Jaber Borran

Tag: Trump

  • Cruelty Is the Point, Not a Side Effect

    USDA emailed grocery stores around the country telling them not to offer special discounts or deals to SNAP recipients amid the freeze, warning that doing so would violate the program’s “Equal Treatment Rule.” That rule requires stores to sell eligible food items to SNAP-EBT customers at the same prices and under the same conditions as…

  • Lawmaker, Prosecutor, Judge, and Jury in One

    “To ICE, Border Patrol, Law Enforcement, and all U.S. Military: As per my August 25, 2025 Executive Order, please be advised that, from this point forward, anybody burning the American Flag will be subject to one year in prison,” Trump posted on Truth Social Friday evening. “You will be immediately arrested. Thank you for your…

  • Government Shutdown, 2025

    By now, the second day after the government shutdown of 2025, we all must have heard about it, and especially the Republican talking points that the Democrats are not going along with their “clean continuation funding bill” so that they can provide trillion dollar funding for healthcare for illegal immigrants using taxpayer money. It is…

  • Trump’s Assaults on the First Amendment Are Nothing New

    The First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, while being quite short, covers several very important fundamental rights. It states that Congress cannot make a law that Of these, probably the most well-known right is the freedom of speech, so much so that in many contexts, the First Amendment and freedom of speech…

  • The Last Line of Defense

    The Trump administration is celebrating a new ruling from the DC circuit court today: “Appeals court tosses judge’s contempt order in case over Venezuelans sent to El Salvador.” In a 2-1 ruling, the two Trump-appointed judges in the three-judge panel resorted to absurd arguments to justify their opinions. One of them (Katsas) argued that the…

  • You Be the Judge

    Yesterday, Todd Blanche, the number two political appointee at the DoJ, and the President’s fixer and former criminal defense attorney (who unsuccessfully defended him in the porn star Stormy Daniel’s hush money case that resulted in 34 felony convictions for the President), rushed to a prison in Florida where Ghislaine Maxwell is serving her 20-year…

  • “Reality” or “Reality TV”?

    For someone who has been in and out of courts so many times, either as a defendant or as a plaintiff (and I don’t mean just since he ran for public office, but even much before that, pretty much his entire adult life), and as someone who claims to be the smartest person on the…

  • Nothing to See Here!

    I don’t mean to fuel the conspiracy theories that have been going around on the Internet over the last couple of days, but the recent sudden closure of the Jeffery Epstein case by the DoJ and the statement saying that there was no client list to begin with, indeed sounds quite suspicious. I can appreciate…

  • Thinking Prohibited!

    It spreads like plague, contaminating and infecting more and more organizations. After all, it’s so much easier to just do things without having to think about their consequences, or the very next steps that you may need to take. Even the supposedly proactive MO of “don’t ask for permission, ask for forgiveness,” that has been…

  • And You Thought It Couldn’t Get Any More Unhinged

    I was once told by a very good friend of mine (with slightly different points of view) that I was “stalking” the President, after I shared with them a couple of his social medial posts. In one of those posts, the President shared an AI-generated video showing a Trump hotel (or maybe casino) in what…