Attribution: Justice Roberts rebukes trump by Dave Granlund, PoliticalCartoons.com
Chief Justice John Roberts: “For more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision. The normal appellate review process exists for that purpose.”
Trail friend Jamie: “John Roberts seems to have figured out that the title of “Chief Justice” in front of his name actually has some power attached.”
Jordan Klepper breaks down how Trump’s attempt to mass-deport Venezuelans by invoking a racist wartime law has led to a feud with the federal judge and an all-out constitutional crisis. Plus, Troy Iwata checks in on sick MAGA children who have just learned that their letters from the president were signed by… an autopen.
Maryland judge temporarily blocks DOGE efforts to dismantle USAID – The Washington Post
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Litigation Tracker: Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions
Radio Free Europe Sues Trump Administration
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), the U.S.-funded global news outlet, sued the Trump administration over its decision to terminate all federal grants to the entity, making it the latest entity to seek legal remedy against the White House’s push to slash funding for several key government programs and agencies.
Shocker, the Chief Justice Roberts rebuke didn’t faze him. (The “destined to fail” part is right).
Guess which paper is Trump captured?
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/supreme-court-john-roberts-impeachment-judges-trump-rcna196980?
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/03/trump-justice-roberts-impeachment-judge/682087/
Bracketology run amok.
From Newsbreak Clarksburg…
Idiots. FL State sued the ACC over its exit and entrance fees after it was passed over for the 2023 football playoffs.
BTW, UNC beat SD State by 27 points in the first 4 round last night. (And trust me on this – I am not a UNC fan, but I know stupidity when I see it.)
Nancy Pelosi, You’re not the SOTH anymore. Chuck did what he did; it’s done.
Getting in front of the press and saying the thing you thought he should’ve done (tried for a third option so voters could see Dems are fighting, even if MAGAts refused), just keeps up the in-fighting.
Focus on the outcome, which is income equality. With income equality, food security, housing, education, healthcare, etc., would be resolved.
One message: Income equality.
Can we please stop calling this a “constitutional crisis”?
This isn’t a college term paper, this is a madman trying to be a dictator.
bId – it is time for the Dem elders to step away, go shopping at a grocery store for a few hours (walk the aisles), listen to the people, and help elect their replacements. Pelosi did a great job for many years, but that era has passed. Just as Feinstein stayed too long, she is too.
Poobah, you’re right at this point. We need to let this age and mellow for a while before we call it what it will become if (a) the courts don’t stop this shit and/or (b) the courts do their job and DODO ignores them.
Just posted my Easy Collard Greens
Pogo, I’m saying “constitutional crisis” is too mild a term. This is a freaking coup!
pat, when I have a month to kill I’ll read the litigation tracker. Love to see the DOJ budget to defend those suits. Something tells me it won’t fit within any DOGE guidelines.
the trump admin is disappearing people, we love in Russia now
Poobah, I get you. And it’s all true. From a legal perspective he’s trying to suspend the constitution through EOs. When crisis is too mild a word, we’re dealing with trying to survive while being in deep shit.
Notification on USPS website:
Now I wonder why that might be.
No one person should have this much unilateral power. It’s UnAmerican.
just had to share…
Poobah, you make your collards like I make my mustard greens. I’ve been known to use one container of chicken or beef stock and a bit of salt and pepper just because, and on the plate, vinegar (for collards) and pepper flakes. Now you need to link a cornbread recipe to the collards one and you’ve got a southern boy in heaven pairing of recipes going on.
They are testing the waters with everything.
Can they get away with claiming someone is dead and cutting off Social Security and Medicare?
Can they claw back money out of bank accounts since we have access to the ACH system?
Can they ignore court rulings?
WHO WILL STOP ANY OF THIS?
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-removes-ban-segregated-facilities-federal-contracts-2025-03-19/
The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has removed an explicit ban on “segregated facilities” like waiting rooms, restaurants and drinking fountains for federal contractors, a memo issued by the U.S. General Services Administration showed.
The memo was issued last month but media outlets took note of it on Tuesday after a report from NPR.
Our culture has become so inundated with mascots elevated to hero status that we no longer can tell the difference. Dodo is nothing more than a Mascot posing as a Hero.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/03/18/trump-judges-deportation-immigrants/
ADA-mandated reserved for handicapped parking spots are going out next. Only Dodo gets to park in the special zone.
trumpco can just designate the fake-entity “antifa” a “terrorist org”, say we all belong (yeah, you), and deport all of us to some other dictatorship like El Salvador
fuck all trumpists forever for throwing away something special
pogo, this is a great alternative those days when too lazy to dig out the by-scratch recipe and ingredients:
craig, use dictator instead by all means, please!
“Constitutional crisis” and “autocracy” plus a few other highfalutin words are what make eyes glaze over and joe sixpack stop listening, change the station or go get another beer.
yep, dumb it way down
explain it them like they’re 3rd graders
pat, great minds. Well, I’m lazy. I haven’t used Krusteaz cornbread mix since last week. My go-to used to be Zatarain’s jalapeno cornbread mix, but I can’t find it locally anymore, so Krusteaz Honey Cornbread mix has become part of the larder. Walmart carries Famous Dave’s but the 1st ingredient is sugar, and as a southern boy I can’t wrap my mind around that.
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-told-zelensky-he-wants-us-help-run-ukraine-power-plants-2047389
Trump Told Zelensky He Wants US To Help Run Ukraine Power Plants
“American ownership of those plants would be the best protection for that infrastructure and support for Ukrainian energy infrastructure,” the statement said.
*Let me guard your henhouse, said the chicken thief.
Sure, let’s take over Ukraine instead of Canada or Greenland and eff pootie.
Harvey Fierstein banned from the Kennedy Center
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/15jYffYKcV/
https://apnews.com/video/trump-says-he-and-putin-did-not-discuss-aid-to-ukraine-during-their-phone-call-49eab0867d57431dac5c0f014f5f0fa6
“Trump says he and Putin did not discuss aid to Ukraine during their phone call”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/03/18/navajo-code-talkers-removed-dod-army-websites-trump/82518781007/
The Navajo Code Talkers have long been honored as heroes of World War II, with more than 400 young Navajo men enlisting in the U.S. Marines and creating an unbreakable code based on the Navajo language.
This encrypted code, never deciphered by the enemy, played a crucial role in the United States’ success across the Pacific front from 1942 to 1945. Historians contend that the Code Talkers helped accelerate the war’s end and, without question, saved thousands of lives.
“It’s a disgrace to take this down because of DEI,” said Bryan Davis, a Navajo Marine veteran who served from 2004 to 2015, including during Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. “The Navajo Code Talkers were an important part of winning World War II. Without the language and the efficiency of the code talkers, had that not taken place or used our code, we wouldn’t have won World War II.”
*Navajo Code Talkers helped to defeat Hitler; now Sh/tler has erased them.
Have they covered up any white men pictures?
The pretend Christian orange turd has banned Fierstein’s works from the Kennedy Center? LP went to a Catholic high school – Notre Dame – and for their senior trip they went to NYC and among the things they did was go to see Kinky Boots. It was chosen by the deeply Catholic, ragingly heterosexual principal of the school, who is the wife of my RW best WV friend from KY. One of their best friends’ daughters got married to her college sweetheart (also female) and they went to the wedding and had a wonderful time. Honest to god…
https://apnews.com/video/phones-glow-in-night-air-at-silent-anti-government-protest-in-belgrade-b34a07da8ab547cfb642d4e7c20ae691
Phones glow in the night at silent anti-government protest in Belgrade attended by over 100,000 people
Thousands of protesters have fallen silent in Serbia’s capital on Saturday, to honour the victims of a concrete canopy collapse which has sparked significant unrest in the country.
*Don Jr. is also there, as tRUMPsky wants to build a hotel there.
https://americanprospect.bluelena.io/index.php?action=social&chash=ccd2e3eaa5c991ac880991328c8f1463.3191&s=89faa7b16363edf98a5baffed5949252
https://mashable.com/article/bluesky-ceo-shirt-sxsw-jay-graber-mark-zuckerberg
Bluesky CEO Jay Graber made headlines this week for taking the stage at Austin’s SXSWwearing an oversized black tee. But it wasn’t just any Hanes or Uniqlo basic: The shirt was screenprinted with the phrase “Mundus sine caesaribus,” which is Latin for “a world without Caesars” — a clear dig at Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who infamously wore a similar shirt referencing a Roman ruler at the company’s developer conference last year.
The Facebook founder’s original shirt read “Aut Zuck aut nihil” (“Zuck or nothing”), a spin on the Latin phrase “Aut Caesar aut nihil” (“Either Caesar or nothing”). Zuckerberg has seemingly spent several years chasing an obsession with the Roman emperor Augustus Caesar.
*Suckerberg thinks he’s the next Caesar? He knows how that ended, right? And that he’s the neo-Nero’s cuck, right?
https://www.newsweek.com/lrad-cannon-sonic-weapon-protest-serbia-2045976
Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić has brushed aside accusations that his police forces used a military-grade LRAD (Long Range Acoustic Devices) cannon against a crowd of hundreds of thousands of anti-government protesters in the capital on Saturday.
Rally-goers were seen in footage on social media dispersing frantically during a 15-minute silence that was being observed during the protest.
One protester, Marija Simin, told the Balkan Insight that she recalled hearing a strange, “unnatural” noise resembling a jet engine, followed by a powerful rush of wind.
Another protester who asked to be identified only as U.M also described hearing “some kind of low howling sound” which lasted about 10 to 15 seconds “during which you didn’t know what was happening at all—whether someone was coming, whether they were running away, or whether someone was attacking.”
According to the U.S.-based nonprofit Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), acoustic weapons are used “for crowd-control purposes by emitting loud and painful levels of noise that may lead to significant harms to the ears, potentially causing hearing loss.”
It notes that the LRAD “can cause pain at 20 meters and permanent hearing loss at close range (5 meters or less).”
Rights groups in Serbia have raised concerns that the acoustic weapon, which is banned, was used over the weekend.
In an address to the nation, Vučić said “it is a vile lie” that a LRAD—commonly known as a sonic weapon—was used, at the mass rally in Belgrade on Saturday.
Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators rallied against Vučić and his administration, as part of a broader national movement protesting corruption.
Russia is Serbia’s key ally in blocking international recognition of its former province of Kosovo, and Vučić has insisted that he would not take sides in the Russia-Ukraine war. He refused to join Western sanctions against Moscow following Russian President Vladimir Putin‘s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
The Belgrade Centre for Security Policy strongly condemns the unlawful and inhumane deployment of prohibited weapons, such as acoustic devices, against peaceful protesters during a public gathering of hundreds of thousands of citizens paying tribute to victims of the collapsed roof in Novi Sad.”
It added: “This act represents a blatant display of force and an attempt to incite chaos, aiming to delegitimise protests and criminalise peaceful citizens.”
*Hmm, a “vile lie.”
The USDA announced March 6 that it was terminating NACMCF, which provided scientific advice and recommendations to the USDA, the US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on a broad range of issues related to pathogens and public health. The USDA said all work should stop immediately, citing President Donald Trump’s Feb. 19 executive order to pare down the federal bureaucracy.
The agency also terminated the National Advisory Committee on Meat and Poultry Inspection (NACMPI), which advised the USDA on the safety of meat and poultry inspection programs.
*The agency didn’t do it. It was tRUMP who wants contaminated baby formula and toxic Easter ham for the carnivores.
Ivy – strange thing is that only white, males who portend to be straight are allowed in the federal government pages. One exception is the USAF can mention the Tuskegee Airmen. During the Bush village idiot time in office there was a purge of LGBT, especially Gay men.
More urgent of legal cases is the active removal of vaccine use and research. Come September what will the flu vaccine be. Other countries rely on the US research and decisions.
It might be time to watch how krasnov uses his left side appendages.
These demonstrations all over the USA are meaningful. Whatever we can do, we must do it. I would never blow up Teslas, but I take pleasure in the dealership attacks. Anything to hurt the co-President. Chainsaws? How you like torchings, Musk?
MuskRat is crying in every interview now, saying he’s never done anything to hurt anyone, and now “the left” is punishing him. Gaslight much?
It’s not just “the left,” either; it’s everyone he did harm to or threatened to harm by illegally firing people (between the lawsuits and Orange Adolf’s golf outings, we are spending more), and cutting off Social Security and Medicare here and there (those folks aren’t dead) to test the waters, etc., everybody hates Elon, DOGE, tRUMPsky, and the Russo Republicans in Congress who no longer even pretend to listen to their constituents.
Here’s what I’ve tried twice lately. and like them. Although I struggle with opening those tubes, but guess what, I’ve got a video on that..
Here ya go. Dex. I think we’re reaching perfect storm conditions on these protests.
“Tesla Shutting Down Showrooms”
https://mocoshow.com/2025/03/19/tesla-shuts-down-mall-showroom/
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/19/politics/pentagon-website-purge/index.html
Massive purge of Pentagon websites includes content on Holocaust remembrance, sexual assault and suicide prevention
A database obtained by CNN shows that more than 24,000 articles could be purged, with many gone already. The scrub goes well beyond just the removal of images from the Pentagon’s visual database, known as DVIDS, and includes articles from across more than 1,000 websites hosted by the department.
But dozens of the articles either flagged for removal or removed already — but still accessible via the Internet Archive’s Wayback machine — and reviewed by CNN have no ostensible connection to DEI programs; race theory; gender ideology or identity-based programs.
Articles related to September 11 remembrance, including service members reflecting on their service and where they were that day, have also been removed. So have articles about cancer awareness, including those related to Breast Cancer Awareness month and colon cancer awareness.
One such article authored by an Air Force Surgeon General titled, “A healthy lifestyle lowers your risk of getting breast cancer,” was removed and now has “DEI” in its URL.
Several articles about sexual assault have also been removed and now have “DEI” in their URL, including“April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month” and “A call to action – Three ways to combat sexual assault.”
Articles about suicide prevention have been purged, too, including ones titled: “VA releases veteran suicide statistics by state”; “Suicide prevention alliance focuses on troops, veterans”; and “Suicide Prevention Resources That Can Help.” The latter two articles now feature “DEI” in their URLs.
“How horrible it is” was the side-bar topic of my book club last evening. Among myriad other outrages, they are incensed about the DEI-cover-up of a tribute to The Code Girls at the National Cryptologic Museum in Fort Meade, Maryland.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_Girls#:~:text=The%20Code%20Girls%20or%20World,break%20German%20and%20Japanese%20codes.
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/national-museum-covered-exhibit-honoring-175538844.html
https://www.wmur.com/article/zelenskyy-agrees-to-partial-ceasefire-in-call-with-trump/64234513
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy agreed to a partial ceasefire on energy infrastructure during a phone call with President Donald Trump on Wednesday, according to the White House. It comes one day after Trump spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Following Putin’s promise not to attack energy infrastructure, Zelenskyy said Russia launched 150 drones, hitting energy facilities and residential buildings in Ukraine.
“So words alone will not do. We do need verification,” said Zelenskyy.
*Zelensky should not trust either of the devils.
Book Clubs are grass roots organizations.
https://thehill.com/opinion/5199381-elizabeth-musk-empathy/
President Trump’s enforcer [Musk] told Rogan, “The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy, the empathy exploit.” He went on to say, “There they’re exploiting a bug in Western civilization, which is the empathy response.”
Musk pointed to seniors who are recipients of Social Security in the same interview. He portrays the program as a fraudulent “Ponzi Scheme” even though Social Security has saved millions of Americans from deprivation and despair in their twilight years.
He also took a shot at immigrants and accused them of exploiting the “bug” in his uncaring authoritarian system.
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https://www.foxnews.com/media/elon-musk-shock-over-dems-alleged-hatred-violence-laments-deranged-attacks-tesla-plants
It’s really come as quite a shock to me that there is this level of real hatred and violence from the left,” Musk said during an exclusive interview on “Hannity” Tuesday.
“I thought the left, you know, Democrats, were supposed to be the party of empathy, the party of caring. And yet they’re burning down cars. They’re firebombing dealerships. They’re firing bullets into dealerships. They’re just smashing up Teslas,” he continued, although no evidence has confirmed the political affiliation of the alleged suspects involved.
*He let it slip in the Rogan interview; empathy is something to be exploited. He’s gaslighting.
He’s sunk to the level of a serial killer.
Presidential bracket
https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2025/03/politics/bracket-president-2028-challenge-dg
https://atlas-report.com/mexicos-new-interoceanic-railway-line-to-compete-with-the-panama-canal/
On December 22, 2023, Mexico inaugurated a new railway line that connects the two largest oceans in the world: the Pacific and the Atlantic, connecting the Port of Salina Cruz, in Oaxaca, to that of Coatzacoalcos, in the city of Veracruz.
Despite the Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, stating at the inauguration event that they do not intend to compete with their “Panamanian brothers, as they have respect for them”, the new Z Line of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec Interoceanic Train, which will be managed by the Secretariat of Mexican Navy, promises to be a strong alternative to the Panama Canal in transporting cargo and passengers between the two oceans.
Drought in the Panama Canal: the drought that began in 2023 causes damage to the market and commerce. These changes in the sea level may become more frequent, being aggravated by climate change, reducing effectiveness and causing many ships to have to wait weeks to cross from one ocean to another. In this way, the Mexican train can benefit those companies that are dependent on the Panamanian canal.***
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The world goes on without us. SFB is a terrible businessman, and Vlad hit what he wanted; a weakened US, isolated and in economic free-fall.
If Mux had clung to a shred of empathy, he coulda been a hero instead of a zero.
https://www.thv11.com/article/news/regional/mexico-refuerza-requisito-de-documentos-para-turistas-estadounidenses-travel-requirements-immigration-form-us-mexico/75-fb2b34f2-661c-45e5-8fa5-4d81be53e789
“Mexico enforces requirement of immigration document from American tourists”
*Claudia Sheinbaum, You’re the best!
Not new. We just have to remember we are guests in their country.
Presenting a passport at the border is new. You could always go as far as Ensenada. I used to make that trip every month for business.
hm dare i delve in today’s disgusting news from
trumpco… 🤮
…ok a little pre-vomit there, let’s go 😒
“If Mux had clung to a shred of empathy, he coulda been a hero instead of a zero.”
…someone got in his head, plus drugs
Lack of empathy doesn’t stop them from feeling sorry for themselves.
Bletchley Circle is a great mystery series based on the British code breaking women.
Gustave Mark Gilbert
Book Club Suggestion:
He passed May 29, 2023 age 89.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Buergenthal
There will be Spring (Break).
Well, it’s official. East Bumfuck had a new high temp for March 19 of 81 F, 2 degrees above the prior record of 79. Illinois note that at 5:00 the temp on art. 50 and I-79 was 86 F. March 19, 2025, a day that will live in ignity.
We seem to have an Australian telling America what to believe and we have a South African telling us how to be American.
If that ain’t weird I don’t know what is.
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