Fall semester
Classes begin Tuesday,
September 2, 2025 at
all campuses
First 5-week, first 7-week,
first 10-week, and full
term (14-week) classes
set to begin!
lakemichigancollege.edu
Sunday, August 31, 2025
Ed O'Keefe interview with Kristi Noem, Trump's DHS secretary (FACE_THE_NATION) Aug. 31 episode (edited out were false allegations against K.A. Garcia)
www.cbsnews.com/video/full-interview/homeland-security-
secretary-kristi-noem
The CBS veteran news reporter / specialist
first asks her about the date of deployment to Chicago
and what "using L.A. deployment as a model" mean.
Her reply : I won't disclose the details . . .
O'Keefe clarifies -- will National Guard troops back up
the ICE agents in Chicago as they did in Los Angeles?
Secy. Noem: I won't speak to the specifics of the operation. . .
O'Keefe: . . .You said L.A. "wouldn't be standing without
the deployment of the CA National Guard backing the ICE
agents" ? ? ?
Noem: we have arrested 5,000 dangerous criminals there . . .
horrendous crimes, trafficking of children, violence, drugs. . .
Give credit to the work of Pres. Trump and his administration. . .
VIDEO of Q/A with Gov. Pritzger of Illinois
O'Keefe: Madame Secy, your response:
Noem: For 13 years, Chicago had more murders than any other
city. . .I was a governor and I recognize the responsibility to
families, aunts, cousins, parents, . . .
O'Keefe: Are you planning to expand these operations to other
cities in all 50 states? For example, will Boston be next?
Noem: We haven't taken anything off the table. We'll make sure
we have the resources to go in and protect those innocent family
members . . .We make agreements all across the country with
sheriffs, city officials, . . .
O'Keefe : you've mentioned Democratic-majority cities but nothing
about Dallas, Oklahoma City which are Republican mayors and governors
cities in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi which also have high crime
rates / murder statistics. . .Are there plans to go to "Red Cities" / States
in this kind of way?
Noem: Absolutely, Every city. . .
O'Keefe: You plan to hire 10,000 new agency employees, cutting training
down from 13 weeks to 8 weeks. Signing bonuses, age caps have been
released. . .Did the hiring standard lower in order to meet the 3,000 arrest
quota per day?
Noem: We are hiring retired law enforcement that already have been
trained . . .
O'Keefe -- example of Kilmar Abrego Garcia -- threat to deport to Uganda
shouldn't he face charges here in THIS country?
// Noem: We will let Pamela Bondi's department make those decisions . . .
he was a known MS-13 gang member . . .a wife-beater, perverted who
solicited nude photos from his fellow traffickers . . .we will consider
all options to deport him. . .to Uganda or where, just not in this country.
Questions on FEMA and 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina . . .
We are more prepared than the last administration to face a catastrophic
emergency / disaster . . .we've done better with the 20 that he's faced
since becoming President . . .Texas, New Mexico, North Carolina. . .
O'keefe: what about recent or retired FEMA managers
who wrote to Congress this week?
Don't you specifically review each of the $100,000 and greater decisions
for spending by FEMA yourself?
NOEM: 5-minute expounding on past scandal-type contracts on meal
delivery and meeting scheduler where email would have sufficed . .
[ clarification of O'Keefe question on letter sent to Congress ]
NOEM: those were not long-term FEMA employees . . .
O'Keefe -- thanks for joining us this morning from Florida
____________________________________________
CBS News editing has been criticized for its handling of this
Q / A just as it was for the 60 Minutes piece that Trump himself
failed to participate in on Oct. 2024 . . .
Niles (MI) H.S. VIKINGS -- face 8 football opponents; Friday night lights beginning Sept. 5, 2025
Niles, Michigan (Berrien County) - SW Michigan High School
won first 2 games in August (pre-season) and Sept. (away).
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Friday Sept. 5 : at Lakeshore
score Niles 16 - Lakeshore 0;
Sept. 12: at Paw Paw
Sept. 19: versus Otsego
Sept. 26: versus Sturgis
October 3: vs. Three Rivers
Oct. 10: at Vicksburg
Oct. 17: vs. Plainwell
Oct. 24: at Edwardsburg
Their pre-season game
against the St. Joseph (MI)
Bears was a victory at home
field on Friday August 29,
2025
House Investigation - James Comer (Kentucky)
By a date in SEPTEMBER
House members will by procedure / protocol
face a vote to discharge the
"EPSTEIN FILES" -- Ro Khanna and Thomas
Massie in a bipartisan effort will force
Mike Johnson & MAGA to face the eventual
truth-telling on the FBI's and D o J's EPSTEIN
Files -- more to come
_________________________________________
Alex Acosta who gave Epstein "sweetheart" deal
in 2019
will face questioning from the House
Investigations Cmte.
democracynow.org/2025/08/26/headlines
August 26 -- Media reports that Investigations
committee (GOP - MAGA) Repr. Comer has
phrased his request
any document or record that
could be reasonably construed
to be a potential list of clients
involved in sex, sex acts,
or sex trafficking . . .
_____________________________________
Friday 22nd web article/posting
epstein-files-land-on-capitol-hill-00519851
Today (Friday 8/22) House
Investigations committee day received from DoJ (Dept. Justice)
files on Epstein & Maxwell -- Friday Aug. 22, 2025
see POLITICO dot-com
/congress-trump-doj-epstein-files.html
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UPDATE (August 18, 2025) House of Repr. (D.C.) Investigations
committee's
GOP/ MAGA leader Chmn. James Comer of KY promises by
August 22 -- to release the "Client List" or
"EPSTEIN Files (Grand Jury)"
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Virginia Giuffre's family
now July 31 is asking:
What did Donald John Trump know
about the crimes of Jeffrey Epstein
and Ghislaine Maxwell?
nytimes.com/2025/07/31/us/politics/Virginia-Giuffre-family-trump-epstein.html
Did Todd Blanche get the nod from Congress to become its "Librarian" last May 12? Wasn't he the one who interviewed Ghislaine Maxwell for 2 days last month?
cnn.com/2025/05/12/politics/library-of-congress-trump-justice-blanche.html
Paul Perkins
Brian Neves
senior lieutenants of D o J underling
TODD BLANCHE (Trump's
chosen lawyer of 2024 (before & after)
who lost at trial for then-candidate Trump's
34 felony convictions, Manhattan)
The two designated subs were not allowed into
the offices. Until Congress itself
gives direction, the Executive Branch lawyers
at Dept. Justice will be frustrated . . .
MAY 15 update
POLITICO fills in details of House
Administration chair & ranking Member
finding out in Nashville, TN of the ouster
of Carla Hayden when meeting with
music industry officials about AI issues.
May 14 POLITICO.com/2025/05/14/library-of-congress-trump-takeover-carla-hayden
Earliest version of Lemonade
According to HISTORY dot-com
the earliest recipe / version of a
lemonade drink in record was
kashkab
made of fermented barley, mint, rue,
Citron (Lemon) leaf
10th Century Egypt
Wildlife Conservationist to headline "Dancing with the STARS" (ABC reality competition)
Robert Irwin
(son of the late Reality
TV Star STEVE IRWIN)
is himself a Wildlife
Conservationist who confirmed
his participation on social media
August 31, 2025
also Andy Richter, comedian - sidekick
Pentatonix singer Scott Hoying
August 2025 blog statistics
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Minneapolis Shooting: NPR rebuts Patel with more Complex Picture: immediate local police offer cautionary presence Ann Arbor, MI
NPR (Friday 29 Aug.)
A day after Kash Patel said the
attack at ASSUMPTION SCHOOL
in Minneapolis was motivated by
Hate-Filled ideology / NPR interviewed
counselors - staff at "Institute for
Countering Digital Extremism"
NPR.org/2025/08/29/. . ./minneapolis-shooting-motive
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St. Francis of Assisi School
2270 E.Stadium Blvd. in Ann
Arbor, Michigan
2 Police officers stationed
outside "out of an abundance
of caution"
mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/
2025/08/police-at-ann-arbor-
catholic-school-as-precaution-
following-minnesota-shooting.html
Thursday August 28, 2025 1 p.m. online article
Acts of Heroism
NY TIMES dot-com
inspiring Media coverage of the
acts of heroism last week
in Minneapolis during
and following the shootings
at Annunciation R. Catholic
Church, Minneapolis, MN
Students and staff shielded
the youngest children,
police officers stopped
victims' bleeding, a nurse
abandoned protocol to hold
a scared child's hand ! ! !
Two assassins -- both Minnesotans -- one alive, one committed suicide after killing children at school's worship
WHAT Motivated the Minneapolis Shooter
who killed 2, injured many including elderly
worshippers at Annunciation R. Catholic,
Minneapolis, MN?
see further: NYTimes.com Analysis piece
8/31/us/minneapolis-school-shooter-motive.html
Despite early and misguided
comments by Kash Patel and
Kristi Noem, Dr. Jillian Peterson
of Hamline University Criminology
dept., St. Paul, MN:
"It's this sort of self-hatred that turns
outward, and then you have this really
angry person who plans to go out in
a blaze of glory". . . The 23-yr.-old
shooter fits a profile of one who shoots
children who themselves are young,
isolated, depressed, and angry individuals
who become obsessed with previous
slayings that have generated extensive
media coverage.
The Minnesota funeral home employee,
a husband and father of 5, on the other
hand, provides an entire set of
confounding explanations :
in a letter to Kash Patel (FBI Director
2025) he called the plot to shot point-
blank at MN State legislators and spouses
part of his "dark plot to involve Gov.
Tim Walz (incumbent) and competition
for the state's 2 U.S. Senate seats".
More recently, he told reporters that
his motive was "COVID-19 vaccines."
Happy 76th Birthday to Richard Gere!
The well-known actor and humanitarian,
Richard Gere
who was born in Philadelphia, PA
August 31, 1949
has been an actor of stage, movies, & TV
since 1973, having left college after
two years. In the early 1980s,
he traveled to Honduras, El Salvador,
and Nicaragua amidst political violence
and wars. He founded TIBET HOUSE
a non-profit organization dedicated to
the preservation of Tibetan culture.
An accomplished pianist and music writer.
IMDb.com/name/nm0000152/bio/?ref_=
nm_ov_bio_sm
By doing away with Mail-In voting, Trump hopes to disenfranchise the sick/disabled voters and the overseas military voting families
Early
Sunday / late Saturday August 31 --
POTUS Trump 2.0 declares
"HE WILL DO AWAY WITH
Mail-in Voting : that practice
he falsely claims
"is corrupt" . . .
Daskalakis, Demetre
Demetre Daskalakis
director of the National Center
for IMMUNIZATION and
RESPIRATORY DISEASES
who resigned from HHS
interviewed on MSNBC
"Wake up. This is where Fascism Lives"
msnbc.com/
YOU TUBE August 30, 2025
After chiding POTUS Obama, current President caught by photographers on golf course
USA TODAY photographers
spotted Trump leaving the White Office
Saturday August 30, 2025
and then arriving at his Trump National
Golf Course at 9:15 a.m. in Sterling, VA.
His grandchildren, 18-yr.old Kai and 12-yr.-old
Spencer were also spotted at that location
with him.
His calendar (released to reporters &
the Executive Branch) has no public events
for the duration of Labor Day up to Tuesday.
usatoday.com/story/news/politics/
2025/08/30/
trump-spotted-golfing-in-virginia-
over-labor-day-weekend . . .
Bob Hope Humanitarian Award recipients (Academy of Television Arts & Sciences)
2025 - Mary Steenburgen &
Ted Danson
2022 - Sean Penn
2010 - George Clooney
2004 - Danny Thomas
2002 - Oprah Winfrey
In 2 weeks, Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen to receive award at EMMY Ceremony
Variety dot-com (online entertainment
platform) reports that
on
September 14, 2025
the Hollywood couple
will receive the
BOB HOPE
Humanitarian Award
during the 77th Emmy
Ceremony.
Charles Borges
CBS News report (August 2025):
Social Security Admin.'s chief data officer resigns
after whistleblower reveals that Elon Musk's
DOGE uploaded to a vulnerable
cloud environment
the entire SSA database of
American contributors / recipients
of Social Security records. . .
cbsnews.com/news/social-security-
admin-chief-data-officer-resigns-
after-filing-whistleblower-complaint
August 29, 2025 9:30 p.m. Eastern
Borges had served in his Data Officer
position since January 2025; administration
officials declined to comment.
Federal immigration agents (ICE) enter fire zone to arrest immigrants fighting wildfires
A first for the Trump 2.0 administration,
ICE Agents arrested at 9 a.m. Wednesday
AUGUST 27, 2025
Mexican contractors who were helping to
tackle a wildfire in Olympic National Forest
Washington State -- details at NBC News
news/us-news/federal-agents-arrest-fire-crew-members-
washington-wildfire-rcna227797
Saturday, August 30, 2025
NOBEL PEACE PRIZE - Trump aspires to win this December -- as of Aug. 31, states Putin & Zelinsky meeting "off"
on a "Daily Caller" program Question -
Answer segment, POTUS Trump 2.0 stated that
the bilateral meeting between Russian invader/
dictator V. Putin and democratically elected
President of Ukraine Zelinsky is unlikely to
occur. . .
Aug. 30, 2025 12:57 p.m. Eastern Time Zone
reported on ABC News platform go.com
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August 26, 2025
Washingtonpost dot-com reports
that most on Norway's NOBEL PRIZE
selection committee (part of Nobel
Prizes given in December annually)
are opposing and certainly not favoring
Donald John Trump when
the announcement will be
made in approx. 6 weeks
(early October).
June 24, 2025 -- AP NEWS reports
Katie Britt -- calls Trump 2.0
Historic! The President of Peace
Bernie Moreno [as recently as Nov. 2024
Cleveland auto dealership magnate]
Moreno defeated incumbent D. Senator from
OHio Sherrod Brown; the car dealer will next stand
for re-election in 2030.
"nominated Trump for the Nobel Prize for Peace"
apnews.com/article/iran-strikes-israel-congress-trump. . . .
Massa Candida (white lump)
Also excerpt from St. Augustine of N. Africa
COMMENTARY ON Psalm 49
Are we to think that only
153 just people will be at
his right? No, scripture
suggests thousands of thousands.
And read the Apocalypse: it
would seem from what is said
there that there will be twelve
times twelve thousand from the
Jewish people alone [Rev. 7:4].
Then think of the huge number
of martyrs. To go no further
afield, our own Massa Candida
numbered more than 153 martyrs.
[martyred at UTICA, north of
Carthage in Emperian Valerian's
reign (circa 258)] -- a legend
grew up that they were thrown
alive into quicklime, which
reduced their bodies to white
powder _______________________
. . .The 153 fish do not
correspond to the exact number
of the saints and the righteous,
so that by a hundred and fifty-three
we may understand all those who
have part in the resurrection to
eternal life.
Expositions of the Psalms vol. 2
WSA Translation for the 21st Century
by Maria Goulding (text & notes)
III/16 New City Press, New York, NY
One hundred and fifty-three fish
St. Augustine of Hippo
Commentary on Psalm 49 (transl. Maria Boulding)
WSA 21st Century : Works of St. Augustine for the 21st Century
"After his resurrection the
Lord orders his disciples to
cast the net to starboard,
and 153 fish are hauled up,
yet large as they were, the
apostle tells us (Gosp. John
21: 6 - 11) the nets did not
split. . .BY neither saying
cast the nets right NOR left,
he indicated that both good
and bad are to be taken, mixed
up together. And caught
they were, as the gospel's
reliable account testifies. . .
The catch symbolized the present
age and the torn nets symbolized
the rents and tears made by
heretics and schismatics. But
the Lord's action after his
resurrection signified what will
happen for us after our own
resurrection, in that multitude
in the heavenly kingdom. . .
On this date in history : August 30, 2021 (U.S. troops withdrawn at Kabul Airport)
The United States' longest war
from Oct. 2001 til August 2021
ended with the withdrawal of troops
in C-17 cargo planes . . . The Taliban
then fired their guns into the air,
ending a 20-year insurgency.
AP News "On This Date" online almanac
Canada had withdrawn its troops from
Afghanistan on August 26, 2021.
Trump 2.0 picks Sergio Gor for key post : India and Sp. Envoy South & Central Asia
Wed. Aug. 27, 2025
NY POST headline
"Trump Personnel Honcho
Sergio Gor picked as Ambassador
to India after POST reporting
on Musk feud, vetting controversy"
Gor, age 38, sparked Trump's
explosive feud with trillionaire
Elon Musk in June and had
dragged his feet on disclosing
necessary security clearance paper-
work, despite having vetted
thousands of Trump 2.0 appointees
himself since Jan. 20, 2025.
Gor's homeland is the island of
Malta although officials in that
nation have no such record.
The Times of Uzbekistan reported
in July that Gor was born in their
nation before its independence
from the former "Soviet Union."
In 2021, the publishing executive
rocketed from obscurity as a publisher
of Trump's books/autobiographies/
self-help/business advice tomes. . .
The NY Post also reported the Gor
ambassadorial apptmt. will come with
Special Envoy for South & Central Asian
affairs. To be an ambassador requires
Senate hearing and majority vote (at
least 50 and VP Vance) but the Envoy
position is at the President's pleasure. . .
NY Post.com US News/2025/08/22 . . .
Japan's top negotiator cancelled Aug. 28 trip over U.S. demands that they buy more rice to gain mere 15% trade tariff
ONLINE Breaking News
Reuters news agency / platform
30 August 2025
"Trump Demand for Japan to
Buy More Rice Snagged Trade Talks
- - - Nikkei says"
the Nikkei report was posted Saturday
India is now alone with Brazil -- with 50% Trump Tariffs
While Pakistan has 19% tariffs,
Brazil and India
are alone with 50%
tariffs, higher than
any other trading partner
August 30, 2025
Trump issues punitive 25 plus 25 per cent tariffs to punish Modi for "buying Russian oil" -- declines planned visit to India
Wed. August 27 -- Trump announced the punitive,
punishing tariffs and dropped a visit to India from his
Fall 2025 schedule.
"The Nobel Prize and a Testy Phone Call:
how the Trump-Modi relationship unraveled"
nytimes.com/2025/08/30/us/politics/trump-modi-india.html
To claim he solved India - Pakistan "war," Trump kept insisting he "settled" since Jan. 20, 2025 NOW a rupture between India and United States (Aug. 30)
online article on Modi's frustration with Trump gaslighting
NYTimes.com/2025/08/30/us/politics/trump-modi.html
BREAKING NEWS:
The war between Congo and Rwanda continues . . .
AP News.com/ Wed. Aug. 27, 2025
DRC (Democratic Republic of Congo) and Rwanda
[ actually no sign it is over ]
Egypt and Ethiopia [ little sign the war concluded ]
India and Pakistan [ evidence is lacking of U.S. peace-making ]
Kosovo and Serbia [ no evidence of U.S. involvement to stop fighting ]
Armenia and Azerbaijan [ true, its Constitutional leaders did sign treaty in Oval Office ]
Cambodia and Thailand [ technically all they have is a cease-fire not a peace treaty ]
Israel and Iran [ Trump claims he stopped Iran from firing nuclear weapons;
Trump without Declaration of War from GOP Congress did drop
bunker-busting barrage of Mother-Of-All-Weaponry on hidden labs ]
Somehow -- that adds up to SEVEN -- but who's counting?
$40 million for Malaria Research cut from CDC Budget (drug-resistant versions of disease exist)
"Will the CDC Survive?"
Apoorva Mandavilli reporter on science & global health
nytimes.com/2025/08/29/health/cdc-kennedy-public-health.html
(Online article -- Friday - Sat. Aug. 29 - 30, 2025
Friday, August 29, 2025
Trump Tariff measures omitted Brazil's Orange Juice exports, Commercial Aircraft, Energy products // was Executive Order Illegal ? ? ?
August 29, 2025
federal Appeals judge rules
they were illegal and unauthorized
live2025/08/29/us/trump-news
50% Tariffs leveled in a trade war against Brazil, the largest
economy in the Southern American nations --
HOWEVER,
last year U.S. had a $7.4 billion surplus
on about $92 billion total
in trade with Brazil . . .
online article July 30, 2025
nytimes.com/2025/07/30/world/Americas_/trump-sanctions-brazil-judge-bolsanaro.html
Jim O'Neill (not a physician but has Yale degree and U of Chicago Master's in Humanities)
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention
Atlanta, Georgia
is now headed by a deputy of an Environmental
Lawyer / Presidential Candidate [ R.F.K. junior ]
after the current scientist (not an M.D.)
Susan Monarez
was pushed out of her job by RFK and
White House Personnel notification (e-mail).
The scientist-administrator had
Senate-approval and Presidential appointment to
the job.
O'Neill previously held between 2002 - 2008 the
office of Speech and Editorial Division for HHS
(Bush-Cheney administration)
further qualification / resume positions at
hipaajournal.com/deputy-hhs-secretary-national-coordinator-for-health-it/
Malaria kills the hardest -- children under age of 5 and pregnant women -- SOURCE: Science.org
Blame Trump-Vance-Rubio-cowardly Senators-complicit MAGA Reprs.
read the article entirely
science.org/content/article/guinea-united-states
helped-beat-back-malaria-now-disease-set-soar
7 August 2025
2 p.m. Eastern US Time Zone
Thursday, August 28, 2025
Augustinian Friars
are expected in the post-summer 2025
to move into the Papal Apartments, Vatican
City when
Pope Leo XIV
moves as an order of
those in the Order
of St. Augustine . . .
see details at NCROnline
dot-org article
August 25, 2025
vatican-news/pope-leo-xiv-
include-housemates-apostolic-palace
National Catholic Reporter platform
St. Augustine of Hippo -- died August 28, 430 under siege -- ON THIS DATE IN HISTORY
St. Augustine of Hippo died in
Hippo Regius (North Africa)
of a fever during the area's
siege by invading Vandal army;
he asked that the Pentential
Psalms be written on the walls
of his room and he prayed them
as he lay dying.
The bishop's last words were:
Your will be done; come, Lord
Jesus!
Attempt to set afire_ historic synagogue -- Australia expels Iran's diplomat -- Iran Revolutionary Guard is culprit
Ahmad Sadeghi
The ambassador from Iran sent to Australia
has been expelled over domestic sabotage and
attempted arson in that country.
August 28, 2025 a.m. local time
______________________________________
BREAKING NEWS (AUG. 26, 2025)
Mike Burgess, head of Intelligence has reported
to the Government and the people of Australia
that Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard
Corps was behind both this attack in early July
as well as organized crime . . .
see : NYTimes.com/2025/08/26/world/Australia/
australia-iran-antisemitic-attacks.html
_________________________________________
East Melbourne Australia
[ this country has the highest percentage of
Holocaust survivors after Israel among its
population ]
State of Victoria where Melbourne is capital
none of the 20 worshippers inside were injured.
The front door was damaged by a small blaze.
The attack came hours after tensions flared
elsewhere in the center of Melbourne.
Friday's attack followed a larger attack last
December.
July 4, 2025
Alexandria, Egypt -- ancient city of ruins -- Canopus
Underwater remains were retrieved
last week (August 18 - 22, 2025)
as part of a major archaeological
expedition -- OXFORD CENTER
for MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY
statues of human figures,
a human sphinx, an ancient dock,
coins, and Roman-era tools and
a millstone.
PHOTOS & Story at
nytimes.com/2025/08/28/world/middleeast/
egypt-alexandria-sunken-city.html
Wednesday, August 27, 2025
HHS RFK Jr. blindsided CDC with firing of Susan Monarez, nomination of Retsef Levi
CDC Director refuses to leave job --
as Senate-confirmed CDC Director she
can only be fired by Trump himself . . .
________________________________
BREAKING NEWS : CDC Nominates
vaccine Skeptic
Retsef Levi
to be new COVID-19
immunization workgroup
Chairman - Aug. 25, 2025
_____________________________________
mNexspike -- the new generation
COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine is made in a way
that allows for a lower dose. . . ABC News
update - breaking news May 31, 2025
______________________________________
RFK, Jr. of the Health, Human Service branch
Cabinet-level Secy. -- blindsided the CDC, Atlanta
with his changes and drawbacks of COVID-19
vaccine recommendations . . . Washingtonpost.com
May 28, 2025 8 p.m. Eastern (online coverage)
_______________________________________
NPR reports that today (Tuesday April 15)
is a morning meeting of the CDC advisory
committee on Immunization Practices . . .
RFK Jr. will be present after the initial meeting
with the Senate-approved Cabinet Secy. was
canceled/postponed in early Feb. 2025.
They typically hold meetings 3 X a year;
to be covered are reports from CDC staff
on HPV vaccines, COVID, and Flu vaccine
development. Signs of political interference
may be subtle . . .
npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/04/15
Denmark foreign minister called in U.S. diplomat over Covert suspected influence tampering by U.S. agents in GREENLAND - Aug. 27, 2025
UPDATE : Two of the 3 agents attempting to whip up
covert opposition Danish governance
Formerly Worked For Trump
_______________________________
August 27, 2025 - 9 a.m. Eastern USA TIME zone
REUTERS reports that the Denmark / Copenhagen govt.
has "called in" the
Charges d'Affaires Mark Stroh to answer concerns over
3 U.S. agents ( ? Fifth-Column ?) who are attempting to
covertly whip up opposition to Danish Rule in
GREENLAND !
Lars Lokke Rasmussen spoke
out saying, "it is contrary to
how states operate. . .it is
important for us to speak out
against the United States. . ."
Wednesday March 27, 2025 interview of POTUS with
Vince Coglianese (podcast):
. . .we need Greenland for
international safety & security. . .
We need it. We have to have it.
It's island from a defensive posture
and even offensive posture is
something we need. . .When you
look at the ships going up their shores
by the hundreds, it's a busy place
March 26, 2025
Tom Bowman & Michele Keleman
NPR reporters - contributors
John the Baptist's last words
According to the series of movies
The Chosen
You wouldn't get it
SEASON 4, episode 1
"Promises" (2024)
Do Danish folk celebrate holiday festival to honor John the Baptist? Yes!
Yes
on June 23 annually they observe
Sankt Hans
who in English is known as
John the Baptist --
that evening is celebrated with
a dinner at home followed by
a stroll to a community bonfire,
often to a beach, park, or Lakeshore.
details: Denmark.dk/people-and-culture/
danish-traditions
Tuesday, August 26, 2025
Trump's lawsuit against all of Maryland's Federal Judges is thrown out -- runs counter to overwhelming precedent, violating rule of law
U.S. District Judge Thomas Cullen
threw out Trump - Bondi lawsuit
calling it potentially
calamitous ! ! !
trump-lawsuit-maryland-judges
Aug. 26, 2025 1:54 p.m. Eastern
representing the Maryland Judges
was Paul Clement, conservative
lawyer over many decades.
Jack Smith (DOJ sp. prosecutor) legal team replies to complaint of when 2024 trial was to have begun
Tuesday August 26, 2025
Jack Smith's legal team fires back
against Hatch act violation / ethics complaint
see NY TIMES dot-com/us/jack-smith-ethics-complaint-trump.html
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Friday Aug. 11, 2023
Washington D.C. U.S. District Court judge Tanya Chutkan
warned both the three-time Indicted Trump and the prosecutors
against making "Inflammatory Statements" that might
intimidate witnesses or prejudice the jury pool. More at THE HILL
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/4151513-trump-criticizes-judge-after-hes-warned-against-inflammatory-statements/
Council of Nicaea [1700th anniversary] : "Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior" - (A.D. 325 - 2025)
UPDATE (July 11, 2025)
Panel focused on impacts and perspectives on the
NICENE CREED
regarding contemporary religion, world mission,
and eco-justice transformation.
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Document from International Theological Commission
scholars remind believers :
we should not see the NICENE CREED
as a list of things we believe, but look at
it with awe because it recounts the
greatness of God's love and gift of
salvation
On APRIL 3, 2025 the Commission document was released
in German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish [English to
be released soon]
DETAILS: NCR online.org/Vatican/vatican-news/
Nicaea-anniverary-inspires-faith-strengthens-mission-theologians-say
Paul Thomas Anderson, writer-director
His largest blockbuster budget to date is:
One Battle After Another
(Warner Brothers Studio)
imdb.com/title/tt30144839/?ref_=hm_cst_9_
September 26, 2025 in theaters everywhere
based on Thomas Pynchon's Vineland dystopian novel
Jeffrey Finn, top producer departs Sept. 2025 // Jane Raleigh, Dance Director replaced by Stephen Nakagawa
Nakagawa is part of "Washington Ballet"
see further
NYTimes.com/2025/08/25/arts/dance/kennedy-center-stephen-nakagawa.html
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THURS. Aug. 21, 2025
Dance Director and 2 employees
fired by Grenell, Trump's "president" of
the Kennedy Center, D.C. -- he wanted
more programming like TV's
So You Think You Can Dance (Fox TV
reality-competition series).
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As Donald John Trump
tightens grip on the D.C.
Center for Performing Arts
[ that was since its founding
a bipartisan and cooperative
institution in the District of
Columbia ]
the top official overseeing
theater at JFK Center is
leaving in September, throwing
into question the stability of
the institution's financial
viability . . .
nytimes.com/2025/08/15/theater/jeffrey-finn-kennedy-center.theater.html
Monday, August 25, 2025
Nasser Hospital (Gaza) - Gaza Strip operating but hit by bomb that killed 20 on Aug. 25
Gaza Strip hospital
hit by IDF (Israeli Army)
bomb, killing 20,
including journalists
for Reuters, Assoc. Press,
al-Jazeera
Monday Aug. 25, 2025
Lee Jae-Myung -- at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, flatters Trump 2.0 and lauds the decor
After threatening not to "Do Business"
in your country, Trump quickly shifted gears
when beseeched to help with Korean peace
efforts and "build a Trump Tower in North
Korea"
AP News.com/article/
Donald-trump-south-korea-trade-lee-jae-myung
August 25 evening posted by
Seung Min Kim of Associate Press
UPDATE: Monday 8/25/25
he is meeting with Trump in Oval Office,
1600 Pennsylvania avenue, D.C.
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BBC has reported that he has delivered
a victory speech in South Korea --
Millions voted for his opposition party.
He faces the challenge of bringing
together a polarized country, businesses
anxious over U.S. Tariffs, and an unpredictable
ally in Donald J. Trump 2.0
Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia -- deported by mistake April 10, released AUGUST 22, ICE forbidden by Judge Aug. 27 from deportation
BREAKING NEWS:
CNN reports that a judge ordered that the
Maryland man CANNOT be deported by DHS
and Kristi Noem/Pamela Jo Bondi until an October
trial -- CNN.com/
FURTHER UPDATE:
Monday 8/25, 9:43 a.m. Eastern
the Maryland man has now been taken into custody by
ICE (Kristi Noem, DHS Secy.); Noem announced he
is being processed for deportation. . .
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UPDATE: Saturday 8/23/2025
In a 7-page filing in U.S. Federal District Court,
lawyers for the Maryland man accused the govt.
of attempting to coerce him into a plea by
threatening to deport him to Uganda in Africa.
NYTimes.com/2025/08/23/us/politics/abrego-garcia-coercion.html
BREAKING NEWS (Reuters.com) : released
at 4 p.m. Eastern Time today FRIDAY 22 August, 2025
The Maryland man at the center of a legal
battle has been returned and will face charges
here relating to transporting migrants --
NY Times "Breaking News" 4 p.m. 2025/06/06
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UPDATE (April 17) - he has met in El Salvador
with Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen
(press service publicity)
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at Oval Office Press Q/A, both Presidents of
U.S. and El Salvador shrugged their shoulders
as far as returning the Salvadoran man with a
U.S. family who was never charged with
being in a MS-13 gang and the Trump-Vance
officials admit they deported him in error.
April 14, 2025
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UPDATE: 9 p.m. April 10 (Thursday)
SCOTUS affirmed the Federal ruling that the
wrongly deported Mr. Garcia should in effect
be brought
Back FROM El Salvador prison where he was
wrongly airlifted into by the DOJ / DHS.
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Trump's Gulag Archipelago
and the case of the mistaken refugee / immigrant
LAST FRIDAY, April 4, 2025
Judge Paula Xinis of U.S. Federal Court of
Maryland ordered him returned to the U.S.
"There were no legal grounds whatsoever for
his arrest, detention, or removal"
SCOTUS will decide
if her order to return him
by 11:59 p.m., Monday
April 14, 2025 after
their 9-judge review,
will effectively return
Mr. Garcia.
Sunday, August 24, 2025
Washington Performing Arts Organization -- for 2025-6 season will move to these locations
They will no longer utilize the
Kennedy Center for the Performing
Arts in D.C. but instead will utilize:
the Music Center at Strathmore,
Sixth and I,
Church of the Epiphany,
Howard Univ. Cramton Auditorium,
Hopkins Blomberg Center Theater,
Lisner Auditorium.
web location: washingtonperformingarts.org
First Day - Community School Calendar 2025 - 2026
Niles, Michigan (Berrien County)
school districts Niles / Brandywine (Niles Twp.)
Niles Community Schools (city limits
and others in School district) - Niles
Michigan proper and others registering.
MONDAY
August 25, 2025 (half-day
for 1st - 8th grades, full
day for 9th - 12 grades)
Tuesday,
August 26 is first day for
Kindergarten students
that same week.
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[Brandywine / Niles Twp. students also
begin Monday 25th August 2025 with
half-day for K - 6 students but entire
day for 7th - 12th graders]
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Parochial school - St. Mary's School
Roman Catholic parish
of Niles, MI begins Monday 8/25/25
at 8 a.m.
SDA (Seventh Day Adventist) - Niles
Adventist School, 110 N. Fairview Ave., Niles,
MI 49120 -- already had First day AUGUST 13 (1/2 day)
Daylight Saving Time ends (fall back one hour -- 2 a.m. Sunday Nov. 2, 2025)
Turn Back the Clocks one hour that weekend!
late Nov. 1 or during the first Sunday a.m.
Charles Kushner - Ambassador to France - allegations in letter were "unacceptable" - to appear Monday 8/25/2025
Charles Kushner "called to the carpet" before
President Macron of France for his MAGA
challenge of antisemitism over Gaza / Palestinians
actions contemplated by French politicians / diplomats
jpost.com/international/article-865201
Sunday August 25, 2025
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Charles Kushner -- sworn in as Ambassador
June 18, 2025 1 p.m. at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
White House with Jared and the Kushner-Trumps. . .
will now serve for the Trump 2.0 - JD Vance
administration as
Ambassador to France
following Senate vote May 19, 2025
He received a vote of support from
Democratic U.S. Senior Senator
from NEW JERSEY
Cory Booker.
newjerseyglobe.com/ Reporting
posted 10 p.m. May 19, 2025
online
Ukrainian Independence Day (Aug. 24 annually) - celebrated in KYIV -- with Mark Carney of Canada and K. Kellogg
Pres. Zelensky celebrated in the capital city of
Kyiv, Ukraine
their national Independence !
On Hand were reliable supporters Mark Carney
of Canada and Keith Kellogg, envoy from U.S.
August 24, 2025
details at NY TIMES dot-com
world/Europe/zelensky-ukraine-independence-day.html
Saturday, August 23, 2025
Thomas Pynchon's VINELAND (novel written 1990)
The dystopian novel,
set in the year 1984
is a postmodern fiction
set in California, USA;
NY TIMES reviewer called
it "pyrotechnic".
Pynchon laced the book
with Star Trek references.
Basis of Director Paul Thomas
Anderson's new film (2025)
One Battle After Another ,
his 10th film.
Olena Zelenska - Letter to Melania delivered August 18 at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, D.C.
August 15 (delivery date)
Ukraine's First Lady
penned a letter praising Melania
for her advocacy of children to dictator
war criminal mastermind behind the
killing and kidnapping of thousands of
Ukraine's children.
No stamps were used in a Postal System
delivery ; instead it was hand-delivered
to the shy, introverted spouse of the POTUS
who continues to work as an executive
producer on her own AMAZON documentary
with live, edited footage of her work in
the Trump-Vance White House since
Jan. 20, 2025. When released by
Hollywood director Brett Ratner, the
much-heralded non-fiction documentary
will be titled :
Melania
date of release to be
determined later in
2025 (t.b.a.)
Miles Taylor now expects August 25, 2025 Trump-ordered investigation [ FBI raid of home + office ]
AUG. 23, 2025 The Hill is reporting that former
Dept. Homeland Security Official Miles Taylor
expects to have his home and office searched by
FBI in coming days of August and after Labor Day 2025
by Pamela Jo Bondi and her boss initiative
see thehill.com/homenews/administration/5467481-miles-taylor-
donald-trump-john-bolton-retribution-fbi-raid/
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FURTHER UPDATE: June 3-4, 2025
POLITICO.com/news/magazine/2025/06/03/anonymous-miles-taylor-
interview-00380063
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UPDATE: June 3, 2025
Miles Taylor sent a letter to inspectors general at D o J and DHS
on Tuesday 3 June.
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On 19 April 2025, Former Trump-Pence administrative officials
and others (multiple party and community leaders)
who co-signed a letter protesting the Trump 2.0
executive orders revoking security clearances
of Chris Krebs and Miles Taylor :
Ty Cobb, attorney
John M. Mitnick, former Associate Counsel
Norm Eisen
Christine Todd Whitman, Gov. NJ
Jeffrey Amestoy
Paul Begala
Noah Bookbinder, CREW
Linda Chavez
Tom Daschle
Marc Elias
Richard Gephardt
Michael Hayden, former Dir. CIA
Bob Kerrey, former Gov. Nebraska / U.S. Senator
Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum
Rabbi Bonnie Margulis
Valerie Plame
John D. Podesta
Denver Riggleman, former Colorado U.S. Repr.
Anthony Scaramucci
Michael Teter, director The 65 Project
Alexander S. Vindman
Joe Walsh
Rick Wilson, The Lincoln Project
Judge William Webster
Haredim : Israel's draft-dodging ultra-orthodox fail to serve as secular Israelis do
August 24 coverage in NY TIMES
Magazine NYTimes.com/2025/08/24
out of 80,000 eligible Ultra-ORTHODOX
only 2,490 have even showed up
world/middleeast/israel-gaza-ultra-orthodox.html
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NEWS (Thurs. July 24, 2025)
Protesters block entrance to Chords Bridge
entrance to city of Jerusalem : display sign
of defiance = Enlistment - Genocide /
DEATH before Conscription
jpost.com/israel-news/article-862021
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Jerusalem Post (Israel media platform)
reports that
54,000 "ultra"-Orthodox
Jews eligible for military service
will be called up for actual service
by July 2026
jpost.com/israel-news/article-860157
This group contains 16.5 year-olds to
those in their 20s, ending up at 26-yr.-olds.
To catch draft dodgers, IDF and border
authorities will use airport check-ins,
checkpoints, and other spontaneous checks
in areas where draft dodgers will be traveling
without officials searching through civilian areas.
Mississippi -- Infant mortality has become a public health EMERGENCY
details Friday Aug. 22 -- ABC World News
abcnews.go.com/GMA/Wellness/mississippi-declares-public-health-
emergency-infant-mortality-rates
Since 2014,
over 3,500 babies have died in the
state under the age of 1 year
SOURCE: State Health officer
DAN EDNEY :
startling racial disparities in
the vastly rural, Deep South
state between Alabama and
Louisiana . . .
Melania (Knauss) Trump will continue her "absent" role in diplomacy and children's advocacy through Jan. 19, 2029
CNN reports that she hasn't been seen since July 11
report = August 23, 2025
Online article "Privately influential but . . .picking and choosing
moments . . .
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It all depends . . .
Does she view herself primarily as a professional model
as was the background of Pat Nixon (FLOTUS from Jan. 1969
until August 1974) or as a mother and homemaker (many examples
of such from Martha Washington to Mamie Eisenhower)?
Will she have time for children's advocacy apart from her role as
Movie Producer (executive) for her self-titled documentary /
biopic being in final stages with Director Brett Rattner
for which she received $28 million from company founder/s
Jeff Bezos / AMAZON?
She was 46 years and 9 months when her husband, then POTUS 45,
took the oath of office; she resided at Trump Tower and Mar-A-Lago
until September 2017 when she and Barron moved in to 1600 Pennsylvania
Avenue. When the Trumps left office she was 50 and 9 months, then
returning to Palm Beach; from Palm Beach (Mar-A-Lago) she moved
to the White House Jan. 20, 2025, refusing to coordinate with then-
FLOTUS Dr. Jill Biden, who was moving out that January to their
Delaware home / compound. Now at age 54 with a 19-yr-old son,
she may well be expecting grandchildren even though she has
several step-grandchildren by her husband's children by his two
previous wives. She does maintain and update her own
skin care lines of merchandise and a jewelry line as well as
other endorsed products/ trademark collectibles. She has a
CRYPTO coin for sale as well.
She has taken a number of trips abroad and domestically to
inquire of the welfare of children, including trips to detention
camps and the remote regions of Africa.
The child of FLOTUS and POTUS 47
Barron (b. 2006) is now 19;
he speaks English, Slovene (the language of Slovenia :
his mother's native language, his Knauss grandparents'
primary language, his aunts / uncles native/first/only
language
He not only has grown stepbrothers (2) and Stepsisters
(2) even as a baby he had four nieces
Kai Trump (born 2007)
Arabella Kushner
Chloe Trump
Carolina Trump
and NEPHEWS (a seventh - Alexander Trump Boulos
born May 2025)
Donald Trump III,
Tristan Trump,
Spencer Trump,
Joseph Kushner
Theodore Kushner
Eric Trump.
According to Biography dot-com,
Barron Trump has always lived a life of luxury, enjoying
an entire floor of the personal suite of the Trump family, his
mother & father quarters in Trump Tower, New York City.
Melania at times admitted that she would call Barron,
"little Donald" because his personality is so like his
father's : very strong-minded, very special, smart,
independent, opinionated.
After his father's first election (majority of the Electoral
College : Nov. 2016) he moved into 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.,
D.C. on June 11, 2017, nearly five months after Trump and VP
Pence took the oath of office Jan. 20, 2017 and moved into
D.C. housing (the Pences dwelled at the Naval Observatory :
Mrs. Karen Pence and children and pets/companion animals).
Barron graduated with H.S. Diploma from Oxbridge Academy
Palm Beach, FL in May 2024 at the age of 18. His major in
college is business at the NYU Stern School of Business.
source = biography dot-com / PEOPLE dot-com
Emine_ Erdogan urges FLOTUS to support children of Gaza : Unite our voices
DETAILS AT
BBC.com/news/article/cn47ppy382wo
The First Lady of Turkey (spouse of Pres. Erdogaan)
wrote publicly an open letter to
Melania Trump (3rd wife of
Donald J. Trump) as FLOTUS
to write Benjamin Netanyahu
on behalf of the "CHILDREN" of
Gaza before he authorizes an
all-war on the Gaza City / Territory
location where children and families
reside.
reuters dot-com / August 23, 2025
DATELINE : Ankara or Istanbul, TURKEY
Melania Trump Letter Sunday August 17, 2025 [ 2 days after Trump-Putin Alaska Summit ]
By posting it online, will a "hard copy" be stored in
the national archive of White House correspondence
as well as in the Kremlin official records of heads of
state?
Q: Did she first compose it in Slovenian and have
it translated into Russian second and then finally
into English language?
Q: Did she intend to leave the SUBJECT of the
email as a vague "Children" or did she actually
mean to ask protection for the children of Ukraine
some of whom were kidnapped and forced into
families far from their homeland by Russian
troops and bureaucrats?
Q: Did Melania (Knauss) intend to use her
charity / charities to benefit the children of the
world in a manner like other dignitaries /
spouses of world leaders / celebrities might
do with the UNICEF fund / special needs?
Q: Does Melania maintain letter-writing
relationships with other spouses of world
leaders or is that off-limit to public / press
knowledge? Will a volume of her letters
ever be published or made available only
on a limited basis for those searching the
Trump Presidential record database in
the Mar-A-Lago Library of the near future
(after 2029, Jan. 21st)?
Q: Does she consider herself an Advocate
for children and childhood causes such as
health, wellness, education, socialization?
Q: Has she moved her focus of FLOTUS
matters away from the "East Wing" since
that is where the upcoming "Trump Ballroom"
will be build before the end of this
Second TRUMP Presidential Term?
Blowin' in the Wind
Bob Dylan - COPYRIGHT
"How many roads must a man
walk down.
Before you call him a man?
Yes, 'n how many seas must
a white dove sail
Before she sleeps in the sand?
Yes, 'n how many times must
the cannonballs fly
Before they're forever banned?
The answer, my friend, is blowin'
in the wind. . .
the answer is blowin' in the wind.
How many years can a mountain
exist . . . Before it's washed to the sea?
Yes, 'n how many years can some
people exist. . . Before they're
allowed to be free?
Yes, 'n how many times can a
man turn his head . . . Pretending
he just doesn't see?
The answer, my friend, is blowin'
in the wind. . . The answer is
blowin' in the wind.
How many must a man look up
Before he can see the sky?
Yes, 'n how many ears must one
man have
Before he can hear people cry?
Yes, 'n how many deaths will
it take till he knows
That too many people have died?
The answer, my friend, is blowin'
in the wind. . .
The answer is blowin' in the wind!
Harvard University compromises (August 23, 2025) Early announced "deal" - $500 million by means of educational measures
MORE COMPROMISES on Harvard's part :
NYTimes / us/harvard-changes-academic-freedom-trump-deal.html
August 23, 2025 5 a.m. Saturday Eastern TIME Zone
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Further details (Week of August 11 - 15, 2025)
ahead of Fall Semester 2025
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Monday August 11, 2025 Reporters
Alan Blinder, Michael Bender, Michael S. Schmidt
NY TIMES collaborative NEWS / Politics story
"Harvard nears a deal with the $500 million settlement
that it will pay by means of educational measures -- no
cash- payoff to Trump - Vance . . ."
/us/trump-harvard-settlement-negotiations.html
Wed. April 23, 2025
Harvard University will NOT bend to
the Trump - Vance (graduate of Yale)
administration's demands to change
several of its academic and administrative
policies (particular ones on student protest
and admission of international students and
any student misbehavior).
See details at THE HILL.com/homenews/education/
5265069-harvard-trump-fighting-lester-holt
What ever became of "Twitter"? -- August 2025, 3 years after its hostile buy-out by then-tech Billionaire Elon Musk
Elon Musk's X agrees to settle with thousands of
fired workers over severance payments he had promised
in the buyout contracts he signed as new Owner of the
social media platform. He had pared down the # of
employees from 7,500 to 2,000 and a class-action
lawsuit was successful in its argument that Musk
owed the employees $500 million in such severance
payments. His battle with senior executives of Twitter
continues ahead in 2025 over $128 million in severance
payments.
NY TIMES dot-com online article by Kate Conger,
based in San Francisco, CA.
August 22, 2025
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Jan. 8 - 6:35 p.m. Eastern
www.nbcnews.com
Twitter on Friday permanently suspended President Donald Trump,
citing his recent comments ahead of a mob
of his supporters that stormed the Capitol.
Wrath of Trump: Pamela Jo Bondi convinced 2 Fed. Judges to send FBI Evidence team into Bolton Residence
Update : FBI
Raid on JOHN BOLTON,
former National Security Adviser
Bethesda, MD home
across Maryland and D.C. jurisdictions,
Trump's lawyer, Pamela Jo Bondi convinced
2 federal judges that a home and office
search was warranted on the political
gadfly's home and office due to
"National Security Reasons."
August 22, 2025
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NY TIMES articles 19 Jan. 2025
Jack Smith
Letitia James
Arthur Engoron
Fani T. Willis
Liz Cheney
Adam Kinzinger
7 other members of
Jan. 6 Select Committee
investigating the attack on
the Capitol
General Mark Milley
Michael Cohen
John Bolton
Deep State officials:
James Comey
Andrew McCabe
Peter Strzok
51 former top Intelligence
officials
The media
Mark Zuckerberg
outgoing Pres. Biden
Barack Obama
outgoing VP Harris
Hillary Clinton
Sen. Adam Schiff
former Speaker of House
Nancy Pelosi
Friday, August 22, 2025
Mark Carney told Trump "Canada not for SALE" May 6, 2025 // decides August 22 to remove Punitive Trade Measures on Trump 2.0
BREAKING NEWS (Aug. 22)
Mark Carney (new Prime Minister)
tells U.S. that his nation (CANADA)
will remove retaliatory tariffs soon
and expects to enter new TRADE
TALKS -- since old USMC from
Trump-Pence era is not intact . . .
reuters.com/ August 22, 2025
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newly elected Canadian leader
will come to the White House
OVAL OFFICE today to meet
with POTUS Trump 2.0 and
other officials -- it will be
their first of many face-to-face
confrontations since
Mark Carney, Liberal Party
and Nation of Canada champion
has shown willingness to stand
up to Trump's abusive rhetoric.
Carney is known not to suffer fools.
TikTok - after Joining in, Trump 2.0 expects to extend MANDATORY sales deadline
August 22 REUTERS dot-co
tells that the WHITE HOUSE dot-gov
has now joined the short-video
platform . . .
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July 5, 2025
On social Media (Truth social & X)
POTUS Trump 2.0 has declared that
his negotiators will begin talks with
Chinese counterparts about the "deal"
on TikTok (July 7 - 11, 2025). He
often remarks that "in the next weeks"
or "in two weeks" when the Trump-
Vance administration still has not
engaged the party/parties with whom
they will provide a "starting point" from
which compromise and deal-making must
emerge. To distinguish his position from
that of POTUS 46, Trump 2.0 has often
presupposed that the ease in transferring
ownership of the social media platform will
take no effort or safe-checking with the
credit for such transfer coming to him personally.
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The June 19, 2025 deadline for TikTok
to be sold to U.S. controlling interests
was moved as of June 18, 5 a.m. to
90 days into the future.
Trump to likely extend deadline for
TIK-TOK to be sold away from indirect
China control (thought at times to be
"Security Risks"); poll analysts pointed
out to the Trump-Vance campaign that
influencers and celebrities were likely
using their viewership to appeal to
possible, new voting blocks to elect
the GOP challenger to Harris-Walz
(Democratic political party) last
Fall months - inauguration 2025 and beyond.
As far as public tours of Executive Mansion, White House to limit weekday tours due to new building (Ballroom) - construction deadlines imperative
BREAKING NEWS: White House Tours scaled back
August 2025 -- work now underway for Trump Ballroom
Construction (needed to be complete before Election Day, 2028)
. . . people's access to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is less priority
than building privately-funded record-breaking construction site
for next years, election cycles . . .
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Beginning July 19, 2022
Daily Tuesday to Saturday tours resume from 8 a.m. up to 12:30 p.m., excluding Fed. holidays.
Contact your Congress Repr.'s office at D.C. or in your district
https://abc57.com/news/white-house-announces-free-public-tours-will-resume-full-operating-schedule-on-july-19
Treatments for HIV, TB, Malaria halted due to Trump January Executive Order : of $6 billion appropriated, officials will spend merely $2.9 billion
August 22, 2025
OFFICE of Management & Budget (Russell Vought,
famous for Project 2025 planning) will spend only
$2.9 billion of the $6 billion agreed to by Congress.
PEPFAR has been essentially halved and
the "deal" made to pass a budget bill on to Trump
for signature was made with that "condition" that
PEPFAR would still be fully funded . . .
Further development
(March 18, 2025)
Judge Theodore Chuang bars Elon Musk
and his "raiders" from further
dismantling of US A.I.D. -- while court cases /
injunctions lawsuits receive appeal rulings.
reuters.com/2025/03/18/
us-judge-bars-musk-doge-further-efforts
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PEPFAR continues to be frozen
NYTimes.com/2025/02/05/health/trump-usaid-pepfar-html
In Uganda (Africa) the national Malaria Control program
has suspended spraying insecticide into village homes
and ceased shipment of bed nets to pregnant women
and little children;
medical supplies cannot reach villages in Zambia . . .
dozens of medical trials cannot continue in
South Asia, Africa, and Latin America
there will be no one to take custody of
millions of dollars' worth of oxygen supplies
where systems funded by U.S. A.I.D. had
administered aid in the poorest nations . . .
nytimes.com/2025/02/01/health/trump-aid-malaria
tuberculosis-hiv.html
UPDATE: US AID employees to be fired and
suspended - foreign aid to be halted - Musk
DOGE attempts to gain access to security
material at the agency.
NY TIMES [ Top security officials at aid
agency leave -- Musk & DOGE
Tipping Point -- Famine is declared for GAZA City and surrounding areas
Tom Fletcher, top U.N. humanitarian spokesman
and a group of experts declared
a "man-made" famine has arisen and can be reversed
and halted.
August 22, 2025
9:50 a.m. Eastern
at least
a half million persons face
starvation, acute_ malnutrition,
and death
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NBC NEWS Headline
Gaza hunger reaches
Tipping Point
under Israel's offensive
as children face lifelong
impacts of malnutrition
NBC News.com/world/Gaza/
hunger-gaza-tipping point August 1, 2025
Happy 30th Birthday today to Dua Lipa, English singer-songwriter !
Here is her
IMDb biography -- the artist
is well-known for Barbie (2023)
imdb.com/name/nm7645984/?ref_=hm_brn_15
born Aug. 22, 2025 in
West Hampstead, London, England, UK
Thursday, August 21, 2025
HIV Field reels from US AID Grant cancellation (African nations left bereft)
United Nations AIDS joint programme
relies on U.S. funds to help track and
coordinate the global response --
South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia,
other hard-hit countries may soon run
out of anti-HIV drugs soon
science.org/content/article/bloodbath-hiv-
field-reeling-after-billions-u-s-funding-axed
Feb. 28, 2025
Washingtonpost dot-com reports that
PEPFAR cuts by Trump-Vance upends
lives of Kenyan families now in crisis
April 5, 2025
Islamic State -- U.S. Defense department mission to keep it from further advances / strategic terrorism
UPDATE: August 21 according to NY TIMES / world/
middleeast/
U.S. kills Islamic State operative in rare Syria raid
killing a senior Islamic State financier. 8/21/2025
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2,000 troops from U.S. Army are on site in Syria to support the
core official deployed forces participating
in the Pentagon's mission of keeping
Islamic State's armed forces from reconstituting
nytimes.com/2024/12/19/us/politics/us-troops-syria.html
20 Jan. 2025
UPDATE: Following new POTUS swearing-in
new head of Defense Department is
Robert G. Salesses,
formerly deputy director of
Washington HQ Service,
a mid-level Pentagon official.
He accepted the job of acting
Defense secretary when no
Biden official would take it
from Jan. 20 forward.
Matthew Brann ruling disallows Trump giving ALINA HABBA a "temp" job over NJ Atty.'s office
Judge Matthew Brann, Pennsylvania's Middle District
(Federal Court Judge) rule on August 21, 2025
that Alina Habba is acting UNLAWFULLY
as "Acting" U.S. attorney and her actions are VOID.
NBC NEWS Breaking News update on 8/21st
see POLITICO.com online article following a 4-hour
hearing where both sides argued vociferously . . .
Alina Habba - Trump personal lawyer -- her successor
at NJ "Acting" U.S. attorney was fired by Pamela Jo
Bondi and Donald John Trump -- this maneuver will
be sorted out in U.S. District Judicial court by
Matthew Brann -- see politico.com/2025
08/01/federal-judge-will-decide-whether-trump-ally
alina-habba-can-lead-prosecutions-in-new-jersey-00489575
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Trump's pick for
Interim U.S. attorney for New Jersey
Monday March 24, 2025 (her temp position only
could have 120-day limited impact).
She was his personal lawyer in
sexual abuse and defamation lawyers.
She will immediately begin to supervise
the work of about 150 prosecutors.
She previously ran a small firm
specializing in civil litigation;
her style is pugilistic, openly political.
Swearing-in ceremony
rollcall.com/factbase/Trump/transcript/
donald-trump-remarks-aline-habba
Tulsi Gabbard, DNI -- update August 21, 2025 -- will fire half of staff - barred UK, Australia, Canada, NZ from intelligence-sharing
CBS news reporting 4 p.m. Thursday 21 Aug.
that Gabbard prevents the "5 Eyes" of our
intelligence-sharing international allies to share
what is being learned during the scramble to
counter offense against
Ukraine - Russia Talks -- CBS News.com/
gabbard-barred-sharing-intel
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POLITICO : August 21, 2025
Tulsi Gabbard (Trump 2.0 Director
National Intelligence) will fire half
of the intelligence-gathering / coordinating
staff. -- BREAKING NEWS
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August 6, 2025
Gabbard continues to declassify 2016 documents so as
to satisfy her boss who wants to defame those
ahead of his and VP Pence Term (Jan. 20, 2017 -
insurrection 2021) : her release of the House intelligence
committee (chaired by then Congressman Rubio (R))
multi-page report
about investigating the CIA consensus on Russian/Putin
interference in the election between Trump 1.0 and
then-opponent Hilary Clinton.
By doing this leak herself Gabbard could reveal top-secret
spying techniques and sources. Washingtonpost
online exclusive (2025/08/06)
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Tulsi Gabbard de-classifies pre-election memos
from Oct. 2016 about election confusion --
Russian release of Hilary Clinton - Tim Kaine
campaign
emails -- Russia Did NOT directly "vote"
for Trump - Pence in Nov. 2016.
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CBS news May 23, 2025
is reporting that the Counter-terrorism
nominee for Tulsi Gabbard, DNI
is "under scrutiny" for ordering a
re-write of a memorandum concerning
TGA (Venezuelan gang and gang Lord's)
and the Venezuelan government.
cbsnews.com/news/counterterrorism-nominee-
joe-kent-emails-edits-intelligence-assessment
May 22, 2025 -- 6 a.m. video includes
Gayle King, CBS Mornings
Wednesday, August 20, 2025
NSA (August 2025 update) - Director failure
UPDATE: ON acting director director of NSA
Lt. Gen. William Hartman -- sought to save his chief science
officer from Tulsi Gabbard purge of security clearance take-aways
but he failed -- NYTimes dot-com on Wed. Aug. 20, 2025
online article
us/politics/security-clearances-scientist-fired.html
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POLITICO reports that the Navy Admiral (retired),
Timothy Haugh,
put into place over the National Security Agency (spy
/intelligence gathering responsibilities) still has not
been replaced and a "COO" position was being discussed
among career officials inside the secretive and highly
involved cyber & agent-heavy group.
The agency already has such Operating Officer
bureaucracy in place to control 30,000 agents (estimated).
Laura Loomer was spotted Thursday (June 5) and asked
about that shift and she was non-commital. SEE:
POLITICO.com/news/2025/06/5/NSA-considers-then-disavows-
leadership-reshuffle-00391130
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Navy Admiral Shoshana Chatfield_ was fired
by Trump, latest example of the 9 senior military
leaders fired in POTUS 2.0 re-shuffling of those
in charge; she is 4th of 4 women to be axed. 7 April 2025
washingtonpost online article tonight (Monday)
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Haugh had been NSA Director for one year
and was fired by Trump/Vance administration
on the recommendation of Laura Loomer during
an NSC meeting (National Security Council) this week.
details NPR.org/2025/04/04/g-s1-58247/
national-security-agency-chief-fired-trump-timoth-haugh
Friday online article April 4, 2025
He and his deputy, Wendy Noble, a civilian were both
removed from their posts.
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