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Pam Bondi's Attack On Free Speech Sparks Bipartisan Fury

Critics are destroying U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi for demanding businesses fire or punish employees who exercise free speech — after years of defending businesses’ right to deny customers with whom they disagree.

While speaking to Fox News on Monday, Bondi demanded a print business allow a customer to print posters for slain MAGA influencer Charlie Kirk.

“If you want to go and print posters with Charlie's picture for a vigil, you have to let them do that. We can prosecute you for that. We have right now our civil rights unit looking at that,” Bondi told Fox.

But social media exploded at Bondi’s claim, with critics reminding Bondi that Republicans have championed businesses’ right to deny services to LGBTQ customers.

“Republicans fought hard for years for the right of businesses to refuse any job they want even if it was on the grounds of legally protected civil right status. They were also always lying. It was always a deliberate and knowing lie,” wrote Kyiv-based journalist Anthony Bartaway, on X.

“Masterpiece Cakeshop, there's a call on hold for you,” wrote First Amendment lawyer Adam Steinbaugh, referring to a Colorado cake shop that the Supreme Court declared had a right to deny service to a same-sex wedding.

“Declaring that a private business refusing to print a vigil poster for the President's friend is a civil rights violation is an interesting legal argument,” said news anchor Kyle Clark, also referring to Masterpiece Cake Shop, in Colorado.

Other free speech enthusiasts pounced on Bondi’s comment: “This is psychotic,” posted Reason magazine reporter Billy Binion on X. “The federal government cannot, in fact, prosecute you for refusing to print a message you disagree with — which was core to Republicans' ideology until all of 5 seconds ago. I am speechless.”

Binion later added that Bondi is “saying things on national television that someone would be able to debunk after taking intro to civics. It is not a good look for our country.”

“Fact check: they cannot, in fact, prosecute you for refusing to print Charlie Kirk's picture for a vigil,” posted First Amendment and defamation lawyer Ari Cohn, adding, “Pam Bondi's competence to practice law is very much in question.

Earlier, Bondi attempted to create a difference between “hate speech” and “free speech,” and warned that the federal government will “absolutely target” hate speech, to which commenter Robert Sterling responded “policing hate speech is not the government’s role.”

Free speech legal advocate organization TheFire.org also slapped Bondi’s comment, pointing out on X that “there is no hate speech exception to the First Amendment.”

Reprinted with permission from Alternet.

Justice Department Erases Damning Report On Far-Right Violence

404 Media reports the Department of Justice has taken down a study showing white supremacist and far-right violence outpaces “all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States.

The DOJ website hosted the study, conducted by the National Institute of Justice, until September 12, 2025.

In its place is the message: “The Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs is currently reviewing its websites and materials in accordance with recent Executive Orders and related guidance. During this review, some pages and publications will be unavailable. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.”

The report What NIJ Research Tells Us About Domestic Terrorism revealed that “Militant, nationalistic, white supremacist violent extremism has increased in the United States. In fact, the number of far-right attacks continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism.”

The document reports “far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left or radical Islamist extremists,” since 1990, “including 227 events that took more than 520 lives.”

In this same period, the report claimed, “far-left extremists committed 42 ideologically motivated attacks that took 78 lives.”

“We don’t know why the study about far-right extremist violence was removed recently,” writes 404 Media reporter Emanuel Maiberg, “but it comes immediately after the assassination of conservative personality Charlie Kirk, accusations from the administration that the left is responsible for most of the political violence in the country, and a renewed commitment from the administration to crack down on the ‘radical left.’”

Reprinted with permission from Alternet

Leavitt Delivers White House Platform To A Plagiarist And Fabricator

The New York Times reports Podcaster Benny Johnson has been a regular in the Oval Office since President Donald Trump and his aides invited right-wing entertainers into the press room. What’s less regular is his honesty.

The day after Trump announced the federal takeover of law enforcement in Washington, the White House invited Johnson to the press briefing, where he told Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt and the rest of the press corps about recording murders on a camera outside his home, and that his “house was set ablaze in an arson” attack.

Claims by critics that Washington wasn’t dangerous, he said, were “lies.

But the Times reports police records showing no murders on Johnson’s block since at least 2017. And his home was not burned. It was a neighbor’s house that caught fire, according to the city’s fire department in 2021.

“Such details didn’t stop Ms. Leavitt from leapfrogging off his comments to promote the president’s federalization of Washington’s law enforcement,” writes Times reporter Ken Bensinger.

Johnson’s history does not suggest honesty, Bensinger adds. He got his start in media in 2011 at right-of-center website The Blaze before jumping to BuzzFeed News in 2012, where he was fired two years later, after editors discovered plagiarizing in 41 of his articles. Johnson apologized, but the Times reports three years later, his plagiarism continued at conservative news site the Independent Journal Review. He was suspended and then demoted after assigning an article that falsely implied that Obama had influenced a federal judge’s ruling that adversely affected Trump. Johnson also had to retract an article that falsely attributed information to Antifa.

And then, last fall, the Times reports, federal prosecutors revealed charges against two Kremlin operatives who had paid $10 million to a company called Tenet Media to produce video content as part of an influence operation. Johnson was one of the influencers contracted by Tenet to create that content.

He described himself as an unwitting victim of the Russian scheme.

More recently, the Times reports, Johnson gained nearly three million new subscribers to his YouTube channel from April to July of this year, while also showing a suspicious drop in total monthly views of his videos by more than 40 million — an overt suggestion of manipulation.

“Clearly we’re dealing with an administration that’s far more focused on narratives than truth, and this conduct is consistent with that,” Freedom of the Press Foundation Director Seth Stern told the Times. “It is awful that real journalists who attempt to report real news and feel constrained by the pursuit of truth and don’t make stuff up are no longer able to get the access they once had.”

Read the New York Times report at this link.

Reprinted with permission from Alternet.

Maryland Governor Mocks President 'Bone Spurs' In Social Slapdown

President Donald Trump spent early-morning hours scrolling the internet for ammunition to use against his latest political enemy, the Daily Beast reports

Democratic Maryland Gov. Wes Moore has been publicly ragging the president over his faulty recall of their interactions as part of his attack on Trump’s gerrymandering and threats to deploy National Guard tropps to blue states.

The Beast reports Trump responded over the weekend with a social media rant in which he threatened to pull federal funding from Baltimore. This prompted the governor to mock the president’s physical ability and lack of military service.

“President Bone Spurs will do anything to get out of walking — even if that means spouting off more lies about the progress we’re making on public safety in Maryland,” Moore posted on social media. “Hey Donald, we can get you a golf cart if that makes things easier. Just let my team know.”Moore is a combat veteran who served in the U.S. Army, while Trump received five military draft deferments and did not serve.

In response to the dig, Trump made an inexplicable claim earlier this week that Moore had called him the “greatest president of my lifetime” when they met in 2024. Moore quickly dispelled that claim. On Wednesday, he also slammed Trump’s “absolutely comical memory,” a label that Trump apparently took seriously enough to research a response on hours later. The Beast reports that just after 2 a.m. that night, Trump reposted a year-old article from The Hill about Moore apologizing for mistakenly claiming on a 2006 White House Fellowship application that he had received a Bronze Star.

“But is that the end of his political career. He was very disrespectful to the Office of the President!” Trump complained in a Truth Social post.

Moore was deployed to Afghanistan from August 2005 to March 2006, and had listed the Bronze Star on his application among his many other honors, despite never having received that particular award.

Moore called it an “honest mistake” on social media, saying: “My deputy brigade commander felt comfortable with instructing me to include the award on my application for the Fellowship because he received confirmation with the approval authority that the Bronze Star was signed and approved by his senior leadership. In the military, there is an understanding that if a senior officer tells you that an action is approved, you can trust that as a fact.”

Reprinted with permission from Alternet

'Political Death Warrants' For GOP Members In Trump Gerrymandering?

Politico reports President Donald Trump is "signing the political death warrants" of a handful of blue state Republicans with his gerrymandering push.

Trump’s crusade for an unusual mid-decade redistricting of the country’s largest red state "predictably triggered a vow from the country’s largest blue state to do the same,” writes Jonathan Martin said. “… How could Trump not grasp that California Gov. Gavin Newsom would respond by swinging with [Shohei] Ohtani-like fervor at an opportunity to insert himself in the national debate, build a trans-continental fundraising list and demonstrate his mettle to Democratic primary voters?”

Blue state Republicans could have told him, according to sources.

“He was not given the full picture of the ultimate consequences,” said Rep. Kevin Kiley, a California Republican whose seat will likely be eliminated should Democrats have their way with a new map.

A better question, says Martin, is whether Trump cares that he may sacrifice the careers of a handful of blue state House GOP incumbents to temporarily grab more red seats to save his mid-term agenda.

“If Texas wants to rig the maps, California will make sure they pay a price,” the governor told me. “They want to steal five seats? We’ll match and secure more — and turn the tables on their entire strategy.”

Martin is quick to point out that both parties have abused the process of gerrymandering states to allow politicians to cherry-pick voters to preserve their incumbency.

But Republicans are “lunging for additional safe GOP seats in the middle of the decade because [Trump] finds the stigma of an impeachment hat trick humiliating.”

Trump would likely win in the immediate as additional red states like Ohio, Missouri. and Indiana “salute him and overhaul their congressional boundaries to squeeze out the few Democrats left in their delegations,” Martin said, and this would be possible if the Supreme Court guts the Voting Rights Act before next year’s elections.

States like New York are currently constrained by its voter-approved independent redistricting commissions, but those could dissolve as blue state Democrats declare a gerrymandering arms race and erase Republican House veterans such as California Reps. Darrell Issa and Ken Calvert, and Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY.).

“This creates a situation where you’re going to lose blue state members, which over the long haul are critical to keeping the majority,” Lawler tells Martin, describing it as “mutually assured destruction once people go full throttle.”

Read the full Politico report at this link.

Who Is Paying For Trump's Gold-Encrusted White House Ballroom?

President Donald Trump garnered a wave of social media shaming after video emerged of him walking along the roof of the West Wing and examining the White House grounds from above as he plans construction on a new $200 million ballroom off the East Wing.

CBS News Reporter Jennifer Jacobs was among reporters catching Trump as he toured the grounds from above, accompanied by architect James McCrery.

"Extremely rare sight: a president taking questions from reporters from the roof of the West Wing," Jacobs reported. "Trump was up there to assess the White House grounds as he plans new construction"

"'Taking a little walk,' he told reporters," she continued. "He was making plans for something that he said 'goes with the ballroom which is on the other side.' He jokingly answered one question about what he wants to build: 'Nuclear missiles.'"

“‘Just another way to spend my money for the country,' he told us,” Jacobs wrote on X, describing the president's shouted answers to the press as a "gaggle."

The Hill reports the president is claiming the construction of the ballroom “will be covered by Trump and other donors,” but critics said on X that Trump has provided no proof that he is using his personal money to finance the construction.

“… there is no evidence the President is using personal funds to pay for this project,” said one commenter.

Trump also told reporters: "Anything I do is financed by me so it's contributed — just like my salary is contributed, but nobody ever talks about that."

But other critics questioned the purpose of the construction. “Trump’s not building for the country; he’s building for the cameras,” said one. “Ballrooms don’t solve inflation. Chandeliers don’t lower healthcare bills.”

Common Dreams writer Jessee MacKinnon called the plan a “spectacle, financed by national rot.”

“The timing is not subtle. It arrives alongside his ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill,’ a federal budget that slashes Medicaid, food stamps, public housing, and climate programs, all while inflating the national deficit past $40 trillion,” wrote MacKinnon. “… We are not witnessing innovation. We are watching reruns of Versailles.”

Last week, ‘Table for Five’ host Abby Phillip called the project inconsistent with the Trump administration’s alleged position on government inefficiency.

“They're currently … cutting [the budget] in the big, beautiful bill and Medicaid … and then they're saying, on the other hand, ‘let's renovate the Oval Office, let's renovate the East Room, let's renovate the Rose Garden.' I mean, it's hard to understand,” Phillip said.

Online critics remained skeptical that taxpayers aren’t somehow footing the bill.

“This man’s wealth has doubled since taking office in 2017. The self-dealing is ceaseless,” one critic wrote.

"Me describing a snowman in a game of charades," posted CNN reporter Andrew Kaczynski alongside a video of Trump gesticulating with his hands.

Trump surveys the roof of the West Wing, hints at renovations to come pic.twitter.com/jcFTFPGs6u
— DJ Judd (@DJJudd) August 5, 2025

Watch the videos here or at this link.

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Reprinted with permission from Alternet.

'Be Quiet!' Trump Barks As Reporter Asks About Shifting Epstein Stories

CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins called out President Donald Trump over the shifting reasons behind his breakup with convicted pedophile and former close friend Jeffrey Epstein.

The White House had previously claimed Trump “kicked [Epstein] out of his club for being a creep,” but while in Scotland this week Trump amended that answer, claiming his falling out with Epstein was because Epstein was poaching employees from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, in Florida. He even name-checked one underage victim who Trump believed worked in the Mar-a-Lago spa.

Trump actually surprised reporters Tuesday with his admission that deceased Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre was among the staffers Epstein “stole” from him. Giuffre, who recently died of suicide, was a teenage employee when Epstein recruited her. She later accused him of trafficking her and forcing her on his adult friends, using his accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, as a groomer.

“The President’s answers today about his fallout with Jeffrey Epstein have only raised new questions about what the President knew exactly about the late sex trafficker’s misconduct,” reported Collins on her show The Source with Kaitlain Collins.

Collins herself was on hand when Trump returned from Scotland, and she asked him whether Epstein’s overtures to his underage staff ever raised questions about his conduct.

“Mr. President, you said earlier that Jeffrey Epstein was stealing young women,” said Collins from the press gaggle. “You said Jeffrey Epstein was stealing young women from your spa. Did that raise alarm bells for you?”

“Be quiet,” Trump answered and focused on inquiries from another reporter.

Reprinted with permission from Alternet

Why Trump's 'Erratic' Move Against Iran's Nuclear Proliferation Will Backfire

President Donald Trump says he's bombing Iranian sites to deter nuclear proliferation, but Washington Monthly writer Matthew Cooper says Trump’s chaotic behavior is giving non-nuclear nations more reason than ever to develop their own nuclear weapons.

It’s about self-defense, says Cooper, citing a recent report by Stockholm International Peace Research Institute Director Dan Smith.

“[Trump’s] erratic temperament and manic ability to shred once sacred alliances have made it much more likely that Seoul, Warsaw, Taipei, or even Berlin and Tokyo will want to consider spinning centrifuges,” said Cooper, arguing that the only thing keeping some nations from going nuclear for decades was the protection the U.S. provided them up until Trump.

“Can anyone count on the American nuclear umbrella when the president … seems more likely than not to jettison NATO? French President Emmanuel Macron has not only returned to Gaullist ideas of French nuclear independence …but has also offered to bring other European nations under Paris’s nuclear protection. In the United Kingdom, Prime Minister Keir Starmer has made similar moves.”

Cooper said “they would be foolish not to” with Trump in office, and that only goes for our allies. Our enemies have even more reason to enrich uranium, and quickly.

“If you’re Nicolas Máduro, the Venezuelan strongman, and the U.S. has vowed regime change and told the U.S. Supreme Court that your country is currently invading America thus allowing mass deportations … how would you assess the situation in Iran this week and the events of last 25 years?”

“The lesson for 21st-century dictators like Máduro is that you can be invaded/thrown out of power if you do not have a nuke,” Cooper said. “… the calculus of risk and reward has made nukes seem more attractive.”

Other, more prosperous nations, like Taiwan and South Korea can’t count on the same White House that is seemingly willing to jettison its promise to protect allies like Ukraine.

“Will Trump keep American forces on the Korean peninsula, where they have provided a nuclear tripwire for more than 70 years?” asked Cooper. “Will the new center-right government in Seoul be able to rely on it, or will it want its own deterrent?”

Cooper said there’s no way to know right now what was “buried or unleashed by Sunday’s American bombing of Fordow, Natanz, and other Iranian sites, except sadly, a growing desire in many of the world’s capitals for a nuke of one’s own.”

Read the full Washington Monthly report at this link.

Reprinted with permission from Alternet

DeSantis In Free Fall Over Fundraising Scandal Tied To Wife's 'Charity'

One of the few contenders combative enough to take on President Donald Trump in a Republican presidential primary, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, is falling hard and fast, critics say.

DeSantis’ re-election was one of the few bright spots for Republicans who had predicted a “red wave” election in 2022 but saw GOP candidates get rejected up and down the ticket— with almost every Trump-endorsed candidate losing to a Democrat. In a blue map of victories that year, however, Florida remained solidly red with DeSantis carrying the state by 20 points despite a strong showing from Democratic challenger and former governor Charlie Crist.But that was then, and this is now, reports Axios, which posted a rundown on DeSantis’ surprising plummet within roughly two years.

"Be careful how you treat people on the way up because you may encounter the same people on the way down," said Curt Anderson, veteran consultant and top adviser to DeSantis' predecessor, Rick Scott, reports Axios. "... You see falls in politics, but not like this. It's stark. It's fast. It's a made-for-TV movie. Let's not forget: He was ahead of Trump in polling in 2022 and would've run against [President Biden or Vice President Harris] and won."But Axios reports DeSantis' stumble “began with his failed presidential primary bid against Donald Trump last year,” and his “vindictive and pugilistic style of politics left him further isolated in the Florida Capitol” at a time when he really needs allies.

Mere months ago, Desantis’ wife Casey DeSantis was considering a bid to succeed her husband as governor, but her state-backed charity, Hope Florida, is now enmeshed in a scandal after the charity received $10 million in secret settlement money from a Medicaid provider days before the charity sent that same amount to two DeSantis’-favored political groups.

In Mississippi, a Republican governor’s name can be on text messages involving the misuse of welfare money without that governor being charged or investigated. But in Florida, House Republicans and independent observers are openly alleging DeSantis’ arrangement amounted to an illegal siphoning of Medicaid funds.Now with his lame-duck popularity crumbling amid party in-fighting, his wife possibly compromised by scandal and no presidential appointment obvious, DeSantis’ career in the Republican Party is unsure.

“Ron DeSantis went from Rupert Murdoch and every Republican billionaire telling him he could be president to sniping at hecklers at a fish shack in Destin," said former Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz. “It's quite a fall."

Reprinted with permission from Alternet

'Piggish Is Too Kind': Trump Ripped For Slurring Late President Carter

President Donald Trump could not acknowledge Jimmy Carter today without using the death of the former President to dig at his own presidential predecessor Joe Biden.

“Jimmy Carter died a happy man. You know why? Because he wasn't the worst president. Joe Biden was,” Trump told a crew of reporters at the White House.

The statement drew immediate reaction from online critics from all over the world. Harri Ohra-aho, senior advisor for defense and former security director of the Finnish Military Intelligence Centre described Trump as too stupid to see anything as more than spectacle.

“Whatever one may think about the policies of previous presidents, this is probably the bottom line,” Ohra-aho posted. “Everything seems to be just a show for the current one.”

National Review senior editor Jay Nordlinger was similarly despairing, saying, “I don’t think an American president should talk this way. Then again, I could say this every day. And tens of millions of Americans lap up Trump like milk.”

Boston University College of Education Professor Jerry Berger had his own reaction, posting, “Piggish is too kind a word to describe this individual.”

The statement also presented an easy target for Occupy Democrats Executive Editor Grant Stern, who called the claim: “Half true. Half False. Trump is definitely the worst president, and it's not even close,” while Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) said, “Jimmy Carter, if he died a happy man, it was because he lived a life of service, and followed a path laid out by Jesus.”

Other critics, like Atlanta Journal-Constitution columnist and Forbes writer Sophia Nelson could only muster a single-word reaction: “Jesus…”

Carter’s memory is etched in the minds of millions of people, regardless of political disposition. In 1982, he established the Carter Center to promote and expand human rights, which earned him a Nobel Peace Prize in 2002. Among his many accomplishments, Carter spent his retirement building homes for the homeless, and he is attributed as the chief architect behind the near eradication of the African Guinea worm, one of humanity’s only species-specific parasites.

He also likely did not vote for Trump.

Reprinted with permission from Alternet.

Saying Trump Issues 'An Invitation To Corruption,' Schiff Promises Hearings

Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA.) outlined how meticulously President Donald Trump has cultivated the potential for corruption in and around the Oval Office.

“There is a culture of impunity in the White House,” Schiff told MSNBC anchor Nicolle Wallace on Thursday. “They basically have defanged the justice department of any meaningful oversight by installing (Trump’s) criminal defense lawyers to run that department. They fired the truly independent inspector generals. They've done away with all the safeguards. So, in that environment, you have these people of very dubious morals who are essentially told 'there's no one watching. You can do whatever you want. No one's going to hold you accountable.' An invitation to corruption.

Trump appointed his legal defense lawyer Todd Blanche, from his hush money criminal trial, to serve as the second-highest ranking Justice Department official. In March, he also fired at least 20 leaders of federal offices created by Congress to hold administrations accountable.

Schiff also warned that, unlike past administration, the modern Republican Party is beholden to Trump. All but five Republicans voted in favor of an effort to dismiss Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial for “incitement of insurrection” a mere 20 days after Trump led the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol siege.

“Republicans didn't want to investigate Russia’s interference in our election. They didn't want to investigate the president's effort to extort [Ukranian President Volodymyr] Zelensky into helping him in the next election.”

Instead, it fell to Democrats to conduct investigations as a minority, and Schiff said that’s how it will go again this year.

“[T] his is what we're going to have to do now,” Schiff said. “We're likewise seeing people step forward. I did a hearing a few days ago with Rep. Jamie Raskin, where we had witnesses who both quit or were fired at the Justice Department because they saw corrupt things going on that they would not participate in, and I think that hearing was powerful. We need to do a lot more of that.”

“We're not without our tools, even in the minority,” he added.

Reprinted with permission from Alternet.

Treasury Secretary Reportedly 'Looking For Exit' To Save Credibility

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is allegedly leaping for a window after dashing his “credibility” against the rocks of Trump’s disastrous tariffs, claims MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle.

“Some [sources] have said to me, he’s looking for an exit door to try to get himself to the Fed, because in the last few days he’s really hurting his own credibility and history in the markets,” Ruhle told MSNBC’s Morning Joe, according to The Daily Beast.

Bessent, who built a $500 million fortune as a hedge fund manager before working for Trump and entangling his name in Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariff, was not a full-throated supporter of earlier tariff proposals. After Trump announced his new trade duties this week and went to play golf, Bessent found himself urging international allies not to retaliate.

“I would advise none of the countries to panic. I wouldn’t try to retaliate because as long as you don’t retaliate this is the high end of the numbers and I think the market could have certainty that this is the number, barring retaliation,” Bessent told Bloomberg. “We got a ceiling, and we can see if there’s a different floor.”

Many international trading partners refused to let Trump trample them, however. China launched reciprocal tariffs, accelerating a trade war with US goods and sending the Dow Jones down more than 2,200 points by the Friday bell ring. Canada — once a staunch U.S. ally — also will match US tariffs, according to Prime Minister Mark Carney.

Ruhle said her sources claim Trump is “not listening” to his own treasury secretary, dangerously alienating one of the more serious voices familiar with market trends in the administration.

“[Bessent] actually understands how the markets work and, what’s happening right now, is only going to hurt markets," she said.

As president-elect, Trump claimed in November that Bessent “will help me usher in a new Golden Age for the United States.”

“Together we will Make America Rich Again, Prosperous Again, Affordable Again, and, most importantly, Great Again,” Trump said.

Reprinted with permission from Alternet.

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