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Wednesday, February 05, 2025

Transphobes attack a disabled adult male

This story is important. A trans man had top surgery, posted a photo of himself and thanks to the lies of Marjorie Taylor Green, Riley Gaines and other hate merchants -- including the England freak who had surgery to try to look Asian -- the man got shut down on Mark Suckerberg's META and elsewhere.

It was child abuse. They all cried.

Even though the man is an adult.

What this is would be hate speech.

But it's more than just that.

It's also about the refusal to recognize that people with disabilities or challenges can still navigate their own lives.

They have attacked the disabled. They have said the disabled are not able to make their own decisions.

It's bad enough that it's hate speech aimed at trans people; however, it's also the stupidity and hate towards the disabled and challenged community, a hate that's long existed in this country.

I know Riley's going to burn in hell, I have no idea about Majorie. She's so vile that Satan may refuse her entry. She certainly won't be going to heaven but they may have to create some sort of permanent way station for the likes of Majorie.

But with regards to Riley, remember when the liar was going around insisting that she had no problems with trans women or trans people, she just wanted female sports to be only allowed for non-trans women?

How was attacking University of Minnesota's Micah Leroy about women's sports?

It's not and it never was.

Riley Gaines is an ugly woman with a freak show head that's too large for her features, a lack of boobs that would suggest she hit the steroids hard, and most of all a fool trying to outrun the fact that she's a loser and was a loser at swimming.

She will never be happy. Watch for her marriage to fall apart like everything else in her sad, sad life.

Go read Ava and C.I.'s "Media: Accountability -- a term beggar media needs translated." When you do, grasp how transphobic BREAKING POINTS is and take a vow to stop supporting transphobic media.

"The Snapshot" (THE COMMON ILLS):

Tuesday, February 4, 2025. Junior claims he won't violate ethical guidelines and enrich himself by instead directing the case in question to his son who will instead try to get rich off it, Elon Musk remains a menace, Glenn Greenwald remains a fool and a Brazilian nut so why's he butting into US matters, and much more.

As noted in yesterday's snapshot, Senator Elizabeth Warren issued a press release regarding Robert Kennedy Junior's nomination for Secretary of Health and Human Services:

Washington, D.C. – During Wednesday’s Senate Finance Committee hearing, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.)questioned President Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. about his apparent conflicts of interest. Following pressure from Senate Democrats, RFK Jr., today in written responses to Senator Warren, agreed to amend his flawed ethics agreement (see Warren QFRs at the end of Part 2 and start of Part 3).

In response to this new information, Sen. Warren released the following statement:

“After public pressure from Senate Democrats, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has acknowledged dangerous conflicts of interest that would allow him to profit from an anti-vax lawsuit while serving as HHS Secretary. While he has now pledged in writing to fix his flawed ethics agreement, the answers he has provided to this committee also raise new questions about the scope of his conflicts.

“Given these ongoing questions, RFK Jr.'s nomination must not move forward to any Senate vote until the details of his revised ethics agreement can be thoroughly reviewed. It’s also critical that the revised ethics agreement ensures that he cannot use his role as Health Secretary to open the floodgates to more anti-vaccine litigation and then cash in after he leaves office, including adopting a four-year post-employment ban on accepting any compensation from lawsuits involving any entity regulated by HHS.

“It would be insufficient for RFK Jr. to only divest his interest in the Gardasil case while leaving the window open to profit from other anti-vax lawsuits, including future cases he could bring after leaving office.”

I'm not real big on 'addendums.' You want to say something in a hearing, you say it in a hearing. His 'addendum' has no weight at all.

And it turns out that it's a garbage addendum.

Warren's concern was with him profiting from his position.

Now we learn that he promised to step away from a vaccine lawsuit . . . by putting Connor Kennedy in charge of the case. That would be his son. No, that's not divesting. That's handing your child money.

That is how corrupt and stupid Junior is.

'We are concerned that you will use this office to profit from lawsuits.'

Junior responds, 'No, no, I'll put Connor in charge and that way it'll be my son profiting!'

The smell of corruption always hovers around Junior. Always.

Grasp that we've had eight years of did Hunter Biden profit from his father, did Jared, Ivanka, Eric, Donald profit from their father? Accusations tossed around. Ethics ignored. And now unelected Junior thinks he can move a case over to his son and that removes conflict of interest?

In what world?

Kaia Hubbard (CBS NEWS) reports a vote is expected today by the Senate's Finance Committee regarding sending the nomination out of the Committee and advancing it for a full Senate vote:

Meanwhile, two Democrats on the committee, Sens. Ron Wyden of Oregon, the ranking member, and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, raised alarm about possible conflicts of interest in recent days, penning a letter to Kennedy concerning his potential to profit from vaccine-related litigation. Paired with his long-held stances on vaccine safety, the senators said the possible conflicts give them "grave concern" about his ability to serve as HHS secretary.

Kennedy has earned referral fees from a Los Angeles personal injury law firm, Wisner Baum, for years. The firm is currently suing Merck concerning warnings about the safety of the HPV vaccine. Kennedy agreed to divest his interests in the cases he has referred to Wisner Baum to a "non-dependent, adult family member." The senators noted in their letter that Kennedy in his written response to committee questions indicated he was divesting the interest to one of his adult sons — a detail which they called "troubling."

"The arrangement outlined in your Ethics Agreement Amendment is plainly inadequate, as it would appear to allow an immediate family member to benefit financially from your position as Secretary," the senators wrote, adding that "vaccine-related decisions" that Kennedy could make as HHS secretary "could result in significant financial compensation for your family."

Chelsea Cirruzzo (POLITICO) adds:

“I will be voting against your nomination because your views are dangerous to our state and to our country,” said Maryland Democrat Angela Alsobrooks after Kennedy defended his view that Black people should be on a different vaccine schedule than white people.

Kennedy could still win a surprise vote from the Democratic caucus. But the likeliest possibilities — senators like Bernie Sanders, the Vermont independent, or New Jersey’s Cory Booker, who share Kennedy’s desire to regulate pollution and food additives — have given every indication they’ll be nos.

After the health committee hearing, Booker shared a video on X of an emotional Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) in which she spoke of her son’s cerebral palsy and the torment she felt as a mother that something she did could have caused it. “The problem with this witness’ response on the autism cause and relationship to vaccines is because he is relitigating and churning settled science so we can’t go forward,” she said.

“So moved by my colleague,” Booker wrote.

The Senate Finance Committee is considering Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s nomination on Tuesday, with a key vote on whether to advance his confirmation to lead the Department of Health and Human Services after a pair of fiery hearings last week.

Kennedy appeared Wednesday before the finance committee for a confirmation hearing, before testifying to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions the following day. During both appearances, Democrats on the committees — and even some Republicans — grilled the longtime environmental lawyer and activist on his stances on vaccines, abortion, and other issues.

Meanwhile, Donald Chump, the convicted felon, continues in his efforts to destroy the United States.

At THE ALANTIC, Roge Karma observes:

The U.S. federal government manages a larger portfolio of risks than any other institution in the history of the world. In just the past few weeks, wildfires raged across Southern California, a commercial flight crashed over the Potomac, a powerful Chinese-developed AI model launched to great fanfare, the nuclear-weapons Doomsday Clock reached its closest point ever to midnight, a new strain of avian flu continued its spread across the globe, and interest rates on long-term government bonds surged—a sign that investors are worried about America’s fiscal future. The responsibility of managing such risks is suffused throughout the federal bureaucracy; agencies are dedicated to preparing for financial crises, natural disasters, cyberattacks, and all manner of other potential calamities.

When one of those far-off risks became a real-life pandemic in the final year of Donald Trump’s first term, this sprawling bureaucracy, staffed mostly by career civil servants with area-specific expertise, helped limit the damage, often despite Trump’s own negligence and attempts to interfere. This time, things may turn out differently. Trump is committed to dismantling the federal bureaucracy as we know it—and, with it, the government’s capacity to handle the next crisis. Like an individual who chooses to forgo health or fire insurance, most Americans won’t feel the negative impact of this effort as long as everything in the world runs smoothly. What happens when the next crisis strikes is another story altogether.

No country was fully prepared for what became one of the deadliest pandemics in history, but it is hard to think of a leader who handled COVID more poorly than Trump. He spent the crucial weeks leading up to the outbreak downplaying the severity of the virus, at one point referring to it as the Democrats’ “new hoax.” His administration never developed a national plan for getting the virus under control and reopening the economy, leaving the states to fend for themselves. Meanwhile, the president undermined his own public-health agencies at every turn, telling states to “LIBERATE” their economies, refusing to wear a mask, and, at one point, suggesting bleach injections as a potential therapeutic. A February 2021 analysis by The Lancet, a British medical journal, found that the U.S. could have avoided 40 percent of the deaths that occurred under Trump’s watch if its death rate had matched the average among America’s peer countries.

The administration’s pandemic response did include one shining success: Operation Warp Speed, a public-private partnership that produced and distributed high-quality vaccines in record time, saving countless lives. But that triumph is the exception that proves the rule. The idea for the program came from Robert Kadlec, an assistant secretary for preparedness and response at the Department of Health and Human Services, and Peter Marks, an FDA official—two seasoned public-health experts who had served in top government roles for years beforeTrump took office. The project was then championed by HHS Secretary Alex Azar, who had been appointed by Trump after working off and on for the department since 2001; managed by Gustave Perna, a four-star general who had served in the military for more than 40 years; and staffed by bureaucrats with decades of public-health experience. (This success story has, of course, become distasteful to mention on the right, because it involves vaccines.)

These are exactly the sorts of experienced public servants whom Trump is trying to push out of government.

He'll destroy everything if he's allowed too. And what does he care about the future? What is his future? He's a 78 year old morbidly obese man. He'll be lucky to make it to 2028. And if he does? What? Another divorce? A good chance of having to deal with a gay son? What does he have to live for? Nothing. Not one damn thing.

So it doesn't matter to him.

And so we all suffer.

It didn't have to be this way.

Yes, Kamala Harris would have been a great president. But that's not what I'm talking about.

Let them die.

Next time, just let them die.

What'll really happen is they'll come running for the vaccine. But until they do, in the next pandemic, just let them die.

The worst thing the US government did in 2020 was try to save people.

You can't save stupid. At some point, you have to grasp that you need to let them drown before they take everyone else down with them. Their stupidity -- amplified by home schooling -- should be allowed to kill them next time.

I understand the need for a herd immunity. But, next time, maybe let the stupid have their own way and thin out the herd. Then we'll worry about herd immunity.

We spent too much time and money fighting a pandemic that some people don't even want to admit took place. That's some deep seated denial.

Chump wants to shatter FEMA as well. But even MAGA sees problems with that -- yes, even deeply stupid MAGA sees problems with that. Alex Henderson notes:

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) was created in 1979 under Democratic President Jimmy Carter, and Republican President George W. Bush recognized the agency's importance when FEMA was placed under the umbrella of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in 2003. After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, a recurring theme of the Bush Administration was that disasters were a national security matter.

But President Donald Trump, now two weeks into his nonconsecutive second term, is expressing his hostility to FEMA — a hostility that, according to Politico's Zack Colman, GOP lawmakers aren't necessarily on board with.

Trump is toying with the idea of abolishing FEMA, saying he may "recommend that FEMA go away" and adding, "I'd like to see the states take care of disasters."

"President Donald Trump's suggestions that he might shut down the federal agency charged with responding to disasters are running into trouble with Republican lawmakers," Colman reports in an article published on February 2. "Deeply red states are experiencing some of the costliest disasters, and lawmakers from those states fear that eliminating Federal Emergency Management Agency would leave them on the hook for increasingly expensive bills."

Maybe they could find their spines and push back on foreign born Elon Musk attempting to hijack the US government for his own personal reasons. The racist Elon, when not doing his Nazi salutes, shares fond memories of South Africa, where he was born, where his father was born, where he lived up until apartheid started to crumble. Elon loved apartheid. He loved Blacks not having legal rights. He's trying to recreate that in the US and Donald Chump's idiot enough to let him.

David McAfee (RAW STORY) reports:

Donald Trump on Sunday vowed to "act" on a purported situation in South Africa, the home country of "first Buddy" and richest man in the world Elon Musk, and some of his closest supporters pushed back.

Trump over the weekend took to Truth Social to complain about Democratic lawmakers who he says have delaying his nominees.

After that, he mentioned an issue that some on the far-right have long complained about.

"South Africa is confiscating land, and treating certain classes of people VERY BADLY. It is a bad situation that the Radical Left Media doesn’t want to so much as mention," the President said. "A massive Human Rights VIOLATION, at a minimum, is happening for all to see."

He added, "The United States won’t stand for it, we will act. Also, I will be cutting off all future funding to South Africa until a full investigation of this situation has been completed!"

Wow. I don't think I've seen Chump so committed to an issue since he was attacking Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana and Korey Wise . You remember them. The ones innocent of rape who were wrongly convicted and termed The Central Park Five? Even after the real rapist confessed, even after the guilty verdicts were vacated, Chump repeatedly lied about the young men. When it's time to attack Black people, the world see that Chump can move pretty fast for a fat guy when he's motivated.

Poor Elon. Trump strokes Elon's . . . ego and even that's not enough for Elon because he's the truly unqualified. Liars like Glenneth Greenwald and Matt Taibbi dream of caressing the ass hair Elon moved to his scalp due to his male pattern baldness. As they dream and cream over that possibility, they never find time to call out his suppression of free speech. Janna Brancolini (THE DAILY BEAST) explains:

Elon Musk is threatening to fire federal employees who leak information as he and President Donald Trump unleash unprecedented chaos on the government.

On Sunday, a user posted an anonymous “operational security reminder” on Reddit’s FBI forum with advice for sharing information so it can’t be traced back to the source. The post claimed that Musk’s staffers are using “‘fingerprinting’ on emails and notices” as a way of identifying “information leakers.”

“This is essentially an email watermark—adding a space here, making a typo there, and similar subtle changes to track leaks,” the post read.

Musk later replied to someone sharing the Reddit post on X.

“With regards to leakers: if in doubt, they are out,” wrote the world’s richest man. The Daily Beast has contacted the White House for comment.

After spending more than a quarter of a billion dollars on President Donald Trump’s re-election effort, Musk was put in charge of the Department of Government Efficiency or DOGE. The entity, which is not a government department, has been tasked with radically cutting federal spending.

Musk’s comment comes as President Donald Trump plunged the FBI into chaos by targeting officials linked to investigations into the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Remember, it's not free speech to Matt and Glenneth unless it's someone making hate speech. Then it's free speech. Then it's the language that they love.

Glenneth's a damn racist as well and we've noted it for decades here. Plural. These are the people that our left media raised and praised.

We really deserve a better left media.

Glenneth, he is a foreigner. I get it, you're stupid. We've spent decades now explaining that you lie when you claim you were a Constitutional lawyer and that you do not understand Constitutional law.

You serve up your dumb ass opinions as if they matter. And as though the US needs to hear from some weirdo in Brazil. You're jut a iar and who hates their own country.

But, point of fact, there is no Constitutional protection or recognition of dual citizenship.

That's reality.

Here's some more reality, Elon's father is from South Africa -- grew up there and fled like Elon and the rest when apartheid was crumbling and White racists like the Musks could no longer get rich off Black people. His trashy and ugly mother was born in Canada and her racist family elected to move to South Africa. There they had Elon. He is a citizen of South Africa. Via his mother, he's a citizen of Canada as well. He lied and did not follow the rules regarding his attempts at citizenship in the US -- per his own brother.

But more to the point, you're now trying to argue that he has triple citizenship.

I think Clarence Thomas, given the chance, would love to tackle this issue.

Not only is dual citizenship not mentioned in the Constitution but there is no justification for triple citizenship. A Clarence Thomas would most likely note that the issue is not in addressed in the Constitution but while -- for the sake of families -- it might be necessary to allow dual citizenship, there is no justification for triple (or more) citizenship.

See, part of actually knowing Constitutional law also requires grasping the manner in which Supreme Court justices would most likely make their arguments.

Glory Glenn did not practice Constitutional Law and you don't have to take my word for it. No, just look at the rulings every time he stood before a judge with some racist as his client and he tried to argue the case revolved around a Constitutional issue or issues. Every time he attempted that argument, judge after judge struck him down because he doesn't know Constitutional Law.

By the way, if you've missed it, we noted it yesterday, Glenny and the other grifters have taken to attacking THE MAJORITY REPORT's Emm Vigeland. I have one question there as toy poodle Aaron Mate joins the attacks, Katie Halper have you no sense of decency?

You're going to keep your head down and act like it's not happening?

You probably are because you're that pathetic. Closing in on fifty and trying to look late 20s, you've been a joke forever and a day. But let the left recognize this right now that while men -- and male aspiring Ana -- are dog piling on Emma, you did nothing to stand up for her or to call on others to stop it.

That's because you're not a feminist. You used it to get on at WBAI and then you worked your grift on over to the right.

These toxic men can move to the right and make money. But where do you see yourself in five to ten years? The new Tammy Bruce? It'll be cute if she passes her confirmation hearing, especially with everyone on DAYS OF OUR LIVES aware that Brenda Benet showed up on the set repeatedly with one bruise after another. Tammy does love to play herself as the victim. A lot of DOOL actors see her as an abuser and blame Tammy for Brenda's suicide.

On Musk, let's note Lawrence O'Donnell from last night on MSNBC.

Let's wind down with this from Senator Patty Murray's office.

Murray: “It’s already painfully clear that this is the most corrupt administration in our history, and it’s putting our economy, our government, and our most at-risk communities in serious jeopardy.”

Murray: “Maybe Elon will decide he doesn’t like that Blue Origin—and not SpaceX—gets a contract, so he wants to gum up the works on their payments. Private corporations and competitors need to take note. And anyone who thinks that surely won’t happen has not been paying attention.”

***VIDEO HERE***

Washington, D.C. — Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, joined Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Senators Ron Wyden (D-OR), Brian Schatz (D-HI), and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) to sound the alarm over Elon Musk and his team at the so-called “Department of Government Efficiency” being granted access to the federal government’s central payments system, which handles $6 trillion and the vast majority of all federal disbursements each year. Musk and his associates were granted access to the U.S. Treasury’s payment systems the same weekend they threatened their way into the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and seized Office of Personnel Management (OPM) computer systems. New reporting indicates they are now forcing their way into Small Business Administration (SBA) systems, as well.

Murray and her colleagues outlined the threat of Musk and the administration abusing the Treasury’s payment system to illegally block funding and payments, the danger of allowing Musk access to Americans’ most sensitive personal data, and how this administration’s historic corruption and illegal funding freezes are putting our country’s economy and national security in jeopardy.

Senator Murray’s remarks, as delivered, are below and video is HERE:

“Well we’re two weeks in, and it’s already painfully clear that this is the most corrupt administration in our history, and it’s putting our economy, our government, and our most at-risk communities in serious jeopardy.

“In particular, we learned that Elon Musk now has access to the Treasury Department’s most sensitive payment system handling six trillion dollars every year and managing nearly all federal disbursements. It’s a system that contains extremely sensitive personal and commercial information, and I’ve been hearing from people across my state who are truly alarmed about what Musk and his associates having access to this system could mean for their data—and for funding that they count on.

“Let’s not mince words here. An unelected, unaccountable billionaire—with expansive conflicts of interest, deep ties to China, and an indiscreet axe to grind against perceived enemies—is hijacking our nation’s most sensitive financial data system and its checkbook so that he can illegally block funds to our constituents, based on the slightest whim or wildest conspiracy. Funds—mind you—that Congress passed on a bipartisan basis.

“Some Republicans are trying to suggest that Musk only has ‘viewing access’ to Treasury’s highly sensitive payment system as if that’s acceptable either. But why on earth should we believe that—particularly when he is saying the exact opposite loudly and repeatedly for everyone to see?

“What funds will Elon target next—life-saving medical research? Housing assistance? Food banks? We already know he is falsely attacking faith-based organizations that help people—and promising to cut off funds based off conspiracy theories.

“The world’s richest man has vowed to cut off funding that helps the least among us. Think about that. And next—think about how many dollars he himself makes from government contracts. And the Trump Administration is handing the keys of the Treasury over to him? It does not get more blatantly corrupt than that.

“And let me underscore just how dangerous this is—because now that Trump has handed over Treasury’s checkbook, what if Elon decides he doesn’t like how Ford is getting federal funds to build an EV battery plant, what’s next? All Elon has to do is say ‘oh, they’re woke,’ and he can convince Trump to illegally cut off those funds.

“Maybe Elon will decide he doesn’t like that Blue Origin—and not SpaceX—gets a contract, so he wants to gum up the works on their payments. Private corporations and competitors need to take note. And anyone who thinks that surely won’t happen has not been paying attention.

“Now, make no mistake: Trump and Musk have absolutely zero legal authority to hold up any federal payments that are law, but that has not stopped them so far.

“This country is still reeling from the chaos of last week’s blanket spending freeze and Trump’s illegal executive orders to withhold funds are still not yet revoked. Trump and Musk have yet to find a law they think applies to them.

“That is not how things work in this country. We have a democracy. We have checks and we have balances—where the President is accountable to Congress, where we pass the laws, and he implements them.

“But some of my colleagues across the aisle seem to be forgetting that our democracy does not work by magic. We have to do our part to hold the President accountable. Our job is not to say ‘yes’ to everything any President does—no matter how lawless or harmful.

“Democrats are pushing back with the tools that we have. We will speak out, we will press this administration, we will open investigations, and we will demand accountability. The one tool we do not have is the majority in this Congress.

“So that means our Republican colleagues have to say ‘enough.’ We need them to join us. We need them to stand up to the corruption and lawlessness and stand up for the people they represent.”

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Monday, February 03, 2025

Get Marjorie Taylor Greene an inhaler

Isaiah's THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS "Dr. Phil Explains"

Has there ever been anyone on TV who looked as creepy as Dr. Phil? I don't believe so. On the topic of ugly . . .

If you missed it, burly truck driver Marjorie Taylor Green is huffing and puffing yet again. Sadly, no, she's not having an asthma attack. She's just threatening people from the hair on her chiny-chin-chin:

Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene warned her fellow Republicans that there will "absolutely be hell to pay" if they do not confirm cabinet nominees Tulsi Gabbard, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Kash Patel.

"If the Republican controlled Senate fails to confirm even one of these 3 GREAT patriots, there will absolutely be hell to pay," Greene wrote in an X post shared over the weekend.

"There is not a single Republican Senator that can win their elections without the MAGA base in their state," she added.

Marjorie's in the House, not the Senate. So maybe our brainless bimbo doesn't grasp that these are six year terms? You can ride out anything over a six year term. It's also equally true that Tulsi is not qualified. Trashy Garbage needs to stop the circus by announcing she's stepping aside. Even she has to grasp that she's not qualified and that she is, indeed, a security risk.

"The Snapshot" (THE COMMON ILLS):

Monday, February 3, 2025. Elon Musk now has the papers of every American citizen, he's announced that he and Donald Chump are ending USAID, Junior sends a letter after his testimony and we're supposed to pretend that carries the same weight as a statement made in front of witnesses in an open hearing, and much more.

Let's start with HIPAA. Last week, we noted Chump's Justice Dept is refusing to prosecute a HIPAA violation:

On Sunday, Wally, Cedric, Betty, Ann, Isaiah and I did a group post:

"Pull Dr. Eithan Haim's medical license," "Run Dr. Eithan Haim out of the medical profession for violating patient privacy," "HIPAA allows for civil litigation as well as criminal," "Sue Dr. Eithan Haim for every cent he has," "THIST JUST IN! CIVIL LAWSUITS AGAINST DR EITHAN HAIM!" and "The very sick doctor"

There are real issues and if you're on the left and helped put Donald Chump back in the White House, you damn well should be working to address real issues and not fan-boying online about Bernie or Rashida or Amy Goodman or anyone else. I will support Rachel Maddow, she is under attack. But I'm not fan-girling her. At a certain age, you should damn well grow up. Alex Bollinger (LGBTQ NATION) reports:

Prosecutors believe that Haim had access to Texas Children’s Hospital records even though he didn’t work there because he had previously done part of his residency there. He asked the hospital to reactivate his login and accessed the medical records of children not under his care. This happened after Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton declared gender-affirming care a form of child abuse in a nonbinding opinion.

Haim insisted that he anonymized the identities of the patients whose records he gave to Rufo, but there is dispute over whether he really did that. Assistant Clinical Professor Carmel Shachar of Harvard Law School told Assigned Media that the records Haim leaked were not de-identified in compliance with HIPAA, meaning that people could figure out who the records originally belonged to. This could potentially make the children whose records Haim leaked targets for harassment and bullying.

He also claimed that he had to make the records public because he is a mandatory reporter of child abuse, but Texas’ mandatory reporting law requires reporters to go to state authorities like the Texas Medical Board, not the media.

I can understand families might want to put this behind them. But they do have the law on their side. A medical professional illegally accessed their records. A facility allowed that to happen. There are strong grounds for suing both the doctor and Texas Children's Hospital. He no longer worked there and did not need access. He was granted access and that was a mistake but once giving this doctor who did not practice at the hospital computer access, it was their job to audit his computer access and to determine what he was doing. Both the doctor and the hospital are legally liable. In addition, by breaking HIPAA, he could be disbarred.

He did not follow whistle-blower guidelines but, more to the point, he was not a whistle-blower. Chelsea Manning comes across documents and exposes them? Whistle-blower. Someone going on an illegal hunt into a person's medical records is not a whistle-blower. As a doctor he understood the importance of medical privacy and he elected to shred the legal rights of people who were not even his patients. I'd sue his ass and the hospitals and walk away with everything they had.

MAGA nuts and transphobes have e-mailed the public account since that went up insisting it doesn't matter. Really, our medical records do not deserve privacy? Well that's your (uninformed) opinion. And others want to insist no law was broken because no names were released.

You don't know that no names were released. This took place in Texas, where Ken Paxton was seeking medical records on trans patients and had been denied because of the law. You don't now what that piece of s**t doctor did or did not see delivered to Paxton.

But more to the point, HIPAA didn't create something news. It was always known that you didn't access patient's records for fun or to be nosy and that you didn't release personal information.

Four years before HIPAA became law, actor Anthony Perkins died. Perkins' biggest films included PSYCHO, PRETTY POISON and MAHOGANY. In 1990, THE NATIONAL ENQUIRER outed him as having AIDS ("Anthony Perkins Desperate Bid To Save His Life"). He denied it, but it was true. It's far too complicated to go into here, but that's the gist of it. Two years later, he was dead from complications resulting from AIDS.

That was a violation -- even before HIPAA.

Who is allowed to access medical files? Those treating a patient and those handling the insurance aspect.

Eithan Haim broke the law. He had no right to access the medical charts that he did. None of those people were his patients. He broke into their medical records, that's what happened. Yes, he tricked the hospital into giving him access -- his credentials had expired because he was no longer with that hospital. But he broke the law.

And if you had a child at that hospital seeking trans care, you should contact that hospital and tell them to immediately conduct an audit of the chart. That would tell you everyone that accessed it. If Haim accessed your child's records, you should immediately sue him and the hospital.

For those who still don't get how serious this is, Paxton wants the same thing on female medical records on pregnant patients. Do we have to wait for another criminal to try to pass for a whistleblower?

And the reason that we're noting our privacy rights as citizens today is that South Africa's Elon Musk has not been elected to any US government office. So why does he have access to our records?

Mehdi Hassan put this up at BLUESKY on Sunday.

Good question. Friday, Senator Ron Wyden's office issued the following:

In New Letter to Treasury Secretary Bessent, Wyden Warns That Political Meddling in Treasury Payments Risks Severe Economic Damage, Calls Out Dangerous Conflicts of Interest Stemming from Elon Musk’s Close Business Ties to the Chinese Government

Washington, D.C. – Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., demanded answers from Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent today following a report that personnel affiliated with Elon Musk have sought access to a highly sensitive Treasury Department payment system. That system, which is maintained by non-political staff, disperses trillions of dollars each year, such as Social Security and Medicare benefits, tax credits for individuals and businesses, grants and payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk-owned companies.

Senator Wyden wrote in a new letter: “To put it bluntly, these payment systems simply cannot fail, and any politically-motivated meddling in them risks severe damage to our country and the economy. I am deeply concerned that following the federal grant and loan freeze earlier this week, these officials associated with Musk may have intended to access these payment systems to illegally withhold payments to any number of programs. I can think of no good reason why political operators who have demonstrated a blatant disregard for the law would need access to these sensitive, mission-critical systems … The federal government is in a financially precarious position, currently utilizing accounting maneuvers to continue paying its bills since it reached the debt limit at the beginning of the year. I am concerned that mismanagement of these payment systems could threaten the full faith and credit of the United States.”

His letter continued: “The press has previously reported that Musk was denied a high-level clearance to access the government’s most sensitive secrets. I am concerned that Musk’s enormous business operation in China -- a country whose intelligence agencies have stolen vast amounts of sensitive data about Americans, including U.S. government employee data by hacking U.S. government systems -- endangers U.S. cybersecurity and creates conflicts of interest that make his access to these systems a national security risk.”

The full text of the letter is available here. The questions posed in the letter follow below.

Have officials associated with Elon Musk or DOGE requested access to the Bureau of the Fiscal Service’s payment systems? If so, please provide the identities of those individuals.
Has the Treasury Department granted Bureau of Fiscal Service payment systems access to officials associated with Elon Musk or DOGE? If so, please provide the following information:
1. The legal authority under which the Treasury Department granted access to any of the Fiscal Service’s payment systems to officials associated with Elon Musk or DOGE
2. A detailed description of why the Treasury Department gave officials associated with Elon Musk or DOGE and the intended changes to the system that merits such access
3. A list of all officials associated with Elon Musk or DOGE who have been granted access to the Fiscal Services Payment Systems.
4. Copies of all communications between officials associated with Elon Musk or DOGE and Treasury staff related to the Bureau of the Fiscal Service’s payment systems.
Has the Treasury Department given access to payment system databases related to the disbursement of Social Security and Medicare benefits? If so, why?
Has the Treasury Department conducted any screenings, background checks, screening of security clearances or other vetting of officials associated with Elon Musk or DOGE? If so, please describe these efforts and whether they took place prior to granting officials associated with Elon Musk or DOGE access to the Fiscal Service’s payment systems.
Has the Treasury Department done any vetting of potential conflicts of interest posed by Elon Musk’s significant business operations in China prior to granting him access to the Fiscal Service’s payment systems or any other Treasury databases?
Please describe what information security measures and other operational security steps will be taken to ensure that providing officials associated with Elon Musk or DOGE such access does not result in hackers and foreign spies breaching or otherwise gaining access to the Fiscal Service’s payment systems.

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I'm sorry, has Donald Chump just decided The Fourth Amendment no longer exists?

I've not signed any waiver allowing non-governmentals to have access to my private information. That's a recipe for abuse.

Now we all wonder whether or not Donald can count to four but one would hope someone at the White House could pull him aside and explain the purpose of The Fourth Amendment.

The Fourth Amendment: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, [. . .]" No warrants were issued. But our papers are no longer secure -- our papers is the information that the government has on us that Chump has turned over to Elon Musk.

This morning, David Ingram (NBC NEWS) reports:

Tech billionaire Elon Musk said Monday that he and President Donald Trump were in the process of shutting down the U.S. Agency for International Development, escalating their war on the federal bureaucracy and defying the constitutional power of Congress to determine how money is spent.

Musk, the head of Trump’s government efficiency initiative, announced the shutdown in the middle of the night in an audio-only appearance on his social media site X.

“We’re shutting it down,” he said. At another point, he said "we’re in the process” of “shutting down USAID.”

Musk did not say what legal authority he believed the White House has to shut down a federal agency without congressional approval, or how quickly the administration planned to act. He said the idea had “the full support of the president” and that he had spoken with Trump on the matter several times.

As we all know, Elon is a racist who was taught racism by his racist parents as he grew up in his country of birth South Africa. When apartheid finally began to collapse in South African, Elon ran like the coward he always has been. He couldn't handle the thought of living in South Africa if Black people had equality. The people of South Africa -- predominately Black but also some Whites -- fought to topple apartheid. One of the things that assisted with the toppling? USAID.

So this unelected foreigner is being given our personal data and he's being allowed to seek his revenge on the world. That's all his embrace and popularization of racism has been -- his trying to get back at the world for the end of apartheid in South Africa.

And too many fools got taken in and thought he was something to applaud and admire. Oh, let's build an episode of THE SIMPSONS around him! Oh, let's buy a car from him!

If any of those people had done the basic due diligence they would have known that he was nothing but vengeful piece of garbage bound and determined to stomp out any progress for people of color.

But, big surprise, big media did none of the work required and little media was too busy amusing itself to grasp what was coming.

Let's wind down. We've got two things from Senator Elizabeth Warren's office. First up:

Musk Repeatedly Attacked FAA Head after Agency Fined SpaceX

“[T]he fact that FAA has no Senate-confirmed Administrator in place to lead the response provides a concrete example of how your self-interest may not be consistent with the public interest.”

Text of Letter (PDF)

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) sent a letter to Elon Musk, Administrator of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), regarding his role in the resignation of the head of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Michael Whitaker, in the wake of the tragic plane crash in Washington, D.C.

“This resignation—which you called for after the FAA fined your company for safety issues —has left this critical agency without leadership while facing significant challenges, including the tragic midair crash of American Eagle Flight 5342 and an Army Black Hawk helicopter that killed 67 individuals—including at least six from Massachusetts —on the approach to Washington Reagan National Airport,” wrote Senator Warren.

Despite having a term set to run through 2028, Mr. Whitaker resigned from the agency on January 20, 2025, in the aftermath of a series of public attacks by Musk including calls for, “[Mr. Whitaker] … to resign.”

“You got what you wanted after President Trump was elected,” wrote Senator Warren.

Immediately after inauguration day, the Trump Administration took aim at the FAA and at airline safety, announcing a federal hiring freeze that included air traffic controllers, and disbanding the Aviation Safety Advisory Committee.

“It is not clear what direct or indirect role you played in any of these decisions, but at a moment of crisis, with 67 dead, the FAA is understaffed and was without a Senate-confirmed leader,” continued the senator. “[T]he fact that FAA has no Senate-confirmed Administrator in place to lead the response provides a concrete example of how your self-interest may not be consistent with the public interest.”

Senator Warren pushed Elon Musk for answers regarding his role in decisions made during the Trump transition or after January 20 about the FAA and airline safety, his current role in the Administration, and the ethics rules governing his actions.

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Very, very important points. I'm not impressed with the next one:

In response to this new information, Sen. Warren released the following statement:

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Nothing's changed. He didn't say in a Senate hearing. Where we'd have footage and where he would be considered bound by it being part of his testimony before the Senate. He did it outside of the Senate. And he's not doing much at all.

Didn't see everything you wanted to in the snapshot? You won't. Friday ended with more destruction of the government by the Convicted Felon. Congress needs to stand up and to do so immediately -- that's all members of Congress.

If we had more time, we could note Glenneth Greerwald found his new woman to attack: Emma of THE MAJORITY REPORT and we could not what a liar he is and how "" really needs to focus on Brazil but if he's going to try to hold up Tucker a better than Emma, he needs to remind people that Tucker is so nuts that he's claiming a demon came into his bedroom and assaulted him -- sodomized him in some of the tellings. He's nuts.

Glenneth's also attacking David Hogg. Old man Glenneth is probably attempting to work through his sexual attraction for Hogg.

24-year-old David Hogg was elected vice chair of the DNC on Saturday. Great for him, great for new blood in party leadership. Let's note this from Florida's Democratic Party:

Today, David Hogg was elected Vice Chair of the Democratic National Committee. In response, the Florida Democratic Party has issued the following statement:

“Congratulations to our new DNC Vice Chair, David Hogg” said FDP Chair Nikki Fried. “David Hogg’s journey is truly remarkable — from Parkland survivor to national gun violence prevention advocate to now, the first member of Gen Z to serve as Vice Chair of the DNC. David’s unique life experiences and skills will transform the way Democrats engage with young voters and elevate how we run campaigns.

“I’m excited for his generation — and Florida — to have a seat at the table and I look forward to working with him as Vice Chair.”