The AP reports that DJT has banned the AP from access to the Oval Office and Air Force One because an AP reporter used the phrase Gulf of Mexico instead of Gulf of America:
The White House barred a credentialed Associated Press reporter and photographer from boarding the presidential airplane Friday for a weekend trip with Donald Trump, saying the news agency’s stance on how to refer to the Gulf of Mexico was to blame for the exclusion. It represented a significant escalation by the White House in a four-day dispute with the AP over access to the presidency.
AP reporters and photographers travel with the president virtually everywhere as part of a press “pool” and have for decades. AP journalism serves millions of readers and thousands of news outlets around the world.
Here is the real reason DJT banned the AP:
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The letter I posted about yesterday from DoJ MAGA thug Emil Bove to federal prosecutor Danielle Sasson has really shaken me. To me that evidence is about as clear as possible of how blatantly corrupt, weaponized and politicized the DoJ now is.
MAGA thug Bove
It blows me away that Bove justified dropping the DoJ's ongoing investigation and prosecution of New York City's corrupt mayor Eric Adams for political reasons. Bove's letter explicitly stated that the ongoing prosecution was “unduly limiting Mayor Adams' ability to focus entirely on the illegal immigration and violent crime that have escalated under the previous administration's policies. .... [prosecuting Adams amounts to] unacceptable threats to public safety, national security, and related federal immigration initiatives and policies.”
The Adams case is removed from the U.S. attorney's office of the Southern District of New York and transferred to Washington, where it will be dismissed. On the day Bove sent his poison letter, five prosecutors in the Public Integrity unit there also resigned rather than drop the case.
This is full-blown evisceration of a neutral rule of law in the federal government. Elite friends of DJT and MAGA are now free to commit white collar federal crimes with little to no risk of ever being prosecuted in federal courts.
This letter and some other things are leading me to reassess the human condition and American politics in major ways. I’m starting to that maybe think I’ve been rather blind and naive.
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Elon Musk plans to reduce the federal work force by making conditions of their work crappy: DOGE looks to shrink the federal workforce by making buildings and commutes ‘so crappy’ that employees will quit, report says -- "Part of the Department of Government Efficiency's plan to slash spending and personnel is to boost attrition by depressing morale, sources told the Washington Post. To do that, up to half of the government's nonmilitary real estate will be liquidated, the report said, resulting in office closures and forcing workers to make longer commutes to comply with President Donald Trump's return-to-office mandate. "We’ve heard from them that they want to make the buildings so crappy that people will leave," a senior official at the General Services Administration, which manages federal property, told the Post. "I think that’s the larger goal here, which is bring everybody back, the buildings are going to suck, their commutes are going to suck.""
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From MAGA’s git ’er done files: Among things like Senate Republicans lying to the public as a major part of what they now do, a long Salon article reports about Senate GOP efforts to sanctify conspiracy theories. One planned item is a plan by MAGA crackpot and all around freak Laura Loomer to interview the attending physicians at President John F. Kennedy's deathbed. Thing is though, they’re all dead. Presumably the looney Loomer will find a channel or seer to interview the spirits of the dead folks.
Rep. Luna appears to suggest that she intends to bring in members of the Warren Commission as part of her JFK investigation pic.twitter.com/9oLjt9rqlJ
— Acyn (@Acyn) February 11, 2025
