Could you be kidnapped and renditioned for one of your tattoos?
Nearly a third of Americans overall — and almost half of those 30-49 — have at least one tattoo, according to Pew Research. And if you’ve watched hoops or football lately, it should be very clear to you that getting inked isn’t just for bikers, pirates, or gangsters. .. more
President Trump appears to be turning on National Security Advisor Mike Waltz after initially defending him in the Signal chat scandal, a German newspaper exposed the president’s entire national security team for lax online security practices like leaving their Venmo contacts public, and Trump declared himself “the fertilization president.”
Ronny Chieng covers the upcoming Wisconsin Supreme Court election, including Elon Musk’s $20 million intervention in Republican Brad Schimel’s campaign, attack ads against the wrong Susan Crawford, and alternating pro-pedophilia smear campaigns. Plus, Grace Kuhlenschmidt sees how billionaires are turning elections into games
A federal judge on Friday ordered the release of a Venezuelan couple who were detained by immigration authorities this month despite having legal authorization to live and work in the United States, calling their apprehensions baseless and unlawful.
At a hearing in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Virginia, Judge Leonie M. Brinkema granted a petition for release filed by the couple, who received temporary protected status after crossing the border illegally in October 2022.
Brinkema rebuked government officials for claiming in court that the couple posed a public threat, and ordered both of them released straight from the courthouse.
“There is no reason why they’re being held,” the judge said. Addressing a government lawyer, Brinkema said, “If this was a criminal case. … I’d throw you out of my chambers.”
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WaPo. Let the wailing and gnashing of teeth begin.
Doesn’t any Republican in Congress want to know why the US Secretary of Defense (whose tattoos would send him to an El Salvadoran prison if he weren’t a ring-kissing MAGAt) had a Russian email and a Russian phone number? Is there a white hat, hacking group who can access communications? This is bigger than an arrogantly bone-headed security breach on Signal. It’s bigger. It’s global.
anonwishfulthinking
5 days ago
i have many stories from the streets about the real, appreciable consequences of trumpism, in contexts of immigration and DEI and other issues, and no time to tell them.
i may have to start composing my thoughts more formally and deliberately
Oh goody. RFK Jr. was with Fatrick Morrisey (our governor) at St. Joseph School in Martinsburg today to announce that he’s making changes to SNAP benefits so that people can’t buy high sugar soda or chips with those benefits. Fatrick will be announcing the state’s new MAHA (Make America Healthy Again) restrictions on red, green, yellow and blue dye in foods. Now that should be an exciting ceremony. Gonna be some scantly stocked shelves in WV grocery stores.
*He’s so concerned about the health effects of those dyes that the bill doesn’t take effect until January, 2028.
Had the garden tilled this morning, Just saw something amazing in the neighborhood. A house that had always just had a US flag in it, if anything, is now flying Old Glory & an equal-sized Ukrainian flag.
U.S. President Donald Trump said earlier this month that he had sent a letter to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, warning that “there are two ways Iran can be handled: militarily, or you make a deal.”
“If the Americans attack the sanctity of Iran, the entire region will blow up like a spark in an ammunition dump,” Parliament Speaker Mohammad Qalibaf said.
The United States Navy could soon have two Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carriers deployed to the Middle East for the first time since last summer. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced that the USS Harry S. Truman would extend her deployment. At the same time, the USS Carl Vinson will soon arrive in the U.S. Central Command (CENCOM) area of responsibility.
According to a report from USNI News, the USS Carl Vinson will arrive sometime in early April, and there will be a brief overlap before the USS Harry S. Truman departs the region. The USS Carl Vinson, which departed San Diego last November, will take over U.S. carrier operations, but it is unclear how long the carrier and her strike group will remain deployed to the Red Sea.
anonwishfulthinking
5 days ago
speaking of “stories”, a Canadian woman that was kidnapped and imprisoned by CBP thugs is telling hers on “Pod Save America” today
Billionaire Elon Musk on Friday deleted a social media post in which he had announced plans to hold a rally in Wisconsin to “personally hand over” $2 million to a pair of voters who have already cast their ballots in the state’s hotly contested Supreme Court race.
He had posted that he planned to give $1 million each to two voters at the event on Sunday, just two days before the election that will determine ideological control of the court in the battleground state. The action was announced despite a Wisconsin law that explicitly prohibits giving anything of value in exchange for a vote.
The Supreme Court race has shattered previous spending records for a U.S. judicial election and has become a referendum on Musk and the first months of President Donald Trump’s administration.
*NO! Paying for votes or using a social media platform MuskRat owns and posts from constantly does NOT constitute a referendum. Is what tRUMPutin, JD, Hegseth & DOGE popular? No, it is not. That’s why Republicans can’t have in-person town halls anymore; they might get yelled out for selling out their constituents to a Russian agent or agents.
Musk promised $100 to any registered Wisconsin voter who signed the petition or forwarded it to someone who did.
That raised questions about whether the petition violated Wisconsin law that makes it a felony to offer, give, lend or promise to lend or give anything of value to induce a voter to cast a ballot or not vote.
Any legal challenge to Musk’s payments could end up before the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
A bipartisan coalition of government watchdog groups and former office holders, along with a liberal Madison law firm, asked the Wisconsin attorney general and the Milwaukee County district attorney to investigate the $1 million payment and the offer of $100 for signing the petition.
The group, in its letter sent Thursday night, said the payments appear to violate the state law against election bribery.
Musk got involved in the race just days after his electric car company, Tesla, filed a lawsuit against Wisconsin in an effort to open dealerships in the state.
Crawford and her allies have accused Musk of trying to buy influence on the court given that Tesla’s lawsuit could end up before the justices.
The race comes as the Wisconsin Supreme Court is also expected to rule on abortion rights, congressional redistricting, union power and voting rules that could affect the 2026 midterms and the 2028 presidential election.
*Elon, Don’t foreign-born folks who do illegal things like this end up in an El Salvadoran concentration camp/work farm?
anonwishfulthinking
5 days ago
“A house that had always just had a US flag in it, if anything, is now flying Old Glory & an equal-sized Ukrainian flag”
introduce yourself and tell them you appreciate them
Yeah, a white, English-speaking, Canadian with resources had trouble getting out.
No FIFA, no Olympics, no tourism. Close the hotels and roll up the sidewalks. The hospitality industry is cooked. I suppose Russians and Saudis will frequent tRUMPsky’s properties.
Harvard Medical School researcher Kseniia Petrova was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement after she failed to disclose frog embryos she brought into the country.
Petrova’s attorney is fighting for her release from a Louisiana detention center after Customs and Border Protection stopped her at Boston Logan International Airport on Feb. 16.
Her J-1 nonimmigrant visa was revoked for failing to declare frog embryos she brought back, and agents told her she could return to France and reapply, but when she said she feared for her safety in Russia they detained her.
Petrova, a Russian citizen, was previously arrested in her home country for protesting the war against Ukraine.
Gregory Romanovsky, her lawyer, argues forgetting to declare an item is a $500 fine and the officers had no authority to revoke her visa.
*So, this has been going on for over a month and word has just gotten out.
I’m back home. Was suppose to get home tomorrow… but NH is expecting an ice storm starting in the wee hours of Saturday morning and into the late afternoon. We both thought it would be prudent to get home today. Guess I’ll have to start paying more attention to politics now.
President Donald Trump moved Thursday to end collective bargaining with federal labor unions in agencies with national security missions across the federal government, citing authority granted him under a 1978 law.
Trump said the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 gives him the authority to end collective bargaining with federal unions in these agencies because of their role in safeguarding national security.
The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents 820,000 federal and D.C. government workers, said late Thursday that it is “preparing immediate legal action and will fight relentlessly to protect our rights, our members, and all working Americans from these unprecedented attacks.”
“President Trump’s latest executive order is a disgraceful and retaliatory attack on the rights of hundreds of thousands of patriotic American civil servants — nearly one-third of whom are veterans — simply because they are members of a union that stands up to his harmful policies,” AFGE National President Everett Kelley said.
The order, signed without public fanfare and announced late Thursday, appears to touch most of the federal government. Affected agencies include the Departments of State, Defense, Veterans Affairs, Energy, Health and Human Services, Treasury, Justice and Commerce and the part of Homeland Security responsible for border security.
Police and firefighters will continue to collectively bargain.
Earlier this month, DHS said it was ending the collective bargaining agreement with the tens of thousands of frontline employees at the Transportation Security Administration. The TSA union called it an “unprovoked attack” and vowed to fight it.
A White House fact sheet on Thursday’s announcement says that “Certain Federal unions have declared war on President Trump’s agenda” and that Trump “refuses to let union obstruction interfere with his efforts to protect Americans and our national interests.”
Do you think there were any folks who wished they would’ve done some thing in the 1930s to stop WWII by writing a few of the main characters out of the story?
A partial solar eclipse will occur on March 29, 2025, with the best views in northeastern U.S. states and parts of Canada. The eclipse will begin around 4:50 a.m. EDT and reach maximum coverage at 6:47 a.m. EDT, depending on your location.
Exempting Police and Firefighters will make it more difficult for Dumbass to have this latest EO stick. The issue as I understand it (and I don’t profess any depth of knowledge here) would be whether the agency conducts national security activities, and if so he arguably could exempt the agency from collective bargaining under the CSRA of 1978. Exempting portions of the workforce (that happened to support him in 2024) of an agency from the CB ban undercuts the argument that CB compromises the agency’s ability to conduct its national security activities.
Well, no need for me to wake up early to see the partial eclipse – East Bumfuck is west of the cone of visibility, and the sun doesn’t become visible from our house until about 8:15, and it will be mostly done by then.
Adolf can’t just cancel union contracts. He’s not king. His power is not absolute. This is not in his purview as POTUS. He illegally cancelled union contracts in his EO…or unroyal decree. This is the US and it’s not ruled by edict. Dems need to be stronger. Repugz need to not like complicit bootlickers.
ABC is the evening news channel for the night. Based on the preview clips, they’ll be covering TeSSla vandalism, but not Elon’s illegal attempt to bribe Wisconsin voters. Complicit. Shameful.
President Donald Trump’s executive order titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History” targets the Smithsonian Institution — which has, he contends, “come under the influence of a divisive, race-centered ideology.” Critics have pushed back, saying the order is an attempt to whitewash American history.
In his executive order, he made the claim that “the National Museum of African American History and Culture has proclaimed that ‘hard work,’ ‘individualism,’ and ‘the nuclear family’ are aspects of ‘White culture'” and criticized an upcoming exhibit at the American Women’s History Museum that highlights the achievements of trans athletes. He also singled out an exhibit at the American Art Museum that “promotes the view that race is not a biological reality but a social construct.”
In 2017, Trump visited the National Museum of African American History and Culture with then-Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, Republican Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina and Alveda King, a niece of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. The president’s tour was guided by Lonnie Bunch, the Smithsonian Institution’s current secretary and founding director of NMAAHC.
“I’m deeply proud that we now have a museum that honors the millions of African American men and women who built our national heritage, especially when it comes to faith, culture and the unbreakable American spirit,” Trump said following the 2017 tour. “I know President (Barack) Obama was here for the museum’s opening last fall. And I’m honored to be the second sitting president to visit this great museum.”
Holly Brewer, the Burke Professor of American History at the University of Maryland, identified what she called a troubling aspect of the order: It prohibits certain questions from being asked.
“You’re not allowed to ask about how societies have used race to establish and maintain systems of power, privilege and disenfranchisement when, of course, race was explicit in so many laws,” she said. “I don’t know how you can actually study history and be barred from asking questions like that. And I don’t know how you can show American history without acknowledging some of that.”
It’s a troubling fiction to insist “that the greatness of America can only exist if we deny ever making mistakes, if we deny ever doing things bad, if we deny that there were times in our history when when terrible things happened,” said Bryan Stevenson, founder of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Ala., which has created sites including a memorial to lynching victims to wrestle with the country’s racial history.
Vice President JD Vance criticized Denmark on Friday for what he called an “underinvestment” in Greenland, saying there was “very strong evidence” that Russia and China want the island and access to its resources.
*Every accusation is a confession.
Shortly before Vance’s visit, local media reported that four of the five parties elected to Greenland’s parliament agreed to form a new government, banding together amid Trump’s threats.
*Adolf is the enemy. Smart people.
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen delivered a message to Greenland ahead of Vance’s trip, writing on social media: “The attention is overwhelming and the pressure is great. But it is in times like these that you show what you are made of. You have not been cowed. You have stood up for who you are—and you have shown what you stand for. That has my deepest respect.”
While at Yale Law School, Usha Chilukuri met her future husband, JD Vance, a relationship encouraged by their professor Amy Chua.[72]Chua has called their relationship “extremely unlikely, almost opposites of personality”.[73] In 2013, Chilukuri and Vance collaborated to organize a discussion group at Yale focused on “social decline in white America”.
Sturg – She knew what she was getting in to; she’s a shapeshifter like JD.
NH is expecting an ice storm starting in the wee hours of Saturday morning
Wise move, Renee. Reminded me the worst white-out blizzard we ever experienced was in New England in April. Hard to remember another weather event of being that scared.
In the meantime, it’s sunny and eclipse-less down here cruising off the coast of Mexico. We repeated our golden anniversary vowels before the Captain last night.
🍾🥂
’nuff said
Checkbook electioneering — Over to you, Wisconsin: take the money and outvote this jerk.
I just heard this described as a rare moment of bipartisan disbelief. (Stated differently, even some Republicans aren’t that stupid).
Imagine if Hegseth was in charge of D-Day!?!?!?!
I may need to rethink getting an owl on my shoulder
BRIEF: The tattoo kidnappings – by The Ink – The.Ink
Inked
Could you be kidnapped and renditioned for one of your tattoos?
Even our National Zoo not safe from the Fascists. Gay Penguins and Communist Pandas not welcome.
Trump executive order on Smithsonian targets funding for programs with ‘improper ideology’
Check your local listings..
President Trump appears to be turning on National Security Advisor Mike Waltz after initially defending him in the Signal chat scandal, a German newspaper exposed the president’s entire national security team for lax online security practices like leaving their Venmo contacts public, and Trump declared himself “the fertilization president.”
Ronny Chieng covers the upcoming Wisconsin Supreme Court election, including Elon Musk’s $20 million intervention in Republican Brad Schimel’s campaign, attack ads against the wrong Susan Crawford, and alternating pro-pedophilia smear campaigns. Plus, Grace Kuhlenschmidt sees how billionaires are turning elections into games
That illegal-sounding giveaway in Wisconsin with MuskRat…he’s like a Hitler cover band.
Let’s hope DOGE has done enough damage, and folks in Wisconsin have enough affection for Canadians, that they overwhelmingly vote for Crawford.
BiD – “he’s like a Hitler cover band” Now THAT”S one funny line. I’m sharing that.
BiD, my bud passed along the message that the cabinet is filled with people who are willing to say.:”Heil to the Chief.”
In the old days, Pogeaux, we could say it was funny cuz it’s true. Now…
… it’s just sadly true.
did they **** **** guy **** * lamppost yet?
😀
any fun top secret war plans in the news today?
No war plans I’ve seen, but there’s this:
WaPo. Let the wailing and gnashing of teeth begin.
Doesn’t any Republican in Congress want to know why the US Secretary of Defense (whose tattoos would send him to an El Salvadoran prison if he weren’t a ring-kissing MAGAt) had a Russian email and a Russian phone number? Is there a white hat, hacking group who can access communications? This is bigger than an arrogantly bone-headed security breach on Signal. It’s bigger. It’s global.
i have many stories from the streets about the real, appreciable consequences of trumpism, in contexts of immigration and DEI and other issues, and no time to tell them.
i may have to start composing my thoughts more formally and deliberately
why God?
😛
Oh goody. RFK Jr. was with Fatrick Morrisey (our governor) at St. Joseph School in Martinsburg today to announce that he’s making changes to SNAP benefits so that people can’t buy high sugar soda or chips with those benefits. Fatrick will be announcing the state’s new MAHA (Make America Healthy Again) restrictions on red, green, yellow and blue dye in foods. Now that should be an exciting ceremony. Gonna be some scantly stocked shelves in WV grocery stores.
*He’s so concerned about the health effects of those dyes that the bill doesn’t take effect until January, 2028.
Had the garden tilled this morning, Just saw something amazing in the neighborhood. A house that had always just had a US flag in it, if anything, is now flying Old Glory & an equal-sized Ukrainian flag.
Slava Ukraine, from the flyover zone of the US.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/iran-speaker-says-us-bases-will-be-struck-if-trump-attacks-iran/ar-AA1BPU0M
U.S. President Donald Trump said earlier this month that he had sent a letter to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, warning that “there are two ways Iran can be handled: militarily, or you make a deal.”
“If the Americans attack the sanctity of Iran, the entire region will blow up like a spark in an ammunition dump,” Parliament Speaker Mohammad Qalibaf said.
***
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/second-u-s-navy-aircraft-carrier-now-heads-to-middle-east
The United States Navy could soon have two Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carriers deployed to the Middle East for the first time since last summer.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced that the USS Harry S. Truman would extend her deployment. At the same time, the USS Carl Vinson will soon arrive in the U.S. Central Command (CENCOM) area of responsibility.
According to a report from USNI News, the USS Carl Vinson will arrive sometime in early April, and there will be a brief overlap before the USS Harry S. Truman departs the region. The USS Carl Vinson, which departed San Diego last November, will take over U.S. carrier operations, but it is unclear how long the carrier and her strike group will remain deployed to the Red Sea.
speaking of “stories”, a Canadian woman that was kidnapped and imprisoned by CBP thugs is telling hers on “Pod Save America” today
https://www.wsbtv.com/news/politics/musk-deletes-post/3SLOFQPWIJGKLNYONUMTTJSB64/
Billionaire Elon Musk on Friday deleted a social media post in which he had announced plans to hold a rally in Wisconsin to “personally hand over” $2 million to a pair of voters who have already cast their ballots in the state’s hotly contested Supreme Court race.
He had posted that he planned to give $1 million each to two voters at the event on Sunday, just two days before the election that will determine ideological control of the court in the battleground state. The action was announced despite a Wisconsin law that explicitly prohibits giving anything of value in exchange for a vote.
The Supreme Court race has shattered previous spending records for a U.S. judicial election and has become a referendum on Musk and the first months of President Donald Trump’s administration.
*NO! Paying for votes or using a social
media platform MuskRat owns and posts from constantly does NOT constitute a referendum. Is what tRUMPutin, JD, Hegseth & DOGE popular? No, it is not. That’s why Republicans can’t have in-person town halls anymore; they might get yelled out for selling out their constituents to a Russian agent or agents.
Musk promised $100 to any registered Wisconsin voter who signed the petition or forwarded it to someone who did.
That raised questions about whether the petition violated Wisconsin law that makes it a felony to offer, give, lend or promise to lend or give anything of value to induce a voter to cast a ballot or not vote.
Any legal challenge to Musk’s payments could end up before the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
A bipartisan coalition of government watchdog groups and former office holders, along with a liberal Madison law firm, asked the Wisconsin attorney general and the Milwaukee County district attorney to investigate the $1 million payment and the offer of $100 for signing the petition.
The group, in its letter sent Thursday night, said the payments appear to violate the state law against election bribery.
Musk got involved in the race just days after his electric car company, Tesla, filed a lawsuit against Wisconsin in an effort to open dealerships in the state.
Crawford and her allies have accused Musk of trying to buy influence on the court given that Tesla’s lawsuit could end up before the justices.
The race comes as the Wisconsin Supreme Court is also expected to rule on abortion rights, congressional redistricting, union power and voting rules that could affect the 2026 midterms and the 2028 presidential election.
*Elon, Don’t foreign-born folks who do illegal things like this end up in an El Salvadoran concentration camp/work farm?
“A house that had always just had a US flag in it, if anything, is now flying Old Glory & an equal-sized Ukrainian flag”
introduce yourself and tell them you appreciate them
important to do
Yeah, a white, English-speaking, Canadian with resources had trouble getting out.
No FIFA, no Olympics, no tourism. Close the hotels and roll up the sidewalks. The hospitality industry is cooked. I suppose Russians and Saudis will frequent tRUMPsky’s properties.
***
https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5219817-russian-harvard-medical-researcher-detained/
Harvard Medical School researcher Kseniia Petrova was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement after she failed to disclose frog embryos she brought into the country.
Petrova’s attorney is fighting for her release from a Louisiana detention center after Customs and Border Protection stopped her at Boston Logan International Airport on Feb. 16.
Her J-1 nonimmigrant visa was revoked for failing to declare frog embryos she brought back, and agents told her she could return to France and reapply, but when she said she feared for her safety in Russia they detained her.
Petrova, a Russian citizen, was previously arrested in her home country for protesting the war against Ukraine.
Gregory Romanovsky, her lawyer, argues forgetting to declare an item is a $500 fine and the officers had no authority to revoke her visa.
*So, this has been going on for over a month and word has just gotten out.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-revokes-legal-status-530000-cubans-haitians-nicaraguans-venezuelans-2025-03-21/
Trump revokes legal status for 530,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans
*Does that make Lil’ Marco happy?
let’s persecute the darkest skin first obv
jesus h c, Vance just praised Putin for doing what is necessary for their best interest of Russia.
omg, the kompromat they must have on Sprinkle Stuff…
I’m back home. Was suppose to get home tomorrow… but NH is expecting an ice storm starting in the wee hours of Saturday morning and into the late afternoon. We both thought it would be prudent to get home today. Guess I’ll have to start paying more attention to politics now.
today’s meme….
Marlette in FL
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/trump-signs-executive-order-end-collective-bargaining-agencies-involve-rcna198618
President Donald Trump moved Thursday to end collective bargaining with federal labor unions in agencies with national security missions across the federal government, citing authority granted him under a 1978 law.
Trump said the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 gives him the authority to end collective bargaining with federal unions in these agencies because of their role in safeguarding national security.
The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents 820,000 federal and D.C. government workers, said late Thursday that it is “preparing immediate legal action and will fight relentlessly to protect our rights, our members, and all working Americans from these unprecedented attacks.”
“President Trump’s latest executive order is a disgraceful and retaliatory attack on the rights of hundreds of thousands of patriotic American civil servants — nearly one-third of whom are veterans — simply because they are members of a union that stands up to his harmful policies,” AFGE National President Everett Kelley said.
The order, signed without public fanfare and announced late Thursday, appears to touch most of the federal government. Affected agencies include the Departments of State, Defense, Veterans Affairs, Energy, Health and Human Services, Treasury, Justice and Commerce and the part of Homeland Security responsible for border security.
Police and firefighters will continue to collectively bargain.
Earlier this month, DHS said it was ending the collective bargaining agreement with the tens of thousands of frontline employees at the Transportation Security Administration. The TSA union called it an “unprovoked attack” and vowed to fight it.
A White House fact sheet on Thursday’s announcement says that “Certain Federal unions have declared war on President Trump’s agenda” and that Trump “refuses to let union obstruction interfere with his efforts to protect Americans and our national interests.”
Do you think there were any folks who wished they would’ve done some thing in the 1930s to stop WWII by writing a few of the main characters out of the story?
Are we there yet?
A partial solar eclipse will occur on March 29, 2025, with the best views in northeastern U.S. states and parts of Canada. The eclipse will begin around 4:50 a.m. EDT and reach maximum coverage at 6:47 a.m. EDT, depending on your location.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/03/27/how-to-see-partial-solar-eclipse/82641397007/
You’ll need glasses to see the partial solar eclipse this weekend
*See pic in link showing cone of visibility.
Exempting Police and Firefighters will make it more difficult for Dumbass to have this latest EO stick. The issue as I understand it (and I don’t profess any depth of knowledge here) would be whether the agency conducts national security activities, and if so he arguably could exempt the agency from collective bargaining under the CSRA of 1978. Exempting portions of the workforce (that happened to support him in 2024) of an agency from the CB ban undercuts the argument that CB compromises the agency’s ability to conduct its national security activities.
Well, no need for me to wake up early to see the partial eclipse – East Bumfuck is west of the cone of visibility, and the sun doesn’t become visible from our house until about 8:15, and it will be mostly done by then.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist.
Pot pies tonight. Pro Tip: Foil Play
Adolf can’t just cancel union contracts. He’s not king. His power is not absolute. This is not in his purview as POTUS. He illegally cancelled union contracts in his EO…or unroyal decree. This is the US and it’s not ruled by edict. Dems need to be stronger. Repugz need to not like complicit bootlickers.
ABC is the evening news channel for the night. Based on the preview clips, they’ll be covering TeSSla vandalism, but not Elon’s illegal attempt to bribe Wisconsin voters. Complicit. Shameful.
https://apnews.com/article/smithsonian-trump-executive-order-e0132b9c865901ec702329b1f6e0c35e
President Donald Trump’s executive order titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History” targets the Smithsonian Institution — which has, he contends, “come under the influence of a divisive, race-centered ideology.” Critics have pushed back, saying the order is an attempt to whitewash American history.
His order is part of a wave of actions against cultural organizations that he alleges have been overtaken by “woke” ideology, from the Kennedy Center to the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The Voice of America and PBS are also in his sights.
In his executive order, he made the claim that “the National Museum of African American History and Culture has proclaimed that ‘hard work,’ ‘individualism,’ and ‘the nuclear family’ are aspects of ‘White culture'” and criticized an upcoming exhibit at the American Women’s History Museum that highlights the achievements of trans athletes. He also singled out an exhibit at the American Art Museum that “promotes the view that race is not a biological reality but a social construct.”
In 2017, Trump visited the National Museum of African American History and Culture with then-Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, Republican Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina and Alveda King, a niece of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. The president’s tour was guided by Lonnie Bunch, the Smithsonian Institution’s current secretary and founding director of NMAAHC.
“I’m deeply proud that we now have a museum that honors the millions of African American men and women who built our national heritage, especially when it comes to faith, culture and the unbreakable American spirit,” Trump said following the 2017 tour. “I know President (Barack) Obama was here for the museum’s opening last fall. And I’m honored to be the second sitting president to visit this great museum.”
Holly Brewer, the Burke Professor of American History at the University of Maryland, identified what she called a troubling aspect of the order: It prohibits certain questions from being asked.
“You’re not allowed to ask about how societies have used race to establish and maintain systems of power, privilege and disenfranchisement when, of course, race was explicit in so many laws,” she said. “I don’t know how you can actually study history and be barred from asking questions like that. And I don’t know how you can show American history without acknowledging some of that.”
It’s a troubling fiction to insist “that the greatness of America can only exist if we deny ever making mistakes, if we deny ever doing things bad, if we deny that there were times in our history when when terrible things happened,” said Bryan Stevenson, founder of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Ala., which has created sites including a memorial to lynching victims to wrestle with the country’s racial history.
I may have to opt or something
https://www.newsweek.com/jd-vance-warns-very-strong-evidence-china-russia-want-greenland-2052307
Vice President JD Vance criticized Denmark on Friday for what he called an “underinvestment” in Greenland, saying there was “very strong evidence” that Russia and China want the island and access to its resources.
*Every accusation is a confession.
Shortly before Vance’s visit, local media reported that four of the five parties elected to Greenland’s parliament agreed to form a new government, banding together amid Trump’s threats.
*Adolf is the enemy. Smart people.
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen delivered a message to Greenland ahead of Vance’s trip, writing on social media: “The attention is overwhelming and the pressure is great. But it is in times like these that you show what you are made of. You have not been cowed. You have stood up for who you are—and you have shown what you stand for. That has my deepest respect.”
im thinking that Mrs Vance just may have woke up a little bit. Unless she’s just like her husband.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usha_Vance
Political party
Republican (since 2022)
Other political
affiliations
Spouse JD Vance (m. 2014)
While at Yale Law School, Usha Chilukuri met her future husband, JD Vance, a relationship encouraged by their professor Amy Chua.[72]Chua has called their relationship “extremely unlikely, almost opposites of personality”.[73] In 2013, Chilukuri and Vance collaborated to organize a discussion group at Yale focused on “social decline in white America”.
Sturg – She knew what she was getting in to; she’s a shapeshifter like JD.
Wise move, Renee. Reminded me the worst white-out blizzard we ever experienced was in New England in April. Hard to remember another weather event of being that scared.
In the meantime, it’s sunny and eclipse-less down here cruising off the coast of Mexico. We repeated our golden anniversary vowels before the Captain last night.
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Congrats to Mr. & Mrs. Ivy!
In that case:
May the fleas of a thousand camels ……etc.
i understand that i never could, ivy! amazing! Congrats!
Thanks, y’all, for your good wishes to me and Mr. Ivy.
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*”cowed” or “intimidated” or “afraid” media as opposed to “state”