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Trump suffered 'mental anguish' from disputed CBS News interview with Harris, lawyer says​

NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump suffered “mental anguish” from CBS News' editing of a “60 Minutes” interview with Democratic opponent Kamala Harris last fall, his lawyers are arguing in court papers.

Trump's status as a “content creator” was also damaged by attention given to the interview, lawyers said. It was part of their argument opposing CBS parent Paramount Global's effort to dismiss the president's $20 billion lawsuit against the company, filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Amarillo, Texas. Trump has claimed the editing was done to advantage Harris, which CBS rejects.

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...S&cvid=92a4f8e813874384b68a4c9e6968d631&ei=15
 
Salon

Donald Trump is becoming disillusioned​

Long before Donald Trump ever ran for office, he had a thing for Russian President Vladimir Putin. Way back in 2007, he told CNN's Larry King: “Look at Putin — what he's doing with Russia — I mean, you know, what's going on over there. I mean this guy has done — whether you like him or don't like him — he's doing a great job in rebuilding the image of Russia and also rebuilding Russia period.” And he's always been pretty clear on specifically what that meant. In his 2011 book called "Time To Get Tough: Making America #1 Again," he wrote:

Putin has big plans for Russia. He wants to edge out its neighbors so that Russia can dominate oil supplies to all of Europe. Putin has also announced his grand vision: the creation of a ‘Eurasian Union’ made up of former Soviet nations that can dominate the region. I respect Putin and the Russians but cannot believe our leader allows them to get away with so much – I am sure that Vladimir Putin is even more surprised than I am. Hats off to the Russians.”
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It's possible, of course, that Trump's ghostwriter put that in, but assuming he ran it past Trump, it appears that at least back then, Trump understood Putin's larger ambitions and didn't seem to have a problem with them. In recent years, he's been much more cagey about Putin's long term plan, blaming "the West" and NATO and even blaming Ukraine for failing to give Putin everything he wanted without a fight.

More:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...S&cvid=e92b2f941ffb4acea6e521246efad373&ei=10
 
...so say the Gynocrats, with their zombie-stooge pResident, and their MK-Ultra personification of Gaia as a stand-in.

I for one am uninterested in how many moar paid and indoctrinated writers (and AI bots) the Party of Chaos can solicit/hire/buy/program to say Trump-Is-Hitler.
 

Humans give off a light that is extinguished in death, study reveals​

While auras may come from the realm of pseudoscience, all living beings do emit a faint light, invisible to the human eye—one that is extinguished upon death.

This is the conclusion of a team of researchers from the University of Calgary, Canada, who used a special camera to study such "ultraweak photon emission" (UPE) in mice.

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/tech...S&cvid=11f954b25bfe44bbbcb843d29e116582&ei=26
 
Shit needs to stop.

Bonnie the dog joined a Fitler Square family. Complaints over poop and a defamation lawsuit followed.​

Before Bonnie the dog joined their family, Laura and Sharif Alexandre say, they had a respectful relationship with their neighbors in Fitler Square.

The Alexandres adopted the rescue in 2023, according to social media posts. Shortly afterward, Bonnie became the center of a controversy that allegedly led to heated arguments, use of ultrasonic repellent devices, a Philadelphia Department of Licenses and Inspections complaint, “no trespooping” signs, and, now, a defamation and harassment lawsuit against the Alexandres’ next-door neighbors.

The source of the dispute: Bonnie’s bathroom habits.

Dog defecation and concerns over cleanliness can be hot-button issues in Philadelphia, with residents expressing frustration that some owners leave on the street stinky monuments commemorating their canines’ bowel movements. There is even a lucrative market for “poop scoopers” in the region.

And dog waste isn’t just an ill-scented annoyance. The Philadelphia Water Department urges dog owners to be vigilant about scooping because dog waste is a pollutant.

More shit here:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/pets-and-...lawsuit-followed/ar-AA1FLSKJ?ocid=socialshare
 
More food for thought and a tune. Take the article fwiw and dyodd. Enjoy the tune.

Does Trump Actually Think He’s God?​

“I’m supposed to be dead,” Donald Trump said, the day after he got shot at his rally last summer in Butler, Pennsylvania. “I’m not supposed to be here,” he said four days after that. “But something very special happened. Let’s face it. Something happened,” he said two days after that. “It’s … an act of God,” he said the month after that. “God spared my life for a reason,” he said in his victory speech at Mar-a-Lago in November. “I was saved by God to make America great again,” he said in his inaugural address at the Capitol in January. “It changed something in me,” he said in his speech at the National Prayer Breakfast at the Washington Hilton in February. “I feel even stronger.”

This is new. It’s not how he talked for most of his long and voluble life. He has always, it should be said, seen himself as special, and he has always, of course, been notably self-aggrandizing. But the longtime self-described “fatalist” invariably maintained a sort of shoulder-shrugging acceptance that whatever was going to happen was beyond his or anyone else’s control. Over the last 10 or so months since Butler, however, and especially since his reelection and the start of his second administration, Trump’s outlook has shifted in essence from stuff happens and nothing much matters to something happened and it couldn’t matter more. His rhetoric has gone from borderline nihilistic to messianic.

Full article:


 

Japanese village that built California's fishing industry could become container storage​

From the turn of the 20th century to the early 1940s, a human-made island in San Pedro Bay held a flourishing Japanese American fishing village that helped develop Southern California’s mighty seafood industry.

On Terminal Island, more than 3,000 first- and second-generation immigrant fishermen from Japan, the issei and nisei, pioneered innovative techniques, like 6-foot bamboo poles and live bait, to catch albacore tuna and sardines. Their wives cleaned and packaged their bounties in the canneries.

Then, during World War II, the entire community was uprooted and the village razed. The only remnants of the enclave are a pair of vacant buildings on Tuna Street, now dwarfed by colorful stacks of shipping containers and large green cranes that cover the island.

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/j...S&cvid=190c8f13cc81437287c4978d234a37a9&ei=18
 
Nut job? Attention seeker? I'd say both. But the real loons are the ones who believe this psycho crap. On the other hand...........it's good for a laugh.

Trump shares baseless conspiracy that Joe Biden died and was replaced by a clone​

President Donald Trump has shared a baseless conspiracy theory that former President Joe Biden died and was replaced by a robotic clone.

Late Saturday night, Trump, 78, shared a Truth Social post claiming his former political opponent, Biden, 82, was killed in 2020 and replaced by a clone – unbeknownst to Democrats.

“There is no #JoeBiden–executed in 2020,” the post reads.

The post goes on to claim that the real Biden was replaced by “clones doubles & robotic engineered soulless mindless entities” and that “Democrats don’t know the difference.”

Trump’s supporters were quick to get behind his message, some sharing side-by-side memes of Biden claiming “these are not the same people,” and others egging on Trump for “trolling.”

More laughs:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...S&cvid=b18d6607999c4e36a7d87b50dcc2e28d&ei=25
 
searcher said:
Nut job? Attention seeker? I'd say both. But the real loons are the ones who believe this psycho crap. On the other hand...........it's good for a laugh.

Trump shares baseless conspiracy that Joe Biden died and was replaced by a clone​

President Donald Trump has shared a baseless conspiracy theory that former President Joe Biden died and was replaced by a robotic clone.

Late Saturday night, Trump, 78, shared a Truth Social post claiming his former political opponent, Biden, 82, was killed in 2020 and replaced by a clone – unbeknownst to Democrats.

“There is no #JoeBiden–executed in 2020,” the post reads.

The post goes on to claim that the real Biden was replaced by “clones doubles & robotic engineered soulless mindless entities” and that “Democrats don’t know the difference.”

Trump’s supporters were quick to get behind his message, some sharing side-by-side memes of Biden claiming “these are not the same people,” and others egging on Trump for “trolling.”

More laughs:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...S&cvid=b18d6607999c4e36a7d87b50dcc2e28d&ei=25
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He was.

The robotic meat-puppet was not the Biden of past. His brain was gone - it was obvious.

It's akin to saying, your father died with his stroke; what was left, vegitating in a hospital bed, was just a husk.

Same idea. BIDEN didn't commit election fraud. He didn't facilitate a 40-million-strong invasion. He didn't give hundreds of trillions to NGOs to undercut the nation's borders and upend law-and-order.

His controllers did that. As is coming out now, the vegetable didn't have a clue what was going on. At the VERY LEAST, his Eva-Peron wife knew and aided and abetted - SHE needs to be hanged on national television.

But it wasn't Biden. Of course the SAME Leftists are going to distort and mock Trump's assertion.
 
Fernando talks about Russian spies in this one.

They Pretended to be a NORMAL FAMILY‼️😲​

Jun 1, 2025


6:43
 

Barabak: Yelling, finger-pointing and cursing galore as California Democrats gather near Disneyland​

It’s not easy being a Democrat in these Trumpian times, as each day brings fresh tales of conquest and pillage.

Still, despite all that, 4,000 stiff-upper-lipped partisans showed up in Anaheim over the weekend, seeking solace, inspiration and a winning way forward.

As mouse-eared pilgrims plied the sidewalks outside, the party faithful — meeting several long blocks from Disneyland — engaged in their own bit of escapism and magical thinking.

“Joy is an act of resistance,” state party Chairman Rusty Hicks gamely suggested at a beer-and-wine reception, which opened the party’s annual three-day convention with as much conviviality as the downtrodden could muster.

That's certainly one way to cope.

More:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...S&cvid=2593b350d9884f668c4ab91721f9c542&ei=20
 


Real story

DHS says FEMA head was joking when he said he wasn’t aware of hurricane season​

Acting Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator David Richardson was joking when he said at a meeting Monday that he was not aware of the upcoming hurricane season, the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement.

Reuters reported that Richardson said at a briefing that he was not aware the United States has a hurricane season, confusing staffers. The report, which said it was unclear if Richardson was serious or joking, cited four unnamed sources familiar with the situation.

“Despite meanspirited attempts to falsely frame a joke as policy, there is no uncertainty about what FEMA will be doing this Hurricane Season. FEMA is laser focused on disaster response, and protecting the American people,” a spokesperson for DHS said. The spokesperson added that Richardson is “activated in preparation for Hurricane Season.”

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Trump privately complains about Amy Coney Barrett and other Supreme Court justices he nominated​

President Donald Trump has privately complained that the Supreme Court justices he appointed have not sufficiently stood behind his agenda, according to multiple sources familiar with the conversations. But he has directed particular ire at Justice Amy Coney Barrett, his most recent appointee, one of the sources said.

The behind-closed-doors grievances have been wide-ranging, and while many have been about Barrett, Trump has also expressed frustration about Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, the sources familiar with the matter said. The complaints have gone on for at least a year, the sources said.

The president’s anger, sources said, has been fueled by allies on the right, who have told Trump privately that Barrett is “weak” and that her rulings have not been in line with how she presented herself in an interview before Trump nominated her to the bench in 2020.

“It’s not just one ruling. It’s been a few different events he’s complained about privately,” a senior administration official told CNN.

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/news/content/ar-AA1G0bTW?ocid=socialshare
 
Only in America.................

Trump Appoints 22-Year-Old Ex-Gardener and Grocery Store Assistant to Lead U.S. Terror Prevention​

The inexperienced 22-year-old reportedly tasked by Donald Trump with tackling U.S. extremism was working as a neighborhood gardener just five years ago and in a grocery store as recently as August 2023, the Daily Beast can reveal.

Thomas Fugate, who graduated from the University of Texas at San Antonio just 12 months ago, is currently heading up the Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships at the DHS, as first reported by ProPublica Tuesday.

More:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/t...error-prevention/ar-AA1G8Lca?ocid=socialshare

and:

www.propublica.org

“The Intern in Charge”: Meet the 22-Year-Old Trump’s Team Picked to Lead Terrorism Prevention

One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate is the Department of Homeland Security official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating violent extremism.
www.propublica.org www.propublica.org
 
So. He's a gardener.

What's his university degree in? Leaf-raking physics?

Now, let's see. I have a brother who dug trenches for an electrical contractor and who worked in the back room of a television-repair shop.

While getting a degree in Computer Sciences, and later working with a Fortune-500 company later absorbed by one of the tech monoliths.

He's unemployed, now. That's what tends to happen to IPO millionaires as they get into their sixties. So, what was he? A ditch-digger?

This is a good post - it just shows how worthless the tech autistics (MSN) pretending to be "journalists" really are.
 
Lotta replies to this and they're worth reading (imo.)

 
Just some entertainment. Gotta love Trump soap opera. Lotta truth in here.

How Elon Can Take Revenge On Trump​

Jun 5, 2025
An Open Video Letter To Elon Musk


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:dontknow:

“Ben Shapiro Exposes What No One Else Will Say About Greta Thunberg…”​

 
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