for gender-affirming care for minors, and prohibiting trans women in female prisons—without using the word "transgender." Rachel Crandall-Crocker, who founded the day in 2009 to celebrate living trans people, says it now represents resistance. While visibility has increased, activists like Raquel Willis emphasize the need for action beyond visibility. Ash Orr, lead plaintiff challenging Trump's passport policy, describes public transgender existence as "an act of resistance." I mean, Im in a dress, I did my makeup today, I’m headed to the local Starbucks for my morning coffee, you’d best believe I will be seen today whether the republican fuckwads want it or not. Fuck them.

Fuck The Economy

Trump's damn economy teeters on the bleeding edge this week. Wednesday's "Liberation Day" slams down tariffs like a hammer to the skull, making trade partners feel the goddamn pain. The stench of economic anxiety fills the air—consumer confidence has crashed to shit while inflation fears burn in everyone's throat. Trump's already slapped tariffs everywhere, the metallic taste of steel and aluminum duties lingering on the tongue. He swears these fucking tariffs will make America "rich," but economists' warning bells screech in our ears: stagflation could choke the life out of growth while prices blast through the roof, squeezing Americans until they scream. (TheHill)

Fuck Around And Find Out: Dont Fucking Touch the Judiciary

Senate Republicans are telling their House colleagues to shove those fucking impeachment articles against Judge Boasberg straight up their asses. The goddamn judge, who dared block Trump's deportation bloodbath of Venezuelans, has these power-hungry House Republicans foaming at the mouth. But Senate GOP heavyweights like Cornyn and Grassley are slamming their fists down, growling that this shit is "dead on arrival." The raw stench of desperation reeks from Speaker Johnson as he threatens to gut courts like fish. With only 53 Republican seats, they'd need to seduce 14 Democrats to convict—a fucking fantasy that makes seasoned senators' skin crawl. Instead, they're grinding their teeth and focusing on strangling nationwide injunctions through legislation. Ive said this before, and Ill say it again now, impeaching a judge might be one thing, but unseating the judge via conviction in the Senate, is another thing entirely. And thats a thing that no matter how much Donaldo JizzInHisOwnFace wants it, seducing 14 senators to do so, WONT happen. Mark my words. (TheHill)

Susan Wiles: Opens Her Fucking Mouth

Susie fucking Wiles, Trump's shadowy puppet master who's been pulling strings from the darkness, finally crawled into the spotlight for a nauseating Fox News interview with nepotism poster child Lara Trump. This 17-minute circle jerk barely scratched the surface as these two power-hungry women stroked each other's egos. The absolute goddamn hypocrisy spewed from Wiles' mouth when she dared claim education as her "legacy" while helping Trump gut the Department of Education like a fish. What utter bullshit! This administration is brutally dismantling a $268 billion agency that protects vulnerable kids, leaving disabled students and poor schools to rot in hell.

Susan Wiles: The Trump Ally Who Could Fuck Him With No Lube

McMahon, that WWE hack, is already slaughtering the department, firing half its staff and shutting down offices while gleefully titling her bloodthirsty memo "Our Department's Final Mission." Jesus Christ! The NEA is screaming warnings about the coming apocalypse—exploding class sizes, eviscerated job training, college costs that'll crush working families—while Wiles sits there with her pristine lobbying hands that have never taught a single fucking child. And the cherry on this shit sundae? Wiles subtly throwing Trump under the bus about his election delusions. What a backstabbing, two-faced power player in this administration of soulless monsters. (MotherJones)

Unions: Trump FuckSwallow Hates Them, But They Can Save Us

The fucking soul of America's unions is withering while democracy bleeds out! As teachers, we're drowning in our own goddamn apathy while power-hungry bureaucrats in our unions suck the lifeblood from rank-and-file members. I watched in horror as my New Hampshire classroom became a battlefield—books ripped from students' hands by censorship laws while our union leadership sat on their privileged asses.

The gut-wrenching truth? Union bosses are choking on their complacency, masturbating to their "service model" while real teachers get slaughtered on education's front lines. We clawed our way into leadership races, hearts pounding, veins bursting with rage against the machine. Our members' eyes blazed with newfound fire as we snatched one-third of votes from the cold, dead hands of the establishment. Los Angeles teachers showed what happens when you set this fury loose—they tore down barriers and built something fucking beautiful. Now we're fighting like hell to resurrect democracy's corpse in our unions before education's rotting carcass becomes another casualty in America's descent into fascism. (TheProgressive)

Marine Le Pen Convicted of Embezzlement

Holy shit, far-right demagogue Marine Le Pen just got her ass handed to her by a French court that wasn't buying any of her embezzlement bullshit. The verdict is a goddamn sledgehammer:

• A four-year prison sentence (with two years suspended)

• Immediate ban from seeking elected office for at least five years

• The remaining two years to be served under house arrest with ankle monitoring

This conviction exposes the massive fucking scam she and her cronies ran, stealing a staggering €4.5 million from European taxpayers between 2004-2016. Le Pen and 24 other sleazy party members were caught red-handed funneling money meant for actual Parliament work into their own corrupt political machine.

After the verdict dropped, the political fallout was immediate and brutal:

• Jordan Bardella (National Rally party president): Claimed "French democracy was killed" by the verdict

• Viktor Orban (Hungarian Prime Minister): Expressed solidarity with "Je suis Marine!"

• Yanis Varoufakis (leftist former Greek finance minister): Warned the ruling could backfire, stating "France's neofascists will only benefit from this, just as the MAGA lot did"

Varoufakis, no friend to the far-right, still thinks this court-ordered political banishment is a fucking disaster waiting to happen. He's worried this heavy-handed "lawfare" will create a martyr complex that could energize Le Pen's base and strengthen the far-right movement that normal people have been fighting tooth and nail to contain. (CommonDreams)

Tariffs Are Fucking Stupid

Wall Street is losing its goddamn mind as Trump's tariff apocalypse looms. The financial bloodbath is getting ugly:

• The S&P 500 has tanked more than 5% this year, spiraling toward its first quarterly loss since September 2023 and its most brutal ass-kicking since September 2022

• Global stocks got absolutely hammered Monday as investors braced for the ominously named "Liberation Day" on Wednesday—when a fresh hell of reciprocal tariffs will rain down on the economy

• US markets opened in the gutter Monday with the Dow plummeting 300 points (0.75%), S&P 500 crashing 1.3%, and Nasdaq Composite getting absolutely demolished by 2.3%

Goldman Sachs is panicking, slashing its year-end S&P 500 target to 5,900 from 6,200 (after already gutting it from 6,500) and jacking up its recession probability forecast to a terrifying 35% from 20%.

Economists are sounding alarm bells that these reckless tariffs could trigger a perfect storm of economic disasters—inflation skyrocketing, growth grinding to a halt, and unemployment surging. The financial world is drowning in a shit-storm of uncertainty as no one knows just how catastrophic the full impact of these tariffs will be. (CNN)

Trumpty Dumpty Speaks

Trump's Stern Warnings to Russia and Iran

In a Sunday interview with NBC News, President Donald Trump issued harsh criticisms of both Russia and Iran.

Regarding Russia, Trump expressed anger at Vladimir Putin:

"I was very angry — pissed off — when Putin started getting into (Ukrainian President Volodymyr) Zelensky's credibility."

Trump threatened economic consequences if Russia doesn't cooperate on Ukraine peace talks:

"If a deal doesn't come together and he thinks "it was Russia's fault," he would put secondary tariffs on "all oil coming out of Russia."

Concerning Iran, Trump delivered an explicit military threat while pushing for a new nuclear deal:

"If they don't make a deal, there will be bombing."

He also warned of potential economic sanctions:

"There's a chance that if they don't make a deal, that I will do secondary tariffs on them like I did four years ago."

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei responded Monday, stating Iran would "respond in kind to any US military action."

Trump's confrontational stance marks a shift from his previous statements about Zelensky and echoes his first-term approach when he withdrew from the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement. (CNN)