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Jilly_in_VA's JournalDem Star Reveals How He Got Scott Jennings to Explode on Air
The young progressive commentator who caused Scott Jennings to melt down during a live CNN segment has revealed how he got under the MAGA pundit’s skin.
MeidasTouch podcaster and commentator Adam Mockler said President Donald Trump’s unpopular war with Iran has his network news defenders like Jennings on edge—to the point they are apparently willing to go as far as hurling f-bombs.
“I know Scott Jennings tantrum got all the attention yesterday, but I want to talk a little bit about what I said that got him so mad,” Mockler, 23, wrote. “The bottom line is: Trump’s war with Iran has failed. This has made it mentally strenuous for MAGA operators to defend it on TV.”
Jennings’ tantrum came during a segment of CNN’s NewsNight with Abby Phillip on Thursday that featured Mockler.
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During the Thursday segment, Jennings remarked that Mockler had “the attention span of a gnat” for criticizing the eight weeks the conflict has lasted so far.
Mockler replied by pointing out Jennings had resorted to personal attacks instead of propping up the benefits of going to war. He then asked him to name a political concession Iran has made to the U.S., gesturing with his hands.
“Get your f---ing hand out of my face, first of all!” Jennings snapped back.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/dem-star-adam-mockler-reveals-how-he-got-scott-jennings-to-explode-on-air/
They got nothing, so they resort to personal attacks.
Video shows 'massive, fiery' explosion as police respond to home
A fiery explosion at a home in New York City left multiple people injured, including several officers who were responding to a domestic dispute and were flung into the air in the blast, police said.
New York Police Department officers responded to the house in Queens at about 2:42 a.m. local time on April 30 after receiving a 911 call that a resident's family member, 50-year-old Anroop Parasaram, arrived intoxicated and armed with a knife. NYPD Assistant Chief Christopher McIntosh said home security footage showed Parasaram forcing his way to the basement apartment where his wife, daughter and two grandchildren lived, carrying garbage bags filled with canisters with an unknown substance.
His daughter and grandchildren managed to flee to safety while he began "threatening" the remaining victim with a knife, who was also able to safely leave the apartment, McIntosh said.
Officers were responding and at the front door when the "massive, fiery" explosion erupted at 2:57 a.m., McIntosh said. Officers were knocked off their feet or thrown into the air, he said. Some were flung into the gate at the front of the home, he said. Eight were treated for minor burns and one had a laceration to his head that required stitches, McIntosh said.
"I want to be clear. We got very lucky today. This could have turned out really differently," McIntosh said.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/05/01/explosion-new-york-city-police-injuries-queens/89887204007/?tbref=hp
Sounds like this guy was not only intoxicated, he was downright CRAZY!
A jail death shocked an Alabama town. The sheriff remains in power.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/03/08/alabama-jail-death-police-brutality-mental-illness/88867411007/On a brisk December morning in Walker County, Alabama, the temperature in Sheriff Nick Smith’s office is a welcome shelter from the cold.
After ushering a reporter inside, Smith tilts his head back and peers across his desk, where papers are folded and arranged with geometric precision. He proffers a stack of printouts he says will prove his innocence — his lack of culpability.
Down a flight of stairs from where Smith sits, into a chill that grows with every step, Anthony "Tony" Mitchell slowly froze to death in a concrete cell in January 2023. About 100 feet from the sheriff’s immaculate enclave, jailers who worked for Smith jeered as Mitchell shivered in his own waste, court records show.
A short walk from that cell, where the floor of the sheriff’s office forms the ceiling of the Walker County Jail, a group of guards beat a man until one of their uniforms was soaked with his blood, according to court records. Nearby, deputies bribed a prisoner to serve as their enforcer. In the infirmary down the hall, jailers pummeled a man so hard they broke bones.
Three years later, none of it has come back on Smith. He struts calmly through the spaces where these things occurred, proudly pointing out the improvements he has made. Cameras over here. Monitors to track inmates’ breathing over there. Supplies stacked in the bare cell where Mitchell once lay dying. As Smith walks, he has a habit of taking hold of the lapels of his Army-green vest, shrugging it forward in a muted facsimile of The Fonz.
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Pretty typical of Alabummer and all those southern states. I'd like to secede from them, please.
Americans' disapproval of the war in Iran reaches Vietnam-era levels, poll finds
During Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s contentious appearance before the Senate Armed Services Committee, one of the many issues that led to partisan clashes was the question of public support for the war with Iran. For much of the hearing, that meant watching him accuse Democratic officials of “clouding the mind” of Americans by saying things he disagrees with.
But in one especially memorable exchange with Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, the Pentagon chief stopped making excuses for the war’s unpopularity and started saying the war actually enjoys broad public backing.
“I believe we do have the support of the American people,” he told the senator, adding, “The American people are quite smart. They understand and see through spin.”
As it turns out, the second part of that quote was a lot more accurate than the first.
Over the last several decades, there’s been a relatively consistent trend in U.S. public opinion: Americans tend to broadly support military conflicts at the outset, but attitudes turn negative as wars drag on. The war in Iran is unusual in that it was unpopular at the outset and, two months later, it enjoys even less support, Hegseth’s claims to the contrary notwithstanding. The Washington Post reported on its latest national survey:
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Just two months after Donald Trump launched operations in Iran, 61% of Americans believe the mission was a mistake. George W. Bush’s war in Iraq reached similar levels of opposition, but it took three years, not two months.
https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/americans-disapproval-iran-war-poll-hegseth
Gee, ya think?
Gov. Pritzker urges criminal investigations of federal immigration agents after Illinois panel releases report
A state commission scrutinizing the Chicago-area immigration crackdown this past fall sent its findings to law enforcement Tuesday, with some members and Gov. JB Pritzker pushing for investigations they said could lead to criminal charges against federal agents involved in violent episodes during the notorious Operation Midway Blitz raids.
Since the 64-day crackdown, some advocates have been disappointed at what they see as a lack of accountability for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol agents who repeatedly used force against immigrants, U.S. citizens, protesters, journalists and neighborhood residents, including in the killing of Silverio Villegas González in September and the shooting of Marimar Martínez in October.
Pritzker last fall tasked the Illinois Accountability Commission with fact-finding about the sweeping Chicago-area raids for posterity, the public eye and potential future law enforcement actions, but the panel itself has no direct law enforcement power.
“The referral is not intended to say, you must prosecute. It is a set of evidence that they should be investigating,” Pritzker said.
He compared the report to a person approaching the police with an accusation or evidence.
“You would expect that the police, and then perhaps the state’s attorney, would then pursue that. You should expect that. … Obviously, some of us have opinions about whether somebody should be prosecuted or not, but I am not a judge,” he said.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/04/30/illinois-accountability-report-completed-midway-blitz/
A little more cutious than Tim Walz...
So there's this new passport coming out this year
Meant to "inspire patriotism". It has Shitler's portrait on it. I'm getting a passport. Do I have to get hone with this damnable image, or is it optional and can I get one without it? I do NOT want to drag that hideous visage around the world with me.
Pete Hegseth denies Iran war is a 'quagmire' as cost to US hits estimated $25bn
Pete Hegseth has denied that the US-Israel war on Iran is “a quagmire” and claimed critics of the operation posed a greater threat to the US than Iran itself, as he came under pressure to set out Washington’s strategy for the conflict.
Appearing before the House armed services committee alongside Gen Dan Caine, chair of the joint chiefs of staff, the US defense secretary asked lawmakers to approve a $1.5tn budget in military spending – and then described some of them as “the biggest challenge” to the war effort.
“The biggest adversary we face at this point are the reckless, feckless and defeatist words of congressional Democrats and some Republicans,” he declared. These remarks did not appear in prepared written statement submitted to the committee.
Two months into a conflict that Donald Trump predicted would last four to six weeks, Hegseth invoked the US’s long and painful deployments in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan – wars he previously criticized bitterly – as a benchmark for endurance. The war against Iran, he said, was “an existential fight for the safety of the American people”, and the administration was “proud of this undertaking”.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/29/pete-hegseth-denies-iran-war-is-a-quagmire-as-estimated-us-cost-so-far-hits-25bn
The picture of him with his mouth open laughing is perfect backpfeifengesicht! (Y'all should know what THAT means!)
Denise Knight--What Was Stephen Miller Thinking?
This will make you laugh! It did me!
Nic (Dark Politics Tarot) on the "Assassination Attempt" and why Shady was hustled out first
Pretty interesting view on things. I like her readings.
Stephen Miller wants a new pool of immigrants for ICE to deport
President Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant push looks far different now than it did just a few months ago. We’ve seen a major retreat from the very public rampages across the states last year. But less visibility from Immigration and Customs Enforcement hasn’t meant an end to the crackdowns.
Instead of the chaotic sweeps that drew mass protests, the Trump administration is now busying itself stripping legal status from hundreds of thousands of immigrants. The calmer, quieter deportation campaign is less prone to grab headlines, but the administration is counting on it to create a new pool of targets for meeting ICE’s deportation quotas.
You need to look no further than a federal courtroom in Boston, where the Department of Homeland Security is fighting to remove more than 900,000 people admitted under the Biden administration. All the migrants in question used the CBP One app to schedule an appointment with U.S. Customs and Border Protection. They were then granted two-year terms of humanitarian parole as a result while awaiting a hearing before an immigration judge.
The Trump administration attempted to roll back that decision last year in a mass email telling recipients it’s “time for you to leave the United States.” U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs ruled against the administration’s efforts in March, noting that the sweeping order did not provide any reasoning for the decision to revoke parole for the recipients or provide proof to support that reasoning.
Last week, U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts Leah Foley informed Burroughs that DHS means to try again. Foley noted in her filing that this time around, the commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection had issued a memo “explaining the reasons why, in his opinion, the purpose(s) of individual paroles for aliens who entered on parole after making an appointment through the CBP One App have been served, and why parole is no longer appropriate for those aliens.”
https://www.ms.now/opinion/ice-legal-immigrant-status-deportation-ruling
I say deport MILLER!
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