From Pulitzer Prize–winning Washington Post reporters Leonnig and Davis, a shocking investigation of unparalleled depth into the subversion of the Justice Department over the last decade, culminating in Pres. Trump upending this cornerstone of democracy and threatening America’s rule of law as we have long known it.
Throughout his first administration, Trump did more than any other president to politicize the nation’s top law enforcement agency, pressuring appointees
to shield him,
to target his enemies, and even
to help him cling to power after his 2020 election defeat.
I told ya Swamp's corrupt. Who's got power?
The department, pressed into a defensive crouch, has never fully recovered.
Injustice exposes not only the Trump administration’s efforts to undermine the department at every turn but also how delays in investigating Trump’s effort to overturn the will of voters under Attorney General Merrick Garland helped prevent the country from holding Trump accountable and enabled his return to power.
I do what Israel tells me to do. Ask Bibi why.
With never-before-told accounts, Leonnig and Davis take readers inside as prosecutors convulsed over Trump’s disdain for the rule of law. FBI agents, the department’s storied investigators, at times retreated in fear.
They take readers to the rooms where Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team set off on an all-but-impossible race to investigate Trump for absconding with classified documents and waging an assault on democracy—and inside his prosecution’s heroic and fateful choices that ultimately backfired.
Neutral toward injustice? - Desmond Tutu
With a plethora of sources deeply embedded in the ranks of three presidencies, Leonnig and Davis reveal the daily war secretly waged for the soul of the department, how it has been shredded by propaganda and partisanship, and how—if the United States hopes to live on with its same form of government—Trump’s war with the Justice Department will mark a turning point from which it will be hard to recover.
Injustice is the jaw-dropping account of partisans and enablers undoing democracy, heroes still battling to preserve a nation governed by laws, and a call to action for those who believe in liberty and justice for all. More
REVIEW (Cankles) Trump ruins Charlie Kirk's funeral with disaster fascist meltdown
I'm a Christ figure for my Martyr
(I've Had It) Sept. 22, 2025: IHIP News: Welcome to the hyper-nationalism show. Charlie Kirk's memorial service in Glendale, Arizona was filled with contradictions and Nazi-like calls for revenge [in addition to ASMR and an odd performance by grieving wife and holier-than-thou Christian Evangelical Erika Kirk, using ASMR and hateful eyes and pauses for dramatic effect then cuddling up to the Canks in a show of submissive supplication, as if to say in *Baby Voice* "You'er a gweat big bad leadwer you are, Mr. Trump. You pratect us from the Lweft and thwere big bad gwuns. *Giggle*"] linktr.ee/ivehaditpodcast. Join channel to access perks: @ivehaditpodcast.
(DAHBOO77) Sept. 12, 2025: [The fix is in; it was all a setup, and Israel's Bibi has shown his hand in league with clandestine agencies like the FBI, CIA, NSA, NSC, Mossad, and Shin Bet.] An Amazon spokesperson confirmed that it investigated the [precognitive,predictively programmed, and premature release of the] book, The Shooting of Charlie Kirk by Anastasia J. Casey.
One person bought and reviewed the book.
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(FOX 26 Houston)
Started streaming about noon. Welcome, MAGA. This is the federally approved memorial service for conservative activist Charlie Kirk (and VP JD Vance picker), who lived in fear of PM Benjamin Netanyahu and his Mossad and Shin Bet and IDF assets, who was publicly gunned down on Sept. 10 while speaking to students at Utah Valley University near Salt Lake City. U.S. Pres. Donald Joe Trump is expected to attend and speak and rally support of radical conservatives while supplicating powerful blackmailers for Israel, the IDF (U.N.-defined genocidal Zionist Israeli Armed Forces), and their fearless leader Dictator Bibi.
Serj Tankian gets personal about his band System of a Down
(Q with Tom Power) May 14, 2024: System of a Down’s Serj Tankian grew up hearing stories about his family members who died during the Armenian genocide [or what the young Ottoman Turks call a “misunderstanding”], many years before he was born.
In his new memoir Down With the System, he shares his family’s story and looks back on his career through the lens of his Armenian heritage. Tankian joins Tom Power to talk about the origins of his activism, how System of a Down (SOAD) got on the radio (KROQ FM), and whether or not you’ll ever hear any NEW music from the band.
BAT (Bad Acid Trip) performs "Beef Moo" to prove they have chops
It is notable that we never knew we needed Armenian nu-metal, but it may not just be Serj's genius behind the mic or guitarist Daron coming up with all sorts of great song ideas because there's another very similar band, with frantic starts and stops and screaming. They never made it big. They're called Bad Acid Trip. If it were just about having an Armenian member or raging about genocide and racism in and around Glendale and Little Armenia in Los Angeles (which has a massive Armenian population to rival Armenia and an enclave next to Hollywood that includes Cher and the Kardashians), that was needed, BAT should be as big as batsh*t is to growing strong garden plants. Guano is great fertilizer. Where are all the SOAD copycat bands like Korn engendered? BAT is signed to Tankian's label Serjical Strike Records.
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Do SOAD fans read? The hardcover is out today (May 14, 2024) by author, poet, lead singer, KPFK radio host Serj Tankian. It has 5 out of 5 stars with just 2 ratings. It is a #1 New Release in Rock Music.
This is an exhilarating, thoughtful, and beautifully written memoir by musician, songwriter, and lead singer-lyricist of Grammy award-winning metal band Serj Tankian.
Tankian will be the first to admit that his band, System Of A Down, was as “unlikely a chart-topper as had ever existed in modern music history: a band of Armenian-Americans playing a practically unclassifiable clash of wildly aggressive metal riffs, unconventional tempo-twisting rhythms, and Armenian folk melodies, with me alternately growling, screaming, and crooning lyrics that could pivot from avant-garde silliness to raging socio-political rants in the space of a single line.”
After all, as Tankian concedes, “it’s not easy listening.” Even so, there’s no doubt that System’s music had struck a chord with millions of listeners across the world ever since they burst onto the scene in the mid-1990s.
With nearly 40 million albums sold, three albums topping the Billboard charts, and a devoted legion of fans, the band dominated the alt-rock and nu-metal scenes just as the world hurtled into a new millennium, redefining the very idea of what rockstars
could and couldn’t talk about,
could and couldn’t do,
could and couldn’t represent.
With no CD to promote, SOAD still headlines
In Down With the System, he presents readers with a memoir that is far more than just a rock 'n' roll fable. It’s an immigrant's tale, it’s an activist’s awakening, and it’s a spiritual journey from darkness toward light. And all of this comes down to the fact that he himself has had the chance to live an extraordinary life — thanks to a combination of luck, circumstance, struggle, talent, and spiritual awakening.
Born to Armenian parents in Beirut, Lebanon, Tankian grew up hearing bombs drop outside his childhood home during the country’s [Israel-induced] civil war, before moving to Los Angeles at the age of 7.
As a young man, he is immersed in the SoCal community of “Little Armenia,” learning more and more about the brutal genocide faced by his ancestors [under the Ottoman Empire that is now Turkey], while helping his parents adapt to the constraints and contradictions of the American Dream.
Then, during a pivotal drive home from an LSAT class, he decides to turn away from a promising future in business and law to make music instead — a decision that leads him to touring five continents as the lead singer of a hugely popular rock band, hitting Number #1 on the Billboard album charts the morning of 9/11, then having the hit single from the same album BANNED from radio two days later.
In the years that follow, his uniquely singular story continues, as he evades glass bottles hurled at a cancelled show by angry Slayer fans, teams up with fellow KPFK Free Speech Radio host Tom Morello (articulate guitarist for Rage Against the Machine) to push social justice issues on unsuspecting Heshers and metalheads, argues with LAPD officers over the best way to quell rioting fans in Hollywood [we were there and there was no "riot," just a big crowd], and defines new sounds and singing tactics with famous Slayer producer Rick Rubin.
Braiding together Tankian’s thought-provoking insight with heartfelt prose, Down With the System retraces his remarkable and unlikely journey. It explores what it has taught him — about music, about art, about activism, and about himself.
This ticketed signing only event will take place at Book Soup located at 8818 Sunset Blvd. in West Hollywood. Tickets include a place in line to get one new hardcover copy of Down with the System signed, which will be handed out at check-in. Please note that Serj Tankian will ONLY sign copies of Down with the System, ne memorabilia, no photos, no talk. Questions? Please email Book Soup at info@booksoup.com
System of a Down, Waldus Lacroix; Finn McKenty, Punk Rock MBA 2024; Serj Tankian with Q with Tom Power (CBC, May 14, 2024), new book (amazon.com), KPFK.org Book Soup event; Seth Auberon, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Under cross examination, poor Stormy (who has starred in 150 X-rated movies) has admitted to being able to speak to the dead. While that is believable to those who understand we do not die and end but carry on life after life, it is a basis of discrediting her. It is almost as if Trump's attorneys are trying to argue they never met, nothing ever happened, and he is just in the habit of handing out more than $100,000 to strangers for the heck of it. Guilty. This case is not about her because cheating is not illegal, and trying to cover it up is not illegal, but what is illegal is falsifying business records and trying to misappropriate campaign funds to cover your tracks. This is not a "hush money trial" but a financial records fraud case. And of that his guilt is certain. What is also certain is that he did it in furtherance of his election, making it a felony.
Trump hosts suckers who bought his NFTs and Guillermo exclusivo with Hemsworth and Taylor-Joy
D. John Trump was heard audibly cursing during Stormy Daniels' testimony at his criminal trial.
(Jimmy Kimmel Live) May 8, 2024: It was a day off from the Trump trial after Stormy Daniels caused quite a sexual and embarrassing commotion yesterday, Republican loser Nikki Haley took home 20% of the vote in the Indiana primary despite not being in the race anymore, Trump hosted a VIP dinner at Mar-a-Lago for superfans who bought his worthless NFTs, Melania is also doing her best to cash in with signature Mother’s Day jewelry (a cheap three leaf clover stamped with meaningless words), according to recently-discovered deposition from his divorce proceedings RFK Jr. claims a worm ate part of his brain and died in his skull, Puppy and Pony Killer Kristi Noem continues to flounder after the release of her disastrous book (and audio version which confirms what she is now trying to redact and say she does not know how it got in there), the right-wingers are highly upset that the Boy Scouts are changing their name to "Scouting America" (and get all of the homosexual molestation cases behind them) in an attempt to be more inclusive, and the monologue is interrupted by Guillermo for an exclusivo with special guests Chris Hemsworth and Taylor-Joy from Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga! #Kimmel
Jimmy Kimmel, 5/8/24; This Week (photo and Constitution statement); Pfc. Sandoval, Ashley Wells, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
This year’s theme is BOOKS THAT MADE THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
Neighborhoods, whether real or imagined, conventional or boundless, changing for better or worse, bestow an identity. They give us a way to see things – a way to see the world.
A neighborhood’s more than a collection of houses on a network of streets.
A neighborhood could be defined as a collection of people with unique experiences, conditions, and desires, who together form something bigger and more deeply affecting.
It’s where people engender powerful stories together.
“It could be that the neighborhood, not the individual, is the essential unit of social change…when you think in neighborhood terms you see things previously rendered invisible.”
— David Brooks, New York Times
Many stories. One weekend.
Find a spark at the 2024 L.A. Times Festival of Books, April 20-21 on the USC campus.
General admission is FREE, and the festival will also feature ticketed events with authors and celebrities: Events.latimes.com/festivalofbooks
Look, Donny and Marie did it. So why can't we? - That's different! They were Mormons.
Look, Everyone! I'm a "cover girl" now!
Valerie Bertinelli-Van Halen isn’t one to hold her feelings close to the vest.
The “One Day at a Time” TV star believes in the power of connection — connecting with fans to help her heal.
[After all, she lost her rockstar husband, the world-renowned guitarist Eddie Van Halen (shown above shredding on guitar), RIP, with whom she fathered and raised Wolfgang Van Halen].
She is doing that through Indulge: Delicious and Decadent Dishes to Enjoy and Share, her cookbook.
The New York Times bestselling author’s new book is a collection of 100 recipes to “nourish the body and the soul.”
She shares recipes for dishes like garlic confit LT, oven-“fried” okra, mangled animal guts in casing, and olive rotten dairy bites, spaghetti al limone, smelly patties with quick-pickled vegetables, cow limbs with bearnaise sauce, and chocolate peanut butter dates.
It's probably safe to say Valerie taught Eddie everything he knew about everything except guitar.
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Eddie? Eddie who? (No you didn't, Dave!)
“It’s mainly a cookbook, but an extension of Enough Already,” Bertinelli said of her 2023 book.
“I wrote that after my mother and Ed (Eddie Van Halen) died. They passed away a year and a half apart. I was going through a lot of grief and going through a marriage that wasn’t working. I was going through a lot.”
She said she didn’t love anything with her life. She felt like she was “drowning and had forgotten how to swim.”
Then, being Italian, she returned to the kitchen little by little.
“I started writing recipes, and I started to get excited,” she said. “I was talking about food the way I had never talked about before.”
She’ll talk about her latest feeble attempt at fame as a chef and her struggles on a book tour that stops at All Saints Church in Pasadena at 7:00 pm Monday, April 15, 2024.
The Vroman’s-sponsored event is ticketed (minimum $41 with book).
“This is the biggest book tour I’ve ever done,” she said.
“I can’t wait to meet everybody. Since my last book, I’ve had a great rapport with a lot of people in my social media community. I have really terrific people who follow me on Instagram and Threads.” More
We gathered under sullen skies with breaks of sunshine and a slight chill in the air. Finding The Deep End Club is not a straightforward proposition now that it's moved from Echo Park, but it's within sight of the 110 Fwy. The sign was not yet put up. It's a gorgeous space, only three blocks from the massive local yoga studio and a few blocks offset from a place we once performed in concert. Before hipsters crowded in, there were kids. Tennessee, the owner had a newborn at her bosom, and one in a Rancid vegan-pleather jacket was monkeying around, all in good fun. The reading began with Mandy Kahn, who alternated with Current Pathways on a mix board and mic, making trippy sounds with Indian raja aspects. Then before Seven was brought up to the mic to read humorous pieces, which involved Sanskrit and Pali incantations, Gaelic, and more rapid-fire verse than most minds could comfortably accommodate -- it happened. A massive snowstorm struck. Snow in sunny Southern California? There was discussion if it was actually graupel, hail, loamy winter's breath, frozen rain...or ice the size of dimes and quarters. (But as we are not Inuit Alaskans with 100 words for what it might have been, it was snow. The news says hail. Some meteorologists say graupel, toe-may-toe/toe-mah-toe. The 1960s accents and massive mural of an Amanita muscaria made that seem improbable, but the nightly news confirmed it within a few hours. The show went overtime and ended with hugs and handshakes and repeated trips to the refreshment table. The club is three stories, and from the loft, fans looked down and marveled at the spiritual discussion as Kahn quizzed her fellow performers on their daily spiritual practice (yoga, meditation, and mindfulness). Sadhana is vital not only to daily life and sanity in the city but also to the production of art. The next show is on Thursday, March 28, 2024, at 7:30 pm at prs.org:
RSVP to thedeependclub@gmail.com for address. Space is limited, so RSVP soon. 🚪 Can’t wait to see y'all, Xx! 💚 (Thanks to @cali_wally for the flyer).
It is a lyrical, luminous, and highly spiritual journey exploring meditation, prayer, the afterlife, the poet’s love of peace, and ever-accessible grace.
It is also a record of what life is like as our spiritual nature begins to live more fully in the body. Each of Kahn’s poems begins with earnest inquiry and ends with an ecstatic moment of communion with the part of the self that is connected to all things.
A poet working within the traditions of the form, Kahn calls upon formal devices, such as iambic pentameter, slant rhyme, and end rhyme.
But it is done in so soft and deft a manner that one almost doesn’t notice the musicality prevalent in the work.
Kahn’s technical skill makes tradition feel suddenly fresh, soft, casual, and alive. With Holy Doors, we’re watching a poet both seeking — and finding — the holy in the everyday.
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The poems in the collection suggest then that the holy need not be pursued. It need only be noticed. For doors to ecstatic experience, as Kahn reminds us, are everywhere. More
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