The Washington Post points out there is no precise medical or legal definition of “late-term,” and “many doctors and scientists avoid that language, calling it imprecise and misleading.”
The Daily Beast also notes that only 1.3 percent of abortions are performed after 21 weeks of gestation, and the idea that a woman can get an abortion moments before giving birth is “not how medical care works.”
The use of “dog whistles” aka “coded” labels has been common for many years but until recently has been out of the mainstream of conversation. The current administration aided by a neer do well Congress has brought these “coded” statements and words to common use. Along with this common usage the administration has trashed agreements put in place to prevent war and improve trade. Tariffs (taxes) put in place to offset the “tax” policy that was supposed to benefit everyday Americans and threats to bad actors who were in a state of containment with the approval of our now alienated allies. The administration has in a few years undermined our economy, foreign affairs and put us on an isolation footing all because of “dog whistles”.
July 22, 2026 8:41AM ET I had to add this article to show how screwed up the legislature is and Trumpelstilskin’s hold on them affects their work! MA
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks with the press while walking with Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD), to the Senate Republican Steering Committee lunch at the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, D.C., U.S., June 24, 2026. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) has been forced to cast aside President Donald Trump’s “whims” amid a “formidable” dilemma facing Congressional Republicans this week, a week that serves as one of the party’s “last” chances to advance the White House’s agenda, Punchbowl News reported Wednesday.
Under the leadership of House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), House Republicans are pushing to advance a reconciliation package that includes $60 billion for the Pentagon to help cover costs of the deeply unpopular U.S. war against Iran. The House will adjourn for a five-week recess on Thursday, giving House lawmakers a short window of opportunity to advance the legislation.
On Tuesday, however, Thune spoiled Johnson’s plans by declaring he “wouldn’t advance” the reconciliation package – scheduled for a House vote on Wednesday – until the Senate finds a path toward advancing a broader government funding bill for next fiscal year, Punchbowl News reported.
“Let’s be clear about how disastrous it would be to jam through a [continuing resolution] via reconciliation,” Punchbowl News’ report reads. “It means Democrats could force an unlimited number of amendment votes at a simple-majority threshold on pretty much any topic.”
“Thune is looking to protect his vulnerable senators from yet another vote-a-rama. As he finds himself increasingly at odds with Trump, Thune is looking out for his Senate majority – not Trump’s whims.”
Further complicating matters is the SAVE Act, Trump’s controversial voter ID bill. While the House has passed the SAVE Act multiple times, Thune has repeatedly stated that the bill lacks enough support to advance in the Senate.
“Senate Republicans are skeptical they can get any of the SAVE Act included in the reconciliation bill,” Punchbowl News’ report reads. “That will cause major problems with House Republicans.”
The report emphasizes the widening rift between two powerful GOP leaders.
“We’re seeing once again the massive gulf between Johnson and Thune,” it states. “The two top Republicans seem to have different motivations at the moment and are handling their jobs very differently.”
We have forgotten or ignored the phrase: “Lest WE Forget”. The indications and actual statements has given us clues as to what FFLOTUS was going to do in a second term. We have an opportunity to compare the first term to the Biden term as well as the accelerated actions of FFLOTUS’s second term (which is only a few months old). The speed of actions (Executive actions) and the unresearched content or effect is a wakeup call, or IT SHOULD BE! The so called “red” states” and their representatives to Congress are oddly quiet while the changes, tariffs and cuts to the Government workforce which will affect all states with a federal government office in its cities. What is affected by cuts and tariffs? Tariffs are Taxes pure and simple no matter what anyone says. Downsizing government offices staff will slow processes needed to continue the Governments work. The hardest hit will be the least able to afford even the smallest cut in their incomes. Then there’s the illegal war with Iran! Trumpel started this war as an affront to Biden and Obama and perhaps to enrich himself and his cronies. The current Congress (GOP) has all but given up the legislative responsibility it has to enact war powers and control spending. The most wasteful administration in decades is spending wildly with only a few comments from Congress. As a taxpayer, I see the erosion of public trust and the decimation of the national ability to function in a normal fashion. Now more tariffs are proposed on Canadian goods on top of what already exists. This administration has stolen more funds from the people than any criminal organization in history. We are essentially in a “Nero fiddles while Rome burns” situation. The way out is an all-out voter revolt where the people speak out in the voting booth!
What the Hell is Congress waiting for? Trumpel has put the country and our allies (if they still are) with this ill-conceived war. His search for greatness has left our country the weakest it has ever been in 250 years. It is time to dump this zero and his minions. We are losing to a small country who apparently has nothing to lose. Iran is taking to our allies as well as our troops in the middle east. Secretary of war is asking for billions more to fight Iran, Trumpel is assessing more tariffs on Canadian goods while inflation is doing a mega creep upwards. Trumpel in his spare time is netting millions for himself and his family but stomping on American voter’s rights and wellbeing.
Congress (GOP) is trying hard to pass the SAVE act before this year’s elections to please the President while not fully invested in its content and purpose. If Congress is really the protectors of the people and the nation, then there should not be a question of passing bill that weakens the voting system and disenfranchises voters. It is becoming increasingly obvious that our national leader is unfit to serve and should be removed. It is time for Congress to save the nation and clean house at the “Peoples House”!
Each day “Trumpel” proves his unfitness for the office he was elected to. What baffles me is the support he still has from his base and members of Congress. “Trumpel” has pulled no punches about what he would do if reelected. To that end with the tacit approval from Congress and the high court he has perpetrated some of the most nefarious schemes to steal from the voters and the country. To show that he is unfit to serve, he is outright committing war crimes under the guise of protecting the USA. There are no lines he won’t cross on a whim. His latest 20 minutes of garbage has said something and nothing. The something is his ill-fated plans for Iran (in a war he illegally started), the nothing is the rehashing of disproven lies about the 2020 election. His continuing denigration of the voting system is designed to prevent full engagement of all voters. It worth noting that his base is not showing up in the numbers seen previously
A color-treated photo illustration featuring U.S. President Donald Trump.
Throughout his second stint in the Oval Office, Donald Trump has raked in over a billion dollars on the backs of his most loyal acolytes. Some of his grifts harken back to the Trump cons of yesteryear, like the spectacularly cringeworthy Trump Mobile smartphone, a “made in America” device that was, predictably, produced entirely in China.
Most of the president’s most successful pulls, however, are predicated on either the cryptocurrency market, where winner-take-all scams are the name of the game, or fly-by-night stock offerings that get a temporary boost from the business mogul’s endorsement. And as Trump pulls the billion-dollar ladder out from under him time and again, his ride-or-dies are starting to crack.
One superfan, Vadim Fistikan, spoke to Forbes about what it’s like to be on the receiving end of a presidential con job. After painstakingly saving over $100,000 to buy a house near his family, Fistikan, a truck driver by trade, got wind of the special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, being built around the president’s Truth Social social network.
“I’m like, ‘I’m getting in,'” Fistikan told Forbes. At its peak, the trucker’s investment in the president’s social media firm reached $205,000 — a life-changing amount of money for a working class person in the United States. Today, Fistikan told the publication his investment is worth a dismal $30,000.
“I’m like, ‘hey, this is a scam,'” he told Forbes. “And a lot of people were like, ‘no, you’re just a Trump hater.’ I’m like, ‘no. I was on board since day one… I’m now broke.”
For anyone who’s heard of a SPAC before, it’s not hard to see why. A SPAC is a dubious type of investment vehicle commonly used by celebrities to take private companies public. First, the day-one sponsors — like Trump — raise money from day-two rubes through a shell company. Once the SPAC has enough capital behind it, the paper entity will merge with an actual private corporation like Truth Social to go public.
The end result is a situation where the earliest adopters rake in mountains of cash — and their acolytes are often left holding the bag.
Donald’s son, Trump Jr, took a SPAC for a spin back in 2025, raising $179 million from supporters to take the ecommerce firearm website GrabAGun public. Though GrabAGun made its public debut trading at $21.40, the company’s share price quickly plummeted to $13.20 within the first day as trading volume went through the roof — indicating that early backers were fleeing like rats on a sinking ship.
Today, GrabAGun sells at just $2.88 per share; just one of the manyscams the Trump dynasty has left in its wake since returning to power.
Trump Fans Confused by How Their Investments in His Crypto and Stock Are Now Worth a Tiny Fraction While He’s Getting Richer
Joe Wilkins
Updated Mon, July 6, 2026 at 2:55 PM CDT
A color-treated photo illustration featuring U.S. President Donald Trump.
Throughout his second stint in the Oval Office, Donald Trump has raked in over a billion dollars on the backs of his most loyal acolytes. Some of his grifts harken back to the Trump cons of yesteryear, like the spectacularly cringeworthy Trump Mobile smartphone, a “made in America” device that was, predictably, produced entirely in China.
Most of the president’s most successful pulls, however, are predicated on either the cryptocurrency market, where winner-take-all scams are the name of the game, or fly-by-night stock offerings that get a temporary boost from the business mogul’s endorsement. And as Trump pulls the billion-dollar ladder out from under him time and again, his ride-or-dies are starting to crack.
One superfan, Vadim Fistikan, spoke to Forbes about what it’s like to be on the receiving end of a presidential con job. After painstakingly saving over $100,000 to buy a house near his family, Fistikan, a truck driver by trade, got wind of the special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, being built around the president’s Truth Social social network.
“I’m like, ‘I’m getting in,'” Fistikan told Forbes. At its peak, the trucker’s investment in the president’s social media firm reached $205,000 — a life-changing amount of money for a working class person in the United States. Today, Fistikan told the publication his investment is worth a dismal $30,000.
“I’m like, ‘hey, this is a scam,'” he told Forbes. “And a lot of people were like, ‘no, you’re just a Trump hater.’ I’m like, ‘no. I was on board since day one… I’m now broke.”
For anyone who’s heard of a SPAC before, it’s not hard to see why. A SPAC is a dubious type of investment vehicle commonly used by celebrities to take private companies public. First, the day-one sponsors — like Trump — raise money from day-two rubes through a shell company. Once the SPAC has enough capital behind it, the paper entity will merge with an actual private corporation like Truth Social to go public.
The end result is a situation where the earliest adopters rake in mountains of cash — and their acolytes are often left holding the bag.
Donald’s son, Trump Jr, took a SPAC for a spin back in 2025, raising $179 million from supporters to take the ecommerce firearm website GrabAGun public. Though GrabAGun made its public debut trading at $21.40, the company’s share price quickly plummeted to $13.20 within the first day as trading volume went through the roof — indicating that early backers were fleeing like rats on a sinking ship.
Today, GrabAGun sells at just $2.88 per share; just one of the manyscams the Trump dynasty has left in its wake since returning to power.
*What does it take for all Trump supporters to realize a mistake was made by electing him (again). He promised to make” America great again”, while the underlying message is far more sinister. “Trumpel” being the grifter he is has played his constituents like a fiddle (missing some strings). Understanding how unwieldy the U.S. Government is, he has exploited every loophole he can through suspect “executive Orders. What’s worse or perhaps better is the weakness in Congress following his lead. The better is that voters now see who their elected representatives work Certainly not for the voters! MA
2 thousand years ago most learning and education was religious and secular based, now the religious right is emerging by using a grifter, mountebank and self-serving personality in the form of a national leader to advance their type of government on the United States citizens at the cost the freedoms crafted in the U.S. constitution. Again, DJT was right: “you won’t have a county anymore”. Voters beware there is no cabinet office or 4th branch of Government called Religion!
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Michael Abrams-Indy Writer
Trumpelstilskin has enriched himself, his family and associated friends to an extent (as Trumpel says) “never seen before”! Using Race and ethnicity as a backdrop the grifter has managed to get elected twice, escape punishment through impeachment 2 times, accepted bribes on a grand scale and out loud. He has recognized the opportunities to scale up graft using tariffs, reorganizing tax codes that benefit the rich, releasing 1500 criminals who attacked the Capital leaving several law enforcement officers dead and injured. I am trying to wrap may head around the solid support from the hard-core MAGA members and the GOP when all of his illicit actions affect us all. I am especially concerned about our duly elect members of Congress who stand silently by while the “child” plays with his toys-the Citizens of the United States! What goes unsaid is the loss of tax and social security revenue loss by exporting longtime foreign citizens who pay taxes and raise children who become excellent citizen and pay taxes also. Essentially, we have a state of Racial suppression and purge which has created an undercurrent of hatred and distrust by those who fail to realize the origins of America was created by its diversity not ethnic purity! As a country we have already fought a civil war over many of the same issues in spite of the contributions of our diverse population. Need to mention that “Trumpels” ancestry (then and now) would be a victim of the evil of the “save America” act
“The big, beautiful bill” which benefitted the rich (anyone making a million or so annually). The one thing that was fobbed off on us was the $12000 deduction for Senior Pairs which wiped out most if not all available tax deductions leaving them getting low to zero refunds. The money kept back by this bill sends that cash to the richest and some middle-class folks. We have been grifted again by the best scammer since Bernie Madoff or perhaps Ponzi. Think about his picks for his cabinet who are fealty choices with little to no knowledge of the job other than the trickling’s from the brain of an idiot riddled with possible mental diverticulosis.
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Possible Trumpelstilskin affliction?
Background: Diverticular disease is common in the western hemisphere with approximately half of the United States population aged 50 and over being affected. The spectrum of diverticulitis ranges from uncomplicated microperforation to large-scale macroperforation resulting in feculent peritonitis. Treatment modalities are governed base on Hinchey classification. Extra-abdominal manifestations of diverticulitis, such as brain abscesses, remain exceedingly rare with only five previously reported cases in the literature. The bacteria involved in this phenomenon are commonly flora of the Streptococcus milleri group and of the Enterococcus faecium species, both of which were isolated in this patient.
Case Report: In this report, we describe a case of a 64-year-old female with diverticulitis resulting in brain abscess formation, present the clinical and radiologic features, and discuss the treatment options.
Conclusions: Brain abscess secondary to diverticulitis are seldom reported in the literature, it is our hope that reporting these unusual instances will raise awareness of disease manifestations and allow for earlier diagnosis and treatment. Possible Trumpelstilskin affliction?
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Joe Sommerlad
Mon, June 22, 2026 at 3:54 AM CDT
Donald Trump has again lashed out over negative press coverage of his war with Iran, singling out The New York Times for criticism after it asked what the conflict had actually achieved.
“The way the Corrupt and Failing New York Times is covering stories on a very battered and beat up Iran, through FAKE & MADE UP ‘FACTS’ is, in my opinion, ‘TREASONOUS,'” the president wrote on his Truth Social platform late Sunday.
“I will be adding all of their false and ridiculous reporting to my multi Billion Dollar lawsuit against them. They are Criminals!”
Shortly beforehand, he had vented his fury on the same subject in another post that read: “The headline in the Corrupt and Failing New York Times: ‘What Changed After Almost 4 Months of War? Analysts Say Not Much.’ REALLY?
“Their Military is DONE, their Navy is GONE, their Air Force is GONE, their Launching Pads, Missiles, Drones and Manufacturing of same, is almost GONE, their top two sets of Leaders are GONE, their Inflation is at 250%, their Economy is BROKEN, their Soldiers aren’t being paid, the Hormuz Strait is OPEN, THE OIL IS GUSHING, and the U.S. Stock Market and Jobs are at record HIGHS.
President Donald Trump has again lashed out at The New York Times, calling the newspaper’s reporting on the Iran conflict ‘false and ridiculous’ and its staff ‘criminals’ (Reuters)
President Donald Trump has again lashed out at The New York Times, calling the newspaper’s reporting on the Iran conflict ‘false and ridiculous’ and its staff ‘criminals’ (Reuters)
“That’s what’s CHANGED, you corrupt and unethical cowards, and MORE!!!”
Opinion: The Trumpelstilskin methodology, sue, get issues into the judicial system where it will take time (a long time) to adjudicate. This ties up court time with frivolous lawsuits while keeping the issue in the public space. All the while normal life contracts along with the business sector. MA
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