6/22/2026

general hospital

didn't post over the weekend because i'm just so irritated with 'general hospital.'  

friday - and again today - it was portia and curtis being griped at by their daughter trina.


and for the same thing.


but it's not the same thing.

brook lyn was almost in the car wreck.  she was the other driver, the 1 who didn't stop when jordan crashed her car that curtis was in with her.

we know that.

we all know that.

so curtis attacking isaiah - destroying his hand to the point that curtis may not ever be able to do surgery again - is not the same as portia saying, 'it wasn't isaiah.  he'd never do this.'


i'm sick of it and i'm sick of trina.  jordan's become a whore as she goes along with curtis in his attacks on isaiah.  curtis just needs to die already.


and then there's brook lyn.


today's show?  lucy coe went to the new police detective - fitzgerald, i think - and told him she'd been thinking about the night of that car crash and, goodness, willow was out at the quartermaine's that night and it could have been her in the other car.


lucy then went to brook lyn and told her what she did.  and that was brook lyn and her plan but now that lucy's lied to the police, she needs her pay off from brook lyn.


are we supposed to feel sorry for her?

but in

brook lyn was the other car.  she didn't stop.  she was heading to a club to hear her son gio play guitar.  and because she had been drinking.


she is taking part in a lie to set up willow.  has she not thought it through?  because her scam will likely implode on her.  and chase will find out.  

and when he does?  when he finds out she lied to implicate willow?  and when he finds out that she lied to implicate willow and that she lied because it was her?


i don't see how that marriage survives.


i'm sick of all the back biting.  we need characters we can trust.  we need characters like nurse jessie from the start of the show through the 80s but instead we've got brook lyn and lulu and jordan.


on lulu?  i'm sick to f**k of her attacks on britt.  and dante oined her today.  they both did not want to promise not to prosecute britt.  but they had to for nathan to give them the address (that charlotte and danny gave him) for where rocco and britt were.  


i'm sick of it.  lulu's supposed to be a good character.  but she's a bitch.  


rocco is interested in britt.  she gave birth to him.  and lulu can't let that go.  rocco might be dead now if britt hadn't agreed to let him run off with her.  

i'm tired of it.  i'm tired of the lack of support for women on this show.  i'm tired of every woman being a gutter snipe that turns around and attacks another woman.  


let's close with c.i.'s 'The Snapshot:'


Monday, June 22, 2026.  Chump's deal remains in limbo, Tulsi Gabbard took orders from guru Chris, Chump continues attempting to kill foreign aid and much more. 


Ben (MEIDASTOUCH NEWS) explains there's still no deal and that Iran is making the US prove itself in the talks.




MS NOW's Ali Vitali notes talk of JD Vance being snubbed at the meetings. 


Today on MS NOW's MORNING JOE, Joe noted that deal being discussed is far less than what Barack Obama negotiated in July of 2015.



Neil MacFarquhar (NEW YORK TIMES) reported yesterday:

In igniting a war against Iran on Feb. 28, President Trump billed the U.S. campaign as an unprecedented step toward transforming the Middle East and terminating the threat from what he called a “wicked, radical dictatorship.”

Roughly 100 days later, as the United States and Iran have reached a somewhat vague memorandum of understanding to end the war, skeptics are expressing bafflement over what exactly has transformed.

Neither the war nor the agreement ended what U.S. and Israeli officials regard as the main threats emanating from Iran. The country’s nuclear program, while heavily damaged, was not eliminated — its fate punted to future negotiation.

The same goes for its ballistic missiles, which the deal does not address. Iran’s authoritarian regime endured, albeit with new leaders. Its proxies remain a threat to the region. Israel and Hezbollah, the Iran-backed militia in Lebanon, persisted in attacking each other.


Chump wrongly started a war and now as he keeps faltering at ending it, he has nothing to show for it.  He doesn't even have a signed deal.  He is a loser.  THE ART OF THE LOSS is his autobiography.  He's a loser who posed as some master deal maker.  But he's not and he's never been.  He was always just a con artist.  A liar.  And now the world sees that.

By the way, Ashleigh Fields (THE HILL) notes Chump's had a meltdown over this NYT report and insists he's adding it his lawsuit against THE NEW YORK TIMES.  

Falyn Stempler (THE MIRROR) notes one of Chump's  lies:

U.S. President Donald Trump was forced to backtrack on a previous claim that the U.S. doesn't "need" oil from the Middle East.

An embarrassing video clip montage created by MediasTouch shows Trump making remarks on at least two occasions amid the Iran war that the U.S. has "so much oil and gas" and is "totally independent of the Middle East." However, while speaking at length about the Iran deal struck earlier this week, Trump admitted that global oil reserves were running low, which put pressure on the White House to strike a deal with Iran to reopen the Hormuz Strait.



CBS News’s Margaret Brennan began her interview with UN Ambassador Mike Waltz Sunday by citing some uncomfortable statistics on American attitudes toward the Iran war.

“Our CBS News poll out this morning shows that more than three-quarters of Americans want to end the conflict now,” Brennan said of the war with Iran — as a graphic on screen showed the exact number to be 78%. “With 69% saying the conflict with Iran was not worth the costs for the U.S. More than half — 57% — say the president’s war with Iran created more problems than it solved. And two in three say the administration reached agreement with Iran mainly because it wanted the conflict to be over.”

Brennan turned to Waltz saying, “Ambassador, the war is unpopular, as you just heard, but how it ends matters, as you know.”

She continued, “CBS’s Olivia Gazis is reporting that senior members of Trump’s national security team, including Secretary [Marco] Rubio, remain doubtful Iran will comply with this deal’s terms. The CIA director presented [President Donald] Trump with intelligence indicating inconsistencies with Iran’s commitments. So, if even the president’s own team doubts this is a win, how do you sell this to the public?”


But Chump is no where near ending the war.  Despite promising two weekends ago that he was ending it.  It continues and doesn't stop.  He said it would be brief, two weeks.  Its now over 100 days.  And he doesn't appear to know how to end it. 



This morning, Vice President JD Vance touched down in Switzerland for the first round of talks with Iran. The stated goal: extending last week’s interim mediated ceasefire and the Memorandum of Understanding signed by President Donald Trump into a more permanent peace in the 110-day US-Israeli war on Iran. But as those talks continued, Trump lost no time in taking to social media and Fox News to threaten Iran.

“Iran must immediately stop their highly paid PROXIES in Lebanon from causing trouble,” Trump wrote on his platform Truth Social Sunday morning. “Iran must immediately stop their highly paid PROXIES in Lebanon from causing trouble. If they don’t, we’ll hit Iran very hard again, just like we did last week, only harder!!!” 

Lebanon’s civil defense reported that Israeli strikes had killed at least 16 people on Saturday morning, and the country’s health ministry said at least 47 people were killed on Friday. In response, Iran once again closed the Strait of Hormuz shipping pathway, which before the war carried a fifth of the world’s oil and gas, saying the US violated its deal to end the war by allowing Israel to continue to bomb Lebanon.

Meanwhile, in the Bürgenstock resort near Lake Lucerne where the talks are being held, Vance said that “great progress” was being made, without being explicit about the steps that had been taken. He noted that the gathering would “allow us to sit together as teams for the first time in history,” with the goal of turning “over a new leaf to transform our relationship with the people of Iran, and to extend an outstretched hand.”  

Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, a lead negotiator, said Iran’s military is prepared to react to Trump’s verbal aggression. “They better be careful with their statements; our armed forces are ready to respond in a different way,” he wrote on X. Iranian officials reportedly walked out of Sunday’s talks, protesting Trump’s threats.

A Washington Post report today reveals the devastating human toll of the war. “Months after the war began with a wave of US and Israeli airstrikes on February 28, the scale of civilian casualties and destruction in Iran remains difficult to measure,” Post reporters Dylan Moriarty and N. Kirkpatrick wrote. 

In a single airstrike, 100 buildings were damaged in one civilian neighborhood in Tehran. Almost a third of the city has been hit by US and Israeli missiles. One report on civilian harm puts the death toll from late February to mid-April at 1,701 civilians, including 307 children. Across both Iran and Lebanon, over 7,000 people have been killed since mid-February, according to official casualty figures. 




He is also a failed politician who is losing more and more support with each passing day.  Kathrine Frich (DAGENS) reports:
 

Agricultural workers historically form a massive pillar of Republican support. That traditional loyalty is cracking ahead of the midterm elections.

According to The Washington Post, more than 300 farms filed for bankruptcy last year. Agricultural debt will likely hit a staggering $624.7 billion.

Rural approval for President Donald Trump fell to 50 percent in a recent Reuters-Ipsos poll. High fertilizer prices linked to the conflict in Iran have left families struggling.

Nebraska farmer Scott Thomsen shared his shifting views with the newspaper.

“I’m pretty disenfranchised as a voter right now, and I think I’m not the only one,” Thomsen said. “Either I’m going to completely sit these elections out, or I’m going to vote down the line, incumbents out.”


Midterms are the start of November. Basically four months from now, people will be voting.  And Chump's not giving them reasons to vote for Republicans.  His actions have annoyed and pushed away voters.  John Stoehr observes:


White working-class voters who supported Donald Trump are probably going to stay home.

“I don’t even want to vote for anybody in the next election,” Annette Dombrowski told the Post last month. The 64-year-old janitor in rural Ohio voted for the president three times. She used to vote in the midterms, but not this time. “I don’t care, because they’re all crap.”

Dombrowski represents an "extraordinary swing," as the Times put it last week. Though his unpopularity, especially among affluent white women, hurt the GOP in the 2018 midterms, white working-class voters stood by their man. They approved of Trump's "management of the economy by margins of 30 percentage points or even more," the Times said. Now, however, as inflation climbs ever higher, his base is falling out from beneath him. The Times: "Now, recent polls show them disapproving by anywhere from 14 to more than 30 points."

That's why a GOP pollster who has worked with Trump is sounding downright panicked. “It’s working-class voters who are not happy with the Republican Party, and they may not come out and vote,” John McLaughlin told the Times. The day before the 2018 midterms, Trump's approval rating on the economy among white working-class voters was 66 percent, according to a CNN poll. Now, his disapproval is 57 percent, a recent CNN poll said. If the Republicans fail to mobilize them, McLaughlin said, "we lose the House and the Senate.”


Donald Trump has been dealt a humiliating blow by a new poll about his Iran peace deal.

Trump announced the long-awaited peace deal during his trip to the G7 conference in France last week.

The 14-point memorandum of understanding, which halts the fighting for 60 days, follows months of negotiations, with Washington and Tehran struggling to reach agreement on such key issues as the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and the future of Iran’s nuclear program.

But his opponents have blasted the arrangement for containing significant concessions to the Iranian regime while deferring U.S. demands to later negotiations.

New polling shows that most Americans do not believe the deal has accomplished its primary objective.

According to a CBS News/YouGov survey conducted June 17-19, 2026, among 2,519 U.S. adults, 69 percent of Americans believe Iran’s nuclear program has not been stopped, undermining one of the central justifications for the military campaign.




After the Trump administration upended the world’s largest foreign aid provider last year, terminating thousands of programs and firing nearly all of its staff, its plan for the agency was clear: Eliminate it entirely.

But because it is a congressionally created agency, President Donald Trump needed lawmakers’ permission to do so. So this year, Trump officials asked Congress for permission to shutter the U.S. Agency for International Development and dramatically reduce federal spending on food, medicine and lifesaving work around the world. 

Congress said no. Lawmakers, who hold the government’s purse strings and have oversight of federal agencies, wanted USAID to remain, even in its diminished form. They detailed precisely how much the State Department should spend on foreign aid and for what, including $9.4 billion on global health to treat and prevent maladies like HIV, tuberculosis and malaria, and more than $5 billion on emergency humanitarian aid. They also insisted on regular, detailed reports about how the administration was spending the money. 

Trump signed the bill, enshrining their orders into law.

Now, eight months into the fiscal year, Trump officials are failing to follow many of those orders, ProPublica has found. Officials have delayed spending on global health, have not issued funds for some projects and have labeled money destined for humanitarian aid as “unallocated” to control how it can be spent, according to a ProPublica review of government records and interviews with legal experts, current and former government employees, and members of Congress. And when lawmakers have asked about their actions, officials often have not responded.

The White House and Congress have been battling over federal spending since Day 1 of the Trump administration, setting up a constitutional crisis — a breakdown of the division of power among the three branches of the federal government, according to several legal scholars. 

Nowhere has that crisis been more visible than with foreign aid. Last year, the administration took the unprecedented step of gutting USAID, terminating thousands of aid programs and letting funding expire, all without permission from Congress. Lawmakers did little to stop it.

Now, in defying Congress on foreign aid that Trump himself agreed to spend, the administration is quietly escalating the battle.

“It is a huge grab of power from the president, taking powers away from Congress,” said David Super, a professor of law and economics at Georgetown University and a leading scholar on administrative and constitutional law.

USAID was created by Congress decades ago as a means of promoting American diplomacy and soft power around the world. As ProPublica previously reported, when Trump officials dismantled the agency last year, stopping payments on thousands of lifesaving programs that provided food, medicine and other supplies to impoverished nations, many people died, including children. 

Even with USAID in shambles, Congress has made clear that it expects the administration to continue providing foreign aid — in some cases, at nearly the level it did in previous years.

“It’s proof that there is still broad, bipartisan support for America showing up in the world, helping people and working with our allies and partners on shared challenges, not just because it’s the right thing to do, but because it directly benefits us,” said Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, the ranking member of the Senate committee with oversight of foreign aid funds. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., the committee’s chair, did not respond to multiple requests for comment.


In other news, Trina and I both warned repeatedly ahead of Tulsi's confirmation hearing and vote that Trashy Garbage's relationship with Guru Chris should prevent her from being named head of DNI.  Well . . . Jennifer Bowers Bahney (MEDIAITE) notes:


A wild new story on former Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and her Hare Krishna guru’s influence on her policy actions has sent shockwaves through social media.

Sunday’s Washington Post article by investigative journalist Jon Swaine comes just days after Gabbard stepped down to manage her husband’s cancer treatments.

Swaine wrote that Gabbard grew up in “eccentric religious leader” Chris Butler’s breakaway Hare Krishna group that has been described by some ex-members as a “cult,” although the group denies that characterization.

Swaine set out on a year-long investigation to learn whether the “reclusive guru been secretly trying to steer Gabbard’s actions as a public official.” He reviewed tends of thousands of documents, declaring that “Their content was extraordinary.”

“Dozens of attached memos appeared to document directives and advice for Gabbard from her time in Congress. Some contained instructions on what legislation she should propose, which policies she should embrace and how she should conduct herself on television. They had an air of authority,” Swaine wrote.

Research fellow Kareem Rifai wrote on social media, “This is an utterly insane story: 25,000 documents reviewed by WaPo indicate that throughout Tulsi’s career, her political moves were controlled by her guru, cult leader Chris Butler. This woman was leading the world’s largest intelligence apparatus.”


For example, November 26, 2024, we noted:  "So while holding the office of Director of National Intelligence, she would be serving 'guru' Chris?  And that's acceptable how?"  We noted this repeatedly -- Trina and I both.  It's a shame people didn't wish to pay attention.  Here for Trina's posts covering the guru. 


The Washington Post obtained more than 25,000 memos and other documents exchanged between Gabbard and Butler that appeared to reveal instances in which Butler gave Gabbard direction on several issues, according to the report. There were other instances in which Butler sharply criticized the former Representative from Hawaii as "mealymouthed" over one bill she introduced.

"Dozens of attached memos appeared to document directives and advice for Gabbard from her time in Congress," the report reads in part. "Some contained instructions on what legislation she should propose, which policies she should embrace, and how she should conduct herself on television. They had an air of authority. A memo about a proposal to partition war-torn Iraq into three states quoted an unnamed person as saying it was 'time for TG to come up with this idea.'"


Let's note John Oliver.



Let's wind down with this from Senator Elizabeth Warren:


Democrats’ new report exposes how Trump and Republicans have driven up costs and broken promises to American families

“While Donald Trump and Republicans dream up new ways to line their billionaire buddies’ pockets and give giant corporations even bigger tax breaks, Democrats are united in the fight to lower families’ costs and deliver universal child care.”

Warren Remarks (Youtube) | Child Care Affordability Agenda (PDF)

Washington, D.C. - Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) joined Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Senator Patty Murray (D-Wash.) in announcing the next pillar of Senate Democrats’ affordability agenda: a new Senate Democratic vision to make child care more affordable, more available, and higher quality for families across the country. Democrats’ policy framework stands in stark contrast to Republicans’ policies, which have led to skyrocketing costs and exacerbated the child care crisis.

“Universal child care is the best investment we can make in bolstering the middle class,” said Senator Warren. While Donald Trump and Republicans dream up new ways to line their billionaire buddies’ pockets and give giant corporations even bigger tax breaks, Democrats are united in the fight to lower families’ costs and deliver universal child care. Together, we’ll get it done.”

“Trump and Republicans have made finding reliable and affordable child care an impossible feat," said Leader Schumer. “They have waged an all-out war on the child care sector, hurting those who are the most vulnerable among us: children. Senate Democrats are focused on a Day One solution to the child care crisis that includes affordable child care that meets parents’ needs while investing in the infrastructure, workforce, and early childhood programs. As Republicans continue to fund tax cuts for their billionaire buddies, Democrats are laser-focused on the issues that Americans actually care about — affordability.”

“When I go back home there is not a single parent saying, ‘What I really want—is higher prices and more war mongering.’ That may seem fine to an out-of-touch billionaire like Trump but working families don’t ‘love’ inflation. Instead, the issue that comes up the most is no surprise to any parent: It’s child care. Trump’s latest budget short changes child care, while blowing up war spending,” said Senator Murray. “Trump says we can’t afford child care. The truth is we can’t afford to ignore child care. This year, Senator Warren and I announced our Child Care for America Working Group—a coalition dedicated to lowering costs and delivering affordable and accessible high quality child care for all families across the country. Now, we’re making this a central focus of our caucus’s long-term affordability agenda with Leader Schumer. This is a priority for families—so Democrats will make it a priority in Congress.”

Child care costs are one of the largest financial burdens facing American families today. President Trump and Republicans have abandoned American families, leaving many unable to find affordable, high-quality child care. In the wake of this crisis, the senators released the Democrats’ vision to lower child care costs and expand access to high-quality care for American families across the country, helping parents, children, and child care workers alike.

Earlier this week, the senators released a new “Broken Promises” report exposing how Republicans' policies have wreaked havoc on child care and harmed families across the country. The report detailed how families cannot afford child care, how it’s hard to find affordable high-quality child care, how Trump is attacking our federal child care and early childhood education experts, and how Republicans are actively undermining the child care sector. This new report is part of Senate Democrats’ year-long initiative to address the cost of living crisis Trump and Republicans have created. So far, Democrats have focused on the rising cost of housing, historic food and grocery prices, skyrocketing energy costs, and slashes to health care.

Senator Warren has led the fight to make child care available and affordable for working families:

  • In May 2026, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) joined the Center for American Progress’ IDEAS Conference to deliver a speech on the need for universal child care.

  • In March 2026, U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Patty Murray (D-Wash.), longtime leaders on child care, along with Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Bobby Scott (D-Va.), established a new working group as the latest major push in Democrats’ fight to lower costs and deliver child care for every American family.

  • In March 2026, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani published an op-ed in USA Today calling for the Democratic party to commit to making universal child care a central part of its platform.

  • In February 2026, U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), along with Representative Mike Quigley (D-Ill.), led over 40 colleagues in pressing the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Administration for Children & Families (ACF) on how the Trump Administration’s immigration policies are shrinking the child care workforce and driving up costs for American families.

  • In February 2026, at a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Personnel, Ranking Member of the Committee Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) questioned military leaders on the impact of poor barrack conditions and inadequate child care on service member morale and readiness.

  • In February 2026, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) teamed up in the fight to deliver universal child care for American families.

  • In February 2026, at a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Personnel, Ranking Member Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) delivered opening remarks calling for improving the quality of military barracks, better pay for child care workers so military families can have the child care support they need, and tracking the impact of Republicans’ health care cuts for service members and their families.

  • In January 2026, U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Reverend Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) led Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.), Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), and Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) in announcing a new investigation into how the Trump administration’s cuts to affordable child care programs are affecting rural families.

  • In September 2025, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Representative Mikie Sherrill (D-N.J.) led over forty lawmakers in reintroducing the Child Care for Every Community Act, legislation that would expand access to affordable child care to every American family, offer high-quality early education to every child, and create good jobs for our early educators.

  • In May 2025, In a response to U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren’s (D-Mass.) letter to the Department of Defense (DoD) demanding clarity on the department’s plans to address allegations of child abuse in its Child Development Centers (CDCs), the DoD revealed a pattern of incompetence in its oversight of child care services.

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6/19/2026

ossof rightly calls out chump (and general hospital)

lindamcmahon

 

that's Isaiah's THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS "Linda Goes After The Kids Again" and it went up last night.  



Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) was unimpressed with President Donald Trump’s attempt to saddle him with a nickname. 

“I didn’t think it was his best work as nicknames go,” Ossoff said on MS NOW when asked about the president calling him “Os(jerk!)off” in a social media rant on Wednesday. “But more to the point, he is increasingly unstable. And I think that it flows from the fact that he is globally humiliated from this failed war.” 
This week, after nearly four months of war, Trump signed a “deal” with Iran that ceases the violence and reopens the Strait of Hormuz. In addition, Iran will receive $300 billion for the “rehabilitation and economic development” of the country, and all U.S. sanctions will be lifted. Critics have said this is little to no improvement over what existed before the war, and even Republicans have attacked the agreement. 

“This is a debacle for our national security. It is a debacle for the Trump presidency,” Ossoff said. “And we see him lashing out and behaving erratically in ways that put the nation at risk.” 
This week, after nearly four months of war, Trump signed a “deal” with Iran that ceases the violence and reopens the Strait of Hormuz. In addition, Iran will receive $300 billion for the “rehabilitation and economic development” of the country, and all U.S. sanctions will be lifted. Critics have said this is little to no improvement over what existed before the war, and even Republicans have attacked the agreement. 

“This is a debacle for our national security. It is a debacle for the Trump presidency,” Ossoff said. “And we see him lashing out and behaving erratically in ways that put the nation at risk.” 

ossof is right, it's not a good nickname and it goes to chump's decay.  and with such limited energy, should chump be wasting it on nick names instead of focusing on the job of being president?  

'general hospital'?

laura and jordan had lunch.  ezra bumped into them yesterday.  but he got a text from jacinda asking him to come up to a room in the hotel.

well today, he was there waiting for her and she hadn't texted him.  it was sidwell.  he is continuing to blackmail ezra and says he's not leaving town until he gets his revenge on lucas, sonny, laura and ross.  and he tells ezra that ezra will be helping him. 

'nathan' and his cousin nina talked about lisel and where was she?  and they talked about lulu and what was going on there?  (nina suggested that they could still be friends.) and they talked about britt and rocco.  and nina told him that the most important day of her life was when nathan showed up after being thought dead.  nathan isn't nathan.  he's nathan's previously unknown twin cassius.  

britt and rocco are on an island.  britt gave rocco a tablet that she had encoded before they left so it couldn't be used to track them.  rocco goes online and sees that sidwell shot lucas.  britt gets on it and finds out that lucas is okay.  but if sidwell's shooting people, they are better off outside of port charles.  she told him to get dressed and they'd go to the beach and plan lunch.  after he walked off, britt fell to the floor.

rocco came in and found her on the floor.  she lied and told him she was fine.  she's not.

charlotte told danny that cassadine was turning himself in to the wsb. he says it's the only way to take down ross.  charlotte says screw it, her father's wrong, she and danny can take down ross.  a call comes in on her phone.  she doesn't recognie the number.  she answers and it's danny.  


let's close with c.i.'s 'The Snapshot:'


Thursday, June 18, 2026.  Chump goes deranged as his 'deal' is called out and mocked, Todd Blanche is the man with something to hide, most Americans see Chump as "a dangerous dictator," and much more.



Ben (MEIDASTOUCH NEWS) charts Chump's early morning dementia.     





A majority of Americans view President Donald Trump as a “dangerous dictator” whose power should be constrained, according to a poll that found a notable increase in that sentiment since March.
[. . .]
A new Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) poll of 5,469 adults living across all 50 states found that 59 percent believe that Trump “is a dangerous dictator whose power should be limited before he destroys American democracy.”

Support for that view has increased since March, when 52 percent of Americans agreed with the statement. It also exceeds the 56 percent recorded in September 2025, when a majority of respondents similarly described Trump as a “dangerous dictator,” according to PRRI.
The poll, which was conducted between May 1 and 18, has a margin of error of plus or minus 1.53 percentage points. While the poll was being conducted, headlines around the Trump administration included foreign policy and the war with Iran, trade and tariff escalations with Europe, and gas prices rising due to troubles in the Strait of Hormuz.


Dictator?   Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan (NEW YORK TIMES) reported on the Situation Room meetings of Todd Blanche, Pam Bondi, Susie Wiles, JD Vance and other members of the administration to plot on how to deceive the American people about Epstein and specifically Chump's closeness to Epstein while also detailing the administration's discussions about implementing the Insurrectionist Act and suspending habeas corpus.  The last two are why Democrats on the House Oversight Committee issued the following yesterday:

Washington, D.C. — Today, Rep. Robert Garcia, Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, demanded answers from White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles after recent reporting revealed Deputy White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller pushed to suspend habeas corpus rights and Vice President J.D. Vance pushed to invoke the Insurrection Act to suppress peaceful protests in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Habeas corpus is a fundamental aspect of due process, allowing people in the United States to contest the basis of their detention.

“Donald Trump has worked to defy and undermine the Constitution to push his bigoted mass deportation campaign. New reporting shows that top White House officials openly planned to deny core constitutional rights, and the Vice President’s support to use the military against peaceful protests. Oversight Democrats will fully investigate this outrageous attack on the Constitution and the rule of law. All those responsible should be held accountable,” said Ranking Member Robert Garcia.

In the letter to White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, Ranking Member Garcia wrote, “Oversight Democrats are investigating the systematic violations of the Constitution by the Trump Administration through its mass deportation campaign. The Administration’s willingness to use violence against civilians, lack of oversight for violations of civil rights, and violations of court orders are widely documented. New reporting revealed that the Administration considered far more egregious violations of the constitution, and that senior White House staff, including Vice President J.D. Vance and Stephen Miller, advocated for the illegal suspension of fundamental civil liberties as the Administration considered suspending habeas corpus rights and invoking the Insurrection Act to suppress peaceful protests in Minneapolis. In light of this disclosure, we demand that you immediately provide records and documents which outline a draft plan by senior members of the Administration to effectively subvert the Constitution on a massive scale.”

 

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As Ruth noted "We still have not seen the 'deal,' 'cease-fire,' or 'memo of understanding.'  Whatever you call it, Convicted Felon Donald Chump continues to keep it under wraps." -- whatever it is, it's still unknown.  But based upon Chump's incessant remarks and the sketch that's been discussed, people are forming opinions.  



Toward the end of the Obama administration’s negotiations over its Iran nuclear deal in 2015, then-presidential candidate Donald Trump chimed in with some advice from his book, “The Art of the Deal.”

“Message to Obama re: Iran: ‘The worst thing you can possibly do in a deal is seem desperate to make it,’” he posted on Twitter.
Trump and his administration are now committing this cardinal sin in their efforts to obtain their own nuclear deal with Iran.

In fact, it looks a lot like they’re giving up on even claiming their memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Iran is a favorable document to the US. The Trump administration is making it abundantly clear they just want out of this war.

Trump’s overriding desire to extract himself has been clear for a long time; he has repeatedly pulled back on his threats, downplayed Iranian provocations and resisted a return to large-scale hostilities.

But over the last 24 hours, this attitude has moved from the subtext to the text.

The administration has repeatedly suggested that its handling of the MOU is about catering to Iran.

Perhaps most striking were comments the administration made without attribution.

“The consensus of the team was we want to get this thing over with, and the deal is the way to do it in a way that maximizes our upside and minimizes our downside,” an administration official directly involved in the talks told CNN’s Alayna Treene.



Holly Baxter (INDEPENDENT) sees indicators in Chump's refusal to provide details:

If you’d like to know how Donald Trump’s closing speech at the G7 went, it’s probably best to start at the part where he asked Scott Bessent whether the stock market was smarter than his Treasury secretary.

“No, sir,” Bessent dutifully replied. He was disagreeing with a notion Trump had just posited, but it was clear from his tone of voice that he didn’t mean to disagree. He was simply trying to make real-time sense of what his boss had just said, which happened to be the semi-coherent and utterly baffling: “The stock market is more brilliant than anybody there is, including people on this stage, apart from me. What do you think, Scott, is the stock market more brilliant than you?”


Yeganeh Torbati (NEW YORK TIMES) states, "The agreement lifts the U.S.-imposed naval blockade of Iranian ports and, most crucially, grants Iran waivers to begin exporting its oil even before the negotiation of a final agreement on its nuclear program. That will give Iran a critical economic lifeline. In recent years, its economy has been in a tailspin, with a collapsing currency and sky-high inflation."  The paper's David E. Sanger reminds:

It was less than 15 weeks ago when President Trump, at the height of his bravado about how the war with Iran would end, declared “there will be no deal with Iran except UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER.”

When the text of the deal intended to wind down the conflict was finally released on Wednesday, read aloud paragraph by paragraph by a senior administration official who stopped to defend each section, it read nothing like a surrender document. Instead, the Iranians emerged from a confrontation with the world’s most powerful military having not only survived, but with much to celebrate.

It starts with the resumption of Tehran’s ability to reap billions of dollars in oil sales, lifting pressure on the struggling regime even as negotiators prepare to begin haggling over a far more lengthy and critical document: the one Mr. Trump insisted in an interview on Sunday will arrest Iran’s nuclear program for the next 15 or 20 years.

For a president who prizes leverage above all else, that decision is just another mystery of the war. But the wording of the “Memorandum of Understanding” also suggests that, over time, Iran may negotiate some permanent way to exercise sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz. That seems in contradiction to Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s declarations just a few weeks ago that anything other than the kind of free passage through the strait that the world knew before the war was “not acceptable” and “cannot happen.”


Max Rego (THE HILL) notes a Republican senator who's calling the deal out:

Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy (La.) on Wednesday slammed the deal between the Trump administration and Iran, two days before the two sides are set to sign it.

“The details that I’ve seen so far look … awful. This will go down as a tremendous foreign policy blunder,” Cassidy told Nexstar’s Reshad Hudson on Capitol Hill. 



Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA) is not mincing words when it comes to President Donald Trump’s newly-announced deal with Iran.

“Worst foreign policy blunder in decades,” Cassidy said.

In a post to X on Wednesday, the exiting Louisiana senator — who was defeated in a primary race in May, after President Trump endorsed one of his opponents — sounded off on the deal, which he believes is a massive win for Iran.
“Reagan is rolling over in his grave,” Cassidy wrote. “Iran’s nuclear ambitions were not curbed, and they have learned that threatening the Strait of Hormuz works and will undoubtedly leverage it in the future. Now, Iran gets to build brand-new infrastructure under this deal.”

He added, “Before the war, the strait was open, Iran was being crushed by sanctions, and 13 service members were still alive. Now, 13 Americans are dead, families have paid billions at the pump, sanctions will be lifted, and the bombing has stopped. This is the worst foreign policy blunder in decades.”


Cassidy is not the only Republican in Congress who is disappointed with the deal.  Bayliss Wagner, Robert Jimison and Tim Balk (NEW YORK TIMES) explain:

President Trump’s agreement with Iran opened new fissures in his party on Wednesday, with Republicans on Capitol Hill and beyond questioning whether his administration had secured adequate concessions from Iranian leaders after months of a costly and unpopular war.

After the Trump administration released the text of the arrangement on Wednesday, some Senate Republicans reacted with fierce criticism, skepticism and alarm. Prominent members of the G.O.P.’s old guard from outside Congress also sounded dubious notes. And even some of the president’s allies in the conservative news media voiced concern.

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The reactions underscore a challenge Mr. Trump faces five months ahead of the midterm elections, as he works to free Republicans from the political albatross of the war while navigating varying views about it within his own party. While Mr. Trump has won praise for the deal from some Republican allies, consolidating support in a party with competing factions is proving to be a difficult task.








Retired four-star Army Gen. Jack Keane on Wednesday said the tentative deal between the U.S. and Iran is a “long way from accomplishing” President Trump’s objectives in the Middle Eastern country.

Keane told hosts John Catsimatidis and Rita Cosby on the “Cats and Cosby Show” on WABC 770 AM that his “gut reaction” to the deal was “more about what’s not in there than what’s in it,” referring to a lack of restrictions on Iran’s missile capabilities and inspections of its nuclear facilities.


Tom Boggioni (RAW STORY) notes Stephanie Ruhle whose MS NOW program now airs in the morning: 
 
Donald Trump’s pride in getting an Iran deal done, despite accusations that it was a complete capitulation to Iran’s leadership, led MS NOW’s Stephanie Ruhle to haul out the “Trump Always Chickens Out” (TACO) taunt.

During a discussion of the deal with former diplomat Richard Haas and MS NOW’s David Rohde, she asked the two experts what the US got out of the deal.
According to both, the US was definitely on the losing end and the deal could easily fall apart.

“There's concerns that [Israel Prime Minister] Bibi Netanyahu is going to try to blow up this deal because it's so bad for Israel in the long term,” Rohde explained before adding a curt, “It is.”
“I was really expecting a little more meat on the bone,” he said. “We’re a long way from accomplishing the objectives that the president wants to accomplish here with the Iranians. … We’re at the beginning of a process that’s going to take some time here for sure.”

Keane, who served a stint as acting Army chief of staff in 1993, noted that Iranian officials will look at the U.S. response to the deal as “something of a victory for themselves because the war is not continuing.”

“They got a ceasefire,” he told Catsimatidis and Cosby. “Now they’re moving towards a final agreement. And they’re going to delay that as much as possible, believing that the closer we get to the midterms, the less likely the president will return with military operations.”









Meanwhile, Damian Paletta (WALL STREET JOURNAL) ponders whether JD Vance is up to selling the deal as Chump intends for him to do:


This week, Vance is selling more than books.

He has been all over the airwaves in the past few days trying to sell the Iran deal that President Trump announced Sunday afternoon. In addition to The View, he showed up on Megyn Kelly’s show. Kelly is a leading conservative voice who has been sharply critical of the Iran war. Vance calmly and persistently pushed back on hawkish conservative critics who allege the White House is being duped by Iran.

“They are proposing an endless conflict,” Vance said of the critics. “They want this to go on until every bomb has been dropped or until every Iranian is dead. That’s not what the President of the United States wants.”

One challenge for Vance: No one has seen the fine print on the deal, leading to screams from conservatives that perhaps Trump has been duped (The WSJ reported Tuesday that a draft of the deal would allow Iran to sell oil, and Iranian tankers have already been permitted to depart through the U.S. blockade).


When not expecting Vance to sell whatever, Chump enjoys pitting him against Marco Rubio.  Isabel van Brugen (DAILY BEAST) notes:


Donald Trump pitted JD Vance against Marco Rubio during a private dinner, asking Rupert Murdoch to compare the 2028 Republican contenders while they sat at the same table.

The awkward exchange was detailed in an excerpt from Regime Change by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, obtained by Axios. The book about Trump’s second term, set for publication on June 23, offers a glimpse into the 80-year-old president’s habit of holding impromptu popularity contests among his allies.

Trump has long positioned his vice president, 41, and secretary of state, 55, as potential rivals in the 2028 presidential race. While he has not publicly endorsed either, he has asked friends and advisers to compare the two.

According to Haberman and Swan, Trump hosted Murdoch, Vance, Rubio, and several White House aides at a private dinner on Oct. 16, 2025. During the gathering, Trump turned to the 95-year-old conservative media mogul and asked him to assess the two men widely viewed as leading candidates for the 2028 Republican presidential nomination.

The president asked Murdoch whom he preferred, Vance or Rubio, while adding that he thinks “they’re both great.”

“What do you think of JD?” Trump asked.

Murdoch replied: “Well... I think JD has the potential to be great.”

“And what do you think of Marco?” Trump asked.
Murdoch answered immediately: “Marco is brilliant.”

“With Vance and Rubio sitting awkwardly at the table, Murdoch was notably more effusive about Rubio,” Haberman and Swan wrote, according to the excerpt obtained by Axios.



Chump's lame duckery becomes more and more evident.  Thomas Kika reports:

President Donald Trump is trying to "get creative to avoid embarrassment" after one of his much-prized endorsements went down in flames in a key swing state, per a new analysis from MS NOW.

Trump built up a notable win-streak of 2026 midterm endorsements in recent weeks, costing numerous state and federal lawmakers their reelection bids in retaliation for standing up to him. However, as the weeks have gone by, his endorsements have proven to be far from bulletproof, most recently when the Trump-backed Georgia Lt. Gov. Burt Jones lost his gubernatorial bid to businessman and healthcare executive Rick Jackson, sending him into the general election to face Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms in the crucial battleground state.
Despite Trump's endorsement, Jones ended up five points behind Jackson when all was said and done. 


Two weeks ago, in Iowa’s gubernatorial race, Trump threw his support behind Rep. Randy Feenstra, who narrowly lost his Republican primary to Zach Lahn. This week, it happened again. MS NOW reported:

Healthcare executive Rick Jackson clinched the Republican gubernatorial nomination on Tuesday, pulling off a win over Lt. Gov. Burt Jones and securing a spot in the November election against Democratic nominee Keisha Lance Bottoms. […]

Jackson, a businessman who entered politics as an outsider candidate, sought to position himself as an alternative to career politicians.

Trump endorsed Jones, the incumbent lieutenant governor, who ended up losing his primary bid by roughly 5 points.

Yes, sir? No, sir? What, sir? It was clear at that point, just a couple of minutes in, that nobody — including his own team, or perhaps especially his own team — had any idea what Trump was talking about.

This was probably the most alarming Trump appearance to date. He was breathless and incoherent, ill-seeming and off-piste. He spent 32 minutes justifying his deal with Iran to the world before mentioning a single discussion that had taken place among the G7 countries at the summit, and the justifications spoke for themselves.

"This wasn't a three-month deal," he declared. "This was years in the making. You know why? Because I was the one who killed General Soleimani."

Soleimani, who has been dead since 2020, enjoyed repeated cameos throughout the proceedings. Trump called him "a mad genius" and "the boss of Iran," returning to him again and again like an aging musician who keeps bringing audiences back to his biggest hit because the new material isn't getting much applause. The implication, of course, was that Soleimani represented a job well done to Trump himself. This deal? Not so much.


Turning to Toad Blanche, acting Attorney General.  Chump has nominated him to be the next Attorney General.  Thomas Kika reports Toad is facing some harsh winds:

President Donald Trump is keen to get his newest judicial attack dog properly installed at the top of the Justice Department, but according to a new report from The Hill, he has run into a serious wall of Republican "skepticism" in Congress.

Todd Blanche, who previously served as Trump's personal attorney, was promoted to acting Attorney General following the departure of Pam Bondi. Since then, he has wasted little time attempting to rack up "wins" in order to endear himself further to the president and audition for the proper AG job. It seems to have worked out for him, as Trump nominated him for the position earlier this month.
However, he now faces considerable pushback from Republicans in the Senate who will have to confirm his appointment, The Hill reported on Wednesday, much of it stemming from his involvement in the settlement of Trump's IRS lawsuit.

"Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is headed for a rocky Senate confirmation process to take on the role permanently as several Republican senators raise concerns about his credibility and independence from President Trump," The Hill reported. "Blanche faced withering criticism from Senate Republicans during a private meeting last month at which more than 20 GOP lawmakers vented their frustrations with the administration and panned the proposal he rolled out to establish a $1.8 billion 'anti-weaponization' fund."
It continued: "Blanche on Tuesday assured GOP senators in at least two private meetings that the fund is dead and he won’t support it if Trump tries to revive the idea in the future. But he still faces skepticism over the fund and other issues, including an agreement that Trump reached with his administration to shield himself and his family from IRS audits of past tax returns."



Hanging over Blanche’s confirmation hearings are damaging new revelations about the Justice Department’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case. No senator will be able to cast a vote for him without either embracing or forgiving his cynical politicization of the Epstein matter.

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Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, in new reporting for the New York Times excerpted from their forthcoming book, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump, offer astonishing insights into the dishonesty and incompetency of the leaders overseeing the bungled Epstein response. And Blanche stands inextricably at the center of it all.

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Most fundamentally, Haberman and Swan expose that Blanche and Justice Department leadership handled the Epstein case as a matter of politics, not prosecution. Their reporting flatly discredits Blanche’s self-congratulatory refrain that, under his watch, the Justice Department stands above and beyond political concerns. At his confirmation hearing for the deputy-AG position, for example, Blanche declared, “Politics would play no role in my decisions as deputy attorney general.” And when asked in December 2025 if political motivations influenced redactions from the Epstein files, he fired back, “Absolutely, positively not.”
Turns out, that was bulls[**]t.

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In fact, Haberman and Swan report in detail how key decisions around the Epstein files were made by Blanche and other DoJ leaders who worked intensively with (and at times took direction from) top White House officials. Unsurprisingly for a Justice Department that now hangs on its headquarters a massive banner of Donald Trump’s glowering face, the DoJ’s priority was not to pursue criminals, to protect victims, or to inform the public but to minimize political damage to the president and his administration.

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The panic level around the unfolding public-relations crisis was so intense that Blanche reportedly met with White House brass in the Situation Room — the same ultrasecure facility used during national-security crucibles from the Cuban Missile Crisis to 9/11 to COVID. The decision-making that came out of those meetings was questionable at best. At times, Blanche vouched for desperate measures intended to mitigate individual brushfires, only to accelerate the larger conflagration.

For example, as public confidence collapsed around the DoJ’s vexing and often self-contradictory messaging, Blanche devised an underhanded ploy to create an illusion of transparency. Haberman and Swan report that he suggested prosecutors could formally ask judges to unseal secret grand-jury records relating to the investigations of Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. But, as Blanche understood based on his own prosecutorial experience, the judges likely would deny the motions (which they all eventually did). And even if by some fluke a judge granted the DoJ’s disingenuous request, Blanche knew the grand-jury records would contain nothing new or interesting. He believed it would be a win-win; either way, Justice Department leaders would look like they tried, and nothing damaging would be revealed.
When that gambit satisfied precisely nobody, Blanche tried something even more desperate. He flew to Florida and interviewed Maxwell face to face with the expectation that the convicted child sex trafficker — who actively solicited a presidential pardon — would clear Trump of wrongdoing. Haberman and Swan report that Vice-President J.D. Vance (who “appeared panicked” over the right-wing response to the Epstein mess) initially proposed that carnival barker Tucker Carlson do the dirty work, meet with Maxwell behind bars, and tell his audience that all was well. The plan fell through, and Blanche emerged as Carlson’s understudy — not exactly a sparkling résumé item for an aspiring attorney general.



 


Meanwhile another woman accuses Chump in The Epstein Fields.  Edith Olmsted (NEW REPUBLIC) notes:


Buried in the Department of Justice’s massive trove of files on Epstein, an interview conducted by the FBI on June 19, 2020, included allegations that the president had previously used Trump Tower as a hunting ground for young women, RawStory reported Wednesday.
In the early 1990s, the woman worked at a luxury shoe store near Trump Tower, and would study in the building’s public atrium during her lunch breaks. One day, she met a colleague at the atrium who pointed out two men lurking nearby.

“[She] described one of the men was dark haired and looked like Antonio Banderas, while the other man was blonde and looked like the surfer type,” the FBI report stated. “Her colleague told her that the men constantly picked up [redacted] women.”

The woman was then approached by the dark-haired man, who struck up a conversation with her. “He asked if she knew who Donald Trump was and told her he was meeting people that day,” the report stated.

“[She] told the man that she knew who Trump was. The man asked if she wanted to meet Trump and told her that she did not need to work so hard to go to school,” the report stated. “The man winked and said he could do whatever she liked.”
“[She] felt that it was clear that sex was on the table, even though the man never mentioned sex,” the report stated. “[She] felt these men were playing the role of recruiters for Trump.”

“The man told her that if she did not want to meet Trump right then, she could go to a party. The man told her that she could bring a friend if the friend looked like her, but she could not bring a guy,” the report stated. The invitation for the party had Epstein’s address on it, the woman told the FBI.

When she declined the invites, she said she began receiving death threats. “The threats consisted of the men saying that they knew where she worked and could find her. [She] never told the police because she did not think they would believe her,” the report stated. They never approached her again.
 


Let's wind down with this from Senator Patty Murray's office:


The Children Harmed in Life-threatening or Dangerous (CHILD) Labor Act would strengthen labor law, give Department of Labor greater enforcement power

“In fiscal year 2025, more cases of federal child labor violations were uncovered than during any other year since the Great Recession, and hazardous work violations ticked up again after declining in the year prior.” – MORE from the Economic Policy Institute

Murray and DeLauro’s legislation is more urgent than ever as child labor law violations spike and the Trump administration has undermined existing enforcement efforts while Republicans push for even weaker standards

Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray, former chair and senior member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), and U.S. Representative Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03), Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Committee and Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education reintroduced legislation to protect children from exploitative child labor practices and hold the companies and individuals who take advantage of them accountable. The Children Harmed in Life-threatening or Dangerous (CHILD) Labor Act strengthens our ability to combat child labor by cracking down on employers who violate child labor laws with stronger penalties and allowing children who have been seriously injured to sue their employers. The bill also expands child labor provisions to hold suppliers and subcontractors throughout the supply chain responsible.

According to recent reporting, the number of child labor violations has risen fivefold in the last 10 years and Republican-led state legislatures are continuing to propose and pass legislation at the state level that rolls back child labor regulations with the goal of eroding federal standards–as outlined in Project 2025.

“It should never be cheaper for a company to break child labor laws than to follow them—but right now, it is. Violations are at their highest level in years, Republicans are gutting protections in state after state, and the Trump administration has all but stopped enforcing the laws on the books,” said Senator Murray. “Children should not be subjected to abusive and dangerous work environments—they should not be working the night shift operating heavy equipment and in unsafe conditions with no consequences. My bill would deliver real penalties, real accountability for giant corporations, and real recourse for kids who get hurt.”

“No child should have to risk their life or their future because of a job,” said Congresswoman DeLauro. “Yet across this country, children are being put to work in dangerous jobs that threaten that future while companies reap massive profits from their labor, and this Administration weakens the agencies responsible for enforcing labor laws and protecting children from abusive labor practices. Corporations cannot cut corners – especially not when it comes to our children. The CHILD Labor act will put a stop to this by holding companies accountable and ensuring our children’s futures are protected.”

The CHILD Labor Act would protect children by enhancing the Fair Labor Standards Act to hold liable contractors or subcontractors for child labor violations in the same manner as the employer who employs the child in oppressive child labor; increase the civil penalty amount for child labor violations from $16,000 to $160,350—or 10 times the inflation-adjusted amount; increase the criminal penalty fine from $10,000 to $750,000; require any person who violates child labor provisions to be liable to each employee affected by the violation in an amount no less than $75,000; and require federal contracts to contain child labor provisions that prohibit the use of oppressive child labor.

The legislation would also require the Secretary to report to Congress data and recommendations concerning overall trends for work-related injuries, illnesses, or deaths to Congress on an annual basis.

In the Senate, the legislation is cosponsored by Senators Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), John Fetterman (D-PA), Ed Markey (D-MA), Chris Murphy (D-CT), Alex Padilla (D-CA), Jack Reed (D-RI), Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Tina Smith (D-MN), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Ron Wyden (D-OR).

In the House, the legislation is cosponsored by Representatives Alma Adams (D-NC-12), Judy Chu (D-CA-28), Danny Davis (D-IL-7), Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA-10), Dan Goldman (D-NY-10), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Zoe Lofgren (D-CA-18), Seth Magaziner (D-RI-2), Jim McGovern (D-MA-2), Mark Pocan (D-WI-2), Jan Schakowsky (D-IL-9), Shri Thanedar (D-MI-13), Jill Tokuda (D-HI-2), and Lauren Underwood (D-IL-14).

The legislation is endorsed by the National Employment Law Project, and the Center for Law and Social Policy.

A one-pager on the bill is available HERE.

A section by section of the bill is available HERE.

Full text of the legislation is available HERE.

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