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Colorful Eggs Cracked and Rolled
Attribution: The Lesson Of Easter by Bob Englehart, PoliticalCartoons.com
Author: patd
“But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
"Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad."
"How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
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America’s constitutional crisis has arrived as President Trump ignores the Supreme Court’s order to bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia back from El Salvador and threatens to begin kidnapping American citizens without due process. Amid this turmoil, Harvard University is refusing to capitulate to the administration’s demands.
Ronny Chieng tackles the Trump administration shirking responsibility for a Maryland father’s mistaken deportation to El Salvador, their aggressive media tirade invoking Osama Bin Laden, and Harvard’s defiance of Donald Trump. Plus, Josh Johnson explains how Trump’s power changes from Harvard to El Salvador.
BTW, something seems askew today on the Trail techie-wise. Examples: strange note appears upon access and no matter how many times I log in to comment, nothing happens. I suspect evil Ellen and her musketeens afoot.
Anon, I think it’s a WordPress bug. I’ve go it the WordPress portal to Trailmix at a banner st the top of the page.
America’s Best Christian speaks.
Yeah, looks like one of our plugins is misbehaving. I’ll be turning them off one by one to see which is the culprit that needs fixing, so some things might temporarily not work while I do that.
Testing
Ok I deleted most of our plugins, so we’re running “skinny” right now with fewer features like comment editing and image uploading. Now I will reactivate them one by one until I figure out which one is the troublemaker.
This might take a while. Looks like I need to figure out which update to which plugin was causing the problem, so I’ll need to take each one back to its default condition before updating. We won’t have some functions like anonymous posting, image uploading, comment editing, etc., but at least we’re still afloat.
It’s like the good old days – comment block at the bottom of the page.
I can tell krasnov got up, the stock market is falling fast.
From our local Newsbreak feed. Draw your own conclusions.
“On Tuesday, President Donald Trump took to the White House podium to boost one of his favorite energy sources.
“We’re ending Joe Biden’s war on beautiful clean coal once and for all,” he said, as uniformed coal miners lined up behind him. “I tell my people never use the word ‘coal’ unless you put ‘beautiful clean’ before it. … So we call it beautiful clean coal.”
As he spoke, a West Virginia woman was fighting for life after methane from a gassy coal mine likely seeped into her home and exploded—just three days before the president’s remarks.
Coal miners and executives from Core Natural Resources, the owner of the mine below the woman’s home, were present for Trump’s announcement, according to local reports.
In the aftermath of the blast, West Virginia mining regulators have ordered a Core subsidiary to temporarily stop extracting coal from at least part of its Leer Mine in Taylor County, about 100 miles south of Pittsburgh.
The explosion occurred in the early morning of April 5, ignited by a cigarette lighter, in the rural community of Thornton. Thornton sits atop the Leer Mine, which Core has owned since its formation in January with the merger of Arch Resources and CONSOL Energy.
[…]”
That mine is a 40 minute drive on US Rte. 50 from my office in East Bumfuck. Good thing Core were able to drag themselves from the mine to listen to SFB lie about coal. It can be pretty, but it’s anything but clean.
“TRUMP’S D.C. U.S.ATTORNEY PICK APPEARED ON RUSSIAN STATE MEDIA OVER 150 TIMES
“Nominee Ed Martin did not disclose his RT and Sputnik appearances from 2016 to 2024 to the Senate. The State Department has said the networks act like arms of Russian intelligence.
“By Spencer S. Hsu and Aaron Schaffer
“Hours before President Donald Trump announced U.S. missile strikes on Syria in response to a chemical attack that killed 90 civilians in April 2017, Ed Martin said on the Russian state television network RT America that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad might not be to blame. Instead, Martin told viewers, the situation was “engineered” in Washington “by the people that want war in Syria.”
“In early 2022, Martin told an interviewer on the same arm of RT’s global network that “there’s no evidence” of a Russian military buildup on Ukraine’s borders, criticizing U.S. officials as warmongering and ignoring Russia’s security concerns. Russia invaded nine days later, igniting a war that continues today.
“Martin is now interim U.S. attorney for D.C. and Trump’s pick to serve full time in the role. But as a conservative activist and former Missouri Republican official, he appeared more than 150 times on RT and Sputnik — networks funded and directed by the Russian government — as a guest commentator from August 2016 to April 2024, according to a search of their websites and the Internet Archive’s database of television broadcasts.
“Martin did not disclose the appearances last month on a Senate Judiciary Committee questionnaire, which asks nominees to list all media interviews. Analysis of television archives suggests he went on RT and Sputnik more often than on any major cable network during that span.
“Martin’s frequent appearances, reviewed by The Washington Post, drew rebukes from some national security analysts, who accused him of amplifying anti-American propaganda on Russian outlets that the State Department last year said had moved beyond disinformation to engage in covert influence activities aimed at undermining democracies worldwide for President Vladimir Putin’s regime.
“Martin’s brief tenure as top federal prosecutor in Washington has stoked controversy. Democrats accuse Martin — a Trump “Stop the Steal” organizer who has called the 2020 election and the 2016 Russian election interference investigation “hoaxes” — of violating the law and legal ethics in threatening to investigate or prosecute lawmakers, protesters, journalists and others whom he perceives as undermining Trump’s agenda.
“Former U.S. national security officials and analysts said Martin’s RT and Sputnik appearances, and his failure to disclose them, raise questions about his judgment and candor. The U.S. attorney’s office in Washington is the largest in the country and has wide jurisdiction to prosecute important national security offenses, former officials said. Its leader should be alert to the threats and risks posed by Russia and other influence operations from overseas, such as the ones the office has prosecuted in recent years involving Russia and other foreign actors, they argued.”
Ya think?
HOUSEKEEPING UPDATE: So the issue is our commenting platform got behind the latest WordPress update (an occasional issue with third party vendors), and I’m waiting for them to catch up with their own update before re-installing.
I would just keep us on this basic WordPress platform but then we don’t have features we like, such as image uploading and comment editing.
For some reason WordPress will not upgrade and enhance their commenting tools, which requires going third party for fun features. And finding reliable alternatives is not easy. Apparently I am in the minority of hosts who want a robust user commenting experience. It seems most sites prefer few options for commenters, hence there are not a lot of choices that we would like. This might be a time to try some others, but that could get rocky.
I’m glad this didn’t happen during yesterday’s breakfast fun.
Companies across the globe are scaling back their diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) goals after President Donald Trump issued executive orders cutting federal programs aimed at supporting women, ethnic minorities, LGBTQ+ people and other traditionally under-represented groups.
Barclays is scrapping its diversity and inclusivity targets across the United States, the bank said on Tuesday, becoming the latest British company to abandon its inclusivity goals following the U.S. President’s opposition to them.
Starmer told UK must repeal hate speech laws to protect LGBT+ people or lose Trump trade deal
*Mmm, Vance says hate speech is protected speech, except when it’s against the MAGAt administration. Cut ties with US. Do not pull a Disraeli and appease Sh/tler. Let’s force Adolf out now.
Dodo’s contemptuous proceedings carry more weight than any Court’s contempt for his contempt. Sadly, I’ll wager.
Scotland joins the list of countries working on special import rules to allow U.S. LGBT people to seek asylum. Also, there is the push to have EU, which probably means the Shengen zone, to work on a universal type visa for LGBT.
Nothing says your country has left you than other countries opening borders for you to show up. Hopefully that does not require passports.
Judge Boasberg to launch contempt proceedings for Trump administration
Federal judge will weigh whether the administration defied his order not to remove Venezuelan migrants from the country based on the wartime Alien Enemies Act
By Marianne LeVine, Spencer S. Hsu and Salvador Rizzo
“Chief U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg of Washington, D.C., on Wednesday said he would launch proceedings to determine whether to hold Trump administration officials in criminal contempt for defying his order not to remove Venezuelan migrants from the country based on the wartime Alien Enemies Act.
“Boasberg’s order is the latest development in a broader showdown between the Trump administration and the federal judiciary, which has blocked or slowed many of the White House’s far-reaching actions. The Supreme Court ruled this month that the plaintiffs filed their lawsuit in the wrong venue, taking the central legal issues of the case away from Boasberg.
“Still, Boasberg moved forward with the contempt proceedings, saying that the Trump administration’s actions on March 15, as the removal flights proceeded despite his order to the contrary, “demonstrate a willful disregard … sufficient for the Court to conclude that probable cause exists to find the Government in criminal contempt.”
““The Court does not reach such conclusion lightly or hastily; indeed, it has given Defendants ample opportunity to rectify or explain their actions,” Boasberg wrote in a 46-page opinion Wednesday. “None of their responses has been satisfactory.”
[…]
“Trump officials have refused to provide Boasberg with detailed explanations of the timing of the deportation flights, first arguing that his order to return the planes lacked full judicial weight because it was verbal, not in writing, and then saying the order did not need to be enforced once the planes were out of U.S. airspace.
“The government later invoked the state secrets privilege to avoid giving additional information to Boasberg, saying that doing so would jeopardize national security. Boasberg has been skeptical of that assertion, noting that he has frequently presided over cases involving sensitive national security information and that any such information could be presented under seal.
“In court, the judge grilled a Justice Department lawyer for answers, his eyebrows raised and eyes wide as he suggested that government officials had acted in “bad faith” and intentionally rushed to load migrants onto planes and flown them out of the country before he could order them to stop.
““Who made the decision either not to tell the pilots anything or to tell them to keep going?” the judge asked.
““Your honor, I don’t know that,” Deputy Assistant Attorney General Drew Ensign said.
“‘Boasberg pledged to “get to the bottom” of the matter and to rule on whether to launch proceedings to decide whether to hold officials in contempt.
“Contempt fines are rare, Nicholas Parrillo, a professor at Yale Law School, wrote in a 2017 Just Security article. In addition, holding an official accountable for noncompliance is especially complicated because “the judge must figure out which official(s) should’ve acted, and what the official(s) should’ve done,” Parrillo wrote. His research found that agencies tend toward compliance when faced with a contempt motion, but cautioned that if an official were “shameless enough to be undeterred by a contempt finding in itself, sanctions could be wielded to try to force that official to comply.””
This is a developing story. It will be updated. (I bet it will)
BlueID, you’re fine not having comment editing or image uploading? I figured everybody wanted that. But if the consensus is to stick with this basic WordPress platform it certainly is easier to maintain.
I prefer comment editing and image uploading unless it’s too much work or maintenance for you, Craig.
Have to be careful what I say and how I say it if it’s indelible. My old boss used to say, “What you don’t say, you don’t have to take back.”
Egg-xactly.
Image uploading is a pain for me. I’m living with it, but the old copy and paste for both text and images was smoother.
Copy and paste isn’t working. Now neither is download. So at present can’t do anything but type.
Can’t post videos either just the links
Since my dad was born in Scotland so I always had a way in. Unfortunately age and income make this impractical now.
I have re-installed the commenting platform that includes the features we like, but it is still problematic. i am working on what’s wrong, but since this is a software problem, not an issue our server company can address, I’m on my own here. Gonna take a day or so but I’ll figure it out.
I might have to find a new commenting platform if this one stays glitchy.
Jamie, I too liked that simple type-a-url that turned into an image or link but the company that made that plugin went out of business and it was no longer compatible. This one is the closest i’ve found so far.
Thanks, Craig. This is your juke joint to run your way. We’re lucky we get to hang out.
holy shit what a combover on the clown-in-chief
right over, top forward, left over that, lol an engineering marvel
think carefully before precluding my very important anonymous contributions, as above
🥸
Ivy – I had been advised to stop all activity on social media, delete everything, and change my online names. I explained that for many of the sites I started on them when those started, often writing for them. Way Back Machine is very useful for finding those.
I will put that everyone here has years more experience than those advisors. Some of them were real hand wringers about the russian spies messing in my world.
Craig
I’ll manage with whatever you do. Too many years invested to bale on you over glitches. Just a note that You Tube share links on Blue Sky immediately shows the video and images are the simple copy and paste. Don’t have a clue what they use.
A combover——Contempt of God.
Oops, looks like Dumbass is improving Airbus’s position in the aviation market. WaPo.
Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner jet is a multinational concoction, made of parts from around the globe. Wings from Japan. Doors from France. Portions of the fuselage are built in Italy before they are shipped to the United States to be assembled by workers in South Carolina.
It’s an arrangement made possible by a nearly 50-year-old trade agreement that allowed Boeing and other players in the U.S. aerospace industry to sell airplanes and buy parts from anywhere in the world, duty-free.
Now President Donald Trump’s global tariffs threaten to disrupt this interlocking supply chain. For the first time in nearly half a century, Boeing will pay a levy to import those wings, doors and other components. For now, there is a new 10 percent tax on most imports. But that levy could rise depending on what the president decides during a 90-day reprieve he declared before stiffer tariffs land on most countries.
Just a test – back to basics.
This was the image I wanted to attach.
Looks like things are working.
Donald Trump Impeachment Resolution Issued in Texas
The Libertarian Party of Travis County, Texas, has passed a resolution calling for President Donald Trump to be impeached, accusing him of issuing “lawless, dictatorial pronouncements” that “violate the constitutional separation of powers.”
Senator Chris Van Hollen, a Maryland Democrat, said Wednesday that his request to meet with Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a resident of his state who was deported to El Salvador in March, was rejected by the Central American country’s vice president, Félix Ulloa.
Van Hollen also said Ulloa shut down his attempts to speak with Abrego Garcia via phone.
*He’s probably dead.
Here’s one from the later years – one of the best of the bunch IMHO at least from the Gregg – Warren – Derek lineup.
Jamie, how did you post the owl picture with no text in the comment box?
Well let’s not get too carried away. There’s still something glitchy going on, especially in the header. Some kind of errant code that’s not playing well with others.
Bill aimed to restrict ‘activist judges’ awaits Senate vote; Critics call HR 1526 a threat to constitution
According to Congress’ records page, H.R. 1526 aims to amend Title 28 of the United States Code and then limit “district courts to provide injunctive relief, and for other purposes.”
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) argues the bill would limit courts from stopping unconstitutional actions. Mike Zamore, the ACLU’s national director of policy and government affairs, is calling for the Senate to reject the bill.
“If we want presidents to obey the law, courts need to be able to stop them when they’re overstepping,” Zamore said in a statement published on the ACLU’s website.
Another organization, the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, also blasted the bill, saying it would enable a “Trump Takeover.”
*Call your Senators; this POS n@zi bill passed the House.
well, at least I can comment again only under the “anonymous” label instead of patd. Fortunately I was able to post the thread before the trail crashed this morning plus make a few comments as anonymous. After those I was unable to comment even anonymously.
Tomorrow’s thread may be a tad late but as Scarlet said “tomorrow’s another day.”
Ivy
I just did a simple copy and paste. The code appeared in the box, but when it posted the image appeared.
the big man shreds in that Rakim Tiny Desk ❤️
Turned out great, Jamie. I’ll see if that can work for me. Thank you.
I’m stuck with the old way, but it works for me.
Orange Adolf is asking the IRS to revoke Harvard’s tax-exempt status because they wouldn’t bend the knee.
America’s constitutional crisis has arrived as President Trump ignores the Supreme Court’s order to bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia back from El Salvador and threatens to begin kidnapping American citizens without due process. Amid this turmoil, Harvard University is refusing to capitulate to the administration’s demands.
Ronny Chieng tackles the Trump administration shirking responsibility for a Maryland father’s mistaken deportation to El Salvador, their aggressive media tirade invoking Osama Bin Laden, and Harvard’s defiance of Donald Trump. Plus, Josh Johnson explains how Trump’s power changes from Harvard to El Salvador.
BTW, something seems askew today on the Trail techie-wise. Examples: strange note appears upon access and no matter how many times I log in to comment, nothing happens. I suspect evil Ellen and her musketeens afoot.
from FL cartoonist Andy Marlette
https://cdn.creators.com/588/391825/391825_image.jpg
Anon, I think it’s a WordPress bug. I’ve go it the WordPress portal to Trailmix at a banner st the top of the page.
America’s Best Christian speaks.
Yeah, looks like one of our plugins is misbehaving. I’ll be turning them off one by one to see which is the culprit that needs fixing, so some things might temporarily not work while I do that.
Testing
Ok I deleted most of our plugins, so we’re running “skinny” right now with fewer features like comment editing and image uploading. Now I will reactivate them one by one until I figure out which one is the troublemaker.
This might take a while. Looks like I need to figure out which update to which plugin was causing the problem, so I’ll need to take each one back to its default condition before updating. We won’t have some functions like anonymous posting, image uploading, comment editing, etc., but at least we’re still afloat.
It’s like the good old days – comment block at the bottom of the page.
I can tell krasnov got up, the stock market is falling fast.
From our local Newsbreak feed. Draw your own conclusions.
“On Tuesday, President Donald Trump took to the White House podium to boost one of his favorite energy sources.
“We’re ending Joe Biden’s war on beautiful clean coal once and for all,” he said, as uniformed coal miners lined up behind him. “I tell my people never use the word ‘coal’ unless you put ‘beautiful clean’ before it. … So we call it beautiful clean coal.”
As he spoke, a West Virginia woman was fighting for life after methane from a gassy coal mine likely seeped into her home and exploded—just three days before the president’s remarks.
Coal miners and executives from Core Natural Resources, the owner of the mine below the woman’s home, were present for Trump’s announcement, according to local reports.
In the aftermath of the blast, West Virginia mining regulators have ordered a Core subsidiary to temporarily stop extracting coal from at least part of its Leer Mine in Taylor County, about 100 miles south of Pittsburgh.
The explosion occurred in the early morning of April 5, ignited by a cigarette lighter, in the rural community of Thornton. Thornton sits atop the Leer Mine, which Core has owned since its formation in January with the merger of Arch Resources and CONSOL Energy.
[…]”
https://local.newsbreak.com/taylor-county-wv/3964076222497-as-trump-promotes-clean-beautiful-coal-a-lit-cigarette-above-a-west-virginia-coal-mine-leaves-a-woman-fighting-for-her-life?s=dmg_local_email_bucket_14.web2_fromweb&emailId=no6Sr2C&uid=218057587
That mine is a 40 minute drive on US Rte. 50 from my office in East Bumfuck. Good thing Core were able to drag themselves from the mine to listen to SFB lie about coal. It can be pretty, but it’s anything but clean.
Cool! This feels like the way back machine.
Can we roll this back to 2022, please?
Ahh, the krasnov connections to Russia laid bare(r). https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/04/16/ed-martin-rt-sputnik-usattorney/
“TRUMP’S D.C. U.S.ATTORNEY PICK APPEARED ON RUSSIAN STATE MEDIA OVER 150 TIMES
“Nominee Ed Martin did not disclose his RT and Sputnik appearances from 2016 to 2024 to the Senate. The State Department has said the networks act like arms of Russian intelligence.
“By Spencer S. Hsu and Aaron Schaffer
“Hours before President Donald Trump announced U.S. missile strikes on Syria in response to a chemical attack that killed 90 civilians in April 2017, Ed Martin said on the Russian state television network RT America that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad might not be to blame. Instead, Martin told viewers, the situation was “engineered” in Washington “by the people that want war in Syria.”
“In early 2022, Martin told an interviewer on the same arm of RT’s global network that “there’s no evidence” of a Russian military buildup on Ukraine’s borders, criticizing U.S. officials as warmongering and ignoring Russia’s security concerns. Russia invaded nine days later, igniting a war that continues today.
“Martin is now interim U.S. attorney for D.C. and Trump’s pick to serve full time in the role. But as a conservative activist and former Missouri Republican official, he appeared more than 150 times on RT and Sputnik — networks funded and directed by the Russian government — as a guest commentator from August 2016 to April 2024, according to a search of their websites and the Internet Archive’s database of television broadcasts.
“Martin did not disclose the appearances last month on a Senate Judiciary Committee questionnaire, which asks nominees to list all media interviews. Analysis of television archives suggests he went on RT and Sputnik more often than on any major cable network during that span.
“Martin’s frequent appearances, reviewed by The Washington Post, drew rebukes from some national security analysts, who accused him of amplifying anti-American propaganda on Russian outlets that the State Department last year said had moved beyond disinformation to engage in covert influence activities aimed at undermining democracies worldwide for President Vladimir Putin’s regime.
“Martin’s brief tenure as top federal prosecutor in Washington has stoked controversy. Democrats accuse Martin — a Trump “Stop the Steal” organizer who has called the 2020 election and the 2016 Russian election interference investigation “hoaxes” — of violating the law and legal ethics in threatening to investigate or prosecute lawmakers, protesters, journalists and others whom he perceives as undermining Trump’s agenda.
“Former U.S. national security officials and analysts said Martin’s RT and Sputnik appearances, and his failure to disclose them, raise questions about his judgment and candor. The U.S. attorney’s office in Washington is the largest in the country and has wide jurisdiction to prosecute important national security offenses, former officials said. Its leader should be alert to the threats and risks posed by Russia and other influence operations from overseas, such as the ones the office has prosecuted in recent years involving Russia and other foreign actors, they argued.”
Ya think?
HOUSEKEEPING UPDATE: So the issue is our commenting platform got behind the latest WordPress update (an occasional issue with third party vendors), and I’m waiting for them to catch up with their own update before re-installing.
I would just keep us on this basic WordPress platform but then we don’t have features we like, such as image uploading and comment editing.
For some reason WordPress will not upgrade and enhance their commenting tools, which requires going third party for fun features. And finding reliable alternatives is not easy. Apparently I am in the minority of hosts who want a robust user commenting experience. It seems most sites prefer few options for commenters, hence there are not a lot of choices that we would like. This might be a time to try some others, but that could get rocky.
I’m glad this didn’t happen during yesterday’s breakfast fun.
I’m fine with it this way.
https://www.aol.com/news/barclays-scraps-diversity-targets-us-133144716.html
Companies across the globe are scaling back their diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) goals after President Donald Trump issued executive orders cutting federal programs aimed at supporting women, ethnic minorities, LGBTQ+ people and other traditionally under-represented groups.
Barclays is scrapping its diversity and inclusivity targets across the United States, the bank said on Tuesday, becoming the latest British company to abandon its inclusivity goals following the U.S. President’s opposition to them.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/trump-jd-vance-trade-deal-free-speech-b2733806.html
Starmer told UK must repeal hate speech laws to protect LGBT+ people or lose Trump trade deal
*Mmm, Vance says hate speech is protected speech, except when it’s against the MAGAt administration. Cut ties with US. Do not pull a Disraeli and appease Sh/tler. Let’s force Adolf out now.
Dodo’s contemptuous proceedings carry more weight than any Court’s contempt for his contempt. Sadly, I’ll wager.
Scotland joins the list of countries working on special import rules to allow U.S. LGBT people to seek asylum. Also, there is the push to have EU, which probably means the Shengen zone, to work on a universal type visa for LGBT.
Nothing says your country has left you than other countries opening borders for you to show up. Hopefully that does not require passports.
Boasberg gets my thumbs up. WaPo
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/16/boasberg-trump-contempt-deportations-alien-enemies-planes/
Judge Boasberg to launch contempt proceedings for Trump administration
Federal judge will weigh whether the administration defied his order not to remove Venezuelan migrants from the country based on the wartime Alien Enemies Act
By Marianne LeVine, Spencer S. Hsu and Salvador Rizzo
“Chief U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg of Washington, D.C., on Wednesday said he would launch proceedings to determine whether to hold Trump administration officials in criminal contempt for defying his order not to remove Venezuelan migrants from the country based on the wartime Alien Enemies Act.
“Boasberg’s order is the latest development in a broader showdown between the Trump administration and the federal judiciary, which has blocked or slowed many of the White House’s far-reaching actions. The Supreme Court ruled this month that the plaintiffs filed their lawsuit in the wrong venue, taking the central legal issues of the case away from Boasberg.
“Still, Boasberg moved forward with the contempt proceedings, saying that the Trump administration’s actions on March 15, as the removal flights proceeded despite his order to the contrary, “demonstrate a willful disregard … sufficient for the Court to conclude that probable cause exists to find the Government in criminal contempt.”
““The Court does not reach such conclusion lightly or hastily; indeed, it has given Defendants ample opportunity to rectify or explain their actions,” Boasberg wrote in a 46-page opinion Wednesday. “None of their responses has been satisfactory.”
[…]
“Trump officials have refused to provide Boasberg with detailed explanations of the timing of the deportation flights, first arguing that his order to return the planes lacked full judicial weight because it was verbal, not in writing, and then saying the order did not need to be enforced once the planes were out of U.S. airspace.
“The government later invoked the state secrets privilege to avoid giving additional information to Boasberg, saying that doing so would jeopardize national security. Boasberg has been skeptical of that assertion, noting that he has frequently presided over cases involving sensitive national security information and that any such information could be presented under seal.
“In court, the judge grilled a Justice Department lawyer for answers, his eyebrows raised and eyes wide as he suggested that government officials had acted in “bad faith” and intentionally rushed to load migrants onto planes and flown them out of the country before he could order them to stop.
““Who made the decision either not to tell the pilots anything or to tell them to keep going?” the judge asked.
““Your honor, I don’t know that,” Deputy Assistant Attorney General Drew Ensign said.
“‘Boasberg pledged to “get to the bottom” of the matter and to rule on whether to launch proceedings to decide whether to hold officials in contempt.
“Contempt fines are rare, Nicholas Parrillo, a professor at Yale Law School, wrote in a 2017 Just Security article. In addition, holding an official accountable for noncompliance is especially complicated because “the judge must figure out which official(s) should’ve acted, and what the official(s) should’ve done,” Parrillo wrote. His research found that agencies tend toward compliance when faced with a contempt motion, but cautioned that if an official were “shameless enough to be undeterred by a contempt finding in itself, sanctions could be wielded to try to force that official to comply.””
This is a developing story. It will be updated. (I bet it will)
BlueID, you’re fine not having comment editing or image uploading? I figured everybody wanted that. But if the consensus is to stick with this basic WordPress platform it certainly is easier to maintain.
I prefer comment editing and image uploading unless it’s too much work or maintenance for you, Craig.
If Trump Doesn’t Fix This Blunder, “People Would Die in Their Homes”
RFK Jr. fired the entire staff of a program that helps low-income Americans pay for heating and cooling.
EUGENICS
BiD…without being able to upload images… I can’t do “today’s meme”.
But if it’s done… it’s done.
Testing…
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=UelDrZ1aFeY&si=h1FG2lNqx6W77tAP
Have to be careful what I say and how I say it if it’s indelible. My old boss used to say, “What you don’t say, you don’t have to take back.”
Egg-xactly.
Image uploading is a pain for me. I’m living with it, but the old copy and paste for both text and images was smoother.
Copy and paste isn’t working. Now neither is download. So at present can’t do anything but type.
Can’t post videos either just the links
Since my dad was born in Scotland so I always had a way in. Unfortunately age and income make this impractical now.
I have re-installed the commenting platform that includes the features we like, but it is still problematic. i am working on what’s wrong, but since this is a software problem, not an issue our server company can address, I’m on my own here. Gonna take a day or so but I’ll figure it out.
I might have to find a new commenting platform if this one stays glitchy.
Jamie, I too liked that simple type-a-url that turned into an image or link but the company that made that plugin went out of business and it was no longer compatible. This one is the closest i’ve found so far.
Thanks, Craig. This is your juke joint to run your way. We’re lucky we get to hang out.
holy shit what a combover on the clown-in-chief
right over, top forward, left over that, lol an engineering marvel
think carefully before precluding my very important anonymous contributions, as above
🥸
Ivy – I had been advised to stop all activity on social media, delete everything, and change my online names. I explained that for many of the sites I started on them when those started, often writing for them. Way Back Machine is very useful for finding those.
I will put that everyone here has years more experience than those advisors. Some of them were real hand wringers about the russian spies messing in my world.
Craig
I’ll manage with whatever you do. Too many years invested to bale on you over glitches. Just a note that You Tube share links on Blue Sky immediately shows the video and images are the simple copy and paste. Don’t have a clue what they use.
A combover——Contempt of God.
Oops, looks like Dumbass is improving Airbus’s position in the aviation market. WaPo.
Just a test – back to basics.
This was the image I wanted to attach.
Looks like things are working.
How about this?
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=UelDrZ1aFeY&si=0cjcsub7oqQWZOSF
OK, how do I post a youtube link and get the link to display as a pic rather than a link?
testing..
Soulshine
That didn’t work.🤔
testing
jk just sharing a banger
Pogo, that doesn’t look like the url for a youtube video link, don’t recognize what that is. But regular YouTube links seem to be ok
testing
yep still also a banger
We’re almost there. Still some problems i haven’t figure out yet. workin on it
all i need from you is to click the share arrow underneath the youtube video
all you gotta give to me is the address you copied to the clipboard, ooh yeah, oooh yeah-ah
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-impeachment-resolution-issued-texas-2060344
Donald Trump Impeachment Resolution Issued in Texas
The Libertarian Party of Travis County, Texas, has passed a resolution calling for President Donald Trump to be impeached, accusing him of issuing “lawless, dictatorial pronouncements” that “violate the constitutional separation of powers.”
Yee-haw, I hope.
Well the You Tube worked perfectly.
https://149615669.v2.pressablecdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Ed-Robinson-24-scaled.jpg
And the copy and paste for the owl worked perfectly as well.
Very Well Done Craig!!!!!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cy5zqgQ0IYM&pp=ygURTG9zdCBoaWdod2F5IGhhbms%3D
Eureka. Thx to all.
https://www.newsweek.com/el-salvador-rejects-democrat-who-wanted-see-kilmar-abrego-garcia-2060669
Senator Chris Van Hollen, a Maryland Democrat, said Wednesday that his request to meet with Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a resident of his state who was deported to El Salvador in March, was rejected by the Central American country’s vice president, Félix Ulloa.
Van Hollen also said Ulloa shut down his attempts to speak with Abrego Garcia via phone.
*He’s probably dead.
Here’s one from the later years – one of the best of the bunch IMHO at least from the Gregg – Warren – Derek lineup.
Jamie, how did you post the owl picture with no text in the comment box?
Well let’s not get too carried away. There’s still something glitchy going on, especially in the header. Some kind of errant code that’s not playing well with others.
https://www.foxla.com/news/hr-1526-trump-bill-restrict-court-judge
Bill aimed to restrict ‘activist judges’ awaits Senate vote; Critics call HR 1526 a threat to constitution
According to Congress’ records page, H.R. 1526 aims to amend Title 28 of the United States Code and then limit “district courts to provide injunctive relief, and for other purposes.”
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) argues the bill would limit courts from stopping unconstitutional actions. Mike Zamore, the ACLU’s national director of policy and government affairs, is calling for the Senate to reject the bill.
“If we want presidents to obey the law, courts need to be able to stop them when they’re overstepping,” Zamore said in a statement published on the ACLU’s website.
Another organization, the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, also blasted the bill, saying it would enable a “Trump Takeover.”
*Call your Senators; this POS n@zi bill passed the House.
well, at least I can comment again only under the “anonymous” label instead of patd. Fortunately I was able to post the thread before the trail crashed this morning plus make a few comments as anonymous. After those I was unable to comment even anonymously.
Tomorrow’s thread may be a tad late but as Scarlet said “tomorrow’s another day.”
Ivy
I just did a simple copy and paste. The code appeared in the box, but when it posted the image appeared.
the big man shreds in that Rakim Tiny Desk ❤️
Turned out great, Jamie. I’ll see if that can work for me. Thank you.
I’m stuck with the old way, but it works for me.
Orange Adolf is asking the IRS to revoke Harvard’s tax-exempt status because they wouldn’t bend the knee.
Ditto
Can you say “Lose in court? I knew you could.”
Wish I could sleep …. But since I can’t, Lester.
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