I had the first real conversation with my BIL that I've had since Trump was elected literally minutes after this passed.  He was watching the coverage.

They understand what this bill means and they are in shock.  Angry and I would say confused,  
They know local hospitals and nursing homes will close. They know people who will probably get kicked out to the street.

Like Jim Jones passing out grape-flavored cyanide in the jungle, Trump is demanding loyalty unto political death...and once again, the red-hatted true believers (and those who play them in Congress) are lining up for their final gulp.

Except instead of dying in a jungle compound, they're about to die politically in swing districts and suburbs, while trying to explain why they gutted Medicaid to protect tax breaks for billionaires. Before the poison closes their eyes, the pain will show up in polls, town hall meetings, and the tragic deaths of the very people they were elected to represent.

Halema'uma'u, Kilauea
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park
Island of Hawaii
5:45am HST, Sunday, June 29, 2025

This eruption is taking place some 32 miles from our house in Hilo. For some perspective and scale, that lava fountain in the distance was estimated by park volcanologists to have been about 1,100 feet tall.

Alligator Alcatraz Isn't Just a Prison. It's a Mirror. And It's Asking Us: Who Are We, Really?

What's being built in the Florida Everglades, for example -- what they're calling "Alligator Alcatraz" -- is not just another immigration facility. It's a political prison engineered not merely to detain, but to humiliate, dehumanize, and broadcast terror.

Today, DeSantis is using FEMA funds intended for hurricane victims to build migrant cages. Tomorrow, it could be protesters. Journalists. Teachers. You.

Paramount will settle President Trump's lawsuit over a "60 Minutes" interview with Kamala Harris for $16 million, the company announced late Tuesday.

CBS News' parent company worked with a mediator to resolve the lawsuit. Under the agreement, $16 million will be allocated to Mr. Trump's future presidential library and the plaintiffs' fees and costs. Neither Mr. Trump nor his co-plantiff, Texas Rep. Ronny Jackson, will be directly paid as part of the settlement.

The FCC's approval is necessary for Paramount's $8.4 billion merger with Skydance Media to move ahead, and the agency didn't make a decision on the transaction by the informal 180-day deadline to review mergers, which passed in May. Carr (Federal Communications Commission Chair) said Thursday that the FCC was still reviewing the transaction.

According to three sources with direct knowledge of the comments, the president told Republicans at this meeting that there are three things Congress shouldn't touch if they want to win elections: Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security."

Said one member to Trump: "But we're touching Medicaid in this bill."

Document Casts Doubt on White House's Claims About Deported Venezuelans
The document from El Salvador seems to undermine a position that lawyers for the Justice Department and top Trump officials have taken time and again in front of a judge in Washington.

For the past several months, the Trump administration has insisted in court that it has no control over the nearly 140 Venezuelan immigrants it deported to a prison in El Salvador this spring under the powers of a rarely used wartime statute.

Both in filings and at hearings, Trump officials have asserted that because the men are being held by jailers in El Salvador, the Salvadoran government has control over their fate. The administration has repeatedly made that claim to argue that it has no real authority to bring the immigrants back itself.

On Monday, however, lawyers for the Venezuelan men produced a document indicating that the government of El Salvador recently told the United Nations that it, in fact, bears no legal responsibility for the men. The document, written in response to a U.N. inquiry examining some of the deportations, also claimed that the Salvadoran government was merely doing the United States' bidding when it accepted the men into its prison system.

"The United States Department of Justice this week released nearly 11 hours of what it described as `full raw' surveillance footage from a camera positioned near Jeffrey Epstein's prison cell the night before he was found dead. The release was intended to address conspiracy theories about Epstein's apparent suicide in federal custody. But instead of putting those suspicions to rest, it may fuel them further," Wired reports.

"Metadata embedded in the video and analyzed by Wired and independent video forensics experts shows that rather than being a direct export from the prison's surveillance system, the footage was modified, likely using the professional editing tool Adobe Premiere Pro."

On its face this is laughable but it's interesting he would go this route.  To me it says, he knows it's coming out.  He's trying to get ahead of whatever is in there.

We have a PERFECT Administration, THE TALK OF THE WORLD, and "selfish people" are trying to hurt it, all over a guy who never dies, Jeffrey Epstein. For years, it's Epstein, over and over again. Why are we giving publicity to Files written by Obama, Crooked Hillary, Comey, Brennan, and the Losers and Criminals of the Biden Administration,

They created the Epstein Files, just like they created the FAKE Hillary Clinton/Christopher Steele Dossier that they used on me, and now my so-called "friends" are playing right into their hands. Why didn't these Radical Left Lunatics release the Epstein Files? If there was ANYTHING in there that could have hurt the MAGA Movement, why didn't they use it? They haven't even given up on the John F. Kennedy or Martin Luther King, Jr. Files.

From the release:

As a sixth-generation family farmer, I know what it's like to have to fight tooth and nail for everything you have, and still get crushed by an economy that's rigged against you," Shoffner said. "Tom Cotton voted against the Farm Bill twice. I'll fight for a Farm Bill that finally gives Arkansas farmers room to breathe. His tax cuts are for land barons, and he just blew a massive hole in our national debt. I'll cut taxes for blue-collar workers, fight to restore Medicaid, save Social Security, cut the deficit, and be radically focused on bringing costs down for regular people. I'll fight this rigged system every day--Tom Cotton's the guy who did the rigging.

About her experience:

Shoffner is a graduate of Newport High School, Vanderbilt University, and the Clinton School of Public Service. In addition to running her family farm, she is also the founder and CEO of Delta Harvest, which works to build local food infrastructure in Arkansas, support fellow farmers, and bring opportunities back to struggling communities. Her experience spans farming, business, nonprofit leadership, and advocacy, but is always rooted in fairness, grit, and getting things done.

Their new SCAM is what we will forever call the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax, and my PAST supporters have bought into this "bullshit," hook, line, and sinker. They haven't learned their lesson, and probably never will, even after being conned by the Lunatic Left for 8 long years.

Let these weaklings continue forward and do the Democrats work, don't even think about talking of our incredible and unprecedented success, because I don't want their support anymore!

He put Jeffery in the same bucket with Russia Russia Russia.  

From ABC

Leavitt also addressed photos circulated online that show minor bruising on the back of the president's hand, attributing the bruising to "minor soft tissue irritation from frequent handshaking and the use of aspirin."

and

Is the Hispanic Red Wave for Donald Trump Starting to Crash?
In the Rio Grande Valley, bordering Mexico, ICE raids have emptied construction sites and restaurants. Recently turned Republicans are beginning to have doubts.

Which made me realize this area where I live is a lot less white that it once was so that I would notice that.

I was reading about the area and the camp.
The area is close to 90% white.
The main one was a Non-denominational Christian girls camp.  

When I was young Non-denominational meant probably liberal hippy.  Thats not what it means these days.  It basically, according to the definition, is people who want to make it up as they go based on their own interpretation of the Bible.

In the future it would be great if before you go on live tv trim you damn nose hair.

Which is very good.

And he talked about "wonderful secrets".