Originally published at: The Contempt of Court Buck Stops With … Kristi Noem?
Not Buying It For One Hot Second For the first time, the Trump administration has provided a federal judge with a list of lawyers and officials it claims were involved in defying an emergency court order that blocked deportations under the Alien Enemies Act while they were underway in mid-March. The new filing in the…
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Happy Thanksgiving!
This is the first Thanksgiving since the death of my old friend Paul Johnson, whose widely published recipe for turkey gumbo I’ll be using Friday.
I have made this turkey gumbo. It is outstanding. Probably the best use of a turkey carcass (yes, even better than a pot of long simmered soup) there is. It is worth the time. That first spoonful is over the moon.
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“Stopped promoting” - as in everyone has to stop. In some ways, scarier than RFK Jr
…second in command at the CDC
“While we encourage each patient to discuss the risks and benefits of vaccination with their provider,” the health department “will no longer promote mass vaccination,” he wrote in an internal memo dated February 13, the same day Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was sworn in as secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services.
HHS did not announce Abraham’s hiring but confirmed his new role. Health newsletter Inside Medicine first reported the news
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A little more on the Swawell civil suit on Pulte.
… abused database access to gin up mortgage fraud claims
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Miller and courtiers. “I know! Besides the ballroom, let’s get him to redesign the Camp David golf course and put his picture on National Park Passes.”
Leavitt: “How about we distract him by telling him he needs a presidential yacht and let him take it from there.”
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So, what do TFG’s sons and “blind trust” managers invest in that he has no influence over?
‘This is truly insane’: Trump stuns with eye-popping multi-million-dollar purchase
Buried within a mountain of financial disclosures made public recently is a potentially multi-million-dollar purchase made by President Donald Trump between August and October, a purchase that has left some critics stunned by its lack of news coverage.
In this administration? “Lack of news coverage” is mundane, not stunning.
“In a normal administration, this would be a huge scandal,”
Well, yeah, there’s the key right there.
The purchase was, according to a report Tuesday from The New York Times, for between $1 million and $5 million worth of corporate debt of the technology company Intel. The disclosure was published amid the Trump administration’s decision to secure a more than $11 billion stake in the company, making the U.S. government hold 10% of the company’s stock.
He’s done the same with Boeing. Those are the only two reported…so far.
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Despite the fact that global warming is not a thing any more since the Orange Carnival Barker started to ignore it, we’ll be having our usual plant-based Thanksgiving tomorrow night — with elote, spanakopita and pumpkin pie all confirmed.
Happy Thanksgiving to TPMers who celebrate! I’d say November has been the first month where there has been some sign of the fever breaking, and for that I am thankful.
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The AEA deportations were one of the White House’s first major moves in its mass deportation scheme, the signature initiative of President Trump’s second term. But we’re supposed to believe that the buck stopped with … Kristi Noem.
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A NYT analysis of the boat strike videos released by the military, mainly focusing on the methods used, and the unusual way the military is showing people killed as a result of an attack. Free gifted link:
What the Pentagon’s Attack Videos Reveal About the Boat Strikes at Sea
The military has released 21 video clips of U.S. attacks on vessels it says are trafficking drugs. But they tell only part of the story.
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Guess this is how he’ll pay for those new passes.
The response on social media has been true TPM!
“If I have to see the stupid f****** president on my National Parks pass, I’m not renewing them.”
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“Tepublican”? How out of touch is this guy? Folks have been saying “Trumpublican” since 2016! Come on, dude! It’s even got YOUR NAME in it!
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“Specifically, the administration places ultimate responsibility for the decision to deplane the Venezuelan men in El Salvador on DHS Secretary Kristi Noem. Perhaps.”
Umm. Lock her up!? Maybe? At least she hasn’t been granted immunity by the ruling sextumvirate.
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“White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller ‘orchestrated’ the process in the West Wing in tandem with Noem.”
I mean, duh. So Miller’s using Noem as a human shield. Typical.
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A more extensive list of the bonds purchased - not stock, he’s going for their debt, which he can have an effect on in the Oval Office. But of course, he doesn’t control the purchases.
As reported by Reuters, the disclosure shows Donald Trump bought bonds for Facebook parent company Meta Platforms, retailer Home Depot, CVS Health, banking giant JP Morgan, and investment conglomerates Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. According to Bloomberg, Trump also bought bonds for Netflix, UnitedHealth Group, and Boeing.
The president also acquired bonds in semiconductor chipmakers Broadcom, Qualcomm, and Intel.
In an earlier filing reported by Bloomberg, Donald Trump revealed that he had invested at least $103.7 million in 690 bond transactions from the time he was sworn into his second term of office in January 2025 to early August 2025.
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Perhaps T-rublican, since evidently non-consensual contact is ok with this bunch. Or, perhaps Troublican.
(I was thinking about publicans in the Bible, who were tax collectors and generally viewed with contempt. Many of the verses citing them involve sinners repenting, so I guess that won’t be applicable.)
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I’m OK with “TPublican,” since you need several rolls of TP to clean up after their shitshow.
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