Tate In Gates!

The two headed monster.

Far right extremists are facing criminal charges in Great Britain. They escape Romanian justice only to be held in federal custody in the U.S. With the two brothers being held for extradition, it is highly unlikely they will escape the iron college in British commonwealth courts.

Brofluncers Andrew and Tristan Tate can't take no for an answer. They literally invented a new term for sexual assault. They call it, "fuck sessions."

The suspects are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

Well it appears, the fuck sessions got women who weren't willing participants. They may have drugged or physically abused them. They were sex trafficking women.

The Tate brothers whose social media empire promoting wealth, male dominance and misogyny has made them among the world’s most polarizing internet personalities, were arrested Saturday in Miami as British authorities sought their extradition on rape and sex trafficking charges.

The brothers were taken into custody by the U.S. Marshals Service on a sealed warrant, agency spokesperson Brady McCarron told The Associated Press, placing the United States at the center of an international legal saga that has stretched from Romania to Britain.

British prosecutors announced Saturday that they were seeking the brothers’ extradition on charges alleging they raped and trafficked women between 2010 and 2017.

The dual U.S. and British citizens moved to Romania in 2016. They were arrested there in 2022, accused of participating in schemes to lure women for sexual exploitation. They denied those allegations and the Romanian case hasn’t gone forward because of legal and procedural problems.

Last year, they were allowed to leave Romania and flew to Florida on a private jet.

The brothers are expected to appear in Miami’s federal court early next week, according to a person familiar with the matter who spoke to on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive law enforcement operations.

The pending charges in the United Kingdom accused the brothers of abusing women in an area north of London, where they grew up. Their lawyers had said they denied the allegations.

Joseph McBride, an attorney representing the Tate brothers, said in a phone interview Saturday evening that he has not been able to speak with his clients but called the new charges out of the U.K. “filth and slander” intended to derail defamation lawsuits filed by the brothers in the U.S.

“They’re pulling out all the stops to make sure these guys never get their day in court,” McBride said.

“We are confident that once a competent judge sees the facts, and once the Department of Justice confronts this egregious abuse of its own authority, Andrew and Tristan Tate will walk free. America does not do Britain’s political dirty work.”

The Tates are American born British agitators.

Andrew Tate, 39, first reached a mainstream audience as a contestant on the U.K. reality television show “Big Brother” in 2016. He was removed from the show when a video surfaced that appeared to show Tate assaulting a woman. He and his brother Tristan Tate, 38, were vocal supporters of President Donald J. Trump.

It has waned thanks to the president going to war in Iran and catering to Israeli interests.

Andrew Tate has amassed over 10 million followers on X but has been banned from platforms like YouTube, TikTok and Instagram for violating hate speech guidelines. His most widely condemned rhetoric includes comments that women who are sexually assaulted should bear some responsibility for their attacks, graphic descriptions of how he might attack women and criticisms of people who seek treatment for mental illness.

The Tate brothers have consistently denied allegations of abuse and human trafficking, claiming that violent and misogynistic statements have been taken out of context or were intended as jokes.

In a statement Saturday, the U.K.'s Crown Prosecution Services said that in addition to the charges publicly announced against the brothers in 2025, involving alleged crimes against three women, it was bringing a total of 38 new charges related to “four further victims.”

Both brothers are accused of rape and human trafficking. Andrew Tate faces an additional charge of profiting from prostitution, and 19 charges “for offences relating to indecent images of a child and extreme pornography,” according to U.K. authorities.

“There is no place for male violence against women and girls, and we will continue to work tirelessly to support victims and investigate all reports made to us,” said Karena Thomas, an assistant chief constable of the Bedfordshire Police, which investigated the case.

Curmudgeon International Airport In West Palm Beach!

Did you know Donald J. Trump had a failed airline?

The far right was upset when Barack and Michelle Obama had their names put on buildings. In Ireland, there is a travel center dedicated to the U.S. first African American president and first lady.

The Republicans were upset that Obama won a Nobel Peace Prize. Rightfully so, Obama didn't deserve it. But damn it, it was a success for a young president in his first year.

The Republicans were upset that Obama was named on roads, bridges, schools, scholarships and various companies.

They do not have a problem when it's their own folks. Obviously the hypocrisy.

Did you know that Ronald Reagan, John F. Kennedy, Gerald Ford, Abraham Lincoln, Dwight D. Eisenhower, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and now Donald J. Trump have airports named after them?

Well it official.

The West Palm Beach International Airport is now called the [President] Donald J. Trump International Airport. The city of West Palm Beach with a population of 143,000 has no say in this.

The state Republicans and Gov. Ron DeSantis pushed for the renaming and it quickly became law.

What would happen if Illinois decided to change Chicago Midway International Airport to the Barack Obama International Airport?

What would happen if Pennsylvania or Delaware were to rename either the Philadelphia International Airport or Wilmington City Airport after Joe Biden?

How much does it cost Florida taxpayers?

It will be a $5 million project to fully change the airport name and cost taxpayers $2 million to oversight.

Mamdani: [Netanyahu] Better Not Come To New York!

If we could only dream the NYPD being ordered to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu.

Republicans and some Democrats are outraged that the mayor of New York City is following the law. The United States has maintained it upholds the law. They keep saying that no one is above the law.

Well President Donald J. Trump and maybe Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

They think they are above the law.

Trump is a convicted felon, an adjudicated sexual predator, a habitual liar, a fraudster and a twice impeached president. He is seditionist. He is an unapologetic curmudgeon who cares more about being liked than doing his fucking job. A semi autistic billionaire driven mad by revenge. 

Netanyahu is almost close to Trump. He is not autistic. But he certainly a paranoid man with schizophrenia. 

Both are in cognitive decline.

Zohran Mamdani is a democratic socialist. He is unapologetic about how he believes the government should work for the people and not for the elite. He has pushed aggressive policies to make the United States' largest city more affordable. It is small steps but certainly a good path forward despite the noise.

Mamdani understands that the International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu, Yoav Gallant and Israel Katz. They also have sanctions on President Issac Herzog, Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich. 

The member nations must uphold to the warrant. They will arrest him if he steps foot on their sovereignty.

Netanyahu has to take nearly six additional hours of flight to avoid countries that will honor the ICC warrant.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio recently stated that he will push for an audit of the ICC.

He vows to dismantle the court and punish judges and prosecutors who decided to put Netanyahu on the warrant.

Mamdani had vowed to follow the ICC warrant. The United States refuse to honor the arrest warrant. If he does come to the United States, he is freely allowed access to the nation. 

America first mayor.

He is on neutral soil when he goes to the United Nations in New York City. 

Once he steps off the United Nations sovereignty, he is in New York state.

In New York City he falls under the New York Police Department. Now with that being said, some Republicans and Democrats will literally shield this maniac.

Mamdani said his administration was still discussing whether to arrest the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, if he comes to New York City as expected for the U.N. General Assembly in September.

“I believe that Prime Minister Netanyahu belongs in the Hague,” Mamdani told Lulu Garcia-Navarro this week on “The Interview,” a New York Times show, referring to the home of the United Nations’ International Court of Justice.

“He’s a war criminal who has been charged by the International Criminal Court,” Mamdani added. “And what you will find is that is an opinion that is held by many, purely because of what his actions have wrought over these last many years.”

The mayor said he was unclear on whether he has the legal authority to order the New York Police Department, which he oversees, to detain a foreign leader like Netanyahu. He said he was in “an active conversation” with the city’s Law Department over the matter.

“Whatever the law allows me to do in New York City, that’s what we will do, but we won’t be writing our own laws to that end,” Mamdani added.

During his mayoral campaign last year, Mamdani said in an interview with The Times that he would order the Police Department to arrest Netanyahu, who is locked in his own re-election bid in Israel.

At the time, he said he would be honoring a warrant issued by the International Criminal Court after Netanyahu’s role in the war in Gaza, which Mamdani and a United Nations commission have called a genocide.

Netanyahu addressed Mamdani’s threat to arrest him during a recent radio appearance, saying he is not concerned, and he accused the mayor of supporting Hamas, the Palestinian militant group that controls a significant portion of Gaza. Hamas was responsible for the deadly attack in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, which precipitated Israel’s deadly war in Gaza.

“I think he should look at who he's condemning, who he’s praising,” the prime minister said during an interview this week with Sid Rosenberg, a local radio personality and a frequent critic of Mamdani. “He’s condemning Israel, the one democracy that stands shoulder to shoulder with American values.”

“Who does he champion? Hamas, that calls openly to massacre every Jew on earth, that conducted that horrible massacre, the worst massacre on Jews since the Holocaust,” Netanyahu added.

He also said Mamdani “doesn’t care” that “those who hate the Jews and Israel ultimately hate America."

“And in fact I think secretly, he hates America,” Netanyahu added.

Mamdani does not speak positively about Hamas when he criticizes Netanyahu and has condemned the Oct. 7 attacks. He has made his extensive concerns about Israel a focal point of his political identity, raising the issue frequently. Several people who know him well have said he considers Palestinian liberation one of the most pressing moral issues of his time.

Mamdani’s views about Israel are no longer on the fringe of the Democratic Party. Nearly half of House Democrats voted this week to end U.S. aid to Israel, which was not enough for the measure to pass, but enough to demonstrate a shift in the party’s posture toward one of the country’s stalwart allies in the Middle East.

China Scoffs At Trump Finger Pointing!

The rise of the Zionist Bibi Netanyahu.

The fall of a superpower and the rise of another. We were told back when we were kids growing up in the 1980s, "Don't waste your food. There's millions in China that starve everyday."

Well it seems like Chinese people are actually telling people to not waste food.

They say that over consumption could ruin the country. They are taking steps to improve their country's infrastructure. They are pushing BRICS to nations that once relied on the United States for economic solvency.

The African Union is interested in it.

It has already been imminent, China is going to excel as the global superpower.

The world’s largest economy is coming from the Chinese. The United States is borrowing so much money to fund wars and continue the status quo. It will eventually wreck our economy.

President Donald J. Trump made the allegations that China played a role in his 2020 presidential election loss. China dismissed the allegations.

Oh, Israel and its affiliates are spending billions to oust anti-Israel candidates.

Toilet paper is more popular than this curmudgeon.

China on Friday said it has never interfered in U.S. elections and has no interest in doing so, urging Washington to stop making what it described as “groundless accusations” after President Donald Trump accused Beijing of meddling in the 2020 election.

In an address to the nation Thursday, Trump again raised doubts about the U.S. elections results in 2020 and accused China of interfering in them.

“The relevant allegations by the U.S. are entirely fabricated and aimed at vilifying China,” said China’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian. “We have no interest in interfering in US elections and have never done so.”

In a daily briefing in Beijing, Lin called on the U.S. to stop making groundless accusations against China.

Asked whether this might affect the expected visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping to the U.S. in September, the spokesperson replied: “As I just said, we urge the U.S. to stop making an issue of China in its elections and do something conducive to China-U.S. relations.”

Trump visited Beijing in mid-May and met with Xi, and both governments said they would adopt a new framework to manage the bilateral relations. Trump invited Xi to visit the United States in September and Beijing confirmed Xi has accepted the invitation.

Veep In The Heep!

If Israel comes at me...

President Donald J. Trump and Republicans who back Israel are angry at Vice President JD Vance for saying the quiet part out loud. He literally said that he cares about American interests and not the interest of Israel.

Vance went on the Joe Rogan Experience and said that he felt like the president is  sidelining him as he was negotiating with the Iranians to end the aggression. 

While he agrees with the president on some of the issues they have with Iran, the vice president said that Israel and its influncers are trying to sabotage the talks.

He called them out and it led to MAGA feuding with MIGA.

Mark Levin, Ben Shapiro and several Republican members have reacted.

During the interview, Vance claimed that a "literal foreign-influence campaign" funded by members of the Israeli government was attempting to sabotage the Trump administration's ongoing negotiations with Iran, while also admitting the administration "absolutely screwed up" its handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files.

Shapiro heavily slammed Vance, stating on social media that Vance “sounded like a Democrat” and mirrored the economics of Bernie Sanders and the foreign policy of Barack Obama. Shapiro criticized Vance's arguments against free markets and meritocracy as "weird and concerning," questioning his alignment with conservative principles ahead of the 2028 election cycle.

Levin and other "Israel First" hawks reacted with fury. According to political commentators, Levin’s wing of the movement has heavily gone after Vance, warning that donors and conservative groups will "take note" of his positions to potentially cut off political funding for a future 2028 presidential bid.

During a lengthy podcast interview with Joe Rogan released Wednesday, Vance pointed largely to former Attorney General Pam Bondi, who infamously stated that an alleged “client list” of Epstein’s was “sitting on my desk right now.” Epstein was a convicted sex offender who was known for his wide web of connections to the world’s elite.

In addition to those comments, the Justice Department under Bondi had also offered conservative commentators and influencers binders that were called “The Epstein files: Phase 1″ and “Declassified.”

“I know Pam. I like Pam. I don’t think there was anything malicious going on,” Vance told Rogan. “I think Pam was trying to respond to the political moment. I think she overstated what we had and what we didn’t have.”

As a result, Vance said, Bondi was “roasted” publicly for it and led people to “mistrust” the administration’s transparency efforts on the Epstein files.

“We absolutely screwed up the comms of the Epstein files. Like, we just did,” Vance said. “But do I think the reason we screwed up the comms is because we were trying to hide something? No.”

The controversy over the Epstein files dogged the administration for much of last year, with lawmakers eventually passing a measure that compelled the release of a massive trove of documents in the government’s possession related to its investigations of the disgraced financier. The Justice Department began releasing the documents in late December, which included photos, call logs, grand jury testimony and interview transcripts.

Fetterman: Abandon Israel And You Lose Me!

All that stress could lead to another stroke.

Did you know a massive rain storm called a microburst that caused an epic flooding in Philadelphia?

It was a disaster.

Where was President Donald J. Trump?

Where was Vice President JD Vance?

Where was Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin?

Where was FEMA head Robert Fenton?

Where was Gov. Josh Shapiro?

Where were Brian Fitzpatrick, Madeleine Dean, Dwight Evans and Brendan Boyle?

Where were John Fetterman and Dave McCormick?

Well most of them kiss ass to a foreign government. They care more about Israel than Pennsylvania itself.

When he was elected in 2022, John Fetterman won on a savy media campaign against Mehmet Oz. Even after a fucking stroke, Fetterman managed to scurry enough Democrats to vote for him. Since 2023, he became a huge disappointment to the people who backed his ass.

Fetterman declared that if the Democratic Party continues to elect democratic socialists and become the "anti-Israel" party, he will end his caucus membership.

He is an independent senator from Pennsylvania who became a burden to Democrats.

He has a job approval of 30%. Democrats strongly disapprove of his performance. Republicans slightly favor his performance.

Trump has tried to pressure Fetterman to flip and become a Republican. He has refused but has hinted that he will vote accordingly.

Fetterman has a major “concern” over the trajectory of many Democrats who have become increasingly critical of U.S. aid for Israel amid growing pressure from the party’s progressive base.  

“My long-term concern has been with [the Democratic Party], as I am a member of that, is that our party is going to back away and turn their back to Israel,” he said.

Fetterman said he “can’t understand why the Democratic Party” — which shares an array of values with Israel as an important democracy in the Middle East — would turn against a long-standing ally.

The Pennsylvania senator says he has a major “concern” over the trajectory of many Democrats who have become increasingly critical of U.S. aid for Israel amid growing pressure from the party’s progressive base.  

Fetterman cited Democratic support for an amendment sponsored by Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) to cut off $3.3 billion in annual security assistance to Israel and the success of progressive candidates who are harshly critical of Israel in Democratic primaries.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and House Democratic Whip Katherine Clark (D-MA), the No. 1 and No. 2 ranking House Democrats, split over Massie’s amendment, with Jeffries opposing it and Clark supporting it.

Fetterman said Clark’s support for the amendment reflects a trend in the broader party.

“You look at the kinds of individuals that are winning our recent primaries,” he said. “It’s becoming more anti-, anti-Israel and hostile to people” who are pro-Israel.

He criticized fellow Democrats who “are trying to ingratiate ourselves with that segment of the base of our voters are intensely, intensely anti-Israel.”

Fetterman acknowledged he has been approached by Republicans about leaving the Democratic Party but declined to divulge “private conversations.”

The senator expressed concern over progressive candidate Abdul El-Sayed’s strong performance in polls in the Michigan Senate Democratic primary. He warned that Democrats will have to pour millions of additional dollars into the battleground state to be competitive in November if he is the nominee.

“Rogers just barely, barely lost in ’24,” Fetterman said, referring to former lawmaker Mike Rogers, the Republican candidate who narrowly lost the 2024 Michigan Senate race.

“If El-Sayed wins, then that puts Michigan much more in play for us and would require us to spend more money. What’s defined El-Sayed is the more anti-Israel and hostile-to-Israel thing,” Fetterman said.

He also criticized El-Sayed and other progressive candidates’ past comments expressing support for the “defund the police” movement, questioning whether Democrats truly learned the lessons of losing the 2024 presidential election.

“Now here’s more Democrats to ‘defund the police.’ Here we are back to part of the worst impulses that we just can’t resist. We forgot the crazy things that we said, and that cost us the election in 2024. Now we want to revisit that — if anything they’re coming back in the strongest kind of terms. Look at the people who are winning,” he said.  

Darializa Avila Chevalier, a democratic socialist candidate backed by New York City Mayor Zohran MMamdai, deleted a social media account in which she called for abolishing police, borders and prisons, and claimed Israel doesn’t exist. Avila Chevalier, a 32-year-old activist, defeated Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-NY) in the Democratic primary for New York’s 13th Congressional District.

Fetterman also expressed frustration with fellow Democratic senators who backed progressive insurgent candidate Graham Platner in the critical Maine Senate race, despite the fact that he was not carefully vetted and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) had intensively recruited Democratic Gov. Janet Mills to run for the Maine Senate seat.

Fetterman said he was “angry” that Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) championed Platner so forcefully and was reluctant to withdraw his support even after The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal reported in early June troubling allegations about the candidate’s past behavior.

“As a Democrat, I am angry at people like Bernie Sanders, that pushed that accused rapist. Why did so many people on that left embrace that accused rapist?” he said, referring to Platner.

“What was the appeal? Was it no record in public service? Was it the record of the Nazi ink? Was it the crazy things he said online? What was the appeal, roughing up his ex-girlfriends?” he asked.

“Why did you push these people? Why did you buy in and then plunge that most consequential Senate race now into chaos?” Fetterman fumed, arguing the implosion of Platner’s campaign has made it “more difficult” to beat Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) and win control of the Senate.

Fetterman demanded to know why his Democratic colleagues haven’t apologized for backing Platner.

Platner ended his campaign after Jenny Racicot, a 41-year-old Maine woman, accused him of raping her in 2021.

“Did Van Hollen apologize to the victim? I don’t know, I didn’t see it. The same with Bernie,” Fetterman said, referring to Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), a member of the group of Senate Democratic progressives who call themselves the “Fight Club,” and who initially backed Platner but then withdrew his support along with many other Democrats.

“Where’s the accountability?” Fetterman asked. “Imagine if I would have done that and pushed that kind of individual.”

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) on Monday dodged questions about whether she regretted backing Platner but made it clear that she called for him to end his campaign.

“I asked Platner to withdraw from the race. He has withdrawn. Now it’s time for us to get a candidate in Maine and to take back the majority here in the Senate,” she said.

Curmudgeon On $1 Coin!

A worthless face on actual currency.

The most unpopular president in the 21st Century wants to leave his namesake on American currency. He still wants his face on Mount Rushmore. He still believes the 2020 U.S. presidential election was stolen from him. He continues to keep his predecessors Barack Obama and Joe Biden on his daily conversations. He still tells the world that he has done more things than most presidents ever had.

Donald J. Trump, Sr. is the 45th and 47th President of the United States. He is the second man to serve two non consecutive presidential terms. The last one was Grover Cleveland.

Both wrecked the country with their policies. Neither understood the frustration.

The U.S. Mint has begun producing a new $1 coin bearing President Donald Trump’s face to help celebrate America’s 250th birthday, the Treasury Department said Wednesday.

The final design for the commemorative coin, being released in the fall, was approved earlier this year by the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, whose members were appointed by Trump. But the finished product unveiled Wednesday differs from that version in a few aspects, including that it is not made of gold but rather has a gold finish.

The coin is intended “to honor the enduring legacy of liberty and a lasting symbol of patriotism,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in a post on X. “Featuring President Trump, it celebrates the strength of American values, and the promise of a nation dedicated to preserving freedom for all.”

The president on Wednesday told Fox Business Network that the move to put his face on a coin is “very unusual, but I was honored by it,” adding that “it’s very cute they gave me a coin.”

Trump, a Republican, has a penchant for putting his name and likeness in the historical record, following his renaming of the U.S. Institute of Peace, the Kennedy Center performing arts venue and a new class of battleships, among other tributes. The move to put his face on the gold coin has drawn criticism in particular because federal law prohibits the depiction of a living president on U.S. currency, though the treasury secretary has the authority to authorize the minting and issuance of coins in some circumstances.

The president on Wednesday told Fox Business Network that the move to put his face on a coin is “very unusual, but I was honored by it,” adding that “it’s very cute they gave me a coin.”

Trump, a Republican, has a penchant for putting his name and likeness in the historical record, following his renaming of the U.S. Institute of Peace, the Kennedy Center performing arts venue and a new class of battleships, among other tributes. The move to put his face on the gold coin has drawn criticism in particular because federal law prohibits the depiction of a living president on U.S. currency, though the treasury secretary has the authority to authorize the minting and issuance of coins in some circumstances.

The front of the coin features an image of Trump in a suit and tie and with a stern look on his face. Lettering on the top half of the coin’s arc spells “LIBERTY,” with the dates 1776-2026 on the bottom half of the arc. The words “IN GOD WE TRUST” are in the middle.

The reverse side depicts the traditional image of the bald eagle in the Great Seal of the U.S., with “UNITED STATES OF AMERICA” on the top half of the coin and the Latin phrase “E PLURIBUS UNUM,” meaning “Out of many, one,” on the shield emblazoned on the bird’s breast.

Among the other differences from the design approved earlier this year is that Trump doesn’t have his fists resting on top of what is supposed to be a desk as he leans forward. The Treasury Department did not specify Wednesday why the final product diverged from the originally approved design.

The Treasury Department announced in March that it would be putting Trump’s signature on all new U.S. paper currency.

Traditionally, U.S. paper currency carries the signatures of the treasury secretary and the treasurer, not the president.

Hal Williams Passed Away!

Like you just lost your TV dad.

I just watched him do a local interview just a week ago. Man, this was hard.

I am an 80s baby. I grew up watching sitcoms. One in particular was 227. 

It starred Marla Gibbs, Regina King, Jackée Harry, Alaina Reed Hall, Helen Martin and Hal Williams. The show focused on Mary Jenkins, a homemaker who was the apartment gossip in Washington, DC. Her husband Lester Jenkins was a successful Black construction owner and developer. They raised their rebellious but sweet daughter Brenda. Their neighbors were the landlord Rose, the flirty Sandra and the sarcastic but wise Pearl.

It was NBC for five seasons. It had backdoor pilots to Sandra's new life and Brenda and Calvin going to college. 

Hal Williams, 91 has passed away. He was like that strong Black TV dad. 

I looked up to him similar to my dad. Working hard to take care of his wife and kids.

Williams died July 15 in California after an illustrious multi-decade screen career. But before the world came to know him as Officer "Smitty" Smith on the sitcom show "Sanford and Son," he called Columbus home.

A native of the area, Williams was born on Dec. 15, 1934, in Columbus. He started his acting career by performing in Ohio theater shows until he packed up his bags in 1968 and set his sights on making it big in Hollywood. Beyond his role in "Sandford and Son," Williams was also featured in "The Waltons" and "227," among many others.

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“I didn’t tell nobody but my parents, who thought I’d lost my mind,” Williams said in an interview with Columbus Monthly for a past feature. “I said, ‘My career has come to a stop in social work. My marriage is failing. I’m extremely unhappy. What’s the one thing I want to try to do?’ … I was scared to death, but I said, ‘If I don’t do this now, I know I will never get the guts to do it.’”

The definition of a Black family on television.

While the change of heart was unexpected for some of the people in his life, Williams told Columbus Monthly in 2022 that he always had the itch to become an actor. When he moved, he was a then-recently divorced father of three. He left his children in Ohio with his parents until he bought a home, and they relocated to join him in California.

While growing up in central Ohio, Williams bounced between living with his great-grandmother in Fort Hayes and spending time at his parents' home, which was located where the Easton Town Center is now situated at the intersection of Steltzer and Morse roads.

In the interview with Columbus Monthly, Williams said he used to hunt rabbits around his house because there were so many open fields. He attended Franklin Junior High and East High School in the 1950s, where he participated in the track team and performed in school musicals. While there, he also delivered newspapers for The Columbus Dispatch.

Before moving to California, Williams worked with children in the central Ohio juvenile detention system. He was also employed for a time at Franklin Village, an 80-acre property in Grove City that was a residence for children from troubled homes operated by Franklin County Children's Services.

He later went on to develop script proposals for shows, including one titled "Residential Center," inspired by his time at Franklin Village. The operation, which was located on Gantz Road, closed in 1996, according to the Franklin County Children Services' website.

NBC made Black sitcoms a success with 227.

After taking the leap and heading to Hollywood, Williams spent multiple years attending auditions and working on films while working a separate everyday job. When the schedules conflicted, he would skip work to make it to set on time and convince his boss that he was visiting family in Ohio.

“I would write a letter asking for an excuse to be gone, then take it upstairs and drop it in the Ohio mailbag, and then they’d see there was a postmark from Columbus. I got away with it for almost three years,” then-83-year-old Williams said to Columbus Monthly.

“One morning, they said, ‘The postmaster wants you to stop by his office.’ So I walked in, and he said, ‘Halroy, you’re not fooling anybody. You’ve been taking your sick leave and all your vacation and saying you’re in Columbus on family business. But I saw you on Sanford and Son in a cop uniform last Friday night. You’re either going to throw Uncle Sam’s mail, or you’re going to go be an actor.’ So I quit.”

Williams died in his home in Rancho Mirage, California from natural causes after a prolonged illness.

Denise Oliver-Velez Passed Away!

Rest easy queen.

After a long battle with cancer, progressive activist and professor Dr. Denise Oliver-Velez has passed away. Weeks away from her birthday.

A long time civil rights advocate and professor, Oliver-Velez became active in civil rights work through the Queens branch of the NAACP, and in 1963 took part in a civil disobedience action demanding employment for Black workers at a Queens construction site.

Oliver-Velez transferred to Howard University in 1965, where she joined the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and Students for a Democratic Society. In 1970, she was appointed Minister of Economic Development within the Young Lords Party, becoming the highest-ranking woman in the organization and its first woman elected to its central leadership committee.

Within the Young Lords, Oliver-Velez helped push back against the group’s original platform language around “Revolutionary Machismo.” She later reflected on that moment: “I was in the Young Lords, and one of the points in the original program was ‘Revolutionary Machismo.’ Machismo is reactionary, so you can’t have revolutionary machismo. We women weren’t having it. So we made a very different kind of statement. ‘We want equality for women. Down with machismo and male chauvinism.'”

She wrote for many progressive blogs like The Daily Kos, The Raw Story and The Grio.

Fighting for the equality that many people of color was a key focus of her life. She stood up for women who were in need and never apologized for being what they called radical.

She was 78.

Oliver-Velez was a program director and co-founder of WPFW-FM in Washington, D.C., Pacifica's first minority-controlled radio station and worked in public broadcasting and community media for many years.

She was also the executive director of the Black Filmmaker Foundation.

Oliver-Velez is featured in the 2014 feminist documentary film She's Beautiful When She's Angry.

In August 2020, Oliver-Velez gave a rare interview on Bryan Knight's Tell A Friend podcast, where she candidly spoke about her life and activism in the Young Lords.

Curmudgeon Blames China, Threatens ABC And NBC, Delivers Speech On Iran, Elections And Random BS!

Old news from an old man.

American television may preempt summer programming or not carry it all. Especially if the president doesn't offer anything meaningful or live sports is active. 

The president threatened to sicc the FCC on networks that refuse to carry it.

An 80 year old curmudgeon rambling about how he was denied an election victory.

The fool blames China for the election loss. Let's ignore the fact he failed to handle one of the biggest threats in our country. The coronavirus pandemic was done so poorly by the president, it was one of the biggest reasons to why he lost.

Also the failure to sympathize with Americans who want police reform in the wake of the George Floyd murder.

President Donald J. Trump is addressing the nation on Thursday. He will likely give updates on the war in Iran. He will pivot to how great the U.S. is and some random story about how his frenemy Lindsey Graham changed America.

He might discuss the elections and demands of Congress to pass another of his signature proposals. The SAVE Act is stalled because of the filibuster and Republicans are slowly developing a plan to end cloture and pass it through simple majority.

Democrats had an opportunity but Kyrsten Sinema, Joe Manchin and John Fetterman blocked it.

Trump went into minutes of random disinformation and gaslighting.

About 25 minutes of his rant he claims that China interfered in the 2020 election. The president announced he declassified intelligence he claims China hacked into American voting machines.

The 25-minute address underscored Trump’s effort to make election security a central political issue ahead of November’s midterm elections, when Republicans will be defending their congressional majorities and face the possibility of losing control of one or both chambers.

Trump has pressed his fellow Republicans in Congress to pass legislation imposing new voter identification and citizenship requirements, despite longstanding findings that voter fraud in U.S. elections is rare.

The president said he was declassifying sensitive information that showed China had illicitly acquired 220 million U.S. voter files, including names, addresses and other data used to register to vote.

He asserted that members of the U.S. intelligence community deliberately suppressed information about the extent of China’s activities.

His allegations contradict an unclassified 2021 U.S. intelligence community assessment that found no indications any foreign actor attempted to alter or succeeded in altering “any technical aspect” of the 2020 presidential election vote, including voter registrations, ballots, tabulations or results.

The assessment was conducted under John Ratcliffe, then Trump’s director of national intelligence and now his CIA director.

Ahead of Trump’s speech, some White House officials expressed concern that disclosing the China information could be misleading, sources told Reuters.

Trump’s harsh language about China risked rocking a relationship that has steadied following last year’s costly trade war. Trump hopes to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping in September about improving trade relations.

Before Trump began speaking, a spokesperson for the Chinese embassy, Liu Chang, said in response to a request for comment, “China has never and will never interfere in the presidential elections of the U.S.”

Trump has spent years raising doubts about electoral outcomes, falsely asserting that his 2020 loss to Democrat Joe Biden was rigged. He has also advanced other false claims, including that mail-in balloting is rife with fraud, voting machines are vulnerable and non-citizen voting is widespread.

Numerous courts and vote recounts found no evidence of large-scale fraud in the 2020 election.

Trump also said he was declassifying data that would reveal “shocking vulnerabilities in our election infrastructure.”

But many of the documents appeared to show the opposite, or were not related to U.S. election infrastructure at all. One CIA document, prepared last month, concerned Venezuela’s election, not America’s.

“We assess that vote tabulation systems would be difficult to manipulate on a wide enough scale to compromise election results,” another document said.

A third document - produced by the CIA - detailed efforts by Chinese spies to target Biden’s campaign and noted that Beijing “does not currently intend to covertly interfere to try to sway the outcome of the election,” although it said China might later decide to do so.

“Trump’s shocking ‘bombshells’ about China are totally bogus,” Democratic Senator Mark Warner, vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said in a statement. “The fact is our intelligence agencies unanimously agreed that China did not even try to change a single vote in the 2020 election.”

Familiar Claims

Earlier on Thursday, Democratic members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence sent a letter to the acting director of national intelligence, Bill Pulte, along with the leaders of the FBI, the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency, warning them not to allow Trump to “weaponize intelligence to support false claims about election security.”

Two of the three major U.S. television networks and CNN decided not to broadcast the prime-time address on their primary platforms, departing from a practice typically reserved for major addresses on issues of national import.

Since returning to office in January 2025, Trump has sought to expand federal power over the administration of elections, which legally resides with state governments under the U.S. Constitution.

In recent months, he has also pressured Senate Republicans to advance a bill, the SAVE America Act, that would require photo ID to vote and proof of U.S. citizenship to register while also mandating that states share voter registration information with the federal government. Democrats and voting-rights advocates say that voter fraud is exceedingly rare and argue the legislation would suppress legitimate votes.

AIPAC Shakur Shoots Down Thomas Massie And Ro Khanna Bill!

AIPAC Shakur keeping Israel close and Americans voters at a distance.

President Donald J. Trump once again has engaged in aggression. He ordered the U.S. military to attack Iran. The Iranians have now closed the Strait of Hormuz. They vow to cripple the world’s economy. They want the International Criminal Court to hold the United States and Israel accountable for their aggressions.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has now threatened to dismantle the ICC by pushing for sanctions and disbarrment. Rubio is pressuring countries to end financial support to the court.

Iran has responded to the death of Lindsey Graham. They did not wish the controversial senator any sympathy. They looked at him as an agent of chaos and destruction.

The Congress is trying to honor his legacy by passing sanctions on Russia, the ICC and Iran. They even got his sister, the inexperienced member, Sen. Darline Graham Nordone (R-SC) to vote with them.

The Senate didn't have enough votes to push through its controversial merger of the U.S. military and the Israeli Defense Forces. The cloture was 50-46. The Republicans failed to pass the National Defense Authorization Act.

Sen. Jim Justice (R-WV) and Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) were not able to vote. They didn't get Sen. John Fetterman (I-PA). He was unavailable for votes. Senate Leader John Thune (R-SD) voted against the measure and pulled it.

Democrats along with Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Angus King (I-ME) have voted against the measure.

It is not completely out of the picture.

House members are about to vote on the measure as well. But two members are trying to stop it. Reps. Thomas Massie. (R-KY) and Ro Khanna (D-CA) have pushed an amendment to strip the annual $3 billion in funding to Israel. They want a permanent end to aid for Israel.

Massie who was defeated in his primary by Trump backed opponent Ed Gallrein is hinting an insurgent senate bid if McConnell dies.

Khanna went to the West Bank and was accosted by violent Israeli terrorists. They tried to drag him and a few of his guides out. Khanna told the junk food media that if this how Israel treats U.S. lawmakers, they have no shame in how they operate.

Israel and Fox went to defense by claiming that Khanna took no legal proceedings before entering the area. They claimed he is staging incidents to generate support to cut off aid.

Why are U.S. taxpayers still funding Israel?

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) seems to always use his hands when he explains himself.

Well he probably used one digit on his ring finger when he told Khanna that he and his top Democratic members will not support the Massie Amendment.

103 Democrats and Massie voted for an end to Israel aid. 

The final vote was 314-104, with Massie joining 103 Democrats on the measure. Another 98 Democrats voted alongside Republicans while 10 Democrats voted "present."

Ohio members who voted to keep supplying Israel $3.3 billion in military aid while you and others are paying for this war.

Reps. Greg Landsman (D-OH), Dave Taylor (R-OH), Mike Turner (R-OH), Jim Jordan (R-OH), Bob Latta (R-OH), Mike Rulli (R-OH), Warren Davidson (R-OH), David Joyce (R-OH), Mike Carey (R-OH), Emilia Sykes (D-OH), Max Miller (R-OH), Joyce Beatty (D-OH), Troy Balderson (R-OH) and Marcy Kaptur (D-OH) voted no. 

Rep. Shontel Brown (D-OH) voted no but changed it to present.

They seem to have no problem with Ohioans paying high gas prices, high grocery prices, high insurance premiums, high shipping costs and high medical bills. 

They have no problem with potholes in Cleveland, Cincinnati, Columbus, Dayton, Toledo, Akron, Canton, Springfield, Lima, Mansfield, East Liverpool, Stuebenville, Portsmouth, Athens, West Chester, Hamilton, Middletown, Sandusky, Ashtabula, Delphos, Elyria, Youngstown, Warren, Delaware, Wooster, Urbana, Upper Sandusky, Van Wert, St. Mary's, Zanesville, Cambridge, Marietta and Jackson.

AIPAC's favorite Democrats.

They have no problem with Ohioans paying for Israeli debt by buying their bonds.

They have no problem with blighted neighborhoods in every corner of this fucking state.

Hell, they all will get a nice paycheck from their AIPAC handlers. 

Ohioans are concerned with affordability. If $3.3 billion in federal funding were redirected entirely to Ohio, it could provide a direct stimulus check of $276.37 to every single Ohio resident, fully cover universal free breakfast and lunch for all Ohio school children for 11 years, or pay the average rent for nearly 250,000 Ohio families for an entire year.

To put the scale of $3.3 billion into perspective against Ohio's current affordability crisis, the money could be broken down across these major domestic areas:

Direct Financial Relief

• Individual Checks: A one-time payout of $276.37 for each of the state's roughly 11.94 million residents.
• Family Rent Relief: Complete payment of a full year's rent for 247,080 households, based on Ohio's average rent of $1,113 per month.
• Energy Assistance: Wiping out winter heating and utility bills for over a million low-income households.
• Education & Childcare Universal School Meals: Funding a statewide universal free school breakfast and lunch program for 11 years, which advocates estimate costs around $300 million annually.
• College Tuition: Covering full four-year undergraduate tuition at an in-state public university for over 70,000 Ohio students.
• Childcare Subsidies: Funding early childhood education and preschool programs for tens of thousands of working parents.

Infrastructure & Public Health 

• Roads and Bridges: Resurfacing thousands of miles of state highways or accelerating major repairs on structurally deficient bridges.
• Healthcare Safety Nets: Expanding Medicaid coverage or offsetting medical debt for uncompensated care at Ohio community clinics and emergency rooms.

The Democratic Party is losing enthusiasm within it movement. Dems (or Dem leaning voters) are demanding strong leaders capable to take on that curmudgeon president and his couch humping dorky vice president. They want an end to aiding Israel as it conducting a fucking genocide. The establishment wants to play it safe and win over former MAGA. Big fucking mistake.

President Donald J. Trump and Vice President JD Vance are very unpopular. Congress is very unpopular. The Supreme Court is very unpopular. 

Folks, they keep this up and next election every member is at risk of primary defeat.

The members are too old, too comfortable with being in office, always on television spitting garbage instead of policies, trying to enrich themselves, always telling us that things that are means to survival aren't possible. 

It is a fucking shit show.