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It wasn't just the UK Guardian -- most of the Democrat-Media Party "news" organizations lied about inflation going up, despite the fact that the 0.1% increase is, effectively, no inflation at all. Remember, the Fed aims for a 2% yearly rate.

not just The Guardian is lying. Some headlines from the msm today

ABC "News": Inflation ticket Higher In May Amis Trump Tarriffs

USA Today: CPI Report reveals inflation crept higher

CBS: Inflation edged higher in May

Oddly yahoo and nbc have the most fair headline

Yahoo: inflation pressures ease on a monthly basis

NBC: May inflation shows prices held steady

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

Fire them all:

When the Trump administration swept into the Department of Justice on Jan. 20, it moved swiftly to purge, demote, transfer and otherwise sideline career lawyers not perceived to be team players or sufficiently committed to the MAGA legal agenda.

Amid the upheaval and exodus of longtime federal prosecutors, one quiet 10th floor office in a remote outpost of the Justice Department has come to symbolize the withering impact of changes at the agency. Those who work there call it "the rubber room."

Inside, nearly a dozen of the government's most seasoned civil rights, environmental and national security lawyers have been reconstituted as members of a newly created group called the Sanctuary Cities task force.

At first glance, the job seemed promising -- a legal strike team that would sue municipalities the administration claimed were facilitating the violation of immigration laws, a task force undertaking a top priority for the new Justice Department leadership.

But the more these attorneys looked into it, the more they concluded the task force was a sham, a Potemkin operation that seemed more aimed at stashing away career lawyers than putting them to work on a legitimate legal project, according to interviews with six people knowledgeable about the task force, all of whom painted a similar picture.

Lawyers there have been assigned menial research tasks and left with hours of idle time -- an effort they view as intended to coerce them into resigning, those with knowledge of the task force said.

"This is a hard thing to talk about," said Tom Mariani, an environmental litigator who resigned rather than accept reassignment to the rubber room. "I can't tell you how much personal distress I feel over how these folks were treated."

The term rubber room is an allusion to now-infamous "reassignment centers" where New York City officials transferred public school teachers and administrators who some considered burned out or incompetent, but who could not be fired because of union rules. But in this case, those being transferred have been elite veteran attorneys from the Civil Rights Division, the National Security Division and the Environment and Natural Resources Division whose performance had not previously been questioned.

LOL. These people all worked on left-wing politicized lawsuits and prosecutions.

They have been previously questioned, of course. It's just that the left supports the use of the DOJ as a tool of partisan warfare.

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None would comment for this story, fearing retaliation from the administration. But public interest lawyers and government watchdogs say their experience stands apart as an example of how callously civil servants who have dedicated their professional lives to public service have been treated.

They're fucking hacks who took a job because the hours are good, the pay is good, and it's almost impossible to get fired. Stop pretending that they're sacrificing to take law jobs that do not require constant overtime work on the weekends the way lawyers in private firms have to do.

The emails began arriving in the third week of January from then-Acting Attorney General James McHenry, landing in the inboxes of some of the Justice Department's most senior career attorneys, notifying them that they were being transferred to the newly created Sanctuary Cities Enforcement Working Group and had 15 days to decide whether to take the new assignment or resign.

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Those who did accept the assignment arrived in the isolated offices during what some called a Department of Justice in turmoil, former senior prosecutors told CBS News.

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The lawyers continued coming into 2Con each morning but had to find activities to occupy their time. Some completed jigsaw puzzles and streamed television shows like "The Last of Us" and "Succession." One lawyer, Deborah Harris, whose previous job had been head of the Environment and Natural Resources Division's crimes section, could be seen practicing Italian on Duolingo.

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The rubber room is just the latest in a series of personnel moves that critics of the administration have tracked. Some have been demoted within their own units. Bruce Swartz, the highly respected head of the Office of International Affairs, was notified by email that he was being transferred to the office's training program, a job that fell several rungs below his position. He opted to resign.

Toronto will open a black-only homeless shelter, with all other races excluded.

Toronto officials are taking applications until Friday for city council's new "Black-mandated" shelter, where everyone from employees to the homeless could be excluded on the basis of race.

City Hall has also decreed that experience in running a shelter is not a requirement for those submitting applications.

The city's shelter and support services division says the new shelter will help make Toronto's services "reflective of the diversity of the city," but offered no specifics as to where it would go or when it might open.

A city document says shelter services is developing "at least one Black-mandated shelter" by 2033. That document -- a set of guidelines for prospective applicants for the shelter contract -- says the intention is "to provide opportunities" for Black-mandated non-profits, "also referred to as B3," the document says.

It defines a B3 as "an organization that is led by a majority of paid staff and board members who self-identify as Black or are of African descent." A B3 must serve "Toronto's diverse Black communities," both in practice and in an explicit mandate.

While an applicant must meet those requirements to be eligible, one thing that isn't required is experience in running a shelter.

Shelter services "welcomes applications" from B3s "with less than one year of experience operating a shelter," the document says, but such groups are "encouraged" to find a mentor.

The expectations are unclear, as the document at another point references B3s that haven't operated a shelter for a year "but do have experience in providing other services to Black individuals experiencing homelessness." Meanwhile, a slide deck from an April presentation says applicants without a year of experience "will be required" to find mentors, including for shelter operations and asset management.

The guidelines document is 22 pages long, and includes a four-page glossary of terms such as "anti-racism," "diaspora," "interpersonal racism" and "structural racism." The section on providing financial details, meanwhile, consists of two short paragraphs.

The document lists a number of operational requirements for the shelter, such as running 24/7 all year long and committing to audits by City Hall. Some of the requirements appear specific to this shelter, such as stipulated "safe spaces for Black clients and staff," "culturally appropriate food and nutrition" and Black-specific toiletries and hygiene products as laid out in the city's confronting anti-Black racism, or CABR, directives.

In case you missed it: The Biden-controlled Secret Service made sure they destroyed the evidence in the White House cocaine case the moment after they issued their cover-up report.

Two years after the U.S. Secret Service discovered a bag of cocaine in the White House in July, 2023, documents showing orders for its destruction within 24 hours after the agency closed the case are raising new questions about the scrupulousness of the investigation.

A U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency document titled "Destruction" states that the bag of cocaine was sent to the Metropolitan Police Department for incineration. That document, obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request, doesn't display a date for the destruction. But other internal Secret Service records show that the cocaine was tested by the Secret Service, the D.C. Fire Department hazmat technicians, and the FBI before being sent back to the Secret Service for storage on July 12. Two days later, it was transferred to the D.C. police department for destruction. The Secret Service shut down the cocaine investigation 11 days after discovering it.

The destruction of narcotics evidence must comply with environmental and safety regulations, and the D.C. police department has an Environmental Protection Agency-approved incinerator that federal agencies often use to destroy narcotics that are not involved in active legal cases.

D.C. police officials referred all questions about the cocaine's apparent destruction to the FBI. There's no entry or date for the cocaine's actual destruction.

Early last week, FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino announced that he was re-opening the investigation into the cocaine found in the White House, as well as the leak of the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade and the discovery of a pipe bomb at the Democratic National Committee headquarters on Jan. 6, 2021.

Bongino reiterated his commitment to getting to the bottom of those cases in a Wednesday night interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity.

"Well, I get a kick out of it on social media," Bongino said. "People say, 'This case isn't a big deal. I don't care.' Well, I care. ... You don't care that a [potentially] hazardous substance made its way into the White House? We didn't know what it was, and we don't seem to have answers? Well, we're going to get them. I've got a great team on it."

I wonder if any DOJ lawyers who helped cover up the Biden cocaine scandal are in the rubber room.

Fox Nation has a special about the Trump McDonald's Shift.

Fox Nation is offering a rare glimpse into Donald Trump's pivotal McDonald's visit during the final weeks of his 2024 campaign with a multi-episode installment of "The Art of the Surge."

It all starts at a McDonald's drive-thru, where the then-GOP nominee traded a suit for an apron and got to work as a fry cook in Feasterville, Pennsylvania last October.

"I've always wanted to work at McDonald's, and I never did," he told workers inside the building.

The first episode of the series documents Trump's "first day" on the job from the very beginning, as he requested to work the french fry cooker and learned the process.

He walked through, step-by-step, dunking fries into hot oil, shaking the basket, pouring servings into the signature red McDonald's cartons and sprinkling salt over them.

It became an iconic moment on the campaign trail as the notorious New York City business magnate-turned-president performed a job many Americans have had at one point in their lives.

He even greeted customers wrapped around the building at the drive-thru window.

As one family took a Happy Meal from his hands he quipped with a smile, "It's going to be the best you've ever had. It had better be. I made it myself."

Customers passed on their messages of encouragement as the high-stakes faceoff with then-vice president and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris was merely two weeks away, with both teams in a mad sprint to the finish line.

"Make America great again!" one driver said.

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"I could do this all day. I wouldn't mind this job," he said.

Trump's efforts were viewed by many as a mockery of a claim his opponent had worked for the fast food chain while in college.

At one point, Trump even remarked, "I've now worked for 15 minutes. Fifteen more than Kamala."

The group that has shifted to Trump the hardest?

Immigrants!

Eric Swallowall is a tough guy now. He's going to beat up the bully Trump.

Don't worry about Eric Swallowall taking a loss on those glasses. They write it off.

posted by Ace at 06:42 PM

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